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Chronicle anti Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB’Y 14.
RUMOR* Os WAR.
Political and commercial circles in
England are alarmingly excited over the
prospect of a war between Great Britain
and the United States. There will be
no war, however, for England has every
thing to lose and nothing to gain by
engaging in snch an unequal contest.
The time was when England could have
crippled the Federal Government, but
that opportunity has passed.
the tribune read out.
The New York Tribune having said
that if the Republican party split* on
Grant, it (the Tribune) cannot probably
go with the bolters, but will have to sup
port Grant on the Tariff questiod®-there
being nothing else left for it on which
it ran support him. It does aot conceal
its hearty contempt for Grant, and its
dislike of the coercive measures on
which he relies for a renomination. It
says : “If the issue is to be so made
“ up that only those who prefer General
“ Grant to all other men are to count on
“the Republican side, everybody else on
“the other, we shall mortally hate to
•• nit up for the return* the night after
“ election."
Thereupon the Buffalo Advertiser pro
ceeds to read H. G. and the N. Y. Tri
bum- from the Radical party, thusly :
“ But Mr. Greeley has seen fit to
choose a path for himself ; let him walk
in it, and with him let all go who are
not prepared to labor heart and hand for
the success of the Republican ticket,
no matter who the nominee may be.
Unworthy and useless soldiers are they
who will not obey, provided that every
personal prejudice has not been con
sulted, and in case their petty and ma
licious motives have not been satisfied.
But now that Mr. Greeley has openly
refused to act with the party, let us
hear the last about proscription and
reading out the anti-Grant men. Mr.
Greeley is no exile; he is not proscribed;
he is a deserter, and must bear the
odium that desertion and treason bring
with them.
Verily, we look with interest to the
coming convention of the Simon pure
“loyalists” and the Greeley deserters
and traitors. The next Republican
Nominating Convention promises to be
the great sensation of the year.
THE THIKVEB AND THEIR PLUN
DER.
The Ht. Louis Republican makes this
pointed comment on u Radical exhibit of
the condition of the Government under
the Grant administration : “ Senator
Morton’s favorite declaration that ‘we
have the best civil service in the world,’
finds pleasant illustration in some figures
lately furnished by a Washington cor
respondent of the New York Time*. Ac
cording to_ this authority, there have
been detected and punished during the
last three years, forty internal revenue
officers, fifteen custom house officers,
thirteen officers of the Internal Depart
ment, sixteen money-order officers, four
army and two naval officers, and one
hundred and five postmasters—in
all one hundred and ninety-eight. The
amount of cash lost by the Govern
ment through these thieves is set
down at $2,301,621. How much has
been lost through the nncaught thieves,
we leave our readers to guess ; but Mr.
Morton and those who share liis opinion
concerning our civil service, may ran
sack the records of the English Govern
ment for ten years without finding as
much stealing traced to officials there as
has been actually proven in three years
of Grant’s administration. When near
ly a million of dollars is known to be
carried off annually by dishonest public
servants, and when the evil seems
to be increasing rather than diminish
ing, one might suppose that the
party which claims to contain a full as
sortment of all cardinal virtues would
be strongly in favor of the most Beach
ing reform. But on the contrary quite
the reverse. The report of the civil
service commission, which at least has
the merit of pointing in the right direc
tion, has been unmercifully ridiculed
and abused by nearly every leading Rad
ical in both houses of Congress, and is
already looked upon ns dead. The sim
ple troth of the business is that plunder
and patronage being the chief elements
of Radical power, “ the best civil ser
vice in the world” will not be disturbed
so long as Radicalism dominates in the
nation.
PROFITS DURING THE WAR.
The following list of Connecticut
towns in which the valuation exceeds
five millions, shows their present wealth,
us well as their relative growth the past
ten years:
1871. 1861.
New Haven $44,400,000 $25,300,000
Hartford 43.900,000 24,500,000
Norwich 13,500,000 8,300,000
Bridgeport 10,500,000 7,400,000
Htamford 7,455,000 4,268,000
Waterbury. . 7,100,000 5,100,000
Meriden 6,700,000 3,000,000
Norwalk 6,350,000 3,600,000
New London . 6,300.000 5,200,000
Danburv 5,875,000 3,600,000
Middleton 5,800,000 4,300,000
Stonington 5,200,000 3,700,000
Total . $163,080,000 $98,518,000
This exhibit displays the enormous
profitableness of the ten years of war.—
It will be recollected that the statement
does not include United States and State
Bonds. These must be added to swell
the aggregate wealth.
The Newly Elected Senator from
North Carolina. —Gen. Mat. W. Ran
som, the new U. S. Senator, who suc
ceeds upon the resignation of Gen. Zeb.
Vance, from North Carolina, was born in
Warren county, October, 1826, graduated
at the University of North Carolina with
the highest distinction. In 1852 he was
elected Attorney General, which he re
signed in 1856. He was in the North
Carolina Legislature in 1858 and 1860.
In February, 1861, he was sent, with
Gov. Swan and John L. Bridges, on a
peace commission to the Montgomery
Congress, while Judge Ruflin, Geo.
Davis, Gov. Morehead, and Gov. Read
and Mr. D. M. Barringer were sent to
Washington on a like mission. General
Hansom was in the Confederate service.
In person he is tall and commanding,
neat in his dress and elegaut in his man
ners.
Sectional Representation.—A New
York paper figures out the proportionate
representation in Congress of the various
sections of the country, as at present,
and under the now apportionment bill,
respectively, as follows :
43d Cong.
42d Cong. By New Bill.
Per cent. Per cent
New England 11.1 9.2
Middle States 24.7 23.
Southern States.... 31.2 31.4
Western States ... 33. 36.4
A contemporary says : “ Those Re
publicans who oppose civil service re
form thereby admit that the appoint
ment of competent and honest men to
office will be fatal to their party organi
zation.” The point is well taken.
During the last five centuries more
than $250,000,000 worth of land has
been washed away from the eastern
coast of England by the encroachments
of the sea. Holland has lost $500,000,-
000 Long Branch, too, is wasting
awav, and it is feared that in time
sometime—New Jersey will be in the
Union no more.
—
General Lane, of Oregon, who ran for
the Vice Presidency in 1860 on the
Breckinridge ticket, is now seventy
years old, but is well preserved, physi
cally and mentally.
According to the census report of Mr.
Richard Edwards, of
28,839 American and 28,738 German
families in that city— thefefore, beyond
a doubt, more Germans than Americans,
because the Germans on an average have
utvre children than the Americans.
THE GEORGIA NATIONAL BANK (
IMBROGLIO.
At last the people are having some real,
startling “developmenta” touching the
thieving crew, or Radical “syndicate,”
who, while blatant in their professions of
“loyalty to the Union,” affected “to de
velope the resources of Georgia." Bul
lock, afterhis hegira,is reported to have
said to a member of Grant’s Cabinet,
that he was afraid to remain in so dis
loyal a State as Georgia. After the
fashion of French Kings, he sought
safety in flight. Bullock while Governor,
it seems, entertained the political theory
of Louis XTV. Bullock and the State,
he thought, and so Mr. Henry Clews
would make the people of the State and
the world at large believe, were iden
tical, financially at least. L etat e'est
nun. The State, that is me—Governor
Bullock : no Mazarin to direct, no law
to control. Therefore Governor Bnllock
made appointments, controlled elections,
purged legislatures, projected internal
improvements, created syndicates, con
tracted loans and dispensed right royal
ly the revenues of the State, in
aiding sagacious enterprising men from
Massachusetts, like Hi Kimball, in
Georgia, and in royal entertainments to
loyal men at Wormly’s in Washing
ton City. But this theory will
not avail with the disloyal, unre
constructed rebels, who, behind the
age, foolishly cling to the antiquated
principle of their forefathers, which
affirms that all power is a trust for
public good, and every official is ac
countable for his trust. So Bullock
became afraid and fled ; and Hi Kimball
was seen no more “ developing” the re
sources of the State of Georgia
a State which he had declared “quite
new enough for him” and his en
terprise. Now, however, we have “de
velopments” of another sort. While
Bullock took what he was pleased tc
style “ the usual Summer recreation” ol
Governors, in a trip to Omaha, and Hi
Kimball visited the great syndics of Greal
Britain in London, a sub-syndicate in
Atlanta, yclept the Georgia National
Bank, by a dexterous operation in
book-keeping, administers upon the
estate of the late Governor remaining ir
their hands, de bonis non, and in the
following method closes the estate ir
neat style :
[copy. ]
Georgia National Bank, \
Atlanta, Ga., October 31st, 1871. j
Hon. R. B. Bullock :
Dear Sib —Acting under instructions
for our Board of Directors, I have this
day charged to your “ special account”
the sum of $88,957 97, as follows, viz :
For credit of your
current ac
count $50,448 48
For H. I. Kimball
& Cos 35,000 00
For Scliaub A
Lawton note,
endorsed by
you, and pro
tested August
7th, $2,500, and
interest 2,609 50—588,057 98
At vour credit previously. $122,053 59
Leaving balance at your
credit in “special account”
to your order $34,895 61
The Bank has treated, and regarded
the three accounts, your special, your
current and H. I. Kimball A Cos. cur
rent, as being one in fact.
Yours, very truly,
E. L. Jones.
But this summary method of adjust
ing the accounts of his Excellency does
not seem either to have met his appro
bation or received his sanction. No
longer Governor, having abdicated, the
late Governor, on the 11th of November,
protests to the facile cashier of the
Georgia National Bank; assigning as the
ground the “entire absence of any facts
or even suggestions whereby either your
self or any member of the Board of your
bank could assume that authority was
ever given or existed for treating and
regarding the ao.conut of H. I. Kimball
A Cos., my personal account, and the ac
count of Scliaub A Lawton, “ os being
one in fact” with the account of the
State which you refer to ns my “ special
account,” together with your own admis
sion and testimony to the fact that my
personal account and transactions with
the bank did not and could not have any
connection whatever with the State’s ac
counts.
To assume the contrary would involve
the charge against yourself and other of
ficers of the bank of having united with
me in an illegal and dishonorable
scheme to divert the money of the State
to my private uses; because, as you
well know, all the credit which has be
come due the State account arise from
checks and drafts given as “Governor”
and so signed, and from amounts de
posited to the credit of the State ; and
also that all amounts chargeable to the
debt of the State account have been
signed by me as Governor, and payable
to the order of the Treasurer, or, as in
one or two cases, to the order of mem
bers of committees of the General As
sembly, when the Treasurer refuses to
hdnor Executive warrants for their per
diem, &c.
Subsequently, the ex-loyal Governor
enclosed to acting Gov. Conley a copy
of his letter to E. L. Jones, and de
nounced with virtuous indignation the
action of the Directors, and expressed in
tense indignation against the authors of
so foul a proceeding—the facile cashier
and the greedy directors. He said that
the sum of $122,953 59 was justly due
the State by the bank.
Acting Governor Conley thereupon
drew a draft on the bank for the full
amount claimed for the State. The
bank refused to honor this draft on the
ground that they had no funds on hand
subject to the draft.
These facts becoming known to Gov
ernor Smith,immediate steps were taken
to make the Georgia National Bank lia
ble, under on act passed by the last Leg
islature, for the sum of $122,000, under
attachment. An examination into the
affairs of the Bank, conducted by Judge
Linton Stephens, Col. W. W. Montgom
ery, Solicitor General Glenn, and Mr.
W. H. Patterson, results in finding the
assets of the Bank to be summed in the
following inventory :
Currency $13,000
Checks, drafts, Ac 4,000
Dishonored State Treasury war
rant 8,350
$25,350!
Or, as Major Mantelini would state it:
Liabilities to Sate, $122,000 ; to deposit
ors, $50,000; total, $172,000 ; cash, *25,-
000 ; result, misery; and Rice, the Presi
dent of the Bank, like his illustrious as
sociate developers, beyond State bound- j
aries.
THE OTHER SIDE.
CARD OP K. L. JONES, CASHIER GEORGIA j
N VTION VL BANK— RACY READING BCL- j
LOCK AND KIMBALL COPARTNERS.
Editor Constitution —Upon informa
tion and affidavit of Dr. C. L. Redwine,
that this bank is indebted to the btate,
bv reason of fraud, in the sum of $122,-
000, the State authorities have sued out
an cttachment and taken possession of
its assets. The claim is based, as 1 un
derstand it, upon the theory that certain
funds to the individual credit of
Bullock, in special account, were the
property of the State. There can be no
other ground for the claim, as Governor
Bullock closed his official account with
the bonk two years ago. The facts are
briefly as follows :
Governor Bullock kept two accounts
with the bank, personal and special. His
personal account was kept up by Kim
ball A Cos., who deposits in th® course
of cue year over SBO,OOO to Bullock’s
credit. His special account was at first
apparently connected with State funds,
for the reason that he deposited checks
on Clews A Cos., in New York, and made
checks in favor of Treasurer Angier.
But latterly Kimball & Cos. deposited
funds to the amount of $104,000 to the
credit of this special account out of funds
realized, as I understood, from the sale
of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad
bonds, about the time Governor Bullock
was in California. I understood from
Governor Bullock that this special
account was kept latterly for Kim
ball’s benefit, and as security for ad
vances made to Kimball and Bullock by
the bank. The Kimballs and Mr. Cook
repeatedly and emphatically assnred me
that such* was the case, and Bollock only
drew against the account when it was
convenient for Kimball A Cos. to furnish
the bank with money to pay las checks, j
On the strength of that assurance, re
peatedly given, Governor Bullock was
allowed to overdraw his personal ac
count to the amount of $50,000, and j
drafts and notea were discounted fur
Kimball A Cos. to the amount of 335,000.
After the flight of Bullock and Kimball
the bank consolidated the three ac
counts, charging Bullock’s personal ac
counts over draft of $50,000; Kimball s
over due paper, $35,000, and a protest
note, endorsed by Bullock, and dis
counted by his special request, for
$2 ,500, all up to special ac- j
count, as we had an undoubted right to
do. The bank informed Bullock what
it fa/ol done, and that the balance, about
$35,000, was at his credit and subject to
llis order. The bank has no evidence
that any of the balance claimed belongs \
to the State.
On the contrary, the whole history of (
the accounts prove that lately Bullock
i and Kimball were jointly interested, and ,
; that at least $104,000 of the special ac- ;
j count was Kimball’s own money, rased I
; on sale or hypothecation of his bonds, j
and that the State has not any claim •
whatever on that as against the bank. If
the bank owes the State, instead of Bui- 1
lock, it is ready and willing to pay when j
the claim shall be legally established, j
But it cannot pay checks drawn by otli- j
| ers, and charge' to Rufus B. Bullook’s
; account. The bank, unless deprived of]
its honest assets, is solvent and able to 1
j pay its liabilities, including its stock- j
' holders, every dollar it owes, and ten per I
1 cent, on the amount of its capital besides.
There was no necessity for this extra
ordinary proceeding. There is no just
or legal ground for it.
E. L. Jones, Cashier.
February 6, 1872.
THE ATLANTA SYNDICATES.
Day by day the revelations that are
being made disclose the skill and art by
which the “ pals” of the Atlanta “ Syn
dicate” realized their share of the spoils.
Necessarily investigations are restricted
in the outset to acts of the lower order
of manipulators, or those in direct
charge and control of the “sap.” It
seems that while the great moguls di
rected their schemes to fit the occasion
of the law, the inferior instruments were
permitted to “ poach ” a little on private
account as their reward. Right adroitly
have they imitated their illustrious mas
ters, forming a syndicate within their
own circle, and effecting distribution ac
cording to rank and position. The in
vestigation of the management of the
late Purchasing Agent of the State Road
throws much light upon the progress
which Radical art has made, and dis
closes a method so complete as to justify
the assumption that “Public Plunder
ing ” has become an exact science in the
economy of Republican Government.
Governments are created to be plunder
ed, is the fundamental principle—the
basis upon which rests the high art of
the expert, as well a3 the elementary
guide of the novitiate. Skill is invoked
to create an appearance of honest con
formity to law, and shaped the proceeding
according to circumstances, to cover the
hazard. In the simple exercise of art,
so far the Investigating Committee have
exposed only three or four forms for
“ making the raise” for the State . Road
sub-syndicate. The first of these forms
is the auditing game, of which the fol
lowing is an example : One Fry, a con
fidential clerk of the Purchasing Agent,
“ shaves” bills dated respectively, De
cember 22d and December 27th, 1870,
for $2,993 41, and $3,356 44-100. The
account is minute ; the imaginary ar
ticles are just those articles which the
nature of the business of railroad
economy would call for. The party
whose name appears as the creditor is
respectable. The confidential clerk, as
duly authorized by his superior, the
Purchasing Agent, approves the ac
counts. The Auditor, N. P. Hotchkiss,
audits the accounts. The Master of
Transportation, I. P. Harriss, pay the
bills, and the confidential clerk pockets
the money. The bills are in due form
and wear every appearance of a bona
fide- transaction. All that is needful to
perfect the honesty of the transaction,
except that no articles were sold by
Mr. Orme ; no articles were delivered
by Mr. Orme, and no articles received
by the State. Notwithstanding, the
Purchasing Agent approves the accounts
and the Auditor audits the accounts
and the Treasurer pays the accounts. In
the testimony it appears that Blodgett
was to receive six thousand and Fry
three thousand of the accounts to be
thus “shaved.” It would gratify our
curiosity some to have the principle of
this division explained.
Another game is Raised Accounts.
This is effected as follows : A. 8., a
printer, contracts for two hundred cir
culars for ten dollars. By some unex
plained method an additional cipher
augments 200 to 2,000, and of course
the sum to be paid in corresponding
ratio.
Still another is the Discount Game.
C. D. A Cos. sell railroad lanterns, or
some like article, at a stipulated price
per dozen less fifty per cent, dis
count, 05 one-half less than the list
price. The bill is rendered and paid,
the articles being charged at the list or
stipulated price, one-half of which only
reaches the vendor, the other half be
ing returned as perquisites by the cun
ning juggler, who serves the State as
agent.
I Finally, another is the Commission
| Game. In this the Purchasing Agent is
i receiving a commission which, although
retained by him, is added to the cost of
the, article purchased. For example :
It is stipulated that the Purchasing
Agent desires one thousand dollars each
on fifteen locomotives, or the sum of
fifteen thousand dollars to secure the
trade. The honest Radical contracts
for fifteen locomotives at one thousand
dollars more than the cash price, and
this he retains as his share of the spoils.
It will be curious to note the various
formulas which the Radical loyalists
have devised for public plunder, as they
will be disclosed in the process of this
State Road investigation. Thus far we
have noticed only a few of the elemen
tary forms that come to our knowledge.
There is the promise of still “richer
developments"—still higher generaliza
tions, which we have reason to believe
will bo brought to light, and perhaps
their authors brought to the bar of jus
tice.
Power of the President to Pardon.
—The New York World, of January 30,
says :
In an opinion delivered by the Su
preme Court, yesterday, the Court main
tained that the power of the President
to pardon nil offenses against the Feder
al Government is full and absolute,
aud cannot be interfered with or obatru«t
ed by Congress. It is therefore in the
discretion of the President to grant
universal amnesty by an exercise of the
pardoning power, if he chooses. If the
President were a wise statesman, or
STen if he were willing to reduce his
noted motto, “ Let us have peace," to
practise he would paidon all who par
ticipated in the rebellion which was
crushed seven yesvs ago. and trust to the
publie sentiment of th* spun try to justi
fy him. Os course, we expect nothing
of the kind from the small-soulded, nar
row-minded Gen. Grant.
This decision then gives force and ef
fect to the “full pardon and amnesty
proclaimed by President Johnson on the
25th of December, 1868, and there is,
therefore, no necessity for Grant pardon
ing anybody who participated m our
late civil war.
SrPRHME Cos CRT UNITED STATES.
Among other important and vexed ques
tions determined by the Supreme Court
of the United States last week was the
following :
In a case of appeal from the Circuit
Court of Alabama, the question arcs*
when the war began and when it termi
nated. The Court, for the purposes of
this ease, assume the proclamation of
the blockade to be the commencement
of the war, and take the proclamation
of the President of April 2, 1806, de
claring the war terminated in certain
States, ineluding* Alabama, as the termi
nation of the war as to that State.
I docbt if to-day there is more than
one white church in Washington where
a black man can take his seat with others
in th® worship of He can t do it,
m venture, in Dr. Newman’s grand
church where the President worships.
Washington Correspondent Springfield
Republican.
AN APPEAL FROM CHARLESTON.
Savannah vs. Charleston- The Central
vs. the South Carolina.
[From the Charleston News.]
If the proposed lease of the South j
Carolina Railroad be as unwise for the
stockholders as we have stated ; if that j
lease, under the delusive promise of a 1
dividend, will end, in the course of a
few years, in the destruction of the !
stock itself, what can be said to those .
who are interested in the welfare of j
Charleston and South Carolina, which ]
will adequately arouse them to the j
dangers with which they are threatened ? j
There is not a man living in this city, j
doing business here, having his earn
ings invested here—whether in houses I
or in securities, public or private—who ;
can fail to see how disastrous to him
and his interests must be the accom
plishment of this measure. What,
in the past seven years, has supported
the hopes of those who barely, and with
privation, sustained the heavy taxes and
charges on their property, but the slow
ly and surely developing increase of the
trade of the' city ? When, during that
j long period, have these hopes been pre
! sented under circumstances which so
certainly foretold the realization of
them as at this present moment ? With
! the purchase of a controlling interest in
; the Greenville Railroad, not only was a
great danger averted, but a great bene
, tit secured. With a like benefit obtain
: ed in the control of the Macon and Au-
I gusta Road, another danger was avert
| ed, and another advantage secured.
With the announcement that these ob
jects had been accomplished, relief came
to the hearts of all whose affections and
, interests were involved in the preserva
tion of the material interests of this
; State and city. Were these acquisitions,
these new and assured sources of
future prosperity, uncared for by those
whose interests were antagonistic to
those of this people ? The answer
is told well enough in the illy-con
cealed disappointment of those who have
been working against us, and who, hap
pily too late, tried every move their in
genuity could suggest to break up the
arrangements which had been made, and
take from us the advantages which had
been secured. What are these advan
tages ? The securely restored trade of
the State and the city, and with it the
securely restored prosperity of the city
and State. Yet strange, passing strange,
| is it that there are persons who calculate
]so confidently on the blindness, the
; avarice, or the necessities of our people
| as to suppose that this offer of a divi
j dend will induce the stockholders to
i turn over to them that control of the
I South Carolina Railroad which is but, in
] plain terms, the control of both Charles-
I ton and South Carolina.
Only a few days ago we heard a person
of great intelligence, a stranger sojourn
ing here, having no interest in the mat
ter, declare, that, with its present rail
road connections, in less than five years,
the city of Charleston would enjoy great
er commercial prosperity than it had
ever known ; but if a lease should be
made of the South Carolina Railroad to
the Central Railroad of Georgia for
twenty years, at tlio end of that time' one
would look at the place where Charles
ton had been ! And we believe there is
a mournful truth in the policy.
Not more fixed and inseparable are
the relations of cause and effect than are
all the consequences anticipated from
this proposition to surrender to our
rivals the means of our support. Can
any one, who is sane, believe that the
proposal is prompted by a desire for our
good ? or believe that any other motive
prompts the offer than the desire to
secure business for Savannah ? And
if, with all the disadvantages under
which hitherto we have labored, we
have been able, year after year, to
lessen the advantages which circum
stances at the close of the war gave
to Savannah, and, in the oourse of the
last twelve months, show a more decided
success in the contest than at any pre
vious dime, does the offer to lease the
South Carolina Railroad to show that
Savannah cannot continue the contest,
and that her oliance for success consists
in inducing the people of Charleston no
longer to struggle with her ? If ever
before, in all time, the parallel can be
found, to the one side, that, with so
much of calculation, attempts to ab
sorb a rival hastening to complete suc
cess ; as to the other, that, it is sup
posed, will be so weak as to listen to
such propositions, ive confess ourselves
unable to discover it.
What is there now which does not ren
der it probable that our receipts of cot
ton will go on increasing until they will
in a short time exceed that of Savannah?
What is there now which does not
make it impossible, if the Soutli Caro
lina Railroad is under the control of the
Central Railroad, for the people of
Charleston to receive as much cotton as
they now receive ?
What is there now which does not
render it probable that the wholesale
business of Charleston, with the advan
tages recently secured, will not be, in a
short time, as extensive and lucrative
as its warmest friends would wish ?
What makes it possible that this trade
can survive at all with the control of it
in the hands of a large corporation
intensely engaged in the development
of a rival city—in winch every advan
tage to it is a loss to this city ?
What makes it probable that the re
tail business of this city, and such cir
cumstances, can improve ?
What makes it otherwise than impos
sible that its fate should be other than
would correspond with the prostration
which would mark every enterprise,
every business, every interest whatsoever
that has its place here ?
It is idle to say that our apprehensions
are extravagant ; that no such conse
quences will result. Can the city of
Charleston improve, can it maintain it
self, if the South Carolina Railroad is
controlled by any persons whose inter
ests are adverse to its prosperity ? They
who believe that it can are they who be
lieve that the city of Charleston can
maintain itself without railroad com
munioations which connect it with the
interior, and ocean communications
which connect it with other ports. There
can be no argument with such as believe
that commercial prosperity can come
from a position of complete isolation.
We know that there are some who be
lieve that these disastrous circumstances
will be amply provided for in the pro
posed lease, and safeguards secured
against them. But will such as so be
lieve take the trouble to ask themselves
if they would undertake, if they had
the power, to say what should be these
safeguards on which they rely, and next
whether they will be accepted and en
forced ? It will be as imprudent for the
one to undertake to secure protection in
such a case as it would be folly to sup
pose that it would be afforded. The
best, the only protection is in having the
ownership and the control of the rail
road interests of the State in the hands
of the people of the State, Where
everything connected with the material
welfare of the people of the State now
depends in so great a degree upon the
railroads in the State, let our people be
wise and keep in tlieir own hands the
control of these railroads.
Disastrous Fire at Sea.— The British
bark Circassian, Captain Amy, com-1
manding, reached this port yesterday
with a cargo of coffee from Rio Janiero,
and having on board Captain Meikle, j
other officers and all the crew of the \
British ship Elizabeth Fry, which was j
wholly destroyed by fire on the night of ,
the sth and 6th inst.
Captain JJcikle states that the Eliza
i beth Fry sailed from New Orleans for
1 Liverpool with three thousand one ]iun-
I dred and ninety-seven bales of upland
' cotton, and that when two hundred
I mile, southeast of Savannah, at fifteen
! minutes after deyeg at night of *ie sth
' inst., smoke was discovered »SEuipgfrom
the forward ventilator. He immediate
ly opened the chain locker hatch, when
large quantities of smoke burst forth,
| aiil, s&tisfied that the ship was on fire,
he had the natch tightly battened down,
and immediately shaped his course for
this the nearest port of safety,
The wind was‘blowing fresh at the
time, and he hoped by closing every
aperture to smother the fire until other
arrangements could be made to extin
guish it. 4t nnarter past twelve o’clock,
however, the fiamee broke through both
sides of the forward dee£ ; driving the
men from their position in that part pf
the ship and defying every effort to
check its rapid progress. The ship’s
boats acre therefore lowered and the
officers and eraw got safely off. From
that time until half-past sit o’clock of
the morning of the 6th, all hand* re
mained near the burning ship when the
British hark Circassian was hailed and
Capt. Meikle, f. Walbridge, first mate,
E. Kardwell. second mate, and the other
fifteen fnen comprising the mew of the
ill-fated ship .were picked up.
Bv this time the Elizabeth Fry was
burnt down to tko copper, and all but a
part of the mizzenmast consumed.—
Savannah News.
The Innocents Arboad.— Mrs. Henry
Ward Beecher, Whitelaw Reed, William
Cnllen Bryant, Bayard Taylor, Brette
Harte and other celebrities, sailed from
New York, January 25th, in the steamer
Moro Castle for Havana.
A man in Newbnrvport took a long
pnll and a strong pull out of a bottle of
arnica liniment, used for horse sprains,
and had to be turned nearly inside out
before the doctor thought it safe to
leave liiin.
[From the Elbertou Gazette.]
RAILROAD MEETING.
On Thursday last a considerable num- j
ber of citizens assembled at the Court j
House for the purpose of taking some
action in reference to the Elberton
Branch of the Air Line Railroad.
Franklin county was represented in
the meeting by a full delegation, and the
report from the county was very favora
ble to the enterprise.' It was thought
by her delegates that she will readily
subscribe SIOO,OOO to the road provided
she can secure its location within three
miles of Carnesville, which, we are told,
is a few miles the shortest route to the
Air Line, but deviates slightly from the
ridge.
Hart county, from some unknown
cause, was not fully represented in the
meetmg, having but one delegate present,
and he was not prepared to make a re
port. It is thought, however, that Hart
will be all right at the proper time.
Major Garner, of the Air Line Rail
road being present, was called for, who
made a short, but very interesting
speech, giving liis views upon the prac
ticability of our enterprise, which were
decidedly encouraging. He thought it
our best pohey to adopt the narrow
guage system, and gave the meeting
considerable information in regard to
the cost of construction and workings
of the narrow guage system.
According to facts actually demon
strated by the cost of constructing narrow
guage roads in other portions of the
country, it is believed that a narrow
guage road from this place to the Air
Line would not cost exceeding ten thous
and dollars per mile.
At a previous meeting of the incorpo
rators, it was resolved that a permanent
organization of the company should be
effected at this meeting, but a commit
tee appointed to prepare business for
the meeting reported adversely to this
resolution, and in favor of holding a
meeting at Franklin Springs for this
purpose on Friday, the Ist day of March
next. The committee also reported in
favor of the narrow guage system, and
that additional agents be appointed to
solicit subscriptions to the stock of the
company, who are expected to make a
report at the next meeting.
After considerable discussion, partici
pated in by a number of gentlemen, the
report of the committee was adopted.
The meeting then adjourned, to meet
as before stated.
Agricultural Meeting in Burke.
Herndon, Burke Cos., Feb. 9, 1872.
Editors Chronicle a- Sentinel :
At a meeting on the 9th February, at
Waynesboro, of the members of the
Central Agricultural Association of the
county, and of the citizens generally,
called by an invitation of Hon. Samuel
Barnett, Commissioner of the State
Agricultural Society, to hear an address
by him to the agriculturalists of the
county, the following resolution, offered
by Hon. J. J. Jones, was adopted ;
Resolved, That the President of the
Central Agricultural Association of the
county be requested to call a meeting of
the citizens of the county at as early a
day as he may deem practicable, to con
sider the propriety of organizing agri
cultural or farmers’ clubs in each dis
trict of the county.
In conpliance with the above, I re
quest the citizens of the county to meet
in the Court House on the first Tuesday
in March.
Having co-operated in every effort
that has been made in my’day to organ
ize and support Agricultural Societies
in our county, I need hardly say that
the object of the meeting has more than
a formal sanction by me, and I earnest
ly hope that the citizens of the county
will give the matter their attention, con
vinced as 1 am that the highest success
to the farming interest will arise out of
th e faithful and energetic execution of
the policy contemplated by the resolu
tion.
The greatest obstacle to the improve
ment of agriculture is its supposed sim
plicity, and its comprehensibleness even
by the most inferior mind. There is no
standard of qualification for its follow
ers. The veriest dolt thinks that what
ever else he cannot do, he is certainly
born a farmer, and is equally, with the
best informed, master fully of the sit
uation. Nine-tenths of all who till the
earth thus reason, and verily believe
themselves gifted with all the qualifica
tions for the highest success. Hence,
by tlieir conceit, they shut themselves
up in ignorance of the progress and
present condition of our great art, and
of the superior knowledge of those who
are engaged in the same calling. Agri
culture is no more a perfect art or science
primarily, than building houses or heal
ing diseases. Yet, mechanics and medi
cine have outstripped the former, and
reached great skill and perfection by
the simple but powerful advantage of
associated talent and effort. All the
great agencies, aggressive and conserva
tive, engaged in advancing the interest
of one class over that of another, are
operated through the association of
mind and means. And that class or
community of men, who ever and where
ever they are, who ignore the power of
this element, for their own protection
and advancement, will receive as they
invite oppression and injustice from
those who do understand the force of
combination.
J. B. Jones,
President C. A. Association.
The Grand Duke Alexis. —The Grand
Duke Alexis, who has for some time
past been the guest of the United States,
is the third son of the Emperor Alex
ander 11. of Russia, and his Imperial
consort, Maria, Empress of Russia and
daughter of the late Grand Duke Lud
wig 11., of Hesse-Darmstadt. He was
bom January 14tli, 1850, and is con
sequently now in his twenty-third year.
Destined for the navy, he 'was carefully
instructed in mathematics and language.
His uncle, the Grand Duke Constantine,
High Admiral of the Russian navy, un
der whom he serves, is a man of con
siderable repute in naval science, and
has spared nothing to realize the wishes
of his elder brother in educating his
nephew for the responsible position to
which he will doubtless succeed on liis
uncle’s death.
The Grand Duke Alexis is the repre
| sentative of a great empire and an
ancient house. His ancestry goes back
in one unbroken royal line beyond the
i time of the Norman conquest of Eng
land. The reigning family of Russia
! descend in the female line from Michael
; Romanoff, who was elected Czar in 1613,
! after the extinction of the male line of
the house of Rurik, from whom 'the
Romanoffs are descended in the female
\ line, the Scandinavian Viking who carved
| out for himself a kingdom in Eastern
| Europe more than a thousand years ago,
which Ims since grown into the largest
| empire in the world. In the male line
he is decended from the Duke Karl, of
Holstein-Gottorp, a scion of the young
er branch of the ducal family of Olden
j burg. It was by the union of his
daughter Anne with Prince Karl Freder
rick, of Holstein-Gottorp, that Pe
ter the Great hoped to bring his
kingdom into the States’ system of Eu
rope. Peter the Great was succeeded
by his second wife, Catherine 1., daugh
ter of a Livonian peasant, who reigned
but two years, and she by Peter 11.,
grand nephew of Peter the Great, with
whom the male line of the Romanoffs
became extinct, Anne Ivan HI, and
Elizabeth followed in succession, whose
reigns formed a transition from the na
tive to the German rulers of the empire.
Peter 111., son of Anne and grandson of
Peter the Great, was the first monarch
of the German or Holstein-Gottorp line,
and succeeded to the vacant throne on
the death of his aunt, Elizabeth. The
wife of Peter 111., the famous Catherine
11., a daughter of Prince Anhalt Zerbet,
a General in the Prussian army, succeed
ed her hiishagd. and transmitted the
crown to her son Paul. Par,l died i»
1801, and was succeeded by his son Alex
ander 1., the contemporary and anta
gonist of the great Napoleon. On the
death of Alexander in 1825 without issue
the mown devolved upon his brother,
Constantine, who renounced his right
to the succession in favor of his next
younger brother, the lat® Emperor, j
Nicholas, and father of the present Em- j
peror, Alexander 11.
The emperors of the Holstein-Gottorp
line has constantly intermarried with
German princesses. There is thus
scarcely a trace of Slavonic blood in the
Imperial family of Russia. In lineage
they are as thoroughly Teutonic as she
roval family of Great Britain, of Prussia
or* of Austria. But, while German in
blood, their feelings, prejudices and
habits of thought are, of oonrsp, oast ip
a Slavic mould. The revenue of the
Imperial household,*or civil list as it is
technically called, is the largest in
Europe, perhaps the largest in the
world. Th.e Emperor is in possession,
as his own individual property, of more
than one million of square’ miles of
cultivated land and forests. It was on
this crown domain that the twenty-two
millions of aeifg liyed who were the
property of the crown an* who were
emancipated by the Emperor March 3d,
1861. The emancipation of these crown
serfs led the way to the general emanci
pation which was accomplished by Im
perial ukase July 6th, 1863. Besides
the crown lands the Emperor possesses
in fee simple gold and other mines in
Siberia yielding an annual income of
fonr millions of roubles, or over §2,800,-
000.
The legislative foolishness at the Ne
braska State capital has been ended by
an adjournment sine die.
LETTER FROM WAYNESBORO.
Impression:* of the Town—Change of
Landlords—Labor and Farming
Interests—Adjourned Term
of Court.
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OK CHRONICLE
AND SENTINEL,.]
Waynesboro, Ga. . February 9.
It lias been the privilege of your cor
respondent to spend a portion of the
present week in this venerable capital of
Burke, and, from contact with a number
of the good citizens of the town and dif
ferent sections of the county, to learn
somewhat of the matters and things in
general, as the basis of a brief letter.—
Being my first visit, it will hardly be es
teemed surplusage if I shall indicate
with brevity my
IMPRESSIONS OF THE TOWN.
It does not seem to run the high pres
sure schedule with a speed which is like
ly to extend its corporate limits many
miles within the next decade, but the
spirit of improvement is somewhat active
among the citizens in the renovation and
remodeling of their residences in accord
ance with modern architectural taste and
convenience. The sound of the ham
mer and saw indicates that the residents
are not prepared to acknowledge that
their town is finished—a favorable augu
ry for the future, when, by their industry
and attention to business interests, they
shall have accumulated the means
necessary to expand their store-houses
and beautify their homes in accordance
with their desires.
The majority of the store-houses
which fell under my eye are of the most
unpretentious architectural construction,
but I found the merchants intelligent
and* active and enterprising in their
business. The mercantile interests of
the past year have received quite an im
petus over the trade of previous years, and
I hear of more than one dealer whose an
nual sales will foot up in the neighborhood
of $75,000. This is no small trade, taking
in view the close proximity of Augusta
and the great inducements offered by her
merchants to the trading population of
Burke, and speaks well for the business
thrift and mercantile enterprise of the
merchants of Waynesboro.
THE HOTEL —CHANGE OF LANDLORDS.
The veteran host, Sturges, so widely
known as the courteous landlord of the
Waynesboro Hotel for a series of years
before and since the war, retired from
its charge on the first of January last,
selling the furniture and leasing the
building to Mr. J. J. Reynolds. The
latter is much the junior of the retiring
host, but gives evidence of natural
qualities of head and heart which prom
ise full success in promoting the pleasure
and comfort of his guests. Accommo
dating, polite and agreeable, a few
months’ experience will doubtless suffice
to convince his patrons that the new
landlord has in no wise mistaken his
calling. So mote it be.
LABOR AND FARMING INTERESTS.
From the agricultural districts of the
country general complaint issues of the
difficulty to engage labor sufficient to
cultivate the acreage desired by land
holders. Nor does this scarcity of labor
seem to arise -from a proposed increase
of acreage for culture, or the absence of
the element essential to supply the
want. It is mainly due to the disposi
tion of the colored male population to
run farms upon their own hook, and the
growing purpose of their wives and
daughters to cultivate only such plants
of tender growth as may be nurtured
within the shade of the cabin, without
exposure to Winter’s cold or Summer’s
sun. The exacting demands of this only
available element of labor upon the
purses and patience of land owners has,
beyond doubt, greatly crippled the agri
cultural development of this splendid
cotton region. In obedience to the
mandatory direction of muscle, planters
have capitulated to labor, and have been
forced in numerous instances to accept
whatever terms the victors saw proper
to grant, or the alternative of beholding
their broad and fertile acres abandoned
to weeds and grass. Every system of
securing labor has been adopted and
varied to meet the caprices of muscle,
'so that a single planter, in filling his
quota, finds himself a party to almost as
many different styles of contract as he
has laborers. Some have adopted the
tenant system, which is popular with the
negroes, and yields the laud owner quite
a remunerative rental in produce, where
reliable and industrious laborers can be
bargained with—in some cases $3 to $4
per acre.
Farming operations have been greatly
retarded by the recent and continued se
vere and unpropitious spell of weather.
Farmers are impatiently awaiting a favor
able season to put their lands in prepara
tion for planting, and the indications now
are that their patience will have full op
portunity to exercise itself for some ten or
twelve days. The continued heavy rains
of the present week have rendered seve
eral of the water courses impassable, and
overflowed hundreds of acres of low
land.
ADJOURNED TERM OP COURT.
The adjourned term of Burke Supe
rior Court commenced its sitting on
Monday, His Honor Judge Twiggs pre
siding for Judge Gibson. In attendance
from the Augusta bar, I noted Gen. A.
R. Wright, Judge John T. Sliewmake,
Judge J. S. Hook, Col. James Gardner,
and F. H. Miller, Esq. Gen. R. W.
Carswell, of Louisville, was also present,
and later in the week Hon. H. V. John
son arrived. Joined with the very able
local bar, this array of legal talent and
distinguished jurists would have justi
fied the inference that some case of un
usual magnitude and importance was
pending. Bnt not so. The attendance
of parties litigant, -witnesses, and jurors
was particularly small, and, notwith
standing the earnest and industrious ef
forts of Judge Twiggs to clear the dock
ets, many cases were obliged to be con
tinued. Os the civil business disposed
of, there was nothing of general interest,
and the cases tried upon the criminal
side were of a trivial nature, involving
charges of simple larceny, etc.
At the suit of the plaintiff, Mary A.
Reynolds vs. J. M. Reynolds—libel for
divorce—a second verdict was rendered
by the jury, authorizing a total divorce,
with the privilege of single persons to
both parties.
On Wednesday, Hon. Thomas M. Ber
rien, member of the Legislature from
Burke, after passing a highly creditable
examination before Judges Hook, Shew
make, Perry, and Capt A. M. Rodgers,
was admitted to the practice of law and
equity in the courts of this State.
Hat More Valuable than Cotton.—
Under the above heading the Columbus
(Ga.) Sun discusses the subject, and
says ;
Planters ruin themselves by raising
cotton, and borrow money at a tremend
ous per eentage to pay the West for corn
and hay, bound with blocks of Western
wood, when grass is going to waste in
the abundant fields, and they could cul
tivate abundance of better grain than
they have purchased and save the trans
portation of wood. Did planters ever
think the hay crop was more valuable
than that of cotton ? The figures prove
it. The total value of the cotton crop
for 1870 in the United States, according
to the figures of the Agricultural
Bureau, amounted to $286,000,000. The !
total value of the hay crop 8339,000,000,
showing the value of the latter exceeded
the former $33,000,000. In Georgia the i
hay crop that year was estimated at !
$1,283,130, while that of New York was
$77,000,000. Southerners can never be |
independent until they learn to plant '
less and farm more. Their own suicidal i
policy has made the country poorer than
in 1365. Will 1872 be but a mere repeti- i
tionjof former years and l>e catalogued 1
among the failures ? We hope nqt.
Taxing Coupons and Dividends.---
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
is reported to say that his decision that
dividends declared on the first day of
January, 1872, shall pay income tax if
they were based on earnings of 1871,
holds good with regard to dividends and
coupons until all dividends and coupons
from earnings of 1871 shall be taxed.—
He does not intend to give another
ruling, but holds that dividends of earn
ings are taxable when earned, and the
tax must be deducted if earned in 1871,
no matter when payable.
Mabdi Gras Excursion.— A train of
nine cars, consisting of five sleeping
cars, two parlor cars, one restaurant car,
and one baggage car, left here by the
Blue Mountain Route at 7:20 last night.
Every available space was filled with
pleasure seekers. There were about
seventy who came up from Augusta.
The* train was well officered, B. W.
Wrenn and Reau Campbell huviiu' gen
eral charge, F. Chisolm and Stephen R.
Johnson, sleeping car conductors. R.
G. Thompson had charge of the restau
rant car. We doubt not the party will
have a very pleasant time, and we wish
them most heartily “Bon Voyage." —
Atlanta New ih'a.
Death of Gen. Clarke.— We learn
that Gen. J. A. Clarke, of Social Circle,
died at his residence on the Bth instant,
after a lingering illness. He was an old
and highly esteemed citizen of Newton
county. He was long a Major General j
of the* Georgia Militia, and was warmly
enthusiastic in the service. He was long \
a hotel keeper at Social Circle, and was j
noted for his genuine hospitality. He I
was near 59 years old. —Atlanta Sun. I
Telegraphic Summary*
London, February 6, noon.—A spe
cial to the Daili/ Telegraph from Paris
says President Thiers was shot at last
night, but was not hurt. The assassin
escaped.
The Times urges English statesmen
to silence.
The Telegraph denounces the claims
for indirect damages as utterly inde
fensible.
It is supposed that the Pall Mall Ga
zette has been hoaxed with a spurious
synopsis of the Queen’s speech.
The Dilke demonstration at Trafalgar
was quiet.
New York, February 6.—A Herald
cable from London, dated the fifth,
states that the Times of Monday morn
ing also says the treaty of Washington
has become inoperative—not being based
on a perfect understanding between the
parties concerned. It is with the utmost
reluctance, says the Times, that we eon
template the possibility that a referrence
of the claims to a board of arbitration
will come to nothing. A satisfactory
answer from Washington, excluding
claims for indirect damages from the
case, cannot be anticipated.
The Queen's speech, so far as it relates
to the Alabama clainls, will be short,
friendly and general in terms.
A bill to abolish the Polynesian coolie
slave trade will be introduced in Parlia
ment this session.
Rome, February G, noon.—Cardinal
Antonelle is sick.
Paris, February 6, noon. — Yated Le
Franc becomes Minister of the Interior.
The Treasury is ready to pay the fourth
half milliard due May Ist.
The Assembly is discussing the estab
lishment of a Provincial Commission to
govern the country if the Assembly is
illegally dissolved. Tumultuous scenes
attend the discussion.
Halifax, February 6.—Considerable
damage was caused to shipping by
southeast gales. «
The people are greatly excited over
the treaty complications.
London, February 6, evening.—Par
liament was opened shortly after noon
to-day. When the members of the
House had assembled in the Chamber of
Piers, the Queen’s speech was delivered.
The royal speech begins with thanks to
God for the recovery of the Prince of
Wales, and gratitude for the sympathy
of the people. The relations with foa
eign powers are friendly and in all re
spects satisfactory.
A bill will be presented to check the
slave trade in Polynesia, which is se
verely denounced.
The efforts to secure the continuance
of a commercial treaty with France have
so far not succeeded, but negotiations are
still pending.
The following reference is made with
regard to the Alabama claims : The
arbitrators appointed, pursuant to the
treaty of Washington, for the purpose
of America settling the Alabama claims,
held their first meeting at Geneva. The
cases were laid before the arbitrators on
behalf of each party to the treaty to this
case submitted by America. Large
claims were included, which were un
derstood on my part not to be within
the provinces of the arbitrators. On
this subject I have caused a friendly
communication to be made to the Gov
ernment of the United States.
Nothing further is said in regard to
the Alabama claims, but in regard to
the other provisions of the treaty of
Washington, it is stated that the Em
peror of Germany has accepted the
arbitratorship of the dispute in regard
to the San Juan boundary, and cases
are now preparing for presentation.
The mixed commission appointed under
the treaty is also in session.
New York, February G. — The new
iron ferry boat Fulton Bprung a leak in
the stream and sunk. The passengers
were rescued.
Salt Lake, February 6. —Snow block
ade reports are more discouraging than
ever.
Louisville, February 6.—Enos White
was brought from Baltimore for swind
ling the Bank of Kentucky by a raised
yheck. He is held in seven thousand
dollars for trial.
Santa Fe, February G. —A general
outbreak of Indians is apprehended, as
three recent stage coach robberies and
murders occured at different points on
the road.
Memphis, February G.— Alexis departs
to-morrow for New Orleans with a bril
liant party, from Louisville and Mem
phis.
Squire John Norton was killed by
Deputy Slierilf Sproger, who alleges
self-defense.
It is reported that a large portion of
Helena, Ark., has been destroyed by
fire.
Atlanta, February G. — The National
Bank was attached to-day for refusing
to pay one hundred and twenty thou
sand dollars, deposited by Governor
Bullock as State funds.
New Orleans, February 6.—Warmotli
was before the Congressional Investigat
ing Committee nearly five hours to-day.
After protesting against interference
by the committee in the affairs of the
Governor and State, he read a volumi
nous document giving a brief history
of his administration. If the Governor
did not succeed in showing that his
administration had been just and wise,
he did not fail to make a strong case
against his political opponents, and es
pecially the leading Republicans of the
coalition. He charged that all the
laws which they now claimed were odious
were mostly framed and supported
by them in the Legislature and all the
city and State courts.
The Congressional Investigating
Committee have agreed to hold no ses
sion on Mardi Gras day, thirteenth inst.
The display promises to be the grandest
ever known in this country. The Mystic
Krew of Comus will appear in a grand
allegorical procession. The Grand
Duke Alexis and suite have timed their
visit so as to be here during the carni
val. Guests from all parts of the coun
try are already flocking to the city.
Washington, February 6.—Confirmed
—Haines, Commissioner of Customs ;
Gage, Collector of Customs Beaufort,
IS. C. ; C. M. Hamilton, nominated for
Postmaster of Jacksonville, Florida, was
i rejected.
The steamer Congress, now at New
York, is ordered to join the European
squadron.
There was a full Cabinet to-day. The
session was unusually long.
Garrett Davis is critically ill.
The treaty complications were infor
mally discussed in the Cabinet to-day.
1 It was a mere colloquy.
The Committee of Ways and Means
hereafter will only hear committees in
writing.
Washington, February 6.— House.-
The following bills were introduced :
Bridging the Mississippi; for mail ser
vice to Austria ; to promote iron ship
building; to encourage telegraphic
communication with Europe and Asia;
to relieve actual settlers on the Cherokee
neutral lands; bridging the Mississippi
at Muscatine. The education bill was
discussed to adjournment.
Senate —Fenton presented a petition
from over one thousand leading mer
chants, protesting against the seizure of
private books and papers by Government
officials. :
A protest from the South Carolina i
Legislature against the reduction of duty j
on rice was presented.
Edmunds introduced a resolution call- !
ing for correspondence looking to the
abrogation of the Washington treaty,
which was followed by a warlike speech.
Amnesty was discussed to adjourn- i
ment.
Paris, February 7, noon.— Lefranc is
Minister of the Interior.
The German Government has been no
tified of France’s willingness to accept a
colony in part payment of the war in
demnity.
London, February 7, noon.—Lord
Chancellor read the Queen’s speech.
Granville, replying to a denunciatory
speech from Disraeli regarding the
Washington treaty, concluded : “He
could, if he desired, refer to the pre
posterious character of American de
mands, which of itself proved their
absurdity, for they were such as no
people in the last extremity of war, or
in the lowest depth of national misfor
tune, with the spirit of England in their
hearts, would ever submit to.” (Cheers.]
Gladstone concluded by saying the
Government would maintain the posi
tion it had taken firmly, though in a
friendly manner.
Dennison has resigned Speakership of
the House of Commons.
London, February 7, evening.—Ad-
vices from the Cape of Good Hope re
present the colony crowded with
strangers; murders and robberies abound.
Police reinforcements will go out with
the next steamer.
The subject of the Washington treaty
was again resumed in the House of Com
mons to-day, and an excited discussion
ensued. Ralps Osborne said the Ala
bama question was one of the most mo
mentous England had been called to pass
upon within a century. He compared
the astute lawyers who composed the
American commission with the novices
who represented England, and said the
latter had been completely outwitted. If,
said he, lawyers had planned the English
case, we comd escape with the payment of
six millions sterling. The American
commissioners served their country well
and achieved a triumph.
Madrid, February 7.—Two thousand
troops asked for by the Captain General
of Yalmaseda have sailed for Cuba.
Baltimore, February 7.—Martin John
Spalding, Primate of the Catholic
Church in the United States and Arch
bishop of this diocese, died this evening,
after a protracted illness ; aged, 62
years. Tne funeral will take place at 10
o’clock Monday.
Washington, February 7.—Senator
Davis is regarded out of danger.
Wm. Hallan has been nominated as
Snrveyor of Customs for Texas.
Commissioner Douglass, before the
Ways and Means Committee, argued in
favor of a uniform cotton tax as to the
interest of both Government and manu
facturer.
’The Hornet has been libelled-for vio
lations of the neutrality law.
General Sheridan is here.
The Naval Committee agreed to report
a bill materially increasing the bel
ligerent strength of the navy.
The position taken by gentlemen
closely connected with the administra
tion of the Government is, that the
British High Commission have perfectly
understood the views of the American
Commissioners in the negotiation of the
treaty of Washington, both from its
terms and the assertions in the protocol,
and that, therefore, our Government is
altogether justified in presenting their
case ns it is, claiming consequential
damages. In case the Board of Arbi
trators shall not award a gross sum in
satisfaction of the so-called Alabama
claims, this Government is willing to
stand by the decision of the arbitrators.
It is known that, though the British
Commissioners had full power, they fre
quently consulted their home Govern
ment, and acted in accordance with its
wishes in all they did.
It is officially asserted that if the
claim for consequential damages had not
been presented, and was not to be passed
upon, there might be a complaint by the
people of the United States that pro
vision w r as made for a partial settlement
only of the differences between the two
countries. Such claim was therefore
presented for a full settlement in the
interests of peace, and to preclude
further disputes.
This Government has not yet received
the text of the letter from Lord Gran
ville to the General Government, and
therefore cannot take official action upon
it. There is no probability whatever
that our Government will withdraw any
part of its statement of the case, but will
leave the British Government to pursue
its own course, or the tribunal of arbi
trators to act in the premises according
to treaty stipulations; nor is it likely
that our Consul will take any action in
order to accommodate the Briti sh Gov
ernment.
There is not a word of truth in recent
publications that there has been an es
trangement between Secretary Fish and
Gen. Sickles. On the contrary,'the best
feeling exists between the gentlemen.
Memphis, February 7.—Alexis has
chartered the steamer James Howard in
order to reach New Orleans for Mardi
Gras.
New York, February 7.—A Rio
Janeiro letter reports the burning of the
steamer America, from Buenos Ayres for
Montevideo. Sixty lives lost. No
Americans.
The Brooklyn Presbytery, this even
ing, disposed of the case of Rev. Dr.
Cuyler. They did not censure the
Doctor, but resolved to call the atten
tion of Presbyterian Churches to a
resolution of the Synod of 1832, which
declared that women should not preach
in their churches.
Chicago, February 7.—A railroad ac
cident occurred at eight o’clock this
morning on the Rockford, Rock Island
and St. Louis Railroad, near Alton, 111.
Ten were killed outright and forty
wounded. The cars caught fire and five
were burned to death. No further par
ticulars yet received.
New York, February 7.—The British
brig Ida lost her mate overboard. The
Captain and another was seriously hurt
in a gale.
The Alton collision occurred half a
mile south of Upper Alton. Joseph
Trissen, Mrs. Reuben Rains, and two
unknown, were killed. Several hurt—
some fatally.
Two soldiers, while attempting to de
sert from David’s Island, were drowned,
and another was nearly frozen to death.
Wheeling, February 7. —A wagon load
of mail matter has been received. The
ice blockade continues.
Providence, R. 1., February 7.—One
negro was shot and another died to-day.
Washington, Febrnary 7.— Senate—
A Pension bill appropriating thirty mil
lions passed.
Chandler offered a resolution asking if
any United States Senator had received
lawyers ’ fees from the Treasury De
partment Adopted.
Amnesty was resumed. Carpenter’s
substitute for Sumner’s amendment
supplemental to the Civil Rights bill was
rejected by a vote of 19 to 35.
Sherman moved to strike out the
ninth section of Sumner’s amendment,
which would repeal or annul all laws,
whether State or national, which dis
criminated against race or color, by the
use of the word “white.” After some
discussion Mr. Sumner, at the request of
friends of the bill, consented that the
section should be struck out.
Mr. Harlan objected to striking out
the section. Without a vote, Senate
adjourned.
House— The House voted to-day on
amendmentsto the educational bill. Two
important amendments were adopted— :
one, on motion of Goodrich, of New
York, to distribute, the fund on the basis
of illiteracy, and the other, on motion
of Hereford, of West Virginia, to the
effect that the schools contemplated in
the bill need not necessarily bo mixed
schools. The last was adopted by a vote
of 114 yeas to 80 nays.
The Republicans, in order to get rid
of this last amendment, then turned in
favor of one of the substitutes, which is
not amendable, and the question was at
that stage when the House adjourned.
The final vote will bo taken to-morrow.
London, February 8, noon. —New
York Tribune special—Granville’s dis
patch contains no threat, but simply
calls attention to England’s understand
ing of the treaty. Several members of
the Cabinet disapprove of the pas
sionate tone of Granville’s speech. The
situation is regarded as a grave one in
the highest English and American quar
ters, but not hopeless.
Anew company which proposes to lay
a telegraph line direct to New York has
been registered. One of its features is
to fix tolls at 20 shillings per ten words.
The Times, reviewing the debate in
the House of Commons yesterday, says
it is evident that the House favors the
repudiation of American claims for di
rect losses.
Gladstone’s language is not likely to
induce the Americans to withdraw their
demands.
The excitement over the Alabama
claims is unabated. Parliamentary
speeches keep the public mind agitated.
Much anxiety regarding the action of
the Washington Cabinet prevails in all
circles. Business at the Exchange is
seriously affected.
Havana, February B.—The Captain
and crew of the British schooner Lark
were driven into Cuban waters by the
gales and seized. They were bailed at
the instance of the British Consul Gen
eral.
Cuban General Casanova was killed.
Irregular weather retards and shortens
the sugar crop.
New York, February B.—Venezuela
advices state that President Blanco has
been recaptured.
The Ban Fernando revolutionists were
badly defeated.
Haytien advices say that the National
Palace at Port an Prince is burned.
Sagat has pardoned a number of
criminals, causing dissatisfaction.
Business is dull.
London, February 8, evening.—The
steamers Colorado and Arabian collided
| just outside the Mercy. The Colorado
| was shored to prevent her siuking with
all on board. The Arabian was com
paratively uninjured, and rescued the
Colorado’s passengers, except five of tin
steerage, who jumped overboard in the
panic.
The press is still moderate, but main
tains that Parliament is unanimous
against the American demands.
Paris, February 8, evening.—Wash
burn returns to the United States on
leave. Col. Hoffman has charge of the
Legation.
Washington, February B.—The Com
mittee of Ways and Mea*s to-day had a
conference on the subject of spirits and
tobacco. Although they have not posi
tively come to a conclusion, there is a
probability that they w;iU agree upon a
uniform tax of twenty-four cents on to
bacco, agd B o amend the law as to con
solidate distillers’ stamps, and provide
for the removal of the present obstruc
tions so as to facilitate the exportation
of spirits.
In the House Hoar s Education bill,
distributing the funds in proportion to
illiteracy, and providing for no compul
sory mixed schools, passed to its third
reading by a vote of ayes, 112 ; nays,
97.
The sums awarded to Amerioan citi
zens by the American Mexican Com
mission, to the sth instant, amounts to
3500,000. The amount of claims aggre
gates $11,500,000; awards to Mexicans,
only 836,000. Their claima aggregate
318,000,000. Four hundred eases have
been decided and over one thousand are
pending.
The Secretary of the Navy and Treas
ury, before the Commerce Committee,
urged subsidies and bounties to en
courage American ship building.
The Educational bill which passed the
House to-day was originally introduced
by Mr. Pierce, of Mississippi, Chairman
of the Committee on Education and
Labor. It consecrates public lands to
public education. Oifb-half of the pro
ceeds of sales of public lands are dis
tributed annually among the different
States, during the first ten years, upon
the basis of illitorwy, HR shown by the
present census ; the other half invested,
and the interest to be used for educa
tional purposes, No State loses its
share of the fund by legal enactments
forbidding mixed schools. After ten
years the distributing will be upon the
oasis of population instead of illiteracy.
Jackson, Miss., February B.—Col.
John Duncan iB dead.
One hundred prisoners and two hun
dred witnesses are here to appear in the
Ku-Klux trials about commencing.
New York, February 8. —Z. J. Pang
born & Cos., publishers of the Jersey
City Evening Journal , have been
mulcted in the sum of three thousand
dollars for libelling George Watts, a
coal dealer.
Atlanta, February B.—Gov. Smith to
day appointed W. W. Montgomery
Judge of the Supreme Court to fill a
vacancy.
Burlington, lowa, February B.—Ex-
Senator Grimes died this morning of
heart disease.
New York, February B.— William and
George Knight, arrested u few days ago
for extradition, were discharged. ' Their
embezzlement is not within the extradi
tion treaty.
Washington, February B.— Senate.
Sherman’s bill retiring three per cent,
certificates passed.
Amnesty resumed. A vote striking
out the 7tli seetioi*of Sumner’s amend
ment failed—2s to 33.
Trumbull said he would vote against
every amendment, thus, upon a final
issue, leaving the bill obnoxious as
possible. An amendment erasing allu
sions to churches passed—39 to 23.
An amendment striking out the clause
regarding jurors failed—l 2to 42. Ad
journed.
House.— The Education bill finally
passed.
The new drawing for seats occurred.
The Democrats voting aye on tho
Education bill were : Kerr, Ponier, Slo
curnb, Storon and Townsend. Repub
licans voting nay were : Beatly, Bing
ham, Clark of New York, Dickey,
Houghton, Killingcn, Myers, Negly, it.
Packer, Peek, Sargeant, Stanton, Wal
dron, and Wilson of Ohio. Adjourned.
New York, February 10. — The In
vestigation Committee has adjourned to
Washington.
A Herald special from Quebec says
the report of a treaty of separation be
tween the Dominion of Canada and Great
Britain is unfounded,
St. Louis, February 10. — Two sleep
ing cars on the eastern bound Missouri
Pacific train ran off. Tweenty were hurt,
but none fatally. A broken rail was the
cause.
San Francisco, February 10. — Another
Nevada stage was highwaymaned yester
day.
Omaha, February 10. — Six western
bound trains are at Rawlings station,
twenty-two days from Omaha. The
passengers lived on crackers and cheese.
An indignation meeting was held. Snow
closed in behind the passing trains.
Washington, February 10. — Another
Nicaragua canal expedition is contem
plated by the Government.
Columbus, February 10.—The Senate
passed a bill equalizing rates for
freights.
Chicago, February 10.—A broken rail
wrecked five cars on the Illinois Central
Railroad. Conductor Charles Blanchard
was killed.
Philadelphia, February 10.—Henry
J. Evans, State Senator, is dead, re
storing the State Senate to a tie.
Marcer, the defaulting City Treasurer,
has been sentenced to three hundred
thousand dollars fine and five years’
solitary confinement at hard labor.'
Yerkes, associated with Marcer, was
fined five hundred dollars and three
years’ imprisonment.
London, February 10, noon. — Groat
eagerness is manifested for the latest news,
from America. Everybody is anxious
to learn how the action of England with
regard to tho Alabama claims is re
ceived. Special dispatches from New
York and Washington to the press here,
and private telegrams to business houses,
are posted on Change us soon us re
ceived, aud bulletins are surrounded by
largo crowds. Yesterday’s debate in the
Senate on Edmunds’ resolution is fully
reported by cable, together with extract's
from editorials of tho leading New York
journals of yesterday. *
London, February 10, evening.—The
steamer Electra and ship Delielerun col
lided in the channel. The Electra found
ered, with the Captain and seventeen
persons. The Deheleran was uninjured.
The Times says it is morally certain
that an attempt to settle the Alabama
claims before the Geneva Board of Arbi
tration will be a failure. We must,
therefore, make efforts to prevent angry
recrimination. More dexterous negotia
tions may settle all differences.
Washington, February 10.—Upon
Sumner’s amendment, the following Sen
ators voted aye : Browulow, Clayton,
Gilbert, Osborn, Rice, Spencer, XVest.
Nays—Borenmn, Blair, Davis, Gold
thwaite, Hamilton of Texas, Hill, John
ston, Norwood, Pool, Robertson, Saw
yer, Stevenson, Flanogan. The latter
would have voted aye, but paired off
with Davis. Kellogg did not vote. Col
fax, in casting the deciding vote, said,
“ That while not concurring in all the
features of the amendment, as a whole it
met his acquiescence, and ho should
therefore record his vote in tho affirma
tive.” So the amendment was adopted.
Thus amnesty, as amended, failed—all
the Democrats and several Republicans
voting nay.
New York, February 10.—A daily bul
letin states on high banking authority
that an old Baltimore firm lias protested
a quarter of a million Havana drafts,
drawn upon it for heavy consignments of
sugar.
Five indictments have been found
against Mayor Hall for wilfully and cor
ruptly neglecting to audit certain claima
against the city. Bailed in $3,000.
Wm. Porter and Thos. Brixley, fash
ionable burglars, have been arrested,
with the implements of their profession.
They offered $5,000 to the officers to bo
released. Heretofore they moved in
aristocratic society.
New Orleans, February 10. The
Matumovas revolutionists, under Gen.
Guirra, captured Zacatecas on the 30tli
ultimo, with u largo quantity of stores
and artillery. General Trevino, witli
three thousand revolutionists, has ad
vanced on San Luis Potosi. Gen. Rcclm
entered that city on the 29th, witli six
hundred reinforcements, before Trevino
could reach there. Trevino is receiving
reinforcements daily, and will doubtless
capture the place by part of Cortina’s
troops, which are expected here to
night, while that chieftain will remain
outside to harrass the enemy.
Washington, February 10. —Senate—
The Election Committee discussed the
North Carolina Senatorsliip without ac
tion ; will hear Ransom next Saturday.
Commander Leroy Fitch has been
transferred from the Pensacola Navy
Yard.
A motion will he made early next
week in the Senate to take up the House
amnesty bill and press it to a vote, clear of
amendment, when its friends feel sure it
will secure the necessary two-thirds.
New Orleans. February 10.—The
Congressional Committee has con
cluded its investigations and leave to
morrow evening for Washington.
The James Howard, with the Ducal
parly, is expected toarrive Monday morn
ing. Rooms have been engaged for it at
the St. Charles Hotel.
Norfolk, February 10.—It is reported
that the schooner Wake, hence u few
days ago for Philadelphia, was out
through by the ice and sunk on Fishing
Creek Shoals.
Many marine disasters are apprehend
ed from the recent severe storm.
HOME EVIDENCE.
Morgan Cos., Ga., January 8, 1872.
Mr. J. O. Mathew son :
Dear Sir —Yours of the 20tli of De
cember is at hand. In reply I say, I
only used three kinds of Guano last
season on cotton. Os those the Soluble
Pacific did best, making a larger stalk
and more fruit than the other kinds. I
j have never tested it with Peruvian
Guano, therefore cannot express an
j opinion. I shall use ft this season again.
Yours, respectfully,
feb9-6 A. C. Zachry.
The Rest is the Cheapest. —Extract
from a letter received by the Agent of
the Patapaoo Guano Company, from a
business house on the Georgia Railroad,
dealing largely in fertilizers :
January lltli, 1872.
Gen. M. A. Stovall, Augusta, Ga.:
Df.ah Sir —We are having considerable
inquiry about guanos. Many of our old
customers who have been experimenting
with other guanos are wanting to get
back on the right track. They say Pa
tapsco is the best fertilizer they have
ever used, and want to use it again.
Please let us know all about it. Wo
think we can sell a good deal this Spring.
janl9—-wd&sulm
“ Ten Becauses. —A hundred reasons
might be given why Lyon’s Kathairon
should he used by every intelligent hu
man being in preference to every other
preparation for the hair, bnt ten will
suffice. Here they are ; Because it nour
ishes the fibers, multiplies them, and
makes them grow ; because it thus pre
vents them from withering and bleach
ing ; because it removes the scurf and
dandruff which chokes them as tares,
choke the golden grain ; because it keeps:
the scalp cool and prevents eruptions;
because it renders the hair as lustrous
as satin ; because it makes it pliant and
elastic ; because it is a fragrant and de
lightful dressing ; because it does not
soil the pillow, the cap or the hat; be
cause it is without a rival in cheapness,
and because no other article sold for the
same purpose, in this or any other coun
try, possesses all, or even one-liulf, of
these invaluable properties.
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