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WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 21.
GETTING TOO HOT FOB HIM.
The recent developments of the State
Road robberies and the arrest of sun
dry of the small Fry robbers has had a
moving effect upon the little Perjurer,
and he has, wo learn, very quietly and
•eeretly left Atlanta for parts unknown.
He doubties felt that he could not give
bond, and his guilt being certain, im
pelled him to shake Georgia dust from
his foot and seek retreat in a aore con
genial clime.
A SMALL WEDGE.
We read that Mr. mber
of the Committee of Ways and Means,
and accounted a ninety-nine per cent,
protectionist, got through Congress
a bill to admit free of duty the
machinery for a glass factory in Indiana.
We did not expect this of Mr. Maynard.
He has thrust his knife into the bowels
of the protective theory. He has de
clared that duties on machinery are a
burden to manufactures, and, virtually,
that ‘all manufactures which use iron
machinery would be promoted by taking
the duties from machinery. And how
consistent Congress is. But a session
or two ago, some leading men in Ala
bama and Georgia petitioned Congress
to admit duty free a certain part of cot
ton machinery, not made in the United
States, and which could not be used in
competition with any of the existing in
dustries of the country, and yet Con
gress refused. Its seems that in Re
publican practice new industries in cot
ton fabrics are to bo discouraged by ex
acting tariffs, and new industries in glass
ware are to be encouraged by free trade.
ONLY A Itl'HHi AN METHOD.
We read in an exchauge “that the
students of Moscow who signed a peti
tion to the Czar praying for the liberty
of the press, have been banished to
Siberia.” Such petitions and such stu
dents ure down right nuisances in Rus
sia and summarily abated as such, by
Imperial ukase. The Government of the
country of oar Grand Duke Alexis, tol
erates no such impertinent petitions as
for the freedom of the press, and no such
free aspirations as those which the Mos
cow students so rashly entertained and
desired to reach by the simple agency
of respectful petition. And yet our
Grand Duke, as the representative of
that Government, is lionized by Repub
lican Americans and lauded by the Rc
publioan press of free America. When
will the iron age of our Repub-
be transmuted into the golden
age of Russian civilization ? Our Grand
Duke studies in Spain. The Russian
Grand Duke investigates the “American
nation.” The Russian eagle and the
American eagle are in accord, and a
“free press” ministers joyfully to the
grand representative of Imperial des
potism. What next?
THE GENEVA BOARD.
The Board of Arbitrators, which,
under the treaty of Washington, has
been referred all matters of dispute
growing out of the late civil war, hold
their first formal meeting at Geneva,
December 18th, and organized by choos
ing Count Selpois, the Italian member,
President. The Board then adjourned
until the 15th of June, more than four
months hence. In the interval the rep
resentatives of the nations litigant are
preparing to present their respective
eases in the best possible manner, and
at the same time evoking public opin
ion of their respective countries to
back their pretensions. The Board, as
sembling in June, cannot be expected to
decide such grave matters as have been
entrusted to their deliberations with dis
patch. We may, therefore, look for an
other adjournment or a delay of four
months or longer; thus, happily, the min
isterial crisis in England, and the Presi
dential election in the United States
will have been determined.
A “ linn attitude ” by President Grant
and his Cabinet towards England in the
matter of “ consequental damages ” can
be made useful to enlist the sympathy
of the Fenians in the campaign and at
the ballot box, to compensate for the
loss of Carl Schurz and the Germans in
the West to tin l Republican party.
No war may be looked for, therefore,
until after the action of the Geneva
Board, after the ministerial crisis in
England, after the Presidential election,
and then, not until new issues shall
have arisen and new actors appear
upon the political arena. “ Lot us have
peace" and a Presidential campaign
first, and then we may talk of a foreign
war afterwards.
THE STATIC ROAD INVESTIGATING
COMMITTEE.
Tlio State Road Investigating Com
mittee seems to be doing the work
assigned it efficiently and thoroughly.
The Atlanta Sun chronicles the arrest of
Henry O. Hoyt, at the instance of Col.
John C. Nichols, upon two warrants—
one charging felony and the other per
jury. The Sun says the first alleges
that being in the public employ the
State, viz : under the Superintendent
of the Western and Atlantic Railroad,
he did embezzle, steal, take, and
fraudulently carry away the sum of
$184,(199 91, the same being the prop
erty of the State, which has beep de
manded of him, and which he has re
fused to refund. ,
The second warrant charges him with
the offense of false swearing in that, on
the 12th February, 1872, he did, wil
fully, knowingly and falsely swear that
he never stated to the Attorney-General
of the State that it would be worth $20,-
tXX) to him. the said Attorney-General,
if Col. E. Hulbert should l>e turned out
of the Superintendency of the State
Road and Foster Blodgett put in.
Mr. Hoyt was taken before Judge
Cowart. He waived examination. Judge
C. required a bond of SIO,OOO iu oue
case, and $15,000 in the other. At last
accounts this bond had not been given.
Several gentlemen offered to go on his I
bond, but on investigation it was found ’
that none of these gentlemen were
worth anything pecuniarily, in their own
right
Judge Cowart said the object of a
bond was to hold and produce at Court
the violator of law, and he desired it
distinctly understood that he would not
take straw bail: that he ’jould not ac
cept a man as bondsman who had his
thousands, otjiis hundreds of thousands,
in his pocket, where it was intangible,
or who h»<l it in his wife’s name, and
that he would not take any security
whose property was not immoveable.
He further stated that he would hold
the proper officers strictly responsible
for the bond they might take.
It is believed that Mr. Hoyt has been
seeking to leave the city and the eonn
trv for several days ; that his trunks
were packed, and that but for the vigi
lance of the officers on Monday night,
who watched him at his house, he would
have been gone.
The arrest of Siler for carrying that
kev to Fry has caused terrible shaking
among dry bones ; and ue shall not be
surprised if several parties do not sud
denly disappear. We learn tiiat some
are already where they cannot be found
have been taken with a sudden leaving.
One by one they fall! The plunder
ers will be totally uprooted, and their
occupation henceforth will be to peck
rocks, or swing picks and shovels, with
fetters on them, or they will escape only
in flight and effectual concealment.
Gen. A. Buford, the owner of some of
the best racing stock in the world, has
gone South, taking with him six of his
tine thorougbreds, to take part in the
races at New 7 Orleans. The horses he
has taken are Nellie Gray, Hollywood, j
Bombshell, Malita, Rapnlite and Minus.
They will run first on the Metairie
course, and then on the Louisiana Jockey
Club conrse, when they will be sliip-;
ped directly East.
THE FINANCES OF GEORGIA, t
Under the above editorial caption the ;
New Y’ork Bulletin reads the press of j
Georgia a homily upon courtesy, and
affects —by what authority it does not ap- j
pear—in the name of the holders of the j
bonds of the State, to instruct the Legis
lature of our State and a committee
thereof touching an inquiry as to the
number, sum and validity of State
bonds issued by an absconding, if not a
defaulting and criminal, Governor.
We should respect the metropolitan j
homily did it not commingle with its lea-.
son “abusive insinuations,” and openly
charge its provincial antagonists with
combining in a “ discreditable scheme
of corruption.” Such insinuations and
such charges “asperse motives” far J
more than the “flippancy” in expre3- j
sion and the “ invective ” in phrase- j
ology which wounds the “ self-respect” ;
of the metropolitan and evokes his cen- j
sure.
Again, we are quite sure that the In- j
1 vestigjpting Committee will appreciate ;
the enlarged benevolence of the New
York journalist who so kindly and so
disinterestedly undertakes to instruct
both the Legislature and its committee
in a matter of public policy and in the
selection of agents ; and kindly warns
them of the dangers which beset them.
Such friendly instances of genial be- i
nevolence should command the highest I
regard when they arise in Wall street, j
and so rarely occur as to call for an
unusual expression of gratitude from
those whose guardianship has been so
graciously assumed.
The “ intention” which has been
avowed by our financial friend “was
to show”—just that which is neither true
as to facts nor correct as to inference—
“ That, through selfish jealousies and j
)K)litieal bitterness, there was a chronic \
quarrel between the Governor on the ;
one hand and the State Treasurer and a !
party in the Legislature on the other ;
that this feeling was shown in a con
stant war between these parties, in the
administration of the finances ; that
the Governor being ultimately defeated
in the conflict, and having to leave’ the
State, apparently.from a fear to face
out the confusion into which the
finances had been thus brought, his op
ponents succeeded to the control ; that,
having acquired that position, they are
attempting to make capital for them
selves, and to justify their past course,
by making the most of the Governor s
bad management and imputed wrongs ;
and that there is good reason for sup
posing that their outcry about past
abuses and the suspension of iaterest
payments upon an immense amount of
debt, ure partly intended —the one to
cover up and the other to make the op
portunity —for a base scheme of specu
lation at the expense of the creditors of
Georgia and of her credit.”
Now the intention so avowed is to show
that which is altogether wholly untrue
by statement, logic and hypothesis.
We particularise. The historical fact
is, that Bullock, the absconding Gov
ernor, and Mr. Angier, the Treasu
rer of tho State, were both reconstruc
tionists, both members of the Republi
can party, both holding the same politi
cal theories, and, as politieans, both are
supposed to havo been working for the
same end. The difference between them
is, that Bullock is a bummer, and that
Angier is a plain business man, who
• preferred a good name to great riches,
an honest character to dishonest plun
der.
Bullock controlled the Legislature
during his entire administration by
an overwhelming majority—a majori
ty so great as to permit the vio
lation, with impunity, of the law re
quiring an annual statement of the public
debt, and to procure for himself the
semblance of legislative authority to
usurp the functions of the State Treasu
rer, and to assume all the powers of ifn
Imperial Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The Governor was not defeated in the
“ conflict” with the State Treasurer, but
, the Republican party was overwhelming
ly defeated at a general election for
members of the General Assembly ; and
the Governor, finding serntiny and con
sequent exposure inevitable, and the
“chain gang, with Tom Alexander’s
buggy strap,” imminent, fled, leaving the
State “ To all whom it may concern.”
Again ; there is no possible induce
ment “ for opponents succeeding to the
control”—the Democratic Investigating
Committee —“attempting to make capi
tal for themselves.” The State is over
whelmingly Democratic —by a majority
of more than forty thousand ballots.
Neither is there any cause for them “ to
justify their past course for until now
their past, course has been, of necessity,
passive submission to theft, spoliation
and robbery without check ami beyond
remedy. There is no “ outcry” in
Georgia about the immense amount of
debt. The people and the Legislature
are utterly ignorant as to the sum of
the real or the sum of the pretended
debt. We know very well what the'debt
amounted to prior to 18(18, and recognize
its validity and provided for its obliga-
tions. We have had good reason to be
lieve that our debt has been doubled
since 18(58—legally and illegally.. The
figures which the New York Bulletin
furnish disclose that it lias been in
creased, legally or illegally, $11,500,0tX),
or about three-fold. Perhaps when Lon
don is heard froln, and Frankfort-on
the-Main is heard from, it may be in
creased four or five fold. We do know
that since this “agitation.” has been
begun that bonds to the amount of
Three Hundred Thousand Dollars, which
were outstanding—overlooked in a bank
ers’ cash box—have been returned to
the State Treasury and cancelled ; and
we know further, that a little more than
a year ago Georgia bonds were* so super
abounding in Washington City as tube the
foundation for a matter for discussion iu
the United States Senate. Hence, there
exists an absolute, pressing necessity for
an investigation of the liabilities of the
State and for an accurate record of the
State’s obligations ; and it is obvious that
these objects could not be attained with
out just such a compulsory process as
, that indicated by the Legislature in the
suspension of the interest payments upon
all “the disputed bonjs.”
There *is a positive, detailed statement
in'the editorial of the Bulletin as to “the
exact position of these disputed bonds ”
—giving the amount sold, the amount!
hypothecated, and “ the rates at which
they were marketed" for which we are
under obligation, and which we quote
as giving information not to be found in
the latest official reports.
\KW YORK BULLETIN'S RETORT UPON THE
BULLOCK BONDS.
State issue, 7 per cent., mar
keted at 87 $1,650,000
State issue, 7 per cent, gold,
hypothecated 1,350,000
Issued to railroads, 7 percent.
gold, marketed at 85 486,000
Issued to railroads, 7 per eeut.
gold, hypothecated 1,394,000
Bruns, anil Alb., endorsed by
State, 6 per cent.. marketed
at 75090 2,500,000
Bruns, and Alb., endorsed by
State, 5 per cent., hypothe
cated 800,000 1
Additional endorsed railroad £
mortgages, marketed at 85@
90. 3,000,000
There is minuteness and precision in (
this statement which betrays its origin. ;
The amounts are given with that exact- I
ness and positive authority which de
notes absolute personal knowledge, j
The discrimination as to gold bonds and
currency bonds ; as to bonds sold and
I bonds hypotliieated ; the distinction
j drawn between “ State issues and
issues to railroads ; the specification
j of a particular railroad —the Brunswick
aud Albany—and the positive amount
jof the range of prices lOf alleged sales,
; are stated with the precision of & bank
er’s account and mark the peculiarities
of the brokers office. These betray a
familiarity with the trsnwtions which
at once indicates the minute information
of one who accomplished the tranaac.
tions and was directly interested is
their results.
At the very outset of this investi
gation of the Bullock issue of Geor
gia bonds, we had an “ outcry
but not from the people of Georgia,
The people were content to await pa- j
tiently the report of the committee
charged with the duty. The “ outcry”
came from another quarter, and has been
repeated and re-echoed time and again.
The outcry and its repetitions and
echoes all give evidence of a common
origin. Like sets of exchange,
they are all of the same tenor and ef
fect-time drafts on oar credulity,
and sight drafts on our fears. We
had an appeal to the people of Geor
gia from Mr. Henry Clews, of the firm
of Henry Clews A Cos., of Wall street,
New York ; repetitions thereof in the
columns of certain New York journals.
We had the song from London— 1
where Clews, Habreight & Cos. do busi
ness—in the columns of the thundering
Times, and in the Columns of the ad
monitory Anglo-Saxok ; and opinions by
the ocean cable, and telegrams contain
ing a protest from a convention in Frank
fort-on-the-Main, with menaces of ex
tinct credit, and remonstrances to the
Governor of Georgia, and appeals to the
President of the United States ; and
about whut ? Why simply because the
Legislature of Georgia has done just
what any prudent banker or merchant,
whose agent had transcended his power
t of attorney or committed fraud, would
have done: asked that such claims should
be presented for investigation, and sus
pending all payments upon such claims
until investigation could be made.
And now we have upon us the terrible
New York Bulletin. This thunderer, on
the 9tli of January, approved the action of
the Legislature ; on the 19th of January
it asks frantically if the people of Geor
gia will allow themselves to be trifled
with; and on the 9th of February threatens
to extinguish the credit of the State of
Georgia by the action of some bond
holders, who are to swindle somebody
j in ft sale of three and a half millions of
! hypothecated “disputed bonds,” after
! legal notice has been given and ae
j knowledged. Our comment upon ell
this is, “good customers make willing
advocates.”
Once for all, it may be assumed as ab
solutely certain that this investigation
will proceed, and he made thorough and
legally complete, but in all uprightness
and honesty. Such a course is demanded
by the interests of the people of the
State, as well as in justice to bona fide
creditors. By the laws of the State every
administrator of an estate, every guardian
of a minor, every trustee for a family, is
authorized and empowered to invest with
out responsibility in the bonds of the
State the funds of such estate, ward or
cestui que trust. Let the sifting then
be as with a miller’s sieve, that we may
discard the false and fraudulent, and re
cord and pay all just and honest obliga
tions.
Thus It is a fact worthy of re
mark that when General Morgan, of
Ohio, presented his constitutional
amendment to the House, making natur
alized citizens eligible to the Presi
dency, all the colored members voted
against it. It is a curious feature of
our Government, at the present time,
that a negro is eligible to the highest
office, while the most intelligent white
man in the world is shut out if lie hap
pened to be bom in a foreign country.
The Cincinnati Volksblatt, speaking of
the fact, says :
The negro Republicans are, therefore,
opposed to the granting to immigrant
Germans of rights equal to their own.
Such are the thanks for the labor of the
Germans against slavery and in favor of
negro suffrage, and for the blood shed
| by the Germans in the war for human
rights of blacks. Already the negroes
are employed in the Republican party
as a counterpoise against German in
fluence. Were it not for the negro vote,
there would be more caution used in
the temperance and Sunday question —
for almost every negro is a supporter of
the Puritanic fanatics. Now, the old
expression, “ The Moor hath done his
duty ; the Moor may go,” can be con
verted into “ The German, having done
his duty, can go, and the Moor takes his
place. ”
[communicated. ]
Public Schools—The State School Com
missioner's Recent Letter.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel :
The recent letter from the State School
Commissioner, Hon. Gustavus J. Orr,
j discusses a subject of very general in
terest to the teachers of this county and
!to our citizens generally. It will prove
I especially interesting, and at the same
j time, I may say, measurably depressing,
j I cannot bring myself to agree with the
State School Commissioner in the con
| elusions he arrives at relative to the
status of the Board of Education elect
ed under the original law and the organ
ization of our sehools. Wete not the
old officers elected to serve until their
, successors were elected and qualified ?
| The amended law abolishes the office of
; Trustees, and provides for succors to the
; Board of Education, constituted under
; the original act, in the person's of five
‘ freeholders, to be appointed by the
Grand Jury of the county, at the first
session after tho passage of the law now
of force. The Grand Juries which serv
ed the recent session of the Superior
Court of this county were not officially
cognizant of the points wherein the old
law was amended, hence they made no
appointment of a Board, but gave ex
pression to wliat is, doubtless, the al
most unanimous desire of our people,
in recomending the securement of a
local bill for Richmond. Do not the
members of the Board already alluded
to as in existence continue to hold and
exercise the functions of the offices until
the Grand Jury, or a local law, desig
nates their successors, who shall duly
qualify ?
Surely, the Legislature never contem
plated depriving the people of school
facilities for their children. See what
unutterable confusion will arise in our
county ? If the decision of the State
School Commissioner be correct all our
public schools must be closed at once ;
and this, too, in the face of the fact
that the authorized exponents of public
opinion (the Grand Jurors) endorsed the
new system by recommending the levy
ing this year a tax of $30,000 for the
support of the schools—an increase over
last year’s recommendation of SIO,OOO. j
Loraine. •
Judge W. W. Montgomery.
Bditors Chronicle Sentinel :
You alluded a few days ago to the
probable appointment of this gentleman
to the Supreme Court, and you have
since had the pleasure of recording the
fact.
Judge Montgomery is a profound
lawyer, with clear perception of com
! plex transactions, rare sagacity, and
promptness of decision. We recall an
incident, as illustrative of his powers as
of the magnanimity of his friend, Judge
Linton Stephens. They were opposed
to each other in an important law case,
and after several able speeches by their
associates, Mr. Montgomery commenced
and continued his argument, Judge
Stephens watching him. with close and
intense interest.|Mr. Montgomery closed,
i and Judge Stephens exclaimed : “ That
man is every inch a lawyer.”
Judge Montgomery is forty-four years
old, of a fine commanding appearance,
and imbued with an independent in
tegrity and deep love of justice. We
congratulate the Governor and people of
Georgia upon such an excellent appoint
ment. J.
The Georgia Historical Society cele
brated its thirty-third anneversary on
the 12th inst. Rev. Dr. Irvine delivered
the address. The reports showed the
receipts and disbursments for the past
year to be between four and five thous
and dollars, leaving a balance of above
two hundred in the treasury. Number
of volumes received during the year,
739. pamphlets, 81. Books taken out
during 1871,1838 —a larger number than
in 1870. Judge Harden announced the
reception by the Librarian of two very
valuable volumes procured in London
by Mr. J. G. Durenne, which contained
a' mass of information relative to the
early history of Savannah and of Geor
gia never heretofore published ; letters
of Lord Oglethorpe and of Sir James
Wright, covering the period from 1735
to 1782, and containing much valuable
liistorv. The following officers were re
elected : President, Judge Harden ;
First Vice-President, Dr. W. M. Char
tres ; Second Vice-President, Dr. Junah
Harris# ; Corresponding Secretary, W.
G. Maun; Recording Secretary, Dr. E.
Yonge; Treasurer, W. S. Bogart;
Librarian, Wm. Harden ; Curators, Solo
mon Cohen, Dr. S. D. Arnold, J. 8. F.
Lancaster, T. M. Norwood, A. Schwaab,
R. Falligant sad W. D. Harden.
There were, during thp year 1871, 645
failures in the State of New in
volving liabilities amounting to sl9, t 91,»
000. Os this number, 324 were in the
city of New York, involving liabilities
amounting tp $20,740,000,
The Annual Reports of the President
and Directors of the South Carolina
Railroad Company.
The Charleston News publishes the
annual reports of President Mc-
Grath anil Vice President Tyler, sub
mitted in behalf of the Directory to the
convention of stockholders mow in ses
sion. We condense from these reports
af follows :
INCOME.
The income of the Company, as repre
sented in these statements, appears as
follows, viz :
Earnings of the RoatU 81.325,442 00
Expenses of the Road 879,858 63
Balance of earnings 445.583 37
As received from Dividends on
Bon is and Stocks 19.207 93
Balance of Income 8 464.791 30
Against what have been charged
for Interest on Sterling .8 75,39. 31
For interest on Domestic 276,119 02
Dividend No. 44 V. 58,194 00
Total 8 409.710 33
And the balance transferred to
Profit aud Loss 8 55,080 37
The earnings of the road, as com
pared with those of last year, show
afaliingoff of 8146.578 59
The expenses show a reduction of.. 36,237 19
The board do not find any causes of
discouragement in this comparison of
earnings. For though the reports of
competing lines, exhibiting much great
er proportionate losses, demonstrate
that we have not suffered from competi
tion ; and as well, that certain general
causes have affected the railroad earn
ings of the South, your road, yon will
remember, for two months of the year,
was almost isolated by a malignant fever,
and cut off in a great measure from im
portant sources of revenue by apprehen
sions as unintelligible as they were hurt
ful.
BONDED AND FLOATING DEBT.
The issues and retirements of bonds
during the year are very nearly equal,
leaving the account substantially Un
changed. The bills payable show a con
siderable increase, in comparison with
the outstandings, at same date, in 1870,
amounting to $452,58134, ahd is account
ed for by the treasurer as follows :
Purchase of Macon and Augusta
Railroad Company stock $250,000 00
Ttf retire due and i»st due bonds
and interest 46.700 00
To provide for sterling interest and
fractional balances in exchange of
sterling bonds 52,760 00
To retire cirtifieates of indebted
ness 9.985 00
To meet dividends declared prior to
1871 55,200 00
Verdict in cases Gilbert and Central
Railroad Company, costs and pro
fessional services 19,500 00
Loans for general purposes 17,430 34
Total -$452,281 34
As before observed, the general result
of the bond and other indebtedness of
tlie company (lifters'* in no essential de
gree fromvthat of the preceding years.
THE FOREIGN BOND DEBT,
which, since its matnrity in 186fi, lias
been in an unsettled anil unsatisfactory
condition, is now, the board are happy
to report, in a position which relieves
them from all anxiety connected with it.
With the friendly and valuable co
operation of Mr. Edward Horsley Pal
mer, actual exchanges of bonds to the
'amount of £235,000 were accomplished
in a few weeks. This sum, since in
creased to £239,000, being considerably
in excess of the four-fifths required to
be exchanged before the mortgage deed
was vitalized, there was no further oc
casion for the presence of the President
in England. All the holders of any
magnitude had exchanged—the residue
held in amounts, and by numerous par
ties, was only expected to be sent in
slowly, perhaps to no considerable ex
tent until the January dividend was
■ called for. It is the impression of the
President that the major portion of the
“ outstandings ” will then be exchanged.
POLICY.
The rapid absorption and consolidation
of contiguous roads, aud their unmis
takable approach to the acquisition of
our most important connections, left the
board no choice, however financially un
prepared for such a policy—not to act
was to submit to a circumscription of
territory, so narrow as to be unable to
afford support for the road, and to dis
astrous injury to the commercial inter
ests of Charleston. They did not,
therefore, hesitate to adopt the bolder,
and under the circumstances, the wiser
course. They have purchased and ac
quired a controlling interest in the
Macon and Augusta, and the Greenville
and Columbia Railroads. The former
secures to us the great benefit of free
and cheap approach to tlie heart of a
prosperous and growing section of Geor
gia. Tlie latter retains to our road and
chief city a connection, whose loss would
inflict injury it would not be easy to
estimate now.
The Board, under the influence of
considerations suggested by the reduced
business of the road, the high cost at
which alone a large floating debt can be
carried in a market such as ours, where
money capital is so limited, and to a
great extent by the necessity too plain
to be mistaken, of using the means and
credit of the company in pursuance of a
bold and liberal policy, in meeting
efforts to circumscribe our own territory
and divert our business, concluded to
postpone the farther declaration of divi
dends for the present.
CONDITION OF ROAD.
The property of the company is in
high condition—in condition equal to
any it has known in its palmiest days—
inferior to none in the Southern country.
TONNAGE.
The year’s tonnage as compared witlt,
1870 is :
Eastward. Westward. Total.
1871. T0n5....120.219 107,845 228,064
1870. Tons... .105.771 133,148 238,919
Increase 14,448
Decrease 25,303 10,855
In the leading articles of eastward
freight there is an increase in cotton of
16,022 bales ; in live stock of s,o3ohead;
in grain of 8,235 bushels, and in domes
tics of 1,449 bales. The revenue shows
an increase of $29,271 66, or nearly 6
per cent.
In westward freight there is a decrease
of 15,919 tons of fertilizers, equal to
nearly fifty per cent., or a loss of reve
nue of $30,000, which, up to the first of
September, represented the entire de
crease in the year’s freight earnings.
As the Spring trade to the interior had
been unusually light there was every
reason to anticipate a large and pros
perous Fall business, but the appear
ance of the epidemic in this city divert
ed much of its most profitable trade to
competing lines. The principalloss was
in the business of Augusta and Upper
Georgia, and the same cause prevented
the increase of business expected from
the Macon and Augusta Road.
To meet competition by other lines,
the road has been compelled to submit
to a reduction of rates during the year,
averaging five and a half per cent.,
which, added to the loss of tonnage, j
accounts for the decrease in freight
revenue.
PASSENGER TRAFFIC.
The passenger traffic, as compared
with 1870, is :
First Class. Second Class. Total.
1871 97.032 100.330 197,362
1870 92.520 94.360 186.880
Increase. 4,512 5,976 10,482
The average distance traveled by
each passenger has been 42.7-10 miles.
The apparent increase in the nnmber of
passengers results from the omission
from the statements for 1870 of the short
excursion and camp-meeting travel.
Although the loss in passenger revenue
was heaviest during the epdemic, yet,
as in 1870, there has been a gradual loss
of through travel from the opening of
shorter lines, until now the revenue may
be considered as entirely derived from
local sources, and not liable to further
decrease. The loss of the North and
South through travel, however, cannot
be regarded as of much moment, as the
schedules required did not serve the
local interests of the road, and, when
specially provided for, the expenses ab
sorbed all profits ; so that, for the past
two years, through trains have been run
merely to fill existing contracts.
NET EARNINGS.
Earnings.
From passengers...s 268,038 32
From freights 1.035.257 10
From mails 22.144 58
Total §1,325.442 00
Expenses.
For conduct g trans
portation s 294.015 15
For motive power 221.392 80
For maintenance of
wav 253.836 76
For maintenance of
ears 60,715 37
General expenses. 49.898 55
Total ' 879,858 63
Leaving net earnings 445.583 37
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF EARNINGS.
Passengers. Freights. Mails. Incidtls.
1871.4 268,038 33 11.03.',.258 10 $22,144 58 $
1 1870.. 292,853 35 1,148,945 83 26,541 35 3,080 06
i D’Cs.! 34,815 03 $ 113.686 73 $ 4,396 77 $ 3.680 00
Total ear gs, 'll. 1,472,020 59
Total “ 'JO.. 1,325,442 00
Decrease $ 146478 59 or D.95 per cent.
RFNNXNG EXPENSES PEE MILE AS COMPARED
WITH LAST TEAR.
1870, 1871.
Fqr repairs 7.30 cents. 6 94 cents.
For fuel 5.40 cents. 5.22 cenW.
For stores 1.20 cents. 96 eents.
Total 13.96 cents. IS-12 cents.
Bamesville has a Literary Society
which, it is believed, will supply that
flonrishing town with “ language, vim
and wit. ’ j
[From the Plantation-!
A Roland for an Oliver.
We learn from the Banner of the
South and Planters' Journal that the
Savannah dealers in fertilizers organized
recently into an Association for mutual
protection against bad debts. A dele
gation from Savannah recently visited j
Augusta, to induce the dealers in fer
tilizers there to join the Associate Y.
“ A consultation among them, at which
many were present—and others not
present endorsing the proceedings—re
sulted in a resolution to the effect that
there were no complaints of consequence
to be made of bad debts in this market,
. the planters of both Georgia aud South
Carolina dealing at Augusta having, as
a rulf, complied with all their obliga
tions for guano, and paid their debts in
good faith. And it was considered that
an organization for protection was,
therefore, not only unnecessary, but also
was objectionable, because it would re
flect unjustly on the planters of this
section. Therefore, there was no co
operation, and the purpose for which
the Convention was called was not ac-
complished. We refer toutlie occasion,
though now some days past, aud al
though nothing was done that at all
affected the trade in ccSmiereial ma
nures, it served to elicit a generous
compliment from the principal business
houses in Augusta to the planters of the
adjoining country, and a worthy tribute
to the integrity and honesty with which
their debts have been paid, in spite of
short crops anil lower prices than were
anticipated. The incident is a pleasant
one, and a valuable oue—pleasant to
both sides, and profitable to an agri
cultural community that will treasure it
as an evidence of the value of fair deal
ing and honesty of purpose, especially
in paying debts. ”
The Savannah Association proposes
that each dealer shall keep a “black
list,” on which should be recorded the
name and residence of every purchaser
who, from any cause, failed to pay
promptly his obligations for manures..
After this violent imputation upon the
planters, as a class, if we desired to
purchase fertilizers, we should be strong
ly inclined to go round Savannah, and
buy even at a more distant point. The
Augusta dealers have, l>y their compli
mentary course, established a claim
upon the patronage of planters which
they will not readily forget.
But this is a game at which two can
play. We suggest to planters that they
furnish to the public, through the agri
cultural papers, instances in which they
have bought fertilizers from dealers in
Savannah which have proved valueless
or worthless.
This would be a severe retaliation—in
some cases it would be unjust, but not
more so than the sweeping ground taken
by the Savannah dealers in fertilizers.
The reasonable expectations of the cot
ton planter may be thwarted ; misfor
tunes may have overtaken him ; is his
name to be held up to scorn by being
placed on the “ black list ?”
Let these gentlemen look at tlie other
Mde of the subject. The following cir
cumstances occurred under our own im
mediate observation : A near neighbor
bought a fertilizer which is in general
use, and of good repute. The neighbor
selected an acre, designing to contend
for a premium, and applied eight hun
dred pounds of this costly fertilizer to
it. The fertilizer produced no more
effect than so much sand, while three
hundred pounds of Colonel Steadman’s
compound produced, on another acre,
marked results. To publish the name
of this, in this instance, worthless
article would be most damaging to the
manufacturer. This may havo been
only a bad lot—it may have . been in
jured in some way, and the fertilizer,
under ordinary cireumstances, may be a
good one.- ">
Either of these measures would be
unjust. But if the dealers in fertilizers
iu Savannah pursue this ungenerous
course, they must expect retaliation
from the cotton planters, nor can they
be blamed for it if they do retaliate.
The planters have behaved with extra
ordinary forbearance. They have paid
high prices and costly freight for sand
—sometimes green sand, black
charcoal, etc. ; and yet the exposure Af
this treachery lias been rare. But tlie
names of their unfortunate neighbors
are to be put upon a “ black list !”
Marriage or. Death Horrible
Tragedy at Bozraii, Conn. — Norwich,
Conn., February 5. —A man named
William Irving, in the employ of Dr.
Samuel Johnson, of Bozraii, lias for
some time past lnul a passion for his
employer’s daughter, and frequently
sought to marry her. His suit had been
discouraged by tlie young lady and her
family. Irving, who has a violent tem
per, this morning took a heavily loaded
gun, went to tlie sitting room, where tlie
young lady was lying oil tlie sofa, and
discharged both barrels into her head,
inflicting, probably, fatal injuries.
He then turned upon Mrs. Johnson,
who witnessed the sccge, and struck
her a violent blow on the head witli the
breech of tlie gun, making a painful,
though not dangerous wound. The
murderer then left the room, and tlie
family sent a messenger to this city to
give warning of the crime. He, how
ever, went to his room, locked himself
in, and cut liis throat from ear to ear.
The affair lias created intense excite
ment in this vicinity.
Dr. Johnson’s family is highly re
spectable anil widely known. Irving
came from New York ten or twelve years
ago, and lias lived mostly Mith Dr. John
son, where lie was treatedlns one of the
family.
Later accounts stated that Irving fired
tlie contents of one of tlie barrels of
tlie shotgun into Miss Johnson’s face
when standing within six fiiCt of her.
The mother ran forward, screaming mur
der, when Irving struck her on the top
of tlie head with such force as to knock
her senseless and break off the stock of
tlie gun. Tlie wound is dangerous.
When a surgeon arrived lie found that
the shot hail only inflicted a slight
wound on the side of Miss Johnson’s
face, but there was a terrible fracture of
the side and top of the skull. It is sup
posed that Irving, after stunning Mrs.
Johnson, beat iu the young lady’s skull
with the barrel of the gun) One of the
barrels was not discharged.
Irving then attacked tlie servant girl
who entered the room, but she tied and
gave the alarm. Mrs. Johnson died at
nine o’clock this evening.
A Remorseless Swindle.— Some years
| ago —we do not remember how many,
\ but suppose it to be a dozen—there was
Ia newspaper advertisement about a man
who had left a package of money at
Earle’s Hotel, then on Park Row, New
York, to be put in the safe for safe keep
ing, receiving the usual cheek from
the clerk. Upon presenting his check,
a day or two later, he could not get his
package; the clerk was horrified to dis
cover that it was missing. *. It happened
that a check had been presented which
was an exact imitation of the check given
by the clerk, and on this bogus check
the package had been, innocently
enough, delivered to the person claim
ing it. The depositor brought a suit to
recover $15,000, the alleged amount of
the deposit left at Mr. Earle’s. For
years the matter was in litigation in the
courts, going from one tribunal to an
other, aud keeping Earle “on the keen
jump” (as Emerson has it.) The
result of it all has been that
Earle had to pay the $15,000, and
a good deal more besides, in the shape
of interest money and expenses, amount
ing in all to no less a sum than $42,000.
This account Mr. E. has paid in cash,
to settle this troublesome job ; and now,
having a few .months since paid the last
installment and ended the ugly matter,
he received, a week ago (he was in town
a day or two ago and told-his friends of
it), a package from Boston enclosing a
letter. The package was the identical
original missing package from the safe—
was identified as such—and with it were
papers which have been proved beyond
a question that the actual de
posited in the hotel safe was not $15,000
but only $560 ; and it was also revealed
that the depositor had a confederate, ;
and that the whole operation was a swin- j
die and a robbery. A duplicate check j
was made so like to the other that there |
seemed to be no difference, and the two
rogues have doubtless divided the ‘swag
which the courts have decreed to the j
plaintiff. The note which revealed ;
these facts was signed “Howard, with
this interesting addition : “A conscien
tions scoundrel.” —Hartford limes, 6th.
Peach Buds.— Mr. Samuel Townsend,
in a letter to the Middletown (Del.)
Transcript, says : Now with regard to
; buds : every bud that has a black speck
in the eentre of it now will never swell
j or blossom, and let persons who wish to
■ satisfy themselves tie a string around a
! twig and count the buds ; if they are
! now frozen they will drop off before or
by the time sap starts. Should there
be some living buds on said twig, they
will swell. Mil ere good buds pass
througn the Winter and swell in March
(and I have known them in the last of
March to get near the size of a honey
bee), and the peak of the bud begins to
show the red blossom leaves, then a
sudden freeze comes on and freezes the
little germ in the centre of the blossom,
then a warm spell comes, the outside
leaves of these swelled blossoms will
open; and that is what has given rise, in
the minds of less observant peach-:
growers, to the belief that dead buds
blossom. All peach buds that are frozen .
to death before they swell, that is, those j
that have a black speck .in them now,
never blossom.
Columbus is excited because an Eu
faula man has bought one of their hand
somest buildings for 836.000.
THE ANGLO-SAXON.
Synopsis of Dr. Irvine's AcVlress Be
fore the Georgia Historical Society
at Savannah. Georgia, February 12,
1872. ■
[REPORTED EXPr.RgSRy THE chronicle and
SENTINEL. 1
There are three great divisions of the
human family—the Calmuc Tartar, the
Caucasian, and the Negro, or African
races. Though these possess many
characteristics in common, yet there are
peculiarities, physical, mental, moral
and social, which justify such a specific
classification. The first of these races is
nsnally admitted to have sprung from
Japhat; the second from Shem, and the
third from Ham—the three sons of
Noah.
After the opening of the Second Dis
pensation of onr world’s history, Abraham
was called and made the chosen deposi
tory of the covenant. This distinguish
ed patriarch had three families—one by
Sarah, one by Hagar, and one by Ketu
rali ; the first being Shemetic, the second
African, and the thiribJaphetiff, so that
the,, seed of “the Father of the Faith
ful was in this way incorporated with
the, three branches of the Noatie races.
Irom Sarah, through Isaac, we have
the Hebrew.
From Hagar, through Ishmael, we
have the Arabian or Bedouin people, and
from Keturah. through his six sons and
nine grand children, we have the Eastern
or Asiatic families.
In the first book of the Pentateuch
we are informed that Keturah bore to
Abraham Zimran and Jokshan, Midan,
Median, Isliabak and Shuah, to whom,
with his niwe grand children, “he gave
gifts and sent them away from Isaac,
his son, while he yet lived Eastward
into the East country.”
From this family group it would ap
pear that the Eastern nations, the Hin
doos, the Chinese and Japanese, witli
their kinsmen, sprang; whilst the de
scendents of Hagar, who peopled Arabia
and are still extant, sprang from Ish
mael. The sword of Ishmael is still
against every man, and every man’s
sword is against him. The wild Arab in
his desert home, pursuing his hunt and
his plunder, is as truly heir to the curse
as the descendant of Isaac is heir to the
blessings of faithful Abraham. And
the Beni-Israel of India, with their tradi
tion3 and religious rites, afford evidence
that they sprang from the stock of him
who “gave them gifts and sent them
East, into the East counter”
But Isaac being the “child of prom
ise,” remained at home, and “ Abraham
gave him all that he had. ”
From Isaac sprang the twelve patri
archs,who, after a sojourn of four hundred
and thirty years in Egypt and in the wil
derness, reached the Land of Promise,
and having obtained possession thereof
by ,Joshua, remained some three centuries
under the rule of thirteen Judges until
the time of Samuel, near the close of
whose administration the dynasty of
Judah was founded in the person and
reign of David, the Royal Poet and
Ptopliet of the Hebrew people. During
the reign of this monarch and his son,
Solomon, the nation enjoyed great peace
and prosperity ; but on the accession of
Reheboam, the grand son of David, ten
of the twelve tribes revolted and founded
a separate monarchy.
By Divine appointment, the sceptre
had been invested in the house of
Judah, as the mitre had been placed on
the head of Levi. The former was the
Royal—the latter the Sacerdotal tribe.
. The revolting tribes, by a unanimous
suffrage, chose Ephraim as their royal
head, and selected Jereboam as their
royal leader. From this period we find
two rival powers in Palestine, Ephraim
and Judah. The strongest animosities
and the bitterest jealousies existed be
tween them. “Ephraim envied Judah,
and Judah vexed Ephraim.” Yet, each
was destined to become, and each has be
come, a mighty power in the earth.—
Through Judah’s line, we find a golden
stream of prophetic blessings, flowing
and emptying itself upon the nations of
the earth, where Judaism merges into
Christianity. And through Ephraim’s
line, too, we find the world blessed with
peace and civilization.
On his dying bed, Jacob said of
Jndali: “The sceptre shall not depart
from Judah, nor the law giver from be
tween his feet, until the Sliiloli come,
and to him shall the. gathering of the
people be. ”
But it is worthy to note that great
blessings are also promised to Ephraim,
for when Ephraim and Manasseli, the
sons of Joseph, behove to be formally in
corporated by an act of adoption with
the house of Jacob, their mother being
an alien, the dying patriarch said
of the two sons, Ephraim and Ma
nasseh, “Manasseli shall become a peo
ple, and lie also shall become great; but
truly his younger brother shall be
greater than he, and ms seed shall be
come A MULTITUDE OF NATIONS.”
It seems, then, that whilst one nation,
and only one, should spring from Judah,
a multitude of nations should spring
from Ephraim.
Again, when the dying patriarch an
nounced his benediction upon Joseph,
the father of the young man, it was
copious and significant, “Joseph is a
fruitful bough, even fruitful by a well
whose branches run over the wall. His
bow abode in strength, and the hands of
his arms were strong by the hand of the
mighty God of Jacob. The Almighty
shall bless thee with the blessings of
Heaven above, and the blessings of the
deep that lieth under, blessings of the
breast, and blessings of the womb. The
blessings of tliy father have prevailed
above, the blessings of mv progenitors
unto the utmost bounds of the ever
lasting hills. They shall be on the head
of Joseph, and on the crown of him that
was separated from his brethren.”
It must at once arrest the attention of
the reader that the blessing thus be
stowed upon Joseph’s family exceeds
in volume and extent, whilst it. differs in
its nature from that of Judah’s family ;
nnd again, when we contemplate the
parting address of Moses before he
ascended the summit of Nebo, we are
once more inspired with the marked
difference between the blessing which he
breathed on these two tribes.
“ Hear, Lord, the voice of Judali and
bring him unto Iris people. Let his
hands be sufficient for him and be an
help to him from his enemies.” But of
Joseph what saith the great leader of
the people ?
“ Blessed of the Lord be his land, for
the precious things of Heaven, for the
dew and for the deep that coucheth
beneath, for the precious fruits brought
forth by the sun, and for the precious
things put forth by the moon, and for
the chief things of the ancient moun
tains, and for the precious things of the
lasting hills, and for the precious things
of the earth and the fulness thereof,
and for the good will of him that dwelt
in the bush. Let the blessing come on
the head of Joseph and on the top of
the head of him that was separated
from his brethren:”
Then, speaking of the posterity of j
Joseph, the language is significant.— j
“They are the ten thousands of Fph-\
raira, and they are the thousands of j
Manasseh. ”
In all these three prophetic announce
ments we have unmistakable evidence of
greatness and power, and worldly ag
grandizement. The sons of Joseph are
destined, it seems, to attain pre-emi
nonce, and not only so,_but to spread
abroad and become the fathers and
founders of empires in the earth.
In following the history of the two
rival powers—Judah and Ephraim—we
find much to prove that these blessings
were prophetic. For several centuries
they maintained two distinct monarchies
and two separate forms of worship—
Mount Zion and Mount Gerezzin being
the respective seats of their great na
tional and ecclesiastical assemblies.
About 750 years after the call of Abra
ham, and therefore about midway be
tween the beginning of the Abraliamic
: and the inauguration of the present dis
pensation, we find three separate cap
tivities. In the first, the tribes of Reu
ben, Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh
are earned into Assyria. In the second,
; some nineteen years after the remainder
iof the revolting tribes are carried away
and placed in bondage. These are com
monly called the ten lost tribes. Some
hundred and twenty years later still,
Judah and Benjamin are led into Baby
lon as war captives, by Nebuchadnezzar,
and remain exiles for seventy years,
when, by the decree of Cyrus, they
were released and sent back to then
own land, in possession of which they
remained until they were exiled and
driven forth to mingle among the nations
of the earth by the ruthless cruelty of
the Roman Cmsars; and for nearly eigh
teen centuries have been," as the
Hebrew prophet predicted, “ sifted
among all nations as corn is sifted in a
sieve." These remnants of Judali and i
Benjamin are found among all nations,
yet forming a part of none.
I "Tribes of wandering foot and wearv breast,
i When will ye fly away and be af rest ?
I The wild dove hath her nest, the fox his cave.
: Mankind liis country—lsrael, but the grave."
In a periodical, representing the He
j brew people in London, and doubtless
! read in this city, called the “ Hebrew Na
tional,” we fin'd the following facts and
figures. There are :
In Russia, 1,300,000 Jews ; in Austria,
600,000 ; Prussia, 254,000 ; other parts
of Germany, .192,000 ; France, 80,000;
Switzerland, 3,000 ; Great Britain, 51,-
000 ; Syria and Asiatic Turkey, 52,000 j
Morocco and North Africa, 610,000 ;
Eastern Asia, 260,uu0 ; Belgium, 1,800 ;
Denmark, 2,500 ; Italy, 4,500 ; besides
many thousands on the continent of
America. So that the house of Judah j
and the house of Benjamin have been j
among all nations sifted as com is j
sifted in a seiye. But the question is : j
Where are the ten tribes who were |
carried away in the first and second !
captivities ? Much has been written to !
settle this question, and many specula
tive theories have been propounded and j
sustained by plausible argument, in!
order to establish the identity and lo- i
eality, or localities of the seed of j
Ephraim and liis companions. One I
thing is certain, that they must and do
exist somewhere. We cannot for a moment
suppose that Judah -and Benjamin
alone of all the twelve patriarchs exist iu |
the modern Hebrew people.
If prophecy has been fulfilled in re-!
gard to Judah, surely we may reason-!
ably expect that it will be fulfilled touch- j
ing Ephraim also. Now “Ephraim and
his companions ” in captivity did not re
turn from the lands of their captivity.
The question then arises where are they?
Are they extinct, or are they also sifted
among the nations ? If so, why not
as distinct and isolated among the'Gen
tiles as are the lingering remnants of
Judah and Benjamin? Os all the theo
ries which have been proposed to settle
; this question, the most reasonable and,
i nmy judgment, the most conclusive, is
.hat they are found now, as they have
been since the day of their dispersion,
in the Anglo-Saxon race.
First of all, it is only reasonable and
sensible to look for an object where that
object lias been lost. No expedition iu
search of the “Erebus and Terror” would
dream of going to the Caspian Sea or
the South Pacific. An expedition in
search of Dr. Livingstone would not
bend their steps in the direction of Mex
ico or California. So if we want to rind
the ten lost tribes of Israel we naturally
look to the region where they were
placed by their captors, and if we can
find relics of these captives, or if we can
find traces of their wanderings from
those regions where the Asyrian mon
archs placed them, we may be able to
identify their past and present existence.
Dr. Asaliel Grant, in his work on the
Nestorians, lias proved to a demonstra
tion that remnants of the lost ten tribes
of Israel are found iu the very place
where they were posted by the Monarch
of Assyria, between Media and Persia.
Ancient historians, such as Strabo,
Diodorus, lleroditus and Pliny have
shown that the ancient Scythians, who
have been known by various names, such
as Sacae or Sakai, or Saoa-Suua, or
Saxons, came from that region; that
they wandered in hordes from the Cas
pian to the Euxiue ; that they crossed
the Don and Danube ; that they settled
in the Caucasian mountain ranges
and proceeded northwest, and were
known as Goths or Gaetae, or Gadites,
from the tribe of Gades, and that they
scattered all along the northeast of Eu
rope, thus becoming the formidable ad
versaries of the Romans, by whom the
Empire of the Csesars was finally broken
up.
The distinguished author of the His
tory of the Anglo-Saxons (Sharon Tur
ner) maintains that the Anglo-Saxons
are the lineal descendants of the Scythian
or Teutonic races, who came from the re
gion of the Caspian Sen, and proceeds
to show that the whole Teutonic or Ger
man races are the lineal offspring of
those people. The following paragraph
from his able pen will furnish an idea of
the correctness of his conclusion :
“The Saxons were a German or Teu
tonic, that is a Gothic race, of Scythian
origin, and of the various Scythian
tribes, recorded the Sacae or Sakai, are
the people from whom the Saxons may,
with the least violation of probability, be
supposed to have sprung. Their Teu
ton or Scythian origin is peculiarly in
teresting to ns, because from its
branches not only our own immediate
ancestors have sprung, but also those
of all the leading nations of modern
Europe.
“The Anglo-Saxons, the Lowland
Scotch, Danes, Norwegians, Swedes,
Germans, Dutch, Belgians, Lombards,
Franks, have all sprung from the same
fountain of the human race, which is
known as Scythian, Gothic or Teu
tonic.”
The Rev. Dr. J. Wilson, a talented
Minister of the Church of. England, has
recently published a series of discourses
entitled “Our Israelitish Origin,” in
which he examines this question iu all
its hearings ; and although his work
is sparcely tinctured with advent
views, and a doubtful literalism in the
interpretation of unfulfilled prophesy,
yet the mass of learned research with
which his lucubrations abound will well
reward the reader for its perusal. In
my mind he establishes the fact of our
Hebrew ancestry.
The Scythian or Gothic tribes brandl
ing into colonies, one settled in Nor
mandy (France), another in Denmark,
and another took possession of Bunsen
Standt and Heligoland. There these
colonies, after harassing the Romans for
many years in Britain, finally got posses
sion of the island, and having driven the
Romans out, founded the Saxon Hep
tarchy, whose growth and power are
now familiar to every reader of modern
history.
Besides the direct evidence of the
origin of the Anglo-Saxon there is much
indirect and inferential testimony which
might be adduced to establish the con
dition. For example, we might appeal
to the innate love of civil and religious
liberty, which has been a marked char
acteristic of the seed of Abraham from
the days of the Pliaroalis till the dy
nasty of the Stuarts. The love of music
and song, which, from the days of
Miriam, Moses, David, Solqmon and
Isaiah, down till the days of Chaucer,
Shakespeare and Milton, lias been pecu
liar to the Hebrew and Gothic races.
The spirit of enterprise and invention—
the love of learning—the cultivation of
art and science—are peculiar to the
Anglo Saxon, and this peculiarity finds
its antetype only in the ancient Hebrew
race.
In the faith, though corrupted, and in
the forms of religious service, we find
such a striking similarity between the
early Anglo-Saxon and the ancient
Hebrew-as to warrant the belief that they
are of common origin; for example, at
Upsala, in Sweden, the Anglo-Saxons had
their great temple modeled after the
original temple of Solomon. They be
lieved that their Supreme God would be
come incarnate. Finally their Messiah
appeared in Oden or Woden. After
his death they erected this grand
temple, comprising three distinct com
partments, an outer, an inner, and an
inmost. In the centre of the inmost
(their Holy of Holies; stood an im
mense dais or elevated altar, on which
they placed an image of their Imman
uel ; on one side of this image stood
Friga (his wife), on the other Thok ;
outside these stood images of Tuesco
and Saturn, and outside these again,
symbols of the sun and moon : thus
giving origin to the names of the days
of the Anglo-Saxon week—Sunday, Mon
day, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday.
Close by this great altar stood an
altar of fire, on which, as in the tem
ple of Solomon, the flame was kept
burning day and night, and besides this
altar a large basin of blood, with a brush
attached, which was used by the priest
hood in sprinkling the people. To this
temple pilgrims were obliged, by law
to repair from all parts of Teutonic Eu
rope three times a year, to pay vows and
present oblations. Now, we ask
where did the Anglo-Saxon learn all
this? From what source did he derive au
thority for such observances ? Where
but from his Hebrew forefathers, who
had, in the land of their exile, repented
of the sin of Ephraim, who forgot the
commands of the God of his fathers,
which enjoined :
“Three times a year shall all your
males appear before the Lord, your God
in the place which he shall choose; once
in the feast of Tabernacles, once in the
feast of unleavened bread, and once in
the feast of weeks, and ye shall not ap
pear before the Lord your God empty, ”
The three national convocations of
the Anglo-Saxon (Easter, Whitsuntide
and Christimas) were held yearly,
corresponding to the very seasons of the
year in which the Hebrew festivals were
held.
The support of a hereditary Priesthood
by a tythe system was a standing law
among the Anglo-Saxons, and the ap
pointment of twelve judges, with their
i respective circuits. A rule still extant
in the civil jurisprudence of England
was manifestly copied from the institu
tions of Samuel, the Hebrew prophet.
The commercial spirit and the cease
less and ever insatiable craving after
social progress-—the power of invention
—the enlargement of the patent gallery,
and the herculean efforts to enlarge arid
extend the domain of human thought,
are characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon
I mind which had theingerm in the genuis
iof the ancient Hebrew people. The An
glo-Saxons in Europe and America have
simply developed those latent powers j
which the God of Horeb and Sinai im
planted in the soul of the seed of Eph
j raim, which has, during the present era, j
j become a “ multitude of nations.”
i And if the aphorism “ that histeqy
| repeats itself” be true—reasoning from
! the past to the future—ye may justly in
! fer that this ancient Teutonic race
is destined to govern and control the
; globe.
Already we may safely hazard the
statement that the Anglo-Saxon of
Euope and America is controlling the
highest interests of our earth. The
Anglo-Saxon mind is thinking for all
nations. Subtract from ail the libraries
of the earth aU the literature produced
by Anglo Saion genius and you
leave a very cypher as the result.—
Abolish the patent galleries of Lop Han,
Washington, Paris and Berlin, and you
hurl our globe back tu a middle age era.
Scuttle all the ships that have been
planned by the Anglo-Saxon mind and,:
constructed by Anglo-Saxon hands, and I
you empty the harbors of the globe and I
leave its oceans almost as wild and
dreary as they were in the day when
Noams ark rested on Mount Ararat.—
Abolish the custom houses and Counting i
houses which are in Anglo-Saxon I
hands, and you reduce our commercial
cities to ruined villagos and cast tho en
terprise of the nineteenth century hack
into the oblivion of pagan gloom. An
nihilate the printing press of the Anglo-
Saxon, and you throw a funeral pall
over all the civilized nations of the world.
Abolish the principle of Anglo-Saxon
liberty, civil and religious, and you hind
the human soul in a fetter of adamant.
The Anglo-Saxon of England and his
' posterity in Republican America have
succeeded in translating the inspired lit- j
j erature of heaven into one hundred and
seventy-five different languages and
tongues, rendering these records of the
ancient and modern sons of Abraham
accessible to over seven hundred mil
lions of the human family : and they now
propose to persist in this work until
every son of Adam, savage and civilized,
shall be enabled to read the covenant
made with Abraham on Mamre’s plains
more than three thousand years ago in
his own tongue. Stop the proceedings
of the printing press which has assumed
this task, and you leave the globe only
one book worth reading, and that vol
ume is locked up in the oldest dead lan-
guage ever spoken by man.
The covenant with Abraham and his
seed is still unrepealed, for iu them all
the nations of the earth nro to be and
shall be blessed. Ephraim and Judah
shall yet become mighty in the earth, as
in days of old. “They shall fly upon
the shoulders of Philistines to the West;
they shall destroy them of the East
together. Ephraim shall not envy
Judah, and Judah shall not vex Eph
raim.” These ancient covenant peoples—
the God-chosen custodians of a revealed
! literature —shall become the harbingers
lof mercy, truth and love to the be
nighted sons of .Tapliet and Ham, and
I the work of civil, social and religions
aggression entrusted to them by Provi
dence will never cease until this sin
accursed globe shall be gilded from
pole to pole with the mediatorial glory
of Judah’s long-promised Shiloh.
LETTER FROM ATHENS.
Building Improvements Mercantile
Interests—Short Money Crop Farm
ing Operations—First Court- Fune
ral of Hon. John Billups Shooting
]SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE CHRONICLE AND
SENTINEL. [
Athens, Ga., February 15.
During two days of the present week
your correspondent has been thrown
into contact with a considerable number
of the ever courteous and agreeable
Athenians, and not without gathering
substantial tokens of the high and grow
ing appreciation in which the Chronicle,
& Sentinel is held. The exceedingly
inclement weather prevalent since his
arrival precluded personal inspection of
the
SEVERAL BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS
Reported to have been added to many of
the elegant and handsome residences
which adorn and distinguish this grand
old town as tho abode of the most culti
vated taste and refilled society. The
growth of tho town is in no wise aston
ishing, but its progress is seemingly of
that gradual and substantial character
which insures permanency and betokens
a population thoroughly identified with
all the bettor principles which govern a
people who recognize other and higher
obligations (too often lost sight of in
this utilitaran age) than control sliod
dyism in its unscrupulous barterings of
principle for brown stono castles to
house its uncultivated adherents.
The business interests of Athens du
ring the present season, as I learn by
inquiry
AMONG THE MERCHANTS,
Have been supported by a liberal and
gratifying trade from the surrounding
counties of Northeastern Georgia. The
past two or three weeks have been rather
dull, mainly attributable to the extreme
bad condition of the roads, and the
great difficulty farmers have experienced
in getting their produce to market iu
exchange for farm and family supplies.
The
SHORTNESS OP THE MONEY CROP
Has doubtless not been without its effect
in checking trade. The merchants find
little or no difficulty in finding custo
mers sufficient to purchase their stocks
on credit, but their obligations do not
justify quite such comprehensive ac
commodation practices. Cash is re
ported unusually scarce in the farming
districts trading at this point. Many of
the merchants are replenishing their
depleted stocks, however, and an active
enterprise and rivalry prevails in mer
cantile circles, ns well in the display
of goods as in the exhibition of cour
teous attention, for which the Athens
merchants are noted. The varied de
partments of tiade seem to be well con
tested, nnd I discover no vacant room
for new dealers in any line.
FARMING OPERATIONS
In this section are at a complete halt,
in consequence of the long-continued
unfavorable weather. Not a furrow lias
been run, nor have fences been repaired
as yet. Smouldering brush piles and a
few acres of new cleared land which
came under tho eye of your correspon
dent along the line of the railroad show
that the farmers have been anxious to
avail themselves of every favorable hour
to advance the preparatory work for the
next crop, but tho elements seem to have
conspired to thwart their industrious
purposes. More labor is required, the
negroes exhibiting a preference for
“ squatter sovereignty ” in the vicinity
of towns and cities (upon the contin
gency of eking out an uncertain sup
port), to tickling the soil for an assured
abundance ten, twenty or thirty miles
in the country.
FIRST COURT IN ATHENS.
The first session of the Superior Court
of Clarke county, held in conformity to
the recent act of the Legislature chang
ing the county site from Watkinsville to
Athens, commenced its sittings here last
Monday week, Judge Davis presiding.
The old Town Hull has been convenient
ly remodelled and comfortably arranged
as a temporary Court Room, and the
town calaboose, in the basement, serves
the purposes of a jail, so that prisoners,
when arraigned for trial, need have but
little apprehension of catching cold
from exposure to the weather while
being conducted from one to the other.
Tne Court will continue its session
until Friday next. The dockets are
freighted with litigation, which will he
continued to the next term. The most
important civil issue of the present week
is the case of Lewis Turnlin vs. B. H. |
Hill—action on two notes—brought to
recover balance of purchase money for a
plantation bought by defendant from
plaintiff in Dougherty county, in 1866.
The claim, with interest, amounts to
818,000 or 820,000. The defendant
pleads failure of plaintiff to comply with
contract, in failing to make unencum
bered title to the property. The plain
tiff is represented by Judge Junius
Hillyer, Col. S. P. Thurmond, and
Messrs. Cobb, Erwin & Cobb, while Mr.
Hill is his own client. The case has
occupied the Court for the past two
days, and will probably run into Friday
before a verdict is reached.
FURNERAL OBSEQUIES CVF MON. JOHN BIL
LUPS.
Tbe readers of the Chronicle & Sen
tinel have already been advised by tele
graph of the sudden death of Hon.
John Billups. His funeral took place
yesterday afternoon, and drew together
a largo concourse of his former as
sociates and friends in Athens, who so
well knew and appreciate the exalted
virtues which adorned alike his public
and private life. Asa tribute of respect
to the deceased, the stores were all '
olosed and his remains were attended to
the cemetery by numerous friends in )
carriages and the students of the ITni
versity in procession.
SHOOTINO APVj*aV,
Between six and seven o’clock, on
Tuesday evening, a shooting affray oc
! enured just across the railroad bridge
; from the town, in which Wm. Jones
! was dangerously, if not mortally,
wounded by' two pistol shots fired by.
Bichard Aycock. Bad blood has ex
j isted between Ihe parties for some time,
growing out of the kilbng of Puryear
(his father-in-law) by Jones last Sum
mer, for which he was tried upon and
acquitted of the charge of murder.
They Uivt on the occasion referred to,
whoft the- old difficulty was renewed
(.Jones being represented as the aggres
sor), and resulted as stated. No hopes
are entertained of the recovery of the
wounded man, who bears the unenviable
reputation of t reckless desp&tado when
under the influence of liquor, and of
having been a party to numerous similar
difficulties, Vidette.
A weekly paper has been started in
Camilla, Georgia, called the Herald. —
The editor is Mr. J, TV. Townsend, A. B.
A puhlfo spirited citizen of Gwinnett
charged the surveyors of tho Great
Western Canal 81 for using one rail on
his plantation,
William Dow, a notorious murderer
and robber from Cherokee, Georgia, and
an esoape from the penitentiary, has
been killed in Milton county.
Telegraphic Summary.
Washington, February 10.—Senate—
The bill reviving the land grant to tho
St. Croix and Superior Railroad passed.
Tho resolution of inquiry respecting
the sale of arms Vas resumed. Ad
journed.
House.— The bill admitting photo
graphs for the approaching National
Exhibition at Cleveland duty free passed.
Beck made a personal explanation, an
swering Brownlow, who attacked him
by a written speech in the Senate. Beck
.reviewed the history of Tennessee du
ring Brownlow’s Governorship, showing
that Brownlow had made the State a
pandemonium. He was repeatedly in
terrupted by points of order, but B [nine,
supported by Bunks, ruled favorably.
In the course of his speech, Beck said :
“ W hat is said about a pandemonium
in Tennessee wns said about all tho
other Southern States, and a good deal
more about some of them. One man—
Davis, of Texas—was looking mo in tho
face when f said it. I said more against
Governor Bullock, of Georgia, who sat
by his side, and they are not all cripples;
not all imbeciles. 1 have tiever told a
lie, and l am prepared to prove every
fact I have stated here or elsewhere:
They thought they would put ii
man to speak against me of whom
they could say that he is a cripple ;
that he cannot write ; that he cannot,
read ; that ho cannot walk, ami
they shield themselves behind him.
They are not all cripples—all tho rest of
them can walk. I will prove what I
said against every one of them, and it
is because they knew that I will do it;
it is because Reed, of Florida, and
Scott, of South Carolina, and Davis, of
Texas, and all of them, know that I will
I prove it; it is because they know that I
j have been prominent in getting up a re
port which will be before the country in
j less than a week that they are trying to
! blacken me so that when the people
j take up the report and read it they may
I say ‘ (,)h, it is that fellow Beck, who was
j a negro driver, that says this. ’ That is
their game ; that is tho reason why they
selected a poor old imbecile to attack
me.”
Disavowing any disrespect to the
Senate, and quoting from its more
glorious traditions, Meek concluded, ho
had not said any tiling to reflect oil the
Senate, but when he saw vultures sit--
ting in the nest of the eagle, and bab
boons taking the place of the lions, lio
protested against the outrage ; lie want
ed to keep the Senate pure mnl high
minded ; lie wanted to see the States
represented by honorable men, not by
men who forced themselves in there at
tho point of the bayonet or by fraud,
corruption, chicanery or ostracism.
City op Mexico, February B.—Julian
Garcia lias pronounced in the State of
Catina, where tho revolution is spread
ing.
Revolution is afoot in Guadalajara,
where the Governor has assumed dicta
torial powers.
The largest half of the States of Pueb
la and Vera Cruz are in the hands of the
revolutionists. Mendaz is the com
mander-in-chief, with headquarters in
Sierra.
Ex-Gov. Felix Diaz has been assassi
nated.
Juarez is gradually assuming dictator
ship. It is reported that Juarez applied
to Grant for assistance, and Grant re
plied he would support Juarez as a last
alternative.
Later. —The revolutionists have cap
tured Aynos Calerntes.
Juarists say that Grant must act
promptly if he intends to help Juarez.
The revolutionists in arms are esti
mated at thirty thousand.
Tho Federals retreated from Aynos
Calerntes to Lagos.
A large force of revolutionists are ap
proaching Guadalajara.
Consternation prevails here.
Washington, February 1(5.—1n tho
Supreme Court, the ease of O’Dowd
vermin the Mayor of Augusta, Georgia,
was argued for dismissal by Hilliard
and Carr.
The indictment against Cuban Gen
eral Ryan, for violation of the neutrality
laws, was quashed - .
Commissioner Douglas is preparing a
report for the Ways and Means Com
mittee upon the proposed consolidation
of the whisky tax.
Collector Robb bad a long hearing be
fore the Senate Finance Committee on
lice and salt.
London, February* 1(5, noon.—Tho
ballot bill passed the House by a largo
majority.
Tn tlie Lords, a vote censuring tho
Government for tho colliers’ appoint
ment was lost by 87 to 8!).
Taris, February lti, noon.— All hope
of a fusion of the Orleanists and Legita
mists has been abandoned.
Washington, February 17.— Spoil t«-
neous combustion burned a woolen null
and a woman at Petcrsboro, New Hamp
shire.
The Prussian bark Herman Loewi has
been lost on Alvarado bar. The crew
was saved. The English bark Pamuco
was wrecked in Vera Cruz harbor.
Twelve of the crew were drowned.
The Ohio river is gorged from Little
Miami to Lawrencebnrg twentv-live
miles.
Reese James fell one hundred and
fifty feet down a pine shaft at Scranton,,
He was fatally injured.
Philadelphia, February 17.- -T' no
bark Sabra Moses, hence for Havre, \ ?as
sunk by ice in tlie Schuylkill. The
steamer Claymont, of the'Norfolk and
Richmond line, sunk at her wharf. Tho
cook was drowned.
New York, February 17.—The. small
pox is decreasing, owing to very general
vaccination. Six deaths to-Gay and
twenty-five for the week. ' flic new
cases are mostly varioloid.
Chicago, Fe.brnary 17.—Ten persons
were frozen to death in Dixon county,
Nebraska. Seven wood cutter*: for tlie
Winnabago agency also froze to
death. Tho suddonoss and severety of
the storm was unparalleled.
Washington, February 17.—The House
to-day was occupied in debate. The
Senate had no session.
The majority and minority Kn-Klnx
reports are nearly ready. They agreo
that nearly all the Southern States are
approaching financil ruin from had legis
lation and Kn-Klnx. One report attri
butes bad legislation to the Ku-Klux ;
the other attributes tho Ku-Klux to bad
legislation.
The Agricultural Convention, which
lias been in session here, during the past
three days, attracts much attention.
The representation from the South is
not large, but able and influential.
Havana, February 17.—The reported
capture of Cuban Adjutant General
Agramontes and Doctor Loacas is un
true. They were wounded, but escaped.
Paris, February 17, evening.—The
activity of the Bonapartist agents creates
excitement at Versailles.
! San Francisco, February 17.—The
j Los Angelos rioters who killed the
Chinese) have been acquitted.
There is a panic in California mining
| stocks.
| California weather is remarkably favor
able for farming.
The Japanese leave Sait Lake East
ward on Monday.
New York, February 17. —Tlios. A.
Scott lias been elected President of the
Texas Pacific, Railroad, rice Marshall
O’Roberts resigned.
It is stated that persons implicated in
irregularities have offered to compromise
with four millions. Their prosecutors
demand six millions. A compromise is
probable upon the disgorgement of live
millions.
Local and Business Notices.
Iln the Western prairies the Collins
Steel Plows have always taken the lead..
We are glad to see that our planters iu>
the Southern States are beginning to np
; preciatc them. Those who arc not fa
miliar with them should inquire of the
makers, Collins & Cos., New York. 1
This is no apology for whisky drink
ing ; it is a medicine that cannot bo
used to intoxicate ; it produces a tonic
effect, as well as acts as a cathartic. In
fact, Simmons’ Liver Regulator is pro
nounced an unexceptionable medicine
feb2o-6
Example for the Ladies.— Mrs. J. S„
Ringley, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., has used
her W heeler k Wilson Machine over 15
years; brought up and educated her
I family by stitching shirt-bosoms, the
bindings on to leathern cap-fronts, and
making coats, vests, pantaloons, and
doing all kinds of family sewing; aver
; aging sometimes 85 and 86 per duy.
I feb2l-wl
“Can’t do Without It.” —This is
what the stage and horse car companies,
! livery stable keepers, members of the
i turf, and all grooms and trainers say of
j the Mustang Liniment. They “can’t
Jdo without it.” And why? Because it
j infallibly reduces tho external swellings,
I Ac., which, under various names, im
! pair the usefulness and value of tho
j king of quadrupeds, and also because,
I for sprains, strains, galls and other in
juries to which horse flesh is liable, it is
the most trustworthy preparation in the
market. Yet these recommendations
compromise only a portion of its claims
to public confidence. During a period
of more than sixteen years, it has been 1
recognized as a specific for many of tho
most agonizing disorders which afflict
the human family—such as rheumatism,,
gout, neuralgia, lumbago, tio-doloreux’,
sore throat, ear-ache, toothache; and;
likewise as a peerless application for
euts, bruises, burns and scalds.
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