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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1873)
OiO SERIES-WL LUX. HEW SERIESHKH. HHII, TKJiHK. THE DAILY CHRONICLE % SENTINEL, tb* oldest newspaper in the frotUb, to published d*ay, except Xtomlsy. Toro* : Per yesr, •10: six month*. 9b ; three mouth*, $2 SO. THE TKI-WEEKLY CHKOSICLE & SENTI NEL to pttWtohsd every Tuesday, Thursday end Seturdey. Term*: Ot* J*W, *5 nix mouth*. « T3E WEEKLY CHHONICLK & SENTINEL to pnoltohed every We Ineedsy. Term*: One year. $i . six month*. H. 8 jBSOItIKnONH is all eaaes in advance, and no paper continued after the expiration of the time paid for. BITES OF ADYEHTISINO IN DAILY.—AII transient adverti*emenui will be charged at the rat* Os #1 per square for each insertion for tlie first week. Advertisement* in the Tri-Weekly, two-thirds of the rates in the Daily ; and in the Weekly, one-half the Daily rate*. Marriage and Funeral Notices •I eaob. Special Notic*», $1 per square | for the flr*t publication. Special rate# will j bn made for advertisement* running lor a j month or longer. REMITTANCES should be made by Post Office I Money Order or Express., If thi* cannot be done, protection against losses by mail may I be seemed by forwarding a draft payable j to the Proprietors of '.the CnaojucLß *»» | * ,ht rTijld-- or by sending the money in a | AthiZ '■ 1 WALSH A WEIGHT, •'■liyjgffif.iS A ftrv nm. Angn-t*. Oa. Vrrottftte hxio * WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 31, 1873, MINOR TOPICS. The Bouton Olobe rtja that the workmen celebrated tlie l pening of the Hooeac tnimel by tapping two or tore.- barrel* of beer. There wan no interference by the police, as the bar rels were marked “uitro-glycerine.” Iu political circles the qucfy is. “ Who is to be the eneceSHor of Hidden ?” and the conclu sion is arrired at without debate that it is a matter of precious little moment —as it is cer tain that Orant's blundering can’t possibly recommend Sickle-’ Inferior; and undar the circumstances the Preaideut is certain to win applause, no matter who he -elects The bill repealing the bankrupt law which passed the lower Bouse of Oongre<s the ot ier day provides that ca es now in the process of adjudication shall not be affected by such re peal. and that the law shall lie continued so far as these cases are concerned, until adjudica tion shall have been accomplished. It also re duces the foes of officials under the bankrupt law ill aueli chhgh fifty per cent. It netting that Kellogg, the bogus Louisiana Governor, i* no louder in favor with brother- 1 in-law Caeoy. The New Orleans Picayune of a recent date Have: "In the rank and tile of the Badieairt a breach Hoemn to be imminent. The j Custom Houne battalion are not at all silent in ; the expression of their opinion of the Kellogg administration, ho far as it bears on the col ored people, and Kellogg is not their saint by any means.” The doctors were greatly puzzled to account for the sudden illness and death of Prof. Agan sis, and the matter was involved so : much obscurity that the friends of the Pro fesHor cons nted to allow a post mortem ex amination. This was < .one by several eminent physicians, and all the vital organn, especially the heart, were studied with great care. It is said that an important microscopic examina tion of the brain was made, and the medical world will no doubt be enlightened with many scientific reflections upon the effect of constant and severe exercise upon that subtle organ. Some rather recondite exorcises marked the late mo< ting of the (last Fallowtield (Penn.) Teachers’ Association ; but they wore nothing to the subjects which have been given out for the next Convention. For ins ance: 1. “Lo cate the Tropics and Polar Circles, and statof the re tson for their location 2. “Name the sources of History;” 3. “Give the origin and trace the growth of the Drama to its present time 4. “Give the life, philosophy and works of Francis Bacon 5. “Should small pupils bo required to ait si ill?” The Bacon subject is pretty tough, but it in nothing to that of the Small Pupils. Marie Le llaroii liat been writing about the House of lie pres ntativee, concluding as fol lows : "I am pleased to be told that the seven ty bald-headed members X counted to-day lost their crowning glory through brain develop ment, and not, as rumor has it, by carrying bricks in their honorable hats, and that these public men entertain a growing regard for woman's opinion by gazing so often for appro bation up to the ladies’ gallery. As the sun that showers down its revivifying beams upon the cabbages and turnips of a promising gar den must be the light of a lady’s approving eyes to the struggling growth of Congressmen’s brains. Under ttiem may they bloom into per fect succulence and symmetry.' Santo Domingo is once more in a ferment, and the revolution which has just brekeu out promisos to sweep Jtaez from power. Accounts give a very vivid idea of the state of things in the Dominican Kcpublic, the manifesto of the revo lutionists being a terrible indictment of Baez. That functionary is oharged with the gravest crimes, ranging in magni'ude from the allega tion that he has persistently violated the Con stitution of his country to the statement that “he believes the Dominican Republic to be bis patrimony aud that of Ins family." The revo lutionists have established a Provisional Gov ernment in due form; and, with an army of 4,000 men. they are likely to hold their owu. The Comte de Paris h is just issued an elabo rate work on the lahorquestion. which is highly spoken of. His conclusion, after a full consid eration of the matter in all its bearings is that the intervention of government in whatever \ relates to the direct dealiug between workmen and employers is apt to be mischievous. In terference with individual option and individ ual responsibility by legislation is pronounced injurious to all parties. Men, he maintains, should be free to make their own bargains, to look after their own interest*, to follow their own jinlgmeut. and to act together or apart, as they prefer. The only law he would impoee is that which inculcates respect for the rights of other men. Herman and Samuel thnaldo had a hat store in Davenport. lowa. The firm of H. Kiualdo A Cos. lately suspended business, except collect ing outstanding debts aud otherwise settling up their affairs. Herman Hinaido was se zed with illness and brought to death’s door. Samu el Rinaldo, his younger brother, had been out collecting and re: limed with r 2.500. When lie returned his brother was too ill to talk about business matters. Ibe next day Samuel Hinai do disappeared, taking with nim tlie money he hail collected for the firm, a valuable gold watch and chain, aud some clothing belonging to bis sick brother. The sick man sent for the ehief of police, and arrangements have been made to catch and bring the young man back to Davenport to explain his irregular conduct. This is as mean a case of dishonesty as often acmes to light. It is a peculiarity of this age that we saucy that we cannot live without perpetually specu lating about the philosophy of living. Long ago. most unfortunately, somebody invented the phrase, “The iiattle of Idle," and we have heard of nothing but that battle ever since. Os course, the lit. Hon. Benjamin Disraeli is not a man to leave unimproved any opportu- j uity for large and speculative geuerahaations. Making the prescribed speech upon his instal lation as Lord Hector f Glasgow University. ; he theorized about the Battle of Life, aud Seif- i Knowledge ad the Spirit of the Age. aud the Soul of Society, etc. “Above all thiugs," said j Goethe. “I have never thought about think- j mg Isn’t t; just possible that the men who i are living best are doing so unconsciously, and ( that nobody is likely to tight the battle to any btt.er purpose because he happens to be up to j his middle in a slough of subjectivities ? The bane of the beautiful Island of Marti nique is a eerpen: called the "iron lance. ’’ This reptile, with venomous taste, chooses the cool est aud most delightful places in the garden for hie retreat, and it is literally at the risk of one’s life that one lies down on the grass, or even takes a rest in an arbor. The wounds in dicted by these serpent* are very apt to be fatal unless immediately cared for. The whole island is infested with this dangerous reptile, and it is said that on an average nearly eight hundred persons ere bitten every year, of which number from sixty to seventy caeee prove fetal, while many others reeult in ner vous diseases which are almost as bad as death. A few years a.o. when Prince Arthur of Eng land visited this island a grand fete was given in his honor in the Jardin des Plantes. In the evening the grounds were beautifully illumi nated. and thousands of people sauntered through tteeool and shady avenues. A large number were bitten by the “iron lance." and manv of them never recovered from the effects of the poison. The fondneee of this terrible reptile for cool and ehady place* is a serious drawback on the pleasure of rambling through the charming groves of Martinique. A rest on the grass under the shsdow of come tpresding tree is always haunted by the dread of unsesu dangers, and one cannot even croas a field without sxeretaißg extreme eautita. HON. GARNETT MeMILLAN. j W* have received a private fetter from ; that pure and gifted Georgian—Hoc. | Garnett McMillan, of Habersham —in j which he aaenres us that be i» strongly I in favor of a Comitiiational Cai* I venti* n. We regr t to add that hit is | unable to write a letter for publication, as he has been confined to his bed sot several weeks with sickness. We hope that he will soon be restored to health. A LIVELY CORPSE. The Atlanta Herald has made the somewhat discovery that the Convention movement is as dead as Hector. If a movement which is favored by two-thirds of the people and nine tenths of the press of the State can be considered defunct, then the Herald is right and the Convention is as dead as either the Trojan hero or the typical j door nail. The movement is neither] dead nor sleeping as its opponents: shall discover to their sorrow when the I Legislatures assembles n«xt January. In tlie meantime, if it does the people of Atlanta any good to call it defunct, we have no objection to their peeping np courage by whistling through the grave-1 yard. They will find it, however^hk*, ■ . “a monstrous lively corpse. ” , FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS. Investigation* of financial matters will soon come'to jrijljahd-Rtin if the example set by Mr. Fjtaifcis, of Covington, Ken tucky, shallbd generally followed. The , local chronMle informs us that “Esquire Francis” hid been charged with failing to pay into the Treasury certain moneys whifth £ftd come into his hands as a pub lic officer. Instead of passing by in si lence a trifling matter of such frequent occurrence, a Cincinnati journal chose to make a considerable to do over the affair. Following the usual journalistic custom, a reporter was detailed to in quire into and write up the peculation, and the reporter, determined to go to the fountain head, called upon the of ficial in question, for the purpose of an interview, and to investigate his ac counts. “Esquire Francis,” evidently a rude and brutish man, and one wholly ignoraut of the amenities of life, resent ed this friendly visit and proposed scru tiny of his books us an impudent intru »ion. Refusing to be interviewed, and absolutely declining to submit his ac counts for inspection, the churlish of ficial turned the tables upon his visitor and investigated the reporter’s abdomen with the blade of a bowie, which all good Western citizens carry in con venient pluoea upon their person. This investigation, as may be naturally sup posed, was rather sharp and searching, hut recovery is not wholly impossible as the local chronicle aforesaid casually in forms ns that “none of the intestines | were severed.” It is more than proba ble, however, that this eccentric conduct on the part of “Esquire Francis” will se cure him from future solicitations for examination of his books, though there should be a deficit suspected large enough to dig the Atlantic and Great Western canal. COL. GOODE ON THE CONVEN TION. On our first page this morning will will be found a letter from Col. C. T. Goods, of Americas, on the subject of holding a Constitutional Convention. Col. Goode is well known for his ora torical powers, and is to-day confessedly the most eloquent man iu Georgia. Ha has long been kuown as the “silver tongued,” and no one who ever heard him doubted the justness of the name. Ho writes as beautifully as he speaks, and his letter will furnish a rich treat to our readers. To those who contend that this is not the proper time for hold ing a Convention, we especially com mend- one passage—and certainly not the least beautiful—iu this communica tion: The suddenness of our redemption from Radical rule by the election of a Democratic Legislature and Executive illustrates the imminence of the danger which a sitigle election may bring apou us. From 1865 to 1871 Georgia, like Prometheus, was bound to the rock—and for the kindred offense of aspiring after the heaven-lit fires of human liberty—and vultures from the East, the West and the cruel North fed upon her vitals. A single election released her. A single election may bind her again—and Her cules may come no more. A single election lias made us, and a single election may unmake us. Why, theu, should we tempt misfortune by criminal negligence ? We have control of the State now, and we must protect ourselves. We must pluck the sting from the future, and, as far as in us lies, render it powerless for evil. If evil fortune shall again befall us, if the State shall be a second time torn from tlie arms of her children and become the prey of the robber and the alien, we will have the cousolation of knowing that a constitutional barrier will protect us from the spoliation which was prac ticed three years ago. Hercules has come once, but he may come no more. TWEED’S CONVICTION. A Connecticut paper thinks that a re action has taken place in the public mind since the conviction of Tweed, and that “if a vote on his acquittal should be taken by the American peo ple to-day the prisoner would escape. ” This assertion may be correct. A good \ deal of sympathy is felt for Tweed for several reasons. In the first place, he was brought to trial before w'’Court which sat to convict. The entire press of New York had prejudged his case in j advance, and clamored daily for bis pu ishmeut. It was impossible for him to obtain an unprejudiced jury. In the second place, the punishment inflicted : has been disproportioned to the offeuseof j which he was found guilty. Twelve years’ imprisonment to a man of Tweed’s age, and to a man of his condi tion in life, means simply death. It is not the object of American law to make dishonesty, official or private, a capital offense. If Tweed’s disgrace was de sired. the conviction upon such a charge aud one month's imprisonment wouid have beeu amply sufficient. In the third place, while the country believes him guilty, and pronounces his conviction a righteous judgment, people think it hard that this man snould be so severely punished while men worse in every re spect not only go unwhipped of justice, hut are allowed to defile the high places of the nation with their presence. Members of Congress, holding the Dub lic funds as trustees for the people,took advantage of the opportunity offered by their fiduciary position to form a ring which had robbery for its end tyid cor ruption for its means. When detected, they hastened to make oath to their in nocence and to deliberate theft added premeditated perjury. One of these men was the Vice-President of the Na tion, another a member of the United States Senate, yet they were not deposed, disgraced or punished. One went into honorable retirement with a certificate of character from the Presi dent of the United States and the other perjured thief still sits uublushingly in Congress and makes laws for the punish ment of rogues. The ring which perpe trated worse frauds ; n the District of Columbia than Tweed ever attempted in X«w York, still flourishes and pat* the law at defiance. The head of this organized banditti has also received the Executive's endorsement as *0 honest man, and has been given one of the -j highest positions which his friend and I patron could bestow. The hundreds of j other scamps whose dishonesty has been i for fears matt r of common notoriety, f still prosecute in peace their schemes of plnndar, and have nothing to make them afraid. People naturally wonder why one villain should be sent to the JJefP Rentier/ while all the rest remain at liberty. These are the reason* why sympathy is being aroused for Ttod, and why there are those who wish to see him released from confinement. THE COST OF A CONTENTION. The Atlanta papers oppose the calling ! of a Constitutional Convention on ae- I count of the cost to the State. This is ! the ostensible objection, bat the real one is the fear of the removal of the capital to Milledgeville. By alarming the people with the prospect of what they term an extravagant expenditure of mon- yin the present straitened condi tion of the finances of the State, they hope Fj excite the prejudices of the the ftypressions of the public voice on one of the most important measures that has ever demanded the attention and consideration of a free people. Legiti mate argument is at all times admissable and desirable in the consideration of public measures, but misrepresentation and abuse, coupled with purely selfish and local considerations, will not serve the opponents of a Convention. The Atlanta papers have not so fur viewed t is question from a plane higher than the cupola of Kimball’s Opera House. Their opposition is wholly based upon fear, aud that fear arises from selfish mo tives. They are afraid that if a Con vention is called, the people of Georgia will move the capital to Milledgeville, where it rightfully belongs. They cannot, they do not pretend to deny that the removal was one of the evil consequences j of the military despotism established by the General Government, the unavoid able results of which were the Constitu tion of 1868, the election of Bullock, and the usurpation, fraud aud corrup tion of his administration. The Atlanta patriots do not defend the Constitution —they neither reverence nor respect it. They Know it to be the child of sin. They know it to be the result of vio lence, conceived fti iniquity, begotten in hate, and spawned upon a people powerless to resist the lust and rapacity of the horde of greedy vultures who had fastened their beaks in the vitals of the State. The chief patriots who oppose a Con vention do not defend the present bas tard instrument, but their cry is that it is good enough until the State is out of debt. Their objection is that the State cannot meet the expense, which is mag nified purposely, so as to alarm the peo ple and prevent them from giving ex pression to their convictions. The op ponents of a Convention estimate the expense at from $250,000 to $1,000,000. We should like to know upon what au thority, precedent or hypothesis, their figures are based ? They either know nothing of the cost of such a public body, or if they do the figures are mag nified to frighten the people. The Constitution and the Herald are terribly alarmed at the expense ! One says it will cost $280,000, tlie other says it will cost $500,000, and the Constitu tion has now worked the Convention np to $1,000,000 The only Conventions that have been held for the last twenty five or thirty years to form new Consti tutions were iu 1861, 1865 and 1868. The latter is certainly no criterion to go by, as a majority of its members had no other object in view than to rob the peo ple. Now let us see what the Conven tion of 1861 cost, as shown by the re port of the Comptroller-General for that year. We copy from the official state ment : For pay of members and officers and printing and other expenses of the Con vention of 1861, $98,852 50. This Convention, composed of about three hundred members, held two sessions, one at Milledgeville and the other at Savannah, and the whole expense was less than SIOO,OOO. The probability is that the expense of the Convention proper, or the per diem and mileage of the members, was not more than $60,000 or $70,000, for upon looking over the Comptroller’s report for 1866, we find that the cost of the Convention of 1865, with three hundred members, was only $45,396 35. Here is an extract: Paid on account of members aud of ficers of the Convention of 1865, $45,- 396 35. The Atlanta papers have no good reason to suppose that the Convention of 1874 will cost move than $50,000. We should like to know from the Herald and the Constitution where they get the data upon which they suppose a Consti tutional Convention will cost the State all the way from a quarter to a million of dollars. Do they get their data from the expense of the Convention of 1868 ? That body was composed in a great de gree of the worst men in the State. Ignorance, vice, rapacity, hate and plun der were its most prominent charac teristics. The adventurer and the traitor, and the iguorant freedman—a tool in the the hands of the carpet-bagger and scalawag—controlled the Convention. It made no difference to them what it cost.. The people had to pay for their extravagauce, and the longer the session lasted the more money the member* mad«. The present* Constitution may have cost a million, because it is the work of men who w ere enemies to the people of G orgia, a ad because it is the offspring of usurpati on and fraud. Do the Atlanta papers maintain that the cost of a Convention of representative Geor gians will approximate that of the mili tary Convention of 1868? We do not wish to think so, bat the only inference that can be drawn from thes’e extrava gant estimates of the expense, ranging from $250,000 to $1,000,00, is that the true representatives of the people will turn out to be as corrupt as the rogues and fraudulent members of the Conven tion of 1868. We are satisfied that the Atlanta papers do not really believe that the expense of the Conven*ion of 1874 will exceed $50,000. They are disturbed, they are terribly alarmed at the proopeet of the removal of the capital to Mil ledgeville. But satisfy their anxious souls upon this Texed point, and they care not a straw for the ex pense. Their patriotism is of that thrifty kind which delights in th* meeting of large public bodies in the capital of the State. But satisfy these Atlanta people that the Ci invention will be called there, that the seat of government will not be remov ed, and then there will be no more objection from the papers of that city. I’-he ex pense of the Convention, magnifi sd into huge proportions to frighten the j veople, is a mere bagatelle as compared wi th the benefits to accrue to the State. The cost at the very outside will not e xceed •50,000. Our estimate is based upon the expense of the Conventions of ,1861 and 1865. Come gentlemen of the Atl Santa press, this movement of the people is no mushroom growth. It did not spring up in. a night, and AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING: MICEMBER 31, 1573. it will hot disappear, in a May. The people can neitker be deceived norinti midated by threatening Jthem witk pe cuniar? embarrassment* and political trouble*, growing opt of the formation of anew Constitution. Guided by wis dom, armed with justice sod counseled by moderation, the true representatives of the people will so frame the organic law of this great Commonwealth as to protect them in their right* .Os person and property and in tb* *cjoyment of their liberty. %.£ analysis of Fertilisers. At the convention of the State Agri cultural Society, held at Athens last Au gust, the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts offered to have analyzed, for the benefit of the planter*,, samples of the principal fertilizer* offer ed for sale in Georgia. This proposi tion waa accepted by the State Agricul tural Society, and it was made the dnty of the Secretary of the Society tb select: the samples of fertiliiars, and to bend the same to the laboratory of the State College, designated by number* only, and not by the names under which they are sold. This designation by numbers ; Was proposed to satisfy tWqpjbbc that! ..ill- n'rik that .anx jta.i'- j ticular name might be supposed to exert on the mind of the chemist would be re moved. The resolutions also provided that the relative commercial values of the fertilizers should tto calculated from the constituents as shown by the analy sis. This work, involving much labor ! and scientific skill and accuracy, has been voluntarily undertaken by the State ; College for the benefit of the public, but: more especially for the benefit of the i agricultural community. We shall look , with interest to the results of this work, and can clearly see that great good may result therefrom, by enabling our far- j mers to purchase fertilizers with a clear ] understanding of their true market ! value. CIVIL RIGHTS. It seems to be a foregone conclusion that what is known as the “civil rights bill” will pass both houses of Congress, and as it has always been a pet measure with the President, will undoubtedly re ceive the Executive approval. For years Grant has urged this odious measure upon Congress, has made it, in fact, an Administration measure, and it is to his active exertions that we will owe the consummation ot this mon strous outrage upon the Southern peo ple. The bill provides, in substance, that our schools, male and female, our ohurches, our hotels, our theatres and other places of public amusement, our railway cars and steamboat cabins, our saloons, shall be thrown open to the ne groes. We have no unkind feeling, we entertain no hostility to the colored race. On the contrary, we have always insisted ihat their persons and property should receive the full protection of our laws. But we say to them, in all candor, that they make a great mistake in asking that which their false friends at the North are so willing for them to receive. Such a law can never be enforced in the South. It must remain a dead letter upon the statute books of the country. The power of Gen. Grant may be suffi cient to close up our schools and col leges, our theatres and hotels, but it cannot enforce its unnatural, its ab horent provisions. We have not yet reached that point when the two races can meet on an equality in the places above mentioned, and it is folly to think of compelling this equality by force. Indeed, we do not believe that the intel ligent colored people of this State desire any such mischievous legislation as that so persistently urged upon Congress by the President. They do not wish to push themselves into places where tlieir presence is not welcome any more than Smith or Jones would care to force themselves upon Brown, who claims to be their social superior. THE ROLL OF HONOR (?) The following is the list of the mem bers of Congress who received a consid eration immediate and substantial for their votes in aid of the Credit Mobilier Company: Sehulyer Colfax, Henry S. Dawes, Henry Wilson, Samuel Hooper, Jas. W. Patterson, Oakes lines, Sain’l C Pomeroy, Wm D. Kelly, Alexander Caldwell,G. W. Schofield, Jno. J. Patterson, Jas. A. Garfield, James Harlan, Jno. A. Bingham, •Tas. F.' Wilson, James Brooks, G. M. Dodge, Ginery Twitchell, Wm. B. Allison, John B. Alley. Every man connected with the Credit Mobilier, save one, is a Republican, and 1 that one, James Brooks, is dead. Wil son is Vice-President and presides over the Senate; Colfax, Pomeroy, Harlan— a pious trio of “Christian” statesmen— and Caldwell are in retirement; Oakes Ames is dead ; Bingham has been pro moted to the Japanese Mission, and nearly all the rest are still in Congress. In the House of Representatives, Messrs. Dawes, Garfield, Schofield *and Hooper have been placed at the head of important committees, while Ben But ler, the defender of the Credit Mo bilier, has been made Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. The Republican party rewards its prominent leaders with offices of honor and profit for their disreputable and dis honest acts in defrauding the Govern ment in connection with the Credit Mo bilier Company. Iu striking contrast with this shameful conduct of the Radi cal party is the punishment of Wm. M. Tweed, whose official peculations are no worse than those of Schulyer Colfax, or any other member of the Radical party who took the bribe from the Credit Mobilier. The Democrats sent Tweed to the penitentiary. The Repub licans elevate Wilson to the Vice-Presi dency, and send Colfax into retirement with a white-washed character. GRANT’S CHIEF JUSTICE. Every day furnishes fresh proof of the unfitness of Mr. Georoe H. Wil liams for the position to which he has been nominated by the President. That he is a man of only moderate ability, a lawyer without learning and a Judge without experience, is well known. His official opinions as Attorney-General have never been received as authority, and when opposed to able lawyers (as in the recent Credit Mobilier suits at Hartford) his medrocrity has excited deserved contempt. But if the New York Sun may be believed, and its charges are made clearly and stantially, he is a corrupt man as well as a dullard. It is stated that years ago Wilmasts and his wife occupied narrow quarters in the third story of the Na tional Hotel. They were known to be floor and dependent on his salary as Senator and such lobby fees a* he could pick up before the departments and in Congress. Their social position was inferior, as it is now, except among the shoddyites. In the Spring of 1871, just before the expiration of his term and the close of his insignificant career, he was made one of the High Commission, mostly to give him a place. From that time dates the mysterious change in his financial condition, if that can be called mvsterions which i» an open secret. That his official opinions affecting van oo* interests were mercenary is gener ally credited, because there is no confi ,den*e in his integrity a* a public officer or as • man. Since the close of tW High Commission hi* wife purchased.,* j square of ground from W. S. Georgetown, for $60,000, snd lot adjoining at a relatively larger - rste' | Upon that ground a fin* residence ha* been recently erected, which, J(fißathed flash furniture, is estimated to $45,000 or $50,000. Other pwtfftjM known to have l?een also aeqaphd iff Madame, in wb£a* name alone all top transactions appear on record. IHHig these two years they have lived’ ffljjjWSN*- tentious style, entertained pomp, and expended far more thaw the salary of the Attorney-GeneraSjJ Now the question is, Where did jt3B this money come from? Neither JjQfl* 6B6 parties has received a legacy, Gjf been engaged in any legitimate pursi* Lorn which fortune was to be derirffU The public/will draw its own conclusions, and perhaps the knowledge that have become the most efficient lobby ists at Washington, and often s£rv« as intermediates for procuring legislation and decisions in the departrngjflfe may perhaps enlighten the popid-jJa udges in regard to the ways tbst ar>s^B'k. Tin "iqii "im ,ee] * peteut to preside over thaljhfflpnbu nal. The three previous appointments made by Gen. Grant failed to attract ap proval in the country. Mr. .Justice Strong and Mr. Justice Bradley were choseu to reverse the legal teuler de cision. Mr. Justice Hunt is a gentle man of good deportment, buthas brought no strength to the Court in a judicial sense. Personally he is respectable, but professionally he is far from being ; strong. He deserves impeachment for denying a jury trial in the Anthony case. It is felt that the Court has been too much watered, as they say in the stock market. A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. Letter From Hon. C. T. Goode. To the Editors of the Chronicle arid Sen tinel : Absence in attendance upon the courts must furnish excuses for my delay in re plying to your favor of 29th November, requesting my views on the question— “ Shall the Legislature call a Convention for the purpose of amending thennstru ment known as the Constitution of 1868 ?” That the paper referred to is iAerfect aud wrong in many most important par ticulars, I believe all agree. Tlffitee im perfections and these evils have'flfeeri so frequently, so clearly and so powerfully set forth, that it would seem fe be a matter of supererogation if mar pre sumption in me to say mn on the subject. A foul tiling, Begot ten by Fraud upon the body <Flguo rance, it has no claims upon the jkwpect or toleration of an enlightened ■pAiir tuous people. Passing over its ions for the perpetuation of Rad} n'ln to rtile; the endeavor to forestall' dgisla tion by incorporating ordinary i ibjdets of legislation into the organic 1 wjfthe long tenure of judicial offices, t' uk,giv ing immunity to petty tyranny, indul gence to caprice and corruption, .nitex emption from responsibility exce t.JWiftn outraged public sentiment seeks iqf vin dicate itself through the forns ow 1 im peachment (a form aud nothing n|pre); the unwise construction of the’Senate with its concomitant “rotatio i”|and many other subjects of criticism anfl re bukes—l would call attention <to; the imminent danger of financial disaster and ruin which a single Democratic de feat would bring upon us. The la<|'con dition of Alabama should warn ws while it is in our power to provided against, the perils of bankruptcy and raLv, IViJjJr almost unlimited powers of taSaron’ in the hands of an ignorant, rapacious and unscrupulous baud of thieves and rob bers, a single administration would suf fice to precipitate upon ns utter and ir remediable disaster. And yet the ex penditure of a hundred or two thousand dollars (perhaps not more than, if so much as, tlie cost of a single session of the Legislature) is seriously urged as a price too great to be ’paid for the erection of a contstitutional rampart against rapacity, bankruptcy aud ruin. I confess that this argument of the cost of a Convention, upon which its op ponents ring their everlasting monotone, when addressed to a people who, in hap pier days, were accustomed to the usages of free government, and who but recent ly, after a long and dreary night of oppression and misrule, have been glad dened by the orient beams of another dawn of civil liberty—does not seem to be even specious—it does not rise to the dignity of sophistry. I beg to be un derstood as not intending to reflect upon the intelligence or integrity of the able and honorable gentlemen who urge it— but the fact that they are able and can present no argument more respectable than this against holding a Convention is to me a strong argument why it should be held. Let there be no fear that the trifling expenditure of money necessary to de fray the expenses of a Convention would be an extravagance. It would be a measure of economy rather. You might with as much propriety call paying your premium upon a policy of insurance to protect vour property against Are an extravagance. The suddenness of our redemption from Radical rule by the election of a Democratic Legislature and Executive illustrates the imminence of the danger which a single election may bring upon us. From 1865 to 1871 Georgia, like Prometheus, was bound to the rock—and for the kindred offense of aspiring after the heaven-lit fires of human liberty--and vultures from the East, the West and the cruel North fed upon her vitals. A ! single election released her. A single election may bind her again—and Her cules may come no more. A return of the capital to Milledge ville is another question which the peo ple in Convention assembled have a ; right to pass upon. The capital was not removed to Atlanta by the people, but i by a mongrel crew of scaly scalawags, hungry carpet-baggers and ignorant ne- I groes. The deed was done when the intelligence and sta esmanship of the j StaCe was ostracised, when it was a crime to be a native Georgian (unless I you were a nigger), and when the reek j ing fumes of the wards of the nation were sweeter in the nostrils of the Con vention than “Sabean odors from the i spicy shores of Araby the Blest.” All efforts to remove the capital before had failed. Proud and happy recollections clustered around the old Capitol. There the voices of the Crawfords, of Troup, of Berrien, who fed upon the homy I dew and drank the milk of Paradise,” of the ali-gifted Forsyth (an Achilles never j in his tent, for Brisei was ever his) had been heard. There with inimitable I grace and dignity Miller had presided j over the Senate and Jenkins over the House. There, too, the polished and I elegant Johnson, the sagacious and elo quent Stephesn,Toombs, who had “ Taken nectar on high Olympus, And mighty me&d in Valualla ’ — Hill, with his silver eloquence, and Cobb, the petted child of Genius, had in structed and delighted the people of their native State. There our fathers had gathered in council and ruled with “wisdom, justice aud moderation.” The traditions of the proud, the happy, the glorious past, were garnered there. There, too, were government buildings that were good enough for us when we were great, wealthy, happy and free, and which had been just put in excel lent repair. No doubt cotlld be enter tained but that an Overwhelming majori ty of tue people were opposed to re moval. But a large portion of the wealth, the refinement, the virtue and intelligence of the State was either ex iled, or ostracised, and the remainder, listening to the suggestions of an ill-fated policy, kept away from th* polls. Phaeton had taken the chariot and horses of Kicebns and was driving with reckless madness and ignorance. How was the auspicious time to remove the capital and make the removal per manent by making it part of the Con stitution. The people have never been satisfied with this removal, it was not their action. It was against their wishes. Why not give them an opportunity to be heard ? . I beg in this connection to disavow any sentiment towards itlanta other than kindness. It has been my privi lege to enjoy her elegant hospitality, and manv dear and valued friends claim Atlanta as their home. X rejoiced te see 1 f rom the desolations of war, from her ashes, to newness 9Bfe and beauty, and I take pride, as a in her growth and increasing Nevertheless, I think the Htoital shonld be moved back to Mil gjiageville. The Opera House could Well supply the deficiencies of DeGive’s p— though if it should fall and crush an F assemblage of Atlanta’s “fair women and brave men” they might well regret that it was not the “Assembled Wisdom” instead. It is said as a reason why another Convention should not be held that we have already had three conventions in twelve years. It should, however, be remembered that each one was held at the beginning of anew and startling chapter in our history. One assembled to inaugurate revolution, another to meet the consequences of defeat, and the last to perpetuate Radical domina tion and misrule. And now, when in the course of thickly thronging events a new and better era has dawned upon us, surely the people have a right to ordain and establish a Constitution in con formity with their own ideas of good government. Surely a good, wise and safe Constitution of our own making, is not so light a thing in the estimation of freemen as to be outweighed by the paltry cost of a Convention. Let us take heed lest like Tarpeia, in seeking to secure the golden bracelets, we be overwhelmed with the Sabine shields ! Regretting that I have not had time to present my humble views of this verv impo’rtaut subject in a more connected manner— I have the honor to be yours, very respectfully, C. T. Goode. Americus, Ga., December 13, 1873. BUCHU. A Racy Sketch of the Buchu Chief Justice. [New York Herald.] 1 When we related the grand and glo i rious triumphs of Buchu, especially in Buchu financiering, we were not aware that the same potent article was useful in the manufacture of Chief Justices of the United States. Since then, however, a Buchu Chief Justice has dawned upon the astonished gaze of an admiring world. Like many of Buchu’s best im personations, Chief Justice Buchu was born of New England parents, and then went West. The West is a grand field for the growth of Buchu. It has con tributed to the country mauy notable Buchu statesmen, orators, financiers and bu iness men. It has built hundreds of Buchu towns and cities, and bound them together by Buchu railroads. Buchu bridges span the rivers and Buchu steam boats ply upon them. The West has even given to the world a Buchu re ligion, with Buohu doctrines, dogmas aud ceremonies. There Buchu mar riages and Buchu divorces are common. It is no wonder, then, that out of so much Buchu the W< st should also have given us a Buchu Chief Justice and that Chief Justice Buchu should be an honor to the whole Buchu family. Chief Justice Buchu began liis career earlier than almost any of tlie Buchus. At twenty-three he was a Judge, and already in a fair way of becoming a Chief Justice. Asa matter of course Chief Justice Buohu became a Judge be fore he became a lawyer, and he has been a Buchu Judge so long it was im possible lieshonld be more than a Buchu lawyer. But not being a lawyer is no discredit to Chief Justice Buchu. It is a peculiarity of the Buchu family to be willing to undertake the highest trusts, .and to succeed in them, too, without any preparatory education whatever. ■ There was Ghoul Buchu, for instance, who blessed the world by the Example and influence of a great and good man, without ever having been inside of a Sunday school. And there was the re nowned Buchu, the great railway king, who taught the people the philosophy of watered stocks, but took no stock in orthography and grammar. And Buchu, the banker, who began business in noth ing and failed for a million, was a mere self-made man. How, then, is it to be expected that Chief Justice Buchu •hould be learned in the law? His *Whief qualification sot bio high office i» in not knowing any law. If he under stood law he might be restrained from doing his duty by precedents, decisions aud statues, whereas, not being restrain ed by these things, he can only do right. It is characteristic of the Buchu family to always dare to do right, and in this, as in every other respect, Chief Justice Buchu is one of the most enlightened members of the family. It is not to be assumed, however, that Chief Justice Buchu sought after his high office. Offices came to him too easily for there being any neod of his seek ing them. Few men, as we have said, know much law at twenty-three, but at twenty-three the superior intelligence of the people of lowa found him out and made him a judge. President Pierce, with that sagacity he often exhibited in detecting Buchu, even in the plainest forms, robbed lowa of the prodigy and made him Chief Justice of OregOD. But he was not known at that time as Chief Justice Buchu. Indeed, the Buchu family has not yet asserted its pre-emi nence. Another decade passed before Buohu as a statesman, orator, and finan cier began to be felt in the land. In the meantime Chief Justice Buchu had got into the United Senate, where he scarcely did credit to the varied abilities of the Buchu family. Re was a mere Western Senator, who occasionally ex hibited a delicious Buchu modesty and sometimes showed the Buchu aptuessfor business. Business has always been the stronghold of the Buchus—business and statesmanship. It was his aptness for business which made Buchu, the banker, rich during the war—that busi ness aptness which enabled him to make a profit out of every dollar the patriotic people were willing to lend, because it was absolutely necessary the Government should borr w. Ghoul Buchu would never have been able to go about doing good if he had not possess ed the Buchu apitude for business. Old Buchu, the railway king, was pre-emi nently a business man. It was this busi ness apitude of the family which prompted the formation of the Buchu Savings Bank, in which the poor piit their earnings and found the investment a terribly 'permanent one; tfte great Buchu Silver Minining Company, of Utah, Limited, by which we extracted another indemnity from England, and the Buchu Pacific Railroad, which the Ruchu Ring induced Congress to build from Nowhere to Nowhere, and make the people pay for twice over. We have not heard that Chief Justice Buchu had any interest in the outside concerns of the Buchu family—though there was a Senator Buchu in the famous “Buchu Silver Miqiug Company of Utah, Limit ed”—but he participated in much of the Buchu legislation of the period. He learned his statesmanship under Buchu tutelage—a tutelage so thorough that one of its most eminent professors has since retired to an island as peaceful as was Blennerhassett’s before the insidious Burr found the abode of the doves. And ! so rapidly did he grow in a knowledge of statecraft and diplomacy that he was j required to take part in framing anew code of international law, and though it ! is doubtful whether he knows anything i of the Rules of Three, he is one of puta | tire fathers of the Three Rules. This was the ooh training Chief Jus tice Biichu received for his exalted posi tion, excepting that he was for a time the law adviser of the Government. In this position he approved himself a Buchu lawyer of the first order. H gave Louisiana especially Buchu law and order, and showed the country how com pletely he believes in Buchu State gov ernments. Iu every respect he was an admirable member of the Buchu family. Asa matter of course Buchu was better as an Attorney-General than a wild lawyer from Georgia, who had never learned any of the Buchu mysteries of the period, and was incapable of learn ing any of the ways of a Buchu society. It is not such an easy thing as some people may imagine to keep a Buchu house and give Buchu dinners and balls and receptions to Buchu diplomats and Senators and Representatives and adven turers. But Chief Justice Buchu is skilled in all the accomplishments of Buchu society. The representatives of the Buchu press have told us all about that, and even hinted at Buchu words on a silver tongue which reached the President’s ear, in regard to the exceeding merits of Chief Justice Buchu. it is not to be wondered at that even the words of Chief Justice Buchu himself should be potent in the White House. All the Buchn family are glib of tongue and convincing of speech. Who else but a Senator Buchu could have convinced the English people that the “Buchu Silver Mining Company of Utah, Limit ed,” was a good investment ? Who else but Ghoul Buchu himself could h re convinced the wicked people of Wall street that Ghoul was a good name for a fair to naiildiing Christian and a pious man? And who but Attorney General Buohu could show the President and the Senate that Chief Justice Buchu would sound well in the government directories aud the Herald Almanac? And, withal no ODe, except a Buchu, could bear him self with proper humility when offered high station. Does anybody suppose that Attorney General Buchu was not aware of the honor the President and the people were doing themselves in naming him Chief Justioe Buchu? It would be a mistake to think so. All of the Buchu family, though they are modest, have yet a proper appiecmtion From Ghoul Buchu they possess a humility as remark abi- as that of Uriah Heep, and when the President offered him the place Chief JushUo Buchu said, in the exaot words of Unsh: “I thank you, Master, I mean Mr. Copperfield.” Asa matter of course we have no in tention of dismissing Chief Justice Buclul with a single article. A man of his supereminent merits ’is entitled to more than one tribute to his virtues. Indeed, so heartily do we go into the work of praising and exalting him that we ca not refrain even now from glory ing in one of the great advantages of his exaltation. It will be remembered, after the Buchu politicians of Lonsiana had overturned a State government and set up a fraud instead, that when their wronged opponents telegraphed to Washington that they were coming to explain the situation, Attorney General Buchu answered, if not in these words, to this intent : “Give yourselves no trouble. I know all and have settled everything. Buchu forever.” Such knowledge in a Cnief Justice is invalu able, aud in political controversies, to say nothing of suits affecting the Buchu Loan and L'rust Company, the Buehn Savings Bank, the Bu hu Silver Mining Company of Utah, Limited, and the Buchu Pacific Railroad, it is delighful to know that the interpretation of the law and the Vdministration are in the hands of such a capable jurist as Chief Justice Buchu. GEN. SHERMAN AND MR. STE PHENS. [New York Graphic.] The family of General Sherman re ceive every Monday, and yesterday Miss Lizzie Sherman, the second daughter, was assisted by Mrs. Colonel Audenreid and Miss Whelan, and during the latter portion of the afternoon by General Shertnau himself. Mrs. Sherman and Miss Minnie are übsent, visiting the youngest daughters of the family, who are at school in Ohio. General Sher man is very social, and lia. always a fund of interesting talk ready on de mand. He is fond of company, and makes himself universally agreeable to the many callers at his house. Yester day he gave an account of his meeting with Alexander H. Stephens at the re ception given by Fernando Wood last week. Mr. Wood asked Gen. Sherman if he was willing to be introduced to Mr. Stephens. “Os. course I am,” said the General; “I was not afraid of him in Georgia, and I certainly am not here.” The introduction was made and the two shook hands. Quoth Gen. Sherman : “Mr. Stephens, lam delighted to s e you in Washington once more, occupy ing the position which belongs to you.” Answered Mr. Stephens: “I am de lighed, I am overwhelmed with the kindness, the consideration, tlie cor diality shown me here.” “Ah, well !” said General Sherman, “this is not a bad world alter all. It contains more good than we give it credit for. Just show yourself kindly disposed to others aud they’ll always be kind to you.” After further conversation Geueral Sherman said he supposed he would not be very kindly received in Georgia. “I believe,” he added, “they think of me there as a species of wild beast. They think I have claws.” Mr. Stephens, however, reminded him that he did not visit Georgia for the first time when he marched down to the sea, and recalled a visit General Sherman had made to Milledgeville some twenty odd years ago. In further talk Mr, Stephens told the Generi* l that; now that the ne groes were free lfe (Mr. Stephens) went' further than Mr. Sumner, even, in de siring the colored population to have every civil right and to receive every advantage of education. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S WIFE. How Mrs. William’s Was Married as a Girl. Divorced, Again Married, Widowed, and Finally Settled iu Life. [Correspondence of the Courier-Journal ] Washington, December 16, 1873. Observing the call you make in the Courier-Journal for correspondents to enlighten the reading public iu regard to the sinister insinuations about Judge Williams obtaining a divorce for the lady who is now his wife, and,as I have the particulars, and they contain noth ing to the discredit of either party, Ido not hesitate to write what I have no doubt is the truth. Mrs. Williams’ maiden name was Hughes, and she was born near St. Louis. While still a child, her parents moved to Keokuk, lowa. At the age of fifteen Mrs. Williams did what many a foolish girl has done before and since that time—ran away and mar ried a man of whom her parents di-ap proved. The husband was also too young for the responsible duties he had assumed, and before the birth of their child his wife had the most convincing proofs of his infidelity. She was ill and came near dying, but the kind physician who was in attendance took her home to her father’s house, atid there was a suit ! brought for divorce. Judge /Williams had kuown her from childhood and granted the divorce. Mrs. Williams remained single fir some years, when she again trusted her happiness into a husband's keeping anil made a second mistake. Judge Wil liams was also married, and the two knew nothing of escli other's where abouts for many years. Mrs. Williams’ husband was a drunkard, and they be came very poor. Then she took mat ters in her own hands, left her husband, and opened a school in Oregon. She taught and earned money. One day a letter came from California that her husband was dying in a hospital. Nobly she forgot all the sorrow he had caused, and she promptly resp nded to the call, and nursed him and supplied his wants until his death. After the funeral she re turned to her school, which she kept until Judge Williams, who was now a widower, asked her to become his wife. This was about the time he became United States Senator. This last mar riage has proved happy and prosperous. Mrs. WiHiams’ beauty is morethan com mon and of a rare type. Very dark hair, with very blue eyes that have long, dark lashes. Her complexion is fair and clear, features good, though not regular. Her form is full, as it should be, after the heyday of youth is passed. She has beautiful neck and arms. She dresses well, though not extravagantly ; for, with all the receiving she does and the invitations she accepts, I don’t think a ly Winter she has had over six expen sive dresses. I know I have seen some of the old ones turned and retrimmed. Mrs. Williams is an admirable house keeper and manager. She is generous and hospitable. She has always taken in and understood the situation ; and without intrigue, or in any other way but such as a fond and good wife can do without blame, she has used her best endeavors to ailgance her husband's in terests. She has even gone further, and and exerted herself to make the whole Administration popular. Second only ! to Mrs. Fish has she been in returning i all calls and receiving all graciously. Taking “Sunset” Down.—The Wash ington Star tells the following story of Hon. S. S. Cox, the “irrepressi.de” Congressman from New York city: On Monday last Cox was more than usually active, spurty and irrepressible in the House. He was continually at the front “catching ou the flv,” and rampaging round generally, finally, when the House came to an agreement to proceed with the debate on the salary bill in twenty minute speeches, Cox dispatches a page with the following note: “Dear Mr. Speaker: Put me down for twenty minutes. 8. 8. C.” To which the Speaker replied: “Dear Cox: I would be delighted if I could keep you down half that time. J. G. B.” A wife wanted her husband to sym pathize with her in a feminine quarrel, bathe refused, saying, “I've lived long enough to learn that one woman is just as good as another, if not better.” “And I,” retorted the exasperated wife, ‘have lived long enough to learn that one man is just as bad as another, if not worse !” BANKRUPTCY. Decision ot the Supreme Court—Cor respondence IJet ween Senators Hitch cock aud Edmunds. Washington, December 22.— The Su preme Court to-daj rendered tlie fol lowing decision: 94, Wilson, assignee iu , bankruptcy of Yanderhoff Bros. vs. the City Bank of St. Paul—certificate of di vision from the Circuit Court for Minne sota. In this case, Vauderhoff Bros,, owing the bank, suffered their entire stock of goods to be seized on execu tion on a judgment by default, ob tained against them by the bank, and thus, as alleged, fraudulently preferred the bank over their other creditors against the provisions of the bankrupt act, and the assignee sought to have the proceeds of the sale or exe cution applied on the claims of all the creditors. On these facts the following questions arose, on which the Court di vided, and they wero certified to this Court for answer: First, wheth er or not an intent on tlio part of the firm to suffer their property to be taken on execution witli intent to give a preference to the bankor with in tent to defraud or delay the operations of the bankrupt act, can be inferred from the facts stated; second, whether under the facts the bank in their proceed ings had reasonable cause to believe that a fraud on the bankrupt act was intended by the firm; and, third, whether under the circumstances the bank obtained by the‘levy itnd execu tion a valid lien on the goods as against the assignee in bankruptcy. In their opinion, the Court says' tha* something more than the passive non-resistance of an insolvent debtor to regular judicial proceedings, in which a judgment and execution are had when the debt is due and he is without just defense to the action, is necessary to show a preferment of a creditor or a purpose to defeat or delay tlie operation of the bankrupt act. That the fact that the debtor, uuder such circumstances, does not file a petition iu bankruptcy is not sufficient evidence of such prefer ence or desire to defeat the operations of the act. That though the judgment creditor in such a case may know tlie insolvent condition of the debtor, his levy and seizure are not void under the circumstances nor any violation of the bankrupt law. That a lien thus obtained by him will not be displaced by subsequent proceedings in bankruptcy against a debtor, though with in four months of the filing of tlie bill. These propositions require the questions certified to be answered, the first two in tlie negative and the third in the affirmative. This decision overrules or largely qualifies what was said by Mr. Justice Clifford iu delivering tlie opinion of the Court in Buokauau vs. Smith, at the last term. Senator Hitchcock lias addressed the following letter to Senator Edmunds, Chairman of the Committee on the Ju diciary: United States Senate Chamber, \ Washington, Dec. 20, 1873. [ Dear Sir —Regretting the failure of the Senate to act prior to the holiday recess upon the bill respecting the bankrupt law, so far at least as to wipe out the present oppressive feature of involunta ry bankruptcy, and fearing that such failure will aggregate the financial suf fering, aud add others to the already long list of victims, I desire to obtain your opinion of the feasibility of so amending the bankrupt law as to make the repeal of the oppressive feature re troactive; and also your opinion as to the probability of the early passage of such amendments. Your reputation as a lawyer and position as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committe will give weight to your opinion, and such opinion, if actively given upon each of the propositions above named will, I think, go far to relieve public anxiety and prevent useless aud oppres sive litigation. Faithfully vonrs, P. W. Hitchcock. Hon. G. E. Edmunds, Chairman Senate Committee on Judiciary. Senator Edmunds replied as follows : United States Sen >te Chamber, ( Washington, December 22, 1873. ( Dear Sir— t have received your note luif'thi) 20th MSrst. miff say in reply, Tdo "not profess to speak for any person but myself of course, but so speaking I have no hesitation in saying that any pro vision that may be made respecting the forcing of debtors into involuntary bankruptcy and the proceedings there upon will, so far as my voce goes, be retroactive in sucli a way that no person will gain anything by any op pressive steps towards debtors pending the consideration of the question. As all such "matters relate to remedies which Congress may take away altogether if it pleases, there will be no improoriety in making any wise provisions which re gulates the proceedings to just ends to apply to pending cases, and I feel great confidence that such will be the opinion of the Senate. Very truly, yours, Gao. F. Edmunds. Hon. P. W. Hitchcock, U. S. Senate. American Securities in Germany. A Frankfort-on-tho-Main correspond ent of the Chicago Tribune, writes that universal distrust is felt in that country toward all American securities except Govermhent bonds, and that the Ger man money market must be con sidered hermetically clo od for years to come against all classes of American stocks and bonds, and even all State, county aiid municipal bonds, no matter by whom issued and at what prices offered. He adds: |“I do not hesitate to say that Germany might be searched vainly for a bank or banker willing to touch any mortgage loans, even of any of the older Eastern States, or cities, or any of the best pay ing railroad companies, such as the New York Central, Pennsylvania Central, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Chica go and Alton, Illinois Central, and the like. And this not because the intelli gence aud information of German bank ers is so limited as to render them inca pable of perceiving that such loam would be safe, but because bank ers buy to sell, and tho Ger man public will not touch any thing American any longer. What I way, then, will he confirmed by the numerous representatives of American railroad companies tliat have been foolish enough, in spite of frequent warnings, to at tempt to persuade German bankers to buy mortgage loans of them within the last few months. Especially these that peddled the bonds of new Western roads through the German money markets had to return with extra large fleas in their ears. Even the influen tial representing the Southern Pacific, though it consisted of such magnates as Thomas A. Scott and Judge Pit rrepont, could hardly get a hearing. For. verily, a German banker considers itat this time almost an insult to his understanding to be expected to take Western railroad ; mortgage loans. He says that duriugthe months of November and December, I 1871, and January, 1872, $30,000,000 of I American railread bonds were A-dd in | Germany, and that on all the bonds and | other American securities held in t i r j many there has been a d-preeianon since February, 1872, of nearly tliiit.y one million dollars. He gives a list of thirteen American railroad companies not paying interest on their bonds, on which there has been a depreciation of nearly twenty millions, out of about fifty millions taken. In this list we find $4,720,000 of Alabama and 8 per cents (gold), which were placed at 85J, and are now valued at only '25, and $3,300,000 of Brunswick and Albany 6 per cents (gold), placed at 75, and now valued at 15.” Explosion in a Sleeping Car.—The Denver (Col.) News says that that city was shaken on Wednesday morning, December 10th, by a loud report that appeared to some like a cannon, and to others the explosion of glycerine. An investigation showed that one of the Pullman sleeping cars had been almost entirely destroyed by the explosion of its water-heating apparatus. A fire had been started in the sleeper, and it was being warmed preparatory to being sent East on the regular overland train. The car, which was the Dexter, was standing just below the Union depot, the train not having been pulled alongside the sta tion platform. Fo tunately, none of the passengers who had engaged apartments had taken their seats in the sleeper. The conductor, Mr. Flint, was in the depot, and the porter, Charley Sturges, had gone to get a cup of coffee. One end of the Dexter was blown to atoms. The windows were demolished, the look ing-glasses shattered, the roof thrown up, and the car made a general wreck. It is presumed that the generation of steam in the pipes became too heavy, that the eseap • valve was weakened, and the pipes burnt, home of the fragments of the car were found a couple o' blocks from the deyot. The Dexter cost NUMBER 53. TO THE PLANTERS OP GEORGIA. To the Editors of the Chronicle and Sen tinel: You wero kind enough to allow me to present my views a few weeks since, through the columns of your valuable paper, addressed to my brother planters of Georgia, upon the all absorbing sub ject of colored laborers, in which I at tempted to prove (and successfully I think) that the only profitable mode of utilizing the laborer amongst us is to hire for certain money wages. Wishing to do all the good in my power to the great planting interest of the South, 1 addressed letters to several very success ful planters to give me their experience in this matter of laborers. Only one of those gentlemen has yet responded, viz: Col. E. J. Dozier, senior partner of the highly respectable house of Messrs. Do zier, Walton & 00., of your oity, to whose excellent letter, giving in figures the net profits from 12 hirelings (8 men and4 women), I beg you publish forth with, that planters may see for themselves and make their own calculations before making arrangements for another year. When I compare Col. Dozier’s success with hired labor with the suicidal policy now being pursued, 1 cannot see how rational men can oontiuue that system which has brought us all to the verge of bankruptcy. Let Col. Dozier speak for himself; and that those planters who are unacquainted with Col. D. may know that no deception is practiced, you will, with me, fully endorse him as a gentle man of unquestioned reliability. VIBOINIUS. Augusta, Ga., December IC, 1873. To : Deah Sir —Yours of the 26tli Novem ber at hand, and in reply to your inqui ries—namely, my plan of cultivating a crop, number of laborers employed, inuies used, land in cultivation, expenses incurred, and result—l will report my last year’s crop, as I have ueithe fin ished gathering nor sold the present year’s crop. I employed eight men last year at SIOO each—also preparing one acre of laud, planting it in cottoiq and plowing it for them. I also had em ployed four women, ats6s each, furnish ing them with a half acre, with the same work given them as the m n. I used eight mules, planted ninety-one acres in cotton, which produced 140,856 lbs. of seed cotton (averageper acre, 1,547 lbs.), ginned out 44,190 lbs. of lint, average sales lie., which netted me,aftercommis sion and storage were deducted, $7,519. I planted 75 acres in corn, which pro duced 1,075 bushels ; X sowed 65 acres in oats, from which I saved 102,000 lbs. of oats in the bundles; one acre in sweet potatoes, from which I gathered 300 bushels; three acres in ground peas, from which 1 saved 40 bushels ; and fat tened 34 hogs, which 1 killed, without the use of coin, and kept 36 stock hogs during the Winter, feeding no corn to them. Watermelons. Irish potatoes and garden vegetables were all plentiful dur iug their season. I have no determined policy of cultivating u crop. The state of the weather and condition of my lands determining the implements used in culture. 1 prepare all the lands that I cultivate early in the year by turning the soil with a common steel turn plow, following in the same furrow with a square pointed rooter, which gives the best subsoiling of any other plow in use, in my judgment. Oats and ground peas paid me the best per cent, of any crop produced. Below I condense expeusos and profits of 1872 : Expenses. Profit. Labor employ- Cotton 501d..57,519 ed cost $ 960 Corn worth ..1,075 Overseer 450| Fodder 300 Supplies for [oats 765 hands and [Potatoes 300 mules 1,425 Cow peas fr’m Interest on | corn land.. 130 capital 1,500 Ground peas. 80 Loss by wear Cotton seed. 625 and accid’nt 400 Hogs killed.. 345 Value of seed I planted.... 240: $11,139 Cost of Ferti- I 6 305 lizers 900| Extra labor in Profits rea gatheriug.. 200: lized $4,834 6^075 Bagging anil ties 230 My crop this year will compare favor ably with the crop of lust year, save that of cotton, which falls short about 'one-third the average per acre. My dear sir, I am glad to find you interested in the welfare of the agricultural prosper ity of the country. My judgment is that the wages system of employing labor is the only one that can succeed with the negro as laborers. I fully en dorse, and will put into practice, so far as I am interested, the curtailing of cot ton planting and the extensive use of fertilizers and increasing of all other crops, that we may be more self-sustain ing and less dependent upon other sec tions tor our daily bread; and until planters realize tno necessity of diversi fying their crops, and abandoning the partnership and rent system, there will never be any prosperity attending plant ing. With much respect, lam yours, truly, E. J. Dozier. Mexican Veterans.—The following address has been issued to tho veterans of the Mexican war, by Hon. David 8. Johnston, President of the Association: Headq’rs Ga Associate" Veterans, ) Mexican War, 1846-7-’B, V Madison, Ga., December 15, 1873 ) Comrades—On the 15th of January next, the delegates of the veterans of the Mexican war will meet in Washington City, to organize a National Association of tiie survivors of the military and naval service in the Mexican war 1846-7 or ’8; aud it is very desirable that all who now reside in Georgia shall be represented; therefore, the veterans of the Mexican war are requested at their earliest op portunity to forward to these headquar ters their names iu full, their age now, occupation, rank, company, battalion, regiment or vessel on which he served in Mexico, and post office address. Will all the veterans make it, their business to inquire of their comrades if they have reported their names, post office, Ac., and if they have not to assist them in doing so immediately ? The object of the National Associa tion is to prepare a joint memorial to Congress asking similar recognition, of their much more important past ser vices, us that shown to the veterans of 1812 by the recent Pension Act. Another praiseworthy object contemplated is the establishment of a National Brotherhood of the survivors of that war for benevo lent purposes and the restoration of the former good feeling among them in all seotions of the Union, which has been, to some extent, disturbed by the events of the past twelve years. Any person having iu charge any com pany, battalion or regimental flags, will confer a favor upon the Association by entrusting the same to the care of the President, and all information in con nection with the same is most respect fully and earnestly requested. David 8. Johnston, Prs. Ga. Ass. Vet. Mex. War, 1846-’7-’B. Post Office, Madison, Ga. CUBAN AFFAIRS. Successes of the Insurgents. Key West, December 24 —A dispatch says the Wyoming, under special or ders, lelt last night for A- pin wall to fetch the steamship General Sherman to the former port. Advices from Cuban sources relative to the military move ments of the Cuban ar ny state t|ißt in the attack on Manzanillo, on the 16th of November,the iusurgents captured twen ty-five rifles, eight thousand cartridges, quantity of gold and Spanish Bank noteß, cloth, provisions, Ac., besides destroying one million dollars’ worth of property and capturing one hundred prisoners, who were paroled. The losses of the Spaniards were estimated at over two hundred, while the Cuban loss was thirteen officers and sixiv privates kill ed aud wounded. On November 20th the Cuban army went into canjp at Sanja, having made a further capture of one hundred and fifty thousand car tridges, seventy-six rifles and a number of horses. The Cuban agents in this city state that orders have been received that no more rifles are needed by the Cuban forces, as they have captured more than sufficient to arm all the forces they can put at present in the field. It turns out to be a mistake that the Secre tary of the Navy has ordered all extra work to cease at tile navy yards. The order is that extra hours of work shall cease. Tho Miuuesota will uot go into c mmissiou. A man with a wife and five children, living near Americas, reoently eloped with a girl of seventeen.
