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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1874)
OLO SERIES —VOL. LXXXI NEW SERIES- VOL XXXVIII. TKRMS. j DE DAILY CHRONICLE k SENTINEL, the oldest newspaper in the South, is published daily, ex cept Monday. Terras : Per year, $lO ; six months, $5 : three months. $2 50. THE TBI-WEEKLY CHRONICLE* SENTINEL is published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Satur ,’ar. Terms : One year, $5 : six months, $2 50. THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE tc SENTINEL is pub lished every Wednesday. Terms : One year, $2; six months, sl. •OBSCBIPTIOS> in all cases in advance, and no pap-r c n timed aft r the expiration of the time ]>aid f'rr. RATF.B OF ADVERTISING IN DAILY.—AII tran sient advertisement* will be charged at the rate of fl per square for each insertion for the first week. Advertisements in the Tri-Weekly, two thirds of the rates in the Da»ly ; and in the Weekly, one-half the Daily rates. Marriage and Funeral Notices, $1 each. Special Notices, $1 per | square for the first publication. Hpe ial rates ; will l>e made for advertisement* ru mlng for a month or longer. REMITTANCES should be made by pr st Office Money Orders or Express. If this cannot be done, protection against losses by mail may be •wured by forwarding a draft payable to the j Pr jpnetors of the Chronicle and Sentinel, or by sending the money in a registered letter. Address WALSH k WEIGHT, j CHHONirLK ■*; Skntiml, Augusta, Ga. j (Chronicle anD sm(mel. W ■• i. DAY APRIL 22, 1874. MINOR TOPICS# Motmenr Tluenf maiiHion that wag destroyed by the (JorumuninU in i'arin daring the Spring of ’7l has been rebuilt in a magnificent man ner out of an appropriation from the National Treasury. The Detroit Free Press protests against the flings which the Jtochetjter Chronicle constant ly makes at the King of the Sandwich Inland*, who. if seems, has no newspaper through which to defend himself. But the K. of the S. 1. i» probably not aware of the frequency and Hev< ryty of the o flings, as he is one of the very few men now living who are not subscri bers to the Rochester (jhroniele. If is ►dated there are nine hundred thousand children attending the public schools, and t hat a change of school books once a year costs the sum of two millions of dollars. This is mainly for the benefit of book publishers. This i- a great evil I hat should be abated. If tbe •States have the power to provide for the edu cation of children, and compel their attendance at school, if necessary, they certainly have the power to j rovido uniform hooks. Charles K. I)e Long, late United States Min - later to Japan, has receive l from the Govern ments of Holland. Peru, and Hawaii cordial letters of thanks for services rendered those countries ;v« ad interim representative of their respective interests in Japan while there as United States Minister. In addit.on to this ho has been knighted by the King of Hawaii, and bv decree of the King and Council of Holland has been made a commander of the order of the “Dutch Lion.” The origin of the expression “Morganatic Marriage” is a matter of considerable contro versy. Tho common theory is that it is de rived from the Fata Morgana, tho strange mirage which is witnessed at times on tho Sicilian waters. Islands crowned with palaces are seen by mariners rising from tho soa, and then fade away as rapidly as they appeared. Tho interpretation is ominious of tho fleeting character of royal unions not ratified by law. Queen Victoria, like Maria Theresa, having allowed ono of her daughters to many for love, it is said that Princess Beatrice is plead ing for permission to bestow her royal hand upon the Marquis of Stafford, tho eldest son of the Duke of Sutherland. An intimacy of many years has existed between the Queen and the Duchess of Sutherland. From tho time of Victoria’s coronation she was a member of tho Queen’s household, as Mistress of tho Lobes. The euro of Santa Cruz goes to Belgium. It must ho a bitter pill for tho combative priest to leave Spanish soil. His career in tho begin ning of the Carlist war reads like a romance, and the act for which ho is most blamed—the shooting of a woman spy —might have been done by Victor Hugo’s do Lautenac. And tho rough guerrillas he drew about him adored their chief and did Home splendid lighting. Don Carlos will miss tho cure if ho has occa sion again to take to tho mountains, and keep up the rebellion from rock to rock of bis loyal provinces. The progress of a imicli-needed work on onr Atlantic ooiiHt, in announced. A chain of tele graph ami lifo-eUving stations has been com pleted along the entire coast between Norfolk and ('ape llatteras. No portion of our sea coast presents more dangers to tho mariner; the whole area is strewn with wreck. It is to bo hoped that the present undertaking will bo only tho beginning of measures for obviating the dangers and assuaging tbo terrors of that coast; that the signals and forewarnings which scionoo can provide will not bo wanting, in ad dition to every appliance for relief, when actual misfortune supervenes. Tlio Memphis and Charleston Railroad has been restored to its stockholders. Tho Ap peal, of the Ist, says: "We hear that tho final arrangement was extremely satisfactory. Homo thing like $ liiOJMK) was claimed as coming to the stockholders if they took the rOad back. We hear that they get $70,000 iu money, 3,500 acres of real estate, and other property to tho amount of $130,000. The road is restored with a portion new ironed, tho rolling stock in creased and improved, buildings iu bettor con dition. and sowers and bridges improved. This leaves no loss by the new arrangement. Tlie stockholders meet on the 19th to veto on tho ratification of tho settlement.” A shocking case of cruolty to a child was dis covered recently, in Now York, on information given the police. It was found that Francis and Mary Connelly, living at 31 West and 45 street, had a young orphan girl, named Mary KUa McCormick, aged eight years, who they had kept in their rooms since she was a mere child. She was being subjected to the most cruel and inhuman treatment, was half starved, kept literally naked, was always contied and never saw the street in her life- Sho was whip ped daily, her skin cut, etc. Tho neighbors testified to hearing a child's cries daily when she was beaten. The Connollys will probably be si verely punished. Mr. A1 void, of tho New York Legislature, who, like lien. Uutier, has a standing grievance with the public press, has introduced mto the legislature a bill giving to every person "as sailed" in a newspaper the light to reply in the same paper to the extent of not more than one column .-the proprietors of the paper to be subject to line. Ac . in easo they do not pub lish such reply. What a line opportunity such a law would give to the thieves, the ballot box stutters, the rogues of Congress and the State Legislature. A paper cannot bo honest with out assailing creatures like these; but no paper could long survive tho publication of their answer. A sub-committee of tho Ways and Means Committee is engaged in preparing bills for (lie reorganization of the customs service. Tho comniitloe will report four hills, only one of whicli is yet prepared. One bill will provide j for the abolition of moieties; a second will re- I late to the seizure of books and papers; a third will provide for tho adjustment of values of goods at the custom house, and a fourth will tix aud regulate the salaries of the customs officers. The bills will not be reported until after the conclusion of the Sanborn matter. — Tho division of the customs legislation into four branches will facilitate the work of the committee, and enable the committee to pro ceed more intelligently in the House. Springtiild. Jeffersonville and Columbus, in the West, are still under siege in the tem perance crusade. At Wheeling. West Vir ginia, the movement has begun with tho clos- i ing of one saloon. Upon the whole, we con- I elude from the Western papers that the force of tile crusade has spent itself. What effects i will it leave behind ? That is a question verv hard to answer. Unquestionably an advance 1 has been made, which no ridicule can over come. in the very agitation of the subject. Whatever good is accomplished will be done quietly hereafter. The last of tho praying bauds will soon diseppear ; all noisy public demonstrations will come less frequently be fore the public, and all things go on apparently in * he old fashion, but an experience like this in the West never dies—it will yet set people thinking* for years in Ohio aud Indiana and elsewhere, and may vet bear fruit which is unforseen now. The receipts of grain since January 1 at the five lake ports —Chicago. Milwaukee. Detroit. Toledo and Cleveland—have beeii 27.696.000 bushels thus far this year, against 21.879.000 bushels during the same period last year: and of dour, 1.515.000 barrels, against 952.010 bar rels for the same time last year. The receipts of wheat appear to have been nearly three times greater than last year, viz : 15.751,000 bushels this year, against 5,988.000 bushels for the corresponding period last year. The move ment of grain ty rail the past Winter has been much larger, being over twice that of the pre vious Winter. While the receipts of grain at the lake ports mentioned indicate. an increase of less than 6,900,000 bushels, on a total of over 20.000,000 bushels, the rail shipments from the same ports since January 1 show an in crease of 8,000,000 bushels this Xear, as eom parsd with the sains time last year, COMING CANDIDATES. To learn news one must go away from home. To learn political news, especial ly yon mast go away from home, and ! the farther yon travel the more you will j hear. The Louisville Courier-Journal has a Macon correspondent who gives it some rather startling information con cerning political matters in Georgia. The old leaders are all coming forward again, and Hill, Toombs, Jenkins and Beowh are*spoken of in connection with Congressional honors. “THE ROLL OF DISHONOR.” The New York Herald continues to blaze away upon those members of Con gress whom the telegraph would term “inflators.” It has taken out the “warning words of Chablss Sumneb” which for some time were so liberally distributed through its news and edi torial columns, but it still thunders through its leaders of repudiation, dis honesty, violation of plighted obliga tions, etc. Its last device is a “roll of dishonor” which is published in a con spicuous place upon its editorial page and surrounded with heavy black lines. Tho roll comprises the names of the thirty-six members of the United States Senate who recently cast their in favor of augmenting the volume of the currency. On the list we find, of course, the names of the two Senators from Georgia—Messrs. Nobwood and Gob don. This reminds one of the tac tics resorted to before the war when Southern papers published abolitionists in lists of dishonor, while freesoil will papers returned the compliment by putting the champions of slavery be tween black borders. EDITOR IA L RES PON Hllsl LIT V. Some days since we wrote a short ar ticle on the reported journalistic duel in Atlanta and asked the veterans of the State press to give their views upon the sub ject of editorial responsibility for per sonal cards inserted and paid for as ad vertisements. The editor of the Geor gia Home Journal, one of the oldest journalists in the State, makes the first response to our inquiry. After giving an interesting reminiscence of liia editorial life in Florida, dating as far back as 1837, he goes on to say that for a newspa per “to open its columns to assaults upon private character—to suffer persons anonymously or over their own signa tures, in paid for communications, or otherwise, to attack individuals, merely to subserve their own personal interest or gratify their spleen, is a perversion and prostitution of journalism, for which proprietors of newspapers should be held responsible. Especially should the press bo held responsible for state ments and opinions, either by corres pondents or the editor, in regard to suits pending before civil or criminal tribu nals, as they may thus contravene the ends and aims of justico and equity, and inflict gross personal wrong upon innocent individuals, by rousing preju dices and eliciting prejudgments upon ex parte statements.” Now let us hear from some of tho other sages of the quill oil the subject. THE PARTY OF THE FUTURE. The leading Republican papers of the country arc outspoken in their criticism of the short-comings of the Federal Ad ministration. The Democratic triumph in Connecticut is attributed to apathy and disaffection in the Republican ranks caused by mismanagement at Washing ton. “Corruptions in the collection and disbursements of the revenue, the ap pointment of inefficient and unworthy men to office, and the general manage ment of affairs can have no other effect, in the opinion of the Boston Globe, than to overwhelm in ruin the party that is responsible for them.” Such papers as the Baltimore American, New York Evening Pont, Boston Advertiser, and others of equal prominence in and influence with the Republican par ty, are speaking plainly and em phatically of tho incapacity, job bery, dishonesty and demoralization of tho party managers at Washington and in Congress. The defeat in Con necticut is attributed as a rebuke to the Administration and Butler. There is no doubt of this. And the rebuke is not confined to Grant and Butler. It is intended for the Republican party which has grown corrupt and venal from unlimited power, and the license and laxity attendant and inseparable from long continuance in office. The servants have become the masters of the people in the Republican party, and the people have lost and are losing confidence in them. The result in Connecticut must give renewed hope to the Democratic party. The Republican party has ful filled its wicked missiou, and the people are in a state of transition, having be come dignsted with the incapacity and dishonesty of their leaders. THAT COTTON THEORY. Col. Robert Tyler, who was Regis ter of tlie Confederate Treasury,has writ ten an article iu the Montgomery Morn ing News, of which he is editor, on the Confederate finances and the cotton theory. Col. Tyler is thoroughly con versant with the history of the Govern ment from the first day of its organiza tion at Montgomery down to its dissolu tion at Greensboro, N. C. From an article in a late issue of his paper we copy the following: It so happened that we, ourself, were at the head of the most important bureau of the Treasury Department dur ing the war, and are somewhat informed iu these matters. If the Congress of tho first seven seceded States, at Mont gomery, had been divinely gifted, it seems to our mind possible that some thing might have been done ou tlie cot ton question, or iu some other way, to help the South in the field. But our Montgomery statesmen were only unin spired men, and the situation was an anomalous one. It is doubtful, indeed, if mortal power could have made a bet ter defense than the South for three years made to the thirty millions of peo ple of the United States, and to the foolish outside world, arrayed against us, by the influence of British diploma cy "on the question of overthrowing cheap negro labor on the cotton fields of the South. African emancipation meant this, aud nothing more; and this is the key to the bloodiest and cruelest fraud of the age ! Certain it is. that it is a sensible idea to put the Southern defeat and om subsequent vassalage on cotton. It is a good come off. But had Sherman been well whipped, aud many think he might have been, between Dalton and Atlanta, there might have been o dif ferent face of the future of the Con federacy, notwithstandingteotion. Still these are all mere speculation. We know that the defense of the South and its wonderful glory in arms during the contest was and is the marvel of. the world’s history. There is nothing like it except the defense of the Netherlands against Philip of Spain and the fero cious Duke of Alva. It is our impres ; s ‘°u that the armies and leaders of the j Confederacy were never surpassed by mortal mau in any country or age. But unfortunately there were too many men not in the army, and not leaders, who were anxious to end the war. They did end it with a vengeance, God pitv them. The cotton theory is fallacious be cause of its impracticability. If there was any doubt upon this latter point, it has been successfully removed by Messrs. Memsuxgeb and Tbknholm in their re cent reply to certain speculations said to be contained in the forthcoming work of General Joseph E. Johxstos. If, as Col. Tyleb suggests, our leaders had been divinely gifted, the3outhem peo ple might have whipped fie fight. Mor tal men eonld not have dole more. THE SAVIORS OF TIE STATE. We have at last discoveed the names of the men who rescued Georgia from Radicalism in 1871—who were the real Saviors of the State. Ai idea has been entertained—foolishly an< without foun dation it now appears—that the tri umph of 1870 was the esnlt of the rising en masse of the wiite voters of the State, who were detegnined to suc ceed despite the severity «f the election law which the Radicals lml framed for the purpose of perpetuatfig their power. W e were not aware that 4 ire had been any one particular chieftan in a strug gle where every man was a leader. It has been thought that success was due to the indignation of people at the frands and villainies 1 the Radical administration, to the dr Amination to wrest the government fro f the control of the robbers, and, as a bsnlt of this feeling, to the thorough 1 or -.nization perfected by the Di mo*, its in every county of the State. We .bad thought that there was no stumeug and but little speaking; but that i>> every city, town and county, the “g oil citizens banded themselves togethe for tho pur- pose of overthrowing the.yost of cor ruption that they determii ed to bring every Democratic voter to le polls, to keep them there after votirlin order to prevent the votirg placeillfrom being taken possession of by the ‘•opponents, and to watch the ballot l» £ *s at night in order to "keep thorn jlom being stuffed by Bullock's We had no idea that this tnagnificent achievement was the work If one mau —that the contest was a silgle combat in which the Radical Golia fi was rolled in the dust by the Democ* tic David. But it seems that all of us were mistaken, and that one wan killed the giant corruption ;X1 struck the chains from iho captive Georgians. In another evAimn, this morning, we publish what aj pears to be an authoritative account of the recent Vance banquet in Atlanta, which wit nessed tho reconciliation of those long estranged politicians, General Toombs and Hon. B. H. Hill. From this report it appears that in the course of his re marks Mr. Hill gave an account of the gloomy condition of affairs in Georgia prior to the election of 1870. Tho report says: He explained the condition of things in Georgia in 1870, and the untold ter rors of bankruptcy and degradation which must result to our people if Radi cal rule should be prolonged by tlie re sult of this election for members of the Legislature. “I fixed that,” interrupted General Toombs. So we see that General Toombs was the man who “fixed” the electiou. He played David to Bullock’s Goliath. He was tho champion who killed the Paynim Giant, opened tho dungeons of the castle and gave the prisoners their freedom. Yet he lias received no credit for his great achievment, and but for his own modest declaration attlie Vance banquet the truth of history would not have been preserved, and the lying jaile who posts her books would have been guilty of a false entry. But great as were the services of General Toombs they are as nothing—a mem bagatelle— in comparison with what Mr. Hill did. When General Toombs said, “J fixed that,” what did Mr. Hill say ? “ You are mistaken,” said Mr. Hill. “You did help carry the election, but that was, comparatively, easy work. Every election in Georgia under reconstruction has really gone Democratic. The great point urns to hold the Legislature after electing it. This was the hard task I undertook, and in it I received no help from my friends or anybody else.” So, after all, it will be seen that wo have been hasty in giving the credit of Democratic government in Georgia to General Toombs. Mr. Hill is the man who deserves the gratitude of all libera ted Georgians. General Toombs only set tliemfree. Mr. Hill prevented them from being locked up in a worse prison. Kill ing tho giant and releasing the captives was not such a difficult feat. His life had been so vicious and intemperate that it is probable ho would have died a natural death—from corruption of the blood and consequent prostration of tho system—if he had not been slaugh tered by General Toombs. But there was another, a much larger and more powerful giant, to whom General Toombs’ giant owned allegiance, aud there was great danger that he would gobble up the captives so soon as they escaped and put them in a worso aud stronger dungeon. Mr. Hill understood the difficult task of fixing this mammoth gentleman’s hash—not with the sword, but by the exercise of the difficult arts of diplomacy. Ho succeeded, aud while the burly monster at Washington was daily expecting the captives to volun tarily enter the ranks of his own ser vants, they got so far away that he has since been unable to lay hands upon the fugitives. One can see at a glance how much more we owe to Mr. Hill than General Toombs, though we owe more to tlie latter than we can ever hope to repay. A blacksmith may break open a jail, but it takes genius to conceal the escaped prisoners. Any one may force a mau to swallow an oyster coated with sugar, but it takes science, and plenty of it, to enable him to retain the bivalve in his stomach. It was easy enough for General Toombs to fix the State, but it required Mr. Hill to keep it fixed. The debt due these gentlemen may be summed up as follows : Georgia owes everything to General Toombs, and everything, multiplied by an indefinite number of figures, to Mr. Hill. CUABITY. In another column, this morning, we publish a letter from the great actress, Miss Charlotte Cushman, on the subject of “Charity and Actors.” It was written iu reply to a request that she would give a performance in Washington City for the benefit of some local charity. We commend it to the careful attention of our readers. The tragedienne hits the “cent per cent” charity givers hard, but does not bestow one blow amiss. There is no doubt that a great many worthy people expect actors and ac tresses to give their time and labor to every deserving object which appeals for assistance, while they content them selves with giving the price of admis-' sion to some entertainment which they j would have attended any how, and from which they obtain the full price of their money. But we think there are other professions which are victimized just as mneh as the theatrical. The proprie tors of newspapers, for instance, while not called upon to give as much at any one time as actors, have during the whole year to meet a steady drain which often proves very onerous. When ever any movement, ostensibly chari table in its natnre, is projected the newspaper men are called upon to aid it more liberally than any other citizens. They are often expected to donate ad vertising and job work amounting to twenty, thirty, forty, or fifty dollars in each instance, and they are invariably required to give “local notices” to an unlimited extent. The wealthy citizen is thought to have done his duty if he purchases tickets for himself and family, costing three or four or five dollars; but AUG-USTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 22, 1574. the newspaper proprietors, as a class by no means the wealthiest and most pros perous of men, are expected to give ten times the amount. A great many think that these donations cost nothing be cause they are in work and not in cash. This is a great misfake. Every line of type in a newspaper has to be paid for in money by the owners, and with this fact in view the readers of a daily paper can easily see how much charity the pro prietors are called upon to disburse an nually. It is not right to reqnire so much from one class and so little from others. The burden should be more evenly distributed. Let the conductors of charitable enterprises ca}l upon news paper men for such assistance as they are able to contribute, as they call upon the merchants, the bankers and the lawyers, and when they wish work done let them pay whatever it is worth. THE SALARIES OF JUDGES. The Atlanta Herald agrees with the Chronicle and Sentinel that the pre sent salaries of Judges are entirely in adequate to the services performed and to the talent requisite to their faithful performance. The Seaport Appeal op poses any increase, and argues after the manner of the legislative economist, that under the present arrangement we have a “ very good average lot of Judges; if any of them are dissatisfied with their present pay they can resign, and there are plenty of competent men ready and anxious to take their easy chairs and wear their purple robes.” To this we answer that while it may be true Georgia has an “average lot” of Judges, this is just tlie class of men who have no business upon the bench, and of whom we should seek to get rid. We need something more than me diocrity upon the bench. That is the curse of the small salary system. “Poor pay, poor preach.” We need good preach, and we must be willing to give good pay. Tho most distinguished law yers iu the Stateshould be made Judges. Now, with a few exceptions, such men are not willing to surrender a lucrative practice for the beggarly pittance which the State gives to the judiciary. Os course our cotemporary is right in its assertion that plenty of men can be found to accept the position for the present salary, but that they are compe tent we deny, unless they are lawyers who have succeeded in amassing a com petence and now desire some of the honors of their profession. There are plenty of persons who would gladly take a Judgeship for a dollar and a half a day and think the compensation ample, but we submit that they are not exactly the material out of which so important an officer should be manufactured. We know nothing of the “ purple robes and the easy chair” in which the Judge of the Brunswick Circuit disports himself. We have no such judicial paraphernalia in Middle Georgia. Our Judges com monly occupy uncommonly hard stools, and are content to compromise on cloth ing much less gorgeous than the purple robes of the Brunswick jurist. Tbe Ap peal closes its remarks by sayiug : “The Radicals are charged with robbing the people. Let not the Democracy make themselves obnoxious by the same charge. ” The Radicals did rob the peo ple of Georgia, but not by means of high salaries. They starved officials just as consistently and persistently as do the Democrats. If the latter commit no worse crime than the payment of adequate compensation to hard worked officers, they will have but little to an swer for either in this world or the world to corre. EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITY. The Brunswick Appeal gives its opin ion upon the question whether or not a newspaper editor can be held personally responsible for the language or asser tions published as an advertisement over the signature of the author. That paper cannot see how it is possible for the question to be answered in the affirmative : “Custom, from the earliest days of the publication of newspapers, has decided "that the author was alone responsible. Whilst we disprove such publications as advertisements, and have always refused their publication in our paper, we cannot concede the affir mative of the question. Tlie newspaper has a higher and nobler mission than the publication of personalities, and should be so conducted.” AN AUTOMATIC SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. A wag telegraphed from Washington to Boston, on the 6th inst., that Rich ardson had resigned, that in the ordi nary course of routine business he had signed his own resignation, without be ing aware of the purport of the paper which had been handed him by a clerk. At once dispatches commenced pouring in on the little Secretary to know if it was true, to which ho responded testily that lie had not resigned, aud had no in tention of doing so; that he was in per fect accord with the President, etc. The affair has created a great deal of amuse ment in Washington, though we confess that we can see nothing so irresistibly humorous in the canard. It was a joke based upon strong probability. In his examination by the Sanborn Committee the Secretary of the Treasury testified that he frequently signed important offi cial documents without)* any farther knowledge of their contents than the as surance by the clerk who prepared them that they were “all right.” Under this system of conducting Government busi ness he would as readily sign his own resignation or a confession that he had been guilty of petty larceny if a cunning clerk were to assure him that the paper was “all right.” The Baltimore Gazette, referring to the depreciation of property in South Carolina, as shown by the sale of the Mills House in Charleston, as illustrat ing the evils of carpet-bag rule, says : “Surely there is urgent need of some remedy. It would have been far better for tho cotton States if they had been held after the war under military rule. Better a despotism than the present state of affairs. Better for them a Monarchy than a Republic.” The Mills House cost before the war about 8200,- 000, and sold some days since at 827,- 000. This is the effect of carpet-bag reconstruction and negro rule in South Carolina. Hox. B. H. Hinn recently informed : the editor of the Athens Watchman that a good many mistakes had been publish ed concerning his candidacy for Congress. He will not run unless convinced that he ! is the choice of a majority of the voters of the District Thi.v, we take it, is a re pudiation of the “standing” featnre in the programme arranged by over-zealous frienAs, and the announcement of a de termination to abide the action of a Democratic nominating convention. Be fore such a convention we heartily wish him success. He is one of the ablest men in the country, and the South stands sadly in need of his services upon the floor of Congress. A. G. Chisholm, who is confined in the Fulton county jail, is said by the . Herald to be a physical wreck. A negro man named George Patton, who was sleeping on the track of the Air Line Railroad in front of General Gartrell’s residence, was run over by a train and killed last Saturday night. SOCIAL EQUALITY. We believe that in his last message to Congress President Grant was pleased to refer, as he has done in all previous messages, to the necessity existing for the protection of colored citizens by the passage of a Civil Rights Bill. He said, in substance, that all efforts in this di rection had hitherto failed because of the persistence with which injudicious advocates of the measure had urged a bill with objectionable features. This language referred to Senator Sumner, who introduced the first bill of this kind offered in Congress, and constituted himself the special champion of this species of legislation. The object of the message was to array the supporters of the Administration against the Sum ner bill and cause them to deprive him of his laurels by framing and passing another and a different measure. There- fore, instead of acting upon the Sumner bill, the Senate referred it to a commit tee for the purpose of having extensive amendments incorporated or the mea sure itself remoddled. Sumner’s dying words have caused renewed interest to be taken in the woi .* and the pros pects are that social will soon be legislated into the statute books of the‘country. On Tuesday, Mr. Fre linghuysen, from the committee to which the bill had been referred, re ported a substitute for the original. We are told that it is the Sumner bill in an “amended and modified form,” though we are at a loss to discover wherein it has been modified or liow it has been amended, save for the worse. We cannot imagine a more objection able or worse measure than this amend ed Sumner bill, according to the tele graphic text sent from Washington on Tuesday. We know of none which, if it were possible to enforce it, would do greater harm to both whites and blacks, and cause greater trouble. Hotels, public conveyances, theatres and other places of public amusement, common schools and public institutions of learn ing and benevolence, supported either in whole or in part by general taxation, and even cemeteries so supported, must be thrown open to the blacks, A fail ure to comply with the provisions of the act is made punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars and by imprisonment not exceeding one year. The cases arising in this act are only cognizable by tho United States Courts, and the defendant is debarred the privi lege of having a trial in the community where he has lived and where he is known. We think there is good reason for believing that this bill will pass, though wo do not believe that any true friend of either race will vote to make it a law. Any attempt to en force its provisions will result in injury to both alike. The most serious trouble will be with the schools, and here the blacks will suffer most. In every State where the whites are in a majority— Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Vir ginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Ala bama, and Texas—the common school system will be destroyed. The whites are far better able to educate their chil dren than the negroes, and the offspring of the latter will grow up in ignorance. In our own city, and under the present educational system, the blacks are given just the same advantages and facilities for the acquirement of learning as the whites, though the latter pay fully nine ty-nine one-hundredths of tho taxes levied for the support of tlie schools. The school houses of the blacks, the fur niture and apparatus are just as comfort able and just as complete as those fur nished the children of white citizens. There is no distinction, whatever, in the treatment of the races. But let this civil rights bill become a law, and what will be tlie result ? At the next session of the General Assembly of Georgia tho general and local school laws will be re pealed. All appropriations for the sup port of education will be withdrawn. The whites will educate their children in private schools, and the blacks must educate theirs as best they can. The common school system was not known in the South prior to the war. The whites never needed it. It was the direct result of emancipation. It sprang from the desire of the whites to educate a class which had been made politically their equals, in order that they might be bet ter fitted for the exercise of the import ant and responsible duties of citizen ship. But now, when they find that their voluntary act of kindness is being converted into an instrument for their shame and humiliation, they will do away with the system altogether and their action will find abundant justifica tion in the legislation which rendered it necessary. The hotels and the theatres will find a way to successfully evade any law of this sort which may be framed. The hotels will always be full when a colored mau applies for a room or a meal or else they will all become private boarding houses. The proprietor of a boarding house can take or refuse to take whom he pleases, and the hotels will all become boarding houses. The managers of theatres will have still an easier time in breaking through the meshes of such a law. It has been de cided, under a very similar law in New Aork, that the manager of a place of public amusement can exclude any per son from his performances whom he thinks proper, so that the exclusion is not based upon color or previous condi tion. Mr. Lester Wallace excluded colored persons from his theatre without giving any reason for so doing, and, upon a case being made, the United States Court held that as he did not re fuse tickets to the applicants on account of “race, color or previous condition of servitude,” he had not made himself ob noxious to the law. But whjle the pro visions of such an act could be easily evaded, its passage and attempted enforcement would do much mischief. Such a law would prove a firebrand thrown between tho races, and be pro ductive of dissensions and animosities innumerable. At the present time the two races are living quietly and peace ably together, and laboring, each in its own way, quietly but effectively, for the prosperity of the State. All harsh feel ing and bitterness is dying out, and the relations of the white and colored people are of the pleasantest character. We should greatly deplete any renewal of former animosities and of past strife, but we greatly fear the conse quences of the adoption of s«ch an in iquitous statute as the “modified and amended” civil rights bill repoVj by Mr. Fbelinghutsen. \ The struggle for Sumner’s seat An continues and with no reasonable pro\ pect for a termination. A false rumor that Grant had promised to make Dawes Secretary of the Treasury seemed at one time to indicate a suspension of hostili ties, but when the canard was exploded the fight was renewed as briskly as ever. This fight is costing New England a good deal more, perhaps, than she is aware of. Had Sumner’s seat been filled when the vote on the currency bill was taken that measure so odious to the East would never have passed. The vote was a tie and Sumner’s successor would have given victory to the advo cates of hard-pan. Farmers about Cuthbert are busy planting cotton, which is two weeks earlier than usual. EDUCATIONAL. Interesting and Important. Hon. Gustavus J. Orr, our tireless and cautious State School Commissoner, lias just issued to couuty school officials instructions applicable to the school law approved August 2d, 1872, and ex planations of certain important acts passed bv the last General Assembly. _ The duties of the County Boards, School Commissioners, and teachers, under the laws of force, are made very clear—so clear that a wayfaring man need not err therein. The instructions in relation to the act which provides for the disposal of the poll tax collected iu the various comities are interesting. This act requires the poll tax to be paid over directly to the Couuty School Commissioners of the several counties. The County School Commissioners are instructed to give the tax collectors’ re ceipts for the money thus paid over to them. The act further requires the Boards of Education to pay out, “without any deduction for fees or salaries of officers,” this particular fund for the support of the common schools in the respective counties where said poll tax was raised. The Board will pay out this fund through the County School Commis sioners, who are the executive officers of their respective Boards. In other words, the Board will pass an order paying out, and the* Commissioner will execute the order. This act will not interfere with the compensation allowed by law to Countv School Commissioner. He will receive his compensation from the fund appor tioned to the several counties. It will be seen that this act will put it in the power of the Boards to increase the school fund of the county for 1874 by the whole amount of the poll tax col lected iu their respective counties the present year. The fund apportioned iu July next will be the whole of the State fund collected from July 1, 1873, to July 1, 1874. Almost the entire poll tax of 1874 will be collected by the end of the year. It will be for the Board to say whether this fund shall be added to the school fund of 1874, or be carried over and used in 1875. Two acts were passed by the Assem bly touching the enumeration of the school population. The acts are almost identical. They require the enumera tion to be taken iu the year 1874, and thereafter quadrennially. The Com missioner urges the importance of exer cising care in taking tlie enumeration this year, as the fund will bo apportion ed among tlie counties upon the basis of the figures reported this year for the next four years. There is one and the same law now for the whole State, except the counties of Chatham, Glynn and Richmond, and certain cities. Tlie act which provides for the pay ment of claims of school officers aud teachers, for services rendered in the year 1871, requires that within six months after the passage of tlie net (ap proved March 3, 1874) the State school fund shall be apportioned among the counties, and at the end of every six months thereafter, and appropriates the quotas of the several counties, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to the pay ment of debts for services rendered by school officers and teachers in the year 1871, wherever such debts exist, till those claims shall have been satisfied. The first section of the act makes it the duty of the Ordinary or County Commissioners, as the case may be, upon the recommendation of two-thirds of the grand jury, to levy a tax not to exceed twenty-five per centum on the State tax to be used instead of the regular school fund, or in supplement of that fund, as the grand jury may de termine, for the Dayment of said claims. Thus it appears that not a dollar of the regular fund can be used in payment of these claims till the grand jury has taken action on the question of levying a tax, and, if levied, on the further question as to whether the proceeds shall be used instead of tho school fond or in supplement thereof. Regarding the use of the school fund proper for the payment of those old claims as a public misfor tune, the Commissioner hopes the Boards of Education will use their in fluence with the grand juries to secure the levying of a suffiiJient t#x, so that the fund referred to may bo left un touched. The fourth proviso is to the effect that the provisions of the act shall not apply or operate in any county after the grand jury thereof shall otherwise recommend. This puts it in the power of the grand jury to prevent the act from taking ef fect, even without authorizing the levy of a tax to be used in the place of the regular school fund. Should the grand jury permit the school fund to be used for paying the debt of 1871, or should they recommend the levy of a tax to bo used for that purpose, it becomes a matter of great importance to ascertain wliat that debt is. It is to be presumed that the Gen eral Assembly, in providing for the pay ment of the debt, meant to make pro vision for paying only so much of the claims as the State fund, when appor tioned, is properly liable for. If it was understood when the contracts with teachers were made that patrons were to pay a part, it was not the intention of the law makers that the public fund should be used for the purpose of pay ing this indebtedness of patrons. As the Board of Education have been fur nished, from time to time, with the dif ferent laws, the instructions aud the re ports from this department, and as all tlie facts of a local character are accessa ble to them though their own records and those of the County Commissioner, and through the testimony of parties in terested and others, if grand juries de cide that these old claims shall be paid in either of the ways provided in this statute, it would be well for them to re quire payment to be made only after the Board of Education shall have examin ed each claim, ascertained its correct ness, and certified to the amount lawful ly due on it by an endosement in proper form. By the third proviso, the provisions of the act are made to apply only to the claims of the County School Commis sioner in counties when the debt due to teachers has been fully paid by their patrons. The second proviso makes it the duty of the Board of Education to scale the accounts of teachers and County School Commissioners whenever they shall deem the same unreasonable. This makes it the duty of the Board to call iu all those claims and give them an investigation. This ought to be done at the earliest day practicable. A day should be fixed and notice given. Unreasonable claims should be reduced in amount. Reasonable claims should be allowed. Each County School Com missioner is to report without delay the amount of audited claims. As soon as the necessary information shall have been obtained from the Comp troller-General and Treasurer, the State School Commissioner will communicate to the County Boards the probable amount of the State fund falling to their respective counties the present year. There is some talk of an effort to fix an early day for the close of the Con gressional session. Leading members believe that it will be possible to adjourn as soon as the middle of May, in ease the currency question is definitely set tled before the end of next week. Near ly a month of solid work remains to be done upon the appropriation bills, but all the other necessary business of the session could be transacted in the .morn ing hours and in special evening ses sions. Experienece has shown, however, that the long session of Congress rarely terminates before the intense heat of Summer make Washington so uncom fortable that the members are glad to get away. Efforts are always made by the old members to adjourn in May, but the new ones, who have just got a taste of the pleasures of life at the insist upon skying longer.— the sultry weather comes, and find that they have to sit day and ni&ht in the breathless halls, with the sun pouring through the glass roof by day and the gas lights making a furnace heat at night, they wish they had taken the advice of their experienced associ ates and worked harder during the Win ter and spring. In all probability June will be well advanced before an adjouri y ment can be reached, and unless a more industriousdisposition is speedily shown it will be much later. On Sunday last, while Mr. Henry Am bos, who lives at Thunderbolt, was at tempting to ride a colt, the animal reared straight upon his hind legs and tumb ling over, fell upon Mr. Ambos, putting his ankle out of joint, and otherwise in juring his right leg. TOOMBS AND HILL AT THE VANCE SUPPER. [From tho Atlanta Herald.] Letter writers from Atlanta have made statements as to the scenes and sayings at the supper given to Governor Vance, at Pease’s, which are calculated to create a very wrong impression. The.writer of these lines was present, and knows the occasion was one of entire good feelin" and harmony from beginning to endj and the dramatic speech said to have been addressed by Gen. Tooms to Mr. Hill was not made. There was some speaking and much wit, but uot the slightest ill-natured remark made by either of these gentlemen, or any one else. The following incidents did oc cur: Governor Vance alluded to the superior condition of Georgia over all her Confederate sisters as remarkable, and while much gratified with the fact, he did not understand how this state of things was brought about. Mr. Hill said, “The explanation involves a long story, Governor, but one chief reason is this: In other States, including your own, a white man was allowed to be a Radical in full fellowship with the negroes and carpet-baggers, and still re tain his social respectability with de cent people. We did not allow that in Georgia.” This remark brought into the discussion Mr. Hill’s “bush arbor” speech, in 1868, and Mr. E. Y. Clark proposed a toast to “the author of the greatest and most eloquent speech ever delivered iu any age or country.” This toast was heartily received, and Gen. Toombs declared that that speech did save Georgia, for it was history that not a single white man in the State ever joined the Radicals after it was made. It was a glorious speech, aud he grew happy and wept for joy when he heard it. A call was made for Mr. Hill, but he only said, sitting, “I am certainly flattered by this demonstration. I can never forget tho occasion alluded to. Some people thought that speech im pulsive. This was a mistake. No speech was ever more deliberate, or made with a more distinct purpose. It was clear to my mind that the only way to save Georgia from the horrors which now afflict South Carolina and other States was to consolidate the white people, for the white race consolidated must win finally. Tlie only way to consolidate the white people was to make Radical ism odious. That speech was made to accomplish that purpose; it did accom plish it, and I believe it did save Geor gia.” “It did,” said General Toombs with great earnestness, “there is no doubt about it; and, Ben, you ought to have died after making that speech.” “You are mistaken, General,” said Mr. Hill. “While that speech did all that could then be done, perhaps, still the Radical party had possession of tlie government of Georgia —every depart ment of it—and if I had died then, they would have had possession of it now, and you would have been one of its vic timsi.” General Toombs—“l don’t un derstand that, Ben, and I can’t think so.” Mr. Hill—“I know you don’t un derstand it, General; you have not been in a position to understand it. It is the only question I ever knew you to be stupid upon.” Finally, Mr. Hill yielded to repeated calls and made a short speech. He explained the condi tion of things in Georgia iu 1870, and the untold terrors of bankruptcy and degradation which must result to our people if Radical rule should be pro longed by the result of this election for members of the Legislature for that year. “I fixed that,” interrupted Gen. Toombs. “You are mistaken,” said Mr. Hill. “You did help carry the elec tion, but that was comparatively easy work. Every election in Georgia under reconstruction has really gone Demo cratic. The great point teas to hold the Legislature after electing it. This was the hard task I undertook, and in it I received no help either from my friends or anybody else, and much abuse from you aud nearly everybody else. True, the Radicals had passed a bill express ly to enable them to carry the election. But they, as I had reason to know, had determined, if they failed to elect, a Le«- islature, to make one, as they did in 1870, by turning out elected Democrats and putting m defeated Radicals. This effort was made. I was up to the Lilt in that fight. Grant refused to inter fere and the effort failed. Even Bul lock then abandoned it. This is the debt we owe President Grant.” Mr. Hill then proceeded with a state ment of facts on this subject, to which the whole meeting listened with the closest attention. He said he examined carefully tho sources of Radical power in Georgia. They were two—“ internal robberies and external Federal protec tion.” The revenues from their rob beries were derived from the State Road, and their issue of bonds aud their hy pothecation in New York and elsewhere. The remedy was to get the State Road out of their hands, and prevent another reconstruction of the Legislature, and thus stop the issue of bonds. The only way to prevent the reconstruction of the Legislature was to avoid interference by the Federal administration. How was this to be done? Here was the greatest problem. To its solution, both honora bly and effectually, he gave all his thoughts. He visited the North twice to acquaint himself fully with the opinions, purposes and tendencies of the Democratic party. By these means he fully satisfied himself in 1870 as to what would be the Democratic platform in 1872—that the Democrats of the North would submit to any usurpation committed under the forms of law. If the South resisted, the Demoeraes would whip us into submission. It was our business, then, to take care of ourselves and submit to what we did not approve, and could not resist. By taking that po sition in advance, when neither party ex pected it, he mi . ht for a time be misun derstood by his friends, but lie would get in a position to be heard by the Radical authorities at Washington, and thus de feat the continuance of Radical domi nation in Georgia, and 1872 would place him right with his friends. He ex plained his connection with the lease ; his business association with men for whom he had no political respect ; his presence and speech at the Delano ban quet ; the final flight of Bullock and the rescue of the State government, in every department, from Radical rule, and the avoidance of martial law in the State in 1871. He continued : “I have been greatly abused—igno rantly by many, selfishly and designedly by some. But Georgia has been saved, and Georgia, not myself, I was seeking to save; and I never read in the papers, or hear from our distinguished friend (Governor \auce) allusions to this great and glorious result without feeling a comfort I would not exchange for the crown the Bourbon lost. The Demo cratic party in 1872 took the position 1 foresaw would bo taken, only it went further on that line than I expected.— But I followed the party and if all our friends had done likewise, not only Georgia,but all our afflicted sisters might have been redeemed, and now rejoicing in hope instead of weeping in despair. So, while my friend (General Toombs) and his followers were cursing me for supposed desertion to Radicalism, I was saving him and them from the accursed domination of Radicalism. This is a social meeting of friends, and you will know how to pardon the seemiDg egot ism of what I have said. I have stated real facts—the alphabet of a history which the details would most fully con firm.” Governor Vance—“l am glad you have said to the people this much, Mr. Hill. I have misunderstood you myself, though I always believed there was an explanation. I understand you now. I see through it all, and lam gratified. I know many of the public facts you state are true, I now see their significance.” Mr. Flynn—“l know Mr.. Hill’s state ments are ‘more truth than poetry.’ I was in position at the time to know some of the facts he has stated,” Gen. Toombs—“l am satisfied, Ben, I did misunderstand you. I see your mean ing now, and I say anything was right to get rid of the d—d scoundrels.” Gen. Toombs also said, laughingly and- in manifest good humor, as all clearly saw: ‘I did think, Ben, yqp had gone and turned rascal, but now I see you were right.” The foregoing is a truthful ver sion of what occurred on • the occasion referred to, as will be verified by every gentleman present who gave attention to what was going on. Whilst much free dom of speech and perhaps some not strictly dignified familiarity were allow ed, at no time during the evening was any offense intended by any one around the festive board, nor anything that was said considered in that sense. Talbotton has a dog which is immod erately fond of the flesh on boys’ legs. The people of Savannah are “going it heavy” on fishing excursions at this time. Dahlonega dances to the music of a left handled fiddler only fifteen years of age, 01R MIDDLE GEORGIA CORRES ro.\DE*(E. Fearful Burning of Mrs. T. L. Ross— A Bloody Murder-Stabbed to the Heart—Whipping and Burning-Tlie Macon Cock Pit—Finance and Trade —A New Daily Paper, Etc., Efc. [special correspondence op the chronicle AND SENTINEL.] Macon, April 14, 1874. A Lady’s Dress Catches Fire and She . Is Roasted Alive. As telegraphed you. a horrible acci dent occurred on Sunday night, At the usual hour, tlie family of Mrs. Thomas Ross, a widowed lady, left the house and went to church, leaving her alone iu the main building, with one or two ser vants in the kitchen. Soon thereafter she was discovered to be on fire, and as she has been delirious ever since, the exact origin of the fire is not known pre cisely. It is supposed, however, that she had lighted a lamp, threw the burn ing taper on the floor, and, whilst ad justing the chimney back in its place, the lower portion of her underskirt caught in a blaze. So soon as Mrs. Ross discovered that she was on fire, she ran out of the room into the middle passage and to the back door, where she called loudly to tho servants, who, for some reason or other, did not inoriuit.lv eome to lior relief. The flames now having caught all her under clothing and commenced burning her body, she ran back through tlie passage, opened the front door and screamed for help. At that moment Mr. Lou. W. Hollings worth and another young man happened to bo passing, and seeing the burning lady, ran through the gate up the walk and to her assistance. The servants, by this time, had got into the hall. A blanket was seized frbmthe bed, thrown around her, tho flames, now running from head to foot, smothered, but of course tlie fire continued to roast her body. When the flames were extinguish ed they then tore her clothing from her. Medical aid was at once summoned, the family arrived ns fast as they could run, and everything which human kindness and medical skill suggested was done to alleviate her now deatldv agony. Her left side was nil charred and roasted in a sickeningly horrible manner. At the moment of writing you sho is living, but ‘imagination alone can conjecture wliat her sufferings must be. Mrs. Ross is the widow of the late Thomas Ross, the mother of Charles L., Walter, Thomas, Miss Leila and Miss Ella. Charley was in New York, where ho is engaged in mercantile pursuits. In re sponse to a telegram he - left for Macon last night. Her husband was assassi nated at Marietta in 1860 or ’6l. Ho was then United States Marshal, and in the discharge of his duty had levied on a man’s property, which so angered him that he shot tlie Marshal, lie was a brother of Jack 8., Wm. A., and Frank Ross. A Bloody Murder—A Knife on the Throat and Then to the Heart. Yesterday morning one of (lie Mood iest fights that ever took place even in this crime-stained city occurred near the south division of Fourth street. It seems that a negro shoemaker who lives there, by tlie name of Johnson, had aban doned, some time ago, a woman by the name of Mat, and took up with another named Maria. At this Mat became terribly jealous and enraged at Maria. On Sunday night she saw them together, and next morning the house of Maria and commenced arising her, ply ing every opprobrious epiuhd known to negro lingo. They finally catoVlo blows, and after fighting for some liw-Hotimo Maria managed to gefca keen shoemakers’ knife in her hand, which sho ran aenNs the front part of the throat, laying iu wide open. Then, with tho handle be tween the right thumb and forefinger and the blade extending from the reverse side of the hand, she uplifted and plunged it with all her strength into her antagonist’s left side and to her heart. The dead corpse fell full length upon the floor, leaving the infuriated survivor standing ever it with the bloody knife in hand and her body crimsoned with the blood of her slain victim. The woman and her man were both immedi ately arrested and carried to jail. Whipping, Burning and Shooting. Yesterday afternoon a negro fellow by the name of Cave Williams went to liis shanty in the suburban village of Tybee, and becoming an gered at his wife or woman, attempted to flail her alive. After beating her nearly to death, lie tore off her clothes, stripped her trunk of what was there and threw them into the fire. Tho neighbors by this time, instead of immediately in terfering, had summoned two police men, and Caie soeing them coming struck out for the swamp below, bis gait being accelerated by shots from tlie po licemen’s revolvers. He ran into the mud up to his waist, where, finding himself stuck aud covered by pistols, he surrendered and was carried to jail. The CockPit—South Carolina Against Georgia. Black Johnson’s Cock Pit, in rear of the Spotswood Hotel, is, full of game chanticleers this morning for the com ing main and match betweeii South Carolina and Georgia, which commences to-morrow, the 15th. Major Bacon, the well known turfman, has charge of and enters the latter. Charley Brown and Lem Trousdale, of Macon, the Geor gia gamesters. The main is for SI,OOO aside. Asa great many “backers of their judgment” are in town, the side betting will be heavy. The Firemen’s Parade, The annual parade of tho Macon Fire Department will take place to-morrow, and the contest decided on Mulberry street. As Macon just now has little business to transact i« the workshops and stores, the attendance will bo very large. The State of Finance and Trade. Gold is so seldom sold in this market it lias no exact quotable valuation. This is a portion of the country where .that precious metal has no’circulation, ex cept now.and then a few pieces may be seen handed over a broker’s counter. It is about 12 cents above the paper printed by the American Bank Note Company and by counterfeiters at random. Silver is as scarce as sinners on Bald Mountain. Still it is our “volcanic religion” that as we can’t get bullion we want more paper, and if we can’t get it from the regular machine would “comp.” on a respectable locking batch of the other. “Brother (Mdsby, I know you never drink anything, but as you have had a long ride, and are wet and cold, I thought of offering you a little good old peach brandy ” “Wall, brother Burt, you know I’m strictly temparit, but es you’ll pour out some water into that glass and sgp in a little brandy unbeknownes to'me, I can’t see that tiiere’ll be any harm did.” We quote : Clear ribbed bacon sides, 10}; shoulders, 8$; bulk shlfs, 91; shoulders, 7s; white and yellow corn very firm at $1 05; standard bunds sugar cured hams, 14; plain others, 12£@13. Money, 1} for short; 1 per r/oiith for long time. In cotton, only a Vw samples are upon these boards evtry day, it requiring a polo 15 cents long to knock out the top persimmon, am about 10 cents to pick those off the bottom limbs. Ye Wild Comanchea. Why didn’t yon kill those Comanche Indians instead of permitting them to come orer here and raid upon innocent widows and unsophisticated orphans like ourselves? Well, you ain’t alto gether in fault after all. One of tho chiefs was born and raised here, and took his first lesson in scalping under the shades of this patch of the carnal vine yard. These aboriginoes were at the theatre last night, but as your paper had anticipated them by several days they didn’t make more than money enough for one of them to get on a “big drunk heap.” The New Paper. The proprietors of the new paper will be Mr. F. G. Fitch and G. B. Burr. It is expected that their material will be down from Griffin to-day, with the ne cessary printers and supernumeraries. Mr. B. when last in town was undecided whether to issue a morning or an even ing paper—the point to be decided by the arrangements which can be made with the telegraph companies about dis patches. Presenting a Pulpit. Mr. Petit, the contractor of Mercer University, has had made a fine pulpit and presented it to a church in Americus, the name of which is not now remem bered. Speaking of Mercer, the first main building of that institution, though occupied and used for the last year or two, is not yet finished. Why is it that it takes forever and one day after to finish any public building ? lu some cases the money gives out, and in others they have plenty ; but in either event it takes longer time to put one of NUMBER 10. thorn up than in any private enterprise. But this building of Mercer, when it is completed, will be the finest piece of ar chitecture in the South, and with few equals in the United States, for that matter. Personal* Dr. 0. J. Pope, President of tho Eufanla Female College, is dead. * * * Judge J. B. Weems was to have been mar ried in Atlanta this morning. * * * Mayor Huff goes to Florida to regain his health. * * * Law, who shot and killed Hill, at Oglethorpe, a few weeks ago, has been brought to Macon for safe keeping. * * * Judge Bartlett, of the Oconee Circuit, thinks of making Macon his future home, when his present term of office expires. Jean Valjean. OUR ATLANTA rORRESPONREM E. Atlanta, Ga., April 11, 1874. [SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.] A Pleasant Way to Get Office. Persons in this city who are familiar with Justice Court circles were much surprised the other day to hear of tho resignation of E. W. Monday, Justice of the Peace of the 1281 th District, G. M., which was succeeded immediately by the imnomioomoutot a dozen or more candidates t > fill the vurnnov. .'lt, Las subsequently transpired that Mr. Mon day was the helpless victim of a deliberate and shameful design to unseat him, and was forced to resign in order to escape severe punishment for what is claimed to ho unintentional malpractice in of fice. It is said that he was an honest man but otherwise incompetent because of his ignorance of tho first principles of law; and parties some from motives of revenge and.others from a desire to succeed him, concocted a scheme to oust him. lu one instance they obtained liis signature to a document as a wit ness to the “signing, sealing and de livering,” which he lmd not witnessed; aud in another they induced him to allow and record costs for services which, though without his knowledge, were expressly prohibited by law. 110 was forthwith reported to thegrand jury, which found a true bill against him for malpractice, the punishment for which was SI,OOO fine and six months impris onment. Placed in this predicament he knew not what to do. It was clear, how ever, that he was innocent of any wrong intention, and upon this assurance the officers signified that they would not he severe in their prosecution of the case. Munday, therefore, “threw up his com mission,” said that lie was satisfied they were determined to persecute him with out mercy, and retired in disgust. It is now observed that those most zealous in the prosecution are most anxious to suc ceed him in his office. The Police Commissioners Are still “on tho war path.” They met last night and sacrificed three more pa triotic policemen on tho altar of their country. The Chief of Police, T. G. Jones, was suspended for sixty days on a very (riding violation of regulations— for simply conniving at the absence of a witness who might prove damaging to a friend who was on trial; a policeman was discharged for a few hours absence from the city, and another suspended for slight neglect of duty. Tho business public are enthusiastic at this rigorous adlireuce to regulations and the strict account to which tho police force arc held. There are not a few, however, who complain that it is a species of pet ty tyranny which should be rebuked rather than encouraged. ltiot. A lot of fancy town hoys were before the grand jury to-day on the charge of rioting. It seems that last night they be came suddenly conscious of t he fact that they doing little or nothing to pro mote rnoJWn civilization, and being seiz ed with a Christian zeal which they have rarely before exhibited, they assaulted a notorious house of ill fame with roeks and clubs, b caking glass windows with a dexterity iui'etotore unexcelled. It "-ah to bo fiojmi] that this new crusade would be publicly commended ; but it is said that a few of the dashing diriii mondc, have the question in a dif ferent light by declaring that these zeal ous young Chritti.,,is assaulted their premises through motives of revenge. They had applied for admittance, but were refused because 1 1 . <-y wore too much intoxicated to behave themselves with theproprioty becoming m t »ti a of ill fame. Abrams’ Paper. It is said that St. Clair Abrams still contemplates establishing a daily paper in this city. Your correspondent learns that ho lias engaged a foreman, who is negotiating for tlio employment of com positors. If Abrams comes here ho will make it lively for a few weeks. . Harrington Bailed. Dr. Harrington, recently committed to jail on the charge of robbing Spencer of $2,000 in Penn Bedell’s faro room, was yesterday released on bail, Mr. Willis Chisolm, brother of Gaines Chis olm, going his security. Mr. Willis Chisolm it is supposed is interested in Harrington, because ho may be a valu able witness at the trial of his brother, Gaines Chisolm, for the murder of Penn Bedell. Harrington was a partner or employee of Bedell at tirno of his tragic death. Gaines Chisolm, The local article in this mrfrning’s Herald, in regard to Gaines Chis olm, is pronounced by many an unwar rantable defense of him; and a few >are inclined to believe it to be written in order not only to allay public preju dice but to win favor for the unfortunate man. .Judge Hopkins states that lie will announce a week before hand the day he will take up the criminal docket. It is therefore supposed that two or three weeks will intervene before Chisolm can have atrial, which delay will afford him ample time in which to die, if the sur mise of Ihe lh raid reporter proves true, A Fortunate Convict. Tour correspondent learns that Frank McLaughlin, the smart and really prom ising young man who was throe or four years ago convicted and committed to the penitentiary for robbing the Atlanta post office, while a clerk therein, is now enjoying a most fortunate career. Boon after he was placed in the ranks with the other convicts, with pick and shovel, Air. Tom Alexander, a man of quick discernment and marked penetration, saw fit to allow him some liberties in consideration of good behavior. A few months thereafter he was made a “trusty,” and Mr. Alexander made him his book-keeper, which position he was well qualified for. Your correspondent understands now that Air. Alexander still has this boy leased for a number of years and still employs him in an easy capacity, but sous not to violate the laws regulating the lease. Marriage in High Life. To-morrow evening Miss , the popular daughter of a genth. man in this eity, who governed Georgia for six or eight years—and who still governs it, many maintain—will be married to a young physician of this city. * * * It is rumored that Mr. J. E. Owens, present proprietor of the National Hotel in this eity, will, at early early day, as sume charge of the Kimball House, suc ceeding Air. Nichols, the present pro prietor. The rumor, however, needs to 1)0 confirmed. * * * The Superior Court is in session, and is engaged on the civil docket. * * * Mr. Sidney Dell, a young lawyer of this city, has just returned from Washington, and states that Mr. Stephens will visit his home in Crawfordville so soon as the weather will permit. Air. Dell states that Air. Stephens is rapidly improving. * * * It is estimated that Gaines Chisolm’s defense will cost him six or seven thousand dollars. Halifax. An Interesting Rhlio. —We saw j'es terday an interesting relic in the form of a Aiexican powder horn, which was pre sented to the great statesman, Henry Clay, when in the zenith of his fame. It is now in the possession of Dr. W. H./ Robert, of this city, having been presents ed to him by a son of Henrv Clay, whr married a cousin of the Doctor. Th horn is highly polished, and bears upd one side the inscription, “President I. 8.,” the donors evidently being assur-d that the recipient would, one day, occu py that high position. Dr. Robert ms also an autograph letter from Henry Clay to himself, written from Ashlnul, and dated September 18th, 1861. The envelope was franked by Mr. Clay. The Atlanta Police Commissioners are determined to keep things straight. Air. J. AY. Stinson, who resides near Hogansville, while at the residence of his brother-in-law, Col. R. M. Young, in :LaGrange, last Monday, oommiCfed suicide by cutting his g razor,
