Georgia Historic Newspapers

    OLO SERIES —VOL. LXXXI
NEW SERIES- VOL XXXVIII.
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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,