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(Etjromtte anD Sentinel
WEDNESDAY JCJLYJ, I ?H'
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“PLANTAITON MANNERS.”
Before the war, during the stormy
discussions of slavery in the Congress
of the United States, when Southern
men, aggrieved by the attempts made to
abrogate their rights and confiscate their
property, bore themselves, perhaps, a
little too haughtily and sometimes over
stepped the rules of courtesy which
govern parliamentary debate, Republi
can journals all over the country com
plained of Democratic insolence, and
the “plantation manners” of the South
ern members. But since the war
the readers of the debates have not
been able to discover much improve
ment upon the old style. Reconstruc
tion acts and constitutional amend
ments have almost entirely eliminat
ed the Southern element from Con
gress, and the places of the old pro
slavery leaders have been filled by car
pet-bag bummers from the North and
East, but it cannot be denied that the
discussions of to-day are tea times more
bitterly personal and offensive than
when Yancky and Cobb and Wise and
B books thundered against the aboli
tionists. The plantation manners have
disappeared, but in their place have
been substituted the manners of the
rum mill and the language of the fish
market. Extracts from one day’s debate
will satisfy our readers as to the justice
of these remarks, and convince them
that it would be better for the dig
nity of Congress and for the national
honor to have a revival of the planta
tion pe iod. We quote from a debate
on the bill repealing what is known as
the moiety law, under cover of which
the Jayne-Sanbobn frauds were perpe
trated. General Butler opposed the
repeal of the act and in the course of
his remarks took an opportunity to pay
his respects to his enemies. The case
which caused all the trouble was that
of Phelps, Dodge & Cos., a firm of
wealthy New York importers who were
detected defrauding the revenue. This
is the way in which Butlxb spoke of
Wm. E. Dodge, the managing partner
of the firm :
If the story told by Mr. Dodge, the
senior member of that firm, were true,
then the Government should reverently
beg the pardon of that firm, pay back
all it had got from the firm and a large sum
for sweat money besi *eR ; but if it was
not true, if there was not one single sub
stantial word of truth in it all, then they
were simply smuggling, perjured vil
lains. and they ought to have been fol
lowed with a great deal more strictness
instead of less. Mr. Dodge had stated
before the Committee of Ways and
Means that up to 1872 no charge had
ever been made against his firm. Was
that so ? Not at all. Congress had had
to alter its revenue laws in order to meet
the frauds and marauding, and cheating
and swindling of these highly Christian
merchants. [Laughter.] That was a
pretty harsh accusation, and it would
require to be fully su tained. Mr. But
lkb proceeded to relate how the law
which authorized American statuary to
be imported free of duty had been taken
advantage of by Phelps, Dodge A Cos.,
who imported statues of the Goddess of
Liberty, of Washington, of Jeffebson,
in lead, tin and copper, and then turned
them from the warehouse into the melt
ing pot, and lie quoted from the (Con
gressional Globe what Mr. Thadeus
Stevens stated—the facts—before the
House in the Thirty-eighth Congress.
And yet William E. Dodge stated in
the committee room of the Ways and
Means that up to 1872 his firm had never
been charged with anything against the
revenues, and he had drawn tears from
the eyo>- of the committee, if the report
ers were to be believed. [Laughter.]
Me could imagine how old Mr. James,
the Liverpool partner of the firm,
laughed as ho chucked down the God
dess of Liberty into the hold. But im
porting lead, tin and oopper as statues
of the Godfless of Liberty, of Washing
ton and of Jefferson was not by any
means the most serious raid that
Phelps, Dodge & Cos. had made on the
revenue. In 1804, before Grant had
organized the Army of the Potome to
cross the Rapidau, when gold was 180,
Congress passed a resolution increasing
all tariff duties iiftvper cent, for sixty
Department and had a comma taken out
of one place and put in another, and
thereby cleared $2,250,000.
Southern members and plantation
manners could scarcely have framed a
more offensive bill of indictment than
this, which was preferred by the leading
statesman of moral Massachusetts. The
General next turned upon his Republican
opponents. He declared that instead of
making uq effort to get at the truth of
the matter, the object of the whole in
vestigation had been to discover some
thing to the injury of his (Bugler’s)
character. He read a letter from Mr.
Foster, of Ohio, which had been picked
up in the streets of Brooklyn, in which
the latter said that he had been “ pre
pared to rap old Cock-eye.” Ho also
quoted from a conversation of Foster,
which represented Foster saying “Damn
Butler I He ought to be investigated.”
In conclusion, he trusted that his epi
taph would be :
He was a man whose virtues over
balanced his faults, who loved his
country, his kind, justice, and noble
ness. [Applause].
After Mr. Butler had finished his
speech Mr. Foster (Rep.), of Ohio,
(mockingly) remarked—Let us pray.
Mr. Butler (defiantly)—The gentle
man will spell it with an “e,” I suppose,
[Laughter and applause].
Then came Mr. Fostf.k’s turn. Gene
ral Butler sat down and Mr. Foster
rose to reply. We cull a few flowers
from his rhetorical bouquet :
I don’t suppose, he said, that the
gentlemuu knows of Sir. Prescott
having au office in the same build
ing with him in Boston. 1 don’t sup
pose he knows anything about the
offer of $5,000 to a Brooklyn paper to
take Sanborn’s side. I don’t suppose
lie knows anything about Prescott buy
ing up the man who stole my letter and
gave it to the gentleman from Massa
ohust ts. Why, I expected my letters to
be stoleu after I got into the controversy
with the gentleman from Massachusetts
and I wrote them on purpose. [Laugh
ter.] There is nothing in any letter
that I have written that I am ashamed
of, and, further, this House had to pass
a resolution to keep the gentleman (Mr.
Butler) from stealing telegrams, for it
was aimed at him. [Laughter.] I
know that men have been sent to my
district to find out something aoout the
manner of my election, and, further, I
am informed that the secret service has
been used to send a man to my district
under Richardson as Secretary of the
Treasury, and Bandfikld as Solicitor,
ostensibly to look after a fifty cent coun
terfeit plate: but I don’t suppose the
gentlemau from Massachusetts knows
anything about it. I don’t suppose be
kuows anything about Jayne sending
auybody there. Now, it seems to me j
that under these provocations I had a
right to say “Old Cock-eye” now and
then. [Laughter.]
M. Butler —That is your whole stock
in trade.
Mr. Foster— lt is a very good stock.
Mr. Butler —It is all you have got.
The following graceful allusion was
made to the reports concerning Butler’s
conduct iu New Orleans:
Mr. Foster— That was all the unpaid \
duty charged against them. As I have
said, we must consider the surround- j
ings. If an ordinary vagabond should '
take §1,640 in that way we would call
him a thief, but when you take into ae
count the high character and standing
of these gentlemen, it is highly impro
bable that they would commit'a fraud
of that kind. If I should invite the!
gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr l
Butler) to diuner, and next day, if I!
should miss a spoon and find it iu his
pocket, no one would believe that he i
had stolen it—[laughter]—but if 1
should find it in the poekt t of some j
vagabond of course be would be a thief.
Then came a passage at arms between
Mr. Roberts, also a Republican, and
Butler. Mr. Roberts, it appears, is
the editor of a weekly newspaper:
Mr. Butler —Will the gentlemen al
low me ?
Mr. Roberts—No, sir.
Mr. Butler— As brave as a country 1
Editor generally is. j
Mr. Roberts— Brave ! I have asked <
yon three times to come into this House j
to debate this question and you hadn't
the arat 6 to come.
Mr. 8 Bl< * |
man. Yon weiD very brave. I am well
■enough now and yO u WOD t hear me.
Mr. Roberts —Yon pleaded sickness,
and, like a sick girl, cri e^; * U* ve me
some drink, Titania.”
Mr. Butler—Yes; I am like D-ESab.
Mr. Tremaine, Republican, from New
York, thought the time for Burtßß to
have made his defense was when the
question of the Sanborn contracts was
properly before the House. “He had
been invited, but would not come.”
“He bad been sick, but he would be
sicker yet before he got through with
his connection with that infamy.” But
ler wound up as follows:
Mr. Butler, commenting on the at
tacks made upon him to-night and up«D
the attempts to quote Shakspeare
against him, said he would quote Shaks
peare against them. Tray, Blanche and
Sweet-heart, little dogs and all, see,
they bark at me. [Laughter.]
Mr. E. H. Roberts— And bite.
Mr. Butler—Yes, but only timid peo
ple get the hydrophobia from the bite of
little do s. [Laughter.] Does any
other cur want to snap ? [Laughter. ]
We think that Congress had better
adopt the plantation manners of the
slavery leaders, rather than permit such
sewer-talk and billingsgate.
THE FORTY THIRD CONGRESS.
The first session of the Forty-third
Congress terminated yesterday. The
adjournment of Congress will not affect
the interests of the country injuriously.
In making this observation, we design
no disrespect to this honorable and
augnst body. We have said some harsh
things about Congress as a body, and
perhaps we have not been over compli
mentary to certain members of the
House and Senate, but we have never
in our anger approximated the touching
farewells contained in the following ex
tracts from Northern papers:
Only fonr days till this infamous Con
gress adjourns. Hurrah !—Milwaukee
News. .
On June 22, without being interfered
with by an earthquake, Congress will
adjourn. What has it done to merit the
respect, the esteem, the
or even the tolerance of the country?
* * * Without statesmanship, pa
triotism, ordinary common sense, still
virulentlv partisan, still corrupt, im
becile, full of all mean lies and artifices,
it has to carry a portion of itself once
more before the people, thank God,
where that Nemesis of an outraged pub
lic opinion can take whips in its hands,
as it were, and lash the deserving ras
cals naked through the land. Every
blow that does not bring blood will be a
blow amiss.— St. Bouis Dispatch.
Now is the time when honest men
tremble lest in the rush of business
some iniquitous pieces of legislation
may be crowded through. It was in the
last hours of the Forty-second Congress
that the infamous “salary grab” was
consummated. Let the honest Congress
man be vigilant and see to it that the
rogues do not hold their usual carnival
as*he hour for adjournment draws near.
—Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Re
publican.)
The fact that Postmaster General
Creswell opposes the prepayment news
paper law, confirms our suspicion that
that law is merely a bit of Congressional
spit e.~Pittsburg Commercial (Rep.)
The Congressmen wh<-> took the “back
pay” are now preparing to take the
“back-track,” the nominating conven
tions being nearer now than when the
grab was first begun .—Dayton (Ohio)
Journal (Rep.)
The present Congress will be more
distinguished for what it failed to ac
complish than for any other accom
plishment. * * * Probably some
wild legislation will be whirled through
in the hurry of business delayed till the
last moment, and both Houses will ad
journ.—Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot (Rep.)
You cannot reform those rascally
thieving fellows; and, speaking in the
abstract, we really need no reform, but
we need a change badly.—Communica
tion in the St. Paul Pioneer.
“The District of Columbia affords
such fine ‘pickings and stealings’ that
Congress is disposed to take it into their
own special charge.”
This is from the Toledo Blade —Nas-
by’s paper; and he is trying his best to
come to Congress next session. The
reason is obvious.— Washington Chroni-
cle (Rep.)
Congress has been iu session for about
190 days—or six and a half months. A
Republican majority of two-thirds con
trols both branches, so there can be no
pretense of delay from the tactics of the
minority. What now has this body to
show for this enormous waste of time
and national treasure ? What one act to
redeem it from universal contempt?
* * * The great need of the time is
change and reform. To that end the
people must address themselves, or fare
worse. They must scrape off the barna
cles, or go to the bottom. —Madison
We have within a year or two had
Credit Mobilier, Salary Grab, District
of Columbia Board of Public Works,
Moieties and Sanborn Contracts to face
down, and we seem only to have com
menced nosing out the corruption. But
the greater dangers are passed, Congress
is about to adjourn, and people have
time to breathe. We have had enough
of corruption, and it is in the power of
the people to have it end with the pres
ent < Congress. —Evansville (Ind.) Jour
nal (Rep.)
It is time there was a change in the
administration of the affairs of the Gov
ernment. The cycle of time has brought
upon the Republican party what it
brings upon all parties—the fruits of
long continuance in power. These are
bargaining, corruption, frauds in Gov
ernment purchases, conspiracies among
rings to fleece the Treasury without
compensation, and all sorts of scheming
resorts which the educated thieves that
infest the capital have spent the last de
cade in refining upon. To put an end to
this unwholesome method of conducting
affairs there should be a complete revo
lution in parties, and a downfall of the
reigning regency.— St. Paul (Minn.)
Pioneer.
The last week of a Congressional ses
sion is the week to look for “jobs.”—
Detroit Post.
REUNION OF THE THIRD
GEORGIA.
This is attracting very general atten
tion all over the State, says the Greenes
boro Home Journal. With characteris
tic generosity and public spirit, our fel
low-citizens at Union Point have tender
ed their beautiful fair grounds for the
occasion, which will doubtless be verY
largely attended, and also the hospitali
ties of the village. As the plow share
has for a time supplanted the sword, and
the pruning hook the spear, the
Grangers propose at the same time to
organize a Council for the better pro
motion of the peaceful pursuits of hus
bandry. As the crops will generally be
laid by at that period, we may expect a
large turnout of all classes of our fellow
citizens.
MAIMED SOLDIERS.
From the letter of onr Atlanta corrrs
poudeut it appears that the desire for
office is so strong that even the disabled
soldiers of the Confederacy will en
counter formidable opposition at the
next election. We hope that the state
ments of our correspondent will not
apply to any county iu the State except
Fulton. The rule tacitly adopted by
the Democratic party in the South since
the war has been, where other things
were equal, to give the preference to
maimed soldiers for certain offices in
each county. This rale has been rigidly
adhered to in Georgia, and we hope that
it will never be violated so long as there
is a disabled soldier who wishes an office
and who is competent to discharge the
duties of the position to which he as
pires. The reason for such discrimina
tion is very apparent. It may be
truthfully asserted that every man who
entered the Confederate army, either as
officer or private, suffered severely from
the disastrous termination of the con
flict. When they returned to’ their
homes after the surrender all alike en
countered poverty and privation. Bnt
those who came back with sound bodies
were given a great advantage in the
struggle of life over those who had left
an arm or leg upon the battle field.
Energy and industry properly directed
could bring the former safely through
all their troubles. But the latter
many of them with large families de
pendent upon them—were left in such a
condition that, despite their pluck and
willingness to labor, they were as a gen
eral thing unable to earn a support by
pursuing the common avocations of life.
Most of the avenues to wealth were closed
to them by reason of their physical infir
mities. It seemed, therefore, onlyjustthat
they should be assisted when found wor
thy of assistance. In the distribution of
offices and emoluments where the maim
ed soldier candidate has been thought
competent to fill the position which he
sought, he has been preferred above
other candidates. Every nation owes a
livelihood to the gallant men who were
disabled while in the service of their :
country, South cannot bestow pen-!
sions, for she was defeated and ruined ;
but she can give many of them a sup
port in return for services which they
are still able to render. This she will
do. The Southern people will never
“go back” on the maimed Confederates.
THE EXCHANGE RESOLUTIONS.
We very heartily endorse the steps
taken by the Exchange for making Au
gusta a port of entry and for obtaining
an appropriation from the General Gov
ernment with which to improve thenavi
gation of the Savannah river. We hope
that when Congress meets again the
question will be brought prominently
before that body. With proper man
agement, and with the active support of
the Georgia delegation, we believe that
the movement will be successful.
THE EIGHTH DISTRICT.
We publish this morniDg a communi
cation recommending Hon. Charles
Estes as a suitable candidate for Con
gress from this District. The commu
nication was written by one of onr most
respectable and esteemed citizens and it
is published, as it was written, without
the knowledge of the gentleman to
which it refers in such complimentary
terms. Should Mr. Estes consent to
run and should he receive the domina
tion, Augusta, the Eighth District and
Georgia would secure an able, active and
energetic Representative in Washington.
DISTRICT CONVENTION.
The Chronicle and Sentinel of a re
cent date desires to know the views of
our people iu this Congressional Dis
trict as to what action ought to be had
looking to the organization of the Demo
cratic party for the campaign just ahead.
It is the opinion of some members of
the Executive Committee that their term
of service has expired, and that anew
organization is necessary. We suggest
that the editors of the Augusta papers
name a day and place for a District Con
vention, giving sufficient time for the
people of the counties to send delegates,
and that the organization for the District
be then and there perfected. We would
favor that or any other practical plan for
setting the machinery in motion.—
Sparta Times and Planter.
We think it would be better to have
the time and place for the Convention
suggested by the State Central Commit
tee, which will meet in Atlanta next
month. If this will not answer let the
weekly papers in the District make a
recommendation on the subject.
JUDGE LOCHRANE AND THE
IRISH.
Our Atlanta correspondent and one of
the Atlanta papers have given currency
to an impression calculated to do injus
tice to the party fealty and patriotism of
citizens of Irish birth living in the Fifth
District. Frdm both sources we hear
that in the event of Judge Lochbane an
nouncing himself as an independent can
didate for Congress in that District he
will receive the entire Irish vote. We
think this is a mistake. Indeed, we are
satisfied that it does injustice to the
countrymen of Judge Lochrane, a man
of brilliant talents, but of no fixed po
litical principles. The Judge could be
a Democrat to-day and a Republican to
morrow. Always on the lookout for the
main chance, he is everything by turns
and nothing long. If he runs for Con
gress as an independent candidate from
the Atlanta District he runs in the interest
of his brother-in-law, Hon. J. C. Free
man, who is the sittiug member from the
Fifth District and the nominee of the
Radical Convention which met in Griffin
last week. When the Democratic Con
vention meets and selects a standard
bearer for the Congressional contest, it
will be well understood, should Judge
Lochrane put himself forward as an in
dependent, whose interest he seeks to
subserve. In such a race very few white
men who call themselves Democrats
would vote for Judge Lochrane.
SOCIAL EQUALITY.
Hon. James C. Freeman, member of
in a letter'll) the Griflni Ttews, "‘‘deify
that he gave the negro delegates and
their white allies a supper at his resi
dence after the adjournment of the Con
gressional Convention which reno
minated him for Congress. Mr. Free
man says that he went to the front
door of his residence and received
the delegates courteously and respect
fully, they having come to pay their
their respects before leaving for home.
Mr. Freeman’s letter leaves the impres
sion that he did not treat the mixed
delegates as guests, but as citizens en
titled to respectful consideration, as a
mere matter of courtesy. Having voted
for the Civil Rights bill, Mr. Freeman
has a right, if he sees proper to exer
cise it, to place himself on the same
social plane with the mass of his consti
tuents. Mr. Freeman, we suppose,
aims to be consistent. The News, in
commenting on Mr. Freeman’s letter,
states positively that the delegates who
visited him sat down in his front porch
and remained for some time and “acted
as guests.” Under the circumstances,
Mr. Freeman will find it difficult to re
move the impression that he favors
social equality. He voted for the Civil
Rights bill. In order to be sincere, he
should make no distinction between
theory and practice.
TAX DECISIONS.
The St. Louis Republican says the
Illinois Supremo Court has decided
what is called the “railroad grab-law”
to be unconstitutional. The law was
enacted for theJoenefit of those counties
that have contracted railroad (lebts, and
its object was to make the whole State
participate iu the j/ayment of them. It
provided that State taxes on the railroad
property in these counties, and all taxes
on the increase of other property over
the assessment of 1869 in them, should
go into the hands of the State Auditor,
and be used by him to pay the interest
on and principal of the indebted coun
ties’ bonds. Under the provision about
SBOO,OOO has been paid into the Audi
tor’s hands. The unindebted counties
protested violently against the law on
the score of injustice, since the effect of
it would be to force them to pay part of
the railroad debts of the indebted coun
ties, The Supreme Court of the State
takes the view that it is a diversion sf
State taxes to the payment of county
debts, and, therefore, unconstitutional.
Another decision settles the right of
the State to tax the capital stock of cor
porations. The corporations denied this
right claimed that their actual property
alone could bo taxed. The Court, how
ever, sustains the law, and decides that
the capital of a corporation is subjeet
to taxation.
It is gratifying to know that one of
the many suits brought against parties
for defrauding the State has been press-*
ed to trial, lhe investigations of the
State Road Committee appointed Janu
ary, 1872, disclosed the perpetration of
a series of gigantic frauds upon the State,
and a large number of indictments
were fonnd against those persons whose
guilt seemed established by the testi
mony. What has become of them ? How
many have been tried ? How many con
victions and how many acquittals have
there been ?
The Early County News, in a very
handsome and r complimentary editorial j
article, suggests Hon. Herbert Fielder, i
of Cuthbert, as the Democratic candi- j
date for Congress from the Second Dis
trict. The Nominating Convention for
that district will assemble, we believe, ]
in July.
Hon. Heney R. Harris is a candidate
for re-election to Congress from the Co
lumbus District. A newspaper para
graph mentions the probability of CoL
L S. Fannin becoming the Republican
candidate in the Ninth District.
Macon boys have a habit of throwing
rocks about the streets.
A large white crane was shot at the
Schnetzenplatz, in Savannah, last Wed
nesday.
LINCOLN AND GRANT,
The New York Sun, in order to show
the falsity of statements made in Con
gress to the effect that there had been
no increase in expenses at the White
House for a great many years, has col
lated the appropriations made during
Mr. Lincoln’s term and contrasted them
with those-of General Grant. The ap
propriations made for Lincoln for the
fiscal year ending June 31, 1862, amount
ed to 58,479. For the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1863, they were only $22,-
863 ; the next fiscal year they were still
further reduced to $16,700, and for the
fiscal year ending June 3D, 1865, were
s22,soo—making a total for the four
years from June 30, 1864, to June 30,
1865, of $93,563. In the first full fiscal
year in Grant’s administration—from
June 30, 1869, to June 30, 1870—the
appropriations amounted to $98,760, or
$5,000 more than was allowed during
the whole of Lincoln’s term. Jffie
next year $52,800 was appropriated ;
for the fiscal year 1871-2, $62,749 73,
and for the fiscal year 1872-3, $47,445 —
making a total for the four years of
$261,753 74, or nearly treble the amount
allowed President Lincoln for a similar
period. The average expense of the
President’s house under Lincoln was
$23,383 per year; under Grant it reaches
$65,438 68. For the current fiscal year
$6u,160 was appropriated, and the prob
abilities are that an equally large appro
priation will be made for the ensuing
fiscal year. Besides an annual allowance
of treble that which Lincoln received
for the maintenance of the Presidential
establishment, Grant receives twice the
amount of salary. In his four years
Lincoln received $37,000 for refurnish
ing the White House and annual repairs.
Grant, in the first four years of his ad
ministration, received for the same pur
pose nearly SIOO,OOO. During Lincoln’s
four years an annual appropriation of
$2,400 was required for fuel; Grantism
demands and receives $5,000 per auuum.
Is it not plain from these figures that
Grantism is synonymous with extrava
gance ?
SOUTH CAROLINA—THE PROPER j
SPIRIT.
The Columbia Phoenix contains some
hopeful comments in reply to a mes
sage from a South Carolinian, honored
in former days, now a resident of At
lanta, that “ every one should leave
South Carolina and not live under such
a government as it has.” Our contem
porary admits that many might, have
done better by leaving the State, but
they determined to remain and suf
fer all rather than abandon her
to the vulgar tyranny of mon
grel domination. Hope cheers them
in the darkness, and the deep de
spair of helplessness has not yet palsied
their hearts. Determined to watch and
wait, pray and work, for the salvation
of their dear old State, the day of de
liverance will surely come. The thieves
cannot steal the State. They may and
they have stolen the goods and chattels
of the people, and they would steal the
lands but they can not. The soil will re
main after the robberreign is over. God
will send the sunshine and the rain and
the favorable seasons, and tne places
made desolate will yield abundantly
and gladden the hearts of the faithful
who suffered contumely and spoliation,
and worked without ceasing for the re
demption of their State. There is a
great work before the people of South
Carolina. Let them take courage. The
sympathies of all honest men every
where are with them. Instead of
abandoning the State now, when
there is a hope of success, growing out
of the fact that the “cohesive power of
plunder” has proved an element of
weakness in the mongrel party in power,
all true men should remain to aid in the
liberation of their State. Were all the
men who abandoned South Carolina
since the advent of negro rule to return
home, the State could be rescued be
yond a doubt. But we have an abiding
accomplish this great work. The odds
are heavy against the suffering people,
out the cause should serve to animate
them with more than human industry
and courage. The heart of Georgia is
with them in their struggle. The sym
pathies and the prayers of all honest
men in the United States are with them
in their contest for good government.
They should never think of abandoning
their State. They are not without hope
who struggle for the right. The day of
deliverance will surely come.
The New Orleans Picayune says :
“Though there has been a great loss by
the overflow, yet the sugar cane on the
plantations not submerged is in splendid
condition, and the total yield of sugar
is likely to excel that of last year and
sell for a better price. The rice crop,
too, promises to be the largest ever pro
duced. On the whole, therefore, the
Fall trade is likely to be active and
prosperity restored. ”
Moses publishes a letter in the Colum
bia Union-Herald denying the conversa
tion which the New York Times reports
as having occurred between its corres
pondent and the South Carolina Gover
nor.
SOUTHERN MASONIC FEMALE
COLLEGE.
[special correspondence cihkonicle
AND SENTINEL.]
Covington, Ga., June 22, 184.
The Commencement sermon for the
Southern Masonic Female College was
preached yesterday to a large audience,
by the Rev. Dr. Battle, from Macon.
After the usual preliminary exercises,
Consisting in reading the Scriptures,
singing and praying, the preacher an
nounced for his text the 9th verse of the
4th chapter of Proverbs. “She shall
give to thine head an ornament of grace;
a crown of glory shall she deliver to
thee.” Wisdom was the synonim of
religion. In whatever view contem
plated, piety was entitled to our highest
regard, and his purpose was to show
some of the benefits resulting from it.
In all nations head dresses were regarded
as the principal attraction in the per
sonal appearance of woman. If the
crowned Queen was an object of admira
tion with her subjects, so was she whose
face was radiant with the love of God,
and whose ornament was a meek and
quiet spirit. It was too late iu the day
to discuss the subject of female intef- j
lectual education. If man was more
powerful in intellect, woman was more
powerful in her control of the heart.
A woman of true cultivation would
never descend to the coarse ways of the
amazon, or to association with the low
and vulgar. When she threw off her
womanly instincts to enter the rostrum
or the forum, she was a traitor to her
self and a disgrace to her sex. Such a
disposition of woman had no advocates,
save in the commune of free lovers and
free t'linkers. The society of such women
should be shunned as they would the
leprosy. Woman, her relations to her
self, to society, and to literature, the
leading points in the discourse, were
e aborate, and disenvsed with the ability
characteristic of this eminent divine.
The literary exercises will begin to
night with select readings of the Sopho
more Class, which promise to be of un
usual interest. Visitor.
Second Letter.
Covington, Ga., June 23, 1874.
The Commencement Exercises of the
Southern Masonic Female College are
progressing with increasing interest.
Quite a number of visitors are coming
iu, and the occasion bids fair for a grand
success in every department. At half
past nine this morning the two societies
marched, under their respective banners,
to the chapel, where the audience had
assembled to hear the compositions of
the Junior Class. After prayer, and
vocal and instrumental music from the
youag ladies, the reading commenced.
The subjects chosen were eminently
practical and appropriate, and evinced a
degree of erudition and training highly
creditable to the teachers of the institu
tion. Where all did so well it would be
difficult to discriminate. Suffice to say
that I have rarely ever heard composi
tions as well read. If the Seniors per
form their part as well as the Sophomore
and Junior Classes have done the exer
cises will be an honor to the institution.
The exercises were closed with an ad
dress to the two societies by the Rev. j
Mr. Nunally, from Monroe, in which he
gave a rare treat to his hearers, and did
himself great credit. Visitor, i
HON. CHARLES ESTES FOR CON
GRESS.
*
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel :
In these days, when political circles
are looking about for Congressional can
didates, it behooves us to seek for those
who are practical, business, working
men. Such a man is our present worthy
Mayor, Charles Estes. He has the time,
the untiring industry, and a very con
siderable influence at the capital to con
stitute him the representative at Wash
ington of the people of the Eighth
Congressional District of Georgia. There
are many interests iu which this District,
and particularly Augusta, is intensely
concerned, and which the subscriber be
lieves, without disparagement to others,
Mr. Estes could more fully promote iu
Congress than many whose names have
been mentioned in connection with the
Subject. IMPROVEMENTS.
THE RING ORGAN.
Bourbon on the Union-Herald.
[special correspondence of tiie ciibonicle
AND SENTINEL.]
' South Carolina, Jnne 23.
Bear with me while I make some ex
tracts from the thieves’ organ, of the 17th
and 18th of June, and then tell me what
hope there is of a party whose headlight
radiates such scintillations —being desti
tute of the decency to blush at them.
Hear what it grinds out editorially:
“The newspapers all over the country,
like bloodhounds on the track of the
hunted slave, are hounding us down.—
What have they to do with the domestic,
affairs of South Carolina ? * * *
We have gone openly and humbly be
fore the Congress of the nation and ac
knowledged our errors. We have proved
that the blame lay somewhat at the
door of out merciless and releutless ene
mies, who, in 1865, scornfully and
indignantly rejected tlie amendments,
and passed the Black Code; who,
in 1870, whipped and slaughtered
us by hundreds, until the arm of
the empire was invoked to pro
tect us, and who now, under the fire of
such journals as the New York Times,
are preparing to crush, peaceably or
forcibly, our organization. We have
pledged ourselves to redeem the State
and clean out our house. We propose
to do it. Bnt v.e do not propose, in the
very hour of our promise and humility,
to be scorned and despised, to be cov
ered with contumely and disgrace and
cast out of the house of our friends by
Democrats, whose hands are reeking
with corruption, or Republicans, who
I will not be forgotten when our invincible
majorities sweep like a wave over the
State. * * * * We are in favor of
asking the National Executive Commit
tee of the Republican party to advise
us as to the. next Gubernatorial nomina
tion. We lay our hands upon the broken
credit and honor of the State, and we
swear to restore them. But while we do
all this we propose to vindicate our man
hood. We are wearied of persecution
and prosecution, of putting a man in jail
to please the opposition, ox simply De
cause he is an office holder or Republi
can. The Republican party of this State,
sorely pressedrfrom within and without,
is at bay—the quarry has been hunted
down. * * * The Republican party
of this State went before the country
some months ago in answer to the me
morial of the Tax Payers’ Convention,
and made a square, open plea of con
fession. It confessed tiwCongress that
its administration of affairs was none of
the best; that many irregularities and
something of wrong and corruption had
prevailed. It turned on its relentless
pursuers—the memorialists—and drew a
strong comparison between the cost of
governing the State in these difficult
times and the other days of peace and
prosperity. It also urged that there was
ample material in its ranks to conduct
the State in an able and honorable
course, and ample ability to restore its
eminent character. * * * The oppo
sition journals here as elsewhere threw
themselves upon us with the joy of
hyenas in a grave yard, and the Adminis
tration papers demanded that there
should be no mistake this time in our
purpose to reform. We intend that
there shall be no mistake, but we have
the authority of Mr. Tremaine and the
sanction of Congress for saying that we
are able and willing to reform in our
way and inside our own lines. Blessed
is he who expccteth nothing, for he shall
not be disappointed ! ” The italics are
of coure mine. Now of what does the
above most remind you—the whinings
of a cur about to be beaten, or. the pro
testations of a slave before the whipping
post ? Note the Union-Herald's asser
tion that the Democrats have been
prov and to be “ somewhat to blame” for
the corruption so provelent in its party.
Thatjournal, along with other Republi
can lights, has often shamelessly sought
to excuse the degradation of its party
by saying that it existed mainly on ac-
KjmikPfAfteWQl&te lidding .aloof from
educated class in the Commonwealth
would amalgamate in political affinity
with their party, that they were excusa
ble commensurably with the blame at
taching to the Democrats for sending
them to Coventry.
Would it ever occur to any but a
Puritan or a nigger to set up such a de
fense ? Claiming 40,000 majority for
their party in the State, they are not
withstanding, by their own admission,
dependeut upon the Democrats for the
elements to make up a respectable ad
ministration ! The Democrats having
been vainly besought to “come over and
help us,” the next move in order is to
supplicate “the National Executive
Committee of the Republican party to
advise us." Ye gods ! what a commen
tary on Republicanism. In a party pol
ling 90,000 votes the assistance of “the
National Executive Committee” is in
voked to get at one man honest enough
to make a Republican Governor ! Well,
if iu a mass of ignorance, vice and cor
ruption numbering 90,000 carpet-bag
gers, scalawags and niggers there be
trouble in falling upon one man with
enough of decency clinging to him to
fit him for the office of a Republican
Governor, who can blame the compara
tively insignificant opposition of 60,000
Democrats for refusing to undertake the
purification of this noisome body ? It
is plainly a case of Augean Stables, but
Hercules’ role is too burdensome to be
upheld by the Democratic party of this
State, with Congress standing at the
doorway and prescribing exactly what
implements shall be employed for the
clensing. The “Bourbon Democrats” of
the State have time and again professed
a competency and cheerful willingness'
to purify the State government, but as
oftpn as the proposition has been made
to Congress and the Executive we have
been told substantially, “you must be
come Republicans—we can’t be expected
to hand over a State, body and soul
o irs, into the hands of the opposition.
We deplore the disgraceful condition of
affairs prevailing in your State, but we
fail to see the remedy unless you will
come over on our side, &c.” It is in
vain that we have'answered: “If we sur
render all the principle involved in an
opposition to your policy, what are we
to save by such a course—what is there
left us to preserve ? We have lost State
rights ! We have lost self-government !
We have lost the right to enjoy and pro
tect our property ! But we have not
lost our self-respect, and we are not,
and never will be, prepared to admit
that we are no better than negroes; or
that a race of people incapable of civili
zation are possessed of any right to
govern or participate in governing the
sons of Adam ! We are willing—more
than willing—that, while we are com
pelled to live together, the negro be
allowed to govern his own race, if he
be even able to do that—but it is
agaiust reason, against nature, against
instinct, that any superior race should
be willing to remain, partially even, un
der the domination of an inferior. We
have endured it under compulsion for
years, and we are determined, if there
be no-remedy, to abide it—under pro
test—for years to come. The negro is
an inferior being. Yon know it. We
know it. You acknowledge it by your
every act if you withhold the testimony
of speech. The civil rights bill can be
passed the same as the 14th and 15th
amendments to the Constitution were
enacted—you have the same majority to
do it with in Congress, but yon decline
to employ that majority for so infamous
a purpose. Now if you, who will scarce
ly be agfocted civilly or socially by the
investiture of negroes with these unde
served privileges, refuse .to consent to
their acquiring them, how unfair, how
irrational to expect ns, whom it con
cerns vitally, to concede as States and
communities what you, a national con
clave, withheld from the negro as being
above his deserts ? These arguments
and others as cogent have been urged
year alter year since Gen. Lee’s surren-1
tier. The* defeat of the civil rights j
bill is the first indication that they j
have been of any avail. But the!
fate of that bill makes it plain that here
after the people ol the North and West
are interested, as well as the representa
tives of those sections, in the latitude
thenceforth to be allowed Sambo. The
people of the West and North axe mani
festing a real—no longer a theoretical— I
concern in the career of Sambo, and
thenceforward they are likely to be anal
ogously affected with McDuffie when he
heard a Northern man crying “Union,
glorious Union!” You will remember
that it was as though he heard “the cry ;
of some robber band;” and when he
heard a Southern man crying “Union,
glorious Union,” he “scented treason in )
the tainted gale !” So hereafter will the
slogan of “Sambo, glorious Sambo,” by
either Northern, Southern or Western
man affect the tympanum and olfactories
of the people. ' Bourbon.
The Columbia Union-Herald lays this
flattering unction to its soul, that “even
a thief went to Heaven from the cross.”
Let the interested “organ” not consider
this as a precedent, since it was a re
pentant thief !
LETTERS FROM MIDDLE GEORGII
[special correspondence chronicle and
SENTINIL.]
Macon, Juno 24, 1874.
The City.
The weather is warm, but not oppres
sively hot. We continue to be blessed
witha shower or two of rain every week,
which keeps the dust laid, the heat in a
bearable condition, the gardens vigorous,
the forest and ornamental foliage fresh
aud green, and human nature compara
tively elastic. Trade is insufferably dull,
and "as a resultant consequence is run
upon the cut-throat plan; that is, under
selling until prices realized about ap
proximate prime cost. For instance,
white com, §1 10, cost, §1 12; clear rib
bacon sides, 10c., cost, lOj. I might run
through the whole market, or rather the
wholesale depart ment of it, with examples
of this kind. This, as you see, makes a
poor showing for dividends—paying
reuts, cleik hire and taxes. The people
of this city and Middle Georgia gener
ally are ripe for revolution upon this last
item—this matter of taxes. The string
ency of money has brought the extrava
gance of city, State aud general authori
ties forward in more glaring light. So
oppressive and burthensome has it be
come that no man could stand before
them advocating one iota increase and
be elected for any office whatever. On
the other hand a reduction is demanded
wherever and in whatever way it can
honorably be done. The only road to
accomplish this is by practice of the
most rigid economy in every branch of
every govertimeut we have. The stock of
Western produce in the city is light, yet
ample to satisfy the demand. Indeed,
our stock of everything is small, except
that cheap commodity— hope ! We look
forward to tine and fat tinns next Fall
and Winter, at least in the dry goods
and fancy grocery trades. At present,
however, we are like the angel of the
Apochalype, standing in the sun; it is re
vealed to us. but we can’t see it.
“So Dies the Wave Along the Shore.”
I think the Radical Convention which
nominated Freeman treated Judge
Lochrane mean. After all the puffing
and blowing by the Atlanta papers,
which made mo believe that he would
be nominated unanimously, to think'
that he didn’t get a single vote; lam
glad to see that he will now take the
held as an independent, straight-out,
Judge Lochrane candidate, beholding
to no party, clique, ring or block heads
who liavn’t sense enough to appreciate
genius or virtue enough to sustain it in
these one horse, packed conventions
like that at Grffin. Griffin is about the
last town in Georgia auyhow. Atlanta
should have been the place to start the
ball. But Freeman and his crowd,
knowing that they would stand no
chance in an enlightened community,
slipped off to Griffin and held their
Nominating Convention. The many
friends of Judge Lochrane will, of
course, pay no attention to this cut and
dried, packed, country, one-horse,
spavined show. You might as well ask
them to go to a lecture when there is a
circus in town. He owes it to his friends
and to the country at large to now take
the field on his own hook aud rally the
whole country, regardless of conse
quences, to his standard. I have private
information from Houston county that
the Radicals are very much dissatisfied
with the nomination of Freeman. He
lias’nt sent a single patent office report
to a colored voter in that county. Loeli
rane would carry the county like a whirl
wind. Every member of the party
vividly remembers his legal decisions
upon the Confederate conscript law, and
points with pride to that monument to
liis memory. And the Democrats have
no just ground for opposition to Judge
Lochrane. He told your Atlanta corres
pondent the other day tha,t he “had al
ways been a Democrat. ” I knew that
all the time. In the last great contest
for President he was straight forward,
and when the hour for action arrived he
voted the following ticket, which clearly
shows that he stood by his principles aud
his party:
For President and Vice-President:
Grant and Drown
ptm /
/ /
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Go p /
/ Unum.
Erin \v /
\ / Kragh.
'c a / \ ts p
/ Pluribus
/ and
Greeley pan Wilson
If that don’t clearly show how the
Judge stands, I’d like to know what
would. When the news of Judge Locli
rane’s defeat by that packed and stuffed
Griffin humbug Convention was received
here, I heard one of his colored friends
singing a mournful song. It was like
the plaintive wail of the new-born babe
which crieth for its mother :
Come rest on this bosom my own stricken deer,
Though the herd hath all down thy homo is
still here.
Bibb Superior Court.
The time of this Court has been oc
cupied to-day by the ease of Ed. T.
Gray against George S. Obear. The
late Wm. Gray, the well known railroad
builder, left considerable property to
his children, one of whom (Ed. TANARUS.) is
about half-witted. Obear was the ad
ministrator and is a son-in-law. He lias
refused to give Ed. his share of the
property on the ground that he did not
have sense enough to take care of it,
and hence the suit. The case is not
concluded. Jean Valjean.
Bibb Court—Obituary—Cotton and
Corn—What Bishop Pierce Says—
Affray ill Hancock—Death by a
Brother’s Hand—A Singular Case.
[special correspondence chronicle and
SENTINEL. ]
Augusta, June 25, 1874.
The Bibb Superior Court.
When I left Macon this morning the
Superior Court was trying Lucien U.
Ricks, ex-Chief of the Macon Fire De
partment and quite a prominent citizen,
for the murder of John C. Fleming an
employee of the Isaacs’ House, on the
night of the 2Gth of December, 1871.
The killing, both at the time and since,
attracted a great deal of attention.
Ricks has had one trial, which resulted
in the disagreement of the jury. Anew
jury was empanelled yesterday, and I
presume the case will be finished to
morrow.
Death of T. C. Nisbet.
Mr. Thomas C. Nisbet, who married
Miss Cummin, of Augusta, died at his
residence in Macon on Monday after
noon. He had been in bad health for
two or three years.
“ Coming Through the Hye”—Cotton
and Corn.
Leaving the classic shades of the
city by the Ocmulgee, at an
early hour this morning, I took
the Macon and Augusta train de
termined to see your ancient city. From
Macon to Milledgeville the country is
very poor—indeed it was a matter of
mystery to me how people could seratcli
a iiving out of it, no matter how favora
ble the seasons. The few. little patches
I saw along the track looked small and
sickly, but evidently from tkp want of
natural strength in the earth. The road
passing a nrile to the left of the business
center of Milledgeville. I had no oppor
tunity of seeing the old capital, except
on the outskirts—that looked badly
enough. Soon after crossing the Oco
nee the character of the country and the
crops changed for the better. Both corn
and cotton were looking in splen
did condition, though the people
along the road say they are begin
ning to need rain, having had none
in fifteen days. Every field looked
clean of grass, and I could see
nothing in the situation at all discourag
ing. All along this line, as well as in i
every other section of Georgia, the peo- J
pie have got entirely over their mania I
for cotton, and are making an honest |
and an earnest effort to raise enough j
provisions to do them. That they can
easily do so there is no doubt.
Bays Bisbon Pierce.
(Who got on the train at his home near
Sparta), “Instead of the lands all through
this section getting poorer, they are
steadily improving. They are much
richer now than they were thirty years
ago. Before and during the war we
raised everything to eat in the greatest
abundance, but of late years we have
had a great deal to buy. We are getting
back to the old plan. There is no rea
son why we should not. This is the
finest country in the world; man cancome
nearer raising all he eats and wears
than anywhere else.” The Bishop, dur-
I ing the ride, pointed out many aband
! oned fields which had once been in a
state of high cultivation. They are now
without fences, houses or any signs of
human habitation—ifaeir former owners
either dead and in their graves, or gone
West of the Mississippi to Return no
more.
Desperate Affray in Hancock County-
Shot by a Brother.
For two or three years past the good I
people of Hancock county have been j
terrorized over by a young man by the t
name of T. D. Jackson. His father is a i
quiet, good and highly respected citizen,
but his son is n desperado of the most
unprincipled and fearless character. He
has killed two men, besides being in
more disgraceful rows than can be men
tioned. He was tried last Fall for the
last murder, and my informant thinks
was convicted and sentenced to death.
At any rate he broke through the Sparta
jail about six months ago and* scaped.
Since that time no one in the county lias
either seen or heard anything of him
until last Tuesday night, when ho made
his appparance at his father’s house.
So soon as he made his appearance in
the yard a fierce watch dog attacked
him." He immediately killed the dog.
Old Mr. Jackson hearing the fuss rau
out of the house and to the spot, when
an altercation took place between him
and his wayward son. During its pro
gress they were joined by another son,
who took the part of his father. T. D.
Jackson made for his young brother,
with evidently murderous intent, who
immediately ran back into the lihuse,
closely pursued by T. D. aud he in
turn by the old man. The youuger
Jackson grabbed a loaded rifle and ran
back into the yard, the brother still
after him. The old man called to him
to shoot T. L>., when he immediately
wheeled and fired. The ball struck him in
the center of the body, producing what
was thought at the time a mortal wound.
So soou as the sheriff heard of the af
fray, he summoned a posse and went to
Jackson’s house for the purpose of again
taking him to jail. But when he ar
rived there yesterday lie had been re
moved, and up to this morning had not
been found. The family stated that he
was taken off by a baud of his confede
rates. Jean Valjean.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
Who Wishes Office in Atlanta—Glenn
for Congress— Maimed Soldiers to
the Keai —The Daily “Denier” —Hop-
kins and the Jailer—Minor Matters.
[special correspondence chronicle and
SENTINEL.]
Atlanta, June 24, 1874.
Pulton County Politics.
The canvass for county and city offices
lias already earnestly begun, and the
name of the candidates is legion. The
most prominent candidate for the Legis
lature is Col. E. F. Hoge, who has
represented this county with marked
ability for four years, and liis prospects
for election are very flattering. The
only plausible argument against his elec
tion is his long term of office, which is
so unpopular in this day of “dividing
spoils and honors.” His illustrious record
and faithful service in the past will
quite overcome this objection, however,
and it. requires little foresight to predict
that Col. Hoge will be one of the Fulton
county delegation in the Legislature of
’75-‘76. Another candidate is Col. Wm.
H. Ilnlsey, who at one time it was said
was the youngest Mayor in Georgia,
having been elected Mayor of this city
at the age of twenty-six. Six years ago,
when he was Solicitor-General of this
Judicial Circuit, lie was considered to be
the rising young man of this city. He is
a gentleman of talent, entertaining man
ners and winning address. Next is Mr.
Thos. W. Hooper, law partner of Gen. A.
C. Garlington, a gentleman of ability and
one liked for his social popular man
ners. Mr. Robert C. Young, present
member of Council from the Third
Ward, was nominated for the Legislature
at an entertainment given by him to the
City Council the, other evening, his
friend Capt, W. T. Newman, City Attor
tey, recommending him for his skill as an
educated mechanic, possessing talent of
a peculiar and rare kind, seldom found
but always needed in legislative halls.
The county seems to look to Judge Wm.
A. Wilson as the coming country mem
ber. He is a wealthy and influential
planter, and is universally esteemed as a
gentleman of integrity and ability. John
C. McMillan, Councilman from the
Seventh Ward is freely spoken of as
a candidate for Mayor, aud many aspi
rants for Aldermanic honors are daily
appearing. Altogether Fulton county
will present a scene of lively emulation
and rivalry for the next eight months.
The Chairman of the County Demo
cratic Executive Committee died some
days ago, and a call is now made for the
Democrats of the county to assemble in
convention in the City Hall Saturday,llth
July, tor the purposing of reorganizing
the party, and of electing anew Demo
cratic Executive Committee. The liberal
and munificent salaries allowed county
officers have excited the political aspira
tions of persons who have heretofore
been content to pursue their regular
business, leaving the offices to maimed
and helpless soldiers. These distinctions,
however, disappear in tho full blaze of
the “almighty dollar,” and men worth a
competence enter the canvass against
helpless Confederate soldiers, to oppose
whom four years ago, would have
stamped tlie !W n,a [' auvol(l
id inJerttnf y, patriotism and gratitude.—
It is reported that two gentlemen worth
as much as @IO,OOO each are contemplat
ing a race for the office of tax collector.
Fulton county will make an effort to re
nominate Col. Glenn, it is said, at the
Congressional Democratic nomination
in this District. Failing in that she will
lend her support to the man most likely
to rally the entire voting force of the
Democratic party.
The Daily “Denier.”
The Daily Denier, of this city, more
generally known as the Constitution,
takes occasion to pronounce as false the
report mentioned in my last to the effect
that the Herald had employed Ben Hill
to prosecute its agent for decoying a
printer from its (the Herald's) employ.
1 take this occasion to say that from all
the information I have obtained, I be
lieve the report to be true. The facts,
as I have learned them, are these: The
Herald had imported a printer from
Rome. The “Union” seized upon him
and gave him employment in the Consti
tution office (whether with the knowledge
of tiie proprietors of that paper I am
unable to say), and the purpose of the
proprietors of the Herald was to prose
cute the parties to this offense, and un
der the law stating that the principal is
liable for the action of his agent, the
prosecution would come against the
Constitution. The editors of this Daily
Denier will add to their already illus
trious name by denying these statements.
As regards the anecdote of Judge Hop
kins, which the Daily Denier stated was
without foundation in fact, 1 will
state that it has foundation.—
The anecdote was told in the
hearing of your correspondent by
the jailer himself, who was a party.
Whether lie exaggerated the story by
representing Judge Hopkins as imposing
a heavier sentence on account of the in
subordination of the negro, I cannotsay.
Tou, Messrs. Editors, however, might
consistently continue your war on abuse
to prisoners. You will probably find on
inquiry that it is a common practice to
whip prisoners. It is done here and
probably elsewhere, with the knowledge
of the Judge—whether with his consent
I know not. Officers say that it is the
only means they have of controlling in
solent, rebellious and insubordinate pri
soners. It is supposed that no distinc
tion is made in favor of white prisoners.
The first number of the Daily News
will be issued, it is said, on Sunday
morning next. * * * I learn that a
proprietor of a leading Georgia daily
made a thorough reconnoissance of the
Herald office recently, and says as soon
as he returns home he will have a strike
among the editors and proprietors of his
paper. * * * Lochrane seems to be
preserving a masterly inactivity.
Halifax.
Redeeming Mississippi Lands.
Washington, .June 20.—Perhaps one
of the most important measures passed
by Congress for many years is Congress
man Morey’s bill authorizing the Presi
dent to appoint a Commission of En
gineers, composed of three army and
two civil engineers, to report at the next
session of Congress, through the Presi
dent, a plan for the permanent reclama
tion and redemption of the alluvial
basin of the Mississippi. The Board
will probably consist of the following
officers of the army : Gen. G. K. War
ren, U. S. Engineers; Gen. H. S. Abbot,
Major W. H. H. Benyuard, U. S. En
gineers. The civil engineers are Gov
ernor Paul O. Hebert, of Louisiana, and
John Sickle, of Arkansas. The require
ments of the military service may re
quire a change of the army engineers,
but the appointment of the civil en
gineers is fixed. The Board will pro
bably meet at Newport for organization.
Moses Pardons llis Confederates.
Charleston, June 25.—Gov. Moses
1 has pardoned the three county commis
sioners of Barnwell, lately convicted of
corruption and thieving and sentenced
respectively to three, nine and ten years
I>n the penitentiary. The convicted
officials on their way to the penitentiary
boasted that Gov. Moses would not dare
allow them to remain in the penitentiary
: one month.
The Governor has offered a reward of
8250 for the arrest and delivery to the
Sheriff of Dooly county of Marshall
Gregory, charged with the “foul, brutal,
cowardly and unprovoked murder” of
W. Y. Thompson. The mother of the
murdered man has also published a re
ward of the same amount. Gregory is
about twenty-three years of age, live
feet seveu or eight inches high, spare
built, weighs 140 pounds, fair complex
ion, light hajr and bine eyes—left eye
blemished, “cats eye,”—almost blind,
end of right thumb off.
A TERRIBLE MURDER.
A Man Killed lu a Baltimore Hotel.
The telegrnph gave a brief statement,
a few days since, of the murder of a
man named Berry Amos, by S. W. Mc-
Donald. The Baltimore American
gives full details of the crime, from
which wo clip the following :
Berry Amos, for a number of years
past., has been well known to police au
thorities as a man to lie watched—as a
man of well-established bad repute, the
companion of gamblers and thieves,
aud as one who made it a part of liis
“ ways and means” to seek out and en
trap unwary strangers into dens of in
famy, from which they generally
emerged with the loss of pocket-books
or their contents, or some other evi
dence that they had “fallen among
thieves.” Amos was a line-looking
man, at least so far as the animal parts
was concerned—tall, erect, broad-chest
ed and muscular, with sturdy lower
limbs and brawny arms, and all well
roquded, lie presented to the eye the
very personification of physical strength
and manly vigor. He had a dark com
plexion. but good, regular features, and
had his face been illumined with any
thing of that inner light of man’s bet
ter nature, it would have been decidedly
handsome. But, as it was, the face was
that of one iu whom the mere animal
passions and the lower appetite had
long held unrestrained sway. Those
who knew him best say he could
not be considered a quarrelsome
man, and that he was generally disposed
to be peaceable, unless molested. Amos
was particularly famous, or rather infa
mous, as a tliree-card moute player. He
could work wonders in this line, and
clean out the pockets of nil who were
so foolish as to try their luck with
him with the most surprising facility.
Amos was always about at the horse
races, or wherever there was likely to be
a promiscuous gathering of people—cut
tle shows and the like. At the recent
Spring Meeting of the Maryland Jockey
Club ho was a conspicuous figure, hov
ering on the outskirts of the crowd,
“seeking whom he might devour.” And
he was not disappointed. Upon the ears
going to and from the races lie won quite
considerable sums of money from certain
uususpecting country gentlemen with
his “thrte-card monte” performances.
Only last week he was arrested on a
charge of thus violating the law, a war
rant having been issued for his arrest by
Justice Robins, who held him to bail to
answer. Amos’ mode of operations on
such occasions was generally to disguise
himself as a countryman of tho very
greenest type, and thus to worm himself
into the confidence of the uususpecting
rural gentlemen. Thus “got up,” it is
said he was perfectly irresistible, and to
the initiated itwas decidedly amusing to
note how he would worm himself into
the confidence of the “green horns,” and
enable liis confederate to “clean them
out.” Berry Amos was born in the vil
lage of Manchester, opposite Richmond,
Ya. He was thirty-eight years of age.
During the recent war lie served for one
year in Ooskie’s Rangers, attached to Gm.
Wise’s legion, in the Confederate service,
but deserted and went to Baltimore.
The nccusod, S. W. McDonald, and
his antecedents are well known in that
community. Upon the death of his
father, the late William McDonald, who
owned a very large and valuable estate,
this, liis only son, who now stands
charged with tho crime of murder, in
herited a very large fortune, amounting,
it is said, to about two hundred aud
eighty thousand dollars. Although still
very young, being just twenty-five years
of age, it is notorious that for years past
he has been leading a very wild and
reckless life, indulging in all manner of
extravagancies, and consorting habitual
ly with evil companions of both sexes—
in a word, that he has been literally
“wasting his substance in riotous liv
ing.” Licentiousness and debauchery
have characterized his manner of life;
gamblers and lewd women have been liis
associates, and thus it comes that in the
very bloom of his early manhood, with
large possessions of earthly goods, and
many capabilities for honorable use
fulness, this young man is now commit
ted to a felon’s cell, charged with the
awful crime of murder.
On the 9th day of March, 1870, Sam
uel W. McDonald, tho accused, cele
brated his twenty-first birthday by a
grand dinner, given at the then country
residence of the McDonald family, Gu'il
ford, on the York road. Cards of invi
tation were issued, and the guests pres
ent comprised"some of the leading citi
zens of Baltimore and Baltimore county.
When young McDonald came home from
Europe, before' attaining his majority,
where ho had received an education, he
had open to him tho best society in Balti
more, and liis career seemed a promising
one, but lie soon developed a taste for
the companionship of the vicious.
Some two ye ws inru the widow of Mr.
William McDonald, and the mother of
this youug man, married a Swiss gentle
man, said to lie of some distinction,
name 1 John Do Sheyr, and the couple
now reside in Nice, Italy. More than a
year ago the son left Baltimore, having
purchased a fine farm near Terre Haut,
Indiana, where he lias since been living
a very luxurious life, lie returned only
recently to Baltimore on a visit.
One night during the month of Octo
ber, 1572, McDonald, a man named Jo
seph Legg, and a party of others were
engaged in playing cards at the house of
a Mrs. Shannon, on Watson street. Legg
is a small man, and lias the lcputution
of being quiet and inoffensive. Some
disagreement took place between Mc-
Donald and Legg, when the former
drew a large revolver and struck Legg a
series of blows about the head, and also
stabbed him with a knife, inflicting ter
rible injuries. f egg was conveyed to
his residence on Eden street, near Pratt,
where he lay at the point of death for
several wc.eks, and did not finally recover
for nearly three months. After this af
fair McDonald left Baltimore, as was
stated, for Indiana, and did not return
until quite recently. This man Legg
was among the spectators at the Central
Station on Monday night when McDon
ald was brought in upon the charge of
murdering Amos. McDonald was re
cognized among his companions as a
reckless man, passionate uml desperate
when roused, free alike with his temper
as he was with his money. He was, no
doubt, feared and disliked by many with
whom he associated, and who simply
followed him for his money. Ho fig
ured prominently in many fracases which
have occurred at intervals in the past,
few years at places of amusement pat
ronized by the sporting fraternity, but,
as he expressed it when LieutenonLßu
sick ordered him to be placed in a cell
on Monday night, “ho had never been
locked up before.”
Between 10 and 11 o’clock on Monday
night a hack drove up to the saloon and
restaurant of George Atkinson, on the
corner of Townsend street and Pennsyl
vania avenue, and here Berry Amos and
two other men alighted and went into
the saloon. After drinking two or three
times one of the men who came with
Amos got into an altercation with Atkin
son, and this led to a quarrel between
the two companions of Amos and Atkin
son and several other parties who were
in the saloon before the Amos party ar
rived. During the progress of tho quar
rel Atkinson dispatched a boy to look
for a« officer, and the boy finally found
Officer Ross, who went to the saloon,
but on arriving there learned that Amos
and the two strangers had by some
means ascertained that an officer had
been sent for, and had gone away in the
hack a few minutes before the officer
arrived. The hack was driven rapidly
up Townsend street, and it is supposed
that Amos and his friends then imme
diately drove down town, where he met
his fate.
McDonald and Amos met at the
Sherwood House, where the tragedy oc
curred, resulting in Amos’ death. An
inquest was held over the body of the
deceased.
Testimony of T. L. Turpin—Witness
was present at the Sherwood House
when the disturbance took place; about
12:30, when the performance at the
Opera House on Baltimore street bridge
was over, witness and two mori named
Coulson and Cook went to the Sherwood
House to get a drink; Amos, Carroll and
another whom witness did not know
came into the bar room; Amos asked wit
ness and his friends to take a glass of
ale; while they were at the bar McDon
ald, Clark and Golibart came down stairs
from an upper room; Golibart looked
into Amos’ face and said, “You are a big
duffer;” Amos said, “That is all right, I j
do not want to have anything to do witii
you;” Golibart then struck at Arm s, |
when the latter threw out his hand to
ward off the blow; several men then!
rushed at Amos, and he was pushed
against the washing sink in the rear of
the room, on the JFayette street side;
witness saw McDonald make two drives
at Amos, striking him on tiie left side;
McDonald then immediately ran out at
the Harrison street door, whilst Amos
went out at the Fayette street door, and
witness followed him to the corner of
Fayette and Front streets; Amos said,
“They have murdered me; I am cut to
pieces;” the crowd had followed Amos
out, and witness met Golibart, at the,
corner of Front and Fayette, streets with
a stone in his hand; witness begged
Golibart not to hit Amos, saying that
his (Golibart’s) crowd had already done
enough, they had cut Amos to pieces;
witness said” to them, “You have mur
dered him already;” witness then started
to take Amos back to the Sherwood
House, but wh.n the pavement was
reached Amos fell fainting to the
ground; the Sherwood House was now
closed, and an attempt was made to
waken the parties at Eareckson’s drug
store, corner of Harrison and Baltimore
streets, but they did not succeed; Amos
was then taken to the Russell House,
corner of Baltimore street and Centro
Market Space, aud laid upon the bar
room floor; Amos constantly called for
water before he died; witness said to
Amos, “Berry, who cut you?” Amos
said, “Tom, you know who did it;” wit
ness said, “That will do, Berry, wliat is
his riamo ?” Amos said, “Sam McDon
ald did it,” this was repeated twice; the
last words Amos uttered were. “Sam
McDonald did it.”
Michael Meara, No. 52 Chontank
street, was then sworn.—Witness was
not present at the Sherwood House on
Monday night; was coming down Balti
more street shortly after midnight, when
he heard the cry of “murder !” from the
vicinity of the Sherwood House ; wit
ness ran up Harrison street and then up
Fayette; upon Fayette street bridge met
McDonald, Tom Waters, and another
person witness did not know; witness
heard McDonald say : “ Didn't I give it
to him good f’ The third party, whom
witness* did not know,J said : “Hush,
gun d—d fool, what arc you talking
about t” Witness saw Amos at the
corner of Fayette and Front streets,
upon the pavement of Stevens’ factory;
McDonald, Waters aud the third party
were coming from the bridge towards
the Sherwood House when met by wit
ness; met McDonald and liis party on
the bridge; assisted in conveying Amos’
body to the station house after death.
Wm. B. Busey, alias Baity Carroll,
residing at No. 110 East Pratt street, was
next sworn—Witness came down Balti
more street to the Rennert House about
midnight ou Monday, where lie met
Amos; the latter asked witness to get
into a hack with him, which witness did,
and they were driven to the Sherwood
House; whilst witness, Amos and several
friends were talking, McDonald, Goli
bart, Clark and one other came down
from up stairs; witness heard Amos say,
“Let’s all take a drink;” witness saw
Clark and Golibart botli strike Amos;
the latter was pushed against the wash
stand; saw McDonald with a glittering
weapon iu his hand; saw him strike
Amos two heavy blows with this weapon;
witness thinks Golibart commenced the
quarrel; Amos had no quarrel with Mc-
Donald; witness followed Amos to tho
corner of Fayette and Front streets;
then assisted in taking Amos to tho
Russell House; Amos lay on the floor
calling for water; two minutes before ho
died Amos said distinctly three times,
“Sum McDonald did it.” ,
Tho following is an official copy of tho
verdict, as signed by the jurors:
“.State of Maryland*
“ Baltimore City, To-u>it :
“An inquisition taken at the Middle
District Station House, in the city and
State aforesaid, on the 2!ld day of June,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-four, before
me, Edmund R. Walker, M. D., one of
the Coroners of the State for the city
aforesaid, upon the body of Berry Amos,
then and there lying dead, upon tho
oatli of twelve lawful residents of tho
city and State aforesaid, who, upon
being sworn upon the Holy Evangoly of
Almighty God, and charged to inquire
when, where, how, and after wliat nniu
lior the said Berry Amos came to his
death, do sag upon their oaths that he
came to his death from some sharp in
strument in the hand of Samuel IF.
McDonald.
“In witness whereof, as‘well ns tho
aforesaid Coroner, as tho jurors afore
said, to this inquisition put their bauds
and seals, on the day and year aforesaid,
and at the place aforesaid.”
FROM NEW YORK,
Renewal of the Beeohor-Tilton Scan
dal- Loathsome Letters.
New Yoke, June 25.— Among tho
loathsome letters unearthed by the re
moval of the Beoclier-Tilton scandal is
this: •
“Brooklyn, January 11, 1871.
I nsk Theodore Tilton’s forgiveness
and humble myself before him as I do
before my God. lie would hnve been a
better man in my circumstances than 1
have been. I can ask nothing except
that ho will remember all the other
breasts that would ache. I will not
plead for myself, I even wish that I
were dead.
[Signed] H. W. Beecher.”
Tilton closes his letter us follows:
The injurious measures which the au
thor of this apology lias since permitted
liis church to take against mo without
protest on his part, involving gross in
juries to me which have been greatly
aggravated by your writing, Have put me
before my countrymen in a character
which I trust is foreign to my nature
and life. Under tho accumulating
weight of this odium unjustly bestowed
on me, neither patience nor charity can
demand that I remain silent.
The Beecher Scandal.
New York, June 2G. —Tho clerk of
Beecher’s Church says no session has
been called, and that no proceedings
are probable. Tilton had been told that
if he would bring a direct charge it
would be received and investigated,
whether made against tho pastor or any
member of the Plymouth Church. The
church will not attack vagaries.
A Peekskill dispatch says that Henry
Ward Beecher, who is passing the Suiq
mer vacation at his farm, near this place,
in answer to an inquiry ns to what course
lie would pursue in regard to tho recent
statement of Theodore Tilton, says lie
will not break the silence ho has hither
to observed.
New York, June 28, p. m.— Beecher
was present at the weekly prayer meet
ing at Plymouth Church this evening.
The proceedings wore of the usual <lo
votional character and no reference
whatever was made to the matter re
cehtly ventilated by Tilton.
FROM THE ORIENT.
The Japanese On a Conquering Expe
dition.
San Francisco, June 27.— The steam
ship. Alaska brings Yokohotna dates to
June sth. A Japanese legation has been
established at Pekin, Kedo. A member
of the Japanese Ministry and head of tho
Department of Education has been mur
dered by liis countrymen. The total
number of Japanese troops in Formoosa
is 2,000. Collisions have occurred be
tween them and the natives. The Ja
panese have lost nine killed, ■ and
the natives many more. The Chinese
had not taken part in tho hostilities,
but the Chinese Government had issued
orders to its subjects all ulour the coast
of the invaded country to afford the .Ta-
panese every assistance possible. Ad
miral Pennock had arrived and taken
command of the squadron in the China
seas. The Japanese Government had
issued a notification that after the Ist of
August next the exportation of rice and
wheat, beyond the seas will be prohibit
ed. The Alaska sailed from Hong Kong
May 27th. The latest news from Pekin
represents that all is quiet at the scene
of the recent riot among the French and
Chinese.
The Nagasaki Express says it is evi
dently the intention of tlio Japanese
Government to annex so much of the
territory of the Formossa as is not under
the control of China.
THE RED MAN.
He Wants to be a Citizen.
Parson, Kansas, Juno 27.—Important
changes have taken place in the Indian
Territory. All the agents of the civil
ized Indians have been relieved except
ing J. B. Jones, agent of the Chorokecs,
anil r central agency has been establish
ed %t Fort Gibson. The Cherokecs,
Choctaws, Creeks, Beminolcs, Chioku
saws and oilier civilized Indians will bo
under Agent Jones. This is regarded
as an experiment on a small scale to
familiarize the Indians with self-govern
ment under future Territorial organiza
tion. A number of prominent Indians
will take strong ground in their coming
annual election in favor of sectionizing
their country, Territorial government,
and citizenship in flic United Btales.
The Oaklahoma ntar, published at
Caddo, in the Choctaw Nation, openly
advocates this doctrine.
Weekly Cotton Htateinent.
| New York, June 27.—The market for
cotton on the spot has been dull, but
values were unsettled. Financial irre
gularities and other disturbing elements
caused a rise of one-quarter cent in money
and with an advance in gold, shippers
I operated to some extent, but the deal
ings werejonly to meet immediate wants,
and these having been supplied, a reac
tion set in and business for the re
•’mainder of the week was exceedingly
dull. Forward deliveries have been ill
active demand, but values have fluc
tuated considerable. The total sales of
the week were 102,45il bales, of which
157,400 were on contract and 5,043 for
immediate delivery, chiefly to (spinners.
■
From Alabama.
MoNTOOMERr, June 25.—Town Mar
shal Goodson, of Fort Deposit, while
attempting to arrest a drunken negro,
was shot and killed by him. Two weeks
ago Mrs. Cook, of Bluut county, missed
her three children, the eldest aged six.
The search was made, and the children
found drowned in a well. Mrs. Cook
went crazy and two or three days ago
escaped her attendants anil drowned
herself in the same well.
The Alabama Equal Rights Associa
tion is in session here. All negroes.
Nothing of importance. Phil Poseph,
of Mobile, is temporary Chairman.
Tuilor, measuring fat customer.—
“Would you hold the end, sir, while I
go round. ”