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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1874)
DECEMBER 80,1874. W EDSW- —-*■ CROP OP IS74—7*> Cflf ,Mul in oar paper yesterday that jpeat faith in the correctness of *®/nate of the cotton crop as made •• Department of Agriculture. The Eon is of such great pecuniary in- Mt to our people that we devote M h space to the elaborate report of Me Department of Agriculture, which Ire accept as conclusive. ON DUELLING. The following is the section in the Constitution of the State of Georgia concerning duelling: Abticlb ll.— Section V. No person who, after the adoption of this Constitu tion, being a resident of the State, shall engage in a duel in this State or else where, or shall send or accept a chal lenge, or be aider or a bettor, to such duel, shall vote or hold office in this State; and every such person shall, also, be subject to such punishment as the law may prescribe. THE MANHATTAN CLUB. We are in receipt of an invitation from Manton Marble, Esq., Secretary of the Manhattan Club, to be present at a reception to be given on the evening of the 29th of December, by the Club, to their fellow-members, the Hon. Samuel J. Tildes, elected Governor of the State of New York, and William J. Wickham,, Esq., elected Mayor of the eity of New York. It is difficult to resist such a flattering invitation, but circum stances beyond our control will prevent its acceptance. Wo must be content with acknowledging the compliment, and tendering our congratulations to the members of the Manhattan Club on the triumph of the Democracy in the recent elections. THE COTTON TAX. Mb. Smith, of North Carolina, has introduced in Congress a very foolish and mischievous bill, and we are sur prised to find that there are newspapers which give it commendation. The bill, in substance, is this : The tax upon cot ton was illegally imposed; the amount must be refunded; bnt instead of giving the money to those from whom it was taken it shall be used to pay the public debts of the Southern States. It is simjfly confiscation in its worst form, nothing more nor less. Tho Congress of the United States has no more right to appropriate this tax to the payment of such indebtedness than it has to sell the people of Massachusetts to the Grand Turk. The law imposing the tax upon cotton was" either right or wrqng. If right, the money should re main in the National Treasury. If wrong, it should be paid to those to whom it be longs. Mr. Smith’s bill is an absurdity, and a dishonest absurdity as well. A PLAIN MORAL. “The plain moral of it all is that pub lic companies should stand upon their own feet, and that they have no more right to be supported at the expense of the tax payers than newspapers or any other description of private property. We hope Congress will not fail to re member tlfis when Tom Slott]s huge job is brought before it. ‘No more sub sidies’—an excellent motto for this Con gress and fyr all that are still to come.” —New York Time*. And “the plain moral” of the above is Tom Scott wauts subsidies for a South ern railroad—tho Southern Pacific Rail road. If he was about asking Congress for a grant to aid anything of the kind North your opinion about “public com panies standing upon their own feet” would no doubt bo different. Having bled the Treasury out of millions upon millions in building the Central and Northern Pacific Railroads, in building custom houses and post offices at every town wanting them, and squandered enough in other public enterprises to pay off the national debt, yon now com mence crying ont economy so soon as the South aa!\j for a little aid in build ing a caual from the Tennessee river and a railroad from Texas to tho Pacific ocean, THE LAST NATIONAL SCANDAL. A committee of Congress, regularly raised for that purpose, is now engaged investigating tho affairs of tlje Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and particu larly the means employed by it in get ting a bill passed by Congress appropri ating an annual subsidy of $500,000 to it. It is charged that in getting this bill through the sum of $750,000 was paid by the company to members of Congress for their votes. For several months stockholders of the company charged Mr. Irwin, the Secretary and Treasurer of the oompany, with having appropriated a large sum of mouey to his own use. In this charge, Mr. Stock well, the President, was impli cated. They now come forward and refute the charge by alleging that they paid the money out in getting the Congressional appropriation. In order to clear itself Congress puts tho direct question to Irwin, “Who did you pay the money to ?” Irwin evades this, and states in general terms that he did not pay it directly to any member but to third parties, of course with the understanding with them that it was to go to Congressmen for and in considera tion of their votes. Ibwin, in his evi dence, says that his company gave him $750,000. Says a Washington dispatch to the New York Times : Ife testified positively that he took all that money and used it in pursuance of his original agreemetit with Stockwell to procure the subsidy. He. nsed not one dollar of it in sfock speculation or otherwise than in this business. He was at last asked the direct question whom. he had employed to aid him here in pro curing the subsidy. This question was asked him on Friday, and he requested a day in which to consider what he should reply. Yesterday he declined absolutely to answer. He first stated, however, that not one of those persons who was employed by him was a njem ber or officer of the last Congress, or a member or officer of this. His reason for declining to give the names was that ho considered the committee had ex hausted its power, and that it had no jurisdiction of the subject matter em braced in the question. Another reason which he assigned was that he conld not disclose the names of those gentlemen with whom he had carried on negotia tions consistently with his views of what would be honorable on his part By which it will be seen that he makes no concealment of the fact that the money was used in bribery. The New York Times (Republican) says edito rially : It appears quite clear that Stockwell paid Irwin $750,000 for use in Washing ton to facilitate the passage of the sub sidy for the Pacific Mail Company, and that it was so spent. But who received the money we do not yet know. The attempt of the Albany lobbyists to make ont that Stockweel himself “ made away” with—i. <?., stole—the money, therefore, breaks down. It is quite evi dent that a subsidy obtained by such means aSdheee cannot bo permitted to stand. It is evident that the Radical party was overthrown none too soon. It lead the country to the very verge of finan cial ruin. The above transaction was enongh to scandalize any nation on Mrtk. It is rumored that there is a probabili ty of the South Carolina Railroad leas ing the Charlotte, Colombia and Au gusta line. At the last meeting of the stockholders of the latter company a proposition was made by the Carolina Road for a lease and a committee was appointed to consider the matter. The committee consists of Messrs. Wm. H. Brawley, Bion, Palmer, Newcomer, Bruxjhbs and Townsend. It is said that * favorable report will be made, bnt as yet nothing has been agreed upon. Blitz, the magician, has been delight ing the people of Savannah. Nick Thompson, who killed Captain Hnnter at Qnitman, has been convicted of murder in the first degree. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. As the new postal law, requiring pre payment of postage on newspapers, goes into effect on the first day of January, publishers must insist not only on the payment of postage in advance but also o4pbe pre-payment of subscriptions. The subscription and postage on the Chronicle and Sentinel for 1875 will be as follows : Daily one year $lO 60 Daily six months 5 30 Tri-Weekly six months 5 40 Tri-Weekly one year. 2 70 Weekly one year 2 20 Weekly six months 1 10 The past year has been a hard one on all departments of business, and es pecially so on newspapers, which cannot prosper while the agrionltnral and com mercial interests, of the country are de pressed. The proprietors of the Chronicle and Sentinel have endeavored to pub lish a representative paper, folly alive to the wants and interests not only of Angnstabnt of the District and the State. How far we have been successful in our efforts it is not for ns, but the people who have supported us with their pat ronage, to determine. We shall endeavor to keep up the Chronicle and Sentinel to its present standard. We can make it a better pa per if our friends will aid na. All the as sistance we ask is that parties indebted pay what they owe. The accounts are all small, and there is no man so so poor that he cannot pay a few dollars subscription. Let no subscriber flatter himself with the idea that his small ac count amounts to nothing. Unfortu nately there are too many who come to this iojurious conclusion. Subscribers will aid us materially by responding promptly to the bills now being sent out. If any of our friends fail to get the paper after the first of January it will be because they have failed to pay their subscription. We therefore re- quest them to come forward and re spond promptly by paying their in debtedness. There are some men who consider newspapers common property and never think of paying for them. We have known some such in our day. Our ap-. peal is not to this class, for we are well aware that it would be as fruitless as an effort to whistle down the wind. We pay cash for labor and material, and we must insist on our patrons pay ing both for subscriptions and advertise ments. The amount due by each indi vidual is insignificant, being scattered among many thousand people, but the aggregate supplies the ways and means, and insures the continuance of the Chronicle and Sentinel. THU STATE OF GEORGIA AND THE NEW YORK STOCK EX CHANGE. ” Some weeks since Mr. Edward Bran don, Chairman of the Committee on Se curities, New York Stock Exchange, ad dressed a note, first to the State Treas urer, Col. Jones, and afterwards to Gov. Smith, informing them that payment of coupons upon certain Georgia bonds had been refused, and that, in conse quence the Governing Committee of the Exchange had determined to strike all the bonds of the State from the bond list unless those in dispute “were recognized and declared valid without needless de lay.” This insolent missive received a fitting reply from each of the officials addressed. Gov; Smith answered that payment of interest upon the bonds re ferred to had been refused “on the ground that no satisfactory explanation had been made of the manner in which they were put into circulation, or of the capacity in which they were held by those claiming them.” These bonds, it seems, wero some of those which the holders refused to present to the inves tigating committee of 1871-2, and • are not recognized by tho Treasury until after their ownership and validity has been inquired into. He closes his letter 1 by saying: Before receiving your letter, I had heard it intimated that a threat had been made by persons supposed to have influ ence with the stock boards of this coun try, that the policy pursued would be to let the State of Georgia “severely alone,” in consequence of a refusal upon her part to accept a scheme which had been suggested for compounding with her creditors. The very uncalled-for action of vonr board when considered in this connection is very significant. I regret that you should have deemed it proper to indulge in a covert threat for the pur pose of intimidating the authorities of the State into a compliance with a de mand of your board. I have no desire to indulge in harsh expressions, and therefore will not characterize this par ticular feature in the action of your board in the language it deserves. I have only to say that the people of Georgia intend to pay their honest pub lic debt as it becomes due; but will never pay dishonest or fraudulent claims upon their treasury. By adhering strict ly to this policy they feel quite sure that die public credit will beestablished upon a firm basis, standing upon which it will not be in the power of the manipu lators even of the “New York Stock Ex change” to do it any material injury. Treasurer Jones was even more severe upon Mr. Edward Brandon and the New York Stock Exchange. His letter is short and so muoh to the point that we give it in full: Treasury of Georgia, ) Atlanta, December 15, 1874. j Sir— At the instance of his Excellency the Governor, I write in answer of yours to him of the 11th instant, to inform you that the coupons of the bonds about which yon seem so solicitous were ordered to be paid by letter to the Fourth National Bank, New York, dated 31st August, 1874, a copy of which, from my letter-book I enclose herewith. As to anything the New York Stock Exchange may arrogate to itself in the matter, I take this occasion to say that feeling under no obligation to that con cern, in the sale of her securities in the past, but relying on the public spirit and honor of her people, the State of Georgia has not heretofore asked its assistance, and does not now require its endorsement for the maintainance of her credit.. Indeed, our universal feel ing is, that we can get along, not only without such interferences bat in spite of them. Governor Bullock and Mr. Kimball placed the finances x>f the State so com pletely at the mercy of Wall street that the Stock Exchange still thinks it may give orders to a State government. The members of that institntion will, per haps, learn after awhile that Bullock and Kimball no longer rule and ruin in Georgia. ’ To dun a debtor on a postal card has just been decided by the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio as unlawful. The Court held that anything so written as to injure the credit or reputation of any oue is a crime. The decision was made in the case of a man who dunned a debtor for an old account on a postal card, and in that manner made the mat ter public and to the detriment of the latter’s credit elsewhere. Editors’credi tors will please take notice and avoid suits for damages, which, in accordance with a resolution of the Georgia Press Association, will be vigorously prose cuted. • Congress seems to have set its face against subsidies for the present at least. A resolution offered by Holman, of Indiana, against future subsidies was not adopted for want of the two-thirds vote necessary to suspend the rules, so as to take np the resolution ont of its order for adoption. When the vote was being announced a member from Ken tucky changed his vote from yea to nay, thus preventing by one vote the adop tion of the resolution by a two-thirds majority A youth asked permission of his mother to go to a ball. She told him it was a bad place for little boys. “ Why, mother, didn't yon and father go to balls when you were young ?" “ Yes, bnt we have seen the folly of it," said the mother. “ Well mother," exclaimed the son, “ I want to see the folly of it, too.” At Salisbury Point, Massachusetts, there are three churches, the minister of each rejoicing in the name of Wright One lives in the upper part of the town, one in the lower, and the third at the mills; so the people have dabbed their spiritual guides as “Upright,” “Down right” and “Millwright” OIK ATLANTA LETTER. The Railroad Meeting-The Railway Interests—The Texas Pacific —Who Took Stock in Georgia—State House Notes—The Anderson Suicide—The Elberton Air Line—The Macon* and Brunswick Bonds. [From an Occasional Gorresponrlent of the Chronicle and Sentinel.] Atlanta, Ga., December 23, 1874. The recent railroad meeting held in Macon, and the action taken by the com panies which composed it, is attracting mnch attention here and elsewhere. The railroad question is also being very folly discussed. In the face of the facts presented, no one attempts to deny that the railroads of. the South, .and es pecially those of the State of Geor gia, are * losing money. There is reason to believe that not a single line has earned a dividend upon its stock du ring the past six months. The only divi dends declared will be by the South western and Augusta and Savannah Railroads, and both of these will be paid in accordance with the contracts by which those companies were leased to the Central. The same causes which have so seriously affected every other in dustry have also injured railway corpo rations. In addition to these, most of the lines have been subjected to severe and ruinous competition. In order to remedy the evil as far as possible the Macon meeting was called. Of its action you have been already advised. An increase of rates has been agreed npon and nnder the plan adopted will be adhered to by the companies in in terest, which comprise nearly all the lines between St. Louis and Norfolk and represent ODe hundred millions of capi tal. The pooling system was hit upon as the only plan by which to prevent underbidding. This is a perfectly simple and, I suppose, satisfactory arrangement —to the railroads, if not to the public. By it the earnings of all the roads will be “pooled”—that is put in a com mon fund—and then divided pro rata among the combination. Under this ar rangement it makes no difierence wheth er a railroad hauls a bag of cotton or not. It will get its pro rata of the earn ings of the others. This pro rata is regulated by the length of a road, its facilities for doing business and its loca tion—a trunk line like the Geor gia, the Central or the Western and Atlantic getting a much larger propor tion than the Port Royal or Macon and Augusta. This system will greatly in crease the earnings of all the companies, though it is evident that the cream of this season’s business is gone. Had such an arrangement been made in Oc tober instead of December, the Georgia and Central might have given their stockholders a dividend for a Christmas present instead of a balance sheet with the figures all on the wrong side of the ledger. With regard to the recent add, I think, unwise and unjust attempt to tax railways with charter exemptions,the railroads seem less alarmed than tbe outsiders imagine. They will, of course, fight the question in the Courts as long as there is a Court to which they can re sort. But should the cases be ultimate ly and finally decided against them, they will save themselves from loss by the adoption of a very simple and equally effectual expedient: An advance in rates will be made sufficient to cover the tax, and the dear ‘public will be the only losers by a measure de signed for their protection. I think that the people will soon be convinced of the folly as well as injustice of the warfare waged indiscriminately against all rail way corporations by men who think •they touch a popular chord when they denounce “chartered monopolies,” and declare the rights of the people endan gered by allowing railroad companies to manage their own business. The Texas Pacific. A story is told here concerning Tom Scott’s Texas Pacific Railroad scheme, which, if true, and of its truth I think there is little doubt, shows that even the shrewdest and most sagacious men may be over-reached occasionally. When Mr. Scott commenced work on his mammoth job eighteen months or two years ago every one saw a fortune ahead and every one was anxious to become in terested in the undertaking. It was in the national ‘ ‘flush times” when railways were being built all over the country, whether they were needed or not, and without the builders putting scarcely any money in the enterprises. They were con structed wholly upon an atmospheric basis. Glowing prospectuses were pub lished, first, second and third mortgage bonds were issued, and, as they promised a high rate of interest, and could be purchased at a considerable discount, found ready sale among the capitalists of London and Frankfort. After awhile came Government subsidies, liberally supplied, which made the com pletion"of the new roads a certainty Col. Scott had built other roads-in this way, and.he had reason to expect that the plan would work well with the Texas Pacific. It was never in contemplation to call in, at the outside, more than 20 per cent, of the subscribed stock. The remainder of the money was to come' from the sale of bonds and land grants and from Govern ment subsidies. It was reasonably ex pected that the road—in this instance a necessity and certain to do a good busi ness when completed—would pay a fair dividend on the par value of the stock, and a very handsome profit on the real amount invested. For instance, if the road paid seven per cent, on the nomi nal it would yield fully thirty-five per cent, upon the real capital—a pretty per cent., which even the re-enactment of the usury law could not disturb. In order, I suppose, to keep out the little fish, who might prove troublesome, Col. Scott put his shares at $250,000 each— a figure which placed them beyond the reach of ordinary mortals. As a special favor to the lessees of the Western and Atlantic Railroad and on account, I sup pose, of the connection of the Secretary of the Interior with both enterprises, the gentlemen composing the lease company were allowed to divide a shar9 among them. Of course the allotments did not go beggiDg. The lessees saw a good thing in them and naturally desired a participation in good things. In this they were not to blame. Very few of us, able to raise the twenty per cent., would have rejected the offer. A few of the les sees, however, did—not because they saw any wrong in the operation—for there was none—bnt because they were afraid to assume even a possible liabili ty of such magnitude. Gov. Brown, Mr. Grant and others, I am told, partook largely of the tempting dish. Col. Scott went to Europe with his bonds; Mr. Gabbett was ahead of him and had staggered Europe a little by the size of his demands, though his mission was successful; the panic, precipitated by the bursting of the Northern Pacific bubble, followed him; his appeals could not make the Englishmen and Germans unbutton their breeches pockets; and he came home to find that Congress had been frightened from the subsidy business. Under the circumstances the twenty per cent, ar rangement had to be abandoned. Installment after installment was paid until 85 per cent, had been called in. Now I am told the other 15 has been de manded, and when this has been col lected the stock will be paid up in full. One can readily imagine the agony which each successive call has occasioned and how different the investment appears now from what it did two years ago. “ The greatest clerks are not the wisest men ” —the best financiers are occasion ally scorched. State House Notes—Richmond Taxes. Every one in the State House is busily engaged preparing for the approaching session of the Legislature. The Treas urer and Comptroller-General are at work Upon their reports, and the Gov ernor has commenced the preparation of, his message. The interior of the Capi tol is undergoing painting and repairs, in order that the ricketty old man-trap may be made as comfortable as possible for the law-givers this Winter. The mes sage, it is said, will contain some import ant information and recommendations and will treat of one matter of the gravest movement. Of the nature of the coming sensation every one, save the posted and reticent few, seems igno rant, and we must contain our souls in patience until the bombshell explodes. We shall not have long to wait, and in the meantime the newspaper editors may amuse themselves guessing the rid dle. Your Richmond county readers will be glad to learn that their tax offi cers are spoken of in the highest terms by the Treasurer and Comptroller.— Captain Joses says that Mr. Bohleb, Tax Collector of Richmond, is one of the best collectors in the State, and the best of those who hold office in the wealthy counties. He does his work faithfully and promptly— sending on the money as rapidly as it is collected, and assisting the Treasury at a time when it most needs assistance. When the collection of ' the taxes commences the creditors of the State send in their bills and expect payment, and fnnds are greatly needed. _ The collectors of many of the counties do not remit until late in the season, and by their de lay cause the State much embarrass ment and annoyance. Mr. BoHnEB sends the money which he collects as fast as received, and has earned a fine reputa tion in the departments. Most of the collectors think to jnake themselves popular by indulgences, which they have no right to give. Mr. Bohlkb has shown that an officer can be efficient and popu lar also. Captain Jobes and Colonels Goldsmith and Rkxfboe are as mnch pleased at the renomination of Mr. Bohler and Colonel Wilson as are any of their friends in Richmond county. Colonel Wilson’s office brings him in contact only with the Comptroller’s office, and the officials of that depart ment loudly sing his praises. He has greatly increased the digest since his term of office commenced, sees to it that all property is returned at a fair valua tion, and does his work neatly and with dispatch. The term of office of the Re ceiver and Collector should be four in stead of two years. Macon and Brunswick Bonds. Another bond complication will come before the Legislature for adjudication. The State endorsed bonds of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad were investiga ted by the Bond Committee of 1871-'72 and the then facts reported without rec ommendation. Subsequently a joint res olution was adopted end approved recog nizing the validity of the endorsement. The State has since treated the endorse ment aa binding, and when the company failed to pay the interest, a few months since, seized the road and now holds it as its property. Bnt it is said that when the Governor visited Macon, a week or two ago, an examination of the books disclosed two facts : (1) That sufficient stock had not been subscribed, to meet the requirements of the Constitntion, when the bonds were endorsed; and (2) that the proceeds arising from the nego tiation of the bonds were not properly applied. This discovery is thought to have caused the postponement of the sale, which the Governor deemed it his duty to put off until an investigation conld be had by the General Assembly. Of canrse these statements are not given as facts, but as current reports. I think, however, that there is foundation for them and that the subject will be a prominent feature of the message. The Elberton Air Line. Col. Gordon Gaiedner, formerly of Angnsta, bnt now of Macon, passed through Atlanta recently. He is the engineer of the Elberton Air Line Rail way—running, or designed to rup, from Elberton to Tocoa City on the Air Line Road—and is very sanguine of the suc cess of that enterprise. Half the dis tance twenty-five miles has been graded at a cost of twenty-one thousand dollars, and the remainder of the grad- ing can be done at equally low rates. The road follows the crest of a ridge which is almost as level’ as a parlor floor, crosses no water courses and can be graded for less than one thousand dollars per mile. The money for the work done has been paid and the company owes nothing. It will soon commence track laying, and the engineer expects to have the line in running order by next Fall. The iron will be purchased with bonds which an iron company has already agreed to take at ninety cents on the dollar. The El bert people are anxious to have the Savannah Valley Road built from Au gusta to Elberton, so as to connect with the new line, and this policy will be doubtless urged npon the management of the Hartwell road. The Anderson Suicide. The suicide of Colonel Samuel J. An derson has been the nine days wonder in Atlanta. As usual, public opinion is divided on General Toombs’ connection with the tragedy. Some say that he was the dead man’s benefactor; that he had given him a nominal situation solely for the purpose of extending to him charity, and that Anderson had drawn upon him for more money than he was entitled to receive. Others maintain that Ander son considered his place a permanent situation, and that he should have been notified, when the last draft was paid that no more would be honored, and that his employment was at an end. Whatever the causes, it is certain that there is no more deliberate case of self-murder on record, and that no man ever feared death less than this brilliant but unfor tunate man. Becky Sharp. BISHOP GROSS ON PAPAL INFAL LIBILITY. [From the N. Y. Herald.] Savannah, Ga., December 14, 1874. J. Gordon Bennett, Esq.: Dear Sir —Your note of the sth ult. came dvny to hand. lam just now too much engaged with the affairs of my diocese to have time for an elaborate discussion of the subject to which you refer. Our Saviour has given us the rule that we should “render to Csosar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” We must, therefore, give to God all that belongs to Him, and to the civil government all that belongs to it. But may not Cmsar from time to time demand for himself that which belongs to God ? Have poli ticians been so pure and enlightened as never to ask but for those things which belong to Caesar ? Have they not often sought for themselves that which be longs only to God ? History tells us that kings and governments have often gone out of the sphere ascribed to them by the Almighty and claimed things which clearly belonged to God. This our own Federal Constitution recogni zes in declaring unconstitutional any law infringing <sn the conscience of the people. While we must give to the State all that belongs to it, still, when it asks of us what belongs to God only, we must say with the apostles, “If it be just in the sight of God to hear ye rath er than God, judge ye.” Bnt in such a crisis who is to tell us what are the things which belong to God ? Not Cae sar, not the State ; for they never re ceived any commission from Heaven to tell us what are the things of God. But the Church of Christ has received thu commission to teach all nations, and has the divine promise that the gates of hell shall not prevail against her. The Church is Christ’s own bride. She is not a miserable slattern that is always needing reformation; so despicable that she is every now and then being seduced until some glorious reformer rises up to rebuke her for her licentiousness. Such a bride would not be worthy of a re spectable man, much less of Jesus Christ. But “she is a glorious church, not hav ing spot or wrinkle nor any such thing.” Not "only the Paraclete, the spirit of truth, is to dwell with her all days, but Christ himself has promised to abide with her until the end of time. In the church, therefore, the spotless bride' of Christ, we Catholics have one who will and can infallibly teach all nations what are the things of God. Thus the church teaches her children that in all things belonging to the civil order they must give to the Govern ment the proper reverence and obedi ence; for they are “the things of Caesar. ” And in questions concerning conscience she is there to tell her children how far Caesar may go without usurping to him self the things that are God’s. She thus on the one hand provides good sub jects to the State, and on the other avoids the rock of anarchy ’which would result from allowing eveiy man, woman and child to be the judge whether or not the enactments of the State clash with the duties owing by the individual to his God. She, the bride of Christ, “holy and without blemish,” cannot lead us astray; for Christ, loving her even as a husband loves his wife, is con sequently willing to protect her, and He is able to do so, for He is the Son to whom it hath been said: “Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever.” In the lapse of ages Caesar, the State, has often demanded for himself what belongs to God. And because the children of the church, unwilling to give to Caesar the things that are God’s, reply to such de mands of Caesar, “If it be just in the sight of God to hear ye rather than God, judge ye,” the same old accusation all the way down from Nero and Diocle tian to the Robespierres, Victor Em manuels, Bismarcks and the Parisian Communists of modern times is brought up that the Catholics are not loyal enough to the civil government. The action of Mr. Gladstone, there fore, does not surprise us Catholics. It is nothing new. It is only the tried old “ no popery” ory, which has more than once resounded through England, sending a pions shiver to the heart of sturdy John Bull. We Catholics in America, who are somewhat acquainted with the immaculate loyalty of politi cians, regard Mr. Gladstone’s action as merely the frantic effort of a broken down politician to recover office. I am not of the number of those who think that the same howl may not be raised in this country. America seems to suf fer from periodical attacks of the no popery distemper. The present, indeed, seems to be a favorable moment. The negro question being now worn thread bare, an immense number of virtuous politicians have been suddenly left in a most distressing want of themes npon which to warn Americans of the dangers threatening the liberties of onr Union. What a stroke of luck, therefore, would this question of infallibility prove to those most unselfish patriots who, like Mr. Gladstone, are bo willing to accept office for their country’s good if they conld bnt stir up the ghost of another "Know Nothibg crusade against Catho lics, and thus ride once more into power. Yours, Ac., +W. H. Gross, Bishop of Savannah. How to Keep a Situation.—Be ready to throw in an odd half hour or an hour’s time when it will be an accommodation, and don’t seem to make a merit of it. Do it heartily. Though not a word be said, your employer will make a note of it. Make yourself irdispensable to him, and he will lose many of the opposite kind before he will part with you. Those young men who watch the clock the very second their hour is np—who leave, bo matter what state the work may be in, at precisely the instant —who calculate the extra amount they can slight their work and yet not get reproved—who are lavish of their employer’s goods—will always be first to receive notice, "when times are dull, that their services are no longer required. IMMIGRATION. Editors Chronicle and Sentinel: A recent trip through several counties in Middle Georgia more than ever con vinces me that the most urgent neces sity is upon our State and people to speedily organize for the introduction of the best class of European farmers, dairymen, herdsmen, spinners, miners and artisans. Georgia presents such inducements and attractions that to be seen by the stranger is to carry conviction to the most skeptical. Nearness to the harbors and markets of the great Atlantic, with a soil and climate uneqnaled, and with water power to spin a dozen times her cotton crop, we claim for her pre emi nence over her Southern sisters and a superiority in all the attractions of all the Western States combined. The Western Grangers are moving to bring in population to their States. Cannot onr Grangers form societies, sub scribe lands and appoint agents to go to Europe to present the claims of their particular sections? Let a move be made on our Legislature and a subsidy be voted' to some good responsible steamship company to bring over monthly such emigrants as may be of fered to the line. Bring them free and give them lands at nominal prices, or if need be, outright. Get them here and then treat them right. “ The Bulletin notes the effects of to Grangers to stimulate immigration the their unoccupied lands on the Pacific ooast. By the means which they have adopted, it says, it is believed that, ere long at least one hundred thousand im migrants of the most desirable class can be induced to come as permanent set tlers to the Pacific coast. Any plan which proposes to give anew- country the benefit of a resident population of this class deserves encouragement; and if the Grangers of the Mississippi States would turn their energies in a similar di rection, we have no doubt, the editor says, it would be productive of results infinitely more profitable than any that are likely to enure from unfriendly dem onstrations upon the great railway inter ests.” . Georgia. EDWIN BOOTH’S LOSS. His Past Good Fortune and Present Wreck —Tne Home of tbe Great Tragedian. [N. Y. Letter, Dec. 11, to Troy Times.] Napoleon culminated at forty-five, when his progress was checked by Waterloo. Booth has anticipated that age, and has reached ruin at forty. Seldom have any of the sons of genius traveled with equal rapidity the road to misfortune. Churchill was, as Byron said, “ the comet of a season,” but this was a figure of speech. What Churchill was in the literature of a past century, Booth has been in the drama of the present age. Churchill culminated and died at thirty-three. Booth was just that age when he reached the highest position, and had he died at that time, his genius would not have been ob scured by the misery which has recently fallen on him. At the age of thirty three Booth had no equhl in the drama tic world. Asa performer he enchanted the pqblic, and criticism only became eloquent in his praise. For one hun dred successive nights he appeared in this city as Hamlet, his fee being $3,000 a week, and when the role was concluded and the full century was completed, a gold medal was presented amid the ap plause of a crowded house. Booth was then considered worth a half million ; now he is a bankrupt. His beautiful seat at Long Branch has gone in the general wreck; he has impoverished his friends ; his theatre is out 6f his hands ; and all that is left is the portion reoeived with his wife and the earnings of last year’s itineracy. THE THEATRE. The scene of his ruin is corner of Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street. It is of enormous size, is built without regard to cost, and being of Concord granite, forms an imposing feature in our architecture. It was built with a purpose of exhibiting the best of Sliaks peare’s dramas, and this was done with all the enthusiasm genius of the great tragedian. Notwithstanding the artistic show and the talent displayed, the scheme was a failure, and the theatre has of late been devoted to melo drama and farce. “Rip Van Winkle” survives “Hamlet.” This fate has fol lowed almost all attempts to restore tbe drama to classic dignity, and Booth might have learned from the past, were it not impossible for an enthusiast to learn by aught save his own experience. Even Garrick referred to it in one of his own prologues, and the lesson thus taught a century ago has been recently repeated with impressive force : “Sacred to Shalsspeare was the spot designed To pierce the heart and harmonize the mind ; But if an empty house —the actors curse — Show us our Lears and Hamlet’s losing force, Unwilling we must change the noble scene, And in our turn present you Harlequin. If want comes on importance must retreat Our first great ruling passion is—to eat.” When the theatre was finished, Booth , found himself in debt a half million. For three seasons he endeavored to keep up the Skaksperian -dramas, and he pro duced some of them with a grandeur of stylo which has never been equaled in England or America. It cost $50,000 to get up King John, and as much more for Hamlet. No wonder the theatre failed. SINCE THE FAILURE. After the failure the property went un der the care of the tragedian’s brother, Junius Brutus Booth, who is much more of a business man. He is by profession an actor, but is so indifferent in histri onic genius that he is content to serve as a manager, in which department he has had great success. He now owns one-half of tbe Boston Theatre, which is a valuable property. Under his ad vice the theatre constructed by his brother was leased to Jarrett & Palmer, who have plenty of capital and are able to pay a rent of SI,OOO per week. Booth went starring through the conntry, and had brilliant success, but it was evident that he did not like this system. It was hardly the thing for one who had held so brilliant a position, and then he could not adapt himself to the inconveniences of small theatres. When last season closed he returned to his residence, and there he has remained, declining all efforts to bring him again before the public. a tragedian’s home. In Connecticut, and not far from this city, is a small stream called the Coscob river, which is crossed by a railway bridge. Here is a fine mansion, built by the late Charles M. Barros, author of the Black Crook. Barras died in a very shocking manner. It is well known that since the Nowalk calamity Connecticut requires railway trains to halt before crossing a bridge. Barras was in the habit of using this halt as an opportu nity for alighting from the train, which, if one is careful, can easily be done with safety One evening, however, he was engaged in conversation when the train reached the bridge, and lost his best op portunity, but being intent on getting off, he stepped while the train was in motion, little thinking that the bridge had no floor. The result was that he fell between tbe tracks a distance of 20 feet, reaching a rocky bottom. Thus died the author of “Black Crook,” leav ing an estate worth SIOO,OOO. He had no wife or children, and it went to a pair of brothers, neither of whom he had seen in many years and for whom he cared but little. The Barras mansion was purchased by Booth. As his wife (formerly Miss McVicker, of Chicago,) has a wealthy father, there could be no difficulty in obtaining a home, and there tbe tragedian remains. It was supposed that he would either take a starring tour this Winter or appear on the boards of the metropolis, but the public has been disappointed. He could fill the largest of our houses with an ad miring audience, and his neglect to im prove such an opportunity is a matter of surprise to those who do not understand the reason. I can not with propriety speak on this point, except to repeat a hint that Booth’s troubles have impaired his mind, and that there is danger of his sharing the fate of Hamlet. Every one will hope that this be not the case, bnt nothing short of his reappearance on the stage will abate the suspicion that his retirement is dne to such a cause. The public now calls for Booth. NEW YORK ITEMS. New York, December 24. -Agents of the South Carolina hope,with fair weath er, thaPthe vessel will soon be afloat. They say the steamer is not damaged. * * The can-can women were released. The manager promised not to repeat, and was held in five hundred dollars’ bail. * * Bnt little business was done at the Stock Exchange to-day, the time being given np to such sportive demon strations as are usually indulged, m by the brokers the day before Christmas. The usual programme was, # however, varied, to-day, by hiring a colored man to personate the King of the Sandwich Islands, and taking flim into the Ex change and giving him a mock recep tion. * * In the case of Josephine Mansfield against the executors of James Fisk, for payment on two notes amount ing to $20,500, payable to plaintiff in 1868 by Fisk, the jury to-day gave a ver dict for Manfield, with interest. It is estimated that the “hide haul ers of Kansas, Texas, Colorado, and Southern Nebraska kill 50,000 buffalo each year for the Bkins alone; that the Indians kill three times that number, and that perhaps 10,000 more are killed by sportsmen and those pioneers who depend on the buffalo for their Winter meat. Thus we have the enormous fig ure of 210,000. as the annual slaughter. THE STOLEN CHILD. Charlie Ross Still Alive—Mysterious Outirivinjfa—lira. Mosher’s Story of Her Lite. The New York and Philadelphia police are still actively pursning every cine that can be ascertained as to the whereabouts of the Ross child, but with a want of success that seems to prove that the kill ing t>f the burglars has deepened rather than dissipated the mystery that covers up the case. THE nmr.n STILL LIVING. Mr. Cnilds, of the Philadelphia Led ger, who has been in New York aiding in the search, says : “One of the very few satisfactory results of the searching inquiries made by the Philadelphia par ty who spent four nights and days at the work last week in New York, was to make it clear that the child was living a few hours before the two brigands were killed. This does not refer to what Dorglass said while he was gasping in the throes of death, but to other con yincing information independant of that, and as conclusive as any circumstantial evidence, or anything short of actual visible proof can be. Either the child was living on Saturday, December 12th, or else the brigands did not know any thing to the contrary at that time. If we were at liberty to place the testimony which warrants this belief before the public, it would be found to be a full justification of the foregoing statement, but the particulars cannot be published without the risk of defeating the chance that further valuable information may be obtained from the same source. The readers of the Ledger, of course, under stand that we are not in the habit of in dulging in editorial statements without sufficient voucher for all that is said, whether the statement be made upon positive knowledge, or upon convincing reasons for belief; so we repeat that there has never been any reason to be lieve that Charlie Ross is not living, and that there are, on the coutrary, convinc ing reasons for the belief that he was living on Saturday night, December 12tli, and there is no evidence that any harm has come to him since that time.” A MYSTERIOUS MAN AT THE MORGUE. The following from the Herald, to some extent, may be regarded as con firming the belief that the police have assurances that the abducted boy is still living : When Douglass’ sister visited . the Brooklyn Morgue she was accom panied by a quiet, reserved sort of a man, who was rathhr undersized and wore a red moustache and side whiskers. On Friday, when the undertaker arrived to prepare the bodies_for burial, this man was also present. He seemed a re ticent, quiek-witted man, and especially anxious to avoid meeting any newspaper reporter. During a conversation be tween the undertaker and Mr. Maguire, the lorrner remarked that Charlie Ross was alive and well, and that he would not be surprised to hear of the recovery of the missing boy before sundown that day (Friday), and that by Sunday at the farthest Charlie Ross would be in the keepingof Superintendent Walling. Mr. Maguire then asked what was the au thority for making such a statement, when the red-whiskered unknown man at once gave the following information: I saw Douglass last Friday and advised him to mend his ways and get an honest living. He then seemed to be penitent, admitted that he had stolen the child, and said that he would make a full con fession and reform, if his safety could be assured. This man also said he be lieved that if Douglass hatf lived a week longer the child would have been re stored to its parents, with a full history of the kidnapping. To questions put by Maguire, the man said he lived in New Jersey and asked the way to Ful ton Ferry. Being watched, however, he was seen to enter a street car going to Green Point, which is somewhat sig nificant, as there Douglass’ headquar ters have been for some months. It is supposed by some that this mysterious individual, who would give no name, was closely connected with Douglass. MRS. mosier’s statements. Mrs. Mosher, the wife of the dead burglar, it is understood, is now in the employ of the police, and in search of the lost boy. To the reporter of a New York paper she has given a long account of her life since her marriage to Mosher, which took place when she was but fif teen years of age, much to the disap proval of her father, who, though he has given her shelter in her destitution and while Mosher was in the penitentiary, has never spoken to her or allowed her to address him since the marriage. Ac cording to Mrs. Mosher, her husband, notwithstanding his bad character ami hard life, was always lnnd to her and to her children. Here is a queer picture of the dead burglar: “Mosher was a man who never said much about his business to any one. He never had any companions but his own family and Douglass—that is, since I have been his wife. He spent all the time he could with his children and me, and when he was at home it was the children all the time. He never smoked a cigar nor took a drink of anything. He had no rendezvous or hanging out places, and those who say he had con found him with someone else or they don’t know him. He was fond of read ing, and though not a man who could write well, or, may be, spell right, was well informed. He knew the Bible through and through, and could argue and talk on it with any • one. He was very clever in making things, and often spent hours explaining to me matters I, of course, did not understand about mechanical machines. He was one of the kindest-hearted men you could meet, and that is one reason that makes the present charge against him so extraor dinary. I don’lj think he would hurt a dog. If he saw one in the street with a sore leg he would take it up in his arms and carry it to some place where no one could injure it. When he came into the house, if he heard a child crying, whether it was his own or,somebody else’a, he would take it up and try to please it. He was very fond of children, and thought the world of his own. He lost two, and they were a loss to him, though he was always a poor man. Yes, we were always poor, and if he was a very bad man he never made much by it. It has always been a hard struggle with us; but as long as he and me had enough to eat there was no complaint. If he had been a rich man he would have been looked up to by all who would know him, and, as it was, those who were brought near enough to him liked him.” SHE BELIEVES MOSHER STOLE CHARLIE Rosa. After telling of her varions wander ings with her husband, their frequent changes of residences, and final settle ment in Philadelphia, Mrs. Mosher said : “ Mosher would be the last man I should expect to hear of interfering with an other man’s child: He was always fond of his own children, and was very kind for a man to all children. I first heard of the Boss case from outside parties, but from what I learned since and what t know now I am sorry to be obliged to confess that I think he was one of the men who took the child. Where the boy is I don’t know ; I wish I did. His mother should soon have him. If I lost one of my little sons I could not suffer more than I have since I believed my husband took that one. I would wil lingly give one of mine to restore to Mrs. Boss her child, if that would do it. I never knew anything about it until some suspicions of late, and what I have communicated to Superintendent Wall ing. He knows all I ever heard or sus pected, and I only hope any information I can get for him will enable him to find the child.” Life of Capt. Joseph Fry, the Cuban Martyr.— A Faithful Eecord of His Bemarkable Career from Childhood to the Time of His Heroic Death at the Hands of Spanish Executioners. 585 Pages, 10 Full Page Illustrations. Hartford, Conn. Published by the J. B. Bcbk Publishing Cos. They who believe that in this corrupt, money-getting and cruel age, all indi vidual virtue has fled, and that the old ages of the heroism of a great manhood only live in song, would profit by peru sing the life of the noble Fry; and they who feel how priceless is a virtuous and consistent life, will thank the authoress of this charming biography. This book is as refreshing, in its simple, easy, un affected style, as anything to be found in the line of biography, and its high moral tone cannot be too much praised. A worthy subject fell into worthy hands for treatment; and the friends of Cap tain Fry cannot help but feel grateful to Mrs. Walker for the devotion she has shown for his memory. The living hero’s admirers were not limited by his large acquaintanceship, for his honora ble fame had won him the praises of strangers to his person. But the throng of the dead hero and martyr’s admirers will increase as the yeas roll along and larger numbers become acquainted with his majestic life through the biographi cal pages of the authoress of the book of which we now write. We hope the work will have a sale commensurate with the virtues, the lofty honor and world wide benevolence of Captain Fry. The chief present object of its publication— the benefit of Captain Fry’s unfortunate family—ought to be rewarded by an ex tensive demand for the work. Mr. J. E. Boacb, the agert, is now canvassing this city for the above named work. He deserves a liberal patronage. In San Francisco, a prominent lawyer was shot fatally by a female client. It :■ believed the woman is insane. Bev. James Walker, formerly Presi dent of Harvard College, is dead—aged eighty. $300,000,000. Tremendous Discoveries of Ore in the Great Comstock Lodge—A Mountain of Silver. [Corresponlance San Francisco Chronicle.] Virginia, Nev., December 6. —At last the great “ bulge,” the true heart of world-famous Comstock silver lode, would seem to have been reached. As far as explored, it lies iu the Consolidated Vir ginia, California and Ophir claims. In all three of these* mines have been de veloped marvelously rich bodies—won derful masses of sulphuret and chloride ores. We have said “ bodies,” but there is in reality but one body—one immense bonanza, chimney, or whatever else we may choose to call it—one huge mass of ore extending all the way from the Con solidated Virginia through the Califor nia into the Ophir, and no one knows how much further; nor does any one know how much of its height or width, and nothing at all of its depth. As to its length, we know something definite, viz : that it extends 400 feet through the Consolidated Virginia, and undoubtedly traverses the entire length (600 feet) of the California, as it has been discovered in the Ophir mine, which adjoins the California on the north. How far it ex tends into the Ophir ground, time and the honest miner can only determine. It is conceded, however, that the ore body cannot be less than 1,200 feet in length. THE GREAT FISSURE In which this huge bonanza of ore rests appears to have expanded at this partic ular point in the course of the vein, in order to form for it a cradle suited to its giant proportions. Measuring across from the true “west country” rock, the distance is from 1,000 to 1,200 feet. The space between the east and west country rocks is the fissure in which lies the body of the ore, which of late has so startled and bewildered all the “ ex perts ” and the whole “milling world” of the Pacific coast. The great fissure is filled with what our mining men call “ vein matter”—gangue—a mixture of quartz, clay and porpliy. Here, in the midst of this vein matter or gangue, which fills the vast fissure from side to side, has formed and is now found the huge mass of ore which runs through the three mines mentioned above. To pro duce a body of such great size, an im mense bed of vein matter was required— you cannot rear a whale iu a trout brook. For several months the Consolidated Virginia Company have been at work in the crest of THIS SUBTERRANEAN SILVER MOUNTAIN, And the Opliir company have been goug ing into it for a shorter period of time, while the California folks have but just begun to feel their way into its western slope at two or three points. Never, until lately, have the Consolidated Vir ginia Company seemed to get fairly into the ridge of the mountain—to penetrate a point where they could begin to see what they were working upon, although iu their upper levees they have opened great breadths of wonderfully rich ore. THE RICHEST MINERAL DISCOVERY IN HIS TORY. There can be no doubt that the body of ore now just being opened in the three mines under consideration is un doubtedly the largest and richest the world ever saw. In the California the width will doubtless prove to be im mense ; just bow wide it may be found, uo one can say, and the experts them selves fear to risk an opinion, but they hint at all the way from 200 to 400 feet. The length, as we all know, is GOO feet. From the developments now being made at each end of the mine, we up here are beginning to fear that some where near the centre it will be found to be but a solid mountain mass of pure silver. THE BOSS OF IT ALL. [San Francisco Chronicle.] A Chronicle reporter called upon Mr. Sharon last evening. In reply to a lead ing question, Mr. Sharon said: “Of course it is not possible for any one to look into the bowels of the earth, and consequently I can’t pretend to exact ness. The best judges, however, say that its value is fabulous. Superinten dent Bequa, of the Ohollar, and Super intendent Smith, of the Belcher, set down the bonanza at double the size of that found in the Crown Point and Bel cher and three times as rich.” Reporter—Have you any notion what the lead will pan out ? Mr. Sharon—Judges place the gross at $300,000,000, and the profits at from $150,000,000 to $200,000,000. In general conversation Mr. Sharon said that he considered the discovery the most important event in the history of the coast. “ Its influence upon the commercial interests of che State,” he observed, “will be of untold value. The miDes are owned in San Francisco, ancl an amount of capital equal to the pres ent assessed value of the whole city will be brought here. Such wealth must bring immigration, and stimulate every department of trade.” ROOM AT THE TOP. To the young men annually making their entrance upon active life, with great ambitions, conscious capacities and high hopes, the prospect is, in nine ty-nine cases in a hundred, most per plexing. They see every avenuo to pros perity thronged with their superiors in experience, in social advantages, and in the possession of all the elements and conditions of success. Every post is occupied, every office filled, every path crowded. Where shall they find room ? It is related of Mr. Webster that when a youug lawyer suggested to him that the profession to which he had devoted himself was overcrowded, the great man replied : “Young man, there is always room enough at the top.” Never was a wiser or more suggestive word said. There undoubtedly is always room enough where excellence lives. Mr.' Webster was not troubled for lack of room. Mr. Clay anil Mr. Calhoun were never crowded. Mr. Evarts, Mr. Cush ing and Mr. O’Conor have plenty of space around them. When Nealton died in Paris lie died like Moses on the mountain. When Yon Graefe died in Berlin he had no neighbor at his alti tude. It is well, first, that all young men re member that .nothing will do them so much injury as quick and easy success, and that nothing will do them so much good as a struggle which teaches them exactly what there is in them, educates them gradually to its use, instructs them in personal economy, drills them into a patient and persistent habit of work, and keeps them at the foot of the ladder until they become strong enough to hold every step they are enabled to gain. The first years of every man’s business or professional life are years of educa tion. They are intended to be, in the order of nature and Providence. Doors do not open to a man until he is pre pared to enter them. The man without a wedding garment may get in surrepti tiously, but he immediately goes out with a ilea in his ear. We think it is the experience of most successful men who have watched the course of their lives in retrospect, that whenever they have arrived at a point where they were thoroughly prepared to go up higher, the door to a higher place has swnng back of itself, and they have heard the call to enter. The old die or voluntarily retire for rest. The best men, who stand ready to take their places, will succeed to their position and its honors and emoluments. The young men will say that only a few can reach the top. That is true, but it is also true that the further from the bottom one goes the more scattering the neighborhood. One can fancy, for illus tration, that every profession and every calling is pyramidal in its living constit uency, and that while only one man is at the top, there are several tiers of men below him who have plenty of elbow room, and that it is only at the base that mm are so thick that they pick the meat out of one another’s teeth to keep them from starving. If a man has no power to get out of the rabble at the bottom, then he is self-convicted of having chosen a calling or profession to whose duties he hss no adaptation. The grand mistake that young men make, during the first ten years of their professional life, is in idly waiting for their chance. They seem to forget, or they do not know, that during those ten years they enjoy the only leisure they will ever have. After ten years, in the natural course of things, they will be absorbingly busy. There will then be no lime for reading, culture and study. If they do not become thoroughly grounded in the principles and practical details of their profession during those years; if they do not store their minds with useful knowledge; if they do not pursue habits of reading and observa tion, and social intercourse, which re sult in culture, the question whether they will ever rise to occupy a place where there is room enough for them will be decided in the negative. The young physician and young lawyers who sit idly in their offices, and smoke and lounge away the time “ waiting for something to turn up,” are by that course fastening themselves for life to the lower Itratum, where their struggle for a bare livelihood is to be perpetual. The first ten years are golden years, that should be fil'ed with systematic reading and observation. Everything that tends to professional and personal excellence should be an object of daily pursuit. To such men the doors of success open of themselves at last. Work seeks the best hands, as naturally as water runs down hill; and it never seeks the hands of a trifler, or of one whose only recommen dation for work is that he needs it. Young men do not know very much any way, and the time always comes to those who become worthy, when they look back with wonder upon their early good opinion of their acquirements and them selves. There is another point that ought not to be overlooked in the treatment of this subject. Young men look about them and see a great measure of worldly success awarded to men without princi ple. They see the trickster crowned with public honors, they see the swindler rolling in wealth, they see the sharp man, the overreaching man, the unprincipled man, the liar, the demagogue, the time server, the trimmer, the scoundrel who cunningly manages, though constantly disobeying moral law and trampl'ng upon social courtesy, to keep himself out of the clutches of the legal police, carrying off the prizes of wealth and place. All this is a demoralizing puzzle and a fearful temptation; and multitudes of young men are noh strong enough to stand before it. They ought to under stand that in this wicked world there is a great deal of room where there is in tegrity. Great trusts may be sought by scoundrels, but great trusts never seek them; and perfect integrity is at a pre mium even among scoundrels. There are some trusts that they will never con fer on each other. There are occasions when they need the services of true men, and they do not find them in shoals and in the mud, but alone and in pure water. In the realm of eminent acquirements and eminent integrity there is always room enough. Let no young man of in dustry and perfect honesty despair be cause liis profession or calling is crowd ed. Let him always remember that there is room enough at the top, aud that the question whether he is ever to reach the .top, or rise above the crowd at the base of tho pyramid, will be decided by the way in which ho improves the first ten years of his active life in securing to himself a thorough knowledge of his pro fession, and a sound moral and intellec tual culture,— Dr.. J. O. Holland; Scrib ner for Januarg. THE CITY BY THE SEA. [Special Correspondence Chronicle anil Sentinel.] Charleston, December 24, 1874. The Inferior Court. The action taken in Columbia to abolish the Inferior Court, which has been an imposition on the public ever since it was created, meets not ouly with the hearty approval of the people of Charleston county, but the news was received iu the city with acclamations of joy. The bill which now only awaits approval was strongly opposed iu the Senate by some of the anti-riform mem bers, among whom Whittemore, the ca detship broker, figured conspicuously. This terrible tomb of fish, flesh and fowl, who widens at the expense of tnx payers, could not understand the neces sity of abolishing the Court, notwith standing the significant hints that “for ways that are dark and for tricks that are vain the Inferior Court was pe culiar,” and the fact thatoue of the mo tives for creating the Court was to bene fit members of the “party” by investing them with power and position. Governor Clianberlaiu. It will be remembered that in one of my former letters I spike of the policy of granting Governor Chamberlain the charity of silence until he had acted.— The time has come to speak. Ho has acted and with such general satisfaction that friends and foes aliko not only commend his actions in the highest terms, but are ready aud willing to unite with him to further so praiseworthy an undertaking. As hitherto intimated Chamberlain is a rara avis in his party. His attainments are rare and of the most polished order. His ability as a lawyer has undergone too many tests to be further questioned and as a Republican he is probably one of the most influenti al in the South. Amid the frowns and sneers of designing colleagues lie stands firm and inflexible, and as al ready published iu the Chronicle and Sentinel, he has been subjected to the threats of the bravo because he dared to put in practice the duties incumbent upon him. Sudli are the obstacles which Chamberlain is called upon daily to encounter, and as long as ho remains faithful to his trust, Jet the press and the public unite in his praise. Judge Reed. Judge J. P. Reed, who is probably no stranger in Georgia, and who now fills the office held by th 6 late Judge Gra ham, paid a flying visit fo the city last week, and received the congratulations of a number of the most prominent members of the Charleston bar. Judge Reed has hitherto been an earnest sup porter of the Democracy, and, as far as can be ascertained, bears a spotless re cord. Effects of Drink. Policeman Bunch, colored, while in a state of intoxication, shot and severely wounded a white policeman named John Donahue, on last Friday night. Dona hue was sent to arrest Bunch, who was on duty in King street, when the latter drew his revolver and fired five shots. The balls which did not take effect in Donahue’s body passed through his clothing. Donahue is slowly recovering and will make a statement of the affair as soon as he is well enough. Bunch is in. jail. Temperance Lectures. Edward Carswell, Esq., of Canada, delivered two lectures under the aus pices of the Sons of Temperance of Charleston, before large audiences, on Monday and Tuesday evenings last. Carswell intersperses his lectures with mirth and pathos, and uses many strong arguments in favor of tetotalism. While narrating the fatal effects of alcohol in the United Stab s, he charges the Gene ral Government with the responsibility. Carswell, however, admits that there was a period in his life when lie used to sing “We Won’t Go Home Till Morn ing,” and speaks from experience. A Suit for Damages. Several parties whose property was damaged by the late fire at the Cham pion Cotton Press will sue the owners of the press for the losses sustained by them, on the grounds that the fire origi nated through carelessness. A petition is also being signed to prevent the own ers from rebuilding the presJKn that vi cinity. Charleston Gossip. During the early portion of the week Miss Ada Gray graced the stage at the Academy of Music, and for the remain der we have the inimitable Geo. L. Fox in Humpty Dumpty. For Fox crowded houses are predicted, as the Charleston theatre-going public are willing patrons of first class entertainments. * * The store of the King street swindler is closed, and “ Not a single trace is seen, Where he had so lately been.” Many of the prodigals are returning from Columbia to spend Christmas iu the city. * * Little sneak thieves, for whom Santa Claus lias no regard, have made several petty raids upon store keepers. Some of them will pass the holidays in durance vile. * * The weather is cloudy, but of pleasant tem perature. Virginius. KENTUCKY HORRORS. Two Men Killed and One Mortally Wounded In an Affray—And It was All About a Dog—Best, the Murderer of Seten Men, Still at Large. Louisville, December 23.—A special to the Courier Journal gives an account of a fatal shooting affray in Mercer county, Kentucky, yesterday, iu which two men were killed and one mortally wounded. A quarrel occurred in the morning about a dog, in which Isaiah Gobfiert shot a man named Daniels in the leg, inflicting a flesh wound. In the afternoon Joe Davenport, a town con stable, assembled a posse and went to arrest Gobhert. Upon the approach of the posse Gobhert and a man named Herring fired on Davenport, but without effect. Davenport then struck Gobhert on the head with a shovel, and Herring shot Davenport through the body, kill ing him instantly. Garland Davenport, a brother of the constable, here inter ferred and was shot and killed by Her ring, who then escaped, and is supposed to have come to Louisville. Gobhert’s wound is mortal. Best, the man who murdered the postmaster at Lancaster, Kentucky, Monday night, is said to have previously killed six men. The quarrel in this instance arose out of a contro versy in regard to the ownership of land. The murderer is still at large. The Louisiana Election. New Orleans, December 24. —The re turns as compiled to date, give the Con servatives forty-six and the Bepublicans forty-seven. The Conservatives have abandoned participation in the Beturning Board on account of arbitrary rulings ol the majority. . . , . To-day Mr. Arroyo sent in his resig nation as member of the Beturning Board. He says: “I am impelled to adopt the present course by the rulings of the Board in the last few days in re turning to the Legislature as|e ected, members who were unmistakably de feated, rulings which, to my mind, are so clearly partisan and unjust, defraud ing the people of Louisiana of their chosen representatives, that my self-re spect will not allow me to longer retain a saat on the board.” Arroyo’s resigna tion was accepted, and the board went into executive session. A man named Columbus C. Linam was fatally crushed between two Air Line cars in Atlanta last Thursday. A three thousand dollar fire in Atlanta last Thursday evening. FROM WASHINGTON. Points anout the Passage of the Senate Finance Bill. Washington, December 23.—The Re publican Senators who last Winter were so widely divided upon the finance ques tion were a unit, on the bill.. It seemed evident that the session might last- far into the night, if it did not continue till morning, for Senator Sherman had given notice that lie did not intend to give way for an adjournment until a final dis*' position was made "of the bill. The Democrats fought it step by step all the afternoon, but soon after the gas was •lighted they seemed to become con vinced thkt their factious opposition would not make any breach in the Re publican ranks, and about 7 o’clock tho final vote was taken. The three in dependents, Sprague, Tipton and Ham ilton, voted with the Democrats. Sauls bury was the only Democrat who voted with the Republicans. It was a novel spectacle to see Logan, Ferry, OglesSy and Morton voting “aye” upon the finance question with Sherman, Bchurz fcj Anthony and Edmunds. The old di vision in the Republican ranks upon the finance question had entirely disap peared. There were no inflationist Re publicans, or contractionist Republicans, or sectional Republicans, but the Re publican Senators as a body voted square ly in favor of a bill fixing a day for the resumption of specie payments. The Democratic Senators, with their three Independent allies, voted with equal unanimity against the bill, and made a united record against a measure for spe cie payments. A Republican Senator remarked' after the vote that the unity of tho vote would do moro to consolidate the Re publican party than anything that had occurred for years. The most vulner able part of the bill was the absence of a provision for the destruction of the redeemed legal tenders and fractional currency. This point the hard money Democrats especially attacked. The in flationist Democrats of the type repre- sented by Merrimon were bitterly op posed to tho bill, and certainly could see no inflation in it. Mr. Sherman insist ed that the objections of the Democrats were not practical, ns they could not be properly raised for some years. The bill will probably pass the House, but it is not so strong in the House as iu the Senate. * Full Text of the Bill. Be it enacted , etc., That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required, as rapidly as practicable, to cause to be coiued at the mints of the United States silver coins of denomi nations of 10, 25 and 50 cents of stan dard value, and to issue them in redemp tion of an equal number and amount of fractional currency of similar denomina tions, or, at his discretion, he may issue such silver coins through the mints, sub-treasuries, public depositories, and post offices of the United States, and, upon'such issue, he is hereby author ized and required to redeem an equal amount of such fractional currency out standing shall be redeemed. Sec. 2. That so much of section 3524 of the Revised Statutos of the United States as provides for a charge of one sixth of one per centum for converting standard gold bullion into coin is here by -repouled, and hereafter no charge shall be made for that service. Sec. 3. That section 5777 of the Re vised Statutes of the United States, limiting the aggregate amount of tho circulating notes of national banking associations be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and each existing banking as sociation may increase its circulating notes in accordance with tho existing law, without respect to said aggregate limit; and new banking associations may be organized in accordance with the existing law, without respect .to the ag gregate limit; and the provisions of the law for the withdrawal and redistribu tion of national bank currency among the several States aud Territories are hereby repealed; and whenever and so often as circulating notes shall be issued to any such banking association, so in creasing its capital or circulating notea, or so newly organized as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to redeem tho legal tender United States notes in excess only oi $300,000,000 to tho amount of 80 per centum of the sum of national bank notes so issued to any such bauklug as sociation as aforesaid, and to continue such redemption as siiqli circulating notes are issued until there shall be out standing the sum of $300,000,000 of such legal tender United States notes and no more. And on and after the first day of January, A. D., 1879, the Secretary of the Treasury shall redeem in coin the United States legal tender notes then outstanding on their presentation for redemption at the office of tho Assistant Treasurer of the United States, in the city of New York, in sums of not less than fifty dollars. And to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare and provide for the redemption in this act authorized or required, he is authorized to use any surplus revenues from time to time in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, and to issue, sell, aud dis pose of, at not less than par in coin, either of the description of bonds of the United States described iu the net of Congress approved July 14, 1870, en titled, “An act to authorize the refund ing of the national debt,” With like privileges, and exemptions to the ex tent necessary to .carry this act into effect, and to use the proceeds thereof for the purposes aforesaid. And all provisions of law inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby re pealed. LOUISIANA. Moncure and Four Conservative Con gressmen Declared Elected. New Orleans, December 23.—The sub-committee appointed by the Con servatives and Democratic party, to wit ness the canvassing and compiling of the retnrns by the Returning Board, to day promulgated the returns of the elec tion held November 2, for Congressmen, State Treasurer and members of the Legislature, certifying under oath that tho statements and compilation were compiled by them from sworn duplicate returns in their possession, and have been by them compared with duplicates in the possession of said Board and cor rected thereby, and correspond to the compilation and canvass, poll by poll and parish. by parish, made by said Board; and, therefore, certify and de clare the following named persons were duly and lawfully elected. Here follows a list of the names of those elected, showing tho election of four Conserva tives and two Republican Congressmen; the election of Moncure, Conservative, as State Treasurer, by 4,851 majority, and the election of 71 Conservatives and 37 Republicans to the Legislature. Car roll parish is exclnded from the count of the Returning Board. The Conserva tive members to-day withdrew from the Boatd because of its arbitaary ruling. Mr. Arroy also withdrew, and will give reasons to-morrow for his withdrawal. The returns, as compiled by the Board to date, give the Conservatives forty-six and the Republicans forty-seven mem bers of the House—one majority for the Republicans. The Conservatives are despondent and tho Republicans jubil ant over the result. A Last Warning. The Conservative Sub-Committee pre sented a protest to the Beturning Board, in which, after renewing the arbitrary action taken, they say : The responsi bility for such a step—striking at the root of our form of government, as it does—is a grave one, and such usurpa tion has always reacted in a terrible manner has been adopted in America, and this-committee trusts that its gravity has been well weighed by your body, as it alone must boar it, as this committee can share no part of the burden by either continuing its connec tion with your body and lending a seem ing aequicsenee by its continued pres ence. Having exhausted by this final protest the last means of resistance to this revolutionary decision, as we regard it, this committee now leaves the respon sibility where it belongs, and completes its duty by surrenderiug its trusts to the constituency whom it represents and placing before the people of the State and Union, in its proper light, the action of the Board and this committee, for them to pass on as a political coart of last resort, to judge the cause of Lou isiana, decide the question and decree the consequences thereof. What Gov. McEnery Says. New York, December 26. —Governor McEnery, in a dispatch to the Herald dated the 25th, says: The wrong just perpetrated by the Beturning Board against the people of Louisiana, and which vitally threatens the safety and integrity of republican institutions in the United states, is a more crowning infamy than the action of the Lynch Be tuming Board; surpasses even the mid night order of Durell, and would not be submitted to by any free people. Be sistance •to the national authority, rep resented here by a large portion of the army and a naval fleet sustaining a usur pation and stifling the voice of the peo ple, has never been meditated. (Signed) John McEnery. Adjourned. New Orleans, December 26.—The Returning Board adjourned subject to the call of the President. The returns show three Democrats and three Bepub licans members of Congress,. The Heuse is nearly a tie, as some Conservatives will probably be neutral. Eome one appropriated all the fire wood belonging to the editot of the Washington Qasetta the othei ; night.
