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Addrew WAJ.BH k WRIGHT,
Cnnonirl.c k S&nTnrei, Augusta, On,
Ctjronvclc an& grotmcl.
WEDNESDAY JUNE 16, 1875.
MINOR TOPICS.
It is proposed to spend dome #11,000,000 to
bring drinking water from tbe Calaveran river
to Han Francisco, and tbe tax payers, in view of
tbe present cheapness of whisky and native
wines, naturally complain of tbe unnecessary
waste of money.
It ia said that ex-Jtevenne In. pec tor Law
rence, who was recently brought back from
Europe, has bad one bnndred and thirty bills
of indictment found against him. Why. we'd
art wion undertake to answer a whole cart-load
(AeOfUiiidrnins as to answer all those bills of
inAftmiWit.
‘Tiarwin has an income of #20,000 per year,
all becineo lie believes that liis grandfather
waaffi'ftJKUa.” ft atrikes us that if be were a
man of proper feeling, he would prefer to be
lieve that bis grandfather was a gentleman,
even though tbe belief should afford him no
income at all.
“The Rochester Chronicle calls on Matt Car
center to stand up.” This Matt may or may
met obey. 13ier are now and then moments
In jives of some men wjien attempted to
o*->9lJpfu** to snob a call, without the assist
f.nca it s jamp p<*t, were tho basalt treachery
to tirertJtelfOH. &
•‘{•boy Hterni says it's wicked to woar cor
trfg*, a# RviMulnH have any.” And pray, how
dk fepey knpw. thstEvfcdidn’t have any cor.
*§*-’ Af she defsn’t.know that Eve sent tq-
V&in as mgalariy etas ry year fpr a supply of
fashionable tomfoolery as any New York or
London belle, abe baa* certainly studied the
weeks of prehistoric histAiians, and especially
the records of the Adam family, to precious
little purpose. .
“ No, I don't want any of jkmr lightning)
reels,” saida Kentncky farmer, last week, to a
man who had stopped at his botiso \p put up
patjffit-lightning conductors. “ I un\ afraid
of lightning, H’s the '.htiuder I believeV going
to knock us all endwise, some , day.” ‘ You
don't seem to comprehend,” said the pedlar;
“Ibtoe ere silver-tipped rads are lightning
road#, and the gold-tipped ones, arc thunder
reds—just what you want," and be persuaded
gold-^Aod
CHAR*B.4 JT. JENKINB.
We reoeivejl yesterday a letter from
Mr. Jenkins, oj the subject of di
rt acy for Gqi/>mor, which wil every
where be read with interest: .
1 ciotEsviicjt. June J*h, lifTS.
To 0* Rlitors of the Chronicle and Sentinel :
Gentlkwen—l have felt no little regret at
seeing some prominence given to my name in I
the yet remote Democratic j
nominationOTor Governor of Georgia. 11
had hoped that by genera! consent I j
had been placed upon the retired list
of quondam officials. So long as it Beemed
permissible to regard the suggestion as a •‘mere
mention,” 1 was inclined to let it pass.sub rilen
tio. But since several leading journals of the
State have expressed, and some of them have
urgently reiterated a desire for my nomination
(ail concurring to the opinion that they but
give voice to popular will), and since your
selves, in tbe anlhadauce of personal kindness.
" have spoken somewhat imperatively, it may be
questioned whether propriety will sanction
continued siience. I begin to see that it wiil
put me in peril of being caught on one or the
other horn of a dilemma, both of which I
would fain avoid. Keemiug indifference to
tribntes so high, and so entirely voluntary,
might subject me to j ust reproach. But if ac
quitted of silent indifference, it would probably
be on the ground of tacit acquiesence. Allow
me, then, a word to you and through you to
your brethren of the press, who concur with
you.
I disagree with yon, both as to the peril
arising from the number of aspirants and as to
the policy of placing another in the ring. It
may be a litUe difficult for the Convention to
choose among so many meritorious men, but
they will do it, and I cannot believe there is
one among the contestants so intent upon
personal advancement as to Jeopard the har
mony of the great party, to which they are at
tached and upon whose success hang such vital
interests. If they and their friends be so in
tent ui>oii snecess, yonr scheme would avail
nothing. Bnt to g<tae nearer the point.
On this whole snbject, as regards myself, I
have a clear view and a fixed purpose. If I
desired the position, or if I desired any other
public position more to my taste, the attain
ment of which would be prevented by my con
sent to compete for the former, the proverbial
selfishness of human nature might incapaci
tate me to arrive at a right conclu
sion on the question of duty. But in the
absence of those disturbing elements I think I
may, without vanity, claim that mine is the
best stand-point .from which to discern it
clearly, for the simple reason that I best know
my o#n status. Therefore, for reasons, with
wlugli it is unnecessary to trouble the public,
Ymf which are conclusive with me, I respeeful
ly decline, without qualification or mental
reservation, to compete for the position or to
consont that my name shall, in any eut. be
usfclin connection with it. lam not ungrate
ful for past honors: I know that they are im
measurably greater than any service I have
rendered, put I know, also, that “to every
thing there is a season, and a time to every pur
pose under the sun” —a time to bo active, and a
time to be quiet. My manhood has been ac
tive, but its day-dream throughout lias been
quiet in the evening of life. Quiet I now have,
and in it I rejoice. Respectfully, Ac.
■ C. J. Jenkinb.
It imed, not be said we deeply regret
that Mr. j Jenkins has announced his de
termination not to allow the use of his
with the office of
This regret, we feel well as-
Glared by the entire people
Br writes, declining to accept the
if tendered him, furnishes the
\ reasons why ho should
Governor of Georgia. The
manly sentiments expressed
writer, tho spirit of pure and
SBiatriotism which has inspired
Hiir and breathes in every sentence,
;; a Jit deepen the regret of tho people
HBhey aro to tic deprived of tho
of such a man. His words are
of a great soul—the ut-
Xif a mind to which small things
own. We presume that a de-
so caudidly and so empliati-
must bo accepted as final,
people must make up their
Binds, however reluctantly they may
Bme to sneh a conclusion, that Mr.
Konkin’s will not accept a nomination.
Kin this connection we think it proper
B say something of the position taken
by the
We to rem^^Hto.
Biic of Mr.
not originate
Hlk and Sentinel, no- it
Augusta oiy. this seetion
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his days in ijuiM ri , tir( ,_
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Kp i'.v the movement grew.
it possible that the peculiar
of the case might induce
his determination and
p-rsonal inelinati >:i* to the
and u; - Loin, we
V. V I ;v... •./<>! his 'Elimination —he
that no Letter mau could be
ifHl for the position and that his aom
■ would maintain that harmony
in the Democratic party of
Borgia, upon the preservation of which
Luo much will depend iu the coming ciun
paign. ,
sßut Mr. Jenkins, with the modesty
Characteristic of the man, thinks that
|kere is no necessity for him to alter the
which he had formed, and
for the atTeetiou and the
bestowed upon him hv his
declines to permit his
Br be us and in connection with the
Governor. With this decision.
B disappointing it may be, we
Bfe, perforce, content.
M
BJniE Xavhville I’mion and American
aims a bloV at Governor Chambeblain
in the statement that Leslie, the ab
sconding Laid Commissioner of South
Carolina, waachietfy celebrated for his
purchase for t\e State of a tract of land
known as “HefkHole Swamp,” contain
ing thirty thouskid acres, for which he
paid the broker who sold it 526.100,
while it was beaked to the State at
3121,000. The money was drawn from
the financial agent ii New York city by
one of tb Advisory Board, a body con
stituted to supervise the operations of
Goverior Scott was
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A REMARKABLE STORY.
We find the following interesting an
j ecdote of the great Napoleon iff the
Colombia Phamix, of the sth instant:
Napoleon met one day an old soldier with
one arm ;he stopped and said to him: ‘‘Where
did you lose your arm ?“ “Size, at Aosterlitz,”
was the reply, “And you were not decorated ?”
! asked she Emperor. ‘ - No, sire; I was forgot
| ten.” “Then,” rejoined Napoleos, “'here is
j my cross for you; I make yon Chevalier,”.‘‘Ah,
| sire,” exclaimed the soldier. ‘‘Your Majesty
names me Chevalier because I have lost one of
my anas; what would yonr Majesty have done
it I had lost them both?” “I should have
created you officer of the Legion,” answered
Napoleon. Thereupon the soldier instantly
drew his sword and cut off his remaining arm.
The anecdote, as we have said before,
is highly interesting and reflects great
credit npon its originator. It seems,
however, that in his effort to constrnct
the marvellous the author got into rather
deeper water than he expected to find.
Most people will desire to know how a
mau with but one arm could “draw his
sword and cut off his remaining arnc.”
“A SKELETON AT THE FEAST.”
Under this heading the New York
Commercial Bulletin has something to
say upon the question of the test-oath
and the Centennial celebration, brought
out by the Smith-Fish correspondence
published iu the Chbonicle and Senti
nel. The Bulletin is not a political lftit
a commercial paper, and we feel assured
that it speaks the sentiments of the busi
ness men of the country. The Bulletin
says :
Some of tho Southern journals, we see, are
remonstrating with much feeling against the
application of what is known as the “iron-clad
oath” to the Commissioners from that part of
the country appointed by the act of Congress
creating the United States Centennial Com
mission. The argument is, that the spirit and
purpose of this celebration have bean wholly
misiw<|f>rMtood by the country if such an oath
is to be required of these persons. The Cen
tennial, it has been officially announced, was
to have the two-fold object of commemorating
the birth of republicanism in the colonies and
the restoration of harmony and fraternity
among tho States; but the announcement will
have to be modified, our Southern contempo
raries tell us, if an oath so sweeping and pro
scriptive as this is to be imposed upon them.
And, as the practical effect of it would be to
exclude from the celebration altogether Gen .
Johnston, whom the Committee of Arrange
ments have already officially designated as its
grand marshal, the absurdity as well as the im
policy of the proceeding, we are told, is at
once" apparent.
Gov. Smith, of Georgia, has written to Secre
tary Fish to say that “no man in that State
can or will take the oath,” and that the only
effect of enforcing it. under the circumstances,
will be to make the South generally indifferent
to the Centennial. The spirit of about all their
leading journals, we ought to add, is in har
mony with this assurance. It is true the Lou
isiana Commissioners have been less scrupulous
about it-rthey have taken the oath—but the
political relationships of these gentlemen
would seem to be peculiar and exceptional,
and it would probably be a great mistake,
therefore, to suppose that they represent the
average Southorn sentiment or the average
Southern feeling on tho subject.
The people of tho whole country, North and
Sooth alike, are anxious that the Centennial
should be, as it ought to be, a brilliant success.
Let us hope then that the politicians will not
be permitted, on any pretext whatever, to
place impediments in its way. One of these
impediments, it is now seen, is this iron clad
oath. It is not only an impediment, bnt
an anachronism. It belongs to the un
pleasant memories of the past, and has
no proper place in a festival which is to com
memorate in part the blessings of a restored
Union. Let it be among the very first busi
ness of tho next Congress, therefore, to re
move it.
THE MONTGOMERY BOND .CASE,
A few days since the Chronicle and
Sentinel published the fall text of a
most important decision, pronounced
by Judge Bradley, Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of the United States,
in the case of the holders of Wetumpka
Plank Road bonds brought against the
city of Montgomery. In commenting
upon this decision we expressed the opin
ion that it would affect the bonds issued
everywhere, as Judge
Bradley the
power of city governments
bonded debts. We now learn that this
decision will vitiate at least three
fourths of the bonds held in the city
of Charleston. The News and Courier
says:
The decision of Judge Bradley has a pecu
liar interest in Charleston, and at least three
fourths of the bonds affected by it are held in
this city. The bonds were negotiated here
before tho war, and commanded a premium.—
To repudiate the bonds, at this day, and strip
iunocent purchasers or inheritors of the bonds
of their property, may be law, bnt is not
justice. An appeal has been taken by the
bondholders to the Supreme Court of the
United States, and, if it were certain that the
Supreme Court would confirm the decision of
the Circuit Court, the city of Montgomery
would still, in our opinion, have done a foolish
act in refusing to pay the houds. Tho debt is
an honest debt, and for that reason the course
of the city cannot be justified.
Even the Romans attempt to extract
some comfort from this decision, and at
tempt to show that it tonches some of
the bonds of that city now in dispute.
The Commercial says :
Every day the questions of the powers of
municipalities to tax and to create bonded in
debtedness are assuming additional importance.
The cases which come before the Courts are
rapidly increasing in number, and the tendency
of tho decisions, so far pronounced, has been
to construe strictly all grants of power by the
Utate to municipal and county corporations,
to declare the debt invalid where the au
thArity for its contraction is not plain and well
defiV e d- This decision of Judge Bradley, of
the 'Supreme Court of the United Stateß,
knocks the decision of the Supremo Court of
Georgia, iu the Borne bond case, higher than
a kit<~ 80 far at least as that decision sustains
the validity of some of these Borne bonds.
Wie do not think that Judge Brad
ley’s decision helps the case of Rome
any. The position taken by the Court
in the Montgomery Plank Road bonds
case was that a municipal government
could only issue bonds when the power
to issue them was expressly granted by
the charter or by an act of the Legisla
ture. The bonds of Rome, certainly
those in aid of the North and South
Road, were issued in accordance with
authority granted by an act of the Leg
islature, and they have been held by the
Supreme Court of the State to be legal
and binding npon the city.
An important railroad suit was recent
ly decided at Auburn, N. Y., in which
Wm. B. Torfe, of that city, was plain
tiff, and the New York Central and Hud
son River Railroad Cclnpany the defen
dant. Thfe plaintiff set forth that he
was unable to find a seat in any of the
ordinary cars of the train while coming
from Syracuse to Auburn, and took a
seat in the Wagner drawing room car.
The conductor demanded extra fare
from him, which he refused. The porter
thereupon ejected him from the car,
tearing his clothing and inflicting some
slight scratches, on account of which he
| sued the company for §IO,OOO damages.
; The jury allowed plaintiff SI,OOO. Ac
; cording to this decision, railroad com-
I panies are under obligation to furnish
! seats for all passengers, afid if they are
! not to be obtained in the ordinary cars
i the drawing room cars may be occupied
i without extra charge. ,
The Civil Bights bill is kicked from
: Court to Court and cuffed from State ter
j State. The last blow has been dealt by
the District Court of Texas. A prose
cution was commenced in Galveston
against tbe manager o*the Opera House,
and the United States Jndge ordered
the indictment quashed on the ground
that the act was unconstitutional.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 16, 1875.
GENERALJSHERMAN.
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AU
THOR OF “THE MEMOIRS.”
The Critics Criticised—A Candid Talk
About Generals Blair, Logan and
* Howard —The Third Term Discnssed
—President Grant’s Favorite Candi
date.
Chicago, 111., June 5, 1875.
The author of the book entitled “Me
moirs of General W. T. Sherman, writ
ten by himself,” is in the city, having
come to give his personal superintend
ence to the important matrimonial cam
paign upon which his subordinate,
Lieutenant General Philip H. Sheridan,
has just entered. As criticism of the
“Memoirs” has been active and pungent
one of yonr representatives sailed on
the author to give him opportunity to
reply to the critics. General Sherman
said, laughingly, “I very much prefer
to leave that alone until their criticisms
are all in. I have very little to say
about it. I knew very well that the
volumes would eitll forth a great deal of
comment, and I am willing, indeed
anxions, that it should elicit the most
thorough criticism; I am sorry to see
that some portions of it have been mis
understood—indeed, misrepresented—in
some quarters. For instance, it has been
said that a portion of it seemed to re
flect disparagingly upon the volunteer
army, but I should be," I think, well
enough known by this time for my be
lief in the efficiency and love for the
volunteer army to be above question. I
always loved volunteers, and was ever
profoundly impressed with their cour
age. In no part of the book have I ever
alluded to them but with affection and
respect. It was my constant care to
write these ‘Memoirs’ in a most respect
ful and careful vein, so as to avoid hurt
ing the feelings of anybody.
“ Ithas been said that I wrote the book
as a weapon against Blair and Logan; but
this is an assertion utterly groundless,
iHijust and absurd. I have always had
the greatest admiration for both gentle
men as soldiers, and never questioned
for a moment their patriotism or ability.
All the reference that I have made to
them in the book has been done in a
most respectful way. In reference to
my appointment of Howard to the Army
of the Tennessee, instead of Blair or
Logan, 1 thought then, and I think now,
that it was the wisest appointment. I
could not help feeling then that, admit
ting the military ability of these gentle
men, they would, perhaps, be induced
to subordinote that ability to the fur
therance of a political future and the
gaining of political ends. Howard was
the man I wanted for the place, for he
was a technical soldier, and I felt sure
that he would devote his whole time
and energy to the single work of com
manding that army. His ambition was
simply to command that army. It was
limited to that and stayed there, as we
say in the army. Success is the end of
the discussion, and as the campaign was
eminently successful it vindicated the
choice. I think my inward prediction
at the time was vindicated, for Logan
and Blair came back and devoted them
selves to making speeches. Howard was
a thoroughly good technical soldier, and
was the right man for the post. But for
the ability and patriotism of either
Blair or Logan I never eutertained the
slightest doubt, and any impression to
the contrary is a misapprehension of
the gravest character.”
Reporter—Was not Howard a good
deal of a martinet ?
General Sherman—No; he did not de
serve to be called a martinet. He was
only precise, unflinchingly precise, and
in transportation of troops across coun
try or by various roads it needs pre
eminently the faculty of precision to
avoid collisions and serious mistakes.
Reporter—Jefferson Davis is going for
you without gloves.
General Sherman (with half a smile)—
Well, I don’t see that I need care very
much about tbe criticism of Jeff Davis,
anyhow.
Reporter—The criticism of the press,
reviewed as a whole, would seem to tend
toward a verdict of regret that the book
wad • published in your lifetime. It
might be put in a single phrase, “Gene
ral, are you not sorry you did it ?”
General Sherman (laughing)—No, I
am not. The book I want thoroughly
criticised, and the deliberate judgmmeut
that is arrived at by a searching review
of its contents, and which such general
criticism will procure, is the only good
the book will do, and is the purpose at
which I aimed. It will provoke others
to contribute what they know of the
history of the war. It will provoke
thought upon lines of action that were
pursued iu the administration of the
war, and the result will be that a quan
tity of authentic data will be secured
which will render the nation fully in
formed of the actual effects of the epoch
.of its existence, which embraced the
wal^— enabling tbe future historian to
reach a of reliable material
from which lie..de^i berately and
philosophically make hi® dejection for
all time. There have been pleflty
regimental histories,, but none which
embraced corps and armies; and detail
ed accounts of tho movements and ac
tions of these large bodies are absolute
ly essential .to the compilation of our
national history. You may have ob
served that I have bestowed as much
care as possible upon the important
matter of indexing. Indexes and dates
are most vitally needed in creating a
history of the war. The very general
criticism with which my book has been
saluted and tbe comment it has aroused
show bow deep and earnest is the inter
est that people feel in all the history
and the incidents of the great struggle.
It is my hope that the “Memoirs” will
incite others to write authentic contri
butions to the national history upon the
events of that period.
It is a Text Rook.
I never designed that book should be
regarded as a history. I deemed it
merely a text book ; a work with which
others could be compared, and event
ually that wise judgments should be
arrived at from all sources of informa
tion. Badeau is writing a work on the
war which it is well understood is di
rectly under the supervision of' Grant,
and which will be practically a record of
his participation in the war. Some of
the most distinguished men of the coun
try have been foryears urging the neces
sity of written accounts of the history
of the war, with full data, indexes and
dates, from those who were principal
actors in the dreadful drama, and I
have been asked for such material con
stantly. It has proved a pleasure with
me, but it was, in reality, urged npon
me as a duty which it would have been
culpable to ignore. I have pressed
upon Congress the necessity of publish
ing the official records Of the war for
years past. Without it historians of
the country will not be furnished with
the necessary material for their import
ant work, but will have to engage in
the almost endless task of collating it
for themselves. The nation owes this
much to its history, and it was with
the View of adding my quota of knowl
edge, compiled, iu as detailed and com
plete a way as I could frame it, that the
book was produced.
Reporter—The policy of publishing
the work in your lifetime has been ques
tioned.
General Sherman—As to that, it makes
bnt little difference, if any good end
has beeD served. The “Memoirs” were
all written at least four years ago. I
had them sealed up, and did not intend
that they should be published until af
ter my death, but was prevailed on to
allow thpir publication now. The time
has come when the history of the war
period must be incorporated into na
tional history. Bancroft has already
written several volumes of his “History
of the United States,” and he lately
came home from Berlin expressly to
gather materials lor another volume. It
was at his urgent personal solicitation,
combined with that of the historian,
Dr. John Draper, of New York, that I
allowed the “Memoirs” to see the light.
Reporter—The work is having a large
sale.
General Sherman Yes; I am, of
course, gratified by that, as by the terms
upon which the book was placed in the
hands of the publishers a certain pro
portion of tbe revenue from it goes to
my family. It belongs entirely to the
children—is secured to them —and I
have nothing farther to do with it.
Reporter—Politics are likely to be
lively next year, General ?
General Sherman—Yes, it is highly
important for the interests of the, coun
try that we should have an able man for
President next term.
Reporter—What do yon think about
the third term proposition ?
General Sherman—Gen. Grant does
not want it. He might like to see one
of his friends elected to the office, bnt
he does not want it himself.
Reporter—Who is it that you think
he would like to see elected ?
General Sherman —Possibly Elihn H.
IWashbnme; bnt, of course, it is all sur
mise. Only Sne thing is certain, that is,
i that it is vitally necessary that it should
j be a man of ability.
Reporter—Wilson is making himself
active, traveling about and making
speeches, and a good many people think
he is making an effort for the nomina
tion.
General Sherman—Wilson is very able
and a very good man, and has certainly
earned the right to indulge in the ambi
tion if he chooses toado so. Still, I don’t
think anything should be inferred from
his traveling about and speech-making.
He has been in poor, health, and travel
ing diverts and interests him at the same
time.
DAVIS ON SHERMAN.
The Ex-Confederate President’s No
| tions About the General of the Army
and His Book.
Memphis, Tenn., May 27, 1875.
Colonel W. F. Mellen :
My Dear Sir— Please, accept my
thanks for yonr kiud letter of the 19th
instant and the accompanying copy of a
St. Louis paper containing an extract
from the forthcoming work of General
W. T. Sherman. My absence delayed
the receipt of your letter and this reply
to it.
The malice that seeks to revive the ne
fariously concocted anil long since ex
ploded 'slander which connected my
name with the assassination of Presi
dent Lincoln is quite in character with
the man who so conducted his invasion
of the South as to render “ Sherman’s
bummers” the synonym of pillage, ar
son, cruelty to the helpless, and murder
of non-combatants, and who closed his
career of arson with a false accusation
against General Hampton in regard to
the burning of Columbia, S. C. But
the question arises, why did General
Sherman, at the date of his reported con
versation with General J. E. Johnston,
suppose me capable of complicity in the
assassination of President Lincoln ?
General Sherman never was person
ally acquainted with me; and from
those who knew pae, either iu
the United States atniy or in civil
life, sureiy learned npthing to justify
such suspicion. In the conduct of the
war between the States, despite of
many baseless accusations, we can
proudly point to a record which shows a
strict, adherence to the usages of war
between civilized nations. On what,
then, did the suspicion ofi Gen. Sher
man rest ? Was it not that, proceeding
on the rule of judging others by one’s
self, he ascribed to me the murderous
and malicious traits of his own nature ?
Ho reports a conversation with Presi
dent Lincoln, from which is to be in
ferred a desire to have authority for
departing from the course which, as a
soldier, he must have known was usual
and proper towards prisoners of war.
Did lie hope to get instructions for the
slaughter of the Confederacy’s Presi
dent and Cabinet officers, as set forth in
the orders of Col. Daklgren, when he
made his raid against Richmond ? If
the good-natured characteristic reply of
President Lincoln taug'at him that, mur
der was not the approved measure, it
seems to have failed to inspire him
with the generosity ai?d charity which
are ever found in noble minds, or with
the chivalry which ever adorns the
character of the true soldier and gentle
man. .
Among the articles ol the surrender of
Gen. J. E. Johnston, there was one pro
hibiting military expeditions in the
country east of the Cluttahoochie river.
That was the best consideration
obtained for the surrender of armies,
arms, munitions, and manufacto
ries in that section, and it
was in violation of that article that
the brigade of cavalry, by which I was
captured, was scouring the country and
freely taking from the unprotected peo
ple the little which was left to them for
their future subsistence. From the
statement of Gen. Sherman we learn
that a story had been told, to the effect
that I was carrying in wagons millions
of specie to the South, and, therefore,
we are left to conclude was made that
expedition in violation of the agreement
of surrender. Though the story of the
millions of- specie is now admitted by
Gen. Sherman to have been a fiction, the
admission is made in such terms ns
would lead the reader to suppose I had
been traveling with wagon transporta
tion, and had a few thousand dollars of
specie in a valise. But neither supposi
tion would be true. I had recently
joined the wagon train, and was about
to leave it when captured; my only bag
gage was a valise, which was packed on
a mule, and it contained no specie. The
few thousand dollars of specie were in a
pair of isaddle bags, belonging to
Secretary Reagan. Whether that money
ever reached the United States Treasu
ry, Mr. Reagan, from whom it was
taken, may be able to learn after he
shall have assumed his functions as a
representative in the United States Con
gress.
Should the course of the commanding
g*fl£ral of the army, in attempting, at
this late day, to resuscitate ai defunct
slander againsfc the President rj# tho late
Confederacy, and to which slander not
even suborned witnesses could give the
semblance of truth, be taken as'the ex
ponent of the feeling of the armjh that
arm of the General Government would
seem to be ill-suited to the task, of late
so largely assigned to it, of preserving
civil order, and of restoring harmony
among the peoples of the United States.
For public considerations it is to be
hoped that the ineradicable malignity of
Sherman may be an exception to the
prevailing sentiments of the United
States army.
Again thanking you for your friendly
consideration, I am very truly yours,
Jefferson Davis.
HOMICIDE AT BERZELIA.
Fatal Result of a Difficulty.
A difficulty occurred at Berzejia, twen
ty-one miles from Augusta, oil the
Georgia Railroad, about ten o’clock yes
terday morning, between Claude Leitner
and E. B. Beal, resulting, in the
death of the latter. The particulars, as
we learned them, are as follows: Beal,
who was about twenty-five years of age,
had been abusing Mr. Leitner and his
father, Mr. H. D. Leitner, for some
time. Last Monday afternoon some
words passed between Mr. Claude Leit
ner and Beal, ending in a wrestle be
tween the two. Leitner, who is about
twenty-two years of age, threw Beal to
tbe floor and got on top of him, when
Beal cried “enough !” and asked to be
let up. Leitner complied, and Beal
quietly arose and walked off. It is said
that be afterwards procured a weight
and attempted to knock Leitner in the
head with it. Beal kept a small gro
cery at Berzelia, on the left hand
side of the track, going up,
and Mr. Leitner staid iu the depot
with his father, who is the agent of the
Georgia Railroad at that point. Soon
after the difficulty mentioned above
Leitner beard that Beal had threatened
to kill him at the first opportunity. Yes
terday morning, about 10 o’clock, while
young Leitner was in the depot, Beal
called him out and pointed a small
Smith & Wesson revolver at him. Leit
ner told him not to fire, at the same
time reaching inside the door and tak
ing up a double barrel shot gun, loaded
with buckshot. Beal immediately fired,
but missed Leitner. The latter then
fired upon Beal, wounding him in the
left shoulder. Beal again raised his
pistol, when Leitner cautioned him not
to fire, saying that if he persisted he
would be obliged to kill him. Beal de
liberately cocked the pistol and was
about to fire, when Leitner discharged
the second barrel of his gun at him, the
entire load of buckshot striking Beal in
the left breast, killing him instantly.—
Beal fell with the cocked pistol
close to his side. A coroner’s jury
was summoned and inquest held at half
past two o’clock. The jury, which was
composed of the following persons : W.
T. Martin, foreman, W. H. Hughes,
James Cenfer, J. P. Shockley, Wm. Har
rison, James Anthony, James Flint and
J. L. Hussey, returned a verdict to tbe
effect that the deceased came to his
I death from a gunshot wound inflicted
by Claude Leitner, sneh killing being in
their opinion justifiable homicide. Such
! is the opinion of the entire community.
| Beal leaves a wife and several chil
j dren.
An Armory Wanted at Rome.
Washington-, June 9.—Gen. Young
to-day presented to the Secretary of
War a memorial from the citizens of
Rome, Ga., that ordnance officers be de
tailed to examine that locality with a
I view to establishing there an armory.
The Secretary directed General Benet,
Chief of Ordnance, to instruct the board
of ordnance officers now in the South to
visit Rome and report as to the appro
priateness of the locality for the par
poses proposed.
A CITY
how THE CITY OF COLUMBIA
HAS BEEN PLUNDERED.
[Correspondence News and Courier.]
Columbia, June 4.—We cannot always
have partridge, nor is it desirable. We
must content ourselves at times with
more ordinary game. Passing by, for
the nonce, the big State frands, and
postponing the important qnestion of
the degree of earnestness in the State
officials in prosecuting the public plun
derers (of which anon), we are attracted
to an expose made by a committee of
twenty appointed as long- ago
as the last of November, 1874, to con
duct an investigation into the financial
affairs of the city of Columbia. It has
just submitted its ieport, and this morn
ing a call appears from its Chairman for
a public meeting to be held on Monday
afternoon, to consider what is to be
done. It is recommended that places
of business be closed, in order that all
interested may be able to attend. It is
a matter of grave and painful interest,
and as the News and Courier has become
one of our city institutions, it will be
well that it shall have its attention di
rected to some of the points thus
brought to light. Our beautiful city
has been ruined by State and city Radi
cal and thievish rule, and by the tolera
tion and countenance given by some of
its own more reputable citizens to the
frauds and rascalities which have been
perpetrated against it. They weakly
thought that they might conciliate
these people by yielding everything
into their hands. They have made, per
haps, a little money by the contact at
first, only to lose it in the long run, and
to become conscious that they have been
made tools in the prostrating of the
true interests of the people, and in the
decline of prosperity of Columbia. But
I propose no further remarks on this
line at present. I will merely reproduce
the substance of some facts, figures and
observations of this report, with perhaps
a comment or two, here and there, and
at the close.
The Committee’s Report.
The committee set out by saying that
they have enconnte ad a great impedi
ment in their inqu.it in the condition
of the books and papers of the City
Council. No ledger account had been
kept since Ist April, 1870. The accounts
have been kept in a very confused man
ner, no doubt as much to obscure the
ugly facts es from the ignorance of the
parties in charge of them. The Caro
lina National Bank refused to give the
committee a transcript of its account
with the city for the special interest
fund, on the ground that it could not
expose the accounts of its customers.
But they went bravely to work, never
theless, and have collected a mass of
facts of the most damaging character.
Passing over other details, we come to
the sale of the property of the city. This
was the expedient resortejl to
To Raise the Wind
When tax money, city currency bills and
other devices could no further go. The
stock of the Greenville and Columbia
Railroad, of the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad, and the city gas
stock, was sacrificed for the sum of
$72,562. City bonds to the amount of
$213,750 were sold for $137,659 83. The
act of the General Assembly, passed in
March, 1872, authorizing the issue of
bonds, limits the tether to which the
city government could go in contracting
debts, and directs the Mayor and Aider
men to apply the proceeds of the bonds
to be issued, first, to the payment of
debts previously contracted, or which
might be contracted, for the construc
tion of the new City Hall and the new
Market, and secondly, for the improve
ment of streets, water works, &c. It was
hot applied as directed. It did not go
to pay debts, and it was diverted from
the City Hall, which is unfinished to
this day, while the new Market, which
cost $9,762 70, became the easy prey of
a passing storm, and the debris sold for
a mere song. Here is how it was used :
City Hall $61,428 94
Market House (afterwards
biown down) 9,907 44
Total $71,336 34
There was a balance of $66,359 49
used for other and illegal purposes.
Further on in their report the commit
tee express the opinion that the large
amount of money was required and was
taken to meet the payments on Mayor
Alexander’s contracts in the water
works department. These contracts,
they further say, were not given out to
the lowest bidder, and no contract in
fact made beyond an arrangement be
tween the Mayor and certain committees
of the Council. The committee disputes
the right of the Mayor and members of
Council to enter into contract with them
selves. Possibly they avoided the form
of a regular contract for this reason.
The account show also that all supplies
to the city are furnished by members of
the City Council. They state and de
nounce the fact that supplies and con
tracts are given to the several commit
tees having special charge of the depart
ments supplied.
The City Expenses.
The steady increase in the expenses of
the city for ordinary purposes, exelud
ing interest on the public debt, and all
special expenditures, is shown by this
table :
For the year ending March 31, 1866..510,209 91
For the year ending March 31, 1867.. 26.467 11
For the year ending March 31, 1868.. 32,950 88
For the year ending March 31, 1869.. 28,043 97
For the year ending March 31, 1870.. 38,643 64
For the year ending March 31, 1871.. 42.089 74
For the year ending March 31. 1872.. 70.126 90
For the year ending March 31. 1873.. 78.975 48
Thirteen months to April 30, 1874... 95,894 71
Specific expenses for the more im
portant departments of the city govern
ment, running through several years,
are exhibited in other tables, which show
a steady and large increase year by year.
In the departments of police and guard
house, the streets,' the alms house, the
water works, the committee report that
frightful extravagance has prevailed,
and recommend certain reductions. But
who they expect to act upon their sug
gestions they do not say. Certainly the
Council will not of their own free will.
Under the recherche head of “ Miscella
neous,” “Sundries,” “Refreshments,”
the accounts not itemized, between April,
1872, and April, 1874, the city is charged
with an expense of $2,278 11. Here is
the trail, too, of Joseph Crews, of Lau
rens :
No. 328.
Columbia, S. C., March 19, 1873.
Received from C. Barnum, City Trea
surer, sll,lOß in full for principal for
bill for supplies furnished the city in
1865. Joseph Cbews.
$11,103.
The committee could not make any
thing out of the city coupon account.
It is so obscure as to elude all their re
searches. No identification was possible.
The Summing Up.
A resume of the transactions of the
city government show the following
facts: That between the 31st day of
March, 1872, and the 30th"day of April,
1874, the city debt of record, according
to the books, had been increased from
$425,850 to $619,592 70, the increase be
ing $193,742 70; that city stocks had
been sold of varieus kinds, bringing to
the city the sum of $72,654 03; that
over $66,000 of the proceeds of the new
bonds had been diverted from the use
prescribed by law; that nearly $6,000 of
the special interest tax collected in the
year 1874 has been diverted from the
payment of coupona to other purposes,
and that the total debt exceeds the
limit of $600,000 placed upon it by the
Legislature of the State. Further, that
the City Hall, for the construction of
which the issue of bonds was authorized
by the Legislature, remains unfinisbed,
and the new Alms House is likely to re
peat the history of the new Market, in
consequence of the wastefulness, crimi
nal mismangement and utter incompe
tency of the city administration.
The Debt at Date.
How the delightfnl matter stands now
the appendix below will show :
City bonds onstanding $558,690 00
Carolina National Bank 3,000 00
Carolina National Bank 2.000 00
T. J. Jeter 1,000 00
Union Bank 700 00
S. C. Bank and Trust Company 13,147 46
S.-C. Bank and Trust Company 5,858 48
S.’C. Bank and Trust Company 356 15
Judgment C. N. Bank 9.150 55
Judgment Siisby Manufacturing Cos. 1.682 12
Judgment Honeycutt A Bellingrath. 1,044 28
Judgment Honeycutt A Bellingrath. 1,565 25
Judgment Honeycutt A Bellingrath. 1,263 68
Judgment Whidden, Beed and
Fletcher 2,437 55
Judgment Cola. Water Works C 0... 12.947 22
Three rears' oontract with Colum
bia Water Power Co- due May 21,
1875 12,000 00
Amount $626,752 74
To which amount should be added
conpons unpaid, due on contracts for
| lights, city money and certificates out
-1 standing and sundry claims.
Now, don’t you think, that this game
has a high flavor, and may even be call
ed “ loud ?”
The Remedy.
The committee has done well in fer
reting out these frauds and rascalities,
and unearthing these extravagances.'
But they are not so happy when they
come to make recommendations as to
how to get out of the tangle, or rather
how to act iu ik They seem to take for
granted that everything must stand just
as it is. It is cold comfort to the citi
zens of aa impoverished and ruined
town, after seven or eight newspaper
column reports, showing the imposi
tions which have been practiced on them,
to tell them practically that the remedy
is heavier taxation aud change of finan
cial management. Ten mills for in
terest on the public debt, judgments of
banks aud water power company, §20,-
000 of bonded debt due next year, ar
rears of unpaid coupons, interest on
borrowed money, further amounts due
on water contrret, large snms due to
many creditors, a mass of obligations,
&c., &0., dance through the closing
paragraphs in all the mazes of meta
phorical confusion. It may not have
been the part of the committee to trace
the true line of extricatiou from these
transparent and offensive frauds. Many
of the abuses which they so well show
up are likely to go uncorrected, and will
repeat themselves so long as the people
are willing to endnre them. This they
should refuse to do any longer. Anti
they should lose no time in calling all
these reckless parties to the strictest ac
count. Whenever a fraud can bo
tracked, wherever a contract can be dis
covered which has not equity to sustain
it or was not clearly within the powers
of tho municipal body to make, it
should be disputed and its enforcement
resisted. Congaree.
RAIDING THE ROBBER 8
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Columbia, S. C., June 7.
The mass meeting of the citizens of
Columbia, called to receive the report of
the Committee of Twenty which was ap
pointed several weeks ago to examine
into the fiuanoial condition of the city,
was held this evening. Great indigna
tion had been aroused by the exhibits
of official profligacy and misgovern
ment published in the city papers last
Friday, and the meeting was largely at
tended by both white and colored citi
zens. Mr. Edwin J. Scott was requested
to take the Chair. It was proven be
yond the shadow of a doubt that the ac
tual municipal debt of the city far ex
ceeds the amount authorized by the
Legislature of the Ssate. The following,
the most important of several resolutions
proposed, were offered by Major William
B. Gulick, a prominent citizen, and
unanimously adopted.
Resolved, That application be made
at once to Judge R. B. Carpenter, Judge
of this Circuit, for an injunction to
restrain the Mayor and Aldermen of the
city of Columbia from increasing the
present debt of the city in any way
whatever, or from binding the city to
any payments beyond those already au
thorized or established by law. Said
injunction to continue in force until sat
isfactory evidence shall have been sub
mitted to Judge Carpenter that the debt
of the city has been reduced to the limit
established bv the act of the General
Assembly of the State.
Resolved, That legal proceedings be
commenced against the Mayor and Al
dermen of the city who may be responsi
ble for the diversion (1) of the interest
tax (2), for the diversioniof the proceeds
of the bonds sold from the objects first
described by law, and (3) against all
those who may have committed breaches
of trust in acoepting contracts with the
city while holding positions of trust in
the government.
Resolved, That the Chairman of
the meeting appoint a committee of
twenty-five, composed of tax payers, to
form a standing committee on the
finances of the city) and that this com
mittee be charged with the duty of car
rying out the purposes embraced in the
second and third resolutions of protect
ing the financial interests of the city
generally at their discretion.
The meeting wps orderly throughout,
but seemed thoroughly earnest and de
termined. Addresses were made by
Gen. Wm. Wallace, Col. F. W. McMas
ters, Capt. Wm. B. Bachman and Col.
A. C. Haskell, all denouncing with the ut
most severity the recent administration
of municipal affairs,and all received with
the loudest applause. A resolution
which was offered by Capt. Wm. Bachmau
as follows: Resolved, That the Mayor
and Aldermen'of the city of Columbia
be requested to resign their offices was*
adopted unanimously. It is not thought,
however, that the guilty officials will
comply with this request. At the meet
ing a letter was read from Gov. Cham
berlain, expressing sympathy with the
objects of the meeting, and declaring
the necessity of reform in municipal as
well as S,tate affairs.
The damaging and disgraceful expo
sures made of a long series of official
corruption and maladministration of
municipal affairs have created much
excitement here, <.d a determination
upon the part of the citizens to correct
the evils complained of at all hazards
prevails. Julian.
SHERMAN’S “MARCH TOTHESEA”
[From the New York Day Book.]
As infamous a record as Sherman’s
worst enemy could wish to impale his
reputation upon was that “March to the
Sea,” the originator of which Sherman
claims'to be, but which claim General
Grant, it seems by the clamor of the
General’s friends, just now, seek to rob
him of I In God’s name let both these
men share the honors (!) that cowardly,
unmanly, piratical raid upon defense
less women and children seemß to have
won. Another age will do them both
fnll justice. Of all the brutal, in
famously brutal, affairs that the history
of the American war chronicled, Sher
man’s “March to the Sea,” of which the
world has heard so much, was the
crowning disgrace, if disgrace could
crown an inhuman, barbaric epoch
Men, to defend the homes and firesides
of mothers, wives, sisters and little ones
hardly able to toddle, there were none.
Ruthless, long-continued war, a cam
paign of years, had sacrificed the limit
ed fighting material of a population of
nine millions. Twenty millions in the
North had enough human food for
powder and ball left to continue
the sacrifice that had been kept up in
this section, and Sherman’s “March to
the Sea” was hazarded. It cost the stal
wart warrior nothing. The burning of
barns, dwellings and all plantation prop
erty that fire would consume, was simply
the pastime' of army bummers. Men,
patriots, true soldiers, who were fighting
for a holy principle, would have died ere
they engaged in such a devil’s carnival.
Weak women besought mercy, and
prayed to Sherman’s fiends with clasped
hands that their wardrobes and their
food might be spared ; but those braves
(?) heeded them not, and the devouring
flames were fed with all the necessities
and luxuries that were combustible, un
less gold and silver were found, in which
case this was claimed as “loot,” and to
day many a New England sideboard dis
plays trophies gallantly won by the no
ble Sons of Mars (?) in straggles with
weak and defenseless, overpowered wo
men, during Sherman’s wonderful
“March to the Sea.” We never shall
forget the tone, looks and bearing of the
deeply lamented Simms, the poet and
Dovelist of South Carolina, as he sat in
the office of this journal, and mourn
fully detailed the passage of Sher
man and his bummers through the
beautifnl city of Columbia, his
place of residence. Poor Simms
was at the time away from his
charming home, a home filled with and
surrounded by every luxury that wealth,
and refined, cultivated taste could gath
er together. His lovely family of daugh
ters were there alone, with only the ne
gro servants of the plantation to protect
them. The vandals came and pillaged,
robbed, destroyed and bnmed, and that
which they could not easily carry away,
destroy, or consume by fire in the line of
food, they, with a barbarity and bru
tality that would have disgraced Hot
tentots dr Anstralian Bushmen, or the
Digger Indians of America, so befouled
that it was food no longer. This pic
_ture, with its terrible and infamous fill
ing up which we will not attempt here,
Gilmore Simms gave us ayear after tlfe
soul sickening event. That man had
lived sixty years with his heart fnll of
love for humanity. He had looked kind
ly on his fellow-men everywhere. His
writings showed his warm, genial syjjk
pathy with all mankind. He had b<rikod
in the sunshine Of life, honored Bjhd re
spected, and he was unprepared Abr the
startling proof that there were spofcimens
of human beings on earth whosje organ
isms were lower in the scale o
ty than brute beasts. Gilmore Simms
died a changed man. He gave up his
faith in that order of creation whiffle the
Bible told him came into the world a lit
tle “lower than God’s angels.”
And Sherman craves the honors (!) Mr
the conception of this great achieve
ment whioh, from inception to culmina
tion, was one long, black damning record
of infamy of the character of this visited
upon the family of Gilmore Simms,
Columbia, South Carolina. Sherman
was the modern Attila, with his Huns
sacking and pilaging ;
every vestige of Southern civilization
that he could reach, and did his best to
blot ont, like the Goth of the six cen
tury, the arts, sciences, manners and
customs of the people he ravaged ,hoping
to exterminate the women and children
(there were no men left) by taking from
them the very means of subsistence; ah 1
this extermination effected,, this modern
barbarian, as did his prototype, sought
to plant his heathen hordes upon tho
• ruins of the cities he had destroyed.
History in this “ March to the Sea” re
peated itself. The whole Northern
wilderness of ignorance and fanaticism
was in motiou, and Goths, Vandals,
Visigoths, Alans, Suevi, d-0., rushed
like a torrent into South, spreading
carnage, desolation and destruction
through the finest portion Of that then
beautiful domain. And. the great origi
nator of this dteaning disgrace of tho
American civil in fear of
being robbed hou*r3 (!) that in
fainy won him IK* t^
THE COTTON CRiU'.
Report of Department of Agriculture.
Washington, June 5. -The Depart
ment of Agriculture is now rficeiviug the
the June returns of cotton, which will
form the basis of the estimates of aroa
of the present crop. During May pre
liminary returns were received from 316
cotton counties. In 63 counties in Geor
gia the area averages the same as last,
year; as also in the districts represented
in North Carolina, Florida, and Texas.
A reduction of one per cent, appears in
39 counties in Alabama, of two per cent,
in 18 counties of South Carolina, of
three per cent, in 33 counties of Arkan
sas. The average reduction is eleven
per cent, in Louisiana and seventeen in
Tennessee, but there are only 20 qouu
ties represented in each, and the full re
turns iu June may in-t v a different 1
showing, The season is reported lato iq
nearly every instance, fn%i ten days to
two weeks generally, but m some cases
three and even four weeks: More than
two-thirds of the returns* nnae the sea
son too wet, especially in the time of
planting and germinating. Iu some dis
tricts the past two weeks have been too
dry. The stands is reported good in a
majority of the returns from North Caro
lina, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama,
Mississppi and Texas; rather above the
average in Arkansas and Tennessee, and
scarcely an average in Louisiana. Tim
condition is represented below the aver
age in Florida, Tennessee and Arkansas;
slightly below in Georgia, Mississippi,
and Texas, and an average in Alabama
and the Carolinas. ,
GRANT’S LETTER.
Thurman on the Third Term-Grant
Bidding for Renomiuation-He Re
pudiates the Unwritten Law—His
Chances.
Washington, June 6, 1875,—Senator
Thurman left for Coluirbus to-night
preparatory to taking an . Akye part, in
the coming campaign in \ Luffing
the past week he has been occu\isSjyj|
fatigued iu changing hi t home,
purchased the res-div-ioe
louse of Governor McCormick, lii.lf
in-law, which he has And
lefitted. The care incident to
has prevented the Senator from
ing over seriously the subject of cH
third term letter, but to-day
examined it critically and, ns
not belong to the school of
Christian statesmen, he was not
to talking polities., it is a fact
erally know that Senator
views of Grant’s ambition
national discussion of tho thirty
qnestion. It was in November,
within twenty days after
of Grant, that Judge Thurman
a political conference held in
that Gaant would seek
a third term and would urge
strongly as ho did a second.
lieved it then for reasons not now
sury to repeat ; he believes it
cause the President has said it as fiSJ
ly and bluntly as it is possible fntflj
to say it. Laying aside a copy
Herald containing the letter, ■£,
Thurman said ho did not see &
could be two opinions about
It is a plain submissiMMjH
question whether he shall If.
fertile third term to the
says, alone have the rightioJßß
the absence of any
hibition. It utterly repu W
that what has hee -=-*nd Wie
law of the Republic has anything to dP|
y.icn the question. Therfv is no refer
ence to the example set by former Presi
dents, nor any intimMi'SU that any re
spect is due to tEfe usage which has
heretofore prevailed. On the contrary,
he says that the'question of the number
of terms allowed to any oab Executive
can only come up fairly in She shape of
a proposion to amend the Constitution,
and that, until such an amendment is
adopted, the people cannot be restricted
in their choice by resolution further
than they are now restricted as to age,
nativity, &0., and he expresses the
opinion that it may happen in the fu
ture history of the country that to
change an Executive because he has
been eight years in office will prove un
fortunate, if not disastrous, and finally
he gives the people to understand, un
der such circumstances as to make it an
imperative duty, he would accept the
nomination again. It is true he says
such circumstances are not likely to
arise, but is it not obvious that, should
he be renominated, he wfmld consider
that such circumstances had arisen ? It
is idle to call the letter a withdrawal
of Grant from the field. He says that
he is not a candidate forareuomination,
but in the same sentence he tells us that
he never has been, and in the same para
graph he gives us to understand that
under certain circumstances he would
again accept a nomination. And it is not
to be overlooked that the litter contains
a narrative of his sacrifices, which looks
very much like an appeal to the sym
pathies ,of the people. In answer to a
qnestion what he would bo the
effect of the letter, the'Seuator said that
the Republicans in the Northern Stated
would assume that it is a withdrawal of
Grant and anti-third term resolutions
coupled with laudations of Grant, such
as had been passed in Pennsylvania and
Ohio, will probably be adopted by-the
Republican Conventions of nearly all
the Northern States. Buf no such reso
lutions are likely to be adopted by Re
publican Conventions at the South, and
even were the Republican National Con
vention to meet to-morrow tho chances
are that Grant would have every vote of
the Southern States, aud would need.
only forty-seven more to secure his re-'
nomination.
Correspondent—Do yon' think Grant
estimates his own strength to be ffieees
sary for the success of the Republican
party ?
“I have uo doubt,” said the Senator, 1
“that Grant considers, himself the
strongest man in the‘Republican parly,
and firmly believes that in fae eveht of
his renomination he would s l>e re-elect
ed” ?
Correspondent—What, ' in your opin
ion, induced Grant to write the letter ?
Senator—You can judge of that as
well as I can. It has been suggested
that he thought it would put a stop to
the passage of anti-thlfd term resolu
tions at the North. If tlt was the idea
it will not be realized, but I think that
he meant to let the anti-third termers
know that he could not be ruled
by resolutions. You will observe that
he takes sere to tell them that the
people oannot be restricted in their
choice by resolution. What is this but
saying to the anti-third term platform
makers, “Resolve away as much as you
please, the people will dacide the ques
tion when the proper time comes.”
“This is the way it loofe to me,” said
the Senator with emphasis. “Instead
of -being a surrender it j> a defiance. Its
tone, instead submissive, is
contemptuous. Qsontte a brave man,
and I think he meant and did
write a Vrave, defiant
ator Thurman’s opinion what the^Ohio'
Democratic State Convention, which:'
meets at Columbus on tpe |tfth inst.,
fwill construe the letter as'a bid for a re
nomination, and that the platform adopt
ed by that Convention will as emphati
cally condemn the letter as it (lid last
year the question of a third ,te*m for
anybody [ '
Fgbteb’s Second Texas Brawfyig v*s
been postponed* for a few days. '> ?
ntjhbeJ
MEETING OF GEORGIA
HOAI) DIRECTORS. Jr
Col. 8, K. .Johnson Elected '£ 5
t.-iuK-nl A Dividend t * i
Cent. Declared. .
The bi-mo’ith.'y meeting of fißfj
of Directors of ‘ the
was held at the office of the
this city, yesterday. All tllSoEjM
of the Board were presold, ,
S. K. Johnson *\vas elected
tendent of the road for
ing year. Several ballots were J
for James Anderson, Esq., at
Superintendent of the Charlotte, OofiM
bia and Augusta Railroad. E. E. Jon A
Esq., offered a resolution providing U
the payment of a dividend of
cent, on the 15th day of July
King addressed the IhsuTl for
fa von. : tho cli.r.qiAAyyjrfH
three p.-r ceni.'vjyp.
"IIS tina! !\ adopted. 1 - '
turn Of Due,-tors fur
road of Alabama was
present. T ion wa- quite
mission nu tin luhjeet. ■
President of tin- St. Lords . '■%.
eastern Railroad, which
Louis to Nashville, address idjß
iu regard to tfie cutting off
fi'-’i-i the <ir rii Li*f . - ,
posed .t' C. J|
■R he 11, -Tames,(
L Jackson ‘wus uppoiulyiMHß
# V ' W C *
-Ida to-day. . In. s. p.
; -W"'" li e> u orgf|§ : \
'•-"11 a ecotnpi'uy tin- ,-omiS -i and
Jit >;li -I adjourned subject tu
the President, j ■ 1
THE GEORGIA RAILROAD^B
Earnings for April and* May -ApFiiuJ
'Exhibit. J 1
' .* </
The report .of .earnings of tie
Railroad for tho past .bro
mouthsjl shows a most encouragiug statid
of affairs. - In Ap’uH the e%rnii.gs wca
as follows: From passengers, $20,921Jfl
front freight, $72,128 77—total, jfl
050 28', Expenses, $46,7015 85;
the net earnings . $40,313 43. ‘
the gross earnings wore—from
gers, $20,129 58; from taught,
236 67—toty, -$64,366 25.' ExpensSl
$17,7-72 95; ie&ing net earniugs $16,-
593 30. By cTTmpariuon with
months last wTatr we obtain the follow-.
ing’Ugn-es: fiF _ Qp jMjSgZm
April, 1874— Bfefings .$90,704 44
April, 1875 “ “ 9&050 26
Making tho actual deficit 6f
compared with 1875, $53,163 39.
Making the actual deficit
compared with lsT-r $13,659
lie seen from this that the - ■
of the road during tho mnnth^H
aud May la-1 v mv $66,822
during tho c. lresponding
The l.igutiiig New Kng]ann| * -j.
(Joneral Lee. '.' ' '
i I-deni
Kie true estimate
aced upon its hero.
- tho truth comes uppermost,
iH justioo done.”
A Life fob a Life.— A touching story
comes from the far-off East concerning
the Princess .Mareeline Czartoryska
who recently died in Gallicia. Her lit
tle grandson fell ill and seemed lying at
the very door of Death’s chambers. The
fond princess prayed to Heaven for the
life of the child, and besought that her’s
should be taken instead. By a sort of
miracle the child was spared and recov
ered. Almost immediately a languor at
tacked the pious princess, to which she
at once succumbed. ‘[lt is a debt I owe
to Heaven,” she faintly said, and then a
few days later she had herself borne
into tho open air' and the gates of the
castle walls thrown open, so that all who
wished might enter. When the villagers
heard of it, they at once left their tasks
to crowd around the form of their prin
cess, whom they loved so well, and who
looked upon them as the children or
family of the ruling hbn6e., “Old men
and women, young men and maidens,
and bright-eyed children pressed near
her, and then began a most touching
ceremony. Drawing one ot the chib
dren to her, ’she embraced it, say
ing : ‘Let this kiss fall again upon
you all, my dear friends.’ Then .she
gave to each child a medallion bearing
the words, ‘Love one another.’ Then
came the young girls and matrons. To
each of them she gave a little case of
needles and implements, and an image
of the Blessed Mother.” When, qt the
close of these ceremonies, she refused to
return to the palace; but begged the
whole people to recite tho Dominical
orison. Then, at a sign from her, they
all knelt, and, in solemn grandeur, the
sublime words of the Lord’s Prayer
went upward to the Throne from the
mouths of the great multitude. “As the
amen still echoed in the air she felt
death invading her heart, and whisper
ing ‘Marcel,” the tifcme of her grand
child |6r whomAbe^was giving her life,
he was brought to her, and as he was
being carried to her lips her head
drooped upon her breast;- And without
a,sigh she paid the debt which she had
promised for her grandchild’s life. So
much for a scene that seems taken from
a poem—an ideal state of society that one
can hardly reconcile with the present.”
Impobtant Decision in a Bankrupt
Case.— On Friday last Judgq Erskine,
presiding in the United States District
’Court at Atlanta, decided a question of
some importance, and which will be in
teresting to many in this, section. It
arose in a bankrupt case of E. H. Cohen
vs. P. S. Burney, assignee of Carter
Campbell, The parties are from Madi
son, Ga. The issne was as to who
among a number of mortgages shall
bear the burthen of discharging prior
liens upon the mortgaged property.
The case was argued some time ago by
Bleckly & Iteese for the complainant and
F. C. Foster for the defense. Judge
Erkskine embodied his decision in the
following decree;
This cause came on to be heard as to
the question of contribution by the sev
eral mortgages in discharging the prior
incumbrances by general judgment.
And after argument by counsel it is or
dered and decreed that tho funds in
the hands of the assignee be adminis
tered free from the principle of con
tribution, except among mortgages of
equal dates, the principle recognized by
the Court being that the youngest mort
gage is to bear the whole burden of re
moving the incumbrances if producing
a sufficient sum for that purpose, and if
not, that any balance is to be borne by
-the next younger, and so on until all the
incumbrance is discharged.
Sultan of Zanzibar.
London, June 9.— The Sultan of Zan
zibar landed at Westminster this after
noon, and was received by a guard of
honor. He wfllj-emain in England a
month or more. Tho expenses of his
visit are defrayed by the British Gov
ernment.