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- 1 * * ' ' / OLD SERIES—VOL. lUXIII NEW SERIES—VOL. IL. Chronicle anti Sentinel. WEDNESDAY... .JANUARY 12, 1876. plantation manners.” The North is fond of sneering at the “plantation manners” of the South. A recant occnrrence in Washington City gives an exhibition of Republican man ners. The Chicago Inter-Ocean says that a feir days ago Secretary Bristow a room in the Treasury Department at Washington was the scene of a very lively and equally ridiculous scrimmage. A man named Saw Felker, who is pretty well known in Chicago.called on Bristow for the purpose of outlining his informa tion in regard to the Chicago whisky ring. In the course of his narrative he took occasion—in fact, took several oc casions—to mention the name of the Solicitor of the Treasury, Blcfobd Wile son, who was present, without due rev erence. Wilson stood it for a while, but finally remarked that Felker was a liar, or words to that effect. Then the oaths, inkstands, paper-weights, and other missiles began to move with ex ceeding alacrity. Felker grasped his pistol and intrenched himself behind the Secretary. Wilson pranced around the room, throwing things whenever he could do so without endangering Bris tow’s cranium. The bystanders kept out of reach of the warriors and their weapons, and enjoyed the fun. The re porters and correspondents did likewise from behind the sofas, chairs, and desks. At last Bristow arose in his might, put an end to the hostilities, and effected a reconciliation. Nobody killed, nobody wounded. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The Macon Telegraph calls attention to the fact that the county tax of sixty cents on the one hundred dollars paid by the people of Bibb includes the money expended for the support of a Bystem of public schools. The Telegraph says that these schools in Macon arc of such a grade that they are patronized by every citizen who has children to edu cate. If this be the case, Macon has no reason to complain, for the saving in tui tion to each head of a family iB very great and equals four times the amount of tax levied. In Richmond we are not so fortunate. Here the county tax prop er is unusually small—being only twen ty-five cents on the one hundred dollars. But the County Board of Education levies a school tax of about twenty-one thousand dollars per annum. The schools maintained with this tax are not of a grade to benefit a large proportion of those who pay the taxes for their support. The citizen pays his school tax and in addition pays the tuition of his children at private schools. This is all wrong. If we are to have a public school system in this county it should be operated so as to do away with this ornerous and unjust double taxation. The oitizens who support should have some of the benefits of the schools. Let us have schools of such a grade that they can be patronized by tho whole commu nity. In this connection as there is a rumor that Judge Shewmakk thinks of giving up his position as President of the Board we desire to say that the public wish Judge Shewmake to remain in of floe. He ha* been an able and faithful official and the people wish him to re tain the position which he occupies. We hope he will be unanimously re elected. DEBT ABROAD AND AT HOME. The oost of governing Great Britain is about $515,000,000; the cost of govern ing the United States is $645,000,000 — these sums including all the expenses of Federal, State, county and municipal government. Great Britain, at less ex pense than the United States, keeps up a brilliant court, manages her vast colonial system, and has a large army and navy. The Edinburgh Scotsman gives us these facts: The city of New York, with a population of less than one million, has a debt of £31,515,678, while London has a debt of only $5,181,700. Baltimore and Boston, the first with 267,354 people, and the second with a population of 240,426, each have debts much larger than London. New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Brooklyn, Balti more, Washington, New Orleans, Chi cago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Jersey City, Louisville, Newark, Providence, Pitts burg, Cleveland, Portland, Charleston, Memphis, Savannah, San Francisco, Albany, Mobile, Milwaukee, Detroit, Bangor, Augusta, St. Joseph, Indiana polis, St. Paul, Lynchburg and Colum bus—the thirty-two principal cities in the United States, with a population of 4,835,704—have a debt of £105,126,545, while London, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Bradford, Bristol, Bolton, Brighton, Birmingham, Oldham, Sal ford, Rochdale, Huddersfield, Wolver hampton, Preston, Newcastle, Black burn, Ashton, Sunderland and Swansea —the twenty-one principal English oities, with a population of 6,384,173 — have a debt of only £22,332,730—1e5s by $9,182,948 than the debt of New York. ECONOMY THE ORDER OF THE DAY. A Washington dispatch to the New York World says the Appropriations Committee will probably report the West Point and the Consular and Di plomatic Appropriation bills to the House in time for their discussion next week. They are the only bills in whioh there will be no material reduction of the expenditures of the various depart ments. The army and navy bills will be delayed to a later period in the ses sion, with a view of profiting by any in vestigatiou which the Military or Naval Committees may make with a view of reducing the army and navy. A cursory examination shows that the expenses of the navy can be reduced from the new estimates $7,000,000, including the cut ting down of the pay of the retired list as shown in the World, of the 26th. The claim of the navy for $4,000,000 more than it was allowed for the present fiscal year, it is believed, will not only be not granted but will be cut down on the present basis some three or four if not six millions of dollars. Members of the committee find an extraordinary increase estimated for in the Secretary of War’s report in the way of river and har bor improvements, which call for $14,- 000,000 more this next year than were appropriated for this year. It is bnt fair to state, however, that the esti mates for internal improvements of this kind are always very largely reduced by Congress, but it is the intention to ent them down one-half from the sum ap propriated last year. A revision of the estimates show that but three of the de partments ask for less than they did for this year. The Department of Justice is willing to take $37,000 less, bnt will, doubtless, be ent down qnite a cool mil lion. The Treasury proper is willing to take $3,000,000 less, while the estimate of the Department of the mos* economically administered of all the Executive Departments, puts in an esti mate SBO,OOO less, which will probably not be cat down by toe committee. The Government Printing Office, whioh calls for nearly $400,000 mere for the next fiscal year than the present, will on doubtedly be cat down at least $1,000,- 000 by the abolition .of the publication of cords of useless documents. The de tails of the estimate of the Post Office Department for nearly $1,000,000 more that! the last Congress gave, has not been clearly looked, into, but it is believed that it need not be appro priated. Beyond an appropriation to keep the fortifications in repair it is thought that a saving of 82,000,000 can be effected there. The judgment of the Coart of Claims calls for $2,000,000, which cannot be reduced. These are $1,600,000 more than named last year. The firet step the committee will take will be to get rid of the $4,500,000 or es timates, made in excess of those made for the present year, and then the ex cess of estimates over the appropriations for this year, which exceed $20,000,000. Having disposed of these two important points, it can then torn to reducing the items as they now stand on the Treasury books. It will be seen from this sketch that the Committee on Appropriations have a long and laborious task before them in the way of retrenchment, bat members of it have no donbt of com plete success without embarrassing the Government in any important branch of the service. CONSOLIDATION OF OFFICES. Several grand juries of the State have recommended the consolidation of several county offices. A good many newspapers have also favored each a scheme. It is proposed in many in stances to abolish the office of Tax Re ceiver and devolve the duties of this officer upon the Collector; and to abolish the office of Country Treasurer and de volve the duties upon the Clerk of the Superior Court. In the smaller oounties this plsn may save money to the tax payers, but we do not think it will work well in any of the larger counties. Where much money passes through the hands of an official there sbonld be some check upon him. The more perfect these checks the less are the people exposed to loss from embezzlement. The consolidation of offices removes these checks and tends to make officials dishonest by putting temptation in their way. We have reason to believe that a large number of “consolidation” bills will be introduced when the Legislature assembles. We hope that none of them will be passed hastily; that each one of them will be carefully investigated, and that none of them will be made laws in counties where any considerable sum of public money passes through the hands of county officials. Retrenchment some times runs mad and false economy usually proves the grossest extrava gance. THE MEETING! IN EDCIEFIELD. We publish in another column of the Chronicle and Sentinel this morning a full and interesting account of the re cent meeting in Edgefield county, South Carolina. Edgefield has done what we had a right to expect she would do. The home of the Bctlebs, the Gabyb, the Bacons and many other chivalrous men has spoken, nobly spoken. The people of Edgefield have proclaimed in nnmistukable language their determina tioif to do everything which can be done to rid themselves of the ring that has so long robbed the citizen and disgraced the State. The temper and action of the meeting can not be too highly commended. The speeches and the resolutions breathe tho spirit of men who have determined to succeed. The resolutions presented by General Butler justly declare that there is no hope for South Carolina save in the “immediate organization of the Democratic party.” General But ler, in his speech, rightly said that the people of South Carolina have endured and forborne until forbearance has ceas ed to be a virtue. The argument is ex hausted; “under the flag, in the Union and by the Constitution” will the Caro linians fight and, fighting, conquer. With this spirit animating the people and the leaders we have no fear for the future, no doubt of the result. With a compact, thoroughly organized and dis ciplined Democratic party in the field this year, with the watohword of “noth ing for self and everything for coun try,” with the intelligence, the wealth and the courage of the State fully en listed in the struggle, no power can be arrayed in opposition that will not be crushed and overcome. At the last election the Radioal majority in Edge field was considerably less than three hundred; this year we are confident the Democrats will gweep the oonntry by a large majority. THE EMANCIPATION SPEECH. We find much to oommend in the speeoh made by Edwin Belcher in this oity on the anniversary of Presi dent Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclama tion. Coming from a oolored man and addressed to a colored audience it is a notable speech, and we cannot agree with the Constitutionalist that the speaker, who holds an office in the post office department, deserves “no better fate” than to lose his position. It is true he took gronnd against the third term and favored the establishment of friendly relations between the Sonthern whites and the Southern blacks; bnt we have yet to learn that the utterance of such sentiments disqualifies a man from holding an office nnder the United States Government. The speaker may have sinned against Grantism and the kind of Republicanism whioh blighted tbe South for so many years, but we shall not blame him for this. He told nothing save the truth in his statement of how emancipation was accom plished. It was a war measure and not an act of philanthropy on the part of the North. The advice he gave the colured people was sound, and if followed by them, as we believe it will, must be productive of much good. The two races must live together, and it is important that they should get along peaceably and harmoniously. When i the influence of designing white and | black demagogues is completely re | moved or destroyed by the efforts of the j best men of both races we shall have no ; more trouble in the South. Let the colored people acquire education and a material interest in the prosperity of the country as fast as they can and fit them selves for an intelligent discharge of the I duties of citizenship. Let the wliite peo . pie treat them kindly and justly, aud see ' that they are protected in the full enjoy ment of all their legal rights and privi leges, and all the evils which have preyed upon the Sonth since the war will dis j appear. For onr own part, we believe* that the orator of Emancipation day ‘ spoke for a large nnmber of his race, ! and we weloome the utterance of snoh j sentiments as a certain indication that | the white citizens and the black citizens ! in tbe State will soon be found working | together for the advancement of all the j interests of Georgia. The special dispatch from Jackaon, pnbliah ; ed in the Chronicle and Sentinel yesterday i morning, brought the most satisfactory into 111* j genoe from redeemed Mississippi. The Demo ■ era tic Legislature is acting moderately and * wisely andwith a determination to keep the | promises made by them to the oolored people ; daring the camoaign. Setter than all. the feel i mg in favor of Mr. Laxak for Senator ia honr ( ly growing stronger, and onr correspondent 1 seems to entertain no donbt of hia election by I a large majority. Mweiaeippi ewee it to her self and to the whole Sonth to tend Mr. 1.0 to the Bo&*te. A CANDIDATE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT. We have been shown the following letter addressed to a Georgian by Hon. Cassius M. Clay, of Kentucky: White Hall P. 0., Ky., Nov. 26,1875. Mt Dear Sib— My name will be presented to the National Democratic Convention in 1876, by my State, as the nominee for Vice-Presi dent. I ask vonr favorable consideration. Very truly, C. M. Clit. N. B.—The “inflationists" eeem to have “gone under” with Pendleton. C. At the top of the missive figures what we suppose to be the Cassius M. Clay coat-of-arms, to-wil: a female dressed in exceedingly decollete style, who is gazing into the faces of imaginary pass ers by in an exceedingly bold and shameless manner. We are not familiar enough with heraldry to know what this device means or whether it has any heraldric significance. To us the lady looks more like a nymph of the pave on her travels, who would be taken np by the police of any well regulated city, than any thing else. The telegraph has already informed ns that Mr. Cassius Marcellus Clay is a candidate for the Vice-Presidential nomination, and this letter furnishes ample evidence that Cassius Marcellus is a candidate in the broadest sense of the wotd— “in all that the name implies.” We presume that the letter which we publish is bnt a sample of those which have been sent all over the country. Every man in every State of any local influence has doubtless been importuned, six months in advance of the meeting of the National Convention, to support Mr. Clay ! Such shameless solicitation would better become the street-walking female on Mr. Clay’s coat-of-arms than an aspirant for the second highest office within the gift of forty millions of peo ple. Mr. Clay says that his name will be presented to the Convention by the State of Kentucky. What authority has he for this statement ? Kentucky has not appointed delegates to the Conven tion and until they shall be chosen Mr. Clay’s announcement of their preference is deoidedly premature. We have seen nothing in the newspapers of Kentucky to indicate that Mr. Clay is the prefer ence of the people of that State and we shall therefore take the .liberty of doubt ing the truth of his assertion. We certain ly know of no reason why Mr. Clay’s name should be presented to the Democratic Convention by the delegates from Ken tucky or by the delegates from any other State. We fail to see what claim he has upon the Democratic party for any of its honors. We are equally certain that whether Kentucky does or does not pre sent his name Mr. Cassius M. Clay will never be the Democratic nominee for Vice-President of the United States. He might just as well recognize this fact, save stationery and postage and retire the dubious looking female from active service. Mr. Clay’s statement that the “inflationists have gone under with Pendleton” is wholly gratuitous. If he aided in defeating Governor Allen, falsely called an inflationist, he is an enemy to the party from which he is now begging office. Mr. Pendleton is not an inflationist and Mr. Pendleton has not gone under. The men who tnink he has will be grievously astonish ed when the National Democratic Con vention assembles. I.OFPINU OFF LITTLE ABUSES. “Catch us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil our vines.” It is announced that the Dembcratic majority in the House of Representatives will save the coun try eighty millions of dollars during the coming fiscal year by reducing extrava gant and unnecessary expenditures and by rectifying the gross abuses which have crept into the administratii n of the Government since the Radioal party came into power. While we have good reason for doubting whether so large a sum as this can 1 e saved while the Ex ecutive Department of the Government is in the hands of the Republicans, still we think that a saving of many millions can and will be effected. But while Mr. Randall and the Democratic majority at his back are saving large sums and correcting great abuses let them remem ber that there are small sums to be saved and little abuses to be remedied. The statement is made that the Clerk of the House has paid out since the 30th of June last up to December 1, $1,985 for pocket books and card oases, and $1,573 for gold pens and pencils.. Such a large purchase of these articles oonld only have been necessitated by the total ab straction of the old supply on hand.— Between two and three thousand dollars’ worth of pocket knives were also pur chased for the new members. If the Democratic Honse is .sincere in its de sire for economy, it cannot do better than by beginning the work of retrench ment in its own household. It would be difficult for any member to allege any reason, except that of precedent, why he should be furnished at the publio ex pense with oostly Russia leather pocket books, gold pens and pocket knives.— Nor is there any shadow of right in permitting members horse car tickets at the pnblie expense. One of the most crying abases under the House is the hire of horses and car riages. This is a perquisite enjoyed, and very improperly, too, by officers of the body. Many thousand dollars are annually paid on this account, in maDy instances more being paid every month for the nse of a horse than his entire value. Under the law every member is allowed $125 worth per annnm of sta tionery and newspapers, or he is allowed to commute his allowance in money. At least nine tenths of the members draw all the stationery they need (a very com prehensive term) from the general allow ance, and then take $125 in money. It is believed that a saving of one hundred thousand dollars per annum can easily be effected by doing away with these very questionable, if not actually dis honest, practices of former Congresses. It may be said that this is a small sum to be considered in the administration of a Government which annually dis burses hundreds of millions. Bnt it is just such small evils as the one to which we have called attention that have led to the great frauds which yearly rob the tax payers of the country of many mil lions. It is the “little foxes” that do : the mischief, and we must catch them 1 first. Besides, in the present instance, i the little fox is a Democratic fox, and the | moral effect of the capture will be neces- I sarily very great. Congressmen have no j more right to make the people pay for I gold pens, pocket knives, portmonaies, j card cases, cakes of soap and carriage ' hire than they have to require them to furnish clothing or anything else that they may need or fancy. If they need stationery in the discharge of their official duty they should perhaps be allowed to have it; but they clearly have no right to pocket $125 as “com mutation,” or, as many are said to do, take both stationery and money. Let the Democratic majority commence their reforms in tbe House of Represen tatives. They oonld not choose a better plaoe for a beginning. Tbe Atlanta Herald announced the other day that Rev. W. A. Dodge, of Atlanta, was dead. It now annonnoes that he is not dead, bnt improving. As we republished the first statement of the Herald, we, of coarse, publish the second. We wish the Herald would be more careful as to its statements. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1876. “SOUTH CAROLINA'S HOPE.” The New York Tribune is confessedly an able paper. It handles every sub ject which it discusses in an able man ner. In an issue of a recent date it has an able editorial upon Sonth Carolina affairs. The article is headed “Sonth Carolina’s Hope.” -It is written in the choicest and most vigorous English. But unfortunately there is nothing in this able article except the English.— The same peculiarity is manifested in many of the Tribune's able articles. One would judge from its caption that this particular able article contained some practical suggestion to Carolinians of a safe and speedy issue from the troubles with which they are environed. Let ns see: “Will yon plej.se tell us whst we can do ?" writes a white citizen and tax payer of Sonth Carolina since the election of Moses and Whieeeb to the bench. “We cannot leave the State, or we would do so in a body. We have nothing to subsist upon but oar lands, and we cannot sell them, for purchasers ntnn Sonth Carolina as they would a pestilence. Tell ns what we shall do.” Well, what answer shall we make t We know something of the political history of Sonth Carolina for the past ten years. * * * There is bnt one course left, and that calls for endurance and patient waiting. Appeal to the whole people. And if in November of next year the people shall ap prove the cruel and brutal no-policy policy which not only looks on calmly while the rob beries go on, but adds Government patronage to the plunder—why then, what is there to do but charge all up to profit and loss, move away and leave the negro, the soallawag, and the carpet-bagger to quarrel over the spoils ? This, according to the Tribune, is the “Hope of South Carolina:” the white people of the State must wait until No vember, and then unless a Democratic President shall be elected they are to “charge all up to profit aud loss, move away and leave the negro, the carpet bagger and the scallAwag (scalawag, by the way, being given one ‘l’ too many for orthography and one too little for j ustice) to quarrel over the spoils. ” It is true that in the place whioh we have marked with stars there appears in the Tribune article a half column of fine writing about the cruelty of the coarse which the Republican party has pursued I to South Carolina, but the hope of the people of that State is summed up in the sentence : “Wait for a Democratic President to be elected, and if he isn’t elected abandon your property and move away.” This is very cheap comfort. It may look well on paper, but we hardly think Carolinians will derive muck sat isfaction from the hope held out to them by the sympathetic Tribune. Suppose the country elects a Democratic Presi dent next November, what will he be able to do for South Carolina ? He will ex haust his power by the appointment of Democrats to fill the plaoes in the Charleston custom house -and in the post offices of the State—by making one or two Democratic District Attorneys and United 1 States Marshals. But in South Carolina the Repnblieans are to a great extent independent of the patron age of the General Government, though they wish to fill every position that af fords an opportunity for theft. They have entire control of the State govern ment, and the plunder which this power gives them is amply sufficient to hold the party together. Unless the Demo crats can kick the ring out of Columbia they may expect a continuance of the misgovernment which is now crashing the State. It is very easy to advise the Carolinians to give up their property and move away; bnt it will not be so easy for Carolinians to follow the ad vice. They do not wish to leave their State—they certainly do not wish to leave it as paupers. The people of South Carolina find consolation in another kind of hope.— They expect to work out their own salvation. Instead of “waiting patiently" they expect to go to work immediately. They are now organizing and preparing for a struggle on the result of which they have been forced to stake their all. They propose to fight corruption and to orush it. When November comes Caro lina will have accomplished her own de liverance—will be in the control of her own people. If there is to be any immi gration from the State the thieves— native and alien—will have to go. The people of South Carolina intend to stay. In this policy, and not in submission or flight, lies the “Hope of South Caro lina.” MINOR TOPICS. The report that our Government was seek ing an opportunity for a war with Mexico does not receive any confirmation by the disposition of our claims against that country. Instead of demanding the whole of the large award at once and forcing payment or a fight, the United States has granted exceedingly easy terms to Mexico. Now let Mexico be made to respect boundary lines and to keep her free booters on the other side of the Bio Grande. The Bussells, of Savannah, who committed the assault upon Solicitor-General Lamar chronicled in these columns a week or two ago, seem to be getting alarmed. Last Monday one of them asked to have hie case transferred from the Superior to the City Court, on the ground that the Jndge of the former Conrt was prejudiced against him. The request was promptly refused. Another one, who had been indicted for malpractice, asked to have his case transferred from the State to the Federal Courts, on account of local prejudice against him. Jndge Tomeins also over-ruled the mo tion, and the defendants will have to face a Chatham county jnry. The Baltimore mnnicipal troubles are not yet at an end. Mr. Wartield, the Independ ent candidate for Mayor at the recent elec tion, has given notice that he shall contest the right of Gen. Latbobe to the poeition. Mr. Warfield was only beaten by a small majority, and his friends claim that there is abundant evidence of the commission of frauds by his opponents. There seems to be some reason for tbe charge that Baltimore has long been ruled by a corrupt ring modeled after the fashion of Tammany, and it is to be hoped that the investigation of the last election will be searching and complete. At all events the In dependents have now an opportunity of sub stantiating their accusations. Gen. Yon Moltkk has addressed a letter to the German Minister at- Washington, express ing surprise at the recently published state ment of the Army and Navy Journal, in which he was represented as having spoken unfavor ably about the American army and its leaders. In this letter, which is dated Berlin, November 24th, Gen. Yon Moltkk sayß there exists no each material of the war of secession aa would furnish the data for forming a proper judg ment, and he had no time to read the various reports emanating from both sides at the time, and apparently written in the spirit of party feeling, so aa to examine the same closely in order to reach at least some probable conclu sions of facts in regard to American soldiers and generals. He also says he never dreamed of speaking of West Point in the manner at tributed to him. The Constitutionalist declines to believe that there is any “feud" or “ bad feeling’’ between Governor Smith and General Colquitt. Per haps our neighbor knows more than any one else about this matter. We sincerely hope that It does. Bnt there seems to be good rea son for believing that there is “bad feeling" between these gentlemen and their supporter*. The Constitutionalist understands that Gov, Smith is not a candidate for re-election. The statement published a few days since in the Macon Telegraph conclusively proved that, to all practical purposes. Governor Smith is a candidate. He will accept a nomination, and hie friends all over the State are at work to se cure him the nomine: ion. When the Conven tion assembles we shall be greatly surprised if it is not dieoovered that Governor Smith is not only e candidate but that he is one of the strongest candidates in the field. Mark the prediction. THE STATf CAPITAL. WHAT 18 GOING ON IN THE GATE CITY. -f — The Great t'ommner— Prayers for His Speedy Recovery-. The Blind Preachers' Story—Mr. Stephenl’ Interest in Religion— “ Pray for Oar Coattry”—“God's Will Be Done”—The Old atnl the New—A Good Balance Sheet—Thi Cash System—Charlie [Special Correspondent; Chronicle and Sentinel.] Praying for Mr. Stephens. Atlanta, January 4.—On Friday night last an interesting event occurred at Wesley Chapel (FirjU Methodist Church in this city. Dr. W. P. Harrison, the eloquent and learned pastor of the chnrch, in conjunction with a few brother ministers and t large congrega tion of the members of the chnrch held a “watch service,” thaj is they assem bled at tbe chnrch on, the last night of the year and engaged in a variety of religious services until near 12 o’clock, when they all kneelea and engaged in prayer wnile the old year passed away. Daring the services Rfev. John P. Dun can, a traveling evangelist of the Metho dist Church, who has been in the minis try of that church far forty years, and who has almost entirely lost his sight in the service of his lord and Master, arose and announced that he had a message for the congregation from Hon. Alexander H. Stephens. At this an nouncement every member of the au dience manifested tie greatest interest, for it was quite generally known that Mr. Stephens was dangerously ill. Mr. Duncan then proceeded to say that he having heard of Mr. Stephens’ illness had gone to se< him. Anticipat ing, however, he sail that in 1837 he was stationed in Taliaferro county as a preacher. At that time Mr. Stephens was comptratively a young man, and when he first saw Mr. Ste phens he found hin sitting by the fire reading the Bible The same year (1837) Mr. Stephen! was critically ill. Mr. Dunoan said tlat he visited him during his sickness, md kneeling beside his bed prayed for hs recovery. Ever since that time Mr. Stephens had been his friend. Upon artiving there a week or so ago Mr. Stephens expressed him self glad to see him, and, remembering with what charming lower he had sung in the past, Mr. Steplens almost imme diately asked him to sing, first request ing him to sing the rdigious paraphrase of Tom Moore’s celebrated lines. “This world is all a fleeting ihow. * * There is nothing true but Ifeaven;” also, those sadly sweet words cf Richard Henry Wilde, “My Life iilike the Summer rose.” He also requested Mr. Duncan to sing a ballad wkbh he had sung to Millard Fillmore, in this city, twenty years ago, whioh it leems had made a lasting impression. Mr. Duncan then kneeled, he said, andwith several mem bers of Mr. Stephens’family prayed be side Mr. Stephens’ bel. When Mr. Duncan (eft, Mr. Stephens addressed him substmtially as follows: “Good-bye, Mr. Dunwn. I have asingle request to make of jpu, before you go while I linger here atdeath’s doot. You go to the watch ser’ioe at the First Methodist Church in Atlanta to-night. Say to the members if that church, for me, to pray to God tlat this, our coun try, may have natioial peaoe, national prosperity, national fraternity and na tional happiness, and that Ho will guide and direct our statesmen in their efforts to accomplish this end, and that our Government may be reclamed from its enemies and brought haok to the de signs of our forefathers. For myself I ask only one prayer, and that is that the will of the Lord be done.” Prayer for Mr. .Stephens. As soon as Mr. Duncan had concluded his remarks and delivered the message from Mr. Stephens the congregation knelt in prayer. Judge W. F. Wright, formerly Judge of the Superior Court of the Newnan Circuit, now a lawyer in this city and quite recently a convert to religion, led in prayer and in his sup plications prayed the Lord to spare the great and good statesman to his people and country a while longer. A gentle man recently to see Mr. Stephens nays that this great man shows the sublimest fortitude in his suffering. He says— and also a correspondent of the Consti tution of this city—thrt when question ed as to his condition and prospects of recovery, Mr. Stephens replied: “I am neither despondent nor hopeful. I have no desire to live anotlep day, but God’s will be done !” Mani friends of Mr. Stephens here are deeply solicitous of his fate in the present Crisis. There are, however, others who fiunly believe that the wonderful vitality- of the man will bring him through safi. The New (ityCounoil Was inaugurated last night—that is, the six newly elected members, viz: Aider man O. H. Jones and Counoilmen Cham berlin, Gray, Gramling Hope and Big gers took their seats, suceeeding the six retiring members. Mayor O. C. Hammock—who holdi over another year—read his message in whioh he re commended the orgauzation of two or three hose companies as auxiliaries to the fire works, the completion of the Georgia Western Railmd leading to the coal fields of Alabamans an auxiliary to manufacturing enterprises, the estab lishment of a public mirket, an increase in the number of Aldermen from three to five, the oonstrnoticD of a public park and the immediate tunnelling of the railroad at the Whitehall street crossing to prevent destructions life by passing cars, unless the evil cdnld be abated by legislative enactment Tbe Finance Committee report tital receipts for the year from all sources, $473,- 000; total disbursenents, $385,000; balance on hand, $48,000, The special city license taxes and the ad va lorem taxation of property at $1 60 on the SIOO worth of priperty in the city were the sources of this income, to gether with the sale ofsome bonds. The reports of the various committees make a flattering exhibit of retrenchment daring the past ye*. The Finance Committee saved $12,C00 of interest by good management. The Printing Com mittee reported expenditures for print ing and stationery for (he year at $1,900. In 1874 it was $7,800. The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds re port expenditures for last year $2,100, while for 1874 it was $44,400, and for 1873 it was $24,600. Minor Matters. The Federal authorities at the United States Barracks in this city have recent ly obtained a recruit, who says he join ed the army to avoid arrest for com plicity in the abduction of Charlie Ross, and avers that he can find Char lie Ross in thirty-eight hours—that he knows where he is. The story is rather “thin.” All the wholesale merchants yesterday in the city nnited publicly at the Chamber of Commerce in signing an agreement to adhere henceforth strictly to the cash system, so far as it relates to meats and lard, and will sell and buy those articles on a basis of cash pay ments at time of purchase or bank rate of interest from date of pnrehase. Halifax. MARYLAND. The Legislature Assemble*—The Baltimore Corn and Floor Exchange. Annapolis, Md., January s.— The Ma ryland House of Representatives is or ganized. L. C. Smith, of Washington county, is Speaker. Baltimore, January 5.—A meeting of the newly elected board of directors of the Com and Floor Exchange was held to-day, at which the following officers were electen to serve the ensuing year : President, Charles D. Fisher ; Vice- Presidents, Walter B. McAtee, George A. Baer; becretary, Wm. T. Wheatley; Treasurer, R. M. Wylie; Executive Com mittee, J. B. Hall, Jas. Knox, W. D. Fullerton. RETRENCHMENT. Editors Chronicle and Sentinel: The action of the City Fathers at their last meeting, in refusing the first appli cation for appropriations not absolutely necessary, is an earnest of a determina tion to carry out the desires of their constituents. While it is expected that they will retrench expenses aa far as may be, the most important savings will be fonnd in resisting appeals coming from all quarters for favors not essential to the well-being of the city. By con tinning manfully to resist any appropri ations of the kind and electing to office none bnt reliable and temperate men, this Council will have the cordial sup port of every considerate citizen. Crvia. When a California woman defeated a lion in a hand-to-hand combat the neighbors were greatly astonished, bat her husband quietly remarked,' “Oh, that’s nothing. That woman could lick tbe devil.” THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. NEWS AND GOSSIP FROM WASH INGTON. Pleasant Days—New Year’s Day—Tbe Old and the New—The Nouveaux Riches and the Old Regime—The Days of Dolly Madi son—The Coming of Jackson—The Era of Shoddy —French Under Difficulties—Per sonal Mention. [Special Correspondence Chronicle and fitenrinelj Washington, January 2.—The me tropolis is smiling serenely this morning under the generons sunshine which be gan to uheer ns about noon on yester day. The snnshine came in ample time for the comfort of the thonsands of callers, who were busy all day in the soalless work of vißiting people for whom they care nothing, and by whom the indifference is reciprocated, and in the utterance of the stereotyped and in sipid “ compliments of the season.” New Year’s Observance in Washington. Perhaps no city in the Union attaches more consequence to the observance of New Year’s Day than Washington. It is not only the day of a great sooial fes tival, participated in by the whole com munity, bnt it is a day specially honored by offioial observance. To the gay youtjj, of the metropolis of both sexes the casion is chiefly welcome, beoause it is the initial day of the season of fashion able revelry which lasts until Lent ar rives, with its inhibition of all profane delights. The method of observing New Year’s Day has undergone mnch change id Washington, and there are people here who monrn the “deoadence” that makes a day once sacred to Presidents, Cabinet Ministers, Senators and Repressentatives as much the pro perty of the multitude as of those dig nitaries. On yesterday I talked with an elderly lady, long a resident of Wash ington and familiar with its social usages. She will never become recon ciled to the innovations from which she claims society in the capital to have received such sad deterioration.— The “old population,” as the nouve aux riches whose wealth was made by the war term them, go baok to the times when only officials of high stations kept “open house” on New Year’s Day, whereas now nearly all housekeepers exercise the privilege of “receiving.” Antediluvian Talk. My old lady friend, who has a prodi gious memory and fine colloquial powers, revels in pointing out to me the im mense superiority of the antediluvian Washington to the modern city of Grant and Boss Shepperd. She talks as I imagine the defiant old Bourbons of St. Germains talk when they discuss the glories of the ancien regime in com parison with the pinchbeck displays of the npstart Empire and the mushroom finery of MacMahon’s moribund Re public, which was born with the grin of death upon its homely features. Well, I am a good listener when this ancient, but brilliant, gossip olaims my attention. This morning I read to her accounts of yesterday’s doings at the White House, how the President and Mrs. Grant, and Fred and Mrs. Fred, with Mrs. Fish, did the honors at the Executive Man sion. _ With genuine feminine interest she listened to the description of Mrs. Grant’s “splendid brim-stone colored dress, with black silk overskirt,” of Mrs. Fish’s “beautiful black silk dress with dark trimmings,” and Mrs. Col. Grant’s” light pink silk with trimmings of a still lighter color.” But Jenkins’ rhapsodies did not amuse her long, and in a moment she was telling me of the New Year’s etiquette and observances of the times of iheyonnger Adams, and dur ing so much of the “Virginia regime” of Jefferson, Madison and Monroe as her memory reoalled. Mr. Adams had been eduoated in European capitals and was a stickler for ceremony. Mr. Monroe, who was a plain gentleman without pre tensions of any sort, did not worry him self muoh about the savoir faire oi the people that called upon him on New Year’s Day, or upon any other occasion. Mr. Madison’s administration wa al ways conspicuous for the exacting way in which deference to the dignity of the the Executive office was required. A brave, sagacious, sensible woman was “Dolly” Madison, and she gave always wholesome advice to the wonderful pub licist and politician to whom we owe so much of oar beet political literature and history. Yet the Dntohman who called to see him at the Execntive Mansion could see nothing in Madison save a “little, old, ugly man.” Washington the Model. There was no serious irruption made upon the lofty tone of society in the Federal capital until Jackson’s admin istration, which by the way was an epoch full also of departures in political methods. Only yesterday I saw the widow of one of Jackson’s Cabinet, old to be sare, bat bearing many traces of that marvellous beauty that was suffi cient to create a scandal equal to the work of breaking up a Cabinet. A little later I met on Pennsylvania avenue a gentleman who was one of the earliest recipients of profit from the inanguration of the declared Jacksonian policy, “to the victors be long the spoils.” All of Jackson’s pre decessors were men of culture and of more or less “family”—in the sense that distinguished birth gives to a man’s family dignity. Jackson was a plebeian, and his administration pleased the peo ple, defied the noblesse of all grades, and gave the country a popnlar impulse from whioh the aristocratic administra tions of Van Buren (the Knickerbocker), and Polk (the descendant of Carolina gentry), did not exercise any diverting influence. -Until Jaokson’s time, Wash ington’s administration was the model after whioh Presidents, Cabinets and Congressmen fashioned their efforts to be discreet and deoorons. It would not require mnch effort of the mind or im agination to discern the essential differ ence between the people who attended the receptions given by Washington and the so-called “society” of Grant’s day and generation. A recent writer speaks thus of the social gatherings of the first American administrations : “Fortunately, moreover, the rudeness of the present day had not then so far gained the ascendancy as to banish good manners, and the charms of social inter course were brightened by a reasonable attention in the best circles to those forms and usages which indicate the well-bred assemblage, and throw around it an air of elegance and grace whioh only the convivious affect to decry, and only the vulgar ridicule and contemn. None, therefore, were admitted to the levees bnt those who had either a right by offioial station to be there or were entitled to the privilege by established merit and character ; and full dress was required of all.” To the contemporary reader the state ment gives the antithesis. A Crul Dilemma. A good story is going the rounds here and has already been sent tom News paper Row in many directions detailing the dilemma of a youth of “flaxen locks and delicate physique bravely battling with his first season out,” who, though having no very remarkable acquaintance with the French language, nevertheless evinoed in the sequel no little dexterity in extricating himself from a quandary. At a party the young man had the honor of taking the young lady to the room in which were the refreshments. “What will yon have ?” “Nothing but bouil lon,” was the sweet reply. Utterly non plussed the fair-haired young man look ed for something Parisian in appear ance, and finally fell upon some pre served fruit. “I asked for bouillon,” said the yonng lady. A crisp note of fractional denomination placed in the hand of a waiter, accompanied with the request to get “a dish of bouillon or bwuloon, or something that everybody considers just the thing after dancing,” brought the bouillon. The delighted recipient proposed a discussion of French literature and prefaced the proposition with an apposite Latin quo tation, and a delicate hint that she liked the study of Greek very muoh. Ths flaxen-haired youth immediately broke for a blonde near by who knew neither French, Greek, Latin nor English; but she danced divinely. Fereeul Note*. The town is already full of notables, although the holiday recess of Congress will not terminate nntil Wednes day. Mrs. Speaker Kerr will enter tain every Wednesday at Willard's, where the Speaker has secured quarters for the session. Ex-Senator Gwin, of California, is at Wormley’s for the Winter. On dit, the ex-Senator is here to figbt the Southern Pacific Railroad scheme, and that his recent “purely sentimental” visit to Georgia and other Southern States “to see his old friends” was in the same direction. Donn Piatt and John T. Ford, the theatrical man ager, are engaged in a “war of words” as to the merits of the stock company at the National Theatre. Piatt calls tbe company “sticks,” and Ford answers that the patronage will not justify the employment of more expensive material. In a few days we are to be favored with the Woodhull, whose “dramatio power, impassioned manner and rich-toned voice” crave a capitoline theatre of dis play. N’lmpcbtb. THE EDGEFIELD MEETING. RESISTANCE TO ROBBER RULE RESOLYED UPON. Thousand!* in Attendance--The Best Citizens There —Colonel Bacon’s Speech Colonel Capers’ Counsel —The Resolutions—The Hope of Carolina—General Butler on the Situation—No More Compromises—“ Under the Flag, in the Union and by the Constitu tion”—The People Aroused. [Specially Reported for Chronicle and Sentinel.] An Uprising of the People. For some time past notice has been given that a mass meeting of the citizens of Edgefield county would be held ou Monday, at' the Conrt House, to con sider the public affairs of the State. The day was auspicious, and by noon thonsands were in the public square. The oldest, gravest and best oitizens were out to encourage manhood and youth in this New Year’s resolve to re deem Carolina from her vassalage. At 1 o’clock the meeting was called to order bv General M. C. Butler, who stated the object in a few impressive remarks. He desired that one of the oldest oitizens of the county should preside; a man who had always been true to the interest of Carolina, and called Colonel Thomas G. Bacon to the Chair. Colonel Bacon as cended the stand amid great applause. Col. Bacon’s Speech. He said that in his long and varied ex perience as a citizen he had known do time more full of interest and no occa sion of a graver character than the one whioh called the people together this day. In almost every town in Sonth Carolina the people met to-day to pro test against the iniquity of subjecting the property owner, the virtue of a State, to the rule of robbers and the oontrol of ignorance. He desired that the direc tion of a power higher than human wis dom should be invoked, and introduced Rev. George Round, who delivered an earnest prayer. The meeting. The organization of the meeting was completed by the appointment of Col. John R. Shepherd as Secretary. Gen. Butler stated that as a special commit tee were preparing resolutions to sub mit to the meeting he desired to present to his fellow-citizens Col. Henry Capers, who was hear to share in our counsels as an unselfish patriot. Col. Capers came forward and was greeted by cheers. He addressed the people at length in a cool, clear and logical man ner. There was no appeal to passion, no mere display of oratory, bnt a real old fashioned, earnest address to the reason of his hearers. As Colonel Ca pers spoke without notes I can only give you the general outline of his ad- What Col. Capers Said. He took the position first that no two races of people could occupy the same territorj, aud live in harmony with each other. A people mast be bomogenious. The history of the world from Heroditus to the present time was proof of this. The Britton, the Celt, the Teuton, the Frank, might live together, did live to gether, and readily amalgamated. They were types of a great race, all children of the great Caucasian household. He re viewed the history of the Indian. In 1676 a great fact was settled on this con tinent. It was that the Red man must give place to this Caucasian race: King Philip saw that unless the progress of the white man was checked, his race was doomed. He a was great man, combining the civil talents of a statesman with the devotion of a patriot and the skill of a military leader. King Firiiip went down and the ten nations of Red men have been in less than two hundred years de cimated and destroyed. This Centen nial epoch marks another issne of this character. It is just this: Shall the negro race, used as the mere tool of car pet-bagging thieves, dominate over the white man, rule the virtue and the intel ligence of this country ? He reviewed the history of the negro—and expressed his sympathy and friendship for. them in eloquent terms. He showed them how they came to this corfntry. The cu pidity of New England opened the slave trade, and when it ceased to be profit able the negro was sold to the Southern planter by these very people. They now liberate you by our assent, and for ten years have exhausted their puerile theories in trying to overthrow a law of nature. Bishop Haven might write all the essays which could be stacked be tween his cracked brain and the hell he would raise on earth, and he will only convince sensible men that he is a knave, or a fanatical fool, when he as serts that four millions of black men and women can be absorbed by miscegena tion. He reviewed the history the ne gro as a legislator in company with the speculating carpet-bagger, and espe cially in South Carolina. This State, once the expression of solvency, now bankrupt; and why ? The bonded debt, compounded, compromised and funded, until it was now but $5,000,000, and yet the State of such great resources cannot have her honor vindicated and her bonds at par. The very promises to pay, which once were the expression of a people every where honored, were now but the printed and written expression of dishonor and disgrace. It is impossible for your reporter to follow more closely the address of Colonel Capers. It was eloquent, logical, and will be long re membered. A noble, manly blow for Carolina. Other Speaker*. At the close of the address General Butler was loudly called for. The Gen ral said he would submit shortly some resolutions and then address the people. Mr. Shepherd being called for, made a short and eloquent speech. He de clared his conviction that the only sal vation of Carolina was in a white man’s government. General Butler then sub mitted the following resolutions: Resolved, That the recent action of the Legislature of Sonth Carolina in the election of Whipper and Moses to the jndicial bench is an outrage upon Chris tian civilization and an evident expres sion of a determined purpose to degrade the manhood and insult the virtue of our people. Resolved, That we have no hope but in the immediate reorganization of the Democratic party in this State, and that we pledge ourselves to abide by tbe ac tion of the Executive Committee in Sonth Carolina. A Trne Non of South Carolina. General Butler supported these reso lutions in an eloquent and earnest ad dress to the people. He reviewed the conduct of the white people in South Carolina since the war. They had in patience and in hope endured their hu miliation. They had compromised, had conserved, had dona all that could be expected of men. Bat forbearance now had ceased to be, 8 virtue. He said there was no act of disloyalty in this movement. There was to be no more secession—bnt under the flag, in the Union and by the Constitution we would strike for all that was dear to freemen. If we become pnsilanimous onr very enemies will despise us. Gen eral Bntler concluded amid great ap plause, and on motion, the meeting ad journed. We have never known in Edgefield a meeting where there was expressed a more determined purpose. Onr hearts beat faster, onr hopes grow stronger, and we will redeem old [Caro lina, and place her again, to nse the concluding figure of Colonel Capers, “a brilliant star in the galaxy of our Ration’s glory.” S. Colonel L W. Avery wants the At lanta hotels to have white girls for waiters. Johnnie Mnnn, a Columbus little boy, jumped on the steps of a car that was moving and let bis legs drag on the ground. One of Johnnie’s legs is now nearlyseveredand it is doubtful whether Johnnie himself will live. Athens Georgian: “Monday night, December 27th, 1875, Reese Hale, a colored man, gave an egg nog, inviting several friends, among whom was Dave Snowden, a fiddler. Dave, finally, think ing he was not paid enough for his ser vices, arose to go, whereupon a dispute arose. Reese Hale, who had his child in his arms, tried to prevent any row in hia house, bnt was struck with an axe by Dave Snowden, inflicting a gash in his cheek and splitting the child’s head wide open. The child died next day from the effect of the wonnd. We un derstand that Dave has not yet been captured. ” THE STATE. THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS. Tho Newnan Star has suspended. Dr. H. H. Carlton is rapidly convalesc ing. The Legislature meets next Wednes day. The warm weather is proving ruinous to the fTesh meat. Savannah gets SBO from the circns for being in it one day. Mr. Nathan Turner has returned to Covington from Alabama. A Savannah hen has been laying two eggs daily for some time past. * Plum and peach trees are budding and blooming in Butts county. Miss Pattie Cox has taken charge of tbe telegraph office at Covington. Mr. McFarlane, formerly of Musoogee oounty, has moved to LaCirange. Mr. T. 0. Newton is the Principal eleot of the LaGrange High School. John Fleming, the youth accidentally shot in Savannah. Christmas day is dead. Mr. B. W. .Robson, the banker, is going to move from Covington to Madi son. Did you swear off Saturday ? And if you did, are you going to stay “swore off?” Mr. Elliott Moore, of Athens, has been appointed night conductor on the Athens branoh. The dwelling of Mr. J. W. Pollock, in Savannah, was burned the 3d instant, with its contents. Prof. H. E. Morrow, of Griffin, is to be Principal of the Ringgold Masonic Literary Institute. Col. T.' C. Miller has resigned the office of sheriff of Troup county on ac connt of bad health. Peter Curran and Marion Gresham have been sent from Muscogee county to the insane asylum. New Year’s was a lively day in Atlanta, as it always is. It was a dull day in Au gusta, as it always is. Candidates for the Atlanta City Court Judgeship are “thick as leaves”—you know the rest of the line. Raymond (“Col. Mulberry Sellers”) appears in Savannah next Monday. He will play there four evenings. He’s Idle man for the times—is that Jones county farmer who sold about 2,000 pounds of pork this season. The Misses Harris, of Westfield, New Jersey, made the Episcopal Sunday School, of Rome, a present of 111 books. Judge Pottle presides in Chatham Su perior Court this week. Judge Tomp kins goes to Darien to finish the busi ness there. The wheat crop is flourishing in Mid dle Georgia, but, owing to the warm weather, the Hessian fly is said to be injnringit. Brown’s Hotel, at Macon, was opened just twenty years ago last Sunday—the 2d inst. It is still one of the best hotels in the South. Mr. John Thompson, a prosperous farmer of Walton county, has just com pleted a large and elegant residence near Walnut Grove. General Phillips will not run against Judge Irwin, in Cobb county, for the Legislature. Judge Irwin is now the only candidate there. Mr. J. Richardson, of Griffin, has held the position of “P. S.” (whatever that is) in the Odd Fellows’ Lodge there 25 consecutive years. The new Methodist Church in New nan is nearly finished. It is said that, when completed, it will be one of the finest chnrches in the State. Bishop Gross lectured last evening in Savannah on “Charity,” under the au spices of the Literary and Benevolent Society of St. Vincent de Paul. In Senoia, December 25th. 1875, the stores of l*. w. Barncraason and JJ. H. Hicks, with their contents, were destroy ed by fire. Loss about $5,000. Mrs. Belle Kendrick Abbott, of At lanta, has written a novel called “Leah Mordecai.” We have, in the past, read some pretty poetry from Mrs. Abbott. Mr. Sol. Nettles, of Forestville, was killed by a train on tho Selma, Rome and Dalton Road the other day, in at tempting, while drunk, to cross the track. J. J. Musgrove, a white scalawag of Newton county, was murdered by two negroes there recently. He had caught them stealing sheep and informed on them. Why is it that the ladies are allowed only one year in four to “do the talk ing ?” Beoause they can do more talk ing in one year than the men can in twice four. The Macon Telegraph understands that the friends of Mr. Robert U. Harde man, of that city, will present him to the General Assembly as a candidate for State Treasurer. In Savannah, last night, Col. Charles 0. Jones read a paper before the Geor gia Historical Society on the life and character of Sergeant Jasper, the Revo lutionary hero. The following, from the Atlanta Her ald, we commend to the People and the Papers as a wise saying: “A man should keep on good terms with himself, and never get mad with a fool.” Col. C. E. Smith, of Orawfordville, was in Augusta this week, staying at the Central Hotel. Col. Smith is a lead ing merchant of Orawfordville and one of the best citizens in the State. A party of negroes attempted to rescue a prisoner from the police in Rome, New Year’s Day. A free fight followed, the mob was dispersed and a nnmber of the negroes were arrested. We are glad to learn that the Craw fordville Gazette is to be re-established. We are also glad to learn that its hand some editor, Col. J. Clarence Stephens, is to be married the 30th of February. The latest rule of society etiquette will certainly prove a very present oom fort to the young men of Augnsta. It is as follows: “Ladies who have convey ances should offer them to escorts if the weather be unpleasant.” Miss Shepherd, of New York, made the Episcopal Chnrch of Rome a Christ mas present of a fine altar. She visited Rome some two years ago, and was an attendant at that church. The Com mercial says Miss S. contemplates mak ing Rome her future home. New Year’s Day in Atlanta was much less enjoyable to many there than it usually is, because of the absence of one of the Gate City’s most fascinating young ladies, whose beautiful presence lent an additional charm to one of the pleasantest homes ‘in Angnsta. Atlanta Herald : “Young gentlemen, please do not, when your driver is hun gry on New Year’s Day, smnggle cake, sandwiches, etc., out to him in a frnit napkin—to be met by the hostess with this request: ‘ Please return my nap kin.’ That sort of thing happened yes terday.” Concerning Mr. Peterson Thweatt’s claim, the Macon Telegraph says: “We think it is strictly just, and a great and magnanimous commonwealth should not continue to give a long tried and faith ful public servant the cold shoulder. And we tell onr legislators there is no nse dodging this conclusion.” Colonel Peterson Thweatt, ex-Comp troller-General, addresses a memorial to the Legislature, praying that he may be allowed to sne in the Courts for the amount claimed by him, or have the mat ter referred to Commissioners,and pledg ing himself to abide by the decision of Conrt or commissioners, as the case may be. The Southern Watchman thinks the prayer should be granted. The residence of Mr. John M. Allen, in Newton county, was entirely des troyed by fire recently, with a large amount of the household goods. When the fire was first discovered Mr. A. ran to his trunk, in which he had $1,960 in cnrrency, and fonnd the trank had been opened and the money gone. He thinks he was robbed and his house fired to oover the robbery. His loss, over and above the insurance, will probably reach $3,000 or $3,500. The directors of tbe Atlanta Cotton Factory Company regard the prospects of the company as exceedingly flattering, and have decided that they have suffi cient reliable subscriptions to warrant them in going forward completing the buildings and patting in the first sec tion of 9,072 spindles; and have already directed that the plans and specifications be forwarded to the principal manu facturers of cotton machinery, and that sealed bids be received for Hie same as soon as possible. “H, H. J.,” of the Macon Telegraph, records the following incidents, which he says were obtained from a perfectly NUMBER 2 reliable source: “In Webster oounty one respectable family passed nine weeks last Summer without even tasting meat, sugar or coffee. Near a place called Boxancle, also, in Stewart county, an impecunious negro who had a large family, employed all the ohildren unable to do field work in gathering hickory nuts, the kernels of which furnished the only grease for their greens and corn dodgers.” He also learns* that that whole region of country is cruelly pinch ed for food. We find the following in the Atlanta Herald, of the 2d : “On last Wednes day noon, a Mr. John W. Bramley, liv ing nine miles east of Carnes ville, Ga., oommitted suicide by cutting his throat. Mrs. Bramley, at dinner time, found him sitting on the front door steps, and asked him to come to dinner. He told her to go on and eat,, he did not want any ; but on her telling him she would not eat unless he did, he went in and sat down at the table, but, after eating only a mouthful or two, got up and went out. In a moment or two Mrs. B. heard a noise like water pouring out, and ran to the door to see what was the matter, and found him seated in his former po sition with the blood gushing from his throat! She grasped it with her hand, trying to stop the blood, but he put up both hands and pushed her away ! She caught at him the second time, but he died almost instantly, having out his throat dear to the back bone!” The act seems to have been oaused by mental depression, though Mr. B. was‘in good ciroumstanoes, is said to have been a sober, industrious man, a member of the Methodist Chnrch, and esteemed by his neighbors. He leaves a wife with four little children. Marriages. In Savannah, W. S. Cherry to Ida Bell. At Flat Shoals, Joe Sparks to Estella Allen. i In Rome, John Hughes to Lizzie Roach. In Monroe, J. D. Malsby, of Atlanta, to Miss A. H. Camp. In LaGrange, D. A. Dansby to Annie Screven, of Savannah. In Savannah, Frank P. Millard to Mary Agnes Henderson. In Troy, Ala., Mr. Heartsfield to Lula Ferrell, of LaGrange. In Oxford, Ala., Major Samuel Mor gan, of Rome, to Sallie Orr. In Jonesboro, J. H. Wingato, of At lanta, to Georgia Mullennix. In Cartersville, Charles McEwen, of Tennessee, to Lucy N. Milner. In LaGrange, Wiley Arnold, of Wash ington, Ge., to Mary Callaway. In Macon, A. L. Moore to IdaLicette; Henry A. Morgan to Nora S. Howell. In Chattooga county, Robt. M. Dow dell, of Tuskegee, Ala., to Alice H. Janes. In Griffin, James M. Brinkley to So phronia Daniel, both of Upson county. In Floyd county, J. R. Shields to Martha J. Cullins; Joseph B. Dunoan to Susan Ware; Wm. Mooney to Mary A. Munigan, James White, of Gordon county, to Lydia House. Dtathn. In Columbus, John Bilbro. In Atlanta, Rev. W. A, Dodge. In Talbotton, Col. Joe T? Blount. . In Savannah, Elizabeth Meinoke. In McDonough, Col. Q. R. Nolan. In Burke county, Alexander Murphey. In Stewart oounty, Mrs. Wm. G. Ward. In Savannah, Wm. N. Mathews, Mrs. John P. Herriok. In Nashville, Tenn., Mrs. Morton N. Burch, formerly of Macon. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Died; in Columbia, Mrs. P. P. Cham bers. Abhiwiiio ixtxui xipo strawberries during the Ohristmaa holidays. They had a Domino party at the Fe male Academy in Abbeville, the 27th. The store of Messrs. Allen & Baker, at Conwayboro, was robbed oh Christmas night. During the past year some twenty-five or thirty cottages have been built in Newberry. Two sailors were set upon and beaten in Georgetown on Christmas day Jy a mob of negroes. Rev. J. L. Girardean has accepted a professorship in the Theologioal Semi nary at Columbia. James Jackson, of Beaufort county, lost his corn house and another out building by fire recently. The Abbeville Press and Banner says Clara Louisjo Kellogg is a native of Sum ter county. Is this true ? Mr. Samuel Jackson, an ex-member of the Legislature under the new regime, has moved to Mississippi. A Mr. Higgins and Miss Rutherford, of Newberry, were married at Green wood recently. Runaway match. Married, in Abbeville, December 22d, W. T. Bradley to Fannie M. Pressley; and John F. Wideman to Lizzie J. Pres sley. The Church of St. James’, Goose Creek, near Charleston, was re-opened the first Sunday in January, its 165th anniversary. Mr. Alex. Bowie, of Memphis, Tenn., has been visiting Abbeville on a bridal tour. He is a brother of James A. Bowie, of Abbeville. Mr. Benjamin Rogers, of Marlboro, while fox hunting recently, shot himself in the thigh, inflicting a severe though not dangerous wonnd. The barns of Jacob Foreman, John Foreman and Alonzo Harley, of Aiken oounty, were burned recently; the latter losing a mule, two cows and a yearling. The dwelling house of Clayton Can non, of DarliDgton, was burned recent ly, it is thought, by an incendiary. Mr. C. lost everything. He had some in surance. Little Willie Featherston, of Ridge way, was eating an apple, and in cutting the core towards him, the knife came through and penetrated his breast, de stroying life instantly. A fire at Timmonsville recently de stroyed the store house of Captain L. R. Ragsdale, that occupied by Mr. J. T. Bristow, and the dwelling and workshop of Mr. 0. 0. Moore. Incendiarism sus pected. The Georgetown limes states that “Congressman Rainey declares the ac tion of the Legislature, in giving us Moses for Judge, a calamitous blunder, which puts in jeopardy Republican as cendancy in this State.” We are informed that the Aiken Sohuetzen Club have been invited to join tbe Sehnetzen Bund of tbe United States, and to participate in the first grand festival, at Philadelphia, com mencing June 26th, 1876. On Sunday night last the corn and fodder house of a Mr. Gray, in the Fork, Orangeburg county, was consumed by fire. The work was that of an incen diary, and left Mr. Gray without a blade of fodder or an ear pf corn. R. Means Davis has terminated hia editorial connection with the Winnsboro News, and accepted a position on the editorial staff of the Charleston News and Courier. Mr. John 8. Reynolds becomes the editor of the Winnsboro News. At the recent meeting of the County Commissioners of Marion they raised the price of license to sell whisky to $250. In Horry the Commissioners have given notice that after the Ist of January they will refuse to grant a li cense at any price. The Union-herald says Rev. Wilson Ashley joined in the holy bands of wed lock, on last Thursday, the 16th instant, Mr. Wm. Fields, aged eighty-four years, and Miss Sarah Caldwell, somewhere be tween sixty-five and seventy-five years of age. The Gfeenville News says: “We bear that in Columbia it is conceded that Melton will resign, and Judge Carpenter will succeed him as Attorney-General; and that Judge Cooke will succeed Car penter as Judge of that Circuit. And the next question is, Who will succeed Jndge Cooke ?” As Mr. T. J. Cunningham, of Liberty Hall, and his bride were driving over the bridge across Wateree Creek, in Fairfield connty, the structure gave way, and both horses, bnggv and occupants were precipitated into the chaste below. Fortunately no damage was done to per son or property. Marlboro is a strictly temperance connty. There Is no regular bar-room in Bennettsville. In the country whisky is sold only by the three gallons, and tbe thirsty are compelled to betake them selves to Cheraw or Darlington* Con traband whisky is, however, frequently sold from wagons.
