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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
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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.