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WEDN BSD AY JANUARY 12, 1876.
i iMiB and beck.
We may regard it as certain that Mr.
i „i. w iU be the next Senator from
Miaaiseippi. He has received the unan
imous nomination of the Democratic
canons—and such a nomination is equiv
alent to an election, tor the Demo
crats have a large majority in each
branch of the Legislature. We
presume that Mr. Lahab had oppo
nents but that when they found him to
be the strongest man, they withdrew
and made his nomination unanimous.
This result will give great and general
satisfaction. The election of Mr. La
kab was earnestly desired not only by
the Democrats of Mississippi but by the
Democrats of the whole country. He
has done more for his section since the
war than any other Southern man, and
well deserves all the honors which he
has received.
There is another Senatorial contest,
however, in which the people of the
South take an eqnal if not a greater in
terest than they did in the one just
closed in Mississippi. We allude, of
oonree, to the election which is to take
place in Kentucky next week. We feel
confident, whatever may be the result at
Frankfort, that if the issue should be
left to the decision of the South Mr.
Beck would be elected by an overwhelm
ing majority. Mr. Beck is a man of
great ability and a true patriot. He has
peculiar claims upon the South, and the
Southern people. When the infamous
reconstruction policy adopted bj the
Radical party had bound the South
hand and foot and turned a whole sec
tion over to the tender mercies of scala
wags and carpet-baggers; when the
South was without representation upon
the floor of Congress, Mr. Beck was our
representative and our champion. He
battled nobly in the defense of an op
pressed people and his servioes cannot
be forgotten. The voice of the South is
for Beck. .
THE HARTFORD COURANT.
It was a very merry Cbristmae they enjoyed
at Fort Valley. Georgia, not far from the An
deraonville burying ground. The little boy
began the celebration by discharging loaded
muskets in the streets, making a target of a
colored woman who had the poor sense to go
out of doors. Then Mr. Duke, “a good and
influential citizen,” according to the looal re
porter, pounded a colored man on the head,
and then went for his gun to assert his rights
still further, but returned to find that the
offending reprobate had concluded to give up
the ghost. Another colored man was found
enjoying his Christmas by hanging to a tree
by the road aide, having, as the report says,
been lynched by the "usual unknown paties.”
A “good citizen," white, got drunk and with
his shot gun put at defiance the whole town.
A few small fights rounded out the day. Thi
is the story of Christmas at Fort Valley as told
by a trustworthy Democratic paper of Georgia,
which finds it entirely unnecessary to make
any comments.
The above is from a recent issue of
the Hartford Courant, and the account
of the Christmas rowdyism and ruffian
ism was taken from the Chronicle and
Sentinel. The Courant once was
thought to be a fair journal. It will
soon lose that reputation. The Courant
knows very well that the Chronicle and
Sentinel did condemn these outrages,
and condemned them in unmeasured
terms. It knows very well that the
Chboniole and Sentinel called upon
Governor Smith to offer a reward for
the oowardly murderers who assumed
to dispense capital punishment on their
own acoount. It knows, or ought to
know, that other papers of the State
have endorsed every line upon this sub
ject which the Chronicle and Sentinel
published. We have every reason to
expect that Governor Smith will do that
which is certainly his plain duty in the
premises, and that the parties will be
arrested, tried and convicted. Nothing
more tnan this can oe Juno, •itLo* in
■Georgia or Gunncetwat. W do not
quarrel with the Courant because of its
Republican politics, but on account of
the unfairness which it manifests in the
discussion of Southern affairs. We
have aright to expeot justice from our ene
mies. We surely have a right to expect
justice from the editor of the Courant
who recently visited Georgia, and who
was received as an honored guest.
MAKING TUB ISSUE.
The Charleston News and Courier
justly says that the color line has been
drawn in South Carolina, not by the
whites, but by the Whipper-Elliott
ring. The issue has not been sought by
the white people ; it has been made by
the men who assume to oontrol the col
ored vote of South Carolina. The
whites are only organizing to take up
ihe gage of battle which was so defiant
ly thrown down in Columbia. Whatever
may be the result of this attempt to op
pose color with color, to array race
against race, the men who make it must
take the responsibility—the whites are
not to blame. From the tone of the
speeches made at the Republican meet
ing reoently held in Charleston it is evi
dent that the ring is meditating a dan
gerous and a desperate game—that its
members are seeking to maintain fraud
by viole'noe and bloodshed. One of the
speakers said : “He wanted the thing
“ done peaceably if possible ; but done
“at all hazards if necessary. They
“ wouldn’t have to fight themselves, be
* cause if the white people started a
“ row Unole Sam’s boys would soon put
*• them down * * *. If this is the
“ case you may teach your children to
prepare for war in time of peace.”
Another one said : “I stand here as a
• Union soldier, with three wounds on
“ my body, and I stand here to-day
ready to be carried home feet fore
s' most if necessary. We propose to
•• die here. I say to you, organize,
*' sleep on your arms and keep your
“ powder dry." Another one, and a
member of the Legislature, when asked
how Whipprb was to be put upon the
bench, replied : “ Fight, that’s the way
we’ll do it.”
The men who utter such sentiments
mean what they say. They have delib
erately resolved to force the blacks who
follow their leadership into an armed
collision with the whites, if suoh a thing
be possible. They seek to retain their
power by intimidation, and, if intimida
tion fails, by bloodshed. They know
that in the past whenever they were
able to inoite the negroes to a oonflict
with the whites, and the latter defended
themselves from attack, the Ad- |
ministration sent United States troops
to assist the assailants. They hope to j
play the same game this year—to incite
the negro*® to deeds of violence, and
then to call upon the Government for
troops to protect the loyal blacks from
the blood-thirsty “rebels.” We warn
these baffled and desperate scoundrels
to stop.. The white people of South
Carolina wish to avert war; they desire
to carry the next election peaceably; to
rescue the State without a reeort to
arms. But if the issue is forced upon
them; if murder is to be made an ele
ment of the canvass; if they are com
pelled to defend their rights with their
livee, they tci/l accept the issue—let
those who make it take the conse
quences. We warn the ring thqt United
States soldiers will not again be used to
overawe the whites and keep corruption
in power. Those who strike the blow
will have to bear the brunt If these
■mai be not mad indeed, they will con
sider well what they are doing before
they make an appeal to arms. The
v/Ute people of South Carolina can and
teiU protect themselves.
At the last election in Florida an amendment
-via r T —— 1 providing for biennial sessions of
ithe legislature. the tot eeeeion to be held in
isn. At the same time the danse providing
■forannnaleeaeioDSWße expensed; eo there
no provision for a Legislature thie year. Cer
tain parties ere clamoring for an extra session,
on tbe ground that the amendment did not oon
nmrlntt having no seeeioo thie year. Bat as
sat, would oost die State about forty thousand
tieUan, it is scarcely probable that the Govern
or will oall it.
A SOUTHERN WAR SECRET REVEALED. 1
As has already been announced, Hon.
A. H. H. Stuart and J. N. Opik, of Au
gusta county, Va., are rival candidates
for the Legislature of that State, and
made speeches at a political meeting
held in Staunton recently. A corres
pondent of the Richmond Dispatch says
that, among some personal reminiscences
related by Mr. Stuart in his speech,
was one connected with the peace nego
tiations of the late Confederacy that
has never been made public. He
read a note from Hon. Judah P. Benia
min, dated March 25, 1864, asking him
to come to Richmond for an interview
with President Davis on business, the
subject of which was too important
to be committed to paper. He went,
and was informed by President Davis
that the Confederate Congress had
voted a secret service fund of $3,000,000
in gold, to be used in creating a peace
sentiment at the North. After looking
over the whole country, the President
had selected Mr. Stuart as the man (or
the mission. He was to sail for Nas
san, and thence for Halifax, and there,
from the border of Canada, could
operate on prominent men. The fnnd
of 83,000.000 was to be at his absolnte
disposal, and he was not to be required
to furnish vouchers foi its disbursement.
Mr. Stuart declined the tender, and C.
C. Clay, of Alabama, and two other
gentlemen were appointed. The
Greeley correspondence and the “ to
whom it may concern" of President
Lincoln followed this mission.
the cotton mills of the united
STATES.
The Financial Chronicle has issued
its annual report of the cotton manufac
turing industry of the United States,
from which we collate some interesting
facts and figures. The full returns from
the manufacturers establish beyond con
troversy the surprising fact that more
cotton was used by spinners during the
year now under review than daring the
previous year. It was generally sup-
posed that statistics would show a de
crease in Northern consumption of about
one hundred and fifty thousand bales.
8o far from this being the case an in
crease in consumption of nearly three
thousand bales is shown. In the South
also the mills report an increase in con
sumption of about seventeen thousand
bales. The fact that the mills North
and South increased their consumption
daring the year just past is indeed sin
gular when we remember how general
has been the cry of over production
among the manufacturers of the country
ever since the effects of the panic began
to bo experienced. The increase in
spindles is small, and will not aocount
for the increase in consumption which
must be attributed toother and more
satisfactory causes. The exact figures
are as follows:
1875—Noithem consumption. .1,097,001
1874- “ “ .1,094,387
Increase 1876 2,614
1875 Southern consumption 145,079
1874 “ ... 128,526
Increase 1875 16,553
1875 —Total consumption 1,242,080
1874- “ “ 1,222,913
19,167
We may reasonably hope that this in
creased consumption is a healthy symp
tom; that the bottom has been reached
and that the Centennial year will wit
ness a marked improvement in trade.
The following table shows the number
aud enpaoity of the cotton mills of the
United States and the consumption of
cotton by them for the year ending July
1, 1875:
Status. Mills. Spindles,
Maine 27 633,944 72.421
New Hampshire 36 815,709 123,583
Vermont 19 46,344 5.513
Massachusetts 206 3,775.634 450,204
Rhode Island 129 1,438.479 132,348
Connecticut 108 889,784 98,044
New York 60 615,205 61,365
New Jersey 22 178,928 21.798
Pennsylvania 60 451.900 68,044
Delaware 8 48,276 7,246
“h£-i£
Indiana 4 22,988 7,029
Tatal North 694 9,067,6431,097,001
Alabama 14 58,480 * 14,561
Arkansas 2 1,781 285
Georgia 47 131,340 50,214
Kentucky 3 9,514 5,216
Louisiana 3 2.260 1,537
Mississippi 9 18,256 4,291
Missouri 3 19,700 6,057
North Carolina 81 64,500 14,428
South Carolina 18 70,282 19,945
Tennessee 40 55,384 14,443
Texas 2 5,700 2,117
Virginia 9 64,624 11,985
t|Total South 181 481,821 145,079
Recapitulation—
Total North 694 9,057,6431,070,001
Total South 181 481,821 145,079
Grand Total 875 9,539,3641,242,080
The inorease in consumption during
the past five years is as follows:
1870—Consumption 930,736
1875—Consumption 1,242,080
Increase 311,344
From these figures it will be seen that
in five years the quantity of ootton con
sumed by Amerioan mills has only been
increased about three hundred thousand
bales. When we remember how muoh
the nation has grown daring this period
and how great has been the inorease of
population, it will be apparent that the
increase of ootton consumption has been
small in comparison. This is also a
good indication of a speedy return of
prosperity to the manufacturers. A
comparison of the Northern with the
Southern mills speaks well for the
manufactures of this section. The in
crease in oapaoity is shown by the fol
lowing table, which gives the number of
spindles in the North and in the South
for seven years—from 1869 to 1875, in
clusive:
Years. Spindles.
1869 North 6,538,494
South 225,063
1870— North 6,851,779
South 262,221
1874- 8,927,754
South 487,629
1875 North 9,057,543
South 481,821
From these figures it will be seen that
the number of spindles in the Northern
States has been increased from 6,538,-
494 in 1869 to 9,067,543 in 1875—an in
crease of 2,519,049, or about thirty-nine
per cent. In the Southern States the
number of spindles has been increased
from 223,063 in 1869 to 481,821 in 1875
au increase of 256,758, or about one
hundred and fifteen per cent. The
consumption of cotton by the mills of
the two sections daring the past six
years has been ns follows:
Years. Bales.
1870- 806,860
South 90.000
1871— North .1,008,956
South 91.240
1872- 977,540
South 120,000
1873 Ti orth -- WK5&.465
South 137,662
1874 North 1,177,417
South 128,526
1875- 1,062,522
Smth 145,079
Thus it appears that the North has
increased its consumption from 806,860
bales in 1870 to 1,062,522 in 1875—an in
crease af 255,652 bales, or about thirty
nine per cent The South has increased
its consumption from 90,000 bales in
1869 to 145,079 in 1875—an increase of
55,079 bales, or more than sixty per
cent. These figures show how rapidly
the South is looming up ass manufac
turing section. If the ratio of increase
continues to be the same lor the next
ten years, it is easy to foresee that the
South will soon absorb the manufacture
of cotton in America. •
Coming down to loss! interests, it is
also very gratifying to ses the position
which Georgia has taken in the gonth ns
a manufacturing State. Georgia is to
the South what Massachusetts is to the
North. Of the 181 mills in the Sooth
47—or more than one-fourth of the en
tire number—are located in Georgia.
The Georgia mills are much larger than
those of ether Southern States, as is
shown by the number of spindles, this
State being credited with 131,340 out of
a total of 481,821—0 r about twenty
seven per cent, of the whole number.
Of the 145,000 bales of cotton consumed
by Southern mills last year, 60,005—0 r
more than one-third of the whole num
ber-ware token by Georgia.
THE POLITICAL ASPECT.
A Democratic Congressman who is
declared by a Philadelphia oorrespond
ent of the New York Tribune to be one
of the leading members, has been making
lute of the probable electoral vote of the
States, as indicated by the present
political situation. The following is his
list of the electoral vote of which the
Democratic party is sure, no matter
whom it may nominate for President :
Delaware S Mississippi 8
Maryland 8 Louisiana 8
Virginia II Kentucky 12
West Virginia 5 Tennessee 13
North Carolina 10 Missouri ,15
Georgia 11 Arkansas.. 6
Florida 4 Texas 8
Alabama 10
Total 132
It is clear that the Congressman did
not come from Tennessee, or he wonld
have known better than to have assign
ed 13 electoral votes to that State. The
Tribune correspondent then made a
list of the sure Republican States,
which be presented to the Congressman
with the remark that it included “Neva
da, which will be admitted this Winter.”
The list was jnst exactly as the Con
gressman woold have made it, so he said,
and as it inelndes Colorado it is fair to
presume that the correspondent had an
attack of heterophemy when he spoke
of Nevada. The list is as follows :
Maine 71 Illinois 21
New Hampshire 61 lowa 11
Vermont 5 Minnesota 5
Massachusetts 13 | Nebraska 3
Rhode Island 4 Kansas 5
Pennsylvania 29 Colorado 3
Ohio 22 I Nevada 3
Michigan 11 I South Carolina 7
Wiaoonsin 10 |
Total 164
The remaining States were grouped in
a third list as follows, and were declared
to constitnte the fighting ground of the
campaign :
Connecticut 61 California 6
New York 35 | Oregon 3
New Jersey 91
Indiana 15 j Total *4
The Detroit Free Press thinks it of no
consequence, so far as the merits of the
list are concerned, whether the Congress
man who ia credited with having made
oi assisted in making them was a myth,
with an existence only in the imagina
tion of the oorreepondent, or a veritable
reality in flesh and blood. Sanguine
Republicans will undoubtedly say that
the list of sure Demooratio States is
larger than the aspect warrants ; while,
on the other hand, few Democrats will
conoede that the sure Republican
strength has not bepn overstated, or that
some of the States classed as doubtful
are sufficiently so to cause muoh doubt
in the Democratic mind in regard to
their status. Beyond all question, any
party which shall carry Connecticut,
New' York, New Jersey, Indiana, Cali
fornia and Oregon in the Presidential
electiorf will elect its candidate, and
each of these States is as surely Demo
cratic as either New .Hampshire, Ohio,
Wisconsin or Illinois is surely Republi
can. The fact is, that States command
ing nearly if not fully half the electoral
vote of the country are so closely bal
anced that very little will turn the scale.
NOT FOR TII.DKN.
[Richmond Dispatch.]
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says:
“If the correspondent has been in near
ly all the Southern States during the
past year, and after ‘studying the poli
tical situation oarefully’ asserts that the
Southern people favor the nomination
of Mr. Tilden, he is either a liar or a
lunatic. The Southern people do not
favor the nomination of Mr. Tilden. ”
The Southern people are not tied to
Wall street. They know that the West
and the South are natural allies, and
they do not intend to do aught to break
up that allianoe. Tilden is the candi
date of a club of New York swallow
tails. That’s all.
MOB LAW CONDEMNED.
[Abbeville Press and Banner.]
The Chronicle and Sentinel is out
in an able and well timed article against
the lynching of a citizen by a mob. That
paper denounces the aot of hanging a
negro near Columbus as a “deliberate,
unjustifiable and cowardly murder.”
The charges against the hanged man
were that he was “a notorious negro
thief and desperado.” The Chronicle
and Sentinel is in the right, and we are
glad to see so able a paper take so de
cided a stand for law and order.
MINOR TOPICS.
It was a happy thought of Fernando
Wood’s that all the bunoombe resolutions of
Republican Congressmen in reference to those
discharged Union soldiers should be referred
to the Centennial Committee. What’s the use
of having a centennial year if people will in
sist in proscribing one section of the Union ?
It Is asserted that while California produces
8000,000 gallons of wine, the home consump
tion does not amount to more than 1,500,000
gallons. In first hands the winee are known
to be absolutely pure, for which reason they
are extensively imitated by a fraudulent ar
ticle abroad, or so adulterated as to entirely
lose their original virtue and flavor. For
these reasons the foreign demand for the ar
ticle is muoh more limited than it should be.
The annual message of Mayor Wickham, of
New York, really offers a gleam of hope to the
unfortunate tax payers of that oity, The
enormous oity debt has been slightly reduoed,
the tax levy has been lowered a million and a
quarter dollars, and the appropriations far the
present year are ten millions less
than for 1875. This is the first time since
the advent of the Tweed dynasty that there
has been an encouraging report made, and tbe
tax payerß will be inclined to forgive Mayor
Wickham, even if Tammany does not, for his
endorsement of the action of General Frrz
John Poster. in reducing the pay of the city
laborers to a par with tbe rates paid by private
contractors. •
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Tribune produoes a mass of statistics to
show thst the great improvements made by
Bose Shepherd in the District of Colombia
have resulted in making Washington a very
unhealthy place, through the gross defects in
the artificial drainage effected by the District
government. The figures show that, with an
inorease of only ten thousand in population
since 1872, the death-rate in the District has
increased from 16.60 per thousand in 1872 to
28.54 per thousand 1875. Tjus is a frightful
mortality, 'ihe usual effects of good sewer
building and swamp filling is to diminish the
death rate.
The whisky seizures in Chicago last week
formed one of the moat important episodes of
the war upon the fraudulent trade. It is not
only the amount of money—three-quarters of
a million of dollars —they will net-the Govern
ment that makes them significant, bat also the
fact that they .will very probably lead to the
exposure of revenue offiniala who have been
heavily paid by the whisky ring to connive at
the frauds. It is said that this movement
grew ont of information which Seeretary Bris
tow obtained from members of the ring al
readv under indictment, and who were very
willing to tell all they knew in the hope of
securing leniency towards themselves.
After a protracted debate the California
Senate has voted to abolish the offioe of chap
lain. The vote was a tie and required the
easting vote of the President The resolution
the offioe declares that the appoint
ment of a chaplain is “not absolutely neces
sary for the public good, involves preferment
as to tbe religious meeds, fosters a spirit of
rivalry and contention among them, breeds
animosity and heartburnings, lowers the
dignity of the ministry to the arena of party
polities, destroys the solemnity of prayer by
reducing it to a mere formula, tends to unite
church and State and makes an invidious dis
tinction between the departments of govern
ment by giving a chaplain to some and deny*
ing it to others."
There is at least one lawyer who thinks that
ffcief Justice Waits is a very poor man for the
he holds nd that he does not know how
to appreciate a brilliant fight of fancy. The
Chief Justice presided reoenUy in the United
States Circuit Court, at Alexandria, Virginia.
Ong of tbe cases which came before him was a
suit to put the Chesapeake and Ohio Bailroad
Comnaav into bankruptcy and tbe road into
tbe banks of a receiver, One of the counsel,
intbeeonrse of an argessent to show how the
sight, at tbe State were involved, having men
baaed whet wse desirable, proceeded; “Then
may tbe tmmovtad Wittwrox. the father of
this country end tbe one thing altogether
lovely, who slumbers 'neath tbs green sward
of Mount Vernon, on the banka of the—“
Jot then the Judicial gavel came down, and
Chief Justice Warm, smiling good-humoredly,
interrupted and *aid-. “the gentleman must
remember that we are here to listen to coneti
tnfional argument and not for the purpose of
having the oounael appeal to the tombs of our
fathen or build manmMnts with rhetoric.”
SAD FAMILY HISTORY.
THB TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN NEW
YORK.
A Hukud, SwpiMMed to Hove Been la
•a, Shooting His Wife and Child and
Than Hinuelf—The Death of the Child
and Father.
[FVom the Sen York Sun of Thursday .]
Yesterday morning Monroe 8. Minster,
of 356 W. Fifty-third-street, shot his
wife, and child aged three years, killing
the latter, and then shot himself fatally.
The house in whioh the Minster family
lived is a three-story tenement, narrow,
low-oeiled, with apartments for two fam
ilies in each story. Minster and his wife
and child occupied the front rooms in
the top story. The main room, abont ten
feet by eight, was the family living room
and kitchen. A little dark dosed back
from the main room was the bed-room.
The only light and ventilation of the
bed-room was through a three pained
door-transom, and hall window of the
same dimensions. The Minster family
bad lived there abont six months. The
neighbors knew little of the family, ex
cept that they were known by the name
of Meyers. The wife was an attractive
young woman, bat was reserved and
uncommunicative. The husband went
from home abont 8, a. m., and retnmed
after 6, p.m., and was, like his wife,
reserved. The pretty little Oarrie, their
child, was not long in beooming the
best of frienda With the other occupants
of the house. She was a welcome visi
tor all over tUfe little tenement, and scan
dal was occasioned by a gash that she
received a month ago by falling on a
knife, the mother said; by a knife cut,
the neighbors said, made by her mother
in one of her fits of ungovernable pas
sion. That she had such fits, the frequent
stormy receptions given her husband,
and heard by the neighbors, sufficiently
proved. The prime cause of the couple’s
disagreement was Mrs. Minster's free
dom with strange men. It was her cus
tom to leave her little girl to the friend
ly care of her fellow-lodgers, while the
mother spent hoars and days on the
street timing her return to the house so
as to arrive there just before her husband
leturned from his employment.
Their LAst Quarrel.
The last quarrel of this unhappy fam
ily was begun with Minster’s return
from work on Wednesday night. Mrs.
Flynn, who with her husband ocoupies
the rear apartments iu the same story,
heard the quarrelling. This continued
from Minster’s return early in the even
ing until the Flynns fell asleep, and
even in the breaks of their slnmber that
night they heard the same sounds, show
ing that neither hnsband nor wife slept
much, if at all. When Mr. Flynn arose
at 5 a, m., yesterday to go to work, the
Bounds had changed to a single stertor
ous sob, frequently repeated. This was
so labored that the Flynns could not
but perceive that they were from a per
son in the last stage of suffering, and
just before the 6, a, m. they called the
attention of Frank Ehringer, landlord of
the tenement, and the occupant of the
story under the Minsters, to the snoring
sounds. They tried to open the door,
but it was' locked inside, and another
quarter of an hour was spent in a fruit
less effort to turn the key. This failing,
Ehringer summoned Officer Brady, of the
Forty-seventh street Police. The officer
was soon satisfied that the locks and bolts
were reinforced by furniture piled up
against the door. The hall window was
opened, and the officer saw three per-
sons lying on the bed. Two were seem
ingly in a quiet slumber and the third
was gasping loudly. The window did
not open wide enough to admit the body
of a man, so the officer|lifted Mr. Ehring
er’s boy, intending that he shonld drop
on the bed and then remove the fasten
ings and furniture from the door. The
boy, frightened by the stertorous
breathing, reeoiled from the task. His
sister, however, summoned the required
nerve. She was lifted to the aperture
and dropped down on the chest of the
dying man. Her next step was into a
pool of blood between the husband and
wife, and her third touched the corpse
of the child. She took away the table
and chairs with which the doors were
barred, aDd then taking the key out of
the lock handed it to Officer Brady, who
opened the door from the outside.
A Shocking Spectacle.
Of the three occupints of the bed one
was dead and two were mortally wound
ed. Roundsman Helme, who soon ar
rived, assisted in iiftingthe breathing
bodies into tbe purer air of the main
room. The position of the bodies on
the bed indicated the manner in which
the several wounds were inflicted. Oar
rie Minster lay on her left side near the
outer edge of the bed. She was still
warm but dead, the blood having ceased
to woli up from a wound on the inside
of her right eye. which had evidently
penetrated to her brain. Almost touch
ing the child, the mother lay uncon
scious and bleeding from two pistol
shot wounds, both on the left side of the
head—one near the eye, apparently
extending brainward, the other near the
left ear. She breathed without great
difficulty, although occasional stertor
ous respirations indicated that the bul
let had lodged in her brain. Minster lay
on his back, flush against the wall, bis
right hand lying across his wife, who
was less than a foot from him. His
wound was on the right side of his head
an inch above the temple. The revolver
was found between the husband and
wife. Five ohambers had been emptied.
There was little room to doubt that
Minster had shot bis wife and ohild and
then himself.
An ambulance was summoned, and
Minster and his wife were taken to the
Ninety-ninth Street Hospital. The sur
geons say that their recovery is almost
impossible, although they were still liv
ing late last evening. Neither of them
has had a conscious moment. They
were visited yesterday by Coroner Crok
erand Deputy MeWhinuie, who also made
a hasty survey of the triple tragedy, and
gave orders for the removal of the body
of the child to the Morgue.
The minster Family.
The police were put to considerabli
trouble to trace the family oonneotiom
of the victims. Minster was known tt
the other lodgers as Meyers, but paper!
in the room indicated that he was alsc
known as Mnnreo S. Minster, and wat
employed by the Society for the Proven
tion of Cruelty to Children. This led
to the discovery that bis father is a pros
perous gentleman who lived in Twenty
eighth street. It was also ascertained
that Minster’s position under Mr. Bergh
yielded a weekly income of sl2. Mrs.
Broderick, sister of Mrs. Minster, whose
maiden name was Maggie Eeirns, threw
some light upon the mystery surround
ing the tragedy. She arrived at hei
sister’s honse at abont noon, in igno
rance of the tragedy.
She says that Minster has been living
with her sister six or seven years, al
though she has no knowledge of eithei
fact or date of their marriage. Her sis
ter, she says, was born in Ireland and
oame to this oouutry when nine years
old. After a few years residence here she
took to evil courses and dropped out of
Mrs. Broderiok’s notioe for a time. When
she again appeared it was as Minster’s
wife. They had two children. Their
boy, nearly five years old, died a
year and a-half ago. Minster and his
reputed wife lived very unhappily, and
the husband often made Mrs. Broder
ick the confident of his troubles. He
called at her house on Wednesday night
and told Mrs. Broderick that he and
Maggie would have to break np house
keeping. Knowing her sister’s infirm
ities of morals and temper, Mrs. Brod
erick counseled him that that was his
best course, and he went home after hav
ing made her promise to call at his
apartments at about noon the next day.
When she arrived there pursuant to her
promise and was apprised of the tragedy
and saw the bloody body of her niece,
she could not be persuaded that Minster
had not deliberately plan red the mur
der as it was exeouted, intending that
she should be the means of making it
known.
GEORGIA C#NSTIUTIQNAI. CffNyETC.
TION.
[Columbia .Enquirer.]
The present Constitution of Georgia
was adopted by people mimical to the
people of Georgia, by those who repre
sented the passions and hate of the ene
mies of Georgia and her true interests.
It was effected under the shadow of
Federal bayorets. The Constitution so
framed cannot be regarded as the will of
the people of the Empire State of the
South. The te ms of every office was
exteided, the manner of appointments
ohanged, and greatly enlarged powers
given the Executive. If by any chance
a Governor should be chosen whose in
terests are not identical with those of
Georgia, his power for harm would be
infinite. He has the power of appoint
ing Judges and of filling many o-her of
fices—the only check being a confirms
ticn by the Senate. He ib alio area to
serve four year?, wjth all this immense
patronage in his bafidg, Georgians
should cling to their old traditions that
for so many years have been toe charac
teristics of their fathers, and by means
of which tbe old Commonwealth pros
pered so welL 411 the innovations have
been made by strangers, and those hos
tile to oar institutions. Those favor
able to a Constitutional Convention are
in numbers, and clamoring
for it.
<=U.roh the river! Perhaps Mr. Tweed
has f.H*n into it. Do it at once. Do it
before the old chap has a chance to be
bailed oat.
THE MOSEL DISASTER.
HARSH SCENES AT BREMERHA
VEK.
Gathering the RennUnn-Tfae Victims Mostly
Blown to Atoms— Oloerrery of the Criminal
—Thomas Commits HUcide—The Circum
stances Preceding the Crime.
The Bremen correspondent of the
London Times, writing on December
22, says: “A gentlemiu who visited the
scene of the disaster a few hours after
the event said it looted more terrible
than a field of battle. Hospital attend
dants and policemen aided by volun
teers from all classes f the population,
had, indeed, removed those remnants of
humanity in jhinh. tbs vital spark was
not wholly extinot, bit what remained
was a human shambbs. As in an aua
tomical dissecting-room, all the individu
al limbs of the humlu body might be
lying about separatelj in ghastly isola
tion. Here a head wis stack on a rail
ing, while a hand wa| seen pointing at
empty space from a wndow sill. More
horrible, perhaps, thin the lacerated
limbs whose outward shape was suffi
ciently preserved to admit of recogni
tion, were the formlest masses of flesh
strewn in every direction, mixed up with
arms and feet. On tbe fatal spot were
boots aud shoes, coati and shawls, aud
countless splinters ol iron and wood.
Where the wagon stood from which the
deadly chest was thrown, yawned a hole
over six feet deep and seven feet wide.
Horses, vehicle, driver and porters were
literally blown into atoms, without a
trace of them left. On the brink of the
opening which marked the spot where
they disappeared, in infant’s shoe was
seen, empty, and (asking for the tiny
foot which had teianted it that morn
ing. A note-book Iras there containing
the memoranda of a dead man. Later
in the day the moit horrid indications
of the catastrophe were carefully col
lected and carried |way to the chnrch
yard, preparatory t> removal; but many
of the shivered frigments were thown
too great a distance and had been lodg
ed in too improbable localities to be
found at the first search. For two or
three days after the .event, terrible dis
coveries were continually made in houses
and courtyards, in stables and river
boats. A man would go up to the loft
to fetch fuel, and find a leg flung across
the coals. A womai feeding poultry in
the hen-house was slocked -to behold a
finger fonght for by the feathery tribe.
In the harbor, bloody tiunks rose and
fell with the streim for several days,
presenting a revolting aspect,and causing
the authorities to have the river dredg
ed. The most harowing spectacle was
that presented in ihe deadhouse of the
churchyard before the first burial of the
remains. Heads rithont tranks, tranks
without heads, lets without feet and
arms without hand# were displayed in
hideous rows for identification. Pic
ture for yourself a woman looking for
husband among ttese gory relics, and
the thought beggais description. For
two consecutive da-s these visits to torn
members continual. For two days
farewells were tiken of heads and
hands. For two lays portions of the
cadaverous array W3re gradually remov
ed by relatives brhging full-sized cof
fins for a single limb, and having it
carefully sown upin linen before con
signing it to its list inclosure. Then
the grave hid its ovn. Meanwhile some
thirty persons, not)wholly killed by the
explosion, were livng in an improvised
hospital not far frm the scene, an un
ascertained number of other sufferers
having been received in private houses.
There was a greal want of lint, linen,
and other necessaiies at first ; but the
Bremen people, prcyerbially kind-heart
ed and liberal, soon supplied all requi
sites. Physicians, ;00, arrived from the
country, offering assistance and helping
their colleagues al the Haven in the
first ministrations. But it soon became
appearent that there was little occasion
for doctoring. Otjy the milder cases
admitted of the semcea of the healing
art. If there was (anything calculated
to render the effeita of the catastro
phe more appalling it was that the in
fliction is confined to comparatively few
families. Whole fimilies having gone
to see their relatives off, whole families
we.e killed and wounded. A terrible
instance is that of Mr. Etmer, who with
all his nearest aad dearest, accompanied
his eldest son to the boat to wish him
God-speed on Ais departure to the West
Indies. The father, the elder and
younger son, One son-in-law, the brother
of another son-in-law, and a cousin are
dead. Tbe mother has had her arm
broken. One of the daughters has lost
her right hand; another daughter is
wounded in the face, hands and legs; a
third daughter wounded iu the arm ;
while the sister of one of the sons-in
law had her left foot blown off. That
son-in-law whose brother is dead is ter
ribly lacerated in the abdomen. This
is the worst case, but others might be
cited hardly less meloncholly. The ex
plosion was heard for many miles
around. It is affirmed that a low, mut
tering noise penetrated to the very en
virons of Hamburg;”
“Among the persons who were moving
about the ruins if the catastrophe, iu
the course of the afternoon, was a first
class passenger, seemingly a foreigner,
who expressed gnat regret at the acci
dent, and also addressed several ques
tions to the Captain. When,daring the
evening, some jersons were passing
through the stale-room, groans were
heard to issue frim one of the cabins.
One hurried imnediately toward the
spot, and the doot, closed on the inside,
was forcibly broten open. Stretched
out on the sofa'was a man in shirt
sleeves breathing with difficulty, per
fectly and his face covered
with blood. He was the passenger ob
served above, idaitified as William B.
Thomas, of New, York. The doctors
discovered him to be severely wounded
in the head, an! ordered him to be
transported to tie lazarets, where the
other victims were lying. At the first
medical examination, merely superficial,
owing to the daikness of the cabin, it
was naturally stpposed he was also a
sufferer from tbe explosion, and only
when the Captain, asserted that he had
spoken to Thomai after the catastrophe,
and it was stated that the oabin door
bad been locked fiom the inside, was a
more minute seaich made, terminating
in the discovery o! a six-barrel revolver
under the sofa, fmn which two shots
had been fired. Ihe transport of Thom
as, a very oorpulmt man, to the infir
mary was performed with great exertion
by six or seven salors, who rolled the
wounded man in a blanket, carefully
carried him dowi the Mosel, and bore
him in a cradle to the place where the
other sufferers weie under medical skill.
By this he was restored to conciousness.
After repeated questions and urgent ad
monitions he confessed to have been the
owner of the fatal case. The criminal
examination, inst tuted in consequence
of this declaratfon, brought circum
stances to light fmn which it was prov
ed that the explosion did not arise from
negligence, but from a plan deeply and
coolly laid.”
IS HI .
Monroe Advertiser; “ Mr. W. W.
Jordon had one hundred and fifty dol
lars stolen from him on Monday of
Christmas week. He pulled off the
clothes he usually wears and put on
his uniform for the purpose of drilling
with the Quitman Guards. He hung
the coat behind the door in the front
room of the store, aDd, unfortunately,
forgot to take ont the $l5O, which was
in the pocket. When he retnrned from
drilling the money was gone. He had
his clerk, Wilson Jones, arrested and
tried before a magistrate’s court, but he
was acquitted. The money has not
been recovered.., ,0n Thursday, the 23d
ult., Mr. Stephen D. Jackson, living
near Cabauiss, in this county, came to a
tragic death in the following manner :
He was riding in a buggy, along the
Brown’s feiry road en route to Jasper
county. Mr. Wesley Hathorr was
driving along the same road in com
pany with two ladies about a mile be
hind Mr. Jackson. One side of tbe shaft
of the buggy of Mr. Hathorn became
detached and dropped upon the feet of
the horse and caused him to become
frightened and run. Mr. Hathorn and
the ladies were thrown out, bat were
not hurt- Mr. Jackson saw the fright
ened horse coming at full speed and
fearing that he would run against his
baggy (in which was a little child} got
out for the purpose of stopping the
horse or at mast to prevent being ran
over. It is thought that tbe axle of the
buggy struck him. He was found insensi
ble, with hissknll fractured and a leg
broken. He was brought to town and
given comfortable quarters at the Greer
Hpnse and received attention im
mediately from Dr. BndisilL Dr. R.
attended him faithfully and did all that
human skill could accomplish, bnt with
out avail. He lingered in an uncon
scious condition until Sunday night,
when he died.”
In consequence of the stoppage of Be
path’s sugar refinery, Montreal, a num
ber of skUled workmen have gope to tbe
United States.
There’s a woman in Caiifernia 140
years old, who claims to be the oldest
woman in the world. Queer chum for a
woman to make.
A young man in Olathe, Kansas, who
is particular about his washing, the
other day wrote a note po his washer
woman and one to his girl, ar.d, by s
strange fatality, pat the wrong address
on each envelope and sent them off. The
washerwoman was well pleased at an
invitation to take a ride the next day,
but when the young lady read, “If yon
moss np my shirt bosoms, and rob the
buttons off my collars any more, as you
did last time, I will go somewhere else,”
she cried all the evening, and declares
that the will never speak to him again.
A COLOSSAL DEFALCATION.
BABBITT, THE SOAP MAKER,
LOSES $500,000 UNAWARES.
A Trailed Caskier Devises a System of
Successful Robbery—Detective Gulden's
Dleeovery—Tbe Concealment of tbe Thief.
[A*ew lor* Nun.]
On October 30th, 1875, ex-detective
Golden called on Mr. Benjamin T. Bab
bitt, the soap manufacturer, at 69
Washington street, and informed him
that he had been robbed by oue of his
employees of over $500,000. Mr. Bab
bitt was incredulous, but consented to
an investigation. Golden has since
been working in the case, and yesterday
he made an arrest. In the spring of
1868 Charles R. Beckwith became a
bookkeeper for Mr. Babbitt. Beckwitb
bad been a cashier for an insurance
company in Utica, and had letters of
recommendation. In appearance he is
a remarkable man. His height is
scarcely five feet, but he has a large,
handsome head. He is well educated.
Soon he had not only won the respect
and confidence of Mr. Babbitt, but was
treated more as a friend than subordi
nate, In 1873 Mr. Babbitt was informed
of dishonest practices by his trusted
clerk, and he at first refused to credit
the stories. Subsequent events proved
the truth of the information. Mr. Bab
bitt called Beckwith to his private offioe,
told him of the discovery, and discharg
ed him. No effort was made to trac.i
the losses. Eighteen months after Beck
with’s discharge Mr. Babbitt’s business
had apparently increased over $7,000 a
year. On November 3, 1875, Mr. Bab
bitt, acting under the instructions of
his lawyer, Mr. Wm. A. Beach, had an
examination of his books made by an
expert accountant. Defalcations by
Beckwith were discovered amounting to
$500,000.
Beckwith’s duties had been those of a
cashier. Mr. Babbitt daily signed a
large number of blank checks, leaving
the cashier to fill them up as required.
Beckwith suggested a stamp, engraved
with the name of the firm, to use in lieu
of the customary endorsement. Obtain
ing that impplement, he began
a successful method of swindling. Hav
ing entire charge of the books, he began
altering the accounts. In some in
stances he changed bills from $2,000 to
$25,000. All customers who had made
purchases went to him to pay. He, iu
fact, had the entire business under his
control. The following is a sample of
his work; On April 31, 1871, Mr. Ed-
ward Hill purchased soap to the amount
of $5,724. Beckwith changed the entry
on the books so as to figure $5,274,
pocketing the difference.
So startling was Detective Golden’s
discovery that Mr. Babbitt requested
Superintendent Walling to allow that
officer his own way. At a private meet
ing of the counsel, polioe aud Mr. Bab
bitt, it was deemed necessary to watch
Beckwith closely. Golden traced him
asau employee of the Manhattan Insur
ance Company, but learned that he had
obtained one month’s leave of absence,
ostensibly to visit his sick mother iu
Cincinnati. Golden made up his mind
at oqce that some employee of Mr. Bab
bitt had forewarned Beckwith, and that
he was hiding somewhere in this oity.
He ascertained that Beckwith lived un
ostentatiously in a French flat house. A
list of those houses was procured. Ten
days ago Golden learned that a mau like
Beckwith was residing at 998 Sixth ave
nue. He took a room in a house oppo
site, and pight and day watched the
house, provided with a warrant.
At one o’clock yesterday a window
was raised in Beckwith’s apartments.—
His wife looked up and down the ave
nue. Two minutes later Beckwith, who
had been concealed for thirty days,
opened the door. Owing to a stiffness
of his knee joint, he is unable to walk
fast. Golden followed him to the gates
of Central Park, aud tapped him on the
shoulder. “How do you do, Mr. Beck
with,” he said. “Very well, sir,” re
plied Beckwith. “I have a warrant for
your arrest for defrauding.” “Stop,
stop ! for God’s sake.” Beckwith’s face
grew very pale, and he begged to be
allowed co go home and notify his wife.
This Golden refqsed. He was taken to
the Mercer street police station.
THE COURSE OF COTTON.
Weekly Review of the Now York market.
[TVete York Bulletin.]
Consequent upon the adjournment of
the Exchange over Monday, the 27th
ult,, there has been only four days de
voted to business since our last. The
general movement during that period
was fair, but without remarkable activi
ty at any time, and the market failed to
develop positively new features. The
turn of affairs was, on the whole, favor
able to the selling interest, with tbe ba
sis of improvement to be found mainly
through temporary causes, though we
think the underlying confidence in the
future before referred to was a little
more prominent. It has been quite a
rarity to find an operator willing to ven
ture upon “short” sales; a large number
of outstanding engagements have been
covered, and generally movements were
conducted on the apparent belief that a
farther shrinkage on values could not
safely be calculated upon. Crop esti
mates remain about as before in the ma
jority of cases, but calculations are more
frequently made upon an increased call
for consumption, foreign and domestic;
and with the disposition to look upon
the prospect for the coming year more
cheerfully, the market closed with a
reasonably steady toue. On the other
side of the question, not mafiy argu
ments are brought forward at present
beyond a continued leiteration of thfe
theory that supply will too much exceed
demand to warrant a maintenance of
present values; that the claims for im
provements are based more on prospec
tive than present condition of the mar
ket, and that thus far in the cotton year,
whenever left upon its merits, the en
tire position has shown a decided tend
ency toward an easy level. At the best,
however, there was rather more talk
than business, and a marked feature was
the unusually small speculative element
extant.
On “spots” there has been only a fair
movement, and nothing particularly
new beyond a further widening out of
the range oi quotations. From good
middliug up rates were advanced l-16a
Jo., and from strict good ordinary down
there was a reduction of Jafc. per lb.—
The high grades have, as before, been
scarce and particularly sought after, with
values correspondingly strong, while the
low grades were freely offered and much
neglected, even at the reduced cost, as
above noted. Domestic spinners were
not only moderate buyers, but cautious
and indifferent in their movements and
handled nothing beyond positively
known wants. Exporters have been a
little irregular in operating, but on the
whole took a fair amount and mostly on
Continental orders. It is claimed that
the foreign outlet requires more cotton
and can use the medium and low grades
to a good fair extent, but that for the
present buyers hold off, hopeful that
certain manipulations' will still further
depress the value of the lower qualities,
will result in free deliveries on “notices”
and at the same time afford an oppor
tunity for widening margins on con
tracts already out. In “free on boards”
there has not been much doiDg, but at
most of the Southern ports the tone was
pretty firm at 12fc. for average mid
dling.
On contracts the week opened a little
tame, and valnes on the downward turn,
under an expectation of a free issue of
January notices. The notices came to a
pretty liberal extent, and to many of
the receivers were a burden they desired
to quickly transfer; yet the influence
was by no means as weakening as ex
pected, and after a small fractional
break the market began to recover, and
kept rather on the upward turn the
balance of the time, closing steady.
The change in the value of the low
grades increased^bfeSS^ 16 °* January
contracts at Obde, andthis had a harden
ing influence on near-by engagements,
while the general line was stimulated
partly through sympathy and partly
through a reduced movement at the in-
terior towns, indicating smaller receipts
at the ports during the next week.
There was few if any fresh operators
drawn in, the business being confined
exclusively in the settlement of engage
ments already outstanding, and it is
probable that the year closed npon e.
lighter speculative line than for any
corresponding period since the system
of contract sales was fully established.
Operators too were noticeable for the
conservative tone of their opinions, and
there was an evident intention to feel
the way very oantionsly before venturing
to act upon any theory as to the future
of values.
FROM HEW ORLEANS.
Honoring the Dny—The Mississippi Rising—
Steamboat Sank—Judge Hawkins.
New o@lk4hs, January B.—Flags and
pennants are displayed throughout the
city and public offices are closed in hon
or of the day. Military organizations
paraded.
The Lower Mississippi is rising ra
pidly and causing some apprehension of
crevasses. A dispatch from Bayon Sara
reports the sinking of the steamboat
Belle of Yazoo, in twelve feet of water,
above that place. No lives were lost. It
is believed the boat can be raised. Her
cargo consisted of 465 bales of cotton
and 2,500 sacks of cotton seed.
The indications are that strong efforts
will be made in the Legislature to im
peach Judge Hawkins.
Boggins thinks that dynamite is a
contraction for die any minute.
THE YOICE OF SUMTER!
F. J. MOSES, JR. SHALL NEVER SIT
AS JUDGE.
An Imposing Demonstration Against Moses
in His Native Town—Peaceful Mean* First,
and Force if Necessary—Governor Cham
berlain Applauded to the £cho.
[ Special Dispatch to the News and Courier .]
Sumter, January 3.—The meeting of
the citizens of Snmter county, to take
action upon the election of F. J. Moses,
Jr., of this place, and W. J. Whipper,
to be Judges of this and the first cir
cuits, was held in the Music Hall to-day
and was a splendid turn-out of the sub
stantial men of the whole county.
President Fraser opened the meeting
with a clear and explicit statement of
the position and the issue. He was
very forcible and pointed, and declared
it was one of the purposes of this meet
ing to announce to F. J. Moses, Jr.,that
he shall never take his seat as Judge in
our Court Mouse, unless placed there
by Federal bayotitts. E. W. Moiise
read the following preamble and resolu
tions, and spoke of them with great
power and eloquence.
Whereas, The Legislature has elected
W. J. Whipper and F. J. Moses, Jr., to
serve as Judges for the first and third
circuits of the State ; and whereas the
Governor has refused to commission
them. Be it resolved,
1. That this meeting denounces the
action pf the Legislature iu this matter
as ruinons to the people and destructive
of good government. 2. That the peo
ple of Sumter county cannot submit
their legal affairs to the judicial charge
of F. J. Moses, Jr., a person who is
generally regarded as being devoid of
the neoessary legal attainment, and who
is also notoriously corrupt. 3. That
we regard the action of the Governor in
withholding commissions from these
persons as patriotic, justifiable and
right. 4. That Governor D. H. Cham
berlain has illustrated by his conduct
the noble ends which may be achieved
by a stranger, who differs from many of
us in matters of political faith, but who
unites with good men of all views in
measures of earnest reform ; and this
people will sustain him to the end. 6.
That we condemn and abhor the action
of those representatives of Sumter coun
ty who voted for the judicial iniquity,
and we do solemnly declare them to be
unworthy of the public confidence. 6.
That a union of all men of all parties
be formed for the purpose of hurling
them from place or power. 7. That we
regard Judge A. J. Shaw as being now
duly in office for a term of four years
from the date of his election, and this
meeting demands that the franchise
which he holds, for the good of the peo
ple, be not surrendered by him without
their consent. 8. That in the opinion
of this meeting, the Judicial election
has brought us to a point beyond which
endurance must cease to be a virtue. 9.
That, invoking the blessing of Divine
Providence upon our resolutions, we
now appeal to all patriotic citizens,white
or colored, of all shades of political
opinion, to assist us in an effort to re
store good government to the State, by
securing to all persons their full legal
rights of person and property, without
infringing the sacred rights of others,
and especially do we appeal to and rely
upon the aid aud assistance of those
leading meu of the country who control
the national parties, in this last struggle
against degradation and disgrace.
J. S. Richardson seconded the pream
ble and resolutions in a very effective
speech, pronounced with all the grace
and oratorical finish of one of the best
speakers in the State. Chas. H. Moise
supported them in an earnest address,
in which he demonstrated the absolute
impossibility of any legal proceeding
which could reach Governor Chamber
lain. He quoted decisions of the Su
preme Court of the United States from
1801 to this time, showing that no Court
in the whole country could oompel Gov
ernor Chamberlain to issue the commis
sions to Moses and Whipper. He closed
his remarks with these words : “Should
F. J. Moses, Jr., by any legal trickery,
attempt to ascend the steps of the
Court House to take his seat as Judge,
I, Charles H. Moise, forty-six years of
age, with a wife and ten children to sup
port, am ready to UDite with a band of
determined men, and, with muskets on
our shoulders, defend that temple of
justice from snob a desecration.” Jas.
D. Blanding followed in a patriotic
speech, pledging himself to exhaust all
peaceful means to prevent Moses from
sitting as Judge, and, failing that, then
to resort force if necessary. The pre
amble and resolutions were then unan
imously adopted, and the meeting ad-,
journed to sale day in February, when
we will enter upon a' thorough organiza
tion.
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
At Tall Biver, Easton & Milon, bank
ers, have suspended.
At Bartlett, Tenn., Bill Williams,
colored, was hanged yestqrday for the
murder of Joe Fields.
Alexander Williamson, a prominent
business man of Belmore, Putnam oonn
ty, Ohio, has absconded with SIOO,OOO.
At Memphis, Frank Scott, colored,
was hung the 6th inst., for the murder
•f Ransom Phipps, colored, Christmas,
1874.
The ship Cape Camotin, from Liver
pool for Bombay, was wrecked on the
British coast. The crew numbered 28,
some of whom were drowned. *
The Illinois Supreme Court granted a
mandamus against the Common Coun
cil of Chicago to show cause why they
should not order anew election for
Mayor.
The schooner Jefferson Borden was
towed in at Aberdeen, Scotland, dis
abled. She was 67 days out. The crew
was famishing and otherwise unfit for
duty. Water allowance was a tea cup
full per day.
At Columbus, Ohio, among the bills
introduced is one making forcible entry
into corn cribs and poultry yards bur
glary; and one requesting General Grant
to dismiss his relations and appoint
Union soldiers in their plaoes.
The Gardner House, Chioago, was de
stroyed by fire (he 6th inst. The loss is
estimated at $38,000. The hotel was
owned by C. H. Gambert. It was the
resort of the wealthier class of board
ers and was finely equipped. The rooms
were rendered unserviceable. Fully in
sured.
CHAMBERLAIN AND THE “ LITTLE BO
NANZA."
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel :
At the presont time, when the House
is in recess, it might not be out of place
to say a word or two about the Black
villo-Barnwell bill, particularly as the
question will be brought again before
tbe House and an attempt made to pass
it over Gov. Chamberlain’s veto. The
action of the Governor in this matter is,
to say the least of it, peculiar, consid
ering that he himself, as leading coun
sel for the Blackville people, fought this
battle against Barnwell. Cognizant of
all the facts in relation to the ease,
aware that an election had taken place
and the qualified voters of the county
had given their verdict by an overwhelm
ing majority for Blackville to be the
county seat, and knowing also, as he
does, that when Barnwell found itself
getting the worst of tbe fight, burned
Ihe ballot-boxes to saVe itself from de
feat; yet, knowing all this, how Cham
berlain could act so inconsistently is
scarcely, to put it mildly, very credita
ble either to his judgment or his hon
esty. K.
—
A Reporter's Banquet.— The Phila
delphia Post gives a glowing account of
a reporter’s banquet which came off in
that city Christmas night. Wine flowed
freely on that occasion, and mirth and
festivity ruled the hour.
We have only space for the responso
to one of the toasts, as follows:
THE SENSATION REPORTER
Music by the Band — “Pin saddest when
Mr. .Thomas rising slowly,
said that he wished it distinctly under
stood that he was opposed to murder,
burglaries, theft and arson. Tbe report
that he was an advocate of crime was
untrue, or at least had but slight foun
dation. Murder, especially, was an
atrocious sin; yet he felt that it was the
first duty of a reporter to give the pub
lic interesting reading. Suppose, then,
a merchant doing a poor business, but
with his stock fully insured, would it
not be a benefit to him, and a legitimate
sensation for the public, were the re
porter to apply a torch to the ware
house ? He would not admit he had
ever set a house on fire in order to re
port it, but neither would he deny the
charge. [Sensation,] Again, let ns sup
pose a family of small children, living in
a secluded part of the city, would proba
bly grow up in poverty, would it not
be honest enterprise if tbe reporter
should murder that entire family, say a
dozen in all, and so time the deed that
he would have an exclusive report for
his own paper? [Loud cries of, “It
would !It would !”] He would not say
that be bad ever risen to each eminence
in his profession, yet tbe time might
come when his duties to journalism
would compell him to violate all of the
ten commandments, and he could only
say that he wish they were twenty, as
the glory would be greater. Mr. Har
kins closed by striking his knife into
the table, and defying any gentleman
present to fight for an exclusive report
of a homicide.
\m ■!
It has been a custom in the As tor
family, an exchange says, to deposit
SIOO,OOO in the bank at the birth of a
son or daughter. That’s sensable. No
really well regulated family should neg
lect to take the hint, and do likewise.
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Griffin mechanics are idle.
There is not a Jew in Conyers.
Mrs. Beckwith has left Greenville for
Oartersville.
The Marietta Journal has entered up
on its 10th volnme.
P. D. Cox, of Burke county, is now a
Justice of the Peace.
Buildings are still going up in Bed
Clay, Whitfield county.
Dr. Shaffer, of Lawrenceville, is going
to move to Gainesville.
Macon has at last oonoluded to have
her streets lighted at night.
Judge Johnson killed a black bear in
McDuffie county January 3d.
Prof. John T. Stilwell will take charge
of the Covington Male Academy!
A letter for Matilda Heisler, Augusta,
is held for postage in Savannah.
Mr. W. T. Cowles is to take charge of
the Webb House, at Thomaston. *
Mrs. Susan M. Arnold’s gin house was
burned in Coweta oounty last week.
The National Hotel, in Atlanta, has
been opened by Messrs. Lee & Hewitt.
A store on the eo-operative plan has
been opened at Woodville, Greene coun
ty-
The store of Col. Bush, of Thomson,
was burglarized the night before Christ
mas.
Mr. E. A. Buchanan has been appoint
ed County Court Solicitor in Caweta
oounty. _
J. H. McWhorter, of Greene county,
whose leg was fractured sometime since,
is able to be out.
Thousands of pounds of meat have
been lost in Newton county by the re
cent warm weather.
The Gainesville Eagle has entered on
its 10th volume, ad is one of the best
looking weeklies anywhere.
Rev. G. W. Smith has returned to his
old home near Bethany Church, in
Washington oounty, to live.
Fifty or sixty persons from Whitfield
and adjoining counties have left for
Texas within the past two weeks.
Proximity to powder and afire-cracker
relieved Master Theodore Ormaby, of
Marietta, of eyebrows, lashes and some
hair.
J. A. Hall, of Franklin oounty, raised
some wheat last year whioh yielded at
the rateß of 256 bushels to one of sow
ing.
A lighted oigar thrown into a spit box
filled with sawdust came near causing
the destruction of the Court House in
Covington.
Rev. James D. Anthony has become
associated in tbe managing, editing and
publishing of the Herald fc Georgian,
of Sandersville.
Tom Carreker, an escaped negro pris
oner from Meriwether jail, forced par
ties who were attempting to arrest him
to kill him in self defense.
Nannie, the only child of Mr. James
M. Freeman, of Albany, received inju
ries from a fall from a cart the other
day which caused her death.
A family has been discovered in Co
lumbus, consisting of husband and wife
and four children, that has lived ou
bread and water for four weeks.
Mr. Wm. D. Sullivan, late foreman of
of the Covington Enterprise office, has
moved to Thomson. Mr. Hawkins
becomes foreman of the Enterprise.
A lad named Jones, in Bibb oounty,
was going down stairs with a loaded gun
in his hand, letting the gun drag behind
him on the stairs. The lad is now dead.
The litle daughter of Mr. Ace Fare,
of Roswell, Cobb county, was trying to
climb through a window, when the sash
fell on her neck, breaking it and killing
her instantly.
Messrs. James R. Wilson, B. S. Em
brees; Wm, O. Harrison and D. B.
Johnson caught in McDuffie county week
before last a fox 44 j inohes long, weigh
ing 13j pounds.
A dead body found in a field of Wm.
Huff, on Little river, in Baldwin, proved
to be that of . a Mr. Ravens, a lunatic es
caped from the asylnm. He was from
Clayton county.
The Sandersville Herald says, “A
friend jnst up from Johnson county, in
forms us that there is not now a drop of
liquor sold in that county. Well done,
Johnson county.”
A correspondent of the Washington
Gazette has fallen in love with a Florida
girl. We know a susceptible youth in
Augusta who did the same thing about
a year and a half ago.
A Presbyterian ehurch edifice is to be
built in Fort Valley soon. It is to be
located on a lot donated by Mrs. Byinpr
ton, near tbe railroad opposite the resi
dence of Mr. A. W. Murray.
The municipal election in Fairburn
resulted in the election of the “ dry
ticket,” as follows : Mayor, Q. 0. Grice;
Councilmen, W. J. Cloud, S. Malone, J.
R. McKown and T. D. Shaw.
The aunnal election for members of
the Town Council was held in Thomson
Saturday last, with the following result:
H. W. Gerald, John M. Curtis, Dr. E.
S. Harrison, Paul C. Hudson, and J. H.
Casey.
Mr. W. A. Benton has retired from
the mauagement of the Southern At
lantic Telegraph Company iu Atlanta,
and is succeeded by Mr. Gable. Mr. B.
will probably go to Florida for his
health.
Charles Grant has been pardoned by
the Governor, and will be discharged
from the penitentiary. He was sent
there from Wilkes county for being ac
cessory after the fact, in a case of simple
larceny.
The Marietta Journal says Mrs. Ba
ker, a widow lady, living some five miles
west of Acworth, became frightened last
Sunday night week at what she sup
posed to be an approaching storm, at
tempted to descend into the cellar for
safety, and fell and broke her neck.
Mr. James Moore, of Rockdale ooun
ty, was drowned in Mountain creek, at
Diamond’s Ford, on Tuesday night,
28th of December. His body was not
found until Thursday. He was to have
been married on the very day that his
body was found lodged on the bank of
the creek against a willow stump.
An Albany darkey missed his wife
from bed about midnight of December
31st, and immediately went in search of
her. He found her “keeping watch”
for the New Year at her church, the
Methodist. He hustled her out, gave
her a larruping and murmured UDto
her, “Come rest in this bosom, my own
stricken dear, and wait there and watch
there for the glad New Year.” And she
went.
We learn from the Fort Valley Mirror
that on Christmas night, in Fort Valley,
a party of boys got in their possession a
lot of muskets which they used in firing
Christmas guns. They used cartridges,
tearing off the ball and using the pow
der. Through excitement and imprn
dence a ball was fired from one of the
guns, the ball going through two walls
of a house, killings negro woman named
Carrie Houser, who was dancing inside
pf the house.
Herald and Georgian: “The Green
ville Vindicator says W. B. Low, a mer
chant of Atlanta, is a candidate for State
Treasurer. It says ho lived many years
in New York, made a good soldier in
the Confederate army, and is worth a
fortune of one hundred thousand dol
lars. Now it may be very nice to live in
New York, and must make a man feel
very comfortable to have a hundred
thousand dollars, and is certainly com
mendable to be a good soldier, but bow
these things qualify a man for State
Treasurer we are unable to see.”
The Marietta Journal tells how Jot
Lindley recovered a tine turkey. A ne
gro festival was set So come off on a few
•nights after the disappearance of the
turkey. He suspicioned a colored man
and inainuated to some colored people
that he knew who stole the turkey, and
if that turkey was killed and placed on
that festival table, he would take Sheriff
Stephens and arrest tbe whole festival
party. This plain talk had its proper
effect. To Mr. Lindley’s surprise, be
awoke one morning and fonnd that tbe
darkey had brought the turkey back
and placed it on its usual roosting place.
Recently, the Constitutionalist pub
lished, with flaming head lines, an
article showing how a family of fonr in
Chicago—a man and bis wife and two
children —lived comfortably on ten dol
lars a week. We believe editorial allu-
sion was made to the fact in tbe columns
of the Constitutionalist, and poor
people urged to take courage from and
and benefit themselves by the example
of the Chicago family. A correspon
dent of the Milledgeville Union and Be
carder, os tbe authority of the famous
Count Bumford, shows how ten healthy
persons can live on $2 73 a week, or at
the rate of 13 cents a meal. This lays
the Constitutionalist's Chicago family
in the shade, so to speak.
Concerning the removal of Miss Ella
Dudley from the Covington telegraph
office, the Enterprise says: “In justice
to Miss Dudley we must say to the pub
lic that we deem it a gross injustice
done her by the Superintendent of the
Western Union Telegraph Company in
discharging her in each an unceremo
nious manner. During toe time Miss
Dudley has been in onr city she has
conducted herself in snob a manner as
to gain toe friendship and esteem of onr
people. Through Summer’s dust and
heat and Winter’s wind and cold she has
daily wended her way to the little offioe
to do the work which had been assigned
her. Business of an important character
called her to Atlanta for a few short
hours, and during her brief absence she
was reported and a harsh telegram came
flashing over the wires announcing her
disoharge.”
Atlanta Constitution, 7th: “Wednes
day evening a good looking girl, about
sixteen years of age, and who evidently
had moved in the best circ es of society,
reached here on the Georgia Railroad
train. She proceeded to Simpson street,
where she obtained lodging for the
night at a negro house. Not long after
her arrival she was taken ill, and a mes
senger was sent for a physician. He de
clined to go, but recommended them to
go for the city physician. This the mes
senger did, but before his arrival she
gave birth to a child and died. The
child has been given to Captain Neely,
on Simpson street. Who the unfortu
nate girl was or where she came from is
enveloped in mystery.” The Herald
learns that her name was Fanny Able:
that she was over twenty years old, and
resided near Decatur. Later informa
tion proves the girl’s name to have been
Nancy Ophelia SimpsoD, and points to
A. H. Dunlap, her brother-in-law, as
her destroyer.
Columbus Enquirer, sth : “ The ne
groes have been daily leaving this plaoe
for the past ten days for Mississippi,
Arkansas and Louisiana. As many as
three hundred have gone up to date.
We hear of some few farms and sections
where nearly all of the labor has left.
Many still are expressing a desire to get
off. The railroads offer extra induce
ments, and by some means money is
raised to pay transportation. We think
the plan adopted by the Central Road a
wise ono—that is, to charge full fare for
every emigrant—urging that they shonld
try to keep the laboring class here in
stead of getting rid of them.”
Savannah News, 7th: “An attachment
case of some importance came up before
Magistrate Russell yesterday. The de
fendant in the ease is C. B. Bacon, who
recently absconded from Augusta, and
the plaintiffs, Cunningham and Wood
ward, his late clerks. The plaintiffs at
tached four bales of cotton for unpaid
salaries, which were in the possession of
Mr. Fatman, in this city. The cotton
was formerly in the possession of O. B.
Bacon. The Magistrate decided that he
had no jurisdiction to try the attach
ment case of Cunningham and Wood
ward vs. Chas. B. Bacon, and Simon
Fatman, claimant, inasmuch-as the at
tachment shonld have been returned to
a Justice’s Court where the defendant
resides and last resided, he, Baeon, hav
ing resided in Riohmond county; and
the attachment having been issued in
said county, it should have, under the
laws of this State governing such mat
ters, been returned to some Justice's
Court in Riohmond oounty, Georgia.”
Atlanta Herald, 6th : “To-day Major
Jack Stubbs, one of the oldest engineers
on the Georgia road makes his last trip
with a passenger train. He has, from
his own choice, taken charge of the
wood train at the other end of the road.
He does this because, by the schedule,
he can bo at his home in Augusta every
night, and besides he thinks he has “run
through” often enough. His engine,
the ‘S. Thomas,’ has been running six
years and has been in the shop for re
pairs only three weeks of this time. She
has run 210,000 miles within that time
and Jaek has held|the|throttle for 200,000
of that number. He has been running
between Augusta and Atlanta twenty
two years and has never had but one ac
cident during that time, and that was
before the war, when Andrew Johnson,
who was a passenger, had his arm
broken, for which the road paid him
SIO,OOO damages. But few engineers
can show as olear a record as Jack
Stubbs, and we hope the traveling pub
lic will never have cause to regret that
honest Jaok was not on the engine.”
Marriages.
In Perry, Sol Dasher to Mary Giles.
In Thomson, Dr. C. R. Giles to Ida
Williams.
In Toccoa, Wm. L. Phillips to Mar
tha J Bond.
In Macon, Joseph Boylan, of Griffin,
to Ida Corbett.
In Marshallville, Walter Frederick to
Carrie Walker.
Iu Crawford county, Eugene Wright
to Ella Vinson.
In Monroe oounty, Chas. W. Center
to Emma S. Hill.
In Crawford oounty, W. G. Vinson to
Mrs- E. T. Pope.
In Floyd county, Albert B. Watkins
to Mary E. Sims.
In Liucoln oounty, Wm. G. Hogan to
Augusta G. Lang.
In Columbia county, H. F. Norvill to
Miss A. J. Spires..
In Monroe county, LaFayetto Sander
fer to Lizzie Rogers.
In Taylor county, .T. M. McElmurray
to Miss Freddy M. Thomson.
Im Macon, Col. Guyton, of Lanrens
county, to Oarrie Boifenillet.
In Wrightsville, J. T. Walker to Ella
Mays.
In Atlanta, W. M. Lyon to Miss 0. E.
Woodruff.
In Walker county, P. A. Wall to Sal
lie L. Copeland.
In Tennessee, Gus Selvige, of Dalton,
to Miss Milburn.
In Cobb county, Thomas Shaw to
Nannie O. Knight.
At Red Clay, Jos. Cheek, of Tennes
see, to Fannie Cox.
In Mitchell county, Oapt. B. F. Wild
er to Florida Johnson.
In Henry oounty, Sarah E. Albert to
John S. McKee, of Griffin.
In Newnan, John T. Aoklin, of Car
rollton, t Dora E. Porter.
In West Point, O. M. Tuoker to Alioe
Harrell.
In Oglethorpe oounty, W. A. Jaoks to
Janie Epps.
In Houston county, A. F. Walker to
Mattie Pitts.
In Senoia, J. 0. Thurmond to Miss
A. S. Bridges.
In Talbot county, E. R.' Richards to
Sallie W. Ellison.
In Greenesboro, Graham Wilson, of
St. Louis, to Sarah N. Poullain.
In LaGrange, T. J. Garrett, of North
Carolina, to Ellen S. Winjbish.
In Coweta oounty, Isaiah Bishop, of
Fayette oounty, to Rosanna Gray.
In Spalding oounty, Thomas Dumas,
of Monroe county to Emma Seott.
In Talbot county, W. 8. Williams, of
Meriwether 00., to Miss S. E. Brooks.
•In Jefferson county, Dr. B. M. Daniel,
of Burke county, to Miss L. J. Atwell.
In Elbert county, Moses R. Brown to
Lucy O. Thornton ; Ira Myers to Mary
Pearman.
In Oglethorpe county, Tunis W.
Powell, of High Shoals, to Fannie Da
venport
In Coweta oounty, John N. Austin to
Mattie E. Lands; John Lee to Birta
Caldwell.
In Dalton, W. N. Hathorne to Lizzie
E. Bivings; Tom Freeman to Mattie
Richardson.
In Gainesville, L. C. Marlin, of Haw
kinsville, to Emma H. Austin ; Ed. Ar
nold, of Athens, to Janie M. Gaines.
In Washington oounty, S. F. Whiddon
to Sarah A. Tanner; S. L. Cowart to
Miss H. Welsh; J. T. Jones to Martha
F. Taylor.
In Warren county, John Rhodes, of
Crawfordville, to Sallie Pilcher ; 0.
W. Geesling to Della Kitchens ; A. N.
Parham to Annie Byrd.
In Floyd county, Albert B. Watkins
to Mary E. Sims ; Wm. Ledford, of
Walker county, to Sarah L. J. Fisher ;
B. A. Barnett to Millie W. Everett.
In Meriwether connty, Jesse T. Con
ner to Georgia Philips; Walton Barber
to Sallie Perdue; B. R. McCone to Net
tie Edwards; A. H. Hopkins to Miss M.
C. Nall; J. G. Fuller to Dora Brittain.
In Greene county, John T. Bush to
Mary 0. Stewart ; Samuel T. Gillin, of
Oglethorpe oounty, to Margaret J. Free
man ; John B. Bay to Martha J. Sor
row ; Joseph H. Rainwater to Letitia
Williams; John W. Little to Mary
Mason.
Deatbs-
In Columbus, J. J. Ogeltree.
In Monroe county, Thomas H. Wynn.
In Baldwin county, Wm. Robinson,
aged 74.
In McDuffie county, Mrs. Fannie Bris
co, aged 63.
In McDuffie connty, Mrs. Sarah
Scott, aged 87.
At San Antonio, Texas, Joseph B.
Bridges, of Atlanta.
In Savannah, Seremus A. Mayer.
In Whitfield county, Mrs. Eliza
Roach.
In Atlanta, Mrs. Nannie Colquitt
Ansley.
In Morgan county, Goo. 0. Davis,
aged 87.
At Penfield, Obadiah Thompson.
In Greene connty, Mrs. Hilary E. Hall.
Near Home, Mrs. Alexander McDon
ald.
At Union Point, Mamie Pegue, of Che
raw, S. C. t
In Meriwether county, John Callahan,
James Allen.
In Meriwether county, Judge Martin
Andrews, aged 80.
A darkey who was stooping to wash
his hands in a creek, didn’t notice the
peculiar actions of a goat jnst behind
him, so when he scrambled out of tbe
water and was asked how it happened,
he answered: "I dunno ’zaetly; but
neared as ef de shore kinder h’istod and
frowed me.”