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WEDNESDAY.. FEBRUARY 16, 1876.
•■(DIUILI SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS.”
A Washington dispatch to the New
York Herald, treating of Mr. Davis’ re
oent letter to Judge Lyons, says:
“ The letter, people eay, is simply cal
culated to revive animosities which
44 ought to rest, and shows that Mr.
•< Davis is still a soared and impracti
“ cable person, who has not even the
" tact to remain silent. It is thought
*• that the letter will arouse a good deal
“of feeling in the North, for me#
• say Mr. Davis writes as though the
•• rebellion was right and the defenders
“of the Union were in the wrong and
41 ought to humble themselves and ask
“ pardon. Sensible Democrats, South
“ ern men as well as Northern men, say
< they regret the letter, and think it was
“ entirely uncalled for. ”
We have heard something too much
of this sort of talk. The damnable ite
ration of “ policy, ’’ “ policy ” has be
come as disgusting as it is stupid. We
would like to know th# names of some
of these same “ sensible Southern Dem
ocrats ” who “ regret ” Mr. Davis’ letter
and think “it was entirely uncalled
for. ” We venture the prediction that"
they will not be in a hurry to reveal
their identity to their constituents. The
leader of the Republican party rises in
his place in Congress and charges Mr.
Davis with outrageous cruelty and in
humanity to defenseless prisoners of
war. If Mr. Davis were guilty of such
a crime he would be justly considered
infamous so long as his name could be
remembered. Yet because he does not
remain quiet under this accusation and
allow his silenoe to be construed as ad
mitting its truth, he is censured in the
harshest terms. And when he answers
his accuser and pronounces his state
ments false, proves his statements false,
Southern Democrats say his letter is
“ entirely uncalled for. ” Out npon such
“ Southern Democrats, ” they are too
politic to be entirely honest.
AN INFAMOUB MEASURE.
The Detroit Free Press says the State
Senate of Louisiana has passed a bill of
the most infamous nature. It amends
the House election bill so as to provide
for a State Returning Board, and to
enable the Board to count all votes from
districts where any intimidation has
been practiced against voters, especially
those of the African race. Of course
the effect of this would merely be to
sanction transactions such as those of
which the State Returning Boards of
18*02 and 1874 were guilty; but those
transactions have been denounced by
the staunohest Republican partisans as
usurpations of the grossest kind, ad
mitting of no palliation or defense. It is
astonishing beyond measure that a leg
islative body, in the faoe of the scathing
criticism which the Lynch and Wells
Returning Boards have received upon
all sides, would dare to attempt to
olothe a Board with power to manipu
late election returns in whatever manner
it chose, leaving it entirely at its option
whether to count or throw out the vote
of a district; yet this is what the Louis
iana State Senate propose to do. There
were two Republican Senators who
would not assent to the infamous bill.
Senator Stpher declared that the Re
turning Board would be used as Repub
lican artillery against the shot guns of
the White League, and there is no
question that if the proposed power
were conferred upon the Board there
would be no use whatever of holding
elections in Louisiana. The Board
could make and register its own de
crees. Fortunately for Louisiana, the
State Senate is powerless of itself to
pass laws, though it can display its
animus. will kill this elec
tion monstrosity, and prevent it from
ever becoming a law.
NOMBTUINU to BE CONSIDERED.
A bill has passed the Senate, almost
without notice or comment, whioh is a
very important one to the people of Geor
gia. We allude to the bill funding the
endorsed bonds of the Macon and
Brunswick Railroad in seven per cent,
bonds of the State of Georgia. The
case to be stated. The State,
under an aot of the General Assembly,
endorsed the bonds of the Maoon and
Brunswick Railroad Company. Some
time sinoe the oompany failed to pay
the interest on these bonds and the
State seized the road in order to protect
itself against farther loss. The holders
of these bonds so in default now ask the
Legislature to call in the bonds and
substitute for them the direct obliga
tions of the State. The past due inter
est on the bonds now amounts to twen
ty-one per cent. The principal and in
terest together amount in round num
bers to about three millions of dollars.
Some time ago, after the first default of
interest, the bonds depreciated greatly
iu value, but sinoe the belief became to
be entertained that the funding scheme
would succeed the price has rapidly ad
vanced. They now sell, with the twenty
one per oent. al aocrned interest, at, we
understand, one hundred and fifteen to
one hundred and eighteen. If the fund
ing bill passes the speculators will re
alise a large amount upon their invest
ment. If it fails they will pocket a very
comfortable loss.
We confess that we fail to see any
good reasonHrhy the Legislature should
aid the holders of these bonds by mak
ing this bill a law. There are several
reasons whioh we think should influence
the House to reject the measure. In
the first place its passage will increase
the direct bonded debt of the State
nearly, if not quite,three millions of dol
lars. Instead of having to provide for
the interest upon eight millions of dol
lars the State would have to levy taxes
sufficient to meet the interest upon
eleven millions. It may be said that if
the State owes this money she will have
io pay the bonds, principal and interest,
eventually, and the debt had just as well
be assumed now as five years hence.
But such a step as this was not contem
plated when the endorsement was made.
The intention of the endorser was to
take possession of the property when a
default was made in the payment of the
interest, and apply it to the liquidation
of the debt This intention has been
partially oarried out. The State seized
the road some time since, and now holds
it to proteot herself against loss.
The plain duty of the State is to sell
the road or make such disposition of it
as will aid iu paying the annual interest.
The bonds sue not due ; it is only the
interest that the State is called upon to
meet. There is no reason why the State
should make haste to substitute her own
bonds for bonds not yet matured. Be
fore they do mature some arrangement
may be made by whioh tho property will
liquidate the debt either in whole or in
part.
If the funding bill should pass, the
tttate will issue bonds that now com
mand a premium of from four to eight
per eent (.and which are daily growing
higher) to exchange at par tor bonds
that are worth a great deal less. We do
not think the bill provides for funding
th# interest on these bonds, and with
the interest off they would be at a con
siderable discount. By such sn opera
tion as this the State would lose s large
amount of money that would find its
way into the pockets of the speculators.
It is a little swrpriaing that the Senate
shoald have passed such a bill. Sena
tors must have voted iu ignorance of its
provisions. We trust that the House
will not imitate this example. We hope
ttmt the bill will be thoroughly ventila
ted and finally rejected. The people
have no deeireto play Indian to thebond
holder. White Man just at this time.
Twelve hacks went over to the 4:46
train yesterday afternoon and brought
back one passeDger, which is an average
of four cents a hack. And yet people
wonder why hackmen are profane,—
JWflrlWl nr-
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Meeting e t the •wwitw Ue—*T—■
There will be a meeting of the Execu
tive Committee of the Democratic party
of South Carolina in the parlor of the
Colombia Hotel, Columbia, 8. C., on
Tuesday, the 22d of February, instant,
at 8 o’clock, to arrange for the call of a
Convention of the people, and consider
such other matters as may be brought
before it. The County Chairmen of the
respective counties are invited to meet
the committee on the following day
(23d), at 11 o’clock, a. m., in the same
rooms. M. 0. Butler, Chairman.
Edgefield, 8. C., February 6, 1876.
the franking FRirmsoE.
Mr. Bbiqht, of Tennessee, a Demo
crat, is the author of the first measure
looking to a return to the franking
privilege. He has introduced the fol
lowing bill:
Be it enacted, etc., That from md after the
pssxge of this set the Congressional Record.
or Any put thereof, or speeches or reports
therein contained, and *ll public documents
Already printed, or hereafter to be printed, for
either’ House of Congress, may pass free
through the mails upon the frank, written by
him-elf, of any member or delegate of Con
gress. under such regulations as may be pre
scribed by the Postmaster-General.
We were once opposed to the frank
ing privilege for the reason that under
the old system great abuse had grown
up. But since its abolition experience
has shown that there was a great deal of
good as well as muoh evil in the frank
ing privilege. We hope that Congress
will re-establish it in a modified form.
A PROSPEROUS PAPER.
The New York Times establishment is
owned by a corporation. There are 100
shares, originally rated at SI,OOO each.
Since its establishment the Times has
paid for the valuable building it occu
pies on “Newspaper Row,” opposite the
post offioe, and has added largely to its
machinery and other facilities, besides
paying from 80 to 100 per oent. divi
dends on its original stook. Recently it
was reported that the Conklino olique
of Republicans were trying to secure a
majority of the stock. Geobge Jones,
the leading publisher, owned 43 shares.
He at once purchased 10 shares of the
Taylob estate, at $16,000 per share, so
that he now owns 53 shares, while there
are only 47 remaining shares, and Mr.
Jones controls the concern. Last year
the paper paid 80 per cent, on SIOO,OOO,
or about 5) per cent, on the million and
a half of dollars, at whioh price it is
now held. It is estimated that the paper
can pay an annual dividend of about 6|
per cent, on $1,500,000—0r in round
figures, SIOO,OOO annually to its stock
holders. While this and some other
leading journals have worked their way
to prosperity, ten thousand newspapers,
in all parts of the country, have strug
gled and sank out of existence.
WHAT WE PAY FOR REPUBLICAN RULE.
The Nashville American says the im
perative necessity for the removal of the
Republican party from the control of
the Government lies in its reokless ex
travagance and prodigal waste of the
public moneys. Aside from the enor
mous strain upon the producing classes
by reason of the financial policy which
requires a gold interest upon a vast and
alarmingly accumulating pnblio debt,
there is the burden upon tax payers to
provide for current Governmental ex
penses a sum almost fabulous in com
parison with the cost of the simpler and
leas extravagant and less corrupt system
of government, that existed before the
party now in power assumed control of
our affairs. Leaving out the cost of the
Government duriDgthe four years of the
civil war, the Republicans in authority
have expended within the past ten years,
aud inclusive of the estimates for this
year, $179,166,480 32 more than was re
quired for ordinary Governmental ex
penses for the entire seventy-two years
preceding the late war ! And thus far
into the present Congress every measure
of retrenchment instituted by the Demo
crats has met with stubborn Republican
opposition.
The aggregate of ordinary expendi
tures of the Government, exclusive of
the public debt, for 1860-’6l, was $62,-
616,055 78, and the aggregate of ordi
nary Government expenses for 1874-’75
was $171,529,848 27—an excess of SIOB,-
013,792 49. In the same ratio, the Re
publican party, if permitted to retain
control of affairs another decade, would
inorease the ordinary current expenses
over one hundred million dollars in ex
cess of the stupendous sum now requir
qnired. And yet they neither wish to
relinquish control, nor permit a reduc
tion. These figures, together with the
daily indiotment and oonviction of Re
publican officials and party leaders, of
robbery and conspiracy to defraud the
public, furnish the people food for re
flection between now and the November
election. There are innumerable leaks
iu the public treasury that cannot be
discovered or stopped until the party in
power is removed. The very life of the
oountry depends upon a change of
rulers.
A NBW CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESI
DENCY.
Anew Democratic candidate for the
Presidency has been annonnoed. He is
from New York, and his name is Hora
tio Seymour. The name is not entirely
unfamiliar, though of late years the
impression had obtained that the owner
of it was dead. It was heard a good
deal in the Summer and Fall of 1868,
but ceased to be mentioned after No
vember of that year. Mr. Seymour’s
friends now put him forward as the
-Great Amerioan Compromise Candi
date.” He is to be a compromise be
tween everybody and everything—be
tween the North and South, the East
and the West—between Tilden and
Church, Thurman and Pendleton, and
Pendleton and Hendricks. These
friends aforesaid say the feud in the
party in New York renders it impossi
ble to bring forward Gov. Tilden with
any chance of success at the National
Convention. Judge Church and his
large following are bitterly hostile to
Tilden, and even if the Governor could
bv any possibility get the delegation
from this State, the friends of the Chief
Judge would talk him out of the Con
vention, just as Seward’s opponents in
this State talked him oat of the Chicago
Convention sixteen years ago. Besides
these home troubles, it is confidently
asserted that Gov. Tilden, because of
the course of his friends towards the
Democracy of Ohio, and even Pennsyl
vania, in the elections last Fall, would
be vehemently opposed by the delega
tions of both those States. And this
brings us to the point whereon tho ad
vocates of Gov. Seymour say his triumph
in the Convention will hinge if his name
is brought forward at the opportune
moment, as was the case in the Conven
tion of 1868. Ohio has two prominent
candidates— Thurman and Pendleton,
not to speak of Gov. Allen, who is re
garded as on the shelf. Neither Thur
man nor Pendleton would allow his
rival to be nominated if he oould help
it. The only points of agreement be
tween them in respect to candidstes
would be sturdy hostility to both Til
den and Henpbkwl Mr. Thurman will
never forgive the eoourging he received
from the advocates of Tilde* in New
York last year because he would not
oppose Allen's election, and Mr. Pen
dleton has not forgotten that be was
slaughtered by Hendrices in the Con
vention of 1868; and this it is believed
will prevent the nomination of Hen
dbicks now. Gov. Setmoub’s friends
affirm that the Democratic leaders just
named would all graoefnlly yield to his
claims, although they would relentless
ly resist the pretentions of one another.
We are afraid that Mr. Seymour's
friends are building upon a vary shaky
foundation. The Democracy have had
snough of Mr. Seymour. He was forced
upon the party onoe as a “compromise
candidate” through an unseemly fend
MwtMtiMbMwlaof ftnwMw and
I Hkkbioks, and he was was utterly routed
at the ballot-box. The Democracy do
not care to go into the next campaign
miiU> the benner of the “Great De
feated.”
THE WISDOM DOUBTED.
The State Democratic Executive Com
mittee, which assembled in Atlanta re
cently, selected Gen. A. K. Lawton, of
Savannah, to fill the vacancy in the Na
tional Committee caused by the death of
General Wright. They also adopted a
different method of selecting delegatee
to the National Convention from the
uniform custom of the party in the past,
and we doubt the wisdom of at least a
portion of the plan .—Edl. Cor. Owin
nett Herald.
THE TROUBLE WITH TUB COMMITTEE.
We have already given our opinion
that the State Executive Committee
transcended their powers at their late
assemblage. Our opinion has not been
changed by the discussion that super
vened. We fear the trouble with the
members of the Committee is a simple
one. They do not like to retrace their
steps, and thus, as they may surmise,
damage their attitude as trusted lead
ers. But it would be a graceful and
profitable thing, we think, for them to
acknowledge the mistake and rid them
selves of a false position, whioh estab
lishes a precedent very dangerous to the
party and the people. Even if the news
paper verdict shall be in their favor, by
a sort of suffrance, it will simply stand
thus : “Not guilty; but don’t do it
again.” There •re men on that Com
mittee who may find such a verdiot very
unpleasant in the future. As the Com
mittee is only to hold power until a
State Convention ia called, the failure
to call snch a Convention keeps the
Committee in power longer than the
usages of the party allow, and action of
this sort will be troublesome hereafter
to those taking it.—Constitutionalist, of
yesterday.
MINOR TOPICS.
The Indiana school system employes 2,000
officers in its management. It eduoates more
than half a million children and costs $4,000,-
000 annnally. The Superintendent argues in
his report that in a great degree the future
welfare of the State depends upon the nor
mal school. The greatest defect in the system
comes as the result of the employment of
novices as instructors of ohildren. The great
est need of the schools is thoroughly trained
teachers.
When we hear that a planter has lost all his
laborers twice since Christmas, we may be
satisfied that the fault is in the man and not in
the hands. Colored human nature is very
much like white human nature. If a farmer
pays his laborers sufficient wages and pays
them promptly; if he does not oheat them or
abase them he rarely has any difficulty in
procuring hands for his plantation. If he
swindles or ill treats them be will and ought to
find it hard work to procure labor.
It is understood that the Mission to Great
Britain having been tendered to ex-Senator
Morgan, of New York, it was declined by him.
The reason assigned for declining was that he
preferred to remain in this country during the
ensuing oampaign His interest in remaining
may well be understood when it is remember
ed that he is Chairman of the National Repub
lican Committee, and has some political aspira
tions. Gen. Schenck is to be reoalled if credit
can be given to the well founded assertions of
gentlemen in high poeitions, who claim to
Know.
The Atlanta Constitution is glad to learn that
the Chronicle and Sentinel desires an un
pledged delegation sent to the National Demo
cratic Convention from Georgia. The Chroni
cle and Srntinel has never desired anything
but an unpledged delegation and this the
Constitution should have known. But we don’t
want six members of the State Executive Com
mittee invested with the power of selecting
one-fifth of the delegates to that Convention.
The people have intelligence enough te select
their own representatives and do not desire
the guardianship of the Committee.
A careful canvass of the Democratic mem
bers of the Ohio Legislature made the other
day by a reporter of the Gincinnati Enquirer
showed ihat nearly four-fifths of the number
favored Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton for the
Presidency. The Thurman Congressional clique
should make a note of this. If "Gentleman
George” should carry Ohio the Senator's nose
may be put out of joint. The South voted
strong for Pendleton in 1868 and may be will
ing to try him again. Be on your guard Gen
eral Gordon, or Pendleton or Hendricks or
Bayard may prevent a delivery of the property.
We are glad to learn that the gentlemen of
this city intend making some return to the
offioers of the Squadron stationed at Port
Royal for the hospitality recently extended the
party from Augusta, by giving them an enter
tainment at an early day. When the Gray and
the Blue get to dancing on the same quarter
deok and drinking punch from the same bowl
the politicians had just as well cease their at
tempts to kindle the fires of sectional hatred.
The people of the North and South find no
difficulty in getting along pleasantly together,
and Blaine, Morton A Cos. will find it an up
hill business to disturb the friendly relations
that every day become more firmly established.
Washrcrne plays peace and fraternity
against Blaine’s Jeff Davis skeleton and
Morton's bloody shirt for the Presidential
prize. His Btook in trade ie a very brotherly
letter, dated more than a year ago, giving an
aooount of the surrender of Lee, and gilded
with the kindest sentiments of good-fellow
ship to the whole South. His friends are wise
in understanding that while the Blaines and
the Mortons may be used to stir up the em
bers of hate, they will not be allowed to test
the judgment of the nation on their madness,
and Washbcrne's letter is now brought out to
trump the tricks of the silly fellows who would
olimb to the Presidency over the peace of the
nation.
More troops are wanted—this time in South
Carolina, and Senator Morton should not stand
upon the order of his demand for them. Two
unoonvmeil outlaws have been elected Judges
in South Carolina, and an obstinate Governor
refuses to commission them, and what is still
worse, the Legislature has been unable to take
from Governor Chamberlain the appointment
of election officers. There must be more
troops at once down that way, or things will go
to eternal emaah. If Morton doubts it, let
him zsk Senator Patterson, who knows how it
is himself. With Moses and Whippeb kept
out of their judgeehipe, and honest election
offioers allowed to go in, Morton ean’t bet a
oent on the-next South Carolina election. More
troops!
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The LaGrange Reporter is engaged in over
hauling the Comptroller's Report to find out
where the people’s money goes. The money
goes in many directions, and goes in good big
lumps, but it is difficult to determine where the
knife of retrenchment can be applied without
injury to the patient. We have no doubt that
the General Assembly will do everything in
their power to make the appropriations as
small as possible. There is a place, however,
where a good deal of the people’s money will
go without any equivalent whatever unlees the
House rejects the work of the Senate. We
allude, of oourse, to the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad funding bill. There is a very large
sized Ethiopian in that lot of fuel, and the
Hooz should find him out.
The bill which caused the difference between
the two Representative* from Muscogee coun
ty, and the resignation of one of them, was a
liquor law that prevented the retailing of spir
uoua liquors outside the eity of Columbus un
lees by the oousent of two-thirds of the free
holder living within three milee of the plaoe
of tele. This act was recommended by the
grand jury, but Mr. Grimbs says that on this
point the grand J ury did not correctly represent
the sentiments of the people. In the next
canvass this law will be made the issue, and
party lines will be obliterated. The liquor
I question ia daily growing in importance, and
th* indications are that it will soon become an
element, and a disturbing element, in Georgia
politics. We deprecate any such issues as be
ing fruitful of misohief, but that they will be
we have not the slightest doubt.
Relics op Ancient Bank. —Tho Italian
paper Per sever anza contains some re
marks about the three hundred writing
tablets ol a Pompeiian banker found at
Pompeii. It says that in nearly all of
the little books, containing three tablets
each, the four inner sides are covered
with wax, on whioh a fine, small writing
is to be seen. They contain agreements
about loans, in whiah a _ certain rate of
internet is to be paid. First, the debtor
acknowledges to having received the
money (the sum being expressed in
words) and promisee to pay it a certain
date, with a surplus of interest; second
ly, they contain the date, the names of
toe duumviri, the town and two consuls.
The p"■ of toe witnesses are written
under this, and e seal ia fastened to the
two tablets, on which toe extract is
written, with a cord. Sometimes the
creditor wrote a abort extract of the
oontract on the margin. The banker s
bum is la Gain# Tucuadns.
THE COMMITTEE'S DODGE.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
Beet assured that your position on
the Democratic Executive Committee
meets the public approval. There is too
much imperialism nowadays, and the
people are getting a little tired of simply
obeying, and mean to do some com
manding themselves. Men in office
seem to think there is so much apathy
that any aggression will be calmly sub
mitted to, but if the signs of the time
fail not there is thnnder in the air. The
bolt often falls out of a clear sky, and
when least expected. Snch was the
case with Grant, the great autocrat
whom so many smaller functionaries are
trying to ape. He went so far as to
prick a Legislature oat of the Louisiana
State House at the point of the bayonet,
and no doubt thought that, too, would
be submitted to without a murmur. But
when the last Congressional election
came on the people murmured to some
purpose, and the echoes of that whirl
wind are still resounding about
the throne. In less.r directions
there are similar ominons indications of
a perturbation in the weather. Every
body I hear speak ia tired of this eternal
grasping at unauthorized power. It is
becoming the fixed popular purpose to
keep public men within proper limits,
and your recent rebukes of the assump
tions of the Executive Committee show
you are alive to what is going on under
the surface. The only objection to your
articles is that you have not yet struck
the secret of the resolution of the Com
mittee, which refuses to call a Demo
cratic State Convention to nominate del
egates to the National Democratic Pres
idential Nominating Convention. If you
will look to the resolution of th 6 Demo
cratic Convention of 1872, under which
the Committee was appointed, that se
cret will appear. The resolution is :
“ Resolved , That this Committee re
commend that the President of this
Convention appoint an Executive Com
mittee of the Democratic party of the
State, to serve until the meeting of the
next State Convention, had to consist of
two members for each Congressional
District as now existing, and four for
the State at large, which Committee
shall have power to elect a Chairman
outside of its own body.”
The Committee is only “to serve un
til the meeting of the next State Con
vention,” and if it had called a State
Convention at its recent meeting in At
lanta it would have signed its own death
warrant. The Convention wonld have
appointed anew Committee, and the
present Committee would have been re
duced to the ranks.' By refusing to call
a Convention, as it is their duty to do,
they keep themselves in power.
Citizen.
THE COURSE OF COTTON.
Weekly Review of tho New York Market.
[New York Daily Bulletin.]
There has been uo really new features
developed the past week. Prices have
gone down, and then up, and vice versa,
and with each fluctuation there was a
professed ignorance among operators as
to the exaot cause, though the general
disposition was to attribute the changes
to local manipulation,. and probably
with considerable reason. Matters have
now beoome so nicely balanced, await
ing the issue on a queston of receipts,
that the market is peculiarly sensitive to
the slightest influence, and either op
posing interest is frequently enabled to
use a very small “point” to temporary
advantage. On the whole we think the
sellers have had a little the best of the
operations since our last, although at one
time some of the lowest points of the
season were touched, and Liverpool,
after declining to 6jd, failed to recover
or show any remarkable encouraging
features. No one, however, oould be
found willing to offer with any freedom
at the rates readied here, and the mo
ment the least inclination was shown to
purchase there appeared to be a general
fright among the smaller operators, and
free covering, with preparation to get
upon the “long” side of cotton if the
probabilities indicated any permanent
improvements. The leading “bears”
have taken matters rather quietly, and
assume as muoh confidence as before ;
but with the exception of the unpromis
ing condition of affairs abroad, as oa
bled over, have exprienced a little more
difficulty in citing positively favorable
features. They claim the statistical po
sition to be quite as much in their favor
as ever, and likely to continue so, and
assert that there is nothing to indicate
that consumers, foreigh or domestic, are
likely to take hold freely even at the
reduced cost, and also assert that, from
authoritative sources at the South, in
creased estimates of orops are daily re
ceived. On the other hand, however,
there is shown a shrinkage of arrivals at
most of the ports and interior towns,
with New Orleans and Memphis only
showing full figures ; and these points
the “bulls” claim will soon follow, and
fully endorse the theory of an early ex
haustion of crop and sudden felling off
of supplies, the base for which belief we
gave last week. A good many deliveries
on contract, too, recently, made, it is
said, will be taken out of the country,
and in a quiet way there has also been
greater interest shown on sample cotton.
The market closed in a somewhat uncer
tain shape, but with a feeling current
that some radical change will soon take
plaoe.
Spots have met with a fair sale to ex
porters, aud some little call on home
acooaut, with an intimation that all move
ments have not been made public. Buy
ers, too, have shown a closer and more
general interest than for some little
time past, and taken altogether, the
market, though by no means a bright
one, developed some points for encour
agement. Supplies have been available
in sufficient quantity and assortment to
about satisfy all calls, but were not
freely offered at any time, and holders
were on the whole inclined to insist
pretty closely on ruling quotations. The
prices were advanced l-16e all around,
but closed barely sustaiued at this im
provement. The week opened with the
oontract market in quite a tame condi
tion. Receipts were running pretty full,
and Liverpool was cabled weak, with
the rate dropping to 6sd, under which
influences there was for day or two a
steady decline, the break being aided by
the relaxation of the grip upon Februa
ry, whioh was the supporting month for
the entire line. Suddenly and quite un
expectedly, however, some of the large
“shorts” commenced to “cover” and at
once were followed by a pretty general
soramble among the light operators fol
lowing the same course. Values, of
oourse, improved, and for a time had a
pretty firm look, thongh this was subse
quently modified somewhat. Short no
tices have been offered with considerable
freedom, and now and then pretty low ;
but shippers were more or less indiffer
ent, and a portion of the offering was
bought in as a matter of protection. At
the close, the general mirket was quite
heavy, the demand' to cover having
oeased, and the latest figures from the
interior towns leading to the belief that
another week of full receipts at the ports
might be expected.
SOUTH CAROLINA COURTS.
The Time of Holding Court in Some of the
Counties of South Carolina.
Abbeville—General Sessions and Court
of Common Pleas: Seoond Monday in
January, third Monday in May, and first
Monday in October.
Aiken—General Sessions: Second Mon
day in January, May and September.
Court of Common Pleas: First Wednes
day after this 'second Monday in Jan
uary, May and September.
Barnwell—General Sessions: Third
Monday in January, May and Septem
ber. Court of Common Pleas: Fourth
Monday in January, May and Septem
ber.
Chester —General Sessions: First Mon
day in January, May and September.
Court of Common Pleas: First Wednes
day after the first Monday in Janaary,
May and September.
Edgefield—General Sessions: First
Monday in March, June and November.
Court of Common Pleas: Second Mon
day in March, June and November.
Fairfield —General Sessions: First
Monday in April, Angust and December.
Court of Common Pleas: First Wednes
day after the first Monday in April, Au
gust and December.
Laurens —General Sessions: Third
Monday in February, June and October.
Court of Common Pleas: Fijrst Wednes
day after the third Monday in Febru
ary, June and October.
Lexington—General Sessions: Fourth
Monday in February, May and October.
Court of Common Pleas: First Wednes
day after the fourth Monday in Febru
ary, May and October.
Newberry- General Sessions: Third
Monday in January,Mayand September.
Court of Common Pleas: First Wednes
day after the third Monday in Jannary,
May and September.
Richland—General Sessions: First
Monday in February, May and October.
Coart of Common Pleas: Second Mon
day in February, May and October.
Sumter —General Sessions: Second
Monday in January, May and October.
Court of Common Pleas First Wednes
day after the second Monday in Janu
ary, May and October.
York—General Sessions: Third Mon
day in January, March and September.
Court of Common Pleas: First Wednes
day after the third Monday in January,
March and September.
Professor Babcock lectured in Boston
on Saturday on “a grain of salt.” Of
course he labored under some disadvan
tage from the fact that his hearers felt
bound to take bis statement cum grano
salis. —Hew York Commercial Adver
tiser,
HON. RETERDY JOHNSON.
HU Sadden Dtath at Ananpelu, Maryland.
Baltimore, February 10. —Hon. Rev
erdy Johnson, tbe distinguished states
man and jurist, was found dead this
evening, at 8:15, in the grounds sur
rounding tbe Executive Mansion at
Annapolis. Mr. Johnson was the guest
of Gov. Carroll and dined this afternoon
with other gentlemen at the Execu
tive Mansion. He was found dead in
the yard by a servant.
Biographical Sketch.
The lawyer and statesman whose death
ia announced in the foregoing brief dis
patch, was born in Annapolis the 21st of
May, 1796. If he had lived till next
May he wonld have been four-score
years of age. He was educated at St.
John’s College in that city, and at the
age of 17 began to study law in Prince
George’s county, in the office of his
father, who was Chief Justice of
the judicial district. He was admit
ted to the bar iu 1815, and in 1817
moved to Baltimore, where he has
lived ever Bince. He probably had
more business before the Supreme
Court during his life than any other
lawyer in the country. He began his
political career in 1821 as State Senator.
In 1845 he became United States Sena
tor, bat resigned that offioe to beoome
Attorney-General under President Tay
lor. After the death of President Tay
lor Mr. Johnson resigned the Attorney-
Generalship and resnmed the practice
of law in Baltimore, but again became
United States Senator in 1863, continu
ing in that position till 1868, when he
succeeded Hon. Charles Francis Adams
as Minister to tbe Court of St. James,
England, where he negotiated a treaty
for the settlement of the “Alabama
Claims,” which, however, not proving
satisfactory to his Government, was af
terwards rejected by the United States
Senate. After his return from England
he again resumed, with profit and suc
cess, the praotioe of his profession in
Baltimore.
Mr. Johnson has been a firm and con
stant advocate of constitutional govern
ment since the war, and an unflinoniLg
opponent and denonnoer of the usurpa
tions of the Centralists or Radioals.
’Tis but a twelvemonth since we saw
him, a hale old man, in the hall of the
House of Representatives, at Washing
ton, by the side of Georgia’s illus
trious statesman, Hon. A. H. Ste
phens, and, notwithstanding the
difference in their years, we had
thought the frail and infirm Geor
_ gian w >uld be the first called to answer
' the summons of the grim messenger;
but it was not to be, and Maryland is
called on to mourn the loss of her most
distinguished son. His days have been
long and useful, and we hope that, “after
life’s fitful fever he sleeps well.”
REVERDY JOHNSON.
Particulars of His Last Hours—Dr. Hteiuer’s
Theory as to the Cause of His Death.
Baltimore, February 11.—Reverdy
Johnson had argued a oase in Court and
was unusually brilliant at dinner with
Gov. Carroll, whose guest he was. He
took one glass of Madeira during din
ner. After dinner he went to the par
lor, while Gov. Carroll and other guests
went to another room to smoke. It was
supposed Mr. Johnson was taking his
habitual sleep after dinner. Presently
a servant beckoned the Governor out.
Mr. Johnson had fallen to the carriage
way whioh passes under the porch of
the mansion. He was dead and bleed
ing profusely from a wound on the right
side of his head and face. The sknll
was fractured, finger dislocated and
bruises and cuts on his arms and legs.
He was born in 1796.
Annapolis, February 11.—So sudden
and unexpected was the death of Re
verdy Johnson, after his appearance
in the State Library and about the
State House yesterday, while the
Legislature was iu session, apparently
in full health, that the community has
not recovered from the shock. Dootor
Lewis H. Steiner, State Senator from
Frederick county, a distinguished phy
sician aud Chief Inspector of the Sani
tary Commission in the Army ofthe Po
tomac during the late war, who exam
ined the body shortly after it was found,
gives the following as his theory of the
cause of his. death. Mr. Johnson
either stumbled over a piece of coal,
or, being seized with vertigo or incipi
ent symptons of apoplexy, and striving
to save himself, moved towards the
west, staggering along by the northerly
side of the Executive Mansion, at each
step his body gaining additional mo
mentum, so that, having reached tbe
door leading into the basement, he
swayed around to the south and fell,strik
ing his head against the sharp corner of
the granite base of the house, which
gave the first wound on the head.
Reaching the pavement, made of rough
cobble stones, a second wound was re
ceived in front. At this instant prob
ably the bones of the nose were fractur
ed, and one joint of the second finger of
the right hand was dislocated. Whether
after struggles acoouut for the abrasions
on the knees and fingers of the left
hand cannot be positively asserted, al
though it is probable. The wounds in
the scalp were accompanied with frac
tures of the external bones of the cran
ium, accompanied with the probable
rupture of some of the arteries at the
base. Death must have resulted almost
instantly. Mr. Gwynn, Attorney-Gen
eral of the State and son-in-law of Mr.
Johnson, is of the opinion that he was
seized with vertigo, and fell; as he had
a similar attack, lasting three hours,
while attending trials in South Carolina
several years ago.
Funeral Preparations.
Baltimore, February 11.—There are
elaborate preparations for the funeral
of Reverdy Johnson, on Sunday, at
Green Mount Cemetery.
NORTHERN GEORGIA.
Crop Notes and News from Jackson.
[From an Occasional Correspondent.]
Jefferson, Jackson County, Febru
ary 9. —Hard times, cloudy weather and
a warm Winter, are now the moßt fre
quent topics of conversation. “The
oldest inhabitant” says that he never
saw money matters so tight, so much
cloudy weather, and such a warm Winter
sinoe the remarkable Winters of 1827
and 1828. For six weeks early flowers
have been in—bloom, January witnessed
plum and maple trees in full bloom.
Since November Ist we have seldom
had two successive "nays of sqnshine.
Rains, however, have been lighter than
they were last Winter. The coldest
snap we have bad this Winter
here last week; but it is quite warm
again at this writing. Farmers are put
ting forth all their energies, .and I never
saw their preparations for a crop fur
ther advanced at this season of the year.
If they close this year behind hand it
will not be on account of indolence.—
Wheat was generally put into the
ground late in the Fall, but is now look
ing very well. A large area was sown.
Fall oats are abundant, and many fields
have been grazed down to prevent their
too rapid advancement. With favorable
seasons the wheat and oat orops will be
very large. X think from present ap
pearance that less cotton will be planted
this year than usual. I hope that farm
ers and planters are getting sick aud
tired of raising cotton to enrich others
and impoverish themselves. When the
farmers and planters of the South Bhall
raise all their own stock and provisions
and a small orop of ootton in addition,
then, and not till then, will this fair and
sunny Southern land become eminently
prosperous. Such a consummation is
devoutly to be wished. More anon.
Jackson.
THE CAROLINA DEMOCRACY.
lien. James Connor for Govai-nor.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Blackvillk, S. C., February 11, 1876.
—A big meeting of the Democracy of
this section assembled here to-day. Sev
eral political and stirring speeches and
resolutions were made and oarried,
amounting to this: That none but
Democrats shall be put on guard; that
all compromises with Radioals and Radi
calism must end now and forever in
South Carolina. One hundred years
ago our good ancestors resolved to free
themselves from oppression, and they
succeeded. Their oppression was not
snch an evil and bitter thing as oar’s un
der Radical rule. Plymouth Rock Cham
berlain came in for some of the most
scalding denunciations I have ever
heard. His Morton letter has fixed him
with the Democracy of South Carolina.
This county will only vote for such men
as General Jamas Connor, of Charles
ton, for Governor. Sir Giles Overreach
Chamberlain has overreached himself
with the Democracy of this State, and
it is full time he should have done so.
Delta.
A Boston Girl’s Srabtkess.—The
Boston Transcript reports that a ven
erable talker of twaddle, a society man
who has outlived his usefulness, but
who still hovers around receptions and
parties, and indulges iwamall talk at
which no one laughs but himself, sailed
up to a couple engaged in conversation
in a cosy corner, the other evening, and
in his most winning tone said; “Judg
ing from the color of her cheeks, I
should say that you had been saying
some very complimentary things to Mias
,my boy?’ f “I never deal in oom
pliments,” said the “boy,” rather
gruffly. 4 ‘Don’t you believe him, ” broke
in the fair Miss ; “he has paid me n
greater compliment than you ever paid
to a lady in all your life. He has been
talking to me as though I knew some
thing,”
THE STATE CAPITAL.
IEGIBLATIYK PROCEEDINGS YEB
- IN ATLANTA.
Tike Oeoriia State Lottery—Unpleasant
Words In Debate Between Senators— Peti
tion tor a Doc Law—Atlantic and Mexican
Onlf Canal Company—Disposition ot Fines
sad Forfeitares—Discussion on tUc Appro
priation Bill—ln which Members Indulge in
tlie Usual Buncombe Abuut “Heavy Taxa
tion”—The Bribery Investigating Com
mittee—Seeking Aid for tits Marietta and
North Ueorgia Railroad.
[ilpectai Dispatch to Chronicle and .Sentinel.]
THB STATE SENATE.
AtliAnta, February 10.—In the Senate
to-daj', Mr. Hester, of the Thirtieth Dis
trict, moved to reconsider the bill lost
yesterday, to abolish the Georgia State
Lottery, which prevailed. Messrs.
Hester and Perry had some unpleasant
words in the debate on the lottery bill,
which grew oat of a misunderstanding.
Mr. Heater is bitterly opposed to the
lottery, and thinks it should be
abolished. The President presented a
petition from the State Agricultural So
ciety asking for a dog law. The bill
which passed the House on this subject
will pass the Senate.
Mr. Black, of the Seventeenth District,
introduced a bill to incorporate the At
lantic and Mexican Gulf Canal Com
pany.
Mr. Simmons, of the Twenty-second
Distriot, introduced a bill to incorporate
the Bibb Manufacturing Company.
The bill to provide a trial docket for
oivil cases, introduced by Mr. Cain, of
the Eighteenth Distriot, was discussed
without being disposed of.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The bill to require payment of
moneys arising from lines and forfeitures
into the County Treasury, and to regulate
the disbursement of the same, passed.
It is general in its operation, but does
not repeal any local law nor disturb the
fixed salaries of County Treasurers.
The appropriation bill was discussed
with the usnal speeches about economy
and retrenchment, and any amount of
buncombe about the dear people groan
ing under heavy taxation. After dis
cussing it all day the bill passed, mak
ing the same appropriations for eaoh de
partment as last year. Cheap legisla
tion is not always the best, but mem
bers must have an opportunity to air
themselves on the side of economy, even
though the time of the State is wasted
in useless discussion.
The committee to investigate the
charges of bribery of the Legislature of
1871 was in session this afternoon aud
to-night. Gov. Brown, Col. Alston, W.
A. Hemphill, Col. Avery and others were
before the committee. The proceed
ings, though not Beoret, will not be giv
en publicity until the investigation is
finished.
An effort made to strike from the ap
propriation aot the appropriation for
the Board of Health failed. A strong
effort is being made to secure $4,000
per mile State aid to the Marietta and
North Georgia Road; from Marietta to
Morganton.
The Convention Question in the Senate-
Senators Divided Upon It—Two Hundred
and Fifty Thousand Dollars Wanted for a
Railroad—Providing for tho Admission of
Colored Deaf Mutes Into the Deaf and
Dumb Asylum—The State University—The
Charter of Harlem.
[Special Dispatch to the Chronicle and Sentinel .]
THE STATE SENATE.
Atlanta, February 11.—In the Sen
ate to-day Mr. Hudson, of the 25th Dis
trict, moved to reconsider the vote on
the bill to abolish the County Court in
Putnam county, which prevailed.
Mr. Gilmore, of the 20th District,
introduced a bill to authorize the Treas
urer of Washington county to pay the
widow of Haywood Brookins for ser
vices performed by him as Ordinary.
Mr. Kibbee, of the 14th District: A bill
to enable purchasers of railroads to
form corporations.
By Mr. Howell, of the 35th District:
To incorporate the Atlanta Glass Plate
Insurance Company. The following
bill passed:
To require emigrant agents to pro
cure a license in each county. Several
local bills passed.
* The Convention bill being the special
order for 11 o’clock, was taken up. The
Judiciary Committee reported the House
bill with an amendment to call the Con
vention in April. The Senate adopted
another amendment, submitting the
question to the people. A substitute
was offered for the bill as amended, pro
viding for submitting the question
“Convention or No Convention” to the
people at the election in January next;
if the majority favor it, the Convention
to be oalled by the Legislature next
year.
Mr. Lester, of the First District, advo
cated calling the Convention in April of
the present year without submitting the
question to the people.
Mr. Reese, of the Twenty-ninth Dis
trict, favored the House bill, but was
willing to vote for the bill as amended
by the committee.
Messrs. Howell, Gilmore and Cooper
wanted the people to vote on the question.
The substitute was adopted by 21 to 20.
The question will be debated to-morrow
again.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
In the House, consideration of the
bill to loan the credit of the State to the
Marietta, Canton aud Ellijay Railroad
was made the special order for Tuesday.
It asks for two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars—four thousand per mile.
The following bills were passed : To
prohibit the sale of farm products in
Muscogee county between sunset and
sunrise; to regulate the compensation of
the Tax Receiver, Collector and Treas
urer of Talbot county; to fix the com
pensation of Tax Receiver and Collector
of Meriwether county; to incorporate
the Middle Georgia Co-operation Asso
ciation of Patrons of Husbandry; to pro
vide for the admission of colored deafc
mutes into the Deaf and Dumb Asylum;
to extend the provisions of the stock
law to Forsyth county; to reorganize the
government of the State University; to
amend the act incorporating Athens; to
authorize the Mayor and Council of Ma
con to issue bonds; to amend the aot to
authorize the road commissioners of
Bibb to use convicts; to incorporate the
Macon Gas Light and Water Com
pany; to amend the charter of Harlem.
The Senate bill prescribing the mode
of taxing shares of stock in banks and
backing associations passed.
The House agreed to the resolution
asking the Governor for information re
lative to the sale of the agricultural
land sorip.
The bill to purchase arms for volun
teer companies was lost. There will be
a strong effort made in the Senate to re-.
consider the action to-day on the Con
vention bill.
The Senate Debating the Convention Bill—
Mr. Peavey’s Amendment—Mr. Dußose’s
Amendments—Defeat of the Amendment*
and Passage of Mr. Slaughter’s Substitute—
Which is Regarded as a Virtual Defeat of
the Convention—Branch, Sons A Co.’s and
W. F. Herring’s Bonds—The Bribery In
vestigation.
[Special Dispatch to the Chronicle and Sentinel ]
THB STATE SENATE.
Atlanta, February 12 —In the Senate
to-day debate on the Convention bill
was continued. Mr. Peavey offered an
amendment to the substitute adopted
yesterday, providing that at the election
in January the people should vote
whether they desired to remove the
capital from Atlanta to Milledgeville or
not. A running debate took place on
the amendment, participated in by
Messrs. Cooper, Peavey, Howell, Cain,
Gilmore, Lester, and Hudson of the
Twenty-eighth; Mr, Howell adroitly and
successfully conducting the skirmish
and defeating the amendment by yeas
16; hays, 23. Those voting for the
amendment are—Messrs. Cain, Craw
ford, Dnßose, Gilmore, Hudson, Knight,
Lester, Mathews, Mattox, McDaniel,
Payne, Peavey, Perry, Reese, Wilcox,
Winn.
Mr. Dnßose, of the Nineteenth Dis
triot, offered amendments to strike out
the first Wednesday in January and in
sert the first Wednesday in April, 1876,
for holding the election; also, to add a
section providing for the Convention to
assemble on the first Wednesday in July,
1876, if “Convention” is carried at the
April election. Mr. Dnßose spoke in
favor of his amendments, and was sup
ported by Messrs. Lester, McDaniel and
Peavy. The amendments were opposed
by Messrs. Howell, Brimbery and Coop
er. The amendments were lost—yeas,
18; nays, 22.
The substitute offered by Mr. Slaugh
ter, of the Thirty-seventh District, for
the entire bill and amendments was put
on its passage and passed.
gUMfb of Mr. Slaughter** MnhMitnte.
Section 1. That at the county elections
in January, 1877, managers of elections
shall receive from lawful voters their
vote on the question of “Convention”
or “No Convention.”
Sec. 2. That the words “Convention”
or “No Convention” shall be written or
printed upon their tickets, if the electors
desire to vote npon the question.
Sec. 3. That the managers shall con
solidate and return these-votes.
Sso. 4. .That the Ordinaries, within
three days after the receipt of the re
turns, forward the same to the Governor.
Seo. 5. That the Governor give notice
in the newspapers of the State, for three
months prior to the election, of the
manner, time and object of said elec
tion.
Sec. 6. That the Governor, upon as
certaining the votes, shall lay the same
before the General Assembly of 1877,
and make proclamation of the same.
Sec. 7. Repeals conflicting laws.
This bill is regarded as a virtual de
feat of the Convention. The House will
not agree to it. The friends qf the
measure will not accept the Senate bill,
as it is vague and indefinite, and drawn
with the view to secure the defeat of the
measure before the people. It was
drawn to divide and entrap the friends
of the Convention in the Senate.
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
In the House the bill to organize a
new pnblie school system was made the
special order for Wednesday.
The following bills were passed:
To fix the compensation of Tax Collec
tor, Receiver and Treasurer of Monroe
oounty; to regulate the fees of Justices
of the Peace and Constables; to amend
the aot creating the County Court of
Troup county; to fix tho compensation
of ihe Treasurer of Meriwether county;
to amend the act creating tho County
Court of Bibb oounty; to repeal the act
for the payment of insolvent costs to
the Solicitor-General of the Macon Cir
cuit ; to incorporate Crawford, Ogle
thorpe county.
The Finance Committee reported fa
vorably on the bill to retire bonds in the
hands of Branch, Sons & Cos. and W. F.
Herring, of Augusta, and it was made
the special order for Monday. This bill
ought to pass. The parties bought the
bonds on the faith of the State. They be
long to supplemental bonds of the Macon
and Brunswick Railroad and are the
only ones in the hands of innocent pur
chasers.
The committee to investigate the al
leged bribeiy of the Legislature of 1872
to endorse the State Road lease con
tinues its investigation. Its proceedings
will be made known when the investi
gation doses.
BABCOCK.
Proceediogit in His Case Yesterday.
JSt. Louis, February 10.—No new de
velopments. The evidence is confined
to proof of the ring and its local work
ings. Witness Evart said: “Joyce
once sent him to tho snb-Treasnry with
a package of SI,OOO, iu small bills, to
get two SSOO bills. He brought them
back and Joyce pot them in an envelope
and told him to take them across the
street and pat them in the letter box.
Witness said he did so. He was then
asked if he had observed the directions
on the letters. Before he could answer
the defense interposed an objection,
claiming that the prosecution were now
trying to show that Baboook’s name was
on one of the letters and that the evi
dence was - not competent.
After a long argument the evidence
was admitted. Mr. Evart was then re
called to the stand. He testified that
Col. Joyce “handed me two envelopes
and directed me to pat them in the let
ter box, which I did. Joyce was watch
ing me from the window of bis office. I
was facing him. I could see him watch
ing me. Saw the directions on the en
velopes. One was directed to W. O.
Avery, Washington, D. 0., and the other
to General O. E. Babcock, Washington,
D. C. Each of them had ‘personal’ in
the left hand corner. They were ordi
nary envelopes, and had no prihted mat
ter on them or other directions except
what I have stated. They had postage
stamps on them. I never saw General
Babcock before this trial begun.”
Cross examined by Mr. Storrs : “I
have been in this city sinoe January
20th. I cannot tell the month in which
I mailed the letters. It was either
February or March, 1871, but I am
not positive. I think it was the latter,
part of February or early in March. I
got the money first from the Supervi
sor’s office. Colonel Joyce stood in
front of his desk when he put the
money in the envelopes. The envelopes
were on the table. When I handed him
the two five hundred bills I then sat
down to his left. [ was watching him
attentively. He first took the two en
velopes up, took the paper out of one of
them, and pat a bill in. I did not see
him put the other five hundred bill in
the other envelope. lam not positive
that he did it in. Whether it was the
letter directed to Babcock or Avery
that he put the bill in I can’t say.”
Proceedings in the Case Yesterday.
St. Louis, February 11.—Major E. B.
Grimes, U. S. A., testified that Babcock
corresponded with McDonald after Mc-
Donald’s indictment. J. W. Douglass,
ex-Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
testified: “I had a conversation with
Rogers in regard to the investigations in
the West. I remember showing him a
copy of the lettter received between the
10th and 15th of December written by
Brooks, saying that delay would prove
equally profitable to the Government
and gratifying to ourselves, or some
thing of that kind. The copy of the
letter was shown to me at the White
House by General Babcock. He said a
gentleman had shown it to him,
and he was afraid I was being
deceived by those men. He said he
would hold me responsible for their
conduct. I told him that I had great
confidence iu the men. He said: “What
might a sensitive man like Logan say if
he saw that letter ?” - Babcock told me
me the letter had been given to him
confidentially, and requested me not to
say where I reoeived it. After the visit
of' McDonald to Washington I remem
ber coming out of my house one day,
when I met Babcock, and we talked
about St. Louis matters. I can’t say
exactly what was said . We talked about
revenue agents coming here once in
1874. Babcock came to my office,
and we talked about the supposed
charges against Ford, who was dead at
the time. I told him there were no
charges against Ford. That the charges
I was getting up were against the living.
He asked what examination had been
made and said something about black
ening the memory of Ford. The only
way a man’s memory could be black
ened who was dead was by an examina
tion afterwards. Babcock came to see
me about sending a bird, a thrush I
think, out West. He only came to my
office once or twice, altogether, that I
remember.
Some two or three months before
Richardson went out of office I had a
talk with the President and told him
things were crooked in St. Louis, and I
thought if a proper investigation was
made it would result largely to the
benefit of the Treasury. He concurred
with me and asked when I proposed to
begiD. On the 26th of January, 1875, I
addressed a letter to the Secretary of
the Treasury in regard to change of
supervisors. The rumors of frauds be
ginning in 1872 caused me to write the
letter. Afterwards Secretary Bristow
came into the office and we talked the
matter over, concluding to wait
until the Fall elections were oyer.—
We waited and then there were
a number of Senatorial elections,
and we Ad to wait until they were over;
then we found that we were in the midst
of a Presidential election, and that was
another obstacle. After that we arrang
ed to make the transfers.” Letters were
prod need and read in regard to the
change of officers ot the internal reve
nue, including General MeDonald to
Philadelphia and Mr. Fritton to St.
Louis. Witness proceeded : “ After I
addressed a letter to the Secretary and
the transfers of the supervisors were
made, I had a conversation with
the defendant. The conversation
was commenced by his calling my
attention to the subject. He told me it
was an unwise measure and would result
in bringing such a strong pressure on
the President that the order would have
to be recalled, which would be unplea
sant for me. The conversation was held
at Babcock’s room in the White House.
The President was not present. I don’t
remember to have had any other con
versation with defendant about the mat
ter. This transfer was to take place on
>the 15th of Febrnary. I notified the
parties by telegraph on the 4th that the
order would be revoked.”
Col. Dyer then read the President’s
revocation of the order, as follows:
Exeoutive Mansion, Washington, i
D. O.j February 4, 1875. (
Sib: The President directs me to say
that he desires that the circular order
transferring Supervisors of Internal
Revenue be suspended by telegraph
until further orders.
[Signed.] Levi P. Luckky.
A mass of correspondence and a num
ber of telegrams were shown to witness
for identification, but not read, being
reserved for introduction at another
time. Colonel Dyer wished to read a
dispatch signed by General Babcock,
but the defense objected and it went
over. Several other dispatches either to
or signed by Babcock were identified,
but withheld.
THE ICE CROP.
The Albany Argus says : “ The
present indications are that the ice
companies will be able to secure
a fair crop of ice, if not a fall one. The
large corporations that supply the Me
tropolis are now making every effort to
‘make hay while the snn shines,’ fully
assured that there has been just enough
anxiety over that possible failnre of the
orop to enable them successfully to en
hance the price and thereby insure large
dividends. The strike of the icemen at
New Baltimore has come to an end, the
Knickerbocker Ice Company agreeing
to the advance in wages demanded by
the men. Two hundred men resumed
work Thursday. This company is se
eming ice also at Bobb’s Dam, about
two miles northwest of New Baltimore,
and three other companies are stacking
ice at Castleton. The Knickerbocker
Company began to store ice iti the Bar
ren Island building Thursday,” l
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE 'AND THE PAPERS.
Friday’s Items.
Sandersville is to have a valentine
party.
Warrenton is moving for a telegraph
office.
J. W. Hardison has lived in Houston
county 51 years.
Mr. Lake McDonald has gone from
Rome to live in Florida.
Mr. M. N. Cutter and Dr. L. M. Hall,
of Rome, are quite sick.
A cowhiding affair took place between
two brothers-in-law in Savannah,
Prof. Wm. Hudson, formerly of Con
yers, is teaching at Snapping Shoals.
A man named Tharpecnt a man named
Adams in a difficulty at a dance in Dooly
oounty.
Union Point Academy has over fifty
pupils. Stonewall Academy, near Wood
ville, has about forty.
Mr. Bethnne has purchased the Cen
tral Hotel, in Columbus, and the stores
nnderneath, for $12,000.
The Waynesboro Brass Band intends
forming a minstrel tronpe and giving
entertainments to raise funds.
About 3,000 emigrants have left Co
lumbus for the West sinoe Decern! er
Ist—hardly 300 of them white.
The Covington Star thinks there will
be more guano used in Newton county
this year than was used last year.
Misses Laura D. and Roberta F.
Smith, of McDuffie county, have gone
to Wesleyan Female College, Macon.
Bud Woodall is in Chattatooga jail for
having stolen goods and money from
the store of Milton White, at Subligna.
Mrs. L. D. Burwell, of Rome, fell
while walking in her chamber, and was
so seriously hurt that she now lies in a
critioal condition.
The gin house of Mr. Holman, of
Jones oounty, with some cotton, cotton
seed, fodder and other property, was
destroyed by fire recently. Incendia
rism.
The Greenesboro Herald thinks the
system of farming out oonvicts has
proved a miserable failure, and hopes
the Legislature will devise a better sys
tem of convict labor.
Covington has a Young Men’s Chris
tian Association. Wonder if the pious
and gifted young men who attend its
meetings stand in front of the doorway
after the meeting and stare at the ladies
as they come out ?
The Columbus Enquirer learns that
Mr. Wm. L. Cash, formerly Captain of
the Columbus police force, takes a place
under Mr. Marcrumof the steamer Julia
Bt. Clair to learn the art of being a pilot
on the Chattahoochee river.
Waynesboro Expositor: “Mr. Herbert
Blount, whilst out hunting last Satur
day, ‘brought down’ a bird which meas
ured nearly seven feet. It belonged to
the species called Poor Joe, or blue her
ron. Maybe Columbia county can beat
that.”
Tho Columbus Times says one of the
devices to get negroes to go West is to
tell them that General Grant is going to
put every one of them back in bondage
caught this side of the Mississippi after
Centennial year. And some of them
believe it.
Thus the Fort Valley Mirror : “If all
the members of the Legislature would
get as mad as the d—l and resign be
cause they cannot pass just such laws
as the want, the tax payers of the State
would get up a torchlight procession in
honor of the event,”
Covington Star: “A prominent Re
publican of this State, who was in Wash
ington during the Blaine-Hill debate on
the amnesty question, says Speaker
Kerr received 300 telegrams during tho
progress of the debate from prominent
oitizens of thg country, asking him to
have it stopped.”
Rev. A. N. Experidon, the traveling
Bulgarian priest, stopped at Thomson
recently and engaged in a bird hunt that
was proposed by the gentleman with
whom he was.staying. During the hunt
the two became separated aud have not
seen each other since. “The Thomsonian
found his way back home, but the rev
erend Bulgarian has not been heard
from. Where is he ?
Sandersville Herald and Georgian ,
10th : “On Monday last Rev. J. M.
Wood, of this county, went to Tennille
in an ox cart, accompanied by his little
boy, for a load of guano. Mr. Wood
obtained his load, about 2,000 pounds,
and started home. On the road he got
out to walk and lefi his little boy in the
cart to drive. Walking a few steps in
advance and conversing with his little
son, he heard the cart wheel run over
something, and looking back saw the
little fellow had fallen from the cart aud
was crushed beneath the ponderous
wheel. The chi'd breathed for a few
moments and then expired. What
caused him to fall from the cart is un
known to the heart-broken father, as the
road was perfectly smooth. The little
fellow was some six or seven- years old.
After life was extinct the grief-stricken
father took off his over-coat, wrapped
the lifeless remains therein, and, accom
panied by parties living near the place
where the acoident occurred, carried
them home.”
The Chatham county grand jury no
tices professional jurymen as follows :
, “This grand jury respectfully presents
as a nuisance the person who has come
‘ to be known to this honorable Court as
the professional juryman. Too lazy to
[ work and too proud to beg, yet, having
. no visible means of support, he persist
ently hangs about the purlieus of the
, Court, and, for a small consideration,
and for the additional small compensa
tion attached by law to the discharge of
the duty, is ever ready to proffer his
, valuable services to any one who, on the
hackneyed plea of ‘important business,”
seeks to be excused by the Court and is
, refused. We are informed that the pro
; fessional juryman, so called, in view of
! the small compensation already referred
to, as well as iu consideration of the
rations which are furnished at the ex
, pense of the county, has been known to
hold out against the non-professional
juror for days and days, obstinately re
fusing to listen to any discussion of the
law or testimony, and doggedly affirm
ing and reaffirming that he did not care
how long he stayed in the jury room, as'
he was the guest of the county, and was
paid for the privilege. All of which ob
- structs the wheels of jnstioe, and sub
jects an already over-taxed oounty to
great and needless expense. We, there
fore, respectfully suggest to his Honor,
Judge Tompkins, that he refuse to ac
cept as a substitute any one who'has
beoome obnoxious to the charge of be
ing a professional juryman. Let every
man who is not exempt by law, or
not providentially disabled, be made to
serve in his own person, and at the time
he is drawn.”
Saturday’s Items.
Athens had a little snow last Thursday
night.
E. J. Smith and G. H. Yancey have
left Athens fur Alabama.
Dr. J. A. Etheridge has moved from
Putnam county to Dallas, Texas.
The handsomest woman in Georgia
went on the Port Royal excursion Mon
day night.
Mrs. J. C. C. Black, of Augusta, was
registered at the Markham House, At:
lanta, yesterday, *
Mr. A. R. Jones’ barn in Polk county,
with 1,000 bushels of corn, was burned
by an incendiary recently.
Mr. John Rourke has erected anew
iron and brass foundry at the eastern
end of Bay street, iu Savannah.
“H. H. J.” is again on the go. Two
columns in the Macon Telegraph ot
yesterday tell the tale.
Booth’s benefit in Savannah, at two
o’clock this afternoon. He plays “Pe
truchio,” in “Taming of the Shrew.”
An elegant souvenir will be given to
every lady present. Wouldn’t you like
to be there ?
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
unanimously adopted resolutions ap
proving the passage of the bill repealing
the bankrupt law by the Honse of Rep
resentatives, and asks the Senate to con
cur in the same.
A Mississippi paper says: “The negro
exodns from Georgia, it seems, will
never end. Every train arriving here is
heavily freighted with ‘the man and
brother’ in search of the new Eldorado,
to be found in over the soil of
the ‘bottom country.’ ”
The greater part of the local side of
the Atlanta Constitution, qf yesterday,
was taken up with the “interview of
the earwig of that paper with Mrs.
Woodhull. The first question he asked
her was—“when was she born, where
was she born, how v*s she born, and
under what circumstances, and old
was she at the time, and if she had it all
to go over would she be born again.
The interview fills more than three col
umns.
The Savannah News says: “Mr. Ed
win Booth is delighted with Savannah.
He evidently enjoys our climate, praises
onr magnificent trees, admires our pub
lic parks, and speaks of our monument ;
to the heroic dead as the most graceful
and artistic tribute to valor that he has i
ever seen. Coming as Mr. Booth does
from ‘a city of monuments,’ grand old i
Baltimore, his words are as kind as his i
taste is msthetically true to art. Mr. ’
Booth visited Bonaventure yesterday, \
and thought that it excelled in mourn
ful beauty every other spot he had ever
before seen in sylvan nature. ”
Atlanta correspondence Athens Geor
gian: “The Markham House is deci*
dedly the most attractive hotel in the
city—everything new and clean, which
is a great thing to a bummer who has
not slept in ‘biled’ sheets for a month.
Each evening the brilliantly lighted ar
cade is the scene of social gatherings,
prominent in which are the Colonel,
Mrs. and Miss Hardeman—parentheti
cally, what an elegant hostess of the
Executive Mansion the handsome Mrs.
H. would make—Col. aud Mrs. Rufus
Lester, Capt. and Mrs. Pat Walsh, Dr.
and Mrs, Carlton, Judge aud Mrs.
Reese, Senator Peavy and his accom
plished bride.”
The editor of the Cartersville Express
visited Mr. Stephens recently, and from
the editorial account of his visit we
clip the following: “Mr. Stephens’ pa
tience presents a case of Christian forti
tude unparalleled. Not a murmur es
capes his lips, and a perfect resignation
to the dealings of Providence charac
terizes all his expressions as to his con
dition. Death has no terrors for him.
A spotless life of purity and honesty has
prepared his mind for the great event
that comes to aIL Life to him is simply
a prolongation of his sufferings, and
death with him would be a messenger
of reli >f from excruciating bodily afflic
tion. And yet Mr. Stephens would
like to live if for no other purpose but
to see his country, to which he is so
fondly devoted, restored to peace and
prosperity, and to witness the happi
ness of his people under wholesome and
benign government. No man who ever
lived better loved his country aud his
people. For these his great heart
yearns with an affection that]patriotism
alone can beget aud a great mind con
ceive. Millions of hearts all over this
land deeply sympathize with the great
Commoner of Georgia in his afflictions.
If the prayers of the good and true
avail, Mr. Stephens will yet arise from
his bed of pain aud be a blessing to the
country now so illy able to spare his
wise counsels aud splendid statesman
ship. As long as there is life there is
hope, and we tiust the usefulness of
Mr. Stephens may be restored to the
country, and that he will live many
years to take part in the struggle to re-
Apin upon this continent the great bless
ings of free government and public
liberty.”
MarriagH.
In Sumter county, J. O. Lilly to Lizzie
Slappey.
In Jasper oounty, P. P. Kelly to Katie
Peurifoy.
In Jasper oounty, James Warn mock to
Eva Pitts.
In Burke oounty, E. H, Burke to Mrs.
Virginia Watson.
At Knoxville, Joel N. Mathews to
Lizzie Hortman.
In Spalding county, Jas. L. Stapleton
to Mary Freeman.
In Gwiunett oounty, Wyatt Wilson to
Mrs. Drucella Johnson.
Iu Covington, Willie A. Spenoer, of
Atlanta, to Mary Neal.
Deaths.
At Appling, Ida Gray.
In Hayneville, J. H. Moreland.
In Jasper oounty, Aris Newton.
In Greene oounty, W. D. Veazey.
In Greene county, Mrs. Anna Grant.
In McDuffie county, Inez Young, in
fant.
In Griffin, little boy of Professor
Cater.
In Washington county, Richard B.
Strange.
In Columbia county, Mrs. Thomas
Blalock,
In Macon, at Pio Nono. College, Rev.
John O’Neal.
In Jasper oounty, infant of Georga
McElhenney.
Iu Cincinnati, Samuel J. Holbrook,
formerly of Floyd county.
Sunday’s Items.
Nine in Newnan jail.
The Dalton Male College is doing well.
Hartwell is going to improve her cem
etery.
The oat worm is abroad in Terrell
county.
“Troup,” a noted Columbus darkey,
has gone West. .
Gen. John B. Gordon reached Atlanta
Thursday night.
In Abany corn retails at 90 cents and
a dollar a bushel.
A few ladies attended Mrs. Wood
hnll’s lecture in Atlanta.
Mr. G. W. Allen’s family have moved
from Elberton to the country.
Dr. G. B. Heard has returned to La-
Grange from Jacksonville, Florida.
Mr. F. M. Brantly, Jr., has assumed
editorial charge of the Senoia Enter
prize.
Mr. Grymes is a candidate for re-elec
tiou to the Legislature from Musoogee
county.
It iR proposed to add another mill to
the Eagle and Phenix ooiporation, in
Columbus.
Miss Mary * Stockwell has been ap
pointed a teacher in the public schools
of Columbus.
In a difficultj, at Dallas, between the
Shelton brothers and Ed. Puckett, the
latter was killed.
The Albany News says Mark Cravy,
of Worth county, killed eight wild
turkeys at one shot-, the other day.
Mr. John Garrett, of Terrell county,
has been held to bail in the sum of
SSOO on the charge of illicit distilling.
Miss Sarah Wood, of Coweta county,
has been carried to the Asylum.
Miss Mobley, of the same oounty, who
has been an inmate of the asylum for
some years, has been returned home,
almost restored.
Mr. A. J. Conwell, of Elbert county,
was assaulted and probably fatally beat
en by a negro named Bedford „ Heard,
who was discovered by Mr. C. in the
act of stealing whisky from his grocery.
The negro escaped.
Speaking of gubernatorial matters,
the Cedartown Express says : “ Gov.
Smith is our last choice out ot the whole
number. Not that we question his De
mocracy, but for the simple reason that
we have men of greater ability who are
aspirants.”
Several yonng men have loft Greenes
boro recently, in search of business
elsewhere. Among them are Messrs.
B. H. Doster, Flournoy Foster, and Wm.
*J. Doster. They are right. All men
out of business ought to seek it some
where. If they can’t get it at one plaoe
they ought to try at another.
Gainesville Eagle: “ Mr. R. B.
Ritohie raised the past- Summer, on one
and a half acres of new ground land, one
hundred and twenty-five bushels of oorn.
There was not a particle of manure ap-
Elied nor a plow pnt into it, the work
eing done with a hoe only ; while the
corn was planted by jobbing holes in the
ground with a handspike.”
Wm. Wells, of Newnan, is a Notary
Pnblio and ex-offloio Justice of the
Peace; then he is an excellent clerk for
an excellent hotel; he is a professor of
mnsic and a tnner of musical instru-
runs a dray and lectures on va
rious subjects. He is also a member of
a church, in good standing, a member of
the Young Men’s Christian Association
and a Good Templar.
Mary Davis, a little four-year old girl
from Murray county, who is now in
Cartersville, has a head that measures,
as you would measure for a hat, 36
inches, while the distance from the chin
around the crown is 40 inches. Her
features, except a slight widening of the
upper portion of the face, are not un
usual, but are symmetrical and alto
gether handsome. Her body is of the
usual proportions, her appetite good
and her mind active.”
An exchange publishes the following
advice as to how to become a lawyer:
“Be polite to old people, because they
have cash. Be good to the boys, be
cause they are growing up to a cash basis.
Work in with reporters and get puffs.
Go to chnrch for the sake of example.
Don’t fool any time away on poetry, and
don’t even look at a girl nntil you can
plead a case. If you can follow these
instructions yon will succeed. If you
cannot, go and learn to be a doctor and
kill your best friends.”
We take the following chunks of sense
from an essay delivered before the
Young Men’s Literary Association of
Savannah, by Mr. F. G. Ash: “Beauti
ful feathers sometimes make fine birds,
bat costly garments are no index, aow
a-days, to respectability, to rank or dis
tinction in the higher circlerof society.
The most noted blacklegs that can be
found in the city are olad in the richest
and most expensive broadcloth; and the
most abandoned female; •
usually flaunt and flatter in expensive
silks and velvets. We notioe, too, that
those who have nd homes, not a dollar
to draw on at a fnture time of need,
usually spend all their money for ex
pensive and gandy attire, while their
masters, who may be worth thousands,
appear in plain and simple dress. Young
ladies are not exempt from this delusive
foolishness (?) They suppose that the
gents will ‘take a shine’, to themjsooner,
because they are arrayed in silks and
satin, and wear a gold chain about their
neeks. Far from it. Many have ex
pended all the money at tbeir command
in purchasing costly clothes to attract
attention, but failed even to win a beau.
Young men are afraid of them, because
they see that their-style is beyond tbeir
means. The result is that men flirt
with peacocks and high flyers, bat marry
the modest and reserved maiden.”
United States District Attorney
Bangs, of Chicago, denies that Charles
H. Reed, prosecuting attorney of the
county, has been indicted,
