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WEDNESDAY. .FEBRUARY 23, 18f6.
MR. HARDK WAX’S DRFKNM.
An editorial addressed to Hon. Thor
Hardeman, Chairman of the State Dem
ocratic Executive Committee, which ap
peared in the Chronicle and Sentinel
several days ago, haa drawn a reply
from that gentleman. Mr. Hardman's
letter appears elsewhere in this paper
this morning. We commend it to the
attention of oar readers. It is ingeni
ously written, like everything that comes
from the pen of the distinguished
writer. The bad places are adroitly
avoided or skimmed over ada the sore
spots tenderly touched. We are afraid
that Mr. Hardeman is bnt half con
vinced by his own reasoning and We are
very confident that the people will
be satisfied with his explanation. A
better proof of the badness of the cause
cannot be offered than the fact that Mr.
Hardeman, with all his ingenuity, is
obliged to make such a lame defense.
Mr. Hardeman dwells at length upon
the propriety of the appointment of
Oeneral Lawton as a member of the
National Executive Committee. We
have never questioned the wisdom of
the oommittee in making this selection.
Mr. Hardeman cannot have a higher
opinion of the ability and integrity of
General Lawton than we entertain.
Mr. Hardeman cannot speak louder in
praise of General Lawton than we have
spoken. But when Mr. Hardeman en
deavors to couple the appointment of
General Lawton with the selection of
Senator Gordon as his “ alternate”
upon the National Committee, while we
admire the adroitness of the movement,
we permit it to pass unexposed.
Mr. Hardeman must know that it is
not usual to appoint “alternates” upon
National Committees. His excuse is a
very flimsy one : That he didn’t know
whether General Lawton would accept,
and it was important to have Georgia
represented at the meeting of the Com
mittee. General Lawton was in easy
reach of the Committee. It was easy
enough to telegraph him his appoint
ment, and ask his acceptance, if that
had been deemed neoessary. Men are
elected delegates and alternates to con
ventions without the electors knowing
that they will accept, but they usually
do. General Lawton wonld have gone
to Washington if it had been possible
for him to do so, and the same oontin
genoies that might prevent his attend
anoe might also prevent the attendance
of any other person selected. The idea
that General Gordon was the proper
person for an alternate because he was
on the gronad does not smoant to mnoh.
Members of Congress sometimes leave
Washington City; and, as a matter of
faot, we believe that General Gordon is
now absent from his post. Circum
stances might also oompel his absence
on the 22d instant. The patent objec
tion to Gen. Gordon’s appointment was
that he was believed by many to be the
pronounoed advocate of a particular
candidate for the Presidency, to-wit :
Mr. Thxjrman, of Ohio; and it was mani
festly improper for the partisan of any
candidate to be on a committee where he
oonld do so much to advance the inter
ests of his favorite. Mr. Hardbman
jumps over all these objections by say
ing that, as General Lawton is certain
to attend the meeting, no harm can oome
of the aotion of the Committee. If a
man shoots at another and misses him,
no harm is done the party shot at, but
the law punishes the party shooting for
the attempt.
Mr. Hardeman defends the resolution
passed by the Committee to govern the
selection of delegates by repeating the
stale cry of “expense.” The times are
hard and to save the people the expense
of selecting delegates to the National
Convention, the Committee generously
proffered to do the work for them. Mr.
Hardeman says it oosts more to hold
one State Convention than nine Distriot
Conventions. We say that it does not.
We think even Mr. Hardeman will ad
mit that the hotel expenses of a delegate
to tho State Convention will be about
the same as the delegate to a District
Convention. The only other item of
expense remaining is the railroad fare.
It has usually been the oustom of rail
way companies to pass delegates to
State Conventions for half fare; it has
rarely been the case that they have
charged less than fall fare to delegates to
District Conventions. There is nothing
whatever in this plea of expense, and
Mr. Hardeman does himself injnstioe in
making such a puerile defense. He says
that so far- as the appointment of the
Distriot delegates is concerned it does
not make any difference whether a State
Convention is held or not, beoause at
such Convention the Distriot represen
tatives retire and choose their delegates.
This is true, but they do not permit the
Executive Committee to seleot the dele
, gates from the Stste-at-large. He also
says that in 1872 the State Convention
appointed a oommittee of three from
each Congressional District to suggest
the names of delegates from the State
at-large, and evidently thinks this faot
furnishes a justification of the action of
the Committee. Mr. Hardeman must
know that the oases are not analogous.
That Committee suggested names for
ratification or rejection by the Conven
tion. This Committee propose to select
the delegates themselves. Mr. Harde
man refers to the fact that in 1868 Gen
eral Gordon and others were appointed
delegates to the National Convention,
and that General Gordon was nominated
for Governor by the State Executive
Committee. This may be true, but it
famishes no precedent to authorize
what was done in Atlanta a few weeks
ago. In 1868 politics in Georgia were
in a chaotic state, and many things were
done then which wonld not be tolerated
row. Mr. Hardeman wonld scarcely
venture a candidacy for Governor upon
a nomination by the Executive Oommit
tee. If he did he wonld soon discover
how little attention the people wonld
pay to his “precedent.”
Mr. Hardeman offers a very bungling
interpretation of the resolution adopted
by the Committee. He says, with refer
ence to the appointment of delegates
from the State at-large: “The Commit
“ tee, unwilling to nsnrp any power
“ whatever, decided they wonld not
“ select themselves, or even recommend
“ persons for the position, but would
" remit the whole question to the Dis
“ Conventions, and ask them, in case
“ they failed to agree upon four dele
“ gates, to empower them to seleot from
* the names suggested by their Conven
“ tions the delegates and alternates.”
He confesses that the wording of the
resolution is "unfortunate,” and that
the words “shall empower, Ac.,” imply
more than the Committee “designed or
desired.” This resolution, he thinks, is
only a reguest to the District Conven
tions to empower the Executive Oom
mittee to sot for them in the event they
fail to select delegates from the Btate
at-large. The resolution appeared in an
official report of the proceedings signed
by Mr. Hardeman, and famished to the
Atlanta papers for publication. We
deny Mr. Hardeman’s right to interpret
and prefer to let the resolution speak
for itself. Here it is ;
“ Besolvetl , That a Convention of
“ Congressional Districts be sailed by
“ the Executive Committee of each
• District, on Wednesday, the 26th day
“of April, *t sack place as each Die
* trict Committee shall select, to nom
“ inate two delegates and two alternates
“ each to the National Democratic Con
“ vention, and that said Distriet Con-
mentions nominate fonr names as del*
“ egates at large; and if Di*'
“ trict Convention* shall foil to agree
>* the selection of the samr four delc
“ gatm at large, the* sham, empower
“ the State Executive Committee to te
“ led from the names nominated four
“ delegates for the State at large from
“ all the names designated.”
This is certainly plain enough. It is
to interpret Lh° of
this resolution. If all the nine District
Conventions do not agree in selec
tion of the same fonr delegates at large
they shall empower the Executive Com
mittee to seleot iron the names nomi
nated delegates from the State-at-large.
That is to nay if A. receives the votes of
eight District Conventions for delegates
from the State-at-large, and B. receives
the vote of only one District Convention,
the Executive Committee, under this reso
lutioD, will hsve an undoubted right to
select B. as a delegate instead of A., and
thus nullify the expressed wish of the
people ! We agree with Mr. Hardeman ;
the wording is indeed unfortunate. But
the wording is also so explicit that the
reeolation cannot be explained away.
There is no mistaking its meaning. Mr.
Hardeman says he did not see the re
port of the meeting until it was pub
lished, or he would hsve “changed the
phraseology” of the resolution. Does
Mr. Hardeman mean to say that he did
not hear tbe'resolntion read and did not
vote for its adoption ? Did he Hot un
derstand its meaning then as well as he
doee now ? Has the structure of the
Eoglish language been changed since
the meeting of the Committee? Sup
pose Mr. Hardeman had seen the reso
lution after the adjournment of the
meeting and before its appearance in
print, what right wonld he have had to
“change the phraseology,” unless in
deed the Chairman is also the Com
mittee?
Mr. Hardeman says he will not
call a meeting of the Committee in or
der to let the members decide whether
or not they will reconsider their mis
chievous action. So be it. The Com
mittee has exceeded its powers, has been
guilty of a gross act of usurpation, and
oar advice to the people is to pay no
attention to their command—to go
ahead and select delegates to a State
Convention,- to be held in Atlanta a
week or two before the assembling of
the National Democratic Convention,
and treat this resolution as a nullity.
This may not be done. The people may
sabmit to usurpation rather than do
anything that might bo construed into
an attempt to divide the party, bnt Mr.
Hardeman may feel assured that this
thing will not be forgotten, and that no
other Executive Committee will be
given an opportunity to act as this Com
mittee has acted.
A few words personal to Mr. Harde
man : Before the end of the Guberna
torial campaign he will have reason to
regret that he sanctioned the “unfor
tunate wording” of the resolution above
quoted, and that he did not make haste
to rectify the wrong that had been done.
He has supplied his opponents with a
weapon which they will not fail to use
against him, and which is certain to
have its effect. They can say that Mr.
Hardeman is a candidate for Governor,
and that he is also Chairman of the
State Executive Oommittee. That as
such Chairman he has charge and con
trol of the preliminaries of the cam
paign. That he has virtually the power
of naming the time and plaoe for hold
ing the Convention to whioh his name
will be presented as a candidate for Gov
ernor. That as such Chairman he can
select the time and place most favorable
to his snooess. That he opposed hold
ing a Convention the assembling of
which wonld have put an end to his
term of service. He may expect all these
things to be said about him, and he
may expect them to have their weight.
The people will then require some better
defense than rounded periods about
“patriotism” and arduous public ser
vices.
THE RIGHTS OP THE COLORED CITI
ZEN.
We don’t know that there was any ur
gent necessity for the passage of the
resolntions offered in the House by Mr.
Baoon, of Bibb, last Tuesday. The
Northern people mnst know that the
white people of Georgia have no desire
to abridge the rights or interfere with
the privileges of the colored citizens of
this State. Still, as there may be per
sons North foolish enongh to believe
the false statements of Morton & Cos.,
it is perhaps well enough to make a
formal denial of their truth. Mr. Ba
con’s resolntions express the views of
the white people of Georgia. We recog
nize the faot that the colored men are
citizens and voters under the Constitu
tion and laws of the United States, and
that they are entitled to be treated in
every resspeot as white men are treated.
They are given the full protection of the
law with regard to life and property,
and equal educational facilities. If a
Constitutional Convention should as
semble to-morrow no member would be
ass enough to attempt to ohange the
status of the colored raoe. On the con
trary, the Constitution framed by that
Convention wonld be as mneb for the
benefit of the blacks as of the whites.
The races are living peacefully and
pleasantly together, and Morton & Cos.
need not attempt to make trouble be
tween them.
TAYING CHURCH PROPERTY.
We have already notioed the passage
in the lower branoh of the Rhode Island
Legislature of a bill subjecting to taxa
tion the land on whioh chnrohes stand,
whilst containing the exemption of the
buildings. A bill to similar purpose,
though we are not acquainted with its
details, reoently passed the lower branoh
of the Colorado Legislature.
The Colorado bill for taxing ohnrch
property has been defeated in the up
per branoh, and the immediate adjourn
ment of the Legislature put an end to
the movement in that Territory for the
preseut. In Rhode Island the bill now
lies in the Senate, and a very determin
ed opposition to its passage has been
organized outside. The papers are
filled with communications for and
against the bill, but mostly against it,
and a remonstrance has been prepared
in which the signers set forth their be
lief that the traditions of the State,
the present sentiment of the peo
ple, and the future well-being of
the commonwealth “ have been, are
“ now, and will be a liberal and praise
“ worthy forbearance relative to taxing
“ religions and chartered charitable in
“ stitntions;” and that they believe “no
" such exingency has arrived that oalls
“ for any snoh departure from onr tra
“ ditional and meritorious forbearance,
“ and until aneh time arrives, they do
“ most earnestly and respectfully desii|
“ that exemption be continued.”
The arguments on the other aide have
been condensed into the following ques
tion, which is persistently put into the
columns of the Providenoe Journal by
one correspondent without an answer
directly to the purpoee being offered :
“Is there any essential difference be
tween making a direct donation of the
“ pnblic money to support sectarian
“ riews of religion, and relieving eoelee-
siastioal investments of their propor
tion of taxation ?*
MASSACHUSETTS RAILROADS.
The annual report of the Massachu
setts Railroad Commissioner for 187*
shows the effects of the general depres
sion of business on transportation in
that State. The gross earnings of the
roads were $32,589,485, a decrease of
over $1,000,000, or nearly 6 per rent. The
passenger traffic fell off 1.4 per cent,
but the ohief decrease was in the freight
—lO per. emit The falling off
il passenger receipts is the first in the
Malory of the State; it was a decrease
almost exclusively in'the through travel,
the number of those going from and
oomiog into the State haring diminished
47# *BB, while those traveling within the
State decreased 137,351- Of the entire
Mfnii£e for the year, 44 per cent, was
from freight and per oenfc from
passengers. The aetinoome of the roads
was s9.fi4flJ7*flr about #0 per rent,TO
percent, being consumed in operating
expenses. The total number ef pm •
seugere carried was 42.082,000, and the
total freight moved was 10,927,000 tons.
Of the 63 corporations in the State, in-
eluding street roads, 26 paid dividends
varying from 1 to 10 per cent., and
averaging B.T per oent.
aCBBNCK AMD BABCOCK.
There seems to be an active associa
tion, with Republican ideas, among the
elass which secures office from the party
representing those ideas, a deteriora
tion in honest principle utterly con
founding to the admitted standards re
specting qneetions of right and wrong.
Consequently the official representa
tives of this self-asserted “ party of
moral ideas” (as its rank and file, in
cluding its pulpit exponents, love to
term it) are abundant in “ ideas,’’ with
the morality left out! The persons
whose conduct confirms this statement
are too numerous to catalogue, for they
include half, or nearly half, of the army
of Republican officials. State and Fed
eral, beginning with the highest and
ending with the lowest.
Several of them, however, are pil
loried before the people at present, and
the history of two of them may serve
“to point a moral and adorn a tale.”
We refer to Sohenck and Baboock. The
first, onr Minister to Great Britain, is
tainted with connection in the worthless
Emma silver mine—a swindle palmed
off by adventurers, also Repnblioans, on
the London stock market—and he is
now being proceeded against in the
English Coarts to make him disgorge
moneys alleged to have been “ made”
by his godfathership of the mine and for
his endorsement—so effectual because
of his high official position—of the
schemers who introduced it there. And
then comes Babcook, the President’s
private secretary. We shall make no
oommente on his present position for
the reason that he is now on trial be
fore the coarts. Bat these cases, in
dependent of others quotable, show the
look of moral sense which we think is so
remarkably illustrated among officials
of the Republican party. They use
their official positions to get gain, sure
that so long as they can keep their
oonnivances inside the edges of the
law, all their moral obliquities will be
condoned by the Repnblican press and
pu'pit. Alas 1 for onr country, that
this, without exaggeration, is the spec
tacle the young are in effect instructed
to applaud now, and to imitate in the
the future, when they shall beoome
“ office bearers” in it. Thank God !
that in oontrast, the Democratic party
can show its Tweed, Connolly, Genet
and others in exile, a Canal Ring broken,
and money restored to the public treas
ury through its efforts to purify itself of
unwoitby members.
KDUCATIONAL.
The New Orleans School Board has
au outstanding debt of $375,866 60,
about five-sixths of which is for teach
ers’ salaries. A resolution offered at a
late session of the Board that music
teachers in the schools be dispensed
with would appear to be in order,
though it failed to be adopted.
The arrangements for the next session
of the National Educational Association,
which meets in Baltimore in July, have
been placed in the hands of a oommit
tee, consisting of President Porter, of
Yale; Prof. Vrnablh, of the University
of Virginia, and Prof. Shepherd, Su
perintendent of Instruction in Balti
more.
There has been a law and a medical
department connected with the lowa
State College for some years past, and
recently the homeopathists sent a pe
tition to the Legislature to have a chair
of that school added. The discussion
raised by the effort is likely to result in
outtiug off all professional departments,
as it is claimed that it is unfair to tax
the people for the education of profes
sional men.
Free school education cost the people
of Ohio in 1875, $3,633,968 55, an in
crease of almost half a million dollars
over 1874. There was no corresponding
increase in the number of pupils, the
enrollment being only 4,186 greater. The
average oost for each one of the 712,129
ohildren attending school was sl7 29.
The State owns 11,834 school houses,
valued at $19,876,604, and employs 22,-
492 teachers.
Publio instruction has received a great
impulse in Portugal, lately. In the
small towns there is a oontinual increase
of teachers, while in the capital and
other large oities night schools and
those for adults are being constantly
established. Much of this activity is
due to the efforts of private individuals
and societies. The Academy of Civiliza
tion, inaugurated on the 7th of Novem
ber, opened the first of its popular
schools on the first of December. This
society proposes to establish in Lisbon
20 sohools for adults, 10 for ohildren,
and a popular library.
The Cinoinnati Board of Education
are considering the advisability of
abolishing the intermediate department
of the public sohools. The views of the
principals of the distriot and inter
mediate schools were requested, and
nearly all of them concurred in the
opinion that the present classification
of the sohools ought to be remodeled.
The Committe of the Board who have
had the subject under consideration, be
lieve that a discontinuance of the inter
mediate department will materially bene
fit the schools, and considerably reduce
the cost of maintaining them.
In an address on “Self Culture,” de
livered at a reoent session of the Ver
mont State Teaohers’ Association, occur
the following pertinent thoughts:
“Teaching to not a trick to be learned
in a few hours at an educational conven
tion, or a trade to be gained in three
months at a normal school. It is rather
a profession—the work of a lifetime,
It is good to compare ourselves with
heroio men and women and to be in the
presence of genins, either in men or
books. To secure the means of onltnre
often requires money; and teaohers are
often themselves to blame that they do
not have more of it. They Bhonld make
their servioes worth better prices, and
should get better prices.”
Ednostion is making progress in Rus
sia. It appears from official documents
that in 1866 only one oonsoript ont of
each hundred was able to read and write,
while in 1870 the average had risen to
eleven in each hundred, and this aver
age has been still further increased of
late years. The municipal council of
St. Petersburg is thinking of making
attendance at sohool compulsory in the
city and district adjoining, lor all chil
dren from eight to twelve years of age.
The yearly report of the education de
partment states that exoluding Finland,
the •Caucasus and Central Asia, there
are 22,768 elementary schools, with
754,431 male and 185,066 female schol
ars. This shows one seholsr to 48 msles
and 205 females, and one sohool to 3,294
inhabitants. In the German provinces
there is one sohool to 2,044 persons, and
one scholar to 15 males and 24 females.
In the Gymnasia, where the pnpils have
the option of learning French or Ger
man, 11,382 prefer German and 8,508
French, this preponderance for German
being almost entirely furnished by the
pnpils entering daring the last two
years. •
Mr. B. H. Hill s argument in favor of the
extension of Stats aid to the Marietta, Canton
end EHijay Railroad did not hsve mask in
fluence upon Die Georgia Legislature.
bill embodying hie viewe came before the
House Tuesday, and was defeated by an over
whelming vote. There is a belief gaining
ground oa when a railroad is really naaded
private capital and private credit oan be ob
tained sufficient for its construction; when not
needed it is wrong to rink the pnhhc money in
s prodtleae enterprise. Georgia com went
very extensively into the State aid business,
and the htrisry of the Brunswick and Albany.
Mason red Brunswick, Osrtareritte and Tan
Wert and Alabama and Chattanooga Railroads
w not calculated to cause a repetition of the
experiment. We have no doubt that the peo
ple along the Hue of the Marietta Bold are
anxious for Its construction, but they rnret
build it themselvee, and not ask the State to
do it. State aid is very dead Just at present in
Georgia.
THE ENGLISH LAND LAW.
John Bright end Lord Derby are at
issue ae to the number of landowners in
Great Britain. The controversy is one
of cations rather than real interest to
people on this side of the Atlantic. Mr.
Bright stated that more than half the
land in England was owned by some
three score of noblemen. According to
Lord Derby, a forthcoming return will
show that there are really abont 600,000
landowners. Mr. Bright replies that
the smaller number possess by far the
largest part of the land; and that he
thinks it unnecessary to include in his
calculation petty owners of houses and
gardens.
These figures are chiefly pertinent to
onr English brethren as bearing npon
the proposed modification of the land
laws of the empire. In Mr. Bright’s
judgment, the division of land into large
estates is principally oansed by the law
of settlement and entail. He would
make every life tenant adsolute owner
in fee, with power either to divide the
property after death, or to leave it to a
single devisee. In this manner the ten
dency of dispersion by death, by waste,
or by private inclination would be left
to operate freely; and apparently Mr.
Bright believes that the consequence
would be a large increase in the number
of freehold occupancies.
This is a problem likely to carry con
sequencies of mnch graver import than
any thing yet touched by the English
Liberals. To change the law as Mr.
Bright proposes will be to revolution
ized the organization of English society
—it will remove the last grand distinc
tion between the peasant and the noble.
MINOR TOPICS.
A woman named Mrs. Horne, who will be
107 years old next St. Patrick’s Day, is still
carrying on the struggle for existence in a part
of Sheffield, England, known as the fever dens.
She still mourns over her three dead “chil
dren,” the youngest of whom was sixty-five
when he died. She is at present in a most des
titute condition, but says she will “die in the
streets” before she will go to the workhouse.
At the Thomas conoert in Watertown, N. Y.,
last week, a Lowville conple were present, and
when the Wagnkb selection was reached the
Lowville chap leaned toward his girl and ex
plained, “Wagner was here last night and
give a concert. Him and Thomas are great
friends, and Thomas always puts two or three
of his pieces in the programme.” Cal. Wag
ner, the minstrel, had given the entertain
ment.
General Ord. Commander of the Military
Department of Texas, in giving his testimony
before the Select Committee of the House, on
the Texan frontier troubles, reaches the con
clusion that the only remedy for the evils is to
be found in an iDoreass of the cavalry force.with
authority to pursue the bands of marauders
across the river into Mexican Territory. Ho
believes the general authorities of Mexico
would not object to this course.
Upon the subject of opening the Centennial
exposition on Sunday the Newark Advertiser
says: “There will be a wide diversity of opin
ion on the subject, but it is safe to say that
the prevailing eeutiment of the great religious
bodies of the country will be earnestly enlisted
on the side of closing the exposition on Sun
days. and a very large share of the conserva
tive minds among the non-professors of re
ligions creeds will sympathize with them on
grounds of publio policy and order. They will
regard it as a dangerous innovation upon a
time-honored custom, a declaration of inde
pendence from a Divine ordinance.”
The Smithsonian Institute has been investi
gating the stories of pygmies in Tennessee.
They never have claimed out there to have
them alive, suoh as Dr. Schweinfurth found
in Afrioa lately, but they have declared that
the ground was full of them. Plowmen turn
them up by the dozen buried in little graves
about two feet long and covered by slabs of
stone, such as is not found in the neighbor
hood. AU that the Smithsonian people have
been able to find, however, have been shown
conclusively to be the remains of quite young
ohildren. Teeth and other bones alike testify
unmistakably to the youth of the remains at
the time of their death, and the general theory
is that the “finds” are of cemeteries for tho
burial of dead “little Indians” by wholesale.
If the spectroscope is valuable and efficient
in matters celestial, it is not less so in those of
a terreßtial nature. For tests and analyses as
a laboratory instrument, it becomes every day
more serviceable. One of its applications is
well worth notice—namely, in testing the
quality pf water. In some places water is to
be found injurious to health, owing, perhaps,
to its being contaminated by infiftration from a
sewer or cesspool. The spectroscope .furnish
es the means of discovering such infiltration.
Thus a quantity of salt of lithium is thrown
into the sewer or cesspool, and, after a time,
the drinking water is examined by this won
derful instrument. If the lithium line appears
in the spectrum, it is a proof that some por
tion of the lithium sail thrown into the sewer
has found its way into the drinking water, and
that the latter is consequently poisoned by
foul drainage.
THE GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Shall Coal Be Used t
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
I notice in your columns an item to
the effect that the Georgia Railroad is
about to alter some its engines into coal
burners. While it is' presumed that
“those in authority” have thoroughly
investigated the subject and know what
they are doing, it may not be out of
place to mention some facts on ihe sub
ject, and thus see whether the road is
likely to gain or lose by the change. The
Georgia Railroad paid for “fuel for lo
oomotives” last year $83,921 25. The
mileage was 1,140,269 miles. The cost
of fuel was, therefore, 7 36-100 cents
per mile. Now, what does coal cost per
mile ? On those roads which have
made extended experiments on the sub
ject (notably the Pennsylvania, Balti
more and Ohio and Reading Railroads)
the coal was always obtained for use
from coal beds on the line of the road.
So far as I know, no railroad has ever,
attempted to bring coal to its line,
unless compelled to do it. On the
roads referred to and many others the
average run obtained from a ton of coal
for passenger trains is 50 miles within a
very small fraction. Now, what must a
ton of coal cost the Georgia Railroad to
be as cheap as wood ? Obviously, 50
miles at 7 36-100 cents per mile is $3 68.
From this mnst be deducted l-sto 1 3of
a cord of wood for firing up the engine
and the cost of altering the engine. The
Georgia Railroad must, therefore, put
coal on its road ready for use at less
than $3 50 per ton, in order not to ex
ceed the oost of wood. If it will cost
more than that snm, it is simple folly
to “try” it —unless, indeed, ex-Governor
Joseph E. Brown, who, J believe, owns a
coal mine, will offer inducements for
its use. “Wood Burner.”
ANOTHER RICHMOND IN THE FIELD.
General Sherman Pressed os the Republican
Candidate far the Presidency—The Influ
ences at Work—The District Investigation.
Washington, February 13.—A strong
combination is in progress to make
General Wm. T. Sherman the Republi
can candidate for the Presidency, and it
is confidently asserted that in a very
short time it' will display very formid
able proportions. The recent rapture
in the Senate is mnch wider in its scope
and farther-reaching in its results thau
is supposed by the publio. It is a revolt
against the recognized Repnt lioan man
agers, including Grant, ißprton, Conk
ling and Blaine, and looks to anew
leadership entirely free from the in
fluences of Giantism. In the Honse
there is bitter jealousy of Blaine, and a
very general desire among all the lesser
leaders to clip his wings and bring him
down to their owe level. They confess
his skill as a parliamentary leader, bnt
charge that he is sacrificing the party to.
his own inordinate ambition. The move
ment for General Sherman is concentrat
ing the dissatisfied from all the camps,
and has a shrewd manager in his
brother, Senator Sherman, of Ohio. It
is known that Gen. Sherman is not in
sympathy with the violent and nsnrping
policy of Grant in the Southern States ;
that he wonld make short work of
whisky rings and political hangers-on
generally, and that he wonld not be a
partizsn president in the blind sense
that allows political hacks to distribnte
the army in election campaigns, or to
appoint or retain corrupt qr incom
petent offioers in obedience to political
necessities. The positive ohill that is
thrown npon the Hayes movement in
Ohio by the Cincinnati Gazette, the
Commercial and other journals settles
it Ohio will present some other
man than Hayes, ana it looks now as if
the result will be a united and earnest
delegation for General Sherman. He
is a brother-in-law of the Ewings, the
most powerful Democratic family in
Ohio, and i* is urged he would sweep
the Buckeye State at the election.
What is moat significant in this move
in the fact that it shows the entire
absence of any concentration of senti
ment among the Repnblican managers
as to their candidate for 1876.
Maine has abolished capital punish-
DEATH OF AN OLD WARRIOR.
He Four lit the A'ferine Pirates, and Nearly
Braaffht at a War with Spoil.
Capt. Victor 1. Randolph died near
Blount Soriogs,Ala., on January 28th.
He was born inCulpepper county, Vir
ginia, July 24, 1797, was commissioned
from that State a midshipman in the
United States lavy in the year 1814,
and sailed under Capt. Stephen Deca
tur. He Rervedwith great credit in the
fieroe conflicts sith the Algerine pirates,
that ended in toir extermination. He
was with the lati Capt. Josiah Tattnall
at the bombardnent of Vera Crnz, and
canght the lattei in his arms when he
fell, dangerouslj wounded by a Mexican
missile. Duriig President Taylor’s
administration le was given the com
mand of the Unted States ship Albany,
and, in obedieme to orders from Wash
ington, he diabinded the several hun
dred adventureis who had collected on
Round Island fir the unlawful purpose
of invading Cnla. Soon thereafter, by
the merest accident, war between the
United States aid Spain was averted, as
follows : The United States sloops-of
war Albany and Germantown, each car
rying twenty-tvo guns, under the com
mand of Capt. Randolph, happened to
cast anchor in tie harbor of Havana at
the time whm a reign of terror
prevailed, jnst following the execu
tions of lopez and Critten
den. A Spanish frigate and
brig had captund the crew of an Ameri
can merchantman, under the pretense
that they were ilibusters. Capt. Ran-
dolph visited Captain-General Concha,
demanded th*ir release, and was
refused. After a stormy interview the
former left, informing the latter that
be wonld set frte the American crew be
fore snndown. The Albany and Ger
mantown were immediately pnt under
way and sailed out under the bristling
guns of Moro Castle. In sight were the
Spanish frigate and brig, conveying
captured American merchantman to
ward the moath of the harbor. Thou
sands of the oitizens of Havana throng
ed the shore to witness the expected
naval battle. The guns of the United
States vessels were shotted, and all
hands ordereu on deck to prepare for
action, end then the two bore down
npon the Spaniards, When the dis
tance between them was less than a
league, the United States steam frigate
Saranac, commanded by Capt. Tatt
nall, appeared, and made signals to the
Albany to heave to. As Capt. Tattnall
ranked Capt. Randolph, the latter was
compelled to obey, much to the char
grin of the now excited and expectant
crews of the tue vessels that had been
prepared for action. The Saranac,
whose commander had gotten wind of
the situation that morning, had been
put under ful headway of steam, in
order to prevjnt hostilities that wonld
have resulted h a final declaration of
war between tile two countries. He
had his ordersfrom Washington to keep
peace at all liazards. A delay of less
than twenty ninutes and the Saranac
would have reached the scene too late
to prevent a fight that wonld have been
speedily followed by the invasion and
capture of the island of Cuba by the
United States forces.
A NUPPHt-TABLE HORROR.
A San Fran else* Husband Shoots His Wife
and Kills Himself In the Presence of Their
Children.
IFrom the Sar, Francisco Call, of the 20tfL]
Last evening, at half-past six o’clock,
a tragedy was enacted at 510 Powell
street, between Bush and Sutter. A
man and hij wife exchanged angry
words just as they were about to sit
down to snpptr, and he ordered her to
leave the house, but she refused to
do so, whereupon he shot her, and then
shot himself in the head, producing a
wound wuich caused his death half an
hour after he bad inflicted it. The man
who had attempted murder, and then
killed himsel( was named Lewis M.
Henry, and was by profession an engi
neer. Prior to four years ago, he had
been employed in the United States
Mint, from which place he was discharg
ed for some reason which is not given.
Some time after his removal from office
he preferred charges against General
LaGrange, the Superintendent, but these
have not been disposed of. After he had
made the charges he sought to regain
his lost position, but proved unsuccess
ful. He then became despondent, and
took to drinking to excess, and often re
turned home in a state of intoxication.
This led to trouble between hnsband
and wife, and within a week she refused
to occupy the same room with him, and
slept in a room in the basement with
her children. Last Friday night he did
not return home, and yesterday he did
not come home until about six o’clock
in the evening. He went into the din
ing room, which is in the front part of
the basement, and sat down in a rock
ing-chair near the fire-place while sup
per was being prepared. The table was
spread, the meats served up, and the tea
poured out, when Henry’s two sons,
Lorenzo and Lewis N., aged respective
ly fourteen and ten years, sat at the ta
ble. The wife entered the dining room
and asked her hnsband to have some
supper. He refused, and said that he
would not eat a meal in the house so
long as she refused to occupy the same
room with him. She told him that she
would not remain with him while he
was drunk. He thereupon said: “Then,
by the Eternal, you shall leave this
house!” As he made this remark, he
drew a revolver from his hip-pocket;
but before he could use it, his eldest
son arose from his seat at the table and
took hold of his father, saying: “Fath
er, you put that up.” He did so, but
instantly drew it a second time, and,
pointing it at his wife’s head, fired. The
wife gave a scream, and attempted to
run away, when her husband fired a
second shot. This shot took effect, aud
the woman fell to the floor. The hus
band, probably thinking that he had
killed her, turned the muzzle of the
weapon to his own head, fired, and fell
to the floor. The eldest boy, before the
second shot was fired, picked up an in
fant which had been going toward Mrs.
Henry, and ran with it into the kitchen,
while the youngest boy, too terrified to
act or speak, sat at the table a witness
of the tragedy. A few minutes after the
last shot had been fired, Mr. Robert
Pateman and wife, who oconpy rooms
in this house, entered, and were soon
informed of what had transpired. Mr.
Pateman summoned officer Niles, while
other messengers were sent after physi
cians. When the officer arrived he fouud
Mrs. Henry in the dining room holding
a wet towel to her head to stanch the
blood which flowed from a slight scalp
wound, and discovered Henry lying on
the floor where he had fallen. Between
his knees was a silver-mounted ivory
handled revolver of the Smith A Wes
son pattern, three chambers of which
were empty. The officer picked np the
wounded man and placed him on a
lounge, on which he remained until he
died. The wounded woman was taken
to her room, where a medioal man at
tended her. The wound she received is
not dangerous. The deceased man was
a native of Illinois, abont thirty-eight
years of age. He came to California m
1850.
Died in Georgia. —The Rochester, N.
Y., Express says: “A telegram from Mr.
John B. Y, Warner, at Greeuesboro,
Georgia, yesterday afternoon, announced
the sudden death of his father, Hod.
Horatio G. Warner, at that plaee. The
news was wholly unexpected, and natu
rally created much surprise and sadness
when it became known; for Jndge War
ner was quite generally known aDd re
spected as a man of wealth, position and
ability. He has resided in Rochester
and Western New York a large part of
his active life, studied and practiced
law in this city, and has held many posi
tions of trust and responsibility, always
creditably and with evident purpose to
act well his part, and to serve the pnblic
faithfully. He was a graduate of Union
College, a man of fine literary and
aesthetic tastes, and a lover of art, al
ways a student, and a writer of more
than common energy. Mnch of his
leisure was devoted to literary pnrsnits,
and he delighted in composing nove
lettes and tales, some of which have
appeared in print and gained for the au
thor no little credit. Oar readers will
remember the story of Early Southern's
life, from his pen, which we published a
few months sinoe. He was an earnest
politician, and at one time was editor
and publisher of the Daily Advertiser
of this city. The title of Jndge was
derived from his appointment to the
Common Pleas bench in Madison
county, where he for some years resided,
up to 1840. In 1871 he was appointed a
Regent of the University of this State,
and no one took more pride in fulfilling
the duties of that honorable office than
himself. The old Rochester Bank,
among the early financial institutions of
Rochester, was oondneted by Judge
Warner, after its insolvency, till its af
fairs finally closed- He was one of the
first promoters of the East Side Savings
Bank, and one of its trustees from the
beginning. The large stone mansion on
Mt. Hope Avenue opposite the cemetery
is a monument of Judge Warner’s ar
chitectural taste. oas long been a
striking object, located in thp midst of
wide spreading lawns, with pleasapt
groves and gardens, This house was built
soon after his return from California,
where he went some fifteen je&i* ago to
settle the estate of a deceased brother,
who left a Itrge property to be u&ented
by brothers and sisters. The delicate
health of members of his family induced
the Judge to purchase a plantation at
Greeuesboro, Gfl., a few years since, for
his son; and at that place he has latter
ly spent his Winters with his family.
When he left Rochester a few weeks
ago, for his Southern home, he was in
full health, and no premonition of the
sad event we have now to announce was
felt by any one of the party. He leaves
a wife, one son and two daughters.
The remains will be interred in Mt.
Hope Cemetery, and will reach this city
during the ensuing week.
THE TRIAL OF BABCOCK;
THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
(Mac Arguments Commenced—The Court
Room Crowded—Col. Broadhead’a Speech
Creates Profound Sensation.
St. Louis, February 19.—The dosing
arguments have been oommenoed, and
will dose probably Monday night. The
Court room is crowded.
Taking up the revocation order of the
President, Col. Broadhead said: “The
President had declared that Babcock did
not influence him in the revocation of
the order transferring the supervisors,
but that did not prove that Babcock had
not worked elsewhere to that end. The
testimony shows that he went to Doug
lass, who had the power to revoke the
order. It shows that by warning that
gentleman of the disastrous effect which
this order must have on his prospects
for preferment, he tried to induoe action
on his part. It shows that Joyce,
on receiving information that the
order had been reduced to a temporary
arrangement, telegraphed Babcock :
‘Push things,’ and they were pushed.
The explanation which the President
and Supervisor Tutton gave for the re
vocation of that order were not at ail
adequate to the act. [Sensation.] They
explained that becanse tbe Supervisors
all over the country had learned of the
order some days before, they had time
to straighten np affairs if anything was
wrong, and therefore the whole scheme
would be defeated; but such was not at
all the case. The order, as suggested
originally—and the President himßelf
claims the credit of it—was intended
not to discover frauds already commit
ted, but to secure future benefits. It
was held that the distillers had gotten
into such ruts with the old Su
pervisors, that new ones would readily
catch them napping.” The Colonel re
peated that the reasons given by the
“President and Mr. Tutton*were not at
all sufficient, as they amounted to really
no reasons at all. There were other
and more powerful influences brought
to bear, and the exigencies of the case
seemed to be such that the President
stepped down from his high position to
interfere with the duties of one of the
department officers. The order was re
voked too, by telegraph, which, of itself,
was a strange proceeding, and question
able in law. This suspension was made
the day after Joyce telegraphed Bab
cock to push things against the weaken
ing enemy.” This portion of the speech
created a profound sensation.
A MINER’S LUCK
{From the Amador (Cal.) Ledger .]
About four years ago an Austrian,
whose name, we believe, is John Travis,
bid adieu to his native land, emigrated
to America, and finally determined to
court the fickle goddess of Fortune in
the land of gold. He left a wife and
family behind, intending to return for
them as poob as circumstances would
permit. He fixed upon Amador county
as the scene of his toil. Being a mau
industrious and of steady habits, he ex
perienced little difficulty in finding em
ployment. He worked principally in
the Oneida mine, and at the end of four
years, by perseverance and frugality, he
had amassed about SI,BOO in gold. Lit
tle writing had passed between the pair
during these years of separation. Hav
ing accumulated this amount of money,
ha determined to return home for his
family in Dalmatia, expecting to give
them an agreeable surprise. With the
greater portion of his gold sewed up in
a belt which he wore around his waist,
he went to New York, where betook pas
sage on board a steamer bound for
Hamburg, thinking to make the remain
der of the journey by land. At length
the vessel reached her destined port,
and visions of home and a reunion with
his long-lost friends danced before him.
But a cruel fate vetoed the realization of
his dream of bliss. On mooring along
side of the wharf planks were placed
from the vessel to the shore to enable
the passengers to land. All eager to
press the soil of the Fatherland again,
some twenty or thirty stepped upon the
treacherous plank, when it gave way,
precipitating its living freight into the
water. A scene ensued that beggars
description. Five of them perished be
fore assistance could bo rendered.
Travis happened to be one of the num
ber on the plank when it broke, but be
ing an expert swimmer he struck out
manfully for the landing place ; but the
qelt of coin around him dragged him
like a millstone beneath the wave. He
fought bard to save both his life and
gold. The conviction, however, soon
forced itself upon his mind that he must
part with one or the other. Taking his
band of wealth from his body, he cast it
into the sea and lived to tell his tale.
The water was some four or five fathoms
deep and the bottom muddy. He spent
three days in a diligent search for the
buried treasure, without success. Six
teen hundred dollors, representing years
of toil and self-denial, were gone.
Counting the slender stock of money
which he had reserved for incidental ex
penses, he found that he had just about
enough to take him home or bring him
back to California. Which shoald he
do? Togo home with his tale of dis
aster would be worse than useless.
Turning his back upon the friends he
longed to see, he took a steerage pas
sage across the Atlantic, made hi* way
back to the Pacifio coast, and arrived in
this State a few weeks ago. We under
stand he is now in Amador county, un
daunted by the sad reverses of the past,
but determined, if possible, to build up
his broken fortunes once more.
FROM LOUISIANA.
Opposition to Kellogg’s Impeachment—
Whisky Indictments.
New Orleans, February 18.— It is
stated that a majority of ihe Conserva
tive caucus opposes the impeachment of
Governor Kellogg.
G. M. Bayly and B. M. Pond, r.t Bay
ly A Pond, were indicted for distilling
withoat paying the special tax, pleaded
not guilty and were bailed.
Charges Against New Orleans Municipal
Authorities.
Charges having been published in the
press that the Mayor and Administrators
of this city had misapplied the consoli
dated interest fnnd, the {Senate to-day
passed a resolution instructing the Fi
nance Committee to investigate the
charges and report; also, instructing
the Attorney General to institute crim
inal proceedings against the guilty
parties.
An Adjustment Creditable to Both Parties.
New Obleans, February 18.— The dif
ficulty between Hon. Geo. Dnpre and
J. M. Stoutmeyer, of the Times, was ad
justed on the field creditably to both
parties and satisfactory to their friends.
THE GAY GAMBOLIERS.
Running Them Ont of Richmond—A Member
of the Legislature and a Judge Convicted
and Sentenced.
Richmond, Va., February 17.—The
movements against gambling in this
oitv, which have been in operation for
some time past, are being still vigor
ously pushed. Within the past few
days a number of gamblers and others
have been indicted by the grand jury of
the Hustings Court, and to-day Joseph
Graves, of the sporting fraternity, was
tried, in bis absence, on the charge of
dealing faro, found guilty, and sen
tenced to jail for six months and SIOO
fine. W. H. Fowle, member of the
Legislature from Alexandria, plead
guilty to playing draw poker, and was
fined S3O. Geo. S. Stevens, Judge of
Nelson County Court, charged with
playing draw poker, not answering
when called, had judgment entered
against him in twq cases, with S3O fine
in each. Eight or ten more indictments
remain to be tried. All the gambling
houses in Richmond have been closed
for some time, and nearly all the sports
have left the city.
Pm and Ui|Mreet,
A letter from General Fits Hugh Lee
has been oalled out by that of General
Longstreet, written to his ancle July
24, 1863, and saying that the battle of
Gettysburg was not fought as he “would
have had it.” General Fits Hugh Lee
says: “Longstreet's letter to his uncle
is first-rate in temper and tone, if it is
genuine, and only given to the pnblic in
his self-defense. His splendid corps is
encamped in the hearts of all true South
erners. His own courage and soldierly
wisdom daring the war were of the high
est order. If he had a different plan to
fight Gettysburg upon, and it was given
to General Lee before the battle, and
General had written since regret
ting be had not adopted it, I am one of
those who are desirous to give him all
the credit for military sagacity General
Lee himself (if all this be true) was
willing to confer, but in common with
an army of Confederates, I ask for all
the facts in the case, and especially the
whole of the letter said to have been
written in January, 1864, and of which
only one short sentence haa been pub
lished. " ___
Specie shipments of the week from
New York, $2,267,974, of which $1,913,-
800 was in gold coin, j
THE STAHS CAPITAL
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS YES
, TBRDaY IN ATLANTA.
Bills Concerning Richmond Connty Court and
the Baptist Church In Augusta—Recovery
for Damage by Sheep-Killing Dogs—The
Atlanta Glass and Slate Insurance Com
pany-Furnishing Minors With Deadly
Weapons—. Still Slashing Away at the Code
—Abolishing Connty Boards and Proriding
for Future Appointments of Them—State
School Commissioner’s Salary And Secre
tary—State Aid Agaia Toted Down—Peni
tentiary Convicts.
[.Special Dispatch to Chronicle and Sentinel.)
THE STATE SENATE.
Atlanta, February 17.—1n the Senate
to-day the following bills were passed:
To fix the salary of thsJudge of Rich
mond Connty Court, for county busi
ness; to confirm the sale of certain real
estate by the Trustees of the Baptist
Church in Augusta; to create a Board of
Commissioners in Greene county; to
prevent the sale of farm products be
tween sunset and sunrise in Clayton,
Honston, Echols and Baldwin counties.
The special oommittee to whioh was
referred the bill to license keeping dogs
and enoonrage sheep raising reported a
substitute providing for reooyery for
damage done by dogs killing sheep,
which was adopted by yeas 21, nays 17.
The substitute will be accepted by the
House as the best that can be done to
encourage sheep raising.
Bills were passed to incorporate the
Brunswiok Bank and Trust Company
and the Atlanta Glass and Slate Insur
ance Company of Georgia. The Gover
nor has approved the following bills:'
To pnnish any persons who shall sell,
give, lend, or furnish any minor with
deadly weapons; to authorize the Comp
troller to collect by execution debts due
the State by the lessees of penitentiary
convicts; to allow Judges of County
Courts certain fees.
There were a number of local bills
passed.
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The House resumed the consideration
of the bill to repeal sections 1,254 to
1,265 of the Code, and organize anew
public sohool law. The section abolish
ing oountv boards organized under the
act of 1872, after March Ist, 1876, was
agreed to. An amendment was adopted
making the term of th ) board two years,
and that future appointments shall be
made by Judges of the Superior Courts,
upon the recommendation of grand ju
ries at the Spring term, for two years.
And the amendment was adopted that
the compensation of members of the
board, except Secretary, shall be three
dollars per day for each day of actual
service, to be paid out of the oounty
school fund; also, that after the expira
tion of the present term the State
School Commissioner’s salary shall be
SI,OOO per annum, and that the office of
Secretary of the State School Commis
sioner shall be abolished. The bill as
amended passed—ayes, 101; nays, 52.
The bill does not interfere with coun
ties where there is a local law.
The bill to loan the credit of the State
to the Marietta, Canton and Ellijay
Railroad, reconsidered yesterday, was
taken np and lost—yeas, 71; nays, 82.
The bill to regulate leasing out peni
tentiary convicts passed. It is consid
ered a decided improvement on the
present system.
Bills Passed to Incorporate Various Compa
nies— Providian for Payment of Expenses
Incurred by Counties in tbe Late Insurrec
tion—To Abolish the City Court of Augusta
—And to Amend tbe Charter of the Presby
terian Church—The Funding BUI Up To-
Day—The Bribery Investigation.
[Special Dispatch to the Chronicle and Sentinel.
THE STATE SENATE.
Atlanta, Ga., February 18.—In the
Senate to-day the following bills were
passed :
To incorporate Bibb Manufacturing
Company; to incorporate the Atlantic
and Mexican Gulf Canal Company; to
incorporate Fulton Manufacturing Com
pany; to incorporate Gold Mountain
Manufacturing Company; to reduce and
regulate the fees of tax receivers and
collectors, allowing three per cent, in
Richmond, Fulton, Chatham and Bibb
counties; to amend the laws relating to
the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Cave
Springs.
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
In the H.use the following bills were
passed:
To define the duties and liabilities of
Receivers appointed for railroads; to
create liens; to amend the act to desig
nate holidays to be observed in this
State; to prohibit the sale of liquor
within two miles of the Female Academy
at Fort Valley and Sunnyside, in Spauld
ing county; to prevent the killing of
wild turkeyß and partridges in Greene
county; to provide for payment of
insolvent costs to officers in Clark
county; to make penal the har
boring of escaped convicts; to re
duce the compensation of Collector,
Receiver and Treasurer of Butts coun
ty; to appropriate money to pay ex
penses incurred by the counties in the
late insurrectionary districts, excluding
payment to the military; to fix the man
ner in which judgments of foreclosures
shall be taken on mortgages given to
loan and building associations; to pre
scribe the compensation of Tax Collec
tor and Receiver of Bibb county; to au
thorize the Mayor and Counoil of Rome
to settle their bonded indebtedness; to
amend the laws of limitation; for the re
lief of Grubb and others, securities of
Wimberly, late Tax Collector of Burke
couuty; to provide for the sale of lhe
North and South Railroad; to protect
Ordinaries when the administration of
estates is vested in Clerks of the Supe
rior Courts; to amend section 2,527 of
the Code, as to returns of admistrators,
etc.; to abolish the City Court of Augusta;
to amend the charter of the Presbyterian
Church at Augusta; to amend the act to
amend section 4441 of the Code as far as
it relates to Richmond and other coun
ties; to relieve the Building and Loan
Associations from the tax of last year;
to provide for registration of bonds; to
amend the aet creating a Board of Com
missioners iu Bibb couDty; to provide
for the manner in which injunctions
shall be granted.
The bill to compel the municipal au
thorities to levy a tax for principal and
interest on bonds when due was lost.
The bill for the relief of Boorman,
Johnston A Cos. was lost.
The bill to provide for the is6ue of
new bonds and to retire outstanding
bonds of the Macon and Brunswick and
the North and South Railroads comes
up to-morrow. It has passed the Senate,
and is known as the funding bill. If it
is passed, over twenty-six hundred thou
sand dollars in new bonds will be issued
to retire and pay tbe acorned interest on
old bonds. It will meet with vigorous
opposititou.
The joint committee appointed to in
vestigate the alleged bribing of the
Legislature of ’72 to secure the endorse
ment of the lease of the Western and
Atlantic Railroad Company will report
to-morrow. There is no evidence that
money was used by the Lease Com
pany on members of the Legislature.
The State University—Richmoud County Jury
Lawn—Limiting the Power of Municipal
Authorities of Augusta—The Commercial
Bank of Angnsto—Charter of Harlem—Tbe
Bonds of the Macon and Brunswick and
North and South Railroads—Adoption of
Mr. Walsh’s Substitute—The Mayor of Au
gusta to Act as Recorder—Tbe Augusta In
surance Company—Concerning the Solicitor
of Richmond Connty Court—Prolongation.
[Special Dispatch to the Chronicle and Sentinel ]
THE STATE SENATE.
Atlanta, February 19, 1876.— 1n the
Senate, bills were read the first and sec
ond time during the morning session.
The bill lost yesterday, to amend the
act to regulate weighing corn, cotton
and other produce, was reconsidered.
The following bills were passed:
To reorganize the government of the
State University ; to amend the jury
laws of Richmond county ; to limit the
power of the municipal authorities of
Augusta in issuing bonds to complete
the canal, and to confirm the bonds al
ready issued; to amend the charter of
the Commercial Bank of Augusta ; to
amend the charter of the City Bank of
Maoon; to prescribe the duties of Tax
Collectors; to abolish the offioe of Treas
urer of Bibb; to fix the compensation of
the Treasurer of Muscogee; to amend
the act to oreate a County Court for
Bibb; to prevent the sale of liquor with
in three miles of Union Church, in
Richmond county; to amend the charter
of Harlem ; to exempt from jury duty
railroad conductors..
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
In the Honse, the bill to authorize the
Governor to issue bonds to retire by ex
change recognized bonds of the Macon
and Brunswick Railroad and the bonds
of the North and South Railroad was
taken up. This gave rise to consider
able debate. Several amendments were
offered and voted down. Judge Speer
offered a substitute to pay recognized
bonds of the Maoon and Brunswiok Rail
road falling due sine* the seiaure of the
road, and to provide for its sale. Mr.
Candler moved to amend the substitute.
Mr. Walsh offered a substitute for the
whole, which was adopted by a large
majority. This provides for the issue of
bonds to pay interest now due and fall
ing due on bonds of both roads, the
new bonds to have twenty years to run;
to bear date July Ist, 1876, and to bear
interest at 7 per cent., ‘payable semi-an
nually. The bill will pass the Senate.
The bill to require the Mayor of Au
gusta to discharge the duties Reoorder
passed.
The following bills also passed;
To appropriate money for the im
provement of tbe baildiDgs of the Lnna
tio Asylum; to authorize the payment of
past due coupons held by persons in
Augusta; to authorize married women
to aot as guardians for minor children
by former hnsbands; to prescribe the
manner of hearing motions for new trials
in criminal cases in Connty Courts; to
incorporate the Augnsta Insurance Com
pany; to fix the term of office of the So
licitor of Richmond County Court. A
resolution was adopted to prolong the
session to 12 o’clock next Wednesday
night.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
NEWS FROM OYER THE WATER.
Great Britain.
London, February 19.—Mat Mailer,
being relieved of the daty of lecturing,
will remain at Oxford.
The statement yesterday that Addle
shaw A Warbnrton, of Manchester,
had failed, is incorrect. It was Messrs.
Edward Wilson & Cos., mannfactnring
chemists, who failed, with liabilities es
timated at $500,000, and the error arose
from the announcement of the fact
ooming through Addleshaw A Warbnr
ton, who are solicitors.
Heavy weather prevailed in the Eng
lish Channel daring yesterday and last
night, and the barometer fell to the
lowest point during the Winter. The
Channel ports tvere full nf refuged ves
sels. The bark Blandina P, from New
Orleans, for Leith, arrived at Falmouth,
having lost two of her crew overboard
daring the voyage. To-day’s weather
report says a depression passed across
Scotland and the North Sea last night,
and lies over the west ooast of Norway.
The barometer is now rising on the west
coast of Great Britain. There have been
general rains throughout the country,
and local floods in the west of England.
Turkey.
London, February 19.—The Times'
correspondent telegraphs from Noro
that he met the insurgent chiefs at Snl
tarina. They are unanimously deter
mined to refuse all compromise with tbe
Porte, and will fight for the complete
freedom of their oountry.
Germany.
Vienna, Febrnary 19.—The Danube is
flooding. The outlying suburbs are
inundated.
ItaJy.
Roue, February 19.—General Mera
bra is appointed Ambassador to London.
Naples, February 19.—Victor Eman
uel is here. He will remain during the
Carnival. Americans are arriving from
all parts to witness the Carnival.
Franee.
Paris, February 19— M. Lenoir is the
responsible editor of the Republic
Francaise and will undergo the sen
tence of the Correetional Court.
Adolph Sheadore Branguiard, the
botanist, is dead.
NEW YORK.
The Advisory Council—Beecher Challenges
the Truth From Man, Angels and God.
New York, February 18.—Beecher,
concluding before the Conncil, com
pared himself to a central body on
which all the rays of the sun were con
centrated and upon which was being
heaped all the trouble that could' be
gathered on the face of the globe, forty
times. In closing his answer Mr.
Beecher said : “If there is any man on
earth that has anything to say to my
detriment, I here now challenge him to
say it.” (Cries of “good, good,” and
“hear, hear,” proceeded from various
parts of the church, and‘Mr. Beecher
continued) : “If there is any angel of
God, I challenge him to say aught
against me; aye, I go far beyond that, I
challenge the truth from God himself.”
A Detective Killed.
A man was killed near Tarrytown
while in a house with burglars. He was
acting for the police. The man who
shot him was not aware of the police
arrangements.
Action of Coal Producers.
An important meeting of the several
freat coal producing companies of New
ork and Pennsylvania was held to-day
in this city, at which a permanent or
ganization of the so-called Board of
Control was effected, and a series of
rules regulating the coal traffic of sea
board, and a schedule of prices for the
government of the trade for the ensuing
year was adopted. It was agreed that
contractors’ prices for the month of
March be as follows: Free on bond in
New York lump, 4 40; steamer, 4 50;
grate, 4 60; egg, 4 70; stove, 5 30; chest
nut, 4 50.
Acquittal of the Slayer of the Irish Giant-
New Orleans and Texas Rallrond Company
—An Inhuman Father.
New Yobk, February 19.—Michael
Fumell, who killed O’Baldwin, the Irish
giant, was acquitted, the Judge saying
that a small man, shat up in the room
with a stalwart giant, who was about to
strike him, was justified in ÜBing a pis
tol under the circumstances.
Suit is commenced against the Syra
cuse, Birmingham and New York Rail
road for $500,000, claimed for internal
revenue tax.
The bondholders of the New Orleans,
Mobile and Texas Railroad Company
met here to-day and reorganized into a
new company, named the New Orleans
and Texas Railroad Company. They
will meet next Friday to complete the
organization and elect offioers.
James Gillespie, aged four years, died
to-day from injuries received by being
placed on a stove by his father, Robert
Gillespie, who has been arrested. The
child had committed some offense.
The Advisory Council—lts Probable Conclu
sion.
Brooklyn, February 19.—1 tis thought
the members of Council are much more
favorably impressed with the appear
ance of things generally than they ex
pected to be, and more than probable
their conclusion wilt commend the ac
tion of Plymouth Church in dropping
the name of Mrs. Moulton from the roll.
But little can be learned in regard to
the work of the oommittees on the dif
ferent questions embodied in the letter
missive, but all are ready or nearly so
to report their conclusions on Monday
next. It is thought that the oommittee
who have under consideration rule No.
7 will recommend therein the use of the
words “withdrawal of the watoh, care
and fellowship of the church.”
Heavy Land Slide—Off for Charleston.
The rCcent gale and rains loosened the
bluff and palisades on the King and
Morgan estate, overhanging the Erie
Railroad oil and coal docks. At 10
o’clock this morning a large piece of the
oliff, covering three hundred yards, gave
way and, rolling down hill, covered up
five hundred feet of the river road and
railroad track. The slide carried with
it a number of large bowlders, weighing
several tons. Tbe noise was heard all
over the town.
A detachment of ten men from the
Old Gnard sailed this afternoon on the
steamer Champion for Charleston, to
participate in the oelebration of Wash
ington’s bithday.
PERILS OF THE DEEP.
The Strath Clyde Diaaater.
London, Febrnary 18. —Of twenty
nine persons landed at Deal from the
steamer Strath Clyde, many were great
ly exhausted and three have since died.
Accounts of tbe number on board tbe
Strath Clyde are conflicting. Tbe most
reliable seem to be' 30 crew and 26 pas
sengers, of whom eleven were saved at
Dover. The total number perished is
put at 16, in addition to the three who
died.
The steamer Francona, which belongs
to the Hamburg, American and West In
dia line, was outward bound for the West
Indies. She anchored in the down off
Deal last night, and steamed eastward
at daylight, coming to London to repair.
She has since been reported as passing
the Thames Haven. The Strath Cljde
lien in Fairway, about two miles off
Dover. Her masts are standing 25 feet
above water.
Latbb. —Two ladies and three gentle
men are reported to have been picked
up by a passing vessel bound for Lon
don.
Still Latxb. —Lists published by the
papers this afternoon show that the
Strath Clyde had 23 passengers and a
crew numbering 47. Another person
has died at Dover. Of forty known to
be rescued, Only six were passengers,
one of whom is among the four who
have since died.
A THIEVING LEGISLATOR.
Another Radical Roam* ( an*hl.
Richmond, February 19.--B. D. Ruf
fin, a colored member of the House of
Delegates from Dinwiddie county, was
expelled to-day for improper conduct in
abstracting money from the pay book of
the Sergeant-at-Arms. His guilt was
-established beyond doubt, as the miss
ing money was traced to him and he
confessed by giving an order against his
per diem tor the amount. The money
he took was that of another colored
member which was in the pay book near
his own.
“s?y. pop,” said John Henry’s hope
ful, the other day, “wasn’t it the Prince
of Wales that swallowed Jonah ?” And
John patted his head, and gave him a
nickel, and told him he might some day
be an alderman; and then as he put on
his slippers, and found a small chestnut
bur in each toe, he took that boy over
his knee and wrestled with him—Cincin
nati limes.
FROM WASHINGTON.
LATEST FROM THE FEDERAL
CAPITAL.
Coagrewlonai Finley ▼. Wall—Criminal
Proceedings Againvt Attorney.—The Ju
dietary.
Washington, February 18.—In the
House to day Mr. Blackburn, of Ken
tucky, offered a resolution calling on
the President for information whether
any executive offloes, acts or duties have
been performed since the first of March,
1869, at a distance from the seat of Gov
ernment, and for how long a period at
any one time, and in what part of the
United States; also, whether any pnblio
necessity existed therefor. Objection
being made tp present consideration the
resolntion was laid over for one day.
Mr. Robbins offered a resolntion ask
ing the Secretary of War whether and
what military officers acted as consular
or diplomatic appointees.
Reorganization of the Judiciary was
resumed. Cincinnati was substituted
for Louisville. The amendment substi
tuting Mobile for New Orleans was re
jected. Philadelphia for Pittsburg was
rejected. Pending the vote ordering a
third reading, the House adjourned.
.Debate only to-morrow.
The case of Finley vs. Wall, from
Fla., will have a further hearing. The
Committee on Privileges and Elections
did not consider the Speuoer case this
morning. The Paoific Railroad was
considered. Further safeguards against
the co-operation or oomnination of the
roads were also disoußsed, and the Aus
tin and Topolorampo road. No vote on
any subject, and the main question was
postponed to Tuesday.
Taylor, Weed, and Gamage.a million
aire lawyer, and an ex-Treasury agent,
were arrested on a warrant from New
Orleans for passing fraudulent claims
against the Treasury. Taylor and
Weed gave bail for sio,ooo. Gamage
was not arrested. The amount is over
$300,000. It is stated that Taylor and
Weed, learning the probable fraudulent
character of the olaim, had it erased
from the docket of the Court of Claims.
Later— Geo. Taylor and Juo. W. Weed,
lawyers of this city, on February 10th,
made a motion in the Court of Claims
that the evidence of oerlaiu witnesses in
the cases of Harriet A. Mills, for one
hundred bales of cettou, valued at $40,-
000, and Mary O. Cleveland, for five
hundred bales, valued at $230,000, shall
cot be used in the trial of either case.
On the 14th of Febrnary the Court or
dered that the evidenoe may bo with
drawn from use by plaintiffs, but held
for use by defendants. The proceedings
against Taylor and Weed are based up
on the fraudulent character of the with
drawn testimony.
The Spencer Investigation—Honor* to the
Memory of lteverUy Johnson—Srheuck’s
Resignation.
A majority of the Senate Committee
on Privileges and Elections decided to
day to investigate the second charge
made made by the State of Alabama
against Senator Spencer, that his elec
tion to the United States Senate was
secured by corrupt means and practices.
The will her evidence upon seventeen
of tbe specifications under this cliarg9,
but refuse to investigate the remaining
thirteen, and they also decline to in
vestigate the first charge, namely, that
the body by which Mr. Spencer claims
to have been elected to the Senato of
the United States was not the General
Assembly of Alabama, this question
having already been decided' in Spen
oer’s favor in the Sykes-Spencer contest.
The bar of the Supreme Court paid
the customary tribute to the memory of
Reverdy Johnson.
Sohenck’s resignation is not received
but is certainly expected. No intima
tions as to his successor.
The steamer Dispatch sails to-night
for Port Royal.
The Committee on the Pacifio Rail
road agreed to report a bill making
more speoifio and general the reports of
railroad companies required by the aot
of 1868.
Harabletan’s Resignation Returned.
Washington, February 13.—There
has been a lively time among the Demo
crats of the Ways and Means Committee
sinoe Morrison asked for the resigna
tion of Hambleton, the clerk. After a
full consultation, Morrison was re
quested to return Hambleton’s resigna
tion, which he did, Mr. Wood informing
the elerk that, with the exception of
Morrison, the Democrats of the com
mittee were fully satisfied with him;
that he was qualified, and in every way
fitted for the place. They did not desire
him to leave, and the matter should go
over till Tuesday, when the Republicans
would be present, and their action in
the matter woald be had.
Reduction of Appropriation*—The Indian
Bureau—Resignation of Colonell George B.
McCartee—Hi* Account* All Correct—Fi
nance* &c.
Washington, February 19.—The Com
mittee on Appropriations hope to reach
a reduction of seven millions in execu
tive aud legislative printing, and the
Engraving Bureau will not resume work
until au appropriation is made.
Dyer telegraphs Pierrepont fvom St.
Louis that he is satisfied he judged Sher
man too harshly.
The frontier members of Congress
seem unanimously in favor of the trans
fer of the Indian Bureau from the Inte
rior to the War Department.
Col. Geo. B, McCarter has tendered
his resignation as Chief of the Burean
of Engraving and Printing. It has been
aooepted. Col. McCarter has several
times asked to be relieved, but remained
in office at the earnest solicitation of the
Secretary of the Treasury and the Presi
dent. The committee from the Treas
ury, appointed by the Secretary to ex
amine the affairs of the Bureau, com
pleted its work, and report the accounts
in all respects correot. Mr. Jewell, pres
ent Assistant Chief, will be assigned to
the charge of the Burean.
Internal Revenue to-day, $287,660; for
the month to date, $5,691,068; for the
fiscal year to date, $72,709,413. Cus
toms to-day, $519,093; for the month to
date, $8,904,727; for the fiscal year to
date, $95,778,672.
The Dispatch will tow a monitor from
Port Royal to Key West or Pensacola.
The Committee on Appropriations
had a consultation to-day with the Sec
retary at the Treasury Department.
In the House debate only. Kelly made
his legal tender speech.
CHINESE NEW YEAR.
[From the Alta-Californian .)
The Chinese residents do not ecem to
be suffering muoh from the injunction
pat on their fireworks. It may be safely
said that every Chinaman in San Fran
cisco will have fired some orackers by
the time the festival is over, as that is
part of the Oriental religion. Hereto
fore it has been tbe custom of the Chi
nese companies, on the arrival of a
steamer during New Year’s week, to re
quest a postponement of unloading, to
give their employees full sweep for the
festival, but this year no such request
has been made, and accordingly a mail
steamer now at the wharf will discharge
this week.
A mass meeting of Chinese was held
yesterday afternoon in one of the alleys,
and it was imagined that the demon
stration was an indignation meeting to
protest against the Democratic anti
firecracker Board of Supervisors; but it
declared that the concourse had no
“political significance," but was only a
gathering to hear from some of the mis
sionaries on religious topics. A source
of some amusement to the Caucasians is
the performance at t&e theaters on
Jackson street. The most “finished”
play is presented at the Southside
Theater. The places are packed nightly
at four bits a head, and the sides of the
stage are allowed to a portion of the
spectators for standing room only. The
audience talk and oomment on the act-
ing whenever they please, as it goes
along, which it does with an almost un
interrupted aooompaniment of strings,
pioolos and percussions. The musicians
occupy a portion of the stage. It is
known that the Chinese have something
they oall a system of harmony, but it
must be music of the future, and it is
to be hoped that it is so remote it will
never get much nearer. Yet some of the
melodic themes oan be identified with
civilized music, and are not displeasing,
but it requires an acute ear to eliminate
the jargon and appreciate the few notes
which have familiar intervals. The
Chinese theatrical music, which is elabo
rate and difficult, has another peculiari
ty, that it is mostly in a minor key. “A
little of it goes a long ways.” The na
tive singing is like the instrumentation,
a thing of futurity, but it is introduced
in the play, or opera, or whatever they
term it, and is an item in the general
amusement. The performance includes
much pantomime and some excellent
tumbling, and may be summed up in
the compound description of Polonius —
“comic pastoral.” In reply to the inter
rogation of a reporter as to what it was
all about, a good English speaking Chi
naman said, “I can’t begin to explain
it.” “Is it fnnny?” “No, not very
funny; they stab and murder each
other. ”
WINSLOW.
HU Wife and Child In London in Dtttroon.
London, February 19.— Mrs. Wins
low, her son and sister, are here. They
have only about a hundred dollars, and
seem in great trouble.
“What will you have?” asked a waiter
of one of the Indiana editors, at the din
ner in Philadelphia, as he banded him a.
bill of fare. And the Hoosier with the
high forehead leaned back inhis chair,
wiped his forehead thonghfully with a
napkin, and ejaculated sternly:*“Gimme
all 1”