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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1876)
OLD SERIES —VOL. ZCt NEW SERIES—ML IL. TERMB. THE DAILY CHRONICLE A SENTINEL. the oldest newspaper in the Sooth. i published daily, except Monday. Term* : Per year, #lO ; nil month*. #5 : 'three moujfis. #2 50. THE WEEKLY cHBONICLE A BFNTINEL is published every Wednesday, farms : One year, #2: six month*. #l. THE TRI-WEEKLY CHRONIC** A SENTI NEL ia published every Tuea*av. Thursday and Saturday Terms : _ Oue year, #5; six months, #2 50. SUBSCRIPTIONS in all eases in advance, and no paper continued after tie expiration of the time paid for. BATES OF ADVERTISING IX DAILY.—AII transient ad rerti-emente iU be charged at the rate of #1 per square tac’i insertion for the first week. Advertisements in Tri-Week ly, #1 per square; in Weekly. 41 per square. Marriage and Funeral Notices, ,41 each. Special Notices, 41 persquare. Special rates i will be made for advertisements running for j one month or longer. ALL COMMUNICATIONS announcing esndi- j dates for office—from County Constable to ! members of Congress—will be charged at the rate of twenty cents per line. AH announce- ; merits must be paid for in advance. Address WALSH A WRIGHT. Gbronicle A Sentinel. Augusts Qa. | Chronicle anb WEDNESDAY MARCH 1, 1876. I —~ ■ ~ THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. A Washington dispatch to the New York World says the National Demo cratic Executive Committee meet there to-day to name the time and place for holding the next Democratic Presiden tial Convention. Representatives of va ripas cities are there to nrge claims of localities, and more are on the way. They will bo heard briefly before the committee. St. Lonis, Cincinnati, Lou isville, Chicago, Cleveland and Wash- j ington have, thns far, asked that the | Convention be held in their respective j cities and in some instances have given j reasons therefor. One fact may be clear-1 ly put down in advance, and that is, i that it will not be held in a Republican I city, which rules out Chicago, wbosdq hotel accommodations are superior to j any in the West. Philadelphia, which has not really solicited it, though there j has been some talk about it, would come under the same rule. St. Louis has j been more talked of than any other city. But members of the commission now in Washington say that it is by no means settled that the Convention will go there. It is conceetfed that it will not meet before the Cincinnati Convention. MIX WEEKS’ IMPRISONMENT FOR A CABBAGE. In this country we declare murderers insane, and having done so set them at liberty, a privilege which non-homicidal maniacs seldom enjoy. In England they have just sent a man to jail for six weeks for picking up an unsound cab bage. Alfred Chapman, described as a poorly clad laborer, picked up a cab bage in Mr. Brisco’s field at Hastings, and was oarrying it home, when he was stopped by a constable. Ho said that it was “only a cabbage” that he had, and he had heard that “anybody was wel come to go into the field in question nud I cut a cabbage, for the crop was bad and was to be plowed in.” He was arrested, however, and after an examination of bis case, sent to jail for six weeks. The Superintendent of Police testified that Chapman was an honest man, and had no doubt acted on a rumor that he had beard. Of course he had committed a technical violation of law, but the cir cumstances were such that his offense deserved lenient treatment. The magis trates did uot see the matter in this light, however, aud the poor fellow was sentenced as above mentioned. It is a pity that English and American magis trates could not' exchange places for awhile. If the British justioes should try our murderers, and our courts should deal with their trespass cases, some thing like fair dealing would bo attained, THE PRIVILEGES OF THE PRESS. The Montreal Sun says : “ Customs holds and the law sanctions that con fidential communications to lawyers and physicians are a sacred trust— committed to them in recognition of their obligations in that regard, and of the which not only courts of justioe cannot oompel the revelation, but it would be a breach of honor, for feiting social and professional status, to voluntarily reveal. Editors and re porters, in like manner, under the seal of secrecy and in full reliance on their honorable reticence, obtain facts affect ing the public servioe and of deep in terest in regard of the public safety, not attainable or obtainable without such condition of concealment, and wo hold that the privilege acoorded to other pro fessions is, not less, the absolute right of the press in such circmnstanoes. Deny this right, and compel, by threats , of the consequences of a contempt of legal prooess, the reporter to disclose the sources of information, and the wrong is to the geppral public, though the immediate humiliation may be to himself. Who in public office, for in stance, would speak of the inner abuses of the departments if the informant had before him the prospect of the ven- ( geauce of his principals through the j discovery of the authorship ? Who would be bold enough to lay bare the ; petty peculations of Government con-, tractors and their associates of the i multiplication, division and science xing, if the publication were sure to j dost some foreman of works his place, j or some clerk in the Treasury Bureau his appointment ? What public abuse, in fact, could be made known, with a view to remedy, if it were in the direc- j tion of the Courts to order the reporter i under the pains and penalties of fine ] and imprisonment for contumacy to j give up the name of his original inform- i ant t An attempt to enforce a principle : like this would strike at an important agency for the ratification of public wrong ; and, individually to the report- . er, would be a degradation reducing him to the not very enviable character of a py-” THE DRUMMING EVIL. Bosto.u merchants are greatly dissat isfied with the present style of doing business ; they declare they cannot live under it, and thaC, it adhered to, it mast lead to the bankruptcy, in the end, of all jobbing and wholesale merchants. The evils of the present system are high rents, drummers and small profits. Twenty years ago a jobbing house paid in rent SI,OOO to So,ooo—the latter be ing considered a very high figure : of the goods sold seventy-five per cent, were foreign, on which there was a good profit, and all the sales were mode in the house, where the proprietors met their customers and kept up a knowl edge of their circumstances. All this is no* changed ; the rents of the granite, marble and freestone buildings that the jobber i expected to occupy vary from ■55,000 to $20,000; just as many sales men in the u'ouse are required as form erly, and a eorp's of active drummers are to be maintained i.u the field at a cost of salaries and $5 a day’ for traveling ex penses besides. Nor doC B the trouble ■end here; drumming sharpen? the com petition and reduces the profits, sod it also increases the hasards of business-- for the drummer, ambitious to make os many and as large sales as possible, invariably makes the most favorable representation of his custom ers, and thus involves h?s employer in unsuspected trouble. To all this may be added the fact that the merchant has nearly lost control of his business; he rarely sees his customers, or they him; the business is really in the hands of his drummers, who use his money to build up a valuable acquaintance which they carry with them to a rival house when they leave. Merchants do not re j fleet, or if they do, they cannot help it, j that the very acquaintance which is the ! drummers’ capital, is acqnired at their expense. Twenty years ago bnsiness was straightforward, the expenses light, and the profits good; but under the new system, competition is so great that goods in some departments of trade are sold at as low a profit as 2} to 5 per cent. The only chance of success is in j selling a very large amount—and here again comes in a fierce struggle that of j ten brings one firm after another to the gronnd. It is said that the nnmerons | failures at the East and the great num ber of unoccupied houses on business ! streets in Boston aud New York are due, j in no small measure, to these evils. The question of greatest concern with the Eastern wholesalers at present is how to become independent of their drummers j i and resume control of their own busi- j | ness. EXPRESS LIABILITY. We copy below,‘for information and warning to shippers by express, the de cision of Judge Wallace, delivered in New York, on the 14th inst. It is a con stant habit with oar bnsiness men to re fuse the valuation of packages, when de manded by express clerks. The Mobile Register says: This refusal is con strued by the law in the light of a waiver of claim for loss, if any occur in excess of the amount nominated in the receipt. Therefore, we deem it proper precaution for all who use the Express Company’s cars to know the views of the learned New York Judge, asfollows : An important ruling was made in the United States Circuit Court to-day by Judge Wallace, in the case of Berry vs. the Adams Express Company, before a jury. The case involved the legal construction of a clause in the Ex press Company's receipt, limiting its liability to SSO, unless the value of the package shall be j stated by the shipper at the time of shipment. The Court ruled that the receipt was a binding contract, and that, as the plaintiff did not state the value of his shipment at the time of de livery to the Express Company, the responsi bility of the latter was limited to SSO, and the plaintiff conld only recover that amount, even though the actual loss had been occasioned by the negligence of defendant. GORDON AND THURMAN. The following paragraph appears in a recent letter from Washington to the Macon 2 elegraph and Messenger : General Gordon’s Atlanta speech of last Monday night is accepted by his friends here as a conclusive reply to the suggestiou of the Chronicle and Sentinel that he was working in the interest of a particular candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination. All good Democrats occupy precisely the same platform as he does. They favor the man who can win, and so far as the meagre telegraphic report may be trusted, this is the extent of General G.’s offending. I hope our friends of the Chronicle and Sentinel are now satisfied that they havo done the General an injustice. I was sure of it when I alluded to the matter in one of my previous letters, and I am equally oeitaiu they will, with their usual courtesy and fair dealing, promptly set him right before the people. Some days since the same correspon dent allnded to this subject in this wise: In my last letter I referred to the adverse criticism by the Chronicle and Sentinel of the appointment of General Gordon as an alternate to Bucceod the late General A. R. Wrioht on the National Democratic Commit tee, and expressed the nrm hehet that great injustice had beeu done General G. by that paper. lam able to state now that such be lief was and is entirely correct, and that the C. A S. has done the General great injustice., He is not orking in the interest of any par ticular candidate for President, and will not do so. His sole desire in the matter Is that the man who can combine more elements of suc cess than any other, shall be nominated—no matter who lie is, nor whence he comes. I think the Democratic party of the country is on the same platform. This is certainly the feeling of the representatives of the party here. Wo did not reply to these articles be cause we thought enough had been writ ten upon the matter. We stated our position very fully and clearly, and we saw no reason to unsay any thing that we had said. One letter from Washing ton, written to the Atlanta Herald and signed “Specks,” we did notice. The writer complimented General Gordon very highly and slandered the Chroni cle and Sentinel very grossly. We cared nothing for the compliments but objected to the slander. “Specks” was pleased to say that the editors of the Chronicle and Sentinel were actuated in their “assaults” upon General Gor "don by motives of “personal spite and envy.” Though the charge was almost too absurd to be treated seriously, we took occasion to pronounce it baseless. We did this not because we deemed the writer worthy of notice, but because his letter appeared iu a respectable journal. ’Jlie man who is so fulsome in his praise of General Gordon and so reckless in his assertions about those who oppose his publio acts is, we understand, a Radical from Alabama, who lives on fish and strangers—on Government crumbs and members of Congress. The correspond ent of the '1 elegraph and Messenger is understood to be Mr. AnDerson W. Rbkse, a gentleman for whom we enter tain the highest respect personally and as a journalist. To Mr. Reese and to ! those who think with him we desire to say : (1) That General Gordon has no ' enemies in the Chronicle and Sentinel 1 office. On the contrary, one of the edi tors and proprietors of this paper as- ; sisted, by bis vote as a member of the ! Georgia Legislature, to make him United States Senator, aud the paper itself has I often manifested to him kindness, never I unfriendliness. We fail to see (2) any reason why General Gordon and his friends should be so exceedingly sensi tive about this matter. We objected to \ General Gordon’s appointment as Gen eral Lawton’s alternate upon the Na tional Executive Committee for two rea | sons : first, because the Committee had no right to choose an “alternate;” and, second, because we had,heard that Gen ral Gordon was the pronounced advocate ■ of Mr. Thurman, one of the candidates for the Presidency, whose chances for a nomination might be seriously af fected by the action of the Com mittee. We are quite sure that General Gobdox himself will not deny the cor rectness of our views upon the authori ty of the committee to appoint an alter j nate. With regard to his advocacy of Mr. Thurman's claims we do not see that it makes much difference whether the | charge be true or false—except that it would not have been right to put the known partisan of ony’candidate upon the Committee which met yesterday. General Gordon has the nndonbted right to support whom he pleases. There i is nothing morally or legally wrong in | championing the canse of the Senator j from Ohio. Bat since it appears that _ an issue must be ferced upon this mat- I ter, we beg leave to say that General Gordon’s Atlanta speech was not a con clusive reply to the suggestion that he was working in the interests of Mr. Thtrman; and the Chronicle and Sen tinel is not yet “satisfied that it has i done the General great injustice.” When General Gordon says, or authorizes his friends to say for him, that he haa not written $ hitter in the interest of Mr. Thurman, then |Fe will be satisfied that we have done him injustice —if indeed it does injustice to any man to publish a report that he is working for the gaeoess of the Senator from Ohio. J THE HOLD IN THE TREASURY. A Washington dispatch says that Mr. Saylkb’s resolution, which was adopted | on Tuesday last, has created a decided stir in the Treasury Department. It calls upon the Secretary of the Treasury j to report within ten days the actual j amount of gold owned by the Govern- I ment available for the resumption of specie payments, after deducting the amount of gold certificates now out standing, accrued interest on Govern ment bonds and bonds called for under the sinking fund act to the 15th inst. The Treasury authorities charge that this is a move in the interest of Wall street gamblers, who, it is said, are “balling” gold on the strength of the resolution. Mr. Sailer disclaims any purpose ft) favor any class or to have had in view the embarrassment of the Department, and he holds that his inquiry was en tirely legitimate and proper. He ex presses the belief, however, tjiat it will j be ascertained that, after deducting the | amounts specified in his resolution, i there will be not more than abont two i million dollars in gold owned by the Government. .ARRESTS BY TEI EWIAAFH. Arrest by telegram—always illegal, al though occasionally allowable—seems likely to receive a serious check in New' York. The case of the elopement of Mrs. Mackenzie, of Canada, with Mr. Frederick Bridges will be fresh in the memories of our readers. The guilty pair fled to New York, where the lady was arrested by the Superintendent of Police, on a telegram from the Chief of Police of Montreal. She was taken to a police station, and forcibly detained there over night. There may have been an offense against the laws of Canada ; there surely was none against the laws of New York. Whatever the crime, the arrest was illegal, and as such it has been condemned by the New York press. Mr. Hamilton Fish, Jr., has moved a legislative inquiry into the circum stances, with a view to the removal of the Superintendent of Police. This is as it should be. It is a good thing to catch criminals, but a bad thing to catch them illegally, and still worse to break the law in order to effect the arrest of an innocent man, as is often done. Ar rest upon telegram is at best an arbi trary proceeding, contrary to the princi ples of onr institutions, and such ar rests, which can only be justified by ex treme necessity, are made much more loosely aud frequently than they should be. GEORGE PEABODY’S GIFT. It is little more than six years since George Peabody died, and already ten of the commodious and substantial dwelling houses he bequeathed to the workibgmen of London have risen in the metropolis; all, save one, being com pleted and occupied. The first, built in Spitalfields and completed during the lifetime of Mr. Peabody, has since been followed by the erection of nine others in* various parts of the City. Another is* now in course of building, aud prom ises to be the largest of all, for it stands on five acres of ground, and affords a site for thirty-six blocks. In the aggre gate the population of Peabody’s build ings is not less than ten thousand per sons. What the population will be in the of twenty mieht be cal culated by an easy sum. The amount left by Mr. Peabody, with ths object of providing “improved dwellings for the poor of London,” was 02,500,000. This is a capital sum laid out in an invest ment returning a certain moderate but safe interest, which interest, as it accu mulates, becomes available for the build ing of dwellings; and these will them selves, in the magical manner peculiar to compound interest, add further sums to the capital. Each of the ten houses is a substantial building of twelve blocks, and, taking the average of four iu each family, will supply house room for about one thousand persons. In each block there are twenty-two tenements, a few consisting of one room, some of two, 1 and many of three, but each absolutely self-contained, and all as private as need be. Each of the tenements is well pro vided with all manner of conveniences. There are a.few simple rules enforced in the building, but they are designed simply in the interests of order and cleanliness, and for the general good of the little community. Peabody’s build ings never have any empty rooms. At. the present moment the one on South wark street has upon its books three hundred applicants over and above the available accommodation. The tenants are strictly of the laboring classes, it be ing an unprinted rule of the place that no man earning more than twenty-five, or at most thirty shillings a week is eli gible for admission. Nothing else is required of an incoming tenant further than a voucher of his respectability, generally sought at the hands of his employer. INDIAN WARS. A dispatch from Omaha states that there is official authority for the an nouncement that a number of Sioax, Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians are making extensive preparations for an outbreak, and that they have been pur chasing large quantities of arms and ammunition. TJie nation has been feed ing nearly all these miserable savages for several years, and providing liber ally for all their wants, while the bulk of them have been playing the part of idle paupers, a few of their enterprising young warriors being occasionally sent ' forth to steal and murder. If the “war” foreshadowed in the dispatch breaks out I it will prove that the necessity of fight j ins these miscreants has not been avert ! ed by persistence in the policy of feed | ing them ; and dne of the reasons for I this failure may be found in the numer ous opportunities the Indians have ob tained for acquiring arms and ammuni ; tion. Among the many other vices of I the system of appointing civilians to act as Indian agents one of the most inju rious is their readiness, on many occa sions, to conniveht practices by which the savages obtain superior weapons. The av erage civil agent wants to make money out of the Indians, and favorite ways of accomplishing that resnlt are to cheat i them in the distribution of Government annuities or supplies ; and then, having inspired them witn a feeling of indigna tion and revenge, to facilitate tlie ex change of the arms they covet above all j other things, for furs, robes, horses or any other worldly possessions, an enor mous profit being usually made out of such transactions. When the army is called upon to protect a desolated fron tier it sometimes finds the Indians sup plied with rifles more effective than those possessed by the Government troops. This scandalous proceeding haa occurred over and over again, and has cost the nation many valnable lives , and an immense amount of money. It i is one of the evils that wonld be to a ■ great extent obviated or prevented by the proposed transfer of the Indian Bu reau to the War Department. Army of ficers would not be guilty of the dreadful crime of arming possiblP and probable 1 antagonists of their own comrades, and they would make strenuous efforts to suppress the dangerous illicit trade which many of the civil agents have se cretly encouraged. AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 1, 1876. ! LINCOLN’S IDEA OF MERCY. The following letter from Hon. Jo seph Gillespie, of Illinois, well known i throughout the West as a distinguished lawyer and prominent politician, gives an account of an interview with Presi dent Lincoln toward the close of the war, and is especially interesting just now because of its bearing upon the amnesty question: Edwardsvtllh, February 7, 1876. Your favor of the sth mstant is received, and I hasten to reply. The remarks of Mr. Lin soln to an inquiry made by me. to which yon refer, were as follows; I told him that I had called upon hiu to get information respecting the probable duration of the war, from head quarters. He said that as certainly as that the sun would rise the rebellion would soon be crushed out. I remarked that that was grati fying news, and I further asked what would be done with the rebels ? “Well," said he. “some think their heads ought to come off; but there are too many of them for that, and, for one. I wonld not know where to draw the line between those whose .heads (it might be said) ought to come off or stay on. My poli cy,” said he, “would be different. wonld prefer to follow the example of King David. I have been reading the history of the rebel liofi of Absalom- You know,” eaid he, “when David was fleeing from Jerusalem, Shiem'ei cursed him. After the rebellion Was over, “fftnEMKicraved a pardon. Abisha, the' son of Zeeuiah. David's sister, said, This man ought not to be pardoned; he cursed the Loed’b anointed. David said, What have Ito do with you, ye sons of Zrrciah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto mo ? Shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel ?” The above are the words, as nearly as I can remember them, used by Mr. Lincoln. I know that he was very decided in hia own mind that, so far as he could exert an influ ence, it should be on the side of mercy, for he considered mercy and wisdom as amounting to the same thing, as may be evidenced by another remark of his. Joshua F. Speed, of Louisville, Ky., and myself spent the night at the soldier’s home with Mr. Lincoln. 1 During the evening a delegation from New Jersey called to get Mr. Linc©ln to pardon some young men from that Btate who* had deserted, been recaptured, court-martialed and sentenced to be shot, which was to take place in a few days. Mr. Lincoln told the delegation that he would uot give them his decision until the next momng, at 9 o’clock, at the White House. Be fore retiring I told Mr. Lincoln that I oould not Bleep unless I had Borne inkling as to how he was going to decide in regard to those poor fellows. He said, “I can't tell you ; but I will say this, that I have always found (hat mercy hears richer fruit than strict justice" That was the directisn in which his mind always leaned. Yours, truly, J. Gillespie. MINOR TOPICS. • Card players who. are continually bewailing their ill luck of always receiving the same poor, cards will, perhaps, be assured by knowing that the fifty-two cards, with thirteen to each of the four players, can be distributed 53,644,- 737,756,481,792,839,237,440.000 different ways, so that there would Btill be a good stock of combinations to draw from even if a man from Adam’s time had devoted himself to no other occupation than that of playing oards. There is one corpse in the United States that does not excite much sympathy. It is that of the young man in Michigan who was killed, the other day, by a half-witted person whom he was teasing. If that very large class of young people who are never so happy as when they are tormenting somebody, could pass around and take a look at the remains of this Michigan victim of his 1 own thoughtlessness, they might be led to reflect for a moment upon their lack of consideration for the feelings of their companions. Pierbepont was responsible for the Presi dent's action in regard to that circular letter for the suppression of evidenoe; Babcock was responsible for the President’s action in order ing a (Jourtof Inquiry for the purpose of lore stalling a Court of Justice; Tutton was re sponsible for the President’s action in count ermanding the order for the destruction of the whisky ring ; and yet we have been very credi bly informed that “Mr. Grant is a very obsti nate man.” Among other developments of Democratic investigation among the departments is the practice of the Pension Bureau to detail a large number of clerks to assist the Republi,- oan Campaign Committee during political can vasses. paying them of course on the pension rolls, the sum reaching $200,000 in Presiden tial years. To remedy this and other abuses, it has been suggested that the Pension Office be transferred to the War Department, and a bill to that effect is before the House Commit tee. One strong argument in its favor is the fact that much evidence upon which the Gov ernment relies in adjudicating pension cases is in the possession of the Surgeon-General of the army. There is said to be a little jealousy existing between the two campaign committees which the Democrats have established. The Nation al Democratic Committee which is appointed every four years by the National Convention has established its headquarters, opened rooms, aud appointed Mr: A. D. Banks, of Mississippi, Secretary, and the Honse and Sen ate joint caucus recently' also appointed a campaign committee. It has been found that with two distinct committees at work there is a confUct of authority, and that both at times cover the same ground. To obviate this trou ble a consolidation is being urged and will pro bably be effected. It is rather-surprising to read that General N. P. Banks, called as a witness for the de fense in the Babcock case, testified th at he knew the defendant in Washington, and that his general reputation for integrity has been very good. Has General BanKs never heard of the Congressional investigation made into the doings of the Washington Ring, which, al though a majority of Republicans and Ring Democrats were on the committee making the inquiry, resulted in proving that Babcock had been guilty of certifying to false measure ments and false vouchers through which the Treasury was defrauded of great sums of money ? We can hardly suppose Gen. Banks ignorant of these facts, and if he is not, it would be interesting to know by what process of reasoning he is able to frame a reputation for integrity for a public officer who, by his own political friends, has been pronounced guilty of the grave offenses we have named. Every move made by those who have been appointed to throw light on the British sub marine tunnel appears to make it less proble matical, and gives fresh assurance of its feasi bility. The perfeot agreement wjjich the In ternational Committee on the proposed con struction of that work have come to, not mere ly on the main question, but also on all points under consideration, promises much for the j ultimate success of this project. It is believed [ that the substratum of the bed of the English ! channel through which it is proposed to run ! the tunnel is especially adapted to facilitate an engineering work like this. The two Govern ments most directly interested in the efforts that are making and will be mide have given considerable encouragement to the undertak ing, even in its speculative state, and with the increasing evidence that seems to confirm the favorable reports previously made, the Gov ernments will be more inclined than ever to make easy conditions. The readiness shown by capitalists to pnt money into the survey is a 1 tolerable proof that they will not be found wanting when the call comes for more positive and extensive investments. Many who have availed themselveß of the United States bankrupt law, with intentions to j defraud their creditors, are finding compro mises more and more difficult. Merchants are taking a stand upon principle, and where con cealment or dishonesty appear, combine to have cases probed to the bottom, and it can i bid have a wholesome effect. The Boston Jotkmal states that at a creditors' meeting last week a debtor, after showing “a statement” of his affairs, offered twenty cents on the dollar, providing that he oould get his brother to help him. After several questions a creditor re marked : “I prefer for mine to decline twen . ty per cent., and spend as much more in costs, I* rather than be a party to an unjust oompro mise;".another creditor proposed: “Fifty per cent, or fight,” when ihe debtor, now over come with remorse and fear, sobbed out; “If I have to pay fifty per cent. I shan't have as ; much capital as I had when I moved ont there three years ago." Honest failures are readily arranged by intelligent creditors, bat fraudu lent ones should be punished and made ex. amples of. Asa Boston merchant remarked recently: “I am going to probe and broil every failure my firm has a debt in where there is an appearance of fraud and concealment, re gardless of the dividend.” GLEANINGS FROM (KfHAJL NOTES AND NEWS PROjl NEW Y ORE.. W Moody and Sankey—Moody’s Sensouse—Han key’s Songs—Neyv York Hotels—Fair? Tales Realized—Public Resorts—The Female Me dium—A Lively Time—The Crowded Streets —Polities—The Moaey Qn'entien— Babcock. {From an Occasional Correspondent .] New York, February 17. city has many attractions, and, like the sun, many smaller lights gravitate and pass aronnd it. Moody and Sankey Are now attracting great crowds and apparently doing much good. Moody is a plain man and seemß to be inspirdir with a zeal and earnestness for the solution of souls that gives him access to al classes and conditions of people, the kfjights of the paste board, the keepers^ and in mates of houses of prostitution, distin guished members of all Hie * profes sions, together wit.h the princely merchants of this great cj*y alike attend the services and ssell his audiences to the vast cajAcity of the Hippodrome, estimated as btfng'cap able of seating eight thousand. • During his entire sermon a breathless rflenoe is maintained, and an earnest intelest and attention given almost painfjl. His sermons, however, never exceed forty minutes, and are filled with iapt and of being'., The impulsive Peter, mild and loving John, learned and intrepid Paul, patient Job, working Noah, and penitent David, together with many other prominent characters with their prominent weak nesses and great strength and power, are used by him with wonderful effect. If a tree may be judged by its fruits in reclaiming the lost and softening the sectarian prejudices .of the different denominations of Christians, by kind ling an enthusiastic love for Christ and godliness, Moody may be said to be a good and useful man. , Sankey, with his ninety trained ohor istersand thousands of voices, presented a thrilling contrast to the deathlike silence which had prevailed in the large audience, and if it be true that music has power to charm the savage breast, ■what cannot, or rather may not, this charmed combination and collection do for the human breast. They are wonderful men, and I doubt not there are many such in our land, who could be utilized, if once their sectarian prejudices and starched consciences could be softened by the gentle and warm dews of Heaven, of our now almost formal membership of the numerous churches. Five good and brave men are worth in this fight more than thousands of laggards or stiff sec tarian and formal professors. The hotels of this city, both on the Euro pean and American style are magnifioent and numerous. If one of the dinners of' the Rosmore or Metropolitan could be furnished to mo at the Locks, or some quiet spot after healthful exercise about 2 o’clock, p. m., I think I conld do the subject full justice, but within such walls of artistic magnificenoe, after wan dering through such a labyrinth of marble paved or soft carpeted halls, gilded mirrored parlors, damasked and brocaded satin, carved settees and sofas, and feeling dazzled by the splendor whioh is more suggestive of the fairy tales of the Arabian Nights than of the practical realities of eating, to think of rooms en suite, supplied with elegant mirrors, marble bureaus, mahogany wardrobes, baths, hot and oold; closets, velvet car pets, radiators, open fire places, steam heaters, electric bells, magnificent chan deliers, paneled and frescoed ceilings, gilded in the highest style of art, the halls and stairways carpeted with gor geous axministers that feel like the softest cushions to the feet, is but to half realize the splendor and magnificence of hotel life in New York. The magnificence and grandeur of the public buildings are truly wonderful. The City Hall is massive, grand and im posing, and stands like an imperial Titan, with every combination of ancient onH miviurn aroiiiiauture, convonience and magnificent beauty. This is saia to be one of the works upon which Tweed fell, being one of his projects, and cost ing many millions. The great park, too, was projected and greatly improved by his expanding mind, yet grasping and unsteady hand. Every species of ani mal, birds, fowls and insects are here collected from both North and South America, Europe, Asia and Afrioa. The beautiful walks, splendid drives, and natural scenery are truly wonderful and magnificent. The Battery, Castle and Niblo’s Gardens, Cooper’s Institute, and numberless plaqes of amusement, in cluding the Theatre Comique, afford pleasant pasttime and amusement for the curious and observing public. Mrs. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is still presented upon the stage to her Northern dupes with wonderful effect, but I venture, to say Old Mother Goose’s melodies would be received with more profit and greater applause. Just think of two thousand well-dressed, decent and respectable people going to Cooper Institute on Sunday night to see -a per son called a woman get into a box and personate therein, after herself being tied, numerous dead persons, beginning thus: a committee of ladies first ap pointed to strip and examine the me dium, and a committee of greased news paper men and confederates to seats on the stage to see that there was no cheat ing. The chairman of the ladies’ com mittee introduces Mrs. Wilson, the me dium, who, she said, had been stripped and thoroughly examined, and that she was a sure enough woman and had on then nothing but her usual clothing and an indispensible for every lady. What that was she never told, nor could I imagine. Rock of Ages was then sung by the choir and Old Hundred, after which the lights were turned down. The manager, a tall, bald headed old man, asked if the spirits had arrived, when a slim visaged, spectral, bearded face, made its appearanc at the apperture in the bow and shrieked out, “Good night ladies and gentlemen.” Manager : “Whose spirit are you?” Answer: “I am a sailor that fell overboard and was drowned, and named Uncle Ben, and have come back to tell you about things in the spirit land.” He ordered more fire made up as it was getting cold since he left his late home; sung some sailor gibberish and told some fanny stories. About this time restlessness in the au dience caused a demand that the medi ums be unboxed and searched on the stage, stern objections and resistance called forth many speeches pro and con from the audience, and for awhile great excitement prevailed through the en tire audience, and being a stranger in a strange place I confssed to a slight weak ening. Some wanted the sham to go on and others insisted on clearing the stage, which finally prevailed, and then another medley and jargon ensued, to the seem ing disgust and disappointment of the savans, and others and frequent motions were made and urged in violent speeches. When, to my relief, a big six footer ascended the stage, unloosed the medium, and nntied her, which the manager said conld not be done by mor tal man, and then this same six footer said he could do the same thing, and whilst he was tying himself, which took about ten minutes, the medium, show and all disappeared, the crowd hallow lowing, “Fraud,” “Swindle,” “Arrest them.” When, in good order HR I conld, I made a hasty retreat to my hotel quar ters, determined to sleep off this attack on my nervous system that night if I could. I conld more easily give the descrip tive geography of Georgia from the sea board to the mountains than that of the city of New York and its surroundings, and as to saying how so many people are fed and clothed, where more than twen ty streetcars are going every five minutes and as many omnibuses are constantly filled with people going and coining and the sidewalks on fifty streets present the appearance of a fire raging in both directions that they were anxious to put out, giving seemingly no time for work, I can form not even the remotest idea, unless like the tossing and raging sea they live on their own fullness. I saw two funeral corteges passing around Broadway the hearse in a fast trot and each carriage in hot pursuit. It may be they wanted to ship on some leaving train, but then when cars leave so often I think the next train wonld not have kept expectant friends long is suspense. The politics of New York, like every thing else here, mean business, and the bulls sometimes press up one side whilst the bears crush out the other. As long as Democratic Conventions are held in the range of New York they will be con trolled by money bags and bids,' and I would suggest New Orleans or Augusta to get from under the weight and influence of money bags. In Connecticut and many of the New England. States, the people burdened and oppressed by bond holding monopolists, are organizing green back clnbs and societies, and the party that attempts to crash this now still but potential voice of our people will be greatly mistaken. Asa nation, for one huodred years we have had an unprecedented prosperity, and not twen ty years of the one hundred has there been a gold currency. Let greenbacks be received for all Government dues, and fonr hundred more millions issued, and the gold that will have to be purchased to balance our exchanges may be attrib uted alone to our sloth and indolence. This gold movement is from bondhold ers and monopolists to control the Gov ernment and people. Time will show whether we are slaves or freemen. If the South depends upon sectional feel ing, whilst it may make Senators, Gov ernors and Representatives in the South, and ultimately discord and perhaps strife, it will never secure national con trol, without which we must remain as we are, poor and. dependent, unless our people will adopt confederate habits and avoid foreign productions. * Whilst I do not impute the least wrong to our great chieftain and Presi dent, I wonld as a Southern man, feel greatly hnmiliated if Gen. Lee was President and he were to have as confi dential secretary, and one of his imme diate . family, a man who could receive five hundred dollars from thieving whis key dealers, and send such dispatches as “Sylph,” “Mum,” “J3ab,” “The goose hangs equilibrium,” or “high,” (OS ‘‘loose.” “hunkey,” and ,9ftph like TsAyuigs. Yet as times ate changed, why may not men? Gen. McDonald one year * ago, riding in a fine landaulet on Pennsylvania Avenue with President Grant, and to-day in the State prison, can only _ occur in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Yet we are a truly progressive people, but whioh way ? . G. THE SOUTHERN LIFE. Explanation of its Present Status—The Num ber of its Polloy-Hoiders in Georgia. The statement in reference to the pres ent condition of the Southern Life Insu rance Company promised you in our brief oard, is given below. It was de layed by the absence ot Gen. Gordon in Memphis, and the necessity of obtaining from him all the facts in reference to the company’s affairs. It is not necessary, we hope, to say mnoh of either the general condition or conduct of this department. It is already known to you, that whatever troubles environ it, result from complication at the home office in Memphis. These complications are explained below, and you will perceive, do not reflect even upon management of that department; on the contrary, the directors at Mem phis, in assuming the living business of the “Carolina Life,” acted under the guidance of insurance experts as to the financial advantages of the transaction, and under the advices of the ablest at torneys as to its legal security. The facts, with reference to that transaction, are these : The Southern Life did not purchase the “Carolina Life,” nor as sume one dollar of its past losses or debts. Nor did the “Carolina,” go out of existence. The Southern Life agreed by its contraot, with the advice of attor neys, simply to take the policies then living of the “Carolina,” receive the premiums, and issue its own policies, upon the “Carolina’s” turning over to the Southern, assets to make these poli cies secure. This contract was drawn by able lawyers, and was intended to protect the Southern from all liabilities for any previous debts or losses incurred by the Carolina, if, therefore, the direc tors at Memphis erred in making this contraot, which has biought the trouble upon the company, it was an error which would have been| made under such circumstances and with such advice by any body of intelligent business men. The step which now proves so disas trous, was taken for the purpose of in creasing the business of the company without a relative increase of expenses. It is as unjust, therefore, to oensuro the Memphis directory as it would be to oondemn the directors of a railroad, who under the wisest counsels, and in order benefit those interest*?*!, should ugree to take the business of another company which afterwards proved disastrous. In the light of present facts, the Memphis directory made a mistake, but with the sights before them at the time, and by the judgement of the ablest counsel they could command, they acted, we think, as other business men would have acted. Your sense of justice will induce you to admit that these gentlemen could not have anticipated liability from the Carolina’s losses under a contract thus drawn. After the contract was signed, the creditors of the Carolina brought suit, and proceeded by bill to enjoin the Southern against; the use of assets, and thereby occasioned this great disaster, although these creditors never held the policies of the Southern, nor paid to it any premiums. The directors at Memphis, seeing the serious complications thus brought upon the “Southern” and in order to save the assets from utter sacrifice filed their own petition in bankruptcy, and have check ed further proceedings until some pro gramme oan be agreed‘upon. Every effort is being made to rescue the com pany from these complications. If this could be ■ done, your policy would be secure. If not, and the assets are forced to sale in the financial distress of the country, we need not tell you that the sacrifice will be very great. We have felt that it was due the directory at Memphis to say this much. Of course this department, which is but a branch office, is involved with the company. Had it been possible, under the charter, to separate from the company, this de partment' would not have suffered from these complications; and we believe that the facts herewith submitted will abun dantly vindicate the care and economy with which the department has been managed, and demonstrate great sucoess claimed for it. At the time this unex pected calamity overtook us we were receiving premiums from 483 policy holders in Georgia. There are insured in the entire company in both depart ments, including States from Maryland to Texas abont 4,000 lives. • We have paid at this office to the widows and or phans of the deceased policy holders in this department, abont 0500,000, and have returned to our patrons more than 0200,000 in dividends We may be permitted to refer with pardonable pride to the economy and care in the management of this depart ment; and we submit with confidence the following facts to your candid judg ment and to your sense of justice. We believe it is notorious among insurance agent that the commissions paid to this company’s agents are very low, if not lower than those paid by any com pany doing bnsiness in the South. Our agents have been offered repeatedly much higher commissions by Northern companies—in some instances almost double. In this connection let ns make known to you that the undersigned were net paid salaries, high or low, as some designing persons would induce you to believe We were paid commissions only, upon the bnsiness brought to the company, and those commissions paid to us were less by 50 per cent than many Northern companies pay their agent. Out of these commissions, less we say than were paid others we em ployed our agents. We make no apol ogies for thus making known to you the particulars of our personal relations to the company because we recognize your right to be informed upon all mat ters touching our management. * Some of you inquire whether the money paid by you to the company can not be returned. If the oompany had no entanglements, it would still be im possible to do that. The company has carried the risk npon your lives since the dates of your policies. It is not correot, therefore, to say that you have lost the money paid in. Your life has been insured and the premiums are paid mainly to cover hazard. You will per ceive, therefore, that it would be almost ai reasonable to ask the Fire Insurance Gfimpany to return your premiums, be euse at the end of the year you* find fuat your house has not been burned. While you have not died, many others have, and these death losses were paid from the aggregated premiums received. Iu some cases the amounts paid on death claims have far exceeded Hie amounts received in premiums; as for instance, from the county of Troup, we have received in cash for premiums about seventeen thonsand dollars (017,000) dollars, and we have returned to that county, in payment of death claims, twenty-one thousand (021,000) dollars. While of coarse these instances are not common, they will show you how impossible it is for a company to pay all death claims and yet return the money received in premiums for this very purpose. No oompany in the world conld comply with such a request. Yon may be assured that we shall leave nothing undone which we oan do i to relieve yon from the effects of this disaster, which was as startling to us as it was to yon, and far more calamitous. If the oompany can be rescued the relief Jill be complete—sufficient to protect our policy, or to re-iusnre you, or pay a surrender value. Of the success, how elver, of efforts to save the company, we aire unable to give you any positive as surance. Of oourse in the present status df affairs the company will reoeive no . premiums. A complete record however, is kept of all policies, and you will be promptly notified of any change in the present situation. In conclusion, we will say that, with this statement, and with a censoienoious discharge of duty, we confidently repose on the fair and intel ligent judgment of men every where. John B. Gordon. A. H. Colquit. Atlanta, Ga., February 18, 1876. LETTER FKOJI BARNETT. Visit of* Six Children Cos the Homestead and Grare of Their Mother in Warren County After Years of Absence—Their Visit to Mr. Stepheus—lncidents at His House. ' Barnett, Ga., February 19, 1876. Editors Chronicle and'Sentinei : The home and burial place of Mrs. Elizabeth Bbodes, near here, is uow owned and occupied by one of her sons, Captain R. C. Rhodes. In early life she was left a widow, with six sons, to-wit: T. N. Rhodes, who lives in Newnan, a minister of the Gospel and school teaoh ef—in the latter occupation he bafe ao< qjiired a creditable reputation ; Dr. E. D. Rhodes, lives .near Taladega, Ala.; G. F. and A. G. Rhodes are citizens of Hancock county, in this State, and L. M. Rhodes, of Warren. They have been separated and have had little or no in tercourse the past twenty years. Capt. R. C. Rhodes has long since contem plated calling all his brothers together at the old homstead. Preparation was made and they assembled on the 16th instant. The meeting of these six brothers at the old homestead is a re markable occurrence. They are in strong, mutual sympathy and are mem bers of the Baptist Church. The meet ing was characterized by a varied. inter est. While mnch of their pleasure con sisted in boisterous merriment —in bringing up reminiscences of childhood —they did not neglect to sing praises to God and to unite their voices in prayers to the Throne of Mercies. The Rev. T. J. and Dr. Wm. H. Pilcher, accompa nied by Capt. W. F. Holden, from Craw fordville; were present, and. while they contributed no little in pleasure-making on the oocasion, their interest was more in the novelty of the scene. The touching beauty of the occasion displayed by these brothers when they repaired to the grave of their mother can be better anticipated than described. Their separation from the old home stead and from each other called forth expressions of sentiments which showed they realized the improbability of ever in life experiencing a similar meeting. The Rev. T. N. Rhodes paid a short visit to his brother-in-law, the Rev. Brantly Callaway, in Wilkes county, and met Dr. E. D. Rhodes Friday last at Orawfordville, and ‘visiting many old friends and relatives, a short call was made upon Mr. Stephens. The condi tion of the latter was such that Dr. Steiner thought a call upon him inad visable; but when Mr. Stephens learned that T. N. Rhodes desired to see him he consented that all the visiting party might come in and see him, but not to remain but one minute. Mr. Stephens is very feeble. He expressed his pleas ure in meeting T. N. Rhodes—saying, “Thomas, you are doing a great deal of good in Newnan.” Mr. Rhodes replied, saying, “All the good I am doing and am capable of doing, I owe it to you, Mr. Stephens.” Mr. Stephens replied, “Not at all.” It is proper to say that Mr. Rhodes feels very grateful to Mr. Stephens, as his early educational ad vantages is due to his assistance. On leaving Mr. Stephens’ room the whole party bowed in passing him, and while we were passing out of the chamber of this great and good man an inoident oc curred, exhibiting his fondness for chil dren, when he called little Stella A. H. to him, saying, “Kiss me, Stella.” FI TRAMPS. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle : How to deal with tramps is becoming every year a more and more praotical and serious social problem. They in fest the open country, and swarm in every large city in even greater num bers. You cannot return home at mid night without meeting them every few squares, pacing the streets with halting and hesitating step, not knowing where to go. cannot walk out in the early morning without confronting them again, as they start '.orth from the sta tion houses, or their other hiding places, on another day of begging. A single faot speaks volumes in Brooklyn. Last year the number of persons pro vided with lodgings in the station houses aggregated 56,576. There are several ways of regarding this subject. The sentimentalist looks merely at the surface of things. He sees the rags and wretchedness of the tramp, and hears his appeal of hunger, and looks upon him with feelings of unmingled tenderness. He surrounds him with a halo of romance. He views him through a rosy, sunset atmosphere. His heart is touched by his homeless ness, and in unthinking kindness he seems to consider him as the most worthy object of charity in the com munity. The best cure for this over sentimentalism is to look some stubborn facts squarely in the face. It must be remembered that these miserable and houseless men have, in most cases, cat themselves off from from the sympathy of their friends and opportunities of em ployment by their own wrong doing. And then every one who reads the daily papers must see from the almost contin ual occurrence of house-breaking, high way robbery, arson and all manner of crimes, that these men still persist in their evil ways, only begging when they cannot steal and stealing when they can not beg. Idleness is always the mother of mischief. But for a man of wioked habits it is pre-eminently true that “an idle brain is the devil’s workshop.” What is the condition of Orange coun ty, New York; Sussex county, New Jer sey, and certain parts of Ohio and of New England, where work houses have been established? A tramp is almost as rare as a wbite crow. These men shun these seotions as if they were in fected with a fatal plague. The few un fortunates who are absolutely destitute, and yet willing to work, are supplied with shelter and food without charity, bnt the greater nnmber who mean to live without work and depend upon the charity of the benevolent, drift abont from place to place, staying in one city just as long as they can hide their true oharacter and impose upon the credulity of the sentimentalist. Now, we would not oscillate from the extreme sympathy to the extreme of sternness. We would not deny any man, whatever his character, immediate re-, lief from the gnawings of hungry. We would provide temporary shelter from the elements for the worst men, as far as possible. Severity only hardens and embitters a man in wickedness. But continued kindness under such circum-* stances is wrong in itself, injurious to society, and hurtful to the class in ques tion. We believe there is a practical solution of this rigid social problem. Establish work houses in every county ef every Btate in the Union. Admit the honest, destitute men who make appli cation to apartments set aside for their use, and to privileges peculiarly their own. And then arrest every tramp for vagrency, compel him to work for the public benefit, and give him in return the necessaries of life. These institu tions would be self-sustaining, for there are always public improvements re quired, in which their labor might be utilized. In Orange county, this Winter, they are preparing stone to macadamize the roads, and there is something to be done everywhere. In any event, this ahum are now only moths in society, con suming something and prodneing noth ing, and nnder such a system they would at least make some slight return for their living. Perhaps, too, this ar rangement might be a positive benefit to themselves, for finding that they coaid not live without work, they might prefer working for their own gain to working for the State. Let honest men awake from the dream of the sentiment alist; let them demand that virtue no longer pay tribute to vice, and industry to idleness, and the whole country may soon be rid of the fiannting rags and wretchedness of the tramps. When there is scarcity in a bee hive, we be lieve that the workers kill off the drones; bnt there is an equally effective and much rnore humane way of protecting society, in the erection of work houses Meat thieves rampant aronnd Taylor. Mr. John Whittington and John Wind ham the last sufferer* by them. *2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID. THE STATE. ‘ THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS- Tuesday’s Items. Mr. B. M. Fryer’s store, in Blakely, was burglarized the other night. Blakely has had a leap year party, at the residence of Mr. H, C. Fryer. Mr. David Lyle, of Jaokson .county, was badly hurt recently, by a falling tree. In Jackson county, male and female prisoners are confined in the same’ apart ments. Miss M. Stanley, of Fannin county, who was severely injured by a fall lately, is improving. While Mr. J. P. Berreny, of Fannin county, was at church, S3O was stolen ftom his house. In Molntosh county, O. O. Hopkins was badly beaten by Wm. McDonald and Loniß Winn. George B. Neal, formerly of Warren county, has mpv.ed to,Lumpkin county, where he will farm. We learh that General Toombs is go ing to reply to Senator Gordon Wednes day night, in Macon. In Lnmpkin county, recently, Ste phen Griffin was seriously, if not fatally out by Rev. Wm. Ash. Col. Robert Bangh, of Atlanta, has had a stroke of paralysis. His con dition is considered critioal. Rev. A. J. Kelley, of Jaokson county, has sold his plantation, near Jefferson, to Judge McDonald and his sou-in-law, Mr, Oliver, of Gainesville. Buril Malone, from Donglas county, accidentally shot himself in the stomach with a derringer pistol, in Atlanta, last week, and is’ in a critioal condition. The dwelling of Fabins Jenkins, in Fannin county, was destroyed by fire recently, with everything in it. The family was away at the time. Incen diarism suspected. The reoent raids in Oglethorpe county resulted in the seizure of ten illicit dis tilleries and 15,000 gallons of mash in bins. Twenty-one prisoners were brought in, including a United States Commis sioner. Rome Commercial: “When a fellow picks up a piece of hot iron in a black smith’s shop he generally puts it down without being told. We would advise Senator Gordon to let Bob Toombs alone. Verb. Sap.” The Albany News says that labor is as abundant and cheap in that locality as any honest man can afford to run it. From nothing and rations to $4 per month are the asking rates, by those in search of homes, and no takers. Judge Porter, of Griffin, has invented a subsoil plow which breaks the ground from fifteen to twenty inches deep, and, having sharp wings on each side of the subs jil, it pulverizes the ground perfect ly, and leaves it as loose as an ash bank. Mr. John Kittle, of Jackson county, has moved his steam saw mills to the place known as the “Hodgson tract,” on “half-way ground” between Jefferson and Athens, and will locate his machin ery about half a mile to the left of the road going to Athens. General and Mrs. Toombs, and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. W. Simpson, of Washing ton, Wilkes oounty, visited Mr. Ste phens last Saturday and spent the day at Liberty Hall. Dr. E. W. Alfriend, of Southwest Georgia (formerly of Sparta), is also spending some days with Mr. Stephens. . Columbus Enquirer: “3,545 emigrants have left this section, included in a ra dius of fifty miles, in two and a half months. Of this nnmber not 350 were whites. This compilation embraces as many from Alabama as Georgia, as the river here is the dividing line between the two States.” Small people will fuss over small mat ters. At breakfast at a boarding house in Darien the other Sunday morning, a discussion arose about the size of differ ent kind of eggs. Harsh words follow ed, and two of the disputants fiualiy re sorted to blows. No serious damage was done, however, as other parties in terfered and stopped the oombat. A petition is circulated in Columbus to have Douglas Cadman pardoned by the Governor. He shot a young man from Harris county, and was sentenced for it, at the last Superior Court, to im prisonment in the county jail and a fine of S2OO, we believe. The wounded party has recovered, and many believe Cadman has suffered sufficiently from the im prisonment already inflicted to teach him a lesson for the future. Washington correspondence Colum bus Times : “Then entering our car riage—$1 60 an hour, dear friends—we whirled away to Senator Bayard’s. The young lady daughter of the house, who made her debut last week, was chattiDg with a friend, but Mrs. Bayard received us with the easy grace which marks one to the manor born. I havn’t the faintest idea of her features and shouldn’t know her again if I met her, but I brought away with me a memory of dark hair smoothly brushed back from a high forehead; a pair of bright, dark eyes, and a sweet voice that knew how to make music out of commonplace words. Senator Bayard is, par excellence, the cultivated gentleman, and Mrs. Bayard as true a type of the refined lady.” In an article on female education, the Christian Index says: “ Our observa tions and reflections lead us to conolude that time and money expended in teach ing girls Latin are not only wasted but worse then wasted.” After answering many of the arguments used by those who advocate cramming girls with Latin, the Index says: “We may be farther told that the study of Latin— and other dead languages—benefit the student, not only by the ideas it com municates, bat .also by the exercise it affords to one’s intellectual powers. To this we reply that the study of modern languages—such as the German, French and Italian—tend equally to call into ex ercise our mental powers,and at the same time open before us sources of infor mation far superior to any afforded by knowledge in Latin. We are decidedly of opinion that the time spent by girls (and by many boys) in the study of Latin might be more profitable expend ed in acquiring a thorough knowledge of the higher branches of an English education.” The Index concludes its very timely and sensible remarks as fol lows: “We do not usually expend our money for things for which we have no use. We would, therefore, suggest the inquiry to those girls who are ambitious to obtain a knowledge of Latin, and to the doating parents who foster that am bition in them, to what practical use can a girl apply her knowledge of Latin after she has obtained it ?” Wednesday’s Items. Major M. R. Rogers has been elected alderman in the Fourth Ward, in Ma con, without an opposing vote. Taylor’s Ridge, southwest of Dalton, is said to be thickly infested with wolves. Quite a number of sheep have been killed by them. A negro named Jerry Davis, charged with assault with intent to pmrder, es caped from Covington jail the other morning. A writing school has been opened in Crawford. And another bar room is soon to be opened there. So the Echo man can take his choice. The crib of Mr. J. C. Reid, near Eatonton, was burned Thursday night last, with 400 bash els of corn and seven or eight stacks of fodder. A negro named Joe Blown shot an other negro, named Vincent Williams, in the head, in Burke county, recently. Williams was alive at last accounts. Hon. Clifford Anderson has been elected Chairman of the Law Faculty of Mercer University, and J. C. Ruther ford, Professor, vice Judge Cole, de ceased. The young ladies of the Luoy Cobb Institute have commenced the publica tion of the "Lucy Cobb Institute Mes senger. Success to their praiseworthy enterprise. The gin house of Rev. J. B. Felder, of Houston oounty, has been destroyed by fire, together with several bales of cotton, a lot of cotton seed, and a fine gin. Loss abont SI,OOO. Mrs. Elizabeth Caldwell, widow ef Major J. E. Caldwell, was stricken with paralysis, in Gainesville, last Tuesday evening, and was in a state of uncon sciousness at last accounts. The Madison Home Journal says that ** on .°* Bw- Allen Clark, colored, while sitting in a chair a few days ago, fell suddenly forward and expired before assistance could reach him. Wm. G. Stephens, Esq., of Crawford ville, was in the city yesterday. He in formed ns that his uncle, Hon. A. H. Stephens, seemed to be better thftQ h? was Sunday last. He has moved from his old jroom in the rear of the library to the room opposite the parlor, in the new part of Liberty Hall. This move, it is hopld, will prove benefioial to him. In Atlanta, Monday, the creditors of the bankrupt firm of West, Edwards & Cos., held a meeting at the office of the register for the purpose of electing an as signed. After some discussion it was decided to have two assignees instead of one. Mr. Francis, of Augusta, and Mr. G. T. Dodd, of Atlanta, were according ly eleoted, and the meeting adjourned. Great crowds of gaping, staring At lantese rushed to the depot to see Booth on his arrival, but Booth quietly slip ped into the hotel through the back way, and the rabble was badly sold. Of course a reporter tried to interview him, but Booth was “indisposed,” and had to decline the honor. And the reporter and the rabble went off “on their ears." MaCon Telegraph, 20 th: “Avery sad accident ocourred yesterday morning in the Warrior District of this county. While Mrs. R. Mitchell, a widowed sis ter of ,001. John Braswell, was at the well, a little daughter of Col. Braswell, some seven or eight years of age, came running out of the house with her cloth ing on fire. While attempting to ex tinguish the flames the dress of Mrs. Mitohell took fire, and before she could rid herself of her clothing, was so se verely burned that she is not expected to recover. The little girl died from the effects-of ■her-'tßwwß-tn ah'hour and a half. It is not known how her clothing took fire.” Gordon on Sherman : “There was Sherman, fresh from his “march to the sea,” and oovered in their estimation, (the Republican party), with the glory of victory, making terms with General Joseph E. Johnston which, if consumma ted, would not only have brought im mediate peace to the entire country, but would have crowned both these Generals with a fame brighter and more enduring than all their victories ! Did •they endorse Sherman? They threw contempt upon his propositions. I offer that as an argument against their competency.” Well, which do you pre fer for President, Senator, Grant or Sherman ? The Oglethorpe county prisoners now in Atlanta, charged with illicit distilling and retailing whisky and tobacco with out lioense, are Lem Howard, John Esoo, Henry Thornton, Dick Arnold, Scott Parks, J. F. Cunningham, N. Muckles, G. Dedwiler, J. Davenport, T. Jennings, Taylor Fades, J. Moore, S. Favors, J. Goosberry, B. Eades, W. Pass, T. Doster, J. Davenport, W. Hooper, M. Flemmings and S. Hubbard. Six of these prisoners have been re turned to Commissioner W. B. Smith for trial, and the others to Commission er Buck. The party was accompanied by Mr. Samuel Lumpkin, of Lexington, the Solicitor-General of that Circuit, who had been retained for the defense. Some six or seven of the party are ne groes. Putnam county continues to find cen tennial relics. W. W. Turner shows the last, in the shape of a curioUs liquor case, the history of which, says the Eatonton Messenger, is a little singular. Before the Revolutionary war the great grandfather of William Turner, Joseph Turner, then residing in Virginia, had a neighbor who was ft Royalißt, or Tory. Seeing trouble at hand, * this neighbor came to Mr. Turner and said: “Joe, I am going home till this little fuss is over, and I want you to take care of my liquor case till I come back.” Accord ingly, he sailed for England, but the little fuss not turning out exactly as he expected, he never returned. After the war was over, Mr. Turner emigrated to Georgia with his son, who was also named Joseph. The eliest of bottles has been handed down from father to son till it reached the hands of its present owner. Marriaaea. In Savannah, J. T. Shuptrine to Miss S. S. Newton. In Taylor oounty, John Garrett to Cornelia Martin. In Floyd county, Mark H. Watters to Mary L. Mitchell. , In Jackson oounty, Gideon Edwards to Sarah Ann Lyle. In Darien, .Captain John Hagan to Mrs. K. C. O. Stroburn. Death*. In Fannin county, child of Mr. F. Grizzle. Thursday’s Items. Col. J. C, Barton has purchased the interest of A. L. Davidson in the Rock dale Register. The Columbus Times and Southern Watchman seems to have the same special Washington correspondent. Walton county jail has 13 occupants. Among them are one school mistress, one dancing master, one singing, master, one fiddler, one fortune toller, one ditcher, one chimney sweep and. ona shoemaker. In Columbus, a leap year party is a leap year party. • The gentlemen are in vited by the ladies, just as the ladies are invited to all other parties by the gentlemen. The ladies, of course, are oalled for at their homes by the gentle men just as on other occasions. But the Columbus young ladies have notions of their own about “carriages,” and these notions are expressed in the fol lowing resolutions, unanimously adopt ed: "Resolved, 1. That we have always been opposed to the young gentlemen hiring carriages to take us to places of amusements, simply because it rained. Resolved, 2. With a view to setting an example, and a precedent, we obligate ourselves to ignore carriages, and pro vide onrselves with an umbrella, a water-proof and pair of overshoes, and shall ask those gentlemen whom we are to escort, to be provided likewise.” Savannah News, 22d : “ Yesterday evening, about 6 o’clock, a scene occur red in Forsyth Park, which, but for the prompt appearance of the policeman on duty there, would, in all probability, have resulted in the serious discomfiture of an impertinent individual. The affair was the occasion of considerable indig nation and excitement. It appears that several young ladies, daughters of well known citizens, were standing around the fountain, engaged* in mirthful con versation, when a young man named Simpson, a drummer from a Philadel phia house, in company with a fellow traveler, approached them. It is stated that he bad been following tbem in the park previously. On reaching the young ladies Simpson spoke to them in a care less manner, and attempted familiarity with one of them by touching her on the arm or shoulder. The ladies moved off in mnch indignation, when he edged towards them. Fortunately at this mo ment one of the youug ladies espied her brother with some friends, and hasten ing towards him apprized him of the ocourrenoe. Simpson’s companion of fered no insult, and had no further con nection with the affair than to be in that individual’s company. The brother of the lady at once approached Simpson and inqnired what be meant by insulting ladies. Simpson replied that he had not done so, when the young man, with an emphatic epithet, let his dexter arm loose, and the “ commercial traveler ” went to grass. Before the incensed brother conld repeat the blow the police man appeared and arrested them both. They were carried to the barracks and gave bonds for tbeir appearance at the Police Court this morning.” AN IRISH LEGION FOR THE CENTEN. NIAL. Editors Chronicle and Sentinel : An Irish Legion for the Centennial from the South should be formed and placed under the command of some dis tinguished Irishman who exemplified the chivalry of the old Isle on the side of the South during the late war. An organization of the kind could easily be perfected, and if our “Irish Volunteers” would place themselves in correspond ence with kindred organizations through out the South they could have Augusta as the rendezvous for the companies South of this point and Norfolk, Va., as the place of general rendezvous for the whole legion. It would indeed be a splendid offering at the shrine of American Liberty on the Fourth of July, 1876. It would be an honor to the mar tial spirit and memory of the gallant Pat Cleburne, whose name is linked with the Irish of the South as Sarsfield’g with the Irish at Neerwinden. It is true that Ireland is not a nation—h,at the Irish still maintain and must a nationality, becaiuse by it th,ey gradually relieve their dear land ttOm oppression. No people have a greater right to be there, distictivel v; they have al ways loved liberty and deJended it. They poured oat their blood far American Independ ence in and their genins, labor and valor ham done as much, if not more, thafl any other European element in America to plaQe her where 6he is found V* w 6, An Akebioan.
