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Address WALSH * WRIGHT,
Chronicle 4 Bentixel. Angusta. Ga.
Cfjromcle an& JSmrtnel.
A’ HDNEBDAY.... .MARCH 8, 1876.
Who wrote that article on Governor j
Smith in the New York Jferald f
Non* o t the State Road statesmen j
have a word to say. And yet they only
talked to legislators.
A letter to the New York Herald say*
that Hebschel V, Johnson or B. H.
Hint, will tie the next Senator from
Georgia.
The counsel of Babcock, the indicted
whisky thief, blasphemously likened the
public clamor for the prosecution of
Babcock to the outcries of the Jews
against the Saviour of mankind. ,
The Hon. Jno, of Blackshear, says he
will not embrace the Constitutionalist;
and now the question arises: Did the
Constitutionalist ever seek the embrace
of the Hon Jno, of Blackshear—else
whence these refusal ?
The impeachment of Kellogg will
scarcely last as long as the impeachment
of Andrew Johnson. The Radical Sen
ate found a verdict of acquittal by
quashing the indictment. Short and
sweet. And now Kellogg has been
“vindicated.” Next.
The Bainbridge Democrat shoots re
markably good powder when it says
“ there seems to be an effort from the
“ State Elective Committee down, to
“ take all the power from the voters of
“ the party to use as they thick best.”
But what care Hakdeman & Cos. ?
Thebe iB a report—vague, far and dim
— that the Hon. Petekson Thweatt and
his claim will come before the next Leg
islature. If Mr. Thweatt can hold out
ho will doubtless get a showing after
awhile. In the meantime the discussion
of the claim is costing more than the
claim itself.
The election of a Representative from
Cotnmbus is a “ d—d barren ideality.”
The Legislature has adjourned and the
regular election will take place next Oc
tober The somewhat remote contingency
of an extra session is the only chance that
the winner has for obtaining the seat.
However, somebody must be “ vindi
cated,” we suppose.
Mb. A. J. Kino, of Floyd county, evi
dently believes in the truth of the prov
erb thut the early bird catches the worm.
Mr. Kino is already announced as a can
didate for the State Senate from the
Forty-second District—the election to
take place next October. However, Mr.
Kino is not the earliest bird in the field
after all. Some of the numerous guber
natorial candidates have been iu search
of worms for the last three years.
The Atlanta Courier has a perfect
right to advocate the nomination of Mr.
Thurman if it sees proper to do so, but
there is no reason why it should make
unfounded flings at other gentlemen.
The Courier says, in a sarcastic
way, that Mr. Pendleton, a healthy
in.an, cacae South in search of health.
The.' Courier kuows that Mr. Pen
dleton came South to restore the
health of au iuvalid daughter.—
The Courier also knows that Mr. Pen
dleton’s daughter was ill in Augusta for
several weeks.
A gentleman in St. Louis sends to
the Chronicle and Sentinel the follow
ing statement of the flour business of
that city : Twenty-seven flour mills
manufactured during the year 1875
1,424,821 barrels of flour; received in
St. Louis from other points 1,800,381
barrels—making a total of 2,725,202
barrels. There were exported from St.
Louis during the same year 2,480,877
barrels. A largo quantity of this flour
was shipped by rail to the Gulf and
South Atlantic States. One mill alone
itumod out 186,887 barrels.
And now it is said that the opponents
of Mr. Hill in the Ninth District are
preparing to defeat him, if possible,
this Fall. We learn that in order to se
cure the co-operation of the lower por
tion of the District iu the movement, the
mountain men will present to the Nom
ir.'atiug Convention a man from one of
the' southern counties—probably Hon.
Joed A. Billups, of Morgan. The
principal ground of objection to Mr.
Hill is that he is virtually a resident of
the Fifth aud not of the Ninth District.
It is understood that the mountain men
are perfectly willing to support Mr.
Hill for the Senate, but not for the
Lower House of Congress.
No one can doubt General Gordon's j
"valor. We learn from the New York j
Tribune that the Soldier-Senator has ■
been giving a great deal of attention
this Winter to the subject of the whisky
•frauds. He has prepared a proposition ;
which he will introduce into the Senate, !
revising and simplifying the method of ,
collecting the tax on spirits. He thinks
he can demonstrate that the adoption of j
his plan will enable the Government to
prevent, to a very great degree, the j
frauds which have characterized the col-'
lection of this tax, and result hi a sav- !
ing of millions of dollars annually. He j
•aiso proposes to change the system of I
appointments in the Internal Revenue i
Service, and is satisfied that his plan j
must eommend itself to the best judg- j
jnent of Congress and the country.
The taxation of mortgages or other
evidences of debt as property has been
declaimed by the Supreme Court of Cali
fornia to be illegal and unconstitutional.
The Court holds that “mere credits are
a false quantity in ascertaining the sum
of wealth which is subject to taxation as
property, and in so far as that sum is
attempted to be increased by the addi
tion of those credits, property taxation,
Based thereon, is ntM only merely fanci
ful, bat necessarily the unconstitutional
imposition of an additional tax upon a
portion of the property already once
taxed.” The decision is based solely on
this principle, and upon the clause of
the Constitution which provides “that
taxation shall be equal and uniform
throughout the State,” and “all proper
ty in this State shall be taxed in propor
tion to its value, to be ascertained as
directed by law.” As the New York
Tribune remarks, if this be good law in
California it certainly ought to be in
-other States.
“t'AKKYINO THE NEWS TO HIRAM.”
The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Inter-Ocean (a rabid Radical
| paper) says that the news of Babcock’s
j acquittal was received there about
! the time of the adjournment of the two
houses, and was quickly circulated
through the crowds at the Capitol. The
Democrats mode no secret of their dis
appointment, bat the friends of the
President were exalt&nt. Telegrams
were received at the White House all
day, giving the progress of the trial,
and a telegram from Emoby Stobbs an
nouncing the aeqnittal came while the
President’s family were at dinner. The
President swallowed his dessert hastily,
and putting on his overcoat, hurried off
on foot to General Babcock’s residence,
which is a quarter of a mile from the
White House, to tell Mrs. Babcock the
news. He visited several other friends,
and was as happy as if be had won a
great* victory. During the evening a
large number of prominent people
called at the White House, and Mrs.
Gba,nt received the congratulations of
those who came before the President re
turned.
A CALL FOR KILTER.
The St. Lonis Republican says there
is a strong demand being made for e
commencement of the redemption of
fractional currency by silver, under the
provisions of the law passed by the late
Congress. It is believed that all the
reqnisite conditions for the successful
accomplishment of the task now exist,
and that if silver coins were paid out
now, they would stay out. Secretary
Richardson’s attempt to redeem frac
tional currency with silver in small sums,
two years ago, was a laughable failure;
because silver was then worth more
than the fractional currency; but it is
cheaper now than it was then; it is
quoted at 99 cents per dollar as the buy
ing price, and 101 as the selling price.
Its value, therefore, is about par with
greenbacks; and for this reason it is as
serted that if it were paid out for frac
tional currency it would circulate freely,
and not be hoarded. It is proposed to
make the experiment of redeeming the
10 and 16 cents pieces of fractional cur
rency first, and if this shall prove satis
factory then gradually to redeem all the
other pieces also. Secretary Bbistow
has about 815,000,000 silver to devote to
the work, and the law authorizes him to
buy as much more as may be needed.
One good effect of the substitution
would be that of accustoming the people
to the old metallic money that prevailed
fifteen, years ago, and thus prepare them
for the ultimate restoration of gold for
the larger currency.
NAMING THE NOMINEE.
The Atlanta Courier, as well as Senator
Gordon, believes in Mr. Thurman, as
the coming man of the Democracy.
A correspondent of the Boston Post has
assumed that Mr. Blaine would be the
Presidential nominee of the Republi
cans and Mr. Hendricks of the Demo
crats, and upon this basis figures out a
majority of one hundred and five electo
ral votes for the man from Maine—giv
ing him the votes of such States as
Florida, Louisiana, New Jersey, New
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West
Virginia. This calculation moves the
Courier to say:
We suggest the following change in the
situation to the “Nix Spectators." Put Thurman
in Hendricks' place. We believe that his can
didacy would secure New,York with its 35 votes,
Ohio with its 22 and New Jersey with its 9.
Now, deduct from Blaine's 237, West Vir
ginia's 5, and Carolina's 6, which any candi
didate will take away from him, and he has
226 and Thurman will have 143. Now transfer
New York (35), Ohio (2), and New Jersey (9),
and the vote will stand : Blaine, 160, and
Thurman, 209. But it may be said that Thur
man caunot carry Indiana, after he has beaten
her favoiite son in the nomiuation. All right;
with Indiana (15 votes), transferred, the vote
would stand: Thurman, 194; Blaine, 175.
Thurman would have, besides the above vote,
which may be counted pretty certain, good
chances at New Hampshire, Louisiana, Florida
and Connecticnt, aid we believe be could cany
Indiana also. It is onr deliberate opinion that,
with Blaine and Thurman in the field, Thur
man would get a rousing majority of the elec
toral votes. But Thurman is, ia our opinion,
the only man who can be sure of carrying the
flag to victory. Hendrick* is strong in the
West, but could not control the Eastern vote.
Tilden And Batari> are strong in the East, but
cannot control the Wester* vote. Thurman
can control Ohio, and is as strong in the East
as any Eastern man could be. His nomination
is, in our opinion, the only key to the situa
tion.
If Mr. Thurman be fairly nominated
by the National Convention, we presume
that no good Democrat, North or South,
will refuse him a hearty support; but it
is assuming entirely too much to say
that his nomination is indispensable to
the success of the Democracy iu the
coming campaign. On the contrary, we
think there are grave objections to his
nomination. There are reasons for be
lieving that he would be the weakest
candidate the Democrats could put in
the field, with the single exception of
Horatio Seymour. It is extremely
doubtful whether Mr. Thurman could
oa£ry New York or Pennsylvania. It is.
reasonably certain that he cannot carry
either Indiana or Ohio—States which
properly belong to the Democracy, and
the loss of which will inevitably lose
the party the election. Mr. Thurman’s
conduct in the last Ohio campaign was
such as to array against him a strong
faotion, if not a majority, of the patty
in that State. Ohio is a close State,
and the opposition to Mr. Thubman
among the Democrats would give it to
the Republican candidate by a large
majority. Mr. Thubman so shaped his
course last Fall as to incur the ill-will
of both parties. . He was denounced in
New York as a coward and in Ohio and
Indiana as a traitor. He cannot obtain
a friendly delegation from his own State
to the National Conyenepp. He cannot
carry Ohio in the event of hi* jjosiina
tion. We must have a candidate who is i
able to carry both Ohio and Indiana.*
The name of that candidate > s n °t
Thubman.
The Sultan of Turkey, it is reported, j
has found a way out of the perplexities
that have lately surrounded his poeition
even if they have not worried him. He
is going to die, unless the fate of all
other men fails him, and to die soon un
less there is some mistake. The cable
which recently said a lady was “no
more” when she was “no worse,” may
have said the Sultan was “dying" when
in fact it meant he was negotiating
bonds—which would require only the
change of one letter. But assuming that
he is dying, not lying, it becomes of in
terest to see who will succeed him.
Probably it will be his brother, not his
son. The brother is the older, and the
law of succession is to give the throne
to the oldest male relative. Before Tur
key was the finely civilized nation that
it now is, this law used to create a deal
of family disturbance. Each new occu
pant of the throne would go to work to
kill off every living male who might
have the advantage over the son who
might be born to himself, and on one
occasion lest any snch heir might be lin
gering between this world and the next,
the new Saltan had the four hundred
i females of his predecessor’s harem all
killed when he took the throne, thus
cutting off the chances of any posthu
mous claimant Turkey is an interest
ing country.
MR. BILL’S MAINE LETTER.
Hon. B. H. Hill was recently invited
to attend a twenty-second of February
celebration at Bangor, Maine. Not be
ing able to leave his Congressional du
ties he sent his hosts a letter. In it he
told them that though he had never been
in a Northern’State until after the war,
he knew he did not entertain a political
sentiment that wonld not find a cordial
response from every trne Union man of
every party in every Northern State. He
said he opposed secession and a war of
subjugation and reconstruction, believ
ing each were terribly inimical to the
preservation of onr glorions constitu
tional system. He submitted to each as
he submitted to the death of a parent—
from necessity, not choice. No man
coaid rejoice more that, in spite of seces
sion and reconstruction, the Union still
lives. The following sentence applies
with especial force to a distingnished
citizen of the State to which he was in
vited: “Whatever doubt may exist as
to who was wise or unwise, patriotic or
unpatriotic, in connection with the
abases which produced secession, war,
and reconstruction, all must admit that
he is neither wise nor patriotic who
wonld keep alive the animosities of the
strife after the strifes themselves have
ended.” Speaking, as a representative
man, for the Southern people, he added:
They admit the freedom of their slaves
and ask no compensation for their prop
erty. They concede the citizenship and
enfranchisement of the colored race, and
without stopping to disenss the wisdom
of their enfranchisement, they will do,
as it is their interest to do, all in their
power to make the race worthy of these
high privileges. Their representatives
cheerfully vote to tax the lame Confed
erate soldier to pension the lame Union
soldier. In a word, they accept the
Constitution as it is, and offer to imbue
that Constitution with the spirit of the
Union as it was. What more can brave
men demand ?
TIIE CONDITION OF GERMANY.
A few days since we published an
editorial from the London Times giviDg
a gloomy picture of the financial and
material condition of Germany. A
leading German journal, the Co
logne Gazette, replies to the Times,
as we give below —a lady of this city
having kindly translated the article for
the Chronicle and Sentinel:
When the late French war broke out
(which England could have prevented
had she followed a policy less weak and
cowardly), the sympathy of the English
people was on the German side, and re
mained so as long as we confined our
selves to the defensive, and only resist
ed French assaults; but when we wished
to render these frivolous attacks more
difficult, or make them impossible, the
English turned their sympathies to the
“poor French.”
The English programme was nearly
that of Jules Favbe : “Not an inch of
our territories, and not a stone from our
fortresses!” The, English assured us
that we would be forever ruined by our
excessive demands in relation to the
war indemnity claim from the French.
There is a singular contrast between the
articles of the Times then and now. “If
we should predict the future of Ger
many and France (so began a leader in
the Times), we are forced to the belief
that the conquered have better days
to expect than the conquerors.”
The Times sketches a favorable pic
ture of French State economy. The
revenue of France in 1875 amounted to
more than 2,000 millions of francs—B7s
millions mire than in 1869. On the
other hand, how does it stand in Ger
many, and especially in Prussia? The
Times estimates that we will have this
year a deficit of 48 millions of marks,
and that we will be obliged either to
borrow or reduce our army. Happily
for us, we do not know of any German
deficit, much less of one so great.
The Times also connects, with the
proposed ruin of our finances, the most
terrible apprehensions. “ Prince Bis
marck (says the Times in the conclusion
of its remarks) must know that Gefmany
cannot sustain such a recruiting levy of
men for fifty years, no not even ten
years. The burden is so atrocious that
if it be not lessened, Germany must
try the experiment of war, and make a
path to general peace and general dis
arming !” The world might well fear a
war made by Germany from financial ne
cessity. The Times may rest quiet.
To its glaring ignorance of our finances,
we will say that here in Prussia we have
paid in the last few years a very con
si lerable portion of our State debt, and
the whole of our interest bearing debt
is only 929 millions of marks, which is
equal to the same number of English
shillings.
The English national debt amounts to
only J677s,ooo,ooo—nearly twenty times
that of ours.
We know very well why the Times is
actuated to blacken so eagerly our mili
tary system and our finances. The dis
satisfied condition of the British masses
calls on all sides for reform ! There is
no lack of thpse who demand such radi
cal means as universal conscription.
But as the penurious minded Times is
the most resolute enemy of this “Blood
Tax,” it canpfct paint the fearful conse
quences of suoh a system black enough,
so it exclaims over Germany:
“ ‘Hie nigtr est. hunc ta, Roman*, oaveto!’ ”
TIIE TAXATION OF {MORTGAGES.
The Supreme Court of California, by
au almost unanimous bench, one out of
five Judges dissenting, have decided
that the taxation of mortgages or other
evidences of debt is illegal and uncon
stitutional. This decision is made, not
so much witff reference to the statutes
of California or of any State, as to the
general principle that the taxation of
mortgages is unjust and impolitic in it
self, because it -taxes property already
Quce taped. from some newspaper quo
tations we select a few of the passages
showing the grounds npon which this
decision is based. Chief Jnstice Wal
lace said: “Mere credits are a false
“ quantity in ascertaining the sum of
“ wealth which is subject to taxation as
“ property, and so far as that sutu is at
“ tempted to be increased by tbe addi
“ tion of those credits, property taxa
“ tion, based thereon, is not only merely
“ fanciful, but necessarily the nnconsti
“ tutional imposition of an additional
“tax npon a portion of the property
“ already once taxed.”
Judge McKinstby declares that “it is
“ property in possession l or enjoyment,
“ and not merely in right, which must
“ ultimately pay every tax.”
It is claimed that by the exemption of
mortgages from taxation the small prop
erty holder is unjustly burdened, while
the money lender is favored. Meeting
this position, Chiel Justice Wallace
declares it is the deotor who pays the
double tax. He says : “The taxation
“ thus imposed nominally npon credits
“ having resulted in the double taxa
“ tion of the money, the additional tax
“ must of course be paid by someone.
“ And here all human experience, as
“ well as the settled theories <af finance,
“ concur that it is not the lender that
“ pays, but the borrower. The borrower
“is the consumer. The interest which
“ he pays to the lender is the prime cost
“of the delay for whioh he has con
“ tracted. If the Government, by the
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 8, 1876.
| “ imposition of additional taxes, in-
I “ creases the cost, the borrower, being
I “ the consumer, must pay it.”
THE NEW YORK PRESS ON BABCOCK’S
ACQUITTAL.
The New York papers agree remark
ably on the.result of the Babcock trial.
The Times, while believing that the ac
quittal will be received with general sat
isfaction throughout the country, thinks
that the “frank, fall and straightfor
ward statement” which General Bab
cock's friends in Washington expect him
to publish is highly necessary, for
enough of his conduct is left open to
unfavorable comment. It believes that
his intimacy with Joyce went further
than any political necessity could justi
fy, and the correspondence by which he
put himself in the man’s power to mis
represent his character and motives re
veals almost culpable indiscretion in
4ne occupying such a position. The
Tribune also thinks the country ip to be
congratulated on the acquittal, for it is
convinced it would have been almost an
intolerable mortification to every patri
otic American, if the private secretary
of the President had been found guilty
of a conspiracy to defrand the revenae.
Bat the trial has shown that he has had
for his intimates bad men, and his cor
respondence was of the most compro
mising character. The Tribune thinks,
however, that Babcock may plead in ex
tenuation of his imprudence that he has
been no more reckless than the Presi
dent, for keeping bad company is tbe
besetting sin of General Grant’s ad
ministration; the most disreputable
people, it goes on to say, are
privileged guests at the White House,
and are favorites in official circles. The
Herald goes farther than its contempo
raries; while agreeing with them that the
result of the trial was satisfactory, and to
be applauded, it insists that the criti
cism remains that in his party zeal Gen
eral Babcock has fallen into a position
that ends his usefulness as a confidenti
al adviser of the President. The World,
though careful to say that it does not
maintain that Babcock was guilty of
participation rn the conspiracy of the
whisky ring thieves, nor does it assert
that with the evidence before them the
jury could find any other verdict than
that they found, holds that Babcock’s
actions and words, both during the cor
respondence with Joyce and McDonald
and since his connection with the frauds
was hinted, have not been explained nor
his innocence demonstrated to the pub
lic satisfaction. Mr. Dyer has failed to
convict him; but Babcock has failed—
indeed, he has made no effort to clear
himself. The Sun alone appears to re
gard Babcock as quite as guilty as the
principal thieves, and speaks of the con
spiracy to plunder the Treasury as that
of Babcock, McDonald, Joyce and their
associates. And of the trial it says:
“The tricks, evasions, dodges and per
jury which made the Beecher trial an
event to be remembered, have been
paralleled in the trial of Babcock.”
POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE UNITED
STATES IN 1876.
Political parties are aggregations of
individuals holding similar opinions on
public affairs and devoted to their main
tenance in practice. Although they may
be honest, their principles, when car
ried out, lead to different consequences.
The principles of the Democratic party
are the guide board pointing to the
great highway to liberty and human
happiness, where all travelers are equal
and pursue happiness in their own way.
One party submits to the will of one
person, and another consents to labor
and divide its profits with self-appoint
ed superiors. We now have and have
had for years a party whose leading
tenet is hatred without forgiveness of
those who differ from them in opinion,
or acted against the Union in the late
civil war. Neither submission, repen
tance or faithful devotion to the inter
ests of the Union counteracts the all
controlliDg principle of hatred.
Among reflecting and patriotic men
this principle, on its own - account, has
no advocates. . But among-political par
tisans, devoted to party results, it stands
high, and has for years, and is now re
sorted to by a whole political party de
voted to the retention of party ascen
dency. During the civil war it was easy
to create the belief that the defenders of
the Union were patriotic and merito
rious, and that the secessionists were
wicked and horrid sinners. This natu
rally brought the leaders among the
Union men into power and excluded the
secession partisans, wherever they re
sided, from all places of trust and pow
er. While the war lasted this was
natural. It produced the result of band
ing together the majorities in the Union
States aud brought their triumphs. Its
success on several occasions has induced
some leaders to believe it can always be
done, although the war ended years ago
and the seceding States returned to
duty, voted for the amendments to the
Constitution, and are as loyal and faith
ful to the Constitution and laws as any
now in the Union.
The feeling of hatred which was so
long manifested by the Scots and Irish
toward England was occasioned by the
latter blotting out their local govern
ments. But the Southern States have
blotted out no State or other govern
ment, nor crushed out the rights of any
one. But wonderful to say, when all is
over and peace and harmony are restor
ed, and all are brethren with equal
natuial rights and privileges, now Presi
dential candidates are howling over
dead, buried and almost forgotten dis
loyalty, hoping to awaken old and worn
oat hatred against all who live Sonth of
the Potomac, and indace the belief that
they alone are loyal to the Union, and
that their hatred of the South is con
clusive evidence of that fact.
The Democrats have no selected can
didate for the next President. When
they do select one, he most be a pure,
unadulterated Democrat of capacity and
enttnre, of spotless character and de
voted tp the principles of his party.
Without these he wifi fail of succees.
The country is full of men who will take
the office rather thanliave it fall through.
In Washington every second man is so
patriotic aa to be at the service of
friends for the Presidency if they press
him hard enough. Two Republicans
have led off and bid high in tbe article
in which they deal-hatred to the South.
Morton in the Senate, and Blaine in
the House, are unwilling to forgive the
South for the past, while hating it can
be made the instrument of success at
the North. Their hatred of the Demo
crats is still intense, even to those who
went to the war if they have not become
members of the Republican party, and
fought for its continuance in power.
' They hate all who have not become of
the army of haters, and have forgiven
no one of those they hate, who are men
true and faithful to the Constitution in
everything within its principles. ’
The objects which MpKTON and Blaine
have in view are so palpable that the
thousand hired captains who bring up
the rear will select a leader of a kinder
and better heart to be head captain.
Instead of forgiving those who mistook
their duty, these men seek to make
them the subjects of perpetual hatred.
Great Britain forgave the Colonists who
overthrew her power and recognized our
independence. She has sow consented
to be represented at Philadelphia in
July, to survey the evidence of her de
feat. Madison’s war for .“free trade and
sailors’ rights” left no hatred on either
side for any considerable time. But
the hatred of politicians, while it can be
made serviceable in partisan purposes,
never dies. It has neither honor nor
patriotism to stand npon. Both Mob
ton and Blaine may oan| until they are
hoarse, but this will not secure the good
will or votes of the American people.
A letter to a friend iu Columbia re
ports that Nmfcs G. Pabkbb, late Treas
urer of South Carolina, is suffering from
an attack of lung fever. To use the
words of an English wit, it was generally
thought when Niles G. was Treasurer
that “there was something wrong with
the chest.” The letter adds the infor
mation that Mr. P.’s spirits have been
preyed upon. The people of South
Carolina might say the, same thing con
cerning their cash.
There is a painful rumor gaining
ground that the Atlanta Courier did not
tell the truth in its aooonqt of the fight
betweSnFn'OH! And Cummings, the Door-
Keeper of the Senate, in the lobby of
tbe Legislature at the close of the ses
sion. There are those who say that
Fitch did not whip Cummings, but that
Cummings did whip Fitoh. It’s not a
matter oi much moment, but an inves
tigating committee might wrestle with
the truth of history during the recess.
In explanation of his testimony be
fore the State Road Lease Investigating
Committee concerning the case of Mr.
E. F. Blodgett, ep-Governor Brown
stated that Mr. Hill was acting as the
attorney of Blodgett, and obtained his
release from jail by depositing fifteen
thousand dollars—the amount of the
bond—in the Dollar Savings Bank,
whereupon the bank agreed to indemni
fy the parties who made the bond. The
money was obtained fiom the Western
and Atlantic Railroad by the deposit of
fifteen hundred shares of Ice Company
stock by Mr. Wallace Rhodes.
The Savannah News, alluding to the
letter from Atlanta which recently ap
peared in the New York Herald, says it
is, “from beginning to end, so filled
“with gross and scurrilous personalities
“that we wonder that even the latitudi
“narians who manage the Herald could
“have brought themselves to commit
“the impropriety of admitting it to
“their columns. The letter is devoted
“entirely to what purports to be a criti
“cism of the administration of Gov
ernor James M. Smith, but what in
“reality is a tirade of personal abuse,
“as senseless as it is scandalous.”
MINOR TOPICS.
Babcock thinka he has been sufficiently vin
dicated by that “rebel jury,” and ia not ao
anxfous to have a military court of inquiry aa
he was. He will not resign the Private Secre
taryship, for the excellent reason that he never
legally held it. He was merely detached for
duty at the White Houbc. He does not deign
to inform a waiting public what his next move
will be, but aeema greatly elated by the one
hundred congratulatory telognma sent him
since his acquittal, and may yet join the army
of the Presidential candidates.
The Reverend Forger, Winslow, was brought
before a London Police Court recently and re
manded to prison until March 2d. Mr. WinsF
low evinced remarkable self-posssssion, and
played the part of the injured saint. The
privilege of communing with his friends in the
room of the jailer was grantod him. Hereto
fore he has spoken to them through a grating.
In an interview with a reporter, Winslow said
that while in Brussels he saw a copy of a New
York paper, and then first learned that a Bos
ton grand jsry had indicted him tor forgery.
Immediately he prepared to return to America,
and got as far as London, when his virtuous
intention wait interfered with by a criminal ar
rest. The query is, then, why did Winlsow
leave America at all.
The Boston Post does not like the Massachu
setts law in regard to marriage—at least it
protests that it is unnecessary for the reason
that the average Massachusetts man will not
choose to marry his grandmother and that the
average Massachusetts woman will not cheer
fully incline to marry her grandmother’s hus
band. It thinks there is too little faith shown
in the influences of civilization upon sooial
tastes and predilections, when a man is for
bidden to marry his mother-in-law, his grand
daughter or his “grandfather’s wife.” It oau
hardly be thought possible that men and
women, who must either be of age or secure
their parents’ consent, need so much'protec
tion against impulses so strange that to indulge
in them would be to establish a suspicion of
insanity.
A correspondent of the New York Herald
writes a strangely worded letter, very strongly
intimating that Winslow, the Boston forger,
may not turn out to be such a terrible sinner,
after all; and that people who were, and that
people who appeared to be very anxious for
his arrest when there was a chance of his
reaching Botterdam, are now indifferent about
his return. Many of, the notes at first pro
nounced forgeries are now admitted to be gen
uine, and four of them, amounting to $60,000,
have been paid. The President of a Bank
that was a loser by Winslow hai been invited
to resign ; and, in brief, it is stated that Wins
low’s absence was necessary to cover up some
very ugly transactions, and that his presenoe
in Boston will make things very uncomfort
able for certain men high up in the pictures.
An accident of the most heartrending na
ture occurred on the Short Lute Railroad, at
LaGrange, Ky., *ne day recently. A freight
train wae rushing over the rails at rapid speed
when onfe of the axles of the forward car
broke. The sudden jog sent the engine down
a slight embankment. At the same time the
engineer, a very faithful mechanic, was thrown
from the cab npon the boiler attachments. He
was in a terrible situation, and no help could
be rendered him. Two streams of hot water
poured npon his face and body from the dam
aged boiler. His sufferings must have been
intense, bnt he soon became nnconscions and
died. The skin from his face and body peeled
off before his own eye*, and hi* tongue alnjost
dropped from hi* month, from the effect of
hot water.
The annual Spring floods are already troub
ling the people who live in localities subject to
inundation, and both in this country and Eu
rope the rise of the waters is causing great
suffering. In Germany and Hungary the
freshets are particularly severe, the telegram*
reporting that the Elbe ha* burst the dyke*
near Magdebfirg, and half of the district of
Barby is nnder water. Hondrod* of people are
hofneless, and the Danube, the Vistula and
other rivers of less note ju different part* of
Germany, are still rising, and the probabilities
are that a great losb of property and life will
resnlt. The floods in this country will not be
bo great this season as formerly, because of
the great scarcity of snow during the Winter,
bnt the Mississippi aud its tributaries already
threaten trouble, and in the lowland* of Ar
kansas and Mississippi the loss is considerable
from this cause.
It seems that O'Baldwin's strength was. his
weakness to the very end. The jury, as we
have. seen, acquitted Mike Finxell who killed
him, and Judge Babrett commended the ver
dict on the ground that “ a small man, shut
up in a room with a stalwart giant who was
about to strike him, was justified in using a
pistol under the circumstances.” O’Baldwin’*
size and strength had been a snare to him
throughout his unenviable career. He was in
variably foiled of the honors of the fistic
championship. When he had a match on hand
he was pretty sure either te be arrested and
thlown into prison or else to hjive the match
broken off on some unexpectedgroond. Once,
at least, his enemies took the precaution to
attack him two at a time, and with weapons,
while he was unarmed, of conne inflicting se
vere injuries npon him. He wae, perhaps,
even oftener obliged to endure provocation pa
tiently than if he had b&en a lees stalwart man,
because to revenge himself with a blow would
inevitably expose him to the retort of “striking
a smaller man,” and besides, if losing his self
control he gave a blow, it seems that the
smaller man might with impunity, under cer
tain circumstances, draw a pistol and kill him.
THE STORY OF A LIFE.
TRUTH STRANGLER THAN FICTION
Tbs Career of a Female Once a Resident of
AuffOMta.
A remarkable and local social romance
has lately been brought to a close by
the identification of a body in the Pans
morgue. Leaving the facts to speak for
themselves, we lay them before our
readers without further preamble, sup
pressing, lor obvious reasons, the real
names of the principal parties concern
ed, but assuring that every word of this
strange story is true.
The members of a prominent firm in
New York city, brothers, and three in
number, entered into business and a
common compact to remain unmarried,
at one and the same time, and as years
rolled by, gathered fortune and gray
hairs together, firm in their original
purpose. Representatives of one of the
bluest blooded local families, with a
common income of over a million of
dollars, many a feminine heart went up
in oblivious admiration of them, but all
in vain.
At last, however, the youngest of the
three, whil£ loungiug through the bum
mer of 187-, at Saratoga, became ac
quainted with the widow of a wealthy
Kentucky stock breeder, a regal beauty
of thirty, with no encumbrance but her
fortune and a bright, handsome, golden
haired ten year old son. The lady’s
conquest was a perfect one; the. court
ship which followed was as short as it
was fervid, and
The Twain Were Married.
At the desire of the bridegroom, who
dreaded the effect of his step upon his
brothers, the wedding was a strictly pri
vate one. Upon the return of the hap
py pair to New York, the lady took
rooms at an uptown hotel, where hus
band and wife met by mutual consent as
intimate friends, riding and promenad
ing together and meeting in soofety, the
gentleman’s attention soon become so
pronounced that his unsuspecting broth
ers fell into the practice of chaffing him
about them/ though never dreaming of
the real state of affairs.
“I’m afraid George is finished,” be
came a common fling at that conspirator
as he adjusted his attire before the office
glass preparatory to the regular after
noon drive; and George, feeling that he
held the winning hand, received the in
uendoes with a complacent smile, in
wardly congratulating himself on his
easy escape.
Things were at this pass when an in
timate friend of the brothers, a wealthy
and rather fast man about town, casual
ly remarked to the bachelors that he
had seen George driving in the park
with a famous beauty of Savannah. As
George had but one companion in his
drives the ostensible position of the
lady was explained to the speaker. The
gentleman looked grave, and upon being
pressed advised his friends to exert
their influence with their brother to
separate him from the woiqan in ques
tion who, he declared, was a person
with a more dazzling than enviable
record; one who had, to his certain
knowledge, run the race of
A Fast Life in All Its Phases.
The brothers took George to task up
on the subject that very afternoon,
whereupon he declared his real relation
to the lady, and gave the man who dar
ed impeach his wife’s truth the lie di
rect.
The gentleman in question, put on
his mettle by this aspersion of his ve
racity, declared that he had been per
sonally intimate with Mrs. at a
time when, as Laura Kane, she figured
in the upper stratum of the Savannah
demi-monde; that he had lost sight of
her some three years ago, and that he
was willing to swear to her identity be
yond the possibility of a mistake.
The boy he affirmed to be the illegiti
mate son of Dick Copeland, a well
known sporting man, who met his death
in a duel with Cornelius Red at Sand
Bar Ferry, near Augusta, in the Sum
mer of 1863. Copeland (who oame.
from Baltimore to Augusta) got into a
difficulty with Red at the gaming table,
and the result was a duel at Sand Bar
Ferry. The weapons used were
navy revolvers, both parties to fire
at will after the word. Cope
land was killed, having been shot
through the neck. The woman “Laura”
was then known as Mrs. Copeland, and
Copeland always announced her to the
world as his wife. But to return to the
thread of the story.
“George” was furious at the gentle
man’s recital, but his brothers, impress
ed by the evident earnestness of their
informant, restrained him from the vio
lence which he threatened, and demand
ed his consent to a further investigation
of the affair. It was readily accorded,
as the husband felt certain of its result
ing in the confusion of the accuser,
whose death he swore to bring about di
rectly
The Lie Was Proven.
The services of experienced deteotives
were then called into requisition, the
circumstances of the case made known
to them, and c arj,e blanche, as regarded
money and authority, given them. The
friend of the suspected woman was as
certained to have left Savannah at the
same time as Laura Kane, tracked
thence to New Orleans, and then fol
lowed to Cuba. From Cuba she had
come to New York, but a few weeks be
fore the search was inaugurated, A
thorough search of the well known
maisons dejoie of New York, ahd a no
less detailed sifting of the penal insti
tutions failed, however, to develope her
whereabouts. “Minnie, the Pearl,” had
disappeared as effectually as if the na
tive element of her favorite gems had
engulfed her.
At last, when the detectives were
about giving the quest up in despair,
chance threw in their way an old ac
quaintance of the object of their search,
who, although ignorant of Minnie’s
present residence, was able to designate
the favorite haunts of her fides achates,
a notorious second rate gambler, who,
when off duty as “capper,” figured con
spicuously as a statuesque ornament of
the front of a Broadway hotel. For a
consideration this man consented to
“give ‘the pearl’ away.”
A bank note fora considerable amount
changed hands, and Minnie was found
lying quietly in an up town place, as
the mistress of a man of high standing
and years. On the very day of her dis
covery, she was seen to visit Mrs.
George ,at the latter’s hotel, but
so admirably disguised that it was
scarcely possible for her real character
to be deciphered. With this knowledge
to warrant further action, Mrs. George
was herself put under espionage,
and with rapidly developing proofs of
the
Troth of the Charge Against Her,
Her husband, though still refusing to
be convinced of her guilt, consented to
a journey to the West on business for
the firm, which would render it neces
sary for him to remain there for some
months; and the wife, liberally supplied
with money, sought relief from the Sum
mer heat of the city at the sea side. A
detective followed her, lodged at the
hotel, shared all her excursions with the
merry circle which her beauty and ac
complishments gathered about her, lost
no movement, no point of evidence,
watching over her with ceaseless vigi
lance. Little by little, in the absence
of conjugal restraint, her real character
■.developed itself. Little by little the
brilliant mask fell, Then came the de
nouement.
Laura Kane, for that frail beauty and
Mrs. George were one and the same
person, had left Savannah a few days
before the death of her Augusta lover,
and had been an oecupant of his house
at the time of his demise. It had been
glorious times with the dead turfman
shortly before, and his mistress, well
supplied with money, lost no time after
his interment in turning her back upon
the scenes of her early conquests in
search of “ fresh fields and pastures
new.” She found the desired qualifica
tions in a quiet country house in the
Blue Grass district, whose senile owner
soon fell
A-Victim to Her laeidioue Charm*.
The marriage was a morganatic one,
but it put her ancient husband’s will in
possession of his property at his death,
which was not long in following their
meeting. Thus endowed, she had turn
ed her conquering coarse eastward, with
the result that we have seen.
Once the brothers had learned these
facts, they lost no time in bringing the
undesirable connection to an end.
George was summoned from his W estem
tour, during which he had been kept
fully informed of the progress of the
case, and returned somewhat reconciled
to the inevitable consequence. All par
ties had too iynch at stake to court pub
licity, and the desired end was arnved
at aU the easier for the secrecy in which
the marriage had originally Been
shrouded. Laura consented, in consid
eration of a liberal annuity, to the sepa-
ratioi and consequent divorce demand
ed, and kept her word.
Fortune soon sent her another victim
in a Brazilian millionaire, and she left
■ the country with him before the divoroe
was decreed. Her husband, brpken in
spirit by the shattering of his idol, after
a brief space withdrew, despite the op
position of his brothers, from the busi
ness, and after some months of restless
wandering in the tropics, notified them
of his intentidu of making the tour of
the world. That tour led him finally to
Paris, where the first news that the pi
pers conveyed to him was that of the ar
rest of Senor Paulo de Souza, of Minas
Gerais, Brazil, for debt. The paper
contained a brief statement to the effeot
that the unfortunate gentleman’s rain
had been wrought by the extravaganoe
of a marvelous American woman to
whom he had been slavishly attache 1,
and who had not been seen since the
evening of his arrest. With
The Fatal Glamour of His Old Infatuation
New-born at this news of his frail love,
Georjge inaugurated a search for the
missing woman. As the twilight of
Christmas Eve fell on the great city, he
found her. Beyond all earthly stigma;
dead; to all shame that bad been brought
upon herself and him—an inmate of the
common dead house by the quas.
Her child, who had been committed
to thie care of an educational institution
in Npw York, enjoys to-day the love of
three protectors, whose heir he has been
publicly declared. His mother lied be
neath the frozen sod of Pere le Chaise,
her place . marked by a cross,
upon which the cemetery keeper peri
odically hangs a wreath of fresh immor
telles. All record that remains of her
brilliant, though brief social oareer, is
in this statement of it, and the memo
ries of the parties concerned. Even the
record on the books of the Broadway
detective firm is so ambiguously framed,
and so careful in its suppression of
names, that it oan offer no clew to the
proud family whose “honor” was so
nearly compromised sad so barely saved.
LENT.
Commencement of the Season.
The season of Lent, observed by the
Roman Catholio and Episoopal Churches,
oommenoes with to-morrow, Ash Wed
nesday.
The origin of the word “Lent” is un
certain. Some derive it from the Saxon
lenten, implying Spring or the season
when the days lengthen, others from
the German leinen, to thaw. The objeot
of the fast has also been disputed, but
it is generally regarded ft a preparation
for Easter, and a time specially set
apart for repentance over the sins of the
past year; while the number of farty
days devoted to it is thought to have
referenoe to the Saviour’s forty days’
fast in the wilderness, to the forty days
of the del age, the forty years’ wander
ings of the Jews, the forty days granted
to the Ninevites for repentance, pr the
time spent in fasting by Moses and
Elias. St. Jerome speaks of the fast as
a memorial of the Saviour’s passion.
According to the same writer, as well as
St. Leo, St. Augustine, aud most of the
fathers of the fourth and fifth centuries,
it was instituted by the Apostles, al
though Protestants oommonly hold that
it was -not established until the second
or third century. It seems to have been
made obligatory at least as early as
A. D. 250. At first there was great di
versity in the time and manner of its
observance. Its duration was soon fixed
by the ohurch at thirty-six days, to
which four were subsequently added.
The first day of Lent is oalled Ash
Wednesday,from a custom of sprinklifig
the head or forehead with ashes, pre
viously blessed. It ia the sixth day be
fore Easter, the six Sundays which in
tervene between it and that festival not
being oounted as part of Lent or ob
served as fast days.
The fourth Sunday of Lent is often
termed mid-Lent Sunday or Passion
Snnday. It was formerly, known as
“Carl Sunday,” and on that (Jay beaus
&i peas, called “ oarlifiga, used to be
given away or eaten. Thus an English
translation (1607) gives the following
passage from the Quadragesimale
Spirituale (Paris, 1565). “After the
salad (eaten in Lent at the first service)
we eat fried peans, by whioh we under
stand confession. When we would have
beanes well sodden, we lay them in
steepe, for otherwise they will never
seeth kindly. Therefore, if<we purpose
to mind our faults, it is not sufficient
barely to oonfess them at all adventure,
but we must let our confession lie in
steepe in the water of meditation.”
To-day is known as Shrove Tuesday
(Mardi Gras). In many of the cities of
Europe the Carnival is oelebrated on
this day, with great splendor. Especi
ally is this the case in Naples and
Venice. The festivities are kept up
until 12 o’clock at night, when every
light is suddenly extinguished and the
penitential season begins. In New Or
leans, Mobile and Memphis Mordi Gras
is celebrated with almost as maoh splen
dor as in the European eities mentioned.
In the former the King of the Carnival
holds sway during the day and at night
the “Mystio Krew of Oomus,” under
their leader, take possession of the city.
It is a grand and imposing spectaole,
the parade of this mysterious organiza
tion, and attracts thousands of strangers
to the Crescent City. Cincinnati also
has a carnival, this year, for the first
time.
The following pastoral letter from
Bishop Gross, of the Catholio Church,
was read in .the churohes of. the diocese
last Sunday:
Pastoral.
William, by the Grace of God and favor of
the Apostolic See, Bishop of Savannah,
Ga., to the Clergy and the Laity of
the Diooese—Venerable Brethren of
the Clergy and Beloved Children of
the Laity, Grace to you, and peace
from God Our Father and from the
Lord Jesus Christ.
The holy season of Lent is at hand,
when Our Holy Mother, the Church, ■
calls upon her children, all over the
world, to devote themselves to works of
penance.
The infinitely holy and just God can
not snffer sin to pass unpnnished. He
who says that “He will demand an ac
count even for an idle word,” will not
fail to visit on sinners their crimes and
excesses. But when the hand of God is
even uplifted to strike, the prayer of the
contrite heart, and the penitential exer
cises of the humbled soul have always
turned away the Divine anger. When
Nineveh was about to be destroyed for
its sins, its destruction was averted by
tbe penance of its inhabitants. When
even the wicked Aohab did penance,
God mercifully spared him the punish
ment about to be inflicted. Hence,
every messenger from God has preached
penance to the people.
St. Jobs the Baptist commanded the
multitudes to do penance. St. Peter, in
the opening sermon of his apostolio ca
reer, gives the advice: “Do penance.”
The great messengers from God to all
peoples, in all ages, is the Catholic.
Cbnrch. Hence, she speaks the salu
tary language so familiar to the mouths
of all those sent by God; she, too, tells
the world to do penance. While they
who come to the people without any
mission from God, use langnage that
panders to the corrupt inclinations and
vices of the people, eschewing the hard
doctrines of bodily mortification and
penance, she with fearless charity and
candor reproaches the nations for their
wickedness, tells them their sins, and
exhorts them to do penance. Snrely
our age needs such lessons. Countless
demagogues flatter the people. The in
crease of sin all over onr country, the
great and dmly growing depravity of
morals, are acknowledged by all. Were
a Jonah or St. John the Baptist to
arise, he would find the same vices and
the same shocking crimes in onr mod
ern society as those which drew npon
the ancients the chastisements of a
Divine justice. Bat the charch, the
bride of Christ, and greater than prophet
or precursor, tells society in bold, firm
and unmistakable language, of its errors,
its faults, and its sins. She preaches to
this sinful age the great neoeasity of
penance. Many will not listen to her
charitable warnings: “For men have
loved darkness more than light.” She
cannot expect to be better treated than
have been all the messengers of God to
this bad world. “ The world shall hate
yon and persecute you,” was the pro
phecy of her Spouse, Jesus Christ. Bnt
woe to ns if we, like the world, tnra a
deaf ear to the exhortations of onr holy
church. She now tells ns to repent of
onr sins and do penance for them. The
anger of God is enkindled by onr many
and grievous sins, and aha urges ns, her
children, to wholesome penance. Let
ns listen to the tearful voice of this Di
vine messenger, who cannot deceive us.
Let ns commence the Lent in her spirit.
How, therefore, shonld Lent be ob
served?
We shduld, above all things, excite a
true, deep and heart-felt sorrow for our
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sins, accompanied with a firm purpose
of amendment. Without sorrow there
can be no forgiveness of sin; and the
fasting and other bodily penances,
should be only the natural fruit and
outcome of a heart humbled before
God and grieving over its sins.
The rules and regulations regarding
the fast and abstinence, which we ap
pend to this circular, should be careful
ly observed. Reverencing with filial
obedience the voice of the holy church,
her devout children are accustomed to
refrain from worldly entertainments
during this season of pen&noe. The
church, moreover, during Lent, holds
upjin a particular manner, to our atten
tion, the bitter passion and death of our
Lord Jesus. Devout Catholics should,
therefore, carefully unite their fasts and
other penances with the many fasts and
with the fearful sufferings to which our
beloved Saviour submitted his innocent
body for our sake. The cnuroh regards
the season of Lent as a time more par
ticularly devoted to prayer. Many,
therefore, have the devout custom of as
sisting every day during Lent at the
Holy Mass. To those who have the op
portunity, we earnestly oommend this
daily assistance, at the very highest aot
of religion. Others, again, are careful
to assemble every evening all their
family for the devout reoitation of the
rosary and other holy prayers. The
united prayeg of an entire family has an
espeoial power with Him who has said:
“Where two or three are assembled in
my name, I am in their midst. ”
In the spirit, therefore, of holy churoh
let us, combining true sorrow for our
sins with earnest, fervent prayer and
bodily penances, and we will, during
this devout season, reoeive God’s meroy
and inestimable blessings and favors.
Regulation* for Lent,
Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent,
falls on the first of Maroh.
1. All the faithful who have completed
their twenty-first year are, unless legi
timately dispensed, bound to observe
the fast of Lent.
2. They are to take only one meal a
day, excepting Sunday.
8, The meal allowed on fast days is
not to be taken until about noon.
4. Meat and fish are not allowed at
one and the same meal.
5. A small refreshment, commonly
oalled collation, is allowed iq the even
ing.
6. The quality of food allowed at a
collation in this diooese is milk, .eggs,
butter, oheese, all kinds of fruits, salads,
vegetables and fish.
7. Eggs and milk are allowed by dis
pensation on fasting days, and during
Lent.
8. (general usage has made it lawful
to drink in the morning some warm li
quid, as tea 4 ooffee or ohooolate.
9. Necessity and custom have author
ized the use of hog’s lard instead of
butter for cooking.
10. The following (persons are ex
empted from the obligation of fasting :
Young persons under twenty-one years
of age; women, when nursing or in a
delicate state of health; those who are
obliged to do bard labor; the sick and
all who through weakness cannot fast
without prejudice to their health.
11. By dispensation, the use of flesh
meat will be allowed at any time on
Sundays and once a day on Mondays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, with the ex
ception of Holy Thursday and the
second and last Saturday of Lent.
We avail ourselves of this opportuni
ty to, inform the clergy and laity of the
diooese that the time wherein the in
dulgences and other spiritual advant
ages of the jubilee may be gained, has
been extended in this diocese, b.v per
mission of the Sovereign Pontiff, to
Sunday, June 11th, the last day of the
Paschal time.
We order the present Pastoral to be
read in all the ohurohes of the diocese
on Quinquagesima Sunday.
William,
Bishop of Savannah.
Given at Savannah, Ga., February
10th, 1870.
FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
THE UNITED STATES SENATE.
Mr. Bayard reported a bill extending
the time to February 1,1877, when lands
held by the United States under laws,
levying direct taxes may be redeemed,'
Passed.
Mr. Sherman reported adversely on
the bill authorizing the organization of
National Banks with $50,000 capital, in
dependent of the population of towns.
_ Mr. Morton made a personal explana
tion regarding the connection of his
name with the Emma mine testimony.
He said, in effect that five or six years
ago, when on his way home after an ad
journment of Oongress, he met Senator
Stewart, of Nevada, whp asked him to
serve as counsel in a case now pending
before the Court of Utah, involving Mr.
Lyon’s interest in the Emma mine. He
thought that the services required of
him were purely professional, but learn
ing from a remark of Mr. Stewart that
he was expected to aid in the removal
of Chief Justioe McKean, he declined
to have anything to do with the case.
He did not go to Salt Lake City, as
Stewart requested, nor had any connec
tion whatever with the oase, and this
averment was confirmed by Mr. Lyon.
The Naval Academy bill was resumed
and passed as reported by the commit
tee. It goes to the House for concur
rence. The resolution limiting the
length of speeches on amendments to
appropriation bills passed. The bill
declaring the true intent and meaning
of the Union Paoific Railroad bills was
taken up. Executive session. Adjourn
ed.
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
In the House, a message was received
from the President urging an immediate
appropriation for the deficiency at the
Red Cloud Agency. Mr. Randall said
the committee was unable to get needed
information, ami had requested the
President to send an officer to Red
Cloud to report the cause of the defl.
ciency. Unless the report of that offi
cer was unnecessarily delayed he
thought the oommittee might wait for it.
There had been frauds and violations of
law at Red Cloud, but as the President
thought it sufficiently important to send
a special message about it, the oommit
tee would proceed at once to its consid
eration.
The bill limiting the oost of the Cus
tom House at Memphis to $400,000
passed.
Restoration to the pension bill was
resumed. Mr. Jenks moved an amend
ment that no arrears be paid for any
time during the rebellion.
Cook, of Georgia, insisted that the
rights of these pensioners had been re
stored by the decision of the Supreme
Court.
The debate continued of a somewhat
sectional and angry character. Finally
the bill wah recommitted.
Mr. Luttrell offered a resolution that
it was the sense of the House that the
Secretary of the Treasury should com
mence at once to issue silver accumu
lated in the Treasury. Referred. Ad
journed.
Sudden Death of An Old Citizen.—
Mr.. James Gargan, one of the oldest
citizens of Augusta, died suddenly at
his residence on Talcot street yesterday
morning, at six o’block. He had just
dressed and was putting on his shoes
preparatory to going out to his work,
when he fell and expired almost instant
ly. Physicians were summoned, but
Mr. Gargan was past all human aid.
He died of heart disease.
Mr. Gargan was a native of
Drogheda county, South Ireland. He
was born on the 15th of April, 1799,
and was consequently in the seventy
seventh year of his age at the time
of his death. He had been in America
fifty-five and in Augusta forty-three
years. He came to this city with Major
Thompson and assisted in building the
bridges for the Georgia Railroad. He
has been an employee of that road, with
short interruptions, ever since, and at
the time of his death was in its employ
as a carpenter. Mr. Gargan served in
the City Council as one of its most effi
cient members in 1866, 1868, 1869, 1870
and-1871. On the Ist of January, 1872,
he resigned and ever afterwards refused
public office. He was a practical mem
ber of the Catholic Churoh and was
esteemed by everbody for his honesty
and uprightness of conduct. He was
in all respects a good and useful citizen
and the community suffers a serious loss
by his death.
William Meeks, who killed John Mc-
Cormick, in Polk county, last year, was
convicted at Polk Superior Court and
sentenced to be hung. His counsel has
applied for anew trial.
Atlanta expects 1,000 visitors on the
great excursion from the Northwest the
18th of March. The excursion will start
for Augusta on the 15th, and on to Port
Royal, Savannah, etc.
THE' STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Seven inmates in Monroe county jail.
Ninety pupils at the Griffin Female
College.
Col. Robert Baugh, of Atlanta, is still
in a critical condition.
Atlanta paid Booth better than any
other Southern city except one.
The smoke house of Mr. Wm. Evers,
of Monroe county, was burglarized re
cently.
The floating indebtedness of Bruns
wick on the Ist of Januarv was
$2,230 75. J
An Atlanta lady presented Booth a
diamond ring the evening he played
Richelieu.
Mr. P. Woodward has sold his in
terest in the Atlanta Courier to Mr. A.
E. Irwin.
Miss Rennie Hall, of Brunswiok, was
seriously injured last week by a fall
from a wagon.
The store of Mr. Arch Brown, near
Looust Grove, in Henry county, was
burglarized recently.
Mr. H. E, Morrow and family have
left Griffin for Florida, where he will
take charge of a high school...
Mr. J. T. Powell proposes to start a
temperance paper in Athens, to be call
ed “ The Spirit of the Age.”
It is stated that Mayor T. A. Brown,
of Talbotton, has sold his residence to
Mr. H. H. Epping, of Columbus.
The Athens Georgian learns that Rev.
0. D. Campbell, of Quitman, has been
called to the Baptist Churoh in Athens.
One M, S. Steele, a hat cleaner and
repairer, has been arrested in Atlanta,
on a oharge of cheating and swindling.
Edgar Hubert, of Polk county, re
ceived the West Point cadetship from
his district. There were twenty contes
tants.
Dalton nourishes the meanest thief
out. He stole the water pitcher, lamp,
and hymn book from the Presbyterian
Church.
The Cuthbert Messenger learns that
Mrs, Cornelia Brown is very low with
consumption. She is not expected to
live long.
Booth distributed several hundred
large photographs of himself among the
ladies at the theatre in Atlanta Thurs
day night.
The wheat and oat orops are reported
as never more promising than now in
Upson, Pike, Meriwether, Spalding and
Henry counties.
Brunswick Appeal: “Work on the
extensive, saw mill of Dodge, Meigs <fc
Cos., on St. Simon’s Island, is being
rapidly pushed forwurd. When com
pleted, and put in operation, it will be
one of the most extensive saw mills ou
the Southern coast, and will give sup
port to a large number of people. The
work is being done in the most thorough
and substantial manner. W. A. Fuller,
Esq., most favorably known to our peo
ple, is the financial manager.”
Gen. Colquitt spoke at Newnan last
week. A correspondent of the Griffin
News who heard the speech says :
“Thirty-two years ago, July next, your
correspondent first heard the father of
this distinguished Georgian make a
speeoh from the same rostrum iD op
position to Hon. A. H. Stephens. These
were the halcyon days of Mr. Stephens
and right well did he vindicate his po
litical theory against the attacks of his
senior competitor, and perhaps the
greatest criminal lawyer Georgia ever
produced.”
The Press and Cultivator learns that
a band of thieves has been discovered in
the lower part of Butts county, headed
by Kelly the escaped convict who killed
Mr. Hardeman, of Newton county. Re
port says that they had a regular camp
containing two or three tents, and that
they had in their possession horses,
cows, new harness and almost every
kind of plunder. A party tried to make
an arrest but made a failure. Officers
are on the track of Kelly, and the last
heard were only about five miles behind
him and he on a tired horse.
Atlanta Constitution .v“We have had
the proof positive, that Attorney-Gen
eral Pierrepont has" written a letter to
a well known gentlemen. of this city, in
which the latter is asked to write the
former ‘a confidential letter in relation
tion to the District Attorneyship.’ The
Attorney-General also desires that two
questions, ‘very important ones’ to him,
he remarks, be answered, and they are:
1. Whether Farrow should be longer re
tained in his position. 2. If not, who
should be appointed to succeed him.
This letter has been answered, ana a
Georgia gentleman of some prominence
and ancient family fame, worthily up
held by himself, has been recommend
ed.”
Col. Mareellus E. Thorntou, of Atlan
ta, has undertaken to eat 30 partridges
in 30 days, eating one partridge a day.
If he accomplishes the feat he gets
S2O. The birds are to be prepared in
any style he may desire, and eaten at
any time he chooses, so he gets away
with one a day. Col. Thornton is to
commence eating next Monday, and the
public are at liberty to look on. In
connection with his wager, the Courier
reminds the Colonel of a somewhat
similar bet made by a Frenchman. The
Frenchman had a large raw oyster lying
on the oounter of a saloon. He bet a
loafer standing by that ne couldn’t swal
low it and hold it. The loafer promptly
dropped it down his throat, and de
manded the money. “Ah,” said the
Frenchman, “you haf him down, but
you will not hold him. I haf already
had him down three times, and he haf
come up efery time.” It is not necessa
ry to add that he at once “come up”
again.
“H. H. J.,” of the Macon Telegraph ,
solemnly avows that it is true that Jim
Somersall, an old Liberty county school- '
mate of his, would capture serpents
with a forked stick, and extract their
fangs by attaching a strong strip of
coarse oloth to them and violently jerk
ing them out, and that he was seldom
Without a pet snake in his pocket, and
would frequently open his shirt-bosom,
and insinuating the reptile within, allow
its slimy crest and forked tongue to
play about his cheek. Also, that he de
voured serpents in a live state, begin
ning at the tail, and was in the habit of
eating grasshoppers as a boy would
ohestnuts; and was, ineeded, once ar
rested in Savannah for engaging to eat
a large serpent at a public exhibition.
Any one questioning the general correct
ness of these statements is referred by
“H. H. J.” to “such men as Rev. Dr.
Axson, of Savannah, Profs. John and
Joseph Leconte, Judga W. B. Fleming,
Dr. J. P. Stevens, Hon. J. B. Mallard,
Rev. D. L. Buttolph, and numerous
other gentlemen, and ladies also, of the
highest standing.”
The friends of a Constitntional Con
vention have a Samsonion coadjutor in
the Henry County Ledger, the last
number of which, in a drastic editorial
headed “The Agony,” contains the fol
lowing paragraphs: “Until the Consti
tution is revised and its obnoxious
clauses are expunged, and confidence re
stored between man and man, substance
will change to shadow, and realities will
be swallowed up in vagaries tbut are the
precursors of despair. The people have
but to lift their voice, and the-flood
tides of woe will be stayed. Will the
citizens of Georgia choose between the
chances of a political victory or the
abiding prosperity of our own dear
homes ? If the former will be their
choice, then let our history be blotted
from among men, and fool be the
epitaph upon our tombstones. But if
we choose that, and only that way by
which prosperity and every other good
will be restored, let us hasten, and
delay not, to make the organic law of
our State an arbiter to bind the sacred
ness of contracts to our altars, that our
people may be discipled to honesty for
all time to come—‘For righteousness
exalteth a nation, but sin is the reproach
of any people.’ ” Yea, and verily.
Marriage*.
In Fannin county, Albert Davis to
Jennie Logan.
In Jackson county, W. A. Burns to
Woodie Watson.
In Meriwether county, P. G. Cotton
to Mrs. J. C. Perry.
In Mariwether county, Virgil Biggers
to Alice McLendon.
Death*.
In Blakely, R. H. Perry.
In Savannah, Leopold Speildock.
In Early oounty, Mrs. Mary Mcßride
Hill.
• In Meriwether county, Abraham Wal
lace.
In Jonesboro, Geo. R. Sims, of Pal
metto.
At Dayton, Fla., M. J. O’Donoghue,
of Savannah.
