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Address WALSH A WRIGHT,
Chronicle A Sentinel. Augusta. Oa.
. (Cfjromclc anti Sentinel
WEDNESDAY MARCH 15, 1876.
The Savannah News understands that
Colonel I. W. Avert is the author of the
Atlanta letters to the Augusta Constitu
tionalist signed “Sox.”
The President has given assurance
that Belknap’s successor will be “a
man of high character and known posi
tion.” How would Babcock do ?
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The President has given assurance
that Belknap’s successor will be “a
man of high character and known posi
tion." How would Boss Shephekd fill
the bill ? m
Editor Revill, of the Merriwether
Vindicator, claims that he ia not the Hon.
Potiphar Pkaobeen, and transfers the
doubtful honor to Maj. J. \Y. Warren,
of Savannah.
And now they say Robeson is mixed
up in some shady contracts. Perhaps
the Cabinet will be broken up this
Suing if the Court of Impeachment re
nfatas in session long enough.
The Greeneeboro Home Journal is in
favor of remitting the “ethics of jour
nalism” to the editorial covention which
will assemble this Spring. What a nice
wrangle the discussion of such a question
wonld raise among the brethren.
Belknap has evidently been blessed
with a precious pair of wives. Accord
ing to his statement the tirst one sold
an office, and according to Marsh’s
statement the second prescribed perjury
as a preventive against detection.
The Gainesville Eagle mesas busi
ness in its advocacy of a Constitutional
Convention. It proposes to make the
question a live issue next Fall. It
suggests that at the next election the
people should “demand a pledge from
every candidate for whom they vote for
either branch of the General Assembly
that he is in favor of a Convention, and
will vote for it when the question arises
before the General Assembly.” Right.
The President has given assurance
that Belknap’s successor will be “a
man of high character and known posi
tion.” Well, the President has a wide
field before him. No pent up Utica con
tracts his powers. There’s Baboogk,
and Boss Shepherd and Columbus De
lano, and Sohuylkb Colfax, and Jim
Casey, and Spencer, and Tom Murphey,
and Orville Grant, all ready and will
ing to give the benefit of their high
character and known position to the Ad
ministration.
The election in Mnscogoe to fill the
vacancy in the Legislature caused by
the resignation of Hon. T. W. Grimes,
resulted in Mr. Grimes being elected to
fill hi.N own vacancy. The consolidated
returns show that Mr. Grimes was
elected Over both competitors by one
hundred and twelve votes. Ho lead
Watt two hundred and nine and Ap
plktard three hundred and ninety votes.
This a handsome compliment to the
junior member from Muscogee and es
tablishes the fact of his course in the
Legislature being endorsed by liis con
stituents.
The man who sends Washington dis
pgtohes to the Golntnbns T imes does his
whov’e duty. Upon the day of the
Bklka'ap. explosion he telegraphed a
runor fhat the Secretary of War had
committed suicide; stated that Grant
would have nothing to do with Khlloog;
expected Kellogg to be impeached; he
(Grant) expected to be impeached him
self as accessory after the fact to Belk
nap’s offense; and such a resolution im
peaohiug the President would be of
fered in the House Friday (yesterday.)
The fellow has an imagination as lively
as that of an Atlanta correspondent.
mm
When Bhbridan sent his brntal mes
sage from New Orleans it was the Secre
tary qf War, Belknap, who telegraphed
back: “The President and all of us ap
provo your course. General Belknap
was at that time drawing his andhity
regularly from his good friend, Mr.
Marsh, who had a trading-post in the
Indian Territory. It is a little astonish
ing how thoroughly loyal all the thieves
■are. Shepherd, Belknap and the bal
ance A 1 ! love the Union, hate rebels and
steal, xt a werry comfortable creed, as
Mr. WKLtut* would say—until you get
found out,
The Augusta Constitutionalist is not
so much in love now with the Wheeler
compromise. It now says that the com
promise was “simply a surrender by the
Democrats of Louisiana of seats ecough
in the State Senate to allow the Badi
oals an overwhelming majority in that
body. * * * With a steadfastness
of purpose worthy a nobler canse, they
have resolutely refrained to abolish the
State Returning Board, the most dam
nable institution ever devised by the in
genuity of man, or set in motion by po
litical prostitutes to nullify the voice of
the people at the ballot box, and to re
tain in office at their pleasure the scurvi
est set of rogues and scoundrels that
ever debauched the morals of a peniten
tiarv.” Evidently the compromise has
not turned out as well as was expected.
Yieldhmj to the importunities of the
advocates of woman’s enfranchisement,
the committee of the Massachusetts
Senate to which tks matter was referred,
reported a woman eedfrage bilL The
bill was not all satisfactory to the suf
fragists; but they looked upea if as a
•concession to them, and the fact that U
has been proposed as a reason for a
continuance of agitation rather than
for the cessation thereof. As It stood
the bill neither proposed to admit all
women who are citizens to the enjoy
ment of the elective franchise, nor to
allow those who are admitted the exer
cise of the right in all elections. Women,
to enjoy the privileges of the bill, must
be at least twentjr-one years of age,
must have the educational qnalifications
of voters of the other tax, and must
have paid *a tax upon property within
two years. All women voters wets made
eligible to municipal offices, and their
right of voting is confined to the offices
to which they are eligible. On Friday
the Senate, by a vote of nineteen to
eleven* refused to order the bill to a
third reading, and the suffrage shriekera
will have to gq to work again.
BELKNAP’S SHA.ME.
We publish in another colnmn of the
Chronicle and Sentinel, this morning,
a full history of the transaction which,
when exposed, caused the resignation
and impeachment of General Grant’s
Secretary of War. The testimony of
Marsh, which bears the impress of trnth
on every sentence, tells the whole story.
General Belknap was Secretary of War
with a great deal of valnable patronage
at his disposal. He lived in fashionable
style and beyond bis means, for he ap
pears to have had no means beyond the
salary attached to bis position. His
wife was ambitions and fond of display.
She had heard, or else she knew, that
lucrative positions under the Govern
ment were sold, and she determined to
turn the patronage of her husband’s
office to pecuniary account. She knew
what places paid and what places did
not, and she placed one of them at the
disposal of Marsh, who was also a per
sonal friend, upon condition that he paid
her a sum of money eqnivalent to a cer
tain proportion of the profits. Marsh, it
seems, did not intend to and did not hold
the place himself. He simply farmed It
ont for a good round yearly sum to the
parties who were already in possession.
The first payment, or payments, were
made to Mrs. Belknap, but she died
shortly after the sale of the office, and
from the time of her death up to the
first of January of the present year the
money was received quarterly by the
Secretary of War. One installment was
given to him in person, the others were
sent to him by express. The sister of
the first Mrs. Belknap, herself the pres
ent Mrs. Belknap, appears to have
been cognizant of the arrangement
from the time it was made, and it
formed the subject of several conversa
tions between herself and Marsh.
When Marsh was summoned before the
committee and exposure seemed immi
nent, a council was held at the Secre
tary of War’s house. Mrs. Belknap
was present and attempted to persuade
Marsh to cemmit perjury to shield her
husband. She sketched the outline of
a statement which she thought would
answer the purpose. But Marsh de
clined to accede tq her request upon
two grounds: the first was that
it. “would not hold water;”
second was, that though he had bought
the office, he was’unwilling to commit
perjury. To avoid the Scylla of ex
posure and the Charybdis of false swear
ing, he determined to leave the country,
and went to New York to arrange for
his flitting. Upon the eve of departure
he received a telegram stating that
everything would be arranged satisfac
torily. He therefore abandoned his
intention and signed a letter to the
committee, prepared by Dr. Tomlinson,
a brother-in-law of Mr. Blackburn, of
the committee, which, as he says, told
the truth but not the whole truth. The
letter was not considered satisfactory,
Marsh was summoned, to testify in
person, and the explosion followed.
The only defense made by Belknap
is offered at the expense of his dead
wife’s honor. He says that he knew
nothing of the arrangement made by
hia wife with Marsh until the death of
the former. This statement is in the
highest degree improbable. The evi
dence is almost conclusive that Belk
nap was privy to the contract and
that his wife was used in a bungling at
tempt to screen the villainy ofjthe Secre
tary of War. There are hundreds if not
thousands of appointments in the gift
of the War Department; how was Mrs.
Belknap to know the value of a post
tradership at Fort Sill in the Indian
Territory—within a few months after
her husband had accepted a Cabinet
portfolio ? If General Belknap says be
knew nothing of the matter before his
wife’s death he certainly learned of it
after that event. If he was anxious to
shield his wife’s honor, if he was afraid
that a repudiation of the corrupt con
tract wonld cause the parties to expose
the means by which it had been obtain
ed, he might have allowed the appoint
ment to stand, but he should have re
fused to accept one cent of the bribe
money. Instead of doing this be quiet
ly recognized the arrangement and con
tinued to receive directly what he had
before receded indirectly, and drew his
share of the spoils regularly as they fell
due. From the testimony now before
us it is plain that Belknap and his wife
were jointly implicated in the trans
action and that the payments were njade
to Mr. Belknap in accordance with a
bungling design to conceal the frand.
General Grant’s conduct in the affair
is not made to appear any better by his
explanation. His excuse is as lame as
the one offered by General Belknap.
He says he would not have made such
indecent haste to accept Belknap’s res
ignation if he had kuown that the Sec
retary of War was an active participant
in the fraud. He declares that General
Bklknap deoeived him by stating that
he concealed the transaction only be
cause he did not wish to disgrace the
memory of his dead wife. Therefore he
accepted his resignation in order to pre
vent his impeachment. The explana
tion will not relieve the President of
any of the odium which justly attaches
to his action. He was the author of the
declaration that no Government official
should resign while under fire. He had
just learned that evidence had been ad
duced going to show that an appoint
ment belonging to the War Office had
been disposed of in accordance with
the terms of a corrupt contract. The
Secretary of War came to him with his
side of the story and a request for per
mission to resign in order to escape im
peachment, and without waiting to hear
the other side of the case, without
etfjng to inquire into the facts, without
long enough to communicate
with the luvj£i£Rting Committee of the
Government, General .Grant made haste
to comply with the request jpd to pro
tect to the extent of his ability the guil
ty whom he had recently declared
should not be allowed to escape. Did
not the President know very well that
Belknap could not be impeached if the
evidence only proved that his wife took
bribes without his knowledge or con
sent t General Grant deserves the se
verest condemnation and the House
should promptly vote a resolution of
censure.
“Specks” writes from Waahin jton to
the Atlanta Courier, that among the
Southern claimants is a Mrs. Willinq
pord, who claims to be the loyal daugh
ter of a planter near Dalton, Ga., and
represents that when the Union armies
peaqtffted that region in 1863, they
made away pith all her personal prop
erty, which, according her account,
amounted to a large sum. User itemized
claim sets forth that there were l,6dy
bales of cotton, for which she asks only
$800,066; 2,500 pounds of tobacco, for
which she wants but $1 per pound; a
Chiekering piano, for which phe asks
S6OO, and a Steinway, $800; four sets'
parlor furniture, $1,200; another set of
parlor furniture, $$00; another, $350;
still four sets more (walnut), $2,000;
S4OO worth of lace and S2OO worth of
damask curtains; $l5O worth of mattres
ses; SIOO worth of pillows; SIOO worth
of feather beds, and $450 worth of bed
furnishing; $2,500 worth of “wall pic
tures;” SI,OOO worth of books, and
enough else to make the whole amount
$840,496.
MR. HILL’S SECOND SPEF.Cn.
Mb. B. H. Hill created a little excite
ment in Congress the other day. In the
debate upon restoring to the pension
rolls the Southern survivors of the war
of 1812, Mr. Hill made a speech in
which he said he had taken no part in
j politics before the war except to canvass
the State of Georgia in opposition to
j secession, and that wherever he found a
survivor of the war of 1812 he also
found a Union man. He denied that
the South was responsible for the origin
of the secession doctrine, but placed
that responsibility upon New England,
and he concluded his remarks by assert
ing that, while these very pensioners
were throwing up breastworks at New
Orleans, to resist the enemies of our
commoT country, the people of New
England were assembled in convention
at Hartford endeavoring to proclaim
the right of secession. This brought
Blaine, Hasson, Hoar and dozens of
others to their feet with demands for
recognition by the Speaker, in order
that they might reply. “ The utmost
disorder existed on the floor. Every
body crowded down toward the front of
the desks to get nearer to the actors in
the scene, which at this moment was
extremely exciting. During the con
fusion and noise Blaine and others con
tinued their shouts and gesticulations,
but the Chair declined to recognize
anybody until order was restored.”
Afterwards Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts,
replied to Mr. Hill, saying that the
resolutions passed by the Hartford Con
vention were copied from the famous
Virginia resolutions of 1798. He taunt
ed Mr. Hill with his short memory
concerning the resolutions be offered in
the Confederate Senate, and with sup
pressing portions of the speech he
made in the Andersonville debate. The
Northern Democrats and Northern
Democratic papers of course “regret”
Mr. Hill’s second speech as they re
gretted his first. For ourselves, we see
nothing in the speech to “regret.”. If
the Southern Democrats are not to be
permitted to open their mouths in Con
gress they might as well come home and
let Morrison, Holman & Cos. run the
machine.
the Location of candidates.
What is known as the “locality argu
ment” in President-making is exciting a
good deal of attention just now. Each
State puts forward its “favorite son” for
nomination, or perhaps its two or three
favorite sons, as Ohio, for example, puts
forward Pendleton, Hayes and Thur
man, and Indiana puts forth Hendricks
and Morton. In old times the Presi
dents were all furnished from two States.
For the first ten Presideniial terms the
Presidents were invariably taken from
either Virginia or Massachusetts, and
principally from the former; so that
these two States supplied all the Presi
dents for the first forty years of the Re
public and down to the year 1829. Fu
ture students of history will marvel at
this extraordinary fact. However, when
once the pre-emption, as it were, of
these two States was broken by the ex
traordinary choice of Andrew Jackson,
other States took courage, and now we
see exactly the reverse state of things,
namely, each State clamoring to have
the nomination fall on its favorite son.
Virginia has since, by the Presidency of
Tyler, and also, we think, of Taylor
(he being, if we rightly remember, a
native of the Old Dominion, though
elected while a citizen of Louisiana),
increased her enormous score; but dur
ing the last half century Tennessee,
with Jackson and Polk and Johnson,
and Illinois, with two terms of Lincoln
and two terms of Grant (though neither
was a native of Illinois), have come in
to prominence as President-making
States. Pennsylvania has thus far giv
en the country but one President—
James Buchanan. Georgia, though the
Empire State of the South, has given
none, and her chances at present are de
cidedly slim.
propertt exemptions* in new
YORK.
The New York Tax Commissioners
have furnished a detailed statement to
the Legislature of the amount of real
estate in the city which is exempted
from taxation, showing that there are
54,000 lots of 2,500 square feet each, and
rated at over two hundred and ten mil
lions, untaxed. Much of the property
is held under ninety-nine years leases at
one dollar rent for the entire period.
The property is exempted from assess
ments for street improvements, which
increases its value, besides which, gas
lamps are placed in front of most of the
churches and lighted every night at the
expense of the city, at an aggregate cost
estimated at about $50,000 ayear. There
is also a special exemption of clergymen
from personal tax, which is said to bene
fit only those who are well off, and not
the poor clergyman who has nothing
to exempt. Of the items in the list we
notice that the property occupied by the
city for parks, schools and the various
departments foot up $126,707,000. That
occupied by the United States $10,440,-
000. Of the church property exempt
from taxation, the Protestant Episcopal
is estimated at $10,700,000; Roman
Catholic, $6,999,000 ; Presbyterian, $6,-
986,000; Methodist, $2,917,500; Bap
tist, $2,432,000 ; Jewish synagogues, $2,-
008,000 ; Reformed Dutch, $3,401,000 ;
Unitarian, $900,000; Universalist, $440,-
000; Congregational, $418,000 ; Lu
theran, $537,000; other denominations,
$395,000 ; City Missions. $494,000 ; Ro
man Catholic private charity schools,
$1,433,000; private, hospitals, $6,155,-
000 ; colleges, $1,968,000 ; asylums, $7,-
791,500 ; libraries, $2,035,000 ; cemete
ries, $1,495,000; miscellaneous, includ
ing Yonng Men’s Christian Association
($600,000), $2,290,000.
A gentleman lately in Atlanta informs
us that it is generally understood there
that the letter published in the New
York Herald, bitterly assailing Governor
Smith, was written by Mr. Bob Cowart,
and that it is to be followed by another
of the same sort. This promising
yonng gentleman, it is farther said, re- j
ceutly became very hostile to the Gov
ernor because his excellent father, very
lately deceased, was not appointed
Judge of the Atlanta City Court, instead
of the Hon. Richard H. Clark. Who
it was that dictated the fnrions diatribe
—who the real author ia and by what in
fluence its publication was secured—
does not seem to be yet definitely known.
It proceeded, probably, from the same
“ring” that has manufactured and set
afloat the dirty insinuations and false
hoods that have cropped ant here and
there of late in different parts of the
town. — Columbus Times.
There s otctljer chance for Kenealy
if he can only get admitted to the bar
again. .A Birmingham coach builder
named Thomas claims the Waddon Hall
estates, Bnckinghampshire, England,
which, vitb accumulated money, exceed
in value three millions sterling. The
Birmingham claimant has not been able
to carry on an action heretofore, owing
to want of funds, but several gentlemen
have offered pecuniary aid on the par
ticulars of the claim appearing in a
local paper. The matter is to be piaeed
in the hands of solicitors) who will be
instructed to take immediate action for
the recovery of the valnable property.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 15, 1876.
A LIE STOPPED.
One E. C. Wade, of the county of
| Brooks, has Written a letter to the Wash
ington Republican, in which he misrep
resents and maligßß the people of
Georgia, and especially the white people
|of Brooks county. This man Wade is
an office-holder, and he seeks for farther
preferment by tnisrepresenting the
living and slandering the dead. He has
lied most foully about the late
Captain James H. Hunter, than
whom there was no more honorable
man and devoted citizen. Our readers
will remember that Captain Hunier was
stabbed to death by a negro in October,
1874, at an election for members of the
Legislature, at Quitman, Brooks county.
After a fair and -impartial trial before
the Superior and Snpreme Courts—the
case goiDg before the latter tribnnal on
a writ of error—the murderer of Cap
tain Hunter was found guilty and hung.
The prisoner had a fair trial, and Cap
tain Hunter on his death bed enjoined
his friends and fellow-citizens not to take
vengeance on the mnrderer but to
let the law take its course. The
law did take its course and
fourteen months after the deed was
done, the slayer of Captain Hunter was
hanged by the neck until he was dead.
And now this man Wade writes a letter
to the Washington Republican villify
ing the living and outraging the dead.
That this man lives in the county of
Brooks, or in any portion of the State
of Georgia, is the strongest refutation
of the calumnies that he has circulated
about our people.
Hon. H. G. Turner has written a let
ter in reply to this fellow Wade. He
vindicates the good name of onr people,
and proves Wade to be unworthy either
of respect or credence. As this man’s
letter has no doubt been circulated ex
tensively in the North, and as he ar
raigns not only the good name of the peo
ple of Brooks, but of the entire white
population of Georgia, we deem it due to
the cause of truth and justice that the
reply should be published and circulated
as extensively as possible. The author of
this letter, Hon. H. G. Turner, is a mem
ber of the Legislature. He represents the
county of Brooks in the House, having
been elected to succeed his friend and
predecessor, the late Capt. James ‘H.
Hunter, between Whom there existed a
warm personal friendship. There are
men of decided ability in the present
General Assembly, although there may
be captious and fractious people who
will say that their acts do not prove it.
However, the assertion is true, and Mr.
Turner is not only one of the ablest
men in that body, but he is of the
first order of talent among the rising
men of Georgia. He is a lawyer by pro
fession. His views upon all questions
are broad and comprehensive, but his
convictions are always the result of ma
ture deliberation. He is clear and vig
orous in debate, and bis opinions, when
ever he gave them, because he spoke
but seldom, were always listened to with
attention and respect. The writer of
this has the highest respect for the
character and ability of Mr. Turner,
and he takes pleasure in commending
his letter to the readers of the Chroni
cle and Sentinel. It will be received
as a complete refutation of the slanders
of Wade, who hopes for preferment by
giving currency to misrepresentation
and falsehood.
MINOR TOPICS.
Since 1820 the cost of education in the pub
lic schools of Philadelphia has increased from
$4 to sl7 per pupil. But, then, you know, in
1820 little else was taught but “the three K’s—
Beading, Riting and Rithmetic,” while now,
when a pupil is graduated there, he is prepar
ed to become anything you want, from presi
dent to chief engineer of a convoluted whisky
ring.
Babcock and Luckey are comfortably settled
in the White House again, quite as though
nothing had happened, and Babcock’s friends
continue to congratulate him on his heroic
achievement of having mixed in with a lot of
convicts and escaping the penitentiary him
self. A good many of his admiring friends
owe their present position in society to similar
good luck, and if Babcock was to be serenaded
the compliment could come more appropriately
from nobody than from his comrades of the
District ring.
It is now authoritatively promulgated that
Babcock’s official relations with the White
Houso have ceased. So it "was announced,
when Grant’s chances of renominatiun for a
second time were in peril, that Brother-in-Law
Casey had been removed from a Federal office
in New Orleans that a Republican Congression
al Committee had demonstrated his unfitness
to hold; yet Casey has never to this day ceased
to occupy the post, draw the salary, and pocket
the perquisites. If any duly qualified person,
meaning business, wishes to have a talk with
Babcock, we have no doubt that he can still
be found, if not in the White House, yet just
around the comer or thereabouts.
In the $6,000,000 suit against Boss Tweed,
which is now in progress in New York, Inoer
soll, one of the ring convicts, who was par
doned out of the penitentiary that he might
give testimony against his chief, testified that
Tweed spent fully $1,000,000 of his ill-gotten
gains at Albany in corrupting legislators. He
also testified that he (Inqersoll) received for
himself and friends $3,500,000, and expressed
the opinion, with unblushing confidence, that
hia thirty-five per cent, of the steal was justly
retained. It seems almost a pity that to bring
down even such big game as Tweed the peni
tentiary should be deprived of the presence of
one so eminently entitled to its hospitalities as
Inqersoll.
When the recent contest for Senator from
lowa was going on, General Belknap, then
Secretary of War, was one of three candidates
for the place, Brother Harlan being another.
At one time it was thonght that Belknap was
certain of securing the prize, as he was sup
ported by the utmost influence of the Ad
ministration. If the lowa Republicans had
followed Grant's desires ia this matter,
wouldn't they be in a nice pickle now ? They
would be even worse off than the Republican
party of the whole country finds itself after its
long-continued blind snbmission to the dicta
tion of the most arrogant and the most
ignorant man who ever occupied the White
House.
Bowen and 'Beecher are still at loggerheads.
Bowen says that he is willing to teU all he
knows, but only to a committee under certain
conditions. Beecher says he is willing that
Bowen shaß tell all he knows, but only under
certain very different conditions. So there is
no prospect in that direction of any present
enlightenment. The two men between them
doubtless know all there ia to be known, but
they cannot agree as to hoy jt shall be told.
Now suppose the special committee, designat
ed by the Advisory Council, jnst taka the
whole matter in hand and themselyes pre
scribe the rules under which the truth shall be
told, without any regard to the wishes or the
dictation of either Bowen or Beecher. Them,
if either objects, the general jadgment will be
that be is the party who is a/raid to have the
trnth told. We see no other method or chance
of getting at the truth of this business. It
could be reached in that way, and we don’t be
lieve it ever wiU be in any other.
With a gross population of 15,000 people.
Virginia City supports not less than twenty
gambling hells, two hundred and six saloons
and any number of houses of prostitution.
There are men there with incomes of $300,-
000 per month, on the one hand, and shiver
ing wretches without a farthing on the other.
There.more sharply than in any other American
town, ure the two extremes of American pov
erty and wealth exemplified. That the Com
stock Loile is the richest mine in America
there can be no doubt. Discovered in 1859, it
has since yielded not less than $280,000,000,
and this with very imperfect machinery for
the greater part of the time. Many men have
become rich beyond their tpost sanguine
hopes, but unpossessed of the ability to stand
prosperity, have succumbed to the passion for
gambling in stocks; others, more prudent,
have saved their money.
J. Shahan and W. S. Murray, of Ton
ne! Hill, bare gone into bankruptcy.
THE CROOIED PAPERS.
THR BRIBERY CHARGES AGAINST
THE STATE HOAD LESSEES.
The Testimony Before the Investisatisn
Committee or the Legislature—The Facts
as Developed. Under Oath—What Money
was Expended by the Lessees—How Much
and to Whom Paid*
| From the Atlanta Constitution.}
Atlanta, Monday, February 14, 1876.
The committee met pursuant to adjourn
ment.
R. A. Alston on tbe stand: Cross ex
amination by Gov. Brown. Q. Did you
hear the evidence given by me in refer
ence to the money paid by me to eertain
newspapers for making publications
during the controver y abont the lease ?
A. Yes, sir. I have ieard the whole of
it. Q. According 1 3 the enstom of
journalism, I will as] you whether there
was any impropriety |n either of the rep
resentatives of those papers I have men
tioned receiving the,money under the
circumstances given by me in my testi
mony ? A. I can only reply that as to
the impropriety of it every man must
judge for himself. I say it is unusual
and I know of no such custom. Q. Do
you know ol any instance where news
paper men have refused to receive mon
ey for making such publication ? A. I
do. The Herald has refused as much as
$5,000 to make such a publication at one
time, and at another, $2,000.' I have the
proposition in writing from a high offi
cial and we refused to do it because we
did not think it proper, and that too,
when we were so poor we didn’t know
where we were to get the money to pay
our hands with. Q. Allow me, now,
since you have referred to the Herald
(the committee would not have let me
ask it otherwise) if the Herald has not
agreed to take money for making pub
lications in advocacy of any great meas
ure where private interests are involved ?
A. No, sir. I suppose I know what you
refer to—you mean this bill of the Texas
and Pacific Bailroad Company. I pub
lished the bill and received a letter from
Gen. J. G. Walker, general agent of the
road, telling me not to draw on them
through the bank, but to send my bill
on and they would pay it. I answered
that I had nothing to conceal about tbe
matter and I did draw on them and get
my money. Q. Didn’t yon receive pay
for doing more than publishing the
bill ? • A. I have received more money
from them, as much as SSOO. And I had
the expectation of a considerable amount
of money if I got the Legislature of
Georgia to pass the resolution endors
ing the bill, but to every man whom I
approached upon the subject I stated
that fact. I told a member that if the
bill went through Congress that)l expect
ed to receive pay and for my sake I
wished him to withdraw his objections,
and he said he would do so. Q. You
admit that you have a oontract by
which the Herald was to receive a large
sum in tho event a resolution could be
carried through the Legislature endors
ing that measure? A. No, sir. I did
not say the Herald— l said R. A. Alston.
Q. You have approached members of
the General Assembly upon the subject ?
A. I have approached members upon
.the subject. Q. You told them that
you would be benefitted if it did pass?
A. I did. Q. At the time Gen. Walker
was here representing the Texas and
Pacific Railroad Company was not a
contract entered into between yourself
and Mr. Burns the business manager of
the Herald, and Gen. Walker agent of
the company, by which your were to re
ceive a certain compensation for the ad
vocacy of the measure and, in the event
of its final success, were to receive $lO,-
000. A. I do not know of any such
thing. Q. Was not such a contract enter
ed into by you ? A. I stated emphat
ically there was no such thing. Q. Did
you not get a $250 draft from General
Walker ? A. Mr. Burns got it but Gen.
Walker stopped it. Q. But you got the
money for it ? A. Yes, sir. Gen. Wal
ker said he went into the Constitution
office and wanted them to publish the
article and they would not do it unless
he paid them SIOO, which he refused to
give them. Q. And you published it
for $250? A. No, sir; I did not. Q.
What was that $250 for then ? It was
for publishing certain communications,
among them Beauregard’s letter, and
other papers which he was to send me
when lie got back home, and was paid
as part advance on a contraot at 25 cents
per line. Q. The articles published
were not marked as advertisements ? A.
No, sir. Q. None of them were so
marked ? A. No, sir; none of them. Q.
Do I understand you to say that you
made no contract about a fee condition
al ? A. Absolutely there was not. Q,
Did Mr. Burns, or others, make it for
the Herald ? A. Not to my knowledge.
Q. Mr. Burns was bnsiness manager of
trhe Herald at the time, was he not ? A.
Yes, sir. Very unfortunately, he was.
Q. I desire to ask you whether there
was any arrangement between you and
Mr. H. I. Kimball in which you agreed
to advocate a line of adjustment in ref
erence to certain discredited bonds of
the State, and their payment by the
State, if he could get a loan of a certaiu
amount of money? A. I had nothing
to do with that loan. Col. Avery got it.
Q. Wasn’t there certain communications
had with Mr. J. 0. Kimball about it in
which you were agreeing to run on that
line ? A. Ido not remember ever have
anything to say to Mr. J. C. Kimball
about it. Q. Did not the parties rep
resenting that loan begin about the last
of March, 1874, to make advances
to the Herald at the rate of S3OO per
week. A. No, sir; I do not remember
of getting one cent from them. Q. Not
from Mr. J. C. Kimball, nor from the
Commercial Warehouse company ? A.
No, sir; not one dime. Q. Nor from
Mr. Scannell ? A. No, sir; I neve heard
of Mr. Scannell until a few days ago,
and I still believe him to be a myth. Q.
Wasn’t that done at your own sugges
tion because you did not want the trans.
action known ? A. No, sir; absolutely
and. positively it was not. Q. You say
there were no communications between
you and Mr. Kimball about getting a
loan for you in the North ? A. Yes, sir;
there were upon the subject of getting a
loan for me in the North. That was at
the time of the Toombs matter, and he
got the loan from Mr. John E. Ward on
the faith of the friendly feeling and con
fidence felt by Mr. Ward in Mr. I. W.
Avery. Mn Kimball told me this when
Col. Avery was about leaving the paper,
and advised me not to let him go, but
said I had better keep him on that ac
count. Q. Did not Mr. H. I. Kimball
send yon a letter under cover to his
brother J. C. Kimball, and which letter
was read to you by Mr. J. C. Kimball
and probably retained by him, in which
Mr. H. I. Kimball stated substantially
that he was not able to advance you the
money himself, but that he could get it
for you if you agreed with him about
the policy of “State aid” and the ques
tion of adjustment of these bonds?
A. I state absolutely and positively that
I never saw such a letter. Q. Did you
never reply to them? A. I never did.
I never wrote Kimball a word upon the
subject in my life. Q. Is’that letter in
your hand-writing? (presenting a letter
to Mr. AMon.) A. (After examining the
letter.) It is. It is dated March 7th, 1874;
the loan was*made Aug. 21st. Q. I will
ask you if Mr. John C. Kimball didn’t
read you this letter? (presenting anoth
er letter.) A. (After examining it.) I
have read these letters. I thought when
you asked me abont this matter that you
referred to correspondence abont the
loan. This matter had escaped my mem
ory, as it occurred nearly seven months
before the loan. Q. You wrote the one
in reply to the other? A. Yes, sir; I
wrote the one in reply to the other, and
the only thing abont tbe letters that
brings a blush on my cheeks is that they
show me to haye been so intimate with
such a set of rascals. (Letters below in
the appendix.), Q. Did you receive S3OO
per month, or any other sum, monthly
of weekly, from Mr. H. L Kimball, or by
Mr. John C. Kimball? A. We frequent
ly had transactions, horpmng add re
paying money between ns, that is Col.
Avery who was manager did. Q. Did
yon ever repay the amounts that John
C. Kimball advanced to you? A. I
think there is SIOO due him yet, on a
note signed by Col. Avery, and which
has been renewed several times, and
(to Col. Avery) Mr. J. C. Kimball men
tioned to me once something abont a
paino, Col., and complained to me that
yon had not paid him . Q. Well,
abont this Texas and Pacific Bailroad
matter, was it not understood that you
were to advocate it in the Herald and
do'all yon Could in the Herald to that
end? A. The Herald has always ad
vocated it and I have always been advo
cating it and ' one year ago I got a
resolution introduced by Mr. Walsb,
and passed through the legislature en
dorsing it. Q. Wasnit it a of the
contract with the' Hpralti that it Was to
advocate the measure? A. No, sir. Gen.
Walker said to me that we had always
been with them and he wanted ns to
publish the articles. I told him that
we had and that I had friends -and re
latives interested in the matter and re
garded it as .a great public work. Q. In
the matter of the resolution before the
General Assembly you acted as a lobby
ist? A. No, sir. I acted, I suppose,
as afi attorney. Q. Was you an attor
ney at law or an attorney in fact? A. I
do not know which—l am an attorney at
law. Q. I will ask you, then, whether
you think there was any impropriety in
these gentlemen—Col. ■ Lester, Mr.
Knight, Col. Fielder and Col. Simmons
—taking the money paid them in this
matter? A. (The committee did not
permit the answer to be recorded.) Gov.
Brown. I desire then to state to the
committee that there was no oontraot or
agreement with any one of the newspa
pers named by me concerning their edi
torial columns, but only for the nse of
their general columns, and that I have
tried to prove by Col. Alston, who is an
editor and proprietor himself, that there
was nothing improper or unusual in
their taking money for that service. He
says he is also an attorney and I only de
sired to prove by him the ethics of the
profession upon the other point. (The
committee still refused to record the
answer.) Q. I will ask you if the Soan
nell loan was not made through Mr. H.
I. Kimball? A. I suppose it was. When
he came down here and went back North,
he was gone about two weeks, when he
telegraphed that it was all right and
that we could get the money. I did not
know who he got the money from, but
learned since that it was from the Com
mercial Warehouse. Q. You started to
state something about the Centennial;
have you any objection to stating abont
your getting money from that? A. I
never received one dime, nor the prom
ise of a dime from it. Q. Did you not
have the promise of SI,OOO for getting
Mr. Ed. Mercer a position there for his
beer saloon, or something of the sort?
A. That was a different matter. Mr.
Mercer promised to give me SI,OOO to
get him the position, and I went with
him and did so, and I applied the money
for the Herald, as I considered I had
used my time which was due to it for
the purpose. R. A. Alston.
Col. Avery re called. Examined by
Gov. Brown. Q. Were you running
the Herald in March, 1874? A. I did
not come in, I think, until the 26th of
April, 1874. Q. Wasn’t the Scannell
loan obtained through the influence of
Mr. H. I. Kimball? A. I think it was.
I remember that he had something to
do with it, but as to the correspondence
between Mr. Kimball and Col. Alston,
I knew nothing of. (Other questions
were asked, but, by order of the Chair
man, were not recorded.) I. W. Avery.
APPENDIX.
LETTER OF H. I. KIMBALD TO B. A. ALSTON.
Newton, Mass., March 7, 1874.
R. A. Alston, Esq::
My Deab Sib— Your letter of the 4th,
with statements from your manager as
stated, is just at hand, and I hasten to
reply. I sympathize with you fully and
if was in my power I certainly would re
spond to your call. I believe what you
say, and feel that you are my friend and
would stand by me personally to the
bitter end, therefore if it was in my pow
er I would readily assist you, and the
fact is that I have been working very
hard to establish a business here, that
would within a fewjyears yield an income
for my family, and starting as I did
without means it is as you cau under
stand a hard struggle. Therefore, I am
powerless to aid you, except possibly I
may do so through friends. Should I
return to Georgia I should be very
much pleased to have the moral support
of such a strong paper as the "Herald,"
and while you might be personally
friendly you might not agree with me
in the policy I pursued. If, therefore, I
am to make any effort with my friends
in-your behalf, I think we must first
understand just how each other stands
on important questions whioh would be
very likely to arise should X return. Of
oourse, I should not return to take any
inferior position—for I am well aware
that what ever I do will be severely
criticised—that I expect, and should not
go unless I can command capital and
position. I should not engage in any
scheme or give countenance to any en
terprise that I do not believe to be wise
and just. Still you might honestly dif
fer with me. In case the “ Herald ”
agreed with me in “principle and poli
cy” I should be very glad to be instru
mental in lifting it out of what seems
to be a very embarrassing financial con
dition, and place it high above any such
contingency as is suggested in Mr.
Smith’s letter. You know that I think
the policy of repudiation has been a
curse to the State, and just throttles
every enterprise that requires outside
capital. I have been and am still a be
liever in “State aid” and a liberal policy
toward railroad enterprises. I do not
say that this policy has not been some
what overdone, but the policy wisely
exercised is correct. Your people are
too poor and have not the means to de
velop your resources, and they can never
get it until they recognise what is hon
estly due for the benefit it has already
received. State aid is practically for
the State what you want for the "Her
ald.” You want more ready cash. If
you have it on credit you are confident
that you oan pay interest and all expen
ses and the principal in less than 40
years (the time the bonds have to run).
The Central Bailroad influence has done
more to injure the State than all the
abuse of “State aid” policy.
Take the case of the Union Pacific
Bailrpad. It never oould have been
built but for the aid of the Government,
but now that it is built, the Government
would be a hundred times better off
even if they had to pay every dollar
guaranteed than they would have been
with no road and no pay.
But save making an arugment, J in
tended no such thing; I merely intended
to say that I appreciate the value of a
live, influential newspaper like the "Her
ald,” and if the “ Hera Id” believes in the
folly of repudiation and the wisdom of
“State aid” and would devote its ool
ums to advooating auoh a policy and
such special enterprises as met itsfavor,
then I could consistently promise my
assistance in procuring such aid as
would make the "Herald” financially
strong and independent. This, under
stand, is not written fqr the purpose of
making any bid for yoqr influence, for I
am not authorised or even inclined to do
so, but simply in reply to your urgent
letter, and to asssure you of my person
al friendship as well as my personal
financial inability to aid yon, but to
show you a line which if in perfect ao
cord with yourviews might be successful.
I am not attempting to convert you to
my views, but if you candidly and hon
estly believe as I do, on these subjects,
then I can work for yot. If you do not,
1 can not, in a business point of view,
though personally I hope we may always
be friends. I will mail this to J. C., and
write him to talk the whole matter up;
he understands my views. JJxcqse this
long letter, and hereafter be frpe to ad
dress mp upon any subject, and believe
me, Truly, your friend,
H. I. Kimball.
letter Of B. 4- AhSTON TO Sf. EUR* ALL.
Atlanta, Ga., March 30, 1874.
H. I. Kimball:
DbabSib— Your letter in reply to mine
of former date, under care to your
brother, J. C. Kimball, was duly re
ceived and has been carefully and delib
erately considered. I thank you for the
frankness with which you express your
views as to the relations which must gov
ern us iq any future transactions, jt
does honOf to your head and heart. I
beg leave to reply with the same frank
ness and to state to yoq that I am fully
in accoyd with your views. I was an
old Whig, and while I believe, in the ab
stract, that the whole duty of govern
ment is discharged when it affords pro
tection tq person and property and
leaves *)l else to fegqlate itepff, yet this
view iu the present situation of the
country, and especially in reference to
our situation in Georgia, is wholly im
practicable and would, stop very far
short of enabling qs tq develop tfee re
sources of this country during the pres
ent century to any reasonable extent.
Repudiation, or even the odor of repu
diation, is very distasteful to a large
majority of the people of Georgia. To
be placed on the defensive, to be placed
in a situation where it even becomes
necessary to explain why our obliga
tions, no matter how they accrued, are
not met, is a sore pill to every true
Georgian. Thousands wfe6 think and
feel this way ' were deterred i from ex
pressing theft opinions by the tremen
dous reaction which followed your
failure and Bullock’s flight. Calm, so
ber reason is now reassigning the
sway which they surrendered for'many
months. ' ‘ ' ’’ u ‘*
* Your return to Georgia, and the dig
nified good sense that characterizes
every movement you made white you
were here, has done as much, if not
more, than all else to restore the equili
brium of public justice. The cry of
“Bullock bonds” and “fraudulent bond
holders” no longer has power to frighten
an honest man from sober argument and
the consideration of snoh questions as
attach to each partionlar case. It is
now generally oonoeded that these
bonds, instead of being utterly repudi
ated as they now are, ought to have a
hearing, bat as yet nobody has been
bold enough, who had any character to
lose, to “bell the cat.” There is bnt one
way in which this matter can be ap
proached with any possible hope of suc
oess, and it is needless to say that you
are the only man living who can do it.
Let those who are interested send you
here with power and authority to carry
out in good faith the enterprises on
whioh these securities are based, and the
change in the pnblio sentiment will be
as rapid and as radical as the reaction
that occurred when you left. Anew
Legislature is to be elected in November
next. Let this change of sentiment
take place in time to operate on this, ap
proaching Legislature, and my word for
it the fair name of Georgia will be re
deemed from even the appearance of
wrong. God knows Ido not insinuate
that you should attempt any appeal
except to reason and justice. To dp
this, you must have a press, in the
hands of gentlemen ; an established
press, with the power and the indepen
dence to speak the truth. Such a paper
is the Atlanta Herald. It now has a.
circulation superior to any paper in
Georgia. If I could get money enough
to run it ten weeks without my presence,
so as to enable me to leave here and
canvass the State, which I would do un
til next Fall, I feel certain that I could
treble the present subscription. I would
need no men. In saying this it is but
due to myself to state that I am not ac
tuated by selfish motives. I have per
formed a miracle in carrying on the
paper to this time. 1 can now sell it
for enough to let me out, and I would
have done it but for my interest in
yonng Grady.
It is a matter that I oan afford to
drop, but I speak to you with frankness
when I tell yon that this paper will be
worth a hundred thousand dollars to
you in the future. Asa piece of prop
erty, the gross income is now upwards
of eighty thousand and the expenses not
exceeding fifty. You say: then how is
it that yom are hard up ? I oan readily
explain. I started with nothing but the
little property I had and my oredit. I
ran it during'its early beginning at an
expense of over $1,200 and even as high
as $1,500 per week. This was all cash.
A debt of over twenty-seven thousand
dollars ($27,000) accumulated, and most
of this debt on call.
When we were regarded as hopelessly
insolvent, I had rest and indulgence. I
commenced to make money and pay off.
I have paid off nearly $17,000 and bond
ed six thousand. The remainder of
about two or three thousand is in small
sums that have been sued in Justice’s
Courts and are pressing me to the wall.
I want my paper on thirty days, even
when it is offered, for I will not promise
money when I see no oertainty of some
way to pay it.
I must have help, and that soon, or I
oannot see how I can longer esoape hav
ing my paper advertised. Once done,
and the good will is seriously affected.
Now is the time that I need this help
the more than 1 ever can do again. I
do not plead for it on my own account,
as I remarked previously. I oan sell an
interest for enough to relieve me, but I
do not desire to do this; besides I have
a splendid plantation to which I can re
turn and live iq ease,
If I bad ten thousand dollars I oould
go out in the oountry and oollect it in
subscriptions in a short time.
Answer as soon as you can, and let me
.know the prospects. I do not write a
letter to any one on any subject of this
character that lam not willing for tfie
whole world' to see. When I take a
position, I do so deliberately, and am
always willing to abide the result.
Yours, very truly,
[Signed] R. A. Alston.
F. S.—l am solicited by quite a num
ber of my friends iq this fiistriot tq run
for Congress. J feel very sure of being
able tq make the trip, but I am unde
cided in view of the present whether to
make the effort for Congress or {whether
I could not be of more service to my
State by going to the Legislature,
Yours,
[Signed] B, A. A.
Centennial Suggestions. —Governor
Bagley, of Michigan, issued an address
to the people of his State, on the 22d
ult., in which, after expressing a fear
that we are growing thoughtless of our
country, its institutions qnfi Govern
ment, and careless Pf its perpetuity, he
makes these practical suggestions:
_We, of Michigan, need to do our duty
in this direction, and we cannot com
mence too soon. The history of the
United States is not taught in five thou
sand of the six thousand schools of the
State. It cccurs to me that this is not
the way to insqre good citizenship in
the future. If our children are thus
educated —or rather uneducated —we
shall by and by become a natioq of
doubters and croakers. I hope the par
ents and children, the sohoo} efijoers and
school teachers of the State will see to
it that this be changed at once. If from
the inspiration of the time this single
reform shall be secured, the Centennial
will indeed prove a blessing. On Satur
day, the 15th day of April next, I qrge
upon every citizen of thjs| • §tato who
owns a piece of Gofi’a ground—whether
it be large or small, whether in oity or
country, town or village—to plant a
tree, that our children and our children’s
children may know and remember it as
the tree planted by patriotic hands in
the first Centennial year qf the republic.
In a country of land owners, where the
poorest man may, if he will, own the
ground he stands on, this seems a most
appropriate memorial act, and I earnest
ly hope our people wUi heartily unite in
adopting this suggestion. I am well
aware that these are perhaps only sym
bols—eternal Rhow—but will they not
bespeak an inward glow of patriotic im
pulse, and may they not set in motion
in the plastic minds of onr youth—and
perchance of elder folk—a cuTrqqt pf
patriotism and love qf pqqntry that
shall know qq ebb 1 Let us now resolve
to cherish the legates of free sohool,
free ohuroh, free press and free town
meeting left us by the fathers. Let us
preserve simplieity and economy of
government aa cardinal points in our
political prepd, and thus make sure
“ that, under Q°d, government of the
people, by the people, and for the peo
ple, shall not perish from the earth.
- im —-
A O^aq.—lt was a Mr. Simmons’ deal.
I was the oldest man, and the blind was
three—calls seven. Ike Baggies saw it;
then it was risen by Jones to fifteen fqr
to play. Brown came in, aqfi also the
dealer stayed. Thffi tool mp twelve
to mak9 it good, which I put up, and I
remqrfced tq fhe society that it would
cost only twenty-five more for to (Jyav.
Eyery last gentleman stayed, b*t it was
not risen any higher, tf'hen the dealer
says tft me, ‘'Mow many will you take ?”
Says f, “A card.” I had aces and hings,
and got aq see in the
three and Joqea two, but Brown bad
enough, and told the dealer to help hia
self, whioh he took only five. There was
now about 190 chips on the board. Ike
bet one; Jones went ten better, and
Brown raised it to twenty—because he
stood pat. The dealer said that his’n
was valued at twenty more. Then afiid
L “How many does ft taka me
one said “fqrt| oipps,” wlTieh I invested
likewise witlv sixty better. Then all
passed up to Brown, and I wanted him
bad to stay with his steal, but bis sand
gave out, and Ae passed. Says the deal
er to me, “How many did you d*w ?”
Says I, “A card.” says he, “I
don’t vqqt fo fay down this hsnd; I will
bet sixty spore than youJ” Now the
dealer WUB a stranger like to onr party.
He was from the country, and didn’t
know much about and. p. So I thought it
was my charitable dpt; to let him Sown
easy, and! only called him- “What
have you got i” said L “Two pairs !”
said the Mr. Simmons. Then it was my
time to be sorry that I had an ace fall
on kings. “Bat,” says the genial Mr.
Simmons, “mine is two pairs of jacks !”
Then I said “O 1" ‘and put on my hat
and went down in the street to look for
Christmas. As I went ont thq door,
Brown asked me “Hew LmnjT took ?”
But Brown always Uda'a person which
Wfil ipick a mad Wheri he is down.
Some forty years ago Bishop England
visited Darien and prepaidthere, pr.
Bailie, in his “Sows,” says: “I had but
recently heard 'Mr. ’Webster and Mr.
Hayne, and others of Congressional
fame as orators, and so far us oratory
'gas concerned, the Bishop, ip my
judgment, took tfie pal jp.”'
The Columbus Times says the presses,
type, etc., of the Newnan Star are to go
to Sandersville, to be need in the publi
cation of a newspaper at that place.
$2 A TEAR—POSTAGE PAID.
THE STATE. ,
THE PEOPLE AND PAPERS
Walton county jail is empty again.
Bev. C. D. Campbell, the new Baptist
pastor, has arrived in Athens.
Captain J. E. Bitch, of Clarke
county, produces a 17 pound turnip.
The first masked ball in Bainbridge
since the war will be given this evening.
The first number of the Franklin
News will be published on the 16th inst.
In Winterville, a little daughter of
Mr. T. D. Williams broke her arm last
week.
The house of Mr. John Liddell, of
Gwinnett county, was burglarized re
cently.
A four year old child of Mr. Baker,
who lives near Borne, was severely
burned the other day.
The Columbus Times learns that
Pease & Norman, of Columbus, have
sold 150 copies of “ Tnfelice.”
Bev. B. Estill, late of the Dalton Epis
copal Church, has aooepted a call to
Bowling Green, Ky. whither he has
gone.
A trunk containing a large amount of
jewelry was stolen from the house of
Mr. Miller, of Beynolds, the other
night.
The entire establishment and good
will of the Atlanta Herald was pur
chased yesterday by the Atlanta Consti
tution.
Colonel Bandall had better be stirring
his stumps. The Darien Gazette an
nounces that Mclutosh countv is aroint;
for Smith.
The members of the Oity Council of
Atlanta have contributed $135 for the
entertainment of their expeoted North
western visitors.
A meeting of the citizens of Atlanta,
last night, made extensive preparations
to receive the great excursion from the
Northwest States on the 15th.
Bev. H. K. Shackleford has located at
Harmouy Grove, in Jackson county, and
will devote himself to the ministry and
literary writing, and leoturing on tem
peranoe.
A Ku-Klux outrage is reported from
Campbell county, a negro being the vio
tim. Let the assassins be hunted down,
and visited with the direst penalty of
the law.
The colored Episcopalians of Darien
are at work building anew church on
the ground presented to them by the
Bev. and Honorable J. W. Leigh, of
Butler’s Island.
The last two or three pages of the
“late telegraph” last night seemed to
have been written in a sort of nervous,
jerky, uncertain manner, a sert of iam
brose, as it were.
This oan be said for Harris: He may
be red-headad, and glass-eyed, but his
name doesn’t commenoe with B. Think
of Beecher, Bowen, Babcock, Belknap,
Bullock, Blodgett, Beebzebub and
Brown !
North Georgia Citizen (Dalton), 2d :
“ Mr. Walton, who met with the unfor
tnnate mishap on the S. B. & D. E. 8.,
has been removed to the residence oi his
father-in-law, Mr. Knight, in this oity.
He is still quite low.”
The Forest News pathetically asks :
“What more monyqfql scene oan be pre
sented to the thoughtful, than to see a
young maq marohed from Court House
to jail ?” Why, to see two young men
marohed from Court House to jail.
The Forest News says that a short
time ago, two men in Cain’s District,
Gwinnett county, had a little “unpleas
antness,” in whioh tb® Anger of one was
severely “chqwed ,> by the other. A week
of two since, mortification set in, and it
was found necessary to amputate the
man’s arm in order to save his Ufa,
And now Christian—>th® meek and
lowly Elam—aa mild a mannered man
as ever swallowed a free lunch or ac
cepted a dead-head ticket to a negro
minstrel show—has cried “Havook 1”
and let slip the dogs of war on Ham,
the undulating Professor of the Warren
ton Clipper. We await the issue in
breathless suspense.
The Sparta Times and Planter tells,of
a young farmer in Hanoook county, who,
last year, made 22 bales of cotton, 90
bushels corn, 100 bushels peas, 300
bushels potatoes and 100 bushels oats,
with two hands hired for stated wages.
His plan is to- feed well, treat kindly,
and say, “ Come afeead[ boys I” (not
go-ahead) at the break of day.
To “Harold,” Warrenton : We cannot
tell you, of our own knowledge, of the ori
gin of Mr. Thornton’s undertaking to
eat the partridges. Neither are we re
liably informed as to the truth of the
rumor that, aftpf he shall have eaten the
birds aqd wan the wager, he and Col.
Harris, of the Savannah Hews, are ta go
in “cohoot”and purchase Tump Pander's
roan mule, with tfee view of laying
the foundation for a first-class circus.
As to theyeport that the editor of the
Clipper is to he ringmaster of the con
cern, we think it utterly unworthy of
oredit. Colonel Ham punches a formid
able billiard cue, but we do not think
that he can wield a ring whip with that
gracefulness requisite for fh* position
in question.
Fronj fh® Atlanta Constitution, of the
Bth, we get the following: “Perhaps no
firm stands higher in the estimation oi
commercial circles than the firm of
Cook & Cheek. Their energy and probi
ty have given them success, and. their
transactions yearly reach a million dol
lar®. The news yesterday of their going
into, bankruptcy startled the public, and
universal regret was expressed. The
faot of their complications was' known
to a number of friends during the past
ten days, who came forward and offered
loans in sums varying from S2,OiJO to
$6,000, while others offered their checks
for $25,000 and $50,000 to help them
weather the financial storm. But these
offers were declined for reason* that
will be manifested when we state the
nature of thqjij embarrassments. Their
milling business here was always a suc
cess, and their failure does not arise
from any mismanagement on their
part, but from unforeseen difficulties.
Recently a judgment for 8135,0QQ was
obtained *sainst Mr. Cook, based' on
the written obligation made fey a former
partner (now dead), who used the firm
name, and which Mr- Cook never
thought he would be liable for. In a
wheat transaction in St. Lonis a loss of
s6g,fioO was sustained by the house. Mr.
Cook held a large amount of property
which he oould have sold after the close
of the war for cash for M&bfiftor $500,-
000. As an evident qf the decline of
that property, however, we would state
that Property formerly renting for $7,000
per annum now scarcely pays tfee taxes.
These losses compelled the firm neces
sarily to borrow iponey at high rates.
The finq finding that they could not go
on without continued loss, and acting
Under a legal advice, took measures to
go into bankruptcy, to save their cred
itors o whf>he. It is well understood
that hd. 4 he firm concluded to continue
the banhs would have advanced them
money, Their liabilities are estimated
at $300,000, the larger part of which will
be met.”
Concerning the candidacy of Colonel
Bandall for the Governorship, the
Athens Georgicm asks: “And why
should ufit Mi. H.andall be a candidate
fox gubernatorial honors? He will fill
the bill about as well as nine-tenths of
the nrominent candidates before the
people, and although never in actual
pnblio life, he ia thoroughly acquainted
with the politic*! phases, tendencies
and requirements of onr State and the
government generally. He has, per
chance, done more good to the party
than many ©| tfee aspirants who
are nqw visiting Grange meetings and
addressing Sunday behoofs, and can
show as clear find able a record as any
public man ife the State. The truth of
the whole matter is, that the work of
the journalist is seldom appreciated,
and his political value is often unnotic
ed. Ensconced behind the mystic “we. ”
his name hidden from the world fey edi
torial usage, his sentiments, tut. matter
how sonnd and fijjs declarations,
however nofety *ndpteiotic, are separat
fofU W,® man altogether. Hu is a
ventriloquist indeed, and thq many who
admire the course anfi yonfluct of his
paper are prone to, forget the true voice
beneath journalistic panoply. He
may bp M worthy a man as ever stamp
ed bis foot on a court bouse floor, or
shook his fist before a hustings meet
ing, yet wheq tbs time comes for office,
the lattw pushing sort are generally Be
lated. We see no reason, therefore,
why Mr. Bandall, of Augusta Gan
stitutionalist sfeould, not be allowed to
run, and while, we cannot just now
promise, him our support, we shouldn’t
like to. see him ruled oat oi the race.
The fact that he doesn’t desire the office,
as he insists that he does not, should
make the office seek him that muoh the
stronger, and cause his friends to insist
upon his name the more earnestly. Mr.
Walsh, of the Chronicle, is also a nice
man and we would like to see him ‘pro
moted’ too, but as Augusta cannot spare
both of them right now, we hope that
they may makearrangemente and agree
ments equally harmonious to themselves
and satisfactory to the people.”
Some to the Bridal.
In Red Clay, James A. Rose to Maggie
England.
In LaGrange, G. W. Flournoy to Mrs.
Anna Miller.
In Floyd oounty, Smiley S. Johnson
to Minnie Ayer.
In Gwinnett .county, James E. Noel to
Bettie N. Liddell.
In Newton county, John R. Duke to
Miss T. E. Murrell.
In Monroe county, Wiley E. Zellner
to Edua A. Ohambless.
In Savannah, F. H. Smith to Ellen
Gleason, of Albany, N. Y.
In Atlanta, Samuel N. Clary, of Green
ville, S. G., to Belle Britt.
In Brunswick, Capt. J. A. Chubb, of
Darien, to Josephine Speer,
In Americus, j. H. Ladson, of
Thomasville, to Jennie Douglass.
In Carroll oounty, Elbert Shealy, of
Taylor oounty, to Miss S. S. Smith.
In Providence, R. 1., Wm. F. Hol
land, of Savannah, to Bessie J. Wheeler.
In Walton coftnty, A. J. Mayfield, of
Gwinnett oounty, to Antonia R. Payne.
In Meriwether county, Judson Harris,
of Coweta county, to Miss L. E. Dodds.
And Some to the Tomb.
In Senoia, Bessie Green.
In Dalton, H. W. Higgins.
In Duluth, Annie Lova, ehild.
In Savannah, Robert J. Garner.
At Red Clay, Mrs. Clara Beeves.
Near Ringgold, Mrs. A. A. Clark.
In Columbus, Mrs. Joseph Wood.
In Colquitt, Mrs. Mary H. Baughn.
In Greenesboro, Mrs. W. A. Brown.
Near Covington, Mrs. Susan Brown.
In Atlanta, Mrs. Georgia J. Alexander.
In Whitfield county, Lazarus Wood.
In Savannah, child of W. A. Walsh.
In Newton county, James M. Bagby.
In Tooooa, Mrs. Thomas W. Hunni
outt. •
In Cherokee county, Thomas Pitt
man.
In Olay county, infant of W. A. Mor
rison.
In Johnson county, Mrs. Mary Law
rence.
In Hancock county, Mrs. Lucy E.
Harris.
In Dalton, the wife of “Uncle Jimmy
Holland.”
In Walton county, Mrs. Martha C.
Stathem.
In Hawkinsville, Mrs. Carrie Roberts
Johnson.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
NEWS PROM THE PALMETTO
STATE.
Mrs. Sue Jones, of Newberry, is dead.
Mad dogs are the sensation in Pacolet,
Spartanburg county.
Joe Diggs, a highly respectable col
ored man of Sumter, died last week,
aged eighty.
The whole tax of Edgefield county is
$68,800, while Abbeville pays $123,500.
Anderson pays $77,954.
Ten shares of the stock of the Na
tional Bank at Newberry were sold last
week at one dollar and twenty.
In consequence of the illness of Judge
Carpenter, no session of the Court of
General Sessions was held in Lexington.
The Exoelsior Literary Society, of the
Newberry College, at Walhaila, will
oelebrate its anniversary, on the 31st
inst.
The Baptist ministers of Spartanburg
oounty are requested to meet at the
Court House on sales day to organize a
ministers’ conference.
Samuel Jones, the most respectable
colored man in Abbeville county, died
on Monday of paralysis. Ho avoided
politics, and always behaved himself
wall.
Two ladies of Marion, Mrs. Snipes
and Mrs. Rogers, were thrown from a
buggy last week and stunned. They
sustained no serious injuries, and will
soon recover.
Some colored thieves stole a wagon
load of fodder on Wednesday night from
Capt. Hester, in Abbeville, but were
captured. They had entered into too
high a plane of larceny.
Capt. Henry H. Geiger, sheriff of Lex
ington oounty,. (lied Wednesday morn
ing, in Columbus, after a painful illness.
Capt. Geiger lost an arm in the war, and
was highly esteemed.
The Williamsburg County Bible So
ciety celebrated its first anniversary on
Sunday, Col. S. W. Maurice was re
elect*) President, and T. M. Gilland,
Secretary. Several new members were
enrolled.
The colored train hand on the Spar
tanburg and Union Bailroad, who was
so badly injured last week, will possibly
recover. It will be remembered that
the oar wheel remained on his breast for
about two minutes.
An immigration meeting was held in
Spartanburg on Monday, at which a
oommittee of six were appointed as a
local board to aid the cause of immigra
tion. Addresses were made by Colonel
Farrow, Colonel Evi.aa and Captain
Farley.
Mrs. Joanna Bryant,’ of Spartanburg
county, last Sunday evening, after a
widowhood of three months aud twenty
days, married Mr. Latshaw, of Union,
formerly of Canada. This is her third
marriage within ten years.
The following is a statement of the
Newberry cotton market: Shipped from
Ist September, 1874, to Ist March, 1875,
20,964 bales. From Ist September, 1875,
to Ist March, 1876, 17,594 —showing a
falling off in receipts of 3,370 bales.
Mr. William P. Noble, one of the
most highly respected citizens of Abbe
ville, a nephew of Governor Noble, and
a grandson of Gen, Pickens of the Revo
lution, died last week in the seventieth
year of hi* age. Mr. Nicholas Miller,
of tfeq name county, died last week,
aged twenty-three.
A kitchen on the premises of Mr.
Thomas P. Slider, in Newberry, was
burned last Saturday evening, abont
half-past seven o’clock. His honse and
Mr. Poole’s stable caught, but by unre
mitting work on the part of the people
generally, and of the Hook and Ladder
Truek Company, they were saved from
burning or any serious injury.
Last Tuesday night Mr. D. Evander
Gilobrist, an excellent citizen of Marion
county, lost' by fire his barn, containing
a large quantity of corn and provender,
his stable and nil his farming live stock,
one horse and three valuable mules.
The proximity of the barn endangered
the dwelling, which would certainly
have been destroyed but for the sagaci
ty of the yard dog, who kept barking
and pawing at the door until the in
mates were aroused. The building was
saved only by the most' vigorous exer
tions. The fire ia the work of incendia
ries.
A difficulty occurred in Wahee town
ship, Marion, last Friday, between John
Ellison and Cato Anthony, which re
sulted in the death of the latter. Elli
son had taken a puppy from Anthony’s
house in his absence, and when Anthony
found it out he went to Ellison’s bouse,
where angry words arose and Ellison
ordered him to leave. Ellison and hie
wife then followed on, armed with an
axe and a hoe, nntil they overtook An
thony, when Ellison struck him in the
head with the blade of the axe, laying
his head open from his forehead back.
Notwithstanding this fearful blow, An
thony lived until Monday. Ellison was
captured by Sheriff Berry and is now
in jail.
James Rowland, of Donaldsonville,
in Abbeville county, a young man
about twenty years of age, met with
a most painful accident last week,
whioh threatens to take hi* life.—
The facts are as follows : Yonpg Row
land tried to draw a load ont of his
shot gun, but failed, and heating an
iron rod nine inches in length and about
three-quarters of an inch in diameter to
a.wbite heat, threw it into the barrel of
his gun and ran. The gnn discharged
itself and the rod entered the young
man’s hip, passing almost entirely
through on the other side, tfhe rod was
so hot that it could not be taken from
the suffering victim for about five min
utes, and only then by the help of a
pair of blacksmith tongs. Rowland suf
fered untold agony and is now at tb*
point of death.