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OLO SERIES—WOL. XCt NEW SERIES-VOL. XL. TERMS. THE DAILY CHRONL I.E A SENTINEL, the oldest newspaper in the South, ia published daily, except Monday. Term*: Per year, $lO ; aix moo the. $5 ; three months, $2 90. THE WEEKLY oHKONICLE A SENTINEL ia published every Wednesday. Terms : One year, $2; six mouths. sl. THE TBI-WEEKLY CHRONICLE * SENTI NEL ia published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Terms : One year, $6; six months, 92 50 SUBSCRIPTIONS in all cases in advance, and no paper continued after the expiration of the time paid for. BATES OF ADVERTISING IN DAILY.—AII transient advertisements will be charged at the rate of $1 per square each insertion for the first week. Advertisements in Tri-Week ly. $1 per square: in Weekly. $1 per square. Mam age and Funeral Notices. $1 each. Special Notices, $1 per square. Special rates will be made for advertisements running for one month or longer. ALL COMMUNICATIONS announcing candi dates for office—from County Constable to members of Congress—will becharged at the rate of twenty cents per line All announce ments must be paid for in advance. 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 ? ~ t r 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.