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OLO SERIES —VOL. XCI
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Address WALSH A WRIGHT,
Cnaosicir, A He.vtixki.. Angnsta Oa.
Chronicle anb Sentinel^
Wi;IINKSDAY MARCH 22, 1876.
It is said that General hcFUs Ingalls’
“complete denial” will not bear investi
gation .
Xb* Athens Georgian doene’t “re
gret” anything that Ben Hill has said
in Congress.
“Smith for Governor and Norwood
for Senator” is the Centennial ticket of
the Darien Timber Gazette.
The Rome Commercial believes, as it
has a sonl to be saved or to be damned,
that General Gordon “talks too much.”
The New York World publishes Mrs.
Jourdain Westmoreland as the mem
ber of the Women’s Executive Commit
tee of the Centennial from Georgia.
A firm in Columbus, Ga., proposes
to test the right of a municipal corpo
ration to tax persons selling goods by
sample. The decision of this question
will interest all the municipalities of
t State.
caustic critio in the Henry County
ger, after asserting that a local poet
had stolen the whole of his poem from
Burns, asks the editor why he admits
such trash into his columns. Bad for
Bomy Burns.
In a few days Victoria will have an
other title—Empress of India. Her
full “trimmings” then will be, “Victo
ria, by the grace of God, of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Queen, Defender of the Faith, and Em
press of India.”
The reports concerning the corrup
tion of Secretary Bristow, published by
the Cinciunate Enquirer , are emphati
cally denied by the friends of that gen
tleman. The evidence which they pro
duce seems to prove a clear case of
slander.
The statement that General Grant re
ceived a bribe of twenty thousand dol
lars tor persuading Poker Sohenck to
go into the Emma Mine swindle is all a
lie. The Banker Henry Heiser, who
was given as authority for the statement,
deolares that he said no such thing. He
asserts that General Grant was paid
twenty thousand pounds for his services
in the matter. This makes a very great
difference —a difference of about eighty
thousand dollars.
Judge Pottle, of the Northern Cir
cuit, thinks that the buying of bread
causes an increase of crime. If this
theory can be sustained another and a
strong reason why farmers should raise
their own supplies is offered. From the
reports that have reached us this sea
son we believe that Georgia farmers will
make most of their supplies, and that
cotton will be to a great extent a surplus
crop. Should this prove the case, we
may confidently expect a revival of
prosperity in the State next Fall.
The Columbia Umon-Herald says :
“This is a bad year for Democratic
in Georgia. Macon, At
“liinta and Augusta daily papers are
“shown to have been in the pay of the
“railroad ring, the Bullock ring and
“the Kimball ring.” We beg our Re
publican contemporary to be a little
more careful in its statement. There is
no evidence whatever that the “daily
papers of Augusta were in the pay of
the Railroad Ring, the Kimball Riug,
or the Bullock Ring.”
Minister Washburne has been play
ing B.hutus on a small scale. His son
was appointed by General Grant Secre
tary of the American Legation at St.
Petersburg. It afterwards transpired
that the young man, while connected
with the embassy at Paris, was also the
agent of an American circus. The stern
old Roman, his father, immediately tele
graphed the erring son, demanding his
resignation. The demand was complied
wit,\ and young Wash, has been sacri
ficed upon the altar of his country.
General Sherman is reported in the
St. Louis Giobe-Democrat to have said,
in reply to a question whether he had
refused a request cf President Grant to
give Lieutenant FitED. a place on his
staff: “General Grant had too much
sense to make sueii a request. Mrs.
Grant asked me to give her son a place,
but I refused because he was not fitted
for it. He lacked age and experience. I
believe in promoting men to official
position for past services and for the
profioency they have acquired. General
Grant himself would never have asked
me lo do such a thing.”
The Allowing are some of the appro- i
priatioA* tor the ensuing year made by j
the British Parliament: For salaries j
and expenses the House of Lords, i
3217,445; of the House of Commons,
3250,030; of the Hwne Department,
$290,050; of the Foreign Office, $315,-
of the Colonial Office, sl7?, 775; of
the Board of Trade, $729,790; oi the
Charity Commission, $167,500; of the
Civil Service Commission, $114,465; of i
the Local Government Board, $3,466,- j
435; of the Mint, $251,250; of the Xa-1
Debt Office, $66,670. The ap
propriations for the House of Lords i
and House of Commons are much
smaller those annually made in
the Unit States for the support of
CoDgress. Hut ordinary members of
Parliament iff the United Kingdom re
ceive no salaries, which accounts for the
difference.
The Dahlonega Signal's stopiditv has
caused it a good deal of unnece*s aI 7 ex *
•itement. Copying a paragraph /T° m
the Chronicle and Sentinel to the
feet that the opponents of Mr. Him, i£
the Ninth District intended trying to ,
beat him at the next election with
Hon. J. A. Billups, of Morgan, and
that these opponents were willing for Mr.
TTtt.t. to go .to the Senate, but were not
willing to have him as a Representative
from their District, the Signal de
nounces any trade between the friends
of the two gentlemen. The Chronicle
jSUD Sentinel never heard of or inti
mated that there was any such bargain.
We stated what we had heard : that an
effort wonld be made to defeat Mr. Hill
with Col. Billups, and that while the
mountain men might be willing to sup
port the former for the Senate, they did
not desire him to represent them in the
dower House of Congress.
THE RIGHT RING.
The Democracy of Edgefield county,
South Carolina, held a meeting at Edge
field Court House the other day and
adopted, by a unanimous vote, the fol
lowing resolutions :
Resolvetl, Ist. We proudly reaffirm the great
traditional principle* of our party and strongly
recommend an energetic canvaa* for Demo
cratic nominees for every office, Federal. State
and local. t
Resolved, 2d. We are sternly opposed to any
fusion, coalition or compromise even with pro
fessedly honest Republicans.
Resolved, 3d. We cordially invite all voters,
whether white or black, and without regard to
previous party affiliation, to co-operate with ns
in electing capable and good Democrats to
office.
These resolutions have the ring of the
right metal about them. They were
presented by the Hon. G. D. Tillman, who
has emerged from his long retirement in
order to aid his people to make a square
fight against misrule and corruption.
They were endorsed by such men as ex-
Governor Bonham, who said he was
fully satisfied that no coalition of Demo
crats with the Republican party could
be successful in South Carolina, and
General M. C. Butler, who advocated
their immediate passage. To ns it
aaetns that the Democrats of Edgefield
county have acted wisely aDd well.
Their platform is one that should com
mend itself to the Democracy of the en
tire State. The Democrats of Edgefield
and of Anderson stand sboolder to
shoulder, and their voice will have its
influence when the State Convention as
sembles. Carolina cannot be redeemed
by combinations and coalitions of Demo
crats with Repnblicans. It can be re
deemed if every honest man in the State
will enlist for a square fight against
roguery and determine that the .victory
shall be won. They must recollect that
this is the last chance they will have. If
they are defeated this year they may as
well abandon all hope of success in the
future. ,
THE MEANEST OF CRIMES.
The St. Louis Republican SRys:
“Robbing the poor and defrauding the
dead, are, by the common consent of
the decent portion of mankind, stigma
tized as the meanest of crimes. And
yet Belknap and his accomplices have
done both. By selling post-traderships
the poor private soldiers stationed on
the Plains have been compelled to pay
three or four prices for the small lux
uries of their hard life. While Re
publican orators in Congress have been
ponring ont an ocean of cheap talk about
‘our brave Union soldiers,’ .a Cabinet
minister of a Republican administra
tion has literally drained soldiers’ pock
ets of the last dime. And while these
same Republican orators have been
chanting the praises of the heroes who
fell in defense of the old flag, this same
Cabinet minister has replenished his
finances by cheating the aforesaid heroes
out of the gravestones ordered for them
by the Government. What shall be
said of the man who stooped so low for
the sake of money ? What shall be said
of the party which allowed this miser
able theft to go on for years, and,
finally, to owe its exposure and punish
ment to an opposition majority in the
House of Representatives ? It may be
a party ‘of great moral ideas,’ but it
certainly is a party of less practical
morality thau any other which has ex
isted in modern times.”
A NEW ENTERPRISE.
Mr. Wm, H. Howard, of this city, has
received a letter from Mr. V. M. Barnes,
of Clay Hill, Lincoln county, which
asks his support of a now enterprise.
The enterprise of which he writes is the
“Clements attachment”—a machine by
means of which seed cotton, as it comes
from the field, can be converted into
yarn better than any except hand made.
The machine is .attached to a common
card stand and gently frees the cotton
lint from seed, dirt and motes, and de
livers it in a roll to the spindle. It has
a capacity of one hundred and fifty
bales a year, and costs, with royalty in
cluded, only two hundred and fifty dol
lars. The inventor claims that it will
make a thread thirty-three and one
third per cent, better in strength and
evenness than any yarn that can be
made from ginned cotton. He says that
ita use saves the costly and dangerous
picker rooms, saves lapping and double
lapping, five-sixths of the carding, and
other machinery, besides the cost of gin
ning, bagging, ties compressing, etc.
There is a mill containing four of these
machines in operation, in Corinth, Mis
sissippi, and the owner writes that he
recently manufactured yarn from a very
inferior lot of cotton, costing from lj to
2 cents per pound in the seed, which
sold for 25 cents per pound; some of it
he ginned and the yarn from this sold
for only five cents per pound. Mr.
Barnes is confident that yarn from mid
dling cotton made by this machine will
bring 25 cents when middling in the
bale sells for 10 cents. Mr. Barnes
wishes to start an establishment with
these machines at Raysville, with 1,800
spindles, giving a capacity of six hun
dred bales of cotton per annum, which
can readily be obtained in the neighbor
i hood. He is confident that such a mill
1 will pay a very large profit and he is
, anxions to get a few gentlemen of Au
, gusta to take stock in the enterprise.
of capital needed is small
and we understand that a large propor
tion of it will be subscribed by one par
ty in this city. We hope that our busi
ness men will look into the matter and
if they are impressed favorably, sub
scribe enongh money to make the mill a
j success.
A correspondent of the Savannah
News having stated that “under no
circumstances would Herschel V.
Johnson accept a nomination for Gov
ernor,” the Cartersville Express says:
“What Governor Johnson doubtlessly
said was that he would, under no cir
cumstances, consent to be an aspirant
fop governor. This is as much as Mr.
Johnson has yet said, which ‘ Chat
ham’ erroneously construed.. Mr. John
son is a patriot and not a mere office
seeker. We know full well he would
not enter into a scramble for any posi
tion, nor would he send out political
lackeys to work up the situation for
him. Indeed, we further know that he
does not desire to be- Governor. He
has no political ambition to gratify, and
greatly prefers to be left out of all con
sideration as to political office, and does
not desire to re-enter politics. We sag
we know these facts to be true. But, as
we have said, Governor Johnson is a
patriot. If it is to the good of his State
fcC,d the unity and harmony of the
Pem*tfgtic party, now scattered into
detachment* is Georgia, through the
active partisanship of |spirant, and it
is thd desire of the people, {that he
should make the race and express that
desire without any ‘managing’ on his
part, we do not see how Governor
Johnson could or would rafase to serve
the people who hare so honored him in
the past."
Of course the President has done no
wrong. He merely wrote letters to
brother Obville that certain post tra
derships within the gift of Belknap
wonld soon be vacant. And then Ob
ville would come to Washington and
get them and give them to other people
for a “ bonus. ” That was all.
A BRAVE GENERAL PUT TO FLIGHT.
The Cincinnati Gazette says : “Gen.
Sherman has informed a convenient re
porter that 'the reason he moved his
headquarters to St. Lonis was because
of the extravagant habits of society at
Washington, which made it impossible
for Government officers to live within
their salaries, and made it a bad place to
rear a family. But the brave General
did not retreat before this extravagance
of society without giving it a conspicu
ous example of republican plainness, as
became the head of the army. The
Sherman-Fitch wedding of the General’s
daughter was celebrated all over the
land for its republican plainness in all
its appointments, invitations, ceremo
nies, presents, and in everything
which the fashionable like to make
conspicuous. Its severe simplicity
was the social sensation of the
time. It put to shame the ostenta
tion of the Gbant-Sartobis wedding.
Even the press reporters were especially
directed, in order th'at they might write
but little of it, and that little of its old
Roman modesty and soldier-like lack of
ostentation. Having 1 thus showed the
vulgar extravagance of capital society,
the OeneTAl struct" IriiT' tent, "marched
from the sea, and intrenched himself at
St. Lonis. This truthful reason is a
correction of the common impression
of the time, which was that he left be
cause of disappointment in the expecta
tion that the small military man whom
he had been chiefly instrumental in
putting into the War Office had not re
sulted in subordinating it to a mere
clerkship of the General.”
THE WORK OF THE SESSION.
The recently published copy of the
Public Laws passed at the last session
of the General Assembly gives us some
idea of- what was done by the Legisla
ture of public interest. A short synop
sis of the most important laws will prove
of interest to the general reader.
The appropriation act is almost iden
tical in its provisions with the act of last
year. The principal item is. an appro
priation of seven hundred thousand dol
lars for the payment of interest on the
public debt and bonds maturing in
1876. The tax act makes the taxes
about the same as last year. The gen
eral tax is five-tenths of one per cent,
upon the assessed value of property in
the Slate. Among the specific taxes are
the following: Upon peddlers of
patent medicines, fifty dollars for
each county in which they ped
dle ; two hundred dollars on cir
cus companies exhibiting in towns
cf more than ten thousand inhabitants,
and one hundred dollars for exhibiting
in smaller places; upon insurance agents,
ten dollars; sewing machine companies
and agencies, five hundred dollars—ex
emption being granted from county tax
ation; emigration agents, eaoh, one hun
dred dollars for each county in which he
may do business; upon dealers in patent
or intoxicating bitters, brandy-fruit, or
other like articles, twenty-five dollars.
The section of the Code exempting two
hundred dollars worth of property from
taxation has been repealed, and the
amount of money derived from taxation
will be increased to a corresponding ex
tent. ,Tbe act passed reorganizing the
Treasury Department has already been
published and commented upon in these
columns. A change has been needed
for some time past, but it would prob
ably never have been made but for the
heavy losses recently sustained by the
tax payers in the administration of this
department of the State government.
The new law will greatly facilitate the
safe working of Treasury affairs, and
will prove a great public benefit.
The act providing for the leasing and
employment of penitentiary convicts is
an important one in many respects. The
law provides for the incorporation of
the Georgia Penitentiary Company,
which company shall have the right to
lease all the penitentiary convicts of the
State upon such terms as may be agreed
upon between the company and the
Governor. The company is to give
bond in the sum of one hundred thou
sand dollars for the safe keeping and
proper treatment of the convicts, and to
be responsible in damages for escapes,
in case of negligence, and cruel treat
ment to the amount of two hundred
dollars in the first case and four hun
dred in the second. The company is
required to procure at its own expense
a site on an island on the coast of Geor
gia if practicable, and if not, some other
suitable place to be selected by the Gov
ernor,and to erect thereon suitabie prison
barracks, hospitals, guard houses and
all other buildings necessary to the
safety and comfort of the convicts.
This place is to be known as the Peni
tentiary of the State. From this place
all convicts that the Penitentiary Phy
sician shall decide competent to labor
on roads, canals, quarries, mines and in
brickyards may be taken and employed
at such labor within the limits of the
State. Convicts for long terms—for
life aud for terms of five years or more—
if physically able must, if possible, be
employed in mining. The residue of
the convicts must be kept in the peni
tentiary and employed upon works con
sistent with their health, age and sex.
The lessees, however, if they see fit,
may employ this class at farm, labor up
on their own laud at or near the peni
tentiary. In the employment of the
criminals regnlations must be establish
ed which will associate only persoiis con-
victed of crimes involving moral tur
pitude, which shall regard the
conditions of the sex, the age
of the convicts and the abiltyj
to labor. The Governor may prescribe I
any rule necessary for the reform of |
convicts, and shall aid this reform by
the appointment of a resident chaplain, :
with a salary of live hundred dollars per j
annum. The period of the lease is not j
less than twenty years ; the lessees are
required to be bona fide citizens of
Georgia ; and more than one lease com-.
pany can be formed. Sixty days notice
must be given by the Governor before j
a lease is awarded. The Governor is
authorized todurnish two hundred and '
fifty convicts, free of charge, to the Ma
rietta and North Georgia Railway Com
pany for the space of three years.
Where convicts are now at work upon
other railways and the leases shall ex
pire before the completion of thegrading
} of said roads the Governor is authorized
j to re-let such convicts to the companies
nntil the work is finished. The lessees
| are prohibited, under penalty of a fine
j of five hundred dollars for each offense
| or a vacation of the lease, from employ
' ing convicts as gnards, or from placing
them in positions of trust or control. A
i physician is furnished by the State at a
i salary of two thousand dollars per an
j num, who shall reside at the peniten
i tiary, to attend - sick prisoners. The
I lessees are required to furnish medical
; attention to convicts employed else
-1 where. The keeper of the penitentiary,
also appointed by the Governor, is re
quired to make a monthly inspection of
all convicts held by the lessees and re
port upon their condition. In this con
nection, it is stated that a company is
now in process of formation which will
make application to lease the convicts
of the State under the provisions of this
bill.
The act regulating the fees of the At
torney-General of the State gives that
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1876.
official ten per cent, upon the ainonnt
recovered in all litigated cases, and fifty
dollars if there should be no recovery.
If there is no litigation he receives the
fees now allowed by law in similar snits
to Solicitors-General. An increase—
doubtless a necessary one—of exemp
tions from jury duty is made by an act
which exempts all locomotive engineers,
railroad conductors and station agents
actually employed in the service of any
railway company of this State. In all
cases in the Superior and Supreme
Courts where the State is a party plain
tiff the Judges are directed to give such
cases preference over all others, and to
nse all their power to bring them to a
speedy trial. Two years ago an act
was passed permitting the garnishment
of the wages of journeymen mechanics
and day laborers to recover debts for
clothing, provisions and medical atten
tion. The last Legislature, repealed
the law, and now the classes just men
tioned are exempt from the garnishment
of their daily, weekly or monthly wages,
whether in the hands of their employers
or others. The vexed question of how
to protect the planters against thefts of
farm prodnett was considered and RO.act
passed making it a misdemeanor for any
person to purchase corn or cotton in the
seed from tenants or laborers, who have
no right to sell, after written notice of
such disability has been given by the
landlord or employer. Much needed
provision for the colored deaf mutes
of the State was made by the pas
sage of a law authorizing the trus
tees of the Deaf and Dumb Asy
lums of the State to purchase suita
ble buildings for the establishment
of an asylum for these unfortunates.
An act in relation to Building and Loan
Associations provides that they shall
not take a judgment of foreclosure on a
mortgage unless thirty days before the
Court assembles they serve upon the
mortgagor a statement setting out the
amount claimed for principal, interest
and fines, and also the credit allowed
for stock transferred to them as col
lateral and any other credit to which he
may be entitled. The act requiring the
registration of all bonds issued'in this
State has already been published and
commented upon in this paper. The
law authorizing the operation of the
Georgia State Lottery for the support
of the Masonic Orphans’ Home is re
pealed—the repeal to take effect Decem
ber 20th of the present year. Avery
stringent law for the prevention and
punishment of foeticide or criminal
abortion has been placed upon the stat
ute books. For a long time a section of
the Code has provided that public laws
which prescribe that they shall take ef
fect from and after the passage of this
act ” should not be obligatory upon any
one until published in some public ga
zette, and allowing three days from the
date of publication for every hundred
miles from the capital before presuming
a knowledge of such law against the in
habitants. It has been practically ' a
dead letter, and is now formally repeal
ed. The law allowing Justices of the
Peace discretion to award costs against
either the prosecutor or acouser in cases
brought before them is done away with.
THE VIEWS OF GENERAL GRANT.
General Grant has spoken of the
Belknap scandal with more freedom
than is his wont, and given at length his
views of Congressional investigations
generally. The President said, in sub
stance, that most of the investigations
are to drag out without any definite end,
and are designed to accomplish a parti
san purpose. The patriotio people of
the country, he believed, would soon
discover that the investigations insti
gated by those who had sought to dis
solve the Uniou were undertaken for
the purpose of destroying, instead of
reforming, the Government. Comment
ing upon the Post Office investigation,
the President remarked that it was a
significant fact that the committeeman
who is most active in his assaults oq the
Government is the late Postmaster-
General of the Confederacy, Reagan,
and that the wit-neks upon whom the
committee has most relied is a clerk
who was discharged from the Chicago
post office for cause, and who obtained
a position in the Post Office Department
under fa ! se pretenses. “Why,” added
the President, “they are even trying to
investigate the conduct of the war. A
short time before Belknap’s downfall
the investigators sent to the War De
partment for all the records in the im
portant McDonald investigation in the
Quartermaster’s Department in 1863.”
It is natural, perhaps, that the Presi
dent should feel indignant at the ex
posure of the rascality of his friends—
of the men whom he has trusted and
honored —and we can pardon a little of
the bitterness which characterizes his
language. It is natural that General
Grant should have a good deal of per
sonal feeling in this matter. He has
suffered hy every exposure of rascality
that has been made. Every rogue un
masked has been the appointee of Gen
eral Grant —some of them, the scur
viest of the gang, his warm, personal
friends. Every pool of corruption that
has been stirred up has in some way
smirched the garments of the President
or some member of his family. His
brother-in-law was one of the Black Fri
day conspirators ; his private secretary
was implicated in the whisky swindles ;
his friend, whose resignation he made
haste to accept in ordet to prevent his
punishment, sold offices of the Govern
ment ; his brother used his influence as
the President’s brother to establish an
office brokerage. It is no wonder that
the exposure of these scandalous things
has aroused the President’s wrath, and
that he feels so keenly the- insnlt which
a Confederate Congress offers the loyal
people of the country when it tears the
mask from Republican rascals.
Senator Morton, in his tilt with Gen.
Gordon the other day, said the South
ern Democrats were not disposed to
pnnish officials guilty of wrong doing
when they belonged to their party. He
instanced the case of the late Treasurer
Joses, of this State. Mr. Mobton was
not at all particular as to his facts.
Treasurer Jones was removed as soon
as the Governor became satisfied that
the State had sustained loss by his neg
ligence. President Grant accepted
“with regret” the resignation of a Sec
retary of War who had confessed his
corruption to a Congressional Investi
gating Committee.
Kilbourne, the nominal head of the
rotten ring in the District of Columbia,
which plundered under the name of a
real estate pool, has refused to answer
the questions asked him by the Con
gressional investigating oommittee, and
has been sent to 'jail. The reason given
for Kn. bourne's contumacy is that- his
answers will implicate General Grant
and his family. It is asserted that the
President and his son—Colonel Grant—
were for a long time beneficiaries of the
pool, bnt that si* months before the as
sembling of a Democratic Congress
both father and son grew frightened and
sold ont. With such stories in circula
tion Kilboubne's silence is as dangerous
as would be his speech. No wondt r the
President is angry with the Democratic
Investigating Committee.
Hon. Iverson L. Harris died at Mil
i ledge villa last Sunday night.
THE RIGHTS OF THE STATES.
The dispatches of the Associated Press
failed to make mention of important ac
tion taken by the House #f Representa
tives a few days ago. obr readers are
familiar with the resolatiqps offered some
time since in the Senate by Senator
Morton, declaring in affect that the
several States oomposuSg the United
States have no rights which the General
Government is bound tg respect. No
aotion has yet betib had id the Senate
on these resolutions. Blit the Republi
cans in the Hoilse follows! up the move
ment last Monday. Mr. fAggp G f In
diana, asked that the rulofcbe suspended
for the pnrpose of taking 'up the follow
ing resolution: -
Resolved, That the the United
States constitute one nation,",*nd not a mere
Confederacy of States or natieM; that the Con
stitution was formed by the people acting in
their primary and individual oapacity through
their delegates thoteto duly constituted; that
the. Government under the Constitution is one
of the people, by the people, and for the peo
ple; and that in its appropriate sphere the
Government of this nation is sovereign and
supreme; that in its nature it is permanent and
indissoluble eufaept by the action and consent
of the whole /piopte; th*t no* State has any
right or authority to judge of the constitution
ality of laws enacted by Congress, or to nullify
the execution of the same; and that all other
acts by any State or people thereof or seces
sion therefrom, or of rebellion against the
same, constitute treason, aud that the late war
of the rebellion, for the dismemberment of the
Union, was causeless and indefensible on any
theory of right or of constitutional law.
The motion to suspend the rules aud
adopt the resolution was rejected by a
vote of 91 to 72. All the Republicans
present voted for it, and all the Demo
crats against it, with the exception of
eight, none of whom wsre from the
South. Many members did not vote.
Mr. Cox then offered the fallowing reso
lutions :
Resolved, That the people af the United
States constitute a nation in the sense, to the
extent aud for the purpose defined in the
Federal Constitution.
Resolved, That the Government of the
United States is a Federal U|iion, and was
formed by the people of the.sereral States in
their sovereign oapacity; that the rights and
powers of the United States Government are
defined and limited by the Federal Constitu
tion, and these rights and powers cannot be
enlarged or diminished except by amendment
to the Constitution.
Resolved, That the rights of the States have
the same sanction of seonrity in the Constitu
tion as the rights and powers of the Federal
Government, and that the local domestio gov
ernment by the several States within the lim
its of the Constitution, is absolutely necessaigr
for the preservation of the liberties of citi
zens, and the continuanoe of iur Republican
system of Government.
Resolved, That the doctrine that any State
has the right to secede from the Union, is in
conflict with the idea of a perpetuation, as
contemplated by the Constitution, and should
be regarded as being forever extinguished by
the result of the recent civil confliot.
The motion to suspend tie rules and
adopt the resolutions was tarried by a
vote of 160 to 42. All the Demoorats
voted for their adoption and all the Re
publicans against adoption, with the ex
ception of Messrs. Kelley, Leaven
worth, MoDill, Phillies, of Kansas;
Platt, Townsend, of Pennsylvania;
Williard, W. B. Williams, of Michi
gan, and Wilson.
One of the issues of the coming cam
paign has been made up. It is for the
people to decide whioh they prefer, cen
tralization er local self-government, a
monarchy or a union of States. The
Republicans have declared that the peo
ple of the United States constitute a
nation and not a confederation of States.
The Democrats have proclaimed that
the Government of the United States is
a Federal Union, and was formed by the
people of the several States in their
sovereign capacity.
It is sad to know that General Grant
manifests considerable feeling abont the
Congressional investigating committees.
Perhaps the committees are getting too
close to the White House.
In the last number of the Internation
al Review there appears an exceedingly
able article on “The Old and the New
South.” It is from the pen of Mr. John
C. Reed, of Union Point, Ga.
We publish this morning a communi
cation suggesting Judge Augustus
Reese for Governor. Judge Reese is
known all over the State as a pure and
able man and he wonld make a splen
did Governor.
The good Grant must have gone back
on the Force Bill which he once regard
ed with so much .favor. The nomina
tion of its author, Alexander White,
the ex-scalawag member of Congress
from Alabama, to be Chief Justice of
Utah Territory, has been withdrawn
from the consideration of the Senate.
White is the only ex-Congressman that
voted for the iniquity who has missed
his reward. What is the matter ? Does
the President realize that force bills are'
out of fashion ?
MINOR TOPICS.
An exchange telle us that one of the Ohio
railroads keeps nine surgeons in its employ.
This is certainly liberal on the part of the
company. In a smashing business like theirs,
of course, there must be more or less broken
legs, and to offer to saw off at their own ex
pense all they break—which it is presumed
they do when there happens net to be too
many for the number of their surgeons—ex
hibits a degree of magnanimity of which few
bloated corporations ever suffer themselves to
be suspected.
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Alabama's Democratic Legislature has an
swered Messrs. Mobton and Blaine by unani
mously adopting a series of patriotic resolu
tions, breathing the utmost loyalty and devo
tion to the Union. The resolutions hail this,
the Centennial year, as “a fit occasion for
rejoicing," and extend fraternal good will to
the people of every State, and pledge the Ala
bamians to uphold the honer, promote the
prosperity, and advance the glory of onr com
mon country. These utterances are delivered
not far from Andersonville, and the ex-Speaker
may find in them a text for another speech.
It is understood that Senator Morbtt.t., of
Maine, will make no effort to secure a re-elec
tion. His term expiree on the 3d of March
next. He was first elected to the Senate in
1861 to fill the vacancy occasioned by the elec
tion of Hannibal Haxltn to the Vice-Presi
dency, was re-elected in 1865, and after his
term expired was succeeded by Mr. Haxuk.
In December, 1869, he was appointed to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the death of Wx. Pitt
Fessenden, was afterward eltcted by the Leg
islature, and re-elected in S7l. Blaine ex
pects the Senatorship if he does not get a
nomination for the Presidency.
Grant's faith in human nature seems to be
weakening, and he anxiouslyinguiree: -'Where
are we to go for good men ?” It is a great pity
for the President that be did not put that
question to himself some years ago, before the
groveling character of his Administration had
become so deeply ingrained As it is now,
‘•good men" are rather ch*y of accepting
positions that may compronue their reputa
tions. The associations of thi Cabinet and the
various public departments have become dis
tasteful to men of average sensibilities, and
most of them prefer not to risk the atmos
phere of Washington until the Government
can show them a clean hill of health.
The peculiar way in which General Sghzscx’s
resignation was aooepted baa a suspicious look,
and points to the President’* well known incli
nation to shield his friends. It is said that his
resignation was in the hand! of the President
a month ago, but the monent he lost the
character of a foreign ambOsador in Eng and
there was danger that he vonld be pounced
upon by the repreeentativespf English law at
the instance of the new Channan of the Em
ma Mining Company. Accordingly he was al
lowed to retain that character until he had
sailed for home, and when ke was beyond the
jurisdiction ot English Courts his resignation
was accepted and his successor named.
FROM WASHINGTON.
LATEST FROM THE FEDERAL
CAPITAL.
NtfUliitiau for the Black Hills—Pierrepont
Believed to Have Bent for Marsh—The
House in Committee of the Whole—Rich
ard H. Dana Charged with Literary Piracy
The Recnsant Witness—Mr. Pendleton
Attain.
Washington, Maroh 15. —The Senate
passed the bill incorporating the Citi
zens’ Building Company of Washington.
A bill was reported from the Commit
tee on Indian Affairs, providing for an
agreement with the Sioux nation re
garding a portion of their reservation.
This bill is for the purpose of obtaining
from the Sioux the absolute relinquish
ment of the Black Hills country. The
negotiation therefor is to be conducted
by five commissioners, to be appointed
by the President.
The House was in committee of the
whole on the legislative appropriation
bill.
It is believed that Attorney-General
Pierrepont has sent a man, to Canada
with promises of safety to Marsh, and
that he will soon return.
Bristow was before the Committee on
Appropriations this morning in refer
ence to the deficiency iu the. appropria
tions for the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing. It Mill be. remembered- that
the committee recommended an appro
priation of $163,000 and it was recom
mitted. The committee will to-morrow
again report the deficiency and press
action upoD it in tbe House. The bill
will also direct the redemption of frac
tional currency with silver.
Previous to taking final action on the
nomination of Dana to be Minister to
England, the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee will hear him reply to
charges made by Gen. Butler of literary
piraoy, &e. Next Tuesday is assigned
for this purpose. Dana is so informed
by order of the committee.
Hallet Killburn, the recusant witness
who was sent to jail yesterday remains
in daranoe, and it is stated that an
agreement is made by the Democratic
members to bring articles of impeach
ment against any Judge of the District
Supreme Court who may issue & writ of
habeas corpus for his release.
In the Committee on War Expendi
tures to-day, William Ernst, Treasurer
of the Kentucky Central Railroad Com
pany, testified that all the parties in
terested in the Kentucky Central Rail
road assented to the arrangement with
Mr. Pendleton for collecting the claim
of that company, and so far as he knew
none dissented from the terms of settle
ment. He did not know of any portion
of the money being used improperly by
Mr. Pendleton or anybody else to in
fluence the payment of the claim. They
regarded the claim just and proper.
There was nothing doubtful in it, but it
was difficult of settlement.
Senator Oordon’s Flan of Rovenuo Reform.
Senator Gordon will, it is understood,
go before the Committee of Ways and
Means to-morrow to urge his plan of
revenue reform by organizing a non
partisan excise corps, to hold offlee
during good behavior and removable
only for incapacity or bad conduct. It
is also understood that the association
Of spirit dealers and manufacturers will
sustain the proposition.
The Emma Mine Scandal.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs
will resume the examination of the
Emma Mine scandal next week, when it
is expected that Gen. Schenck, with
other parties, will testify on the sub
ject. The committee to-day made pub
lic their correspondence with the Secre
tary of State.
Caucusing.
The Demoorats are in caucus to-night
on finances.
Revelations of the Real Estate Pool—The
President and Fred Grant Believed to be
Interested in It.
Washington, Maroh 11.— The speoial
investigation into the famous real estate
pool of this District has at last reaohed
a point where the witness Kilbourne will
be obliged to furnish the names of the
secret beneficiaries of the trust or be
arraigned before the House for contempt,
and on persistent refusal be committed
to jail. The iudioations are that the
witness will give the names at the meet
ing on Monday, and it is believed that
he will implicate the President and
Lieutenant Fred Grant as two of the
heneffioiaries who contributed to the
fund, but who have during the last six
months paid up their assessment and
sold out. Of the original numbers of the
pool, it is not believed that more than
three remain, and they are real estate
agents. The pool last Fall compromised
with the Jay Cooke & Cos. receivership by
paying something over $40,000, which is
$15,000 more than tbe amount which the
firm of Jay Cooke'& Cos. paid in 1872 as
its contribution. At the time the set
tlement was made last year between the
pool and the estate in order to have the
exposure prevented and the suit dis
missed for the recovery of the Cooke’s
interest, Grant mortgaged his property
at Long Branch, it is believed, to raise
the money to pay his portion of the as
sessment made on the pool,, and has
since disposed of the real estate, which
consisted wholly of unimproved lots, to
other parties.
Twenty Thousand Dollars for an OSce.
Babcock cannot keep his head above
water much longer. His outrageous
crimes are closing on him on every side.
The Military Committee have summon
ed before them Gen. Butterfield, of New
York, late Assistant Secretary of the*
Treasury. They will, it is said, prove by
him that shortly after Grant was inau
gurated in 1869 a certain New Yorker ad
dressed him a letter saying. “If yod
will procure my appointment to a posi
tion in the. Custom House I will give you
$20,000." He took the letter to Wash
ington and put it in Babcock’s hands, to
be laid before the President, that Grant
might punish the offender. Six weeks
later he was thunderstruck when he
heard the man had got the very offlee he
wanted. Four months later the success
ful applicant was overtaken in crooked
ways and forced to resign. Babcock, it
is alleged kept the money. Police I
Senator John Sherman.
Of Ohio, who came here wifch an income
of $2,000, and is now said to be worth
over a million, may as well wrap his
political winding sheet about him and
lie down and die. The attention of the
Committee on Foreigh Affairs is called
to the present occupant of the office of
Consulate at Bremen, John M. Wilson,
late of Cincinnati, 0., and the manner
in which this office was procured, as a
bribe to vote for Sherman for. Senator.
If the committe will call the proper per
sons, it will unearth rascalities and cor
ruptions that will make Belknap a saint
as compared with Sherman.
Enticing Away Servants.— Section
45,000 of the Cpde says :
“If any person or persons shall en
tice, persuade or decoy, or attempt to
entice, persuade or decoy any servant to
leave his employer either by oftering
higher wages, or in any other way what
ever during the term of service, know
ing that said servant was so employed,'
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and,
upon conviction thereof, shall be fined
in any sum not more than two hundred
dollars, or be confined in the common
jail of the county, in the discretion of
the Gourt, aot to exceed three months.
Cases under this section of the Code
have been several times passed upon by
the Supreme Court. In Bryan vs. the
State, Ath Georgia Reports, Lochrane,
C. J., in delivering the opinion of the
Court, speaks of the act as “ this saln
tary law,” and holds that it was in the
constitutional powers of the Legislature
to enact. The question was also before
the Court at the July term, 1872, in the
case of Hudson vs. the State. In both
cases the law was sustained.
Motives of public policy certainly de
mand that such a law should be in ex
istence, and that its provisions shonld
be enforced. It is wrong in every sense
of the word to induce a servant to leave
the employ of another. A housekeeper
who may have secured the services of a
good servant is completely at the mercy
of others as long as the practice is suf
fered to prevail unchecked. It is fair to
suppose that those who know of the ex
istence of the law published above will
be careful to ttbstain from enticing away
servants, even if not restrained by their
own sense of right, and we therefore
place it before the public in order that
all may know its provisions.
The Poob House. —Richmond county
has, perhaps, the best arranged, best
kept and most attractive poer house
south of Mason and Dixon’s line. The
houses have all been painted inside and
oat, and the comfort of the inmates pro
vided for in every way possible. Mr.
Deas, the Keeper, is now planting the
Poor House farm, and expects to make
a good crop.
THE STATE,
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS
Tuesday’s Items.
Mr. David Averett, of Columbus, mer
chant, has failed.
They are talking of having a fire
alarm telegraph in Atlanta.
Judge Luther Bivins, of Marion coun
ty, has had an attack of paralysis.
The name of “ Macon Volunteers,
Company B,” has been changed to “Ma
oon Cadets. ”
Dr. J. E. Roper, of Dexter, lowa, is
visiting Columbus. He is au old resi
dent of that city.
Mr. Richard Mosely is going to leave
Elberton. He has purchased a lot on
the Northeast Railroad.
A negro woman sent from Valdosta
to the Lunatic Asylum some fifteen
months ago has returned fully restored.
Mr. Breedlove preached the juneral
of Mrs. Jenqie Tarver, iu Louisville;
last Thursday, to a large congregation.
It is rumored that a Radical paper is
to be started in Atlanta, and that it will
favor Bristow’s nomination for the Presi
dency.
Green B. T. Maliett, who was indicted
for the murder of Ben Edmondson, col
ored, in Chattooga county, has been ac
quitted.
The Gainesville Eagle learns that Hon.
James J. Turnbull, of Banks, will pro
bably again be a candidate for the Leg
islature.
The Columbus Enquirer says that
Dr. T. J. Brooks, of Marion county, has
raised enongh corn and meat to run his
entire plantation.
Dr. John Atwell, of Jefferson county,
has returned from Baltimore, where he
recently graduated iu a Medical College.
He will probably locate in Warrenton.
Two young men, named McKinney
and Whitmire, were sentenced, at Jack
son Court last week, to the penitentiary
for five years eaoh for breaking into a
store.
The Griffin News says an officer of the
Revenue Department has been in Griffin,
looking after the stamps on tobacco and
whisky. A large lot of both these ar
ticles of trade have been seized and
shipped to headquarters. The loss has
fallen on nearly all the dealers in to
bacco, and on the two prinoipal whisky
dealers in the city. No blame is charged
to any one in Griffin. The goods were
fraudulently stamped by others through
whose hands they had passed, or by
those manufacturing them.
Marriages.
In Valdosta, L. A. Haynes, of Naylor,
to Fanny Smith.
Deaths.
In Valdosta, Rev. Jas. M. Gray.
Near Gainesville, Martin V. Ray,
In Hall county, Mrs. Geo. Williams.
In Roekdale oounty, James G. Cooper.
In Louisville, ohild of Mr. and Mrs.
R. A. Hayles.
Wednesday’s Items.
A religious revival is going on at Dah
lonega,
Mr. Beverly A. Martin has been elect
ed Intendent of Dahlonega.
“ Maud Mansfield,” the new novel by
Mrs. Judge Hood, of Rome, is out.
The Seaport Appeal correots the re
port that Captain James A. Clubb is
married.
Reports from all parts of the State
represent the small grain orops as look
ing well.
Homerville has anew academy, built
and presented to the town by Colonel
J. L. Sweat.
At Chattooga Superior Court David L.
Beck was sentenced to be hung for the
murder of Shambling.
The mill dam of Messrs. Lawman &
Crawford, in Lumpkin oounty, was de
stroyed by a recent rain.
Kennedy Lamb was tried in Qeyton
Superior Court last week for the murder
of Tom Gray, and aoquitted.
We welcome the "Messenger ,” the
new paper at Sandersville. It is pub
lished by Brown, Huff & Cos., Clement
0. Brown, editor. We wish it suoeess.
Atlanta Constitution: “H. C. Steven
son, late business manager of the Au
gusta Constitutionalist, is in Galveston,
and contemplates making Texas his
home.”
Prof. Clarke, F. R. S., of London, is
delivering a series of scientific lectures
in Columbus. He is Professor of Ge
ology and Mineralogy in the oelebrated
University near Chioago.
Rev. E. W. Warren preaohed his fare
well sermon in the First Baptist Church,
in Atlanta, last Sunday. He goes to
Richmond, Va. He is a good man, a
faithful pastor and dearly beloved by
his flock.
The prisoners in the jail at Dahlonega
succeeded in filing the irons off of them
selves last week before it was discover
ed. It is supposed the file was given
them through the grates by someone on
the outside.
Savannah News : “A Family Secret,”
the new novel of Miss Fanny Andrews,
shortly to be published, is said by crit
ics who have examined it to possess un
usual merit, the plot being peculiarly
original and exciting, and the interest
well sustained throughout. The author
has received much encouragement in
literary ciroles.and it was partly through
the statesman and historian, Hon. A. H.
Stephens, that thq work was brought to
publication.”
Valdosta limes: “Ben Hill made an
other speech in Congress the other day.
It was upon the question of putting ex-
Mexican rebels back npon the pension
roll. He referred to seccession, the war,
&c., and of course Blaine, Hoar and
others became rampant. In Hill they
imagine they see the ghost of the Con
federacy, and it scares them into cries
of ‘ rebellion !’ Thank God somebody
tells the truth to their teeth without
mincing matters.”
The motion for anew trial of the
Brinkley case is to be heard, says the
Newnan Herald, next Friday. Should
the motion be granted, the case will go
over until next September, unless a
special term is called for the trial of it,
or the venue is changed to some other
county. Should the motion be refused,
the Supreme Court will be appealed to
and the case will be heard without de
lay. Should the Supreme Court sustain
the Court below, the execution of Ste
phen B. Brinkley will take place on the
31st inst., unless the Governor again
interferes.
The Charleston News and Courier
prefaces an extract from the Oglethorpe
Echo, of this State, as follows: “The
following well merited compliment to
onr former townsman, Patrick Walsh,
which is copied from the Oglethorpe
(Ga.) Echo, will be read with interest
and pleasure by his many friends in
Charleston. He is a true type; of an
Irishman, a proof of what talent, ener
gy, and worth can accomplish, and en
dowed with ‘a combination and a form’
to 'give the world assuranoe of a man.’
If our Georgia friends continue to set
him up they will find him a popular
leader.”
Macon Telegraph: “A reoent trip
down the Central and Augusta Rail
roads as far as Waynesboro, the oounty
site of Burke, revealed the fact that
throughout Middle Georgia the farmers
are as busy as bees planting corn, and
well advanced in their field work. In
Scriven county much of the corn is al
ready above ground and doing well.
We learned also from all sources that
the fences, barns and other buildings of
the planters are in better condition than
at any period since the war. The ne
groes are likewise behaving very well,
and labor is both cheap and abundant.
Of guano, the amount used will be in
excess of any previous year. No less
than four hundred tons have been sold
in Burke alone, up to this date. The
result, with favoring seasons, will be
such a plethora of cotton next year that
prices in Georgia mast fall far below the
the cost of production.”
Thursday’s Items-
They have street lamps in Jefferson.
Mr. N. E. Rhodes has left Athens for
Texas.
Bill Arp (the real Bill) has moved to
Arkansas.
Rev. W. P. Harrison, of Atlanta, is in
feeble health.
Barnesville will revel in a skating
rink after this week.
Forty-six boarders in Muscogee jail,
only three of whom are whites.
Dick Mosely, the tavern keeper at
Danielsville, is going to move away.
The Griffin News wants the Macon
district to send Hon. A. O. Bacon, to
Congress.
Athens Georgian: “For ourselves,
with all our heart, we would say unto
Mr. Hill, ‘lay on McDuff, etc.’ ”
$2 A YEAR —POSTAGE PAID.
Mollie Cary and Sallie Tyoe, of Co
lumbus, have been bound over on the
charge of stealing $125 from Mr. S. M.
Sims, of Stewart oounty.
A lady of Athens, last week, in open
ing the Blide of her flower pit, was
startled at finding a highland mocoasin
endeavor to strike at her through the
glass.
Mr. Dwinell, of the Rome Courier,
will leave about the middle of April Jfor
a tour through the principal cities and
countries of Southern Europe, Egypt
aud Palestine.
John Rhodes, the oolored steward of
the Baudy Moore, has been arrested iu
Colnmbus on the charge of stealing the
maid’s watch, a pair of shoes and the
wages of the assistant steward.
About 400 excursionists were in At
lanta yesterday from the West. A re
ception was given them at DeGive’s
Opera House. Speeches of weleome
were made by Governor Smith and
others.
The Griffin News: “ We learn that a
large number of our citizens—as many
as one hundred—will visit the centen
nial. The party propose to travel in
company and see the sights and return
together.” .
Hello ! what the matter now ? The
Griffin News says : “ We seldom pick
p a paper but what has a lying puff in
it about some aspiring politician, pro
fessional man, merohant, trader, patent
medicine or juggler.”.
Rome Commercial: “Col. Sawyer, of
the Courier, has been offered a promi
nent place on anew Atlanta daily whioh
parties have in contemplation to start
soon. He declines the offer, preferring
Rome and the Courier.
While having some heavy timbers put
in position at the mills of Messrs. Bor
ough & Osborn, near Gainesville, Col.
T. T. Dorough was accidentally oaught
by a rolling log and had one leg broken
just above the ankle joint.
The editor of the Southern Watch
man has been to Madison couuty re
cently, and says the farmers of Madison
are industriously preparing for the com
ing orops, and have, as elsewhere, de
voted more land than qgqal to entail
grain.
Mr. 8. M. Aiken, who* before the
war, was a printer in the old Banner
office, at Athens, died recently in Illi
nois, where he was engaged in the
printing business. He and his wife and
child died within twenty-four hours of
eaoh other, of pneumonia.
The Eastmen limes says that Mr. W.
W. Harrell, of Dodge bounty, planted
fourteen acres in sugar cane; he saved
fully three acres for seed, and had the
remainder ground up and made into
syrup, whioh yielded him about 2,BQQ
gallons. This he sqld at 63 cents per
gallon, realizing the handsome sum of
$},495 from eleven acres of ground.
Rev. David Cook, of Newton county,
is in rapidly declining health. The Cov
ington Star says that for several years
past he has been suffering with a cancer
on his lower lip, which has spread until
the flesh is almost entirely eat away
from his lower jaw, and his health great
ly impaired. His Bufferings have been
very great, but he has borne them
patiently and with Christian resigna
tion.
As Mr. Washington Adair, of Newton
county, WBB returning home from plow
ing and was riding his mule, with
the plow gear on it, it 'became
frightened and threw him off, and as he
fell he became entangled in the gear
and was dragged about a mile through
the woods, at a fearful speed by the
frightened mule and was almost literal
ly torn to pieces. It is thought that he
oannot possibly survive.
Covington Star : “A prominent bank
er and merchant of Atlanta, who lives in
Decatur, frequently walks home in the
evening, a distanoe of six miles, when
he happens to miss Mr. Boyd’s accom
modation train. This is a practical ex
ample of eoonomy well worthy of emula
tion, and if adopted by our people gen
erally, and especially by those of less
means than he, would soon restore our
oonntry to its former prosperity, and
we should bear less about ‘hard times.”
Oapt. John N. Montgomery, a very
suooesßfill agriculturist of Madison 00.,
says be would as soon think of leaving
his stock unfed as his land—that he ma
nured lands which would bring thirty
bushels of corn to the acre without it,
and that the compost he used only cost
one dollar per acre, while it added to
the yield from 60 to 100 per oent. The
Southern Watchman (Athens) pn Wishes
his plan of preparing and applying this
oompost.
Southern Watchman: “While the
great mass of Mr. Hill’s constituents are
delighted with his course, many outside
superservieeable friends have ‘ gone
baok on- him,’ and are now demanding
that he shall speak no more—that the
Democratic caucus shall gag him—they
profess to be afraid to trust his j ndg
ment. In short, they are very seriously
disgruntled. These gentlemen might
save themselves much trouble by leaving
Mr. Hill and his constituents te settle
this matter. The people he represents—
or a large majority of them—are satis
fied with his course, and outsiders would
exhibit becoming modesty by waiting
until his constituents find fault with
him.
Columbus Enquirer : “ Four thou
sand two hundred and seventy-one emi
grant tickets have been sold at the office
of the Western Railroad of Alabama
and two hundred at that of the Mobile
and Girard Railroad) making a total of
four thousand fonr hundred and seven
ty-one sinoe December Ist. Of this
number hardly one hundred and seventy
five are whites. This vast numbej has
been taken from a region whose radius
is fifty miles. As we have said before,
there is an abundance left, and'many of
the departed ones form the surplus popu
lation run from those States, whither
they have now returned, before the F’ed
eral forces. Their absence has had the
effect of putting the whites in the field
and causing a less area ef laid to be
better cultivated than was ever before
known in this section.”
THE COTTON MARKET.
Exciting Speculation East Week.
[A. Y. World.}
The speculation in cotton has, for a
week or more, been of the most exciting
character, attended with a considerable
advance in prices, especially in contracts
for future delivery. There had been a
sharp decline, under the large receipts
at the ports (which are now 530,000 bales
over the previous crop) and the rapid
decline in Liverpool, where there was a
fall to a fraction over sixpence for mid
dling uplands, touching the lowest point
since the late civil war. But this de
cline was watched with nervous eager
ness by parties who were determined to
purchase freely whenever it should be
come apparent that the market had
“touched bottom.” The “bull move
ment,” as it is called, has been a little
weakened at times by the free receipts
at New Orleans and Memphis; but it
has derived support and encouragement
from the faot that stooka are now but
little larger than one year ago, notwith
standing the large reoeipts at the ports,
while the quality is not so good, and
consumption has undoubtedly been
increased by the lower prices of cotton
goods. The Chronicle thinks that pos
sibly the lower prices may diminish the
acreage planted for the next crop; but
this will probably not extend beyond a
few localities. The orop of East India,
cotton promises to be smaller than last
year, and this fact adds to the difficulty
of estimating the future course of
prices. * _
Cavalry Survivors’ Association.
The annual meeting of this association
was held at their hall last evening. The
reports of the officers showed that the
organization had accomplished mnoh
good during the past year—the first of
its existence. The finances are in a
healthy condition, and the membership
confidently expect to accomplish muon
more in the oaming than in the past
year. The fallowing officers were select
ed to serve the ensuing year:
President—Wm. B. Young.
First Vioe-Preeidcnt—F. Edgeworth
Eve.
Second Vioe-Preaident—Geo. W. Con
way.
Secretary—Silas J. Cary.
Treasurer—N. K. Butler, Jr.
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A Youthful Pbodigy.— We learn that
near this city, in Beeoh Island, there is
a youthful barebaok rider who surpasses
even tfie oelebrated Robert Stiok-en-ny.
He is only about thirteen years of age.
Jumping upon his horse, he stands per
fectly erect, urges the animal to a
sweeping gallop, and thus rides for
miles over hill and dale. While thus
standing on the barebaok of his horse,
he often rests on one foot, raising the
other, and changes from the right to the
left at will.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
NEWS FROM THE PALMETTO
STATE.
Townville, Ooonee county, has a drug
store.
Oeorge L. Sullivan has left Edgefield
for Augusta. *
i The Georgia Minstrels drew well in
Charleston.
j. The store of Lynch & Marsh, in Edge
field, Was burglarized recently.
. D.. Wash, Esq,, of Dallas county,
field ViaitiDg bis old home > in Edgo-
The Methodist ladies of Walhalla will
give an exhibition of oharades and
tableaux for the benefit of the new
church.
Thieves broke into the store of Mr.
J. P. Henderson, at Graniteville, recent
ly, and carried off three or four hundred
dollars worth of goods.
! Dr. Clarence Strother, of Edgefield,
recently graduated at Baltimore, in the
Medical School of Washington Univer
sity in that city, has returned home.
. Edgefield Advertiser: “Mr. G. W.
Norman, agent for our splendid contem
porary, the Chbonioue and Sentinel,
has been among ns for the. last two or
three days, and has done telling work
for that noble paper.”
On Sunday after next, tie Right Rev
erend Bishop Howe, of the Diocese of
South Carolina, will make his annual
visitation to Trinity Clinroh of Edgfield,
When he will preach, administer the Ho
ly Communion, and perform the rites of
Baptism and Confirmation. A class of
five or six will present themselves for
Confirmation.
Edgefield Advertiser-. “Almost every
body in Edgefield county has heard of
Mrs. Milly Carpenter, the old lady who
has seen her one hundred and tenth
birth day— and who lives 13 or 14 miles
below us, in the Old Wells section. She
is a woman of unspotted respectability,
and, notwithstanding her advanced age,
is still in fair possession of her
faculties. She is considerably deaf,
but sees astonishingly well, and sits,
day by day at her loom, weaving.—’
Indeed this has become her pastime.
Forty years ago her husband died, since
which time she has not occupied her
main house, but has lived entirely in a
small outhouse very near by. Her only
companion is a negro woman whom she
raised. Several of her descendants live
quite, near by, visiting her daily and
having an eye to her oomfort. Mrs.
Carpenter is intelligent, and talks inter
estingly of her early days—and old times.
In the larger house she keeps her pro
visions, furniture and effects generally.
On Thursday night last—to the horror
and indignation of the oommunity—this
house was broken into by thieves, sup
posed to be negroes, and the old lady
robbed of all she most valued ih the
world. This was a trunk containing her
relics, mementoes and money—various
prnaments and articles of clothing not
worn by her for fifty or sixty years,
several very valuable Spanish end other
gold coins, 15 or 16 old Mexican silver
dollars, and $135 or $l4O in ourrenoy.
Among tho articles of clothing stolen
was a dress given the old lady by Judge
Gantt, who was onoe her neighbor and
which she prized very highly.”
THE IALL OF FLESH.
PnrticulaM of the Wonderful Phenomenon
In Bath County, as Related by a Reliable
Informant—A Problem for the Sciential*.
Last evening a representative of the
Courier-Journal visited Captain J. M.
Bent, of Mt. Sterling, whom he found at
the Willard Hotel, Captain Bent is the
gentleman who first informed the gene
ral publio of the phenomenon through
the Courier-Journal. Last evening he
exhibited specimens of the flesh to the
reporter, who proposed that they pro
ceed with them to the residence of Prof.
J. Lawrenoe Smith. The gentleman
agreed, and thither they went. At Prof.
Smith’s Captain Bent and the reporter
entered into conversation about the flesh
and its fall. “When did the phenome
non take place?” asked the reporter.
“At two o’olook last Friday, March
3.” “In what county?” “In Bath
county, near Harry Gill’s Mudlick Sul
phur Springs, whioh are, I think, about
seventeen miles east of Mt. Sterling.”
“Did you witness the occurrence ?”
“No, sir. My information first came
from Judge Day, of Menifee, a perfect
ly reliable gentleman. Hundreds are
willing to attest the truth of the matter
with affidavits.” “Will you please re
late to me all you know in relation to
the phenomenon ?” “Well, sir, as nearly
as I can ascertain, the occurrence took
place about 2 o’clock in the afternoon.
The day had been pleasant, and at the
hour mentioned the heavens were clear
and beautiful. The sun was shining
brightly, and except a few straggling,
light elouds, nothing unusual was visi
ble to the naked eye in the appearance
of the horizon. The wife of farmer
Crouch, whose piaoe is near Mudliok
Springs, was standing in her doorway,
and observing particles of a peculiar
and unusual kind descending from a
dear sky, called others to witness the
startling phenomenon. The fall of the
flakes lasted about ten minutes. They
came down in scattering showers and
settled on a space of Mr. Crouch’s
farm, probably one hundred by two hun
dred yards in extent. After the fall the
people oollected around the ground thus
covered and examined what had so mys
teriously descended from the heaveijs.
The flakes were from tfie size of a pea
to that of a human finger aDd rather
thin. They were of regular flesh color,
and in touching trees and fences left a
mark similar to that of blood in
its secondary condition. The flesh
was somewhat like mutton in appear
ance.” “Was any of it eaten ?” asked
the reporter. “Yes, sir, by hogs and
chickens whioh gathered in large num
bers and devoured the flakes with evi
dent relish. A butcher, of Mt. Sterling,
was in Bath oounty at the time and
shaved off a piece 'of the flesh with his
knife. He roasted it and said the sub
stanoe was palatable, but was not able
to tell from what animal it came.”
“What evidence have you of the autlie.n
ticity of all this ?" inquired Dr. Smith.
“There is no doubt of it, sir. Harry
Gill, of Mudlick Springs, who iq, a gen
tleman of very high reputation, and a
hundred others will furnish affidavits if
necessary.” “What of the condition of
the heavens during the fall of the flakes?”
said the reporter. “The heavens under
went no change, sir.” “How do tho
people, take it?” “The people,
after it was noised abroad, flocked
around in dozens and gathered consider
able of the flesh.” “Did decomposition
affeci the particles after they had fall
en ?” asked Prof. Smith. “I think so,
sir,” was Captain Bent’s rejoinder.
“What have you to say of the flesh, doc
tor ?” inquired the reporter of Prof.
Smith. “All I can say to-night is that
it seems to be of an animal natnre. To
morrow I will examine and be able to
speak.'further concerning, it” The par
tioles brought by Captain Bent, who is
a retired lawyer and respected citizen
of Mt. Sterling, were preserved in alco
hol, and had changed from their origi
nal appearance to a dnll red and white
hue, and were somewhat withered.
Prof. Smith will submit the specimens
to a most carefnl examination to-day.
Certainly the phenomenon was one of
the most wonderful ever known, and ■
doubtless will occupy the attenlion of
the world of science for some time to>
come.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Farther Returns from the Election.
Concord, N. H., March 16.—A sum
mary of all the returns to one o’clock,
0. ni., 199 towns and wards give Cheney
31,763 ; Maroy, 28,936—Republican
gain of 2,552. 197 towns arid wards
elect 148 Republicans and 129 Dem
ocratic Representatives. The Republi
cans claim the election of Cheney by
1,500 to 2,000. Returns from 215 towns
and wards give Cheney 36,399, Marcy,
32,526, Kendall and scattering, 332.
Last year the same towns gave Cheney,
34,553, Roberts 33,620, white and scat
tering 642. A Republican net gain of
3,253. Representatives elected from
219 towns and wards are—Republicans
169, Democrats 154, a Democratic net
of 9. Meagre returns have been re
ceived on the vote on the Constitutional
Convention, but it is undoubtedly car
ried.
A Police Murder.
Portsmouth, N. H., March 16. —Dur-
ing the election yesterday Wm. Carty,
who was disorderly, was fatally clubbed
by the police.
An Indiana farmer don’t pay any tolls.
He shoots the gate-keeper and jogs right
along. They have tried him twice, but
he gets clear, since one of his aunt’e
cousins used to aot “flighty like.”