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Address WALSH A WRIGHT,
Chbosict.e A Srvti.vki.. AngnMa Ga. j
Ctjromcle and .Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY MARCH 29, 1876.
Babcock says crooked whisky isn’t
any worse than crooked mules.
Mb. Waterman, of the LaGrange Re
porter, will accept our thanks for his
very kind and complimentary notice.
Nobody seems inclined to start a new
paper in Boston. At the sale of Wins
i/ow's paper—the News —the entire out
fit did not briDg more than three thou
sand dollars. A double cylinder Tai
lor press, which cost seventy-five hun
dred dollars, sold for less than six hun
dred. ’
Governor Smith has been censured
a great dial in Coweta county for re
spiting Brinkley, the condemned wife
murderer. It now appears that sv.fficient
newly discovered evidence _ has been
produced to warrant the Superior Court
in granting the prisoner anew trial.
Better let ten guilty men escape than
bang one man wrongfully.
Ik. It seems that Senator Conklino will
have the vote of his State, New York, in
the Republican National Convention,
even though th e Herald could not find a
rhyme for his name. Well, there’s some
comfort in the reflection that Conklino
is a better man than either Morton or
Blaine, if he 'does wear ringlets anu
wrestle with dumb bells.
The Democrats in Southwestern Geor
gia dp not seem to be very .harmonious.
The Chairman of the Executive Com
mittee of the Secoad District, Judge D.
A. Vahon, says that “finding it imprac
ticable to harmonize the committee ou
any one plaoo for the assembling of the
Convention," he follows custom and
names Albany as the place of meeting.
General Grant has expressed a de
termination to veto the Senate bill cut
ting down the President’s salary to
twenty-five thousand dollars per an
num. When General Quant was firßt
inaugurated he said that the will of
Congress should be the will of the
President; that the way to get rid of bad
laws was not to veto, but to execute
them. Now the smoky Sphynx sings a
different song.
The suffragists in Massachusetts do
uot abandon the field. A resolution has
been introduced in the House of Repre
sentatives providing for an amendment
of the Constitution to secure the elective
franchise and the right to hold office to
women. The amendment proposed
gives to female citizens of the age of
twenty-one and upwards, who are tax
payers, the right to vote aud hold office
upon substantially the same conditions
as male oitizens.
Mr. Lamar, of Mississippi, is serious
ly ill, aud is threatened with paralysis.
Ho has gone to New York to consult a
physician, and will afterward go to his
home ill Mississippi, to remain for the
present. It is doubtful whether he will
be able to woutinue his labors as a mem
ber of the House. His absenoe will
be a serious loss to the Democratic
aide of the House. He has been unwell
all Winter, aud having onoe had a shock
of paralysis, his physioal condition is a
itical one.
Hon. Thomas Hardeman has no idea
of allowing himself to be counted out of
the raoe at this early hour. The Macon
telegraph, noticing the Albany New*'
statement t 0 effect ‘that Col. Thos.
Harde.man did not wish to be considered
a oaudid.de for Governor, says : “We
feel authorised in saying that when Col.
Hardeman want.'' such an announcement
as the above mad. 1 , he will give it the
authority of his signature.” We are con
fident ourselves that CoL Hardeman’s
opponents need not expect to see him
drop out of the race until the last ballot
has been couuted.
The Dahlonega Signal gives a hint
to Gubernatorial candidates that they
will do well to heed. That paper says
Northeast Georgia “is now a splendid
missionary ground, and au aspiraut who
might deem the game worth the candle
and come up aud see the wants of the
•ooantry and laud a helping hand in its
development would gain au accession to
hie strength that might tell in the ap
proaching Convention.” Hear ye this
Messrs. Colquitt aud Hardeman and
James aud Gautkell? Hitch up your
special trains, gentlemen, and start at
once to this spleudid missionary ground
in the cnountains.
The Courts have given the Direct
Trade Union a black eye. Wm. Lamp
kin, an agent af the Luion, was in
dicted in Monro'S Superior Court for
larceuy alter a trust la appropriating :
the proceeds of cotton strid by him- The ,
defendant’s counsel moved to quash tfee
indictment upon the ground that the
act of incorporation was unaoustitu- j
tioaal, the Legislature having no power
under the Constitution to grant oorpor- ;
ate power to any private company, ex- j
eept to Banking, Insurance, Railroad,
Canal, Navigation, Mining, Express, 1
Lumber, Manufacturing and Telegraph ,
Companies; the object for which this
corporation was created being neither of
those mentioned. The Judge granting
the motion deciding that the act in
corporating the Direct Trade Union was
Te Atlanta Courier has suspended.
The Commonwealth says that the
suspension waa caused by the course of
Mr. A. P. Woodward, one of the late
proprietors of the Courier; that the
money to start the paper, after tho clos
ing up. of the Herald, had been loaned
by friends,' Mr. Woodward giving his
note and a mortgage on the material to
secure the payment of the loan; that af
terwards Woodward went into the Con
stitution office as book-keeper, selling
bis interest in the Courier to hia
brother-in-law, Mr. A.E. Erwin, the lat
ter giving Woodward his note and mort
gage; that ou Wednesday the sheriff
made a levy under the mortgage given
by Erwin to Woodward, and carried
off the subscription book. Per con
tra, Mr. Woodward says the Courier
had already been levied upon with
laborers’ liens issued in favor ol the
printers, and that he foreclosed the
mortgage which he held only to protect
himaelL
THE CAPTIVE OF CORDOVA.
Colonel Albert B. Lamar, the elo
quent orator of Bt. Patrick’s day, made
use of one illustration that is especially
worthy of mention. A cymic statesman,
he said, had asserted that the Constitu
tion of the United States would uot last
longer than the paper upon which it is
written. The orator said that in the
city of Cordova in Spain there now
stands a building which was once a
Moorish temple, and in which the
Moors formerly kept their Christian
captives. On one of the pillars may
be seen the marks the chain that
held a Christian martyr had worn
into the marble. Upon the marble slab
at the base of the column is the sign of
the cross traced in the stone through
long and weary years of suffering by the 1
captive’s finger nail. The captive died i
many hundred of years ago, and bis
bones repose beneath the scene of bis
goffering. The Moors have passed
away, Empires have crumbled and dy- j
nasties have been overthrown, bat the :
holy sign which the captive traced in
stone remains a witness of his martyr
dom and of the faith which never died.
The paper npon which our Constitution
is written may become dust; but if the
prihciples of free government are in
scribed upon the hearts of men they
will survive all the mutations of
time, and defy all the assaults of
tyranny. These are indeed golden
words. They teach a lesson which con*
veys its own appropriate moral. They
instruct us that patience and fortitude
under adverse circumstances will in the
end compel a better fortune. A politi
cal party ran mad with power, made
drunken by victory, may run riot over the
land and pervert, defile and destroy the
Constitution of oar fathers—the glorious
heritage of the first revolution. But the
triumph of evil will be but temporary if
we remain firm in our adherence to the
true faith. So long as the people
cherish within their breasts the great
trnths of constitutional liberty, so long
is the safety of republican government
assured. Our enemies may do serious
mischief, may do as they have done
grievous wrong. They may tear the Con
stitution to tatters, and violate every
principle which was bequeathed to us,
bathed with the life’s blood of the
fathers. But if we despair not of the
Republic; if we lose not the hope that
is born of conscious right; if we adhere
to principle and scorn all coalition with
fraud, the Supreme Ruler will, in His
own* good time, bring about our de
liverance, and the eyes of the weary
watcher in this night of misrule and
oppression will surely be gladdened by
the golden dawn of constitutional
liberty. Let us heed the lesson: Leaders
and parties may pass away, statesmen
and demagogues may dissolve into dust,
but the sacred sign, traced by a
people’s finger upon a nation’s heart, will
remain to attest an abiding faith re
warded by a glorious victory.
THE WORK OF THE SESSION.
Among other laws of public interest
passed at the last session of the General
Assembly was a statute of limitations
with regard to proceedings to set aside
any judgment or decree of a Court.
Any motion of this kind must be made
within three years of the rendering of
the judgment or decree. A departure
from Snnday laws is made in the act
permitting freight trains running over
the Georgia Railroad on Saturday night
to run through to their destination, pro
vided they arrive not later than half
past nine o’clock .Sunday ‘morning.
The trouble caused by the decision of
the Supreme Court that the act of the
Legislature permitting the sale of home
steads in certain cases was unconstitu
tional called for additional legislation on
the subject. The act to provide for the
adjustment of the rights of parties in
oases where the homestead has been
sold has been published before in full
in the columns of the Chronicle and
Sentinel. We hope it may do all that
its framers intended it to accomplish ;
but we have grave doubts on the sub
ject. The immense homestead allowed
by the Constitution has been a blight
upon the State, and will always be a
a cause of trouble add confusion so long
aa the constitutional provision stands.
The only effectual remedy is a Convention,
which will reduce the homestead within
legitimate bounds. The.administration
of county affairs is sought to be protect
ed by the passage of an act compelling
Ordinaries, County Treasurers, Clerks
of the Superior Court and Sheriffs to
make a return under oath to the grand
jury of their respective counties on the
first day of each term of the amount
of money received by them belong
ing to the county, the source from
which the same was received, and their
expenditures, accompanied with proper
vouchers. The administration of jus
tice is further protected by making it
unlawful for a Solicitor-General to ad
vise or suggest to a party under indict
ment to plead guilty, or to promise any
person uuder indictment in considera
tion of a plea of guilty to intercede with
the Court in his behalf. A doubt hav
ing arisen in legal minds whether a per
son who set fire to his own house oould
be convioted ol arson under existing
laws, the Legislature has passed a special
statute declaring that such an act shall
be considered and punished as arson.
This seems to have been a novel doubt,
but as it had arisen the Legislature very
wisely cured it by legislation. An act
to amend the homestead laws of the
State makes some important changes
! which are designed to prevent much of
; the fraud that has often been practiced
heretofore in the exemption of realty
and personalty. A party making appli
cation for such exemption is required to
give the full name and age of the wife
or children for whose benefit the exemp
(t;nn is desired. The schedule must be
! accompanied with a list of the party’s
creditors, sworn ij and their post office
iiddress, if known. 'Rh* applicant is
compelled to give notice of the applica
tion and of the day of hearing to each
| creditor residing in th? county at least
fiveday* before the hearing, audio notify
creditors residing out ol the county fif
teen days before the hearing. The bearing
of the petition is to be not leas than
twenty nor more thirty days from the
date of application. The property set
apart for the benefit of a wife alone
: shall revert to the debtor’s estate upon
i her death or marriage; if set apart for
! the benefit of minor children it shall re
vert when the children die, when they
marry,being minors, or wben they become
of age. Whenever a change of in vestment
i is desired application must be made to the
j Jndge of the Superior Court, all the
, pmucadings recorded and the proceeds
of the sale be Reinvested in the same
kind of property, read w# personal, as
that which was sold. When all parties
j jntecaebad consent the homestead estate
and fee simple estate may be both sold
at the same time, and tfcfi Judge shall
provide fully for the protection of the
parties. If this law stands the test of
the Courts the process of obtaining a
homestead will be mach mow lengthy
and difficult in the future than it has
been in the past, and many of the in
ducements to defraud contained in the
! old law will be done away*with. Still
the radical remedy can only be found in
a Convention whioh will make the home
stead so small that creditors will not be
likely to complain of the exemption. To
prevent the State from losing the hire
of convicts, it is enacted that where les
sees fail to pay what they owe, the
Comptroller General is authorized, af
ter thirty days written notice to the
lessees, to issue executions against the
lessees and the security on their bond,
which shall be collected in the same way
as ft fa*, against defaulting tax collec
tors.
The act passed by the Legislature
empowering Judges ol the Superior
Court to employ a stenographic reporter
in each Judicial Circuit will, in all the
important circuits, save time and money
to the tax payers of the counties. The
stenographer is a sworn officer of the
Court and is employed to takedown the
testimony of witnesses in all felony
cases. His compensation, not to exceed
fifteen dollars per day, is fixed by the
presiding Jndge and is to be paid out of
the County Treasury. In cases of con
viction the fee allowed the reporter is i
taxed, with the other costs of the trial,
against the accused. Where the report
er is employed in important civil causes
his compensation is fixed by agreement
of opposing counsel. In circuits like
the Augusta, the Atlanta, the Eastern,
the Muscogee, the Ocmulgee and the
Northern the system, if given a fair
trial, will work well and save money to
the tax payers. Good reporters will
enable business to be dispatched so
rapidly that criminal trials which now
consume two and three days can be
finished in a few hours. In addition
the record will be made more full and
complete and disagreements of counsels
as to the facts be prevented. An at
tempt to better protect human life is
found in the act making it a mis
demeanor for any person to lend, give
or sell to a minor pistol, dirk, bowie
knife or sword cane, except under cir
cumstar fs justifying their use in de
fending life, limb or property. A con
sirable portion ol the homicides that
occnr in this State are committed by
minors, and this law may prevent
reckless or drunken youths from
endangering the lives of others. The
great difficulty, we apprehend, will be
found in its enforcement. Until grand
juries are made different from what they
are at present the act is apt to remain—
like the laws against carrying concealed
weapons and selling liquor to drunken
men—a dead letter upon the statute
books. The Legislature declined to al
low Mr. Peterson Thweatt to sne the
State, though the justice of his claim
was certified to by a number of the lead
ing lawyers of Georgia ; but it passed
an act permitting parties to sue the
State for claims against the Macon and
Brunswick Railroad, where the cause of
action lias originated since June Ist,
1875—the day on which Governor Smith
took possession of the property of the
company. So much of the general
school law is repealed as required the
County Commissioner to make an ap
portionment of the school fund of the
county, both that which may be derived
from the State and that which may be
raised by general taxation upon the
property of the county, on the basis of
the number of children of school age in
the several sub-districts, and to disburse
the fund in accordance with this appor
tionment after reporting to the County
Board of Education. Another law—the
object of which is not very patent—
allows sworn weighers of cotton, corn,
rice, etc., to make such deductions from
wet or other cause as may be reasonable,
when the seller or his agent shall con
sent to such reduction. A general act—
not allowed to conflict with local legisla
tion—requires the officers of the differ
ent Courts, including Solicitors, to pay
all the money arising from fines and
forfeitures into the County Treasurer.
The Treasurer is required to keep the
fund of each Court separate, and to pay
the different officers upon the order of
the Judge. The jury fee for each ver
dict or decree in the Superior Court
is fixed at three dollars, and for
each confession of judgment or
award one dollar—the same to be paid
into the county treasury and added to
the jury fund. A law to regulate the
sale of poisons in this State names a
long list of poisonous substances which
druggists and others are forbidden
to furnish by retail unless labeled
“poison.” Druggists are required to
keep a book in which shall be registered
the name of -the poison sold, the name
of the purchaser and address, the date
of the delivery, the purpose for which
it is represented to be required and the
name of the salesman. This book is to
be preserved for reference at least five
years,- and shall always be open to the
inspection of the proper authorities.
The penalty for a violation of this law
is a fine not exceeding one thousand
dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding
six months, or both, at the discretion of
the Judge trying the case. This is a
very stringent statute, and druggists
will do well to give it their attention.
Judges of the Superior Court are au
thorized to strike criminal cases from
the docket when there has been no ap
pearance of the defendant and. where
they have reason to believe there will be
no appearanoe. These oases mast then
be put on a docket for criminal cases
that have been standing for five years,
and witnesses are released from farther
attendance until again subpoenaed. Any
person harboring, secreting or employ
ing escaped convicts from the chain
gang or penitentiary are to be punished,
if the convict had been guilty of a
felony, by imprisonment not exceeding
four years nor less than one year in the
penitentiary; if the convict has been
guilty of a misdemeanor, the punish
ment shall be as for a misdemeanor.
For several years efforts have been made
to reduce the compensation of Tax Col
lectors and Receivers in this State. The
last act passed fixes their compensation at
. ten per cent, on all digests of SI,OOO j
and under; nine per cent, on all over
SI,OOO and under $2,000; seven per cent.
| on all over $2,000 and under $3,000; six
i per cent, on all over $3,000 and under
five per cent, on all over $4,000
and under $6,000; four per cent, on all
over $6,000 and under $8,000; three and
j a half per cent, on all oyer SB,OOO and
! 'under $12,000; three per cent, on all
| over $12,000 and under $15,000; two and
a half per cent, on all over $15,000 and
j under $18,000; two and a .quarter per
; cent, on all over SIB,OOO and under•
! $20,000; two per cent, on all of $20,000
asd over. Tax Receivers are allowed
one-half of the commissions given Tax
Collectors for the collection of county
taxes. Collectors and Receivers in the
counties of Bibb, Chatham, Fulton and
Richmond we allowed three per cent,
upon the amount of the digests.
We hope that Qentleman Geoboe is
not getting into deep water. We have
an abiding faith in his honor and integ
rity, snd cannot believe that there is
any truth in the dispatch
I concerning him, which was published in
the Chbosiclb asd Sestdtel yesterday
; morning. ’ ’
Asp the Macon Telegraph will not
tell ns who has been sneering at and
starring Senator Gordon. Gome now,
what is the matter 1
The man who knows, “an he wonld
tell,” naughty things about Mr. Ptespur
tos is Bknjakln F. Bctlkb, the New
Orleans spoon thief.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1876.
GRANT, BOUTWELLAND CLEWS.
Our dispatches published yesterday
morning stated that Senator Bout well
“calls for a copy of his letter to Henry
“Clews asking for sixty thousand dol
lars for the Pennsylvania campaign on
“corrupt conditions.” The origin of
this demand was a story which has gain
ed currency in Albany, New York, dar
ing the past few days, and which is
quoted as follows : “Governor Tilden
and Lieutenant-Governor Dobshbimeb,
of New York, are reported, on good au
thority, to have recently repeatedly de
clared that they hold in their hands an
original letter of George S. Boutwell
to Henry Clews which affords ground
for the impeachment of President Ulys
ses S. Grant, and they describe this
letter as t written to Clews by Bout
well, as Secretary ol the Treasury, in
September, 1872, directing Clews to
send 860,000 to the Republican State
Committee of Pennsylvania for the pur
pose of securing the success of the Re
publican ticket in that State at the elec
tion which was to occur in October, and
promising, on the authority of the Presi
dent, to reimburse him by early secret
information of pales of gold to be made
by the Treasury Department by means
of which information he could gamble
securely and successfully in the gold
and stock markets in Wall street.”
A reporter of the New York Herald
was instructed to follow up the rumor,
and he went to the fountain head by in
terviewing Gov. TildeN and Lieutenant-
Governor Dorsheimer. According to
the statement of this reporter, the Gov
ernor when questioned as to the correct
ness of the report was silent for some
moments. Then he said that the report
was not well founded. When asked if
he could give an idea as to where the
report originated, he said the reporter
had better wait and see him again. The
Governor said that the Lieutenant-
Governor knew a little less about the
matter than he did. The reporter said
that on questioning the Lieutenant-
Governor he told him that he had no
letter like the one referred to in his pos
session, but said, “there is a statement
that there is such a letter.” Another
dispatch asserts that Gov. Tilden said
he had no suoh letter, and that Lieu
tenant-Governor Dorsheimer said“there
was not a word of truth” in the report.
BRISTOW AND HIS CROOKED MULE
CLAIM.
The claim upon which those twin
scamp Senators, Spencer and West, are
pursuing Secretary Bristow, the Her
cules of the Whisky Ring, was first al
luded to we believe by a correspondent
of the New York Herald. The corres
pondent who writes from Louisville,
Kentucky, and who is evidently the per
sonal enemy of the Secretary of the
Treasury, gives what he pretends is a
history of the crooked mule claim which
is to break the power and disgrace the
name of the great revenue reformer.
The statement of the informer is, in
substance, as follows: At Nashville,
Tennessee, March 9, 1865, Captain How
land, a quartermaster in the United
States army, gave a memorandum to T.
T. Taylor, agent, agreeing to take one
thousand mules, to be delivered by
April 20th of that year, and to pay for
the same prices ranging from 8150 to
8175, according to size. This contract
was all on the side of the Government, as
Taylor did not bind himself to deliver
a single mule. Taylor actually deliver
ed twenty-four before General Lee sur
rendered, and said he had several hun
dred more at different points in Ken
tucky, but the quartermaster who suc
ceeded Howland refused to receive
them as they were not needed. Nine
years afterwards Mr. Bristow, represent
ing the principals of Taylor—Thomp
son, et al. —sued the Government in the
Court of Claims for the full value of all
the mules ordered and not delivered.
By a bare majority the Court awarded
the full-amount claimed—Bloß,ooo. It
was confidently expected that the Su
preme Court, on appeal, would make
short work of the case, but strange to
say no appeal was taken, and the judg
ment was paid thirty days after it was
entered, and just before Mr. Bristow
became Secretary of the Treasury. The
correspondent charges that Mr. Bristow
received one-half of the judgment, and
810,000 additional to prevent an appeal
bung taken. Attorney-General Wil
liams prevented the appeal, and it is in
timated that he received the additional
810,000. The correspondent further
says it is believed in Kentucky that the
claim was manufactured—that Thomp
son et al. never had the mules, and never
sold them at the loss they reported. Mr.
Bristow swears that it was a very inno
cent transaction and that he only re-
a small retainer and a fee of ten
per cent, upon the amount recovered.
Well, admitting the truth of his state
ment, a retainer and 810,000 made a very
good fee for a lawyer who only made a
speech and introduced his client to At
torney-General Williams as a “gentle
man of character and standing.”
ECONOMY IN THE NAVY.
Just about this time, when the air is
filled with reports of stupendons frauds
in the Navy Department; when the Sec
retary of the Navy is daily charged with
corruption in office; when his adminis
tration is undergoing a rigid examina
tion by a Congressional Investigating
Committee; when peculation and mis
management run riot in every dock yard;
when every contract is obtained by
bribery, and when every contractor re
imburses himself for the bribe he has
had to give by charging the Govern
ment enormous prices for the articles he
furnishes; when it costs twice as mnch
to repair a vessel as to construct one;
when extravagance characterizes the
! management of every branch of the ser
! vice; when in spite of the vast sums of
| money expended our navy is a fleet of
; rotten hulks that the smallest maritime
power in Europe could sweep from the
face of the water; it is curious and in
structive to turn to the administration
of naval affairs in the Olden Time and
note the vast difference between Then
and Now. We have been shown by Mr.
M. P. of this city, a letter
written by Commodore David Bobter,
the father ol the present Admiral Pob-
I ter, of the United States Navy, to Lieu
! tenant Commander Michael P. Carroll,
the grand-father of Mr. Carroll, which
shows how solicitous the sailors of
seventy years ago were to make the
navy efficient and to manage it economi
cally. It must be remembered, too,
j that at that time when a spirit of rigid
; economy pervaded every department of
: the service our navy was able to oope
| with and to defeat the navy of the great
’ est maritime power on the globe. To
j day, with Robeson and the Seoor
frauds at the fore, the ships of Spain
j would drive our vessels under the guns
I of Sumter and Fortress Monroe for
’ shelter. The letter is as follows:
Ke<f Orleans, January 17.1609.
Sib—l am proceeding down the Biver for a
few days; vou will daring my absence take
Command of the Squadron, observing the
rules and regulations thereof, and Report to
me on my return its state, behayour of Offi
cers, Ac. Al} Indents taf Articles wanted far
the use of the Naval establishment must be
countersigned by you before they are handed
to the Navy Agent. You have full power to
Countersign all Requisitions of any kind given
in by the proper Officers, to approve or disap
prove of all accounts presented to the Agent
for payment, and in general everything for the
good Government of the Squadron that I my
self could have done if personally present.
You will cause the Marines of the Squadron to
be disembarked as often as Lieut. RkynoiLs,
their Commanding Officer, may wish.
On the arrival of the three new Gnn Vessels
expected down you will use every poeslble ex
ertion to have them compleatlv equiped for
service excepting their crews.
The one built at Cincinnati I have contract
ed with Mr. Ffiotr to coxnpleat her Carpen
ters Work in every respect for 1800 $. You
will, therefore, deliver hex to him ou her at
riTiil. One of the others you will also put out
on the best terms. I presume she can be
compleated for much less, owing to the dif
ference of construction, tme, and her being
calculated for One Oun Only—the third you
will equip in the Arsenal.
Let me impress on your mind the utmost re
gard to economy lam efficient that no un
necessary expenses will be incurred by you,*
but in those that are necessary pray be rigidly
economical.
You will endeavour to have the Squadron
in perfect readiness for Service at a moment’s
warning, with the exception of crews for No.
24, and the new Vessels expected down—have
the Sheer Hulk in Order for Service without
delay, and compleat such arrangements in the
Arsenal as I have plreadyJffiintoA out. to you,
and when yon have no further calls for the
Joiners now employed you will please to dis
charge them as well aa all other men whose
services are not absolutely wanting in the Ar
senal.
You will observe the most rigid discipline and
Report to me On my return.
I have the Honor to be, With Great Respect,
Yoar Obedient Servant, D. Poeteb.
Lieutenant-Commander Michael P. Cabboll.
If they succeed in tanglißg Bristow
up in a mule claim the innooents of the
whisky ring will be avenged.
The woman in the case against Mr.
Pendleton is “Mrs. General” Roddy, a
prostitute who was recently before a
New York police court for blackmailing
or stealing, or both.
An effort is being made in Missouri to
nominate James O. Brodhead for the
Presidency. The only notable aot of
Mr. Bbodhead’s life was the reception,
eight years ago, of a letter from Frank
Blair. The Democracy can do better.
They can nominate a man who once
wrote a letter.
We hope that the Executive Commit
tee will not select Augusta as the place
of meeting for the Distiiot Convention
which will be held neit month. An- 1
gusta has had the honoi long enough,
and it is only proper thai the claims of
other places should }e recognized.
Either Thomson, or Sparta, or Greenes
boro, or Warrenton, would be a suitable
selection.
“Mrs. L. J. Wasson,* who writes let
ters to the President concerning the
cruel treatment of Gtorgia convicts,
dates her correspondeioe “Southern
Publishing Company, book publishers,
Atlanta, Ga.” If Senator Gordon is
still President of the Southern Publish
ing Company, had he not better look
into the matter a little ?
General Grant will have to try again
before he can fill the English mission.
General Sohenoe had to be retired be
cause he put up a swindling mining job
ou our English cousins ; tnd Mr. Dana’s
nomination cannot be confirmed because
of an aet of literary pimoy. But the
President need not feel disheartened.
He can easily flndTnoWtsoamp willing
to serve his country at the court of St.
James.
General Rioe charged Evans, the
post trader, one thousand dollars for an
introduction to Belknap. Secretary
Bristow, according to lis own state
ment, received a retainerand ten thou
sand dollars for arguing a case in the
Court of Claims and iitroducing his
olient to Attorney-Gentral Williams
as a “ gentleman of character and
standing.” Good fees both ; but the
charges show a difference in the price of
introductions which shoild be regulated
by the Government.
The deeper the Denooratic Investi
gating Committees dig the more fraud
they unearth. A few days ago Mr.
Barlow, the head of a firm of mail
contractors, testified thit in 1872, when
a Republican Congressional Committee
was investigating the mail routes, he
paid a Washington lawyer named
Farreb forty thousand dollars with the
understanding that noinquiries should
be made about his rottes. “He didn’t
know and he didn’t wait to know” what
was dona with the mppey.; but he did
know that the Congresaonal Committee
didn’t interfere with: cr inquire into his
contracts. ”
So Scrugos will notget his silver ink
stand after all. Scruigs was formerly
of Atlanta and editorof the New Era,
but for two years ptst he has been
United States Ministe* to Bogota. The
Queen of Great Britan presented him
with a silver inkstandin appreciation of
his services as arbitritor between some
English subjects and a South American
State. The Senate pissed a resolution
authorizing his acceptance of the
present, but the Houst has rejected the
resolution on the grouid that before the
war Congress refused suoh re
quests. Scruggs wi)/’ probably go for
the silver anyhow anl the action of the
House will not amotnt to mnch.
Daniel Drew was juite successful as
.a drover, but in the ring run the bulls
and bears of Wall stfiet have proved too
much for him. He wis for a long time
very Conspicuous as a speculator, but
during the last ten fears he has been
particularly distingiished as an easy
subject to bleed. Ha has been no match
for the younger opeiators who have re
peatedly got him into a • corner and
forced him to unloal at a loss. At one
time his wealth wai estimated all the
way from $5,000,00( to $15,000,000; now
his liabilities are 9,074,131 83, and his
assets meagre an< uncertain. He is
supposed, however, to have secured pro
vision for his famik as well as been gen
erous to the Methdlist Church.
The Presidents candidates on both
sides of the Hoise are getting somfe
savage slaps bebre the assembling
of the Nominaing Conventions.—
The last one aaaijed is the IJard
Money, Home Bile, Free Trade and
Reform Governoj of New York.—
A bill in equity aas been filed in the
United States. Ofcoit Court for the
Sonthern Districtaf New York against
Samuel J. TiLDENa nd other defendants,
who, as is olaimed by the oomplainant,
the St. Louis, Albn and Terre Haute
Railroad Company were stockholders in
the company, by their associates
elected and chosm as a committee to
dispose of bonds rad stocks, and to re
organize the road,'and also constituted
a purchasing comaittee. This was in
April, 186 L Snlseqnent to this, and
after settling the pressing accounts Of
the company, Mr! Tilden and the other
defendants, as it is alleged by the com
plainant, still had large sums of. money
belonging to thefcom£a°y in their pos
session, and fro ; this money they ap
propriated to tip lselvea large sums for
the services wlch they professed to
have performed. In this way Samuel
J. Tilden receive $20,000. The com
pUifit farther al ges (bat Hr. Tilden
and his apsooiat) have never rendered
an account of th trust reposed in them,
nor of the moi >ya committed to their
care.
MINOR TOPICS.
A French money lender complained to Baron
Rothschild that a nobleman, to whom he had
loaned 10.000 franca, had gone off and left no
acknowledgement of the debt. “Write to him
and esk him to send you immediately the 70,000
francs." “But he only owes me 10,000 francs,”
said the money lender. “Precisely,” rejoined
.the Baron ; “and he will write and tell yon so,
and you will thus get his acknowledgement.”
Mr. Hallet Kilboprne is a plucky conspira
tor, or else is well paid for his contemn oy. He
again declined yesterday to respond to the
questions of the special committee on the real
estate frands of the District of Columbia, and
when brought to the bar of the House still de
clined. An order for his imprisonment was
voted, and the elegant gentleman of the ring
new abides in the District J ail among common
felons. He evidently makes it pay by remain
ing silent; if not, the country may expect
some developments,from Mr. Kilboubnk.
And now woman has risen to push man from
his eminence in respect to one of the accom
plishments which he has always considered
peculiarly his own—that of after dinner speak
ing. At the twentieth annual festival of the
London Dramatic Fund, the most brilliant and
by all odds the best and happiest after dinner
speech made by Mrs. Stirling, the actress.
And the most remarkable feature of the occur
rence is the fact that she didn't have to loosen
her tongue with champagne before making her
speeeh.
The Stoats-Zietung, one of the most influen
tial German papers in the country, finds many
particulars in which an analogy holds between
the Belknap soandal and that which precipi
ta'ed the fate of the Tammany Ring. In both
instances the rogues were so sure of their
partisan strength that they took little care to
cover the traces of their transgressions. In the
case of Tweed the Democrats rose in revolt
and subordinated all party feeling to aa effort
to Secure an honest administration ; the
Staats-Zietung suggests that the Republicans
take a lesson from them, and apply it in the
present emergency.
The Baron de Lesseps, though seventy years
old, is still young, and contemplates grand
designs. With black eyebrows and moustache,
but white beard, he is a most notioeable man.
He brings his children up in the most Spartan
way. They go about barefooted, and although
madame only half likes this, he is able to boast
that their young ones, of whom they have a
small regiment, are never ill. His house is
full of royal gifts and ribbons presented him
on the occasion of the opening of the Suez
canal. One of these is a gold oup given by the
Empress, worth $40,000.
It is net muoh wonder that naval expendi
tures should be large nnder the administration
of Robeson, who has given the country many
illustrations of his ability to expend more
money on repairs to vessels than the vessels
originally oost. Thus the Kearsarge, a vessel
which -during the war cost the Government
$182,000 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, when
material and muoh higher than they
are to-day. was repaired during the present
administration, just before an eleotion, at a
cost of $496,122 66, or nearly 175 per cent,
more than the original oost.
“Is Belknap a victim of his wife’s deceit?"
asks the Hartford Courant —the same paper
which complains that the wicked Democrats
have “hounded him down.” It is sufficiently
disgraceful to the Radical press, that it tries
by every twist and subterfuge to shield Belk
nap and let him down easy, without adding to
its bod conduct the oowardioe and shame of
seeking to shift his crimes on to the shoulders
of his wife. As to the “fallen war minister”
himself, he would very likely be quite ready to
acquiesce in sueh a disgraceful trick. B has
sunk to a position in which no new shame or
dishonor can “touoh him further.”
Minister Washbubne is talked of as the Re
publican candidate for Governor of Illinois. It
is said that' he has declared that he would
rather be Governor of that State for the next
four years'than hold any other offioe whatever,
and it is proposed by his friends, in order to
win the support of Looan and Oolesby, to
agree that he Bhall not be a candidate for the
United states Senate. On the top of this, it is
stated that his nomination will carry his name
to the Oincinnati Convention with increased
prestige. Why should they want to spoil him
for a candidate for Governor by talking of him
■for the Presidency ?
The price of admission to the Centennial Ex
hibition will be fifty cents for each person,
payable in one note. The receivers at the re
cording turnstiles will have nothing to do with
the notes, except to deoide whether they are
good or bad, and to drop them in the boxes,
where each one will register itself. An ex
change office of the Centennial National Bank
will be established near entrance, to change
money for visitors not having fifty oent notes.
This money changer is expected to have no
more nor no less money when his work is done
than when he began. The Centennial Com
mission, after much inquiry and careful con
sideration, concluded that the whole system—
absence of season tickets and all—was oheaper
and more secure against fraud than any other
known. In erder that the cash in the boxes
may correspond with the indicators, a dollar
note will not be received at any gate for the
admission of two persons, nor two twenty-five
cent notes for that of one person.
The Washington gossips tell of a Con
gressman who proclaimed that a rigid
system of economy must by practiced,
as the various failures here, there and
everywhere had dwarfed the amount of
his annual income. “But what am Ito
do for party dresses,” asks the anxious
wife. “Leave that matter to me, my
dear, and I will arrange it to your satis
faction, "soothingly replied the legislator.
Calling in a reporter, he sat before him
a tempting array of edibles, with wine
enough to send warmth through his
veins, and generous throbs to his heart
strings. “Now, my friend,” said theM.
0., “I want to employ you to describe
my wife’s dresses this Winter, or rather
she will describe them, and you can in
sert the descriptions in your various pa
pers. Here’s ten dollars for your trouble
and a seat at our table when you’re
hungry.” After this, Mrs. M. C. ap
peared clothed in such gorgeousness as
was only known to Solomon in all his
glory. Yet her wardrobe was exceeding
ly circumscribed. Of course, persons
present at the various parties, likewise
attended by Mrs. M. C., were amazed at
the reportorial skill whioh could, ohame
leon-like, change her dresses, so con
stantly worn, to such varying hues, but
the madam’s far-distant friends and her
husband's constituents read the descrip
tions and thought how rich their Repre
sentative had grown and what a very
queen of fashion and elegance his wife
had become! And the M. C. gloried in
the coup d'etat, which had provided his
wife an elegant outfit for $lO and a din
ner ! The only absurd feature of this
story is the notion that a Jenkins is ca
pable of being persuaded to tell an un
truth for such trifles as ten dollar notes,
wines, edibles, etc. Jenkins isn’t that
kind of a hairpin.
: m m —— t
Release Asked Fob.— The following
petition has been numerously signed in
this city :
To the Honorable the Senate and House
of Representatives of. the United
States in Congress assembled:
We, your petitioners, respectfully rep
resent to your honorable body;
That whereas one Edward O’Meagher
Condon, a citizen of the United States
and a late captain jn the United States,
army, is now and has been for eight
years past immured in a British dun
geon under life sentence of imprison
ment; and whereas the most satisfactory
proofs exist to show that the conviction
of said Edward O’Meagher Condon was
procured by the testimony of perjured
witnesses— •
Therefore, we, your petitioners, re
spectfully ask your honorable body to
take such action in the premises as to
your honorable body shall seem best, to
the end that said Edward O’Meagher
Condon may be speedily released from
unjust imprisonment.
Buffalo Bill on the Tbiooeb.— Our
readers will remember Buffalo Bill (W.
F. Cody), who appeared in Augusta in a
border drama several months since. Me
is a noted Western scout, %s we stated
during his and after he finishes his
Winter engagements returns to the
prairies. A few weeks ago he went to
Texas, and after being there a while the
sheriff f Young county attempted to ar
rest him, when he resisted. The sheriff
and he drew their weapons at the same
moment and fired together. The
sheriffs shot took effect, but Buffalo
Bill missed his mark. He grasped a
rifle, however, and fired, the shot pierc
ing the heart of the killing him
instantly. Buffalo Bill, though badly
wounded, made his escape. The above
particulars are gathered from a Texas
paper.
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Tuesday’s Items.
The Atlanta Courier has been sus
pended.
The Good Templars are increasing in
Dahlonega.
Col. M. L. Merahon has moved from
Brunswick to Waycross.
Alderman Muuroe has moved from
Griffin to his farm near there.
O. A. Bull, Esq., has been appointed
Solicitor of the County Court of Troup
county.
Mr. S. W. Small has been appointed
stenographic reporter for the Atlanta
Circuit.
The Henry County Ledger says there
is not a young man in Hampton addicted
to intemperate habits.
George Cox, mail oarrier from West
Point to Wedowee, has been arrested on
suspicion of robbing the mail.
The remains of Mr. J. A. MoNeill have
beeu disinterred at Columbus and taken
to bis old hpme in North Carolina.
The Mountain Signal says the mining
business is increasing in North Georgia,
and its proapeots are better than ever
before.
A Griffin colored woman had her
pocket picked at a funeral the other day.
Your Griffin thief improves eaoh shining
moment.
The negro boy Ed Sally, who was con
victed of the murder of his step-father,
was sentenced to be hung on Friday,
April 28th at Talbotton.
A sixteen year old boy was sentenoed
to the penitentiary at the late term of
Gwinnett Superior Court. He pleaded
guilty of horse stealing.
A reward of fifty dollars is offered by
the eitizenk of Fannin county, for the
apprehension of Jasper I. Thompson
and his delivery to the Sheriff of Fan
nin county.
The Mountain Signal (Dahlonega)
says several skilled mechanics from the
Northwest, who come South for tempo
rary employment while frozen up at
their homes, are so much pleased with
that section and its prospective im
provement that they have determined to
bring out their families and remaiu.
West Point Press: “Mrs. DeGraffen
reid, the grandmother of Mr. John T.
Graves, the accomplished Principal of
our Male High School, has arrived and
will make our city her home. Mrs. D.’s
father was the eldest brother of the dis
tinguished John 0. Calhoun, and this
lady is said to bear a striking resem
blance to the great Commoner.”
A man named Martin shot W, T. Fer
ree, of Atlanta, in the right arm, dis
locating it. It seems that Ferree had
been trying very hard for some time to
get up a row with Martin, and at last
succeeded. Martin was loth to have a
difficulty and slow to take offense, but
when he did make up his miud to go in
he made things remarkably lively for a
brief space. As for Ferree—well, they
do say the like hasn’t been seen sinpe
the policeman Brazelton climbed over
the barrels the night Chisholm killed
Bedell.
There are nearly BQQ students at the
North Georgia Agricultural College, in
Dahlonega. The Signal says; “It is to
be regretted that tbe last Legislature
failed to see the opportunity they had
of. conferring a great good to the risiug
generation by a small appropriation,
but the retrenchment epidemic, like
others, must need run its oourse, and
we must struggle on, confident that it
will eventually come. Though the in
stitution is heavily taxed and the facul
ty severely work, and, they have nobly de
termined to still continue to receive
students; and though every moment of
their time is consumed, none who apply
will be deuied the blessings they ask.”
Newnan Herald,' “Forseveral months
past it has bee n painfully evident to the
friends and of"E.'Douglass,
Esq., of this place, that his mind was
from some cause'seriously affected. Last
week upon consultation of his friends
it was thought advisable that some ac
tion should be taken that would afford
him suoh attention as would probably
restore his mind to its former health
and vigor. Accordingly a warrant of
lunacy was sued out and a jury was em
panelled for the purpose of examining
into his mental condition. After a care
ful consideration of the case and the
examination of witnesses they adjudged
him a lunatic. His friends now have
charge of him and he will receive all
needed attentions. When, apprised of
the action of the jury he manifested
much concern and was deeply affected,
the fate of his family especially seeming
to weigh upon his mind. Mr.* Douglass
has been for a number of years a promi
nent member of the Newnan bar, and at
one time enjoyed quite a lucrative prac
tice. He was onoe the junior of the law
firm of Wright k Douglass, Hon. W. F.
Wright, now of Atlanta, beiDg the senior
member of the firm. More recently he
was the senior of the firm of Douglass
& Turner, Wm. A. Turner, Esq., being
his partner. Mr. Douglass is yet a
young man and has a small family. He
and his family have the heartfelt sympa
thies and the earnest prayers of this
whole community for his speedy restora
tion. At last aooounts he was somewhat
improved.”
Marriages.
In Brunswick, W>. B. Dart to Delia
Gray.
In Oglethorpe county, F. G. Glenn to
Alice Watson.
In Savannah, Henry Weil, of Darien,
to Leah Stern.
In Franklin, Dr. J. W. Daniel to
Pernina Boyd.
In Laurens connty, B. F. Mason to
Miss A. F. Walker.
In Greene county, Marion Baughoum
to Miss P. F. Lynch.
In Washington oounty, S.’S. Walters
to Miss H. V. Josey. *
At Maryville, Tenn., R. A. Heath, of
Warrenton, Ga,, to Annie Vernon, of
Bryan, Texas.
Deaths.
In Dawson, Fannie P. Corley.
In Columbus,' Mrs. Ann Clegg.
In Barnesville, E. M. Murphey.
In Tronp connty, James. Oliver.
In Mahon, Dr. C. B. Nottingham.
In Pe’nfleld, Mrs. Emma Beasley.
In Floyd county, Ula King, child.
In Harris county, W. J. Cranford.
In Savannah, Nathaniel Wilson, Jr.
In Heard county, Mrs. Davy Daniel.
In Atlanta, Mrs. James H. Callaway.
In Greene county, James D. Williams.
In Johnson county, Jacob L. Maddox.
In Walker county, Wm, Robbs, aged
88.
In Washington county, Geo. Round
tree.
In Warren county, Mrs. Fannie John
son, aged over 80.
Thursday’s Items.
Four oocupants of Heard oounty jail.
How about the Spring time now, gen
tle Annie?
Dalton had a fifteen inoh snow Sun
day night.
Athens had the beautiful snow Sun
day night.
Mr. Job Rogers has left Home for
Waco, Texas.
Deputy Sheriff Colbert, of Colnmbns,
is dangerously ill.
Snow, sleet and rain fell in Augusta
last Sunday night.
The Sunday Mirror (Athens) is a
bright looking sheet.
Mr. B. M. Polhiil, of Maeon, has had
a severe paralytic stroke.
A “ colored ” ball near Athens wonnd
np with a stabbing affray.
A wind and rain storm did consider
able damage aronnd Gainesville last
week.
Rev. T. B. Gurney and family have
left Rome for Central ,Falls, Rhode
Island.
The residence of Dr. M. G. 'Williams,
of Cartersville, was burned last Satur
day night. -
An attempt was made recently to bam
the residence of Mr. James Wilkerson,
of Cartersville.
The house of Mr. Frank Anderson, in
Banks county, was destroyed by a storm
the 16th instant.
The heaviest snow of the season at
Home fell last Sunday night. It was
shoe-month deep.
Mr. B. F. Alderman, formerly of Co
lumbus, was married in Marianna, Fla.,
recently, to Miss Estelle Edrio.
The dwelling of 3heriff Roberts, in
Dalton, was burned last Snnday night
by a prisoner escaped from the jail.
Here’s the way the Borne Courier fells
Murray and Goold Brown: “Snoh a
snow fell as had not fall before this Win
ter.”
$2 A YEAR-POSTAGE PAID
We like the way “Quidlibet” writes to
the Savannah News concerning the
gushers at the excursionists’ ovation in
Atlanta.
A young man named Woodhall has
been sent from Chattooga county to the
penitentiary. He was oonvioted of
burglary.
Mr. Thomas Wallace, sou of Colonel
’Campbell Wallace, is in Themasville, in
failing health. His father and mother
are with him.
We have received the first number of
the Franklin News, printed in Franklin,
Heard county. It is a surprisingly
good-looking sheet.
Mr. Joseph Chapman, Sr., of Gaines
ville, broke his right arm recently and
was otherwise injured by falling
through the cellar door of his residence.
The Franklin News says the farmers
in Heard county are making good head
way in farmiug. Oats make a good ap
pearanoe and wheat is looking splen
didly.
We suppose Harris will now be saying
that if the Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton had
not gone up the Augusta canal he would
not now be gone up the spout, as far, at
any rate, as a Presidential nomination is
ooncerned.
In Panlding county a house occupied
by a negro family on the plantation of
Mr. Benson was burned on the 14th and
two ohildren, aged three and vne years,
respectively, were burned in it. The
mother was at work in the plantation.
Every effort was made to resoue the
children, but it was too late when the
fire was discovered.
Macon Telegraph, 21st : “No one
doubts that we had a spell of weather
Sunday night. We had wind, snow,
rain, hail, sleet, thunder and lightning,
and everything else in the way of weath
er that was disagreeable. We very rare
ly ever have snoh a night. Young vege
tation suffered severely, and where not
oovered was killed.”
The Gainesville Eagle says: “Hall
oounty can boast of many who have
passed their three saore years and ten
upon earth; but we also have some octo
genarians, nonagenarians, and one near
Gainesville that can almost say she is a
centarian, being ninety and nine. She
was born during the second year of "the
epoch that ‘tried men’s souls,’ ”
The Macon Telegraph mentions the
death of Charlie Craft, a worthy oolored
man, in Vineville. He was a blacksmith
by trade, and when a slave hired his own
time and made money, which he Raved.
When the war ended and freedom came
it found him in possession of a moderate
competence, Subsequently his posses
sions were materially increased by be
quest, and so a number of years he has
keen in the enjoyment of a eompetenoe.
?e owned a very comfortable home in
meyiile, a farm in the oountry near
the city, and also some good property in
the North. The deoeased had the re
speot of all the white people in the com
munity who knew. him. He won it by
his faithfulness and his gentlemanly de
meanor, and there are many who will
regret to read the announcement of his
death.
Wwrtwa.
In Brunswick, Wm. Bnnkley to Carrie
Wilder;
Ip Franklin, Dr. John W. Daniel to
Nina Boyd.
In Lumpkin county, Jas. Robinson to
Mattie Harris.
At Stone Mountain, J. Claude Mackin
to Ellen T. Jones,
Near Gainesville, John 0. Mason, of
S. 0., to Sallie E. Smith.
Death*.
In Maoon, John Donahue,
In Lumpkin county, R. Cain.
In Maoon, Mrs. Sarah A. Weed.
In Atlanta, Mrs. C. B. Blacker.
In Sparta, Mrs. Ann L. Sharpe.
In Oarnesville, Mrs. Lizzie Bryan.
In Spalding county, J. M. Barfield.
In White comity, Julia A. Pitohford.
In Lumpkin oounty, Mrs. MoOlure.
In Maoon, infant son of L. Yannucki.
In Meriwether county, Amoffi Chunn,
aged 75.
In New York, M. Waitzfelder, of Mil
ledgeville.
In Rome, George, infant son of Rev.
D. B. Hamilton.
COTTON MANUFACTURING.
What Shall Be The Policy of Auffnata f
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
The question of building cotton mills,
it appears, is already engaging the at
tention of some of our most prominent
business men aud capitalists, and very
properly so, for there is no subject
which so much concerns the welfare of
Augusta as this one. Indeed, I might
say that the future prosperity of our
city largely depends upon its citizens
turning their attention to this branch of
business. Apart from the manufacture
of cotton, there remains but little else
from whioh to gather hope of future
wealth and prosperity for our city, and
the sooner we realize this fact the better
will it be for us. Railroads have al
ready spent their force in the way of in
crease of business and population. Our
cotton trade we can hardly expect to be
as large in the' future as it has been in
the past, or as it is at present; neither
is there anything flattering in the pros
pect of an increased business in bacon,
corn, flour, &o. Augusta must go down
or at best can only hope to remain at a
“ stand still,” unless its oitizens will all
pat their shoulders to the wheel and
oommenoe the building of cotton mills.
We have a water power unequalled by
that of any city in the South, and our
location is such as gives us great advan
’ tages over other towns. When we come
to really consider the snbjeot, no city in
the Sooth offers so many advantages for
manufacturing purposes as Augusta.
And, better still, there is nothing in
which we could invest onr means that
would pay better profits than cotton
manufacture. This is fully demon
strated in the reports of the Augusta,
Graniteville and Langley Mills for the
past eight or ten years; ’tis trne that for
the past few months there has been a
very heavy falling off of profits, but the
question oould very pertinently be put,
in what business has there not been a
heavy decline ?
But again, as to competing with
Northern mills. Here we have again
every advantage. Our climate is more
favorable; our rivers never freez over,
as they frequently do in the North,'
thereby compelling them to resort to
steam as motive power; the raw mate
rial is grown right at our doors, and we
have a home market for the ready sale
of a large portion of the manufactured
goods.
Now, Messrs. Editors, I am well aware
that the means of onr citizens are lim
ited, and that it is out of onr power to
build as many as a half dozen mills, say
of 20,000 spindles each, along our canal.
But let us all be a little public-spirited
-and engage in this enterprise as far as
our means will allow, and it will not be
long before capital from other towns
and States will seek investment here in
our midst in just suoh enterprises. I
am yet to meet the mao who does not
believe that cotton manufacture yvill
pay here in Augusta. Let us, then, be
gin and put the ball in motion, prove
onr faith by our works, and ere long
ontaide help will be abundant. What
we want is, within the next few years, to
hear the busy hum of the loom along
our canal, from the Powder Works down
to the present Angnsta Faotory, and
then will dawn upon onr oity an era of
prosperity that wonld gladden the
hoarts of both the capitalist and the la-
boring man.
It has been suggested in a recent edi
torial of the Constitutionalist, and by
several communications to that paper,
that our City Council assist the enter
prise by subscribing as mbcfc as $50,000
to every new mill toi fee erected. Such a
plan meets my approval It would at
once tone and dignity to the under
taking, and nothing we could do would
so quickly attract capital from other
parts of the country, la conclusion, let
me say that ] advocate the building of
ootton mills because I am fully per
suaded that money so invested would
yield a handsome profit. I advocate the
city’s subscribing (not,however, as a per
manent investment) because such a plan
would insure the building of several
mills, and under no circumstances could
the city lose a dollar by the investment.
I have no axe to grind in this matter.
Tis true that I own property in the
city, but unfortunately too remote from
the oanal to share in any advantage that
would arise from the erection of facto
ries. I would only expeet to share in
the general prosperity that wonld flow
from snoh enterprise.
Po Bono Publico,
The rush of Black Hillers is nndimin
iahed and trains are overcrowded daily
with them, an route via Cheyenne.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
NEWS FROM THE PALMETTO
STA i E.
Hail storm in York oounty last week.
Rook Hill is organizing a brass band.
Many new cottages building in Wal
naila.
Edgefield has had a merry leap year
Two droves of horses in Marion last
week.
i re was quite a freeze iu Sumter
last Sunday.
Qaite a heavy snow in Lexington last
Sunday night.
The Barnwell Sentinel has entered on
its twenty-fifth volume.
Mr. Neville, of Walhalla, was severe
ly injured by a fall recently.
The pantry of 001. D. W. Jordan, of
Camden, was burglarized recently.
Rev. W..H. Johnson, late of Sumter
has accepted a oall to Middleburg, Va.
The smoke house of Mr. T. C. Moody
in Marion, was burglarized some nights
ago.
. Jesse Arthur, a native of Camden
is doing well at the bar in Newport.
Kentucky.
Mrs. J. G. Law, of Walhalla, expeots
to make a trip to Europe this Spring for
her health.
Mr. J. S. Dickinson, of Abbeville, is
visiting his father in Florida, who is se
riously ill,
Several cows have died in Columbia
reoently from eating the leaves of the
mook orange.
No Court in Horry last week in conse
quence of sickness in the family of
Judge Townsend. J
u J* B, M. Crosson, formerly of
j “? r °l 1 ° a > has been elected Judge
of the First District, in Texas.
Next Sunday (26th) the newMethodist
Church is to be dedicated at Niuety-Six.
Bishop Wightman will preach.
Mr. Barker, of Pulaski, had his arm
amputated recently. Dr. Sloan, of
Walhalla, performed the operation.
Miss Lou Assman, of Lexington, was
thrown from a horse a few days since
and badly, but not dangerously hurt.
Gtepowl E. W. Ferris has appointed
Mr. S. 0. Whitehearte Deputy United
States Marshal for the Marion District.
The Johnston High School is flourish
ing. Miss Sallie Carwile has recently
become assistant teacher, in the school.
The Marion Star, of the 15th, says
the peach orop, it is thought, was seri
ously injured by the frost week before
last.
The State apportionment of the
school fund for Sumter couuty is an
nounced in the Union-Herald as $6,-
979 65.
Two Laurensville freedmen, Irwin
Jaokson and Felix Irby, fell out about a
woman, and Jackson stabbed Felix, in
flicting a dangerous wound.
A movement has been made in Ches
ter looking to the buildiDg of a bouse
on the Academy lot for the teacher, and
otherwise improving the grounds.
Mr. Columbus Haile, a native and
former citizen of Camden, was acci
dentally shot and dangerously wounded
■at Staunton, Va., a short time since.
On the evening of the 24th Laurens
ville will have an entertainment of
music and select readings in aid of the
Monumental Association of Columbia.
Abbeville Medium: “A colored
woman at Hodges’ gave birth to two
children last week—one white and the
other black. This is vouched for upon
good authority.”
The case of Engineer Fetner has been
continued till the next term of Edgefield
Court. He is to be tried for oausiug
the railroad calamity at Baoou’s Turn-
Out last Fall.
Col. Larkeu Griffin, of Nifiety-Six,
and Mrs. Jemima Griffin, his wife, have
been married 66 years. He is 88 and
she is 81. They are perhaps the oldest
couple in the State.
The Abbeville Press and Banner
learns that Mr. James A. Richardson,
formerly of Ninety-Six, but now sheriff
of Edgefield, will return to his former
home at Ninety-Six.
The concert given in the Court House
at Lexington, on Wednesday night of
last week, by some of the ladies and
gentlemen of the village, for the benefit
of the St. Stephens’ Lutheran Church,
was a brilliant success.
The Columbia Register learns that
tlte store of A. M. Murphy, at Lynch
burg, Sumter county, was destroyed by
fire recently with its contents. Mr.
Murphy was murdered and the body
consumed in the conflagration.
Mr. John Bragden, of Marion county,
who is now living on the plantation of
Dr. F. J. Bethea, near Reedy creek, is
89 years of age. He is the father of 23
children—7 sons and 16 daughters. The
youngest son is only 7 years of age.
Willie, son of Mr. Ransom Chaney,
near Ninety-Six, fell from a tree which
he was topping, about two weeks ago,
and broke a leg, running the bone
through flesh and clothing. Dr. Stuart
was called and reset the broken bones.
The amount apportioned to York
county for the purpose of public schools,
for the school year ending the 80th of
last June, is $10,215 65. The attendance
of pupils at those schools during the
year was 4,530, on whioh the apportion
ment was based.
Yorkville Enquirer : “Our informa
tipn from the planting community is to
the effeot-that larger crops of wheat and
oats have been sown in York county
since last Fall than any year since the
war, and at present the small grain,
crops are in a promising condition.”
It is Baid that Mr. W. T. Head, of
Ninety-Six, some time ago turne-a an old
sore backed horse oat to dia, and the
animal had been forgotten until it re
turned a few days ago with 8 small oak
growing out of its baok. It is thought
an acorn fell into it, from which the
bush grew.
The WinDsboro News learns that
them will soon be another change in tbe
sohedule on the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad. The Northern
bound train will pass Winnsboro about
nine o’olock at night, and the Southern
abont five in the morning.
Last week at a Democratic meeting
held in Hnmter, a large number of col
ored men enrolled their names in the
Club. Robert Rose, colored, who ia
said to have been a former leading Re
publican in that county, was chosen
First Vice-President of the Club.
The Catholic Association has pur
chased the Virginia house on Plain
street, east of the Central Hotel, in
Columbia, for $3,000, from the proceeds
of the late Fair. It will be used as a
school under the direction of the nuns
for some time, instead of a pastoral
reaidenoe, as first intended.
Sumter Watchman, 22d : “March
came in fact * like a lion ’ on Friday
last—the roaring among the forest trees
‘midst the cracking brandies was ter
rific indeed, while in open places the
clouds of dust that arose aDd constantly
prevailed were such as to obscure the
faoe of nature. A number of persons
who*came into town in the morning
would not venture to return home until
next day.” ,
Union Herald: “During a lull in the
proceedings yesterday in the House of
Representatives, the reporter of the
Union-Herald took the sense of the
members on tho question of the choice
of each member for the Presidency.
All who had a preference gave it with
out hesitation, except Mr. Leslie, who
was unnecessarily rude in his reply:
Republicans—For Blaine, 18; Grant,
15; Chamberlain, 7; Morton, 2; Conk
ling, 1; Phil Sheridan, 1; no choice, 9.
Democrats—For Pendleton, 7; Hen
dricks, 4; Allen, of Ohio, 1; Charles
Franoia Adams, 1; no choice, 3.”
Alarried.
In Marion, Cornelius Berry to Cherry
Tart.
S. G. Porter, of Marion, to Mollie Saw
yer, of Marlboro.
In Kershaw county, Samuel Jackson
to Miss Brannam. ,
In Colombia, M. E, Hodge, of Claren
don, to Miss A. Marks.
At Etta Jane, Elijah .Elders, of York
county, to Mrs. Sallie Coyle, of Union
oounty.
Died.
At Book Hill, Manse! Hall.
In Charleston, Job Dawson.
In York county, Robert Whitesides.
In Yorkville, Mrs. Margaret McClain.
In York county, Mrs. Mary W. Knox.
In York county, Jnlia Ann Robinson,
child.
In York county, Ida Amanda Nichols,
infant. ’