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WEDNESDAY MARCH 29. 1876.
mmwn of the executive coyout
tee.
The members of the Democratio Execu
tive Committee of the Eighth Congres
sional District are requested to meet in
this city en the third of April for the
purpose of calling a Convention to elect
delegatee to represent this District in
the National Democratic Convention to
nominate a candidate for President of
the United States. H. D. D. Twioos,
Chairman Democratic Executive Com.
Babknap and Bkloook are sure those
males were crooked.
Sutt cents is not dear for a “ wel
come to Port Royal.”
Does Bristow do anything he “thinks
onght to be done—for money.”
Poor Bristow. The crookedness of
the mule claim is becoming plainer.
Republican statesmanship consists in
“ doing anything that ought to be done
—for money.”
New York’s favorite son is Rosooe
Conkling. Pennsylvania can’t agree
upon her favorite son.
After Babknap and Belcock came
Cbkswell and Dana. Alphabetical or
der and getting dose to Grant. •
It seems that Creuswkll, when
Postmaster-General, did anything “ he
thought ought to be done—for money.”
“Georgia’s Triumvirs” is the appella
tion the Atlanta Constitution bestows
upon Messrs. Gordon, Hill and Ste
phens. a m
As yet only five gentlemen in Atlanta
are spoken of in connection with seats
in the Lower House of the General As
sembly. m m
“ Fox ” promises to tell the Atlanta
Constitution all about the gubernatorial
situation in Richmond county. Let’s
have it. |
Ananias Hates escaped by the skin
of his teeth from the charge of selling
cadetships. “ Not guilty, but don’t do
it again.”
General Toombs’ lecture on “ Magna
Chart a” is justly famous. Every one
should go to Masonio Hall and hear
him to-night.
Col. E. F. Hoge, of Atlanta, will be a
caudidate for Congress from the Fifth
District this Fall, in opposition to Mr.
Candler, the present member.
The editor of the Fort Valley Mirror
is not at all nice in his comparisons. He
says that gubernatorial candidates are
as thick in Atlanta as thieves in Wash
ington.
Evert one who wishep to aid a de
serving institution should go to Ma
sonio Hall and hear General Toombs
lecture in aid of the Library Association
to-night.
A Philadelphia jury has decided that
stock speculating on margins is differ
ent from gambling. Of course it is dif
ferent. But the difference is in favor of
the faro bank.
The Macon Telegraph still speaks
mysteriously though angrily of that bill
for provender furnished the press whioh
the Macon Council twioe refused to pay.
Oh, dear ! What can the matter be ?
Five members from Georgia voted to
suspend the rules and take up Atkin's
bill repealing the entire resumption act.
The other four—Messrs. Candler, Fel
ton, Hill and Stephens—were absent.
Our Atlanta correspondent states that
the livening Commonwealth is to be put
into the hands of a stock company, and
be issued as a morning paper. It is said
that it is to be run as an anti-SMiTH or
gan.
The Kev. Lee, who villified the State
of Georgia at a recent religious meeting
in New York, is the President of the At
lanta University, to whioh’ the Legisla
ture refused an appropriation. There
is never a crime without a motive, t
The editor of the Fort Valley Mirror
thinks it ineffably mean of the oity of
Macon to dine the Georgia Press Con
vention, refuse at first to pay the bills
and after they are paid parade before
the world the quantity of provender
each towering intellect consumed. Too
troo.
Over eighty witnesses have been ex
amined in the Spencer case, and the
average cost of those from Alabama has
been two hundred dollars each. Any
dead-beat in Alabama can make a free
' visit to Washington by pretending to
know something for or against the sutler
Senator
The best definition of a lobbyist was
given the other day by one of the
fraternity who was examined by
Mr. Clymkb’s committee. When ask
ed his business, he replied, after a
long pause: “ Well, if you must have
an answer, Ido anything that I think
ought to be done—for money."
The Cartersville Express comes out in
favor of Hon. Hkrsohrl V. Johnson for
Governor in a strong article, whioh we
print elsewhere this morning. The Mil
ledgeville Union and Recorder seconds
the motion and declares that two-thirds
of the voters of Georgia are in favor of
the nomination of Judge Johnson.
The Savannah News makes a very ef
fective reply to a correspondent who in
quired why that paper was “so bitter on
General Butler,” and still alluded to.
him as the Beast, the News simply
publishes the order which Butler is
sued in reference to the ladies of New
Orleans when he commanded in that oity j
daring the war.
The grand jury of Greene county en- j
dorses the action of their Representa
tives in the Legislature in attempting to
pass a law for the protection of sheep
raising. Messrs. Carlton and Willis
were able and faithful members of the
General Assembly, and we are glad to j
know that their course receives the ap
proval of their constituents.
Judge Mackrt will do everything in
his power, and a great many things for
which he has no authority, to carfy his
circuit f£ the Radical party next Fall.
The Conservatives in the Legislature
had an opportunity to be rid of the ty
rant but neglected or refused to avail
themselves of it, and now the people of
Tork aud Chester will be made to suf- j
fer by their blunder.
Ip the President wishes to send an
honest man to England, and must have
a literary man from Massachusetts, let
him take Longfellow, or, better still,
Ralph Waldo Emerson. We offer the
suggestion gratis. We are afraid, how
ever, that General Grant is determined
to pick a scamp. He has as irresistible j
a longing for low company as the lurk- ‘
ing-around-corners cousin of Mr. Mar- 1
tin Chtzzi.ewtt.
The yelcoming address of the Presi
dent of the Atlanta Chamber of Com
merce to the Western excursionists, as
reported** the Constitution, reads as
follows: “Greet as this country is (ap
plause), the people of the diffrent sec
tions jhave never roperly known or
poreciatede clothe (great applause), ud
the ant o’ knowledge and of this pprecla
tion was the prime cause of the late
civil war. (Cheers). This war with all
the horrors has passed and God it
may never retun. (Loud chees).”—
Either the President of the Chamber of
Commerce or the reporter of the Consti
tution must have had a little stump
THE CHALICE AT THEIR OWN UPS.
For some time past the aU-abeorbing
problem in California has been, Hw
shall we keep the Chinese ont of the
State? The crowded confines of the
Flowery Kingdom emptied their sur
plus population upon the Pacific Slope
as fast as transportation could be se
cured, until the Californians became
alarmed at the deluge, of almond eyed
Celestials. The Caucasians of the gold
coast looked with scorn and contempt
upon the pig-tailed Mongolians, and
protested against the inflax of “Chinese
cheap labor.” Bat, despite their pro
testations, Ah Sin and his brethren con
tinned to come. They found California
a good country to live in, and, working
at any sort of labor for the lowest
prices, soon discovered that they onld
amass, to them, wealth, end live in more
peace and security than in Hong Kong
or Pekin. Large railway and mining
contractors found it to their interest to
employ them to come and bring along
their “peculiar institutions.” The pe
culiar institutions of the Chinese are
opium aud harlots. Anxious to stay the
tide which was overflowing the State
with ignorance, superstition and vice,
the Californians framed a law which
they fondly thought would check the
evil. The statute required the Commis
sioner of Emigration to Inquire whether
any passenger is a lunatic, idiotic, deaf,
dumb, blind, crippled or infirm, and is
not accompanied by relatives able to
support him, or is likely to become a
public charge, or has been a pauper in
any other country, or is, from sickness
or disease existing either at the time of
sailing or when arriving a public charge,
or likely soon to become so, or is a con
victed criminal, or is a lewd or de
bauched woiran, and required not to
allow them to land without the execu
tion of a bond in each case by the mas
ter, owner or consignee of the ship
against their becoming a public charge
within two years. This act vested very
large powers in the Commissioner of
Emigration, andif they had been allowed
to exercise them they would have been
able to correct the evil to a very great
extent. As most of the Chinese women
brought over here are brought for the
purposes of prostitution, and most of
the men who come are paupers, the Ce
lestials would have been kept in their
own country and confined to the rice
fields of the Hoang-ho and the Yang-tse-
Kiang. But Ah Sin has been long enough
in this country to know something
of reconstruction and negro suffrage,
and naturally oonoluded that what was
sauce for tho African goose should like
wise be sauce for the Mongolian gander.
So he carried his case to the Courts of
California, and when these decided
against them appealed his cause to the
Supreme Court of the United States.
This tribunal did not share the preju
dice of the Pacific Slope against the.
man and brother. The Court spoke the
other day, and criticised the California
statute at considerable length, citing
cases of necessary exclusion under it,
which would be of great hardship, one
of whioh was that the deaf, dumb and
blind are excluded, though ever so rich,
the same as if paupers. Another, that
a woman who has repaired a past error
by marriage, and who, with her ohildren
and husband, seeks to land may be ex
cluded without submitting to certain
requirements, because she was de
bauched by her husband before mar
riage. In any view of the oase, the law
is held to be void because in conflict
with the Federal Constitution. There
fore the California statute goes by the
board, and the Heathen Chinee has full
permission to flood the State with pau
pers, prostitutes, opium dens and joss
houses. We feel some sympathy for
our California brethren in their misfor
tune. But we must confess that our
sympathy is a little tempered by the re
flection that when the Radical party was
engaged in forcing negro citizenship
and negro suffrage and white disfran
ohisement down the throats of the
Southern people California Congress
men voted for every measure that Radi
calism devised for the success of its
schemes, and that the California people
endorsed these iniquities at the ballot box.
In nearly every Southern State the sting
has been extracted from negro suffrage.
In Georgia the oolored man is everyday
becoming a better and more intelligent
citizen. Now the bitter chalice is
pressed to the lips of the Californians.
Let us see how they will stand it.
SEA ISLAND COTTON.
Soon after the assembling of Congiess
a resolution passed the Senate, asking
the Commissioner of Agriculture to
give all the information in his posses
sion concerning the condition and pros
pects of the culture of Sea Island oot
ton. In reply the Commissioner says
that a soil of marine formation appears
to be necessary for the growth of the
stalk and fibre of the Sea Island or long
staple ootton, and a sea atmosphere
with its warmth and equability. A
sandy deposit of marine salt but little
above the sea level, permeable by the
moisture beneath, and covenient for the
requisite manuring by salt-marsh, fur
nish conditions for the highest produc
tion of Sea Island ootton. Edisto Is
land, south of Charleston, Is the most
prominent locality for the production of
long staple cotton. Saint Simons, Jekyl
and Skidaway are also favorably known
i for products of high quality. The geo
' graphical limits and area in which Sea
Island ootton matures a perfect growth
include the islands off the coast pf
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida,
and in the Gulf of Mexico, and a few
miles inland from the coast, ten or fif
teen, more or less—the line* extending
farther inland np the river valleys, which
have a marine soil and unobstructed sea
j breeze, and including most of the area of
; Florida. The area auitable for this cul
ture in Texas is claimed to be quite large,
and has of late been extending. The
proportion of upland to Sea Island cot
ton is about 200 to 1. Probably not
more than 100,000 aores are now devoted
to its culture, while that ocoupied in up
land cotton is from 100 to J2O times as
much. The area could be increased im
mensely were the conditions favorable?-
a sufficient price, more systematic and
labor saving modes of culture and pre
paration, and more available and effi
cient labor, the former residents of the
coast and islands having gone to the
cities or retired to the uplands. The
Commissioner could also have stated,
aud with perfect truth, that the decrease
in the production of Sea Island cotton is
due to the balefnl influenoe of recon
struction and Radicalism. In 1860
nearly fifty thousand bales were pro
duced on the coast of Georgia and South
Carolina. Now the production is so in
considerable as to be scaroely worth
mentioning. Cumberland Island, which
before the war had ten or twelve large
plantations devoted to the production of
this valuable staple, has now not one
acre in cultivation. The same may be
said of its neighbors Jekyl and St. Si
mons, of Skidaway, and doubtless of
Edisto. The houses have been burned,
the fences cave rotted, and the fields
have grown np in weeds. Cumberland
Island, which formerly supported two or
three thousand slaves and their masters,
now gives but a bare subsistence to two
or three families. Reconstruction and
Radicalism freed as# made citizens of
the laborers who formerly made the
island fields fertile and enriched the
world with the fruits of their toil. Free
men and citizens scorned to work when
the sea gave them food lor nothing and
tho mildness of the elimate precluded
the necessity of clothes. The freemen
and the citizens abandoned the eotton
plantations and retired to the coast of
the mainland, and Sea Island eotton has
become almost a thing of the pash
Plenty of good fees have been going
around lately. Senator Stewart re
oeived two hundred and thirty thousand
dollars for “servioea” in the Emma
mine bnsiness. Who did he introduce
Sohenck to, we wonder ?
SENATOR RANSOM AND GOT. VANCB.
A Washington dispatch says: “ Per
sons of both parties here deprecate the
slanderous attack upon United States
Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, by
the Wilmington (N. C.) Post, in which
it is alleged that Senator Ranso* bribed
ex-Governor Vance to resign his seat in
the Senate, with the understanding that
he was to be elected thereto. The facts
are that Governor Vance was elected in
December, 1870, and being under dis
abilities, was not permitted to take his
seat. He resigned in January, 18.72, af
ter a long and unsuccessful effort to ob
tain admission. The resignation was
approved of and advised by his friends
here and in North Carolina. General
Ransom was elected by the Legislature
after a very sharp and close contest, be
ing nominated in the Democratic cancns
by one vote over his present colleague,
Senator Merrimon, and Jndge Warren.
Ransom was not admitted nntil late in
April, the seat being contested by Gen
eral Aeeott, the unsuccessful Republi
can candidate against Governor Vance.
After the admission of Ransom, a resolu
tion was introduced by Senator Bayard
to pay Ransom from the beginning of the
term. This resolution received the
unanimous approval of the Committee
on Privileges and Elections, and was
passed by the unanimous vote of the
Senate. While the resolution was pend
ing and after its passage Senator Ran
som declared to his then colleague,
Senator Poole, and many other Sena
tors, Democrats and Republicans, that
he should give the money to Govfernor
Vance, as he thought he was justly en
titled to it, having been elected to the
place by the State of North Carolina.
Immediately after the adjournment of
Congress Senator Ransom sought Gover
nor Vance and insisted upon his taking
the money, whioh had been voted to
Ransom for the time that Vance held
the certificate. This Vance refused.
Finally, upon consultation with friends
and in their presence, Governor Vance
consented to receive a portion of the
fund, and Senator Ransom gave him a
check for 82,500. This matter was well
known at the time, and was published
in the North Carolina papers, and was
universally considered by all good men
regardless of party as a noble and grace*-
fnl act.
THE CHRONICLE AJ(D SENTINEL ON
THE PAYNE BILL.
“ This is what the Augusts Chroni
cle and Sentinel says about the Payne
Currency, bill
One feature of the bill will meet with gene
ral approval—that whioh repeals the section of
the existing Resumption Act requiring an arbi
trary return to specie payments in 1879. This
law has stifled enterprise, paralyzed trade and
almost ruined manufactures. We are confident
that its repeal must prove fruitful of good.
“We are perplexed ! Before the Ohio
election the Chronicle and Sentinel
was a staunch anti-oontraotion paper.
After the defeat of Governor Allen it
became a fierce advocate of resumption
at any price. Do we not remember how
indignant the Chronicle and Sentinel
was when we suggested that it changed
front rather quickly ! Now it has swung
rotfnd apparently to anti-contraction
again, and we do hope it will stay right
there.”
The above is taken from the Charles
ton News and Courier of Wednesday.
To the giddy man the world is in a whirl.
Our Charleston friends are not noted
for consistency themselves, and they
naturally seek to detect inconsistency in
others. The Chronicle and Sentinel
has never been an inflation organ. After
the defeat of Governor Allen and be
fore, for that matter, the Chronicle
and Sentinel opposed that feature of
the Resumption Act which fixed 1879 as
the time for the resumption of specie
payments. We are glad that the Payne
bill, so far as it repeals this section
of the act, has been adopted by the
Democratio oaucus. We have always
believed and expressed the belief that
this feature of the Sherman bill stifled
enterprise, paralyzed trade, and ruined
manufactures. Several months ago we
published an article in which we said it
was the uncertainty of this provision
which was killing the country. So long
as this, law stared ns in the faoe we
coaid not expect capital to oome from
its hiding ’places. No one was willing
to invest his money knowing that in a
few years the character of the currency
was to undeifeo an entire change, and
fearing that the change might be accom
panied by a convulsion which might
ruin every business interest in the coun
try. Every one was disposed to wait
for 1879, and while waiting we were
perishing. While the grass was grow
ing the horse would die. We said then,
what we say now, that we preferred im
mediate resumption to the continuance
of this law upon the statute book. Imme
diate resumption would be less hnrtfnl
in the end because its effeots would be
sooner over. We believe that a law
foroing the resumption of specie pay
ment on the fourth day of July of the
present year would be better for the
country than the lingering torture of
that section of the resumption act which
fixes the fourth day of July, 1879, as the
date of resumption. With this latter
law in force every interest of the coun
try would languish for three years
longer. The country cannot stand three
years more of depression and bankrupt
cy. We prefer amputation to gangrene.
THE IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE MONT
GOMERY MOSES.
As our telegraphic dispatches have
announced, Judge Montgomery Moses,
Judge of the Seventh Judioial Dis
trict of South Carolina, has been im
peached and removed from office. We
find in the Winnsboro News a eapital
summing up of the charges against him.
The charges, preferred against him are
reducible to two—neglect of official duty,
and oorrupt praotioes on the bench. The
first was shown by the evidence of mem
bers of the bar and othere, who testified
that though the several dockets were
constantly fall, there was scarcely a
single satisfactory session of Court dur
ing Jndge Moses’ administration. Of
course this gross neglect must have had
a bad effect upon the community, and
likewise have occasioned much personal
inconvenience and perhaps suffering.
What the Judge's defense to this charge
might have been we are at a loss to
know, and we are equally at a loss to
oonceive what excuse he could have pre
sented. So much for the charge of neg
lect of official duty. Tne other is far
more danming. Many witnesses, ooun
ty officials, testified before the Court of
Impeachment that Jndge Moses more
than once requested of them loans of
money. S. T. Poinier, County Treasu
rer of Spartanburg, testified that Judge
Moses had asked him, in 1875, for a
loan of 8350 ; that he refused on
the ground that he had only $750 of
official funds, and did not regard that
sum sufficient for the expenses of the
Court then in session ; that the Judge
insisted, saying that it would be ample;
that he finally raised 8950 and lent it as
desired. John G. Carrington, Sheriff
of Newberry county, testified that Jndge
Moses frequently borrowed money from
him. On one occasion the Judge told
him that he must have money, and on
tke witness insisting that he had none,
his Honor replied that he knew the
sheriff must hays gome, from decrees he
himself had just maas. Ppon Cab
bington’s saying that these were o&oial
foods and could not be touched, the
Jndge said that the money was snbjeot
to the order of ifae Qourt and the Court
wanted it, and ih*t he Yogi# pass no
order* for the sherif to pay o*t the
money in question nntil the Court had
paid it back, foot at this time an at
torney proposed an order, fay consent of
parties, directing tire disbursement of
the foods in qaesiion, bat the J udge re
fused to sign the order, and at once ad
journed the Court He afterwards said
to Sheriff Carhington : “ I have re
fused the order. Now let me have the
money.” The money was lent He had
on two other occasions lent the Jndge
money in a similar way and bis Honor
had always protected him. When
be was “ ruled ” about the money
in question he answered, “ The
money is subject to the order of
Coart, and the Court has the money.”
He had never heard anything farther of
the rule. John W. Rice, Clerk of Court
for Laarens county, stated that the
Jndge applied to him for a loan of
money, bat he refused on the groand
that all the money in his hands was of
his official deposit. The Jndge then in
sisted on having a certain snm, saying
that he would protect the Clerk by pass
ing no orders for the disbursement of
the fnnds till the borrowed sum should
be returned. This witness also stated
that in a certain transaction the Jndge
borrowed 8200, bat witness held him ac
countable for bnt $175. He went on to
say that the Jndge having stated that
there were some overcharges in the (his)
account as Clerk, he “ gave the Judge
the 825 to let the matter stand /” Jesse
0. Smith, Treasurer of Newberry, made
a similar statement about the Judge’s
request for a loan, accompanied with
the assurance that no order should be
passed for the paying ont of the fnnds
till the debt was paid. Other witnesses
testified to similar transactions. Jndge
Moses, through his counsel, declined to
pat in any rebutting testimony, and the
Senate found him gnilty and sentenced
him to removal from office.
MINOR TOPICS.
General Jdbal A. Eably has written a reply
to General Longbtreet’s letter on Gettysburg,
in whioh he handles the latter qnite severely.
He shows that General LonosTßEkT, under (he
pretense of “defending” General Lee. is real
ly glorifying himself and traducing LeE. Gen-
Eablt wields a caustic pen. and in almost
eqery encounter he has had with the makers of
history he has had the best of it.
Blaine says if the case of Belknap was
given over to the Republicans they would im
peach him, aDd send him to the penitentiary,
too. Well, Bab*3CK was entirely in their
hands, unmolested by the Democrats. They
had all the witnesses, courts, jury, counsel and
the plain letter of the law to help them, and
yet they let that guilty man escape. If they
had furnished the House of Representatives
the evidence against him as faithfully as they
did Babooce’s lawyers from the Attorney-Gen
eral’s office, he would have been ’impeached
long ago. <
The Army and Navy Journal urges that the
new Secretary of War revive the traditions of
the best periods ef armv history by restoring
the General-in-Chief to his proper relations to
the army. Let his first act. it says, be to order
General Sherman to Washington and to put
the Adjutant-General’s office in its proper rela
tions to him as the vehicle of his communica
tion with the aervice. Restore to him the au
thority that of right belongs to him of direct
ing the movements of every soldier, subject
only to the orders of the President through
the Secretary of War.
In England last year there died 676 people,
aged ninety-five years and more, of whom 486
were women. Of these eighty-nine had attain
ed one hundred years or more, and it is very
remarkable that no less than Beveuty-nine of
this number were females.' The oldest ojf the
men iu the obituary of the year died in the
Wolstanton district, Staffordshire, aged oue
hundred and three; bnt a wAnan who died in
Hurst Almshouse, Exeter, was one hundred
and eight, and another at Newwort, in Mon
mouthshire, had reached the patriarchial age
of one hundred and twelve. Of those eighty
nine centenarians, nine were boru in London,
thirteen in North and South Wales, six in York
shire and six in Norfolk.
An ingenious scheme .for defrauding the
Government has just been brought to light by
oue of the numerous investigating committees.
It seems that the loyal parties having the
oontraot to bury the bones of their brethren
who fell in Louisiana, finding bnsiness rather
dull, conoocted a plan for increasing their
profits. They were to receive S2O for eaeh
body buried; and thinking that as the grave
generally hides all secrets they would be pretty
safe, got a lot of bones of horses, mules, etc.,
and proceeded to serve them out for burial. It
is not known how many graves filled with this
kind of material were paid for at S2O a piece,
but it is hoped that the manes of the departed
mules rest content with S2O interments and
marble bead-stonee above them.
In his report of last December as Secretary
of War, Belknap said that the Quartermaster-
General of the Army was troubled with the
large mass of papers Btored in his office, which,
are of nd further use. He called the attention
of Congress to the subject, and requested that
authority be given for the destruction’ of such
of those official papers as are not noeded. But,
perhaps, on the whole, this authority had bet
ter not be given just yet by Congress. There
might be among the documents or records de
stroyed under such authority in the Quarter
master-General’s office some that would prove
of interest or importance in the overhauling of
the affairs of the V(ar Department. At all
events, Congress should not be oyerhasty in
authorizing the destruction desired by Bel
knap and Ingalls. Let it be postponed for a
while.
Though full returns of the Western hog pro
duct for the past season are not yet in from
all the minor points, the estimates now at
hand will probably vary bnt little from the
final total. The statement includes the number
of hogs packed, the averages-of weight and
yield of lard; aIBO, the amount of mess pork
made. The total packing represents 4,065,000
hogs, as against 5,566,080 last year, a decrease
of about 700,000. The average weight for the
season of 1875-76 is placed at 217.97 pounds
net, as against 209.77 last year, an increase of
8 1-5 pounds net, or nearly four per cent. The
average yield of lard is 35.53 lbs per hog,
against 34.20 last year. The total yield of
lard shows a falling off of 17,500,000 lbs, or
about 54,800 tierces, compared with 1875. The
aggregate net weight of hogs will fall about
107,000,000 lbs. below that of last year—a de
crease of about nine per cent.
The good “ Uncle Dan’l” played it shock
ingly low on the Methodist brethren. Tho
old patriarch gave the Drew Theological
Seminary $250,000 and the Middletown Wes
leyan University SIOO,OOO. His great lib
erality was heralded far and wide, and opened
the eyes of innumerable pious deacons to the
profitableness there was in dea’ing with
“ sheers.” They consulted “ Uncle Dan’l"
and the good old man talked to them like a
saint, as he was explaining all about “ p’ints”
and “ margins.” The pious and trustful
dsagpqa wont off and bought “ sheers” on
margins, as “ Ufic)e Dan’l” had explained
the prooess to them. Then the good old man
gave a little squeeze and the margins disap
peared into bis open pockot, leaving the
deacons with nothing bnt their pity to console
them, and with that badly strained. It has
been hinted that in one way and another
“ Uncle Dan’l” made a good thing ont of his
gifts to the Methodist institutions, and prob
ably scooped out of the Method.st brethren
more than the sum of those gifts.
And now the Washington correspon
dents have been caught Belknaping. A
“lady” correspondent was detected the
other day trying to steal a photograph
of Mrs. Belknap. She had been offer
ed 8125 by the publisher of a New York
paper for a photograph of
the fallen beauty. We always knew
Congressmen and Cabinet offioers wonld
steal, bnt we did have an abiding faith
in the rectitude of newspaper correspon
dents. But now—. And a “lady”
correspondent, too ! Gh, fie !
Ben Butler and bis two prostitutes
have not yet shown any improper con
duct on the part of Mr. Pendleton.
The thirty thousand dollars paid to Mrs.
Bower by Mr. Pendleton were paid to
him as her lawyer by the firm of E. G.
Lkgnabd t Cos. as a debt due her de
ceased husband, who had been a mem
ber of the firm. General Butler and
his females allies had better try again.
The Radicals in South Carolina are
said to be fixing up a Dolly Yarden
ticket, with Chamberlain for Governor,
Gen. Kershaw for Lieutenant-Governor,
Elliott for Attorney-General and Mr.
G. A. Trenholm for Treasurer. We
hardly think Gen. Kershaw and Mr.
Trenholm can be prevailed upon to run
in sgoh oompany. If they are, South
nowJina snfcy indeed despair of redemp
tion.
Tre agent of the Macon and Augusta
Railroad at Milledgeville say* the re
ceipts of fertilizers have been five times
as great as fixe receipts of last year. We
are net of those who feel iifce croaking
because the planters are preparing for a
large crop of ootton. All reports agree
that they are putting a large area in
corn and small grain, and that there will
be no bread and very little meat to buy
next Winter. If ootton is a surplus
orop tliere is money in it, even with a
price of ten cents per pound.
LETTER FROM GAINESVILLE.
A Progressive Cltv—Court In Session—The
Beautiful Snow A Spri*htlj Paper—
Messrs. Hill and Candler.
| Oornspondeiux Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Gainesville, March 21, 1876.
This is a growing and progressive city.
It has a bright future before it. The
people are intelligent and industrious.
The Superior Court is in session here,
Judge Rice presiding; Emory Speers,
Esq., Solicitor-General. There has been
a heavy fall of snow, the ground being
covered to the depth of six or eight
inches. The weather, as yon may im
agine, is quite disagreeable, and the at
tendance at Court is slim.
I send yon a list of subscribers. The
Chronicle and Sentinel is well thought
of by the people, and I will be able to
get a large number of subscribers.
General Longstreet is building a large
hotel at Gainesville. He is absent from
the city at present, bnt is expeoted to
return in a few days. Hon. Ben Hill
has many admirers here. The Eagle,
edited by Col. Yon Estes is one of the
ablest weeklies in the State. It is very
severe on Mr. Hill. Hon. A. D. Cand
ler, author of the Convention bill intro
duced during the last session of the Leg
islature, resides here. He is one of the
most intelligent and one of the best men
in the State. He weald make an effi
cient member of Congress. G. W. N.
GWINNETT" COUNTY MATTERS.
‘A Cardial Walcome—Kind Words for the
Chronicle—The Crops—Farmers Planting
Grain—Duluth—A Flourishing County*
[From our Traveling Correspondent.]
Duluth, Gwinnett County, March 19.
Before my departure for Gainesville,
I concluded to write yon bow your rep
resentative was received in Gwinnett
connty. My.first stopping place in this
county was Lawrenceville, where I was
reoeived very kindly by yonr friend,
Hon. T. M. Peepleffceditor of the Gwin
nett Herald. He and ms publisher,
Mr. Breckinridge, were very kind daring
my stay. Lawrenceville is qnite an old
place. Not much bnsiness doing, as it
is eight miles from the Air Line’ Rail
road. While at Lawrenceville I met
with numbers of your old subscribers,
bne such friend is Mr. M. Camp, who
said he was a subscriber as long as be
lived; that he could no more be without
the Chronicle and Sentinel than he
coaid do without bread- and meat. I
met many that spoke in high terms and
qnite a number subscribed and promis
ing to give me every assistance on my
return trip. Thanks to one and all that
were kind to me at Lawrenceville, es
pecially Mr. Peeples. My next stopping
place was the Yellow River Post Office,
Gwinnett county, in the settlement of
Nash Town, as it is called. On my way
here I noticed, with much pleasure, the
farmers planting; and, chatting with
them, I learned that they were planting
a great deal of corn, and all that I spoke
to on my way to Nash Town expeoted to
plant a large crop of this grain.
The wheat crop also looks well along
the road. Having arrived at Nash Town
I was not long in finding Hon. L. Nash
I was also pleased to meet Rev. Mr.
Lane, of Norcross, at Mr. Nash’s. The
place has almost gone down since the
war. At present there is but one store
and post office. The country around is
rich, being on Yellow river. My next
point in the country was Sweetwater.
All the farmers on my way-through Car
roll settlement seemed to be in earn
est about work and planting—mostly
preparing for 40m. On my way I
stopped to loot at a field of about
two acres of wheat, as I supposed, but
meeting with the owner of it, he
informed mo that it was a Winter grass,
called the Danish Rosque. It keeps
green all Winter, and is ready for mow
ing about August This same farmer
was kind enough to show me through
his plantation. His fine crop of wheat
is growing, and tis ground all prepared
for corn. Mr. Eli McDaniel raised, on
one acre of ground last year, one hun-
dred and fifty bushels of corn. As I
heard Rev. Mr. Lane say that he wished
there were more Eli McDaniels in the
oountry, I will sty so also, when they
raise such crops, My next place to
visit in the country was Duluth—quite a
handsome little town of about
two hundred md fifty inhabitants.
It is situated on the Air Line Railroad,
about 25 miles from Atlanta, one mile
and a half fromthe Chattahoochee river,
and has a rich eountry all round it. The
town improves very fast and has some
very handsomebuildings. One kept by a
Mr. Little as a post office and store.
His accomplished brother, Dr. E. H.
Little, who is permanently settled at
Duluth, has a handsome residence.
There is also qtne a neat frame Metho
dist Church, in oharge of a stationary
pastor, a fine aademy and a good school,
all having been,built since the Atlanta
and Richmond Air Line Railroad has
been running. I noticed several hand
some little towis growing very rapidly
on this Air Lne in Gwinnett county.
Norcross is qnite a handsome place and
no doubt would grow very fast if they
have no more religions strifes. It is to
be hoped they will not if they wish
their town to prosper. These towns
have a Methodiit and Baptist School;
also quite a rice Methodist Church,
with Rev. Mr. Lane as pastor, who is
loved very mush, and quite a nice
Baptist Church, with a large congrega
tion. I noticed that Suwannee is im
proving quite fist ; a good hotel just
finished there. Buford has quite a
number of nev buildings going up
which shows wal for the Air Line.
G, W. N.
HERSCIIEL: V. JOHNSON.
His Name Suggeited to the Gubernatorial
Nomiaaing Convention.
In the last isiue of the Cartersville
Express, there ippeared a strong com
munication sigted “Mountaineer,” ur
ging the nominaion of Hon. Herschel V.
Johnson for Governor of Georgia. The
Express commemed upon this commu
nication as follows:
Amid the strif? and confusion created
by the gubernatorial scramble, ’which
seems to be disgisting the people gen
erally, there cones up a desire from
various parts of tie State that the Dem
ocratio party of Georgia may center on
some man for Gownor whoso statesman
ship, integrity an! reputation as a true
Democrat will canbine to unite and
harmonize the virions factions of the
party in the ftfproaching campaign.
The minds of th pt-ople who have no
interest in politic* except for the public
good naturally tun to Mr. Johnson as
that man. They see in his eharaeter
and record a repesentative man of the
highest merit aid the most profound
statesmanship. ?hey recognize in him
a gentleman of the old school of public
men who holds t* the idea in repnblioan
government that “the office should
seek the man ani not the man the office.’
They know he would not ooDdescend to
enter into a senmble nor become an
aspirant for the ofice. They know also,
that while he assets most positively that
he does not de.sie to re-enter politics
and has no wish tc assume the responsi
bilities of the Ohif Executive office of
State, he wonld net and could not as a
true patriot and Democrat ignore the
will of the people f they should see fit
to call him to thoß responsibilities for
the good of the Sfite and the people.
The writer of thi foregoing communi
cation is a prominett gentleman of Chero
kee Georgia, and ’aithfnlly reflects the
sentiments of hnnireds of the quiet and
substantial men 4 this section as any
one may find ont tho will take the trou
ble to know what he real people desire.
When “Mountainfer” refers to the nec
isity of an economical administration of
the government anl the shrinkage of the
State’s resources md the increasing in
■ ability of the peojte to meet the taxes,
he strikes a populir chord ; and when
he points ont Mr. Johnson as- the man
who as executive olthe State, would in
angrate the necessay economy, he strik
es another chord jnit as popular, because
both ideas impres the quads of the
people as synonomms terms in their
unity and significame. The nomination
of no man in the Sate would arouse a
greater enthusiasm among the people
ont side the aspiraks for office, and Mr.
Johnson’s known aaracter forbids any
thonght that he wcild go into office un
der pledge to any one. He wonld not
assume such respoßibilities under spe
cial obligations to individuals for his
election, pledged tc liquidate such obli
gation by the betowment of office.
He wonld go into offioe only to serve
the people and to tivance the interest
and prosperity of hs State. He wonld
have no enemies topunish or friends. to
reward. He could md wonld not go in
to the executive chir except at the bid
ding of the people j and while he ocou
pied it he wonld bt the servant of the
people, and not tbi distributor of the
spoils of office to 8 favored few. It is
for thiß reason and br the purpose of re
storing Demoeraticunity and harmony,
that there is a strong and growing desire
in the State to see Blr. Johnson the can
didate of the peopled*? Governor, to be
elected by the peopte only to serve the
people and his Statt, free and untram
melled from all perusal obligations.
The move for theiomination of Mr.
Johns6U for OoveiS*r has not sprung
from office seekers—fro® men who ex
pect gubernatorial favors.’ It comes
from men who do iri desire office and
are opposed to all Bugs, cliques and
combinations attem? 1 Jd to forestall the
popular sentiment, ’inch is our knowl
edge of the moye. Che men who are
urging Mr. Johnson fir Governor wonld
scorn to ask pledges o him as vehement
ly -and indignantly at he wonld refuse
to make pledges. Tte movement is on
a higher and more exited plane of pol
itick than for selfish purposes on the
part of those engaged in it. It is inten
ded to be a movement ot the people it
the people endorse it; if they do not it
is not proposed to enter a scramble to
make it successful. In short if the peo
ple desire Herschal V. Johnson for Gov
ernor and express that desire in the
nominating convention and at the ballot
box, and in the interest of the pnbiic
good, he cannot and will not, as we be
lieve refuse to obey the voice of the peo
pie, however much he may be indisposed
to assn me such responsibility. He is
two good a Democrat and true a patriot
to shrink from public duty when called
to it by the voice of the people. The
only question remains, do the people of
Georgia desire Herschal V. Johnson as
their next Governor?
SUMNER ON GRANT AND URGELEV.
An Unpublished Letter Written In 1872
The Grant Administration Described—. Hr.
Greeley’s Influence on the Democratic
Party Predicted.
Charles Sumner wrote au interesting
letter, not hitherto printed, in 1872,
criticising severely the Grant Administra
tion, and picturing the good influence
Mr. Greeley would exercise oa the Dem
ocratic party if he were chosen Presi
dent. The letter was written in reply to
a friend in Missouri, who had expressed
distrust at the action of the Democratic
leaders if they should obtain control of
the border States. The following is a
copy of the letter :
Washington, July 31, 1872.
Deab Mb. : l am obliged by your
letter, and note with pain what you say
of the Democrats. The attempt now
making is one of the greatest in political
history. It is to bring an adverse polit
ical party ou the platform it has always
opposed. It is a revolution by -which
Democrats become Republicans and the
issues of the war are settled. In such
a change there must be difficulies and
trials. Original prejudices cannot be
oonquered at once. The Democrats
stand on the same platform as we do,
and they accept as their candidate a
life-time Abolitionist. To my mind it is
most important that the head should be
right, even if the extremities do Dot at
once feel the influence. But I do not
doubt that a President so inspired can
diffuse his influence to the furthest ex
tremities. Better such a fountain of
humanity at the White House as Horace
Greeley than the military cesspool now
there. The local leaders to whom you
refer will be fed from the .new source.
Evidently you are willing to accept
Grant. lam not. You speak of “many
mistakes.” I see little but enormous in
capacity, a pernicious example, and an
immense political crime without parallel
in our history. His treatment of 800,000
blacks in Hayti has kept that poor peo
pie for three years in dismay and anxie
ty. This I know. It is a duty to do
everything possible for his removal from
the power he abuses.
Appreciating much your kind sugges
tions, and anxious for light, believe me,
dear Mr. , sincerely yours.
Charles Sumner.
THE NORTHEASTERN ROAD.
No Consolidation With the Georgia Railroad.
The following communication appears
in the last issue of the Athens papers:
There has been a good deal said of
late, about its being the intention of the
authorities of the Northeastern Railroad
to attempt to consolidate their road with
the Georgia Railroad. This charge has
really been one of the most serious ob
stacles with which the Northeastern
Road has had \p contend. In the muni
cipal election in Athens, on the question
of town subscription to the road, it was
used as an argument against that meas
are; and in th) convention of stockhold
ers, when the route of the road was be
ing discussed and settled, it was again
introduced, producing serious dissen
sioD, and almost causing the death of
the enterprise. The worthy gentleman
who acted as first President of the road
honestly entertained the same apprehen
sion, and if I remember rightly, in a
card published at the time, gave it as one
of his principal reasons for retiring from
the Presidency, and withdrawing from
all connection with the road. Doubtless
there are others in the community who
were sincere in their belief that such
a thing would be attempted, but in
most instances. I fear opposition to the
Northeastern road itself has been at the
bottom of the hue and cry on the subject
With the success of oulr road now as an
accomplished tact, as an independent en
terprise it was hoped that thisform of po
sition, always so groundless, had ceased
forever, but as it has not, it is necessary
that the charge should bo met by a flat
denial. The Directors of the Road have
never made an overture to the Georgia
Railroad, looking to such a thing, nor
have they ever entertained the most dis
tant idea of doing so. I suppose £ may,
without impropriety state that at a re
cent meeting of the Directors the sub
ject of these rumors was alluded to, and
each member present expressed himself
as opposed to consolidation with the
Georgia Road under any ciroumstances.
There is nothing to invite such a step.
Our interest and our most favorable con
nections are in another direction.
There was a time, indeed, before the
organization of the Northeastern Com
pany, when Athens and Northeast Geor
gia called on the Georgia Road for assis
tance in building our road. We thought
it would be mutually advantageous to
them, to us and to Augusta. ;The dry
goods, hardware and grocery trade, and
the cotton business from this section,
all went to Augusta. Twelve or fifteen
counties of Northeast Georgia, and some
of the Western counties of North Caro
lina, did all their business there, and
would have continued to do so. The
amount of this trade and cotton business
would not fall short of a million of dol
lars annually. Our business arrange
ments were all with Augusta, and it was
both to our interest and inclination to
continue them ; but the wise managers
of the Georgia Road thought it better
to endorse the bonds of the Port Royal
Road than to aid the Northeastern. I do
not complain of this action. I am not a
stockholder in the Georgia Road, and
have no right to arraign it nor cau I see
that this section has any just cause of
complaint at the aid given the Port Roy
al Road, since it worked greatly to our
advantage, by giving us another and
shorter outlet to the sea. The stockhold
ers of the Georgia Road may not, in
view of results, think it has been a very
profitable operation to them and Augus
ta, when she reflects on the heavy trade
that has left her forever, upon
the ruinous depreciation of her
real estate, upon the loss of
business by her commission and
other merchants, and upon the fact that
three-fourths of the cotton now goes di
rect to Savannah, may well doubt wheth
er the Port Royal enterprise has not
been disastrous to her interests and
whether a golden opportunity was not
missed when the Georgia Road declined
to come to our assistance. But it is use-
less to speak of this, for it is too late to
change or remedy it now. The North
eastern Boad will soon be completed,
and its connections will be most satisfac
tory. Wo shorten thp time and distance
very considerably to Atlanta and the
West, and will be twelve hours nearer
New York and the East. It is a home
enterprise, and will be maintained as an
independent road. Jndge King told ns
several years ago when we were oalling
on him for assistance, to stop oalling on
Hercules and go to work ourselves. We
have taken his advice. Dibeotob.
ORIGIN OF PLANTS.
Madder came from the East.
Cabbage grew wild in Siberia.
Buckwheat came from Siberia.
Celery originated in Germany.
The chestnut came from Italy.
The potato is a native of Peru.
The onion originated in Egypt.
Tobacco is a native of Virginia.*
Millet was nrst known in India.
The pine is a native of America.
Oats originated in North Africa.
The citron is a native of Greece.
The nettle is a native of E aro P e -
The poppy originated in the East.
Bye came originally from Siberia.
The parsnip is a native of Arabia,
Sunflower was brought froth Pern.
Parsley Was first known in Sardinia.
The pear and apple are from Europe.
Spinish was first cultivated in Arabia.
The mulberry tree originated in Persia.
The horse chestnut is a native of Thibet.
The quince came from the Island of
Crete.
The cucumber earns from the East
Indies.
The radish is a native of China and
Japan.
The garden cress is from Egypt and the
East.
Pears are supposed to be of Egyptian
origin.
Hemp is a native of Persia and the East
Indies,
Horse radish came from the South of
Europe.
Barley was found in the mountaihs of
Himalaya.
The coriander grows wild near the Med
iterranean.
‘ A Centennial Music Book. —We have
been shown a music book, the “Phila
delphia Harmony,” published in 1788,
the title page of which reads as follows:
*?I, Jonathan Bayard Smith, Protho
notary of Philadelphia oounty { dp certi
fy that Andrew Adgate has, this twenty
seventh day of March, one thousand
seven hundred and eighty-eight, entered
in said offiee, agreeable to an act of As
sembly, a book, entitled ‘Rudiments of
Music/ by Andrew Adgate, P. U. A.,
printed at Philadelphia, by John Mo-
Cullocb, 1788.
J, B. Surra, Pbothosotabt.’ ”
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
HAIL, SNOW AND SLEET STORM.
Wintry Blast. Abroad—A Good Shot Well
Aimed—Another New Morning Paper—At
tack. on Governor Smith—About Crooked
Failure#—Th. New State Printer—Sum
mer and Winter Resorts in Georgia Citiaa.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Senlinel.l
Atlanta, March 22. —1 t was a lucky
thing for the “Gate City” that the
Northern excursionists got away from
here before the advent of the terrible
snow st.rm of Sunday, from the
chilling effeots of whioh we are still suf
fering, as the freight cars over the State
Road continue to come iu oovered with
snow and ice, and our visitors would
have-carried away a most unfavorable
opinion of our usually mild climate.
But they came, saw, conquered,. and
then passed on to your own beautiful
oity, anticipating great pleasure iu mak
ing a trip “up the canal.” I don’t use
this expressiou to Har-riss you in any
way.
A Good Shot Well Aimed.
You are quite right in declaring that
“the man who sends Washington dis
patches to the Columbus Times has an
imagination as lively as that of au At
lanta correspondent.” You could not
have put it stronger, for of all places in
the world, to get up ■ idle, false, frivil
ous and malicious reports out of noth
ing, this headquarters of dead-beat bo
hemians has the best established repu
tation. Character, truth, decency and
good morals never stand in the way of a
first class sensation of any kind, and
people should not believe more than
oue-half what these fellows write, and
in some cases hardly oue-fourth is whol
ly reliable. It is to be hoped, there
fore, that this matter will be properly
discussed and definitely acted upon at
the next meeting of the Georgia Press
Association, that legitimate journalism
may be rid of this fearful cancer.
Another New Morning Paper.
The Courier, as was predicted, died
ia its earliest infanoy. But anew jour
nal is promised in a few days, to be
built up from the Evening Common
wealth. A company of gentlemen,
names not known, propose to enlarge
and improve this little sheet and issue it
as a morning paper. Messrs. J. P. Har
rison & Cos., of the Franklia Printing
House, will be the publishers. This is
the best chance yet offered for a re
liable competitor for the old Constitu
tion, and as the new'paper will probably
oppose Governor Smith’s renomination,
it will gather to its support all the
strength that lies scattered around
among the anti-Smith men. The move
ment is pretty well backed, and the new
paper will no doubt make a good start.
Attack. Upon Governor Smith.
The enemies of Governor Smith are
beginning to see that ttie New York
Herald letter clearly over shot the mark.
Manly criticism of the acts of the Chief
Magistrate is all right, if founded upon
fact, but reckless abuse of the Governor
will not be tolerated even by his re
spectable opponents. Every decent anti-
Smith paper in the State has con
demned that letter, and in doing so has
spoken many noble and manly words for
our hard-working and faithful Chief
Magistrate. Such editors are a credit
to the profession, and clearly show that
personal feeling cannot sway them from
doing justice even to those whom they
think deserve, as public officials, criti
cism at their hands. The Herald letter
was intended to annihilate Governor
Smith, but it rebounded, owing to its
heavy charge, and exploded in the very
camp of his enemies, wounding many
and killing not a few. The next shot will
no doubt be fired with more caution.
About Crooked Failures.
It is surprising to see how Atlanta
oan excel her sister cities in “crooked”
failures. few exceptions, the fail
ares have been followed by racy devel
opments of fraud, deception, sharp
practice or some other kind of
“iregularity.” A dozen such cases
have furnished business for the Courts
and gossip for business and social
circles. But then Atlanta is a lively
place, and would not, if it could, follow
the “slow coach” style of Columbus,
Macon, Augusta and Savannah, “played
out” and “old fogy” cities. This is the
home of High Kockalorum Kimball,
the builder of magnificent opera houses,
mammoth hotels, splendid mansions
and steam cotton factories. It cannot,
therefore, be like any other city, for
there is not, and, perhaps, may never
be, another H. I. K.
Tlie New State Printer.
Ybur modesty must not prevent a
word about the new State Printer, Mr.
H. G. Wright, although he is one of
yon. His appointment, I am glad to
know, receives the hearty and cordial
approval of every influential journal in
the State, including that chief of good
papers, the Savannah Morning News.
Nothing that Colonel Estill has done
during his connection with the press, I
venture to assert, has more fully shown
the manliness of his character. It was
thought that the office was due him, as
he was defeated by but one vote at the
election, and his friends pressed him to
claim it as his right in case of the res
ignation of the then State Printer. View
ing the case in all its bearings, and tak
ing in at a glance the peculiar position
which your partner occupied, he quietly
but firmly remarked: “If the office was
worth three times eight thousand dol
lars I would not accept it to the injury
of any member of the Georgia press."
This was said to a party of friends, and
I would not now repeat it, but great in
justice has been done Col. E. in regard
to the manner in which he secured his
former election, and I desire to have the
press of this State know what kind of a
steadfast friend they have in their ex
cellent and repeatedly honored Presi
dent.
Hammer and Winter Resorts.
Georgia is a peculiar State in many
respects, especially so in the diversity
of her resources and the varied charac-
her climate. It is a singular fact
that Augusta and Savannah are the Win
ter resorts of a host of people from At
lanta and North Georgia, who desire a
milder climate than prevails here during
that part of the year. And where can
you find two more delightful cities, or a’
really better climate for invalids ? Such
beautiful drives, attractive scenery, re
fined society, musical, dramatic and lite
rary advantages of the highest order,
cannot be found even in the old Spanish
city of St. Augustine, the most attrac
tive spot in the “Land of Flowers.”
During the Summer months, in a recip
rocal manner, many visitors from Au
gusta, Savannah and other sections of
the State come here to spend their time
at our excellent hotels and private board
ing houses. The climate is cool and in
vgorating, and plenty of mineral
springs, chalybeate and sulphur, are
near at hand, with many pleasant drives.
Already applications have come in to the
Kimball House from several families in
Augusta and Charleston for rooms this
Summer. It can safely be predicted
that Atlanta will be a lively Summer re
sort, although the Oentennial may drajv
a crowd of Southern people away from
their own States to the “ Old Cradle of
Independence.” Obadiah,
Bibb County Public Schools.— We
are in receipt of the third annual report
of Prof. B. M. Zettler, Superintendent
of the public schools of Bibb county.
The work for the year ending Jnne3o,
1875, is reported to have been in a high
degree satisfactory. A larger number
of children were reached, the confidence
of parents secured to a greater extent,
and a deeper interest in the school
awakened in the community.
The total scholastic population in the
county, 6,839, of which number there
were in the city 1,570 white and 1,216
colored children. Number of pupils en
rolled in the city schools, 1,723; white,
980; colored, 743. Number in country
schools, 1,430; white, 614; colored, 816.
Amount received from County Tax
Collector (appropriation), $25,000, to
which were added 82.0QQ from Peabody
fund and sums from poll tax and State
fund—making 833,891 26, all of which
was expended. Cost per scholar per
annum for instruction, $8 69 ; cost oh
basis of total expenditures, $lO 19. The
latter estimate includes the whole num
ber of pupils enrolled, i. e., 3,153. If
this number was educated in indepen
dent schools, thb cost, at the low aver
age of 895 per annum, would be $46,696.
But the true basis is the average daily
attendance; 1,523 children at the aver
age mentioned would cost $38,075, or
84,183 74 more than in the pnblio sohools
of Bibb county. Consider the advan
tages of excellent classification and in
telligent supervision, and the economy
of the system comes to view, more and
more forcibly.
The progress of the schools has been
steady. In 1873 there were 1,615 pupils
and 41 teaohers; 1874, 2,651 pupils and
45 teachers; 1875, 3,153 pupils and 53
teaohers.
Mr. Zettler says the teachers general
ly have done good work, and that the
normal classes for their improvement
has been attended by them with great
regularity. The Superintendent regards
the normal class as an indispensable in
stitution in the system and attributes to
its influence the present satisfactory
condition of the school?.
Mr. pettier is a teacher of ability and
experience. Bibb county has just reason
to rejoice in the possession of so efficient
a Superintendent as Mr. Z. has proved
himself. The people of Bibb have done
well -in successfully inaugurating their
schools; let them go forward and entab
lish the system on a sure basis. Noth
ing should deter them from making
their schools equal to the best in this
country.
MR. MOODY’S TOUGHEST JOB
TRYING TO PURSUADE A JEW TO EM
BRACE CHRISTIANITY.
An Epiode In the Hippodrome—An Argumen
tative Young Man who Resisted Conversion
by Perplexing the Evangelist—Laboring in
One of the Inquiry Rooms.
“Are you a Christian?” said Mr. Moody,
pressing the hand of a well-dressed
young man, who passed with the crowd
down one of the aisles at the close of the
services ht the Hippodrome the other
night. The young man whispered some
thing to the preacher, “Well come into
my private room,” said Mr. Moody, “I
shall be their in a few minutes.”' He
turned to speak to au anxious looking
young man, and after a short conversa
tion with him, took him aside. They
talked in a low voice for some minutes,
the preacher now and then laying his
broad hand on the other’s shoulder, as
if in earnest admonition. The lights in
the hall were being turned out, and soon
the place, whioh was deserted by all but
the three, was pitch dark. Mr. Moody
and his convert seemed two much en
grossed with the subject of their talk to
notice it. “Let us kneel down and pray
together,” said the preacher, after a
while. After a short and fervent sup
plication, which echoing through the
great hall in the midst of the darkness,
had almost a dramatic effect, they rose
from their knees, and Mr. Moody led
the way into one of the inquiry rooms,
whither the young man followed them.
A hundred persons or more had gather
ed there, and about a hundred “workina
Christians” were exhorting them t<f
“come to Jesus’’ when Mr. Moody en
tered. After a short address, delivered
iu his characteristic sledge-hammer
style, the meeting dispersed, and he
passed through a hall door into his pri
vate room The young man to whom he had
spoken in the large hall followed him
there e few minutes later and found him
sitting before a cheerful fire, talking to
another man in the same pursuasive, al
most affectionate manner that he had
shown towards the person with whom
he had prayed in the dark just before.
After a while they both knelt in prayer,
and the stranger left, making room for
a tall, handsome man with a luxuriant,
sweeping moustache—a sergeant of po
lice, formerly of the Prince street station
The policeman, who was in civilian
dress, seemed very earnest, and as he
went out Mr. Moody turned to the young
man who had been patiently waiting
and pointed to the sergeant, as
one of his most promising cqnverts.
“The work is going on well,” he said.
“Did you see Thurlow Weed .rise to
night to announce himself a Christian?”
A dissipated looking youth here rushed
into the room and caught hold of Mr.
Moody by the hand. “Well,” said the
evangMist,“are you a Christian?” “Yes,
sir,” ‘was the prompt answer. “How
long have you been one?” said Mr.
Moody, sharply “Since last Sunday,
sir.” The preacher brought his hand
down upon the table in a way that made
the little pile of hymn books and testa
ments on it jump into the air. You’re
not a Christian !” he shouted. “Plea-s-s-e
sir—’’stammered the youth. “No you’re
not don’t deny it. ‘You’ve been drinking.
I smell it on your breath.” “I’ve only
had two drinks.” “Two drinks too
much,” said the preacher, and dismiss
ed him, handing him a little book, with
the parting words : “Until you give up
drinking liquor yon can never be a
Christian.”
Taken in Hand.
“Now,” said he, cheerfully, to the pa
tient visitor, drawing up two seats be
fore the fire, “you told me that you were
not a Christian, I think that I can induce
yon to become one. Now, let’s see : the
Bible tells you everywhere that
only hope is through Jesus Christ.” “I
don’t think it does,’ said the young man.
“The Old Testament says nothing
about him; and I don’t believe in the
ISew Testament.” “Ah !” said Mr. Moo
dy, eyeing him closely. “You’re a Jew.”
“[ am, sir.” replied the other. “But" the
Old Testament does constantly refer to
the coming of Christ.” “It does in the
headlines of the King James version,”
said the young man, “but they are put
over the ohapters without any warrant
by the text.” “Does not Jacob say,
‘The sceptre shall not depart from Ju
dah, nor a lawgiver from between his
feet until Shiloh come?” “Who is Shi
loh ? Jesus was never called Shiloh.
How can the passage possibly refer to
him* Besides, the translation is wrong.
It should read, “Until you come to Shi
loh.’ The passage has purely a political
reference.” “What do you say about
the prophecies of Isaiah?” asked Mr.
Moody. “Which one? That of the sev
enth chapter, which in the King James
version reads, ‘Behold a virgin shall
conceive and bear a son, and she shall
call his name Immanuel !” “That is
one of them that prophesies the coming
of Jesus,” “I think not,” said the
young man. “In the first place, the
translation is incorrect. The Hebrew
word hargnolmah means the young wo
man, and not ‘a virgin.’ The passage
should read, ‘Behold the young woman
is with child, and about to bring forth a
son.’ The words were uttered by Isaiah
to the wicked Ahaz, King of Judah,
who was alarmed at the approach
of the armies of Israel
and Syria, which were about to
attack Jerusalem. God sent the prophet
to him to quiet his fears, but without
success. ‘Ask God for a sign, then,’
said Isaiah. Ahaz refused, saying, ‘I
will not tempt God.’ ‘Well, then,’said
the prophet, ‘God will give thee a sign,
thou impious mau. Behold the young
woman is with child, and about to bring
forth a son, and she shall call his name
Immanuel, and before the boy shall
know how to call father and mother the
riches of Damascus and the spoils of
Samaria shall be taken away before the
King of Assyria.’ The next chapter
tells how the womaq spoken of was the
prophet’s own wife, and that the child
was first called ‘lmmanuel’ (God with
us) and afterward Mahershalal-hash
baz. The fulfillment of the prophecy
is given iD the second book of Kings,
which describes the overthrow of the
hostile armies under the Eiog ß Pekah
and Rezin. Do you blame me for be
lieving this interpretation of the prophe
cy in preference to yours, that God, to
convince an impious man like Ahaz,
promised him as a sign that more than
five hundred years after his death Jesus
should come on earth ?” “How do you
get over the fifty-third chapter of
Isaiah ? That plainly speaks of Christ,"
said Mr. Moody. “The best Biblical
scholars have failed ;to explain the
meaning of that chapter,” replied the
other, “bnt it is impossible to make out
of it a prophecy of the advent of Jesus ”
“Does it not say, ‘He was wounded for
our transgressions, ha was bruised for
onr iniquities ?’ ” urged the preacher.
“It evidently refers to Jesus.” “That
phrase may fit, but you cannot take the
whole ohapterand make it apply to him,’
was the answer. “You have no right to
wrench a verse here and there from its
context to suit a special purpose. Chris
tianity ought not to be dependent upon
suoh artifloes. An atheist might as well
take the words of David, ‘The fool hath
said in his heart, there is no God,’ and,
omitting the first clause, use the latter
as a Biblical argument in favor of athe
ism.” During the conversation Mr.
Moody was interrupted two or three
times by some of his deacons, who wish
ed to speak to him; bat each time he
waved them away, and, motioning to
ward his companion, said : “Not now,
not now; don’t disturb us. lam very
busy. This is very important."
Mr. Motjili Fuoxled.
“The yeligian of Christ,” he resumed,
“ha ß stood the test of nearly two thous
and years—” “And that of Moses twice
as long,” said the other. Mr. Moody
paused, and looking at his visitor with
an air of curiosity mingled with pity,
said: “It is strange that you Jews should
reject Jesus, who was himself a Jew,”
“Is it stranger,” said the other, “than
that the Christians should have persecu
ted the Jews for centuries only on ac
count of their belief, after thinking a
Jew, who was not even a perfect man,
good enough to be their God?” “Not a
perfect man? How can you say that?”
“Did he not corse the Pharisees, the
most learned sect of his day, to which
he himself belonged, and call them ‘a
generation of vipers’—a most unjust and
sweeping condemnation of a whole po
litical party. To his own mother he said,
‘Woman who art thou?’” “He did not
enrse the Pharisees,” said Mr. Moody.
“He oalled them vipers, as I might eall
persons vipers, bnt calmly arid without
any aDger.” “Suoh language might be
pardonable in an ordinary man, but not
in one who is held np as a God. Be
sides, the Jews could not be blamed for
not recognizing Jesus, whom they knew
only as the son of Mary and Joseph the
carpenter, as tha Messiah, the royal de
scendant of David. They were longing
for the Messiah, and would have willing
ly have believed in th® olaims of Jesus
if they could. At first they questioned
him with manifest sincerity, but he an
swered them only with reproofs and
myßterions words, which could give no
satisfaction. ” “So they crucified him ?"
said Mr. Moody. “The Romans cruci
fied him,” replied the yoiwg man. “It is
true the Jews demanded his death bnt
not until h® attacked the fonndamental
and most sacred principle of Judaism—
the absolute unity and indivisibility of
God. Bnt how can you blame them,
when yon believe that Jesus preordain
ed it should be so ? If the Bomans and
Jews bad not put him to death, yon
would have no Saviour; for yon tell me
that it is snly through his blood that
one can be saved. Besides, did not
Jesus himself say: them, they
know not what they do?’ ”
Mr. Moody'* Disclaimer.
“ I do not blame the Jews, and I have
never spoken against them,” said Mr.
Moody. -“The statement in a Philadel
phia newspaper that I did is untrue. I
never see a Jew but 1 feel like taking off
my-hat to him. In my opinion, your
people are destined to be the great mis
sionaries to convert the world to Christ.
What better agency oould there be ?
You are scattered throughout the earth
and speak all languages. I believe you
will all go back to Jerusalem one day
and be restored to your old kingdom.
Don’t you?” “No, Ido not,” was the
reply. “You never oould induce intel
ligent Jews to settle in suoh a miserable,
sterile little patch of land as Palestine,
when they oan sit in luxury in their
homes in London, Paris, Frankfort and
there control the commerce of nations
and the destinies of empires. Why
should they go back to Palestine ? In
all their ancient glory—which was not
very great after all—they were never as
prosperous and as powerful as they are
now.”
“You will all go baok to Jerusalem,
and you will all be brought to Christ at
last,” said Mr. Moody. “I tell you, it’s
bound to come.” “I have given you
some reasons for not believing in Chris
tianity, and I could give many more,”
said the young man. “I am open to
conviction, bat I cannot believe what
my reason rejects. Prove to me that
•Christianity is purer than Judaism and
I will become a Christian.” “It is not a
matter of reason. Conversion must come
from the heart, and not from the head,”
replied the preacher. “But it will come
at last. You will all be brought to
Christ.” “By a miracle, I presume. Do
you believe in modern miraoles, Mr.
Moody ?” “Well, I don’t know. Every
conversion is a miracle, I suppose. But
when I was in England a Mr. Midwood
assured me that a female relative of his
had, by means of his prayers, been
cured of a disease of long standing.
You can write to him if you like, and
he’ll tell you all about it. Address him,
‘care of the Young Men’s Christian As
sociation, Manchester.’ Surely that was
a miracle. Now, if I should convert you,
I should call it a miracle.” "So should
I,” rejoined the young man. “Have
you made any Jewish converts?” he
asked, as he rose to leave. “Well, sev
eral have stood up and professed Christ.
But,” said Mr. Moody, as he took the
visitor’s proffered hand, “I cannot say
that Ijmt much faith in converted Jews.”
THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST.
What an Ohio Correspondent Thinks of tbo
Candidate’s Cliauees.
[From an Occasional Correspondent.]
LaGbanob, Ohio, March 20.—Per-,
haps some notes on the political pros
pects of the Presidential aspirants may
be interesting to your readers. Though
it is impossible to prophesy with any
absolute certainty, there are some indi
cations in the aspeot of ' affairs at
present which seem to indicate that so
far Hendrioks leads the race for the
Democratic nomination. One principal
reason is thai he is a Western candidate.
The members of the party in the West
say that since the war, and even before,
the nominee has been from the East and
victory has not been the result of fol
lowing his leadership. They claim that
the West is entitled to the next nominee
and that the indications are that
success will follow if she gains it.
But to the best thinkers Hendricks
has the essential qualification of
having his enemies afraid of him.
This is shown in the frantic efforts
the Republicans are making to manu
facture false statements in reference to
his honesty. The oharges'are, of course,
trumped up and will not bear scrutiny.
Besides this, he is, perhaps, the only
man that oould carry the important
State of Indiana for the Democrats. He
will go into the Convention with his own
State’s delegation and that, from Penn
sylvania, with no telling how mauy
more. Bayard and Pendleton come
next, and are about on an equality. The
former, however, has not that personal
popularity that a candidate needs, and
Pendleton has a great many bitter ene
mies, who will do all in their power to
hinder him, Tilden and Thurman are
hardly ever mentioned with any degree
of prominence. Tilden killed himself by
being under the suspicion of having
connection with Tammany. While
Thurman has almost totally fallen out
of the race since the spirit he manifest
ed iu the Ohio election of last Fall.
Among the legion of Republican can
didates Blaine leads. Maine, Virginia,
Wisconsin have already instructed for
him. He hud his most formidable oppo
nent Morton are striving to out step
each other in the manufacture of bloody
shirts, the ensign of the devil and sign
of the man being an old fool of a states
man who waves it. Oonkling has the
favor of the Administration, while Bris
tow has its disfavor. There are many
who believe that Bristow gets the best
of the bargain—on this account. The
canvass will be the hottest ever held,
and the result doubtful, but of this I
will speak in my next. May the Demo
crats win. “Lottie.”
THE MYSTERIOUS BODY.
It Is Pound and Brought to the City—lnquest
Held.
Yesterday morning Mr. W. J. Wallaoe
brought to the city the body whioh he
discovered on a small island in the Sa
vannah river, near Warren Spring, a few
days since. It will be recollected that
Coroner Kunze went up at the time, in
search of the body, but in conseqaenoe
of high water was unable to reach the
island. By instructions fiom the Coro
ner, Mr. Wallaoe secured the body as
soon as possible and brought it to the
oity as above stated. The Coroner sum
moned a jury and held an inquest over
the remains. In consequence of the
fact that the body was muoh deoom- 1
posed it was impossible to identify it in
any degree. The head had been disfig
ured by vultures and a portion of the
body torn uway. The deceased was olad
in a shirt, a pair of oourse pants and
No. 7 shoes. Two small keys were
found in one of the pockets of the pants.
The Coroner was of the opinion that the
body was that of a white man, the jury
believed it to be a negro, We learn
that a negro was drowned at the Looks
about two months since and that his
body was not recovered. The jury re
turned the following verdict :
“We, the jury, find from the evidence
the body, came to hie death.from some
unknown cause, whioh we believe to be
a oolored man,"
THE POLA R WAVE.
II Reaches Florida—lt# Effect on Ve tret at lea.
Savannah, March 25 —Advices from
Southern Georgia and Florida say early
vegetables have been generally rained
by the recent cold spell. In the vicinity
of Lake City, Fla., four hundred acres
of early vegetables have been killed,
notwithstanding fires were kept in the
fields during cold nights. The Polar
wave extended as far South as Gaines
ville, Fla., as the same information
comes from Live Oak and Welborne.
This disaster will materially red nee ship
ments of vegetables to Northern markets
during the next few weeks. The des
truction of field crops has been general
in Georgia and Florida, and farmers
will have to replant.
Ebbobs in Printing.— The . London
Times says: Probably one of the worst
businesses nnder the sun is that of a
printer. His every deed seeks the light
of day. Those of the lawyer lie in dark
boxes and between musty shelves; the
dootor places his indifferent handiwork
in the grave; the tradesman has but his
customer to please and satisfy when his
work is ended, but the printer, every
ignoramus spells over the work of the
printer.
Fellows who would find it impossible
to put twenty letters together grammati
cally will point ont with glee a fault in
his work—indeed, it is usually this olass
of individuals who make it a point of
finding out every little discrepancy.—
Did the pnblio know the thousands of
different characters, different letters and
atoms comprised in a printer’s every day
life—did they bnt know the variety
of altogether foreign subjects he has to
set np, read, correct and revise day
after day—they would wonder how lie
kept ont of the lnnatie asylum. But
practice makes perfect and constant
friction has rubbed off all the rough
edges from the character of the man of
letters—nothing takes effect upon him—
he can view errors of the most frightful
description with calmness. After all,
what is an error, grammatically or other-
wise ? Simply so many atoms ont of
place, that’s all, and qnite enough—bnt
not enongh to upset the equanimity of
the printer.
Olden Times. —We have before ns a
copy of the Augusta Chronicle, of Au
gust 30th, 1811. It is an interesting
relie of days gone by. It is the prop
erty of Mr. Wm. Mnlherin. From a
letter giving particulars of the com
menceipent exercises at Franklin Col
lege, we extract the following:
“We do not recollect that ever any ex
hibition at this place came so near to
the rales of eloquence as the one we
now witnessed. If we should ever have
a Cataline in this otfr happy republic,
we see in the youth of onr day the most
happy presage of a sufficiency of elocu
tion to strike the Tyrant and the Traitor
dumb.
“The degree of Bachelor of Arts was
conferred by the President in the most
solemn and impressive manner on the
following young gentlemen, to-wit:
John Howard, Joseph Molloy, Ebecezer
Newton, James Hayes, David Callahan,
James Thweatt, John Phinizy and John
Wingfield.”