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Address WALSH A WEIGHT,
Cnaoiaor.z A HaitTWEL. Augusta Qa.
Chronicle and j^rntmeL
WEDNESDAY APRIL 5, 1876.
And now they say Senator Thusmah
took a hundred thousand dollar railroad
fee. Bayard will b a necessity after
awhile.
—
The Congressional Printer only steals
or wastes from five hundred to six hun
dred thousand dollars per annum. A
very small amount for C£app.
We are glad to learn that the injury to
the grain crops of the State by the re
cent sudden and severe spell of cold
weather is not nearly Ji serious as at
first reported.
Delano cun explain the true inward
ness of General Grant's connection with
Ilia Orville brother in the Indian Ring.
Columbus discovered America, oan’t a
Congressional Committee discover Co
lumbus ?
Judos A. M. Bfebb, of Griffin, is sug
gested as a candidate for Congress from
the Fifth (Atlanta) District. Judge
Speer is one of the best men in the
District or the State, and would worthily
represent Georgia in the National coun
cils.
It was all a slander about General
Inoalls giving Mrs. Grant a watch aa a
reward for the position of Quartermas
ter-General. He gave it to her to stop
an investigation that was exposing in
numerable frauds in the administration
of hia department.
Senator Howell, of Atlanta; Senator
Simmons, of Macon; and Senator Les
ter, of Savannah, are all spoken of as
candidates for President of the Georgia
Senate. They are all good men, and
the State is i-ure of a good officer no
matter which one may win.
The Savannah Free Press favors the
nomination of Hon. H. V. Johnson for
Governor on the ground that he has hod
great experience in the duties of the
office and possesses unquestioned abili
ty, he is not a mere partisan or poli
tician, and has passed the time of life
when he has any personal ambition to
subserve.
It does seem a little hard, but we sup
pose its fair. Senator Simmons swears
he has no designs upon Governor Smith’s
place, and Senator Howell affirms (he
is a Quaker) that he doesn’t care a red
herring for tho Presidency of the Senate.
But the newspapers say that one is a
candidate for Governor and the other
for President of the Senate. How-ell a
.newspaper can lie.
The Columbia Union-Herald rasps
the Carolina railways for giving dead
head tickets to legislators. It says that
if members had to pay their railway
fare they would long since have adjourn
ed and gone home. We do not think
the railroads are to blame. They are at
the mercy of the thieves and know very
well that unless they give free passes
they will be worse blackmailed in some
other way.
There was a nettle among the roses
after all. Hon. C. C. Hammock, the
Mayor of Kimbaliville, has bad an
'‘unusually severe ague” sinoe his return
fro.rn the trip to Florida with the North
western excursionists. Florida did the
business. If the N. W. E. had been
content wii2> Georgia they would uot
now be shaking their shin-bones aa if
they bad a oastanei engagement.
Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware,
would make a superb Presidential can
didate, especially in these Centennial
times. His name would recall the
brightest days of chivalry, and in his
veins runs a fine strain of Revolutionary
blood. The Democrats would have the
liveliest Fourth of July over Bayard
4 they have known since Andrew Jaok
son's time. —New York Herald.
McDonald, the Demooretio
BenatoT from Indiana, said when the
election returns came in that the Re
publicans of New Hampshire had
"rather be robied by Belknap than in
sulted by Bax fcu'LL.” Aa Ben Hill
has not "insulted” the Republicans of
New Hampshire or the Republican ß of
any other State, the remark ol the Sena
tor fiom Indiana has no point whatever.
Ip anybody thinks that Bacon, of Ma- j
eon, will walk over the track in the
Fifth District anybody iB mistaken to
aa alarming extent. There’s, frin- j
stance, Blosnt, one of the shrewdest
and sharpest wire-pullers in the District;
then there’s Judge Jxo. J. Floyd, one
of the best men in the State, who will
dispute the nomination with Bacon, of
Macon. Macon, of Bacon, Jmd better
go to work.
That mnle case looks worse every day
for the Revenue Reformer. Wheu Bris
tow waa Solicitor-General in 1873 he ad
wised against the payment of the olaim.
When he was retained as the attorney of
the claimants in 1874 he argued in favor
of its payment, and kept a judgment in
£>is favor from being appealed to the
:Sa oreme Court. On the heels of the
molt' olaim oomes a horrid pig story
from Kentucky. We fear for Bristow
at Cincinnati-
Wb see DO reason why the District j
Democratic Executive Committee should
not select Sparta, Thomson, Warrenton,
Greensboro or Union Point as the place
•of meeting for the District Convention.
Any one of the plaees nassed con
venient of acoeas and any one of them
is amply able to entertain the delegate*.
Tarn about ia fair play. Angnsta ha*
now monopolized the party for aeveral
yean past. Let the Committee give
some other place a showing.
Somebody blundered about the num
ber of clerks employed by the South
Carolina Legislature. Instead of hav
ing six clerks the General Assembly of
,i..t .State has sixty-one attaches. The
*wo ehU'f clerks and two assistants re
ceive • tier .os amounting to eight thous
and dollars pi T annum. The other at
taches reoeive £324 per day. Adding
'to those amounts tilt' salaries of the pre
siding officers, it softs $2 per min
ute to run the Legislature, exclusive of
gas, stationery, coal and other bills and
'the pay of the members. Georgia sym
ipathixea with her sister State, bt she
does not feel ao badly after this show
ing-
A HAPPY DELIVERANCE.
The people of South Carolina are to
be congratulated upon the fact that the
General Assembly has adjourned. They
cannot be plundered except by county
governments until next Winter, and by
that time let ns hope that the reign of
the rascals wiH be over, and that the af
fairs of the State will be administered by
her own people. We know of no good
thing that was done daring the session
just dosed. Speaking of the majority
in both Honses, it was a sanhedrim of
sconndrels rather than an assemblage of
law makers. For one thing we may be
thankfnl. Some of their acts were so
ineffably infamons that they aroused an
indignation among the people that has
not yet cooled, that will not cool, and
that will sweep their perpetrators from
power at the next election. The dosing
scenes at the capital are graphically
and, we donbt not, trnthfnlly portrayed
in a telegram to the News and Courier,
which appears elsewhere in the Chroni
cle and Sentinel this morning.
The campaign will soon commence in
Sooth Carolina. The Democrats are or
ganizing. The Republicans are already
organized. The oohesive power of pub
lic plunder is holding them together.
The Democrats most continue resolute
ly in the good work. They can succeed
if they will. They have a better oppor
tunity now than they have had since
1870. The habeaa corpus cannot be
suspended, counties cannot be placed
under martial law, United States sol
diers will not be placed at the disposal
of political bummers and frauds upon
the ballot box oannot be perpetrated
with impunity. If the real people of
South Carolina work as they should
work they are sure to win. Let them
eschew all coalitions which have for
their object the election of a Repub
lican Governor. Let them make a
square, manly fight under the Demo
cratic banner, and they need have no
fear of the result. The issue is in their
own hands.
GEORGIA AND ILLINOIS.
Mr. T. Moors furnishes the Atlanta
Constitution with some statistics, which
make a good showing for oar State, and
famish an instructive lesson to those of
onr people, blaok and white, who wish
to leave Georgia and seek a Fools’ Paia
dise in the West. His figures are de
rived from the agricultural reports of
Illinois and Georgia for the months of
January and February of the present
year, and may be acoepted as official.
They are as follows :
Georgia’s aver’ge yield Illinois’ average yield.
COBN. CORN.
10 bushels per acre, 81 bushels per acre,
price 86 ots. ...$8 60 price 34 ole. .sll 56
WHEAT. WHEAT.
7) bushels per acre. 10) bushels per acre,
price $1 61 ..sll 25 price 91 cts.. $9 65
BTB. BYE.
6) bushels per acre, 16) bushels per acre,
price $1 50. .. $9 76 price 61 ots. .$lO 10
HAY. HAY.
1) tons per acre, price 1 40-100 tons per acre,
sl7 60 $26 40 prioe $9 75 .sl3 65
OATS. OATS.
11 bushels per acre. 33) bushels per sere,
price 90 cts... $9 90 price 28 cts.. $9 38
BABLEY. BABLEY.
12 bushels per acre, 26) bushels per sere,
price $1 75.. s2l 00 price 70 cts. .$lB 55
BUCKWHEAT. BUCKWHEAT.
14 bußhela per acre. 15 bushels per acre,
price $1 sl4 00 price 80 cts . sl2 00
POTATOES—IRISH POTATOES —IIUSH.
68 bushels per aero. 130 bushels per acre,
price tl 20.. $Bl 60 prioe 32 ots .s4l 60
POTATOES—SWEET. POTATOES - SWEET.
64 bushels per sore, 97 bußhels per acre,
price. 60 ets. S3B 40 prioe 92 cts. .SB9 24
TOBACCO. TOBACCO.
550 pounds per acre, 650 pounds per acre,
prioe. 28 cts.sl26 50 prioe 7 cts.. .S3B 50
XOLABSEB-SOBOHUM. MOLASSES -SOBOHUM.
68 gallons per acre, 95 gallons per acre,
price 60 cts. .S4O 80 | price 55 cts. .$52 25
Total. $338 20 j Total $306 38
It will thus be seen that the culture
of all the prinoipal agricultural staples
pays a great deal better in Georgia than
in Illinois—though Illinois is justly con
sidered the garden State of the West.
Men who are willing to work and who
know how to work intelligently can
make more money in Georgia than they
can any where else.
DELEGATES FROM THE STATE AT
LARGE.
The Atlanta Constitution, in an article
upon the approaching District Conven
tions, whioh we in the main endorse,
says :
The selection of two district delegates and
their alternates is plain and simple, but when
the nomination of four delegates at large and
their alternates oomes up, what polioy should
be pursued ? Two or three members of the
State Committee have promised that they will
simply canvass the returns from the districts
for delegates at large. We believe the whole
committee will acquiesoe. although it is free to
exercise, under its resolution, almost unlimited
discretion. We assume, however, that it will
be governed by the district votes. A full rep
resentation in the convention is therefore nc
ossaary to give a district its real strength in
the final oount; for the votes for delegates at
large in the District Conventions are to be cer
tified to the State Committee. But suppose
each -district acts independently in this matter?
If nine sets of men are nominated from as
many districts, it would follow that the most
populous distriot in the State would name the
entire general delegation. Two districts might
form a ring that would control the result. This
may be improbable, but it is not impossible,
and politicians are not noted for unselfishness
! or want of cunning.
We cannot agree with onr contempo
rary in its opinion of the way in whioh
the votes of the District Conventions for
delegates to the National Democratic
Convention from the State at large will
be counted. The Constitution thinks
that members of the District Conventions
will vote as individuals for delegates
from the State at large, and that the
State Contmittea will canvass the vote
of each man separately. Such is not onr
understanding of the resolntion adopted
by the Committee, and we are astonished
at the interpretation pat upon it by the
Constitution. To onr mind the meaning
of the Committee is plain. The four
men who receive the votes of a majority
pf the District Conventions as delegates
will i?3 elected delegates to St. Louis
from thaSWete at large. The four men
who receive tbs ffftes of a majority
of the District Convention* w alternates
will be elected alternates to the delegxtes
| from the State-at-large. If neither
delegates nor at ter it abas reoeive a ma
i jority of the Distriot Conventions, then,
under their resolution, the Committee
assume the right to name delegates and
j alternates themselves. The delegates
from a county to a District Convention
| vote not as individnals, bnt cast the
j vote of the county which they repre
sent. For instance, each oounty is en
titled to twice as many votes in the Dis
j triet Convention as she has members of
the Lower Honse of the General
Assembly. Under this rale, in the
Eighth District Oglethorpe county is
entitled to four delegates, and Rich
mond te six. If only two delegates
from Oglethorpe are present they
have the right to cast the whole four
J votes of the county; if twenty are
present from Richmond they can oast
only the six votes to which the county
is entitled. Anjr other mode of
•electing delegates would operate un
justly and be productive of trouble.
The delegates and alternates who are
named as the choice at five oat
of the nine Congressional Districts
will be elected. If as many as five
districts do not concur ia the selection
of delegates and alternates—and it does
: not seem at all probable that they will—
the State Committee will take the mat
ter into their own hands. We saw that
i this would be the effect of their resolu
- lion when it was passed, and so stated;
bnt the Committee bad too good a thing
to give it np, and the ten gentlemen
who met in Atlanta and usurped so
much authority will soon be given an
opportunity to select one-fifth of the
delegates to the National Convention
to which the State of Georgia is en
titled.
■ Tl
THE PROFITS ON SEWING MACHINES.
The Washington Star publishes some
interesting information in restiect to the
profits realized from the Wilson patent
for the “four motion feed,” used by
sewing machine compfnies, against the
renewal of which the Honse Committee
on Patents recently reported. The pat
ent was obtained in 1850, and as the in
vention was a very important and useful
i one its value was at once recognized, and
by various arrangements with Mr. Wil
son, the inventor, it was adopted by all
the more important and extensive manu
factories in the United States, the in
ventor becoming a stockholder in one of
them. From statistics famished the
committee in examining the merits of
the question, it appears that the sewing
machine combination sold during three
year# 1,175,981 machines. These ma
chines, according to the report of the
committee, are retailed at an average
price of S6B, and it farther appears that
they can be manufactured and sold, in
cluding a reasonable profit, for $32 50.
In addition to bis profits as stockholder
in one of the “combination companies,”
Mr. Wilson was entitled to a portion of
the royalties paid in license fees under
the scheme. With one exception, which
will expire next year, all the patents in
troduced aud used by this combination
are now at an end.
STATISTICS OF THE COMMUNE.
The French Government has publish
ed an official report on the Paris com
mune of 1871, and the fate of the
captnred communists. The report shows
that over 200,000 men served in the
ranks of the communists, with 9,000
officers. It shows also that the total
number of prisoners was 38,000, in
cluding 5,000 soldiers, 850 women and
650 young persons of sixteen years of
age or under. About 1,000 were re
leased very soon after their arrest. Soon
after 10,000 more were set at liberty—
about 5,000 of them discharged ss having
been imprisoned wrongfully,the rest freed
for want of evidence ; six months later
9,000 more were discharged. Out of the
women only 200 were sent to trial ; of
the children only eighty. The courts
first dealt with about 8,000 prinoipal
offenders, but afterwards disposed
regularly of about *2,000 ordinary cases
a month ; of these they condemned
about 8,500, acquitted about 2,000, and
released abont 1,100; about one per
cent, of their sentences were annulled on
appeal ; twenty-three man and eight
women were executed, but always for
some signal special crime. Out of the
10,000. convicted, two-thirds were
sentenced to simple transportation or to
imprisonment without hard labor.
GENERAL YOUNG AND THE REAL
ESTATE POOL.
Some days since dispatches were sent
from Washington stating that the testi
mony of Kilbourne, the recusant witness,
would Bhow that General P. M. B.
Young, who represented the Seventh
Distriot of Georgia in Congress from
1868 to 1875, was a member of and im
plicated in the transactions of the
Washington Real Estate Pool—along
with Shepherd, General Grant and Mr.
Eldidge, ex-member of Congress from
Wisconsin. General Young has an
swered this dispatch by a statement to
the editor of the Cartersville Express.
His account of the matter is substan
tially as follows :
In 1869 or 1870 General Young, hav
ing some money to invest, called upon
Wm. S. Huntington, Cashier of the
First National Bank of Washington, and
an old friend, to ask his advice as to
how he should invest the money he had
saved from his salary. Mr. Hunting
ton advised him to see Shepherd, who
at that time was a private citizen of the
District of Columbia, and the latter
informed him of a piece of property for
sale in the northwestern portion of the
city which he considered a good invest
ment. The owner asked ten thousand
dollars cash and as General Young had
only five thousand he went in with
Shepherd, who took the other half.
After the lapse of some months Shep
herd had an opportunity to sell to an
advantage and disposed of the property
to Kilbourne, giving General Young
one-half of the proceeds. This was his
only transaction with Shiphekd. He
thns explains the only connection he had
with the Real Estate Pool: Anxious to
invest the money he saved from his
salary he pot five thousand dollars in
the hands of Huntington to use for him.
He did not know what disposition had
been made of it until Huntington’s last
illness, when the latter informed him he
had invested the money in real estate
which was to be purchased by Kil
bournb, then a real estate agent. After
Huntinqton’s death General Young saw
Kilbourne, who told him the money
had been invested in real estate in the
northwestern part of the city and that
at some future time he would render
him an account. A year after this a
statement was given and General Youno
then learned that others were inter
ested as well as himself. In 1874, when
the New York Sun commenced its
attacks upon the Pool, General
Young went to Kilbourne & Latta and
asked them to value his property. They
represented it to be worth from seven to
twelve thousand dollars, but as he de
sired to get out he sold to the firm for
jnst the amount he had originally put
in—five thousand dollars—and olosed
his oonnection with the conoern. Gen
eral Young says that when the money
was put in the hands of Kilbourne &
Latta he did not know that any one
was to be interested with him and bad
no knowledge of any arrangement be
ing made with the Board of Publio
Works for tba impovement of the prop
erty. As goon ss h® suspected that re
proach might attach to him he drew out
the amount of the money be had put in
without the advance of one cent. He
announces that fie is ready to vindicate
his record whenever it becomes necessa
ry, and expresses the belief that Kxl
bourke’s testimony will exoraerate him
from all blame attempted to be attached
to his eonduot.
Hs modifies. The editor of the Borne 1
Courier has had time for sober second
thought, and he manfully qualifies a
libellous assertion. He frankly admits:
“In onr strictures upon the Legislature
Saturday we were unnecessarily severe
upon a few members who stood true as
Steel against the wild legislation that
perysded the body. These of course do
not come within iii£ peryiew of our de
nunciation, bnt the great majority of
the oonoern were just as we characterized
them—broad-mouthed, flop-eared, jack
asses—and especially the members of
the Senate.”
Speculating aa to the Presidency, the Mew
York Tribum save that Hares could carry
Ohio, or WassinK Qhooia, but neither ia ao
known in other State* as to break tha Demo
cratic force when it has hitherto prevailed,
lodge Dans coaid defeat Hans in Illinois,
Tavaxav Wasavtrsxr m Ohio, ssd Ttl nr or
Baraxn would probably defeat either in States
now held by the Democrats st the East or on
ths Pacific coast. ,
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1876.
DECISION ON THE HOMESTEAD.
We publish this morning an impor
tant decision rendered a few days since
by the Supreme Court of the State of
Georgia. The case is t'hat of Simmons
versus Anderson. It involves the qnes
j tion whether the head of a family ean
waive for himself and family hia right
: to a homestead in mortgaged property.
: The Supreme Court declares that a man
can waive the right both for himself and
family. The decision ia an important
one in many respects, and should re
ceive careful consideration.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
The Constitutionalist, of Saturday
morning, announces that it has made an
engagement with Mr. Henry W. Grady
for daily correspondence from different
parts of the country. Mr. Grady ia
well known to the press and people of
Georgia. He was formerly editor of the
Atlanta Herald, and afterwards of the
short lived bnt sprightly Courier. He
is one of the most graceful, pleasing and
versatile writer in the South, and bis
contributions cannot fail to lend fresh
interest to the already interesting col
umns of our esteemed contemporary. In
this oonnection we may mention a
change in the management of onr neigh
bor, made some weeks ago, and which
shonld have been noticed before. We
learn that Mr. E. H. Pughe has become
the manager and one of the proprietors
of the Constitutionalist Publishing Com
pany. Mr. Pughe is an old journalist,
though it has beeo some time since he
was ia business. He waa the publisher
of the Press, which paper he establish
ed in this city just after the war, and
of the National Republican during
1867 and 1868. Mr. Pughe ia an old
and experienced printer, and we have
no doubt that he will make the Consti
tutionalist a complete sucoeas.
the constitutionalist and the
DEMOCRACY.
The Constitutionalist —a journal that
shows its Democracy in every article
about Grant that appears in its columns
—is sorely troubled about an artiole
which appeared in the Chronicle and
Sentinel Sunday morning. The •Con
stitutionalist is anxious to know what
we meant by saying that “ unless the
St. Louis Convention furnished a good
platform and an acceptable candidate
the South might consult her own in
terests in the coming election.” We
take great pleasure in enlightening the
obtuseness of our contemporary. What
we want is simply this, that if the
Democratic Convention gives us a plat
form virtually the same as that presented
by the Republicans, and imitating
the unfortunate example of 1872 (a
movement wise perhaps then but which
would be fatal now); gives us a Re
publican as a leader, or if the
Convention puts forward upon a
virtual Republican platform a man
who cannot command the respect and
confl lence of the people, that the ma
jority of the voters at the Sonth may
not support the nominee. If the Con
stitutionalist will take care of the
Democracy of its own concern we will
try to worry along all right down here.
THE NEW ELDORADO.
A Chicago interviewer has obtained
from an officer of high rank, who has
just returned from the Black Hills, an
interesting account of the state of affairs
in that region, coupled with good ad
vice to those who propose to emigrate to
the new Eldorado. He believes there is
some gold to be found in the distriot al
ready opened, and that a region still
further north and still more dangerous
probably contains rich mineral deposits,
but he says that “such an idea as going
a gold mining np there, with swarms of
hostile Indians to meet them, is the
most preposterous folly that too
credulous people ever took into their
heads.’' In the district already occu
pied by miners, he says, they have no
army protection, as it ie • within an ac
knowledged reservation, and although
they are comparatively safe from Indian
attacks at present, on account of the
fact that General Crook is in pursuit of
the hostile savages, the settlers are suf
fering many privations for which they
have thus far received but a sorry
recompense. He says “the great ma
jority of the poor, deluded people going
there are broken down city people,”
some of them reoruited from Philadel
phia, who have been swindled by the
frontier sharpers who provide outfits for
such parties, and that “they find them
selves ushered into anew country, into
what is, for the most of them, a wholly
impossible life, and at their wits’ ends
to preserve themselves from starva
tion.” A number of painful incidents
and details pointing to the same general
conclusions were described.
THE ENFORCEMENT ACT.
The Associated Press dispatches from
Washington published yesterday morn
ing report two decisions of the Supreme
Court upon what is kuown ss the En
forcement Aot. One of these eases went
up from Kentucky.’ The other went
from the United States Circuit Court of
Louisiana, aud is known as the Grant
Parish oase. The decisions are reported
as too lengthy for intelligent condensa
tion into a telegraphic dispatch. For
this reason, perhaps, the-ontiines of the
judgment are too vague and indistinot
to admit of intelligent criticism. Both
cases are reported as having been de
oided “adversely to the Enforcement
Act.” But we are left in doubt as to
what extent these adverse decisions go.
We are uot informed whether this in
famous statute has been deolared un
constitutional or whether the oases have
gone off upon points purely teohnioal.
With regard to the Kentucky case, we
are left completely in the dark, and
know nothing of its merits or the points
which have been deoided. The meagre
synopsis of the adjudication of the Grant
Parish cases seems to imply that the
points made and deoided were only
technical. We say seems because,
though the Court pronounces oertain
counts in the indictments against the
prisoners faulty, thus suggesting a tech
nical objection to the oonviction, still in
another pleoe the language appears to
warrant the interpretation that the aot
itself is declared to lie ia conflict with
the provisions of the Constitution of the
United States and, consequently, nail
and void. We quote from the dis
patches:
The opinion goes on to show tbs different
rights of citizens; of the State to see that its
citizens are protected in the right to peaceful
ly assemble for peaceful and lawful purposes.
The Constitution forbids the Government from
abridging the right. Hie right of bearing
arms for lawful purposes must be seen to by
the State, the Constitution simply providing
that Congress shall not infringe its sovereign
ty. To protect the lives aad property Bee ex
clusively in the State. The Fourteenth amend
ment prohibits the States from depriving any
person of certain rights, hot {his add? nothing
to the rights of one citizen as against another.
Hie only obligation of the United States is to
see that the States do not deny tho right the
amendment guarantees, but no more. Tbs
power of the United States ia limited to the
enforcement of this guarantee.
This language certainly soems to in
ply that the ant is unconstitutional be
cause: the act was framed for the pur
pose of an torsi ng the Fourteenth amend
ment; the Fourteenth amendment pro
hibits the State* from depriving any
person of oertain right*; therefore, this
law ia unconstitutional, in that it gives
one citizen of a State the right to pro
ceed *gainst another citizen fordoing
that whioh the Constitution prohibits
the State from doing. We hope that
the full report of the decision will con
firm this view of the oaaa The so
called Enforcement Act ia one of the
vilest infamies of reconstruction legisla
tion—rich in infamies. Iswas passed
purely and simply aa a partisan measure;
it has been enforced purely and simply
to aooomplish a partisan purpose. It
has been need all over the South as an
election agent, and employed to intimi
date the whites and keep them away
from the polls. Detectives and spies,
cloaked by its provisions, have robbed
the Pnblie Treasury with impunity. It
has made perjury to flourish, and caus
ed subornation of perjury ( to become a
safe and lucrative calling, jlt has sent
soores of innocent men to Northern
prisons. It has too long disgraced the
statute books of the country, and we
hope the Supreme Court has blotted it
out forever. i
■ ■“ “ * —f —
MINOR TOPIC’S.
There is a story going the rounds of a
woman having served six months in 001. Zeb.
Vance’s regiment without her sex being dis
covered. Those who know Got. Vancs will
find it difficult to credit this yarn.
The announcement that Duncan, Bhbbman A
Co.’s assets have been ascertained to be $3,-
000,000 less than their liabilities reads very
touchingly beside the statement that Mrs.
Watts Sheehan, wife of one of the firm, is
having a splendid mansion built at Newport at
a cost of SIOO,OOO, She probably knew the firm
toe well to trust her money in its keeping.
‘•B” stands for Blainb, the astute politician,
and Bbiitow, contesting the foremost position;
for Babcock, whom justioe assured an acquit
tal; for Belknap, who traded his honor for
victual; for Bowen and Butler, and Bacon
and Beeches, the sphinx, lawyer, friend and
adulterous preaoher; look over the list of the
famous—you’U see that most every Body Be
gins with a B.
Brussels has the largest ioe house in the
world. The roof oovers an area of 18,000
square feet; the walls are double and filled
with moss and saw dust. There are nine sepa
rate chambers, each of 30,000 cubio feet ca
pacity. There are galleries for storing meat in
hot weather capable of holding 2,000 quarters,
A million tons of ioe have been stored in the
building at one time.
The English papers maintain that if the
exit of Don Cablos is to be followed by the
entranoe of Queen Isabella into Spain, it is
questionable whether that oonntry will have
gained mnoh by the defeat of the Pretender.
As she was the immediate cause of the out
break which gave Don Cablos his opportunity,
it is feared that her return will be the return
of the influences which were banished with
her. Be it as it may, how can Queen Isabella
be banished.from her son’s kingdom ?
Who will mourn for Looan now ? The bold
Illinois ohief seems to have lost his power at
the White House. When Collector Webstbb,
of Chioago, died last week, the Senator, after
waiting the proper twenty-four hours, called
on the President to suggest his favorite only
to find that a successor bad already been se
lected oh the recommendation of Joe. Mkdill
and others. His remarks, after leaving the
Presidential presence, were decidedly sulphur
ous. ‘Tory well,” said he to a sympathizing
friend, “Gbant may be impeached by the Con
federate House till hell freezes over; I will
never raise a finger to help the ungrateful
hound,”
ON TO ST. LOUIS.
The Delegates and Alter—“ eB - J -
Communication Atlanta Constitution.
—ls it not time that the Democratic
party were looking for four sensible
persons to represent the State at large
in the approaching Democratic National
Convention at St. Louis ? Believing
that it is, I hereby respectfully suggest
for that responsible position the Dames
of Hon. Charles J. Jenkins, of Rich
mond; General Henry R. Jackson, of
Chatham; Hon. Clifford Anderson, of
Bibb, and General Wm. T. Wofford, of
Bartow. If it is thought advisable to
appoint alternates also, then I would
suggest the names of Hon. Joseph B.
Cumming, of Richmond; Hon. Nelson
.Tift, of Dougherty; Hon. Daniel Irwin,
of Cobb, and Col. John B. Estes, of
Hall. Chattahooohee.
A MODEL ASSAY OFFICE.
How $10,000,000 Per Month May be Turn
ed Out.
[From the Virginia {Nee.) Chronicle .]
The Consolidated Virginia Company
took possession of their new assay offioe,
on the site of their former office at the
mine, last Sunday. It is said by those
who know whereof they speak that this
assay offioe is superior to any in the
United States, not even excepting those
of the several mints. The building is
45x95 feet aud two stories in height.
The melting-room is 22)x49 feet-and is
open to the peak of the roof, in order
to allow of the free ascent of smoke and
fumes from the furnaces aud melting
pots. To render the room still more
healthful a ventilator will be placed in
the peak of the roof that will run its
whole length, when the arrangement of
the room will be perfect. Last Sunday
all the apparatus was moved from the
Savage assay office, where the work of
the Consolidated Virginia Company has
been done since the big fire, and besides
makiDg this transfer they melted 4,000
pounds of bhllion, and bad it all in the
shape of bars before 5 o’clock in the
evening. In addition to doing all this
work they made over sidy ore assays.
On Monday last they melted and assay
ed over a ton of bullion, and considered
it nothing more than a Holiday. Yester
day there were melte4 5,100 pounds,
worth about $160,000. There are eight
furnaces in the melting-room, and they
devour the crude bullion very rapidly.
The draft of the tall chimney—about
ninety feet high—is extellent. A ‘melt’
is now made in an hour and a half,
whereas the usual time in ordinary offi
ces is two hoars and a half. The onpel
room is 18x24 feet, aad contains two
furnaces of three mnffles each. In the
same room is the sand-bath and appa
ratus connected therewith. The weigh
ing room is 12x15, and the office and
calculation-room 12x24. Tn these two
rooms the assays are weighed and all
the necessary calculations made. In the
ore assay department there are two
crucible furnaoes, with a capacity of
twenty crucibles each. I> addition there
will be a scarification furnace, contain
ing from twenty to twenty-four scarifiers.
These will be used in asking assays in
very rich ores, as the Method is more
speedy than by ' the u® of crucibles.
In this department tlierewill be a cupel
ing furnace containing two mnffles, a
weighing-room, eto. Thtre is a half hall
ten feet in width runnitg through the
melting-room and the Boms in which
the bullion assays are made, and in this
ball there were on Mondky piled up sil
ver bricks worth $125,(80. In a vault
ten feet square, at one tide of the hall,
lay SIOO,OOO in bricks,! while $40,000
more stood cooling in tht melting-room;
in all $265,000 in sigH at one time.
This, with the $160,000 nelted, moulded
into bricks and assayed yjsterday, makes
a grand total of $435,00 stored in the
offioe during the paat tiree days. Be
sides the rooms we havi mentioned on
the ground floor there is a store-room
18x20, s bath-room ana a wash-room;
also, a large room in wlioh will be set
up apparatus for making humid assays.
All the assaying is undei the snprinten
dence of Chambers O. Divis, late melter
and refiner at the United States branch
mint at Denver, Colored). The assay
ing now done at the Ootsolidated Vir
ginia offioe is equal in erery respect to
that done at the mint. It is intended
that their silver bars shal go in all parts
of the world for jnst What they are
stamped. Mr. Davis the offioe is
capable of melting and assaying $lO,-
000,000 per month. One* in each month
—at the time a general ckan-up is made
at the mill*—be gays be’will flo bigger
work than has ever befo* been seen on
the Pacific coast. At thee times fie will
probably melt and eaaayin one day bul
lion to the value of s3oo£oo. This will
be work worth seeing. The qpper story
of the building containsthe main busi
ness office of the oompary, s4xßo feet in
. size; two private officeeabout 14x18; a
spasiong hall, in the aim of which is a
strong vault for coin and ither valuables,
Bxlo, With one or two iaepiug-rooms,
■ bath-rooms, closets, ate. 1
OUR ATLANTA LETTER.
NOTEB AND NEWS FROM THE
GATE CITT.
New Papers aad New Candidates—“ Wards
Versos Deeds”—“Pall Down Yonr Vest”—
Oar Northwestern Visitors—That Keataeky
Meat Storm—■‘Street Arabs.”
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel ]
Atlanta, March 27.—The air is fall of
reports of new daily papers and addi
tional candidates for Governor, but they
are slow to put in an appearance. The
former do not have an abundance of
ready cash, and the latter have a rather
weak array of followers. But they will
doubtless oome forth in due time, al
though the ohauoes for sucoess for both
parties are slim.
“Words Versus Deeds.”
Not long ago some paper advised the
I ladies of Atlanta not to ride on Conduc
tor J. B. Johnson’s train on the Georgia
Railroad, because Jim had stated that
the Augasta girls were handsomer than
those of the “Gate City.” Now, this is
all nonsense, as that young gentleman
came from Angasta to Atlanta to get a
wife, whioh he would not have done if
he had believed that the Augusta girls
were the handsomest. I fear, however,
that he will be compelled, in tbe course
of ten or fifteen years, to brag of the
beauty of the Augusta girls, as his little
daughter claims that city as her birth
plaoe. Be that as it may, Jim is an
accommodating and faithfnl condnotor,
and I know the ladies of both cities
will ride on his train.
Onr Northwestern Visiters.
The first throngh train to-day over
the Oconee river bridge bi ought in the
last installment of the Northwestern
visitors. A large party came up yester
day and stopped over at the Kimball
House, where they were visited and en
tertained socially by scores of the
friends whose acquaintance they made
daring their first visit. The Kimball is
now filled with boarders, some fifteen
families among the number, and the
splendid parlors and corridors were the
scene of many social oourteaies last
night and this morning. The most of the
party left on the afternoon train, but a
few remain over with the arrivals of to
day, and all will probably turn their
faces homeward to-morrow afternoon.
So far as I can learn, it is evident that
these Northwestern visitors have enjoy
ed the exonrsion very much. Atlanta
got it up, and of course she had to do a
big thing and make big speeches, but
Augusta and Savannah made equally as
good an impression, with less gas and
less grub, by their oourteous and dig
nified way of doing the thing. Port
Royal has won an enduring fame by her
grand “seventy-five oent” banquet.—
Hereafter whenever it is neoessary to
speak of a banquet the opposite of a
royal'feast, just Call it a Port Royal ban
quet. Some of the visitors did not take
a great fanoy to the wonderful “Land
of Flowers.” Georgia, however, made
a favorable impression, aud the culture,
refinement and taste of Augusta and
Savannah were especially noticed by
them.
“ PH Dewn Yonr Vest.”
The most unpopular man in the city
to-day is Major Sam Bmall, the
“ amoosin’ ouss” of the Constitution.
The drinkers all fear him, but the saloon
keepers are happy over his “ leetle
trick.” You see Sam has just returned
from Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and
while there he and Governor John James
went out to see the “elephant.” The
first friend they met exclaimed, with a
look of astonishment, as he oast his eye
over their wardrobe, “Pulldown your
vest.” Both gentlemen made a sudden
jerk in that direction, which oonvulsed
their friend with hearty laughter, and
he revealed the point of the “leetle
joke,” at their expense, at the next
saloon. Since his retain to Atlanta
Sam has spent seven out of twelve hours
eaoh day in picking up drinks from men
who innocently respond to his request
to “ Pall down vour vest.” As some
wise r>n>“ ouspeot it to be a “ Mind”
dodge, they put their fingers to their
nose and reply, “ Pull down the blind 1”
Grady’s Street Arabs.
The Atlanta readers of the Angusta
Constitutionalist were really amused on
Saturday to see "The Street Arabs ” ol
“H. W. G.” in that paper. They at
once recognized it as an old friend, hav
ing read the artiole in the Atlanta Her
ald months ago. It then appeared in
the shape of “hash,” whiob “Josh Bil
lings” says is “second-hand victuals
warmed over.” The whole thing was
made up from New York papers, and a
popular English humorist, whose “good
ness fairly exuded” from him whenever
he saw snow on the ground. I would
suggest that the brilliant and versatile
correspondent of that “other paper”
might do better than warm over his cold
victuals from the Herald files, as a good
deal of that intellectual fodder was
second-hand at the time of its appear
ance iu that lamented journal, Dana’s
fate should be a sad warning to the bril
liant and ambitious “H. W. G.”
That Keataeky Meat Sturm.
The recent shower of meat that fell in
Kentuoky is not suoh a wonderful phe
nomenon after all, as scientific men
there show that such things are of fre
quent occurrence in all parts of the
world. In the seventy-eighth Psalm we
read that the Lord sent a meat shower
upon the children of Israel. “He sent
them meat to the full. He caused an
east wind to blow in Heaven, and by His
power He brought in the sonth wind.
He rained flesh also upon them as dust,
and feathered fowls like as the sand of
the sea; and He let it fall in the midst of
their camp, round about their habita
tions. So they did eat and were well
filled.” But the modern poet thinks the
late Kentucky shower of meat the most
wonderful phenomenon of the kind yet
recorded, and he has thus embalmed
the fact in the following vigorous
rhyme :
Vre've heard of rains of fishes and frogs,
Of pitchforks, tobies, cats and dogs,
Of lizards and bats,
Of mice and rats,
Of manna that fed the Jews,
And of warm blood over yonr shoes ;
Bat the oddest yet
Was the shower of meat
Last Friday morning. 'Twas seen to spill
Upon the farm of Harrison Gill,
Who lives with his wife and cowa and things,
In Old Kentnoky—Olympian Springs.
Bohemian.
REORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY.
Important Chaoses Proposed—Redaction of
the Number of OZleero—Tbe War OZtee—
Poet Traders, dec.
The Committee on Military Affairs has
agreed upon a bill to reorganize the
army and ordered it to be reported fav
orably to the House. It does not reduoe
the present effective force of the army,
but reduces the number of infantry regi
ments from twenty-five to twenty, and
the oavalry regiments from ten to eight,
thus reducing the number of infantry
officers fifty-five sod cavalry officers fif
teen, and increases the size of companies
and regiments. It does away with
the regimental organization of artillery,
reducing the field offioers of artillery
seventeen. It consolidates the quarter
master and commissary departments
into one, designated as the
department of supplies, making a
large redaction of officers. It pro
vides for s board to examine officers, for
the discharge of all worthless and ineffi
cient officers, and for an examination of
the condition of retired officers. All
offioers who lose their places un
der the bill are plaoed upon a
list of supernumeraries, and are per
mitted to resign with one year’s pay for
each eight years of service, or remain in
to perform snob duties as they may be
assigned to. It provides for the educa
tion of non-oommiasioned officers and
soldiers by the commissioned offioers,
aud for the promotion of non-commis
sioned officers to commissioned offioers.
It abolishes the offioe of judge Advocate,
fixes the pay of first sergeants at S4O per
month, makes the headquarters of the
general of the army at Washington in
time of peaoe, aad provides that he may
act ss Secretary of War in the absence of
the Secretary or temporary vacancy in
the office. It provides that sutlers and
post traders shall be first elected
bv a council of administrators, approv
ed by the department commander, the
general of the army, and appointed by
the Secretary of War. It reduces the
staff of all general officers, snd requires
the general of tfie army to report reforms
to Congress annually, and to look to
eoooomy in all branches of the army.
The bill is approved by the testimony of
many of the best offioers of the army.
It is a redaction of abont two hundred
officers, and proposes reforms which, if
adopted, will, it is claimed, add greatly
to the eahaenpy of the army.
Sr. Louis, Man* 28.—Ten toshes of
ssow.
SOOTH CAROLINA AFFAIRS.
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK IN THE
PALMETTO STATE.
A Straight Ticket and a Square Fight—The
Coek of tbe Charleston Poeeam’s Eye—
Tbe Chamberlain Ring—The Chance (hr
Suceeee—No More Cerraptiee NorlnUaiida
tion—Alkea County All Right—A .Small Ma
jority Easy to Overcome.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Aiken, S. C., March 20.— From the
genera tone of the State press and the
character of the resolutions passed at
various Democratic organizations, the
indications amount almost to certainty
that we are to have a straight oat Demo
cratie ticket and a square old fashioned
Democratic fight of the liveliest and
warmest sort with the minions of Radi
calism in the next election. All those
who are at all weak in the knees had
better stand from under, as important
business is on tbe docket. The pet ani
mal of the Charleston influence (the
Conservative possniniTTmean) is squint
ing with one eye open on D. H. Cham
berlain, the wonderful and immaculate
ex-member of the Scott and. Moses Ad
visory Board’add present Radical Gov
ernor of this pilfered Commonwealth.
But the animal can go on squinting, and
the few newspapers that are admiring
the innocent expression of the animal’s
eye can go on grinding out their plati
tudes, but they will fail to influence an
outraged and thoroughly aroused people
in shaping the policy of the next cam
paign. There is a smell of the flesh pots
of Radicalism, in the shade of adver
tising jobs and other weighty consider
ations, oonneoted with all this ephemeral
enthusiasm for Chamberlain which it
disgusting to the oommon sense of a
too long plundered people.
It would be well for Charleston to look
more to the internal arrangements of the
party within her own limits than for her
to try to assume the roll of party dicta
tor again. Let her bring together the
discordant elements and heal the bitter
feelings engendered by her last munici
pal oontest, and she will have accom
plished more towards Democratic suc
cess than she can possibly attain by the
attempt to cram her opinions and candi
dates down the throats of her np
country brothers. It is sinoerely to be
hoped that the Democratic admirera of
Chamberlain will not make his name an
apple of discord in the State Nominating
Convention ? The idea of these men is
to make no nomination lor Governor if
the Radioals will renominate him to of
fioe. This is nothing more than a revi
val of the old Conservative do-nothing
policy, and would be virtually a passive
endorsement or silent nomination of D.
H. Chamberlain by the Democratic
party. Suoh aotion would be as suioi
dal iu its results as it would be disgrace
ful in its polioy. It would blunt the en
thusiasm of the people aud effectually
checkmate tbe efforts of the Detnooraoy
in reforming the administration of State
as well as oounty affairs. We have no
axe to grind. No speoial candidate
whose olaims we wish to press. All we
of the up country ask is that the patriot
ic sons ql the proud old City by the Sea
will rise to a full oonoeption of the mag
nitude and importance of the undertak
ing before us, and send good and true
Democrats to the State Nominating Con
vention when it is called who can profit
by the mistakes and follies of the past
to govern their action in the fature.
In view of the astounding develop
ments of the fraud aud corruption of
high officials, both National and State,
within the tanks of the Radical party,
our chances for suooess are bright if we
are oompaet in our organization, true to
ourselves and fearless in the perform
ance of onr duty. Let the interest in
primary assemblages of the people be
stimulated in every way possible. Let
the old Conservative plan of making
nominations at conventions, through
pioked committees, be utterly and for
ever discarded as unwholesome in its
results and inconsistent with the funda
mental principles of Democracy. Let
the warning be sounded in the ears of
Radicalism tram the wotjntain 4° *he
seaboard, that the election frauds whioh
have been perpetrated in the past oan’t
go down in the next eieotion. Let them
be notified that he who attempts to stop
by physioal foroe a blaok man from
voting the Demooratio ticket, carries his
life in his hand and holds it by a very
insecure tenure. Let tbe Radical hosts
be further informed that their organised
system of repeating, whioh they have
practiced with auoh impunity and suc
cess in past eleotions, will be resisted by
every means whioh God has placed ip
our power, even to the hazard of our
lives. Let the white and blaok soonn
drels who go from stump to stump,
making inflammatory appeals, backed
up by Well-strung lies and corrupt prom
ises to the colored people, be met face
to face by competent orators and fearless
men, who will nail their lies to the
oopnter and expose the “true inward
ness”, of their rascally characters. Let
ns act with forberranoe and discretion,
but let us <f are do all that truth, honor,
manhood and patriotism demand of
their votaries. With suoh a line of ac
tion fearlessly carried out, the banuer of
Democracy will be borne proudly to
viotory. Bat if the 6yoophantish polioy
of the past, suoh as sending embassies
to Grant to be brutally spurned from the
White House; and a passive endorse
ment of Radioal candidates, is fallen
book on, onr defeat Will be so humilia
ting that we will have to oall on the
mountains to oover onr shame.
It is pleasent to state that Aiken
oounty is a nnit fora straight out Demo
oratio tioket, both State and oonnty, and
a square, old-fashioned, Demooratio
rongh and tumble in the next eieotion.
The last oounty election was only lost bv
sixty-five votes or thereabouts. This
was accomplished mainly by two causes,
viz: First—The skillfdl manipulation of
Radical repeaters, who traveled from
box to box; and the voting of negroes
under age. Second—The want of that
universal interest so necessary to sno
oess, which was oansed by the endorse
ment of Green as the eandidate for Gov
ernor. Although the oonnty conven
tion which sent delegates to Colombia
held its session with olosed doors, I
have been credibly informed that a mo
tion to instruct the delegation to vote
for none bnt a straight oat Demooratio
tioket waa lost only by one or two votes.
The division of sentiment could not fail
to militate against socoess.
In the next eieotion there will be no
sneh distraoting issues and only a Radi
oal majority of sixty-five (obtained by
fraud) to fight, which, with union and
courage, we can readily overoome and
oarry our oonnty handsomely for De
moctacy. Spectator.
QUEEN VICTORIA’S CROWN,
A New ■Jewel CenMreote* Oat of the Frm
nenu ttf Bygone Inl*niL of Regality.
The Liverpool Albion, of February 12,
gays: One gem at least in the crown
whieh was borne before her Majesty on
Tuesday is of great antiquity and of
high historic interest. The large sap
phire, the partial drilling of which sug
gests that it may have formerly figured
in the turban of some Eastern Sultan,
was purchased, it is true, by George IV;
but in the front of the diadem and in the
centre of a Maltese cross of diamonds is
the famous ruby given to Edward, the
Black Prince, by Pedro, King of Oastile,
after the battle of Najera, A. D. 1567.
This ruby was worn by Henry Vin his
helmateatAginoonrt, The gem is pierced
right through. Otherwise, albeit, each
particular diamond, ruby, emerald and
pearl in the daggling galaxy may have
its own pedigree and legend, no authen
tic record of the orown jewels has been
preserved, and Queen Victora’s orown
structurally speaking, is a very modern
affair indeed. The famous tory crown of
Bir Robert Vyner, whieh the craay wo
man mutilated in 1815, had served at
the coronation of William IV; but as it
weighed more than seven pounds troy,
it was decided that the ponduroua gew
gaw should be broken up and that anew
permanent crown imperial should be
fashioned. The new orown is construct
ed out of the fragments of half a dozen
bygone insignia of regality which were
broken up in 1888, and which included
the diadem worn by Mary of Modena, by
Queen Caroline and Queen Charlotte as
queens consort and that assumed by
Mary II and Anne aa queen regnant.
Thus the British orown may, as a com
paratively new thing, made up of very
ancient materials, be held to present a
sufficiently striking likeness to the
British Constitution, which has itself
been broken into very small pieces,
whieh has been patched and mended,
enlarged and renovated over and over
At Newark, N. J., the boiler of Bcm
dier’s tool factory exploded, destroying
1 three buildings. One person is known to
be killed. Others, it in feared, an in
lltoftußß. .
$2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PA TP
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Tuesday’s Items.
Conyers High Sohool has eighty odd
pnpils.
Ospt. T. M. Tyre, qf Columbus, in
tends going to California soon.
Abe Jaokson, a noted negro burglar,
haa been captnred in Talbot oonnty.
The citizens of Brunswick contributed
the ansi Of $33 12 to the Lee Monument.
Mr. Enoch Callaway has returned to
LaGrange from Philadelphia, a gradu
ated M. D.
J. A. McCord, Jr., and A. O. Taylor
are competitors for the Conyers post
mastership.
The Rookdale Register dbesn’t donbt
that 001. Randall “would make a good
Governor."
The Rome Commercial plaees Colonel
Estes, ol Angusta, on the list of Guber
natorial candidates.
There are about forty of the State’s
convicts now employed near Sparta in
clearing ground, Jkc.
The dwelling house of Judge Hiram
Brookett, of Decatnr county, was de
stroyed by fire last week.
A Mr. T witty has been awarded the
contract for carrying the mail between
Jefferson and Gainesville.
.W. D. Trammell has been awarded
the oontraot for carrying the mail be
tween Columbus and 'Pleasant Hill.
Dr.Lovlck Pierce celebrated his ninety
second birthday last week, at the resi
dence of his son, the Bishop, near Spar
to.
John A. Carter has been pardoned by
the Governor. He was oonvieted of
voluntary manslaughter in Savannah
last Fall.
Mrs. Joseph S. Bell, of Camming, fell
from a piazza recently, some four or five
feet high, breaking one of her arms and
two ribs and cutting her head badly.
Mr. Virgil Harris, of Meriwether
county, exhibits a oouple of ears of oorn
with 1,700 grain each. He says none of
his last year’s crop fell short of 800
grains.
The Early County News says : Mr. T.
E. Speight has pooketed his two hun
dred dollars reward for the capture of
the negro who mnrdered Mnsgrove of
Baker oonnty.
The Bainbridge Democrat says a Mrs.
Sndeth, ayoung married lady, daughter
. Mr. Wm. Donaldson, living about
eight miles from Bainbridge, was very
badly burned recently.
Colonel John TANARUS, Brown, the Principal
Keeper of the Georgia Penitentiary, re
cently visited Sapelo, St. Simons, But
ler’s and Generals Islands, hunting a
suitable plaoe to put the oonviqts on.
The Brunswick Appeal learns that
there is a good prospect that a bank,
with capital sufficient to supply the
wanto of Brunswick and the surrounding
section, will soon be established there.
Mr. Lewis Meaders has the oontract
for carrying the daily mail from Dah
lonega to Gainesville for the nest four
years, and Mr. Wo. Stringer the route
from Dahlonega, via Bearden’s ford, to
Gainesville.
The residence of Mr. T. C. Crenshaw,of
LaGrange, was burglariaed a few nights
sinoe. The stolen artioles amounted in
value to about three hundred dollars.
Two of the rogues—a negro man and a
negro woman—have been jailed.
Col. J. Canal Harris is frank to say
that he does not think it was taking
trips up the Augusta oanal that brought
about the ruin of the political prospeots
of the late Mr. Pendleton. We should
be grateful to Col. j. o. h. for this.
The residence of Dr. J. H. Connally,
of Griffin, was burned last Thursday
night. Mrs. J. W. Shackelford, a sister
of Mrs. Connally, who has been spend
ing spine time with them, lost her entire
wardrobe and $1,500 worth of diamonds,
only saving one ring which was in a bu
reau drawer, wbtoh was carried out by
someone.
Atlanta Constitution, 26th:' “Colonel
James Waddell, who has just returned
from a visit to Hon. A. H. Stephens, in
forms us that he thinks that gentleman
is improving in health and is better now
than he has been any time this year. He
put on his clothing and sat up before
the Are for some time on last Thursday.
This is the first time he has sat up this
year.”
Mr. Robert Beed, of Bartow oounty,
left his rifle behind the door without
warning his family that it was loaded,
and he and his wife then started ont on
a visit to a neighbor. They had not
gone 'far before the report of the gun
hastened them back, when they found
that their little ten year old boy had
been killed by an elder brother, who
not knowing the gun was loaded, point
ed it at him and pulled the trigger.
LaGrange Reporter: “The Seniors of
Wesleyan Female College, at Maoon,
Georgia, in view of the hard times, have
resolved to graduate in calioo, and so
save their parents the cost of three
white dresses usuajly required for suoh
occasions.” _ The above we find in an ex
change. If it is trne, those seniors show
a remarkable combination of sense and
independence, for which they deserve
the heartiest praise. Men, perhaps, can
not fully realize bow much moral oonr
age is necessary to enable women to ig
nore the demands of fashion; and when
we find them willing to violate custom
for tiie sake of common sense and econo
my, we feel like applauding them. All
honor to the Wesleyan Seniors, say we.
DtUTIaOM.
In Conyers, S. F. Smith to Miss M. J.
Stewart.
. In Floyd oounty, James Rsece to Ida
E. Sales.
In Floyd oounty, Wilson Davis to
Nancy Davis.
In Merriwetber oounty, Sam Bulloch
to Ida Cheney.
In Savannah, Charles B. Guyer to
Amanda Crosby.
In Lumpkin oounty, B. F. Chastain
to Mrs. Sarah Kilgo.
In Meriwether oonnty, Joseph Hutch
inson to Mollie Jarrell.
In Polk oounty, James M. Walters, of
Floyd oounty, to Julia Wynn.
Omtbi.
In Atlanta, C. A. Beeves.
In Savannah, Isaac Seely.
In Griffin, Lizzie DeVotie,
In Hall county, David Tanner.
In Jaokson county, Mrs. Minish.
In Borne, little boy of Mr. F. Norton.
In Columbus, Mrs. Sarah McNeil,
aged 86L
In Jaokson oounty, Mrs. Elizabeth
Ann Beinbardt.
Thursday’s Items.
Wheat is slightly damaged in Newton
county. *
Bev. Arminius Wright, of Macon, is
still quite an invalid.
Hon. Henry W. Hilliard is to be the
Memorial Day orator in Columbus.
. ?' h f Monroe Advertiser is still hope
ful of three-fourths of a fruit crop.
A letter directed to Miss Alice Elbert,
Augusta, is hold for postage in Sanders-
Bie store of Mr. William Crittenden
wakburglarized in Griffin last Sunday
night.
Biohard Emmons has left Borne for
Dalton, where he will open a book and
stationery store.
Mr. Adair, so severely injured by a
runaway mule, in Newton county, re
cently, is recovering. •
Master Alex. Gapers accidently shot a
negro woman in Oxford last Saturday.
The wonnd is painfa], but not serious.
Mr, Thomas McKinnon has returned
to Sandersville from the Hot Springs,
in Arkansas, much improved in health.
Harriet Cook, a negro woman, and an
honest and faithful servant, highly re
spected by all who knew her, died near
Oxford recently.
In an affray in Griffin, between Bobt.
Hobbs and a negro named John Burke,
Hobbs was severely cut about the face
and head with a knife.
The replacing of the railroad bridge
over the Oconee river is said to have
been the quickest work of the kind ever
accomplished in the State.
The Columbus Times learns that Mr.
Win. Swift is to have a block of brick
store rooms built on the corner of Ogle
thorpe had Franklin streets, in Colum
bus.
Harry Holland, a little grandson of
Judge Lambarth, was severely burned
W Koine last Saturday by, the ignition
of a stick of phosphorns which he had in
his pocket.
Mr. Davis, Ticket Agent of the West
ern and Atlantic Bailroad, was knocked
down and robbed of over $3,000 in At
lanta the other morning, just after be
had passed out of his gate on the way to
the depot.
The State Supreme Court has unanim
ously dqcided that the head of a family
can waive, both for himself and family,
the right to a homestead, thus enabling
people to create a valid lien on the full
value of their property.
The Constitutionalist sayß Senator
Thos. F. Bayard is the “bright, particu
lar star” in the Demooratio firmament,
and advocates his selection as the stand
ard-bearer against the cohorts of Cen
tralism by the St. Louis Convention.
Capt. Stovall, of the Athens Georgian,
having floored Goold Brown, Lindley
Murray and Noah Webster, haa com-:
menced hurlingwitheringshafts of “sar
kazzum” at ns. Come- now, Cap, “deal
with us kindly—cheer onr yonng heart.”
Griffin News : “A few days ago Mr.
Jarrett Pounds, a young gentleman of
this county engaged in cutting some
wood, when a large chip flew up and
struck him over the eye. A few min
utes after receiving the blow he made an
effort to blow his nose and actually blew
his eye completely ant of its socket,
leaving its central attachments. The
eye was replaced by some friend, but
the yonng gentleman soon after the ac
oident became insensible and had sev
eral convulsions. The eye was examin
ed by Dr. J. L. Stephenson, of this
oity, who states that the sight is not im
paired, and it is firmly fixed in its place
again.”
• As to the effect of the late oold spell
on the fruit, the Macon
“Onr experience is, that whero the tree
is in full flower, and the embryo peach
or apple has not been formed, the se
verest oold is innocuous. It is only
when the bud freezes, or the tender
germ is subjected to severe oold that
there is danger. In lower Georgia,
where the seasons are earlier, the fruit
is Said to have been utterly destroyed.
Ahd it is a curious fact that the peach
crop is muoh more precarious and un
certain in low latitudes than in Virginia
and New Jersey, where the oold is more
uniform, and vegetation does not start
until the season is well advanced,
_ A sorry tale comes from the sunset
side of the State. Some years ago a
oow belonging to a Mr. Williams was
found in the field of a Mr. Mcßae, who
shot her. This so angered Mr. Williams
that he swore he would kill Mcßae if he
ever met him. They met one day last
week, eaoh being on horseback, but dis
mounted at once, Williams seemed de
termined to execute his threat, and
Moßae seemed to realize that he had a
mortal enemy to encounter, and deter
mined to defend himself to the utmost
of his ability. Bushing at Mcßae with
his knife in his hand, Williams out him
twice. Moßae either had no weapon or
did not have an opportunity of using
one, for he retreated before the on
slaught of Williams til! he reaohed a
fenee not far off. Turning here in his
extremity, he seized a rail, and, with
one quiek, powerful blow on the head
of his antagonist, felled him to the
earth. Williams has been speechless
sinoe, and will probably die from the
injury received. The parties are re
spectable citizens of Muscogee county.
HARRIgIHMM.
The Naaghtr Boy of the HarannaU New*—
WweaMiawd !
[Savannah News.]
Mr. E. H. Pnghe has become one of the
proprietors of the Augusta Constitution
alist. Mr. Pughe is well known to the
newspaper fraternity, having, during
the Bollock era, gained both experience
and notoriety as the proprietor of the
National Republican in Augusta, of
which paper J. E. Bryant, now of this
city, was editor.
The poetical mind of 001. Randall, of
the Augnsta Constitutionalist, cannot
oonoeive why the Atlanta Constitution
should seek to justify its course in con
nection with the State Road lease. The
iiuttl Its, uultDer CDe AH A’bWft not
the Constitution need expect any sym
thy trom the Colonel unless each is able
to sling him a talented stanza or two.
Although oonsoions of failure, we shall
make the attempt :
The fiddler site behind the door,
Mary Jane, Miss Mary Jane !
The wax is spread upon the floor—
Come jar the rafters as of yore.
And shake and shuffle till you’ro sore
Mary Jane, Miss Mary Jane !
Come join the music’s rliythmio roil,
Mary Jane, Miss Mary Jane !
While we’re prancing cheek by jowl.
Thus adding to St. Crispin’s dole
By crucifixion of the sole—
Mary Jane, Miss Mary Jane !
A SAD DEATH.
Cut Off In the Flower of Ills Usefulness.
[MiUedgeville Union and Btcordir .]
It becomes onr sad dnty to ehroniole
the death of Mr. Benjamin W. Barrow,
which occurred at the home of his
father, Col. D. 0. Barrow, at Woodville,
Greene county, on the morning of the
22d instant, of hemorhage of the lungs.
He was buried at Athens. He was about
25 years of age, and graduated at the
State University in the class of 1869. At
college he was an active, healthy,
sprightly yonDg man—stood well in his
class, was much beloved by the students,
and gave promise of the future useful
ness and distinction upon which
he was entering' when consumption
laid its fatal hand upon him. He
began the practice of law in this
county abont five years ago, and
soon won a high position, and was
regarded as one of the most promising
yonng lawyers in the State. He was a
man of sterling integrity, unusual abili
ty, and, better still, an exemplary
Christian. He was greatly admired and
beloved by onr people and was fast be
coming one of onr leading and most in
fluential citizens. Failing in health
last year, he closed his office and sought
by travel and a more active out door life
to bring back to his emaciated and
wasted body the bloom of health, but,
alasl Death, who “loves a shining
mark,” claimed him for his own.
In oontemplatiDg the bright prospects
of this excellent yonng man, so sud
denly clouded by disease and death, we
are reminded of the uncertainty ol hu
man hopes. But, in this instance, there
is a silver lining to the cloud. Though
brief the period allotted to him on earth,
the worldis better for his having lived
in it, .
WILLIAMS’ SWINDLES.
How tbo Department of Justice Was Kan.
Washington, March 25.—The testi
mony of Col. Whitley before the Com
mittee on Expenditures in the Depart
ment of Justice that he spent abont $160,-
000 between 1871 and 1874 in operations
against the Kn-Klnx without rendering
any account thereof, is regarded by the
Democrats as another bonanza. This
impression will donbtless be strength
ened when it is known that Mr. Alex. J.
Falls, who was chief clerk of the Depart
ment of Justice during the period of
these expenditures^appeared before the
committee to-day, and substantially
corroborated 001, Whitley’s statement.
But while this is all true it is not the
whole truth. There are othe.r facts
which as they materially change the as
pect of matters and have been given to
the committee, ought also to be made
public. The substance of all the testi
mony on this point of inquiry is that in
the Spring or Summer of 1871, Congress
made an appropriation of $50,000 upon
the recommendation of Attorney-General
Akerman, for opperations against the
Kn-Klnx Klan. There was no law pre
scribing the manner in which the money
should be expended, nor how the object
in view should be accomplished. Mr.
Akerman decided to employ Col. Whit
ley, then Chief of the Secret Service,
against whom there had not been a
whisper of suspicion, and in consulta
tion with him perfected a plan of opera
tion which ultimately ended the exist
ence of the Kn-Klux. From year to year,
during the specified time, appropriations
were made “for the detection and pun
ishment of crime,” and from this fund
001. Whitley drew money as he needed
it, giving receipts therefor to the chief
olerk of the Department, but rendering
no aooonnt of his expenditnres. It is
claimed, however, that this highly dan
gerous way of doing bnsines was una
voidable from the nature of the work,
mneb of which consisted in buying in
formation from persons whose very lives
would be jeopardized by their giving any
written acknowledgment of the receipt
of money from the detectives. Some
body had to be trusted implicitly, and
this trust was reposed in Col. Whitley.
Whether he honestly discharged his
duty or not can be determined only by
comparing the results achieved with the
expenses incurred, and by that test all
parties concerned declare their willing
ness to be judged, It is understood that
ex-Attomey-General Williams will ap
pear before the committee to-morrow.