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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1876)
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ALL COMMUNICATIONS announcing candi dates for office —from County Constable to members of Congreee—will be charged at the rate of twenty cents per liDe. All announce ments must be paid for in adranoe. 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.
