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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1876)
Cftromxie anD WEDNESDAY APRIL 5, 1876 A HUNDRED TEAKS TO COSB. Ia the** days. wbn the CentennUl reign* in erery story Ind *ong, we may fitly pen*, to reed the following beentifnl lioee: Where, where will be the bird* thet ring A hundred year* to oome ? The flowers thet now in beauty epring, A hundred year* to come ? The roey lip, the lofty brow. The heart* thet beet *o geyly now ? O, where will be lore'* beaming eye, Joy’# pleasant smiles, end sorrow s sigh, A hundred years to come ? Who’ll press for gold this crowded street, A hundred years to come ? Who treed yon church with willing feet, A hundred years to oome ? Pete, trembling age. end fiery youth. And childhood with Its brow of truth— The rich, the poor, on land end eee; A hundred yeers to oome ? We ell within our graves shell sleep, A hundred yeers to oome ? Mo living soul for us wiU weep A hundred yeers to come. But other men our lends will UU, And other men our streets will nil. While o her birds wil sing as gey; As bright the sunshine se to-day, A hundred yews to come. Vt’K LAY UH HOWS TO KI.KKP. We ley us down to sleep, And lesve to God the test; Whether to wake or weep, Or wake no more be beet. Why vex our souls with dre ? The grave is cool end low, Have we foond life so fair Thet we should dreed to go ? We’ve kissed love’s sweet, red Ups And left th-m sweet end red; The rose the wild bee sips Blooms on when he is deed. gome feithful friends we've found, But those who love us best, When we ere under ground. Will leugh on with the rest. Ko teek heve we begun But other hends cen teke ; No work beneetli the eun For which we need to weke. Then hold us feet, sweet Death, If so it seemeth best To Him who gave us breath That we ahould go to rest. We ley us down to sleep, Our weary eyee we close; Whether to weke end weep, Or weke no more. He knows. TWO LOVER*. BT OEOBOK ELUOT. Two lovers by * moss grown spring; They leened soft ehefcka together there, Mingled the dsrk end sunny hw, And heerd the wooing threshes sing. O budding time! O love's best prime! Two wedded from the port el stept; The bells mede heppy cerolings, The sir was soft as fanning wings, White petals on , O tender pride! Two facte o’er a cradle bent; Two hands above the head were locked; These pressed each other while they rocked, • Thoee wetched e life that love had sent. A O solemn hour! O hidden power! Two parents by the evening fire; The red lights fell about their knees On heads that rose by slow degreeß, Like buds upon the lily spire. O patient life! O tender strife! The two still set together there, The red lights shone about their kneee, But all the heads by Blow degrees Had gone end left thet lonely pair. 0 voyage fast! U banished pest! The red lights shone upon the floor, And made the space between them wide; They drew their ohairs up aide by side, Their pale cheeks joined and said, ‘ Once more!’’ O memories! O pent thet is I A FADED GLOVE. BY OELIA THAXTKR. My little grand-daughter, who fein would know Why, folded close in scented satin fine, 1 keep a relic faded long ago— This pearl-gray, dainty, withered glove of mine. Listen ; I'll tell you. It is fifty years Sinoe the fair day I laid my treasure here. His majesty of mien proclaimed him king ; His lowly gesture s id: "I am your slave Beneath my feet the firm earth seemed to awing, Unstable as storm-driven wind and wave. Ah, beautiful and terrible and sweet The matchless moment! Was it life or death, Or day or night ? For my heart ceased to beat, And Heaven and earth changed in a single breath. And, like a harp some hand of power doth smite To sudden harmony, my soul awoke, And, answering, rose to match his spirit’s lieight. While not a word the mystic Bilence broke. 'Twas but an instant. Down the echoing stair Swept voices, laughter, wafts of melody—• Mv sisters three, in draperies light as air; But like a dream the whole world seemed to me, As, steadying my whirling thoughts, I strove To grasp a truth so wnnderous. so divine. I shut this hand, this little tinted glove, To keep its secret mino, and only mine. And, like an empty show, the brilliant hours Passed by, with beauty, music, pleasure thronged. Phantasmagoria of light and flowers; But only one delight to me belonged, One thought, one wieh, one hope, one joy, one fear, One diazy rapture, one star in the aky— The solemn sky that bent to bring God near; I would have been oontent that night to die. Only a touch upon this little glove, Aud, lo! the lofty marvel which it wrought! You wonder; for as yet you know not love, Oh, eweet my ohild, my lily yet uneought! The glove is faded, but immortal joy Lives in the kiss ; its memory cannot fade; And when Death’* clasp this pale hand shall destroy. The sacred glove shall in my grave be laid. LAND FRAUDS. Another Enormous Plunder Scheme Brought to Light. Washington, March 22. — A new scheme of plunder, in which the names of Presi dent Grant, ex-Secretary Borie, Fred. Grant, and other prominent Adminis tration persons are mentioned, has oome to light. The statements of the case, as vouohed for by John 0. Fitnam, a prominent lawyer in Colorado Terri tory, in a letter written to Mr. Clymer, Chairman of the Committee on Expen ditures in the War Department, are theae : It has been the common subjeot of conversation for a long time in the southern part of Colorado that land frauds, involving thousands of sores of the publie domain in Los Animas oouuty, have been committed by the parties who oontrol the Denver and Bio Grande Rail way Company. These frauds have been committed with the connivanoe and •oollusion of Government land officers at Pueblo, Colorado, and in this city. Im mense tracts of land have been entered without the pretense of compliance with the pre-emption laws by perjury and subornation. Wm. L. Jaokson, Treas urer of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company, holds the title to extensive areas of publio land in Los Animas county as trustee for the com pany, upon which, as alleged, no settle ment or improvement wag ever made in compliance with law. Many honest settlers have been defrauded of their improvements. Many tracts of coal lands, worth from $lO to S2O per acre, have been entered as agricultural land and the Government defrauded of the difference. The Denver and Rio Grande Railway j Company is a corporation oomposed j chiefly of wealthy Philadelphia and London capitalists, who, according to authentic statements, form one of the most disagreeable monopolies in the West. The people of Colorado complain bitterly of the way in which the road is managed in the interest of ita owners and to the manifest detriment of the parties who should be benefltted by it. It is charged that President Grant has invested money, either directly or indi rectly, in these land speculations, and it is a matter of no secresy that the Presi dent is a stockholder in the Denver and Bio Grande Railway. The Commissioner of the General Land Office has affidavits, reports, Ac., on file in relation to this matter, and H. C. Alleman, of Washing ton, late United State* Attorney for Col orado, will be enbpanced to give all the information in his possession pertaining to this matter. An inveatigation will be made by the Committee on Public Lands, of which Mr. Sayteria Chairman. It will undoubtedly show, aa every other investigation has done, a bonanza of corruption, with the main lode entering the door of the White House. Some of the residents of Trinidad, California, have made ineffectual efforts to have the subject investigated by the Land Office at Pneblo. A Pennsylvanian has taught a canary bird to sing “Home, Sweet Home.” in this way: He placed the caaary in a room where it oould not hear the singing of other birds, suspended its cage from the ceiling, so that it would aee its re flection in a mirror, and beneath the glass placed a musical box that ws* reg ulated to play no other tone bat “Home, Sweet Home." Hearing no other sound but this, and believing the music pro ceeded from the bird it saw in the mir ror, the young canary soon began to catch the notes, and finally got so that it singß the song perfectly. THE VOICE OFTfiE PEOPLE. WcOTJFFIK mot**. Superior Court—Tk* Judge's Charge—Tke Buatuesu Tru ueu rtoA—WwUer Cone The Verdict—A djeurure cut [Special Correspondence ChronioUand HniUnci ] Thomson, Ga., March 26. —The Spring term of the McDuffie Superior Court has been in session the past week, Judge Gibson presiding. The charge oThis Honor to the grand jury and to thoae empaneled for the trial of civil and criminal caaes has sustained the reputa tion he enjoys as being one of the best jndieial officers in the State. The visit ing members of the bar were Messrs. Toombs, W. M. and M. P. Reeee, Dn- Bose and Colley, of Wilkes; Twiggs, Jaokson and Webb, of Aognata; Da- Bose, of Warren, and Strother, of Lin coln. Several civil cases have been dis posed of, but none of any public im portance. The case of the State against William J. Paacbal, charged with the muTder of Alonso Waters, was taken up yesterday morning, Messrs. Colley’ end Jackson for the prosecution, and Messrs. Tntt and Twiggs for the defense.— After a considerable array of testimony, which was taken down by onr distim gaished friend. Ham, of the Waireoton Clipper, the ball opened with a speech I from the Hon. W. D. Tntt, of the local | bar, which for dearness, force of logic, 1 pathos and power of appeal, it would ’be difficult to excel. The speeches of ! Messrs. Colley, Twiggs and Jackson were very fine, and for legal acumen ! justly entitle them to rank with the first 1 lawyers of the country. I would sug gest to one of the brethren that if he will read the Scriptures more carefully he will find that “Messed are the peace makers” did not thunder from Sinai. After an able and elaborate charge from his Honor to the jury, they retired, and ! in an hour returned with a verdict of | “not guilty.” The Court adjourned this I evening. EDGEFIELD COUNTY AFFAIRS. Spring Cuurl—Fanaind Operation*—Guuuo Abundant—Political Matter*—The Other Hide—A Judge In “Arrenr*”—Trade. [Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel 1 Edgefield C. H., Maroh 27. — Onr Court at this place has adjourned, after a session of three weeks, until the 4th of April. A great many casee on the oivil side of the Court have been dis posed of. lam informed the injunc tion against the County Treasurer will be dissolved on the 4th of April. The weather having moderated, our planters are hastening the preparation of their lands for corn and cotton, Very few farmers had planted their crop of oorn up to the recent cold spell. Guano has been used very freely; no trouble to purchase on credit. Agents have been exceedingly accommodating this Spring; no outlay for freight in many instances. Laborers are working very well so far. Grain crops not injured to any extent by the late freeze. The <**op is unusually promising at this time. Fruit is injured seriously, and all forward vegetation Ifilfod. Politics seem to be fluiet at present in this county. Our people JW a general rule do not endorse everything is said at this place at the public meetings on vales day in each month; far from it. We have many indiscreet men In this oonnty, and If their advice is followed there is but little hop* vt the Demo crats overcoming the large Radical majority neat Fall. * . , Our late Probate Judge failed to make his appearance at the session, being very much in arrears for money oolleeted, belonging to orphans and widows. Gnr • village can onoe more boast of good schools. Trade is dull, cash customers are becoming aoarqe, Experience dur ing the three past years should convince merchants that they not only angograge idleness and extravagance, but lose money in selling goods on a credit, and taking liens, which, as a general thing, ara worth less than the amount it takes to reeofd them. Homkb. jaujuCN county matter*. The Sling of a Strung* Winter—Feueb Bloom* nnd Green Lenrea Scorched as by Flro—The Good That Gome* • Bril—Lean Year’s Influence Uvea Ike Crop*. [Special Correspondence Chronicle ami Sentinel.] Jefferson, Jaokson County, Ga., Maroh 25th.—This very strange Winder has proved to be like the locusts seen'in John’s Apocalyptic vision—its sting was in its tail. Maroh has been the severest month of the Winter. After a week of frozen weather, last Monday morning the ground was covered with three or four inches of “beautiful snow,” and during the day a gentle rain fell, much of which froze in icicles to the trees; and thus the green leaves and the peach blooms and other blossoms were envel oped in a coat of ice. When the ioe melted away the green leaves and the blossoms appeared as if scorched by fire. Peaches, plums and pears are doubtless all killed; bnt as the apple trees and blackberry bashes were not in bloom, we may yet have some fruit from them. “It is an ill wind that blows no good;” and while this Maroh freeze and snow have killed much fruit and retarded vegetation, they nevertheless will prove of vast benefit to the tillers of the ground in the way of pulverizing, fer tilizing and mellowing the soil for the coming crops. Freezes and snows j are great blessings to the farmer. 1 The Sato severe weather seems to have had no injurious effect upon the wheat and oats, except to retard their growth for the time being. Some time ago I saw in some paper the statement that all leap year# were seasonable #£d good crop years, a ad the statement pat my ere mory to work. My memory of poet events 1 extends backward over the space of eleven leap years, and in *ll of those eleven leap years the crops of com, flats and cotton were good, while the wfreat | crops were not as fin* M they were at other times. Indeed, my memory tells me that the best wheat crops seldom, if { ever, come on the samgjre*r wiijhgood crops of corn and oats. For which, rea sons, this year, I shall expect abundant crops of(4orn, oats and perhaps cotton, with inferior ftods of wheat. The,re cent hard weatiiSr kSS retarded farm ing operations to corns extent; never theless, the farmers are now mats for ward with their work than they com monly are at this season gf the year. In dustry, sobriety, order apd pejtce pre vail all around Us. And may this hap py state of things long continue, . Jaokson. FRANKLIN county lbttrK. A Row in lnraa*viH-A J*olllerent Ordi nary—The KhorUT ShnWFte Cavao af lh Difficulty—The Wealnar, til, ~ . [.‘vpccial Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel \ Cabnesvh.de, March 22.—This ash ally quiet town was thrown into some ex citement yesterday by the coudact of Jack Morris. Said Morris has filled the important office of Ordinary of 'Ftank lin county for eight of"nine yean; and has been beastly drunk about half of that time. On yesterday altarnoon at the Franklin House, while in the room with several ladies and children, he was flourishing a loaded shot gn and dis charged it. Fortunately ,no on* waa hurt. The proprietor of the house, Mr. J. C. McCarter, a perfect gentleman in every respect, bearing the report of the gun went at once to investigate the matter. He fonnd Morris with Ike gnn ’and one of the ladies tiying to get it from him. McCarter continued advanc ing towards Morris—his intention being to take the gnn from him. When with in five or six feet of Morris, he (Morris) drew a small Smith £ Wesson pistol aud fired at MaCarter, the ball striking him on the right breast and glancing off, not penetrating the flesh. Had Morris shot the least bit farther to the left he mast of necessity have killed McCarter, or wonnded him very badly. The most mysterious part of the whole transaction is that Morris has never been arrested. He is still at liberty to get drank and shoot promiscuously McCarter is sheriff of the county and Morris is his hjother-in-law. Morris has the reputation of being good offioer if be would remain sober, bat that he wifi not do. The Spring like weather has disap peared suddenly. JFe awoke on yester day morning td ffnd tfie ground coveted with snow to the depth of fbont four inches. Peach and apple tkees are in fall btoosk, * I have jast learned that l was wrong in one particafar. When. MaCarter en tered the room one of tike ladies had taken the gnn from Moras, and Morris was running after the lady with the pis tol fa hie hand. Seeing MoC. coming towards him he fired at him. Richxunt. —— COLUMBIA COUNTY. FfOU* Htakway*. Editors Chronicle and Sentinel; Columbia Count?, Marsh 27.—1n this of in the eorrnpt ways that usually ob tain ere the inevitable collapse and change of government ensues, is it not possible for ns to leave for future gener ations some U6BMtO| MWOW road* evidenced the power ufl civiliza tion of a people This was especially so with the Roman citizen, who aonld point with a just pride to timpublfo highways of tike empire accelerating the movements of their invinsibi* le- gums, faciliUiog the exchange ft the products of the farmer for the flr* chants' stores, and nnitftig the most dis tant sections by sn easy and tanitier in tercourse. Gibbon, quoting old anth.vre, tells ns that these highways, issn mg from the forum of Borne, fraveried Italy, eoatiaaing through the provimies nnd were terminated only by the tre li tters of the Empire. The number of miles wac cut on stones, and the roai is usually ran in a direct line from city I *> city. They perforated mountains (althi ’ dynamite was not known in those d*ys)> spanned with bold nrahee the broadest and moet rapid streams. (What an op portaniiy for honest contractors I) The middle part of these highways was raised, in order that the rain would flow off to either side, and formed a com post of sand, gravel and cement, and paved with large atonee “fitted with snoh accuracy that they wore seemingly one block.” Such was the eonstruetion of the Roman visa that ran from the< wall of Antoninas to Rome, and. from thence to Jerusalem, * great chain of communication from the extreme northwest to the southeast point of the Empire, extending for a distance of “9,740 English railea.”— Compare theae with onr city streets and country roads of the present day, and the ancients are found aa for ahead of us, so far as construction of roads is concerned, as they were behind ns in the invention of steam power and utilization of electricity. Look at Broad street, par example, that should be the beat graded of all the streets in Augusta, with its numberless drains from the sidewalk to the mudbolee etjery few yatds, unless it is during the dusty season, a perfect horror to every one with a fast trotter and a fine buggy, and God-send to the blacksmith in way of rep urs to the aforementioned baggy. I doubt if there has been any improve ment since “Revolutionary time*” and, with slight stretcb of imagination, one might conceive that now it would not be necessary for the troops on leaving Fort Brown to take to the river bank for cover in order to get to Fort Corn wallis; the inequalities in Broad street would afford ample cover for any first class skirmisher under the “flattening” influences of flying balls. Your oonnty roads I notice a marked improvement in, yet from “Perrin’s Hill” to the “Sand” is even worse than Broad street. You have cause to congratulate your selves upon the efficiency of your Oonn ty Judge, and should he continue iu the good road that he is pursuing, the benefits of his administration will be long remembered. For “Perrin’s Hill” alone he deserves the thanks of all of ns who have to haul onr produce over it. As for Columbia county roads, lan ‘ guage has never been thought of equal to give them their just dues; knowing that I should fail more signally even in the most emphafiq language the most vivid imagination oould oonoeive and most eloquent tongue portray were it in my power. Thus “cursorily” I dismiss it, having bnt one hope in the future, viz., when the Augusta Gaual bonds are at par, that the city of Augusta will ' endorse Augusta and Hartwell Railroad 1 bonds or dig us a canal. As we can get I no advances “flf# yet,” the plum crop a failure and the blackberry season rather backward, I see bnt one chance to eke [ out this miserable existence —to angle for the festive “mud Cat” and to sprinkle 1 f‘fresh s§}t” upon the tail of the spert A CENTENNIAL TABLEAU. Aiken and Florida Compared—“N* Mill**—A General Jail Delivery—The Prisoners Wanted Not to Stay. [ Corresponded News and Courier.] Ai&bm, a. M*fch 22, 1876.—The severest weather that fjftS t? een ®?P e ' rienced here this Winter began oa Sun day last, and is still continuing. On Sunday night there was rain, sleet, snow and wind, the rain and wind continuing all day op Mopday, making it so disa greeable and intensely ooljl that persons were kept in-doors alj day. Tfoa wind blew furiously all day Tuesday. „ Thlß morning (Wednesday) there is a heavy frost and ioe, with the thermometer at twenty-two degrees. The effeots of this weather will be very disastrous to this aomjnumty. The frnit crop which is lareeiv oitUirofced hare and which is a large source ’ojf >f ? r ,°?, uoer will, it Is thought, be A failure. Great damage, too, will result w toe grain find vegetable crops. BJany of the farmers were very far advanoed with their or op#, fearing had a remarkable mild and pleasant I “ u w . hloh to prepare for an early star*. JPhjPr PMS peets have been blasted, and they se** sl mnoh duwonraged in consequence of the lobs of their tOR, „ There are a great maak ifoftnern visi tors here at this time. Every boarding house in town is full, and nearly every family ktePfi a boarding house. Ex-Gov ernor Fenton, of Mew ?ork, and I believe some others notables, aoiourmng here. Aiken is fast acquiring 4 reputa tion, and notorietj, as a healthy and pleasant climate, whioh wiJJ soon bring to it thousands instead of hundreds of visitors. Morttowmta here, who have tried the climate f>t Fforiffoi , Ba J th , e J infinitely prefer Ibis place, w 4 bfor® in valids assert that they improve more rapidily here than iu f here are good reasons for this superiority of climate. Aiken is situated on an eleva tion remote from swamps and miasmatic inflnenoes. The air ia dry and pure, with excellent water. There are no local oauses oaiofftafod to weaken or deplete the system, strengben it. flopi# j# f fotf, gat coun try, aud fail of riyers, swam W<* generating msiaria at seasons of the year, and poisoning Wfo system, while the climate ie enervating 4 est ™ 0 ’ tive to most robust constitution*. The water is impure, unhealthy and disagree able jfo the teste, while the country is infested with apery conceivable reptile and insect to aisgUat annoy those seeking health or pleasure. WLffS The Advantage* of Aiken Are thoyougbiy Jjnown it will become ttie most popular' for those seeking Wfoter homes anfi ta p&S United States, ft js jiprqtty town noy, apa is improving. Tfce *WW&°$ a H orlß * n the way of hotels and faoMd*pg bosses are of the fiist class, and My ps# ta enter tainment, the “Ashley House,” is kept in a style inferior to no other in the place. Mr. Ashley and his excellent lady mske everybody comfortable that vism teem. 'She Court of Sessions com menced here op JjEonday. Like almost every other place lfi fclie ;Pr°wd in up<?n $e poufr is generally the rift raff of society—persons who oausa all tfce jfeig#tjqn ?nd expense of these Courts, end pay ntehiPg tpwjjrds sustaining them. In these reeongtruetr times it is abhorent to behold the mafls oi depraved humanity that linger around what is !<*H7 ? aU^ m n ® w r _*‘ d *? e ■'Thp Temple Of Jnstiod. The Temple is there, bat JotafoP Iff often M it has been berptEewm*. ft* 111 remembered that *t tfo> of the Court at this place Am Qntraceana Fraud Waa Blawirrii Which consisted of the jury box having been tampered with by abstraotingeighty white men’s names from the box, and then putting into tfo? box the names of thirty-seven negro#*. Tty? abject of this manipulation was to effect a double pur pose. Certain officials were to be tried, charged with grave offenses; they be long to tba Radical party; other persons, belonging to the D#foP?ratic party, were charged with crime ia#. Their object in ebanging the names of the jurymen wfl to get men who would acquit the Radical officials and convict the Demo crat*. They took out the names of some of the best citizens in the oonnty, and inserted the names of the most notori ous negroes Radicals and villians that they coaid select. The frand was detect ed, and Judge Maher adjourned the Court and ordered the parties to this transaction to be indioted. Yesterday the bill was giyen out agafost the board of jury commissioners, and yithalltheac fact*JueopteoMbly establish' and, with the additional evidence adduoed bfore them by four or five good citizens swearing to the handwriting op the fraudulent names to be that of tba chairman of the hoard of county oommiaaioaers, who pon , atitntee one of the board of jury com missioners, yet they had the unblush ing andacity to write “No Bill” on the back of the indictment. The color com plexion of th* panel ia ten white men Mid eight negroes. It was a case of “we ana” and “you una.” The whites stood ten for a .“true bill” and the negroes eight for “no bin..” Here is e specimen of how the “Temple of Justice” ia per verted and degreed in these later days in South Carolina. Farmer* will find great help in pttrty be a clear space at each end of the plat sufficient lor a horse to tarn on with the plow and cultivator, and snarly every thing grown should bepnl in straight rows, far enough apart to admit of culti vation with i£e cultivator, i venture the assertion that with the geueraUdop tioc of this plan tome would he few uu sightly gardaw hi the oountry, and by the exercise of a little Igate in .top ar rangement of toe djfliareßfc ffMßfltfon of plants, the garden wifi prtaent qnße *. attractive * oW “Boy*, aa well go and sit down op aatoop intbe middle of a meddar, with a Mil twist ▼oar legs, sad wait for a now to back up to ysuto he milked.” ;UIS)U J, DEPARTURE. CLOSIWtAi* JBWRS OF THECENTEN Nth L LEGISLATURE, The Finn! W rek nf the Hnnarr aston*-C— --■teraotia* , f tkn Unpaid a wfcaen .CH u; ftaftwf remakeßtat* Tresasna I ■ilia's Lae* Tr A, See. [fdlepntm lo Nests and Courier.] Colombia, s., C. Maroh 24 — Both honaes have been in session for the most part of to-day without really doing any thing. The question of money being paramount, and the treasurer having promised to pay the members something this day, and try to pay toe attacheee something also, the houses were kept going as a place of resort than anything else, There was a vague idea, too, that as long as the Legislature was in session Ci.rdozo would be nAfraid to refuse pay cuent. A joint committee was appointed on the part ef the House and Senate to rummage through the Treasury and aae if they oould find any more than toe SII,OOO whioh Mr. Cardozo had reported. 'Due committee was somewhat at a loss what to do when they got among the money bags. The clerks, the treasurer, and every one around the department were busy paying of the members, who were being paid SIOO each. The office waa jammed with black and white Sena tors and Representatives, each toying to be’first in favor. The committee, there fore, after staggering about for an boar or two in the surging crowd, ca me back to their respective houses and announced that, owing to the press of business, they could find out nothing, nnd asked for farther time. Long before the com mittee had made this report a hundred rumors were flying hither and thither to the effect that the committee had stonck a gold mine—that they had fonnd $39,- 000 instead of SII,OOO, The attachees made the best of it, and were jubilant as long as the illusion lasted. All day long the halls were full of half frantic attach es and still more frantio landladies, who followed their respective “guest” around like faithful guardian angels, watching every man as he came oat of the treasury department, and then fol lowing him np to the bank, where they hoped the long looked for “divide" wonld take place. All to no pnrpose. The treasury closed, and the poor at taches were poorer still, for now they had not even the hope of being paid. The work whioh was done in the Legis lature ean be summ&d np in a few words. The Senate having refused to concur in the Honse resolutions relative to the proseention by the Attorney-General of parties implicated in the Solomon's bank business, the House went to work and passed a resolution on its own aooount directing the Attorney-General, with the assistance of five members of tbA Honse, to proceed at oqoe, both civilly and crim inally, against any and every party whom they may deem to be implicated in the Solomon’s bank swindle. It is claimed by parties who know that this resolu tion absolutely means nothing more than to give said members of committee a chance to feather their nest, and then come in and report, if they ever report anything, that they find no grounds for proceeding against anybody, and that the transaction was one of those nnao countable visitations of Providenoe which so frequently and so strangely fall upon an afflicted people, Leslie played bis cards well. At any and ajl times he oould be seen stalking aboutj in the loudest tones demanding that justice should be done him and that the matter sAould he brought np, and a decision reached one w#y or the other, and then in a little more private way dodging around corners with impeennious members and whisper ing tender words of oonsolation as to their wants, helping them out with a “few dollars,” and then whispering still more gently “for Heaven’s sake don’t let nay matter oome np before adjourn ment.” ' Hamilton being the chief qppopent of Leslie, of oonrse it was to the interest of the ring to snap him np and pnt him ont of harm’s way at the first oppor tunity. Hamilton bping an independent rice planter ajjd fcppg *b°?P the temp tations thftt his pollejjgpes yip}deij to so alarmingly, is very independent in the way he speaks. A couple of members having oome in after the roll had been called, were allowed by the Speaker pro tem, Johnston, from Snmter, to register thelF 7?taa on the question under discus sion. Hamilton r^? nd the objection tfiat they oould not vote. JonnsvC? overrated the obieotion, and Elliott re sumed the Ohaiy, and snsfoinpd the rul ing of Johnston and commanded Hamil ton to sit down. Refusing to do this the Sargeant-at-Arms was commanded to carry the order into effect/ Hamilton on the' aupro#ch' 0? the Sergeant said “hands off,” anfi sfopd off. Some friends tried to interfere, and £P mar k e d that he ought to respect the rules, and in loy ten? B which cpuld not be heard ten steps off, Haijjilfon gnid ‘‘Oh, d—n the Speaker and his rules.' The Speak er was informed of the rem ar k, apd im mediately ordered Ramilton to appear at the bdr of the ffbPte Bns8 n $ apologize. Hamilton refused and walked out, anc Whipper moved that he be expelled un less he apologize. During the afternoon, the friends of Hamilton believing that the Leslie matter would probably come up at tup Right session, persuaded him to make ap apology, grtifoh M did; BD<J the m after yas hushed fife. Saturday’* J?roceplin—Tlfp Governor nnd Tr*nsm Adtaemi Mir “Sfl*tF**eps.?’ Satcbday, March 25.—There was of coarse no session to-day, but the soene which was enacted at the Treasury yes terday was repeated to-day. So great did the feeling of indignation become thai the attaches met in a body in the House,'’ ejeota* S’clls. the bill clerk of the StoatVftattinafi, m mM Treasurer and the Goverfaor to address them. The T reaßnrer j? rßt addressed the meeting, meitipg Tortfi in plain, unmis takable language that he haff M ®oney —that the law required him to pay members first in full; that he still had from twelve to fifteen thousand dollars to" Say fow capmben? 9U tho balanoe of their salaries, Khd that havfog fajjod to borrow from the banks, be didn’t know when he could pay a cent. One gener ously disposed attache moved that a vote oi tfcnks be tendered the Treas urer for Ms Jfininejijj. fo piaking the ex planatjfofi. tefd see what the iuoJtfnjij fo 1 tjiank the Treasurer for. Certainly the information he bad given was not the most oomfort ing in the World. A vote was taken, and the meeting declined to tender thanks. The Chairman, who seemed mnoh em barrassed by pi# position, declared that the motion t6' jenqCf thanks' been carried anyhow, and &jery bo(|y burst into a roar. Tne Treasurer smiled ont bepigply' pg tfjie prqwd unifi smothered his reelings \u a banana. Gov. Ooamberlain next spoke, repeat ing pretty much what the Treasurer had said, and explaining his reasons for ve toing the phosphate bill. Considerable feeling had been excited against the Governor on account of this veto, bnt his reaguna were indisputable, and the crowd fm subdued. Whipper and El liot both spoke, taking tftp 1 ground that all the trouble was owing to the fapt that the tax bill bad been made too small,while T. McOants Stewart replied, argning that it was owing to the cupidi ty of the members in insisting npon gobbling np all the money instead of generously prorating with their attaches. The meeting finaijy broke up in good or : der About as wise as the# wejre before and certainly as poor. Then came the harvest for the harpies who dodged around the lobbies with their pockets fall of jftODes, ysylaying the crestfallen attaches, and gulfing them fote 4i*Ppß -of tfieijr certificates at a fearful dis count. All is quiet now and tor a couple of weeks peace will reign in the halls where for four long months has brooded and batched rascality of every shade and description. Damaoed Men.—Yon can see any day, in the streets of any city, men who look damaged. Men, too, of good original material, W&o started out in life with generous aspirations, fincp it wps said iey were bright promising lads; once they looked happily iflto the fades of mo there, whose daily breath was a prayer for tjreir pqrify snd peaj Ah ! what if som- of them baye yoyed {heir souls away to confiding wives, who silently wonder what can be the mean ing of the change—the cold, slow (weep ing shadow—that is coming over the honse and heart. Gofog to the bad ! The spell of evil companiona; the willingness to hold and ose money not honestly gained; the stealthy, seductive, plausible advance of the appetite lot §tfong drink; the treacherous facinabons of the gambling table; the gradual loss ot in business and in doings which build a man up; the decay of manliness; the rapid weakening ot ah ajWe purposes; reSklaasuras and blasphemy against fate- the sullen despair of ever breaking theUsfos Pf eril habile. What vie toriee of shame fed gontempt—what harvest of bell have grown from such as this. Sneer, you will, like * et the suggestions of reform in morals mid religion; every man knows in his better moods tbmjis.of true life is Der§ooftl virtue and rectitude* o| ter. Going to the bad! But there m hope. Earth and Heaven are, full ot grft reaching to help the lost man bock to the Dtetef wV, Iu CovingtonTiaarThuraday nigto, Mrs. Ma*ll. remote* by MissJraere Hardeman, King and others gave a very interesting entertainment otStell ings'hsll. OCR HEW YORK LETTER. GLEANINGS FROM GOTHAM BY “BO SIS LIND MAY.” ‘ rlinmtk Chuck— Beech** 1 * Tabernacle— The Interior Airaa#*aaeale— I The Choir— Beecher on* HU BeoA—The Voice ood Beotia* or the Apostle iurXnat. gSpecial Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.] Nkw Yoke, March 22.—1n case an in dividual should wish to find Plymouth Church on a Sunday morning let such an one first find Orange street, and then there is nothing to be done bat to follow the orowd, whioh tarns into a low brick building, showing three doors painted green, the Unite ensemble reminding one of a Methodist Sunday School, or perhaps a first class barn on the prem ises of a wealthy former. Within every thing is “plain as plain can be;” the walls covered with white paint, and perforated at intervals by plain (not stained) glass windows; in the form of an amphithea tre, the seats below and cironlar gallery are arranged so as to afford a full view of a small platform and a great organ towering the rear above. In the centre of the platform stands a small reading desk; a short distanoe behind a solitary high backed chair, upholstered in rnby velvet; on the left of this a marble topped table, on whioh stands a superb vase of flowers; a magnificent bou quet is placed on the floor of die platform in front of the reading desk, and a third bouquet of equal size and beauty is on the right hand. Upon the left, at the head of a flight of steps, two young Samuels with dose shorn locks are seated —one a brunette, the other a blonde, and with a non-oharlant air survey the assembling crowd, while joiit below them a good nstnred, rustic looking personage lolls upon the stairs. Along the three aisles, on the onter side of the pews, folding chairs are attached by hinges, which npon occasion may be opened out. That occasion comee each time that the pastor speaks. Before half-past ten the build ing is completely filled; a sea of heads from the gallery above looked - down on the upturned sea of heads below, while in farthermost hooks and at the doors people are content to stand. The pres ence of the choir of from forty to fifty singers ia made manifest by a great opening of books or waving of sheet mnsio; the organist, a picturesque and really beautiful old man, with regular features, white beard, and silvered hair descending from under a velvet cap, seats himself in readiness; the paid quartette 'stand in the centre, self important among which is an individual whose abundant locks, now turning grey, are rolled ala Pompadour from his forehead, and who with up-lifted right hand acts as leader so soon as the set time shall have oome. The pastor ascends the steps, and pass ing the two young Samuels, slips off hiH robbers, and without glanoing at the orowd, seats himself awkwardly iu the velvet chair, and begins to examine the letters and papers whioh are placed on the table at his side. His ooming has been the signal for the commencement of the mnsio, and in great peals it rolls over his head. Perhaps no head ever had a more ordinary covering in the way of hair than has Beecher’s. It hangs thin, straight, and lank, an odd Mixture of grey and light brown, forming in con nection with his decidedly florid com plexion what, if writing of o dors, I should oall an “inharmonious combina tion. ” Neither is the head well shaped, nor the figure on which the head is set. Said figure is what might be termed “bunohy;” he is not graceful, and alto gether he has the air of a well to do farmer with his “store clothes” on, and in whioh be is ill at ease. The mnsio over, as amid the inoense of flowers he rises to read or pray, his air is very qniet; bis tones almost sleepy. Nothing to give expectation of that magnetism which is presently to take yon, and carry you wbithpx it fijl. Scarp? ftt any lim© is he given to gesticulation, nor are his ac cents load, aqd when you go away charmed you can hardly tell in what the oharm consists. The only sign of nerv ousness is in the quiok jerking of a muoh enduring handkerchief, and what that innocent piece of linen eambrio is made to endnre, a pitying lanndress on ly can determine. All of a sudden he pulls it out of his pooket as if overtaken by desperate need, bnt this is only to crumple it up, and squeeze it under the Bible before him. There, however, it doerf not rest, for it is jerk ed out again like a flash, and be)4 up at full leugth in a hun et or under tho Bible, anfi with slight variations these performances are re peated thjroqghqfit the discourse. His vqioe js pertainly perfection; eaqh whis per heard dwtfnlfij and fiftpu h? jdte magic pippuhQiation (if Hfte word the soqls of his he#refS are stirreu. He docs pot piakc # set his ? l ?f e 1® mmmynih &fl 4 Brobahiy it is by msop of tfijs fapif W tejfe thft) fie seems to coqjp npajr to yoq. ifo yon do nqt feej op |p#??Bg tfle church that you have heard a fine sermon from a far away orator whom yon admire at a dis tance, bnt you imagine that a sympa thetic, agreeable friend has been talking to yon about this, that or the other— whatever came uppermost. Yon are not transported j you may eyep nof for get tfl inquire flf yfiUWell Yith a feefing of “true inwardness" as to whether you are likely to have roast turkey for dinner, and yon may have glanced at the dock in the gallery, and wondered if yon will get over the ferry in time to secure a good piece, bnt yon are entertained, highly entertained. And then, the mnsio, Ia preclude, the ex quisitely trained choir render difficult aptheui# with rare ariisfie skill, but dur ing fhe servl l ce"!he congregation,' tfilh one accord, sing famitiar lanes, the voice of many they rise in ma jestic swell, and fill the sou) with fiar- Wnjr. to^hi^. Spring Fashions. lam at the end of my letter; no ( t one word abfiiit ftghidP* every body wanted anew bonnet, I know not in what way to make reparation save by Promises for the future, and next week will write a fashion letter, which, let us hope, will be without “benefit of clergy.” Meantime, for twenty-five 287 Eighth Avenue, and this will tell them more about Spring fashions than I oonld in several letters. Rosalind May, LEGAL HOLIDAYS. The Last Aet of the Legislature Ia Reference • • to the Matter. me foUoff jng flpf jp wterwgfi to to ga! holidays was passed by t “® 4i e ß* islature at its Repent session: An act to be entitled an aot to alter and amend an act entitled an sot to desig nate the holidays to be observed in the acceptance and payment of bills of exchange, bank checks and prom isßory notes, approved Feburary 23, 1875, and when protest and notice to Endorsers is necessary, and days of grace shall be allowed, and for other pur poses therein named. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gen eral Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and alfer tfie passage of this Act, the second and tljird sections qf the above recited apt afe ftefeby repealed and the fdlowingsphstitatef|ui tfier place and stead, to-^it; That f heheyeT the first day' of ffairoary, the twenty-second of February, tjie twenty six da J 0* the fourth ffay of ffnly, or the twenty fifth 4§y qf Deoeipber shall fall upon Sunday, the kfqoflay nejt fqljowmg shall be deemed a pnblio’ holiday, and papers dne on snoh Sunday shall be payable on the Saturday next preceding, and papers whioh wonld otherwise be payable on said Monday shall be payable on the Tuesday next thereafter. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever either of the above named days shall fall on Batnrday. the papers due op the Sun day follofing shijll be payable on the Monday nt suopeed&g. ‘ . Sko. 3. Beit farther enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever ei ther of toe above named days shall fall on Sfqpfoyl fhP Rapete Mbfoh WjWd otherwise be payable on that day, shall be payable on toe Tuesday next suooeed “i-c. 4. Be it farther enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall not be necessary to protest, as now required by law, in order to bind endorsers, exoept in toe following coses, to-wit: 1. When a paper is made payable on its face at a bank or banker’s office. 2. When it is 3.“wlief?t i banker’s office for Collection, and in jl such eases days of grace shall ba allowed. Sec. Repeals conflicting laws. Thirteen prisoner! recently put in jail in Pickens for illicit distilling. A Brownsville special to the Galves ton Netpt says the Government troops, 500 strong, had two spcoassful fights. Soma ef Diaz’ men flrad into Mata morjs. The people jre stif! ttgrinffo this side. ' Ikfle ayenjfes of trexegt are now closed, and if acts promptly he will win MafomonpL An attack is expected hourly.- pained by a bouquet of flowers; “Dear dog fenil menes that lam vouf slave. Bosis red and posja pail, my loye tof you shall never fail.” FROM WASHINGTON. Latest from the federal cap ital. RauiUf theßtag at ike CMUIPT’f Capital— n* Round Robin of Radical Rattwacaa-A 94430,000 Steal la the Pension Department —Some Swindles that are Likely to he Traced to the White Honto—The True His tory of Lady Grant** Gold Watch—This Ex plains That Gold Watch Story. Washington, March 27.—P. H. Wat son, formerly Assistant Secretary of War in 1864, now a resident of Ashtabula county, Ohio, is here and will appear before the committee to-morrow and tell what he knows about General Rufus In galls, the man who gave Lady Grant the watch that would not keep time. Dur ing Grant's campaign which began with the butchery at the Wilderness, Ingalls was Superintendent of the Forage De partment at Alexandria, Virginia. The attention of the authorities at Washing ton being called to the reckless waste of money in Ingalls’ Department, Watson was sent to investigate Ingalls' style of doing business. After a careful exami nation, Watson made a report showing that Ingalls was giving contracts to his friends and relatives, his favorite being a cousin, named Ingalls, from whom he Enrehased damaged supplies, and paid im exorbitant prices, when other con tractors conld not get a cent of money. Watson’s report made five separate charges showing that Ingalls was betray ing Government interests, and was en gaged in fraud and peculation, recom mending, among other things, that he be openly reprimanded. For some rea son the report was never heard of. Wat son will tell his story to-morrow, and Ingalls will join Grant’s innumerable caravan of pnblio robbers. Another 8400,000 Steal. The Committee on Pensions struck a bonanza yesterday in unearthing a four hundred thousand dollar fraud in the Pension Bureau. Seaton, Chief Clerk in the Bureau under the Van Arnim administration of 1869 and 1871, was summoned from Albany, New York, and testified that while he was in office there was a ring consisting of Van Arnim, Chaney, Orange, Mass, Van Meter, Ly ons, of New York; Hill A Dunkirk, of New York. These men forged some two thousand three hundred fraudulent land bounties of the war of 1812 and the Mexican and Indian wars, valued at $l7O and S2OO each, presented them to the Bnrean and received payment on the same. Afterward the parties entitled to the bounties tried to procure payment -and found they had been represented as being dead, and the ring had collected the pensions as administrators of their estates. Seaton and other clerks tried to expose the fraud and were discharged in consequence. Delano Can Tell. It now transpires that the true inward ness of the delay in Delano’s resignation as Secretary of the Interior was a threat he held over the President’s head in re gard to Orville's rascality in connection with the post traderships. When Grant demanded Delano’s resignation last Sum mer, he hastened to Long Branch and shook evidence of Orville’s roguery in the President’s faoe, and defied Grant to push him from his place in the Interior Department. Grant saw Delano was not in the humor to be trifled .with, and he had to tamely submit and permit the Secretary to resign at leisure. It is now thonghtthat if Delano can bo summoned as a witness, evidence enough can be brought from him to impeaoh Grant. Delano, Cowen and that Board of Audi tors are at Saoramento, California, ready to jnmp the oountry if an attempt is made to make them testify. The Corruption* of the Printlns Depart ment. For weeks Vance’s Printing Commit tee has been digging into the wasteful and extravagant management of the Government Printing offloe. The evi dence ao far devel.ps startling extrava gance and wasteful expenditure of pnblio money. It is estimated that from $500,000 to $600,000 has been stolen or wasted* in this department every year. Clapp, alarmed at the at titude of the oommittee, is trying to se onre the inflnenoe of oertain Democratic Senators to prevent an exposure, or the repeal of the bill that will interfere with his profits. Congressional. In the House, the bill providing for the expenses of the admission of goods for. the Centennial passed. The bill paying witnesses before committees $3 per day and fjve cpnta mileage 3fSf4 Tim hi}l providing for the re demption ftf unused stamps passed. The bill filing military salaries was taken up. It will saye half a million per an num. The b|U passed—yeas, nays, . }t is me Mllepftried by %• Ban ning, tfye scWWttaa op Rotary Mr. Kasson, of lowa, moved to amend the title of the hill ao that it woqld read, “4 bid to purdah the ny otthe United States for the gallant services rendered by it in the preservation of the Union.” Mr.’ Banning: I move to refer that motion to the gentleman from lowa (Kasson) for the gallant services render ed by him during the War. Kasson: I will be glad to take it tj((b me and am ready to report p# H imme diately. banking: ¥°u are more ready to re port pow than yon were to report for oarryißg a knapsack during the war. Yon could not be fonnd then. [Laugh ter.] The motion to amend the title was re jected—yeas, 62; nays, 161. The bill amendatory to the bankrupt cy laws, reported favorably from the Senate Judiciary Oommittee to-day, is the recently introduced by Mr. Thurman, with some amendments. As reported, it provides that no voluntary assignment by a debtor of q\l prop erty, Mjaattpr. made in for fh e benefit of all his cred itors ra'taply, and without creating any preference; and valid a<?coi;ding to the law of the State when made, ih&U fif it self. tta STO&t pi hia Being subse qqeqtly adjudicated bankrupt in a pro ceeding of involuntary bankruptcy, be a bar to thedfsoharge of snch a debtor. In thgjidtise night session the legis lative appropriatiin bill was up. The item fixing the salary of Senators at $4,600 was passed. amwedmenm to the murage' !#*& wene rejected. The item allotting the Senate SIOO,OOO for clerks, messengers, eto., was discussed to adjournment The President’,. ** IkKUW M$ ’*•" *• v> The President has been sick two days. The Alert, now at Port Royal, is or dered to New York to fit out for a Chi nese station, T'hp WlffS s°d Comuaitfee have plac.ed the; tariff on cigars and cigarettes, including wrappers, at $2 per poqnd. Tea and coffee are qot yef considered. The Governor of Demerara, British Gninea, offers SIOO,OOO to any person or persons for tilling the soil and perform ing other work of manufacturing sugar at a moderate expense. THE GRANT PARISH CASES. A. LONG-DELAYED fIECJBIOIT OF r TDE BFPBKME COpKX. The Indictment* Declared Illegal and the Prionerii Qrdered te Be Qufliirgfd. [Bj Telegraph to Op News aitf Courier-} W4BmN3TQN, Marph 87.-r?P thp Su preme £foflrf'tp-day tfee lt.ng looked for decision ip the Qraint Parish pases was delivered, Judge Clifford dissenting. The Supreme Conrt sustains the order of Judge Bradley, jn arrest of judgment upon the verdicts, and the oanses are remanded with instructions to discharge the defendants. The Kentucky election case is likewise decided by the Supreme Oonrt adversely to the Enforcement aot. This was the case of the inspectors of elections who refused to receive the votes of two citizens of Afripmi From this and idajoa Justice Huht dis genteej. ‘Sloth decisions ate very long, and the is too'dose' to allow them to be condensed for telegraphing. The case grew ont of a riot Parish, Louisiana, in 4 number of negrops kbled, and vaqiotments uncjer tpe sp-pallpd |lnforpemept aot, were iopnd agaipst certain white per sons, charging then with conspiracy to deprive colored eitisens of their rights, eta, sad with murder. Ninety-eight whites were indioted, and nine of them were tried in the United States Circnit Oonrt. The first trial resulted in a disagreement of the jury, and the second in a conviction of the accused. A mo tion was made in arrest of judgment bp fore Judge Bradley, qf United States Supreme tfchrt, hid fodoto Wood. In ah elaborate opinion, holding the in dictments to be illegal, Judge Bradley argued that when any rights or privi leges of the citizen are only, secured ip ■hall not violate or them, it is at onoe understood that they ye not preyed or conferred by the tion, bat only guaranteed ag%iat isg- Tb oatfatrittrian ai amendment, he argued, dotbes Oon grpsg with the power to pass laws for the proMcntion and punishment of those who deprive any person of the rights it oonfers. The fifteenth amendment, while securiUg h) ©b WhSF* v''X vote. It only confers a right no< to be (Tcbidfft from, voting by reason of race, agefeete'ESS can enforce." red diffiedty in the eases before the Court was to determine whether the amendment bM given to Congress any power to legislate except to furnish redress where the States vio late the amendment. On this point the Court inclined to the opinion that Con gress had the power to secnre that right, against the unfriendly operation of State laws, and against outrage and combina tions, Ac., on the part of individuals, irrespective of State laws. The ques tion was then considered whether the fourteenth constitutional amendment empowered Congress to pass laws for di rectly enforcing all privileges and immu nities of citizens of the United States, by original proceedings in the United States Coarts, and Jadge Bradley held that the legislation Required from Con gress is only snch as will provide a reme dy or dne punishment for trespasses, and will provide appeals from the State Courts to the United States Courts in oases that come up for consideration. In his opinion, therefore, the indict ments were fatally defective. The cases went upto the Supreme Oonrt and were there elaborately argned. Thh record of the running raoes in the United States in 1875, with the value of the stakes, is quite respectable when standing by itself, or even when com pared with the reeord of English racing seasons of 1875, bat it is dwarfed when plaeed alongside of the trotting and pacing record of the United States dur ing the same period. The number of rnnning races in the United States in 1875 was 880; in England, something less than 2,000. The number of trotting and pacing raceß which took place in the United States and Canada in 1876, of whish there is record, was 3,304. The parse and stakes in the rnnning races in the United States amounted to about $400,000 ; in the trotting and pacing races in the United States and they amonnted to $1,418,791, and the number of horses engaged was upwards of 6,400. Ninety per cent, of the horses engaged were capable of trotting in 3:40 or better. 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DAVIS, FULLER, WARREN & CO., OF Sbaww QThn largest roVjHtt 1* the market QB MEW WOOAAVBt COAL STOVES. ofoLREN IKo\\\, REPORTER. SPIRIT OF ’76. OUTHERN GEM. AND THE FAMOUS \ TEWARt‘IMPROVED’ meet THE WANTS OF EVEEY UEALEU. Correspondence Invited. Prioe ik. And Cut upon application to FBIXUft, WABitEN 4 CO. gihlHV ztiwajer Sty t, New York. WiWIl If Hll I I ill world. It contain, Mah*>ts II A AJAJ paper, 15 enve up*, gold en Pen, Fen Holder, Pencil, peni Yard Meaeure, and a piece of Jewelrr. Slagle package with pair of elegant Gold St°ue Sieeve Buttons, postpaid, 35 cts. 6 for ft. Tniß package has been examined by the publisher of this paper, and found aa represented w..rih the mopey. tVatc-ea given *y to all Agents. Circulars free. BRIUE # C>CV, Broad ly.y,H.V. febia-lw For COPtIHS, • COLDS HOARSENESS AND ALL THROAT DISEASES, Use WELLS 1 CARBOLIC TABLETS, PUT DF ONLY AN BLUE BOXES. ATRIEO AND SURE REMfDY. For sale by Drnggkte geoe-aVk. ayff JOHNSON HOLI * UuT, iTuladelphia, pa. !—. ii m ■ ■ i ESTABLISHED IN 1847, RUTIN KARR & SON, WHOLESALE PAM WAREHOUSE, 26 BEEKMAN STREET, NEAB NASSAU STBEET, NEW YORK. AGENTS for Owens, Jessup A Laflin, L. L. Brown 4 Cos., Byron Weston’S, Ben nington, American, Mt. Hoj>£, Mammouth Biver and Salmon Br*?r Mills, and Crane’s BontTPaPtra. Bole Agent* for Canon's old Berkshire Mills, established in 1801. ie22-dt4wlv INSURANCE. rn | HE following Companies are repre sented in this city by Boas 4 Camhbon, Agents; OAFTTAL AND ASSETS. iMtisilre, Maicktstt;, England - - - - $10,000,000 flreouß’s Fill, #f Call* forala (g*l4) - - - 750,001 Herckute aid Meek*a- ... IcSitfßtolUftMO, fa. 300,000 IRg.ATI 4 CAMERON, Aohnts. Comer Reynolds and Campbell dsß-8m Angnsta, Ga. scsoet books. place in the city. A liberal diaoount to Teaoh ers and Merchants, sepai-tf W Advertisements COME AND SEE! “ —— ;o :<■'■■■■■ THE HSTI DRY GOODS STORE, NOW ABLAZE! 1 ‘W"o.r N Cr a M° D V. EIO./edTS “Sdtg i us ont Daily all the NOVELTIES of the Season. or rather 6 a “ d 866 ““ d do you good by letting y° u haT ® Goods at bottom i RETRENCHMENT PRICES. L. RICHARDS A BRO., i mar26—tf 2 09 BROAD STREET. . * ' - '--""'P - ■■■"" ' 1 1876. Spring and Summer. 1876. E , —■ —: o: ■■■■■■ i SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ! : AUGUST DOBB’S NEW SPRING and SUMMER STORK of the Very Best Brands of CLOTHS DOt.SKINS CABSIMERES, SUIriNGS, TROWSERINGS and YESIINGS h.a arrived iad , sre now ready to be made to order. i o™>?m£!!m J re S* ived , 811 the beading Styles in READY-MADE CLOTHING, SILK, FUR and ' UMBRELLAS, GLOVES, SUS -1 fenge^lom^tiUon 6 LATEST PATTERNS of Superb Qualities at PRICES which chad l AUGUST DORR, , - MERCHANT TATLOB. 8?8 BROAD STREET. THIRTIETH ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE CONNECTICUT MUTUAL Life Insurance Company a OF HARTFORD, CONN. —r — • :o:~ Net Asset*. January 1, 1875................. .... .. aqq q; u ... For Premiums t 7 165 4RS hr For Interest and Rent ~..j|653 W 1 81 *48,656,668 31 DISBURSED IN 1976. To Power Holders : For claims by death and matured endowments *7,723,353 37 Surplus returned topolioy holders (commonly called dividends) 2 543,566 08 Lapsed and surrendered policies 941,0u5 42 - „ * 6,306,928 77 Expenses : Commissions to agents * 526,740 55 Salaries of officers, clerks, and all others employe.i on salary .*7 79,376 65 Medical examiners’ fees 19,760 00 Printing, stationery, advertising, postage, ex change, Ac... 113 506 88 Taibb 246,806 83 - *i | 602 08 Balance Net Assets, December 81 $41,468,066 63 SCHEDULE! OF ABSBTB. Loans upon real estate, first lien .*26 986 282 40 Loans upon stooks and bonds ’241)363 28 Premium notes on policies in force ” 6.7 0 667 60 Cost of real estate owned by the company 1 858 690 IS Cost of United States registered bonds 7 168 1 36 80 Cost of Mtate bonds ..1. '6:9 900 00 Cost of city bonds 1,746 695 00 Cost of other bonds 435.000 00 Cost of bank stock Cost of railroad stock .!!!.!.. . . 77. . 26 000 00 Cash in bank at interest . . . 1 070 893 79 Cash in company’s office ’ 6 684 78 Balance due from agents, secured 7 ' 79 180 46 Bills receivable I..!.!!.".!!!. 4 876 40 , Net Assets 941,462'055 58 Add: . Interest accrued and due *1,617,060 07 Rents acorued ’ 2,510 Ol Market value of stock and bonds over oost 272’ 698 20 Net premiums in course of collection e|o6o 28 Net deferred quarterly and semi-annual premiums .’!!!! Gross assets, December 31, 1378 $43,494,650 9$ Liabilities : Amount required t * reinsure all outstanding policies, net, assnming 4 per cent, inters#*.. *88.267 807 00 All other liabititiea 995,754 00 I Surplus, December 31, 1875 $4,231,589 9* Increase of assetß during 1875 * 3.0,’0,964 93 Ratio of expense of management to receipts in 1875. 7 55 per cent Policies in force, December 31, 1875, 68,209 insuring *186,076,843 Off JAMES GOODWIN, President. JACOB L. GREENE, Secretary. 0 JOHN M< TAYLOR, Asst, Seo etary. JOHN J. COHEN & SONS, mh26-tf AGENTS FOR AUGUSTA, QA- Fire* Life, Marine and Accident Insurance. Insurance Headquarters l No, 319 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. ESTABLISHED 1866. ORIGINAL NON-BOARD AGENCY. your interest and oall or write for rates before insuring elsewhere. Fire, Life, Marine and Accident Insurance Effected in town or country at the Lowest Equitable Rate in the annexed list Of First-0 las* Companies, which are second to none in Reliability, Fair Dealing and Prompt Payment of IjOBBCH J * Gross Assets, $38,056,932* London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company, of Liverpool. England. Westchester Fire Insnrance Company, of New York. WUllamsbnrg City Fire Insurance Company, of New York. Fire Association, of Philadelphia. Commercial Fire Insurance Company, of St. Lonls, Mo. Old Dominion Fire Insnrance Company, of Richmond, Va. Farmville Firs Insurance Company, of Farmville, Va. Farmers* %nd Drovers' Fire Insurance Company, of Louisville, Ky Home Insurance and Banking Company, of Galveston, Texas Union Marine and Fire Ii snrance i ompany, of Galveston, Texas.. Texas Banking and Insurance Company, of Galveston, Texas. JRma Life Insurance Company, ot Hanford, Conn Travelers’ Life and Accident insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn. .Accident Insurance a Specialty. janM-iy C. ff. HIRRIS, MangOT. Banking Institution** ALFRED BAKER, President. JOSEPH S. BEAN, Jr., Treasurer. Augusta Savings Institution 319 BROAD’BTREET, AUGUSTA, GA., Seven Per Celt. Interest Per Aonnu.Paifi on Deposits. CHARTERED in the express interest of the Laboring and Advancing Claeses. Depositors have all tbs benefits of Stockholders without incurring any of a stockholder’s risks. Par ties bolding Money in Trust, or for Investment, will derive every advantage from placing funds with us. aud we offer extra inducements to all the Workiug Classes who wish their money at Compound Interest to steadily accumulate. We keep ftrst-elass Bonds aud Stooks on hand for sale, and will bay and sell Securities. Remember, that' to save is the only way to bui'd up a solid fortune, _ Jan2v!-tf PLANTERS LOAN AND SAMS BANK, 223 Broad Street, CAPITAL* w - * $106,000, WITH STOCKHOLDERS LIABILITY. —; :o; Interest Allowed on Deposit*, T. F. BRANCH, President. J. T. NEWBURY, OaaMcr. DIRECTORS 1 THOS. W. COSKERY, GEN. M. W. GARY, JAMES I*. GOW„ JUDGE WM. GIBSON, E. H. ROGERS, M. L BRANCH. 1 —— Commercial Fertlllzern. The Dickson Fertilizer Company, AUGUSTA, G A., Offer* t* Planters * fall Assortment of Fertilizers tn 4 Fertillzli* Material Of the beet grade, and on terms favorable to all parties. Our Coeh Prices j DICKSON COMPOUND $56 00 Per ton. DIAMOND [A] COMPOUND 60 00 Per ton. Ou.*" Time Prices. orntsON COMPOUND .S6O 00 Per ton. DIAMOND [A] COMPOUND 66 00 Per ton. Drayage to boat or railroad. $1 perton.^ OTTO terms tor Time Sales are adapted to meet the wants of the Planter, and are arranged When desired we GUARANTEE I£. Per lb. FOB COTTON-that is, we agree to take cotton to oover the draft, delivered at our Warehouse in Augusta, at ftfteen AMkfafner Dound (for New York Middling, and proportionally more or less for better or lower you IheXire when the time <£mes to diliver the cotton or pay the money. * Aka ALL STANDARD FERTILIZING MATERIALS. Peruvian Guano, Nitrate of Soda, Snparphoephatea and Dissolved Bone, Sulphate of Ammonia, Pare Fine Ground Raw Bone, Muriate of Potash, Solnhurio Acid. Nitrate of Potash, Land Plaster Fine Ground Prussian Rock Salt All at the lowest market prices for article# of like quality. Special Formulas. mad# te order. JAMES T . GARDINER, President. feM-tttth*sato
