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Address WALSH A WRIGHT,
Chooxicl* A SxMTPntL. Augusta. Ga.
Cfjromcle an& Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY APRIL 19, 1876.
Rbvknur spies say that the Spring
climate of Elbert county is very debili
tating. And yet bow oud they tell ? If
a stranger who goee there chooses to
shavo his own head, whip himself, and
spend the night in a barrel, how can he
tell anything about the olimate?
We understand that Foster Blod
gett says he knows something “an
he chooses to spsak.” We have not
the slightest donbt concerning his
knowledge, but we do not think that he
will get an opportunity to speak. There
are too many Democrata in Georgia who
believe that silence is golden, especially
Mr. Blodoett’b silence.
Georgia Congressmen should not be
sent as delegates to St. Louis. Tbey
have, or ghonld have, all their time oo
copied in the discharge of their duties
at Washington. We have no doubt that
several of them are eager to go, and are
perfectly willing to do double work, but
we do not think it would be expedient or
right to tax their energies so severely.
The more we think about it the more
firmly are we couvinoed that there is a
Gubernatorial candidate hid ont in the
mountains of Cherokee Georgia. How
would John W. Wofford do as a Cen
tennial candidate for Governor ? He is a
gentleman of pleasing manners, fine per
sonal appearance, decided ability, un
doubted Democracy, and considerable
experience in pnblio affairs.
Rohe now has but one newspaper.
The Courier has purchased the Com
mercial and the consolidated paper is
the property of Mr. Dwinell. The
daily Commercial will not again appear,
bnt in October the daily Courier will
take its place. Col. Sawyer, one of the
hardest working editors and most vigor
ous writers in the State, remains at the
head of the Courier.
The officer who carried Mr. Foster
Blodgett from Augusta to Atlanta says
the Atlanta people whom he met express
ed regret at the arrest of the ex-Superin*
tenilcu t of the State Road. Of course
there is regret in Kimballville over the
return of the Prodigal. Perhaps Mr.
Blodgett kept a little memorandum
book, like Mr. Oakes Ames, {and perhaps
he has that memorandum book about
his person.
General Gordon seems hopeful of
the passage of a bill by Congress re
funding the cotton tax. He thiuks the
mouey will be paid directly into the
State treasuries and be distributed by
local legislation. That the tax should
be refunded no just man can donbt; but
that it will be refunded at the present
session of Congress we doubt most cap
itally. The Republicans will oppose the
measuro in order to make capital for
their party, and many of the Democrats
will be afraid to vote in its favor.
Tux Milledgeville Union and Record
er does not believe that Gov. Johnson
would decline a nomination if it should
be tendered by the Convention. It says
“nothing the Atlanta Constitution can
say will prevent the people from nomi
nating Gov. Johnson, and if he is nomi
nated he is sure to be elected. Thous
ands of colored people would vote for
Gov. Johnson on account of the kind
ness he showed their race in the trials
for insurrection last year. Gov. John
son has been tried often and never found
wanting, and all that the Atlanta Consti
tution can say or do will not keep him
from being elected.”
Xhe Early News proposes that the Or
dinary of Early oounxy be authorized to
borrow money with which to purchase
corn for the destitute—the corn to be
paid for when the orops of this year are
made. We hope the people of Early
will not permit any such thing to be
doue. In thiß State the only paupers
should be those unable to work by reason
of age or disease. Every able bodied
man and woman in Georgia can easily
earn a livelihood. The field is large and
the laborers are few. There are thous
ands of plantations where the “desti
tute” will find employment.
Judoe Kino has replied to tlje letter
of Dr. E. E. Jones that appeared in the
Chronicle and Sentinel, of Sunday
morning. Jndge Kino declares he is note
candidate tor the Presidency of the
Georgia Railroad, but frankly says he
will serve tor another year if elected by
the stockholders. Judge King gives the
Chronicle a .mild reproof tor saving
that proxies were' being sought in his
interest. We have never said that Judge
Kino knew anything of the matter, but
that both sides are procuring proxies
we have not the slightest doubtj nor do
we think that any blame attaches to the
transaction.
Thr following is an extract from a let
ter written to one of the editors of this
paper by a prominent member of tbe
last Legislature, who resides in a distant
auction of tbe State: “It is the duty of the
-“people of Riohmond county to re-elect
“‘Mr. Black. 1 will say, without any
“‘spirit of flattery actuating me, that he
“‘was not only one of the ablest mem
“ben of the Legislature, but one of the
“very best men I ever knew. It is my
“prediction that be is destined to make
“his mark in his adopted State, both as
“a lawyer and as a public man.” This is
a deserved tribute to the ability and
worth of Mr. Black, and one that will
receive the cordial endorsement of all
his constituents.
A printed slip of Montgomery Blair’s
letter advocating the nomination of Mr.
Xildkn at St Lonis has been sent us by
mirs New York patriots with a request
to publish even if we cannot give it
“full editorial approval.” We can neith
er publish rot approve. If Mr. Tildes
be nominated t*t St. Louis we presume
the Southern people will support him
just as they would support an Egyptian
mummy in opposition o Blaine or
Mobton. But they will not support
him because they like Mr. TiLP-KN or
the men who control him. They will
take him as a choice of evils. We do
not think he stands any more chance of
getting the nomination than a mud tur
tle does of beoosuing a humming bird.
If he is nominated tha prospect for his
defeat is exceptionally bright.
MEMORIAL DAY CONVENTION*.
Memorial Day, we are sorry to eee, has been
selected by several of the District Executive
Committees for holding conventions to elect
delegatee to the National Democratic Conven
tion. This moat bave been unintentional, as
that day ia a legal holiday, and should be held
sacred to the memory of the sleeping braves.
—Oreencsboro Horne Journal.
Can anybody tell why the Bute Executive
Committee appointed the 26th of April as the
dsy for the District Conventions to meet ?
And then why did the District Conventions de
cide to meet on that day ? Any other day
would have done better. The 26th of April is
a sacred day—a day when all men who at e
moved by a feeling of patriotism want to sUy
at home. It appears to us that the State Ex
ecutive Committee made a general enngle at
their last meeting.— LaGratige Reporter.
We assure our Greenesboro contem
porary that the selection of Memorial
Day by the District Executive Commit
tees as the time for the assembling of
the District Conventions was not “nn
intentional.” The committees knew very
well that the 26th of April was Memo
rial Day, and a legal holiday; that it is
properly observed all over the State,
and that the assembling of political
conventions on such an occasion is man
ifestly ill-timed and improper. But the
District Executive Committees acted
under instructions from the State Ex
ecutive Committee, and a majority of
the “ten gentlemen who met in Atlanta”
decided that Memorial Day was a pro
per and fitting time for the assembling
of the District Conventions. When this
resolution was passed, the Chronicle
and Sentinel called attention to the
fact that the wrong day had been desig
nated. But the “ten gentlemen who
met in Atlanta,” having aaid the horse
was ten feet high, stuck to the asser
tion, and’ declined to reconsider their
action. The Lagrange Reporter thinks
the State Executive Committee “made a
general bungle at their last meeting.”
Yes; the ten gentlemen usurped a good
deal of power it was never intended they
should exercise, and then calmly sanc
tioned their own usurpation. They pro
longed their power several months by
declining to call a State Convention,
and adopted a rule which gives them
the power of selecting one-fifth of the
delegates to which the State of Georgia
is entitled at the St. Louis Convention.
But only one or two newspapers in the
State protested against this usurpation
of authority, and now they must submit.
THE KU-KLUX HUNTER.
We hope that before Congress ad
journs Major Lewis Merrill, the Ku-
Klux hunter, will be thoroughly investi
gated. Senator Bayard has twioe at
tempted to have his acts inquired into,
but has twice been defeated by a parti
san Senate. This time the efforts of a
Democratic House promise to be more
successful. Major Merrill was placed
ou duty at the Centennial by the late
Secretary of War, Belknap, without a
shadow of authority, and apparently
only as an insult to the Southern States
invited to take part in that exhibition.
Some days ago the House Committee on
Military Affairs determined to investi
gate the matter, and Merrill was sum
moned before them and asked to give
his account of the transaction. The
charge against him is that while an offi
cer in the regular army of the United
States and assigned to-duty in the State
of South Carolina he accepted money
for hunting down and arresting alleged
members of the Ku-Klux Klan. He ex
plained that a proclamation was issued
by Governor Woott offering a reward to
persons who should secure the arrest
and conviction of Ku-Klux, and that un
der that proclamation he received for
his services in a number of cases an ag
gregate sum of 821,400. He did not ap
pear as a lawyer, but he ferreted out
the offenders, and, making affidavit
against them, secured their trial and
conviction. This he claimed the right
to do, and said that he did not think
it improper to take the rewards of
fered by the State simply beoause
he was an officer of the army. Other
witnesses will be examined on this poiut,
among them General Custer. Merrill
acknowledged that he was admitted to
the bar in South Carolina, but says he
never practioed and never expected to,
Maj. Merrill, judged by his own state
ment, is a scoundrel, who has too long
gone nnwhipped of jnstioe. Maj. Mer
rill was sent to South Carolina by the
President of the United States for the
purpose of assisting in the execution of
a supposed law— viz: the Enforcement
act. He was in the pay of the United
State Government, yet, notwithstanding
these things, he so far forgot his duty
as an officer of the Government, and his
honor as a soldier, as to desoend to the
level of the lowest thief-taker. He knew
that the corrupt scoundrels who ruled
South Carolina had put a price upon the
head of every man who could be oon
vioted of being a “Ku-Klux.” Maj
Merrill determined to earn these re
wards and well did he do his infamous
werk. He suspected without reason,
arrested without a oause and oonvioted
without evidenoe—at so muoh per head.
He was spy, officer and prosecutor com
bined, and his infamy yielded him a
golden harvest. We hope he will be made
to leave the army; his commission is an
insult to every honorable soldier.
THE ARREST OF FOSTER BLODGETT.
Foster Blodgett was arrested in this
city Sunday morning and returned to
Atlanta, under arrest, Sunday night.
Blodgett fled the State in November,
1871, and has not been in Georgia since.
He has been living most of the time in
Newberry, South Carolina, but, so far
as we can learn, no effort has been made
to bring him back to Georgia. There
are no less than five indictments pend
ing against him in Falton Superior
Court: two for embezzlement; one for
felony ; one for cheating and swinding,
and one for larceny after a trust dele
gated. These indiotmeuts were found
in 1872, and since that time Blodgett
has been living within easy reaoh of the
Courts of Georgia. In addition to these
proceedings on the criminal side of the
Court, a civil snit was brought by at
tachment against Blodgett to make him
refund fifty thousand dollars that he
had unlawfully taken from the State.
Blodgett seems to fear no evil, says he
has Governor Conley’s pardon in his
pocket, and that he has been willing to
return to Georgia at any time daring the
past four years. For ourselves, we do
not think Blodgett has anything to
fear. We have always believed, and be
lieve now, that there are prominent
Democrats in Georgia interested in
screening him from trial and punish
ment. He doubtless knows some ngly
thingd, and his ailenoe is golden to cer
tain parties in the State. If he should
be forced to tell all he knows some very
bad revelations may be the result.
Neither Bullock nor Blodgett have
been wanted in Georgia, or their pre
sence could easily have been secured a
long time ago. We hope, however, for
the honor of the State, that thia man
will not be allowed to escape without a
fair trial. If he knows anything about
Democrats let him speak and tell all he
does know. The party in Georgia is
strong enough to be able to punish its
oWU criminals. No matter how damag
ing may be bin testimony, he should be
encouraged to apeak—let his words
ham whom they will. WVgreatly fear,
however, that bis airest will 49444 to
nothing. There are too many persons
interested in keeping Blodgett away
and keeping him quiet.
*TARTI.IM; DISCLOSURES OP GRANT
AND COMPANY.
The Nashville American says that in
Hartford, Connecticut, last Friday even
ing, United States Senator Wm. E.
Eaton addressed an andience of some
twenty-five hundred. In the course of
his speech he made a rather startling an
nouncement concerning a matter which
he said had not been as yet made public,
but with which he was “thoroughly con
versant,” and its substance 'was that
when the* New Orleans whisky ring
comes to be exposed St. Lonis and other
Western cases of this class would seem
insignificant, for in New Orleans frauds
would be traced directly to the White
House and te President Grant, who was
familiar with all the facts. He claimed
further, that men who had goDe there to
ferret out the facts had been killed, and
that the Attorney-General had refused
to take steps toward punishing the mur
derers. He knew this to be true, and
he knew that the Attorney-General and
President also knew it.
THE WITHDRAWAL OF GOY. SMITH.
A special dispatch to the Chronicle
and Sentinel, published Sunday morn
ing, contained the substance of Gov
ernor Smith’s letter, in which he stated
that he should not be a candidate for re
election. This morning we publish the
full text of the correspondence between
Governor Smith and some prominent
gentlemen of Columbus, who wished
him to be a candidate again.—
The signers of the request are the first
men in the city of Columbus. Two of
them are editors of newspapers, and one
of them is superintendent of one of the
largest manufacturing establishments in
the South. These gentlemen, alluding
to the infamous assaults upon Governor
Smith that appeared in the New York
Herald some weeks since, ask Governor
Smith to meet them by permitting the
use of his name as a candidate for re
election. Governor Smith wisely says
that these assaults have not injured
him; that the injury, if any was inflicted,
has recoiled upon the authors ef these
scandalous libels. Even the papers op
posed to Governor Smith have united
in condemnation of the scurrilous
articles. Governor Smith declines to
allow the use of his name in
the approaching Gubernatorial Con
vention. There are thousands in Geor
gia who will regret this determination.
Governor Smith has made a wise,
economical and faithful chief magis
trate. He found the finances of Geor
gia in a state of chaos. The credit of
the State had been seriously injured
by the extravagant rascalities of the
Bullock regime. Now, the debt of
Georgia is paid promptly, principal and
interest, and the obligations of the State
are at a premium. He found taxation
high and the valne of property reduoed.
Now taxation is low and the value of
property has been increased. He found
the Courts of justice powerless to sup
press vice and lawlessness. Now the
Courts are the bulwarks of the law and
the protection of the people. If Gover
nor Smith had allowed his friends to
support him in the coming contest there
is a reasonable certainty that he would
have been nominated and elected. By
retiring from an active candidacy he has
shown that he is a true patriot as well
as a wise ruler. Tbe people of Georgia
will be fortunate if they secure as capa
ble a successor.
THE CASE OF FOSTER BLODGETT.
After Foster Blodgett had been ar
rested in Augusta he was returned to
Atlanta for trial upon the indictments
found against him in Fulton Superior
Court. When he reached Atlanta a writ
of habeas corpus was obtained and an
attempt made to procure his release on
the ground that he had been pardoned
by Mr. Benjamin Conley when the lat
ter was Acting Governor of the State of
Georgia after the flight of Bullock.
We have not yet been advised of the re
sult of this application, but we do not
see how the Court can make any decis
ion except that the defendant is in law
ful custody and must be required to
give bond to answer the charges against
him. This case has been in the Courts
before. The grand jury of Fulton
county found special presentments
against Blodgett at October term, 1871,
for larceny after a trust and frand and
embezzlement. He gave bond for bis
appearance for trial, and after he ran
away to South Carolina proceedings
were commenced to have the bond for
feited. The defense interposed by the
sureties upon the instrument was that
the defendant had been pardoned by
Aoting Governor Conley. It seems
that on the 9th day of January, 1872,
just before retiring from office, Acting
Governor Conley issued a proclamation
reciting the indictments then pending
against Blodgett, stating that, in De
cember, 1871, the late Governor Bul
lock addressed him a letter declaring
he was satisfied of Blodgett’s “integ
rity of oharaoter,” and that the charges
against him were only made for politi
cal effect, and that he was satisfied
Blodgett 00a Id not obtain a fair trial
owing to “ the high state of political
feeling,” and granting him a fall and
unconditional pardon. The pardon
reads for “ any, every and all violations
of the Penal Code of the State, er any
part, section or clause thereof, in any
act done or any omission to do any aot
as Superintendent of the Western and
Atlantic Railroad, or as an individual in
any matter connected with said road or
its management, as well as for misman
agement of said road,” and orders that
Blodgett “be discharged from any
and all arrests and from the obligation
of all bonds given by him for his ap
pearance at any Court in this State to
answer for any violation of the law
whatever in any way connected with
said railroad, and that he go ab
solutely free from further arrests, im
prisonment, punishment or criminal
liability of any character whatever grow
ing out of any transaction connected
with said Western and Atlantic Rail
road.” If we are not mistaken Judge
Hopkins, before whom the case was
tried, held, and held justly, that the
Governor had no power to pardon in ad
vance of a conviction. The same decis
ion should be made now. A man who
is innocent needs no pardon, and every
man is held to be innocent until after a
trial and judgment of guilty. The par
don is not worth the paper upon which
it is written, even as to the two indict
ments found against Blodgett in Octo
ber, 1871. Bnt there is another and, if
possible, a stronger point in the case.
After Blodgett had fled, and after Act
ing Governor Conley had ceased to be
Aoting Governor,the committee appoint
ed by the Legislature to investigate the
management of the Western and Atlan
tic Railroad discovered sufficient evi
dence of Blodgett’s complicity with
the frands that characterized his admin
istration to warrant the finding of no
less than five additional indictments
•gainst him—two for embezzlement, one
for felony, one for cheating and swind
ling, and one for larceny after trnst.
Acting Governor Conley’s pardon can
not by any construction of its provisions
•r of his authority be made to apply to
udoover these offenses, The duty of the
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 19, 1876.
Judge hearing the writ of habeas corpus
is plain. He should remand Blodgett
to custody and let the cases against him
take tbe usual course on the criminal
side of the Coart. It is dae to the State
and to the accused that a jury should
pass upon the charges. If Blodgett
is innocent he is entitled to a ver
dict of acquittal; if he is guilty the
interests of the State demand that he
shall receive the severest punishment
that tbe law allots to his offenses. No
matter what he has to tell or whom his
words may harm, the officers of the
State in Atlanta should not shrink from
the discharge of their duty.
THE PREHIDENT’S SALARY.
The bill to reduce the President’s salary to
425,000, to take effect next term, has now
passed both Houses, and awaits the President's
signature. The worst feature in all this busi
ness is that a precedent hae been made, and
now stands withont any protest fr. m either
party, of a change in the salary of the Presi
dent elect, for the term to which he had been
elected. This is a direct violation of the let
ter and spirit of the Constitution. It allows
that a servile Congress may raise a President’s
salary after he is elected, and that a hostile
Congress may ont down the salary of a Presi
dent elect. The matter of the difference be
tween 450,000 and 425,000 is of little moment
compared with this destruction of a provision
wisely drawn to protect the Presidential office.
The above is taken from the editorial
columns of the Cincinnati Gazette. Our
friend, the good Deacon Richard Smith,
has either become slightly muddled or
else has allowed one of his “wicked pard
ners” to run the maehine daring his ab
sence at prayer meeting. A change has
not been made in the salary of the Presi
dent elect for the term to which he has
been elected. On the contrary the bill
expressly provides that the redaction
shall only take effect from the com
mencement of the next Presidential
term. No attempt has been made to re
duce President Grant’s salary, though
he was indelicate enough to lobby for
and approve a bill increasing his pay one
hundred per cent. He will receive fifty
thousand dollars per annam until the
fourth day of next March, and then his
successor will get the pay which Mr.
Lincoln was able to live on during the
flush times of the war. Deacon Richard
Smith is also conspicuously inexact
when he says that a hostile Oongress
has cut down the salary of a President
elect. In the first place the salary of a
President elect has not been ont down.
In the second place a “hostile Con
gress” did not originate the reduction
that is to apply to a future President,
whether he be Republican or Democrat.
The reduction originated in the Senate,
where the Republicans have a large
working majority. The author of the
bill was a Republican, and the vote up
on its passage showed an entire obliter
ation of party lines. Democratic Sena
tors voted against and Republican Sena
tors for the bill. Republican votes en
sured its passage. We fail to see wherein
any “provision” has been destroyed or
where a “hostile Congress” has had any
thing to do with its destruction.
THE CHARGE AGAINST BLAINE.
If the statement published by the In
dianapolis Sentinel is oonfirmed, Mr.
James G. Blaine, of Maine, may be
looked upon as another Presidential as
pirant who has been put hors du com
bat in the great Centennial campaign.
At a meeting of the Executive Commit
tee of the Board of Directors of the
Union Pacific Railroad, held December,
1871, a mysterious entry on tbe minutes
showed that sixty-four thousand dollars
had found their way into the pockets of
someone who had no legal right to the
money. The suspicions of a member of
the committee, J. C. Harrison, w r ere
aroused, and afterwards, at the instiga
tion of Senator Morton, he offered a
resolution calling for all the information
concerning this payment. When the
resolution was introduced the Secretary
of the Board asked Harrison to with
draw it, saying that Blaine received the
money, and that an exposure of the fact
would defeat him for Congress in the
campaign of 1872. So the matter has
slumbered until now, when Mr. Blaine
has become a prominent candidate for
the Presidency and Senator Mobton
dreads defeat at his hands. That Mr.
Mobton inspired this pnblication either
directly or indirectly, through his
friends, we have not the slightest donbt.
The aconsation is made at a most oppor
tune time and deals a crushing blow to
Mr. Blaine and his hopes. Before a
great while the Repnblican Nominating
Convention will assemble and Mr.
Blaine will have his time so fully oc
cupied in oontradioting this shamefnl
story that he will not be able to make
much headway against the oombined
forces of Morton and Conklino. We
suppose that in the natural order of
things a denial will soon be forthcoming,
is, perhaps, already in process of trans
mission by telegraph, but the case is
stated so circumstantially that Mr.
Blaine mast do something more than
deny; he must disprove. Mr. Harrison
has declined to make any statement
about the matter, bat has signified bis
willingness to tell all he knows to a
Congressional Investigating Committee.
We do not see how any committee of
the Honse can take cognizance of
the matter unless it be charged that the
Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad
made this loan to Mr. Blaine for tbe
purpose of procuring legislation favor
able to that oompany, or as a reward for
past services in the same direction. The
inference is plain that such was the
object of this extraordinary transaction,
but until a direct charge is made Con
gress, it seems to ns, is powerless to act
iu the matter. A nice sense of honor
would cause Mr. Blaine to construe the
statement of the Sentinel as an imputa
tion upon his offioial as well as personal
integrity,and to ask of Oongress a com
mittee of investigation. It will be re
membered that in the campaign of 1872,
when Mr. Blaine was a candidate for re
election to Congress, the charge was
published that he had taken money from
the Credit Mobilier Company—an out
growth of the Union Pacifio Railroad.
Mr. Blaine denied the truth of the ac
cusation in a lengthy letter, detailing
his long public services-and the small
ness of his means. When Congress
met the following December be
descended from the Speaker’s chair,
called the attention of the Honse to the
subject, and asked the appointment of
an investigating committee. The oom
mittee was appointed, and though many
other prominent men were besmirched
and disgraced by the testimony adduced,
Mr. James G. Blaise was completely ex
onerated from any connection with the
shameless frands of the Credit Mobilier.
We do not think that similar action now
will, be productive of like results. If
the money was loaned, it was loaned (or
rather given) for an improper purpose.
Why should the Directors of the Union
Pacific Railroad lend the Speaker of the
Honse of Representatives sixty-four
thousand dollars on bogus collateral,
unless they expected a substantial re
turn from the investment in the shape
of Congressional services? As Speaker,
he had the appointment of all commit
tees, and any question affecting the in
terests of the road was, to a certain ex
tent, subject to his management and
control.
Hie fruit crop of Monroe county has
been cat off one-third by the cold,
GOVERNOR JAMES M. SMITH,
He Declines to Allew His Nsne te Go Refer#
the Convention for Renominetion.
Columbus, Ga., March 13, 1876.
Hon. James M. Smith, Atlanta, Ga.:
Deab Sib —The undersigned, your
former neighbors, and still your friends,
have, with great surprise and indigna
tion, read the unwarranted assaults
upon yon and your administration, and
throngh your administration upon the
Democratic party of Georgia, by corres
pondents through the pnblic press, the
most notable of which appeared in a re
cent issue of the New York Herald, and
throngh such means have obtained a
wide circulation in the States of the
Union, calculated to prejudice not only
the high standing of our State, but the
good name of tbe Democratic party of
Georgia. We do not know from whom
these attacks have proceeded, whether
from the holders of discredited bonds,
partisans or personal enemies. We be
lieve, however, that they do both yon
and the party which placed you in power
gross injustice, and place yon in a posi
tion where the good name of the State,
the welfare of the party whioh placed
yon in office, as well as your own digni
ty, require that the truth or falsity of
these assaults shall be brought for de
cision before the people of Georgia.
And to that end we very respectfully
urge _ upon . you. the - groat propriety of
meeting these assaults by again permit
ting your name to be placed before the
people of Georgia as a candidate for re
nomination to the office of Governor by
the Democratic party of Georgia. Should
you oonsent to do so we feel assured
that you will be sustained by a majority
at least equal to that given you at tbe
last election.
We are, very respectfully, your friends
and fellow-citizens, •
R. H. Chilton, W.' L. Salisbury, John
H. Martin, W. J. Watt, Peter Preer, E.
C. Hood.
The Reply of the Governor.
Atlanta, Ga., April 7, 1876.
Messrs. R. H. Chilton, W. L. Salis
bury, John H. Martin, W. J. Watt,
Peter Freer and E. C. Hood, Colum
bus, Ga.:
My Dear Sirs —l have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt of your favor of
the 13th ult., asking me to allow my
name to be presented to the people for
renomination for the office of Governor
of Georgia. The gravity of the ques
tion thus presented will, I trust, be ac
cepted as a sufficient reason for any de
lay in replying to your esteemed com
munication. It is known to you, gen
tlemen, as well as to other friends in
different parts of the State, tha! I have
not desired a re-election to the offiee I
now hold. So far as my own personal
feelings are concerned, I have made no
secret of my intention to retire at the
expiration of my present term. If, for
a little while past, I have appeared to
occupy a different position from that
originally taken and freqently announc
ed, it was in consequence of assaults
mode on my administration and, indi
rectly through me, upon the Legislature
and the Democratic party in the State.
It is not necessary to discuss the mo
tives whioh inspired these attacks, far
ther than to say that they were of suoh
a character as, in my judgment, made it
proper for me to suspend my first inten
tion, and hold myself in a position to
answer any demand which the party
might think fit to lay upon me. It is
now manifest, however, that any injury
resulting from these assaults has fallen
alone upon those whose interests they
were designed- to subserve—whether
the assailants be, as you suppose, “Alie
holders of discredited bonds, partisans,
or personal enemies.” This considera
tion leaves me free to return to my origi
nal purpose and desire, and to decline,
as I now do, with great respect, to have
my name presented to tho approaching
gubernatorial convention for renomina
tion. I eannot conclude this communi
cation without returning my thanks to
you for the flattering terms in whioh you
are pleased to express your friendly re
gards for me. I desire, also, to make
my grateful acknowledgments to the
people of Georgia for the unmerited
honor they have conferred upon me,
and for the generous support they
have aecorded my efforts to admin
ister the great trust confided to
my hands. When we recall the cha
otic state in which we found every de
partment of the government in 1872,
and contrast it with our present peace
ful and happy condition, I feel that we
have cause for congratulation. Our pub
lic debt has been ascertained, and the
interest on it is now regularly paid,
while our bonds are, to-day, rated for
about par in the great centres of trade.
Our educational system has been estab
lished on a solid foundation; our varied
resources are being rapidly and system
atically developed; and our judiciary,
for integrity and ability, is second to
none in the entire Union. I can only
wish that the prosperous career upon
whioh we have entered may suffer no
check, that both in our State and Federal
relations we may enjoy for many genera
tions to come the blessings of peace
and liberty. I am, gentlemen,
Your friend and obedient servant,
James M. Smith.
SHODDY SOCIETY.
Luxurious Livins in Washington.
[ “Oath” in the New York Graphic.]
The prominenoe given in the pnblio
prints to the rich wardrobes of ladies
and their relative beauty, has helped to
enoonrage the love of display and con
oeit which we see coming ont in the
Belknap and other cases. In former
days ladies and men in pnblio position
were protected by tbe discrimination
between offioial and mercantile life.
Twenty years ago a family of tradesmen
in the Avenue did not intrude in offioial
society, and he who published the names
or addresses of persons at any of the
large receptions never had the opportu
nity to repeat the performance. Conse
quently fine clothes did not enter into
the rivalry of the coart.
In onr day, however, persons are in
troduced to the receptions withont a pre
vious acquaintance with their host, and
it is common for women from distant
cities to visit the capital accompanied
by dozens of trunks filled with ward
robes specially prepared for a “Wash
ington season.”
The example of dress on the stage of a
theatre, on the public promenade, or in
a drawing-room is infections, and mere
money has come to be rated as too nec
essary an element in good official society.
Yet what woman will be bold enough to
make the innovation of dressing in the
plain way customary thirty years ago ?
And who gives Washington women their
dresses ? Husbands ?
What we see in Washington is patent
all over the country, particular in the
cities. In dress, however, and in the
rsion for display there are gradations.
yon will select, say fifty women, in
Washington sooiety, and taboo them
from the newspapers and from social
consideration, yon will cat off the ex
travagance.
Here, for example, is a real estate
agent, who a few years ago was dealing
in swamp lots somewhere in the West.
Now his honse is furnished from Paris,
Brussels and London. The carpets were
woven to fit the room and the mirrors
slipped through the custom house with
out expense. Here is a patent attorney
who has worked hard all his life, and
sees no other way to distinguish his
wealth but to build a palace. Here is a
doctor who turned up from Hie Muskra
country as a hospital surgeon, and now
appears in the street only behind a pur
of cream oolored horses with a driver,
and representing in no feeble way Death
on a pale horse. Here is a retired army
officer with a porle- cochere Mansard,
pavifiions, lace curtains, and a house
open to let his daughters be seen from
morning till midnight. Here is a broth
er-in-law of a dignitary who, not satisfied
with his relative oonaition in the city of
his birth, makes an apparition in Wash
ington society with a great house. Here
is a poor German engineer, who has been
drawing sections of boilers and ship
beams for thirty years, bow living be
hind Picton stone. Here is an instru
ment-maker, who furnishes surveying
tools for the Land Office, keeping his
family by the year in Eoropei Here ia
a retired tavern keeper, with twenty
bath-rooms in his honse. expecting to be
married into the first official rank. Here
is a little chap who used to be a page in
Congress surrounded with paintings,
horses and laces. Here is an old curb
stone broker whose daughters have got
into good society at last, mid their house
is in the West End covered over with
sine ornaments. Hoe is a miller who
got rich by building a patriotic monu
ment, and he belongs to the gentlest set
of all. Here is a stone cotter with a
bank, a country villa, and n transformed
town mansion, nil bristling with mina
ret* and pinnacles. Here is a claim
agent wbo cares out of the war without
a penny, inhabiting a castle made of
pressed . brick set in lampblack mortar
and renting on granite piers.
The time is approaching when cards
will be scanned before tbe lady of the
honse comes down to receive strange
callers, and when the servant at the door
will perform the duty of asking tor in
vitations and resisting intruders.
ANOTHER CANDIDATE ELIMINAT
ED FROM THR CANVASS.
The Mu From Alulae aad the Uuiau PuiSc
Railroad—He Gets A way with Sixty Thou-
Hand—On Bogus Collateral—A Resolution
That Wu Nut Pressed—Guue to Meet Bail,
ler Colfax.
Cincinnati, April 11,—The following
appears as a doable leaded editorial in
the Indianapolis Sentinel, of this morn
ing: “J. 0. Harrison, a prominent bank
er of this city, is in possession of a se
cret the exposure of whioh will forever
blast the prospects of a certain candi
date for the Presidency. It is this: An
entry appears in the minutes of the Ex
eentive Committee of the Board of Di
rectors of the Union Paoifio Railroad
Oompany of December 16th, 1871, show
ing that $64,000 of the company’s money
found its way into the hands of some per
son who had no right to it. At a meet
ing of the Board of Directors in Septem
ber, 1872, Mr. Harrison, who has been
a member of the Board tor a number of
years, throngh the inflnenoe of Senator
Morton, introduced a resolution calling
for the committee to investigate the
matter, and report who reoeived the
large snm of money and all the circum
stances attending its disbursement. No
sooner had this been done than Mr.
Rollins, Secretary of the Board, quietly
went to Mr. Harrisoh and said, ; *Tou
must withdraw that resolution; an in
vestigation will involve Mr. Blaine and
defeat his re-election. He got the
money.’ The resolution was with
drawn. These facte are known to Mr.
Wilson, of lowa, who was present at the
time the resolution was introduced and
withdrawn as a member of the Board of
Directors. It is proper to say a lot of
worthless Arkansas Railroad bonds were
deposited as collateral security for this
money. Nobody will be more surprised
at the appearanoe of this artiole than
Mr. Harrison."
Mr. Harrison has been asked for a
statement of tbe faots, but declines to
say more than that if brought before a
Congressional committee he will tell 1 ' all
he knows abont it without concealment.
BLAINE'S DEFENSE.
A Pour Attempt to Escape.
Washington, April 12.— Mr. Blaine
says he had prepared himself for a de
fense against the artiole whioh appeared
in yesterday’s Indianapolis paper. He
has a letter, dated April 6tb, from Mor
ton, Bliss & Cos., one from E, H. Rol
lins, March 31st, stating positively that
no money had been paid in any way or
to any body by the oompany in whioh
Blaine was interested in any manner.
Full Text uf Hie Letter.
The following is a oopy of a letter
written by Blaine to a friend in, Michi
gan, touching the story made public by
the Indianapolis Sentinel:
Washington, D. 0., March 22, 1876.
My Dear Friend —Yours reoeived. I
beg you will not be distnrbed by Wash
ington rumors respecting myself. The
story of my having ever reoeived money
or anything else of value from the Union
Paoifio Bailroad Company or any of its
officers or agents is not only false but
absurd. There is not the slightest
foundation for it, and I can scarcely
oonoeive that any one would be credu
lous enough to believe it. It has been
circulating in Washington for some
weeks past, in an indefinite, irrespon
sible and intangible way. Whenever it
shall assume form and shape and pub
licity, it will receive a conclusive an
swer. Meantime I trust yon will hold a
Eeaceful mind. I shall never be injured
y slurs of this kind. Sincerely yours,
J. G. Blaine.
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Meeting of Directors—Operations of the Com
pany Online the Fast Year.
The bi-monthly meeting of the Direc-'
tors of the Georgia Bailroad took place
at the banking honse of the oompany, in
this city, yesterday. Twelve of the Di
rectors were present. It was stated that
a contract had been made for building
an iron bridge aoross the Oconee river,
to cost 89,000. The work had already
commenced, and the bridge would be
finished in about forty-five days. There
would be no interruption in business of
the road in thb meantime. The follow
ing reports of the Cashier and Auditor
were read:
Cashier’s Report.
Comparative statement of the Income and
expenditures of the Georgia Railroad and
Banking Company for the twelve months end
ing April Ist, 1876:
1876—Income from all
sonroes, to date
(12 months) 41,890,846 15
Expenditures 805,592 05
Net income 4585,254 10
1875—Income from all
sources (12 m’s).. 1,488,824 87
Expenditures —1,114,409 37
Net income 4373,916 50
Net increase in ’76. 4211,338 60
Expenses to April Ist,
1875 (12 m0nth5)41,114,909 37
Expenses to April Ist,
1876 (12 months). 805,592 05
Decrease iu 1876. 4309,317 32'
Income to April Ist, 1875
(12 m0nth5)....41,488.824 87
Inoome to April Ist, 1876
(12 months):.... 1,390,846 15
Decrease in 1876 . 4 97,978 72
4211,338 60
Net earnings 1876 585,264 10
Dividends ’62 and ’63... 4 336,000 00
Other charges to profit r
and loss 209,938 06
4545,938 06
39,816 04
Credit to profit and loss,
Ist April, 1875.... 872,848 73
Credit to profit and loss,
Ist April, 1876.... 4911,659 T 7
Auditor’s Report.
February, 1876.
Gross earnings from
paaa’gers and mail 422,637 04
Gross earnings from
freight and expr'ss 84,992 55 4107,589 69
Ordinary expenses.. 56,747 38
Deduct expenses for
connecting ride, etc 56.147 38
Net above ordinary
expenses *50,792 21
Paid for re-rolling
Net above all ex-
IT:'"- *40,384 13
March, 1876.
Gross earnings from
pass’gere and mail. 917,933 80
Gross earnings from •
freight and expr’ss 60,229 89— *7B 168 69
Ordinary expenaes.. 76,301 21
Deduct expenses for
connecting rids, etc 27,900 00— 68 401 21
Net above ordinary
expenses 29,762 48
Paid for re-rolhng
iron rails g. 129 05
For year ending April *Ol 33 43
let, 1876. ’
Gross earnings from
paae’gew and mail. 1273,874 68
Gross earnings from
freight and expr’ss 919,641 66—♦1,193,616 24
Ordinary expenses... 716,326 67
Deduct expenses for
connecting r <U, etc 161,920 97 663,403 70
Hot above ordinary .
expenses .. *640,112 64
Pad for re-rolling
iron rails *65,468 62
Old law eaits com
promised.... ... 9.016 76
Freight cars rebuilt. 10,000 0G
New depots, etc., on
.“•agr-W 3,000 00— 87,474 27
Net above an ex- !
P*"*"- *662,638 27
The comparative statement is as fol
lows:
£*!!£££’ e * rniß *109,709 28
February, 1876—Groea earnings.... 107,697 69
$2,169 67
February. 1875—Total expenses 67,760 68
February, 1876—Total expense* 67,906 46
*666 22
Leaving an exoess in favor of 1876, as
w oo, £ p^m X h 1876 - of 1,614 47
Uandi, 1876—Gross earnings 78,163 69
„ , t , *34.607 95
}**f—2J*at expenses 44,777 84
March, 1876—Total expenses. 66,630 26
T . *11,752 42
Leaving an exoess m favor of 1876,
oompared with 1878, of 1 48 J6O 37
Year ending April 1, 1876-G*ws
zgEiis* Twm/*™**
Year ending April J, 1876—Total ** B^W 80
expense 981,818 09
Year ending April J, 1876—Total
. 840,877 97
Soiihr ol simm. *390.940 12
292,649 a
A. T. STEWART.
A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
The Merchant Prince.
New York, April 10.—A. T. Stewart
died, from inflammation of the bowels,
Saturday evening. His death took plaee
abont 1:45 o’clock. He had been sink
ing rapidly daring the morning, and his
medioal advisers and a few friends, who
were allowed access to his residence,
had given up hopes of his recovery.
The ntmost quietude was maintained—
door bells being mnffled and servants were
kept ip front of tbe door to answer the
calls of visitors. As soon as the rnmor
of his death bad gained circula
tion, the number of callers was
quite numerous, most of them com
ing in carriages and inquiring hur
riedly and anxiously whether the rnmor
was trine. Very few were allowed ad
mittance into the honse. By 3 o’clock
several hundred persons had oongre
fated in front of the house, talking of
tr. Stewart’s death, his wonderful busi
ness snocess and his probable wealth.
His death has taken most people by
surprise, because np to this morning his
symptoms had not taken an alarming
character. Judge Hilton, his long
trusted business adviser, has principal
charge of Mr. Stewart’s business affairs
and was present when he died.
Nkw York, April 11.—Both of Stew
art’s stores will remain dosed until Sat
urday, except for banking and necessary
book-keeping pnrposes. Business will
be resumed Saturday as usual under the
direction of J udge Hilton and Mf. Lib
by. Judge Hilton remarked that there
were seven thousand persons on the pay
roll of the firm and that a sudden stop
page of sneh a business would be a great
oalamity.
A Sketch of tbe Career of the Dead Mer
chant Prince.
[Charleston News and Courier.]
Alexander Turney Stewart was bom in
the neighborhood of Belfast, Ireland,
about 1803, was eduoated at Trinity Col
lege, Dublin, and oame to New York in
1823, at the age of twenty. He taught
school for a short time, and then open
ed a small dry goods store on the west
side of Broadway, opposite the Park.
At th*t time John Jacob Astor was al
ready, worth millions, while Cornelius
Vanderbilt, as Captain for Thomas Gib
bons, had been some six years in the
steamboat business. Stewart was the
last of the three to enter the raoe for
wealth, but be had over his two competi
tors the advantage of a oollege educa
tion. His wonderful executive and ad
ministrative talent, combined with ex
ceptional oommeroialsagaoity and sleep
less activity, soon plaoed him at the
head of the dry goods trade in New York.
In 1848 he built the large marble store
at Broadway and Chambers streets, on
the site of the "Washington Hotel,”
whioh will be remembered by old New
Yorkers as a fashionable resort some
forty years ago, where the young bloods
of the day used to meet, drink, talk,
smoke, dine and wine, and whioh in
fact served all the purposes of a club be
fore those useful institutions oame in
vogue in Gothan.
Stewart’s dry goods palaoe, as it was
oalled, was the marvel of the time. It
acted as an advertisement through the
length and breadth of the land. From
1848 his business grew rapidly, and
gradually assumed the most colossal
proportions. In some branches of the
business he had almost a monopoly.
Buying large quantities, and always for
cash, he enjoyed great advantages in
his foreign purchases, and for a long
time the English, French and German
manufacturers made to him concessions
which no other Amerioan house could
obtain. He foresaw and prepared for
the up-towu movement by bnying the
land bounded by Ninth and Tenth
streets, Broadway and Fourth avenue.
On these lots, covering an area of about
two and one-quarter acres, he erected
the six-story iron building which now
oocupies it. The total investment, land
and buildings, may be roughly esti
mated at $2,750,000. To this establish
ment, in 1862, Mr. Stewart removed his
retail business, and from that time the
down-town store was devoted entirely to
wholesale trade.
Stewart’s Tenth street store is the
largest establishment of the kind in the
world. There is nothing of the sort in
London or Paris whioh at all approaches
it. There are eight floorß—two below
and six above ground, each covering an
area of two and one-quarter aores—thus
making a total of eighteen aores devoted
to retail dry goods purposes. It requires
520 horse power to heat the building,
run the elevators, and work the sewing
machines, which are plaoed in a row on
the fourth floor. There are about two
thousand employees under pay. The
disbursements for running expenses are
over a million of dollars per annum.
The wholesale and retail establishments
combined have sold as high as $50,000,-
000 in one year. At present they proba
bly run in the neighborhood of $33,000,-
000 per annum.
Dnring a successful business oareer of
fifty years Mr. Stewart has been a con
stant buyer of real estate in New York
city, his holdings of real property being
only surpassed by those of the Astor
family. Previous to the death of the
late Wm. B. Astor, in the Fall of 1875,
A. T. Stewart was the second largest
holder of New York city property. He
owned the Grand Union, the largest
Summer hotel at Saratoga. He built
up a oity of his own on Long Island,
known as Garden City, and connected it
with New York by a railroad running to
Hunter’s Point Ferry, East river. This
Garden City was one of his pet schemes;
it is increasing in size and importance
every day. At Glenham, near Fishkill,
he owned large mill properties, which
he was about to improve and develop on
an enormous soale, for general manu
facturing purposes. He had conceived
the idea of substituting domestic fabrics
for a large line of foreign goods now ne
cessarily imported, and expected to be
enabled to offer to the Amerioan publio
a oheaper, better and more enduring
American fabric than any imported arti
cle of the same description now sold in
this market. We will not undertake to
five the current rumors concerning Mr.
tewart’s vast yrealth. Suffice it to say
that Cornelius Vanderbilt’s wealth is es
timated at from $75,000,000 to $80,000,-
000, and Mr. Stewart is said to have
been the richer man of the two. We
very much doubt if there are to-day ten
othet man in the world who could match
him in wealth.
Mr. Stewart was a liberal patron of
the fine arts. His picture gallery is one
of the finest in America. His latest
acquisition was the famous new paint
ing by Meissonier, called the "Charge
des Cuirassiers,” representing a body of
cavalry oharging past Napoleon and his
staff, who recognize the involuntary
burst of enthusiasm from the men. The
painting is the largest that has been sent
from the studio of this artist. It cost
in France $60,000 gold, and with duties,
expenses, gold premium, &e., cost Mr.
Stewart $75,000. Meissonier looks upon
this picture—“lßo7,” as he styles it—as
his chief d'ceuvre.
The great merchant died ohildless,
and until the provisions of his will are
made known, there will be much specu
lation os to how he has disposed of his
enormous fortune. He was not a man
that inspired affection. The oolJ and
stem though inflexibly just traits of his
character, whioh helped to make him
rich, also made him feared and disliked.
His business principles were sound and
simple—to have but one price, and that
as low as he thought he could afford to
sell his goods; to make no misrepresen
tation in regard to goods; to deal with
all customers alike; to advertise liberal
ly and constantly, and to buy only for
cash. He has been the giver of some
munificent charities, as when he sent a
shipload of provisions costing $30,000
to the sufferers by the Irish Famine of
1847, or as when he gave SIOO,OOO to the
Chicago Fire Belief Fund. Yet, in his
private relations, Mr. Stewart was not
accounted a kind man. He never held
any public position. President Grant,
it will be remembered, wanted to make
him Secretary of the Treasury; but his
business relations as an importer dis
qualified him for the place under exist
ing laws, and Congress refused to pass a
special act in his favor. The ramifica
tions of his trade were so enormous and
far reaching that it would be hard to
name a man whose death would have
caused a greater sensation throughout
the Western Hemisphere than that of
A* T. Stewart.
It hong e’er should*™ divinely
A carl of magnificent gold;
I thought, m itlajr there supinely,
Of tie sees that German girls sold,
1 envied the curl so reposing,
Like sunshine or ambient pearl,
-Alt while I was dreamily dosing
It fell with a quivering whirl—
And Out curl—ah ?my dream was then en-
*2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID.
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS
Tnesdty's Items.
The Dahlonega Signal spells it “ruff.”
Bongh on Webster.
Darien is one of the largest lumber
markets in the United States.
A man named Potter was killed by a
mule in Floyd county recently.
The dwelling of W. J. Humphries, in
Rockdale county, was burned last week.
The Darien Timber Gazette is for
Bayard. It couldn’t be for a better
man.
A number of new freight cars have
been purchased for the Northeastern
Bailroad. *
Rev. J. O. A. Clarke writes that Hon,
Julian Hartridge lacks but ono thing—
“the converting grace of God.”
The yoioe of Bob Toombs has been
beard in the United States Supreme
Court for the first time since 1860.
They are threatening to out off the
gas in Savannah. We hope the rule will
not apply to the newspaper offices.
Cave Spring Enterprise: Hon. H. V.
Johnson seems to be gaining strength
the more he is suggested for Governor.
The parties who proposed to woo the
poor house by starting an evening paper
in Colnmbns have abandoned their de
sign.
Columbus editors are required to paste
their photographs on railroad passes in
order to keep the roads from being vic
timized.
It is safe to say, says the Times, that
ten persons are cultivating rice in
Thomas connty to where one cultivated
it before.
The Cuthbert Appeal heard of farm
ers a few days since borrowing money at
twenty-jive per cent, to buy bacon and
corn with.
Tom Marshall killed Aaron Thomas in
the Colnmbns jail Friday, by striking
him on the head with an iron basin.
Both colored.
A yarn faotory is to be started in Ma
con. We had thought that Colonel Wat
son ran an establishment of this kind in
the Telegraph building.
“ A favorite son to tackle Blaine” is
what they call Congressional aspirants
just at present. ’Pears to us the favor
ite sons had better let Blaine alone.
Colonel Mar Sailers J. says the quail
is a very musoular reptile. The hercu
lean task has been long finished, but be
can Still hear the bird singing in his
bowels.
Governor Chamberlain has granted
permission for the Savannah Hussars,
colored, to visit Charleston on the oc
casion of the anniversary celebration of
the Grant Cavalry.
The Monroe Advertiser is for A. D.
Hammond for Congress, and says there
will be a “fuss in the family” unless the
claims of the lower portion of the Fifth
Distriot are recognized.
_ The oirole is oontraoting. It is con
sidered tolerably certain that the candi
date for Governor who knocked his fel
low man out of time the other day hails
from the county of Bibb.
The Monroe Advertiser calls Chief
Jnstioe Warner a “blue nosed Yankee,”
and says the leotures to lawyers and
clients which he injects into his de
cisions are impertinent and unnecessary.
Mean whisky caused a row on Doboy
Island the other night in which several
hundred shots were fired and several
parties wounded. They had better im
prove the whisky or water the powder
on Doboy.
The Griffin News pathetically remarks:
“ Frank, the popular Miller of the Kim
ball House, is suffering from rheumatism
of the eye, so as to disable him from
duty. We are sorry to hear it, but we
suppose the majority of people wont
care.”
Married in Georgia: Samuel Knox, to
Mrs. Hortense Reeder, of Hart; T. H.
S. Brobston, of Madison, to Miss ElleD
Keene, of Atlanta;J. Clarence Stephens,
nephew of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens,
of Crawfordville, to Miss Mamie Hamil
ton, of McDuffie county.
Mr. W. S. Tilman, who lives near
Smithville, Lee county, has wheat meas
uring 36 inches in height, and which
now promises a yield of at least 25 bush
els to the acre. His oat crop is also
very fine. He buys no fertilizers, but
makes all that he uses.
The General Assembly of the Presby
terian Church in the United States
(Southern Presbyterian) is to meet, May
18, in the First Presbyterian Church of
Savannah. The opening sermon is to
be preached by Rev. Moses D. Hoge,
D. D., the Moderator of the last Assem
bly.
The Comptroller General’s books show
that the receipts of the Treasury for the
month of March were 8171,515, which,
with balanoe on hand the first of the
month, made $839,078. The disburse
ments for March were $28,912, leaving
balance in Treasury on the Ist of April,
$810,106.
The Savannah Free Press says Mr.
Jalian Hartridge would make a good
Centennial candidate tor Governor, but
says the First District wishes him to go
back to Congress. The Free Press
adds : “ Southern Georgia has not had
a Governor in the last sixty years. We
will, however, compromise on ex-Gov
ernor H. V. Johnson just now.”
James Baker, a colored man of Mus
oogee connty, raised 800 bushels of corn
and 36 bales of cotton upon rented land
with four head of stock. He has the
cash to buy everything he needs, and
can get SI,OOO whenever he wishes to
borrow. If we must have a colored can
didate for Governor, Mr. James Baker is
onr man.
Thomasville Times: Pennsylvania has
declared through her late State Conven
tion for Hendricks. ( His stock is in the
ascendant. It is worth one hundred
cents in the dollar. Georgia’s delega
tion will go untramelled, but we believe
' that they will be found ready to cast the
vote of the Empire State for Indiana’s
favorite son.
Died in Georgia: Geo. M. Venrable,
of Oolambns; Simeon Bine, of Ellerslie;
Mrs. Strange, of Whitfield county; H.
Foe of Marietta; Mrs. John Stark, Mrs.
Millv McGuire of Thomas county; Mrs.
W, H. Matbewa, of Sumter county; Char
les F, Mills of Savannah; Thomas Can
non of Walton connty; Miss Anna Hat
taway, of Jackson oounty; Bufus S. Ar
mistead, of Early oounty.
They had rather a lively time in
Twiggs oounty the other day. A diffi
culty occurred Tuesday between Mary
land Bentford, T. J. Wood, Teaberry
Newby, John Lamb, and H. S. Newby.
Teaberry Newby was terribly beaten with
a piece of scantling by Bentford, who,
after knocking him insensible, left, pur
sued by H. S. Newby. After walking
some distance, Bentford turned and re
treated with his face to his pursuer, who
pulled out his pistol and fired at him,
whereupon Bentford commenced firing!
advancing in the direction of hia foe!
After emptying his pistol he left. Ex
amination developed the fact that he had
shot Newby in the groin, inflicting a
dangerous and perhaps fatal wound. In
addition to this wound Newby was also
out. severely on the arm with a knife,
Mr. John Lamb was ont severely in the
back with a knife in the hands of Tea
berry Newby. It was at first thought
that be was mortally wounded, but an
examination showed that his wounds
were not necessarily fatal, Teaberry
Newberry was horribly mangled about
the head and face by blows inflioted by
a piece of scantling. He was knocked
insensible, and was thought at one time
to have been dead, butregained his con
sciousness, and will no doubt soon re
cover, Bentford and Wood escaped un
injured,
Wednesday's Items,
The freshet washed away several
bridges in Monroe oounty.
The Constitution says Farrow threat
ens to make “the fir fly.” What fir ?
The old friends of Grady’s fish pond
letter will be glad to see it again in print.
Washington county oomolains of too
much litigation and too heavy Conrt ex
penses.
The Atlanta Times is displeased that
the Senate rejected Dana as Minister to
England.
The Borne Commercial says thousands
of Georgians will regret to hear of Gov.
Smith s decimation.
The peach crop of Clayton connty,
says the Jonesboro News, was killed out
by the late cold spell.
The Ellijay Courier Gart-rell mad the
other day, and said Gartrell would sweep
the mountain country.
Alexander J, Lawton, father of Gen.
A. B. Lawton, died in Savannah recent
ly at the ripe age of 86.
The dwelling boose of Mr. W. J.
Humphries, of Bookdale county, was de
stroyed by fire recently.
Judge Lemon, of McDonough, can’t,
go into the offioe of the Griffin News
without getting a squeeze.
A man attempted to eiroulate counter
feit nickles iu Cartersville theotherday,
but was found out and rau away.
The Monroe Advertiser wishes a Re
publican to run for Governor, so as to
keep the Democracy well in hand.
Nearly all the bridges and mill dams
of Henry, Fayette and Clayton counties
are reported washed away by the late
freshet.
Mr. A. H. Shaver announces that he
will shortly begin the publication of a
new paper at Conyers, to bo called the
Courier.
Hon. Julian Hartridge has consented
to deliver the literary address at the
next commencement of Wesleyan Fe
male College.
The election for a member of the Leg
islature (to be held next October) is
stirring Putnam county from centre to
circumference.
They have “editorial cabbages” in the
Savannah News office. They are not
employed on the paper but are sent in
by the neighbors.
No, Harris; we didn’t try to take
West to the canal, but some impatient
taxpayers wish somebody would take
the oaual to the West.
Monroe county recommends Col. Geo.
W. Adam as a delegate from the Fifth
District to St. Louis. Well, we don’t
oare Adam if she does.
The Sandersville Messenger is making
an uproar about au Uproar House for
that progressive town. The people of
Sanders-ville have everything.
The Atlanta Constitution thinks real
estate is going up iu Atlanta. Wo
shouldn’t be surprised if a good many
other things “go up” in Atlanta.
The Savannah Free Press advocates
the extension of the Central Railroad
from Eatonton to Athens. Has’nt tho
Central already bit off more than it
can ohaw?
They arrested a bear in Rome the oth
er day for performing without a license.
This is unbearable. They’ll have trou
ble bruin ia that town before long, and
after trouble will b-ruin.
Stovall, of the Athens Georgian, plays
a pun us by saying that we pun. We
never pun a pun anything, and if the
Georgian man don’t retraot He’ll get his
head Stovall iu. You heard us.
Mr. Reddick and Mr. Jas. L. Wheelor
have contributed money to the Ladies’
Memorial Association, sufficient to placo
marble foot and head pieces to two
graves of stranger soldiers buried in
Eatonton cemetery.
Messrs. Roquemore, Peaooekand Gid
dings, oitizens of Dodge county, havo
been arrested by a Deputy U. S. Mar
shal, at the instanoe of a man named
Edge, who was some time ago takou
from his house and flogged.
The Ordinary of Washington county
thinks it so much better to marry than
burn, that he will take a note for a li
cense where parties are short of cash.
People will also take a note that this is
not the ordinary way of doing business.
The recent freshet drove hundreds of
hares off their roosts in Oconee swamp,
on the Centrnl Railroad, and on Tuesday
last they could be seen along the line of
the road perohed upon and clinging to
everything that gave them the slightest
foothold.
Rome Courier: Noble’s iron works for
the year just closed turned out 15,000
kegs of nails and spikes, about 3,000
tons of bar iron, 4,500 pair of car wheels
and axles, besides a largo amount of
job work. They now feed five hundred
and fifty-eight persons directly depen
dent on them. Their freight bills last
year were over $26,000. That is the way
to develop Georgia.
Darien Gazette : John Elverson, the
atrocious negro scoundrel who at
tempted to commit a rape on a little
white girl in this county a few days
since, and Eugene Grant, who commit
ted the assault with intent to murder
another negro some time since on Do
boy Island, succeeded in making their
escape from the Darien jail on the 6th
of March, at 7 o’clock, a. m. They had
succeeded in removing tho bars over the
door of their cell during the night, and
when the servant entered tho corridor
to prepare breakfast for the prisoners,
they rushed out, knocked her down and
escaped.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Lanrens connty hns paid $65,000 of
taxes and owes SB,OOO.
Newberry has a centennial dame—
Mrs. Price Young—one hundred years
old.
The Democrats of Laurens are organ
izing on the right line. Besistance to
tyrants is obedience to God.
Mrs. John W. Berry was waylaid and
whipped by two or more colored women
near Branohville not long since.
Mr. Wm. Earle’s character was as
sessed at S6O by the jury which tried
his case against the Greenville Moun
taineer.
Mr. John E. Tobin was killed by a
band of Mexican raiders on the 19th of
March in Texas. Mr. Tobin was a na
tive of Barnwell connty, and son of Mrs.
Sarah E. Tobin, of Orangeburg.
Died in South Carolina: Mrs. Eliza
beth Dansbv, Newberry; Edwin Cun
ningham, Union; Mrs. Mary B. Hix,
Lanrens; Mrs. Elizabeth Wells, Lau
rens; Bev. Tyre L. Boper, Pickens.
The following aro the delegates from
Barnwell to the State Democratic Con
vention: Johnson Hagood, TANARUS, J. Counts,
I. S. Bamberg, J. S. Stoney, T. J. Black,
John W. Holmes, G. B. Lartigue, W-
T. Blanton.
The dwelling of Mr. John Rodgers! in
Anderson county, eight miles from the
city of Greenville, was destroyed by fire
on Thursday last, and Mr. Bodgers’
mother, a very feeble old lady, was
burned to death with it,
Mrs. Elisabeth Abernathy, who was,
perhaps, the oldest person in Sumter
county, died at the residence of her son
in-law, Colonel J. E. Rembert, near
Mechanicsville, on Monday, the 8d in
stant. Her age was over one hundred
years.
Married in South Carolina: N. J.
Holmes to Miss Lucy E. Bimpson, of
Lanrens; J. E. Bboads to Miss Mary
Griffin, of Anderson; W. E. Pelliam to
Miss Carolina Brantley, of Newberry;
Percy Brown to Miss Rosa Jones, of
Newberry.
Jim Floyd and Richmond Chesnut,
two prisoners in Kershaw county jail,
made their escape on the night of tho
22d of Marolx by prising up a portion of
the floor with a piece of iron which they
had wrenched from the door of their
cell. The former was awaiting trial for
stealing a mule, and the latter was serv
ing a sentence of four months.
Mr. Chandler, a oondnctor, and Jerry,
a colored brakeman, on the Air Lino
Railroad, have been arrested by U. S.
Marshal. Hubbard upon the chargo of
ejecting ! from the oars, some mouths
since, two colored men, because they re
fused to occupy cars set apart especially
for colored persons. The case comes
up under the Civil Bights law.
There is great destitution in Colleton,
in the vicinity of Saltketchie and the
Blue House. A large number of fami
lies are said to be without even bread,
and dependent upon tho charity of their
neighbors, who are nearly as destitute
as themselves. Colleton Grange, in that
neighborhood, made an appeal for aid
some time sinoe.
The Democratic Convention of Ker
shaw oounty met on Saturday last for
the purpose of electing delegates to the
State Convention. The following dele
gates were ohosen: J. B. Kershaw, J. D.
Kennedy, W. M. Shannon, J. R. Shaw,
L. J. Patterson, Dove Seegers. Colonel
Shannon declined, and W. D. Trantham
was appointed in his place.
Mr. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger
will be pnt to the blush when he reads
the following lines, taken from the
Union Times, commemorative of the
marriage of Wm. P. Willingham, rail
road agent at Alston, to Miss M. Ella
Elkin :
Your days, now Billy, will be sweet,
If you your dear Elia will kindly treat,
And this I know you’ll not fail in
For you’ve always been kind to brother rail
road men.
And Billy, now don’t neglect your W. B.’s
neither, No, nor date,
And keep yoar Accounts oorreot and straight;
And as to selling tickets, I need scarcely tell
That yon understand that business perfectly
well.
Now, Billy, keep your earthly schedule square
and even,
So that when you quit railroading you’ll ascend
to Heaven.
A few changes will make the lines an
swer equally as well-when Mr. Willing
ham “qnits railroading and ascends to
Heaven,”