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OLD SERIES-VOL. XCI NEW SERIES—VOL IL TEBMfI. THE DAILY CHRONId E * SENTINEL, the oldest newspaper in the Sooth, is published deity, except Moods? . Terms: Per year, 410 ; sir months. 45; three months, 42 50. THE WEEKLY ;HRONICLE A SENTINEL is published every Wednesday. Terms : One year, 42; six months, 41 THE TRI WEEKLY CHRONICLE A SENTI NEL is published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Terms: One year, 45; six months, 42 50 BCBBCSIPTIONS in all cases In advance, and no paper continued after the expiration of the time paid for. BATES OF ADVERTISING IN DAILY.-All transient advertisements will be charged at the rate of 41 per square each insertion for the first week. Advertisements in Tri-Week ly, 41 per square; in Weekly. 41 per square. Marriage and Funeral Notices, 41 sscb. Special Notices, 41 per square. Special rates will be made for advertisements running for one month or longer. ALL COMMUNICATIONS announcing candi dates for office—from County Constable to members of Congress—will be charged at the rate of twenty cents per line. All announce ments must be paid for in advance. 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,”