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gtyronttle anti Smtmtl
WEDNESDAY APRIL 19. 1876.
Tn slaves of the Bos squirm ever;
time the key turn s in the look. Beat
easy, gentlemen, the lid will never riw
for when it does the pc-a-er of the Be
will pass away.
Virginia has declared for Blaini in
apite of the sixty-four thousand dollar
grab, just as New Hampshire went for
the Radicals in spite of Bblxnaf. Mob
•ton, however, triumphed at Columbia.
The Carolina Radicals are opposed to
stealing. ‘
We believe the following would bes
very satisfactory ticket for delegate*
from the Btate-at-large to St. Louis:
R. EL Lester, of Chatham; Q*o. T.
Barnes, of Richmond; Martin J. Craw
ford, of Columbus; and A. R. Wrioht,
of Floyd. _
The cunning Mr. Blaine knew it wa*
coming all the time, and had prepared
to meet it. Unfortunately he has noi
met it up to date. The charge against
him still stands and has not been dis
proves And the Cincinnati Convention
is daily approaohing nearer and nearer.
The trembling knees have ceased to
shake and quivering nerves are still
again. Blodgett has been released
upon moderate bail, and there is no rea
son to believe that he will ever be
brought to trial. Certain patriotic
hearts swelled with joy w>en the glad
tidings were received.
We would’nt swap our rusty short
tailed blue for the mantle of Enoch and
Elijah. Did’nt we say that Cherokee
Georgia had a Gubernatorial nag tied
out in the mountains ? Didn’t we say
that the name of that nag was Wofford?
And hasn’t John W. Wofford been put
forward as a candidate for Governor
sinoe the withdrawal of Gov. Smith ?
Some one has sent us a marked copy
of the Lockport (N. Y.) daily Union,
containing an article advocating the
nomination of Judge Sanford E
Church. We are afraid someone i>
taking much useless trouble and paying
unnecessary postage, In the first place
no candidate from New York will be
nominated at St. Louis. And in the
second Judge Church stands no
more chance of a nomination than s
Cammanche Indian does of being eleoted
a member of the Frenoh Academy.
The Democrats of Connecticut made
very large gains in the Legislature—their
majority being nearly double that of
last year in the House and the Senate. But
they failed to carry the Third Congress
ional District. In that district instead of
running a Democrat they put an unwill
ing Liberal—Mr. David A. Wells—in
the field. One Republican was set up
against another, and the regular Repub
lican won the day. If a “straight” Dem
ocrat had been nominated he would pro
bably have been elected.
The patriots who so loudly cursed
Blodoett in his exile now say they think
it “inexpedient” to bring him to trial,
and bewail the expense of the proceed
iugs against him. The key to the pa
triots’ mystery is simple. Mr. Blod
oett is the possessor of an unimpaired
memory, a fluent tongue and a tin Box
full of papers. That tin Box is the lamp
of Aladdin; whenever Blodoett touohes
it he can command what he desires.
The slaves of the Box are numerous and
powerful. Summon them often, Mr.
Blodoett.
The Courant says Jat Gould’s Union
Pacific Road having, thanks to the libe
rality of Congress, an undisputed mo
nopoly of the trans-continental travel,
and having also no fear of hostile legis
lation, refuses to agree with the other
roads of the country in a reduction of
twenty-five per cent, in passenger rates
during the Centennial. This is the road
which cannot pay its interest on the
bonds held by the Government, although
it pays eight per cent, interest to it*
stockholders, and, according to rumor,
expects to do still better as soon as Con
gress has adjourned.
Ir anj additional evidence were need*
ed to show the utter baselessness of the
charges against Mr. Geo. H. Pendle
ton it is furnished in the statement of
the oldest of the Bowler heirs that was
published in the Chronicle and Senti
nel yesterday morning. The desperate
effort made by malignant Radicals and
treacherous Democrats to injure Mr.
Pendleton has signally failed. Mr. Pen
dleton stands as high to-day as he ever
did in the estimation of his fellow-men.
There is not the slightest stain upon his
honor.
Hon. John W. Wofford has written
a letter an opposition to the recent de
cision by the Supreme Court upon the
homestead question. He thinks women
and children should have a homestead
that oannot be taken from them, even
with the consent of the husband or
father. He is in favor of a Constitu
tional Convention now, though hitherto
opposed to one, because he thinks a
Convention will seoure a homestead in
auoh a way that the Courts canuot dis
turb it. He wishes the issue of “Conven
tion ” or “No Convention” made in the
approaching election for Governor and
members of the Legislature.
The Democratic oountry press of Il
linois is just now shrieking for David
Davis for President, and the politicians
in the East, by all accounts, have some
thought of him. The Pekin Times, the
Rockford Journal, the Cairo Bulletin ,
and other party organs, declare that he
is the very man to save the oountry.
But the Keokuk (fate City about hits
the nail on the head when it says : “It
is not probable that the party will re
peat the experiment of 1872. Judge
Davis never was a Democrat. And to
sell out a great party that does exist to
get the vote of an imaginary third party
that doesn’t exist has ceased to be a
profitable venture in Amerioan politics.”
The Savannah News says : “ We en
tirely agree with our ootemporary of
the Augusta Chronicle that Georgia
Congressmen should not be sent as
delegates to St. Louis. We have no
donbt that the Democracy of Georgia
can select a delegation in every respect
worthy to represent them in the National
Convention without drawing upon the i
present worthy delegates in Congress.
Onr delegates to the nominating conven
tion should be trustworthy, representa
tive men, selected by the people from
among the people—men who do not
seek the position, but who will faith
fully discharge the honorable trust,
with an eye single to the welfare of the
Democratic party aud the nation.
Pbss’dxntial candidates are being
sapidly stripped of what little character
they may have had when the can fas*
commenced. Here are some of the
charges published against Mr. Wash
borne : That he received $256,000 for
information given to whisky men while
Chairman of the Ways and Meant Com
mittee. When Washedseb ran for the
United States Senate against Dwi
Yates, there were those who believed he
sed bribery, and there was so much in
dignation that Wh. Pm Kellogo, now
Governor of Louisiana, attacked him
with a cane. Worse than all, he got a
Custom House, costing $150,000, and a
Marine Hospital, oosting SIOO,OOO, put
up at Galena, on a lot which was be
lieved to have been bis own, and no
revenue has ever been collected there,
end no sick marines are ever to be had
in that part of the country. Thehoepi
tal building was finally sold by the Gov
ernment for only $1,700. The lot, for
which the Government paid some $6,000,
was worth about S3OO.
Avery rich vein of gold is being
worked within the corporate limits of
OUTLAY FOB FOSTAOB.
The New York World fumUhea some
interesting and instructive figures con
cerning the comparative outlay for post
age in several named cities. Taking an
average of twenty-two cities with the
highest postal receipts it finds that the
o tizens pay an annual per capita of
|2 01 for postage. Boston pays the
largest sum, amounting to 8961,284 gross,
or 80 per head- New York pays
|3 16, and Chicago $3 08. The Brook
lyn per capita is only forty-two cents;
but an average of the popu'ation and
the postal receipta of Brooklyn and New
York show that the per capita is $2 34
for the entire population. This is less
than that of San Francisco, $2 83; In
dianapolis, <2 81, and Pittsburgh, $2 52;
but it is greater than the receipts at Al
beny, $1 91; Rochester, 81 90; Provi
dence, 81 79, and Cincinnati, 81 65. The
more Southern oities do not patronize
the poet office to the same extent Bal
timore pays 81 28 per capita; Washing
ton, 81 56; Louisville, 81 50; Philadel
phia, 81 43; St. Louis, 81 43; Kan
sas City, $1 26, and New Orleans, 81 06,
being the loweet average. The Detroit
.fflee receives 82 34 per capita; Gleve
alod, 82, and Milwaukee $1 91.
actjbon and him doom.
Governor Chamberlain, of South Car
olina, has sustained a second crushing
defeat at the hands of Elliott, Whittb
morb, Swails A Cos. The fisrt was on
the eleotion of WhipAb and Moses, but
the strength of public opinion enabled
him to pluck the sting from this disaster
and to seemingly turn the tables upon
his enemies. The second was in the
State Republican Convention that met in
Columbia last Thursday. In his last
defeat he will reoeive little sympathy
either at home or abroad. Most people
will see little difference between Cab
dozo and Elliott, or between T. J.
Mackey and Whittemobe, and few peo
ple in South Carolina will care whether
the Radical delegation from that State
votes for Mobton or Blaine at Cin
cinnati. The scenes in the Convention
were turbulent and disgraceful in the
extreme, and very effectually point their
own moral. Such epithets as “ robber ”
and “liar” were bandied about
with amazing volubility. Elliott
drew a pistol upon Judge Mackey, and
in the melee the Reform Governor
narrowly escaped having his crown
craoked by some enthusiastic admirer
of that much persecuted jurist, Whif
peb. When the row had been calmed,and
the business of the Convention proceed
ed, Chamberlain found himself in a
hopeless minority. He was beaten, two
votes to one, for so poor a position as
temporary Chairman of this Sanhedrim
of scoundrels, and by such a man as
“Senator” Swails. A full set of Mor
ton delegates was selected to go to Cin
cinnati, and the Reform Governor can
retire to the State House to meditate
over the mutability of human affairs
and over the weakness of his grip on
the soamps of whom he was so long the
ally and oonnsellor. In no other State
in the Union wonld a Governor leave
the Executive office and a Judge the
Ben oh to take part in a political Conven
tion, bnt there is no sqneamishness
about such things among the Sonth
Caiolina Radicals, and we are not at all
surprised at the participation of Mackey
and Ch mbkrlatn in the fray. It will
be a happy day when the Democracy of
Sonth Carolina rids the State of all this
rubbishy
ur. hill and the illicit DIS
TILLERS.
The Washington correspondent of the
Savannah News writes a long letter ap
parently seeking to prove that the fail
ure of the effort to have the illicit dis
tillers of North Georgia pardoned is due
to the fact that Mr. B. H. Hill, anx
ious to have all the credit for himself,
neglected to take steps which might
have divided the honor, bnt would have
secured the desired clemency. The
correspondent alleges that a petition
signed by a number of attorneys and
citizens in Atlanta was sent by General
Gartrell “to the Georgia delegation
in Congress, especial supervision being
given, however, to Hon. B. H. Hill,
because most of the prisoners reside in
his District.” He says that none of the
delegation were consulted about the
matter by Mr. Hill, “ except, possibly,
Dr. Felton.” Colonel Blount says
Mr. Hill came to him with a petition
drawn by himself and bearing his
(Hill’s) signature and that of Dr. Fel
ton. This petition Messrs. Blount and
Candler signed, and it was suggested
that the former should sign the names
of Messrs. Cook, Habtmdge and Smith,
who were absent from their seats, but
he declined to do so. The correspon
dent also says that neither Senator Gor
don nor Senator Norwood were given an
opportunity to sign it. He oan find in
the office of the Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue only one petition, signed
by Hill and Felton, and insinuatingly
asks what became of the other two : of
the one sent on by Gartrell and the
one signed by Candler and Blount ?
The Georgia Senators and Representa
tives seem to have been unduly sensitive
about the matter or they might have
gone to the President themselves and
asked for the pardon of these distillers.
The whole thing seems a very puerile
affair, and we are surprised at the jeal
ousy and bad feeling that it seems to
have occasioned. If the other members
are so jealous of Mr. Hill, or if Mr.
Hill is so jealous of the other mem
bers that the delegation cannot act in
harmony upon a question of this char
acter, their capacity for usefulness will
soon be destroyed.
THE TAXATION OF MOBTOWBS.
The recent decision of the Supreme
: Court of California exempting mort
gages from taxation is attracting great
and general attention. We find an
interesting summary of it in the
Charleston News and Courier. The
opinion of the Court was delivered by
Judge MoKombt, one other Judge con
curring. Two other Judges filed each a
! concurrent opinion, and another Jndge
dissented. The opinion is based on an
interpretation of the taxing clause of
the Constitution of California, which
provides that taxation shall be equal
aud uniform throughout the State, and
that all property shall be taxed in pro
portion to its value. Personal property
is defined by the Legislative Code to in
clude money, goods, chattels, evidences
of debt, and “thing* in action." Now,
uniesa the Constitution restrains the
Legislature from its endeavors to tax
“evidences of debt and things in action,"
not only mortgages, but debts, solvent or
insolvent, and righto of aotion, whether
arising ex contractu or ex delicto, should
be assessed and taxed, thus involving an
absurdity. The Court decides that sinoe
property must be assessed ad valorem
aud proportionally, only tangible and
visible property can be assessed. Mort
gages are not property within the pur
vie# of the Constitution. Bights of ao
tion, even if assessed, cannot pay the
tax; the property encumbered must ulti
mately bear the burden, and, having
already been taxed for itosJf, is thus
compelled to submit to double taxation,
which violates i he Constitution. The
Court also puts tfie where s tax is
levied of PW hundred per.qaefl,, practi
cally appropriating the property in
the State. After tk* tangible property
shall have been gathered in, evi
dences of indebtedness ■” see shown to
be worthless paper.- *°
value. The Cow* WW Another
illustration :
If a debtor to found to be the *Wd
*I,OOO, and to mtisewl ** that *Mfc hie
creditor to found to be the ownor ef hto note
for SI,OOO, and to aaaeoaod for a like auat, and
if toe day after the visit of the assoosor to too
creditor toe debtor shall pay hto note, it to
clear that the omee vatee bae been twice tax
ed, awe# the debtor has ported with hto
money, received only that which to certainly
not taxable property in hto hands, and which
can never afterwards be assessed. When a man
a.h. be does not abstract or destroy
any portion of the taxable pMpSSty of the
State; the aggTeg.te of vainaa remain# die
Chief Justice Wallace nWr deoides
that mere creditefjare not property; and
•J* = |
It meat revolt therefore that mere credit a !
are a fains quantity in ascertaining the asm of
wealth which la subject to taxation as prop
erty, and that, in u far aa that aum is at
tempted to be increased by the addition of
'hoes credits, property taxation, baaed thereon,
is not only merely fanciful, but neceeaarily the
unconstitutional imposition of an additional
tax upon a portion of the property already onoe
taxed. Thus, if there he Withln the State only
one million and a half in actual material
wealth, and if there be in addition a half mil
lion of credits, a tax of one per oent. imposed
upon the two millions thus made ap will prove
to be in reality a doable tax upon that portion
of the one million and a half of actual wealth
which is represented a second time aa credits;
from which double tax the remainder of the
actual wealth, however, will escape altogether
To illustrate : let it be suppeeed that it is
shown by the roll that the one million and a
half of actual wealth is mads up of one million
in goods and one-half million in money, and
that the loan of the half million in money has
created the half million in credits. It will be
seen that while the one million in goods is set
down upon the roll but once, the half million
of money is set down twice for the purposes of '
taxation—once as money in the hands of the
borrowers—again as money in the bands of the
lenders—in the form of “credits”—that is to
say the promissory notes given by the borrow
ers. The goods being represented bnt once
are taxed bnt once—the money, however, being
represented twice upon the aaseemnent roll is
twice taxed. This assuredly is not the equal
taxation of property guaranteed by the Consti
tution.
Judge Crockett’s opinion is m the
main the same as the above. All the
judges, however, seem to hold that a
stamp tax on mortgages or other evi
dences of debt wonld not be unconsti
tutional, because these are not to be
considered property, and proportional
taxation applies only to property. The
decision appears to be based simply on
the ground that evidences of debt are
not property, and that an assessment of
them as property imposes additional
taxation on the property encumbered.
The language of the Constitution of
Georgia is almost identical with that
employed in the Constitution of Califor
nia, and the same qnestion decided there
arises here. It is a matter of great pnb
lio interest, and we should like to see it
bronghfltbefore the Oonrts for their de
cision. A test case can easily be made,'
BRISTOW AND THE PRESIDENCY.
A Washington dispatch saye : “The
confidential friends of Secretary Bris
tow state that one of the main objects of
his trip home was to confer with oertain
parties in his interest concerning his
Presidential aspirations. Mr. Bristow,
who has become very confident that the
people want him for President, thinks
that it is high time for him to be follow
ing the example of his rivals, and set
ting np some organized plan of opera
tions by which to condnot his campaign.
He is beginning to realize very peroepti
bly that no matter how intense the peo
ple may be for him, there are oertain
little preliminary details to be attended
to, which are absolutely neoessary for
him even to entertain any hopes of sno
oess. It is a matter of common remark
here that although Mr. Bristow does
really seem to have some strength among
the people he has none whatever among
that olass who manage to control the
Conventions. There are not to-day a
baker's dozen of Republicans in both
Houses of Congress who favor his pre
tensions for the Presidency, while, on
the contrary, a very large number of
them are bitterly opposed to him. It is
rnmored that Mr. Bristow proposes to
put himself in the hands of the jour
nalistic syndicate who engineered the
Cincinnati Convention of 1872, bnt
shrewder politicians than he say that if
he does so he will make a great mis
take.”
DELEGATE* TO ST. LOUIS.
We are glad to have so able a journal
as the Atlanta Times agree with ns as
to the impropriety of making members
of Congress delegates to the St. Louis
Convention. The Times says, and its
words we endorse: “Under the old Con
gressional caucus system of selecting
candidates for the Presidency and Vice-
Presidency, the country got along pret
ty well for a while. The ablest and
purest and best men were put in nomi
nation by the rival parties, and the peo
ple made invariably the most jndi
oious choice of the candidates presented.
Bnt after a time—for there a down
ward as well as upward progress—cor-
ruption crept into the system, and pois
ed it. The President got to be the
mere ereatnre of Oongress, if he were
weak and pliable ; or the Oongress was.
his slave, if he had the iron will ef
Jackson. The people then repudiated
that system and marohed to the front
themselves. The result was the inau
guration of the National Convention
plan of nominating candidates of their
own choioe. For a series of years it
has worked well ; bnt herein lies the
danger of its abuse ; members of Oon-
gress aspire to the offloe of delegates to
onr National Conventions. Generally
they are men of iniluenoe, and almost
universally they are skilled in the art
of “ working the ropes.” They know
better how to pnll the wires in favor of
this or that friend who may chance to
have aspirations, than other folk ; and
may not they—or some of them, to say
the least —pnll the wires, according to
contract, wherein the people have no in
terest other than paying ont the money?
Is not this a sound suggestion ? Let
NO MEMBER OF CoNOBRSS BE A DELEGATE
to the St. Louis Convention. Of other
States we do not pretend to speak, for
we are without information ; bnt we
hazard nothing in saying that there are
thonsands of men in Georgia aa folly
fitted to make np her delegation in St.
Louis as her representation in Congress."
TALKING 4 BILL TO DEATH.
\i
The St. Louis Republican asserts that
one of the most remarkable instances of
speaking against time is said to have
taken plaee in the Legislature of British
Colombia. A measure was pending, the
passage of which would rob a good many
settlers of their lands and hemes. It
was sprang at the end of the seasion,
and was a job which a strong majority
felt that it had the power to do. There
appeared to be no doubt about that.
The confiscation could not fail if the
question came to a vote. The adjourn
ment of the Legislature was to take
place at 12 o’clock on a certain day. At
10 o’oicek on the day previous Da Cos
mos got the floor. ffe was opposed to
the measure and in * hQjaless minority.
Lm Cosmos was not a long winded ora
tor, and the friends of the bill did not
fear him. They smiled, they laughed
when the spirit of the effort he was
burst upon them, ft was jnst
ridiculous, but Db Cosmos went on with
his speech, beyond all anticipation. It
waa a scattering faailade, but it
killed time, and might fill the
limitation with its rattle. Then
the land jobbers became somewhat
alarmed, and tried to applaud, howl,
and oongh De Cosmos down. On he
went through the breese of derision,
and the storm of alarm, straight for the
hoar of adjournment. Interruptions
only aided him by giving him
breataisff spells. The only way
was to let him wear himself out, or
knock him down anf dysj him out
The opinion prevailed that netqye Jitytlld
succumb, and the House settled downj
into comparative quiet to watch the:
combat between strength of will and
weakness of body. Shey him
n omntpj. 'qmy permitted ao
meat for dipner,,oy supper qr sleep, or.
breakfast the neft morning. I&CQe-
Mos talked th® day and
The member* had gone opt squads;
to sat and acme back *9 **®ep.
Da Cosmos kept Us Cast, and took no
refreshment except as oceesfotoM sip of
water. Towards 18 o’eloek the Horn**
began to be wide awake again. The
voice of the speaker had aunk to a
husky whisper, but he spoke on, and
•hen tiie hour of Adjournment arrived
he was still on his J His lnngs had
triumphed and the obnoxious bill OaS
defeated. „■ ~ /S'
FOSTER BLODOETT.
It has just been discovered that Fos
ter Blodortt’s pardon is “very full,”
and that there is very little hope of con
victing him. It might be added that in
Atlanta there is ao hope whatever of
either his trial or The
hope in 1 that city fe ail the other way.
Eaxtesa. tiittm him ittMriLk&lili pfil feg
tried or convicted. Blodoett knows
too many ngly things to make it alto
gether safe to have his lips un
sealed, and he is as safe from punish
ment to-day aa the moat innocent man
in the State. It is a little singular,
however, that the extraordinary “full
ness” of (this pardon has just been dis
covered. It was granted -in-Jannary,
1878, and published in the daily papers
of the State. Bnt mouths after that
time Democratic committees were ex
posing his crimes, and no lees a lawyer
than Judge Linton Stephens— alarum
nomen et verierabile— was obtaining in
dictments against him. All these things
seem a little singular, and warrant the
belief that influential Democrats in
this Btate dare not bring a criminal to
justice because they fear the revelations
he may make concerning them. We
have never believed that Blodoett
wonld be brought back to the State for
trial. We have never believed that any
effort was made to secure bis arrest. We
do not believe that he will be tried now.
We do not believe if he is tried that his
trial will be anything more than the
merest mockery of jnstioe. Fnlton Su
perior Court is now in session, and the
next move will be to have the case con
tinned. When this is accomplished we
shall hear nothing more of Blodoett or
of the “great frauds” committed by
him, and put of which the Democratic
party has made so much capital.
A-OBdRGIA NOVEL.
We have received from the publishers,
Messrs. J. W. Burke & Cos., of Macon,
a copy of “Maud Mansfield,” with a
request that we will notioe the same.
The book is a novel, and the title page
states that it is the work of Mrs. Fran
ces Hamilton Hood, of Rome, Georgia.
We have read it earefnlly, for we are
deeply interested in every effort made
to add to the literary wealth of the
State, and’ we shall strive to speak of it
fairly and candidly. We shall believe
that the authoress is sincerely desirous
to have a frank expression of opinion as
to its merits or demerits, and that she
will not feel offended at what may be
written. We wish' understand
that onr criticism is bused upon oand o r<
not on nnkindness. Other Georgia
journals have either given a few' lines of
puffs without reading the book, or else
have contented themselves with quoting
what Jndge A. R. Wrioht, Mr. A. H. Ste
phens and Mr. Chas. H. Smith wrote
after reading the story in mannsoript,
and what the authoress has been weak
enough to publish as an introduction to
her volume. A book is always published
upon its merits; it oannot be sold npon
certificates like a rat trap or a patent
medicine. It makes little difference
how many kind and complimentary
things Messrs. Stephens, Wrioht and
Smith ma? say of mannsoript which a
lady and a friend has plaoed in their
hands for pernsal. If the book is poor
it will to a certainty be damned,
though every dignitary in the State,
from Senator Gordon to Mr. Jnstioe of
the Peaoe Shallow should oertify
to its merits and extol its beanties.
“Maud Mansfield” is no more a novel
than Clarkb’s Commentaries npon the
New Testament or Webstrbs Unabridged
Dictionary. It is only novel in the
sense that it is outre, bnt it is not outre
enough to be interesting. It is wholly
devoid of intelligent plot. It begins
nowhere and ends where it begins. The
characters are nnnatnral, the scenes
improbable and, worse than all, both
are wholly, devoid of interest. The
dialogues are without either point or
connection—are vapid and unutterably
dull. The characters are more like the
Scsan Goodchilds and Robin Hard
heads of the typical Sunday school
book than the actors in a great domestic
drama. By an unhappy application of
the law of the perverse the reader is
made to laugh at the most affecting
passages and to yawn with weariness
when laughter is demanded. The
grammar is not always according
to Goold Brown, and the rhetorio occa
sionally reels like a person in liquor.
The story has a moral, and a good one:
that women should be content with the
sphere which a majority of us believe
has been assigned them by Providence,
nd that when they leave this sphere
and invade the domains of man misery
is as certain to follow as that dawn comes
after the dark. Bnt the moral is so un
skillfully treated that it almost loses its
power and tends to injure the cause it
is designed to aid. We are told that
one of the most successful inebriate asy
lums in the country onres a drunk
ard by surfeiting him with stimu
lants. He finds whisky in his
bed, his clothing, his food, his drink,
nntil at last he loathes its very taste and
smell, and weds himself to water. So of
the moral of “Mand Mansfield.” It is
found on every page, it peeps from every
paragraph, it is inject* and into every dia
logue, is pointed by yonth and age, inno
oence and guilt, crawls from title page to
finis, begins with the beginning and ends
only pith the end. It follows the reader as
doggedly and as persistently as the fiend
followed the steps of the “ Anoient
Mariner,” until the weary reader wonld
gladly welcome a little wickedness as a
relief from this intolerable boredom of
morality. We have written frankly
about “Mand Mansfield;” we hope what
we have said will not be taken unkindly,
Onr criticism is ctrtainly not meant to
wonnd. We welcome all the books, good,
bad ch indifferent, written by Georgians
for they prove that the people are at last
beginning to take an interest in litera
ture, and we hail them as harbingers of
better things. We hope Mrs. Hood will
not abandon the vooation she has adopt
ed, and that tanght by the faults of
her first venture, her seoond book will
show that she has been wise enough to
profit by friendly and oandid criticism.
The patriots say that it will not do to
try Foster Blodoett, because the ex
penses of the trial would amount to ten
thousand dollars. Snoh an argument is
unanswerable. What will it cost to try
Mr. Jack Jones, slaves of the Box ?
TYNDALLS VOWEL FLAME.
{Chambers' Journal ]
Of all producers of so called mysteri
ous sounds, Dr. Tyndall’s sensative or
vowel flame is one of the most onrious.
Out of a particular kind of gas, with a
burner of peculiar construction, the
learned Professor produces a lighted jet
of flame neatly two feet in height, ex
tremely narrow, and ap exquisitely sen
sative to sounds that it sings and dances
up and down in response to everything
that is sung or said, with different de
greea of sensibility for different vowel
sounds. “The slightest tap on distant
anvil redness its light to seven inches.
When a bunch of keys is shaken, the
flame is violently agitated and emits a
load roar. The dropping of a sixpence
into a hand already containing ooin, at
a distance of twenty yards, knocks the
s.imi down. It is not possible to walk
aerora the floor without agitating the
fl.ma The creaking of boots set it in
violent commotion. The crumpling or
tearing of paper, or the rustle of a silk
dress, does the same. It is startled by
the patter of a rain-drop. I hold a
watch near the flame; nobody bears its
ticks; but you all see theu- effects upon
the fia me ; at bvery tick itialbs and ream.
The‘winding up of the watch also' pro
dnrti tumult. The twittering of a dis
tant sparrow shrieks in the flame; the
not* of a cricket would do the same.
A chirrup frorii a distance of thirty yards
causes it to f*U and roaf-” In'referent
to the power of the flame to respond R
poetry, th Professor says: "The fame
ssfcisflfmii) the sounds those to which
it can respond* it aerttaas mom by the
slighest nod, to others it bows more dis
tinctly, to some its obeisance is very
profound, while to many sounds it turns
an entirely deaf ear."
OUR ATLANTA LETTERS.
NOTES AJVD NEWS FROM THE
GATE CITY.
fc ; I— —
lundwtlw PaaocrapUcal JWlaD~Hb
triauic Talent Nat Appreciated—Gambline
Hall* mad WWalcy Saloon*—Came of A. J.
Weal .Amenta Lawyers la Atlanta—
Captain Kidd’s Treaonre—An Uninformed
Editorial Inquirer The Qeheraaterinl
Qoeotieo Come of Fester Blodoett.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Seitfind.]
Atlanta, April 12.—1 t is sad to con
template the thonsands of poor men in
this state •lio are addressed as “Col
onel,” and then reflect that A. T. Stew
art died worth nearly a hnndred mil
lions Without ever once being called
“Col.” Stewart. And all becanse he
never met in social pleasures an Atlanta
editor I aee that Aaron Alpeoria
Bradley is practicing in Jnstices’ Courts
in Augusta. This miserable scamp was
expelled from the Boston bar and re
fused admission to the New York bar,
and has not the shadow of a legal right
to practioe the profession of law in any
Court of this State. Would it not be
well lor yonr respectable lawyers to
look into this matter and protect the
dignity of the law? Mr. Wm. Astor,
of New York, has not, as reported,
purchased a Winter residence at Jack
sonville, Florida, He has considerable
money invested in lands and other
property in that State, and the corner
lot opposite the St. .Tames Hotel, which
has an old building on it, was recently
purchased by him simply as an invest
ment and is considered a good one, it
being in the most desirable part of the
city.
Histrionic Talent Unappreciated.
Miss Ida Cook, a talented and accom
plished yonng lady of Houston, Texas,
was advertised to give a public reading
at the Opera Honse last night, bnt to
tally failed to get an audience. Although
highly recommended, and with friends
here to aid her, the failure was com
plete. This showed the great scarcity
of money and the lack of interest in en
tertainments of this kind, even when
given for the benefit of the Ladies’
Memorial Association.
Gambling Hell* and Whiaky .Saloons.
Judge Peeples, in his charge to the
grand jary of Fnlton county on yester
day, was very severe in his denunciation
of gambling hells and drinking saloons.
Outlawed as gambling is, without a
place to rest its foot or.oover its head,
yet, said he, these places carry on their
nefarious work in onr midst every day
of the three hnndred and sixty-five, to
tally disregarding the Sabbath. Selling
liquor to minors was also thoroughly
and eloquently denounced.
The Case of A. J. West.
Gov. Smith c included to suspend the
operations of his warrant in the oase of
Andrew J. West nntil snob time as the
aoonsed shall have satisfied the de
mands of the law in this oonntry, where
indictments are now pending against
him in oonneotion with other members
of the late firm of West, Edwards &
Cos. The affairs of this firm seem to
grow more “ crooked” nnder proper
investigation, and it is hard to predict
the final result of legal proceedings on
the part of duped creditors. Officer
Tallman has returned to New York, as
West was never pnt in his custody, and
his oonneotion with the matter ends for
the present.
Augusta Lawyers at Kimball House.
The Kimball Honse is just now alive
with guests, many of whom are from the
North and West. The weather is de
lightful and they find it very pleasant tq
stop over here for a few days. In ad
dition to these guests are a large party
of distinguished lawyers from yonr city
who are in attendance npon the Su
preme Court. I notice on the register
the names of Col. Snead, Major Cnm-‘
ming, Jndge Gonld, Messrs. Catcher,
Miller, Foster and Hull, and Judge
Hook, Col. Black and Cel. Webb are at
the Markham.
Cuplaiu Kidd’s Treasure.
Thirty years ago Captain Kidd—not
the pirate—buried nine hundred dollars
in the cprner lot opposite James’ Hall
on Whitehall street. That is, he paid
this insignificant snm for that piece of
ground. To-day, poor man, he is taxed
for its ownership at a valuation of sixty
thousand dollars, a less snm than it
wonld sell for at anction. The un
sightly one story bni'dings have just
been torn down, and Captain Kidd pro
poses to at onoe erect a briok block of
three handsome stores. This is one of
the most important improvements made
in Atlanta for years, as the looation is in
the very heart of the oity and on the
most frequented thoronghfare.
An Uninformed Editorial Enquirer.
The editor of the Griffin News, in his
haste to “hit” Governor Smith as he re
tires from the race, puts himself in a
very ridiculous attitude for an intelli
gent journalist. Speaking of the gen
tlemen to whom the Governor’s letter
was addressed, he asks, “Who ever
heard of them before ? We mast con
fess we don’t know them. Do they live
on the Georgia or Alabama side of the
river ?” This was probably intended for
“sarkasm,” but it reveals wofnl ignor
ance on the part of the News. Not to
know General R H. Chilton, the ac
complished Adjutant-General of Gen
eral Robert E. Lee, Col. W. L. Salis
bury, the bank president, financier, and
trne patriot of reconstruction days, and
John H. Martin, Esq., one the oldest,
ablest and most respeoted citizens in the
South, is to be ignorant of the ordinary
history of Georgia.
The Gubernatorial Question.
There is one question at present agi
tating political oircles here, which no
one seems able to answer satisfactorily,
and that is in regard to who is now the
leading candidate for Governor. So
long as Gov. Smith remained in the
field there was no need to ask
snoh a question, as there was a set
tled oonvietion in the public mind
that he was the “coming man.” Now
that he is ont of the race it is difficult to
get snoh a clear view of the track as to
determine which of the soore of candi
dates is leading on the seoond quarter.
Spectators in the grand stand see as
through a glass darkly, and therefore
each man bets on bis favorite candidate.
One tells yon Oolqnitt is ahead, another
olaims that position for James, who is
quietly keeping his strength for the
“home stretch,” while another asserts
that Hardeman is leading. The names
of Wofford, Johnson, Gartrell and Law
ton are also heard in many quarters. Of
these candidates, all good and able men,
Gen. A. R. Lawton, of Savannah, is
spoken of in the highest terms. He is
not a man who seeks popular favor by
familiarity on the street corners and in
convivial pleasures, bnt no gentleman in
the State possesses in a more eminent
degree the requisite qnalfioations for a
good Governor. Before a convention of
intelligent, elear headed delegates, Gen.
Lawton wonld be a very strong candi
date; bnt if “pot honse” politioians and
party schemers are to contest the nomi
nation, as they too frequently do in
each oases, he will be among the weak
est candidates in the race.
The Casa of Foster Blodgett.
It is not necessary to enlarge on the
case of Foster Blodgett, as you have
already given all the main points of in
terest. Jndge Peeples denied the vir
tue of the pardon by Governor Conley
as applied to Blodgett’s release, bat will
allow it fall weight when the prisoner is
brought to trial. This was based npop
the fact that Blodgett has never been
oonvioted of orime, nor has he ever con
fessed gnilt, and therefore a pardon in
snch a ease is void, being based upon
neither conviction or confession, and in
the absence of these a man is innocent
before the lew and needs no pardon. It
is extremely doubtful if Blodgett could
be convicted, and bis trial wonld cost
the county at least ten thousand dol
lars. The heaviest indictment, for for
ty-two thousand dollars, is in regard to
the Tennessee Car Company, and Bul
lock and E. N. Kimball are jointly in
dioted with him. Now any sane man
knows that Foster Blodgett did not get
the benefit of this swindle, and to try
him alone on this charge would be a n
dionlons farce. Judge Peeples followed
the law in holding thp prisoner
to bail, bnt the general feeling even
among the best of Democrats and the
most prominent and purest pf public
officials is in flavor of poor Blodgett.
f£ QBUItBKGA.
TV ABfBKR Clrfrtti^FrthtosaPwKl-evT
bWtlh’a Pmitiffs-Tbe Pcmtof Mbbstßlb*-
guff,
[Prom an Occasional Correspondent.]
Atlanta, Qa, April 18.—The Augus
ta Circuit being on, a full delegation of
the Angnsta Bar Is in attendance on the
Supreme Court —Messrs. Gould, Hull,
Hook, Miller, Camming, H. O. Foster,
Webb and Marcellos Foster. Mr. Webb
had the floor this morning an a nice
point, and was closely listened to by the
Court. Later in the day Paul Hudson,
Esq., of Thomson, delivered his maiden
speech before this tribunal. It was a
very creditable effort.
are evincing signs of renewed
animation since Governor Smith s de
clination to be a totndidate for re-elec
tion. One of the City psgera of Uns
morning, the Times, I benev, ltoa an
extract from a Griffin paper, doubting if
the Governor really means withdrawal,
and the doubt is perhaps,natural erase
he could have beeh elected to anestam
ty, rad a declination under sash curam
otraotw is something few matt an ca
pable of. But the Governor is really
out of the race. There are prating
masons given, in addition to the disin
olination to a farther term expressed in
his letter, why he objects to seeking the
chief magistracy again. It is better to
retire with the ttniverP plaadit—well
done, good and faithful—than to risk ail
by seeking too much. The Griffiu pa
per wants to know “who these gentlemen
are that addressed the Governor upon
the subject of another candidacy, which
he deolined. The reputation of one—
Gen. B. H. Chilton —is familiar to all
Georgia soldiers, and extends to the
bounds of the old Confederacy. Anoth
er, W. L Sanlisbnry, is known in West
ern Georgia as the architect of his own
fortune, edd /SjCstly esteemed for high
character and intelligence. The others
cm ° jt;in °* hU
opinions are worth something. That in
fluential paper, the Constitution, it is
said, will declare for Colquitt in a few
days. North Georgia is rising up. De
velopments, however, at present are not
sufficient to determine the favorite,
though it is oonceded that Hardeman
has there a considerable following.
Foster Blodgett gave bond this after
noon and was released. His pardon by
Governor Conley is said to be so fnll as
to render legal proceedings against him
useless.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
Superior Court—Visiting Lawyors—Dull
Timeo—Plenty of Small Grata.
f Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel 1
Sfabta, April 13.—The Spring term
of the Hancook Superior Court is in
session, Judge Pottle presiding. The
Hou. Wm. Williamson, of Baldwin;
Cols. Lewis and Heard, of Greene; Hon.
0. S. Dnbose, of Warreu, and Col. Sei
del, of Hartwell, are in attendance upon
the bar. By the way, the latter gentle
man has been appointed by Judge Pot
tle stenographic reporter for the circuit,
and a better selection oould not have
been made. His pleasant manners,
popular bearing with the bar and public
will win for him a host of friends
throughout the circuit.
The mercantile business of. the town
shares largely in the prostration that
prevails elsewhere. Scarcely any of the
merchants have been to market, or in
tend going the present season. They
say the scarcity of money and their sad
experience with the credit system will
not warrant the expense of the trip.
Some of the stores have only a few rem
nants of seasonable goods and no dis
position to replenish.
A gentleman informs me that there will
be a great deal of suffering in the coun
ty before another crop is made. How
ever some say if they oan jnst make ont
until blackberries get ripe they can
weather the siege. A large portion of
the county has been sewed down in
wheat and oats, though the former rare
ly suoceeds in this climate and may be
guile farmers into the neglect of corn
and prove in the end a calamity
rather than a blessing. All admit
they must raise their own sup
plies and make the cotton a
surplus crop before ever plenty and
prosperity will attend them, but say
they must make a big cotton crop to get
out of debt. How a system of farming
that has rnn them in debt can run them
ont of it is a problem difficult to solve.
It is very sad to think of the present
and the past of this venerable old coun
ty, and of the desolation that has
been wrought by the march of time, the
revolution and new era of events that
have come upon the people. Once it was a
nucleus of enterprise, prosperity and
happiness,bnt is now dispirited, impover
ished, and encumbered with evils, which,
if not overcome, will divest the future of
all worth living for.
STEWART’S MILLIONS.
What Moneybags Did With His Money—
The Bulk oi His Property Left to His
Wife—A I.ist of the Lefaoies—His Inten
tions About Charity.
New York, April 14.—The will of A.
T. Stewart was filed in the Surrogate’s
offioe this afternoon. It bequeaths all
his property and estate to his wife, Cor
nelia M. Stewart, and her heirs forever,
and appoints Judge Henry Hilton to act
iu behalf of the estate and in managing
his affairs. Asa mark of regard Mr.
Stewart bequeaths to Mr. Hilton the
sum of $1,000,000. He appoints his
wife, Judge Hilton and Wm. Libby his
executors. The subscribing witnesses
to the will are Wm. P. Smith, W. H.
White and E. E. Marcy, M. D. The
will bears the date of the 27th of March,
1873. He directs his exeontors to pay
out the following gifts as legacies: To
George B. Bntler, $20,000; to John M.
Hopkins, $10,000; to A. K. P. Cooper,
$10,000; to Edwin Jas. Denning, $lO,-
000; to John J. Groen, $10,000; to
George H. Higgins, $10,000; to
Henry H. Bice. $5,000; to John
Deßrot, $5,000; to Robert Prother
Roe, $5,000; to—Dodge, $5,000; Hugh
Connor, $5,000; Wm. Armstrong, $5,000;
Wm. P. Smith, $5,000; to Sarah and Re
becoa Morrow, $12,000 annuity in quar
terly installments daring their joint
lives; and also the house No. 30 East
39th street and furniture therein to
Ellen B. Hilton. In a codicil he makes
the following bequests to be paid from
his estate : To Chas. P. Clinoh, $10,000;
Anna Clinch, $10,000; Julia Clinch,
$10,000; Emma Clinoh, $10,000; Sarah
Smith, wife of J. Lawrence Smith,
$10,000; to her daughter, Cornelia 8.
Smith, $10,000; and also to Emma and
Julia Clinch a bouse and lot and fur
niture; to aU the employees who have
been in his service over twenty years he
leaves SI,OOO, and those over ten years
SSOO. He hopes that all his plans for
the welfare of his fellow-men will be
faithfully oarried ont by his exeontors.
A letter appended to Mr. Stewart’s
will, dated March 29, 1873, and address
ed to his wife, contains the following in
regard to his intended public charities :
“It has been, and is, my intention to
make provision for various public chari
ties, bat as any scheme of the kind I pro
pose will need considerable thought and
elaboration, I have made my will with
the codicils in their present shape to
rard against any contingency, knowing
may rely on yon supplying all defi
ciencies on my part. I hoped an trust
my life may be spared, so that I may
complete the various plans for the wel
fare of oar fellow beings which I have
already initiated, but should it be ruled
otherwise, I mast depend apon yon
with such aid as yon may call about yon
to oarry- out what I have begun. Our
friend, Judge Hilton, will, I know, give
yon any assistance in his power, and to
him I refer yon for a general understand
ing of the various methods and plans
which I have at times with him consid
ered and discussed. ”
A ROTHSCHILD WEDDING,
A Twelve Million Francs Bride Married—ln
the Temple in Parle.
A Paris corespondent describes tbe
grand ceremony attending the recent
marriage of Bettina, daughter of Baron
Alphonse de Rothschild, with her doable
first oonsin Albert, son of Baron Solo
mon, of Tienna, which took place in the
synagogue of the Rue de la Victoire.
Twelve o’clock was mentioned on the
oards of invitation, bat it was nearly
half an hour after that time before the
bridal pair arrived, in a magnificent
equipage, followed by the other mem
bers of their numerous family in voito
res de gala. The Moorish porch at the
entrance of tbe synagogue was profusely
decorated with flowers. There was a
great display of jewelry in the bonnets,
in which were fastened, instead of the
buckles now worn, rare and costly gems,
Shortly after 12 some hundred tapers
behind a seven-branched candlestick
were lighted, and their rays, falling up
on the ornaments, produced a glittering
effect. Then entered, in Oriental hats
and vestures, Isidore, the Grand Rabbi
of France; Zadoo Khan, the Grand
Rabbi of Paris, and Rabbi Bauer, who
was to offer wine to the newly wedded
oonple. They awaited for some moments
the bridal part; in front of a baldequin
placed on an elevated part of the floor,
and resembling a Moorish kiosk. The
Prince and Prinoessea of the Orleans
family were placed dose to the santaary.
Behind them were the ministers of
finance, war and foreign affairs, and
several generals. When the bride was
announced the rabbis went to meet her.
She entered, leaning on the arm of her
father, who kept on his hat, as did the
other gentlemen in her train. Most
persons rose to look at the yonng lady,
wfyo has won a diploma of governess and
who brings twelve millions francs to her
husband. She is small and fair. When
the affianoed couple ascended the dais
beneath the baldequin, the service be
gan with a Hebrew canticle snng by M.
Levy to the organ accompaniment,
Zadoc Khan then delivered an exhorta
tion in which he alluded to the great
financial power of the Rothschilds, and
spoke of tbe marriage as a fresh tie be
tween the closely united branches of
that -house, The Raobi Isidore also
made an oration, in which he spoke of
the obligation of the yonng oonple to
aid their poor brethren according to
their great fortune. Rabbi Bauer, at
the oloee of a psalm which was chanted
by the foil choir, advanced with an an
cient Venetian goblet filled with wine,
Which the bride and bridegroom drank.
On the latter handing it back, the offi
ciating minister dashed it to the ground.
The clash of broken glass against the
stone pavement announced that the cer
emony was at an end.
A prominent-clergyman of Brooklyn
last week, while taking one Of a course
of boxing lessons for exercise, received
what tbe boys call “a jolly black eye.”
On Sunday heehaw his text from Timo
thy, 6th chapter, 7th verse: "I have
fought a good fight, I have finished my
coarse.”
FOR LADIES ONLY.
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SPRING FASHIONS FOB THE CEN
TENNIAL YEAH.
Rosalnd Mar** Leftrr-Nrw Bonnet* for
Easter—Cream Color all the Go—Street
Costumes—Crooked Warn Please Best—
Fashionable Dress Styles—What Covering
are Worn—Object Teaching.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel. 1
Spring Fashion*
The way in which we go from 9 o’olock
prayers to Broadway openings is truly
remarkable, aDd the sweet and gradual
ohanges which sffread themselves over
the faoes of young ladies who on the
threshold of Trinity, dare not lift their
eyes from the ground, yet who half an
hour later gaze with dimples that are
“childlike and bland” on the styles, is a
study for all philosophical observers of
the human countenance. Doubtless it is
oorrect, for on Enaffer we shall all want
New Bsnnets.
Buy an ivory or cream tinted chip,
and then yon are certainly in the right
and beaten path; other chips are pare
white, others again are faint grey; then
we have Panamas and Leghorn, for or
dinary wear “rough and ready,” and
plain straw in the national color, or in
serviceable greys, browns ADd blacks,
while dressy bonnets are in very light
colors, and trimemd in cream and ivory,
faint blue, pink and lavender, tonohes
of dark bfown, and also bright red be
ing employed as effective contrasts.
Shapes rise high over the fore
head, and show brims coming
plainly aronnd and pressed olosely
to the bead, some having indented capes
at the back. The high brims are filled
in with rich coronets of small flowers
and heavy montnres of small flowers
massed together almost over the outside.
Silks in millinery are soft and loosely
worn; cashmere lace appears, and fine
Valenciennes tinged with vellow. The
Derby and turban shapes come over the
forehead, and will be worn by some per
sons for “every day” hats.
Aboat Costttiutfti.
The same dark and painful obscurity
which has been observable in the backs
of overskirts, still prevails, and here the
eye, like Milton’s departed spirit, may
find
“No end in wandering mazes lost.”
Even the fronts of overskirts are begin
ning to be affected, and' the tranquil and
almost domestic looking apron fronts
which in their placid lengths afforded
some rest to the perturbed vision, and
which oertainly did bring peace to the
female mind, are now strangely palled
and twisted, first on one side and then on
the other, and a wonderfully stylish idea
is to lay them in deep folds or creases
which may run diagonally, or straight or
crooked whichever one may please.—
But all crooked ways please best and
provided everything is twisted ont of its
natural shape, it is sure to be right, that
is to say, stylish. For we have over
skirts which go up; others which go
down; others remain suspended in cruel
uncertainty, turning all ways at onee;
others are bunched; others look as if
they had been crunched between the
teeth of some- wild animal, and others
again look unutterable things in regard
to which all known speeoh or language
fails. Therefore I am dumb and open
not my mouth in the contemplation
thereof, only remarking that they are
trnly remarkable, and should be seen to
be appreciated. Grinoline is worn, bnt
in moderated form, and all bunohing
ont below the waist is now looked upon
as barbarous, for the reason that “cor
set” and cnirass waists with long seams,
sometimes running down to the hips,
and fitting as if moulded to the form,
are most fashionable.
Dress Goods.
Soft all wool de beges are attractive
in charming shadeß of grey or brown,
either plainly woven, or showing plaids,
stripes and figures. Figured fabrics,
indeed, will be largely worn, but usual
ly oombined with striped or plain mate
rials, since combination costumes are in
qnite as mueh favor as they have ever
been. Snmmer silks, now oalled Louis
ines, are in endless variety of style;
cashmeres are in great demand, and
form serviceable and dressy costumes,
the “Grand Opera” oashmeres being re
garded with especial favor. So, also,
are the “Grand Opera” grenadines; and
here we may note that grenadines,
plainly woven, and also showing cheeks,
stripes and fringes will be extensively
patronized. New black silks present a
bluish tinge, rather than the brownish
hue to which we have been accustomed;
almost rivalling silk is the sable brand
of Turkish brilliantine. Grand Opera
alpaoas are soft, fine, and very desirable
for general wear, and beaver mohairs
rank first among that standard class of
materials. thrown linen will bo super
seded by French percales iu Alsace
finish, which are brought out in all
fashionable colors, and dressy costumes
for midsummer will be in Leno piques,
which, in white aud ocru, are worn in
alternating stripes and checks of lace
work and brocade. •
Out-Door Giurinenlst
Are in mantilla, Dolman or sacque
shapes, the latter showing lengthened
mantilla ends in front. Independent
garments are chiefly in cashmere, Sici
lienne or silk, but many ont-door gar
ments to match the costume are made in
light camel’s hair, de bege, silk, or in
fact, all dress goods which at present
are worn. Light qualities of braid, pas
sementeries, lace and fringe are used in
garniture, bnt where an ont-door gar
ment is a part of the costnme it
should of course bo trimmed
to correspond. In trimming cos
tumes very fine knife plaitings are
extremely popular, and are all widths,
sometimes reaching twelve or eighteen
inches in depth,or, quite narrow, are ar
ranged in clusters. Fringes are exten
sively nsed, and some stylish basques
are now trimme.l with rich fringes to
match the overskirts. In all accessories
of the toilet the fancy for cream and
ivory shades, so far from declining,
seems on the increase; laces will soon be
replaced by oharming centennial ker
chiefs in pale yellow or white crepe de
Chine, trimmed with cashmere lace or
fringe, and the greater number of hand
some gloves, both in kid and silk, are
tinged with faint yellow shades.
After all, however, I believe in “ob
ject teaching,” nor oan any description
equal the realities of vision. Therefore,
as a teacher of fashion, I would recom
mend the illustrations to be fonnd in
the Family Journal, a bright and inter
esting monthly paper, the cost of sub
scription to which is only one dollar per
annum. The designs are practical as
well as stylish, and such as the majority
of ladies would select. Ageufcs for the
Family Journal are making monay, and
I would counsel all unemployed indi
viduals of either sex to go and do like
wise. Sample copies are sent free, and
all particulars given at 292 Broadway.
Last, but not least, iu my opinion, it
must be good, for I write the Fashions.
Rosalind May.
COTTON.
Weight of Bales in Augusta.
The following, showing the average
weight of cotton bales in Augusta dar
ing the seasons, of 1874-5 and 1875-6,
will be interesting to many of oar read
ers :
Average Average
weight 1874-5. weight 1875-6.
Clagborn, Herring 4 Cos. 458 447
L. L. Z Javeky 462 445
D. L. Adams & Sons.... 459 446
W F. Alexander 445 443
W. M. Bead 459 449
Branch, Sons 4 Cos 461 445
J. J Doughty 4 Oo 467 445
i., C. Nowell 458 441
W C. Sibley 459 448
John U. Mever 464 440
tinsnell 4 Potter .455 449
W. 0. Sanders 455 451
Average 458 J 445}
These twelve firms are purchasers of
about 130,000 bales of ootton per an
num, or over three-quarters of the total
receipts of Angusta.
THE CINCINNATI CONTENTION
The Black Rehber to the Bloody Shirt.
Columbia, 8. G., April 14.—The fol
lowing dispatch was sent to Senator
Morton at Washington to-night: The
associated press dispatch dated Colum
bia April 13th saying the indications are
that Gov. Chamberlain will control the
delegation and the delegation will vote
first tor Rristow, second for Blame and
in no case for Morton is unauthorized
and tjntrue. The delegation is controll
ed by no man and have expressed no
preference, signed Robert Elliott, Chair
man, for and in behalf of the delegation.”
The State Legislature adjourned tine
die this morning.
HON. A. H. STEPHENS.
The Condition of the Statesman’* Health.
Liberty Hall, April 12, 1876.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
I find Mr. Stephens decidedly better
than when I saw him last. The expres
sion of his eyes, taken with his general
appearance, every way indicates that he
will get well—anyhow, this is my real
opinion. He talks without difficulty,
and his appetite is good. In fact, he
says that he relishes his meals now. Be
sides, he tells me that the lnng disease
it fast healing up—his expectorations now
beig naturalqr-almosteo. Reis really
much better. ?fae trouble is’he easi
ly liable to take oold, and such an eyent
might be fatal. He thinks this the dif
ficulty in the future. Ido hope hemay
get well. O. H.
THE SAFE BURGLARY.
STARTLING TESTIMONY OF COL.
WHITLEY.
lie Conspiracy Alleged to Have Been Con
coded la the White House—All the Facts—
A Candid Scoundrel.
Washington, April B —At last tjje
safe bnrglary investigation is bringing
the villains of that job home to its high
authors, as the World has steadily pre
dicted wonld be the oase. To-night,
Babcock is the fox chased to cover, and
the end is not yet, for the scent of the
President’s trail is so exoeeding fresh
that little short of a miraole oan accom
plish k escape. To-day, the. House.
Jndiciary Committee finished the exam
ination of ex-Detective Whitley. His
story is startling in its revelations. He
swears that just before the safe burglary
job was put np he was in Florida.
While there he received word from Ban
field, then Solicitor of the Treasdfy,
that one Felker was trying to get his
(Whitley’s) place. Whitley at once sent
word to Babcock, asking him to inter
cede for him, which he did, saving
Whitley’s head. When Whitley oame
to Washington he paid his respects to
Babcock, thanked him for his efforts, and
promised his assistance in oase Babcook
should ever need his services. He then
went to New York. While there he re
ceived a dispatch from Banfleld to re
turn to Washington immediately and re
port at his (Banfleld's) honse, as Bab
cock wanted to see him on important
business. He oame, arrived Sunday
morning, took breakfast at the Metro
politan, and then went to Banfleld’s
honse. Banfleld reproved him for stop
ping at the Metropolitan, saying that
Babcock intended to have him break
fast with him. He then gave Whitley
one of Baboock’s cards, with a direction
on it in Babcock’s handwriting, and he
went at onee to Baboock’s honse and
then to the Executive Mansion, where
he fonnd him. At that interview Bab
cock told him that the memorialists—
who at that time were fighting the ring
—were tramping np evidence against
them and the Administration; that they
were in trouble; and that they wanted
him to carry through a plan which
wonld blow them (the memorialists) out
of the water. The particulars of that
plan, Babcock said, wonld be unfolded
by Harrington, than the Assistant Dis
trict-Attorney, whom he would meet at
1 o’clock that day, at the Washington
Club Honse. After leaving Baboock he
met Banfleld, to whom he reported
what was to be done. Banfleld said
he would go with him to the club honse,
did go with him, and walked inside till
Harrington went apart with him and
unfolded the plan for the blowing up of
the Distriot Attorney’s safe and the
fastening of the crime of bnrglary on
Oolnmbus Alexander, the head of the
memorialists. Whitley promised to
send an able man who would do the job,
and went to New York and sent on Net
tleship, of the Seoret Service. From
tbat time on the job was in Nettleship’s
charge, under Harrington’s direction.
Whitley met Babcook in Washington
three or four days after the safe explo
sion, when Babcock said that the job
had been bunglingly managed and re
gretted that Whitley had not Been pre
sent to superintend it. Last Summer
he met Babcook at Long Branoh, when
Babcook asked him how he should like
to live in Europe for two or three years
as agent for the sale of bonds, after
wards Whitley told Baboock that he
thonght of going to Colorado for his
health, which Babcock thongbt was a
very good idea. He did go to Colorado
last Fall, and, while there, received two
letters from Newoomb, one of bis deteo
tives, urging him to remain in Colorado,
and saying that Babcock desired it.
Whitley also told the whole story of
the payment of the money to him, and
of the payment by him to Somerville,
the New York lawyer, who was the go
between and hired and paid the profes
sional “cracksmen” and secured the
straw bail for BentoD, with Harrington.
At one time he had paid Somerville SSOO,
and at another time S4BO. Both of these
amounts were paid to him by Harring
ton—one in New York and one in Wash
ington. Harrington also paid Somer
ville $2,000, which was deoided would
aboat pay Benton for lying in jail, and
also paid Somerville a money order of
$250 for Nettleship.
The most utterly nnanswerable testi
mony, however, is a letter written by
Babcook to Whitley, who was then out
of office and in Boston. The deteotives
had not been paid, and Whitley inform
ed Baboock of this fact, said they were
getting uneasy, and expressed some
fears himself as to the ultimate result.
To this, on the 17th of September, 1874,
Babcock sent the following answer,
written in lead-pencil and undated:
Dear Colonel- Your letter from Bos
ton has been received. I attended to the
matter yesterday. Before this reaches
you, yon and yonr men will be paid.
They have sent a man to pay them. You
may bide your time and wait in confi
dence the result. Your services are bound
to be appreciated. Yours, &0.,
O. E. Babcook.
It is anthoritavelv stated that when
the conspirators learned that Whitely
and Somerville would reveal the plot of
the safe bnrglary transaction to the com
mittee, two of them attempted to intim
idate the witnesses. A. B. Williams, one
of the conspirators, came to Whitely
and Somerville, before they testified
last week, and pleaded with them not to
tell the story. The two men still adher
ing to their resolntion Williams became
blustering, talked lond and threatened
vengeance if the story was told. This
produced no effect on Whitely or Somer
ville, and Williams left. He returned
soon afterward with Harrington. “Gen
tlemen,” said Harrington, “I understand
that yon propose to reveal the story of
the safe burglary to the Honse Investi
gating Committee; is that So?” “Yes, sir,
that is so,” replied Whitely. “Then I
want yon to understand that hereafter
it is war te the knife between you and
us, and if yon tell this story it will go
hard with you,” retorted Harrington.
This outrageous attempt at intimidation
did not deter Whitely and Somerville
from telling their story, and the facts
that have been divulged about Babcook
are said to be only a part of the Whole
story. Babcock has told, with pride,
that the subpoena for him to appear be
fore the investigating committee was
served at two o’clock in the afternoon,
and at half-past two o’clock he was in
the committee room waiting to testify.
The facts of the oase are these: The
subpcßna for Baboock was issned at 10
o’clock in the morning, and Assistant
Sergeant-at-Arms Mackall took' a car
riage and drove rapidiy to Babcock’s
honse. Babcock eonld not be found
there, and Mr. Maokall went to bis offioe.
He was not in, and the Assistant Ser
geant-at-Arms drove from plaoe to place,
wherever he heard of Baboock, being
nntil 2 o’clock before he was found. He
was then taken in the carriage directly
to the Capitol.
A WONDERFUL BILLIARD CONTEST.
The Game Between Cyrllle Dion and A. P.
Rudolphe in Tammany Hall—The Latter
Beaten Over 1,100 Points.
[New York Times.]
Tbe contest between Mr. Gyrille Dion
and Mr. A. F. Rndoiphe for the dia
mond cne and the championship of the
American four-ball game of billiards was
played in Tammany Hall last night with
two and three eighth inch balls on a five
and one-half by eleven foot Phelan &
Callander table. It is safe to say that
suoh a game was never witnessed in this
country before. It resalted in a mar
velous victory for Mr. Dion, the scoie at
the close of the game being 1,500 to 392
in his favor. For Mr. Rndoiphe the ut
most sympathy was felt, as he labored
under a combination of unhappy circum
stances which totally disorganized his
usually brilliant play. Mr. Cvrille Dion
having won the cue three times, it now
becomes his personal property, and he
is virtually the champion of the Ameri
can four-ball game. The one is made of
solid ivory, with a diamond tip, and is
almost completely covered with inscrip
tions commemorative of the occasions
on which it has been contested for. The
cue was presented by Phelan A Collen-
der for competition in the tournament
of May, 1869, held at Irving Hall, this
city, and the following players compet
ed for it: John Decry, Malvin Foster,
A P. Rudolphe, Henry Rhines, Peter
Snyder, William Goldthwait, and Ed
ward Daniels. Deery won the majority
of games, and with it the one and title
of champion. Cyrille Dion came into
its possession on December 6, 1878, by
forfeiture on the part of Albert Gamier.
Tammany Hall was crowded last night,
an unusual number of ladies being
smong the audience. Too game being
called, Mr. J. Gleason was selected as
referee, while Amadee Gnillette acted
as referee for DioD, and J”, Kendall, of
Boston, for Rudolphe. Dion won the
first shot, and played his ball down the
table, according to rule. This did not
count an inning, although the majority
of those present thought it did. From
tbe beginning the game ran wholly in
favor of Dion. Almost every shot he
attempted coanted, and the renewed ap
plause of the audience seemed to stimu
late him to try even more extraordinary
shots. With Rudolphe the state of af
fairs was very different. In addition to
hard lack, he played with the greatest
nervousness, and coaid scarcely make a
shot. The most simple caroms were
missed by him one after the other, Mid
the more ha played the worse, his
chances-became. . ■ Dion, an thecontrary,
strengthened - 'his game hfc ne went onj
and, by brilliknt drfws and gathering
shots, fairly earned the title of cham
pion. He ran 141, then 45, then 177,
114, 216, 99, and made the highest run
of the night by nursing the balls on the
right side and the lower cushion, scor
ing 228, slipping on a difficult position
draw. Bndolpbe at one time made an
effort to play his old game, and ran 108,
bnt be broke down again, and when the
<tame was called OyriTle Dion had soored
1,50$ to Bndolphe’B 392. The oomplete
score lift of both men is as.follows:
Dion—6, 8, 7,12,3,1,141,3, 0. 45,177,
<B, 27, 3, 114, 3,3, 216, 99, 42, 228, 9,8,
30, 30, 0,0, 18, 9, 12, &3,0, 67. 12, 57, 3,
46. Total, 1,600. Average, 40 20 37.
Rudolphe-0, 3,0, 0,0, 0,6, 6. 1,0, 6,
0, 66, 108, 3,9, 0,0, 9,3, 0, 36, 0,0, 16,
0,3, 36, 3,0, 3, 27, 30, 12, 3,1, 1. To
tal, 392. Average, 10 22 37,
The game, which began at 8 22, lasted
precisely two hours, and is the quickest
game played on record except that play
ed by Melvin Foster, who ran out in one
inning. The game last night fairly kills
the four-ball American game of billiards,
and in all the leading billiard saloons
last night the opinion prevailed that
another matoh at the American game
would not be made.
A GEORGIA CONGRESSMAN.
Nitrate of Silver vs. A Low-Country Corn
try Complexion—Who Is It f
(Bon Piatt in the Washington Capital.]
We oame in possession the othor day
of rather a good story anent anew mem
ber of the House, that will bear publi
cation. He is a modest—no, not mod
est exactly, but a shy sort of a arentle
man. It is astonishing how many per
ky members elect at home sink into this
uncomfortable state after being sworn
in. From being the first man of the
village he sinks into the last at Borne,
and from one extreme he naturally
swings over to the other. He finds him
self lost in a crowd, and the eye of the
Speaker—that blessed dispensation that
lifts one from obsourity—is monopolized
by a dozen men no better than himself.
He feels keenly his enforced obsourity,
but accepts the sitnatiaD, in a shy, awk
ward sort of way that is quite amnaing
to everybody. Well, our shy Solon at
tended the session and worked in his
oommittee. He answered twenty letters
a day, and ran through the departments
as agent for his constituents, until he
succumbed to the bad ventilation the
paint-and-putty architect, Clarke, sup
plied the hall. Not only was his Con-'
gressional throat swollen and sore, bnt a
strange, irritating eruption broke ont
over his law-making person. He sent
for Doctor Garnett, and Garnett not on
ly put potions in him, but a lotion on
him, in his (Garnett’s) usual heroie man
ner. And the Solon gradually conva
lesced. One morning he determined to
attend a sitting of the honorable body
of whioh he was a member. He had
not consulted his looking glass—too
modest for that. Had he done so he
wonld have seen, to his wonder and dis
tress, that the lotion given him by
Doctor Garnett had tamed his face
to a dusty copper color. He was
other than what he had been, bnt
all unaware of his transmorgrjii
catiou, he approached the entrance to
the hall of the Honse. The doorkeeper
hesitated. But the honorable member
moved forward so deoidedly that the
man, half opening the door, asked:
“ Member, sir ?” “Of oourse,” was
the response, in some wonder, for the
guardian of the portal knew our friend
well enough ; tbat is, he knew him be
fore he was dyed. “ Member!” qnoth
the doorkeeper, as the Solon entered.
“ Humph ! member from Afrioa." Our
friend took his seat and was sorting
over his mail, when a gentleman of
African desoent approached, and, bend
ing over, said confidentially, in an un
dertone : “ Pinohbaok’s defeated, sure.”
“ You don’t say so.” “ Yes, I does ;de
crisis is on ns dis time, an’ we mus’ stan’
shoulder to shoulder or de oause is lost,”
“ I am much obliged to yon, my friend,
for this information ; bnt what I have
to do with the cause is more than I oan
make out.” “ You—you I why, you is
de man all eyes tarn on ; you is bein’
talked of all ober de town. 1 tell ye
dere’s goin’ to be a serenade dis night,
so you be prepared, sah; yes, sah.”
And before the bewildered member could
recover from his astonishment the man
was gone. What oould tlfe fool mean
by Pinohback and the oause, and he a
Demoorat from the South ? The fellow
must be orazy. It was the wont of onr
friend to rise from his seat every morn
ing with fifty others and shout “ Mr.
Speaker, Mr. Speaker,” at the full pitch
of his lnngs. Why he or they did this
no man oould tell, for the Speaker never
sees any of them. Perhaps it is con
sidered healthy exercise, or perhaps
that is the way to be Congressmen,
What the reason may or may not be,
onr friend started up on this oooasion,
and to his astonishment the Speaker
reoognized him. He had the eye of
the Speaker. Strange sensation ; and
stranger, the moment this occurred a
dead silence fell upon the Honse, and
every face turned to the amazed gentle
man. He was eqnal to the emergency,
and then and there introduced his little
measure and made his little speech that
he had been rehearsing from the first
day of the session. Members gathered
aronnd and listened attentively, and
as he resumed his seat he enjoy
ed a further surprise in hearing
a Demoorat remark qnite audibly,
“He speaks right pert for a niggar.”
Feeling far from well after his late at
taok, he soon wended his way baok to
his rooms, and on Pennsylvania avenue,
meeting a lady of his acquaintance with
her escort, he politely lifted his hat.
The two stared at him in a queer way,
and the gentleman escorting the fair
dame harried into a hat store, and
overtaking onr colored M. C. said,
angrily: “How dare you insult that
lady, yon skunk The M. 0. had been
ill; he was yet feeble, and although
nnaWare of the fact, deeply oolored;
but his wrath was strong as ever, and
so he collided his right law-making fist
on the nose of the questioner. A lively
set-to followed, and although the Solon
need due diligence in getting round
and in on his adversary, he would have
been a badly damaged part of Congress
but for the interference of the police.
As it was, he found himself nnder ar
rest, and would have been walked off to
qnod had he not fished np a card and
two or three envelopes addressed to the
M. C. The police ef Washington know
enough to be aware of the fact that a
member cannot be arrested when on his
way to and from the Capitol, and so
onr friend was released.
THE CARPET-BAG PREMIER.
The Treable Caused hr Steinberger la
Samoa.
San Fbanoi/300, April 14.—The ao
oounts concerning the Steinberger
troubles in Samoa are very conflicting.
Additional private letters received by
tbe Ada May and the statements of pas
sengers by that vessel are to the effeot
that the people and the Legislature
after Steinberger’s arrest deposed the
King and banished him to a neighbor
ing island and demanded* Steinberger’s
release. This was refused and the
British rnan-of war Barraoonta brought
the Kiifg back to the capital,
bat the people declined to acknowledge
him. It is reported that the people
earnestly desired the release of the pre
mier and were anxiously looking for the
arrival of the United States steamer
Tuscarorato effect that purpose. The
personal property of Steinberger had
been sold, tbe principal purchasers be
ing tbe offioers of the Barraoonta. The
steam lannoh presented to the Govern
ment of Samoa by the United States was
inolnded in the sale. It is stated also
that the English residents of the islands
desire the annexation of Samoa.
A Chbonolooioal Dispute.— There
was considerable disoussion among a
number of business men, yesterday, as
to when the nineteenth oeutury began,
whether on the first day of Jannary,
1800, or the first day of January, 1801.
The majority inolined to the former
side of the question. It was finally
agreed, lion ever, to leave the matter to
the New York Journal of Commerce for
a decision. We can state for the benefit
of the parties that the Journal of Com
merce has already decided tbe question.
In its issne of Jannary 21st, 1876, we find
the following :
New Yobx, Jannary 17, 1876.
Editor of the Journal of Commerce :
Did the nineteenth century com
mence on the Ist of Jannary, 1800, or
1801. If on the former, please state
why. Yonrs truly, Alpha.
Reply.— The century always begins
with the year one. When we date Jan
uary I, 1876, we mean that this is the
first day of that year. If our reckon
ing were to go back to the beginning of
time, Jannary 1, year 1, wonld be the
date. We oould not begin January 1,
year 0, and thus have no year on which
the months were running. We always
date the running or current year, and
not the past or closed year. We began
on the year One at the beginning of
time- Eighteen hundred years com
pleted the 18tk century of the reckon
ing. We began on the 19th century in
1801 of onr era. We shall enter on the
20th at midnight December 31, 1900,
the new day being January 1, 1901.
We understand that a bet of twenty
five dollars was made on the matter
yesterday afternoon, tbe decision to be
1 eft to Harvard and Yale Colleges and
the University of Georgia.
To be patient and thorongh in all
that one does is to compel sneoess in
sny calling.
A biff to - prohibit tbe safe of intoxicat
ing liquors within four miles of tfci
California University is called by a San
Francisco paper “An act to promote pe
des trianism among students,”