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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1876)
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. . i pv 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,”
