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WEDNESDAY APRIL 26, 1876.
LINES TO A SKELETON.
Behold this rain! Tw** a skull.
Once of ethereal spi>it fall:
Thi* narrow cell ws* life's retreat.
This space was thought's mysterotu seat.
What beauteous viai jus Ailed this spot!
Whet dreams of pleasure loog forgot!
Nor hope, nor lore, nor joy. nor fear,
Hare left one trace of record here.
Beneath that mouldering canopy
Once shone the bright eud busy eye.
But start not at the dismal void ;
If social lore that eye employed ;
If with no lawless fire it gleamed.
But through the dew of kindness beamed.
That eve shall be forever bright
When stars and suns are sunk in night
Within this hollow caTern hung
The ready, swift and tuneful tongue.
If falsehood's honey It disdained.
And when it eould not praise was chained,
If bold in virtue’s cause it spoke,
Yet gentle concord never broke.
That silent ton ;ue shall plead for thee
When time unveils eternity.
Say. did those fingers delve the mine ?
Or'with its envied.rabies shine ?
To hew the rock or wear the gem,
Can little now avail to them.
But if the page of truth they sought,
Or comfort to the mourner brought,
The hands a richer meed shall claim
Than all that wait on wealth or fame.
Avails it whether bare or shod
Those feet the paths of duty trod ?
If from the halls of eaee they fled
To Beek affliction’s humble shed,
If grandeur’s guilty biibe they spurned
And borne to virtue’s cot returned,
Those feet with angels' wsys shall vis,
And tread the palace of the sky.
UNKNOWN TONOUB.
BY JOAQUIN MILLKR.
Not baby! I knew her in days of old,
You doubt that I lived in a land made fair
With many soft moon- and was mated there ?
Now mark you! 1 saw but to-day on the street
A sweet girl baby whose delioste feet
As yet upon earth took but uncertain hold ;
Yet she carried a doll, and she toddled alone.
And she talked to that doil in a tongue of her
The sweet little stranger! why, her face atill
bore .
The look of the people from her far star-shore.
Ah ! you doubt me still. Then listen : While
vou
Have looked to the earth for gold, why I
I havs looked to the steeps of the starry sky,
And which, indeed, had the fairer view
Of the infinite things, the dreamer or you ?
How blind be men when they will not see !
If men must look in the du-t or look.
At best, with the eyes bound down to a book,
Why who shall deny that it comes to me
To sail white ships through the ether sea ?
Yes. lam a dreamer. Yet while yon dream
Then I am awake. When a child, back through
The gates of the past I p ered, and I knew
The land I had lived in. I saw a broad siream :
Haw rainbows that compassed a world in their
reach;
I saw my beloved go down on the beach ;
Haw her lean to this earth, saw her looking for
me
As do shipmen look for their ships at sea.
The sweet girl-baby! Why, that unknown
tongue
Is the tongue she has talked stnoe the stars
were young.
REST IN THE GRAVE.
Best in the grave! but rest is for the weary,
And her slight limbs were hardly girt for
♦oh;
Best is for lives worn out, deserted, dreary,
Which have no brightness left for death to
spoil.
We yearn for rest, when power and passion
waste i
Have left to memory nothing but regret;
Hhe sleeps, while life’s best pleasures, all nn
ta-ted.
Had scarce approached her rosy lips as yet.
Her child like eyes still lacked their crowning
sweetness;
Her foim was ripening to more perfect grace.
She died, wirh the pathetic incompleteness
Of beauty’s promise on her pallid face.
WJiat undeveloped gifts, what powers un
tested,
Perchance with her have passed away from
earth ;
What germs of thought in that young brain
arre.-ted
May never grow and quicken and have birth!
Bhe knew not love, who might have loved so
truly,
Though love dreams stirred her fancy faint
and fleet;
Her soul’s ethereal wings were budding newly,
Her woman’s heart had scarce began to beat.
We drank the sweets of life, we drink the bit
ter,
And death to us would almost seem a boon;
But why, to her, for whom glad life were fitter,
Should darkness oeme ere day had reached
its noon ?
No answer, save the echo of our weeping,
Which from the woodland and the moor ie
heard.
WJiere, in the Spring time, ruthless storm
winds sweeping
Have slain the unborn flower and new fledg
ed bird.
SPRING FLOWERS.
Over the mountains blue and cold
March winds are sweeping, fiercely and bold ;
But down in the valleys, lowly and ®till,
Spring life is working with ptient will.
Delicate lines of green are thrown
Up from the furrows rough and brown ;
While under tue forest's rich, dark mould
Are weaving bright colors manifold.
From leafless branches the blue bird sings,
There is promise aud rest in its folded wings;
The bright harbinger of Spring’s blossom and
song,
After a Winter silent and long.
Not yet can the woods hold a flower for me,
Too early for white-star or anemone,
But I seek in the garden a warm sheltered
place,
Where the pale oroous stands in its own timid
grace.
And more than I seek there I find ; by the wall
Of the old-fashioned garden, 'neath the rose
tree tall.
A lowly-bent snow-drop has tinkled Its bell,
Into the silence that all round it fell.
One gay yellow cowslip is lifting its head
From the light green nest by toe border out
spread.
And >ne little violet, shy and discreet,
Is betrayed by its perfume subtry sweet.
I know of a life that is darkened and sad—
What if these Spring flowers make oue hour
glad ?
I shall gather them, far away friend, all for
thee
Will you listen to what they will tell you of
me ?
Do you care to know what with them they
"bring
My first and my best of the blossoms of Bpring;
A regard pure" and fresh and a fnndship as
strong
As the earliest of flowers or the bine bird’s
clear song.
My violet, restful with loyalty rare ;
My oowslip,| for gladness; my snow drop, a
prayer..
My orocus for ur-springing life on the wing;
The Easter o’er all—the awakening.
THE NAMELESS ONE.
BY JAMES CLARENCE SIANGAN.
Poor Clarence Mangan has expressed all the
hopeless misery of his unfortunate life in the
following remarkable poem:
Roll forth, my song, hke the rushing river
That sweeps along to the mighty sea :
God will inspire me while I deliver
My soul to thee!
Tell thou the world when my bones lie whiten
ing
Amid the last homes of youth and old,
That there was one whose veins ran lightning
No eye behold.
Tell how his boyhood was one drear night
hour.
How shoue for him through his grief and
gloom
No star of all heaven sends to light our
Path to the tomb.
Soil ou. my song, to after ages
Tell how. disdaining all earth can give.
He would have taught meu, from Wisdom's
pages,
The way to live.
And tU how. trampled, derided, hated,
And worn by weakness, disease and wrong.
He fled for shelter to God, who mated
His soul with song.
With song, which always, sublime or rapid.
Flowed like a rill in the morning-beam.
Perchance not deep, but intense and rapid—
A mountain stream.
Tell how this Nameless, condemned for years
long
To herd with demons from hell beneath,
Saw things that made him, with groans and
tears, long
For even death.
Go on to tell how, with genius wasted.
Betrayed in friendship, befooled in love,
With spirit shipwrecked, and young hopes
blasted,
He still, still strove.
Till, spent with toil, dreading death for^othere.
And some whose hands should have wren. ht
for him ;
(If children live not for sires and mothers),
His mind grew dim.
And he fell far through that pit abysmal
The golf and grave of Magmn and Burnt,
And pawned his soul for the devil's dismal
Stock of returns.
But yet redeemed it with days of darkness.
And chapes and signs of fiual wrath.
When death, in hideous aud , hastly starkness.
Stood in his path.
And tell now yet, amid wreck and sorrow
And want and >dcknesa and houseless nights,
He bides in calmness the silent morrow,
That no ray lights.
And lives he still then ? Tes! Old and hoary
At thirty-nine, from despair and woe,
He lives, enduring what future story
Will never know.
Him grant a grave to. ye pittying noble.
Deep in your bosoms ! There let him dwell!
He, too, had tears for all souls in trouble,
Here and in hell.
The Marietta Journal thinks the'Cobb
county gold mine a Big Bonunaa for the
company now working it.
W. P. Inman, of Atlanta, boaght a
pair of sorrel mares from John W. Marr,
of Macon, paying a little less than a
thousand dollars for them.
RICHARD WAITER.
The Coapwer, Pee* aaj Preeeer—W• nJerfW
Peculiarities ud Caprices ef a Great Stem
—Uis Habits af WAta.
[Concordia]
On one of those fine Summer after
noons snob as yon sometimes see on the
borders of the Tsar, in the year 1866 I,
aooomphnied by a professor of the
University of Munich, went for a atroll
beyond the gates of the Propylmnm. Ae
we fonod ourselves in front of a villa,
built after a fanciful style of architec
ture and surrounded by high walls, the
professor suddenly halted, and, turning
to me, said: “Shall we go and see Wag
ner?” “With all my heart,” I replied,
my anxiety being prompted rather by
cariosity than sympathy.
He rang the bell. The door was open
ed to ns by a mulatto, wearing a fex.
vYe presented onr cards and, two min
utes afterward, were shown into a deli
cious little sitting room opening on to a
veranda, which led down to a garden
full of roses and butterflies. A lady was
reclining lazily on a chair, fanning her
self with a Chinese fan, and by her side,
with his elbows on the piano, was a gen
tleman is spectacles,, tnrning over the
leaves of a manuscript score. In the
middle of the room was a marble bust of
the young king of Bavaria. The lady,
in a’most gracious manner, asked me to
be seated, and commenced speaking to
me in the purest French. Our conver
sation was suddenly interrupted by the
slamming of a side door, from which
emerged a demon-like fignre, his long
bair hanging over his shoulders, and his
spindle shanks terminating in huge felt
shoes. This was Wagner.. He intro
duced us to M. and Mme. Billow.
Out of friendship and admiration for
Wagner, Bnlow had acted as the chef
d'orchestre of his operas. It was the
night before “ Tristan and Isolde” was
to be produced, and the maes to, full
of feverish impatience, could scarcely
keep himself qniet. He jumped and
fidgeted about in his slippers; he threw
his restless spider arms from one side to
the other; the word!! rushed froffi htg
mouth in discordant sounds; it seemed
like a torrent swollen with heavy rain.
Such was Wagner in 1865 at Munich.
Such we find him, after a lapse of ten
years, at Bayreuth. The only change is
m the hairj which is how slightly
grizzled. The head-is the same, as
resolute in expression as ever, as
strongly marked in outline—the head of
a knight of old. His gestres are still as
orusque as the thrusts of a rapier, and
his tongue has still the volubility of a
windmill. The man is highly nervous
aud passionate. He is a musioal Or
lando. He is always furious, as though
he were going to fight a duel or preach
a crusade. He is a perfect volcano. In
all he does, in all he says, there is a
mixture of lava, of flame and of fire.
When you first approach this volcano
you see i to smell burning, and you feel
tempted to call the fire brigade. 'He is
haughty and violent in his sublime
extravagance. If ever he became Prince
of Lippe or of Anhalt,fae would have his
subjects led to the opera by the police,;
he would forbid, on penalty of death,
people to play on clarionets, zithers,
pianos or harmonicas of the principality ■
any composition hut Jus own; and he
would introduce by deoree, into pjivate
houses, musical coffee-grinders, musical
beds and sofas, and musical soup-tureens
and water-bottles. If ever he obtains
the favor of the King of Prussia, he will
condemn the Parisians to thirty years of
“ Tannhauser.” Despotism and love of
power are the basis of this contradictory
and warm nature.
He must tyrannize; he must abuse.
He beats his players, and then after
ward, with teara in his eyes, beg3 their
pardon. One moment he insults his
singers, the next flatters them and heaps
presents on them, In_one word, he is
impossible. He has quarreled with all
his friends; he has never been able to
agree with any tbeatrioal manager and,
at last, determined to reign as absolute
monarch, he has been obliged to build
himself a theatre. Louis 11. himself was
obliged to have a drawbridge built to
his own castle; as soon as the Knight
Lohengrin is seen throwing up the dust
on the distant road the bridge is raised.
He was in a very fair way to eat up all
Bavaria out of the King’s hand.
This northern German has Eastern
tastes and Sa'danapalian desires. He
has scattered about gold by the shovel
ful; he has thrown-fortunes out of the
window.
When he travels he must have his
special train, his servants, his waiting
maids, his bed-hangings of yellow silk
worked in gold, his silver and his wine.
He hires entire hotels, and asks for the
bedroom in which prinoes have slept.
At Bayreuth ho holds a real qourt, and
at this moment I do not know of any
other so brilliant in Germany. He has
his eqaippagea, his oommadians, his
courtiers, his lackeys and his favorites.
From the four corners of the world peo
ple come to solioit an andienoe and to
prostrate themselves before the pontiff
of the muaio of the future.
His villa %&b the sacred aspeot of a
temple. The facade from the roadway
is adorned with a large fresco, repre
senting Wotan, the goddess of mnsic,
and Siegfried. Wotan and Siegfried are
the two principal characters in “Nibe
lungenriug,” the opera in three days,
for the performance of which the thea
tre at Bayreuth has been built. Wagner
has given Wotan the features of the
tenor, Schnorr Von Carolsfeld, who was
to sing the part, but who died young.
The goddess of music is.represented by
Mme. Bulow (I should say Mme. Gosjms
Wagner), and Siegfried by bis son of si*
years of age. Abdve these! allegorical
pictures appears, in gold letters, the
name of another person belonging to
the “Nibelungenriog," he who gave the
house its name —Wahnfried. If the ex
terior ie a .ehnrptL the . tbjjpdor hr a
pagoda. The large reception room, sur
rounded by a oiroular gallery, is lighted
by a cupola. The busts of Wagner and
Mine. Cosima are displayed for the
veneration of the faithful on a sort of
altar, round which' are ranged, like
Brahmins, the statues of Lohengrin,
Tannhauser, Siegfried, Tristan and
Walter von der Vogelweide, draped in
marble.
From this sanotuary, where Vistmoo.-
Wagner only shows himself to-hi wor
shippers, and only in bis unpublished
works, you go into another room, the
window of which looks on to a terrace.
A book-ease fills three sides of fcfa#
room, and a grand piano, half hidden
by a drapery, opens its ivory month like
the familiar monster of tbe plane. The
walls are ornamented with medallions of
Sohillar, Goethe, Louis 11., and of
Schopenhauer, the Pantheist philoso
pher. The splendor of the room is some
what theatrical. Everything in it is bril
liant and dazzling, and the pietnresque
disorder is poss’bly the result of art.
It is here that Wagner ascends his tri
pod. I Ilf 9
Hia'works in the mbrntug, according
to the German motto, “ Morgenstunde
ist goldenstunde." In the Wiuter An
immense fire is lighted, the rose-Oolored
candles, burning in silver e*n4le-Sticks,
emit voluptuous odors. In the Summer
the windows are open, and the room is
filled with the aweet scant of the dawn.
Before setting to work Wagner takes a
bath, and in a cop of black coffee,
hrought to him in a gold flap, pours
forth libations to the goddess of LiSSjc.
What care he takes of his body and
mind! When the great naturalist, Buf
fon, wrote the works, the of which
answers so well to the majesty pf the
subjects, lie was satisfied to wear a de
cent coat, a shirt-frill and ruffles of lace;
when Wagner begins to work he mast
needs have the enrtaios and hangings
of his room in harmony with the
subject upon which he is engaged; he
even insists on his dressing-gown,
trowsers, cap and slippers being it har
mony with his mnsical subject. It is
not "easy to comply with all these re-
quireineuts. When the object has been
attained the maestro exhibits his inspir
ation by Btrange antics and small excla
mations of joy. Wagner can only work
iu complete silence. As soon as he is
heard to oaper and to cry no one is al
lowed to move; at the slightest noise
his muse takes immediate flight, and
the world loses a chef d'auvre. When
Wagner, owing to the kindness of Mey
erbeer and Mauriea Schiesinger, lived
in Paris, he required neither this ridicu
lous luxury nor this stupid affectation
to inspire him. It was in the year 1840,
and at this time Wagner, who set him
self op aa a mortal enemy of kings,
knew what it was to suffer hanger nobly.
He did not then present his workß to the
world as though they were sybilline
leaves; his mnsio was not incompre
hensible. It had some charming oases.
At 11 ©’clock Wagner crosses Bayreuth
in a carriage and goes |o his theatre,
which is at the other extremity of the
town. The rehearsals generally last
three hoars. Upon his return he break
fasts alone, taking oysters, cold meat,
and wine. Two hoars later he dines
with his family. His dinner con
sists invariably of six entree*. He has
an inordinate paaaion lor thrashes,
and he manages to get them all the year
round. Cheese, likewise, is a favorite
relish of his. In his cellar he has a spe
cial compartment which is called “The
Cheese Mnsenm;” here Brie ripens gent
ly, Grnyere becomes a deeper gold,
Roquefort becomes stronger, and Camen
bert melts into tenderness. Wagner
drinks beer only from a patriotic, mo
tive. Every evening he goes over to
Ankerman’s, the general rendesvons for
all the singers and musicians, and drinks
his beer. In the midst of the smoke gt
the pipes which envelopes him, he re
aembies fli god of WtlhilU who has
Mended, incognito, into the country of
potatoes. At hia own hoase the author
of “Tannhsuaer" only moistens his
divinity with champagne. Let grive a,
let rendent grivois. His jokes make the
ladies present turn as red aa peonies.
He is a man emphatically full of con
trasts, for, if be finds his friends a little
too jovial, he has an easy method of
damping their spirits. Mysteriously he
brings forth a dark lantern and invites
his friends to follow him. Yon go down
into the garden, passing through a door
half hidden by a curtain of ivy, and yon
suddenly find yourself in the midst of a
sombre forest, surrounded by strange
fantastic sounds. At first you are puz
zled, then you begin to get anxious, and
at length Bilence roorf you to the spot.
Wagner, suddenly darts his lantern upon
a huge block of granite, and in* a se
pulchral tone says: “My friends, this is
my tomb; think of death !” This an
nouncement aots as a douche; you re
turn to the drawing room to talk of
death, the plurality of worlds, the sonl
and virtue; but you always finish up
with Bismarck and France.
FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS
YESTERDAY.
The Senate—Two Veteee The Impeachment
—Farther Delay Ordered—Countias the
Preetdentla] Vote—Morten'e Chance Against
Jeflersoa—Attempt to Blacken the Memory
of theTllaatrioaa Dead—The Honee—The
Real Estate Foel—The Public Lauda—A
Swindling Schema on Foot.
Washington, April 19.—1n the Senate
the message vetoing the redaction of
the President’s salary was referred to
the Committee on Civil Servioe. It
read as follows:
To the Senate of the Uni'ed States :
I herewith return Senate bill No. 172,
entitled “An act fixing the salary of the
President of the United States,” with
out my approval. I am constrained to
this coarse from a sense of duty to my
successors in office, to myself, and to
what is doe to the dignity of the posi
tion of Chief Magistrate of a nation of
more than forty millions of people.
When the salary of the President of the
United States was fixed by the Consti
tution at $25,000 per annum we were
a nation of but three millions of people,
poor from a-long and exhaustive war,
without commerce or manufactories, with
but few wants and those chiefly supplied'
The salary must then have been deemed
small for the responsibility and dignity
of the position, but justifiably so from
the impoverished condition of the Trea
sury and the simplicity it was desired to
cultivate in the repubUo. The salary of
Congressmen under the Constitution
was first fixed at $6 per day for the time
actually in session, an average of about
one hundred and twenty days to each
session, or $720 per year, or less than
one-twentieth of the salary of the Presi
dent. Congress have legislated upon
their own salaries from time to time
since until finally it reached $5,000 per
annam, or one-fifth that of the President
before the salary of the latter was in
creased. No one having a knowledge
of the cost of living at the National
Capital will contend that the
E resent salary of Congressman is too
igh, unless it is the intention to make
the offioe one entirely of honor, when
the Balary should be abolished, a pro
position repugnant to our republican
ideas and institutions. I do not believe
the citizens of this Repubtio desire their
public servants to serve them without a
fair compensation for their services.
Twenty-five thousand dollars does not
defray the expenses of the Executive for
one year, or has not in my experience.
It is now one-fifth in value what it was
when fixed by the Constitution in sup
plying demands and wants. Having no
personal interest in this matter, I have
felt myself free to return this bill to the
House in which it originated,
with my objections, believing -that
in doing so I meet the wishes and judg
ment of the great majority of those who
indirectly pay all the salaries and other
expenses" of the Government.
[Signed! U. S. Grant.
Mr. Oglesby was excused from the
Mississippi Committee and Mr. Ferry
authorized to fill the vacancy.
The Committee on Claims reported
the bill for the relief of G. B. Taylor
and E. H. Luokett with a veto message
with a recommendation that the bill be
passed notwithstanding. It was placed on
the oalendar. The bill authorizes the
return of $146 paid for internal revenae
storekeepers servioes in Kentucky.
The Committee on Publio Buildings
reported favorably on the bill to con
firm the sale of the marine hospital at
Natchez.
The impeachment oourt resumed its
session. The House’s replication was
read by the Clerk at the request of Mr.
Lord of the managers. It sets forth
that the time the acts were done, and
while the Committee of the House were
considering articles impeaching Bel
knap, of which he was aware, he was
Secretary of War, and that he resigned
to avoid snch impeachment. On these
grounds the managers demand that the
plea be not allowed, and that the Senate
compel Belknap to answer. The coun
sel for Belknap desired a oopy of the
replication, and asked until Monday
next to consider and answer the same.
The following order was adopted : Or
dered, That the respondent file his
rejoinder on or before the 24th
of April, and that the Secretary shall
deliver a copy thereof to the Clerk
of the House of Representatives, and
that the House of Representatives file
their sub-rejoinder, if any, on or before
the 25th of April, a oopy of which shall
be served on the counsel for the re
spondent by the Secretary. On motion
of IJr. Edmunds, the Senate as a Court
of Impeachment then adjourned till the
27th instant, at 12:30, p. m.
The legislative session was resumed,
and the bill defining the tax on malt
liquors was amended and passed, and
goes to the House for concurrence.
The bill for counting the Presidential
vote was resumed. Mr. Morton said he
bad never regarded it as a party meas
ure. He spoke at some length as to the
neoessity of haviDg anew law on this
subjeot, and said ainoe the bill had
passed the Benate a circumstance had
been discovered which would startle the
oountry when made publio.
Mr. Bayard inquired as to what was
the nature of it ? Mr. Morton said he
wonld pot mention names, bnt it was a
case the Tice-President was
counting the vote for President, being
himself -a candidate, and counted a
false and void return in his favor. The
foot wps in possession of one of the
Senators from Vermont.
Mj. Bayard spojgs Tp favor of recon
sidering tUfe vote and the neoessity for a
more perfeot law on the subject.
Mr. Thurman, referring to the state
ment of the Senator from Indiana (Mor
ton) in regard to a Vuae-Preeident count
ing a false vote, said he had seen it
stated in the newspapers that this Vioe-
President, when his attention was called
to tbe faet that tbe return was false, di
rected tbe Clerk to oonnt it aud
then tore op the paper. That
great man never did snob a
thing. It was no use to conceal the
name of that man. It was no less than
he whose hand wrote the Declaration of
Independence. It was no less a man
than Thomas Jefferson. It wonld not
de now to jpake snch a charge as that
against him. (Thurman) would
wait for the production of the evidence,
and he ventured to say that whn it was
produced, there would be nothing in it
to impegn the integrity of Mr. Jefferson.
After further discussion by Messrs.
Burnside, Randolph, Ma*ey, Merrimon
and others, the vote by which the bill
was passed was reconsidered—yeas, 81;
nays, 2e the bill was plaoed on the
calendar. .
Nineteen book publishing firms of
New York presented a protest against
the postage on books in the pending
postal bill.
The case of Finley t’S. Wall was re
sumed, and Finley took the modified
( oath and his nfist by a vote of 113 to 83. j
Wliers Tweed c* Tvvvib
pTeir TorToraphio,]
Avery absuTd tale is started now that
Tweed is in Italy “traveling as an Amer
ioan Baron.” The report that he assumes
n title among a people who know very
well that Americans have no State titles
should be enough to stamp the story as
a tlotion even in the minds of the most
crednlons, A man whose face is as
well known as Tweed’s could not travel
in any civilized land without being recog
nized at every step. The Boss is in New
Tork or very near, and his whereaboats
are well known to several persons, per
haps many, who criminally conspire to
conceal him from the people he has
plundered and the law he defies. The
report that he is “an American Baron”
receives some coloring from his high
handed andacity. He has robbed the
city as boldly as the German Barons of
the Middle Ages pillaged their serfs,
and he now langhs at Courts and jail's as
those petty tyrants laughed at the mena
ces of village 'Squires.
THE BROKEN LEVEES.
launeue Dum> Biu U leaiataaa a*4
an—jarigftl.
Nxw Orleans, April 19.—The Timed
report says what is known as the “Bass
Levee " is at Point Lookout, in Carroll
pariah, and is the largest protection
levee in the State of Louisiana. The
break there is a mile wide, and the
waters are flowing" 'through without
making a ripple. The loss there ia tre
mendous, and it is estimated it will re
duce the crop of oottou sent to this city
260,000 bales. On the Mississippi side,
Um Hack Ridge sad Wads breaks will
devastate Bolivar, Jaqveoe and Warren
oouutiee, and will be equally aa large as
on the opposite aids.
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
HON. KERSCHEL V. JOHNSON.
A Centennial Candidate Her Governor.
. Eatontow, Ga., April 12.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
“The offioe should seek the man, not
the man the offioe.” To this proposi
tion all good citizens give a hearty en
dorsement; but how seldom do the
voters of Georgia have an opportunity
of casting the r ballots for him who in
their hearts they believe is the “right
man >n the right plaoe.” But, on the
com- 'y, silently vote for him who has
had lends enough or taot sufficient to
secure the party nomination. Yet, some
times the people simultaneously, and
without any previous conoert of action,
clearly and unmistakably point out and
call for the man that in every resnect is
the man they need. The vox populi,
seeming, in somecase&at least, indeed, to
be the vox dei. These reflections
suggested themselves to the writer in
notioing the persistent manner in which
the distinguished geatleman, whose
name heads this oommnnioation, is con
stantly being pat forward as a candidate
for Governor. With no press in his pay
(alas I that in the South we'should use
such an expression), no clique of poli
ticians working in his interest, he
himself preserving that dignified si
lence upon the subjeot which is so
in character with the man. All the
other aspirants quietly, bat no donbt
perseveringly, ignoring him as an oppo
nent-still it cannot be denied that Gov.
Johnson’s name is before the people as a
candidate for the nomination for Gov
ernor with or without his oonsent, not
brought forward by himself or his
friends, but by thousands who would
delight once more to honor one of Geor
gia’s noblest sons. It- would be a work
of supererogation to praise him, or to
speak of his claims, or bis qualifications
for the position to the people of Georgia.
Bnt it is hard to keep silent when an
opportunity presents itself to express
the earnest wish to see once more at the
head of our Commonwealth such a man,
and to sit down each under our own vine
and fig tree, feeling that at least onr
beloved State was indeed reconstructed,
and her vast interests were in the hands
of one who never proved himself un
worthy of a trust.
Without any hostility to any of the
gentlemen whose names have been men
tioned in connection with this offioe, this
section of Georgia is for Johnson, and
the county of Putnam unanimously so.
An Old Whig,
LETTER FROM LEXINGTON, 8- C.
Meeting af the Democracy—The Grangers—
Preparations for Earner—A Flourishing
School—Mnetcal and Dramatic The
Knights of Jericho.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel :
Lexington, C. H., April 12, 1876.
Though this is only a rural, inland vil
lage, there is merit in its quiet, rustic,
unobstrusive inmates, about whom per
haps the dwellers of your proud and
bustling and magnificent city would be
refreshed to hear. At any rate a letter
has been solicited from this quarter and
I am pleased to be able to respond to
the solicitation. The people here are.
with only one or two exceptions that I
know of, Democratic in their senti
ments. On last Monday a meeting was
held to send delegates to the State
Democratic Convention, and although
the rain was pouring down in torrents
every township in the oounty, exoept
two, was represented, and the utmost
unanimity and good order prevailed.
On Wednesday we had a Grangers’
pic-nio in the new Grange building. It
was well attended. Addresses were de
livered by Maj. H. A. Meetze and Mr.
Kinsier to ah appreciative audience in
the forenoon, and then one of the cele
brated Grange dinners appeased the
appetites of the most fastidious or Epi
curean. The lodge was draped in mourn
ing, for one of the most loved and
honored members had passed away
to join in the bright God land the pious
Grangers who had gone before, and who,
standing on the shores of the eternal
city, with white hands, beokon him
heavenward.
The farmers are attending to the us
ual Spring duties of the farm, and are,
there! .>re, seldom to be seen on our
Btreets. They are discouraged about the
fruit crop, as most ’of the trees had
bloomed previous to the last oold
weather. But my letter is taking a
gloomy turn ; so I must try to change
the ourrent of my thoughts into a more
lively channel. The preparations for
Easter are going en in a pleasant and
attractive manner, I hear, especially by
tne Lutherans, who are to have a Sab
bath School celebration. And after the
charming old English style, when May
day comes, Mrs. Abney is to have the
May Pole reared and the May Queen
crowned, amid a scene of festive mirth
and beauty. Her school, though not
numbering so many as during the Win
ter months, is still in a flourishing con
dition. The usual monthly review of
this excellent High Sohool for young
ladies was attended last week. One who
was present on the occasion thus alludes
to it:
This sohool is conducted on the same
principles adopted by the Normal
Sohool in Charleston. The review exer
oises of that sohool ooourred on Thurs
day, and on comparing the two they
will be fonod the same in their main
features; The reading and recitations
of well selected pieces are prominent
parts of the exercises. The girls at
Mrs. Abney’s school all acquitted them
selves creditably, and the teachers
proved their diligence and attention by
the suocess of their pupils. We trust
it will not be long before a large num
ber of soholars will be sent to this de
serving sohool. —— <——
The German class is progressing fine
ly, although the young ladies who have
“no-Dutch in them” find it difficult to
pronounce, especially as they are told
that “in order to learn it correctly they
will have to double and twist up their
tongues and swallow them.”
There has been no little gayety here
this Spring, already. We have attended
two very sprightly "and delightful enter
tainments—musical, dramatic and other
wise—given by the ladies for the bene
fit of one of the village churches. Con
spicuous among the dramatis personae
on each occasion were Mr. T. S. Arthur,
Miss C. Moore and Miss Agatha Abney;
and the sparkle of wit and brilliancy of
acting, enhanoed by . the really elegant
and oostly dresses, added no little to
the entertainment of the audience as
sembled.
I was pleased, particularly with one
of the songs sung by Mrs. Abney. It
was a wild, wierd, sweet, grand and, I
may add, “gloomy and peculiar” piece,
of the descriptive order, designed to
represent the effect of a storm npon the
ißolian or Harp of the Winds—the sen
timent being “that the raging of the
storm whioh threatens its destruction
only serves to evoke from its trem
bling strings more powerfnl and
eloquent mnsio." All who took part
in these entertainments reflected
credit on themselves, and deserve
the thanks of the community for the
pleasure the oooasions afforded; and for
the pecuniary benefit to the ohtfroh.
There is an amateur band of mnsioians
forming here, who contemplate giving a
concert in May. They have bought in
struments and are frequently practicing.
There is another feature of this town
that I mast not omit to write about—
the Knights of Jericho. This is an or
der of Sons and Daughters of Tenjper
anoe—a very loving band of sisters and
brothers! and numbering abont fifty or
sixty, and exerting a most salutary in
flence on the morals of tfie place. Thp
lecturers elect are the Rev. J. H. Baily
and Mr. T. S. Arthur, the latter of
whom on Wednesday evening last gave
his first lecture, which be <f e h* erec l > n
his usual dignified, eloquent manner,
was “just the right thing.”
Miss Lou Atem3.k n is still confined to
bed from the injury received by falling
from her horse. We hope .though that
her health ia improying. I have read
several copies of your paper and con
sider it one of the bps* ip til 6 South.
Wishing it a prosperous career, f remain
Yours respectfully,
Marios.
OGLETHORPE COUNTY.
Had Times—.Conftdeace LmwKmilii
Ctansi Cft—The Root of the Eyil—Gr*ed
at Gel4—Palitlca Qaiet —Osletherpv Ceurt
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel]
Oglethorpe County, Ga., April 14
Everything is moving on smoothly and
quietly in this good old county. Most
of our people are farmers, and being of
an industrious turn of mind a majority
of them are bqsy planting and prepar
ing for planting. Of conree they find
time and opportunity to complain of
hard times. This complaint has be
come chronio. However, there seems
to be more real foundation for the com
plaint just now than usual. Our oldest
mtufena, forgetting the flayk, trying
years of the late war, no doubt, agree
nem non. that these are the hardest
times they ever saw. Well, these are
hard times, eerie* Money is very
scarce. Jt is very difficult to obtain
farm supplies qb time.” T&®?®
seems to be no confidence between
i?iqn ud man. The good old-time
feeling of friendship—practical friend
ship, I mesa—seems to bes thing
of the past. Those who have
money *re unwilling to loan evea to
their best friends except on the best
security and at the highest rate of in
terest the law will allow. Those who
■re prosperous ooigratulate themselves
on their good fortune, while their less
fortunate neighbors struggle on from
year to year with a constantly accumu
lating load of debt, and with little or no
hope of an escape from ultimate bank
ruptcy. Ido not mean to say that our
people are discontented. It is hard for
those who work to be seriously disoon
tented. One of the sweetest rewards of
honest toil is the oontentment of mind
that it brings to those who labor. The
malcontents in every community or na
tion are the idlers. Still our people
cannot bnt think and talk abont the
pressure of the timee. Almost every
one has hia own theory as to the
cause. Some say the use of guano
is ' the fruitful source of all
our ills. Others traoe the hard
times to the cultivation of ootton. Still
others attribute our financial trouble to
the homestead and other laws that have
been enacted since the war. Perhaps
there is some truth in all these theories.
But I am disposed to think that there is
a remote cause, which few take into ao
connt in their speculations as to the
agencies that have brought abont the
present state of things. I allude to that
eager desire to get rid of which took
possession of onr people after the close
of the war. The abolition of slavery
and the many other disastrous results
of the great struggle left all classes in'an
impoverished oondition. The high prioe
of ootton seems to open the way for a
speedy recuperation of onr shattered
fortunes. Allured by the flattering
prospect of a speedy restoration to their
former prosperity, oar people rashed
blindly into the cultivation of cotton.—
What has been tbe result? Let the ex
orbitant rates of interest that money has
commanded—the indiscriminate and in
judicious use of commercial fertili
zers—the scarcity and high price
of all the great staples of life; the mise
ries of time prices; tbe general ray al
most universal distrust between man
and man, and the almost ntter prostra
tion of onr agricultural interests answer
the question. We are, as a people, but
suffering the just though severe penalty
for our all absorbing greed for gold. Let
us hope that when we have suffered
enough to show us our folly, a better
and more prosperous day will dawn upon
us as a people.
County Notes.
There is no political exoitement in the
county. Our people think but little
about politics. Who the nominees for
Representatives in the next Legislature
will be is one of theunsolved questions of
the futnre. lam unable to say whether
our former Representatives, Dr. T. D.
Hutcheson and Rev. D. W. Patman in
tend running or not. We shall not add to
the gubernatorial complication by pre
senting a native candidate for the office of
Chief Executive. * * Oglethorpe Su
perior Court will be in session next
week. It is thought that the famous
Eberhart case will be postponed on ac
count of the absence from the State of
Messrs. Hill and Toombs. * Mr.
Wm. M. England, who resides several
miles from Maxey’s, in the southern cor
ner of the county, had his dwelling
house and all of his furniture burned on
last Thursday. This misfortune falls
very heavy on Mr. England, wuo has a
wife and three small children dependent
on him for a support.
Philip Fabmebson.
FRANKLIN COUNTY—LETTER FROM
CARNESVILLE.
The Court, the Bar, the Press and the People
—The Toccoa and Elberton Railroad—The
Trade that Augusta Has Lost ft id How It
Can be Regained—The People Want to
Come Back—The Crops—A Good Prospect
—The Air Line Railroad.
[From Our Traveling Correspondent.]
Cabnesville, April 13,1876 —The Su
perior ourt, Judge Rice presiding, met
here Monday. Albert L Mitchell, Esq.,
the newly appointed Solioitor-General,
was sworn in and entered on the dis
charge of his office. His appointment
gives satisfaction. Mr. Mitchell lost an
arm during the war. He is a good law
yer, and Gov. Smith made an excellent
selection in his appointment. The fol
lowing lawyers were present at Court :
Hon. J. J. Turnbull, Homer; S. P
Tbnrmond, Esq .Athens; G. Nash, Esq ,
Madison; Hon. J. B. Estes, Gainesville;
J. F. Langston, Esq , Gainesville; Hon.
G. M. Netherland, Clarksville; A. C.
Moss, Esq., Homer; J. H. Shannon,
Esq., Elberton; J. W. Owen, Esq , Too
coa. The local bar was represented by
J. S. Dorch, Esq., and W. R. Little,
Esq.
Carnesville is one of the old towns of
the State. It has at present six stores,
two drug stores and two hotels. There
has been but little improvement since
the war. It is situated eighteen miles
from Toocoa, the nearest point on the
Air Line Railroad. The people have
great hopes Augusta will help them to
finish their railroad that is already
graded from Toocoa to Elberton. If
the people of Augusta were to aid in the
completion of this road they would se
cure all the trade from this part of the
State. TbiS trade belongs to Augusta,
and I have heard several old merchants
express a great desire to return back to
their old friends in your city.
Mr. J. T. Wilson is publishing a pa
per here. He was employed at one time
on the Chronicle and Sentinel. He
is a olever and industrious gentle
man aud deserves to be sustain
ed in his undertaking. There is
a fine school at Carnesville the
Franklin County Institute, Prof. L. K.
Bnrruss, Principal. Rev. W. P. Smith,
Pastor of the M. E. Ghnroh, is very
much esteemed. Mr. J. C. McCarter,
Sheriff of Franklin, entertained the bar.
He keeps the Franklin House. He did
everything possible to make it comfort
able for the lawyers. His table pre
sented the best the country affords.
His gentlemanly olerk, W. H. Rampley,
is quite a favorite with all.
The press was well represented. Hon.
H. H. Carlton, editor of the Athena
Georgian; Col. Christy of the Watch
man; Hon. Thomas Orymes, of the
North Georgia Herald , were present in
the interest of their respective papers.
The Eranklin County Register, the
looal paper, had two representatives
The Chronicle and Senninbl has lost
none of its hold on the affections of the
people. I met many who looked upon
it as a man does who meets
an old faieud after an absence
of years. I met men who said that they
had been reading it for fifty years. I
send yon a list of fifty-four subscribers.
The crops look well. The fanners
arebusily engaged planting corn, The
wheat is looking better in Franklin than
in any other oounty I have visited. The
people here are ' generally well-to-do
They make supplies for home consump
tion the first consideration, and have al
ways some thing to sell after their home
wants are provided for'. The people of
Franklin desire to keep abreast of the
times and subscribe liberally to papers.
I have obtained more snbsoribers in this
oounty than in any oounty I have visited
in seotion. This shows their anxiety to be
informed on passing events.
The Atlanta and Richmond Air Line
is doing a fine buiness, and is in
good condition. Ca tain John B
Peck, Superintendent and Master of
of Transportation, is a gentleman ef
great enterprise, oombined with a won
derfnl degree of oantion. He spends
his time looking after the interest of the
road. During the recent heavy rains,
which continned for a week, not an acci
dent happened. This fact speaks well
for the oondition and management of the
road. Oapt. W. H. Foots, the Road
Master, is always on the line, looking
after it from Atlanta to Charlotte. He
is traveling and inspecting the road all
the time, and when there is anything to
be done he is tbp first to poll his coat
off and gq to wqrk. The road runs
through some magnificent monntaiD
soenery. There is one point fifteen hun
dred feet above the level of the sea. Col.
Peck and Oapt. Boots are both practical
men, and they keep their road fully up
to the standard. With snch men at the
beafi of the Air Line—intelligent, cau
tious, gractica l anfi is no
wonder that the.roafiisa suocess as to
its condition and business.
J will attend Habersham Oourt next
week. J. W. N.
THE NORTHWESTERN TQCHIBTS.
EditorH Chronicle avrf Ser\lfnel:
Why the Northwestern tourists could
have expected the Mayor and City
Council of Augusta to meet them at the
depot is beyond my feeble comprehen
sion Atlanta invites some guests f>om
the Tar West, extends the hospitalities,
eta, of the City- After ooming this far
into Georgia, and having a free pass,
this party, passing through our town,
whose “business capacity,” ganged by
their expanded Western views, has not
yet arrived at a “respectable” position,
although onoe known as the largest oot
tonportin the world, or fljeij w*? t 0
Florida, and after ’ascertaining ©ur
great poverty, go home Shd tflftkO sport
of one of the strongholds of the old
Southern aristocracy, who can not as
similate with the “mud sills,” to quote
his own term, borrowed from an unfor
tunate expression, tortured into a wrong
meaning, made by cm* of South Caro
lina's greatest statesmen. Bah, why
this great desire of deifying these peo
ple ? We are as separate and distinct a
people, in all our feelings and instincts,
as though onr complexions were of the
same sombre hue as fhogg t&ey hgye so
desired to plaae oyer 148 since the war,
and they have retained in power
in our sister State. The Good
Book commands us that when our right
cheek is smitten, to turn the left. Well,
gentleman, slftpe tig* W, WtW*b
mitted to be cuffed on both cheeks,
kicked—and now, after you have us as
low as you can, wifb a handful of sand
in your fist, ready to grind °UT eye—
we must thank yok for doing us this
honor. And then preach of bridging
bloody ohaamß. Centennial meetings, this
great and glorions Bepnblio, the finest
Government nnder the son, with Mor
ton’s bloody shirt flaunting in the breeze
at every election in the Northern States,
Blaine raking np the bones of the Ander
sonville prisoners, ignoring the death of
poor Wirta.JMrs. Surratt, etc., but bring
ing everything that Northern imagina
tion can conceive or pen portray to in
flame a people already prone to believe
against the blood-thirsty slave holder of
the secession States. Ton try to make
ns believe for a moment that yon are
really in earnest making sport of the
poverty of a country through which
“Sherman’slGrand Army” passed, leaving
it as desolate as ever Turenne’s legions
did the low oonntries which made all
Europe even in those benighted days cen
sure. On the night of the arrival of these
unexpected gentlemen it was my good
fortune to be present at a St. Patrick’s
celebration. I am certain that I saw
several of the N. W. T.’s present. Whe
ther our Chicago friend was or not I
oannot say, but I certainly thought our
hosts made no distinction. Chioago, at
the burning of Charleston, fired a hun
dred guns in honor of that oity’s mis
fortune. When Chioago was burned
Augusta subscribed her hundreds. We
are disposed to meet the Northern man,
when we know whether he is a gentle
man or a blaokguard, with all the civili
ties our poor limited opportunities of
education and refinement are oapable of.
Bot that we should beexpected to throw
our doors open to four or five hundred
people we never heard of nor expected,
not knowing as they were in transitu to
Florida that they would honor our in
significant town with their presence, 4 I
fail to conoeive, save in the proverbial
expression of a Yankee’s brass and as
surance being verified. Old Auqusta.
THE GEORGIA RAILROAD.
A Review of Its Past and Present Manage
ment—lts Condition and Its Future Pros
pects.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel :
The smothered struggle over the next
President of the Georgia Railroad Com
pany, which it is said has been raging
under the hatches among the proxy
gatherers so long, has at last broken out
upon the surface. Two of the combat
ants have come out on deck apparently
to get their breath and a mouthful of
fresh air and while there have inconti
nently rushed into print. The distin
guished and venerable President and an
equally venerable Director, in a sort of
David and Jonathan correspondence
have expressed for each other the best
of good wishes and recalled memories
with mingled feelings of pleasure and
sadness. The gist of the letters is in
the announcement of Judge King that
his friends may use his name and that he
will serve if elected. This is the first occa
sion upon which the Judge has deigned
in this controversy to couoh his lanoe
in public. The correspondence between
him and Dr. Jones does credit to both.
They are gentlemen of high character
and reputation, and it is both natural
and praiseworthy that, after having been
so long and so agreeably associated in
the management of the company’s af
fairs through the best years of their
lives, they should desire, now that
they alone of their cotemporaries are
left, that those relations should still
continue. But the question of the next
President is not one of sentiment, it i*
one of business. The praotioal issue is
one of dollars and cents, and not of
pleasant memories of the past. It is
purposed in this communication to ex
amine briefly the propriety of contin
uing Judge King in offioe solely from a
business point of view. Personally, the
writer has a high esteem for him and
sinoerely wishes that his last days may
be his best days.
It is claimed for him that his admin
istration has been a success, and some
of those who are now in favor of a
change base their present opposition to
his re-election solely upon the ground of
bis age and infirmities, and admit that if
he was the man he once was they would
still prefer him. Strange as it may ap
pear to many, a close examination into
the history of the past thirty years of
the Georgia Railroad leads to the con
clusion that his administration has been
comparatively a failure from the start.
This may sound like rank treason, but
it is stern truth. Judge King was
elected President of the Company in
1842, and the very first result of his
management was an increase in the
ratio of expenses to reoeipts of one per
cent, as against the previous year. This
was daring the first year of his
administration, and is compared with
the last year of bis predecessor. This
ratio was afterwards reduoed, it is
true, but we shall see as we proceed
to whom the credit is due. It will be
remembered also by the old stockhold
ers that he never paid a dollar of divi
dends for four years after he was made
President. The stockholders got along
the best way they could without any in
come, cheered by the assuranoe from
the President that they would get back
the amount of these undivided p ofits
in the increased value of the property
as they were expended in completing
the road from Madison to Marthaville,
as Atlanta was called in those days.
They were assured by him that when
the road was completed its debts would
be paid and handsome dividends de
clared, “never after to be interrupted.”
These promises were like the apples of
Sodom. The stockholders found them
selves upon the completion of the road
deeper in debt as a company, and it is
not necessary to go back very far to see
if the promise as to dividends has been
kept. The wonderful and unaccounta
ble influence Judge King wielded in the
affairs of the company, in spite of all
this, was sufficient to maintain him in
his position and retain the confidence of
the stockholders. It is proper to say,
however, in this connection, that there
were some even at that early day who
had begun to doubt the infallibility of
the oracle. In order to show how falla
cious was his reasoning when he gave
these assurances, it is only neoesaary to
recall the fact that even after the ab
sorption of four years’ earnings in com
pleting the road, the stockholders were
further mulcted by a subsequent assess
ment of upwards of half a million dol
lars. In all this Judge King was en
tirely sincere. He undoubtedly believed
that events would make good his prom
ises. He was not attempting to deoeive
the stockholders—he was himself de
ceived.
We next find him watering the stock.
He made the discovery some time
in the year 1847 or 1848 that
the road was really worth more
thah .the amount of stook represented,
and came forward with his second im
portant proposition to the stockholders
This - was tnat the amount of the then
fanded debt of the oompany should be
retired by increasing the stook to cover
it and an additional inorease to oover the
extension. His idea was that the whole
amount of that money had gone into the
road and should be represented by shares
of sto.ck. He persistently urged this
poliey upon the oompany, accompanied
by the assuranoe that he would then be
enabled to extinguish the funded debt
and pay good dividends upon the whole
amount, until the better judgment of
the opponents of the soheme yielded
So far from this promise being fulfilled,
the funded debt was actually increased
in amount instead of diminished,.muoh
less paid, and the half million as
sessment upon tbe old stock above
referred to was at the same tme
extorted. Four years earnings and
upwards of half a million assessment
gone, the stock doubled in amount, and
yet the debt increased. In the tape of
all this, he managed to calm the discon
tent of the better informed stockholders
and still retained his position. He was
paying dividends. Tbe road was getting
worse and worse involved in debt and
entanglements, as far as the President’s
duties were concerned, but it was being
economically mu, The Superintend
ent’s department was iu the hands of
two mop first and last, who saved every
thing by making the road pay. John
Edgar Thompson first, who, as Chief
Engineer, had also the daties of a Bn
penntendent; and after hitft O.
They tyen who mafic tlie divi
dends that quieted the clamors of the
stockholders in those days.
We come now to consider that feature
of Judge King's administration which
has marked it mote distinctly any
other anfi t d<W WO to he laid
all the troubles the company is now snf
feting from. This is, spending the
money of the oompany in building op
other enterprises; taking stock in other
roads; endorsing the bonds of other
roads, and especially the Western con
nections of the Georgia Railroad. y>ery
early in his Resident’ he
aho,wd this towards ex
tensive Western connections, and it was
easy to see qyei} then that he was oar
ned away by the exaggerated estimate
he had pat upon the valae of these
tributaries—and sore enough he was
carried away and his judgment warped
to the injury of the Georgia Railroad
Company hond(gfis of thousands of dol
lars, This overweening desire to stretch
oat to the West and control the traffic
of the fertile conhtrieshe was constantly
picturing there, led him into enormons
expenditures of the qtqaey.
Hundreds of thousands oi 4°*Ws were
spent in other states besides Geor
gia under the delusion that had
fastened itself upon him. Mnoh
of this money for years yielded no re
turn, and some of it qqva? will. |t is
gone, and paopf* i* belonged to are
not one dime the richer on aoconnt of
its expenditure. Every road that was
aided' by it would have been built with
out it. Every dollar of it wea expended
without consideration, and Judge King
is guilty of the egregious blander in
finance of paying for wbat be oonld
hayp got for nothing by waiting. The
West Point and LaGrange, the Alabama
Western, Nashville and Chattanooga and
East Tennessee and Georgia Railroads
have swallowed under this mania mil
liens of the Georgia Railroad Company’s
money, pnd every single mile of them
would have been built without a dollar
of it. The Georgia Railroad could this
day have been enjoying all the bene
fits of these connecting lines, and
not owed a dollar if a different
polioy had bean pursued. It is
somewhat amusing iu reviewing the
arguments that were used in those
days by Judge King to induce the com
pany to launch forth into these wild
schemes, to see how subsequent
events have exposed his short-sighted
ness. Upon one occasion he used the
argument that the Georgia Rtilroad
would control the through travel from
the Mississippi Valley to New York and
said some travelers from St. Louis to
New York had from ohoice come in
wagons to the head of the Georgia Rail
road, and thence over the road and on
to New York, and were even then pleased
with the route, going to show that if it
was an all rail route to the Mississippi
tho Georgia Railroad would be the
thoroughfare. These connections he so
longed to see were made, and we next
find him reporting to the company that
through travel over the road had fallen
off. The very opposite result had fol
lowed from what he had anticipated.
Bun the company’s money was gone,
all the same. Still extending—still en
dorsing for other companies, we find
him even down to old age the slave to
this ruling idea. The Georgia Railroad
Company could not take a share in the
lease of the Western and Atlantic Road,
so Judge King took one himself, and
made the oompany sign as surety. There
he committed the company again to a
heavy risk for which the Western and
Atlantio Road itself is not even bound,
for it is the property of the State, and
the only indemnity the Georgia Railroad
Company can have in case of loss is out
of the individnal lessees. The Georgia
Railroad Company owe three millions of
dollars to-day for which they have Judge
King to thank, and have not received a
single cent of consideration for tbe three
millions that they would *not have re
ceived without it. If he had begun
thirty years ago saving the money that
Thompson and Arms were making, and
►had applied 51 it to the pavment of the
then small debt of the compruy—if he had
let other roads alone, and other States,
and stayed at home and endorsed for no
body, he would long ago have paid every
dollar the company owed, and would have
had every Western connection he now
has. On the oontrary, from the time
he first touohed the finances of the com
pany its debt has steadily increased, its
compl’oations have multiplied, and what
investments it has are scattered through
four States. Its stock is not worth any
more to-day than it was two years after
the road was finished to Atlanta, and it
is involved in debt on account of every
single oompany whose cars run over its
track. All this, and more, is charge
able to the present administration and
its insatiate longing to stretch out West
ward and help build other roads leading
to the fertile regions beyond.
So muoh for the past. We have seen
it marked with fatal blunders. What is
the guarantee for the future ? “If he
did these things in the green leaf, what
will he do in the dry tree ?” This is the
question for the sto -kholders to settle.
Outside of the interests of the Geor
gia Railroad Company, it has been fre
quently urged by Judge King that the
whole State ought to be enlisted in
building up railroads extending west
ward from Atlanta. He has contended
that they would be of inestimable bene
fit to the people of Georgia at large, es
peoially the State Road. So far as Mid
dle Georgia is concerned, time has
shown that thq. State Road has been an
unmitigated curse instead of a blessing.
It has done more than everything else to
impoverish her farmers, to beggar her
resources and add to individual indebt
edness all over Middle Georgia, and it
has done this by transforming a State
from a producer of provisions to a con
sumer. Before that road was built the
farmers of Middle Georgia were pro
ducers of provisions, and to spare ; now
they are consumers; and the change be
gan to be marked as soon as these same
Western connections were completed,
which Judge King declared would bo an
unmixr-d blessing. It is difficult to esti
mate the ruin this polioy has brought
upon Georgia. An agricultural people
do not need outlets to markets iu which
they can buy. They need outlets to
markets in which they can sell. If the
people of Georgia were out off entirely
from the corn fields and pork factories
of Illinois, necessity would compel what
interest has always diotated as their
true policy ; and he who increases their
facilities for dealing with the West in
breadstuff's and the like is their worst
enemy. It is wisdom to encourage pro
duction—it is folly to abe.t consumption.
Clarke.
INDIANA POLITICS.
MEETING OP THE STATE CON
VENTION.
The Democracy in Council—A Lively Time
Among tlie HooNiers—Landers and Holman
—An Abortive Movement for Vorlieos— I The
Lander* Men Stick to Him Against His
Wishes—A Compromise Candidate the Re
sult.
Indianapolis, April 19.—The Demo
cratic State Convention was called to
order by General Manson. The Con
'vention organized by electing Hon.
Thomas R. Cobb permanent President.
The Committee on Resolutions not be
ing ready to report when called an at
tempt was made to proceed with the
ballot for Governor,. Hon. Wm. 8.
Holman, Hon. Franklin L. Landers and
Judge Niblack being before the Con
vention, Mr. Landers appeared in the
gallery and demanded that his name
should be withdrawn—the reason being
that he bad from the first intended and
did now intend that bis name and Judge
Holman’s should not be before the
Convention together. This state
ment was met with cries of “no,”
“no,” from all sides of the house,
and mnoh confusion prevailed.—
At this point the name of Hon. D.
W. Voorhees was presented as a com
promise candidate. An attempt was
made to call the roll, but it was found
impossible. The Committee on Reso
lutions was therefore allowed to report,
when another attempt at a ballot was
made, great confusion and excitement
prevailing. Messrs. Holman and Lan
ders were again nominated and again
withdrawn. Mr. Landers appeared in
person and again peremptorily demanded
that bis name be withdrawn. James D.
Williams, of Knox county, was then of
lered as a compromise, and an attempt
to nominate by acclamation was made,
but the Convention would not allow a
vote to be taken. Gen, M. D. Mauson’s
name was then offered. The Chairman
ordered that the roll be called for a bal
lot, when Mr. Landers w s again placed
in nomination, it being understood that
Mr. Holman’s name was positively with
drawn. The wildest excitement prevail
ed, motions of all kinds being made, and
the Chair being unable to control the
Convention, ordered the band to play,
after which a ballot commenced, the
delegates voting acoordiDg to their pref
erence, and not regarding the withdraw
als, resalting as follows: Holman, 916;
Landers, 898; Manson, 24 Williams,
28—no choice, 950 being neeessury.
Landers appeared egaiq, demanding to
be heard, and protesting against his
name being used while votes were cast
for Ifolman, The Chair announoed
that the names of Holman and Landers
were both withdrawn, and ordered a
ballot with Williams as the only name be
fore the Convention. Towards the close,
it being apparent that Williams had the
nomination, many counties changed to
him who had before voted for Landers.
Marion County then moved that Wil
liams be declared the unanimous choice
of the Convention for (Joveruor, which j
was oarried without the result of the
seoond ballot being announced. Isaac
P. Gray, of Randolph, was nominated
for Lieutenant Governor by acclamation.
Pork Packing at the Wwl.
Secretary Howard, of the Pork Pack
ers* Association, makes the following
report of the packing of hogs at the
West during the Winter season of 1875-
6 : The total number of bogs packed is
4,874,125, against 5,566,220 last season—
a decrease of 692,101. Tko average
weight is 218 36 pounds, against 209 77
pounds lmi season—an increase of 8 sft
po.unds. The average yield of lard is
35 52 pounds, against 34 2Q pounds last
season—an increase oi 1.82 pounds.—
The aggregate net weight of the hogs
paeked this season is equal to 5,073,850
Uogs of last year’s average weight. The
production of lard is equal to 54V
115 tierces of 320 pounds. Oach,
against §§4,939 lust season —
a decrease of 53,824 tierces - The de
crease in the aggregate net weight is
103,297,000 pounds, or equal to
400 pounds of meats. The defuse in
the number of hqga pack®* * n the West,
with tlje jeehipts at New York, Phila
delphia) Boston and Baltimore, is 994,-
130. Calculating the receipts of hogs
of’ the seaboard cities at the same aver
age weight and yield of lard an thus®
packed in the West, thh decrease in
weight is mmSOft pounds, equal to
74,496 tieroes, or 22,300,000 pounds of
hams, 35,508,000 pounds of should®?*
and 63,772,000 pounds of sides. The
shortage in the yield 0$ Bast and
West, is reported at 26,442,900 pounds,
or 82,634 tierces.
Goyernor Tilden has determined not
to interfere in behalf of Holan, the New
York murder®*.
N Advertlsemeii t n
NO SURRENDER.
Notwithstanding that the cry of
“ dull trade” is almost universal,
we have experienced so little of its
effects that we are daily receiving
new goods in every department
and will continue to do so through
out the season. This week we of
fer many new and elegant things
in Suits, Dress Goods, Silks, Mourn
ing Goods, Parasols, Fans, Ecru
Laces and Ties, &c., &c., to which
the attention of the Ladies and
the public generally is directed.
We offer for their inspection the
CHEAPEST and BEST ASSORT
ED STOCK OF NEW GOODS to
be found in the city or South.
JAMES A. GRAY & CO.
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STOP CROAKING!
Read the Good News and ( beer Up I
SEE HOW CHEAP DBY GOODS ARE SELL
ING AT
V. J. T. BALK’S,
Near Centre Street.
GOOD fast oolor CALICOES at 5 and 6Jc.
Good unbleaohed SHIRTING at Gfo.
Beßt heavy brown DRILLING at 100.
Good JEANS for pants at 12J and 150.
A splendid article of lace striped LAWN, 16c.
40-inch wide fine white LAWN at 26c.
Double width tine black ALPACA at 40 and 45c.
Splendid oil boiled black SILK at sl.
Heavy gros-grain biack SILK at $1 50.
Ecru RUOHING and COLLARETTES, 6c.
New all SILK SCARFS at 250.
Nice straw SUNDOWNS for ladies and ohildren,
25c.
One inch wide RIBBON at 50.
Two inch wide new RIBBON at 100.
Five inoh wide new SASH RIBBON at 250.
New Btyle PANIERS.
The prioe is marked on all goods in plain
figures, from whioli there will be no deviation
made except to wholesale bnyers. Samples
given. Orders carefully filled.
ap!6-dAw 0. J. T. BALK,
JUST RECEIVED!
A LABGE assortment of
Children’s Carriages,
Of new and elegant styles, with Clobo Tops
and Canopy Tops, of improved patterns.
ALSO.
A full line of Trunks. Traveling Bags, Hand
Satohels, Valises, Pellessier Bags, eto., for La
dies and Gents’ use. All the above goods we
are now selling at prioes to suit the times.
Gall and examine at
ROBT. H. MAY & CO.’S,
ap!s-dAwim 208 Broad street.
™VM6m~BmMßoiLmr 1
rnTMtlMl MILLGEARING MADE
j^OpEanaiM^TiHiiH
AND HANGERS
The UNEQUALLED JAS. LEFFEL DOUBLE
Address, POOLE & HUNT.
aps wly
FAIRBANKS’
SCALES
THIS
STANDARD.
Also, Mi’es’ Alarm Cash Drawer,
Coffee and Drug Milis, Letter Presses, Ac., <fco.
Store Trucks, Baggage Barrows, all sizes.
PRINCIPAL SCALE WAREHOUSES :
FAIRBANKS & CO., 811 Broadway, N. Y.
FAIRBANKS & CO., 166 Baltimore Street, Bal
timoie, Md.
FAIRBANKS & CO., 53 Camp Sty New Orleans.
FAIRBANKS & 00., 216 Main Street, Buffalo,
N. Y.
FAIRBANKS A CO., 338 Broadway, Albany,
N. Y.
FAIBBANKSA CO., 403 St. Paul’s St., Montreal,
FAIRBANKS A CO.. 34 King William Street,
London, England.
FAIRBANKS, BBOWN A 00., 2 Milk Street,
Boston, Mass.
FAIRBANKS A EWING, Masonic Hall, Phila
delphia. Pa.
FAIRBANKS, MORSE A CO., 11l Lake Street,
Chicago.
FAIRBANKS, MORSE A CO., 139 Walnut St.,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
FAIRBANKS, MORSE A CO., 182 Superior St.,
Cleveland, Ohio.
FAIRBANKS. MOBBE A CO., 48 Wood Street,
Pittsburgh.
FAIRBANKS, MORSE A CO., sth and Main
St., Louisville.
FAIRBANKS A CO„ 302 and 304 Washington
Avenue, St. Louis.
FAIRBANKS A HUTCHINSON, San Francisco,
California. •
For sale by leading Hardware Dealers.
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Make Your Fortune
GRAND GOLDEN DRAWING
. OF THE
Louisiana
STATE LOTTERY
(Incorporated 1868.)
TAKES PLACE APRIL 29, 1876,
AT NEW ORLEANS.
Positively No Postponement.
POSITIVELY! NO SCALING.
CAPITAL PRIZE, SIOO 000._
3,680 Prizes, amounting to $508,500,
ALL PAID IIV GOLD.
One P. lze to Every Six Tickets t
Only 20,000 Tickets at SSO Each
United States Currency.
TENTH AND TWENTIETH COUPONS IN PBOPOBTION.
LIST OIT PRIZES.
ONE CAPITAL PRIZE, - SIOO,OOO
1 Prize 60.000
1 Prfza 80,0'>0
1 Prise 10,000
2 Pria s at $5.000 10,000
4 Prises at 8,500 1-000
$0 Prises at 1,000 80.000
50 Prises at 500 85.000
1200 Prises at 100 120 000
8000 Prises at 50 100,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
100 Approximation Prizes at $2 fi o 830,000
100 Approximation Prizes at 100. ... 10,(100
100 Approximation Prizes at 76—, 7,800
3580 Prizes in all,'amounting to (g01d),#502,600
Tickets for sale by all regularly appointed
* l! "“' STATE LOTTERY CO.
p. 0. Box 682, N. 0. mardAw7w
GILES’
Jlpuniment
IODIDE OF AMMONIA
Cures Neuralgia, Face Ache, Rheuma
tism, Wont- Frosted Feet, Chilblains,
Sore Throat,. Erysipelas, Braises or
Wounds of every kind is man or animal.
At Barnum’s Hippodrome; Hr. Wood, Veteri
nary thugeen; Colonel McDaniels, owner of
Many Bassott; Dr, Ogle, of 380 W. 25th street,
pronounces Giles’ Liniment lodide or Ammo
nia the only remedy that can be relied on to
core lameness in hones.
J. H. ALEXANDER, Agent.
Sold by all Druggists. Depot No, 451 Sixth
Avenue, New York. Only 50c, and $1 per bot
-1 tie- mar2ddwlm
W* D. TUTT,
-A.ttorn.ey at Law,
THOMSON, GA.
\ V/ ILL practice in the oounties of Hancock,
VV Glascock, Warren, Taliaferro, Wilkes
and Lincoln of the Northern Circuit, ’ and
McDuffie, Colombia and Biehmond of the Au
gusta Circuit. Special attention given to the
collection of claims. oc3l-dAwtf
Now Advortloemeui m.
AGENTS For beßt chance in the world to coin
nnun money. Address U. S. SAFETY
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Charming, Mesmerism and Marriage Quids,
showing how either sex may fascinate and gain the
love and affeotion of any person they choose instant
ly; 400 pag l s. By mail, 50 centa. Hunt & Cos., 13
8. 7th at,, Philadelphia, Pa. aprl4-4w
WANTED AGENTS TOR THE OREAT
CEWTKNNIAL
UNIVERSAL HISTORY.
To the close of the first 100 years cf our National In
depen lence, including au account cf the coming
Gran t Centennial Exhibition, 700'pages, fine en
gravings, low ) rice, quick saleß. Extra terms. Send
for Circular. P. W. ZEIGLER & CO., 518 Arch St.,
Philadelphia, Pa. apr!4-4w
WALTERS’ PIANOS,
best made ; the tone, touch, workmanship and
durability unsurpassed.
WALTERS’ Organs, Concerto,
New Orchestral, Vesper, < hapel, Vlaleste, and
Cymbella, cannot be excelled In tone or beau
ty. Ihe Concerto Stop Is a fine imitation of the
Human Volee. Warranted for six years.
Price extremely low for cash during this
month. Monthly installments received.
A liberal discount to Teachers, Ministers,
Schools, Lodges, etc., Bgents Wanted.
Special induct mentw to the trade. Illustrated
Catalogue Sent. rIIOR ATE WATERS dk
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for H ss AN ’ 8 PICTORIAL BIBLES
I, Lluatrationa. Address, for new circulars, A.
J. HOLMAN A CO., 930 An h Street, Philadelphia.
FULLER, WIRKGN & CO.,
MANUKACTUROBB OF
S range QTh“ largest assort
fvknack in the market
OUR NEW WOOD AND COAL COOKING STOVES.
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OUTHERN GEM.
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Correspondent e invited. Price List and Out upon
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Iff i HTfirnn Agents for the bestselling
W A 111 I nil btationory Packages in the
VV Mil I I ||| world. It oontains 16 sheets
It XXXI X AJ U paper, 16 euve opes, gold
en Pen, Pen Holder, Pencil, patent Yard Measure,
and a piece of Jewelry. Single package with pair or
elegant Gold Stone Sleeve Buttons, postpaid, 25 ots.
5 with assorted jewelry for sl. This package has
been examined by the publisher of this paper, and
found as i epreeented - worth the money. Watcuea
given away to all Agents. Circulars free. BRIDE
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lTor
COUGHS, COLDS, HOARSENESS,
AND ALL THROAT DISEASES,
Use
WELLS’ CARBOLIC TABLETS,
PUT UF ONLY IN BLUE BOXES.
A TRIED AND SURE REMEDY.
For sale by Druggist* generally, and
JOHNSON HOLLOWAY & 00., Philadelphia, Pa.
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ESTABLISHED IN 1847.
MELVIN HARD & SON,
WHOLESALE PAPER WAREHOUSE,
25 BEEKMAN STREET,
NEAR NAbSAU STREET, NEW YORK.
AGENTS for Owens, Jessup A Laflin, £.
L. Brown A 00., Byron Weston’s, Ben
nington, American, Mt. Hope, Mammouth
River and Salmon River Mills, and Crane's
Bond Papers. Sole Agents for Carson’s old
Berkshire Mills, established in 1801.
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NEW YORK.
THE LADIES
ABE INVITED BY
CMstoplerGray&Co.
TO EXAMINE THE FOLLOWING
NEW GOODS!
„ RECEIVED LAST WEEK I
THE Latest Styles in very Fine Silk Parasols
and San Umbrellas at very low figures.
Particular attention in invited to these Goods,
as they are a choice Lot and remarkably
Cheap.
Fifty Boxes of New FOBU, CABBMEBB
LACE and ECHO LISSE RUCH
ING-t.
EOBU BING LACE.
Anew lot of very desirable LINEN SUITS;
also. COLLARS an CUFFrJ.
Fifty dozen COHmETS the best in the mar
ket for the money, only 50 cents.
A full line of “TREFOUSSE” KID GLOVES,
the best brand ever imported to this country.
Every pair warranted. If fonnd imperfect will
refu and the money.
NEW TUCK COMBS, in New Styles, at Be
duoed Prices.
Five Cases of Ladies’, Qents’ and Misses'
HOSIERY.
Very Superior STRIPED HOSE for Children,
at 25 cents;. l&telv sold for 50 cents.
La .ies’ FULL BbGULAR WHITE STOCK
INGS, at 25 cents—exoellent Goods.
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TO INVESTORS!
#IOO,OOO C. ( A /. BONDS !
THE Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Rail
road Company is engaged in funding its
floating debt by the sale of #1,000,000 of its
Bonds, one-half first nd one-half second
mortgage, at Seventy Cents and accrued in
terest, subscribers taking an equal amount
of each and to have privelege of taking and
paying for the bonds any time daring the year
1816. When the whole amount is sold the
floating debt will be extinguished and the bond
ed debt limited to #2.000,000 first mortgage
and 1500 000 second mortgage bonds, or #12,-
800 per mile. The Company has never failed,
even when the business of the country has
been most depressed, to pav its interest and
have a surplus. #900,000 of the #1,000,000>
bonds have been sold within the last eix weeks.
The remaining #IOO 000 are offered for TWO
WEEKS to purchasers along the line of tha
road, after wtii'-h time, if not disposed of, they
will be closed out in New York at the above
stated prioe. Apply by letter or personally at
the offloe of the company in Columbia, 8. O.
JOHN B. PALMER,
plo-eodßw President.
1836. 1876.
THE EDGEFIELD ADVERTISER !
THE ADVERTISER has enjoyed such a run
of advertising for the last forty years
that it seems superfluous now to publish its
merits as an advertising medium, but it is tha
Centennial year, and everybody is doing some
thing new that was never doße before. It will
suffloe to say that the population of Edgefield
county is 42,486, according to oensus 1870, and
that THE ADVEBMStB is the only paper in
the oonnty: that it also circulates freely in the'
counties of Abbeville, Aiken, Barnwell, Lau
rens, and in the States of Georgia, Alabama,.
Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Florida.
Address, THE ADVERTISER,
jan23~tf Edgefield 0. H., 8. 0.
