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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1876)
gfmmtcte anfr 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. ap!6- 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. my4-eodAwßw 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 POCKET CO., Newark, N. J. aprll-4w jU..y cljl" i .'-Wek | C.r-WlwsWicJ. aprl4-4w Mind Rending, Psychomancy, Fascination, Soul 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 SONS, 481 Broadway, New York, Box. 3,667, apr!4-4w AGENTS WANTED ! Medals and Diplomas Awarded 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. UoLVEft IKOttV REPORTER. SPIRIT OF’76. OUTHERN GEM. AND FAMOUS t TEWART* IMPROVED! MEET THE Wa T 8 OF EVERY DEALER* Correspondent e invited. Price List and Out upon application to FULLER, W • KEEN & 00. mhll-4w 23 i ator titre t, New York, 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 A 00., 769 Broadway, N. Y. febl3-4w 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. oct22-4w 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. 1e22-d+Awlv REDUOED TO A CERTAINTY. Chance to Cain $50,000 KTO risk:. Send for circular atonce. No time to lose. Ri.au A Cos., Buuki rs, 74Maiden l.ane 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. mar!2 —tf 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.
