Georgia Historic Newspapers

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Address WAI.BH A WRIGHT,
Chbowicue A Bextibel. Augusts* Qa.
Chronicle ant) Sentinel.
■VKUN'ESDAT MAY 3. 1876.
A oobhespondent ot the Atlanta Con
stitution says that Col. Alpheus M.
Rodgers, ol Burke county, will proba
bly be the next Congressman from the
First District. Col. Rodoehs is a tal
ented and popular gentleman, and the
First District could not do better than
to send him to Congress.
O# Saturday last there were six sui
cides in the city of New York -one by
drowning, one by hanging, three by tak
ing Paris green, and another by shoot
ing. There were some unsuccessful at
tempts also on that day to shuffle off the
mortal coil, occasioned by disappointed
love, business troubles, and general
disgust with the world and the people
in it.
The LaOrange Reporter asks, “Why
did Judge Peeples reduce Blodgett’s
bail from 817,000 to $5,500 ? Was he
desirous of turning his prisoner loose ?”
The Reporter will not be enlightened on
the subject. Our owu little conundrum:
“What Atlanta lawyers represented
Blodgett's surties when Acting Gover
nor Conley's pardon was first pleaded,”
still remains unanswered. Will none of
the slaves of the Box speak ?
Dom Pedro is indefatigable in his ex
ertions to do New York thoroughly, and
says if he does not see the sights in
America it is because people won’t show
them to him. His is not a mere idle
curiosity, either, for he takes greater
pleasure in investigating and looking
into those things which may assist him
in making his aubjpots more prosperous
and happy, and enable him to keep pace
with the march of progress and improve
ment in this nineteenth century.
The Philadelphia limes thinks it
must be a luxury to be a Presidential
candidate, because the singular spec
tacle is now presented of a lot of Presi
dential candidates flooding the couutry
with defamation of each other, which, if
not done over their own signatures, is
managed by them, nnd they are the
aomroes ot the attacks. Republican ideas
are not being advanced by such a course,
and the Czar and the Emperors who con
templated turning their kingdoms into
Democratic governments have given up
the idea. _
The redemption of fractional curren
cy in silver commenced at the several
sub-Treasuries and United State Depos
itories on Thursday. There was a steady
demand throughout the day for the glit
tering coin, long strings of applicants
awaiting their turn. Iu some places the
difficulty of counting and determining
tt'6 genuineness of the scrip was so
great that receipts were given instead of
coin, to be redemed next day. The new
coins are somewhat smaller than the old,
though the weight of standard silver is
the same.
General Toombs, who was in the city
on legal business for the last two days,
left last evening for Crawfordville to
spend Sunday with his friend, Hon.
Alex. H. Stephens. The report in one
of the Washington papers that General
Toombs was required to take an oath
before being allowed to practioe in the
Supreme Court has not the slightest
foundation. He was received with much
oousiderttioa by the Judges of the Su
preme Court, and even President Grant,
to whom he paid his respects while in
Washington, reoeived him cordially. The
General holds bis own remarkably well
he ia in good condition physically and
mentally. < *
The Eatonton Messenger cautions the
Atlanta people not to bo in too big a
hurry about erecting capital buildings,
saying that Milledgeville is tiio choice
of the people, as will be fully demon
strated whenever a convention is pall
ed. The Messenger says : “We stand
plighted to vote for no man who will
not do all in his power to biing about
this change. Bribery and corruption
removed the capital; it was the act of
carpet baggers, soallawags and negroes,
Mtnated by no desire to serve the State,
but rather that their own purses might
be filled out of the inordinate sums of
money—which Georgia tax payers had
to pay—and which was divided among
them—after the rookery now called the
Capital was purchased for two or three
times its value.”
A novel defense of avarice is pre
ach ted by Hr. Richardson, of London,
in bi* work on “Diseases of Modern
Life." He says that avarice rather tends
to the preservation than to the deteri
oration of the body. The avaricious
man who seems to the luxurious to be
debarring himself from all the pleas-;
ores of the world, is generally placing '
himself in the precise condition* favor-;
able to a long and healthy existence. j
“By his economy," save Dr. Richard- i
son, “he ia saved from all the worry in
cident to penary; by his caution he is j
screened from all the risks incident to
speculation; by his regularity of hoars
and perfect appropriation of the sun
light. in preference to artificial illumi
nation, he rests and works in periods
precisely according with the periodicity j
of nature; J>y his abstemiousness he
takes just to live, which is pre
cisely the right thing to do, according
to the natural rigid law,”
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Fanny Lear, who made such sad j
havoc with a Russian Grand Duke two '
years ago, has recently been extending ,
her oonquests into Italy. As is her wont,
she has been flying high, the victim of
her affections this time being Coant
Mieafiori, a natural son of King Viator
Emanuel. The young Coant is a married
man, and his mother becoming alarmed
at his growing intimacy with Fanny,
prevailed upon the King to interfere.
The Count was informed that his atten
tions must cease at onoe, or he would
t>e foth?vitb ordered to rejoin his regi
ment at Aosta, and the fair American
-was inform**! by the police that her resi
dence in Rome most be terminated on the
following day. BbS sought an interview
vrith Signor Niookba, a Cabinet Minis
ter, and although she oonbl not get the
edict of her departure rescinded, he
■greed, on the part of the Government
to pay her hotel bill and traveling ex
penses. The next day Miss Lear left
for Munich, and the friends of the eooen
trie King of Bavaria now tremble for his
safety.
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE*.
We publish this morning a very able
and interesting article on Georgia poli
tics and independent candidates. It is
from the pen of a distinguished and pa
triotic citizen of North Georgia. We
know that what he has written will be
read with care, and that those who do not
believe his argnments wise or his con
clusions sound will recognize the disin
terested spirit and nnselfish patriotism
of the writer. Speaking for ourselves,
aad with the lights now before ns, we
think the candidacy of an Independent
Democrat next Fall against the regular
nominee of the party will prove a great
calamity to the party and to the State.
The people of Georgia owe whatever of
prosperity they enjoy to the wise and
economical government given them by
the Democratic party. They have but
to look across the Savannah river to
realize how much they are indebted to
the supremacy of the Democracy. If
the power of Bullock, Blodgett and
Kimball had been perpetuated in Geor
gia, we would to-day be in as bad if not
a worse condition than Sonth Carolina.
We wonld have bad high taxes end
a thieving government—the domination
of ignorance and corruption. As it is,
since 1870 Georgia has flourished and
made wonderful progress in every thing
tending to advance her material pros
perity. Knowing then the different ef
fects of Democratic and Republican
rule it is the part of wise men to cling
to that which has been productive of
good, and to reject that which was
productive only of evil. Will not the
candidacy of Independent Democrats
tend to destroy Democratic supremacy
and to restore the State to the rale of
Republicans ? This is the question that
our Rome correspondent and every good
citizen should carefully consider. If an
Independent should take the field
against the nominee of the party the
chances are that the Republicans would
not put forward a candidate, but
wonld support the Independent. The
Democratic party would he divided, and
disaffected Democrats supported by the
solid Republican strength would, per
haps, be able to control the election. In
every county there wonld be found In
dependents running for the Legislature
and for local offices. Combinations
and trades of every kind would be made
And the government of the State would
be given over ioto the hands of negroes
and Independents. In a short time the
Independents would be swallowed up
by their allies, as the big fish swallows
the small, and Georgia would be just
where she was in 1868-9, when Bullook
& Company had their bands in the pnblio
Treasury and robbed in the name of
government and swindled in the name
of development. Unless the nomination
of a Governor this Fall should be mon
strously unfair or unless the candidate
nominated should be notoriously incom
petent or corrupt, the nominee should
be given the cordial and unanimous
support of bis party.
Our Rome correspondent also does
injustice by his severe criticism of the
newspapers of the State. That some of
them may be unreliable and corrupt we
do not undertake to deny; that all are
corrupt, we deny most emphatically.
There are good men and bad men in
every community. There are honest
journals and oorrupt journals in every
State. Considering them as a class we
believe that the journalists of Georgia
are as honorable and as patriotic as the
journalists of any portion of the United
States. We believe that they are sin
cerely desirous of serving their State
and people, and we know that they did
much towards accomplishing her politi
cal redemption. They deserve the grat
itude and not the reproaches of all true
Georgiaus. Many of the charges made
in “Sleepy Hollow’s” letter are doubt
less true. There are selfish aud schem
ing politicians among the Democrats,
and there is much wire-working and
pipe laying beißg done now by men who
are seeking the offices that should seek
the men. But this is by no means an
anomalous condition of affairs. In
every State and in every political party
the same things are being done; so long
as we have parties and offices and as
pirants the same things will continue to
be done. But whenever these evils be
come too great to be born, the people
have a remedy in their owu hands. Un
til they beoome so grievous that rebel
lion is rendered a necessity party alle
giance must be preserved. We must
oorreot whatever may be wrong inside
and not oatside party lines.
JEFFERSON COUNTY.
Some time since the Washington Na
tional Republican —the kitchen organ
of the Administration—published a cen
tennial lie of gigantic proportions, con
cerning the mnrder of colored men in
Jefferson, Washington and Columbia
counties. The falsehood was promptly
exposed sod denounced by the news
papers; but, not flop tent with this, the
people of Jefferson have branded the
slander (n an authoritative and unmis
takable manner. Dr. E. H. W. Hunter,
a prominent citizen ot the county, has
obtained the signatures of the following
county officials to certificates showing
the falsity of the statement, so far as
Jefferson is concerned : W. F. Dbnny,
Judge C. C.; N. Diehl, Ordinary J.
C.; Jesse T. Mulling, Sheriff; R. J.
Boyd, Clerk Superior Court; G. T.
Hudson, Chairman; John G. Jordan,
F. A. SrsqrsFiELD, A. T. Harman, J.
A. Oliphant, Commissioners.
Dr. Huntrr will forward the certifi
cates of these gentlemen to Senator
Gordon, to make snch use of them as
he may thiuk proper. The Louisville
News and Fanner says that Dr. Hun
ter deserves great credit for his effi
oient and persistent efforts to relieve
Jefferson county from the damaging im
putations cast upon it by the National
Reputt ■
THE QUARRELS ME ANDIOATK.
Fo* tea years Mr. Blaine., of Maine,
and Senator Oonrlino, of New York,
have not spoken. The Baltimore Ameri
can gives an account of the occurrence
that led to such bad feeling between two
prominent Presidential candidat<B. On
April 24tb, 1866, when both were mem
bers of the House, Mr. Conklino at
tacked and Mr. Blaine defended Pro
vost Marshal General Fry, and a debate
ensned, in which Mr. Blaine received
in silence some rather rongh language
from the cnrled darling of New York.
Mr. Conklino, when engaged in debate,
often assumes a peculiarly irritating
manner towards ?n opponent. He is a
very handsome man, his “magnificent
torso” being a perennial semir
ing com moot by Washington letter
writers. Ha is also so orator of very
good ability, although a tendency to
torgidness and mixed metaphor fre
quently mars his style. A strong con
sciousness of his mental and physical
excellences pervades his manner, and his
condescending air towards opponents
has sometimes the appearance of super
ciliousness. He says his bitter things
with slow utterance and an air of an
raffled composure which is very irritat
ing to his opponents in debate. Mr.
Blaine, although not devoid of heat of
temper, bore Mr. Conklin o’s deprecia
tory remarks without making any per
sonal reply. On April 30th, however, he
reopened the subject by having read at
the Clerk’s desk a letter from Gen. Fey
|in reply to Mr. Conklino’s attack. This
letter tended to show that Mr. Conk
ling s hostility grew out of private
spites, and the fact was incidentally
brought out that Mr. Conkling, while a
member of the House, had been ap
pointed a Judge Advocate to investigate
| all cases of fraud in the Provost Mar
shal’s Department of the Western Divis
ion of New York. The letter also as
serted that the personal difficulties be
i tween General Fby and Mr. Conkling
grew out of the disinclination of the
| latter to investigate frauds at Utica, in
his own Congressional District.
Mr. Blaine submitted the letter with
j °ut remark, and Mr. Conkling made a
long speech, defending his conduct and
speaking of himself as being merely the
counsel of the Government. Mr. Blaine
called his attention to the fact that the
order of the Secretary of War under
which he was appointed spoke of him as
a special Judge Advocate, and also
I called his attention to the fact that the
i holding of two offices under the United
States Government at the same time was
contrary to law. Mr. Blaine had up to
this time taken but a small part in the
debate, but Mr. Conkling could not
I omit tbe opportunity of trying the edge
of his sarcasm .on Mr. Blaine again. In
his bitterest tones and most supercilli
ous manner he said : “If the member
from Maine had the least idea how pro
foundly indifferent I am to his opinion
upon the subject which he has been dis
cussing, or upon any other subject per
sonal to me, I think he would hArdly
take the trouble to rise here and express
his opinion. And as it is a matter of
entire indifference to me what that
opinion may be, I certainly will not de
tain the House by discussing the ques
tion whether it is well or ill-founded, or
by noticing what he says.” He conclu
ded by calling Mr. Blaine’s conduct un
gentlemanly and impertinent.
Perhaps Mr. Conkling had been de
ceived by Mr. Blaine’s quiet demeanor
oh the previous occasion, when he was
made the butt of the sarcasm of the
former, into thinking that he would not
dare to encounter him in a warfare of
personalities. But Blaine was not the
man to endure Conkling’s languid dis
dain without an expression of resent
ment. His habitual self-control gave
way and his outburst of choler will long
be memorable in the annals of Congress.
After briefly restating the point he made
as to the illegality of Mr. Conkling’s
double occupation, he closed the dis
cussion with the following tremendous
invective :
As to the geutlemsn’s cruel sarcasm, I hope
he will not be too severe. The contempt of
that large-minded gentleman is so wilting; his
haughty disdain, his grandiloquent swell, his
majestic, supereminent, overpowering turkey
gobbler strut has been so crushing to myself
and all the members of this Honse that I know
that it was an act of the greatest temerity for
me te venture upon a controversy with him.
But, sir, I know who is responsible for all this.
I know that, within the last five weeks, as
members of the House will recollect, an extra
strut has characterized the gentleman’s bear
ing. It is not his fault. It is the fault of an
other. That gifted and satirical writer, Theo
dors Tilton, of the New York Independent ,
spent some weeks recently in this city. His
letters published in that paper embraced, with
many serious statements, a little jocose satire
apart of which was the statement that the
mantle of the late Winter Davis has fallen
upon the member from New York. The gen
tleman took it seriously, and it has given his
strut additional pomposity. The resemblance
is great. It is striking. Hyperion to Satyr,
Thersites to Hercules, mud to marble, dung
hill to diamond, a singed cat to a Bengal tiger,
a whining puppy to a roaring lion. Shade of
the mighty Davis, forgive the almost profana
tion of that jocose satire!
This terrible castigation completely
dumbfounded Conkling, who did not
attempt aDy reply, but he broke off all
personal and social relations with
Blaine, and it is asserted that they never
have spoken to each other since.
ECCENTRICITIES OF TAXATION.
The Hartford Courant says there is
an especially popular paper in the last
number of the North American Re
view, by Mr. David A. Wells, upon
municipal taxation. It is only in recent
years that we have begun grumbling
about taxes, but the state of things is
such now that nobody can profess to be
satisfied with our various -and unequal
methods in different States. It is esti
mated that $280,000,000 a year are raised
through the country by munioipal taxa
tion. It cost more to govern New York
in 1872 than it did to pay all the na
tional expenses in 1849, and in 1874 in
New York the local taxes paid were
$50,429,000, while twenty years previous
the cost of maintaining the General
Government was but $54,577,000
scarcely any more. This tremendous
present burden, the result of the war,
of paper money, and of various other
oauses, is about as heavy as can be
borne, but as yet no ways are being de
vised by the States to distribute the
load equally—Legislatures seem equally
incompetent and unwilling to attempt it
—and the only approach to any settle
ment of principles is through the de
cisions of the Federal Courts, where
some questions in dispute work their
way to intelligent solution.
The prevailing American idea is to
“tax everything.” Mr. Wells points out
that first this involves an impossibility,
for much property is elusive, intangible,
fluctuating, and sure to escape; and sec
ond, that property, through this notion,
has come to boa term applied to sym
bols as well as to entities, and that
many non-entities are reckoned prop
erty, and declared taxable, which really
are in themselves nothing; and that
therefore, third, the result of the pres
ent systems and ideas is a doable and
burdensome taxation, which is a heavy
hindrance to legitimate business.
Evidences of debt, for instance, are
not tangible and should not be taxable
property. The simple story in the au
thor's Robinson Cbusoe pamphlet is
sufficient illustration of the fact to con
vince the most obdurate. Two men
there had farms, each worth SIO,COO. !
Each mortgaged his farm to the other 1
for SIO,OOO and therefore each had a
farm worth SIO,OOO and an evidenoe of
debt worth SIO,OOO, and consequently
each was worth $20,000, and .each had
doubled his wealth by rnnning in debt.
That it was an unreal gain is absurdly
patent, yet taxation still regards this
evidence of debt as property liable to
assessment. The recent California
mortgage tax decision in which the Su
preme Court has exactly sustained Mr.
Wells is an important step in the right
direction. And the inconsistency of the
present method, as pointed out by the
Jadge, is worth a passing note. One of
his illustrations was to suppose the ex
treme sase of the State laying a tax of
one hundred per cent, and taking all
Hie property in its limits—jfhesss in ac
tion being by law declared taxable. He
says;
Supposing tbat tbs necessity of Government
required tax of one hundred par sent, on
all values; or, what would be the result of
snob a tax. an appropriation of ail the prop
erty—it ia plain that the State wonld receive
no benefit from evidences of debt due by some
of her citizens to others, and payable oat of
the legitimate property which the State has
already taken.
As Mr. Wells pats it, “nothing can
not be something," and “a title to prop
erty or a representative of property can
no more be property than a shadow can
be a substance. * * * 1/ the tax is
AUGUSTA, GA, WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 3, 1516.
levied upon any of these representatives
or titles in any other State than the <oe
where the property is located, it woi Id
clearly seem to be an extra territoi al
tax, and therefore, by the oecision of
the United States Snpreme Court, in
constitutional; and if levied ox rights or
titles within the same jurisdiction as the
property itself,which is there also
it is simply doable taxation on one ind
the same thing, or an odious disorsni
nation against property which may hap
pen to be covered by such titles. * * *
Again, if the title is the property, then
either the actuality is not property
where it exists, or else we have ‘two
things occupying the same place at the
same time.” *
His plan is to levy the mxin tax upon
land and rentals and not to have the
personal property taxes, which are low
so difficult to collect ands unequally
levied. As personal property, are reck
oned movable things, even merchandize,
and, if that is taxed whee it is, it is
possible to have it pay five taxes in a
year if it shonld happen to be in Illinois
in April, Ohio or Massachusetts in May,
New York in July, New Jersey in
August, and this State in October; bnt
if the rule be to tax it where its owner is
and where it is not the property really
receives protection without paying for
it, and pays tax where it gets no protec
tion. And such is the case with
Houghton & Cos., of Cambridge, Mass.,
and New York oity, the publishers.—
They are taxed in Cambridge on all
their New York stock because they live
in the former place. In Ohio, judging
by the sworn returns, only one person
in ten has any property whatever above
SSO, and yet on less than SIOO not one
of them conld keep decent outside of
the poor house.
These are only special cases of which
hundreds more can be cited. Foreign
holders of our State or municipal bonds
are not taxed; the American widow or
the poor soldier who would put small
savings into the bonds has to pay two
per cent, or so as a yearly penalty for
being an American citizen. So we go in
a hodge-podge fashion,rambling through
the whole range of possessions levying
taxes every way except justly, and
hampering business, delaying “ pro
gress,” and keeping down the grand
lists for lack of some equitable real sys
tem consistent in its nature to which
business and all industry might conform
and under which it might really thrive
instead of having to suooeed in spite of
it.
HOW GRANT CARRIED ELECTIONS.
A Washington special to the Philadel
phia Times says that the interest in the
disclosures recently made before the
Committee on Expenditures in the De
partment of Justice in relation to the
corrupt practices ot the Administration
concerning New York elections does not
abate. On the contrary, great indigna
tion is felt by honest men of both par
ties at the President’s action. A promi
nent Republican denounces the abuse as
follows: “Even if no actual infringement
of the law is proven, the violation of the
spirit of the law is so manifest that it is
humiliating to every honest voter. As
new facts come to light about the case
its aspect becomes daily more discredit
able. A few mornings since a clerk of
the Treasury brought to the committee
room a large pile of accounts and vouch
ers for disbursements for election pur
poses in New York city in 1872. Dar
ing the last Presidential contest,
as shown by the vouchers, over $140,000
were expended in the city of New
York to elect the Republican ticket, or
about three hundred dollars to each
election district in the city, under the
pretended cover of the Enforcement act.
Eighty-five thousand dollars were spent,
ostensibly for the services of marshals
and deputy marshals, from the “ con
tingent fund.” More than fifteen thou
sand dollars were paid for “extraor
dinary expenses,” among the items be
ing one of one thousand nine hundred
dollars for cab hire, another for five
hundred dollars for a room at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel for the Supervising In
spector of Elections, or, in other words
the Republican State Central Commit
tee. “ Little Johnny” Davejpobt re
ceived eight hundred or a thousand dol
lars on aocount of “ fees,” in addition
to the twenty-six thousand dollars which
were paid him, by order of the Presi
dent, from the secret service fhnd. No
voucher oan be found in the department
for the latter fund. The mystery of
Grant’s success in 1872 is now easily
explained.
MINOR TOPICS.
Soon after Parliament voted money to de
fray the expenses of the Prince’s journey to
India the English Radical heroine, Annie Be
sant, started a petition to Parliament, praying
that no further grants of money to or for the
royal family, or any members of it, shall be
given under any circumstances whatever. The
signatures to that petition have run up into
the neighborhood of eighty thousand, and,
when presented, it will be the largest petition
ever sent to a public body in all history.
The Irish temperance party are very san
guine of eventful success in tkeir attempts to
close public houses in Ireland on Bunday. They
are even now hard at work organizing their
foroes; and with the express sanction of the
Archbishop of Dublin. A htnse to house
canvass has been concluded in lublin, Belfast,
Cork. Limerick, Londonderry fnd Wjterford.
It shows nearly seventy thonsind in favor of
the bill, and less than nine thousand against
it. The publicans themselves in mar.y places
are in favor of a dy of reit, and, on the
whole, are pretty equally diwded, 880 for it,
735 against.
The statistical office of the German railway
lines has published the returns of the acci
dents which happened during the year 1875 on
all German railways except the Bavarian lines.
There were 755 runnings eff the rails and col
lisions of trains on the outside, and 1.376 run
nings off the rails and collisions inside the sta
tions, and 1,350 accidents of divers natures by
which the regular service was interrupted.
These accidents hare caused the loss of the
lives of 509 persons ; 1,545 ptrsons were hurt.
The proportion of accidents to the number of
passenger trains was one to 5,394, and to that
of freight trains one to 2.290.
The sum appropriated in th Deficiency Ap
propriation bill, to pay Expenses of the seve
ral committees of the Honse of Representa
tives engaged in investigations is $60,000.
The estimates submitted by the committees
footed up $51,368. There were in all twenty
one committees which presented estimates.
The average estimate was a little lees than
$2,500. The smallest sum—s3oo—was for the
investigation of the Committee on Expendi
tures on Public Buildings, and the largest—
slo,ooo—for the investigation of the Commit
tee on the Judiciary. The Committee on Ex
penditures in the War Department— Qlymeb’s
Committee, so-called—estimated for $5,000,
or only half the sum appropriated to carry on
the Mobton investigation into affairs in Mis
sissippi.
There seems to be more thin one side to the
story of Mr. Stxwabt's busiiess sagacity. A
list of his real estate in NewYork city, the as
sessed value of which foots up $6,212,700,
said to be only sixty per cant, of the actual
value, shows that his inTestnenta were of the
most unprofitable and unpromising kind. It
is doubtful if the property yould sell for the
assessed value, and the Jfal £state Record
says “want of judgment and foresight is seen
in nearly every purchase.” His investment in
theatre property was notably unfortunate.
Doubt is also expressed as b his wealth being
nearly as great as it has beep estimated. It is
thought that he must have bat very heavily in
his business daring the last three years,
though he pat a bold fees op it and kept np
the appearance of prosperiiy by his ability to
lose. He sold largely on centrants running a
year or more, on which he could not fail to
loee daring the depreeeioa in bnsinew. This
may explain the ease with which Judge Hilton
obtained the bnaineee from Ira. Stewart.
THE GEORGIA BAPTISTS.
SECOND DAY’S PROCEEDING!* OF
THE CONTENTION.
Fifty-Fourth Annual .Session.
Thomasvllle, April 21. —The Conven
tion met at 9, a. m., and was called to
order by President Bntler.
Introductory religions exercises were
conducted by the President, Rev. Mr.
Hntchins leading in prayer.
The following standing committees
were announced:
Education—John T. Clark, L B. Bran
ham, J. E. Willet, W. C. Wilkes, I! H.
Campbell, J. T. Roberts, C. H. Strick
land.
Deoeased Ministers—J. H. DeYotie,
W. L. Kilpatrick, R. B. Headdea, A.
Dunn, J. H. Corley, E. B. Carroll, P.
W. Edge, F. M. Haygood.
Temperance—W. D. Atkinson, W. L.
Goldsmith, J. H. James, J. W. P. Faok
ler, J. L. Underwood, P. H. Mell, Jr.,
J. Mcßryde.
State of Religion Among the Associa
tions and Amount of Destitution—D. G.
Daniel, M. B. Wharton, R. D. Mallory,
W. J. Mitchell, J. W. Butts, H. E. Cas
sidy, Ivy W. Duggan, T. C. Boykin.
Representation in the Southern Bap
tist Convention—J. H. Kilpatrick, A.
B. Campbell, J. B. Twitty, J, H. Oa
wood, J. O. Ivey, F. M. Haygood. j
Nominations—J. S. Lawtow, Ivey W.
Duggan, E. M. Amos, W. L. C.
R. A. Peeples, G. A. Oabaniss. T. P.
Jones, W, S. Lawton. y -
Missions—A. R. Callaway, C. H. 1
Strickland, W. N. Chaudion, A. M.
Marshall, A. T. Spaulding, W. H. Davis.
Female University.
The special committee on the location
of the Female University reported two
looations—Gainesville and Forytl.
J. L. Underwood moved to adopt the
report, which would limit the a (Section
to the two points named. (Wien the
subject was taken up, President Butler
vacated the oh air, calling Rev J. G.
Ryals to the Chair.)
R. A. Peeples wanted to know if it
was a settled fact that the University
should be established.
Rev. S. G. Hillyer said the last con
vention settled the matter by appointing
the committee.
Rev. P. H. Mell made the poixfc of or
der that the committee had ljot dis
charged their duty, and moved |hat the
report be recommitted with instructions
to report a definite place.
Rev. H. H. Tucker moved to recom
mit the report with instructions to re
port in favor of Gainesville.
Mr. Tucker’s motion did not prevail.
Mr. G. S. Obear moved to instruct
the committee to report in favoi of For
syth.
Rev. J. L. Underwood thought it un
wise to saddle the denomination with
the University now.
Rev. A. R. Calloway favored recon
sidering the action relative to Gaines
ville.
The Chair announced that tlje motion
to instruct the committee to report in
favor of Forsyth was carried.
Rev. P. H. Mell, Sr., called for a
division.
W. O. Tuggle contended that the
committee had not discharged their
duty. The committee nor tho conven
tion could locate a University or devise
measures to endow it.
Rev. J. G. Ryalls thought the com
mittee had made a mistake, and did not
endorse their action. The whale matter
is premature in advance of tgreement
upon what we wanted. It woild defeat
the object of unification. He moved
that the whole matter be tabled, which
motion prevailed by yeas 60, nays 28.
At 11, a. m., Rev. R. B. Headden
preached a fine sermon frou the 32d
chapter, 12th verse of John.
In the afternoon the exercises were
opened with prayer by Rev. T. Harley.
The following committees were an
nounced :
On Report of Board of ,Trustees of
Mercer University—W. H. Davis, B. L.
Ross, T. Harley, J. L. Underwood, R.
G. Norton.
Sunday Sohools—R. D. Mallory, J. J.
Jelks, J.H. Kendrick, W. B. Bennett, J.
T. McGuire, J. H. Kilpatrick, W. C.
Wilkes, R. T. Asbury, T. O. Boykin.
Rev. G. A. Nunnally moved to recon
sider action in tabling the report of the
Committee on the Female University,
which motion prevailed.
Rev. John. T. Clarke moved to divide
the question, so as to bring it upon the
establishment of the University and its
location.
Rev. S. G. Hillyer made a masterly
speech in favor of female education and
the establishment of the University.
Speeches were made in favor by Rev.
G. A. Nunnally, W. H. Davis, and J.
T. Roberts, and in opposition by Rev.
J. H. DeVotie, Rev. J. L. Underwood,
Rev. John T. Olarke and Rev. A. R.
Callaway.
Rev. J. G. Ryalls moved to lay the
whole matter upon the table, which
motion prevailed.
Dr. A. H. Tucker offered a resolution
that the Convention has great confi
dence in the efficiency of the Female
Colleges at Forsyth, Rome, Madison,
Perry, LaGrange, Cuthbert and Mari
etta, and earnestly recommend them to
the patronage of the brethren and the
public.
Rev. W. H. Davis moved to strike out
Marietta, which prevailed by yeas. 45 ;
nays, 12.
The resolution was agreed to.
The following reports were read:
Mercer University.
The report of the Trustees of Mercer
University was read, stating that 23
young men graduated at the last com
mencement, and seven received law di
plomas. Touching allusion was made
to the death of Hon. O. B. Cole, late
Professor of Law in the University, Ow
ing to the stringency of the times little
effort has been made to increase the en
dowment of the University, which ne
cessitates the greater care in husband
ing the present resources, so that the
endowment may not be diminished.
Minister*’ Savin® Fund.
The Board of Trustees of the Baptist
Ministers’ Saving Fund reported that
since January J. A. Etheridge, of the
Board, had moved to Texas and H. F.
Oliver to South Carolina. They recom
mend for anew Board—A. W. York, W.
R. Gignilliat and I. R. Branham. Be
cepts, $299 40; disbursements, $248 35;
balance on hand, ssl 05. Adopted the
recommendation.
Among the additional delegates ar
rived to-day are J. H. James, Rev. A.
T. Spalding, J. T. McGuire, J. T. Pen
dleton, and S. T. Jenkins.
Rev. J. H. DeVotie, Rev. J. B. Hart
well and Rev. Frank Quarles (colored),
are also here.
J. H. James, Treasurer of the Bap
tist Orphans’ Home, reported twenty
one inmates, and the institution
out of debt. Three were admitted dur
ing the past year, and eight provided
with homes. Cash on hand, April, 1875,
$2,071 60; oollected during the year,
$3,312 31; cash balance, April, 1876,
$1,803 50; notes uncollected, $21,900 50.
Ordered spread upon the minntee.
The committee on the report of the
Execntive Committee recommended the
1 adoption of the report.
The Committee on Representation in
the Southern Baptist Convention report
that this Convention is entitled to 35
delegates, and that the delegate be ap
pointed in the following manner : The
Moderator to select the first five, who
nominate the remaining 30— all nomi
nations to be submitted to the Conven
tion for approval. Delegates are au
thorized to fill vacancies.
Hon. J. H. James moved to recom
mend the report to the committee, with
instrnotions to nominate the delegates,
bat afterwards withdrew it.
The report was agreed to.
Convention adjourned.
THE HEQRGfA RAILROAD.
Editors of the Chronicle and Sentinel :
I suggest Swepson H. Cox, formerly
of Lexington, Oglethorpe county, but
now of Bath, Richmond counjy, as a
gentleman well qualified and suited to
be a Director of the Georgia Railroad.
He is extensively and favorably known
as a man of bnsiness qualities, who has
managed his own bnsiness well. Asa
stockholder in said road, I desire to
commit my interest and the interest of
those associated with me to the charge
of men of matqre years qnd experience,
yet not incapacitated by old age, who
know how to manage wisely and success
fully their own business. Mr. Cox will
make a good, reliable and faithful Di
rector if elected; and I respectfully
commend him to the favorable consid
eration of the Stockholders Convention
soon to assemble in Augusta.
m Stockholder.
Rev. A. J. Beck has been ohosen pas
tor of the Central Baptist Ghnrch, in
Atlanta, generally designated as the
Fourth Church.
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE
SOMETHING FOR THE PEOPLE ko
CONSIDER.
A Text and a Sermoa—lndependent VI. <oa
▼ention Candidates—The Men who "want
Offlce”— Tbe Position of Ueorgia-Nslitf
front the NWttOn— I The Three Thin** Xteded
—The People Will Have Them—Jah *aa or
Toontbe Asked to lUee Up.
Let schemers and be
watched—narrowly and closely watjhed.
There are a number of prominenf gen
tlemen who will go before the Coiven
tion with more or less support Of
course but one man can or will be tomi
nated by tbe Convention. He our
man. Let the press and people tpeak
out in bold and unmistakable terias on
the question of a possible indepeident
candidate. Let such an one atyl his
fellow-conspirators against the pa-ty in
Georgia be given to understand tmt the
people will repudiate and oondenp such
a course. We believe that this/end of
the State will fully acquiesce iu Ihe de
cision of the Convention, and that they
will not oouutenance any “mad cap”
who may see proper to kick ont of the
traces and unfurl tbe banner of an “in
dependent” candidate. Thonasville
Times, April 18.
Rome, Ga., April 20,1876.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel :
What do you think of an article like
the foregoing ? He talks about “schemers
to get up independent candidates for
Governor.” It don’t look like % wonld
require much “scheming” torunan “in
dependent candidate.” That can be
done without much intrigue, I assure
you. It is supposed that there is some
“scheming” going on to get up a nomi
nated oaudidate. The writer of this ar
ticle is able to show that some “legiti
mate transactions,” in the way of paying
“for matters of personal interest,” have
been offered, if not accepted ; lps right
smart reason to believe that “country
papers,” as well as “oity papers,” as
also “certain prominent lawyeis,” have
been spoken to, if not “retailed,” in
certain “contingencies.” The Seventh
District “schemed” an “indspendent
candidate” into Congress at thelast elec
tion, while every newspaper save one,
and all the politicians in the district,
were engaged in endeavoring to carry
out one of the fairest, most unselfish
and thoroughly honest nominations ever
made in any country. It had Gen. Gor
don and Col. Hardeman and th immor
tal “Oapt. Squeezelfanter” sent up to
enlighten it and set the “scheme” aside.
But it was no go. The people had been
“closely watched, and spoke out in bold
and unmistakable terms of a possible
independent candidate.” Now, this is
all bosh. We have had enough of the
like of this. “Watohing” won’t do any
good to keep down independents. The
people of this State, as a rule, are in the
last stages of ruin and bankruptcy. This
has been bronght about by these oor
rupt, intriguiug conveutions. One has
just beau holden in this city for the
county of Floyd, to send delegates on the
26th. There were just seven men in it. As
it passed out of the Ciiy Hall, and down
the street, a facetious friend remarked:
“There goes the Democratic party of
the county of Floyd.” There moat be
improvement in legislation and office
holding in this State, or we beoome in
evitably a nation of landholders and
capitalists on the one hand, and wretoh
ed, miserable panpers on the other.
That equal distinction of wealth among
the producing olasses, which is the
glory of all great nations in all ages,
and which was pre-eminently ours be
fore the war, will be destroytd forever.
Mr. Jefferson said that it waft the least
possible reason why a man slould have
office, that he wanted it. Look at the
disgraceful scramble for it jow going
on. Watch not the independents, but
the miserable dependents and hangers
on upon the coming Convention for a
nomination, because the respective aspi
rants want it. Look how your own
truly great and virtuous citizen, Her
sohel V. Johnson, has bten utterly
thrown aside by the “schemers,” be
cause he did’nt say he wanted it. Oh,
tempora t Oh, mores ! has it come to
this ! Are the men who “want office,”
want it shamefully and rampantly, the
only ones that are to have it? Have
the great masses nothing to say ? Are
they to be stopped from saying any
thing when the friends of the gentle
men who “want it” have determined
which “wants it” most, or whose life it
was necessary to save by giving him a
nomination ? Are there no living mil
lions who make bread by the sweat of
their faces who are interested in their
rulers, and the principles whioh are
to govern them ? From the Fed
eral Government Georgia can expect
nothing but a few thousand dollars
doled out to a few public cormo
rants, to clean out rivers and creeks
navigable for “tadpoles and bull frogs up
to the sweet gum falls.” This will be
given to justify the plunder of the pub
lic treasury of millions on larger sohemes
in more favored regions. All who don’t
approve, will be set down as fools because
they don’t want to take their “share of
the plunder.” She may expect, too, to
be permitted to pay her share of the
public debt. These are hei hopes. If
we recover at all, Georgia will save her
self by disconnecting heraej, as much
as possible, from national polities, and
having wise and judicious government
at home.
Now (here are three great leading
questions, which our politicians are
divided upon somewhat, aid whioh lie
at the foundation of good government.
Upon these the people desire to be
heard, and they will be hetrd irrespec
tive of who “wants to be Governor.”
Artful devices have been resorted to, to
prevent a voice from the misses. They
will prevail no longer. First, the peo
ple will have, they ought to have had
years since, a convention; first, and
mainly, to prevent liability by the State
for persons or corporations* under any
pretext whatever. To prevent an en
largement of the public debt for any
reason, exoept in time of yar. To pre
vent oity and oounty governments from
issuing bonds. To make lobbying for
hire a felony. There are i great many
minor amendments, upoi which there
will be differences of opinion. There
will be none, or very fev, upon these
great cardinal amendments. How art
fully has this been prev<nted by cer
toin leading papers and politicians, who
had “legitimate businesi transactions”
of one sort and another. They propose
to stop the voice of the people by put
ting down “independents.” “Th?y"
are to be “watched.”— Noug Herron*.
Secondly. The abolition of our usury
laws, so as to divert money from its le
gitimate uses, to shaving the producing
classes, has been a grief to the people;jit
must inevitably ruin then. They have
sought in vain to be heard upon it. It
is true the last Legislature put a limit
(such a limit* 12 per cent, per annum)
but without any adequate penalty for
charging a higher rate. Mr. Campbell,
of Ohio, in his speeoh 01 the onrrenoy
in the House, showed that producing
classes in prosperous times did not ex
ceed 3to 4 per cent. He asked, signfi
cantly, now they canid pay 10 to 20 ?
There is 810,000,000 lying idle, in am
bush to-day, watching for viotims at
from 10 to iOO per cent. What a power
for good if compelled to go into produc
tive industry ! Or if loaning was pre
ferred, was compelled to loan so as to
encourage, not destroy the hopes of
labor. But I did not intend to argue
this question, just to state it; and to
day the voice of the bankers and money
grinders about the towns, throngh a
somewhat vepal press, has been mistaken
for that of the people. When the sov
ereigns do get a chance at this question
(and they will have it) yon will hear it
thunder. Thirdly and lastly. The pro
ducing olasaes must have their work
ing tools; they must have something of
real and personal property wherewith
to produoe. The homestead most be
preserved. As Gen. Jackson once said
of the Union, “By the eternal it must,
and shall be preserved.” The working
men of this State must have a place to
lay their heads when they are weary.
Their wives and children mint knbw in
the fnture, as they have in the past,
what “home” means—“hone, sweet
home.” Capital must be protected in
; all its legitimate acquisitions, but the
! strong arm of the laif is required to re
; strain it from injury. That 1 there is a
great struggle going on in Ne* T(oA be
tween capital and Tabor is manifest to
the observing. That labor is terribly
oppressed, and capital abundant and
oppressive in the hands of the few, is
likewise too manifest for denial.
It seems to me that Hersehel Y. John
son, or that great Commoner, Robert
Toombs, would he represeutaiive men
on these questions of life or death to the
people of Georgia. I should like to see
either of these men, who don’t M want
office,” op these great questions, with
an *‘independent” flag in his bands, be
fore the rank and file of my native
State, with every |newspapsr (if need
be), and every little wire-working, in+
triguiog politician and traveling oral
tor in the opposition. I shonld like to
aee these Hons of the tribe of Judah
with the common people, who would
bear gladly irf truth’s great cause, like
their God-like Master, drive th#se
“money changers” from the temple of
liberty, whioh is the temple of God.
Sleepy Hollow.
FOSTER BLODGETT.
What He Knawa About “Prominent Demo
crat*” aad Other Subject*.
[Atlanta Constitution .]
Foster Blodgett returned to the oity
a few days ago and is now serenely dom
iciled at the residenoe of his brother-in
law, Wallace Rhodes, Esq.
A reporter of the Constitution in his
wanderings, frequently heard the objects
of the return commented upon, (for
many believed that he would again for
feit his bonds), and broad hints were
thrown out that Blodgett had returned
with his famous “tin box,” filled with
epistolary tools to practice phlehottomy
upon the nnfortanate parties who had
once upon a time made him a solemn
confidant and leaned upon him as a
strong and able friend for oertain pur
poses. The press of the State had taken
up the ory, and in nearly every one of
our exchanges were floating paragraphs
that Blodgett wonld not be held or tried
in Atlanta because he had the whip
hand of too many “prominent Demo
crats” in our community. This was a
statement not at all palatable.
The reporteraefe-Mr. Blodgett in the
post offloe last evening and determined
to ask him a few questions with refer
ence to his intentions and the extent of
his knowledge upon the points which
we have above indicated.
He was in an agreeble humor and wil
lingly aooorded us a full and free inter
view. His oountenanee shows no anxiety
and his spirit seems to be oalm and se
rene amin what one would imagine to be
very absorbing troubles.
Reporter: So Mr. Blodgett yon have
reajly come back to Atlanta, despite the
prophets?
Mr. Blodgett: Yes, sir, I have. Why
should I not? lam nnder bonds to ap
pear before the Superior Gourt and I
have come to either stand my trial or
learn when I may expect it. There are
several oharges against me bnt not one
of them will result in damage to me, in
character or person, if they are folly and
fairly investigated.
Reporter: It has been suggested that
you do not want a trial, but that you
are soaring some parties into acquies
cence to your desires, whatever they
may be ?
Mr. Blodgett: That is absurd. I do
want a trial and shall insist upon having
it and getting done with this matter. I
have nobody whom I want to soare and
I imagine there are few whom I conld
soare, if I desired. I have been before
investigating oommittees here in the
Capital and told all they wanted to know
that I knew. I know nothing of any cor
ruption, or stealing, or forgery, and it
cannot be proven that Ids.
Reporter: Then I am to understand
that you are not holding yeur knowl
edge of any ugly transactions in terra
rem over any person to force them to aid
you in your present predicament ?
Mr. Blodgett: That is true, sir. I have
no enemies to slander and no one to
punish. ' A great deal has been said on
this subject in the newspapers, but is
without foundation. I am interested
only in a speedy trial and settlement of
these matters, for I am poor and cannot
stand much expense. lam employed as
a drummer and am here now on a leave
of absence and have my own expenses
to pay.
Reporter: Well, Mr. Blodgett, what
have you got that would trouble any
“prominent Democrat” if told upon him?
Mr. Blodgett: Nothing that any one
has a right to ask me to tell and nothing
that I eould tell consistently with my
own self-respect and fair principles, un
less the parties themselves force me to
do so, by unjust and unwarranted at
tacks upon me.
Reporter: Are you willing to indicate
the nature of those things to whioh von
refer ?
Mr. Blodgett: They are simply pri
vate and confidential letters written to
me by prominent Democrats at the time
when I was connected with the State
government, and supposed to have in
fluence with the Executive. They oou
sist mainly of appeals to me to assist
them in getting office under the admin
istration and promising it their support
in return. Some of those men are now
high in place in the State, and I do not
know that it wonld be right to embarrass
them to gratify the spite and malice of
their enemies by bringing these things
to light. I expeot many of them were
hard run at the time to make bread and
meat for their families, and hence were
justifiable io much they did.
Reporter: That, then, is the charac
ter of the information you could give, if
necessary in regard to those parties?
Mr. Blodgett: Yes, sir. I know noth
ing of any corruption or jobs to rob the
State, either by them or anybody else,
of my own knowledge.
Reporter; Do you expect to make
Atlanta, or Georgia your home again?
Jtfr. Blodgett: I shall not, at least, for
some time to come.
After some farther general conversa
tion the interview terminated.
UABERBBA.II COUNTY.
Court Week In Clarkoaville—Little Litiga
tion—The Bar —An Entertainment—The
Town and the Countr—The Growing Crops
—Appreciating a Good Paper.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel. 1
Clarkbßvii.lb, April 22.— The Supe
rior Court for Habersham county open
ed here last Monday, his Honor Judge
Rice presiding. The new and effi
cient Solicitor-General, Albert L.
Mitchell, was in attendance. Court
only lasted three days. There
were but few esses on the docket, which
fact speaks well lor the morals of the
county. The Bar was ably represented.
The visiting attorneys were Messrs. J.
S. Langston and S. 0. Dunlap, of
Gainesville; A. B. Culberson and W. T.
Crane, of Atlanta; J. T. Dortsoh and W.
K. Little, of Carnesville; and John T.
Osborn, of Elberton. The local bar
was represented by Messrs. G. M. Neth
erland andO. H. Sutton. Clarkesville
is a delightful place, and many of the
low country people have Summer resi
dences near the town. Among the Au
gusta people living here are Dr. Henry
Rossignol, Mr. H. Benjamin and Mr. T.
S. Bean, a son of your well known citi
zen, J. S. Bean, Esq. The people of
Habersham have great hopes that Au
gusta will help them build the North
eastern Railroad, upon the lower end of
whioh work is now rapidly progressing.
In former days all their trading was
done with Augusta, and with this road
completed yonr city wonld get all the
business of this fine mountain country.
The people here will ever remember
with gratitude the earnest and persistent
manner in whioh the late General A. R.
Wright, former Editor of the Chboniolb
and Sentinel, advocated the building
of this road. Dr. Houston, well known
in Augusta, has just opened the
Habersham House, and is keeping a
good hotel. Daring the week I haathe
pleasure of attending an entertainment
given at this hotel for the benefit of the
Clarksville Methodist Chnrch. All the
members of the Bar attended, and most
of the ladies and gentlemen of the town.
The entertainment consisted of charades,
tableaux and music. 411 the perform
ers did exceedingly well Among them
were Mr. and Miss O’Callaghan, Clar
ence Houston, Miss Sutton, Willie Epps,
A. T. Gray, Chas. McMillan, Miss Low
ery, and Miss Addison. Every one in
attendance greatly enjoyed the evening.
There are three ohurobes here—Metho
dist, Baptist and Presbyterian—and a
good school. The business men are
Messrs. J. J. Verner, A. J. Nioholls, J.
W. West, M. B. O’Callaghan, Wm.
Jones, and J. W. McConnell. I met
here Col. J. H. Christy, of the Athens
Watchman, and Hon. Thos. F. Crymes,
of the North Georgia Herald.' The
farmers throughout the couqtfy have
great hopes of a fine cjqp tfcig year, but
the heavy frosts of the last few days
have killed nearly all the fruit. The
Whe>t crops escaped injuay, and are do
ing well. The Chronicle and, Sentinel
has many warm friends in North Geor
gia. I send you with this letter a list of
thirty new subscribers. I will attend
Court week at Clayton, Rabun
oounty, thirty-five miles from the Air-
Line Railroad. G. W. N.
New York, April 2*.—About three
o’elock to-day there was an explosion at
Hopgaods torpedo factory, at 142d St.
and Eight avenue, by whioh 10 or 12
persona were injured. Lovinia Rlan
vett and Sarah Hickman were danger
ously hurt, but the others are not fatal
ly injured. The in juried parties are all
PE
*2 A TEAR —POSTAGE PAID.
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Morgan county farmers will nse this
year about SBO,OOO worth of commercial
fertilizers.
The Coiambus Enquirer says there
was frost enough over there Tuesday
morning to kill potato vines.
Aronnd Columbus the peach crop will
be short, but there will be an abnndance
of plums and blackberries.
“He was a stranger and they took
him in,” and charged him six dollars for
dying his hair. This was at one of the
Atlanta barber shops.
The residenoe of Mr. Thomas Bagley,
eight miles from Macoc,' was burned
Thursday night, with clothing and fur
niture. No insurance.
The Champion base ball elub, of
Covington, will play a match game with
the Ooonee elnb, at Monroe, Walton
oounty, next Saturday.
Mr. Starling Bryant, a millwright,
who lived near the rolling mill, in At
lanta, met with an acoident last Friday
whioh caused his death.
Gwinnett Herald: The Chronicle
and Sentinel procured over fifty new
subscribers for their mammoth weekly
in Franklin county last week.
The Selma, Rome and Dalton Rail
road, with commendable enterprise, has
put on a double daily train, which will
run during the Summer months.
Last Tuesday morning James Morgan,
a sailor on board the schooner Nettie
Langdon, at Darien, committed suicide
by jumping overboard and drowning.
Gabriel Nash, of Madison county, has
been engaged in the practice of law 51
years, and says that during that period
he never knew as little litigation in the
Courts as at present.
Warrenton letter to Elberton Gazette:
This section of the State, so far as we
can judge is for Hersohel V. Johnson,
and next to him probably Gen. Colquitt
has the best chanoe.
While engaged in ereoting a roof over
a well on his premises last week, B. C.
Wall, Esq., an old and highly respected
citizen of Elbert, fell to the ground from
a ladder and broke his thigh.
Belton, on the Air Line Road, has
suffered extensive losses by fire. Seve
ral stores, sue hotel and other valuable
bnildings were entirely consumed. The
fire oocured 04 the night of the 17th
instant.
The Northeastern Railroad will soon
be in running order to Harmony Grove
The remainder of the gap will be closed
in about six weeks more. Get ready to
attend the opening oelebration about
the Ist of July.
Covington Star: About SIOO,OOO
worth ot guano has been sold at this
point the present season. Only think
of that. Bnt this little sum oan be
paid, you know, with cotton at— lo
cents per pounds.
Dr. A. G. Haygood has anew volume
in press. It treats of the spiritual cul
ture of children, and the relation of pa
rents, preachers and Sunday school
teachers to this work, with an introduc
tion by the venerable Dr. Lovick Pierce.
The Camilla Enterprise says cotton is
oomiDgup beautifully in that section.
Everybody reports a splendid stand.
While the acreage in cotton is less than
it was last year, yet, on account of su
perior cultivation, an unusually large
crop will be produoed, if no disaster 00-
ours.
Colonel John T. Brown, Prinoipal
Keeper of the Penitentiary, says that
under the operation of an aot of the last
General Assembly, making hog stealing
a felony, large additions are being re
ceived to the oonviot foroe—the new re
cruits being generally from the oolored
raoe.
Major George Hillyer, one of the
Centennial Commissioners for Georgia,
has gone to Philadelphia to be present
at the meeting of the Centennial Com
mission, which takes place on th 26th
instant. Mr. Dick Peters, the other
Georgia Commissioner, is already there.
The Cuthbert Messenger says it is
generally believed that the hogs in that
seotion have organized a Ku-Klux Klan
for the purpose of killing out those who
steal for a living. This belief originates
from a dead negro and a live hog hav
ing been discovered in dose proximity
in the bushes a few days since.
The Irwinton Southerner considers
the opposition to repeated elections of
legislators or Congressmen as un
founded. The legislator, State or Fed
eral, is made useful by experience. If
we change our Congressmen frequently
we can never bring one up to the ability
and usefulness of a Stephens or a La
mar.
Savannah News : Prof. Mind, the
Brown reader, is not the only pleasing
feature of Augusta sooioty. Some of
the first families look forward with ill
eonoealed ddight to the time when they
can gather in the oasual blackberry from
the virgin patches that fringe the bauks
of the canal.
Atlanta limes : Judge Bobert Trippe,
who was, in ante helium days, a mem
ber of the United States Congress, and
in post helium days, Associate Judge
upon the Supreme Court Bench of
Georgia, and who reoontly resigned that
position to resume the practice of law,
will be, we understand, a candidate for
Congress from the Fifth District. ,
Died in Georgia: Mrs. G. T. Hannah,
of Thomaston; Olla, daughter of S. N.
Stalling, of Covington; Wm. P, Dorsett,
of Newton oounty; Mrs. D. J. Lambeth,
of Savannah; Mrs. E. B. White, of At
lanta; Walter Prim, of Atlanta; James
Johnson, of Columbns; Mrs. W. Pea
cock, of Washington county.
Griffin News: A man in Atlanta, who
has a bonus of ten thousand dollars, can
do a business of legitimate rasoality to
the extent of a half million, then com
promise with creditors and Courts and
build a family cottage next day, costing
fifty thousand dollars, besides contribut
ing five thousand to the building of the
next new church.
Gwinnett Herald: Mr. George W.
Norman dropped in to see us the other
day on his return from Gainesville
Court, where he had been in the interest
of that old and reliable journal, the Au
gusta Chronicle and Hkntjnel, whioh
we consider one of the best conducted
papers in the State, and would really feel
at a loss without it.
The Macon Telegraph reports a bru
tal murder in Twiggs. A young man
named Edmondson, eighteen years of
age, while under the influence of liquor,
shot and instantly killed William La
varer. Some misunderstanding between
the two men, previous to the killing, is
thought to have led to the attack by Ed
monson. The murderer escaped.
Oglethorpe Echo : A quiet, peacea
ble man near Crawford has receutly
given up his business, boards his wife
with her mother, and ealmly announces
his determination of devoting the re
mainder of his life to discovering the
man who sent him a b >x of old brick by
express, with sl3 charges on it. Sus
picion points to a young physioiau of
Augusta.
Married in Georgia: F. B. Devine to
Abnie E. Morow, and W. M. Daniel to
Annie Owens, of Savannah; H. C. Tay
low to Ella Smith, of Waresboro; W. B.
Collier to Mollie M. Holmes, of Ogle
thorpe county; Jas. T. Middlebrooks to
Juliette Birdsong, and R. 8. Salter, of
Boston; Mass., to Rebecca Stephens,
daughter of the late Judge Linton Ste
phens, of Sparta.
Sunday night last thieves invaded the
premises of Mr. Asa Howard, living
some nine miles north of Lexington, on
Cloud’s oreek, and stole two horses be
longing to him, and one from his son
Frank. The crime is thought to have
been committed early in the night. The
thieves are supposed to be a gang com
manded by those notorions sqonndiels
Kelly and Busbey, who ha*e stolen and
run off nnmberg <4 horses from differ
ent sectiqqa pj North Georgia.
Southern V(atchman: The horse
thieves are still driving brisk busi
ness. They have extended their opera
tions into Oglethorpe oounty and stole
three horses from Mr. Asa Howard last
week. It is believed that there is a
regular organisation of horse thieves
operating in this section, of the State.
Ihey are desperate villains, well armed
an d determined not to surrender.
The game law of Georgia provides
that from the Ist of Fehruaty to the Ist
of September in each year, it iy>ll be a
misdemeanor to kill any deer, back, doe
"EK? a ?l f,a * * he * Bt of March to
the 15th of October it shall he a misde
meanor to Shoot, snare, trap or kill in
any way, any wild turkey or partridge.
Penalty in all oases is a fine of five dol
lars for the first offsnse and ten dollars
for the second—one-ball to the inform
er and the other to the county. Every
bird or deer killed in the time specified
will constitute a separate offense, and be
punished accordingly,
SODTH CAROLINA.
NEWS NOTES FROM THE PALMET
TO STATE.
Mr. Reuben Bailey and Mrs. Margaret
iriyler, of Lancaster, are dead.
Col. Joseph H. Brown will address
the Anderson Democratic Club on the
otn of May.
t Mr i J-' Erwin . of Chester, was
found dead m his bed last Sunday morn
ing. He was sixty-five years of age.
The store of Mr. G. A. White, in
Winnsboro, was entered and robbed of
of eood ' ®■*
~^ V Y Ellison 9®P ers > of Selma, Ala.,
will deliver an address before the young
ledies of the Charleston Female Semina
ry on the 27th instant.
The delegates from Newberry to the
State Convention are Messrs. J. N. Lips
comb, E. S. Keitt, J. S. Hair, Y. J.
CaldweT/ 108 ' Holloway and Joseph
Darlington experienced a frost on the
17th, whioh damaged corn and fruit.
The extent of damage is not known
la n eS . t j\ th f, amou “t of $46,593 were
collected by the treasurer up to the 14th.
Two colored men in Lancaster, Chas,
Bosboro and Abe Peay, recently had a
fight, the latter being worsted. He
went off, got his gun and waylaid Ros
boro, shooting him in the leg. Peav ia
nowin jail. J
HarHngton, died
on the loth instant, of pneumonia at
Darlington Court House. Col, Warlev
was one of South Carolina’s brightest
sons, and his loss to her at this time is
indeed grievous.
On Thursday night, 20th inst., the
barn and stables of Mr. Paul Living
ston, in Orangeburg oounty, were fired
and entirely destroyed. This is the sec
ond time Mr. L. has been burned out bv
design in two years.
At an eleotion held in West Union
last week for intendant and wardens,
the following persons were eleoted for
the ensuing year: Intendant, J. P
Miokler; Wardens, Dr. J. S. James,
Jaoob Schroder, I. K. Hunter,. J. M.
Callas.
Hi* recent meeting of Presbytery
at Anderson, the rare speotaola was seen
of a father and his two sons elected as
offioers—all ministers: Rev. F. Jacobs,
D. D., Moderator; Rev. J. R. Jacobs,
Temporary Clerk, and Rev. W. P.
Jaoobs, Stated Clerk.
The Executive Committee of the State
Agricultural and Mechanical Society
have issued a request for the delegates
from the Granges of the State to meet
and eonfer with them in Columbia on
the sth day of May, instead of the 6th,
as previously announced. The 6th falls
on Sunday.
Delegates from Anderson to the State
Convention : Messrs. J. A. Hoyt, E. B.
Murray, John B. Moore, W. C. Brown,
C. 8. Mattison and John B. Sitton; al
ternates—Messrs. W. S. Pickens, J. M.
Glenn, J. P. Brown, J. T. Barnes, G.
M. MoDavid and Dr. John Wilson.
Each of the delegates eleoted received a
majority of all the votes cast by the
Convention.
Dr. O. B. Mayer, of Newberry, and
Dr. H. I. Epting, of Williamston, per
formed a most successful surgioal opera
tion on Thursday last, extracting a stone
weighing six ounces, one drachm and
eleven grains from Mr. W. G. Shepherd,
who resides in Greenville county, some
twelve or fifteen miles from Williamston.
Mr. Shepherd was doing exceedingly
well on Sunday last and will certainly
recover.
On the farm of J. W. Crunkleton,
near Clayton, on the 10th instant, about
12 o’clock, John Crunkleton, son of J.
W. Crunkleton, was chopping on a very
large log, and his two little brothers,
William and Isaac, were down below
the log, when, to the surprise of the
elder brother, the log broke loose and
rolled ever William and Isaac, killing
them. One of the boys lived about
three hours and the other died imme
diately.
Mrs. Amanda Bowen, the wife of Mr.
T. J. Bowen, living near the Abbeville
line, was fatally wounded by an accident
al pistol shot on Sunday morning, 9th
inst. She was attemping to get her bon
net from a nail in the wall, upon which
a pistol was also hanging. In reaching
for the bonnet the pistol fell to the
floor, and in picking up the pistol Bhe
let it fall again, when the pistol was dis
charged and the ball entered the bodv
of Mrs. Bowen.
On Wednesday night, about 1 o’olock,
the barn and stables of Mr. W. J. Rowe,
in Barnwell, near Blaokville, were both
entirely consumed, and his oorn, forage,
two horses and wagon all were burned.
A negro—Sam Wilson—is in jail, ar
rested on strong suspicion, he having
had a difficulty with Mr. Rowe and hav
ing been heard to make threats. A
search was instituted, and his peculiar
footprints led over the burned buildings
to his quarters in Orangeburg.
John Goodwyn, a colored stonecutter
and ex-convict, broke into the store oc
cupied by Mr. S. J. Hartzog, at Bam
burg, on Wednesday night last, and
while engaged in rifling its contents was
discovered by Mr. Hartzog, who at
tempted to arrest him. The thief being
a powerful man, defied arrest, and beat
and cut both Mr. Hartzog and his daugh
ter in a most dangerous manner. He
then made his escape, leaving father
and daughter lying senseless. After
this he broke into Mr. Skinner’s clothing
store and into the residence of Mr. A.
0. Taylor, and helped himself liberally
at each place. He was subsequently ar
rested and carried to jail. His bravado
and defiance came very near causing his
captors to give him a summary exit into
the other world.
A TENNESSEE TRAGEDY.
A Han Stab* His Son-In-Law to Death— I Tho
End of a Short but Savae Vendeu^l?he
Murderer Arrested.
[From the Evansville Journal 1
Our reporter obtained from a passen
ger by the St. Louis and Southeastern
Railroad from Nashville particulars of a
terrible tragedy which occured at Cedar
Hill, Robinson oounty, no notice of
wbien has yet appeared in any newspa
per; and the Journal, with its accustom
ed enterprise, quotes all the facts first:
About one year ago James Bowers, a
merohant at Cedar Hill, married the
daughter of a man named Hawkins, who
keeps a grocery at that place. In a very
short time after the marriage, for some
reason unknown to our informant, a
deadly feud sprang up between the
father and son-in-law. They refused to
have any communication with each otb -
er, and as time passed, the hatred that
filled each seemed to augment and grow
more fierce and deadly, antilit culmi
nated recently as will appear.
Wednesday morning young Bowers
was sitting in front of the store of Thos
Ayres, in Cedar Hill, when Hawkins
was seen approaching. He came up
passing within a foot of Bowers, appar
ently with no intention to stop. As he
passed, however, he suddenly turned
without provocation, and then it was
perceived that in his hand he held a long
murderous dagger. Without saying a
word, and before Bowers could appre-
Hft "*ins struck at him
with the knife over the heart, the blade
penetrating the breast, but not striking
Bowers sprang up as he waa
stabbed, and quick as thought the bru
tal assailant withdrew the bloody knife
and stabbed him again, the second cut
entering the groin near the right hip
I . e . r received . , thiß stab the doomed
man threw up his arms, and as he did
so Hawkins struck third time, the
knife penetrating under the left arm-pit,
going through the body, emerging from
the bao* under the shoulder blade.
The stabbed man fell in a pool of blood,
crying out;
“What will become of my poor wife’”
removed and attended to, but
the stabs were fatal, and he died in an
hour and a half in great agony.
Immediately after the fiendish deed
committed, Hawkins turned and
Hea, and as there were but few persons
astir at that early hour, he succeeded in
effecting his escape. The Sheriff of
Robinson county, who was in Cedar Hill,
at once telegraphed to Springfield, the
oounty seat, for the detention of the
oriminal, and then summoning a posse of
men set ont in pnrsnit. The country
aU about was soonred but no traces of
him were discovered. Late in the after
noon, however, news was brought to the
sheriff that a man answering the des
cription of Hawkins had been seen in
Trenton, Ky., on the line of the South
eastern road, south of Hopkinsville.
The clue was seized and followed, and
yesterday morning he. was arrested be
tween Pembroke and Hopkinsville, in
Christian oounty, Ky., and at 10 o’clock
yesterday morning was taken in custody
to Cedar Hill, where he was to have a
preliminary examination. The result of
this we could not learn,