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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1876)
OLO SERIES—IOI. XCI NEW SERIES—WOL. XL. TERMS. raE DAILY CHRONICLE A HENTINEL, the oldeat uewepeper in the South, is published daily, except Mondsv. Terms : Per year, tlO : six rnooths. *5; three months, 42 SO. THE WEEKLY oHKONICLE A SENTINEL is published every Wednesday. Terms : Ods year. 12; six months, 41. THE TRI WEEKLY CHRONICLE A SENTI NEL is pablisbed every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Terms : One year, $5; six months, 42 60. SUBSCRIPTIONS in all eases in advance, and no paper continued after the expiration of the time paid for. RATES OP ADVERTISING IN DAILY.—AII transient advertisements will be charged at the rate of 41 per square each insertion for the first week. Advertisement a in Tri-Week ly, 41 per squire; in Weekly. 41 per square. Marriage and Funeral Notices. 41 each. Special Notices. 41 per square. Special rates will be made for advertisements running for one month or longer. ALL COMMUNICATIONS announcing candi dates for office—from County Constable to members of Congress—will he charged at the rate of twenty cents per hue. Alt announce ments must be paid for in advance. Address WALSH A WRIGHT, j Chboviclx A Kehtiwel. Augusta. Oa. j Chronicle anti Sentinel, j WEDNESDAY .MAY 10, 1876. The financial ChronioU reports the hooded debt of Augusta at two millions of dollars. Asd now comes Morton with his two hundred and fifty thousand dollar steal. Gone to meet Belksap and Babcock and Blainr. Truthfully, but inelegantly, the Rome Courier, says : “If you want to amell the worst kind of a Radical stench, just pull the scab off of one of those In dependent sore-heads.” The patriots who ran the Convention ■ in the Fourth District last Wednesday have the pleasure of knowing that, with the exception of one name on the ticket, their votes were simply thrown away. It is stated that Commodore Vander bilt is going off the hooks at an early day. A gold handled coffin aud tons of floral crosses will soon be iu order, we suppose, and of snch is the kingdom of Heaven. The Gainesville Eagle says : “We , have recently seen men from different j portions of the State, and have letters j from quite a number we have not seen, and from all we can gather, we believe Gen. A. H. Colquitt has decidedly the ‘insidetrack.’” The Atlanta Times must learn the difference between original and quoted matter or it will never be a great jour nal. The article from the Griffin News on the Senatorial question was quoted. The Senatorial election is too far off for us to have anything to say about it just now. The Macon Telegraph and Messenger says : “It is surmised by some that in the event of the election to the Presi dency of a Democrat, Governor Smith will be tendered a seat in the Cabinet, This is certainly not impossible, and it would be bailed with satisfaction by the people. His head is level on questions of economy, aud in no event would he consent to screen the guilty or connive at dishonesty.” The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun says : “It is understood that Hon. Morgan Rawls, of Georgia, late M. 0., but at present Superintend ent of the Clerk’s document room of the House, has been requested to ‘step down and out' by Clerk Adams ” Iu 1872 the people of the First District were foolish enough to send this illiterate trickster to Congress, voting for him in prefer ence to his competitor who, though a Republican, was iu every respect a bet ter man. We congratulate the “Docu ment Room" iu getting rid of the Hon. Morgan Rawls. The Atlanta Times says that by a ‘ concatenation of fortuitous circum ‘stances ” the same men were chosen by the District Conventions as dele gates from the State at large to the St. Louis Convention. Let us see. In the First Distriot Maj. Barnes aud Col. Lester were chosen and Gov. Smith rejected. In the Fourth Distriot Messrs. Barnes and Lester were not elected and Gov. Smith was. In the Second District Col. Lester aud Gov. Smith were elected and Maj. Barnes was not. In the Sixth Distriot Maj. Barnes was eleoted and Gov. Smith and Col. Les ter were not. Does this look like a •• concatenation of fortuitous oircum stau ces ” ? We publish this morning a biographi cal sketch of the life Henry Schultz, the founder of Hamburg, South Caro lina. It was written by General John A. Wagbneb, of Charleston, for the Deutsche Pioneer, a German magazine published in Cincinnati. It has been admirably translated for the Chronicle and Sentinel by a lady of Augusta. There are many now living among us who remember Henry Schultz, his con tests, his troubles, his triumphs and his defeats. These will be interested in the life of a man whom they knew. The younger generation will read with inter est of a man of whom they have heard 60 mweh. Some youDg men in Cambridge, Mas sachusetts, have formed an association whose object is to secure the attendance of the more respectable citizens at oau- . cuses and ward meetings. Jas. Russell Lowell has consented to serve as Pres ident The organization is very simple, as also are its methods of work. A com mittee of eight is appointed in each ward, and it is their duty to notify the better class of oitizens when their at tendance is desired at primary meetings. The exampi.? of “some youug men in Cambridge, Massachusetts,” conld be very profitably followed by “some young meu” everywhere else. Until the best men of every community take tn interest in politioe, wo may confidently expect ring rale, corruption and disgrace. We are glad to see that the Marietta Journal very properly rebukes the War renton Clipper for threatening to pub- lish a little “memoraßdum” concerning ] the Hon. John H. Jambs. The Journal indignantly asks : “Know yon not a man's character is private property, and ehoaUi not be lightly handled ? If he ia guilty of any heinous crime, let the laws of the land punish him, bnt do not through petty prejudice and political opposition insinuate that there is a skeleton secretly sloseted that will put a political rope around his nook. Let tbs campaign be conducted more fairly j that.” To all of which we say, j amen 1 We should like to know what a man’s public or private character, or his \ want of character, has to do with his run •tug for office. If we hare been correct ly informed this is a free country, and we know of nothing in the Constitution or the laws that requires a candidate to hare a character. Any attempt now to introduce anew regulation on the sub ject would be a monstrous outrage on £he rights of the office-seeker, and would dd greatly to the complications that al ready environ the Gubernatorial cam paign. We sincerely trust that the War renton Clipper will ceaac its malignant attempts to uocloset “skeletons” in or der to have them pat “political copes around the neck” of Hon. John H. Jambs or stay of the other forty-nine candidates for. Governor. RXLICIOIS OSTRACISE. ! The following circular has been cir culated mysteriously from hand to band in Augusta. A gentleman who finally succeeded in getting hold of a copy has handed it to ns for publication. Here it is: CnUciiiil. In visw of tbs intolerant, persistent, aggres sive efforts of Boministii, their avowed deter mination to subvert the Government of the United Htates, sod to destroy oar civil and religious liberty, I desire to submit to you the following questions: 1. Do yon protest against Rome from prin ciple and from choice ? 2. Are yon in favor of preserving constitn tional liberty and maintaining the Government of the United States ? 3. Do yon regard Romanism as the enemy of civil and religions liberty ? 4. Is it not, in yonr opinion, unwise and un safe to appoint to civil, political or military office, in this country, men who owe allegiance to the Pope of Rome, and who have sworn to obey him ? 5. Are yon in favor of maintaining the prin ciples of one general nnsectarian free school organization ? 6. Are you opposed to all attempts to use the public funds for any sectarian purposes what ever ? 7. Are you in fsvor of putting into office honest and true patriots, who are best qualified to fill the positions, regardless of political par ties ? 8. Are you willing to be governed by these principles in your future political actions ? 9. Are you willing to unite with others who hold these principles, and henceforth devote yourself and yonr sacred honor to the protec tion and perpetuation of civil and religions lib erty, and this great American Union ? Wo repeat now what we have often said before: The Chronicle and Senti nel is not the organ of any nationality or of any creed. Its proprietors pub lish a secular and not a religious news paper. We have nothing to do with and we care nothing for the creeds of men. So long as a man is a good citizen, is truthful, just and honorable, we care not whether he be Turk, Jew, Episco palian, Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist or Catholic, We are informed that ef forts are being made to organize secret lodges in Angusta for the purpose of carrying out the principles embodied in this confidential circular. We hope, as we believe, that these efforts will prove unavailing. Wo shall oppose an anti- Catholic as we shonld oppose an anti- Methodist, an anti-Baptist, or an anti- Presbyterian League. This is a coun try of religious freedom, and we do not see why one religious sect should be proscribed more than another. During the late war, when the South was vainly struggling for independence and for po litical liberty, Catholics were expected to fight, and did fight as bravely and as persistently as any Protestant that bore arms in defense of the “Lost Cause.” When taxes are to be paid and the burdens of government to be shoulder ed Catholics are expected to contribute aR largely and as liberally as Protest ants. When the reign of the thieving carpet-baggers and scalawags was to be overthrown in Georgia and in the South the Catholio was always found aiding the cause of good government and po litical freedom. Why, then, should any honest man seek to ostracise a good citizen and a true patriot because of his religious belief ? The gist of the anti-Catholio League is to be found in the seventh question contained in this “confidential” circu lar: “ Are you in favor of putting into office honest and true patriots,who are best qualified to fill'the positions, wroa-rd less OF political parties ?” This is toe milk in the cocoanut. The anti-Catbo lic League is simply an anti-Democratic League, and those who join it will as sist in putting Radical carpet-baggers and scalawags into office,and in restoring robber rule to Georgia. The issue is plain, and not to be mistaken. General Grant’s Des Moines speech and the “confidential” circular of the anti-Catho lic League are on exactly the samo line. MOKE MUSIC IN THE AIK. The serial orchestra business is spread ing. More music in the air is promised. The Orange, a weekly newspaper pub lished in Atlanta, promises the publica tion of an interesting serial. It says : The narrative will not be one of fiction, but of fact, historically and chronologically true; the characters portrayed are drawn from the life, and will be instantly recognized by every one familiar at all with passing events; men bom great, or who have achieved greatness, or who have had greatness thrust upon them, will be sketched with pen and ink, and exhib ited in the Orange Gallery for the edification and benefit of Georgians. They ‘‘who run may read” something about our great men (great in the various meanings of that epithet), who they are. what they are, and what they have been in the past. Interesting glimpses of "‘the powers behind the throne;” side views of lobby life, and bird’s eye glimpses of politi cal and financial Star Chambers, and their ap pnrtonancee, will be given. The plot of the narrative will be laid in the capital of Geor gia." It is to be hoped that nothing will in terfere to prevent the appearance on time of this political romance. If the author has as much knowledge as he claims to have, his narrative will doubt less prove vastly entertaining. In or : der, however, to enhance the interest the name of the author shonld be given. THE GEORGIA DELEGATION. The Georgia Democrats met by Congression al Districts, yesterday, and chose Tilden dele- I gates to St. Louis. Tilden goes into the St. Lonis Convention with the Empire State of the North aud the Empire State of the South at his back. The New York delegation of seventy and the Geor gia delegation of twenty-two make a pretty ! good start. . Georgia's twenty-two delegates to the St. Lonis Convention are all Tilden men. They were elected by Distriot Conventions all in one day. They were chosen so quietly that they made no excitement. It is now announced that they are all for Uncle Sammt. Mr. Telpen’s ways are ways of pleasantness. The New York Democratic Convention was ruled as usual by Tammany and Mr. John Mor rissey. with his contesting delegation of re ; formers, was turned out in the cold. The dele * W St, Louts are substantially a unit for Mr. Tildes lU *re instructed to present his 1 name. Tilden has also secured the delegation \ from Georgia, and is so far ahead of any of his j competitors. We find such paragraphs as the above in Democratic and Republican journals published out of the State. We believe that they are for the most part based on a paragraph that appeared last Thurs day morning in a newspaper of the State noted for its incorrectness of statement and its dense ignorance of Georgia poli tics. There is not one word of truth in the assertion that the Georgia delega tion to St. Louis was elected in the in terests of Governor Tiddkn. This we know. In every Congressional District the plan was adopted of sending dele- ; gates to St- Louis uninstructed, un pledged and absolutely untrammeled. An attempt to instruct one delegation to support the claims of a particular candi date was voted down with scarcely a dissenting voice. The Georgia delegates will support the candidate whom they think best fitted to saooeed in the com ing fight against corruption and central ism. They are willing to sipje all person al predilections for particular candi dates and seek only to win. So far as 1 Mr. Tildes is concerned we believe him to be the last choioe of the delegates j from Georgia. We believe that they prefer Bayard, Hancock or Hendricks to the man whose friends caused the ' loss of Ohio last October, and whose only recommendation is the threat utter i ed by the Democratic Convention of his own State, that nnless he ia nominated . at St. Lonis New York will vote for the | Republican candidate. Two of the Georgia delegation, and but two, have been quoted as favoring the nomination of Mr. Tilden —Governor Smith and Senator Howell. Unless the opinions of these gentlemen have undergone a remarkable change within the past few weeks, they are not for Tilden any more than are the other members of the dele gation. THE KENDRICK CASE. A week or more ago the people of the State were shocked by the announce ment that Rev. C. A. Kendrick, a Bap tist minister of Columbus, had been arrested on a charge of seduction. The accused was a man of talents and elo quence. He was comparatively a young man, but had given promise of great usefulness in his sacred calling. He had been thoroughly tested in anoth er city, and had won the respect and confidence of every one with whom he was thrown in contact, whether a mem bei of bis own or of another denomina tion. When the first news came, the people, at least those who lived out of Columbus, were loath to believe his guilt, and trusted to a trial for the con firmation of their donbts-. The minister himself asserted his innocence, and strenuously maintained that he was the victim of a conspiracy. But when the preliminary trial came on it was conclu sively proven that he had added false hood to the deeper infamy of adulterous fornication. That he was or is guilty of “seduction,” we do not believe. We do not believe that a girl with the intel ligence which Fannie Bush evidently possessed could have been seduced in three interviews with the pastor of her chnrch. The evidence, as furnished by herself, 6hows that but little skill was exerted, but few arts practiced, and but little time required to destroy her chas tity and obtain possession of her person. But while this state of facts may miti gate the penalty, it cannot lessen the heinousness of his offense. He was a minister of the Gospel, a man of God, the teacher of morals to the community, and when he fell it made no difference whether he tumbled over a precipice or a curb-stone, the consequences were the same. He is deservedly disgraced and ruined in the sight of God and man. He has brought shame upon the ministry, shame upon the church in whose bosom he had been received, and shame, double shame, upon the pure and holy religion which he professed to teach. But while Kendrick is so severely censured, and no censure is too severe for such a scoundrel, there is another view of the case that should be present ed. These clerical scandals have, un happily, become too frequent of late. They have not been confined to any denomination or any section, any more than sin is limited to particular creeds or countries. But is it not well to inquire whether others are not to blame besides the priests of Go who bring ruin upon themselves and disgrace upon their sacred calling ? A young and talented minister is called upon to take charge of a church in a strange community. In every church women are usually the most zealous and enthusiastic of members. They are pleas ed with the appearance and charmed by the eloquence of the new pastor. They spoil him with attention and flattery; they seek his society and bare their hearts to his view, little thinking of the temptations which they offer and the dangers they incur. Ministers are but men. They have the frailties and the passions of their fellow-men. .The grace of God and the power of religious dis cipline may have enabled them to sub due their inclinations and hold their de sires in check. But they are only hu man, and when subjected to strong temptation they may fall in spite of their piety, in spite of their own will, just as the chosen servants of God have fallen before, and just as they will con tinue to fall so long as flesh is frail and men are mortals. However much of blame may attach to the minister, does not some blame attach also to his congregation ? How ever much we may feel disposed to condemn the false shepherd who be trays his flook shall we not also censure the flock that puts irresistible tempta tion in the way of the shepherd ? Most assuredly yes. When congrega tions, and especially the female mem bers of congregations, shall learn to treat ministers, no matter how handsome, how eloquent or how fascinating they they be, just as they treat all other men, then we may expect to hear less of seduotions and of Kendrick and Beecher scandals, bringing dishonor upon a church and scandal upon a com munity. We do not wish to palliate the guilt of such men as Kendrick, but we do wish to warn the women of all de nominations that they place not tempta tion in their pastor’s way. Bad men there are in every church, wolves in sheep’s clothing will be found in every flook, but crime is always preceded by temptation. The removal of temptation is the prevention of crime. If Fannie Bush had treated her pastor as she shonld have treated every other man she would not now be a ruined woman nor he a disgraced minister. To avoid evil is to conquer evil. We agree with the Atlanta Constitu tion that Governor Smith should be chosen Chairman of the Georgia dele gation to St. Louis. But we don’t agree with the Constitution that he should be chosen because he received a larger vote than any of the other delegates. This is not the case. Hon. Geo. T. Barnes, of Richmond, received the unanimous vote of seven districts, and so did Hon. R. E. Lester, of Chatham. Governor Smith received only seven votes. An enterprising newspaper correspon dent has discovered that Governor Johnson is enthusiastic for Colquitt for the very sufficient reason that when the former was a candidate for Governor twenty years ago the latter ran on his ticket for Congress and secured his elec tion. The popular tradition has been that the vote of Hart county elected Governor Johnson. It is scarcely ne cessary to say that neither a news paper correspondent nor any one else is authorized to apeak for Governor Johnson. That gentleman is abun dantly able to announce his own in tentions, and will not fail to do so whenever he thinks snch a step neces sary.* We wish Mr. John W. Wofford to go to the St. Louis Convention as a dele gate from the State-at-large, but think that some action by the State Execu tive .Committee is necessary to his selec tion. Moat of thg papers are taking it for granted that he waa elected by the District Conventions. We do not think he was. He received four votes—one less than a majority of all the votes cast It seems to ns that his election will now comp before the Committee. We hope be wifi be, and think he should be chosen. North Georgia is entitled to one of the delegates from the State at-large; Mr. Wofford lacked only one vote of an election and woald wor thily represent Georgia at St. Louis. Comptroller-General W. L. Goldsmith has returned from Florida. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY' MORNING, MAY 10, 1876, PAUPER PALACES. The St. Lonis Republican says the absurd rage for palatial asylums for in sane paupers has spread to the Pacific coast, and the people of California find that they are in for one that will cost a million and a half dollars and, probably, more. The structure is being erected at Napa, and was planned to accommo date 500 patients, and to cost $600,000, but the plan has been amplified till it is found the cost will be $1,500,000. It is a magnificent edifice, with stone front, carved corriders up to the roof, and with the words “Dignitas” and “Opu lentia” repeated everywhere in the moulded stone—as if dignity and opulence had any necessary connection with insanity. It is so large that the circuit of it lacks only 200 feet of being a mile in extent. If the whole number of inmates allotted to this asylum shall be 500, the California lunatics will each have $3,000 worth of house room—a far more liberal allotment than the average of persons in good circumstances can boast of. They will, no doubt, dwell very comfortably amid the maple, red wood, marble and iron adornments that embellish their palace. THE SILK INDUSTRY. Ad exchange says “if the statement about the growth and condition of the domestic silk trade just put forth by the Silk Association of America is to be re lied upon, that interest exhibits a most remarkable prosperity in the midst of the prevalen t depression of other trades. ” The report says that the total value of silk goods made in this country in 1875 was $27,158,000. In 1870, it was only $12,210,000. The product therefore has more than doubled in value in five years. The imports of foreign silks and silk goods for the year 1875 were $24,300,000; so that we manufactured more silk that year than we imported. During the year ending June 30, 1871, we imported of foreign silks $31,068,000, of which $6,968,000 was of ribbons. In 1875 we imported only $24,300,000 of which only $2,984,000 was of ribbons. It would appear therefore that we are steadily in creasing our value of domestic made silks, and diminishing the value of onr imports. Paterson, N. J., is the chief centre of the domestic silk manufacture and New Jersey and Connecticut are the States that have the most capital invested in this industry and contribute most to the general product. RELIGIOUS OSTRACISM. We publish elsewhere this morning in the Chronicle and Sentinel a defense of the Auti-Cacholic League, writtea by a member of that organization. If any thing were needed to confirm the justice of the position which we have taken in relation to the League, abundant confir mation is afforded by the statement of one of its members. We believe that the League is a cunningly devised scheme, originated at the North for the avowed purpose of dividing and conquer ing the Democratic party in the South and restoring the rule of the scallawag and carpet-bagger. The seventh ques tion of the confidential circular explicit ly asks: “Are you in favor of putting into office honest and true patriots, who are best qualified to fill the positions, regardless of political parties?”— The “Member" of the League who writes to the Chronicle asd Sentinel says that while good Democrats are at the head of the organization in Augusta, “ however, they won't refuse to admit to membership good republicans if they will take the necessary obligation." This is a country of civil and religious liberty. Every man is called upon to bear his proportion of the burdens of government, and every man is entitled to a voice and vote in the administra tion of government. It will not do to say that only members of a particular denomination, shall exercise the privi leges of citizenship, though all alike are made to bear the burdens, nor can any political party succeed that has for its platform hatred of a particular creed— that is anti-Methodist, anti-Baptist, anti-Presbyterian, anti-Episcopalian, an ti Jewish or anti-Catholic. The bet ter judgment of the people condemns the presentation of any such issue. We are sorry that this movement has been started in Augusta, for it is fraught with danger to our best interests. Even if it were possible for it to succeed it could only hand the city and State over to the tender mercies of the successors of Bullock, Blodgett & Cos. We hope that those who have looked upon it fa vorably will contemplate what the fu ture consequences may be and abandon this attempt to drag religion into politios. What the city of Augusta most needs is a railroad from this city to Rabun Gap. Shall we have it ? What the people of the Savannah Val ley most need is a railroad from Augusta to Rabun Gap. Shall they have it ? It is rumored that another defalcation has taken place in the county of Burke. We sincerely trust that the rumor may prove incorrect. There seems to be little donbt of the truth of the statement that Messrs. H. W. Grady and W. H. Moore intend a speedy revival of the Atlanta Herald. Suppose that Messrs. Moody and Sankey and Whittle and Bliss are “sensationalists,” what then? If sen sationalism plncks only one brand from the burning, does it not do incalculable good ? The District Conventions were “fixed up” so that the people and not the mem bers of the Executive Committee had the selection of the four delegates from the State-at-large. This is the “fixing” that was done. If Mr. Stephens should be unable or unwilling to serve in the next Congress we hope that some gentleman not a resi dent of Richmond county will be chosen to fill his place. In snch a contingency we do not believe that Richmond will present a candidate. Senator Boutwell’s outrage commit tee had better let Mississippi alone and go to California. The Ru-Klmt of the Pacific slope are committing every con ceivable outrage npon the defenseless Chinese simply because their skins are yellow. Why not send Major Merrill beyond the Rocky Mountains ? The Athens Georgian says the Geor gia delegation “goes to St. Lonis abso lutely untrammelled with instructions, and the champions of no particular as pirant. No donbt the entire delegation will favor the good, honest and true Democrat who, when all the facts and figures are summed up, can make the best showing for success in the approach ing Fall election. ” The Athens Watchman says of the coming Senatorial election: “Our pres ent object is merely to remark that if Senator Norwood declines a re-election or it shall be thought advisable by the party to P n £ someone else in his place, that Bkn Hill stands a full head agd shoulders higher thag any other jgag named as his successor. The tony’ may succeed in displacing Norwood, but the people will not permit it to pot an inferior man in hia place.” LETTER FROM RABUN. The Superior Court-Trial and Acquittal of Alex. William*—The ToWa of Clayton-The Northeast Raiiroad-The People Anxious to Trade with Au*ua-A'l>elixhtful Sum mer Resort—The Chronic!* and Sentinel. [From Our Traveling Correspondent.] Clayton, April 26. The Superior Court has been in ses sion here this week, Judge Rice pre siding; Albert L. Mitchell was Solici tor-General. Court did not last but two days, there beiDg but little on the docket. Hon. G. M. Sutherland, who waa employed in almost all the cases, was unwell at Clarkeeviile and not able to attend Court, so all the cases were laid over until Fall Court. The visit ing members of the bar were Col. W. S. Marlow, of Gainesville; Judge C. H. SuttoD, Olarkesville; S. K. Christopher, Esq., Hiwasee; Colonel W. T. Crane, Hiwasee. There were but few cases tried. There was one crimi nal case tried—that of Alexander Wil liams, who, it is thought, assisted his brother, who was accused of killing Nel son Dover, in March, 1866, on Tallulah river. The prisoner and his brother left after the killing, and have not been in the county since until afew months ago he came back, and was arrested and plac ed in jail. Williams was tried-yesterday. He was defended by S. Christopher, Esq., and Col. W. 8. Mttlow, who made a most feeling and able speech in favor of the prisoner. The State was repre sented by the Solicifcoi- % General, A. L. Mitchell; and Judge Sutton; but the evidence was so very weak that neither of them made a speech ; a verdict of not guilty was rendered and the prisoner was set at liberty. There is but little crime in Rabun county. Clayton, situated about thirty miles from the Air-Line Railroad, and only nine miles from the North Carolina line, is surrounded by the Blue Ridge Moun tains. The Tennessee and Savannah rivers have their head waters in Rabun, Clayton has about one hundred and fifty inhabitants. The business men are F. T. McConnell, J. & W. Wall, John and James Cannon, W. R. & W. S. Whit mire, Thomas Coffee, Arandale & Mc- Kenna, S. W. Davis. Mr. J. M. Quinlan is the postmaster. David F. Duncan, Esq., sheriff of Rabun county, is the proprietor of the Blue Ridge Hotel. He keeps a first class house. There is a good school house here under the charge of Miss Sallie Alley, There are two churohes—Methodist and Baptist, The people express a great desire to have the Northeast Railroad completed. I find it different to what my friend Col. Christy says that the people have had enough of Augusta, as he said in last week’s paper. The people up all through this mountain country want to return to Augusta to do their trading. Numbers of the best people of this mountain country beg of me to request the editors of the Chronicle and Sentinel to advo cate the building of this road, which would be of great benefit to the mercan tile interests of your city. A splendid country would be thus opened up. It would certainly be profitable to Augus ta, and bring within easy reach one of the most pleasant Summer resorts in the South. The scenery is magnificent and there is no more healthy climate in the Summer time in the world. In passing the road to Clarksville I called on Hon. L. N. Jones, who re ceived me very kindly. He has a splendid farm and knows how to keep it in good condition. He is not a candi date for re-election to the Legislature on account of his health. Mr. Cannon, the Mountain Senator, is in good health and is busily engaged on his farm. In conclusion allow me to thank thd many kind friends who assisted me in getting subscribers. I send yon a list of forty one new subscribers to the Chronicle and Sentinel. I will visit Cleveland, White county, next week. G. W. N. OGLETHORPE COUNTY. The Band of Horse Thieves—Robbery of Mr. Howard—The Pursuit—Regular Banditti— Their Operations in Georgia—The Leader —Kelly** Career—His Capture. [ Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.] Wintebville, Ga., April 29. —The re cent horse stealing in this section has created a feeling of uneasiness and alarm among our people. You have already published some acoount of the daring robbery committed on the premises of Mr. Howard, on the night of the 16th inst. This was a bold crime. Three fine horses, one of them a colt about three years old, and four bridles and two saddles were stolen. Th 9 thieves evi dently had an eye to immediate flight. The stealing mast have been done in the early part of the night—probably before the family had retired. Dr. Clarke Simms’ family, who lives about a mile from Mr. Howard’s, on the Athens road, heard several horsemen passing at full speed about nine o’clock, and it is reasonable to suppose that these were the robbers. Two of the horses, one of them a fine mare which had cost SIBO only a short time before she was stolen, and the other, the colt already men tioned, belonged to Mr. Frank Howard, a son of Mr. Asa Howard. Mr. How ard, senior, only lost one horse. The Howards reside about eight miles from Winterville, in the neighborhood of Blond’s Creek Church. The family is of the greatest respectability, and the sufferers from this lawless outrage have the sympathies of our entire people. Several parties went in pursuit of the thieves, but at last accounts had not succeeded in overtaking them. One of the horses—the colt alluded to above— has been recovered. It appears that the young animal could not travel fast enough for its oaptors, so they turned it loose. It was found in Jackspn poqnty. It seems that the outlaws made their way towards the western part of the State, apparently en route for Alabama. There seems to be a strong and exten sive clan of these outlaws. They have one of these strongholds in a large body of woods in Jackson county, Bear the Madison line. They have com mitted quite a number of depredations both in Madison and Jackson. The people seem to be overawed by the des perate character of these adventurers. An unsuccessful attempt was made some time since to arrest some of the sus pected members of the band; since that time the people have snbmitted almost without resistance to the outrages of these daring rascals—at least they have only acted on the defensive. The sup posed leader of these desperadoes is a notorious character, by the name of Charley Kelly. Kelly has had a remarkable career. Unless he is speedily brought to justice his exploits promise to rival the daring outrages of the famous Western high wayman, John A. Murrell. He is, I be lieve, a native of Newton county. He was noted at school as a rough, hardy, desperate boy. As he advanced in years he grew more reckless. Several years ago he filled Dr. Hardeman in Jas> er county. Ife was arrested for this crime aqd sentenced to tl)e penitentiary for a number of years. Subsequently making his escape, he made his home in Jsokaon county, assuming the name of Jones. Here his true character soon j came to light. Getting into some trou ble, I do not know what now, he was ar rested and imprisoned. He was not long in making his escape from jail. Since his last escape he has been roaming at large, plying his vocation of horsestealing and general plunder without let or hin derance. Latest from the horse thieves: Since writing the above, I learn that a dispatch has been received in Athens an nouncing the capture of Kelly and Bus bin, one of Kelly’s associates, near West Point, and the recovery of the Messrs. Howards’ horses. It seems that the robbers offered resistance. In the ren contre ]£elly was so badly wounded that he conld not travel. £J. THE PACIFIC SLOPE. Hare Government Swindles—Earning Oat the Heathen Chinee. San Francisco, May 2.— The defalca tions of Charles H. Barth, quartermas ter’s clerk, reach several hundred thou sands of dollars. The Revenue agent has seized the View, Oriental, Cush ing k Lauderbacks distilleries, Lu nan’s rectifying establishment and Kane £ Olmay and S. 'Lyman k Cos., Wholesale liquor houses for alleged vio lations of the |-e ven fi e lews. On Sunday evening the Chinese quar ter in the town of Antioch, near the month of the San Joaquin river, was burned. The Chinese had been pre viously warned to leave the town by the whiles, and most of them obeyed the Qfder. Those whp remained tifi the fire broke oat flefi unmolested. 411 the fioages wpre burned except two, which Were removed morning. No per sonal violence was offered the Chinese, though the exilement was great, and a large'crowd gathered to witness the de struction of tfieif habitations. ' FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS YESTERDAY. The lienee—lndian Affaire—Another Demo* crat Seated—A Speech from a Georgia Alember—The Senate—. Ur. Morton vin dicate* Himself—A History ofthe 9250,000 Charge—He Shows a Clean Bill of Health— McDonald Promises a Reply. Washington, May 3.—Mr. Seelye, of Massachusetts, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported a bill authoriz ing the Secretary of the Interior to pay the expenses of delegates from the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians. Passed. Also, a bill authorizing the Eastern Band of the North Carolina Cherokee Indians to institute suits and provide for the purchase of lands. Re ferred. Mr. Hartridge, of Georgia, in troduced a bill 10 provide for a settle ment with certain railway companies in the Southern States. Referred. Mr. Has kins, of New York, was appointed on the New Orleans Committee vice Foster. A resolution seating Mr. Lemoine (Demo crat), from Illinois, in place of Mr. Far well (Republican) was adopted. The House went into committee of the whole on the post office appropriation and a night session was ordered Hon. Henry R. Harris, of Georgia, made an able and exhaustive speech upon our industries as they relate to finance. He showed that the revival of our industries is the only road to re sumption; that no nation has ever main tained a metalic currency with a continued balance of trade against it, and it is manifestly to the in terest of this country to pay off its foreign debt by the export of its com modities rather than iu gold, and that true wisdom dictates that policy which will best secure this result. He said with the example of England, France and Russia fresh before our eyes, we need grope no longer in doubt and un certainty as to how we can remedy the evils that hang so heavily upon us and reach the much desired point of resump tion; reduce the expenses of the Gov eminent to the lowest point compatible with the efficiency of its administration; cut off every supernumerary; repeal the iniquitous internal revenue system which bears so heavily upon the producers; re adjust the tariff in the interest of the producers of all classes of labor in every section of the country; husband the revenues of the Government and apply them to the development of our national highways of commerce, and thus remove the greatest obstacles to the utilization of our products. This policy will bring the people and the in dustries of the different seotions into closer alliance with each other and teach them avaluable lesson of mutual depend ence. If we would restore prosperity and fraternity we must stop this per petual warfare between capital and labor, between the cotton producer aud the cotton spinner, between the iron maker and the grain grower. We are suffering to-day the bitter fruits of this unnatural antagonism. In former years it was fostered and fed by designing men until it finally culminated in a fra tioidal war which desolated the land from the Potomac to the Rio Grande.— If the one hundredth part of the treasure expended in that conflict had been applied to protecting and building up the various industries of different portions of the Union the jealousies and greivances which caused it would not only have been avoided, but civil war at any time been rendered impossible. Instead of the blood stains marring the beauty of this great national structure, the 3mile of peaoe, prosperity and hap piness would greet every eye and glad den every heart. Unlock the iron of the country and let us supply our own wants, make available our iu mense coal beds, give the food of the West to the cotton manufacturers of the East, help the stricken South to lessen the oost of the great staple of the world’s com merce, and when we shall have supplied the wants of our own people with food and olothing send the surplus to meet the demands of other countries, and by this plain, practical plan discharge our foreign debt. Then will specie flow back to us aud this vexed question of currency be settled without disturbing any of our great industries, giving relief and happiness to the tailing trillions who to-day ask bread and receive a stone. He said that a gold circulation was the evidence of commercial prosperi ty and not the cause of that prosperity. Gold being'“the money of nations,” when a country bought more of the pro ducts of other countries than it sold of its own the gold of that country would be drawn away until finely exhausted and a paper currenoy result." Let Con gress legislate for the restoration of our commercial and industrial prosperity and the gold will come back. To do this we must cheapen production, aud the best means of doing this is to cheapen transportation by the improvement of our internal navigation.” Business men highly commend the ppsitiop by Mr. Harris upon tbesp questions, and the policy whioh he proposes is looked upon as the true solution of our present difficulties. An unusually large edition of the speech has been ordered for dis tribution in various parts of the country. In the Senate, the House bill trans ferring $16,000 to maintain the light house servioe on the Ohio and Missis sippi rivers was passed. Mr.' Dorsey presented a petition from the settlers on the Hot Springs Reservation for such legislation as will enable them to perfect their titles. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands. The Committee on Claims reported favorably on the House bill making an appropriation for the payment of claims reported tp pongress under section two qf the act approved June 16, 1874, by the Secretary pf the Treasury. Put on the calendar. The Committee on Indian Affairs fepqyted adversely on the bill giving {be pittle Rock and Fort Scqith Railroad the right of way through the Indian Territory to a point opposite the town of Fort Smith. Indefinitely postponed. Mr. Morton sent to the Cerk’s desk and had read a special dispatch from Washington, April 28th, to the New York World, in regard to S2SO,QQQ re ceived by him froiq the Qener'al Govern ment while he was Governor of Indiana out of the appropriation of $2,000,000 to pay the expenses of the transportation and delivery of arms, Ac., to loyal pit\- zens in the States in rebellion, In open ing his explanation Mr. Morton said : “ The President of the United States, in the Spring of 1863, advanced to me $250,000 to enable me to carry forward military operations in the qf In diana. Qf this smg I expended $133,- 302 01 ip the servioe of the State, and with whioh I charged the State in my settlement with-it, and the remaining $116,607 09 were not expended. This amount I returned to the Treasury of the United States, as is shown by the following voucher and receipt: “Treasury Department, April 11, 1865-Sib ; yours pf the 6th inst., en closing a duplicate certificate of deposit issued by the First National Bank of Indianapolis, Indiana, in yonr favQ* No. 360, date of the 6th to r $116,- 667 on geeount of moneys due and -j refunded tp the {Jnited States', has been received. lam very respectfully, Geo. Harrington, Assistant Secretary. To Hon. O. P. Morton. The $133,302 91 which I had expended on behalf of the State were paid back to the Government by giving the Govern ment credit for that amount upon ad vances _ which had been made by the State in the conduct of the war, which advances were duly audited by the Treasury Department and allow ed as just and valid claims against the Government in favor of tho State.’ 1 - He reviews the political Rnd military situa tion in 1862. yhe following is an ex tract : ! ‘After a qarefnl review of the situation by the President, M*- Rincoln, and the Secretary af War, Mr. Stanton, the President advanced me the sum of $250,000. They both agreed that Indi ana was threatened with rebellion and that the condition of the State came directly within the letter and spirit of act of Congress approved Jnly 3d, 1861. Mr. Stanton declared to the Presi, ; dent with great emphasij that if Indi ! * na lost her petition 'as a loyal State the [ dbsl success of the Government in sup j pressing the ‘rebellion wonld be en . dangered and that the Government I most be sustained at whatever cost or hazard.” Mr. McDonald, of Indiana, said that at some fqture time, with the permis sion of the Senate, he would have some thing to say of the political history of Indiana. He had nothing to say of his colleague vindicating hie own character, but differed widely from him as to the political history of the State. Mr. Morton said he desired to excnl pate his colleague (McDonald) from any complicity in the conspiracy which he (Morton) referred to. The Japanese indemnity was discuss ed to adjournment, THE STATE. thk people and the papers. Tuesday's Items- Mrs. Elizabeth BrOWD, of Louisville, is dead. The farmers of Wilkinson are experi menting on upland rice. Wild strawberries have made their appearance in Cartersville. The merchants of Morgan ton are do ing a prosperous bnsiness. The corn crop in Southwest Georgia is said to be very promising. The wheat looks well in Fannin coun ty, and promises a large yield. The peach crop around Colnmbas will be shprt, but there will be an abundance of plums and blackberries. The senior editor of the Bainbridge Democrat, in his issue of 20th ult., in sists that the picture of destitution in Decatur connty was much overdrawn by the junior editor in the issue of the week before. A negro woman by the name of Susan Bundbridge was burned to death on Tuesday of last week, at the plantation of Mr. Geo. S. Reeves in Hancock conn tv. Her clothing caught fire from a pile of burning trash. A Morgan county farmer, who could not buy provisions on time, got gnano on oredit without any trouble, sold it for cash at reduced prices, and now his larder is full and he has some spare change jet on hand,’ The Oothoaloga cotton factory, at Adairsville, is commencing work, and will shortly be turning out a large amount of its produots. The enterprise is likely to prove a perfect suocess and a lasting benefit to the town. Cuthbert Appeal: On a trip through Calhoun, Baker and the southern portion of this county, a few days since, we were delighted to sep so much land plant ed in corn, while more acres were seen in wheat and oats than ever before. The wheat crops in Lumpkin and Dawson counties are looking remark ably well—oorn not planted yet. Farm ers are quite busy preparing ground for planting oorn. Spring is so late that the husbandmen are severely pushed to get corn in the earth in time. Married in Georgia : Polk Bohannon to Nannie Brannon, of Troup oounty ; Jas. R. Cotton to Kittie Brannon, of Troup county ; W. B. Jackson to Vic torine S. Stroberg, of Macon ; R. F. O. Smith to Nellie Edwards, of connty. Died in Georgia : J. W. Champion, of Greenesboro; Mrs. Mary Byers, of Dawson county ; Mrs. Eliza Clark, of Lumpkin county ; F. W. Blount, of Merriwether oounty ; L. M. Adams, of Greenville ; John Page, of Thomas county ; Jewell Myers, of Hall county. Col. T. J. Smith, of Washington coun ty, Master of the State Grange, has thirteen hundred acres in oorn, thirteen hundred in cotton, and five hundred in oats. He expeots to make five hundred bales of cotton and twelve thousand bushels of corn. In Montezuma, on Friday, a negro boy, about fifteen years old, named Charlie Fish, got on a dray and started on a drive, From some cause or other the horse took fright and ran away, qnfi in the oourse of its flight ran finder an awning, which fell upon the boy and killed him. The negro Ed. Sally, for the murder of his step-father, was hung near the jail in Talbotton in the presence of a large concourse of people. He made the usual talk spoken on such occasions, the lesson to be incnloated, that he had re pented and expected to go to Heaven. The statement in the Enquirer that Rev. C. A. Kendrick is a deserter from the Confederate army, we find is gener ally believed by numbers of soldiers in Columbus who were in adjacent com mands, and gained their knowledge from conversation with members of his own company, during the war, who were unanimously of that opinion. Southern Watchman: The horse thieves are still driving a busi ness. They have their opera tions into Oglethorpe poqnty and stole three fiqrses from Mr. Asa Howard last weefc. It is believed that there is a regu lar organization of horse thieves operat ing in this section of the State. They are desperate villains, well armed and determined not to surrender. Mr. H. A. McLeod, doing business in Bethany, Ga., wfi4 sfio| by Lee Rattle last Tuesday. It seems that Battle had bepn piecing for him but was diseharg ed aboqt a week before the shooting. Qn Tuesday he called at the store and asked Mr. McLeod to step outside, as he wished to speak with him. As soon as Mr. McLeod got outside, Battle fired four shots at him; one ip (fie top of the head and another passed through the right ear- Entile fled frouu tfie scene as so cm as it was known, and succeeded in yaking fiis escape- Columbus Enquirer : Mr. Scott was here yesterday buying and shipping oot ton to the Augusta Factory. We hear he purchased 102 bales and shipped a good deal yesterday. He wfia Uppfftaph ed and requested to pay $5,0 bgenae, |fie same as is required of tpe of onr shipping merchants. We presume it was paid, as it is nothing but right that it shonld. Montgomery demands a higher license and gets it too. The tax is required of our own commission merchants, and foreigners in the same trade must have na advan tages over home peppl^. The desperado and horse thief, Chas. rkelly of Jackson connty, of whose cup’ ture at Wedowee, Alabama, the tele -BF.W fis, was the one who killed Col. Harqeman, sentenced to be hfibflq received anew trial, sentenced to penitentiary for life and escaped. He was badly wounded. His brother es caped but another of the clan (Busby) was captured after being wounded. Governor Smith has offered a reward of SSO for the arrest of each member ef this band. The two ww© captured after a very harfi They had three horses, a mule, buggy, gold watch, four pistols and other articles —all stolen in Geor gia. Thursday’s Item*- General Lwgslreet is now living in Gainesville. Mrs. Boohs, aged 10ft years, died at Stone Mountain last Ssafarda^, Mitchell d°has, of Lowndes county, is the Qldwt Granger in the State. Walker's boom, near Darien, broke and nearly fifteen rafts of timber floated to sea. W. R. Logan, Esq., formerly Ordi nary of Union county, died at MiUedge ville recently. John Weeks filled au eagle in Lowndes ooifftj whioh measured five feet and ten inches from tip to tip. There are some 800 girl- Baptist female colleges id Georgia. The buildings eqs\ S&ftWfc ppV P- L- Green, q{ I>alton, has re ceived an order from a Michigan gentle man for 1,000 to 2,000 aores of land. Oobb county, by 159 yeas to 562 nays, has voted down the proposition to pro hibit the sale of liquor in the comity. The youngladies of JjaQrsnge Female College have unanimously resolved to wear caliciQ at the next commencement. The Bnrnesville Gazette says horse ! thieves are roaming through Pike and advises the people to watch their stock. , Bev. Dwight L. Moody will be invited fco the State Sunday School Convention that assembles in Decatur on the 12th iwh Captain D. D, Cade, ojt Bberton, found in one of big fish baskets a white infant and a catfish weighing over 40 pounds. Mr. James Robinson, a Kentucky horse drover, was stricken with paralysis in Perry, Georgia, and died on the 15th ult. The Thomaston Herald, oi reports: Cotton planting is going brisk ly along. The# will be plenty of the planted again this year. The Gainesville Eagle reports, that the wheat crop in that section looks well for the season. Tip area sown in wheat this yeas is larger than usual. Sheriff Burt, of Dawson county, cap tured George W. Steel, a rathe* Vtoi?- ous character, on Sunday moaning, last, and confined hiefc in the jail a,t Dawson ville, The Camjlla Enterprise saya the cool nights of late ‘’have damaged eotton to a limited extent, cttnaißg it to die out or turn yellow, Cotton chopping is now engaging many idle laborers, and the supply is equal to the demand." The Eiberton Gazette the following query ; Cas it be tone that planters wno cannot obtain credit for provisions arc baying fertilizers on credit and selling it at half ita cost for cash with which to buy bread and meet 1 $2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID We learn from the News that the as sessors have just completed their work of assessing the real estate of Griffin.— The total amount is $972,196, against $1,316,210 last year, making a reduction of $244,015 from last year’s assessment. The murderers of old Ben and Patsy Gaza, two industrious negroes living in Gwinnett county, have been arrested and committed to jail at Lawrenoeville. The murder was a most diabolical one, and there is no punishment too severe for the fiendish perpetrators of the deed. Crump’s mill, on North Broad river, Franklin county, ground, during the year 1875, 14,000 bushels of corn and 8,000 bushels of wheat, making an ag gregate of 22,000 bushels. Mr. Crump’s saw mill, also run by water, will average 3,000 feet of lumber per day. The Northern Methodists of Georgia are represented in the general confer ence now in session at Baltimore bv E Q. Fuller, C. O. Fisher. Reserves—J.' W. Lee, R. T. Kent. Lay—N. P. Har bin, C. J. Halloway. Reserve—T. G. Eiswald, F. M. Jones. Dispatches dated April 26th, to the New York Daily Bulletin, put the cot ton acreage of Georgia from ten to fif teen per cent, below that of last year, and state that the condition of the grow ing crop is unfavorable, owing to late planting and bad weather. A negro oorn thief in Burke county mado an attack on Dr. Rougkton and Mr. J. M. Wimberly, while they were oarryiDg him to a Justice of the Peace. Getting away he ran to his honse and returned rvi tlx - shot gun and fired at the Doctor. The latter returned the fire and killed the negro. The managers of the Radioal party in the counties where there-is such a party are busily engaged in electing delegates to the State Convention that meets iu Atlanta next Wednesday. The indica tions in SavauDah are that the color line is being distinctly and i awn, and that the scalawags and carpet-baggers will be compelled to retire to a back seat. The following is a full list of the “fra ternal messengers” from the Methodist Church, South, to the general conference of the Northern Church whioh is now in session; Loviok Pieroe, D.D., of Geor gia; James A. Duncan, D.D., of Virgin ia; Landon C. Garland, of Mississippi- E. H. Myers, D.D., of Savannah, Ga.; T. M. Finney, D.D., of St. Louis, Mo.; Rev. R. K. Hargrave, of Tennessee; Judge D. Olopton, of Alabama, and Hon. Trusten Polk, of Missouri (lately deceased, place to be supplied), Irwinton Southerner : Corn is being purchased by oash buyers, by the car load, delivered at No. 16 Station C. R. R. , for 75 cents per bushel. Merchants are selling corn to credit buvers, and se curing the prompt payments of the same at maturity by on laud (the purchaser waving his homestead right), payable next November, six months henoe, for $1 fiQ per bushel, or over 200 per cent, profit. Add to this the injury done the orop by taking the mules and hands from the plows and putting them to hauling the oorn, and it will be seen that the farmer pays over 225 per cent. The question is, can our people live at this ? Shrewd business meq assure us that no business oan l)p conducted suc cessfully iu this country on oapital for whiefi over f per cent, is paid, and yet these farmers agree to pay 225 per cent. Cotton will hardly ■bring more than 13 oents again, and yet you will fiqfl wen men who have the reputation of being sensible—buying pcsn at $1 50 to make cotton—oqp bale to five acres—at 12 oents a pound.” LOOK OUT FOR THEM. A List ef (lip Can|erfeU BUI* Now in Circu lation, Issued by the New York City Bank or* 1 Association. The bankers’ association of New York city has just prepared a list of the coun terfeit bills now in circulation. The as sociation has denounced in strong terms the inefficiency of the seoret servioe de partment. For many months past not an arrest has been made for counterfeit ing. although the “queer” makers have been Working bard. The counterfeit money now circulating is of various denominations, and is not confined to the banks of New York city nor State. Following is a list of the bills now being passed upon the public; New York City, First National §SO Central National Bank ioo Commercial 20, 10, 5 City Bank ’ ’go Shoe and Leather go Tradesman’s. " ’ gO State or New York, . 20,9 Market .20, 10,2 Merchants'. 20.10, 5 First Rational 10, 2 Ninth., 20,2 Murine io’,2 St. Nicholas g New York Banking Association... 20 New York State, Utica City . . 2) First National, tjti0a. ............ 20 Oneida National 20 Oity National, Albany 10 Fireman’s and Merchants’, Buffalo. 10 Central National of Cherry Valley. 10 First National, Lockport Ift Exchange, Lockport 10 Farmers, Malone ~.. 10 Highland, Newburg.. . . ...... 10 First National, of Palmyra, 50, 2 Tioga, Qwego. 50 First, Ejmira.. ioo Westchester National, Peekskill.. 10,2 City Rank, Poughkeepsie 10 Farmers* and Manufacturers’ 10 First National * io First National, Poughkeepsie 10 First National, Red Hook .. . . 10| Flour City National Bank, Roches ter • 10 Central.... 10 Syracuse 10 Mutual, Troy io Firsfr Whitehall IQ Union Kinderhook 2 Pennsylvania. First National, Philadelphia 10 Third 10 sjxth, ;;;;; a New Jersey. First Natioqaf, of Plainfield 10 phlo. First National, Cincinnati 100 Fourth ...' ioo First, Canton ft First, Dayton ’ . 5 Illinois, First National, Chicago. 5,20 Merchants’ National Bank, Chicago. 10, 5 Traders’ National 5 .'third... ft Fir5t....... 5 First, Canton 5 First, Aurora 5 First, Paxton 5 First, Pe,,, 5 Hhode Island. First National, Newport 2 First National, Providence a Roger Williams’ Bank 2 Connecticut, First National, Portland 5 Jewett City National 5 f g Massachusetts. First National, Boston... 20 50 Commercial Nationki,"Bedford *SO On the 8500 greenbacks the ears on Adam’s picture are not at all plain. The sso’s are not well engraved, and the pa per is stiff and oily, and darker than the genuine, while many of the 85’s are ooarsely engraved. Mr. M. D. Conway writes that a very interesting novelty intended for the Philadelphia show has been exhibited in London. It is a street car moved, by steam in such a way as to qpm?eal a jj that horses or human w a jfsrers may regard as objectionable in steam en gines. a patent condenser, opnaenses the steam to a tempera ture of 200 degrees; the steam from the safety valve is also taken into the tank' and condensed,and the locomotive is not only noiseless but consumes its smoke antf afeain,. The engine works indepen dently of the car, weighs a httle over four tons, and runs six miles withont needing water. The bpilers and machi nery ai;e also, enclosed, so that tie ear is Ut distinguishable from an ordinary street car, except that it moves without horses. Thp engine is of twenty-two horse PPW, capable of running twelve miles an hour, and when going at six miles an hour may be stopped in the space of four and a half yarifo ft runs up gradients with great and on the whole is a very clever application of steam. Tbft moment of the car with out noise or smoke is marvelous enough. It-was invented by a man in I^iciester. The idlest lady in the State attended the Baptist Conyenti on—Miss Laura Spence 'of Camilla. She is ft feet 2 i inches high, well formed, graceful, in telligent and handsome. SOUTH CAROLINA. NEWS NOTES FROM THE PALMET TO STATE. Mr. Rufus Oates, of Piokens, is dead. The Dry Ticket has carried the town of Easley. Mrs. Rosa Lewis, of Anderson, is dead, aged 89 years. The Anderson Fire Companv, of An derson, is fully organized. Mrs. Rebecca Clinkscalesand Mrs. M. K. Casey, of Anderson, are dead. Messrs. Reed & Burt have erected a first class saw mill near Camden. Indications are that anew lead has been struck in Dorn’s mine in Abbeville. The petit jury panel of Mai boro con tains nineteen whites and seventeen col orea. The white Sunday school of Kingstree will have a pic-me on the first Saturday iu May. _ •' Greenwood, Abbeville county, has a flourishing Democratic Club of over 140 members. The Dramatic Association of Barnwell 20Ui ult SUoCeSßfal entertainmeut on the A gang of robbers has been broken up near Greenwood, and the members of it are in jail. David Gabriel attempted to pick his way out of the Kingstree jail with an iron spoon. Tha Oink in ty disapproves of the primary system of election for candidates. An effort is being made to establish a new mad route from Easley Station to Anderson Court House, Mrs. M. B-Casey, of Due West, died last week in Duo West, leaving au iu fant only a few hours old. Mrs. O F. Witter died at tho resi denoe of her father, Dr. R. S. Mellett, of Sumter, on the 21st ult. Mr. Wm. M. Lovell, one of the County Commissioners of Anderson, died on last Saturday night at Belton. a gentleman in Marlboro made 237 bales of cotton, averaging 400 pounds, from 231 acres of laud. The Sumter Watchman nominates Governor Chamberlain for Governor. It claims to be a Democratic paper. Five hundred fish were caught last week for a fish dinner at Carraway’s mill pond in Georgetown county. A theatrical entertainment will be given in Cheraw on the 4th for the bene fit of the brass band of that place. The hai- of Anderson, in behalf of the farmers, have requested Judge Cooke not to hold Spring Court at that place. Mr. W. J. L. Uptergrove has been ap pointed commissioner of pilotage of Georgetown, in the place of Ciesar Moul trie. The Georgetown Rifle Guard Club Fair opened last Tuesday evening and was continued till Friday, closing with a The Independent Citizens’ Firo En gine Company, of Orangeburg, have pro cured an engine and will have a May pa rade. Mr. Moses Levi, recently elected In tendant of Manning, refused to serve, and anew election took place on the 2d instant. Eleven thousand one hundred and six pounds of mail passed over the Belton and Walhalla route during the last thirty days. • Governor Chamberlain has appointed Major Stone to be Attorney- General in the plaoe of the Hon. S. W. Melton, resigned. Wm. Pressley, ex-school commissioner of Abbeville, arrested for burning a store iu Ninety-Six, has been bound iover to the next term of Court. There are over two thousand voters enrolled in the Democratic C2ub in Anderson county, and new accessions are being made every day. Prof. J. H. Carlisle delvered a leoture on Sir Artur Help’s Life and Works be fore the Spartanburg Literary Associa tion on last Monday night. Bethel Church, in Spartanburg (Jcmnty, has received from charitable mdmbers and friends a carpet, a silver communion set, a chandelier and lamps. Rufus Oats, an old citizen of Pickens county, died at his residence at qld Pickeasville, last week. Mr, Oats leaves a large family to mourn his death. *' The members of the Winyali Lodge Society of Georgetown will celebrate their anniversary on Friday, the sth in stant, in the usual way, by a dinner. The Pendleton Cornet Baad has con sented to play at an entertainment to be given at Walhalla in aid of the 'Metho dist Church on the 12th of May next. Two murder cases will be tried at Ai ken this week—McEvoy, for the murder of Major Gregg, and the Chairman of the County Commissioners, for murder ing the people through the jury box. Mr. John H. Huggins, of Darlington, recently accidentally shot himself in the hand and breast, inflicting a painful wound. He rested his foot on the ham mer of his shot gun and it exploded. Mr. Rufus Morgan, of Darlington county, in endeavoring to climb a fence with his shot gun in hand, fell by the breaking of a rail and the. gun exploded the load taking effect in his thighs. The wounds are dangerous. The Greenv,y© County Democratic Convention elected the following dele gates to the State Convention : James McCullough, J. T. Austin, B. F. Perry, L. Mauldin, J. F. Donald, C. D. Smith, C. A. Parkins, S. S. Crittendon. Preliminary arrangements have been made for the speedy re-opening of the South Carolina Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, at Cedar Springs Spartanburg county, S. C. Mr. New ton F. Walker has been re-appointed. Superintendent. At a meeting in Newberry, on Thurs day night, the 27th, the young men formed a Young Men’s Christian Asso ciation with the following officers: Mr. L. C. Moore, President; W. W. Hodges, Vioe-President; A. O. Jones, Secretary; and J. Treasurer. The Graniteville Cotton Factory has declared a dividend of 10 per eont. on the capital stock of 8600,000. The Fac tory worked up 8,347 bales of cotton last year. It also purchased a valuable mill privilege, erected gas works and new operative houses, and maintained the high condition of the property. The annual parade and inspection of the fire department of Charleston oc curred Thursday afternoon, at 4 o’clock The eDgins and trucks assembled in Broad street at that hoar, and the line haying been formed the companies pass ed in review before/ the Mayor and Al dermen. The pr ocession was a very im posing one. An Abbeville journal says: “There is a small community in Anderson county composed of a mixture of negroes anil whites. The negro men have white wives and the white men have negro wives. They have a superstitious kind of religion, and in politics they are neither Demoorats or Radicals, but coalition ists.” A statement from Judge”Mae,key to the News and Courier says the dispatch from Chester, published!:! that paper, grossly misrepresents him. “Mikeli had been convicted with others for fraud ulently issuing school certificates, and, while fleeing from arrest, was shot and crippled for life. He furnished the in formation as to the reissue of school certificates already paid, thus saving . thousands to the oonuty. I, therefore by request of many respectable citizens including the Sheriff, gave him only a nominal sentence. He had already been in jail three months, while his codefen dants were imprisoned only six weeks before being pardoned. I did not order a nol. pro&. to. enter in any case against Mikeli.” Full delegations of Democrats from, all the precincts in Orangeburg county ?, XOep ‘ i ° n °J Vance’s, met in Ellioit Hall on Satnrday last. The con vention was permanently organized by electing Capt. Izlar, President; Mr. I. I. Shumaker, Vice President, and B. P. Mar, Esq. Secretary. Upon taking the. chair, the President made a calm, dis passionate address, advising harmony mid concert of action in the ranks of the Democracy. In faot, the entire proceed ings of that body on Satnrday last were characterized by a spirit of conservatism on the part of the whites which will go a long ways towards making their influ ence potent for much good. The elec tion of delegates to the State Convention resulted as follows: Capt. Jas. F. Izlar Dat. A. D. Goodwyn, Dr. A. J. rick, Ira T. Shumaker, Dr. B. H. Knotts, H. G. Sheridan, W. C. Hane, C. J. Stro man, F. W. Fairey and N. E. W. Sis trunk. Alternates—Dr. W. S. Barton and O. B. Riley,
