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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1876)
{Pnamicle anS Sentinel. WEDNESDAY MAY 17, 1876. Thb following, without date, was re ceived yesterday in an envelope post marked New York, May 8,6, p. m.: The two qualification* demanded by the pec pie, in a candidate for President are : Unques tioned Honesty and Force of Character. Where ia there a man who possesses these to a great er degree than D.L.Moodt? Diooxnk. Oca New York fashion letter and •‘Morbid Impulses” became a little mix ed in yesterday’s paper, so much so, per haps, that some of our readers could not readily perceive the connection betwee: fashions and morbid impulses, althougl there are those who maintain that fash ion is the result cf impulse. We hav< untangled the knot. Mistakes will oc cur even in a printing office. The New York Graphic shows bov the National Banks are doing a profit able business by the surrender of thei. currencv and the sale of their bonds According to the reports, 8700,000 mor< bonds were withdrawn than depositee in the National Treasury last week. Th* bonds are unusually high, owing to tb depressed condition of business and various other causes. They are quoteo at 120, and are in steady demand. Ex-Gov. Wii.ua* Allen is beinp vigorously pressed by the Cincinnati Enquirer for President. Gov. Allen would be acceptable to the people of the South, but the great misfortune is that he is not available as a Presiden tial candidate. We must put the mat. forward that will command the full strength of the Democratic party. This Gov. Allen cannot do, and it would be both stupid and foolish for the Demo cratic party to put him in the race to be defeated. Some friend has sent us a copy of the Macon Telegraph and Messenger with an article marked in favor of Hon. Thos A. Hendbioks tor President. The writer fligns himself a Georgia Democrat, and is enthusiastic in his admiration of Mr. Hendbioks, who, he says, is the “man that can surely lead us to victory. It this be so Mr. Hendbicks is the man we are looking for. Anything to beat the Radical nominee. We are willing to support any good Democrat, but we want a standard bearer that will unite the party and bring its full voting strength to the polls on the day of the election. "United, we stand ; divided, we fall.” The stockholders of the Georgia Rail road re-elected Judge Kino, President There was no opposition. There was only one change in the Board of Direc tors, Fbank H. Millei, Esq., being elected in place of Antoine Poullain, Esq., who declined a re-election. Tie unanimous re-election by the Board ol Directors of S. K. Johnson, Esq., to tbf position of Superintendent, is a hand some compliment to the fidelity and energy of an efficient officer. Mr. John son has proven himself equal to the re quirements of his responsible position. He has managed the road very success fully, and the Directors have endorsed his management. “Sleepy Hollow” has been startled from his Rip Van Winkle slumbers. He is sorely distressed at the thought ol Georgia going for Tilden or Bayabd, •whom he considers the representatives of the bondholders. The Georgia delega tion has not been “fixed” for Tilden nor Bayabd. It goes to St. Louis un trammelled, to aid in the nomination of .the best man for the Presidency. There is no certainty whatever that Tilden will be nominated; but there is one thing very certain, and it is that no man can ever be elected President of the United States who squints at repudia tion. “Sleepy Hollow” had better awake at once to the fall consciousness that the national credit must be forever unimpaired. No Democrat can be elect ed President if there is any trouble about repudiation in our platform. Pub lio policy and good faith alike demand that the public credit shall be maintain ed. As fixed by the Legislature the State tax in New York this year will be 3 11-24 mil.’s on the dollar of taxable property. The whole tax is apportioned as follows: One anil seven-eighths mills tax for gen eral purposes, one-third of a mill tax for interest on debt and redemption, 1} mills tax for pnblio schools. Last year the tax levy was eix mills on the dollar; in 1874, 7i mills; in 1873, 6 95-100 mills; in 1872, 9J mills; and in 1871, 5 79-120 mills. The tax this year is the smallest relatively since 1859. Last year the amount raised by taxation was $14,206,- (jjCO. This year it will be $8,188,573. The largest showing is in the items of State debt and caual expenditures. The New York Evening Post says that “to Governor Tilden, of course, belongs the chief credit ol reducing the amount whioh used to he appropriated for the canals. The canai ring no longer de mands the appropriation of large sums to go into the pockets of dishonest con tractors, and the absolute refusal of the Governor to consent to lavish expendi tures on these water ways, until the ne cessity can be ascertained, has secured the State against further losses, unless a .canal ring shall again come into power. The enormous failures in the manu facturing districts of Massachusetts are serious event. There were six large mills having liabilities of over a million -dollars, and employing 12,000 hands, involved in this misfortune, and it is thought there are other establishments that will have to follow. It is a suggest ive fact that the hard times that sat m after the collapse of 1873, and that con tinue without abatement to this time, should have their sharpest effect in ■those States that were declared to be the niG'st prosperous in the Union Massachusetts and Pennsylvania-and on those into rests, the manufacturing, that were held iip enviable examples of thrift. Undoubtedly the manufac turers of these States aid enjoy a season of unusual prosperity from 1862 to 1873; they worked under the friendly protec tion of a high tariff made to antt them, and having nearly a monopoly of ffce home market, they made enormous profits and accumulated great wealth. But there is reason to believe that their operatives did not share their prosper ity, for the condition of these operatives for the last three years has been one of oomparitive destitution, breeding dis content, disorderly theories and threats, and, in Pennsylvania, violence. Thu Courier- Journal states that the apec. al committee appointed by Speaker Kxbk .to proceed to Jfew Orleans to in vestigate the Custom House crooked ness of that city will probably leave in a day or two. Gibson, the Chairman, lives in the the N*>' Orleans District, and is a Democrat; Steens at, of Illi nois, has been working on the District Committee. He is from the Thirteenth District of his State and is an Independ ent Reformer; Raillt, of Pennsylvania, is a Democrat from the Seventeenth Dis trict of his State ; Vance, of Ohio (Deni.), is from the Eleventh District, and served as Chairman of the Commit tee on Printing, which disturbed the, equanimity of Government Printer Clapp; New is a Democrat from the Fourth Indiana District, and is at pres ent on the important committee investi gating the District Real Estate Pool; Blackburn, of Kentucky, has served faithfully on Cltmbb’s committee; Foe !r is a Republican from the Tenth Ohio District, and served on the sub committee which investigated Louisiana affairs last year; Darrell is a Republi can from the Third Louisiana District, *nd Ckapo is a Republican from the First Massachusetts District. The oom jnittee is regarded as a good one, and their work will be of more than usual in terest and import, for the ernst has hnnn irn 1 -' broken in New Orleans IN HF THE MOST AVAILABLE The Courier Journal is running on the line that Governor Tilden is the most available candidate that the party can nominate for the Presidency. We fail to see how this can be so, when it is a well known fact that the Democrats of the West are not favorable to him. His name excites no enthusiasm in the West, and certainly very little, if any, in the South. The Danville (Kentucky) Advocate says: We sre not prepared to controvert the Ca*i rier-JoumaCt many kind expressions in be lalf of Gov. Tilden. Indeed, we have no de ■ire to do so. We would be perfectly willing to accept him as the nominee of the National lemocracy. But we have an impression tha* a Western man. who is equally sound as Gov riLDEN on the financial question, would make i mere available candidate. We mean Senator rHCEMAN, of Ohio. He is as much a doctra noire Democrat as Governor Tildes, and his location would make him far more acceptable to the Weeteru people, while his sound views ,n the financial question would commend him o the Democrats of the East who favor hard noney and honest, fair, square dealing with regard to on national obligations. The Courier Journal says: No one can exceed us in respect for the Sen ator from Ohio. After the war it was he who first gave ns a glimpse of daylight. His record is as straight as a shingle, and liis name is clo&n. His trouble is his conservatism, which has kept h-m out of distinctive leadership. If he were the lion his tal-nts and services give him the right to be. the little mongerel politi ii'ns around about the office of the Cincinnati Daily Culumniator would not dare to do what they are doing. A man should always he a g n tleman: but an occasional improcative rubbed under the nose of an upstart with a hard fist is not unbecoming a gentleman. Judge Thceman made a mistake last Summer in shew ing the upstarts to overreach him. If he had put on his war-paint and had roamed around like a raging lion at Columbus, the rag-baby feature wouid have been blotted out. We do not blame him : only the consequence of his abstinence is a fatal division in Ohio, subject ing him to much in ult from the vagabond gutter-snipes of his party. The party at large can not risk its all on Thurman's carrying Ohio. He deserves all the Danville Advocate says of him, We endorse every word of it; but still, as a matter of availability, he and Tildes being as much alike as two beans, we must think Tildes the better man of the two as matters stand. The Courier-Journal may be the best jndge of the situation, but it will take some time to impregnate the people of the South with its ideas as to the availa bility of Governor Tilden. We are not prepared to say whether it shall be Tilden or Thurman, Hendbicks or Allen, Pendleion or Bayard or Hancock. Up to this present writ ing, however, we hazard noth ing' in saying that Tilden is decid ed the weakest man of those named, both iu the West and South. We have a lingering feeling of antagonism against him for his efforts to defeat Governor Allen, and this feeling is very generally shared in the South. In our opinion he will not make the most available candi date that the Democratic party can pre sent for the Presidency. We think him personally the most unpopular of the aspirants on the Democratic side, His nomination would excite little or no en thusiasm in the South. THE TWO-THIRDS RULE. The Richmond Dispatch has a forci ble and sensible editorial on the two thirds rule. It'says: “We are glad to see that a number of the Democratic and Conservative journals of the coun try have come to the conclusion that the Democratic National Convention ought to provide that a majority of that body shall make the nominations for Presi dent and Vice-Peesideut. We heard Ran. Tucker say in a speech many years ago that the mere fact that Demo crats always enforced the two-thirds rule in their National Conventions was an ample guarantee that the inter ests of the South would be safe in their bauds, seeing that the South sent more than one-third of the delegates, and could always thus proteot herself by her own votes. This argument was address ed to slaveholders, and was supposed to amount to a demonstration that the Democratic rotte than the Whig party was the one which slaveholders could most safely trust. No abolitionist, no man who held the squatter-sovereignty opinions of Judge Douglas, no tenemy of slavery or slaveholders, could get a nomination from a convention thus con stituted and governed. “ But the times have changed. Instead of dictating nominations the South now defers to th jyishes of the Northern , Democracy. We have no slaves to pro tect, and no property whLuk we cannot carrv with m into any of the Territories of the United Stats*. They ought not, therefore, to insist upon a rule which now has no reason for being (raison d'etre). Tko rule of the majority is the natural rule of men. They would hardly seek any other rule unless under pecu liar circumstances. The two-thirds rule is well calculated to bring to the front new men, and perhaps we might say in competents. It is a p*Wium offered to malcontents and grumblers. U potifies one-third .of the members of the domi nating Convention fb,at they may pre vent two-thirds (or one ifiM than two thirds) from having their way, fl ena bles men of small fcbiiitms and Wte fame to use the organization of the par ty to further their own interest, ft ' pauses a great deal of time to be annee*- essariiy wasted in unoandid balloting. It enables. 9 la g® delegation to acquire an undue inflvutf&e, since by changing their solid vote from one aspirant to another, as a favorable occasion offers, they attract attention to themselves ,asd become the object of intrigue and cor ruption. It puts a um Of profound abilities, wide reputation BA* ex perience below or a* bent upon a, equality with the least .qualified of the aspirants, since the very faat* which have given him a large number of sup porters have a’so given him occasion for offemliiig a good many small potato pol iticians. In k word, the two-thirds rule is a rule whose orny purpose (under the present circumstances oi the country) must be to defeat the will of the major ity of the people ” The title to the celebrated Hot Springs, in Arkansas, which has been in litigation for years, h* at la&t been set tled by a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. The stofy is an interesting one. When the Indians held possession of the territory in wliinh these springs are located they ascribed to them wonderful curative properties and made longrjonrseys to lave in their sisgical waters. The by-tv-arUs also re sorted to them. During the adsriaiair*.- tion of Tops Quixcx Adams, in 1624, the Indian title to this term to ry was oblit erated, and at the same time the Geneal Government made a special reservation of the Hot Spring* tract and set it apart for public use forever. When the earth quake of 1829 sank a large area of land below Cairo, Congress gave the auffer ers scrip, by which they could locate an equal number .of acres to that which they lost on any of tbn unoccupied pub lic Isods. Some of tfeeq* men located their grants cm the Hot Spring* tract and received patents for the same. They held peaceable occupations eiji .about 1851, when the property having become valuable the Government reservation was unearthed, and the metier found its way into Court. After years of delay the Supreme Coart decided the other day that the reservation held good iigrißs* *en a Government patent, and hence the tract again becomes the prop erty of the United States. The springs are now valued at millions of dollars, and the revenues derived frqjg them are enormous. The former holders wiU b*ve to call philosophy to their assistance, and ponder on the uncertainty of hu man affairs. Diamonds have fallen wonderfully in Brio* during the last tweatjr years. In 1849 Prince; Tosllosia. the great Kama* banker, advanced •40 000 franca to a Neapolitan on a diamond bo Urge ani limpid and piercing in *b* polish of it* many facet* 'hat none but the kaene# con- U' iaseurs could diet***** it from the famous ••Regent.” At the Hotel Dreret, in Pans, that, self-same ■•precious atone” was sold early in CHARLOTTE, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD Colonel John B. Palmes, President of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company, has just completed the sale of sufficient bonds to retire the entire floating debt of the company. The bonds sold oomprise $500,000 of the first mortgage and $500,000 second mort gages. This makes the entire bonded debt of the company consist of $2,000,- 000 first mortgage bonds and $500,000 second mortgage bonds; the remaining $500,000 second mortgage bonds, in ac cordance with the term * of the negotia tion, having been canceled and destroy ed. The features of the negotiations are, the retirement of the floating debt, and, at the same time, the reduction of the bonded debt $500,000. The latter is a marked and praiseworthy exception to most negotiations of this character, and cannot fail to give great satisfaction to the bondholders and stockholders. The road is about 200 miles long, which makes the first mortgage debt about SIO,OOO per mile, and the secend mortgage debt about $2,500 per mile. A comparison of the net earnings for the last four years show that, after pay ing interest on this debt, the road has earned 3 per cent, on the stock; and taking last year’s net earnings separate, abont 4 per cent, on the stock upon which the company is liable to pay divi dends. Colonel Palmeb is to be con gratulated on the success of his negotia tions and the prospects of his company. —New York Daily Bulletin, Bth, THE PRESIDENT’S ABSENCES. The Baltimore Sun says : “The mess age of President Grant, refusing to sub mit information in regard to his absence from the seat of Government and his performance of official acts while absent, is written in a style which is a decided improvement upon most of his previous communications to Congress, and ex hibits a familiarity with precedents which could be expected only of ex perienced civilians. Whilst it is true that, under the Constitution, the execu tive functions are not limited as to the place where they shall be exercised, yet as a statute enacted some time in the last century provided that all executive acts shall be performed at the seat of Government, it might reasonably have occurred to the House to ask President Grant for some information on this subject, without warranting the reply, which is substantially that of the mess age, that it is none of their business— that the executive branoh of the Govern ment is responsible for its acts, as the legislative branohis for its acts, and that as long as he attends to his duties it is no ooncern of Congress whether be stays at the capital or not. What is good constitutional law for the President is equally good for Congress, which as it moved, in former days, from New York to Philadelphia, and from Phila delphia to Washington, and even at one time sat in Baltimore, might move from place to place now if it saw fit. It might, ou this hypothesis, speud its Winters in Florida, or the Summer in the North or Northwest, for its powers are no more limited or capable of limita tion as to the place where they shall be exercised than those of the President. Indeed, as the President says, the ra pidity of travel and faoility of almost instantaneous correspondence with offi cers at the seat of Governipent which the telegraph affords to the President in whatever section of the Union he may be, might be availed of by Congress, so that one House could sit in one section and one in another and communicate with each other almost as quickly by telegraph as if they remained in the Capitol. The President seems not to comprehend that the question to which Cougress calls his attention is not one of constitutional law, but of propriety, or will of the Congressional statute, whioh provided for the performance of executive acts at the 89at of Govern ment. It would evince a more intelli gent appreciation of his duties as Presi dent of the United States to stand so straight upon all doubtful points as to lean backward ; that Is, to do even more than the letter of the law required of him, than to take himself away for months from the capital upon every opportunity of pleasure and self indulgence, and then plead that there was no constitutional provision against his going where he pleas ed. Re would scarcely have un dertaken to himself without leave from headquarters when in army command, even if he had not been re sponsible tp the highest authority in the Government. Even if-then® bed been no military law against such proceeding he would have become a law uuto him self, and, while no one would think of depriving the President of necessary re laxation, surely as much might be rea sonably expected of him in his present position as in the ordinary military one. He ought to recognize the power of ex ample, and should be able to see for himself j t)zp effect of bad example upon those about bijt(L j! 1 > s we have had a peripatetic Government, mppibers of the p§bi“et following the President’s fashion of prolonged absenteeism and rambling around PWitfi?’ an< * even suborbfSt.e officials, yhejre they had the opportunity, following in footsteps of members of the Gsfe>ip®t. No one expects the President to eoop h>W 9elf up in Washington and be denied ail re freshment and recreation, but it is per haps not asking too much that he should perform his duties in a spirit and manner indicate that his chief aim is the public welfare, and not as if h,e> desired to subordinate botyi j® his personalise and gratification. The ef fect of .the upon the country is not wjiolesonie.^ THE BEFBBWP4* CANDIDATES. The New York Tribune has made an estimate of the strength of the several Republican candidates for the Presi dency, based upon the supposed prefer ence of UsC delegates thus far chosen. The States and Territories which have held Conventions represent jtlO votes. Those f hat are still to hold Conventions represent rptes. It will require 378 yotes to nominate. After figuring over the Whole field, the Tribune gives the following ifr? preferences : Blaine Morton 9b Coukling <• Hartranft Bristow..., Hayes * Jewell... 10 In the above figures the ,58 votes set down after Habtrantt’* name * re in cluded in the 134 claimed for Blaine. In like manner votes are given to one candidate which are claimed by one or two others. Morton’s friends, on the other hand, claim 209 yotes, upon the first ballot, after the Conyention shall have settled down to earnest work. The Cincinnati Oasette gives it as a fact that the pledged vote i* very small. It says Mobtos has only fifty-six in stated votes; Buainb, twanty-seven, and jot a 2°zeu. The Tri bu&e credits (rcivemsy i? ArBS Wl '“ four instracted votes, bnt.Uie Did o dele gates are not instructed- Mvyes was endorsed by the Convention, and the delegates are expected to rote solid for him on the first ballot, and so long as it shall appear that he is likely to succeed; bat beyond that there are no instruc tion*. JEiis will be the case with nearly all the other allegations, and until the informal voting shall .bp with, and the delegations begin to <fbw i&eir real preferences, no reliable estimate can, be mafia of. the strength of any candi date, except SO as it may be gather ed from the strength U j&MUs opinion. Judging by the latter it is Hear that at this time Bristow is the strangest man in the-field. — ag —~ He is a grossly illiterate lawyer who at this day would ptononnee Magna Charts in an r otter manner than with the eh as k, or pronounce fide, in the phrase bona THE TILDEN MOVEMENT. Haw the Scheme t Make the “ Great Re former ” President Is Working. [/Vom the Cincinnati Enquirer .] Washington. May 6. —No movement to make a candidate for the Presidency without regard to public opinion was ever better organized than that to put up Samuel J. Tilden at St. Lonis. He has directed it himself from the begin ning, with the aid of a select circle of strikers in his employ and plenty of money to grease the wheels of the ma chine. He treats the nomination as a matter of business, to be made success ful by management, as a patent medi cine is by liberal advertising. While he ostensibly carried the recent Convention in bis own State, it is notorious that the hearts of the delegation are not with him, and that more than half of their, will go to St. Louis to work against bis nomination. He has alienated thou sands of the best Democrats of the .State by his selfish ambition and arrogant airs since being elected. It need not be pre tended that this opposition com es from the Canai Ring, as Tilden’s hir.-ed advo cates assert. The pnrest, foremost and most recognized Democrats are hostile to him because of his despotism iu office and the perversion of the public trust to his personal purposes. Church, Parker and men of that class are just as pro nounced against him as the city politi cians are known to be. Seymour and Kernan at bottom are not friendly, and look elsewhere for a candidate. The Mew York delegation in Congress, ex cept Hewitt and a few others, are not reserved in their opposition. The best test of Tilden’s loss of popularity at home is to be found in a comparison of the elections of 1874 and 1875. He was chosen Governor by a majority of 50,317. When his “ refprm ” dodge was at white heat last year, John Bigelow, whom he forced on the party for Secretary of State, was elected by 14,810 majority. In twelve months of Tildenism there was a loss of 35,507, and that, too, after his policy was fully developed. It is believed in New York that if Tilden could by any possibility sucoeed at St. Loais in throwing dust in the eyes of the Convention, the State would be lost by 20,000 at least, on account of the bitter hostility existing against him individually. All the claims of his strength at home are frauds on the pub lie to capture green delegates. General Gordon and other Southern Senators and Representatives, who recently went to New York predisposed to accept Tilden, have returned here, satisfied that to nominate him would make defeat cer tain, owing to the local feuds, divisions and positive enmities. The efforts to fabricate public opinion, as in the Cour rier-Joumal and other venal papers that are up for Cowes and a market, are perfectly understood here. This part of the machinery is carried on like the bu reau of correspondence of Boyle, behind which stands W. S. Andrews, a lecturer of New York, who was furnished with the money to organized, and to send out free letters to the country newspa pers under the thin guise of aiding the Democratic cause, while really the soheme was set up to manufacture sen timent for Tildea. Agents have been traveling all over the country oh this business. Whooever a State elects dele gates to St. Louis they are visited at once by a chosen emissary, who finds out their wants, tries to satisfy them, and publishes Tildenism. All through the Northwest the attorneys, directors and officials of the railroad corporations, out of which Tilden acquired his large for tune by many sharp practices, are enlisted as a sort of old guard, to subsidize the press and to procure delegates in his interest. That explains the milk in the Nebraska cocoanut, and a similar pro cess is now going on in Wisconsin, Min nesota and Michigan. This whole movement is being work ed up by machinery set in motion at Al bany, as bread is turned out by steam from an improved bakery. There is nothing behind it but party drill, money and hired tools. All the stuff which is hashed up to gull the public about “re form” is made to order by the quantity, after the manner of flelmbold’s Buchn.. In fact, it is now known in political cir cles as Tilden’s Buchu. Age is honorable and deserves respect. There is no reason why an upright man should conceal his years or pretend to be younger than he actually is. In this respect, as in many others, old Sammy has tried to deceive the country. He has long since scored seventy, as can be proven by the best of testimony. Yet he gives out, and even allows the lie to be told before his face, that he is “turn ed of sixty-two.” Every Democrat of any consequence who goes to New York is seized and car ried to Tilden’s house, where Dorshei mer and other incense-burners are pre pared to entertain all guests with the strength of their employer throughout the Union. As New York is a better plaoo to catch gudgeons than Albany, old Sammy spends muob of his time there, and opens his oellar to visitors who are brought in by his runners at the hotels, who watch every train report every arrival needing attention. This is the way Tilden proposes to get the nomination at St. Louis by the aid of New England and Northwestern States that are hopelessly Republican in their politics. T. L. S. NEW YORK COTTON MARKET. Review of the Week. We have had another week of irregu larity, with the tendency, however, still mainly on the downward scale and the “bulls 1 ’ unable to scope any permanent advantage. Very few, if any, really new features have been developed, and the feverish, uncertain tone noticeable throughout all operations has no doubt arisen as much from the lack of a good base for positive movements as anything else. Certain recoveries on price for a time inspired operators for a rise, with the hope that a turning point had been reached and that cotton was at last com mencing to attract the attention they thought it deserved, but it soon became evident that very little actual stock was wanted, the oall being merely the result of a natural desire to recover and secure the accrued profits on the previous heavy shrinkage. Some annoyance has been occasioned by the disruption of regular cable communication yitll Eu rope ; but Liverpool, so far as heard from, has shown very few symptoms of strength, afld shippers were indifferent buyer* ip any form. 4s a rqle, the ad vices from the South have reported fa vorable weathep and tpe progress of the next crop fully as satisfactory as ooifld be expected at this season ; and though the plant is of course as yet in too pre carious a position to warrant any ex tended movements on a basis of every thing maturing successfully, there is no donbt that as matters now stand in the growing section the “bull” interest find little adv£tiitUMi. In a word, operators for a rise bave'beeh and a fo still up to the present writing "depending in the m?in upon possibilities and probabili ties, wpilc their opponents have one or two hard fact* zhich tell strongly. They are not ?Pd'J) a ?,§ been joted frequently in thi? column, put as form ing a largo portion Of tho • at present, may ba again We refer to the careful, slow, movements of buyers in all cases, a decided indisposi tion to invest heavily, and working for quick turns, which results in a selling out the moment a fair profit is secured and unloading heavily even when the market seems to be in its most buoyant condition, Apcual supplies, too, move very slowly and ' theta is a perceptable weakening, in the belief that tej&sining stocks are going into consumption frepfy. -' ' ~ ' '' Spots have {get with a very limited demand during the en.fcije week, and the tone has ruled heavy/ .Spic'S-OFs werf poorly represented, and those id attend ance wasted merely fhe 'ordinary small parcels to which the Griers from this outlet have so *ong been confined, while there was much close figuT!"® oa c ® B * ; > even for difficult assortments. A - ew special seleptions were taken for export, but as trade shippers have neglected ta ble cotton in view of their ability to ob tain short notices on much easier terms. Offerings have been ample, and we '-huik ; on the whole rather more free than last week, with now and then a holder to be found developing some anxiety to re alize, the ccaijfcion not showing much strength. ,Qn 2ioo*a# & fsyision of quo tations was made, reaultijig ha £ redac tion of I-16c. on strict good middling, middling fair and fair; 3-160, on good middling, mhidling, strict Ipw middling, strict good ordinary, gc*?d ordinary and strict ordinary; }e. on tow middling: ic on ordinary, and Jc on stained grades then values have been heavy, and a further 'hading of io made, closing heavy. The failuT? of Eastern manufac turers has added somew'T** to the de pression on the. market, though w/ 1 * 0 ® 1 cansing any parti noticeable ex citement. . On contracts the market has #een fairly active, with a number of sharp and considerable fluctuations, bat the final result was again favorable to buy ers, and a great many operators have in a measure abandoned hopes of getting any permanent turn for the better until onme ms and positive influences are developed. A large amount of the “short” interest Was ta&a pare of. but with the additional contractspnt fifat lor: Uter months, the engagements are proba bly W numerous as before. Short no tices have been plenty, and though a few cheap ones were taken by shippers they Wre as a ralejdifflcjult to manage and noted as a drag on 'the market. Qo Monday there was an advance of J-lSc and 3 160 more on Tuesday, owing to a pretty general and decided demand to o <ver; but as most of anxious shorts had b this time satisfied themselves and Liverpool failed to respond, there was a break of Jc on Wednesday, followed by • farther decline of }e on Thursday. A little flurry at the opening ou Friday ran the market up 3 320, which was as sud denly lost and 1-S2c additional, with a heavy market at the close. Saturday continued heavy with another decline of i@3 160, and business finally left off in buyers’ favor. —New York Bulletin, May 9th. GUBERNATORIAL. Judge Augustus Reese, of Morgan. Madison, Ga., May 7, 1876. To the Editor of the Times : Among the many distinguished gen tlemen who have been spoken of for the office of Governor, no man takes prece dence over the name of Jndge Augustas Reese, of Morgan—oar own eminent fel low-citizen. True, he has no following of grangers, societies, etc., to sound his name abroad, yet no man in Georgia commands, in a higher degree, the con fidence and esteem of the people. He is an incorruptible man; he is a wise conn sellor; he is an eminent jurist. He knows the wants of the people, he can shape legislation for their good. Com mon sense is brought to bear upon every question sabmitted for his considera tion . To his convictions of right, he is as true as woman’s love, and as immov able as the base of Georgia’s mountains. This trait of his character was nobly il lustrated for the benefit of the people of the whole State wheD, a few years since, as Judge of the Ocmulgee Circuit, he refused to obey the military orders of Gen. John Pope requiring jurors to be taken as they appeared oa the tax books, and irrespective of color. The firm and resolute stand taken by Judge Reese at this juncture cf affairs, caused his re moval from office. The friends of the Radical party seeing ruin ahea 1 of them flocked to Atlanta and besought Gen.- Pope to revoke his orders. Whether this was done the writer does not know. One thing is true; after the correspon dence with Judge Reese, we heard no more orders to enroll negroes indiscrimi nately as jurors in Georgia. Georgia thus was spared the humiliation of some of her Southern sister States. Without disparaging the claims of others, many who know all the gentlemen suggested for the office of Governor, are of opinion that Judge Reese’s nomination is the “fittest to be made.” This is the .talk of many of the people; and let the petople whose duty it is to labor for the weal of their State, rise in their majesty over politicians and place hunters, and put at their helm of State-the upright man, the noble gentleman, the eminent jurist Augustus Reese of Morgan. “Sentinel.” THE STRATEGY OF POLITICS. The Nomlnatioi of an Eastern Representor five of the Government Bondholders—The Death of the Democracy and the Ruin of the Country—The Struggle Between Capital and Labor—One of Life and Death—The Chronic Despotism of Aires Involved in the Triumph of Money. Editors Chronicle and Sentinel: There is but one question of great importance involved in our national politics. With nine-tenths of modern politicians that one great question is, Who shall get possession of the Government and its offices as instruments with which to plunder the producing olasses. Capi tal is never plundered except in times of revolution. Hence, it is always called conservative. It is always on the side of government. Office holders permit bondholders to plunder; bondholders return the compliment by permitting office holders to run Jack Randolph’s seven principles, to-wit: “five loaves and two little fishes.” It is a very honest partnership. It might be called the mutual admiration society. Has the world ever witnessed such p monopoly of money power as has been consolidated in the hands of the Eastern bondholders f He loves the Govern ment (it is a glorious Government to be maintained by blood) in the hands of the Radicals because he is permitted to use the Government in the interest of his bonds. He would love it just as well in the hands of the Democrats, if he can use them for the same purpose. His instincts are those of avariee only—the keenest in the world. There is no pas siou like it. Death in the pursuit of its victim is not more unrelenting, and not much less certain. The Democratic party, in its true analysis, is eminently the party of the laboring and producing classes. It ha 9 so been, in all the past history of the country. Its very name implies this. It is its misfortune, like other parties, to be infested with cormorants whose purpose is to use it for selfish ends. Iu Georgia, we have leading De mocrats whose pockets have been filled from her treasury under Bulloek’s administra tion. “Legitimate business transac tions,” no doubt. They are in all Demo cratic conventions, and foremost in all efforts to get the “d—m—d Radicals out,” and the honest Democracy in. Nine times out of ten they manage to keep “we the people” in, with their confederates. And as Bob Cowart once said, “if ever they get their heads in the public crib, you might pull their tails out by the root without moving them an inch.” With these fellows principles are subordinate to success. Get the Radi cals out and let us in, say they. We know how to develop resources—and they do. The Radicals can not beat them at that. Will you tell me upon what principle it is, unless it be one of Randolph’s aforesaid specifications, that Southern Democrats propose to affiliate with Con servative Republicans in t}ie support of an Eastern Democrat for the Presidency, who is known to be a specie resumption ist and the very personification of a bondholders idea of an honest man ? One who, if he gets in, would veto any act repealing the resumption act of 1879. One who thinks it just to pay bonds, bonght at 331 cents in the dollar in greenbacks, in gold coin. One who thinks that six per cent, interest in gold on said bonds is reasonable, though levied on the labor of the men who fought their country’s battles, and came home to poverty, to fight the harder battle of taxes and Government supplies in peace. One who believes it right, in addition to all this, to exempt this capi tal from taxes and throw the whole bur den of government on labor. And yet stijl to giye this boncjholder the whole monopoly of banking ; not on coin, but pn fjis bonds ! Qh Lord, how long ? sbsU these eyil3 cease to be? Give me the insfcinots of a New Eng land bondholder in money matters for devilment. Sxcuse this phrase. It is inelegant, I know, but like the toper who broke Lis jug, I was seeking a word to do the subject justice. Was there ever oppresson like this ? Like the screw, whenever this bondholder moves the pressure is a little heavier. It has screwed and screwed until the Eden of my native Slate, Southwestern Georgia, sends up a cry for bread to preserve life. In the valleyof the Euphrates, the rich est portion oi the globe, 1 from three to four million people have starved to death pu ppe last year or tyo. Why ? The evaefjory of (governmenth&vepara lized labor-'. '4nd yet song of opr people propose to take Tildei, or Bayard, of anybody else in the East, representing the moneyed inteiest, to get “the Conserva tive Repnblictns,” with whom they say we can certainly beat the race, and get the offices. Anc they give, as a reason, that Gov. Smith will be a Cabinet offi cer. lam no eiemy of the Governor, but I would rathir see him hung than to See niih crown on wftb any such honor. It- is my couritry) ruin. Who are these Conservative Republi cans.?” Carl SCltirz, Williaffi C. Bry ant. flenFy Wardßeechfer, Ac., &c. What rW’ir Q!gsp? The New York Tribune, dwhed f by the heaviest b°f)d ho)dgw ip Qie ‘pined Stajfcs. “An ‘io dependest joprml,” but 1 run iri the bondholder* 1 intaest, That paper says he goes to St. Inui* with the Demo cratic nominatioi in his pocket. The Conservatives an satisfied with him. And Georgia pditicians are satisfied Wj.th him, becaust he can beat the race, and Governor Smth will be a Cabinet office!. inrirntta’ “Georgia has been put up t>l hi®’.: ph, ye po litical ConventiCHß l earth's’ belt em blems of a peoples wisdom and parity ( Who is Carl Bvhnrz ? A naturalized foreigner; a mat of eminent ability, whofie whifle tiowc was against our peo ple in .“the w&t States;” who was brought' fibnrtxoTDbio ty- J a battle against ! William Alien and tne ohio Democracy in tie most gallant fight Ib/kftis Jzfydiag citißseff npon the American fesw ykr’of the Bevolatiofi. Sballwe abandon the" alli ance of these tfoffcwestern Democrats for such alliances a these ? Forbid it, m Jr countrymen ! Forbid it. Heaven ! If the twibly oppressed laboring classes are defrapded ont of that inherent power wui whieh the God of Heaven has erdnred them . or the best of parpoaee, gfod government; or it, in a grand battle an the trn.e is* lies, the rights of labor against capital, they are defeated, freedom) last hope will be the blood of the brave Sleepy Hollow. There have been some radical changes in ttb last, cental- A hundred years ago a July's hand ; now yon kiss her tips—tbatS, of oosfm, U yon happen to be beliiifl ‘the w*ooa pile and. nobody is looking, and yon don’t want to disappoint her. It may take one hun dred years to get fi>m her band to her month, bat we neve felt that the time was misspent.— ffenofch Bulletin. THE GEORGIA RAILROAD. ANNUAL-CONVENTION OP STOCK HOLDERS. Second Day’s Proceedings—Election of Presi dent and Directors. The Convention met pursuant to ad journment, at Masonic Hall, yesterday morning. Col. D. E. Butler, Chairman of the Committee on Proxies, submitted the following report: We find represented in person, 8,833 shares; by proxy, 18,7c2 shares; total, 27,595 shares. On motion of F. W. Cheney, Esq., the report was adopted. The President declared the Conven tion organized and ready for business. At the suggestion of Col. W. W. Clark and Maj. George Hillyer, it was an nounced that the polls would remain open until 10, a. m. At 10 o’clock the polls were closed, and the Committee on Election retired for the purpose of counting the ballots. Mr. F. W. Cheney moved that the re ports of the President and Superintend ent be adopted. Carried. On motion, the Convention took a re cess until half-past two o’clock. The Convention re-assembled at half past two o’clock. The Committee on Elections reported the following as the result of the election: Total number of votes cast, 30,267. For President: Hon. John P. K’ng, 26,248; C. H. Phinizy, 819. For Direc tors: E. E. Jones, 27,551; James W. Davies, 28,721; James S. Hamilton, 28,- 117; Stevens Thomas, 30,267; M. P. Sto vall, 24,877; George T. Jackson, 27,485; L. M. Hill, 30,267; Josiah Sibley, 30,- 264; D. E. Butler, 22,602; Geo. Hillyer, 29,201; John Davison, 29,013; Wm. M. Reese, 28,426; Wm. W. Clark, 21,132; Charles H. Phinizy, 29,511; John H. James. 30,267; Frank H. Miller, 14,262; Wm. F. Herring, 12,066; J. A. Billups, 4,329; N. L. Hutchens, 8,637; Harmon Rowley, 7,281; R. L. Moss, 8,383; Thos. W. Coskery, 7,597; and a few scattering. The President announced that Messrs. E. E. Jones, Jamfes W. Davies, James S. Hamilton, Stevens Thomas, M. P. Stovall, Geo. T. Jackson, L. M. Hill, Josiah Sibley, D. E. Butler, George Hillyer, John Davison, Wm. M. Reese, Wm. W. Clark, Charles H. Phinizy, John H. James and Frank H. Miller were elected Directors and John P. King President for the ensuing year. The President returned his thanks for the honor conferred. It was well known that the office had sought the man and not the man the office. It had long been his desire to have them fix upon some other man who could bind togeth er all interests. If time permitted he would like to discuss at length railroad affairs. He would promise, however, to do so in the future. Colonel E. W. Cole, President Nash ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Rail road, said that now the Convention was about to bring its labors to a close, he would like to say a few words to the stockholders. Now that the meeting was about to close, it reminded him of a Methodist love feast. He had under stood before the report of the Commit tee on Elections that there was some differences, but the report showed pretty general harmony, and ill had good feel ings towards each other, and that this was a commingling of interests that re minded him 1 , as he had said, a Metho dist love feaßt. “And, sir,” addressing Judge King in the Chair, “If you will permit the re mark, we have honored ourselves by honoringyou in re-electingyou(r,he father of us all in a railroad sense) President of this company for the next year. I am not now an officer of your road, hav ing retired from its management, as you will remember, about twelve months ago. My other duties at that time be ing onerous, it was pleasant for me to do so, but my zeal for the success anil prosperity of your road has not rfbated any on that acoount; and as I occupy this position it may be agreeable and inter esting to you stockholders for me to give you a few facts and figures regard ing the management of your road for the last eleven years. He was proud that he had been con nected with the management of the Georgi i Railroad and ha now proposed to give a few facts relative to its man agement daring the past decade. He said in his figures he quoted from a memorandum taken hastily from reports and while he did not claim to be ex actly correct was satisfied that be was sufficiently so for practical purposes. The net earnings of the road from May, 1865, to May, 1876, over andjabove all ordinary expenses of an equipped rail road, were $6,272,000, or about 13j per ceDt. per annum upon the capital stock of $4,200,000. At the close of the war, or on the Ist of May, 1865, the Georgia Railroad was in a fearful condition. It had been destroyed to a great extent by the armies from Atlanta to Oconee. Every depot, shop and building had been burned. Its usefulness had been destroyed south of the Oconee by reason of the company’s inability to keep it in order, the blockade rendering it impos sible to procure new material. There was the same inability to maintain ma chinery and rolling stock for the same reason. At the close of the war the Georgia Railroad had only twelve lo comotives in running condition out of a long list before, and seventy cars out of seven or eight hundred. The rolling stock was in fact completely ruo down. The President of the road, in his report in May, 1865, estimated that it would take $2,732,622 71 to put it once more in ks good condi tion as before the war. With the exception of regrading it was about as bad as building anew road. The ques tion was at this time .presented to the Directors whether it would be better to take a portion out of the net earnings annually, and thus rebuild the road, or do like all other roads—issue new bonds to the amount needed for repairs and thus run the road into a large debt. The Directors very wisely decided to take enough out of the net earnings to put the road back where it was just before the war. While, therefore, dividends were being paid to stockholders, these repairs were going on. It did not stop dividends, except the first year or so, although it nscessarily lessened them. There was spent in that direction $1,830,000 out of the net earnings. In addition to this, the company had to pay the United States Government tax upon its gross earnings, in all $90,000, which added to the previous amount makes $1,920,000. This wes all that was properly chargeable on account of ordi nary ahcj extraordinary expenses. De duct from the whole amount, and it leaves $4,352,000 net earniugs, or about 94 per ceut. annually upon the capital stock. In addition to what he had already stated the oompany had at the close of the war $1,000,000 in notes in eiroula tion which had to be paid. The same question was presented to the Directors whether they would issue some $150,000, allowing for discounts and com missions, in bonds to take up this circulation, or do it out of the net earnings of the road. They decided, as in the former case, upon the latter conrse, and most of the circulation was redeemed in that way.— That reduced, of course, the average dividends. The circulation has been re deemed and the road reconstructed and is to-day in better ordpr than it was just, before tjie war. The depots and machine shops are all in good order. AH the round hppaea and depots have a greater capacity than before the war. A 6 the close of the war it was dangerous to run a train between Augusta and Atlanta in less than seventeen hours. Now it is made in eight hours. The locomotives have increased in number and the cars are largely superior to what they were before the war, and nearly all in good order. All this has been done without any bonded debt, so to speak, as the debt is so small that the company will never feet it. He wished them to con sider these facts'find weigh them well in considering the value of the road. He challenged a comparison with any road in the South similarly situated at the close of'the s?ar. He challenged com parison with any railroad corporation in the West', Essf Of ip the United States, with equal disadvantages. He challeng ed them to make a better showing under such circumstances. He desired to re port these facts to the stockholders, as he did not believe they were fuUy ap preciated. On niotion, the Convention adjourned. Alter the adjournment of the Board the newly elected' Board of Directors held a meeting and re-elected Col, S. K. Johnson, Superintendent. Every stock holder is satisfied that Col. Johnson is the right man in the right place. He is a model superintendent and the affairs of the road are prospering under his managefafoh - ' ‘ Whep is a lady’s dress li£e ap unfor tunate bull-fighter ? When it is gored. And when is it like a partisan? When it is' blasted. And when ig it like a toper ? When it is full. And when is it like the sails of a ship? When it is trimmed. When is it like a season of the year ? When it is lent. When is it no longer fit for use ? After she has uoe worn it out. An impecunious bat ingenious tramp has ft the colored of CFeorgeivW*, Teas*. poor in pocket and sore in body initialing theta, gt two dol lars and a half bead, ipW-, ‘a lodge of Free Masons." The principal part of the ceremony, next to paying* the fee, consisted in tying the candidate on a table, face downward, and branding him with a hot poker. Bibbone and silks having the basket cheek are the latest style. Short items are the oftenest clippped, and that is why they keep short. NEW YORK LETTER. SPRING FASHIONS What'the Ladies Are to Wear—The New Styles of Dress and Hillioery—Hard Times and Notable People—Judge Hilton and Mr. Libbey, Etc. [Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel. | Spring Fashions. New Yobk, May B.—Ruskin tells us that he spent an entire Winter chiefly in endeavoring to find out the miud of Titiens. During the last month, I have meditated upon present styles as viewed philosophically, and 1 have tried-to find out the leading thought or thoughts, which permeate the brains of those in dividuals who occupy the positions of “getters up” of costumes. My conclu sion is that they intend us to look “one sided.” Whether the winds of March and April whicU certainly have arranged our drapery in just the required man ner, have affected their ideas, I cannot say, yet this I have remarked, that dur iug these tempestuous seasons, invisi ble hands have caught the folds of our dresses, and swept them around in a hundred fantastio contortions, just as fashionable dress makers labor eternally to have them go. One circumstance saves us from absolute confusion. It is the necessity for wash fabrics during the Summer season; wash materials must be “done up;” this fact demands a certain degree of simplicity, and thus, although we find frantic attempts on the part of that determined class of individuals above mentioned to introduce their pe culiar ideas in the making up of these fabrics, yet common sense here holds some sway ; nature sets bounds to their audacious imaginings, and they are forced to content themselves with snarls in the way of discontented looking scratches of trimming which they dash across the fronts of overskirts; resolved, it seems, to make the garment appear one sided, even if in reality its propor tions are never so accnrate and well de fined. Then, again, they spitefully grapple it up in an impossible sort of slurring, put iu some impossible place, but with evident reluctance let it go from their merciless claws, and unwill ingly allow it to hang in a respectable expause of drapery; iD the backs of overskirts, too, their ill humor is made manifest, since if they etit one side rounded they are pretty apt to have the other side rounded; and so on ad in finitum. For the benefit of humanity, I will mention some new designs which display stylish .ideas, yet are practical; combinations not al ways found. The “Zitella” over skirt is one of these, falling low on one side, caught high in the other, and showing what I have previousjy men , tioned as a special idea—that of broad folds turning upwards on the outside. New and handsome basques are the “Ermen” and “Preciosa.” In the mak ing of all classes ;pf fabrics, pre erence is shown towards .basques and over skirts, to the disadvantage of polonaises which, though fashionable, are not so popular as thefirst mentioned garments. Even the more substantial wash fabrics are made in basques, though many pre fer a half-fitting jacket, for which the “Elinor” is an excellent design. millinery. Although dark straws are patronized • for general wear, yet even here we ob serve a partiality, for bright colors, and in consequence of this, “rough and ready” straws are extremely popular. These, are fancifully trimmed, and re lieved by intermixtures of black velvet, or sprays of flowers which are united with dark leaves. Blackcurrants and oth er berries are also employed as contrasts, and in general, it may be observed that the effects produced by such sombre colorings is a leading idea of the time. Delicate white or creamy tinted flowers repose among sober foliage, and to gether they are combined with soft silks in fainted shades. Then, again, black or brown straws are by pale silks and flowers. Beautiful dress hats, however, are throughout in extremely faint hues. Gloves Are self-stitohed, and in shades to matoh dress goods; long on the wrist; three buttons being regarded as most stylish for street and visiting, while for evening from four to twelve buttons are worn, the last mentioned, of course, coming almost up to the elbow. The Harris seamless gloves are regarded as the most elegant in fit, but the Harris Victoria at leap price is both durable and handsome. Hard Times. Times are hard, yet this is what we do—those of us who get married—we pay $35 a piece for corset cover; S4O for dressing sacqnes; $65 for chemises, etc., etc. PilJow shams are SSO a pair; linen embroidered sheets and shams, $75. — Among other items of the trousseau are garters inlaid with precious stones set as sprays of flowers, or. perhaps, the fair bride’s monogram. Then we invite parties of fifteen hundred, select and bosom friends, to look at everything and tell us what they think. Notable People. Fortune has come to Judge Hilton in the Autumn of life, if one may form an opinion from the fast gathering grey, which every day makes fresh inroads on his dark hair and carefully tended moustache; unusually fine looking; above the average height and of portly form, he is the observed of all ob servers as he goes on his daily rounds, through the marble palace of which ho is now the chief proprietor. Mr. Lib bey possesses no special claim to good looks; yet, compared with the general run of men, he does well enough. In the personage on whom now falls the chief burden of a vast business, one sees a comfortable looking individual of medium height, broad shoulders, and one who impresses you with the idea that he has three good meals a day; takes time to eat them, and wants all the world to do the same. Every body has a good word for Mrs. Stewart. Tbe clerks all like her kind, unpretentious ways, and tell how in making her selec tions at the various counters she was always considerate and courteous in re turn for attentions paid her. She is tall, rather slender, and the gossips assert in her fifty-seventh year. An anecdote which can be verified, shows that A. T. S., although maintaining a military striotness of discipline, sometimes gaye rewards of merit. A cash boy was sent to him with a message, and the little fellow thinking the merchant prince was tardy in replying, said: “Hurry up, Mr. Stewart, they’ll say I’m slow!” The naive remark, showing a combination of child like simplicity and business en ergy, was rewarded with anew suit of clothes. Tenth street is now rather tow Down, And the house of Stewart <fc 00. finds formidable competition in the great Broadway firms which are a dozen blocks higher up. Most fashionably located of all is that of J. & C. Johnston, on Broad way and Twenty-second street, whose establishment is one of the most im posing strnetures of the city. No bet ter idea indeed can be formed of tbo wealth of the metropolis than may be gained by a visit to one of these palaces of business. Shopping becomes a lux ury when elevators convey you from one story to another, sofas are provided, where one may rest at ease, and inspect every variety of merchandise, from ten cent calicoes up tc silks and fine dress goods, which remind one of Oriental magnificenoe, ready made oostumes, mourning goods, children’s outfits, laces, hosiery, upholstery, carpets, house keeping goods, everything really that heart can wish in the dry goods line are kept under one roof, yet in seperate departments so as to avoid confnsion. Hinging on Trial. The following, I observed recently in a daily paper: ‘‘Thirty-five sopranos have sung unsuccessfully on trial for the sopranoshisp of the coming musical year in Chapin’-g Church; also twenty tenons gnd bosses. ” I would’like to express my sentiments in regard to this “singing on trial,” but now that I come to the point, I can de vise no epithets stroDg enough to con vey an accurate idea of what I think about it. Imagine if yon can a half doz en old blue beards standing up in a row, and one by one a snec-ssion of girls parade out to sing for the heartless mon sters. The heroism with which these trembling creatures go out to be stored at, and criticised, is proof of a natural aptitude for martyrdom on the part of women. They stand it better than their luckless companions of the male sex, who, the half of them, are ready to blub ber out beneath the shadow of their side-whiskers, or hide behind the friend ly covering afforded them by a carefully grown moustache. Finally after a great deal of hodg-podging, matters become settled in seme sort of a way, by the first Sunday in May. 'Rosalind Max. At the request of hlfte. Stewart, through Judge Hilton, fcfessrs. D. Ap pleton & Cos. have withdrawn from the publication of Gen. James Grant Wil son's “Life of the Late A. T. Stewart.” Mrs. Stewart wishes that DO biography of Mr. Stewart shall be published. —iV. Y. Paper. For two years past lowa has been prosecuting her criminals at a dead loss of $335!098 H, not in? hiding the cost of grand juries and witnesses. Much of the crime was* 1 the resultrof permitting incompetent parents to bring op chil dren, and a good deal of it came of whisky. The individual who was accidentally injured by the discharge of his duty is still very low, “ MORBID JMPULSES.” HUNTING MURDERERS WITH DOGS. . A British Barber Hatches the Boston Sexton. The confossion of Piper, the Boston sexton, who horribly murdered a poor little girl named Mqbel Young in the belfry of his church, abundantly vindi cates the contempt passed by this jour nal upon a maudin letter recently pub lished by that atrocious scoundrel in the hope of averting his just doom. Nothing it might have been thought could have been more horrible than the crime com mitted upon a helpless infant by this wretch—but the lastEuglish mails bring us particulars of a villainous deed done by a barber of Blackburn, named Fish, which fairly mates Piper. The British crime was brought home to the criminal, who was as much of a hypocrite as Piper himself, by the use of dogs, and particu larly of a bloodhound which exhibited wonderful sagacity, and is likely to be come as famous in the annals of canine intelligence as the dog of Montargis himself. We condense the story from our latest foreign files, as a most inter esting though painful contribution to the psychology of crime. William Fish, the criminal, was a married man, aged twenty-six, and Emily Holland, the vic tim, a child of seven. Suspicion attach ed to Fish from the commencement. The prosecuting officer thus recited the story in Court: “We searched his house several times over without being able to find any traces of blood, and we had no further evidence to justify us in arrest ing him. On Sunday morning a man named Peter Taylor, a painter, of Nel son street, Preston, volunteered his ser vices with a dog, in fact with two dogs. Odo is a Springer spaniel,aud the other is a bloodhound and pointer dog, part bred. I arranged with some of my officers, Police Detectives Holden and Livesey, to go with the owner of the dogs where the body was found, near Bastwell, and Gudeavored to trace the scent, for ac cording to one witness a man visited the place on Thursday morning about 10 o’clock. They went in the direction of Roysham Plantation, but the dogs were unable to make any scent. It was arranged further that they should go to Lower Ounliffe, where the legs had been discovered iu a conduit. They hunted the fields as best they oould, but with out success. They hunted the fields and woods in all directions, but without finding anything, and they returned to Blackburn. I had arranged previously that the man with the dogs should re main till night to make a further ex periment. We arranged to visit two barbers’ shops, one kept by Dennis Whitehead, who resided in Birley street, and the other kept by the pris oner. I may mention that we arranged it privately, so that there would not be a crowd about to obstruct ns, and we managed to get into both houses unob served by the' inhabitants. In the first house, that of Dennis Whitehead, the bloodhound did not pay any particular attention, nor did it appear to scent anything. We had possession of the prisoner’s house at that time, and the prisoner was in, and also his wife, and of course we began in the prisoner’s shop. The dog, on entering the house, i began to scent all around the rooms in which the prisoner carries on his busi ness. It entered the closets and went to all the corners and crevioes of the house. It further went into the beck room, scented all around soundly, and evidently soented something. It also jumped upon the sink-stone, and ap peared to scent something there. At this time the door which leads to the upper room was shut, and when Detec tive Officer Holden opened the door and went up stairs, the dog immediately rushed after him. The dog scented round the back room, which is a room where there is no fire place, and really scented something. It then passed in the front room, and finally soented in the fire-place. Now, this fire-place had notliiug in the fire-grate nor appear ance of a fire in any shape or form. Mr. Taylor, observing the scent, knew what it meant, and he immediately rushed to the chimney, and found, what shall be produced, a human skull, evidently that of a ohild, with part of the hair on it. The hair has been saturated with blood. There are also parts of the broken skull and parts of smaller bones. There are bones which appear to beloDg to the forearm, and bones that belong to the hands. There were, in addition, small pieces of garments—small pieces of gray calico and a chemise. The deceased child’s clothing was of that description. Thare is one extraordinary feature in the case. Amongst the articles brought down from the ohimney was a piece of paper, which appears to be a newspaper of some kind, and that appears to have some blood on it, together with clean wheat straw. There are no such pieces of straw in any other part of the house. While this process was going on Super intendent Eastwood had accompanied the man with the dogs to inform the prisoner of the purport of their visit, and that they had a bloodhound and were going to search the house. I be lieve then that his condition was very palpable, and that he was extraordina rily affected by the announcement. When the skull was found his wife and he were both present, and I at onoe or dered him to be taken into custody on the charge of murder. He afterwards said that he was innocent, and knew nothing about it. We managed to have him removed from the place before there was any excitement and before the in habitants were aware of what was going on. If we had been three or four min utes more I don’t believe we oould have brought him to this Court. Under the circumstances, however, we managed to bring him without any interruption. This is a human skull (pointing to it) with three teeth left in the lower jaw, aud these plainly exhibited. This is the skull of a child, and we know of no other child missing, or having been murdered, than Emily Holland, and from all the circumstances wo do be lieve this skull and the parts of the body form the.head, hands and arms of the deceased Emily Holland. I will simply give evidence that these were found in the prisoner’s presenoe, and that he was charged and made no re ply.” The Detevtive>i> Blary. The detaila of the disoovery were then hrought out on the examination of the Deteotive-in-Chief: Q. Lid you examine the chimney ? A. I did. I looked up the ohimney both down stairs and up stairs. My reason for looking up the chimney was to see if I oould disoover any recent marks in the ohimney—marks of soot being removed or disturbed—but there was not a single soratoh or anything, and there did not appear to have been any fire in the grate for some time. Had I seen a mark of any kind, I should cer taily have searched further. On Sun- day, the 16th of April, we searched again. I was accompanied by Deteotive Officer Holden and Peter Taylor, of Nel son street, Prestem, painter. He had two dogs with him. I went with Taylor to the prisoner's shop.* One of the dogs was a bloodhound and pointer, and the other was a spaniel. When they went into another barber’s shop the dogs did not seent anything. We next went to the prisoner’s shop. When we went to the place the prisoner bad been brought to the shop by Desective Livesey along with his wife. When Taylor and I and Holden got inside I spoke to the prison er, and I told him that the dog was a bloodhound and that we were going to make a further eearoh of his premises.— He did not speak. The bloodhound be gan to scent the place. This was in the first room on the ground floor. There are two rooms below and two above.— The room he was in was the one used as his shop. Then we went into the back kitchen and about the slopstone in the kitchen both the commenced to bark, as if sceptjug something. Detec tive {loldeb opened the stairs door which leads out on tfie back kitchen, and the dog, without being spoken to, made right hp stairs. The bloodhound went into the baek room, and then into the front. When it got beside the chimney it seemed to scent it, and Taylor, who appeared to under stand the movements of the dog, at once doubled himself up in the chimney. He got his head np and put his hand down a draft or recess on the left side of the chimney. A draft is about the width of a brick. First he pulled out two (finders intermixed with a little hone or two. He then put his hand down the same place and brought out part of the skull. The prisoner and his wife were present at the time, and the prisoner was very nervous. I sent for the Chief Constable, and he gave orders that the prisoner should be taken into custody. He was taken into, cus tody by Detectives Holden and Livesey. We removed kirn by the back door, and the house was loft in the charge of two police offioers faring the night. Next morning'! m ade a further search with Mr. Potts, and took down the whole of the bricks in the chimney-piece. We fonnd these portions of the sknll (pro ducing small pieces, of bones). The pieoes vary in iVe also found s few small bones. We found a piece of paper burnt, which was down in the draif along with the bones. There are small portions of the brain along with the small bones. There had been no fire in the grate for some time. After the prisoner bad been taken into efiS' tody I charged him at the police station with the willful murder of Enplj Hol land, aged seven years, at Moss street, on March 28, 1876. • Coroner—WhW reply did he make to that? Witness—He replied, ‘‘J am innocent, and God knows I am." The Prisoner's Confession. The prisoner’s detailed confession is substantially to the following effeot: That, on the day when tbe tragedy was enacted, he sent Emily Holland for half an ounce of tobacco. When .she return ed he asked her to come jp the house. He got hold of her and carried her up stairs, and in the front room committed the outrage upon her. He took a razor and coolly cut her throat. To prevent the blood from covering Hie floor he wrapped her olothes around her. Next he battered her brains out and cut up the body; putting the head and arms on the fire,which he had recently kindled in that room, and wrapped the trunk and legs in newspapers, concealing the par cels till it would be convenient to re move them. After this he went down stairs and shaved some of his customers with the razor which had been used to cut the girl’s throat. The horrible work having been finished, he locked the door of his shop aud went to the Ampitheatre of Varieties to stifle perchance for a moment the stings of conscience. Great sympathy is felt for the bereaved parents of Emily Holland. The mother is in a desponding state, and was only confined about seven weeks ago. The father is a little better now that the murderer has been found out. IN THE MOUNTAINS. LETTERS FROM WHITE AND HAB ERSHAM. [From Our Traveling Agent.] Cleveland, White Cos., May 6,1876. Editors Chronicle and Sentinel: The May term of the Superior Court has been in session for the last four days, Judge Rice, presiding; A.L. Mitch ell, Solicitor-General. The bar was well represented at Cleveland, as there is a good deal of litigation. The following named attorneys were in attendance: Col. J. B. Estes, Gainesville; Col. J. N. Dorsey, Col. J. Langston, Gainesville; Col. W. P. Price, Col. Wise Boyd, Dah lonega; Judge C. H. Sutton, Clarksville; G. W. Blackwell, Hiwassee. The local bar was represented bv Cl. A. F. Under wood, John J. McKinzey, Esq., F. L. Haralson, Esq., W. K. Williams, Esq., and Col. M. G. Boyd. Cleveland has a rich country around it. The Naooocheo Valley is but seven miles from Cleve land. The town is small. It has two hotels and two stores. There is a Methodist Churoh and a good sohool under the supervision of Mrs. J. W. H. Uuderwood and George W. Soroggs. The number in attendance is fifty-seven. The town is twenty-six miles from Gainesville, where they get a mail twice a week. I was much pleased to meet Col. J. E. Redwine, of the Gainesville Eagle. The Colouel was looking after the interests of his splendid weekly pa per, the Eagle. I also met Captain Nicho s, of Naoooohee. I send you a list of forty new subscribers to the Chbonicle and Srntinhl. The people say they want a first class paper, espe cially this year. Clarkbville, Ga., May 6, 1876. Editors Chronicle and Sentinel: • Iu company with Judge O. H. Sutton, of this place, your traveling agent left Cleveland this raorniug for Clarksville, a distance of fifteen miles. We passed some splendid farms. Those of Mr. Oaks and Mr. Smith’s attracted my spe cial attention. The wheat looks well in this county and iD White, Rabun, Frank lin, Banks and Hall. Mr. Bean, of your oity, has a farm near here. His son, Mr. Thos. Bean, is cultivating it. He has planted about twenty aores in rice and about fifty in corn. He is not afraid of work. With all his accomplishments, he has given up your city to come up in the mountains aud devote himself to farming. I was sorry I could not be here last night, as there was an entertainment given by the Little Sisters, for the ben efit of Grace Episcopal Churoh. There was some rehearsing to be done, and four little girls of the congregation, call ing themselves Little Sisters, determin ed to give a series of concerts and char ades and tabieauxs once a month to raise the money needed for rapairs on the church. The programme has been handed me by S. L, Fuller, proprietor of the Fuller House, The following are the Dames of the young people who took part in the performances: Misses Mattie Eppes, Sallie Berry, Min nie Stanford, Clela Eppes, Guasie Jones, Florenoe Berry, Lucy Eppes, Essie Stan ford and Messrs. A. T. Gray, 8, L. Ful ler, H. P. Rossignol, Hugh Jenkins, C. B. MoMillan, J. T. Rembert, John R. Stanford, Charlie Lambert and Thomas S. Bean. About one hundred and fifty ladies and gentlemen attended and seemed much pleased. The performance over, the young men and ladies enjoyed themselves in the gay danoe in the large parlors of the Grove House. The vonng ladies of Mrs. George J. Koilock’s Academy were present and added much to the interest of the ocoasion. Every thing passed off pleasantly, and all who were present enjoyed the evening.— Clarksville is a delightful place to spend the Summer. Healtli and pleasure seek ers will find it agreeable. G. W. N. CROPS THAT BEAT COTTON. What the Grower* of Small Fruits in tko Vicinity of Memphis are Dolus. The fruit trade, which in this section has grown to considerable magnitude in the past few years, promises to be quite profitable to the growers this season, notwithstanding the fact that the peach and pear crops were ontirely destroyed by the cold weather and frost in the month of Maroh. The crop of berries, especially strawberries, will be larger this season than ever before, owing to the fact that the large profits made in former years induced many to plant last year, which will make the yield larger and a consequent reduction in the prioes will be obtained. The first picking this year, as compared with last year, was about ten days earlier. In 1875 the first picking was sent to market about the 28th of April, while last year the first picking was sold on the Bth of May. For the first berries last year $1 per quart was realized, and at the end of the first week they sold at 50 oents per quart. This year they opened at $1 per quart, but fell to 25 oents before a week* at whioh price choice berries are now sold. Mr. T. S. Barbour, who is one of the most extensive growers in this im mediate seel ion, has thirty-five aores in strawberries, and, in addition to what has been sold in this city, has, up to the present time, shipped 3,000 quarts to Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis and other cities north. The crop in Southern Il linois, where a great many berries are raised, was set back last week by cold weather, whioh will prove advantageous to our shippers, and while the prices realized are not as good as last year, this is more than made up by the in crease in yield. —Memphis Avalanche. TUK BRAZILIAN EMPEROR IN WASH INGTON. [ Washington dispatch to Baltimore Bun.] The Emperor of Brazil arrived in Washington from the West this morning via the Baltimore and Potomac Road. He proceeded very quietly to the Arling ton Hotel, where quarters had been enga egd for him, and from thetopofwhioh the flag of Brazil floated. He was soon waited upon by the Brazilian Minister. Two pews had been reserved for him at St. Alovsius Church, but the few who were anticipating his presence were die-, appointed, as he attended morning ser vice at St. Matthew's Chnrch, which is but a short distanoe from the Arlington. After chnrch, the Emperor went to the Capitol, attended by his snite and the Brazilian Minister. He spent nearly two hours in the building, and was es corted through it by Mr. French, the . Sergeaut-at-Arms of the Senate. He spent some minutes in looking at Pow ell’s picture of Perry’s Victory on Lake Eric, which hangs at the top of one of the Senate stairways, and showed great familiarity with all the circumstances. He recognized the pictures of Clay and the statue of Lincoln, crying out as he came up to the latter, “Linooln, Lin coln.” He asked if there were any paint ings or statues of Webster or Calhoun, and seemed to be very muoh surprised when answered in the negative. He as cended to the topmost part of the dome and prononnoed the view from that ele vated point magnificent. He asked about the impeachment of General Bel knap, and said he must come to-morrow to hear the speeches. He said that he would also call on the President to-mor row, and that he expected to go to Phil adelphia on Tuesday. After leaving the Capitol he drove through some of the public grounds. During the day several of the members of the diplomatic corps called on him, It may be mentioned that when the Emperor first arrived at the Capitol this morning the doors of the rotunda were locked, and it required some vigorous knocking before one of the Capitol police opened them, During a recent performance at a Pa ris theatre, a man and his wife had a quarrel on the stage—the woman in a rage of jealousy, the man trying to per suade her that she was too suspicions and too passionate. Both were acting with great spirit, when the wife moved her arm too near a dandle, and he? mus lin dress was in flames in an instant.— Both agtors kept their presence of mind, however. The husband extinguished the fire, and, proceeding with his part, interpolated, “Yon see, my dear, I was right; you are ready to sare up for the least thing.” An intemporate printer is a typo graphical err-er,
