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Address WALSH A WRIGHT,
Chbosicle a Sentinel. Augusta. Oa.
Cfjromcle ant) jSmfmel.
w JDNEBDAY .. .„. JUNE 21. 1876.
The first crop reports make a favor
able showing for cotton. It should be
remembered, however, that the cotton
plant has jnst commenced to grbw, and
that, like a young bear, all ite troubles
are before it.
The Committee that investigated the
charge made Speaker Kbbb have
reported unanimously that it is a case of
bold and impudent perjury. In the
meantime it is said that Mr. Kerb can
not live more than a few weeks.
No cause has been assigned for the
recent sad suicide in Columbus. The
girl does not appear to have been insane
at the time of the commission of the
deed. There seems to be some mystery
connected with the affair.
New Yobk does not seem to be afraid
of Southern Democratic governments,
and her citizens have jnst purchased two
hundred thousand of Georgia bonds at
a premium. How much will they give
for the so-called obligations of Repub
lican South Carolina?
We are pleased to learn that at the re
quest of Governor Smith, Solicitor Gen
eral Lumpkin, of the Northern Circuit,
has withdrawn his resignation and con
sented to serve until the expiration of
hia term of office. Governor Smith
based his request upon a regard for the
public welfare.
The indications are that Hon. Alex
ander H. Stephens will be returned to
Congress from this section without hav
ing any opposition, either in the Con
vention or at the polls. His health is
improving rapidly and we hope to hear
of him in his seat before Congress ad
journs.
The new silver bill passed the House
Saturday without a division. It author
izes the Secretary of . the Treasury to
issne ten millions of silver coin in ex
change lor an equal amount of legal ten
der notes. The issue of twenty millions
of subsidiary silver coin for the redemp
tion of fractional currency was also
authorized.
General Colquitt is not having the
whole State to himself this Summer.
Col. Hardeman is traveling around a
great deal and is making a gallsnt fight
for the nomination. Mr. John H.
James is said to be looking around a
little also. ________
We trust the people will not fail to
attend the primary meetings.* It is in
these assemblies that the real issues of
the campaign are to be made. Remem
ber the Constitutional Convention, the
bogus bonds and the removal of the
capital.- Savannah News.
Col. W. H. Perky, of Greenville, is
spoken of as the Democratic candidate
for Solicitor of the Eighth Judicial Cir
cuit of South Carolina. Col. Perry is a
sou of Ex-Gov. Perry. He was a gal
lant soldier in the Confederate army and
is an able lawyer. Tho Democrats of
the Circuit can not put a better man in
the field.
Mr. Josiah Turner has paid six dol
lars for the privilege of advertising him
self as an independent candidate for
Governor of North Carolina. North
Carolina is a close State, and if Mr.
Josiah Turner develops any strength
among the Democrats his oandidacy
will insure the election of a Republican.
The people should sit down on Mr.
Josiah Turner immediately and se
verely.
Reports having gained circulation in
some newspapers that the hotels will
eharge extortionate prices during the
sitting of ihe Democratic National Con
vention in St. Louis, the resident com
mittee having if.harge of the local ar
rangements for tb* Convention publishes
a card denying this, aal giving the posi
tive assurance of the hotel proprietors
that they will in no case exceed their
regular prices duriug the continuance
of the Convention.
The Atlanta Telegram states that
Governor Johnson has declined to allow
the usk.' of his name in the canvass. Of
course t.'ie Telegram has no authority
whatever for making any such statement.
Similar representations, however, seem
to constitute the stock in trade of the
Colquitt faction. The only thing they
can say against Governor Johnson is
that he “wont run.” There seems to be
do doubt about General Colquitt being
in the field, however.
Thk Atlanta Telegram is responsible
lor a story on Hon. J. J. Turnbull, of
Banks, which will be found in another
column of the Chronicle and Sentinel
this morning. Turnbull, display
ing his wonted chivalrousness, was
prompt to resent an insult offered to
the body of which he was a member,
though the offender disclaimed any al
lnsion to him in his remarks. It is also
stated that Mr. Turnbull will be re
elected to the Legislature from Banks
county without opposition.
Counterfeits on the national banks
of Massachusetts have been in circula
tion for some time. The notes are very
wall executed, and are difficult to detect
except by persons of experience. As
soon as the counterfeiting of the notes
of one bank is generally known, the
notes of another bank are easily printed
■from the same plates with a few altera
tions, skeleton plates being used in'
which letters are easily changed. A
large amount of this counterfeit money
has found its way to New York. The
authorities there believe that the arrests
recently made may lead to the breaking
up of a large gang of counterfeiters.
The Merriwether \lndicator hoists
the name of Judge Hiram Warner as a
candidate for Governor: The Vindica
tor adds: “It is due Judge Warner,
who is absent from home, to state that
he has not been consulted, even remote
ly in this matter, but we may add that
we know he will accept the nomination
if it is tendered him. That he will not
canvass for it is equally certain, bnt will
act upon the leading idea of his life that
if the people desire his services they
will be apt to ask for them; if they do
not desire them they will pass him by.”
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES.
We publish in another column of the
Chronicle and Sentinel a communica
tion from Kingston complaining of con
vention trickery and unfairness, and de
claring that the people are dissatisfied
with the manner in which political affairs
are at present conducted. The writer of
the article evidently favors the candida
cy of an independent, if the members
of the State Convention do not select
his favorite as the standard-bearer of
the party. It is hardly necessary for ns
to say that the Chronicle and Sentinel
is not at all in sympathy with the views
expressed in this letter, and we hazard
nothing in saying that Herschel' Y.
Johnson will never be fonnd running on
an independent ticket in opposition to
the regular nominee of the Democratic
party. If every one thought as onr cor
respondent • there wonld not be the
slightest use in holding a nomina
ting convention. The friends of every
candidate who failed to receive a
nomination would bolt, the field would
be fall of independent candidates, and
the Republicans wonld be offered an
easy victory over their late conquerors.
We want a State Convention, because it
furnishes the only method of deciding
the claims of rival candidates without
injury to the State or to the Democratic
party. When a nomination is fairly and
regularly made the friends of every
other aspirant must rally to the support
of the nominee with jnst the same zeal
as if their favorite had received the
honor. In this way only can the or
ganization of the party be maintained,
its discipline be enforced, the success of
the party and the safety of the State be
assured.
We know nothing of the peculiar
state of affairs which onr correspondent
says exists in the Seventh District. We
have heard many things tending to show
that a large number of Democrats there
are restive under party restraint.—
We are willing to concede that Dr. Fel
ton is an able man and a sound Demo
crat, but we dfeeply regretted his elec
tion because it was a triumph over party
organization that may prove fruitful of
mischief in the future. We know that
as a party becomes powerful it usually
becomes corrupt, and that the machine
ry which was intended to secure good
government for the people is often
used to promote the purely personal
schemes of ambitious and unscrupulous
men. But the remedy for such a state
ot affairs, when it does exist, is speedily
fonnd and easily applied. The fight
must be made in tbe party, not out of
the party; before the nomination, not
after the nomination. The people are
the fountain of power, as in monarchial
governments it is asserted that the
sovereign is the fountain of honor.—
Whenever the people choose to show
their power and assert their rights,
cliques and rings and combinations fall
before them like grain before the blade
of the reaper. But this power must
be manifested intelligently and
at the proper time. It must not
be used like the strength of a blind
SAmhson to pall down the temple and
bury rings and the people in common
ruin. Let the people in every county
attend the preliminary meeting of the
party and take control of the party ma
chinery, as they have the right to do and
the power to do. Let them select dele
gates who will be true representatives of
their constituents and who will nomi
nate the men of their choice. It may be
stated as a self-evident proposition that
wherever rings rule the people it is be
cause they people are shamelessly indif
ferent to the rule of the rings. Between
now and the seoond of August there is
ample time for work. After that time
it will be too late. When the Conven
tion meets and makes a nomination reg
ularly and fairly the nominee must re
ceive the cordial and united support of
his party. We hope to hear no more of
independent candidates in Georgia.
THE RECENT LYNCHING IN SOUTH
CAROLINA.
The readers of the Chronicle and
Sentinel are fully acquainted with the
details of the recent tragedies in South
Carolina: the fiendish mnrder of the
Harmon family and the speedy punish
ment meted out to the murderers. Gov.
Chamberlain was swift to issne a pro
clamation denonucing with his finest
rhetoric the lynching, and offering a re
ward of two hundred dollars, each, for
the arrest (of the parties implicated in
the affair. In the letter of our Pine
House correspondent, published else
where in our paper this morning, it is
intimated that the thief-taker Hubbard
has determined to reap the rich harvest
offered by the proclamation, and is or
ganizing a band for the purpose of mak
ing arrests. Our correspondent also
states that the people have no idea of
snbmitting to such spoliation, and will
stop Hubbard and his fellow scamps
in their work. When it is reoollected
that the scene of the crime and
of the punishment was laid near the
line between Abberille and Edgefield
and that the people of both counties at
tended the execution to the number of
at least two hundred, it will be readily
seen that Chambbrlain has given Hub
bard an opportunity to play for very
high stakes. Forty thousand dollars is
a handsome sum even in the eyes of the
magnificent thieves of South Carolina,
and as suboration of perjury is by no
means a lost art, as was abundantly
shown in the Kn-Klux trials of 1871,
the prize will not be hard to win, unless
tli6 gang should find the people in their
path. It is well known that the Chron
icle and Sentinel has not been the ad
vocate of or apologist for lynch law.
We have hesitated to condemn the
administration of justice by self ap
pointed judge?, juries and ejecutioners
when attempted in our own State or else
where. Bat we do say that if lynch-
ing Was ever justified by any cir
cumstances the execution of the mur
derers of the Harmon family was
justifiable. An aged man and his wife
had been butchered in the most barbar
ous manner, the house plundered and
set on fire, and arson and robbery added
to murder. Tne perpetrators of the in
human deed were discovered and arrest
ed. There was not the slightest donbt
of their guilt, for they mads fall con
fession ot their crime, and related every
bloody detail of the savage affair.—
The question then arose yrbai should be
done with the criminals ? In any ocher
State there oonld have been bat one an
swer to the question: Turn them over
to judges and jnries and let punish
ment come through the regular and law
ful channel of the Courts. But, un
fortunately, iu South Carolina, the
Courts, with a few honorable exceptions,
cannot be trusted for the enforcement
of the law or the punishment of crime.
Venial partisans disgrace tbfe judicial
ermine, corrupt commissioners pack the
jury boxes with ignorance and corruption
until the law has beoome a mockery
and Courts ot J nstice a farce. If by
some accident that almost assumes the
form of a miracle a criminal is oonyiuted
the Executive of the State stands ready
to reward crime with a pardon. Con
fronted by such facta as these the citi
zens of Abbeville and Edgefield deter
mined to take into their own hands the
punishment of a crime which, if per
mitted to go unpunished, would prove a
perpetual menace to the life and proper
ty of every citizen in the two counties.
The confessed perpetrators of arson,
robbery and mnrder, cruel and coward
ly, were punished as the law in any
other State wonld have punished them.
There was no attempt at concealment.
The trial was conducted, the verdict was
rendered, the sentence was executed in
the open light of day and in the presence
of nnmerons spectators. It was more the
judgment of a legal tribunal than tbe
deed of a mob. Of course Hubbard and
his gang know the name of every man
connected with this irregnlar bnt most
jnst execution, and they know that for
every one of the two hnndred whom they
arrest, the white tax payers of the State
will be forced to pay them the sum of two
hundred dollars. Before he attempts
to reap the rich harvest which Chamber
lain’s proclamation has spread before
bis blade Hubbard and his confeder
ates had better connt well the cost of
their undertaking. The people of Edge
field and Abbeville feel that they have
committed no crime, and they may be
tempted to offer some resistance to
the wholesale arrests which are said to
be in contemplation. Even with the
militia of Hamburg to back him in his
raid he may find the forty thousand dol
lars offered rather difficult to be eirned.
GEORGIA BONDS.
The telegraph informed us Saturday
night that the bonds issued by tbe State
for the purpose of taking up the past
due coupons on the Macon and Bruns
wick and North and South Rail
roads, endorsed by the State, had
been sold at a premium. The issue
authorized amounted to five hnndred
and forty thousand dollars, and the
Governor was directed to sell them and
use the proceeds in liquidating the in
terest account above mentioned. Sealed
proposals for purchasing them were in
vited and the bids were opened Satur
day. The bids considerably exceeded
the amount of the issue and some of
the applications were necessarily re
jected. The heaviest purchases Vere
made in the name of the following par
ties : Moran Brothers, New York, $120,-
000; Backer & Cohen, New York, SIOO,-
000; John E. Jones, President Central
Bank of Macon, $50,000; John J. Gres
ham, of Macon; $50,000; Cotton States
Life Insurance Company, $25,000; Wm.
Henry Woods, Savannah, $155,000;
Gen. A. B. Lawton, Savannah, $15,000.
The remainder of the bonds were sold
in quantities varying from $2,000 to $5,-
000 to citizens of Georgia. It is stated
that the highest bids were made by
citizens of Georgia, who were, of course,
given preference in the allotment. All
of the bonds were sold above par, but
the premium must have been small, as
the highest bid only reached one hun
dred and one and a half. The daily
Bulletin , of June 9th, quotes Georgia
bonds as follows :
Georgia sixes 94
Georgia sevens 105
Georgia sevens (endorsed) 103
Georgia sevens (gold quarterly) 106
Georgia eights (the Nutting series) are
quoted at a much higher figure on ac
count of the higher interest which they
bear. If a Georgia seven is worth one
hundred and five in New York it ought
to be worth even more in Georgia. It
is true the issue is a large one and of
course more difficult to dispose of than
a few thousands. If the entire amount
has been placed so as to nett the State
a premium of one and a half per cent,
the tax payers perhaps have no good
cause of complaint. The safest invest
ment that can be made now is in the
bonds of a solvent, prosperous and
wealthy State like Georgia.
THE ACTION OF COLUMBIA COUNTY.
The first county to elect delegates to the
Democratic State Convention is Columbia,
and it has chosen a delegation in favor of
Colquitt for Governor. The meeting was a
large one, held on Tuesday. It also adopted
resolutions strongly endorsing Gov. Smith's
administration, and recommending the adop
tion of the majority rule by the Convention.
Columbia is one fit the counties of the Eighth
Congressional District. Was it overlooked in
sending round that “circular” calling on Gov.
Johnson to become a candidate and thus add a
new element of distraction ? We do not be
lieve that Gen. Colquitt’s friends need care,
so far the cause of their favorite is involved,
whether the majorily or the two-thirds rule is
adopted by the Convention.— Columbus Times.
The Columbus Times is welcome to all
the Colquitt capital it can make out of
the Columbia county meeting. Some
of the “true inwardness” of the meeting
was revealed in a letter published in the
Chronicle and Sentinel of last Sunday
morning, which we commend to the
consideration of the Times. The
“secret circular,” which so greatly dis
tresses the Colquitt faction, has already
been sufficiently explained except to those
who are hopelessly dull or utterly mali
cious. We can safely say, however, that if
Herschel V. Johnson had stated over
his own signature his willingness to be
a candidate he would have carried Col
umbia county without difficulty. The
people were told that Governor John on
did not wish his name used in connec
tion with the office, and this statement
indneed them to declare for General
Colquitt, who was their second choice.
We learn this from what we consider
very good authority. The stock in
trade of General Colquitt’s friends in
Middle Georgia is the statement that
Governor Johnson is satisfied with his
present position and will not accept a
a nomination.
TIJE RESUMPTION ACT.
The House of Representatives has at
last given good reason for believing that
it will repeal the Resumption Act. A
large number of Democratic and one or
two Republican State Conventions have
demanded its repeal and the House has
been unable to resist the pressure
brought to bear against it. Soon after
the assembling of Congress a Currency
Caucus was held, bnt after adjourning
time and again without doing anything
it finally adjourned and it looked as if
the fraud would be permitted to remain
upon thestatnte book. But, as we have
said, the people spoke so often and so
emphatically on the subject that Con
gressmen who have to face their constit
uents again this Fall have begun to
think serionsly of repeal. In order to
accomplish this it was determined to
change the rules so as to give the Com
mittee on Banking andCurrenoy author
ity to report at any time any bill relat
ing to the currency. A test vote was
taken on the proposition to change the
rules gpd the vote stood one hundred
and fifteen yeas to ninety-seven nays—a
clear majority of eighteen iu fay or of re
peal. Of the Georgia delegation Messrs.
Blount, Cook, Felton, Habtbidoe,
Hill and Smith voted for it, Mr. Cand
ler voted against it; and Messrs. Har
ris and Stephens were absent. W e pre
sume that if Messrs. Harris and Sjeph
ass had been present they would both
have voted for repeal. We feel very
confident that this vote will be sustain
ed by the people of Georgia. The
Resumption Act is a fraud of the first
water—is a delusion and a snare. It
has been a menace to the whole country.
It has prostrated industry, paralyzed
manufactures snd fettered commerce.
To let it continue 9 threat for
three years longer wonid be simply
suicidal. The country can not stand
three years more of idle factories and
unemployed labor. If it is to the inter
est of the country to resume specie pay
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE 21, 1876.
ments let na have immediate re nrup
tion; if the country is not prepared for
snch a step let ns say so. In any event
let ns have done with a lyiDg law that
can accomplish nothing but which
threatens everything.
THE VOICE OF WII.KES.
[ Washington Gazette—Editorial.]
It is stated that Hon. H. V. Johnson
would accept the nomination for Gov
ernor if tendered to him. We have al
ways been of the opinion that he would
do so. Mr. Johnson belongs to the old
school of upright and pure politicians,
who believe in the office seeking the
man and not in the man seeking the
office. He does not think it becoming
to go over the State and stamp it for a
nomination, but that it is time enough
to exert himself in that way after the
people have put him forward as their
standard bearer. Mr. Johnson wonld
make a most excellent Governor, and
our people should not forget the ser
vices of those who have given their
lives to their country. We do not deem
it proper to advocate the claims of any
one for the office of Governor until after
the nomination by the party. We will
willingly give onr support to that nomi
nee ; bnt we think it right and proper
that the press should make the fact
known that Mr. Johnson, if nominated,
wonld not decline to accept. He is not
seeking the nomination and has so
stated, but hus not said he would not
serve as Governor of Georgia if the peo
ple see fit to elect him. *
SOUTHERN RAILROAD.
The Mobile Register says that of tke
eleven Southern States—Virginia, West
Virginia, North and South Carolina,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi—
there are 85 railroad companies, which
own, or control by lease, 12,620 miles of
railway.
Thirty-nine of these companies, con
trolling 6,135 miles (about 48} per cent
of the whole), have either gone through
bankruptcy since the completion of their
roads, or are now in possession of the
Courts preparatory to foreclosure. By
consolidation, lease and (purchase, 18
companies control 6,033 miles of road;
while 43 Dthers, owning or controlling
less than 100 miles each, aggregate only
1,954 miles—or one-half the companies
own only about one-sixth of the whole.
The South Carolina Railroad, from
Charleston to Hamburg—the firs' road
of any importance in the South—was
commenced in 1828 and finished in 1836.
It was built under the direction of
Horatio Allen, the distinguished and
now remarkable civil engineer, who
established the Novelty Iron Works of
New York. This road was originally
built upon piles, with a guage of five
feet, and there is but little doubt that the
first American built locomotive was run
upon it, and which originated the ex
pressive description of the “Devil in
Harness.” The adoption of a gauge of
five feet by this road has resulted in the
construction of nine thousand nine hun
dred and thirty-five miles of this gauge,
and which now extends from the Gulf
of Mexico to Wilmington and" Charlotte,
N. C., Norfolk, Richmond, Evansville.
Louisville, Paducah, Cairo, Memphis
and Vicksburg, at which places it meets
the Northern gauge of four feet eight
and half inches.
The following roads in the South were
completed in the order named, and prior
to 1842: The Petersburg, Seaboard and
Roanoke; Wilmington and Weldon;
Richmond and Petersburg; Georgia,
and Georgia Central Railroads. Other
roads, as the Cedar Point at Mobile,
Pontchatrain, Vicksburg, Decatur and
Tuscumbia, and Montgomery and West
Point, were among the earliest com
menced, but they were either not finish
ed before 1842, or were abandoned or
absorbed by other lines.
Of the six roads (including the South
Carolina) as first finished, they are all,
except the Seaboard and Roanoke, now
in the possession of the original com
panies, and with one exception, are pay
ing dividends. In the early history of
these roads two of them—the South Car
olina, and Wilmington and Weldon—
borrowed money in England at 5 and 6
per cent, interest, without mortgage or
hypothecated securities, or collaterals,
to finish the roads, and (people were
honest then) it was unpaid at the begin
ning of the war, but at its close, satis
factory arrangements were made to se
cure these debts in full. This is a bright
spot in Southern credit, and in strong
contrast with the darkness in which
Southern credit has been enveloped
since the war. There are 4,403 miles of
railway owned and controlled by twenty
six companies, now in possession of the
State and United States Courts, under
going proceedings of foreclosure. The
cost of the lawyer’s fees and incidental
costs of Court has been in other eases
from SSOO to $1,200 per mile of road.
Let those who complain of these “mo
nopolies” and high charges for transpor
tation, think over these figures, and rec
ollect that the stock and bondholders
have already lost $150,000,000 by fail
ures and an equal amount in other roads
which pay neither interest or dividends.
The foregoing does not include any road
west of the Mississippi river, or any part
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, or
any road north of the latter in West Vir
ginia.
ANOTHER BRANCH OF KNOW NOTH
INOISM,
The “American Alliance," an anti-
Catholic and anti-Foreign Association,
has issued a call for a National Confer
ence to be held in the city of Philadel
phia on the 4th of July, 1876, “for the
purpose of acting upon nominations for
President and Vice-President of the
United States, upon the principles ad
vocated by the American Alliance, and
also to recommend an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States, to en
able the voter to cast his vote directlv
for President and Yice-President, in
stead of as provided at present. A spe
cial call has been issued for such pur
pose, and each State Council will send
two delegates to such conference, by or
der of this committee, and approved by
the Grand Council of the jJnited States.
All American societies or orders who de
sire to take part in the movement are
cordially invited to appoint two dele
gates to confer with the special commit
tee of the Alliance." The American Al
liance is a secret organization which op
poses the extension of suffrage to for
eigners who come to this countiy, and
which is also hostile to the Catholic re
ligion. The following is an extract
from the address which has been re
cently issued:
Without being able to read or write, in many
| instances, and even to understand the lan
guage of the country, the foreign new made
voter easily falls a prey fo some petty political
aspirant for place, is marched to the polls, and
l)ia vote of sets that of the citizen who mnst
bp a resident of the pountfy twenty-one years
before exercising the same privilege. By this
system, the balls of Congress and Stats Legis
latives have been disgraced, and seats eeoored
in the same by unfit persons, and in some in
stances where the proper plaoe for such was
in entirely different institutions. The Ameri
can Alliance recommend that American born
citizens, only, be elected to official positions of
high trust jpfi psponsihifity, and (while ad
mitting the right of every one to the enjoy
ment to the fullest extent of his political or
religious creed and convictions) favor the
keeping of the Bible as the “comer stone of
pur liberties,” and jts use in the public schools
and other institutions of learning in onr land,
without any compromise of any kind with any
sect whatever. The orders of the American
Alliance have secretly organized, and carefully
watched the intrigues of an insidnons and
crafty foe to popular liberty throughout the
world, which, driven from other nations, hopes
and seeks to obtain a foothold in America.
The only foreigners that the “Alli
ance” proposes to exempt from its
sweeping proscription are those who
fonght against the Sonth during the
late war. These tfie “Alliance ” pro
poses to invest with eitizenship as a
“ badge of honor.” The Sun well says of
the order : Here is anew scheme of
political reform to be accomplished
through the exclnsion of foreign born
oitizens from the high places of office,
and the election .thereto of native
Americans only. The authors of this
project do not seem to remember that
those corruptionists who have been dis
gracing the country in Washington are
native Americans, not Germans, Irish
or Chinese. Boss Grant and his bro
ther Orvh. were not of foreign birth,
nor were Babcock and his whisky allies,
nor were Bklknaf and Bobeson, nor
was Blaine, nor were the most notorious
of the others of their kind. These
scamps ought to be astftlbied of ravag
ing the country which gave them birth ;
bnt they do not give proper signs of
such repentance. They should be
driven out from among us; but the
honest citizens born in foreign coun
tries, who never plundered the Treas
ury or robbed their neighbors, should
not be deprived of any of their political
rights.
THE SENTIMENT OF THE SOUTH.
A Southern correspondent of the New
York World has not been misled by the
“quoted reading matter” journals’ ut
terances on the Presidential question.
The correspondent writes:
The press of the South to-day is not a reflex
of popular sentiment on the Presidential ques
tion. Even the experience of the World, in
“culling of samples” can make little of its ever
differing and distracted utterances. Passing
through Georgia and talking with clear-headed
and business men, you would be startled at
this distortion of views by the papers. Before
entering the State you see it as about equally
divided between Governor Tilden and the
Great Unknown. Half the papers, and about
the same ratio of politicians, ring tbe changes
on “reform,” “Hard Money” and the ‘ Cer
tainty of New York.” The other half, while
perhaps equally in earnest, yell constantly a
warning note about “Wall street domination”
and the “danger of political hacks.” Indeed,
I was ready to believe Georgia in a wild fer
ment over the Presidential question, half the
State Tilden mad, the other half mad with
Tilden. But practical inquiry shows nothing
of the sort whatever. Long and earnest con
versation with thinking men has convinced me
that Georgia is neither excited nor desiious to
expr.-ssany preference. 1 deduce the feeling
of her better population to be this: Give ns
the strongest man possible, from all points of
Northern view, and we will hail his nomination
as none has been hailed for twenty years. Do
not count Georgia’s preference; for, beyond
honest reform of the Government, she has
none. If Tilden be iudeed the man who is
most certain to carry New York, New Jersey
and other doubtful States, let St. Louis give us
Tilden. If any other man is more certain to
carry New York, give us that man and never
say Tilden again. What the South wants now
is not principles, not men, hut safety! She will
cast her vote, as a unit, for any man she be
lieves certain of carrying enough votes outside of
her own borders to make up, with Iter's, a bare
majority !
The great trouble with Governor Til
den is that it is not at all eertain he can
carry enough States outside of the South
to give him a majority of the electoral
votes.
MORE MISREPRESENTATION.
The Covington Star publishes a col
umn concerning the letter sent to Gov
ernor Johnson. It says, among other
things :
It also appears that they addressed a circu
lar letter to a number of prominent citizens in
the doubtful counties, requesting their signa
tures and their pledge to turn their respective
counties over to Mr. Johnson when the pri
mary meetings should be held for the selection
of delegates to the State Convention. We have
not seen this secret ciroular, but we are in
formed this is the purport of it. If this be
true, we ask tbe people of Newton county if
any half dozen “prominent” citizens have the
right to pledge the support of the whole
county to any man, no matter who he may be ?
We have no fight to make against Mr. John
son, so far as his legitimate claims for Guber
natorial honors are concerned, other than that
we think he is too old and feeble in health to
be drawn back into the excitement of political
strife for politic iT position, or to assume the
respousibilities and onerous duties of Chief
Executive of a great State like Georgia, but
we do most earnestly and emphatically de
nounce all schemes that propose to pledge the
support of the Democratic party of this county
to any man by a half dozen men who claim to
be “prominent.”
The Covington Star should know very
well thatitdoesnot “appear” that “prom
inent citizens in doubtful counties” were
asked for a “pledge to turn over their
respective counties to Mr. Johnson.”
The Covington Star should know very
well that the persons whom it charges
with getting up this “circular” have
denied in the mest positive language the
truth of the silly slander put in circula
tion by interested parties. If the Cov
ington Star chooses, however, to pin*its
faith to a lie, we have no earthly objec
tion to its doing so, We merely repeat
the assertion that the “pledging” busi
ness is a ridiculous falsehood that
has deceived no one except those who
wanted to be deceived.
NOT TRUE.
The DarieD Timber Gazette says:
“Mr. Stephens is daily improving in
health. He is now able to write.’’ This
is not true. If we did not know the
editor of the Darien Timber Gazette to
be a conscientious and bard working
journalist we shoald say that he had
been vaccinated with the virus of An
narias and Sapphira. Mr. Stephens is
not “able to write.” He never was able
to write, and he never will be able to
write. If the editor of the Darien
Timber Gazette had ever received a let
ter from the Georgia Commoner he
would never have made snch an auda
cious statement; if the in
his office had ever set np any of the Com
moner’s manuscript they would have
insisted upon either a strike or a re
traction. Mr. Stephens does not
“write.” He doesn’t understand the
first principles of the art. He has never
learned a single rale of chirography;
or, if hp has, scorns the knowledge as a
hungry home does a bag of buck-shot.
When he feels like corresponding with
any one of his numerous friends and ad
mirers, he simply dips his pen in the
ink barrel, pats a galvanic battery in
communication with his elbow and
turns the crank. The result is a scrawl
which by comparison would make Hor
ace Greeley a writing master and
convert the manuscript of Bloss
into copy-plate. The famous di
plomat, Talleyrand, asserted that
speech was made to ooneeal thought
Mr. Stephens takes issue with the
French statesman, and spys that writing
was invented to conceal thought. So far
as hjs individual experience is con
cerned, Mr. Stephens is eminently cor
rect. No man has ever been able to use
one of his letters against him, because
no one has ever been able to read them.
He might write a letter to-morrow
recommending the assassination of
Queen Victoria, and prove upon the
trial of the case that the missive was an
essay upon the proper observance of the
Fourth of July. s?e beg again to re
mind the editor of the Timber Gazette
that Mr. Stephens is not t/ow, never was
and never wifi be “able to write.”
OUR RAILWAY KINGS.
VANDERBILT AND HIS CAREER.
“Gath” Sketches One of the Notable Men
of the Time—His Early History, and Eater
Gigantic Transactions—Personal Pecnliari
ties.
New York, June 7. —Commodore Van
derbilt—so called by courtesy, although
he was never a sea curtain, but merely a
merchant shipper, employing other cap
tains at starvation wages—has been sick
a good while of stomachic and digestive
diseases, both bladder and rectum. He
cannot long survive, as he is eighty
three years old. The New York newspa
per offices are filled with biographies of
his life, as he is the richest single opera
tor of his period. They expect him to
die shortly. I see no reason, therefore,
for delaying to take up the lesson of his
enterprise, fallibility and example.
Vanderbilt’s father had been a very
ordinary huckster and boat sailer; his
mother was of Covenanter-Scotch de
scent from Scotch Plains, N. J. —a su
perior woman. She had been a woman
hired out. His first wife and mother as
well kept taverns. He was bred among
a rough crew—oystermen, ’longshore
men and their girls—and had .no educa
tion nor association other than passed
through his ferry and boat. But he
possessed the power of making women
feel his will and talent. Men disliked
and were afraid of him. He had no
manners, and mashed his way to for
tune. Gibbons, a tobacco chewing plant
er from Georgia, who was fighting Aaron
Ogden, first employed him. From him
Vanderbilt got the idea of opposition as
a standard principle and making lines
buy him off. His whole seafaring life
was an heroic form of blackmail—Claude
Duval! After fifty years of this sort
of work he concluded to abandon the
seas and take to railroading.
A severe critic of Vanderbilt, whose
means and knowledge of the man gave
his positive expressions more than pass
ing respect, said, as the old man was
supposed to be dying: “He was not a
creator of anything, like a Fulton or a
Stephenson ; he merely found a place to
invest his money at a late period in life.
He did have immense force of character,
like an Attila or any other conqueror ;
but I think he was destitute of both af
fection and principle. The pursuit of
power had made him so supremely sel
fish that he was jealous of his successful
son. As he cared for nobody, nobody
not interested.cared for him. He will
pass out of memory as thoroughly as his
once famous excursion in the North
Star.” The same authority added that
he once refused to fill an unlimited or
der to buy Lake Shore for Commodore
Vanderbilt unless he would put it in
writing. The Commodore declined. “He
would have seen me ruined without a
twinge, as he ruined men on purpose,
apparently to show his contempt of feel
ing. For how could a man have princi
ple who directed those who trusted him
to make investments which he instantly
undermined. By way of climax, this
hard critic concluded: “Vanderbilt’s
confidence was seen in his driving. He
was so blind that he could hardly see
the hair on his horse, and jet he rode
out every day, being several times
thrown into the road. He had just sense
enough to believe that if he kept the
middle of the road people would get out
of his way. , That’s the course he took
in all things; he never turned out unless
compelled to. His great age befriended
him; for he made the bulk of his fortune
after he was|seventy years old. It would
be in keeping with his character to dis
appoint, or, as we say in the street, to
‘bilk’ every expectant to his riohes.” It
is general opinion that Vanderbilt's
second wife is his superior in discern
ment, sooial tact and the higher quali
ties of man and woman. She is related
to have said: “I used to have an awe
of the Commodore, but on acquaintance
he’s a good deal of a humbug, like all the
men ” He came home ope day badly
hurt about the head from a driving ac
cident, his speotaoles having cut his
forehead and his hair was full of dirt.—
He was so gruff on being asked over the
stairs what was the matter, that Mrs.
Vanderbilt concluded to subject him to
discipline; so she did not go near until
his roar of “Frank, Frank,” was reduoed
to an old man's considerate entreaty.
It was she who influenced him to endow
the university that bears his name. Mrs.
Vanderbilt was once before married, not
happily. It is denied that she was his
kinswoman, like his first wife. The
first was named Johnsop, the sppopd,
Crawford, He married again from re
spect, and for society and fixed matri
monial habits; there comes an age when
nothing less than a wife is companion
able, not even a sister or a nun. There
appears to have been, at petulant limes,
a sort of childish ferocity about Vander
bilt, a part of the mighty selfishness of
unrestrained power. One day, it is re
lated, a gentleman of finance called
upon him with a fine new pair of im
ported horses. He and Vanderbilt were
intimate at the time. “I have got the
finest team on this Island, Commo
dore.” “Oh, no i” exclaimed the old
man; “that’s not the case. I keep the
best horses in New York.” He was
called to the window and saw the
superb animals, fresh from the
ship, thoroughbreds, perfect in form.
His quick judgment of horses is
said to have forced him to recognize a
team superior to his own. With a
moment of petulant envy and impotence
of anything to say he snapped out :
“ Bead that letter !” It was in a lady’s
possession, and he hesitated. "Bead
it !” he repeated. The gentleman saw
no relevanoy in the letter to anything
that had happened, and it should have
made any man of vanity, even if unfeel
ing, ashamed. An old man in Califor
nia wrote that he wished to die withont
an enemy on earth, and was now in
mortal siokness. He reminded Vander
bilt that he had deprived him of his
wealth, and implored him to make resti
tution and let his children be kept from
want. The tone of the letter carried
conviction of its truth and heart-felt
feeling. " Now, do you know why old
Vanderbilt ordered that letter read ?”
asked the person who was present. ° It
made me feel ashamed for him, as did
the other person of his family. Why,
it was a reckless alternative of cruelty,
like that an Algerine Dey feels when
something irritating has happened. He
saw my horses and was incensed, and he
did the most wilfully unpleasant thing
he could. He insulted himself to resent
my horses.”
It is probable that an old man of
Eositiye and Undisputed nature might
ave developed oppositely to opposite
classes of acquaintances or hardened at
heart with the infirmities of years. The
pursuit of m c re wealth by a man who
has had neither childhood nor culture,
but was always self-relying and driven
in upon coarse if able household socie
ty, shuts out from his world half its
light and tenderness. The unused tastes
and senses gradually wither as in old
maids, and leave only the pleasnres on
which one had immolated himself. An
educated Vanderbilt must have been a
hypocrite, a Pecksniff; he was only an
old Chuzzlewit, seeing nothing hut men
dicants and parasites in human society.
His first wife died but a little while be
fore his seoond marriage, having borne
him thirteen children, who grew up and
lived with him nearly half a century.
Her face was full of power and wrinkles
of labor, frugality and child-birth. She
made the holiday tour of Europe with
him, and Joel Hart, at Fl°f6Doe> meas
ured her for a bqat.
Tfie grandeur of Vanderbilt’s finan
cial transactions was shown in fiis Har
lem corner at the close of the war. The
stock was selling at forty in the market,
par at fifty. If there were 70,000 shares
it required only $2,800,000 to bay the
whole stock. At par Vanderbilt k Cos.
bought up the whole stock, while the
"shorts” offered 60. Having got the
stock it went up gradually to 180, at or
abont which figure the brokers and their
principals had to settle or break, mak
ing a profit to the Vanderbilt pool of
say nine millions, or nearly three times
the whole amonnt of the investment.
One of his greatest days was late in
December, 1868. He had purchased or
controlled aboflt 130,000 shares of New
York Central stock. Getting together a
quorum of directors jo night session,
they declared a dividend qf eighty per
oent. and announced it next morning.
The stock almost instantly jumped from
180 to lfis, and the short interest had to
pay over five millions of dollars to the
Commodore’s coterie. On another oc
casion he was conveniently unable to
remember in a Court of Jastice a trans
action where he sold for a million dol
lars preminm a “call” for 60,000 shares
of Erie in four months. The magnitude
of such a privilege and tfip operator's cool
head and indifferent memdry surprised
the Court and SVen the prosecutor. He
ifais _ hot dishonest, yet irresponsible,
particularly to the constituted powers of
the law and the tax collector The Sher
iff of Bichmond county told me fhat he I
defied point b.l|n| owning a jiiece of 1
property on Staten Island, which was
universally and almost immemorially
his. He never paid his taxes as honest
ly as A. T. Stewart.
A well-informed gentleman says that
Vanderbilt has of stock, chiefly Central
and New Haven, and of bonds, Harlem
and Lake Shore. He gave SIOO,OOO to
the fiance of his son George, who attend
ed Dr. Chole’s school, at Newport, and
afterwards West Point, and died about
the age of twenty-six, in Franoe. This
son was his finest appearing offspring, a
cool, dare-devil fellow, uot very warm
hearted, but a natural leader of men.
He attached people to him without coz
ening their sympathies. People say that
the Commodore felt this blow as much
as anything that has ever happened; he
promptly provided for the unmarried
lady, and she is still living on the prop
erty, near Fort Washington.
THE COLUMBUS SUICIDE.
A PLUNGE INTO THE RIYER AND
ETERNITY.
A Young School Girl Oeatroya Her Own Life
by Jumping Into the River—Gloomy
Thoughts the Probable Cause—The Daugh
ter of Rev. Dr. YV. P. Harrison—The Body
Not Yet Recovered—The Sad Details.
[Columbus Enquirer.]
Yesterday, abont 11 o’clock, Miss
Lillie Harrison, a daughter of Rev. Wm.
P. Harrison, D; D., a former pastor of
St. Lake Chnreh, in this oity, and now
of the First Methodist Church in At
lanta, leaped from a rock into the wa
ters of the Chattahoochee river and was
seen to rise no more. Her age will be
fourteen years next August. She was a
girl of lovely character and a remarkable
brightness and depth of intellect. The
scene of the suicide was at the foot of
St. Clair street. She jumped fgom what
the boys call rock No. 1.
She went to the residence of Major
Allen in the morniug and, while there,
asked Miss Belle Allen, a sohoolmate, to
go with her to the river that they might
go in swimming together. The reply
was that neither could swim and would
surely be drowned if they should ven
ture in. Miss Harrison then said that
it was her desire to be drowned. She
also spoke of some paper which she had
bought that morning that she might
write to her father, and mentioned, in
connection, that she was displeased with
the paper any way, but would nevter
have use for i,t again. She finally left
Majofe Allen’s, wearing Miss Belle’s hat,
aad Went to the honse of Mr. John Bar
nett, corner Front and St. Clair streets.
She met Miss Lucy Barnett. She men
tioned to Miss Barnett that she would
like to go in fhe river, and requested
that she (Miss Barnett) would go with
her. Miss Barnett refused, telling her
that such oonduct would not do, besides
they both might lose eheir lives. Miss
Harrison then remarked that she would
go alone, and so she did.
She proceeded to the water’s edge,
and then turning started on her way
back to give to Miss Barnett Miss Al
len’s bat. She met a negro woman on
the bank, to whom she remarked that
she did not wish to soil the hat, as she
was going to jump in the river to de
stroy her life. She insisted that the ne
gro should carry it to Miss 8., but the
woman refused,' and begged the girl to
alter her reckless resolution. The doom
ed one then remarked that she herself
would deliver the hat, and immediately
did so, at Mr. Barnett’s dwelling, tell
ing Miss ®. her intention, which of
course was nqt believed, as it was thought
to be mere talk on her part. After this
communication she again started to the
river, and on reaching the bank, which
is about a forty yards slope to the water,
she discovered one Mr. Jim Names, who,
standing not far off, she thought, and
correctly too, was watefiipg She
immediately rqsfied for the river, Mr.
Names pursuing her. When he had
gotten within about forty feet of her
she had reached the water’s edge—she
tore her collar loose in front, looked
around with a smile as though exulting
over a conquest, gave three syfiqg* *nd
leaped from thp rock. Sbe was never
seen to rise; and now her spirit has
fiown away forever.
This young girl was exceedingly high
toned, refined and ambitions. She was
a pupil of the female college in this
oity, and whether her delicate nature
had been wounded in any wait PI she
thought her praiseworthy emulations
woqjfi fip blasted, are things to be taken
into consideration in speculating upon
the cause of the desperate.act. She had
been raised from her infancy in Coiam
bus by Miss Mary Hodges, a highly es
teemed lady of this city, *nfl was very
strongly attached to her, and whwfl she
called "mother/' ohe (Miss garrison),
on being informed last year that she.
would have to go home to her father in
Atlanta to live, exhibited great emotions
of grief at the idea. She was allowed,
however, to remain with her adopted
mother up to the time of her death, buf
was told that she must go this Bummer
to her father’s homg. This again seemed
to troqblg b§. There are many suppo
sitions as to the tragedy, but no one
knows the secret but Him above.
The Body Found.
[Special Telegram to the CTwOftwJ? Sentinel[.]
Conyipps, Ga., June 14.--The body of
Miss Lillie, daughter of Bev. Dr. Wm.
P. Harrison, of Atlanta, was found this
afternoon, after being fifty-one hoars in
the water, The form was swollen and
blackened beyond recognition. She
suicided Monday. She was buried here.
The body had floated a mile and a half
down the river.
COTTON.
Report of the New Orleans Department Na
tional Cotton Exchange.
New Orleans, June 10, 1876.
To the President and Hoard of Di
rectors New Orleans Cotton Exchange :
Gentlemen —Your Committee an In
formation and Statistics beg leave to
submit the following report for May,
condensed from replies of correspond
ents in seetions allotted to this depart
ment by the National Cotton Exchange,
viz:
Louisiana—From thirty-three parishes
we have received eighty replies, average
date 26th May, which report an average
decrease in the area planted in cotton of
nearly ten per cent, A large proportion
of the cultivable lands of the river
parishes has been inundated, equal to
about one per cent, of the whole State,
and the waters will suhsifie too late for
farmers to replant. The season is at
least three weeks late, and the weather
mnoh less favorable than usual. The
stand of cotton is fair, considering the
inclement season, bnt its condition is
not good, the plant being small and very
grassy. Heavy rains have done consid
erable damage. Labor is about the
same in numbers, hut m°re efficient.
No commercial fertilisers used.
Mississippi—We have received R>l re
plies from counties in, this State,
bearing dates from 25th May to Sth inst.
The decrease acreage planted is small
—one to two per *oent. The damage
from overflow is confined mostly to the
river counties, and is estimated at abont
eight per cent, of their production.
Weather very generally less favorahle,
complaints of two much rain and cold
nights. Stands fair, though the plant is
small and backward, drop from two to
three weeks later than last year. Labor
good. No fertilizers used in this State.
The present condition of the crap is not
encouraging, the plant heing in the grass
and backward, oooasioned by heavy
rains. Complaint is also made of in
ferior seed in many sections.
Arkansas —We have received (53) fifty
three answers from (23) twenty-three
counties (dates ranging from 19th May
to 2d Jane), and they indicate a de
crease in acreage of about (8) eight per
cent. The damage by overflow appears
to have been confined to Ohicot, Desha
and Drew counties; the first nailed has
suffered most and to thp extent of (40)
forty per cent., whereas the injury in
Desha is estimated at (20) twenty per
cent., and Drew (lfi) ten per cent.
The weather is reported equally as
favorable as last year, hut in some coun
ties it has been wet and unseasonably
cold. The stands are represented as
very good in most counties, although
the crop is said to be abont (10) ten
days later than last year. The labor is
good, and abont eqnal in efficiency and
nnmber, though somewhat demoralized
in the inundated districts, and the pres
ent condition of the crop, with very few
exceptions, is good. Little or no ferti
lizers are used in this State, Harrison
Watts, L. F. Eerie, L. F> Golsan, W. A.
Gwyu, xidward ’Morphy, B. C. Cam
mack, ' L. Lacombe, Committee on In
formation and Statistics,
Col. gives tfiia as an epiaode of
ms experience ap a ;farmer: If a man
®°W“ invent a hog that was all middling
ibe would nave a dead thing, Whether
| the hog is that thing, will be the subject
tys next agricultural eswj.
$2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID.
THE state:
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Doctor John Coyle is administening
“laughing gas” to the citizens of Monti
oello.
Mayor Hammock was the recipient of
a superb bouquet from au unknown lady
friend.
The prettiest girl in Griffin chews gum,
and talks about the boys who have no
gnmption.
The first Lucas palace sleeper ran
through on the Air Line Saturday to
Richmond. Mac. Dugger was con
ductor.
At the request of Governor Smith
Solicitor-General Lumpkin, of the
Northern Circuit, has withdrawn his
resignation.
The movement to burlesque “Julius
Csar” still holds its own. Col. F tty
Harris is now in the Atlanta, rehearsing
for the part of Cassius.
Sample of items in the Constitution :
Pacetti’s pet frog at the No Name was
attacked with something like cholera
yesterday and came near dying.
Gen. P. M. B. Young spent two days
in Atlanta last week, and then left for
Washington, whence he will go across
the country to the St. Louis Convention.
W. R. Mclntyre and Eli Mallette, two
Thomas county boys at the State Uni
versity, have been elected orators at the
approaching commencement exercises at
Athens.
Two aged oitizens of Jackson, Mr. and
Mrs. Totherow, died last week within a
short time of each other—some few
hours—and were, it is presumed, both
buried at the same time.
The trip from Atlanta to Charlotte
and back, 536 miles, can be made inside
of twenty-two consecutive hours. Leave
Atlanta at three o’clook iu the afternoon
and get back next afternoon at one
o’clock..
Mr. Henry Hillyer and Mr. Donald M.
Bain will leave on Saturday next for the
Centennial. They will remain in Phila
delphia for about two weeks, and then
knock around New York and Niagara
for awhile.
It is not a well-known fact and yet it
is true that the colored temperance lod
ges of Atlanta have over nine hundred
members. The negro templars are very
much disposed to make a fight for pro
hibition in the city this Fall,
Hayward Grant, the negro who set fire
to the store house of Mr. Ben Winslow,
of Rome, on ’being sentenced the other
day to be hung on the 14th July, asked
the Judge why in the h—ll he didn’t
hang him at once instead of waiting till
July.
The Air Line Railroad has put on a
special “New Holland” train. It will
run specially to New Holland Springs
and return, leaving Atlanta at 5, p. m.,
and reaohing the Springs at 7, p. m.;
leaving the Springs at 7, a. m., and
reaohing the city at 9, a. m.
It is proposed to get np an excursion
from Atlanta to Charleston to the Fort
Moultrie Centennial on the 28th. All
who wish to go will leave their names
by Tuesday next, at No. 4, Kimball
House. Joseph W. White, General
Southern Passenger Agent of the Mag
nolia route, has the excursion in eharge.
Foster Blodgett ia making arrange
ments to reside permanently in Atlanta.
E[6 writes ijq letters, opens no boxes;
and aa to telling what he knows no
priestess ministering in the Temple of
Jupiter Ammon could have been more
profoundly mute, or fearfully myste
rious. ®
t The Atlanta amateurs who played
“Jhlins Cusar" have organized a per
manent Thespian corps, and will soon
present a sterling drama or comedy.
“Twelfth Night,” “Romeo and Juliet”
and “Money” are now under advisement.
These entertainments will be very pleas
ant daring the Summer,
Mr. A- J. Qrme has cotton on his
plantation iu Baker county three feet
high, eoh stalk having ten limbs from
twenty to twenty-three inches long.—
Cotton blooms were gathered on June l
3d—the earliest yet. Ripe oanteloups
were eaten on his place recently. He
informs us a neighbor of his, Randolph
Whitehead, had roasting ears, corn of
the Dent variety, on the 3d of June.
Athens Georgian: Mrs. Wright was
presented upon her birthday, last Fri
day, with an exquisite flower stand, by
the young ladies of tho senior class L.
C. I. The presentation, in a very grace
ful uqd appropriate manner, was made
by Misa Tallulah Dennis, of Eaton, in
behalf of the class, and called forth a
most feeling and affectionate response
from their accomplished and much loved
preceptress.
The Dahlonega Signal says: At the
Vesey mine they are still at work on
their vain, which continues to improve
in extent and richness. Last week, with
a band mortar, they made 20 ounces
clean gold. The vein is from three to
four inches wide, and we are reliably in
formed that every foot of it is worth
SIOO, which would make the value of
the ore run up largely into the thous
ands.
A few days ago, Messrs. Dick and Ah
Rervin, of Columbia, were standing in
the back yard of the latter when quite a,
shower of flesh fell upon and around
them. It, at first, seemed as a miiade
to them, as they had often heard of flesh
“raining” from above. They by acci
dent oast up their eyes and discovered
several buzzards about 100 feet above
them flying about and this explained to
them the mystery and one too which has
so often occurred and been unexplained.
A good one is told on Col. Jack Jones.
While he was arranging his bond the
other day, ha .was of oourse under the
surveilanoe of a bailiff. So perfect was
the confidence in the Colonel’s honor,
that the offloer did not think it necessa
ry to remain with him. One morning
the Colonel came in and asked, “Have
Sou seen my bailiff around here ? Ido
ave hard luck. When any other man
is arrested he has his bailiff with him
all the time} and here I have to run all
over town to look him up.”
At the meeting of the Baptist Church,
in Columbus, Thursday night, Mr. K n
drick read a letter which he had ad
dressed to the membership. It is unne
cessary to republish it. He insists that
he is the viotim of a conspiracy, is whol
ly innocent, and the subject of persecu
tion. The Columbus Enquirer publishes
the letter, and says : “It is the general
impression that the case of Mr. Kendrick
will not be tried at the time appointed,
and the fault wifi not lie with Judge
Crawford, the Solicitor-General, or at
torneys for the prosecution, or because
of the absence of witnesses within the
reach of the legal power of the Court.”
Sunday Veteyram; Mr. Davis S. Kel
lem, one of our most beloved and trust
worthy citizens, who died on last .Friday,
and who will be buried to-day by the
Knight Templars, is reported to have
made a most wonderful revelation con
cerning his cousin’s untimely death,
during his recent sickness, Our infor
mant says that fie, in company with
several other friends, were sitting at the
bedside of the siok man, when he sud
denly ronsed hirpself from an insensible
state and in a very excited manner ad
monished some invisible persons to be
quick or the mules would kick his cous
in Tohe to death, and then in despair
he fell back on the bed saying, “It is too
late, they have killed him.” His friends
at the time did not know what to make
of his strange behavior, bat two days
later they received news from Hawkinlr
ville stating that his cousin, Mr. Tobe
Kellen, had been kicked to death by his
mules at about the time that he had
spoken of the matter bhto in Atlanta.
Dr. Amos Fox, M r - Henry Banks and
other reliable gentlemen of that oity
were present at the time and testify to
the authenticity of the occurrence.
New Holland promises to be the
“great resort”’ this Summer, We have
been furuished a list of some of the vis
itors already hooked for the summer at
the Springs, and among them we notice
Gen. A. B. Lawton and family, Dr. W.
S. Lawton and family, 001. B.
A. Lonlord and family, Hou. J,
S. Warren and family, Col. 0. A. West
and family, Mr. Henry Cunningham and
family, Mrs. and Miss Morrell, Mr. John
Stoddard, Jr., and. family, D. Uriah
Harris and, family, Mr. G. W, Anderson
and family, Major George Reid, Mrs.
McMorrell and daughter, of Savannah,
Georgia; Hon. W. A- Huff and family,
CoL H. J. Lamar and family, Mrs. Ross
and daughter. Col. Lee Ellis and family,
Mr. C B. Willingham and family, Hon.
C. A. Nutting and family, of Maoon;
CoL Monroe Felton aad family, of Mar
shall ville; Mrs. Wood and family, of
Scriven county; Mrs. Montgomery Cam
ming and family, of Scriven county;
John Robinson and family, of Jackson
ville, Florida. Resides the above, there
will be lsirge numbers from Atlanta, An
gust*, Mohile, New Orleans, etc,
SODTH CAROLINA.
NEWS NOTES FROM THE PALMET
TO STATE.
There are just enough lawyers in Ai
ken to form a “professional” base ball
club.
Horseback riding seems to be a fa
vorite exeroise with the young ladies of
Branohville.
The citizens of Aiken have adopted
the hard money system—or at least it’s
mighty hard to get.
Graniteville is the only town of any
note m South Carolina that does not
boast a base ball club.
We understand that Stewart, the law
partner of Elliott, is after the solicitor
ship of the Second Circuit.
Colonel David Johnson, postmaster at
Union, has been removed and James H.
Goss appointed in his place.
A sow which was bitten by a mad dog
killed in Union sometime ago went mad
last week, and died on Sunday.
The Port Boyal Standard comes out
with a supplement and a delinquent tax
list of seven columns for Beaufort county.
Since the base ball season has fairly
opened in Aiken, Coroner Walker wears
a pleasant smile, and patiently awaits
results.
i U r ‘, G. White is preparing
sketches of prominent natives of Beau
fort county, which are intended for pub
hoatiod.
Judge Carpenter has adjourned the
Court m Edgefield county—probably for
lack of funds to keep the Court machine
running.
Governor Chamberlain has offered a
reward for the apprehension of the
Edgefield ° f the Harmon mur ‘'eiers, in
Lot Kennemore, an old oitizen of
Piokens county, died at his residence
27th ultimo, Stati ° D * ° Q Saturda y’ the
The annual Convention of the Sunday
Schools of the Baptist churches in Darl
ington oounty will be held at Mt. Eton,
June 22 and 23.
Henry Hahn is shortly to commence
tue erection of a fine residence on Pen
dleton street, opposite the Episcopal
Ohuroh, in Aiken.
Judge Maher has granted stay of exe
oution in the case of Bobert MoEvoy
until the meeting of the Supreme Court
in November next.
A oourt martial has been in session
during the past week on the New Hamp
shire, Port Boyal, trying a marine and
two seamen from the Saugus for deser
tion.
A heavy rain fell throughout Piokens
oounty on last Saturday. In the eastern
section of the oounty the streams were
overflowed, but no material injury done
the growing orops,
The Demoeratie party of Anderson
has determined* to adopt the primary
mode of selecting candidates for the va
rious offices within their gift. This
election ooours in October next.
Mr. E. G. Tobin and others of Orange
burg, are getting up a Bifle Team, and
intend to challenge the State when they
get fully organized and practiced.
There are several fine shots in Orange
burg.
The jury list of Edgefield county
shows twenty colored and sixteen whites.
There is no money in the treasury to
pay with, so it don’t matter much how
it is. Poor old Barnwell hasn’t anything
to pay with either, and Orangeburg,
Darlington and the Lord only knows
how many other counties are in the sama
unhappy fix.
“Meet me by moonlight alone,” is
what a young Aiken beau sings every
night under the window of his inamorata;
and yet he says she don’t come down
with affec ion worth a oent, but had the
cruel hardihood to throw a brick out of
a second story window, which knocked
him down and broke his lantern, when
in the midst of one of his divine&t melo
dise.
Laurensville Herald: The aggregate
amount of judgments in oasfes obtained
before jury, at the late term of Court,
foots up $42,044 10. Judgments were
obtained by default in sixty-nine cases,
the aggregate amount of which we could
not ascertain, as that has not yet been
put upon record. The total amount of
indebtness, including the cases mention
ed, liable to judgment, will foot up
$145,000 if not more.
Keowee Courier: Mr. George W.
Norman, General Traveling Agent and
Correspondent of the Chboniole and
Sentinel, Augusta, Ga., paid us a visit
last week. While here he added several
names to the subscription books of the
Chronicle and Sentinel. The Chroni
cle is an excellent paper, worthy the
patronage of all true Southerners, wher
ever found. We read its columns with
no little interest, coming as it does from
a city where we spent several years of
our life very pleasantly and profitably.
We wish Mr. Norman and his paper
abundant suocess in our county and
State.
THE GREAT SOUTHERN STAPLE.
The Price o 1 Cotton Now and Before the War.
Cotton growing was undoubtedly re
munerative enough before the war, says
the New York Bulletin of the 2d, but it
by no means follows that it would pay
equally well now to grow cotton at tae
range <f prices that then prevailed. The
conditions of production have so essen
tially changed that we have by no means
yet been able to determine at what point
prices would limit production. Ever
since cotton touched 20c. we have beep
told that cotton oonld not be raised at a
profit; and yet there is just as mnch dis
position to plant it with the price at 12
eents as there was when it brought 20
cents. Very probably, also, the profit
of its cultivation is about as much now
as when the price was 60 per cent, high
er. Manifestly, the conditions of pro
duction have been in every way econo
mized just as fast as the prioe has de
clined, and we cannot form any satisfao-
tory judgment as to how much further
this process of economy can or will bo
carried. The truth is that if one class
cannot afford to grow ootton at a certain
price another can; and the pressnre of
falling in prices is steadily transferring
ootton culture to the hands, of those who
can live at the lowest minimum of remu
neration. When the process will reach its
limit, i. e., the point at which arisen the
absenoe of a profit sufficient to maintain
the class who can produce it riiost eco
nomically is a matter that can be de
termined only by future experience ;
opinions on this problem are worth lit
tle. Even the question, who are to be
the future of cotton, is as yet
far from settled. Certain it is that the
large estftt* owners are being steadily
starved out, simply because they need a
larger profit out of ootton than the mar
■ ket can afford. Their land is falling
into the hands of a number of smaller
producers, who with greater economy
can get a living out of its cultivation.
In this way, the number of small pro
ducers is every year increasing ; and it
does not yet appear how much further
this process has to run, much less What
is to be its ultimate effect on cotton pro
duction. There seems to be consider
able probability that before low prices
stop production in the South, they
will curtail cotton growing in other
countries, especially in India and Bra
zil. Already India cotton is closely ap
proximating prices at which it was not
found profitable to cultivate that staple
largely before 1860, and it remains to ba
seen whether the Sonth or India can
compete most successfully. There, can
be no donbt that the markets of the
world are steadily settling into a con
dition in which they will not. be able to
afford to pay a higher pr.ioe for cotton
than was paid before tjjjj war ; and the
producers of the staple can have no al
ternative bat to adapt themselves to
that all-controlling fact.
The Sumter Guards will entertain the
Oglethorpe Light Infantry, of Savannah,
on the 28th.
The Wilmington, Columbia and Au
gusta Railroad shops are being built in
the northeastern part of Florence, on
the large lot recently purchased by the
Southern Security Company, which
measures forty-six acres. The large
brick building now in course of erection
is 170 feet in length and 45 in width.
This is the machine shop proper. Other
buildings for offices, blacksmith shops,
Ac., will also be bnilt, which will cover
a large space of ground. A contract has
also been given out by the company for
building twenty cottages for- the opera
tors of the road .on lots purchased by
them in the immediate vicinity of the
shops. The Wilmington Journal esti
mates the loss to Wilmington, by the re
moval of these shops to Florence, at no
less than $150,000 to $200,000 a year,
