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' Address WALSH A WRIGHT,
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Cfjrontcle ant! Sentinel.
WiPNESDAY -JUNE 28,1876. j
Cobs and cotton promise well in
Oglethorpe county.
A letter from Jefferson says that Jef- ,
fersun county and adjoining counties
are a nnit for Johnson. General Col- j
quitt is second choice.
Hos. E. H. Bolliss has gained the 1
Senatorial prize in New Hampshire, j
and the Democratic defeat of last Spring ,
has given the Republicans a Senator for J
six years.
Hehschel V. Johnson is the people'
candidate for Governor. If he is elect
ed, there will bo in reality a govern
ment of the people, by the people and
for the people.
Daboook and the whisky thieves have
triumphed and Bristow has tendered
his resignation. We wonder if General
Grant will give the reformer as good a
character as he did Delano ?
On the last ballot at Cincinnati, Geor
gia cast fourteen votes for the Man from
Maine, seven for Hayes and one for
Bristow. For Vice-President, Georgia
cast twenty-two votes for Jewell.
John G. Thompson, of Ohio, says the
Democracy must nominate a man at St.
Louis who can carry Ohio and Indiana.
Hendricks, or Hancock, or Bayard, or
Chough will do it like a flash, John.
L’vbby man who desires the nomina
tion of Hebsohkl V. Johnson should
make it bis business to attend thejpnblio
meetings, and see to it that Johnson
delegates ntf> sent to the State Conven
tion. m
In this issue of the Chronicle and
Sentinel will be found a letter from
Hon. H. R. Casey, one of tbo most
prominent citizens of Columbia county,
giving an account of the meeting at Ap
pling that has caused so much comment.
We invite the attention of our readers to
the letter. _
Irwin county held a meeting on the
tftst Monday in June for the purpose of
selecting delegates to the State Conven
tion. T. D. Wilcox, and J. J. Hender
son wtTe unanimously chosen upon
their statement that they were in favor
of the nomination of Col. Thomas
Hardeman. . _____
A gentle,van writing from Ogle- ,
thorpo county to the Chronicle and
Sentinel say: “Hon. H. V. Johnson j
is decidedly the choice of Oglethorpe i
county. Niue out o! ten of her citizens j
want him. His letter settled the bash.
An overwhelming victory awaits him in ,
this section, thank God.”
A Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette says the general 1
opinion of the Southern Congrt'setnen, 1
so fur as it finds expression, is remark- 1
ably uuanimous for Hancock. Hancock ‘
would take all the soldier vote of the 1
North and West away from Hayes, and <
get the votes of both hard and soft 1
money men in Ohio and Indiana.
■ ]
At Brandon’s, yesterday, in the Hep- i
zibah District of Richmond county, a j
number of gentlemen met to make their j
tax returns and a ballot for Governor
was suggested. Forty votes were cast— ]
all for Johnson. The gentlemen iu the i
city who think they own the country ;
have been saying that the country is all
against Herschkl V. Johnson. How is :
this ? i
General Gartell having declined to
be candidate for Governor his ad
mirers have found out that he is just
the man for Senator Norwood’s brogaus.
We rather think the friends of Governor
Smith will hi've something to say when
that election eo mes on. Gen. Gartrell
seems to have given up a very little sub
stance for an immense quantity of shad
ow.
The attendance at the Philadelphia
Exposition for the first month just
dosed is reporeed to have been 1,000,-
000 persons, which, at fifty cents a head
would yield receipts of 3500,000. The
yield for six months at this rate would ]
be ocly 33,000,000, which is $3,000,000
short of what the Exposition has cost.
A Sunday opening is again being urged
as a means of increasing the receipts.
W'b copied laat week from the Atlanta
Teleg>' a,n an account of a difficulty in
Banks county between a temperance lec
turer Shackleford and Hon. J.
J. Turnbull-. Mr. Shackleford has
published a card which shows that the
only truth in the account of the affair
was that the lecturer had visited Banks
connty. There was no insult, no row
and no threat of rail riding.
Kerschel V. Johnson does not seek
the odlee of Governor. He will not elec
tioneer for it, make speeches for it, or
ganise combinations and manufacture
slates lor ft; but if nominated he will
accept. Those who desire his services
should now go to work and see to it that
Johnson delegates are cent to the State
Convention from the counties where a
majority of the people desire hie nomi
nation. _____________
Twenty -four Western railroads, in
cluding Illinois and Michigan Centrals,
and footing np 14,393 miles, earned $7,-
147,000 m May of this year, a gain of al
most precisely ten per cent., and for the
five months from January 1 to June 1
the gross earnings of the same rose from
#28,839,000 to $31,751,000, which is also
* gain of ten per cent. Within the last
month there has been a greater grain
movement than in May, 1875, and the
increase for the preceding months must
be accounted for by heavy provision
movements and in some measure by re
vival of business.
The Southern Republicans who went
to Cincinnati to make Chamberlain or
Atjinn' Vice-President have had their
pains for their trouble. When they
reached tht,' city they were quietly told
that the Stated which did not go out of
the Union in 180 l would not counten
ance the suggestion to honor a man
aonth of Dixie in the manner suggested,
and the Southern delegates were so
much awed in consequence that they
preferred to say nothing on the subject.
Perhaps the Southern delegates to St*
Louis will be talked to after a similar
fashion on the twenty-seventh.
THE RECENT RAINS.
s | The recent rains have been general
I j throughout Georgia and South Carolina,
and have been unusually heavy and long
I I continued. The rivers have risen higher
. than their banks, and have spread over
a large extent of country. Where wheat
; and oats had not been harvested some
damage was done to these grain crops.
River bottom corn is generally ruined,
and the fields will have to be replanted,
Fortunately, however, there is yet time
to plant and make another crop. The
mischief done to cotton is great and
irreparable. The best cotton lands in
Georgia and South Carolina lie along
the water courses, in the bottoms of
jof creeks and rivers. These lands have
I been overflowed and the crops upon
them rained. It is too late to replant
with the hope of making anything next
Autumn. It is safe to say that the
< recent rains will reduce the cotton crop
j of Georgia and South Carolina many
1 thousand bales. The same causes expe
rienced at an earlier day have operated
to reduce the cotton acreage of the fer
tile valleys of the Southwest. With a
knowledge of these facts, and knowing
I how many perils beset the plant from
the time it makes its appearance above
ground until the bolls reach the gin
house, it requires a bold man to bet on a
large crop this year.
THE EIGHTH DISTRICT.
‘■The indications are that Hon. Alexander H.
i Stephens will be returned to Congress from
this District without having any opposition
either in the Convention or at the polls. His
health is improving rapidly, and we hope to
hear of him in bis seat before Congresa ad
journs.”—Chronicle and Sentinel.
We sincerely trust that Mr. Stephens will
not permit his name to be used in the ap
proaching Congressional race. Through his
illness the Eighth District has been for several
months without a Representative in Washing
ton—in fact, has been unrepresented through
out the most important session of Congress we
have had since ’65. During Mr. Stephens’
former term the District was unrepresented a
good part of the time. And whatever strength
Mr. Stephens may have gained during a six
months’ husbanding of his physical resources,
we think it has been demonstrated fully and
completely that he cannot stand the Washing
ton climate duriDg even so much as a third of
a session of Congress. The South needs a true
man in every chair that she is entitled to in the
House, even now. It is quite probable that
the next House will be more closely balanced.
If there was a majority of only two or three
votes either way, how would the Eighth feel
with a vacant chair as her Representative,
while the party went to the wall for the lack of
one vote ?— Atlanta Telegram.
We think we know the Eighth Dis
trict well enough to assert that as long
as Mr. Stephens is alive he will repre*
sent it in Congress, unless he should
positively decline to serve his people.—
Sick or well, he will be returned to the
next Congress, without, we believe, en
countering any opposition either in the
Convention or at the polls. It is true
that a dispensation of Providence has
kept Mr. Stephens at home ill during
the present session, and it is true that
the bed of sickness at one time threaten
ed to become a bed of death. Bat it is
equally as true that while the country
has thus been deprived of the benefit of
his talents 'and of his long experi
ence in public affairs, no occasion has
his mere vote been necessary to the suc
cess of any Democratic measure in Con
gress. We see no reason at the present
writing for thinking that Mr. Stephens
will not be able to resume ms sent ud
discharge the duties of his position next
December. We see no reason for believ
ing that the Democratic majority in
the next will be smaller than in the
present Congress.
TIIK REPUBLICAN PARTY UTTERLY
CORRUPT.
If there was nothing else to revolt the
country at the prospect of four years
more of Grantism under a new name,
the spectacle presented at Cincinnati
ought to be sufficient to excite indigna
tion. A Convention supposed to repre
sent the intelligence, the integrity, and
the worth of the Republican party, is
now sitting there engaged in the busi
ness of nominating candidates for the
two highest offices in the gift of the peo
ple. That Convention, however, while
it has a sprinkling of honorable and
worthy men, is really run by Federal,
State, and municipal officeholders, by
the agents of great corporations, and by
ring chiefs. There is still another class,
who wield a very considerable influence
in its councils. This is the olass of
speculating politicians who look with
nvy upon the plunder appropriated by
Grant and bis friends, and seek a change
of administration in order that they
may step into the shoes of these lucky
predecessors While the people are suf
fering from unexampled stagnation in
all their industries, and there is a gene
ral demand for reformation of abuses,
eoonomy in public expenditures, and a
return to simple government, these
politicians are only seeking to promote
their own ends, and by any means how
ever desperate.
Nearly one-half of this Convention
went there committed to James G.
Blain*. The delegates were generally
chosen before the recent damning expo
sures, bat with a general knowledge of
his venal character dud 10060 practices
in Congress. Instead of being weaken
ed by these revelations, their zeal is in
tensified and their devotioa enhanced.
Patting aside all the familiar charges of
jobbery in and oat of Congress, with
which Blainb has been assailed for
years, and excluding from view every
thing but his own letters, even when al
tered and mutilated to conceal the
tt*lb, who can read them bat with a
strong sense of humiliation at seeing
the possibility of such a man beieg pre
sented as a candidate for the Presiden
cy ? He confesses in iwp of these let
ters that he suggested and tided the
legislation, first as a member of the
House and then as Speaker, by means
of which lobby schemes were carried
through wherein he was a large benefi
ciary. It cannot be denied that he
prostituted his trust to these objects,
for he has writieu it down in blazing
characters of disgrace. What effect
these proofs have prodaeed on the Con
vention may be easily judged by the ob
stinacy and even the enthusiasm with.
which h.is advocates have adhered
to him. Sol only has no appa
rent impression bee® produced by
the most startling disstepures of
venality, but, on the contrary, they
are accepted as evidence of Blaine’s su
perior smartness and adaptation for
nses should Jhe be elected President.
While there is a load cry for reform nil
over the Union, here are delegates from
North and South, East and West, press
ing the nomination of a candidate who,
in his own person, and Recording to his
own admissions, represents the very
abuses that have provoked so muon re
sentment, and which they pretend to
condemn. ft is in this way they pro
pose to reform the party from the in
side. All these evidences demonstrate
that the Repnblican organization is
hopelessly rotten, and wholly unworthy
to be charged with the responsibility of
government If the very bestjof all the
candidates named should be chosen, he
would be powerless to correct the exist
ing evils. The party machine is strong
er than any President could be, even if
well disposed to pat the knife to abuses.
Corruption is established now as a nor
mal condition of the pnblio service, and
i there is no hope of extirpating it at all
without a change of party as well as ad
ministration.— N. Y. Sun.
GOVERNOR HENDRICKS.
The Indianapolis Sentinel says of
Governor Hendricks: “The friends of
Mr. Hendbicks may feel proud of the
dignified bearing of their candidate and
the discretion of those favoring his
nomination. There have been no men
posting over the country, from State to
State, setting np conventions and par
leying with delegates. There have been
no advertisements sent broadcast over
the land to create public opinion in his
favor., He will go into the Convention
with a solid, popular strength, secured
by sterling merit, and not that sort of
sporadic reputation that floats npon the
popnlar breeze stirred by local issues
inside of State lines. He is not
especially the Western candidate nor
the Southern candidate, but has warm
and earnest supporters in every section,
and devoted personal friends in every
State. ”
WILKINSON COUNTY' FOR JOHNSON.
[lrwinton Southerner and Appeal. — Edl.]
That secret circular which is said to
have emanated from Augusta, and was
sent to a few prominent men in each
county in the State soliciting signatures,
was, we understand, simply a letter ad
dressed to ex-Governor H. V. Johnson,
asking him if he would accept the
Democratic nomination for Governor if
tendered him, and pledging the signers
to his support. Only this and nothing
more. The Colquitt papers through
out the State made a great outcry against
it. Called it a wooden horse. Warned
the people of an attempt by a few promi
nent men to deliver them bound and
gagged over to Governor Johnson, etc.
We can see nothing wrong in that cir
cular. It was simply an expression of
preference for Governor Johnson by a
few gentlemen who are dissatisfied with
the aspirants who have pushed their
olaims beyond the limits of modesty and
Democratic example, and have organ
ized an army of partisans, and have
for several years contended for the
prize, and while they are fighting
each other rancorously and bitterly the
Colquitt men called a truce and at
tempted to consolidate the frien.ls of
the other aspirants to repel the intruder
into what they have loDg looked upon
as their exclusive domain—the Guber
natorial Convention. Have not Geor
gians, Democrats and freemen the
right to pledge support in advance to
the gentleman whom they consider
best fitted for the position of Chief
Magistrate ? or have we become such
dastards and slaves as to be compelled
to sit still and see a quartette of sec
ond class statesmen take possession of
the Nominating Convention, and, with
out ever saying by your leave, see one
of them seize the office and appropriate
its honors and emoluments ? The
late attack made by the Atlanta press
upon Governor Johnson and his
friends was uncalled for, unwise and
imprudent, and we mistake the spirit
of Georgians if they do not resent it
on the second of August by nominat
ing for Governor a man who has not
been metioned in connection with the
office, and who will command the re
spect not only of Georsians. bnt ,
Democrat in the United States. It would
be a fitting rebuke to that overbearing
and persecuting few, for the people of
Georgia to refuse to obey their self con- \
stituted masters any longer, but cutting
loose from the toils, nominate and elect
Her3oßel Y. Johnson as the next Gov
ernor of Georgia.
EUROPEAN GRAIN CROPS.
The New York Bulletin, of Wednesday,
gives the latest mail accounts of the con
dition of the growing crops in Europe,
from which it appears that wheat has
been subject to about the average of ad
verse contingencies, excepting, perhaps,
in France, where all the conditions have
combined up to this point in favor of
abundant crops. Considering the stand
ing of France as a wheat-growing coun
try, this is an*important fact bearing on
the prospective harvest of Europe. In
Germany the weather has been unge
nial; rye, which is the staple cereal of
that country, having suffered to suoh an
extent that only a two-thirds arop is at
present expected. In Italy the weather
has been irregular, but the prospects,
taking the country as a whole, appear to
approach an average. In Austria and
Hungary there have been two nights of
frost; but succeeding thunder storms
appear to have done much towards re
pairing the damage. In South Russia
the crops have escaped froßt by only
one degree of temperature; wheat, how
ever, has not suffered perceptibly, but
maize was injured. In Holland the
weather has not been on the whole fa
vorable, and the rye crop is not consid
ered in good condition. Taking the ac
counts as a whole, they may be said to
represent about an average condition of
wheat, and rye below an average.
A SUBSIDY CONGRESSMAN.
One of the reasons given by such Re
form Republicans as Deaoon Richard
Smith, Joseph Medill, Curtis and
Dana for opposing the nomination of
Mr. Blaine was that as a member of
Congress he had been connected with
all the subsidy swindles and land grabs
which Republican legislation devised to
take money out of the public Treasury
and put it into the coffers of wild-cat
corporations. Therefore Mr. Blaine
was defeated and Mr. Hayes was nomi
nated —principally because he had never
had an opportunity to steal anything in
a Congressional way. But the same test
was not applied to the aspirants for the
s’ipe-Presidency aud a gentleman receiv
ed the nomination who has had a very
long experience ;n the subsidy busi
ness. Mr. William A. Wheeler has
been elected to Congress five times. His
first flection was in 1860 and he was
swift to support the first bill granting
Government aid to the Union Pacific
Railroad. In 1868 he was elected again
and has served continuously to the pres
ent time. During the time of the ini
quitious Pacific Railroad legislation Mr.
Wheeler was chairman of the commit
tee charged with that question, being ap
pointed to that position by Mr. James
Q, Blaise, the then Speaker of the
House, fit his coarse the New York
Herald, inform* tu> ifist in all this legis
lation he was the constant trit4 of the
railroads and voted for all of the land
grants ind subsidy measures. He vot
; ed for all the measures asked for by the
Northern Pacific and for me "rant of
; ]£,£•?, ooo acres to the Tex& Pacific.
He was also p fcipnd and advocate of the
famous Bayfield and &. Croix attempt
in 1872 which public opiniqu did so
much to defeat. Qn. the question of
civil service reform Mr. Whkklkb voted
to kill Mr. Willard’s bill making it a
misdemeanor for a Congressman to
solipifc appointments to office. Mr.
WffKKTtF.Hia 3 fit candidate for a subsidy
and anti-civil service platform, but he is
a little out of place bn any eiaef ticket.
W* have received a letter from Merri
wetber county advocating the nomina
tion of Chief Justice Warner for Gov
ernor. Judge Warner is an able jurist,
a aooafi map find has jaany friends.
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 28, 1876.
[ I HEHSCHEL Y. JOHNSON.
J We publish below the correspondesce be
: tweeu certain prominent gentlemen of the
j State and Governor Johnson. His answer to
their communication is such, precisely, as
might have been expected from the nobe old
Roman. He is do aspirant for the office of
Governor, and will be no candidate for domi
nation before the Convention; bnt still lfc is
ready to do any patriotic work the people nay
require of him. Gover nor Johsox is a natural
Democrat, and vozpoputi he regards now, ns
always heretofore, as ooz Dei—-the voice
the people is the voioe of God.”— Allan*
Times.
True. The Colquitt organs find an easy
way of fighting Gov. Johnson by saying
that he is not a candidate for Governor
of Georgia. The declaration is made for
the purpose of deceiving his friends in
the different counties of the State, and
preventing them from voting in the
primary meetings for the man of their
choice. Governor Johnson is not a can
didate in the vulgar sense of that much
abused word. He will not solicit the
office. He will not travel over the coun
try and beg for it, speak for it, combine
for it, slate-make for it. If the
people of Georgia—the real people of
Georgia, and not the office seekers,
ringsters and their satellites—desire
his services, he will serve them. Far
ther than this, he could hot with pro
priety go. Farther than this, he will not
go; and it is for this very reason that a
majority of his fellow-citizens desire his
nomination. It is because he has scorn
ed to enter into an unseemly scramble
for the highest office in the gift of the
State that the people wish him to serve
them. If he shonld be nominated, there
is no man who will work harder to se
cure the triumph of his party, but he
will do nothing now to obtain a victory
for self.
ANTE-BELLUM PRICES OF COTTON.
Below is the price of uplands cotton
at New York for each cotton year from
1840 to 1861 inclusive, with accompany
ing figures showing the American crop
for each year. In comparing present
quotations for upland cotton with those
of ante-war times, it must be remember
ed that recent changes in grades have
made the present middling to corres
pond to the "low middling” of 1860 :
Cents. Bales.
1840 8.92 2,178.835
1841 : 9.50 1,634,915
1842 7.85 1.683.574
1843 7.25 2,378.875
1814 7.73 2,040.400
1845 5.63 2,394.503
1846 7.87 2.100.538
1847 ; 11.21 1,778.651
1848 8.03 • 2.348.634
1849 7 55 2,096,706
1850 12.34 2,096,706
1851 12.14 2,355.257
1852 9.50 3,015.026.
1853 11.02 8,262 822
1854 10.97 2 930.027
1855 10.39 3 817 367
1856 10.30 3.627.845
1857 13.51 2,939.519
1858 12.23 3,103,962
1859 12.08 3.951 481
1860 11.00 4,675,770
1861 13.01 3,655,086
RAILROADS.
The New York Financial Chronicle
publishes an interesting table to show
the growth and spread of railroads over
the world. There were at the close of
1875, 182,690 miles of railroad in opera
tion. Of this 98,000 miles were in Eu
rope and 84,000 in America, The Unit
ed States have 74,658. A vast numbei
of these roads were built since 1870, and
the Chronicle makes plain by its figures
the iaci/ mai marope plunged simultane
ously, and quite as wildly, into railroad
building as with us and is paying for it
as we are by stagnation in business.—
Too much railroad apparently is the ail
ment of the body of the world’s
trade. Back of this manifestation,
of course there are causes, but
this is one form in which the trou
ble has appeared. We in the United
States made 4,953 miles of road in 1869
and in successive years 5,960, 7,670, 6,-
167, 3,948, 1.94 Q and 2,035. The break
down at 1873 is pretty complete. From an
average of about 6,500 miles a year the
rate fell to about 2,000, and the ques
tion now is when shall we be able to
give business enough to these to make
them profitable. In making them we
have tied up a vast amount of capital
that is entirely unavailable and that
will be so for a loDg period if not for al
ways.
THE LIES ABOUT LOUISIANA.
The New York Sun says the reported
outrages upon colored men and their
white political associates in Louisiana,
which have afforded so much capital to
Grant organs, are in course of investi
gation by the House Committee, which
is now pursuing its inquiries in that
State, and when the full truth about
them is made known, it is hardly prob
able that they will be considered avail
able material for the Republican party
in the approaching campaign. The
Grant parish massacre, which grew out
of the aggressions of armed bodies of
negroes who raided plantations and un
dertook to capture a county town, is
found to have served Federal officers as
a pretense for robbing the Government
in various ways; aud a visit made by a
sub-committee to Red river parish,
which has been reported as the scene of
frightful outrages upon loyal citizens,
has resulted in establishing the faot that
in that parish there has not been for
years aDy political disturbance, and that
there are no prospects of political
troubles in the future. It is true that a
State Senator named Twitchell was
shot there and frightfully maimed by
some unknown person in disguise, and
the injured man testified that it was on
account of his being a Republican,
his evidence being corroborated by a
school master who gets $75 per month
and pays a colored boy one-third of the
salary to do the teaching, and three oth
ers, one of whom is a negro, is also a
murderer and holds two offices • bnt
these were all of the witnesses oat of
thirty-three examined who testified to
that effect. Of the whole number of
witnesses examined, sixteen were Re
publicans, nearly all of whom held two
offices each, and some as many as four.
Of these all, with the exception of the
five mentioned above, testified to their
belief that Twiichell was not shot upon
account of his politics, but that the act
was done by a personal enemy of his,
and the testimony of Republican citi
zens of good standing proved that there
had been no persecution of any man on
account of his political opinions. It
was also proved that there was an secret
organization of Democrats in the parish,
though there was one of Republicans.
The taxes in this parish under Republi
can rule were found to be enormous,
“amounting to confiscation,” and the
grossest frauds bad fceen committed in
the expenditure of the parish ianos,
Jy compliance with the request of
;mae gentlemen o/ tins city, who be
lieve that (W?niQr Allen, ef Ohio,
should be the nominee oi ££? St, Louis
1 Convention, we reproduce a lengthy ex
tract from a speech made by him on the
Southern question ait Columbus in £866.
We commend it to the readers of the
Chronicle and Sentinel.
The Reform Governor of South Caro
lina wasn’t heard of to any consider
able extent at Cincinnati, He bad about
as moefa chance of controlling the
Southern delegates as an elephant’s tail
has of wagging the elephant. Mr.
Chamberlain seems to have bit off a lit
tle more than he can chaw.
WHJIAM ALLEN.
A SPEECH JADE TEN YEARS AGO
-A PARELIE L AND A PRECEDENT.
Extinct Fran) a Speech Made hr Hon. Wm.
A l*o, at Columbus, Ohio, Janaarx Bth,
1803.
Antient Italy, from the Alps to the
ocean, was originally subdivided into a
large ntmber of small though eminent
States. AfterfiOO years f war and ne-
one cl these States,
had sncceisd in establishing an Italian
Union, Rale; removing the central and
paramouDtjp*wer, so f*r as regarded the
right of highway for tie passage of her
armies and her couriers throughout the
fihole oi Italy. So/ar as regarded the
zeroise of the wer and the treaty
baking power, she alone assumed and
excised that power. In addition to this,
shy exercised the correlative power of
levjjug troops snd money for foreign
contests. The other States of Italy,
every ne of them, for all purposes of
local tod municipal legislation, re
tained \their Stote governments in
all the* integrity. In the year 662
from thy foundation of the city, eor
respofidiigwith the year 89 previous to
the birth uS*Ohrißt, the Italian States,
whioh were called the allies of Rome,
demanded tin right of suffrage in the
election of lonian Consuls and their
magistrates, aid the votes of the people
npon th* questions *f peace and war.
They predicated thrir claim upon the
admitted fact that far 691 years the allied
States had contribwed more than two
thirds of the recrats to the Roman Le
gions, andtaxes t> the Roman treasury;
that it wasby ths aid of the contribu
tions made by the other States that
Rome was etaUed to extend her con
quests overlyist countries far beyond
Italy; and tut notwithstanding this the
proceeds from these victories, in
the form of public lands acquired by
conquest, of laves and prisoners of war,
and all the Contributions levied npon
the* had all been
appropriated kclasively to the use of
the Roman pttple. Rome, however, re
jected this denaad. Upon that rejection
ten or twelve at the allied States seoeded
in a body. [Ajplauso. J They declared
their independnee of the Roman Gov
ernment ; the; established a Govern
ment modeled rom the Roman Consti
tution; they etablished their capital at
the great city of Oonfininm ; they or
ganized their Snate composed of dele
gates from th seceded States; they
elected consul and other magistrates
corresponding in name and functions
with the magisrates of the Roman Gov
ernment ; th* organized a powerful
army, and, haxng done that, they made
one more efforito prevent war.
They sent Ambassadors to the Ro
man Senate; nude one more peaceful
appeal to the jistioe of that body. The
ambassadors vere turned away with a
haughty and difiant apswer. They re
paired to the Spate of Confinium, which
4ad sent themj reported their answer,
and that Senati ordered its army to take
up military positions on the military
points interveiing between the two capi
tals, and, bavilig done that, they stood
npon their deffise. Rome began by con
ferring the rig/it of citizenship upon the
border Statesthat had not joined the
having secured their
fidelity, ordered their armies to march
upon the c£Ci*al of the rew-born Govern
ment. Thu war it known as the Marsio, or
Italian, bit more generally by the tirle of
the Social War. It lasted three years
and ter months, and 300,000 men were
slaughtered upon the fields of battle.
During the first and second years of the
war/the balance of victory was greatly
in Avor of the Confederate Government.
Tie Roman armies had been routed and
oit to pieces in many prolonged and
sanguinary conflicts, where everything
seemed to indicate that the new born
Government would maintain its exist
ence. Bnt Rome was Rome still I For
662 y*ars, in every conflict of arms,
though often booton in battle, she hud
in every instance stood forth victorious
in the war; she did not therefore de
spair, for she was wise. She then, upon
the opening of the campaign of the
third year, commenced by conferring
the right of citizenship upon the in
habitants of the bx States at the foot of
the Alps, and fron those drew new re
cruits. She did more.
For the first tine in he whole history
she employed slates in her army under
the name of ‘’fredmeu”—men who had
been slaves and hid been freed. Having
done this she departed from her old
practice of plaoitg the chief command
of her armies in the consuls, allowing
her consuls barelyto attend the army,
because they wete generally of the
highest order.
Sfie drew from toe ranks of the peo
ple the two ablestgenerals of the age,
and placed one of her armies under the
command of Cans Marius, and the
other under that of Lncius Cornelius
Sulla. The armes reorganized, and
thus commandec, she renewed the
struggle. It ston appeared that
the tremendous efforts which the
Confederate Stats had put forth dur
ing the two yean of the war had well
nigh exhausted their resources in
men and money They were disap
pointed in the tid which they had
sought from a oreign prince called
Mithridates, whoaad a hostile invasion
going on against tie Roman territories
in Asia, and, beiig in want of a navy,
and nnable to scotr the ocean, the Con
federate Governmmt was unable to sup
ply her own defieiinov in the materials
of war by importaion from abroad. The
renewal of the wi, therefore, while it
disclosed the vigir of the old Govern
ment, also disclsed the feebleness of
the new. The cmclusion was that the
Confederate armßs were beaten during
the remainder of ihe war, and the war
closed by the surender of the remaining
forces. With thalsurrender the Confed
erate Governmeni disappeared from the
earth like a brightexhaltat ton in the even
ing. All the States then laid down their
arms ant} ackuowedged the paramount
power of the old Rtman eagle; all btit the
Samnites and tin Lncanians in two
States in the remote parts of Italy; they
still stood oit against the besieging
lorees, bnt, with these single exceptions
I have named, all the States laid down
their arm* and stood defenseless, and
forever oeased tin advocacy of their
rights. Rome had tot ceased to speak,
and every one of theie Confederate State
governments ceased to exist. The Ro
man Senate had but t* speak, and every
citizen within those governments became
a slave, houseless, brexdless, stateless.
What did the Roman Senate do under
those circumstances ? There had been a
revolt against their authority. It had
been impelled by tie tremendous efforts
made by the Dontederate Government
to do thsit which ithad not done when
the Gartbagenunh camp was within
three miles of the Soman capital ; even
then they never eilisted slaves in their
army. Many of ier cities dad been re
duced to ashes the flower of her army
lay dead on thepeld of battle ; she had
suffered from evtty circumstance calcu
lated to exasperite her feelings against
the Confederate States. What did the
Roman Senate to under such circnm
| stances ?
That was no body of fanatics. [Ap
plause. ] It wasp body composed alone
of generals and statesmen. It was a
body not of yesterday's creation; it had
existed for sixmndred and sixty-six
vesrs; and, dnmg that whole time,
m all the affairs |f war, negotiation, le
gislation, and adainisttatibn, that Sen
ate has displayeaa vigdr and a wisdom
whieh has neveibeen equalled—which
has never been ajpreciatl save by this
modem Government, who have taken
that Senate for c example, and drawn
their inspiration ropj the wistjoip of its
counsels. Wbal did the Senate do?
Did it speak he work annihilation
to the revolted States ! No ! no! no j
Such an act of stnpid vengeance
was deemed unworthy of the majesty
of the Rom.n people—unworthy
of the generoity and magnanimi
ty of the Romm Senate. That kind
of conduct, that lalignant stupidity, has
bgen reserved f<r later days, [derisive
cheersj, and lot, Jjttle New England
faction, debased by supdrsfitioit and
brutalized by fauticism. What, I ask,
did this great Saate do ? It passed a
decree, ratified i: the full assembly of
the Roman peojle. What manner of
decree ? Confermg the rights of citi
zenship in ail thei fullness. Upon whom
were these rights conferred, and when ?
They were tljQveryya** the
war was cbnc'mdj, apff every one
of the seceded States. Haying done
this, having rested the Italian Union
by a high ant of magnanimity aud jus
tice, making it rare strong than before,
the Roman Sonata incorporated into her
army the confederates, and ordered
them to Asia Min>r to recover the terri
tory there which tithridates, taking ad
vantage of the sicial war, had overran
with his troops, nd those legions very
shortly sent thi ancient Maximilian
-baak to Italy. [l aughter and cheers.]
FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
A VENTILATION OP THE FREED
MEN’S BANK.
Congressional Proceedings The Swindled
Freedmen—The Indian Bill-* More Sliver
—The New Secretary.
Washington, June 21.—Mr. Cook, of
Georgia, addressed the House on the
subject of grievances in the Southern
States, and in advocacy of refunding the
cotton tax.
Mr. Stinger, of Pennsylvania, ad
dressed the committee in reference to
the Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Com
pany. He gave a history, of the rise,
decline and fall of that institution, re
flecting severely on its various officers
and on the Finance Committee. He
charged that Henry D. Cooke, Wm. S.
Huntington and the other three mem
bers of the Finance Committee, and the
two actuaries, Eaton and Stickney, in
side of the bank, and Alexander R.
Shepherd, Hallet Kilbourne, J. V. W.
Vandersburg and others outside of it,
had formed a ring, by which at various
times and in various ways money was
procured from the bank, on worthless or
insufficient security or on no security at
all, to be used in divers enterprises and
speculations by members of the ring.
He described the class of persons'fftlose'
victims the freedmen had been, as a
class governed by a mock philnathropy'
and whose conduct had been marked by
the vilest hypocrisy. They had made
broad their phylacteries, prayed at the
street corners and thanked God that
they were not as other men. They had
stolen the livery of Heaven to serve the
Devil in. They had gone to the freedmen
with words of hope and promise on their
lips, but with consuming greed and av
erioe in their hearts. They had borne
to these helpless and ignorant people
proffers of help whilst their minds were
busily engaged in schemes to rob them.
They had solicited their confidence as
friends whilst they had been devising
ways and means to plunder them of their
hard earnings. They had assumed the
garb of teachers whilst their only mis
sion had been to learn how to steal from
them. They had gone with the teach
ings of Christ in their mouths whilst
their chief ambition had been to be of
the class of political carpet-baggers, ab
horred of all decent men, or of the class
of money changers whom Christ drove
mercilessly from the temple. Towards
them the good people of the South and
of the North, as well, entertained an un
compromising and undying hatred and
could extend no oharity towards suoh
human vultures. It was into the clutch
es of such people that the uneducated,
helpless but confiding freedmen fell.
Their confidence had been secured to
such an extent that in the nine years of
the bank’s existence its deposits amount
ed to fifty-six millions of dollars—the
vast bulk of which money had been sent
to the principal office at Washington.
The whole South had been drained of
its money and it had gone into the
custody of the men who had
charge of the Washington offioe.—
The total liabilities of the bank on
the 31st of December, 1875, were $3,-
004,875, of which the amount due to
colored depositors, $2,992,033. On this
a dividend of 20 per cent, had been de
clared, and when it was paid there
would still remain $2,365,355 to be paid
out of the remaining assets. He did
not see how the final losses of the treed
men could fall below a million and a
half, and he thought it was likely they
would suffer to the extent of two mil
lions. In conclusion, he said: The
freedman no longer regards the Wash
ington ring as a myth. To him its exis
tence is a stern, solemn, sad fact.—
It has cast a great shadqw over
his home and life. It has dis
sipated the hard earnings and
savings of wearisome days. It has
given him over to many nights of un
rest. It has doomed him to years of
harder toil. It has brought penury,
want, suffering and deep distress to his
lqvftd Tfc Kao drivou hupO fIUUJ
his heart, underminded his confidence
in man and shaken his faith in God.
Some of those who fattened upon the
freedmen’s savings for a time are now,
from the shrinkage of their investments,
total bankrupts in fortune. But these
are exceptional cases. Most of them
have large possessions. As I see them
revelling in the lap of luxury; as I wit
ness the investment of their ill gotten
gains in magnifipent business houses
and palatial residences along these beau?
tiful streets; as I hear of them by the
power of their wealth and social influence,
packing and debauching juries, con
trolling Courts and subsidising newspa
pers, I listen to the story of their
nearness to him who executes the laws
for this great, free people, and then turn
my eyes upon the poor freedman, rag
ed, hungry, suffering, wretched, robbed,
whose money has been filched from him
by these very people, I wonder whether
all these things will not one day shrink
away from them also ?
In the Senate,the President’s Winslow
message was referred to the Committee
on Foreign Relations. The Committee
on Privileges and Elections was direoted
to inquire what legislation is necessary
to secure telegraphic messages from
seizure by unauthorized persons. The
Committee on Indian Affairs reported
the House bill transferring the Indian
Bureau, with the recommendation that
it be postponed till December, Mr. In
galls asked that the bifl be laid on the
table for the present, a n 4 it was so or
dered. The bill issuing ten millions of
silver for legal tenders, with the follow
ing amendments, passed; Providing that
the trade dollar shall not hereafter be a
legal tender, and authorizing the Secre
tary of the Treasury to limit the coinage
thereof to such amount as he may deem
sufficient to meet the export demand.
The nomination of Lot M. Morrill as
Secretary of the Treasury was confirmed.
The Indian appropriation bill was re
sumed. The debate occupied several
hours, when a motion prevailed to take
up the House bill transferring the
bureau by a vote of 3Q to 19.
THE CINCINNATI NOMINATION.
Brother Blaine on the Situation—He Accept*
Grapeftilly—What Beat Hint—Hi View* of
the Fgture—Timratants Trainer Air* Hi*
Idea*. r
[ TfrasbAngton IXspatch to Cincinnati Enquirer.]
About 8 o’clock your representative
proceeded to Mr. Blaine’s mansion, and
was most cordially greeted. Mr. Blaine
wa3 sitting in his parlor, surrounded by
a circle of friends, ladies and gents, who
were merrily chatting, evidently to keep
Mr. Blaine’s mind off his defeat. He
invited your correspondent into his
library, and, sitting down at a hospita
ble tabfe, he began an animated conver
sation in his magnetic and’earnest way.
He began by saying : “I Jeel under
great obligation for the ‘very kindly
manner in whioh the inquirer has
treated me in*tips contest. I assure you {
its efforts in behalf of fair play are fully
appreciated.” “The Enquirer , Mr.
Blaine, fias opposed you, and tyofild had
you bean nominated, biit it is run by
young men of blood, who like to
see fair play and publish a news
paper at the same time, and when
throat-cutting was begun by your own
party organ at Cincinnati, the Enquirer
was determined that you should have
fair show.” “Well, it was a great fight,
and I have reason and do feel proud and
highly gratified for the steadfasjtaass of
my friends. They never wavered and
stuck by me gallantly from the first bal
lot to the last. But I had much to con
tend with. All opposition was concen
trated on me. Grant was against me;
the patronage of the Administration was'
against
arid his candidacy was only a crusade
agajnst me. Morton was against Mq, I
have made this fight from first to last
without spending a single cent. I have
not contracted to pay the expenses of a
single man at Cincinnati." “Don’t yon
think, Mr. Blaine, that Pennsylvania has
out a bad figure in the Convention ?”
“The Pennsylvania delegation has been
badly managed. If the forty-four votes
that I finally got had come to
me at the right time I should
have been nominated. Pennsylva
nia dallied \yitb IJariranit tod long and
was finally of no service to anyone.”
“Whsti effect will the afetibn’ of the Re
publican Convention have on the St.
Louis Convention ?” To this question
Mr Blaine replied quick as flash, “It will
compel the nomination either Judge
Davie ? r General “jP beg
phrdon, but I‘fear’yon underrate the
strength of Western Democracy. If
you had been nomipaftfl ffrdayf, Gen-
Hancock e nomination would have fol
lowed os a logical consequence; but
Mayes’ nomination will compel the se
lection of a man further West Ton
forget the rag baby. It is going to have
a voice in naming the man.” “W** u ”
said he, "what is the obieoH' . T
Davis? He i- - to Judge
* **“■-—* right on thegreen-
Question. ” “That may be, but
this year the Democrats dori’l want arijr
more crow,” a moment's jaaurie
he said : “By the way, how onr Con
vention dodged around the onrreney
question.” Mr. Blaine said this as if he
felt that the platform had oontribnted
to his defeat, and he looked before him
as if he were looking at a picture of
General Hawley in his mind’s eye.
John G. Thompson,
Chairman of the Ohio Democratic Cen
tral Committee and Sergeant at-Arms of
the House, has this to say: “The nomi
nation of Hayes is the beat the Repub
lican Convention coaid make. The
trouble is, there is nothing against him.
The ticket is weakened some by plaoing
Wheeler on it. He has opposed the
Ohio river improvement, and the an
tagonism of the river men will do mnoh
toward carrying Cincinnati against the
Republicans. No party can carry Ohio
without carrying Oinoinnati. Wood
ford would have been stronger in Ohio
than Wheeler. It settles one question
beyond donbt—that is, as to what sec
tion of the country the Democratic can
didate should eome from. The nominee
of the St. Louis Convention must be a
man that ean carry Ohio and Indiana
against Hayes. It is folly for the
Democrats to talk abont going into this
fight ignoring October States. If Hayes
carries Ohio and Indiana by small or in
creased majorities the whole country
wllTstsmpede and all the States fall in
to the Republican columns. The Ameri
can people are easily stampeded to the
winning side in politics. Whoever has
the most strength to oarry Ohio and
Indiana in October must be the man for
the Demoorats. Whether this man is
Rendrioks, Bill Allen, Thnrman, Ran
ney or Payne must be decided at the
St. Louis Convention.”
BADGERED BLAINE.
A Cable Telegram on Its Travels—A Bait at
Which Proctor Knott Would Not Bite—Ori
gin and History of the Caldwell Telegram.
New York, Jane 19, —A Graphic spe
cial from Washington says that a great
sensation took place in the Judiciary
Committee room to-day, when the offi
cers of the Western Union Telegraph
Company were examined in relation to
the Caldwell telegram. Their testimony,
and the production of the original tele
gram, seems to prove conclusively that
the Caldwell dispatch originated this
side of the water, and that the dispatch,
almost iri its present shape, was sent to
London by someone in Philadelphia,
and that it was sent baek from London;
but whether by Caldwell or someone
else does not as yet appear. A special
to the New York Telegram from Wash
ington, on the same subject, says that
the investigation this morning confirmed
all that had been stated heretofore as to
Tom Scott’s share in “putting up” a dis
patch from Caldwell, exonerating Blaine.
One of the dispatches, though not sign
ed, is from Tom Scott, and dictates to
Caldwell, who is telegraphed to under
the fictitious name of Faro, exaotly what
to say to vindicate Blaine. It intimates
that Blaine got from Scott the informa
tion as to Knott’s receiving a oable dis
patch from Caldwell, and that getting
tired of Knott's refusing to bite at their
bate, Blaine made a desperate rush and
accused Knott of suppressing evidence
in bis favor. Blaine will be examined
by the committee.
THE MISSING LINK.
Where Knott Found the a Proof to Damn
Blaine—Disgraceful Development* Con
cerning that Famous Cable Dispatch—A
Rascally Game That was Played Between
Two Continents.
PhiiiAPElpbia, June 1$. —A Washing
ton speoial to the Evening Telegraph
says: It can be stated on unquestiona
ble authority that the cable telegram,
purporting to have been sent by Mr.
Caldwell from London, was never seen
by him, although it was actually sent
from London with his name as the sig
nature. It is not oertain that the thin*
started from New York, hot it is pretty
certain that it passed over the wires
from New York, having been started
from that oity or from some point be
tween New York and Washington,
either Baltimore or Philadelphia. It was
embraced in a cable telegram sent from
the starting point on this side of the At
lantic to an assumed address in Lonflqn,
whioh had been agreed upon previously,
probably through the agency of the ca
ble, and the esaot words were then sent
back to this country by tb® confederate
in London in pursuance of the instruc
tions he had received.
Washington, June Is.—Tfie following
dispatches were profiuoed to-day before
the Committee on the Judioiary, by Mr.
Hicks, Oable Clerk of the New York
Western Union Telegraph Offioe. Th®
first dispatoh is from A- P. Robinson,
former Chief Engineer of the Fort Smith
and Little Rock Railroad, and is as fol
lows :
Washington, May 26.—Josiah Cald
well, 115 Cannon street, London, E. C.,
England : See Soott’s testimony as the
papers pnblished .it. Telegraph Soott
at Philadelphia as strong as yoq truth
fully ean an endorsement qf his state
ment. [Signed] A. P. Robinson
June 1, 1876. —Josiah Caldwell, Tun
bridge, Wells, England : Don’t permit
newspaper men and others to, interview
you.
Jfune 18,1876.—Josiah Caldwell, Tun
bridge, Wells, England : If false, au
thorise me to deny that yon paid Rlaine.
[Signed] Sickles, St. James’' Motel.
The aboye dispatch brought out Cald
well’s reply to, Sickle 3 - The fourth tele
gram was received at the Western Union
building, Broadway and Dey streets,
May 31.1876: Josiah Caldwell, Cannon
street, London: Thanks for your cable
confirming all statements.
[Signed] Soott, 31st.
Telegram received at the
Union building, Broadway and Dey
streets, May 81, 1876: Favo, London:
Dispatch roeeiybd- Cable this imme
diately to,' Chairman House Judiciary
Committee, Washington: ‘.‘Have just
read Scott’s evidence about our hftnd
transaction in the tyew 'fork U e WajPftP ers
and fully corroborate. J never, gave
Blaine any Lfitle Rock bonds, directly
or otherwise. Jam pow building ttffep
European railroads, and efthlw leave
withoqt great pe?UPWy loss, or would
gladly voluntarily oome borne and testi
fy. 2 can make affidavit to that effect,
and oan mail it, if desired.” (Not
signed.)
The next dispatch was “Philadelphia
telegram number six,” received at the
Western Union building, Broadway arid
Dey streets, May 30, • “Favo,
London:Oable nqhody Excepting Scott.”
The testimony of Micks was mainly in
explanation of' the operator’s marks in
th'e above dispatches produced by him.
The only important point in it'
the word “Favo” was registered, ad
dress of JOsiah Caldwell ’in London.
Micks knew i( ’from (ne fact that the of
fice Was so 'notified by an office dispatch
from the other side. Efe couls not giye
the date of nQtiflp.atioa, but he
thought it somewhye about the 2Jth of
May ]qst. '
BLACKTILLE NEWS.
A Murderous P| 9 t a** a Mortal Wound.
Blaokville, S. C., June 19.—0n {Jar
nrday evening last an attempt was made
to murder Mr. P. HuM, of Elcho, on
the South Carolina Railroad, a station
about seven miles aboye this place. The
circumstances' as I have been able to
gather' them are briefly these : A dis
turbance arose ‘between two negroes In
Mr. Hair’s store, whereupon Mr. H. or
dered tfiem, oqt,, which order they did
not obey but still continued to quarrel.
Mr. H. then undertook to eject the two
belligerents, and while he was putting
one of them out of the door, a mulatto,
Who had been all the while standing
there a looker-on, suddenly rushed upon
Mr. H. from the rear and, with a knife,
inflicted what is feared to be a mortal
wound, by catting bis throat from ear
to ear. It is thought by all that the
whole affair was a deliberate plot among
the three negroes to take Mr. Hair’s life.
The assassin immediately fled, and,
although diligent search by bodies of
men was at once instituted and carried
on all through Saturday night and Sun
day, it has so far'been fruitless,
A Revolutionaby Drtt£. —The Savan
nah Volunteer Guards have secured an
old ’Revolution WJ drum to. take to
Oharliestpp with them next week. It
has been in the possession of tb® Geor
gia Historical Society for many years,
and bcora the following inscription:;
V fbia drum waa used is the American
army Of the Revolution at the battles of
Entaw, Saratoga and Cowpens. Pre
sented to the Georgia Historical Society
by General Charles R. Floyd in 1841.”
Thiswfli quite W Object of inter
e**, and will no doubt attract ocsgtfsx
able attention. Itia Bqx&wbs* priayier
than the moflerp drums, put is In a good
state of preservation hrid Sounds well.
“Red Hot” Jones is fighting the
Georgetown Times, *
*2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS,
The Moultrie Centennial is agitating
Eastern Georgia.
Col. Murphy, of the Oglethorpe Echo,
has got back from the Centennial.
Gainesville has made great prepara
tions for a large number of Summer
visitors.
A train on the Atlantic and Gulf Rail
road was fired into by some miscreant,
last Monday morning.
Hon. H. P. Bell, of Northeast Geor
gia, is in Forsyth, on a visit to his son
in-law, Rev. Geo. E. Gardner.
The post office at Buokeye, Johnson
county, has been discontinued by order
of the Post Office Department.
The Methodist District Conference
will meet in Gainesville Thursday, the
29th inst. Bishop Pierse will preside.
A woman was abdnoted from a house
on Montgomery street, Savannah, by
two masked men, in broad day light,
last Monday.
We understand that the Chatham Ar
tillery will, by invitation, fire a salute at
Fort Moultrie after the ceremonies of
Centennial day.
The bridge across Commissioner creek
at Toombsboro has been again swept*
away by the water of Toombsboro mill
pond, and no crossing there possible.
Among the speakers at the commence
ment of the Penn Luoy Institute, Balti
more, on the 13th, wo notice the names
of R. B. Palmer and H. W. Palmer, of
Savannah.
Louisville had a patent glue man the
other day that coaid mend anything
from a stove pipe to a rooking chair,
and out talk anybody’s mother-in-law in
the county.
Mr. Daniel Brewer, Jr., bus a pig eight
months old weighing fQ pounds, that
has six perfectly developed feet. His
four legs branch and the extremities are
ornamented with cloven hoofs.
Mr. Webster Paulk has carried the
mail between Irwinton aud No. 16 sta
tion for the past 11 years, and has never
missed ths morning’s mail train. This
is promptness and faithfulness.
We learn that on the night of the 9th
inst., the storehouse of Mr. E. J. Col
lins, at Shady Grove, Twiggs county,
was fired by an inoeudiarv and the build
ing and contents entirely destroyed.
Married, in Naooochee. White county,
on the 28th ult., by William M. Gibby,
Esq., Miss Nancy Cantrell to Robert
Gibby; atoo, at the same time and plaoe,
Mr. Messer York and Miss Mary Dean.
Prof. Gober, of Marietta, is one of the
risiDg young m@n of Cherokee Georgia,
and we predict for him a brilliant and
successful career in the useful and Hon
orable profession of his ohoioe. Sq says
the Canton Georgian.
The editor of the Dalton Citizen, Mr.
J. Whitman* has been called to mourn
the death of two brothers within two
months. The younger one, who died on
the 4th inst., was the favorite of the
family and tho supporter of his widowed
mother.
Misses Rebecca Baum, Nellie Cars
well, Fannie Easom and Moliie Hughes
have succeeded in raising a sufficient
amount to purchase the material for a
flag for the Wilkinson Greys. It is now
being mgde will be flung to the
breeze qn the sth of July next.
The Madison Home Journal learns
that the Georgia Railroad, with its char
acteristic liberality, will pass the veter
ans of the Mexican war free, over the
Georgia find Macon and Augusta Rail
roads to the National Celebration of the
Fourth of July at Philadelphia, Con
ductors will he instructed to pass them
going and returning.
Fifty-eight sheep were killed by a
uyapie ut dogs near No. 10 on tho Atlan
tic and Gulf Railroad the other day, in
a few hours, notwithstanding the owner
of the mutton was after the dogs with a
double-barrel shot gun. The sheep were
the property of Mr. W. f. James, a
member of the last Legislature, who
voted against the passage of a dog law.
The Waycross Headlight, from which
we get the above item, says he hag
changed his mind now and favers a dog
law.
A gentleman at F°rt Gaines, a few
days ago, get. a trot line and caught a
twenty-pound cat fish, in a very unus
ual manner, When he had landed the
fish he found .that a moderate sized eel
had been hooked. The oat fish had made
an attempt to swallow the eel, but the
eel had passed out of the right gill of
the fish. A s.eoond attempt was made
and the eel went out of the left gill,
thus fastening the fish in a manner which
was very unusual to fishermen, snd as
inextricable as a Gordian, knot. This is
not a fish story, therefore it is true.
ComtiftntAon: Sunday afternoon some
boys who were inspecting the cotton fac
tory building discovered the box-in which
the bricks and mortar are hoififed to the
top of the smoke stack, HOW some hun
dred feet high, fifid in the absence of the
factory watchman, who was in the main
building, proceeded, to hoist one of their
number in said box; toward a the sum
mit of the stack. When he had pere
grinated aho.nt fifty feet above his admir
ing Companions the pole to which the
tackle was fastened became loose and
pitching over, swinging him about sixty
feet through the air, landing him in the
Rev. Geo. McCauley’s vegetable garden,
without injury, but considerably dis
gusted with such experimmds,
Sunday at Union; Feint the son of Mr.
Griffith, foqr of age, was looking
over the hujjb. of a well, fifty feet deep,
when be lost his balance and fell in. A
negro girl who was drawing water at the
time gave the alarm. 4 mo,wd soon
gathered, and a man, descended by the
r °P e ‘ It bthhif dark be co,u,ld not see
the boy and a?WdiWj **o called out to
him, believing however, that the fall
had killed bun. or be VWt drowned. To
, s W*W4 boy answered back
cueefify, anq 00 getting down to the
water he found the lad astraddle of a
plank, with one leg broken, a shoulder
blade dislooated and a terrible ou,t
across the forehead. In falling be bad
struck against the bucket bjbt bad dis
oretion enough to gmspapd straddle the
p xv x , 0 pkjwws are o| the opin
ion that b A $ recover.
So,utfrernpr and Appeal: Several
years ago, after a prolonged illness, Mr,
Passmore, of this county, died, leaving
in worldly wealth sixty acre* olWl to a
wife and daqghte* ftp prolonged sick
ness had everything else ex-
I °^ t arid* it almost worthless on
aocount dl| thedilapidated foueeu. After
the death of Mr. Mr Andrew
openoe anfl otoyif neighbors offered his
’IW PSPhau, a home at their house,
refused. Mrs. Passmore
went to, work, she procured a horse and
some provisions, repaired the fences
with her own hands, and herself and
daughter made a crop, and paid for the
horse and provisions used. Sfia was now
independent, and has sinoc, with the as
sistance of her daughter, made several
crops, and from the proceeds has pur
chased 100,acres of land; has over $560
worth of stock; has previsions to sell,
and owes only $5%
Athens ifateAr/ron.- We learn that .1.
H. Towns and a number of young men
arrested six men on Saturday night, in
the neighborhood of the Georgia Fae
: tory, where several robberies have been
recently committed. We learn that
there were two parties, three men in
each—oil of whom were arrested. It
is reported that they had two wagons
and teams, and other property in their
possession. The wagons were concealed
in one place and the horses in another,
abont a mile from the factory and at points
remote from the public highwaj- The
property and prisoners brought to
town Sunday morning, and the men
pat in jail. We understand that they
claim to he from Greene county—four
of them named Fisher and two,cf the
name of Nolan, They had all formerly
lived at the factory, ft is said that they
had ropes in thefr possession known to
have been stolen from the factory, and
that they sold a quantity of loose ootton
in this city Saturday morning.
Where the failed flowers dull freshen,
Freshen never more to fade;
Where the shaded sky shall brighten,
Brighten never more to shade;
Where the sun-blaze never scorches,
Where the star-beams cease to chill,
Where no tempest stirs the echoes
Of the wood or wave or hill;
Where the morn shall wake in aladiusa.
And the moon the joy prnjnng; •
Where the day light 'fragrance
Mid the buratof haJyiiohß; '
Whare th® bands is severed,
, Airbag*! elaspirigs. sobs, and moans,
illgaJght waking, twilight weeping,
Heavy noontide—are all dona. '
Where a King in kingiv gipry, '
Such as earth has never, known,
Shall aaeunw the Hghtepua aceptre,
„ 9jaim and wT£r the heavenly crown,
Fajft, we Shall meet and. rest
lOfl the Ijoly tawth* ht.Mfe
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Hopewell Democratic Club met at J.
M. Hamblin’s sohool house on the 10th
instant.
A rattlesnake was killed Wednesday
on Long Branch, near Greenville, having
ten rattles and a button.
The Baptist Ministers’ Conference, of
Darlington oonnty, met onthel2thinst.,
at the house of Col. B. W. Edwards.
Mrs. Indiana Allen, wife of Captain
Joseph Allen, of Greenville, died at her
home on Friday last, after a short illness.
The County Commissioners of Spar
tanburg have bought up an installment
of county bonds at 70 cents on the dol
lar.
Col. A. B. Smedley, of Ohio, the Leo
tnrer of the National Grange, will ad
dress the Patrons of Oconee at Seneca
on Tuesday night, the 20th instant.
The oat and wheat orops in Lancaster
are very promising. Many parties have
already harvested their oats, and are
well pleased with the remunerative yield.
Such was the storm on Monday that
the steam water boat Agnes, from Port
Royal, was oompelled to put back in at
tempting to reaoh to fleet with full
tanks of water.
The rain has been a blessing to the
corn and ootton planters in Colleton, and
a sufficient quantity fell to raise the
rivers and enable the rioe planters to
obtain a flow of fresh water.
A public meeting of the Demoorats of
Tugaloo Township will be held at Rook
Springs, on Saturday, the first day of
July, for the purpose of organizing a
Democratic club at that place.
The Oongaree has overflowed at the
old Hampton piftoo—now the property
of Mr. W. Q. iChilds—and
ahout fifty tons of fine hay, not a straw
of whioh remains to tell the tale.
A rule has been served on F. D. S.
Lawrence, of Port Royal, to show cause
on Friday next, why his name should
not be strioken from the roll as an at
torney, for unprofessional conduct.
The Grand Jury of Beaufort present
George Holmes, County Treasurer of
said oonnty, for paying money out of
the oounty treasury on aooouut of sohool
fund, for whioh no vouches are produc
ed.
Mr. E. H. Barton, Deputy Oolleotor
in the Internal Revenue Department at
Greenville, has been sent to Senaca City
and has charge of the counties of Abbe
ville, Anderson, Laurens, Pickens and
Oconee.
Trie Mcllwane Blook, at Abbeville,
more oommonly known as Granite
Range, was sold on the 6th inst., by
Hugh Wilson, Jr., to W. A. Lee, Esq ,
for $10,500. Real estate has an upward
tendency.
The Orangeburg Baptist Sunday
School Convention will meet with the
Santee Church on Friday before the
third Sunday in July. The introducto
ry sermon vflll be preached by Rev. J.
L. Rollins.
The 31abtowu Democratic Club met at
the Academy on June 3J, the President,
J. Jamison, in the obair. The minutes
of last meeting were read and ooufirmed.
New members were oalled for and ad
ditions were made to the roll.
Magnificent rains on Monday and
Tuesday in Edgefield. The whole coun
try presents a beautiful and cheering
view. Yellow grain—flourishing corn—
lovely ootton—clean fields—these are
salient points of every landscape.
State Senator W. A. Evans, of Ohe
terfleld oounty, and Mrs. W. S. Poole,
of Columbia, were united in the bands
of wedlock on Wednesday. The cere
mony was performed by the Rev. Z. W.
Bedenbaugh, pastor of the Lutheran
OWoh.
We understand that Edward Whita
ker, a colored youth of about twenty or
twenty-one _ years, has been appointed
to West Point. Whether or not he will
stay there any length of time we are not
prepared to say. It is said he stood a
creditable examination.— Kershaw Ga
sette.
Dr. Hix, a celebrated conjurer from
the country, has visited Timmonsville
recently and promised the cooks and
washerwomen that he will enable them
to procure better wages from their em
ployers by application of his charm*
and roots, it being understood that he
receives a fee in advance of the opera
tion.
The orops are In good condition in
Colleton, with prospects of yielding
good returns, A larger area than usual
has been devoted to corn and the cereals
generally, and a less to ootton. More
oats are made and the ©top is fine. The
cultivation of sugar eane is attracting
more attention than formerly.
Rains has done considerable damage
to wheat and oats in Union county. In
some oases it oanght the wheat out and
lying on the ground, not stacked, and
where it was not ant it is beat to the
ground and blown abont so badly that
it will be difficult to out. The ootton
and corn is terribly in the grass, and
will require time and labor to get it
clean.
Blaokville News? John Walsh, an
Irishman, aged 83 years, bas been resid
ing within a mile or two of this place
during the last forty years—made dur
ing the last crop season, with some little
assistance now and then from his wife
in the field, four bales of cotton and two
hundred and sixty bushels of corn, on a
little farm of thirty-eight aores. Old
Uncle Jack has some money laid by for
a rainy day. May he live long and pros
per. He is worth yet a cow-pen full of
worth ess drones and politicians. Ye
young men just think of Mr. Walsh’s in
dustry, and of your own neglect of duty
and extravagance, aod profit by it.
John Walsh is a live man. and a good
man to boot.
Considerable damage was done by
the storm to wheat and oats, in Lauaens
oounty, by blowing down that not har
vested., The wheat crop had already
been much damaged by rust, and it is
feared the late storm will injure it still
more. The oat, crop up to the time of
the storm was better than usual, and
the area sown mnch greater. Com and.
cotton promises well at present and t>he
prospect is better than for many ytara.
The wind blew off over half >ha roof
of a bouse belonging to a colored man
by the name of Samuel Smith, about 5J
miles above Union Court House. The
hail destroyed eight acres of flue cotton,
whieh was five inches high and in fine
growing oondition. Every tree upon an
acre of well timbered land belonging to
a oolored man named Dan Nichols was
blown down, and thq roof taken off hiß
stables.
LOUISIANA LAWLESSNESS-
The Mount Pleasant Troubles—Five Een
Huns by the Regulators—A Ghastly Spec
tacle—Senator Twiteheli Still Alive.
New Obleans, Jane 20.—The latest
intelligence concerning the troubles in
East Baton Rouge was bronght by the
steamboat Bertha, which arrived this
morning. The boat passed Port Hud
son at 11, a. m., yesterday, and took ou
board at that point the sheriff of Bacon
Rouge and his posse, having in charge
fourteen negroes captured at Mount
Pleasant, who were taken to Baton
Rouge for safe keeping. There was an
expression of reprobation as to the con
duct of the regulators. While the boat
was passing a point, adjacent to Mount
Pleasent a ghostly sight was revealed
to the passengers and erew. From the
hurricane cteck a good view was obtain
ed ©f the inland country to the distance
of perhaps a mile or more, owing to the
gradual ascent of the surface from the
river bank npon a slight eminenoe. In
fall view of the boat a wide gate was
seen, and from the cross .beam at the
top the bodies of five men were suspend
ed. This spectacle was observed by
nearly every one on the steamboat, but
no explanation was obtained. No report
of the disturbances has yet been mad©
to the acting Governor by the sheriff!
He has received information that after
the prisoners were in the hands of tho
sheriff that one of them exposed his
satisfaction of being under guard as it
would protect him from the regulators.
Senator W. H.• Twßcbell arrived this
morning on the Dutfee, from Coushatta,
accompanied by a guard of one sergeant
and threq mea, This escort was granted
on (by. personal application of Senator
TwicfieJl to General Anger, after the re
quest had been refused by the post com
mandant Captain Kent. The instructions
of the mea wore to protect Mr. Twib-Jhell
from personal viplence as far a-j this
city,, and then report at headquarters.
Senator Twitohell seems to he entirely
recovered from the effects of his wounds
which would certainly have proved fatal
to a man with an ordinary constitution.
Ho has a very helpless appearance,
both arms having been amputated above
the elbows. i
