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Address WALSH k WRIGHT,
Caaowicxs k Hxvtivkl. Augusta, Qa.
Cftronicte anfr .Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 16, 1876.
One of the most singular things of
note in this age of reform is that Ben
Bctlrb is trying to get back into Con
gress-
It is to be hoped that Pikbbkpost got
satisfactory information from the “spir
its” in regard to the Pibbbepont family.
An ass’ head wonld be very appropriate
for armorial bearings for him.
Thb Republicans were not aa valorous
in defense of Robeson on the floor of
the House as were the Republican mem
bers of the Committee on Naval Affairs.
They were not partioelarly anxions to
discuss the subject.
The Radical papers are making much
ado upon the difference between the
principles of Mr. Tildes and Mr. Hen
dnicks, while the Democratic press have
their hands full in exposing the prac
tices of the Radical leaders.
An exobange suggests that General
Babcock wonld look well demanding a
court martial. Babcock, however, thinks
he looks a great deal better drawing a
salary as Commissioner of Public Build
ings and Grounds in Washington.
Babcock still occupies the position of
Superintendent of Pablic Buildings and
Gronnds in Washington, and will proba
bly continue to do so while Gbant re
mains President. It is only friends of
Bbibtow and Jewell that are tamed
out of office.
Republican stamp speakers will have
nphill work of it in Connecticut. The
reformatory tendencies of the Republi
can party are not appreciated by the
people of the Nutmeg State, especially
when their fruits are the taming of
honest men ont of offioe.
The New York Herald says, now that
Bblknap’s acqnittal leaves him qualified
to hold offioe, he is just making up his
mind which office to run for. If the Re
publicans are to remain in power, he is
by natnral qualifications and education
the “fittenest” man for President.
The Raleigh hentinel says it has
“oheering accounts from the west of the
Vanor and Settle campaign 1” Roll on
the ball. It also says that “in every
oounty of North Carolina where the
Democrats have rnled is peace and
plenty. Wherever Republicans have
had sway debt, distress and destruction
reigns.”
When wo compare Tilden’s letter
with that of Hates, it is fonnd that the ,
former is the work of a practical man
and a statesman; the latter the mere <
eunmoiation of general propositions, on l
of friends, without the ability
to explain or oomprehend the real situa- j
tion of public affairs.
Grant remarked to a friend the other
day that he felt “like a toad under a <
harrow.” Grant's situation at every
fresh development of wide-spread offi
cial rascality becomes mire harrowing
every day, and pretty soon, in the words
of DbQuinoey :
“Interrogator* eel ab omnibus, übi est,lie Toad
in-the-hole f
Kt Hesponsum est cumcachino: ‘Non est inoen
tvs.’ ”
■
One of the Missouri train robbers who
was arrested the other day, Hobbs Ker
ry by name, has confessed and given the
names of his partners in the crime.—
This is setting a good example, and we
hope the employees of the railroad and
the passengers who allowed the train to
be captured will now be induced to
mike their confessions. What the peo
ple want just now is some information
M to the etiquette that should prevail in
dealing with train robbers.
Inactivity prevails in the Big Horn
army. The command is divided, and
oommnuication difficult, even if it is
possible. The ludiaus are iu superior
foroe, aud elated with their triumphs.
The whites appear to be cowed and in
timidated. If they are not soon rein
forced, it is to be feared the few troops
in the mountains will have great diffi
culty in extrioUiug themselves from the
trap they have been driven into by some
body. Certainly the immediate com
manders cannot be held responsible for
the sacrifice that seems so imminent.
Sitting Bull is unquestionably a sav
age, yet after he had killed Ctjstek he
neither scalped him nor allowed his
body to be robbed or mutilated. Bov
valo Bum ia undoubtedly a Christian,
and still when he slaughtered Yellow
Hand, the Indian chief, he scalped him
and sent his scalp and war trappings to
be exhibited in a shop window. It is
these nioe distinctions between the cus
toms prevailing in savage aud civilized
life that give us confidence in the en
lightenment of the nineteenth century—
that lead ns to boost of our superior
civilization.
The military .authorities at Washing
ton insist that there are enough regu
lars in the field to dispose of Simsa
801 l without accepting the services of
other volunteers than those from the
friendly Indian tribes. This belief is
by no means expressed by the corres
pondents at the seat of war. They can
count the number of white troops in the
field, but remain entirety ignorant of the
force they will have to encounter.
Should Merrill, with hia earalry, suc
ceed in joining Crook before e battle
takes place, their united columns would
etill be outnumbered by the Indians. If
attacked before there is e junction.
Mkkrrt could entertain no assurance of
a victory, bnt might, on the contrary,
sub tain a crushing defeat. It looks as if
an attack were decided upon by Crook
as soon as Merritt comes np, and he
feels confident of his ability, with this
reinforcement, to dispose ef the enemy.
An equal confidence is said to be enter
tained by the savages, and the battle, if
it takee place, will no doubt be hotly
contested. If Tan by and hia command
were a part of Crook's army, Sitting
Bull's forces would probably be out
numbered, but we do not see that he is
counted upon to take part iu the expec
ted action. Public anxiety will be re
lieved in u few days as to the result of
operations. In the meantime the coun
try will hope that Gen. Crook has made
jk> iii hia calculation*.
THE WAR IN EUROPE.
Although the Servians do not prove a
match for Turkey, the present situation
does not promise a cessation of hostili
ties. Some days sii ce, Roumania gave
what was termed her nltimatnm. The
most important of the seven points
which she formulated w s the cession
of the whole of the delta of the Danube,
from the Tnltcha down to its four
months. This would give Roumania
possession of a strip of coast on the
Black Sea about eight miles in length,
and extending forty miles inland. The
Roumanians would thus obtain control
of the Danube at the delta, and could
open the way for Russia into Turkey.
Late dispatches say that the Porte de
clares some of the most important of
Ror nania’s demands inadmissible,
among whioh, doubtless, ia included
this cession of Dannbian territory. The
Constantinople correspondent of the
London limes states that considerable
excitement exists in Greece, Roumania
and Crete, and that the Tnrks do not
expect that the war will be confined to
its present limits. Apprehensions also
exist, with what foundation the dis
patches do not say, that hostilities with
Rassia will follow. The Eastern ques
tion is thus fast assuming the shape
that was expected by the best informed
correspondents. It has never been sup
posed that Servia exposed herself to the
danger of a war with Turkey without
some understanding with her more pow
erful neighbors in regard to support.
Prince Milan was represented at the
ontset as disinclined to hostilities, bnt
carried onward by the warlike enthusi
asm of his subjects. Bnt a few days
after the oommencemenl of hostilities,
and before any important victories .were
gained, the Prince assumed the royal ti
tle of King of Servia, thus not only de
claring himself free from Turkey, but
independent of the Great Powers, which
conferred upon him his principality and
his title of Prinoe. As Prince Milan
was the Executive of a nation of about
1,300,000 inhabitants, it can hardly be
supposed that he rejected the protection
of the Western Powers without some al
liance to lean npon. Russia is the only
Power he can look to in the case of de
feat. To. Italy and Austria the new
Kingdom is a menace. To England and
France its announcement is a release
from obligations that might have proved
embarrassing in the event of the success
of Turkey in reducing the Servians to
terms. It seems probable that the
events of the next few days will deter
mine whether a patched-up peace shall
be made, or the Eastern question fought i
out by the Great Powers interested.
THE RISE IN SILVER.
Silver fell in the London market under
the unfriendly legislation of Germany
and the United States. From abont 60
pence per ounce it fell to 47 pence, the
depreciation being equivalent to 26 of
our American cents. Under the circum
stance, it is not at all surprising that
silver should have fallen. England,
having a lion’s share of the gold in the
world, holding obligations to the
amount of many thousand million ster
ling, which were payable in gold, had
adopted the silver or gold standard.
Germany, having turned the Treasury
of France into her own, followed
England’s example in regard to the
single standard, with the view to in
oresse the value of money as compared
with merchandise. The United States,
by a trick in legislation unworthy of
Congress, amended its coinage laws so :
that nothing but subsidiary coin was
produced, and that of inferior weight,
and a legal tender only for small sums.
Without any action by the people, with
out discussion or in any way calling 1
attention to the importance of the
measure, silver coin in the United
States was thus reduoed to the rank of
token money, circulating by sufferance,
as five cent niokels have in the East,
without regard to their intrinsic value.
This legislation, taking place at a time
when the production of silver was
larger than the usual average, and when
Germany was placing large amounts of
silver in the European markets, very
naturally affected the relation which
silver had held to gold.
At present the tide seems to have
turned. Within a few days silver has
risen from 47d. to 51jd. The question
of the permanency of this improvement
is best discussed in connection with its
cause. If the United States continue*
to hold its unfriendly attitude to one of
its ohief products, its further deprecia
tion oan hardly be avoided. At present,
while producing a very large proportion
of the world’s silver, we are using bnt
little in the form of money. A million
or so of inhabitants on the Pacific coast
keep a few millions in circulation, bnt
to the forty odd millions east of the
mountains, silver coin was a few months
ago a thing almost unknown. The agi
tation in this country in favor of silver
has undoubtedly caused its rise in the
European market. We speak of Ger
many as having been the main cause of
this depreciation, while in fact our influ
ence in this matter should be greater
than that of Germany. Oar population
is larger, our domestic and foreign com
merce larger in proportion to our popu
lation, and our uses for mouey greater.
A million of Americans will require
probably twice as much mouey as the
: same number of Europeans. We may
therefore attribute the late rise in silver
largely to the more friendly legislation
already completed and in progress in
this country. The prospect of using
from one to two or three hnndred mill
ions of silver in the United States o.e
ates a demand for that metal in Europe
which tends to increase its value. And
then there is no doubt bat that the wild
stories that have been set afloat by irre
sponsible newspapers concerning the
probable yield of the Comstock lode
have had some influence in quarters
where the character of these journals is
unknown. But the actual production of
silver does not warrant any apprehen
sion of permanent depreciation. With
reasonably prosperous times silver will
for years to come be required in larger
quantities than formerly in manufactur
ing purposes. Every wealthy family is
ambitions to have its gennine silver
plate. As the country grows rich and its
families permanent, treasures of this
description will be collected and be pre
served as heir-looms. It is not improb
able, therefore, with the present feeling
in regard to the nse of silver as a part
i of our currency, that the appreciation
which has formed the feature of the last
few days should continue until some
thing like the old relation of the metals
is restored.
A CHANGE Of POSITION,
The changed attitude of the praties in
the House of Commons in regard to Con
tinental politics, is another illustration
of the truth that responsibility makes a
party conservative. Mr. Gladstone’s ad
ministration was accused of nndne
timidity; its policy was that England
should hold itself as mnch as possible
from all European entanglements; and
the result of it was that fSngland’s infln.
ease vent down to zero. As no action
was feared or expected from her, her
opinion was held in contempt. At the
close of Mr. Gladstone's administration
it is not too to ssy that England
had scarcely any weight in Continental
polities.
Mr. Disraeli came in as the champion
of a different policy. The English lion
(if we may be allowed to use that ex
pression) began to lift up his head, and
the Minister even made him growl oc
casionally. To be sore people said that
it was only one of Disraeli’s theatrical
growls, and that it did not mean any
thing; bnt Disraeli has kept on assum
ing that England still is a power and
will not be coanted oat of politics and
war, nntil the Continent has again ac
cepted her, and England is once more
respected and deferred to. Although
some of the opposition have continued
to say that England’s best conrse is to
mind her own business and avoid entan
glements, yet it cannot be donbted that
the majority of Englishmen are rather
pleased with the return of influence to
England.
And now ( the opposition comes for
ward to have that influence need. The
position of parties in Parliament is mo
mentarily exchanged. Mr. Fobsyth,
sustained by Mr. Gladstone, asks the
Government to vigorously interfere in
the Eastern question, to the extent of
guaranteeing self-government to the in
surgent States of the Tarkiah Empire.
Lord Debbt is unwilling to commit the
Government to each a bold stroke.
Probably if Disraeli were in the op
position we should hear him calling the
attention of the Honse to the massacres
of Christians by the Tnrks, and demand
ing in the name of humanity that Eng
land should interfere; and Gladstone
would, it is probable, hesitate to throw
England into any attitude of hostility
to her ancient ally, Turkey, whose bonds
are so largely held in Old Broad street,
and whose existence is so necessary to
keep Russia in check. But now we have
the rather odd spectacle of the dashing
Premier suddenly become conservative
and non-interfering, and the timid ex-
Premier in favor of active intervention.
RENO ON THE CUSTER MASSACRE.
We have had some doubts about Gen
eral Reno’s ability as a fighter, but cer
tainly his skill as a writer cannot be
questioned. Through the courtesy of
the Army and Navy Journal we have
received advance sheets of his official
report of the campaign of Custer on the
Rosebud and Little Big Horn, and the
reader will find the document clear, con
cise and picturesque. The story of the
march, attack and defeat is well told’
and, indeed, it won’t be hard to make
the tragic tale dull or uninteresting.
The facts detailed by Beno have been
pretty fully given by others, but they
come with new force from him. He at
tributes the disaster partly to making
the attack in separate detachments, part
ly to the rapid marching for two days
previously, and partly to the time chosen
for the onslaught. If all three detach
ments of the regiment had gone
heartily into the fight as Cus
ter’s did, the division would
have been a source of strength, as it
would have tended to confuse the sav
ages. There could not have been much
danger of a failure to co-operate when
the different commands were so close
together. However this may be, Gen.
Reno states his own case well, and makes
a strong defense of his retrograde move
ment. His subsequent gallant fight on
the bluff will go far to justify him in
the eyes of the country. At the close
of his report he breaks out in a short
but bitter denunciation of the Indian
policy of the G >vernment. In one sen
tence is concentrated the essence of the
indignation which the soldiers feel at
seeing their comrades slaughtered by
men armed, equipped and provisioned
by the Interior Department and the
thieves that have had control of it.
This fieroe question may cost Reno the
favor of a dying administration, but it
was a manly thing to ask it, and the
American people will answer it next
November.
“The harrowing sight of the dead
bodies orowning the height on which
Ouster fell, and which will remain
vividly in my memory until death, is too
recent for me not to ask the good peo
ple of this country, whether a policy
that sets opposing parties in the field
armed, clothed and equipped by one
and the same Government, should not
be abolished ?”
NO FRIEND OF JEWEL). TO ESCAPE.
[Detroit Free Press.]
The fiat has gone forth that all officers
of the Post Offioe Department who are
known as friends of the dismissed Jew
ell shall be removed, for no other rea
son than their friendship for their late
ohief. The beginning was made the
other day, when George H. Cowell, of
Waterbury, Conn., the efficient chief
clerk of the Department, was informed
that his resignation was desired. He
was informed at the same time, says a
Washington special to the New York
Evening Post (Republican), that there
was no complaint against him; that he
had given perfect satisfaction by the
manner in which he had performed the
duties of his office; that his resignation
was called for only upon personal
gronnds; that he was understood to be a
friend of the late Postmaster-General.
Other changes are expected.
Thus does onr “purest and best” Ad
ministration continne its work of reform
ing the civil service, begun when Bristow
was forced out of the Cabinet, and Wil
son compelled to retire from an import
ant post. It has been followed since by
the dismissal of Yabyan, the snubbing
of Pratt until he tendered his resigna
tion, the dismissal of Dyer and of
Jewell. Wherever a warm personal
friend of the late Secretary of the Treas
ury was to be found, he was marked for
removal, and now it appears that Jewell
men are not to be permitted to escape
removal. The Administration which
did everything in its power to shield
Babcock— which has stood by corrup
tionists long after their corruption has
beeto exposed—-which has been guilty of
the grossest favoritism in appointments,
and retains to this day many men in
office whose names have an unsavory
smell—shows its tendencies in another
direction by weeding ont of the depart
ments and places of pablic trust those
who are suspected of sympathy with the
honest and courageous men who, as
members of the Cabinet, remembered
they were the servants of the whole peo
ple and labored industriously for the
pablic good. And while the Adminis
tration thus wreaks a petty vengeance
on faithful subordinates, Chairman
Chandler of the Republican organiza
tion holds his seat in the Cabinet, and
there is not a man holding a position of
influence in the council of the Republi
can party in the nation who has the
oonrage to protest against the nse of
Executive authority to gratify small
personal resentments. They one and
all bow at Grant’s shrine and shout for
Grant and Hayes.
The Chicago Tribune having shakes hands
with the Chicago Inter-Ocean, its education in
the Bashi-Baxouk catechism has got far
enough for it to remark :
‘■We submit to the people of the North
whether the election ef a Democratic Presi
dent win not be an abandonment of the negro
population to murder, and whether the people
of the North are prepared to order snch an
eTent by electing a Democratic President.”
Of couree Tildes and Hex deices have fixed
the date of thia huge 3t. Bartholomew busi
ness
What Uncle Daniel drew from Wall
jtreet—Q.
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1576.
THE DEMOCRATIC PI.ATFOK.iI ADOPT
ED AT ST. LOUIS, JUNE £BTII. JS7O.
We, the delegates of the Dioio:ratic party
A the United States, in National Convention
assembled, do hereby declare the administra
tion of the Federal Government to be in ur
gent need of immediate reform; we do hereby
enjoin upon the nominees of this Convention
and of the Democratic party in each State a
zealous effort and co-operation to this end,
and do hereby appeal to our fellow-citizens of
every former political connection to undertake
with ns this first and most pressing patriotic
duty of the Democracy of the whole country.
We do hereby reaffirm onr faith in the per
manency of the Federal Union, onr devotion to
the Constitution of the United States wi h its
amendments universally accepted as a final
settlement of the controversies that engen
dered civil war, and do here record our stead
fast confidence in the perpetuity of repnblioan
self-government, in absolute acquiescence to
the will of the majority—the vital principle of
republics—in the supremacy of the civic over
the military authority in the total separation
of church and state for the sake alike of civil
and religious freedom, in the equality of all
citizens before just laws of their own enact
ment, in the liberty of individual conduct un
vexed by sumptuary laws, in the faithful edu
cation of the rising generation, that they may
preserve, enjoy and transmit these best con
ditions of human happiness.
But, while upholding the bond of our Union
and great charter of these our rightß, it be
hooves a free people to practice also that eter
nal vigilance which is the price of liberty. Be
form is necessary to rebuild and establish in
the hearts of the whole people of the Union,
eleven years ago happily rescued from the dan
ger of a secession of States, bnt now to be
saved from a corrupt centralism which, after
inflicting npon ten States the rapacity of car
pet-bag tyrannies, has honey-combed tlie
offices of the Federal Government itself with
incapacity, waste and fraud, infeoted States
and municipalities with the contagion of rain
rule 'nd locked fast the prospeiity of an in
dustrious people in the paralysis of hard times.
Beform is necessary to establish a sound cur
rency, restore the public credit aad maintain
the national honor.
We denounce the failure for the past eleven
years to make good the promise of the legal
tender notes, which are a changing standard of
value in the hands of the people, and tlio non
payment of which is a disregard of the plightod
faith of the nation.
We denounce the improvidence which in
eleven years of peace has taken from the peo
ple in Federal taxes thirteen times tho whole
amount of the legal tender notes, and squan
dered four times this sum iu useless expense,
without accumulating any reserve for their re
demption.
We denounce the financial imbeoility and
immorality of that party wh ch, during eleven
years of peace, has made no advance toward
resumption ; which, instead, has obstructed
resumption by wasting our resources and ex
haustiug all onr surplus income, and, while an
nually professing to intend a speedy rotum to
specie payments, has annually enacted fresh
hindrances thereto. As each a hindrance, we
denounce the resumption clause of the act of
1875, and we hereby demand its repeal. We
demand a judicious system of preparation by
public economies, by official retrenchments
and by wise finance, which shall enable tho
nation soon to assure the whole. world of its
perfect ability and its perfect readinoss to
meet any of its promises at the call of the
creditors entitled to payment. We bolieve
such a system, well devised and above all in
trusted to competent hands for execution,
creating at no time an artificial scarcity of cur
rency and at no time alarming the public mind
into a withdrawal of that vaster macninery of
credit by which 95 per cent, of all business
transactions are performed, a system open,
public and inspiring general confidence, would
from the day of its adoption bring healing on
its wings to all our harassed industry, and set
in motion the wheels of commerce, manufac
tures and the mechanioal arts, restore employ
ment to labor, aDd renew in all its national
sources the prosperity of the people.
Beform is necessary in the sum and mode of
Federal taxation, to the end that capital may
be set free from distrust and labor lightly bur
dened.
We denounce the present tariff, levied upon
nearly 4,000 articles, as a masterpiece of injus
tice, inequality and false pretense. It yields a
dwindling, not a yearly rising revenue. It has
impoverished many industries to subsidize a
few. It prohibits imports that might purchase
the products of American labor. It has de
graded American commerce from tho first to
an inferior rank on the high seas. It has cut
down the sale of Amerioan manufactures at
home and abroad and deploted the returns of
American agriculture— an industry followed by
half our people It costs the people five times
more than it produces to the Treasury, ob
structs the processes of production and wastes
the fruits of labor. It promotes fraud and
fosters smuggling, enriches dishonest officials
and bankrupts honest merchants. We demand
that all Custom House taxation shall be only
for revenue.
Beform is necessary in the scale of public
expenses, Federal, Btate and municipal. Our
Federal taxation has swelled from $60,000,000,
gold, iu 1860, to $450,000,000, currency, in 1870;
or, in a decade, from less than $5 per head to
more than $lB per head. Since the peace the
people have paid to their tax gatherers more
than thrice the sum of the national debt, and
more than twice the sum for the Foderal Gov
ernment alone. We demand a vigorous fru
gality in every department and from every
officer of the Government.
Beform is necessary to put a stop to the pro
fligate waste of public lands, and their diver
sion from actual settlers by the party in power,
which has squandered 200,000,000 acres npon
railroads alone, and out of moro than thrice
that aggregate has disposed of less than a
sixth directly to tillers of the soil.
Beform is necessary to correct the omissions
of the Bepublican Congress and tho errors of
our treaties and onr diplomacy, which have
stripped our fellow-citizens of foreign birth
and kindred race recrossing the Atlantic of the
shield of American citizenship, and have ex
posed our brethren of the Pacific coast to the
incursions of a race not sprung from the same
great parent stock, and in fact now by law de
nied citizenship through naturalization kb be
ing neither accustomed to the traditions of a
progressive civilization nor exercised in liberty
under equal laws. We denounce the policy
which thus discards the liberty-loving German
and tolerates the revival of the coolie trade in
Mongolian women imported for immoral pur
poses, and Mongolian men hired to perform
servile labor contracts, and demand snch modi
fication of the treaty with the Chinese Empire,
or such legislation by Congress, with a consti
tn'icnal limitation, as shall prevent the fur
ther importation or immigration of the Mongo
lian race.
IV-form is nocoesary, and oan nover bo effoofc
ec! but by making it the controlling issue of
the elections and lifting it above the two false
issues with which the offioe holding class and
the party in power seek to smother it--the
fal e issue with which they would enkindle
sectional strife in respect to the public schools,
of which the establishment and support be
longs exclusively to the several Staton, and
wl.-.-h the Democratic party has cherished
from their foundation, and resolved to main
tain without partiality or preference for any
clcf,s, sect, or creed, and without iontribution
from the Treasury to any of them; and the
fal-e issue by which they seek to light anew
tl.e ■ > iug embers of sectional hits between
kia ire! peoples once estranged but n w re
united in the indivisible repnblic and a com
mon destiny.
Beform is necessary in the civil sei vice. Ex
perience proves that efficient, economical oon
duct of the Governmental business ia not pos
sible if its civil service be subject to change at
every election, be a prize fought for at the
ballot box, be a brief reward of party zeal, in
stead of posts of honor assigned for proved
competency, and held for fidelity in the public
employ; that the dispensing of patronage
should neither be a tax upon the time of all
our pablic men nor the instrument of their
ambition. Here again professions falsified in
the performance attest that the party in power
can work out na practical or salutary reform.
Beform is necessary even more in the higher
grades of the public service. President, Yice-
President. Judges, Senators, Representatives,
Cabinet officers, these and all others in author
ity are the people's servants. Their offices are
not a private perquisite, they are a public
trust. When the annals of this republic show
the disgrace end censure of a Vice-President,
a late Speaker of the House of Representa
tives marketing bis rulings as a presiding of
ficer, three Senators profiting secretly by their
votes as law makers, five Chairmen of the lead
ing committees of the late House of Repre
sentatives exposed in jobbery, a late Secretary
of the Treasury forcing balances in the public
accounts, a late Attorney-General misappro
priating public funds, a Secretary of the Navy
enriched or enriching friends by per centages
levied off the profits of contractors with hie
department, an Ambassador to England cen
sored in a dishonorable speculation, the Presi
dent’s Private Secretary barely escaping con
viction upon trial for guilty oomplieity in frauds
upon tfis revenue, a Secretary of Wf im-
peached for high crimes and confUsed misde
meanors, the demonstration is complete +.bt
the first step in reform most be the people’s
choice of honeet men from another party lest
the disease of one political organitation infest
the body politic, and lest by makink no change
of men or party we can get no change 0 f mea
sures and no reform. All thes abases,
wrongs and crimes—the prodnet cf sixteen
years ascendency of the party—
create a necessity for reform by Re
publicans themselves, bnt their reformers are
voted down in convention and displaced from
the Cabinet. The party’s mass honest
votera are powerless to resist the 801)00 office
holders, its leaders and guides. Baform can
only be had by a peaceful civio revohtion.
We demand a change of system, a jhange of
administration, a change of parties that we
may have a change of measures and bf men.
SOUTH CAROLINA DOTH.
Pine Heuse—The Craps—-The Political Out
look.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle andScntinel]
Aiken, 8. 0., August 7. — 1 hive just
returned from a trip to tha Pine Honse
section of Edgefield county, ani know
ing that you are always glad to receive
any and all information in relition to
crops, etc., have concluded to give you
a short account of my visit. T'arrived
at Pine Honse station on the afternoon
of Saturday last, and proceeded et once
to the house of my highly esteemed
friend, Mr. Mark Etheredge, wiere I
was greeted with a most cordial wel
come, and bade to make myself p*rfedt
ly at home. I soon found that Mr.
E. was not enjoying as good hedth as
nsnal, although able to be ont <f bed
and attend to matters on his farm.
About three hundred yards fran the
residence of Mr. Etheredge, is situated
a handsome house of worship, known as
Ebernezer Baptist Church, andto this
we proceeded after sapper and listened
to a most eloquent sermon from an
Edgefield divine, whose name I cannot
at present remember. On Sundaf morn
ing I again attended church, bui being
of that gender who always mike it a
point to “give way” to the fairer sex,
failed to get a seat in the church, which,
although large enough to accommodate
six hundred persons, contained but one
man—the Minister. During my life I
have attended a great many protracted,
camp, and various other kinds of reli
gious meetings, but never has it been
my pleasure to see so many of the fair
sex present. I say pleasure, for I assure
you, although I am not a marriageable
man, I take great delight in ladies’ so
ciety. It is there that the youag man
finds a relief from the business world
and the fatigue of annoying male com
panions; and it is also there that one
can see the greatness of God in the
creation of a companion for man. There
is no work of God more graiid than
woman, and were it not for her this
world would be a desolate place.—
But thanks be to God we have plenty of
them, and the oountry around Pine
House is particularly blessed with pret
ty ones. Were lon the “marrying li3t”
I should certainly go there to secure me
a companion for life, but it would be
difficult to decide which to choose, and I
should have to say as that “little boy”
once said when his mother asked him
which kind of cake he would prefer,
and after surveying them for some time
shouted out, “Wea, gimme all 1”
The object of the meeting was to pro
mote the Sunday school cause, and
every church in that Association was
represented by two delegates. There
were about fifteen hnndred persons in
attendance, most of whom were from the
immediate neighborhood, although I
noticed several gentlemen from your
city. The afternoon services consisted
of speeches from the various delegates
and singing, whioh was first class iu all
respects.
During my stay I had an opportunity
of conversing with many influential piti
zens upon the political topics of the day,
and all with whom I conversed are in fa
vor of a straight-out Democratic nomi
nation, both for State and oounty offi
cers. The men in Edgefield county are
determined to carry the next election,
come what may. They are tired of be
ing robbed and plundered as they have
been for the past eight years, and have
come to the conclusion that it is better,
yea far better, not to live at all than
continue as things are now. They say
that it is useless for the Republican par
ty to make nominations, as it will do
them no good. I am glad to say that
the negroes in that section of country,
from what I can learn, are very docile,
and, with proper instructions, oau be
taught to coinoide with the whites. By
this means they intend to carry the elec
tion, and not, as some think, by the
point of the bayonet.
The crops, both cotton aed corn, were
never better in that seotion. I noticed
particularly the fields of Mr. Mark
Etheredge and Mr. John) Bettice. The
former gentleman has several large
fields of cotton, from which he will real
ize this season abont seventy-five bales
of cotton, clear of all expenses. Mr. E.
is an enterprising farmer, and generally
sets an example for all those around
him who are engaged in the pursuits of
farming. Although in feeble health, he
is still energetic, and is looked up to as
a father by all around him. His good
lady is also ready and willing to give ad
vice to those who ask it, and ever anx
ious to help those who are in distress
and worthy of assistance. If our ooun
try was filled with such persons as Mr.
and Mrs. Mark Etheredge, we would be
a far more prosperous people than what
we are. 1 shall ever remember with
pleasure my trip to Pine House, and
only wish it had been in my power to
have prolonged my visit. B. B. R.
A NIGHT AT A JAPANESE INN.
[Kama Kura Correspondence of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle]
We entered the village, which was
once a city containing over a million of
inhabitants, and put up at a native ho
tel kept in native style. Again obeying
the custom of undressing the feet, we
passed many guests setting upon mats
and making their chopsticks fly in a way
that would make a Yankee envious even
in a railroad eating house. Up stairs
we went, aDd were shown into a room
whose walls consisted merely of paper,
partitioning one room from another, but
which were sorupuously clean. Order
ing supper and some native wine, we
were quickly served with “tidbit” pas
try and with some sack-ee, also a bowl
containing live coals, together with pipes;
after which, giving us time for a smoke,
the courses began with fish, not cooked
enough for our taste, then eggs, chick
en, sweet potatoes, rice and tea. No
bread was served as nor butter, but as
the tea was remarkably fine and the
eggs, though small, were duly seasoned
with rock salt, we made a good meal,
rendered awkward by lack of experience
in using the chopsticks, which were pen
cil-shaped and used by holding or press
ing the food between the ends, the
guests, meanwhile, peeping through
the partitions and giggling at onr
frantia efforts to eat gracefully.
While eating supper the governor of
the plaoe sent a constable to obtain onr
names aud residence, that we might be
under police protection, we being the
first white men that ever spent a night
in the plaoe. tiupper being over, we
took a short walk through the town, and
as there were many pilgrims in the place
who had never seen a Caucasian before,
we were the “observed of all observers,”
especially onr friend, an Englishman,
who is six feet two inches in his stock
ing feet, making him a giant among
them. Going back to the hotel, onr
friends asked ns if we wished a bath
and shampoo; answering in the affirma
tive, he gave the order, and hearing a
long, low and somewhat sad whistle,
whioh we had heard both by day and by
night in Yokaboma—and which, though
it had excited onr curiosity, we had fail
ed to inquire the reason of—he went into
the street and brought in a blind pi",
whom he said waa to do the shampooing.
The bath being ready we went down
stairs and were shown into a room whose
wet floor proved it to be in constant
use. * * *
After finishing onr bath we donned
onr gown and returned to our room,
where the “blind man” took ns in
charge. Beginning with onr feet, he
knuckled us all over, prying in between
every joint and muscle of the chest, and
which, after he was through, made us
feel as limber 9s an acrobat. These
shampooers, it is said, are made blind
in their ohildhood, that they may pfy
their vocation without injuring the sus
ceptibilities of any one. The sun rose
unclouded on the following morning,
and after a breakfast served on the floor)
similar in quality to the sapper of the
evening before, we paid onr bill, whioh
amounted to $1 75—this for both of us,
including onr wine.
On the Ist day of August the Rock
dale Paper Mill shipped from this point
14,653 pounds of paper.
THE DYNAMITEFIEND’S END.
A LOYE STORY BEGUN IN NEW
YORK AND ENDED IN BREMEN.
The Fortune* of a Beautiful French Girl—
An Indulgent Husband and His Petted.
Wilful Wife—The Last oi Her Millners*
Bills.
[From the Chicago Tribune.]
Leipzig, Saxony, July I.— Some years
ago—your readers may supply dates
from other places—a canny Scotchman
migrated to America. The principles
he took with him were not those taught
in the Shorter Catechism, and one
might suppose, from his after-course,
that he had been started in life with the
parental injunction, “Get money, my
son I Get money, honestly if thee can ;
but get money !” •By unknown ways he
succeeded in getting enough to give
him the appearance of great wealth. He
spent money freely; was of eminently
pleasant manners and social instincts;
liked society, and made himself a most
delightful member of it; was a matrimo
nial catch, and might have married
money, but he saw one who put out of
his mind all thought of making it by
marriage.
The lady who sealed his fate was muoh
younger than himself—a French girl in
New York, without a permanent home,
or friends on whom she oould rely for
support. She was beautiful—surpass
ingly so—accomplished, graceful and
elegant; had been born and brought up
in Paris, where her mother still resides;
spoke several languages with fluency,
and was fitted with everything but
money for adorning the oircles of upper
tendom. Our Schotchman became deep
ly enamored of the beautiful, friendless
girl; proposed, was accepted, and they
were married.
His wife’s tastes were expensive. She
believed him to be a person of almost
unlimited resources, and spent freely for
the adornment of the lovely person he
loved so muoh to see beautifully adorn
ed. He proved to be an almost adoring
husband, gentle, affectionate, devoted,
attentive—often performing with his
own hands for his wife and children ser
vices usually rendered by servants, and
for the performance of which he had
plenty of paid attendants. For instance,
he thought no one could prepare his
wife’s coffee and carry it to her bedside
in the piorning so well as he, or wrap
her shawl around her so carefully when
she sat up to drink it. If the baby cried,
nurse and mamma gave place to the su
perior tenderness with which he soothed
its sorrows. Their style of living was
superb, and his outlay lavish. His re
sources were supposed to be very great,
and, when he began to complain of his
wife’s bills, she thought him stingy, and
spoke of it to her intimate lady friends,
who spoke of it again to their husbands,
and it was a good joke to think of the
canny Scotchman being alarmed by the
milliners’ bills of his beautiful young
wife.
Years ago they came to Continental
Europe, and here he passed as a South
ern American; and, as a matter of oonrse,
they were all the possessors of untold
wealth. The war might have deprived
them of their slaves, but the aroma of
vast estates and great expectations, as
well as of past magnifioence, attached to
them.
Our Scotchman and his bewitching
French wife lived here, in Leipzig, in
fine style, and had many warm friends.
The lady’s almost perfect knowledge of
several languages fitted her for society.
They had plenty of money, and had a
very nice time. A gentleman made a
short journey in his oompany, slept in
the room with him, and concluded that,
notwithstanding his great good humor
and pleasant manners, something must
lie heavily on his conscience.
No innooent man could make night
so hideous with groans and execrations,'
uttered in the unconsciousness of sleep;
but he did not often sleep in a room
with strangers, and it afterward became
a question whether be ever awakened
the suspicions of his wife by the horrors
that attended his sleep. Those who
knew them most intimately think she
never knew his secret; but she did
know that, with all his lavish expendi
ture of money, he did objeot to her
milliners’ bills.
His objections being overruled, he put
them into the form of commands and
prohibitions; but these proved as un
availing as remonstrances in a milder
form; and, while they were here, in this
quaint old city, be made a determined
stand about onedealer in particular. No
more credit was to be given to his name
there—no bills run on his account—and,
when a larger bill than usual oame,
there was a fierce altercation; but the
lady’s tears and loveliness, her pretty
airs, pouting defiance, martyrdom, and
misery, disarmed him, and he retired to
his own room and bed to meditate on
ways and means. These oame up before
him in ghastly procession.
The ways he had followed; the means
he had taken to clothe those delicate
limbs in the next room in purple and
fine linen; the price he had paid for the
jewels that Bparkled on those dainty
fingers; the soul he had exchanged for
baubles; the misery, the anguish, he
had sent into other homes that his
might be a nest of luxury for birds of
gay plumage; the confiding f liend of his
youth doomed to a sudden and terrible
death that this woman might dwaddle
away her life in ease and indolence, and
disregard all his admonitions and orders
about carelessly lavishing the money
won by such terrible expedients.—
These thoughts maddened him, until,
springing up with foam on his lips and
furious revenge in his eyes, he rushed
into her room, dragged her from her
luxurious bed, dashed her to the floor,
and, with repeated and furious blows,
sought to make an end of her. Herories
brought all in the house into the hall;
but no one dared to enter the room, ex
cept an old nurse who had been with
them a long time, who rushed in to her
mistress’ rescue.
The sight of her diverted the maniac’s
attention from his prostrate wife, so
that he left off beating her, and darted
after the nurse. The wife made good
use of the diversion to get to an open
window and throw herself ont, although
the room was in the second story. Some
vines and trellis caught her, and she
held on shivering lest he should murder
the children. The nurse got out of his
way; and after searching for them both
for some time, and making every one
tremble with his horrible oaths and im
precations, he went back to bed. The
nurse helped her mistress back into the
room. She was terribly bruised and
blackened. She kept her bed. and re
fused to see her husband for days—
would have left him, bnt she had no
home to which she oould go, and of
course she had triumphed. The end
was full of humiliation for the coward
ice of his conduct, full of contrition, and
eager to appease her anger. She, victo
rious, dictated terms of reconciliation.
They left Leipzig; went, I think, to
Dresden, and lived on in the old way.
He was from home a good deal on busi
ness; and, one day, she received a tele
gram from Bremen, asking her to come
to him. She passed through Leipzig,
and called on her friends as she went;
could not think why her husband had
sent so peremptorily for her, but went
on by the first train. Arrived at the end
ot her journey, an officer, who seemed
to have been expecting her, accosted
her, inquiring if she was Mrs. .
She was the person, and he put her and
her children into a carriage and took
them to a hotel, where they seem to
have been expected. But her husband
did not appear, and there was a strange
confusion about everything. People
looked terrified, and hurried about. The
officer behaved like a man conducting a
funeral. She asked to be taken to her
husband, and he answered her evasively.
Where was he? His chief would tell
her. Next day the chief oame, and
questioned her olosely about many
things that she thought her own private
affairs, but gave her no information
about her husband. After some time he
began to give her a history of the recent
events in his city. He led her up to
them gradually, and watched her close
ly. After an hour of tortare, she under
stood that a terrible crime had been
committed, and the chief was convinced
that she was innocent of any participa
tion in it, when she exclaimed, “And
my husband did it V
The chief was sorry that it was even
ao, and of coiirsp she fainted. Again
and again she was questioned, and at
the end of two days tfas tsken to a hos
pital to see her husband. As she passed
through the corridor to his room her
blood was oufdled by cries as of a pan
ther in extremity. The noise increased
as she neared the door, and, admitted,
she found a man writhing on a bed in
the fnrtherest corner. There was no
other occupant in the room bnt a man
in attendance, and the howling wild
beast was her husband I
A suicidal wound had shattered his
|awso that b ooqld gat articulate a
word. His tougne was swollen and pro
trading. His head and face weie envel
oped in blood-stained bandages, and his
blood-stained soul glared forth from his
horror-stricken eyes. For a time she
oovered her face with her bands to shut
ont the frigbtfnl vision, and tried to stop
her ears against the more frightful ories.
Then she went forward, and, throwing
herself on her knees at his bed-side, ex
olaimed passionately, “How could yon ?
How oould you bring this disgrace on
me and on our children ?”
This reproach added fuel to the flames
of tortare in which he writhed, so that
his stragglings and bowlings became
terrific, yet she continued to pour out
the story of her wrongs, and to npbraid
him with his orimes, until the attendant,
with tearful eyes, interceded for the
monster, saying;
“Do not, madame ! Do not! He is
dying now ! Say a kind word to him, if
you can.”
Then she controlled herself; thought
of his kindness to her, their children;
spoke gently; took his hands; assured
him of her forgiveness. His panther
shrieks sank into groans ! He clung to
the hand she gave him; nodded intelli
gent answers to her questions; seemed
comforted by her pardon and the hope
that God would not withhold His; and
soon the soul of the Dynamite Fiend
passed to its acconnt! The indulgent
husband had paid his last milliner’s bill,
and gone to that other reckoning,leaving
wife and ohildren in absolute want.
Jane Grey Swisshelh.
THE PROSTRATE STATE.
An Interesting Interview With a Prominent
South Carolinian.
We find the following in the New
York World, of the 4th :
Colonel J. H. Rion, who is in the city
in attendance upon the meeting of the
National Democratic Executive Com
mittee, of which body he is a member,
is a prominent lawyer of South Carolina.
Becent events in that State, and the
somewhat anomalous attitude of politi
cal affairs, make a statement from him
of muoh interest at this juncture. He
was met yesterday by a World reporter,
who asked him if there were any farther
developments in the Hamburg affair.
“None,” said Mr. Bion, “except, as
you have seen, that the Coroner’s jury
have found indictments against a num
ber of persons, and- that warrants are
understood to be out against them.—
These parties will, doubtless, make no
attempt to escape, but promptly sur
render themselves for trial.”
“What are the prospects that they will
obtain a fair hearing ?”
“Judge Maher, before whom the cases
will be brotjght at Aiken,” was Mr.
Bion’s reply, “it is understood to be
honest and unpartisan, but there is dan
ger that such a dishonest and prejudic
ed jury will be impanelled that the ver
dict will go against the accused, what
ever may be the facts. You know what
a farce jury trials in Sorth Carolina
have come to be. But no effort will be
spared to obtain a fair and impartial
presentation of the faots in this unhap
py affair, which have never been proper
ly set before the public. The World
has, I see, published a very exhaustive
artiole on the oauses which led to this
tragedy, recapitulating the numberless
provocations which made it possible.
But there are some further facts not
generally known. For instanoe the band
of armed negroes was not only a disor
derly, but even an unlawful assemblage.
When the Badicals got posession of the
Legislature they passed a law providing
that any persons acting as a military
company and bearing arms, who were
not aooepted by the Adjutant-General
and regularly organized as State militia,
should be arrested and tried, the penal
ty of oonviction being imprisonment in
the penitentiary. This law was intended
to prevent the formation of white com
panies, the organization of such being
presistently refused by the authorities.
This is the reason that the State militia
is entirely made np of negroes, al
though the whites have been able to
eVade the law somewhat by styling their
organizations ‘rifle dubs.’'”
“Now, the company at Hamburg, it
will be proven, was neither legally or
ganized nor accepted, and therefore its
parade and armory and bearing of State
arms made each of its members liable to
the penitentiary by a law passed by
their own friends. They also resisted
the process of court made out by Trial
Justice Bivers, and otherwise conducted
themselves in an unlawful and disorder
ly manner. This oompany had threat
ened to kill the two young men about
whom the immediate trouble first com
menced, and a number of those compos
ing it were notorious as oonoerned in
the numberless outrages which have
made Hamburg the most disreputable
town in the State. A few years ago
Hamburg rivalled Augusta as the most
prosperous community in that part of
the South; but being given over to the
negroes it beoame a mere refuge for
thieves aud murderers, and its streets
are deserted, its warehouses closed, and
even the churches fallen to decay. There
are too many facts connected with the
history and antecedents of this affair
for yon to publish, bnt they will all be
brought out under oath in the trial. The
recital will be of a nature to astonish
the people of the North. Indeed, for
fear of the disclosures that will follow,
it is thought probable that the cases will
not be allowed to go to trial.”
“What about the movement to sup
port Obamberlain now being urged up
on the Democracy ?”
“I do not think it will prevail. Of
course we have no confidence in his sin
cerity, and his recent tergiversations in
regard to the requisition of troops for
South Carolina, which he first denied
but which has since been proven upon
him, confirms this general impression.
We will make straight-out nominations
at Oolnmbia, and will select such men
as will command therespeefr-ofthe North
and unite our own people to a man in
their support.”
“What do you think of the prospect
of success ?”
“It certainly looks desperate with
30,000 negro majority against us, but
thousands of them will vote the Demo
cratic ticket this Fall. I think we will
elect our men, for it has become a mat
ter of life and death with us. The Bad
icals will nominate one of their most
abandoned and nnsornpnlons leaders,
repudiating Chamberlain as not subser
vient enongb for them, and the old sa
turnalia of plunder and crime will fol
low his eleotion, if he is elected. You
have seen mention of the dispate con
cerning the seats of two of the Circuit
Judges. Judges Graham aud Bead, two
very honest men, were elected to fill two
vacancies on the benoh. It was thought
that they filled only the unexpired
terms, bnt, by reference to the State
Constitution, framed by the Badioals, it
was found that they mast each serve out
a term of four years. Gov. Chamber
lain, therefore, made out and signed
their commissions for that time, but
the negro Legislature was dissatis
fied with them, presumably on ac
count of their honesty, and elected
two other men for the position. One of
these is W. J. Whipper, a negro gam
bler of Charleston, and the other is the
notorious Moses, ex-Governor of the
State and leader in all the schemes of
plunder which have rolled up our im
mense debt and bankrupted our treasu
ry. Whipper swears that he will take
his seat on the 26th inst., and it is gen
erally believed that he will be backed
by an armed band of negroes. Great
apprehension is felt for the result, al
though Chamberlain is firm in his sup
port of Graham and Bead, and has re
fused to give a commission to either
Moses or Whipper. Such is one of the
innumerable issues which are constant
ly alarming the State.”
“Bat if we can elect our candidates,
and I believe we will, there will be an
end to all this and the same good order
will prevail with us whioh has been re
stored in Mississippi and Virginia and
Arkansas, while we will have opportu
nity to reouperate our exhausted ener
gies and look about us for means to
place the State in a decent attitude be
fore the world.”
Mr. Bion will return to South Caroli
na immediately and will doubtless take
a prominent part in the important strug
gle about to begin there.
FRR-H CHARLESTON.
\ Special Dispatch to Chr aside and Sentinel.]
Cbarleoton, August fi.—The Demo
cratic Convention of Charleston county
assembled here to-day in Ilibernian
Hall, eleoting nineteen delegates to at
tend the State Convention at Colombia.
Two-thirds of the delegates are said to
be straight-outs. The delegation was
unanimously instructed to vote for the
postponement of the nomination for
State officers. Looker On.
The praotioal fortune-teller—the man
Who pays out money at a bank.— Lowell
fMnilf Courier.
*2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID.
FLOGGED FOR_ CRIBBING.
THE MASTER OF. AN ENGLISH
GRAMMER SCHOOL SUED.
Charged With Cruelly Beating a Boy Be
cause His Stepmother Assisted Him in His
Lessons—A Just Verdict for the Defendant.
[From the London Nevis.]
On the Northeastern Circuit of Eng
land, at York, on July 17 and 18, au ac
tion brought by a retired tradesman liv
ing at Biohmond, in Yorkshire, as the
next friend of his son, a boy 14 years of
age, against Mr. Soowdon, the head
master of Biohmond grammar school,
was tried. The boy had to translate ex
ercises from English into Latin, but,
finding them somewhat difficult, he of
ten got his stepmother in the evening
to help him with them. She had for
merly been a tolerable Latin schoolar;
as, however, she was getting somewhat
rusty in her Latin, she bought for her
private use a key to the exercises, but
did not tell the boy whence she herself
obtained her inspirations. One evening
the boy, being in difficulties, asked his
stepmother for help as to one sentence,
and she, by the help of the key, suppli
ed the boy with the information. The
particular sentence, however, happened
to be from Cicero, and a little unusual in
form; hence Mr. Snowden, finding that
the boy did it correctly, asked him who
helped him. The boy denied being
helped, and was, therefore, flogged for
the untruth and for the offense of
“cribbing” his exercise. The question
was whether the flogging so administer
ed by Mr. Snowden was excessive or not.
The boy seemed to be of very nervous
and excitable temperament, and to have
suffered considerably from the effect of
the flogging.
Mr. Waddy, Q. C., contended that the
boy’s oonduot did not even justify a flog
ging, much less the severe one he re
ceived.
Mr. Justice Denman ruled that the
only question was whether the correc
tion was moderate ; bnt that whether it
was wise to flog was entirely one for the
schoolmaster, and, if he honestly
thought it right to punish by flogging,
his judgment ooqld not be called in
question, as be stood in loco parentis.
Thomas Wanless, the boy in question,
said that on the 23d of March he had to
do an exercise from English into Latin ;
the passage was ; “Such being the case,
Catiline, go on as you have begun.” He
wrote all the Latin himself. His mother
helped him with some words; she helped
him with the word “as” in the above
sentence; she told him it was "quo.”
On the 24th of March he took the exer
cise and gave it up in school. He was
sent for by the bead master, Mr. Snow
den. He said: “You did not do this
exercise yourself?” To this he said no
thing. The question was repeated,
and he then said “Yes.” Mr. Snow
deD pointed to the word "qua," and
asked where that oame from. He
replied, “I got it from the dictionary,
sir.” Mr. Snowden told him to bring
the dictionary at 12 o’clock. He did so,
and the word was not to be found there
as a translation of the word “as.” He
then confessed that his mother had
helped him, and said that his mother
told him to say so, and that she under
stood the word “as” to mean* there
“with what purpose." Mr. Snowden
threw down the dictionary and said, “I
don’t believe it,” aud that he was to
come again to him at 3 o’clock, and
make up his mind as to what he would
say. He went back at 3 o’clock with a
letter from his mother, saying she had
helped him, which he gave to Mr. Snow
den, Mr. Snowden then questioned
him, and said that he would see Mrs.
Wanless. Then he oalled him back and
said, “No, I won’t; come to me at half
past five.” He went into the old school
room, and there he found the whole of
the boys of his form assembled. Mr.
Snowden said, “There is a boy in this
form whom I have long suspected of
getting help, and that boy is WanLss.”
Then, after asking some questions, the
flogging was administered. He was.
struck on the back, shoulders and thigh,'
but he was “too agitated to oount” the
number of strokes, though there were
about nineteen. He asked Mr. Snow
den to “spare him.” Mr. Snowden,
however, did not. He felt very stiff and
smarted “all over.” He sat down for a
minute or two “to get his breath again,”
and then went home. He was taken to
the doctor and examined by him.
The next witness was Mrs. Wanless,
the stepmother of the boy. She said
the boy came back after the flogging
looking faint and pale, and crying, and
that he oried several times during the
evening. She had a lotion applied to
the boy’s back, one that. was meant for
outs, or bruises, and inflammation. The
same night she took him to Dr. Garter,
who examined him; she herself did not
look at his back for fonr days because
the boy asked her not to look, “it would
frighten her so,” he said. She was in
the boy’s room at 12 o’clock at night,
and found him restless. Next day he
was pale and languid, and could not eat,
and a few days after he was, in aocor
danoe with the advice of Dr. Jackson,
taken away from Richmond for change
of scene and air. When she did look at
the marks she still saw the marks of old
bruises. There was no swelling about
them then; but the boy had uot been in
as good health since, or as lively a boy.
She thought it was “the feeling of de
gradation” which caused this.
The next witness was Mr. Hutchin
son, a cousin of the boy, to whose
house the boy was taken for change of
air. The boy was, he said, when he
came to his house, “nervous and low
spirited, and accustomed to take a hook
to be quiet,” while on previous visits he
had always been “asking and bothering
with questions."
Mr. Digby Seymour, Q. 0., at the
conclusion of the plaintiff’s case, sub
mitted that there was no evidence what
ever to go to the jury that the punish
ment was immoderate.
The learned Judge thought that it was
rather a question for the jury than for
himself, but that he was prepared to give
his direction if the defense was prepared
to ran the risks of anew trial, if it
should be held by the Court that it was
a question for the jury.
Mr. Digby Seymour, Q. C., then open
ed the case for the defense, which was
that the punishment was a proper and
ordinary one, and that the ridiculous
view taken Dy the stepmother had made
the poor boy feel himself a victim, and
had upset his health. There was prob
ably something behind the boy’s case.
The reverend defendant was a former
Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge,
seleoted from a number of applicants for
the post of master of a school which
would yield to none in the number of
eminent men it had given to the Church,
and in the services its pnpils had ren
dered to the country. Mr. Snowden
was an ordained minister of the Church
of England, and sometimes a jealonsv
of that Churoh existed. No application
for an inquiry was ever made to the
trustees of the school, bat a dootor was
seleoted out of the town from a distance,
and a violent letter written by a Dar
lington solicitor. He then went through
the faots of the oase, commenting strong
ly on the fact that, on behalf of the
plaintiff, no dootor whatever was called
to give evidence.
After an elaborate summing up by the
Judge, the jury found a vird ct for the
defendant.
Self -Sacrificing. This is a true
story, says the Boston Globe. The
happy circumstances occurred on last
Sunday evening. He escorted her to
and from churoh, and at arriving at her
home their discussion of the sermon
and the extreme heat suggested an invi
tation, readily aooepted by Charles,
that they step into the house and par
take of a cool glass of lemonade. She
led him to the dining-room, and there
found naughty brother Ben about to
squeeze the last lemon in the house for
his own individual besefit. Calling
him aside, she induced Ben, by means
of sundry threats and promises, to
bisect that lemon and make Charlie and
herself a glass. A self-sacrificiag thought
strucK her. “No, Ben,” said she, “put
the juice of the whole lemon in Charlie’s
glass and bring me a glass of water.
He won t notice it—there is no light in
the parlor.”
Ben was making one good strong lem
onade, as directed, when Charlie quietly
slipped out and remarked • “I say, Ben
put the juice of the entire lemon in your
sister s glass and bring me some ice wa
ter—there is no light in the parlor, and
ahe won’t notice it 1”
Ben’s forte is in obeying orders.
With a merry twinkle in his eye he
drank the lemonade, then carried them
each a glass of water, which they drank
with muoh apparent relish, asking each
other between sips “if it was 3weet
enough 1” And naughty hrother Ben,
with the taste of the lemonade in his
month, stood out in the hall and laugh
ed till bis aides aohed, to hear them as?
aure each other that it was “just right!
ao palatable and so refreshing J”
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
The rains during the past week have
been abundant and crops are booming.
Henry and DeK db counties will stick
to Candler as their choioe for Congress.
The engines on the Atlanta and West
Point Railroad now burn ooal instead of
wood,
t P 1 ®* I ,?* P i )rt ® r Springs on the 29th
July, Mr. J C. Layton, of Cassville,
.Bartow county.
Burke county is blessed with abun
dant crops. Cotton aud corn in most
parts are indeed fine.
■ ? U j er He r ald - We learn to Council
intends putting the licens on whisky up
to five hundred dollars.
When a Covington blood gets an ex
tra shine on his boots, Hawkins immor
talizes him in his paper.
The new route from Athens to Atlanta,
ma the Northwestern and Air Line
Railroads will be completed in ten days.
Mr. John H. James has been reqnest
ed to be a candidate for the Legislature
from Fulton county. He has consented.
Griffin had a~SHe concert, the other
night given by Miss Mollie Porter and
Miss Lenora Lipman, for the benefit of
the Guards.
Edward Kelly, formerly of Newton
county, was tried and convicted of the
crime of horse stealing at the last ses
sion of Oconee county Superior Court.
P 10 ?’ °* U P aon . raised this
year 2124 bushels of oats on 1} acres of
land. Inis is a yield of 121 3-7 bushels
to the aore, the largest that we have
heard of in the State.
Gov. James M. Smith, Col E. Hulbert
and Col. Robert Maddox, will address
C1 t tl ? ens of Pickens county on the
10th of August at Jasper, in the interest
of the Marietta and Murphy Railroad.
Married, on Thursday, the 29th of
July, at the residence 'of the bride’s
father, by the Eev. J. W. Trawick, Mr.
W. P. Ledbetter, of Cedartown, Ga. to
Mrs. L, Fannie Leazer, of Fioyd coun
ty, Ga,
Three prisoners attempted to break
out of the Newton jail, the other day.
Marshal Smith knocked one of them
down, and the Deputy Sheriff, with the
assistance of other parties, succeeded in
capturing the others.
The only man in Troup county who
does not want to go to the Legislature
will leave for the Centennial immediate
ly, to keep from being torn to pieces by
tlie maddened throng of candidates in
their wild hunt for votes.
Mitchell Washington, colored, a very
important witness in the Bpwen case,
was poisoned on Friday of last week
near Ward’s Station by another negro.
The negro immediately left, and it is
thought he went to Dawson.
The Gainesville Eagle gflts off the fol
lowing ; Mrs. Wm. Merck, who resides
about two miles from the city, and
whose husband was killed in cutting off
a tree top,some time since, had a mule
to die from a snake bite last week.
A prominentfarmerfrom Early connty
informs us that some portions of his
county have suffered greatly for rain,
and will make scarcely one fifth of a
crop, while other portions have had fine
seasons and will make splendid crops.
Jt having been “norated round” that
a bear was prowling about in Hart coun
ty, a citizen of that “precinct” on hear
ing a racket amongst his pigs and poul
try the other night, slipped out of bed,
took down his trusty double barrel,
went out and kuooked his wife’s fifteen
gallon wash-pot into a thousand pieces
with buck-shot.
. Griffin News; Everybody is invited to
join a company to be formed to morrow
morning, at 7 o’clock, to go on a drive
for grasshoppers. Lots of fun and no
danger of being killed or capture 1 by
the enemy. In this connection and in
oonclusion, we are auth rized to say
that Mr. Johnson will prepare a melon
feast to refreshen the viotors.
This happened in LaGrange, not long
since. Two friends met after a long
separation, and the following dialogue
ensued: A.—“ Hallo, B! Hew are you
getting aloDg, and what are you up to,
these days ?” B.—“ Well, lam trying
my best to make an honest living.”
A.—“ You ought to havo good success,
for you’ve got mighty little opposition.”
Thomasville Times: We learn that a
colored Democrat attended meeting at a
country church last Sunday and 'was
grossly abused by some Radical negroes
on aocount of his politics. Now we want
to put those rampant Badioals on notice
that they will uot be allowed to play
that kind of a game in this canvass.
Every man, white and black, has a right
to vote and act with whatever party he
pleases, and that too without hindrance.
Last Wednesday a colored brute at
tempted to outrage the person of a mar
ried lady four and a half miles from
Atlanta, near East Point. The lady’s
name is reported to be Norton. The
name of the negro is unknown, although
he can be identified. The husband of
the lady is not at home now, and she is
residing with her parents. Wednesday
the old folks left for Atlanta leaving this
lady home. She went out into the
orohard to get some peaches, when this
brntal negro attempted to outrage her
person and choked her until she waa
black in the face and almost strangled
to death. Her brother fortunately came
up at this time when the negro fled with
rapid strides in the direction of East
Point.
Crops of 1875 of Clay county: Cora,
83,259 bushels; wheaj;, 63; oats, 8,984;
rye, 55; barley, 1; rice, 150; peas, 6,941;
sweet potatoes, 13,030; Irish potatoes,
460; apples sold, 5; peaches sold, 34;
pears sold, J; dried fruit sold, 100; fod
der, 721,325 pounds; sugar, 2,260; honey,
5,715; cane syrup, 12,711 gallons; sor
ghum, 175; wine, 381; money value of
property sold, $412; money value of bug
gies and wagon manufactured, $2 475.
Acres in 1876: Corn, 15,347 acres; cot
ton, 11, 600; wheat, 47; oats, 2,500; rye
28; barley, f; field-peas, 6,046; cane, 192;
sorghum, 36; ground peas, 1,211; sweet
potatoes, 441; Irish potatoes, 8; melons,
18; gardens, 101; orchards, 248; pasture,
4,494; total number aores under fence.
46,728.
Columbus industries are as follows:
One hundred and thirty-five merchants,
7 barber shops, 5 warehouses, 4 cigar
manufactories, 2 furniture manufacto
ries, 2 painting shops, 4 wagon yards, 5
cotton factors, 9 insurance agencies, 13
contractors, 16 physicians, 23 lawyers, 3
cotton factories (and one within three
miles of Columbus), 1 oil manufactu ing
oompany, 2 foundry and machine shops,
3 banks,‘4 bankers, 5 gunsmiths, 4 livery
stables, 2 newspapers, 4 dentists, 2 job
offices, 4 hotels, 1 plow manufactory, 1
auctioneer, 3 junk shops, 1 bagging fac
tory, 5 jewelers, 1 marble and granite
dealer, 2 coal yards, 1 soda water manu
factory, 1 photograph gallery, 2 floor
ing aud grist mills (several are just out
of the corporate limits), 1 carriage re
pository, 6 first class and 18 second class
bar roomp, Southern express office and
th 6 Western Union telegraph company’s
office. The cotton mills run 35,000 spin
dles and 1,000 looms,
Greenesboro Herald: On Wednesday
morning, as usual, Bheriff English, ac
companied by a small negro boy, went
to the jail to give the prisoners their
breakfast. He had scarcely entered the
jail before Henry Jackson, a desperate
character, who had been incarcerated a
few day previous, in default of bond to
keep the peace, crept from under the
steps where he had concealedhimsi.if and
rushing the upon sheriff from the rear
threw his arms around him and held him
firmly, at the same time (jailing on the
others persons, three in number, to come
to his assistance and effect their escape.
At this time fehenff English managed to
draw a small pistol from pants pocket*
and placing it to Jackson’s side pulled
trigger, but unfortunately' the pistol
failed to fire; whereupon Jackson thew
him with violence against the wall of the
jail, and with theo her prisoners rushed
from the door. In an instant the sheriff
recovered iua feet and hurrying to the
door shot at Jackson as he ran, but
without effect. Examination disclosed
the fact, that the look to the cell in
whioh the prisoners were confined had
been filed during the previous night.
Who famished the file or how it was
procured is a mystery. It is proper to
state that no blame attaches to the
sheriff.
A traveler staying over night with a
Texan farmer whose estate was miles
and miles in extent, said to him : “You
must have begun life very early to accu
mulate snob an estate as this.” “Yes ”
replied the farmer, “I began life when
I was a mere baby.”
The New York Evening Mail has
evolved this conundrum : What kind of
sweetmeats were there in the ark ? Pre
served pairs.