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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1876)
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ALL COMMUNICATIONS announcing candi dates for office—from County Constable to members of Congress—will be charged at the rate of twenty cents per line. All announce ments must be paid for in advance. 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.
