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Address WALSH 4 WRIGHT,
Cbbosicle 4 StirnwEL. Augusta, Qa. !
Chronicle an& Sentinel !
WEDNESDAY.DECEMBER 27, 187$.
All persons anxious to go to “wah”
will please apply for a job to Mr. Fer
nando Wood, of New York, or Mr.
Baknhy Caulfield, of Illinois.
Gen. Grant “does’nt care a damn for
the Supreme Court,” and will inaugu
rate whoever the. President of the Sen
ate declares elected. Does Mr. Steph
ens still think Gen. Grant a patriot?
We pause for a reply.
The soul of the “ drummer”—Dick
ens’ “ commercial traveler ” —will he
made happy by the intelligence that the
Legislature of Alabama has repealed the
law imposing a license tax of fifty dol
lars on them in that State.
We capitally doubt the statement that
at the Cabinet meeting yesterday Rob
erson joined Fish in favor of “hands
off” in South Carolina. However, Con
gressional investigating committees can
some times work miracles.
Governor Smith is in earnest in his
attempt to bring immigrants to Geor
gia. Wo invite the attention of onr
readers to his communication to the
State Grange which appeared in the
Chronicle and Srntikbl yesterday
morning. *
“ Little Johnny Davenport ” has
reached Washington with alarming re
ports of a “ vast and dangerous Demo
cratioconspiracy”iuthe West and South.
Master Davenport is a good hand to
put at the bellows when a Centennial lie
is to be manufactured.
The London Daily Telegroph says
the eleotion of Mr. Tilden to the Presi
dential chair is happily the first sub
stantial indication that the oivil war,
which so nearly rent the Union twain,
ia heuceforwarded to be regarded rather
as an historical memory than as a ruling
influence in American politics.
\ The New York Nation patly observes
fs the leaders of the Republican party
who talk abont Democratic “ i.vf.'inilla
tion ”of voters : “Yon have set ao ex
ample of intimidation yourselves 'in
forcing 60,000 or 70,000 office-holder* to
vote yonr ticket and subscribe to yttar
election fund on pain of dismissal.”
The Cincinnati Gazette has commenc
ed suggesting to Southern negroes
in case of war they can murder Southern
women and ohildren. The white people
of the Sonth can defend their women
and children “in oase of war,” but the
Northern Democrats will be permitted
to do the fighting for the Presidency.
The New York Evening Express says
that Grant has never thought himself
paid in full for his services in putting
down the rebellion, and has neverdonbt
ed his eminent fitness to govern us. He
does not love Hates, and he has a posi
tive aversion to Tild’n— as strong, ap
parently, aa his hatred of Charles Sum
ner.
The internal revenue system yielded
during the last fiscal year $117,237,086
which is $7,391,705 greater than in 1875.
The largest proportion of the whole
amonut was yielded by distilled spirits,
$52,426,365, which is $4,344,374 greater
than last year;
339, au increase of $2,491,878; ferment
ed liquors $9,571,280, an inorease of
$427,276; banks and bankers $4,006,698,
a decrease of $90,550; stamps $6,518,-
487, a decrease of $48,742.
Speaking of the Senatorskip, the
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel says:
“Governor Smith naturally feels that he
has some claim upon the people of
Georgia." Whether Governor Smith
feels so or Hot, the people of
Georgia do, and we are sure that the
old Commonwealth, ‘the mother of more
than ouo noble son,’ will not be found
nntrae to the ieelings of her heart and
the promptness of her ever-abundant
gratitude." ’—Atlanta Telegram.
They vote iu San Francisco on trans
fers. A man is registered in a certain
ward and the books are closed a month
before the election. During that month
the voter goes to the offioe and gets a
transfer to anew ward, bat the books
lieing closed his name is not erased.
Thus he votes once on Ms registry and
onoe on his transfer. Thus was San
Franoisoo etabled to oast 41,000 votes,
with a population of 160,000, white and
colored.
A movkhent is on foot in Washington
to raise a .subscription fond for Wadk
Hampton. Hon. George Bancroft, tbe
tiistoriau, starter! it a few days ago with
the sum of SIOO. Mr. W. W. Corcoran
followed witl)$l,000, and Columbus Al
iexanvw SUV] The movement was first
made by Mllßaeoroft who, although a
Republican i (politics, commends in the
highest tern I the cbnduot of General
Hampton durltg the recent political can
vass in SoutlxSaroliua,
Colonel Suxmxin. editor of the Evansville
Cou.'ur. afforded us the pleasure of a half
hoar’s x' h t last evening. He gives a good ac
count of u l *# Democratic feeling in Southern
Indiana, wher* there is little prospect of a
quiet submnaav. to the Radical bulldosing
programme to cheat Tilden and Hensbicks
out of their offices ai'd the Democratic party
out of its victory.— Duhanapolis Sentinel ||
We are glad to see that the Southern
Indianians are puttiEg on their war
paint at last. They were exceedingly
peaceable when every Southern State
government waa overturned by the
“Radical bulldozing programme" iu
1867- a
General Porfirio Due, who has up
set the Government of Lebdo dk Tejada
in Mexico and proclaimed himself Pro
visional President, announced hia pro
gramme some days ago. He declares
the Constitution of 1857 and the reform
seta of September 25, 187$, and Decem
ber 14, 1874, the supreme law of the
land. T.vsnn sod his functionaries and
employees are not to be recognized. The
Governors of States who adhere to the
“plan” of Dux are to be recognized,
and in other eases tbe military ohiefs
will be recognized ad interim. Anew
Presidential eleotion is to be held two
months after the occupation of the Capi
tol, and meantime the Preeident of the
Supreme Court is to aot as Chief Magis
trate, with merely administrative at
tributes. Diaz will probably see that
ha ia elected this time.
NO MORE FOR US.
A Washington telegram to the Sun says that
the Hon. Fernando Word is very much dis
satisfied with the action of the Hoase caucus
yeeterday. Mr. Wood in couveraatien to-day
stated his unalterable conviction that the
House should at once take the most prompt
and decisive measures. He says that the peo
ple of the North are thoroughly aroused now,
and will sustain all proper measures looking to
the maintenance of the rights of Gov. Tilden.
He thinks that if the House shows any hesi
tancy on the snbject, it may have the effect to
revolt disastrously. It il, j>erhaps, a good
thing that all the members are not so enthusi
astic as Mr. Wood, for there never was a time
when it was more necessary to make haste
slowly. The attitude of the Southern mem
bers is particularly worthy of note. They have,
withont exception, exhibited a desire to pur
sue a conservative and well-matured course,
while the hasty and fiery counsel has come al
together from the Northern members.
We hope Mr. Wood will continue dis
satisfied with the course of the Southern
members of Congress, if his dissatisfac
tion is occasioned by their refusal to
sanction extreme measures in relation
to the Presidency. The Northern De
mocracy may as well understand, once
for all, that the white people of the
Sonth do not intend going to war for the
sake of the Presidency. They will sup
port all just, constitutional and peace
able Attempts to inaugurate Mr. Tilden,
for they believe that he was fairly elect
ed and is the legal head of the Govern
ment. Bat beyond this they will not
go. If Mr. Hayes is declared elected
by fraud, and is installed by force, the
Northern Democrats must undertake the
work of putting him out and putting
Mr. Tilden in. We of the South will
have none of it. If Gen. Gbant attempts
to play the role of Cmsab, or of Na
poleon 111., and retains possession of
the Government upon the pretext that
he is unable to decide who has been
elected President, Northern Democrats
must resist the usurpation and punish
the usurper. We of the South will have
none of it. The Southern people have
waged war and they know what war is.
The gentlemen of the Fernando Wood
and Babnet Caulfield stripe, who re
mained at home and “protested” against
the coercion of the Southern States, or
who staid in the rear and eneonraged
the warfare for the “Union,” do not
know what it is. We do not pro
pose to have the Southern States
again made a battle field for contending
armies. We do not propose to have
agriculture crushed beneath the hoofs
of hostile squadrons; to have commerce
and mannfactures and industry para
lyzed; to have the Courts throttled by
the rude hand of military power; to
have starvation stalking through the
land; to see the smoke of burning houses
ourling above the red ruins of war; to
have mourning and desolation and
death invading every home. We have
drank deep of the bitterness of war, and
we shall not drink again. Let the
Northern fire-eaters put the cap to their
own lips if they choose.
There is no reason why the South
should take up arms beoause of the
forcible usurpation of either Hayes or
Gbant. We have given our votes to Mr.
Tilden; we will aid every peaceable at
tempt to place him in the office to whioh
he has'been legally elected; but we will
do no more. Why should we? If we
have stood Grant, we can well afford to
bear with Hakes; if we have stood
Grant for eight years we oan certainly
stand him yet a little while longer. It
vu not possible for ns to be worsted. We
hare endured four years of bloody and
brnts^ oivil war; we have had our prop
erty stolen and destroyed; we have had
four millions 'at. ignorant slaves made
citizens and voters, while the best and
pnrest at onr own oitizens were disfran
chised; we have had our State govern
ments overturned by fraud and force and
been compelled to submit to the rule 6f
scoundrels imposed upon us at the point
of the bayonet; we have become habi
tuated to violations of the Constitution,
to disregard of the law, to spoliation
and usurpation; why then should we
not possess onr souls in patienoe
when anrther act of lawlessness and
usurpation, infinitely less harmful
than any of those to whioh we have
hitherto submitted, is mediated ? The
Northern men who now declaim so
fiercely of “rights and rifles” and “Lib
erty and the Constitution” stood by and
“protested” when State government
after State government was subverted
and overthrown, or else held the gar
ments of those that defiled the Con
stitution and stoned Liberty in the
South. Why should we put on armor
now because they are threatened with
the robbery of the Presidency! The
South has been sohooled in the bitter
school of experience to stand anything.
The country is recovering from the rav
ages of war and the oppression of re
construction. We are gradually regain
ing our former prosperity. We have
not suffered as the North has from the
reoent financial convulsion. We are not
suffering as the North is from the un
certainty of the political situation. We
oan afford to be quiet and await a solu
tion of the difficulty—whether it cornea
from the Law or the Sword.
A CALIFORNIA ROMANCE.
Life in the West is not exactly what
it is in the East, or yet in tbe South,
and there is perhaps as mnch difference
between the manners of California and
Georgia as between the climate and soil
and productions of the two States.
There life is yonng and thought is free
and men and women are not fettered by
tbe galling ohains of an effete civiliza
tion. There men are as strong as the
Grizzly and women as free as the wind.
As their own poet has sung;
“Hid white Sierras that slope to the sea,
Lie turbulent lands. Go dwell in the skies.
And the thnndering tongues of Yosemite
shall persuade you to silence and you shall
be wise.”
All these things being true, the follow
ing story, which is termed a “California
Romance,” should not astonish any one
living in a staid old State like Georgia,
or a prosaic city like Augusta. Every
nationality is represented on the Pacific
slope, and the immigrants from Europe,
Asia and America soon acquire the free
manners of those who dwell in the
“turbulent lands” within sound of “the
thnndering tongues of Yosemite.” A
Frenchman named Ernest Gerard, who
went to “Frisoo,” saw and loved a free
maiden of the land, Miss Blanche Bu
nkau, and Miss Blanche Bureau re
turned the love of Mr. Ernest Gerard.
But Miss Blanche Bureau was as
frisky and mischievous as a Grizzly cub,
and Mr. Ernest Gerard was as jealous
and dangerous as a tiger oat of the
canyons. He watched his fiancee as
closely as Governor Brown watched the
Returning Board of Florida, and Bhe,
in return, played him as many tricks as
Ruoer did the Democrats in Sonth
Carolina. One fine morning Miss Bu
reau, accompanied by another Calif a*
nia maiden, Miss Jennie Bennett, also
as wild as an elk and as free as the
wind that kisses the cheeks of the
iowers that gnsw op the prairies,
left Frisco for a visit to Ban Miguel.
They went without an escort, and stop
ped at the hotel as California girls are
wont to do. Fearing he knew not what,
and with a heart full of jealousy, Mr.
Gbrabd, Othello like, followed close
ly behind. He too quartered him
self at the hotel, but kept his presence
conceded from hia fiancee and her fair
friend. That night the young ladies
went oat for a lark on the streets of San
' Miguel, Miss Bennett in playful mood
! and gentleman’s attire escorting her
friend. Mr. Gerard did not see them
go ont, but he did see them come in ;
and ail his jealous forebodings were
more than realized when he saw his in
amorata retire to her bed chamber ac
companied by a rakish looking Lothario.
He did not waste time in agonizing or
demanding explanations. Drawing one
of those revolvers which custom in Cali
fornia compels a man to carry, he open
ed the bed room door and perforated
the supposed male with as many leaden
balls as hia pistol contained. He dis
covered his mistake too late and hied
him away from the snow-capped Sierras
and the undulating prairies and the
tbnndering canyons to Savannah, in
this State. Yellow fever drove him
away from that pleasant city of refuge
and he went to New York, where, a few
days since, he was arrested. He will be
taken back to Frisco for trial, and the
prayers of all jealons lovers will go with
him. We do not consider Mr. Gerard
in any great danger. A city which set
Mrs. Fair free will scarcely be hard
upon him. Miss Buneau mast feel
touched by that new proof of his devo
tion and sympathize with the loving
madness which drove him on to murder.
We canuot believe that a California jury
will be cruel enough to punish a slight
indiscretion like this, and thus spoil a
perfectly characteristic California ro
mance.
THI ATTITUDE OF THE SOUTH.
A Washington dispatch to the New
York World says, referring to the senti
ments of the South :
Neither among the Southern men in Con
gress or out of it is there the slightest dispo
sition to concede the election of Mr. Hayes or
the faintest desire to buy his good-will by act
ing in bad faith towards their Northern allies.
The South did its part in the last election to
ward placing Mr. Tilden in the Presidential
chair; it knows that he has been fairly elected,
and should be inaugurated, and that position
it is ready to maintain. Of course, if the
North makes no resistance to the revolutionary
programme by which the Radicals propose to
put Mr. Hayes into the White House, the
South must also give way, however unwilling
ly. But let the North show a bold front and
assert its rights, and the South will not be
found wanting. Of course, no Southern man,
and it might he further said no true lover of
his country, desires the settlement of the
Presidential question by an appeal to arms.
All interests save those of a few adventurers
are opposed to internal strife, and none are
more ready to deprecate even the possibility
of bloodshed than the much maligned ex-Con
federates who hold seats in Congress. They
have seen quite enough of war and its horrors.
As we have said before the South
does not desire war, and the Southern
people will not allow themselves to be
easily forced into a conflict. They have
done their whole duty by the Northern
Democracy. Mr. Tilden has received
a majority of the votes cast in every
State South of Mason and D ikon’s line.
Southern members of Congress will do
everything in their power to have him
inaugurated. They will exhaust every
legal and constitutional method to put
him in the position to which he has
been fairly elected. But when it comes
to resisting usurpation by force of arms
then the South must pause and let an
other seotion take the initiative. The
Demoorats of the North must decide
whether the sword shall be drawn. If
the sword is drawn at all it must be
drawn by Northern Demoorats. If war
does come, though we do not believe it
will, the South oan decide what course
to pursue. At present it is best to let
our friends of the North continue to
hold the reins which they have held
since the war. At present, too, let ns
have done with “war talk.”
THE EjT|U MINE SWINDLE.
The again comes into no
tice by a suit brought in the United
States Circuit Court in New York city
by the English stockholders against
Tbenor W. Park, ex-Senator Stewart,
and Henry H. Baxter. The ease is
conduoted for the plaintiffs by Mr. E,
W. Stoughton, who, in his opening ar
guments, reviewed the whole history of
the speculation. The oompany was or
ganized in England by Baron Albert
Grant, with whom Stewart and Park
are alleged to have had a secret agree
ment by which the Baron received half
a million dollars for proenring five mil
lions of subscriptions. This agreement
under English law, was a fraud, and a
verdict to this effect has bean rendered
againßt (Jrant. The influence of Minis
ter Sohenck was secured by the promise
of 10,000 shares and a guarantee of two
per cent, a month on eaoh share, or their
par value at any time he should desire.
* his $50,000 of stock realized about
$9,000 per annum to Mr. Sohenck, but
was probably the poorest investment he
ever made. A number of prominent
Englishmen were induced to lend their
names to the concern, partly by misrepre
sentation and partly by bribery. Among
the immense sums paid ont to secure the
floating of the shares, the following are
specified: Jay Cooke, McCulloch &
Cos., £25,000; Minister Sohenck, 500
shares; Professor Silliman, £12,000;
Lyons, £200,000, and Senator Stewart,
£250,000. Finally, the truth began to
be suspected, and the stock to decli'
and it became necessary to get a dir 3
tor unacquainted with mining to go t si
the mine. R. Bridges Williams was
selected, with a salary £I,OOO, and $25,-
000 bonus from Mr. Park for making a
favorable report. He came over and
was taken in oharge by Senator Stewart
and Professor Silliman, and tbe trio
visited the mine and made a report,
whioh was cabled to London, represent
ing the condition and prospects of the
mine as favorable beyond all expecta
tion. Upon the strength of this stock
advanced on the market from £ls to
£24, and the principal speculators were
enabled to unload. Mr. Stoughton
asserted that it could be proved t/t the
mine was substantially when
the stock was sold. The minAas since
been sold under an attacMtat, prob
ably in the interest oVMr. Park,
and all that the stockholders have
ever reoeived for their $5,000,000,
has been eleven or twelve dividends.
A negro man named Fskbkbigk Ever
son is on trial in New Rochelle, N. Y.,
for killing his wife, Everson says that
he was onoe thaelave of Wade Hamp
ton. He had better have remained with
his old master.
It is folly to talk about the “army of
the United States. ” The “army” is just
twenty-five thousand strong, and is scat
tered from Maine to Alaska. The mili
tia of New York could swallow the
“army” whole and not be aware of ita
presanoe in its digestive organs.
While calling for the impeachment
of Preeident Gbant the New York
World gives as one of the principal rea
sons his usurpation of power and the
growing feeling that he has a right to
nse the army as he sees fit. Verily,
Ulysses is playing the part of a Homan
Emperor.
The New York Evening Past (Rep.)
observes that if the Republicans insist
that the suthentio action of tbe State is
conclusive in Louisiana they must admit
that it is oonelusive in Oregon. Upon
the State theory any alleged wrong in
the appointment of electors must be
righted in the State.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 27, 1876.
COUNTY TAXATION.
We publish in the Chronicle and
Sentinel this morning a very valuable
table showing the rate of county taxa
tion in each oonnty in the State of Geor
gia. It will be read with interest in
these days of depressed business and
heavy public burdens. The rate of tax
ation ranges from ten per cent, on the
State tax in Irwin and twenty per cent,
in Berren to one hundred and fifty-five
in Baldwin and ene hundred and fifty
seven in Lee. Why there should be
such a difference in taxation is a conun
drum whioh we are unable to answer.
It is gratifying to note that out of the
whole, one hundred and thirty-six coun
ties, only eight have a lower rate of tax
ation than Richmond. Richmond pays
a much lower tax than any of the thick
ly populated oounties on the list, with
the single exception of Falton, and Ful
ton is a small county, with few bridges
to be kept iu repair.
PANIC STRICKEN.
The Brooklyn Eagle says the burned
theatre was one of the best arranged and
best appointed in the United States. It
was a ground floor theatre, with a main
entranoe way from Washington street of
twenty-five feet, five exit doors on Flood’s
alley, and two large stage doors on
Johnson street. Under any other cir
cumstances than a panic such as occur
red on that Tuesday night, the honse,
crowded in every part, could have emp
tied in five minutes. The stage was also
well supplied with water to be used in
ease of fire, as we learn from the state
ment of one of the lessees, Mr. Sheridan
Shook, who says ;
I have no doubt that the employees of the
theatre did all they could at the moment to
prevent the spread of the fire; but they cer
tainly forgot, what in a cooler moment they
could not fail to see, that there was a plenti
ful supply of water and ample means for its
use. There were buckets and water in the
flies. There was also on the stage a fire-plug,
with hoße and nozzles sufficient to send a
stream of water into any part of the stage.
There is no doubt whatever that the fire broke
out so suddenly and Bwept so rapidly that it
was impossible to arrest it. Several of Bab
cock’s extinguishers were likewise in the thea
tre. When I learned of this statement to-day
I was naturally anxious to ascertain how far
this material was in ordor, and I find from the
most careful inquiry that everything was in its
usual place and iu good repair.
It is evident from all the develop
ments so far made, that the officers of
the theatre were as much panic stricken
as the audience, and that had timely use
been made of the safeguards provided
on the stage, there would have been no
wholesale.loss of life to record.
THE FLORIDA FRAUD.
The Hartford Times says that General
Francis C. Barlow, the late Attorney-
General of New York, who was one of
the committee selected by President
Grant to go to Florida and help the Re
publicans to count in Hayes, does not
appear to be satisfied with the doings of
Stearns and MoLin and Oowgill. He
says so, in effect, in his report to the
President. He dislikes to see an eleotion
reversed by fraud ; and he is by no
means satisfied that such is not the
oase in Florida. It may be remembered
that after Dr. Cowgirl, the uncertain
member of the Board of three, began
to aot with the Chandler conspirators,
and to vote to decide the aetiou of the.
Board in throwing out Democratic
counties entirely, in order to count the
State for Hayes. General Barlow,
disgusted at such unrighteous oonduct,
retired from his position as counsel
for the Republicans, and took a seat
outside the railing as a spectator. He
now publishes a report of what he saw.
It i* addressed to President Grant. In
it General Barlow expresses himself as
dissatisfied with the oonduot of the
Board, after Cowgirl's deciding
vote had been secured to the Republi
cans in throwing out legal Democratic
returns. He does not profess to be
able to tell whioh candidate ought tiJ
have Florida (though he evidently feels
that it belongs to Tilden), bnt he says,
plainly, that he would not
out those Democratic precincs6jwhich
the Republicans found it to
throw in order to gi^^^HHLtha.
State. There is a letter fjjfl|
hill iu deti.jse ut
also a protest froijgi
Cooke, who eann®B
Oowgill
uail out
preference? JJjl
District,2^idge,
ber . , unty< pu ),.
lish Hamilton
whom we
choose to
M*ith. Should we
ikmKk 38t^p$&;gBcaiir.i . ; ... pardon.
that honor ami
* U you formerly m-
V6S IHH^IP >U O which he has
above referred
to.”
many tire-eaters in
h, would welcome a civil
aver a
■Ption, but they want none of
On the other hand, there
afd ßHl war ' oriers in the North, who
fighting to be done in the
they have no desire for a
oivil at home, in which neighbors
rise u7to out eaoh other’s throats, and
plunder and bum eaoh other’s dwell-
bams and warehouses, and make
destitute each other’s families. Thus,
it we take those whose voices are for
war, with their own limitations as to
where the war shall be, and who shall
fight, we shall find that they are firm
peace men.— Cincinnati Gazette , (Rep.)
It ia reported that the National Banks
of New York city are so dissatisfied with
the recent decision sustaining the right
of the local authorities to tax them on
their surplus u well as on their capital
that some of them are taking measures
to reduos their capital for the purpose
of escaping the local taxes on it. The
Fourth National, which has a capital of
$5,000,000, proposes to reduce to ss,-
000,000, The President, Mr. Calhoun,
in a circular letter to the stockholders,
advises the step. He says that the total
taxes now amount to about 5 per cent,
and that the reduction would avoid this
tax on $2,000,000 without materially re
ducing dividends.
Pbbeidknt Grant, says the New York
Sun, oan find no warrant, in the Consti
tution er the law, for what he has under
taken. Should blood be shed in carry
ing ont the order of General Roger the
crime would be murder, and General
Grant would be held responsible. He
would not be hanged for it, but he
would almost certainly be impeached.
His acknowledged reputation as a sol
dier would not save him. We do not
underestimate its strength, but it is not
strong enough to shield him from im
peachment; it could hardly prevent his
oonvicticn. We know full well the force
of party ties; but Bepnbliean Senators
would be found whose love of country is
stronger than their love of party—men
like onr own Reaoox Covering— who
Vould vote to convict where jnstioe so
clearly required it
COUNTY TAXATION.
Interesting Statistics for the Tax Parers #f
Georgia—the Rate Ugen the Slate Tax
Levied in Each County—Wide Differences
in Local Administrations.
[Special Correspondence of the Chronicle and
Sentinel .]
Atlanta, December 18,1876.—1 send
you the following rate of county taxa
tion in Georgia;
Appling 50 Jefferson 37*
Baker 100 Johnson 50
Baldwin 165 Jones 50
Banks 20 Laurens .70
Bartow 45 Lee 157*
Berrien 20 Liberty 50
Bibb 50 Linc01n....... 40
Brooks 32* Lownde 50
Bryan 50 Lumpkin 60
Bnlloch 30 Macon 55
Burke 37* Madison ...... 22*
Butts 85 Marion 56*
Calhoun 50 McDuffie 90
Camden 62* Mclntosh... 1.00
Campbell 32* Merriwether.... 60
Carroll 32* Miller 62*-
Catoo?a 37* Milton 50
Charlton- 37* Mitchell 70
Chatham 39 Monroe 80
Chattahoochee, 50 Montgomery.. .87*
Chattooga 25 Morgan 25
Cherokee 50 Murray 30
Clarke 30 Muscogee 30
Clay 50 Newton,,. 42*
Clayton. ........35 Oconee.... ~75
Clinch 40 Oglethorpe ... .40
Cobb.... 35 Padlding?.... .30
Coffee 18 Pickens 30
Columbia 37* Pierce 50
Colquitt 30' Pike ..30
Coweta 37* Polk. 38*
Crawford 80 Pulaski 75
Dade 60* Putnam 40
Dawson 40 Quitman 45
Decatur 50 Rabun 35
DeKalb 30 Randolph 50
Dodge .50 Richmond 25
Dooly 30 Rockdale 25
Dougherty 50 Schley 62*
Douglas 60 Scriven 68
Early ,50 Spalding 50
Eotaols 50 Stewart 50
Effingham 50 Sumter 30
Elbert 28 Ta1b0t.,..87*
Emanuel .: 30 Taliaferro .....40
Fannin 40 Tatnall 25
Fayette 50 Taylor 55
Floyd 57 Telfair 50
Forsyth 30 Terrill 80
Franklin 40 Thomas 50
Fulton 22* Towns 40
Gilmer 65 Tronp 40
Glasoook 37* Twiggs 62*
Glynn 75 Union 30;
Gordon 87* Upson 36
Greene 50 Walker 19*
Gwinnett 30 Walton 25
Habersham 30 Ware 90
Hall 25 Warren 24
Hancock 40 Washington. ...50
Haralson 20 Wavne 37*
Harris 37* Webster 37*
Hart 40 White 35
Heard 60 Whitfield 30
Henry 25 Wilcox 25
Houston,so Wilkes 20
Invin 10 Wilkinson 35
Jackson 60 Worthso
Jasper 36
THE GREAT REPUBLICAN CONSPIRACY.
New and More Startling Details—Edmunds,
or Yermont, the Leader—They Mean to
Disfranchise Ten or Twelve Democratic
Members of the Forty-gfth Congress—Con
structing a Special IJousp of Representa
tives Expressly to Support Hayes,
Washington, December 13. For
some reasons or other the leaders of the
Democracy here, particularly in the
Senate, seem slow to oomprehend the
scope of the policy inaugurated by the
Republicans in that body. The view of
that policy, currently accepted in Demo
cratic circles, is that the Senate has set
about investigating the recent elections
in five Southern Btatos merely for the
purpose of making partisan reports to
offset reports of a similar oharaoter,
whioh, it is presumed, the committees of
the House will make in the other direc
tion. This view fails to oover the real
-design ofjhe Senate Republicans. Their
programme is vastly more comprehen
sive than the mere formulation of re
ports for the purpose of affeoting popu
lar sentiment. It contemplates nothing
less than to lay the foundation of anew
scheme of reconstruction, which, while
incidentally involving some features of
the old plan, will differ from the latter
in one essential. This essential is that'
the new scheme of reconstruction re
solved upon by the Senate does not pro
pose Federal interference with the Gov
ernments of the States in matters per
taining to local affairs solely, but assumes
the right of supervision over all elec
tions of persons to fill Federal offices;
that is to say, Senators and Representa
tives in Congress.
readers of the Sun will remember
Rtfthe text of Senator Edmund’s reso
nßpn, under whioh the sub-committees
of The Committee on Elections are now
acting, directed the examination to be
so ooiidnoted as to ascertain whether, in
thosAleotions the Constitntion of the
States nad been violated. The
of Mr. Edmunds and his follow-
embrace, with one or two ex-
Hions, the entire Republican force in
is that the self-preservative
powers of the Federal Constitution in
volve the right of either branch of Con
egress to act concurrently with the Ex
ecutive in the event of the other branch
violating or sustaining violations of that
of Representatives is now engaged in
sustaining or abetting oertain States
which, 6r citizens of which, have viola
ted the Constitution at the late eleotion.
These violations, as nnderstood by Sena
tor Edmunds and his followers, consist
in denying to oertain citizens of the
United States the right to vote for Rep
resentatives in Congress, and in abridg
ing that right by intimidation. &c.
They hold that certain Congressional
Districts in Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala
bama, North Carolina and Sonth Caro
lina were carried by the Democrats in a
manner and by methods which consti
tute violation of the Federal Constitu
tion and the amendments thereto. And
lastly they bold—and this ia the practi
cal end and aim of their whole scheme—
that the Senate and the Executive are
bonnd by their oaths to support the
Constitution, to refnse to reoognize as
legally constituted a House of Repre
sentatives in whioh the Democratic mem
bers returned from those districts may
be allowed seats.
The snb-oommitteesof the Senate Com
mittee on the Elections have begnn their
work, and the fall committee will proba
bly not be ready to make its report un
til very near the 4th of Maroh. That
report will recite that in ten, and per
haps twelve Congressional Districts in
the States I have named, Representa
tives were chosen in violation of the
Federal Constitution; that those Repre
sentatives are not entitled to seats in
Congress, and that any Honse whioh
may admit them to seats is not entitled
to recognition by the Senate and the
Executive as the legal Honse of Repre
sentatives of the Federal Congress. The
effect of this scheme is at once apparent.
Counting these ten or twelve members
whom the Senate has selected for
slaughter in this manner, the Democrats
cannot have more than seven or eight
majority in the next Honse. If, npon
the organization of that body, all the
Republican members withdraw, leaving
only the Demoorats, and if of the num
ber of Democrats ten or twelve are de
clared to have been elected in violation
of the Constitntion, and hence not en
titled to seats, the remainder, whose
right to seats is not questioned, will not
constitute a quorum. Therefore, ac
cording to the programme of Edmunds
and his followers, the Demoorats at the
Forty-fifth Congress will be unable to
organize that body so as to secure the
recognition of the Senate and the Ex
ecutive. But the Republicans will re
fuse to join the Demoorats in organiz
ing the Honse. They will organize a
Honse of their own and seat enough
members from these districts to give
them a quorum, whether they have cer
tificates of election or not. And this
House is to be recognized by the Senate
and by the new Executive, who, having
been counted in by fraud, shall have
been inaugurated by force.
The remainder of 'the programme be
comes self-suggestive when we take into
aooount the proceedings of the Republi
can party for the last ten years. The
Republican House, as recognized by the
Senate and the Executive, will be placed
in possession of the Hall of Representa
tives, if necessary, by military force.
The Democrats, that is to say that por
tion of them who will be recognized by
tbe Senate and the Executive as entitled
to seats, will be permittee! to enter the
hall, bnt the ten or twelve Southern mem
bers who are to be designated by the
Senate as having been returned in vio-
lation of the Constitution, by intimida
tion, eta, will be excluded. And, if ne
cessary, a Brigadier-General will be on
hand to aot as Doorkeeper.
I have only to add that the above is
not mere conjecture. It is an exact
statement of information that I have re
ceived from a Republican who is in po
sition to ascertain the designs of his col
leagues in the canons, bat who dees not
endorse their conclusions, and who will
at tbe proper time, in all probability,
oppose their policy. The fact that such
a policy is not only contemplated, bnt
has actually been inaugurated, ought to
be placed before the oonntry for exami
nation and discussion. It is not for me
to express an opinion touching ques
tions of constitutional law, raised by
statesmen and jurists of the character of
Edmunds, Morton, Bontwell, and Spen
cer, not to speak of John J. Hippie,
Mitchell, and Jerome Chaffee, of Colo
rado. In the presence of snch legal
acumen and in the faoe of men so sur
charged with constitutional lore, I do not
venture an opinion. But I reoord tbe
facts; and the statements above set forth
will be fonnd categorically true be
tween this time and the convening of
the Honse of the Forty-fifth Congress,
which may take place in special session,
on call of President Hayes, some time
about the middle of April, but whioh
will probably be deferred to the regular
time, next December.
EX.GOV. H. V. JOHNSON.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel :
The writer having met Governor H.
V. Johnson a few days ago, had a short
conversation with that noble Georgian
touching political matters. He is under
the gravest apprehension for the future
of the Republic ; sees no very clear way
out of the present difficulties ; councils,
however, the utmost caution and pru
dence, and thinks patriots should
bend their energies to prevent oommo
tion, bloodshed, or war. Nothing like
the present state of affairs has before
been witnessed in the history of the Re
public. Two rival claimants for the
Presidency, each representing great and
powerful factions, whose existence is
00-extensive with the history of the Gov
ernment—each confident, bold, fearless
and determined—possessing boundless
talent, resources, energies and num
bers, a (Jollisign between them woqld
light up a war which nope of us might
live to see the end of.
Therefore every interest, feeling and
taste calls for harmony and forbearance.
Let us have moderation, coupled with
firmness, in support of every view,
measure and policy looking to the pre
servation of human liberty on this con
tinent. If Tilden is elected—if Hayes
is elected let the President elect be in-
by the pouourpent wil} of all
the American people according to the
spirit of the Constitution and letter of
the law. Governor Johnson will be in
Atlanta at the opening of the January
session of the approaching Legisla
ture and will address the Legisla
ture—not as a partisan—not in
the interest of any party, but up
on the great pnblio and varied questions
now pressing upon the public mind.
Such as that if the Senate claims the
election of Tilc]en and tbe House thp
eleotion of Ijayea, wbftt th<sn shall be
done?
Georgia is a great State. Her aotion
—if any is required daring the crisis
will have great weight with her sisters.
She is entitled to the experience and
benefit of the wisdom of her greatest
and wisest sons. Let all her great men
imitate the example of her great ex-
Governor Johnson, and go to Atlanta
and contribute sba r P iu devising
the wisest means in sailipg the ship of
State through the quicksands and
breakers—the depths and shoals that
surround her. Member.
MR. STEPHENS AND THE FLAG.
Another Correspondent Describes the Great
Georgian.
Wasbington, December 13.—“ Mr.
Speaker 1” rang out a shrill, high
pitched voice above the dU and clamor
of to-day’s session of the House, Mr.
Randall turned toward Alexander H.
Stephens with a prompt courtesy, in
answer to the shrill voioe, and said ;
“ The gentleman from Georgia.” Every
one turned at once toward the black
eyed ghost. of a man sitting so quietly
buried in his heavy blue overcoat, with
a silk hat of several winters perched
rakishly upon bis wise-looking head.
Mr. Stephens moved his skeleton hand,
encased in a brown cotton glove, as he'
said : “ I have a resolution that I de
sire to send up to the clerk’s desk—a
resolution whioh I desire to have read
and put upon its passage.”
An awful Bilenoe fell upon the House
assembly. Perhaps the Georgia ghost
had evolved some new scheme for sav
ing the oonntry, and every one oraned
his neck and carefully crooked his ears
as the clerk began to read, Stephens
meanwhile remaining grim and impas
sive. The clerk read, and then every
one smiled a snlky smile of disappoint
ment. It was a resolution declaring that
Mr. John Ghauncey would be paid $3 50
a day for pefiortn'ug the arduons task
of hoisting the American flag every day
npon the House side. Ohauncey’s pay
has been stopped on account of the ex
haustion of the special appropriation;
-hence his resolution* It was passed.
Said one member infe whisper to a
friend : “Can you the South
is reconstructed when ex-Vice Presi
dent of the Southern Confederacy ap
pears here asking pay for the m*n whose
soul duty it is to propel on high the gay
American flag, wh9re it| oan flaunt its
gandy face in the morning breeze ?”
Alexander H, Stephens gave a sigh of
relief as the resolution passed. “Dick !”
he called out ii\ a testy whisper. A bur
ley negro came from the cloak room and
gathered np Stephens in his bnrly arms,
carried him out to a light invalid ohair
where two stout servants seized npon
tbe Georgia ghost, placed him on a level
with their shoulders, and bore him from
the hall. It was Mr. Stephens’ first
legislative aot in the Forty-fonrth Con
gress.
THE MILK IN THE TRIBUNE COCOANUT.
[Albany Argus, December 15.1
Jiy Gould owns most of the Union
Pacific Railroads stock, and J. Gonld
owns most of and oontrols the New York
Tribune. What of that ? asked the un
suspecting reader of the Iribune, or the
reader of this paragraph. Just this.
Of all the stnpen&ns manipulations of
railway schemes to fleece the people for
the benefit of a few men, the Union Pa
cific was the worst. The Credit Mobil
ier magnates made their immensest
profits by bnilding the road for almost
less money than they got in the United
States Government bonds, ostensibly
“issued in its aid.” The people are
paying interest, and must pay for thirty
years, six per cent, annnal interest on
nearly thirty millions of bonds of the
United States, which went into tbe
bands of the Credit Mobilier specula
tors and their comrades. The road
is paying dividend on its Credit Mo
bilier distributed stock, from its re
ceipts, bnt the interest its sub
sidy bonds the people of the United
States must pay in taxation. Now Jay
Gonld is astnte enough to fear the in
quiring mind of Governor Tilden, which,
as President, might and probably would
be directed towards this region, as one
where reform might be introdneed, Re
form of some kind is needed in it, for
the sum already paid, and to be paid
compounded for thirty years, would ap
proximate an amount nearly eqnal to
one-third of the national debt, and be
an addition to it. Governor Tilden, as
President, might suggest ways and
means to relieve the people of some of
this harden, as he relieved the people of
this State from the burden of vast ex
penditures on unproductive canals. Jay
Gonld, therefore, does not want Gover
nor Tilden President, for fear Jay
Gonld’s Union Pacific Railway interests
would suffer; and that is, presumably,
why the New York Tribune is so rabid
lately against the Democratic party, and
so unscrupulously unfair in the advoca
cy of the claims of Hayes and Wheeler,
Says the Sparta Times : In onr ceme
tery rest the bones of some of the first
active Methodists of Georgia ; and hero
the army of to-day have met for review,
after a campaign of 70 loDg years.
Says the Savannah News: Dr. Camp
bell, of Augusta, is in attendance on the
sessions of the State Board of Health.
He is one of the cleverest and most con
vivial gentlemen we have ever met.
Says the Conyers Courier: The pa
pers ridicule Ben Hill’s habit of using
the pronoun “I” so frequently. But,
even with this objectionable letter left
out, Hill still remains a H—ll of a fel
low.
From the Greenesboro Herald Rev.
F. G. Hughes, who feas served the
Church at this place as pastor most
faithfully and acceptably for two years
past, has been appointed to Asbury
church, Augusta. The best wishes and
kindest regards of the entire community
will follow Mr. Hughes and hia esti
mable family to their new home.
‘ THE STATE.
THU PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Cotton comes in slowly now.
Rome has but two polioemen.
Clog dancers are in Aoworth.
Wadley, Ga., has no lawyers.
Thomson has a “system” digger.
Oedartown has a minstrel troupe.
Crawford is to have a tournament.
Elberton pines for a ohuroh steeple.
Thomasville has finely graded streets.
Deer are abundant in North Georgia!
The ooldeet December in twenty-two
years.
Cupid’s oyolone has struok Jefferson
county.
Dr. Wm. D. Jones, of Floyd oonnty,
is dead.
The Thomson Advance seems true to
its name.
Bainbridge registers the biggest turnip
of the season.
Oonnty candidates are making a grand
rally this week.
The recent freezes killed much small
grain in the State.
Holiday half sheets are flaunting from
the weekly offioes.
Wheat planting is still progressing in
Oglethorpe oounty.
A number of Northerners are stop
ping at Thomasville.
The anti-liquor movement in Louis
ville has been squelched.
The Christmas tree fs the popular
herb during this weather.
Diphtheria has appeared in Oglethorpe
oounty, The type is mild.
The matrimonial fiend ia lightening
his qniver in Jackson county.
A colored candidate for coroner is
airing himself in Folk county.
An Elberton mania ao impolite aa to
refuse to bow to inexorable fate.
Five hundred dollars is the price of
retail liquor lioense in Elberton.
Pnblio debators and horse stealers are
on the rampage in Jaokson oonnty.
Mr. Walter Daily, near Wrightsboro,
was injured last week by a falling sill.
Ben Hill and Dr. Felton dip their
quills in the same ink stand jn Congress,
Echu continues Yo be
one of the brightest weeklies in the
South.
The Rome Courier learns that anew
steamer is to be bnilt to run on the Oas*
tanaula.
The Georgia press seems to be as solid
on Oregon’s broad seal as a small sized
ioe gorge.
A Rome paper enthused with gratitude
toward Jos. pi. Brown, wants to make
him Governor.
A movement is on foot in Polk coun
ty to have the death sentence o! Wm.
Meeks oommuted.
Schools are olosed, and holiday
streamers float from the minarets of
Georgia precincts.
A Louisville, Ga., merchant was kiss
ed in the streets of Savannah the other
day by an ex-refngee.
Parties felling trees in Thomasville
have to be very careful foj feay of kill
ing a oounty candidate.
Deaf and dumb women in Jackson
oounty take to a railroad track as natur
ally as to a spinning wheel.
A grand barbeoue dinner was given
last week in Harmony Grove, the rail
road city of Jackson oonnty.
Dr. J. S. Jones, representative from
MoDnffie, threatens to move for an early
adjournment of the next Legislatnre.
Meteors in the Cherokee heavens are
still shooting and blazing around in
honor of Felton’s safe arrival in Wash
ington.
A woman in Harralson county, suffering
from mental aberration, fell into a creek
last week, and when found was frozen
to death.
The Louisville News notices that
George A. Warren. Esq., of Augusta, is
spending some time with his relatives in
that oounty.
The Echo says that notwithstanding
the cry of “hard rimes, n there is a per
fect hymeneal epidemio raging in Ogle
thorpe county.
Dr. E. Dorsette Newton, of Athens,
is meditating upon a second annual
celebration of the Clark County His
torical Society.
Rev. Mr. Boone, of Athens, is a son
of Bishop Boone, of China, and nephew
of the late Stephen Elliott, D.D., first
Rishop of Georgia.
The Jackson County News says that
the new jail begins to assume prison
like proportions, while the horse thief
boldly plies his vocation.
D. Webster Rountree, A. 8., formerly
managing editor of the Georgia Univer
sity Magazine, is now prigpipal q) the
Bainbridge
The Covington Enterprise announces
that an Oglethorpe oounty young man
will “mix quilts” with a Nawton oounty
beauty at an early day.
Henry Grady’s _ wild dnok reminis
cences from Florida, now published in
the Constitution, are far uksad of the
usual Returning Board literature.
$1 5Q was picked up in Jefferson, Ga.,
and as that amount exaotly oovers a
marriage license, there was a general
rush of olaimants for the magio sum.
Judge W. J. Colquitt, of Jaokson
oounty, according to the News,
is one of the commonwealth’s model
farmers.. It’s a model name, is Colqnitt.
Maj. tfames Q’Farrel, of Athens, thinks
that if he can secure the complimentary
vote of all the opposing candidates for
Tax Collector, he will be eleoted over
whelmingly.
The Constitution reports that a cut
away ooat, with a matrimonial seam
aoross the shoulders, is in the process of
erection in Atlanta for Col. W. H.
Moore, of the Angusta Constitutionalist.
Messrs. Blount, Candler, Cook and
Hartridge all sit in a row, in Congress,
alongside jnst in front of the Speaker to
the right. Gen. Gordon and Mr. Nor
wood sit alongside in the Senate,
A Washington correspondent of the
Sunday Herat# says ; Mr. A, H, Steph
ens is the only man who oan quietly sit
down inside of the Honse during session
with his hat on his head, He cocks it
np on one side of his head with all the
“otium cum dignitate” of a yonng
swell.
Speaking of the Ghboniole and Sen
tinel, the Bainbridge Democrat talks
tbnswise : This great Georgia daily is
second to no newspaper in the South.
It is conducted in all of its departments
with marked ability. Editorially it is
by far the ablest journal in the State—
and its opinions give forth no uncertain
sound. The Chronicle and Sentinel
should be in the hands of every man
who loves liberty and hates tyranny, It
is a power for good in tbe land, and we
want to see the day when its wise coun
sels and ringing opinions are read the
oonntry over.
Tramps infest Colnmbns.
The squirrel orep is fine this year.
Eastman wants a temperance lodge.
Dawson had a tournament, Friday.
Cslnmbns has uniformed her police.
Georgia Grangers favor direct trade.
Gainesville has had another large fire.
Talbetton will have a Christmas con
cert.
Conyers has been treated to an elope
ment.
There is not a shoemaker in Miller
county.
John C. Fluker, Esq,, of Greene coun
ty, is dead.
The wire-grass timber cotters assume
a lively hew.
The coming man seems to be the
guano agent.
Meriwether county is struggling with
independents.
The revenue war on illicit whisky
worms continues.
Health exists iu large quantities in
Franklin oonnty.
The military prize plumes begin to
wave in Savannah.
The Union Point Presbyterians are
bnilding a ohuroh.
General Joseph E. Johnston has re
turned to ijevannah.
Partridges all over the State are dy
ing from lead colic.
Gov. Colquitt is on his plantation in
Southwest Georgia.
Turkey hash and mi ale toe an the pre
vailing commodities.
What thinks the solid Ninth of Ben
Hill’s new departure ?
The Moody and Sankey waltz is
very popular in the State.
Matrimonially considered, Georgia is
probably the banner State.
A little girl in Lawrenoeville was
burned to death last week.
Two barrels of oysters were turned
loose in Eatonton last week.
An Indiana printer is winding np a
Centennial tramp in Georgia.
A Carnesville lad while cutting wood
ozidentally split his foot in twain,
Athens girls have organised a B. W.
L (beaux wanted immediately) elnb.
Walter H. Weems, of Washington, his
entered the race for Secretary of State.
A one pound orange from Baker coun
ty lays the turnip tropheys in the shade.
The proprietor of the Quitman Re
porter is also editor of a cotton factory.
The Macon and Branswiek Railroad
will be sold or leased on the 27th of next
month.
$2 a year—Postage paid.
Hon. Wm. Howard, of Thomas coun
ty. is n ot an aspirant for Speaker of the
House.
Quite a charming way the papers have
of heralding marriages several weeks in
advance.
This is the season when merchants
swear that they will sell only for oash
next year.
Savannah thinks of rescinding her
proclamation relating to tin horns and
fire-crackers.
Henry F. Lewis, Esq., formerly of
Atlanta, hangs out his law shingle in
Qreenesboro.
A colored ohild, locked up in a Put
nam oounty cabin, was burned to a cin
der last week.
The hard dry freezes of the recent
oold snap are splendid harbingers of a
large grain crop.
Conference is over, and the Sparta
fowl survivors are thinking about a
torchlight prooession.
Captain Steve Moore, of the Athens
Branch, wears a coupling pin on his
watch chain for good luck.
Twenty-seven emigrants, from Pike,
Troup and other surrounding counties,
left Wednesday for Texas.
While Mr. Stephens insists that Grant
is a patriot, Ben Hill swears that Hayes
wouldn’t make a bad President.
If Fred Pope, of the Washington
Gazette, don’t correctly credit those
State items, we will publish him.
The principal steamers on the Chatta
hoochee are still branded with the broad
seal of Tom Huff’s Greek medal.
Those who are now raising a howl
about Ben Hill’s new departure had bet
ter not go too fast or be too sure.
. So many yonng folks have paired oft
in Covington this year that hardly
enough remain to get up a quadrille.
The Atlanta Times, one of the most
virtuous of Georgia’s gazettes, is no
more. Virtue alone is not success be
low.
Col. W. B. Jones, of LaGrange, is a
candidate for re-election as Messenger
of the House of Representatives of
Georgia.
These is sunshine upon the hearths of
two Georgia editors—Speer, of Griffin,
and Harris, of Atlanta ; a boy and girl
respectively.
Col. Ham came down to the city
yesterday, bringing a pair of old boot
legs to have a few volumes of the
Clipper hound.
The LaGrange Reporter thinks that
Ben Hill will go away from Atlanta with
the credentials of a United States Sena
tor in his pooket.
From the granite summit of Stone
Mountain a newspaper is about to be
unfurled. It will oooupy a high place
among Georgia gazettes.
Rev. F. P. Mullaly, D. D., of Sparta,
having aooepted the call of the Presby
terian Church at Lexington, Va., has
left for his new field of duty,
A lady of Lee cemuty gave birth,
about two weeks ago, to a son and daugh
ter, the hoy weighing Ilf and the girl
lo*| pounds—aggregate weight, twenty
two pounds.
A Macon man upon going to the Court
House to answer the summonses upon
both sides of a case was put on the jury
in the same oase in which he wan sum
moned as a witness.
• Messrs. J. F. Bozeman, of Fulton; R.
L. Mott, of Muscogee; J. S. Pinokard,
of Monroe, and Thomas F. Newell, of
Baldwin, have been appointed Trustees
of the Lunatic Asylum,
The Sqyftnnah JSfemz says that Dr. A.
H, Taliaferro, Secretary of the State
Board of Health, was one of the most
gallant of Confederate soldiers from
Georgia during the late war.
Rome has a calisthenio class.
The chicken thief is in Athens.
A railroad war is raging in Athena.
Mrs. L. R. Forbes, of Newton county,
is dead.
Handsome little girls in Atlanta sell
newspapers on the streets.
The Sam Tilden Academy is a pros
perous institution in Forsyth.
Congressman Cox’s wife is said to be
the Mrs. Felton, of New York.
The duty of the hour is to hang up
your stocking; color immaterial,
Emigration from the banner to the
banana State seems to he increasing.
The fjewton oounty Ordinary issued
nine marriage licenses last Wednesday.
There is something substantial about
the Monroe Advertiser which we like to
see.
All over the State a more than usual
quantity of wheat and Oftt# has been
sown.
Thqs far has Athens reoeived 17,381
bales against 14,000 at the same time
last year.
Col. Gantt has moved the Echo office
to Lexington. Wonder “what he’s doing
over there f”
Mrs. Julia Stone, wife of Mr, Shep
herd H. Stone, died near Forsyth on
last Snnday night
The State Agricultural Convention will
meet in Milledgeville on the first Tues
day in February, 1877.
The Courier says that the Rome Roll
ing Mills have this year gathered con
siderably of the Treasury moss.
Barnesyille Joins the long list of cities
and towns in whioh the negro votes tri
umphed in the municipal eleotion.
The affeotion of a Forsyth man for his
mule was considerably dampened last
week. The damper was reoeived over
the left eye.
Those statesmen softening towards
Hayes the Athens Watchman bids go
slow. “A traitor’s doom awaits the man
recreant to his trust.”
Covington bars furnish a mixed toddy,
called “the situation.” Jim Anderson,
of the Star, considers it a success, as it
makes a fellow see both ways.
The Georgia Grange thinks that con
tentment in farming aan be secured by
very simple means; care, diligence,
economy, are main ingredients in the de
sired success.
Dr. Joe Browning, Judge Asa Jackson
and Col. Sid Reese, sheriff, ordinary
and treasurer respectively of Clarke
oounty, are preparing for a walk over.
A Butt’s oounty negro returning from
market last week, sank under a load of
liquor and froze to death in the woods.
Moral —don’t go to market in cold
weather.
The Athens Georgian considers that
Mr. Hill’s oauous remarks “are not sus
ceptible ef any Hayes endorsement con
struction, and these who so pervert their
meaning are guilty of promulgation a
Blander and misrepresentation,”
A saroastio development upon the
venerable person of our old Athenian
friend and neighbor, Col. Christy,
threatens to mar the symmetry of his
prophetic proportions and detraot from
the adjustment of his charitable vest.
Making War by Contrast.
[From (he Pall Mall Gazette .]
An ingenioua pamphlet has been writ
ten by a German on improvement in
war. Believing that war is but a natural
outbreak of the pent-up forces of hu
manity, which must from time to time
oecnKfppprooeeds to show that its hor
rors iK in great measure due to the in
juries^inflicted on peaceful civilians by
a wanton destruction of property. War,
he maintains, as properly oonduoted,
should in no way affeot non-combatants,
except in so. far as they must suffer by
reason of bereavements; and, moreover,
muoh may be done to make it less dis
agreeable to actual combatants. With
this view, he suggests that some neutral
territory be set aside by the European
powers, and devoted entirely to blood
shed. No fighting is, under any pre
tense whatever, to take place out of this
territory, whioh is to be fitted up for
war in the most elaborate fashion. There
is to be a training school for nurses, a
college for surgeons, and large hospi
tals, Prisoners of war will be confined
in suitable buildings specially prepared
for their accommodation. There are also
to be vast oemeteries, and depots for
artificial limbs, Ac. These conveniences
will be open to all nations wishing to
fight at fixed and reasonable charges.
Weapons of every description—and in
fact all the applianoes for war—may be
bought oribired; but no oredit is given,
and the charges for the battle fields are
to be paid before the first gun is fired.
All profits after payment of expenses
will be devoted to the maintenance of
the widows and orphans of the fallen.
ALABA-'UA'k PfNANCEH.
Aa Administration Htttlioa We Sin-
All Obligation. Honored.
Moktoomebt, December 19,—Govern
or Houston has plaoed funds with the
National Bank of the State of New York,
with whioh to pay the interest due Jan
uary Ist, on Alabama new bonds issued
in exchange for old ones by the Com
missionera to adjust the State debt.
Holders presen ting coupons to the above
bank will be paid. Thegovernment has
also money with whioh to pay January
Ist the interest on State obligations.
Industrious, sober printers seem to be
in
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Abbeville has anew hotel
Newberry has but few hog’s.
Walhalla has a reading club.
Turkey “raising” continues.
Pickens calls for baby cribs.
Storing ice seems to be in order.
The cotton pioking season is over.
Abbeyrlle jail holds seven murderers,
dead’ Wm ’ M ‘ Lucas > of Fairfield, is
death 6 * Justice oses is at the point of
• Mr. Shirley C. Turner, of Charleston,
is dead.
A three inch snow storm has visited
Pickens.
Farmers have fine weather for saving
their bacon.
The gobble of the Christmas turkey
grows faint.
The war on rabbits has superseded the
war of races.
Brevet-Governor Chamberlain is what
they call him.
Keowee river has been frozen over in
several plaoes.
Robbers in Aiken county continue
their avocations.
• Lowndesvillo murderers still rest
in the Walhalla jail.
houses and negro babies continue
highly inflammable.
Bayonets are trumps in Columbia,
Pine knots in Marion.
Ihe snow has been skipping around
through the State again.
Matrimonial writs of mandamus are
being extensively served.
The State’s broad seal stereotypes
Hampton’s majority at 1,134.
What Chamberlain delights in is the
broard seal of the cartridge box.
The lightning rod man seems to have
practicing his wiles in Abbeville.
The prioe of the Ninety-Six Herald
has been reduced to one dollar a year.
Business of all kinds is at a perfect
stand still, and everything looks gloomy.
By eleoting Mac*t,y Speaker, the Rump
iv/r the legislative dead-lock.
Mr. N t S. Cannon has been appointed
postmaster at Spartanburg Court House.
Governor Hampton glories in his “im
pudence,” and don’t intimidate worth
a continental.
The Charleston chimney sweeps are*
indifferent about their many fine open
ings in that city.
Over thirty members of the South
Carolina “Rump” Legislature cannot
write their names.
A colored man was shot and killed at
Levy’s Cross Roads, Beaufort county,
last Saturday night.
What every man wants this Winter is
not so much constitutional government
as a massive wood pile.
A colored woman by the name of Dai
ly Thompson hung herself, in Anderson,
on last Friday morning.
A Carolina editor has about as much
respect for a newspaper dead beat as ho
has for a Rump Legislator.
Dr. F, E. Wilder has been appointed
County Treasurer for Beaufort county,
vice Geo. Holmes, resigned.
The Rump Legislature will adjourn
during the holidays to get a square meal
and have their shirts washed.
Four hundred and twenty-seven bales
Upland cotton were shipped from.
Charleston recently to Spain.
Senator Cochran has been voting with
the Democrats of the Senate since the
commencement of the session.
Hon. Geo. A. Trenholm, of Charles
ton, ex-Secretary of the Confederate
States Treasury, died last week.
The prevailing impression is that En
ger should be impeuched and the “Cor
poral of the Guard” substituted. /
If Grant could now purchase San Do/-
mingo, the Rumps could emigrate therle
and draw their pay like white folks.
Mr. J. S. Lofton, who was run over by
a train on the Northeastern Railroad,
near Kingstree, on Tuesday, is dead.
The Star believes that Marion is drift
ing into the neighborhood of the North.
Pole, and cries for a returning board,
Wm. Frederick, a colored man of
Timmonsville, S. C., shot and killed a
chicken thief who was depredating on
his stock.
A colored child, near Ridgeway, died
the other day from the effects of a bum
received from the accidental ignition of
fiw clothing.
John Litzey, of Pomaria, lost bis gits
house by fire on Tuesday last, with the
contents, consisting of about 500 lbs.
of seed cotton.
Beverly Nash and Chloroform Car
penter had a set to in Columbia on
Tuesday, Carpenter came out of it,
with a black eye.
The Columbia papers announce the
death of Mr. John A. Crawford, one of
the oldest and most highly respected
citizens of that city.
Robert Kerwin, an employee of the
Port Royal Road, was killed the other
day by a piece of timber, whioh struck
him upon the temple.
Mr. W. H. Peake and Mr. .lames
Wideman, of Long Cane, had a difficulty
a few days ago, in which the former shot
the latter in the thigh.
The Pickens Sentinel editor killed a
turkey last week, which weighed 18
pounds. He will divide it out among
his paying subscribers.
The county auditor and a trial justice
of Oconee county have resigned their offi
ces, scorning to serve under Chamber
lain’s sham administration.
The “Rump” statesman who doles
out his wisdom regardless of pecuniary
reward, will take his place in history by
the side of the patriots of Brandywine.
The Rump is thinking about issuing
some 6 per cent. State bonds to take up
their washing bills. Brevet-Governor
Ohamberlain should encourage the bill.
A Newberry merchant who was inter
viewed by a well digger, and asked to
have a well sunk, said no, he was sink
ing enough in business, and he would
let well enough alone.
The Pickens Sentinel alluding to
Chamberlain, says that “ conscience
makes cowards of us all.” Chamber
lain insists, however, that nothing but a
rifle club can make a coward of him.
Moose, the Spartanburg mail ridor,
who was honorably mentioned in the
President’s message, is still at his work
and, the Spartan says, has never been
hindered in his patriotic occupation.
Another election for members of the
Legislature has been resolved upon by
the Mackey House, to be ordered in every
oounty where the representatives have not
been sworn in under Mackey, or where
they have left the House.
Thus says the Newberry Herald :
The Chronicle and Sentinel is ably
edited, and always contains the latest,
telegraphic dispatches from all parts of
the country. The proprietors keep re
liable correspondents in the principal
cities of this State, South Carolina
news is a special feature of the paper. >*
AN IMPORTANT OUCISIOX.
Liability of Common Currier*.,
An interesting point of, law involving
the liability of common carriers, was
settled in Richmond Superior Court
last Monday. On the 29th of last Octo
ber a citizen of Augusta, in company
with two other gentlemen, were waiting
at Johnson s depot, on the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad, for tho
passenger train bound for this city, in
tending to get on board and come on to
Augusts. When the train came in sight
the three gentlemen waved their hand
kerchiefs and made other signals for it
to stop, but it continued on and they
were left. The citizen of Augusta insti
tuted suit against the road, before Jus
tice Habersham, for one hundred dol
lars damages for loss of time. The
plaintiff olaimed that Johnson’s was a
regular station, at which the passenger
trains were in the habit of stopping, and
that he had made signals to the train on
the day in question to stop for biro, but
that no attention was paid to them.
The road, on the other hand, contended
that Johnson’s was not a regular stop
ping place, and that the signals made by
the plaintiff were not seen by the eDgia
peer or conductor. The Magistrate gave
judgment for the plaintiff in the amount
claimed. The defendant apDealed the
oase to the Superior Court and tho ap
peal was tried last Monday. Thu jur/
found a verdiot of one hundred dollars
for the plaintiff, thus confirming the
judgment ol the Magistrate.
A ease of hydrophobia has occurred ia New
York, which adds anew mystery to that illus
trious malady. A young man lias been seized
with it suddenly, and is going through its ter
rible processes to certain death without having
been bitten by any dog, rabid or otherwise.
The canine race has hitherto been credited
with starting this horrible disease, but this case
seems to relieve it of the exclusive responsi •
bility. Some time ago a medical man of
Brooklyn propounded the theory that rabies in
dogs was the result of biting drunken men.
Perhaps it would be worth while to inquire
whether this unfortunate young man in New
York has indiscreetly bitten some drunken
person.