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010 SERIES-VOL. ICI MEW SERIES —WOL. XL TKRMB. NIE DULY CHRONICLE * SENTINEL, the oldest oewnpnper in the Hotlth, us pnbiushed daily, etccept Monday. Terme : Per year, ♦lO ; six months, $5 ; three months, i'2 50. I THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE 4 SENTINEL is published every Wednesday. Terms : One year, f‘2, six months, (1. THE TRI WEEKLY CHRONICLE 4 SENTI NEL is published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Terms One year, 45; six months, $2 50. SUBSCRIPTIONS in ail oases in advance, and no paper continued after the expiration of the time paid fer. KATES OP ADVERTISING IN DAILY.—AII transient advertisements will be charged at the rate of tl per square each insertion for the first week. Advertisements in Tri-Week ly, tl per square: in Weekly, tl per square. Marriage and Funeral Notices, il each, i Special Notices, |1 per square. Special rates ; will be made for advertisements running for one month or longer. ALL COMMUNICATIONS announcing candi- ! dates for office—from County Constable to | members of Congress—will be charged at the ! rate of twenty cents per line All announce ments must be paid for in advance. Address WALSH 4 WRIGHT, Cbbosicle 4 StirnwEL. Augusta, Qa. ! Chronicle an& Sentinel ! WEDNESDAY.DECEMBER 27, 187$. 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drummer”—Dick ens’ “ commercial traveler ” —will he made happy by the intelligence that the Legislature of Alabama has repealed the law imposing a license tax of fifty dol lars on them in that State.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.