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Address WALSH A WRIGHT,
CnaosicLS A SxirmtxL, Augusta. Os.
Ctjromcle atib Sentinel.
y dnesday - January Bi, 1877.
TO OUR MUBHCKIBKHM.
We request our subscribers who owe
us to pay their subscriptions. It is im
portant to us that every man on our
books should pay at once. Let each
subscriber bear in mind that while one
•r two dollars may appear to be a tri
fling amount, the aggregate amounts to
a large sum/ We hope our friends will
respond promptly. wtf
Russia is disposed to throw the fail
ure of the conference on Europe. She
consoles herself with the thought that
it is not her defeat, but that of the
Qreat Powers. The Turk has good rea
son to be proud of his victory.
The Übnnett-Mat duel has been pro
ductive of so many stories that the last
told is the best until pushed oat of the
way by its successor. Upon that princi
ple the Tribune's relation of how Mr.
Mat disgraced himself by firing before
the word was given, and how overcome
by shame and mortification he fled the
field, holds at least a present supremacy.
Thk public schools of the county are
in a flourishing condition. Both white
and oolored have excellent teachers aDd
are largely attended. The graded sys
tem adopted by the Board of Education
has worked well and resulted advantage
ously to all classes. Since the adoption
of the high school system by the Board
much of the oppoaitiou to public sohools
has ceased, as all cau now share in the
benefits of the school tax.
■"
Thu tramp nuiaaDce is becoming
worse daily. Until of late thiß section
of the conntry was comparatively free
from the inroads of these unweloome
birds of passage, but recently they have
appeared in large numbers, much to the
annoyance of householders. It is evi
dent they are nothing bnt vagrants in
the strictest sense of the terni, and the
State law, therefore, in regard to such
gentry should be enforced. A little
wholesome labor in the chain gang would
do a world of good.
Japan has no need of methods to in
flate and depress the ourrenoy and coin
of the country. She has a plan of her
own to regulate this matter. The Gov
ernment has issued bills to the extent of
a buudred millions of dollars, for which
no redemption in ooin is provided, and
which are expected to be received by the
people at par iu all business transactions,
excepting only the interest on bonds and
customs duties. The refusal to take
them, or in any mauner to impeJe their
circulation, is a misdemeanor, to be se
verely punished after the Japanese
mode. How would suoh a law as that
operate iu this country ?
A novel plan for the solution of the
Indian difficulties has been suggested
by a Western man. He proposes to the
Government to organize a regiment of
untamed Sioux, the worst he can find
on the frontier, and, by some peonliar
metamorphosis known only to himself,
to convert them into regular soldiers—
probably raw recruits. After enlisting '
the requisite number he will take them
to Washington and camp them in front
of the White House. What he will do
witfr them there he does not reveal, or
what he will aooomplish is left to be
guessed. He claims to be able to enlist
1,000 Indians in less than six months,
aud have them ready for field service.
Jack Kkhoe, one of the Pennsylvania
Molly Maguires, and a leader in their
conspiracy, has been oonvicted at Potts,
ville of the murder of a mining boss. He
is a mau of wealth and more than ordi
nary intelligence. The singular faot
about his conviction is that at the time
of the trial he was already under sen
tence of fourteen years’ imprisonment
for conspii'aoy to kill, and under indict
ment for another murder perpetrated by
tbe Mollies. It ia intimated that he may
also be tried upon this last charge, bat
as one conviction for murder in tbe first
degree wilt suffice to bring him to the
gallows, and as he cannot very well he
executed twice, it is probable this j
rather novel suggestion of auother trial |
will net be carried into effect.
j
A noth sr intereating “find” has been
turned up in that land of wonders, the
Eastern States; the exact locality we
cannot determine, farther than it was
near the village of Manlius, wherever
that may be pleased to be. This archae
ological treasure is an enormous petri
fied carpet-bag. The hinges having
become flinty, it is said, it cannot, of
coarse, be opened without violence (and
intimidation?), but from eertain well
defined distensions it is believed to con
tain such articles as nsaally inhabit a
carpet-bag; but these, too, have doubt
less become statues of themselves— j
••stony images iu eternal night,” as \
Honan would say, Pops interpreting.
We suspect if it could ba opened there
would be found, away down iu its pro
feundest bowels, a neatly folded lime
stone commission, appointing the Cardiff
Giant to a post mastership in some pre
historic solid South.
To absolve tbe guilty conscience, ap
pease remorse and attract sleep, nothing
is so good as restitntion ; and when we
bear of a fine example, we cannot fore
go tbe dnty of relating it to our readers,
in the hope that they will commend it
to thoee of other journals. Qaite recent
ly a gentlemen was robbed of SI,OOO
somewhere ia the State of Ohio. Af
terward, an annonymous letter appeared
in a newspaper, informing him that if
he wonld go to a certain hotel in Penn
sylvania, what remained of the sum—the
robber having apparently "had a little
timo with the boys ” —wonld be return
ed to him. He went there, and on reg
istering his name, was handed an en
velope containing $27. It nearly paid
his railway fare ; and the robber, with
that terrible load off his conscience, can
begin life anew with a clean record, a
fair future, and a small capital to set
him ap in business.
A Pittsburgh man had his oveasoat
stolen, bat identified it while on the
g reet, and secured possession by shak
ing the thief oat of it and breaking hia
(.oiler bone.
ALU IST A AND KNOXVILLE RAILROAD.
We understand that some of our South
Carolina friends, who are particularly
interested in the construction of a road
which ahall put Greenwood and the sur
rounding country in direct communica
tion with Augusta, are apprehensive
that our people are not thoroughly in
earnest on the subject. That is a grave
misapprehension. Considering the de
pressing political complications, which
hang like a pall over the country, the
citizens of Augusta have given active
and positive evidence of their earnest
ness in this important work. On the
occasion of the assembling of the
oounty committees to prepare a draft of
a charter for the road, a canvass of a
few hours sufficed to secure subscrip
tions equal to half the amonnt that will
probably be required to grade the road
from Augusta to Walton’s Island. With
a liberal charter in hand, and onr in
dustries freed from the depressing in
fluences referred to, the citizens ofAn-j
gnsta will be found promptly aiding in
the construction of a through line to
Knoxville—deflecting at Walton’s Island
ti Greenwood.
A JUST TRIBUTE.
Last Tuesday, the 17th, an election
took place in the Arkansas. Legislature
for a United States Senator to succeed
Clayton, Republican. Governor Gab
land was eleeted almost unanimously,
receiving 113 of the 121 votes cast. In
the Senate the vote stood, for Garland
30, and for Yonlky 1 ; in the House,
Gabland, 83; Yonlkt, 7.
Out of the 18 Republican votes cast
Governor Gabland received 10, and of
those 7 were colored Repnblioans. Most
of the Republican members, in casting
their votes, made explanations which
were most complimentary to Governor
Gabland and his adminstration.
The Arkansas Gazette, in commenting
upon this, says:
All expressed confidence in bis ability and
integrity, and testified to bis impartiality in
administering the government, and tbe perfect
peace and tranquility of tbe State since be
took the helm. The action of tbeso Republi
cans is highly con-mardable, and shows clearly
the condition of Arkansas. It is a high and
deserved compliment to Governor Gabland, a
splendid testimonial to his very impartial ad
ministration of the government. It is a fitting
rebuke to those maligners of Arkansas, at
home and abroad, who declare that Republi
cans are here placed under ‘'the ban cf social
ostracism." and have no rights which Demo
crats are bonnd to respect. All the determined
and persistent efforts of the whippers-in
around tbe capital failed to keep these Repub
licans in the traces in this eloction. All honor
to the true Republicans who dared to speak
and vote according to their convictions.
RETRENCHMENT.
In response to the joint resolution of the
General Assembly, Governor Colquitt
sent to the two Houses, last Saturday, a
speoial message containing suggestions
in regard to the financial matters of the
State.
The Governor says that if the cur
rent expenses of the State oontinne the
same as last year, viz : $944,257 51,
then by adding to that amonnt the snm
of $848,005 that must be paid on the
public debt, we get the large sum of
$1,792,250 as the amount to be raised
this year for onr public expenditures.
As the Oomptroller-Geueral has esti
mated tbe probable receipts of the State
at the sum of $1,457,000, this will leave
a deficiency of $325,956 to be paid up
by increased taxation, by a system of
economy or by the plan of a temporary
loan. The Governor advises that in
creased taxation be avoided if possible.
The true remedy is to economize, and
he has given no little thought to this
matter. So far as the publio debt is
concerned no lightening of its burdens
can be expected at present. Principal
aird interest must be paid promptly
as they fall due. He advocates
payment of the floating debt as
soon as possible, as this will materially
reduce the annual expenses. If the re
oeiptq will not authorize the taking up
of this debt, he suggests that six per
oent. bonds be issued to retire it. The
interest npon the bonds will be less
than the oost of temporary loans, while
much inconvenience will be saved. His
judgment is that if there is any possi
bility of retrenchment, it will oome from
a more exact return of property for tax
ation, a more rigid collection of taxes,
saving in the oost of collecting the taxes,
rednction in the oost of legislation and
clerk hire of the General Assembly, dim
unition in the outlay of the contingent,
printing and building funds, in the ap
propriation by the State of all perqui
sites, in tbe reduction so far as practica
ble of the number of clerks in the vari
ous departments and in Cutting off all
unnecessary offices. There is a chance
to increase the public revenue in the
items of reducing the oost of collecting
taxes and the nnoolleotod tax. The law
of reduced compensation of receivers and
collectors goes into effect this year.—
In 1876 the compensation of these
officers was $135,000, or nearly
one-tenth of the whole tax. Under the
new law the saving will be $30,000. The
Governor thinks that a still farther sav
ing could be made ; that it ought not to
cost over $90,000 to assess and colleot onr
tax. The loss of nnaollected and in
aolrent tax should not be more than five
per oent. Instead of $150,000 of unool
leeted and insolvent tax ont of a million
and a quarter of asaeasmepts, there
shoald not tie one-half of that amonnt.
He refers to Virginia to show that a
mnoh closer and cheaper collection of
the taxes can be made.
If the increased tax resulting from a
j aster appraisement of property is add
ed, there is a chance for still more reve
nue. He suggests that telegraph and
express companies pay too little tax in
proportion to their wealth and transac
tions. He says the question arises
whether a reduction cannot be made
in the number of judicial oir
ouits. The redaction to sixteen oiroaits
! instead of tweuty, would save the State
i a large amount. He thinks over $15,-
000 ought to bo *4Td in the matter of
clerk hire in the Legi#j§£jye dapart
| ent.
A redaction of the $150,069 of tbe
$680,000 that it takes to pay the current
expenses of the State government, wonld
be an important benefit to the tax pay
ers.
In urging s policy of reduced expen
diture, he does not mean to contend for
either parsimony in salaries or a crip
pling of the needed machinery of gov
ernment The State most be just to
her servants and alive to her own neces
sities and dignity. Poorly paid officials
will not render faithful service and the
administration of the affairs of the Com
monwealth mnst not ba cramped in any
department In ooDelusion, ba says :
" Let ns begin at the bottom
and work up. Let the people give in
their whole property at a just valuation.
Let the tax ba impartially imposed and
rigidly collected. Let every department
of the public service—eity, county and
State be economically and faithfully ad
ministered. Let all snpeiffona offices
and unnecessary expenses be ent off,
Let new debt be avoided and old debt
be promptly paid. Let a high asnti
ment of public dnty animate all public
officials, and we shall see a most grati
fying result.”
The fall text of the message is pub
lished elsewhere in the Chboniol* and
Samyngn. ft is * clear and able docu
ment. Governor Colquitt shows an
earnest and wise purpose to retrench, so
far as he ia able, the public expense and
to work for the good of the State.
BENATORIAL ELECTIONS.
Several Senatorial elections have re
cently taken place. In Maine Jakes G.
Blaine, Republican, was chosen; in
Minnesota, William Windom, Republi
can; in Michigan, T. W. Febby, Repub
lican; in Arkansas, A. H. Garland,
Democrat; in Massachusetts, Geo. F.
Hoar, Republican; in Tennessee, Isham
G. Harris and Jab. E. Bailey, Demo
crats; and in Nebraska, P. W. Hitch
cook, Republican. Blaine succeeds
Morrill, Republican; Windom, Ferry
and Hitchcock are their own successors;
Gabland succeeds Powell Clayton,
Republican; Hoab succeeds Geo. 8.
Boutwell, Republican; Harris and
Bailey succeed Coopzb and Key, Dem
ocrats. Hoar, of Masschnsetts ia a Con
servative Republican. Elections are
yet to take place in Dlinois, New Jersey
and Georgia. In Illinois there is an
animated contest between John A. Lo
oan, Repnbliean, and present incum
bent, and ex-Governor Palmer, Demo
crat. The Independents hold the bal
ance of power. In New Jersey the
Democrats have a majority of one on
joint ballot and two or three of the
Republicans are acting with them. A
Democrat will probably be elected to
succeed F. T. Fbelinohuysen, Repub
lican. In Georgia the contestants for
the position are Hon. Thob. M. Nor
wood, present incumbent; Hon. Benj.
H. Hill, member of Congress from the
Ninth Congressional District, and ex-
Governor Jambs M. Smith, all Demo
crats.
POLITICS ASIDE.
Let us turn for a moment from the
consideration of the political questions
which have so excited the country du
ring the past six months, that we may
look into the results accomplished in
1876 in the field of discovery. It is in
the latter department we discover men
in their most self-sacrificing attitude.
The politician lives for the present; the
man of science looks to the fature am]
its marvelous unfoldings.
At the recent annual meeting of the
American Geographical Society, the
President, Chief Justice Daly, read an
elaborate paper on ‘‘The Geographical
Work of the World in 1876.” The re
turn of the Alert and the Discovery,
nnder Sir George Nares, from the
attempt to penetrate the Pplar Sea
via Smith’s Land, was pronounced
to be tbe Arctic event of the
year. From a geographical and scien
tific standpoint, the expedition may be
regarded a success. Captain Nares
carried his own vessel to the highest
point ever reached. Chief Justice
Daly submits that to reaoh the Pole is
not the real object of Polar expeditions,
although it is a geographical feat to
which great eclat attaohes. Tbe prime
object in view is the exploration of the
Arotic region in every direction for tbe
purpose of obtaining scientific informa
tion in a quarter of the globe where it is
of the highest interest, not only as re
spects the past physioal history of the
earth, bnt to enable us to unravel phe
nomena and obtain a knowledge of phy
sioal laws affecting its present condition.
The expedition, under Captain Nares,
advanced this object to a considerable
degree.
Turning from sea to land, we find
that M. DuChaillu’s account of the
pigmies he found in Western Africa,
near the Equator, is confirmed by Mr.
Marcette, who says these pigmies were
well known to the anoient Egyptians
and advances arguments, supported by
unquestionable data, in favor of the ex
istence of a race of tha olass referred to.
Some of the Bess representations ex
hibited by Mr. M. would greatly delight
the evolutionists of the Darwin school.
An inhabitant of the Osboon has reached
Berlin, a live young gorilla, and is now iu the
Berlin Aquarium. Dr. Hermes says that he
nods, clasps bis hands, wakes up and stretches
himself like a man; that he sleeps eight
hours, eats only what his keeper eats, and re
quires him to be constantly by him. He was
taken sick, and was restored by the use of that
African specific, quinine, and the D ctor says
that he showed his tongue and squeezed the
Doctor's hand, as if to indicate that he felt
assured of his recovery. Oaptain Burton
a cended the Cengo to the rapids, and made a
joumry through the gorilla country, of which
hfi has given an account. Captain Hat has
vpited the distriot of Akem, in West Afrioa,
and found tbe country rioh in minerals and
studded with well built towns. He found a
peculiar malformation among the male sex of
this people—a protuberance of the obeek
bones under the eyes, taking the form of
hornß on either side of the nose—and has sent
two photographs of these horned men to Eng
land. ,
The Rev. Georoe Brown, a missionary who
visited the islan.'s of the northeast coast ef
Hew Guinea, describes the natives as nude
savages of the Oriental negro type, who live
mors like beasts than hnman beings. He
found cannibalism prevailing throughout tbe
islands, not, as among some other savages, as
a religious rite, but as a means of subsistence.
He has given the details of w hat he saw of
this horrible practice, which are tor revolting
to repeat. He said he was assured by the na
tives that there was in the islands a race of
human beings with tails who were not mon
keys ; that the tale was bony and inflexible, so
that those with this caudle appendage had to
dig a hole in the sand before they could sit
down, as they died if the tail was broken. We
have thus revived the account of the men
with tails heretofore reported to exist in Bor
neo and the interior of Africa, but always upon
native information, with the exception of hear
say information aUegpd to have been given by
a sailor cast away on tbe coast of Borneo, and,
like all such information, of little value.
The event in Africa of the year, however,
has been the circumnavigation of the Albert
Niyanza by H. A. Gessi. a member of Colonel
GoapoN’s organization, wbo estimated the lake
to ba lit) miles in length by JjO in breadth. Its
baaks wen clothed with a dense forest, the
western Bide was mountainous and the south
ern end shallow. This exploration establishes
the connection between this lake and tbe Nile.
Mr. Stanley, after exploring the west and
southwestern shores of Victoria Niyanza,
started from Dumo, on its western shore, and
crossed the country of Dnyora to the Alber*
Niyanza and reached that Jake at a point
where a deep gulf, Beatrioe, formed by a pro
montory called Cneongora runs out for thirty
qtjles in a southwesterly direction. Iu bis
journey SfA>7-gy saw a mountain southeast of
the Albert Niyanza, wh/cfi was reported to
b* from 13.000 to feet high, called Gam
bong are, on the peak of which snow is fre
quently found. The exact paeition of his camp
on the lake, as given by him, ia 31 deg. 24 min.
SO sac, E. long, end nun- N. let. Stanley,
when heard from in July, was on fils way
to Unyamyembi, his intention being to proceed
to Oliji to explore Lake Tanganyika, and then
endeavor to strike north toward the Albert
Niyanza.
The Turks oontinne to resist sternly
gyery proposition that involves their
oongepjc to direct foreign interference
with the manageptept of their internal
affairs. The new Constitution ia point
ed to at once as a guarantee of the im
provements that are most desirable, and
as an insormonntable obstacle to com
pliance with the demands of the confer
ence. When the Saltan was absolute
he eon 14 do as he pleased, bat now he
i professes to he bound by limitations
nearly as Beware as tfiofm imposed nppn
; an English sovereign. If the movement
to InMffßrate the Turkish reforms at a
i peculiarly opportune moment was a
mere diplomatic trieb, it is the shrewd
est scheme ewer devized by a distracted
■ Government;if it is sincere and genuine,
i Turkey deserves all the forbearanee En
■ rope oan prudently display.
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31, 1577.
MB. HILL’S SPEECH.
We devote much of our space this
morning to Hod. B. H. Hill's speech,
delivered in Atlanta last Saturday night.
It is well worth a perusal.
—
ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC SENATOR.
| The joint ballot in the New Jersey
j Legislature yesterday, for United States
| Senator to succeed Frederick T. Fbe
linhuysen, Republican, resulted iu tbe
election of John R. MacPherson, Dem
ocrat, who received 41 Votes out of 81
votes cast — Frelinhuysen receiving the
others. This was a strict party vote.
The Republican majority in the United
States Senate is gradually dwindling
down.
THE CONVENTION.
The Convention to reviso the Consti
tution of Georgia may be looked upon
as a settled fact. The bill introduced
in the House Monday, providi; g that
immediately after the passage of the act,
the Governor shall issue a proclamation
ordering an election to be held in every
county in the State on the second Tues
day in next June, for delegates to a con
vention of the people of Georgia, to con
vene at the Capitol, in the city of At
lanta, on the second Wednesday of July
following, for the purpose of revising
the Constitution of the State, was de
bated, and all amendments voted down.
The bill will probably pass botli Houses
and become a law. The representation
in the Convention is based upon popu
lation, in the ratio of one delegate to
every six thousand inhabitants, and to
this end each Senatorial District in the
State is to constitute an election district
from which delegates to the Convention
shall be chosen. The sum of twenty-five
thousand dollars is appropriated to pay
the expenses of the Convention.
It is a matter of congratulation that
we are at last to have a Convention of
our own people to frame a Constitution
for ourselves.
NEMESIS.
Amid the uncertainties and anxieties
attendant upon the political complica
tions it is pleasant to reflect that some
of the ultra Radicals of the Senate, who
, have been foremost in fomenting trouble
and keeping up the bitter feelings grow
ing out of the late war, are beiug gra
dually left out in the cold. Boutwell,
Hitchcock and Fbelinohuysen have
given away, the first two to Conservative
Republicans and the latter-to a straight
out Democrat, while the Illinois Repub
licans have withdrawn the malignant
Logan. For years these men have
endeavored to keep alive the fires of sec
tional hatred, have introduced and sup
ported the most intensely partisan
measures, have connived at the total
overthrow of the Republic as original
ly founded. Acting upon the theory
that the Constitution was an obso
lete instrument, disregarding alike the
dictates of justice aud policy, they have
neglected no opportunity to carry out
their revolutionary plans. But jus
tice does not always deep. Neme
sis will come sooner or .later. That it
has sought out and stricken dowu these
master spirits of mischief at this junc
ture, is a matter of congratulation to
all lovers of constitutional liberty. The
conservative sentiment of the coautry
has asserted itself. It is an omen of hope
for the future, an indication that, better
counsels will prevail. When Morton
and Sherman and Cameron shall have
followed their comrades in bitterness
into oblivion, a better era will indeed
have dawned upon the country.
AN OBSTINATE SPEAKER.
According to a Washington corres
pondent of the Troy Times, Mr. Ran
dall has decided not to hold the week
ly “receptions” which society iu the
Federal capital expects from the Speak
er of the House. The correspondent
comments with some severity on this
break in the c ontinuity of social prece
dent, although it would seem that Mr.
Randall’s reasons—the smallness of his
house and the devotion of Mrs. Ran
dall to the care of her children—ought
to move a heart of stone. The unap
peasable correspondent, however, affirms
that the house is amply large, anti the
children neither more numerous nor
more troublesome than those of pre
vious Speakers, who have, nevertheless,
given receptions. Upon these points we
have no statistics, and must take our
cotemporary’s word, though we still de
cline to accept his conclusions. Social
conditions to the contrary notwith
standing, we hold that whether the
Speaker of the House hold receptions
or not is very much his business, and
very little the business of anybody else.
It may be that his pecuniary affairs are
such that he cannot afford the luxury of
a weekly reception to a lot of people—
including, perhaps, the wives of news
paper men—for whom he does not par
ticularly care and who da not particu
larly care for him. Unlike the salary of
the President, that of the Speaker of
the House is not determined by consid
erations of necessary expenditure in
hospitality. As for Mrs. Randall, if
she lived in a palace, with but a single
tractable babe, she wonld, we consider,
be the sole judge of how much time she
ought to give to domestic duties and
how much to social cares. Furthermore,
we are most decidedly of opinion that if
fewer receptions were expected in Wash
ington society there would be a corres
ponding decrease in the number of ne
cessary investigations. There is an
easily traceable connection between
such national humiliations as the Belk
nap scandal, and the “social traditions”
that Mr. Randall prefers to disregard.
There is still another reason why the
“demands of fashion” should not in all
cases be complied with, though in the
instance of Mr. Randall it does not ap
ply. Most of the men in high political
station in this country have not been j
born and reared in an “environment”
favorable to the high culture and gentle
manners that can alone prevent their
“receptions” from being very melan
choly travesties of the salens of people
to whom the graces and elegances of so- 1
cial intercourse are a heritage and a nat
ural condition of existence. They have i
drifted a long way from “Republican
simplicity” at Washington, and the
farther they drift the necessity to return
becomes the more conspicuous—to I
others if not to themselves. Honest :
and intelligent people, who have had to
do battle with poverty, defective ednea- j
tion, and all that they imply, know well
enough that life has some things to
which, even in a Republic, they cannot
hope to ever attain; but, unfortunately,
many of them seem to prefer to display
this inability instead of confess it. He
is their good friend who endeavors to
dissuade them—by example, as Mr.
Randall does.
The condition into which the business
interests of the country have been
thrown by the Presidential muddle is
clearly shown by the petitions sent to
Congress by the great trade centres in
fafoj of tjve passage of the electoral bill-
The whole country wants she matter
settled speedily, and Congress will
hardly be able to withstand the pressure.
Saip Small, of the Atlanta Telegram,
evinced a commendable amount of en
ergy and enterprise in stenographing
Hill’s speech.
A GOOD INDICATION.
One of the best indications of an in
creased prosperity in thi* part of the
State is the small demand £tr corn. For
several years after the war the planting
community devoted itself slmost ex
clusively to tbe cultivation of cot
ton. Com, bacon, anil all the
necessary plantation supplies which
should have been made at home,
bad to be purchased. -The natu
ral consequence of this policy was that
at the end of the year the debit side of
the farming account largely exceeded
the credit. The proceeds of the cotton
crop failed to pay the cost pf supplies
aud labor. This state of affairs could
not always continue. A succession of
losses necessarily brought experience.
If there was no profit in raising cotton
alone it was clear that it most be aban
doned. There was no reason in send
ing tribute year after year to the West
when we had broad and fertile acres of
our own which could produce bread
stuffs and food for our stock just as
well as that section of the Union. It
eime to pass, therefore, that the “all
cotton” plan was dropped end a happy
medium adopted. Waving “fields of
corn, oats and wheat greeted the eye,
where before nothing but the sta
ple was seen. The good results soon
became apparent. Planters felt easier
and more independent with plenty of
corn in their barns aud wheat at hand
ready to be ground into flour. Georgia
and South Carolina made nearly enough
corn last year to carry them through un
til the uext crop. Western corn iu view
of this fact is quoted lower in this part
of the country than it has been since
the war and the demand is exceedingly
limited.
BUSINESS FAILURES IN IB7U.
We have received from the mercan
tile agency of Messrs. R. G. Dun & Cos.
au important circular under the above
caption. From this circular we learn
that there has been a marked increase
iu busiuess failures as compared with
previous years, but a considerable
dimunition in the amount of liabilities.
The figures showing the number of fail
ures throughout the United States, to
gether with the amount of liabilities,
for the past and several previous years,
are as follows :
years. jl> umber of j Total Liabilities! Average
1 Failures. | | Liabilities.
1876. I 9.092 | 8-91.i17.7M6 ~f *21.020
1875 1 7.740 | 201.060,353 I 25.960
1874 | 5.820 | 155,239 000 i 26.6 U
1873, I 6.183 I 228,499,000 | 44.085
1872 | 4,069 . | 121,056,100 I 29 996 (
The marked reduction in the average
liabilities for 1876 indicates that the
wider the wave of trouble extends the
greater the number of small traders it
includes.
In order to illustrate in what sections
of country the financial pressure has
been most severe, the agency has com
plied the following instructive table for
1876:
No. in No. of Per centage of Amount of Average
Business, j Failures. Failures, Liabilities. Liabilities.
N. E. States.... 77,559 j 1,314 1 in every 59!537, 657, 062 $28,628
Middle States... 165,184 | 2,209 1 iu every 57 72,244,681 24,800
Western States.. 225,309 ; 3,139 1 in every 72 1 52,870,541 16,843
Southern States. 87,140 j 1,361 jl in every 64; 23,084,266 16,960
Pacific States... 22,313 ; 369 |l iu every 60 j 5,262,236 14,261
Canada... 54,000 1,728 |1 in every 32; 25,517,991 14,767
These figures show conclusively that
the disasters to trade iu the South and
West have been less than in the Eastern
aud Middle States.
Ia this connection the agency draws
attention to the following :
It ia a significant circumstance th t the fail
ures in the Middle States are one in every 57
names reported in business, while in the West
ern Stat s the pqrportion is one in every 72,
but in the comparison bt tween the East and
the South is even more significant, for in New
England, with all its wealth and solidity, one
in every 59 lias yielded to the pr -sue of the
times, while in the South, with all its poverty,
its political aDd other disabilities, the per
centage of failures is only one in every 64.
Even in Canada, where there is a gold basis
lL;ht taxation, freedom from political compli
cations and all other favoring conditions, the
above showing is indicative of much greater
pressure than in the United States, the failures
in the Dominion beirg one in every 32. In
England no very accurate figures are obtain
able, aud none, of course, as yet for the past
year, but for 1875 a return was made of 1,700
failures among 60,000 firms prominent in
trade, indicating -ne failure for every 36 firms
reported in business, with an average liability
of $87,870. The figures for the United States
showing a failure of one in every 63, with an
average liability of *21,'00, indicate that the
pressure of the times have been either not so
great in this country as elsewhere, or that it
has been home witli less disasterous results.
The circular attributes to the national
bankrupt law a most peraicious influence
in causiDg failures.
The severity of the Winter, which to
many is an nndoubted calamity, has, ac
cording to the circular before us, com
pensating advantages that may contri
bute to an improved Sjffing business. It
says :
The abundance of snow, which is termed the
poor man’s manure, and which unquestionably
enriches and irrigates the soil, also protects the
Fail crops, besides providing an abundance of
water f, r the cattle on a thousand hills, which
were impoverished for need it of ail the early
Spring last year. It also makes magnificient
country roads the advantages of which are
obvious when it is remembered how seriously
trade was interfered with at this and latter
periods, when the roads in whole sections of
the country was impassible from the want of
frost and snow. The delivery of grain, pork
and other farm produce, will during the pres
| ent season, throughout the North and North
i west, he at least double that of the Winter
months of last year, while the operations of
lumbermen will be greatly facilitated. The
| consequence will be much freer purchases at
1 country stores, a larger absorption of goods,
: anl a more active circulation of currency
| than has been witnessed in some years past.
The uncertain state of politics has
had its effect not only upon trade, but
also on the dramatic profession. A per
fect famine in this respect has prevail
ed in the South during the present sea
: son. Very few companies have visited
Augusta, and a number that made en-
I gagements before the Presidential elec-
I tion cancelled them afterwards,
i ' ; ■ '■
I Sebvla is evidently not a little anx
j ions about her future since the failure
of the conference and the practical tri
j umph of Turkey. If, as is indicated,
Russia stands aloof and takes no part
ia the conflict. Servia wd* soon be gob
i bled up by the Moslem. The Eastern
' question seems, therefore, lively to be
settled in a rather unexpected way.
The .Board pi Trustees of the Uni
versity oi Georgia meet on February first
to elect a Professor of Agrioalture aud
Horticulture,
UNITED STATES SENATOR.
THY BALLOT TUESDAY.
How the Tote Steed—The Wav the Different
Members Toted,
We take the following from the At
lanta Constitution , of yesterday :
The Senatorial race climbed sharply
up to its climax yesterday in the ballot
ing of the two Houses in separate ses
sion.
By resolution the election was brought
on in each House at 12 o’olock. Dur
ing the morning the Norwood men were
claming that their favorite would carry
both of the Houses on the first ballot.
The law requires that unless a candidate
obtains a majority of both Houaea there
is no election. Mr. Hill’s friends ex
pected the Senate to stand: Smith, 8;
Hill, 15; Norwood, 21. This would pre
vent an election. In the House they
calculated on Norwood, 75; Hill, 70;
mith 21. It was thus calculated that
neither House would elect. The Hill
men felt that there was danger in Nor
wood slipping through tbe Senate, and
that by having the result announced in
’be House, be would rush through that j
body.
A ludicrous accident occurred in this
connection. The clock in the Senate at
13 inmutes before 12, suddenly jumped
up 10 minutes, thus throwing it ten
minutes ahead of too House clock.
Several Senators catTeE" attention to this
unexpected hiccough on the part of the
clock, and the Messenger at once, under
order of the President, turned it back.
I'here was no purpose in this, the Mes
senger remarking that he pushed it up,
“as some of the Senators were tired and
wanted the race brought on.”
The hour having fairly arrived the
ballot was gone into with the following
result:
For Norwood-
Senate—Black, Bullock, Clifton, Dn-
Bose, Felton, Freeman, Furman, Gam
ble, Harrison, Hopps, Mattox, Mc-
Daniel, McDonald, Newton, Perry,
Reese, Staten, Wilcox, Wilson, Wessa
lowski, Mr. President—2l.
House—Adams of Chatham, Atwood,
BensoD, Black, Branch, Brewer, Bureb,
Thomas, Broekett, Burch of Elbeit,
Candler, Callaway, Causey, Corker, Col
lius, Carter, Colley, Cox of Bryant,
Davis of Bibb, Davison, Dugger, Dozier
of Quitman, I ’eLoalh, Eving, Frederick,
Fletcher, Fort, Glover of Twiggs, Green,
Gresham, Guyton, Glover of Jones,
Harrison, Hughes, Jones of McDuffie,
Johnson, Kirby, Kendrick, Key, Knox,
Long, Malletto, Marshall, McDonald,
Moore, McGar, Northen, Owenby, Pear
son, Paine, Paul, Pilcher, Peck, Per
kins, PSlhill, Price, Reese, Richardson,
Robinson, Russell, Sheffield, Scruggs,
Shaw, Smith of Eohols, Sikes, Simms,
Stewart, Smith of Tatnall, Smith of
Butts, Strickland, Thomas, Vick, Wade,
Walton, Williams, Wilcoy, Willis, Wil
liugham, Wolihin—79. Grand total, 400,
For Hill.
Senate—Asbury, Brewster, Bryant,
Bush.Oureton, Dedwyler, Euglaud, God
frey, Howell, McLeod, o‘Daniel, Rags
dale, Rutherford, Slaughter—l 4.
House—Almond, Alfred, Anderson,
Awtrey, Bennett, Bloodworth, Born,
Bowen, Carlton, Cloud, Colbert, Cox,
Davis, Dozier, Dudley, Duke, Fortner,
Fry, Grant, Gray, Hammond, Harden,
Harrell, Hillyer, Hollis, Hogan of Car
roll, Humber, Hutchins, Jones, Jordan
of Hancock, James, Kimley, Jordan of
Pulaski, Matthews of Talbot, Leach,
Maund, Matthews of Pike, McEntire,
Moses, McAfee, Murray, North, Penn,
Phillips of Cobb, Pioket of Rabun, Pope,
Phillips of Carroll, Pickett of Gilmer,
Puckett, Ried of Morgan, Reid of Put
cam, Ragsdale, Roper, Sheffield, Stand
ford, Smith of Oglethorpe, Stewart of
Miltou, Smith of Walton, Stewart of
Spalding, Turner, Taylor, Wise, Walton
of Haralson, Turnbull, Whittle, Wilkes,
Wilson, Mr. Speaker—6B. Graud total,
82.
For Smith.
Senate— Cabauiss, Cody,
Graham, Harkness, Hudson, McAffee,
Ried, Shewmake—9,
House—Brown of Upson, Brown of
Forsyth, Cochran, Bavis of Stewart,
Harris, Faircloth, Kennon, Hood, Mob
ley, Hogan of Monroe, Miller, Rawlins,
Peacock, Rouse, Robson, Mcßoe, Tum
lin, Oatis, Wooldridge, Wall, Walsh—
-21. Grand total, 30.
For Walker.
Senate—none.
House—Adams of Lee, Buntz of
Dougherty, Bacon of Liberty, Blue—4-
Mr. Stokely, of Bartow, voted for C.
J. Jenkins.
Just as the ballot was finished, Coch
ran, of Pierce, arose, and in a clearvoice
announced, “I change my vote from
Smith to Hill !” Tnis was greeted with
deafening applause, which had hardly
died away when Harris, of Baker, fol
lowed with the same motion.
Mr. Brown, of Fayette, then changed
from Smith to Norwood, and was follow
ed by Mr. Ronse and Mr. M°R ae . Mr.
Hogau, of Momqe, then changed from
Smith to Hill; and Mobley changed from
Smith to Norwood. These changes
raised the vote of Hill and Norwood,
qnd each took eight from Smith, leaving
the final result :
Senate. House. Total.
Norwood 21 83 104
Hill 14 72 86
Smith...... 9 13 22
Necessary to a choice, 109.
There were only two members of the
House that did not vote, both being ab
sent, Messrs. Goodrnm and Freeman. Mr.
Goodrum is for Bill; Mr. Freeman had
not openly declared his position. The full
Senate voted. It was the heaviest joint
ballot ever known in thq Georgia Legis
lature. Both Houses adjourned imme
diately after the balloting.
In the House before the vote was
taken, Speaker Bacon said that he would
enforce the rule against applause, and
if any one presumed to hiss, to exhaust
all his power to bring the offender to
exemplary punishment before the bar of
the House.
Mr. Carlton, of Clarke, said:
Mr. Speaker—ln behalf of the whole
people of the Ninth Congressional Dis
trict, I have the honor to present to
this branch of the electoral power of
Georgia their able and patriotic repre
sentative in Congress as a suitable man
to represent tbe people of Georgia in
the United States Senate. And in pre
senting the name of Hon. B. H. Hill to
this body, I do so not only in behalf of
the people of the Ninth District, nor
alone in behalf of the people of Geor
gia, bnt the whole people of the long
oppressed South. I speak in the inter
est of one wuose whole duty is, has
been and ever will be to his ’country,
and whose highest ambition is to see
his much loved South the peer of any
section of the Union in the management
aud control of the governmental affairs
of the whole people of this American
Union. [Applause. ]
Mr. Walsh, of Richmond, said;
Mr. Speaker—l am requested to pre
sent for the position of ’United States
Senator the name of ex-Governor Jas.
J. Smith, of the county of Muscogee.
Of his public services it is unnecessary
for me to say one word. The people of
Georgia are familiar with his official
discharge oi his duties in the Executive
Department, as the Governor of this
State. His record has been made up,
he has preyed himself to be faithful,
honest ana competent in the discharge
of high trusts committed to his keeping.
If he should be elected to the United
States Senate he will bring to the dis
charge of the dnties of that high trust
the honesty, faithfulness and competen
cy becoming a Senator from the State
of Georgia. [Applause.]
Mr. Payne, of Chatham, said :
Mr. Speaker—l nominate for that of
fice, Thomas M. Norwood, of Chatham.
His record, also, [s known to the people of
Georgia, and it would he useless for me
to attempt to inform this House of that
record. [Applause, j
Mr. Blue, of Glynn, said :
Mr. Speaker—l nominate the name
of Hon. Dawson A. Walker, of Whit
field, for that position. I have no com
pliments to make on him.
Mr. Reid, of Putnam, said :
Mr. Speaker—Determined that Put
nam’s representative shf>ll honor Put
nam's choice, I nominate Hon. Herschel
V. Johnson, and I know it will meet
with a response from those who admire
old-fashioned patriotism and Democ
racy.
Mr. Polbill—l am authorized to
withdraw the name of Herschel V. John
son. [Applause.]
of* Feather.
We learn that the blasphemous wretch
Palmer, who announced himself to the
negroes in Aikeq county, 8. Q. , as the
son qf Christ, while running for the
Legislature last Pall, preached in Beech
er’s church, Brooklyn, by invitation
last Sunday night.
Wade Hampton is a six-footer.
FORTY - FOURTH CONGRESS.
THE COHPROHIBE WILL PASS.
Hoscoe Conkling Conclude* a Masterly Effort
in Its Favor, and Presents a Petition Pros*
Indiana Which Staffers Morton—Gordon
Thinks the Bill Will Paos-The Texas Pa
ct Be—Use of Troops la the Sooth—What
Barry Watterson Says.
Seoate.
Washington, January 24.—1n the Sen
ate, when the consideration of unfinish
ed business, being the bill in regard
to counting the electoral vote, was re
snmed, Mr. Conkling, who was entitled
to the floor, not having arrived, Mr.
Sargent, of California, took the floor and
spoke in opposition to the bill. Sena
tor Alcorn favors. Senators Conover,
Spencer and Bruoe oppose tbe bill.
Senator Sargent argued that the Pres
ident of the Senate should count the
vote, as a part of the executive depart
ment of the Government.
Mr. Conkling concluded his speech.
Tbe Senate will remain in session all
night. No one doubts that the Senate
Will pass the bill.
! Mr. Conkling presented a petition’
numerously signed by merchants and
business men of New York, in favor of
the passage of the ponding bill in re
gard to the electoral count. Laid on
the table. He said he would present to
the Senate, were it not addressed to the
special committee, a telegram received
this morning from Indiana signed by
thirty-seven Republican* and three Dem
ocrats, expressing gratitude for the
intelligent aud patriotio labors of
the speoial committee, whioh have
resulted in a bill for the settlement of
the Presidential question, and express
ing the most earnest desire that it may
become a law.
Among the signatures to the telegram
he noticed the names of Conrad Baker,
who was ppce Governor j that of Leoni
das Sexton, who was once Rieqtenant-
G jvernor; that of Mr. Gordon, the Re
publican candidate for Attorney-Gen
eral, and that of Ben. Harrison, who was
the candidate for Governor, carried the
flag, and gallantly led the late canvass
in Indiana though it was disastrous.
Mr. Conkling then handed the tele
gram to Mr. Morton amidst laughter on
the floor anfl jn the galleries.
Senator Bayard made an elaborate ar
gument in favor of the bill in the Sen
ate this evening. The galleries were
packed.
Senator Christianey advooated the bill
as a matter of patriotio necessity.
Senator Brace this evening had not
entirely made up his mind how hewonld
vote.
Senator Gordon, late to-night, has no
doubt of the passage of the bill.
House.
Speeches were made on resolutions re
ported by the Committee on Privileges
and Elections by McDil, of Jowa, Against,
and by Bright, of Tenuesssee, in favor
of them. They went over without ac
tion.
Bills to extend the time of completion
of the Northern Pacific Railroad, for
amending the Texas Pacific Railroad
acts and for fifing rates of transporta
tion across the railroad bridge at
Omaha, were reported and referred to
the ocmmittee of the whole.
The resolution from the select com
mittee on the use of troops in the South
to influence the election, adopted after a
discussiqn, in which the proposed mode
of procedure, by sending for persons and
papers was characterised as indecent and
against the proprieties and etiquette of
official life, and in which Watterson, of
Kentucky, intimated that impeachment
proceedings against the President had
only been prevented early in the session
by the opposition of what was termed
the Confederate element.
The Texas Pacific Road bill is at the
bottom of the calendar of tfie commit
tee on the whole. Thirty-five bills pre
oede it, and it will reqnire a two-thirds
vote to reach it this session,
Ten millions bonds, five-twenties of
May and November, Ifififi, interest
ceases 24th qf 4pril-
FJIVIT CPI/TURF.
j Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
1 hope yon will allow me a small spaoe
in yonr invaluable and widely circulated
paper to call the attention of onr farm
ers to the great importance pf fruit cul
ture. The time was once when the term
“cotton planter" oarried with it a sort
of would-be ari tocraoy, that ignored
pretty much all the small industries of
the farm. The sharp lash of neoessity
is rapidly eradicating all such ideas;
and onr wide awake and progressive
agriculturists are learning that special
farming cannot be depended on for
profits. The only farmers that are noV
making any money are those who prac
tice diversified agriculture. Fruit cul
ture, as a farm industry, pays probably
a bettpr per cent. than any other. Most
any kind of fruit generally commands a
ready sale, If there is no near market,
some varieties, Buoh as apples, can be
shipped to distant markets. When the
Northern farmer gets from 25 oents to
50 cents per bushel for his apples he
thinks he is doing well. Onr apples
here, particularly the early sorts, always
command doable this priqp.
When planting an apple orohard, a
very large and varied assortment of
trees is hot to he recommended. For
early, plant red J one, red Margaret, red
Astrachan and Early Harvest; for me
diant, Equineteley, Oconee Oreening
and Taunton; for late, Horn, Steven
son’s Winter and Shockley. This list of
varieties is sufficiently ample for ordi
nary farmers, and with good treatment
will give excellent returns. With one
or two exceptions they are all of South
ern origin; and it is upon oqr Southern
seedlings that our orohardiats must rely,
and not upon Northern varieties, whioh
are not spited to our olimate. This fact
every person who contemplates planting
au orchard should bear in mind. Henoe
the folly of sending to Northern nur
serymen for stock when the only reliable
trees npon whioh we oan depend psn he
obtained of responsible dealers near
boiqe.
In this portion of Georgia it has been
pretty well oar seedling
peaches do better, one season with an
other, than budded or grafted trees.—
Still, a few of the improved varieties,
such as Early Tillottsou, Crawford’s
Old MixoD, and Picquet’s Late, should
be planted for family use. Pears gen
erally do well when the soil 13 a heavy
clay.
Every farmer should have an abund
ance of small fruits, such as strawberries
and grapes. Wilson’s Albany, Seth
Boyden, and Downing, can be recom
mended as reliable varieties of straw
berries ; and Hartford Prolific, Concord,
Delaware and Scnppormmg as standard
grapes.
It is not yet too late to plant fruit
trees and vines. But it should he done
this month.
It a is possible for the farmer's table to
be supplied with frnit of his own rais
ing the year round, From the appear
ance of strawberries, the last of April,
there oan be a perfect succession of
fruits, ending with lete keeping apples,
till strawberries come again. The very
fact of Nature having so wisely and
bountifally arranged this succession
should impress ns more fully with the
importance of the privilege yfe enjoy
of cultivating tfivVM* Iqscions gifts
that administer SO Jjftueh to onr
health and pleasure. What adds
more to the attractions of a plaoe
than an abundance of fruit i 4nd yet
how many planters, who vainly boast of
their many acres, have not a fruit tree
(not to say anything of m*U fruit} of
any respectable variety on their posses
sions. Such sons of the soil can onfy
vegetate—they cannot live. They are
only clogs in the way of progress. Bnt
the farmer who has one spark of the fire
of agrionltnral progression within his
bosom let me urge to cultivate frnit.
Commence now. It will add to tfig
health of yonr family and to tfig attrac
tions and pleasures of yqinf home.
In thus persuading wv agricultural
brethren take hold of this subject, I
have no axe to grind—no trees tq sell
only desire to see a much uegleeted in
dustry developed, bewaring that it will
go a ways toward making our
farmer* prosperous and happ^r.
WO* MEXICAN CLAIMS.
Wa*> GweruMM, By TesHhle SwMni
hji the V. 8. (Salat.
New Yobs, January 24.—A special
from the City of Mexico, dated January
lfiitb, says: By making sacrifices innu
merable the Government of Dias have
managed to oollect $300,000, being the
first annual installment due to the
United States on account of claims
lately recognised by the Mixed Commis
sion. Funds arrived at Term Crus, and
embarked there via Few Orleans,
#2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PA TP
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Mr. C. K Jarrett, of Tugalo, is dead.
Milledgeville has had a domino ball.
The pullet-pullers are still in Savan
nah.
Will Governor Johnson be the dark
horse ? *
Professor A. N. Whitney, of Macon,
is dead.
Athens has a furniture manufacturing
company.
The incendiary is still trying to burn
Atlanta np.
Governor Smith gains five votes on
the seoo.-.d ballot. •
The Athena Georgian is an honor to
Northeast Georgia.
A Griffin girl has named her pet calf
for her sweetheart.
Columbus, np to date, has reoeived
84,023 bales of oottau,
A Covington man’s horse died from
eating too mnoh corn.
The prettiest girl in Eatonton is un
married, says the Messenger.
Hill seems to have inaugurated a
counter conspiracy to knock ont Nor
wood.
The State Lottery question threatens
to oreate quite a legal rumpus in the
Courts.
So far from diminishing, tbe stook of
Newton oounty authoresses seems to be
increasing.
The Catholics have 25 priests in Geor
gia, 17 churches, 1 college and a num
ber of academies,
The Carnesville Register complains
beoanse the town council publishes its
ordinances npon shade trees.
The Columbus epicure is in clover;
oysters sell at 50 cents per barrel, and
oranges at 15 to 75 cents per hundred.
A negro man in Savannah fell from a
scaffold platform into an alley the'other
day, bnt luekily struok on his head and
was uninjured,
The oommittee on the inaugural ball
in Atlanta had $l2O left over after pay
ing all debts. This amount they turn
ed over to the Benevolent Home.
Mr. F. S. Grimes, conductor on the
North and South Railroad, will leave for
Pensacola next Saturday, 1q take a posi
tion in the freight fleppf * that point.
The prevailing opinion ia that Mr.
Wfllie Slade, of the Qolnmbua Times, is
as heroic ajlooal as e’er slid down a well,
and, having slid down, e’er slid up
again.
Some Georgia editor takes Ham to
task about oalling the House roll in a
falsetto voice. Like the Western brake
man, Ham decline to sing out in tenor
at 87 per flay,
The Macon Telegraph, speaking of
the Atlnntio and Gulf Road, t mphati
cally counsels the extinguishment of all
obligations by the sale of the wad to
the bondholders,
The Athena railroad war, should the
worst come to the worst, will be fought
at Triggerwick, at a distance of five
feet, aoross the railroad track : weapons,
chestnut cross ties,
The rumor that Prof, Jno. Temple
Graves, of Atlanta, is about to enter
that elysium realm, from whose bourn
no traveler returns alone, is gaining
ground among his friends.
At the Golnmbus masquerade Tom
Huff, of the L'nqvt,irr, figured as
Socrates, wearing his Greek medal sus
pended from a tunic with a canteen of
hemlock girt about bia loins,
Hon. James M, Smith, representative
from Oglethorpe, is one of the most suc
cessful planters of Georgia, and will
make a oapital legislator. Oglethorpe
her best men this year.
Senator Wessalowski is not a Repub
lican, as is generally supposed, but was
elected on the independent ticket, and
is said to be a gentleman of pleasing ad
dress and unblemished character.
The reappointment of A.L. Mitchell,
Esq., Solicitor of the Western Qirouit,
will give general satisfaction in North
east Georgia, MiitfheU is one of the
most systematic), and energetic young
men in the State.
In Georgia last year ther > were 147
failures, with liabilities of $3,110,145,
against 165 failures, with liabilities of
$6 128,464 in 1875; 118 failures with lia
bilities of $1,845,000 in 1874; and against
67 failures, with liabilities of $9,113,000
in 1873.
A Lawrenoeville correspondent, refer
ring to the Chboniolh and Sentinel,
thus oonveys publio sentiment in the
banner oounty of the Ninth District:
“It ia the best and moat reliable paper
in the State, ia what all say about it in
Gwinnett.”
Speaking of the disadvantage of wagon
trade, this weather, an Athens Watch
man correspondent is reminded that the
“ otd Georgia ” Railroad, has done
more for advancing the industrial inter
ests of the State than all other institu
tions put together.
Colonel Jones, of the Macon Tele
graph, who recently made a flying visit
to Augusta over the Georgia Railroad,
writes to his paper that he has nothing
bat praises to give the road, which is
admirably managed. Mr. Johnson is
deservedly popular, and his conductors
all gentlemen.
Sir Richard Grubb, of the Darien Qa
zette y who is Harris’ biographer, gives ns
this item ; Mr, Joe Harris, of the At
lanta ConstitutioM, is only twenty-eight
years old, was born in Putnam county,
educated himself, is a practical printer,
and now stands in tbe foremost rank of
journalists, North or Sonth.”
Hon. H. H. Carlton, of Clarke, though
himself a married man, in a letter to his
paper, notes the thrilling expectancy
and delight with which the many fair
daughters of Georgia seemed to be ani
mated while listening to Ben Hill, whom
their trnthfnl hearts designated as the
undaunted and invincible champion of
the honor and manhood of their darling
Sonth,
A Few quotations Commonly Hnpposed to
Be From the Bible.
There are many familiar phrases in
constant qae which the majority of peo
ple suppose to have their origin in the
Bible, and use them in that connection.
The New York Observer corrects this er
ror in the following manner. But, as
the phrases are very fine, we still love to
nse them. To prevent misquotation from
the Scripture, it gives them thus,
“God tempers the wind to the shorn
lamb.” From Sterne’s “Sentimental
Journey to Italy,” Compare Isaiah xxvi.
“In the midst of life we are in death.”
From the Burial Service; and this origi
nally from a hymn of Luther.
“Bread and wine which the Lord hath
commanded to be received,” From the
English Catechism,
“Not tq he wise above what i writ
ten,Hot in Scripture,
“The merciful man is meroiful to his
beast.” The soriptaral form is: “A
righteous man regardeth the life of hie
beast," Frov. xii„ 10.
“A nation shall be born in a day.” In
Isaiah it reads: “Shall a nation be born
at onee ?”
“As iron aharpeneth iron, ao doth a
man the countenance of a friend.” “Iron
sharpeneth ; so a man sbarpeneth the
countenance of his friends.”— [Prov,
xxvii., 17.
“That he who runs may read.” “That
he may mu that eadeth.”-[Heb. x'„ 2.
“Owe bo man anything but love.”
“Owe no man anything bat to love one
another."—l Rom. X)i., &
“•Prone to ora as the aparka By up
ward." “Born to trouble as the sparks
to By upward.”—[Rom. v., 7.
“Exalted to Heaven in point of privi
lege.” Not in the Bible.
8w wan not Adam's helpmate, but
merely a help meet for him; nor was Ab
salom’s long hair the instrument of his
destruction; his head, and not hair
upon it, having been canght in the bows
of the tree. (2 Samnel, xviii,, B.) A
London wig-maker once made a sign
upon which was painted Absalom sus
pended from the branches of the oak by
his hair, and underneath the following
couplet:
If Absalom hadn't worn his own hair,
Bea no or hoo found banging to it.
PAPAL PUNCTURES.
Clnrnr aod Abase af Power—The Papal
Chuuwateea—The Fading Pope.
Boms, January 24—In the Chambers
daring the debate against the abases of
• power by the elergy, the Minister of
Worship and Justice declared that the
laws concerning the Papal guarantee was
a solemn and nnasssilable pledge given
to the Catholio world of the Pope’s
complete independence in the exercise
of bia spiritual power. Italy ought to
regard the maintenance of this law aa a
question of honor and of loyalty towards
Europe.
The Pope had a fainting spell Sunday
and yesterday,
A dispatch from Deadwood says that
the massacre of fifteen men, with a brain
coming from the Black Hills, ha
confirmed.
SOOTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Ten per cent.!
Greenville has a street railroad.
Columbia has anew billiard ball.
Taxes are the tests of sovereignty
Tramps are preying upon Camden.
WalhaUa thlef is Butwr *Pbed at
Chester vows to carry her rubles to
HamptoD.
Corn in Wafhalla" is bringing 75 cents
per bushel.
In Charleston coal sells at eight dol
lars per ton.
■ A Hampton masquerade comes off in
Aiken on the 26th.
Serenading troubadours are still ram
pant in Williamsburg.
Generals Butler and Gary have re
turned home from Columbia
wPa 8 . aß ? umes control of the
Edgefield Musical Academy.
*u° h r beriain & ® O, begin to conclude
that this is an off year for taxes
Dr. Reid and his wife, of Lebanon,
died last week at advanced ages.
The Anderson Y. M. C. A. has been
actively at work during the past year.
The Chamberlain tax gatherers will
make a regular water-haul in the land.
In some instances the reoent cold
snap completely destroyed the oat orop.
Pistol shooting i s getting to be a fa
vorite past-time on the streets of Ma
non.
The Abbeville sheriff shattered his
riding • not long since > while, sleigh
Federal office-holders should be as
‘be Ckunb-rtaio go,.
Chamberiain’s ante-room and hall are
the doors 0< Sdd,erS ‘ Ne S roes guard
The Carolina weeklies are all thinking
of adopting patent outsides during se
vere weather. 0
It is estimated that about two more
good snows will bring all the Anderson
bachelors to terms.
The Edgefield. Advertiser is forty-two
years old, and is really an honor to
Carolina journalism.
The Mayor of Cleveland, the other
day, inaugurated an auspicious reign
by an oyster supper.
Business in the State remains com
pletely paralyzed from the political con
aition ot the country.
Grand Duke Alexis will probably an
chor at Port Royal when Chamberlain’s
gang have been removed.
John H. Brown, of Winnsboro, com
mitted suicide last week by shooting
himself through the head.
The State Grange wiil meet in Colum
bia on the first Wednesday in February,
a m 6Ven °’ c^o °b in the evening.
The Collector for Riohland is kept
busy receiving the ten per cent, called
rp Hampton government.
Ttw Greenville county coroner con
cludes that the snow is not of muoh real
benefit to the colored population.
The Chester chief of polioe would like
to interview the fellow who built a fence
across the sidewalk the other night.
T be . * ron Ih® Spartanburg and
Asheville Railroad has been coming in
in large quantities during the past week.
Land, sinoe the freeze, in the .northern
part of the State, is becoming so rot
ten that Chamberlain declines to levy on
It is understood that MoEvoy’s friends
have not by any means, abandoned the
idea of gettiug him out of the Aiken,
jail.
The agricultural department of that
excellent paper, the Charleston News
and Courier, is quite a valuable addi
tion.
We have missed several of onr Caro
lina weeklies lately. Be careful, gen
tlemen; don't count us out in that sort
of style.
Evidently hanging has’nt played out
m Carolina. Fifteen men will awing on
two different occasions during March
and April.
Young-man-deprived-of-his taxes, is
what they ought to dub Chamberlain,
the bald-headed Sachem of theSetdown
on tribe. ’’
The first commission whioh Governor
Hampton issued Was to Ed. Henderson,
oolored, of county, as Jury
Commissioner.
Two United States Marshals, while
pursuing a prisoner in Pickens county,
ast week, were fired into aDd danger
ously wounded.
It is now rumored that Wilson, of the
Abbeville J banner, thinks of twining an
orange wreath, at an early day, in his
cardinal coiffure.
Is there any trnth in the rumor that.
Chamberlain is penning a gubernatorial,
appeal to Grand Duke Alexis in regard
to being recognized ?
They are becoming very particular in
WalhaUa ; where a man is jerked into
jail for stealing a pocket book, as in the
good old days of yore.
The Union-Herald absolutely docks
us from its exchange list. Readers may
now readily account for the shortcomings
of our Carolina column.
The Carolina Collegiate Institute, at
Anderson, has opened with sevyuty-five
pupils, which is an encouraging com
mencement of the new year.
The youngest son of Mr. Thos. L.
Kaminer, of Lexington, was accidental
ly shot with a pistol recently, from
which he died immediately.
Jackson Arter, au old oolored man of
Pickens, who died last Tuesday morn
ing, had been free all his life and had
accumulated a fair property.
The amount of cotton received by the
South Carolina Road up to this time ex
ceeds by some 40,000 bales the amount
received up to the same time last year.
Says the Barnwell Sentinel: Miss
Margaret Lutz, a young lady of onr vil
lage, who, but n few days ago, seemed
the picture of health, died on Satnrday
last, after a short and painful illness.
Bailey, of the Greenville Enterprise ,
fries to prove himself a snow drop, thus
wise: The wood question has been an
important one with poor people, ever
since the snow on the 28d ult.—one of
whom are we.
The Williamsburg Republican now
vows to “denounce oppression, corrup
tion and fraud.” We are right glad to
hear of this new leaf turned by our con
servative friend. Come over, neighbor,
and pay up that ten per cent.
Sueh a conundrum as thia one, from
the Edgefield Advertiser , we feel con
strained to give up: bnppose the Cham
berlain officials should go through the
farce of selling people’s properly for
non-payment of the so-called taxes,
where will the purchasers oome from ?
The ten Lowndesville murderers: Ed
win Prince, Gilbert Burton, Eli Hunter,
Capers Allen, Asbury Allen, Whitman
Allen, Jenkins Whitner, William John
son, Hutson Coze by, John Allen, eaoh
have been sentenced to be hung between
the hours of 11 o’clock, and 8 o’clock,
p. m., on Friday, the 20th of April next.
Tbe Sagacity sf Wild Geese.
Anolam (Cal.) Gazette : The large
flocks of geese which are constantly
passing over the town are frequently
shot at, but they generally fly at too
high an altitude to be reached by the
leaden missiles. Sometimes, however,
the shots take effeot. The other day we
were watching a flock flying southward,
when the report of a gun was heard and
we observed one of the geese begin to
fall slowly. The others, perceiving that
their comrade was wounded, uttered
shrill cries of distress, and about a dozen
of them flew under the wounded bird,
huddled together so that their backe
formed a sort of a bed upon which the
wounded ODe rested. They buoyed it
up for some time, the others meanwhile
looking on and manifesting their con
cern by uttering loud, discordant,
shrieks. Finding that their companion
was unable to longer accompany them
in their flight, they abandoned him to
his fate, and he fell to the earth and
into tftie arms of an expectant China
man.
WHOLESALE SMUGGLING.
A thampifn Silk Smuggler—Shoving tbe
;Queer—A Jewelry Peddler in Grier.
New York, January 24.—Louis and
Edward Haas, importers of silks, were
arrested yesterday, charged with smug
gling goods through the Custom House
through collusion with Depnty Collector
Gaylord and DeLanges, his successor.
They were arrested on information of
Charles L. Lawrence.
Cincinnati, January 24 -Miles Ogle
has been arrested for manufacturing
counterfeit money. He made disclos
ures leading to tbe discovery of over
one hundred finely executed plates;
also, 40,000 fifty cent pieces buried near
this city.
Memphis, January 24.—Jack Wil
liams, who shot Detective Pride yester
day, was arrested by the conductor of a
train after attempting to shoot him.
Pride ia hoi expected to recover. Wil
liams had two thousand dollars, soma
diamonds and jewelry, all stolen.