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Address WALSH A WRIGHT,
Cbeo.viclk A SasTOtgL. Augusta. Ga.
Chronicle and .Sentinel.
W EIINESI)AY, FEBRUARY 14. 1877.
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.
We request our subscribers who owe
ns 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
Hks'atok Wwit's explanation of the
Well’s letter is about as bad as thß
letter itself.
Govkbnok Hates thinks that the
Presidential question has now become a
law suit, and that he has *'a good case,
good lawyers, a good Court, and good
prospects. ”
A Washington dispatch states that
an effort will be made to paeß a law re
quiring Congress to meet on the fifth of
March of this year, instead of the first
Monday in December.
The dispatches from Washington Sun
day night indicated that Mr. Stephens
was growing worse. His voice had be
come so weak that he could scarcely
articulate, and he expressed the opinion
that he was growing weaker.
Wb are glad to see that the House of
Representatives has tabled the bill "to
render females eligible to the office of
State Librarian.” We understand that
the bill was framed aod introduced for
the benefit of a very worthy lady, who
would have received the position in the
event the bill became a law, but we see
no good reason for such special legisla
tion. It is costly and unnecessary.
It is said that when the reported
death of Mr. Stephens reached the
Eighth District some nine or ten
nen silt np all night writing letters to
their friends informing them of their in
tention to run for Congress, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Mr.
Stephens, and that, many of the letters
were mailed before it wm ascertained
that. Mr. Stephens was not dead.—
Griffln News.
The Philadelphia Time* says that
"Ben Hill received ten Republican
votes far United States Senator in the
Georgia Legislature.” In view of tho
fact that there are only four Republicans
in the Georgia Legislature it is scarcely
probable that Mr. Hill received ten
votes from that political party. These
four votes were changed from 'Judge
wm. kr to Mr. Hill before the result j
of rue last ballot was aunouuoed, and
any of the candidates would have been
glad to get them.
The statement of the fires and fire
losses in the United States for 1876
shows that there were 9,801 fires, aod
the value of property destroyed was
*73,774,000—0f whioh 838,262,000 ware
oovered by insurance. In the preceding
year the losses Amounted to $86,328,000,
and the insurance to $43,631,000. The
losses for 1876 were about ono half of
one per cent, on the assessed value of
all the taxable property in the country;
those for 1876 were nearly two-thirds of
one per ceot,; and those of 1871, the
year of the Chicago fire, were about lj
per cent.
Pinohbaok, in a letter to a friend in
Tmlianapolis in explanation of his re
cent action, says : " Knowing that the
present pretended Packard government
is a monstrous iniquity and its success
would entail still further debauchery
and demoralization upon the race, I re
solved to destroy it if possible. I have
not abandoned the National Republican
party, bnt if to denounoe the thieves in
Louisiana, who are fast destroying tbe
manhood and integrity of my people,
renders me ineligible to membership in
it, I shall have to seek shelter elsewhere
and contiune my struggle for justice
and equality for the race.”
Mb. Stbwart, of Spalding, has offered
bill in the House making it a misde
meanor to speculate in what are knowu
as "cotton futures.” There are two ob
jections to the bill. The first is that
such a law cannot be enforced, because
nearly all the sales of ootton for future
delivery are made in New York and not
in Georgia. The second is that it dis
criminates ngainstonly onekind of spec
ulation. Futures are now sold not only
in cotton, but in bacon, is corn, in
wheat, in lard, in bagging and in almost
everything else. If the man who buys
or sells a cottou contract is to be pun
ished, the man who hoys or sells a ba
con optiou should not be permitted to
escape.
T'hk Rome Courier says of the four
uiemb.'rs of Congress from Alabama and
one from Georgia—Mr. Smith, of the
Second District—who voted against the
Electoral Bill ; "These are all natnral
*• ly very small men sever before showed
"so conspicuously small as when they
" hold themselves against such men as
" Thurman, Bayard, Payne, Randall,
“ Hill and Lamar.” We think our
esteemed contemporary is entirely too
severe upon the members who voted
against the bilL Their votes were un
doubtedly influenced by conscientious
convictions and not a spirit of antagonism
to Democratic leaders. Instead of eon-,
demning tbeir act we should rather ad
mire the plnck which eaoaad them to go
into the ranks of the minority because
they believed the majority to be wrong.
’fa* annual report of the Massachusetts
Railroad Commissioners for 1876 shows
that the grots earnings of all the roads
in the State were $31,007,448, a decrease
of nearly five per cent, from those of 1875.
The average earnings were $12,508 per
mile. The cost of operation was $8,836
per mile on each mile of road ia oae, or
69 per cent, of the gross earnings. The
net income was $9,546,8*20, or 5 6 per
cent, on the value of the property aa it
atanda on the books of the companies.
The aggregate value of the roads is
$169,799,600, of which $118,179,000 is in
stock and the balance in various forma
of indebtedness. Eight of the sixty
companies had no net iooome; 24 had
3| per cent, or lees ; 12 had between 3}
and per cent; 9 had between 6) and
71 per cent, and 7 had over 7J per cent.
THE NEXT (OMiKESS.
There will be very little difference in
the strength of the two parties in the
next Congress, and party lines will have
to be drawn very closely in order to pre
vent the House from relapsing into Re
publicanism and to keep the Senate from
becoming Democratic. The Democratic
majority in the Honse, should the New
Hampshire elections go against ns and
the Returning Board frauds in Louisiana
and South Carolina stand, will not be
more than six or seveD votes. The de
fection of four men, or the sicknees or
absence cf seven, wonld make the body
Republican. It will be absolutely ne
cessaly for every Democratic member to
remain at bis post during the whole ses
sion, or the most mischievous conse
quences may flow from his absence.
Judging from the votes of the present
House it will be the strictest party ques
tion only that will get a full partv
vote. There has also been as great a
change in the composition of the Senate.
Fonr years ago the Repnblicans bad a
full two-thirds majority in that branch
of Congress. Last year they had forty
four Senators and the Democrats twenty
nine—a working Republican majority of
fifteen. On the fonrth of March next
the Senate will stand; Repnblicans,
thirty-nine ; Democrats, thirty-four ;
contested seats, three. The contested
seats are from Louisiana and South
Carolina. With regard to Sonth Caro
lina, we think it may be safely assumed
that even if General M. 0. Butler is not
admitted anew eleotion will be ordered,
and this new election is certain to result
in a Democratic Senator. We are
equally as firmly persuaded that the
seats from Louisiana will be awarded to
the Democrats. Such action would give
the Republicans a majority of two, and
if any of the Liberals leave them, as
they may do, the Democrats will have a
majority. It will be a close shave in
both Houses of Congress.
IHVIDKNDM that are not dividend*.
From the proceedings of the Legisla
ture, as published, it appears that a bill
has been lost in the House which pro
hibited the declaration of dividends by
joint stock companies of any description
unless the same have been actually earn
ed by the corporation. The bill is pub
lished in full in the Chronicle and
Sentinel this morning. It was intro
duced by Mr. Northern, of Hancock.
We think there is some mistake as to
the defeat of the bill. The entry of the
Clerk shows that the bill was read the
first time January 15th, and read the sec
ond time the day it wa? reported lost. We
do not approve all the features of the
bill, but believe that the principle which
Mr. Northern seeks to establish is a
good one, and we hope that the bill will
be amended and passed. It punishes a vio
lation of its provisions by a fine of not less
than one-half of one per cent, nor more
than three per cent, on the capital stock
of the offending corporation. This is
scarcely just, as the declaration of divi
dends is usually left entirely to the dis
cretion of the President and Directors
of a corporation. We think it would be
better when a dividend is declared that
has not been earned to pnnish as for a
misdemeanor those offioers of the cor
poration voting for the declaration of
suoh dividend. In addition, these offi
oers could be made personally respon
sible for the amount declared in excess
of the amount earned. Suoh a law is
needed for the proteetion of the publio.
The public know nothing of the condi
tion of joint stock companies. When a
dividend is declared they presume it has
been earned, and invest their tnoney in
the stock influenced by this belief. If
the dividend has not been earned and
the faot becomes known the stock de
clines in value and the pnrohaser has no
redress. Legislation on this subject is
highly oeoessary.
A specimen scoundrel.
President Grant had evidently good
reason for visiting his displeasure npon
the Treasury Agent Maddox, who has
been expoaing the* true inwardness of
the Louisiana Returning Board to tbe
Congressional Committee in Washing
ton. Maddox has told too much, and,
unfortunately for the Republicans, hi*
statements have been strongly corrobo
rated. At first the Republican papers
denounced the witness aa a perjured
villain, and pooh-poohed his testimony,
But Maddox has substantiated the story
which he has told of J. Madison Wells’
corruption by other witnesses and by
documentary evidence. He stated a few
days ago ttiai Jhe had letters from Wells
in his possession, but refused to give
them up until yesterday, when they
were tamed over to the committee. Tbe
first is a letter from Wells to the wit
ness, showing that in* latter had bis
confidence. It urges him to go Wash
ington, and oonfer with the President.
If he concludes upon prompt action in
the premises (i, e., raising money for
the Returning Board), he ia specially
commended to Senator West. What
was to be his business with West is
plainly shown by the letter to the latter
which Maddor received from Wells,
In this preoious epistle Wells regrets
not being able to see West personally,
as he had many things to communicate
which "it would be imprudent to trust
to paper.” West is told that Wells
and his Returning Board bold the desti
nies of the nation in their grasp—that
they can make whom they will Presi
dent. He is thoroughly loyal to "the
greatest living General, U. S. Grant, ’’
and he does not wish "this oppressed
“ people [of Louisiana] to ho governed
** by bis paroled prisoners, aided by the
“ white lirered cowards of the North.”
But there is danger to the greatest living
General and the oppressed people. "Mil
" lions of money have been seat
" and will be used in the interests oi
" Tildes," and nnless money is sent
I down by the Hakes' party it will be im
i possible for Wells te avert ,f its pro-
Iduotive results." Maddox he says is
fully posted and can be trusted, “Act
“ promptly or the result will be disas
j “ trous. Unless the money is immedi
, “ ately forthcoming, Tilde* will get the
; “vote of the State. A hint to the wise.
! “Strictly private and confidential.
' “Yours truly, J. Madison Wells,”
Nothing can be plainer. This corrupt
scoundrel Welds was the President of
the Louisiana Returning Board and the
vote of Loniaiana would decide the
H Presidential election. By making
Chandler A Cos. believe that the Dem
ocrats were trying to bribe him, Wells
made them pay him to give the vote of
tbs State to Hayes and Wheeler.
Welds ia a specimen scoundrel of the
Southern Returning Board species.
A Western railroad man has invented
a safety stove that is expected not to set
fire to cars in case of an accident. The
stove stands on a water tank with a per
forated top, The bed plate ia perforated
with apertures which are closed by
valves, which fit into the bad plate like
an ordinary stove griddle or cover; their
own weight retains them in position
when the car ia upright, and they fall
out instantly when the ear is upset, the
water rushing out instantly submerging
the fire. The invention has been tested
at Cincinnati, and railroad officials have
pronounced favorably. It is designed
by a conductor of twenty yean’ expe
rience.
WHAT THE TAXES ARE AND WHERE
THEY COME FROM.
The Comptroller-General's report for
1876 shows that the taxes as-eased for
that year amounted to $1,476,000, of
which aom $1,460,000 were actually col
lected and paid into the State Treasury.
This amount is of coarse exclusive of
county taxation, which will average
about sixty per cent, on the State tax,
and may be estimated at $885,000. Mu
nicipal taxation is not so easily sampled
up, but basing a calculation npon the
taxes paid by the five principal cities—
Savannah, Augusta, Atlanta, Columbus
and Macon—it cannot fall short of sl,-
300,000. These figures give a total of
$3,661,000 of annual taxation in the
State of Georgia, exclusive of the reve
nue paid to the General Government,
or about one and one half per cent, on
the taxable value of the property of the
State. The State tax of $1,476,000 is
mostly paid by a few counties.
The following counties pay taxes to
to the amount of $60,000 and over :
Bibb $ 64,000
Chatham 109,000
Fulton 103,000
Richmond 87,000
$353,000
These fonr connties pay nearly one
fourth of all the taxes collected for the
support of the State government. The
following connties pay taxes amounting
to $20,000 and over :
Bartow $ 23,000
Clarke 21,000
Floyd 26,000
M useogee 38,000
SIOB,OOO
These eight counties pay $461,000, or
nearly one-third of the total amount.
The following counties pay SIO,OOO and
over, but less than $20,000:
Brooks $ 12.000
Burke 16,000
Cirroll 13,000
Coweta 18,000
DeKalb 14,000
Decatur • 10,000
Dougherty . 13,000
Elbert 10,000
Greene 15,000
Gordon.... 12,000
Gwinnett 15,000
Hall 12,000
Hancock 13,000
Harris 11,000
Henry , 11,000
Houston 17,000
Jmikson , 11,000
Jefferson .... 12,000
Merriwether 10,000
Monroe 13,000
Morgan..-. 13,000
Newton 12,000
Oglethorpe 10,000
Pike 14,000
Putnam 10,000
Randolph 10,000
Spalding 12,000
Sumter 18,000
Thomas 16,000
Troup 14,000
Walker 11,000
Walton 13,000
Washington 17,000
Wilkes 17,000
Whitfield 14,000
Total $464,000
The above figures show that nearly
three-fourths of all the taxes levied by
the State are paid by forty-four coun
ties. The remaining eighty-three coun
ties pay a little more than one-fourtb.
The highest tax—slo9,ooo—is paid by
the county of Chatham; the lowest—
sl,32B—comes from the county of Cbarl
toD. Of the total tax the Eighth Con
gressional District pays $224,000, or
nearly one-sixth of the whole amount.
The tax is distributed as follows:
Richmond ’ $ 87,000
Elbert 10,000
Greene 15.000
Hancock 13,000
Jefferson 12,000
Oglethorpe 10,000
Washington 17,000
Wflkes 17,000
Warren 8,000
McDuffie 6,500
Columbia 6,400
Lincoln 5,000
Johnson 3,000
Glascock 3,000
Hart 6,000
Taliaferro 4,000
Total ~,.,.,.......5224,300
According to these figures and the last
report of the Finance Committee of the
City Council the county of Richmond
paid taxes last year amounting in all to
abont $383,000, divided as follows :
State tax ..$ 87,000
County tax 21,000
School tax 17,000
Municipal ty 258,000
Total .............$383,000
We are not positive abont the amount
of tax levied for school purposes, but
believe it will reach the figures stated—
sl7,ooo. These figures do not include
the taxes levied by the village of Sum
merville and other villages, nor the
revenue paid to the United States Gov
ernment. The total taxes paid by the
people of- Richmond county annually
will aggregate four hundred thousand
dollars mid flyer, which sum is about
two and one-half per cent, on the assess
ed value of all the taxable property.
These figures seem startling, but it
should b.e remembered that Richmond
is not an exception to tfie general rnle.
Chatham, Fulton, Bibb and Muscogee
will doubtless make a similar showing
when the figures are examined. It must
also be borne in mind that the immense
revenue collected by the State and mu
nicipal governments is not expended in
salaries or improving the property of
the end city, but is used princi
pally in meeting the interest, alone, of
the enormous bonded debts that have
been .contracted. these facts and
figures arc fls?idered thinking men may
well ask for a constitutional enactment
that will protect tax payers fronj spolia
tion.
THE CENSUS OF MASSACHUSETTS.
The third volume of the “ Census of
Massachusetts” contains the tabulated
returns relating tp domestic manufac
tures, agricultural products, ,'airuß and
farm property, domestic© animals on
farms, persons employed in agriculture,
their wage*, yalne of implements, etc.,
mines, quarries, pits aad fish ponds. A
table given in the introduction shows
the quantity, value, average value and ;
acreage wjhea given, of the chief pro
ducts of the stte for 1855, 1865
and 1875, From this can J>e drawn the
changes in crops, in valjoe, in acreage,
in average yield per acre, and the
increase or decrease in the leach
ing crops ; the result is gratifying
in many respects, for while it is seen
that [here is a loss in the great staple
products of barley, porn, oats, potatoes
and wheat, there is for each pf these
crops an increased yield per acre ; the
lighter props, beans, beets, carrots,
cranberries, on iocs and turnips, show
large increase generally, not only ip
amonnt raised, but in yield per acre ,
the h*y crop has increased in quantity
and in average yield per acre. There
are 44,549 farms in the State, and of
these 43,495 are carried on by tbeir
owners; farms include 3,402,368
acres ; their total .value is $170,5X9,965.
There are 35,188 persons employed in
agriculture; their wages daring 1875
were $5,600,919. A comparison of the
total products of the State for 1865 and
1875 shows a gain of $255,693,288 on a
gold basis, an increase of nearly eighty
one per pent
The Packard so-called "Legislature”
in Louisiana continues daily the farce
of meeting, sailing the roll and finding
no quorum present, The true Legis
lature, in the mean time, is progressing
with business.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, 1877.
COTTON SUPPLY AND CONSUMPTION.
We take the following from the Fi
nancial Chronicle, of February 3d :
After several years, in which the pro
duction of both cotton and cotton goods
had so gained on the consumption of
both as to cause a great and almost con
tinuous fall in prices, averaging more
than Id. (English) or 2 cants (gold) per
pound yearly, in cotton, and still more
per pound of goods, the turn has come;
consumption now again appears to out
ruu prodnetion of both the raw mate
rial and goods.
Indeed, the tnrn came more than a
year ago, but was not recognized. The
manufacturers of cotton fabrics and the
dealers in cotton had got so nsed to the
depression of accumulating surplus, and
(like eels) to being skinned, that they
really had a year’i? rnn of redneing
stocks, of both cotton and cotton goods,
before they saw it, or, seeing, could be
lieve it. And that was the year in which
onr crop of 4,669,000 bales was going
into consnmptioD. In September last
we called attention to the fact that, du
ring the previous two years, twenty
seven months’ production of onr mills
had gone into actual consumption or ex
port, so thet in August, 1876, there were
smaller stocks of cotton goods held by
producers, jobbers and retail houses, in
the aggregate, than there were two years
before, by at least three months’ pro
duction. They had gone out of market,
and were invisible to the trade. They
had been distributed to actual consum
ers and by export. We then indicated
the increased and increasing demand for
cotton fabrics, and the advancing prices,
which are now clearly visible, by sug
gesting the evident impossibility of
producing in 1876-7 so large a supply of
goods as went into consumption alone,
in either of the seasons 1874-5 or
1875-6.
Tho cotton growing and the cotton
spinning interests are never far apart.
They both of late have been on the ris
ing grade, after a long descent which
carried cotton lower in currency than
its gold price in the average of three
years before the war, and cotton goods
two to fonr cents per pound lower than
the lowest at the same period. Low
prices always extend consumption,—
This is especially true of cotton, and is
produced not alone through the increas
ed demand for cotton goods, but also by
enlarging its uses, permitting its substi
tution for other materials, as we showed
in our article of September 30th, had
been done in the United States during
the past season. It is with suoh facts,
then, we have to deal in determining
the sufficiency of onr present cotton sup
ply.
Nearly, or perhaps quite, three-fourtbs
of the cotton crop having reached either
the seaports or the mills, a pretty fair
view of the remainder of the season and
of ultimate results can now be had. It
is best to leave all quantities whioh are
yet unknown, and therefore subjects of
estimate, to the opinion of each indi
vidual, The estimated quantities in the
following are assumed only to make a
formula, not as expressing our own opin
ion, which for this purpose it is not
necessary to give. Every reader is ex
pected to correct any item which he
thinks erroneous, and to note the effect
of the correction upon the result.
Suppose the total of this crop to be
(bales) 4,500,000
(or 169,000 bales less than the last
crop).
Suppose the porton used at the South
and sent overlmd to Northern mills
to be only 400,000
Then the total receipts at port will be4,100,000
Of which had bejn received to Janua
ry 26 3,006 000
Leaying to be rejeived after January
27 1,094.000
Add stock in pot s January 27 891,000
Available snppy from ports thenee
forward 1,985,000
Suppose the North
ern oonsumpion. 1,250,000
Already taken 'rom
ports 4 6 9,000
Overland to nills,
say 211.000 700,000
Yet to be takei for
Northern milli 550,000
Of which mw be
overland aftei Jan
uary 27 60,000
Thus require! for
Northern mil's
from ports..' 600,000
Leaving, bales .... 1,485,000
Allow for stoik in
ports September 1. 110,000
Leaving for e:port. 1,375,000
Against ex per last
year after Jamary
27 -.••••■ 1,653,0f10
Total export last sea
son 3.253,000
Total export ttis sea
son to Janua-y 27-- 1,757,000
Aftor January 27, if
crop 4J millbns.,, 1,376,000-3.132,000
Reduction in supply
American oitton to
Europe..., 121.000
—and more c less as Ihe crop shall be lees or
more than 4,00,000,
Assuming onr crop t 6 be 4,500,000
bales as abive, that the Egyptian crop
is 50,000 baes less, and that the supply
to Europe from India will be 200,000
bales less Man last year—(this last item
being problematical, as we never know
what Indiawill turp out under the in
fluence of pice)—together they reduce
the supply jf the geasop 419,j00fi bales,
compared rith 1875-6, the deficiency of
supply beiig felt chiefly in Europe, the
effect in pice, everywhere. There is
believed tr be a material falling off this
season in he average weights of bales.
Its averafe of the whole crop is, of
course, no yet known, but comparisons
of the firt half of the crop at varions
points indjute that it will exceed ten
ponnds pe bale on the whole. At that
rate the las would amount fo 100,000
baleg of|p pounds eaph; pall it (11,000
bales.
As abov said, the supply (excluding
old stocks for this season in the world
appears ttbe 419,000 bales less than in
1875-6, o the crop figures assumed.
The differnce in weights raises the loss
to bOO.OQCbales.
Consumption in the United States has
lately bee reduced by short water; yet,
under Unknown tendency to the pro
duction fa heavier average of goods
than in nat years, and the improvement
in bnsines, the qnantity of yaw cottpn
used ancLo be used this season will pro
bably ejeed that of 1875-6, when there
was somdpja by short time and strikes,
as well t by the general discourage
ment oi business. .Consumption in
Englandin 1875-6 was reduced by some
short tiie and stopping of mills (at
Oldham Ac.) There is no apparent
probabity of short time this season, or
of sfly lndrance to the highest produc
tion of poSs. Tfl material extent,
the use i Great Britain l of heavy stuff
ing of flished cloth is reduced or aban
doned, a# thg piece weights of the
cloth ket np by an increase of potton
in it, by lower counts of yarn, or more
thread, r both. Therefore a sensible
increasen the consumption in England
is to be x pec ted. The consumption on
the Connent onght to show its osnal
annual ite of increase.
On tfe foregoing premises the con
sumptio should increase, in Great Bri
tain, 80300,000 pounds; the Continent,
50,000,00 pounds; United States, 20,-
000,00( in all 150,000,000 pounds,equal
to 375)00 bales of 400 ponnds each.
(The yerage of European supply last
seasorwas 403 poqnfls per bale.)
On the assumptions we have now
stater which every onp interested in
the Orton trade or manufacture should
scrutuze closely before accepting, the
geaso’s supply of cotton (exclusive of
stocks) promises to come short of that
in 1875-6 by 5)0,000 bales, and the con
sumption to be increased by 375,000
bales—making together a difference of
875,000 bales, which, if used, mast be
drawn from ths stocks.
The stocks in Europe, October 1, ac
cording to Rlubon, were: ,
r * , .... . Bales.
In ports (visible) 1,168,000
Surplus at u ilia (invisible) say—Con
tinent 120,000
Great Britain.. 20,000 140 000
In the United Stits ports there were,
September 1 130,000
Total stocks at beginning of 5ea50n....1,438,000
The conclusion of the whole matter is,
therefore, that if the above deficit of
875,000 bales is made good out of last
year s stock, it must reduce it, Ist of
October next, to 563,000 bales in Earope
and America. Is it possible, so far, to
reduce the stocks of cotton at the end of
the season ? Whenever snoh facts as
the above if they shall be facts, come
to be recognized as such, will Eot prices
necessarily advance so far as to check
consumption ? Especially should our
crop tnrn out to be less than we have
assumed ?
FRANCE AND HER METHOD.
The English papers are expressing
their astonishment at the prosperity of
France. It seems that that thrifty re
public has an annnsl revenue of $500,-
000,000, which is $150,000,000 more than
that of Great -Britain. To be sure,
France has a somewhat larger popula
tion, but, on the other hand, she has
nothing to parallel the commerce and
the foreign possessions of England.
When Germany imposed upon France
the enormous fine of $1,000,000,000 at
the dose of the late war, it was suppos
ed that the latter country was hopeless
ly crippled for at least a generation. Bat
she has completely recovered her former
spirit, and is now spending more on the
reorganization of her army than it cost
during the pompous days of the empire.
It is estimated that the disastrons war
and the foreign oocnpancy cost nearly
$2,000,000,000, and it illustrates the
marvelous elasticity of the finances of
France. It is to be remarked that the
panics which have swept over Europe
and America have had very little effect
on France. Her people never go in
debt. There is no commercial specula
tion in that country, and having no
debts to meet there are no fears of an
inability to pay, and hence no panics.
But there is another reason for France’s
prosperity : she obtains great prices for
her maflufactures. Luxuries always
fetch more than necessities in pro
portion to their cost. Still, ingenuity,
and taste are extravagantly paid for,
France thns lays the whole world under
tribute. Her fancy goods command
fancy prices. Being fertile and imagi
native she takes the raw staples of all
the world, and they are transformed at
her touch. She adds to their market
value five times, ten times, a thousand
times. This phase of French industry
deserves study and imitation.
MEXICO.
The troubles in Mexico between Ler
do de Tejeda and Yglesias seems to
have arisen from an indisposition on the
part of the former to retire from the
Presidency at the end of his constitu
tional term. We do not understand
that there is any question as to which of
the two carried the election in 1876; but
tbe successful candidate appears to have
been ineligible on account of a constitu
tional provision against a second term.
Yolesias did not receive so many votes
as his opponent, but as his opponent
was ineligible, Yolesias counted those
cast for him as void, and thereby de
clared himself elected. At this point
there to have fieen so unusual
display of fickleness on the part of the
people. They voted for Lerdo, knowing
him to be ineligible, and after electing
him turned against him because he was
ineligible. Lerdo has probably received
a lesson which will serve him as a sub
ject for thought during his wanderings,
and will possibly teach him to be more
obseryant of constitutional provisions
should he ever return to Mexico.
General Diaz appears at this juncture
as a military leader. No one seems to
have voted for him, but his boldness
nas captured the army and overawed or
dazzled the people. He seems to be suc
cessful as a soldier, but has evidently no
idea of the methods of statesmanship.
His measures to increase his revenue are
downright robbery. The notion has
passed out of credit long since that gov
ernments coqld despoil rich subjects at
pleasure. Diaz goes baejr to the fifteenth
century and imitates tfie petty kings
who levied contributions on suoh of
their relatives as could furnish the
needed supplies. Of course, such a man
cannot long remaiD President, even of
Mexioo. Those who submit to him in
his presence will plot against him as
soon as the threat of his sword is re
moved. Probably if Senor Yolesias
remains qniet a few months, Diaz will
pave the way to his own destruction.
His basis of 1 power is his army, which
will be faithful so long as the revenues
are sufficient for its support. He may
manage an election ( bqt fropj the char
acter of the man, as outlined in certain
reported acts, he will find it very diffi
cult to manage successfully the affairs
of a nation.
The almost unprecedented cold
weather of Tecember and January was
hard on railroads. A number of ac
cidents occurred, and tracks and bridges
especially in the North and West, were
more or less injured, 'fhe recent mild
“spell” ha§ giyen them an opportunity
to repair damages.
The fact that the Radicals intend to
object to Mississippi when the State is
reached in counting the electoral vote,
shows to what an extremity the party is
reduced. As the House, however, will
oertainly not sustain the objection, they
might as well save themselves the
trouble.
The brilliant and unfortunate actress,
Lucille Western, whose private life
was one of sorrow and suffering, was the
very heart of charity. According to a
New York writer, who knew her well,
she had made fall $200,000 on the stage
and diefl penniless. The cause of her
woe was 4 man, Of at )east bpre the
shape of a man.
Midhat Pasha has been deposed as
Grand Viaier of Turkey, and
Pasha, an ultra Turk, appointed in his
Stead. The Ottomans are evidently de
termined to carry matters with a high
band. The deposition of Midhat means
the total overthrow of the conservative
element ip Turkey and a determination
to withstand any measures of reform
proposed by Earope.
A bill has been introduced in the
Pennsylvania Legislature to prevent
the use of inferior and dangerous grades
of illuminating fluids, by prohibiting
tbeir Eale throughout the State. This
object is to be accomplished by the es
tablishment of a fire test of 110 degrees
Fahrenheit, and the Appointment in
every county in whioh illuminating
fluids ue manqfapturfld 0 f inspectors, who
are empowered to collect fees for their
services, and to prosecute any dealers
or manufacturers detected in attempts to
sell oil under the fire test, or falsely
branded.
PUZZLING_THE POOL.
THE AIR-LINE ROAD BECOMES
THE-CENTRE OF A SENSATION.
A Big Chance for Thai Road to Endear It
self to the People—A Frightened Freight
Syndicate—Guarantees of Good Coadnct
Demanded.
[Atlanta Constitution.]
“The Southern Railroad and Steam
ship Association,” known in common
parlance as " the pool,” has been in ses
sion hers tbe past two days. Delegates
to the Convention were present from all
the leading freight and transportation
lines between New York and New Or
leans and south of the Ohio river. Every
interest of the railway and steamship
companies of the South upon the cis-
Mississippi side was ably represented
by shrewd railroad men and financiers,
and the session possessed a publio in
terest exceeding any Convention hereto
fore held.
There la No Public Favor
Toward this pooling business, for rea
sons which have been time and again
fully explained in these columns, and
which may now be suggested in the
simple proposition, that competition in
freight transportation nullified becomes
a commercial curse. That the opera
tions of this pool have so proven is be
yond any controversy with the public.
Our merchants and factors are too well
acquainted from experience with the ef
fects of these pooling combinations to
longer doubt their dangerous and per
nicious influences. This city has suf
fered, if we are to believe our commer
cial authorities, from the pool combina
tion, to the extent of many thousands of
dollars every season. The pool peo
ple claim that the effect is different—
even exactly the reverse, but their state
ments do not agree with the figures said
to be authentic.
A Species of Bulldozing.
There are railroad men who do not
concur in the good opinion of the pool
that is entertained professedly by its
partisans. The principle upon which
the pooling process operates is said to
be a sort of bulldozing whereby the lit
tle fishes and the gudgeons are taken in
by the whales, to the infinite disgust
and detriment of the former, and the ex
ceeding profit of the latter.
It is the old fight of big I and little U
in railroad circles, and the roads that
would suffer much by cut-throat com
petition are intimidated into paying for
the privilege of living in poverty while
their connecting neighbors roll in
wealth and luxury. Whoever investi
gates these facts will find more truth
than poetry in the statement. It is all
work for the bulldozed roads and all
profit for the bulldozers, regardless of
natural laws of commerce and legiti
mate competition.
Chewing the Bag.
Some of the pool people have proven
the pudding by chewing the bag. One
of the main objects of this last conven
tion was to examine into the past trans
actions of the pool and to attempt a set
tlement of the claims and pro rata
shares growing out of the business al
ready transacted. Some of the roads in
terested are creditors of others to large
amounts on this pool business and are
striving to get their money. They want
a fair exhibit of the business and a fair
division, according to contract, of the
profits of the aspirations under pool
sanction. To this demand the stake
holders do not seem willing to respond,
but hold back upon various pretexts and
clearly demonstrate how easy it is for
the pool to become a nuisance and an
outrage. It is this unsettled condition
of affairs that contributed tp thp interest
of this last meeting,
Holtliug Fast fo fhe P|lp.
In plain language, the Georgia Rail
road is apcnsed of haying carried on the
bulk of tne business of the pool the
past few seasons. For this wo;k it col
lected the money, and when called upon
to divide it refused and still continues
so to do, peroral of the railroads are
in for large amounts, but Judge Ring
holds that he has already escaped get
ting into the “nine-hole,” and that,
should he pay over this money earned
in the main by the pool, it must surely
go down unde* the bulldozing lash.
The main purpose, therefore, with a
number of the roads was to secure back
rations and force the pool into require
ments of this exasperated minority.
Upon this question arose much of .the
dissatisfaction manifested to the pool
managers.
The Air-Line Kicks.
Among the roads caught in this
shrewdly set steel trap is the Air-Line
Railway Company. The Georgia Road
is said to owe the Air-Line several thou
sands of dollars, which it refuses to pay.
Thence, when the pool was organizing
for the Spring campaign the Air-Line
concluded to stand Upon its rights, and
through 001. Jno, B. Peok, its Superin
tendent, did so. The road being in the
hands of a Receiver, Col. Fisher, and he
being absent, Col. Peck refused to make
any contract looking to participation in
the pool. This was doubly necessary
for the reason above and the one addi
tional that anew organization of the
company is soon to occur, and the only
controt Cols. Fisher and Peck could
make would be only for the intervening
period.
Sugar in the Bowl.
This determination caused q pro
found sensatjop among the poolites
and lei} to tjip oil} of tffe bull
dozers. Tfeey threatened tq ostracise
the Air-Line and cut it off from all busi
nes and affiliation, declaring that the
pool roads would make no through con
nections for freight or passage with the
Air-Line Road; would refuse to sell it
through tickets and take away.from it all
the sleeping car and other privileges
now enjoyed by it. This plan, however,
did not work. Col. Peck stood firm and
told the pool to proceed with the rat
killing; he could stand it if they could.
It is trhe that the roadj would' suffer by
the operation in being unable to fully
accommodate the desires of the public
in the way of through connections, but
all who understand jfie patter affirm
that tfye y}ir-}jinelß position makes it
really the key qf the pool arch, and
being withdrawn the crumbling of the
whole structure would be only a ques
tion of time. The natural advantages
of time and distance are such that the
Air-Line, in a fair competitive fight,
could draw to itself the bulk of the pub
lic patronage. The fact is known, and
hence the flutter. Col. Peck stood firm
and the pool had to back dowD. An ex
planation of the causes of refusal was
made and a basis of present harmony
agreed upon, which yas fq coptinfte the
pool arrangement as' at present consti
tuted. This was tendered tQ the Air-
Line, but 001. Peok said
He Wanted Security
That,in continuing in tbat way, the bad
faith of the past should not have repeti
tion. He wanted the Georgia Railroad
forced into settling his claims for the
Air-Line pro rata on old business at
once and that the State Road, Central
and West point Roads should become
guarantors of the fairness and prompti
tude of the foture dealings of the Go or .
gia Road toward the Air-Llne. The "re
sult of this proposition was almost a to
tal dissolntion of the pool combination
but the Strength of the Air-Line Road's
position was dreaded, and
Temporary Terms
Were made between the parties. The
agreement now stands as follows ;
L Judge Ring is to lay the matter
before the Directory of the Georgia
Road on the sth, and, if possible, get
their consent to bis paying over the
pro rata due to the Air-Line. Hereto
fore, each payment has been violently
resisted. 2. The guarantee demanded
to insure futnre good faith is given. 3.
The business is to proceed regularly
upon "these and thp old terms until the
next session of the pool oh the Ist day
of March.
These things being done, provisional
harmony was restored, and the pool is
yet preserved. On Ist of March,
however, matters may take another
shape, and should they do so, we will
see one of the liveliest and hottest rail
road wars ever seen in the South. the
Air-Line chooses sod aan afford to
make the tight against the pool it will
have not only its own great strength,
bnt a general public sympathy to sup
port it.
The Executive Committee of the pool
was in session last night making np
rates. The members are departing to
arm themselves for the crisis on the
proximo.
iw sum
Wall, Senator Christiancy ought to
know beat. If he says he is not the fa
ther of a howling demon weighing eleven
pounds some attention should be paid to
hi* denial,
THE GRAND COMMISSION.
NO GOING BACK ON THE RE
TURNING BOARDS.
The Commission, by a Seemingly Strict Par
ty Vote, Decides Not to Go Behind the Re
turns of Florida, and Not to Admit Any Evi
dence Save Such as Relates to Eligibility of
Electors—ls This a Dodge to Break the
Oregon Seal ifd Protect the Louisiana
Infamy ?
Washington, February 7. Justice
Clifford ate heartily and was oheerfnl
over his breakfast—a favorable omen for
Tilden. It is confidently asserted that
the Commission will consider the Con
gressional Committees sent Sonth as a
part of its machinery, and accept the
evidence taken and reports made by
them as going to make up the case.
It is understood that the Commission
will vote at 3 o’clock on the qaestion of
the scope of evidenoe. Morton left the
Commission a few minutes ago, and was
carried away in bis chair, which wm in
w uting at the door. He did not look
particularly cheerful.
Later,
The Commission took a vote at about
a quarter to fonr o’clock on a resolution
declaring that they wonld take no fur
ther testimony npon the certificates.
Tho resolution was carried by vote of
8 to 7, Judge Bradley throwing the de
ciding vote. The Commission next
voted on a resolution to take testimony
in the case of the alleged ineligible Re
publican elector (Humphreys), and it
was agreed to take such testimony *by a
vote of 8 to 7, the three Judges voting
in favor of the resolution being Judges
Clifford, Bradley and Field. Judges
Strong and Miller voted against it. The
five Democratic-members of the House
and Senate voted in favor of the last
resolution, and also in favor of going
behind the returns. The Commission
meets at 11 o’clock to-morrow.
Later—Official ProceediuKM.
On motion of Mr, Justioe Miller, ordered
that no evidence will be received or con
sidered by the Commission which was
not submitted to the joint committee of
the two houses by the President of the
Senate, with the different certificates,
except such as relates to the eligibility
of F. C. Humphreys, one of the elec
tors; the vote was: yeas, 8; nays, 7. On
motion of Mr. Abbott, it was resolved
that, in the case of Florida, this Com
mission will receive the evidence rela
ting to the eligibility of Fred. C. Hum
phreys, one of the persona named in
certificate number one, as eleotor; the
vote was: Yeas, 8; nays, 7. The Secre
tary of the Commission was instructed
to inform the counsel on the respective
sides that at 1) o’clock to-morrow it will
be prepared to hear argument on the
question of the "eligibility pf F re 4- 0.
Humphreys as an electqr.
Humphreys is ope of the Republican
electors, and the question raised as to
his eligibility is that he was at the date
of his eleotion a United States Shipping
Commissioner, which is alleged to be
such an office of trust or profit as to dis
qualify him from aoting as an elector,
but which office, it is asserted by the Re
publicans, he resigned before the eleo
tion.
The Commission, by their decision to
day, will have before them in the Flori
da case three sets pf papers; the certifi
cate of the Hayes’ electors, that of the
Tilden electors, and that containing the
records of the Court and action of (he
Legislature.
The Republicans olaiip that nq conse
quence attaches fo the quo weirranto
proceedings pf the Circuit Court of
Florida, as they are now under appeal to
the Supreme Court qf the gjtuto, and,
therefore, npt gn^i,
A prqminent Plemoorat on the Com
mission said this afternoon that the
meaning of the vote in the Commission
is that the ministerial acts of State Exe
cutives are to be respected but not
those of the judiciary. He added, how
ever, that as the Democratic certificates
embody the proceedings pf Courts "they
will, by this decision, be folly opened
up for consideration and argument. The
Democrats also find satisfaction in the
fact that the rule established by the
Commission will open the question of
Watts, the eleoted in Ore
gon.
HON. EMMETT COCHKANR,
Editors Chponifile and Sentinel
Among the brightest ornaments in
the Georgia House of Representatives
is this boy legislator from Pierce, SDd
who is probably the youngest member
on whom the State has ever conferred
this honor and dignity of a law-giver.
Emmett, the only son of the late Jndge
A. Fi. Cochrane, was called by his peo
ple to serve them, with the dews of
youth upon his brow, apef when they
call him higher gtjll, b'e oan read from
the greatest chapter of human life, ex
perience, and should he survive until
earth’s resting period is reached, he can
boast, "from my yonth up I was a war
rior. ” A short time since Mr. Cochrane
feeling that the tree exposed alike to
storm and suDshine.is tbe one to baffle the
tempests of life, resolved that mqb also
is in the making, and ftcdordingly with
out one dollar ih’the world, he went out
a stranger into a strange land, and so
effectually did he establish himself in
the minds and hearts of his people, that
the first vote his maturing years enabled
him to cast, was thrown when hit own
name was involved ip tbp eleptSipn. Mr.
Cochrane ad_d@ to a handsome person
and fascinating address, a clear judg
ment qnd ffnely cultivated mind, and
his speeches in the House have display
ed great research, legal erudition and
logical discernment. The political
horizon is always hung with drakness
and obscurity, and often it is bard in
some scar-worn pilgrim who has wearily
halted by the way, to trace the former
youth who once started with spoil bright
hopes and high aspiration. But we
predict for tpls youthful and distin
guished son of an eminent father, a high
career ef usefulness and honor, and as
we bid this morning staf VQocf speed,”
we shall hope tp trace its course, moiirt
ing higher and higher in the firmament
of political power. Gracchus.
A FAITHfpp UEPOKT*;K,
An eminent runner after news in Paris
was named Mathieu Donzelot, afterward
called the “Pavement Sinker.” In the
morning, before leaving his room, the
wide awake Donzelot consulted the
skies and a barometer which adorned
bis maDsard; then be took his cane and
writing case, saying VRain l Some
will slip to-day under carriage wheels
and be'crushed tq death,” p* else:
“Stormy weather 1 We shall have to
record some oases of mental alienation
or of hydrophobia.” Or finally :
“Gloomy ! cloudy ! Fine weather for
spleen. Let us make war on suicides !”
There was a riot one day on Pantheon
Place. Donzelot sat down amid a bail
of stones, pen in hand, to note down the
events. One of his friends happened to
be present, said- “What are fou doing
here Run ( fiy i"
dr?w OD h?i Qt^ ti,on i lftokin at Wm,
dD ? i continued to write
u minute for minute the phases and
evolutions of the riot.
“Are you not going to run!!” cried
out anew his friend.
“God forbid; but since you are going
yourself, oblige me by handing this to
my journal; you will tell them that I re
main on the spot to send the continua
tion,”
An hour after the disorder was at its
height. The anthorities and insurgents
had come to blows. The National Guard
fared and our reporter was struck with
a ball. A surgeon hastened to him
“You are wounded ?” said he.
“Yes, said Donzelot, “and sorely
too, for I cannot write.”
“Write ! ’ said the Burgeon, abruptly:
“think of your wound.” r
, ,“ D ?£ t ¥ W * hhrrv,” replied Donze
lot. Each one to his own business;
mine is to relate events; you will replace
me. Here, write at the bottom this
postscript: “Twenty minutes past 3, p,
m.—ln consequence of the discharge of
musketry by the troops, three men were
wounded and one killed.”
“Where is the dead man?” asked the
surgeon.
“My“elf,” replied Donzelot: and he
expired.
A RAID ON REVENUE MARSHALS.
Seal* DUoillet. SIM Beat *1 m
Hfely Sldmitlk
Washumhon, February 7.—Wagner,
Revenue Agent, telegraphs from Greens
boro, N, C., that Depay Marshal Rob
ertson, of South Carolina, reports two
killed and several wounded by an illicit
distillers' raid on him, being without
troops, Wagner is hurrying to provide
Major Stewart with horses to stop re
sistance.
$2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Colquitt has a livery stable.
Barnesville is out of valeutiues.
Hampton wants a chnroh organ.
Hog cholera prevails in Sumter.
The gypsies are in Henrv county.
Miller county wants a shoemaker.
Thomasville is distressingly healthy.
iha horse thief has made his spring
debat in Franklin county.
They contiune to fill up marriage
licenses and cake pans in Brunswick.
A negro prisoner attempted,- a few
nights ago. to fire the Gainesville jail.
Mr. L. M. Cheek, of Jackson county,
now sports a gourd more than 100 years
old. •
Bainbridge has a dancing school and
barber shop - both being Bure signs of
reform.
The Jefferson Forest News states that
the prospeots of -Martin Institute are en
couraging.
J. B. Wilson, Esq., succeeds his father
in the managexent of the Franklin
County Register.
Jaokson county thieves are gettii g
down to hard pan, They break into
blacksmith shops.
Carneßvi)le having failed in organizing
a temperance lodge has ordered out a
billiard table and is traiuiug a wild pan
ther,
The Alapaha Gazette learns from re
liable authority that many of its oitizens
who emigrated West contemplate re
turning,
Mr. Buckner, of Blakely, was thrown
from a wagon last week and dragged
several yards before the team could be
stopped.
The Bainbridge Democrat wishes
that the Nation’B Senate was fall of just
such “vile political demagogues” as B.
Himalaya.
Tqrnip salad is very scarce in Jackson
county, and no matter on which side the
Commission set Florida, there's bound
to be suffering in Jackson.
A Thowasyille man has invented a
model wive chicken coop. When a Thom
asville genius gets to pulling wire there’s
no telling what he won’t make.
She was born in Cairo last week, and
as they couldn’t call her Sam Tilden,
they made it “ Samiana Matilda.”
After all, this is an age of compromise.
James Gordon Bennett’s reoent visit
to Thomasville was simply to confer
with Johnnie Triplett* of the Times, as
to the safest way of repudiating matri
monial engagements. The conference
was a satisfactory one.
The Early county News mentions the
fact that a colored man, whs farmed last
year, in that county, commenced in Jan
uary without a grain of porn, a pound of
meat, or a seed of cotton, and at the end
of the year came out with three bales of
cotton and plenty of corn to run him
another year.
Darieu has bnt little religion,
Brunswick has a silvpj pornet band.
Atlanta’s plow works are flourishing.
Mr. FlSbk Weaver, of Putnam oouuty
is dead.
A bountiful supply of fruit is predict
ed for this year.
Thomasville will have an horticultural
fair in the Spring.
The Eatonton Messenger is becoming
quite a spicy sheet.
The Air-Line Road proves refractory
in the Atlanta railroad poofs.
Robin and fox hunting constitute the
principle amusements in Eatonton,
The Griffin Sun has commenced to
beam, a neat and readable little sheet.
The Greenville Vindicator publishes
a handsome obituary of Mr. Stephens.
Clinch coqnty farmers are bujipg up
males plentifully, paying cash down for
them,
General Phil Cook, of Georgia, is one
of the tellers in the count of the elector
al vote.
Four children of Simeon Johnson, of
Marion county, died last week from
want and exposure.
Mr. John Mebaney, of Mbcod, was
found dead in his room, Sunday morn
ing. Cause, unknown.
The Atlanta battalion has wasted
away. We seo nothing now to prevent
a peaceful removal of the Capitol.
The Hazzard family of Savannah and
the State at large have fallen heir® to a
$15,000,000 estate ip fSfistol, England.
Jndge Trippe, of Atlanta, while visit
ing his relations in Eatonton, was sere
naded apd made a speech, some nights
ago,
Investigation into the supposed sui
cide of Mrs. Wm. Sheppard, of Bnena
Vista, recently, points to her murder by
her husband.
Senator Norwood regards Ben Hill’s
election as one of those accidents which
will happen even in the beat regulated
Legislatures,
At last accounts the Maoon Rossini
Ciqhhad tackled "Moses in Egypt,” and
were trying to drive him out by sheer
foroe of song.
The Griffin News says that the new
Atlanta daily will be out soon. Quail
quasher Thornton is on its staff, Bridges
Smith and other lights.
The Savannah Npyjs, clings tenderly
to dead issues by continually harping
upop, the Senatorial election. "Cease
fond heart thy sad repining.”
Mr. Toombs says that those Washing
ton doctors don’t know about the ail
ments of little Alee; that he would live,
and mayhap go up to Heayep jet like
Elijah.
'i he (iriffin huntsman traps his birds
by throwing a solution of salt and snow
upon their tales. We oan think of no
serious objection to this new application
of freezing mixtures.
Gen. Pleasanton’s blue glass theory
has become so popular that an Atlanta
man wont draw his cocktail fro,m any
but a cerulean tumbler. “Man yields to
custom as he bows tq fate.”
Forty-eigbi colored people were, last
Sunday, immersed in the Savannah ca
nal. No such ceremony could be con
ducted in the raging waters of Augusta,
unless the applicants coqld water.
While way freight trails are discharg
ing on \he Atlantic an i Gulf Road the
conductors amuse themselves by pop
ping pistols at the train hands. After
all, one must tiayq, fcGWte recreation in
life.
Rey. J. H, Stockton, of McDuffie
county, has invented a self-coupling for
railroad ears. Those who have seen the
model say that “there’s millions in it.”
—Savannah News. This is a mistake,
there’s only a couple.
A fireman on the Soutfanjestern Rail
road has recovered three thousand dol
lars damage? for injuries sustained by
jumping off the engine tq. escape a
threatened collision. This is a bad pre
cedent to as engineers, when
pay runs low, will be diving off the en
gines aU along the line.
Of the Chronicle and Sentinel the
Jefferson News and Farmer has this to
say : We might call this anew paper
and at the same time be prond to call it
such. It comes to the firesides of a
great many of onr whom it
is eagerly read. It well, printed and
ably edited. "Tfa.e freshest and the best
of aR 9,eWB Cu be had from its colamns.
We always look on the bright side ad
in doing this, we look on both 0 f
tb, lP°P ular P“P er - published h y Walsh
& Wright.
Monroe has anew hotel.
And now Hartwell has a minstrel
troupe.
The gypsies are swapping horses at
Forsyth.
Hartwell’s High School opens with
77 pnpils.
The Hartwell Sun publishes an obitu
ary of Mr. Stephens.
Rev. 8. J. Pinkerton has accepted the
call to St. George Episcopal Church in
Griffin.
The Athens Georgian says that the
ffrst mail matter was brought over the
Northeast Railroad last Thursday.
Prof. Schoeller, of Dalton, has dedi
cated anew march to B. H. Hill on his
march from the House to the Senate.
A matrimonial episode is soon to come
off in Athens, in which a fair bride of 14
short summers will be the centre of at
traction.
The Monroe Advertiser chronicles the
marriage on Sunday, in Forsyth, of Mr.
James 8. Price and Miss Mary A. Wil
liamson, both mutes.
A negro in Monroe county, who killed
a Mr. Jarrett with a club, was taken Fri
day night by a band of disguised men
and next morning bis dead body was
found donglin y from a limb.
To the people of the Ninth the Athens
Watchman says : If you determine to
have a eonvention, let it be organized on
equitable principles and honorably con
ducted. Let us bave no packing, no
log-rolling, no trading.
And now Dr. E. Dorsette Newton, of
Athens, pleads ineligibility for Congress,
being a delegate to the New York Dry
Goods Spring Convention. As the new
Congress will not organize till Decem
ber, we do not countenance the plea. In
this we detect the glimmerings of Dr.
Newton’s native modesty, bnt at the
same time we reoognise the voice of the
people.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Small grain is growing finely.
Abbeville is out of garden seed.
Chester is to have a baby show]
The State Capitol is still guarded,
hum ter is to have parlor theatricals
Lancaster does a big cotton business
Iwo Abbevilhans have gone to Texas
Pound parties are booming in Coluin
bia.
and ® rowu > Spartanburg, is
Sneak thieves abound in New
berry.
There is still much cotton in Newberrv
oounty. J
“Snipe” hunting continues in Spar
tanburg. r
Chicken thieves are operating around
Anderson.
; Mother Goose is holding high carnival
in Charleston.
Mr Jas. H. Perrin, of Abbeville, has
gone to his rest.
The State'Grange meets in Columbia
next Wednesday.
Three mail rubbers have been arrest
eel at Orangeburg.
The military post of Yorkville has
beeu discontinued.
~ 0 w U i. mb , ia a8 anew bilJ iard ball, at
the Wheeler House.
They are going to commence impound
ing dogs in Chester.
Spartanburg organized, last week- „
menagerie of her own
Newberry contests Abbeville’s claim of
the banner tax county.
Mr, J. Madison Sraarr of York died
recently from the meegieg. ’
a. l H U T Vbh^ Vl >! le P* e “oher is waging an
anti-Ttrpsioborean crusade.
eDry A. Gray, Esq,, a well-known
oitizen of Edgefield, is dead.
The taxpayers continue to take their
choice and pay their money
General M. C. Butler has not gone to-
Washington, as was reported.
. shortly be commenced on
the Cheraw and Chester Railroad.
colored men have paid
it* al^P® on * ;nxes in Anderson county.
Mr. J. J. Richardson killed three
wild turkeys last week in the Congoree
bottom.
Greenville has received over 16 000
bales of ootton since the first of Septem
ber, 1876.
Nine hundred South Carolinians are
engaged in New York city in various oc
cupations.
Fort Mill farmers will do away with
fences around their orops and enclose
their stock.
The trustees of Newberry College
have concluded to remove the college
from Walhalla.
The Spartanburg and Rutherford (N.
G.) Narrow Gauge Railroad is being
pushed right along.
About two hundred delegates are as
sembled in Columbia at the Conference
of the A. M. E. Church.
Can it be possible that a petition'is on
foot, to commute the sentence of the
Lowndesville murderers ?
A three year old son of Mr. J. H.
Lighnon, of Lebanon, was burned to
death on Wednesday last.
A Newberry man keeps a goose bone,
blit he can t tell just jet how the com
mission is going to ddcide.
The Charleston JVetvs and Courier
nominates Hon. A. G. Magrath as asso
ciate Justice in David Davis’ place.
Wilson, of the Abbeville Runner, in
dignantly denies that he has struck his
bachelors quilt to the fair besiegers.
The State Convention of the Young
Men’s Christian Association will be held
in Greenville, on the 10th of May next.
Mack McDaniel, a Winusboro colored
preacher, was knocked down, beaten and
killed the other day, by another negro.
Newberry is fasting. Her citizens
resolve to eat nothing but “ sour
krout” until Hampton’s taxes are all!
paid up.
On Monday, about noon, the residence
of Mr. Patrick Hastings, seven --miles
from Winnsboro, caught on fire and was
entirely consumed.
Mr. C, 0. Smith, of Cokesbnrg, was
found dead in a gully near the town,
supposed to have been killed by his
horse rolling over on him.
The suggestion that Chamberlain’s
Legislature go down on Hampton’s
plantation and work on his cotton crop
is meeting with great favor.
Benj. Holloway (colored), a Chamber
lain Trial Justice, located at Timmons
ville, in Darlington county, was shot
and killed by parties unknown the other
day.
11 Carpenter will take another trip to
Washington he may reverse bis de
cision as to who is Governor, Like the
man who jumped into the cranberry
bush, you know.
An inquiring bondholder wants to
know whether the announcement of Car
dozo that the payment of the interest on
the public debt is postponed uutil April
}is an April fool ?”
The Anderson colored folks beld*ai
mass meeting last week to bear some
thing as to a plan which was proposed
to carry their race as a colony to the Is
land of San Domingo.
The Winnsboro, Newn now rises to ex
plain that Edward F, Stokes and Willis
with a few other O’Conor Dem
ocrats in the State, were the great origi
nal, unwashed straight-outs.
Lieutenant J. H. Todd, stationed at
Prosperity on election day, and tried by
court martial in Columbia, on the charge
of interfering with voters by working
for the was acquitted.
Jenny Gambrell, an aged and respaet
able colored woman, about 105 years,
old, died on Friday last, near William
B ton. She firmly denied to the very last,
having ever nursed G. Washington.
A newly wedded pair in Newberry, so
the story goes, having decked their
table with a complete outfit of China,
lost the entire set by a pet poodle’s
gyrations, upsetting the whole concern.
The Newberry Herald advises thut
people who have children to edu-eate
should endeavor to make some arrange
ments to send them to private teachers
until suoh time as the free schools shall
be put into proper order.
When a Newberry bean goes out
sparking he don’t black his shoes this
weather, not hq ;■ but like a sensible
fellow that hq is, removes the outer lay
er of mud with a shovel, burnishes his
heel and toe with a oorn-cob and is off
in a giffy.
Warren R. Marshall, of Winnsboro,
testified before the Senate Committee ia
Columbia that his wife died from fright
in consequence of Democratic terror
ism. The testimony of her physician,
is that she died from pneumonia. No>
terrorism existed.
Says the Newberry Herald : A number
of violent colored Republican leaders in
J airfield county whom the farmers “pre
ferred.” not to employ, have made uffi-
JawV pledging themselves to support
Hampton’s government and to pay taxen
to his appointee.
the ninth district.
Hon, DarhtE. Butler for Concro**.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
It gave roe great pleasure to read in
the Constitutionalist, of Sunday morn
ing last, a communication signed
“Franklin,” recommending Hon. David
E. Butler, of Morgan, as a candidate for
Congress from the Ninth District in
place of Hon. B. H. Hill. It affords me
great pleasure to endorse the sugges
tion. 1 feel assured that it win be
eagerly adopted by the people of the
Ninth District. Of course Hon. David
E. Bntler would not “enter into any
scramble” for the position—whs said he
would? But allow an ardent admirer
to suggest that if the office should de
termine to seek Mr. Butler, that rever
end and honorable gentleman would Dot
give it much trouble to find him. There
are many good reason why the people of
the Ninth District should insist on send
ing Hon. David E. Butler to Congress; (1)
he is a Baptist minister; (2) he is a Pa
tron of Husbandry; (3) he is a Direct
Trade Unionist; (4) he'is a Mason; (5)
he is a Director of the Georgia Railroad;
(6) he is tbe editor of the Christian In
dex ; (7) he is the editor of tbe Grange;
(8) he is an owner of a job office and a
partner in the State Printing; (9) he
was a cotton commission merchant be
fore he turned Granger and Direct
Trader. He needs only to be a member
of Congress to complete tbe sum of bis
honors and tbe measure of his useful
ness. Another good reason for his elec
tion is that as be has been a failure at
everything else he may be success as a
Congressman. Such versatility of talent
mast not remain buried in Georgia. By
all means, let us have Hon. David E.
Bntler in Congress. No Cani idate.
Three hundred unemployed working
men had parade iu Trenton, N. J. yes
terday. They jrere preceded by a band
of music and carried a banner inscribed
“The workingmen want employment
and must have it.” A grand concert
for their benefit takes place to-night.