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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, - 1877.
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The area of the public domain of
Texaa is now 57,*132,320, out of which
most come the 13,372,000 acres of the
Texas and Paeifio Railroad reservation.
The Boston Herald believes that the
Repnbliean gain of the Presidency by
fraud this year means the destruction
of that party and a reconstruction of
politioal parties on real issues.
One of the new President’s troubles
is ver. The Cabinet appointments
have been confirmed. Now what will
he do with the dual governments of
South Carolina and Louisiana ?
The Bt. Louis Republica>i, after re
viewing Hayes’ inaugural address, wants
to know : Which party is to be destroy
ed—the parly that elected Tilden and
Hendricks, or the oDe that supported,
without electing, Hayes and W heeler ?
This is exactly the question every South
erner ahonld ask himself.
The days of Spitz dogs are numbered
in New England. Orders have been is
sued in Connecticut to have all that
kind that can be found in the State
killed immediately. The Massachusetts
Legislature is taking measures to exter
minate them. In New York, too, they
are all treated as mad. Another exem
plification of the old adage to “give a
dog a bad name and kill him.”
The Washington reporter of the New
Orleans Democrat telegraphs that Hayes
in his Southern policy will be supported
by all the Democrats and by six to eight
Republican, and opposed by the rest of
the Radicals, which will give biß admin
istration a majority of from eight to
twelve in open Senate. But his fate is
entirely in the bauds of the Democrats,
If they stand aside, Blaine and Mor
ton would devour Hayes in twenty-four
hours.
Qieen Victoria is far from well. It
i* formally announced that her health is
such as to preclude the possibility of
her enduring the heated atmosphere of
crowded rooms or the fatigue of pro
longed ceremonials. The prostration
which they induce is such as many per
sona suffer ou sea voyages, and the dis
charge of her onerous political and offi
cial duties taxes her strength to the ut
most. They may have an inaugural in
England before long at which the Prince
of Wales will be the head-eenter.
Tub following are some of tho choice
epithets that the Chioago Times throws
at the Democratic leaders in a single
number: Mr. Hewitt is “a stale oyster,”
Mr. Bayard is a “rock-rooted dema
gogne” and “paleozotic lizard,” Mr.
Thubman is a “wabbler upon a pre-
Adamite political swivel,” Mr. Le
Moyne is “a lamb,” Cabikr Harrison
is “a bag of wind,” Bkn Hill is “a bla
tant Bonrbon montebank,” John Youno
Brown is “a bloviant humbug,” Lamar
is “a backboneless poltroon,” and Mr.
Krrnan is “a political invertebrate.”
Therk are stories from Washington
that Uobkson leaves the Naval Depart
ment heavily in debt—one account says
$2,000,'3tW. The course of his friends
in Congress on the appropriations indi
cates that there is some truth in these
suspicious. When the deficiency appro
priation bill was passed, though it had
heavy items for the Navy in it, Senator
Sarobnt said it was still not enough by
half a million; and in the regular appro
priation bill for next year, while the
House proposed but $12,500,000, the
the Republican Senate raised the sum to
$17,000,000, and got, finally, by compro
mise with the House, 813,500,000.
Matilda Heron, the actress, died at
hef h."' tae * n ew Yoik Wednesday eve
ning. hbe WftS *bout years old, and
was born iu' Lbb y Yale, Londonderry,
Ireland. She to this ommtry when
.quite young, ana after being taught by
Peter Richinos, she m *de her first ap
pearance on the stage February li,
1841, in the character of Bianca in
“Fazio” at the Walnut Street Tu eatre * n
Philadelphia. She went to Oalifo.’ 11 '®
two years later and played for nearly * ,
year there with success. She married
Robert Stoepel, the leader of the or
chestra in Wallack’s Theatre in 1857.
She went to Europe about the time the
war broke out, and did well there. On
her return she left her husband and
seed for a divorce. She has played star
engagements of late years, and has also
educated people for the stage. Aarras
Ethel was one of her pupils. Miss
Heron’s greatest character was “Ca
mille.” She was an actress of very ex
traordinary power and real genius.
I.tthTß manufacturing oompanes in
New England exercise quite as much j
authority oVt'r the villages where they
are located aa the collieries do. The
Willimantic Lines Company had its tax
rate arbitrarily inecwwwd, and finding
remonstrance in vain has opened anew
store. This, which promisee to take
about a quarter of a million of trade a
year from tha small shopkeepers, has set
it to thinking that corporation* are not
to be wantonly bled. The Wamsutta
Mills .strike has developed a different'
sort of feeling. The corporation has
treated the strikers with a good deal of
consideration, rather like children than
grown folks. They have not raised their
rents nor have the storekeepers refused
credit. The operatives in tars have be
haved admirably. No one has bees in
toxicated new baa a single arrest been
made. They bow propose to submit the
case to arbitration, and the company
will probably agree to it.
In Europe, Patti; in America, Piatt.
What is it in p's and a's and t’s and i’s
that should wobble the two hemispheres
i ft the same time.
A SINKING FUND.
Yesterday evening Mr. Geo. B. Sibley,
Chairman of the Finance Committee,
introduced, and the City Council passed
an ordinance creating a sinking fund,
for the payment of the bonded debt of
the city. The Commissioners of the
fund are tbe Mayor and Finance Com
mittee of Council, Messrs. William E.
Jackson, Josiah Sibley, Z. McCckd and
Wm. A. Walton. These latter hold
their office during good behavior, and
have power to fill vacancies occurring in
their body. The sinking fund is to be
created from an extra tax of one-quarter
of one per cent, on all taxable property in
the city, and from one-half of the net
amount realized from sales of eity lots.
We believe that the ordinance is a wise
financial measure, and that it will re
sult iu so much beuefit to the city that
property uwners will not complain of the
slight increase in taxation. In the first
place, the value of city bonds will be
enhanced, because the purchaser is given
increased security for their payment. In
the second place, tbe city will be able to
take up the obligations with money in
stead of veiling new bonds, at a dis
oonnt of twenty per cent., to pay those
which have matnred. Under the pres
ent system it only takes five such renew
als to double the debt. The sinking
fund, faithfully administered, as it will
be, will provo a measure of practical
economy.
THE NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD.
We had the pleasure of a visit yester
day from Mr. Ferdinand Phinizy, of
Athens, the prime mover iu tbe build
ing of the Northeastern Railroad. Mr.
Phinizy has called our attention to the
fact that connection with the West via
Rabun Gap and Knoxville can be se
cured at much less expense by com
pleting the Northeastern than by build
ing the Augusta and Knoxville Railroad.
From Lulu City (.the point of intersec
tion with tbe Air-Line Railroad and the
point to which the Northeastern Road
is now finished) to Rabun Gap the dis
tance is forty-seven miles, and four
miles are ready for the iron, leaving
only forty-three miles to be graded.
Under the charter the road is entitled
to State aid to the extent of three thou
sand dollars per mile. The road could
be completed for about four hundred
thousand dollars, and when completed
Augusta merchauts would have a short
competing line to Knoxville and the
great West. The facts suggested by
Mr. Phinizy are worthy of consid
eration, and we commend them to tbe
attention of our city readers. The
route is thirty or forty miles longer
than the Augusta and Hartwell Railroad
but is one hundred and fifty miles nearer
than by the Nashville Road, and can be
built for fully one million dollars less
money.
A COMMERCIAL INDEX TO AGRICUL
TURAL PROSPERITY.
The Memphis papers publish from the
offioial records of the Chamber of Com
merce of that oity some statistics of
trade for the year ending December
31, 1876, which are worth attention,
as they make a significant show
ing for the agricultural region trib
utary to Memph s. The annual state
ment for 1876 is rather belated in
publication, but it is stated that the
figures have just been completed. They
show iu a genera) way that the farmers
of a large section of country, iuoluding
a portion of Tennessee, Arkansas and
Mississippi, decreased largely their pur
chases of flour, eoru and meat at the
same time that they increased their pro
duction of cotton materially, and that
they correspondingly increased their
purchases of labor-saving machinery
and other supplies not strictly necessa
ries of life. The receipts of cotton in
1876, at Memphis, exceed those of 1875
by 90,357 bales. The receipts of flour
were less by 58,575 barrels than 1875,
and by 85,916 barrels less than 1874;
eoru, 134,639 sacks less than 1875, and
139,802 sacks lesss than in 1874; bogs,
4,559 head less than in 1875, and 4,012
less than in 1874. The increase in pack
ages of dry goods received was 2,820;
in ooffee 9,054 sacks, and in sugar 1,629
hogsheads. In agricultural implements
the receipts were 9,588 more than in
1875, and 29,495 more than in 1874.
THE convention.
We take it for granted that a Consti
tutional Convention will be held—that
the people will vote in favor of one by
a handsome majority on the day of elec
tion. It is as yet too early to say much
about the matter ; the election is still
several months off. But as we notice
that the usual communications are be
ing printed recommending gentlemen for
delegates we desire to say something on
the subject to the people who are
charged with the duty of selecting dele
gates. The importance of this duty
should be realized. This is not an or
dinary contest like a canvass for mem
bership of the Legislature. The dele
gates who attend the Convention will be
charged with the task of framing the
organic law of the State—a law for the
guidance' and government of Legisla
tures as well as of the people. If the
Legislature makes mistakes by enact
ing an unwise or unjust law, the Gov
ernor may veto it, or, if be fails to do
so, it can only do mischief for the space
of twelve mouths—until the next ses
sion. But if an unsound or virions
principle be injected into the organic
: law it must remain there for years be-
fore it cau be reached and removed. It
is of great importance, then, that the
framers of the new Constitution shall be
men not likely to do wrong or to make
blunders. A Constitntion must be mad*
in consonance with the spirit of the age,
in accordance with the changed condi
tion of affairs. Delegates should be men
progressive and liberal in their views,
yet with progressiveness tempered
by a vis* conservatism. On the one
! hand, we do pot wish Bourbons who |
have learned nothing and forgotten
nothing; neither, on the ether hand, do
we desire an organic law made t-y radi
cal doctrinaires, who would sacrifice the
inceraiU of the State to secure a trial of
some Dear-bra itied theory. There will j
lie plenty of Bourbons and plenty of
Radicals claiming recognition at the |
hands of the people ; plenty of flerna
gogues, plenty of sordid seekers alter
per diem and mileage, who will push
their claims to an election. All of these
should be reeolutely pushed aside. Let
them hold ofiioeei* which they can do no
harm that may not speedily fee remedied.
In every Senatorial District the peppip
should command the services of their
best citizens: should insist upon making
a ejection for themselves. Local issues
and divisions should be forgotten or dis
regarded. jLet op man be chosen be
canae of his temperance of anti-temper
ance principles, because he is a Granger
or because he if not, but let the ablest
lawyers, the moat iuasVjgent merchants
and farmers be sept to mate organic
law for the State.
The manufacturers are beginning to
reap the fruita of the Exposieion. A
Pittsfield manufacturer ia sending car
riage ruga and blankets to South Amer
ica, Norway Sweden—the legiti
mate fruits of his display at Philadel
phia. The French eay that their com
merce sprang np from 5,800,000,686
francs to 7,700,000,000 in oonaeqnenoe
at the Exposition of 1867.
THE NEW SENATE.
The Brooklyn Eagle gives the follow
ing aa the complexion of the new Sen
ate. The figures opposite each name
indicating when the Senator’s term will
expire :
States. Senators. Senators.
A'abama S:encertlß79 Morgan* I*B3
Arkansas Dorsey! 1879.. Garland' 18*3
California Karyent! 1879.. Booth t 188
Colorado Chaffee! 1879 Te11er!....... .1-83
Connecticut. Barnum*lß79. Eaton* 1881
Delaware Bayard*lßß l .. SauDbury' 1883
Florida Jone^’lg-il. .Conover! 1889
Georgia Gc rdon *1879.. Hill* 1883
II inoia Ogl**bytlß79 . Davis* 1883
Indiana Morton+lß79. McDonald* 1881
lowa Allison+lß79 Kirkwood! 1883
Kinsaft Ingalla!lß79. Plumb! 1883
Kentucky M Creery*lß79..Beck* 1883
Mune Hamlintlßßl Blaine! 1883
Maryland Dennia'l 879. Wyte* 18 1
Massachusetts .. .Daw* s+l 81.. Hoar! 1883
Michigan... .Cbristiancy! 1881.. Ferry! 18 3
Minnesota M’MiJlan+lßßl.. Windorat 1883
Mi-sisaippi Brucet 1881. .Lamar* 1883
Missouri Bogy*lß79. .Cockrell* 1881
Nebrarka Padoock* 1881.. Saunders! 1883
Nevada ... Jones! 1879. Sherou + I*Bl
N. Hampshire. Wadli gh+1879.. Rolling! 1883
New Jersey Randolph* 1 881.. McPljprson* 1883
New Yo k Conkliog!lß?9..Kerxan* I*Bl
N. Carolina. ...Msrrimou*lß^9..Ransom* 1883
Ohio Shermantlß79. .ThU’-man* 1881
Or g n Mitchelltlß79 Gifwer* 1883
Per ns 1 vania... Cameron ! 1879.. Wallace* 1881
R. Ikl*nd Burnsidetlßßl..Anthonyt 1883
8. Carolina.... Patterson+lß79. .'1 wo claimants. .1883
Ten esse 1... .Harris! 1883..Bate* 38 1
Texas M xey*lßßl.. Coke* 1883
Vermont .Mornll+lß79.. Edmonds! .1881
Virginia Withers*lßßl.. Johnston* 1883
W. Virginia. ..Hereford*lßßl. Davis* ....1883
Wisconsin Howellß79. .Cameron! 1881
Whole number of States 38
Whole number of States represented 37
Whole number of Senators 73
Vacanies (l in South Carolina and 2 in Louisiana). 3
Republicans 39
De oocrata 33
Independents l
* Democrats, t Republicans, t Independents.
The South Carolina Senatorship is
disputed by Gobbin, Republican, and
Butlbb, Democrat. The 1879 Senator
ship from Louisiana is claimed by J.
M. Ecstis. The 1883 term from there
is claimed by Wm. P. Kellooo, Repub
lican. The three vacancies, however,
will be settled by the policy agreed on
toward those States. Judge Davis, In
dependent, is likely to vote with the
Democrats in the main. Senators
Hebefobd, Hill, Lamar, Blaine and
Hoar come over from the last House, of
which thty were members. The Sena
tors who have just been retired are
Goldthwaite, of Alabama, Democrat;
Clayton, of Arkansas, R -publican;
Norwood, of Georgia, Democrat;
Wright, of lowa, Republican; Harvey,
of Kansas, Republican; Stevenson, of
Keutucky, Democrat; Boot-well, Mas
sachusetts, Republican; Alcorn, Missis
sippi, Republican; Fbelinghcysen, New
Jersey, Republican; Robertson, South
Carolina, Republican; Hamilton, Texas,
Republican; Key, Tennessee, Demoorat;
West, Louisiana, Republican, and
Hitchcock, Nebraska, RepublieaD.
The Republicans have lost six seats, of
which the Democrats have gained four,
and the other two are now claimed by
nominees of both parties. The Repub
licans have held on to their succession
in the case of four other Senatorships
falling vacant this term. The Demo
crats have lost no seats, and,
as said, have gained four. Thir
teen Democratic Senators, newly
elected or re-elected, presented
themselves without rivals Monday, and
their terms all expire in 1883; one more,
Mr. Hereford, will serve till 1881. Ten
Republican Senators, whose terms will
expire in 1883, presented themselves
Monday, and one Independent (Mr.
Davis) also presented himself. In 1879
the Democrats are certain to gain
Senators in Alabama, Arkansas and
Florida. In 1879 the Democrats are
certain to repeat their present party rep
resentation from Connecticut, Maryland,
Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri and North
Carolina. The Republicans can gain no
States in 1879, but will retain Kansas,
lowa and Vermont. The States which,
from present appearances, may be re
garded as doubtful in 1879, and from
which Senatorships will then bo vacant,
are California, Illinois, Nevada, New
Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, Oregon, South Carolina
and Wisconsin. New York, Indiana,
Illinois, Oregon, Wisconsin and Califor
nia are more likely to be Democratic
than Republican. Nevada, New Hamp
shire and Ohio’are more likely to be Re
publican than Democratie. South Car
olina is about an even thing. The Leg
islatures to elect the 1879 Senators will
be chosen in the main this year, aud the
elections will take plaoe, as a rule, iu
the early Winter of 1878.
SPIRITUALISM’S SHARE IN INSANITY.
Dr. Eugene Crowell, of Brooklyn, an
intelligent Spiritualist and author, has
contributed to the Spiritual Scientist
and the Religio-Philosophical Journal
a very interesting digest of facts show
ing the proportion of patients in 58 asy
lums for the insane who were made so
by spiritualism. The Springfield Jour
nal says we recently took occasion to
discredit the extravagant statement, at
tributed to Dr. Forbes Winslow, of Lon
don, that “nearly 10,000 people, having
gone insane on this form of delusion,
are confined in the publio asylums of
the United States.” The most super
ficial consideration of the statistics of
insanity showed the extreme absurdity
of this. Dr. Crowell addressed letters
to each medical snperindendent of the
87 public and private institntions for
the insane in this country, and received
either written replies or published
official reports—generally both—from
66 ; all bat 8 famishing answers to the
questions asked. These replies show
that 58 institutions report a total of
23,328 patients (the total number in the
whole 87 institutions having been re
ported in the American Journal of In
sanity, last July 1, as 28,558); of whom
412 became insane from religious ex-
oiteraeut, and but 59 from spiritualism.
Dr. Crowell also tabulates the statistics
of 13 institutions (all in whose reports
was concluded such information) for
long terms of years ; and in a total of
58,875 patients there were 229 cases of
insanity from spiritualistic excitement,
and 1,994 from religious, Among thesp
hospitals is the Worcester, which in 4$
years had 11,302 inmates, 385 religion*
lnnatics and 65 spiritualist lunatics;
the Utica (N. Y.) asylum in 32 yeara
had 11,831 inmates with a proportion, as
above, of 247 and 32; the Pennsylvania
hospital for the insane at Philadelphia
had no case of insanity from spiritual
ism and 212 from religion, among 7,167
persons during 35 years. Comparing
these figures, Dr. Crowell shows that
while in 30,000 patients, in previous
years, 1,016 cases were ascribed to re
ligion and 117 to spiritualism, at the
present time, the same total would
ahow 530 religious and 76 spiritualistic
cases, g .decrease in both instances, but
more remarkable is tji£t of spiritualism,
aa showing that the wider spread and
more influential spiritualism has be
come, the less likely any one is to go
1 crazy over it. In many asylums, as any
one will readily perceive, there are no
cases (4 spiritualistic insanity at all,
while very few are wit&out cases of re
ligious craze.
The National Republican, of March
3, says that in selecting a Southern man
for the Cabinet, “Brn Hill, of Oergia,
wh* uiafls the best element of Southern
politics, was oopfff'cd with.” General
J. E. Johnston was first choioa; accord
: ini' to the Republican he was to be
tendered tip f?oet Office Department
Tho names pie&zpteif. to from
were Gil#krt O. Waljeaib, of Virginia;
David M. Kn, oi Tennessee, and Gen
eral Johnston. It was objected to
Governor Walesb that he was not a
native bom Southerner, and it ia pre
sumable from what the Republican saya
that General Johnston declined the
nomination.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH 21, 1877.
THE AUGUSTA AND KNOXYILLE RAIL
ROAD.
We have endeavored to show, some
times by a presentation of important
facts—at other times by the use of fig
ures, that the best interests of every
class of our citizens imperatively de
mand tbe construction of the Augusta
and Kaoxville Railroad. It,has been
onr purpose to interest day laborers as
well as merchants, professional men et
al in this project; because the former
will derive from the completed road
benefits proportionally large. Consid
ering men in the light of their ages, it
may be safely declared that no body of
our people are more directly interested
than our young men. We are aware that
some of the most aetive workers in the re
oent revival of this undertaking belong
to that class. But we desire to see their
number greatly increased, and the ear
nest purpose of the few become the de
vouring activity of the many. And by
tbe latter expression we mean all that it
implies—an activity that laughs at im
possibilities and cries “it shall be done;”
an activity that regards no obstacle as
insuperable. How can our young men
manifest this degree of interest? By
promptly subscribing to the company’s
stock as soon as the books are opened.
We have heard of a number of young
gentlemen, in receipt of small to mod
erate salaries, who purpose taking from
two to twenty shares. This is in the
highest degree commendable. With
the richest portion of Georgia and South
Carolina tributary to our market and
the golden products of the great West
guaranteed easy access to our oity by a
route at least 240 miles shorter than* ex
isting lines, Augusta, rejoicing in the
utilization of her unsurpassed wider
power, will march forward to the hi'gh
destiny which, under the blessings of
Heaven, rewards wisely direoted, pert e
vering effort.
THE MANUFACTURING INTEREST* OF
THE SOUTH.
Some few years ago, says the New
York Cotton Record, it was quite an easy
matter to apportion to each seotion of
this mighty Continent its various sources
of wealth; to the New England States
belonged the industries; to the W est the
raising of wheat, and to the South the
productiou of cotton, but as the oouutry
has developed, the minds of all shrewd
business meu have been opened to the
necessity of combining manufacturing
enterprises with agricultural pursuits;
the West was the first to adopt the ne
cessity of producing goods in proportion
to what was grown within her districts,
for she found out she never derived any
benefit of reciprocation from the impor
tation of the articles she paid so dearly
for in the East. Apart from the mere
question of grain, it is one of the first
principles of political economy to diver
sify as much as possible the different
channels in which labor is employed,
and so of late years it has dawned upon
the Sonth that so long as she continued
to plant cotton and make it her chief
source of occupation, she could only at
tract to her territory the very poorest
class of field labor, for from statistics it
has clearly been shown that the cotton
laborer very rarely is able to earn any-'
thing over and above his aotual ex
perses, and of course the man who has
nothing to spend does nothing for the
opening up or progress of that seotion
in which he is working,
The contrast has been very marked
between the farming hands of the Cot
ton States and the workmen in the
manufacturing distriots; to this end the
South has been obliged to push forward
her utmost energies in encouraging
everything that tended to promote her
futnre wealth, and so has determined to
appropriate a certain share in the rapid
growth the United States has made in
manufactures, which have doubled with
in the last ten years. The finanoial
crisis of 1873 did a great deal of good to
the South, as while all industries were
at a stand-still in the North, suffering as
they did from the encumbrances of
debt, contracted in prosperous times,
the few cotton factories that had been
erected in the South were all doing a
most successful business. In Tennes
see, Alabama, Georgia and Texas mill
property to this day is paying large
dividends; tho only way to keep trade
ever on the inorease is to create new ac
tivity the moment it is discovered that
certain other localities are outstripping
the South of her legitimate oeeupatiou,
the spinning as well as the growing of
ootton. The great drawback to the
proper advancement of manufacturing
enterprise is that both State and muni
cipal laws prevent the nntrameled exe
cution of local energy, and while, of
course, it is very difficult for legislators
to see that the wealth of their various
sections depends upon the self-support
ing capacity of their inhabitants, still it
is an essentia! point to inspire dne en
couragement to build up every kind of
enterprise, instead of pulling it down
by stringent taxes, for the amalgama
tion of agricultural and mannfaetnring
pursuits is the only way for any people
to acquire permanent wealth and retain
a lasting independence.
THE BI.ACK HILLS,
The Philadelphia North American
thinks that the Black Hills are as real
as the White, the Green or the Blue ;
and their yield of gold against granite,
ice and timber, has attracted a perma
nent population which is steadily in
creasing and will soon be organized and
adding another star to the national en
sign. This increase of population and
production has decided the Union Pa
cific Boad to constrnot a branch to the
Hills at once, and three rontes are to be
immediately surveyed. The distance in
a direct line tro/p Cheyenne, the nearest
station, is 150 miles, and tfie route lies
along the eastern flank of the Blaok
Hills of Southeastern Wyoming, aoross
the north fork of the Platte river and
the south fork of the Cheyenne, The
way is difficult, but easier than the Den
ver Pacific, of which it is the natural
continuation. The building can hardly
fail to stimulate work on the southern
extremity of the Denver, whieh has
been planned from Colorado City to
Santa Fe, connecting there with the
Atchison and Topeka, and thence across
the Southern Pacific into Northern
Mexico, thns giving a due north and
south road between the one hundred and
third and one hundred and seventh par
allels al* the way {pop Mexico to Mon
tana, and the only communication in
this direction between California and
Kansas. The Union Pacific haa the
ability to accomplish this work with
ease, and the decision of the company
w.ll not await performance long after
the season ig suqjeiently advanced to
permit surveying. The trans-Missis
sippi territory is being settled even
more rapidly than the early West was.
The New York Nation, in bidding
farewell to President Grant, Bays:
“No satirist oi the Administration now
expiring can ever hope to compete with
President Grant himself. sis treachery
to his apologists has been simply shock
ing. 4 porfous perversity has made
him 4is appoint every jrepppajde ex
pectation whiab they based upon his
promises, and confute every defense of
his character for integrity and states
manship which they laboriously con
etruoted.”
STEPHENS AND FISH.
THE EX-SECRETARY CALLS ON
THE GEORGIA CONGRESSMAN.
Mr. Step tie as Give* Hi* View* the Situa
tiaa—Believe* that If Hare* Coatinue* aa
He ha* Befan He will Receive the Con
fidence of the Whole People—All the Sonth
Want* I* To Be Let Alone.
Washington, March 13. —Hon. Hamil
ton Fish called to pay his respects to
Mr. Stephens to-day, at his sick room
in the National Hotel. Mr. Fish was
oordially received by the sick man, who
extended his attenuated hand from un
der the bed cover, saying, “lam glad to
see yon. Mr. F'sh.”
Mr. Fish: “I have ca’led to see you at
the ea rlieat moment I could, after being
relieved from my public duties.”
Mr. Stephens: “Succession in office
is one of tbe fundamental principles in
our republican form of government.”
Mr. Fish : “Yes ; it is happily consti
tuted, and it is gratifying to me to know
that m.y sucoessor is a man of sterling
worth and great ability.”
Afte r a few farther preliminary in
quiries the conversation turned upon
President Hayes’ Southern policy.
Mr. Stephens : “I am glad to see
that Mr- Hayes is shaping his policy
something after that of Gen. Washing
ton, by oalliDg around him good and
true men without regard to their politi
cal or part isan antecedents, but is call
ing to his aid in this great crisis of our
country men irrespective of party and
assigning th em duties because of their
peculiar fitn-ess for them under the cir
cumstances that now surround him,
looking alone to the good of tbe conn
try and not merely to the format on of
party. If he ah all follow out this poli
cy to its legitimate conclusion, his ad
ministration will prove a success and
confidence will be restored to the ooun
*iy.”
Mr. Fish ; “It seems to be Mr.
Hayes’ policy to give the home offioes to
home men.”
Mr. Stephens : “Yes, and if he will
give these to men of character and stand
ing at home, men who have the confi
dence and respect of the people, without
reference to their party affiliations, but
who accept office as a high trust rather
than for its emoluments, Mr. Hayes will
soon find his administration growing iu
the hearts and confidence of the people
everywhere. Democrats may accept of
these offices from Mr. Hayes with
out any compromise of principle.
As to a policy for Louisiana and
ilouth Carolina, as well as other
Southern States, all the people of
these States desire is to be left to them
selves, to govern themselves as may
seem best to them; and all Mr. Hayes
can do or need do is to see that their
governments are republican in form,
and that they obey the laws and keep
the peace. If he will do this, the
corrupt carpet-bag governments will
disappear, and constitutional and
peaceful governments will take
their place. This will bring peace
and contentment to the South,
and prosperity to the country. I
know my people. They are law
abiding if left to make and execute their
owu laws, as in other sections of onr
country, Secure to them this boon and
they will be, irrespective of race or
color, prosperous, contented and happy.”
Mr. Fish : “I perceive, Mr. Steph
ens, that your strength is not equal to
your will to talk, and I will now bid you
good-day, promising to call and see you
again very soon.”
Mr. Stephens: “Good-bye; bear my
kind regards to Gen. and Mrs. Grant.”
HON. MILTON A. CANDLER.
Hl* Talk With the Reporter ol the Atlauta
“ Constitution.”
Mr. Candler, member of Congress
from the Fifth District, is at home, and
he gives the reasons and wherefores of
the action of the Democracy in relation
to the Electoral Commission :
Reporter : It is generally believed
that the Democrats were sold out by the
Electoral Commission bill. Do you be
lieve the Democrats were sold out by
it?
Colonel C. : No, sir, Ido not. A de
cision could not have been reached
without the Commission. There were
double returns from four States, and
the House and Senate disagreed as to
the constitutional vote of the States.
The Constitution had no provision in it
for a contingency like this, if no deter
mination should be reached by the 4th
of March, as to who was constitutional
ly elected President.
The act of 1792 provides that :
“ In case of the removal of the Presi
dent from office, or of his death, resig
nation or inability to disoharge the pow
ers and duties of the said office, the
same shall devolve ou the Vice-Presi
dent, and the Congress may provide for
the case of removal, death, resignation
or inability, both of the President and
Vice-President, declaring what officer
shall then act as President, and such of
ficer shall act accordingly until the dis
ability be removed, or a President shall
be eleoted.”
Had no determination been reached
by the fourth of March we would have
been without a President or Vice-Presi
dent, and without any provision or law
for an election. The extreme Republi
cans desired this result. Morton would
have been elected President pro tem. <-f
the Senate and assumed the reins of
Government. No true lover of his
oountry would, for a moment, lend him
self to the consummation of such a
scheme, for confusion and ruin would
have been the result.
The question was then narrowed down
to Morton and confusion or the Electoral
Commission.
The theory of the bill was right. Five
Democrats and five Republicans were
taken from the House and Senate ; two
Democratic Judges and two Republican
Judges were to select the fifth Judge.
When the bill was framed we had every
reason to’ believe that Judge David
Davis would have been selected as the
fifth Judge. Had he been selected Til
den would have been elected. After the
bill passed the Senate, and the day be
fore it passed the House, Judge Davis
was eleoted Senator. Re was elected by
the Democrats, aided by four indepen
dents, He did not receive a Republican
vote, f
The bill was a Democratic measure.
But one Democrat in the Senate and
eighteen in the House opposed it.
The Republicans said it meant Tilden
and voted against it.
Filibustering.
Reporter : I noticed that you stood
out firmly against filibustering to delay
the count. Wliat were your reasons ?
Col. C.: There were many reasons why
we voted against filibustering. I will
name the most prominent.
1. It was impracticable. It was im
possible to succeed in preventing a dec
laration of the result. Its only effect
would be to create a division in the
Democratic party.
2. The bill was a Democratic measure,
and good faith required us to stand up
to it.
3. Nothing could be accomplished by
it. If the filibusters succeeded jn pre
venting $ dppUfati.Qfl tfrey fonld got
have put in Tilden, and we would have
been left to uncertain law to provide a
President. Its tendency was to harm
the Demoeratio party.
Abram S. Hewitt.
Reporter: Are the criticisms on Abram
S. Hewitt just ?
CoL C.: Ido not think they are. He
stood by ns daring the entire contest,
and stands by ns yet. He spent one
hundred thousand dollars in the cam
paign, which goes to show that he proved
his faith by his works.
Jtell in Leuieu.
When people feel the need of an aoid,
if they would let vinegar alone and nse
Umnna or sour apples, they would feel
just as well satisfied and receive no in
jury, and a suggestion may not oome
amiss aa a good plan when lemons are
cheap in the market. A person should
in those tij*ies purchase several’ dozen at
once and prepare them for nse in the
warm days of Spring and Summer, when
acids, especially citric or malic, of the
acids of lemons and ripe frnits, are ao
grateful and useful. Press your hand on
the lemon, and roll it briskly on the ta
ble to make it squeeze more easily; then
press the juice into a bowl or tumbler—
never into a tin; strain out all the seeds,
as they give a bad taste. A few min
utes' boiling is enongb. put a pound
ttf white 'sugar'to a pint of iuioe, boil
pen minutes; bottle it, and your lemon
ade js ready. Put a tablespoonful of
tfcja‘}e®on gymp ing'gtjsa of water,
and yon have a cooling, healthful drink.
Montgomery haa followed Columbus
and calls church gatherings “Mite
meeting*. ”
THE LENTEN HORROR.
THE CONSEQUENCES OF A HYS
TERICAL FIT.
A Scene of Terror >n< Death—Seven Person*
Killed in a Stampede From a Church—De
tail* of the Catastrophe.
Seven lives were lost by a panic in the
Roman Catholic Church of St. Francis
Xavier, in New York, on Thursday eve
ning. The hysterical swooning of a wo
man in the congregation caused a rush
from the western gallery down the nar
row stairway, and six women and one
boy were trampled to death or suffo
cated. The bodies of five of the women
and the boy have been identified.
1 he Details of the Catastrophe*
It being “women’s week” in Lent, St.
Franois Xavier’s Church has been filled
ou each evening of the week with audi
ences of women and small children who
could not be left at home by their moth
ers. Last night the building was
crowded, us usual, aud large numbers of
the women present occupied the two
side galleries, extending the entire
length of the church. Suddenly, a little
before 9 o’clock, a woman sitting in the
western gallery was attacked with hys
terics and became frantio, screaming at
the top of her voice and throwing her
arms wildly about her. Intense exoite
ment was at once caused in the great
congregation, and many of the women
imagining that the building was on fire,
began to rush for the staircase leading
into the street. The priests strove to
quiet them, and succeeded in so far dis
pelling the fears of a majority that they
remained standing untill a blessing was
pronounced. In the western gallery,
however, numbers of women lost their
seif-eoatrol, and pressed madly toward
the place of exit, a narrow, slightly
winding staircase, connecting at the
bottom with an outside door of the
church, and also with au inner door
opening on the main hall. Near the
bottom of the staircase there is an angle,
and
Two Large Womea
Coming together at this point caused a
temporary cheok in;the hurrying throng.
They were immediately pressed ami
thrown down by the women behind
them, who, being unable to check their
progress, ware foroed to trample on their
fallen sisters iu tbeir haste to escape, or
were in turn prostrated. In a moment
the moving throng on the narrow stair
case was blocked by a heap of prostrate
women who sought in vain to regain
their footing.
Wild With Terror.
The women imprisoned on the stair
case made despairing efforts to move
forward, and soon the place resounded
with cries of agony from those who were
trodden under foot at the base of the
staircase. The panic then became so
general that nothing could stop the rush
down the stairs, and soon the shrieks of
pain were hushed by the death of the
victims who were crushed and sniother
ed. Fearing that the building might
have taken fie, the priests sent word to
Engine House No. 14, aud Capt. Mc-
Cabe, in oommaud, at once went to Six
teenth street, with an engine and a com
pany of men. Dreading that the tu
mult might be thus iucreased, he stop
ped the engine near Fifth avenue, and
with a single aid hurried to the church,
from which a stream of people was fast
pouring. He then used every endeavor
to make the people retreat from the
ohurch and the neighborhood, being as
sisted by polieemen who came hastening
to the spot. The forethought of Capt.
McCabe probably prevented a very much
greater disaster from taking plaoe, for
had the engine been allowed to dash up
to the door of the church, alarming still
more the frightened women, a much
larger loss of life must have ensued. As
soon as the police could clear a space in
front of the church the work of
Removing tlie Bodies
Of the unfortunate wo-nen was begun.
One after another the corpses were taken
up and oonveyed, some of them to No.
41 Sixteenth street, and others to the
stable of Joseph O’Conner, at No. 58.
The utmost exertions of the police were
then needed to keep the bodies from be
ing pressed upon by crowds of anxious
people who sought to get a glimpse of
the dead faces. People who had rela
tives in the church during the service,
hearing of the disaster, ran to Sixteenth
street, and eagerly inquired of every one
whom they met concerning the fate of
their friends. At the livery stable one
girl of sixteen years wa reoognized as
Mary Casey, of No. 188 Eighth avenue.
On the arrival of the ambulances, which
were at once telegraphed for, the bodies
were removed to the Twenty-Ninth Pre
cinct Station House,and it was then dis
covered that seven persons—six women
and a little boy about four years old—
had been killed. Banged in a row on the
floor of the Station House,
The Bodies of the Victim*
Did not show many signs of mutilation,
or even of serious bruises, and it was the
belief of many physicians who were call
ed in that they died from the effects of
suffocation and fright. Three of the
women were beyond middle age, ond
their featnres looked ghastly and re
pulsive in death. The little boy had a
small mark on his forehead, which
showed that he had been struck by some
object, as the heel of a shoe; but his face
and that of the dead girl, Mary Casey,
were calm and sweet in expression, as if
they had lately fallen asleep.
Au Eye-Witness’ .Statement.
J. 8. Haggerty, a young man about 25
years of age, stated that he was sitting
in the front section of the gallery on the
Sixth avenue side of the churoh when
the panic began. A woman who sat in
a seat beyond himattraoted attention by
fainting. Several sprang to her assist
ance and this created something of a
stir. At this time the sermon was being
preached, the priest having spoken ten
or twelve minutes. Suddenly a ory of
fire was raised, and in a moment a panio
was caused. At one of the exits toward
Sixth avenue, a very large woman tried
to rush out. The rest crowded upon
her, and she was thrown down and
crushed, with many more. The panic
was chiefly confined to thqse in the gal
lery, and the regt p| tfie audience
had been assured jrepeatpfily tfiat - there
was po fire poy any fiapger, tfiey' became
quiet while the benediction was pro
nounced, and were dismissed in aa or
derly a manner as possible, kfapy were
bruised and fiad tfieir clothing torn, who
were taken away by their friends before
their names oould be learned.
The Officiating Priest’* Accoant.
Father Langeake gave the following
story :
I had began. last Sunday to give a
“retreat,” or series of spiritual exercises,
to the women of the parish, and the ex
ercises were to finish to-morrow evening.
The subject I was discussing thig peep
ing was “Hell,” and in USy Veiiarks I
strove to impress mv hearers with a fear
of offending Qod by picturing to them
the horrors of the damned. It was
near the dose of my sermon when a wo
man who, as I believe, was in the gal
lery, fell into hysterics and began to
scream. 'wap 3 raopae'ntary si
lence at first, when somebodv cried
“Fire}” A few persons repeated the
cry, and then a general flight began.
From the galleries, whieh were densely
packed, the occupants rushed to the
doors, all in a state of the most un
controllable excitement. The women in
the body of the church were more calm,
and though unable to see what to do,
still did not act with as much excitement
as the people in the galleries. I called
ont to them to be calm, that there was
no fire ; but my exhortations were but
slightly heeded. It was then I descend
ed from the pulpit. 4 moment after
Father Merrick appeared on the altar,
and again exhorted the people to be
quiet, aa there was no danger whatever,
and he called to the oboir to go on, as
there would be benediction. The organ
ist obeyed, and began to play the “O
Salutaria,” and shortly after the “Tan
tum Ergo,” aufl the services' went on,
the people having become quiet in the
meanwhile, and when the services were
over they quietly left tfce church.
Joaaali Hiller’s Divorced Wife.
[From the Portland ( Oregon ) Standard.)
A marriage certificate was issued by
the county clerk on Thursday, February
7, to T. E. L. Logan, aged 28 years, and
Minnie Dyer, aged 31 yeais, Logan is
a florid-oomplexioned man, who' was em
ployed by the Chief of police during the
prevalence of small-pox in the city to
attend the afflicted at the pest house.
Minnie Mvrtje, (ornqerly ffie lyife of
Joaquin Millef, is welfjpnown in Port
land, and needs no description. Suffice
it to say, she is a woman of culture and
intelligence, with an attractive per
sonnel. She baa a fur reputation as a
writer.
THE POLITICAL CENTRE.
WASHINGTON WAIFS AND WON
DERS.
Patterson Call* on Hare* anil Submits a
Plan for a New Election In Sonth Carolina
—The President Not Committed—Ex-Sena
tor Robertson Thinks the Matter Shonld
be Left to the People, Who Will Settle It at
Once if the Troop* ore Withdrawn.
Washington, March 14.—Simon Cam
eron has formally vacated his seat in the
Senate. It is supposed that Hamlin will
succeed him as Chairman of the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs.
Senator Patterson has submitted to
the President an elaborate plan for a
new election, which he favors.
Attorney-General Devens accorded the
Louisiana Republicans a prolonged in
terview. They seem well satisfied with
the result. The pressure in favor of the
new eleotion plan is beooming earnest
from the more* radical Republicans. It
may be said that Hayes is not committed
to it. He and his advisers are reported
as not seeing how it can be done with
out Federal interference more in discord
with the spirit of the inauguration than
the use of bayonets.
Ex-Senator Robertson, of South Caro
lina, accompanied by ex-Oongressman
Wallace, called on the President to-day,
protesting against Senator Patterson’s
proposition for anew election on the
ground that the substantial and industrial
interests of South Carolina would be
materially damaged by suoh au eleotion.
It was further stated to the President
that none of the Republican members
of that State had been consulted on the
subject, aud therefore it was in the na
ture of an independent proposition on
the part of Senator Patterson, stim
ulated, perhaps, by Governor Chamber
lain. Mr. Robertson stated that the
solution of the South Carolina complica
tions could be accomplished by more
simple means, namely, the removal
of troops frpm tho State Capitol,
when the people themselves would ad
just the difficulty. The President re
ceived Messrs. Robertson and Wallaoe
courteously, and as they are natives of
the State,said they would at all times be
w -loomed.
In the Senate, Messrs. Anthony and
Whyte were appointed a committee to
wait ou the President and inform him
unless he might have some further com
munications to make, the Senate was
ready to adjsurn without a day.
Washington, March 14. -The new
Postmaster-General is so overwhelmed
with letters of all sorts that it is useless
to attempt to reply to any of them at
present.
Confirmations: A few Northern post
masters.
The Senate committee appointed to
wait on the President reported that the
Senate in extra session would not be re
quired longer than Saturday or possibly
Tuesday. The Senate then adjourned
to 12 to-morrow.
Nominations : Archibald M. Hughes,
Attorney for the Middle Distriot of Ten
nessee.
It is reported that Sohurz tendered
the position of Assistant Secretary of
the luterior to ex-Senator Henderson,
of Missouri. This is tbe Henderson
who was dismissed as assistant counsel
against Babcock for refleotiqns op the
White House.
At the While House to-day Senators
Beck, Gordon, Burnside and Jones, five
colored men from Virginia, thirteen
colored professors and instructors from
the Maryland Sen inary, two Baltimore
delegations and nine colored men from
North Carolina, asking the appointment
of Col. B. D. McLinsey as Commission
ers of Agriculture. Tiie North Carolina
nine’s petition closes, “For God’s sake
ard the people’s sake, let it be reoorded
in the history of the Government that
one request we asked was granted.”
By common consent the Senatorial
question from Louisiana goes over to
the next session. The extra session of
Congress will not be convened before
the first of June, if at all.
The Commissioner of Internal Reve
nue has issued a ojronlar tj collectors in
the South tfiat the ordinary means of
collecting revenue in portions of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Vir
ginia, Alabama and Tennessee have
failed. He advises collectors that the
use of military should be avoided when
possible, and assigns three deputies for
each collection district. These deputies
are specially designed to suppress the
illicit manufacture of spirits and tobacco.
The Cabinet did not commence until
half-past nine. The postponement is
said to be attributable to the absence of
Evarts, who had a heavy retainer in the
Vanderbilt will case. The President’s
Southern policy, so far, has not ripened
into any plan.
Intense interest attaches to the Cabi
net to-night, but it is mostly artificial.
Some twenty legitimate newspaper men
are on the qui vive, but -v one of them
have as yet their special. ± *'* improb
able that any definite Southern tr".
be adopted to-night or that authentic
details can transpire, ft is most likely
that some civil service device will be
adopted, whereby applicants for offioe
may be subjected to special tests that no
one can bear; every one will fail, and
their places will go to the favored ones.
Governor Pinchback, of Louisiana,
had a long interview with the President.
Pinohback is quoted as saying : “ Jus
tice to the whites and meroy to the
blacks forbade any support of the Pack
ard government.” President Hayes re
plied : “J think J see my way clear to
secure harrpony and peaoe pipong the
people of your State.”
Col. F. W- Dawson, qf the Charleston
Ifews find Courier, is at Willard's.
Judge Advocate General fJ. M, Dunn
writes to General Sherman tfiat supplies
for the army under a forced construction
of tba statutes cannot be purchased in
advanoe of appropriations. Under cer
tain exceptional circumstances officers
may borrow money for the pay of the
meD. The opinion is positive that ffi@
proper maintenance of the army requires
an appropriation by the end of June,
and consequently involves an extra ses
sion.
Washington, March 14.— The purpose
of the President appears to be to post
pone qny definite ap'tjqa as to ponisiana
anfi South Carolina until after the ad
journment of the Senate, which will
tafie plaqe Monday at the latest. The
President does np,t pow fayoy the
Wheeler cqmmissiop programme, nor is
he committed to the new election plan.
Tfia Cabinet did not discuss Southern
affairs to-night. Civil servioe and an
extra session of Congress have ooeupied
their attention. There was a fall Cabi
net, and it lasted until midnight. De
tails are inaccessible.
It has transpired that nothing definite
was reached in the Cabinet to-night.—
Messrs. Sohurz and Evarts had not pre
pared their tests for oivil service, and
the question of extra session was post
poned for fnture
%’he Vice-President a* an Agent to Carry Ont
the Southern Policy of the Administration—
An Interview with the Second Officer of the
Government on the Subject.
Since the advent of the new Adminis
tration a proposition has been advanced
by some P.f the leaders of the Republi
can party that the declared policy of
President Rays looking to 4 conciliation
of tfle South and the equitable recogni
tion of its political right should take
some practical shape, with a view of
making the Southern people more clear
ly understand his intentions. To this
end it has been suggested that Vioe-
President Wheeler would beau effective
agent through whom the plan might be
carried out. In the coarse of an inter
view this evening with the Vice-Presi
dent this subject was introduced? He
says that he knows nothing furtheT
about project than what Has already
been stated, except that several Southern
Senators have come to him and express
ed themselves as very desirous that he
should go among the Southern people
on account of his experience =i*h them
in the adjustment of the political diffi
culties in Louisiana a few years ago.—
President Hayes has hot, so far, spoken
with him npdn the Advisability of filing
anything in this conn wttoa, while he
has dofte him the honor of speaking
freely and advising with him quite fully
one some other subjects. Vice-Presi
dent Wheeler has frankly said to Presi
dent Hayes, at the start, that while he
had no offioions ad vioe to obtrude upon
him or any influence to seek in regard
to patronage or office, which he would
studiously avoid a* manifestly improper
and as a source of annoyance, he would
gladly render hinl every aid in cooper
ating to carry out the great work he was
called on to'perfbrm as Chief Magistrate
of nation. Beyond this he would
not seek aD j interference with President
Hayes, but would at all tinge* when ask
ed, and thqn (ffieerfuliy, give him the
benefit of sneh experience or knowledge
as he possesses of political affairs.
Mr. Wheeler says that evidently some
thing mast be done for the South, and
after the fashion in which in the North,
*2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID
West and East, the intelligence and
oharaoter of the people are represented
in the management andoontrol of pnblio
affairs. The constitutional rights of all
classes and their protection mast, how
ever, be secured. He is not prepared to
say what his course will be, even if the
proposition is made to him to go South.
It will be a matter for careful considera
tion, as he is the President of the Sen
ate, and for other reasons there may pos
sibly arise some question of propriety.
Hence he cannot now say what he shall
deoide to do. At all events, he thinks it
will be time enongh to discuss the mat
ter when, if at all, if is submitted to him
by President Hayes. He supposes that
the President is so engaged with press
ing matters in regard to Cabinet affairs
and other pending questions that he has
not yet spoken about tbe matter.
Wndp Hampton’s Letter to the Commander
lu-Cliief Of the Army and Navy oi the
United Statea—The Situation la South Caro*
lina.
The contents of the offioial communi
cation addressed to the President by
Governor Hampton, of South Carolina,
were the subject of an interview had
this evening with Judge Maekey, who,
it will be remembered, was one of the
committee entinsted with tbe delivery
of the oommnnioation to the President.
Judge Mackey sums up in one sentence
the argument wjioa is made in behalf of
the recognition of the Hampton govern
ment. He says:
“Governor Hampton does not address
the President in his magisterial or oivio
capacity, but solely in his military rela
tions as Oommander-in-Ohief of the
army and navy of the United States. By
the words of the Constitution ‘the Pres
ident shall be commander of the army
and navy of the United States.’ In this
oapaoity the President is requested to
act to the extent of terminating the mili
tary occupation of the State House, by
withdrawing tbe troops quartered there
in, and to the end that civil proofiss may
be made effective for the evietion of D.
H. Chamberlain from the Executive
Chamber, and securing the books and
reoords which he now holds with an
armed force of Federal troops. 1 ’
Judge Maekey goes on to say: “This
request is made on the deoision of the
Supreme Court whioh has adjudged
Hampton Governor. Since my arrival
Associate Justice Wright, who is in
a highly peripatetic state, has oome
to Washington and published in the
Republican a denial that he intended
finally to concur in a judgment in favor
of Mr. Hampton. In answer to this I
state the undeniable faot that og Tues
day, February $?, Justice Wright drew
two months’ salary from the Hampton
government, oommenoing on the 14th
day of December, the day of Hampton’s
inauguration. The money was drawn
on a cheek countersigned ‘Wade Hamp
ton, Governor of South Carolina.’ We
expect President Hayes to comply with
the request of Governor Hampton. For
to refuse it is to deny to the people of
South Carolina that right of looal self
government whioh the President, in his
inaugural address, pledges himself to
recognize and respect. This is eertain,
that the people of South Carolina,
throughout its whole tax-paying citizen
ship, will resist thedominatipflof Cham
berlain everywhere, pd continually, al
ways, however, within the limits of their
duty to obey tbe Constitution and the
laws of the United States. Owing to
the praotioal dissolution of the Supreme
Court by the death of the Chief Justioe,
leaving but two Associate Justices, the
Circuit Courts, of whioh there are eight,
are virtually our Courts of last resort.
AU tbe Circuit Judges have, direotly or
indireotly, recognized Hampton as the
Governor of Sonth Carolina, except
Carpenter, and even he has decided that
Hampton was elected, bat denies that
he was legally installed.”
On the subject of the collection of the
State taxes. Judge Maokeysays j “The
Senate, whioh is Republican, having re
fused to attend iu the House at the pub
lication of the vote, Chamberlain’s
Treasury presents ‘a beggarly aooonnt
of empty boxes/ while that of Hamp
ton’s government is full through the
voluntary contributions of the tax-pay
ers. The Colored Orphan Asylum, the
lunatic asylums and the penitentiary are
all being supported from the Hampton
Treasury. Chamberlain’s authority ex
ists as an obstruction. He is simply the
ward of the Sergeant-of-the-Guard,
while Hampton’s is active everywhere in
•noving the machinery of government,
having the support of the property
holding, intelligent and moral element
of both political parties aud races.
Chamberlain’s must fall by the law of
gravitation. Hampton has authorized
the committee of whioh I am now Chair
man, General Kershaw having been
obliged by business engagements to re
turn, to say to the President that he is
willing to be held responsible for tbe
maintenance of public order in the State
and the enforcement of the rights of all
classes by a due administration of the
l&jgs, without regard to raee or eolor, if
if terminated.
He demands than tm> at of the
Court of last resort shall be respected iu
accordance with the decision of the 8u-
Ereme Court of the United States, which
as deeided in the case of
vs. Warren, 2 Black, that the judgment
of the highest; tribunal of a State upon
a question arising under the Constitu
tion or statutes of such State is as bind
ing on the Courts of the United States
as the text itself. The nqesiie.n of the
assertion of a tUlp to the office ol Gov
ernor ie precisely the same in its legal
aspect as the assertion of a title to real
property; moreover, this military inter
vention is directly in the faoe of the re
cent decision of the Supreme Court in
volving the constitutionality of the En
forcement aet, wherein tbe Court says :
‘ The Government of ' the United
States has no power to perform police
duty in the States.’ r
"There is good reason to believe that
Chamberlain will arrive in Washington
within the next forty-eight honrs. He
has been osoillating between this point
and Colombia like the pendqlpm of a
dock for the past one, hundred days,
bht I am satisfied that he will make his
last vibration soon.”
MADISON MATTER^
]Speiai CorrwfKpYlewx Chromete and Sentinel.]
DANiELHYiLiiK, Ga„ March 10,1877. —
Thinking yon wonld like to hear from
onr quiet county, I will write 'yon a few
lines, which yon are at liberty to pub
lish if yon think them worth the spaoe.
This has been an exciting week with ns.
The Superior Court has been in session,
and we have had speeches from the rival
candidates for Congress in this Distnot,
and a speech on the Constitutional Con
vention from Mr. John L Osborn, of
Elberton.
Col Bell is not a match for Mr.
Speer on the stamp, though he made a
very pleasing impression on the people,
and will doubtless carry the county by a
respectable majority. The latter made
a brilliant and impressive speech. His
supporters are very enthusiastic, and
confidently predict his eleotion. Bell’s
friends seem to he equally snre of bis
success. Next Tuesday will settle the
question. Our people will be divided
“For a Convention” and “Against a
Convention,” bat I am of the opinion
the former ticket will ran ahead. I have
not as yet heard the name of any one
suggested for onr delegate, bat there are
no donbt enough men who would be
ready to serve if called upon,
There was not mueh business done by
the Coart. Judge Rottl* continues to
give satisfaction 4s an upright and im
partial magistrate, and the new Solicitor
General. Col. Reese, of Sparta, is a
faithful and efficient officer. There was
an unusually fall attendance of visiting
lawyers. Col. Gabriel Nash aqd Mr.
John M. Mathews are the qpty resident
attorneys. Lexinnto* sent the diligent
Johnson, the untiring Mathews, and the
fiWrt Lumpkin. Athena contributed
the indefatigable Thurmond, the tal
ented Erwin, and the gifted Cobb.
Sparta wra represented by the handsome
Solicitor-General. Elberton famished
the dignified Hester, the popular Shan
non, the energetie Osborn, and the dark
eyed Worley; while Gainesville wss
honored by the eloquent sod courteous
Eates. Long may the lega] fraternity
wave. They are an e\iL doubtless, but
we could not dd veil without them
E.B.
Sweden’* **■ a Sfcaxe*.
\Vrrn 9m London T-mes.\
The of Sweden, who has been
staying at Christiania, paid a visit on
Friday last to the Christiania Skating
tin*. His majesty joined the skaters,
being an experienced skater, but unfor
tunately one of the King’s skates stack
fast in a crack in the ice, and his
majesty was thrown with great violence
on his back, the fall being so severe as
to cause a copious bleeding. He w*
speedily raised and carried b<vm to the
palaoe.
SOUTH _CAROLIKA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
The total number of deaths in Oo
lo™ ’ th . e w , eek en ding March 10,
* tv J** 8 colored and 2 whites.
Eighteen hundred and forty-eight re
oeipts for the Hampton tax contribution
have been issned by the special agent at
aggregating $4,385 30.
There was a rnmor afloat in Atlanta,
smoe the organization of the new com
pany, that the shops of the A. and R. A.
Li. K. R. would be built at Central
A sportsman in the Fork, last week,
oaught one hundred and seventy five
fish at one time in a net, and killed nine
deer m one night, by shining their eyes.
Several Newberry families lately im
migrated to the Fork. They are Luth
eran in their religions faith, and will
ereot a church for their worship at an
early day.
The South Carolina thieves are whining
because Governor Hampton is advised
to give no money to institutions whose
managers refuse to acknowledge him as
Governor.
The amount received for the Hampton
Aiken oonnty to date is
$3,707 ad. The number of colored con
tributors to this amount is 250. Num
berof receipts issned, 1,438.
It has been discovered, without tho
aid of Lord Ross’ telescope, that a
bright, particular star has disappeared
from the firmament of Laurens. Gone
—to the Empire State of Georgia.
A young circus aotor by the name of
Mnnday has tnrned parson, and has been
exerting himself at Central to turn
every day into Sunday. He departed
for Georgia on Tuesday last and left
Central in mourning.
President Davega has sold within the
last week to home capitalists, on advan
tageous terms, six thousand dollars of
York oonnty bonds issned in aid of the
Chester and Lenoir Railroad, and four
thousand dollars of the first mortgage
bonds of the road.
On salesday the sheriff sold two lots
in Timmonsville, Nos. 1. and 8, belong
ing to the Keith estate, to J. T. Bristow
for $5 and $lO respectively ; one store
house lot in Darlington to M. B. Gandy
at $725 ; one dwelling house and lot in
Darlington to M. A. Huggins at $1,505.
On four successive nights of last
week, attempts were made to barn vari
ous houses on the premises of Mr. O. E.
McPherson, who lives jnst inside the
Marion line, a few miles southeast of
Florence, The houses fired were re
spectively his smokehouse, ginhouse,
kitchen and outhouse. They were only
saved by the watohfalness of Mr.
McPherson and neighbors.
Mr. F. W. Cooper, a citizen residing
in the outskirts of Timmonsville, was
bnrnt out ou last Sunday nigbt. His
dwelling, smokehouse, and another out
building were all oonsumed by fire. He
was fortunate enough, however, to save
nearly all his furniture. The property
was insured in the Virginia Home of
Richmond for SI,OOO. Nothing is known
as to the origin of the fire.
Columbia Jiesjintet' ; John Harris, a
J’OUUil colored man, who toils early and
ate for his daily bread, was assaulted
and eut by an older brother, near the
asylum yesterday afternoon. It appears
that Levy Harris the wonld-be fratricide,
wanted to impose upon a younger
brother, when John interfered to pre
vent a difficulty. Levy drew a razor and
out John severely in the shoulder and in
the neok, barely missing the jugular
vein.
We clip the following items from the
Pickens Sentinel : Our sheriff
has but one upstairs boarder now.
Oar town has put on its dull appear
ance. The people in the country are
too busy in their farms to oome to
town, unr market is over run with eggs.
Many are brought to town and car
ried away for the want of a purchaser.
We are informed by the County Com
missioners that they do not intend to
grant hocuses to sell spirituous liquors
in the oonnty during the present year.
The old grand jury were summoned
and served at the present term of Court.
Under the law, they serve until their
successors are drawn and qualified.
Central Station, we are informed, baa
four bar rooms. Those who keep the
bar rooms, we presume, are of the opin
ion that the hard times will make it ne
cessary for the people to pour the spir
its down to keep the spirits up.
The ohnrohes in the Second Union
District of the Twelve Mile RiVer Bap
tist Association, are requested to Bend
delegates to a Union meeting, to be held
with the churoh at Ap.tioch, commencing
on Friday before the fifth Sabbath in
April next,
PUBLIC CREDIT.
JSditora Chronicle and Sentinel :
Whije reading the laet proceedings of
Connoil, a few days ago, in reference to
the appointment of commissioners and
the “sinking fand”of one-quarter of one
per cent, additional taxation, it mnst bo
confessed we felt in rather a sinking'
condition and had it not been for a bot
tle of hartshorn close by no telling
how low we might have sunk before
touohing bottom. But after inhaling a
sufficient dose our senses revived and
we came to the honest conclusion that
it wae a wise and wholesome measure
to devise some means by which onr city
would continue to retain her good name
and ha enabled to meet all her obligations*
honorably and promptly, however oner
ous that additional tax may he. Whom
ever there is a “will there is generally
a way,” and it is quite refreshing these
troublous times to behold two old
cities like Augusta and Savannah wak
ing up and setting an example to Mem -
phis, Rome and other younger towns
who appear to make uo effort to restore
publio or private credit, and seem to
think of nothing short of compromising
and throwing all the burden of sacrifice
upon their creditors’ shoulders, instead
of manfully bearing it upon their own.
All honor to the Savannah aldermen and
their financial oommittee who have cast all
the odium of repudiation on a single indi
vidual who, it is reported, never pays
hia taxes or any anything else, when it
cau be avoided by any possible pretext.
These are generally the class of men
who sow the seeds of odium and dis
grace in every community where they
can effect an entering wedge in or out
side of honest corporations, snd if a.
single dime oan be drawn into their
own coffers by any manner of means it
matters not to them who may be the
snfferer.
It is only s matter of astonishment
bow such narrow-minded skin-flints of
mortality oan ever be permitted to ereep
into office. Whether rich or poor, they
are an offensive nicer in every commu
nity, and we are glad to see that the
good people of Savannah have effectual
ly closed one oyater trap that has been
long gasping for repudiation. They
bad better drive such crawfish to the
mountains, where he can find more con
genial spirits than about the seashore.
We trnst onr Savannah frieods will soob>
see the necessity of immediate aoHon to
reinstate them in their former enviable
position, which oan easily be done by a
little exertion on their part. Their
financial committee is composed of
men whose metal is of the right ring
and who can work wonders if they will
only pat their shoulders to the wheel
ana push all sluggards aside. See what
Augusta has done by passing a single
ordinance—onr bonds have advanced 5.
per cent. Let old Savannah fallow onr
example in preserving untarnished her
fa r name, and at no distant day her
bonds will be on an equality with our
own in this market. All that is needed
to restore the “Forest City” and her
great Centra] Railroad to their original
prosperity is to remove the clogs and
set the wheels in motioo. Tax Paves.
Annual* and Greenwood Rattroatf.
Apropos of the Greenwood branch of
the Augusta aad Knoxville Railroad, we
find in the Newberry Herald, of the
7th inst., the following: “It seem®
reasonable that the charges on freight
should be in proportion to distance; bnt
they are not, in one ease at least. For
inatanoe, the freight on groceries and
dnr goods from Charleston to Green
ville is less than from Charleston to
Newberry. The freight on a car load of
molasses from Charleston to Greenville
is $44; from Charleston to Newberry,
880; on a hundred ponnd of ties to
Greenville, 40 cents; to Newberry, 50
cents. The distance to Newberry is 93
miles shorter than to Greenville. We
see here the effect of competition. New
berry has only one railroad. ’That’*
what’s the matter with Hannah.’ ”
An unfortunate blind man was on the
streets of Sparta Thursday, soliciting
funds to defray his expenses to his homo
in Charleston. He had gone to Texas,
and hia eyes being naturally weak were
boob completely ruined by the stiff
Kinds and flying sands of that country.