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OLO SERIES VOL. ICII NEW SERIESHOL. LI. TERMS. THE DAILY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL, tbe oldest newspaper in the South, is published daily, except Monday. Terms: Per year, (10 ; six months, (5; three months, (2 50. THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE 4 SENTINEL is published every Wednesday. Terms : One year, (2; six months, (1. THE TRI-WEEKLY CHRONICLE 4 SENTI NEL is published every Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday. Terms One year, (5; six months, (2 50. SUBSCRIPTIONS in aU cases in advance, and no paper continued after the expiration of the time paid for. RATES OP ADVERTISING IN DAILY.—AIt transient advertisements will be charged at the rate of $1 per square each insertion for the first week. Advertisements in Tri-Week ly, 1 per square, in Weekly. *1 per square. M&rn&ge End Funeral Notices, 11 eich. Special Notices. (1 per square. Special rates will be made for advertisements running for one month or longer. ALL COMMUNICATIONS announcing candi dates for office—from County Constable to members of Congress—will he charged at the rate of twenty cents per line. AU announce ments most be paid for in advance. Address WALSH 4 WRIGHT, Chbosicijb 4 StaTiUßi.. Augusta. Ga. Ctjronicle art& Sentinel. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, - 1877. PAY YOUR HUB SCRIPT I ON. We request our readers to respond promptly to the bills which are sent them for subscription accounts due this office. Let each subscriber who is in arrears bear in mind that there are many others also in arrears, and that while the amount due by eaeh individual is small the aggregate amounts to a large sum. We hope our friends will respond promptly, ____ ____ 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.