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(Eljromcie ani) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, - 1877. A NEW DEPAHTCRE. The Wilmington (N. a) Star under stands that there is a movement on foot among the better class of colored peo ple, which is expected to become gen eral thronghont that State, having for its object an alliance with what they term the liberal element of the Demo cratic or Conservative party in all State, connty and mnnicipal elections hare after to occur. There have been several meetings in Wilmington recently in the interest of this movement, and it is pro posed to hold a general convention of the colored people of North Carolina at an early day, when the matter will take more definite shape. The movement is confined entirely to the colored popula tion, and without regard to the wishes, approval or disapproval of the white element of the Republican party. In national elections, they say, circum stances will govern their action. KNULINH OPINION ON COTTON. Smith, Edwards & Cos., a leading Liverpool authority on cotton, after having estimated the cotton crop first at 4,100,000 and then 4,200,000, now con cede the probability of a crop of 4,500,- 000 bales. In theircircnlar of February 28th, they say: The American receipts have been much larger than any one anticipated, and in apite of protestations to the coutrary from America, public opinion bas settled upon 4} millions as a fair estimate of crop. This figure is not thought too large ; indeed the beat statistical inquiries seem to point to a moderate deficien cy in the supply even with inch a crop. But it is sufficient to dispel all fears of famine, and to leave the market to be regulated rather by the immediate influences besting upon it than by remote prospects of scarcity. These im mediate influences are mostly unfavorable. The stock and amount afloat for this port are about 150,00) more than last year, while spin ners also bold a large supply, so that there is a probability of the stock for several months boing considerably larger than laat year, and it is not u.ilikely it aid roaeh 1,200,000 bales in the mouth of May. THE PARTY STATEN. Says the Baltimore Attn; Of the thirty eight States composing the Union, twenty-one have at this time Democratic State governments, and although three of these—California, Nevada and Ore gon-cast their electoral votes for Hates, the majorities in several of the recognized Republican Statea are so small that they may be said to be almost equally divided between the two great parties. Even in Ohio, Mr. Hates’ own State, a cliftDge of 3,500 votes would have given the election to the Demo crats, while 1,500 votes in New Hamp shire, 500 in California, 500 in Oregon, 2,500 in Rhode Island and 500 in Ne vada, would have effected a like result in those States. Indeed, so narrow at the last election was the margin between the Republi cans and Democrats in States claimed and held by the former that a change of 8,070 votes in a poll of 1,154,074 votes would have given forty-nine additional electoral votes to Tilden. Even in the New England States the Republican majority in a vote of nearly 700,000 was leas than 87,000; in the Western States, in a vote of 2,000.000, bnt 182,000, and in the mountain and Pacific States but 5,785. The actual Democratic majority on the popular vote, and accepting the Louisiana Returning Board count for that State, was 250,970, and the actual net Democratic gain iu nineteen States was 969,456. It is well to remember these things. THE OI.DEnT INHABITANT. In a plain and rather pooily furnished room in the second story of an unpre tending brick house on Third avenue, New York, a man is Baid to be slowly dying who is believed to be one of the oldest and perhaps the very oldest human inhabitant of the earth. It is the famous Captain Lahrbusch, and his 111th birthday occurred a few days ngo, if his owu claim to antiquity is to be allowed. Several years ago he was regarded as a first class oelebrity, and it was the custom to celebrate the recur ring anniversaries of his birth with a dinner in his honor. Some of the most prominent men in business and in lit erature and learning in the metropolis were wont to grace these festive occa sions, and they also entertained the old man at their own houses, and listened to the marvellous reminisoences of his long and eventful lifo. Bat after a while one of those iconoclastic fellows, who can not tudtire celebrities, made a fierce attack npon the genuineness of his claim to longevity, and a heated discussion followed which cast a cloud of suspicion upon his title to the distinction of being a centenarian and the associate of the great soldiers of the Napoleonio wars. Still his claim has never been disproved, and it is said that those who have made a careful investigation are convinced of its genuineness. According to the story of Oaptain Lahkmcsch's life, which is now general ly credited, he was born on the 9th of March, 1766, and served in the British army through the famous wars of the lost of the eighteenth and the first of the nineteenth oenturiea. He was under Sir Arthur Wellesley in the P?ninsu lar war, was the friend of Blucher, and knew Marshal Net and Prinoe Eugene. He guarded the illustrious prisoner at St. Helena more ttasn sixty long years ago, and retired from active service two years later, at the age of fifty-two. He married, suffered shipwreck, lost his family and the savings of a long life time, and finally survived his generation to be regarded as a strange relio of a by gone time. It is not easy to realise what a stretch of years and what events and changes such a life-time spans.— Captain Lahrbcsch still lives, and yet if his claim is to be allowed he was born three years before the great Nuolios, was five years old when Sit W alteb Scott first saw the light, was a young man of twenty-two when Lord Btbon was born, might easily remember onr great revolution, and was of mature age when the terrible French outbreak oc curred. He was a contemperary of Pitt and Burke and Dr. Johnson, and of the fathers of the American Republic. At his birth Lons XV. was on the throne of France, Maria Theresa swayed the scepter of Austria, Frederick the Oreat ruled over Prussia, and the first mutter ings of discontent and resistance were heard from the American coloniee of Great Britain. He ante-dates not only the telegraph and railroad, bnt the steamboat and most of the inventions and discoveries which are the boast of onr civilization. Snch a living tclic of the past may well be regarded as a celebrity, and his death, which is likely to occur at any time, will be an event of no common interest. The census which has just been taken shows that there are at present in Franee 73 towns with a population exceeding 30,000 inhabitants, 108 with a popula tion of 10,000 to 20,000 inhabitants, 800 with a population of 5,000 to 10,000 in habitants, 2-49 with a population of 4,000 to 5,000 inhabitants, and 681 of 8,000 to 4,000 inhabitants. Sir Richard Tcmple's dispatches from Calcutta, giving accounts of the terrible loss of life by the late cjolone, turn out to have been greatly exagger ated. The number who pariabed will not exceed one hundred thousand. Sir Dick has fallen into the ways and style of Ball Ran Bussell. It is announced that a vessel has jnat sailed from Philadelphia for Italian ports lsden with samples of American goods of all descriptions. A special agent will distribute them throughout the kingdom, with the view of obtain ing orders in competition with European manufacturers. THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION. This State voted on laat Tuesday for three members of Congress and for Gov ernor. The chief interest in this elec tion arose from the fact that the strength of the next House of Representatives will be eo nearly equal as to make it a matter of considerable interest whether New Hampshire sends Republicans or Democrats. In the laat Congress, the First and Second Congressional Dis tricts were represented by Messrs. Jokes and Bell, Democrats—the former hav ing a majority of 336 votes, and the lat ter a majority of 154 votes over hie Republican competitor. The Thiid District was represented by Blair, Re publican, whose majority over Kent, Democrat, was 209. In 1878, the Re publicans carried the First District by a majority of 378, and the Second by a majority of 7, while the Democrats car ried the Third by a majority of 333. The Second District was steadily Republican up to 1871, when, owing to dissensions in the Republican ranks, Bell, Demo crat, was elected by s majority of 849, over Stevens, Republican. Two years later he was the competitor of Pike, Republican, bnt was beaten by the slen der majority of seven votee, and in 1875 was again elected by the majority al ready stated. The returns very clearly indicate that the Btate has gone Repub lican, and that the Democrats have lost alt of the Congressmen. This will make the two parties in the new House almost eqnally divided, the Democrats having a very small majority. FOREION TRADE OF THE UNITED (STATE*. In an elaborate article on the official returns of tbe foreign commerce of the United States, for the seven months ending January 31, 1877, the New York Bulletin says : We have the extraordi nary resnlt of an exoess of exports over imports amonnting to 8135,200,000 on the seven months’ business; last year the excess for tbe same period was $53,800,- 000, and in 1874-5, it was $52,500,000. Were the same ratio of balance to be continued up to the close of June, there would resnlt from the year’s exchanges of goods and specie with foreign coun tries a balance in onr favor amounting to 5263.000.000. At present, we see no signs of any general reaction from this extraordinary relation between the im ports and exports. Tne general contrac tion of consumption which has caused it is yielding bnt slowly, and the Spring importations have passed their olimax. Bnt, on the other hand, the shipments of cotton will henceforth decline, while the Cuban sugar crop will shortly be ar riving in large volume; bo that the dif ference between the inward and the out ward movement that has prevailed for the last seven months can hardly be ex pected to continue at the same high ratio for the remaining five. Without, how ever, attempting any definite estimate, it seems safe to anticipate that the bal ance for the whole fiscal year may prove $200,000,000 to $225,000,000 in onr fa vor, Under these circumstances, a de cided probability is suggested that we shall materially increase our stock of the precious metals within the onrrent fiscal year. An indefinite sum—prob ably not leas than $80,000,000-is need ed to pay the interest upon onr securi ties held abroad, which has to be satis fied out of this surplus; and any return of seenrities in excess of the amount ex ported has to be paid for from tbe same source; but, ao far as these two debtor items fail to equal the surplus of ex ports, we may expect to receive specie in payment. Although we rank among the large specie exporting countries, our net exports exceeding, on the average, fifty millions per annum, yet in the first seven months of the current fiscal year we imported $5,358,000 more of the pre cious metals than we exported; in otlur words, we have kept at home seven months’ prodnetiou, and have added to it the foregoing sum from foreign stocks; whiob, put into plain figures, meana that we have increased the home stock of gold and silver by about $50,000,000 since the end of June, 1876. II KM PELT FOR POLITICAL OPPONENTS. Mr. Hayes received a colored delega tion from Sonth Carolina on Friday week, and said to them: The use of military force in civil affairs was repugnant to the genius of American institu tions, and should be dispensed with if pos sible. He, however, recognized the necessity of protection at present, until that feeling of respect for the rights of political opponents should be entertained by tbe Democrats of tbe flouth. The President stated that with regard to thep- cnliar difficulties at present existing in South Carolina, concerning whioh the dele gation expressed great anxiety, he proposed to pursue ihe statu quo left by his predecessor, and to'examtno the oondition of affairs care fully and deliberately before he acted. The delegation then withdrow after expressing their thanks. The Hartford Times says it appears that two individuals, at least, of the Re publican party—U. S. Grant and R. B. Hayes -have been led to acknowledge that “the use of military force in oivil affairs ia repugnant to the genius of American institutions.” In Russia there is a military government, and a cen tralized, or one man power. The use of military there in eivil affairs ia in har mony with the eharaoter of the Govern ment, in which the people have no voice. Bnt that it should ever have been assumed that the military force should be brought into tbe management of civil affairs in this country, where it was supposed the people were the su premo authority, is somewhat remark able. The Radical party, however, with Grant at its head, has used the military to the extreme extent of creating a Leg islature, breaking up another, and dic tating to the members of still another whether they should enter the legisla tive halls or not. Now Mr. Hayes says the use of the military forces ia “repugnant to the genins of American institutions.” Evi dently. It certainly ia, if a military deanotism is repugnant to freedom or the institutions of a free government. The difference is precisely that which separates despotism from free govern ment. But Mr. Hates comes to another oon clnsiou. via: that he shall continue the military despotism in South Carolina, till “a feeling of respect for the rights of political opponents shall be entertain ed by the Democrats of the Sontb.” Un der the circumstances this remark of Mr. Hates is somewhat peculiar. The fact is that Governor Wads Hampton aud the Democrats of South Carolina, and Governor Niohcxlls and the Democrats of Louisiana, as well as the Democrats of the South generally, interpose no obstacle to the rights of the colored race or “political opponents. ’’ They concede them every right claimed for themselves. This is not only their polit ioal platform, and the doctrine promul gated by the Democrats of the South in their official papers and in their speeches in Congress and in the States, bat it is a doctrine carried into practical operation by them. The proof of this is within the reach of Mr. Hates. It is known to the country. In the Democratic States of the South the rights of political op ponents and of the negroes have been ear®fully protected; and since the Dem ocrats had control of those States the people have enjoyed better and more honeet governments. When the Republicans tell ns test there have been crimes in South Caro lina and Louisiana, they should be hon orable enough to acknowledge that those States bars been under the control of their own partisans, with “ the military in their civil governments repugnant to American ioetitations.” In those States Republican rule and military force have bad foil sway. But the peo ple were not well protested. They were robbed, and they have suffered the evils of negro riots, and the depredation* of armed and lawless negroes, who were trained in their secret lodges to hate gad oppress their white neighbors. When Mr. Hans talks of “ respecting the rights of political opponents,” be should turn to hie own party, and find how far his carpet-bag friends at the South have respected the rights of the white people there; end it would be well if be would study the effect of mil itary power in the civil affairs cf those States, where disorder, oppressive taxa tion, arbitrary arrests of innocent citi zens, without legal warrants, where the beat citizens have been taken from their plantations and homes by tbe oppres sions of despotic rulers, have prevailed, and where these outrages have brought distress upon Statea that ought now to Be comparatively prosperous. SOCIETY IN NAN FRANCISCO. -.tsrtllas Extent f the tixnix fxr Ganblhi in Kttciit—Wtnei Mho Hx e Won and l,ot Itaiiirnae Fortune*—How Laura Fair Made $40,0*0. [San Francisco Correspondence in the Sew York Graphic ] A letter written a short- time since from here to the New York Times Has caused quite a ripple of excitement in society. Some of the statements made were too near the truth to be calmly endured. “Hence these tears.” The fact "'is. “society here is in a very crude state. ’ You see this more in the case of the women than of the men. Che latter have become somewhat toned down by attrition with the world; the ronghncES of i he pioneer rounding into the still bold though symmetrical strength of character that .marks the Oaiifornian everywhere; bnt their wives, many of them starting from the lowest social point ia the 4 ,early days, have only gained the poorest advantages wealth can bestow—the means to follow ihe latest caprice of fashion, and live ii. idleness and luxury. The generation now growing up are just what might be expected. There ia an inner circle, however, which is voted “slow” by the yonng folks. Here one finds the hos pitality and cordialityjnatnraljto expect of a people who claim to be tbe cham pions of those virtues. Still, as a rule, San Francisco is not a social place, and home sicknesn is not an unusual disease to find among Eastern visitors. 1 nsed to tuink Washington was the most barren Bpot on the footstool on which to scatter good seed. I must re vise that opinion somewhat by the light of later expert nee. I was told when 1 first arrived here that if I wanted to make myself utterly obnox'ons ut here to talk •woman’s rights.” Did that stop me? Not a bit of it! lam used to being “utterly obnoxious” to certain kinds of people; I think I rather like that. Bnt 1 found the opposition to be met pro ceeds from the women themselves rather than the men, who, even where disagreeing, are almost always ready to yield the point out of gallantry. Wo men here need some sort of nucleus, a rallying point, where they can be brought together by some common in terest. Ob, for a club like dear old 3o rosis. Ilorr Women Gamble in Stock*. The Woman’s Mining Bureau aimed at being somewhat in that way, but from present indications it is destined to be one more of the many sucli fail ures. Mrs. Kellogg, the President— and, by the way, the annt of the prima donna— tells me she has not given it up, but intends when stocks are better to make another effort. But it is looked on ontside as a defunct institution. The cause of this is probably, as Mrs. Kel logg said, “the apparently inherent in ability of women to trust each other fully.” They will go to a male broker with their money, even with the cer tainty ahead of losing every cent of it. The stock market is the financial barom eter. From the purchase of a doll to the baying of an estate, that inexorable power rules. Every one is “in stocks.” Catholic priests, evangelical clergymen —acting under c< ver of their wives— decons, doctors, lawyers, shop girls, servants of every grade, actresses and society ladies. A good story is told apropos of Brid get’s speculative proclivities. An Eastern lady had procured, after much difficulty, a “perfect treasure of a girl,” a red haired, freckled-faced Emerald Isler. Having tested her capacities thoroughly, the mistress ventured on asking some company to dinner. The day arrived. Seated in the parlor, entertaining her guests, suddenly that oder so appalling to the housewife—the smell of burning eatables—hecame more and more per ceptible. Excusing berself, she rushed to the kitchen, to be met at the door by Bridget’s flushed, triumphant face. A friend had dropped in to say that “bul lion” had gone up to a fabulous price. Bridget had just stepped out to Ler broker’s—about ten blocks off—sold out. her shares, and had just returned with $1,500 gain in her pocket 1 The dinner was burned to a crisp, but the company being “in stocks” largely themselves, sympathized so heartily that the lady was compelled to swallow her mortifioa tion and congratulate tbe lucky specula tor. Gambling, in one form or another, seems to be tbe inevitable concomitant of every civilization. Paris has her bourse, England her bank of England shares, New York her railroad interests, Chicago her wheat, while California plays pitch and toss with fortune with the yellow wealth of her inexhaustible bosom. I asked an old Californian lately if there was not a possibility that the power of the stook market might be broken. “Yes,” he responded promptly, “when the mines are ex hausted or the fools all dead.” That last clanse destroyed all hope for saner days for California. Tvpea of the Female Speculators. “You want to know something about the women who are iu stocks,” he said. “Well, among business men they are not considered a success as operators. They can seldom invest largely enough to make any mark. They are at once too credulous and too Bnspioions. Credulous when once a broker has roped them in—suspicious of every one else. Some few old stagers have be come as well known in the street as the brokers themselves, but iu the main the women who dabble in shares are oftener seen in tbeir brokers’ office than else where. There is a fair type of one class now. She is probably owner of a ‘ranch,’ which she runs herself and which she will lose perbapa to-morrow or the next change of the market.” She was a fair sample of the middle class California woman—coarse, hard featnred, and with that eager, restless look that one sees on almost every face here. A brown linen dress, sealskin sack, white straw boonet trimmed with bright flowers, and a broad embroidered collar of the style of 1857, made up a sout ensemble seen nowhere ontside this State. “Every new female face ia noted at onoe,” my friend continued, “and a new comer in the weeds of widowhood ia a special prize, as there is always a possibility of an insurance policy, if nothing more, in the background. The first woman to deal in stocks personally was Mrs. S. E. Swift, now Secretary of the Woman’s Mining Barean, originator of the Woman’s League, and an active member of any number of other enter prises. Of her many sobriquets on the street, that of the pioneer pleases her beat. Mrs. Kellogg stands next in ex perience. Both have lost and won in their day. Laura Fair does a consider able business through ber broker, bnt is seldom seen. It ia said she made $40,- 000 while in jail for the murder of Crit tenden. Of the small fry, whose name ia legion, no one knows much. They are the privates in the noble army of martyrs.” Are the sensational stories we hear of suicides consequent on heavy losses true? ” “Yes ; but it ia only the men, so far, who have so signaliz and their own de feats. It is not a month since I saw a little woman lose her $20,000 in a morn ing, and that without a quiver of the lip or a wink of the eyelid. She was a widow, too, with three children, and it was every cent she had. I thought then we mast allow your sex the palm for fortitude.” “It Biietk Like aa Adder.” But California, with all her charms, has also her plague spot. To drink is the rule, not only in public but at heme, and the vice, I regret to say, is not con fined to the male members of families. Tf invited to stop to lunch with a lady friend, you are expected to take yonr toddy, as a matter of course. If not, yon are laughed at and told at once that your are “no Californian.” To be a Californian, in this sense, would be comparatively easy and pleasant were tbe libations confined to the wines of the country, but unhappily they are not. Whisky, often straight, is tbe tipple most affected. Of public saloons there is a proportion of one to every 126 of the inhabitants, counting women and children. Meanwhile the temperance societies go on trying to stem the tide of evil, bat with little appreciable success. Tbe St. Paul Ditpatch has discovered skeleton closets in tbe State Capitol— Intemperance has been increasing in the legislative halls and statesmen have for some time enjoyed monthly sprees.— Some of the committee rooms have been turned into private bar rooms, which are run et tbe expense of the State. It is alleged that one of the committees obtained an allowance of S3OO for ex penses ; that twenty dollars went for a cupboard and ten dollars for keys, that the balance was used to buy liquors to pat into the cupboard, and that the drinking men in the Legislature were supplied with keys. OUR VOLUNTEER CORPS. A COMPLETE REORGANIZATION FAVORED. What i. Beixe Done in Atlanta—Ax Imita tion from New Y ark—Visitor* frxin Penn •ylvania.—The Blxea and Cadet*. It b&3 the sanction of all statesmen and patriots that every conntry and State sbonld take a just pride in the pursuit of arms, and that military train ing is one of the first qualifications of the valnable citizen. In onr country es pecially is there fair opportunity and ample occasion for the indulgence of martial spirit and the exercise, both physical and patriotic, to be had in the school of the soldier. Ceorffia’s Soldiery. Onr famous Commonwealth has al ways been conspicuous in the South for the spirit f soldierly enthusiasm mani fested by her sons and there have been few intervals of her history in which it could be said of her that she was with out a well regulated mititia. Since the war our volunteer forces have been pret ty fairly independent bodies, witbont systematic organization or homogeneity of interests. Cities and county seat's have had their companies, battalions and regiments, but up to the present time there has been no binding cord to bold them together and give them a anion of strength and fame. The Excellent Material Contained in the splendid companies of Atlanta, Angusta, Macon, Columbus and Savannah forms a basis of organize tion which, properly manipulated, will grow into one of the noblest military bodies in the Union. We are pleased to learn that the vol unteers throughout the State are almost to a unit in favor of the plan of orgaui zation outlined at the recent meeting of tbe board of officers appointed to revise the volnnteer system of the State. The “national guard” plan ia the popular one, and the boys all over the State are urging tbe adoption of such a system as obtains in New York and other New England States. A thorough organiza tion of onr troops, their allignmentin battalions and regiments, uniformed in regulation style and moved under a de fined line of authority, will give us one of the finest volunteer forces in the na tion. The full measure ot success can not be had in this matter until the re vised laws aro adopted by tbe next Gen-, eral Assembly, but iu the meantime it is urged that mnch may bo done in the wuy of company organization and pre paration to facilitate the regular estab lishment when it is commenced. A Kifle Team Invit.Uiou. Mr. John B. Baird, who 13 in charge of the military affairs in the Executive office, has given us a copy of a circular letter addressed to the Adjutant-Gen eral of the State of New York. The letter states that the State of New York has donated a handsome trophy, “The Soldier of Marathon,” to be annually shot for iu an “interstate military match,” at each Fall meeting of the National R'fle Association at Creedmoor. The lists are open to one team of twelve men, chosen from one or more of the regular military organizations of encli State. The distances are 200 and 500 yards. Position —standing at 200 yards, any, with head to target, at 500 yards. Ten shots at each distance, with two sighting shots. The weapon to be one of those in use by the militia of the State from which the team comes. The match this year takes place in September. The only expense to teams will be their transportation and sub sistence. The State of Georgia is re quested to send a team and Mr. Baird will take pleasure in assisting all who desire to engage in the rivalry, by form ing a team from our State. Pennsylvania Visitors. It is stated that in the course of a few weeks the “State Fenoibles,” the proud est body of men of which the Key- Stone State boasts, will tour through the South, and that they will stop some days in Atlanta. In such event, they will be the immediate guests of the Cle burne Rifles, and be welcomed among us with true Southern and chivalric hos pitality. The Fulton Blues* Captain Joe Scrntchin is vigorously at work to effect a complete and thor ough reorganization of the Fulton Blues, one of the handsomest and most popular companies ever in Atlanta. Some of those who had left the oompany un der certain circumstances sometime ago are reconnecting themselvos with the company, re-establishing the personello uud prestige of the old corps. When the company is fully uniformed and drilled, it will be hard to find an equal for it anywhere in these Southern States. The Atlanta CadctN, The always popular “Katy-dids,” arc en thusiastically pushing their reorganiza tion, and at reoent meetings have ac quired excellent new membership. Cap tain 0. W. Henderson, one of the best officers in Georgia, will leave nothing undone to put his beloved . company in the van, and we look for handsome work by the “Katy dids.” They propose a prize drill at no dis tant day, between the companies of the city. On the 4th of next month, also, they are to give a grand ball. We wish our military all possible suc cess and honors. May they work to gether in perfect harmony hereafter. THE SUPREME BENCH. The National Republican, at Wash ington, publishes the following commu nication, which is evidently from the Hon. A. H. Stephens : Sir— There is evidently a very strong and united effort being made by lead ing Southern men remaining in the city to sreure a Southern representative upon the United States Supreme Court Bench, to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna tion of Judge Davis, now United States Senator from Illinois. The South is, perhaps, justly entitled to this vacancy. Conceding this, the question is, whom of the number of distinguished names already mentioned in this connection will President Hayes select as the fittest man for the place? This is neither a partisan nor a political position. It should be above and beyond meve party, and if President Hayes acts w’.sely in his selection he will not a3 f ; what the political antecedents of the man he selects are, or have been, but will select him alone for his legal attainments, per sonal worth, and high integrity of char acter—a man who would be, from his very name, personally popular, and who would give almost universal satisfaction to the entire country by his appoint ment. That man is Hon. Herschel V. Johnson, of Georgia. We understand that Mr. Johnson is being strongly pressed for this position by Senators Gordon and Hill, and Representatives Alexander H. Stephens, James H Blount, and others cf the Georgia delegation remaining in the city. Wo hope they will leave no stone unturned to consummate this desired object. Apart from Mr. Johnson’s great abili ty as a man of erudition, lawyer and jurist, he is a man who would briDg dignity and an unspotted character to the Supreme Bench. He is now and has been for some years presiding over one of the Judicial Circuits of the State of Georgia. His decisions in the cases of the negro insurrectionists, so called, some two years since, will long be remembered as decisions where jus tice triumphed over the passions and prejudices of a large number of the white people of that section who were ready and willing to believe the ne groes were organizing for the purpose of a general massacre of the whites in that leg on of the State. Judge Johnson sifted the evidence thoroughly, but when the facts were fully disclosed, showing the plot a mere concoction of a few white men to get rid of one or two leading negro politicians, he promptly gave a verdict for-the defendants, discharging them from prison amid the jeers of an excit ed and disappointed multitude. His determination was to do justice to the innocent, and to protect the weak against the strong. For this he re ceived tbe rich plaudits of all right minded men everywhere. Judge Johnson was reared in the old Jeffersonian school of Democracy, but for tbe past twelve years has taken but little or no part in party politics. He will be remembered by his old Democratic friends of the North and West as the candidate for Vice-Presi dent on the ticket with Stephen A. Douglas, in 1860, and his appointment to the vacancy would give universal satisfaction to tbe thousands of his old political friends throughout the Union, while the country would secure a pure man and the Court an able jurist. A. H. S. SOUTHERN DEBTS. Adiastneat •! tke City f . New York, March 15.—Walter S. Bragg, now in this city, of the commit tee appointed by Montgomery (Ala.) Common Council to adjust outstanding claims against the city by holders of city bonds issued in 1870, to the amount of $500,000, in aid of South and North Alabama Railroad, has received the sig natures of holders of nearly $250,000 of bonds to the settlement proposed. Mob*. of them reside in New York, and h e hopes to adjust tbe whole matter amir a bly. New bonds, redeemable in thirty years, ore to be issued, with past due coupons included, interest to be pa ,and aa follows : 3 per cent, the first five ;/eare, 4 per cent, the second five years, and 5 per cent, for the remaining twenty years. DEATH OX THE GALLOWS. FOUR MURDERERS HUNG IN AIKHN. Ax Acoxxxt ofTlieir Crime*—Tbe; Are Cxx- Ticte* by a Jnr; of I heir Own Oxlor—The Execution Yesterday—Five Thousand Peo ple Present—Perfect Order Prevails—The Condemned Men Make Confessions. Daring the latter part of last Summer a band of black bandits was organized in the qniet and pretty little town of Aiken, 8. C-, by one Adam Johnson, a abort, thick set, foil blooded negro, tkfep an escaped convict. For awhile the band were content with ordinary plundering, making frequent raids on farms and hen coops iu the vicinity. Bnt as time progressed and the heated political campaign opened, the bandit captain and his chosen outlaws thirsted for higher deeds. A series of crimes followed which stamped the perpetrators aa the most deeply-dved villains of the day. On the night <f October 24, 1876, a terrible outrage was committed at the residence of Mr. Abram ParkinsoD, an old citizen of the connty, wbo lived with his wife several miles from Aiken. The parties concerned in this were Johnson, Dennis, Thomas and one other, Peter btnart, who was not of the regular gang. When they reached the old man’s house, et dead of night, Dennis pushed his rifle through the bed-room window and fired two shots towards the bed in which the venerable couple were sleeping, and narrowly escaped killing them. Thry then entered, plundered the house, while Dennis committed a Terrible Outrage Upon the old lady. Next we find Thomas and Brown, on the 25th of October, burning the Baptist Church of Aiken— a handsome and largely attended temple of worship. Brown arranged it, saying that he wanted to revenge hims-Hf upon the whites for the disturbance fit Ellen ton, and Thomas said he did aot want the white people to meet and. pray for Hampton. Brown tried to fire the stores on Main Btreet, l.ut they ’were well guarded, and he decided on the church, saying, “If be couldn’t get a horse he’d take a mule.” They got nothing from the church but a tabic, three chairs and * lamp. It contained a fima organ, and waa a total loss to the con gregation, as there waa no insurance on it. Brown again was the prominent figure in the next act of their bloody drama. There was an old peddler namod Solomon Le vine who traveled in a p ony cart between Augnsta and Aiken, ti.aflicing bis little wares. On the very tv ext day after the church burning (Octo’oer 26) Brown was on trial in a Justioa’s Court for hog stealing, and Mr. Lfjvino was somehow brought in as a Witness against him. Thomas got on the jury and made a mis trial, but Brown said he would Have IFis Revenge. On Sunday night he got Adam Johnson and Thomas to go with him down to Horse Creek, where they knew tho old peddler would pass from Augusta. They lay iu wait for him until morning, and when he reached their hiding place rushed out and baited him. Browu shot him from behind, and then mutilated him with a hatchet which he found in the wagon. Their booty was only thirty five cents apiece and his old clothes. The last and culminating crime was the murder of Hau.amann and Portmann on the night of November 2<l. Both of these gentlemen were Republicans and great friends of the negroes, showiug every confidence in them. These mea knew it, and knew that they were well off, and though t that they would find plenty of cash in the house. The plan was Deliberately Laid, With several others of like nature wkioh were to follow it, one week before, and the Dight before they started out all five met in the house of Steve Anderson’s father, where they burnished up their guns (four of them were members of tbe militia company iu Aiken, Dennis being the orderly, and several carried State rifles). They then started out, drinking all along the road, s topping, now, to drink a compriund of whisky and gun powder to brace them ap for their hell ish purposes, and then, to whiten their faces with-chalk. Wtion they reached the house t hey wakene i the two inmates, and by pretending to be white meu in search of Frederick A.. Palmer, they per suaded their victims to let them enter, and theu they rifled the house and put everything into bund los. Johnson then Killed B oth Men With an axe, two of the others holding them, and after setting firo to the house and making sure that the men were dead by renewed blows, they all left, heavily laden with their plunder. When the coroner’s jury had 'ferreted the whole matter out, warrants were issued, and one by otjo they wore captured in differ ent parts of the St,at % and in January, after a fair trial befoi 'e a jury entirely of their own color, in w hich they had zea lous and able count el, they wore con victed on their own confessions. Steve Anderson, who is tho youngest of the five, and does not si iem to have had as bad a record bef.ort > this affair as the others, was reeomme nded by the jury to the mercy of the. Governor. On applicatit >n of J. St. Julian Yates, Esq., counsel for Steve Anderson, who stated that ne- r evidence in his case had been discover ed, Governor Hampton re spited Aedersion for thirty days. There is hardly ar.y probability that he will escape hanging beyond that time. Adam Johnson was about forty-five years of age, black, quite stout, with a square chin, slanting forehead and pow erful mnsjulf r development iu chest aDd limbs. Uewa3at one time a preach er. Brown was also a full blood negro.' Dennis was about tb irty years of age; quite tall and strong ly built. Ho was originally from North ! Carolina. Thomas was the y oungest of 1 lie party, being about 25,, with a smooth , fu'l and rather pleasing appearance. Ere went from Angustr, to Aiken. His parents reside here nr.w. He, too, was u preacher last Summer and Fall. Escape Attempted. Tbe murderers having' been competed on the plainest proof ami by a jury of their own color, they could expec t no escape from their doom, the punishment which their many and heinous criLies deserved. But while this fact stai ed them in the face, while they could ex pect no help from the law, they did not abandon the hope of getting: away through their own exertions. A. little over three weeks 3go a white p risoner named Ray, who had the freedom of the corridor in front of the condemned i men’s cells, managed to get hold of a file, and this he secretly conveyed first to one and then the other of the pvisoners. Oae of the latter broke a hoc p from a bucket, and with the aid of tb e file made a rude saw. With this he f awed through the boards which constituted the inner trail of the jail, removed a quantity of bricks, and left oj ily one layer on the outside, which could be removed in a few minutes. The marks made by Rawing were artful! y concealed by to bacoo and dirt. L joins Thomas fiiet need the file ands jaw. and then they were passed by Ray to the others, eac h uf whom was in a p.e parate cell. Thomas filed a link of the chain which bound his leg and fastened it to the floor in such a manner that he could break it at a mo ment’s notice. ’He was in a situation to effect his own escape with but little trouble, but pi .vlerred waiting for the others. It was intended that on .Satur day, February 24tb, a general jail de livery should ’a© accomplished. O a the preceding Fr day, however, the plot was disoovere and, and measures take n to effectually pi event them from escaping. From the 1 ime of their conviction the condemned men were attended by two preachers of their own raoe, Phelps find Edwards. T 1 lomas, the younger of the four, was f ,ed under their teachii lgs with a sort of Rc Unions Frenzy. He declared ■to all who called to see him that he had made his pence vrith Heaven, and .was anxious to g’o. He looked out of the window of his cell at the preparation! going on for th 9 erec tion of the gallows, with an apparently joyous face, and occasionally sang hymns. All tht prisoners had made confessions, bat while each implii rated the others, hesta adfastly maintained Lis own innocence. No amount of per sua sion could drew anything else out. of them until Thu ;sda y, when Thomas m ide a ctean bres at cl the whole aff. lir, detailing the part he played in the t er rible drams. The others still held on to tbe old st ory. It was not until the dread shado w of the gallows tree ) ’ell across then i that the whole truth \ ras brought to light. Thursday night two of the eneiv—Ad am Johnson a nd Nelson Brown— were mar ried to tw o negro women, in the jail, by the coloi ed preachers, the latter bav ing refused ‘ m baptize the men unless f-his ceremor iy was first perform© I. The four convict ■ were then baptized . Wht ,n the news was received that An derso j had been respited by Governor Ham* ptnn, one of the colon :d preachers went to Sheriff Holly ai id protested aga ; .nst such action. He sail 1 that Ander sor, had repented of his a ins and made hi t peaoe with Heaven, and that he m jght Fill rrmm Graf -e Daring the thirty days al lowed by the Governor. This was a re' w view of the case, bnt the sheriff eonld u’t exactly see it in that light. The gallows upon which the con demned tnen were to ti ike their last stand on earth was constr ncl ed Wednes day and Thursday, Tbe la *t nail was driven Thursday evening, and the avenger of blood 6tood fc rth in ail its sombre significance. II v ras in fnU view of the convicts’ wind* jws *°d faced in the direction of the spot where their last horrid deed of crime was committed. The arrangement of the drop was an in vention of Sheriff Holly, and was ad mirably suited for the purpose. A single touch on a concealed peg would spring the whole and launch the mur derers into eternity. Yesterday morning,at an early hour, a crdwd began to gather near the place of execution, which was in the Court House yard, close to the jail. Sheriff Holly had summoned a posse, consisting of the Palmetto Rifles of Aiken, and about one hundred citizens, who were armed with rifles, shotguns and muskets. These were formed in the shape of three sides of a square, the jail fence constituting the other. The gallows was in the cen tre of this square. None were admitted within the square but reporters of the press and officers .of the cruufcy. Outside of this square was a dense crowd of whites and blacks, the latter being large ly in the preponderance. There were fully five thousand people present. Trees and* housetops were fall of anxious gazers. The Court House windows and piazza were crowded with ladies. The negroes were extremely orderly. Not a murmur conld be heard. Extra precau tions had been taken by tne sheriff, as rnmors had been afloat in the town to the effect that Desperate Friends Of the convicts would attempt a rescue when the latter were brought forward and placed on the scaffold. Not the slightest demonstration was made, how ever. The ropes were adjusted in the augur holes in the beam, the triggers set and all the other preparations made by tbe sheriff and his assistants. The scaffold was originally made with a view to the execution of the five negroes, and five holes were accordingly made in the beam. As Anderson was respited tbe centre hole was not used. At eleven o’clock, the preparations having been all completed, Sheriff Hol ly, with a detail of four men from the Palmetto Rifles, entered the jail and re turned in a few minutes with the con demned men. The latter were dressed in long, loose white gowns and were in their stocking feet. Two colored dea cons headed the little procession, sing ing a hymn as they advanced. Then came the two preachers, Phillips and Edwards, and after them the four con viots, two and two. The sheriff and Soldiers Closed the procession. The convicts advanced with a firm step, Thomas especially being in a sort of "ecstatic condition. His hair was neatly parted in the middle and a broad smile was on his face. He con stantly swayed his body to and fro, and turned his eyes to the heivens. The others were calmer. Thomas and Deirnis were first upon the scaffold (of the convicts), and W6re closely followed by Brown and Johnson. When they had taken their positions they calmly sur veyed the crowd. Edwards, one of the colored preachers, then gave out the stanzas of a hymu, which were sung by the colored deacons who stood at the foot of the scaffold. While the singing was proceeding, Thomas Clasped Hie Hope Close to him and kissed it, a smile on his face all the time. The sing ing over, Phillips read the burial ser vice, after which the ropes were ad justed about the convicts’ necks by Sheriff Holly, who then announced that, the men would each address a few re marks to the crowd. Adam Johnson first spoke. His enunciation was clear and distinct. He invoked the crowd to let that scene be a warning to all, white and colored. See what disobedience to God had brought them to. He was raised up like a white child. He had nursed this young man by his side (he had called Mr. Whitman Davis from the crowd, shook hands with him and beg ged him to stand by bis side), and he had nursed his sister. They were his old master’s children. lie wanted this young man to slay there and see him go. He begged his colored friends to bring up their children right; send them to Sunday School aud make them work in the week, so that they can earn their living honestly. Don’t let them steal. Nelson Brown called on all to see what the devil and bad company had brought him to. It had been charged that he burned houses, but he thanked God that that was not true. All that he knew Was about tbe murdering. In a few minutes his heart and soul would fly away to glory. Dennis said the crowd bad came there to see a dreadful sight. Drinking whis ky had caused it all. He would take it all fair and easy. He saw the blows when they passed. Two who were there didn’t pass any blows. They could hang him if they wanted to,and the sooner the better. His bands were clean from anybody’s blood. White people raised him. He never went around the streets raising a fuss. What he did do he was persuaded to by whisky and Adam Johnson. He saw all those white men around him with guns. He, too, used to havo a gun. He once served in the United States army. The white men had been to him and told him to confess, and because he wouldn’t they said he couldn’t tell the truth, but he could tell it as well as they could. Thomas said he was now taking the last stand he expected to take in this life. While his feet were standing there be felt that his soul was with God. He first started his wicked career from vis iting bad company and driukiDg be.d whisky. He was converted four year’s ago and commanded by the Spirit to preach. He Didn’t Commit the Murder. He was there while it was going on. The two first blows were struck by Ad am Johnson and the bodies fell. After that nobody but Nelson and Dennis were in the house. Nelson was at the door. Can’t say whether Nelson struck, but what he did know was that blows were struck. > Ho, Thomas, heard one of the men groan and influenced by the great adversary,he gave him a blow ivitir the axe. He said to Stephen Anderson : “ Brother Stephen, let’s go. Before we came out Johnson set fire to the bed.” [Johnson : “ No, I didn’t.”] “ Well, God forgive me; may be it wasn’t you. Fire was struck by Nel son in one room. [Nelson : “Wrong.”] Well, Dennis set fire in the book room. [Dennisnodded ] I didn’t set fire at all.” Thomas called for a drink of water and Dennis noticed several persons in the crowd, calling them by name. The black caps were drawn over the condemned men’s heads, the sheriff and attendants retired from the scaffold, and ,t precisely 12 o’clock the drop fell. Drown and Thomas apparently Died Instantly. The limbs of the other two quivered for a few moments. At the end of ten minute# Dr. T. G. Croft examined the bodies and pronounced life extinct to all intents and purposes. They were left hanging thirty minutes longer, however, when they were taken down, placed in rough pine coffins, painted black, a.nd turned over to their friends for bnri&.l. The crowd then quietly dispersed. Among the effects in the Hausemann residence when it was plundered and its inmates robbed was a tin box containing between forty and fifty thousand dol lars in bonds. This hai never been heard of since. All the condemned men -denied knowing anything about it, bat their statements were not believed. Dennis referred to it on the scaffold, aad repeated that he had never seen it. McEvoy’s window was opposite the scaffold, bnt he was not seen during the -execution. It is said that he looked on while the scaffold was being constructed and made jokeu about it. He is evi dently a hardened wretch. The execution was admirbly managed by Sheriff Holly and his assistants. 808 IXUEBSOLL. The Fiery Ifiiaeie Orator Pronounces lor ilayee* Pence Policy. New Yoke, March 14.—C01. Robert G. Ingersoll, of Illinois, lectured to nig'ht, at Steinway Hall, to a large au dience, on “Political Questions and Answers.” In regard to the policy of the president, the speaker said that there be peace between the North and Sou'tb, and President Hayes has taken pro oer and noble means for bring ing about".mity and friendship. He has joined the L anils of the North and South and asked .‘-hat hatred be bnried, and friendship sh ine forth. In the speak er’s opinion, tfc e President had a perfect right to select bis own Cabinet without reference to pa rty or politics, and the country and all honest men will stand by him in his actions. The speaker then reviewed each member of the Cab inet, and declared himself amply satis fied with them, individually and collec tively. If President Hayes finds that his present policy fails, he can, and will change it; but he ought to get a fair trial. He has offered the olive branch to the Southern States, and let us hope they will accept it. The speaker con cluded with a brilliant and eloquent pe roration, supplicating the South to join hands again with the North, and bury forever past hatreds. He was loudly applauded on finishing. Aa 014 Relic. A gentleman of this city has in his possession a gold ring which belonged to the father and mother of the cele brated Mrs. Motte, of Revolutionary f gl> ,A It has the date 1754 engraved on the inside. What is homo without a baby ? Many children have ccngha and colds just now and should have the greatest care, and a bottle of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup. PRESIDENT HAYES AND THE SOUTH. Editors Chronicle and Sentinel: Savannah, March 9 — Now that Mr. Hayes has been declared President of the United States, is it not our duty or at least our wise policy to acquiesce so far as he is personally concerned, and make no factions opposition to him, but wait quietly and judge him by the course he pursues in the future towards the South. The Commission by whose decision he was declared elected was created by Congress; the bill for that purpose p ssed both Houses by a large majo-ity, and was duly approved by the President. It thus became a law of tbe land and pointed out the way in which •<i disputed votes should be counted whether for Mr. Tilden or for Mr. Hayes. This legal tribunal so determined that Mr. Hayes received a majority of all the votes cast, and in due form, ac cording to the Constitution, he has been declared elected Pre-identof the United States. Whether tbe Commission per formed its duties as the Democrats be lieved it should have done; wheth er it was just or unjust, is not a question that should affect Mr. Hayes. He has been declared elected by a law enaoted by tbe legally constituted law-makers, aud with tbe making of which he had nothing to do, and, therefore, has per sonally had nothing to do with the ques tion whether or not he was really elected by the people. This High Commission has settled that question, and he cunnot go behind that tribunal; certainly it could not be expected that he should go behind the certificates of tbe Returning Boards and the Governors. In accept ing the office and in taking possession, he is bat abiding the law, and opposi tion to him on that point should cease, as it is unjust and useless ; he is before us as President, and should be judged by his merits as such. After the law was passed creating the Commission it was as binding on Con gress as any other law of the land, and, therefore, the House of Representatives had no right to attempt its violation no more than the Senate; it had a perfect right to make its legal objections bnt beyond that in attempting to prevent the count as determined in the disputed cases, they were offering impediments to the prompt execution of a law which they themselves, the large majority, bad created, and those who attempted it should get credit for so doing. If the law was defective it was the fault of the majority of the House, because the par ty in preponderance there conld have defeated it if they had not thought it in all respects the best that could have been done. Neither House nor both oombined were judges of the law after it was a law, nor were they above it, and, therefore, if the House had resolved that the Commission not having performed its duties in the manner contemplated it would not abide by its decision, and elected Mr. Tilden, Mr. Tilden would have been elected iu violation of law, aud would not have been the legal President. I maintain, therefore, that Mr. Hayes is the legal President of the United States, and that we of the South should give him fair play. Do not let ns commence by prejudicing him against us; let us wait, and if he gives us good government be content. In the mean while, do not permit ourselves to be led astray iu our opinions or by our acts by inflammatory denunciations from would be patriots. Tbe day is passed, I hope, when our people can be made to lose their reason by appeals made to section al prejudices, The South has declared through the ballot box that it prefers Mr. Tilden as President of the United States. It is believed that such is the wish of the South, more unanimously expressed than ever before upon any subjeot; with but few exceptions it was the wish of all the intelligence and wealth and respec tability of onr people. But, on tbe other band, as Gov. Brown says, the majority of the wealth and intelligence of the North favored Mr. Hayes. The States were so few in the North for Mr. Tilden that this election looked very much as if it was a purely sectional issue, nearly as much as when Mr. Lincoln was elect ed. And on that election which we of the South called a sectional oue, the South felt warranted in seceding from the Union. It is not unnatural to pre sume that the North had fears now as the South had then iu regard to the North, that is if a President were placed in office whose election was due to the united South, he would be UDduly un der that influence, aud that his power would be wielded in prejudice to the North. Having that opinion, granting that the South in the view taken by the North of the effect to follow a “solid South,” does it not become more prop per aud necessary that the South should acquiesce in the result, deter mined as it was by our own consent, and by our own acts or those of our trusted representatives, and show to tho North that their fears are groundless; that we are now, as we always Lave been, a law abiding people,and a Constitution loving people, and if Mr. Hayes will pay a proper regard to our prejudices, and there is no more binding obligation on a ruler than to abstain from disregarding tbe prejudices of a people, and take from among us as representatives of the Government those in whom the poople never had nor never can have any re spect, and whose cares heretofore have been to keep alive sectional hate and prejudices of race; and whose followers are but of the malicious and ill-disposed towards our people, and have by their acts as Government representativesdone more to wean the people from that love and honor and respect that otherwise they would feel towards it, than all other causes combined, there could be no reason why we should not be just as happy and prosperous under Mr. Hayes as under Mr. Tilden, or anybody else. There are persons who appear to desire that Mr. Hayes should signalize his ca reer by flagrant acts against law and or der, and the peace and welfare of the South, rather than he should give us good government, because, by their vir ulent abuse of him and his adherents iu advance of all cause, they stir up bad blood between the sections, and preju dice Mr. H yes against us as a people, provided they are in fact regarded as ex ponents of tho opinions aud feelings of the mass of the people. But I do not for a moment believe that they represent the views of but a small ultra class who are determined not to be satisfied and there fore are beyond the reach of argument. In common with very many others who are opposed to the plan of giving aid aud comfort to the enemies of the South in Congress, by pursuing aconrse that gives stiength to their assertions that we are all intolerant and stiff-neck ed people and indisposed to accept re sults unless entirely in accord with our own prejudices aud opinions. I am glad to see that yonr paper has the manliness to recognize in Mr. Hayes’ inaugural a sincere desire to give the South her rights of self-governnent in common with the States in other sec tions of the country and to withdraw from her leaders all the hinder&nces to prosperity which have heretofore inter fered with the free actions of her best people. In other words, that you stand ready to judge him by his acts and not indulge in indiscriminate aud cause less abuse, and are ready and willing to aid him in doing good to your own peo ple. Obista Pbincipus. AMERICAN BEEF IN ENGLAND. Home Intcreatlns Testimony and Figures. [From a Recent London Letter.] It is estimated that no less than a million and a half of ponnds are now brought weekly from your ports. A good portion finds its way to the provincial towns, where the batchers are not so powerful, and it is greedily bought by house keepers at about three pence per pound less than they have heretofore been paying for English beef. The Queen, the Lord Mayor of London and other distinguished personag. s have given open testimonials in its favor, and this goes a great way. At one of the principal clubs it was announced, one day this week that American beef would be supplied that day at the club dinner, and the members were requested to express their opinions about it. The universal verdict was that it was as good as could be, and that they did not perceive any difference in it from that they had before been using. “There is no difference,” replied the caterer, “for you have had nothing bnt American beef for three months.” Any one who understands London clnbs will know that if, during these three months there had been any fault to find the members would not have failed to com plain to the caterer, and this evidence is, therefare, perhaps the best that could be had. , ...... You can readily see that while your graziers are finding a good market, the effect here is prodigious in a pecuniary point of view. In 1875 the amount of meat conanmed in Great Britain exceed ed 3 700,000,000 pound (thirty-seven hundred million pounds!), and was sold at 9to 12 pence (17 to 24 cents) per pound Now if the influx of American meat brings down tbo price one penny, the aggrigate savings would be nearly £l6 000,000 sterling-or eight million dollars. Bnt the reduction cn a con siderable portion is three pence per pound. Therefore, taking two pence per pound as the average, the annual saving to families in the article of meat would be £32,000,000 sterling, or 8160,- 000,COO. This calculation is startling, but there is no doubt of its accuracy. This vast sum has been annually going into the pockets of butchers as extra profits, and suffieently accounts for the rapidity with which they have of late been growing rich. Beck k Stonebraker, pork packers, failed for $25,000. TRACKED 8,000 MILES. A Murderer Tracked to Oregon and Arrested —His Confession. Ji.hu Heyuortb, Chief of Police of Decatur, 111., arrived yesterday from Portland, Oregon, having in charge John E. Hoffman, arrested for a murder com mitted on the fonth of last January in Platt county, Illinois. Hoffman and Julius Orumrig were working for E. Frederick Delbridge, who had a farm in Macon county. Delbridge made up his mind to go to Oregon to better his for tune, and Orumrig agreed to go with him. In conversation with Hoffman, Crumrig said that he was the possessor of about SSOO, aud it was to obtain pos session of this amouut that Hoffman committed the murder. Hoffman ex pressed a desire to accompany Orumrig provided ho could obtain S3OO from his uncle, wbo lived in an adjoining coun ty. He induced Crumrig to accompauy him to see if he could get the mo’ ey. The two set out from Decatur to Mill ville, and then walked over a snow covered road for a quarter of a mile, and there the crime was committed. On the morning following, the body of the murdered man was found. The skull was crushed in, and as the pock ets of the clothing were turned inside out, it became apparent that tbe crime had been committed for robbery.— Chief Heyworth was telegraphed for. He found that Orumrig wore boots, on the inside of which was written the name of E. F. Delbridge. The Chief made diligent search, and by adver tisements and inquiry found the man who made tho boots, aud through him discovered Delbridge, who stated that he had sold them to Orumrig. Ho was shown a picture of tho murdered man, and identified it as that of Crumrig, who had worked for him. With this cluo to work upon, the Chief got informntien which led him to suspect that Hoffman was the man who had committed the murder. He discov ered that he had left for Oregon with his employer. He then obtained tne re quisite papers aud a complete descrip tion of the two men, and started in pur suit. He telegraphed to various points along the line of tho railroad to have the men intercepted, but those who re ceived the dispatches failed to find them. The Chief tracked them to St. Louis, Omaha and San Francisco. Ho then learned that they had gone to Portland, and followed them. At that place he lost them, but found trace of them again in Salem. There ho received informa tion that tho men had gone back to Portland. He reached Portlaud in time to learn that tho men had left for Ore gon city. At Oregon city positive in formation as to the whereabouts of the two men was obtained. Delbridge had gone to a point twenty miles from Ore gen city to negotiate for the purchase of a farm, and Hoffman was working for a man named Meyers in a pine forest, cut ting railroad ties at a point six miles from Oregon city. The officers went to the house of Meyers,met that man’s wife, and explained their business, and with her permission remained iu tho house until Hoffman and the other men who had boon working withliim came to sup per. As soon as Hoffman came in, Chief Heyworth placed irons on him. Chief Heyworth says that when his trip is concluded aud he once more sots foot in Decatur, he will have traveled eight thousand miles, at a cost of over fourteen hundred dollars. HOW TILDEN TAKES IT. No Bad lie*nil* from His Long T.nbors, But n Little Absent-Mindedness. New York, March 10. —If Mr. Tilden feels either chagrin, mortification or disappointment over his defeat ho thor oughly conceals it. When he greets a visitor it is with the same frankness and in the same resolute manner as of old. He seems cheerful and happy, is ready to converse about anything except the great contest, and is evidently improving iu health. His intimate friends, how ever, say that he deeply feels the unfor tunate ending of his life-long aspiratioD, and some of them evince anxiety as to its permanent effect on the Governor’s physical condition. Mr. Tilden has un questionably dono some very strange things lately. For three years he has worked without cessation, taking scarce ly any time for recreation or diversion. His fight with the New York canal ring occupied weeks of patient toil over con fused figures in the Comptroller’s office, and all through the hot Summer he wa personally directing the minutest details of the canvass. Since tho election he has worked hard on constitutional law and in devising plans of action. The amount of real labor lie has performed has called forth expressions not only of astonisment, but of warning from bis friends. Oue or two of his recent acts has added to their anxiety. Two weeks ago, on a very cold day, Mr. Tilden ar rayed himself in a Summer suit of clothing, including a white vest. Then be ordered his favorite new mare broueht to the door, and, mounting her, he turned her toward the Bowery. He buttoned the bottom button only of his vest and allowed the upper part of the garment to spread wide open. He walked the mare and sat very straight in the saddle, as the animal moved leisurely down the famous thoroughfare. In less than two minutes two hundred street arabs wore following him and shouting, “Hi, Sammy I Hi, Sammy !” But Mr. Tilden looked neither to the right nor to the left, but slowly kept his course down through the Bowery, through Chatham street to Printing House Square, where he turned the an imal around and returned to his home by the same route. A day or two after ward Mr. Tilden, in returning home from a ride, reined his st6ed to the curb in front of bis house and then deliberately fell off into the gutter. A gentleman who wa3 passing hastened to Mr. Tilden’s assistanc e and helped him to his feet. “Thank you, sir,” said the ex-candidate. “I must have tripped on a rough place in the sidewalk,” aud he ran nimbly up the stone steps of the famous 15 Gramercy Park. On the morning of Friday, March 2d, Mr. Tilden arose early, and read the head lines of a morning newspaper, an nouncing tho tribunal’s decision. After his breakfast he ordered his horse. The day was one of the most stormy of the season. Rain fell in torrents, and the wind was very boisterous. Mr. Tilden’s friends remonstrated with him for thinking of going out, but Mr. Tilden was firm. Nothing could keep him at home, and out into the storm he rode on his horse. He wended his way to Cen tral Park, and for two hoars and a half rode in the rain. When he returned he was drenched. Mr. Tilden’s friends feel confident that these littie peculiarities will pass away as the excitement and prostrating effects of the canvass wear off. Mr. Tilden has been very careful not to say anything to reporters about the Electoral Commission’s work, but after the decision was made he was asked by an intimate friend whether he intended to take any proceedings through the Supreme Court to seouie the place to which he had been elected. Mr. Til den’s reply Was, “No; what’s the use in taking proceedings that must ultimately be settled by the same Court that has already settled the question.” Being asked whether, in the event of the House refusing to accept tho Commis sion’s decision, ha would take any meas ures toward securing his seat, he an swered, “No; our party in Congress has made a bed for us, and wo may as well Tie in it.” He was very decided in his determination to abide by the tribunal’s verdict, and it may be said that he has not contemplated any action to prevent Mr. Hayes from assuming the Presi dency. Mr. Tildon’s household affurs are largeiy attended to by a very pompons body servant, who does not hesitate to speak for the Governor, however impor tant be the subject. This fantastically arrayed individual was asked how the Governor accepted his defeat. “Oh, first rate, sir,” was the answer; “he doesn’t seem to care mneb.” “Then the loss of the Presidency will not kill him, as it did Horace Greeley ?” “Oh, no; the Governor has too much nerve to be killed by such a trifle.” “I suppose he thinks, with the rest of his party, that he has been ontragoous ly cheated ?” “I guess so; but perhaps the other man will make a good President. The Governor has believed ever since that Commission began to.vote 8 to 7 that he would be counted out.” “Will he appeal to the Sapreme Court ?” “I haven’t heard them say.” “Will the Governor and his family visit Europe this Summer ?” “I have heard them talk about it, and I believe they are going. But I don’t think it ib fully decided.” But if Mr. Tilden is thoroughly inter ested in anything it is in his horses. The day before the tribunal’s decision was rendered be spent two hours in break ing a colt. The colt’s name is Elmwood, and it is half brother to the late Com modore Vanderbilt’s Monntain Boy, and a true Hambletonian. He had never been saddled before, and when the Gov ernor put his foot in the stirrup the colt shot out of the stable like a flash. He was dripping with sweat, and as docile as a kitten when the ride was ended. The Governor has also a fine mare, a large dark chestnut horse, named Topic, and a fine gelding called Blacks tone. He has also three carriage horses. Every day he takes exercises in the saddle, and under this wholesome treatment he is rapidly regaining strength and vigor. He seems to delight in his horses, and is pleased to talk about them. CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATS ANO THE EDECT.IHAL COUNT. Editors Chronicle and Sentinel: There appears to be some misapprehen sion in regard to the action of the Geor gia members in Congress during the late trouble. The minds of many ap pear to be filled with the l elief that certain members endeavored to seat Mr. Tilden in the Presidential chair, while others of the delegation succeeded in keeping him out —that some delayed the count to secure the former result, while others voted to continue tbe count, to benefit Hayes and injure Mr. Tilden. This is great injustice to the Conserva tive members, whose fidelity end truth are unquestioned, whtro these votes were oast. I am willing to believe it grows out of a want of thorough and satisfactory information, and this is my apology for this artiolo. This misapprehension may be wide spread, or it may be confined to certain localities, but it is very evident there is needed a plain statement of facts, to place all in a right position, as respect ing their notion during tbe contest iu Washington. It will hardly be necessary to tell you of tho anxiety that oppressed ns all after we fonnd that Mr. Tilden conld not get the one vote he needed, unless by a favorable consideration in Con gress. If the twenty-second joint rule had been still in force, the way would have been easy and clear, because that rnle (which allowed both houses in joint session to decide upon every State, and if objection was made, then to throw out the doubtful State) would have elected Mr. Tilden beyond a doubt. This rule had become null and void, be cause the present Congress bad failed to establish if. It was only the preroga tivoof theCongress,institntingits power. Mr. Randall made a faux pas in en deavoring to have it appear that it was still in force, but it was plain that it conld not be insisted upon. It was evident, therefore, we must fall upon some other plan by which the matter could be amicably adjusted. Dem ocratic leaders saw tbo difficulty. The Constitution, as interpreted by Repub licans, allowed Mr. Ferry to count the vote. If that was permitted, be would certainly count in Mr. Hayes without let or hindrance. Democrats felt they had the right on their side, aud were as sured of a majority of tho popular vote. There must be found a better plan, and after days and nights spent in discussing every proposition offered by the best legal talent of the parly, the Commis sion Bill was presented to the House and Senate. With such advocates as Bayard and Thurman iu the Senate, with Hewitt and all the rest in the House, who were supposed to be in rap port with Mr. Tilden—in faot, bis ad vanced guard—cau we wonder that it met with favorable consideration ? It was evidently distasteful to the Repub lican sido of the House. Murmurs hoarse and deep were heard. A “Til den trick,” was the general remark. It was certainly understood to be a Dem ocratic measure, and tbe dissenting members of that party objected to it upon the ground of it3 unconstitution ality alone. You will understand the favor in which it was held when you recollet it passed by a two-thirds vote in the Honse, only eighteen Democrats dissenting. It will also be recollected that over sixty Re publicans voted against it. It proved to be a very satisfactory Commis sion until the State of Florida was reached. Then came the tug of war. “Eight to seven” was the knell of doom. Up to that time every momber who stood by tbe Commission was quiet if not satisfied. Thereafter dissatisfaction and disturbance prevailed. The House resembled more a liut than a legislative body. Angry and unreasoning, the dis appointed party was full of revolution ary plans for upsetting the Commission. If anything feasible had been proposed the party would still have been a unit. It. was clearlv seen that Mr. Tilden’s chances were fatally wrecked by “eight to seven." The policy to delay the count and make tbe President of tho Senate acting President for twelve months, brought no ray of light to the members who felt that either Morton or Blaine would bo the ruler for as long a time as they desired. The Conserva tives were convinced by past experience that it was better to risk Hayes under forms of law than to fly to unknown woes. They understood the cry of Northern Democrats, for we heard the same cry in 1860, and previous. We then rushed madly to the fray, and expected to find those Northern friends near us. History records the North as “solid” for the Union, and we drank the dregs of a fall cup. The South has struggled to regain her place by slow and arduous efforts. Would you have her now resist all forms of law, and throw herself into auarohy and certain defeat? Are the scars of that dreadful time so easily eflaced ? Would you hold your representatives guiltless that brought upon you tho horrors of a second “reconstruction ?” The mind can easily pioturo the possible, nay, probable events in a second seces sion. Instead of disabilities we should have halters and confiscation. Remem ber, dear reader, without tbe Commis sioner we were obliged to have two inau gurations and two Presidents. With tbe Administration, the Navy, the Army, the Treasury and tbe Senate to back their man, where would have been tho Democrats, with even Watterson’s one hundred thousand unarmed men ? We had our day of faith in Northern prom ises. Sad experience is a hard but re liable teacher. It was often and truly said, that the South staked all, and lost all bnt her honor in tbe war of secession. Would you havo disgrace added to defeat, in another issue ? The question of right has not been considered for the last eleven years, in dealing with Southern States, but who will say we have not gain.-d much, in obtaining onr local Relf-governments in all bnt three of our States. The Southern men equally with the North, pledged their good faith to abide the result of the Commission. Leaving out any other consideration, was it prudent policy to forsake a dig nified compliance, meanwhile protesting the wrong, for a rash revolt, in which there was a palpable foretaste of humil iating defeat ? Reace and material pros perity are the great needs of the Sontb. The outside world has watched our course with manifest anxiety. This is the first great test of onr loyalty to the Constitution and the Union since the war. History will write tho noble sacrifice in glowing terms—for Southern men have put aside their wrongs of the past and present to give to the Gov ernment stability and peace, and thereby maintained the inherent greatness of Southern character. Tho South elected Mr. Tilden. He was her choice. He carried bnt a minimum of the Northern States. No ble old Georgia did her best, under the leadership of some of the very men whose truth and honesty are so covertly maligned. They made common cause with Mr. Tilden. Their snccess was his likewise. After he fail ed through fraud in the judiciary, was it their duty to plunge forty millions of people into civil strife to revenge the wrong ? The South had all to lose in such a struggle. With all due respeot to Mr. Tilden, was snoh a result to be considered,when weighed in the balance with the same difficulties that followed the last war intensified a hundred fold? Georgia has been also counted out since that war in a Gubernatorial elec tion. Will you remember the ease and strength with which she cast off the Bul lock regime before his term of office ex pired!? It is an old saying that honey catches more flies than vinegar. If the Demo cratic party divides, it will bo the fault of those who charge corruption and treason upon men whose convictions of duty led them to preserve the peace as a derneir resort. Discuss the matter in a proper way if you like, bnt forbear in sulting charges upon the motives of your representatives, whose love of country was greater than love of party. Native Ghoboian. A Valuable Receipt. We consider the following receipt of snch value that we transfer it to our columns from the Stockton (California) Herald: I herewith append a recipe which has been nsed, to my knowledge, in hun dreds of eases. It will prevent or enre tbe small pox, though the pittings are filling. When Jenner discovered cow pox in England, the world of science hurled an avalanche of fame upon his head; bnt when the most scientific school of medicine in the world—that of Paris —published this recipe as a panacea for small pox, it passed unheeded; it is as unfailing as fate, and conquers in every instance. It is harmless when taken by a well persoD. It will also cure scarlet fever. Here is the receipt as I have nsed it, and cured my children of scar let fever; here it is as I have nsed it to oure small pox; when learned physicians said the patient mast die, it cured: Sul phate of zinc, one grain; fox glove (dig italis), one grain; half a teaspooiifnl of sugar; mix with two tablespoonsful of water. When thoroughly mixed, add four ounces of water. Take a spoonful every hoar. Either disease will disap pear in twelve hours. For a child small er doses, according to age. If communi ties would compel their physicians to use this, there would be no need of pest houses. If you value advice and expe rience, use this for that terrible disease. It may save your life, for it cures your cold and oongb. Dr. Bali’s Cough Syrup. Buy it. Try it. It never fails, Only coats 25 cents a bottle.