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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, - 1877.
AUGUSTA’S CREDIT.
Richmond seems to be in s flourish
ing condition. The population has in
creased from 58,000 in 1870 to 75,000 ir
1876, and the finance* of the city are in
so healthy a condition that its eight per
cent, bonds command 116, and its sis
per cent bonds sell almost at par. Rich
mond, however, is not the only flourish
ing Southern city. The population of
Augusta has increased nearly fifteen
thousand in the past six years, and sn
impulse has recently been given to man
ufacturing that will materially aid the
increase of wealth and population. The
credit of Augusta is better than the
credit of any city so nth of the Potomac,
with the single exception of Richmond.
A financial measure has recently been
adopted which will greatly add to the
value of Angusta bonds. The ordinance
offered by Alderman Biblet, and adopt
ed by the City Council, prosiding for
the creation of a sinking fund to be ns and
in the redemption of maturing obligt -
tions, will have a most happy effect upon
the finances of the city. Heretofore
when bonds fell due they had to be
taken up with the proceeds of the sa e
of new bonds. These new bonds had to
be sold at a disoount, and it required
only about five renewals to double tte
principal of the debt, exclusive of ir -
terest. Under the operation of the new
law a slight increase in taxation will ac
cumulate a fund sufficient to pay all ma
turing obligations in cash and withoi t
any increase of the bonded indebted
ness. Besides the large amount wbuh
the city will thus save whenever an issue
of bonds is presented for payment, tl e
fact that such a fund is being aooumo
lated for the redemption of obligatioi s
will greatly strengthen municipal credi*.
We believe that Angusta seven per cen’.
bonds will sell at par within the next
few years. .
A PROKIT IN C OTTON.
The last number of the New York
Financial Chronicle contains a notable
artiole on the cost of cotton production.
After alluding to the high price of oot
ton just after the war and the genera
bankruptcy brought thereby upon thi
planting interest of the South, the writer
comes to the conclusion that there is a
profit in cotton, even at the low figures
of last year, when planters raise in
whole or in part the supplies oonsumed
in its production. For some time after
the close of the war cotton sold as high
as thirty cents per pound, and yet the
planters lost money. Last year cotton
sold for thirteen and fourteen oents, and
the planters, as a general rule, made
some money. The Chronicle illustrates its
meaning by showing the workings of a
plantation in Southwestern Georgia do
ing the past season. The owner did not
reside on the place but employed an
overseer to conduot its affairs. Fe
raised one hundred and sixty-three bales
of cotton, weighing when sold eighty
two thousand pounds. He sold early in
the season, and therefore did not get by
lj oents per pound what he could have
realized later. But after paying all the
expenses of sale, commissions, etc., the
net proceeds of his crop were 87,828 50,
or about 9je. per pound. The total
cash expenses for the year, of every kind
and description, including taxes, five
hundred dollars for overseer’s wages,
labor, etc., amounted to 85,113. To this
should be added 10 per oent. on two
thousand dollars, the value of the mules
employed on the plantation—as expe
rience shows that per oentage about
covers the wear—making the total cost
of the crop $5,313. This divided by
pounds sold gives 6'600. as the actual
cost of the cotton per pound, leaving the
net profit 2 90c. per pound, or a total
profit of 82,510 50. Had the crop been
sold later the profit would have been
about SI,OOO more.
The moral which the statement of the
Chronicle points is obvious to the most
obtuse. Cotton planting was unprofit
able when prioes were high because
plantations were extravagantly and
■wastefully managed, and expenses were
higher, in proportion, than the prioe ob
tained for the cotton. Year after year
the planters continued to purchase
bacon, corn, hay, flour, and everything
that entered into the support of a farm;
year after year they sold their crops at
high figures; and year after year they
went deeper into debt. When the panic
came a change of system was made
necessary by the inability of the com
mission merchants to make as large ad
vances as they had formerly made.
There was great distress for awhile, and
general ruin was predicted. But gradu
ally the planters accommodated them
selves to the inevitable. They reduced
their plantation affairs ; they econo
mized in household expenses; they be
gan to make a large portion of the
supplies whioh they formerly obtained
from the West They have persevered
in this policy, and its effect has been
marked and beneficial. Last year oot
ton sold for a very small prioe, yet it is
an established fact that its producers
made more money than they had made
any previous year sinoe the surrender.
The planting interest of the South is
now established on a sound basis. Its
future is bright if the lessons of the
past be not forgotten. So long as oot
ton is made a surplus crop, so long will
its production prove profitable. When
ever planters make hay, oorn, bacon,
wheat, oats and, to some extent, fertili
zers, they will prosper, even should
cotton decline to five cents per pound.
Whenever they resume the old plan of
buying supplies with whioh to raise cot
ton, they will go into bankruptcy in
evitably. Cotton should be a surplus
crop, or it should not be planted at all.
A SETTLEMENT DEMANDED.
It was fondly hoped that Mr. Hates
would give the country peace by settl
ing the Louisiana and South Carolina
cases in the only way possibly produc-'
tive of peace, and that is in the interest
of those who can alone make those
States respectable. In Louisiaa* and
South Carolina a majority of both race*
desire the recognition of Nicholls and
Hampton, or at all events the withdraw
al of Federal troops who have no lawful
business there.
We read in the oorreepondeaee of the
Courier-Journal that “there are no
aigns of fair commercial weather yet in
New York, and the prophets of the Be
publics*.' party can’t understand why the
wheels of trade are cot flying round as
if their patron saint, the devil, were
tnrniug the crank.” The Evening Ex
press, which is very much in sympathy
with the commercial classes of New
York, admits the truth expressed above,
and goes even a bow shot farther. We
are told, for example, that the days con
sequent upon the electoral decision have
been the very wont for trade known in
Gotham; that collectors of bills for debts
due men who have goods to sell, houses
to rent, money to raise, taxes to pay,
wages to p* jvide for, labor to hire, so
report. There see exceptions to be sure,
where a demand cesses to meet an ex
hausted market to feed sod clothe about
44, 000,000 of people, and to capply the
nnfed portion of tbe old world, beyond
this the inauguration at Hates hss hsd,
no other effect than to gis joy to men
in office who will hold over, ed to men
who have got office.
The longer the President hesitate* in
doing justice, and the more he befogs
the true situation with a peep teeing
“policy,” the mere trade suffers and the
more diffionlt will it be to restore a oon
jfidenee so signally impaired.
•‘Sorts difficulty is experienced in com
promising the debts of several Southern
States, the principal trouble being that
the States are too poor and the debts
too large.
SENATOR HILL AND MR. BLODGETT.
We publish this morning s dispatcl
from Washington to the Bsltimore Svn
which treats of matters interesting t<
Georgians. Some of the statement’
made are not new by any means. Th<
history of the State Road lease is fresl
in the minds of tbe people. There i’
no necessity for “charging” that Sens
tor Hill and ex-Governor Bbown wet*
connected with the State Road lease
Their connection was open and abov<
board. Their names appeared in the
cid made by the Lease Company and ii
the bond subsequently given to th<
Rate by the lessees. We have neve’
heard before that Senator Hill am
Governor Bbown were instrumental ii
procuring the indictments against Bul
lock nor do we believe that they were.
They certainly did not attempt to “ge
rid of him” in this way, for Bcllocb
usd been & fugitive from justice to
months before sn indictment was oh
-sine!. The corresj-ondeut says tb
Attorney-General says that Senator Hili
recommended the appointment of los
tee 1 lodoett as United States Mai
<bal. Senator Hill emphatically pro
claimed that he would not recommem
my one for offic* to the Hates Adminis
ration and Mr. Blodgett in a telegrac
o the Chbonicle and Constitutionalis
lenied that hisnamehad been presenter
oy Senator Hill. We are afraid tha
the Sun's correspondent has allowed hi’
imagination to get away with his vel
ocity.
END OK THE NEW YORK GOLD EX
CHANGE.
The end of gold speculation has foi
■tome time been practically reached, anr
by the action of the New York Gold Ex
ihange recently that organization is now
virtually dissolved, and what remains of
its business will be absorbed in th<
Stock Exchange. The New York Gol<
Exchange has been languishing for som*
’ime, and its dissolution may be said to
Ue at its own door. It made and mamd
many fortunes, and finally became a
very great financial nuisance. It finally
■xcited the indignation of the country
md broke its back with Black Friday.
Latterly speculative demand for gold
became light. The premium fell to a
v ry low point, aDd the fluctuations have
subsequently been insignificant. In this
connection a reference to the rise, pro
gress and fall of the gold premium
shows that the premium first made was
on the 13th January, 1862, when it was
103. The highest was July 11, 1864,
285. On “Black Friday,” 24th Septem
ber, 1869, it ranged from 162 J to 133.
The Exchange then went into eclipse
under the exoitement, and there was no
quotation until 30th September, wbeD
the range was 132*130;. From that time
the premium began to decline, and on
the 31st of December was about 120.
Early in November, 1870, it fell to 110,
and never afterwards rose to 120, the
highest being 1191, on April 5, 7 and 12,
1873. During tbe last half of 1876 the
premium has rarely beea above 110, and
on the 30th of December was down to
107. It is now 104;.
THE COLLECTION OF THE REVENUE.
The Government has recently expe
rienced great difficulty in the collection
of the tax upon liquor and tobacco, not
only in the North and West but also in
certain portions of the Southern States
ft has been determined to make a vigor
ous effort to stop illicit traffic in these
artioles. Troops will be put at the dis
posal of collectors in the different dis
tricts, to be used when their employ
ment is deemed neoessarv. We learn
that the Government does not desire to
so employ the military and will with
draw them when no resistance is en
countered. We have reason to believe
that the Collector of this District, Col.
[. S. Fannin, will not use any portion of
the army in the collection of taxes due
the Government. He trusts that tbe
support of the good people of each
county will render the enforcement of
the law an easy matter, and he has no
wish to resort to harsh measures.
Unpopular as these laws are the peo
ple should remember that they are laws,
and respect and obey them accordingly.
The Government must be supported,
and its means of support must, of ne
cessity, come from taxation. A Demo
oratio House of Representatives assent
ed to the present tax on spirits and to
baeeo, and the people should render
cheerful obedience to the law passed by
their ohosen representatives. We have
heard of no resistanoe to the oolleotion
of the revei ue in this distriot, and we
trust to hear of none. Good men every
where should discountenance resistance,
remembering it is but just that every citi
zen should contribute his share towards
the expenses of government.
A SWIFT WITNESS.
The New York Witness, whioh com
bines, in large doses, Radicalism and
religion the qualities of the latter
rather fishy and one-sided—in its issue
of the 19th contains the subjoined para
graph:
The laws of the Southern States and their
executive officers are fully eqnal to the occa
sion when negroes are the criminals. Four
negroes were hanged on Friday, at Aiken, 8.
0., said to be for murder, and the presump
tion. of course, is that they deserved their
fate. However that may be, it is certain that
Bctlib and his gang, who shot the unoffend
ing negroes of Hamburg, in the same county,
deserved to be hung, but we hear no word of
their being even tried; nay tbe chivalrous
whites of that State, after intimidating black
voters by the Hamburg massacre, elected a
Legislature which choee this same Butler as
United States Senator. How long can Heaven
tolerate such rank inlustice in any State ? Will
any one send os the true history of this negro
hanging in Aiken shortly after a negro massa
cre there ?
The laws of the Southern Btatps are
equal to any occasion of justice, toward
white or black. The tronble has been,
in several 6arpet-bag ridden States, that
the laws became inoperative, because of
the wickedness of some of the authori
ties. Kfllogs has been accused of
tsning loose numbers of criminals,
black white, especially about elec
tion time, and we fcplieve the same thing
has been true of Soutta Carolina. At
asy rate, in most of the Southern fetaUa,
a colored man can count upon jnstioe in
the Courts with quite as much certainty
as he can elsewhere, oren in the North.
Bdden outbreaks of mob violence now
and thee occur; bnt they are condemn
ed by e overwhelming public senti
ment.
The four negroes hanged at Aiken
were outlaws and murderers by their
own confession. They were justly
banged, sentence having been pro
nounoedbfg Republican Judge, after
the verdiot of gaitty h 4 been delivered
by juries largely made up o* colored
men.
When tbe Witness, however, makes
this the test for exettjog public indigna
tion against General Bcri*? and other
Carolinians, it ahould be reminded of a
few facts of history. General Butlsk
and his companions long and vainly
sought a tut trial before Republi
can Courts. General Rctleb de
clared that be would ri?t only
clear himself of yqi blame for
Hamburg riot, but show a Radical ma
chination at the bottom of it, which Mr.
Geamreslaav and his satellites woo’d
not earn to behold. Byqry man charged
with participation in that riot, and sum
moned to appear and answer, has
obeyed the mandate of the law. Mr.
£hambbklaix himself, then Governor of
the Rtate, distinctly admitted that
politios b&j nothing to do with it. That
the affair was unfortunate all admit;
that it ended deplorably, nobody denies
Sot that General Bum an was the .cause
of the met is untrue; that he is respon
sible for the hagedy is false. He has
again and again challenged hia calumni
ators to proof of their chargee, and si*
leased all but the moet bigoted and pur
blind, who do not wish to believe in hid
innocence.
No one can mourn over the occasional
deeds of blood that disfigure the his
tory of onr section more than the South
ern editor. No one is more prompt to
condemn outrages of that character.
But it cannot be forgotten that crime is
confined to no section. It has flourished
rankly everywhere since the war, more
in the North than in the South, with
■ess excuse, for the one section has had
the corqneror’s chance for prosperity,
while the Month has been deliberately
“ nrcanized into hell.” And such a
hell! All over civilized Europe the Ans
’rian was denounced for suggesting a
Cossack reconstruction of Hungary
What a wail of indignation should arise
over the black and barbarous recon
stroction of the South !
We echo the words of the Witness:
“ How long can Heaven tolerate such
rank injustice?”
With Hampton fully established iD
Dower, blacks and whites would find a
modus vivendi which is simply impos
■ible under adventurers like Chamber
lain and knaves like Patterson and his
'lack gang. The true history of the
'tanging was published in the Charles
on and Augusta papers. The Witness
vill find that never were four murderers
nore justly slain by the law’s execu
tioner.
It has been deemed necessary that
ome reply should be made to the New
York Witness. We fear that paper has
■noh a habit of elevating its vision that
t overlooks injustice at home, andean
ee nothing but infamy abroad. A little
lepression of the angle of sight is now
n order.
Nbll’e Gbant Sabtobis has made the
‘X-President a grandfather again.
Joe Bradley would make a good tail
to that Louisiana Commission kite.
Was Packard’s show of hostility an
opera bonffe way of keeping the troops
on hand, and allowing Morton & Cos. to
work np that Commission ? It looks
like it.
Mbs. Hayes is a sensible woman.
Having been waited upo?. by a delega
tion of her own sex concerning the use
if wine at State dinners, she replied
that it would be impertinent in her to
regulate matters controlled by her hus
band.
From present appearances Chahles
Foster’s chance of being the next
Speaker of the House grows dimmer and
dimmer. At least half a dozen Demo
crats must tarn traitors to effect this
little game. Those six men will hardly
face the music.
Wabhoth is the evil genius of Lou
isiana. He is the father of Returning
Boards and kindred infamies. It is a
bad sign to hear of him kob-nobbiDg
with the President and suggesting plans
’hat would make him a United States
Senator.
At the sale of tbe effects of the bank
rupt Washington Club House, there was
an animated scramble for the possession
of large imperial photographs of Grant
and Bobs Shepherd. The scramble was
confined solely to negroes, and the pic
tures were knocked down for 81 and 82
apiece.
Vice President Wheeler has already
condemned the Radioal villaniesof Lou
isiana. But having become Vice-Presi
dent by the fraudulent vote of that
State, he may have a delicacy in count
ing out the men who counted him in.
We hope, however, for the best, bnt
fear the worst.
An intelligent correspondent of the
Baltimore Gazette discovered while
traveling through Georgia that Ber
schel V. Johnson and John P. Kino
were old line Whigs. By parity of rea
soning, Alexander H. Stephens and
Robert Toombs were old line Demo
crats.
Pbof. Goldwin Smith writes an article
in McMillan’s Magazine. He foresees
the colored people of the South must
become politically dependent, and adds :
“You cannot always hold a bayonet
under the chin of the black man to keep
his head politically on a level with that
of the white.”
Simon Cameron acquired his title of
“The Great Winnebago Chief” almost
forty years ago. He was appointed by
President Van Buren an agent to settle
and adjust the claims of tho Winaebago
Indians against the United States, and
was charged with paying the savages in
notes of tho Middletown Bank, of which
he was principal owner, ipgtead of gold.
The Birmingham (Ala.) Advance,
edited by a colored Democrat, reminds
Senator Spences that Senators Lamab,
Garland and Hill received a majority
of the votes of the colored members of
the Legislatures of their respective
States. Mr. Hill received the unani
mous colored vote. It was not a very
big one, but it was the best in the color
ed shop.
Dan Sickles, the notorious, has his
fiDger in the political pie, and, as nsnal,
is up to some trick by which some
body is to be cheated. The Adminis
tration is consulting him about that
“Southern policy.” It is said that the
South Carolina compromise involves the
giving of the Legislature to one party
and the Governor to the other. The
drift of Sidj-LEs’ remarks is against
Hampton and his party.
Buell telegraphb that many Demo
crats are surprised at the rebuff they
and their friends have received in the
matter of application for office. They
were deceived by the tone of the inau
gural, which, like a party platform, was
devised to express an infinite deal of
nothing. Morton, it is said, controls at
least two-thirds of the post offices. The
bloody shirt is receiving a new coat of
red paint. _
Some extravagant fellow, with a point
er dog scent for office, says Hayes com
bines sll the good qualities of Wash
ington, Jas '&ow, ApAgs and Lincoln.
No doubt this same eulogist praised
Grant in the same nauseating way, and :
now drops him in a comparison with
greatness. The ex-President would silk
into obeeuniy if a lunatic did not, oc
casionally, threaten io his head
off, and offer to compromise for $460,020. ;
Judge Ji hnson had done good work
jn the Middle Circuit since he went
upon the Bench four years ago. We
find the following acknowledgement of
bis services in the presentments of the
grand jury of Washington county :
We are gratiaes 'o the diminishing of
crime in our county, owing to the strict and
impartial m nner with which bis Honor Judge
Hess*, hel V. Johnson administers the laws in
our midst. Our u- qualified thanks are hereby
tende>d him for the faithful discharge of the
arduous duties qi iris offi e.
Morton, Blaine & Cos. are .the men
aid and comfort to CaAMBER
laan and Packard. Garrison will work
p the fanatical gSMgvpns Puritan ele
ment, U Hayes had at once jrasognized
Hamptoji sod Nighoixs the trouble'
would have ended. Me has now to face
a mutiny in his own camp aiaai B tremen
dous Der?ocratic antagonism. Mbtyeb
sich used to say that Italy was the reef
upon which European ytateamen were
wrecked. Louisians may yet profS the
rain of Hates.
_ J..U
Robert W. Mackkt is (hp Warwick
of PeanafnvfjEu?. He and Don Cameron
ran the Bepsbkeaa party. The Times
says : “ They are the Repatoiiaaa party
in Pennsylvania ; they hold its honors
in trust for themselves and for those
they would have to enjoy them ; they
hold its destiny in their hands, for as
degenerated tinder their rule, it would
crumble to fragments did they leave it
to itself. If there is to be a Repub
lican victory in 1877 and 1878, it mnst
be their victory; if there is to be Re
pnblioan defeat, it mnst be their defeat,
and their erase now for the first time
goes fairly to the arbitrament of the
peopla of the State,”
GEO. WALTON, OF GEORGIA.
INTERESTING DOCUMENTS OF A
HUNDRED TEARS AGO.
A Signer of tike Declaration of Independence
—Sketch f Hi* Lite—tli* Marriage—He
Joins the Revolution—lll* Captivity—llia
Civil Citreer—Letter From John Adam*—
Tbe Slavery Question—Life in Philadelphia
—His Death.
[The following, prepared from official
documents furnished by the late Madame
Le Vert, has been handed us for publi
cation. It will be read with interest by
the citizens of Georgia. — Editois
Chronicle and Consthution'L'st ]
The letters enclosed were carefully
copied from tbe originals, the interest
ing one, from John Adams, “Capitals”
as he wrote them. The letter from Phil
adelphia, dtsenssing a grand ball, in
booor of the birthday of the Dauphin, is
extremely noticeable.
Of the three signers of the Declara
tion of Independence from Georgia,
Lyman Hall and Burton Gwiaett left no
children. George WaltoD, the grandfather
of Mdam had two children;
the elder died unmarried, conseqnently
Madi-me LeVert, the only child of her
father, is the sole surviving descendant
left of the three heroes, who, in 1776, so
nobly sustain’d the patriotic spirit of
the “Empire State of the Sonth.”
Geo. Walton was possessed of quali
ties that would have made him a promi
nent national character in his day, if he
had been a native of New England.—
Born to a large fortune, and cheated out
of it in his early childhood by a dis
honest relative, his gnardian, he was
finally reduced to such poverty that he
bound himself an apprentice to a car
penter. His “master” very soon dis
covered that he had in his bnmbl6 sub
ordinate a person of worth and great
natural ability, for he first encouraged
him in his literary pursuits, which young
Walton carried ou at night by the light
of a pine knot fire, and finally relieved
him of his indenture bonds, and assist
ed him in his professional pursuits. Mr,
Walton, on reaching his majority, set
tled in Savannah, became a successful
practitioner of the law, and finally mar
ried, at the age of twenty-three, one of
the daughters of the last, the proudest
and richest of the English Colonial Gov
ernors of Georgia. By this marriage
he obtained eventually a large icheri
taDce, and assumed his legitimate place
among the most aristocratic and influen
tial citizenß of the State. He was among
the first of his community who publicly
sustained the actors in the battles of
Lexington and Bunker Hill. He as
sisted in the organization of a “Com
mittee of Safety” as early as June, 1775
And in spite of all surrounding opposi
tion, at once offered his vast possessions
and his person to the cause of national
liberty. This zeal naturally caused him
to be selected by his fellow-citizens as a
member of the Philadelphia Convention
On’ bis way thitherward he wrote the
following interesting letter, only twenty
seven days before he signed the Declara
tion of Independence:
“Williamsburg, 17th June, 1776.
“Dear Colonel— The date and place
whence this letter is about to be written,
I doubt not will astonish you; but know
and recover yonr surprise, that I have
been persecuted solely with an inward
fev c r, ever since I left the salubrious
plains of Georgia. I can inform you.
however, that I’m not too late for the
great American question—if a question
it may now be called. Virginia is, with
one oonsent. determined never more to
be reconciled to her cruel parent, and to
this end all their preparations and pro
ceedings look forward to the latest, pos
terity. O, America! did this happy
spirit equally animate all thy sons, the
inhabitants of all Europe, transformed
into devils, could not hurt thee !
They have in this Dominion nine regi
ments of s fine fellows as ever vaunted
on the field of Mars, besides a number
of Raw Gallics and six troops of horse
But J have seen no troops yet equal in
point of discipline to the Georgia Bat
talion. May Heaven animate and direcl
the oonncils of that infant State !
Anxious for the snccess of yonr re
cruiting officers, I found it eligible and
necessary to wait on the Convention of
this Colonv, as I have found it custom
ary to apply for leave to recruit mer
for any service here. Accordingly, I
came to this place, where the Conven
tion is sitting, to which I made applica
tion to recruit three hundred men for
your Battalion, which was readily
granted, together with a sum of mouey
for that purpose ; and you may be as
sured that, tbe number of men you have
ordered to be recruited will be enlisted
and marohed to Georgia in two months.
As Mr. Arthur was taken sick and nn
able to proceed in tbe service, Mr. Pan
pill acts with Lieutenant Walton in his
stead, and as he and I expect, on similar
pay. I have also empowered two gen
tlemen to recruit under those Ensign
Commissions which you enclosed me
I beg leave to assure you, that I did not
look ont for men whom the service
fitted, bnt for such as fitted the service.
I did myself the pleasure of scrawling
a few lines to you from different stages
in North f’arolina, wherein I entreated
to hear from you, which I vet flatter my
self tbe pleasure of doing very fre
quently.
By a letter from the frontlet 1 of Geor
gia, I find that our Boats of Observation
are taken by the enemy, with the loss
of some men. This gave mo exceeding
pain. I had the best opinion of the
vigilance, good conduot and prowess of
Brown, and, therefore, was more sur
prised, as those qualties united and put
in action, it appears to me, would have
rendered the capture almost impossible.
I shall set, out after dinner for Phila
delphia, and having recovered my health
considerably in this place, and having
also obtained fresh horses of friends in
this oonntry, expect to be there in seven
or eight days, Adieu, Dgg]r (3plpppl.
and believe me to be yonr most affec
tionate friend. Geo. Walton.
To Lachlan Mclntosh, Esquire, Colo
nel of the Battalior of the Continental
Forces, in the Colony of Georgia.
A year and ' half after actual hostili
ties he writes:
24th December, 1778.
Drab Brother - Just before I was set
ting off for Charleston this morniDg, we
received accounts pf twenty-peyen sail of
vessels h&ving come in, pnd anchored in
Warren Sound. This terminates the
embassy on my part, but ye doctor who
went two days before will bear it, and I
mnst do the business. Roberts’ Artil
lery and Thompson’s horse are here. If
they are only Tory refugees from New
York, I hope we shall give a proper ac
cent of them. General Horn, who is
still here, says that he has accounts of
fifty sail being off Kdisto, If this is the
case, the invasion is general, concerted,
and formidable. One way or other,
however, J doubt not we shall weather
the storm, for why should we be lost in
particular? J haye seen the affairs of
the Continent iOJOQ times blapker.
Adien. Geo. Walton.
With the rank of Colonel, from the
Continental CoDgress, in the defense of
Savanuah, and supposed to be mortally
wounded, he fell into the hands of the
British as a prisoner. In spite of the
prominency he had obtained as a rebel,
he was treated with great courtesy.
We now turn to the contents of the
alluded to “ portfolio ” for our mate
rials, aDd find that from bis hospital
Colonel Walton wrote the fallowing in
teresting letter to his wife, io which, to
avoid giving fier an Y a^arni , be casually
mentioned a Wound that his doctors said
would probably prove fatal i
Savannah, 4th January, 1779, /
11 o’clock, p. m. \
Mr Dear Gibl-I was happy to hear
just at this moment, by a flag, that yon
were safely arrived in Carolina. It is
my earnest desire, that you keep with
vour sisters, until yon hear from me
again. Your dear Mama is still extreme
ly ill at our house and I am afraid she
will not long survive.
The day you left your brother and
myself, my dear Dolly, I received a
wound in my thigh. The bone was
broken, but cases of this kind are quite
common. I have every possible com
fort from my conquerors. Their Hqs
oital snrftfloes pre offered me with Trail,
Irvine, and Brydie. Aad they tall me
< hat they expect to see nee well. Re
therefore of good spirits; let me not
bear by any flag, that you are incon
solable, for that will operate to depress
mine.' ft any rate, you ought to recol
lect, that in these troublesome times,
you have no right to expect a life of tan
gibibty superior to yonr neighbors. My '
love to Polly. Brisbane is in town, per
f’ctlv well. I hope he writes by this
fl-w, thougji a fe?dw nothing about it.
God bless yop, niy dear, rogember that
yon are sincerely loved by i- mfn, whe
endeavors'to make b°>}oy, reputa
tion the rale of fais actions.
(Jgo, Walton.
This letter the expectant wife never
received, for she, in her endeavors to
escaDß Gom Savannah by water, was
after a shipwreck, to one O. the L,a ( u j®,
West India Island*, yhere she rema^^ 1
nearly a year, protesting G>a that
she nor her sisters ih the Colonies wotald
n#?ar abandon their rebel husbands.
Letter fromUoi: John Laurens, aid
de-camp to and subse
qientlv special emfaasssdo* K> the Court
of France : „
On the Road to Peters® to, i
November 6, 1781. (
I have the permission of the Com
mander-in-Chief to continue the cam
oaign under General Greene, and mean
to devote myself to raising the corps,
which Congress long sinoe recommend
ed, if the Executives of Georgia and
death Carolina will sanction the meas
are. Persuaded that it is indispensible
to the liberation of the Southern States,
I renew toy entreaties, my dear sir, to
grant me that support which is essen
tial to my snccess. My first levies will
be made on my father's estates, and I
will use my utmost efforts, and influence
young friends to obtain contributions
from liberal and patriotic ci izeDs. If
you conld be spared from Congress to
visit ns in Georgia I think the State
would speedily establish that respect
both at home and abroad which her
natural resources entitle her tc—as it is,
—yonr influence and advice will have a
preponderance, I hope, which the public
good requires. I entreat you to present
my respects to Mrs. Walton, and to ac
cept the sentiment of reapectinl attach
ment, with which I have the honor to
be, dear sir,
Yonr most ob’t. servant,
John Laurens.
The Honorable Geo. Walton, then
member of the Continental Congress.
Very Interest Ins Letter From John Adams on
Civil Appointments.
New York, Sept. 25,1789.
Dear Sib—The duplicate, via Charles
ton, of your letter of the thirteenth of
Angnst, never reached my hand until a
day or two before the nomination took
place to the office of Judge of the Dis
trict Court of Georgia. As I had the
pleasure and advantage of a particular
acquaintance With yourself, and the ill
fortuee to know nothing at all, but by a
distant and very general reputation, of
the gentleman nominated, I should have
been ill qualified to make an impartial
decision between the candidates. I feel
upon all occasjpns, I own, a particular
Pleasure in the appointment to office of
qentlemcn, now well effected to the na
tional constitution, who had some expe
rience in Life before the Revolution,
and took an active and decided Part in
the course and conduct of it.
The preservation of the Union, Peace
and Liberty of North America, are the
objects to which I have devoted my
Life; and I believe them to boas dear to
you as to me. I reckon among my
friends all who are in the Communion
of such sentiments, though they differ
iu their opinion of the means of attain
ing those ends. I will not say that an
energetic government is the only means
—but I will hazzard an opinion, that a
well ordered, a welt balanced, a judi
ciously limited government is indispen
sibly necessary to the Preservation of
all, or either of those Blessings. If the
Poor are to domineer over the Rich, or
the Rich over the Poor, we shall never
enjoy then the happiness of good gov
ernment; and without an intermediate
Power, sufficiently elevated and inde
pendent to costrol each of the contend
ing Parties in its excesses, one, or the
other, will forever tyranize. Gentle
men, who had some experience before
the Revolution, and recollect the general
Fabric of the government under which
they were born and educated, and were
not too mnch earried away by temporary
Popular Polities, are generally of this
opinion. But whether Prejudice will
not prevail over Reason, Passion over
Judgment, and Declamation over sober
Inquiry, is yet to be Determined.
With great nd sincere esteem, I have
the honor to be, sir, your obedient and
most humble servant, John Adams
His Excellency Geo. Walton, Augusta,
Ga.
The Slavery Question Lifting Its Ileml.
Philadelphia, July sth, 1792 —Mr.
Jefferson writes a long letter to Mr.
Walton, then Governor of Georgia, that
he had received a letter from his “Cath
olic Majesty,” complaining that three
citizens of Georgia had entered Spanish
tetritory (Florida) and brought from
there five negro slaves, &0., &e.
Mr. Walton, member of Congress,
writes to his wife, “at home,” a letter
singularly characteristic of the Centen
nial time, in which he describes some of
the details of the grand ball given in
honor of the birthbay of the “Dauphin,
of France,” snb=quentlv the unfortu
nate boy Louis XVII, murdered in the
French revolution.
Philadelphia, January 26th, 1796.
I have received, my dearest love, your
missing letter that you mentioned in
vonrs of the s;h instant; and it was most
acceptable indeed, as repeating those
sentiments which I know always dwell
in your affectionate breast, and as con
taining a statement of your domestic af
fairs. Continue to direct business mat
ters at homo as circumstances may point
out, and I cannot but be content.
I have real satisfaction in hearing that
you are able, in “Meadow Garden, ” to
afford shelter and comfort to so many
of our friends in the distress from the
Inundation, aud the more so, as know
ing, that your benevolent heart lost
weight of the trouble, in the contem
plation of the occasion.
The ravages of this overflow have been
experienced all the way to Virginia in
elusive, which will make provisions iu
the Southern States undoubtedly very
scarce, and youi additional care of our
small stock has been attentive, and en
titles you to my thanks. Cos have the
fences well kept up around the fields of
small gruiD, as that will come in most
appropo.
I enclose the published account of the
“birth-night,” in which the dancingsets
were not as many as I thought. I spoke
from information, not examination.—
It was certainly upon a large scale.
Mrs. is better; well enough to go
out the last too evepings to Preceptor’s
balls, and I am hopeful that she will
continue to improve; I was of the par
ties, and thought if my son Tom, if he
had been here, he would have done as
well as the best of them. Mrs. Milridge
was not well enough to go to the Birth
night, so that I want council as to the
dresses. In general, the ladies wore
muslins and white silk; the hair various
ly dressed, but generally ornamented
with gauze and feathers, with white and
pink ribbons. There were no sashes,
the lopse appearance of the dress termi
nating at the bottom of the bosom. It
was splendid, and needed this evidence
to Bhow the iigpppyed state of tjie (imes.
The scene from one view was very bril
liant, where under a Rotunda of ninety
fe-t diameter, yon saw ten sets danciDg
at once. The ladies most numerous,
the whole being iu a style to which we
are unaccustomed. Col. Habersham, Mr.
Millege, Mr. Johnson, Mr. R. Watkins,
and myself, went together, and none but
the junior of us danced. There was a
walk around the circus, where they
wallzed, observed and talked, &e., &>.
The supper tables, in contiguous apart
ments, were loaded by an immense
spread of costly variety—upon the wines
of which I supped, goiDg home at 11
o’clock,and dreaming of those in “Mead
ow Garden” the remainder of the night,
which softened my repose. Love to the
boys and accept my affection.
George Walton,
In the plainest and most beautiful
handwriting of Washington, we found
the followi ug, copied from instructions
given by President Adams to the Secre
tary of War, and seeminely copied by
Washington for some special purpose:
“If the General (Washington) should
decline the appointment, all the world
woqld be sifept and respectfully ac
quiesce, except the enepues of the coun
try—they would rejoice, Jf he should
come to no decisive determination, but
take the subject into consideration, I
shall not appoint any other Lieutenant-
General until his decision is known.”
We find a letter from a hero of the
florid style of speaking and writing. He
seems to have retired from “war’s
alarms’’ suddenly god t a critical mo
ment; he justifies himself to Mr. Walton
as follows;
Sir— Although I have resigned my
command in the army, I do not abandon
the cause of Republicanism, and I am
yet in hopes of brancjishiDg the glitter
ing steel and eieaving my way to a name
that will prove my country’s neglect.
Bnt should this mortal body be closeted
in the dust, the noble seal take its
flights to the regions above, where,pass
ing the pale faced moon, I’ll hang my
hat nn the brilliant Mars, tip the wink
to Venus, and astonish the natives of
each superlative star, and when arriving
in Heaven’s high chancery demand ol
the attending angel to be ushered into
the presence of Washington.
Ross Bud.
Committee os Safety of Havannah, (
June, 1775. |
Wm, Ewen, President; William Le-
Gonte, Joseph Clay, Basil Cooper,
Samuel Elbert, William Young, Elisha
Butler, Edward Telfair, John Glen,
George Houston, George Walton, Jos.
Habersham, Francis H. Hanis, John
Smith, John Mosel, Seth John Cnthbert,
Sec.
George Walton died when only 55
years of age—lßo4 At the time of his
decease he was endgp of the United
States District Court, sppointed by
President Adams. Throughout bis
whole life he was eminently distinguish
ed for those remarkable qualities of self
reliance, sterling good sense, self-sacri
fice, and p&triojjslß, so eminently asso
ciated witp tpe the Revolu
tion. He was a Tnember of (fre Conven
tion that issued the Declaratioii' of In
dependence. six tijpea elected to Con
gress, one term a United States Senator,
and died United States District Judge.
Profe£?or Baird, Commissioner of
Fisheries of the U nit ed States and Secre
tary oi Smithsonian Insti.”*? J Prof.
Milnor, of Institute, and
Captain T. B.”Ferg#BdE (formed* of
Charleston), Coifimisencner of Fisheries
for the State of Maryland, have arrived
in Charleston. The object of their visit
is to ascertain hat Varieties of fish
adapted to oar waters nan be introduced
by the Government.
Amusements. —The itre-goers and all
snch as keep late hours are very liable
to contract a severe cough or cold. A
safe and reliable cure is Dr. Ball’s
Cough Syrnp. The price is only 25
cents,
MR. HAYES BACKING DOWN.
A DISAPPOINTING CABINET
MEETING.
Four oOiie Members’for Immediate Action
On the Southern Question* and Three for
Delay—A Southern Commission to Be
Chosen. *
Washington, March 20. —The Cabinet
meeting to day lasted for nearly three
hoars, and the subjects nnder discus
sion, namely, the extra session and the
Southern complications, were left in the
same unsettled condition. All the Cabi
net members are unusnally reserved
about what passed at the meeting, but
it can be reliably stated that there was
a lively time over the dual Governments
and the policy that should be pursued
by the Administration. Mr. Scburz was
in favor of settling the questions at
once, and made a decidedly warm ad
dress on the subject, in the course of
which he alluded to the anxiety felt all
over the country, and showed that it
never would be relieved till some posi
tive steps were taken. He was joined in
this view by the Attorney-General and
Secretaries ilvart* and Key, while the
remaining three, Messrs. Sherman, Mc-
Crary and Thompson, saw no need for
any such haste, and concealed their en
mity to the reconciliation policy behind
various plausible pretexts. The Presi
dent said little, and that was not to the
point in any essential particular, except
as indicating that his backbone is get
ting, weak under the blows of Morton
and Blaine, and the burdens placed od
it by the caipet-baggers. Theoretically
the peace policy is a fine thing, but
practically it appears to be a fraud. The
three Cabinet members who favored de
lay are obstinate partisans, and, it is
believed, will hold out against the with
drawal of troops or any recognition of
the local governments. If the President
should join them there would then be a
dead-lock in the Cabinet, to be followed
by a fresh shuffle of the Cabinet cards.
It looks to night as if the present minis
try could uot pull together on any lib
eral policy.
After the conclusion of the Cabinet
meeting to day the President sent for
Vice-President Wheeler in relation to
heading a commission of investigation
to the two disputed States as the onlv
feasible method of getting over the diffi
culties which seemed to threaten the
party. Mr. Wheeler has previously ob
jected to taking any part in any such an
arrangement, as he believed ho knew as
much as was necessary already on those
subjeots, but the President pressed him
to act as leader of the expedition and he
consented.
The Dilatory Policy—Growing Distrust and
Anxiety Among tlie Southern Representa
tives.
The Southern Representatives here
feel a great deal of anxiety over the
Southern situation. Hayes’ dilatory
policy is leading to dangerous complica
tions, which may result in an explosion
in Louisiana. There was undoubtedly
an understanding made between Hayes’
friends and certain Southern leaders in
regard to the policy the former would
pursue toward South Carolina and Lou
isiana, in consideration of which the
latter were to give their influence to the
support of the fiudings of the Electoral
Commission. It is even stated that there
was a written agreement made, to which
the names of Stanley Matthews and
Charley Foster were appended. If, af
ter all, the Southern leaders should be
disappointed, there would be not a little
grim satisfaction among the filibusters,
that *hose who, they say, sold them out,
should be cheated in their bargain.
There is a great deal of dissatisfaction
here in all quarters over Hayes’ do
nothirgpolicy, and hisideaof maintain
ing the status quo until things settled
themselves of their own accord. When
Hayes came in Grant had already pre
pared the public mind for tho withdraw
al of the troops, and if he had been a
man of judgment and decision ho would
have at once seized upon the favorable
opportunity. But he fooled along,
trusting to luck and Stanley Matthews’
intrigues to get him out of tho fix, with
out action on bis own part. Meanwhile
the carpet-baggers rallied their forces,
Jim Blaine put on his war paint, the
pulling and hauling of factions began,
and things are now in a dangerous con
dition. The carpet-bagg rs swear that
they are not going to back down just to
please Hayes and make things easy for
him, and are urging on Packard in his
military movement.
There is a great deal of inflammable
material in New Orleans, and the dread
of Southern representatives here is that
Packard may light a flame that will re
sult in a tremendous conflagration. The
people of Louisiana are determined that
they will not submit to Packard’s rule
in any event, and if he forces a conflict
it is feared that there will be serious
business. On the other hand the car
pet-baggers talk big, and say that if
Hayes abandons Louisiana to civil war
blazing homesteads and fields laid waste
will attest the foby of bis course. If
the negro cannot meet the white in open
combat he can at least use the torch. It
was hoped that at the Cabinet session
to-day some definite line of action would
be marked out, but these expectations
are disappointed. The recent move of
Packard has disquieted Hayes a good
deal, as he had been led to think that
Packard would give up his claim to of
fice without further ado, when convinced
that the Federal arm would no longer
hold him up. It was with this idea that
Hayes gave out assurances which led
Southern representatives to anticipate
an order for the withdrawal of the troops
this week. The failure of the Cabinet
to come to some poqclusion at to-day’s
session on this important subject is look
ed upon as a calamity. Tho politicians
are disgusted with this frivolous policy.
THE NEXT HOUSE.
An interview With Clerk Adams—The Com
pletion and the Majority—No Combination—
At l.east Three Democratic* majority.
Washington, Marcn 19. —Mr. Adams,
the Clerk of the present House, and the
one who will, for the purpose of organi
zation, be Speaker and Clerk too for the
extra session of the next House, gives
his much-discussed position yeutilation
in an iufoysal talk, Clerk Adams being
handed one of the longest and most cir
cumstantial statements about the consti
tution of the next House, its organiza
tion and the supposed bargain and com
binations in process or completed be
tween the Republicans on the one side
and a number of Democrats on the
other, smiled incredulously at, a dozen
places until he came to the statement
that, under a certain set of circum
stances, Foster, of Ohio, was to be
Speaker and Adams to be Clerk. Then
he laid down the paper and said slowly,
in Ms deliberate, emphatic Way of
ipeaking:
' "j.'hcie’s not the slightest ground for
the suggestion of a suspicion that such
a condition qf things qoqld e?er arise in
which I could look or even squint to
wads aDy such a result as is here
spoken of. You asked me about the
roll of the next House. Well, in refer
ence to that, I have never had any dis
position to look wise and make a mys
tery about it, and I am frequently
amused at the various reports a3 to what
I have said in reference to the political
status of the next House. The truth is,
and frankness Requires the statement, i.
have never pretended at any time to
give any one an idea of what the ma
jority would be. I have never had in
mv possession officially the facts neces
sary for making up any roll, borne time
ago Mr. McPherson and'l sat down in
formally, and, after going over the dis
tricts, we agreed, and indeed he himself
stated it, that the Democrats could not
have a majority of less than three, even
if tlip Republicans got all tjje districts
about whioh tberft was any question
whatever. This was a mere interchange
of 1 individual 1 opinion and at a time
when there were nearly fifty certificates
vet to come in. Since that time I have
seen nothing to change the judgment
then arrived at in the least.”
Resuming, he said; “Some of the cer
tificates are not in yet; several are hnog
up in the Courts in litigation, as in the
case of a Missouri district and a Cali
fornia district. In some of the cases in
Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina
there are dual returns. la these last I
have not even considered the subject as
to what disposition to make of them.
Of course, I can’t give any off hand de
cision. Any man who has given the
subject attention can just as well make
up the roll as I, and as to the charge
that J have heard has been made of my
patting names on or leaving tfeem off ar
bitrarily, it is all nonsense. I have not
made any attempt to make op a roll,
and, of course, have none hid away in a
corner which I am refusing to show.”
Mr. A'dajty® being asked as to the samors$ a
mors about bargaining or combining in
the master of organizing the next House,
said with considerable earnestness, “I
have not heard of ifordoj fjeliefe in
the existence of any bargain or under
standing on one aide qr the other. It is
not likely that any Southern man would
—into any arrangement that would
look to an organization u. ? onaa on
a Repnbiioan basis; indeed, I was in
conversation with one of those whose
name has been most associated with
such reports, and he denied it most bit
terly, saying that while lje liked several
of his Northern associates personally he
could not imagine that he would ever
vote with them on snch a party question
as the organization of the House.
The peach and plum trees are in full
bloom and the orchards are in their fnll
beauty.
NEMESIS.
EXECUTION OF LEE.
The Mountain Meadow Massacre Avenged—
Particulars of the Shooting—l.ee Accuses
Brigham Yonug and the Prophet (lives Him
tho Lie.
Salt Line, March 22. —The Marshals
left Beaver with Lee for Mountain Mea
dow, where the executioa will take place,
a company of soldiers accompanying the
party to prevent rescae.
At 11, a. m., precisely, Lee was
brought out upon the scene of the mas
sacre at Mountain Meadow before the
executing party, and seated on bis cof
fin about twenty feet from the shooters.
After the order of the Court was read to
him and the company present by Mar
shal Nelson, Lee made a speech of about
five hundred words, bitterly denounc
ing Brigham Young, and calling himself
a scapegoat for the sins of others. He
hoped God would be merciful. He de
nied that ho was guilty of bloodshed to
the last, and maintained that his mis
sion to the Meadow was one of
mercy. After the speech, Parson
Stokes, Methodist, made a prayer, com
mending the soul of the condemned man
to God. Immediately after this a hand
kerchief was placed over Lee’s eyes.
He raised his bands and placed them on
top of his bead, sitting firm. Marshal
Nelson giving the word “ Fire !” five
guns fired, the balls penetrating the
body in the region of the heart. Lee
fell square back on his coffin—dead.
Death was instantaneous. The bodj
was placed in the coffin and tho crowd
dispersed. There were about seventy
five persons, all told, on the ground
Not a child or a relative was there. The
best order prevailed. Lee’s last words
to Marshal Nelson were : “ Aim at my
heart.” The body is now on its way to
be delivered to relatives at Cedar City
Brigham Young makes publication
denying the truth of the confession
made by Lee, the Mountain Meadow
murderer. Lee throws the entire guilt
on the Mormon Church. Young says
any statement implicating me is utterly
false. He says : “My courso of life
is too well known by thousands of hon
orable men for them to believe for one
moment such an accusation.”
HAVES AND THE SOUTH.
The Country Regrets the Vacillation of the
President.
[New York Herald— Editorial.]
The country will regret the failure of
the Cabinet to reach any definite con
elusion yesterday respecting the unfor
tunate political condition of Loir'siana
and South Carolina. We trust this ap
pearance of vacillation will do* con
tinue much longer, because it tends to
undermine confidence, not indeed in the
sincerity, but in the steadiness of Pres
dent Hayes. It will not do for him to
let the country get the impression that,
having decided on a course of action as
right, he quails before obstacles, “let
ting I dare not wait upon I would.” The
easiest way to dispose of opposition is
to meet it on the frontier and annihilate
it before it has time to gather recruits.
The Southern problem is simple enough.
The President has only to withdraw the
Federal troops from Columbia and New
Orleans on tho engagements of Gov
ernors Hampton and Nicholls that they
will preserve the peace and maintain or
der. Thev have every motive to keep
their pledges, and the President has n<
good reason to doubt their ability. The
more promptly he acts the less formid
able will be the preparations of the re
calcitrants. Chamberlain and Packard
are making an illustrious use of this
period of delay. They are marshalling
and combining their abetters both at
home and in Washington. They are
able to diffuse an impression that tlx
President wavers and that a resolute
onset may cause him to abandon, or at
least modify, his deolared policy. All
this delay gives them hope and couragf
and assists them in organizing a body of
allies. They think they have accom
plished a great deal in getting him to
consult and deliberate on a question
upon which his mind was made up be
fore be came to Washington and pro
claimed to the country in his inaugural
address. Politicians are too apt to rea
son like adventurous lovers, and think
their suit is substantially gained when
the object of their importunities begins
to hesitate. As the lady says in the
play :
When love once pleads admission to our
hearts.
In spite of all the virtue we may boast
The woman that deliberates is lost.
The true sentiment of a virtuous wo
man is, “He comes too near that come'
to be denied in other words, the triu
course is to listen to no proposals. W<
think President Hayes would have done
better had be turned a deaf ear to Pack
ard and Chamberlain after the public
declarations in bis inaugural. If hie
mind was not fully made up he should
not have made so public pledge ; if hie
mind was fully made up on this most
important of all the questions which
met him at the threshold, be should not
have strengthened the opponents if his
policy by signs of vacillation.
The menace of Packard to precipitate
a confliot with the Nicholls government
is a natural fruit of thq President’s de
lay and indecision. Had the President
“ taken time by the forelock ” and acted
at once the trouble would have been all
over more than a week ago. Every day’s
procrastination will increase the diffi
cultie3 of the situation. “There is a
tide in the affairs of men,” and it be
hooves Mr. Hayes to take advantage of
the great flood tide of popularity which
sets so strongly in bis favor to float him
over obstacles on which he will get
aground if he waits for it to recede.—
Packard acts on the maxim that while
there is life there is hope ; but when
the troops are onqq withdr awn be will
subside,
MANUFACTURING IN AUGUSTA.
Cheering Words from a Northern Source—
A Bright Auspice of tlie Future.
[Philadelphia North Amer icam—Editorial.]
The manufacturing capacity of Au
gusta, Georgia, was materially increas
ed this week by the organisation of a
new company with $150,000 capital, who
will at onco build anew mill of ten
thousand spindles. The company have
taken the Granite Mills, and in ad i
tion to repairing and enlarging them,
will increase their capacity from seven
thousand to ten thousand spindlet and
double the larger amount by anew mill;
the whole production to consist of
Sileaias. The machinery is now ready
in the North and the building for its use
will be pressed forward. At the same
time the city sold a lot qf land and
agreed to furnish Vfqter power for an
other factory of sixty thousand spindles,
to be erected in the same vicinity.
Tbe pecnliar feature in both of these
enteprises is that a majority of tne capi
tal is provided and thgi management
rests with Northern men. The first en
terprise is conducted by Massachusetts,
the second by Pennsylvania manufac
turers and capitalists who have admitted
citizens of Georgia into tbeir operations.
The undertakings are begun when, owing
to depression in prices and inactivity,
much can be accomplished at so small
an outlay as to insuro good profits so
sqou as a business revival occurs. The
undertakings help that revival. They
not only contribute to the growth and
prosperity of the city, aud to agricultu
ral activity in the adjacent region, but
they contribute to a better accord of
North and South when the close of a hot
political campaign and the success of
Republican principles insure a contin
uance of order and of the conditions
needed for industrial vitality. They aro
well grouoded in time and place and
whatever else is needed for hope and
security, and thpy will further the com
mon desire of the country that American
manufactures shall become aggressive
over all the world. We welcome the
occarrenoes as a bright auspice of the
future, as an earnest of new and closer
connection between the sections, as a
profound insurance of peace and en
ergy, and an indication that the Admin
istration which starts with such assur
ances and achievements will see similar
helpful res alts springing up along its
whole coarse, and giving capital and la
bor employment in a manner which must
call fqr more of both. The attempts show
that manufacturing is becoming an im
portant branch of Southern life, and
force Northern manufacturers to think
\fbat coarse remains for them. There
is business enough now for both sec
tions; but to continue and make it prof
itable it will be necessary that larger
foreign markets be opened, that our
merchant marine be enlarged, and *bat
other manufactures co-operate with
these in supplying other countries and
furnishing a market for the exchange.
NOT FOR \.NcLe Sq H.
A Wife aad Nleee Come Forward to Contest
the will Of the .irtllloaaljre,
New Y-oek, March SO.—John L.
Lewis, of Hoboken, N. J.,'died a short
time ago at the age of eighty-six, be
queathing his entire estate, valued at a
million dollars, to the Government to
hois day the national debt. Lewis lived
in *a diet retirement in Garden street,
surrounded by a lew servants, after he
gave np business twenty years ago. He
was accredited a bachelor by everybody
that knew hi®, agfl often dftfi&wd tnat
he had no relative ip ’this country or
England, his native land. Yesterday,
however, s riohly dressed woman ap
peared in the Surrogate’s office, claim
ing to be his wife, and that she was mar
ried to Lewis one year ago. Another
woman, claiming to be a niece of Lewis,
has filed a caveat top the million.
TIIE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Horseback rides are becoming fash
ionable in Atlanta for ladies.
Mr. Wm. Foster, aged 87, died in
Floyd county last Sunday evening.
All the cases before Greene Superior
Court were disposed of in one week.
The Presbyterians of Tbomasville are
going to have a fair in order to raise
funds to build a paisonage.
The Union Sabbath School, of Union
Point, will hold its auuual election for
officers on the first Sabbath in April.
The grand jury of Greene county re
commends that the salary of the Judge
of tho County Court be reduced odc
half.
How one Atlanta girl can interest four
teen young men at the same time may
he thought a first-class conundrum, but
it was shown to be quite possible on
Peach Tree street last Sunday afternoon.
Trot out your prolifio female porciues.
Captain Ramey, of Floyd county, has a
Berkshire sow that has given birth in
the last six months to two litter of pigs—
there being fourteen in one litter and
seventeen in the other; thirty-one pigs
in six months.
The blacksmith shop of Mr. Houston
Glaze, near Linooluton, was entirelv
consumed by fire on last Thursday nigbt.
Mr. Glaze had been having some work
done during the day, and the fire origi
nated from coals left in the forge.
Mrs M. A. McLean, President of the
MeD ffie Memorial Aasociation, re
quests us to notify the Vice Presidents
of the Association to meet in Thomson,
at the residence of Mrs. Julia O’Neal,
Tuesday next, tho 27th instant, for the
consideration of important business.
The Argus is authority for the fol
lowing: Mr. Jolru F. Simmons gives us
the particulars of an outrage perpetrat
ed near Rpdbone, at the residence of
Mr. John Green, by three negro men,
named Henry Wood, Lon Boyd and
Sanders Milner. On Friday evening,
March 2, these three negroes saw Mr.
Green leave borre for Geneva. They
knew that Mrs. Green and her two
daughters were left at home alone. That
uight they rocked the house until they
were weary, endeavoring to frighten the
ladies out of it, they being kept out by
looks and bars Finding their devilißh
intentions baffled, they let down the
bars and turned the stock into Mr.
Green’s wheat field. Tho negroes made
the<r escape, and are now probably in
Alabama.
McDuffie matters.
Court Week in McDuffie County.
[Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist.]
Thomson, March 21. —The McDuffie
Superior Court convened on the 19th
inßtant, Judge Gibson presiding. After
the jurors were sworn in the Judge pro
ceeded as usual to deliver an able charge
to the grand jury, pointing out the du
ties and obligations which devolved
upon them as the custodians of society.
The strong points taken by his Honor
iu defense of morals and good govern
ment, it is hoped, will be elaborated and
seriously pondered by the jurymen, and
lead to good results.
I notioe among the visiting members
of the bar General Toombs, Messrs.
Reese, Collev and Du Bose, of
Wilkes; C S. Dußose, of Warrenton ;
Dutcher, Twiggs and Webb, of Au
gusta; General Gartrell, of Atlanta, and
Strother, of Lincoln. Gen. Gartrell is
here in the defense of Howard, indicted
for murder. •ho case has not been
reached yet, and when it is perhaps it
will be continued. There are no other
cases of importance before the Court.
The financial condition of the county
is said to be improving, and the s>gns
of better times ahead are encouraging.
More wheat and oats have been sown
than for several years past, aud the
stand is good and the crop flourishing
More than an average crop of corn also
will be planted, and attention given to
the raising of hogs and other stock, so
important to the country. The few
whose experience has vindicated the
wisdom of this policy have by their
example encouraged others to do like
wise. Visitor.
THE ELECTION IN THE NINTH.
Tlie Recent Candidacy of Mr. Emory Speer.
[Athens Watchman—Editorial J
The official returns of the election
have not all been received, but enough
is known to make the inference that
Colonel Bell is elected by a small majo
rity. Mr. Speer would have been elect
ad had it not been for the candidacy of
Archer. This induced a great many men
who otherwise would have supported
Mr. Speer to vote for Bell under tho im
pression that as it was claimed he was
the nominee; that he would be more
available to beat the Republican candi
date. If tho statement be true as pub
lished in the Atlanta Constitution and
stated by Republicans here, that Archer
was brought out by the Republicans for
the express purpose of defeating Mr.
Speer, because of the discussion had by
him with Akerman, Norcross and Far
row, at Gain 1 sville last Fail, in which
he, it was said, successfully upheld the
Democratic standard, this should be re
membered to his credit by the party in
the future. When we reflect that in this
canvass Mr. Speer was opposed by the
organization of the Democratic party, a
1 irge majority of the poljtioians in the
district and the press in tho district and
out of it, the vole he received as well as
the character of the men who supported
him, is a strong index not only of the
popularity of l<is platform, but also of
the esteem in which he is held by the
masses of the Democracy, Aa we see if
no one especially has any reason to crow
in notes of triumph, The election was
too close for boasting.
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
Decision by a Federal Judge in Maryland—
Tbe Act Declared Unconstitutional.
Baltimore, Maroh 22.—The ease of
Harriet A. Cully, colored, against the
Baltimore Onio Railroad Company,
which baa been on trial four days in the
United States District Court, before
Judge Giles, was concluded this morn
ing, and under instructions from the
Court the jury rendered a, verdict for
the defendant. This a&tion, with seven
teen others, was brought against the
oompany under the Civil Rights act of
Congress of March 1, 1875, which im
poses a penalty of five hundred dulluis
on any person who shall d eß 7 equal
accommodations to citizen, regard
less of previous condition, in hotels,
theatres arid public conveyances. The
plaintifl, a colored citizen of Maryland,
claimed to have been denied accommo
dations on the company’s trq;n in Judp,
1876, and was compelled, as she alleged,
to occupy aso®pariiaent oar wh ch was
inferior, simply because of her race or
Color. The company denied this, and
proved that colored persons have the same
rights on all their trains as whites.
The Court, however, heard argument
on the constitutionality of the aot under
the Fourteenth Amendment to the Con
stitution, and held: First, That the
Slaughter House oases, “16th Wallace,”
had determined that the privileges be
longing to citizens of the United States
as such, were different from th<j privi
leges belonging to citizen# of the State
as such and that only the former were
under Congressional protection, and
that this opinion had been subsequently
affirmed by the United States Suprem •
Court. Second, That the right to ride
in a railway car for the purposes of local
travel was not a privilege of a citizen of
the United States as aueb, but was a
privilege belonging to a person by virtue
of his State citizenship, and, therefore,
for the denial of such privilege, the citi
zen must look for redress to the State
tribunals, and that it was not within the
power of Congress to infi ct a penalty
for the drnial of snch a privilege, The
act, therefore, was unconstitutional.
This opinion accords with that cf Judge
Emmoqs, United States Circuit Judge
for the Sixth Circuit, and Judge Saw
yer; of California, and other Federal
Judges.
ENFOHCIXU THE BLUE LAWS.
A Taira In Which People Are Forbidden to.
Enjoy Themselves on Sunday.
South Nobwalk, Conn-. Maroh lft—
For the past two weeka the authorities
of this place have been endeavoring to
revive the old "Bine Law*,” with re
gard to the observance of the Sabbath,
which were enacted 100, years ago, and
have never been repealed. Qq Sunday
barbers are forbidden to. qpea their
shops for the accommodation of their
customers, newyaen are not permitted
to sell the New York papers, and the ho
tels are obliged to exercise considerable
precaution in order to obtain the®.
Milkmen cannot serve their customers
with their morning supply ot milk, and
thereby is caused.
It is in? possible on that dsy to hire a
carriage Tor a pleasure drive, as the Sta-
I blemen are commanded tq let t heir eon
veyances only tfl Phrwma wiahing to
drive to ehuroh. The street cars also
are ordered to stop running on Sunday,
bnt, in a measure, this order is dis
obeyed, and a few ears are running dur
ing the day. Polioemen patrol th -
streets, and whenever acnotftber of boys
who do not appear to- be bent on any
partfaqlaf business are found together,
they are immediately ordered to go
home, under penalty of bqiug looked np
should they diaabpy.
The best way to disoonrage a boil if
to seek a slippery place on the pave
ment, and then, when the boil ain t look
ing, come down on it.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
“Snipe” hunting continues in Spar
tanburg.
Diphtheria is reported in Williams
burg county, near the Georgetown lino.
The arrival and departure of the mails
at Due West are heralded by a stage
horu.
Captain Foster, of Lancaster, left last
Saturday for Florida, with two hundred
sheep.
Free stall fed beef sells in the Abbe
ville market for six and eight cents per
pound.
Mrs. W. W. Bullock, of the Cedar
Springs neighborhood, died Sunday last,
leaving a large family of children. She
was buried at Mt. Moriah. Rev. Mr.
Clarke preached.
Base ball is the great popular amuse
ment at h inety six this season. Every
body takes a hand in the game. There
are but few poorer games in the whole
catalogue of amusements.
The Greenville Enterprise and Moun
taineer is calling upon the City Coun
cil to increase the number of polioemen
in that place after night. Crime is in
creasing as the city grows.
Hodges has made an important finan
cial move. Ribbon is now used iu that
market as a legal tender. Mao Moseley
deserves the credit for the discovery of
this happy medium of exchange.
From two to three thousand bales of
cotton are sold in the Due West mar
ket every jear. During this season
the prices have ranged from nine to
twelve and a half cents per pound.
Tastes do differ so. Last week u tar
heel student at Due West made a proffer
of love to one of his young lady friends,
and was summarily silenced by being told
that she liked goobers better than love.
The residence of Mrs. Tboruwell, of
Yorkville, widow of the great Dr.
ThornweH, deceased, was burned on
Monday. Whether the fire was incen
diary or accidental, our information
does not state.
Hampton Herald: Wo are pained to
have to chronicle the death of Mrs. I.
D. Witherspoon, of Yorkville, mother
of the present State Senator from this
county. Her death occurred on Mon
day evening, after a protracted illness.
Wm. R. Love, of York county, who
was sentenced to the Albany Peniten
tiary in December, 1875, for violation of
the internal revenue laws, returned to
his home last week, having served out
the term of his sentence, less the deduc
tion allowed for good behavior.
It is getting rather dangerous for sus
picions looking parties in Fort Pickeua
after dark. One night last week a gen
tleman from the village was run down
by Citizen Rosemond’s dogs and treed
in a fence corner. He was held at bay
until \he yelping pack were whipped off.
It is customary at Due West, when a
disagreeable suitor wants to call on a
young lady, for her to state in her note
at what time he will be expected to
leave. Nine o’clock ;s the regulation
hour for such departure. This is the
best way to avoid “entangling alli
ances.”
A little child of Mr. Richard Scruggs,
of Spartanburg, only three months old,
was burned to death on Monday last.
The sad accident occnrred while the
mother had for a short time absented
herself fro n the room, returning to find
the child in flames.
The election ordered by Lieutenant-
Governor Simpson to fill the vacanoy
from Barnwell in the State Senate, oc
casioned by the death of tho Hon. Jones
M. Williams, came off on Tuesday, and
resulted iu the election of Col. Thomas
J. Counts, the Democratic nominee,,
without opposition.
The names of Judge Maher, Judge A.
P, Aldrich, Chancellor Johnson, Gen.
Korshaw, Associate Justice Willard,
Colonel James H. Rion and Chancellor
Carroll, have been mentioned in connec
tion with the office of Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of South Carolina,
made vacant by the death of Chief Jus
tice Moses.
Mrs. Dr. Milwee, an estimable lady of
Greenwood, died suddenly last Thurs
day. She.had been in delicate health
for some time, but was decidedly better
at tea time. Some time in the night she
was taken ill, aud oalled her husband.
In less than twenty minutes she was a
corpse. This sad event has cast a gloom
over the village in which she lived.
Jeanette, a colored woman living on
Captain Williams’ plantation a few
miles from Abbeville, was burnt to death
on last Thursday. She was out in the
field cutting briars, when her clothing be
cume iguited. She ran about a half
mile and fell at Mr. W. L. Miller’s gate.
Her injuries were so very severe that
she died in a short time after assistance
reached her. Her person was complete
ly cooked—so much so that her arms
tell off at the elbows and her legß at the
knees.
CAN THIS BE TRUE <f
Reappearance ot Olil Operators m Southern
Finance—liullork anil Blodgett iu Town—
Interesting Keiuiuisoences--.Political scan
dal.
| Washington Dispatch to BalVmore Eun.l
Washington, March 20.—The recent
reappearance in this city of Bullock, the
ex-carpet-bag Governor of Georgia, and
of Foster Blodgett, his partner in hie
operations in Georgia, has stimulated
curiosity. Bullock, just as bis term us
Goveinor expired, was indictod in the
Georgia Courts for fraudulent acts com
mitted while in that office and fled the
State. One of his fraudulent operations
was the leasing of the Georgia State
Road to a ring with which he was con
nected. This road formerly paid into
the State Treasury a dividend of several
hundred thousand dollars annually, and
was in a most flourishing condition.
After Bollock became Governor he made
Foster Blodgett Superintendent of the
road. Bludgott immediately commenc
ed to run it in the interest of himself
and his friends, and the result was that
in a comparatively short time it became
almost worthless, the road bed and the
rolling stock in a shocking condition, and
the bridges unsafe for travel. Blodgett
paid no dividend to the State, but ac
tually bad the assurance to petition the
Legislature of 1870 |for $500,000 to re
pair the road-bed and purchase new en
gines. The next move wus for Bullock
and Blodgett aud their accomplices was
to lobby through the Legislature a bill
authorizing Bullock to lease tho
road on the best terms for a period
oJtwenty years. Bullock thereupon leased
it out to a ring for s2s.ooo per annum In
this ring were Bullock, K mbatl, Colum
bus Delano, Simon Cameron, and these
charge that Governor Joe Brown aDd
Ben Hill were associated with them. It
iu alleged by the friends of Bullock that
Governor Browa and Ben Hill were in
strumental in procuring his indictment
in the Georgia Courts, as they wanted
to get rid of him. As he became a re
fugee in eousequenoe, he did not share
any of the benefits of tbe arrangement.
Bullock, since bis reappearance in
Washington has made up au old quarrel
which he had with Foster Blodgett, aud
it is said that they are' now determined
to get even with Brown, Hill, Delano A
Cos. It is alleged that Blodgett has the
necessary evidence with him to force
terms. Both Governor Brown and Ben
Hill deny that they ever engaged in any
fraudulent operations with Bollock and
Blodgett, and insist that their connec
tion with the lease of State Road was
perfectly legitimate. This may be, bnt
'here are nevertheless a good many
Georgians who condemn them very
maoh for their action in the matter.
What adds to the public onriosity bore
on the subject is the fact that Ben Hi))
is advocating Foster Blodgett for the
position of United States Marshal foe
Georgia. On this point, however, there
is a question of veraoitv between Mr.
Sill and the Attorney-General. Mr.
Bill in a letter written yesterday to a
gentleman here said he wa* not advocat
ing Foster Blodgett for the Marshalship,
and it was an impertinence for any one
to say that he was. Yet the Attorney-
General stated to this very same gentle
man that Mr. Hill had come to his offloe
and recommended Blodgett. This is
the present situation, and G< organs
here are awaiting the denouncment with
mneh interest.
JUDGE DAVfltf SEAT.
Wisconsin People Who Tklsk a Square Fen
Will Fit a Round Ilote.
Washington, Maroh 19 —A delegation
of Wisconsin people called upon the
President to day with the view of press -
ing Senator Howe for Judge Davis’
place on the Supreme bench. Hay on
told them that he would not make any
appointment at present; that questions
of more pressing importance were claim
ing his attention,, but that when be did
take it np the decision wonld finally rest
upon a question of geography,, other
things being equal. The delegation un
derstood this observation to ref- r to the
selection of a Judge from the Western
country in about the same district that
i judge Davis had represented, aud they
thought that Senator Howe would fill
(the bill. The President's stereotyped
.answer,, that he would consider their
views carefully, was all the satisfaction
they got Other people than the Wis
consin men interpret the President’s
studies in geography to mean a very de
cided preference for tne whole South,
from whieh, since old Judge Campbell,
of New Orleans, left the bench with tho
passage of the secession ordinance by
bis State, Alabama, there baa not been
a representative 6u bench.
m*-T~ mm
A little boy came to his mother re
cently and said, “Mamma, I should
think if I was made of dnst, I’d gel
muddy inside when I drink coffee,”