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MBS. BEECHER DOWN SOI TE i.
I ier Experience Among tise Peo
ple—A Grateful Tribute.
From the Christian Union, May 2.',.
Wo have been “down South,” and*
liko all travelers, feel inclined to relate
our experience, and because it was new
and interesting to us, naturally think it
must be so to others. * *' 1 *
Wo aro not naturally timid. We seldom
fear slights or insults from strangers; be
lieving if people mind their own business
—using tlieireyes, but not their tongues
—treating all with proper reserve, but
kindly and politely, they may travel any
whero without danger of annoyance. To
be sure, there have been periods of ex
citement, when this assertion could not
havo been so confidently made. It is but
n few years since a Northerner might not
havo deemed it wise to linger long in or
even travel through the Southern portion
of our country; but those are happily
by-gono days, and no greater compliment
can bo paid to our country, aud to the
Southern part of it particularly, than to
be able to say, with all truthfulness, that
from the timo wo left our homo till our
return, 1 everywhere, and from all classes,
we met only with kindness and atten
tion; everything that true courtesy could
do to make our joumoyings pleasant and
comfortable was done. Two. women—
and one an invalid—were regarded as
having especial claims upon the people’s
caro and politeness. Is it well to tarn of
tho continuance of Southern bitterness,
animosity, and secret enmity, when two
unprotected Northern women can pass
through,the States just emerging from
years of war, and through those places
where tho deadly strifo was fiercest,
not only without molestation, but
with sympathy and assistance at
overystop. Wo were greatly interest
ed, when conversing with intelligent
Southern gentlemen, in tho ideas,
which they consider the true* senti
ments and wishes of their people.
They said to me, “ Your pap'ers are
filled with words which tend to stir up
strifo—not to cost oil on tho troubled
waters—they seem to seek for cause of
offense and reproach. It is constantly
repeated. “ Tho South is conquered,
but not subdued. Do rot trust her, she
bides her time. ” Fearful stories are told,
daily, of tho Ku-Klux—of Southern vio
lence and inhumanity. Should these
sad occurrences, even when the reports
are not at all exaggerated, be taken as a
fair interpretation of their real character,
any more than Mi*. Putnam’s murder, for
simply protecting a young girl from a
villain’s insults, should bo regarded by
them as a true type of Northern life ?—
What a fearful record of crime tho morn
ing and evening papers bring to us daily!
Shall tho whole North bo judged by
these shameful deeds of the vile and law
less portion of our population ? “ Yet,”
saida Southern gentleman, “is it not
unjust to collect the crimes and outrages,
which aro unfortunately, of too frequent
occurrence in our Southern towns and
cities, and hold them before the people
as tho true index to our.. feelings
and priuoiploe, it would- -Lo
to prepare a list of all tho mur
ders, all tho drunken fights, all the men
dacious and startling robberies among
your.peoplo, and cry ‘Look at the North!
Hero yon may see her in her true colors.
Take the whole South through, you will
find a larger proportion of bloodshed,
violence, and high-lianded dishonesty,
than is constantly recorded in your two
great Northern cities ? Is murder any
less a crime at tho North than at tho
South ? A man steals your purse and
watch, breaks open your house and plun
ders or. bums it over your head—such
things, you know, are of daily, occur
rence—shall we chargo these outrages
upon tho North as a whole, and demand
that a military forco be stationed over
you to enforce the laws, and guard against
treason? If unmolested by politicians and
their red tape, we assure yon the South is
really and earnestly willing to more true
and lastingly amicable relations with the
North than over before. If undisturbed
by selfish office-seekers, wo would rejoice
to ‘bury tho hatchet,’root out all animos
ities, and clasp hands in true friendly en
deavor to build up the waste places, and
unitedly seek to ‘make the wilderness bud
and blossom as the rose.’ ”
Wo havo tried to give, as nearly aspos
sibJo, tho substance of many similar con
versations, tho chief sentiments of which
wo havo often heard repeated by all
classes whom wo met in our short sojourn
at tho South. Tho earnestness with
which their ideas wero expressed very
strongly impressed ns with the sincerity
of those who uttered them. Wo placo
them in your hands, sincerely hoping
that some little good, at least, liay result
from them; bccauso we are deeply grieved
that good will and brotherly love aro not,
as yet, tho bonds that hold our country
together.
Police Courts
THE
r a slim ,
baud to!
The Court opened yesterday uith rati
’docket: hut enough attendants wc-re or
giro it a business appearance.
Tho first case on hand was'that of
JAiEES QTOS
who got drunk, and was wandering around loose,
without a sail and without a rudder. James piled
into tho house of a virtuous colored lady, and began
making himself at home, to the great consternation
of the household. The lady.gave a delicate scream
and ran out. She didn’t think that Jimmie intended
any thing wrong* bat caw that he was drank, and
she knew very well that when “wine was in, wit was
ABDUCTION OP
MOTHER.
THEIR i Maxims for Agriculturists.
| Mrs. Claflin Blind-Folded, Hot
! a carriage and Imprisoned Tbree Day
—Her Account oft He Affair.
j Horace Greeley concluded his recent
| speech before tho Texas Agricultural As-
t 1 sociation, at tho State fair, with the fol
lowing maxims:
Mrs. Annie Clafla, who disappeared so
mysteriously on Monday Lost, has re
turned to her daughter, Mrs. Nelica
Brooker, at the Washington Hotel, on
Fourth avenue. Tho following is the
out," and sho uldn't know exactly what Jim's me-j story of her adventures as she related it
brlatcd fancies might suggest, so she called a po i to a Tribune reporter :
! ‘Last Friday afternoon I went to No.
llccman. $5 and costs.
KELLY WATE5 WAS A EAH2E2,
and a very good looking one, too. Some half dozen
or more of Kelly’s neighbors were called upon to
testify to the charge against him of quarreling and
disorderly conduct, and abusing Ills wife, who was j
a likely looking girl. Tho convicting evidence was
from a long-headed, straight-forward negro, who
swbre that ho heard Kelly beating his wife more or
less all through the afternoon, that, moved by manly
sympathy for a female, he looked in at the door, and
saw Kelly throw his wife on the bed, take out a razor,
and threaten to cut her throat. That he beat and ac
cused her of being falsfi to her bridal vows, and ho
was going to marry another, &c„ &c.
His Honor was so confident that this statement was
true, that ho let Mr. Watts off with §25 and costs, and
remarked, in conclusion of his admonition, that the
next man that was brought up for woman whipping
would smell particular .
MICHAEL MICKI.EE
did not intend to-get drunk. Ho had only taken ten
or twelve glasses of beer. That last word settled
tho hash for Mike. Anybody who gets drunk on
beer, and gets up before this Court, had best never
been bom, for if there is anything on this green
earth His Honor has a complete disgust for, it is a
man who gets drunk on beer. §5 and costs.
Henry O’Shiclda plead guilty of being drunk and
disorderl;, and was fined §10 and costs. -
But perhaps
SHE HIGHEST CASE
on the docket, was Mat. HcCardlo'. He is an origi
nal son of Erin, and a perfect sample of a rolicking
devil-may-care Irishman. Ho had'for his accusers
all tho Timmonses, including the old lady T. and her
three daughters. According to their statement Me.
had Visited their house without a formal invitation,
and then would not leave with all the invitations the
family could extend. He would lay down in the
yard, and in tho chimney comer, and do just like a
fool or a drunk man. Old Mrs. Timmons was satis
fied that he was one or tho o'-ier. She conld’nt sleep
while Me., kept up his strange ways. So a policeman
came along that way, and helped Me., on his way to
the guardhouse. His Hon asked ifho was guilty or not,
He promptly responded "guilty.” He was asked if he
had not been up before, to which he responded that
be had. Then tho Mayor reminded him of the
promise tho last time that ho would drink no more
beer. Me. said he thought perhaps His Honor was
mistaken, ns he was particular about making prom
ises; but if ho had made such a one he had kept it,
for ho did not get drunk on beer this time, but whis
ky. This plain and unvarnished statement of the
facte was a good stroko for Me., and he was let off
with only $15 and costs. If beer bad caused the
trouble, tho full sentence of the law would have been
his portion.
Just at this juncture of afiairs, a very chatty col
ored lady spectator had risen out of her chair, and
was laying down tho law to her next neighbor in an
excited soitovoce way, when the ever vigilant Pat
Fitzgibbons, seeing a member of tho Council come
into the room, looking for a scat, Fat seized the va
cant chair, pot knowing that the lady had been using
it, and handed it to tho gentleman. The woman sat
down Without looking around. anA came Anwn unon
the floor like the fall of a balo of hay. Her sur
prise and mortification grew to such an extant that
she wa3 about to go for a policeman standing near by,
thinking ho had played the trick. This convulsed tho
crowd aud Court to such an extent that it was im
mediately adjourned, to give the latter a chance to
save Hie dignity of tho bench by a big laugh.
Just after noon yesterday, this city was visited by
one of tho most violent thunder storms that over
came down upon ns. For nearly an hour thero was
peal after peai of thunder, sharp and decisive like
fierce clatter of musketry, while tho whole atmos
phere was almost a blaze of lightning. It seemod as
if the angry clouds had met directly over the city
and resolved to fight it out in a tremendous cannon
ade. For a long time the storm tarried and things
grew dark, showing to a better advantago the vivid
glare of the electricity. Tho quantity of rain that
foil was remarkably small considering tho time
'through which'the storm was protracted. We'were
not aware that any hail fell ; bnt from parties who
live a short distance out wo learn that thero was
quito a hail-storm, and fjears were entertained that
gardens would bo injured.
Cotton Figures
Tho total receipts of the current cotton
year, up to Friday night, footed np 3,-
756,SOS bales, against 2,750,047 for the
corresponding period of 1870. This
shows a gain of 1,006,851 bales. With
the same receipts as in 1870 for the re
mainder of the cotton year the crop
would foot up 4,161,708 bales, and with
25 per cent, increase would rise to 4,263,-
022 bales. Wo sec that tho dispatches
talk about an estimated decrease in cot
ton acreage this year of five to twenty-
five per cent. We regard that as com
paratively immaterial. Tho main de
crease will be in the yield per acre, ancL
compared with last year, -we ventnre to
assert, will bo almost unexampled in the
history of cotton-growing.
—
We not unfrequently meet with cas-
sedness liko tho following, generally
credited to “& paper out West:”
“Papa,” said a little urchin to his fa
ther tho other day, “I saw a printer go]
down tho street just now.” _ - ]
“Did yon, sonny? How did you knowi
tho person was a printer?”
“Because I do, papa,“
15 East Thirty-eighth street, where my
daughters, Mrs. Woodhnll and Miss
Tennio Claflin, live. I rang the bell
and asked for my husband, who came
out, and we walked together down tho
steps of the tunnel to the Fourth avenue
railroad. I at first thought I would take
a car, but afterward decided to walk.
After, my husband left me I went to sco
the Sistera of Charity in Thirty-second
street, whero I staid till about dusk, and
then started for home. When I got to
the '• foot of tho hill, two men came up
behind mo and thrust me into a carriage.
I could not see either of them, as they
threw my shawl oyer my eyes and bound
it there. One of them got into tho car
riage with me, and we were driven rap
idly away. When I asked him what he
was going to do* with me, he said, ‘We
know all about you. You are insane.
Tho man who told us to take you said
you were making mischief between your
two daughters, and he must put yon out
of tho way.’ When I told him to let me
out, ho said if I did not be quiet he
would throw me into the river, and so I
said no more through fear. We rode, I
should think, about two hours. When
we got out he delivered me, still blind
folded, to a woman, who led me up three
flights of stairs, and, removing my shawl
from my eyes, thrust' me into a room
and locked tho door. It was a small
room, about 8 by 12 feet in dimensions,
but no window, so that I could not see
out at all. I stayed there all night and
no one came near me.
The next morning when the woman
came to bring me a slice of bread and a
cup of water—this was all I bad each
day I stayed there, one slice of bread
and a cup of water!—I tried together
to come in and tell me whero I was and
what they wero going to do with me.
On the tlnrd day she came in, and when
I told her my story she seemed to wish
to help me, and finally consented to aid
mo to escape if I would go blindfolded
as I came. It must have been late at
night when she came for mo, and lead
ing me to a carriage drove away with
me. I asked her to leave me near the
Harlem depot, and she did. I came at
once to this hotel, and was taken to my
daughter. It was about half-past two
o’clock ibis morning. As Blood has
often threatened my life, and has said he
never would stop until the d—d old
was under the sod, I believe he was the
one who had mo'taken off.”
Mrs. Claflin is about seventy years' of
age, and the excitement of her abduc
tion, together with tho insufficient food,
lias nan a Buncos lrnoi aangefoureireet
upon her health. Her conversation was
perfectly rational, and she presented no
appearance of insanity. But while print
ing her’story, the Tribune cannot under
take to be responsible for its accuracy.—
JV". Y. Tribune.
: Not to tresspass too far upon your patience—ict
me close with. a few‘maxims, applicable to cultivs,-
{tion in every dime aud under aU circumstances,
I whether among populations douse as that of China
or sparse as that of British America.
l. Only good farming pays. Ho who sows or plants
without reasonable assurance of good crops annu
ally, might bettor earn wages of some capable neigh
bor than work for so poor a paymaster as he Is cer
tain to prove- himself.
II. The farmer is proved such ly ike steady appre
ciation of A is crops. Any one may reap an ample
harvest from a fertile virgin soil: the good farmer
alono grows good crops at first, cud better aud better
over afterward.
m. It is far easier to maintain the productive ca
pacity of the farm than to restore it. To exhaust its
fecundity, and then attempt its restoration by bnying
costly commercial fertilizers, is wasteful and irra
tional.
IV. The good farmer sells mainly such products as are
least exhaustive. Necessity may constrain him, for
tho first year or two, to sell grain, or even hay; bnt
ho wiU soon send of his surplus mainly in ths form
of cotton or wool, or meat, or butter and cheese, or
something else that returns to tho soil nearly all that
is taken from it. A bank account daily drawn upon,
while nothing is deposited to its credit must socn
respond "No funds;" so with a farm simihuly treat
ed.
V. Rotation is at least negative fertilisation. It may
not positively enrich a farm; it wiUat least .retard
and postpono its impoverishment. Ho who gro.w6
wheat alter wheat, corn alter, corn, for twenty years,
will need to emigrate before that term is fill tilled.
The same farm cannot support nor endure him
longer than that. All our great wheat growing sec
tions of filty years ago aro wheat growing no longer;
while England grows larger crops thereof on the
very fields that fed tho armies of Saxon Harold and
William tho Conquoror, notation has preserved
these, as the lack of it ruined those.
VI. Wisdom, is never dear, provided the article he
gan uine. I have known farmers who have toiled con
stantly from daybreak till dark, yet died poor,
bccauso, through ignorance, they wrought to disad
vantage. If every farmer would devoto two hours
of each day to reading and reflection, there would be
fewer failures in farming than they arc. -
VII. The best investment a farmer can make for his
chUdrciris that which surrounds their youth with the
rational delights of a beauteous, attractive home. Tho
dwellings may be small and rude, yet a lew flowers
will embellish, as choice fruit trees wiU enrich and
gladden it; whUe grass and shade aro within tho
reach of the humblest, Hardly any labor done on a
farm is so profitable as that which makes the wife
and children fond and proud of their home.
. Hit A good, practical education, including a good
trade, is a better outfit for a youth than a grand eslvtc
with a drawback of an empty mind. Many parents
havo slaved and pinched to leave their children rich,
when half tho sum thus lavished would havo profited
them far more had it been devoted to tho cultivation
of their minds, the enlightenment of their capacity
to think, observe and work. Tho one structure that
no neighborhood can afford to do without is tho
school-house.
IX. A small library of well selected books in his home
Ms saved mdny a youth from wandering into the bale
ful mays of the Prodigal Son. Where paternal strict
ness and soverity would havo bred nothing bnt dis
like and a fixed resolvo to abscond at tho first op
portunity, good books and pleasant surroundings
havo weaned many a yonth from his first wild im
pulse to go to sea or cross tho continent, and mado
him a docile, contented, obedient, happy lingerer by
the parental fireside. In a family, however rich or
poor, no other good is so cheap, so precious, as
thoughtful, watchful, love.
X. Most men are bom poor, but no man who has
average capacities and moderate luck need, remain so.
And the farmer’s calling, though proffering no sud
den leaps, no ready short cuts to opulence, is the
surest of aU ways from poverty and want to comfort
and independence. Othor men must climb; tho
temperate, frugal, diligent, provident farmer may
grow into competence and overy external accessory
to happiness. Each year of his divotion to his
homestead may find it moro vnlnablo, more attract
ive than the last, and leave it better still.
Thunder Storm.
Struck.
The rod on the spire of the Second Baptist Church
was struck by lightning during the storm yesterday
afternoon. Tho rod being a good ono the fluid
passed to tho ground without doing any damage.
Mr. Betty’s store in the western portion, of the city
was struck and the door and facing considerably
tom to pieces. The clerks happened to bo in the
other end of the store and received only a slight
shock. Ladd pnt np tho rod on tho chnrch and was
looking at it from tho Court House window when it
was struck. Ho was satisfied with his work and
caUedJtgood. - ,,
Death of Mr. Samuel Grubb.
We wero pained yesterday to learn of the death of
Mr. Samuel Grubb, ope of tho oldest and most ro-
spccted citizens of Atlanta. Mr. G. had passed be
yond tho three score‘and ten years allotted to
man, maintaining ; his vigor to tho-last, being all
tho timo engaged in actlvo business. For two or
threo years immediately preceding this, he was Tax
Receiver for this‘county, performing his duties ac
ceptably to tho people. Ho was a gentleman whom
all respected, and those who knew-him best will
most earnestly regret to hear of his death.
v Find Him Out.
Yesterday a rather good looking white man passed
down Broad street, flanked on either sido by a col
ored wench, and the trio seemed to enjoy the chat
of each other to an extension truly progressive.
Who tho young gentleman was is tho point we are
trying to get at. Ho sported an amount of sang
/raid truly commendable, had it been displayed on
something else. But, who were tho infatuated semi-
lath amendments ? Tho girls looked well enough,
and we were a littlo surprised that such .clever look
ing darkies would be caught in such sorry company.
At two o’clock, this morning, the weather was
foggy enough and thick enough to slice. The ap.
pearanco generally was for more rain, and it it
should not, we will not be much disappointed—the
prognostications of the Associated Press to the con
trary notwithstanding.
■ Attention, Kn-IIlai:
Three hundred Yankee soldiers wifi pass here to
night, on their was to Columbia, S. C. They have
eleven car loads of horses, and three or four of bag
“But Lo might have h^cn a carpenter, j gage. They will come by the State Load train.
Well Played.
At a Chicago theatre recently, Bob
Hart and William Manning were doing
the sketch of “Tho Quiet Lodgings.”—
The position wiis Manning on the bed en
deavoring to enjoy the Quiet Lodgings,
and Hart at the right of the stage. En
ter a mechanical rat worked by a string
leading to the wings. All was quiet as
tho rat entered, when a fourth party un
expectedly appeared in the shape of a
huge yellow cat, who took up her posi
tion in tho wings. Yellow cat caught
sight of tho mechanical rat, and prepared
for the fatal spring. Hart tried to keep
a sober face and forgot his lines. Man
ning, on the bed, begged Hart not to dis
courage the cat, and forgot his lines.—
Yellow cat crouched to the stage floor,
and, working her way along, made a
spring for tho rodent, but missed it—as
the man in tho wings hauled it back.—
Nothing discouraged, Tabitha took up
her position again, with tho audience
screaming with delight. Then enter two
rats, who were to disturb Manning in his
quiet lodgings. Tabitha was fearful of
the odds, ventured out on the stage a lit
tle ways, and then retired in good order
to await the motions of the enemy. When
the two rats had Hone, rat No. 1 was to
re-enter. Tabitha was in readiness ; she
gave a plunge toward him and became
entangled in the string. Clearing her
self, she looked at tho string and then at
the rat, evidently impressed witli the
novelty of the situation. As the rat was
going off, however, there was little time
to lose. She gathered herself together,
and, with a magnificent spring, described
a curve through the air ; but, alas for the
deceptions of man: the rat was pulled in
to the wings, and Tabitha missed her
supper and retired disgusted. Neither
Manning nor Hart knew their lines after
that, and the last words heard from'SYil-
liam, as the curtain went dowrn on the
convulsed audience, were: “Don’t dis
courage her, Bob ; she is doing her part
well.”
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blacksmith or a shoemaker.’’
“Oh no, papa, he was a printer—like
ly an editor—for he was gnawing a bone
and had no stockings on. The crown was
out of hisbat, and his coat was all torn. I
am certain he was a printer.”
After making fools of themselves by
imprisoning two newspaper correspon
dents , the United States Senators con-
\ verted themselves into asses by voting
' their release on Saturday last. It was
sheer idiocy even to have imprisoned
them at all, and it was worse than idiocy
after locking them up and threatenin
_ them with forty years’ confinement,
ignominiously back down, release
The ladies of a town in the United
States—Opelika, Alabama—have hadHys
good tasto and ccnrage to discard tlie
-chignon ns a head dress. We know an
Atlanta'lady who never had ft chignon' refuse ‘to continue legal proceedings
to discard, and never wanted one, • against them,—*New York Mail
The coming fifteenth of August will be
a gala day, not only with the people
throughout England and Scotland, and
in Edinburgh especially, but .also for tho
New York folksr or rather the citizens
from Scotland, or of Scottish descent,
who have taken up their abode in that
city. The foundation-stone to a great
monument to the author ol “Waverly”
will be laid on that day, upon which
falls the one hundredth anniversary of
the birth of the poet, in Central Park,
and on this will be subsequently erected
an exact copy in bronze of the marble
statue in Princess street, Edinburgh,
which was pronounced by Lockhart to be
one of the best likeness of Sir Walter
Scott in existence—the celebrated bust
of Chantry not even excepted. The
copy will be perfect in the least particu
lar/and will, therefore, also include a
representation of his favorite and world-
renowned dog, “Maida,” lying at his!‘m'cu^Ob^rrcr
feet, seemingly awaiting liis.commands. ;
This magnificent tribute to tho poet is j
now being cast in Edinburgh, and is ox-
baptism.
Tlic Prifiliytci-ian View of It.
. Just before the adjournment of tho Southern
'Presbyterian General Assembly, tho following pro
ceedings took placo :
The report of tho Rpecial committee on baptism
elicited a lengthy discussion. Gno member made an
argument in favor of the validity of tho Itoman
lvipiiciin. f rhia xexuxet was uuitaa lftDgthy
document, giving the doctrin;;i reasons of tho As
sembly of 1870 lor deciding that persons' who had.
boon baptised- into tho Christian (or Campbellite)
Church should not be admitted into the Presbyterian
Church without being baptized again. Some wanted
to print tho report, aud lot tho peoplo see it, before
adopting it. Hr. Dabney, its author, said, if tho As
sembly does not approvo it, it need not be printed.
•Judge Mitchell wanted to know if tho denial of tho
Reformed (Christian) Chnrch baptism was consistent
with tho freedom of private judgment. Tho Romish
Church claims the right to dictate what Us members
are to believe. Our Church leaves to every-man the
right of private ’udgment. Ho asked if a man eomo
from the Campbellite Church who had boon bap
tized there, before coming to the years of discreUon
—son of pious parents—does this action compel us
to require him to be re-baptized if he is fully satis
fied with it ? Has this or any other Church the right
to dictate in this matter ?
The Rev. Mr. Stratum camo from a part of tho
country whero the Campbellitos were very numerous
(Georgetown, Kentucky). In every case, wuero one
of them wished to unite with his chnrch, he requir
ed them to be baptised, and they always complied,
except in ono instance. This ono, when young, had
been baptised by immersion—ho was satisfied with
it. Mr. Strahan’s answer to him was, you aro satis
fied with it, bnt I and my church arc not. Your bap
tism may have been performed by an irresponsible
person. Any member of tho church designated for
tho purpose may administer tho rite in that church
if tho minister does not like toko into tho. water.—
Another case was instanced: A man wh consented to
join the church if he would recognizo tho validity of
his baptism in the Campbellite Church. Mr. Stra
han’s reply was, I connot allow you to dictate to mo
how I am to perform an ordinance of my chnrch.—
He wanted this report to go out with tho prostigo of
this assembly. Our church suffers Injury from being
assailed on this point, and our people ore not prepar
ed to answer all the arguments brought to bear. Our
church occupies tho true Scriptural ground, and
their reasons for it ore cogent and unanswerable,
and should go Out wiih the full, not morely the quasi,
indorsement of tho assembly. And, as the chnrch
has settled tho question, I hope it will not hesitate to
add the reason for it.
Shall wo allow a person coming from ths world or
from an unorthodox Church to dictate to us what
shall be tho ordinances of our C-hurcl*, or how they
shall be administered? Thero is no intolerance in
it. If they are to dictate to ns, they will come in
numbors, and they will dictate baptism and every
thing else. They take tho Biblo 'but Will bave no
creed. Wo take tho Bible. But we reject them on
tho same grounds that wo refuse to recognize Hnl-
versalists, and a host of other heretics that claim to
accept tho Bible.
After some farther discussion, tho report was
adopted and the Publication Committee Instructed to
print it.
A resolution was adopted instructing Prosbytexies
to bring tho subject of baptism boforo tho minds of
tho people, especially those who may bo neglecting
baptism, and to make reports to the next Assembly
on the subject.
; —-*-•-« ;—
FigMing Joe Hooker’s Opinion.
“Fighting Joo” Hookeramved at Os
wego yesterday morning on tho steamer
Lawrence, en route for Magnesia Springs,
Mich., whither ho is hound for the bene
fit of his health. The steamer made a
short stop at Oswego, during which the
general spoke freely of the war, its con
duct, and the result, and in the course of
the conversation expressed frankly his
opinion of Grant. He said Grant tried
to get control of the Grand Army of the
Republic, but “we” blocked him. Con
tinued “Fighting Joe,” “It is my abso
lute conviction that were yon to walk the
length of Broadway you could not meet
a man less qualified for the Presidency
than Grant. We of the army know him
better than the people at large. When
his adjutant, Gen. Rawlins, was alive,
the President seemed to be efficient and
successful; but when Rawlins died,
Grant’s bottom fell out. He is now in
his normal condition.” On one of the
gentlemen inquiring concerning Grant’s
chances for re-election, Gen. Hooker,
replied, “I am no politician; declined
going to conventions in 1868 chiefly be
cause I regarded Grant unfitted for the
office of President; but, from observa
tion, I now think, candidly and without
prejudice, that Grant cannot cany half
a dozen States. He is very cheap.’
Wc leam that the Good Templars of
Historical Verdicts.
Mcr.TOF.
Pious as Robespierre, comely WCouthon,
Tender as Marat! is tricky Morton.
Butler.
All crimes of men exliaustod, bo aped.Hsynar.,
And roams without the pale of man, alike, and
Stevexs.
“ Outside the Constitution " bo smote his foes.
Reckless and merciless—to his account ho goes!
Soixeb.
A Bhiuiug serpent. He bears his head aloft
When safe—when bruised, he shams it very
Mrs. Beecher Stowe. •
Female Mokanna! Thy Silver Veil of Love
May find its dnpes below—bnt not above 1
Seward.
Not Alaska, nor China. Japan, or the Pole,
Can give sloop to thy pillow—or peace to thy soul.’
Hot
A DELUGE.
Springs, Arkansas,
Water.
Special to the Memphis Appeal.
Little Rock, May 28.—From persons
who made their cseapo from tho Hot
Springs last night, and reached here to
day, some details have bebn gathered ..of
the
MOST TERRIFIC FLOOD
that has ever reached that place, or any
other, perhaps. Barney Hughes was
completely washed out, after night fall.
The storm came in a most ferocious man
ner from tho West. It burst in startling
splendor above the adjacent bights. The
lightning flashed in great globes,
making a greater that noonday brillian^
cy,'and then went out in perfect darkness.:
It was one of tho grandest displays of
heaven’s artillery that was witnessed since
the time tho giant masterdon and the un-
wieldymilodom trod those hills. It was
gigantic. Every clap of thunder shook,
and in some cases, shivered the glasses in
the hotel windows.
ms RAIN FELL IN SHEETS, NOT IN DRuPS.
Every water course became full in half
an hour; where streamlets ran during
the prevalence of former rain-storms,
rivers were formed. Before the people
knew anything of what was going on out
doors, there tvas a flood sweeping down
the main street of tho place, several
feet deep. The inmates of the hotels
could see, by the fitful glare of the light
ning,
FRAGMENTS OF WRECK
sweeping past. On one occasion a
country wagon, with three steers at
tached, was swept by at the rate of eight
or ten miles an hour, the bellowing of
the cattle and tho despairing shrieks of
the driver worn rendered inaudible by the
rushing of the water’s fearfullcommotion.
When the rising flood invaded the first
floor of the Hot Springs Hotel our in
formant rushed toward the stable up to
Ids knees in water. There were half the
gentlemen already there clamoring and
fighting for horses.
“i’m afloat.”
When he found there was no chance
he threw himself into an empty stage
coach that was already floating, aud he
drifted into the stream and wa3 earned,
he didn’t know how far, before he struck
dryland ;.but lie says he saw tho Hale
House, already like
noah’s ARE,
floating about the neighborhood, tho
guests all getting as high up as possible.
The Aiken House was also afloat, and
the flood up to the balcony of the Hot
Springs Hotel.; and still' tho waters
rushed and tie rain fell. The fact is, ■
the whole valley was converted into a
lake. It is thought that there. was
nothing left standing. No loss of life is
as yet reported. We may have fuller de-.
tails in the morning.
——
Suicide of a Twelve-Year-Old
* Girl.
It is only a few days since, says the
Winona (Minn.) Republican, we recorded
the death, by accidental poisoning, of a
little son of Mr. Green, in the town of
Warren, and now another sad affair has
happened in the same town. Living
near neighbor to Mr . Green, is Mr. Levi
Allis, whose daughter, a girl of twelve
summers, was the victim of self-destruc
tion. For some time she has had a fancy
for eating camphor gum whenever it came
within her reach. Aware of this habit,
her parents always exercised a good deal
of care to keep things out of her reach,
and, a short time ago, her mother hav
ing occasion to use some strychnine,
deemed it prudent to explain to her
daughter the dangerous nature of the
poison, and to caution her against taking
it by mistake. After this nothing more
was said of it.
The girl attended school with the other
children, and went to the funeral of Mrs’
Greene’s little boy the other day, when
she appeared very much affected—even
to a morbid degree. She took the little
sacks of salt which had been used to
keep tbe eyes of tho corpse closed and
put them in her pocket, where they were
found after her death. She told some
of her acquaintances that there would be
another funeral before long, and on
Thursday, when she remained with two
other girls to sweep out the school house,
she bade them good bye at parting, and
said she would never see them again.
After this she went home. Her parents
were away. She got the strychnine—
took a portion of it—ran out into the
yard and told tho hired man what she
had done, and in fifteen minutes was
dead. It is a most singular' occurrence,
indeed, and looks very much as though
the child was laboring under a species of
insanity. Her death is a great affliction
to her parents, and has created con
siderable excitement throughout the com
munity.
The Boston Post is anxious to know
IA Diplomatic Excitcmeii
Washington—3tr. Fish
the Russian Minister.
A Washington special to tho New Y”o? r,es 5
Evening Post says: “There has dccu wins
ripple excitement for some days in diplo
matic circles in consequence of Mr. Cat-
aeazy, the Russian Minister, not having
been invited to tho State dinner given ou
( Saturday last to all the foreign ministers '
oft ,, in Washington by Secretary Fish. Tho
matter has occasioned a good deal of talk
j among'that class of people who relish
; such bits of gossip, and speculation has
j been rife as to the causes which led Mr.’
! Fish to thus slight the Russian Minister.
It seems that for some time past the per
sonal relations between Mr. Fish and Mr.
I Catazazy have not been of the warmest
character,-and it is now reported that for
j reasons, serious in their nature, all furth-
| er social intercourse between them is liko-
: ly to be brought to an end, and that in
| future the failure of tlic Russian Minister
i to receive an invitation to state dinners is
not to be attributed to any oversight on
the part of the Secretary of State.”
Under
S'
is anxious
what has become of the sum of ten thous
and dollars which was appropriated by - „ ,,, ... ...
tbe last Congress to enable the President j become darker and. the dark race whiter,
* * • •■» i . • /mi GAuflinf mncf onnnvn
The “Beautiful Suicide.”
We have received a private letter from
a gentleman in Rochester, who knows
whereof lie allirms, explicitly denying
the statement of Mr. Tice, recently pub
lished in our columns, that K.. E. Har
rington, the New York suicide, “was a
second cousin of Mr. Lewis Cass, of De
troit, and a grand-niece of Ex-Lieut. Gov. „
Sclden, of New York.” Our correspon
dent, whose authority would be unques
tioned were wo permitted to usehis namo,
says: “I am aware that you desiro only
to come to the facts in regard to the event
which seems to have excited to much in
terest.; and you will no doubt excuse mo
for repeating to you what has already
been communicated to tho Rochester pa
pers and to the Associated Press, that
Lieutenant-Governor Henry R. Soldcn
has not and never had a niece or grand
niece by the name of Sclden; that he is in
no way related either by blood or mar
riage to tho late General Cass, nor to any
of his children ; that he never heard of
tho woman who committed suicido in
Now York, nor of Charles or Samuel Sel-
den, named in your article.”
We take great pleasure in making tho
correction requested, and arc satisfied
that Mr, Tice, without intending to mis
represent, lias been himself misled as to
the facts.
.;
Tennessee Crop Intelligence.
[From the Joucsboro Herald.
Since our last issue we havo seen sev
eral fields of wheat in this county, and
although the rust has appeared upon the
ground blades of some of it, we have not
seen a nicer prospect for an average yield
since the war. A little rust on the bot
tom blades scare some men to death, but
from what little we know about farming,
as Horace Greeley would say, it don’t
scare tho wheat crop worth a cent. Have
ho fears, the wheat will be plenty.
[From the Memphis Avalanclic.
The most favorable sign as concerns
the crops is that our country exchange/
indulge in no croaking. No doubt thc-'e
are some bad spots, but tho general pros
pect in this section is encouraging.
[From the Maryville IVrFubiican.
The wheat in this county is reported
by our. fanners to bo literally covered
with rust. Great fears are entertained
that the crop will prove an entire failure,
but it is impossible at present to sta ;e
the full extent of the damage likely to
occur from rust Some fields remain un
touched, and present a fine appearance,
but the majority of fields throughout tho
whole country are more or less covered
witli it. The great change in the pros
pect of the wheat crop is attributable to
the excessive wet weather. Fruit is now “
continually falling off the trees, having
been injured by the April frosts; so much
so that we do not look for more than half
a crop in this county.
=
Effects of Alcaliol.
Tho effects of alcaliol have recently
been tested in London, by experiments
upon a healthy soldier. The course of
treatment was as follows:
For the first six days no alcohol was .
given; for the next six days from one to
eight ounces of alcohol per day were giv
en, in divided doses; for the next six days
water alone; and then for tlireo days
twelve ounces of brandy containing four
per cent, of alcaliol. The results are re
ported to be as follows: No appreciable
difference was perceived • in tho weight
during tho course of experiments, but
the temperature of tho body was slightly
raised. The pulse was materially affect
ed, raised from 77.5 beats per minute be
fore taking the alcohol, to 94.7 after tak
ing the largest dose.
Estimating the normal daily work of
the ventricles of the heart as equivalent
to the lifting of 122 tons of a foot, it was
found that during the alcoholic period,
the heart was compelled to lift an excess
of 15.8 tons, and during the last two days
of 24 tons. The conclusion arrived at
was. that alcahol is utterly useless in
health, and positively injurious in larger .
quantities than two ounces daily. There,
however, seems to be indicated an advan
tage in its use if employed in raising a
feebler appetite or exciting a feebler
heart.
The Next Step.—Another amendment
is looming up in the future, and an ad
vanced situation to be accepted as an ac
complished fact. The Wesleyan news
paper, published at Syracuse, New York,
declares that the only remedy for differ
ence of races among American citizens ia
amalgamation. “The white race must
to reform the civil service by inaugura- 01 a bloody conflict must endure ‘“as
— * long.as America shall exist.” It maybe
doubted whether that can be aecomplish-
ting a system of competitive examina
tions for certain minor offices. No ex
amination committee lias been appointed,
and no steps taken to carry out the pro
visions of the act, which was passed long
before the Ku-Klux bill. The President
was very fierce for civil service reform in
his message, but in practice, continues to
dispense patronage to personal favorites,
ed by an amendment of the Constitution ;
but wliat ore doubts in the presence of
the great humanitarian party, which can
mako that straight which God has made
crooked, with as much ease as it can
steal and pray and pray and steal, which
Donn Piott says is its great forte.^ Tho
as usual. He is certainly placed in rath- legal difficulty will be made to yleldto
er » bad light by his neglect. j ufS
readers, and advise the young ladies to
seek dusky husbands and the young men
to choose colored -.vives. This, we reck
on, is to be the tail to tho “new' depar
ture” kite.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
The prospect for a plentiful peach crop j
is extremely favorable. From 300,000 to
400,000 new trees were planted this sea-
and the crop from tho old trees in j
md Maryland is expected to |
' 000 baskets, or about half a !
vicinity.
of Eatonion. '—Paiouton Press,
cinity! million more than were gathered ip that j Xk? Suu Job offiea d
1 champion year of peach-growers, xbOO, 1 than any other office.
does work cheaper