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The Daily Herald.
SUNDAY. MAY 25, 1873.
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FISH CULTURE.
We republish in to-day's Herald a very in
tonating article on fieh culture, and which in
duces us to relato our own experience on this
important branch of industry.
We live in DeKalb county, five miles from
Atlanta, on ths Georgia Railroad. At tbe
foot of <rar yard, there was a quagmire which
was too wet to cultivate. Through this bog
there trickled a very small stream, fed by a
spring about a hundred yards above the head
of this bog. In ditching it we found the
stream to .increase ia size. Having one of
Hr. Penn Youge's circulars on fish culture be
fore us, we decided to make a fish-pond. The
ground selected is 279 yards long and an av
erage of 50 yards wide. We commenced to
excavate the dirt and throw it up for a dam,
and we struck so many little streams that we
were encouraged to continue our excavations
until we had removed over ten thousand cubic
yards of dirt. We built a dam 198 feet long,
6 feet bigb, 10 feet wide at the top so as to
answer for a road. One hundred and eighty
yards above this dam we built another, 186
feet long, 5 feet high, ahd 10 feet wide. The
work was commenced on the 5lh day of Au-
——1 gust, 1871. Our money gave out on the 15th
We publish this.morning two accounts of of A P ril - 1872 ' when we had finished »
the Opelika tragedy, suppressing the name ! lar 8 e P art of lhe work ; bllt ,ftfore we
of the young lady whose reputation is in- ] had carried out onr original purpose—
volved, and in so doing adhere to our fixed ddui thing was to stock the
purpose never to give publicity to any state- | P ond - ^* e wrote Penn Youge
ments affecting the honor of a woman, unless I at °P elika on 25th A P ril - 1872 ' ordering $125
they are made in a court of justice. Of the | worth of fi “ h « 8 P awn ' Mr - Yon S® replied to
merits of the case wo do not propose to offer j onr request that he would be at our house in
an opinion, preferring to await ihe develop- P cr80E as 800n as be could “ ak « il CODTe -
ments of the trial: but we trust that justice I n,ent About 9 °’ clock - p ' "" 0,1 tbe 3d of
will be done no matter what the result mav onr little sonsaid, “Father, there is a
^ j gentleman at the gate in a buggy who gives
♦ « [his name as Yonge.” Very much delighted
A QUERY TO BE ANSWERED AT. I _ . . .. „ xr\r
i we went to the gate and gave Mr. Yonge a
Moses Hull, the great spiritualist debater, cordial invitation to come in and remain all
asserts in debate that he and other spiritual- \ night with us. He declined, stating that he
ists have seen spiritualists bite pieces out of bad only come to bring the fish ordered,
apples, and write visible figures into pastry ; I “^Vhere are they and how shall we send for
also that they have seen men carried throngh j them ?” supposing of course that so many
the air, jerked across a room by spirits, and thousand fish would have to be brought from
a joung lady under the influence pick up a the depot in a two horse wagon. Mr. Yonge
piano and march across the room. These and ! Ter y qnickly dispelled our anxiety about
divers other wonderful tales they tell. j hauling them from the depot, by
Now, for our question : quietly remarking, I have them here with me,
If they can see these things, and see them i and he reached out of the buggy three small
every day, why can’t tuey arrange for other tin cans. We were very chopfallen, but man-
cup. To-day they vary in size from six inoh-
es to eighteen inches in length, and we do not
believe there are any two of exactly the same
size.
We have devoted much space to our trout
pond: but the increase in oar upper pond has
been still more remarkable. There the small
fish are as numerous as the sands of the sea,
and we have seen days when the surface of the
whole pond appeared to be so covered with
small fish that you could hardly stick a thumb
lancet in the water without touching a fish.
In conclusion, we will add that we know
very little about scientific fish raising. All
we have stated are facta well known to many
gentlemen who have visited our ponds. Up
to this time our experiment has been a com
plete success. If the increase in another year
keeps pace with what it has been since we
commenced, we feel assured that our expendi
ture will not only prove a great source of
pleasure but also of great profit. On* swal
low does not make a season, and one years’
experience, we have found, is not sufficient in
matters of this kind to justify giving advice.
However, we feel great confidence in fish
raising becoming a very important branch of
industry in this county, for we have the ad
vantage in this, as in most other industries,
over other climates.
TUB OVERTHROW OF X. THIERS.
The news from France is the most impor
tant we publish this morning, and is a fulfill
ment of the prediction made in the Herald
a few weeks ago. As we then predicted would
occur, Bonapartists, who hold the balance of
power, joined the Orleanists and Legitimists
and compassed the overthrow of M. Thiers.
Not even the knowledge that bis opponents
were in the majority filled Thiers with appre
hension of the result He was sanguine that
when the supreme moment came his threats
of resignation would whip in some weak-
kneed Orleanists, but the majority held well
together, and he went overboard.
It is very certain that, in th6 election of
Marshal MacMahon as President, the Bona
partists have obtained all the substance of
the triumph aohieved over Thiers. His
election was, most probably, the price
of their alliance with the Orleanists and
Legitimists. Of course, he is doubt
less pledged not to make any effort in be
half of the Bonapartists; but MacMahon
will never dare to pursue the proscriptive pol
icy of his predecessors toward them. Napo
leon III. found him a subaltern, and gave him
opportunities to distinguish himself. He be
came a favorite of the Emperor and was re-
THE OPELIKA KILIM
DETAILS OF THE KILLING OF
MR. THOMAS PHILLIPS.
Alleged Improper Conduct the
Origin of the Difficulty.
A Young Lady of Respectable
Family Involved.
Two Arrests of the Unhappy
Affair.
people—unbelievers—to see them? Dr. Harri
son has been investigating a long time, and
yet he has never seen a single manifestation.
We have frequently attended “sittings,” and
yet we have never seen anything even inter
esting—that is, anything that approached to
the wonderful. Unless the spiritualists can
show some outsiders some of these manifesta
tions, they must stand as idle assertions of
things that to be believed must be seen ; and
not being seen, cannot of course be believed.
POPILAR
SYMPATHY
INALS.
for cri .vi-
aged to conceal our disappointment as well as
we couid, but my sod. who was near, began to
peep into the cans with a lantern and turning
to where we were talking with Mr- Yonge, he
said, “Father, have you agreed to give $125
for these fish?” “Yes, my son,” trying at
j peatedly promoted until he obtained the
Fish grow more rapidly here than at the , rauk of M , rshal Rnd the titie of Dnc
North. In a book on fish culture kindly : jjajenta
tarnished us by Judge Hopkins, we saw it j All he is, therefore, he owes to a Bonaparte-
stated that the Rev. Dr. Bachman had spoken . True, Ija Duchesse de Magenta is said to be a
more than 2J inches, and not longer than a
goose quill. We can prove by a number of
witnesses that we bad trout in our pond at
that age eleven inches and fully one pound
weight.
What we have written is given to the pub
lic with diffidence, as we only know what we
have experienced, and as we have before re
marked, this experience does not extend very
far.
A FOOLISH FIGHT.
Opelika, Ala., May 23, 1873.
The citizens of Opelika were startled into excitement
on yesterday evening, by the report that Mr. Thomas
Phillips had been shot and instantly killed by Mr.
John Hooper, both parties being residents here.
an actual fact. He in speaking of the matter men
tioned the occurrence, time and pLaoe, but omitted
mentioning the name of any of the parties, other par
ties supplied the names of the actors, and converted
his conjectures into positive statements. I don’t be
lieve, if the report had been circulated as originated
by Phillips, that any offense could have been taken.
It was after hearing the report circulated as a positive
assertion that he commenced making an effort to sup
press it,as there was a possibility of his doing the lady
a great injustice?
Reporter—How did these people stand ia the com
munity.
Mr. T—All stood high. The lady figured in first
circles. No family stood higher than hers. No lady
was more universally esteemed by aU. These reports
astonished*everybody. I could not but believe that
there was some mistake.
I was intimately acquainted with Mr. Phillips. No
one. in my opinion, bad a better record for integrity
and honesty. He stood well in the community, and
was universally respected.
Hooper is of an excellent family, nephew of Jonoe
Hooper, the author of "Simon Suggs.” His father is
a prominent lawyer in Op lika, and his brother arlic-
itor of the county. Hooper ia only eighteen or nine,
teen years old, but was a young man of some promise.
Mr. Thomas Phillips was one of the most highly es
teemed members of this community—a maa of fine
character, who had for many years been prominent
and influential in this county. He had held various
positions of trust and honor, having been Judge of
the Court of Macon county, and sheriff. It used to be
his boast that he had served thirty years as sheriff,
deputy sheriff and constable, without having a diffi
culty with any person in tbe discharge of hii official
falsely, because he stated that he had eaten I Legitimist, an d woman possesses great in-i ^“ Uee : Mr - Dilips was a member of th. Methodist
tront for breakfast that were only nine months fl ufmce : n F, eno h nolities ■ hut (lie old Mar f hurch - “ d WM lbout !' eare of He
,, . .. ... ( nuence m Trench politics , bat the old Mar- . leaves a wife and family to mourn bis untimely death-
old , the ■writer stating, that trout of that age ^ s h a j j s a t heart an Imperialist, and it may be the slayer.
were never known to attain the length of set down as certain, that if be does not give The slayer, Mr. John Hooper, is a young man about
Bonapartists open countenance, he will do twenty year8 of *S e - * * on of Judge J. D. Hooper and
... , . , . . a brother of George W. Hooper, the Solicitor of the
nothing to put them down. At auy rate he is i coucty
now in a position that will demonstrate if he * origin or the difficulty.
possesses any gratitude for the dynasty that i The origin of the difficulty was, it is said, aa follows:
enriched and ennobled him. . Some weeks ago while Mr. Phillips and his wife were
We are somewhat surprised that the j ln thc garden onc eveniag just lbout da * k - the J were
Legitimists and Orleanists did not ms.st: ‘ T" 1101 00 of
0 | John Hooper and a young girl of this place, in the raar
upon carrying out the project of [ 0 f their premises,
electing the Due d’Aumale, President. Their ! hooper admonished.
abandonment of this design is a confession of j Mr * Phillips, a member of the church, and also
weakness. True enough, they have struck | as * friend to Mr * Hooper, sought the young man on
the death blow to the republic, but we venture j TJ°TZ d * T ““ r * mob6tr * tad w ‘ th b ‘ m
r I conduct, at the same time admonishing him to be more
the prediction that they have given the Bona- , cautious, aa to privacy, in his indecent intercourse
partists a weapon with which they are likely ; with the young woman In question, as not only he and
t© receive their own quietus. It is not proba- j Mrs - ^hillipa, but others also had been witnesses of
ble that the law exiling the Bonapartists will j hftd occurr ^
be repealed at once, but if MacMahon
Don Quixote’s foolish charge upon the
windmill has found a parallel at last, in Dr.
Harrison’s absurd charge upon Dr. Hull of
Bawston, the leading spiritualist of America.
We publish in another part of to-day’s Her
ald a careful and concise statement of all the
leading points made by either speaker in the
great debate now being waged in Nashville.
A more ludicrous affair we have never read
about. Dr. Harrison stood there an earnest,
they are small enough to have been hatched
An illustrated paper in New York had a , on the road.”
., .. . . , . pains-taking, dry-eyed scholar and Chnstiao,
the same time to keep him from saying any , .... ... , Jt . ,
... .. .7. . ® r battling with sober strength against a flip-
more, but he said with an air of disgust, “I i , - .. . , , _ ° 0 *
... , . . . .. . , , , 1 pant, foolish, word-buffoon.
think you had better stop me from school a, „ ... , ^ . - * *
day and let me go seining.” Turning to Mr. ! Faucy the learned Doctor attempting to • i ac tion of MacMahon as Thiers' successor, are
Yonge, he said, •• How old are these fish?" i tL ® ass ® rt,0 “ made by Hull that he alike significant indications.
“ A week old, sir.” I h “ d See “ a T rlt pick ° P an apple and bltc a I A « for Thiers, we trust that he has retired
“I suppose they are quite young-in fact i ?' e< £ ,°" t ° f U ~ tbat th " e ' vas a J°ung lady permanently from public life. He does not
m B^imore who could lift a piano off the posse88 the firBt element of a statesman. A
floor; that he had seen spirit fingers with no political trimmer for nearly half a century,
„ , .« ... , , 1 llTT .., ... ... hand or wrist attached seize a pencil and
cartoon the other day illustrating the obstruc-1 “How did you count them, sir, mv son a a . ,
. % . . . 4 , ■ .. a , . . * J write sentences; and that he had been jerk-
tions that are interposed to the punishment, continued, much to our embarrassment, for - . . . . . ., . - , .
.. .. . 1 , , ., ' ed sixteen feet by the mflaence ot a spirit
01 murderers, the disagreeing jurors, or, in i we had been doing what we could to conceal w«r . .. . .a • ..
J ’ » I » We can imagine the heartfelt indignation
.... - ... .... , . - 1 . . .. ...... °f Dr. Harrison at this juncture, when,
application for a new trial, political influences, sir—so many to the spoon. At this point
appeals to the Governor, a respite, and final- we ventured to gaze into the cans, and float-
ly, the pulpit, the press, and the people all ing about like wiggle-tails, but not so large,
blockading the way to the gallows. “That ! were the thousands of little trout and red-
these last three named influences,” says a horse and braem. We hurried to the pond
cotemporary, “should be arrayed to prevent and poured them in. We felt that we were
the punishment of a convicted and nndenia- ■ “casting bread upon the waters” that would
ble manslayer—as in the case of Stokes, who return no more to gladden our hearts, but i , . . , . . . .. ,
, r ., . ,. , _ ’ , _ .. . . . * a laugh of derision in the crowd, and put the
Rilled Fisk—shows a disordered condition of we were greatly mistaken. Never did we i . , . .. . . . .. 1
, . ... . ,. . naan who furiously attempted to discuss them
make a purchase wh.ch gave ue half the in the U htof . dolt or ^
Szr.'Sir ” ”* - “”! »•—
W, ib. UoMatt •#»,' a, uwt i. Mdl. fo,
criminal law. —_ tsnmi in- pond. We then took our son’s advice, and
PHILLIPS THREATENED.
I Young Hooper, it U said, flew into a passion, de-
refuses to proscribe Imperialists; if he daring that nobody but Mr. Phillips had seen it, aud
appoints them to office, and allows them to ; tll *t H that gentleman ever told it to anybody, he
distribute documents among the soldiers (Hooper) would ahoot him. Mr. Phillips rejoined that
they will be greatly strengthened. Thestead^ ! othe ”“ th *f° far “ he C T ,
... , ... . cerned he did not intend to make any mention of the 1
increase in their numbers in the Assembly, in j mllter t0 „ y one . he deslrtd WM t0 wsrn Bxper
the face of a bitter official proscription, the
recent election of a Bonapartist from the
usually hostile city of Rochelle, and the se-
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Mr. H. Fontaine, representing Procter A Gamble,
the largest grocery house in America, was in the city
yesterday. He is a clever, affable gentleman, and
knows his business.
Mr. Salem Dntcher, who is probably the most bril
liant writer on the Southern press, and an accom
plished scholar, has purchased the Augusta Constitu
tionalist, and will henceforth edit that paper. We
heartily wish him success, and plenty of it.
Mr. P. M. L. Burbanks, of Hallett, Seaver .. Bur
banks, New York, paid us a pleasant visit yesterday.
Aside from being a tip top gentleman, Mr. L. is the
President, and, we may say, organizer of the “South
ern Club” in New York. This club is composed of
Southerners living in New York, who Lave rented a
magnificent mansion and fitted it up superbly, aa a re
tort for Southern gentlemen visiting the great me
tropolis. It is a “crack” institution, and flourishing
finely.
Mr. F. B. Lucas, of Athens, is in ths city.
T. B. Williams, Jonesboro; Tbos. J. Min tecs, Wartmce
Tenn.; W. F. Whittle, Athens; Wallace Rhodes, Ice*
ville; J. W. Atkins, Baltimore ; B. F. Allen, Fia., P. R]
Young.Cincinnati; E. C. Hanna, Louisville ;W. A. Parks,
Marietta ; B. Y. Sage, Air Line R. R.; F. E. Habersham,
Richmond, Ya.: J. D. Harris, Ga.; T. £. J jhannis, Au
gusta; A. H. Cox, Lagrange; J. G. Maya, August; S.
D. Meek, Virginia ; J. T. Coleman, Opelika, Ala.; Geo.
O. Reodry, Air Line Railway ; O. C. Braumuller, city,
with quite a number of others were stopping at the
National last night.
Misses Moomaugh and Davidson from Cnthbert are
in the city. These young ladies will captivate some of
onr young' gentlemen if they don't watch, as their
beauty and accomplishments are unsurpassed.
Capt. T. B. Statham—representing the house of Scott.
Colliers k Co., Provieion Brokers, at St. Louis—is in
the city.
Literary Entertainment.
the public mind and conscience which ac
counts for the laxity of the administration of
criminal justice in this country, without
saddling it upon the inadequacy of our
after having studied faithfully and con
scientiously for years to meet 6ome
champion of Spiritualism, and discuss with
him the great suggestions and hints that lie
hid in that theory, to be brought face to face
with a pack of unsustained and impossible as
sertions, so ludicrously false that they raised
u pilsit, the press and tbe peo
ple—not having the obligations of an oath
upon them, allow their humane emotions to
silence their sense of public duty and respect
for the law. How often do we see juries,
who, upon hearing the law and the evidence,
promptly return a verdict of “guilty’' against
a murderer, as soon as discharged from the
box and remanded to their position as simple
citizens, affix their signatures to a petition
asking that the law be set aside, and the
criminal either turned loose upon society, or
subjected to a grade of punishment wholly
inadequate to his crime? Even judges and
prosecuting officers are sometimes moved
from what they believe to be legal and right,
by the same morbid and misplaced
sympathy. Men are prone to for
get their duties to society—duties
as obligatory upon them as if
imposed with the solemnity of an oath—and
sometimes even aggravate the offense by con
demning faithful public officers who have the
virtae, often with the severest struggle to
which the human mind and heart can be
subjected, to suppress feeling and perform
their duty to the law and to society, despite
the mental agony occasioned by the act This
is not right. Instead of reproaching such an
officer as hard-hearted, cruel and unmerciful,
we should honor him as better than ourselves,
in that he has the virtue and the firmness to
subordinate self, to subdue even generons
emotions, in obedience to the behests of law
and the public good. Such men, thorny as
may be the path to be trod, will surely get
their reward. As time advances, the unthink
ing sympathies of to-day will give place to
sober reason and judgment, and the adverse
verdict of an excited populace be changed to
plaudits of “well done, good and faithful ser
vant.” For these a brave man, conscious of
the rectitude of bis acts, can afford to wait
In capital trials, the condemnation, tbe sen
tence, and the awful scenes of the scaffold,
the mind, overpowered by tbe startling effect,
is apt to wholly lose sight of the cause. In
contemplating the punishment, we forget the
crime, which in its day sent a feeling of
horror to the hearts of the community.
In the case of Susan Eberbart, the very
thonght of a young woman 4 still in her teons
and of vigorous health being doomed to an
ignominious death on the gallows, was enongh
to take sole possession of tbe popular sympa
thy and banish for the time all consideration
for poor Mrs. Spann, who, at the dead hour
of night was strangled in her own bed, and bj
the hands of a brutal husband and hie para
mour confederate, sent all unbidden to the
pretence of her Mak< r. Who, in contemp’a-
tion of tbia latter scene, as detailed in the evi
dence, will say that tbe law was not righteous-
'•uted ?.
went seining, and caught a few perch and
suckers and put them into each pond. We
had so little faith in our purchase, that we
paid very little attention to our ponds for
some weeks, when a negro boy said to us that
those fish which we had poured into the
pond were as long as his finger. We could
scarcely believe it, but a few days after,
my son killed a crane which
had twenty-three small fish in
his craw, and among them was a trout about
four inches long. Being fully satisfied that
there was not a trout within a hundred miles
of our pond, we felt assured that the trout
which we found in the crane’s craw was one
of the little specks which we had turned
loose a few months before, with so little faith.
From that day we carefully watched for them
and saw the increase in size from day to day, till
the following October, when they had attain
ed a size that was truly astonishing, some of
them appearing to he at least twelve inches
in length. Up to this time we had fed them
on young fish, caught from our upper pond,
and tadpoles and small frogs. When cold
weather set in, they disappeared, and we saw
no more of them until the 23d of February.
Col. S. C. Williams and other gentlemen were
dining at my house, and inquired about my
fish. We remarked that we had not seen
them since November, and did not
know whether they wore alive or dead, bat
proposed that we take a fly and angle for
them. To our great joy, in a very littla
while after we had drawn tho fly through the
water, it was siezed by a trout, and in less than
five minutes we drew out five tront some
of them measuring eleven inches in length.
They have continued to grow with great
rapidity, and at £this writing there are
trout to be seen any morning, that vary in
size from six inches to eighteen inches. Wo
fed them this very morning—they are quite
tame and very voracious. At first they were
very dainty and refused to eat anything but
small fish, but after a few weeks of abstinence
they Lave ceased to be choice, and now eat
any kind of animal food that is offered. They
still refuse bread or vegetable diet, but eat
ham, beef, chicken, intestines, or any other
animal food.
For the past few weeks they have been
spawning. We hare watched them carefully.
They seem to keep their nests about twelve
days. Then a slight mist is discernable; this
mist in a few days takes shape and is endowed
with locomotion; then they take the form of
fish and are very active in moving about
From this time they grow rapidly, but what
is singular they do not all grow with tha
same rapidity. We turned into our pood
2700 fry, on the 3d day of May, 1873. At
that time these 2700 could have had abund
ance oi room to sport tbemfe'ves in a pint
of the consequences of his open disregard of ordinary
caution in the practice of his immoralities.
THE SCANDAL SPREAD.
It appears that among those who were witnesses to
tbe improprieties of tne parties were several negroes,
who, as might be kupposed, spread the story on every
side, giving the young ladj’s name, together with all
the indecent details. Very soon the scandal spread
from one end of the town to the other, and as the
young lady’s connections are very respectable, it be
came evident that Hooper must do something to repel
the charge of guilt.
MR. PHILLIPS ATTACHED.
This Hooper did by killing Mr. Phillips. He ap
proached that gentleman yesterday afternoon in the
presence of two of our most respectable citizens, and
charged him with having spread the report. Mr.
Phillips replied, denying that he had ever spoken of
the matter to any one. Hooper then demanded that
Mr. Phillips should deny ever having seen him en
gaged in any improprieties with the young lady. Mr.
Phillips replied, declining to accede to the demand,
on the ground that he would not voluntarily tell a lie.
THE KILLING.
Mr. Phillips was entirely unarmed and at the mercy
^ . of his opponent. No sooner had be refased to deny
Council is awakening to what is probably the ! tl! , t hc M witnot8ed impropcr cocduct , unm
! most essentiaJ matterjirpj/ 0 lj2|- na| j e orer t |,,; s r’ate'm.u. Mr. Phillip, called out to him, in
dilapidated bridge to convince the most caf- I the D *“ e ° r Ood ' not to ehoot, and made ,
ual observer that there is an active and ever ; mov * ment as tf to “ oitl3 the weapon.
u. x • i* - a I Before he could execute his purpose, however,
present danger of its tumbling in at any mo- ixy . * * , , ,
. J i Hooper fired and the bullet entered above his left
ment. Being situated, as it is, upon one of ; breast, penetrating the heart and causing instant
our most important thoroughfares, there is death. A second shot was fired, but the bullet missed.
with ability to destroy and without the nerve
to build, his entire career has been a series of
vaccillation*. It was in his power to have
established a Republic, but he was afraid to
offend his Orleanist friends, and so he played
the “little joker’s” game, until tbe Bona-
partists qwietly trumped his cards.
THE BROAD STREET BLlIDGE.
We were glad to note by the debate upon ;
the Broad Street Bridge, reported in the
Council proceedings of Friday night, that the j
Past Grand Madir Barnes Master of
Ceremonies.
The trouble commences *t eight o’clock on Thurs
day evening next, at Concordia Hall. The reputation
•f this gentleman as one of the most entertaining
speakers on the American continent, is now perma
nently established, and it is with pleasure we chron
icle the fzet that all who heard him in Atlanta in 1861
and ’65, and many others besides, will now have an
opportunity of hearing him once more. He is not
only among the ablest of men, bat socially he is also
one of the cleverest and most estimable men within
the range of onr acquaintance. We hail his appoint
ment here with feelings of joy and exultation. Citi-
izens of Atlanta, do not fail to hear this lecture from
one of the highest Odd Fellows of the United Suites.
8ee advertisement in another column.
party of festive Spiritualists, missed tbe train
and sat down and commenced playing, “The
Last Rose of Summerwhile grinding out
this somewhat melancholy tune, the wretch
ed Patts, like a modern Elijah, was picked
np by unseen spirits and borne wriggling
through the air to Mechanicsville, where he
jerked the jnice ont of his fiddle according to
programme. Aside from the fact that it is
impossible for such a thing to have happen
ed to a party by the name of Patts, we are
| tempted to doubt if it could have happened
to the melliflnons-named Moses Hull. j i° ru down at once. With the Dixon bridge J prevent people talking.
it is our opinion that the Patts’ romance is horror fresh in the minds of the Council, we renue erKTiaasx.
the fantastic outgrowth of an undigested po- j do not wonder that they have adopted speedy ! *1”.* b * n J 1
tato which the said Patts wrestled 8 with L : -d prompt measures for the remedying of j
night of the Mechanicsville transition. ; ^“ 1S danger. cold-blooded end premeditated murders on record in
But the truth is, that Hill is a flippant fall- .... I?**,,.. I thi, State. Hooper .ought, parleyed with, and delib-
erstely shot his victim without resistance, and without
scarcely a moment throughout the day or
early night, when there are not from ten to
twenty people crossing it, and often during
the day it is hotly crowded with carriages,
horsemen and pedestrians. At some of these
moments it is certain to give way, and an im
mense loss of life and property must ensue.
The bridge is rotten, shaky and dilapidated,
an eyesore and a man-trap.
end before he could fire a third time, he was arrested.
A JUDICIAL FARCE.
The deed committed. Hooper walked off calmly
with tbe officer and surrendered himself to the au
thorities. Then took place a perfect farce. Mr.
Hooper was a clerk in the office of a Justice of the
Peace named Vickers, and he was brought before his
former employer. It is said that when bail was asked,
Vickers promptly agreed to take it, and named $2,600
as enough, and that Hooper's brother, the Solicitor,
It should be : suggested $6,000, as this sum was larger aud would
ure, a blasphemer and an ass. His illusion
to the great Jehovah as an “ illiterate, re
vengeful, passionate man, whom the Chris
tians call God,” is enough to rule him out of
the good opinion of all decent men. Dr.
Harrison had better drop him, and come
home. He (Dr. H.) has earnestly strived to
get the discussion of Spiritualism, which in
certain aspects challenges the attention of all
thinking men, down to a rational point. His
unfortunate scuffle with this New England
clown shows how miserable has been his fail
ure. He would do well to stop right here.
Therejs a basis—a mysterious but beauti
ful basis—on which genuine Spiritualists can
found their religion and iheir hopes. There is
an undeveloped mesmeric science, a faint de
licious aroma, wafted from the world of spirits
into this, our world, undefinable, and yet cer-
j tainly existent, which would give at least par
tial justification of the belief that there is
some connection between the dead and the
living. As long as the Spiritualists confine
themselves to the serious and faithful investi
gation of this sweet influence—so pregnant
with happy hints and soulful suggestions—
they will have attentive listeners, earnest co
laborers and earnest converts. But when they
import a blaspheming Yankee, from Harriet
Beecher’s home, to spout disgusting foolish-
We love to think of old Charleston. Never
will there be such a constituency in this coun
try again as existed in this city before the
war. Here men were not only prompt to re
pel aggressions on their own rights, but they
were equally careful not to infringe upon the
rights of others. Money was not the sine qua
non to society ! Without integrity, there was
no respectability. Everything was conducted
on a high plane, and her commercial standing
was not equalled by any other city in tte
land. The bills of the Bank of Charleston
were like bills of Exchange from Maine to
Texas and the notes of the Merchants could
be discounted in any mart of ihe world.
It affords us pleasure therefore to know that
much of the business of that dear old place is
still in the hands of such men as we have de
scribed and in referring to the cards that ap-
pcftr in to-day’s Herald it is sufficient to say
that the men all did business in Charleston
before the war.
The Savannah Republican has this startling
item. We suppose that remorse, arising from
daily distributing such a dull paper as the
Republican, run the negro crazy:
One of the city carriers of tbe Republican,
a colored man named London Small, has
been missing from the office and his home
since 5 o clock a. m., Tuesday. At that hour j Reporter—Did yon ever hear of these reports as
ness before intelligent audiences, they will “ e 18 reported to have come into the office, ! coming from Mr. Phillips, and what was tho nature of
Mr. Phillips knowing of his purpose. 11 is the gen
eral opinion that if Hooper is ever tried, and if
Judge of the character of Judge Hopkins, of your
city, presided over the trial, that he would be con
victed. Unfortunately, we have no such men as
Judge Hopkins here. It is all a question of money
with our trenchant and venal officials.
INDIGNATION.
The bailing of Hooper hae excited deep indigna
tion among all claaees of our respectable citizens. I
trust that you will send a reporter of yours over here,
to make an investigation of this killing. Although
your correspondent believes he writes without prej
udice, st 11 your readers may not think eo, hence the
necessity for your sending a reporter here. My sole
purpose in writing has been to correct the lying tele
grams sent to the newspapers from this city, which
represent Mr. Phillips as the slanderer of s young lady
and as a young man.
Opeltea.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
On last night our reporter called on Mr. W. B.
Thomas, one of the most prominent lawyers of Ope*
lika, for the purpose of obtaining any information per
taining to the Phiilips-Hooper affair, that he might be
able to furnish it. After exchanging courtesies, and
stating the object of his call, tho following interview
took place:
Mr. Thomas—I cannot furniah you with any infor
mation concerning the aff«ire, as I left Opelika the day
before Mr. Phillips was killed, but am fkmiliar with
the cause of the disagreement which was the circula
tion of oertain rumors credited to Mr. Phillips.
find that they have a hard road to travel.
The Rome Commercial has the following
important announcement:
Judge Harvey announced in open Court
yesterday, that ho would not contest Judge
Underwood's appointment to the Judgeship
of the Rome Circuit Had Judge Harvey de
cided otherwise, his course in the mfttter
would not have lessened him one iota, either
in the opinion of the bar or the people at
large. Judge Harvey has presided on the
bench with superior dignity and ability, and
Floyd county is proud to number him amoncr
her most worthy citizens, whether as an offi
cial oc occupying the humbler walks of life as
ft private citizen.
stared about in a wild manner, and rushed j ti, fm *
out, disappearing down the steps at tlio Ex- j Mr . Thomas-i hare heard many reports reflecting
c ange going o e^nver. j <«a (he character of a lady of our town; each of my in-
At tUa Presbyterian picnic, given at Mont- ; f o rm » n " «*'» Ur rhuu l'“ “ bU direct or indirect
gornery yesterday, a little boy named Kerup- j * ull,orU J'- Th '«’ ««»*“ tuld “■ » continual
* -- - U * " • - — 1 manner, but waa not oonfiaed to a few.
Reporter—Did you over apeak to Mr. Phillips re
garding these rumors ?
Mr. Thomas—I never spoke to Mr. Phillips iu ref
erence to the matter, bat understood from a friend
of his that Mr. Phillips had made many endoavoro to
suppress ths rumor, as there was a possibility of his
laboring under a misapprehension, and a more es
pecial retsou for his desiring that the matter should
be “hushed up” was. that he was a particular friend
of the Hooper family.
Reporter—Did Mr. Phillips make any positive state
ments about ths criminality of this couple?
Mr. T—The runs or was circulated by Mr. Phillips,
giving ths cocurrsnoe rather as a conjecture than an
ton, eleven yeaig old, fell overboard off a
yacht and sunk beneath the water. Mr. Hab
ersham King boldly plunged in and after div
ing and making considerable search found
him, and gallantly swam ashore with him.
When terra firma was reached, the rescued
and Lis brave rescuer were both nearly ex
hausted. On regaining his breath, little
Kempton’s first words were: “ Thank God—
where’s my bat ?”
The Ban Francisco Alta says that the Cali
fornia farmers had ft right to expect three
times as much rain in April as they had.
They will be demaading a constitutional
amendment next to secure their right.
Our State Exchanges.
The Griffin Star gives us the following pen
pieture8*of two of Chattanooga's sons *
— ociuum seen a more complete spec
imen of variety and complacency than Mr.
James presents. He appears to bear the
world upon his shoulders without an effort,
and Chattanooga is the pivot upon which it
rests. Mr. Snyder is entitled to the first
premium in the matter of cheek: he can stand
up and address a crowd a half day that is de
termined not to hear him. He was cheered
down and hooted down a hundred times, but
stood Ins ground without the quiver o.‘ a
muscle or the faintest semblance of a blush.
He made his speech, as he intended to, when
he left home, and he did so in defiance ot the
crowd. There is as much stolid indifference
about him as we ever have seen exhibited by
any hog drover that ever introduced pork into
Georgia. This young man is bound to make
his mark. He has advertised himself thor
oughly and well.
We copy these items from the Gri ffin Star.
We learn from a friend that John G. Brown,
William Revel, James Reems and Bob Brown,
of Meriwether county, and James Justice, of
Pike county, were arrested on Wednesday, by
the United States Marshal, charged with illi
cit distilling.
Is Luck.—We learn with pleasure that our
esteemed frieud, Dr. J. S. Pemberton, of At
lanta, has strong hopes of gaining a suit
which was brought in the United States Court
of Claims by his father before his death, for
cotton taken by the United States army after
the close ot the war. The claim amounts to
$215,000.
The Franklin News says Horace King, the
well known bridge builder from Columbus,
has taken the contract for $3,600 to re
build the bridge across the Chattahoochee at
that place.
Major Moses, a large and successful grower
of peaches, informs the Columbus Sun
that his crop has been ruined by the hai!.
The pilot of a locomotive on the State Road
knocked a negro ten feet high near Dalton, a
few days since. The negro being still alive,
it is supposed he was struck on the head, and
fears are eutertained that the locomotive is in
jured.
Messrs. Beard & Kimball, of the Savannah
Advertiser, have purchased the Savannah
Republican and will consolidate the two pa
pers on the 1st of June. The Advertiser is
surely very prosperous, as it truly deserves
to be. The Republican, Savannah, gives us
these items:
Two Negroes Drowned.—Two negroes,
Benjamin Camnbell and Jack Cook, who
were employed by Captain H. J. Dickerson,
w'ere accidentally drowned at the wharf of
the Clack Star Line, yesterday morning. It
appears that Campbell and Cook were en
gaged iu discharging cargo from the port
batch of the steamship Montgomery, aud
while engaged in bringing a case ot goods
from the port to the wharf, the lashing of
the stage gave way, precipitating them and
the case into the river.
One of the men could swim, and would un
doubtedly have been saved had not the fates
willed it otherwise, for the one who was una
ble to swim, seized with a death grasp his
comrade, and thus they struggled together
for a few minutes in the water, when
they sank before assistance could be ren
dered them. Search was made for the bodies
but np to Ust eTMtoe ttwj bad not Vwen rv-
cor»r»d.
Miss Maj M. 8h«ibWy, of Rom., bane I
yestordajr.