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The Daily Herald. SUNDAY. JUNE 1, 1873. THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, ALEX. ST. CLA IR-ABRAMS. HENRY W. GRADY. R. A. ALSTON, Editors and Managers. THE TERMS of tbe HERALD are as follow* : DAILY, 1 Year $10 00 f WEEKLY. 1 Year...$2 00 DAILY, 6 Month*.. “ ““ ' DAILY, 3 Month*.. DAILY. 1 Month.... 1 00 | Advertisements inserted at moderate rates. Sub scriptions and advertisement* ‘^variably in advance. Address HERALD PCBL1SHIJJG CO., Drawer 23 Atlanta, Georgia. Office on Alabama 8treet. near Broad. JOHN K. WARD AND FRAUDULENT BONDS. TO ADVERTISERS. Exactly what Mr. John E. Ward aims to advise in the matter of the bond question, we are nnable to ascertain from his letter to Dr. Westmoreland. He first admits that every fair-minded man must concede “ that most of them were illegally issued, that almost all of them were fraudulently put in circulation.” While making this admission, however, he goes on to argue that some of the holders of these bonds purchased them in ignorance of $ so | weekly! s Houma 1 W, their ''legal and fraudulent issue, and Mr. Ward intimates that those men ought to be | paid. We cannot see that either justice or equity requires this. No bondholder purchased di rect from the State. All the illegal bonds now j in circulation were either sold to individuals by Henry Clews & Co., or were pawned The bona fide circulation of the Daily without a shadow of authority, to Russell ""on* “ '“ rB " "'“ n ,, "‘ t ° f ' UeCo "*“‘ Sage and others. If we are to recognize as ‘“rlTbona fide eireui.fion of the Daily ™ lid those held by men who purchased from Herald i* moic tnan double that of the these agents, we must recognize all—or, rath er, we will be compelled to recognize all; be cause it will be an easy matter for Clews and others to transfer every bond to “innocent” purchasers. Much of what Mr. Ward writes is, it seems This morning and hereafter it is demanded i USf mere special pleading. In one part of by the great and good government under hi s letter he is most illogical. He writes that which we live that newspapers shall pay “if it should be ascertained that any of the postage upon each one of its exchanges. We merely allude to it to-day to say that i advanced upon them sums of money entirely the editors of the Herald feel that they j inadequate to the amount of bonds which cannot well spare any of their State Ex- they hold, it would taint the transaction with changes, and that they will cheerfully pay J f raU( t a nd justily the State in refusing to pay postage on all of their present list of ex- ; them.” We do not see that this follows at all. changes rather than give up any one of them. | jf Governor of Georgia was not limited as And we trust that with each and every one > the price he was to take for the bonds, he of them we shall have tor many a year that VO uld have the right to 6ell for any price, same pleasant and cheerful intercourse that i ant j if the price was even so low as to “taint has existed in the past. We can all prosper j the transaction with fraud,” unless the State yet, brother editors, despite this mean little cou id prove collusion and fraud between the law. It was passed by a revengeful Con- j Governor and the purchaser she would be gress because the press forced the abolition hound in honor to pay them. We are pi pared to from our book*. CAN’T SHARE ANY OF THEM. A WRATHY OPELIKA NEWSPAPER. We publish elsewhere this morning an amiable article from the Observer, a news paper published in Opelika, Alabama, in which the indignant and virtuous editor deems it his duty to “denounce, in emphatic terms, the dastardly and brutal effort made by a correspondent of the Atlanta Herald, who signs himself ‘Opelika,’ to blast, by a purely sensational article, the reputation of a young and innocent female.” Furthermore, the irate editor denounces the article as “vile” and “slanderous,” and characterizes it as “utterly indecent and untruthful.” In response to this violent assault upon our j correspondent, we will begin by saving, that ! the telegram announcing the killing of Mr. Phillips was sent to all the Atlanta papers from the office of the Opelika Observer, and that it represented the act as having been committed because Phillips had slandered a young lady, This same Observer, we un derstand, also sent the dispatch to the Colum bus San, in which it was stated that both the parties were young men, fifty-eight years of age, Mr. Hooper twenty.) We could here dismiss the Observer on the ground that it was too plainly in the interest of Hooper to be anything but prejudiced, and that “Opelika,” having characterized the tel egrams sent from its office as “lying,” it was endeavoring to prove them true. Justice, that Hooper had himself in a cowardly man ner boasted of his ruining her, and so long as the testimony already given remains un impeached, the most are can do is to decline taking sides in the matter. And if our Ope lika cotemporary, instead of being so much on the side of the Hooper family, would dis play a little more of that impartiality which belongs to the true journalist, ic would not be so anxious to put the young lady forward, ap parently for the purpose of using her as a screen behind which Hooper can unlock his prison doors. holders of these bonds have paid for them, or , however> to our correspondent, who has been ~ A A f *** ” f Qi man ^. years a prominent and influential of the franking privilege, and we are per fectly willing to stand it. LET IS HAVE IT BY ALL MEANS. With the bonds outstanding and unrecog nized there can be no question of their valid ity, because their illegality has been clearly proven by the committee appointed to inves tigate them. The State laid down certain conditions precedent to the issuance of the indorsed railroad bonds, which conditions The approaching sale of the small triangu-1 lar lot of land at the intersection of Peach-1 tree and Pryor streets, just in front of the haTe not been complied with; hence, the new Methodist church, has reawakened pnb- railroad bondg are not and cannot be legally lie interest to the importance of our harm* | bindiog npou Georgia. It does not matter something like parks in the city. We under-1 whether or Dot the p Urc haser was ignorant of atand that this lot is not of great value, that | the fraud . He cannot put in a plea ot lack in fact, it will not bring more than twelve or , of koowledgt) heca „ se the law eipectg him to fifteen hundred dollars at public outcry. j ami i; arjze himself with the con ditious of a Such being the case it seems to us that the bargaia before becoming a party to one. The city authorities should purchase it, especially : moment the conditiong are complied with, as two responsible gentlemen of the city hare j the indorsed nilroad bondg wiu b e binding offered to contribute seven hundred dollars of the purchase money, and we are certain that the church before which ic stands would citizen of Opelika, and whose name, we have good reason for believing, is well known to Mr. Hooper, and probably to the Observzr also, compels us to reply to the attack made upon him by the Hooper family and their organ, the Observer. Senility and asininity were never so plainly exhibited as when the letter is called “inde cent.” And as for any “brutal” assault being made upon a young lady that is simply non sense. “Opelika” did not mention the lady’s name at all, and he merely gave a statement of the affair as he had heard it. Now, to show that the letter was not indecent, we re- | ture. publish the paragraphs relating to the alleged cause of the killing; and to prove that it was not untruthful, we give in parallel columns the testimony of Mr. Ross, a gentleman friendly to Mr. Hooper and tha young lady: The sudden and forcible lifting of the ne gro from the warm and satisfied condition of slavery into turbulent and uncertain freedom by the emancipation proclamation of Presi dent Lincoln, gave rise to conflicting doubts aa to what the effect of snch change would be. At first it seemed that the flood of rare sensations that poured in on Cuffee’s not overly strong system (Mr. Phillips was \ when he was led off of “old marster’s place” into an unexplored Utopia, would absolutely overwhelm him—crush him, and reduce to permanent maudlincy. For months he wan- | dered about in vagabondage, willing to work but unable to organize; starving, with muscles, hungry for labor, but utterly unable to plan or contract; loafing about in listless helpless ness, enjoying freedom on an empty stomach, singing emancipated paans in filth and rags; not “folding his tent like an Arab,” because he had no tent to fold, but “silently stealing a way” or anything else he could get his hands on,honoring no sentiment, admitting noattach ment, holding home to be always the place where the stray crust was; a great beast that warmed and mellowed in the sunshine of one day only to be chilled and sickeDed by the storms and frosts of the next. Freedom was called a failure; and emancipation it w'as thought would soon rhyme with extermina tion in fact as well as verse. But a change gradully came over the pic- The first flood of sensation swept off WHY ARE NOT THE SEWERS BUILT I We must again call the attention of the City Council to the condition of the business centre in the matter of sewers. We are about to enter the heated term, and yet there is a large cesspool in front of Judge Pittman’s house on Loyd street, while at various points along Decatur, Peachtree and other streets, the public health is endangered by reason of the utter lack of sewerage, in localities which most need them. We learn that Judge Pitt man has been three times summoned before Recorder Hammond on account of the cess pool before his place, and that on each occa sion the Recorder has very properly decided that he is not to blame. The whole fact is that the authorities are not performing their duty in this matter. It is the business of the corporation to construct main sewers, so that property holders may be enabled to connect branches with them. A main is needed down Peachtree street to the corner of Decatur, thence to Collins street where it will empty into flowing water; and a short main is also needed along Loyd street. It cesspools are permitted to remain in our principal thoroughfares, filled with de cayed vegetable and animal matter, it is very certain that they will breed disease. Already we hear whispers of cholera in New Orleans, and common prudence should dictate to the Council the necessity of taking every precau tion to keep the streets, Ac., in a thorough state of cleanliness daring the coming sum mer. We trust that this matter will be at tended to without delay. A STERN EXAMPLE OF DUTY. An Incident of the War. (WRITTEN FOB THE ATLANTA HERALD.) We had in our command a Presbyterian minister. He was Captain of one of the best drilled and best disciplined companies in the regiment He was a man of high per sonal courage, amiable but firm disposition, and very popular with the entire command. He had the respect of his superiors, and the love and obedience of his inferiors. Prompt in the discharge of every duty, his example was not lost on his company; and no matter how long and weary the march, Captain K.’s company was never known to straggle. In battle they were always selected for the post of danger and in tne hottest of every fight he was always at the front encouraging his men to deeds of valor. When the battle was over Captain K. was found at the side of the wounded, giving them not only temporal but spiritual comfort, receiving their last words for home, and care fully superintending their burial. In camps on Sunday morning he could be seen with Bible and hymn book, expounding the joys of salvation. Duty was the guiding star of this man’s life. He left the pulpit to serve his country, and from the first day that he enter ed the army until the close of the unhappy struggle the South had no truer or more devoted follower. It is not singular, there fore, that Captain K. should always have been selected on occasions which required nerve and judgment in their execution, and the following is one of the most remarkable • that occurred during the whole war. ! The Federal army was at Nashville, under ' ! the command of Gen. Buell. The Confederate A valued friend sends ns the beautiful little j forces were near Murfreesboro. Captain K.’s poem found among the posthumous works of I command was on the front at a place known .. * m • tt'i a as Black s Shop. For several weeks there had tko great Tom Paine. Who ever supposed been , IuU in movementg of botu armie * that this old philosopher could write such sweet poetry. They are almost equal to his prose. From Mr. Ross' Testimony Mr. Phillips told me that the parties, on the sixth of April, Sunday evening, went to a certMi'i place near Mr. Phillips’ home, bock of the patch near the Terrell Lake. I was speak ing of Hooper and Miss Barnett; I did not mention to him the names of the parties I referred to; Phil lips said, “I saw them go to a patch near my house. * * * * Phillips stated that hsdid not know the lady’s name nor did be say what it was; he said that he saw them getting up, and that he saw Hooper time admonishing him to, brush the dirt off her dcesR be more cautious, as to orback. In that conversa- privacy in his indecent in-' tion he was standing sigh- tercourse with the young teen or twenty feet from woman in question, as not 1 them at that time. Mr. only he and Mrs. Phillips,!Phillips said he was in his bnt others also had been! own lot at the time he saw tnesses of what had oc-|them; he said his wife was present when he saw them From Opelika's Letter. The origin of the diffi culty was, it is said, as fol lows: Some weeks ago, while Mr. Phillips and his wife were in the garden, one evening just about dusk, they were witnesses of a gross act of immoral ity on the part of John Hooper and a young girl of this place, m the rear of their premises. Mr. Phillips, as a mem ber of the church, and also as a friend to Mr. Hooper, sought the young mat the following day and monstrated with him on his conduct, at the same upon the State, but not a moment before. Concerning the bonds “in which the State ; is principal, and not indorser,” we cannot see cheerfully meet the expense of putting a neat I wbat Mr Ward ig dnving at We do not iron railing around it, and in laying out knov of any state aecnritieg unreC ognized, walks and planting flowers and shrubbery. which wer , not cither pawned fcy KimbaU and It will be scarcely jnst to the congregation ; ISullock for their indiTidoa i use, or sold by of the Church, after spending some forty Henry Clew* * Ca, with a full knowledge of thousand dollars In the construction of a fine | their ntter worthlessness. Let the “inno- ! SEZ edifice, to have the lot sold to some private cent - purchasers look to Clews for payment. „ Youn * Hooper, it is said, he did not say .nybod'y else individual who is likely to confront the place 1 Wby sball the state be called npon to do ?ng lb« \^TburMrj£«. law” Zm '™jov 0 of worship with an unsightly shanty. But more than aQ indivjdua i ? Supposes dishon- j f^MuentTe-tt .«,!*““■ aside from this consideration Atlanta is in ab- egt man wag t0 sell f orged and fraudulent ac- ! told it to anybody, he,! Mr. Phillip, Letter to Mr. solute need of parks, and when an opportuni- cep t anceg 0 f General Alfred Austell to an “in- ! M^phiilYp^'r^Jced *uSt! juy 9,1873 ty offers for having one at small expense, it nocent - purchaser in New York, could this I others had witnessed it. ini Mr. John Hooper:’ should be promptly embraced. Me under- • *; nnoeen t" purchaser expect General Austell ! cernedhe did not intend , :1 V: epolie\nd talk/c\ of stand that the owners of the lot in question to pay ^ bccauge he had relied upon tbe “J “ will not do anything to prevent the city pur- we u. kn0 wn character of the General and his ’ ' chasing it, and in view of the fact that nearly ability t0 pay hig debtgV Koteven Mr. Ward at last, and it was found that the ebbtide, remorseless as it was, had left stranded on the African beach much that was valuable, much that was admirable, and much, even, that was to be respected. Gradually Coffee began to settle down. He began to find that “Infernal labor was the price of liberty,” and he made contracts and went to work. The country gentleman rented small tracts of land—garden patches— from his old master, and commenced raising chickens, melons, dogs and children. Then as he organized and systematized his work, he enlarged his patch, planted cotton, com and wheat, and finally became a respectable farmer. He would build him a home, and from this home sentiments and affections would bud and vine, and wind themselves in his heart, just as the honeysuckles and jas mine would fling their graceful tendrils around the doorstep, on which his picca ninnies basked like young turtles and ripened in the suwmet suu. The city cousin in the meantime was not behindhand. He devoted himself to the use- character of the General and his ; desired was to warn the rounds about tbecityj ^Hooper of the consequen-ii will not name the subject MM of his open disregard; from the fact I told you I one-half of the estimated cost has been vol- i woulJ venture t0 ma i nt ain any proposition I of ordin » r >' caution in the would nob I have kept P/mnail J r r I practice ot his immoral- my pledge. Have refused nntarily subscribed, we trust the City Council Iso preposterous. And yet this “innocent” , will order its purchase, and thus do some-; nnr . hfls ._ r h . v _ *Yr»Allpnt nri™ LJ* ap £ ear8 that among when requested to do . , 4 . .. . a purenaser ma ; na^e paid an excellent price those who were witnesses:You. of course, will hei thing towards ornamenting the, at present, , for tbe paper . It wonld probab i y gratify' " ~ best aesthetic city in the United States. We Genera , Angtell t0 know that hig credit was are heartily in favor of the project, believing , B0 good; bnt u certainly would not indace it can be carried out without material expense . him to reC0gniz8 tbe forgery acd gaYe the ,. in _ to the city, and without the tax-payers feel-, noceDt " purchaser from loss. ing it. , , hear it to the improprieties ol the soon. I think its first start parties were several ne- came from some negroes, groes, who, as might be B ut I am satisfied that it is supposed, spread the story out. How far it nas gone on every side, giving the i can t say; but I tell you young lady’s name, togetb- that I am not the exposer er with all the indecent; to the public, details. Very soon the: Yours, etc., We lav it down as abroad principle and a ! ■ ca p dal fP rea<1 fro “ ?“ e Thos. H. Phillips. * . r end of the town to the fai trades, carpentering, blacksmithing, etc,, j ucjlv uivtuiu^ nucu uo uomotett uia cuui&c. and after awhile commanded full and remu- I They retired and after a short absence re- Letter from East Tennessee. Special Correfpondence of the Herald. Knoxville, Tenn., May 30. To the Editors of the Herald: Your correspondent left Atlanta on Wed nesday night and, of course, had no oppor tunity to see the crops until after we had passed Dalton. From that point to Knox ville we paid close attention to the fields on either side ot the train and made all the in quiry possible. On the old lands the grain is thin and poor, but on the river they are very fine. The stand of wheat is thin, but the heads are full and it is generally supposed that what wheat is harvested will be plump and fine. When we arrived here we found many of the people making preparations to decorate the Federal graves. HOW SOON FOROOTTEN. Tbe Supreme Court was in session and the trial of young Nelson for the killing of Gen. J. H. Clanton was progressing. Strange to remark that there was no one preaent from Alabama to conduct the prosecution. On in quiry we learned that Gen. Clanton’s widow had married and consequently the conduct of the case was left entirely to the prosecuting Attorney for the State, who is the law partner of young Nelson's brother. Alter hearing argument the Judge respited the jury until next morning when he delivered his charge. THE SITU ATION IN FRANCE. An erroneous impression prevails among some editors as to the strength of parties in the French Assembly. Of the five factions in it, the Bonapartist is the smallest; but the remaining factions,representing the two wings of the Bonrbon-Orleans monarchists,and Com munist-Conservative Republicans, are so even ly balanced in numbers that the Bonapartist votes give the majority to one side or the other, with which they coalesce for the time j been issued illegally, and demand to be being. As a consequence, the Imperialists | saved from the consequences of his own care- hold the winning cards in their hands. In a lessness and folly. Let him rather go to the recent number of “ L'AbeiUe de la Xouvelle Or-! real culprits—the men who sold him the leans," we read an interesting extract from a bogus paper—and seek redress by legal or other, and as the young i lady’s connections are very, r " | respectable, it became e vi true one, that in transactions of this kind there are no such thing as “innocent” pur chasers. A man who invests his money in ] Hooper must-do “promises to pay,” should make it his duty to inv estigate and ascertain the character of the securities he is purchasing. If he trusts to the honor and the honesty of the seller alone, he voluntarily takes a risk, the result If anybody can find anything “indecent” in our correspondent’s letter, why, let him make the most of it. And if the statements nerative wages, from which he saved money and looked forward to permanent investment. He founded schools and seemed to crave for knowledge, and insisted on his children tak ing educational advantages. Thus the poor, patient, thick-skulled fellow climbed the ladder. It is now seven years since the slaves were set free, and let us look for some of the prac tical results of freedom. We need not go out side of Atlanta to find them. Take the case of the Freedmen’s Savings Bank whose workings were published in the Herald from the pen of a city reporter some weeks ago. It was found by this report taken from the books of the Bank, that during the two years this Bank has been in existence three hundred and fifty- seven thousand dollars had been deposited by the working negroes of Atlanta, and that eleven hundred negroes in this town are regular depositors, some of them very large ones. This number is constantly increasing, and we are assured that a negro who com- of which he must abide by. It is neither just j testimony of Ross and the letter of Phillips, nor equitable in him to go to others whose | W e are unable to understand what corrobera- of “Opelika” are not lully 4 borne out by the mences a Savings’ Bank account never gives it up. If he can only deposit twenty-five names have been forged and whose securities Frencu paper, giving an account of an inter view between M. Emile de Girardin and one other means. Under no circumstances shall we favor c of Thiers’ ministers. M. de Girardin, who is opening of tbe bond question, excepting in a Conservative Republican and a bitter hater j matter of the indorsed railroad bonds, and of the Bonapartists, 'charged MM. Roaher I th en only (and not until then) after every re- aod de Cassagnac with having stabbed Napo- I qnirement of the law authorizing their issue leon IV in the interest of Henri V. This, ! ha* been rigidly complied with. Neither can however, is preposterous. Nothing is more we a &r ee to the State's voluntarily incurring certain than that MM. Rouher and de Cassag-1 th® expense of a long litigation in the courts tive evidence is. If the Observer, whose observations seem to be limited to everything in favor of Mr. Hooper, desires to know it, we will inform that paper that in editing “Opelika’s” letter cents a week he piously takes this trifle around and drops it in. As a direct result of this saving system Mr. Cory, the cashier, says that nearly $100,000 has been drawn from the bank to purchase real estate with in this city and county. There is now, we are we suppressed certain statements which have | informed from best authority, that the negroes since been developed in the examination, bnt ; 0 f Atlanta own $200,000 worth of real estate which we would not then make public be- | ; n the corporate limits. The good that this nac could not possibly desert the imperial cause for that of the Legitimists, unless, in deed, tbe rumor that de Chsmkord has secret ly adopted tbe. Prince Imperial should prove true. De Chambord is old and childless. He hates the Orleans fami- orer a matter whose merits have already been fully discussed and acted upon by the law making power of the State. The illegality of the bonds is unmistakably evident, and that which is evident needs no affirmation, legal or otherwise. A fact is simply impregnable. It ly, though they are his cousins. Old cannot be made a phantasy. “Egalite,” of Orleans, voted to put Louis XVI. j However, we foresee another agitation of to death, and that prince of peddler , Louis ; this bond question when the Legislature next Pbillipe, slipped into the vacant throne of meets, and it might be best for the hard Charles X. without compunction. The bad blood between the two branches of the family renders it not impossible that the old Count has really agreed to a coalition with the Bon toiling, suffering tax-payers to demand of their representatives, now, what they propose “to do about It.” Georgia has enough on her hands, paying off her honest debts, without apartists, based upon his ascending the throne adding to her burdens by assuming obliga tions which are not hers, either legally or morally. We doubt, too, if many newspapers in this State will be found to advocate any re-opening of the question. The first one to advise a compromise—the Augusta Constitu tionalist— has already suspended; the second— a Savannah paper—dies to-day, and the third, of any notoriety, will not be long in following these to that bourne whence no newspaper re turns, unless it leArns, before it is too late, that the people are as terribly in earnest in their purpose not to pay one cent of these fraudulent bonds as they are determined to pay every honest legal debt to the last cent, principal and interest and naming the Prince Imperial as his suc cessor. It would certainly be a curioas spectacle. Of all the strange occurrences of the nine teenth century, nothing would be more singu lar than a onion of the representatives of Le gitimism and Divine Right and the represen tatives of Revolntion and Popular Sovereign ty. Only in the event of snch an onion, how ever, could the Bonapartists support de Cham bord. “We are forty-five Imperialists,” said M. Rouher some weeks ago, “devoted, heart and sonl, to tbe Bonaparte dynasty, and nn changeable in onr convictions that the Empire alone can give power and happiness to France.” It is not possible, then, for M. de Gi- rardin’s bitter sarcasm on the Bonapartists to contain the truth. We had bsgun translating the article, as it is very interesting, bnt matters of importance called us away, and when we sought for the Bet we could not find it. When Attorney General Williams was asked a few days ago under what Jaw the United States troops were employed to sustain the Kellogg government in Louisiana, he replied that he did not know and did not cere, but that the administration was determined to stand by Kellogg in any event. cause we feared it might do injustice to others. We have also suppressed the evi dence of the last witness, not only because of the filthy details it gives of grossly immoral conduct, but also because it is most damaging to the character of the young lady. What strikes us as singular, is the fact that in thus denouncing our correspondent, the Observer is assailiDg the sentiments of its own community. It is notorious that the feeling in Opelika against Hooper is intense. Doe3 the Observer mean to insult its people by as serting that they are so lost to manhood and to honor as to condemn a defender of inno cence and a slayer of a slanderer? We now desire to ask the Observer a few questions: Is it not asserted in Opelika that before Mr. Phillips had spoken of the alleged criminal conduct of the parties, Hooper had himself boasted of bis triumph over the unfortunate girl? Did not one of the witnesses swear that Hooper had confessed to him that he was im properly intimate with her? Why has the Observer suppressed the testi mony thus far taken in the case ? What interest has the Hooper family in tbe Opelika Observer? After these questions are answered we may, if in a good humor, condescend, perhaps, to take further notice of the vaporiugs of this Opelika paper. All we deem necessary to add now is that at no timo has the Herald or its correspondent made any effort whatsoever, “ brutal ” or otherwise, to destroy the charac ter of a young lady. On the contrary, we say it from our soul that we hope to see the reputa tion of the poor girl fully vindicated, and it will afford us the greatest possible pleasure to give publicity to its vindication. Furthermore, when it is proven that Phillips was the slan derer of a young girl we shall justify Hooper institution will do in steadying the race is incalculable. As soon as a negro commences saving he begins to yearn for land and a home. As soon as ho buys a home, he quits his predatory life, and becomes a solid, sub stantial citizen, interested in the growth and prosperity of the country he lives in, and of course less liable to be influenced by foreign and injurious agencies. In regard to the schools, there are now in Atlanta several very fine ones of high and well selected curriculum* and competent teachers. There are about 950 little students, most of them industrious and pains taking, and some of them of marked quickness and ability. The next generation of nogroes will be a decidedly more intelligent, better educa ted, race of people than they have ever been. The results we have noted are not confined to Atlanta, but are duplicated in every city and town in Georgia, and in the South as far as we can judge. Hence, we are justified in hoping and be lieving that while the negro, by reason of his very nature, cannot ever become either the rival or companion of the white race, he may become before long a useful, steady, and re spected part of our tax paying population. At least let us pray that this may be so. Cuffee is a good enough fellow if he will jnst keep out of Yankee carpet bags. George Francis Train has beaten all his opponents. IIe was charged with insanity and he proved that he was perfectly sane. He was next tried for publishing indecent matter, and he proved that he was insane, and therefore not responsible, so they ac quitted bin). Ordered to a lunatic asylum, he sued out a writ of habeas corpus, and a Sheriff’s jury decided that he was perfectly sane. Bo George has been discharged, and we may now expect another flood of epi~ for killing him; but so long as it nppeari grams nud another series of lectures. General Bragg was very anxious to get infor mation from Buell’s army. All the secret service men had failed in their efforts, and application was made to our Commanding General to send some one into Na6bville. He at once sent to Captain K. He explained to him the necesityof sending him into Nash ville. Captain K. declined. He stated that he did not desire to go for several reasons: First, the service was an exceedingly hazardous one, and if he should be captured that he would behuDg for a spy; second, he felt sure that he could not go in and return without exposing himself to the risk of doing things which he would prefer to avoid. His commanding officer explained to him the great importance of the mission, that he knew no other that he could so well trust and who was capable to perform the duty. That he regarded it to be his duty to go, and if he refused it would be impossible to get the information. When the General appealed to him in this manner, he consented, asking that he might select but one man. He selected Lieutenant G., a brave, prudent soldier, but who was anything but a minister. They started on their journey quietly and unknown to any but the commanding Gene ral. Alter days of absence they returned, with very valuable and important informa tion. About a week after their return, one of the privates came to my tent and said to me, “Colonel, do you know that Captain K. cut the throats of two prisoners on his recent trip to Nashville ?” I replied that I did not be lieve it possible, as 1 knew Capt. K. to be one of the most tender-hearted and humane of men. The soldier said. “ It is true; i have heard it lrom undoubted authority, and you can send for Capt K. and you will find it to be so.” I sent lor him and said, “Captain, I have just heard that on your late reconnois- ance you killed two prisoners. ” He appeared much surprised, and remarked in a quick, impulsive manner, “Lieutenant G. told this; he must stop talking abont it or I shall be compelled to overhaul him.” He then said to me, “Colonel I will explain this matter. It is true I killed two men, but I was obliged to do it I did right acd I have no regrets for it. I carefully considered the matter and prayed over it, and feel that I only did my duty. I went into the Federal lines at Nashville against m3’ will. I pro tested against being sent. It was urged upon me as a duty and I undeitook its performance. I succeeded in getting valuable information as to the number of troops and the contem plated movements of the army, also 'drawings of the fortifications and other matters that were of vast consequence to our army. When I got all things ready for my return, I started back. I succeeded in getting clear of tbe Federal lines and stopped with Lieutenant G. at his house to take breakfast We had scarcely seated ourselves at the table, when Miss G. said, “Oh, brother# look !” and glancing our eyes to the gate at the end of the lawn, we saw a body of Federal cavalry approaching. It required* but a mo ment to seize our pistols and start for our horses. We were met at the door by two sol diers, whom we ordered to surrender and took captive. We made them mounted behind ns and escaped to the banks of the Cumberland river. We were hotly pursued, and crossed and recrossed the river four times. It finally became apparent that we must get rid of our prisoners or we were gone. We could not turn them loose, because we were then almost in hearing of the cavalry in search of ns. I realized that we must kill them or be cap tured. I would have preferred the latter, al though I felt that my own life would pay the forfeit, but then I thought of the great im portance of the information I had, and my sense of duty to my country decided me. I said to G. these men must die, there is no alternative left but this. G. said. Captain, by G—d, I can’t do it. (G. was a wicked fellow, but he had no such high sense of duty as the Captain.) I persuaded him that we must do it, and he finally consented, saying, you kill * ! the little one and I will kill the other. We Chatham Superior Court was occupied all | oamod them to a bluff on the river and tk,n 1 r 1 ve told the men ot our purpose. They were day Monday with the case of the bondhold- j paralyzed with dread and begged very hard, ers of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad vs. J but my mind was made up. I prayed to turned with a verdict of “not guilty.” Thus it is that one of the noblest of Southern Generals, and purest men that ever lived, has been sent to his long home by the bullet of one whom he scarcely knew aud for no as signable cause and in a brief while his slayer is brought to trial, and turned loose without an effort on the part of General Clanton’s friends to bring him to justice. Our readers are too familiar with all the painful details of his killing to render it necessary to again re fer to them. It is a sad thing to remember that the great and good Clanton should have passed away and in so short a time that not one of his former admirers and friends should have sufficient love for his memory to see it vindicated. “VeDge&nce is mine and I will repay,” still stands in God’s word and to Him we leave this young man. COAL. After a day in Knoxville we visited the Coal Creek Mines and found the mines idle and their owners quite despondent. The workmen have formed unions to demand higher prices for mining and as their figures have not yet been announced, the proprietors are hesitating abont making future contracts at any stipulaed price. It would seem that it would be the part of wisdom for all who can la}’ in their winter’s supply now to do so, as it is altogether uncertain what they will be called on to pay next winter. • JOE. BROWN AND GENERAL MACRAE. "We met with a number of railroad men at the mines and they were all anxious to know how the Herald’s fight against Joe. Brown's management of the State road was progress ing, and when we informed them that Joe. Brown had been stripped of all power to continue his unjust discriminations, they seemed to be quite rejoiced and they stated that if General MacRae should be left alone to manage the detuils of the road in the in terest of the general public that it would do away with much of the prejadice that has recently sprung up against the lease. TaAY ELER. God to have mercy on their souls, and » , , . , , 1 then caught my man by tbe hair and Quite a lengthy argument was had in this ; cut throat. As he sank ou the grounu. the road. The Advertiser says: case, which is brought up here on an order of tbe judge to argue the legal points in order to facilitate the proceedings in tl.is case. The attorneys in the caso are Jadge O. A. Lochrane, who represents the foreign bond holders to the amount of $1,958,000; Col onels A. O. Bacon and T. J. Simmons, who represents the American bondholders to the amount of about $840,000. The road is repre sented by Judge Wm. M. Sessions. Tbe argu ment was conducted yesterday by Colonel Bacon in the interest of the American bond holders. and will be concluded to-day by Judge Lochrane in the interest of the foreign bondholders, who claim that they hold bonds on the finished portion of the road, which is 172 miles, as against the American bondhold G. with horror in his countenance said, by G—d, Captain, I can’t do it It was the work of a moment to seize tbe other and kill him also. We then tied them with our hand kerchief, and sank them in the river. Tbe cool narration ot these facts filled me with horror and I said to him: “Great Heaven, Captain, how could you do it He replied: “Suppose, Colonel, that you were to receive to day a new piece of artillery and wanted to try the range of it You would probably point it at the enemy who are encamped on the other side of the river. If a ball should 6trike among a squad of men and kill a half dozen, you would all cry out “fine shot’’ and yet what would this be but killing uselessly at a ers. The order to argue the case was issued j ml |o aud a half distance. No possible good for the purpose of settlmg nil legal points ; cou i d come Q f j t . it would not affect either before the case is submitted to the jury upon - ariu y an j ota . i u my cage> j bad information the tacts, which will probably be done in a j ou which depended the fate of our army. Mr- few weeks, his honor Judge Schley sitting in , capture would not only have involved uiy place of Judge Harris of the Brunswick Cir- j deR th but also the fate of our whole army. My duty was clear, and I did not hesi tate. When we had sunk these men in the river, we went into the woods, and 1 laid dowu to sleep. Lieut. G. waked me up aud said he could not sleep; that the scene he had passed through could never be effaced. I said to him that he must never speak of it, as it might reach the enemy and produce military retaliation. He promised that he would not, but I see that be has not kept his vord and he must be stopped.” I was amazed at the Ceptain’s coolness, aud decided to watch hie future course. He never faltered, and in every battle-he was foremost, and was finally ao severely wounded that bis life was despair ed of, but he liTed through the war, aud ia now preaching, na I understand, to a fine congregation. cuit London was illuminated on Saturday night in honor of the fifty-fourth birthday of Queen Victoria. The manner in which tbe day was celebrated throughout Great Britain is an un mistakable indication of the love and affec tion which exists in British hearts for one of the beat sovereigns that ever sat upon a throne. A letter has been received in New Orleans from a German intending immigration, in quiring whether it will be safe fornlm to ven ture through New Orleans on his way to Tex as, provided he is well armed and has a pass lrom tie German Emperor.