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The Daily Herald SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 1873. THE HERALD PlBLISIIDO COMPAN Y, ALEX. ST. CL AIR-ABRAMS. IIl?»KY W. GRADY, II. A. ALSTON', Editors and Manager*. THE TERMS of the HERALD are as follows : DAILY, 1 Year $10 00 \ WEEKLY, 1 Year.. .$2 00 DAILY', 6 Months... 6 00 I WEEKLY, 6 Months 1 00 DAILY, 3 Months... 2 50 | WEEKLY, 3 Months 50 DAILY, 1 Month I 00 | Advertisements inserted at moderate rate*. Sub scriptions and advertisement* invariably in advance. Address HERALD PUBLISHING CO., Drawer 23 Atlanta, Georgia. Office on Alabama Street, near Broad. THE CITY HOSPITAL AGAIN. PROJECT Mr. T. J. Boinzi is the only authorized Travelling Agent of the Herald. Our State Exchanges. The LaGraoge Reporter gives out that the South Union Musical Convention will meet at Monntville, on Thursday, 21st instant, and will continue four days. The territory included in the South Union Convention is as follows: Beginning at Flint river, at .the junc tion of Meriwether and Coweta counties, thence west to Franklin, then down the Chattahoochee to Pine Monntain, then to Flint River, and from there up the river to the starting point. All this country will send its singing men to Monntville, and the occasion will be a Boston jubilee on a small scale. "And Captain Rico he gin a treat," said the quaint witness in Cousin Sallie Dillard. So Col. Fannin "he gin a treat" last Satuiday, in the shape of a barbecue to his hands. A few of his friends also attended, and we are told that everything went off in the happiest possible manner. A correspondent of that paper, writing from Meri wether county in relation to crops, says that immedi ately north of Greenville, a circumference of about five miiea, reflects much credit on the farmers for their prompt action in the management of their crops. The crops are in a good condition, ss well as in a thriv ing state, and point to a remunerative result Corn is splendid. Cotton is rather late and small, but the fruitage good. No panic at present, as no fruit is tumbling, by the effect of casualties. Wheat proved a success this year, in proof of which, we sent some to Blalock’s mill and got forty-two pounds flour of excel lent texture, to the bushel. The farmers are cow at leisure consulting economy, while they indulge in the use of their fruits, some rotten, the balance not so badly damaged ; speculating in lofty notions, of re specting the first claims of their honest creditors the ensuing fall.1 Hogsnsville is improving snd growing more than any small town we know. The people are alive to the importance of working, and, as a consequence, the town is 7ery flourishing, and real estate commands ss good price as in many places much larger and more important. A good many improvements are now go ing on. The exercises of Hogsnsville Institute began last Monday week under the former teachers. There are now about fifty pupils in attendance, and this number will be increased as soon as the warm weather is Frank M. Ridley, of LaGrange, was one of the Sophomore orators at the University of Georgia, la3t Monday. His subject was «• The Ruins of Time." The Good Templars had a picnic near New Hope Church, in Harris county, and among the speakers from West Point were Rev. Mr. Little, Dr. Griggs, Cam. Lanier, Sam Houston, B. L- Harris, Jim Calla< ban and Master James Pattillo. A correspondent of the LaGrange Reporter says that everything passed off nice enough, but the grest object of the day was wa ter. It was a difficult matter even to get a drink. The boys forgot to carry any along. Tbete West Point fel lows rarely forget to do that. The speech of Cam. Lanier is reported in full, and will bo published in pamphlet form. J. W. Clift, M. D., late carpet-bag member of Con gress from the Savannah neighborhood, is now shov ing the jack-plane in East Marshall, Mass. It is said that he can dress a clap-hoard with much facility and in the bight of fashion. The farmers of Thomas county are making available the Florida "beggarlice," or Cynogloisum. Tlje En terprise says: One of our moat intelligent fanners assured us a few days ago that it far surpassed the clover of higher regions, and be intends introducing it as a rival to the Northern clover at our next State Fair. The same gentlemen informs us that one of his most successful farming neighbor* considers a crop of beggarlice on his land as equivalent to ten bushels of cotton seed broad cast per acre, in the production of corn. 8o great are its fertilizing qualities that old fields impovished by cultivation nntil they would not yield more than six or eight bushel* of corn per acre, have, in many instances, been known to produce from fifteen to twenty bushels of coin per acre after two or three crops of beggarlice. The marriage nuptials of Mr. A. B. Garland, of North Carolina, and Miss Jennie Stokes, one of the reigning belles of Rome, were celebrated in that city on Thursday evening. Eastman is badly in need of a dentist. A gang of systematic house thieves are in successful operation in Augusta. The will of the late Robert Campbell, of Augusta* was admitted to probate in the Ordinary's Court on Thursday. The estate was worth about $200,000 in the aggregate. To the American Colonization Society he gives $1,000; to the town’ of Clarkesville, Georgia, $1,000; to the Augusta Free School, $1,000; to the First Presbyterian Church, in Augusta, two pews, which are to cost $1,000 each, for the use of strangers visiting the church; to Robt. C. Carroll, his heirs and assigns, $10,000; to the widow and children of James C. Carroll, $10,000, to be equally divided between them, the widow taking a child's share; to Mrs. Emma O. Smith, $5,000; to Anderson W. Carmichael, in trust for his daughter, Aphra / Carmichael, $2,600; to Mrs. Catherine C. Beattie, her heirs and assigns, $1,000; to Mr*. Harriet C. Bean, $1,000; to Mrs. Annie E. Ansley, $1,000; to Rev. R. C. Ketcbum, $1;000; to Mr. Joseph S. Bean, $1,000; to Robert C. Clarke, Atlanta, $500; to Robert C. Starr, Charleston, $500; to Robert C. Oliver, South Carolina, $500; to Mrs. Harriet C. MacMurpby, $100; to Richard Mc- Kinne, Edney Boyle and Tenah Davis, all colored, $100 each; also $100 each to all servants living with him at the time of his dea‘h; to Mrs. Grace McWhinuery, of Ireland, $2,500; to Junius B. McVea, of Ireland, $2,000; to Samuel Orr McVea, of Ireland, $2,000; to John Mc Vea, of Ireland, $2,000; to Mrs. Jane Dickey Ward, near Belfast, Ireland, $800; to William J. C. Allen, of Belfast, Ireland, $800 to Henry F. Campbell, hia heirs and assigns, stores No. 203 snd 206 Broad street. Mr. Grant, agent of the Georgia Railroad at Athens for many years, has retired—as also the clerk, Joseph Evans. Mr. George Lumpkin and his son will fill the vacancies. Wild cats are peddled on the streets of Cnthbert, and meet with ready sale. There is a district in Washington county In which not one of its citizene has ever applied for the benefits of Che homestead or bankrupt laws, and there has not been a salt brought In said district for more than two years. J. P.’s and lawyers don’t make fortunes out of that people, and of course friendship and good feeling prevails generally. The crops in Wilcox county are the best they have made in a number of years. Notwithstanding the Bhort crop, whest is coming into Ringgold rapidly. Between three and four thou sand bushels have been marketed there within the last week. Prices range from $1.35 to $1.50 per bushel. The Courier sayt the health of Ringgold and sur rounding country continues good, no cholera on hand and no apprehension of it to disturb the minds of the citizens; and it has yet to hear of a single case of cholera originating in North Georgia. And, Mr. B. C. Yates of this city returned a few days since from a visit to McLemore’s Cove, in tho "pper part of Walker county, and bring* glowing ac. counts of magnificent corn, flue cotton, etc., in the cove. He says that Messrs. Newton Germany, and and Wilson Trunnelbave some as fine cotton as he has ever seen anywhere. It ranges from breast to shoul der high, is full of bolls aud as green and healthy ss can be. Not least among the many sins of omission which have lain at the door oi our city gov ernment for years, has been the failure to establish a hospital for the poor and the stranger. Effort alter effort has been made in the direction by a few good Samaritans, but our municipal authorities have rejected, with stolid indifference, all petitions for aid in the good work. Not long ago two thou sand dollars was asked for and refused, and, to-morrow, if the same request was made, it would be again refused, even though the next minute a similar amount was voted for some thing not of special necessity. Since we cannot expect any aid from the city government, we must go to work and build the hospital ourselves. An association has been formed for the purpose, and a com mittee, comprising some of the most benevo lent ladies of the city, has been appointed to solicit the aid of the charitably disposed in the work. It ought not to require an appeal from us to those who have a few dollars to spare. An institution of the kind, whereat the sick can be tended tree of charge, is of as much importance to Atlanta as water works. Now and then when a physician here declines to give his services gratuitously, we hear a general murmur of indignation; but, after all, it is grossly unjust to expect any professional maD, always excepting an editor, to labor for nothing. And besides, it even it were reasonable to expect our physicians to devote their time and skill to the needy gratuitously (as many of them do) it would be ridiculous to expect them to furnish the poor sick with such medicines, comforts, and attendance as their cases may require. The construction of a hospital is conse quently a necessity, and it is a disgrace to our character as a Christian people that we are still without one. Eight thousand dollars are needed to purchase au eligible building, which can now be obtained for that sum. Will the citizens of Atlanta subscribe that much—or, rather, that little. If eveTy merchant on Whitehall, Peachtree, Marietta, Alabama and Decatur streets will contribute only $50 each, a handsome sum of money wonld soon be ob tained and the building obtained. We trust that the opportunity which now offers will not be permitted to slip from our grasp. It may never offer again; hence the importance ot promptly subscribing and ena bling the Hospital Association to give us one charitable institution at which the penniless sick can be taken care of. THE SOCIAL EVIL IN ST. LOUIS. St. Louis is in considerable agitation just now over her new experiment of licensing houses of prostitution. About two years ago some influential gentle men of that city, assuming that the evil al luded to could not be effectually curbed, (much less checked), determined to bring it within the province of the law, and control its operations by officers of the law. Hence, they secured the passage of an ordinance licensing houses of prostitution, aud putting policemen in charge of them. When a prostitute arrives in St. Louis she applies tor and receives a “permit*' to ply her vocation, for which she pays a fee, and is then assigned to u licensed house, and put under the superintendence of a policeman and a physician. The press of the city de clare Hat the experiment has proved a per fect success: That while it has not increased immoral exercise, it has, by taking charge of controlling an evil that the law, nor anything else could eradicate, removed many of its ob jectionable features. A case involving the right of the city to issue a license to this class of people for this purpose is now before the courts. We quote the first of an editorial from the Missouri Republican upon the sub ject: We have intimated that the ordinance now in force here is by no means perfect, nor do its triends claim perfection for it. We think, however it can be shown that the benefits arising from that ordinance are sufficiently palpable and numerous to justify its continu ance. The social evil is less intrusive and aggressive, and has fewer objectionable sur roundings and accompaniments in St. Louis than in any other city of equal size in the country. So far, at least the experiment has been more successful than could have been anticipated from the peculiar nature of the case; and we feel assured that as it progresses experience will suggest various changes which cannot fail to increase its efficiency, and there by commend it to the support of ali good cit izens. We trust, therefore, that the ordi nance will stand the test of the courts; but, should it be set aside, we are confident that sooner ot later the eminently sensible and practical proposition upon which it is founded will induce an alteration in the statute so that our city may go forward in the path she is now following. A PUNGENT PLATFORM. Probably the hardest thing in tho world to build is a political platform. To be able to suit the taste of the talented O’Rafferty with out offending the sensitive Snooks, and at the same time conciliate the phlegmatic Blitzen, is a task to the accomplishment of which the most admirable tact must be brought. A plank that one man loves well enough to get drunk and lie down on, receives unmiti gated scorn at the hands of some other pa triots; and that which is slipped in to please one clique, must be speedily slipped out again to please another. Only one platform has the present sea son—so prolific in platforms—brought forth that we consider completely up to the notch; fulfilling the demands of every exigency, and answering the suggestions of every possible prompter. It is aplatform that we hug to our souls; a platform that we love; a platform that we swear by; aplatform ou whose stout planks we want to congregate with all the sons of freedom, and fling high our heels in the joy ful dance of the jubilee. It was adopted by the State Grange of Iowa at a late Convention, and if the Grunge of Iowa proposes to stand by this platform, and fight in its shade, then we are ready to sing, "1 want to be a Graoger, And with the Grangers stand." We present it herewith for the prayerful consideration of all who think there is no hereafter. It is as follows: Whereas, ve believe that when a man steals he is a thief; and Whereas, a majority of tho politicians of both parties steal; now, therefore, Resolved, That we are tired of beiug plun dered. Resolved, That it is a good timo for thieves to stand from under. A QUESTION FOR THE COURTS. A very interesting case came up on one of the railroads leading out of Atlanta the other day. Mr. Z., of Atlanta, was stopping at one of the stations along this road, and got on the train to make the next station. The distance between the two stations was exactly 7 miles. The custom of the road was to charge 50 cents the seven miles. Of course this change is purely arbitrary, and still the people have quietly submitted to it all the time without murmur. Not so with Mr. Z. When his fifty cents was demanded, he squarely refused to pay it, saying, “Your charter only allows you to charge five cents per mile at the out side, and I will pay you that, and no more. I am going seven miles. I will pay you thirty- five cents. If yon demand more I will refuse it, and you will have to put me off between stations; if you do that I will fail to reach my destination, and damage will issue. I will then take the case to the courts.” The conductor—who, by the way, is proba bly tho best conductor that leaves Atlanta— was sorely puzzled as to what course he should pursue. He refused to take the thirty-five cents; and yet, did not feel justified in tak ing the responsibility of involving the com pany in a law suit for the paltry sum of thirty- five cents. In the midst of the discussion, the traiu reached its destination, the conduc tor was called off, and before Mr. Z. could see him again, the train had gone. Now, the amount involved in this matter is very trifling, but the piiciple underlying Mr. Z’s action is of immense importance. The question should be taken to the courts at once, and there settled. A railroad re ceives its power from the people—from the people it acquires its right, its terrible privi lege of monopoly; the people breathe the very breath of life into its nostrils, jind it should respect the rights of the people, or it should be made to. $ Whether Mr. Z. was right or not right in saying that the charter of this road limited it in its charges to five cents a mile, does not matter. There is a deeper principle than this that would sustain him in his refusal to pay seven cents a mile to ride over a part of the road, when he could ride over the whole road at five cents per mile. We should like to see tli9 fight made squarely and fairly, in favor of one uniform fare 0 for all parts of the Road; a pro rata charge for all service rendered. When any man takes this^tand, and can get the matter to the courts, the Herald promises him ,the most eloqaent advocate in the State of Geor- j gia to champion his cause without money i and without price. About once a year a little comedy is enacted at the chateau of the Comte de Chambord. A deputation of Legitimists pay him a visit, formally tender him the throne of France, which he, with royal formality, accepts. Somehow or other, however, he has never suc ceeded in taking a seat on the throne offered with so much regularity and solemnity. The Comte de Chawboxd is now an old man who has been waiting, Micawberlike, far forty- three years for something to turn up. With his white flag in one hand and a prayer book in the other he has endeavored to win France, but the ungrateful French have forgotten the white flag and prefer praying without the help of the last of the Bourbons—if he is a Bourbon. Alabama News. During the last few daja the cotton ci-*p in Ii« county has made a decided advance. Our former* re experimenting with various things to get rid of the worms, and some of them hsve been quite success- fuL There has been a great demand for Par - green during the last few days, snd it took our druggists so by surprise that they were able to fill but few orders. They have sent on tor large supplies, which are ex pected to arrive by the middle of the week, and all who desire can send in their orders and have them satisfied.—Eufaula Timet. Having just returned from a visit to onr neighbor city, Talladega, the first for many months, an inclina tion pervades us to localize a part of what was seen and heard on this trip. The farmers along the railroad line, and around Talladega, speak encouragingly sf the growing crop, and it ia denominated the best pros pect at this season since the surrender. The com crop is said to be remarkably good, and the cotton crop to be better formed as to stalk, and filled as to fruit, than any other crop since 1H65, at this sea son of the year. The cotton worm is not complained The day of the completion of the Air Line Railroad is almost upon us, and before we know it a train through from Charlotte, filled j of as having done any damage yet, and are compara- “with all sorts of distinguished people from j ^ everywhere,” will come thundering into At- ties. The people, including those of all vocations, to be in better spirits as to the future condition lanta. It becomes her, as the capital city of | of the country than for some years past, as the few Georgia, and the headquarters of the road, to last years’ crops have involved, to some extent, both meet these gentlemen in heartiness aud with liberal hospitality. What has been done to ward this end that will secure the desired re farmer and grocery merchants; and a crop thia year of like character, and which was a few weeks since ap prehended, would Irretrievably ruin many, a flatter ing prospect at this time promises relief to the masees. Suit i It is time to act. V» bo will set the ; The health of that beantiiul inland city is, as usual, ball in motion ? ! good. The streets and alleys are clean, and exhibit the characteristic attention of her health loving and OUR WEST POINT MAIL. j health deserving people. ,,, I „ , By a private note ft cm a responsible gentleman at We will not send our mail on the West | Dixie, on the Selma, Korn. & Dalton Eo.d, the Seim. Point Railroad this morning, because of ' Times learns that on the 4th inatant, a fatal difficulty numeron3 complaints which reach us almost daily of the failure of our subscribers to get their Sunday Herald. During the present week we will complete arrangements which will enable all patrons to obtain their papers either on Sunday or on Monday, as they may select. Oub municipal Dogberrys acquitted a po liceman on Friday night of a charge of drunk- eness, after the officer had himself, ad mitted that he had been drunk—his plea of mitigation being that be was off of duty. We presume that he obtained his acquittal through the eloquence of that Demostheman Alderman, our friend Langston. Abundant rains seem to have fallen in Middle Geor gia. Late corn, peas and potatoes will be improved and doubtless yield good crops. Now is a good time to sow your turnips and collards. A single patch of the latter will accomplish wonders for the milk bucket. tocuoa'falls. occurred there between J. M. Kinney and Charles , Lathram. Lathram received five wounds from a pocket knife, resulting in his death in about au hour and a half. No other particulars are given. Mr. Griffin Gatewood, an old citizen of Hog Island neighborhood, Russell county, Ala., was stabbed on Saturday last, by Mr. David Merrell, living in the same locality. Mr. Gatewood is not seriously Injured. The parties are said to be related. A law suit between them was the origin of the difficulty. A negro man by the name of Pope Tajlor was ar rested in Montgomery Monday morning by the police, on the charge of assault with intent to morder Mr. Strickland, of Griffin, Ga. The assault was made while the latter was on his way to vifcit some relatives living near Wetumpka. The negro struck Mr. 8. sev eral times on the head with a heavy stone and left him for dead in the road. But he was not so badly hurt as his assailant thought, and having recovered from the firat stunning effect of the blows, lodged the com plaint which led to his arrest. A petition in bankruptcy has been filed in the dis trict court of the United States for this district, against the Mobile and Montgomery railroad company, and the 15th instant has been named by Mr. Register Burke as the d*y for the hearing. Hon. James Q. Smith and Robt. H. Kuox, Esq , are attorney for the petition. If no disaster overtaxes the crops, the canjbrakeand i prairie portions of Greene will make more cotton than - COUSIN JOHN THRASHER'S j has been made before since 1869. THE LIMITS OF RELIGION—; Negroes arrest, d in Montgomery for creating - nui sance, by constant fifing and drum beating, were bound over to answer the charge. A correspondent of the Montgomer; Adver* ; **r, writing from Chambers county, amon^ ctht, ♦h ug*. THE SECRETARYSHIP OF THE AGUI. J poudent, containing some pleasant incidents. I says-. embrace this opportunity of in .-uL - o* Where is the man that will pitch the first box of tea overboard ? THE EXCURSION - GOOD DRINK- BEAUTIFUL SCENERY. We have a letter from an occasional corres*j CULTURAL SOCIETY AND MR. MALCOLM JOHNSON. Mr. Macolm Johnson, the present Assistant Secretary of the Agricultural Society, is a candidate for the Secretaryship of the societj', a vancancy having been created by the resig nation of Mr. Samuel Barnett. Mr. Bar nett’s ill health for a long time previous to his resignation forced Mr. Johnson to per form the whole duties of the Secretaryship, and that, too, without an assastant; this he has done in a manner not only entirely satis factory, but such that it has won the con gratulations of all parties concerned. The truth is, he is peculiarly adapted to fill per manently the position he has by chance filled temporarily, and we trust he will be unani mously chosen in the election of next Tues day. He is a thorough gentleman; a scholar, of fine attainments; a man of extensive influ ence, of tireless eneigy, and redoubtable pluck. | the prospects in good old Chambers 1 county, where the white ' white ] and Among other things, he says: < county, wnere me wince man is tu*. :» r i Now we are at Norcross, and, sir, there is i , i where a great portion of the muscle and sine*-. ed in Cousin John Thrasher waiting to see as. We j agriculture is furnished by the white man. I am . shake his hand, and being rather dry, ask j formed by planters from every section of the county him, “Cousin John, can we get anything to j that the crops of both corn and cotton are the best drink here ? haven’t had one since we left At- ' lanta.” “Oh, yes; come on,” said he; “I’ll give yon as good a drink as you can get any where.” We follow him. He enters his house, proceeds through the hall, and, stop ping on the back porch, says, “There is the only drink I’ll ever give you, and it is the best in all the world.” We looked in the di rection he pointed, and saw two or three buckets of—water. We felt slim; but turning to him, I said: “Cousin John, don’t you really keep anything to drink in your city? Is it possible that a place as large as this is stictly temperate ? I can’t believe it. “I did not say there wa9 none in town,” replied he, “but you cannot buy it, and I don’t know who has any.” I should imagine that fellow yonder has some, or has had at least,” said young Dyke of my crowd. that have grown here ever since , and from what I can see and learn in my walks arouDd town, I should think so. The farms in this county are generally quite small, not averaging per haps more than fifty acres, planted in cotton. The lands are badly worn, but well prepared, heavily fer tilized and neatly cultivated, hence the result of the fine prospect. It is really refreshing to one hailing from the miasmic influences of the prairie swamps, where Spanish grass, crop failures and chills are the leading topics, to see a people so healthy, cheerful and full of confidence of better times ahead. It is not uncommon here _to hear the planter speak of making a half bale of cotton to the acre. As a matter of course you find the merchant in fine spirits, confident of being able tx obligations in trade this fall. meet He has no opponent that we can hear of, ! The P erson be spoke of had undoubtedly taken too much twist-heel; and the best and we suppose he will have no difficulty in his election. THE RELIABILITY OF THE HERALD. Some days ago the Herald published the statement that there had been several cases of the cholera in Ringgold, Georgia. Since that time divers articles have appeared in the “Little Imitator Round the Corner,” impugn ing the truth of this statement; among others, a paper signed by several citizens, declaring that there had been no cholera in Ringgold. Most of these gentlemen were friends of ours, hence, we were quiet when their statement appeared, save to reiterate our assertion that the Herald was right, feeling sure that we would be vindicated. On yesterday the Constitution published the following card which explains itself : A CARD. Rijjgooj.d, Ga., August 0,1873. Editors Constitution:—Our attention is called to a certificate in the Constitution of yesterday, signed by nine citizens of Ringgold, to the effect that no case of cholera has occurred in our town. With all due re spect to the intelligence and honesty of thsse gentle men, we feel it a duty we owe ourselves as practicing physicians, as well as the public—who has the right to expect honest statements from those who aro com petent to speak on a subject of to much moment—to stat s that we have recently had several cases of chol era in Ringgold, two of which terminated fatally. That this unvarnished and honost statement of facts may not work detrimental to the interest of Colonel Hewitt, nor the gentlemen signing the certificate, wo will state that the disease has disappeared, and in all probability will not return during the present season. Very respectfully, A. 8. Fowlkb, M. D. J. J. Bboyleb, M. D. THE AUGUSTA CONSTITUTIONALIST. It is with feeliogs of pleasure that we wel come to our exchange table agaiu this veteran newspaper. There is no paper in the South that has done more to endear it to the people than this journal; and though its management of late years has been unfortunate (fatally so when it took position in favor ot paying Georgia’s repudiated bonds), it comes before the public to-day with a character to back it that is in itself worth a fortune. Col. James R. Randall, one of the most agreeable writers that ever dipped a pen forth© honor of Geor gia journalism, is the editor, and Messrs. Toombs, Branch, Jackson, aud the Augusta merchants, are stockholders. We wish the enterprise sifficess. East Tennessee Items. The Sweetwater Enterprise says: Our Fork Creek correspondent gives an account in this issue of a death from cholera, which occurred at the house of Robert Kitrell, on Saturday morning last. It seems that the disease is spreading all over the country. Our town is not out of danger; therefore, let our citizens continue to use disinfectants. The following items are taken from the Kingston East Tennesseean: * A couplo of men working on the road near Suddoth’s got into an altercation on Saturday last, when one knocked the other down with a spade, skinning his head considerably, but not seriously. The injured party got out a warrant and had the other arrested and fined a small amount. A son of Mr. Robert Burns, aged about sixteen, liv ing in the 3d district of this county, was kicked to death by by a mule on Monday evening last. We lesrn with the mule, snd wss found dead by some of the family. He had been kicked in the breast. Mrs. Keziah Johnston, who had reached the ripe old age of four score and ten, died at the residence of her son, Mr. Isaac Johnston, on Saturday last. Mrs. John ston was the mother of fourteen children: eighty-five grand children; one hundred aud thirty-five great grand children, an! one great great grand child. Our town and vicinity remain healthy. Some few part of it was, he belonged in Norcross. We are off again. On, on through Buford, quite a nice place—on to Gainesville, where we are joined by quite a party; and now have settled down in earnest, for we won’t stop again for a long time. Now we rush through the country from whence came the immortal “Banks County Guards”—on through the “flat lands” of Hall county, the only reason I could think of why they were called “flat lands” was because they were ?iot flat. This county is quite celebrated, lor emi- nent geologists have said there is any quantity of gold to be found on some of the “flat” hills, and as for diamonds, they can be picked up almost anywhere—if you can find them. Some one said, “It is * raining. ” I think itP| was, but am not sure. We went so fast the! ^ 8t ^ ble rain could’nt touch us. Mr. Richards turning to me said, “ Mister, do yo u see that church ihere, it is tho last you will see on this road—that is the bounds of religion—this is the jumping off place; they wouldn’t know what you meant up farther if you asked for a church.” Now we are rushing along through the hills. Now. we have reached Mount Airy, said to be the highest point by this route between j oases of cholera-morbus, however, are reported. We New Orleans and New York. We are off j however learn that a physician, familiar with cholera, again, steam ofl, aud don t »we go down this ■ pronounced that of Mrs. Wiley G. Robinson, who ie- grade ? I was told the car would run for [ 0( , nlly died ln the dirtric of th.» county, a twenty miles without a pound of steam. Why clMt CMI) cf Asi , tic cho i trm> Morri8tm „ sc ,’ Te . don t they make railroads so they will all run „ casc in the Bil neighborhood, that way. and just send engines trom one end ? w . helr a , dMl , bom Mr couatrT frlcnds bpmR lou could walk back. We have reached Toe- ; „ * , , coa-eight houses, and six of them “hotels” i ,frald 10 VIB “ KD0 * v,lle « *<-*»>"‘ “Vortod and two bar-rooms. We got an excellent of iu °" rcil . v - Known, the true dinner at the ‘*0161,” if a" man don’t care ^ ln the m.U«. we would b. derelict In cur dot, what he says. Wo soon leave, and start for j 8 hould we fail to disabuse the minds of our country the falls. Wo walk, callBe whv, we ain’t got I friends of this erroneous idea. True, wc occasionally the money to ride. The road is like most of Kara a case of cholera in cur city, but the cause of it country roads, rough and mean, three creeks to the ’mile, and one very large hill, they call it, anywhere else it would be a mountaiu. After falling in encll creek, to see if the water was wet, we reached the fall. I have ex hausted myself already, and even if 1 had not, 1 could never do justice to the beauties of this wonderful fall of water. I will simply repeat the toast I dtauk as I stood in front, while the spray fell thick and fast over me. I took the bottle and said (,if I can remember what I said, for that was not the first time I had taken the bottle,). “Gentlemen, heieisto the lovely Toceoa: I hove seen Niagara in all its power, and I now say Niagara is the grand aud magnificent, but Toccoais the wonderful and beantiiul.” And I meant it Above us the rocks rise tor one hundred and eighty-six feot; the water, about twenty feet wide, seems to leap out of the sky almost, and oom- iug down such a distance, separates and be comes mist. The rocks are all covered with green trees and moss. I wonld be willing to bet my old hat that if the people of Atlanta really knew what a lovely place Toccou Falls is, they would fiook there ia great numbers. Ecskbaue. A New Song;—And a Careless Poet. From too Georgia Musical Eclectic for August. Tt is not often that we aTe called upon to notice a piece of music which is so eminently of .*>,utbcm production as is one before ns, just received from Messrs. Guilford, Wood & Co. rititled ‘Love’s First Dream.’ The words are by Charles W. Hubner, of Atlanta; the music by Mr. A. B. Knapp, leader of the At lanta Mozart {Society, and the pnblisbers are Messrs Guilford, Wood A Co., of Macon and Atlanta. “The composer has done his duty m this matter, for be has given a very sweet melody, which will become popular, if onr music lov ing people wiil only try the song.* The pub lishers have also done well in bringing it out in good style. But we are compelled to scold onr friend Habner a little; not simply because we have room to scold but because he deserves it. Hubner is a clever poet, as thq reading*public well knows. His ihonghts are poetic, and he understands, better than most people, the mechanical requirements of verse; but the l .tter he bns wofi dy disregarded in writing this song. We on : te a few lines to show what we mean: • >b, bright u:,»y ne *l»< lrearoi that swing Tbeir plumes *.-< ,J lie height* cf fame; Ami sweet n\ry i» t). d ‘ami that bring 'as day* ot childb >l bock again.’ “Now, Hubner !:u ws that ‘serene* and ‘dream do not rhym- together; neither do •fame’ and a^iin.’ \ id these are only two exam pi s fren th\» . g. There is another equally as bad. For ii.-tance, he makes ‘dream* rhyme with '-.be; n.* These all occur in a song of twentyeg. “We claim that, vL m ve are not a poet— at least n t enough s<» to injure our appetite for beef aid cab bug -*f w- were to pull off our coat and com ov-u t tough work for an hour or two, wecouio havi produced bet ter rhymes (ban tl cl — q oted, and have still preserved the ant harmony of the verse. Hubuer cm Lav . me the same thing, and h tho kk t, rather than let a song, b -ring 1. r-:; , go before the world with t .eh blights upon its beauty.” Macon Telegra. and Mcsstnjer. We presume hat Mr. Htumer is indebted to his genial mend, Mr. Asa R. Watson, the talented editor the Mu con Telegraph and Messenger, for the above “bitter-sweet” com pliment. The opinion of a writer of acknowledged ability on literary subjects is always worthy of consideration, and the literary world de rives benefit from the proper discussion of the canons of legitimate criticism. Simply for this reason we call attention to the woful disregard of principle and precedent evinced by our Macon friend, in charging the writer of this song with “ wofolly disregarding the mechanical requirements of verse. ” Mr. Hubner does not know that the words quoted by the T. and M. are “blights,” and do not rhyme together; they are what every I cultivated student and writer of English pros ody will acknowledge as “allowable rhymes,” | such as are found in the metrical composi- i tions c! Mmost every modern language, | Trench versification excepted, and frequently ! used bv tbe master* cf our own. It is fcyper- criticisn v assert he contrary. Servile atte’ Tri pe-fe* t exactness of , rhyme :« veil . igh as a tbeon, but when I the practi t s.andsrd writers inculcates legitimate -1*viaticn from suefi procrustei u truL inels, U exception to the role cer tainly cannot be denounced as a defect. 01 a “blight.” Using the idea of a standard authority 1 this subject, we submit to the editor of ti Telegraph and Messenger the want ^r recollecting the licenses of our best writers and how agreable they occasionally are .o the nature of our poetry, has often been the cauo^ either of choosing a weak expression for the sake of perfect rhyme, or of relinquishing a valuable one for no other reason than the want of it To illustrate this, and possibly to avert the blight of killing criticism from Mr. Hubuer’s lyrical bantling by holding up the example of those far greater than he, who have disregar ded “the mechanical requirements'of verse,” we quote at random from a few careless poets, whom the world has heretofore recognized ; as tolerably well skilled in the art of poesy. ; Parnell, one of the sweetest singers that ever touched the Apollonian lyre has this: Even here I sing, when Pope supplies thetfem^. Show my own love though not increase his fame. Quaint and rollicking Oldham says: Draw next the patron of that tree. Draw Bacchus and soft Cupid l/jr. Garth mak& thia bad rhyme: 8he'a d?af to beauty’s soft persuading power. Nor can bright Hebe's charms her bloom secure. Pope the most polished and harmonious master of English verse, wofully disregards tho mechanical requirements of verse as fol lows: Cuba bids fair to have a triangular fight. A Carlist movement has broken out on the island, if our dispatches from New York can be relied upon. Should the report be true, the patriots will easily achieve tbe indepen dence of Cuba; as the moment the Spanish quarrel among themselves they will not be able to maintain their hold iu the den-rtments now in revolution. Professor Wise is to take with him on bis balloon voyage a number of carrier pigeons, to act as reporters for the Daily Graphic. The birds are furnished by Mr. O. S. Hubbell, of New York, who is a famous pigeon fancier, is invariably traced to some act of imprudence. Alj over Eaat Tennessee vre hear of Isolated cases of the disease, and Knoxville is os safe a« any place. Come to town, do your tradiDg and you need suffer no an easiness.—Prut and Herald. The news from Jonesboro grows more and more favorable day after day. Only one death—that of a negro woman—occurred Wednesday night, snd up to noon yesterday, no othera were reported. The case* that remain are of a very mild nature, and the few new cases that are developed from time to time are easily manageable. Intelligence of a very severe case of cholera at Rogersville Junction, was brought by the noon train, yesterday—that of an engineer, named Drane, on the Rogersville branch railroad. Hi* condition, early yesterday, was pronounced very critical. A report reached the city yesterday that the cholera. In a violent form, has reappeared in Chattanooga, aud that much excitement prevails there. The Mayor has issued a proclamation prohibiting tbe sale of melons and oil vegetables, except tomatoes and potatoes. Though the rumor la apparently well founded iu fact, yet we trust it ia incorrect, and that ChatUuooga may not suffer from a second visitation of tbe scourge. Prtst and Herald. And again: A similar example from Dryden, the father of English verse: Prior makes “errs” rhyme with “cares,” and even Addison perpetrates bad and blight ing rhymes in his lyrical rhapsodies: [“And these are only a few examples !”] We are willing to admit that Mr. Watson, as he himself claims, could have produced better rhymes than those in question, and, if it is all the same to our muscular Mactn friend, wo would be glad to have him “puli off his coat and come down to tongh work for an hour or two,” in the reconstruction of the rhymes of such careless poets as Pope, Dry- den, Addisou, Parnell, Prior, etc. Certainly to him ’twould be nor would the w irk interfere with his poetical penchant for beef aud cabbage. A few hours tough work would forever rid tho flowerbeds of our English Parnassus of the noxious weeds and metric debris which, in the course of centuries, have there accumulated. Even Washington, least romantic of all cit ies, has her Enoch Arden, his name being prosaic Brown. Ho turned up a tew days ti nee, but, instead of pining aud dying. Brown iuoontiuentlv booled Ins successor off and who is now putting the little messengers the premises, aud Mrs. Brown and ibe babies through a course of training at his farm in | ftre „ ow all his own, but he has to settle with Connecticut. i the police couit. If Brigham Young s remaining sixteen wives \ ‘ 7 \ will sue him for divorce and alimony, the j Ralph Keeler is wntiug plays m j artner- Mormon question will bo settled. ' **kip with \ ictorien ourdou. American “humorists” are not always re ceived with open arms in England, as the fol lowing from Figaro bears witness: “Eli Per kins,” who is a “humorist,'’ resident in New York, bos fallen into the singular habit of writing to tbe editor of this paper letters which begin familiarly and end affectionately. He is good enough to send bis photograph, a quantity of laudatory—shall we say self-lau datory ?—notices of a book he seems to have written, and certain newspaper cuttings, which have a curious way of beginning thus: “ ‘Eli Perkins’ says,” etc. In one of his let ters he says : “If you would like a good thing now aud then, let me know.” We feel that we have not merited this kindness from an utter stranger, but will defer our thanks until “Eli Perkins” comes to London to give a course of lectures, which, it must by this time be obvi ous to the reader, he is about to do. I Mr. Tremaine, M. P., whose yacht was part of the naval pageant at Portsmouth during the Shah's visit, was injured by the powder from the guns from a near gunboat. Two daughters of Lord Sandys were also hurl, and the powder grams riddled tho yacht’s bul warks and boats like bullet*. Mr. Joseph Tit comb, opulent ship-builder and treasurer of Bowdoin College, stands as good a chance of beiug beaten lor the Gover norship, this year, as any other Democrat in Maine.