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THE WEEKLY NEW
VOLUME V.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 24, 1871.
NUMBER II
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The authority of the General Government
through Congress, as the supreme law making
power of the nation, to build national high
ways and construct public canals and thor
oughfares, has ever been maintained by na
tional men as essential to the very idea of
Nationality. It was at one time a pet hobby
of Mr. Calhoun; this was, however, before he
became debauched by unhallowed ambition.
It was the great idea of Mr. Clay’s life. And
even Mr. Jefferson, who as a mere politician
opposed it, afterwards found it necessary as
a statesman to advocate it It was the distin
guishing feature of the earlier Federal Ad
ministrations; and even General Jackson left
a record which, upon the whole, favors the
theory of Internal Improvements by the Gen
eral Government
It was one of the very foundation stones of
the old Federalist party. It was one of the
main planks in the platform of its great suc
cessor, the Whig party. And it is now and
has ever been, a favorite thesis with the mod
ern representative of both those grand old
parties, the Republican organization of the
present day. The proportion to build the
great Southern Railway from Cincinnati to the
Tennessee Valley, and thereby to put Atlanta
and the State of Georgia in easy and direct
communication with the great Lakes and cities
of the Northwest, as well as in close commer
cial union with the fertile valleys of Ohio,
Kentucky and Tennessee was in accord with
these doctrines of the early statesmen of the
Republic. It 'was defeated upon a mere ab
straction -defeated in the interest of that po
litical faction which stands ever ready to sac
rifice commercial to mere party interests, and
thus deferred till a season when it will, per
haps, be too late for Georgia to reap the full
benefits of the enterprise. For a time, at
least, Louisville is to enjoy her monopoly.
The stream of commerce is to be diverted to
the Mississippi Valley; and Northern and Mid
dle Georgia is to pay the piper, whilst Ala
bama and New Orleans enjoy the feast
Another enterprise, very similar in its na
ture, and involving similar interests, is now
in contemplation. We allude of course to the
scheme for opening the Atlantic and Great
Western canal. It has been already brought
to the attention of Congress ; and, we rejoice
to say, with less prospects of meeting objec
tions in the ranks of the demagogues and mere
partisans, than was the fate of the Southern
Railway bilL The measure will probably pass
Congress at its next session in some form or
other, and its influence upon Atlanta and
North Georgia cannot be overestimated.
The proposed canal is to connect the Ten
nessee and Coosa rivers. It will pass through
the rich coalfields (yet undeveloped) of North
Alabama. It will bi-sect the iron regions in
the vicinity of the Coosa and Etawah rivers.
It will tap the Chattahoochee river near War
saw, and from thence proceed to the Ocmni-
gee, say at some point in Newton county,
leaving Atlanta some twenty or thirty miles to
the westward.
Such is to be the probable direction
of this proposed National canal. If
""built, it will do much foT North
Georgia. It can be made to do much
for Atlanta, if Atlanta will but comprehend
the situation and govern herself accordingly.
It can be made the beginning of an era of
manufactures in and near this city ; and from
thence the beginning of the era of her real
prosperity and greatness. All this, however,
upon tho contingency that her citizens and
capitalists so will it A branch canal from
this (proposed) main trunk to Atlanta, would
give us the facilities for the much desired wa
ter works. This would be an important acquisi
tion ; but it would be the least of the advanta
ges that can be m&de to accrue from this en
terprise. It will give us the facilities for those
manufactories without which the unexampled
growth and prosperity of Atlanta must be of
comparative short duration. We have ever
advocated this, as we have ever been instant,
in season and out of season, in the advocacy
of all similar schemes of internal improve
ment looking to the future greatness of Geor
gia. But contingent upon the consummation
of this particular scheme, Atlanta has a great
work to perform. We call attention to it thus
early, and urge upon our capitalists and busi
ness men to be vigilant. This is a critical
epoch in the history of the “Gate City ot the
South.”
Tht Hawpdsa Roads Conference.
This conference, as everybody knows, pre
ceded the evacuation of Richmond only a few
weeks. The Confederate Commissioners were
three in number—Stephens, Campbell and
Hunter. Of the incidents of that conference
a writer in the Montgomery Mail of a reoent
date says:
"We bare Information from a gentleman of the
highest respectability, who had it from one of the
Confederate Commlaeionera In person, that the single
word ‘union* waa written by Mr. Lincoln at the head
of a blank sheet of paper and that the Confederate
Commissioners were told to write beneath that word
their own terms, and that those Urmi would be ac-
oepted! Mr. Stephens and Mr. John A. Campbelj
favored the acceptance of the terms thus offered, bnt
having been hedged in by Instruction* that they were
not at liberty to transgress, the last hope of the South
withered with the destruction of that comparatively
insignificant scrap of paper."
The question arises. Which one of the “Con
federate Commissioners ' was it that authorized
the above story by “a gentleman of the highest
respectability ? " The question grows impor
tant in view of its manifest discrepancy with
the official report of that conference, as well
as with Mr- Stephens' account of it in his
“War Between the States.” And the question
is all the more curious since Mr. Stephens has
denied the truth of the above statement under
date of May the 15th instant. In that denial
Mr. Stephens says:
Mo proposition of the character alluded to by the
writer in the Montgomery Mail la there mentioned,
and I feel quite confident that none such wae made.
Indeed, no word wae written by any one at that con
ference. Neither pen nor pencil wae uaed by any one
of the parties on the respective aides, for any purpose
whatever connected with the conference during the
entire interview. So there must be a mistake about
the writing of the word "Unioak"
What Mr. Lincoln said about the •* sine qua non"
with him of a pledge for the ultimate restoration of
the Union, as a condition precedent to his entertain
ing or considering the subject matter contemplated by
the Confederate Commissioners in asking the confer
ence, is therein also set forth very folly in substance.
Mo material word or Idea la omitted.
But in nothing that wae aaid by the Commissioners,
or either of them, was any reference made to their in-
I will here further state for the information of your
readers, who may not have seen my statement of the
facta oonnected with this celebrated conference, as well
aa to its origin and its objects, as what transpired at it,
about which so many errors exist in the popular mind
—that the Confederate Commissioner* had no written
instructions other than what was contained in their let
ter of appointment, which has been extensively pub
lished North as well a* South, nor had they any verbal
instruction* inconsistent with the letter of their ap
pointment
This puts tho writer in the Montgomery
Mail—who claims to have his authority cor
rect from one of the Confederate Commission
ers—upon the defensive. The onas is now
with him to make good his statements or else
retract them. The truth of history demands
this.
The Ku-Klux Art *nd ihr Stale Au
thorities.
The editor of the Columbus Sun is mistaken
when he assumes that the Era charged him
with inconsistency of opinion on the Ka-Klux
law. We charged nothing of the kind. What
we did say was, that the Sun's first article, by
legitimate construction, assumed the position
that the Ku-Klax law superseded the State
law and State Courts. This, we undertook to
show, was not the cose. The law of Congress
g ive the United States Courts concurrent ju
risdiction on tho Kn-Klux outrages. It does
not, os we oouceive, destroy the jurisdiction
of the State Courts, or suspend the opera
tion of the State laws. These may be enforced
as well now os at any previous time, and their
enforcement will, as we have always main
tained, supersede the necessity of the enforce
ment of the law of Congress, and thereby ren
der the Ka-Klax law itself practically in
operative.
In its subsequent article, we understood the
San as construing its previous article so as to
mean that it held substantially the same opin
ion with the Era ; and consequently, that it
denied the correctness of the construction
given its former article by this journal. This
of course left no issue between us, since, as to
Georgia, we held, and Lad ever held, that the
law of Congress was wholly unnecessary. The
enforcement of the State laws was all that was
ever necessary to preserve order; and os this
was being very generally done in Georgia, we
regretted the passage of a measure so vague
and geueral os is the Ku-Klux Bill. If the dis
orders in South Carolina were of the character
that defied tho local authorities, then the aid
of the General Government could have been
invoked without this Bill. Iu a word, now
that Georgia is one of the States of the Union,
on an equal footing with New York and the
other Northern States, we opposed any legis
lation in its nature supplementary to Recon-
traction.
Chnrlrt Read*'* New Novrl.
When Reads gave “Foul Play” to the world,
he gave us seme of the very highest evidences
of genius. For originality, boldness o
ception, terseness and vigor of style, the
book has few equals and perhaps no superior,
in modern fiction. His “Put Yourself in His
Place” is thought by some to be a work of
still higher merit, but it evidently lacks that
originality of conception and that dramatic
consistency which gave to “Foul Play” so
much popularity both in Europe and America.
His last work, now in process of serial pub
lication, entitled “A Terrible Temptation,
belongs to the lower and more lascivious class
of fiction. It is eminently unworthy of the
anthor of “Foul Play.” It reads more like
the fifth rate efforts of Engene Sue, or
Dumas the elder, than like the production of
the peer of Dickens. The plot, so far as re
vealed, involves some of the greatest absurd!
ties. A spirit of lasciviousneas lurks bent
its every scene. True, the language is chaste,
bat it abounds in obscene and immoral snggea
tions. It is a covert, but ingenious, appeal to
the baser passions of our nature; and its
iuffnencc is all the more unhealthful by reason
of the unobjectionable exterior. Words
which throw the thin gnaze of Refinement
over the horrid features of Immorality and
obscenity, are lost sight of in the idea which
tEe author manages to inject into the mind of
his reader by those little arts of composition
of which Resile is master.
P The story is now well advanced. It is be
ing published in two of the leading literary
journals in this country. Of course it is be
ing very generally read, and when republished
in book form, as we ore assured it will be, the
demand for it will be great It will put money
into the pockeU of both author and publisher.
To this we do not object But it also puU the
devil into the head of many a giddy young
man, and iU baleful influence on female virtue
and social morality can never be accurately
estimated. Were we an inveterate enemy of
the human race, and in full league with the
veritable Mephistopheles in a crusade against
morality and virtue, we should feel like pat
ting the fereat English novelist on the back,
and saying “Well done thou good and faithful
Hot and Cold.
One of the most ridiculous stories of the
times has grown out of the recent meeting and
reorganization of the “Grand Army of the
Republic. " This organization is composed of
the officers and ex-officers of the Union Army.
It does not appear to have any political signi-
cance, since its membership is composed of
both Republicans and Democrats. At its last
annual meeting, Gen. Burnside was elected
President, vice Gen. Logan; and this fact Las
been seized upon by certain partisan editors
who endeavor to create the impression that, in
the election of Burnside, the organization has
repudiated Grant and his Administration ! It
does not appear, first, that Grant had any
thing to do with this election, directly or indi
rectly; or, second, that the election of Bum-
side, even in such case, had any bearing one
way or the other on the policy of the Federal
Administration. The statement that General
Pleasanton was defeated by Burnside, and
that Pleasanton was Grant's candidate, is not
only gratuitous in its object, but mistaken in
its source. The whole thing is a misrepre
sentation, bnt too thin to have any weight
with intelligent and fair-minded men. In the
absence of anything better it, however, serve*
to show the straits to which the Opposition is
reduced; for, when their party journals for one
purpose denounce the existence of this organ
ization, and then for another purpose defend
and eulogize it, the real animus cannot be
mistaken.
Lord Amberley, who has lately been trou
bled about the rapid growth of population in
England, has had the temerity to suggest that
some means be invented and enforced of hav
ing small families; three, it seems, being the
number of children that his Lordship consid
ers desirable in a family. The Court Journal,
however, has cruelly called upon him to ex
plain how it happens that he himself, to begin
with, has set so bad an example in the matter.
His Lordship should treat this home thrust
with proper contempt, and refuse to make any
promises regarding his future conduct
More Normem from Victor Hago.
Victor Hugo says that the French nation
will commence arming from now; that in ten y
perhaps in five years, it will be able to take
the field against Germany with an army of
four million of soldiers; that it will conquer
and drive out their Emperor for the Germans,
as the Germans have driven ont theirs for the
French; that the two nationalties will then
fraternize and lead the way to the foundation
of the United States of Europe.
TH£ BAPTISTS IS COUNCIL. | STATEMKWS.
The Convention ot Soathern Baptists— j By XaiiTta £k]
Fourth Bay's Proceedings—Number of siitvmnTv
o-i>gsUi from Each State—Baptist The* • ■ABNE4V1LLE.
leal Seminary—Report of Commit*
The Augusta Convention i
■d the State
The Atlanta and Savannah Railroad.
The Columbus papers have never had to
fight Atlanta on the North and Sooth Rail
road project, although every man in Atlanta
well understood froqo the beginning that the
pletion of this Road would injure the
business of the State Road, and, through it,
the business of this city.
In return for this comity on the part of the
Atlanta press, the Columbus press is now
fighting the proposed Atlanta and Savannah
Road. The purpose is of course to divert the
appropriations of Savannah from the Air Line
Road via Teonelie to Atlanta, to the construc
tion of the proposed line from Opelika to
Tusoumbia, Alabama. Snob a diversion would
indeed put Columbus on a line of communi
cation between Savannah and Memphis ; but
it would close Savannah to the trade of Cin
cinnati, Louisville, Nashville, East Tennessee
and Northern Georgia. The interest of Sa
vannah, it seems to ns, is first to secure the
trade of Georgia by direct lines of communi
cation to the great inland Depot of the State,
and from thence to the fertile valley of the
Tennessee. And this seems to be the view
entertained by the Savannah press.
We publish this morning Mr. Hill's rejoin
der to the speech of Gen. Toombs, before the
Stockholders' Convention of the Georgia Rail
road.
On to-morrow we shall publish the verbatim
report of Mr. Hill's third reply to Gen. Toombs.
It is a rich specimen, wherein Mr. Hill speaks
his mind quite freely in relation to the lease
of the State Road.
We observe that the Era is the only paper
in the State that has given verbatim reports of
this discussion, as it was the only journal in
the State that gave full and accurate reports
of the speeches at the decoration at Resaca,
and of the recent Cobb County Agricultural
Fair. Of course all these things cost monev.
but then what is a news journal without the
mews ?
The Last Departure.
The Ohio Democracy, in utter defiance
alike of Tammany aud Frank Blair, and with
out the least show of deference to Messrs.
Toombs and Stephens, are preparing for a
new and real departure from the old land
marks.
They propose to “accept the situation’
folly and frankly, including the Amendments,
Reconstruction, Enforcement Acts, and alD
and then to bnng oat for Governor a gentle
man whose entire record has been against all
reactionary movements, and who supported
Grant in 1868 ! In other words, they propose
an unconditional abandonment, once and for
ever, of the entire Democratic platform; and
to become Republicans under the old Demo
cratic name and ensign.
This is progress certainly. But what will
the Blairs, Toombses, Stephenses and Forsyths
say to all this ?
The Last Platform.
The very latest effort in the way of a “Dem
ocratic Platform," is that by a State Conven
tion of the party in Kentucky, held last week
at Frankfort. It is a cariosity. Not that it
asserts anything; for it really means very little.
And yet we do not see why it should not an
swer every parpose. Here it is, every word
of it:
First. In favor of universal And unqualified am-
servant r
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad has
twenty-two miles of roll laid; twenty-five
miles more graded, and will lay nine miles of
track per week and will be south of Arkansas
river by July 1st -
The Pcnaijlvanla Riots.
We have the solemn assurances of its advo
cates that the Kn-Klux Act was not intended
to be of sectional application, bnt that it had
in contemplation the suppression of lawless-
i all over the whole country, North and
South, East and West, wherever such lawless
ness might be found to exist.
We must of course presume that this was
the intention of its framers, and the under
standing of its advocates. We mast presume,
moreover, that the Act was not intended as a
bmtem futmen, but that it is to be enforced.
And if to be enforced, we presume of course
that Scranton, Pennsylvania, will not be con
sidered beyond the jurisdiction of the United
States.
The Scranton rioters hare set all law at
defiance, and serionsly endangered the liv<
of the good citizens of that town and vicinity.
The State authorities appear to be either un
able or unwilling to do anything to stop this
disreputable state of things, and ws presume
the Force BUI will be pnt into execution at
once by tbe Federal authorities.
Second. Equitable taxation, so that each section of
tbe country shall bear its proper share, and
Third. The rest ration of all the rights of the States
under the Constitution, and firm opposition to and
strong denunciation of the Ku-Klax bill and the Con
gressional election law.
Fourth. Unqualified endorsement of the recent
Democratic Congressional Address to the American
Fifth. A firm intention to prevent all local disorder,
and to put down all resistance to law and authority,
by laws enacted by its own legislature, aud Adminis
tered by its own courts.
Now, who or what party in the South is not
“in favor of universal and unqualified am
nesty” for all political offenses ? Nobody that
we know of.
Who or what party in the South is not in
favor of au “equitable taxation, so that each
(and every) section of the country shall bear
its proper share and no more ?” Nobody that
we know of.
The “restoration of the rights of the States
under the Constitution ( s it note is,) is
compiisbed fact, now that Reconstruction is
complete. Hence, no one except those who
bold this Reconstruction to be “nail and
void” can be said to oppose the “restoration
of the rights of the States under the (present)
Constitution" of the United States.
The Ka-Klax bill we have ever opposed as
being both unnecessary and impolitic.
The Election law is objectionable only to
those who reprobate the XVth Amendment as
“revolutionary, null and void;" and therefore
objectionable only to those who ore not in
favor of 8apporting “the Constitution and
Laws of the United States” or of the restora
tion of the (legitimate) rights of the States
under that Constitution.
The late Democratic Congressional Address
means just nothing at all. It does not toach
a single living issue. Hence it is quite safe
to “endorse” itl
The ‘‘firm intention to prevent all (farthur)
local disorder, and to put down all (further)
resistance to law and authority," is certainly
one of Che hopeful signs of the times. When
the Democracy fully pledge themselves to this,
and then keep their promise, the Ka-Klax Bill
can work no possible injury. It will
oloficsi Seminary—Report
tees - Sew Boards — Next Convention—
Rev. J. L. M. Curry, of Alabama.
St. Loins, May 16, 1871.
The Southern Baptist Convention, now
holding in this city, continued its session yes
terday. A large attendance was present, in
cluding a number of the laity. After singing
and prayer by Rev. Dr. Stover of your State,
the minutes of the last day’s session were read
by the Secretary, E. Calvin Williams, and ap
proved. The
REPOBT OF THE COMMITTEES ON CREDENTIALS
was presented by its chairman, Rev. J. S.
Colman of Kentucky. The number of dele
gates present from the various Southern States
follows:
Virginia 33 Maryland 8
North Carolina 1 Sooth Carolina 9
Georgia 23 Alabama 19
Mississippi 26 Louisiana 8
Texas 6 Arkansas 5
Tennessee 38 Kentucky 50
Missouri 78 West Virginia 1
Florida 1 China 1
The following are the sums contributed by
the States to the boards of the Convention,
including the Board of Foreign Missions, that
of Domestic and Indian Missions, and the
Sunday School Board.
THE STATES* CONTRIBUTIONS.
Virginia $4,182 44 Maryland.. $4,154 27
Carolina.. 2,179 52 S. Carolina.. 3,675 16
Georgia 12,841 50 Alabama.... 7,897 54
Mississppi... 4,527 05 Louisiana... 1,14135
Texas 1,319 82 Arkansas.... 452 71
Tennessee. . . 5,815 87 Kentucky. .. 9,365 02
Missouri .... 4,323 96 W. Virginia. 514 52
Florida. . . ... 122 85
THE BASIS OF REPRESENTATION
one delegate to every {sum of one hundred
dollars contributed to the missions of the de
nomination. The number of delegates pres
ent from several States is therefore largely be
low their rightful quota:
AUDITING OF ACCOUNTS.
The committee appointed to examine the
reports of the treasurers of the several boards
reported that the accounts had been properly
andited.
Rev. Mr. Gwin, of Alabama, offered the fol
lowing:
GREENVILLE BAPTIST SEMINARY.
Resolved, That, recognizing the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary, at Greenville,
South Carolina, as worthy of the highest ap
proval of our brethren throughout the South,
we gratefully recognize the Divine blessings
hitherto attending that institution, and pledge
to it our united and cordial support
ANOTHER SEMINARY.
Rev. J. P. Boyce of South Carolina made a
few remarks in support of the resolution,
said the seminary was originated by an edu
cational convention of the Baptist chnrch,
sitting at Louisville in 1857, and the members
of which were delegates to the convention of
the Baptist Church South of the same year.
Nominations for vacancies in the board of
trustees are made by the convention. When
the population of the West and Southwest
should render such a step necessary, he would
favor the establishment of another seminary
in that section. But he believed that the ex
treme East and the extreme West, the majority
of the people, not only of every State, but of
every county, were in favor of standing by the
seminary rather than erecting another at
present
After further remarks by Rev. J. R. Graves
of Tennessee, Ryland of Kentucky, Teague
ot Alabama, and Dudley of Kentucky, the
resolution was passed by a large majority.
The Committee on Nominations reported the
following officers and members of new boards,
which were confirmed by the Convention :
FOREIGN MfeSION BOARD,
located in Richmond, Virginia :
President—J. L. M. Curry.
son, Ala.; J. A. Hackett, Miss.; G. H. Chris
tian, Vo.; Henry McDonald, Ky.; J. T. Wil
liams, Mo.; Wm. Carey Crane, Texas; R.
Furman, S. C.; Moses Green, Ark.; F. Coutt-
ney, La.; Matt HHlsman, Tenn.
Corresponding Secretary—J. B. Taylor.
Treasurer—Edwiu Wortham.
Recording Secretary—W. H. Gwathnacy;
Auditor—C. T. Wortham.
Board of Managers—J. B. Jester. A. B.
Clark, A. Snead, H. K. Ellison, A. G. Worth
am, A. H. Dickenson, C. H. Wmston, J. F.
Keessj, L. B. Watkins, Well. Gadding, J. C.
Williams. J. 0. Chambers, T. J. Evans, N. W.
Wilson, J. R. Garlick.
DOMESTIC AND INDIAN MISSION BOARD,
located at Marion, Alabama. President W.
H. McIntosh; Vice Presidents, Jno. M. Wil
liams, Md.; E. T. Winkler, 8. C.; J. B. Searcy,
Ark.; R. H. Browne, La.; T. H. Pritchard, N.
C.; E. S. Dulin, Mo.; L. H. Tomkins, Fla.; H.
W. Dodge, Vo.; J. H. DeVotie, Ga.; A. T.
Spalding, Ky.; A. P. Lowry, Miss.; C. H.
Winston, Wm. Howhard, Texas.;P. H. Lundy,
Ala.
Corresponding Secretary—M. T. Sumner.
Recording Secretary—W. H. Fiquet
Treasurer—J. B Lovelace.
Auditor—S. H. Fowlkes.
BOARD OF MANAGERS.
J. F. Bailey, Porter King, C. C. Huckabee,
L. C. Tutt, A. Lawson, W. T. McAlister, D.
R. Side, E. A. Blunt, A. J. Battle, W. W.
Wilkinson, J. R. Freeman, E. B. Thornton,
J. B. Vaidon, J. H. Lee, A. B. Goodhue.
SUNDAY SCHOOL BOARD,
located at Memphis, Tennessee. President,
T. Tichenor. Vice Presidents, W. E. Pax
ton, La.; B. Manly, S. C.; A. F. Crane, Md.
W. S. Webb, Miss., W. D. Mayfield, Ark.; W.
T. Brantley, Go.; Geo. Hunt Ky.; B. W.
Justice, N. C.; W. Pope Yeaman, Mo.; T. C.
Boykin, Ala.; J. G. Jones, Tenn.; Rufus C.
Burl-on.
Corresponding Secretary, T. C. Teasdale.
Recording Secretary, W. M. Phillips.
Treasurer—R. G. Craig.
Auditor—E. G. Wicker.
Board of Managers.—J. R. Graves, W. S.
Taylor, N. 3. Bruce, A. Hatchett, J. L. Nor
ton, P. S. Jones, Jos. Bruce, W. L. Radford,
J. L. Vorser, S. M. Jobe, 8. C. Rogers, C. V.
Voorhis and B. May.
IN THE AFTERNOON
the reassemblingof the Convention took place,
and the proceedings were opened with the
usual devotional exercises. The largest portion
of the afternoon was taken up in the discus
sion of
We have received from D. P. Fanlds A Co.
wholly inoperative. Its very existence will
be forgotten. And we fully endorse the plan
of doing this by the enforcement of State laws
by the State Courts. This is just what we w M
a wore n mt±o mna «nHtk* ^ i “V 11 ? ®P° n °? r D® mocr *tic friends I Don Quixotte and Sancho Panao, Hudibras
a very pretty song, entitled the Parting for months past are glad to see them and Kalpho, Foletoff; Bardolph and ancient
filing illtO line. * Pirfni ««m nil m«n nf onnrom# nolinMB.
Mr. (yieon Bernes is de&d, at the age of
eighty-ore.
4 NEWMAN.
The Lauderdale orphans were in town last
Wednesday Strawberry festival at the rink
last nig^j.
GRTFFIN.
Sir. Lew lectured on the 16th The Peo
ples Banquet addled the-whole city. It was a
grand aif.ir The picnio fever is still raging.
.... 8o£ha excitement about the skating ac
complishment, which the Griffinites are learn
ing.
AUGUSTA.
A new ootton manufacturing establishment
is talked of.
Horse toeing is the chief amusement. . . .A
detachment of the Georgia Fire Comp iny left
for Cha leeton on tho 16th to attend a Fire
man’s C<*ebration in that city. .. .The Const!
tutionalist reads the Era [vide its notice of
AttorneyjGeperal Farrows’ opinion. ]
COLUMBUS.
Sickness prevalent . . Marriages ditto.
Five cojrinon hens lay nine eggs'per day.
The Hody Water Works Company) bid
$104,000ffor the contract to supply the city
with wa< r Colored people had tableaux,
ch&rade£*j*tc., last Monday night, for the ben
efit of tbe African Baptist Church... .It costs
the Eagi • and Phoenix Mills about $2,000 per
day to k'ep running.
1 ROME.
The CJufederate graves were decorated last
Thursda^afternoon. The ceremonies were
very imrising. Captain C. Rowell was the
orator of tho day. A beautiful poem of rare
merit w? written for the occasion by Colonel
George k Snyder Mrs. Dr. J. H. Nolin is
dead... ‘W*$Ieth odists have raised S600 for
the puru Hae of a new organ. .. .Three hun
dred ne books have been received by the
Library adlatfon.
MADISON
Has h 1 cold weather for the season....
Sxating i:ak in contemplation ... .Colored
. fc a great success,
rammer:
the colored teacher, deserves
iher skill and management in
very person present expressed
and gratification at the fine
speaking, and general good be-
present.. .Mrs. Stovall, wife of
is dead.
8AVANNAH.
litan fire company has gone to
n excursion... James Hogan
wn and robbed of fifty dollars
j with a double barrelled shot gun in his hands.
Raising the weapon, he fired. Mr Stevens
knocked the gun upward, and the load lodged
in Mr. Staley's house, on the opposite side of
the street. The horse sprang forward, throw
ing both Mr. Strother and Fair ont backwards.
Col. Kenan again fired, but as they were fall
ing, the load passed over them taking effect in
the leg of a negro on the sidewalk. A crowd
immediately assembled, and any farther de
monstration of hostilities was prevented. Mr.
Strother was considerably bruised by the fall,
and has been confined to his bed
ever since. Not the slightest clue to the
motives which prompted CoL Kenan to
this act, is given. Even Mr. Strother is in
doubt as to the cause. Col. Kenan was arrest
ed ; but gave bond in the sum of $2,500, for
his appearance at Court
The friends of both parties are fearful that
another meeting between these gentlemen
will result fatally to one, if not both, as they
are men of the most noted personal courage
and fearlessness. Their mutual friends will do
their utmost to heal tbe breach, lest it term
inate more seriously than before.”
The Recorder says Col. Sneed, the reported
bigamist, is in Millegeville, having been
brought over from Macon, He hires his own
guard and walks where he pleases. He will
remain nntil the August term of court.
‘Bring on moral greatness.
4tnd Atlanta Railroad is
is opposition....Boating is
Coqper Club have received a
forty-one .feet long, eighteen
out-rigger of course. She
i: “Anna Huger**. ...A train of
1 Savannah the other day via
MACON.
Jf ?ge Cowles presiding, is
is large... .They have
-Whcob The
ces a murder at Station No.
Railroad. It appears that
when the np freight train stopped at that
point, a Mr. Drew, one of the train hands and
another hand, left the train a short distance,
and were met by an unknown man, who first
asked Mr. Drew’s friend if his name
Drew, and receiving a negative reply, he then,
addressed the same interrogatory to Mr. Drow,
who replied “that is my name, sir.” Where
upon the assassin placed a pistol within an
inch or two of Drew’s breast and fired, the
shot killing Drew instantly. The murderer
then took to the woods and effected his escape.
No cause is assigned for the cold-blooded
murder. It is presumed, however, that the
murderer had received some offense from
Drew, and took this method of revenge
Mr. Law’s lecture came off on the night of
the 15th.
CARTERS VILLE.
Ksst Tennessee Items.
Chancery Court in session at Greenville.
Andy Johnson at home.
Grand temperance celebration at Bristol on
Thursday last. The whole “region round
about" was out
Two men named Littrel were arrested near
t he Virginia line, last week, charged with
shooting Federal soldiers two years ago.
Certificates for eleven wild cat scalps were
received by the Comptroller on Wednesday of
last week. During the year 1869, three hun
dred and seven of these scalps were taken in
one county, and received by the Comptroller
i so many dollars in taxes.
The Bristol Courier states that Major Henry
F ink, with a corps of engineers, has been ap
pointed to survey the line of that portion of
the A. M. and O. Railroad, leading from Bris
tol to Cumberland Gap. The party arrived
at Bristol on Tuesday and immediately went
to their work.
Michael Davis, sentenced to four years’ im
prisonment, at the February term of the Tip-
ton county Circuit Court, for grand larceny,
and Edward Clark, for ten years, at the Octo
ber term, 1870, of the Knox county Criminal
Court, for burglary and larceny, were par
doned Wednesday.
The most remarkable instance of supeisti-
tion occurred at Loudon last Sunday. A col
ored woman inverted a looking-glass over a
well, looked into the glass, and saw or fancied
that she saw the forms of her children in ap
parent health, and her own enveloped in a
shroud aud laid out for burial. She died the
same night.
THE WOMKV.
Tfce Strong-Minded in Council—What
They Want-How They Mean to Get
It—Speeches—Greeley Flayed Alive.
The Woodhull branch of the Woman’s Suf
frage advocates assembled in Apollo Hall, New
York, on the 12th instant. Mrs. Isabella
Beecher Hooker called the meeting to order.
Samuel Heywood, of Princeton, Massachu
setts, who is connected with the Labor Reform
movement, was introduced. Nothing, said
he, is more characteristic of the spirit of the
times than this revolt of women against the
old order of things. All institutions are the
creation of human thought; and now all ot
them—governments, churches, educational
systems—are undergoing trial in the great
court of reason. Of course, the women who
come here do not indorse all that may be said
here.
Courts of justice, churches, la ws, the mar
riage relatiou itself, have to be tried; if they
do not agree with liberty and justice, they
must be swept away I am surprised at the
tone of your city papers. Do they suppose
that women fear an investigation into this
thing? Women have nothing to fear on a
comparison of morals with men—no, not even
with the editor of the New York Tribune 1
[Great laughter and applause. ] There is soon
to be a great washing day—yes, we will have
ont the universal washing machine, and
hanl the dirty linen. When that washing day
comes, it will cost those gentlemen, who talk
in so high and elevated a tone about those
matters, more than 75 cents a dozen to get
their dirty linen washed. We are here for
investigation, and I observe that those
who object to tbe position taken by some of
the ladies upon these matters, are the very
men who have most reason to fear an exam
ination into their own private affairs. Let us
never forget that while Mrs. Stanton and MisH
Anthony went for liberty for the whole of the
negro race, Greeley only went for the male
half.
Mrs. Marie Howland of Hamilton. N. J.,
said:
What is the use of all this discussion about
whether we are citizens or not ? Women is
allowed to send out ships to foreign ports,
which is a right granted only to citizens, and
she is obliged to swear that she is a citizen.
Since we are citizens, what hinders us from
taking the rights of citizenship? Nothing
bnt a few half-rotten shreds of red tape. Are
not we, the women of America, strong enough
to break these feeble bonds ?
FOR” GREELEY.
hing tor
see this
u and l
cellars—old women, poor women, crippled
women, in whose faces were no touches of
light, of love, of happiness—young women, sad
and sorrowful, begging for mercy of this gov
ernment ! Ob, it would be a grand thing tor
us. to stand at least once a year and see f‘ *
mighty pageant of woe. and sorrow, ai
ery, and so learn whether, indeed, we _
the rights we want Suppose that you i
are in that comfortable condition of life in
which we have all our wants bountifully sup
plied. Does it behoove us to say we have all
the rights we want, and selfishly shut ourselves
up from this mighty multitude of sorrowing
women ? Oh, my friends, we shall never re
generate society until we go down to the very
depth and find out what is there. And as the
great Father, in His first grand operation upon
the depth of chaos, called, “Let there be
light, and there was light;” so, no matter how
we may be bombarded by all creation, we say,
“Let there be light." [Applause.)
THE XVTH ARTICLE.
Victoria C. Woodhull, at the request of
Lucretia Mott, gave a brief exposition of the
platform of the Woman’s Convention, setting
forth the reforms that are to be embodied in
the Woman's Utopian Republic to be estab
lished next year.
The following was offered by Mrs. Stanton:
Resolved, That in answer to the letter of
the Hon. John Bigelow to the Hon. Roscoe
Conkling, asking how our national centennial
birthday coaid best be celebrated, we would
say that as the true republic proclaimed by
our fathers cannot be realized until all our
rights are secured, the only measure before
tho nation commensurate with the importance
of the event we are about to celebrate is the en
franchisement of the 20,000,000 women of the
nation, a step of progress worthy to crown the
nineteenth century.
AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION,
offered by Rev. R. H. Graves, of Memphis,
Tennessee. The object of the amendment
was to exclude all but members of their own
denomination from sitting in the Convention
nnder the article providing for a delegate from
every church and organization subscribing
one hundred dollars to the boards of missions.
A long debate followed tho proposal, in which
it was opposed on the ground that the context
rendered the proposed insertion of “Baptist”
unnecessary. The amendment was finally
laid on the table, but will probably
come np again to-day in some other
shape. It was resolved to hold
THE NEXT CONVENTION.
at Raleigh, North Carolina, in May next
EVENING SERVICES.
In the evening religious services were held,
when an eloquent sermon was deliveied to a
large audience by Rev. C. C. Connell, of Ten
nessee. The subject was justification before
God.
TO-DAY
the convention will probably adjoarn, to meet
again at Raleigh, N. C., one year hence, un
less some arrangement is made for a biennial
meeting.
LECTURE THIS EVENING BY REV. J. L. M. CURRY.
Rev. J. L. M. Carry, L. L. D., of Virginia,
and Rev. E. T. Winkier, D. D., of South
Carolina, will deliver addresses on the subject
of education at the Second Baptist Church,
corner Sixth and ijocast streets, this evening
at a quarter before eight o’clock.
Phllospohy pf UgllmeM.
It is a curious fact that an ngly face is gen
erally the sign hung over a witty or hnmorons
mind. Even in fiction, ugliness of face or
form is generally the attribute of shrewdness
and humor. £sop was little and ugly, bnt
so was Socrates. Scarron, the favorite wit of
France, was wry-necked and deformed, but he
was the greatest pet of the ladies of his day.
Pistol were oilmen of supreme ugliness.
More skeletons and Indian relics have re
cently been unearthed on Colonel Tnmliri’s
plantation.
The Express says:
“We are requested to notify the public that
a meeting will be held in the Court House, at
Cartersville, at 11 o’clock, a. m., on Tuesday
the 23d day of this month, to consider the
propriety of taking immediate steps towards
the grading and building of the Blue Ridge
Railroad. This road is the Eastern extension of
the Cartersville and Van Wert Railroad, and
is designed to run from Cartersville to Rabnn
Gap. Major Cooper, the President of this
road, will be present, and address the meeting
upon the interests involved. Greatly con
cerned in all that may affect the prosperity of
Cartersville, and the development of the re
sources and interests of this portion of Geor
gia, wc bespeak a large attendance at the
meeting, on the part of the citizens of Carters
ville, and the surrounding country.
A Curiosity. —The following carious image
was plowed up on Col. Tumlins’ land and is
exciting much interest among archaeologists.
It is described by the Express as follows :
“It is about eighteen inches high, one arm
broken off, the hand of the other resting on
its thigh, holes in its ears for rings, and one
in its head, in which we suppose had been a
plume; it was only the bust of what it was in-
teuded'To represent The shape of the head,
the features, and in fact the whole general
physiognomy resemble those of the Esqui
maux, natives of British America, more
than any other tribe we know of. All who
have seen it concur in the opinion that it was
an idol, and worshipped as such by the tribe
to whom it anciently belonged, and as the
Indians were not idolaters, but worshipped
the sun, which they believed to be the abiding
place of the Great Spirit^ it, of course,
did not belong to them. Scientific men, who
have examined this relic of the past, think it
positive evidence that this country was inhab
ited anterior to the time, what we term the
aboriginees, inhabited it, and that to them
tbb truly great curiosity belonged.
vm.T.immmT.T.P'-
Mr. John T. Arnold accidently killed a mnle
by discharging a rifle A Good Templars’
Lodge is about to be formed, and the Record
er says “noplace needs reform worse than
does Milledgeville.”
The Milledgeville Union of the 16th says:
John T. Sneed, the man who recently mar
ried Miss Mvrick, of this county, was brought
over from Macon last week. He has up to
this time failed to give the required bond—
$5,000—but is permitted to remain at the Mil
ledgeville Hotel nnder guard, at his own ex
pense; thus giving him ample time to commu
nicate with his friends before being sent to
jail.
Serious Difficulty.—Tho Southern Re
corder thus describes a difficulty which it is
feared will result fatally:
“ On Tuesday evening about two o’clock
difficulty occurred between two well known
g intlemen of this place, that almost resulted
tolly. Mr. John Strother, in a baggy, ac
companied by Mr. P. Fair, Jr., had stopped in
front of Moore k Co.'s store on Wayne'street
CoL Lewis XL Kenan, a member of the
bar, stepped oat ot Moore k fc Co.’s store
Tennessee News.
By Mail to the Era.]
The Great Industrial Exposition at Nash
ville is very largely attended.
The exhibition of the East Tennessee Hor
ticultural Society, now going on in Knoxville,
is a perfect success.
The decoration of the Confederate graves
iu rcuoxniie cuuioott last W ednesday evening.
The Winchester Home Journal reports the
arrival ol twenty-five or thirty Swiss, who
propose settling in Franklin county.
At the late term of the Circuit Court for
Bradley county E. S. DeLany, who bad sued
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Rail
road Company for $20,000 damages for injuries
sustained by his wife by an accident that oc
curred near Cleveland in January, 1870, ob
tained judgment for $4,166 50. A man named
Wolfe, who was injured at the same time, got
a judgment for $1,800. These cases will likely
be appealed to the Supreme Court.
The Tennessee Press Association will meet
on the 1st of June. It is to be presumed and
hoped that a full attendance will be present,
as matters of moment and importance will be
presented for consideration. It is expected
that arrangements will be made for a North
ern tour during the summer in which event a
graud£ime may be anticipated.
The Byeraburg Gazette says: “ The woods,
fields and gardens in this section of country,
alive with armies of small caterpillars.
They are destroying vegetation and fruit trees
to an alarming extent. We have seen large
forest trees stripped entirely of their foliage
by these rapacious worms, which are now the
curse of Dyer county.”
The Trenton Gazette complains that there
has been too much rain in Gibson county.
Much of the grain that had been planted was
misplaced or washed away,and will have to be
resown. The farmers are in general very late
with their crops. A large part of the cotton
crop is still to be planted, and if the ground
does not soon become dry enough to receive
the seed, the crop will be extremely late.
The Morristown Gazette of the 10th instant
says : “ From what we have seen and learned
from our country friends, the apple crop in
this section will be exceedingly light, the
trees not having bloomed, bat that the peach
crop will be an average one ; while the smaller
fruits, such as cherries, gooseberries, grapes,
etc., will fall considerably short of the last
year’s yield. ”
Southern News.
By Mail to the Era.]
The present annual production of tobacco is
estimated to be 4,000,000,000 pounds.
An elopement in Norfolk between a step
brother and sister has created quite an excite
ment there recently.
It is thought that the Florida Central Rail
road Company will build a block of brick
warehouses in Jacksonville.
The wheat prospects in the Western counties
of North Carolina are excellent, says the New
Berne Republican and Courier.
The Raleigh Telegram says the fishing sea
son along the North Carolina coast and East
ern rivers has been the most extraordinary
known for years.
The graves of the Confederate dead at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky, were
decorated on Wednesday last The sum of
$310 waa contributed on the ground for the
purchase of marble headstones for the graves
The Richmond correspondent of the Cin
cinnati Commercial says :
CEBEBRO-SPIN AX.-MENINGITIS
is the name given by physicians to a fatal dis
order now prevailing here and elsewhere in the
State. It is a kind of paralysis of the neck,
by whiob the head is drawn back, and so held
firmly until death ensues or relief is obtained.
Some idea of its prevalence and its fatal char
acter here may be gained from a statement in
the mortuary report of last week that nine
persons died of this new disorder here in that
period. By the way, the number of deaths
here last week was forty-two. of which the
victims were nineteen whites and twenty-three
negroes. The monthly report for April gives
tbe number of persons who died at one hun
dred and thirty-one, of whom thirty-eight
were white and ninety-three were colored ! In
Norfolk, daring April, the deaths were only
forty-two, of which nineteen were of whites
and twenty-three of negroes. The population
of Richmond, however, is nearly four times
bat of Norfolk.
MBS. STANTON “ OC
Mrs. Henry B. Stanton—I want to say a few
words in compliment to the Tribune, for the
change that has lately come over it. The edi
tors have been bombarding at us for several
years past, because they thought they would
frighten us away from the cause. But now as
we have taken our place in public esteem, and
our cause is going to prove a success, the Tri
bune, the Times, and all the rest of them—
“ Blanche, Tray, Sweetheart and all”—are
coming out quite in approving tone iu regard
to ns. They have all come round; and this
morning the whole press is as respectful as
possible. I think we have special cause to
congratulate ourselves on the new position
tbe Tribune has taken. When tfio editor of
that journal found that we all came into line
and asserted the old Southern doctrine of Se
cession, and that unless the men propose to
do us justice and give us a declaratory statute,
affirmiug our right to the ballot, we intend to
avail ourselves of the right ot revolution, and
form a government outside of this Govern
ment. [Great applause and laughter.] And
when we declared that our government should
be based on the grand idea enunciated by the
Fathers, that no just government can
be formed without the consent
the governed, then I presume
thought it would be advisable to take a
different oonrse. [Laughter.] A gentleman
asked me this morning how we could manage
that. Said he : “Why the men hold the
purse; yon will have no money to start witb. ,r
Ah, that is a great mistake! Men are putting
their property out of their own hands into the
hands of their wives. [Renewed laughter.]
The ladies of the nation hold the purses, and
we intend to use them. So now, as I am de
lighted to find, the New York Tribune advo
cates this idea, and throws up its hat for us.
Its editors persecuted us for many years, but
now they are coming over to us. Because we
advocate that great idea, because we say we
believe in the right of secession, they are go
ing to help us, aud to argue for our cause as
favorably as possible. We have nothing to
fear when the great, grand Horace Gret-ley is
for us. I have been asked again aud again,
What is the matter with Horace Greeley?
Is he getting into his dotage?” I said, “Oh
no, that can’t be. He is not quite 60. I
think there is some particular crotchet in his
head, just as he had in the anti-Slavery times.”
You remember when the Liberty party was
running Henry Clay for President, aud then
only gave him 60,000 votes, Horace Greeley was
so angry that he turned round and was down on
the whole idea of Abolitiou and anti-Slavery.
But as soon as that trouble was settled, and
the Republican party was formed, Horace Gree
ley came into hue, and he has been speaking
grand words for Man—for Man— ever since !
[Applause. ]
WHAT THEY INTEND TO DO.
When you have heard ot all our plans you
will begin to think that we are in downright
earnest in this matter; and that women don’t
intend to pay taxes any longer to a Govern
ment in which they have not any voice. It is
no child’s play, I assure yon; we are going to
commence this Government next winter unless
Congress gives us that declaratory act. I was
asked this morning a very silly question—for
all these frivolous objections against Woman’s
Suffrage are continually emanating from tbe
male brain. I am sorry they show so little
capacity to reason on great subjects. I was
asked: “^Tould it not be very demoralizing for
the women to come to the polls and mix with
men ?” Demoralizing to come to the polls !
Why, we have enunciated this grand idea of
self-government, the grandest that the world
has ever known; and can it be demoralizing
for an American citizen to hold a ballot
his hand? In the ballot lies all
our religious and civil liberty; and can there
be anything degrading in holding that scepter
of power? “Oh, no, the ballot is not de
grading !” Well then is it degrading for us to
drop it in the ballot-box ? No, that was not
degrading—but it would be so degrading to
be mixed up with thsse men at the polls. Oh,
what a libel on manhood ! [Laughter and ap
plause. ] My friends, are w e not mixed up
with these men everywhere. Can we go
anywhere bnt we find these men? We jostle
against them on Broadway, in churches, at
theaters, in street-cars—everywhere we find
those men. They have even the audacity to
come into our homes. I am the mother of
five sons, and every day I have to eat my
breakfast, and dinner, and tea, with six men.
Only think how demoralized I am. [Ap
plause and laughter. ] See how absurd that
objection is. But then, says another, only
the vile and vicious women would come to the
polls—the virtuous and the refined would
stay away. Would they? I ask what type
of women have for the past few years
been demanding the wright of suffrage ? [Ap
plause.] No matter what your newspapers havo
said, I pronounce them the grandest, the
noblest type of womanhood that the world
can boast of. I have seen women in many
countries, and I assure you I havo never met
a purer and more intelligent class of womtu
than those I have always met on the Woman’s
Rights platform. [Applause.] I have seen
our own Lucretia Mott in England side by
side with the Duchess of Sutherland ; and I
can assure you that in listening to her conver
sation, and noticing her refinement of manuer,
I have felt proud of my countrywomen. Any
editor who dares to sharpen his pen and utter
a single word reflecting upon the women who
stand upon this platform, is unworthy to be
the son of a woman. [Loud applause.] When
Queen Victoria enters the British Parliament,
every voice is hashed and every heart beats
proudly with reverence and respect; and yet
I can tell you, men of America, that there are
many women in this country to whom no
crowned head in Europe can compare. Let
the vile, the vicioos, the wicked women come
up to the polls 1 It would be a grand event for
the education of the higher class of women who
to-day wrap the mantle of complacency around
them.and say they have all the rights they want
Oh. what a grand thing it would be for the
mighty multitude of suffering women to come
down from their garrets and up from their
Personal Gossip.
Kossuth has received a legacy from a de
ceased relative of 50,000 florins, about $20,-
000.
Madame Woodhull threatens a rebellion.
A new constitution, new government and new
matrimonial laws is the object of the crusade.
Memphis is sending cotton to California for
the manufactories there. One order for 300
bales was received last week.
Wild Bill, once famous in magazine litera
ture, has just been appointed Marshal of the
town of Abiline Kansas.
The famous Lord Brougham once, in his
youth, got into a row in tho streets of Edin
burgh, and wa9 put in the watch-house, where
he lemained all night.
Nothing from Frank Blair, Brick Pomeroy,
Shin Bone Brooks, or the “twelve gentlemen
of St. Louis” of late. Coburn and Jim Mace
now occupy attention.
General Crook succeeds General Stoneman
in command of Arizona, the latter retiring on
account of bad health. General Gordon Gran
ger has assumed command of the military
district of New Mexico.
A desk Benjamin Franklin is supposed to
have learned to write on was put up at auc
tion in Newport, R. L, a few days since, and
on account of the reverence felt for the eco
nomical memory of poor Richard, it was
knocked down for the princely sum of ten
cents.
“ Little Tad” Lincoln, who used to climb to
his father’s knees at the White House, nine or
ten years ago, is now a young man of about
twenty, of middle height, robust form, whose
beardless red cheeks are apparently the evi-
■ttence of perfect *' ■'friUp. —mi——
Mortimer Jones, of an interior town of Illi
nois, was recently tarred and feathered by his
fellow citizens because he thought proper
to play croquet twenty-four hours after
his wife died, and he ha9 brought the matter
before a jury to know if these things can be.
The pretty spot on the lake shore at Chicago
whero repose the remains and stands the mon
ument of Stephen A. Douglas, was permitted
to go by delault into the delinquent tax list
The City Council has stepped in, just in time
to prevent some lyux-eyed tax-title speculator
from gettiug a lieu on tho grea : statesman’s
bones, and has ordered the annual tithing to
be liquidated from the public fund.
Jas T. Fields prefaced the reading of firet
Harte’s poem at the military re-union in Bos
ton, last Friday, by reading some verses of
hi-; own, ot which the following were a part;
M But his soul waa responsive to *11 that was grand.
And his loyal young spirit leaped into flame.
And he fought with hi* for his dear struggling
land
As yon with your swords, non* of glory and fame."
A Mississippi correspondent says that Jeff.
Thompson, who was known during the war as
a vagabond soldier and a rebel rowdy ot the
first rank, is now trying to raise cotton on a
small plantation in that State, with indifferent
success.
An infatuated youth squandered a week’s
salary on a front seat and a gorgeous bouquet
for Nilsson’s concert in Nashville. The for
mer he occupied, the latter he “hove” to the
songstress, who dipped her little jewel of a
nose in amid its petals, shot a death-stab out
of her lustrous eyes over the top of it, and—a
few hours later tossed it to the grinning appa
rition who strapped her baggage. He sold it
for a quarter to a friend of the despairing
giver, who has since had not a moment s
peace.
Presbyterian C hurch. United States
(South.)
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States (South), will con
vene in the Presbyterian Chnrch in the city of
Huntsville, Alabama, on' Thursday, the 18th
of May at 11 a. m. The opening sermon will
be preached by the Rev. Robert L. Dabney,
D. D., the Moderator of the last Assembly.
Dr. Dabney is a highly distingnished Profes
sor in the Theological Seminary, located in
Prince Edward, Virginia; and is well known
as the biographer of General Thomas J.
(Stonewall) Jackson.
The General Assembly is a representative
body, composed of delegates from fifty-five
Presbyteries, two from each Presbytery, a
Minister and a Ruling Elder, and meets an
nually. The Commissioners of the Presbytery
of E ist Alabama, to attend the Assembly at
Huntsville, are the Rev. George L. Petrie, of
Greenville, and Ruling Elder Edw.n Fay, of
Prattville.
We subjoin the following statistics of the ,
Presbyterian Church (South,) which will be.
interesting information to many of our read
ers. They are taken from an authentic
source, and are given for the year ending
April, 1870:
Synods 11
Presbyteries.
Ministers....
Licentiates .
Candidates ..
Churches .
840
53
161
1,469
Members added 7,999
Communicants (total) 82,014
Baptisms 5,084
Sabbath-school scholars 47,317
Contributions for causes—benev
olent and Congregational $872,355
Miss Vinnie Ream makes her busts in a blue
veil, wrapped round her head like a bandanna
handkerchief, a purple skirt, and a ^ong-
sleeved calico aprou, bordering on pmk, girt
round her waist with a cord On her own
bust blazes a Maltese cross, given her by tne
Pope, or else an emblem of her Masonio
rank—it wasn’t clear which, on the face of it.
