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Russia says her object is to secure the
“peace of Turkey.” Humph, a body
can easily see, with only one i, “piece of
Turkey” is meant.
The briefest and most significant ex
pression of opinion regarding the Presi
dent’s policy is that of ex-Congressman
Rusk, of Wisconsin. Hh says: “I—ah
—uni—umph—ahem—um—m urn,
He is a pandidate for Sergeant-at-Arms
of the Federal Senate.
The Sandjak Sherif, which Sultan
Hamid says he will not unfurl in the
present war with Russia unless asalast
resort, means “gei.nai massacre.” We
suppose that “unfurlingthe Sandjack
Sherif,” is almost synonymous with
our phrase, “raising the black flag.”
The * World says that Ren Wade’s
Wagnerian roar is the Republican mu
sic of the future.
Whoever heard of such an animal
“roaring.” The World is very ignor
ant of toe English language. Evidently
“bray” is the word that was needed.
It is undoubtedly the duty of a min
ister to fight the “world, the flesh and
the devil.” The Rev. Brownlow while
living had many a tussle with the
world and, we hope, fought against the
flesh ; and now he has a fine opportu
nity to daily confront and fight the
devil.
According to a Texas paper,
over in Brazos county raises tobacco.
The grasshoppers have eaten up his crop,
ami now sit on the fence and spit tobacco
juice in his face. This seems to coincide
with the statement in our Texas letter
published elsewhere in this issue.
Those Fraudulent Bonds.—It is
significant fact that of those bonds, issu
ed by Bullock and his crew between
1SC3 and 1S72, and which the people
by an almost unanimous vote have for
ever prevented the payment, not a dol
lars’ worth was bought by Georgians,
We do not believe, either, there ever
was an innocent purchaser.—Enquirer.
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VOLUME XXXI.
ROME, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY
‘THE LOST CAUSE. 5
• Honor to Whom Honor Is Due”—A Fine
Address—Scattering Flowers Over
Dead Heroes, Etc., Etc.
"At the Southern LoyalistConvention
held at Philadelphia in September,
I860, Parson Brownlow ended a speech
thus: “If I have, after death, to go
either to hell or heaven, I shall prefer
to go with loyal negroes to hell than
with rebels to heaven.”
By the time he is “done broun” loiv
oown mere, ne win Telish very mucn a
glass ol cool water even with a “Johny
Rob” in Paradise.
According to the programme, publish
ed in this paper, the procession formed
day before yesterday. Decoration Day, at
4} o’clock at the Baptist Church :
First, Rome Cornet Band.
Second, Confederate Soldiers.
Third, Ladies’ Memorial Association.
Fourth, Female Schools. T
Fifth, Male schools.
Sixth, Fire companies.
Seventh, Citizens generally.
Col. Magruder was Marshal of the
day. The procession was almost a quar
ter of a mile long. Those in ranks
marched to the solemn music of the Dead
March, played by eur excellent Silver
Cornet Band. When they arrived at
the cemetery, they were met by a still
larger crowd, who had already assem
bled.
Col. Towers called the large assembly
of persons to order by the announcement
that the Rev. Mr. Nunnally would open
the services with prayer.
After prayer, Col. Alexander intro
duced the Rev. Mr. LaPrade, who deliv
ered the following
address :
lAidies and Gentlemen of Memorial As
sociation:
The successes of to-day are rooted in
man the failures of yesterday. That which
seems to be dead is often near a new and
better life, and needs hut the voice of
Spring to call it into a rare and unlooked
for beauty. There are sources of power
which arc never reached until disap
pointment sinks the soul into sadness
and gloom ; spiritual odors that are un
known until suffering has crushed the
soul. Milton did not learn to see until
he became blind; the daring imagination
of Dante sat with folded pinions, nor
plumed them for their dismal flight until
he mourned his Beatrice dead. False
hopes are chased, false issues made, un
worthy objects striven for, until Defeat
throws her dark covering over them all,
and we learn to look for hetter things.
Nations like men must suffer ere they
shine. Nought but four hundred years
of hard servitude could fit Israel for the
Holy Laud. Civilization is not the pro
duct of a day, nor the issue of a single
HIE EUROPEAN TROUBLES.
Chances of a Cc
The New York Herald prints an in
terview by its Washington correspon
dent with Hon. Benj. F. Peixotto, on
the Russian-Tnrko war. Mr. Peixotto
has spent five years at the court of
Prince Charles of Itoumania, as repre
sensitive of the United States at that
court. This fact, coupled with the oth-
er.fact that Mr. Peixotto’s vaticinations
upon the war question printed six
months ago in Chicago have been borne
out by actual results since that time,
give considerable weight to his very
interesting predictions in reference to
the other powers being involved. Here
is the interview:
Correspondent—You believe all Eu
rope will be involved ?
Mr. Peixotto—It is inevitable the mo
ment the mask is torn away and the
veil eo long before tbeir eyes given to
the winds. 1 mean the great powers—
England, Germany, Austria, France,
and Italy. A 1 1 Europe hears to-day
the words of ilamid as he draws his
sword—“Exposed to hostile suggestions,
to unlimited suspicion and to violations
of international law, Turkey feels she is
now contending for her existence.
Strong in the justice of her cause, and
trusting in God, she is determined to
ignore what has been decided without
her and against her, and resolved to re
tain in the world the place which prov
idence has destined for her.” These
are ringing words, even in our language,
tin Turkis/i they will rouse the Moslem
to frenzy. Before his vision the mem
ory of the past will rise like a dream.
We shall see the Turk of pjaronn-al-
Rasceid’s day, the swift warrior of Sala-
din s peerless hosts, ami from heaven to
•heir excited imagination Mohammed
Fill descend to lead them on to victory.
Correspcndeit-t—Who of the Powers
rill be the first to interpose.
.Mr. Peixotto—Austria first, but hard
ly seonerthan England?
Correspondent—And against—
Mr. Peixotto—Against Russia.
Correspondent—And Germany ?
Mr. Peixotto—Will hang oft’ as long
s possible, but before midsummer be
leeply in the conflict.
Correspondent—For whom ?
| Mr. Peixotto—I scarcely dare to yen-
wire an opinion. Much depends—and
. yet do not, believe for Russia.
Correspondent—If she should so de
cide what then ?
Mr. Peixotto—The legions of France
irill cross the Rhine, the Italians come
ip to join the French, Catholic Austria,
aly an d France, later supplemented
t Spain, with England, make com
mon cause against Germany and Bussia.
lie Old song will come back a^ain :
By tho Danube and the Dneipi
Will the Cossack warrior sic
By the Volga and the Don
Will tho Cossack mother weep.
cep;
There will be sobs, too, on the Severn
And wailing on the Thames ;
And Europe will a picture be.
Of blood and tears and flames.
Correspondent—And your deliberate
Pdgment is that such a general war is
hnpending?
, t'' r - Peixotto—I am compelled to say
t 1B - The fire kindled by Russia in
lerzevegovina in June, 1875, has been
J. 8 sT consuming flame; it has
F st 5or ‘ h 'low and I fear it cannot be
Uenched. Uuholy, unhallowed is the
® W" 11 on the 24th of April, a day
|nich, by a singular coincidence, be-
Gmes memorable to our country as of
? e day,of final pacification.
effort, and there; are epochs in its progress
when the mignty throbbiugs of its inner
spirit, like the throes of an earthquake,
make the nations to tremble, and hurl
most stable institutions into irretrievable
ruin. Occasional and incidental good is
sacrificed, and must he to organic and nec-
cessary principles, aud that type of nat
ural excellency which is organic, is never
lost in defeat. Like the shell of a nnt,
the outer phases of natural progress,
which have served to protect the matur
ing germ within is cast off when the
new life would appear in progress of de
velopment. Not always in silence, and
by gradual process is this casting off ac
complished, but, among nations, mos
frequently does the sword, it may be its
own or it may be that of the enemy, re
lease the budding glory from its hard en
casement. No error is more common
even among great men than that of con
founding the organic in national life and
civilization with the mere externals. No
form of government is organic in the
race except self-government, and yet
statesmen turn pale, and politicians rant
and fume at imagined innovations, as
though form and name could alone con
stitute excellency Neither Monarcy,
Absolute or Limited, nor Republicanism
nor Theocracy, in their distinctive fea
tures, aie necessary to successful govern
ment; but principles of right and jus
tice, with due recognition of fundamental
facts in human Constitution and Divine
Revelation, into whatever outer form
they may encase themselves, will con
stitute, and they only, the basis of na
tional prosperity. If I were competent
to discuss that most knotty of all Amer
ican topics, the causes of the late strug
gle, part of whose sad history is written
on yonder suggestive plot, this were not
the time nor the place for such discus
sion. But I may, without impropriety,
apply the principles already alluded to,
o that the apparent defeat of the cause
to which they consecrated their lives,
may be seen as a glorious victory after all.
Real issues neyer die. Underneath
the political questions, which led to the
war, there are always deep-seated con
victions of right and honor, or motives
of far-reaching Expediency. The insti
tution of slavery was merely an accident
of our national character—it was not in
herent nor esse ntial. State-Rights issues
were secondary though real. That po
litical system was but a method of ex
pression of a deeper and broader truth.
The real struggle was not over Central
ism, nor States-Rights, nor slavery: these
furnished occasions simply, they were not
causes. Lack of cohesiveness between
sections, growing out of marked and in-
inherent differences'”of character and
views of relations and obligations were
the real causes. Two spirits were ruling
the nation. One, nursed upon granite
hills, with the stroke of tho quarry ham
mer for its lullaby, and spreading
through the North and Northwest, when
ceaseless activity and mechanical inge
nuity were indispensable to success, and
even to life, was the Spirit of Material
Progress. It was an earnest spirit, an in
tense spirit, an almost invincible spirit.
Coolly, calculatingly, with no such word
as fail in its tsxicon, it entered upon its
work. Forests were filled, cities were
laid out, factories were built, wealth was
amassed. The need of skilled labor
gave rise to numberless schools, and these,
for the greater part, of the eclectic type.
Everything bent before the untiring en
ergy of New England minff and muscle.
The spirit was a good one. I| had its
place and material, and calculating as it
seems at first glance, we of the South err
greatly when we despise it. But, useful
and admirable as it may have been,
was not the spirit of the South. Our
national bias was different. I will not
say it was better or nobler—bnt it was
entirely different We came of different
blood. We were the descendants, most
of us, of either the English Cavaliers or
the French Protestants. Other types ef
character there were, hut among bur lead
ing men, who shaped public opinion and
gave tone to sentiment, there were few
who did not spring from one or the
other of these races. Self culture was
their aim. A sensitive tone
character, a high sense of honor and
disregard of mere material
progress characterized them. Family
name, pride of ancestry, traditional
and cherished independence, personal
and sectional—these were of highest
regard. They lo7ed rather the grand
old forest?, and sublime mountains,
and free and rushing streams, than the
possible timber or quarries, water
wheels and factories. High poetic ge
nius, though often undeveloped, and
sensitive spirits that shrank from the
thought of estimating men by their
muscle-power or mechanical ingenuity
forbade their appreciation even of the
prominent characteristics of their
Northern friends. Their sense of per
sonal liberty, forced them to be States
rights men. They were so constitution
ally. They would have chosen a mon
archy with its nobility and refinement,
rather than centralism in a renublic,
where the masses were but a common
herd, to be ruled at will by a smaller
number of the same common herd
And now we can understand the issue.
It was between the outer and the inner
between material progress and splen
dor, and pride of character; between
practicability and sentiment. The two
spirits had not met and mingled. They
might have done so, but they had not.
Had the South borrowed from her
Northern brother his restless physical
energy, and the North cultivated the
Southerners high sense of personal in
dividuality and sentiment, the destruc
tive features of both might have been so
modified 3s to have averted the war.
nut tne attitudes were belligerent. If
slavery or political differences had not
furnished occasion for the war, some
thing else must have done it! The
issue was inevitable. There must be
fusion of the the two distinctive char
acters, into one homogenous whole, and
nought but the fires of war could do it.
Hermes and Aphroditus must unite,
not in the cool fountain, but in the
blast of the furnace. And so, when
occasion offered, ihe curses came. We
were the weaker party numerically and
financially, and in our military opera
tions we failed. I do assert that final
consequences would have been essen
tially the same, if the other party had
failed. Union of sentiment, of thought,
of character—these were to be, and
eventually will be the product of the
war. Already we can see the begin
ning of the end. Already the fusion is
taking place. The smoke of battle is
rolling from our minds as it has rolled
from our hilltops and valleys, and a
common sun is shining upon a com
mon country. Old geographical lines
are being forgotten. The North is
drinking in Southern sentiment, and
the South is filling up with Northern
energy. A union, not of States simply,
but of purpose and of hearts—is al
ready giving some indication of its
coming: a union cemented by the
blond of brave men on either side. They
bled not in vain. Southern chivalry
asserted itself on the battle-plain, and
there won by grandest heroism the
recognition of its worth. High toned
manhood, unimpeachable personal
honor, the noble heritage of a noble
race, these are what they fought for,
and these they never surrendered. Great
in her ante-bellum prosperity, great on
the field of carnage, the South was
greater still ip her days of after-gloom.
A victory greater than ever crowned
the most successful military career, was
the victory or Southern character over
Southern disaster. The worth of her
thousand fallen sons, the memory of
their noble self-sacrifice, the forced rec
ognition, by even our own foes, of the
grandeur and sublimity of ournational
character, these outweigh a thousand
times the ignominy of a nation's de
feat. Brave sons of Sunny Southland,
ye have not bled in vain 1 Self offered
upon the altar of your country’s honor,
the devotion which you sealed with
your blood, hath brought an amazed
and admiring world to your country’s
feet, as nations vie with nations to do
her honor 1 You have made historic
that which before was ideal, and hence
forth unselfish patriotism and unsul
lied honor are no mere dreams of the
fond enthusiast! While forests wave,
your memories shall be green; while
flowers bloom, the. incense of your of
fering shall be sweet; while woman
loves, affection shall twine its tendrils
about your names 1 Spring shall bloom
to do you honor; the Summer sun shall
blaze with a new glory, while he sheds
his beams upon your resting place, Au
tumn shall cover your bed. with her
purple and golden gifts, and winter
shall array the EarthIn garments less
pure than thy noble souls.”
* DECORATION OP GBAVEgi- ' -
After the address,Rev. Mr. Nunnally
announced that they would next pro-
creed to docorate with floral offerings
the graves of our soldier dead, making a
special request that the graves of those
marked “unknown,” benot overlooked.
The ladies and girls present, were soon
scattered about that consecrated spot,
tenderly and reverently placing on the
green mounds, bequets wreaths, cres
ses and of flowers—and when it was all
over with, to one standing on an adja
cent hill and looking down, it presen
ted as pretty a picture as can be found
in Nature's beautiful picture ^aUery. v
Pennsylvania Correspondence.
Hayes’ Policy—How it I akes—Tbe Lou
isiana Commission—The Weather, Ac,
Ligonier Valley, Pa., 1
May 6,1877. f
To (he Editor of the Courier':
Immediately after the inauguration
of Hayes, in preparing an article for
some newspaper we made this remark:
“If at any time in the future we dis
cover that we have made a mistake;
or arrived at conclusions too hastily in
regard to the policy likely to be pur
sued, by Hayes, we will be happy to
make the acknowledgement.” The
time for making that acknowledgement-
hasjnow arrived. When we prepared
our last article, for the Courier, the
new administration had as yet taken
no action in regardjto the disputed gov
ernments of South Carolina and Louis
iana; neither had there been any action
taken in regara to the removal of the
troops. Now, however, the case is
somewhat different. The Hampton
government, the only legal government
in SouthjCarolina, has been recognized^
and the troops withdrawn from the
State House to where they more prop
erly belong. This is a step in the right
direction. If even Satan were capable
of a good action, we would be in favor
of giving him credit for it, even though
we might be inclined to denounce him
on “general principles.” This action
has at last redeemed South Carolina,
and thus furnished her the opportuni
ty, not only to purge herself irom car
pet-bag corruption, but also to cast her
electoral vote for the Democratic can
didates in 1S80,.’without any .trouble
Louisiana comes next. Her case is a
complicated medley of false returns,
fraud, peijurv and intimidation. ? If
Packard could win by a personal iHort
to peijury, no man would be more thor-
titjes toioffitjfco.
7tm i
NEW SEREES--N0. 37
Cdm.ipission succeeds in settfi^ 1 „
tew there in; ¥ Wfe^Bfift 7 fefl£i&tisfy the
1 .' 5 - ;IO ” ~
jfed: for rt Hfe of honor and
nublic services, and the in-
with which that same public
cx remembers offenses of the deepest dye
, w US 1 lffiifluS4 8a P a tugflgfltetto'Btate.
po{jited*}::iq-'_-i...i} lo ^tlooBBih odl I I HMSP’JUB’DlUnu to be quiet and
ti- - r - tiie wextHer, til moil I not obtnjde himself u pon the people of
The weather-hM-rd-ve^^old for the ? eor Bj a : Charity does not always mean
tim^of yeac-'lt ^8^^^s^ of .injury j
gp5?w te*
mqi^rately^ frqnK-SSftlyfjmcfDiog tiff
rimein the night—'-AhoUbwliseG £ '£«borfc lime since one of the members
itiijowedas livel>as ? iitAhy tiftffelcffff- prominent Boston manufacturing
“ rm a few weeks hunting in Flor-
ida,,and on his return he brought with
*°; “ c 9.- •P?9R*?'him *^ monster rattlesnake, the gift of a
corr. from the 8th to the 15th oi May; friend. His shakeship measures about
biAueither the ground nor tr.Sweither fi ve feet in length, and has a body the
w^admitofitforsomWfim'ryot.l^he:
<‘ Q oV i-i- jI 'and brown cuticle blending rather beau-
promises to be a^hbbes. ’tSallyin patches of various forms. The
hgrfo The oats are all sojsn and, most heavy triangQkr head, characteristic of
of them, up; but the. ¥ cnldrsnap” venomous reptiles, has a sinister expres-
gjfehFtbfein a faeV8gtt» tttn moments of excitement the
'flye .rattles on his tail keep up an un
pleasantly suggestive whirring, while a
Jlo . forked tongue of inky blackness and
! off: &? r P5^ n £r length darts angrily from his
Why Brown Dislikes Oflraoa. ^rttehfce'month. He is no sleepy, half-
■ .aiajap j : . • starved'fellow, as may readily be unag-
A~ correspondent of the Colutob.lis med. but wide awake and ready for an
A Pathetic Tragedy In Ohio.
he. But that rueo is too thin, Packard,
may as well jget his political house in
order and prepare himself for decapita
tion. The President has promised to
settle the Louisiana trouble in such a
way that the people of that State will
be satisfied. And it is evident that
nothing will satisfy the people there
but the recognition of theNicholl’s gov
ernment. That government will be
recognized in due time we think; not,
perhaps because the President is partic
ularly so inclined but because he
almost obliged, in view of
the facts surrounding the case.
All that we expected or desired, even
of a Democratic administration, was the
withdrawal of the troop3, the subversion
of the carpet-bag governments, and the
resuscitation of self government at the
South. This is all the great Democratic
party of the country desires, and thin it
is determined to have. And if the Presi
dent perseveres in the policy he seems
to have inaugurated, such will be the
result. If the people of both sections
get all they want, even under the ad
ministration of Hayes, they would be
very unreasonable to demand more.
And this leads us to notice
HOW IT TAKES.
That depends largely on who takes
it. The bloody-shirt wing of the Radi
cal party “take it very hard.” All those
politicians who are reached by the in
fluence of Jim Blaine, will stab the
President’s Southern policy to the
heart the first favorable opportunity.
All such men will regard the Southern
policy of the Preiident as exceedingly
njudicious,if not unpardonably crimind.
All honestmen of all parties are bound
to praise the President for his Southern
policy, even though he might be cursed
for everything else. We are with him
in that matter, but, thus far, in that
alone. It is possible, and it is our pre
rogative to support him in this matter,
and at the same time, curse the foul
agencies that placed him where he is.
There is not a “sound” Republican who
endorses his Southern policy, nor a
Democrat who denounces it. We, as
usual, go on the broad, common serse
principle of giving the Devil credit
when it is due him. Many Republi
cans here would be most happy to de
nounce both Hayes and his Southern
policy, if they dare. But they dare
not do it 1 They have been heard in
his favor too frequently for that. How
ever, we would not be at all surprised
to hear Hayes denounced by some of
the Republicans before long.
THE LOUISIANA COMMISSION.
The President may have been actu
ated by motives purely honest and pa
triotic in sending out the commission,
but we fear he has made a. mistake.
There is neither constitutional nor le
gal authority for taking the step; and
that the result' will be unsatisfactory,
we entertain not the shadow of a doubt.
The white people of Louisiana ejected
Nicholls for Governor, and he is the
man'they want inaugurated. Packard
derived his support, from the* negroes
and. carpet-baggers. .The' only qiies- B.
tion, therefore, seems ta ke this: Which
have, the negroes apd. carpet-baggers or
.the white people oif jtiodniana, the best
right to their manl We are religiously
opposed to political Commissions, crea
ted for tho purpose of settling disputed
wa?« AM**: sswsfl&'s jwris
nation of ex Gov. Browns recehjt- at- since a rather small-sized wharf rat
ok upon Gen. Gordon: eiuliiija J*: was" introduced, in the expectation that tended to cut these words:
Without discussing how or why-'fie the’rodent would form a meal for the
became so, Governor Brown, in: jl868, stranger. The snake seemed to think so,
Was-the friend and patrqn of Bullock, toorfor he darted on the unwilling vis-
By reason of his position befofre £i!<# itor- aiid caught him by the neck. The
dutfeg Ihe jvai, his-influence in Geor- rat, who had hitherto been running
gilfwhether beneficent or malign^ was around lEtTcage trying to get out, gave a
gn#i and- his uncommon shrewdness sharp squeal as he felt the serpent’s
ited.him to‘wield that influence fangs, and, twisting himself about, buried
Tremendous efficacy. To him his teeth in the scaly jaw of the agres-
than any other man or combina- tor. The snake writhed and twisted and
of men, Georgia is indebted for the rattled sharp notes of alarm as the rat
fon&And disastrous rule of the cdr.pet- kept ’liis sharp incisors at work, and be-
hagger and robber. At-the close of the, -fore the spectators could fairly compre-
warGeneral Gordon’s capacity for civi bend what had happened the little quad-
station was little known. But he -had T.upqd liad shaken himself loose and was
acted .well the part of a brave jiild true hopping in afright at the further end of
soldier: he hao carved his name in.im- the cage fora meaos of exit. Tothesur-
perishahle characters upon the: baftle prise of all he showed no effects of poi-
,sites of the nation, and the people of -son, and when the snake again made at
Georgia wisely concluded, that the man him he met his creeping foe half way
who had been so true in war, could tipf and shipped off a piece of his long for-
be false in peace. He was selected as a ked tongue. This seemed to be rather
more than the Floridian had bargain
ed for, and he dragged himself into a
corner, cast down and defeated. Since
that time the rat has fiourirhed in his
strange quarters. He capers over the
body of his whilom enemy, aud avoids
rile punch of a.-stick hy creeping under
iheT.emi <.f the snake. The rat seems
pejf.-riix u flift'c-rent as regards therep-
iBe. ,ati*r nh-1, ti e latter, roused to a
high fv'it'i" i»r anger hy outsiders,
makt^.-irfiuke at him, l.e hardly takes
. ytenSftT|)h to dodge, and slyly bites
fcfc hr - that raee-tha a-ninipst^y "jirlLihej-allle is unusually offen-
Brown to General Gordon first tuuk jive. It is a singular condition of
tqe Shrewd intelligence of the. 'ex^tiji^,
onghly ready to be “offered -up” that, ejnor, qpunted Gordon out and. Bullock
gubernatorial candidate lo-:;represent
that element in the -State which was
still loyal to.liberty and truth,' and he
was thus thrown in -opeti antagonism
with Governot-.Brown who warmly tVr
poused the cause,o,f ..Bnllack. - After a
hot contest, and bitter in-tbe extreme,
General Gordon, was elected by more
than eight /thousand majority; bit the
first Returning -Board of. which we have
aqjtrecord, informed, atd ipsoired by
true Georgians. Not in a corner hut in
open day, he denounced the agents and
as a method of thisdemonst
eral Gordon, together wit
in the State, remember'
conduct of Governor' '
and actively opposeMii eftc
and he was . defeated:, f
scared this hs
One word more—^
should have been in this
first spoken, and still possi
have given all the tight
would need in cohsfrhingGov.
unjust and outrageous. “““
Senator Gordon. The
we know of Governor
votion to his family, and,:
Let justice Be done. -
a more exempl
The people of
collection of tJ
Governor Brer
therthe judgship
cuitlast winter,
appointed anf* -
confirmed
imsparii
i soli
Goidon’st
, and'-
ar
ras
“God Knows Who Was Bight-’
Union Soldier* Present a Confederate Of-
ficer With a Memorial Medal.
liing
nd the rat’s immunity from
Unless I confound the order of events death, cannot very easily be accounted
(for those times appear to me now tike
the recollections of a horrid nightmare),
th« next noticeable part taken by Gov. Grant to Lead the Turks,
Brewn was in the prosecution of the
“Cblumbus Prisoners.” 5kt>m this rec- Washington Special to the Chicago Times.]
ore, Messrs. Editors, I instinctively One of the most sensational stories
avirtmyeyes, for it - fills one of the circulated about town since the close
blickest chapters in hnman history. Of the presidential contest has Gen.
In atonement for the misfortunes tif-his Grant for its hero. It was stated that
brth, Providence permitted the killing the entire command of the Turkish
of Ashbura in Columbus. A number army has been tendered to Gen. Grant,
oi young men of ithis city, accused of with a fabulous salary attached. Gen.
tie act, were arrested, hurried to Allan- Grant left this city this morning for
ts and arraigned before a military court New York, intending to sail for Europe
narti&L The Government looked some time next week. None of the
around for some one to personate Joe army officers here seem to credit, the
Eolt (the worst man, in my opinion, statement, although it was conceded
who has lived in a thousand years) in by every one that such a thing would
the prosecution,-and its eyes finally be more possible with Grant than with
rested upon ex-Governer- Joseph E. any other prominent American soldier.
Brown. The sweat box and every con- His- capacity for doing unheard-of aDd
trivance of cruelty which devilish unexpected things was the only thing
ingenuity could suggest, were employed, that.gave any probability to this very
to extort the confession of guilt-from the remarkable story. The Secretary of
tips of innocence. Blood, was needed to the Turkish Legation, who i3 in the
appease the savage thirst of a despotic- city, denied all knowledge of any such
government, and Gov. Brown with ten proposition. It was new3 to him, he
thousand dollars of blood money in bis said. He did'not appear, however, to
pocket undertook the quest with re- regard the story as an absurd one. A
morseless zeal. Messrs. Editore, I claim gentleman who has lived seventeen
to be of human and, evemmerenful dis- years in Turkey in speaking of the
position, but-I cannot find it in my probaility of this story, says that Grant
heart to forgive Governor Brown for- has a great many elements in his char-
this diabolical persecution’of his inno- acter that would make him a success-
cent countrymen and fellow-citizens, ful leader of the Turks. His tacitum-
Thereisasin against humanity: akin ity ahd his nnfiinchingcapacity forsac-
to the sin against the Holy Ghost, and crificing human lives tocarry an end
Governor Brown then and there com- are all pre-emintiy Turkish. It is be-
mitted this 6in. A life-time of tears tieved that Grant’s vist to Europe will
and contrition cannot expiate it* 1 If the tesnlt fn his being drawnas a soldier
death of the offender did not imp.ose a of fortune into some phase of the Eu-
limit to human retribution, tijiB single Jopean conflict.
act were worthy the hoarded up resent- —«
ments and revenge of a thousand years. Brownlow On Andy Johnson
Gen. Gordon was then in Atlanta, and
though not in public life, he was. still Once Andy Johnson made an issue
the acknowledged representative’dfVaU '^ith Brownlow on “family respectabil
ity” to which that mass of dirtiness
instruments of this merciless“persecu- known as the “Fighting Parson” replied
tion with unmeasured indignation; and
unmeasured indignation ; and as follows L
Gov. Brown scored one .more against .“I am not aware of any relative of
“ lm - ' *>, : - ; mine ever having been hung, sent to the
Again, about this time the -Governor penitentjgry or placed in the stocks.
demanded of the Radical pprty in Geor- have no doubt that persons related to
gia a tangible recogaitidn of his serviced roae, fiirectly orremotely, have deserved
in its behalfiand chose the" hestowment such a fate long since. Thereisnota
of a seat in the United' States 'Senate, man in this vast assembly who can say,
Gen- an d fell the troth, that he has no mean
'e'men Ctm Gov. Johnson say so? Rather
can he say he has any other kind ? He
iks member of a numerous family of
Johnsons in North Carolina who are
janerally thieves and liars, and though
-tor ■sol hods the best one of the family .1 ever
J.i ”i *i, met with; I unhesitatingly affirm that
c ft thereare Better men than Andrew John
son. in our penitentiary. His relatives
YUwould
q In :the Old North State have stood in
the stocks for crimes that they have
committed, and his own born cousin,
"i#iP Madison Johnson, was hnng in Raleigh
^MPB- for murder and robbery.”
tWrifosma .■ ~i
j Axe HanDles Wanted at the Seat
_ -OrWar.—The Washington Capital says
other. a prominent manufacturer in. Vermont
lyely re- received an order a vroek ago for six
_ .aife handles, to be
ported to the seat of war in the
it. jUpon investigation he discoyered
iful fact that it will require the
energies earnestly employed of
ixe-handles manufactories in
for a month or more to fill the
t is_discovered that there are
;bt industries engaged in this
ar line in America, and iome of
of order. We could
flye believed that about our
, , T letcher, the writer of
i SdPMsr 01 , lady still in her
twenties, very 'sparkling in her talk,
.prejjtjt,, and, thoroughly accomplished
n several languages. ‘
Washington Sunday Herald.] •
A number of Federal soldier during
the late war have determined, we under
stand, to present Major Thos. C. Jones,
of Alabama, a medal. It will be re
membered that Major Jones delivered
a memorial address at Montgomery,
Alabama, in 1874, which attracted’
much attention at the time. Subsequen
tly he visited Washington, where he
was the recipient of a dinner gotten up
by Federal soldiers, on which occasion
he made a speech, in which he touch
ingly referred, among other things, to
an old Virgman who had a son killed
in each army, and after the war buried
them side by side in the old family
ground, On the monument he placed
the names of each, with the words,
‘God knows who was right.”
It is the intention of those who have
the matter in chaige to put in the cen-
tre on one side of the medal a quota
tion from the memorial address, as fol
lows: “The law which nerved these
men to diejwas graven on their inmost
souls by the finger of the Almighty.”
On the outer rim there will be a quota
tion from the dinner speech, as follows:
“We can bequeath our children nobler
legacies than discords and hates.” In
the centre, below the middle, it is in
tended to cut these words: “Honor to
noble foes is the warrior’s highest cour
age.” On the reverse sid9 there is to be
a figure of Peace, and this inscription:
“Over plighted faith, sealed by a war
rior’s grave, Truth, Mercy and Charity
alone should hover;” and below the fol
lowing; “God knows who was right.”
On the outer rim is to be this inscrip
tion: “From Union soldiers to Major
Thomas G. Jones, late C.S. A.,for manly
words spoken on Memorial day, April,
1874, at Montgomery, Alabama,”
One of those pathetic tragedies that
touch the human mind deeper than
the most vivid pictures drawn by the
pens of skillful novelist, has just culmi
nated in Ohio. About fifteen years ago
there appeared at a Shaker settlement,
in that State, a young mother with an
infan daughter in her arms. The
mother had been deserted by one of
those. Cold-blooded villains who throw
aside a woman’s priceless love as the
plaything of a day. The Shakers adopt
ed the mother and child. The mother
and _ daughter passed and • uneventful
life in their quiet Quaker home until a
few months ago, when the daughter,
budding into womanhood, developed a.
bouyancy of spirits that disturbed the
calm Shakers, and caused a spirit of
uneasiness in the circles. This feeling
grew, and the young Shakeress evinced
a detemination to shun the'society of
the elder members, and seek the donr-
panyof younger and more agreeable
companions. The eldeis informed the
mother that she must seiid her daught
er into the world. This the mother re
fused to do. They were then turned
adrift, with a few dollars in their pock
ets. After vainly looking for situations
where they could live together, mother
and daughter engaged a room in a
hotel, where they partook of a deadly
drug, and both perished.
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The foregoing rates ar* for either Weetlj
>rTrt-Weekly. Whoa publiahad in both paper*,
*0 per cent, additienal upon table rates.
Turkish “Black Flag.”
THE STANDARD OF THE PROPHET.
Charleston, May 4) 1877.
To the Editor of the News and Cottier:
In your issue of this date you say,
editorially, that the “Standard of the
Prophet” is a black flag. Will you
oblige me with your authority for this
statement ? I have always understood
that the l '£andschaki-fherif” wa3 a green
banner. Ills the Standard, not of the
Sultan, but of the Caliph. The title of
Caliph (from the Arabic calafa, to suc
ceed,) is a much more ancient designa
tion than that of Sultan. The latter
term has, however, almost superseded
the former, especially among the Per
sians, who are the Broad Churchmen of
Mohammedanism, and care very less
for ancient words than the Turks do.
With them, Sultan (Emperor) has, for
nine hundred years, taken the place of
Caliph (Successor.) The Sultan of
Constantinople, the true head of the
Mohammedan faith, has, however, nev
er abandoned entirely his hereditary
title of Caliph. When he ascends the
throne and the ordinary ceremonies of
his accession are concluded, the crown
ing act of the ceremony is performed
by the Softas, who carry him in state
to the Mosque of Saint Sophia, and
there invest him solemnly with the
scimitar of the Caliphs. After this in
vestiture he becomes the absolute spir
itual head of Islam, arid if he once un
furls the green standard and draws that
scimitar, every true Moslem, from the
Bosphorus te the Ganges, is bound to
follow him to the death.
The eacred standard is twelve feet
high, and is enveloped in four coverings
of green taffets, enclosed in a case of
green cloth. It is made of green silk,
the sacred color. The golden ornament
which surmounts it (a closed hand)
holds a copy of the Koran, written by
the Caliph Osman III. G. H. S.
A War Romance.
Little Babe at Shiloh—What Became
of It.
Emigrants Coming Southwards.
It is stated that over two hundred
thousand Germans, mostly in independent
circumstances, living in the south of Rus
sia, are preparing to emigrate to the
United States to avoid being drafted into
the army. Taking the usual estimate
that every adult emigrant is worth a
thousand dollars to the State where he
locates, this Russo-German host will add
two hundred millions to the productive
industry of the States which they may
select for their homes in this country.
We also learn that an attache of a foreign
legation in Washington has written to
an acquaintance in Augusta saying that
one hundred and sixty-five Polish fami
lies were coming in a body to this conn-
try and desired to settle in Georgia.
Cannot something be done to attract these
Germans and Polanders to this State. It
would pay us handsomely to give them
land, for in a few years all the other
lands in the State would have their value
trebled.—Augusta Chronicle and Ccmstit-
u tionaliet.
The following letter has been*received
at the office of the Adjutant General of
Ohio:
Charleston, S. C.. March 22.
Sir:—Ih conversation yesteruay with
an ex-confederate soldier, I learn the fol-
' lowing facts which I deem of sufficient
importance to lay before you:
About 8 o’clock on the first morning
of the battle of Shiloh, after the confed-
erate infantry under General Breckiu-
rid ge had driven a body of federal troops
from their position toward the river,
battery of Georgia artillery followin
close behind, came upon the dead body o
a lady lying outside of a tent.in the rear
of what was supposed to be the camp of
the fifth Ohio volunteers—many of the
dead of that regiment, dressed in zouave
uniform, being on the ground. By the
side of the dead lady was a little child,
beautifully clad, who seemed uucouscious
of its mother’s death. Some of the men
of the battery covered the child with
their blankets, and placed it in charge of
two of the federal prisoners and then
passed on. What became of the child
afterward cannot at this time be posi
tively ascertained, but it is thought that
the confederate division surgeon saw to
its welfare. The breastpin having the
lady’s likeness on one side, and that of a
gentleman in citizen’s dress on the other
side, is now in the keeping of an ex
member of the battery, who I am assured
would be glad to return it to the hus
band or relative of the deceased lady.
Lager Kegs and Liberty.
That there is “death in the pot” can
not be denied without insult to the
poet and the temperance orator, bnt
that there is life in the beer bairel has
been conclusively prove by a late so
journer upon Blackwell’s Island. The
shrewd knave bored air-holes in one
head of a lager keg, knocked ont the
other end, placced his own head inside
the keg and himself in the river, and
swam and floated away to liberty while
the guardian of the Island’s treasures
irobably gazed upon the slow-gliding
ieg with only the sad reflection that
the picnic season had been inaugurated
somewhere up the river and the exigen
cies of public seryice had forbidden
that he should be there to taste.—A’. Y.
Herald.
Very respectfully,
John McQueen,
Formerly a resident of Circleville, O.
To the Adjutant General State of
Ohio, Columbu3, Ohio.
Who Made Our Present Consti
tution.
A Colored Actress at the Bowery.
—Abby Hampton, who is advertised as
the wonderful colored artiste,” made
her appearance at the Bowery Theatre,
New York, on Monday eyening, as
Topsy, in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” She
is said to have been bom a slave in
South Carolina, and the impression is
given out that she used to belong on
the plantation of Gov. Wade Hampton.
The New York World says her bearing
on the stage was quite natural, and rs a
“Topsy” Bhe was about all thata “Topsy”
could be. She did not feign to catch
flies on the wall, as some- Topsys do,
but she enacted many antics with com
mendable skill.
The Right Kind of a Carpet-Bag
ger.—Mr. G. S. Beilis, a Northern set
tler residing near Middleton, N. C., has
an orchard of some twenty-five or thirty
thousand peach trees, embracing over oue
hundred different varieties. He is going
North to make arrangements for his ship
ments and sales. He ships altogether by
rail, and expects to realize $40,000 or
$50,000 by his sales. He has also large
strawberry fields and a fine vineyard.
His success ih, fruit-raising in the old
North State.bas aroused the interests of
the people there ih that chlture.—Rich
mond Whig.
Speaking of the present constitution
an exchange asks the pertinent ques
tion, Who made it ? The answer is
the whole argument for the Constitu
tional Convention, and we ask that our
friends who favor a convention will
publish the names of those who were
prominent in giving to the great State
of Georgia the present constitution.
They are as follows:
Colored Statesmen — Aaron Alpeoria
Bradley, James Stewart, Moses H.
Bently, W. H. D. Reynolds, Tunis G.
Campbell, W. A. Golding, Philip Joiner,
Benjamin Sykes, W. H. Joiner, Robert
Alexander, John Whittaker, Robert
Lumpkin, Jesse Dinkins, George Lin-
don, Robert Whitehead, Malcolm Clai
borne, S. W. Beard, Alexander Stone,
Robert Crumley, George Wallace, Wil
liam H. Harrison, Daniel Palmer, S. A.
Cobb, Isaac Anderson, Van Jones, J.
C. Casey, John S. Coslin, William Gil
ford, Sam Williams. Lewis Pope.
White Statesmen—Dick Whitely, R. B.
Bullock, Ben Conley, Foster Blodgett,
J. E. Bryant. John Neal, C. H. Prince,
Sam Gove, William Griffin, Moss Potto
Tom Speer, Posey Maddox. G. \\ A-J-
bum, J. G. Mane. S. T. W. .Milner, ’ •
H. Rozar, Bill Whitfield. .V. T. Air
man, J. McWhorter, J. L Dunnitg, J-
H. Flynn, J. R. Parrott.—-Sap. AV*.
Claimants for a Vast EsGte.
New York,May 1—Procee/ngslook-
ing to the recovery Oi ever ou,iaa;,uuu
are about to be instituted ji.the courts
of Pennsylvania by the ( eir ®
Henry Becker, who lived ,n Philadel
phia in 1801. The prferty claimed
consists of six or seven-docks of build
ings on York avenue, 11 city, and
extends from Vine sti®f 1° Green street.
In addition to the 1/S« claim in Phila
delphia, there is iplock: of houses on
Third street in tli/ city. The hsi%
also lay claim t« ‘he entire towr
Beckerville, Bef county Pa.,
forty miles fr4> Philadelphia
and a
considerable jAt of the em^y. 1 ^-
T XX Leeches, a
adelphia 0 ne of them
dozen larg^n^fecmr- ; ^ fiye
an immeP 6 sugar -j* are
block of fellings. Among th«e ^re
the resides of ex-Mayor Fox and ex
City Tyks° rer P ie g*° p -
Th/Herald correspondent at St. Pa-
tersbirg telegraphs as follows: In-
^ enthusiasm prevails .throughout
thrCzar’s dominion. Russia has SOO,
(XO men on the Danube and 12o,0(X)
pen in the Caucasus, while the oppos-
' ’ ■ ■ , . , . . | “ f orce8 of the Turks, are 100,000
Salted dough cost a Wilkes coui.tyalong the Danube Md^ROOOTl^ in