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them for that purpose.
Wednesday Morning,—May 30, 1S77
Sunday’s Atlanta Constitution says:
MiFS Eleanor Hyams, one of Augusta’s
charming young ladies, who has been
spending a short time with her friends
in our city, leaves to morrow morning
for Rome, where she intends remain
ing several months.
The Aberdeen, (Miss.,') II'rri-iy, tells
a fearful caterpillar story. It says the
worms are on the rampage north of
Okalona, and have “not only eaten up
everything green but are massed on the
railroad in such a force as to impede
the trains.’’ Whew! Go head, young
man.
“It Isn’t from any statesmanlike wes
son, you know that I want specie we
sumption,” said the ycurg man, "hut
1 ecause when the thing is done a fellah
needn’t baye much to pass for a capital
ist. With only a quatsh or two in hi:
pocket one can always gwatify the eah
by the atwactive concussion of coin.”
The Washington Sunday Herald says
a private letter received in that city last
week from Charleston, states that Gover
nor Hampton is about “to marry the
widow of the late Governor Pickens, of
that State. She was much yonrgtr than
her late husband, and a noted beauty.
When he was appointed minister to Rus
sia he took her with him as a bride, and
she created a marked sensation in St. Pe
tersburg.”
We see it stated In one of our exchan
ges that Mr. Thomas Henry, of Con
yers, proposes next Friday to descend
the steep side of Stone Mountain and
explore the cave situated about half
way down the precipice. He will be
attached to a rope 2,100 feet in length.
We have a feeling recollection of how
when a fourteen year old hoy we with
a boy’s reckiessness went half way
down that same steep side of Stone
Mountain, without any rope attached
to us either. We wore out a pair of
slippers, and did permanent damage
to a pair pants in making our perilous
return to the top of the mountain crawl
ing on hands and knees.
pie were in earnest, the ambition of cer
tain gendemen began to prick tlieir dor
mant patriotism, and on their own respon
sibility they came forward as men emi
nently fitted and reluctantly willing to
serve the State.”
Now, the above, so far as Col. Bass is
concerned, we know to be as absolutely
contrary to the facts in the case as any
statement could ucll be. Instead of com
ing forward on bis “own responsibility,”
be only consented to be a candidate after
being urgently solicited by a number of
gentlemen from various parts of this
Senatorial District. Further, we do not
believe that any candidate, now before
the people, has appeared on his “own
responsibility.” They’ve all been brought
forward by those who thought them qual
ified to represent this District in the
Convention—and thus they all stand on
an equal footing, so far as regards any
nomination.
Again the Tribune, in speaking of
what it styles the “People’s Ticket,” says
while not claiming for it the “equivocal
prestige of a nomination, we do claim
for it a precedence in the minds of the
people.”
Now, before either of one of the gentle
men on that ticket had ever been formally
announced as a candidate, Col. Bass had
been proposed by correspondents of this
paper as a suitable candidate for the
Convention from this District. Indeed
his name was among the very first pro-
posed. So much for “a precedence in the
minds of the people.”
We failed to tee the Tribune of the
25th inst.,from which the extracts above
are taken, until Saturday afternoon
Had we seen it earlier, we should have
noticed its erroneous statements in our
Saturday morning’s issue.
Walker County Letter.
COL. BASS’ CANDIDACY.
We must express our surprise at the
comments of the Rome Tribune, of the
25th inst., on Col. Bass’ communication,
which appeared in that paper of the 23rd
inst. The editor says, in speaking of the
so-called “people’s ticket,” “that ticket
had been before the people of the Dis
trict more than a month before Col. Bass’
candidacy was dreamed of save by him
self.”
Now it is well known, by the editor of
the Tribune, as well as the public gener
ally, that Col. Bass’ name was among the
first proposed and urged by various cor
respondents, in different papers, as a del
egate to the- Convention. It is also well
known that Col. Bass had numerous per
sonal applications to allow his name to he
used for this position, from the passage of
the Convention Bill to the time of the
announcement. It is also well known
that Col. Bass was ardently in favor of a
nomination of candidates for the Conven
tion, and hesitated to allow his name
used until all hope of a nomination had
passed, and then only in deference to the
strongest and most urgent solicitations of
many of the most prominent and influ
ential citizens of the county. In view of
all these facts, which must he well known
to the editor of the Tribune, it is strange
how he can make the insinuation that Col.
Bass was seeking the position, and is a
self-constituted candidate.
Again, the Tribune says : “The ‘Peo
ple’s Ticket’ was announced a month be
fore Col. Bass came out, and haw its pub
lication and endorsement by the press of
the State can he construed into an injus
tice against any man who may subse
quently appear,” etc.
Now, the editor of the Tribune knows
full well that Col. BaES made no com
plaint of injustice to him, by the simple
announcement of the so called “People’s
Ticket,” hut he did complain, and had
a right to complain, that from the pecu
liar manner and form of that announce
ment, the impression was created, outside
of Floyd county—as was clearly evi
denced by an editorial, which the edi
tor of the Tribune copied in his paper
from the Atlanta Constitution—that the
so-called “People’s Ticket” was the reg
ular nominated ticket for Floyd county,
and that, though the editor of the Tribune
knew that such an impression prevailed,
and was respectfully asked by Col. Bass
to correct this erroneous impression, yet
he omitted to do so. It was then, and not
till then, that Col. Bass addressed him a
communication bearing date 16tli inst.,
complaining of this injustice to him, and
which was withheld from publication un
til 23rd, though there had been three
issues of the Tribune previously.
We cannot see how the editor of the
Tribune can so speak of Col. Bass, as well
as all the candidates, except the so-called
“Peoples’ Ticket,” in view of the fact
that he wrote an editorial proposing to
withdraw one of the names on that ticket
and substitute Col. Bass’ name in place
of it, in which he spoke of Col. Bass’ in
the most pomplimentary terms, and said,
in substance, that not only Floyd county,
but the people of the 42nd Senatorial
District, were anxious to have him as a
delegate in the Convention. This was
read in the presence of Col, Bass and
others, and Col. Bass and the others un
hesitatingly advised that it be not pub
lished, etc. And so the said editorial was
never published.
Again, in the Tribune of the 25th inst.,
appears the following, in the same edito
rial, from which the first extract above
is taken: “But as the Convention move
ment was thus gathering force and vol
ume, and it began to appear that the peo
La Fa yeti e, Ga.,
May 25,1877.
To the Editor of the Courier:
As the time for the election of delegates
draws near, interest in the Convention
question quickens. Two or three men
have actually been found in this county
who are perfectly willing to leave home
and friends, to serve their State in the
capacity of Constitution revisers. There
is in Walker, a considerable element op
posed to (lie Convention, but I think a
majority favor it. In this immediate
section, there has been ne rain for nearly
throe weeks. Hence the growth of crops
has been impeded. Gardens are begin
ning to suffer from drouth. It is believed
here by many that wheat has been con-
si dor ably injured by the fly, but I think
the promise of this crop is pretty fair. It
is new beaded out.
A few days ago, Mrs. McClure, an aged
widow lady, living a few miles from this
place, was seriously hurt, by falling out
of a wngen. When I heard from her
last, her condition was considered dan
gerous.
Some improvements have lately been
made to the LaFayette Baptist church,
adding materially to both its appearance
and comfort.
Miss Ella Echols, daughter of Mr.
Abner Echols, is visiting Mr. Dickson’s
family in thi3 county. May her stay in
the county he in every way pleasant
On last Saturday, the 19th instant, it
was the goc-d fortune of yonr correspond
ent, to spend cue of those days, the mem
ory of which, ever afterwards, in the bus
tle and business of life, is like “the
shadow of a great rock in a weary land.”
The day itself was just such a day as one
loves to spend in a free sort of way, in the
cool shade of oak and hickory. At an
early hour, about a score of persons of this
village and vicinity, were en route, “on
pleasure intent,” to Plfaeant Hill Acad
emy, in West Armuehee. Three hours’
drive, (or ride, as the ease might be),
brought us to the picnic grounds, where
wc met a genuine “highland welcome.”
After a short time, Col. Hovis, of the
Gazette, who was one of our party, enter
tained the large assembly for perhaps
half an hour, with an address upon the
social and educational characteristics and
wants, and a few remarks in the interest
of the Gazette. As it was now noon, he
was immedately followed by Mr. J. T.
Suttle, who briefly alluding to a more
sensible and pressing want, said it could
be at cnce supplied in the academy,
through the providence of the ladies.
And it was supplied. For quantity, qual
ity, artistic arrangement and decoration,
and for the manner of serving, in partic
ular, I have never seen this dinner sur
passed on any similar occasion. In fact,
it seemed everything was emphatically
coinmc it faut.
After dinner, the stirring strains of
stringed instruments set up, and the vo
taries of Terpsicore “tripped the light
fantastic tee,” until the most devoted
were satisfied. Rather late in the after
noon, the crowd dispersed, everybody
seeming in a good humor with everybody.
I hut speak what I feel, when I say, that
in charming ladies, courteous gentlemen,
and plenty to cat, the Armuehee valleys
are the peers of any in tills or any other
land. Gog.
Col; Bass and the Tribune.
Editor i the Tribune:
In th (ditorial columns of the Tribune
of the : 7th inst., after commenting on my
com mu i ication to the Uartersville Express,
you say:
“This should have satisfied Col. Bass,
and doubtless would have done so had he
not expected more. A* 1 that more was
the substitution o'* e name of Col. Na
than Bass o i Peoples’ Ticket for that
of Judge J. W. H. Underwood, as was
proposed and agreed upon in the very
meeting to which Col. Bass refers—he,
Col. Bass, cheerfully acquiescing.”
Now, 6ir, the facts of the case, as you
well know, are as iollowa: You, volun
tarily, read to said meeting, an editorial
for the Tribune, in which you paid a
high compliment to Judge Underwood,
as to his fitness and qualifications as a
delegate to’the Constitutional Conven
tion, but, iu msideration of the fact that
he was on ue Bench, And, for that rea
son, -sofoe 1 garded him ineligible, and;
for the fu tier reasOijV.as,jrou aud in
substance,' .thft; people of
Floyd county,■but-ajrojjf uftj3$n5 j3eg-;
atorial DiBtri<fivdema*(M that Bass
should be elected a delegate* to’ aud;
Convention, therefore it was deemea
best to withdraw^the name of Judge
Undetwcod from the “Peoples’ Ticket”
and substitute the name of Col. Bass in
his place.
As soon as you finished reading this
proposed editorial, I promptly remarked
that I wished it distinctly understood
that I was not a party to any such
movement, and advised against its inser
tion in the Tribune, for the reason that
it would be an act of injustice to Judge
Underwood, in his absence, and that it
would place me in a false position, for
that it would certainly array Judge Un
derwood and his friends against me.
There were present, in said meeting be
sides you and myself, only Judge Wright,
Col. Whitmore and Capt. Dwinell, and I
respectfully refer those who may feel
any interest in the matter, to these gen
tlemen, as to wbat teok place.
Respectfully yours,
N. Bass.
Walker County NewB.
Picnic and Torn nament — Decoration cf
Graves—Address by W. M. Henry—Seri
ous Accident to Two Worthy Citizens—
A Wedding.
LaFayette, Ga., May 18.
To the Editor of the Courier:
The young people of this place had a
picnic at Mrs. Johnson’s springs, ons
mile from town, on the 9th instant, and
had quite a jolly time of it There were
a large crowd out, and we had a most
magnificent dinner, which was spread ex
actly at the right time, and enjoyed by
all present. After dinner eight of our
young gentlemen made a display ( f their
skill in horsemanship and in the use of
sabre at tournament riding. They did
splendidly, and were applauded by all.
On last Saturday the citizens of this
place repaired to the cemetery for the
purpose of decorating the graves of our
“Fallen Braves,” who were buried at
this place. The services were opened
with prayer, by Rev. W.-T. Russell
F. W. Capeland, Esq., then delivered an
elegant and appropriate address. The
flowers were then beautifully and taste
fully spread with fair hands over the
graves of the immortal dead who sleep
in the cemetery at this place. Mr. W.
M. Henry then addressed in a man
ner peculiarly adapted to the occasion,
those who had been engaged in decora
ting the graves of our heroic dead. Rev
W. T. Russell then craved the benedic
tion of the Supreme Being on all present.
Thus ended what should be to a 1 South
ern people a solemn duty, and should he
religiously attended to once every year.
Meests. G. W. Gurnan and B. F. Thur
mond, wcithy citizens of this county,
bappeerd to a vny serious accident on
tbe 12th inst., while returning Ircm Ring-
gold, where they had been in attendance
upon the Methodist District Conference.
Hie mule which they were driving be
came frightened, about three miles
south of Ringgold, and made a quick
start or jump to one side, which threw
Mr. Guman, who was holding the lines,
from the buggy. The mule then started
off at a rapid pace, and Mr. Thurmand
leaped from the buggy. Both men were
seriously, though it is hoped not danger
ously wounded.
Mr. Frank Puryear, of Texar, was
married to Miss Anna Brown, of this
county, last Tuesday evening. May they
ever be as happy as they were the even
ing they were married, and never for
one moment during life have cause to
regret their union. P.
Wnderful Surgical Operation.
A Mau’a Tongue Cut Out.
A Beautiful Tribute.
The following touching tribute to the
memory of the the great soldier, Albert
Sydney Johnson, is from the pen of Pro
fessor John P. S. Dimitry, of New Or
leans. It was copied from the rough
bead-board of Gen. Johnson’s grave in
New Orleans, aud went the round of the
papers without the name of the author.
It is probably the most exquisitely finish
ed and eloquent inscription ever written
in this or any other language:
Beneath this Stone is laid,
For a Season,
Albert Sydney Johnson,
A General in the Army of the Confeder
ate States,
AVho Fell at Shiloh,
on the Sixth Day of April A. D.,
Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-two,
A Man Tried in Many High Offices
And critical Enterprises,
And Found Faithful in all.
His Life was one long sacrifice of Inter
est to Conscience,
And even that Life on a woful Sabbath,
Did He yield as a Holocaust to His
Country’s Need.
Not wholly was He understood while He
lived,
But in His Death His Greatness stands
Confessed,
In a People’s tears
Resolute, Moderate, Clear of Envy, yet
not
Wanting in that Finer Ambition which
Makes Men Great and Pure,
In his honor—impregnable,
In his simplicity—sublime;
No country e’er bad a truer son—no cause
a Nobler Champion;
No people a bolder defender—no prin
ciple a
Purer victim.
Than the Dead soldier
Who sleeps here.
The Cause for which he perished is lost;
The People for whem he fought are
crushed;
The flag he loved guides no more the
charging Lines,
But his fame, consigned to the keeping
of that Time which,
Happily, i3 not so much the Tomb of
Virtue
As its Shrine,
Shall, in the years to come, fire modest
worth
To Noble ends.
In honor, now our great Captain rests.
A proud people mourn him,
Three commonwealths
proudly claim him;
And history shall cherish him
Among those choicer spirits, who holding
tjieir
• Consciences unmixed with blame,
Have been,in all circumstances,
True to themselves, their Country, and
The following from the Pittsfield
(Mass.) Sun will be read with the great
est interest, not only by medical men,
but by readers generally:
On Thursday of last week. Dr. Wade,
the distinguished Albany surgeon, oper
ated in that city upon Elihu B. Whitt
lesey for cancer, removing his entire
tongue. Mr. Whittlesey is a distant
relative of Theodore Pomeroy, of Pitts
field, and has been for many years his
confidential clerk. In the war he served
upon Gen. Briggs’ staff. Dr. Paddock,
of PittsSelcl,and twenty other surgeons
witnessed the operation. The cancer is
said to have been caused by sir oking,
and the operation was the only means
of saving his life. A fe-y lines have
been received on a postal card from Mr.
W. by his many friends in town, an
nouncing that he is getting along finely,
while the Monday Albany Argus report
ed a reasonable prospect of his recove
ry. This paper contains the following
account of the operation : “This oper
ation always involves great risk of life
from hemorrhage To lessen the dan
ger both lingual arteries were ligated,
which, from their deep situation irs-the
neck, among important blood ve$els
and nerves, require a thorough anatom
ical knowledge anil a steady, skillful
hand. The operation r,eccessnrv for the
tying of these vessels was suffiently
formidable, to have terminated here.
But this was only the first step. The
lower lip was then divided to a point
below tbe chin and the flap3 turned
back sufficiently to expose the lower
jaw, which was sawed through at the
chin, and fillets cast about their severed
edircs, that the tongue, through which
a ligature had been previously passed,
might be drawn fo: ward and out of the
mouth as far as practicable, to allow
tbe galvanic cautery to be applied. Af
ter tbe galvanic cautery had
been properly adjusted and connected
with the battery, the tongue was ampu
tated entire,without tbe loss of a drop of
blood front this organ, simplyfying
throughout, one of the most formidable
and dangerous operations in modern
scientific surgery, hemorrhage being an
important factor. Holes were then
drilli d through the bones of tbe chin
which bad been sawn apart, and wired
together again. The other wounds were
dressed in tbe usual manner. The pa
tient, being undertlieinfluenceofether,
suffered no pain, thus ending a bold
dating operation, splendidly perform
cd.”
Kite-Flyice in Japan.
Gcorgiacs.
While a colored preacher in Butts
county was baptizing a brother, a third
negro stole the preacher’s clothes.
It is said that the re are forty lawyers
in Atlanta between the agts of twenty
and tliirty. The remaining eighty are
over thirty.
There is a man in Bank? country, so
writes a correspondent, who is uneler
five hundred dollar bond for killing
dog which was after sheep. Such is
or.e of the beauties of the Georgia dog
law.
Bibb county grand jury recommends
salary of count}' judge be SI,200 -per
annum, jurors SI.00 a day and bailiffs
SI.50 and county commissioners levy a
tax for county purposes not exceeding
five-tenths of one per cent.
A woman a few miles from Hartwell 1
a short time ago, gave birth to a* oh fid
On the following morning she cot up
and cooked breakfast for herself and
children. One week afterwards she
•walked a mile,carrying her infant.
West Point Press: As Mr. Willie
Ashford was plowing in his father’s
yard, in our suburbs, on last Thursday
he unearthed a silver watch. On look
ing farther he found six more watches,
one which was either gold or compose
tion. The cases were intact,but thein-
Fide works oxidized.
We learn from Saturday’s Columbus
Enquirer that, Thursday night the wife
ofMr.-C.C. Chambliss, of Anticch, Stew
art county, was shot in the face and in
stantly killed by some unknown per
son. She wa.s the daughter of Mr.
Fred Wrigld, of that county, a ad had
not been married, perhaps, a year. The
woods had been “sc-t fire,” and Mr.
Chambliss'went out to stop the flames,
and while absent from the house the
horrible deed was committed. She was
found by her husband, lying mangled
in death with her brains out. She was
a deplorable spectacle and was enough
to cause a death shock to the awed and
grief stricken man.
General I?cv?s Item;.
Bergh is raising n.or.e) for a 810,000
home for sick dog.
The Warden of Sing Sing prison says
that 1,500 men are easier to manage
than 120 women.
May - 21, the one hundred and second
anniversary of the Mecklenburg Decla
ration of Independence was celebrated
at Charlotte, North Carolina.
General John S. Morgan, of Selma
Ala.,has accepted an invitation to deliv
er the annual address before the South
ern Historical Society at their annual
meeting the first of next November.
Of the fifty-eight signers of the Texas
Declaration of Independence, hut four
are living: Edwin Waller, of Hemp
stead, Waller ceunty: J. W. Burton
of Hayes county; W. B. Scales, of Col
orado county, and Chas. B. Stewart, of
Montgomery count}'.
On the property of A. M. Beed, Esq.,
in Orange county, Fla., is an orange
tree, the seed of which was planted by
one of bis daughters during the war.
The fruit from this tree last season sold
for .SCO. On Mr. Searle’s place the fruit
this season from one true sold for 890.
their God.
. A dispatch from Rome says that the
Pope’s health again causes much dis
quietude, perhaps with mote regsou than
previously. He has no special ailment
and it in good sprits, bat he is extremely
and increasingly weak, and again has to
.be carried in a chair, whioh he does not
leave during an audience.
First Maine man, who has just mur
dered his wife: “I see by the papers
that them infernal Mississippians have
gone to killing each other again. No
man’s life is safe down there.” Second
Maine man, who has lately strangled his
aged father: “It’s my opinion that this
Hayes is just as much a traitor as them
rebels is, tbe ’tarnal sneak. I just Wish
Jim Blr.ne could be President for about
two minutes—he'd siraighten out them
pisen sarpints.”
Grain and Meats to Europe:.—The ef
fects of the war in the East arc already
beginning to be felt quite largely in
American markets. Three steamers
sailed from New York for Europe on
Saturday—!he Britar.nio for Liverpool,
Alsatia for Glasgow, and Oder for Bre
men, carrying heavy consignments of
breadstuff?, provisions and fresh meats,
besides tlje usual amount ot assorted
cargoes. The Denmark, also, had a
large cargo of breadstuffs, provisions
and beef. The total arnount of gyalp
exported from that port on Saturday
was nearly 100,000 bushels, and the
quantity of beef not far short of1,000,-
000 pounds, while cf canned goods,
pork, salt, beef, bacon, cheese, butter,
lard and other provisions, the aggregate
was very large. There cap be no doubt
that these! shipments will continue to
largely increase.
Of all the sports at which the boys in
Japan amuse themselves, kite-flying
seems to afford the most fun and emjoy-
ment. Japanese kites are not plain
coffin-shaped bits of tissue paper, snch
as American keys fly. They are made
of tough papir made stretched on
light frames of bamboo and of all shapes
—square, oblong or oval. They are
also made to imitate animals. I have
often in my walks in Japan seen a whole
paper menagerie in the air. There
were crying babies, boys with arms
spread out, horses, fish, bats, hawks,
crows, monkeys, sDakes, dragons, bov-
ines, ships, carts and houses. Across
and behind the top of the kite a thin
strip of whalebone is stretched, which
hums, buzzes or sings high in air like
a hurdy-gurdy or a swamp of beetles.
When the hoys of a whole city are out
in kite-time there is more music in the
air than is delightful. The real hawks
and crows, and other birds give these
buzzing counterfeits of themselves a
wide berth. In my walks I often was
deceived when looking up, unable to
tell at first whether the moving black
spot in the air was paper or a real liv
ing creature, with beak, claws and feath
ers.
The Japanese boys understand well
how to send “messengers” to the top of
the kite, and how to entangle each oth
er’s kites. When they wish to, they
can ent their rival’s string and send the
proud prize fluttering to the ground.
To do this they take about ten feet of
the siring near tbe end, dip it in glue
then into bits of powered glass, making
a multitude of tiny biases as sharp as a
razor, and looking when magnified, like
the top of a wall in which broken bot
tles have been set to keep off climbers.
When two parties of boys agree to have
a paper war near the clouds they raise
their kites and then attempt to cross
the strings. The most skillful boy saws
off, with his glass saw, the cord of his
antagonist.
The usual size of a kite In Japan is
two feet square, but often four feet;
and I have seen many that were six
feet high. Of course such a kite needs
very heavv cord, which i9 carried in a
basket or on a big stick. They require
a man or a very strong boy to raise
them; and woe betide the small urchin
who attempts to hold one in a stiff
breeze! The humming monster in the
air will drag him off his feet, pull him
over the street or into the ditch before
he knows it. Tie such a kite to a dog’s
tail, and no Japanese canine could ever
turn around to bite the string. If the
Government allowed it, boys and young
men would make kites as large as an
elephant.
Turkish Information.
Soltan—The sovereign of the Turkish
Empire—the recognized organ of all
executive power in the State. His
headquarters are at Constantinople.
Porte—Tne Government of the Tnr-
ish Empire.
Sublime Porte—The official name of
the government, to called from the
gate of the Sultan’s palace.
Grand Vizier—The chief minister of
the Turkish Empire.
Divan—The Turkish Council of State
—the “Cabinet.”
Grand Mufti—Chief interpreter of
the Mohammedan law and head ef the
“wise men”—jurists, theologians and
literati—who assemble for consultation
on his order. He is mostly styled the
Chief of the Faithful. A writer says
a fetwa or decree from him would sum
in on around the standard of the Pro
phet all the fanatical hordes of Islam
to fight to the death aginst the “infidels
in the firm belief that death cn the bat
tle field is a sure passport to Paradise.’
Pasha—Governors, Viceroys, com
manders, civil and military rulers of
provinces.
Deys—About the same as Pashas.
Sheik—The name given the heads of
Arabian tribes of clans. It means elder,
or eldest in dignity and autority.
Osmandi—A Turkish official.
Islam—The religion of Mohammed.
Islams—Mohammedans themselvas.
Mussulman—A follower of Moham
med.
Ottoman Empire—Another name for
the Turkish Empire, and derives its
name from Osman,its founder.
Osmanlis—The Turks proper.
Not all followers of the Prophet and
Turks. In European Turkey there are,
in round numbers, five million Mo
hammedans, less than half of whom
are Gsmanlis the rest being of Slavonic
descent, but none tha less ardent wor
shipers of Islam.— Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Flag of the Prophet.
Constantinople Correspondence of the.Hev York
Mercury.]
The sacred emblem of Turkish faith
will play a great role in this war. It is
dark green, about two yards long and
one and a half wide, and was originally
a curtain in the bedchamber of Aischa,
the best beloved wife of the prophet
who died in her bed. When Moham
med was on his deathbed and abont to
take leaf of Generals, who were abont
to enter upon a i ew campaign against
the heal then, the dying prophet gave
them the curtain that overhung his
bed as a battle flag, so that the faithful
shoulder forever remember that they
were deing, battle for God and His pro
phet. Ever since that time, whenever
the Caliphs went into battle they took
this flag with them, but in later years
it was resolved to carry this holy relic
into battle only whenever a war of reli
gion was being waged. In 1683 the
same flag waved from the walls of Islam
had to be defended it was unfurled to
rally the faithful and encourage them
to deeds of heroism. What, however
is the most important feature of this
flag is the belief that any Mussulman
who fights and falls under is shadows
dies as a martyr, for whom the portals
of heaven are open at once. From the
Calipbsof old this banner has sacredly
retained by the Sultana of onr day, in
order to inspire still more zeal in their
soldiers, Yestrday the unfolding of
this time-honored banner took place,
with great pomp and ceremony by the
Sultan, Abdul Hamid in person, who
nanded it to the Scheik-El-
Islam in solemn trust.
The latter was mounted on a horse
literally covered with gold, and while
holding the sacred banner in his hand
he was accompanied by the Sultan,him
self also on horseback, with sword in
hand, through the principle streets
Constantinople. Couriers ’and heralds
preceded the two high dignitaries
State, and pointing to the unfurled ban
ner, loudly proclaiming to the people
that the war for the faith had commen
ced. This morning the same relic—
which the Turks regard with the same
holy awe a3 the Israelites of old did
the Ark of the Law—was sent under
esc rt to the Danube, there to lead the
Turkish hosts to ^battle for Allah and
his prophet. *
1836.
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Why Tilden Didn’t Press His
Claims to the Presidency,
Jefferson on a Former Russian
Turkish War.
In one of the letters to John Adams,
June 1,1822, Thomas Jeffereon says:
“To turn to the news of the day, it
seems that th6 Cannibals of Europe are
going to eat one another again. A war
between Russia and Turkey is like the
battle of the kite and snake. Which
ever destroys the other, leaves a des
troyer the less for tbe world. This
pugnacious humor of mankind seems
to be the law of his nature, one of the
obstracles to too great multiplication
provided in the mechanism of the uni
verse. The cocks [of the henyard kill
one another. Bears, bulls, rams do the
same. And the horse in his wild state,
kills all the young males, until worn
down with age and war some vigorous
youth kills him, and takes to himself
the harem of females. I hope we shall
prove how much happier for man the
Quaker policy is, and that the life of
the feeder is better than that of the
fighter; and it is some consolation that
that desolation by these manias of one
pari of the earth is the means of im
proving it in other parts. Let the lat
ter be our office, and let us milk the
cow, while the Russian holds her by
the horns, and tbe Turk by the tail.
God bless you, and give yon health,
strength, and good-spirits, and as much
of life as you think worth having.”
Yankee Obituary'.—The following
obituary notice was sent for insertion
in a Yankee journal: Mister Edatnr:
Jem Bangs, wee air sorry to Etait, has
deseized. He departed this Life last
munday at the age of 23. He went
4th without any struggle, and sich
is life. Tu Da we are as pepper grass
mighty smart, to Morrow we are cut
down like a cowcumber of the grownd.
Jem kept a nice stoar, which his wife
now wates on. His virchews wuz num-
erus to behold. We never new him to
put sand in his sngir, tho he had a big
sand bar in front ov his hous; nur wa-
tur in his milk, tho the Ohia river runs
last his dore. Peace to his remanes!
Ele leaves a wife 8 children, a cow 4
horses, and qnadrnpets tu morne his
loss; but in the splendid Ifngwidge of
the poit, his loss Is thur eTurnul gane.”
A yonng man applied at’a newspaper
office the other , day for si situation.
“Have you evt-r }iad any experience a,
L " — °” *-■ 1 J pjju #
an editor? 1 ’ fan
Well, no, not exactly," replied the aro-
iitiou« aspirant, cautiously.' “But I’ve
bilious
beep epwhjded 6 ptimber of timer, have
been married quite a while, have worn
borrowed clothes 'for three years, and
never had a cent of money, so I thought
might work in.” He was engaged.-—
Glole-Demoerat. —
An Alabamian, visiting New York,
had an interesting interview with ex
Governor Tilden on Monday last. He
said to Mr. Tilden that the people of
the South were convinced that he had
been fairly and lawfully elected to the
office of President of the United States
that the people of that section, in com
mon with the great body of the people
of the whole United States, thought
that Mr. Tilden, as the lawful elected
ruler of the country, should have taken
early after the election a decided atti
tude, and insisted upon his rights; that
bad he done so, and the proper annou
ncement of the vote of the Electoral Col
leges been prevented, the House of
Representatives would have elected him
according to the forms of law aEd made
itself responsible for his induction into
the office which belonged to him. Mr.
Tilden listened intently to the remarks
of his visitor, a gentleman nearly twen
ty years his senior. He replied that he
had thought carefully and most consci
entiously over the subject in all its pos
sible phases; that he had become con
vinced that should he adopt the coarse
suggested it would be resisted by the
Radical party to the extent ot drench
ing the land in blood; that he shrunk
from the responsibility of precipitating
another terrible civil war upon his
countrymen, and consented to the com
promise which averted so dread a dis
aster. He felt as keenly as any one the
impropriety cf the means by which the
present result had been brought about,
but, for all that, he did not regret his
own action. As it was the people of the
United States understood it; the Dem
ocratic party to-day occupied snch i
pronn attitude before, the country that
no mortal power could resist its triump
hal march to success;in 1890.
An Egyptian Juggernaut.—A recent
correspondent in Egypt gives an ac
count of an annual “religious” cere
mony, which rivals the Indian Jugger
naut in superstition and barbarity. It
takes place near Cairo, and not only
native Princes and populace, but for
eign residents and travelers crowd to
the vicinity to witness it From two to
three hundred men, adherents to the
Mahometan sect called the Saadeeyah,
are laid side by side upon the ground,
face downward, making an unbroken
pavement of their bodies. Over this
human roadway the Sheik of the der
vishes rides on horseback, the horse be
ing led, unwillingly, over a living pave
ment, which the noble animal’s fine
instinct would teach him to avoid.
The men thus trampled on are first
stupefied with hashish, a strong narcotic
made from hemp. As the horse pro
ceeds, themen over whom hehaspassed
scramble to their feet, if they can.
Some seem to be little hurt, others
move with difficulty, and some are car
ried off in fits or insensible. It is
horrid and most disgusting exhibition,
and while superstition may excuse the
Mussulmans for witnessing it, the love
of a “sensation” is scarcely a sufficient
apology for foreigners. Yet even for
eign ladies are said to go with their
male friends to look at the hideous cus
tom.
“On to Constantinople!”
Columbus Independent.]
We hope Gen. Grant will take charge
of the Turkish forces, if offered him.
It wonld give him such a pleasant op
portunity to “kDow how it is himself,”
fitting one man against five or six, as
[<ee did in Virginia. Then it would
show the real make-up of the man who
said he was going to “fight it ont on
that line if it took him all the Summer.”
If Turkeyfwants to do an act that will
gratify the Southern people down to
their very boot-heels, she will offer our
Grant snch a salary that his avarice
won’t allow him to refuse it. The
American people wonld “make an ef
fort” to spare him, and no deubt Tur
key needs him, for she never has had
good officers to command her brave
soldiery since the days of the great Al
exander. Then, tbe world could say:
*« ■— - l*j on, Macduff,
find damn’d be bin who brat cries"
—“Let us bare peace!*'
How Turkey Will Get Money
for Her W&r,
Courier Journal.]
-The Turkish fund having given out,
the Bheik-ul-Islam has sent a commis
sion to tbe sheriff of Mecca to demand a
flit contribution from the treasure of
iBlam, a fund composed of the offer
ings of pilgrims at the shrine of the
ProphetjOver which the Shetiffof Mec
ca stands guard. It is 1 understood
that when the Mohammedan faith is
in danger,’this treasure must be used
to defend if . And some French writer
calculates that it how amounfsto 1120,-
000,000.
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Libel for Divorce.
Mary J. Golden ts. Nathan ^■?c t et
Libel for Divorce in Paulding Sep**
February Term, 1877. . jg|
I T APPEARING TO THE C00BT*» tJ<-
return of the Sheriff thmt the dejwi
not reside in this county, »■“ je ji» j
appearing that he does ° or itsf l
In this State, it is on motion of ®°°® j /
that Slid defendant appeal * H
next term of this Court. el*e that
oneidered Ju default and the plajnoff . tf?
to proceed. And it is further order** ^ ^ |
rule be published in some publie ga**
State onco a month for y a
J. TV. UNDERWOOD, J- 8
' 1 certify the shove ie * tree
utee of Court, Febraery
eh£4.w
and valuation of Lvu~—« 0B m* •
upon tbe aame at 10 o'clock A * jitt.
Juno, 1877, it mj office.