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WEDNESDAY, - JUNE 13. 1877.
Massachusetss monrns over 25,000
able-bodied tramps.
The silver inflationists want “the
dollar of the daddies.”
London mothers apply artificial bloom
to their children’s faces.
The best vegetable gardens in Lon
don are disused graveyards.
Cooker snails restore the tone of a
badly injured stomach. Try them.
If the Russians capture Erzeroum
they will control Turkish Armenia.
Jerusalem has 8,000 Christians, 13,-
000 Jews and 15.000 Mohammedans. j
The Established Church in England i
has an annual revenue of 830,000,000.
The steamer L'Amerir/ue, after being
twice wrecked, is ready for another dis
aster.
Me Lawd Piekrepawkt is the way the
wags call the American Minister in Eng
land.
There are 33,000 lawyers in the United
States, with several counties yet to hear
from. <
Vapor baths, in connection with re
laxants and nervines, will cure hydro
phobia.
Gess. Beacreoard and Early have
been superintending a lottery drawn at
New Orleans. * _
Ida Greeley Smith has a son. Of
course he was named after the founder
of the Tribune.
Niobio is hungry again. Perhaps a
telegiaph man, on toast, would satisfy
the people there.
The Baltimore -Board of Health com
pels housekeeper* to separate ashes
Irom kitchen offal.
Pretty soon the men who complained
of the drouth will be fulminating against
the raiu. Watch them.
The sleeping car of tliepresent weighs
from 24 to 34 tons. The car of the fu
ture is to weigh 19 tons.
The Herald praises Mr. Beroh for
helping expose and bring to punish
ment the swill-milk poisoners.
Fletcher Harper left about 8750,000
to his family. The son of blind preacher
Milmjrn gets a legacy of 8500.
Prince Bismarck is credited with the
sayiug that “everybody likes to smug
gle a little, especially the women.’
A delegation of Uunkards called at
the White House and were announced
as “Drunkards.” The ice-tea froze.
Anew bug has been discovered out
West. It has destroyed chestnut, but
ternut, elm and cottonwood trees in
lowa.
A rural editor says “ we can’t all be
born in Ohio, but we oan cuss those who
are.” The pious people can dis-ouss
them.
Senator Beck says : “I don’t believe
in getting off our platform because
President Hayes has happened to get
on it.”
A niiTLE girl in France has been
“ crowned ” for supporting an aged
grandmother and little brother by hard
labor.
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Mrs. Lydia Sherman, the poisoner,
has been recaptured. We were in hopes
that she would fascinato and marry Ben
Butler.
The St. Louis Republican insists that
there is no bore like a political corpse
that insists upon making post mortem
political speeches.
Gail Hamilton wants to know of
John Siierman whether in the Eliza
Pinkston affair he was “telling the
truth” or “making a lie.”
If the Russians prop e to sit down
in the mud and rain and await the dis
solution of Turkey, they may be dis
solved by General Plague.
A “Boy Borgia” is the latest Penn
sylvania horror. He killed his father
because lie whipped him. Who would
be a father in Pennsylvania?
Some schoolboys in New York played
London Assurance. The schoolmarm
was east for Lady Gay Spanker. She
made a “ striking impression.”
If tlio people of Nicsic will send a
deputation over here we will give them
a barbecue up the canal, and endeavor,
by proxy, to appease their phonomenal
nppetite. a
Every person in Nicsic must be alfliet
ed with tape-worm. A good quack doc
tor at the head of the Ottoman army
operating iu Montenegro would perform
prodigies.
Gf.n. Blivhkk preceded Grant in re
ceiving the freedom of Loudon. As
“Marshal Forwards ” rode along the
streets he exclaimed: “What a fine place
to sack I” ___
The vagrant has the consolation of
knowing that when father and mother
forsake him, there is one who may be
depended upon to take him np—the
“policeman.”
Frank Hurd, of Ohio, is Hon. G. H.
Pendleton’s most prominent rival for
the Senatorship. Frank is a man of
genius; but there is but one Gentle
man George.
A French Legislator, who has violat
ed the pledges he made to his con
stituents, appears iu the Assembly
with a false nose, and attempts to ccir
ceal his identity.
Pat Donan, having charged Proctor
Knott with being “a brain-pirate fat
tening on other men’s wits,” the Nash
ville American retorts that “if he gets
fat on Dokan's, we shall believe in mira
cles.” m m m
Old Thurlow Weed speaks of the
“high bluffs of Mobile Bay.” We may
be mistaken, but our recollection of the
locality is that the only bluffs there
about are the mirages raised by a game
of draw poker.
While Pennsylvania sheds tears over
the municipal default of Savannah, we
notice that Pittsburg is delinquent on
the semi-annual interest of 85,000,000 in
bonds, and makes no effort to provide
for the obligation.
Grand Puke Alexis pronounced
Miss Suliyanv, i>f Boston, the finest
type of American txaauty he had seen.
She is now Mrs. Burges*. The Grand
Duke seemed to think Aimek tb Ernest
type of French beauty he had seen ia
America.
A Souther* physician think* dyspep
sia would be unknown in the South bat
for hot bread and the fryiDg pan. Pie
and cake work the same mischief at the
North. Southern biscuit is less danger
ous than New England pie. Why can
jjot we get in Augusta such bread as
sthey bake in New Orleans ?
The CinciMfia.'i Enquirer, discussing
Mr. Lee’s title to f£e Arlington estate,
thus sums np : “Tfie only serious ques
tion is whether, when he recoyers, the
Government will agree with him tv pay
i£or the land, or will condemn it Jqr a ’
Natioial Cemetery, or will remove its i
•dead to some more hallowed place, where ,
visitors will perforce recall the memo
ries of this stain put npon these men
who died in fighting men and not in lit
igating with women.”
FEDERAL APPOINTMENT*.
The Missouri Republican, treating of
civil service reform, says : “ Good Fed
eral appointments in Louisiana will ma
terially assist the Administration in
overcoming Republicaa opposition.—
Bad Federal appointments in Louisiana
will add fuel to the fire of that opposi
tion. For his own sake, and for the
counvry's sake, Mr. Hayes should exer
cise the utmost care in making his se
lections.” This is jnst as applicable to
Georgia as to Louisiana. Can it be true
that the President has determined to
share his patronage among carpet-bag
gers, scallawags and negroes in Louisi
ana ? And if this determination holds
good in the Pelican State, is it to be
followed oat elsewhere in the South ?
ADd is this latter day programme the
outcome, on the part of the President,
of fatal and stubborn disagreements be
tween Southern Senators ? We pause
for a reply.
BEN BUTLER’!* REJOINDER.
General Butler has made a rejoinder
to Wayne McY’eagh, but it is not half
so funny as it is funereal. Ben was
struck home and hit hard. His reply is
not so much a blow at the Pennsylvania
man as it is a diabolical leer at his sis
ter. Failing to whip McVeagh, Gen.
Butler makes mouths at his female re
lations. The New York Sun, whose
editor hates Hayes, loves BcTleb, and,
according to Deacon Richard Smith,
has made a compact with the Devi),
thinks Wicked Ben’s last missive is
“pungent and homicidal,” having "the
soul of scorn, the fire of wit and the rage
of war.” The Boston Globe, on the con
trary, concludes that Gen. Butler would
much better have let Mr. Wayne Mac-
Veagh’s letter alone and attempt no
retort. “That document was so brief,
so concise, bo to the point, and withal
so conclusive and unanswerable that it
was foolish for him to meddle with it.
It settled the controversy beyond resur
rection. And the doughty General, who
evidently has pluck and don’t know
when he is baaten/shows in his long and
impotent reply that McVeahh’s letter
was unanswerable, for he does not at
tempt to answer it.”
This, we take it, is the opinion of the
vast majority of men who care no more
for Butler than they do for McVeagh,
and are perfectly content to see a Kilken
ny cat fight between the Lord ol Spoons
and Simon Cameron’s son-in-law. We
think, however, that Mr. McVeagh can
afford to laugh at Butler’s attempt to
retrievo himself. Bek gives a piercing
cry, but it is the spasmodic ejaculation
of a stuck pig, or the lank howl of a
bafiled hyena. If there is any humor in
it, wo fail to see it. The laugh is all
washed out, and the grin is horrible and
ghastly. General Butler lias realized
the dreadful apprehension of Falstaff.
Ho has anticipated hell by having Bar-
DOLpn's fiery nose engulfed within him.
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
A paragraph last week in the news
column of, the Chronicle and Consti
tutionalist announced that a strong
movement was on foot among the Trus
tees of the University of Georgia to
replace at Athens, if possible, Dr. Wsr,
Leroy Broun, now of Vanderbilt Uni
versity. Following this announcement
quite au able and elaborate article ap
peared in the Atlanta Constitution of
Saturday, .setting forth the importance
of Dr. Brock’s recall at this time, with
facts which may render bis return
probable.
Upon the unfortunate circumstance?
which led to the withdrawal of Dr.
Broun from the University in October,
1875, we will not now dwell; they will be
remembered by those then connected
with the College, and were deplored by
overy one. Whatever of antagonism
however, then obtained in the Board of
Trustees seems, in a measure, to have
disappeared and the movement to which
allusion is now made and which appears
to be agitated with so muoh earnestness
among the friends of the Institution, is
already a precursor of bptter things.
Dr. Broun, at the time of hia resigna
tion, held the Chair of Physics, in which
department his admirable lectures be
fore his classes, marvels of research,
clearness and beauty, made the course
ouo of tho most comprehensive and
thorough in any American college.—
Not only did he possess a com
plete mastery over his profession,
with the rarer power of imparting
his knowledge and inspiring others
with his enthusiasm, but Dr. Brodn
was au eminently practical and pro
gressive man. JJis valuable services in
the army, where his talent was con
tinually developing and utilizing jtsolf,
his distinguished contributions to the
Georgia State Agricultural Society, in
which his ability has always been recog
nized, and his excellent care of the Ag
ricultural College, which, under his en
ergetic aud prudent supervision, orga
nized and flourished, all prove his abili
ty to lead and to manage. In short,
linked with erudition aud research, lie
possesses what few scientists have ever
had, an administrative mind and execu
tive will.
It is well knows that the position of
Chancellor of the University will hereaf
ter be supplied by a Chairman of the
Faculty, who, being elected from the
professors, performs the active duties of
the office, the honorary title of Chan
cellor being conferred npon some dis
tinguished resident of the State. It is
then to this position of Chairman of
tho Faculty that Dr. Broun is. recom
mended in conjunction with his Chair
of Physicff, aud to which he will proba
bly be appointed by his colleagues,
should he couetade to return to Athens
In alludiug to the antagonism manifest
ed toward Dr. Broun, we had o refer
ence to the distinguished and scholarly
divine who retires fiom the Chancellor
ship in August. Dr. Tucker was placed
at the head of the University at
a critical period of its egktpnce and
that he has done much to harmonize
the jarring elements, we well know. A
logical thinker, conscientious official
and Christian gentleman, he stands high
iu the admiration of evety one and the
esteem in which he is now held by the
students of the college and citizens of
Athens, well evinces his sterling worth.
We would, however, be glad to see
Dr. Broun at the head of the University
and State College, and, with the assist
ant of Prof. Charbonnier, who has so
ably presided over the agricultural de
partments, we feel confident that these
institution* will ampiy £ll their mission.
We thank the correspondent of the Con
stitution for his well-timed sentiments.
They are the more weighty, emanating
from one who derives his knowledge of
the* matters from sn intimate associa
tion wi<A the University, both in the
ranks of the m*dents and npon the pro
fessor's bench. Georgia cannot spare
Wh. Lekoy Broun; the University de
mands hi* recall, and we trust tM the
same mo tires griiifiji once prompted so
much relnctaaoe in Lie departure will
speedily induce him to ret.bflf f° 4he
State of his adoption.
Mr. Jackson J. Schultz, having been
eiamined as to the knavery of the New
York CWtem House, declared that
Mr. Stewart had to pay 810,000 a year
to certain persons to his goods ap
praised. He concluded with this peep
ing charge : “We are a nation ef male
and female smugglers. Ladies moving
in the highest sqoieiy smuggle gold
watches and laces in tßeie .old
shoes. Four members of Congress:
came over in the same vessel from Eu
rope with me, each one bringing dutia
ble goods, but neither of them P*id any
duties. A detective traced a camel’s
hair shawl to a lady whose husband was
a United States Judge, who had to de
cide smuggling cases.” .
The .Vseyenteen year” locusts have
appeared in sew 5-ork and New Jersey
with “W” on thair banka. Opinions
ace divided as to whether this means
the Russo-Turkish or a railroad war.
MEXICO.
Senator Harris, of Tennessee, has far
vored the Nashville American with his
views on Mexico. The Senator spent
some time in that country, and there
fore speaks with intelligence. He
is opposed to anbexation. He says
tfiere are 7,000,000 of worthless popula
tion to 1,000,000 of intelligent, good
citizens, and we cannot afford to deal
with the problem of carrying more of
them than we have. He thinks it the
duty of the Government to pursue a
firm and just course, repressing all law
lessness, and building np Dade, and
supplying an orderly, law-abiding popu
lation. In the course of time he thinks
Mexico will, if such a system is follow
ed, fall into onr arms whenever it is her
interest and ours—that is, when the
country shall be_ developed and built
np, populated by a sturdy, solid, indus
trious population, Americanized. Then
it will interest both to come together,
and neither, nor any class of either, will
oppose it. He says the educated classes
are men of sense and thorough educa
tion, while the other classes are more
than usually objectionable as citizens.
To take charge of them as their guar
dian he would regard as unfortunate, a
dear responsibility with no correspond
ing benefit. He thinks we have terri
tory enough to occupy us for the next
few years, without getting on our hands
such an elephant as Mexico would be,
with her present population and almost
total want of development.
HEN. TOOMBS.
The Springfield Republican indulges
in a little pleasantry, thus:
Ani still they come. Bob Toombs—the orig
inal Bob, he who was going to call the roll of
his slaves on Banker Hill—endorses the Presi
dent’s policy in the warmest terms. He claims
to be a rebel still, with no apologies to make,
and c mid nol endorse the manner of Hayes’
accession to offico, but he must say that the
President is the first man he has known after
foity years of political life who has more than
fulfilled the promises made previous to his
election. Despite his insistence that he ii a
rebel still. Toombs will lose his character as
the champion Bourbon if he keeps on talking
in th's way; indeed, the crowd to which he
made this speech at Hot Springs, Ark., were
almost persuaded that it must be a case of
mistaken identity.
We understand that Gen. Toombs de
nies having asserted that he threatened
to call the roll of his slaves on Bunker
Hill; indeed, in his own language, he
declares that “no decent negro in
Georgia now believes that lie said any
such thing.’’ But this is a small matter.
We should like to have the full text of
Gen. Toofifis’ speech at Hot Springs;
the more so as it was doubtless garbled
by telegraphic reports. But we do
not see why anybody should be as
tonished' at the General’s giving
the President credit for what good
ho has done anti what evil he ab
stained from. Gen, Toombs is a man
of intellect and a patriot. He oan be a
“Rebel,” according to his own defini
tion of the term, and yet be fair and gen
erous to a political adversary. People
at the North who confess that, on acquain
tance, they have found Mr. Hill to be
totally different from their fancy pic
tures of him, may find also when they
better know Gen. Toombs that he is a
wonderful man, full of talent, practica
bility, and even patriotism of the better
sort.
THE RIVER DANUBE.
The Danube is an historical river and
has figured conspicuously in human an
nals for 2,000 years. It was the auxilia
ry of the Turks for invading purposes,
and it was an important factor in the
crusades for the transportation of troops
to the Holy Land. The Danube has itp
source in Baden and is 1,820 miles long.
It drains with its tributaries an area of
over 300,000 square miles. It passes
through Bavaria, Austria, Hungary and
Servia, to the Carpathian Mountains,
where it separates Roumania and Bul
garia, and passes into the Black Sea
through several months, the principal
one being that of Sulina. Ths Danube
is navigable for steamers as far as Ulm,
in Bavaria. At Nicopolis, in the four
teenth century, 100,000 Christians were
driven by the Tfi r^B into the Danube,
and in the fifteenth eentu r y 40,000 Turks
were slain on its shores at the siege of
Belgrade. Napolboij's crossing of the
river is familiar to ail readers of the
famous Corsican’s career. The stormy
scenes of that passage seem to be re
posted at this time, for we hear
of mud £pd rin and floods being the
chief impediments of the Russian grand
army on its banks. We read that the
passage of the Danube in j.B2fi was a
bold and brilliant undertaking. The
Turks had divined the Russian’s inten
tions from the prepr2! iona being made,
and had intrenched themselves opposl.“
to Satunovo, the selected point of cross
ing. To reach the river bank here the
Russians had to make a causeway no
less than 7,000 paces in length; 3,000
troops were under fire from the Turks
while at work. Tho Russians had a
flotilla on the Danube, and when their
causeway was complete a detatchment
of light infantry and Cossacks was sent
across the river in boats and landed be
low the Turkish intrenohmenls, conceal
ed by a wood. The Turks did not dis
cover their presence, and the Russians
rushed upon the rear of the nearest in
trench ment, taking it by storm. Then
the Turks, more than 10,000 strong,
were seized with panic and fled, aud the
position was abandoned.
How far history will repeat itself we
must wait and see. Unless the Ottoman
empire should indeed dissolve before
the Russian has dared to cross, the day
cannot be far distant when the mighty
Muscovite host must attempt the pas
sage of the watery wall dividing them
from the children of the Islam. When
they shall have crossed, the hard work
of the campaign will have begun, unless
the Turkish army has become a mere
rabble. We venture to say that, rabble
or no rabble, there will be a desperate
fight before the foot race begins.
Some of the papers say that Flipper
is from South Carolina, and a West
Point correspondent of the Herald adds:
“There is iu existence a law specifying
that even black regiments shall be offi
cered by white men, and it is thought
there will be oomo trouble in assigning
Flipper. As any such law is in opposi
tion to the constitutbMwl amendments,
of coarse it will be easily rescinded.
From the disposition shown by most of
the enlisted men with whom I have eon
versed at odd times upon the subject, I
fancy that if Flipper were appointed to
the command of white soldiers they
would be yeotiye, and would, if out upon
a scout, take the first opportunity to
shoot him; and'this feeling exists even
among men here who have learned to
respect him for what he is
Col. Henry Wattkbson, singing a
funeral dirge over the Sultan, says :
•'Bravery, patriotism, fanaticism, can
not exist o>y *ir. They must have a finan
cial and bread and substructure,
else they will faiat and iaii. That is
whpt fs ffie matter with the Turks.” i
That j# what ju the patter with a good
many Christians. t&fl ‘‘air diet”
holds out uncommonly wed.
Rsv. C. H. Colltns is descended from
a long line of gouty ancesters, and has
sqfiefdd torture from the gout. He quit
liquor aud meat. Result: a
perfect cure. II you bav • goWi join the
Good Templars and dine upon tarnipJ
and .cold water.
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The Herahf. John Bull will
not interfere between Jmsaui nr ‘
key, and appearances indicate that the
“Sic# Map” is at last in a very bad way,
and they want- (W k ow w £ at “ in hlB
will and. above ail, do get ttm OSS tom of
his heirs and successors in the estate. 1
Th* first Texas flour of the season
reached New Orleans on the sth of June.
The first Augusta flour was ground on the
28th of May.
A STRIKING SCENE.
THE KEY. DR PLUMER AMONG
THE NORTHERN PRES
BTTRRIANB.
An Impressive Utterance at the Chicago
Assembly.
Oa Tuesday of last week, when the
subject of the restoration of friendly re
lations with the Southefn Presbyterian
Church was under consideration in Chi
cago, in the General Assembly of the
Northern Presbyterian Chnrcb, the fol
lowing scene occurred. We copy from
the report in the Chicago Times:
Rev. Dr. Van Dyke, in the couree of a
speech against making any further con
cessions, though he said in substance
that he was opposed to the late war,
alluded to a statement which had been
made in tbe city to the effect that a del
egate was in Chicago from the Southern
General Assembly, and that this General
Assembly had refused to receive him.
This was not true; but a distinguished
divine of South Carolina was visiting
the city, a man whom he had loved as
his own soul, and he moved that the
Rev. Dr. Plumer be invited to address
the General Assembly upon the subject
of reunion. To the discredit of the
members tbe motion was not unani
mously carried. The invitation so churl
ishly accorded procured a response
which must be characterized as extraor
dinary.
All eyes were torned toward a cyno
sure under tbe gallery, near the main
entrance. A little gentle clappirg of
hands in that direction disseminated no
infection beyond the narrow immediate
circle. Slowly the group sepaAted, and
through the friendly breach thus formed
strode a majestic figure. As the grand
vision dawned upon the upturned faces
of the Assembly resistance to its charms
was impossible; generous impulse over
came the heat of prejudice, and cour
tesy paid voluntary tribute to the high
est type of manliness. The applause
arose and swelled, and waned again;
then waxed higher and more fervent as
the royal form went on down the aide,
and as the gallery canght the first
glimpse of his advancing figure ladies
and gentlemen rose en masse and cheered
and cheered again, while the pent up
emption of the scene found vent here
and there in unchecked tears.
This man might have sat for Michael
Angelo’s Moses. Dr. Plumer is a living
sculpture of historic mould. As he
stood there facing the Assembly, calm
and rigid, one could not resist the fancy
that the statue of a pat riarch or a proph
et, a Moses or Elijah, would have
such a personification. Above the aver
age height, symmetrical iu proportion,
straight and firm, be presented the rare
and beautiful spectacle of perfect old
age. His hair and beard are white as
the purest snow; the latter waved about
npon his breast like a flowing vestment.
His hair lies thick and undulating, in
lines of statuesque grace. His eves are
bright, as with a consciousness of being
near enough the Gate of Light to catch
a reflection of the glory from within.
His featuies, aspect, stature, expression,
gesture—already his curving arm com
manded a thrilling silence—all spoke a
man of power, strength and grace. At
first his voice was low.but uot indistinct.
The volume increased with the increas
ing unction of his thought, and us he
proceeded all eyes were rapt upon his,
for brief as was his speech the Assembly
recognized the flrst truo orator who had
stood before it. What he said must be
read in full. How lie said, that pen
would be indeed presumptuous which
would attempt to desoribe. The spec
tacle was one never to be forgotten by
those who saw it—as a spectacle of the
grandeur of age, with no trace of its
weakness; of the tenderness of age,
without imbecility; of the eloquence of
age, with undiminished fervor, delivered
over a register of cadence mellowed by
a tremor in harmony with the snow upon
liis head, but vivified by a dynamic
power in harmony with the valor and
sanctity of his aspect. Let npt any read
er omit the perusal of what he said. He
pleaded, as Paul in old ago would have
pleaded, for oharity, love and brotherly
good will. He pleaded that the preseut
might be used to brighten the future
and hide the past. “By what this As
sembly does to-dav,” he exclaimed,
“ Christ will be greitly honored—or
dishonored.” He had been told of one
who had so excelled a memory that he
never forgot anything. “I have read of
one who hspl a still better memory—
Archbishop Cratjmer, who never forgot
anything bijt injuries, May Qod in His
mercy give us all su-ih memories,"
But the appeal was in vaiu.
Wliac Dr. Van Dyke Saul ol Dr. Plumer.
There is a venerable father belonging
to that branch of the Presbyteriau
Church in this city-a man whom I love
as I love my soul—and it has been re
ported in this city, I was confronted
with it a dinner table only three days
ago, that be came here as a delegate
from the Southern Assembly and we
would not receive him. Sir, I take it
upon myself to say it, uud if I am wrong
let the brethren correct me, if the ven
erable Dr Plumer—God bless his white
head—if he had come to us with papers
or without papers and said: “Brethren,
I am authorized to represent the South
ern Assembly iu this body,” we would
have received him with open arms—| ap
planse;'“that’s so”]— with unanimous ac
clamations; and Lis face, as we would
have sat here upon this platform, would
have been to us like the face of an angel,
shining, as tho face of Moses shone
when lie camo down from communion
with God upon tho holy mount. Aud
now, sir, I pledge myself, if Dr. Plumer
will' eoifie forward and say he is au
thorized to take' bjs seat as a corres
ponding delegate fropfitho Sputheru As
sembly iu this body, he would he re
oaived. [Applause.]
Dr. IMiiiner’s Spaccli.
Rev. Dr. Plumer: No, sir. Sound as
cends, not descends. I shall be heard.
I wish to say, first of all, why I am in
Chicago. lam hero entirely ou social
accounts, aud would have been here if
this Assemlfly had metiu San Francisco.
I am Cot here to-day to do anything
touching this business, except to preach
Christ’s Gospel, aud see some of my old
friends before I go hence.
The second remark I wish to make is,
sir, that I -fully and cordially estimate
the embarrassing condition iu which I
am placed. If I say anything I say it
solely for myself and on my own account.
I am not deputed here by anybody, by
letter or otherwise.
And, thirdly, I wish to say that in my
heart I do glory in the truth conveyed
to me in his last letter by one of my old
teachers now in HcaveD. It is this: “I
would not give one hour of brotherly
love for a whole eternity of contention.”
[Applause.] That is my sentimetit. God
iu Hismerey grant that we may all reach
that conclusiou. One hour of brotherly
love is worth a whole eternity of strife
and bickering.
Now, sir, God in His providence—a
providence that no man ou earth claims
to understand —baa raised np Presbyte
rian churches North and Booth. The
Southern chureh covers a vast area of
territory, and has great interests of i.a
mortal souls—4,ooo,ooo people who are
not dying out; it was said that the col
ored race would die out; it is not dying
out. The last census shows an increase,
including ffip 4e° a<^e daring the war, of
ten per cent, js going to live; we
have great interests there; nepd help.
The Southern church, through its As
sembly, has invited all the world to
come and work in the field and do good.
Can’t ie do something that shall profit
these people-? Sir, if getting on my
knees, if lying on this and allow
ing all men to trample on my body,
would be the means of saving the soul
of one poor black man or black woman,
when any other course pursued would
jeopardize the interests of that soul. I
would lie down cn the floor. [Applause.] I
ask brethren to think thus matter careful
ly over. *you say you can do something;
you have done something. God be
praised for what you have done; but
can’t you do more ? Suppose you were
to treat the Southern church as three
honored brethren in your church have ]
urged—one in Baltimore, one in Phila
delphia and one in New York—that you
should treat it the way you treated the j
Waldenseß: give them funds, give them
means, and ask them jfco employ these l
means in building up the cause of _
Christ; and for every dollar they ex- ’
pended there would be good results,
blessed resnlts. We honor your mis
sionaries and servants there; we love
them. Dr. Mattoon was the companion
of my own nephew, who bore my own
name in the mission in Siam; he is my
friend; books that I have written are
class t>ooJ:s in that institution. Can’t
you help us i*t jihi; thing? Suppose,
brethren, by the grafce of Go£, “ou were
enabled -to say what will at on ere forever ,
silence all contests and bitterness, can’t j
you'say it/' 1 J Would give anything if
you could. And ye* you mrtst'judge for >
yourselves. We have workers there- ;
"Why, there is a gentleman here from 1
Tennessee who knows how all these
things wqrk. He is on the committee
who reported the resolutions—he knows
fiow it w orks. I see a brother here who
lives thirty-six miles from me, in South
Carolina. He knows Low if works.
Cannot something be done? One
brother says the time is not yet. Mr.
Moderator, did you ever know an old
wound or 30 old sore to get well by let
ting it alone,? It is never done. I
know not what the vote ol tb;s house
shall be, but one thing is certain—Jesus .
Christ will this day be greatly honored
or dishonored by this body, and this;
body mast judge whether its action is
to honor or dishonor the Saviour, and i
not L . ... j
Another thing I wish to say is that j
this body will candidly, I have no donbt,
to-day vote as it has donehilherto —can-
didly vote what it wishes to say. It
will be understood; it will be settled. I
would love to see these hindrances re
moved in my time; but there will be a
good many things done after my head
goes down to the grave. And if God
denies me that privilege, be it so. Can’t
yon do it ? There is not a man in the
Southern country who does not desire
fraternal relations on terms eqnal and
honorable. [Applause.] There is not a
man in the Southern country who wishes
this body to humble itself or abase itself
before anybody. But this is true: If I
have stated, Mr. Moderator, that you
are not a gentleman, it is due t® me—it
is more due to me than it is to you—
that I t-hoald say that I ought not to
have those words. [Applause.] We
ask no regrets in the senseof repentance;
nobody asks that. There is not a man
in the South that would esteem any man
more if he were to humiliate himself.
That is not it. But, sir, I might say if
Mr. Dixion had said of the Moderator
something unhandsome, I might truly
Bay to Mr. DixioD, “I am very sorry,
Dr. Dixion, that you said that of the
Moderator; I regret it—ldo not repent
it.” Can’t you say that ? One thing is
clear: If the resolutions reported by
your committee are rejected, it will be
understood everywhere, North and
South, and it will be a finality on this
whole subject. Now, sir, I heard a con
versation day before yesteaday about
memories. Someone said that a man
had an excellent memory—that he never
forgot anything. I had read of a better
memory than that; it was the memory of
Lord Archbishop Cranmer, of whom it
is said he never forgot anything but, in
juries. [Applause.] Oh, what a memo
ry that must be, to cherish everything
that is endearing, and forget aud for
give. God in mercy give us all such
memories. [Applause.]
MORGAN, JASPER, PUTNAM.
Meeting of tbe District Nominating Conven
tion But the C*entlemen from Morgan
Fail to Be Present—lion. Augustas Keese
uml lion. Joshua Hill Put L T p by tlio Con
vention.
■Madison, Ga., June 6—There was a
Convention held on Monday, at Shady
Dale, Jasper county, for the purpose of
electing candidates for the Constitution
al Convention from the Twenty-eighth
Senatorial District. Upon a call for the
credentials of the delegates from the
three counties composing the District
it was ascertained that there were pres
ent regularly appointed delegates from
tlio counties of Putnam and Jasper, but
none from MorgaD. The Convention
then proceeded to the election of candi
dates. the District being entitled to five.
It was decided that according to the
population or number of voters of the
three counties as shown by the census
of 1870, that Morgan wis entitled to two
candidates, Putnam two and Jasper one.
The delegates from Putnam then uamel
T. G. Lawson and R. B. Nisbet as the
choice of tbejr county, and those from
Jasper named'John Key as the choice of
that county.
There beiug no delegates from Mor
gan, the Convention wis somewhat em
barrassed as to what course it should
pursue in regard to the candidates from
that county. Some nembers were in
favor of nominating a full ticket for the
District, that is, nvo candidates, while
others opposed this plan and favored
the policy of nominating two candidates
from Putnam and oue Irom Jasper, and
taking no action iu reference to Morgan.
After hearing statements from several
gentlemen present from Morgan, but
uot delegates, to the effect tkattke Hou.
Augustus Reese and the Hon. Joshua
Hill were the choice of the county and
that Morgan wanted them nominated,
the Convention passed a resolution no
tifying the people of Morgan that the
counties of Putnam and Jasper would
place the names of Messrs, lleese and
Hill upon their tickets and vote lor them
on the 12th of June, unless Morgan
should, in the meantime, in some official
manner, object to snch action on the
part of the Convention or place two oth
er men than the ones mentioned in nom
ination.
We think, Messrs. Editors, that this
was the very best course that the Con
vention could have pursued, and we
earnestly ask you, iu behalf of tho citi
zens of Morgan, to publish this article
in your paper so that the people may
know what the Convention did and know
how to vote.
We trust you will publish this, and
that the Chronicle and Constitution
alist will copy. Z. J. T.
11 All, HAMILTON.
Don Plan's Sketch of Some of Her Personal
Traits.
[ Washington Letter to Cincinnati Enquirer ]
This lady has been heaving small cans
of dynamite at Senator Blaine’s eno
rnies. and the afflicted are insisting that
the fixed amunition comes from Senator
Jig}- In otlipr words, tfiey assert that
Blaine, ofMaine, is fightingbehindGail’s
breast works. To those who know both
personally this is bosh. Were Blaine
possessed of the force of expression lhat
in humor, sarcasm and invective, is of
the keenest sort in this little lady, he
would have been a terror to his enemies.
Gail Hamilton, as is known, is a feme
solf. of a. certain age who does not
“pretty mfIPU,” as they say jn Infiiana.
when she is ip a state qf repose. I
hardly think she would scare horses on
the avenue, as some of our female pen
drivers can; but she is not oue to make
more than six susceptible Yankees die
of love. But she is a charming conver
sationalist, possessed of the fact to talk
a good deal with her ears. She not only
listens with appa-ent interest, but she
adroitly leads her victim to talking on
subjects ip which ho js at home—gener
ally himaeif. Jt'Vn study tp gep lljiss
Hamilton nt a dinner party, seated next
some old legislative duffer, and note
how she helps him mount his hobby.
Once on, and away goes tho 1. and.
I said to her one night after a dinner
of this sort, “Old Pig-iron Kelly says
yon are the most brilliant conversational
ist fie encountered.” “And I pledge
you my worii’ of fiopor,” sfie replied,
smiling, “that l have riof; ußeyed five
words in two hours. My brilliant con
versational talent consists iu listening
with intense interest to his talk on the
farcef, which, you know, means him
self.” .
These attacks of Miss Gail s
have interested me amazingly. She was
an acknowledged classic when I began
my public tu'orts with the pen, and as
we were thrown together a g’ood ileal,
she lias kindly manifested a motherly
caro of poor attempts. She has been
exceedingly grieved at my indulgence in
vituperation. Now, to see the little
woman justly arousefi, assaulting the
enemy with tfie weapon, is rather
encouraging.
LEVIED FQR J.IBEL.
Foster Blodgett Will Trf f*if* Is#ue W! l *'
Bryant.
[Atlanta Constitution.]
On Tuesday Foster Blodgett, by John
L. Cgnley, bis attorney, filed a criminal
information ip tfie (City Court against J.
E. Bryant, the s.p-,called Ohajfman of
the Republican State Gentral Commit
tee, and present editor of the “Kenuebec
Bloody Shirt.” It seems that Bryant,
in the last issue of h.s sheet, took occa
sion to apply epithets to Blodgett which
were anything but complimentary or
poiiie. Blodgett took exceptions, very
naturally, to tiris language and announc
ed his purpose of cow nftling the [ifiow
heganite upon sight. Some of his
friends, in view of the closely approach
ing trials of the State cases in which
Blodgett is interested, dissuaded him
from his iuteutfons, and hence his resort
to the criminal coda for redress.
Brvant was arrested by Officer Lang
ley late Tuesday evening upon a bench
warrant issued by Judge Clark. He
gave bond in the 6um of five hundred
dollars, with good and sufficient securi
ty, ana thp case will be ready for trial
early negt weefi, we learn. It is the un
derstanding that Brvant plajms that his
language was not "libellous, and, if it
was, it is true. Blodgett intends to
push the case vigorously, ana test the
question raised by the charges made by
Bryant. The case will be an interest
ing one, of the nature of a Kilkenny
fight, and is of interest politically, in the
view that it is a deadly contest between
a native Republican and a scalawag
Radical. Let the feood fight go oa.
* A Treasure Train *>t*leu in Ra-tsia.
I fall Mall QmeUe.}
Strange disappearances are by no
means uncommon in these days; but one
of these mysteries which, according to
a correspondent of one of the German
capers, has lately occurred in Russia, is
| truiv martling An express train in that
country, carrying Z, 000.000 of rubles,
i not only failed the other.day to ry-r.ch its
destination, bht has -altogether disap
peared, without leaving the slightest
traces affording 5 as to what has
become of it. That the tram be .
stopped and the money taken is con
ceivable; but that the thieves should
actually carry off not only rubles, but
engine, tender, vans, carriages, and all,
is so “uncanny” an incident as to raise
ground tot imcpim _zn that the powers of
darkness have Seen at wiiim- At any
rate, the story is a most uncomfortable
one, and it is to be hoped anew horror
is not about to be added to railway
traveling by the total disappearance of
train*. It may fie imagined how pain
ful a senhation would be created if the
“Flying Dutchman” or some other fast
and famous train was never seen or
, heard of again after leaving London.
Snch a catastrophe would be, if possi-
ble, even worse than a collision.
HARD TIMES IN THE SOUTH.
Effect ol I lie Eastern War in liaising tin*
Price oi‘ Provisions—Corn Up and Colton
Down.
[Dr. Redjield in Cincinnati Commercial J
Views of aOeorgia Planter.
A few days ago I was talking with a
Georgia planter about matters and
things. This planter had a thousand
broad acres cultivated by his “ late
slaves,” whom he spoke of as the “hap
piest people on earth.” They were, in
fact, happier than he, for they could not
see so far ahead, and the fact that they
would be reduced to meat once a day be
fore the end of Summer had not occurr
ed to them. The effect of the war in
Europe had not reached their planta
tion, but was coming.
This planter was very gloomy about
the war,in fact mad that there should be
one. “ Can’t the confounded fools set
tle their differences without upsetting
us in this way ? Why should Ibe made
to pay 30 per cent, ext; a for corn and
flour and then have twenty per cent,
knocked off my cotton, all on account of
a lot of cut-throats in Europe ?”
Alas, my planter, all the world are
kin, and an upheaval like this inEnrope
affects every man who breathes air.
Wherever bread is eaten the war is felt.
The loaf which the baker now brings
you is smaller in size or higher in price,
or both.
The planter was sad, and saw no pros
perity for the South as long as the war
lasted. It has, as he said, raised the
price of the provisions he was compelled
to buy 30 per cent., and knocked 20 per
cent, off the only thing he had to sell—
cotton.
A moment’s reflection will show how
and why this war will be a severe blow
to material interests in the cotton
States. The provisions they are com
pelled to buy go up, and cotton, which
is the only thing they have to sell, goes
down. And the longer the war lasts the
more depressing will its influence bs in
the cotton States.
In Columbia, South Carolina, I talked
with a colored laborer, an old man, who
told me that he “worked about” on ex
tra job, doing whatever his hand could
find. Yet the best wages he got was
from fifty to seventy-five cents a day.
“I ask seventy-five,” said he, “but. when
I can’t get that I take fifty.” Out of
this scanty sum be had to board him
self and support his family. “It’s
mighty hard,” said he, “worse nor what
it was in old slave times.”
“Meal Thirty Cents a Peck.”
“I could sorter get along on fifty or
seventy-five cents a day, but now work
has got scarcer and meal has gone up
and up,” he continued in a doleful tone.
I asked him to what point meal had
readied in Columbia. “Thirty cents a
peck,” said he, “and still a risin’.”
“What was it a month ago ?” I asked.
“Only twenty cents,” he replied, “and
work liain’t gone up to correspond.”
Yes, indeed, and this is where the
shoe pinches the laborer. The bread
for his table has advanced and the price
of his labor remains the same or has
fallen. This is one of the effects of the
“revival of business” on account of the
European war. Where it helps one man
it hurts ten, and the ten it hurts very
bad, for it fairly may be said to take the
bread from the mouths of their children.
I asked him if he knew why meal had
advanced. “Oh, yes,” said he; “ihe
man I get it of says there is a war be
tween Europe and Russia and the sol
diers eat the meal. That’s what the
matter. But I can’t hear that they fight
much. ’Pears like they hurl the poor
darky in the stomach more than they
hurts one another.
“While we are talking let me tell you
what some of the boys say. They say
that there ain’t any war in Russia, and
that the speculators have started the
story so as to put up meal to thirty cents
a peck and make a pile of money.
There’s no telling what people will do
these days.”
I asked him if flour was up.
“Yes,” he replied, “they say it’s seven
cents a pound by the small, but I never
buys it, times is so hard. This darkey
lives on hoe cake, and it ’pears like hoe
cake is goin’ out of reach, and then I
reckon we’ll die.”
He told me that therej were many col
ored families in Columbia who bad
nothing to eat but corn bread and cheap
molasses. ‘lt was hard enough on the
darkey,” said he, “afore this war started
in Russia, and now, with work scarcer
and scarcer, and meal thirty cnts a
peck, the Lord only knows wha’ll be
come of us!”
The Old Times. j
Then he fell into a talk on old times.
He did not Vant his people back into
but as for himself, if he could
have his old master he would rather be
back. “Us old niggers,” said he, “would
be better off as it used to be, for we had
plenty to eat, whether meal went up or
down. Lord ‘ah’ mercy, sab, we never
heard about wars in other countries, or
whether weal was ten cents or a dollar a
peck. My old master always had plenty.
My belly stuck out like it had a pump
kin in it, and our mules was so fat that
a nigger would roll off of ’em. Them
was high tim s, I tell yoi. These times
is nothing ” He continued, with a ges
ture of contempt: ‘ A man would give a
nigger half a dollar for holdisg his boss.
Now he holds him hisself, if he {ms one,
wbjcb is seldom.
But with all these advantages of the
old times over the present, and notwifh
staDdiug the fact that meal is thirty
cents a peck, this old man would not
say he preferred slavery, unless he could
have his old master. He didn’t want to
try new ones. But he gravely and with
apparent sincerity gave it as his opinion
that they would all be back in time. “I
may not live to see it,” he said, “but the
young folks cornin’ on will. They will
be put back by staryation. No free nig
ger can stand it to pay thirty cents a
peck for meal. White folks will say
there is a war way off somewhere, aud
that meal is scarce and must go up high,
and then the poor darkey will be starved
back into slavery, and that’s whar
they’ll finally laud. I don’t expect to
live to see that day, but the young ’uns
will. Hit’s a cornin’.”
A young fpan, a mulatto, came to us,
and thig vepepiblp Mold Wipes,”
who thought meal at thirty cents a peek
would be the ruin of the darkeys, re
peated* the opinion: “No,” said the
young man, “I don’t care if meal goes
to two dollars a peck, and meat to a dol
lar a pound, we’ll never go back to
slavery. I’ll die first.”
The old man replied that time would
teli hoy it. yap, trjnl ahoy that lie was
right. As'for himself ho didn’t care.
He had not long to live anyway, and as
long as times were so hard and provis
ions so high, he had about as soon be in
slavery as free, “Freedom ain’t no easy
tliiou, ’ said he, '-when the belly is
empty.”
The old man, out of york and out of
provisions, took a glooqiy view of all
things because meal had advanced to
thirty cents a peck ! Wording f°r
cents to seventy cents a day, and not
being able 'to get’ woi*k half the time,
and finding provisions advaucingas work
fell off, can we blame him for imperfect
appreciation of freedom with an empty
stomach ? Poetry and sentiment aside,
the blanks oi the coffin States find that
freedom for? them meank the' right to
work about as hard as ever they did and
have fs j’ittje to show for it,
A Hard Year.
It will be a hard year for them, and in
fact for all classes and conditions of
people in the cotton States. Ihe war
in Europe has bronght down cotton and
sent up bread axu moat. There is not
an interest in the 1 cotton States that will
be advanced by this war. A few men in
the cities who happen to have stocks |of
provisions on band will reap a benefit,
hut Jrow small in proportion to the bur
dens ydrich are imposed upon the great
body of the jiooplo.
Asa means of a relief the Southern
papers are all yelpiDg at the planters to
grow c<?rn, peas, potatoes, vegetables—
anything, no matter what, that the peo
ple can eat. Stop the cotton, they say,
for the indications are that if the crop is
large the price will not pay for plowing.
‘But with all the preaching the editors
can do, a great cotton Wop is put in.
With a fair year the product will be
over four millions of bales. Toe plant
ers would serve themselves better if they
would put in half a crop and the rest of
the land into corn, peas or anything that
would grow. By restricting the produc
tion to say tWo millions of bales the
prices could be £ept up to a good pay
ing point-. 1 sut Syery plantar feels the
need of money, money. He must have
cash. Cotton brings cash, and so he
puts in every acre possible; and goes in
debt for bread aud meat,
The system is wrong and an injury to
the producers, just as the over produc
tion of coal oil is an injury to those who
produce it. If the supply could be re
stricted prices would advance to a pay
ing basis. It is within the power of the
Southern planters to put cotton up to
say eighteen eeut-3 and keep it there, if
they woultl all act together. p.ow mnch
better it would Be for’the cdffton grow
ing region to phi in but half a crop for
a few years, and the rest in corn and
peas, or anything that man or beast will
eat. But, like the coal oil producers,
they cannot be made to act together.
Growers of Corn are Happy*
Shortly after the conversation referred
to shove, I fell in frith a large producer
of corn on the Tennessee nver. He was
happy. He had five hundred acres of
river bottom, and had pitched a crop
that would feed the Turks. Every foot
of his ground was in eorn, and the corn
was up. “I’ll work that corn like a gar
den,” said he, “and I’ll make it bring
sixty bushels to the acre. It’s done it
many a time when the price was but
thirty cents a bushel, and now I’ll make
it do it, for that war in Europe will bring
me sixty-five cents cash in hand. Think
of that! Let me see; five hundred acres
at sixty bnshels to the acre; put that
down; that is thirty-five thousand bush
els. That good old war will make it
bring sirty-five cents. It’s that now,
and I’ll bet a hoss it don’t go down.
Thirty-five thousand bushels at sixty
five cents will roll in 822,750. Zounds,
I’ll have a pile of money if that war
don’t stop ! But I hope it won’t stop till
we get off at least two corn crops. That
war is the best thing that ever happened
for East Tennessee.”
Yes, East Tennessee will be largely
benefitted, for it is a corn-growing sec
tion, and has the great Southern market
immediately at hand. But the South,
as a sectiou, will be hurt. The benefit
of spots here and there where corn is
grown is inadequate compensation for
the injury brought upon the planters
and laborers of tlie cotton States.
Taking the whole oountry in view,
North, South, East and West, the war
works more injury than benefit. Where
one man, who grew corn, is benefitted,
ten who eat corn are injured. And the
laborers in the large cities of the North
will suffer along with the laborers in the
cotton States. Their bread has risen,
but not their wages. It requires no ab
struse calculation to show that more are
hurt than helped.
Besides, is it not impossible, in the
nature of things, for a war to be of ad
vantage to the mass of mankind? We
see destruction broadcast and wealth
consumed as effectually as if done by
fire. To say nnhing of the lives lost,
can mankind be benefitted by such as
this?
I am of those who believe that it
would be better for the material inter
ests of America, taken as a whole, if the
war should cease to-day. H. V. R.
AUGUSTA TO KNOXVII.I.E.
Action of the Knoxville Board of Trade—A
Letter from President Wheless.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
I received officially, within the last
day or two, the enclosed copy of resolu
tions passed by the Board of Trade of
Knoxville upon 1 the subject of memo
rializing Congress in behalf of the A. &
K. li. R , and as your able journal has
ever been progressive, advoeatiug all
schemes looking to the advancement of
the material interests of our city, I do
not feel that it, is trespassing to ask the
publication of the resolutions and ac
companying communication.
As the present Administration of our
Government has foreshadowed the poli
cy of restoring the political equality of
the South, and favoring to the reha
bilitating and building up the waste
places in our country, we feel that the
time has arrived when fraternal rela
tions can he strengthened by the bonds
of commerce.
Our system of agriculture, the almost
exclusive culture of cotton, necessitates
the purchase of provisions abroad, aud
as the West produces the article we are
compelled to buy a large extent, the in
terests of the two sections are closely al
lied. The neoeHsity for a trans-conti
nental railroad from the Northwest to
the Southwest seaboard is gradually be
coming more apparent.
The Western people being directly
interested in the construction of a
shorter line to reach.importaut Southern
markets,and to enable them to overcome
the difficulties in the way of shipping to
Europe, via New York and New Or
leans, will certainly co-operate with
this section iu making the contemplated
iron highway of natioual importance.
But it is not to be supposed that such
benefits are to be conferred upon us
without an effort on our part-—far from
it. It is absolutely necessary for our
people to take the initiative in project
ing and commencing the building of a
new route to the West.
We are daily assured that so soon as
Augusta begins in earnest upon this end
of the Augusta and Knoxville Railroad,
steps will be promptly taken to push for
ward the work along the entire line.
Then let it not bo said that the great
work is delayed by the supineness of
our citizens. Undoubtedly our com
merce is languishing, on account of our
geographical position and unfavorable
railroad connections. We will jeopard
ize our present trade from a large sec
tion of territory if we continue to de
lay action to extricate ourselvos from
our present situation.
We find that the contemplated build
ing of the Augusta and Knoxville Rail
road is attracting the attention of prom
inent gentlemen in various sections of
the country, and it is predicted by them
that if the road is built Augusta will
rapidly attain a prominent commercial
position.
Within the last few days the Presi
dent of an important Southern railroad
stated that when the building of the
Augusta and Knoxville Railroad is an
assured fact, he desires to locate part
of his family here, believing that Au
gusta will become the most flourishing
inland city in the South. Such opin
ions are very encouraging to the young
er portion of our population, and an in
centive to labor strenuously for the suc
cess of our cherished enterprise. Our
aged sires, also, doubtless feel that one
cf the surest legacies for their posterity
-next to wealth—is flourishing busi
ness interests.
We are taught a beautiful lesson by
the inhabitants of some of the Eastern
countries; while the aged labor for
daily sustfenance they forget uot to per
form some act which will result in com
forts and blessings to their posterity.
It is stated that they plant by the high
ways, fruit and shade tiees, under
whose boughs the care-worn travelers of
future generations may refresh and rp
gale themselves.
Certainly the inhabitants of one of
the most civilised countries in the world
will not ignore the duty we owe to those,
who are to succeed us in the arena of
business, politics, &e.
Great enterprises never succeed with
out great efforts on the part of the pro
prietors, bnt success brings ample re
ward for the untiring labors of thpae
who continue steadfast until t{io work
has beefl complete!}.
Ibp Wl’itPl feels sanguine that the
success of the A. & K. li. R. is only a
question of time, and if Augusta will
respond liberally to the call now being
made, it will be but a short while till
success is accomplished.
W. T. Whemsss.
Action of llie JponrU of Trade.
Knoxville, Tenn., May 15, 1877.
W. T. Wheless, Esq., President Au
gusta and Knoxville Railroad, Au
gusta, Ga. :
Sip. —At a meeting qf t.fie “Board of
Trade” of the fiity of Knoxville, held
this day, I was instructed to notify you
of the following action of the Board :
Resolved, That this body request onr
Representative in Congress, Hon. J. M.
Thornburgh and our Senators, Hon.
Isliam G. Harris end Hqn, J. T*J. Bailey,
to secure United States aid to the build
ing of the Knoxville and Augusta Rail
road at the rate of seven thousand dol
lars per mile and that they be requested
to use such means as they may think
best -for the accomplishment of this
object sq vital tp the interests of Knox
ville.
Resolved, That the Secretary of this
meeting notify the President of the Au-'
gusta and Knoxville Railroad of this
action and request him to secure the
co-operation of the Representatives of
Georgia in Congress.
I have the honor to be very respect
fully,
Wm. J. Ramage, Secretary..
Death of Major John Randolph Whitehead.
The Macon Telegraph and Messenger
says: We are pained to learn from a rel
ative of the sudden decease of this gen
tleman, which too|c pl3p on the sth
instant, at hfs plantation, in Miller
county. Major Whitehead was well
known in MacoD, haying recently resided
here, and his death was sudden and un
expected. On Wednesday of the past
week he returned from a visit to Savan
nah, and the two following days rode
over and examined his crop. The next
day (Saturday), after taking a nap in
the afternoon, he poipp.lained of a slight
headache auc( called fqr hjs wife. She
hurried to his side just in tipie to see
him fall helpless to the floor. He never
spoke afterwards, but gradually suc
cumbed under a general paralysis of the
whole body, until death ensued. The
deceased was a native of Burke county,
Georgia, and the son of Judge John
Whitehead, one of the most noted affd
excellent citizens of tbSt once opulent
county. He was about fifty years of
age, and leaves a wife and four children
to mourn his loss. Before the war Maj.
Whitehead settled a plantation (the
scene of bis death) in Miller county,
and was regarded as one of the most
successful and intelligent planters in
that section. He once represented Mil
ler in the Legislature, and retained his
influence and popularity to the last.
During the war he was elected Major of
the Georgia regiment commanded by
Judge Gibson, and was wounded in Vir
ginia: Since that period, for the most
part, he has resided on his Miller plan
tation, and was notably one of the most
skillful and suooessfnl farmers of South
ern Georgia. To the bereaved widow
and family we extend onr heartfelt sym
pathy in this their hour of sadness and
calamity.
Why Beecher B*des With Russia.
[From, the Times.]
That Mr. Beecher should be filled
with indignation against Turkey is only
natural He is well aware that the Turks
are addicted to polygamy, and his im
pulsive nature revolts at the very
thought of the harem.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO LEAVES.
Spartanburg waters her streets.
Hogs are going mad in Newberry. ~
Barnwell has a photograph pavilion.
The Ellenton trials cost over $50,000.
No more repudiation talk if you
please.
Bee hives are flourishing around Ab
beville.
Greenville is lunning over with brick
and lumber.
Charleston proposes to reorganize the
Knights of Pythias.
Since March Ist Chester has shipped
1,046 bales of cotton.
They arastill dedicating music sheets
to Governor Hampton.
By the way. what has become of the
Edgefield Advertiser ?
An “Olde Folkes” Concert is soon to
come off iu Winusboro.
Mrs. A. M. Aiken, of Greenwood, Ab
beville county, is dead.
The Newberry colored Methodists are
building a neat paisonage.
Gen. McGowan was in Columbia and
visited the Capitol, Wednesday.
Muskrats in Newberry carry whole
bunches of oats in their months.
A Barnvillelady has picked 110 quarts
of strawberries from two small beds.
A telegraph line from Allendale to
Barnwell, via Blackville, is spoken of.
Newberry will soon be treated to the
finest theatricals and tableaux ever
known.
Colonel DeTreville, of Orangeburg, is
named for Solicitor of the First Circuit,
iu place of Buttz.
A correspondent of the Edgefield Ad
vertiser says that Gov. Hampton has
7,149 namesakes in this State.
The residence of J. H. McLaughlin,
three miles south of Aiken, was burned
about 12 o’clock on Monday last
A mule belonging to Mr. Thomas M.
Like, of Newberry, fatally injured itself
by running against the sharp edge of a
rail.
Wo. H. Taggart, of Abbeville county,
died near Calhoun’s Mills, on Saturday
last, after a short illness, aged about 57
years.
A few more base ball clubs are to be
licensed before tbo Solons go home.
Give them time, geutlemen, large bodies
move slowly.
Having whipped out the Radicals and
scalawags says the Spartan, it is now
our duty to clean our rauks of political
“bummers.”
Mrs. Gns Edwards, of Warrenton,
died suddenly at home last week. She
was in good health until within five min
utes of her death.
Six thousand votes since November
have been gained by the Democratic
party in Orangeburg, Fairfield and
Chester counties.
A bill to prohibit the sale of intoxi
cating liquors within two miles of Lang
ley Factory, has received its second
reading iu the House.
The dwelling and furniture of Mr.
Tichbourg, on the Camden Road, near
Columbia, were destroyed by au acci
dental fire on Monday.
Ex-Solicitor W. Magill Fleming and
Mr. A. T. Peete have had within the last
few days as many as threo separate en
counters iu Spartanburg.
The Sentinel noticos that the Sandy
Run Mills, in Barnwell county, were set
on fire last Wednesday night, about 11
o’clock, and entirely consumed.
The Columbia Register thinks that
six hundred dollars without mileage,
giving S3OO for each session, is the fair
est adjustment of the salary qiiestion.
Tho Newborry Herald remarks that
the Legislature that met on the 24th
day of April, and the purpose for which
it met has not been accomplished yet.
The Charleston Journal mentions the
rumor that the ex Speaker of the Bogus
or Rump House, E. W. M. Mackey, has
been appointed Collector of that Port.
Mr. Alfred Aldrich, of Barnwell, has
received the appointment of Treasurer,
aud Mr. John J. Weissinger, of Black
ville, that of Auditor for Barnwell
county.
The junior crews of the Palmetto and
Carolina Boat clubs are preparing for
an aquatic contest, to take place some
time this month, in the cove of Sulli
van’s Island.
It is probable that the shops of the
Spartanburg and Union Biilroad will be
rebuilt at Spartanburg, both for the
Spartanburg and Asheville and the
Union Railroads.
The Press and Banner says that “if
Lowndosville allows the Georgians to
get the contemplated railroad from Au
gusta to Clayton, Abbeville will be for
ever left out in the cold.”
The Columbia Register truthfully re
marks that with Mclver as Associate
Justice and Kershaw upon the Circuit
Bench, it will indeed seem that South
Carolina has her own again.
The Abbeville Banner says that “the
Augusta Chkonigle and Constitution-
AiiisT is a choice daily. The weekly
issue of that paper should be taken by
every man iu Abbeville county.”
The Charleston News says that Mr.
Viett, the sculptor, is hard at work
carving a heautiful shaft to be erected
over the grave of the beloved lady of
tho Rev. W. H. Adams, at Athens, Ga.
A (11.ANCE AT THE CKPUNALS.
llling punier uf a Woman—A Hlart
lipg i onfession in Hie Penitentiary—Wns
the Wrong .Man Hung for the Mutter of a
liirl A Desperate IMan Regains Hit* Lib
erty.
Richmond, Va., June 9.— Jack Pleas
ants, colored, was hanged at Dinwiddle
Court House yesterday for the murder
of Ann Lundy, colored.
At Opelousas, St, Tammany parish,
Louisiana, yesterday, Louis Rosseau
was hanged for the murder of Cyrus
Brignao.
Chicago, June 9. —A confossion just
mado by two criminals confined in the
Ohio penitentiary, if true, proves that
the wrong man was hanged for the mur
der of a young girl named Mary Murray,
waylaid, outraged and murdered near
Pontiac, Illinois, id 18ft9. A young man
named Wyley L, Morris was arrested,
tried and convicted of the crime, lint
solemnly swore to his innocence to his
last momenta upon the scaffold.
New Yoke, June 9. Charles. Reoker
and Frederick Elliott, indicted for the
forgery of a $04,000, cheek and passing
it on the Union Trust Company, weee
taken to the Supreme Court chambers
this morning on a habeas corpus. Roth
were bronght to tne Court handcuffed.
Wheu inside the building the manacles
were removed and almost instantly El
liott sprang to the door and disappeared
in the crowd. Up, tq the present time
he has nof been recaptured.
COMPRO MISE with criminals.
Ex-Comptroller Connolly Wont
—fn Fact) 110 liUinmtcv, a* Much.
New Yoke, Judo 9.— The Herald says
that what ex-Controller Connolly’s son
in-law did say about the latter’s alleged
offer to compromise was this: “Con
nolly told me that he would sec the city
of New York eternally tiamned before
he would give it a cent, and that he
didn't care if he never saw the place
again.”
KEY’S SOUTHpHN EXCURSION.
Highly Pleased—Fast Mails to New Orleans.
Washington, June G.—Posimaster-
General Key speaks with mush satisfac
tion of his recent trip to the South, and
with his intercourse with the business
men aDd citizens in regard to the postal
service. The appropriation of $175,000
for fast trains between here and New
Orleans, Judge regards as inade
quate, but he will employ ft to the best
advantage, distributing it to such roads
as shall bring up the speed of the mail
trains to the requirements of the public j
Service.
BUYING RUBBER.
Kxteiibive Sale in Bouton—-Tho Rtnc ofPriwtt
and Fall of Humors.
Boston, June 8. —The rubber sale
closed to-day. The Western bnyers who
held back on Thursday hoping to, get
goods cheaper to-day, were disappoint
ed, as prices advanced towards the
close of the sale, and they were com
pelled to pay from 5 to 10 per cent, more
for the same classes of goods than they
brought at the opening of the sale. The
prices to-day ruled about fifteen per
cent, below the combination price list.
The result is eminently satisfactory to
manufacturers.
In a letter from “John Cain’' to, the
Montpelier Argus, dated Rutland, Vc.,
March 19, the writer does not predict
very brilliant results to the town from
the rumored removal of the “Howe
Beale Works” from Brandon to Rutland.
He writes as follows:
“I sbonld be glad to witness the
bnilding np of Rutland; bnt, in this
matter of the ‘Howe Scale Works,’ is
there net a cat under the meal ? These
works have been in operation about
twenty years, and no one has yet re
alised any dividends. There is a con
troversy as to the water power, and an
expensive big law suit pending relative
to the rmht of the present Company to
the Strong and Ross scale patents. The
stock has been too freely watered. The
capital is 8250,000, while the amount
given into the Grand List is only $17,-
500. It is said), too, that application
has beep made for additional injunction
bonds for $20,000 in the case pending as
to the patents.
The Gordon Light Infantry, Hamp
ton Rifle Guard and the Greenbrier
Rifles, of Fairfield county, think of
forming a battalion.
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Moiitezumu has singing soirees.
The poultry in Coweta are dying up.
An alligator club is fishing down in
Dooley.
The Oxford Senior Class have finished
their studies.
Covington has planted plenty of
watermelon seed.
The Cherokee Railroad is doing well
for these hard times.
Ham is said to have passed off as a
single man in Thomasville.
Two elderly ladies live in Fayette
county, aged 104 and 94 years.
A Walton county man oomes to the
front with the first cotton bloom.
An experienced agriculturist in Bar
tow advises farmers to save their wheat
dry.
Mark A. Hodin, Esq., of Bartow, is a
candidate for Secretary of the Conven
tion.
Fine wheat crops and the Convention
cause florish in Gwinnett without op
position.
Bartow’s new jail is not air tight.
Four prisoners recently escaped from
Cartersville,
The Herald states that Squire Thomas
Bennett, an old citizen of Gwinnett, died
last Monday.
Nearly all the track on tVe State Road
between Atlanta and Cartersville is com
posed of steel rails.
A young lady in Fort Yallev is named
after Longfellow’s Indian princess,
“Laughing Water.”
It now seems to be the impression of
the State papers that Gov. Colquitt
knows what he is about.
A Newton county debating olub has
decided that woman’s education should
be superior to that of man.
Two ladies aud two childreu came
near being drowned in Butts, by their
horses baekiug into a mill pond.
The Georgian states that the Air Line
has joined the Georgia Railroad in its
freight discriminations against Athens.
The Covington Enterprise says that
almost every white man, woman nnd
child in Starrsville are Good Templars.
Now that the war in Europe places
provisions out of their reach, Barnesville
merchants think it no harm to go fish
ing.
Tlie Cartersville Express states that
several Fulton county men think that
the anti Convention ticket will carry
the day in that county.
The Barnesville Gazette states that
tho several volunteer corps of Griffin,
Forsyth and Barnesville are ngitating a
camp battalion drill at Indiau Spring
shortly.
The following are the Oxford Junior
speakers, as we learn from the Coving
ton Enterprise: A. E. Bird, Guyton,
Ga.; W. .1. Harris, Griffin, Ga.; J. C.
L-ngston, Elberton, Ga.; A. S. Lovejoy,
Oxford, Ga.; A. IT. MacDonell, Macon,
Ga ; R J. Muuroe, Quincy, Fin ; T. D.
O’Kelly, Conyers, Ga.; T. D. Oliver,
Alexander, Ga.; L. Z. Rosser, Oxford,
Ga.; H. W. Smith, Oxford, Ga.; A. W.
Wilder, Forsyth, Ga.; J. F. Regers, So
cial Circle, Ga.
Protracted meetings coutinueiu Romo.
Mrs. P. A. Clayton, of Columbus, is
dead.
Huiidersville boasts of its charming
widows.
Captain P. W. Sale, of Lincoln coun
ty, is dead.
Mayfield ushered iu tho month with a
rousing pie-nic.
The Lincoluton Debating Sooiety has
been resurrected.
George Norton, a typo, died in Rome
Saturday morning.
Atlanta is rigidly enforcing her cow
and hog ordinance.
Mules in Washington county are dy
ing up from eating sand.
The Burke county negroes have nomi
nated a Convention ticket.
A Y. M. C. A. will probably be or
ganized in Hancock county.
The Independent announces that tho
Atlanta Water Works is a failure.
The election for delegates to the Con
vention takes places next Tuesday.
Rattlesnakes and baso balls aro skim
ming the grass arround Columbus.
This is tho only time of the year when
tho ootton crop comes out “square.”
Dominoes and marbles are the chief
sources of amusement iu Sandersville.
Captain Jas. Hicks is a candidate for
tho Convention from Johnson county.
Tlie hum of the thresher is heard in
the dell, aud tho wheat stork lieth low.
They are running Joseph E. Brown
upon an anti-Convention ticket in At
lanta.
Gov. Colquitt, Hon. B. H. Hill, Hon,
W. H. Felton and lady were in Rome
Tuesday.
Judge Pottle would not allow his
name to be used in the Convention from
his distriot.
Atlanta lias thirty-five barber shops.
Next to goodliness, there’s nothing
equal to barber shops.
Revs. W. H. Trammell and P. F. Bur
gess are conducting a Beries of prayer
meetings at Lincoluton.
Mr. Geo. Smith, of Warrenton, jump
ed off tbo train last Friday, near tho
Ogoechee river, and was seriously hurt.
It is said that Senators Gordon and
Hill have both recommended Mayor
Huff, of Macon, for the State Marshal
ship.
There was a square acre of courting
done at the Mayfield picnic, says tho
Clipper, and not a single engagement
made.
Harry Wilborne, who made his escape
from tho penitentiary nine years ago,,
lias recently been captured at Chatta
nooga,
A young mail in Warren county, 22
years old, has never taken a drink of
whisky, a chow of tobacco, nor smoked
a cigar.
The kitchen of Mizel G. Wood, Sr.,
of Washington county, together with its
contents, was accidentally burned a few
days since.
To say that Ham is settling down once
more would be to put it mildly. The
Clipper this week sparkles like a newly,
polished sherry oobbler.
A little son of Malaohi Shurling, of
Satidersville, was kicked by a horse on
tho bead and so seriously injured, that
it is feared death will ensue.
Major Georgo Hillyer, of Atlanta, has
been appointed, by Governor Colquitt,
Judge of the Fulton Circuit, to fill the
vaciuicy caused by Judge Peeples.
Mr. W. H. Howard, Jr., was upon the
Maeon train at its recent run off,
but was uninjured. Dr. Lovick Pierce
was in a car which did not leave the
track.
Wm. Zimmer, a United States soldier,
was run over aud killed by an engine
Wednesday afternoon, at one of the At
lanta street crossings, He was intoxi
cated.
The Thirteenth District sends two
: preachers as delegates to tho proposed
Constitutional Convention—Rev. George
F. Cooper, of Sumter, and Eider John
R. Respess, of Soliley county.
The McDuffie Journal notes that in a
little pie-nic scuffle Col. Ham, of the
Ciipper, was knocked down with an
empty sarsaparilla bottle and seriously
hurt. The whole affair was in the ut
most good humor.
Some evil minded sage in the Atlanta
oaper is continually advising Col. Trip
lett, of the ThomaHville Times, to get
married. While we do not believo that
“there’s anything in a name,” we mnst
admire tho prudence of the Thomas
ville editor, and commend him to all
rising young men as a “gentleman aud
a scholar.”
Among other thiDgs, it is suggested
that the whole medical profession North,
South, F<ast and West unite in asking
Congress to appropriate $400,000 as “an
anaesthesia fund,” to be divided equally
between the families of the four physi
cians, in which case Dr. Orawfonl’W.
Long, of Athens, would certainly reap
his just reward.
TIIE FRINGE OF PEANYM.
lls w Ihe Yttnnjf Kina fToarlsliis—'The U'lfc
tun Crop in the Houlh—Reports Front l.oulsl
una, Mississippi awl Arkansan.
New Omjjans, June 9.—The National
Cotton Exchange has made its report
for May. Louisiana has an increase of
area of cotton equal to 1 per cent.; the
stand being generally good, but a trifle
later, no commercial fertilizers nsed.
Mississippi—lncrease area 2 per cent.,
weather average, stands fair bnt a week
late; labor good; the use of fertilizers
limited. Arkansas—l per cent, increase
area, weather too cool and dry, stand
small and ten days late; labor ample;
| no fertilizers used.
Alabama—Considerable increase of
i area, weather somewhat less favorable,
f stand fair to good, crops abont ten days
late, labor more satisfactory. Missisip
pi— Slight increase of area, weather less
favorable, crops ten days late, condition
of crops good, clear bnt small. Nash
ville-Exchange reports increase in area,
weather generally less favorable, crops
average 12 days later, no commercial
fertilizers used.
Jubilee Offerings to the Pope*
[jVeto York Herald.]
The contributions to the Pope, exclu
sive resents of articles of value from
various countries', whifch have hlrCadj*
been presented to his Holiness, are very
large. It may be mentioned that the
subscriptions of the people of Ireland
were made up of small’sums, although
one oounty (Wicklow) contributed $5,-
000. Cardinal Cullen took tp Romp
S3#,QOQ collected in Dublin alone- Tbq
principal offerings were as follows :
Franco.... ...$220,n00 j Germany I 70,000
United States. 100,000 I Belgium- .... 70,000
Ireland ...... 130,000 Forrugal...., 42,000
Italy 100,000 1 Australia 73,000
Spain 100,000 | Canada ...... 30,000
England 100 000 I Holland 32,000
Austria 75,000 | Scotland 30,000
S. American.. 75,000 j Switzerland.. 26,004)