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Chamberlain has adopted Beecher h
plan. He will brazen it oat.
The Democratic vote in Bangor,
Maine, fell off from 1,732 to 171.
Simon Cameron lias had a warning.
His brother William has just died, aged
84.
Just now, it is au even wager whether
the “Sedan” will be Turkish or Rus
sian. _
Pig Iron Kelley says the Sheriff is
the busiest and happiest man in Phila
delphia.
Ninety-five per cent, of murders in
France are for money ; the same ratio in
Spain can be traced to love—that is to
woman.
Some of the brethren will not believe
in Morton’s improved condition, unless
the assurance is conveyed under his own
signature.
Eliza Pinkston has recovered from
her “ghastly wounds” and gains a pre
carious living by plying the nimble hoe
npon a Mississippi plantation.
The Virginia papers are of opinion
that the success of the bar-keeper’s bell
punch depends largely upon the man
who turns tho crank. It is like the maD
behind the gun. m
An English Court paper informs the
fashionable world that the ex-Empress
Eugenie “is enjoying the society of
Cowes.” Why don’t she come to Au
gnGta and bo happy ?
We read of a Cincinnati drummer
being robbed of 88,000 in jewelry. We
thought the advance agent of a circus or
minstrel troupe could alone support
*mch a dazzling outfit-
Antwerp has spent 3300,060 in gold
for the celebration of Rcbens’ tercen
tenary. And yet he was not born in
Antwerp, and probably wanted cash
sioroly there 300 years ago.
We learn that tho membors of the X’aia
graphers’ Association have a?reed to leave all
their money to the Ear Infirmary. New York
Herald.
Is this intended to reflect upon the
Dem. .Tack. Ass. of Washington ?
The new era bids fair, after 1879, to
witness an honest Republican President
carrying out Democratic measures, and
supported in doing so by a Senate and
House, both Democratic.
Tjie people of Canada who came in
contact with Spencer, the fugitive bank
robber, thought him a great liar. He
soeins to have carried out Dr. Frank
lin's theory that falsehood and theft are
always twins. *
Old Uncle William Allen, in an in
terview liberally interlarded with “cuss
words,” attributed Tilden’s loss of the
Presidency to bis Southern claims letter.
He thinks that broke the back of the
•“forty Brigadiers."
Ex-Treasurer Niles O. Parker,
whose “clean breast” is now a sensation
of tho day, has becomo a noted temper
ance lecturer. Ho will very likely cause
Chamberlain ct at. to nso some very in
temperate remarks.
The Springfield Republican rather
favors casos of eutlianasin, like that of
Mrs. Julia Key. It does not seo the
sense of scientifically preserving a pain
ful life, when the sufferer is willing and
anxious to depart. The trouble is, how
over, that “hopeless cases” often get
■well.
Or.i) physicians insisted npon the
danger of bathing when tho system is
heated aud perspiration free. The best
English doctors, headed by Fordyce,
<3ufjiiiE, Parsons, Sir Charles Blagdon
and others, now contond that then is
the very best possible timo to take a
.bath. | .
TnE New York Democracy are quar
roling over their party nominations. One
faction wants tho old Slate officials re
nominated, and another faction wants a
new deal of straight-out men, instead of
recent converts. This would be an ugly
crisis if the Republicans wore united.
But they aro not. Boscob CoNKLING has
his war paint on.
■ .
Gen. 15. F. Butler believes that “the
grout trouble of tho futuro will be want
of education. With good education
there will bo good government.” Men
who ran the Radical machine, for a num
ber of years past, must have been ex
-oeodiugly illiterate. Aud yet many of
them bad tho impudence to laugh at
Fitzhugh’s spelliug.
Harper's Weekly thinks this is a
good time to abolish the idea that “to
the -rioters belong tho spoils.” Now
that tho Democracy are about to resume
control of tho Government, and every
thing has beeu subsidized to benefit the
North, there must all of a sudden be a
return of the days of innocence, but no
restoration of the plunder !
It is a grand thing to be a lunatic in
confinement in Loudon. According to
the report of th 3 managers of one asy
lum 109 “amusements” were given dur
ing the year, attended by 17,000 people.
These included nine balls, fifty dances,
fifty-four croquet parties, three dra
matic entertainments, five tea parties,
six concerts, eleven lectures, fifteen pic
nics, and what are stated to be “four
.Megatherium Societies.”
“Tns possible purchase of a Southern
Senator” is gently hinted by the Repub
lican press, in case of urgency, during
the extra session of Congress. Of course
the “purchasing” is to bo done by De
*.-erats to secure control of that body.
The carpet-baggers could likely enough
be bought for a consideration, but the
Democracy, who scorned to win the
rresidency by buying Returning Boards,
are not apt to go into Senatorial sharp
practice.
The Governor of Maryland has in
flicted a most degrading punishment
upon the Sixth Regiment of Militia for
responding so lukewarmly to the call
for troops during the recent riots. He
t>*s accepted the resignations of the
fieid officers and disbanded the regi
ment, giving his reasons therefor. The
punishment is as just as it is humiliat
ing. Men have no business to play at
being soldiers who will not be soldiers
in earnest.
Geo. E. Spencer, the sutler Senator
from A.’abama, made a little romance of ]
his marriage. Tho bride was an aetress
whose stage name was May Nunez. Her
real name, odd S3 sonni1 ' was 1
William Louisa Nttrez. Her father
was a Major in the Confederate army,
and her uncle is General William
Lorisg, formerly of the Southern, now
of the Egyptian service. SrF-seEirmet j
her in the New York Post Office, where
she was discharging her father's duties
daring his illness. She is a favorite j
with General Patrick Joxus and Hon.
Thomas MritFHEY, prominent Republi
can officials of New York. As the bride
was a Catholic and the Senator a Pro
testant, a dispensation for the marriage
bad to be obtained from Cardinal Me
Olqskv. Sfesckk was formerly a bar
tender in San Francisoe, and his first
wife is said to have died in California
with a broken heart-if there be any
such disease known to the faculty. We
wish the second one a better fate, but
ftat bar husband will end hi* days be
hind the bare of a penitentiary, we have
not the slightest doubt. The marriage
was secret because of the jealousy of a
New York JEsculapics, who was madly
in love with the pretty actress, and
Anight have made mischief with his little
lancet if he had been aware of what was
going on. _
WILLIAM HOPE HILL.
The sad intelligence was received yes
terday of the sudden death, in New
York, of Hon. William Hope Hull, of
this city. Mr. Hull came of an old
and honored family. His grandfather,
Rope Hull, son of an Englishman of
that name, was born in Worcester coun
ty, Maryland, March 13, 1763. He
moved to Georgia, and established a
high school in Washington, Wilkes
connty, in the la'ter part of the last cen
tury. He was one of the founders of
Methodism in this State. His bi
ographer, Hon. A. H. Stephens, says :
“ He was a man of great usefulness aud
distinction in his day, and made au im
pression upon the time3 in Georgia that
will remain for generations to come.”
His father, Asbcry Hull, was born in
Washington, January 30, 1797. He
graduated at the State University in
1814, and was for more than forty years
Secretary and Treasurer of the Board of
Trustees of that institution. He was
often a member of the Legislature, and
repeatedly Speaker of the House. He
was also a member of the Secession
Convention of 1861, aud declined the
Presidency of that body. He died in
Athens, January 25th, 1866. William
Hope Hull was born in Athens, Febru
ary 20, 1820. He entered the University
and graduated in 1888. After his gradu
ation he studied law, and early won dis
tinction in his profession. He was
elected Solicitor General of the West
ern Judicial Circuit, and discharged the
duties of that responsible position in
sueli a way as to greatly add to the
reputation which he had already ac
quired. He soon became known as one
of the ablest lawyers at the bar of bis
State, and secured a large and lncrative
practice. In politics he was a Demo
crat and a warm supporter and intimate
personal friend of Howell Cobb. When
James Buchanan was inaugurated Pres
ident in ias7, he called Mr. Cobb to his
Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury,
and Mr. Hull was appointed Assistant
Attorney-General of the United States.
When secession was determined upon
he returned to Georgia and cast his
fortunes with tho South. Since the war
he has resided in Augusta, and prac
ticed his profession—confining himself
to the civil side of the Courts. For
several years, and up to the time of his
death, he was the attorney of the Geor
gia Railroad, one of the largest corpora
tions iu the State.
Asa lawyer, Mr. Hull’s charaoteris
tics were learning, clearness aud force.
He made no protention to eloquence,
though at times he was decidedly elo
quent; but his eloquence was a result,
not au aim and a study—the result of
perfect perspicuity of ideas aud the use
of simple aud appropriate language to
convey them. With a decided taste for
books aud without either the cares or the
diversions of domestic life, ho devoted
an unusual proportion of his time to
study. Time bestowed by such a mind
could but load to the acquisition of
very extensive learning; and it in turn
was firmly held by a remarkably retent
ive memory. He was not at all a “ease
lawyer,” but far above that inferior or
der of his profession. His opinions of
questions were determined by tho sound
application of general principles .and
the accurate aud minute knowledge of
the exceptions, which vary their opera
tion. When he had investigated a ques
tion his judgment was nearly invariably
correct. When be considered it correct
his presentation of it was animated, but
temperate, confident but deferen
tial, clear, forcible, convincing.--
When ho had not satisfied his own
sense of truth it was not easy for
him to insist pven on those
views favorable to that side, which, upon
the whole, he considered unsound, lie
was wholly devoid of that effrontery in
presenting a bad case as a good one which
some lawyers are found shamoless
enough to beast pf, aud some laymen
stupid enough to applaud. Mr. Hull
considered that the argument ot purely
legal questions wns his forte; aud in
this opinion he was correct. But he was
not correct in the distrust he felt of bis
powers before a jury. Before good
juries, looking for tkoir guidance to the
plaiu, simple, cloar presentation of facts
and principles, no sdvooate was, or do
served to bo, more successful; but in
pleasing contrast with the vanity of
some of his shallower brethren he had
an unwarranted but unconquerable diffi
dence of ii< powers in this branch of
his profession.
Mr. Hull possessed in a hfglf dogree
all the qualities that go to make up S
mvn. His private life was without spot
or blemish. Though tho possessor of
great talents aud a great reputation, he
was singularly modest and unassuming.
He entertained decided convictions
which he never hesitated to express, but
he had no spark of partisanship. He
was loyal in his friendships, placable in
his eumitles, and he had a warm heart
and a generous nature, His death will be
deplored by a circle of friends as wide
almost as his acquaintanceship, aud
will bo regarded as a public calamity.
His friends, bis relatives and bis State,
have indeed sustained an irreparable
loss.
THE NORTHERN POOR.
Iu some editorial remarks upon the
propriety of seeking employment in the
South, tho New York Daily Bulletin as
sumes that there are 50,000 to 70,000 out
of employmentin New York city,and says
that the Philadelphia North American
estimates that there are not less than
one hundred and fifty thousand out of
work in that city. There is a restless
spirit everywhere at tho North among
many thousands of the unemployed, es
pecially of great cities, to seek better
fortune abroad. Stupendous efforts are
being made to direct these people
Southward, but without much success.
One of the most singular problems of
the age is imbedded in this very thing.
It would appear, at once, that the ten
dency of migration would be Southward;
but it is not. STc one who has net ex
amined the matter eac comprehend
the aversion toward settling ip the
South. A good deal of this aversion is
purely chimerical and in consequence of
Radical misrepresentation, but not all.
A gentleman in Baltimore, largely in
terested in Southern railroads, told
the writer that li9 had been in
strumental in settling about seven
ty persons in a rather favored
region of North Carolina, but, within a
few months, at least two-thirds of them
returned, preferring to face the fntnre,
dismal as it was, in their old homes.
The general complaint was that thpy
were lonesome and had few or no sym
pathetic associations. Col. D. Wiaft
Aiken, of South Carolina, who has trav
eled extensively beyond the Border,
with a most inquiring disposition, re
gards the negro as the stumbling block
to the majority of Northern men who
wish to make a movement of this kind.
He contends that, so long the present
condition of the South endures, sis can
not hope for any pronounced increase of
population from abroad. The truth of
tU matter is, we think, that the persons
who wish to move South are
such as w Ao not want or
need, and those of fcue North who are
moat desirable will not come, because
thev caniiAt procure here the many ad
vantages they have in their own coun
try, or expect, with some reason, to get
Westward. We must bide our time.
The centres of wealth and population
i are changing slowly. At the proper
i time the South will have all the induce
ments presented by more favored sec
tions. We can wait tilt then. Mean
while, all who come among us with the
proper feelings will meet with the best
welcome at disposal.
Frank Leslie’s Weekly has a capital
cartoon of the Indian war. It repre
sents Chief Joseph and General How
ard mounted on the wooden horses of a
merry-go-round, like that at our Schuet
zenplatz, while Brother Jonathan grinds
the machine around.
TWO SMITHS.
It is regarded as certain that Hon. Ws. E.
Smith will be the Republican candidate for
Governor of Wisconsin, and equally ceitain
that he will he elected.— St. Paul Free Press.
We have a W*. E. Smith in Georgia,
who is a member of Congren from the
Second District. He was the only mem
ber from this State, and one of the few
from the South,who voted against creat
ing the seven-by-eight Electoral Com
mission. After Aliunde Joe had done
the appointed work and it was certain
that Tildes wonld be counted ont and
Hayes be counted in, it is said that a
shrewd politician from Middle Georgia
who was on a visit to Washington pre
dicted to Mr. Smith—“Tete Smith” the
boys call him—that that vote wonld make
him Governor of Georgia. “Congress
man thou art, Governor thon shalt be.”
Did the weird sisters speak truly ? This
is a conundrum which the future must
determine. In the meantime Ba
con’s ideal statesmen who are willing to
sacrifice themselves for their country
and take Governor Colquitt’s seat had
better keep their eagle eyes skinned and
watch the man in Southwestern Georgia
who voted against the Commission and
concerning whom the words of prophecy
have been spoken.
SOUTH CAROLINA’S QUOTA OF ARMS.
It has been widely diffused through
the press that Governor Hampton could
not, on application at Washington, get
the quota of arms allowed for his State,
because the War Department had secret
ly sent all the arms the State will be
entitled, for forty years, to the negroes
who composed the Radical militia.
This, if true, would be damning evidence
against certain authorities under the
Grant Administration. Chandler,
Cameron, Patterson, Chamberlain and
Grant are odious enough already with
out any additional burdens of infamy.
Later information from Washington
wonld seem to put at rest this startling
statement. A special dispatch to
the Northern press pronounces the
story false, “ for it is in direct
contradiction of law, which provides for
the distribution of arms annually to all
States according to representation in
Congress, The quota for South Caroli
na was distributed a year ago, and no
extra supply has been sent, so far as
known to the War Department.” We
shall look for a more authoritative de
nial. So many villanies have been per
petrated, during the last ten years, “in
contradiction of law,” that any fresh
revelation of rascality would not surprise
the public. What Grant’s manipulators,
in and out of the Cabinet, did not know
about “contradicting law” is not worth
knowing.
THE SPARTA TRAGEDY.
The arrest of Enright in Cleveland,
Ohio, and his return to this oity, re
vives public interest in the Sparta
tragedy. It will be remembered that
sometime since Mr. F. H. Roeier, a
prominent merchant of Sparta, Ga.,
was waylaid while going from his store
to his house, robbed aud murdered.
Suspicion rested on three men— Lovett,
Griggs and Barnes. The two former
were tried and convicted. Fortunately
they were convicted upon circumstan
tial pyidenpe, and consequently were
not sentenced to death f hut to impris
onment for life in the penitentiary.
Barnes’ trial is still pending. Shortly
after the conviction of the two first
mentioned a man named ENRioaT, who
was connected with the circus which
wintered here last Wipter? told a party
in this oity that a mistake had been
made, that he kuew the real murderers,
and had been asked to join them before
they started on their expedition. He
entered into all the details of the case,
and doiftG&slrated that he was either
telling tke truth op had concocted a lie
of gigantic dimensions. left
here soon after upon the reorganisation
of tho circus company, and when the
counsel of Barnes decided to act upon
his slatijiftent he oould not be found.
Tho service# of a qetectivo were so
cured, and EspiPHT was arrested a few
days since in Cleveland, Ohio, and
brought to Augusta. His evidence will
will be used on the trial of Barnes this
Fall, If his story is true, aud the real
authors of. the crime should be secured,
of course Lovett *i;d Griggs escape
tha punishment to which fo e 7 h ave
been and another illustra
tion will bo afforded Qf th e terrible mis
takes which may flow from ffjraqmstan
tial evidence. The story, howevei, is a
strange one, aud will bear a good deal
of gjf*ju|r.
CAI.I.INU FOB HELP-
We have already shown how the
ple at the East and West are relying
politically and commercially upon the
South for good government and pros
perous trade. They wo likewise ap
prehensive, at Creedmoor, that the Brit
ish team of marksmen may beat the
Americans, and so the Herald, as the
spokesman of the public, is lustily
crying out for Mr. Dudley Selfh, the
New Orleans rifleman, to oome to the
help of his fellow-countrymen, ft says ;
The rifle practice of the British team last
Saturday was so far superior to auy of it*
previ Q&g performances that the eyes of the
Am?itcaenddenly opened to the fact
that they had underrate the skill of our visi
tors. The average then tutu* ky the British
riflemen (203 35) is so new to that of the fcpst
average of the Americans (205) that the two
teams now stand virtually equal in their prac
tice, and the over-confidence in American suc
cess which was expressed iu many quarters is
now giving place to a reasonable doubt as to
tho result. Prudence, therefore, dictates that
tho American team should leave nothing un
done to increase its strength between this
time and the I3th instant. The first step in
this direction should be to secure the services
of Mr. Dudley pf Louisiana, as a mem
bor of our team iu the international match.
Mr. Selph has proved himself to be ,gne of the
best shots iu America, and has achieved a
national reputation. It is understood that the
of our team are very desirous that
Mr- SjfLl’it should shoot at Creedmoor for the
championship gf the world; but for reasons
of his own, he prefers tg reserve himself for
the inter-State match which i* Ac follow. It is
of the utmost importance that our heat rifle
men should represent the United States in th, o
grand contest, and Mr. Selph ought not to be
left out. It is now in his power to render
his country wiiliapt service, and we can see
no good reason why he should refuse the op
portunity. The team, no doubt, is jyijling to
withdraw its lowest man to make a plac*. for
this distinguished marksman of the South,
and Mr. Selph should remember that if he
declines to serve and the Americans should
loso the tu*tph, much of tho responsibility of
defeat will rest with Jim.
Really, this is very flattering and the
South will watch the career of her fa
mous markstuaß, who has already, ae we
learn by telegraph, won the Wimbledon
Cup, a very great prize, which, wo un
derstand, the British team fondly hoped
to carry back with them. Verily, the
South is looming up in all directions,
and the Macedonian cry resounds in the
sections which sought to crush her :
“Come over and help us 1”
If Sargent, of California, is such a
monumental rascal, and so deservedly
defeaiad, what must be said of Grant,
who backed him up with patronage, and
made him a personal, as well as political
intimate ? Salgbnt goes to the limbo
of lost demagogues. Grant makes a
triumphal tour of Europe and receives
the freedom of metropolitan cities. The
difference no cjonbt is that between a
first class brigand and the spoiler of a
chicken-roost.
Tap New York Sun reports a deter
mination oo the part of Senator Conk
lino to denounee the frond which made
Mr. Hayes President, and nrges the
New York Senator forward in the work.
If the report proves true, it will be a
novel spectacle to see a Republican
President’s title questioned by a Repub
lican Senator while Democratic Senators
decline to re-open a question which they
consider settled. But while Mr. Conk
ling has been sulking, AoHiLLBs-like, in
his tent for some time, we doubt
whether he intends to play the role as
signed him by the Sun ,
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
A LETTER FROM EX-POSTMASTER
GENERAL REAGAN
To GorStifcor Porter, ol Tennessee, Hiving a
UireaiaatantltLl statement of the Fliglil
from Rlehinou)! and Unplure of .Hr. Davis—
.... Leoernl Wilson’* Article Answered —The
- Brest rkrul Rnider a. a Minrrpresenler
of Facts.
Governor James I). Porter, Nashville,
Tennessee :
On my return home, after au absence
of a month, I find yonr letter of July
17th, enclosing a communication from
General James H. Wilson to the Phila
delphia Weekly Times, headed “Jeffer
son Davis’ Flight from Richmond.”
You asked me to inform yoa how much
truth there is in the statement of General
Wilson, and say that you desire my an
swer for publication, and request me to
make it full. My answer is at your dis
posal, and may be published or not, as
you think best. I will answer this ar
ticle as well as I can remember the facts
at this date, and those which are mate
rial so far as they come to my knowl
edge were doubtless so impressed on
my mind by the deep interest of the oc
casion that they will not be forgotten. I
have in the outset to say that General
Wilson must have written his statement
from information derived from others,
as he could not personally have known
the facts about which he writes ; and
that he has either adopted the fanciful
fiction of others who know as little of
the real facts as himself, or he has been
egregiously imposed on. I have read
the slip you sent mo twice carefnlly
over, and if there is a truth in it, out
side of the great historical facts inci
dentally referred to—of the fall of Rich
mond and surrender of General Lee—l
have not discovered it. On the contrary,
it is made up of statements which are
utterly void of truth. I will call atten
tion to some of them. The statement
has been made by
General Wilson,
As it has been made in many other
newspaper articles, that “on the first
Sunday in April, 1865, while seated iu
St. Paul’s Church, in Richmond, Jef
ferson Davis received a telegram from
Lee announcing the fall of Petersburg,
the partial destruction of his army, and
the immediate necessity of flight.” On
that point I make this statement: On
the Sunday referred to I went by the
War Department on my way to church.
When at the Department I was informed
of two dispatches just received from
General Lee, stating briefly the circum
stances which made it necessary for him
to withdraw his army from its position
in front of Richmond aud Petersburg at
seven o’clock that evening, and that it
wonld be necessary for the Government
archives and public property to be re
moved at once. On receiving this in
telligence, not knowing that Mr. D ivis
had already received it, I walked toward
his residence, which was a few hundred
yards off, to confer with him about it,
and on the way met him aud Governor
Lubbock, of his staff. We three then
walked on to the Executive office. He
then assembled his Cabinet and sent for
The Governor of Virginia anil the Mayor of
Rlcliiiioihl,
Directions were then given to prepare
the public archives for removal, and
measures were considered and directions
given to secure, as far as practicable,
good order and safety to persons and
property in the oity until it should be
surrendered. In this jyaper it \ s a i so
said that, “Although he (Mr. Davis)
could not have been entirely unprepared
for this intelligence, it appears that he
did not receive it with self-possession or
dignity, but with tremulous and ner
vous haste; like a weak man in the hour
of misfortune, he left the house of wor
ship and hurried home, where he and
his more resolute wife spent the rest of
the day in packing their personal bag
gage.” And it is added that “those
who are acquainted with tho personal
character of Mrs. Davis can readily
imagine with what energy and determina
tion she must have prepared her family
for flight,” etc. And that “they may
believe, too, that although heart-sick
and disgusted, there was nothing irreso
lute or vacillating iu her actions.” I
would express my surprise, if I could be
surprised now by anything of this kind,
that such a statement should come from
any respectable souroe. Now tho truth
is,
Hr. Davis
Did not, “with tremulous and nervous
haste, hurry home to his more resolute
wife.” From where I met him he went
directly to the executive office, where he
remained nearly all day, and, if I re
member right, a part of the niglit, look
ing after and giving directions in rela
tion to public affairs, aiid seeming to
take no notice of his private matters.
He did not go to wliere his wife was, or
act with her in preparing for flight, for
neither sho or their children were in
Richmond or had been for three or four
weeks before that time. And lam sure
there is no man who saw Mr. Davis on
that trying occasion but was impressed
with his calm manjy dignity, his de
votion to the public iniprpgt, find his
courage. It is apparent ifcuat one object
of this statement is to try to produce
the impression that Mr. Davis, in tho
hour of extreme peril, had forgotten his
grand office and trust, and descended to
(Lie care of his personal baggage, while
the Confederate Government was dis
solving; and that another of its objects
was to show that, bn this great occasion,
he was irresolute, tremulous, peryous
and wanting iff
Bclf-i'osMe*sii dignity.
Nothing could be further from the
truth; and I ventnro the statement that
there is no one who saw him then, or
! vyljo fane w his character, who would not
unhesiiaiiugly contradict such a state
ment; and I Venture t(,o farther sugges
tion that neither of these charges will
ever be sustained, nor will any attempt
ever he made to sustain them by any le
gitimate or trustworthy evidence, and
that tiu hie p r will make S’ldl charges who
has respect for and a just regard
for hjs own reputation. "It la iuLt for
me to ay that early in the war Mr Da
vis allowed ali his property to be'de
stroyed, or carried away from where it
was in Mississippi, without making
any effort to save it, and the fact
thep noted as evidence of his
entire unselfish ns-s. It is further
said in this paper jth£f .“ft nightfall
everything was in readiness, e.yeu the
gold in the Treasury, not .exceeding in
all forty thousand dollars, was packed
away among the baggage,” etc, H it
is ipeant by this statement simply that
the mouey in the Treasury, gold and
all, was taken with the archives and
public property away 'fiou, jiichmond
by the proper department officers, the
statement is correct But if it is meant
by Uli? insidious form of a statement to
be understood that this or any other
public money was tajk,vu from Richmond
iu Mr. Davis’ baggage, jhp state
ment is wholly untrue,'
All Absurd Statement,
It is also said in this paper, when
speaking of the train which carried Mr.
Davis and other officers from Richmond,
that d'tbto train, it is said, was one
whieh had .carried proyi&toss to Amelia
Court House for Lee’s hard-greased and
hungry army, and having been ordered
to Richmond, had taken tijpse supplies
to that place, where they were abandon
ed for a more ignoble freight." This
whole paragraph is ridiculously absurd.
No supplies were theu being carried
from the Souto to Richmond; I mean
after Lee’s retreat Begun, And it was a
train of passenger, and not of freight
cars, which carried the persons referred
to, and was provided for the express
purpose of carrying them off. Genera!
Wilson also says : “It is stated, upon
what appears good authority, that Da
vis had, many weeks before Lee's catas
trophe, made the careful and exacting
preparations for his escape, discussing
the matter fully with his Cabinet iu pro
found secrecy, and deciding that in or
der to secure the escape of himself and
his principal officers, the Shenandoah
should be ordered to cruise off the coast
of Florida to take the fugitives abroad.
These orders were Bent to the rebel
cruiser many days before Lee’s lines
were broken,” etc. If the writer be
lieved he had respectable authority for
so important a statement, why did he
not advise his readers what his authori
ty was f No such question, nor any
other question as to the means of escape,
or as to instructions to the Shenandoah
to facilitate sueh an escape, wa3 ever
considered by the Cabinet, nor, as far
as I know or believe, was any such ques
tion considered or discussed with any
member of the Cabinet. I do not be
lieve that any such subject was consid
ered or discussed by
Mr. Davis or Any Member of His Cabiuet
At any time before or after the surren
der of General Lee. Nor do I believe
that any man who regards his reputation
for truth will allow himself given as au
thority for this statement. In confirma
tion of this view I may state that when
Mr. Davis was informed that Gen. Sher
man would allow him to leave the Unit
ed States on a United States vessel,with
whoever or whatever he pleased to take
with him, his reply was that he would
do no act which would place him under
obligations to the Federal Government,
and that he would not leave Confederate
soil while there was a Confederate regi
ment on it. I referred to this afterward
in conversation with Mr. Davis, and he
told me I would remember that he was
one of the Senators who refused td vote
the honors of the United States Senate
to General Kossntb, and that his reason
was that Kossuth abandoned Hungary
and left an army behind him. I may
also mention that after this General
Breckinridge and myself proposed that
we should take what troop3 we had with
ns and go Westward, crossing
The I'hattahoocliee Between Atlanta aud
Chattanooga*
And get as many of them across the
Mississippi as we oould, and in the
meantime keep np the impression that
Mr. Davis was with ns, and for him to
go to the coast of Florida and cross to
Cuba, and charter a vessel under the
English flag and go to Brownsville,
Texas, and thence return and meet ns to
the west of the Mississippi. He refused
to consent to this plan on the ground
that he wonld not abandon Confederate
soil. I ought to add that we were in
fluenced to make this suggestion be
cause we thought him so exhausted and
enfeebled that we did not think he
could make the trip by land to where
it was hoped to embody the troops west
of the Mississippi. I know, too, that it
was Mr. Davis’ purpose to try to get
to the west of the Mississippi before onr
troops were disbanded, and to get to
gether as many as he could—he hoped
sixty or eighty thousand—and place
them where they and their horses could
be subsisted on tho beef and grass of
Texas, aud where they could not be
flanked by railroads and navigable
rivers, anil there to try and hold out
for better terms than unconditional sur
render. From all this it will be seen
Hoiv Absurdly Untrue tlie Statement al Gen
eral Wilson Is.
The following passage is fouud in his
paper: “When Davis and his compan
ions left Richmond, in pursuance of
this plan, they believed that Lee could
avoid surrender only a short time longer.
A few days thereafter the news of this
expected calamity reached them, when
they tamed their faces again toward the
South. Breckinridge, the Secretary of
War, was sent to confer with JohnstoD,
but found him only in time to assist in
drawing up the terms of his celebrated
capitulation to Sherman. The intelli
gence of this event caused the rebel
chieftain to renew his flight, but while
hurrying onward some fatuity induced
him to change his plans and to adopt
the alternative of trying to push through
to the Southwest,” etc. I have answer
ed so much of this as refers to the sup
posed alan of escape. The writer seems
to have been in the same predicament as
many others have been who have sought
to force or to make facts to suit fanciful
theories. Mr. Davis and his Cabinet
were not, when they left Richmond,
laboring under the belief that General
Lee could avoid surrendering only a
short time. It was still hoped at that
time that
Generals Lee anil Johnston
Might be able to unite their armies at
some point between the armies of Gen
erals Grant and Sherman, and turn upon
and defeat one of them, and take their
chances for defeating the other by fight
ing them in detail. If I knew then
where the Shenandoah was, 1 have now
forgotten, and I certainly never heard
the subject mentioned of an intended or
desired escape from the country by her.
I think I am entirely safe in saying that
neither Mr. Davis nor any member of
his Cabinet contemplated leaving the
country when we left Richmond, but
two of them afterward determined to do
so. And Ido not believe that Mr. Da
vis or any other member of his Cabinet
afterward desired to leave tho country.
Mr. Treuholm, prostrated by a long and
daugorous illness, resigned his position
as Secretary of the Treasury while we
were on our way South, and went to his
home. Mr. Mallory, Seeretary of the
Navy, aud Mr. Davis, Attorney-General,
went to their homes, and all of them
remained there until put under arrest
by the authority of the United States.
]>lr. Davis
And myself were captured while endeav
oring to make our way to the west of
the Mississippi for the purpose of con
tinuing the struggle there, if practica
ble, long enough to get better terms.
Gen. Breckinridge was not sent to con
fer with Gen. Johnston as soon as Mr.
Davis heard of the surrender of General
Leo, if that is what tho writer means to
assert. Mr. Davis and his Cabinet re
mained at Danville, Virginia, for several
days after being informed of tho surren
der of Gen. Lee, and then went to
Greensboro, North Carolina, and had
come aR far as Lexington, in that State,
that Mr. Davis received a dispatoh from
Gen. Johnston requesting him to send
him assistance in his negotiations with
Gen. Sherman. Gen. Breckinridge and
myself were then sent back by him to
join Gen. Johnston at his headquarters
near Hillsboro, and to aid him in his
negotiations. This was done at this
tims and at the suggestion of Gen. John
ston, and not as soon asplfr. Daais heard
of the surrender of Gen. Lee, as sup
posed by Gen. Wilson. Much as Mr.
Davis, uo doubt, respected and esteem
ed Gen. Breckinridge, it is not true that
he confided his hopes to him, or to any
other single person, \yhat is said by
Gon. Wilson about the “last council pf
the Confederacy” is, no doubt, a fanoy
sketch, intended to round up handsome
ly this fiction unrelieved by a single fact.
More Misstatements.
Since wiitiug tjje foregoing tho Phila
delphia Weekly limes, of July has
been put in my hands, wljicl} contains
what I suppose to bo the whole of Gen.
Wilson’s letter. Much of it appears to
bo an account of military orders and of
military operations with which he was
connected, and about which I have no
personal knowledge. What I wrote above
had only reference to the portion of his
letter which was then before me (the
first two paragraphs of it), and has no
reference to what he afterward says
about ipilitapy operations. His pifper is
long, and I will nqt'have leisure now to
review it fully. I will say, however, that
ha is in error as to many of his state
ments of facts, and as to many of his
conclusions in that part of his letter
which was not before me when I wrote
the foregoing pagos. For instance: “He
mat aftof he was advised by Gen
eral Sherman 'of tbs' armistice which was
entered into between him and General
Johnston, and that one of its provis
ions was, ‘that neither party should
make any change of troops during the
contn”“Pne of the armistice,’ ” he pro
ceeds witli this further statement; “Hav
ing hearu from citizens, jiqWfever, that
Davis, instead’ of dbsetying; t}jq iirmis
tic , was nuking his way toward the
South with an escort, I took possession
of the railroads and sent scouts in all di
rections, in order that I might receive
timely notice of his movements.”
jtjc TJien Confesses
To having violated the forms of the ar
mistice, but excuses himself by shying
that he had heard from citizens that
Mr. Davis was violating it by going
South with an escort. He says the first
he heard of the armistice wa3 from Gen
erals Cnb.h sod Smith, at Macon, Geor
gia, on the twenuoj..v day of April. That
after that he was advised of its exigence
by General Sherman, and that it was
“intended to apply to my (General Wil
son’s') command.” He also says thot in
a shoh’t tiwto ha was informed by Gen
eral Sherman,' by t'eiygta®,‘of the ter
mination of aha surrender of
General Johnston on the twenty-seventh
of April. Now the armistice was agreed
to on the eighteenth of April, and on the
twenty-fourth of April General Sherman
notified General Johnston it would ter
minate fp fjj.rtj-pight !’ n urs, leaving the
parties‘Sound by tor"S. s nni “ * he
pf April. Ifr. Jyavfa was
at OUariqttp when the treaty and armis
tice was agreed to, ffe remained there
under the terms of the armistice until
the notice of its termination was given
by General Sherman, and until the ex
piration of the forty eight hours when
it was finally terminated, and did not
leave thereuntil he learned of the sur
render of General Johnston, whieh took
place on the twenty-seventh of April,
>Vho Violated HI. Knunpi-uiont f
General Wilson says: “Tno first direct
information of Mr. Davis' movements
reached mo on the twenty-third of April,
from a citizen, now a prominent lawyer
and politician of Georgia, who had
seen him at Charlotte, North Carolina,
only three or fonr days before, and
had learned that he was on his way with
a train and escort of cavalry to the
South.” This citizen may have seen
Mr. Davis at the time named at Char
lotte. But if he did he saw him halted
there, awaiting the result of the nego
tions with Gen. Sherman, and afterward
the termination of the armistioe UDtil
the twenty-seventh or twenty-eighth of
April, with perfect good faith and hon
or; and not violating a solemn engage
ment, alwavs binding on the true sol
dier and honorable men, as Gen. Wilson
confesses he was, after he had been no
tified by Gen. Sherman that the armis
tice was binding on him. And this vio
lation of faith was aggravated by the
fact that Mr. Davis was then struggling
with defeat and disaster, environed on
all sides by two overwhelming forces of
a victorious army; while Gen. Wilson,
by his own statement, knew these facts,
and had the game all in his own hands,
and wonld have been in no danger of
losing any of his advantages by acting
in good faith. I leave him and his
readers to determinb whether he was
justified in such
A Breach of Faith by Idle Rumors,
Which he has since ha 4 ample time and
opportunity to know were untrue, as
the whole history of this affair has long
since been within his reach. There is a
statement in General Wilson’s letter
which is important only as showing how
the most minute facts can be mis-stated,
where the error can by any means cast
discredit on Mr. Davis. He states, in
substance, that the ferryman where we
crossed the Ocmulgee river had told
Colonel Harnden that we had crossed
the river about one o’clock in the morn
ing. This, it may have been supposed,
would produce the belief that we were
in precipitate flight. Now the truth is
we reached that river just at dusk, and
crossed it before it was fully dark, and
that Mr. Davis had made his regular
rides since leaving Washington, Geor
gia, in the day and rested at night, with
the single exception of having rode
across the country north of the Oemul
gee river a part of one night to reach
and protect his family, whom he had
not seen for several weeks, against
threatened evil. There is one other
statement made by General Wilson
which is so gross a perversion of the
truth that I must quote it at length and
state what did occur. He says: “Short
ly after the recognition of Mr. Davis by
bis captors, Colonels Pritchard and
Harnden rode np to where the group
were standing. Davis, recognizing them
as officers, asked which of them was in
command. As these officers were Lieu
tenant-Colonels of different regiments,
belonging to different brigades of differ
ent divisions, and had therefore prob
ably never before met, except casually,
much less compared dates of commis
sions, they were somewhat taken aback
at the question, and hesitated what an
swer to make.”
The Capture.
Whereupon Mr. Davis upbraided them
with ignorance, reproached them with
unchivalrous conduct in hunting down
women and children, and finally declar
ed, with the airs and manners of a bravo,
that they would not have caught him
but for bis desire to protect his women
and children. “How would you have
prevented it, Mr. Davis ?” said Colonel
Pritchard. “Why, sir, I could have
fought you, or eluded yon.” “As for
fighting us, we came prepared for that,”
replied the Colonel; “it would have saved
us some trouble, and doubtless you a
great deal; but as for eluding us, I don’t
think your garb is very well adapted for
rapid locomotion.” In relation to this
statement I wish to say, with whatever
of emphasis I can give my words, that I
was present at the time Mr. Davis and
Colonel Pritchard recognized each other,
as was also Governor Lubbock, and that
there is not one truth stated in this whole
paragraph. Colonel Pritchard did not
come up for some time after Mr. Davis
was made a prisoner. When ho rode up
there was a crowd, chiefly of Federal
soldiers, around Mr. Davis. He was
standing, and dressed in the suit he ha
bitually wore. He turned toward Colonel
Pritchard and asked : “Who commands
these troops ?” Colonel Pritchard re
plied, without hesitation, that he did.
Mr. Davis said to him :
“You Command a Set of Thieves and Rob
bers.
They rob women aud children.” Col.
Pritchard then said: “Mr. Davis, you
should remember that yon are a prison
er.” And Mr. Davis replied: “I am
fully conscious of that. It would be
bad enough to be the prisoner of sol
diers and gentlemen. lam still lawful
game, and would ra'lier be dead than
your prisoner.” I have often since
thought and spoken of this scene and
colloquy. I cannot have forgotten the
substauce of it. I think I repoat very
nearly or quite the words used. Not
one word was said by Mr. Davis about
fighting or eluding our pursuers. Not
ono word was said by Colonel Pritchard
about saving any trouble. Not one
word was said about Mr. Davis’ garb,
for there was nothing in his dress or ap
pearance to call for such a remark. Not
one word was said by Mr. Davis about
“protecting his women and children.”
He only pointed to. the fact that they
were being robbed. I doubt if Colonel
Harnden had then reached where we
were; but of this I do not profess to
know. I only know that a few moments
before his men were fighting Colonel
Pritchard’s, on the north side of the
creek, near which we had camped, and
that few or none of the men from the
other side of the creek had then reached
us. And 1 do not think General Wil
son had the authority of Col. Pritchard
for this statement, for ho knows the
facts as they are, and I cannot think
would falsify them in this way.
Was This Miserable Falsehood
About Colonel Pritchard saying to Mr.
Davis, “I don’t think your garb is very
well adapted to rapid locomotion,” in
tended to form another link in the chain
of evidence to show that when captured
Mr. Davis was disguised as a woman ?
Is it to bo quoted by the next person
who may write an artiole revamping this
despicable slander as additional and
conclusive evidence that he was disguis
ed, and made conclusive by the fact that
Colonel Pritohard so called attention to
this disguise in the midst of the assem
blage then around Mr. Davis ? Outside
of those who robbed the ladies aud
children, and those who rummaged
among their wrappings, as this writer
describes, I eauuot believe there was
one man in those two commands baso
enough to allow himself to bo made the
author of this false statement. I will
not go through the disgusting details of
falsehood by wjiioh, in cold blood,
twelve yonrs after the war, wheu sensa
tional statements and the bitterness of
passion, and even the wish by falsehood
to wrong au enemy, should have died
Way,
(lenornl Wilson Revamps ami tlio
SSpiry ol'ilfr. Ilavisl Risgijise.
I will only make this statement as to
what then occurred to show that if Mr.
Davis had sought to disguise himself
he could not have done so for want of
time, and tho facts show that it was im
possible for him to have conceived and
executed a plan of disguise. I was not
immediately with him when we were at
tacked. Governor Lubbock, Colonel
.Johnston, polouel W°°d au(J myself
had slept qndey a tree sqmethipg like a
hundred yards frop} wepj IVJr. Ijayis aud
his family had camped. Yye wont into
camp before nightfall tho evening be
fore, and had no fears of the presence of
an enemy. We were misled as to onr
security for the time-being by the fol
lowing facts: We -vyere getting well
South in Georgia, with a view to turn
Maoon and ISJontgonjery, and pass
through the piney wood country to the
south of these cities, where the popula
tion was more sparse, and where the
roads wero not so much frequented. We
were to cross the Qemulgee river below,
where jt coqld ho forded, aud whore
there tfqre not many ferries. Gjn ap
prokchihg that’ riyer rjo eypeofced to en
counter trouble if the Federal authori
ties knew the course we were traveling.
In this event we supposed the ferries
would be guarded. When we crossed
the river, about dusk, wo found no op
position, and at the same time learned
that there was a considerable cavalry
force at Hawkinsville, twenty-throe
miles up jrotp yhuye'ty® mossed
it.
Dir. Davi*’ Garb.
Learning that this force was so near,
and seeing that the ferries were not
gunrded, we concluded our course was
not ki)own at that time, and traveled
rather slowly toe succeeding day, and
went into Camp early in the evening be
fore we were captured, with the under
standing from Mr.' Davis that he, Mr.
Harrison, his staff officers and myself
Would probably go on after supper and
leaije family, then supposed to be
out of reach'hf danger, which' caused us
to leave our course ahcf join them. I
state all this to show our feeling of tern
porary security and the reasons why we
felt and acted as we did. The first
we had of present danger
the firing just across tuu .... creeK we
were camped on which took place bo
tween the Wisconsin and Michigan
cavalry, between day dawn and full
light. Colonel Pritchard, as I afterward
learned from him, had some time before
posted one part of his command across
the road in front of us, and the other
part across the road in the rear of us
and behind the little creek on which we
were encamped. The firiug was between
these troops in rear of us and the Wis
consin troops, who were pursuing us on
the road wo had traveled. When this
firing occurred, as Mr. and Mrs. Davis
both told me afterward,
Mr. Davis Started Out of Ills Tent,
Saying to his wife, “Those people have
attacked us at last.” (Meaning the men
whom we heard had intended to rob
Mr. Davis’ traiD the night we quit our
course and went across the country to
the north of the Ogeeche river.) “I
will go and see if I can stop the firing;
surely I will have some authority with
Confederates yet.” His staff officers and
myself were camped about one hundred
yards in the direction of the firing from
him, and he supposed we were being
fired on, as he told us afterward. As he
stepped out of his tent, as he told me
that day, he saw the troops which had
been posted in front of us, which
were under the immediate command of
Colonel Pritchard, in full gallop to
ward him, and within some sixty yards
of his tent. He turned to his wife
and said: “It is the Federal cav
alary, and they are on us.” As he
tamed to go out again I understood his
wife threw a waterproof cloak around
his shoulders; he stepped out and was
immediately put under arrest. Directly
afterward Lubbock and myself went to
him, where he was surrounded by the
soldiers. He then had no cloak or
other wrapping on him; was dressed in
a suit of Confederate gray, with hat and
boots on, just as usual. Directly after
this, and about the time the firing ceas
ed between Col. Pritchard’s and Col.
Hamden’s troops across the creek (I say
Col. Hamden because Gen. Wilson says
they were his, for I did not know before
what officer commanded them), it was
then the conversation above alluded to
took place between Col. Pritchard and
Mr. Davis.
The Origin at the Slander.
From these facts the impossibility of
Mr. Davis’ disguise, as charged, will be
seen. And it is out of these facts that
the story of his disguiso no doubt grew,
with all the varied forms, more or less
elaborate, and it has been made to as
sume by sensational and reckless wri-!
ters, who seem to have been willing to
originate and oircnlate any story which
they thought would gratify hale and
bring ridicule on the leader of a brave
people, who had risked all and lost all
in a cause as dear to them as life; and
under whom vast armies had been or
ganized, many great battles had been
fought, and a mighty struggle carried
on for four years, which had shaken
this continent and arrestod the attention
of the civilized world.
TIIE CROP PROSPECTS.
Gloomy Reports from Offleth'jrpe County.
f Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist.]
Maxey’s, September 10.—I wrote you
a short time ago in relatiou to the pros
pect for crops in this neighborhood. It
has not improved. We have not had a
season since the middle of June. There
will probably be half a crop of corn
made. The forward corn that was well
worked will make half a crop. The late
planting is an entire failure. Tho cot
ton will not yield more than one-third
of a crop. It has now made all it can
make. The weed is small—uot more
than one-third the usnal size, and uot
full of fruit at that. The gardens are
burnt up entirely, aud the time has now
passed to get stands of turnips. There
are no stands. After sowing two or
three times they have not come up, and
where they have the hot sun has killed
them.
The citizens have a meeting on next
Wednesday, having for its object the
petitioning of the fertilizing companies
to wait with them another year for their
money, as it will take the entire crop of
cotton, with a great many planters, to
settle their phosphate accounts. The
dry streak is narrow, not over three or
four miles wide, but of considerable
length. After you pass out of that there
has been plenty of rain until lately; it is
now dry. The crop of cotton is not
good even where the rain has fallen.
Times wore never as gloomy in this
neighborhood iu the last forty years as
now. Since writing tho above we have
had rain—tho first fall since the middle
of Juno. .T. H. M.
MORIS IN COUNTY'.
“ Opposition to tlie Constitution.”
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
We, in common with a large number
of our citizens, were surprised at the
following statement made by your cor
respondent, “Veritas,” writing from
Madison on the 7tb inst.: “The people
of Morgan, it is thought, will vote
against the new < onstitutiou by a large
najority. I learn this from citizens
who seem to be posted.”
We do not profess to bo “posted,” but
after diligent inquiry of numerous cit
izens from all parts of the county, we
failed to find one who did not express
satisfaction with the new Constitution
as a whole (while objecting to some
features) and a determination to vote for
it. We do not assert there aro not some
such, but if they constitute so “large a
majority,” it is a little singular that we
have failed to encounter any of them.
The colored vote of the county, through
fears excited by reason of misrepresen
tations as to what the action of the Con
vention would be, voted solidly almost
against the call. Wo find now a number
of the leading men amongst them really
enthusiastic in their commendations of
the new Constitution, and of opinion
that it will receive a hearty support from
their people. Kespectfully differing from
“citizens who seem to be posted,” we
venturo the opinion that, at the present
writing, a very large majority of the
citizens while they would expunge some
features aud insert others, favor the now
Constitution. Moeoan.
r.KRBNE COUNTY ITEMS.
Court Week—Tlie New Con*titution—A*l
lren*eti by Col. Miles W. LowiN and Judge
James S. Hook— indorsement of Hayes,
&c.
| Correspondence and Constitutionalist 1
Gbeenesboro, Ga., September 13.
Our city is very lively at present witli
the usual accompaniments of “Conrf
week.’* On Monday Court was con
veued by Judge Bartlett, who, after the
organization of juries delivered an
able chargo to the grand jury on tin
duties encumbent on them. There is a
fnll docket of civil cases, including a
large number of appeal cases, but owing
to tho amount of criminal cases to be
disposed of, but little time could be
given toother business than that of jail
delivery. Tho trial of civil cases was
therefore ended on Wednesday at tho
dinner hour, and tho criminal docket
was thpn taken up.
Tho maiu topic of discussion hero at.
present is tho new Constitution. On
Tuesday tho citizens were addressed by
Col. Miles W. Lowis. This distinguished
gentleman represented this county
iu the Convention, where his great
legal ability was valuably used for the
benefit of his constituents and tho citi
zens of tho State at large. He warmly
urges tho adoption of the proposed Con
stitution, and in his address, which was
highly appreciated by a large audience
of the people, he pointed out the fea
tures which recommended it. On yes
terday the citizens were addressed on
the same subject by Judge James S.
Hook, of your city. Iu his speech
Judge Hook urged the adoption of the
new Constitution on a number of
grounds. IJe warmly approved of that
portion whfcjh took frogi the !Li e -B* s l atttro
the key tq tl;e treasury and placed it
where it rightly belongs—iu the cus
tody of the people. Ho regretted that
tho proposed or the present homestead
law allowed the husband to waive the
homestead, as the wife and children
ought of right to be secure iu a home
beyond the reach of any harm. He
urged in its favor the effectual and final
dispqsitjpu it fna(le of tho fraudulent
bonds, tho system of appeals from
a petit to a special jury, and the
desirability that Georgians should live
under au organic law mndo by Geor
gians for the people of Georgia. Judge
Hook delivered a growing encomium
on tho representatives composing the
ConypntioO, adding that “no ono will
deem 4 invidious when I place, as
the keystone of thp intellectual arch,
that great man whose influence per
vades the entire work—tho immortal
Toombs.” In the course of his remarks,
Judge Hook strongly condemned the
financial policy of the General Govern
ment whifcih, with the attempt to enrich
bondholders at thp expense of the work
ingmen and to force of spe
cie payments, bringing so great dis
tress on us. He cordially endorsed the
determination of President Hayes to se
cure intelligent aud just rule for our
people, and urged his hearers to sustain
the President in his action, burying all
pijst. issues, and standing by a man
whose high position apu qprigiit pur
pose had enabled him to secure a free
government to the people of the South.
The address was frequently applauded,
aud seenm] to meet tho approval of the
audience.
C)n the capital question the citizens
are’divided a majority seeming to favor
Milledgevilio. Notwithstanding the low
prioe of cotton, our people will make
crops sufficient to insure a comparative
ly prosperous YZ U , lia ™ as g°° (l
„ financial future before the HI . aR
times wiii pPrSB*-
{JEWAIIK OF UOtfflS PfAWOW.
How C'rpdMloae Custodiers nrc Swindled.
Beware of bogus pianofortes. The
recent burning of the Halo factory, in
New York, brought a number Pf frauds
to light. It is known that many estab
lishments in the United States are en
gaged solely in the manufacture of in
struments designed to deceive the pub
lic The names of well known firms are
used with just sufficient variation to
evade the laws. Thus Steinmetz &
Sons, Stanley & Sons, and Stannay &
Cos do service for Hteiuway & Sons;
Becker Bros., Bekr Bros., Decker &
Bros for Decker Bros ; Webber, Weber
& Cos., and Webber, for Albert Weber;
Krabe, Kenabe, and Knabe & Cos., for
William Knabe & Cos.; Stack & Cos.,
Strik & Cos., and Geo. Stecke, for Geo.
Steck & Cos., and so on to the end of the
alphabet. These fraudulent instruments
are palrnsd off on unsophisticated Gran
gers in the South and a “ d are cx '
hibited by the owners no doubt as mar
vels of mechanical skill ar.d ingenuity.
Awful Carnage in lowa.
[FrtmO& Lurliru/tsjn Ilawkeye ]
Seven Massstfhasetts sewing machine
agents *ad fourteen book agents in
voked this county oue day lasi week.
The Governor was immediately urged to
send troops, but he said he had no mili
tary at his command, but he would send
down a couple of lightning rod men and
a chroma man, who would talk the in
vaders to death. Then Burlington just
got np and went over the river and hid
in the woods until the sounds of carnage
died away. And as the pale moon rose
np slowly and calmly she looked down and
saw the cold corpses of seven sewing ma
chine agents and two lightning rod men,
while the only living creature that roam
ed the awful field was a deaf chromo
man, in the wild, fierce delirium of the
lock-j aw. [
Anew edition of etiquette says it is
no longer fashionable for young men to
call on their girls on Saturday evening.
This will give the girls a chance to put
their hair up in bits of paper before one
o’clock on Sunday morning.
THE STATE CAPITAL.
THE CAPITAL AND THE CONSTI
TUTION.
Atlanta t'lmiiginit Time- Aten’s Wives—
Judges of the supreme Court—Tlie Chief
Justice lluntt—iHood lirit—t Serion*senti
ment—Tlie UanstitutionN I'lianeen—The
Senator-Clip.
[ Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist ]
Atlanta, September 12. — The capital
is very much excited on the capital
question. Atlanta has heretofore pro
fessed indifference to the removal of the
seat of government, but that was when
there seemed no immediate danger of
the question being presented in a tan
gible shape. Now that the people will
decide between Atlanta aud Milledge
ville next December Atlanta has dis
covered that the capital is worth fight
ing for and is in the field with the usual
vim and courago of her citizens. If she
shonld bo defeated it will be through
no fault of hers. The big men—those
who must look to the whole State for
position and pap, aud cannot afford to
champion the enuse of either Atlanta or
Milledgeville too vigorously—are fight
ing shy. An enthusiastic advocate of
the “ halls of our Fathers,” who was
here the other day feeling the pulse of
the Supreme Court, seemed a little as
tonished to find how much
Men's Wives.
Had to do with the matter. Judge
Jacksou had as warm nil attachment for
Milledgevilio—dear old Milledgeville—
as could possibly exist between animate
and inanimate objects, but Mrs. Jack
son preferred Atlanta, etc. Judge
Bleckley yielded to uo ono iu devotion
to the “ halls”—but Mrs. Bleckley
yon know, etc. That solemu
old pump, the Chief Justice, who
works ou Sunday, and believes iu
small salaries, had no wife to fall back
on, and left the interviewer under the
impression that he wished to end his
days on the banks of the Oconee, but.
when tho Atlanta Constitution took him
to task for his treasonable utterances
he ignomiuiously took tho back track.
By the way, did you know that tho Chief
Justice had
Once Keen Iliinu,
Aotually suspended by a cord from the
bough of a tree ? Such, I am told, is
undoubtedly the case. Tho old Roman
(I believe that is the correct phrase) was
uot strnug up for treason, arson, rape
or murder, or any of the offeuses for
which ho had occasionally dealt ont
death himself in a professional way when
on tho Bench of tho Superior Court. It
was a gang of Shermau’s bummers who,
iu the Winter of 186-1-5, had the ell’ron
try to swing up six feet-one of Chief
Justice with as little ceremony as they
would have hung a side of bacon. These
Union loving geutry wheu they passed
through Georgia thought they would
teach tho people loyalty by relieving
them of such portable property as they
might have in the shape of horses,
muies, silver, money, jewelry and wear
ing apparel. As the old barons of the
middle ages whou they wished to nego
tiate a loan were iu the habit of hunt
ing out a Hebrew and performing a
little amateur dentistry ou him, so
the hummers had a number of little
contrivances for making men willing to
tell where their dross was coucealed.
When they naught the Chief Justice ho
did uot look very valuable as a prisoner
of war, and they concluded to go for his
coin instead of carrying him to eump.
Those who know old Warner (I call him
this through no disrespect, but because
the members of the Bar do it) know
that to demand his money is to demand
his life, and that tho party who gets the
one will infallibly get the other. He
promptly refused, and tho bummers
aforesaid resorted to moral suasion.
They would have, perhaps, roasted the
soles of his feet, but tho weather was
cold, wood happened to he scarce, and
realizing the magnitude of tho job they
gave it over, and resorted to a running
noose and a convenient limb. But for
once during the march to the soa they
caught a tartar. Throe times did the
Chief Justice ascend toward Heaven ;
three times was he restored to earth and
asked where his treasure lay concealed;
three tim s did ho refuse to tell, at first
with words and then, when life was al
most extinct, with signs; until at last,
the bummers owned defeat and retired
iu disgust, leaving their victim to recov
er as best he might, while they clothed
themselves with curses as with a gar
ment. Tho Judge, as we all know, re
covered, but ho has a horror of slip
knots, eschews tight collars and cravats
and likes free play about the neck. Withal
he is a man of the sternest integrity ami
a splendid lawyor. He remorselessly
punctured all the political legislation of
the Bullock region, aud though over
ruled by his associates—Brown and
McOay—he was invariably sustained by
the Supreme Court of tho United States
when the case was appealed tQ that tri
bunal. But to return to. our muttou. It
is not known definitely
How Governor Colquitt Si a mis
On the capital question. Both Mil
ledgevilio aud Atlanta claim to ho his
preference as stoutly as the seven towns
claimed to be tho birth place of the
blind bard of Greece, hut neither can
speak positively, It would be straugo,
however, if he did not favor Atlanta. If
ho does he must differ from his wife, for
the Milledgevilliaus swear that when
last at the old capital Mrs. Colquitt ex
pressed an earnest desire to live iu the
Executive mansion there. Iq view of
his Senatorial canvass Qenoral Gordon
is understood tq be non-committal on
the subject. Why ho shonld be I can
not imagine. Every one knows that At
lanta is his home, and it is but natural
that he should desire to see this city
continue the seat of government. I
havo no means of knowing how the oth
er Senator, Mr. Hill, stands, bnt as At
lanta is also Mu ho.me he doubtless does
not wish to see the oapital removed. How
tho contest will terminate is known
only to Him who knows the
hearts of petty jurors, but that Atlanta
is running what the elder Qolquitt was.
wont to call
“ A Scared Knee”
There is no doubt. Seriously, in my
opinion, she has cause for alarm, and
unless she makes every card in her hand
count between now aud the fifth of De
cember she may lose the game, aud,
what is of vastly more importance, the
stakes. Her advooates say that people
are supporting Milledgeville in defer
ence only to a sentiment. This may be
so. But a somewhat extended expe
rience iu life has convinced me that
there is nothing iu which people are
more prone to indulge, when tho in
dulgence costs them nothing, than sen
timent. In this case the condition ob
tains, and Atlanta will find sentimental
ity as tough a citizen to encounter as
the sensible Knights of tho Woods did
the crackbrained Chevalier of La
Mancha. It is somewhat probablo that
there will be a
Reaction Against <om*uU uiion
Before the day pf election. Three
weeks before the Convention adjourned
an intelligent observer of public feeling
would have bet odds that thp new Con
stitution would bo defeated by an over
whelming luniofily- Every one who
could was hitting the body a rap, and
predicting that its labors would come
to nothing. Some of the strongest Con
vention men were loudest in condemna
tion of what had been and was being
done, and looked upon their off
spring with the dismay and dis
gust "of Frankenstein contemplating
the monster his art h? 4 called into ex
istence. But IpoV you now, towards the
close the tide turned with magical swift
ness. Every newspaper in the State en
dorsed the new organic law; every states
man in office or in search of office looked
upon tliC WOl'k and called it good; and
for tlirep weeks nothing but applause
has been heard. I shall be mistaken if
there is not still another reaction before
the December election, Ido not antici
pate anything like the defeat of the new
Constitution. Its defeat would, from
present indications, seem little short of
a miracle. But the majority in favor of
ratification will not he so overwhelming
ly large as the friends of the instrument
imagine. This is not a very material
matter. Any majority is suffioient to
make the Constitution the law of the land.
The election of a General Assembly in
December has precipitated the question
of the
Senatorial Succession,
Which otherwise would not havo at
tracted much attention until a year from
nt;xt October. It is daily assuming
mere importance and the probah|lh ; ' efi
and possibilities of tbe’pontest are al
ready being discussed. The race will
he an exciting one; the prize is tempt
ing; the entries are numerous, and all of
the animals have a record. I may have
more to say of it hereafter. Howabd.
THE r-Koi* off JB7B-’7T.
The Financial Chronicle's Statement of
the t rop—l 84,363 Boies Short of |,asl
Vear,
New Yobk, September 12. —The Com
mercial and Financial Chronicles
statement shows the total cotton crop of
1876 and 1877 to be 4,485,423 bales,
while the exports are 3,049,497, and
spinners takings 1,435,418, leaving the
stoak on hand at the close of the year
119,638 bales. The crop of 1875-’76
4,669,788 bales.
Do You Wont to be Toothless t
Of course not. Then take care of the
ivories which nature has placed in y< ur
mouth. Brush’em well every day with
SOZODONT, and their whiteness will
astonish and delight you. Away, then,
to the druggist’s, and get a bottle, t
THE STATE.
THK PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Much sickness in Colnmhus.
Barbecues have broken out in Macon.
Fall races are progressing in McDuf
fie.
TenntHe is to have a new Baptist
Church.
Gen. Toombs speaks iu Cartersvillo
Saturday.
Goldsmith Maid will probably attend
the State Fair.
Columbus promises to do a good job
bing business this year.
Ohas. H. Smith, Esq., (Bill Arp) will
reside in Bartow couuty.
Milledgeville has developed two or
three municipal candidates.
Thirty Atlanta boys have organized a
Young Men’s Musical Association.
Tho Warreuton Clipper has evidently
moved its grammar to Milledgeville.
Governor Jenkins has greatly im
proved at tho Jordan Alum Springs.
Dr. Busnell, tho inventor of the tor
pedo, was a native of Warren couuty.
The Cartersvillo Express thinks that
Cherokee Georgia will go for Atlanta.
Louis F. Garrard. Esq., is pressed
for election to tho House from Musco
gee.
An old colored man was killed by tho
falling of a tree, laßt week, in Warren
ton.
Simon Jones, colored, was drowned
in the river near Savannah tho other
day.
Tho Columbus Enquirer wants
Toombs elected Governor by acclama
tion.
Mr. Bennett., of Fayette county, has
ten acres planted in Shockley apple
trees.
There will he a temperance mass meet
ing at Brier Creek, Warren county, Sat
urday.
Eight or teu petitions for divorce liavo
been filed in the Clerk’s oftieo of Greeno
oouuty.
Frank Fonntaiuo, Esq., latoCon. Con.
mem., is having some very sweet things
said about him.
At n squad drill in Savannah, Tues
day night, n gun went off and came near
hitting a spectator.
Mrs. Nancy Wade, widow of Mr. Rob
ert Wade, died near Wrightsboro, Sat
urday, September 1.
C ilonel W. A. Shorter has dissolved
his connection with tho Grangers’ Lifo
Insurance Company.
Anew post office lias been established
at Messena, Warren county, on the lino
of the Georgia Railroad.
Many persons in Early county have
died of an unknown disease, resembling
yellow fever in character.
Jeff Brant,ly, a little son of Mr. Fa
yette Brantley, was killed by lightning
near Sandersville recently.
A postal card scamp has been trying
to get up tho impression that there is
yellow fever in Brunswick.
The G. S. P. 0. A. permitted an old
horse to die iu Macon tho other day
from thirst and starvation.
Revs. W. H. Trammell aud M. TT. Dil
lard aro conducting an interesting re
vival of religion at Linoolnton.
Tho Columbus Enquirer thinks that
the Convention, by the salaries fixed, in
dicate Milledgeville as the capital.
A little daughter of Mr. Jas. Reid, of
Kingston, was burned to death recently
while kindling a fire with keremno oil.
A skunk, nc.oording to the Journal,
has taken the homestead in tho base
ment of the Thomson Court House, and
refuses to dislodge.
A Savannah negro robber fell through
a hoistway to the floor in a mill the
other night, and was supposed to have
been fatally injured.
Mr. George W. Guinn, an attnehee of
the Georgia Railroad, died at Rutledge
a fow days ago, of malarial fever. Ho
was buried at Conyers.
The Sunday School Convention was
held at Linoolnton on last Wednesday.
Rev. T. C. Boykin, State Suuday School
Evangelist, was present.
Congressman Blount has appointed
to West Point, Mr. G. Simmous, sou of
Hon. T. J. Simmons, as the cadet from
the Sixth Georgia District.
Mr. Joe Flournoy, a Columbus man,
now in Colorado, is reported to have
sold his Rilver mine for one hundred
and twenty five thousand dollars. I
Tho Lawreucevillo Herald tells of al
young farmer in that county who will 1
make 500 bushels of corn and ten l/kles
of cotton this year, with one horHo.
Gen. Wm. T. Wofford has been unan
imously elected Vice-President for tlio
State of Georgia of the National Immi
gration Bureau of the United Stales.
Says the Cartersville Express : Wliilo
we see so many country papers talking
about removing the oapital, it rejoices
ns to know that wo haven’t any to move.
If Hayes oomea to Chattanooga, we’ll
warrant that Capt. Kennesaw Wrenu
will deeoy him up to Lookout. Mountain.
Asa diplomatist, tho Captain is unex
celled.
Mr. M.' W. Wright, of Lincoln coun
ty, was caught in the belting of his saw
mill the other day and dashed over the
driving wheel, breaking his left leg
badly.
Emory College has opened with forty
new students, and the total attendance
is ono hundred and thirty-five col
legians, aud forty in tho preparatory
school.
There are five Willinghams on the
Cartersvillo Express. Before tho vener
able senior’s death, there were fivo
Ohristys on tho Southern Watchman, at
Athens.
The prospects are, says tho Columbus
Times, that the pooplo of Georgia will
ratify the Constitution by a majority
approaching that of Gen. Colquitt for
Governor,
Says the Warronton Clipper : “Miss
Belie Wright, one of Augusta’s most
beautiful and fascinating daughters, is
visiting her brother Mr. John D. Wright,
of this place.
The McDuffie Journal joins its contem
poraries in regretting that tho discus
sion of the location of the capital should
have degenerated into vituperation and
personalities.
Messrs. Sterling G. Brinkley and J.
I. Ingraham are conducting flourishing
schools in Warrentou and Washington
respectively. They are both capable
and onergetio young gentlemen.
Mr. A. W. Smith, an Emory College
student from McDuffie county, has in
vented a dynamometer for testing the
relative strength of wires, which he in
tends for the laboratory at Oxford.
A beautiful and pathetic custom pre
valent in Macon is when a young man’s
adorable steps off with another fellow,
his friends considerately sit down and
apprise him of the fact in a pensive note
wrapped in crape.
Says the Sandersville Herald : Hon.
Wm. Gibson, presiding in the place of
Judge Johnson, this week, is winning
golden opinions for his urbanity, as
well as the ability and promptness with
whicli ho dispatches tho business of the
Court.
Speaking of the Chronicle and
Constitutionalist, tho Thomasville
Times says : “ The best recommen
dation we know of, concerning it, is
tho frequent quotations we see in other
papers, from its columns. We ourselves
acknowledge our debt.’*
FEVEIt SPREADING IN FI-RN AN DINA.
Consternation and Panic in the City—Thirty
New Case** and the l>i*eae Increasing—
Summary Dlenj*uri'M for Aid.
Savannah, September 15.—The re
port for this week shows the health of
this city to be unprecedeutly good,there
being not a death of a white adult from
any cause. The interments for the week
are 4 whites—all children, and 12 color
ed persons.
Jacksonville, Fla , September 15.
A special to-night to the Awn and I’rests
says that tlieru were two deaths from
yellow fever last night, at Fernandina,
also, unconfirmed, the report of two
more. Among the sick is one of the
doctors. There are probably 70 or 80
cases, all told. Dr. MoFarlaud says
that the fever yields much more rapidly
to treatment than in Bavannah last
year. He lias sent for two physicians,
a druggist and eight nurses.
The hospital is nearly ready for pa
tients. Demands for food and nurses
are increasing, and the Mayor has es
tablished a commissary to supply the
colored people and poor. Twenty-eight
deaths are reported since August 20th,
of which 20 were from fever. All who
can are leaving the city in extra trains.
Quantities of fumigatives and disinfect
ants have been requested from Savannah
and Charleston, i
' ’''' |iiLter
There aro reported 30 new eases this
evening; nearly every one is sick. In
some eases whole families aro down.
The train to-night was crowded with
fugitives. The atmosphere is humid
and hightly unfavorable, as the fever
speads rapidly, A gloomy aspeol has
settled over the city.
WHOLESALE IMVOKC EKV.
A Probate Judge Ashamed to Produce Ilia
Records—Heroic Treatment of tbe C*entle
maii
Salt Lake, September 15.—Probate
Judge Elias Smith, having refused a
committee of the graud jury access to
his books and papers, was ordered to
appear before District Judge Shaeffer
to-day, but, not appearing, was ad
judged guilty of contempt, and fined
SSOO, and SSO for each day that he kept
the papers from the grand jury, and
costs. The Marshal was ordered to ar
rest him upon further refusal, and the
grand jury was thereupon allowed ao
cess to the books and papers. It is sup
posed the refusal was an aeeonnt of the
wholesale divorce business,