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Av>e tohare a protracted drouth?
Mr. DAWteAnd the President are said to
have fallen oat . t
The nest regular session of Congress will
be itflghty interesting.
Gbaud and Hhebhas had a poor opinion
V? Gen. Giosd* rf. -Thomas as a military
offlmp>dr<r. , .
H*sv would it do for the temperance folks
to esthidish aaloops where one eonld pur
chase the best*t jhwrerages -such as coffee,
fniyi : V ...
,GAeri£UD’kson Iwwist-is the eq font terrible
of the White /louse. J}tt blows hte tin
horn at the of the President's
room when the Cabinet is in marina.*
b the indies could indoafr the grocery
men to rdmove the bars at the beck of .their
fitores, perhaps much good, ng be done.
nil the drinking is not dope in saloons.
,M kl _ >*
Xhi Chicago tribune predicts that Presi-
*Gakxiild will Anally restore to the
eitnof Utica “one of the most accomplished
lav%rs who ever graced its local bar.”
CoHalxNG lives at Utica.
■Evas since Dorset's instructions how to
carry Indiana by colonisation and -bribery
were flpblished, Messrs. Dawes and Hoar
hare suddenly evaporated on the bubject of
a free ballot aqd fair count,
John Houlstokk, of Barton, wrote the
verses beginning” Mary Had a Little Lamb.
Thd owner of the lamb *ia now Mrs. Maey
'l’aPdoi, of Summerville, Mas*. The fate of
inV lamb haw not been ascertained.
pLD Commodore Ericsson in New York
is'still bfisily flngsged on bis solar engine,
which is to dgfve a locomotive across the
Desert of Sahara by means of heat from the
sun’s Keys focused on mirrors and directed
upon a boiler/ ■ *
The steamship companies deny Miss
O’Bbien’s report, of the oondition of steer
age passengers. It wgs suggested that tlje
lady wanted to stop Irish emigration and
concluded that a harrowing story would be
the beat method of effecting her purpose.
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WE see it stated that physicians, drug
gists and traders all report that the use of
opium is alarmingly on the increase, and
•they attribute "it ohiefly, not to the disuse of.
intoxicants, but to tbo increased usewf the
-b/podftTmic syringe for injections of Mor
phia. *IJ is noteworthy thfff women supply
four-fifths of the victims of opium.
Thb who falsely personated Mr.
and Mr. Hats*, ip New York, is
supposeef to bs the same who, last Winter,
gat money under lying pretonoes from
friends of Dr. Stedueb and Dr. Gkddinob.
There is a clue to bis identity and a possi
bility of oapture. Southern ipen, or pre
tended Southern men, who borrow
money at the North,, are to be* suiffiected*
especially when their raids are made tfpon
- ' ~ ,
W* loam from the correspondents that
the Post Offiah Department' has a
under consideration for a peW stamp to ‘'ex
pedite” the of letters in cities
where the free delivery system is in opera
tion. The proposed stamp, lo cost five
cents, will, when placed npon arlettor, send
it within a few minutes*softer its reception
at the post offlee/tp ftsMestination by a spe
cial carrier, without - waiting ‘fo i regular,
carrier trips. Itis thought that such stamps'
would be well reoeived by the public.
They Will be known as "instant delivery
stamps’.” ’ • /'
Asqeville Medium: “Prohibitory law#
are hot what we want; temperance organi
zations will not meet the end desired;
•dry' elections will not answer the. pur
pose. Reform must begin elsewhere, if we
desire effectually to remove this curse from
the land. We may be wrong, but it ih our
firm conviction that unless public senti
ment be direotod against this liquor drink
ing; unless it is frowned down by our lead
ers, both in Church and State; unless the
- agitators in this temperanco question and
those to whom the great masses of the peo
ple look up, and follow as leaders; unless
these, we say, preach 'not only by precept,
but by example, all the prohibitory laws,
that forty Legislatures oould pass would be
of no avail.”
The Spri ugflold Rlpublican , predicts that
Post.mftstor James' real trouble will begin
when Congress meets. It adds : “Every
route heL has discontinued or on which he
has decreased qerviee and pay meagrf money
to some Congressnian’s constituent. All
over rim South there are steamboat lines—
whose profits have been killed by the rail
roads - dependent on a star route contraot
for their existence. These lines *ro a Con
venience to the locality, a very great con
venience to the men who own them, and
* southwestern communities .'are extremely
apt 'to gauge a member's success by the
number of routes he secures fur his dis
trict -just as aNorthern constituency thinks
a Congressman is not worth much who does
not see that the looal manufacture is taken
care of ih the tariff.”
The Oharlotte Observer, in an artiole on
prohibition, says when the advocates of
temperance saw bar-rooms springing up as
if by magic, the main thbroughfares of
every city, [town and hamlet filled with
them, saw them out the deadliest of
poisons, and destroying annually
of young men whom they enticed to Vuin,
no compromise was left and open declara
tion of war was all that was left. It is the
excess to which the business has been car
ried that has raised the almost universal cry
ot" prohibition throughout this oountry, and
has given the army of reformers the hosts
that now march under its banners.
New York Star: "The French say that the
English have many meats, but only one
aauoe. The French have many sauces, but
only one meat. That is to say, all their
meats taste the same, though the sauces
vary. French cookery is .nothing it not
•pioy and greasy. It is not so greasy as the
Spanish; but it is too much so for a pure
taste. A good American cook allows feac
meat and fish and vegetable to retain its
■own flavor; a French cook is taught to
mingle flavors in order to obtain an /unnat
ural result. The foundation of French
cookery is the stock-pot, into which are
thrown all sorts of meat, the scraps and
, .bones of every dish; and from this com
. pound come French soups and sauces.
H Every American soup is as distinct as a
flower. The French drown the flavor of
fish m spiced sauces. In America the fish
taste as nature intended them. A French
man prides himself upon cooking meats so
that you will notknow what yon are eating.
An American prides himself upon the fact
■ that you can make no mistake as to what
you are eating, nor as to its excellence."
(THE COWPKKS CKHTESNIAL.
It is cited as a memorable example of the
progress of reconciliation that Senator
WabE Hampton and Thomas Wentworth
Hig3in?on, representing extreme types of
South Carolina and Massachusetts political
opinion, should spesdc fropi the same plat
form and recite a common sentiment This
happened at Spartanburg and upon the
occasion of unveiling a to Gen.
Dawkl Morgan; a New'Jersey patribt, who
won thojMemorsble battle of the Cowpens.
Cos!. HfcoivsoN is a stalwart Radios! and,
daring the war, did South Carolina a vast
amount of damage. He oommanded a
regiment of South Carolina negroes, re
cruited intis vicinity of Beaufort At the
adbgult on Fort Wagner he was severely
wounded. We do not know that the meeting
of two such men as Hasoton and Hiooinson
is an earnest of good feeling between South
Carelinayuid Massachusetts, any more than
nmilar meetings heretofore; bnt it is curious
enough to note the conjunction and to hope
for the best from it. Compared with the
* vhigbty combats that Hampton particijtsted
in i>om 1861 to 1865, the Cowpens battle
was a- mhre skirmish. But it had mo6i im
portant' fesnlts and was far more decisive
than many greater conflicts during the Con
federate war. It was a fight between
1,100 men on one and 1,000 on
the other.' The New Yri?h Times groups
together the desperate affafirS °f *he colo
nies, when this ray of sunshine joe*? etr &ted
the darkness of defeat. It says :
vost had ravaged Florida at will; Savannah,
at that time tlje capital of Georgia, had
been taken by the British with a loss .of
only 24 men, while about 50 pieces of artil
lery were there captured; the whole of the
inhabited part of Georgia which the British
■chose to occupy was seized; an attempt of
the combined French gnd American forces
to retake Savannah was repulsed with snob
vigor that the army of the assailants went
to pieces; Charleston was occupied by. the'
British ’ with no resistance worthy of the
- nansb and 5,000 prisoners were these pa
roled £ the post of Ninety-six was surrender
ed without a fight; Butord’s Virginians
were hacked to pieces by Takucton's caval
ry, few aaoaping, and C lottos announced
that *th inhabitants from every quarter
declare their allegiance to the King—there
are few men in South Carolina who are not
either our prisoners or in arms with us.
j When Gates was put in command to mend
j matters and was reinforced by a large part
I of the Southern troops of Was Hadron's
army, Cornwallis fell on him and anni
hilated his army at Camden.”
General Moboan, with 4 small force of
Marylanders, Virginians, Carolinians and
Georgians, was attempting to make a junc
tion with Green x, when the fiery Tabletoh
essayed to cut him off. In another part of
this paper the battle is described in detail
The American riflemen gained the day, and
Tablesow, who seldom knew discomfiture,
was utterly routed. The American loss was
ridiculously small. We are rejoiced that
South Catalina should raise a memorial
shaft to a New Jersey warrior of humble
Birth, but a most intrepid spirit. The re
vival of thaj glorious event, at the hands of
Hampton and Eioorasos, may lead the peo
ple of this country, North and Sonth, to
rather remember a glory common to both
than a strife that can only be exulted in to
the detriment of all sections.
.SMALL. INDUSTRIES.
Many of the profits of the North come
from small industries. For every real or'
imaginary want of man there are individuals
or companies engaged in supplying that
demand. In this way the cities of the East
and West become busy hives of production
and wealth. It is true that the climate has
something to do with it. People in higher
latitudes have more energy than residents
ot the South. Maine men who come to
this section fall into our indolent habits and
love to ride on street cars as well as any
body else. Southern boys or men develop
into briskness whetfgiey spend Winters at
the North. Why Northern people should
leave their country to come South in the
is always a marvel to South
erners, who are never so healthy and active
when confronted with the, snow and ice of
’ enoh latitudes as those of Maryland or the
District of Columbia. Possibly we prefer,
fora time, what we'have not been accus
tomed to and what has the charm of
novelty.. But this is a digression. 1 What
we are coming to is that the Sonth, no mat-
ter What her climatic obstructions may
b4j- should build up small industries. Take/
for exapple, the canning of fruit. In-many
•'parts of our Southern country we should
engage in that enterprise,. We do not know
how it is in Georgia; bnf, according to the
Abbeville Medium, the fly in the ointment
pot comes from some farmers who play at
legislation a portion of their valuable time
The editor of the Medium was a member of.
the Legislature, and therefore, we presume,
has a superior yght to criticise it. He says
that the eighty rural members appeared*to
think that an Agricultural Bureau “could
iSnly be useful in the management of the
Ijhapo trade. They thought the Superip
f lent should be a kind of head guano
to keep the farmers from being cheated,
editor of the 'Median offered an amend
t ’to the bill, imposing it as the duty
}UWb the Superintendent of the .Bureau to
measures to'promote the growth of fine
fruits and to ihdnce the establishment pf
snit-caiining factories. When he was arg'u-
Hfrg the propriety of his amendment, add
Mowing theUfrofits which were sure
teijid such enterprises, Mr. YUrr9.*o!!*?ll
- made a ‘point of, order* op him, that
the Department had pothingj
to-do with fruit giowing. Speaker ShlT
pa£d ruled that the editor was ‘put of or
der;’ he had to take his ss|£, and this sen
sible amendment vyas iost'vby the votes 'of
Jhe eighty larmers, whose comprehension
did not extend further.than gfcaiio aid cot
ton.” # ySp*-
We do not know but that-i Jr. Watts, of
Laurens, % and Mr. Speaker Sheppabd may
haye beeh technically right. Parliamentary
lawWoi what passes for such, is fearfully
And wonderfully made. But we do not
hesitate to say that Geo. Hemphill had a
much clearer Idea of the duties ot.an Agri
cultural Bureau Superintendent than those
who put him down. If the Bureau had less
to dd with tho wholesale encouragement of
guano, and morpto CUa stimulation of small
industries, such -as canning fruit, ..etc., it
would be a greater blessing than it fs, and
the peepUfvould be all the richer. These
are the views, we understand, of Senator
Hampton and Col. Butler, the Superintends
ent. If it ba true that the rural element in
the South Carolina stands in the
way of a proper' progress in miur indus
tfjps, the sooner it ceases making mouths at
lawyers and city men the better. No people
on this earth havejio grand a chance of be
coming comfortably well off, if not rich, as
Southern planters; but there must be some
radical defect in tbeir system whan they
continue to live from hand to mouth, and,
in a majority of cases, complain of being
dead-broke about this time. We know that
not a few.city men become 1 rosperons be
cause of the plauter3’ folly; but it is none
the less true that the foiiy gfists, and we*
thin'k it safe to say that city merchants
would infinitely prefer, that their oountry
oousips should grow prosperous. The
richer the fsimars get* the better will it
please the mercantile aemffiunitif. But the
farmers will never become wealthy, ay any-'
thing like it, while they purchase an inor
dinate quantity of dear fertilizers to make
cheap cotton, aud then have to go into
debt, at baavy rates of interest, to buy corn,
bacon and hay\ Everything in the Sonth
should be made to p*y f},4 constitute a
reasonable independence. Until such a
time the merchant will be the winner, and
the merchant who wins the most will not
here, but at the East and West. •
There wilt bs g&gyrat prosperity at the
South when farmers isarn jo feed them
selves, to a -onsiderable degree, ao4 foster
small industries as well as Urge ones.
TBJIPERAKCE.
The laiUe Of this city, a considerable
number of them at- jsast, are enthusiastic
upon the subject of eheekuig jptemperance.
That is a noble undertaking, ft is tl&o an
arduous one Home how or other the human
race either requires stimulant or thinks it
does. Ai unj r#te, all nations have had a
mode of intoitcatiou.. *fld as we once before
observed, by some irony ©f <*•, ffOW the
most innocent fruits aud grains and ilowws
men has learned- to distill a beverage that
dethrone* jn ellect, fires up his pas
sions. and to© utww t. ; ljs him, body, mind
and soul. We have ltu*e ®S£t£&Stion of a
emperanec reform that wilt annihilate the
evil; for some of the most zealous apostles
again# dram-drinking have pet vices of
their own, in degree from that
infirmity they a© eartap/ngly and sincerely
condemn. We have know* *jme of the
best of men who would not take a drioli of
‘‘fire-water” for any consideration, and yet
they wore slaves to tobacco in one or several
forms. We hgye known otheis who ab
horred wine and ©hj?ky, but occasionally
resorted to morphine and jpmm. Now
intemperance is so wide and comprehensive
a field that it would be wrong to confine it
to lileohoite indulgence, and yet we can well
understand that wires and mothers and sis
ters should elect to begin aenvsu'bere, *°d
that there is no better place t<? make re
formatory start than at the serpent of the
still. It is quite likely (bat >f the -women of
the land could restrain their mala regions
from a resort to whisky and kindred liquid
abominations, they would afterward find
not eo much trouble as is supposed in at
tacking of her forms of the eviL At any rate
- they have pronged to drake their initial
, crusade against alcoholic sad every
body will wish them well in the under
taking. We need not Tepeat what lias been
so often fgid by onrselves and others, that
dram-drinking perhaps the greatest curse
in this world, and that it yo&cts upon guilty
t nud innocent the vastest injury. SOS' t°
curb it ig a problem of mammoth proper
’ tions. There mq?t be influences brought to
bear by the - tender sag, a£d there must
be 00-operation on the part 01 !
who are p be redeemed or guarded.
: This, as we understand, is the prime object
I ef Augusta Uliee who haws them
i selves into s temperance league. We have
no doubt that there will be individual cases
of reform. We /ear there are many oth
!er cages that are past cure. W? femem
! berthat e*-Bpe*isr Sistift of the 9opse
j of Representative*, wa* % herd drinker and
|oa the road to rain. Be sew fh# 4*#ger id
£me, the tempter, became soberte
ihiqgo, sfr* to the fact of his qtfofgths
owes* hi* after dutWfition. We 'see going
the rounds of press a good story of Sen
ator QasnaxD, who Tips a prodigious whisky
drinker. £*biuhd concluded mft to drink
any more, and his firet refusal wfcen in
company with tha uid set, in Senate .Com
mittee: Rooms. brought down upon him !
shower of questioflsjjas to the uepseofhis
new
his friends th# thaWM nothing the mat
ter with him; "but,’Tfcd ie, “I’ve stopped,”
and added: “You know a-pretty
CHRONICLE AND .CpNßTJ’fUTtl)]4AlillV AtjpOSTA. GA..- WEDNESDAY MAY 18, 188l'.
hot canvass in Arkansas this Summer, and
I went all over the State stumping. Well, I
saw tiie graves, of a good many good fellows
wbo began with me, and who are now in
the dark valley or the light' one, which ever
it may be. I saw the wreeks ot other men
who started with me to be jolly good fel
lows. The graves and the wrecks set me to
thinking. From thinking I began to calcu
late. Well, on a rough calculation, I found
that I had already drank about a barrel and
a half of whisky mgjp than 1 was entitled
to. Then I said to myself that if I drank
any more I should be drinking-some other
fellow’s whisky, and, as I didn’t want to do
that, I stopped. There, you have the whole
toag.”
Mr. Gabland is now one’ of the most use
ful of Southern Senators—an honor*to his
State and to human nature. Had he not
stopped in time he would probably have
joined the procession of those who have
“died as the fool dieth.” We remember
having heard the late Governor Hammond
say that the man in the Senate who Rad the
noblest promise and the one who was the
match of the greatest, even of Douglas, wap
Senator Gbeen, of Missouri. In a burst of
enthusiasm, Hammons once said to him:
“Gbeen, there is only one thing that can
prevent von, in my opinion, from becoming
President of the United States." “What is;
that?" said the Missourian. “Temperance,”
replied Hammond. “Quit whisky drinking
and there is no honor, or position in this
Government yon cannot aspire to £nd
would not adorn. ’’ He did not rfp
preciate .this good pounsel, or He dts
not follow it. In spite of the loftiest
talents, he sunk into sottish obscurity,
and not very many years ago.jold and fagged
and wrecked, he was fished out of a gfttter,
as we are informed, and diedun a,police
station. But we need our
own 'domain for the saddest examples of
how wine is not only a. mocker but a de
stroyer of all that js Ijpautiful and .bright,
and wholesome and Captivating in this
world. Very few families hpve escaped the
terrible malediction. Remembering this,
we do npt wonder tflgt tike gentler sex,
who suffer most, from the "fault of- (fib
ers, are making strenuous efforts to res
cue those they loqeand upon whom so
mAny of-them.depend.
GEORGIA TEA.
The tea raised in Georgia is said to re
semble that of Lidia’s best brands, which
are coarse and 4ongly flavor&d. The Eng
lish are great tea consumers, and much of
the India tea finds % market in the British
Isles. Jhe Chinese tea is of a njore delicate
flavor and, therefore, has better demand.
J Ve should suppose, however, that a Georgia
tea which is pure ought to be more desir
able every way than the cheap adulterations
from the flowery Land. To procure an
unadulterated article the Russians who can
afford it give wbat our people would con
sider fabulous sums per pound. We have
seen the price at’the Nijni-Novogorod fair
$o be,,for the best brands, S2B per pound.
A friend of ours, who had long experience
in China, told us such of th.e
■tea- trade that .we have never been able to
drink the beverJge "with any relish since,
/•specially 1 when the price was low. An Ah
gusts merchant who had u brother in
Hong ’ Kong* gars us & pound
of. tea '.that had been sent him by
his
tajuitially from the ordinary
nyn-vftj Expert* ih. tea, like the:
Chinese an4' ( fetesians, drujfe only the black
‘branE .Tbf gfS 6 ® brands so pret
ty are-iftifleihllS'*colored. Peopft select the
brightffreenteasas they- prefer the vivid
green pickles, and yet they sacrifice by so
doing the substance for the shadow. It
may be that the fertilizing elements used to
produoe'Georgia teas have
their lack of fineness and delicacy of flavor.
Who can-.get a sweet-potato fit to eat in our
Where are tlmre any' green peas
thatitaste as they didWb'. °l4 days. The''
good" old luscious sugar yam, that distilled
candy at. dvery pore when baked, is a tradi
tion. Th§ gihen peas taste like china
of worse. It is said that commercial man
ures have done this, and that quantity is
prefflVred hy ,the grower to quality. We
suggest fo Commissioner I?e Dec that there
be experiments made with different kinds
of fertilizers and that the report be publish
ed. We know very well that the Chinese
resort tp all kinds of mfinuling, som% of
wfilch isßmost revolting; but it may be
that the choicest; ro.f their teas are raised
from soils that are enriched iu seme pecu
liar and most wholesome way. ■
COOKING.
'There was a'time when the S<fhth wAs
justly open to reproach for the.vilest of
fare along 1 its railway lines. T)?, 6 ? 6 has
been immense improvement in this re
spect-. An Augusta man going North or
South can now rely upon capital-meals.
There is a decided change for the better in
Southern cuisine, not only at the railroad
eating places, but in 1 private houses. Of
course, we always had among select circles
a gastronomic taste" that could be surpassed
in no part of the Union. We- know that
visitors here, used to the best the world;
affords, flaye. been astonished, at some of
the private dinners in pgr city. Not only
were the .viands of great variety, but
cooking was supreme. And then, demon
strating the dainty touches of a woman’s
hand, tfee table was adorned in such a way
as to remove from tire fg?y sepse of
grossness. We once heard a gentleman
who lives in the country, not far from this
city, declare that, at a short ribtice, he
oould prepare an entertainment for a
eign potentate that Paris could not sulpass;
His principal djflj.es wefe to”be drawn from
our own forests and gtpeaxijs, apd we are
‘convinced that his boast was not an empty
one.
Among those who complained most
loudly of Southern fare, a short dime back,
were New gogjapdeys. And yet, if we are
to oredit the New \!ork Tjirjfriffpy
has the most abominable cooking in the
whole country. Breakfast and sapper are
classed together* because they ace of the
same character —cold ham, hot biscuit,
pickles, “preserves,” tea, and, of course,
pie, (hie fcn.4 fh? doughnut go hand in hand
all over New'lngiap.4- "'Tfe e ri itic of the
Times shudders to think of pm fyf £££■
fasf, and admits that the Yankees aye
hardy race when the doughnut is constd-.
er4. He says: ‘‘No doughnuts were found
at Pompeii athe fragments of the re
pasts so rudely interrupted the volcano.
Yet the great antiquity of the 4ouglißU>ap
pears from the fact that, like the fish-hook,
it* bfp undergone no. substantial change in
fo?m jfi irifforjeai timee. What relation, if
oy,..wte bswm fir? &W
of Republics, it remains fer w? e student of
political science to diSßSvej.-/’ 1 ,
From this hint we may trace tire sgly -
traits in the disposition, let us -say, of
Messrs. Dawns nd Hoar, who are- fair
samples of their people. ..
The ordinary New England dinner is rep
resented to be a paste miscalled soup; beef
that is narrow, brown and dry, of the
chuck-rib variety. Then come apple pie,
mince pie, custard pie and the irrepressible
doughnut.' “There ere,” says our critic,
“ pickles, tomato catsnp, . walnut catsup,
perhaps other and further catsups, a little.
pf>t qff mall pickled onions, never by any
chance an flliye, bjrt a} ways and everywhere
the inevitable Asaf*tidasiiire sanee.
good yoast meats are known" orijy coarse
paULai (lfo * atimulus of these vile
things, hot if you ae in a New gnglAod
oountry hotel you may use them freely and
altogether on your gristly beef—they can’t
hurt it If by any chancy, there is lettuce
on the table—Tor this happens rarely—and
you a desire to eat of if, the waiter
puts before' you fpe Vinegar c?uet and the
sugar-bowl'. If you want to mate a fool of
"yourself call for-salad oil. It will take some
time to explain your meaning, and when
you have done so the attendant will sneer
ingly mi or re her companions that ‘ that
feller eats grease on his iettis.
The pies are represented to be doughy,
gjjqsy. uncooked, sodden. After eating
such a meal, a raan et &S world. Troubled
as to “that diabolical contrtvanee calico
stomach,” feels that a cup of black coffee, or
a or xfhat Albert Lawab calls a
chasse, would materially assist the gastric
juice in its herculean labor. But it is dis
tinctly declared that the man who dare call
for such thjngs is looked upon as “a horri-.
ble, dissolute follow”
Wflat ▼ dray firqnritijjs js tfrst $4 sec
-trens bare room fo? improvement in the
way of cookery, and none so much as New
England. Now that the gntjpg-honaes on
the railway have become attractive, and the
cities in the South are progressing}-wonder
fully-in the art of providing an excellent
?neal, we feel tha* something important has
beep done for civilization. No doubt, m
our baakwppdo. the frying pan plays an im
portant part -in making patent medicine
popular. but even there,;in many "places,
hospitable boards exist that would “de
light the eye and tiekle the* palate of pneat
andflayman. re
THE- HEROES OF COWPENS.-
.
SPARTAN BURG'S CENTENNIAL CELE
BRATION.
The Monument to the Conqnerere of
Tnrleton lmposing Ceremonies A
Grand Military Pageant—Orations by
Wode Hampton and Messrs, (flpglnson
and Praneis Relics or the Battle-
Grand Illumination as Night—The
Memorial Movement—The Monument—
The Statne of Morgan. •
Bpabtanbuko, S. Or, May 11.— The day is
lovely. The crowds are immense. Sleeping
room is nof to be had, and the streets were*
filled all night. Nearly all the Charleston
military are here. The town is profusely
and handsomely decorated, and the seats
and platform for the ceremonies abont fhe
monument are complete. % Governor Col- I
qmitt is unavoidably absent,' owing to pres
sure of business and sickness.
A salnte of thirteen-guns was fired at sun
rise.' The crowd in the square constantly
increased till ten o’clock, when General
Hunt reviewed the military at the inonu
jjpent, with Lieutenant Baldwin and Lieut
<®ant Daniel Morgan Taylor, U. S. *A., as
aids, and ’with volunteer aids from the Gov
ernor's staff, and descendants of Morgan’s
officers. The display was very large .and
brilliant, and was composed as follows :
The first brigade, commanded by Colonel
Hugh S. Thompson, <Jf the Palmetto Regi
ment, Columbia; the second brigade, by-
GeneralC. I. Walker, of Charleston; a di ;
vision commqpded by General John C, An
derson, of Spartanburg.
The column was headed by the splendid
Filth Artillery Band, from McPherson Bar
racks, Atlanta; then followed the Washing*
ton Light Infantry, the German Artillery,
the Montgomery Guards, the Charleston
Riflemen, the German Hussars, Irish Vol
unteers, the Palmetto Guards, the Sumter
Guard?, the Carolina Rifle Battalion, the
Lafayette Artillery and the German Fusil
iers, of Charleston; the Governor’s Guard,
the' Columbia Light Artillery, the Rich
lind Light' Dragoons, the Richland
Volunteer Rifles, of.Colnmbia; the Catawba
Rifles, 01 Rock Hill; all the Light Infantry
of Charleston ; the Gordon Light Infantry,
of Winnsboro; the Cadets, of the Greenville
and the Kiife’s Mountain Military Institutes
and the Spartanburg Artillery.
The streets and square were densely
packed, and the military had great difficul
ty in getting through the crowd. Many
relics of the battle were shown, including
the swords of Morgan, Pickens,' Brandon
and Hughes, Morgan's Bible, Pickens’ por
trait, and the pocket knife of Col. Graham,’
with fifteen blades and instruments. John
Fielder, a hundred years old, was also on
the platform, and looked quite vigorons. •
Distinguished men on the platform pres
ent were Governors Hagood and Jarvis,
Congressman John H. Evins,. General A.
M. Manigault, Hon. W. A. Courtenay,
Mayor of Charleston, Chairman "of Centeno
nial Committee, General John Bratton,,
General A. Coward, ex-Governor M. L.
Bonham, Judge George Bryan,
The Washington 'Light Infantry carried
the battle flag of Cowpens,and a drum from
Savannah, used at the same battle, and
Col. Washington’s sash was worn -by his
great-grandson on General Hunt’s staff"
’ At twelve, o’clock there was a centennial
salute of on? hundred guns. .Chairman
Courtney then presenfed the monument to
Governor Haygoad* who accepted it in be
half of South Carolina. Chaplain Porter,
of the Washington Light Infantry, read
prayers from a prayer book printed in 1768,
and foundton the Cowpens battle field. The
"Star Spangled Banner” was then rendered
by the band. Then followed an address by
Governor fluygood, the reading of an ode
. by Captain Bryan, “Hail Columbia” by the
band, and the oration for the Southern
'States by Senator Hampton, who was greet
ed applause on *bis appearance.
■ He spoke tenderly and eloquently of
Cowpens, then and now, and plead for
unity and peace now, as then, between the
States. He ably and concisely reviewed
Morgan’s" history and exploits before and
at Cowpens, paid a. feeling' tribute to the
private soldiers and the old Eutaw flag.
The band played “America” ahd “jpixie.”
Captain Simons read the ballad of the
“Blue Hens’ Chickens.”
001. Thos. Wentworth Higginsog, of Mas
sachusetts, delivered (the oration for New
England. After offering a hearty greeting
from New England, he briefly reviewed the
battle of.Cowpens and pai.d the highest
tribute to Morgan and his men. He'closed
wj,th an eloquent appeal for union and
peace between-the blue and the grey,
fGreat applause.]
1 Hon,* Wm. H. Francis, of New Jersey,
sptfke for the Middle States with great ear
nestness, and said he was proud that Mor
gan ■ was born in New Jersey. [Great ap
plause .followed. ]
Senator Hampton delivered the regrets of
President Garfield that ho could not be
present, and promising to come at.the next
opportunity. [Three cheers were given for
the President.] '
The statue was then unveiled, amidst
cheers and themusidqf the hand,*by Misses
Pickens, gimons, Smith, Grahaiq, * Cqurte-
Uay, Brown, James and Colton, descendants
of the soldiers of the Cowpens. It is a
magnificent work of art, and will be illumi
nated tfl-nighf with gas jets bearing the
names of Morgan, Howard' and Pickens,,
and a grand display of Artworks.
Tbe Memorial Movement- ,
The movement for" the erection of a cen
tennial memorial of the valor of the heroes
of Cowpens took its origin in a pledge given
bv several- membertlpof the Washington
Light fnfanfry of Charleston, iw L*5G, to
devote themselves to bringing it alWut. On
Aprili22d of- that year the battle field yas
.marked with a neat and aftprepfiatb jpong
ment, Which was dedicated with iplendid
ceremOpiesiipder tlje anspjces ; of the com
pany above named. * .
When, the time paie to fulfill the pledge/
hjs Honor Mayor Courtney, of Charleston,
was the sole survivor *o£ those that gave it.
With the joint support of the Washington
Light Infantry antfjtke petiple ,qf Spartan
burg the movement.'for fhe centennial me
morial grew apace; on (V fin ally, a joint reso
lution of Congress was "passed, appropriat
ing $20,000 for a bronze statue, of heroic
size,- jqf Qepepl Daniel Morgan, the hero of
Cowpens. -Concerted aptiqn followed on
the part bf the thirteen original pUpes
and Tennessee. On the. 7th of (October,
1880, the corner stone of the
d'ie laid t Spartapbjjrg wjth imposing Ma
sonic ceremonies Grand Master of
South Carolina. Wopjf on the monument*
and statue went forwitrdfitonidly, and to-day
Jioth were unveilectas hiHljigrto described.
The n&mument.
The monument was ■ constructed upon a
design famished by Qol. EdwafjjJ|B, White,
of New Eorjp
'lt !g" designed ;p n simple and unpreten
tious style, yhjch is" certainly in keeping
with the character of the hero qf the fight,
while the sturdy dignity of the arch
portion of the design is calculated to arouse*
in the minds of those who behold that ven
eratiqa and respect, and.quipt admjrqtipn
fo? ito P/oEPrijofi3 ;
oommande.
The monument is propsrly.divided intp
three different parts, viz : The base, the
shaft and fhe statne-which stands upon its
ab&spus.
From the ground to the top of the abascus
is twenty-one feet. The monument has
four bronze panels cast by Powers, of New
■lork, on the north, south, east and west
fare A Yhasd bear "the names of Morgan,
'Howwaii wffl. WWtiVfteM) Ht®
heroes otthe fight, gud epprpprjatg jrisfrjp:
tions. .. . . - |
The Statne.
The statue of General Mergap is the irork
of the well known sculptor, J. Q. A. Ward,
I of £ew York, w[io was at work upon it nice
j consecvfive snLAlhs, It was cast at the
I foundry of Burea Rros. A iieatou, at J’hila
! delphia, and fulfills perfectly every require
! ment of the joint t-esblution'ari'd of the con
; tract jflth Mir. Ward.
I ' Thoriielgfit riVA-s lost, its weight about
(.two thbrlsaild porinds, arid its.mai.fetjiil a
finje gijlderi" bjonze, whiSh Will
aaykfifi wfih time and exposure to the’kir.
The weight'o/ tire body js Rijpporl|d op the
right leg and* foot, the ieitidg ij be
hind the other, slightly bent, and its heel
raised from the ground. The head is turned
partly to the left, the left arm 1 crosses but
does not touch the heart, and the right arm
hangs at the side and somewhat behind the
body, its hand holding a sword, of which
the blade points directly to the f?oot, the
point a little depressed.—Thft features are
very noble in expression. The head is cov
ered witii 6 high pan of foy, haring an ils
left sij'a * pffmpoa or • ri&ttirirs. '’The flresi
is a lorise frock ornamented with fringek 6ti
both shoulders do’wri the front, and '6n the
lower edge all round; and meeting the pan
teloogs of apparently tire satne material or*
namehted afld fringed 6j oqrfesponqing
stylte.'" The feet riye mofccasiqV-
on the'left hip, a sash roun'd the waist afid
belts, partially hidden, by th@ aash, indi
cate trip rank flf the waarer- 4 powder horn
is slung on the right side af tfle -body. -The
dignity and grace as well as lightness pf the
stitiue, which appeals to be intended to
replesent General Morgan as'ndvaneing-at"
the head of his men to the field of battle, or
it may- be engaging in and directing the
ths enemy, remarkable and
worthy of all praise- .- '
SpAEiikshno, S. 0., May 12.—The Cow
pens Monument was unveiled yesterday in
the presence of twenty thousand persons.
Governor Hagood, j)f Sonth Carolina, pre
sided arid introduced the speakers. Rev.
A., ffteqfcer Porter, of Charleston, opened
■the proceedings with prayer, smi'rieading
from a prayer book foun<£on the battle field.
Thirteen hundred volunteer troops of the
State of South Carolina were reviewed by
General Henry Hnnt, of the United States
ArmY. Scleral AM. Manigault, Adjutant-
General of SoUril Carolina, served on Gett;
eral Hunt’s staff by sptal request; aBo
the following descendants of chief actors at
Cowpens: Daniel Morgan Taylor, U. S. A.;
'McHenry Howkrd, M. D.; S. B. Pickens and
John B. Washington, of South Carolina.
-Speeches were made by Senator Hampton,
representing Maryland, Virginia, North
Carolina? South Caiolipa, and a®ll
- Hori.'Thqs. W. Higginson, repre
senting. New Hampshire, Maasachnsetts,
Rhode Island and .Connecticut, and Hon:;
Wm."f wreseptitif New T®*!
States Artillery band. In fhe the
citizens of Spartanburg tendered a oanquet
to the Washington Light Infwjtryj on 4 , at
night Governor Hagood-heid a reception in
honor of the guests. ...
The grahite ‘base and ‘pedestal ofthe
monument were' built by joint Ojjntnbu
tions of the old thirteen States andffennes
see, the bronze statne of Morgan, on
top, was-rsontributed by Congress and made
by Ward. v
CHE BATTLE OF COWPENS.
I From "Tarietonjs Campaign;” a book
publisbed-in London in the year 1787, ye
take the following, account, of the battle.
We are 6ure our**readers will .take great
pleasure in reidiag this report, writtfn bj
our enemy : , * _ - .
Patrols and spies were immeflkiely dis
patched to observe the Americans. Thfe dra
goons were directed to. follow the enemy
until dark, and the other emissaries to'con
tinue their inquiriqp till morning,if some
material" inoidtnf did not occur. Early* in
the night the patrols reported that Generel
Morgan had struck i%to ways tending to
• wards Thickelle creek. A party of determin
ed Loyalists made # ‘an American Colonel
prisoner, who had casually left the line of
maroh, and conducted him* to the British
camp. The examination of the militia Col-'
pnel and other accounts 84on afterwards*re
ceived evinced the propriety of hanging
upon General Morgan's rear to impede the
junction of reinforcements said *to be *'tfp
proaching, and likewise to prevent his pass
ing Broad river Without the *knowledjfo of
the light troops who could perfflex his de
signs and call in the assistance of the main
army if necessity required. Other reports
at midnight of mountaineers being upon
the line of march from Green river, proved
the exigency of moving to watch the enemy
closely, in order to take advantage of any
favorable opportunity that might offer.
Accordingly, at three o’clock in the morn
ing on the 17tji,* the pickets being called
in, the British troops, under the command
of Lieut. Col. Tarleton) "were directed to
follow the route the Americans had takfen
the preceding evening, and the baggage
and wagons were ordered to remain upon
their ground till daybreak, under the pro
tection of a detachment from each corps.
Three companies of light infantry, support
ed by the. legion infantry, formed the ad
vance; the seventh regiment, the guns, and
the first battalion of the seventy-first, com
posed the centre, and the cavalry and
mounted infantry brought up the rear. The
ground which, the Americans had passed be
ing bftken, and much intersected by creeks
and ravines, the march of the British troops
during the darkness was exceedingly slow,
on account of the time employed in ex
amining. the front aud flanks as they
proceeded. Before dawn, Thickelle creek
was pased, when an advance guard of cav
alry was "ordered to the front. The enemy’s
patjol approiching, was pursued and over
taken. Two troops of dragoons, under jlap
tain Ogilvie, of the legion, were" .then or
dered to reinforce.the advanced guard, and
to harrass .the rear of the enemy. Tiie
.march had not continued long in this man
ner. hefore the commanding officer in front
reported that ’the American troops were'
halted and forming. The guides were im
mediately consulted relative to the ground
which General Morgan then occupied, and
the country in his rear. These people de-*
scribed both with great perspicuity. They
said that "Qie woods were open and free
from swamps; that the part of Broad river,,
just abovg- the place where King’s creek
joined was about six miles dis
tant from thb enemy’s 'flank, and that the
river, by making a curve to the westward,
ran parallel to their rear.
.Lieutenant-Colonel Tarleton having at
tained a position which he certainly might
deem advantageous, on account of the vul
nerable situation of the enemy, and the
supposed vicinity of the two British corps
on the east and west of Brpad river, did not
hesitate t<4 undertake those measures which
the instructions of his commanding officer
imposed, arid his own judgment, under,the
present appearances, equally recommend
ed. He ordered the legion of dragoons to
drive in the militia parties who covered the
front, that -General Morgan’s disposition
might be conveniently and distinctly in
spected. He discovered that the American
commander had a front line of
about one thousand militia, and had com
posed • his .second line and reserve of five
hundred continehtal light infantry, one
hundred/arid twenty ,f Washington's cav
alry and tfyee hundred backwoodsmen.
This "accurate knowledge being obtained,
Tarleton desired the British." infantry to dis
encumber themselves of everything except
their arms and ammunition. The light in
fantry were then ordered to file to the right
till they became equal to the flank of the
American front line. The legion infantry
were added to their left; and, iwider the fire
of a three pouudef, this part of*the British
troops was" instructed to advance within
thre# hundred-yards of the enemy.. This
situation heing acquired, the Seventh regi
ment was commanded to form upon the left
of the legion infantry, and the other three
pounder was given - to the right di
vision of the seventh. A captain, with
fifty dragoons, was placed on each
flank of the corps, who formed the
British front line, to protect their own, and
threaten the flanks of the enemy. The Ist
battlion of tho 71st was desired to extend a
■ little to.the left of the 7th regiment, and to
remain one hundred and fifty rear.
This body of infantry, and nefir two hun
dred cavalry, e<>mposed[the reserve. Dur
ing the execution, of these arrangements,
the the officers and alacrity of
the soldiers afforded the most promising
of success. The disposition be
ing completed, the front line received
orders to advance fire from some of the
recruits of the th regiment was suppressed,
and tlifc troops moyed jp ip as good a line
as troops cop Id piqye St opep files. The
"militia Otter,a short contest, were dislodged,
and the British approached the Continen
tals. The fire on both sides-was well sup-,
ported, apd produped'much slaflghter. The
cavalry on the right were directed to charge
the eneipy’s left. * They executed the-order
with great gallantry, but were driven back
by the-fire of the reserve, and by* a charge
of Col. Washington’s cavalry.
As the contest between the British in
fantry. in the front line and . the Conti
nentals seeme.d equally balanced, neither
retreating, Lieut.-Col Tarleton thought the
advance .of the 71st into line,, and- the
movement -of the cavalry in reserve to
threaten the enemy’s right flank, \yopld
put a victorious period, to tfle action. No
time'was jost'tn pepfririping this manoeuvre,,
The 71st Were directed to puss the 7th be
fore they gave their fire, and were directed
pot to entdbgle tljeir right flank witlf the
Jeft of the .other battalion- Tha cavalry
were’ordered tor incline to the’ left, and to
form a line, which, would embrace, the
whole of tire enemy’s right flank. Upon
the advance of the " 71st, all the infantry
again pioved on.. The Continentals and
backwoodsmen gave ground. The British
rimbed forward- An. ofder was dispatched
to the. cavalry to charge. An unexpect
ed firs at this instant ■ from ’ the Ameri
caps, wfip came about as they were petreat-
Tng, stiffipefl tha. dpritish qnfl tfeejß
into ccJHmiPtb Insertions .to make them
advance' were useless, The part of the
. Cavalry- ttilioh had not been engaged
fell likewise 'into disorder, and an unac
eoqntable papio extended itself along the
whole line- The Americans, who before
thought they had lost the action, taking
Advantage of-the present situation, ad
vanced upon the- British troops p.nS aup- 1
minted the; asWawnriient " A general
flight Cnsued. . Tarleton sent directions to
his cavalry to form about hundred
yards to the right of. the enemy, in order
to check them, while he endeavored to rally
the infantry to. protect the guns. The
cavalry did not comply with the nrflev, ap4
the effort to collect the ' jrifaptiy was
fecioa) Neithfir" pviuußpb flog tAreute
could gain ihejr'attoutioriJ'thay surfefldet
efl oc dispersed, and abandoned their guaa
to the artillery men, who "defended them
for-some time with exemplary resolution.
In. this last stage of defeat Lieut.-Col.
Tjirleton. made another strugglfe to bring
his cavalry to the chargf. The weight of j
such an attack might yet retrieve the day, j
the enemy being much broken by their j
late rapid advance; but all attempts to re
store order, recollection or courage, provefl
fynitlsg. Above two hundred cjsagGona for- |
sooV'slei| |&ffe?,‘ htid l‘eft tWfleld'bf baffle.
Fourteen oflicerg. anc} forty boyseiaen w£re>'
however, not unmindful of tbei? own
reputation, or the situation of their corn*
manding officer. Col. Washington’s
airy were charged and- driven*back into the
Continental infantry by this. handful of
brave men. -Another party </f the Ameri
cans, bad seized upon the baggage of
.the BrWsh ttqeprWtlfe road worn the late
encaapfflentfj were’dispfersefl, tfles
tachfiterit retired 'to wards’ 'Broa'd river un
giojestefl. ’ Ofi the’ route Tarleton heard,
with inffnite feftef tflnt
tM ta’aifl riot ‘advanced d^jond,
Turkey crecskl He; therefore, 1 directed his
corirstrtu'ilJii! sqrrthea&h 19 order to*wach
Hamilton's ford, peep ifio rgoutfl of Bullock
crepk, whpppe hp u>*gbt communicate with
garb Cornwallis, • - ■
Tbe number ot the killed and wounded
in the action at Cowpens amounted.to
three hundred Oft both officers "and
- lnfin 'iriJusive' This loss was almost equally
shared, bu*fhe Amerieaps took two piece*
of cannon, the colors of the 7th regiment,
and near four hundred prisoflers..
Dick l'Mcspch In a Theatre.
> !_•
Okkdgo tnxer~Oe*an.\
I was in New York with him on.railroad
-business at one time, arid .during the even
'll) g ve were sauntering down Broadway;
Dick had been taking considerable wine—
mot enough, to i atoxic ate him, but-just
enough to -Make him surprisingly brilliant
and reckless. He was _ dressed with exquis
ite taste, and his hair, which was so luxu
riant, "done ■up” by barber in dtpe style.
We had tickets to the theatre, but as we got
near the place I suddenly lost Dick in the 1
crowd. I was pfjfcring about for him,-when-
I saw him aheadVTme, going into the thea
tre. He hn/J -iost hish at, and hih*r had.
-dliown carelesslv about "his face fluff fore
head. I rushed after him and gat inside
just as Dick went marching dpwn the middle
ai3le, hat less, bat erect and handsome. His
appearance and manner attracted attention,.
and there was h laugh, followed by ap
plause. At this Dick bowed.with all the
grace of a Chesterfield. Then there was
more applause, and directiy_ some dhe
in the circle above threw a bouquet
toward bhp, which Jell at his feet.—'.
This elidfred a rtar, and the "• play
stopped: -Dick piekai up -the bouquet,
bowed Once more, ana then began little
speech, which waa actually the-fisfeisf tiling
I ever heard on earth. I* was
for hie appearance’and ajjofilpliflieflt ’ to the
beautiful yomen and brave metrbe saw
around him WJmn he " got through and
sat down tiie houafl rang with -cheers, and
though no ope knew who they
'recognized ipriaetly that a gentletaan and
statesman waa befure them- “laict, I
when we rmched the hoteL “I wouldf give
a huh4red"dollar biM -to have that speech
exactly as you inade it to-night.”- “I don’t
and the beautiful figures around e, it
seemed as.if-all the poetry 1 ever knew
came swelling tm within me and strogwling
for utteranoeT It had to 6e I
spoke it." Yates made many fipe speeches
in his life, but he never made a more beauti
ful or eloquent one thtrn that
EUAN'CE AND TWIS.- :
4 * t
CONDI HONS Of TgE, TllEflrV *BB
rUCBBO THE TWO* POWERS.
The Treaty -Condeihned By An EnglAh
Newipapete-R. Ti Accepted and Signed
By the Bey—Rnd>n Affairs—The
tured’ . Conspirator General Foreign
ftm. ( . * ‘
(Ry C#ble to the -Chronicle. I
FRAIfCO-TUNISIAN.
Paris, M*ay 12.—1n the Senate, to-day,
Premier Ferry announfled that tho Franco-
Thriisia’fi treaty was signed yesterday. It
assures to Prance the right to occupy posi
tions which the French military deem ne
‘cessary for the maintenance of order and.
security of the frontier and coast. France
guarantees-to the Bey*security of person,.
State and-dynasty, and the-maintenanbe of,
actually existing treaties between the Re
gency and European Powers—the Bey not
to conclude any new international conven
tion without a previous understanding with
France. French diplomaftc agents abroad”
will- be charged with the protection of
Tunisian interests. The -gqjflcial system
Of Tunis' will be regulatedflfy France in
concert with tjie Bey to secure the better
working of thb administration of the Re
gency. A subsequent tonvention will de
termine the-amount .and mode of the col
lection of. the war indemnity to be levied
upon rebellious tribes aud guaranteed by
Tunis, ihe Bey undertakes to prohibit
importations of arms and ammunition on
the coast South of Tunis. M. Ferry said
the text will be shortly submitted. -He
Hoped the Chambers would ratify the
treaty, which guarantees the security of
French interests and attains the object
for which the expedition was undertaken.
London, May 13. The Tunes says : “The
conclusion of the ministerial statement. re
lative to Tunis, made in the French Cham
bers yesterday, will be received throughout
•Europe with unmixed aipazement. Every
political section in England agrees that the
reasons for the expedition advanced by M.
BarthelmySt. Hilaire, French Minister of
Foreign Affairs, are merely pretexts and that
the real reasons—which the latter part of
his circular reveal —are unworthy of any
State -that professes to b& guided in its
international relations by the ordinary
rules of morality. It would be idle to pre
tend that’ the action of France will not
■ somewhat weaken the sympathy and friend
ship entertained towards her by England.
In all difficult negotiations which marked
the concluding stages of the Eastern''ques
tion, England received no.‘help from'
France. The Greek question was danger
ously compromise! by her withdrawal at a
oritifial stage. The new tariff is justly re
garded -with great disfavor. We sincerely
hope that diplomatic and eomriiercial fric
tion of this kind wilf lead to no" permanent
unfriendliness between the two countries,
bnt there is' no denying that France has
done herself harm with English public
opinion by the Tunis affair. It is not. tho
feeling of jealously, commercial or 'politi
cal, that produces this result, but one of
concern that the nation' which seems to'
have entered upon a- better path should
allow itself to be turned by fancied com
mercial interests into a course not in accor
dance with the best traditions of public
law.”
Tunis, May 13. —The French troops ar
rived at Manuba, near Tunis, to-day. Gen
eral Breard sent word to M. Roustan,
French Consul General here, that he held
himself at the disposal of the latter.
Paris, May 13.—A1l journals here ap
prove the ministerial statement relative to
the Tunisian affair.
The following dispatch is published here:
“Tunis, May 13.—M.-Roustan yesterday
asked the Bey to grant an,audience to Gen
eral Breard. The Bey fixed 4,- p. m., as the
time for the interview. General Breard
proceeded to Barbo and read to the Bey the
text of the treaty in ten articles, the princi
ple of which is that there shall be a French
Minister Resident in Tunis, charged to
watc.h the execution of tbe treaty. The
Bey asked until 9 o’clock in the evening
for consideration, but he signed the treaty
at eight o’clock. He requested that tha
French troops should entffr Tunis, but the
French had no intention of taking that
step. The interview between the Bey and
General Breard was marked by great cour
tesy and friendliness on both sides. It is
believed that M. Roustan will be ap
pointed French Minister Resident.”
ENGLAND.
• London, May 13.—The 'limes Says it is
stated that owing to Mr. Forster’s declara
tions at Bradford, against amending the
Land bill, several Irish members of Parlia
ment, who voted against the recent Home
Ruleg meeting, have informed him that
they, now consider themselves bound by the
decision of the meeting and that they will
abstain from voting on the second reading
"of the bifl.
London, May 13.—1n the House of Com
mons, this evening Mr. Gladstone stated
that, in view of opposition to the Parliamen
tary Oath bill, the Government intended to
postpone consideration of the course they
should take upon it until the Land bill had
been substantially disposed of,j
NATAL.
London, May 13.—A dispatch 'to the
Standard, from Newcastle, Natal; says :
“There has been a battle near Lichtenburg
between ,Caffre Chiefs .Montesia and Mo
r caba. The latter, who is a friend of the
Boers, and who was defeated with heavy
loss, says Ins'adversary was assisted by Eu
ropeans. It is reported that the Boers are
preparing to assist Mooaba.. It has been
arranged that the British officer shall go lo
warn "hatfl parties to abstain from hostili
ties."
RUSSIA.
Bt. Petersburg, May 13. —The Nihilist
arrested here charged with com
plicity-in the murder of the Czar and with
preparing the Little Garden Street mine, is
a naval officer. He was also an accomplice
ofthe Nihilists-who caused the explosion
at Winter Palace in February, 1880, and is
charged with having stolen from the Gov
ernment magazine a quantity of dynamite.
The Oolos states that quiet has b.eeD re
stored at Kieff. The people who suffer
mfcst.are mechanics, sto all traders aud re
tired -soldiers. There are eighteen hun
flrefl flestjtute families at the barracks. The
wife of Governor-General P'Entelen has
formed a oommittee for their relief. A dis
turbance also oecured at Bayarti and Yasil
koff. The mob threw stones at a train bear
ing Jewish refugees, and the engineer de-*
dined-to proceed, fearing tho train yjAflld
be upset. Reinforcements of infantry aud
dragoons have arrived in the disturbed dis
tricts, MQBt of the necessaries of life have
risen to high prices. At Kuba, in Caucas
sus, fiftjfrthree persons escaped from jail.
They were pursued, when seventeen of
them were killed and three recaptured.
■ The others madA good their esc.apfi. iis
troff, during the last fofl?. hundred
railway w° i 4 t h e n hSYft b.eefl refldsred hoone
leis”, apd are staiviflg, 9,wing to iqn
petency apd disqrgariizatiqfl qf Vfav railway
aqthqrftres,
Gegemi Ldfls Mdikot', Commandant of
rit, Petersburg; M.- J. Abaza, Minister of
Finance; Baron-Nicolap Minister of Publio
Instruction, and M. Grers, Minister of For
eign Affairs, all tendered tß.eir resignations
to the Emperor Thursday, the 12th inst.
j BRAVE AND. UNSKpV'pjUJp
! An Inctifeißi in ibe m/titnry C a *ct\ ot (fle
'• "' late'Cap/. W. L.’ D/Eatj,
' of $4 News and •Courier.']
QbangesUbis, May 11.—The news of Capt.
DeFass’ .death reoalis ap incident whieh fell
under my eye. At Tullanany, when Colonel
Daniel’s Georgia regiment wa3.pushed back
by a force of five to one, and just before the
cadets under Major White recovered the
lost ground, Capt. f)ePass worked ip by
iMpifl 4 siflgle caeflon info, the tangled wood
and swaiflp.'’ Hi vigoroqs firing checked
the enemy’s charge. Then began a terrible
fight from free to tree, in which Capt. Ile-
Pass was sffiqt jp the uppe? arm. He ap*
.pmaahed 0 *nrgenn.iust as q young Georgian
who had fleeri shot id the breast was brought
in. “•C&ptain,” said the aurgenn, “let me
pxamine your wound.” to that
poor fellow first. He needs quick help.”
The soldier looked grateful, but died very
soon. Capt. DePass fought well for Caro'-.
m ■
■ -/TBE INWARDNESS *
Of file CofcsoUUated Telegraph Com
te panjes, to Be Dlecloaed.
■ yßy ATelegraph *tq the Ghronicfe.)
New. YoRS, " May 13-—The trial of the
spit of -Win. - S. .Williams against the Con
solidated Telegraph Companies, to restrain
the increased issue of $15,000,000 capital
stock of.the .Western Union Telegraph Com
pany! was begun to-day before Jridge Traux,
in tb.e Superior Court. A number of promi
'nent lawyers on both sides are employed
in tbe case. Jay*Gold and Dr. Norvin
.Green were early in attendance and will be
called as witnesses. Itis thought the' trial
of the cause will cncupy the attention of
the Cofirt for oyer two weeks- The open
ing was made by Robert Sewell, sof counsel
for plaintiff, who read*portions of the com-
and stated if the witnesses told the
truth; “the true inwardness’~of the meet
ings at.;wbich the consolidations were
effected would be disclosed. •
snjpDß* gu%PE#r§p.
Investigating the Cause af the Death of
Msjor Smith.
(By Telegraph to the Cjfaronicle, )
Fredericksburg, Va_, May 13. The
.authorities 01-CAuriine county have com
menced an investigation- 01 the circum
. stances'of ’the^death of Majhr Charles Mor
ris Smith, fcKnezly editor of the Biqhmond
which occurred abput two months
ago was reported at tfle time as caused
|by the overturnipg upon him <#
a- vehicle in which he traveled te Port
| Royal. - The object of yttib ifivestigation-is
to se.t sorest npmerou raiflors whjch have
been widely circulatea.'rth'at Major Smith
was deafl before the time of the acfcidasf.
Affdihon 'Giles, colored, driver of tp? 995-'
.veyance, left here .to-day, in charge of the"
sheriff of Caroline county H- Mat-
Maying TDteg. it M wmaiofo... -
[By Telegraph to the Chronicle. X
* WasHufeToif, D.d, May 13.—The weath
er, has been very hot here during thrfpaat
fitree days- gtood 92 df
*grees atH, a. m., -to-day, arid
*" *< <4 s -V
■GEORGIA NOTES.
/ • _____ *
Wheat looks moderately well near Pawder
SpHng*. Oats at present promising. Good
stands of cotton and corn. * „
A gentleman who moved to Alabama car
ried a cow with him; said eisw returned to
Cobb county the other day, a distance* of
ninety miles. * , *
The Georgia State Dental Association con
vened in annual session in Savannah Mon
day morning at eleven o'clock, in the par
lors of the Screven House.
Colonel W. T.„T{ammell has returned
hoihe after an absence of several months in
New Orleans. . He looks as though the
Southwest agreed with him.
A freight car on the Walton Railroad ran.
off the track last Saturday. The accident
was caused hy a rotten piece of timber in
the trucks. Not much damage done.
The last issue of the Thomasville Post ap
peared last Friday. The valedictory of Mr.
r. J. Wind announced that it had suspended
for want of sufficient patronage to pay ex
penses. .
The finest Btands of cotton are reported
all over Monroe county, and the work of
chopping it out is going on Tapidly. The
showers of last week were general and did
much good.
Thomasville Enterpinse: ‘ ‘Sheep-shearing
has commenced in good earnest, and the
ileeces are already coming into market.
Onrmerchants wilt pay top prides, -and are
preparen to take all that may he brought in. ”
Perhaps the most successful Tarmer in
Walton county is Mr. J. *A. .Valiance, of
Blasingame's district. Ha has clover nearly
waist high, and his wheat and oats are the
finest in his neighborhood. Impfpved
tarming and improved implements are the
secrets of his success.
The Rome Hook and Ladder Company
have decided do abandon their {lroposed vis
it to Athens to participate in the firemen’s
tournament, which takes place in that city
on the 19th instant. A failure to raise a
sufficient number of men, we believe, is as
signed for their withdrawal.
Thonlfisville Enterprise: ‘‘The strawberry*
firm of Messrs. McKay & Blackshear will
repay the visitor, for an inspection of it.
The difference between the mulched and'
unmulched is very marked, and will satisfy
any one that mulch is the thing for the suc
cessful growing of strawberries.”
States mail is rapidly becoming a nuisance in
stead of a convenience, and that it
■ly takes a letter from four to six days to
reach Savannah from that place. Its editor.
Mi. Meddlock, thihks there is a culpable
some where, and is anxious to
find it out. . •
Asa train on the W. A A. Railroad was
approaching Marietta, Sunday, a brakeman
appeared at the door of the coach and sang
out, “‘Ladies and gentlemen: I have the
pleasure of announcing that the next, town
will be Marietta. If you "will look out of the
car as the train halts, you will see the entire
population assembled at the depot.”
Atlanta Post: “The Diocesan Convention,
which has just closed its sessions in Savan
nah, decided to place St. Luke’s Church, in
this city, under the charge of Rt. Rev.
Bishop Beckwith. This ohange places thp
ehurcn in the category of what is called a
cathedral. We understand thfit this chlirch,
or cathedral, is in a most flourishing condi
tion, and appears to be entering on anew
era of prosperity.
Jefferson News and Farmer: “Cotton is
coming up beautifully. We don’t think we
ever saw a better stand. Last week we said
oats were fine in the county. We always
try to give a truthful statement ot facts.
After taking two rides out in the country we
have changed our opinion. 1 They are very
low, as a general thing, but may have heavy
heads if we have good rains at the proper
time.” ‘
Sandersville Herald: “Mr. M. H. Boyer
had fifty-eight quarts of strawberries gath
ered last Friday. At fifteen cents a quart
they were worth $8 70. With suitable sea
sons the yield will probably be as much for
twenty-five days; if so, the proceeds for a
half acre in strawberries would bes2l7 50.
One-fourth of an acre last year, in one year
old plants, yielded Mr. Boyer SBO. Diver
sified crops pay better than all cotton.”
The Marietta Paper Mills was 'the scene
of a most enjoyable pic-nic on the 3d inst.
Everything was lovely until about eleven
o’clock, when through accident the Queen
of the party, Miss —, was precipitated
from the bridge into the rushing waters of
creek, a distance of twelve or fourteen feet.
Confusion reigned when Col. F. A. Irwin,
with the daring of an Indian fighter, sprang
after her and succeded in rescuing her with
only thte inconvenience of a thorough wet
ting.
Cedartown has as tew loafers as any town
of its size in Georgia. A good sign. ’
Dalton consumes about seventy-five kegs
of lager beer a day, and -yet business is
dull.
The cotton factory at Bowenville is now
under good headway, and is making the
best of yarns.
Finer fish than have been seen for sever
al years are being captured from North
Georgia streams.
No one has yet taken. charge of Catoosa
Springs, and it looks as though this popu
lar resort will not be opeh this season.
A young lady in Catoosa county, so ’tis
said, in trying to avoid the presence of a
young man, a few days ago, jumped put of
a window and broke both her arms.
From two cow’s, since the first of Decem
ber, Mrs. E. Huggins, of the Sixth District
of Carroll county, has sold eighty-five
pounds of butter, besides having plenty for
her "table.
Tbe young man, Bud Gillanwater, who
was shot by Chris Mooney in the suburbs of
Forrestville, Saturday night last, is recover
ing slowly from his wound. In all prob
ability he will get entirely well.
Covington Enterprise : ' ‘Perhaps the peo
ple of Georgia would be pleased to see Gov
ernor A. H. Colquitt in the United States
Senate. Who.knows but his name will be
presented for that position when the proper
time comes ?”
.Hr.. D. L. Love, representing a company
oi large New England capitalists, is in
Home to confer with Jhe people about build
ing a large cotton factory. The company
proposes to put in $300,000 if Rome will
raise "$200,000.
A little colored girl, living with her aunt,
Adaline Worrell, near the Georgia Railroad
crossing below Covington depot, was ac
cidentally shot in the head with a pistol,
about 10 o’clook last Tuesday morning,
and fatally injured.
The Cherokee Iron Works at Cedartown,
whioh suspended work about the 12th of
December last for repairs, resumed business
on Wednesday of last week. In repairing,
the turnace was considerably enlarged, so
that it now turns out wmcJt more pig iron
per day than it did before.
On the did Wsa- R. Vfestfarm, now owned
by L. Q. W@at and A. Huntington, on the
R*om Hill road, six miles from Cedartown,
on Sunday evening last, a double log house
was struck by lightning. There were seven
people in the house. Two of them—Aire,
Brazier and Mrs. Prince—warn
killed and only one of %a\'-en escaped i*
jury.
Tliere js *mne doubi whether Henry Hill,
w,o, was executed at Elberton, on the 22d
tilt., was really dead when out down. The
body wft# in a profuse perspiration when it
toaobed’ the cemetery. The Elberton Ga
zette says; “One af two results ssems ab
solutely certain' If Henry Hill was buried
the e vening of the execution he was buried
alive; or,- if he was not buried that even
ing, there is a possibility of bis being alive
yet.” .
SOUTH KBWS.
! The Mauls or cotton t are good ail over
Newberry county and the grain crops are
looking fine.
Camden has raised a subscription to in
duce the authorities of the Georgetown and
North Carolina Railroad to make a survey
direct by Camden to Chester.
We Bee that since January.lst, 317 drum
mers have registered at the Darlington
hotels. During the same Ume 301' have
registered at the Ghesaw Hotel.
Mu 0. ’if. Ailep, of Chester county, made
rice planting pay hint handsomely last sea
son. He harvested about fifteen bushels off
of a sixteenth of an acre of bottom land.
The colored Baptist Missionary and Edd
qationaljDonvantion has been in session in
Cheraw for several days. About 130 minis
ters and lay delegates have been in atten
dance. . . : -
Four young men, three young ladfqn and
two boys arrived in Chester frojs, Breland on
last Thursday. They arc. veiated to Mr, H.
C. Brawley, of fejiuM Hill, and came over
at his It is said they intend tv
auto tijair 1 omes in Chester.
1 air. Wiley Davis, of county, is
paying every attention m. Wr, immigrants
and is determined to, give the experiment a J
thorough colored people abon’t
Ridge wijytffe much exercised about them.
The new iron bridge of the Otdnmbia and
Greenville Railroad over Brafl river, at
Alston is just finished. It is nhagnifleent
piece of work, and is said to have cost over
thirty thousand dollars. In making the
change from tbe old to the new sttu&Uze
not a train was delayed. '
The days of whisky-sellpag, at least for
the present year, came fo. an end at Chester
on last 'font was a big day fdr
the haf-rooms. They did a lively business.
Besides the amount of whisky imbibed, the
number of jugs filled was immense. Those
acoustome-i to drinking coaid not think of
stopping all at once, and so laid in a gqqij
supply of the ardent.
Messrs. G. G. LreWalt, Francis Robb and
S. L. Fellers began filaunesclay the manu
facture of 300 t CpGbrioks at Prosperity for
the three bijek storey, one for
each, bn Main street of that thriving town.
The stores will take the place of the wooden
buildings between Luther & Duniu-ck’s
brick store and the pdfct ofjea, and will be
tOO feet in depth and two stories high.
Spartanburg jail is empty, and the sheriff
hasn’t made a sale in three months.
Col. Cothran is again working the Rom
Gold Mine in Edgefield county. He is
hopeful of big results. '
The-first bale of cotton for the Rock Hill
Cotton Factory was bought on Monday from
Mr. Elisha Warren, at ten cents.
.The proposition of the Barnwell People
that the citizens of the State unite in erect
ing a monument to Gen. M. W. Gary seems
to meet with general favor,
,Wm. H. tjho shot find killed ’ n tj.
father Bear Allendale, on 28th £ April, was
arrested ip Greenville on Bth May.
fie was en rpnto tn- ' tne £ OD96 of hiß father
tn^aw - Se is thought to be insane.
. HiU JEraUi: “One of onr citizens,
i recalculating' the amount of money spent
at thifi place for whisky in the coarse of a
.year; estimated it to be in the neighborhood
of 130,000. This -handsome sum will here- I
after be. very differently spent."
’ Tfie 'firstpase in Chester connty under
the neftteftw to pnnish edticing laborers un
der mrbtrnH came before-Trial Justice Sims,
at Lowryrmle recently. It vu brought in
the form of a aivil action. The jury ren
dered a verpfet of thirty-fife dollars against
V
' Barnwell Sentinel: “Judging from the
number of jcgsda of baled hay, sacks of com
and sides of bacon "Lauled away from Bam
berg, last Saturday, we concluded that that
section must have been sorely troubled last
year with cotton fever. Other sections of
Barnwell countv have been similarly af
flicted,”}
Abbeville Medium: • It is said that the fish
in several creeks of this county are dying
np. The cause is attributed to the saw mills
on those creeks. These mills are so con
structed as to allow all the sawdust to fall
in the water, and the sawdust kills the fish.
Saw mills are very useful institutions, but
they should not be allowed to destroy the
fish of our streams, since the State has
spent so much money in the effort to im
prove the fish in her limits. We suggest
that the Fish Commissioner look into the
matter.”
CROP NEWS.
The wheqt cMp of Elbert is reported to
be unusually premising this season.
Snapping Shoals has lost a great many
hogs recently on'ifccotfnt A cholera.
Many of the grape vineyards in North
Georgia were killed by last Winter’s freezes.
Mr. J. B. Nix, has the finest strawberry
patch in Midway. He says he can gather
one gallon eftch day off of a bed fifteen feet
square. .
Dawson Journal:’ “We have heard a nuflt
ber of our oldest and best farmers say that
the stand of coftbn this seasonps the best
they .ever saw.” *
The farmers near Biichanap, Polk county,
are very busily engaged in chopping, cotton.
The most of them have a good stand.* Wheat
is looking fine. „ •
Dawson Journal: '“The strawberry cvop
is unusually good this season, and most of
our people have fared sumptuously for tine
past week or two.”
Hampton farmers are busy plowing cot
ton. Corn is very backward,* but we; hope
tor see a good crop of the precious grain
■harvested next Fall.
, Cotton planting in Murray county has
Wen going on at a rapid rate among the
farmers for the past two weeks. .An enor
mdHS'crop is being planted.
It is said that Polk counfy is buying more
o*rh this year than ever before. This ought
not so to be. We hope our farmers have
planted, more.this year.
Rock Hill Herald : Farmem are in good
spirits. They have fine staaids of cotton
and corn, and for the most part arc blessed
with good qrops of Small grain. v.
The area sown in wheat in Murray comity
is distressingly small compared to what it
should have been, but prospects for an
abundant yield per acre are flatterigg.
The grain crops of Polk county are said
to be looking well. This ought to be a good
crop year for gffiin, if snow in a preceding
Winter is of any benefit to it, and many say
it is.
The wheat and oat crops of Merriwether
county are looking well. r fhe only draw
back is that there is not e nough of theeo
cereals sown to help tho country a great
deal.
Cotton planting in the vicinity of Elber
ton is about over. Mu Ah of tho staple is
now ready for “choppir.g oc t.” Mr. John
Mahoney claims the fir.est specimen where
no fertilizer has been used..
Farm work in Audorson itounty, 8. C., is
progressing finely and, although the farm
ers got a late start, their crofis are about as
far advanced as usrial at this time. A few
have begun working their cotton over the
first time.
We have been informed t hat Mr. W. B.
Brooks, of Fayette county, planted a to
bacco stalk in 1879, which is still living,
and bids fair to bring a crop < f tobacco this
year. The first year he oat the tobacco
once, the second twice.
Albany 2ftnos and Advertiser Where has
the rain gone to? \We wish for it r long for
it; pray for it. The oats are weeding it
badly; the garden? cry out for i’t, as the
hart fc,r the water-brooks. Cotton chop
ping, however, has advanced rapidly dur
ing Vhe drought.”
Occupying a part of the Site off old
Petersburg, Capt. D. B. Cade can slnow a
lot of six acres of Chilian clover which can
not fail to be of interest to the progre ssiva
farmer. In its growth it most'resembles
red clover—it stands very uniformly .sver
the lot about knee high.
The Barnwell People is reliably informed
that in some sections of that countv colored
laborers are enrolling themselves in labor
leagues and pledging themselves to work
for no white man after the present year for
love, money or interest in crops'. They
prefer renting land and getting advances.
The longest cottofi row in the State, per
haps, is in Spartanburg county, 8. C., laid
off by Mr. E. B. Huff, who works land of
John H. Montgomery, Esq., two milesnprth
of Spartanbnrg village. It is 9,760 yards
long; and the rows being three and a half
feet wide, covers a fraction over two and
one-third acres. Its length is a little more
than five and a half miles. It would re
quire about six hours to run round this one
row of cotton."
Hampton Guardian: Mr. Jacob A. Light
sey, a successful farmer of this vicinity, has
planed on our table a specimen of light
bright brown sugar, which is remarkably
fine, manufactured on his place. He says
he planted "about three-quarters of an acre
of land last year in sugar cane, and made
from it enough syrup to supply himself and j
farm hands, besides selling about sixty gal- :
lons,, and making a barrel and a keg of 1
sugar. Mr. Lightsey proposes to enlarge I
his field of operations this season, keeping ‘
a close account of all expenses, and wi l
show to the world that sugar cane
will pay just as well in Hampton as Any
where else. •
FOREIGN MARKETS.
What Was Done In p
Fabrics, Grain, Coffee, ? y tgnr. Hie- 4. ’
During the Past i„ Kurop e.' ’ *’
(By Cable tq the Chronicle.)
The Diver,pool Cottott Market.
Liverpool. May 13. -This week’s circu
lar of the Gorton Brokers' Association says :
“Cotton continues depressed and irregular.
On X4M*reday there was more* business and
thetone was firmer, with a partial recovery in
prices." Quotations genevaliy are %and. low-’
er. American was in moderate request.
After much depression, prioes closed firm
ef y&d. decline. In Sea the demand,
which was steudily improved, -was freely
met, and rates sure penny lower. Future*
opened dull aed gradually weakened. On
Tuesday and .Wednesday there was consid
erable lp*iiflUre to sell, and the lowest rates
sbfttt-ed 3-18 deoline.’" There was a reaction:
6a Thursday and "prices recovered 3-32d. to
3t[d. New-orop deliveries have been in mod
'erate demand and fluctuated like nearer
positions, but not to the same extent.”
London, May 13. —The Manchester Guar
dian, in its commercial article, says,: “The
market, on the whole, is quiet, but in some 1
departments therein better inquiry, with J
rather more business. An advance fin ’
American cotton at Liverpool made sellers j
oautlous and more difficult to deal with.
Export yarns are in somewhat better de- I
maud. The cloth market is quiet and j
steady. Business is small, but prices are.
firmly maintained.”,
The Grain Market.'
Livebpool, May 13. —The leading grain
circular says: “Grain continues quiet. The
Provincial markets are dull, with*a further
reduotion in value for both English and
foreign wheats. Cargoes off coast (few), on
passage and for shipment, are steadily
held-. The business in wheat and corn has
been unimportant. To-day's market was
thinly attended. There was a limited de
mand for wheat, and prices fell a penny.
Flour was dull but firmer. Corn was in
abundant supply and with imliHerdht re
quest, and prices fell 31<Cd.”
Coffee, Sugar, Tea, Etc.
London, May.l-3. —ln MinciDg Lane, the
markets during tlis past week have been
disturbed by failures principally affecting
sugar, coffee, teas, oils and cotton.'. No
further difficulties are anticipated and
the market closed at a recovery from
momentary depression. Sugar transactions 1
have been very small and all offerings tar''
onl’y.reduced bids. West Indies sugars •*'
lower. Other imports 'are ■ltnoW’' g( j
Clyde crusted supports values, bu ig j n! ]'
Raw sugars meet only with inquirv
There was a-dragging market ir, coffees ex’
cept for good qcJonry quaUUr a, which'were
steady. Interior. Jama*. ttpd . Costa Hla .
were \a-sotne cases u'ni! ang or two lowea
Tft maintains a t,dep^ y t 0 recov g r from
the late depression. Medium China Jlqngs,
blaek and rod t leaf, 1. are about penny
clearer q&a fiat} Ihdian and Japanese 2d.
Ricq.xtas firm, with some inquiry for cargos a.
Missouri desperadoes, t .
They Assassinate An Innosant Stan sail
Successfully Reals', the. Sheriff’s Posse—
' One of tfie PartyLy^ebed.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
, Cincinnati, May 13.—The Republican's
Charlestown, Mo., special says four men—
Frank Drown, Jesse Meyers, Jas. Hamilton
and Da* Rhodes—visited the house of Win.
Unox, five miles south of New Madrid, last
Monday night, with the intention. of kill
ing him and -his half sister on account of
an old grudge. A man named Coleman
was carrying a child and walking the .floor
in the house, and, mistaking Coleman for
Knox, the party fired on him and.wounded
both him and th child. A warrant was is
sued Tuesday tor the arrest of the assassins
and Sheriff Walters, with a passe, started in
oursuit and soon overtook them: The mpa.
‘ Bed to the woods and secreted themselves
behind a fallen tree. When the posse
came np they r&oeivgd a volley from the
concealed party ap.d Robt. LaFarge. was.
killed.. The Sheriff's party returned the
fire, but receiving a second volley, they re
tired. 'The desperadoes then robbed the
dead body of L&Farge of bis wateh, money
and shirt qtuda and fled. In. the evening
Pat Rhodes, one of the gang who had been
wounded- by the Sheriff's posse, came in
and gave himself up. This morning a party
of vigilante took him out and hanged., him.
Hundreds of men are soonring the country
in every direction for the remainder of the
party. If canght they will be lybobed.
OUR, PRESIDENT'S WIFE.
Mr*. GarfielA Seriously 111—Cause and
Satnre of Her Sickness.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Washington, Slay Mrs. Garfield,
wife of the -President, hasbeen- suffering
for several days from a low ndrvous fever,
aggravated, it has been supposed, by ma
laria. To-day the fever has assumed a
typhoid form, which canses her relatives
and friends more uneasiness, and which
makes-it improbable that any- improvement
in her condition can take place at present.
It is not thonght, however, that there is any
danger. Dr. Boynton, of Cleveland, is ir
constant attendance at the Exeonlive M' n '
sion, in consultation with Dr. Pope, of Vf:"
city, and Mrs. Dr. Edson. ’ . v
. Mrs. Garfield Better r" '
Washington, May 14.-Miu Garfield la.i
bettor to-night, bat is still quite ill.
RAILROAD.
ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE STOCK
HOLDERS.
The Report* of the President and Di
rectors— Resolution of 'thank* to the
Officers for Their Management of the
Inierest* of the Company—A Dividend
of Eleven Per Cent. Per Annum.
The annual Convention of the stockhold
ers of the Georgia Railroad was held at
Masonic Hall yesterday, President Phinizy
in the Chair, and Messrs. C. G. Goodrich
and Carlton Hillyer acting as Secretaries.
The roll was called and 22.519 shares
found to be represented—ll,3B9 in person
and 11,130 by proxy—more than a quorum
of the stock.
Mr. John H. James moved tin- appoint
ment of a committee of three on proxies and
elections. Adopted.
The Chairman appointed Messrs M. P.
Reese, D. H. Walker and Henry Elmoo
ston as the committee.
The Secretary, Mr. Carlton Hillyer. read
the minntes of the last annual meeting,
which were confirmed. *
The President submitted the annual re
ports to the stockholders. Judge Tteesa
said the reports were impamphlet form and
had been published in (ne morning Chroni
cle. He, therefore, moved that the read
ing of them be dispensed with. Adopted.
Mr. D. 8. Printup moved the adoption ot
the reports. Carried. /
Dr. Cheney said a very important docu
ment had been plaoed in his hands, sod he
proposed to offer it to the Convention. All
were aware that for some time the a took of
their road had been-held prominently’up,
that it had greatiy increased in vslno. Some
man or set of men had been instrumental
iff this. The stock was greatly sought afrei.
it was written for, and was clirahing wm
np towards S2OO a share. He handed the
foll owing to tho Secretary to be read:
The stockholders of the Georgia Bail road
and Banking Company in Convention do re.
Bblve
That the thanks of the Convention <-.
hereby tendered to the President and Board
of Directors of this company for the effi
cient manner in which they have managed
the interests of the company and for tha
present satisfactory condition*of its nfliiry
whereby the value of the stock has be ,
chanced And our net income large)- jn
creased, and the management and ar
the Board in making the recent ren* i ,1 ‘
Georgia Railroad and its depen'',,,,, ,
William M. Wadiey meets oT. £2?.!
proval, not only because the i’ a t* r j,u „* .*!_
stockholders are therebv pnr 1
because the effect is to bob', the t™de of
interior and up-country ¥ 0 tho south Atlsn
ic ports as agains V ositil® combinations
threatening their int r re9U from the North
ana r.HRt.
He moved its Adoption, which wn car
£ > > the negstiv,
Cleveland offered the following
resolution :
Whereas, Tho stockholders of th<- Geor
gia Railroad Company- have had no divi
uends since the 15th of Jannnrv. he it
Resolved, That the Director* be inst-ueted
by the stockhold“rs arisembled in C Ttirpn
hon to pay a diviffeni'i of 3Q per oent on
the Ist July, 1881, and 2l£ per rent, quar
terly dividendf., thenmftor, making in all II
per cent, per tonnuna.
Mr - p- Speer asked if the resolution
was not rafner encroaching on the province
of the Board. Would it not be batter to
leave tho matter wflh the Directors?
Mr. Printup said the stockholders in Con
vention could instruct tire Directors to do
anything. The Convention was like the
people—sovereign in power and could give
any directions to the Directorr.
Mr. Speer moved as an amendment tfutt
the Directors be instructed to rarrv out the
resolution if in tbeir discretion they deem
wise to do scr.
• Mr. Cleveland aocepted the amendment
Gen. Alexander moved to amend bv mak
ing the reanlntion read II per en*. for
this year instead of per annum Th*
amendment'was accepted and tho resolu
tion was adopted.
Mr. John H. James moved that the polaw
be opened and remain open until 12 •.’eloc:;
when the ballots shall be toirned orer to tbs
Committee on Elections.
Mr. Cheney said it would b weiii o u;.
derstand whether there wv-ro any vacancies
on tho Board, and whether the nnmber wff
to be the same.
The President said there was no chsf
The resolution was adopted.
Judge Hillyer said Rf the exao* Mg tn , .
the stockholders und.nr the lease nut nt r
be fully understood, he would ask t ~f ,
ident to explain to the Convent'Re
position in regard to the annual r (invention
under the lease, snd also anyth! aa P tc 9 l
might think of i oterost. ‘ s
Mr. Phinizy 'laid the leas-.. m f n |lv ,
wonlJ b n ‘l| th *‘, l repor ?' Tat> ■toekhokera
would be allo wed, under tllo .lease, to visit
t A a ntto e p ers- T ?* r * p hereto fore an* at
Ms M-n T 6 1 * 1 ’• [Applause.]
M e d that the lease be read
and published ip
!>enidw jt i(1 P . th8 * lea.e" could U
i A ' tt i b ®'saw no necessity sfor pnbiisb
alc ne' ** 'e'as a matter for the stockholder ,
Mr. Mullarky withdrew the portion 01
iK- *- e< l u< o ‘ D reference ta publication, and
tb'a lease was read.
Mt. James said wished to mak ■ a*j
Explanation in regard to the tickets. Th*
yellow tickets had only thirteen names*
j They should have sixteem, It had alee tlm
Inauue.of Gen. E. P. Aiaxunder as Vic--
; Prenident. If they wished to vote for him
| as L'irector they would have to scratoh out
‘‘Vi-ce-President, ’ ’ as there would be no
j such office in future. The white ticket cot,
i tarned the full list. He had heard of no
j new name proposed except one. Some ol
j the stockholders, he believed, proposed to
vote for Mr. Ferdinand Phinizy for Dim
I tor, and others would vote for the old tich'-t
throughout.
At 12 o’clock the polls closed and tL
/ Convention took a recees until 3 o'clock
p. m.
The‘Convention reassembled nt 3, 0. m
M. P. Reese, Esq., from the Goinmittc- on
Proxies and Elections, reported the follow
ing as the result of the election for Presi
dent and Directors : C. H. Phinizy. 21,340
E. P. Alexander, 21,221; James’s. Hamil
ton, 21,340; Stevens Thomas, 21,340; M.
P. Stovall, 15,701; L. M. Hill. 21,310
Josiah Sibley, *21,340; H. D. McDaniel,
21,340; Geo. Hillyer, 21,340; John Dan
son, 21,200; Wm. M. Reese, 21,340; John
H. James, 21,237; Joel A. Billups, 21,340
N. L. Hutchins," 24,340; H. H. Hickman,
18,067; J. H. Alexander, 21,340; Ferdi
nand Phinizy,' 17,049; Geo. T. Jackson
13,043.
Tho following weresleclared duly ciecte 1
O. H. Phinizy, President; James 8. H.imi
| ton, Stevenh Thoqjas, E. P. Alexander, 't
H. Alexander, Li*M. Hill, Josiah Sibl-.v
John Davison, H.. D. .-.McDaniel, G-Orr-
Hiljyer, Win. M. Reese, John 11. Jaw- ,'
I Joel A. Billups, N. L. Hutchins, li
: Hickman, M. P. efovalj, Ferdinanand
Mr. Reese said,that on several ticket/
where General Alexander’s name a]q .r
as Vide-President, stockholders in a.-rap' , .
ing ont the words "Vice-President” ha t , ’
scratched out the hame, and the oor
didn't feel authorized to count the
the apparent shortness in Gene* . r " * nr '‘
der’s yote, as compared ,- u
others. It was evidently a • ot
The Convention adjontr i(jd j e
DI?to. *"
the Convent:,.
3 accordant wi;:.
ed in the h ,eJr / f t6e S^ >ek . h ° 1< j erß , A
j np declared at,on flllo P ted >P tbe motr
mtanT? a dividend of per <v -
nor • -y 15th, and a dividend of 2 1
payable October 15th. These dn
vill be paid offstoefcas it stands :.
JAb on the of June*and bep!--n
--, |liat fiiftr one fmy-. ,
.ock-before-the Jofti of Jnffe will ,ecur-
I the >uly d;yiden.(JP and any one buvi i K
; befar6 Sepfember Uitli will get the Octob.--r
’ <lividend. The salary of Mr. C. H
was made $3,000 per annogi as lirt i i-nt
of the Batik, and to look the I -ne. Ihe
Board adjourned until the r regular ma -.mg
in October.
THE GEORGIA RAIL-RO.^p
Curd ftowg Majpr Jfdlns.-
.Editors ChiAiisle andJgmtsti&htifMlist
; As yon seem tprmakek by author; w a
statement of the'jJrdlkadiligs of the Board
I' of Directors, of tJjfi'JSbbfgia Railroad, held
on the loth and state Id yonr re
port that “The vote .^{fiin-the question v ;l -,
unanimous, -tihus frowthat rtf th.
Bdardrfit tße fflke the lease wad first d.-.-sd
ed upon, when there was one- AUq-entih;-
voice,” I beg to say thaf the “one.disse'np.
ing voice” did not voteat all upon the rrur-y
tion. It was unatnmous. witEthose W a ,
but I'especially refrained froht voting J
the yeas and nays had been recorded af |t ,
vote on the original, aqtl I bad not cF.anued
my opinion. I refrained from >oting be
cause'J knew I was alone op tbf'quf htion
ante inasmuch as id was a foramfite conclu
sion that it would f sun j%r of rained
from-showing opposition, m
Where Over *IOO,OOO Wue'oiveu Ayfmy
The following intelligence-is of muah in
terest to At
Monthly Drawing fof. the' Lofftsiaifii State
Lottery, held in Orleans, on
No. 37,099 drew s3o.ocjf, Ooe-Ulf
of this, or $15,000, was - .n
cisco. Cal.", and $15,000 by Chas, ai*lor
Esa., oi Mt. Holly, N. J 1 N0.'*4,t04 drew
$#,000; one-half tp’Mr. Jas. Iffudia, Sout,'.
Mass., and Mrs*.' H
Taylor, Sullivan, Ind. No. AslKmev
$5,000; one-h<flf .drawn by Mr. Jantfttll
McEwen, 49 Wood street, fittsArc p B
the other by Joseph Lane, Greennoi'nt T.'
I. Tickets No. 76,071 to Atex Rever'
Philadelphia; and No. 96,183- to J '
Trainer and other parties in. Washins
La., drew $2,500 each. TheN% m „- son,
money was divided - .ahing
ticket holders. To know man; np '"ticket
A. Dauphin, No. 212 Broadway. -fitois M.
City, N* Y.; or at New Orlear “% Ybrk
June I4th the Grand On
will take place, managed by afiaTDrawing
Beauregard, of Louisian-' . Gefignus G. T
Early, of Virginia. . ■*-*d Jnbal A—
<niy.l4-wefiw
lot^im°r U^ bi tef***- says -ijQrUie larjfl
.mornte * yho arrived' here TuesdlW
Six ' - J ‘R. tha ! astQftbem last night
? ,amilies-were sent off vesterdav mnrW'
Mto Ninety-Six and one family to Monti
cello; three families went last night on th*
WjJjnington, .Columbia and Anfusta Rlii
road, ann two families pn the
branch of thefitbarlotte, Columbia
gUB^ E tif > t. a ' ■^’beGoamiissione^Etpectf
another batch m about ten dnva.
glad to learn that, so far? thoT/^hoh®**
labor have expressed them^