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Sditorial Correspondence of
Union & Recorder.
the
Old ‘‘Southern Recorder” and “Federal Union
consolidated.]
CELLED GSVIUE, OA
Wednesday, August 20, 1873.
We Tear
That the turn the correspondence
.etween cx-Gov. Herschel V. Johnson
nd Gov. Smith is now taking may
esult in some “unpleasantness” be
tween these two gentlemen. We should
sincerely regret an estrangement which
. ;i>ht prove permanent, or serious,
between two such eminent Georgians
as those engaged in this controversy.
We feel like quoting an oft-quoted
utterance of a very conspicuous offi
cial, “Let vs have peace /” Of course,
however, we desire the amplest jus-
t C e, and the fullest explanation, allow
ed to both of the distinguished gen
tlemen engaged in this correspondence.
V/e trust they may finally agree, or,
if that is impossible, agree to disa-
Zhe Lost Theodosia.
The sad history of Theodosia, only
daughter of Aaron Burr, is well known.
Harried to Gov. Alston of South Car
olina—separated from him—lost at
ea in a vessel in which she embarked
. t Charleston to return to New York
o cheer the desolate fire-side of her
rout hut fallen father; such it is.
The N. Y. “Graphic” now brings
it, or rather revives, a tradition to
’he effect that her mysterious disap-
.>e irance has been explained. This
radition is to the effect that the cele
brated Gibbs, the Pirate who was ex
ecuted for Piracy in New York on
the 22d April, 1S31, confessed before
his execution that he had captured
the vessel on which the lovely and ac
complished Theodosia Alston with
two children had embarked, and had
put all aboard to death: Mrs. Alston
and her two little children who accom
panied her, had perished with the
others.
We doubt the truth of the Graphic’s
tradition. We have before us an ac
count of Gibbs’ career, embracing the
substance of his confession. No such
statement occurs. From the intense
interest attaching to Theodosia Al
ston’s iate, we are sure such confession
of Gibbs would have attracted wide
spread notoriety at once.
Gibbs made an Address to the pub
lic, standing under the gallows a few
:aoments before his executiou ; but
Lc maJe no allusion to Theodosia Al
ston. He refers to a written confes
sion lie left in the hands of his jailer,
Mr. Hopson. Aaron Burr was then
residing at New York where Gibbs
x as hung, Mr. Burr’s death having
occurred on the 14th of September,
1S3G. We may be very sure Mr.
Burr would have been fully informed
cf any such revelation as that alleged
have been made by the Graphic,
.1 the rumor any truth. Whatever
were the crimes of Burr—and we
think they were unjustly exaggerated
by his enemies and have so passed
into history—he was devoted to his
beautiful and gifted daughter Theodo
sia. and would have made her fate
known to the world had it come to
liirht.
IVIcmmonites.
Such is the name of a new people
who are just preparing to emigrate in
large numbers from the Old World to
the United States. They live near
the Black Sea in a portion of territory
recently conquered by Russia, and an
nexed to that Empire. They are al
lo ved ten years in which to emigrate
if they choose to do so in preference
to becoming Russianized. A delega
tion was in New York last week on
their way to Kansas to select a loca
tion for five thousand who will come
to America next Spring. There are
40,000 who will come. We wish
these fine hardy cultivators of the soil
could be tempted to locate in Georgia
They would make valuable citizens
Cannot something be done by our
State Government, to turn their at
teation to Georgia?
The Rich Man.
Stewart, the New York merchant,
whose wealth runs up to one hundred
millions of dollars, has gone to Europe
accompanied by bis wife, his physi
cian and his legal adviser. We wonder
he did not carry his spiritual adviser
along, also; but perhaps he thought
such expense useless, considering the
utterance of our Saviour that it was
easier lor a camel to pass through the
eye of a needle than for a rich man to
enter the Kingdom of Hejaven. Mr.
Stewart is 70 years of age. Overtax
ing his faculties, corporeal and mental,
in managing his enormous business in
terests, has at last told so severely on
nis health that he was forced to turn
his back on New York, for a season,
and seek re-invigoration from leisure
and travel.
Brunswick.—We are pleased to see
-hat Messrs. Littlefield & Co., of Bruns
wick, Ga., have established a regular
acwet Line to New York. We note
vitii pleasure whatever evidences in
creasing prosperity of Brunswick with
,er capacious and excellent Harbor.
Z3T We are indebted to the propri-
torsof tiie Atlanta Constitution fora
iss ou their Engine for the month
• f A^uimst.
Hazzard House, Warwick Neck, >
Rhode Island, Aug. 9, 1S73. >
This is one of the beautiful and
healthy watering places with which
the Naragansett Bay is dotted on both
sides from Providence to Newport.
The Naragansett is one of the most
beautiful bays in the United States;
it is about thirty miles long and from
two to six miles broad; its wacers
everywhere swarm with fish of the
best qualities, and in summer its shoies
are cooled with the sea breezes coin
in' 7 in from the broad Atlantic. Du-
riu' 7 the heat of summer, thousands
and tens of thousands from New York
and other cities, and from the sur
rounding country, come to the shores
of the Naragansett to be fanned by
the sea breezes, to bathe in the salt
water, and to eat of the delicious fish
with which these waters abound. But
the great attraction to these shores,
or the one most talked about, are the
clam bakes. Clam bakes are not pe
culiar to Rhode Island, but it is here
where they probably originated, and
it is here where they have been brought
to the greatest perfection. The peo
ple throughout this region of country
seem to regard the clam as a great
luxury, and it is one of Rhode Island’s
most valuable productions. Every
day, except Sundays, thousands ol
people come from every ‘part of the
surrounding country to eat clams at
the various watering places on Nara
gansett Bay ; Rocky Point is the
place of the greatest resort. This is a
high rocky point, jutting cut into the
bay about midway between Provi
dence and Newport. Here is a large
and elegant Hotel, a large saloon for
eating clams, a high tower from the
top of which the whole length of the
bay and ocean far below Newport, can
be plainly seen. Here also are clus
tered various sources of amusement.
The numbers who resort here to eat
clams is astonishing ; some days they
are computed at twenty thousand, and
sometimes even more. Some eight or
ten large steamers make some four
and some six trips each day to Rocky
Point and other watering places on
the bay, and are generally crowded
with passengers both ways. These
boats sometimes carry two and three
thousand passengers at a trip. The
fare is only twenty-five cents, or forty
cents the round trip, and thousands
go on these excursions for the pleasure
of the sail, and the enjoyment of the
sea breezes. Frequently un pleasant
nights these boats are chartered for
moonlight excursions. They have
bands of music on board, and frequent
ly the steamboat companies employ
persons on some prominent places on
shore to send up rockets and other
pyrotechnics for the gratification of
those on board the boats. A few
nights ago we witnessed a very bril
liant display of fire works at this
place lor the benefit of three boat
loads of excursionists. The boats
came to an anchor within about half a
mile of the shore, and for more than
half an hour a most brilliant display of
fire works was kept up from the bluff
for their amusement. Bands ol music
on the boats gave variety to the
enjoyment. These boat excursion
parties sometimes do not get back
until one or two o’clock in the
morning. As the clam bake have
become famous all over the United
States, and are sometimes claimed as
a Rhode Island institution, it w.h not
perhaps be amiss to describe the man
ner in which clams are cooked in
quantities sufficient to feed many
thousands of persons at a time. The
Rhode Island clam bake is no doubt
a near relative to the Southern barba-
cue. These methods of cooking meat
and clams are both of very ancient
origin. For a mammoth clam bake,
a large hole is made in the ground, ol
circular form, this is lined with rocks ;
the rocks are then heated by throwing
brush or other fuel into the hole, and
setting the fuel on fire ; after the rocks
are sufficiently heated the fire and
ashes are raked out and the clams
poured in in quantities proportioned
to the size of the company ; the clams
are covered over with sea weed, and
over that with gravel ; the heat of the
rocks causes the clams to steam up
and they become cooked in the most
approved manner. This is not only
the most primitive but the best way
in which clams can be cooked. B.
Railway Massacre.—A collision
last Monday on the Chicago and Al
ton R. R. in Illinois, resulted in kill
ing and wounding about 50 people.
No Southerners ou the list.
For the Union and Recorder. ,
State Agricultural Convention-
Athens, Ga., Aug. 14, 1S73. #
Messrs. Editors'. The semi-annual
Convention of the Georgia Agricul
tural society has just closed, and I
propose to give your readers a brief
account of its actings and doings.
As many delegates had arrived by
the afternoon’s train of the 11th there
was an informal meeting of the society
in the College chapel. This meeting
was addressed by several gentlemen on
the corn question—mode of planting,
culture, cost of production and quali
ty raised per acre. We were particu
larly pleased with Col. A. J. Line’s ex
perience, who produces corn at 20
cents per bushel, and always has fat
and healthy mules, because he jeeds
well on corn on the coh.
On Tuesday most of the delegates,
numbering about 250 had arrived, and
the Convention was formally opened
by President Colquitt, and delegates
welcomed to the hospitalities ot the
city by Mr. Stanley. Reports of com
mittees being the order of the day,
the special committee, to whom was
referred the real, fancied, or rumored
report of a want of economy by Pres
ident Yancey’s administration as com
pared with Gen. Colquitt’s, reported,
and after the expenditure of much val
uable time, the floor having been oc
cupied principally by Col. Yancey,
the report was re-referred, to be re
ported upon at the next semi-annual
meeting of the Convention, and it is to
be hoped the committee will never
report; for no one who knows either
Col. Yancey or Gen. Colquitt would
harbor the suspicion that either one
of them would have countenanced any
negligent misappropriation or wilful
waste of the funds of the society.
THE REPORT OF COL. D. E. BUTLER
on emigration from the State during
the last Autumn, Winter and Spring,
based upon the sale of emigrant tick
ets actually sold by the several rail-! l^Y a appendage to the
roads, showed an exodus from the ^ esser interests of the State.
heritance by our fathers, descend in
quiet po?session to our children, and
not lorded over by the alien and the
stranger, and our posterity “hewers of
wood and drawers of water”—outcasts
from the land that gave them birth.
Let the people read Col. McKinley’s
address, think of his plan and if It be
the nearest road to a solution of the
difficulties which environ us, let us
try it. The crisis is upon us, the dan
ger is imminent, the demand of the
hour is urgent and something must be
done. This is seemingly the best thing,
and let us attempt the solution.—
“We can but perish.” Delegates were
so well pleased that they /oted Col.
McKinley the unanimous thanks of the
Convention and requested a copy of
his address for publication.
ELECTIONS AC.
Gen. A. H. Colquitt was elected Pres-
dent by acclamation, on motion of Col.
Hardeman; Col. McKinley was elected
Executive Committeeman from this
District, vice Capt. John Jones, whose
duties as State Treasurer have com
pelled him to remove to Atlanta. As
we write purely from memory, we
cannot give the names of other gentle
men, who were elected Vice Presi
dents and Executive Committeemen.
Our young friend Malcolm Johnson,
the efficient and courteous Assistant
Secretary was unanimously elected Sec
retary to fill the vacancy occasioned by
the resignation of Col. Sam’l. Barnett.
The Convention will hold its next
semi-annual convention in Columbus.
TIIE STATE GRANGE
held several meetings, which were
largely attended by representatives
from most of the 90 Granges now or
ganized in Georgia. The Order was
represented to be in a highly prosper
ous condition. This young giant,
which but recently set its foot on
Georgia soil, is making rapid strides
all over the land, and farmers are be
ginning to learn that they are not sim-
other
Hon. Wm. M. Meredeth of Phila
delphia, who was Secretary of the
Treasury under President Taylor, died
on the 16th, aged 77.
State of about ,.0,000 emigrants, and
about three-fourths of these were
women and children, and a considera
ble number of all were whites. The
committee states further, that after
diligent enquiry in the localities from
which the greatest numbers had been
said to have emigrated, there was no
scarcity of labor, and but little if any
diminution in the acreage under culti
vation this year as compared with last.
THE REPORT OF PROF. BROWN,
President of the Agricultural College,
was a lengthy document, exhibiting
his attainments a scholar, if not his
practicability as a farmer. He closed
by presenting to the consideration of
the Convention a scheme for raising
$30,000 to furnish with apparatus, &c.,
the new building about to be erected
by the liberality of the city of Athens.
GOV. SMITH’S SPEECH.
On Wednesday his Excellency Gov.
Smith spoke to the Convention for
two hours, on the agricultural interests
of the State, her material resources,
&c. &c. He attributes much of our
agricultural failures to idleness and
vagrancy, the want of proper laws
and the inadequate enforcement of ex
isting statutes. His idea is that our
fundamental law should be altered,
that a Constitutional Convention
should be called to meet at an early
day. Said he, “if every letter and
every word in the present State Con
stitution be right, it should be re
modeled because you, the farmers and
bona-Jide citizens of Georgia had not
made it. It was a fundamental prin
ciple iu Republican governments, that
the jpeople—the citizens—of the State
should make their own organic law.”
He said that he—that members of the
the Legislature—were the servants
of the people, and if they would not
do what the people sent them to the
General Assembly to do, they should
be turned out and others sent there.
He drew rather a gloomy qpntrast be
tween the census returns of 1360 and
1S70, clearly showing that if they be
right, which so far as the census of
1S70 is concerned, will be found to be
egregiousiy incorrect, as any one may
see who will examine the returns of
hisozc/z county—we will be found to
have retrograded forty 7 per cent in the
decade. I presume Col. Hardeman
was alluding to this, as well as to the
remarks of other gentlemen, who based
their statistical remarks upon these
two dates, when he moved to appoint J
some competent person to report the
actual progress or retrogression of the
State from 1866 to 1S73—both dates
inclusive. The President of the Con
vention thinking Col. Hardeman very
THE HOSPITALITY OF ATHENS
was showered upon the Delegates to
the Agricultural Convention and Rep
resentatives of the State Grange with
a liberal hand. Many of us thought
it was cheaper to stay there—and bet
ter fare too—than to go home. We
were fed—aye feasted—“without money
and without price.” Three cheers for
the beautiful women and hospitable
men of Athens “Long may they
wave.”
Yours,
L E.
LETTER FROM MACON.
Joiruoy to Macon—Storm ami Lij;lituiu<;—Conductor
Norman—Macon—Neither “Sun-light” nor “gas
light”—Pulling an eye tooth—Dr. Strohecker—Ma
con Si Cincinnati R. It.—Dr. J. E. Blacksbear—The
Old and the Neff—Yankeeization of the South—
Mammon usurps the human throne—Nought but
wealth respectable —Worthy business houses—John
son & Dunlap—Mix & Kirt'aiid—Taylor—The able
andveteran Clisby—Watson—In the right—Hon. A
O. Bacon—Ofl' to New York—Hon .J. H. Blount-
Honor to talent and honesty.
Macon, Ga. Aug. 15, 1S73.
We spent the two preceding days
in this city—having gone on the 13th
on the freight train at noon. We left
Milledgeville in the first patterings of
a furious storm of rain and wind which
soon enveloped us. Mr. Norman, the
polite and kind conductor, admitted
us—(self, and better half)to the eleva-
vated “caboose” or tower of the car,
and we there enjoyed the spectacle.
A few minutes after the train left
Brown’s crossing, the lightning, whose
incessant play almost dazzled the vis
ion, struck the iron track at that spot.
We experienced the fitness of the old
adage “A miss is as good as a mile!”
The rain continued all the after
noon. Macon, the beautiful city “set
on a hill,” looked drenched and gloo
my. With experience reminding us
vividly of the inspiration which pro
duced the great Scottish Bard’s feel
ing lines on the “Toothache,” we
sought the elegant office of the skilful
Dr. McReynolds whose cold steel soon
put an end to the agony of one of the
twain—the public will not care wheth
er of the “better” or the worser “half.”
Ou yesterday we visited various
places of business and were brought
into matter-of-fact contact with very
many Maconians. Our business led us
to seek Dr. Strobecker, the Treasurer
of the Company (Macon and Cincin
nati) proposing to build a direct Rail
way from Macon to Knoxville in Ten
nessee. The importance of the con
struction of this great thoroughfare to
the whole State, especially to Middle
and Southern Georgia, can scarcely
be over-estimated. The railway dis-
The entire Carlist force in Spain
is said in the latest telegrams to ag
gregateless than 4,000 men, with only
17 pieces of artillery.
At the Vienna Fair, citizens of the
United States get ten diplomas, and
those of Great Britain get thirty.
Judge Pottle.—We learn from the
Atlanta Constitution of Sunday that
Governor Smith has appointed Col. E.
H. Pottle as Judye of the Northern
Circuit, held by Judge Andrews, just
deceased. The appointment is a good
one and will give satisfaction. Judge
Pottle possesses ability, integrity and
stamina. He is a fine lawyer and a
most excellent gentleman.
We congratulate the Governor, the
Circuit and the Judge on the appoint-
mant.
Hon. Jefferson Davis made an ad
dress to the Historical Convention at
Montgomery White Sulphur Springs
last Monday, the 18th inst. He gave
expression to no sentiment hostile to
the Federal Government.
A Success.—The treasurer of the
recent Catholic excursion to Milledge
ville has returned eighteeu hundred and
seventy-five dollars as its net proceeds.
This does not include, as many sup
pose, the amount realized from the
Washington train on the same occa
sion.—Chronicle Hf Sentinel.
competent to the task—and we think tance to Knoxville, and to the coal and
the President was right—has appoint-j iron mines in that vicinity, will be re
ed him, and we may expect a full, fair! duced almost a hundred miles—dis
and candid statement from Col. H. at I tance from Macon to Knoxville being
the February Convention. Governor j only 220 miles by the proposed road.
Smith’s remarks as to a geological, &c.J By the completion of this line to Lou-
survey of the State were to the point, isville, Ky., the saving of distance
and vvehopetosee the next Legislature, will be no less than 123 miles in a to-
adopt his suggestions. No true Geor- j tal of 455 ! We received from Dr.
gian who listened to the Governor's j Strohecker a copy of a most interest-
remarks, could have been other than ing pamphlet setting forth the pros-
proud of him and his principles, and the pects of the enterprise which we shall
bold and manly manner in which he communicate as occasion offers to your
speaks his sentiments
THE LADIES BANQUET
on Wednesday night was just such as
might have been expected from such
ladies as dwell in and around Athens.
Iu the tasteful decoration of the halls
and in the richness of the delicacies
and viands, with which the tables were
loaded, they but illustrated their own
refinement, intelligence and loveliness,
and as we stood on the steps of the
Hall and listened to the merry hum
inside and were regaled with the sweet
strains of music borne upon the brac
ing evening breeze through the beau
tiful shades of the College campus
lighted with many colored lamps, we
could but feel that “it was good to be
there.”
The great speech of the Conven
tion next to Gov. Smith was the ad
dress of
Col. Wm. McKinley of Milledge
ville.
His subject was “A Land and Ten
antry” system. It showed muchsWy,
thought and research, and we would not
mar it by a bare synopsis. It should
be read by every one who has at heart
the good of his State or who wishes to
see this sunny South, left us as an iu-
readers. Milledgeville is almost as
much interested as Macon in the con
struction of this great highway of com
merce. Cheaper coal, corn, wheat,
Hour, pork, bacon, hay, oats, horses,
muies, hogs, and an hundred manu
factured articles will result to Mil
ledgeville from this road. Even cheap
er whiskey will result; we know that
this information must interest thous
ands of our ardent readers !
We bad the pleasure of meeting Dr,
J. E. Blackshear, the accomplished
and popular Secretary of the Grand
Lodge of the Masonic Order of the
State of Georgia ; and we acknowledge
with great pleasure many kind atten
tions received from him during our
stay here. It is really refreshing in
these degenerate days to meet with a
gentleman of manners truly polite. In
nothing have the Southern people de
generated more strikingly than in the
base worship for vulgar wealth which
has taken possession of many of them.
In the eyes of such, a known felon—a
pirate, a robber, nay an escaped mur
derer from a Penitentiary—if he were
known to have a million of dollars to
his credit in bank, would be far more
worthy of polite and deferential at
tention than the most honest, refined
and intelligent gentifriian in Georgia
if struggling with poverty and waot,
and plastered with patched elbows!
Pope’s famous couplet must be chang
ed no.v to
“Pe f f makes tiie maj, and want of it the fellow ;
And all the reet i$ leather and prunella.*’
It was bad enough for Southern
people to be conquered in arms by
the Yankees; but to be conquered by
their vices, too—to abaudon with
them all worship of God, and rush in
to a mad devotion to Mammon, to the
neglect of all the better instincts of
human nature—this is too, too bad !
We honor now, more than ever, the
men v/e meet who in these sad days
preserve a loftier aim, and like Job of
old “hold fast their integrity.”
The substantial and worthy busi
ness houses of Macon seem flourishing.
Seymour & Tinsley—Mix & Kirtland
—Messrs. W. & E. P. Taylor—Payne,
the Druggist—Johnson & Dunlap—
Hodgkins—an others, all look pros
perous and happy. Advertisements
from some of them will be found in
the proper columns of your paper,
doubtless.
We had a most genial greeting from
that best of the Georgia editors, the
veteran and sagacious Clisby of the
Telegraph & Messenger. No better
editor—no better paper—can befouod
in any country, civilized or savage
We met, too, on the street, the genial
and gifted Watson, the Local, and the
Poet, of that journal. We teased him
a little about his newspaper controver
sy on Rhymes with some Atlantese
bard whose name is not remembered
We now say, seriously, that Watson
is wholly in the right in his position
We are a bit of a poet ourself; or were
so in our “hot youth;” and such
rhymes as the Atlantese bard “poured
forth in unpremeditated lay” would
not pass muster with even “Amos
Cottle of Boeotian fame.” Watson is
a genuine poet of high order, accur
ate and learned in the art of Song, be
sides being one of the best prose
writers of the day. Many a bard of
world-wide fame is inferior to him
power.
We have met here other celebrities
of State-wide reputation; but our
space limits us to the mention of two
Hon. A. O. Bacon, present Speaker of
the House of Representatives of Geor
gia, who was on the eve of a business
journey to New York; and Hon. James
H. Blount our gifted Representative in
the U. S. Congress from this District
These two are young statesmen of
great merit, great industry, and great
talents—men not only of the present
but destined to occupy a deserved high
place in the future when many of their
swell-head contemporaries in the pub
lie life of to-day shall have sunk into
the unfathomable depth of the Forgot
ten. Even amid the corruptions of
To-Day, still let us cherish and honor
real merit and unassuming honesty.
W. G. M.
Their Strange Duelling Fatality.
A Fma.Ka Faa.il,—Rcminiacracr.—The
naHachawlli A4mk> aad Caraliaa
RhelU af lha Saac BlaaA.
Singing.—The Germans are seldom
afflicted with consumption; nor have
I known but one instance of spitting
blood among them. This, I believe,
is in part occasioned by the strength
their lungs acquire by exercise in vo
cal music which constitutes an essen
tial part of their education. The mu
sic master of our academy has furn
ished me with an observation still
more in favor of this opinion. He
informed me that he had known sev
eral instances of persons who were
strongly disposed to consumption, be
ing restored to health by the exercise
of their lungs in singing.—Rush.
Newport, Rhode Island, with a pop
ulation of 13,000, claims real estate
to the value of $17,654,600 and per
sonal property valued at $9,832,900,
making a total $27,487,500. This
gives an average of more that $2,000
to each inhabitant. As there is no
business done in Newport except that
of keeping boarding house and staring
at the shoddyites who go there to
squander their money and exhibit their
fine clothes and equipages, this show
ing is a little ahead of that of any town
of its size in the country.
The Grand Duke Alexis has not al
lowed himself to accomplish what is
said to have been the real object of his
tour around the world. His heart is
still loaded with love for Mile. Jonvos-
ki, the daughter of the Czar’s former
tutor, and his constancy is rewarded
with permission to contract a morgan
atic marriage with her. Such love
alliance will not prevent the Grand
Duke’s espousal of a Princess for po
litical purposes.
A man who wanted to be a minis
ter said he believed he had been call
ed “to labor in the Lord’s vineyard.”
His brother, who was less noted for
his piety, said that he had mistaken
the word “barnyard” for vineyard.
The Southern Fertilizing Company
now mix their various compounds in
Libby Prison, while the famous Castle
Thunder, used during the war as a
prison for Southern deserters, is now
the manufactory and warehouse of a
tobacco firm.
There is a district in Washington
county in which not one of its citizens
has ever applied for the benefits of the
homestead or bankrupt laws, and
there has not been a suit brought in
said district for more than two years
J. P.’s and lawyers don’t make for
tunes out of that people, and of course
friendship and good feeling prevails
generally.
It is proposed to build at Long
Branch, by private subscription, a
“Presidential mansion,” to be conse
crated as a “perpetual summer home
for the Chief Magistrate.” This is
rather in advance of the third term
suggestion.
The Jewish Convention, which re
cently met at Cincinnati, besides pro
viding for the establishment of a theo
logical school, reaffirmed the sanctity
of Saturday as the day of worship.
The convention exalted the Ten Com
mandments as the supreme guide of
life, as the Jews universally hold them
to be, but omitted any allusion to the
comiDg Messiah, declaring the United
States to be a glorious new land of
promise for the Jewish race.
While the fatal termination of the
late duel between Barnwell Khett,
Jr., and Judge Cooly is sad, it revives
other memories—some more painful
still, and yet some very pleasant—
which concern the famous Rhett fam
ily. First, one cannot help recurring
to the lamentable fate of the accom
plished Tabor, who fell in a duel with
McGrath. He was the editor of the
Charleston Mercury. An editorial ap
peared in the paper reflecting on
Judge McGrath, an older brother of
the combatant. 11 was written by
Edmund Rhett, a brother of Barnwell,
Jr. He acknowledged himself the
author, and signified his willingness to
respond to any hostile message, but
McGrath demanded satisfaction of
Tabor only. He accepted the chal
lenge and was killed upon the field.
Tabor was a first cousin of Rhett. He
ranked among the first, if not the very
first, of the intellectual young men of
South Carolina. He gave promise of
a glorious future in the world of let
ters and politics, and was universally
admired as well as loved. Ilis early
and violent death caused a general
lamentation, and to this day it is, to
all who admire genius linked with
virtue, a most painful memory.
There is still another tragedy asso
ciated with the name of Rhett. Dur
ing the war, and for causes not re
membered, Ransom Calhoun fell in a
duel at the bands of Alfred RlietL an
other one of the Rhett brothers. These
reminiscences of the Rhett brothers
bring to mind their distinguished
father, Robert Barnwell Rhett, Senior,
who at one time had a national fame.
He was a Democratic leader in the
United States House of Representa
tives during the furious days of the
abolition excitement. Combined with
a lofty intellect, he had a form which
one would say was the impersonation j “ eaL!1LM 1
of gentlemanly refinement. It was Crawford
surprising to friend as well as
foe, that beneath such a placid exte
rior there should be such firmness of
purpose, steadiness of nerve, and fiery
eloquence. His style was always
terse, incisive and fluent, and some
times truly eloquent. Sincerity in all
he said was stamped upon hi3 brow,
and this, supported by an earnestness
of manner, carried conviction to hear
ers and dismay to adversaries.
This famous gentleman has so long
been in retirement, that when the late
may be in the practice, the son3 of
Barnwell Rhett, never acquired that,
either from his precept or example.
When invited in Washington City to
mortal combat by Jere Clemens, the
Senator from Alabama, he declined, and
in explanation said he was a member
the church and principled against
dueling. Observation teaches us that
certain fatalities follow certain fami
lies, and it may be that dueling is the
misfortune of the younger Rhetts—
Sav. News.
duel suggested his name, we could
not say positively if he was yet among
the living. Ou inquiring we are told
that he is yet residing iu his beloved
but oppressed Carolina, a confirmed
invalid. In that retirement we feel
sure he retains the confidence and
sympathy of his admiring countrymen.
What, though he and his cause have
both failed? The memory of a truth,
though prostrate, is sweeter than the
present enjoyment of a reward, which
follows or accompanies falsehood.
There is a tradition connected with
the birth and career of this distinguish
ed gentleman. At the time when he
was in the United States House of
Representatives, the champion of the
Southern cause, John Quincy Adams
was his ablest and most conspicuous
antagonist. We had often heard that
these gifted men were descended from
common ancestry, and that there
consequently coursed through their
veins a kindred blood. We deemed
the report mere idle rumor, but sub
sequent inquiry has satisfied us of its
truth. It is a curious piece of Araeri
can family history, worthy of publi
cation, and is briefly this :
Thomas and James Smith, brothers,
were Englishmen who followed the
fortunes of Cromwell. They were
prominent as political writers on that
side. They came to the Province of
South Carolina in 1671, being attract
ed thither by the restoration of Charles
the Second. Thomas remained in the
Province and became a ruling man.
In 1691 he received from the British
Crown a patent of forty-eight thousand
acres of land, situated in South and
North Carolina. From his immense
estate in lands he acquired the title of
Landgrave Smith, and by that name
he became most generally known. In
1693 he was appointed Governor of
the Province of South Carolina. Barn
well Rhett is a descendant in the di
rect line from this man. He belongs,
we believe, to the sixth generation of
his descendants.
James Smith, the brother, was a
dissenting clergyman. He soon mov
ed to the Province of Massachusetts.
His grand-daughter (or, it may be, his
great-grand-daughter) married “old
John Adams” in October, 1764. John
Quincy Adams is therefore a lineal
descendant of James, the brother of
“Landgrave” Smith. Abigail Smith,
the mother of John Quincy Adams,
was one of the most remarkable wo
men this or any other country has
produced. A mind free from prejudice
can scarcely read her history without
coming to the conclusion that she was
the most intellectual women who have
been mistresses of the White House.
The descendants of Thomas Smith
are very numerous in South Carolina,
and there are many also in Georgia.
General Screven, who was killed near
Midway, Liberty county, during the
revolution, and after whom Screven
county in this State is named, was on
the maternal side a descendant ofLand-
grave Smith.
The intellect of these ancestors has,
through many generations, been trans
mitted. Many of the ablest men of
South Carolina, of the present and
past generation, trace their origin to
Landgrave Smith. A considerable
per cent, of the oldest and most famous
families of that State are of his blood.
The Adams family, for intellect of the
highest order, associated, too, with the
best moral worth is perhaps au excep
tion to the whole world, in the trans
mission of intellect from father to
son, and from generation to genera
tion.
As we began this article by refer
ence to dueling, and to dueling in the
Rhett family, we could not better
conclude, than by remarking, that
whatever of praise or censure there
From (he Atlanta Constitution, IJth.
Death of the Bon. Oar nett Andrews.
Intelligence was privately received
yesterday**of the death of this distin
guished jurist of Georgia. He died
night before last at his residence in
Washington, Wilkes county. The
news will be received with sadness
and sorrow by thousands, not only in
this but adjoining States.
Judge Andrews was in the seventy-
fifth year of bis age, and belonged to
that generation of men who are rap
idly passing away from among us. He
was born, if we are correctly inform
ed, in 179S, and Wilkes, we believe,
was his native county. His educa
tion was confined to an academic
course. He studied law in the office
of Col. Duncan G. Campbell, of Wash
ington, the father of Hon. John A.
Campbell, late associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of the United
States. Colonel - Campbell was then
ranked among the ablest and most
eloquent lawyers in Georgia, and as
soon as young Andrews was admitted
to the bar he took him in partnership
with him. When Colonel Campbell
died in 1S2S, Andrews formed a part
nership with Daniel Chandler, who
had married the daughter of Colonel
Campbell, and who subsequently at
tained so much distinction in Mobile,
Alabama.
The firm of Andrews & Chandler
continued until the eleyation of An
drews to the Bench of the Northern
Circuit in September, 1S34, on the
death ot the distinguished William H.
This position ne held with
great distinction until 1845, when he
was defeated in a party contest in the
Legislature, by Hon. Nathan C. Sayre
of Sparta.
In 1855, Judge Andrews was put
in nomination for the office of Gov
ernor of the State, by what was then
known as the American party, but
was defeated by the Hon. Ilerschel V.
Johnson, who was the regular nomi
nee of the Democratic party. In 1S60,
Judge Andrews took a very promi
nent position against secession, but
after the action of the State was au
thoritatively declared, he cordially
cast his fortunes with her.
In 1S6S, he acquiesced in the re
construction policy of Congress, and
was again appointed Judge of the
Northern Circuit, which position he
was still filling at the time of his death.
Time will not allow a further sketch
of the life of this eminent citizen or
his public services.
Suffice it to say that as a Judge he
was able and upright. Ilis integrity
was admitted to be of the highest or
der.
As a lawyer he ranked with Camp
bell, the elder Thomas Cobb, Gilmer,
Upson, Cone, Dawson, Baxter, Sayre,
Hardeman, Toombs, and the late Chief
Justice Lumpkin.
As a writer he was terse, vigorous
and strong.
As a man he was inflexible in pur
pose and incorruptible in principles.
As a husband and father, he presented
a shining example.
Throughout life he was a conspicu
ous model of probity, morality and
purity, and in his latter days became
a faithful and devoted member of the
Episcopal church. A. H. S.
Special to Savannah Advertiser and Republican.
PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.
MEETING OF THE STATE GRANGE,
Proposition to Establish an Agricultural
Bank—Important Resolutions Adopted.
Athens-, Ga., Aug. 14.—The pac-
rons of husbandry of the Georgia State
Grange met this morning, the number
of delegates in attendance being sixty-
four. The number of granges organ
ized te-day is ninety-six. Great en
thusiasm in the order is manifested,
and much important business has been
transacted. Among the items are the
appointment of the committee of three
to report at the October meeting on
the practicability of establishing a
bank in the State of Georgia in the
interests of the order; a uniform and
reliable system of crop reports; the
issuing of a circular setting forth our
position to merchants, manufacturers
and dealers; the construing of the
phrase in the law of our membership,
“ any persons interested in agricultur
al pursuits in article 5 of the constitu
tion be construed so as to include only
those who make agriculture their lead
ing pursuit, etc.
Upon motion it was unanimously
resolved that to the beautiful and ac
complished ladies of Athens the pro-
foundest thanks of this Grange are due
and tendered for the kind invitation to
their most artistically arranged and
sumptuous banquet. To the citizens
of Athens for most generous hospitali
ty. To the young gentlemen of the
Kappa Society for the use of their
hall; and to the officers of the various
railroads for courtesies. N. G.
Tiie Right Spirit.—General Kem
per, Conservative candidate for Gov
ernor of Virginia, has written a letter
to General Early, who opposed him,
in which, in the event of being elect
ed, he says : “ I shall be every inch a
Governor, and shall, so far as I might
know how, dispense impartial, scru
pulous and fearless justice to all inter
ests and men. It is very gratifying to
me that, while all sorts of representa
tive men and their friends have com
municated with me, not one of them
has received, not one of them sought,
and all of them have disclaimed seek
ing, any pledges whatever at my hands.
In no event will I be the property of
any friend, or set of friends, and in no
event will I harbor one atom of re
sentment aganst any square opposer
of mine.”
Mr. A. B. Anderson, a prominen
merchant of Americas, died last Fri
day.