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I hi Savannah.
Affairs in Georgia.
Itlanta has some lovely citizens.
,l, pr of them recently signed a peti-
to the Secretary of the Treasury en-
Kimball, and asking that he be
n ti,e contract for bnilding the new
om house. Wouldn’t it suit these
Atlanta men just as well if an honest
were to be awarded the contract?
ol. H. Wimpledon Grady, of the At-
llerahl, lias given up the practice of
terviewing” people. In other words,
ms quit that way he had.
m0 ug tlie signers of the Kimball poti-
is the name of the Hon. Milton A.
L, r , of Dekalb. The Hon. Milton is
ndidate for the Congressional norai
on in that district, but ho cookod his
when he endorsed dishonesty. We
hi not be surprised at all if the Hon.
ou was selected to stay nt home.
: Conyers Examiner has been
il into the Rockdale Register, and
utter paper will be conducted by Mr.
Reed.
ister Blodgett says the State of Geor-
ivs him eighteen thousand dollars,
awhile Blodgett will claim that he is
• ns honest as Kimball
is almost as difficult to climb a ten
fence with a shot-gun ifi yoftr arils as
I to walk a tight-rope. A Polk county
tried it the other day, and the ver-
of tiie Coroner’s jury is in accordance
the fact.
, shall begin to believe after awhile
Kimball has some peculiar claim
several prominent citizens of At-
Else why these banquets and
lions ? Prominent citizens do not
a endorse dishonesty. Then where-
tliesc Closenesses?
Rome nigger caught a colored
Kcr leading his wife “to a higher
ns Betsy Tilton would say, and
iiipted to shoot him in the back of
neck. The. gun failed to go off, but
negro didn’t, and so nothing is left
[he husband to do but to publish a
Irani
‘Banking, Exchange
J. fi. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, JULY 81, 1874.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Franklin College, in one roan, who shall be
the authority in all matters pertaining to
the government of the University; the
Chancellor being absolutely and utterly
relieved of all burden and care in the
matter. Under these circumstances it is
thought Ur. Lipscomb would retain the
Chancellorship, and his loved and revered
name, the loss of which would cripple
the institution, would be retained. TTi«
lectures delivered throughout the State
would get up a regular revival in favor of
the college; and his lectures on aesthetics
could be delivered during two months to
the senior class. Then, by combining
the presidencies of the two colleges in
one'man, and making him the disciplining
and directing power, we would have a
compact and economic organization.
Unmixed eloquence always meets our
approval. Witness this from the Atlanta
Herald. Even the typographical errors
add picturesqueness to the scene: “As we
write these words at a quarter past one
o’clock, the genius of the storms seems to
have visited Atlanta. Thethnnder is
pealing its defening crash, the lightning
flashes blindly mid the din, and torrents
of rain are beating down, with a wild
furry. The skylight of the Herald build
ing, above the composition room is blown
in. imil the men are driven from their
eases by the insolent rain until it is fixed.”
Macon Telegraph: Gen. Iverson has
left at this office a number of cotton
leaves, each of which contains a cater
pillar, which is industriously at work.
He also sends some specimens of the
caterpillar fly. Accompanying the inter
esting entomological collection is the fol
lowing note from Gen. I., which will be
of interest, in view of the prospects of
the advent of these diminutive de
vastators :
Bibb County, Ga., July 27, 1874.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:
send you herewith a number of the genu
ine cotton caterpillars and flies taken
from my fields to-day, July 27. This is
the first hatching or crop. Allow twenty-
one days for the appearance of the second,
which is the devastating flood, and the
middle of August will see our fields
swept clean of leaves and young bolls.
This is very early for their appearance in
this section, and particularly unfortu
nate this year, as cotton all came up late
and but few bolls are matured. Taking
it for granted that information of this
kind will be interesting to some of your
roaders, I take the liberty of sending it.
Yours respectfully,
Alfbed Ivebson.
by mm
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
BISMARCK’S MOTE AGAINST THE
CARLISTS.
The Grasshoppers Blown out of Ke-
braska.
THE SITUATION IN FRANCE.
Defeat of the Motions for Dissolution.
TROUBLE’S OF PIOUS POMEBOY.
PROGRESS OF THE CUBAN STRUG
GLE.
The Patriots Carrying Destruction into
the Planting Districts.
ostcr Elodgett denies that he is living
palatial mansion. Hang it all. he
bt to get Kimball to build him one.
re aro plenty ‘‘prominent citizens” in
nta who will recommend honest
uribaL
ustave Adolph, writing to the Augusta
onkk. gives a very flattering account
;he crop prospect. He is the only
kx thus far who endorses the views
be cotton editor of the Constitution
the Constitutionalist.
oster Blodgett is farming in the neigh-
lood of Newberry, South Carolina,
in the deuce doesn’t Blodgett come
i to Atlanta and get some of the
eminent citizens” to sign a petition
immending him for office ? Ho is as
1st as Kimball any way, and we are
«iro that a banquet is not awaiting
arrival.
ort Valley gloats over a lot of Egyp-
he arrest of negro burglars in Atlanta
goes forward.
Samuel Evans, of Milledgevillo,
ged with the seduction of Martha
wles, has been declared not guilty by
mmittee of the Methodist Church, of
he is a member.
be grain crops in Crawford county
said to be as good as the laud can
Inco.
onston county has 37,501 acres in Com
U,871 in cotton.
James Johnson has decided that
market ordinance of Columbus is
titutional. The case will be carried
ie Supreme Court.
m. Hill and George AV. Adair, of At-
are said to be among the endorsers
imball.
he corn cr$p of Northeast Georgia is
aud cotton looks welL
hree cotton bolls joined at the base
been added to the museum of curi-
ies in Augusta,
burke county correspondent wants
now the meaning of tne term “nest-
Good heavens! are wo to be
‘•'hod in this manner ? Let our cor-
oudent write to Betsy Tilton, care
hnry 'Ward Beecher, enclosing three
stam ps, and we daresay he will
satisfactory answer,
negro women beat a colored sister
b to death the other day', and then
^ to Columbia County.
)r * Va % thinks com will sell for
cents a bushel next fall,
con lifts up her voice and cries out
ast the
negro vagrants.
me °* our Georgia exchanges are
mrous for the re-enactment of the
^ The editors ought now to
* Slt ' P ‘ hw fixing the price of gray
s and allowing no “boot” to be of-
T eceived in any traffic, barter or
’ptog that may hereafter take place,
as reasonable as the other.
*Quid be
wilf^° n learns that a
started in Dalton as soon as
8 . e iuery cau be put up, for the pur-
niaking a new’ kind of axle lubri-
^coniposed of talc and other com-
Eart of the machinery has
^arrived, consisting in part of a
which wei 8ks 3,500 pounds,
, . ewe *8^ a S 1,040 pounds, which
ft t' ei1 feet across tlie to P- The
• ' t “ d * wiu mn the mill will be
®' Uorse Power. The mill will
ty sufficient to grind twelve
‘ion Jg,,' The lubricating corn-
thorn. l lK miU "'ill produce has
PMiic-s JS / tested by several railroad
fetor ;,o UU , l ' roaounoed to be the best
tcrresn^'V **** yet * Jeon invented.
«Ponta,tof the Atlanta Herald
lanj-n T . y which the resignation
e -I, ’Pwomb may be obviated.
. ^tccs make the office of Chan-
Trust.! ^ “ ° ffice M President of
be sUn g^ onl y this addition:
the state C ^ lchiUTB through- :
lari;- ’ ,7 b >' a senes of lectures,
Sop!; arid acquaint
’. !a<i ""Pirations:
'atlaof ° dsl ‘ver -say 4uring
twreoar, ■ 1:ur '”a course of class-
W„„. special sabject. 'Let
tim Presidency of
the Preridenq^ of
A Sad Test Case.
The Morning Chronicle of St. John’s,
Newfoundland, of May 7th last, gives the
particulars of a sad ease of death from ex
treme destitution of a colored man named
John King, aged sixty-two years, who
came there as cook and steward in a ves
sel about four months before, and who is
said to have been from Baltimore. During
all the time he had been in St. John’s he
had been tottering about in ill-health,
until he finally expired in a boarding
house kept by a Mts. McCarthy, but-for
whose interest in the unfortunate creature,
the Chronicle says, “he would doubtless
have starved to death on our streets long
ago.” It is added:
“This woman made an application to
get him in the hospital, but 'was inform
ed that the building was full; a certificate
was then written by a medical man with'
the.objeet^of procuring him’admittanee to
the poor-house, but this effort was over-
thrown in its first stage by the chairman
of the board of works refusing to sign
the document; the American consul was
applied to, but he declined having any
thing to do in the matter; the receiver
general and also the civic authorities
were communicated with, but they failed
to hearken to the crying appeal of this
poor stranger, who is described as having
been by no means addicted to the use of
intoxicating liquors, the direct cause of
his destitution bemg ill health, added to
which the fact of his being a colored man
stood greatly in the way of his proouring
sufficient paeans to enable him to return
to his home in Baltimore, United States.
He made an attempt to reach the court
house, with the intention ot personally
soliciting aid from the magistrates, but
beeame so weak on the way that he had
to be assisted back to his boardinghouse,
and expired in a sitting position not long
after.”
The Chronicle is very severe on the
government authorities for its inhuman
neglect of this poor black man. It ap
pears, however, from its own statement
that it wns not only the authorities who
n> glected him, but the American consul
and the citizens. “The fact of his being
a colored man stood greatly in the way of
his procuring sufficient means to enable
him to return to his home in Baltimore,
U. S.” So it seems that even in. such a
liot-bed of abolitionism as the Dominion
“tho fact of being a colored man” stands
in the way, not of civil rights, bnt of the
claims of a common humanity. We
doubt very much whether within the
wide limits of the former slaveholding
States there is a single town or neighbor
hood where “color, race, or previous
condition” would for an instant prevent
the exercise of charity to a human being
in need. It seems that to give a negro
“civil rights,” including admission to a
“boarding house,” is quite .compatible
with permitting him to die from destitu
tion. —Baltimore Sun.
Tlie East Against the South and West.
It is manifest that the selfish and reck
less capitalists of the New England States
nud of New York are bent upon holding
the West and South in a State of vassal-
age; and what most astonishes ns is, that
the small manufacturers of New England
and her merchants, as well as those of
New York, have allowed themselves to be
lod into the fight against the West and
South by the bankers and large money
lenders, who would- as readily enslave
them as they would the Western and
Southern people. These manufacturers
and merchants do not seam to see that
they are compassing their own destruc
tion. How can they expect to keep the
markets of the West and South to vend
their wares in while depriving the people
of thoso portions of the country of the
means of exchange? The West and South
want paper money, ‘ predicated of and
secured by their entire real estate and
average annual products, in order to cany
od business with. New England and New
York capitalists oppose this just demand
—for they prefer to lend their money
to the West, particularly on five-fold
security, and at from ten to twenty per
cent, interest per annum, rather than loan
it to manufacturers and merchants at sowen
per cent, on only two-fold security, as
they would be obliged to, (or let it lie
idle) if the West and South were suitably
provided with money by the General
Government. The fight is between the
heavy capitalists of the Eastern States
and the intelligent farmers and merchants
of the West and South. The issue is not
doubtful. The West and South will, as
they ought to, eventually carry the day;
if it is necessary, in order to do so, to
pass through repudiation of the national
debt, and reconstruct things on a more
equitable basis, let them repudiate. All
the-poor, actually laboring classes of the
East, will sympathize with them, and the
gmftil manufacturers and merchants of
New England and New York will then
curse the capitalists who cajoled them on
to destruction. If repudiation must
coine as the only way out of the bumness
stagnation, which is but the foreshadow
of starvation to tens of thousands, in all
parts of the land—let it some quickly.
The fools who do not yet see that ’‘specie
payments” is a delusive cry, and “a gold
basis” an absolute impossibility, must
suffer for * their fGlly jn allowing them
selves to be led astray by the shrewd
politicians and scoundrelly capitalists who
trifle with their superstitious ignorance,
and beguile them with false issues.—
New York “Our Times."-
Josh BiUingssays, “Success don’t konsist
in never making ^blunders, but in neyer
making the name one the sectonod time. ”
the fbench assembly. ‘
Pabis, July 28.—In the Assembly to
day the debate on motions for dissolution,
adjourned from Monday, - was resumed.
Depiro opposed the dissolution of the
Assembly. He alleged that tho motions
were made in revenge for votes by which
the Republic and the plebiscite had been
rejected. Chabaud Latour, Minister of
the Interior, also spoke against dissolu
tion. He reminded the Assembly that
by a law of March,. 1873, it was
pledged to vote on the Constitutional
laws before it dissolved. When the
President’s powers are organized the
Deputies could appeal to their constitu
ents without endangering public order.
Duval and others supported the motion,
arguing that the uneasiness caused by the
present unsettled condition of affairs
paralyzed trade, and that the only remedy
was in an appeal to the people, when a
vote was taken. MalleviUe’s motion for
dissolution was defeated by 332 yeas to
374 nays. A similar motion offered by
Duval was withdrawn.
Le Temps states that England, Ger
many and Italy have agreed to establish
joint surveillance over the Spanish fron
tiers.
THE CUBAN BEVOLUTION.
New Yoke, July 30.—The Cubans have
received news here by way of Havana to
the effect that the Patriot troops have
destroyed a number of plantations in
Trinidad Valley, and the planters are
abandoning their property there for fear
of being captured, and because the Span
ish Government cannot give the necessary
protection. TJie President of the Cuban
Republic has ordered Capt. Carpio to de
stroy everything he can lay hands on.
Coobo, the negro Captain, at the head
of a number of emancipated slaves, is
in the neighborhood of Cienf uegos, wreck
ing plantations and enlisting slaves and
coolies into the patriot ranks. A general
uprising of negroes under Coobo is daily
expected. Thq Cubans have captured
several military maps of the Trocha,
which show the position of forts, pitfalls,
picket stations, Ac.
“subsidy pom.”
Topeka, July 30.—In the District Court
to-day Judge Morton overruled a motion
to quash the indictment in the Pomeroy
case. Pomeroy’s counsel then moved for
a change of venue, offering in support
of his motion, an affidavit by Hon. Jas.
Rogers, alleging that at the time of the
York exposure, Judge Morton said to him
(Rogers) concerning Pomeroy, “We have
got the God damned old scoundrel where
we want him, and hereafter a poor man
wifi stand some chance to go to the
United States Senate.” Judge Morton
granted the motion, and said he could
send the case to Osage county. In grant
ing the motion the Judge took occasion
to deny the statement in Rogers' affidavit
in plain and emphatic terms. A motion
was made to reduce Pomeroy’s bonds from
$20,000 to $10,000, but .it was denied.
GEBMANY AND THE OABLISTS.
London, July 30, 5:30 a. m.—The
Vienna Journal says Austria has received
a circular note from Germany urging the
great powers to combine to prevent a
continuance of the Carlist atrocities in
Spain, and has given a favorable reply.
The Morning Post asserts that Ger
many will propose in the Brussels Con
gress a recognition of the present Gov
ernment of Spain.
A FOBTUNATE GALE.
Omaha, July 30.—A heavy wind-storm
on Saturday night fortunately blew the
grasshoppers out of the State. Much
produce that had been given up will be
saved.
THE BOSS BOY.
Habbisbubg, Penn., July 30.—A band
of Gypsies is detained here with a child
supposed to be the boy Ross. The father
and the detectives are coming on a special
train to identify him.
Bukibd Alive.—The horror of being
buried alive has been lately illustrated
in the case of a young man—W. B. Lack-
hunt—who was buried in the cemetery at
Salt Lake on the 23d of last month. He
was supposed to have died of heart dis
ease, and although “the body presented
a singularly life-like appearance, ” two
days only intervened between the sup
posed death and the interment. After
the burial the anxiety of the friends led
to the body being exhumed, and terrible
evidences were presented, in a change in
the position of the body, the rending of
large pieces of flesh from the face, the
pulling out of the hair, tearing of the
grave clothes and coffin lining, and the
finger nails worn to the quick in frantic
efforts to escape, that the man had been
buried alive.
That such cases are of rare occurrence
who can prove ? Borne twenty years ago
the French Government instituted an in
quiry into hasty bunal. A venerable
Archbishop addressed the French As
sembly earnestly in favor of a longer in
terval being enforced between death and
interment than was then customary. He
said that some fifty years before, a priest
was saying mass ig the cathedral when
he fell dead, apparently, at the altar. At
his funeral, as the lid of the coffin was
being closed, the eyes of the supposed
dead man opened, and a deep sigh es
caped his lips. He was brought forth
from the coffin, and for half a century
afterwards lived and rose to high honors
in his sacred calling. “I that speak unto
you am he,” said the old Archbishop to
the French Assembly; “the young- priest
who died for a few days and was so nearly
buried alive is the old man who now ad
dresses you.” .
There should be better evidence of the
extinction of life, in order to warrant in
terment, than the impereeptibility of pul
sation. . Some infallible proof of death
should be found before that is permitted.
[Baltimore Sun.
[From the Charleston News and Courier.]
The Abase of the Pardoning Power in
Sontli Carolina.
The general public have a very faint
idea of the extent of the abuse of the
pardoning power since the -installation of
Governor Moses. They know that noto
rious criminals who are tried, convicted
and sent to the penitentiary soon reap
pear in the streets to begin anew their
infamous career. They know that, before
a culprit officially becomes familiar with
the customs of the State prison, he is re
leased; told to go in peace and sin again.
Yet it will astonish the South Carolina
public and startle the American people to
be told, as we tell them now, that from
Dec. 12, 1872, to July 22, 1874, a period
of only nineteen months, Gov. Moses
granted four hundred and twenty*me par
dons, an average of twenty-two a month.
And this is exclusive of tweniy-five or
thirty criminals who were discharged in a
batch, and of whose pardon there is no
record. The offenses of which the per
sons pardoned were convicted are shown
in the following table, which is condensed
from an official statement obtained by us
from the office of the Secretary of State
Murder
Manslaughter
Rape
Infanticide
Burglary
Forgery
•Arson
Highway robbery
Perjury..' ;
larceny - 110
Bigamy..:.... 0
Assault and battery 10T
Horse and mole stealing
Libel
Kidnapping.
Abduction
Trespass
Miscellaneous
Official misconduct and malfeasance in office.. 12
The Human Face as an Index of
Chabacteb.—A recent writer has been
studying faces. He is not a disciple of
Lavater for be differs from him. Lavater
required all rightimnded persons to have
“homogeneous” faces, that is, all the
features in harmony. Our modern pby-
siogomist -believes the contrary. The
people who are single hearted are likely
to have homogeneous faces, so are the
simple and the vigorous. It is -sad to
t.liitiI-, however, that "they are also the
most apt to die of grief. Faces which
lack harmony will generally be found to
fail in due proportion because the month
and chin fail to support the upper part of
the face. Good foreheads and eyes are
more common among Americans than
;ood mouths and chins, though the fash-
on of wearing the keani obscures this in
The upper faco—the head, brow
men. ..
and eyes—shows the intelligence and o
nature of a man, the lower part of the around about the house,
njoqth and chin gives the measure of
bis strength, bis practical or aoquired
ability and temper. The moveable tea--
tores which give us a clue to the passing
emotions are the mouth, nostrils, oyes,
eye-brows and brow, except in a French
man, and there the shoulders play a part.
Total 421
No less than twenty-one murderers
have been pardoned or reprieved; twenty-
five persons convicted of manslaughter
go scot free; twenty-four persons found
guilty of the terrible crime of house-
burning Escape punishment; one hundred
and ten thieves, big and little, are turned
loose to prey upon the community. We
say nothing of the color of the culprits,
though probably four-fifths of them are
blacks; nor do we care to inquire who
recommended their pardon. The broad
fact stands out that Gov. Moses in nine
teen months has pardoned 421 criminals;
including, we believe, every county of
ficial who has been found guilty of mal
feasance in officer Here is the list of
pardons under that head:
1. James M. Allen, County Treasurer
of Greenville, convicted in May, 1873, of
misappropriating public funds, and sen
tenced to two years’ imprisonment and
$1,000 fine. Pardoned June 10, 1873,
one month after his conviction.
2. F. D. J. Lawrence, convicted in No
vember, 1873, in Williamsburg, of official
misconduct, and sentenced to three
months in jail and $100 fine. Pardoned
on December^ 1873, one month after his
conviction.
3. Thomas M. Paysinger,- of Newberry,
convicted in May, 1873, of official mis,
conduct, and sentenced to four months
in jail and a fine of $300.
4. John McCullough, of Chesterfield,
convicted in January, 1872, of official mis
conduct, and sentenced to six months in
jail or $500 fine.
5. Ciesar Cave, County Commissioner
of Barnwell, convicted in May, 1874, of
fraudulent breach of trust and official
misconduct, and sentenced to $100 fine
and thirteen months in the Penitentiary.
Pardoned June 3, 1874.
G. A. B. Cloy, County Commissioner of
Barnwell, convicted in May, 1874, of
breach of trust, official misconduct and
bribery, and sentenced to nine years in
the Penitentiary and $500 fine. Pardoned
June 24, 1874.
7. A. L. Robinson, County Commis
sioner of Barnwell, convicted in May,
1874, of misdemeanor, official misconduct
and breach of trust, and sentenced to
$500 fine and ten years in the Penitentia
ry. Pardoned June 24, 1874.
8. .Lawrence Mills, County Commis
sioner of Marion county, convicted in
May, 1874, of stealing, and sentenced to
$50 find and four months in jail. Par
doned July 1, 1874.
y. Arthur Deas, County Commissioner
of Marion, convicted in May, 1874. of
stealing, and sentenced to $100 fine and
six months in jail. Pardoned, with his
partner, Mills, on July 1, 1874.
10. Enos Reeves, the third County
Commissioner of Marion, convicted in
May, 1874, of stealing, and sentenced to
$50 fine and four months in jail. Par
doned, with his associates, on July 1, 1874.
11 and 12. County Treasurer H. A.
Smith, of Fairfield, convicted in May
1874, of neglect of duty, and sentenced!
to a fine of $2,000 and imprisonment in
the penitentiary for one year. Sentence
commuted to confinement in the county
jail, and subsequently to imprisonment in
the jail enclosure.
With this list of pardons before them
the public are forced to the conclusion
that, so long as a man like Moses stands
ready to shield them, it is useless to push
guilty officials to trial and conviction.
They are compelled, moreover, to confess
to themselves that there cannot be any
peace and security in South Carolina
while any criminal, who has political
friends, can obtain aremission of his sen.
tence and carte blanche for the future.
The motives of Moses are only too dear.
He grants pardons because the persons
pardoned will be valuable tools in the
’coming election, or beoause the persons
who recommended and urged the pardons
have promised to befriend him. Around
each criminal has gathered a small cirde
of friends of the same kidney.
Four hundred and twenty-one pardons
should .be equal to a body guard of four
thousand criminals and friends of crimi
nals who may be relied on to do the Gov
ernor’s dirty work in November. Of
course the four thousand may. not keep
their promises; but they are expected to
do so, and, as the character of Moses is
irretrievably gone, It matters- very little
whether he rolls in the gutter every day
or only once a week. Playing a desperate
. game, he will make every card count;
and his main reliance is the support of a
band of adherents who can commit any
crime to help him and themsdves, be
cause bis re-election will enable them to
steal and kill with impunity.
Attempt of a Loveb to Abduct His
Mistbess.—We hear of an outrage com
mitted in the neighborhood of Willisbnrg,
Ky., on Friday last. It seems that a
young'man named Baker was visiting a
Miss Simpson, in. that neighborhood,
contrary to the wishes of her family. An
arrangement had been made between the
two young persons to meet at the house
of S. W. Breckinridge, a neighbor, with
the view of an elopement, as it is be
lieved. Baker, with his friends, all
armed, some, half a dozen or more, went
to Breckinridge’s house and asked to see
the girl. -Mr. Breckinridge had pre
viously advised the young lady to return
to her father’s house, which she did,
without the knowledge of Baker. As
soon as Baker discovered the escape of
Miss Simpson, he and his troop followed
on to her father’s, where a similar scene
was exhibited, several shots being fired
with like result. Mrs. Simpson, the
mother, is represented then as seizing a
double-barrelled shot-gun and diRebargiug
the contents of one of the barrels at the
crowd, with the aid of which and a pistol
she dispersed the gang, after which
they returned to the house of Mr. A. W.
Breckinridge, - whooping and yelling
like wild Indians, and on reaching
the house inquired for Mr. Breckin
ridge, when his wife told them that Mr.
Breckinridge was there, bnt would not
come out where such rude behavior was
going on. They .then demanded him,
swearing that they were determined to
have him, at the same time dismounting
and coming to the door, where Mr.
Breckinridge’s wife and daughters were,
abusing them with the most wicked inl
and snapping their pistols
it the house, to the great ter
ror of the ladies. While this was going
on, Mr. Breckinridge, for safety, left his
house and did not return until morning.
with writs were
auders, but with
Beecher’s Religion.
There is altogether too much said of
the harm the Beecher case is likely to
cause to Christianity. Beecher bag pro
fessed himself a Christian. He has pro
fessed to ' teach Christianity. Whether
Christ, however, would recognize his
teaohings in the philosophy of Beecher
has sometimes been questioned by the
orthodox- Certainly there has sometimes
been more of Beecher than of Christ in
the sermons delivered in Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn. ’ Most people went to
Plymouth Church as they would go to a
theatre, not as they go to the temple of
the Most High. They went aftener to
listen to - Beecher's oracles, not to
the oracled of God. Beecher’s down
fall may therefore be the downfall
of Plymouth Church; just as the death of
a great actor may be the end of a place
of amusement. The nnveiling of his hy
pocrisy, if he is guilty, can hurt no one’s
Christianity but the Christianity of those
whose religion is Beecherism. To what
a sorry condition, in this nineteenth cen
tury, is Christianity reduced if the fall of
one man can shake it Beecher’s fall
does not argue the weakness or the shal
lowness of Christianity. It proves the
depth of Beecher’s hypocrisy, and it
proves nothing more. If Beecher, has
been, all this time, an immoral man;
he has been a seducer and adulterer, he
has in fact not beer a Christian. Mr.
Beecher may have in; .ited a new litera
ture, and called it Christianity.
-It
not philosophy, for it lacked
method, and substance, and tangi
bility, which no real philosophy does.
It was not science. It enunciated no
undoubted truth—no truth which by the
tests of science could be verified. It was
not religion, for it drew no man nearer
to God than he could have been drawn by
methods in use before Beecher was born.
His discourses did not have the merit of
the old-fashioned orthodoxy. They did
not have the merits, nor embody the re
sults, of the researches of men who have
broken loose from orthodoxy. They are
not brimful of faith. They do not tend
to make men accept the inspiration of
the Scriptures or the doctrine of Justifi
cation or of the Atonement. Bnt neither
do they consist of critical examination.
The Christ of Beecher’s sermons is not
the Christ of orthodoxy, neither is He
the Christ of modem Rationalism. He
presents us no such august Divine figure
as John, no such admirable character as
that of Keim or the author of Ecce Homo.
His Christ is the Christ of Beecher, noth
ing more and nothing less. If the cause
of such a ‘Christ suffers from Beecher’
downfall, the world can stand it. But
Christianity cannot be harmed by any
thing Beecher may do. . Christianity is a
world-movement which no man’s action
can arrest, any more, than a bulrush can
dam up the waters of the Nile. If
Beecher be what Tilton alleges, his down
fall con only benefit Christianity, as any
army is stronger and more efficient after
it is cleared of traitors.—Chicago Tribune.
Here’s Richness—Poor Sam Bard in
Hot TYater Again.
“baud in a pio’s nest.”
The post office at Atlanta, Georgia, is a
pig’s nest of magnitude, owned by Grant;
and managed by one Sam. Bard, who s in
his feeble way, is postmaster and sup
porter of the best government thieves
ever had. Samuel has of late been pour
ing oil in his lamp and bouncing around
Georgia in behalf of the national cigar
holder at a fearful rate. He has turned
his den of thieves into a Grant club-room,
and is soaping his neck so it may the
more easily slip into another dog collar on
the way to some kettle of soup. Senator
John B. Gordon was ordered by the Post
master General to visit the Atlanta post
office and report on its- condition. The
order has been obeyed, and here is the re
port :
Atlanta, July 4,1874.
To the Postmaster Centred :
I spent all day yesterday, last night and
to-day looking over the confused condi
tion of affairs in the post office here,
found it fearful. The Grant Club, com
posed of the postmaster, his clerk, the
boy that sweeps out and three colored
men, meet in the back room of the post
office, where they have a fearful carrica-
tnre of President Grant, and before
which they all prostrate themselves daily
and beg the picture to accept another
term. They use the mail ponches to
sleep on, and the postmaster, who is
president, has extra sacks, on which he
sits during the meetings. Of course the
pouches are reined; everything in the
office is in confusion.
John B. Gobdon.
—Pomeroy's Democrat, July 18, 1874.
To the Editors of the Herald:
When “Brick” Pomeroy penned the
above, he was giving birth to a most in
famous batch of lies. ~ We know that
God Almighty ordained him a liar from
the foundation of the earth, and that he
will finally make his bed in the' hell
specially prepared for all such defamato
ry scoundrels.
The statement that “Gen. John B.
Gordon was ordered by the Postmaster
General to visit the Atlanta Post Office
and report upon "its condition,” was a
base fabrication of the Washington
Chronicle, and Pomeroy knew it to be a
hoax when he transferred it from the
Chronicle to the scurrilous columns of his
own venal, pot-house journal.
To be brief, Pomeroy' is- the leader of
all soonndrelism, and with Dana, of the
New York Sun, should be serving out an
apprenticeship in some well regulated
penitentiary. His crimes are greater than
Kidd, the pirate, or Arnold, the traitor.
It would have been fortunate for journal
ism, humanity and civilization, had such
a devil in human shape never been bom.
From the contaminations of such a sneak
ing viper “good Lord deliver ns.”
Atlanta, Ga., July 27. Sam. Baud.
Southern Troubles.
President Grant is likely to have his
bands full of Southern business this year.
The first instalment comes from Missis
sippi. There is a high excitement in
Vicksburg over a local election to come
off on the 4th prox., and the whites and
blacks are almost at daggers’ points.
Some colored orators have made speeches
on the stump extremely offensive to the
whites—asserting that the civil rights bill
would be passed at the next session of
Congress, and then colored men would
marry the daughters of the best families
in Vicksburg. So great is the exaspera
tion in the community that Lient.-Gov.
Davis has asked the President for troops
to preserve the peace on the day of elec
tion. The Secretary of War ordered two
companies to go to Vicksburg, in obedi
ence to this request,-butsubsequently,
tho Mayor and Postmaster of the city
sent word that the troops were not needed
and entreating that they be. not sent.
The order was therefore countermanded
and the authorities are waiting further
intelligence.
This is a sample of a business that we
shall probably have a good deal of before
the fall elections are over. There is a
very bitter feeling growing up in Louis
iana between the native whites and
the carpet-baggers, and it is hinted
that the former intend to use summary
proceedings with the latter, if they do
not leave the State. A troubled condition
of affairs is growing up in South Carolina,
over the contest for. State officers, and
there is, as we have already stated, a sharp
drawing of the lines of division between
whites and blacks in Alabama. It would
not be surprising if there should be dis
orders, ending in hostile governments in
some of these States, with appeals from
both parties to the President for aid. The
President’s Louisiana experiment may
therefore give him more to do in the way
of interfering with other people’s busi
ness than he wants. It is possible that
before the end of the year lie may have to
decide hetween hostile governments in
-three qf the Southern ~
[SCLouis Republican.
[From the (India) Homeward Mail.]
A STRANGE STORY.
TJje Schooner Penrl and the “Devil Blah.”
—A Tragedy off Ceylon.
The following strange story has been
communicated to the Indian papers:
“We had left Colombo in the steamer
Strathowen, had rounded Galle and were
well in the bay, with our course laid for
Madras, steaming over a calm and tran
quil sea. About an hour before sunset,
on the 10th of May, we saw on our star
board beam, and about two miles off, a
small schooner lying becalmed. There
was nothing in her appearance or position
to excite remark, but as we came up with
her, I-lazily examined her with mybinoc-
ular, and than noticed between ns, but
nearer her, a long, low swelling tying on
the sea, which from its color and shape I
took to be a bank of seaweed.
As I watched, the jra 58 * hitherto at
rest, on the quiet sea, was tot in motion.
It struck the schooner, w)uch visibly
reeled, and then righted. Imn?ediatety
afterwards the masts swayed sia^vvays
and' with my glass I could clearly disci? 111
the enormous mass and the hull of thd
schooner coalescing—I can think of no
other term. Judging from their exclama
tions, the other gazers must have wit
nessed the same appearance. Almost
immediately after the collision and
coalescence the schooner's masts swayed
towards ns, lower and lower; the vessel
was on her beams end, lay there a few
seconds, and disappeared, the masts
righting os she sank, and the main
exhibiting a reversed ensign strag
gling towards its peak A cry of
horror rose from the lookers-on,
and. as if by instinct, onr ship’s
head was at once turned towards the
scene, which was now marked by the
forms of those battling for life—the sole
survivors of the pretty little schooner
which only twenty minutes before floated
bravely on the smooth sea. ’ As soon as.
the poor fellows were able to tell their
story, they astounded ns with - the asser
tion that their vessel had been submerged
by a gigantic cuttlefish or calamary, the
animal which, in a smaller form, attracts
so much attention m the Brighton aqua
rium as the octopus. Each narrator had
his version of the story, but in the main
all the narratives tallied so remarkably as
to leave no donbt of the fact. As soon
as he was at leisure, I prevailed on the
skipper to give me his written account of
the disaster, ofid I have now much pleas
ure in sending you a copy of - his narra
tive : ■
“I was lately the skipper of the Pearl
schooner, 150 tons, as tight a-little craft
os ever sailed the seas, with a crew of. six
men. . We were bound from the Mau
ritius for Rangoon, in ballast, to return
with paddy, ■ and had put in at Galle for
water. Three days out we fell becalmed
in the bay (lat. 7 50 N., long. 84 5 E.)
On the 10th of May, about 5 p. m.—eight
bells I know had gone—we sighted a two-
masted si rew on our port quarter, about
five or six miles off. Very soon after, as
we lay motionless, a great moss rose
slowly out of the sea abont half a mile
off on onr larboard side, and remained
spread out, as it were, and stationary.
It looked like the bock of a huge whale,
bnt it sloped less, and ‘was of a brownish
color; even at that distance it seemed to
be basking in the sun.
“What’s that?” I cried out to the mate.
“Blest if I knows; barring its size, color
and shape, it might be a whale.”
“It ain’t the sea sarpent,” said one of
the crew, ‘ ‘for he’s too round for that ’ere
critter.”
I went into the cabin for my rifle, and
as I was preparing to fire, Bill Darling, a
Newfoundlander, exclaimed, putting np
his hand, “Have a care, master; that ere’s
a squid, and will capsize ns if you hurt
him.”
Smiling at the idea, I let fly and hit
him, and with that he shook; there was a
great ripple all round him, and he began
to move. ' *
“Out with all your axes and knives,
shouted Bill, “and cut at any -part, of him
that comes aboard; look alive, and the
Lord help ns.”
“Not aware of the danger, and never
having seen‘or heard of such a monster,
I gave no orders, and it was no use touch
ing the helm or ropes to get out of the
way. By this time, three of the crew,
Bill included, had found axes, and one a
rusty cutlass, and all were looking over
the ship’s side at - the advancing monster.
We conld now see a huge oblong mass
moving by jerks just trader the surface
of the water, anil an enormous train fol
lowing ; the oblong body was at least half
the size of our vessel in length and just
as thick; the wake or train might have
been one hundred feet long,
“In the time that I have taken to write
this the brute struck us, and the ship
quivered under the thud; in another mo
ment, monstrous arms like trees seized
the vessel and she keeled over; in anoth
er second the monster was aboard, squeez
ed in between the two masts. Bill scream
ing, ‘Slash for your lives;’ but all our
slashing was of no avail, for the brute,
holding on by his arms, slipped his vast
body overboard, and pulled the vessel
down with him on her beam-ends; were
thrown into the water at once, and just
as I went over I caught sight of one of
the crew; either Bill or Tom Fielding,
squashed up between the masts and one
of those awful arms; for a few seconds
oqr ship lay on her beam ends, then filled
and went down; another of the crew
must have been sucked down, for you
only picked up five; the rest-you know.
I can’t tell who ran up the enaign.
and gcjstaurmrts.
BRESNAjV’S
topoaatae
156,168,160 & 162
BRYAN STREET,
SAVANNAH, GA. „
T HE Proprietor, having completed the neces
sary aflaittoPB and improvements, can now
offer to his guests all the comforts to he obtained
at other Hotels at less than
James Floyd,
Late master schooner PearL”
The b«] try'days *; ^
The harvest of the
smiling glebe,
Diamonds.—I learn from high author
ity, writes a London correspondent, that
the estimated Value of all the diamonds
which have been discovered at the
diamond fields in South Africa during the
lost three years does not fall short of ten
millions sterling. Many of the gems ore
of inferior quality, -that is to say; of a
yellowish color. The largest pure white
stone weighed between 70 and SO carats,
and the largest “off-colored” 28-' ) carats.
It is right to add that large gems are by
no means exceptional, the discovery of
stones of a weight varying from 40 to 80
carats being common enough. As is well
known, the value of diamonds in the
European market has been greatly de
preciated by the enormous quantity ex
ported'to this part of the world from the
Cape, but prices of colored stones have
been more affected than those of the
purer qualities.
HALF THE EXPENSE!
A RESTAHMT
ON THE
EUROPEAN PLAN
Has been added, where guests can
AT ALL HOURS
Order whatever can be obtained in the market.
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.Gold, Stocks, Bonds, and Foreign and Domestic
Exchange bought and sold.
CoUccLons made on an accessible points, ami
promptly remitted for In New York Exchange at
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No commissions charged on Collections made in
the city.
Merchants’ Cash Boxes, and other Valuables, re
ceived on special deposit (and deposited in the large
Fire Proof Vaults of the Banking House) subject
to ownars* orders, at any and an times during bank
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suit purchasers. - i unlti
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demand or sight, good in all parts of Euroj»e,
for sale in sums of X5 and upwards, by this Bank.
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JOHN W. ANDERSON’S SONS
COTTON FACTORS
AND GENERAL
Commission Merchants,
GoUett’s Improved Saw Gin,
. Henery’s Improved McCarthy Gin,
Cor. Bryan and Drayton Htn.,
SAVANNAH,Ga.
aments.
pyXIberal advances made on Consig
octld<fcwly
BOOMS, WITH B0ABD,
$1 50 PER RAT.
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- (Successors to Cohen & Hull)
F ACTORS AKI> COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
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All I ask is a TRIAL, qpnfident that complete
satisfaction will be given.
JOHN BRESNAN,
PROPRIETOR.
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IN STORE AND TO ARRIVE
500 Btols. No. 1
Relined Petroleum
KEROSENE OIL!
THE LOT NOW IN STORE
Stands 114° Fire Test,
THE SAME HAVING-BEEN INSPECTED BY
THE STATE INSPECTOR.
V. L. STARR & CO.
Successors to Wm. M. Bird &s Co.
Enquire prices in the store. july!7-ff
$rft00l §0065.
The Favorite Home Remedy.
This unrivalled Medicine is wan:,
contain a single particle of Mercury.
junous mineral substance, but is
t-nj not to
or any in-
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la eminently a Family'Medicine; anil l.v beanz
' - for immediate resort will save many
. enuring and limn y tt dollar in time
and doctors’ bills.
After over Forty Ycara’ trial it is eUS roceiyioe
the moot unqualified testimonials to its virtues
from persons of the hMns’ character end r*v
fy. Eminent physicians commend it as
Effectual Specific
FOR DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION.
Armed with this ANTIDCi: 13.
changes of water and food m ay i
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BOWEL COMPLAINTS.
JAUNDICE, NAUSEA,
nil climates and
« faced without
OUS FEVERS.
dSTLESSNKSS,
IT HAS sro HQUAJL.
It is the Cheapest, Purer t and Best Family
Pore.-t
, . — in the \
Is manufactured only by
JU H. 2EILIN & Cf>„
' Macon, Ga., and Philadelphia.
Price $1 00. Sold by Druggists.
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OFFICE
American Cotton Tie Co.
New Orleans. La., .7uuu £1,1574.
Notice to Dealers and Bayors of Cotton
W HEREAS, certain parties are now making
and offering Pieced Arrow and Open Slot
New Singing Books!
THE LEADER!
By H. R. ParetEn.-asaiated by L. O. Emeeson.
Choirs, Conventions, and
welcome this new Chnrch'Mnaic
new tones, anthems, chant!
best quality. Price $1.38 or
will
, filled with
all of the
per dozen.
Angoba Goat.—This, the most
valuable of all the goatjfamily, is no w being
raised extensively in California for its
long, silky fleece, and it is likely to prove
an important industry. The first import
ation of the Angora goat was made into
the United States by Mr. Davis, of South
Carolina, as an experiment. It was intro
duced into California in.1861 by Mr. M.
Landrum; since which date he has given,
his attention to raising it. Others are now
engaged in raising them, and the business
has largely increased, extending from
Washington Territory into New
Material.
LUMBER!
T>. C. B^lCOJST,
Lumber Manufacturer and Dealer.
“N TILLS in the City and on the line of Railroad,
ifl All descriptions of LUMBER and TIMBER,
Rough
Cheap by the Cargo or by the Thousand feet.
Also, a lufl stock of Yellow Pine MOULDINGS
and Plastering LATHS. Wood Turning and Scroll
Sawing to order.
Lumber Yard and Planing 31111
feb!4-tf Comer Liberty and Price Sts.
Letter Headings,
The Song Monarch
By H. R. Palmer, assisted by L. O. Emerson.
Especially for Singing Classes. First SC pages
contain the elementary coarse, the same as that
in the Leader, which course is followed by
$7.50 per dozen.
AMERICAN SCHOOL
MUSIC READERS!
Three Carefully Graded Song Books for Common
Schools.
By L. O. Emerson and W. 8. Tflden.
. /.Price 35c.
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Book 1st. For Primary Schools....
2d. For Lower Grammar Clc
“ 3d. For Higher •• “ •< 60c.
The Coarse is easy, progressive, interesting,
and has been thoroughly tested in schools near
Boston.
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TTAVING
Il of
decided to continue the sellii
. „ DBS, BUGGIES and WAGON-
In Savannah, we will, on the 1st of October next
take possession of the large Repository now
bemg built corner of. .Montgomery and Bay
streets, and will fill it with a choice lot of work
from onr extensive manufactory at Wilmincton.
Delaware. We wifi be prepared to give the citi
zens of Georgia better bargains than ever before
offered. For the present we will offer onr stock
now on hand and arriving by each steamer irom
GREAT BARGAINS for cosh, or approved
paper. WE CAN AND WILL id IT.
McLEAR & KENDALL.
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Ties for sale without anthority or license from
this Company, alt persons are hereby (-actioned
not to purchase Arrow or other Open Slot Cotton
Ties, except from onr duly authorized agents,
who will be kept fully snoplied with
Pierced Ties. Our attorneys arc in«8
bring suit against an persons violating o
titles. AMERICAN COTTON T
. IL W. Rayxe & Co., General Agents.
and
■d to
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^RROW TIES
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