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lished In .Savannah.
Affairs in Georgia,
n; Stevenson, of the Augusta
(jiLztilvtitfnalist, was in Atlanta at last
accounts, canvassing for the long-staple
Japanese corn, and the torpedo chicken.
We wish him well.
Colonel Styles, of the Albany News,
te nuously asserts that he could run a
newspaper in Macon if he wanted to.
W. K. N.,” writing from Boston,
Thomas county, informs us that corn is
suffering from rain in that section.
Crops in Newton county are excellent--
looking better than for many years past.
An Atlanta woman fired off a shot-gun
;it a Mr. John Gavan the-other day, who
W as cutting down her blackberry bushes.
Contemporary evidence says that Gavan
kft the scene with much violence.
The Albany News says that the com
crop has been damaged to some extent
. I v the recent drouth in that section.
A soap-stone pipe of the post-pliocene
era has been ploughed up in Gwinnett
county.
Psalmuel Bard will hereafter be known
ns the Great Deposed. He has employed
counsel and proposes to test in the courts
the right of the President to remove an
appointee of the government without
alleged cause.
While fifteen men were engaged in
running a threshing machine near Alpha
retta three of them were killed by a
stroke of lightning.
Dogs are slaying the sheep in Gwinnett
county.
A gray fox was killed in Albany the
other day while fooling with a chicken.
Mr. James Tankersly, of Albany, is
dead.
The State Lunatic Asylum is so badly
crowded that no more patients can be
accommodated. And yet peanut legisla
tion will continue to be the order of the
day.
Albany very properly claims the credit
of introducing the Australian blue-gum
into Georgia.
Some damage was done to crops in the
vicinity of Quitman the other day, by a
severe wind and rain storm.
Tom Slater, a notorious negro despe
rado. who was wont to operate in the
neighborhood of Columbus, was arrested
in Alahama the other day and returned
to the scenes of his former labors.
The Columbus Enquirer says that on
the first day of last month the twelve
national banks in Georgia were account
able for #2,11>7,271 of deposits, for which
they held #1,020,240 in reserve, or a little
over forty-six per cent. The average
ratio of reserve throughout the country
was only thirty-three per cent. Of specie
the Georgia banks held #35,534, and of
legal tenders, $492,668. Their five per
cent, redemption fund amounted to
$102,375.
The Itev. N. N. Edge has become as
sistant local editor of the Indian Spring
Echo.
The Albany News wants to know what
it is that has so wonderfully improved
the Augusta Constitutionalist. It is
chiefly the presence of Colonel H. Cooter
Stevenson, the well known agent of the
fibrous Japanese corn.
Mr. P. A. Farrington, of Atlanta,
charged with arson, has been acquitted.
Col. George R. Sibley, of Augusta, is
on his annual visit to Indian Spring.
Dr. Ras. Yancey, of Covington, is a
philanthropist. He chased a pig five
miles the other day merely for the pur
pose of relieving its tail of a musical tin-
can.
The Albany News says that Capt. T. H.
Willingham has 2,000 acres in corn,
2,000 in cotton, and 1,100 in oats. His
oats are harvested, and he will probably
have 8,000 bushels for sale.
A Cartersville telegram says that on
the night of the 30th ult. William Moore,
manager of Bartow Iron Works convicts
camp, reprimanded a white one-legged
convict for something, when the convict
cursed Moore. Moore slapped the con
vict’s face. The convict thereupon
stabbed Moore in the side. Moore’s
wounds are considered fatal.
The Atlanta Herald says one of the
curiosities of LaGrange is an'old French
man, named Stephen Lanto. He ite a
bootmaker by profession, was on the re
treat from Moscow under the First Napo
leon, fought at Waterloo, and during our
own war was first gunner on the iron-clad
Merrimac. Lanto, in consideration of his
services, is allowed many privileges by
the authorities, among which is to get
tipsy, and when in this salubrious state
nothing gives him greater pleasure than
to mount a goods box and diseant upon
the virtues of the First “ Nap-ol-e-on
and “Barb Lee” and “Shack-son.”
H. P. Farrow denies the statement
b we printed yesterday in regard to
C^ Jnd S e Fish \
abundant com crop is promised in
* llkinson county.
The Albany News says that Hamp Cook
of that place, who has just returned from
a buggy trip through the oaky woods of
Dougherty county and large portions of
Calhoun, Clay, Early and Blakely coun
ties, says that the crops are well cultivated
and promising, and the people are nearly
'“out of the woods,” financially speaking.
He saw no poor crops, and not exceeding
three or four that were not perfectly
clean and in good growing condition.
Plenty of ram had fallen; all vegetation
was luxuriant, and the people were smil
ing with gladness and bright hope.
The Chattanooga Time* of Wednesday
peaks of a call from Mr. C. W. Howard,
a distinguished writer upon the agricul
tural and mineral resources of his native
Htate of Georgia. Mr. Howard informs
us that he has sold his property
near Kingston, and has purchased three
thousand acres on Lookout Mountain,
near Rising Fawn, where he intends to
go into sheep raising, in addition to the
cultivation of fruits and vegetables. He
lias ten acres in Irish potatoes at present,
from which he expects to raise one thou
sand bushels, with no other manure than
wood ashes. Mr. Howard is also inter
ested in a coal mine on top of the moun
tain, in the upper carboniferous forma
tion, from which he hopes some day to
supply Chattanooga, by means of a nar-
row gauge railroad along the summit of
the mountain, on a level to the point,
and thence by an incline to Chattanooga.
We should be glad to see the whole
summit of the mountain occupied by
such experienced and successful farmers
Mr. Howard, for Chattanooga is the
natural market of their productions.
Railroads.
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
THREE HONEST* BROOKLYN MEN.
The Bribed Beecher Jury Discharged.
NINE MEN FOR ACQUITTAL AND
THREE FOR CONVICTION.
Inter-State Educational Convention.
VALE COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT.
YALE.
New Haven, July 2.— At the 175th
anniversary of Yale College the following
degrees were conferred in course: Bache
lor of Divinity 34, Bachelor of Laws 17,
Doctor of Medicine 14, Doctor of Phil
osophy 4, Bachelor of Arts 93, Civil En
gineer 2, Dynamic Engineer 2, Bachelor
of Philosophy 50. In the after-dinner
speeches the most noticeable feature was
the conciliatory character of the remarks
from the alumni from the South and
North. Col. Lorenzo James, of Mont
gomery, Alabama, spoke feelingly of the
conflict and its close, and extended the
hand of fellowship to all with a heart full
of love. Gov. D. H. Chamberlain, of
South Carolina, spoke eloquently of that
sound character which is Yale’s boast and
glory. Rousing cheers were given for
the South and South Carolina.
EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION.
Chattanooga, Tenn., July 2.—The
Inter-State Educational Convention has
been in session here yesterday and to-day.
There is a large delegation of teachers
and educators from Alabama, Missouri,
Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky and Illi
nois. Prof. B. Mallon, of Atlanta, is
President. Able addresses were delivered
by Dr. W. T. Harris, of St. Louis, Presi
dent of the National Teachers’ Associa
tion; Dr. M. C. Briggs, of the North
western University, Chicago, and others.
The convention resolved itself into a per
manent Inter-State Association. It will
meet next June in Memphis, with the
officers of the convention ,for permanent
officers of the association.
FOREIGN NOTES.
London, July 2.—A special dispatch
from Vienna to the Standard reports
that the peasants of Deva, in the vicinity
of Transylvania, have revolted against
the nobles and defeated a battalion of
militia. Many persons were killed, in
cluding two Judges. Regular troops
have been sent to the scene.
The report that the King of Burmah
refuses to allow the British troops to
pass through his territory is officially
confirmed.
INSURANCE IN BOSTON.
Boston, June 2.—There is excitement
in insurance circles over the difficulty be
tween the National Board of Fire Under
writers and the Boston companies which
lately withdrew from the Local Board.
The Manufacturers’ Fire and Marine Com
pany, having been expelled from the Na
tional Board for refusing to open its
books for examination by the Supervising
Agent, all seceding companies have
made a like refusal. It is supposed they
will be dealt with in the same manner.
TEE BROOKLYN BUSINESS.
Brooklyn, July 2.—At 11:17 a. m the
jury came into court, which was densely
crowded, and stated they were unable to
agree, when they were discharged. The
jury stood nine for acquittal and three
for conviction.
A rumor is current that Moulton will
be arrested on the conviction of Loader
and Price. Answering an inquiry, lawyer
Shearman said that Moulton was not in
Brooklyn to be arrested, but is consulting
with General Butler.
THE CABLISTS.
Madrid. July 2.—Official dispatches
announce that the Alfonsists’ batteries
have opened a heavy cannonade against
Santa Barbara, Ciracui, Maneru, Oilla,
Teurta, Artaza and Estella. Eighteen
shells have fallen within the latter town.
The Carlists have abandoned Maneru.
CUBAN NOTES.
Havana, July 2.—The schooner Mary
Chilton was found on the Cuban coast,
abandoned, and brought here. She has
sailed for the United States.
An official decree has been issued, pro
hibiting time contracts for gold.
diamonds seized.
New York, July 2.—Ten thousand dol
lars’ worth of smuggled diamonds were
seized last night. The diamonds were in
possession of F. G. Biukmann, who ar
rived in the last steamer from AspinwaU.
YELLOW FEVER.
Key West, July 2.—There was one
death here yesterday from yellow fever,
(Signed) J. V. Harris, M. D.,
Health Officer.
RELIGIOUS REFUGEES.
New' York, July 2.—A steamship yes
terday brought a number of ecclesiasts
and others driven from Germany by the
talk law.
LICENSE LAW.
Boston, July 2.—The new license law
went into effect to-day. Eleven hundred
licenses have already been granted.
A CANDIDATE.
Louisville, June 2.—Governor Leslie
has announced himself a candidate for
the United States Senate.
Prince Louis Napoleon is the hero of a
little adventure, which has the merit of
being true. A few days ago Dr. Russell
Reynolds was being driven in a four-
wheeled cab from Charlton Station, near
Blackheath, England. The horse became
restive and ran aw*ay, and the position of
affairs was critical, for not far off there
was a precipitous, unprotected bank.
Over this the animal would certainly have
plunged had not its progress been stopped
by the young Prince Louis Napoleon, who,
happening to be close by, sprang for
ward, seized the horse by the head, and
pulled him up. The Prince, who was
dragged along the muddy road for a con
siderable distance, was not recognized by
the gentleman whose life he had thus
gallantly saved at the risk of losing his
own, and when asked for his name re
plied—without, however, giving it—that
he was very glad to have been - of some
service, and that doubtless they would
meet again.
A Fresh Water Shark.—We would
warn the boys who are in the habit of
bathing in the Mississippi that there is a
species of fish in that river known as the
alligator gar, which measures from five to
ten feet in length, and about three feet in
circumference. It has two rows of teeth
in the upper jaw, and one row in the
lower, from one-half to one inch in
length, and very strong. It is supposed
that one of these monsters caused the
death of the young man who was drowned
at Wittenberg a few days ago, as these
fish have frequently been seen in that
locality. The young man referred to was
a good swimmer, and when near the shore
was seen to rapidly start out into the
river, calling for hely from his com
panions, but suddenly sank and was seen
no more, nor was his body recovered.—
Cliester (Mb.) Tribune.
A strange case of poisoning is reported
from Stettin. A gentleman had bought
a hat in a shop there, and after having
worn it one or two days was troubled
with unbearable headache. At the same
time little ulcers formed upon his fore
head, his eyes were inflamed, and the
whole of the upper part of his head was
much ’swollen. It was evident that these
symptoms were caused by the hat, and
upon examination by a chemist it was
found that the brown leather in the in
side of the hat was colored with a poison
ous aniline dye. It appears that inflam
mation is unavoidable when this dye is
in contact with any part of the akin.
Evening Telegrams.
QUEER CIVIL RIGHTS S
. THE SCHOOL QUESTION.
jes' The Fouudation
ufr.
TROUBLES IN THE MONGREL REPUB
LIC OF MEXICO.
Ail Attempt to Rescue Cortinas, the
Cattle Thief.
The Case of Boms Tweed.
MEXICAN TROUBLES.
Chicago, July 2.—Advices received by
Lieutenant General Sheridan, from
Brownsville, Tex., this morning, indicate
a critical state of affairs at Matamoras.
A conflict to-day between citizens and
the Mexican soldiers is imminent. All
business houses are closed in Matamoras,
and armed citizens are gathering, threat
ening to take Cortinas from the soldiers,
who, the Vice Consul thinks, are not
strong enough to prevent the rescue.
New Orleans, July 2.—A special to the
Galveston News, from Brownsville, says
an order has been published that Cor
tinas shall be shot in case an attempt is
made to rescue him. Judge Castello and
wife, Cortinas and fourteen others are
prisoners. A general order has been
issued prohibiting the assembling of
groups and hostile demonstrations. All
public places are closed. Outside of Mata
moras the people are reported to be arm
ing themselves, arms having been smug
gled out. It is reported that a gunboat
is coming to the mouth of the Rio Grande
to carry Cortinas to Vera Cruz.
NA1I, ^TTURPAY, JULY 3, 1875.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Principle of Education
by the State.
Editor Morning Hews:
In my last I affirmed interest to be the
foundation principle of public school in
struction. In this paper I shall endeavor to
develop still further that thought. The par
ticular views which I now propose to pre
sent would, in my judgment, have justified
the use of a stronger word than interest. To
have declared education by the State a pub
lic necessity would not. to my mind, have
been language too strong in view of the
strength of the appeal made by the facts
and arguments I now propose to give. I
used the word interest, however, because it
includes not only the views which I shall
now present, but others to be given here
after.
It will be seen from my report for the
year 1874,that the number ofjchildren in the
State between the ages ot six and eighteen
years is as follows : whites, 218,733 ; col
ored, 175,304 ; total, 394,O'*?. This summing
up includes the entire State, except the
county of McIntosh, from which no return
was received. My blanks require statistics
of illiteracy to be returned. The number
of youths* between the ages of ten and
eighteen years unable to read, in one
hundred and twenty-seven counties of the
State, wag reported as follows : whites. 26,-
552 ; colored, 76,692 ; total, 106,244. Eight
of the counties reporting failed to return
the statistics of illiteracy. A computation
of the illiteracy for the eight counties, upon
the hypothesis that the illiterates of these
eight counties bear the same ratio to their
entire school population as that of the il
literates of the one hundred and twenty-
seven counties reporting,to the entire school
population of these onehundred aud twenty-
seven counties,gives the illiteracy of one hun
dred aud thirty-five counties,* which em
braces the whole of the State except the
county of McIntosh, as follows: whites,
28,183 ; colored, 84,669 ; total, 112,852. The
school age, by our law, covers a period of
twelve years, viz : from six to eighteen. AI-
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Washington, July 2.—The President
signed the commissions of postmasters
Mrs. Stein, Jefferson, Texas, and Clarke, j ^winjj tha^ ; one-thhd £* f ^e^childjou
All public offices will be closed on Mon*
day.
Letters of attorney given by mail con
tractors, intended to be a substantial as
signment of contract, will not be filed in
the Postoffice Department.
Proceedings under the civil rights bill
have been commenced by a white man
against a negro lodging-house keeper for
ejecting him from the rooms which the
negro’s mother had rented the white man
during the landlord’s absence. Suit is
brought under the civil rights bill.
A telegram at the Navy Department
from Key West reports one death and
two new cases of yellow fever there to
day. The atmosphere and present indi
cations are favorable.
THE WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Washington, July 2.—Probabilities:
During Saturday in the South Atlantic
and Gulf States lower barometer, south-
jvest to southeast winds, decidedly warm
and partly cloudy weather will prevail,
except cooler weather and possibly light
rain in the former.
For Tennessee aud the Ohio valley and
lake region, falling barometer, southerly
to easterly winds, warmer and generally
cloudy weather and rain areas.
For the Middle and Eastern States, fall
ing barometer, winds shifting to easterly
and southerly, and cool and cloudy or
partly cloudy weather, with rain areas in
the former and southern portion of the
latter.
The Mississippi rivei below St. Louis
will continue slowly rising; below Omaha
slowly falling.
NEWS NOTES.
New York, July 2.—Alexander Hamil
ton, IL? cx-Treasurer of Jersey City,
pleaded guilty of embezzlement, aud was
sent for three years to the penitentiary
and one thousand dollars fine. A suit
is pending against the bondsmen for the
amount embezzled.
Under an arrangement with the credit
ors, the Grant Locomotive Works at Pat
terson will be resumed. It will take
three or four months to complete the ten
Russian locomotives.
Judge Brady denies the motion to
quash the indictments against Tweed,
except in two instances, where the in
dictment had been superceded.
the black hills.
Chicago, July 2. — Private advices
from the Black Hills’ expedition, re
ceived this morning, show that its inves
tigations are proving the country to be
richer in gold than has been supposed.
The earth, down to the bed rock, in every
direction, is filled with particles of gold,
aud the quartz shows rich veins.
THE BEECHER JURY.
New York, July 2.—The jury left the
court without any excitement. When
asked who the three were, they replied
that they had bound themselves to secrecy
in the jury room.
HANGED.
Newton, N, J., July 2.-
hung to-day.
•Hughes was
Effect of the Recent Storm in the
Northwest.—Chicago, June 29.—Reports
from numerous points in Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska, Iowa,
Missouri and Southern Illinois indicate
that the storm which passed over this
section of country, lasting from Saturday
night till Monday, in most localities did
great damage, killing a considerable
amount of stock, blowing down fences,
barns and houses, inundating whole
farms and injuring crops to some extent.
Railroads, bridges and culverts were
swept away in some localities. Many
persons are reported injured, but com
paratively few killed. Great damage was
done at interior points.
Tilton, Beecher and Bowen.—“These
three, and the greatest of these is”
which ?
The story is told of a clergyman who
had three pets—a monkey, a parrot and
a squirrel. These three he imprudently
left, on one occasion, shut up in his li
brary. When he returned he found that
the monkey’s hide was full of holes,
which had evidently been bitten there;
the squirrel had lost his tail; and the
parrot, having been picked alive, was
perched on the back of a chair as the
master entered, to whom he remarked,
by way of explanation of the condition
of affairs, “we’ve had a htU of a time.”—
Wilmington Journal.
A Murder Mystery.—At Burlington,
Iowa, recently, in an old house which
was being torn down, in a small cavity in
the wall was discovered the skeleton of
an infant. One of the bones of the skull
was transfixed by a hairpin, which was
driven clear through the bone as far as it
would go, and is badly rusted and cor
roded. Lying beside the skeleton was
also found a broken, rusty butcher-knife.
The infant had been placed in the wall
from the inside, and was neatly plastered
over. The discovery created much ex
citement in Burlington. It looks as if a
dark story of crime is connected with
this mystery.
The issue is not between gold and
greenbacks, but between greenbacks and
National Bank notes. It is not proposed
by anybody to have an exclusively metal
lic currency. What is desired by the op
ponents of the people’s money—by the
money brokers of Wall street—is that the
circulating medium shall be mainly
issued by the banks of the United States
upon a pretendedly gold basis. When
the gold flees from the country, then the
banks suspend, and there is financial ruin
and disaster. This is the beautiful sys
tem that is sought to be introduced into
the United States by the bank party.—
Cincinnati Enquirer.
An organ-grinder paused under the
windows of the jury-room, Saturday
evening, and struck up the soul-piercing
strain of “When This Cruel War is Over.”
Several of the jurors appeared to be
deeply affected by the music, and eagerly
hunted around for old bottles, boot-jacks
and other missiles, without finding them.
—Brooklyn Argus.
Thomas Manchester, an qperative, at
tempted to cut his wife’s throat i a Iiaw-
rence, Mass., Sunday night, and after
wounding her severely, cut his own
throat. The wounds of neither are fatal.
school age will be found between the ages of
six and ten—and a moment’s reflection must
convince any one that more than a third will
be comprised between those ages—and we
have the entire number of children from ten
to eighteen as follows : whites, 145,822;
colored, 116,869 ; total, 262,691. Taking these
numbers and the number of illiterates be
tween the same ages given above, and mak
ing the calculation of the percentage of illit
eracy, and the following is the result : To
tally illiterate whites between the ages spec
ified, nearly 20 per cent.; totally illiterate
colored, a little over 72 per cent.; totally
illiterate whites and colored taken together,
nearly 43 per cent.
In my instructions for last year I also re
quired the return of all persons unable to
read over the age of eighteen years. One
hundred and twenty-four counties mad« re
turns, and the figures aie as follows:
whites, 23,299; colored, 145,208; total, 168,-
507. A computation, by the method already
explained in the case of illiterates between
the ages of ten and eighteen, gives the
statistics of illiteracy, in tue case of persons
over eighteen, for all the counties of the
State except McIntosh, as follows: whites,
24,826; colorod, 156,583; totals 181,409. The
Comptroller General’s report for last year
gives the number of polls as follows:
whites, 115,330; colored, 84,220; total,
199,550. The number of polls of persons
over sixty years of age is not returned
to the Comptroller’s office. Arriving at
the approximate number of polls of all
males over twenty-one years of age by add
ing ono-sixth to the numbers above given,
and the following is the result: whites.
134,552; colored, 98,256; total, 232,808. This
gives the number of whites and blacks
respectively, and of both classes, entitled to
vote. The number ‘ of illiterates over
eighteen, above reported, comprises both
sexes. Supposing the number of each sex
to be the same, and dividing by two, and
the following is the result of wholly illiter
ate voters thuB obtained: whites, 12,413:
colored, 78,291; total,90,704. Bycomputiug
the percentage of wholly illiterate voters on
the basis of the figures above given, the re
sult is as follows: whites, over 9 per cent;
colored, nearly 80 per cent; white and
colored taken together, nearly 40 per cent.
In makiug the calculations above, it will be
observed that no statistics have been
used except those taken by State au
thority. I have no doubt but that
tht se ’statistics are reliable—fully as much
so at least as such figures usually are. In
deed, if I had been called on for an opinion
iu respect to illiteracy, and bad given it
from observation and the general impression
on my mind, without going into an arith
metical calculation, I should have made it
worse than the computatiou exhibits it in
respect to all the classes. I call upon every
thoughtful citizen to ponder the figures
above given. Can the State, when property,
liberty, life—in fact, everything dear to the
citizen—is involved, afford to abandon the
work of public instruction which she has
undertaken? We are sometimes told that
the greater portion of the illiteracy among
us is found among the colored population—
a fact already shown by the figures above
given—and we are then asked: Shall the
white people, after being ruined in property,
be called upon to contribute of their remain
ing scanty means for the education of the
colored race ? I cannot turn aside from the
main purpose of this ’.*aper to pursue the
lines of thought suggested by this question.
I will sav, however, that I can and will
show, at the proper time aud place in the
general discussion which I am prosecuting,
that when a tax is levied for the support of
schools, a reasonable amount of the burden
falls upon non-property holders, upon mere
laborers. A separate paper will be neces
sary to show this. I ask the interrogator
to note further, that I put what we may con
tribute to education, not upon the ground
of charity or philanthropy, but upon the
ground of interest. All that we hold dear,
and all that pertains to the welfare of those
who are to come after us is imperiled; and
the preservation of these dear interests is
the prompting motive. But at this point we
are told that the peril wo are in, politically
and socially, is a peril in which we arc-
placed by those who enfranchised hordes of
ignorant men, not only destitute of a
knowledge of the simplest elements of pub
lic policy, but without any proper under
standing of the fact that there is such a
thing as public policy. We are not by
any means without peril, ar.sing from
ignorance before the enfranchisement
referred to took place; but by the enfran
chisement our peril was increased, perhaps
twenty fold. But to say that a particular
thing is the cause of the peril does not de
stroy the fact. The peril exists. A wise
man, when put in peril, does not enquire
who placed me in peril, but how shall I
escape? The Fifteenth Amendment to the
Constitution is a reality. No one felt more
deeply the wrong of that measure than I, or
condemned more strongly the motives of its
authors, or the means by which they secured
its adoption. But now that it has been
adopted, does any one see how we are to rid
ourselves of it? Is it possible to effect a
riddance after the change brought about iu
the elements of the voting population’ Does
any one at this time think seriously of pro
posing any means of riddance? Does any
one believe that such means could be pro
posed at any time in the near, or more
remote, future with a reasonable prob
ability of success? When the elec
tive franchise has been bestowed upon
a very large proportion of any population,
such a thing as the taking of it away again
is not likely to be effected without revolu
tion and bloodshed. The stern factaxrf the
present are before us, and the question is
how shall we deal wisely with them ? The
possibilities and probabilities of the future
are before us also. What shall we do to so
mould and shape these as to deliver us and
those to come after us from peril, and to
secure for us and them all the blessings in
cluded in the words good government?
These questions are pregnant with mean
ing. No amount of wisdom short of Omni
science can, with absolute certainty give the
true answers. The means which, to my mind,
furnishes the most probable solution is
the general diffusion of popular educa
tion. When I say this I disclaim affilia
tion with that class of enthusiasts who
seem to look upon education as the leverage
power by which a whole people sunken in
ignorance and vice may be lifted from their
depredation in a day, or in a year, or at
most in the space of a few years.* We have
among us already a large, and, to a consid
erable extent, a controlling element of con
servatism and intelligence. To the saving
influence exerted by these, and to the con
stant and regular additions to their numbers
in years to come by means of popular edu
cation persistently disseminated, I look as
the means, under’Providence, of delivering
us from threatened evils, and securing for
us the blessings of stable institutions. And
now to the line of thought by which I hope
to be able to show how these results may be
achieved, I ask the thoughtful attention of
the public.
We have often heard it asserted that in
telligence and virtue constitute the only
sure basis of popular government. Men
’often accept this statement- as a truism
without stopping to consider what it in
volves. It will be profitable, in this dis
cussion, to seek to arrive at its full import.
It will be observed that the alleged basis of
popular institutions consists of the two ele
ments of intelligence and virtne. I shall
give & brief consideration to each separ
ately. Intelligence will be taken first.
What is meant when it is asserted that in-'
teiligence among the people is essential to
successful popular government ? We shall
obtain a bettor answer to this inter
rogatory by glancing briefly at some of
the questions which the people of this
country have been called upon to de
cide. In the formation of the Govern
meat of the United States, there was
a grave discussion as to whether a strong
or a weak central government was prefer
able. After the formation of the govern
ment, the same radical division of senti
ment was perpetuated in discussions as to
whether a strict or liberal construction of
the Constitution was the best mode of ar
riving at and carrying into effect tbe true
meaning of that instrument, and parties
wore formed on the issue the relations of
the State and Federal Governments. Then
camo questions of banking, finance, cur
rency, tariffs, internal improvement by the
government, the extension or restriction of
the elective franchise, questions of foreign
policy, etc. When it is asserted that intel
ligence is necessary to successful popular
government, is it meant that every citizen
must be capable of forming an intelligent
opinion upon questions like these? Not at
all. If this were the meaning, we should
never see a successful popular government
instituted, for we cau never hope to see
a wholapeople advanced to this stage of in
telligence. Then what is the amount of in
telligence which the prob em of self-govern
ment demands? The intelligent portion of
any population may be divided into three
classes. The first class comprises original
thinkers—men of philosophical minds.
These men establish theories and construct
systems. Only a few of this class appear in
the successive ages. Tbe second class is
much larger. It is composed of those who
have the capacity to grasp general principles
when expounded, to preserve their full sig
nificance, and to so apply them to the cou-
cerns of life as to bring out valuable practi
cal results. The third class comprises all
those who are able to understand, in a good
degree, the workings of a principle when its
practical applications has been explained,
and is much larger always than the second.
Ability limply to read aud write does not
uf cess vrily put a man even in the lowest ot
the classes mentioned. It does this much,
however. It puts into his bands the
tools with which he may work his wiy into
that class, or tbe one above it, or, under
unusually favorable conditions, even into
the one higher than that. Popular institu
tions are not safe, unless a controlling ma
jority of the people is found within the
limits of these three classes, aud are in
creased in efficiency by every addition to
that majority, and approximate perfection
of operation, only when all the additions
possible have been made to ’he three classes
named. Is it certain that we now have the
majority required ? Is it not an almost
absolute certainty that we have not, in view
of the figures given in the opening of this
article, and the evident statement already
made, that simple ability to read and write,
does not, of itself, place a man in the lowest
of the three classes? Is it not the interest
of the entire people of the State that we
continue our efforts in the work of popular
education till wo place the largest numbor
of citizens possible within the compass of
the throe classes mentioned ? I leave these
questions to be answered by the better in-
iormed of our population.
Having shown the significance and neces
sity of intelligence, I come now to inquire
what is meant by virtue in the connection
in which I have placed it, aud whether its
promotion is likely to be insured by the
general diffusion of popular education. The
word has been used in different senses. In
one of these, it has been lifted above the
plane of what is commonly understood as
expressed by the word' morality. Its
essence, in this sense, is understood to
be in the motive, and its existence can
not bo certainly inferred from the out
ward life. In this sense, it can never
exist in the natural man, but only in
tfig man renewed by divine grace. The be
ginning of its existence in the individual is
coeval with what is called the renewal of nis
nature, or a change of heart. This change
of heart, or change of nature, cannot be ef
fected by education or any other human
agency. It must come from above, if it
comes at all. This is the sense of the word
as sometimes used among orthodox Chris
tians, or the words orthodox Christians are
descriptive of, and include the great b >dy
of professors of Christianity as attached to
the various Protestant denominations among
us. With thi* sense of the word wo shall
have but little to do, and that only incident
ally in this discussion. It is not one of the
prime objects of organized society to
seek to change men’s natures. Gov
ernment has nothing to do directly with
the work of saving men’s souls. Our
ancestors, long ago, wisely decreed the
total divorce of church aud state; aud
the great doctrine of soul liberty, as ad
vocated by Roger Williams, by universal
consent iu this country, have been consid
ered as having been established upon a solid
foundation. Government is, however,
deeply interested in men’s conduct, aud in
whatever pertains to the making of the citi
zen a valuable member of society. There is
a lower sense of the word virtue which has
much more to do with this discussion than
the sense above considered. This sense of
the word makes it to embrace only the com
mon principles of morality. Industry,
economy, truthfulness, chastity, fidelity to
obligations, even-handed justice between
man and man, common hon- sty, respect for
lawfully constituted authority—these are
principles without which there cau be no
such thing as good government. They con
stitute a common ground upon which men
of every grade of religious belief, and men
of no religious belief—Christians, Jews, in
fidels—can stand. Would the spread of
these principles be secured and their effect
ual inculcation be promoted by the general
and successful establishment of public
schools?
This is the pregnant question in this por
tion of our discussion; and I do not hesitate
to answer it with an emphatic affirmative.
Let us look for a moment at the condition of
society as now constituted. The common
sentiments of morality, to which reference
has been made, now have the sanction and
heartv approval of all the better portion of
the community. The strong influence going
out from these has so wrought upon the
framework of society as to cause the common
elements of morality to be almost univer
sally accepted as sentiments and largely
adopted as principles of action. Now whore
do we go to select tbe teachers ot our public
schools ? They are choseu from the body
of the people, and usually from tbe more
intelligent and virtuous classes. Does any
one suppose that teachers thus chosen, aiid
set to work under such auspices, would fail
to use their best powers ana exert their per
sonal influence in the iuculcatiou of
right moral principles ? This supposition
would clearly be illogical. These principles
would often be iuculcated, under tbe Geor
gia school law, with all the higher sanctions
of religion itself. I have said that it is not
a prime object of government to teach reli
gion, and, while this is so, it is often proper
for the State, ii^her legislative enactments
to recognize the fact that a vast body of the
people are religious people, and to pay due
respect to their religious convictions. This
is just what the State of Georgia has done
iu her school law. That law, recognizing
the fact that the vast majority of the people
are believers in the Bible, provides that the
Bible shall not be excluded from the schools
of the State. The law does not, nor ought
it, to require the Bible to be introduced.
It leaves the question of introduction where
it ought to be left—to the decision of each
particular community—and, on a proposition
to introduce being made, the proposition
wonld prevail in nine-tenths of the com
munities of the State. Our people gener
ally, though divided into bodies entertaining
various shades of religious belief, are never
theless sufficiently united to be glad to have
their children taught by one commanding
their confidence, who prefers to open and
close the daily exercises of his school with
the reading of the Scriptures and acts of re-
ligi ms devotion. For one, I have never
entertained a doubt of the elevating influ
ence of simple intellectual training. Con
tact with truth in any form—and a book
that does not inculcate truth is not a proper
book to be taught—cannot fail to elevate.
Education gives to the subject of it more
elevated tastes, fills up many an hour, that
would otherwise be idly or viciously spent,
with useful reading, gives higher aspira
tions, and puts possibilities of bettering his
condition before its p ssessor to Which he
would be a stranger in a state of ignorance.
These are its legitimate effects when ob
tained under auspices not positively vicious.
Who tbeu can doubt its elevating tendency
when obtained under healthful moral in
fluences ? Who, when those influences are
brought to bear under the sanction of Bible
Christianity, as has been done already in
some of the public schools of Georgia, and
as may be done in perhaps the majority of
them ? Tne indirect influence exerted by
a State system of public instruction iu favor
not only of Bible morality, but even in favor
of religion itself, caunot be well over-esti
mated. The schoolmaster is the forerunner
of tbe preacher. The former prepares
the material upon which the latter operates.
The building of churches follows in
quick succession the erection of school
houses. So important is mental illumin
ation, in order to the iuculcatiou of religious
truth, that missionaries to a degraded people
have almost invariably found it necessary
first to erect school houses. Indeed, the
moral nature can be effectually reached only
through the intellect, and wherever tho
truth finds a lodgment, the yield of fruits
in tbe life, other things being equal, will
always be found proportioned to the degree
of mental illumination. It is in this way
that the State can, and does, remain neutral
in religion, aud yet make herself a powerful
auxiliary in the propogation of religious
truth.
Statistics said to be carefully compiled, as
f*r as I have Iiad opportunity to examine,
invariably sustain the argument above made
in favor of tbe inflnenoe of education upon
the morals of a people. Notwithstanding
the length of this paper, I must take the
space to give a few of the facts derived from
this source. I shall make the selection from
a paper prepared by Edward Mansfield, LL.
D., and inserted in the report of the United
8tates Commissioner of Education for 1872.
This paper, after showing that about one-
half of the people of France are at this time
illiterate, gives the following facts :
Whole number of persons under ar
rest from 1SC7 to 1869 444,133
Number unable to read 442,194
Or 95.63 per ct.
Average number of convicts fro n
1S66 to 1968 18,643
Number unable to read 16,015
Or - S7.28 per ct.
The same paper gives tho following statis
tics for England :
Committed to county or borough
prison 157,223
Could neither read nor write 53,265
Proportion of totally ignorant 34 per ct.
The following is the statement for Ire
land :
Wholly illiterate, or very imperfectly
educated, males 21.74 per ct.
Females 63.24 per ct.
Also for Belgium and Switzerland we
have the following statements: for tho
former, “unable to read, 49 per cent;” for
the latter, “average of criminals unable to
read through all prisons, 83 per cent.”
I have taken these statistics in the order
in which they o^cur in tho book. Others
are given for different countries. I have
not room to make further extracts, but must
refer the reader to the report itself. The
remaining statistics of tbe book, and those
to be found elsewhere, as far as I have
examined, bear the same uniform testimony.
I have Hhown in this discussion that our
institutions are imperfect. I have proposed
a remedy, and have demonstrated that the
remedy proposed, though gradual in its
operation, cannot fail if wisely and persist
ently applied, to be effectual. In conclusion
I call upon the people and upon their ser-
vants, the law-makers, to weigh well the
contents of this paper.
Gustavus J. Orr.
OUR JACKSONVILLE LETTER.
Notes and News from the Laud of Flower*.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Jacksonville, Fla., June 23, 1875.
Editor Mominq News:
Weather warmish and shady places de
sirable, the sea breeze, or the “doctor,”
as we call it, daily comes to modify tho
heat, and now, the rainy season com
menced, cools refreshingly with its after
noon showers.
CROPS
are reported still on the make, and being
more diversified, our people are less
despondent, and the stimulus latterly
given to the growing of vegetables and
fruits has added to the farmers’ gain, as
well as to the appearance of the land and
buildings.
IMMIGRATION
has evidently taken a start, homesteads
are being rapidly taken up, State railroad
and private lands purchased, mostly by
people from the Eastern and West
ern States; the outrage business,
which has deterred Northern people from
coming, is played out; the carpet-baggers
are growing less and less. Add to this
the grasshopper and the cold weather,
and the inducements to come here are
many.
JACKSONVILLE
is growing apace; new gas works, new
industries, a steamship line, a new tele
graph line, and the many new buildings
mark its steady and healthy progress.
Socially, too, we are fast increasing in
societies, literary, music and social.
TRUCK
continues to go forward by sea and rail.
Cars are loaded in Florida and go direct
to Chicago without change. Another
year this business will be very large.
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
This has been located at a place called
Eau Gallie, being at the south end of
Merritt’s Island and south of Cape Canav
eral, at present inaccessible except by a
tedious detour. It seems no community
wanted it in their neighborhood, so
Gleason got it located in his locality.
General Varnum has taken down some
thirty convicts to get out material for
building. It will probably turn out a
fizzle. The experience of the old States
is that such a college should be merged
into existing institutions. Now, if they
would march down all the convicts there
and make them earn their support, there
would be a positive benefit, agricultural
and economical.
POLITICAL.
Senator Conover, Governor Stearns,
Hicks, Knight and a score more are
figuring for the next Governorship, and
the fight will be lively, as there is only
about eight hundred white Radical voters.
Their efforts will be to secure the negroes,
but the colored politicians now think
they have some rights to office that their
hitheito white Radical masters are bound
to respect. Sawyer, of the Union, is
trying to beat it into the Republicans
that they have got to take a new de
parture and select honest and capable
men for office, but as this would leave out
the rings and rascals, they won’t listen to
such advice. Dr. Hicks seems to have
subsided into obscurity; he woke aud
found himself famous; but the sharp
scorings of the Tress about his antece
dents are likely to render him infamous.
THE FAIR
will prove a success. Among the prizes
I note one for the young lady, under
fourteen, who appears in the neatest
calico dress, made by herself. Another
prize—a cook stove—to the young lady,
under twenty, who exhibits the best loaf
of bread of her own make. Other prizes
for household preparations are in the list,
and J hope the young ladies will show
that they have pride in the useful, as
well as ornamental. I hope to see a good
representation of the press gang here.
Rase ball matches and trotting races, ex
cursions on the river, will also be bad
during the fair.
LO l
The seventy-five Indians removed from
the Northwest to Fort Marion are enjoy
ing sailing excursions, sea baths and foot
races, and, besides having good quarters
and plenty to eat, they are earning money
for luxuries by polishing sea beans for
some enterprising speculator. Pratt, of
Palatka, has been looking at the map,
and warns his fellow-citizens that if the
savages should break out of the fort they
will strike a trail right through Palatka,
and lift the back hair of the citizens.
SCHOOLS.
The public schools have closed, but
after a recreation of some days a portion
of the teachers will open private schools
until fall.
HEALTH.
The city is remarkably healthy, and
the country is reported likewise. With
proper diet, prudence and cleanliness
there reed be no sickness in Florida, and
our summers should be the most healthy
for old and young.
RAILROAD SUITS.
These suits turn up in one way or other
every court, and in consequence are not
what they should be; once settled we
may hope for reformation every way.
General Littlefield still lives and looks
as bland as ever, and, like Mantilini, is
waiting for something to turn up.
Indian river country is fast settling up.
The small steamer has got safely around
there and will run in connection with a
steamer on the St. John’s. A short rail
road is being built to connect across. So
that section will be hereafter accessible to
the settlers and visitors.
Truthful James.
LYNCHING IN INDIANA.
The Victim’* Fate Decided by Ballet.
Indianapolis, Ind., June 26.—Abor
noon on last Tue- day, a negro name
Wm. Keemer, whose depraved ch&ract*
had made him a common pest to tl
society of Hancock county, entered tl
house of Wm. Vaughn, while the me
were engaged at work in an adjoinir
field, and brutally outraged the sick wil
of the householder. Vaughn’s farn
house stands in Hancock county, in whi.
is called Blue River township, about mic
way between Rushville and Greenfield
Mrs. Vaughn is a young woman, scarce!,
twenty-three years old, and is the mothe.
of one small child, who was her onh
companion when the brute entered hei
home, at the time the deed was com
mitted. Left entirely defenceless, ant
in a prostrated, nervous state, tht
brave young wife battled nobly as sht
could for her honor, but the struggle was
a hopeless one. The negro accomplished
his purpose, and the wife is now in such
great danger that her recovery is almost
out of the question. The husband was
first warned of his wife’s danger by the
calls of the little child, who realized that
violence was being attempted, and who
shouted over the field that a man was
killing his mother. With the speed of
lightning, William Vaughn reached his
home. He understood what outrage had
been inflicted, and seizing his revolver,
started for the fugitive in hot pur
suit. He fired three times at the
negro, but not iujuring him, called
upon the neighbors to assist in the
pursuit. The villain was captured finally,
and taken first to Rushville, but removed
on Thursday night to Greenfield. On
Friday evening a party of men assembled
on the Rushville pike, and, after march
ing in a body to the Greenfield Fair
Grounds, a consultation was held, when
the chief of the party announced that they
would deoide the victim’s death by ballot.
Two methods were proposed, one by
hanging, and the other by cutting up
piece-meal. The vote was taken, and the
result announced that ninety voted for
the rope, and seventy for the knife.
Seventy men were then left on the
Fair Grounds as a guard, while the bal
ance moved toward the jail, to which
they easily gained an entrance, dragged
the prisoner forth and marched back to
the Fair Grounds, where the guards
joined the party, and the deed was soon
finished. A rope was thrown over a rafter
of Floral Hall, and tied around the vil
lain’s neck. When the wagon was backed
in, he simply said : “Men, you are doing
wrong,” and then submitted stolidly to
his dreadful fate. The wagon was driven
out from under him, he swung at the
rope’s end, and with his feet only a few
inches from the ground, and at the end
of twenty minutes he was dead.
When the deed was over the chief
pinned unto the negro’s coat the follow
ing verdict:
“It is the verdict of 160 men of Han
cock, Ruck and Shelby, that his life is
inadequate to meet the demands of jus
tice.”
Then the leader turned to the violent
ranks and said:
‘Whoever discloses what has occurred
here this night meets the same fate, at
the same place, whether he be white or
black. This is done to protect the honor
of our wives, and we believe God will
justify us in the deed.”
Central & Southwestern
Railroads.
Savannah. Ga_, June 20, 1975.
O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, JUNE 20th. Pas
senger Trains on the Centra! and South
western Railroads and Branches will run as fol
lows :
TRAIN NO. 1, GOING NORTH AND WEST.
Leaves Savannah 9:15 A. M
Leaves Augusta 9:06 A. M
Arrives at August*. 4:00 P. M
Arrive* at Macon 6:45 P. M
Leave* Macon tor Colombo* &15 P. M
Leaves Macoa for Atlanta 9:16 P. M
Arrive* at Colombo* 1:45 A. M
Arrive* at Atlanta .*. 5:02 A. M
Milking close connections at Columbos with
Western Railroad for Montgomery. Mobile, New
Orleans, etc. Sleeping cars run through Macon
to Montgomery. At Atlanta with Western and
Atlantic, and Atlanta and Richmond Air Line for
all points North and Northwest.
COMING SOUTH AND EAST.
Leave* Atlanta ..............10:40 P. M
Arrive* at Macon irom Atlanta... 5:45 A. M
fMacon
7.00 A. M
Leaves Augusta.....
Arrives at MilledgevlDe
Arrives at Eatonton
9:06 A. M
*44 A. M
11:30 A. M
Arrives at Augusta
4:00 P.M
A rrivM* at Savannah
5:25 P. M
TRAIN NO. 2, GOING NORTH AND WEST
Leave* Savannah - 7:30 P. M
a Ann: a?a _ S:05 P. M
Arrives at Augusta
Arrive* at Milfedgevilie
Arrive* at Eatouton
6:00 A. M
9:44 A. M
11:3CA. M
Arrivpf jht 14ruvin ...
S:00 A. M
Leaves Macon for Columbus
9:2? A. M
iMvra MaCO n for Bnfanla ....
»:10 a. M
Leaves Macon for Albany
Leaves Macon for Atlanta
9:10 A. M
8:40 A. M
7:15 P. M
Arrives at Eufaula
6:17 P. M
Arrives at Albany
4.-00P. M
An engine has been invented in Paris
which is driven by the alternate expan
sion and contraction of oil or same other
liquid, contained in cylinders. The
liquid is heated so as to expand by the
application of hot water passing through
small tubes, and cooled so as to contract
by means of a refrigerating mixture
similarly applied.
1 *—; 9k i—f
At Bomroy, Ohio, on Saturday, Jacob
Honshur unsuccessfully attempted to kill
his wife by shooting, and then shot him
self through the head and died instantly.
No cause assigned.
The Popnlation of Bombay.
The Tall Mall Gazette says : “Bom
bay is said to take the place of only
fourth in point of population among the
dozen different provinces that obey the
supreme government of India. But the
census statistics just published show that
it rauks high according to the European
standard, coming, in fact, but little be
hind the great powers, and quite equal
ling Italy. The numbers given are
25,086,318; and there are just 110 males
to 100 females, taking the presidency
throughout; a disproportion, no doubt,
due to neglect, if not something
more, of infants of the weaker
sex. There are no fewer than
286 towns with a population of
over 5,000 souls and 44,592 villages. Of
the total population of 4,100,000, nearly
one-sixth—644,000—are collected in Bom
bay itself, which has become, under our
rule and the effects of rapidly increasing
trade, one of the largest and most popu
lous cities of the world. Statistics fail
usually to convey any clear notion of the
domestic life of a people; but those we
are noticing show one distinct analogy
between the experiences of England and
India, for, whereas throughout the pres
idency the proportion of inhabitants to
each house is remarkably moderate, only
four and a half persons on an average to
a dwelling, in the capital, owiug to
the building of larger houses aud more
pressure ou them, this proportion rises to
over twenty. Passing on to education,
while the returns give 1,276,000 as able
to read and write, a striking proof of the
tendency of Oriental customs to keep
women ignorant is in the statement that
not quite 37,000 females are among the
number of persons able to do so. Lastly,
as to religion, tbe particulars given for
the town of Bombay are very instructive,
more especially when it is remembered
how the Mohammedans there lately as
sumed very much the airs of an insulted
State church. Their total, however, is
proved to be but 139,000 of the 644,000
people; while there are 409,000 Hindoos,
15,000 Buddhists and nearly 35,000 Chris
tians; the remaining 46,000 being of
course for the most part the Parsees,
whose criticisms of the Koran give such
offense to the Prophet’s followers.”
The French papers are full of the vari
ous incidents which marked the day of
the Grand Pnx. In the first place it may
be mentioned that twenty-three cases of
sunstroke were reported, two of which
proved instantaneously fatal. Secondly,
seventeen unmuzzled dogs were arrested.
Thirdly, thirty-five pickpockets suffered
a similar fate. Twenty-four were taken
into custody at Longchamps, four in the
Bois de Boulogne, and seven at the Gare
St. Lazare. The majority of these gentle
men were not, as is usually the case, of
British extraction. One of them, an ex
officer of Communist Guards, had long
been “wanted” by the military authorities.
He was caught with his hand in the
pocket of a lady’s dress. On being
searched he was found to have secreted
no fewer than forty-two purses. The
principal winners on the Grand Prix were
the cabmen, one of whom received a fare
of 350f.
Arrivt s at Atlanta .: 290 P. M
Train on this schedule for Columbos, Eufaula,
Atlanta and Albany daily.
Albarv train connects with J tiantic and Gulf
Railroad trains at Albany and wili run through to
Arlington, on Blakely Extension, Mondays, Tues
days,'Thr.rsdays and Fridays.
Trains for Eutaula connect with the Fort
Gaines train at Cuthbert for Fort Gaines daily ex
cept Sunday.
COMING SOUTH AND KaST.
Leave* Atlanta 1:20 P. M
Leave* Columbus 1:30 P. M
Leave* Eufaula S:22 A. 9
Leaves Albany 10.42 A. h.
Arrivts at Macon from Atlanta 6:40 P. M
Arrive* at Macon from Coluinbn* 6:55 P. M
Arrive* at Macon fr’m Eufaula & Albany 5:15 P. M
Leave* Macon 7:35 P. M
Leave* Augusta 9:05 P. M
Arrive* at Augusta 6--00 A. M
Arrive* at Savannah 7:15 A. M
Passengers for Mllledgeville and Eaton ton will
take train No. 2 from Savannah and Augusta, an«l
train No. 1 from point* on the South wee tern Rail
road, Atlanta and Macon. The Milledi^evUle and
Eatonton train runs daily, Mondays excepted.
WILLIAM ROGERS,
General Supt. Central Railroad, Savannah.
VIRGIL POWERS,
Eng. and Supt. Southwestern Railroad, Macon.
jeJl-tf
Atlantic and Guli R. R.
Gxnhrxx Sufxrintxndknt’s Orncx,
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, f
Savannah, May lat, 1976.)
O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, MAY :
Passenger Train* on this Road will run
follows:
NIGHT EXPRESS.
Leave Savannah daily at
Arrive at Jesup **
Arrive at B&inbridge “
I
Arrive at Albany
Arrive at Live Oak
Arrive at Jacksonville
Arrive at Tallahassee
Leave Tallahassee
Leave Jacksonvllie
Leave Live Oak
Leave Albany
Leave Bainbridge
Leave Jesup
Arrive at Savannah
. 4 00 F. M.
. 7:10 P.M.
. 7:45 A.M.
9:20 A.M.
2:56 A.M.
9:05 A. M.
9:25 A. M.
4:30 P.M.
4:00 P. M.
10:06 P. M.
4:10 P.M.
, 5:15 P. M.
5:35 A.M.
S:50 A. M.
Sleeping Car runs through to Jacksonville.
Passenger* for Brunswick take this train. Ar
rive at Brunswick (Sunday excepted) at 10:30 p.n
Leave Brunswick (Sunday excepted) at.2:00 a. n.
Arrive at Savannah (Sunday exceptedjaL^* 50 a. m.
Pas engers from Macon by Macon and Bruns
wick .8:15 a. at. train (Sundays excepted) connect
at Jesup with train for Florida.
Passengers from Florida by this train connect
at Jesup with train arriving in Macon (Sunday* ex
cepted) at 4:401*. ai.
Close connection at Albany with passenger
train* both way* on S. W. K. K.
Train* on B. and A. R. R. h ave jnuction, going
west, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at ll:3u
a. at.
F or Brunswick Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day at 4:50 r. at.
Mail Steamer leave* Bainbiidge for Apalachi
cola every Sunday evening.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN—EASTERN
DIVISION.
Leave Savannah (Sunday excepted) at.. 5:30 A. M.
Arrive at Jesup “ “ at. .11:00 A. M.
Arrive at Dupont “ •* at.. 6:00 P. M.
Leave Dupont “ “ at.. 6:00 A. M.
Leave Jesup “ “ at. .11:45 A. M.
Arrive at Savannah “ *• at.. 5:15 P.M,
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN—WESTERN
DIVISION.
nont
Arrive at Valdosta
Arrive at Guitman
Arrive at Thomasville
Leave Tbtraasvflle
Leave Quitman
Leave v&ldoeta
Arrive at Dupont
9:00 A. M.
M .10:15 A. M.
“.12:15 P. M.
“. 2:10 P. M.
M . 4:08 P. M,
“. 5.-2SP.M,
“. 7:30 P.M.
Great excitement prevails in Crete
owing to the election of a Jewish repre
sentative to the Assembly. Christians
and Mahommedans are equally indignant
at this innovation, and urge that his elec
tion is a breach of the Constitution k which
contains no provision for Jewish repre
sentation. There are, it is alleged, only
forty Jewish families in the Island, and
none of them have any vested interests in
the country. The deputies also complain
that it is unjust to confer a privilege on
these few families which thousands of
Christians at Canea and elsewhere have
for years claimed without avail. A pro
test has been addressed on the subject
by telegraph to the Porte.
A Plucky Student.—The event of
Friday at West Point was the examina
tion of young Hall of the second class,
who was severely injured some time ago
at a cavalry drill, when his horse dashed
him against a tree. The young man was
seated in an arm chair and went through
an examination of three hours very
pluckily, making what the college boys
call a. “dead rush,” that is passing
through each topic of examination almost
without a mistake, his only deficiency
being in tactics, and that, it was believed,
was caused by the fatigue incident upon
a long examination.
Rasters.
POSTERS J
T he morning news job office bw th,
moet extensive aMOrtment of WOOD TTtW
In the South, and we are prepared tovintPMtan
and Show Bula with tho raant diaoueh.' OMaa
bj mail or * _
promptly
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN — ALBANY
DIVISION.
L<*ive Thomasville Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday ai 3:10 P. M.
Arrive at Camilla Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday at 5:40 P. M.
Arrive at Albany Tuesday, Thursday
aud Saturday at 7:50 P. M.
Leave Albany Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday at 9:20 A. M.
Leave Camilla Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday at 11:17 A.M.
Arrive at Thomasville Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday ’ 1:45 P.M.
Connect at Albany with train on Southwestern
Railroad, arriving in Albany at 7;45 a. n.
H. S. HAINES,
my3-tf General Superintendent,
Savannah and Charleston K.R.
Offics Savannah & Charleston R. R. Co^>
Savannah. April 24, 1875. f
O N AND AFTER MONDAY, APRIL 26th,
Passenger Train* on this I toad will run as
follow*:
DAY PASSENGER
FOB CHARLESTON, AUGUSTA, BEAUFORT AND
PORT ROYAL.
Leave Savannah daily at 9:30 A. M.
Arrive at Charleston daily at 4:45 P. M.
Arrive at Augusta 4 6:25 P. M.
Arrive at Beaufort 44 ....2:30 P.M.
Arrive at Port Royal 44 ... .3:00 P. M.
FOR SAVANNAH.
Leave Charleston daily at 9:00 A. M.
Leave Augusta 44 6:00 A. M.
Leave Port Royal 44 9:05 A. M.
Leave Beaufort 44 9:30 A. M.
Arrive at Savannah daily at 3:00 P. M.
Cloee connection made at Charleston for the
North, at Augusta for the West, and at Yemas-
see for stations on the Port Royal Railroad.
Ticket* for sale at R. R. Bren’s Special Ticket
Agtncy, No. 21X Bull street, and at Depot Ticket
Office.
C. C. OLNEY, Agent. C. S. GADSDEN,
ap26-tf Engineer and Superintendent.
gaiutiufl.
PAINTING!
CHRIS. MURPHY.
CHIP. CLASS.
Murphy & Clark,
98 Bryan street, between Drayton and
Abercom Streets,
SAT ANN AH, HA.
HOUSE, SHIP, STEAMBOAT, SIGN AND
Ornam’tal Painters,
OILDIA o,
GRAIN] NU,
MARBLING,
GLAZING
AND
Paper Hanging.
We are prepared to offer estimate* for every de
scription of Painting in as./ part of Georgia,
South Carolina and Fluritia, and guarantee satis
faction in the execution of our work.
We keep always in store a select stock of the
following articles:
PURE ENGLISH B. B. LEAD.
ATLANTIC and all other brand* of LEADS,
OILS, VARNISHRS. PUTTY, BRUSHES.
Furniture, Demar and other VARNISHES pA
up in quart, pint and half pint bottles, ready for
use.
GROUND and ENAMELED GLASS.
8TAINED and PLAIN of various col ora.
Double and single thick French, English and
American GLASS.
GOLD LEAF, BRONZE, Glaaiere’ DIAMONDS.
Machinery OILS, and Axle GREASE.
A select stock of GOLD and PLAIN PAPER
HANGINGS.
Persons desiring work and material is oar line
would do well! o give us a call before going else
where.
PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL
SION WORK
Executed with neatness and dispatch.
PATENT STEP LADDERS.
As the season has set in when noose cleaniag 1*
the order of the day, it can’t be done without a
STEP* LADDER !
The place to get them Light and Durable is at the
Paint and Oil S*ore of
MURPHY & CLARK.
PRICE $2 50 TO $6, ALL SIZES.
Stained to imitate Black Walnut and Lettered
with the purchaser’s name, if desired. oet22-tf
3Watrbf$ and -jfeu’rlrw.
M-W.NEUBURGER,
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER.
A LWAYS keeps a large stock of the latest
styles in fine JEWELRY and WATCHES
at moderate figures to suit the times. Repairing
dene by experienced workmen at short notice.
180 ARYAN STREET. 180
(Sign of City Tune.)