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Affairs in Georgia.
Reports reach ns through our exchangee
from various sections of the State of gener-
0 ,ts rains, which will do an immense amount
of good to the growing crops and dissipate
the fears of the farmers as to the effect of
the 5Iav drought.
Tiie Thomaoville Guards propose to go
j U !o camp for three days some time next
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SAVAjNNAH, TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1877.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
and & few side whiskers Dear the ear and
wearing dark ragged and dirty clothes. The
other white man, about five and a half feet
high, rather light moustache and imperial,
short hair, in shirt sleeves with brown knit
shirt, also dirty.**
The Quitman Free Frets snys: "This sec
tion was viiited by a most delightful and re
freshing shower on Wednesday last. Some
of onr farmers were needing rain very
much, as they had replanted their cotton
where the cut worms had destroyed the
first planting, and the ground was so dry
that the seed would not come up. Crops of
all kinds would soon have been suffering for
rain,and this was indeed a welcome shower.”
!
The encampment will be located
ut ar the town of Thomasville.
The many friends and admirert of Bishop
pierce will be pleased to know that hia
tt altb is improving. The Nashville Adco-
ra < ( ^ays his “ health is greatly improved,
his visit to Nashville ho has been
a remedy for his throat affection from
wind) be has derived great advantage. He
•.vs, ‘My throat is greatly improved—the
c kange for the better is wonderful. I hope
for a complete cure.* ”
The Chattahoochee Mills spun on 2,064
up □ lies 64 bales of cotton—32,000 pounds—
durirg the month of May, the mo9t of
was woven into 4-4 brown sheetings.
The present constitution has been decided
bv the Supreme Court to be a constitution
• ,» up »n the State by act of Congress. We
trud that the decision of the Supreme Court
will be eustained by the people at the elec
ts throughout the State to day, and that a
constitution emanating from the people will
be the result.
The bold burglar is plying his avocation
fiucccd 1 fully io Covington, the bed rooms of
two gentlemen in that town having been en
tered and their pockets rifled of their con-
teats on Saturday night. %
It appears to be a well founded rumor that
the Board of Trustees of the University of
(h g’a have dispensed with a salaried
chM'.cellorshiD, and that the dignity of
honorary chancellor will hereafter be con
ferred from year to year upon the prominent
In -rary gentlemen of the State. There is a
strong movemont on foot among some of the
trustees to replace in the chair Dr. William
L< >y Broun, now professor of mathematics
in Vritiderbiit University.
riK oldest clerk of the court in the State
is claimed to be Mr. Nat Barden, of Harris
county,who has hold that office continuously
from 1836 to the present time. A noble re
cord of integrity and worth. This veteran
officer has stemmed the current of the
caprices and vicissitudes of popular favor
for forty years without reverse.
On the evening of the 5th inst. Mr. N.
Patch, who resides about three miles from
Liihonia, DeKalb county, had the misfor
tune to lose his dwelling, barn and smoko
house by fire.
The Rome Chamber of Commerce held a
very interesting meeting last Thursday.
Tue Secretary read several letters from gen
tlemen at the North and West, making in
quiries aa to the advantages o^ered to
immigrants. One wishes to buy tea thou
sand acres of laud iu a body for a colony of
Germans. Another states that he desires a
locaii'.'ii i *r a colony of two hundred fami
lies. Tnese parties were induced to write
from having seen the pamphlet sent out by
the Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. L. J. Jones contemplates the publica
tion of a new religious journal at Cave
Spring, in the interest of the Congregational
Methodist Church. The first number will
appear about the 10th of July.
A party of bix gentlemen, of Americus,
went to McClelland’s mill pond, in Worth
county, thirty-three miles below Americus,
last week, on a fishing excursion. DuriDg
the two days they remained at the pond
they caught over five hundred brsam,
averaging three fourths of a pound.
Mr. James R. Thurmond, of Jackson
count}', is the head of a family, including
sons-in-law and daughters-in-law, number
ing seventeen persons, none of whom do
now, or ever have usod tobacco in any form.
Is thcro another instance of the kind in the
whole countrv?
The anti-convention men are dabbed
“LMi-wethers*’ in honor of J&ck Boll, one
of the framers of the present constitution.
The Albany Xews says : “ About four
hundred shade trees were set out by the
City Council this spring on the various
<tr.-et?. Marsh? 1 Smith reports nine out of
every ten as Jiving.”
The Atlauta Constitution says: “The City
Attoraeyship will fa.lt upon one of the fol
lowing gentlemen, who are frequently men
tioned m connection with the office: Walter
1. Brown, T. J. Hooka, T. P. Westmoreland,
YV. J. Heyward and Win. Newman.”
The Rockdale Register says: “Cotton and
'oru are both very small m the counties of
Kockdale, Newton and Henry. Late cotton
is dying from dry weather, but if there is
rain soon there will be left a good stand of
both coru aud cotton. Should the rain
commence in a few days, and it continue
seasonable uutil the 1st of September, we
predict better erbps than we have had for
years.”
The Cedartown Express says: “The
sheriff sold fnrtyacre lots of land on Tues
day la i at from two and a half cents per lot
to one dollar and fifty cents. Murder !**
The Dawson journal says : “Mr. Thos. W.
H .mmond, a prominent planter, who re-
bi.ii ■< in the Seventh District of Baker coun
ty. informs us that he has a field of cotton
that will average nearly kneo high, and
T weriog raoidiy. The first bloom made
ns apo'.aiauce on laot Saturday, the 2i in
stant.' Mr. Hammond is a splendid farmer,
and most always gets the first bale into our
market.”
A correspondent from Wadley, Jefferson
county, under date Juno 10th, writes as fol
lows concerning the crop prospects o? that
section: “For eight weeks past we have had
i- ■ rain save two light showers, and wo were
all begiuniog to lear that the dry scourge
• •t 1S75 was again upon u*, but to-day iho
gracious rain discended, giving new life to
ail of binds vegetation. Had the drought
continued longer we could not sum up the
pufferiDg and distress it would have brought
upon us. Co aing to a close now, and with
good seasons from this on, we have the
most flattering prospects. The crops are all
ciean, aud the major part of the wneat and
oat crops are harvested. The. yield of both
these cereals have been very tine and with a
larger acreage than ever before in this sec
tion. The hum and whir of the threshing
Florida Affairs.
A correspondent from Banana, Putnam
county, sends us the following flattering
words concerning the crops and other inter
ests iu that section of the 8tate : “The
weather is warm and dry. Crops are im
proving wonderfully. Corn is about all
through plowing. A greater acreage than
usual was devoted to oats the past winter
and they are now being harvested—the
finest yield ever before known in this com
munity. The new comers still arrive. They
cannot wait . itil usual winter travel, but
have been coming all the spring.”
J. W. Menard (colored), of Florida, is an
applicant for an appointment as Consul to
ooe of the South American ports.
The Lunatic Asylum at Chattahoochee is
almost ready for the reception of inmates.
So says Adjutant General Dickinson, who
has been looking after the interests of the
State in that section.
Mr. B. Genovar, of St. Augustine, is quite
extensively engaged in the manufacture of
orange wine. He commenced this branch
of industry about four years ago as an ex
periment, bat his perfect sacoess and the
increasing demand for this popular brand,
induced him to enlarge his facilities for its
manufacture. Last season he made forty
barrels, and it is his purpose to continue
this business in the future on a large scale.
The Pensacola Herald gives an account of
the suicide of a colored woman who had
been an occupant of one of the bagnios in
that city, and who but a day or two previous
attempted to end her life by taking lauda
num, failing in which she boarded the
steamer Lizzie, for New Orleans, aud when
about seven miies out leaped overboard and
drowned herself. The steamer put ba -kto
the navy yard and .telegraphed the fact to
the city.
The Florida Central Riilroad litigation
having attracted much attention because of
the connection of the State of Florida with
the proceedings, we publish the order of
Judge Archibald, passed at Chambers in
Jacksonville on the 9th instant, restoring
the road to the possession of the company:
In the Fourth Judicial Circuit Court, Du
val county, Florida.—Iu the matter of
application for possession of the Florida
,. rr . » .1 rt T.,
Pennsylvania Railroad Company will take
$20,000 from the lumber company.'’
The Pensacola Gazette gives the following
aocount of the reception of Governor Drew,
on his recent visit to that citv: “Geo. F.
Drew, Governor of the State of Florida, ar
rived in the city by last evening’s train. A
large concourse of citizens weie at the de
pot to give him a he&rtv welcome, and he
was received with military honors by the
Escambia Rides, Capt. Moreno commanding,
who afterwards escorted the carriage whicn
the Governor and Senator Jones occupied in
its progress through the streets. Just after
leaving the depot the procession was met
by the Batter Guards, who presented arms
as it passed aud fell in as a rear gaard.
Arrived at the Santa Rosa Hotel the
Rides and Guards formed in line;
the Governor alighted. and after
having passed down the line
in informal inspection, complimented the
representatives of the Penaacoia militia in
terms of high praise. The whole event was
very pleasant in every respect, and tho wel
coming crowds that thronged the streets
through which the Governor passed, suffici
ently indicated the estimation of the people
of Pensacola—perhaps the most important
city of his domain, thongh there be others
that opt con ut her "on the census book.”
The Pensacola Herald save : “ The ele
gant reception laet night at the hospita
ble mansion of Captain Alexander Grant,
in honor of Governor Drew aDd Senator
Jones, was decidedly the most recherche
affair of the season. The Governor having
been unexpectedly called away by a tele
gram, was represented by Senator Jones.
The honors of the house, at the fair hands
of Mrs. aud Miss Grant, seconded by the
able services of Captain and Mr. Joseph
Grant, were handsomely and elegantly dis
pensed. The table was laden with every
delicacy for the palate, and beautiful deco
rations attractive to the eye of taste aDd
cultnre, that could be imagined. The fan d
of infinite enjoyment was not even exhausted
at a late hour, when the heavy hours of
night began to yield before the light ones—
‘when the clock struck one.’ The party
dispersed, and will remember long the
pleasant occasion, regretting, however, the
absence of the bland smile aDd engaging
conversation and manner of His Excellency
the Governor of our great commonwealth.”
THE CONTENTION.
A MORAL SUICIDE.
He Leaven Hi. Boy of Fourteen to “Take
illy Example no a Warning.
Centra! Railroad Company, held by Jo
seph H. Durkee, Master and Receiver.
“This application comiDg on to be heard
upon a rule on the said Joseph H. Durkee
to show cause whv the petition filed by the
Florida Central Railroad Company praying
an order for possession of the railroad
should not be granted, the answer of said
Durkee having been filed by his attorney,
John A. Heuder-OD, and the argument of
conn set having been heard upon the peti
tion and answer filed, it appearing to the
satisfaction of the court that the said com
pany, organized as set forth in said petition,
is entitled to the possession of said railroad
as therein prayed.
“It is therefore ordered that the said
Joseph H. Durkee, Receiver, be and is here
by authorized and required to deliver forth
with the said Florida Central Railroad, its
depots, rolling stock, properties, monies and
credits now in bis possession, management
and control, to Edward M. L'Eogle, Presi
dent of said Board of directors of said eom-
parv, except as to the money and credits,
which he is authorized and required to turn
over and deliver to the Pre.ident of said
company at as early a day as may he con
sistent with the proper adjustment and set
tlement of his accounts. And it is farther
ordered that said Joseph H. Dnrkee have
thirty days for the final settlement of his
accounts with said company.
“ At chambers, Jacksonville, Florida, June
9th, 1877.
“ [Signed] R. R. Archibald, Jndge.”
There seems to be some hitch in reference
to the property and funds belonging to the
Florida Agricultural College fund.
An aot of the last Legislature au
thorized the organization of the Board
of Corporators, which, it seems,
has met and organized in pursuance of that
act, and of which board Hon. Walter GwynD,
of Tallahassee, is Treasurer. John Yarnum,
of Gainesville, also claims to be Treasurer
of the Florida 8t*te Agricultural College.
The former has made an official demand for
the debts, property, etc., belonging to the
Agricultural College, to which demand the
latter has responded as follows:
“U. s. Land Office. 1
“Gainesville, Fla., May 24, 1877. j
“lion. Walter Gicynn, Tallahassee, Fia.:
“Deab Sib—I am in receipt of a commu
nication from you, dated the 14th inst.,
statiog that the Board of Corporators of the
Florida Agricultural College, having organ
ized under an act of the Legislature,
approved March 17. 1877, had passed a reso
lution directing you, a6 their Treasurer, to
inform me that you are now authorized to
receive all property and deb s belonging to
the Agricnltnral College fund, and request
ing me to turn then over to yon, etc., etc-,
signing yourself Treasurer of the Florida
Agricultural College. In answer, I beg to
sav that I have been prevented from making
an earlier reply both by my duties here and
the careful consideration your letter de
manded.
“As Treasurer of the Florida State Agri
cultural College, I am, and have always
been, directed and governed by the Board
of Trustees of the institution. I have not
the power to pay out, transfer, or receive
monev or other preperty whatever without
their direction or consent.
“Until, therefore, I am instructed by them
in the matter, I decline to comply with your
request to transfer to you the property of
the Agricultural College.
“ As a trustee of the college, I emphati
cally deny the power of the Legislature of
Florida, under the Constitution of the
United States, to pass any law of the nature
of that under which you assume to act.
“ Very respectfully)
“(Signed) JohnYarncm,
“Treas’r Florida State Agricn’l College.”
For the information of seekers after home
steads we state upon authority that “it is
no longer necessary for homestead settlers
to appear in person at the District Land
Offioe to make final proof, in case of com
mutation, or at the expiration of five years.
The person can appear before the Judge of
the Circuit Court with his witnesses and
swear to the prescribed forms as used here
tofore. The papers and fees must be left
with the Judge, to be transmitted to the
Diatriet Land Offioe by him.”
The Pensacola Gazette says : “Senator C.
W Jonos arrived from Washington by Fri
day night’s train and has been very warmly
welcomed bv his constituency. The ability
with which he has discharged bis official du
ties has commended him to the esteem o,
people in ail parts of the State.”
We find the following in the New York
Sun of the P.h inst: “The Si. Miry’s River
Lumber C mpany is a corporation in the
ytate of Florida, whose stockholders
nearlv all Northern capitalists,
The following is a translation of the
letter left by A. W. Holbert, the Swedish
waiter, who shot himself at No. 398
Fourth avenue :
New Yobk, June 2, 1877.
My Deab Axel : It gives me much pain
to inform you about the act I am about to
commit. My constitution is entirely
broken down, and Ido not see any way to
escape from my difficulties daring the
rest of my life. I am unable to provide a
living for myself or to help you along any
further. Instead of passing the rest of
my days in a hospital or poor house, I
prefer to take my own life. Try to bear
this calamity lightly, and don’t take it too
much to heart. Endeavor to lead a pure
life, and treat every one properly, doing
only what is right. Then, I
hope, God will help yon, and
you prove to be a good citizen,
succeed better than I have, and fare bet
ter here and hereafter. I have written to
Wilson and Collin and asked them to as
sist yon as much as they caD, and I have
requested Mr. Dilden to help you to write
toyonrUnole Adoiph. I suppose many
will ask the reason why I take my own
life. You may only tell them that I was
in such poor health that I could not earn
my own living any longer. I leavo these
directions to you. Take my example as
a warning your whole life through, and
if you should encounter misf ortunes and
things look dark have patience
and trust in God. I had a gentle and
Christian bringing up in my native home,
but I neglected to profit by it. I know
that I have tried to do my best since I took
charge of you. If you should perchance
meet your uncle Adolph tell him that my
last farewell was to you and him. I will
also a<k you to remember another thing
whioh is of great imprtanee in this life
for a young man, to be prudent and self-
restrained, be temperate and chaste, and
if you are too young to understand these
simple teachings, keep these lines in
memory of your unfortunate father. I
had much more to tell you, but I am too
tired to write it, and will only sign my
last farewell. Your Fatheb
P. S.—You will see that I have had
many sorrowful nights before I took this
step, and I hope God will forgive me.
two --
I aqu reports received from various partic-s
x'f- believe the rain which fell to-day to have
beea general over this section.”
The Rome Courier says: “Col. W. A.
Shorter, of Atlanta, when stepping from
the train at K-ngston la-t Thursday,
•everely sprained his left ankle. He is now
confined to his room at the Choice Hotel.”
A Georgia farmer of much experience
fays: ‘‘The exoerience of the past is that
good crops almost invariably succeed a
drought iu May. The roots go deep into
the ground in search of moisture, whereas
if a wet season prevails daring the early
growth of the plants, their rootB come near
the surface, and a succeeding drought finds
them without adequate resources upon.
"■Inch they may draw tor supplies, and they,
arc consequently blighted and dwarfed.”
The Dawson Weekly Journal has the fol
lowing : “Two white tramps came to R. C.
Martin’s store, at Brown’s Station, about
ten o’clock last nigbt.l One seized Sam Den
ton, the clerk, by the throat and held him
»hile the other took the money drawer
from under the counter and ran out. The
ether immediately released Mr. Denton and
both ran off, dropping the money drawer
about twenty steps from the door after taking
>‘ts contents. The descriptions of these
' hold rascals are as follows: One white man
abont five feet nine inches high, spare made,
dark complected,long black hair, moustache
are
It was first
- - - -- brouebt into prominence by the alleged de
ni) bines can be heard in every direction f-i ca tioa of Gnief Engineer Howell, of tne
Pennsylvania Railroad Company,, who, it
* J . .. .t - bon frnr
completing the garnering of the golden ... . jt
Sr&in. Corn is small, but looking well. , t the money taken from the ra.l-
Cotton is as good as could be expected after intn the assets of the lumber
! iiecool nights iu Mav and the hot, dry days
'f the past two weeks. From indications
road company into the assets of the
oompany, of which he was a large stock-
hbUer The lumber company was or
ganized from the firm of F. G. lViutmg
,t Go. lumber dealers, who induced a
number or capitalists to form the
stock companv. Whiting was made General
Superintendent. On the mveatigauon m-
ctitntaH to ascertain the amount that uoweu
^wed the Pean "ylvania Railroad Company it
discovered that Whiting was a defaulter
p^he extendi nearly $18,000.^ The books
are examined the amount of ^
will be found to be greater The directors
granted an order enjoining fr0 .“
felling or transferring ^ m^t jersey'
Whiting owns no real estate in New Jersey,
hut he is the proprietor of a large mill n
Florida which, the plaintiffs say, was built
aid maintained with the money belonging
to the lumber company. It is the intention
if the directors to make the injunction ope-
^ Wednesday°as °he tras
arrested Whiting ODin ^w ^ Jerge;J . Clt?>
T11 ahe B i a h now in the Hndson county jail. It
U^Unifted that Howell’s restitution to the
To the Expressmen.
[From the Inland liagazlne.]
Everybody is indebted—directly, or
indirectly—to the express system of this
country for many of the luxuries of living
as well as what are now considered the
necessaries of life, also. The service, as
at present carried on, is very nearly per
fect in all its ramifications, and under
takes to do for you, ssfely and expedi
tiously, everything and anything that
could be performed at the hands of
another.
Do yon want some one to guard your
money on its perilous journey by rail?
The faithful express messenger stands
ready to do it. He does it, often, at the
risk of life. Hi. honor, as a trusty agent,
is at stake. His reputation for probity
and pluck rests on the vigilance with
which he performs the part assigned him.
In a certain sense, he is like a soldier on
sentinel duty when the enemy is in front
tryiDg to break the line. The companies
do their utmost to instill this idea
of responsibility and this chival
rous code of honor into every sub
ordinate. The result shows their
success. Once in a way there appeirs a
Judas in their ranks; occasionally a rob
ber runs away with the valuables given to
his keeping. But they are the exceptions.
The rule shows a long list of faithful and
generous men, untarnished in name, tak
ing pride in their honorable calling, and
holding themselves up to the high stan
dard marked out for them. All highways
of travel are garrisoned and patrolled by
the express companies—from the rocky
passes and heavy grades of the Pacific
slope canons to the continuous steel rail
of the prairies and the more east
ern East. Wells, Fargo & Co.
stand guard over the Rockies,
the Southern Express Company
holds sway in the South, the “American,”
is the lion of the Northwest and New
England, while tho “Adams,” the “Uni
ted States” and others touch the pulse of
traffic and wait upon the wish of the
public from the shores of Long Island
hitherward.
All kinds of valuable service are per
formed by them—including 6afe trans
portation of the Inland Magazine. At
your pleasure they officiate as bankers,
brokers and commission merchants.
“They receive every class of paper for
collection. They carry deeds, mortgages
and other documents; have them execu
ted and recorded Bad returned to consig
nors. They pay taxes an property thou
sands of miles away.” They bring
your dead from distant aDd
forgotten corners of the world, or
from battle-fields, it may be, for
the last sad offerings of love, the
last mournful rites of earth. _ In
these and a multitude of other services
they offer “ ample security for the faith
ful performance of any trust committed
to their charge.”
Quite recently the expressmen have
ODened their ranks to the admission of
women and extended to them generoas
welcome. „ , ,
Two young ladies in Nebraska and two
in Oh'o appear on the list of express
agents, and evidently understand their
business. For these and for the mothers,
wives, daughters and sisters of the ex-
of account in Florida have not yet been gsm such organizations as the Mu
examine,1, and it is believed that ’Then th^y Assoclatjon and the Aid So
ciety stand like the rock and well-spring
in the desert, the shelter in the storni,
the shadow of the mountain in a torrid
dime. Garry forward your noble work
and while you are doing it we give you
our God speed- words of praise for the
past; words of cheer for the future 1
a minister in the
Speech ot Hon. B. H. Hill.
On Saturday night a large audience as
sembled in the Hall of the House of Rep
resentatives to hear an address from Hon.
B. H. Hill upon the convention question.
The following is the report of Mr. Hill’s
speech as given by the Constitution of
Sunday:
Fellow-citizens: As the Chairman ot the
meeting has said, we have come together
as a portion of the citizens of Atlanta,
as I understand it, for the purpose of
simply interchanging views as to the pro
per course, especially, for the people of
this city to pursue in the election on next
Tuesday. It was in view of the fact that
in my judgment the relations of the citi
zens of Atlanta to this subject were more
peculiar than those of any other people
of the State that induced me to be here
to-night, and give you my views. Of
course nothing like a speech is expected.
It is simply to express our views as to the
course we should pursue, and our reasons
therefor. It is a question iu which we all
have an interest. All the citizens of
Georgia have an interest in it, and we of
Atlanta especially should make no mis
take, and upon that question there should
be no party line or controversy. We
should simply get together and arrive at
a pro; er conclusion as to onr position
upon this question in which we all have
the same interest. It is unfortunate if
anything has been done to draw any lines
of any kind. This is a question of gov
ernment in which I think we are all in
terested alike, without regard to race,
or color, or previous condition of servi
tude. I shall entertain yon bnt a short
while in expressing my views; and that
yon may understand me in my advice to
the people of Atlanta, I shall make first
a few general remarks upon the subject
of the convention and its propriety.
YV 3 of this generation are beginning
what, in my judgment, ia perhaps the
most interesting period in the history of
popular government, not only in this
oountry, but in any age and any country.
The 6ra of popular free government upon
which we are now entering is just as dis
tinct as that whioh began in 1787 and
ended in 1860, aud as that was from the
era of the confederation, or the era of the
confederation from that of colonial his
tory. In my opinion, ws are entering
upon a new era, and this era has been
brought about and inaugurated by the
most extraordinary events. The revolu
tion through which we have just
passed was in many respects the
most remarkable in human annals.
We who took part in it even do not yet
realize its magnitude. The war was but
one feature of that revolution. It ex
isted for thirty years before the war, and
the seeds of it were planted in the Cousti
tion of 1797. Whether they were wisely
qr unwisely planted and allowed to ger
minate and bear such fruits as they did
is not now the question. That revoln
tion, my friends—I experience a sincere
happiness when I say it—has ended. It
has ended as I feared it would not end.
It has ended leaving our free popular
government and our constitutional sya
tern still in life and still in vigor. I was
apprehensive duriDg the whole period of
its existence that it would end in the en
tire destruction of what is known as the
American system of constitutional gov
ernment.
[Mr. Hill then proceeded to cite the
results of the recent conflicts, both of the
civil war and of the electoral count. The
results of the former he declared to be
settled, and permanently so, and be de
clared that no man cm be a statesman in
the future who would seek to unsettle the
issues that were settled in the war, nor
could be deemed a patriot who would
seek to keep alive the hates and passions
engendered by the war. Bat he declared
that the results settled by the war were
one thing end the consequences of
the revolution quite another thiDg. There
are many consequences of that revolu
tion still upon us, and our duty is to
adapt ourselves to them in the wisest
manner possible. He referred to the res
toration of constitutional government to
the people of the Southern States, and to
the exhibitions made in the electoral con
test of loyalty to the Union upon the
part of the South, and the adherence of
the Republican leaders to the strictest
doctrines of States rights. He then spoke
of the Legislature, deeming this a proper
time for the holding of a Constitutional
Convention, aud upon the subject of a
convention said:]
I think every man ia Georgia ought to
vote for a convention. [Applause.] Now
for the reason that controls me, and I
speak first to all Georgians. One thing
is certain, and that is, that a large pro
portion of the people of Georgia will
never he satisfied until they do have a
convention and a new constitution.
Now, it is all important in the great work
before us that wo should begin with the
fundamental lew, with which our whole
people are satisfied. The men who are
moving in this matter will continue the
agitation of it until they do get it. You
will look that fact in the face, and,
whether you agree with them or not, you
will realize the fact that this dissatisfac
tion exists, and will continue to exist
until this convention is held. Suppose
you defeat the convention now—will that
end it ? I tell you it will not.
It will be an issue in the next
legislative elections, and hills will
be introduced here in this very house
and discussions of the subject will con
tinue until they will have it. You say it
will be expensive. The Legislature has
appropriated twenty-five thousand dollars
for this purpose, and I think it will be
ample; but the discussion of the question
here in this hall will annually cost the
State more than this convention. Now,
then, I say that whether the reasons that
create thin dissatisfaction are or are not,
in your judgment, right, makes no differ
ence. The dissatisfaction will continue,
and he is unwise who thinks it right to
force upon the people of Georgia a con
stitution with which they are not satis
fied. But, fellow citizens, the reasons
for this dissatisfaction are such
as excite the respect of every
man. They exist with a great
majority cf the educated, property
holding men of the State. It
is not reasonable that that class
would be dissatisfied with anything
that should lie satisfactory. This fact
should make you think the reasons wor
thy of consideration. The reasons are
such as oome home to every reflecting
mind, and commend themselves to very
great respect. The first reasons that this
constitution was not made when yon
were in a state of freedom. The funda -
mental principle of our government is
that the people shall have a right to frame
their own organic law. This constitution
was not framed under an aot passed by a
Legislature of this State, but under an
act passed by Congress. Congress took
charge of the matter and called this con
vention, prescribed the qualifications of
voters, aud took upon itself to disqualify
about twenty thousand of the best men
in Georgia, and to prohibit them from
taking part in the making of that consti
tution. Now, you men who talk about
popular and free government—don’t you
respect the man who comes oat and
says, “I am unwilling to recog
nize as the constitution of my
State a constitution that was made
when twenty thousand of her best citi
zens were not allowed to take part in the
construction. While it may be true that
it was submitted back to the people at a
qualified election, yet if it was adopted
then it was not yours, for there was a
cause that it must be satisfactory to the
Congress of the United States. That is
one reason, and if you are an advocate of
popular government, then yon cannot say
white people of the State did not have a
right to participate. Isn’t it right that
yon should be against this one for like ;
and were gradually coming to a right
view of their relations with the people of
the South, He closed as follows :]
reason that pat you against the other, j The future of this South is going to be
This constitnacn is at war with every better, brighter, nobler and higher as
principle of popular governments. It is time goes on, and if we will he wise,
THE TERRIBLE TORNADO.
Fuller Detail*—A Horrible l.ull la the
utorai—Sketch of the Town ot -Mount
Carmel.
an insalt and a discredit to every man in
Georgia, because the reason why these
twenty thousand men were disfranchised
was because they had served you. Isn't
it a standing insult to yon and to every
man in Georgia, that because they served
you they were punished for it. And, my
prudent, true and firm—cling to the !
Union as it is—the day is not far distant
when you will be the controlling power
in this government to the great good ot
everybody in the UnioD, and no one from
the Pacific to the Atlantic, from the lakes
to the gulf, will have better cause to he
friends, you will never be able to get the glad that the South has come to save con-
' ' ‘ ’ * " " ” ’ ’ stitntional government to this people
than the men who have been deriding ns
for two decades past. Great applause.
“But I pass,” said
west end, one Sunday, in dismissing ona
theme of his subject to take up another.
“ Then T make it 6pades! yelled a man
from the gallery who was dreaming the
happy hours away in an imaginary game
of euchre. It is needless to say he went
out on the next deal, being assisted by
one of the deacons with a full hand of
olnbs.
that it is right to force upon the pecfple
of Georgia a constitution made in such a
manner and under such restrictions. If
the Republicans act at all from principle,
provided they have any principles at all
to act upon, they Bbould vote for a con
vention. You made a fuss about the con
stitution becanse tne colored men did not
have aright to vote and a voice in the mak
ing of it, and yet you made one, in the
construction of which a large portion of the
intelligent people of Georgia satisfied
with a constitution thus framed, nntil
they are unworthy to be freemen, and
then i; matters little whether they have
one or not.
Another reason is, that a great many
people in Georgia are never going to be
satisfied with this constitution, becan e
it denounces the late war as a rebellion
and all who took part in it as traitors. I
kaow that a party that tries to overthrow
a government and fails are called by the
outside worlds “rebels.” I do not care
for what the outside world may say, but
are you going to have your own funda
mental law denounce you as snch’ Are
you going to call yourselves traitors?
Does anybody require that yon should ?
Yon say it is a sentiment. Ah! it is a
sentiment without which no man can feel
manly. Let others call ns “rebels”—let
the outside world do it; but will we call
ourselves ‘"rebels?” and will we[put it m
our own fundamental law and keep it
there? It is a stigma upon your dead.
What a mockery it is for you to have
your annual decoration, when your
fundamental law says they are “rebels”
and traitors whom you thus honor ! It
is an outrage and an impeachment of
your civilization as u people. You have
submitted to it heretofore because this _
constitution was not of your making, but 1
was forced upon you by the bayonet.
History will not blame you for the past;
but now if you adopt it, you become re
sponsible for it.
Mr. Hill next insisted that the Repub
licans who claimed that they were forced
to their part in the making of this consti
tution by compulsion from Washington,
had no longer that excuse, and should
redeem themselves in this election by
voting for the convention. He also said
that it seems impossible to have a cheap
administration of the government under
this constitution. We have both sorts—
Republican and Democratic—and all were
shamefully extravagant. He cited the
fact that a Democratic Legislature paid
twenty-seven thousand dollars for clerk
hire in one year, and declared this ex
hibit to be shocking. For all this extrav
agance the plea was the looseness of the
present constitution, and he favored the
adoption of a new constitution, so that
it could no longer be blamed for these
things. Mr. HiU then continued :
My friends in Atlanta, let me say a few
words to you: However other people
vote, in my honest opinion every single
man in Atlanta should vote for a conven
tion. I wish that on next Tuesday in
this city the vote for it coaid be unani
mous. If you do not vote for a conven
tion the world will do you the justice to
say that you did not vote against it be
cause you loved the present constitution,
for they know you do not. They know
that you voted against its ratification ;
bnt they will say you did it because you
are afraid of losing the capital, and that
you are willing to keep this constitution
upon the people of Georgia rather than
lose the capital. That is not right—not
like high-minded people. They will say
that you, for a selfish motive, will keep
upon the people of Georgia that, which
the people hate. Yon cannot ac
complish it. Suppose that you vote
it down now—it will come up again, and
you will only have postponed it. Sup
pose that you vote against it and the bal
ance of the State vote for it—how will
you stand then ? Atlanta will he put
down as an enemy to tiie convention, and
that convention will have the power to
make the removal. If the convention is
to carry, you should put yourselves in ac
cord with it, and have yonr members there
who are in accord with a majority of that
convention. Don’t put yourselves in a
wrong position. Suppose the halanoe of
the State vote it down—you will have
done no harm in having voted for it. A
kind, intelligent gentleman, who is usu
ally correct in his political opinions,
said to me the other day, if Atlanta
votes against it, heT vote may defeat it.
That is the very worst thing that
could happen to you, because if your vote
being against it, defeats the convention,
every man who helps to contribute a ma
jority of the people of Georgia outside
will feel that you have kept upon the peo
ple of the State that which a majority of
them wanted to get rid of, and solely that
you might keep the capital here. It
would make every friend of the conven
tion in Georgia your direct enemy. It
would be an unwise thing for you to do.
I talk frankly and solely for the good of
the city. I have some warm friends who
have differed with me thus far in this
matter. Some of them have their names
upon an opposition ticket, hut I hope you
will reconsider it and have it out of the
field before Tuesday. Let us withdraw
it, and let everybody vote for one ticket
aud for the convention. [Applauee.] My
own opinion is that so far as the capital is
concerned, it makes very little difference,
and I have no idea that, unless you put
yourselves in a position to invite the issne,
it will be made at all. Y’on do not want
all this agitation. If Atlanta is going to
have the capital, let her know it. If
they are going to take it away from At
lanta, why let the agitation cease? This
convention is going to be upon the basis
of population, and you will have a better
representation in it than in a convention
called in any other manner. This desire
for a new constitution is the highest
feeling that can actuate mankind. It is a
feeling that actuates thousands of our
best people, who are determined to have
a new constitution, and it will not do for
yon to be against it. I tell you that the
men in Georgia who have this feeling are
destined to be the future rnlers of this
country. It is no use to shut your eyes
to this fact. They are men who possess
intelligence—who have property, who
love the traditions of the past: who love
the memories of the dead; who have a
keen sense of the honor of the future;
and I tell you it i3 not iu your power to
keep such men down. [Applause.]
You may, for temporary rea
sons, with transient expedience,
with false views, for a time postpone this
work, but yon cannot conquer it—you
cannot defeat it—you cannot destroy it
until you destroy the highest elements of
manhood in the citizens of Georgia. [Ap
plause.] Look at it straight in the race.
Come up, and let ns every one vote for a
convention. Then, every man who is in
favor of a convention is yonr friend, and
will feel that you are in accord with it. I
will not take your time talking about the
thousand things that are to be put in the
constitution. Look at the great sub
ject—the controlling motive—and leave
the details to be fixed by the members of
the convention. I tell yon a conven
tion which shall be presided over
by that grand specimen of human
civilization, Charlee J. Jenkins, of
Augusta, will be better than a
convention in which Aaron Alpeoria
Bradley was the greatest leader. Bat
suppose that the men who came to this
convention should be unable to frame a
better constitution than Aaron Alpeoria
Bradley & Co. did—they mast submit it
for your ratification, and if they frame a
better one than j ou have got you can take
it, and if they make a worse one you
needn’t take it; and you need not have
any fear that it will not be submitted for
yonr ratification, according to the ex
pressed will of the Legislature. A great
many are against it becanse it will dis
turb some of the official relations under
the present constitution, bnt the idea of
pleading the tenures of a little office—the
tenure of a few days or a few months—as
a reason for not elevating a stigma from
your living and dead, is an outrage. Come
up and do your duty like men, and I
guarantee yon shall come out all right.
[Mr. Hill then ridiculed the idea of th9
rights of the oolored people being disre
garded in the new constitution, claiming
that they were valuable to the South iu
an increase of political representation,
A Just Estimate of Grant as a Soldier
by a Northerner.
[From the Chicago Times, 29th ult]
The Tribune on Sunday informed the
oountry that Grant never lost a battle.
As Grant was licked at Belmont, and
again at Shiloh, and suffered two disas
trous repulses in his assaults in May,
1863. before v icksburg. it is seen that
the Tribune’s assertion is somewhat at va
riance with the facts. The strategist of
that 6heet asserts that Grant's “theory
was that a battle should always cost the
enemy more than it cost him." and yet it
is the fact that just the reverse is the
truth. Grant was always wifliDg to lose
three men in order to kill one
of the enemy, basing his willing
ness upon his celebrated utterance
that his “cat’s tail” was the “longest.”
Had Grant not been possessed of more
than twice as many men as Lee the
latter might have taken Washington in
place of the former taking Richmond. It
was four to one that drove Lee back ; and
even then Richmond would scarcely have
been taken had not Sherman commenced
moving from the South. Grant was not
a strategist in any sense of the word. All
he knew of war was to keep “hammer
ing ” away, conscious only of the fact
that in the end superiority in numbers
and in supplies mast give saocess. Ia
truth, our late war, outside of Sherman’s
Atlanta campaign, had vary little strategy
in it. In nearly all other instances it was
simply a case of give and take, in which
not gameness, but weight, had the best
of it.
Von Moltke is credited with sayins that
our war was simply the mad contact of
two armed mobs. Always except Sher
man’s movements, that is pretty much all
there was of it. The soldiers of Europe
will certainly look on Grant with much
curiosity as a man who lost more lives
and accomplished less for the sacrifice
than in any war known to history. They
certainly cannot have any admiration for
his military genius, for the reason that
they will not be apt to regard mere
stolidity, mere willingness to lose three
men to kill one of the enemy,
as any evidence of ability. He will
undoubtedly attract much attention;
but, as said, it will be rather cariosity
than anything else. Grant, as shown by
history, lacks in all the purely intellectual
qualities of a first class soldier. He has
no culture to recommend him in other
respects. It is a very well known fact
that the men with whom he has associated
since the war, who have been his friends
and intimates, have not been men noted
either for their social, moral or intellec
tual worth. Hence Grant has not had
that opportunity which is afforded by
contact with the more refined elements
to acquire polish. He is yet as uncouth,
or nearly so, as when he left hia tannery
at Galena to take charge of an Illinois
regiment.
[from the Evansville (In i.) Courier.]
The force of the terrible blast was such
as to uproot the firmest buildings, lasting
four or five minutes, and leaving ruin and
desolation in its track. The tornado was
accompanied by a violent noise, whioh in
itself was harrowing, followed by crash
after crash, as one edifice after another
yielded to the blasting breath. A com
parative calm followed, which aroused
the fortunate people to a realization of
the horror. Soon a report spread that
this and that building was blown down,
among them two schoolhonses; but
fortunately it was at such an hoar
when they were vacant of their
pupils. Notwithstanding this the report
was given that the fall of the schools had
killed a large number of children, which,
happily, is not confirmed by later infor
mation. The tornado in itself was a suf
ficiently great calamity, but it was fol
lowed by a destructive fire in the ruins of
the demolished structures. The fiames
spread rapidly under the fanning of the
destructive breeze, and threatened the
destroyal of the entire place. The fire
department of Vincennes was called upon
to render assistance, and immediately re
sponded by sending two engines ana a
good force of men to assist in checking
the fiames and help the citizens in chari
table work. Princeton rendered the same
service, and at 9 o’clock last evening a
special train on the Air-Line Railroad
took out a number of workers.
Mount Carmel is the oounty seat of
Wabash county, Illinois, and is situated
on the western bank of the Wabash river,
about forty miles above its month, and
practically at the head of navigation on
that river. It is also on the Cairo and
Vincennes Railroad and at the crossing
of that road and the Princeton Air Line
Railroad. Mount Carmel had about two
thousand live hundred inhabitants, of an
enterprising, industrious oharacter, who
took great pride in their town. It was
one of the prettiest places in Illinois, and
was situated on an undulating country,
somewhat elevated above the surrounding
prospect. The country for miles about
was prairie land, which left Mount Car
mel right in the sweep of the blasts whioh
are so freqnently felt in that section.
Mount Carmel, by reason of its ei' osure,
was subject to violent storms; but
never before has it been visited by any
of a very serious nature. It is astonishing
to read of the destruction of the
court house, for that building was a very
substantial structure of brick, with
heavy stone foundation. In 1834 the old
court house was destroyod by fire, and a
very short time after the present one,
jnst blown down, was bnilt in its stead.
At the first mentioned the records of the
county were lost in the flames, aud it re
quired a special act of the Uliuois Legis
lature to legalize titles from the original.
It has since caused considerable litiga
tion, and altogether Mount Carmel has
been rather unfortunate. Its people,
however, were very pnblio spirited anil
worked hard to bnild it up, until it be
came one of the mo9t prosperous snd
rapidly growing towns in this section.
Its bnildings are modern and substantial,
and the school houses are of the latest
designs. The disaster is a terrible blow
to the town, hut the industry of its citl
zens will soon restore it to its wonted life
and vigor.
A New Patent Coin.
Letters patent were issued this week to
a Philadelphian for an invention called
galloid, which is an alloy of gold, silver
and copper in the proportion of one part
gold to twenty-four of silver and two and
three-quarters of copper, and is supposed
to be especially adapted for coin dollars
and fractions of a dollar. The mean den
sity of the metals is 10.683, and the alloy
shows an increase in weight of about 117
by a computation at the Mint Bureau.
The dollar made of thi; alloy would be
23s grains, being equivalent to the old
silver dollar of 412.8 grains and to the
gold dollar of 25.8 grains both as
to standard and fineness. It is
claimed for galloid, among its many
advantages for ooin over the present
silver dollars and lesser coins, that it is
not liable to destruction by abrasion, and
cannot be destroyed for gold leaf or the
manufacture of jewelry; that it is smaller
tnan silver coin aDd more convenient in
size for commercial purposes; that its
density cannot be counterfeited by base
metals; that it utilizes the silver produc
tion of the United States and increases
our wealth on the basis of onr own pro
duction of precious metals; and it is not
corrosive, and is capable of a fine and
enduring impression. Dr. Linderman
says its intnnsio value for assay purposes
is such that it could command a premium
of about three-fourths per centum above
par in the London market. --Philadelphia
Times.
Anotheb Impobtant Arch.eological
Discovert.—The Department of State is
in receipt of a dispatch from General
John Meredith Head, the charge d' affaires
at Athens, reporting the disoovery Dy M.
Stephen Commanverdis, the learned Sec
retary of the Archaiologioal Society of
Athens, of the monument mentioned by
Thucydides as having been erected by
Peisistratus, son of Hippiae, and grandson
of the tyrant Peisistratus. The stone,
which was lying neglected on the right
bank of the Iiissus, southwest of the
Temple of Inpiter Olympia, bears an in
scription, of which the following is the
translation : “This monument, upon his
advent to power, Peisistratus, the son of
Hippias, has dedicated in the temple of
Apollo Pythins.” It is worthy of note
that the letters which Thucydides men
tions are obscure, are indeed roughly and
feebly ent, and that, as in all tne Attic
inscriptions before the time of Eucleide,
instead of H, there is E, and instead of
diphthong 01' there is the simple O, and
Y instead of YI. The discovery of this
remarkable stone fixes the site of the
Temple of Apollo Pythius, which was
hitherto unknown. The monument has
been purchased by the Archaiological So
ciety, and will be immediately transferred
to the Museum of Varvakion.
Beautiful Tribute to a Wife.—The
late R. M. Corwine, of Cincinnati, has
left a will, in which he says to his child
ren : “I enjoin upon them the duty of
affection and respect and confidence to
ward my said wife. Dessie M- Corwine.
She has been an affectionate, devoted and
faithful wife to me in all relations, and
more especially in times of illness, for
which I bless and honor her. She has as
well been an affectionate, tender and care
ful mother to my sons and daugber. I
pay this tribute to her as the dying words
of a loving father to his sons and daughter,
and most earnestly pray that they will
cultivate, cherish and honor her for my
sake as well as her own. I pray that the
peace and concord of my household may
be preserved in love an unity in the future
as it has been in the past. The Lord will
bless yon for this, and I shall look down
from my place above in loving kindness
and acknowledgment to you all.” Mrs.
Corwine was a second wife, and the niece
of Gen. Thomas A Morris, of Indian
apolis.
A Plucky Woman.—As one of the
women of the Mechanics' Exchange
Hotel was sweeping the diningroom af
ter dinner yesterday she discovered a
huge rat which had made its way in
through the open front door. Instead of
screaming and jamping into a chair or
upon the table, as is common in such
cases, she reversed her broom and sallied
after the rodent in real earnest, and ont
the door he went with the broomstick
tapping the pavement close behind him.
Reaching the street he dodged into a hole
nnder the sidewalk on the other side of
the alley, and lookers on thought the
sport was ended. Not so, however; the
plucky woman ran her bare arm into the
hole and drew the rat forth in triumph,
and dashed him forward to the ground
before he had a chance to turn and bite.
Here she deliberately dispatched him
with the broomstick.—Sacramento Union.
[Cincinnati Commercial)
The most important event in the his
tory of the German Pioneer Association
probably occurred last evening, at their
regular meeting, being the advent among
them of an old Prussian soldier and phy-
cian. nearly a hundred years old, who
had served in most of the great wars of
the last and the present centnry. Hia
Dame is Johann Friedrich Yon Herder,
and his age is ninety.seven years. Hs
was a son of one of Frederick the Great’s
famous Generals, and at an early age
served as military physician in the Prus
sian army. At the battle of Jena he
wounded and taken prisoner, and
after recovering his health, accepted a
position on the medical staff of the
French army, afterwards being appointed
staff physician to the great Napoleon. He
followed the Giant of Battles through all
his snbsi quent wars. He saw the great
fire of Moscow, and endured the awful
suffering-! of the immemcrably disastrous
retreat which followed. He was iu Egypt;
beheld the celebrated charge of the Mam
elukes upon the French squares and heard
the famous exhortation of th petit cor
poral, telling his soldiers that forty cen
turies were looking down upon them from
the summits of the Pyramids. He saw
Waterloo, the oharge of the Cuirassiers,
the defeat of the Old Guard, the slaugh
ter of the terrible pursuit.
Afterward-tie joined the Turkish army,
and continued in the service of the Sultan
until the time of the Greek war, and the
Massacre of Scio, when his sympathies
being enlisted in the cause of humanity,
he joined the Greek forces as an army
physician. After the war he again want
to France, and joined the French army.
He went to Algiers and served there. He
subsequently returned to Germany, go»
married, and took part in the Bevo-
tion of ’48, and had to fly the coun
try. On coming here with his wife and
children, he went YD St. Louis; and
receiving $25,000 dollars soon after from
the remainder of his fat her.) estate, started
in the nursery business uear the oity.
He failed in this, and at last, having lost
nearly all his fortune, returned to the
practice of his profession. Then came
the war for the Union; and the old man,
together with his five sons, joined an Illi
nois regiment. Four of his sons were
killed in the war, and the fifth subse
quently died. His wife also died, and
now the old man desires to return to
France. The Pioneers’ Association fir
ing heard his story, voted him fifty dol
lars to help pay his expenses. He is now
on his way to Europe. He yet seems
vigorous, and told his extraordinary story
last evening with remarkable prtoisiou
and distinctness.
WONDERFUL CHECKER PLAYING,
A Beardlraa Youth of Nineteen Koulaall
the Best Players ia Iho Coantrf-
Bobert D. Yates, the champion checker
player of the world, who has just accep
ted the challenge of James Wylie, of
Scotland, to play a match for five hun
dred dollars a side, is a boy nineteen
years of age, employed at the cash desk
of his father’s eating salooD, under Ful
ton Market, New York. The Sun says of
him:
“His forehead is broad, square and
high, and the part of it in front of the
ears looks overweighted. Mr. James
Wylie, ‘the invincible herd laddie,’ so
called because he learned to play check
ers while watchiog cattle iu the fields, is
fifty-five years of age. He has already
bad a taste of the champion's quality.
Last year he came to New York and
played twenty-four games with Yates.
The youth won two games and the rest
were drawn. Of twenty-six games play
ed in Brooklyn, l'ates won five and Wylie
one. In a match for fifty dollars, Yates
won two games, Wylie one, the rest of
the fifty being drawn. Yates, in hi re-
oent match with Thomas Martins, who
crossed the ocean to defeat him, won
three games, aud Martina one.
“ Five years ago a school companion of
Yates’ came back from a visit to Sullivan
county enthused with the game. He
taught the moves to Yates. ‘ We used to
play around on stoops in those days,’ the
champion said yesterday. 4 Afterward
went to the Union for Christian Work in
Fulton street, near Duffield street, Brook
lyn. There I first learned that I could
take two men at a time. I thought that
was a big step gained.'
“Several years ago a gentleman in
Albany wrote to a Brooklyn friend that
he wished to play with some good
player by correspondence. Yates, under
the name of H. C. McDonald, agreed to
accommodate him. After the Albany
gentleman had been driven iDto close
quarters by his antagonist, the corre
spondence ended in an angry dispute
Recently he wrote to the checker editor
of a New York journal to inquire whether
Mr. Wylie had ever been defeated. He
received an editorial reply : ‘Yes, by your
old antagonist. H. C. McDonald.’ The
letter was signed, ‘Robert D. Yates.'
“Two famous players from an inland
city, while visiting New York, not long
ago, routed all competitors, in the rooms
of the Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion, at Twenty-third street and Fourth
avenne. One of them casually met and
played with Yates, in a Nast-au street
office. After he had been defeated, he
induced Yates to visit the Young Men’s
Chris:ian Association rooms, to play with
his friend. Vates was introduced under
the name of Craig. The rural champion
tacked his legs under his chair and got
to work. After five short, sharp defeats,
he gave up the contest, complaining that
he had “no luck.” Then Yates was in
troduced as Yates.
“Yates hasadry humor, that freqnently
leads him to stroll into resorts of checker
players, and engage strangers in play. He
has a slow, unpretentious manner, that,
added to his vouthfulness, throws
Btrangers entirely off their guard. After
he has enjoyed their chagrin at being
beaten by a boy, he engages n conversa
tion with them, and relieves their an
noyance by letting it leak cut that his
name is Yates. There are no stakes in
such games.”
An eminent French Professor has writ
ten an elaborate pamphlet on hydropho
bia, which contains much important in-
formation on the subject treated. Rabies
in the canine race, be says, is not a snd
den transition from a healthy state, but
comes after an illnesa which may be pro
longed for some time before madness ap
pears. The Professor says: “Beware
of a dog which begins to be sick. All
ck dogs, as a principle, must be sns
pected. Beware especially of one that ia
sad, morose and seeks for solitude; one
that does not know where to rest; one
that goes and comes, rambles aboai, snaps
and barks without reason, whose looks
are doll and gloomy, and whose bright
expression is lost. Beware of the dog
that looks about and attacks imaginary
phantoms. Beware of one that is sud
denly too affectionate, asking for your
caresses by his pitiful and repeated arav
ings.” The bark of a mad dog is thor
oughly characteristic. It it hoarse, lower
in tone, prolonged, and not so strong,
The Professor is of the opinion that the
danger from hydrophobia is no greater in
the summer than in the winter. The
surest remedy for the bite of a mad dog
is immediate cauterization of tha wonnd
with the actual cautery or with burning
gunpowder or gome other caustic agent.
The Mixture of Races.
Fair play to the freedmen could not
he stretched, in principle, muoh beyond
that shown by the white Conservatives in
the South Carolina Assembly the other
day. A bill was up prohibiting the in
termarriage of races, under a severe pen
alty. The colored mecihersof the House
were against it unanimously, and the
whites instinctively for it. But the lat
ter, after some skirmishing, withdrew
their support from the bill, and it failed
by ac overwhelming majority. There
was no mystery about this concession.
It was made for the sole pur
pose of satisfying the colored sec
tion of the Legislature and olenohing it
to the conservative side. Perhaps there
could he no better illustration of the
wondrous changes whioh time and cir
cumstances have wrought in South Caro
lina than that such an agreement should
be made. Freedom from prejudice and
obliteration of the “color line” could no
further go. If South Carolina can staud
the consequences of “miscegenation”—
whioh ia forbidden by law in some South
ern States—it is not for other communi
ties to object to it. The result of these
intermarriages will not he seriously
perceptible in the present generation
of South Carolinians. The number
of them, it may be presumed, will
not be large in any one year. The
natural barrier that keeps apart the two
races is quite as high and strong as any
that the law could erect. As the so-
oalled civil rights bills in theNorth do not
incite colored persons to miDgle freely
with whites at the hotels and theatres, so
the legalizing of marriages between the
two colors would not, as a matter of
course, make such marriages common
anywhere The effect upon the com
plexion of the future inhabitants of South
Carolina will probably be leas striking
than the friends of the defeated bill an
ticipate. ADd this effect, 80 far as
there is any, will be more in
jurious to the negroes than to the whites.
The negro race takes not life, but
death, from “miscegenation.” The negro
in his unadulterated state, is long lived,
almost proof against ciimatio maladies,
and prolific. The mulattoes aro not re
markable for longevity, are most liable
to certain classes of disease than any
pure colored race, and in no respect hold
their own in the struggle for existence
against either whites or blacks. The
new relations of independence and self
help, in whioh the negro is placed by the
abolition of slavery, have not, on the
whole, it is said, been favorable to the
spread and perpetuity of his race at the
South. The shortest natural process for
wiping the negro off the face of this
country would probably b6 to encourage
his intermarriage with the whites.—Y.
T. Journal of Commerce.
Futnre Situs of Cotion Manufacture.
A Columbus (Ga.) correspondent, re
ferring to the issue which W6 lately made
with Mr. Atkinson's artiole concerning
cotton culture and manufacture, lately
published in th6 New York Herald, takes
exceptions to his views of the situs of
the future cotton spindle. Our corres
pondent contends, with other political
economists, that the loom and spindle
must eventually come to the cotton field.
Coiambus, Ga., according to statistics
which appeared in the Enquirer of that
city, has now 35,000 spindles and 1,500
looms. Another building is nearly com
pleted and machinery berog received for
the operation of 20,000 more. These es
tablishments require 18,000 bales of cot
ton and 300,000 pounds of wool per an
num.
J^The water power of the river there is
very great. The two falls within the city
aggregate 5,000 horse power, end in a
distance of three miles the fall of the
river is over one hundred feet, yielding
45,000 more horse power. The bed and
banks are lined witn rock, easily quar
ried, while brick and other buildmg ma
terial are of easy access and abundant.
Not long since a company of Northern
capitalists desired to know the cost of a
mill to run about 32,000 spindles, and
a praotieal manufacturing engineer of
long experience and of known capacity
made the estimate that the entire mill,
of the number of spiudlee above men
tioned, and the site, building and machin
ery, with everything complete, would cost
$300,000. This is only one out of a large
number of Southern localities just as
favorably situated for cotton manufac
ture. The great natural advantages of
the South must in the end make it a great
manufacturing as well as producing seo-
tion of the Union. At the same time
foresight and caution are as necessary as
energy and aptitnde to the success of all
great enterprises.—Baltimore Sun.
New Way to Pay an Old Debt.—
Two daughters of a farmer in St. Law
rence county, New York, desired to pay
the debt on their homestead, bnt they
preferred not to do it by hard work.
They bit upon an idea that suited their
purpose, and have made enough money
to remove the debt. They had a large
quantity of porous stone sawed into small
pieces and thoroughly soaked in an odor
ous preparation, which imparted to them
a durable scent. These they peddled
throughout the State, at twenty-five
cents each, representing that they were
cut from the, *“'k of a wonderful per
fumed cave £? jth America. Tie girls
are so demu~ .nd pretty, and tell their
lie with such an appearance of simplicity,
that the sales are very large. They have
jnst put a fresh lot of stone in soak,
preparatory to an extended Western tonr.
A Romantic Stoby Exploded. — A
“tbriliiDg and romantic narrative,” that
has been published far and wide, is ex
ploded. The story was to the effeot that
a “young, beautiful, intelligent and at
tractive nun,” in St. Francis’ Hospital,
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, had violated her
vowa by eloping with a physician em
ployed in the institution. The facts ap
pear to be that a young woman, who wa*
on probation, and had taken no rows,
left the nunnery, returned to the world,
and is living respectably with her friends.