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beneficence performed in kind or other
wise. - -
Tlie man or woman who, like Howard,
“charitably circumnavigates ” even the
prison* of a single State, has a task not
calculated to delight the soul, except as it
may practically educate it, in that Chris
ties to direct their mode of life, is a ques- l<> them a cordial invitation to visit ns
tion of serious moment; again. , ^
Just as in cantonment, of regiments and
tian grace, implied in the words," “I was 'from Infection.'
armies, communities have a right to require
a rigid inspection of the premises of every
inhabitant, and to police every one’s prem
ises. Society has a right to protect itself
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, JULY 12.
tar It is supposed that the discussion of
the proposed dogma of the infallibility will
close this week.
CW We are nnder obligations to Hon.
John W. Johnson. United States Senator
from Virginia, for valuable public docu
ments. _ ______
or Wo acknowledge the receipt of an
Invitation to the annual celebration of the
Phi Kappa Society of the University of
Georgia, to come off on the 1st of August.
S3J~ July 31 was a very hot day in San
Francisco. The thrrmomctrr stood at 93
degrees in.the shade. In some places in
tlie interior of California it stood at llude-
Rrcea. |t|
ttT From the meagre supply of cx
changes in this editorial sanctum, it is pre
sumed that editors, printers, publishers, or
post-office employees, have been on a big
spree over the Fourth of July.
jy Newspaperdom was never so desti
tute of interest as just now. Editors seem
to have hut one sensation, and thAt is to
take things Coolie, and make the most of
the situation this hot weather.
tB~ The Darien Canal project has not
been altogether abandoned. The survey
ing expedition, under Captain Selfridgc,
will return in November next and make
a re-survey of llio Han Bios route. The
expedition returned on account of the
want of supplies and funds.
tlTSpurgcon, tlie most popular preacher
In London,declines an invitation to lecture
before the Boston Lyceum. He says he
has no ambition In that lino, is glad to
preach, but not if there is a charge at the
door. “Moreover," ho says, “I have no
kind of idea or visiting the States.”
W The Tennessee journals arc exer
cised over the question of holding a con
vention to nominate candidates for the Su
premo bench.
Edwin U. Ewing, an old and distin
guished lawyer, declines to submit his
claims to a convention, and “ there is the
tu’i." He is the gentleman who, during
tli>; war, wrote a letter to the Tennesseeans
imprisoned at Johnson's Island, urging
tlii-m to taito the oath and go home, that
caliod forth a most scathing rclmkc from
the “boys in gray," which was read with
intense interest both North and South.
How that lie lias now grown so great as to
« au-m so many words to flow and so much
ink lo be spilled, is a mystery to out-siders,
who thought that the Johnson Islanders
trimmed him down “to the little end of
nothing.”
G9~No Democratic papers in this State
take the ground, or admit that the mem
bers of the present Legislature have the
legal or constitutional right to prolong
their terms of office. The responsibility of
uni onstitntionally preventing an election
the coming full Is a fearful one. Home
members of the present Legislature know
it and feel it. Hence, journals in the inter
est of tlie Bullock faction, that pervert the
tnith by recklessly asserting that candid
Democrats admit the right of the Legisla
ture to prolong Its term of service, are
simply trying to throw dust in the eyes of
certain Republican members of the Assem
bly, who have some respect for the rights
of their neighbors, and are kicking in the
traers under the lash of Bollock, Blodgett
& Go.
rr Tlie present and quondam friends of
Governor Bullock, who express an anxiety
almut Ills replenishing Ids purse out of the
assets of the proprietors of Tub Constitu
tion, are respectfully and courteously in
formed that the proprietors of Tub Con
stitution. being defendants to the suit, are
not railed npon to answer until the plain
tiff Is ready to press his suit. The defend
ants are ready for tlio trial, let it be when
it will. Judging, however, by the accu
mulation of cases on the dockets of Fnlton
Superior Court, and tbo absence of a Judge.
wc would suppose that that event is in the
“dim, uncertain future.” Cali upon the
plaintiff, gentlemen, if you would know.
Three Bullocks.
The document scut to tlie Legislature of
Georgia, on yesterday, and signed Rufus
It. Bullock, has excited some astonishment
ami no liitlo merriment.
Home call it the Governor’s message. It
was addressed to the Provisional Legisla
ture. but no State was mentioned. Some
• say that there is a yoke of Bullocks in
town, one the Governor and the other not
the Governor. Others that Bufus B. Bul
lock is a triune personage, consisting oi
Bullock Governor, Bullock Provisional
Governor, and Bullock citizen, the role of
cither of which he plays, as occasion de
mands. to further bis “prolongation
scheme.
Home say that the Governor has abdica
ted. Olliers that tl«s Governor is so beside
himself in bis anxiety to prolong his term
of-office, that ho has just determined to let
on as lliougb he never has been, and is not
now, Governor.
sick and in prison and ye visited me,” and
which finds its delights in the conscious
ness of having done a purely unselfish
service to wretched humanity.
Tlie LegisIature should see to it thatjails
and Stole prisons arc properly and hu
manely governed. Good people every
where, who feel that a part, at least, of
their thoughts, time and energies arc dun
to society, ought to interest themselves in
the subject of prison discipline and prison
reform. How crime may be discouraged,
the criminal be reformed and made a use
ful member of society, and the innocent
protected from unjnst punishment, are top
ics worthy of intelligent investigation and
benevolent effort.
Qnarcnlines are universally acknowl
edged to be necessary inconveniences to
commerce. So an internal sanitary police
is a necessary prophylactic against dis
eases which may have their origin at home.
The former Is a preventive of exoteric dis
eases. The latter prevents exoteric causes
from producing diseases. Quarantines are
a necessary inconvenience. Hanitary in
spections are imperatively required to pro
tect the population from domestic sources
of disease. Let us have them.
Oar Governor.
There is a feeling of melancholy which
comes over us in our review of this unhappy
man’s brief career in spite of a thousand
Incentives to the Indulgence ofan energetic
hate and scorn. He came before the peo
ple of this great State, just about two years
ago, as complete a stranger asif he had just
descended astraddle of an aarolite from the
moon. No man knew from whence he
came, or eared more for bis destiny than
that one feels for a grain of sand or an in
sect that passes by on the wind. Soon,
however, tlie public was forced to recog
nize bis existence, and soon his presence,
for it was bruited about that be bad helped
the packing of the now historic Georgia
Reconstruction Convention, and was re
sponsible for tlie presence of nine of the
malign spirits which went to the making
up of that outrage on American liberty and
human rights. Those were the days when
men sought bad eminence, and. it was only
tlie will or the power to do evil which
seemed wanting to give men promi
nence and prestige. But even looked
at in this light, it is yet a mar
vel, which passes human experience
or belief, bow, in this year of Christ, such
a man as Rufus B. Bullock came into his
present circumstances and got possession
of such awful powers. Great and awing
as this responsibility looks to every other
human being, it seems to have impressed
this mass of inanity as lightly as it would
have done a mere animal, and our Gover
nor goes running about over the country,
and when at home, handling and fooling
with the cdged-tools of Executive powers
with the recklessness of a monkey career
ing through a powder magazine with a
red-hot poker in bis paw. The man seems
absolutely divested of all moral sense, or
sense of any sort, which could enable him
to see or feel what tremendous interests he
is trifling with. Look at the shameful
manner he has disturbed the criminal jus
tice of the Stale by his abuse of the par
doning power? Miscreants, whose crimes
humanity itself cries out against, have been
Ills pets. A premium, as it were, has been
offered by this wanton disregard of social
safety and order for all sorts of crime adti
outrage. With a blushless hardihood that
one would suppose the imps in pande
monium would be incapable or, he pardons,
in advance, such sins against the
law and the public morality as make
decent men stand aghast. And now, after
five years of qniet and law-abiding pa
tience on the part of this much injured
people, if Governor Bullock could have his
way this day, be would billet upon us a
reckless and embittered militia mob which
would place life and property up for a
sport and a jest.
Radicals of Georgia, is it possible that
out of all your members, you cbn find the
duplicate of this sad character? If be is
blind to consequences, and to the coming
terrible day of account, which now the
prudent man secs dawning already, are
you going in his wake, to fetch up in
bis slough of retribution and social out
lawry? We cannot think it prcdicable of
sensible men, who have yet left in their
breasts the instinct of self-preservation
Upon this class of men we call. Wo appeal
to you who have neither lot nor hope in
wreck orTnin—who must live and die here,
and have, and can have no other destiny
than that of our noble old Htate—to put a
stop to this trifling, on the part of a mere
adventurer, with the dearest interests of
this great State. You can do it; but yon
should do it speedily, if yon would be in
time to getabreast with the grand-conserv
ative army that oro now marshaling its
hosts to tlie rescue.
the dictates of this profound sage. Would
that I were a poet! I would implore the
gods to enfranchise me with power; then
I would scribble a gloomy epitaph on evap
orated pleasure. To our visitors, 1 will
say, “ rale, vale, ted, non temper, I sincerely
hope. Horatio.
Prison .Discipline.
There is no subject so worthy of benev
olent interest as tbat of prison discipline.
Whether bis Incarceration is punitive or
for the purpose of safe-keeping, the pris
oner who is wholly under the guardianship
of society, and utterly unable to remedy by
bis own act the inconveniences growing
out of the neglect, tyranny, or other mal
feasance of his keepers, should be carefully,
intelligently, and humanely cared for by
the government.
.Society has no right to inflict the pun
ishment of breathing a tainted atmosphere,
of lying down in tlio midst filth and ver
min, and of eating unwholesome food upon
a prisoner who has not yet been tried and
condemned by a jury of bis peers. Pre
sumed in the eye of the law to be innocent
until proTcn to bo guilty, while awaiting a
(rial no prisoner ought to have greater in
conveniences put upon him than is consist
ent with his safe-keeping until tho day of
his condemnation or acquittal.
Those prisoners who are undergoing pu
nitive confinement should be so treated, if
possible, as to insure their reform, and not
iu such a manner as to intensify their pro
pensity to crime.
Prison reform associations arc among
the most laudable of benevolent societies.
The very nature of their mission is such as
to render them above the suspicion of self
ishness. Parties in who6c behalf they la
bor are destitute of influence, and there
fore cannot, in general, reciprocate the
Mortuary Bcport.
From the report of tlio chairman of the
Board of Health of Atlanta, it appears tbat
during the quarter eud'iDg Juno .30,1870,
101 whites and ltd colored people died in
the city of Atlanta, making a total of 247—
being 03 more than died during the second
quarter of 1866,154 more than daring the
corresponding quarter of 1867, 156 more
than that of 1863, and 133 more than the
second quarter of I860.
In commenting on these statistics, some
or our city contemporaries have overlooked
the fact that, ever since early in tho last
winter, measles has been an epidemic here,
-that whooping cough is also prevalent, and
that at the opening of summer, children ac
tively teething are liable to cholera infan
tum, and chronic diarrhoea and dysentery.
Those recently convalescing, from either
measles or whooping cough, are very liable
to be hurried to tho grave in any locality
when teething, occurring inextremely hot
weather, supervenes.
Of those who died duriDg the month of
June alone, twenty-four whites and thirty-
five colored were under ten years of age.
The aggregate mortality daring the month
was only ninety-two.
The greater mortality among the colored
children tells a mournful tale of the effects
of a disregard of hygiene and an ignorance
of sanitary laws.
Atlanta is a salubrious locality, bat here
no more than elsewhere can the laws of
hygiene be disregarded with impunity.
Negroes or whites crowded to suffoca
tion in miserable huts, whose surround
ings are snch as to forbid the burying out
of sight nr scent the refuse of human hab
itations, can be healthy nowhere. Espe
cially is it inhuman to attempt to rear
children under such circumstances. True,
some survive, but the tportality is necessa
rily very large.
It is desirable that a system of registra
tion of deaths be adopted and rigidly cm
forced.
Landlords owe it to their own interest,
and to the community, to see tbat the
houses they let are not over-crowded with
Inmates.
It is no uncommon occurrence for the
physicians of thi3 city to be called to see a
sickchildlyinginan apartment eighteen
feet square where from ten to fifteen human
beings lodge, and in which their cooking
and washing are also done.
An abundance ol water, and a thorough
system of sewers arc, of course, a ne
cessity, and parties best informed in regard
to hygiene are most urgent in favor of
them. But how to correct the habits of
ignorant violators ol the laws of health,
who deny the rijibt 9f the public author!-
Oglethorpe Again.
Editors Constitution: Our brief note,
published a day or two since in Tub Con
stitution, and intended to draw out some
one in defense of the recent action of the
trustees of Oglethorpe, it seems, has
evoked a champion in the person of the
editor himself.
Although not expecting so enlightened
and zealous an advocate to appear in this
role, still we are gratified at the sincere and
earnest apology you offer the action which
we censure. Without entering into a dis
cussion of tlie general merits of the ques
tion, we beg to call attention to the errors
into which you have unintentionally
fallen. You say;
“ Experiment after experiment has been
made with the dormitory system in our
colleges, and uniformly with failure.”
Are Harvard, Yale. Dartmouth, Prince
ton. University of Virginia, and others of
our best colleges, failures? They all still
run the dormitory system.
Evidently you confound '‘dormitories
with “ boarding in commons.” The latter
feature, we grant you, is dispensed with
in most colleges, but the form still exists,
and its present elective form is not likely
soon to be abandoned. Most students find
it for their convenience, as well as comfort,
to have their study and lodging rooms on
the college grounds, while they can board
with private families and enjoy all the nec
essary “ privileges of society.”
But your closing paragraph is the most
inexplicable, in view or the history of all
American colleges, viz:
“Had we space-we could particularize
many facts and instances to prove that
modern colleges and universities areal-
ways the most successful and useful when
located in the heart of large and growing
cities.”
We think it fortunate that “space” fails
you. for certainly the -facts” would not be
forthcoming. There are bat two or three
instances in the United States where “suc
cessful” colleges are located in the heart or
large cities, and in these cases the cities
have grown to and surrounded the college
ground. The colleges themselves did not
go to the cities, and in every instance, ex
cept Columbia College, New York (and
who ever think's of sending to a college in
New York city?) they are surrounded by
ample ground for extensive buildings and
healthful exercise. We are in favor of su
burban locations, and the more prosper
ous and central the cities the better. Our
objection to the selection of the Neal prop
erty for Oglethorpe is not so much because
it is in the heart of the city, as because of
the insufficient aera for the necessary pur
poses or the college. If the City Hall park,
for instance, or an equal aera elsewhere in
the city, could have been obtained, there
would have been less objection. But it is
simply Impossible to build a school, such
as tlie friends of Oglethorpe desire, upon
the site selected. The experiment may be
tried, but a few years will demonstrate,
more conclusively than any amount of ar
gument, the great mistake tbat has been
made. P.
Thriving' Commencements — Blos
soming Concerts — Brandishing
Exhibitions—The Methodist Dis
trict-Coalition at Cave Spring,
Georgia — All Springing Forth
Consecutively During one Week.
Correspondence Atlanta Constitution.]
Cave Spring, Ga„ July 4,1870.
On the morning of the 27lh ultimo, the
town was early awako. The village cock
shrilly tolled the arousing knell, and the
spirited villagers appeared delightfully
conscious of the near approach of this rare
occasion. Old and young folks, young and
old folks, little and big folks, big and little
folks, and every other imaginable species
of above mentioned and said folks, seemed
crazzily fired with anticipated bliss. So
tills is my laconic prelude; nowhere goes
for insipid details.
Examination No. 1—At the Wesleyan
Institution, on tho 27th of last month, at 9
a. m., consuming two days’ time, Monday
and Tuesday. To students, to teachers, to
parents, to patrons generally, we present
our congratulations' for the honorable
acquittal in all branches. This College is
under the direction of Professors Lin and
Reynolds. These gentlemen are fortu
nately endowed with enterprise, nerve,
and ability; consequently we take pleasure
in recommending them to the confidence
of tho public.
Examination No. 3—The exercises of
the Deaf and Dumb linglitution charm
ingly glided off on Wednesday. We can
not say too much in favor of the kind and
proficient teachers, and the energetic and
philanthropic Steward,of this asylum. Mav
the future verdict of that high Tribunal
reward them for their timely nobleness.
Exercise No. 3—That meritorious Hearn
School and Baptist Female Seminary next,
and last, appears on the arena, and opens
valiantly ip the contest. These schools are
too widely known to require cotpmect.
Yet, I will say that instructors and pupils
enveloped themselves in praise and honor,
reaching the zenith of all expectations.
And if there is any higher point than a
zenith, they certainly obtained that point.
i’rofessor King, the learned chief of the
Hearn School, is acknowledged to be.un
mistakably one of the most thorough^cien-
tific and successful teachers in the South.
Miss Olden, who has charge of the Female
Academy, is undoubtedly numbered as one
of the heroines of. her profession. Sho has
a grotesque, yat pleasant and profitable
of the me that jjourighed during the sea
son—the house tottered with continuous
applause—the audience was tied ‘ up,
charmed and spell-bound from the full,
symphonions and celestial music tbat
emanated so gracefully and easy from the
beautiful performers. Miss Carter has rea
son to he proud of herself and uupils for
this enchanting, grand and imposing ex
position.
The Methodist Conference convened at
this point on the evening of the jjOth.
Everybody enjoyed a universal happy
greeting. All business Before the body
pleasantly and satisfactorily transacted.
The Conference have located a college at
this place. It is rumored that they have
made a large endowment for this purpose.
The country is jubilant over this fortunate
event. ^earned and able orators officiated;
august, elegant ?pit impressive sermons de
livered; widower? sentimentally soared,
; wjdojgs unasr
A Sound, Sensible Letter—Atlanta
Merchants, Bead and. Ponder—
Another Bailroad,
Union Springs, Ah, July 5,1870.
Editors Constitution: rfcurcity has risen,
Phoenix-like, from her ashes, and has al
ready built up the waste, places caused by
the late war. The astonishing rapidity with
which this has been done, and tbe steady
growth which has characterized her con
tinually increasing prosperity, is the won
der of the day. With a wisdom befitting
tbe enterprise which has already -accom
plished so much iu so short a time, your men
of capital and foresightvnot content with
that degree of prosperity which has made
Atlanta the “Gate City,” are stretching
out their arms. Briareus-like, in other di
rections, reaching after, trade and travel
which have hitherto enriched other cities.
Ever and anon, a representative of one or
another of your thriving business houses
is seen upon our streets mingling with oni
merchants.
Many of oar most enterprising citizens
and business men are looking to an outlet
in your direction, and are becoming anxi
ous for a more direct and speedy commu
nication with you. At present the chan
nel ol commnoication is too circuitous to
warrant any great degree of business be
tween our merchants. At present that
communication is by one of three routes,
viz; By Columbus and Macon, or by Co
lumbus, Opelika and West Point, or by
Montgomery, Opelika and West Point.
By the first, the distance is in the neigh
borhood of 250 miles; by tbe second, 200
miles, and by tbe third, 219 miles. Not
having a table of distances at hand, I can
only approximate in the above figures.
It is believed, however, they are not very
wide of the mark. •
If you look at tbe map-of Alabama, you
will see that their is hut-a short link want
ing to secure direct communication by
railroad upon an air-line between UnioD
_ " and Atlanta. This link supplied
would shorten the distance by rail, between
the two places, about forty miles, or almost
within a fraction of tbe entire distance
from this place to Opelika. It is to this
gap in your railroad connections that 1
desire to call yonr attention through your
valuable columns, and tbasof those of your
men of foresight who are always ready to
undertake any enterprise whicli promises
future certain benefits to your city.
A railroad supplying This link would
pass between the thriving towns and pros-
>erous neighborhoods or Salem and Au-
;urn. Society Hill and Tuskegee, Creek
Stand and Cotton Valley, and through some
of the best upland and bottom lands in
Eastern Alabama, a section of country as
lull of promise of freight and travel as any
of the same extent yet undeveloped in
the South; At this Diace, it would connect
with the Mobile and Girard Railroad, thus
securing thirty more miles of an air line
to Troy, in Pike county, and enabling you
to compete for tbe rich traffic of a wide
and fertile region tributary to Troy, which
is no w divided between Enfaula and Green
ville, Montgomery and Columbus. The
road from Opelika to Union Springs built,
will glvo Atlanta twenty or twenty-five
miles of additional air line connection
through the most fertile and populous por
tion or Eastern Alabama.
At this point it would connect with tbe
Mobile an Girard Railroad, which has jnst
been completed to Troy, and with' the
Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad, upon
which cars are now running from Mont
gomery to within two and a half miles of
this place, all of which is under
contract to be finished to Eufanla by
July or October, 187L-.lt is not neces
sary to elaborate the. advantages these
connections, at this point, would add
to your city. 1 merely call attention to
them with the hopeof stimulating such an
interest as would cause the people of At
lanta to investigate them and build the road
necessary to fill up the link now wanting.
S.J.F,
LaGraugo (Georgia) Female Col
leges and Mate High School
Commencement Exercises.
LaGrange, Ga., July 7,1370.
Editors Constitution: The excellent col
leges and schools of LaGrange deserve
more than a passing notipe, for fhoy are of
a very high order ol character, have ac
complished instructors, and are warmly
supported and encouraged. There is no
place more suitable for fine schools than
this beautiful “City of Gardens.” The
people are unusually intelligent and well
educated, noted for the refinement and ele
gance of their manners, their abundant
hospitality and the rare beauty of its fair
women, as well as politeness and courtesy
of its men.
The city boasts two successful female
colleges and a flourishing malo high
school.
LaGrange Female College is under con
trol of Rev. Morgan Callaway, A. 1L, and
closed its exercises nearly a month ago.
President C. has made an excellent begin
ning and is rapidly acquiring a splendid
reputation-
The Southern Female College is under
charge of Professor I. F. Cox, A.M., who
has been, for over a dozen years, identified
with the educational intercstsof LaGrange.
He is too well known throughout Georgia
and Alabama to require commendation at
oar hands. His college numbers this sea
sion over 125 young ladies and girls, and
graduated 12 young ladies yesterday.
The closing exercises were of a brilliant
character, llev. S. p. Callaway deliyerpd
the coijinjenpemcnt sermon in a very im
pressive and appropatrie manner. Monday
night, Mrs. F. M. Pressley, in charge of tbe
junior pupils of the music department,
gave a musical anddramatie entertainment,
which was largely attended and greatly
praised. Tuesday, 13 young ladies of the
lnnior class read compositions of a very
creditable kind. Miss Ida Ferrell, Miss
Dovio Edwards, and Miss Gertrude Davis
deserve especial mention. T. B. Stubbs,
Esq., of Montgomery, Alabama, delivered a
fine address. Taesday night occurred tho
Annual Grand Concert, nnder charge of
Professor tf. Schinpacker, a graduate of
Leipsic Conservatory, j pnplpse you a
programme. I can only say, truly, that it
was a most superb success.
Wednesday was commencement day.
Twelve young ladies were graduated with
all the honors of the college. Four of the
compositions were splendid. “Grapes of
Eshchol.”, by Miss Swanson, “Man’s
Rights,” by Miss Little, “Twilight
Musings,” by Miss Gorham, “ Spring, etc.,’"
by Miss B. Smith, created mach enthnsi
asm. President Cox’s parting words wore
brief and pointed. Tbe annual address, by
Colonel Ciocinnatus Peeples, was brimful
of wit and humor, and abounded in excel
lent ideas. He delighted bis audience
throngbout the speech.
I must not forget to mention the Ijale
Tronp Comity Crops.
"Thoup Cou.nty, July 7.1S70.
Editors Constitution: Information re
specting tlie condition of the crops may
not prove altogether uninteresting to some
of your readers, since in the prosperity of
the fanner, his is the prosperity of the
country. Cotton can hardly be called a
mythical king in this county; yet, she lias
many idolaters, and her shrines msv be
seen every when;. The alternating'dry
and wet spells ol the early spring made
cotton somewhat backward, and lor the
pastfew weeks the rainahavc been so heavy
that they have not only given rise to a
quantity of grass, but also a multitude of
lice, which in some parts of the county are
very destructive. But we hope, with a few
fair days and earnest labor, to be able to
destroy both the grass and insects. Where
guanos have been used, there is a marked
difference in the crop; where before on the
red hills a little puny stalk grew, now we
see a healthy,, vigorous stalk, thereby
demonstrating to the farmer the great im
portance of using fertilizers. Corn, though
backward, is promising. Better prospects
for an abundant harvest of corn than has
been estimated for many years. Fine crop
of oats have been saved; Wheat crops have
exceeded tbe anticipations of the most san
guine. Peach crop scarceand very partial.
Apples In abundance. Vegetables never
better. Upon the whole, tlie prospects of
old Troup are rather flattering. We feel
confident that if wc are allowed an election
this fall, we will send staunch democrats
to represent us. G. M. J.
Gwinnett County—Fourth ol July
—Crops—Bailroads—Politics, etc.
LawrencevilJe, Ga„ July 4,1870.
Editors Constitution: The time has been
when the Fourth of July was hailed by
our people as the birth day of American
liberty, hut now not noticed. How often
have tbe citizens, in days gone by, met to
commemorate the day that declared our In
dependence; have a barbecue; read the
Constitution of the United States; Declar
ation of Independence; listen to some-ora
tor in a speech upon the occasion. These
days tbat we all once loved are forever
gone, and we may say that these are some
of the last days of American liberty.
Crops are tolerably good. Wheat is a
little damaged by excessive rains during
harvesting; tbe crop will be above an
average one. Oats were cut off somewhat
by the May drought. Corn is good where
the land is able to produce it. Cotton looks
well generally; some crops arc badly in
the grass; as to the yield we can only
speculate. We may gather an abundant
crop of cotton, or a very small one though
the prospect is flattering; tbe weed is very
full of sap, and not very thickly set with
squares; a little drought or two much rain
either might injure the crop materially;
we have no blooms yet.
Our county has not the facilities of rail
roads, as many of the counties in Georgia
have. The Air-Line runs through one
side of our county, now built, but we hope
soon to have a railroad running through
our county from Macon to Knoxville. Ten
nessee, which certainly would be one of the
best paying roads in the South.
As to politics, the people are quiet. All
we want to put the right men in office is a
fair opportunity. I do not know of a man
in Gwinnett that would vote for Rufus B
There may be some that might. Our
county was largely for the Union before
the war, and is still for the perpetuity of
the Union upon tho principles of tbe Con
stitution of our fathers. We want our
Governors and public men to attend to the
office that is given them by the people;
and if they fail or refuse, or get to running
to Washington, wasting our hard esrniugs
to buy up Congressional oppression, all wo
want is the privilege of freemen at tbe
ballot-box.
Our people are readers of Tub Constitu
tion, and think it one of the best papers in
the State. - Gwinnett.
manner of imparting knowledge to the
most stnpid and timid. She produced one
of the most satisfactory and agreeable en
tertainments that I have ever witnessed. I
would suggest that tlie citizens of the
State would place under her charge (in
Grady’s phrase) "their tender jresponsibili
Tbe effusions in the way of compositions
that fluently sprung from the acute and
-‘masculine” feminine intellects were
wealthy, scarce and flavorous, (or, “ rich,
rare and racy,” taken in what senso thou
wilt-) To listen to their sweet .-col Ian
voices, to drink in their flowing, rippling
and sparkling ideas, was really an exhila
rating literary beverage.
The declaiming exercises were exquisite
in a pinnaplc tense. It was candidly one
of those crowning 1‘suckcesses," glying us . , —
an imaginable, yet lucifl conception of High School, oncp;taught hy the famous
Athenian eloquence in the brilliant by- Bcmnn and Bates, and now successfully and
gone times of Grecian culture. ably managed by Captain Robert E. Park,
Miss Carter’s concert on Wednesday and A. M. It has, we learn, had over one hun-
Thursday evenings—one of the richest of dred pupils the past year, and is certain to
the rich—the gayest of the gay—the rarest increase in patronage.
fa large number present) ;
snmingly fascinating; ipaideris novclly at
tractive; men of few years disgpstjngly
infatuated. The voice of a chicken has not
resounded since the adjournment of the
ministers. They have mysteriously emi
grated (chickens have) to that untied, un
seen country, where their sublunary being
has ceased to be a trouble to tho book
keeper of tjmp. The exercises of this in
teresting assembly cpjieluded on the even
ing of the 4th instant. We never enjoyed
the presence of a crowd better. We extend
Mr. Park is a young man of energy, am
bition and scholarly attainments, jnst
suited to “ build up !! a school of high grade,
if properly sustained. He employs excel
lent assistants also. The thorough exami
nation of his stndcnts this year by the
Board of Examiners, attracted marked at
tention. The prize declamation, two nights,
waa very fine. Colonel Long delivered a
splendid address, and Dr." Stanley awarded
the prizes' in a chaste and appropriate
speech. "I wish I knew tho names of the
successful Contestants, 1 would gladly send
them to yps for publication. IjaGrangc is
improving, and'does a large amount of
business with neighboring counties. The
railroad to Columbus is anxiously desired
hy all. It would pay well, and should be
built by all means. TRour.
HJ-The fourteenth wonder of the world
lias been found. It is a man residing in
Bnlipck county, Alabama, who has bought
peithpr corn "nor !}»«>*>'in thirtv-seyen
years, and who doesn’t owe a dollar?
HP" The late Judge Underwood used to
say that when be died he wanted to die in
Atlanta, because he could leave tbat place
with fewer regrets than any other he had
ever seen.—Macon Tel. and Mess.
Jfap fclegraph is misinfonjjed ag tp the
place, it was Marietta, and not Atlanta.
GEOBGIA LEGISLATUBE.
SENATE.
Wednesday, July G, 1870.
Senate met according to adjournment at
12 M., and was called to order by President
Conley.
Prayer by Wesley Prettyman.
Mr. Speer offered a resolution that the
Secretary inform the House of Representa
tives that the Senate was organized and
ready to proceed with business, which was
adopted.
Mr. Speer offered a resolution that a
committee of three he appointed on the
part of the Senate to aot in conjunction
with a similar'eommitteo from the House,
to wait upon bis Excellency, Governor
Bollock, and inform him that tbe General
Assembly was organized, and ready to re
ceive any communication, which was
adopted.
Senators Speer. Burns and Holcombe
were appointed that committee.
On motion of Mr. Speer tbe report of the
Committee on Rules for the government of
the Senate was taken up and read.
The Rules were taken up, read seriatim
and adopted, except those mentioned as
amended.
A message was received from the House
announcing the appointment of a commit
tee of five to wait upon Governor Bullock.
Rule 6th of tbe Rules were amended by
inserting the words “ upon any one sub
ject of debate.”
Mr. Higbce offered an amendment to
rule 21, that a standing joint committee of
five from the Senate ana seven from the
House, on tho Western and Atlantic Rail
road, be appointed, but withdrew it. He
moved to strike out “military,” and insert
“militia” in the list of standing committees.
Lost.
Mr. Speer moved to strike out tbo 25th
rule.
Mr. Candler moved to insert “two-thirds”
in lieu of “unanimous.”
Mr* Wootpp made a logical and forcible
argument against striking out.
The motion to strike out prevailed.
Rules foe the government of the Senate
in executive session were read and adopted.
Mr. Speer offered a resolution to print
ono hundred copies of the rules for the
government of tho Senate, which pre
vailed.
The Senate-then adjourned until twelve
o’clock to-morrow.
HOUSE 0^ REPRESENTATIVES.
Wednesday. J uly 6,1870.
At 12 o’clock, Speaker McWhorter called
tho Honse to order.
S rayer by Rev. Mr. Clarlf.
ir. Fitzpatrick moved to suspend the
calling of the roll, and the Speaker an
nounced that there was a quorum present.
Tbe Clerk then proceeded to read the
Journal of the last day of tbe last session.
Mr. Tweedy offered a resolution asking
the appointment of a committee of
members to wait upon the Governor and
inform him that the House was organized
and ready to receive any communications
which he might desire to transmit.
Adopted; and Messrs.Tweedy, Smith of
Chariton, Harper of Terrel, Felder, and
Costin were appointed.
On motion of Mr. Hall, of Meriwether,
the House adjourned until 12 o’clock iu
duly jth.
Thursday, July 7,1870.
-Senate called to order by the President,
Prayer by Wesley Prettyman.
Message from the House taken up and
concurred in.
The following message was received from
Governor Bullock :
Atlanta, July 7,1870.
To the Provisional Legislature:
The same reasons which made it un-.
advisable to enter upon legislation at the
time of yonr last adjournment still exist;
hut, Within the jnst few day? the House ol
Represpntatlves of the United States Con
gress adopted a bill for the admission of
Georgia, by the terms which your organ!
zation is expressly recognized as “legal, 5
and your legislative action, in adopting the
conditions required by tho several re-con
struction acts, is approved. This bill, it is
believed, will he concurred in by tho Sen
ate within a few days. Pending sueh ac
tion, by the Senate, I would respectfully
recommend that you take a recess until the
loth instant, or occupy the interim in the
consideration of such resolutions as may
be presented. Kurus B. Bullock.
Ijr. Canrjlgr offered a resolution to ad
journ Hkeuie. “ ' ‘
r The ycaaand nays were demapded upon
the passage of the resolution with the fol
lowing result:
Yeas—Candler, Fain, Hicks. Holcombe,
Jordon, McArthur, Woottcn—7.
Nays—Campbell (15th amendment). Col-
man, Crayton (15th amendment), Dickey,
Dunning, Harris. Henderson, jjiguee^ones,
Jiatiicyi, Merrill,'' Richardson, Sherman,
Smith of the 7tb| Smith of th8 36th, Speer,
Travwick. Wallace (15th amendment.) and
Welch—19.
Those absent and not voting—
Bowers. Bradley (loth amendment).
Brook. Bruton, Barnes Corbitt, Griffin of
the 6th. Griffin of the 2!«r). flinton. Hnn-
gerford, McWhorter, Nesbitt, Nunnally,
Stringer and Wellborn. *
Mr. Candler wished to introduce a bill,as
tlm Senate had relns-d to adjourn.
Mr. Harris moved to adjourn until Mon
day next, 12 o’clock. M.
Mr. Candler thought that if tho Legisla
ture was competent to transact business,
the Senate ought to proceed. If the Gen
eral Assembly was not competent, then the
Senate should adjourn sine die. Ho spoke
of the gross outrage perpetrated upon the
people in adjourning from day to day with
out. doing anything, and spending the
money ol the pieopic.
Mr. Wooten sustained Mr. Candler’s
views, affirming that the Legislature could
transact business, because, the acts had been
recognized a3 legal, and no interdict had
ever been issued against their action. The
General Assembly had no right to adjourn
from day to day and invade the Treasury of
the State It was boldly asserted in Con-
gress that the expenditures of the present
: [legislature exceeded thatof any other ever
assembled, as there was a difference ot
opinion on the subject, the best course to
pursue is to adjourn, subject to be called
together upon the completion of legisla
tion by Congress, and in the meantime let
tbe people’s money alone.
Mr. Higbee favored adjournment.
Campbell (15th amendment) didn’t like
the frequent allusion to the tax-payers of
Georgia. Ilis burden seemed to bo that the
Radical party was not responsible for the
inaction of the General Assembly .but upon
those who blocked the wheels of Govern
ment.
[Campbell went on to Washingtou to
prevent the passage of the Bingham
amendment, if we mistake not.]
Mr. Harris would not charge the Demo
crats with speaking for buncombe, bnt ho
charged that the responsibility of the
present - condition of affairs in Georgia
rested upon Candler and Wooten, and that
their act in expelling tbe colored members
cost one thousand millions of dollars. If
Congress did not act, he was willing to go
forward and legislate; or if sho did act, he
was ready to do the same.
Mr. Speer offered, as an amendment to
Harris’ resolution to adjourn, “that the
members of the General Assembly draw
no per diem during the recess.”
President Conley Tuled that it was an ad
journment and not a recess, and, therefore,
tbe amendment was out of order.
Mr. Smith, of the 7th, favored adjourn
ment, and taking the 69 per diem as long
as he could get it. If the Legislature ad
journs sine die, “we” don’t know when
“we” will come back. If tho Legislature
adjourned sine die, he favored not drawing
per diem or mileage.
Mr. Candler—Doesn’t the railroads fur
nish you free passes?
Tho resolution to adjourn until Monday
next, at 12 o’clock, m, prevailed.
Thursday, July 7,1870.
The Honse met at 12 o’clock, u., pursuant
to adjournment, and was called to order by
Speaker McWhorter.
Prayer by Rev. M. Felder.
On motion of Mr. Darnell, the calling of
the roll was dispensed with.
The clerk read the journal of yesterday’s
proceedings.
Mr. Darnell offered a resolution amend
ing the 17th rule, so as to make it read
“majority” instead of two-thirds. Also,
changing the 19th rule, so as to read Cush
ing’s Manual, instead of Jefferson’s. These
resolutions went over under the rules.
Mr. Tweedy, from the committee ap
pointed to wait on tho Governor, reported
that Governor Bullock would communicate
with tbe General Assembly to-day in
writing.
On motion of Mr. Darnell, the Governor’s
communication was read. (See Senate pro
ceedings.)
Mr. Scott asked to know who Rufus B.
Bullock was, as there was no official signa
ture to tho communication, and moved to
lay the Governor’s communication on the
table. Defeated.
Messrs. McDougald and Pate were grant
ed leaves of absence on account of sickness
in their families. Mr. Page was also grant
ed loavo of absence.
Mr. Duncan, of Houston, moved to ad
journ until Monday next at 12 u.
Tho yeas and nays were called, which re
sulted in yeas 66, nays 48. So the House
stands adjourned until 12 o’clock m.
Monday. 11th July.
Monday, July 11,
The Senate met at 13, M» pursuant to ad-
i ournment, and was called to order by
.’resident Conley.
Prayer by Wesley Prettyman.
Mr. Harris moved to suspend the regular
order of business for tbe introduction of
resolutions and reports of committees,
which motion prevailed.
Mr. Harris offered a resolution continu
ing in force the Appropriation Act of 1S69,
until otherwise ordered by the Legislature.
Mr. Candler inquired whether General
Terry had signified his willingness to ap
prove such a resolution, and whether a
committee bad not better be appointed to
confer with General Terry on the subject.
Mr. Burns asked why Jhe change. At
the last session, the General Assembly was
told that they could do nothing without
the sanction of General Terry, and a com
mittee was appointed to confer witli him
as to what the Legislature could do.
Mr. Harris did pot belong to that class
who never changed their opinion.
Mr. Candler did not believe in the views
and arguments offered by the Republican
party, at the lost session, that tlie Legisla
ture could not act without the permission
of General Terry. He now desired to know
what was the intention of the Republican
party—whether they intended to transact
general legislation for the State, or adjourn
over.
Mr. Harris’ resolution was adopted by
the following yote:
Yeas—Bowers, Campbell, Colman. Cor
bitt, Crayton, Dickey, Griffin (21st.) Harris,
Henderson, Hicks, Higbee, Jones, Mathews,
Nunnally, Richardson, Sherman, Smith
(7th,) Smith (36th.) Speer, Traywlck, Wal
lace, Welch-32. *
Nays—Burns, Candler, Fain, Griffin, (6th)
Holcombe, Jordan, McArthur, Stringer
Wellborn, Wooten—10.
Tbo resolution was ordered transmitted
to the House.
Mr. Harris offered a resolution instruct
ing and directing the Treasurer of tbe
State to pay all legal claims against tbe
State out of the school fund now set apart
by him, and loaned at 3 per cent.
The resolution was tabled for the pres
ent. *
Mr* Speer, chairman of tho Committee
on the Penitentiaiy, submitted a report,
covering 200 printed pages, which was ta
bled for the present.'
On motion the Senate „ adjourned until
to-morrow morning, 10 o’clock.
[In the last proceediogs of the Senate,
through a misapprehension, Mr. Harris was
quoted as charging Senators Candler and
Wooten with costing tho State one thou
sand millions .of dollars. He only charged
them with costing tho State -$500,000—a
trifle in these days of Radical extraya-
gance.]
-w—
Monday, July 11.
The House met pursuant to adjournment
and was called to order by Speaker Mc
Whorter. •
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Smith.
On motion, the calling of the roll was
dispensed with.
The journal of the last day’s session was
read.
On motion of Mr. Watkins, tho Hon. H.
W. Hilliard was invited to take a seat on
tbe floor.' Adopted.
Mr. Hall, of Meriwether, offered a reso
lution asking that the amount of fund's in
tbe Treasurer’s hands for educational pur
pose? be applied to the payment of any
lawful demands on the Treasurer.
Mr. Hall moved to suspend the rules,
which motion was put and sustained, upoq
the call of the yeas and nays.
A motion was made by Mr. Lane to lay
the 1 isolation on the table, which was
lost.
Mr. Felder remarked that there was a
constitutional provision, declaring that tbe
educational fund should not be used for any
other purpose.
Mr. Hall, of Meriwether, said that he
was not clear as to the said provision, but
be knew that there was no money and a
want of it—
Mr. Rico stated tbat there was no imme
diate dernapd for this money, and that
there were reports of certain committees
which would clear up the matter of loan
ing the money at a low rate per cent- etc.
Mr. Btthune advocated the resolution
saying tbat the money coaid bo returned
to the fund.
Porter (colored) differed from Mr. Be-
tbunc. and hoped that the money in ques
tion would not be touched for other pur
poses.
Mr. Duncan spoko In favor of tho rcsoln-
tion. -
M r. Lane, ot Brooks, was opposed to any:
hast-v action In financial matters, and op
posed to adopting tho resolution.and would
prefer that it should be referred to a com
mittee.
Mr. Lee, of Newton, said that the State
needed money, and had some schools, but
if they had ho schools, he moved to post
pone the consideration ol' the question
until to-morrow.
Mr. Scott read two column* from the
Constitution in reference to the poll tax,
tax on shows, liquors, etc.
A message from the Senate was received
announcing that the general appropriation
act was continued by lliat body, in which
thev asked the concurrence of the. House.
Mr. Scott said that the poll tax was levied
lor educational purposes, and cannot be
used for eny other. Also, that there was n
great cry throughout the State for the ap-
ilication of this very fund for tlie cduca-
ion of the youth of this State.
Mr. Duncan stated that tlie object of the
resolution was only to borrow the money
from the educational fund, and if tlie State
used it, she is liable for its repayment; that,
it was a question of economy. Mr. Dun-
cau, at the conclusion of his remarks,called
the previous question.
The motion to put the resolution off un
til to-morrow was lost.
A resolution Ot indefinite postponement
prevailed.
A motion was made and carried to take
up the Senate resolution.
The question was put and a call made
for tbe yeas and nays, which resulted in,
yeas 57, nays 48. So the resolution was
adopted.
Porter, colored, moved to adjourn till to
morrow, 12 m. Lost.
On motion of Mr. Dnncan, Mr. Boully,
editor of the Hawkinsvillc Dispatch, was
invited to take? a scat on the floor.
Messrs. Kytle, Atkins, Salter and Wil
liams wore granted leave of abscnceto at
tend to special business.
A motion by O’Neal, of Baldwin, to ad
journ nntil 10 a. m. to-morrow prevailed.
Communicated. |
Our Conquerors—What are TUoir
Terms?
But who arc our conquerors, and what
arc their terms?
Our conquerors are composed mainly of
the old line Jacksonian Democracy.
When we undertook to dissolve the
Union and set up another nationality,
called the Confederate States, tbe Jackson
Democracy, both North and'South, said to
us: " By tub Eternal, the Federal Union
must and shall bo preserved.” And when
wc fired on Fort Sumter to inaugurate
the conflict, seventy-five thousand Union
Democrats of tho North flew to arms to
savo tho Union and the reserved rights of
the States under the Constitution, whilst
hundreds of thousands were eager to take
part in resisting our attempt to break up
the Union;
The present Radical schemes for central
ization, consolidation and prolongation
never entered the heads of those who real
ly whipped us. All they wanted, even af
ter tbe fight commenced, was for ns to lay
down our arms and. return to tho support
of the Union under the Constitution, and
exercise again all the rights and powers
not delegated for national purposes, bnt
“ reserved to the States respectively or to
tbe people.” This is all, wo suppose, they
want now, and is all they ever wanted.
Could Jackson himself rise from the grave,
ho would ask no more; and it is all Pres
ident Lincoln asked of us the first two or
three years of the war.
It was this demand of the Jackson De
mocracy, supported by Abraham Lincoln,
that conquered us, nnd put a stop to onr
disunion schemes. We committed ah error
in not accepting the terms offered, and in
persisting too long in tlie struggle. The
consolidationists nnd ultra abolitionists
(who did none of tlio fighting) took ad
vantage of this stubborn persistence, and
foisted upon the country their impractica
ble and revolutionary schemes. The Jack-
son Democracy, men worthy of our steel,
whipped us, and thereupon, those who kept
at a safe distance from the conflict, stepped
in and claimed to be our conquerors, arro
gated to themselves tbe right to dictate the
terms of peace—and such termsl A cen
tralized and consolidated government—a
I wrttaan rule with military power to pro-
one and perpetuate its existence.
These are terms now dictated to us, not
by our conquerors, but by a party that
stealthily secured scats in Congress, whilst
the Democrats and trno Union men were
engaged against us in a manly struggle to
preserve the Constitutional Union.
Now, in response to the late address of
the Democratic party (our real conquerors)
wo would say; “We accept your terms,and
pledge ourselves to aid yon in re-establish
ing and maintaining good government in
the Union under the Constitution of our
Fathers. The privilege claimed for a State,
at its own option, cither with or without
cause, to secede or withdraw from the
Union, is abandoned as a fallacy demon
strated by force of arms.
Tho experiment involves ns in war con
trary to the predictions of its advocates;
and instead or protecting us against tanat-
iclam and donsolidatlon, it placed us under
tlie power of the most ultra extremists, men
who kpew. no Constitution, no Union, no
law, that comes in conflict with their high
er law consolidation and prolongation the
ories.
Willing to profit by the evils growing
out of our own mistakes and errors, we
would endeavor to make the Union per
petual as a nationality, and to re-establish
and maintain the reserved rights of the
States according to the Constitution, and
to this end we deem it expedient to revive
and keep in remembrance tbe name of An
drew Jackson, whose administration was
Democracy of the Jeffersonian school, em
bracing a strict construction of the Consti
tution, and opposed alike to secession on
the one band and consolidation on the
other.
The Jacksonian Democracy was good
enough for us in the past, and it would he
the best for us now; and wc would not hes
itate to rally under the name of Jackson
ian .Democracy In our efforts to restore and
maintain good government.
St. Marks.
Agricultural Meeting iu Forsyth
County.
Cumminq, Ga., J uly 5,1870.
A portion of the citizens of the county
of Forsyth, having assembled in the Court
house to consider the propriety and im
portance of organizing ad agricultural
soticty,
On motion of Colonel H. P. Bell, J. S.
Brown appointed George Kellogg chair
man of the meeting, and Rev. A. B. Nuck
olls secretary.
Colonel Bell was then called upon to ex
plain the object of the meeting, which he
did in a few very appropriate remarks.
After which, tho following resolutions
were offered by Colonel H. C. Kellogg and
adopted:
L That a general meeting of the citizens
of the county be called to meet on the first
Tuesday in August next, at 10 o’clock, in
the Court-house, for the purpose of organ
izing an agricultural society for the
county.
2. That the Hon. W.D. Bently, Ordinary,
be, and is, appointed a committee of one to
notify the citizens of tho county and re
quest their attendance.
On motion of Rev. F. M. Hawkins, Colo
nel H. P. Bell, Hon. W. D. Bently and J.S.
Brown were appointed to draft and present,
at our general meeting in August next, a
constitution and by-laws for tho society.
On motion of Colonel Bell, it was resolv
ed tbat the procceedings of this meeting
ho published in The Atlanta Constitu
tion.
Tho meeting adjourned until the first
Tuesdry in August next.
GEORqR Kellogg. Chairman.
A- B- Npca'olls, Secretary.
fST A match game will come off during
tlio commencement exercises of Emory
College—(thol9thor20th instant)—thcEm-
ory base ball clnb of Covington and Ox
ford challenging any club in Georgia or
Tennessee to contest with them for a silver
pitcher, presented by McBride $ Co, of
this city. “ Pitch” In, yo«ng gents.
0TA correspondent of the Augusta
Chronicle and Sentinel suggests tho name
of Colonel John B. Walker, of Morgan
county, a practical planter, a high-toned
gentleman, fine administrative abilities,
for president of tho Georgia State Agri
cultural Society. Few men in Georgia are
better qualified for tbat position than
Colonel John B. Walker. I*r. M. ft Casey,
of Columbia, is alsq suggested,
LAMENT OF SAMBO.
■ rn/fji ‘mcn.iiaenis all In one,
1K- u hire lolk* w,y I’m not;
I rt«tirm«lrtSrv ie. in Tun,
Nnr zackl, tcArx* PVO (tot
I know I on-c lira’ll "liont a mole.
Dry Mhl rt»t I w-nlil Kit.
An-i ram do ricccn- v-tev- of Cools—
Tinks dey will git cm yit.
ISeJes been Jolted niunil and round,
Ei.iin this "ore p'aeo to iW,
An’ I swear nine blank dat I ain’t found
No place lllco old Mass Mat's.
I knew wc ha1 hard work to do.
An’ dat Irom year lo year.
Iloiti m ■ and 3am. and Cuff and D-cir,
lint ,icn wc dlil’nt care. ,
Enough to cat, wo always had,
Ann plenty close to wear;
A holliilay weaumtimes had,
lint dey was monstrous rare.
Butdcseole times nil gone, you know.
An* new *nns took dcre place
Un-cep I still must hoc and plow.
Or” hunt some udder placo.”
Fnr meat anil broad I hat to psy.
And ebry ting I git;
I jes lib long from day to day
Wid close all torn and silt.
F’o'tccn ’mcmlmcnts, and ffltocn more,
I feared will starve me ont.
Fur. tell you now. I’m monstrous poor.
And rations scarce about.
Itutdcn troll soon be in do States,
Wld ’structIon all complete.
I hope dere’ll bo somo change in fates.
An* niggers on dcro feet.
[The following exquisite gem is from tho
pen of Miss Fannie Casey, daughter of Dr.
Henry R. Casey, of Columbia county. Miss
Casey acquitted herself handsomely at the
commencement exercises of “ Georgetown
Academy of the Visitation," in the District
of Colombia.]
A FAREWELL TO THE ACADEMY.
BY KISS FANNIE CASEY.
Farewell, my Convent home;
■ Thy portals lov’d closed o’er me,
let olt shall memory bring
Youth's happy days before me.
A fairy dream ’twill over seem.
lly time and change ui*clouded;
Tbls vision bright my soul wi I light.
Whene’er bv gloom enshrouded,
Ab 1 we mast break the tics.
Tbat once so fondly bound us.
And brightened every Joy
That childhood cast around ns.
Oh. could my lone heart tell
How many chains I sever.
As now I bid larewcll
To girlhood’s days forever.
Like sunset's gleams my childnood seems,
More brilliant as it doses—
Tbo world so fair, hides oft sad care
And thorns beneath iu roses.
Yes. I mu-t say farewell—
Dear Convent home. I leave thee;
Bat mem’ry’s hallowed spell
Shall bring past joys before me.
The Air-Line Bailroad.
General Easley and our Mayor, Dr. W.
R. Jones, who have lately relumed from
tho meeting of the stock-holders of tho
Air-Lino Railroad, bring most cheering ac
counts therefrom. The Georgia and South
Carolina companies were consolidated at
the late meeting, and a new board of direct
ors elected. This new board comprises,
from South Carolina, General James W.
Harrison, Hon. J. P. Reed, General W. K.
Easley, and General Gabriel Cannon, with
eight others from Georgia and North Caro
lina. An Executive Committee, composed
of tho President, Colonel Buford, General
Austell and Mr. Hoyt, of Georgia, General
W. K. Easley, of South Carolina, ahd Mr.
McAdam, of North Carolina, was also ap
pointed and invested with all tho powers of
the directors.
Two tilings arc now fixed facts: one,
that tho road will be built, and tho other,
that it will bo built by Greenville. Tho
engineers will reach this point on their way
from Charlotte in about two months. They
arc then ordered to make a careful survey
of tho route from this point to Gainesville,
Georgia, by way of Anderson, and if it
should be found as practicable as any oth
er, it will bo adopted.
Ono very cheering and significant fact m
connection with the prospects of tho road is
the confidence of New York capitalists in’
tho success of the enterprise. One million
dollars worth of tho bonds of tho company
have been endorsed by the State of Geor
gia. But at tho recent meeting of tlio stock
holders it was resolved to surrender these
to tho State, inasmuch os it was found that
the first mortgage bonds of tho road were
worth more in New York than tho guaran
teed bonds.
Tho opinien was very commonly ex
pressed that wo would find no difficulty in
negotiating our city and county bonds at
eighty cents in tho dollar. So wo may
confidently expect to hear the whistle and
see tho rushing trains in two years.—Green
ville (iS. (7.) Mountaineer.
A Spouting Editor.—Tho Louisville
Commercial gives the following sketch of
one of its staff:
Our sporting editor is the only ono who
is not from tho North. Ho is from Geor-
g 'a, where ho was born and partly raised.
e amassed quite a fortuno during tho war
by dealing “ faro ” for Confederate money.
But ho woke up in tho morning after the
fall of Richmond a poor man indeed. In
his young days ho was a race-iider, and
can now tell tho pedigree of any race-horso
that is mentioned with a fluency that is only
excelled by the man Unit sells blacking on
the street corner. After he: became too old
to rido races, our sporting editor moved to
New York and put himself up as a prizo
fighter, but finding no ono to hack him ho
retired, wont to Washington and carried
brick on the capital extension for several
weeks.
Amassing in this a checkered pair of
pants, a beaver hat, a striped shirt, red
vest and twonty.five dollars in money, ho
went to New Orleans and kept door in a
gambling hell. While there tho war broke
out, and ho joined the Pcrritt Guards and
went .out to protect his rights. After
“ bracing ” the company, he deserted and
joined an Arkansas regimont and dealt faro
as abovo stated. Wo have no trouble in
sending our sporting editor off after news.
Tho trouble is gotting him hack. Ho al
ways gets broke—nover wins. He bet his
"expense money” and' railroad pass that.
Allen would whip Macc at Now Orleans,
and wo had to send him money to come
homo on. This money he list on a chicken
fight, and finally worked his way up the
river on a tow-boat.
A report of judicial statistics re
cently made by tho French Minister shows
that applications for separation de corps—
partial divorce—have largely increased of
fate years. In 1857 tho total number or
such applications throughout tho whole of
Franco was only 1,191, while in 1868 it
reached’no loss a total than 3,000. Tho
courts granted tho application in tho pro
portion of oighty-nino per cent. In 2,683
cases tho wife was the plaintiff, and only
u applications wore at tho instanco of
tho husband. Formerly judicial separa-
tions wero confined to tho wealthier por
tions of tho community, but it no w appears
that tho working classes frequently avail
themselves of tho law, as in 1868 no less
than 1,258 applications were at tho instancs
or persons styling themselves ouvriers or
ouvrieres. As might be expected, the vast
majority of separation cases proceed from
tho great cities, Paris ranking first, and fol
lowed in duo order by Bordeaux, Lyons,
Marseilles and Rouen. Of the 3,000 suits
instituted in 1808, in 24 cases tho parties
had been married less than a year; 519 from
1 to 4 years; 809 from 5 to 10 years; 1,219
from 10 to 20 years; 401 from 30 to 40
years ; 24 from 40 to 50 years, and in three
cases tho parties had been married for
more than half a century. In exactly two-
thirds of the cases there were children of
tho marriage.
The latest Sheridan-twenty-milcs-
away story comes from tho plains. A cav
alry officer reports that ho attacked a war
like party of eighteen Indians, and killed
sixteen of them; but, as was the usual cus
tom, the surviving Indians earned the dead
off the field and escaped with them.
To Keep Fresu Meats.—A gentleman
SOys, to preserve fresh meats for several
days, ho salts them down in an ordinary
Corn-sack. This process keeps off the flics,
and tenders tho meats cool and nice.