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Constitution.
ATLANTA, GA., FEHRtJARY 18,1872.
Thm Prat Ttuc.
Whe attention of ux collectors of the
513*r totalled to tie letter from the Comp-
Uwlk* Gca-iaL The press Ux is oot at
I reseat coHctUMe.
Hungarian Count at Lome Branch,"
ur “Eow it was Done,” is the title of a
laughable and Instructive story on the fourth
page. It tells a great deal about the six Miss
"Wrapwms. It teaches bow these youngladies
leaped the art of "giggling;” a very impor
tant art—how to giggle, when to giggle, or
«o bekr.re to giggle at the right time. We
ate also Informed how easily some\mcn are
* inmntrtt pleased." The story is tragic—
' Thccijstom boose inTestigalions in New
Yofk have shown a miserable amount of cor
ruption with which Grant’s household is di
rectly connected.
Giant was instrumental in getting Lett in
charge of the general order system. Leet
married a cousin of Grant’* wife. Leet has
■ olen right and left.
Grant Is «>x>ut to retire the general order
system, and send Leet elsewhere before the in-
restlgatloq is orer. It waa erer thus. The
lim Grtwtnccoaimodate* himself to circum
stances. -
Beauties ol the Radical
Hjrstem.
Tartar
g l^uitrstcs the beauties of the
turn system belter than the following UUr,
•bowing the duties collected at variousplaces
under It, and the amount of money paid for
the collection:
Salaries. DaUas.
APi-mirle, It. C $ «.»» 6 7CT
JUreataMe. Mass, MM T *-«*
tun. I
tie, Vi
i*Urw\
N.a.
i.Fto..
trrtown. ». C-...
MmMw, Maine..
MlcMjnn. Mkh.
NfWukTlf. J
K«rpnrt, t, V,
J’atrilico. N.C.
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TU>vi
Sf.JchM.FU...
*M7
•,771
4.154
1,744
70H
170
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UM
7.4M
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The Aetlea at the Fraaktert Holders
at Bullwck’s Banda.
The Savannah News hss the following hu
morous; but very proper comments on the
subject heading this article:
IV c print elsewhere a telegram from Frank
fort, Germany; in relation to the action
taken by the holders of Georgia bonds is that
city. The telegram states that a committee
has been appointed to lay the matter before
Congress and the President,* procedure that
will atrike every one a* being decidedly ap
propriate under ihe circumstances. If Grant
and his Congressional toadies had not foisted
Bollock upon the people of Georgia, regard
less of the fact that be waa defeated by a very
Urge majority of votes, there would now be
no bogus Georgia bonds in the market, and
our German friends, who appear to have
been most foully dealt with in this business,
might masticate their petrels and gulp their
lagerin peace. A special appropriation \tj
Congress for the purpose of indemnifying
these swindled bond holders would oot be
out of place; bat as matters stand, it is the
extreme of simplicity to suppose that the
people of Georgia, who have already been
mercilessly plundered, will redeem bonds
that really have no legal existence. In the
meantime, the gay and gallant Clews is still
flooding the State with his high-toned
pamphlets. Ri* J«t is a reply to the annual
report of Treasurer Angler, ««l ppporises,
among other things equally absurd, a digni
fied argument to tb* effect that Angler left
the Sooth during the war. Reduced to a
ayllogism,U amounts to about this: A soldier
is a patriot: Angler was not a soldier -, tbere-
fore,'these Georgia bonds should be redeemed.
This is so exquisitely amorous that we are
almost inclined to impute it to Ufa facetious
pen of that mad wag Lochnne.
THE COOK HABEAS CORPUS CASE.
Cook Admitted to Amend Ills ABda.
Tit and Discharged.
At ten o’clock this morning Judge Pittman
refused to discharge W. D. Cook, from Ful
ton county Jail. The following is bis de
cision.
Although there are four or five points al
leged by the plaintiff In bis petition for his
writ of habeas corpus, there .were only two
presented and argued before, this court to
wit:
Thatch is imprisonment is illegal In this that
the said committee have no power conferred
upon? them by the Constitution or laws of
this State to arrest and order petitioner to
prison.
That ha has been guilty <jf no contempt in
not prodndngjboofcs, as they were not In his
Tom xeott’a Southern Ballway So.
enrfty Company
The Richmond Whig gives the entire list
of autckboldcrsfa this big Company:
Baltimore—Alex. Brown A Son*, B. F.
Nryeomer, S. W. Shoemaker, W. F. Wal-
ter*. ,*
Pennsylvania—J. D. Cameron, G. W. Cass,
narrhhnrg Car Manufacturing Company,
John N. Hntchinson. I’. A. & S. Small, Thoa,
A. Scott, Trustee: A. J. Drexel.H. H. Hous
ton, G. W. Harris, 8. A XT. Welsh, George
Small,
T'-upi -sec—Joeepb Jaquea, C. H. McGhee.
Georgia.—it B. Plant.
New York—Wm. E. Dodge, Jr., Wm.
1,-owl-v A. Iaelin A Co., D. Willis Jama,
K. Jessup A Co, Morris K. Jessup, Roose
velt A Sou, R K. Wilson, Robert L. Kennedy,
J .lin A. Stewart, William H. Fogg, A. W.
White, A. 8. Hewctt, James Robb,J.J.Milch-
; 11, J>*. Schundort A Bon, W. II. Asplnwall,
E. Colwell, G. D. Pbelpb*.
England— DmM JeMgiPjfiOSI. O.
Homans.
The Whhfgive* the following list of Somli-
ert roads in which this monster comblnaiion
hold: a majority of stock.
Raltmmia. MDee. 8Wr
WralafUmaod Weldon 181 . MSI
Norlbcaetani, of bon *.h Carolina.. -lot SAGS
Jttrhmnrid and Danville— ISO 01,(00
JtotTeimnew.VIrilnlssiidOeor. ^
fa'iflatur. CoiurabU and Angu/u lOS J3.0M
Richmond and IVtcraborg W *871
rh.r*w and Darlington SO
Wilmington, Cotmuhl* and Aujus-
.105
13.071
WSjgv.T*.:::.*:
’ Tt Scents that the government spends $1,COO
at Wheeling, W. Va., in order to collect 10
Than are a great many more offices that
hardly pay expenses. Such publications are. y M „„
well calculated to strengthen those who insist" custody or control and that he has preached
up< >n absolute free trade and direct taxation, his affidavit to said committee, showing that
he lias been guilty of no contempt in the
premises.
The points presented in this case inas
much as they are rather novel and involve
the liberty of a citizen are important, and
the Court has listened to the argument of
counsel with a great deal.of interest
It is contended by the counsel for the
plaintiff, who cite several authorities, that a
refusal to appear and testify before >uch a
committee or to produce books or fibers be
fore it cannot be punished by said committee,
bat that the conduct of the offending party
can only be reported back to the authority
raising the commiltco for its action. Thij
position might be true as to a committee ap
pointed by either House solitajy and alone.
But here we have a committee appoin'ed by
the General Assembly of tbe State of Geor
gia, by a resolution that has the sanctity and
solemnity of a statute, approved by the Gov
ernor.
This Committee then, to raised and em
powered to act by the Sovereign 8 tats of
Georgia, and not by one bouse or branch of
the General Assembly. It has power to send
for persona and papers, and to compel the at
tendance of witnesses, etc. It follows then,
as a matter of course, that said Committee
c tn use the same legal means to compel the
attendance of witnesses and the production
of papers, within the scope of its authority
and Jurisdiction as a court.
As to the second point then, which tan
soon be disposed cf. Is the contempt charged
merely punitive, or to it remedial f Clearly
remedial. The Committee requires Mr.
Cook, according to law, to produce cer
tain books which they conceive are
uy to the administration of
justice. ne fails to produce the
liooks, and attempts to purge himself by
affidavit. I have closely scrutinized wbat
purports to be a copy of said affidavit, and
do not think it coma up to tbe statute. Let
him make affidavit in the language of tbe
statute, that the said book* were not in his
power, custody, possession or control, and
that they were notat the time of serving said
subpoena, and deliver it to said committee, or
cither of the attorneys, and this court will
order his discharge immediately.
It is not only the privilege and duty of a
lions corpus court to inquire into the legali
ty of the commitment of a prisoner, bnt of
their detention alto. A prisoner may be
legally committed, bat illegally detained.
As an Instance, a prisoner may be legally
sentenced to jail for twelve months. Uisde-
tenlion by the jailor for 12 months to legal;
but if he to detained longer than twelve
months, it then becoma illegal, and a habeas
corpus court would discharge him.
Counsel for petitioner then announced their
willingness to complr with tbe law.
The copy of tho original affidavit append
ed to the writ, and sworn to before A. B.
Culberson, but which lacked both the signa
tures of Cook and Culberson, was amended
by inserting the words italicised,. viz: And
not at any time subject to the control, custo
dy or possession of deponent, and said books
are not now, nor have not been at any time
since being served with said notice, and acre
not at the time of serring said subpoena to pro
duce them, in his power, custody or control.
The first affidavit was made before Culber
son on the 1st, and amended before Judge
Pittman on the Orb, after the expiration of
the ten days.
The amended affidavit watjpidered Solici
tor General, but he declined to accept it, hold
ing that it shonld go to the committee.
Judge Pittman passed an order granting
tbe discharge of Cook on the payment of
Aggre-ate I,1S7
To these may bo added the lease of the
North Carolina Railroad and Memphis and
Charleston.
Thu Richmond Air-Line to also to be added.
Soott and Cameron are among the lessees of
the State Road.
Tho Whig alluda to the fact, that the
most of till) roads bought by the company
are not paying roads, and therefore it Infers
t' i»t the company mnst expect to realize their
profits by swindling.
The Augusta Constitutionalist, while not
going an far as the Whig, calls for informa
tion as to the plans, purposes, and mt
the company.
Borne days ago a yonng man from the
country, afflicted with kleptomania, swindled
one of our warehouse firms ont of ten dol
lars as an advance on a bale of cotton which
he never hnt), or had any means of procuring.
Ho was tried,’eonvicled.and sentenced to
Ann of #100 and costs, and to stand commit
ted until pahl. Hto wife, a worthy woman,
begged and borrowed fifty dollars, which was
all the could scrape together, and appealed
to Judge Cole to reduce the fine. Tho Judge
rightly decided that pardon and commutation
were matters within the province of the Ex
ecutive alone, but commiserating the woman'
distress, he countersigned her petition to the
Governor, and the Solicitor prb tem. did the
the same, and agreed to forfeit Uls costs in
the came. Mr. Ross, the Clerk of tho Court,
also agreed to remit his costa. The kind-
hearted Solicitor-General then drew up a me
morial to the Governor for the woman, and
yeatehlay reeeivod the following answer,
which will show everybody that if they sin
they must suffer under Governor 8mith’a ad
ministration :
Executive Department,
State of Georgia,
Atlanta, February 5,1812.
John S. Bosnia, Esq., Macon, Go.:
Dear Sir—I am directed by hto Excellen
cy the Governor, to acknowledge the receipt
of your favor or tho 3d instant, with the in
dorsement of lion. C. B. Cote, asking that
one-half of the fine imposed by Judge Cole
on one Her-ry Smith be remitted, and to say
that the trial and punishment of violators of
the law, are left properly, with the courts,
and that he does not feel disposed to inter
fere with their action, except in cases of
manifest error. Yourself end Judge Cole
are recognized officers of the court by which
said Smith was tried and sentenced—you as
tho prosecuting officer, and he as the presid
ing Judge. As officers of the law, you both
acted under the solemn sanction of an oath.
As petitioners asking for the remission of
part of the sentence sought by the one and
pronounced by the other, yon are doubtless
influenced by feelingsof sympathy alike nat
ural and honorable. Hto Excellency, how
ever, feels constrained to abide by your of
ficial action, and to allow the law to have its
count. Very trnly.yoors,
P. W. Alexander,
Secretary Executive Department.
Modem ntepraph.l
Tbe above is a matterfor high commenda
tion upon the Executive. The interposition
of Executive authority to set aside the solemn
verdicts of the legal tribunals after fnll in
quiry is to be rarely exercised. Governor
Smith taka the right view of the matter.
We do not ere in saying’that Governor
Bullock did more to encourage tbe
forma tori op of crime in the State by hto
abuts of the pardon power, than all other
agenda* pat together. The certainty of
pnntohment is the strongest preventive of
crima. The certainty of escaping the penal-
tits of outraged, law is the strongest encour
agement to criminals. Offenders in Georgia
had oaased to fear the courts because of Bul
lock’s willing exercise of Executive clem
ency.
Governor Smith, we are rejoiced to see, is
going to back the courts and uphold tbe ad
ministration of justice. We knew that he
would do so. We shall certainly have less
crimp
For United States Senator.
EUton Constitution: I hereby nominate
Bon. Herbert Fielder for the United States
Senate,’io succeed the Hon. Joshua Hill This
election, as I understand it, win take place
upon the meeting of tbe Legislature in Jan
uary next. A better
made in the State.
r selection cannot be
The Kimball House.
This fine hotd building is in big dispute,
therefore a history of it will not be untimely.
H. L Kimball built the hotel at a cost of
(830,000. This does not include the furni
ture, which is owned by Mr. S. E. Critten
den, and cost (100,000. The building is not
fully complete. It is believed (30,001 would
finish it
There was purchase money due on the lot
of (11,000 to Me. Thompson, *3,000 to Mr.
K Peters, and (2.0C0 to Mr. John P. King.
The mechanic’s liens and taxes amounted as
follows:
Cook was arrested immediately afterwards
on two warrants charging him with cheating
and swindling the Stale out of (15,962 02 on
February 17,1870. and (9,440 23 on the 16th
of April, 187J. He waived examination and
gave bond in the sum of (10,500.
The ainntT-Trlcp Amir.
We give in another column the cards of
Gen. (lanry and Mr. Trice in regard to the
difficulty between them on a train of the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Con
nected as the matter is with* the scandal
against Jlr. Davis, it has a wider public inter
est than it otherwise would have.
The sentiment in the South has steadily
set in acureent of utter disbelief in and rejec
tion of the accusation against Mr {Davis. And
the belief is very general that it was put in
motion to maliciously break down the pure
fame of the Confederate Chieftain to gratify
Radical -venom. Those, who like the writer,
were North when the affair come out, and
saw the hot exultation over it among the
Radicals could well come to the conclusion
that it was a partisan ruse.
Of course the people of the South have
sympathized with and exonerated Mr. Davis,
aid condemned his.traducers. The matter
has had a sectional aspect. That Mi. Trice,
the author of the scandal, should have suf
fered contempt to natural, and he appears to
hive been stung by it into a very savage ac
rimony.
General Maury appears to have shown hto
disapproval of the man while traveling on
the cars, in an entirely unexceptionable man
ner. On learning that he was in Trice’s car,
he quietly left iL As the facta are disclosed
by the cards, the attack on General Maury,
an old, enfeebled man, by Trice was brutal
and unprovoked. Trice followed up General
Maury and provoked the difficulty.
There can be but one decision on the mat-
by an impartial reader, and that must be
the otter condemnation of Mr. Trice.
3.C.FMS, — .... llooo
Pitts* Cook, » -~-
CrtjrTaxes.7!
Stale sad County Taxes
(«£»
The following mortgages cover the prop
erty:
John Bice, Atlanta S!43SOO
A. Johnson, New T«rk sjjioo
SSTotal ixu,tS
This makes an aggregate as follows:
Dae on Land g 4iM 0
ena and Taxes
wwra
Whole Indebtedness 8M1.C00
We thus see the whole indebtedness under
Mr. Kimball's ownership was (261,009. The
indebtedness has since grown several thou-
and dollars from interest and taxes.
For the purpose of raising money on the
Ipue, Hr. Kimball sold the property in May,
{870, to the Atlanta Improvement Company,
of which H. L Kimball was President and
George W, Adair, Secretary. The price was
(630,000'of which (350,003 was payublc in
stock, and (100,000 payable in twenty years
seven per cent, gold bond*
The building was advertised to be sold
under t!i«p Jieus—Hall’s. Hceley fc Berry’s,
and Peck's, one a laborer's lieu, and the others
contractors’ liens. Mr. Hall’s lien was with
drawn, but is since paid. Mr. Rice,
made affidavit as a creditoi objecting
that tho contractors' liens could not be
enforced under the summary process for
preserving laborers’ liens, which wassupposed
to be satisfactory to the Sheriff. He finally,
however, at the last hour, sold the property
under the contractors* lien, disregarfiipg the
affidavit, no bond being given, and Mr.
IJU1 bid off tbe property for Mr. Thompson
for (15,000, and took tj,p Sheriff’s deed to
and possession of the properly, Tbe rents
amount to abort (3C,000 a year not.
Of these bonds (310,00 were deposited in
trust to secure above debis. The remaining
(190,000of bonds were hypothecated iu New
York at about fifty cents on the dollar, which
Mr. Kimball got
The Atlanta Improvement Company con
sisted w follows:
George W. Adair..... m
MOO.
These 2JM.0 shares of ( 00 each constitute
the (250,000 stock for which the building was
sold. It wUl be seen that there was very lit
tle change in the ownership.. Mr. Kimball
still retaining the trait talk of tbe property,
but holding it as a shareholder in an incor
porated company, whose bonds could be more
easily disposed of.
The legal dispute now is between the
mortgagors Mr. Rice and Mr. Johnsdh and
Mrr Thompson, the successful bidder and
present owner. The mortgagors conti st the
legality of the sale. How the dispute will
end of course ■ the courts will determine.
Col. L. E. Bleckley represents the mortgagors,
and Hon. B. H. HUI the purchaser, Mr.
Thompson. Both are confident of success.
Mr. Crittenden in the meantime lias run
the hotel brilliantly, leaking it the best kept
hotel in the South and inferior to none North,
We are glad to learn that the changes of
ownership fa the building carry no change of
proprietorship. Bp to last October the pro
prietorship ^consisted of Jlr. Crittenden and
and Jlr. JIcCoinbs. Since then Mr. Critten
den has been sole pgpprielnr. ne has made
hosts of friends by his courtesy and fair
dealing, and wc trust that he will remain
with ns for many years.
Mr. Crittenden will still continue his
splendid management of this great house.
The city and hotel cannot afford (ogive
him up. The advantage of a first class hold
to a city like Atlanta to incalculable. It can
not lie estimated. We trust that our city
may always have this great advantage.
Mr. Thompson, we learn, has sold a third in
terest each to Colom-l Adair and B. H. Iiilh
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
An Interesting Letter from the state
School Commissioner—Xhe taw tn
Hegard to Public Schools.
Editors Constitution: Permit me, through
your columns; to give, as briefly as possible,
certain information, 1st, to those interested
in the public schools to be inaugurated for
the year 1873, and, 2d, to those who have
rendered services the past year and arc still
unpaid-
First, as to the schools for the present year.
Under the amended school law, no schools
can he established fa any county nntil the
fall term of the Superior Court for that
county. The only school officers for the
county, under -the law, will bo the County
Board, to be composed of five freeholders,
and the County-Commissioner, chosen by
them either from their own number, or from
the citizens of the county. The Grand Jury,
at its first session after the passage of the
taw, (sea 16), to to choose this Board, and it
to made the duty of the Board (6ea 19) to
” make an estimate of the amount necessary,
fa addition to what will be received from
the State, to cany on said schools for at
lost six months in the year/ which esti
mate shall be placed before the Grand
Jury at its next session, and said Grand
Jury may, if they approve said estimate
authorize the Ordinary or County Commis
sioner fa such county to levy a county tax
sufficient to raise the required sum." Thus
it to clear no connty tax can be levied till the
fall term of tbe coart; and sec. 30th, pro
vides that “fa case tbe Board of r ducat ion
of any county shall fail to make the neces
sary provisions for continuing the schools fa
operation the length of time herein required,
(six months, or fa the case of ambulatory
schools; three months—Com.,) sueff- graded
or high schools and primary schools, as the
case may be, shall not he entitled to any por
tion of the school fond arising from the
State tax during the next succeeding school
year or subsequent school years, until the es
tablishment of such school or schools, but
such fund shall remain fa the treasury of
the State of Georgia.” This last quotation
seems to establish it as the policy of the law
to pay over to no connty her pro rata part of
the State fund, till tbe constituted authori
ties levy toe necessary connty tax. It is
clear, then, that no schools can be established
tUl the second term of the court, and not
then without the grand jnry shall authorize
the levy of the necessary county tax. "
would, therefore, recommend tethers to
open private schools upon their own terms
for the first half of the year.
2. As to the compensation for services ren-
Ted by teachers and others the past year,
will be seen from tbe copy of toe law.which
has been generally distributed among the
school officers, that section 4th of the act ap-
nrove-1 20th of January, 1872, authorizes the
Governor to draw hto warrant on the Treas
urer fa favor of the State School Commis
sioner for the sum of three hundred thou
sand dollars to be paid ontof the funds then
fa the Treasury appropriated by law to the
public school system, and if said fund is in
sufficient to pay toe debt now due to the offi
cers and teachers of public schools; section
5tb provides that the. amount shall be raised
by a sale of bonds now fa the Treasury of
toe State underact of July 16th, 1870. It to
impossible for me to tell when this money
will be ready for distribution for several
reasons. In the first place there to great un
certainty as to what amount to due the school
fund and it to impossible to ascertain at pres
ent what portion of this to now fa the treas
ure. Second, A proviso to the section fa
reference to the sale of bonds says <h»t
they shall not be sold at raxes injurious
to the credit of the State, to be left
to the discretion of the Governor. Third,
Another proviso requires the money
to be distributed fa the proportion of the
children of each county entitled to the priv
ileges of the public schools, and there are
thirty counties fa the State that have cot
made full returns as to the number of chil
dren so entitled. Just as soon as the neces
sary steps can be taken to realize the money
fa a manner which shall accord with the pro
visions of the law, i: will be done, and the
partia.fa interested shall receive the proper
official notice from this department.
Gc5U.tcsJ.Oer,
State School Commissioner.
A WASHINGTON LI3TTEIC.
Amnesty-Old ZacTchwdter bn the
Rampage-stunner Still Biding Hie
Blnck Hobky.Repentant kekela—
The English Cempiicmtien.
From an Inecaiar Correspondent.J
Washington, February 2,1872.
Before this communication reaches you
the death of the “amnesty hill” may have
been “tolled” o’er the wires. SenstorRobert
son, of South Carolina, had this bill fa charge,
and it to supposed he will make no more at
tempts to bring it up this session. As usual,
it stirred up the “billions” Rads who have
neither heart nor brain—nothing to recom
mend them to their constituents except their
hatred of Southerners. Senator Schurz’
pita for amnesty would have been most
creditable to a “native born American.” Hto
theory is the only one tG bring peace between
the two sections. Mr. Carpenter, of Wiscon
sin, says the government has been ex
tremely generous and merciful fa dealing
with the rebels, but they (the rebels) had
given no evidence of repentance or loyalty,
and he really believed fa twelra months
from the passage of this bill Jefferson Davis
would be fa the Senate, and when Jeff Davis
fa put on the same footing with Grant and
Sherman, he expects no more consideration
at the Sooth for the sentiments of Northern
Yankees.” He is a statesman undoubtedly.
Pious Jlr. Zarbartoh Chandler, of Jlichigan,
gave vent too hto feelings after the manner
of “Good Queen Bess” (when fa a fit of jeal
ousy she shook the dying Countess fa her
bed.”) “God m-y forgive, 11 but he would
never forgive no repentant rebel.”
* If God ordains in different dimes,
Ken different views should take,
. Who dart aver they thoald anffer here.
Who strnseled for conscience sake."
Six long and weary years have passed since
the South laid down her arms. Where
to the “peace" or piece that has come
to us? The war has been carried
on without shot or shell—just as swiftly as
when the cannons boomed loudest. Within
the ‘I Kalis dj' Ctqugfesv tnef* has keep par
ried on a war of actions sqd bitter words”
Tiic post with all its “ sad memories” is con
stantly dragged up before us—if we wanted
to forget, we are not allowed to do It. It to
now clear to my mind we can make no new
history jand the past tells us “ No Republic,”
even once dissevered by civil war, has ever
been united for any length of time after
wards. Athens, under Thrasybulus, held
together for twelve years—” Proscriptions,
hatred, quarrels, jealousies”—|ust as the
eleven Southern gtates) are held tq-day. I
often ask myself why are Ihgse men so terri
bly afraid of the South being represented by
Southerners? it seems impossible to dis
mount Mr. Sumner from the steed
that carried him an to fame and
glory—(the negro). . He mounts the
old “dead horse,” with the same pomposity
and gravity, I imagine “Don Quixote” charg
ing the “wind mills," possessed. He seems to
be wholly unconscious he to bestriding a “skel
eton,” that can no longer carry him, a “wor-
rior brave when shot and shell are dying.”
Deaf to the groans of the white slaves of his
own State, he bestows his sympathy upon
the negrqes of the afiulh. Be hW l|red and
exulted jn septug dtp proud Sfatp of South
Carolina proatratc and groaning in agon v; at
every groan (which seems to be music to his
ears,) he plunges his spurs into the bare ribs
of hi»-Boijby 1 ’ and W fa Ijb (Jeep '‘Wood
hound" like voice, “Hunt tlip slave owners
to tho death, no mercy for the white man.”
Little did Preston Brooks (when from a pull
impulse he struck that man) think bow hto
kindred and hto native State would have
pay In after years for it “Man is a wolf
his brother man,” is literally verified in the
case of this mm Sumner towards tbe South-
man.
“Unrepentant Rebel*” What time has the
South bad for repentance ? The whole course
of this administration! has been calculated to
make the South anything but sorry for her
failure fa freeing herself from such unfeeling
and ungenerous enemies. To me it seems
strange, in this free land, that men fa “brief
authority” can lord it over one portion or
section to keep in place and power the other
—to claim ali lheHfaa?esan4 fishes,” We of
the South have as much rlght'to our opinions
and traditions as the people of New England.
The papers North arc filled dtily with hor
rible murders—for money, for love,
Tor jealousy. Were one-tenth part
of these crimes committed fa the
old slave holding States, there would
a “ billion on ’em,” as Rataey Aycock said,
when speaking of Sherman’s humtjiors, viz
Great Ma ch to the Sen, sent down here tc
"capture" our household goods and scare the
woman and children to death, f wish they
would let us forget; for God knows, siupe the
war we have sat over the ashes of our houses
and worn sack cloth. “A heavy heart car
ries not an humble tongue.” Arc we ex
pected “to bend the knee and bow the head’
when our would-bc lords and masters come
along ? Wc have shown every sign of trying
to behave ourselves. No pardon yet Are
we never to be forgiven ?
Here is my definition of a Southern
“ Relicl.”
“ Rebel ’’—Because he loved his State—her
name w -s music to bis watchful ear.
t a kindling flame
ard her glorlona name.
THH JEFF. DAVIS SCANDAL:
T he AaaaiaU at Caadnclar Trice waa
General a. H. Saury.
—' irag- -y
Beth Mdea el Ike story*
■
Uardn from Gpn Howry and Trice.
[From the Huntsville (AU-T Democrat,
The Mempliis jU>peal, and possibly other
papers, have published nn account of an
assault made by Mr. Trice, the conductor of
a sleeping car on the Memphis and Chi
ton railroad, cm General Dabney H. Mi
on the night of January 31, at Chattan^ 0 „
This account wife very materially from the
i * if « — cuuur.
1>l*c.d>iid docks behind the plow.
The Autumn ereiles with mellow rev.
His sleep old Winter hashes.
He cores not how.the world mar more.
nor fears confound him. *
Til It it I* 1 liftCt in 1; nl-nj In t.\..
flock is linked in love,
^And household anrels round Mm:
He trusts to God add lovea his wife.
^ Nor griefs nor I’.ia may harm her.
fVE ' Jhe
pubUcofanionfa^i'tofavorf^&neralMmny^
although persuaded by friends to publish a
statement of th«.facts, was exceedingly
averse to public notoriety, and deferred -
making any publication until the appearance
of the article in the Appeal, which is so va
riant from the facte that he has felt con
strained to place in our liands for publication
the following private letter, which he ad
dressed, on the 1st icet, to Major Wicks,
President of the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad Ck-mpanr.
We have known General Maury from boy
hood, having been.a fellow-student with him
at the University ct Virginia. He has made
his own imperishable public record by valu
able services as officer iu the Mexican
war, wWu he received honorable wounds in
both arms, and as j* General in jthei Confeder
ate service, where his cause was ever “up
ward and onward, and. true to the. line” of
patriotic duty. Me, therefore, credit the eh-
tire truthfulness ft hh statement, and have
no nesitancy in debouncingMr.lVice's assault
on him uncalled Jor. cowardly,' and brutal.
Its dastardly character to aggravated by the
fact that General Maury, to a man of small
stature and inferior strength, unarmed, and
with both arms ii(ured bv wounds received
fa his country’s service.
HTThe New York Tribune says that Bar
naul now has the only living giraffes on this
continent, having just succeeded fa bringing
two of them across the ocean. He last year
lost three, who died on the trans-Atlantic
voyage.
He fought for God, hts state and troth.
Rebel—because he felt
HI- State dearer than himself.
Next to his God, to her he knelt.
She was bis bright and guiding star.
And In her light he knew his light.
And In her darkness feels his night, 1
A German paper, speaking of the Alabama
claims, says “the tribute which Germany
draws from France, after a complete victory,
is insignificant compared with tbe compen
sation that the American government de
mands in virlure of a treaty which enthusi
asts describe as the inauguration of a new era
—of peace and friendship.”
This German paper gives, in mv opinion, _
just view of this whole thing, and a war will
yet be the result of those Alabama claims.
MEMO A.
Chandler, of Jlichtg&n, waa whipped by
Wigfall, of Texas, which accounts for his
unforgiving nature toward rebels. He did
not defend himself, but took it like a man,
Wigfall is dead and Chandler to on a ram
page. Ten years after Sumner was immor
talized by Pre3ton Brooks caning him.
“Great oaks front little acorsgrow.” The
slaveholder's cane made Sumner smart and he
gave him liis one idea—“the nigger.
Talbott.
Political Items.
The Philadelphia Academy of Music has
been engaged for three days and nights for
the Office Holders' Convention, fa June.
If Western papers are to be credit! d, the
Labor Reform Convention, which meets at
Columbus, Ohio, on the 17th, will, perhaps,
postpone proceedings till the meeting of the
Liberal Republican Convention at Cincin
nati, with which it will, in sentiment, unite.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, commenting
upon Senator Chandler's remarks in the Sen
ate, says that “although God might forgive
an unrepented rebel, he (Chandler) never
would,” observes that “this to not the only
difference with the Almighty, that the Jliclii-
gan Senator will probably he called upon at
the bar of the great judgment day to an
swer.”
The paternal progenitor of the President,
although so disabled by disease that a special
agent has to be employed at a salary of
(1,600 per annum, to take charge of the
Covington post office, still continues to draw
hto own salary of $3,400.
At the recent dinner in Boston, of the
American Academy of Dental Science, the
imperial present taker was toasted in the
following style: “The health of the present
Presi-Dent of tbe United States, General
Ulysses S. Grant, who from hto numerous
Dent-al connections and hto great admiration
of the family—as evinced by his marrvtag a
Dent, and appointing so many Dents to
office—may be fairly considered the most
distinguished Dentist fa the land."
Hon. Jefferson Davis was one of the com
mittee that welcomed the Duke Alexis to
Memphis.
Toe vote for a Constitutional Convention
in Ohio, as canvassed by the Legislature, to
284,970 yeas and 10L231 nays
Ole Bull is playing hto celetoated violin to
large audiences fa the towns in the interior
of Pennsylvania.
The demand for meat of the buffalos killed
fay Alexis, is so great that SCO buffalos have
been cut up to supply it at St Joseph, Mix,
alone.
A bill to before the Utah Legislature pro
viding that boys of fifteen and girls of
twelve may many with the consent of their
parents.
The number of financial failures in the
United States last vear were 2,915, fa 1870
the failures were 3,551. In 1871 the failures
in Georgia were 42.
The infidels of Massachusetts have sub
scribed thirty thousand dollars for the erec
tion of a bunding for their nse fa Boston, to
be named Paine's Memorial Halt
South Carolina flews Items.
Neil Warner, the English tragedian, and
Grace Rawlinson, are delivering recitations
from the poets in Columbia.
Tbe stableof Captain J. C. 8. Brown, near
Newberry, and several valuable bead of
horses were burned to death a few days ago.
J. J. Darlington, a gentleman of high cul
ture and attainments, has been called to a
professorship fa the College at Rome, Ga.
AKeriBe Medium.
The Marion Crescent says that the Sheriff
of that connty sold one tract of land on
Monday last, worth (600, for (15, and other
tracts were sold at almost nominal figures.
t country's sqvipc,
Mr. Tripe 18 UiPtoss Who perpetrated the
scanda) about Jlt-Jelferson Davis, and, if
reports are true, many passengers have hesi
tated and refused to take berths fa liis sleep
ing car fa consequence of their disbelief of
his statement in that connection. He ought
to be summarily dismissed from the road.
Hereto
OEXEDAI, MAURY’S LETTER.
Huntsville, February 1,1873.
Major M. J. HVij .-
Dear Sir—Last night I arrived fa ChaUa-
nobga by the train from Virginia, having
been state h unday week traveling almost
daily.
I, therefore, went into the deeping car ot
Chattanooga to secure some hours of rest
Tho conductor of the sleeping car met me,
and politely informed me that any of the
berths would be at mv service, os he had no
other passengers. I laid my traveling bai
and shawl upon a seat, and fell toto a civi.
chat with the conductor, during which he in
formed me he was from Louisa county, Va.,
the adjoining county to my own. Spotisylva-
nia. I asked him hto name. He saiu his
name was Trice. I turned from, him, and,
Wiiitfiut a word, jock uu H.y vajisu and shawl
and went otfl of tl;c sleeping car and went
into the next par in front .
I had i)cen in thatearaboutfivoortcnmfa-
Utcs, when I missed the cape of my overcoat,
and thinking I »iaM V+'etofl it iu the restaur-
ofthede:
ant ortfcede
jtQl, went hastily fa mid asked tho
proprietor if l had left my cape there. He
told me no. I then went into the sleeping
car to look for it. and found it Iu the seat
where I had placed it. I took it up and was
on my way out of the car with it when the
Bame conductor confronted me and said to
this effect: “You lift this car very abruptly
Just now, sir; why did you do so?" Hto
tlM ItiDEVEXDEXT VAllMES
Let Mftors itag or IhT^rindv deep.
Let the sojoier* praise their
Burin my h«*art this toast 1*11 keep—*
The Independent Farmer,
when first the rose, in robe of men.
Unfolds its crimson lining,
And round Us cottavc porch is seen,
gathcrinjhw)ney^^ nCa> 7ldd
H^drives his team across tho field.
B skies are soft and sonny.
behind its bongh
a uc nome ne jotcs so dearly;
The gray old barn doors unfold
Hia ample store in measure.
More rich than heaps of hoarded sold.
A. precious, blessed treasure;
• t " d9
The sweetest rose on all his lands—
HUH6ARIAN COUNT AT 1018 8RAKCH:
OB
HOW IT WAS BQNE.
BY K. M’CREDY.
“ Well I” cxcIaimedMrs. Simpson, “if, you
don t catch a husband in that dress, Matilda.
Vou 11 never catch one. I did not have any
thing hair so stylish as that when I caught
your father, hut then, to be sure, he wasn’t
much of a catch, I hope you will do better.
Six girls to settle iu life. Do exert your-
smyes a little. Don’t leave everything to me
Where to yonrfather?” *
-ri.SJIe’a out on the steps, smoking a cigar,
“Just like him; no ambition at all?”
Then Sirs. Bimpson stopped talking for a
few minutes, and set to work. Bite worked
like a—like a whole bec-hlve. She would
pack a trunk, then take everything out of it
just to put them all into it again, giving her-
self about four times os much trouble as was
accessary. But then she was one of those
women who like to be martyrs, or to appear
like martyrs—who make themselves out
staves to their husbands and children. The
Simpson a present destination was Long
Branch. They had examined tho column of
summer resorts fa the daily Herald for weeks
hoping to find something that would com
bine fashion and cheapness; hut as these
things are rather Incongruous, they, fa view
of the superior advantages that might be de
rived from it fa a social and mairimonial
way, chose the fashionable,and discarded the
cheap. Long Branch it should be.
“Because, girls,” JIrs. Simpson truly le-
lnarked, “the beach to such a nice place for
flirtations. Not that I, as a mother, would
wl Jh fa encourage such things. Oh, no (”
Jlr. Simpson, Mrs. Simpson, and six Misses
Simpson, were registered at a Long Branch
hotel. » shan’t aay which one, forparticnlar
reMons. Bnt it w'as a very expensive one.
Now, Mr. Simpson,” exclaimed the madam
—the general, I think, wc ought to call her
— introduce tfie girls! Whu were those
nice-looking young gentlemen I saw yon
talking to?”
“Really, my dear, I don’t know.”
?? u fl'fl. then. You have no s .— — .....
ambition at all, Mr. Simpson. Go, find outg pressed hto deep regret that so eminent
manner was aggressive. I replied: “Because,
sir, I chose to do go •” and, then, with coarse
language, and insolent manner, he demanded
again my reasons. I replied; “I left the
car because you are the author of a
scandal upon the Southern people.”
He then ran to the stove, took up
an iron poker about eighteen inches long,
and came quickly up to me with it, denounc
ing, and then threatening me fa violent and
foul terms, Until I had reached the door of
the sleepfag par, wficn just as I stepped oat
Upon the platform of the car he suddenly
caught mo around the neck with the arm,
holding bis lantern, threw mo down upon
the platform, and struck me rapidly and vio
lently on the back of my Lead with the
poker. He inflicted several cuts upon my
head and several upon my arms .before he
was preyppteil far H r - peck, the brakesman,
from further violence.
I had no weapon upon my person, nor
anywhere within reach, and having been
maimed in both my hands, was at bis mercy
from the moment he threw me down.
These are tbevniaiu facto kuown to me
about this outragA I lay them before you,
and am rcspcclfufly yours,
Dabney II. JlAlittV.
trice’s statement.
The following to the statement of JH. Trice,
in a report to Major Wicks, President of the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad:
JIemphis, Tenn., Februaty 1,1872.
Major M. J. Wick*, President Memphis and
Charleston Jiailroad:
Major—According to your order, you will
please find below a statement of the diffi
culty that occurred iu the sleeping-car un
der my charge at Chattanooga, with a man
whose name I have since learned was Dab
ney H. Maury, who came aboard the sleeper
and inquired for a berth for Huntsville,
which 1 readily assigned him, and he at once
btgan to interrogate me as follows: “ What
line to this?” I replied that it was the Pull
man. He said, “A Northern institution V” I
remarked, perhaps it was owned by Northern
capitalist, but it was called the Pullman
Southern Car Line. He then asked me
where I was from. I replied, Louisa county,
Va. ne then said, “I am from Spottaylva-
nia county, myself.” Then I repli'd, “we
are from the adjoining counties.” “He said,
'No sir, wc are not.” To wl>ich I replied,
'Yes, Spottsylvania county joins Louisa,
Hanover and Orange.” His next question
was, “Wbat to your name?” I answered,
“Trice to my name, sir.” “He, without say
ing one word, gathered hto satchel, and left
the car. In a short time afterward I passed
through the ladies’ car, and noticed the same
man fa conversation with one of the brakes
men. I heard him say, ns I passed by, “I
want you to tell him so.” Tho brakesman
said, “ That to hint now; he has heard you,”
and came immediately to the platform and
said, “ The reason that man left the sleeping
car was because he taid you are the man tl.nt
circulated- those infamous reports about Jeff.
Davis at the Sonlb.” To which I replied,
“ Yes, I thought toiinttbing waa the matter.
1 will seo the man after the train starts;” but
as soon as I retuned to the sleeper the same
gentleman returned. I met him at the fur
nace, just between the drawing-room and
where the berths are located. I said, “ You
left the car veiy unceremoniously. Will
you not take a berth, or do you uot like the
car—has anything displeased you?” “Yes,”
he replied, “you are the man that circulated
those infamous lies relative to Jeff. Davis.”
I informed him that I had told no lies on Jlr.
Davis; if I had i would not hold the posi
lion I now hold. To which he quickly said l
“Yes; you arc theTety man,you lying ;”
at the same time he stepped hack a few
steps, and placed hto hands behind him as
though Le intended to draw a pistol. I, at
one bound, before he conld remove hto
hand, thrust him against the drawing
room, with his hand behind him, and
seized the iron poker at the furnace
and dealt him several blows, until I
was satisfied he was not able to use hto pistol
on me. At tbe tame time he managed to get
to the platform of the car; and before any
one came up he said: “ You have almost
killed me.” “Yes,” I said, “you blind ;
don’t you see I am not the man to take yonr
insults; you ought to see first” He again
caught me around the neck, and I re
leased myself as soon as I couli and dealt
him a sound blow with my hand-lamp. At
that time the brakeman came up and asked
me to desist and they took the man in
side the ladies’ car. Fifteen or twenty
minutes afterward he was led into the sleep
ing-car by train-conductor Ramsey, who re
marked to me that “Jlr. Maury wishes to see
you.” I said, “For what purpose T" He re
plied, “So as to identify you.” I stepped for
ward, held my lamp up—and so did conduc
tor Ramsey—fa order that the man might
see me. He asked, “Are you the man that
struck me?" I replied that I was. He said,
‘I only want to Identify yon.” This to all
tint I remember of any purport on the sub
ject. Respectfully, G. W. Trice,
Sleeping-car Conductor.
Suapenstsn ml tbe Press Tax.
Atlanta, Ga., Februaty JO, 1872.
Editors Constitution : Gentlemen—I have
to say, fa response to your enquiry, that no in
structions have been given at this office to tax
collectors fa regard to tax on press material
since the order suspending the tax. This tax
was suspended until the meeting of the Leg-
to'ature fa January; that body adjourned
without considering th* question, and upon
consultation with Governor Smith, after the
adjournment, it was determined that the sus
tention was of force until after the final ad-
oummentof said session;collectors there-
ore will not be instructed to collect this tax
nntil the adjournment of the General Assem
bly fa July next Respectfully,
Madison Bell.
W Governor Campbell, of Wyoming,
has espoused the cause of the ladies to such
impose that one of tirom has nobly espoused
urn. It is said th>t the woman suffrage law
was there passed as a joke on the bachelor
Governor, fa the faith that he would veto it.
He has first circumvented the Democratic
jokists oy sighing it, and no w by pledging to
Wyoming a future radiant with Campbells.
So much for sportive legislation on a serious
theme.—SL Jjovit Democrat,
and bring them here.”
Mr. Simpson started off on a mild trot
“Remember, girls,” ma said emphatically,
after pa had disappeared, “young gentlemen
like animation. Bright, sprightly, animated
girls are always attractive. Now, I always
pied to be amused at your father’s little
jokes, before we were married. You don’t
know how well it takes.” You seethegener-
*1 understood strategy, and she was explain
ing her successful tactics to her little army of
daughters. “ Laugh heartily when tho young
men say something witty, no matter how
stily it really is. Enjoy their little jokes. It
pleases them immensely; and, girls, it to a
great thing to have an establishment. Don’t
forget to be animated.”
The six Miss Simpsons giggled, just to see
if they could do it I don’t think any one
would oare to hear them repeat "il. Were
you ever on a farm? And did toil just be
foredawn, hear the hens, and'the guinea-
bens, all begin to cackle? Is it noteupho-
inous.
“Ma!” exclaimBHArabclla.
“ JIa I” said Jlatilda.
"JIa I” cried Sophia.
“Now! Wi|at is it?”
“Here comes pa with a young man!”
“Good gracious 1 Is that tilt One young
man! One young m«n to six girls I Wc
arc not Jlormons! Just like your father I"
The one young man was presented, and the
six Jliss Simpsons bowed.
They ail put their elbows back, and hung
the tips of their fingers down when they
bowed.
The young man hazarded a remark on the
excessive heat of the weather, and the six
Miss Simpsons giggled.
Their ma looked daggers. It was not the
time to giggle All the girls looked fright
ened. Altogether, the first evening was a
failure.
The following morning. JIrs. Simpson, the
Dauntless, took three timid Miss Simpsons to
the bath. They had not bathing suits for all,
it took so ranch flannel, you know, so they
were going to take turns. Matilda went into
the waler witli a gasp, and grasped the rope;
she had hardly caught hold of it before a
huge breaker dashed her away, and shecame
flat, along with a whole lot of other people
she didn’t know at all, in fact she didn’t know
who she was herself for a few seconds, and
when she did, she heartily wished it was
somebody else, nnd that she was safely back
in the city, where they didn’t have any
breakers.
Jliss Victoria, next eldest of the six, sat in
her scarlet flannel suit, with twolong, flaxen
braids hanging down beneath her hat, high
and dry on the Sand. Nearer to the water
she could not be persuaded to come, and
every time that the spray fell on the tips of
her Canvas dippers, Jliss Victoria openod her
mouth and yelled. JIrs. Simpson was dis
tracted. Arabella, the youngest, really en
joyed the fun, but then she was the kmd to
enjoy most everything.
The girls were excessively fond of dancing
so they attended every hop. Not tbnt they
always got a chance to dance, but just to be
on hand fa ease they did.
They were very stylish girls; the Miss
Simpsons were. I don’t know where you
would find six equal to them. They wore a
great deal of panier, and their hair vonr much
a la Pompadour g and they had tbe tightest
kinds of heels to their boots—brass heels,
that made music for them,andsuch a clatter
you would have thought'it was the Ninth
Regiment ont on a parade. Then they had
all sorts of little ribbons around their necks
with bits of lockets attached. Of a windy
dav it was quite a treat to see these pennons
flying about, like the flags of tii nations, at
half-mast. It made one feel as patriotic as
the fire crackers do on the fourth of July.
Jlra. Simpson always superintended the
girls’ toilet herself. She would give
Victoria’s dress a few little scientific jerks,
so that it wonld have a stylish hang; then
she rearranged those new curls that Matilda
had just bought, (they cost a great deal, too. i
and she made them look just as natural as i
they grew on JIatilda’a head. It is true they
were not exactly the same shade as her hair,
but then who wanta to notice these little de
fects! The general effect was quite impo
sing, especially when til the girls stood fa
a flock, as they invariably did, except Ara
bella. She would slip away from tho family
circle, and when questioned about It, would
archly reply:
“Oil,never mind;it’s til right”
“However she told Victoria, and Victoria,
dutiful child, went straight to her mother
with the news, that Arabella was having a
flirtation.
“And, oh, ma! It to so romantic,” exclaimed
Victoria. “Arabella says he to a Hungarian
Count She to to meet him.clandestinely.on
the beach, this evening.
“A Hungarian Count! Dear me! I mnst
see about this. A title to something. But,
perhaps, he to poor. Still, a tittle. Where
did Arabella first meet him!”
“Oh! on the beach, several evenings ago,
when she and I, as you remember, went but
for a walk.”
“ But who introduced him?
“OhI he introduced himself, for, see, it
was this way. Arabella was picking up
shells, and going close to the water as she
did so. Well, a great wave came fa which
she did not observe; it rushed up and up the
sands, and came almost to her feet; then, for
the first time, she saw it, and screamed. The
count was walking there at the time, and
hearing her cty, hurried up. He was so po
lite, and was dressed so gentlemanlike, and
was so handsome—oh, mamma, dear I I’ve
been dying to tell you.”
' And he to really a count ?”
Of courve he is. He has, he says, great
estates on the Danube, and has only come
here for the summer. He’s very romantic:
says he never will marry but for love, and
wants to many an American girl, because
they marry for love only. I shouldn’t won
der.” and here her voice fell to awhtoper, “if
he coaxes Arabella to elope with him—he
says that’s so much more romantic than an
every-day marriage."
Mrs. Simpson could hardly conceal her
gratification. She began to build castles fa
the air immediately. Of course if Arabella
mairied a Hungarian Connt, especially one
who had great estates, she wonld ask one or
more of her sisters to vtolther; and what was
more certain that other counts would be
fascinating, and tbe dear girls married off, one
after another, to foreign noblemen. Mrs.
Simpson had always heard that the Austrian
court was the most aristocratic fa Europe, and
she already saw herself a d istiaguished visitor
at that court, because the mother-fa-law of
numerous Austrian and Hungarian magnates.
That evening, JIrs. Simpson, with her two
eldest daughters, went to take tea with a
friend, at one of the hotels. Her motherly
heart could not refrain from telling her
friend of Arabella’s good luck. All at once,
in the Tery midst of her story, Arabella
fainted away.
When the usual restoratives were applied,
she recovered; but she only said, when
pressed for an explanation: “Oh! take me
away—take me away!”
But Victoria drew her mother aside: “I
know what’s the matter,” she said. “Only
to think of it! The Hugman Count is the
head waiter of this hotel. I recognized him
at once, and so did Arabella.”
The four other dutiful daughters were
awaiting on the piazza tho return of their
mother and the sisters. When they saw
JIrs Simpson returning with a horrified coun
tenance, they cried with one accord,
“ Oh, ma! what is the matter?”
“That wicked, wicscd girl!" 4MPHIWI
“ Ma, dear ma, what is it?”
“Go pack’your trunks at onfe; we are
going home; and-1 shalL. never bring you
anywhere again, .till yon-.Jtave got some
smse.” st
“Oh, ma! what is it? Youcan’l leave the
Hungarian Count What will Arabella do?
Where to her beau?” asked one of thevounger
girls.
“Her besu, the count!' Mrs. Simpson
wsped “The count wasn’t a count, at all.”
Her voice rose to a scream. “He was the
head-waiter.”
“Ohj” was the answer. “So Arabella has
had a flirtation with the head-waiter.”
Arabella hung down her head and wept.
Victoria, Jlatilda, and the three other Jliss
Simpson* groaned aloud.
^.Mra^£3mpson waved her right hand to the
“Ungrateful children! wc start for home at
once. Thus ends yonr summer trip.”
*“• Simpson, JIrs. Simpson, and the six
Misses Simpson, with seven large trunks, and
two little ones, left the Branch oil the next
train. They all wore thick veils, except Mr.
Simpson. I believe the girls are searching
diligently after sense.
Unhappy Arabella.
Civil Service Reform*
Editors Constitution: The political key-note
of the present day to Civil Service Reform.
Patriotism clamors for it,*yet her voice is
smothered by a venal horde of partisan, time
serving blood-suckers, fattening upon the
vsry vitals of this once great and justly re
nowned nation, and rolls on without a
remedy. Perhaps no truth to better estab
lished than that “history repeats itself."
During the reign of King James in 1617, Sir
Francis Bacon, acknowledged intellectually
one of England’s wisest and greatest men,
was elevated to the high and responsible
office of Lord Chancellor and keeper of tho
great seal.
After an Interval of nbont six years fa
1G31, Parliament assembled. Among the
first business a “civil service reform” was in
augurated. The House of Commons pro
ceeded to discuss the public grievances, which
fa a few weeks resulted fa the appointment
of a committee to inquire into the state of
the courts of justice. Soon after the chair
man of the committee reported that great
abuses had been discovered. The person
charged was no.less than thc.LordjChancellor,
and the specific charges was having, fa two
instances, received presents. Bacon was a
groat favorite with the King, who cx-
person as the Lord Chancellor should
be suspected of misconduct. lie dis
avowed hto wish to screen the guilty-
but hto conduct clearly evinced a disposition
to “whitewash" the Lord Chancellor instead
of faying him upon the usual form of im
peachment, the king proposed an appoint
ment of a commission of eighteen members,
selected from the two Houses, to investigate
the matter. The commons, however, were
made of sterner stuff than wc unfortunately
have for a Congress, and proceeded with the
case in the regular course. Bacon was so
overwhelmed with grief nnd remorse that he
actually took hto bed. The King, hoping to
stay the tide against hto favorite, adjourned
Parliament for tfiree weeks, But the com
mittee continued to do its duty until the
charges of taking presents ran up
to twenty-three. Bacon’s friends de
fended him upon the plea that
it was not incompatible with hto high
trust to receive presents, and in itself harm
less, that he did not take them as hribes.
The Parliament thought otherwise, and called
it by its Christian name, bribery. Over
whelmed with proof. Bacon confessed to the
charge of having received presents, and was
impeached, sentenced to pay a heavy fine, to
be imprisoned fa the Tower during the
King’s pleasure. He was declared incapable
of holding office, and banished for life from
the courts, and Christendom, with few excep
tions, approve the sentence to this day. There
are exceptions, however, “ a fellow feclin
makes us wonderous kind.” When,
when, shall we of the United States
have such a social revolution
to bring about a “civil service reform?
will it ever be that wc shall have our civil
offices purged of gift and present takers?
Had we a Congress made of the materia) of
the third Parliament of King James, what a
cleaning out would there he of the Augean
stables at Washington, yclept the “ White
House,” with its relations and dependants!
Wbat has been may be again The good
work has begun in Georgia, and augnrs well
of the future. Let us hope ou that the peo
ple, chafing under the abuses of assumed
power, may soon rise in their might and
bring to condigu punishment the assassins of
civil liberty. Then let the fate of England’s
great philosopher and jurist be a warning to
all “gift and present” takers.
Hampden, Jr.
Georgia news Item*.
Columbus hss a brass band, and R. A.
Ware, Jr., is President—Columhus Enquirer.
Mrs. Oates drew crowded house fa Albany.
The Bat Masque fa Albany was a grand suc
cess.—Nines.
There to some talk of a wool factory in
Rockmard. Among other things needed to
Church.—Boekmard Exporter.
Rome wants a market house. The Rome
Amateurs are to delight the citizens of that
place with “Slasherand Crasher.”—Commer
cial.
John Dorsey, Dr. Jl. F. Stephenson and
Colonel P. It Simmons nre to represent Hall
county in the State Convention at Savannah.
Gainesville Eagle.
Captain 8. T. Fcagln, Merrell Calloway,
and A. A. Adams will represent Sumter
county in the State Agricultural Convention
fa Savanneh.—Tri- Weekly Republican.
LaGrange to tickled at a boar fight One
hundred and twenty names are enrolled on
the books of the Southern Female College.
LaGrange to to have a brass baud.—Reporter.
The farmers fa this section have already
commenced throwing up beds preparatory to
S lanting com and cotton; and mucli activity
i manifested all over the country hcrenbonts.
Albany has a turkey thief.—Central City.
Senoia has a yellow rabbit Wesley Ed
monson, qolored, an employee at the steam
saw mill of Messrs. Cowan & Moon, in Fay
ette county, had bis arm severed from hto
body by the saw while bearing off lumber.
Senoia Journal.
A desperate negro man, who resides four
utiles from Newnan, attacked a young man
named John Pates. Before the difficulty
was ended, Louis Beavers, tbe colored man,
was shot fa the abdomen, from the effects of
which he died.—Ketenan Herald.
Books of subscription have been opened
to obtain private subscriptions to the capital
stock of the Atlanta and Lookout Mountain
Railroad. It to proposed tn build the road
from Ringgold to Lookout Jlounltin, a dis
tance of twenty miles.—Chattanooga Adver
tiser.
Mrs. Flora George, of Griffin, was married
cn the 8th instant, to JRcv. C. Dow, Rectorof
SL George Church, to that place. The Ama
teur Dramatic Club, of Griffin, are amusing
the citizens of that place. The Republicans
of Spalding connty, fa meeting, repudiate the
action of a portion of the State Central Com
mittee of the Republicans lately assembled
fa Atlanta, and expressed their confidence fa
the re-nomination of Grant, and a determina
tion to support him.— Griffin Star.
Covington was enlivened by sleigh riding
one day last week. The debate on “Fash-
ion” was so well handled by the Chib fa Cov
ington a few days since that the President
was unable to decide the question. On last
Friday two boys in Newton connty kWled 78
rabbits. John V. Woodson, Esq., had two of
his fingers mashed and mangled by a pair of
heavy loaded trucks at the Covington depot,
a day or two since. Wheat fa this section is
reported to be fa a very flourishing condition.
Enterprise.
Mr. T. R Jones has been associated with
the editorial department of th' North Geor
gia Citizen. The amount of wheat sown last
fall fa Murray county was very large, con
siderably fa excess of that sown the year
previous, and the prospect at present is very
fine for an abundant yield. Dalton had a
five inch snow last Saturday. W. K. Jloore,
R W. Jones, and L. N. Trammell will repre
sent the North Georgia Agricultural and
Mechanical Association at Savannah on the
23d instant. Colonel Ben Green, President
of the Dalton and Morgantown Railroad
Company, gives encouraging tidings to the
friends of this enterprise.—Wort* Georgia
Citizen.
Atlanta Constitution.—We take great
pleasure fa calling attention to theannounce-
ment of this sterling Journal for 1872. Tn*
Constitution is conducted with much abili
ty and industry, the editor. Colonel Avery,
being a forcible and graceful writer, and his
assistant editors men of energy and good
judgment We heartily commend the jour
nal to those who wish to take a good paper
from the seat of government of the State.
Savannah Republican.
Tho Georgia National Bank.
The Georgia National Bank was commis
sioned by the "United States Government fa
the autumn of 1865, to do business, with Jolm
Rice, President; E. L. Jones, Cashier; E. E.
Rawson, W. W. Clayton, S. A. Durand, and
John Collier, Directors.
The capital stock was (100,00) paid in,-
and entirely fa United States five-twenty
bonds, which are deposited fa the United
States Treasury,at Washington, in accordance
with provision of National Bank law.
The circulation was from the beginning,
and to now (90,003, secured by (100,090
United States bonds deposited fa Washing
ton. ■ i j _ -rum
The stock of tho organization waa owned
os follows: John Rice, 760 shares of (100
each; E. L. Jones, 200 shares of (100 each;
W. W. Clayton, 10 shares of $100 each; E.
E. ltawson, 10 shares of $100 each; John
Collier, 10 shares of $100 each; 8. A. Du
rand, 10 shares of $100 each.
The stock did not change ownership ma
terially from the above, til! in autumn of
1870, when Mr. Rice, then owning805 shares,
sold 800 shares to H. L Kimball.
IL 1. Kimball had previously made a loan
of Byron Kilbourn, then temporarily resid
ing in Florida for hto health, for which, upon
the death of Mr. Kilbourn, soon after he
transferred directly to the widow and execu
tor, fa their own names, as collateral, 740
shares.
The stock at the present time is owned as
follows -. S. A. Laphun, executor,600 shares;
Mrs. Byron Kilbour, 240; E. L. Jones, 140;
John Harris, 10; L. Scofield, 10; H. T. Phil
lips, 10; Daniel Pitman, 10. D. A. Cook, 10;
D. A. Walker, 10; A. S. Whiton, 20: W. W.
Clayton, 10; Jno. Rice, 5; J. Caldwell, 5.
The losses through the Bullock-Kimball en
tanglement, such as tho law may determine,
will fall upon the bank, and the irreparable
damage of Us abrupt closure, as will be seen,
will fall largely upon depositors, orphans
and a widow, which to greatly to be regret
ted. (
It to alike incumbent upon the State offi
cers and upon the officers of the bank to con
tend for their respective rights, fa doing
which it would seem no motive could be im
puted to the latter except to protect the stock
holders and tbe creditors of the bank, Inclu
ding depositors. The business of the bank
has been largely diminished daring the past
six or eight months by tbe connection or
Bullock and Kimball with it. Its deposits
used to run up to $300,000, They had fallen
off to between twenty and thirty thousand.
The matter is a great hardship to many
innocent persons. But of course the State's
interest must he protected. The officers of
the bank should do everything to protect de
positors and stockholders. It to possible the
Legislature may slip in to tbe relief of the
depositors. Undoubtedly application will be
made to that body for this purpose, and it
should be uniformly considered.
Henry Glenra Sc Co., and tho Georgia
Bond*.
We, like others, have received our share of
Northern papers, containing marked articles
abusing Georgia about her action fa the bond
matter.
Of course it has-been well understood tliat
Clews * Co., have been Ht the bottom of these
slanders. They have tried to use the press
fa their interest. The Savannah News has
positive proof of the fact. It quotes the fol
lowing paragraph from a private letter:
“You speak of the assaults on Urn credit of
Georgia fa the financial columns of certain
New York journals. Do you not know that
Mellin, of the World, Jackson, of the Express,
and the commercial man of the Evening
Post, all have their desks fa the office of
Henry Clews & Co., and that they all blow
the same horn. If you don’t know it, I do."
Of course, also, the knowledge of this fact
will destroy the whole effect of such articles.
Wc have a private letter, also, from New
York from a party well posted, from which
we learn that the movement of the Frankfort
bond-holders appealing to the' government at
Washington for protection fa tbe mailer of
the Georgia bonds, is instigated by Clews &
Co., and its object to to get the military over
Georgia again. The writer says:
“Through the influence of the German
bond-holders, Mr. Clews intends to carry out
hto threats on Georgia. No man has ever
yet accomplished tho feat of riding two
horses comfortably at one time. - Hto letters to
the people of Georgia, and hto “rousement”
of the German bond-holders, (he sold those
bonds,) don’t trot well together.”
The writer adds: “The President and Cabi
net, while war to Imminent with Eugland
anil Spain, will hardly make war on Georgia
for the German bond-holders and Mr. Clews
benefit.”
ROWING AGAINST THE TIDE
It If ea*y tn glide with tt* ripples ' *
Aduwn the stream of Time,
To flow with the coarse of the riser.
Acalestlte carrente to ride;
And wc mast have strength from Heaven
When rowing against the tide.
We may float on the rlvcr’a surface.
While oar oara scarce touch the stream.
And visions of early glory
Onr daztllnK sight may gleam;
We forget that on before ne
Tho darhlLg torrent* roar;
Bnt a few—ah, wonld there were many t
Row up the ••stream of Life;”
They straggle against its surges
And mind neither toll nor strife.
Though weary and faint with labor,
Sinslmr triumphant they ridr:
ForChrStU thchero’«<?pl*?n ^
nst Uu ttdr.
Far on throng* tn* hazy
Like a mist on • distent shore.
They see the rml!« of a city.
With iU tanners floitlng o'er.
Seen through the glass so darkly
They almost mistake their way,
B it faith throws light on their labor
When darkness shuts ont the day.
When we hare a crown to gala T
Or shall wc glide on with the river.
With death at the cml of oar i ide.
While oar brother, with Heaven before him.
It rowing against the tide!
Stripping the States.—It to again
curiously proposed to stretch the power of
Congress to regulate commerce between the
States, so as to cover tho incorporation by
Congress of railroad companies which lie
in more States than one. The constitutional
question to now before tbe Judiciary Com
mittee of the House of Representatives. In
this connection the New York Evening Post,
a leading Republican journal, says that if
Congress should usurp this power, it will
only prove that there to nothing whatever
left to theinrisdictlon of the States, except as
the general government chooses to refrain
from seizing it.
Theatrical ul snow New* Items.
The Florences are doing a dull business fa
Baltimore.
The genuine Wyndham Comedy Company
is in Detroit. ‘
, Logrena, with his cats, canaries, and gifts,
to m Cincinnati.
Aimee’s opera bouflb troupe are coming
South next mouth.
Mag)pe Mitchell (Mrs. Paddock) is playing
to fine houses fa Pennsylvania.
Panline JIarkham has given np the “star”
business, and to at Wood’s Museum.
The Harry Watkins troupe will disband
next week, and return to New York.
Ada Harland, one of the original Tbnmp-
•cn troupe blondes, is now doing “ Bertha"
with a gift show.
The Worrell Sisters have fallen to Variety
Hall life. Sophie and Irene travel together
now, but Jennie goes on her own hook.
General Sem Items.
Fourteen lecturers are making a living by
teUihg about the Chicago fire.
In the Eight Watch factories, three hun
bred of the five hundred employees are girls.
In Cincinnati about 9,000 persons, or one
fa every 24 of the population, cannot read or
write.
The eleven Territories exceed' by nearly
200,000 square miles, the aggregate area o' I
all tbe admitted States of the Union.
During the month of January $23,000,000
worth of dry goods were imported into New
York. Being tho largest importation on
record.
The world uses 250,000,000 pounds of tea
each year, and 718,000,000 pounds of coffee.
China furnishes nearly all the tea, and
Brazil over one-half of the coffee.
The Latest in Boots—Little Toes to
be Wkittled.—Fashions are funny. The
new styles fa boots create a sensation The
delicately shaped boot laced on the inside,
requires a slender foot and arched instep.'
Such feet are not common. It to said that a
celebrated artist in hair intends to import a
Peruvian surgeon, who has made loads of
gold by shaving off the little toes of ladles.
These little things have been discovered to
be absurd superfluities of nature, a fact the
fashionables of Peru found ou*. long ago—
whence proceeds their narrow, elegant feet
A little toe to regarded as nothing, when
compared with appearances, and modern
science makes the operation of removing
them rather pleasant than otherwise. Small
heels are beginning to be obsolete; soles are
broader with scarcely perceptible heels, in
tlafa black—all fancy stitching being deemed
n bad taste. So they go. Coal scuttle bon
nets, broad, soiid, high-heeled shoes. What
next?
Economic Uses of partridges.—At
meeting of horticulturists in Illinois stron
ground was taken against the destruction of
rartridges. To show how useful this bird is
t waa stated that a flock was seen running
along the rows of corn lost sprouting, and
—'— the birds engaged fa something which
was believed to be polling np the young
plants, one of them was killed and its “crop”
examined, which was found to contain one
cutworm, twenty-one striped bugs, and over
one hundred chinch bugs. Another member
related that he had adopted measures to pro
tect the bird, and that they bad become so
nnmerous and so tame that hundreds of them
after snow falto, could be seen in hi* barn
yard with.tbe fowls where they were fed. As
a result of their presence upon hto premises
hto wheat crops were unusnally abundant,
while fa many other places not far off toe
chinch bug and other insects had destroyed
half the crop.
Religious Now* Item*.
Archbishop McCloskry states that twenty
thousand JIusselmen were converted by the
Catholic Church, last year.
New Jersey is the banner Stale for Presby
terianism. It has 236 churche-t and 37,828
communicants, or one to every twenty-four
inhabitants.
One of tbe most distinguished Unitarian
clergymen of New Yorkuabout to abandon
that ecclesiastical connection and take refuse
in the Episcopal Church.
Tho Philadelphia Presbytery, at its last
meeting, voted to enjoin and fa flagrant cases
to report churches of two hundred or more
which pay less than $1,' 00 salary.
The Transcript, of Delaware, says that
Bishop Becker, of that State, to regarded as
one of the ablest and most learned prelates
of the Catholic Church in this country.
There to much excitement in France over
the decree convoking the General Synod of
the National Reform Church. The govern
ment refuses the convening of the Synod.
Bishop Littlejohn of Long Island, stated
to an Episcopal Convention a few days ago
that one church of his diocese paid more
money for music last year than all the
churches combined for missions.
Rev. Jlr. Cuyler, an able and popnlar pas
tor of a prosperous Presbyterian Church fa
Brooklyn, has been arraigned before an
ecclesiastical court for the offense of permit
ting a Quaker female preacher to occupy his
pulpit.
The smallest salary yet reported is that
of the Rev. R M. 8. Porter, of Whitehall,
N. Y.. who receives no other salary than the
donation, and such other contributions as
the people are pleased to make him, the net
receipts of last year’s donation being forty-
six dollars.
The other Sunday Mr. Spurgeon, in the
course of bis sermon, “camo down” on the
fashionable congregations who take no part
in tho praise of God, but leave it all to lie
done by a few voices or by paid choirs. “It
is wrelchcd, it to horrible," said Jlr. Spur
geon, “to sit fa a church where such a custom
to observed."
A “new religionists?’ sect have sprung np
in England. In their church is a space left
for dancing, which, it appears, is one of the
ceremonies. The brothers and sisters, upon
meeting, kiss each oilier. They then sing a
hymn. Then somebody makes a long prayer.
Then either a sister or brother preaches from
tbe Book of Revelations. Then some boy or
girl has convulsions. Then the meeting
breaks np with wbat appears to be a general
“break doWD," with much kicking and leap
ing, furious gesticulations at d manaiacal ex
ercises. '
Kellgtoua Item a.
Speak plainly; net decisively; out of
doubt, out of controversy.
Kindness to the music of good will to men;
and on the harp the smallest fingers may plav
Heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.
When you see a man with a good deal of
religion displayed in hto shop window, yon
may dencud upon it he keeps a very small
stock of it within.
Benevolence to always a virtu.hh principle.
Its operation always secures to others their
natural rights, nnd it liberally supemdds more
than they are accustomed to claim.
Every mm deems that he lias precisely the
trials and temptations which are the battiest
of ail for him to bear; but they arc ao bo-
because they are the veiy ones be needs.
God loves to hear us pray with earnest
simplicity. Better in God's sight are the
broken and hoartfelt utterances of child than
those who think themselves wonderful in
prayer.
God loves to have us pray with earnest
simplicity. Better fa God’s sight arc the
broken and heartfelt utterances of a child
than those who think themselves wonderful
fa prayer.
With the prayer,“Lead me not into tempt
ation,” on yonr lip, choose for the right and
God, though the choice make you confront a
solid rock. God shall render the rotk acces
sible, and cover it with brighter greenness,
and make U more radiant with flowers.
Bad thoughts are worse enemies than lion*
nnd tigers, for wc can keep out of the way
of wild beasts, but bad thoughts win their
way everywhere. The cup that to full will
hold no more; keep your hearts full of good
thoughts, that no bad thoughts may enter.
He who cannot find time to consult tho
Bible will one day find that he has time to
be sick; he who bos no time to pray must
find time to die: he who can find no time to
reflect is most likely to find time tn sin; he
who cannot find time for repentance will
find an eternity, fa which repentance will be
of no avail; he who cannot find time to
work for oilier days may find nn eternity in
which to suffer himself.
Tbe.True Wife.
The following touching, simple, sorrowful
memorial of hrs wife, waa written by one of
tiie great statesmen of England, Sir James
Mackintosh, fa a private fitter to a friend:
“She was a woman,” he writes, “who, by
tender management of my weakness, gradu
ally corrected the most pernicious of them.
She became prudent from affection, and,
though of the moat generous nature, she waa
taught frugality and economy by her lore
for me. During the most critical period of
nty life, she preserved order fa my affairs,
from the care of which Hie relieved me.
She gently reclaimed me from dissipation -
she propped my weak nnd irresolute nature;
she urged my indolence to ail the exertions
that have been useful andcredilable to me;
and she waa perpetually at band, to admon
ish my heedlcsauess and improvidence.
To her I owe whatever I am; to her what
ever I shall be. In her solicitude for my in
terest, she never for a moment forgot my
character. Her feelings were warm nnd im-
petuo is, but she was placable, render and
constant Such waa sue whom I have lost.
And I have lost her, when a knowledge of
her worth had refined my youthful love into
friendship; before age had deprived it of
much of its original ardor, I seek relief,
and find it, in the conaolatoty opinion, that
a benevolent wisdom inflicts the chastisement,
as well as bestows the enjoyment of human
life; that this dreary and wretched life it not
the whole of man; that a being capable of
such a proficiency in science and virtue, is
not like the beasts that perish: that there is
a dwelling place prepared for tbe spirit* of
•lie iust; and that tbe ways of God will yet
bo vindicated to man.”
Nonth Carolina News Items.
Greenville enjoyed sleigh riding last week.
There arc five hnndred Baptist churches fa
South Carolina.
Work on the Columbia Canal is being
pushed forward rapidly.
The young people of Charleston are in
dulging fa roller skating.
T. A. Hayden has assumed editorial con
trol of the Greenville Mountaineer.
The Republicans arc to hold a State Con
vention fa Columbia on the 19th' instant.
Joel Foster, Stabs Senator from Spartan
burg, has moved witli hia family to Texas.
Elliott, the black Congressman, to appointed
Major General commanding the State militia.
Thomas R Jeter has been appointed su-
icrtatcndent ol the Spartanburg and Union
Col. Samuel Donnald, Agent of the Green
ville and Columbia Railroad, at Donnald’a
Station, is dead.
A petition to the South Carolina Legisla
ture. to consolidate its debt, to being signed
by financial men fa New York.
There to a story told of a Virginia
legislator, who last winter approached a
Pennsylvania railroad man and asked him
flatly whether his company intended to spend
any more money fa Richmond. “ No, air, no;
emphatically no," was ^the excited reply.
“Why not?” “I’ll tell yon why, sir. The
members of the Pennsylvania Legislature are
gentlemen, sir; perfect gentlemen. You
don’t have to bribe bnt once; bnt (bringing
hto flat fa virlnoos indignation down upon
the table) these d—d scoundrels fa Virginia
have no more conscience than a hog, and yon
never know when yon are done buying
them."