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ttftln Constitution.
ATLANTA, GA, MARCHj'2, 1872.
Cslanel Style, r.lccted Senator.
The official returns of the election for Sen
ator in the 1(3til District tliow Colonel Styles’
election by a flittering majority over his
competitor, the independent candidate. Ann-
strong. The aggregate vote was 902, of
which Colonel Styles received 6S7 or a ma
jority of 432.
TOe friends of Colonel Styles will be grati
fied at hie success, lie has been a long-time
worker for the Democracy.
City and national Intelligencer.
This excellent little daily Journal, publish
ed and edited by Alex. Delmar, 31 Nassau
street. New York, is received by us. One of
the great rims of this journal is to study and
discuss the subjects of taxation, insurance and
finance, and to inculcate the necessity of re
form in the relations which exist between
three great subjects of Administration and
our National and local governments.
The acquirements of Hon. Alex. Delmar
are well known, sad will doubtless bring
> to bis paper.
Radical Zeal for Education.
The Radicals have harped more on the edu
cation hobby than any other, and hare made
it a matter of immense political capital.
Facts are daily showing their bypocriey.
The Bollock committee has a letter of Bul
lock to General Terry, written May, 1870,
urging that the educational State food be
used for general administration, and begging
the bayonets to make the Treasurer pay this
money on hb warrant Dr. Angler waa try-
In:; to preserve the Integrity of the achool
. fuoX
Tlio incident is a fine illustration of the
dap-trap of the Radicals about this education
■abject
The Roney Order Business
The aggregate amount of orders issued
during the fiscal year 1871, waa upwards of
$42,000,000, and the amount of orders paid
also exceeds that sum. The increase in the
amount of each, over the corresponding
transactions of Ibe previous year, was more
than $8,000,000.
On the 31st of July last, three hundred and
seventy-nine new money-order offices were
established, making the whole number at
present in operation twenty-four handled and
fifty-two. These additional offices will large
ly increase the amount of money-order*
issued daring tho current fiscal year, which
will probably exceed fifty million dollars
Moreover, the system of exchange of money
orJera between the United States and the
United Kingdom was put into operation Oc
tober 1,1871, and from that date up to Janu
ary 10,1872jnrdcr»to the amount of $270,888
were issued in this country for payment in
Great Britain, and ap to December 12,1871
orders from that coantty to the amount of
$45^05 were paid here.
On the 1st of October next an international
exchange of postal orders with the German
Empire'wili be inaugurated, which will add
materially to the clerical and oilier labors of
this office.
The Broad Gunge Hallway ae the
Means of Dnvelopme
Having given the arguments in favor of
the narrow gauge as the means of develop
ment, we will now give those in favor of the
broad gauge, in order that our readers may
decide intelligently upon the gauge question,
at applied to proposed lines from thb point
Ail will admit the importance of the ques-
tioa, as connected with the future of our
city; hence no one can possibly object to
fall discussion of the subject
The leading argument in favor of the
broad gauge for our proposed linn of rail
way is a uniformity of gauge-, thereby avoid
ing the transfer of freights and passengers
at connecting awl terminal points.
Thb continuous unbroken gauge b an ad
vantage in the transmission of through
freight* which the narrow gauge does not nor
cannot possess until H has been so far ex
tended at to become a general system.
That they arc well adapted for local pur
poses there can be no doubt, and as the sys
tem b extended it b not improbable that
they will take the place of the broad gauge,
or in other words as their merits, namely
small coat and low rates, are fully understood
and appreciated, that many of the broad
gauge lines will be changed to narrow gauge.
But the importance of a continuous unbroken
gauge should not be overlooked, especially
when we take into consideration interests be
yond us, as well os that of tbc road itself.
But tbe interests beyond us and in n meas
ure foreign to us, and that of the railway, al
though identical, may not bo, in fact are not,
in unison with those of Atlanta.
If tbe acTtrai railways having termini in
Atlanta were each of a different gauge it
would benefit ns largely.
With thb view of the case, if oar proposed
line be bnilt broad gauge, thereby forming
a continuous liue with thoee cast of us, it
would in all probability pass a large business
through Atlanta, which, if tfe gauge were
broken, might bo controlled by her mer
chants.
Thb, then, b a question of vital importance
to Atlanta. Tbe time and expense of the
tbe transfer of freights by the narrow gangs
is, or may be, avoided by the broad gange
by running through trains; witness the Green
Line.
It should, however, bo home in mind thst
the reduced cost st which the narrow gange
can transport freight, may more than com
pensate the shipper for the alight delays in
transhipment
It b claimed that the broad gauge has
greater carrying capacity than the narrow
gauge. If we admit thb claim, it then only
becomes necessary to Inquire whether it has
not a greater capacity than oar wants de
mand, and whether in building ^railways of
thb class, we are not investing an tmncesssry
amount of money, and thereby entailing
high rata upon the industries of the Jcoud-
try, and in a measure retarding development
rather than accelerating. Indeed it b a seri
ous question whether we did not make
great mistake originally in adopting as broad
gauge as we have done.
We presume no one will dispute the fact
that oar Southern broad gauge roads possess
a capacity much greater than the wants of
our section demand, and in thb connection
It remains for ns to decide whether having
committed so costly a mistake we shall con
tinue to perpetrate it
If an error, it has certainly been a very
costly cor, and in our present poverty-
stricken condition it would be folly on our
pan to repeat it
The whole argument then turns upon the
point first whether Atlanta has the ability
to build, own and control a broad gauge line,
with its high, rates; and, secondly, if able
do so, whether a cheap narrow gange, with
its low rates to and from Atlanta, will not
advance her interests more surely and rapid
ly than the more costly broad gange.
While U k true that a continuous, cheap
narrow gauge line from Atlanta to Eastport
on the Tennessee River, connecting with
steamers at that point for all pails of the
West and Northwest by cheap water trans
portation, baring only one transfer, and
piercing the great mineral belt of Alabama,
via Birmingham, with its cheap rates on
Western produce, coal and iron, would
place Atlanta merchants and man
ufactures on a secure footing, enabling
them to set competition at defiance; we should
nevertheless give the broad gauge, with its
connections through and beyond Atlanta, and
its ability to transport freights for Augusts,
Macon, Savannah, Coiambus, Montgomery,
and every station on the varions lines, with
out breaking balk at thb point, a full and
fair consideration.
We hare thus presented the main argu
ments in favor of the two gang's. We are
not wedded to either system, and only desire
the merits of both fully discussed, ra order
that a wise caadnrion may be readied and
Atlanta’s future progress made secure.
Henry clews and o*i. Avery, Editor*
in-chief of The Constitution.
Reply of Col. Aver jr to Henry Clews.
Tbe exposure of public wrong by the press
b a necessary duty, tbe most inevitable of
whose revolts b the rancorous enmity of the
exposed, who by efforts to blacken their ex-
poem seek to break the penalty of their own
detection. This method of warfare is not
new. It has been ever the subterfuge of crimi
nality.
Tux Constitution has for the last three
years striven unremittingly in exposing the
frauds of Radical misrule. In thb labor it
baa given no quarter and has asked none. At
the same time it has never acted from per
sonal malice; it has never purposely done
Injustice; it his never exulted in any man’s
degradation; it has only sought troth and
justice and the public weaL And it has been
as careful to adhere to fads as it has been
indifferent to the malice of the bad.
Tbe intemperate and ondignified letter of
Henry Clews against the Editor-in-Chicf of
this paper, given in another column, with
the j ast comments of oar neighbor, the Sun, b a
fine specimen of the malignity of those whom
we have been called upon to show np in
the light of disagreeable facts. Its scurrility
would have amply justified its exclusion from
onreotamns, but it bio characteristic of the
nature, strategy and purposes of its author,
that we give it as a matter of intrinsically
valuable information. While the vigorous
flutter shows the writer to be badly bit.
There are parts of the letter to which the
only possible reply of a gentleman wonld be
either the punishment of slanderous inso
lence or the contemptuous ostracism of its
author as unworthy of notice. These por
tions can only be passed over for future at
tention.
It will be observed that Mr. Clews trits to
make an issue of veracity between Mr.
Johns and the writer of this article. The
following statement of Dr. N. L. Angler, the
State Treasurer, Mr. Alton Angler, hb clerk,
and Mr. J. A Ansley a respectable citizen of
Atlanta, all present at the entire interview
between Mr. Johns and the writer, confirms
in every particular the correctness of the
writers entire account of Mr. Johns’ remarks
and disclosures on that occasion.
Atlanta, Ga., March 8,1872.
On the 20th of January, 1872, Mr. Johns
came into the office of the Treasurer of
Georgia, stated he had just arrived from
New York for the purpose of seeing the
State Treasurer relative to Georgia bonds,
fie exhibited one of the new currency bonds,
stating he had loaned Kimball $35,000 on
51,000 of these bonds, and that Clews told
him these bonds were all right. While hold
ing in hb hand one of the first issue of tbe
second indorsement, or subsidy to the Bruns
wick dc Albany Railroad Company, tbe same
being lithographed gold State bonds, claimed
to be issued for temporary use, pretended to
bo secured by second mortgage bonds of said
railroad company. Mr. Johns farther stated
that he had loaned $100,000 to Kimball on
$133,000 bonds like the one be held in his
hand. lie attributed hb being cangiit in a
trap to Clews deceiving him, and stated he
would write to Col. Avery and expose Clews,
if be (Ciews) did not get him oat cf his
troubles.
Johns stated that be had been to Clews’
office repeatedly, trying to obtain an inter
view with Bollock; that Clews told him thst
Bnilock was not in the city, but be thought
he would be shortly, and he (Clews) woul diet
him (Johns) know when. Johns stated that
he called a few days afterwards, and was
ushered into Clews’ private office, where he
saw a fine-looking, portly gentleman, who be
thought was Bullock from descriptions he
had heard of him; so he asked Clews if thst
was Bnilock. Clews replied, "Oh, no; that’s
not Bnilock.” Clews was just then called
out of hb office, and another gentleman en
tered, who walked op to the very person
Clews said was not Bollock, and said: “Good
morning, Governor Bullock; how do you do?
When did you reach New York ? ”
Johns further stated that he thought Clews
w is trying to prevent lib having an inter
view with Bullock. He also stated that
Clews did not want him to come to Georgia,
but that he bad learned more in the Treas
urer’s office in a few minuses about Georgia
bouds, than he bad been able to get out of
Clews. Johns was angry and severe in hb
abuse of Clews.
The impressions left on our minds of thb
Interview with Mr. Johns are the same as
Colonel Avery has related in hb statements
and we confirm hb account.
N. L. Angier, State Treasurer,
Alton Angier,
J. A Ansley,
The matter might be properly dropped
right here, and Mr. Clews and Mr. Johns
turned over to the tender mercies of each
other and the critical public. Mr. Johns was
cither unfortunate in expressing himself unin
telligibly so as to impress four gentlemen in
the same incorrect way; or he stated matters
to ns incorrectly purposely; or he has had
reason to change hb relations with Mr.
Clews. We give him the most charitable
construction.
Bat thb remarkable letter deserves a more
extended notice, as affording on its veiy face
no slight inslghtiatothccharacterand policy
of the New York financier, who has become
so closely, and we say it with no pleasure,
corruptly mixed np in the worst phases of
Bullock’s misrule.
Even a casual Inspection of the letter shows
that it b a very transparent attempt tododge
the substance 'of the charges against Mr.
Clews, and to divert attention to an immate
rial matter. Granting for argument that
mistake had been made in the description of
the bonds, not one of the substantial facts
against Mr. Clews b affected or denied. Mr.
Johns’ letter does not help Mr. Clews one
particle. It does not relieve him of the
odium of the facts undenied. It has simply
furnished him a chance, which he
promptly seized, to raise an irrevclont issue
of veracity to distract attention from himself.
It b s poor attempt to shift attack and assume
the offensive.
Mr. Johns does not deny that he charged
Mr. Clews with deceiving him; or that he
abased Mr. Clews; or that he loaned Mr.
Kimball $100,000 on $133,000 of doubtful
bonds through Mr. Clews; or that he went
back to New York, vowing to expose Clews
if that person did not get him out ot the
scrape; or that ho has made no farther claim
for hb money or been farther heard from
or that by a strange coincidence Mr. Clews
sent back to the State Treasurer of Georgia
batch of cancelled bonds in just about the
time nocessary for Mr. Johns to have
reached home and threatened exposure;
that Mr. Johns did tell four gentlemen in the
Georgia State Treasurer’s office that Mr.
Clews had deceived him about Governor Bul
lock’s identity.
He denies none of these things, which con
tain the pith of the charges, bat leaves them
uncontradicted.
If Mr. Clews got Mr. Johns oat of hb
scrape, it may well be understood that be has
no cause to press unpleasant things.
That letter of Mr. Johns b very guarded.
It b less remarkable for what it says than
what it omits to say. It says about as little
as possible, and a careful comparison of
statements with the facts about which it wts
written shows the substance of these facts
utterly untouched, and a careful evasion of
denying everything damaging and material
against Mr. Clews that he was charged with
asserting.
Perhaps Mr. Johns will deign to dear up
the mystery of those $183,000of bonds. Or
perhaps Mr. Clews will. Tbs bond commit
tee now in session having no light on tbe sub
ject would be glad to be enlightened.
There b a part of Mr. Clews' letter that
condemns him without benefit of clergy.
It is this, in application to the writer:
“In reply to questions which you asked in
regard to the currency issue of bonds. I
stated to you that I could say nothing to you
about them. I did not say ‘I knew nothing
of them,’ as you allege.”
More quibbling! More evasion! Mark
the play of phrases, the use of similarly
meaning expressions to deceive, and yet
leave room to dodge. “Could say nothing*
and “knew nothing.” Truly Mr. Clews is
a sharp word trickster.
Self-convicted does Hr. Clews stand by thb
admission. He owns that he knew of the ille
gal currency bonds, but concealed hb infor
mation. A man was never more fairly
canght in hb own trap. Hb own words
condemn him. He knew of a fraud bat kept
it to himself. Fatal admission! He never
before admitted knowledge of the fraud
But Mr. Clews shall not escape even thus
wen. He not only knew and didn’t ten, (tot
he deceived in the matter, and we have the
facts to refreshen hb treacherous memory.
The interview was in August, 1871. The
unregistered currency bonds were issued for
hypothecation simply in the fallof 1870. The
gold bonds were baaed to substitute them a
month or so later. Some $500,000 of the
currency bonds were called in and canceled.
A million and a half were still out, though
three millions of gold bonds had been issued
to replace them. The currency bonds should
have been all canceled by tbe first of 1871.
Yet they were out illegally in August, 1871.
The press was holding np the fraud loudly.
Bullock would tell nothing about them.
Their use was a direct fraud on the State,
and all men knowing it were accessories to
tbe fraud. Private parties were borrowing
money on them in the State’s name for pri
vate use. Mr. Johns himself loaned $35,OCO
on $50,000, of which there b no evidence
that the State received a dollar.
Mr. Clews challenged the writer in that
August interview to mention a financial
wrong of Governor Bullock, The writer
told him of several—among them the curren
cy bond fraud. Mr. dew* tried to continue
the writer that the whole of thetc currency bond*
were canceled in the Plate Trcaturef* office
in Atlanta, and to prate it, produced Ooeemor
Bulloch'* report to Congreuman Scott, which
hehad made Governor Bulloch wear in writing
on the bach wa* correct.
And then when the writer showedJiim that
only tbe $500,COO first mentioned were can
celled, and that a million and a half were
still unaccounted for.Mr. Clews, cornered and
at bay, plead that he knew nothing of them.
In the light of the ficta, that be now owns
that he did know of them bnt purposely con
cealed hb knowledge; that he didn’t then
dare to deay that their bring out at the same
time with the gold bonds issued to substitute
them was a fraud; that be now holds $8C0,-
000 of these same illegal bonds and refnses to
give them np, though according to hb own
rendered account the State owes him but a
small balance of $47,000 and odd dollars for
which he holds as collateral $100,000 gold
State bonds; we say in the light of these signifi
cant facta, Mr. Clews stands in no enviable
attitude. He knew of the wroog then, he
concealed it, and now seeks benefit from that
concealment, and hb deceit and untruth but
render the matter more mysteriously sus
picious.
We tale no pleasure in thus exposing this
person; but the truth must be told, and he
has brought it upon himself.
Other matters could be pointed to affecting
Mr. Clews’ fair dealing. Hb participation
in tbe Cartcrsville & Van Wert Railroad
bond fraud, officially exposed by the Execu
tive of Georgia, b a recent example.
More could be said in exposure of lib
character and conduct, but enough has been
written in unvarnished truth to enable the
great and intelligent tribunal of the Georgia
Fnblic to pass verdict upon his case.
With that public Henry Clews is now left.
L W. Avkby.
P. S. Papers copying Mr. Clews’ letter
will please copy this.
which you asked in regard to the- currency
issue of bonds, I stated to you that 1 could
say nothing to you about them. I did not
ssv that “I knew nothing of them,” as- you
aliege.
1 our endeavors to misrepresent my lan
guage on lhb occasion have been availed of
jy ihc “Hon.” N, L. Angier, Georgia's State
Treasurer, in a published letter making frivo
lous personal charges against me with a view
of diverting attention from the finding of a
judicial.committee from testimony, taken un
der oath, in regard to hb own conduct while
in office, for which he should have been im
peached and removed.
Mr. Johns also denies thst he made any
such a statement as Angier imputes to him
about “noticing a fine portly man” , in our
office, inquiring“if it was Governor Bnilock;”
and that he stayed until be learned that the
indentical person, whom Clews said was not
Bollock, was Bollock. Thb immaterial and
idle sort of gossip, which Angier seems to
delight in, b shown by Mr. Johns' letter to
be entirely false.
I venture to think that In thb community,
where I am known, my reputation b such
that it would be unnecessary to answer such
false and frivolous attempts to malign my
character. Bnt as they are brought forward
by you in a community where I am compara
tively a stranger, I feel it necessary to meet
them by showing the character and motives
of my accusers and the falseness of their
charges. Very respectfr”
Hexby
From the Atlanta San.
Poor, Victimized, Silent and modest
Clews.
The following card from Henry Clews ap
peared in the organ of the bond ring in this
city, on Sunday morning, without comment.
While Mr. Clews seeks ostensibly to vindi
cate himself, he really attempts to defame
the character ot Colonel Avery, who, we think,
will be able to survive thb slander, though it
did emanate from the immaculate lips of
Henry Clews, the apostolic patron taint of
Georgia’s Treasury:
A CARD FROM HENRY CLEWS, OF NEW YORK.
Bankking House of Henry Clews & Co.,
32 WallSt. N. Y. Feb. 26,1872.
To the Editor of the Daily Conttttution, At
lanta, Georgia:
Dear Sin—My attention lias been called
to an article in your issue of tbe 8d iust,
containing accusations and implications in re
gard to myself which are entirely false, and
which must have been known to the wrlir-
to have been so at flic time.
I depart from the plan of silence, which 1
had determined upon, to confute once for all,
the lying accusations contained in the article,
with the hope that readers of your paper for
the future, will recognize in all articles in
relation to myself, the unvarying system of
false representation which has characterized
every publication against me in your paper.
In your editorial of February 33, you say,
in connection with financial dealings between
the Fulton Bank, of Brooklyn, and II. I.
Kimball, as follows:
“Mr. Johns took tbe currency bonds on Mr.
Clews’ recommendations, though Mr. Clews
knew they were illegal. * * * He
scored Mr. Clews soundly for deceiving
him.”
Again, you say:
“5lr. Johns stated that he had loaned $100,-
000 to Kimball on $183,000 of the bonds of
tbc second indorsement of the State to the
Brunswick and Albany Railroad. They were
gold State bonds, pretended to be secured by
second mortgage bonds of tbe road, $3,000
for $10,000. lie had one of the bonds with
him. The writer examined it. It must be
remembered that two issues of these bonds
were made—a temporary litograpbed issue
of $8-.0,000, and a permanent engraved issue
of $1,880,000, to be substituted for the first
The second issue was out, and the first issue
should have been in the Treasurer’s office,
cancelled, yet Mr. Johns’ bond was one of
the snbstituted invalid lithographed issue for
which the second engraved issue was out in
somebody rise’s hands.
“We (tailed his attention to the fact that
his $133,000 of bonds were so much waste
paper. We advised him to go back and see
Clews and tell that individual that he had to
get him out of the scrape or take the conse
quences.
“He left on the next train. In ten day* the
tame bond* of John*’ were tent by Clew* >£• Co.
to the State Treasurer, to be canceled, with the
statement that they bad been a long time in the
office unused, overlooked through a derldt negli
gence. And no further complaint or claim ha*
been put in by Mr. John*.
It is hard to get over such facts as these.
(sv talL- Irtilillxr ”
They talk loudly.
I have written to Mr. Johns in relation to
these charges made by you. I append a no
tarial copy of the letter which he has written
me in reply on this subject He denies to
tally having ever had in his possession a Ixmd
such as you say he showed you. He denies
also having bad any acquaintance with me at
tbe time he contracted his loan with Mr.
Kimball on the currency bonds
Mr. Johns writes as follows:
“Brooklyn, L. L, Feb. 23,1872.
"Henry Clem, Esq., present:
“Dear Sib—In reply to your note of this
date, I beg to say that I have read the article
in The CoxsTrruriCN, which says thst I
showed the editor of that paper a specimen
of a lithographed gold bond of the State of
Georgia, assuring him thst I held $133,000 of
them as collateral for a loan toH. L Kimball.
“In answer, I beg to assure you tbat I
have never, at any time, bad a single one of
this issue of bonds in my possession, nor has
my bank.
“The same article states tbat I was in
duced, on your recommendation, to lend some
money on currency bomta of the State of
Georgia.
“In answer to this, I have no hesitation in
saying that at the time of making the loan 1
had no acquaintance with yon nor any
representations from you in regard to the se
curity.
I have seen in the papers also a statement
that I was deceived by you in regard to
the identity of Governor Bollock once in
your office.
“While I remember having asked if the
person 1 saw in your counting room was that
gentleman, I have never had reason to doubt
your statement that it was not him.
"I am yours, very truly,
A. G. Johns.’
State of New Yoke, )
City and County of New York, as )
I, William E. Stiger, a Notary Public duly
commissioned and sworn, residing in said
city and county of New York, do hereby
certify that I have compared the f<
copy of a certain letter dated Febro
1872, from one A G. Johns to Henry Clews,
with the original thereof, and that the same
is an accurate and exact copy of the said
original and of the whole thereof.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed my official seal this 23d
day of February, A D., 1872.
William E. Sneer.,
[Seal.] Notary Public New York county.
You may remark “it is hard to get over
such facta as these. They talk loudly.” It
is, indeed, hard to get over such allegations,
demonstrated by Mr. Johns’ letter to have
been unqualified and willful falshoods from
the ^beginning, framed evidently with the
sole purpose of injuring in the public mind
of Georgia the estimate of the conduct of
my firm in the straightforward and legitimate
banking transactions with the State.
I stamp with the same brand of a tier false
hood the allegation made by von in your cor
respondence m regard to an interview had
■with me by you in New York in regard to
the currency bonds. In reply to questions CtmepondcnU
This effort to calumniate Colonel Avery
will be duly appreciated by all who know
him. Our citizens,^ course, at the very first
glimpse of Mr. Johns’ oracular name, will be
convinced that he has been tempted into the
most malicious misrepresentations against
Clews and Johns, all for the mere sake of in
dulging a little satire, for Colonel Avery
coffid not have been actuated by any other
motive. True Georgians, we suppose, will
hardly disbelieve Colonel Avery’s statement
and eagerly embrace the words of Mr. Johns,
who, to say the least, is altogether unknown
to them. We say this mnch in justice to
Colonel Avery, who is now absent from tho
city, and who, doubtless, can substrate his
words when it becomes necessary.
Wc make no assault on Mr. Johns as yet,
though it seems to he clearly Mr. Clews’ in
tention to implicate him in his own infamous
transactions to defraud our Btate of a fabu
lous amount of money.
The card seems to be published with a
possible hope that it may invite a controversy
with Mr. Johns, and thus divert, in a degree,
the suspicions of guilt from Mr. Clews.
Whatever be the intention or the conse
quences, Mr. Clews may rest assured that
Georgians will always have cause to remem
ber him—very ungratefully—for his wise (!)
and timely interference in our finances.
In the next to the last paragraph, Mr.
Clews states that Mr. Johns disavowed
certain statement connected with meeting
Bullock. We will only observe that snch
denial docs not appear in his note to Hr.
Clews.
These remarks are made only In justice to
Col. Avery, who, we regret, is absent at this
time. We shall probably refer again to this
extraordinary “card.”
Tbe Duty on Type.
The press are agitating the question of the
removal of the National duty on type. Type
in Canada where there is no duty costs fifty
per cent less than typo in New York, or the
difference between 44 cents a pound and 63
a pound,-the average price.
The annual production of printing and
advertising in this country is $100,000,000,
employing 30,000 skilled hands. The type
production is $1,500,000, employing 1,200
laborers. Yet the former is made tributary
to the latter, the great interest to the small
one. This is protection, and it is Radical-
ism.
An English firm. Miller & Richard, Edin
burg, the largest type firm in the world,
agrees to furnish $50,000 of type in America,
duty free, at fifty per cent, below tiio Canada
prices, or hundred per cent below the Amer
ican prices.
Let us have tbat duty removed. And let
the press agitate it
Scene In a Railroad Car.
The amorous younginan of the West is
fairly sketched in thofollowing from an Iowa
correspondent of Harpers’ Magazine: A
young Montanna chap got on board the
sleeping car of our train and said: “See here,
Mr. Conductor, I want one of your best
bunks for this young woman, and one for
myself individually. One will do for us
when we get to the binff—hey, Marier?”
(Here he gave a playful poke at “Marier,”
to which she replied, j“now John quit!”)
“For you see we ore going to be married at
Harrier’s uncle’s. We might ’a been married
at Montanny, tut we took a habit to wait un
til we got to the Binds, bein’ Marrier’s uncle
is a minister, and they charge a goshfired
price for hilcliin’ folk at Montanny.” Mar-
icr” was assigned one .of tho best “bunks.”
During the stoppage of the train at a station,
tbc voice of John was heard in pleading ac
cents, unconscious thatthc train had stopped
and that his tones conld be heard throughout
the car.
“Now. Marier yon might give a fellow
jes’ one.”
“John, you quit, or Til get outright here,
and hoof it back to Montanny in the snow
storm.”
“Only one little kiss, Marier, and I hope
die if I don’t” -
Just at this time a gray-haired old party
poked his head out of a berth at the'other end
of the car, and cried out: Marier, for God’s
sake givehim a kiss so that we caq go to sleep
sometime to-night”
John didn’t ask for any more of that deli-
ciont little lip business onring the evening:
“Marier” slept peacefully.
Weather Wisdom—A rainbow in the
morning gives the shepherd warning. That
is, if the wind be easterly; because it shows
that the rain cloud is approaching the ob
server.
A rainbow in the nigbt is tbe shepherd’s
delight. This is also a good sign, provided
the wind is westerly, as it shows that the
rain clouds are passing away.
Evening red, and next morning gray, are
certain signs of a beautiful day.
When the glow worm lights her lamp the
air is always damp.
If the cock goes crowing to bed, he certain
ly rises with a watery bead.
When you seee a gossamer flying be sure
the air is drying.
When black snails cross your path, black
clonda much moisture hath.
When the peacock loudly bawls, soon wc
will have both rain and squalls.
When ducks are driving through the barn,
that night the weather takes a tarn.
If the moan shines like a silver shield, be
not afraid to reap yourfields.
Bat if she rises haloed round, soon we’ll
tread on deluged ground.
When rocks are sporting in the air, it shows
that windy storms are near.
It at the sun rising nr setting, the clouds
are of a lurid red color, extending nearly t
the zenith, it’s a sure sign of eqnalls and
a gale of wind —Mote* and Quartet.
OUK WASHINGTON Ltd i?TKit.
Tlxe Sale of Arms to the French—Tbc
Iniquity ot that sale—Some strong
turn-The Patties to the Fraud—
Tfae.l ahor Party Nomination—Gas
< Day —'I he Loy al Snapp.
Washington, March 4,1872..
The Senate debate on the sale of arms to
the French rather flattened ont toward the
close of last week, though the subject is far
from exhausted. Indeed, with the exception
of Mr. Sumner, the speakers generally have
bad very little to say on the questions at is
sue, hut dealt laigfly Tn such political talk ns
one expects to hear on the stump and no
where else. In this dircction.it is conceded
the anti-administration Senators had deci
dedly the best of ir.
THE ILLEGALITY OF THE SALES OF ARMS
to Remington &,Co. was not so forcibly]
shown as it might have been. The text of
tbe act of 1863 only authorizes the Secretary
of War, “after offered ot public saleon thirty
day’s notice”—which notice was never given
—to sell “old cannon, arms and other stores
now (st date of the ljwylSCS) in possession
of the War Department
Coes anybody maintain that these breech-1
loaders (altered ijefi
store in 1868, au#t! |
description “unsuitable for the United States
military service or“for the militia of the
United States,” when they were at the time I
the only breech-loaders in our possession f
THE COUNTRY DISARMED.
It may be further shown, that in order to
give certain friends of the administration op
portunities for making money, that such
quantities of arms were disposed of that the
country wa3virtuA% disarmed. Concerning
the facta relating to this part of the arrange
ment there is naMkestion. They are, that
out of 75.G00 servlftble breech-loading arms
in our arsenals 402)00 were* sold, leaving in
our possession 35,000 of that kind of
arms used in war (ire at the present day.
Oar capacity for producing breech-loaders,
os shown by tliesUrdinancc Reports, is 200
per day, s(*that in case of war we could arm
about a regimcn'$frwttk. or in two or three
years after the commencement of hostilities,
we might have iu Mfg hands of our soldiers
about as mouy breech-loaders as Marshal
Sazarni surrendered at Metz. This is what
a sensible military man must call disarm-
ment, and consid<Ang tbe unsettled state of
our foreign relations, both with Spain and
England, it is not simply a folly, it is a
crime.
WHO ARE REHINaTOK * CO!
It is rumored here that Senator Conkling
and General Dyer, of the Ordinance Bureau,
are partners in the firm of Remington & Co.,
which disposed of these arms to the French
'ovemment; and it has been asserted that an
nvestigating conUnittee might establish the
truth of the report
THE LABOR CONVENTION NOMINATIONS
fare still mnch talked of in political circles.
A Huge Whisky Corner—All the
Old Stock in America in the Control
of One Firm.—Louisville, February 28.—
One of the greatest whisky transactions in
the history of the trade was developed here
today. It appears that the firm of 8. P. Suit
& Co. have effectually cornered the market
in old whiskies. It is said they have been
planning this movement for months, and have
at length succeeded in accomplishing their
objecL Newcomb, Buchanan & Co., acting
as commission merchants for Suit & Co
here bought up all the available stock of
whisky in the United States, which of coarse,
includes about all in the world. Their pur
chase in New York city alone amounted tc
over $1,000,000, and the aggregate amount
will reach about $31)00,000. This purchase
embraced nearly all the valuable whiskies
In the market, and it will probably affect the
market of all the other grades. It is the
largest and most important transaction ever
known in this country. Among the heav
iest purchases was the stock of Charles
Backman, of New York, which consists of
1,600 barrels, accumulated .since 1857, togeth
er with other stocks in thi3 State and in dif
ferent parts of the country.
A Tennessee Belle in Rome.—Two
American women have been asserting them
selves in Rome—Miss Polk, of Tonncssee, a
relative of our President of that name, and
Miss Harriet Hosmer. They, with others,
have bad a fox hunt on the Champagne.
The meeting was five miles from the gates
of Rome. The first day Miss Polk did not
ride, but Miss Hosmer did, and to some pur
pose, for she divided the honors with Prince
Humbert, Victor Emanuel’s son, he receiving
the body of the prize, nnd she the brush or
tsfl. In the second hunt four other ladies
took part, and followed the hounds with
Miss Hosmer, Miss Polk peing one of them.
There were forty riders, and the American
women carried off the palm. Visa Polk is a
beauty and a belle; is a great favorite with
the Italians, her warm impulsive manner ma
king her many friends. She is a beautiful
rider, perfectly fearless; knows thoroughly
how to manage her horse, and sits on ti as
though she was part of the animal, and has
withal a graceful swaying motion, and an
animated look that is very attractive.—Anne
They certainly took the country by surprise.
It is quite evidentTbat Grant’s friends nt one
time expected to' control tbe action of the
convention in hjs favor, while outsiders
thought that impractical men would be se
lected, and that the convention would have
very little weight Now it is by no means
certain that it has not struck tbc key-note of
the campaign. Thu names of David Davis
and Joel Parker seem to find favor with ail
save extremists, and to have already de
veloped a greatqr degree of strength than
even the most sanguine could have expected.
General Clingman, of North Carolina, re
marked the other day that his State would
go for Davis and Parker, and equally encour
aging advices are received here daily from ail
parts of the country by those interested in
the movement Bracing Democrats in Con
gress, though rather shy about committing
themselves at present, do not hesitate to de
clare tho ticket a strong one, and likely to
win. From this time forward all will be
looking with interest to the meeting of the
National Liberal’Republicans at Cincinnati,
May 6tb, a month before the Philadelphia
Convention. If the Democracy decide upon
holding n convention it will he after our
opponents have shown their hands.
buncombe day.
Saturday was, as usual, devoted by the
House to speech-making, there being about a
dozen members present, while the galleries
were deserted. Having engagements else
where, I left early in the session, and reading
in the evening paper tbat 8peer, of Georgia,
bad addressed titmouse 1 rushed to tbe Globe
yesterday only tdmnd that our Tom had been
confounded with Speer, ~of Pennsylvania. 1
had, however, a rich treat, in the speech of
Mr. Snapp, of Illinois, who hits succeeded to
the mantle of the lamented Mullins, of Ten-,
ncssce.
Fancy reading in tite*Clobc such a sen-,
tencc as “the DijEocratiir partywe at sea!”
with.many olUasutf the -same sort, ict me
now give a single extract to show how
Snapp’s exquisit&Jensibllities were shocked
at Alexandria:
“Ever' since the rebel Democrats South
were whipped, tho Democratic parly in Con
gress and out of it have by speeches, by
platforms, resolutions, and by votes given
tbeir Southern Democratic brethren to un
derstand that in tbc melancholy event of tbc
Democratic party getting control of the
Government, tbc South wonld have what
they call their rights restored to them. And
this very day the memory of that traitor,
Robert E. Lee, is embalmed in the heart of
every Southern Democrat On the 22d of
February I visited the city of Alexan
dria, nnd there I was horrified to wit
ness the celebration of the memory of
thisvery Lee, and I war still more shocked
upon entering tbe church where the Father
of our Country had once worshipped to see
hung upon the wall the tablet which read a9
follows:‘To the sacred memory of Robert
K. Lee,’ and when I expressed my astonish
ment and remarked that Robert E. Lee was a
traitor, tbe man in charge replied that ‘Lee
was no traitor.’”-
Snapp declared that “the Southern Demo
cratic party is os much in rebellion to-day as
ever,” and submitted in proof of his asser
tion an extract from the Mobile Tribune.
He ditched up an old speech of Hon. A H.
Stephens and fished out the Brodhead letter.
He thought tbc country could only be saved
by the reelection of Grant, and if this he so,
God help the country 1 But this is quite
enough of Snapp and buncombe.
Tommy HaucK.
From tho McmpVs Appeal.
Narrow Gauge Railroad Convention,
Tlie,Convention at St Louis, June 19th,
will be constituted of the ablest civil engi
neers and practical railroad builders in tile
United States. In addition to those mentioned
some time ago. Colonel Merriwetlier, Major
De Fnniac, Captain Pickett nnd Colonel Hul-
bert, will attend. tVe are informed that it is
probable the firms of Baird & Co. and Jack-
son & Sharp, engaged in buiidiqg engines and
cars, will be represented. The President and
Superintendent of the Denver and Colorado
Ciiv road. General Rosecranz, H. G. Stebbms
and other men of high character and di-tinc-
tion, from all parts of the country, will at
tend this most important practical convention.
We look with mnch interest to the facts that
will be developed, and hope the newspaper
press will urge the appointment of delegates
of high character and practical knowledge,
so that the whole coantty may come into
possession of actual facts, nnd not be com
pelled to rely upon mere speculations and
vague theories.
This is an important convention. Wehope
the press will give the notice a wide circula
tion.
Congressman Speer anil Disabilities.
On the 6lh, wc find that Congressman
Speer, of Georgia, succeeded in passing tbe
House a bill relieving the disabilities of the
following Georgians:
George D. Case, William McKinley. LoFay-
ette Carrington, nnd Samuel G. White, of
Baldwin county; Joseph A Stewart, of
Rockdale; George N. Lester, of Cobb; J. W.
Wells, of Lowndes; A H.Sneed,of Monroe;
Philip M. Russell, jr., Warring Russell, Levi
8. Hart, John O. Ferrill, and John A Staley,
of Chatham; William Ezzard and F.S.Hnnt,
of Fulton; David J. Bailey and James 31.
-Bloodworth, of Spalding; Johh L. Barnett,
William R. Rankston, and James W. Dark
ness, of Balls; JamesS.Lawton and Thomas
S. M. Bloodworth, of Monroe; Charles R.-
Moore, of Ferrell; Francis 3L Swanson, of
Jasper; William T. McCoIlough, of Jones
James C. Bower, of Williamson. Georgia.
LaGrangb Banking and Tbcst Com
pany.—We are glad to announce that this
company, which organized recently under a
very favorable charter, have completed their
banking house, and will move into it at once
Tbe vault is very large and fire-proof, with
an iron front and double-doors, with locks
from tbe well-known house of Hall’s Safe
and Lock Company, of Cincinnati The safe
deposited in this vault is a model’for its con
struction, defying alike burglars and confla
grations. The outlay for the security of val
uables have been heavy bnt judiciously ex
pended.
The officers, as well as the stockholders,
are among the leading men and capitalists of
LaGraDge; and every assurance and guaran
tee is furnished that goad faith and fair deal-
ing will characterize the management of the
Bank.—la Grange Reporter.
[fit there were no immortality, if our
whole life here is only sn evening ,’twiiight
preceding the night, not a morning twilight,
if the lofty mind is also let down after the
body by coffin ropes in the pit—O! then I
know not why we should not, at the grave of
great men, do from despair wbat the ancient
savage nations did from hope, thst is, throw
themselves after them into the pit, as those
people did nnto the tombs of their princes,
so that the foolish, violent heart, which will
heat for something divine and eternal, may
be choked at once.—Jean Paul.
The Evidence Increasing.
Eveiy day brings to light some new proof
of Bullock’s fraudulent dealing with our se
curities. The letter we published a fewdays
ago, from Mr. W. W. Taylor, the civil engi
neer appointed by Bullock to report Upon the
Brunswick and Albany Railroad,preliminary
to the endorsement of its bonds by the State,
is a matter in point
The proper officer to have done this work
was the Superintendent of Public Works,
within whose range the duty came, and who
was paid. The selection of another man was
an unnecessary piece of extravagance, and a
badge of fraud.
It seems, however, that the Governor did
not even act according to his engineer’s re
port, but either forged or pretended to forgo
false reports of the engineer, upon which he
based Executive action to the State’s injury.
In October, 1871, Mr. Taylor reported 170
miles of tho road done to Albany. In the
previous June, Bullock falsely asserted that
Taylor had reported 183 miles completed
and 213 miles graded, and that 240 miles to
Eufaula would be done by October.
This false report, of course, was a part of
the swindling scheme to get tho State’s in
dorsement for use.
We call the attention of tire bond commit
tee to the matter. It wonld be well to have
Mr. Taylor’s testimony. And it would be
well to trace up the frand and see who else
besides Bollock are implicated In this forged
report of the road's progress.
Hon. B. II. XXIltta Speech.
We reproduce the last speech of tho Hon.
B. H. Hill, delivered in Atlanta, a short
while ago, to the exclusion of our usual va
riety of reading.
• • • * • *
There ore many troths stated in this speech.
The one that most particularly Impresses the
reader is that part of it which refers to the
bold stand taken by Sir. gill in 1867, when
tbe public men of Georgia, who had al
ways, more or less, led the people, refused
to come bodlv to the front in opposition
to the reconstruction measures. It was
at Davis' Hall, in Atlanta, that 3Ir.
Hill made the grandest speech ever
delivered upon this continent. Taking tbe
occasion, the surroundings and the circum
stances of the times in which the speech was
made; right under the very noses of the mili
tary satraps and dictators sent down to rule
over Georgia, that speech was tho boldest,
the moot effective and daring ever made in
Georgia. We shall never forget it! Then it
was that Mr. Hill stood like a giant in moral
courage above all the public men of Georgia.
Mr. Hill, therefore, but repeats “the truth of
history” in referring to those stirring times
which developed true moral bravery contend
ing for the rights ot an oppressed people;
then it was the hearts of the people reached
out to him as the had never reached out to
any man.
But the burden of Sir. Hill's speech under
consideration is the spirit of intolerance.
Here we object to it We do not conceive
that the people of Georgia have been, or are
now, more intolerant than they may be ex
pected under even the present circumstances.
We think they have been very decidedly tol
erant, under the circumstances, from the be
ginning of reconstruction np to the present
lime. They have not refused to allow any
man to vote as he pleases; they have only
socially ostracised, in some instances, men
who have not scrupled to lend their influ
ence and votes to oppress the people of the
South.
Such men deserved, and still deserve to re
ceive contemptuous treatment from every
true Southerner. Suppose we take such men
as Akcrman. Can any true man extend to
him theliand of friendship? Were Sir. Hill,
himself, to occupy a similar position to the
one recently occupied by Akcrman as United
States Attorney General, and take advantage
of it to malign and persecute the people of
any section, is it to be supposed that the peo
ple would tolerate Sir. HuL
We say that the people' df the South have
borne obliquy and persecution from the
infamous scoundrels with a degree of
patience never before exhibited by
any- people; and hence we arc op
posed to that portion of Mr. Hill’s speech
the tenor of which would imply or infer tiptt
tbc Southern people have been more intoler
ant than sny other people wonld have been
under similar circumstances. The troth is,
we have been too mild in the treatment of
the scoundrels who would oppress us. We
have shown them a social consideration not
to bo expected under the circumstances. And
while on this point, let ns remind Mr. Hill
thst in the very sentences of the speech in
which he speaks of intolerance, be speaks of
others ns “yellow curs,” etc. A few para
graphs of tlie speech cannot be surpassed in
the way of implied if not direct denun
ciation.
But wc ore glad Sir. Hill has so emphati-
cally stated tbat he is a Democrat, notwith
standing he‘did not go to be one,” Weknow
how hard it was to declare ourselves a Dem
ocrat; but now wcsce plainly it was only preju
dice—that vain spirit of intolerance of which
Sir. HUi speaks—a political antagonism of
the past The point now is, How good a Dem
ocrat every man Bhould bo who would op
pose centralism and save tbe liberties of the
people.—LaGrange Beport-r.
Georgia R ewa Items.
Carrollton has 500 inhabitants.
The Abbott Pantomime Troupe arc in Sa
vannah.
Georgia has subscribed more to the Monu
mental Association than any other State.
Mrs. James Oates closed a successful en
gagement at Athens on Wednesday night.
Judge Dominic O’Byme has resigned the
Presidency of the Irish Union Society of 8a-
Savannah.
The Peak Family Swiss Bell Ringers gave
one of their entertainments in Greensboro
on Friday night
On Friday, of last week, Gainesville had a
snow of from eight to ten inches—the heaviest
ever known in that section.
Considerable com has been planted in this
county. There is more guano being sold this
season in this section than any season since
the wax.—Damon Journal
Dirt has been broken on the Memphis
Branch Road. The Rome Road shipped from
tho Rome factories over one thousand kegs of
nails last month.—Commercial. *
Mr. Aldrich has been appointed Town
Marshal of Washington. Wilkes county has
turned out one of tbe largest robin crops
known for years.—Washington Gazette.
The organization of an ice company in Au
gusta did not meet with success. Several ad
ditional cases cf miningttis have been report
ed in Augusta.—Chronicle and Sentinel
Dr. Wm. H. Pileher has been re-elected
President of the Warren County Agricultu
ral Society. The society will have a floral
exhibition on the22d of May next—Georgia
Clipper.
Mr. W. H. Slarris, of Calhoun, is dead.
At a meeting of the Gordon County Agricul
tural Society, it has been determined that
there shall be held during the year at least as
many as throe county fairs.—Calhoun Timet.
Dr. P. H. Burke, of Lumpkin, died in
Greenville, Florida, a few days ago. The
mumps and whooping cough are reigning in
Lumpkin. A negro man was killed near
Green Hill, on Thursday last, by Mr. Jones
Roach.—Telegraph.
There is a mania for hottse building in Co
lumbus at present- Messrs. Crawford In
gram, Blamltord So Crawford and General
Benning have been retained for the defense
in tbe case of Dr. E. Ft Colzey, charged with
killing young Ligon in Columbus.
At a recent meeting of tho Eibcrton Air-
Line Railroad, Colonel James L. Heard, of
Elberton, was elected President. The road
Las received a proposition toennsolidate with
the Richmond and Air Line Road and nego
tiations are now going on between tbc two
companies to accomplish the result—Elher-
t on Gazette.
The Superior Court of Gwinnett county
convened on Slonday last Hon. Charles
Davis presiding. It will be impossible to try
manv cases at this term. This being the
first court held since the burning of the Court
honse, tbe papers are to be established, which
frequently is very difficult to do. Col. T. M.
Acton, the popular agent of The Atlanta
Constitution, is in attendance upon our
court, looking after the interest of that sterl-
'oiimal..—Gwinnett Herald.
bout 30,000 partridges have been brought
to Albany this season. Col. C. W. Styles’
majority over Joseph Armstrong for Senator
in the 10th District is 432. A majority of the
planters in Dougherty, Lee and Worth coun
ties an; in an advanced and thorough state of
preparation for the crop, ' r, -“
Passing Events.
American horses won $324,693 in purses
last year.
Mobile has a hen with four legs—bnt only
the usual number of teeth.
An American in Canton, China, claims to
have made the discovery that Confucius was
woman.
Dr. Hall says everybody needs ten hours
sleep in the twenty-four, excepting, of course,
newspaper men.
In Boston they do not shake carpets any
more, but a new process has been introduced
by which they are “shampooed.”
Revenge is sweet A widow won $90,000
from a German gambler at Baden-Baden,
and a French General, whose hatred of Ger
many is undying, married the avenger of his
country and the $90,000.
A lady at Paris, Maine, has brought an ac
tion for breach of promise against a gctlcman
of that city. She claims $200 damages,
which she alleges to have been the cost of the
extra wood and oil consumed during the court-
ship.
A youth who applied for a marriage license
in Cambridge, Slass., the other day was re
minded by the clerk of the two previous ap
plications, and said, “Yes, bnt the other two
girls didn’t know I wanted to get married
’till I showed them the document. This one
docs.” He got the paper.
A man stopping at a hotel in Richmond,
Va., lately, causod no little trouble by the
reprehensible habit of walking aiiont at all
hours of tbc night. Having established the
reputation of a first class sonuambulist, he
walked off to an early train with his carpet
bag as naturally as though he had been awake,
ana left his bill unpaid.
GRANT’S EARLY DEVELOPMENT.
How He Came It Over the Deacon.
A correspondent of the New York Son is
treating the readers of that paper to inters
eating incidents in the early life of the Great
Ulysses, which, of course, are certainly au
thentic. We extract a single exploit as evi’
dence of the precocity of the future Presi
dent:
TOE ROYS INGENUOUSNESS.
“ ’Lysses, my son, do you know how Dea
con Potter come to have some of my Chinee
chicken aigs ?”
Ulyscs hesitated a moment, and then,
wjth qnivering lips, the noble boy ejacua-
lated:
, “Father, it will not pay to tell a lie; I
hooked the aigs and sold ’em to the Deacon,
but”—he hurriedly added, as fire gleamed
from the old man’s eves, and the gad was
raised on high—“but I biled ’em.”
“Bilcd ’em ? ” said old Mr. Grant, greatly
agitated.
“Yes, bilcd every dog gone one of ’em,
and the old Deacon’s hens can set on ’em till
tbc cows come home, bat they won’t never
hatch nary chicken.”
TBE OLD MAN’S ADMIRATION.
“Come to yonr daddy,” exclaimed his
father, with outstretched arms. “I’d r ither
you wonld honk and sell a thousand bilcd
aigs than have that breed of Chinee chickens
go ont of the Grant family.”
The blushing boy advanced to his parent,
who patted him on the head and regarded
him with good parental pride.
“And so you biled’em?” the father said.
“Well, now I never! Who’d a supposed the
boy would have thought of that ? ’Lysses,
my son, I’m proud of you. You'U be the
President of the United State* yet. If you only
keep or And you served the old deacon
jest right What did yon get for the nigs—
biled?”
Ulysses cast a suspicions glance at his
father, which tbe latter observing, hastily
added:
“The money’s year’ll, my son; yon’ve
earned it fairly, and you shall have it”
Thus reassured, Ulysses proudly responded:
“He gave me a dollar for half a dozen of
’em.”
“A dollar for half a dozen of ’em—biled ?”
exclaimed the old gentleman, greatly
cited. “You lie, ’Lyases, ho didn’t; aid he,
though?”
TUB OLD MAN’S IMPOLITENESS.
“He gave me a round silver dollar for ’em’
answered the truthful boy.
“A round silver dollar,” said the old gen
tleman, with an incredulous air. “Let me see
it, my son.”
Ulysces produced a fonr-bladed knife from
his pocket and carefully ripping 6pen the
lining to the waistband of his trowsers,
bought forth the coin from its place of con
cealment, where he had intended to keep it
until the 4th of Jnly. The impulse of patri
otism manifested itself in our President at
a very early period of his life.
The old gentleman took the dollar in his
hand, and examined it carefully. As he
gazed upon it, a pleasant expression rippled
over his features, spreading and spreading
until his whole countenance beamed with
satisfaction and delight, and every wrinkle
in his venerable visage became an individual
smile. Then, with tears of joy and pride
streaming from his eyes he said to the
boy:
THE OLD MAN’S HONEST PRIDE.
“’Lysses, my bod, you’ve honestly earned
this money. There’s few boys at vonr age
wonld have thought of biting the aigs. The
money is yoursr-your own. And for fear
that yon should lose it, I will keep it for
yoR“
So saying, the old man drooped the coin
fn a capacious leather purse, and placed it
in his pocket He has been keeping that
dollar for Ulysses ever since.
This little story is very interesting, not
only as showing the extraordinary foresight
of the cider Grant in predicting, whtie
Ulysses was yet hut a child, that he was des
tined to adorn the Presidentqd chair, but also
as illustrating the great troths that the boy is
the father of the man, and that as “the twig
is bent, so is the tree inclined.”
t3~Bad thoughts are woise enemies than
iions and tigers, for we can keep ont ot the
way of wild beasts, bnt bad thoughts win
their way everywhere. The cup that is full
will hold no more; keep yonr hearts full of
good thoughts, that no bad thoughts may
enter.
Tbc negroes gen-
crally are working well and cheerfully. It is
our opinion that the planteis of this section
are commencing this year's crop in a better
condition, with brighter prospects and more
hopefulness than for many previous years.
At (he election in Worth county for Senator
a difficulty occurred between Hon. R. R-
Jenkins and Col. A W. Harris, both parties
were wounded. Mr. Jenkins was shot and
cut, bnt not dangerously. Col. Harris was
cut in the right hand. Both gentlemen arp
np and about—Albany New*.
Communicated.
Railroad IHeetlns,
Agreeable to appointment a meeting of the
stockholders of the Elberton Air-Line Rail
road was held at Franklin Springs on tho 1st
instant, the object of which was to perfect
permanent organization of the company.
The meeting was largely attended by
citizens of Franklin, Hart an J Elbert coun
ties.
On motion. Rev. J. H. Grogan was called
fo the chair, and Slajor J. H. Jones requested
to act as secretary.
A code of by-laws was then submitted to
the meeting, which was read and adopted by
sections. ,
A committee was then appointed on prox
ies, which, alter a short investigation, re
ported tbat the following amount of stock
was represented from tbe several counties:
Elbert, S14 shares; Franklin, 509 shares
Hart, 95 shares.
On motion, an election wqp then gone into
for officers of the company, which' resulted
as follows;
President—Colonel James L. Heard, of
Elberton.
Directors—Messrs. Thomas Crynies, J. M.
Freeman, Obadiah Dean, J. W. Crum, John
Herndon, O. SI. Doyle, T. J. Bowman, J. n.
Grogan, W. H. SIsttox, E. M. Rucker, D. A
Mathews and J. H. Jones.
After some discussion in reference to tbe
location of the road, the meeting adjourned.
J. II. Gnor.an, Chairman.
John H. Jones, Secretary.
MEETING OF DIRECTORS.
In the afternoon a meeting of the Direc
tors was held. Present—James L. Heard,
President, and Sfessrs. Bowman, Jones,
Grogan, Mattox, Rucker, Mathews, Dean,
Freeman and Crymes, Directors.
Slaj. J. SI. Fret man was chosen Secretary,
and Col. T. J. Bowman Treasurer of the
company.
The following resolution was then
adopted:
Resolved, That it is tho sense of this
Board of Directors, with the lights now be
fore us, tbat the road should be built upon
the line known as the “ Carncsvilie Line,”
and that wc will be dissuaded from this
course only by very considerable pecuniary
advantages.
Ordered, That the next meeting of the
board be held at Camesville on the Thursday
after the first Tuesday in April next
Ordered that each director be requested
use his best efforts to r ecu re additional stock
for the company, cither in money or lands,
and report the same to the next meeting of
tho Directory.
Ordered that the Elberton Gazette be re
quested to publish these proceedings, and tbat
the Athens, Atlanta and otherpapere friendly
to the enterprise, be requested to copy.
On motion the Directory then adjourned “
meet as above stated. James L. Heard,
President
John M. Freeman, Secretaiy.
Tennessee News Items.
Chattanooga is to have a street railroad.
They also want a park. -
There were three or four cases of hydro
phobia in Slemphis last week.
Colonel House, of Nashville, undertook
commit suicide a few days ago.
The Republican Convention of Tennessee
will meet in Nashville in May.
The “Religious Historian,” by T. Fanning,
editor, is a new monthly printed in Nashville.
On the first of the month, there were 27,-
700 gallons of water in the public cisterns of
Memphis.
The friends of Col James Cooke, of Chat-
tanooga, are urging him to become a candi
date for tbe vacant seat of the Supreme Judge
ship of the State.
For (be Ladle*.
Gold and stiver are very mnch used in or
namenting the hair.
The pointed veils are now en regie, instead
of the minute affairs which have for so long
assumed the responsible duty of protecting
a lady’s complexioR They are made of plain
black or figured tulle and bordered with Chan
tilly lace.
The spring snits are already being made
up, and consist of the Queen Sfargaret polo
naise, which is very stylish. The waists of
snch are cut with spring, giving a small waist
in the back. They are cat long and very
little trimmed. The underskirt is long, and
perfectly plaim
Political. N o tea.
The National Liberal Republican Conven
tion meets at Cincinnati the first of Slay.
John Tyler,’Jr., son of ex-President Tyler,
has written a letter eulogizing the Republican
party.
The Republican leaders have over thirty
speakers engaged in the New Hampshire cam-
paigR
The Cincinnati Enquirer makes the state
ment that the Commercial, of that city, is
writing to be bought np by the administra
tion.
It is rumored thst General Lnncstreet will
be removed from bis position of Surveyor of
the Port of New Orleans, on account of bis
active friendship for Governor War-mouth
the Louisiana political imbroglio.
auscellanesns news Items.
Nuby has mixed his proverbs almost
bad as Dundreary. He says: “An honest man
gathers no moss.”
“I want a Young Man’s Companion,” said
spruce customer to a bookseller. “Very
well,” said the bookseller, picking up
volume, “Here’s My Only Daughter.”
The youth who stole a watch and returned
it to the owner, who promised “no question
asked,” is in jail. The owner was as good as
his word, but he arrested the youth without
asking any questions.
It teB«me, with twsotifat etorr.
or ibe streams of that nnbomidrd eliorf
Where tho ea'ntu, la their white robes ot glory.
An haunted bj torrotn no more.
It telle of thst land where no ehsdow
Of sin ever darkens the way;
It trill thst the pllerim ti weary
No more In thst besieriy eeene.
Where the .hepherd wUlleed him by wstere
Encircled with peetnree of green.
Thst Ood wilt wipe trere fMfsre.
Of all tint He coll, unto It Un
it t- lle that no richness can enter.
No woes, thst on rnrth ere e'er known,
“Mt^SSMiwererimd
B Vn h d% < S^^^^ptaSd » U.
That tftimtihl he, tlrecap shouhtpae* to* Him.
And “forgive, to the Father above t
tt trite n» how he went nnto heaven.
From the tombwav with death that was paved.
And that thoee who are holy In rptrlt
Will with Him In Eden ho laved.
Personal Itemn.
Laura Keene’s new paper sells for 50 cents
annmber.
Sirs. Fair, since her new trial was granted
is getting fat and jolty.
Mrs. SIcFarland-Richardson is giving read
ings in the Western States.
Parep t Rosa, as well as Nilsson, lost a large
amount by the fire in Chicago.
A printer lu Illinois boasts of getting drank
in every State and Territory in the Union.
Carl and Parepa Rosa celebrated their
wooden wedding (sixth anniversary) at Phila
delphia, on the 26tli of-February.
Sfiss Laura Harris, the American priina
donna, has been remarkably successful in lier
continental tonr. At Sladrid boqncts were
thrown to her containing doubloons.
P.T Barnum advertises in thn New York
tapen for three hundred men to travel with
lis great show in varions capacities, all of
whom must be teetotalers and abstain from
the use of profane language.
Captain Bogardns, of Illinois, will bet from
$1,0*0 to $2,500 that be can kill 500 pigeons
in 6 hours and 45 minutes, using a muzzle
loading gun, to load his own gun, use no
cartridges, no tape or coil caps, lie will also
bet $1,000 to $100 that .he can kill 100 con
secutive birds.
Foreign' Items'
There are sixteen very rich Hindoo firms
doing business in London.
American copper cents circulate in Japan
at Utroe times tbeir homo value.
The new Univcr.-ity of Strasbourg, con
ducted under German auspices, bos now
roll of 700 students.
Sir Richard Wallace has given 7,000 francs
towards the establishment of soup kitchens
for the poor of Paris.
It has been estimated that during tho late
war between France and Germany, two hun
dred and fifty cartridges were fired to each
man struck.
The yesrly death rate in Europe in propor
tion to population is twice as great as it is in
the United States. This is owing to the fact
that our people are better clothed, fed, and
cared for.
Tbe insignia of tho orders of St Andrew,
Alexander Newsky, and the White Eagle,
worth several millions of dollars, have been
stolen from the imperial museum, at St.
Petersburg.
In Sweden only a limited number of
loon licenses are granted, and these are sold
at auction. The saloon is to be closed at a
certain honr, no liquor to be sold to a child
or a drunkard, and no money can be recov
ered for liquor sold on a credit
Personal Items.
Lieutenant Fred. Grant is in London.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is convalescent.
Sfarch 9th was Edwin Forests sixty-ninth
birthday.
Tho income of W. B. Astor is $5,<HX> per
day, and he owns six hundred houses. '
W. B Roberts, an actor, attempted to com
mit suicide in Louisville, on acconnt of his
voice.
Carl Schnrz, when he speaks, wears specta
cles, stands behind his clirir and gesticulates
freely.
Isaac, the hangman of New York city,
charges $33 each for every noose he famishes
for first executions.
Stark Hopkins, one of the owners of the
Central Pacific Railroad, has commenced the
construction of a palace in Sacramento.
A N. Merchant, publisher of the Cham,
plain, (N. Y.,) Journal, owns nnd publishes
nine different journals located from Slolonc,
New York, to Burlington, Vermont, having
an aggregate circulation of 12,000 copies.
Alabama News Hems.
Mr. John Bondurantaml Sfiss Sallic Drake,
of Marion, are married.
A luge company of Swedish emigrants
have just landed at Tuscumbia.
The publication of the Primitive Baptist
has been temporarily suspended.
The brat men of Stobiie are said to be fa
voring the construction of a public park.
The Franklin Society, of Slobiic, bas ex
cluded Harper's infamous publications from
its rooms and files.
The ship Orient, on her trip front Mobile
to Liverpool, carried a cargo of4,707 bales of
cotton, valued at $503,6Q1.
The Wyndham Comedy Company having
just delighted the citizens of Montgomery,
the Lydia Thompson Tronpc having nowlio-
gun an engagement in that city.
The joy of the dumb is always unspeaka
ble.
A good hotel keeper is a man that one can
always put up with,
A good toast—“Woman—the last word on
our lips, because it comes from the bottom of
our hearts.”
Jones, on being asked by Sirs. Jones, why
he didn’t have a dnmb waiter in tbc dining
room, immediately replied tbat he bad trfo
them, but they didn’t answer.
Alphonse (who has had an attack of mo
er-in-law—“Par Men, madam, it Is not _
trouble zat your daughter is my wife now.
It is because she is not an orphan when she
is married to me.
A little wag thst was picked up on the
street in Chicago, was asked if he had a
mother, and replied: “ I dunno, but I gness
not, for when I ran away this morning the
old’arts was quarrellin’; and father bad the
hatchet." _
News Condensed.
American oysters are selling in London
for thirty cents per dozern
The elephant Romeo, now on exhibition
Philadelphia, has killed five keepers.
A belle of Olympia, Washington Territo-
? r, wears a robe of blrdskins, which cost
1,000.
Tbe Texas cotton crop of hut year amounts
to 400,000 bales, at an aggregate value '
$30,000,000.
(‘Knows How It Is Himself.”
“Fat Contributor” professes to know how
it is, and tells it in this way: “I know when I
have made a success without being told. The
‘committee’ bring their wives np to the plat
form and introduce them to me. Some of
the influential citizens come np and intro
duce themselves. The editor takes me warm
ly by the hand and wants to know where
the next number of bis paper will reach me.
If I stay over nigbt with my friend, tbe As
sociation President, he invites in some of the
neighbors, and there is a social time in the
parlor. Or if I am at the hotel, tbe ‘boys’ call
around and .invite me to go ont and eat
oysters, and it is difficult to get sway from
them sometimes to go to bed. There are
people to see me off in the morning, and I
bear it stated over and above board that if I
should come to lba£ town again the ball
wouldn't be large enough to hold the people.
Little boys on the street are respectful. But
when I fail nobody is to be introduced.
The editor, who, in the afternoon, said be
must be sure and see me after the lecture,
slips off home. His paper dosen’t reach
me cither, (unices it reaches me under the
fifth rib.) The secretary hands me the
stipulated amount with frigid politeness and
departa As I pass along the sidewalk on
my way to the hotel, I hear some little boy
shout ‘humbug,’ in a voice of startling shrill
ness. 7he landlord surveys me with a look
of pity as I enter—he bas heard all abont lt
—and I sneak off to bed as soon as possible.
No one attends me to the depot in tbe morn
ing to see me off, and I overhear a rude fel
low tell another on the platform, as I am
about to step on the cars: ‘If that fraud
ever comes to thi3 town again he'll get a
head put on him.’"
Religious grprtraent.
MY BIBLE
BT XABOJLXrr LEE BCTTEXBEB.
For the wlnga of a seraph to woodor.
With hi* countless and angelic handt^ .
A# they alng, mith a crown • n each forej'enl,
And* hup of bright gold In each head.
Oh teach •», tliou “IIolT of ltoJIes,”
To and, bj the “Boot 1 then hwt rirei'.
That path.ay, though narrow end lowty.
Thu lesdeih to Thee and to Heaven.
Religious Nows Hems.
In the path of duty, God promises his
special protection; he will keep us safe, and
bless us.
A Thrilling Occasion.—At a recent
Sunday School Union meeting in Brooklyn,
eleven thousand children sang.
In the SlossscbnsclU Assembly, a bill
bas been reported fixing the compensation
for tbc election sermon at $100; tbc salaries
of the chaplain of the House aud Senate $400
each.
Faith is the ladder on which the believer
is constantly mounting, to ascend into tho
heavenly Canaan, from Utcnccto bring down
clusters of ddicious grapes, to refresh him in
bis wilderness journey.
Bishop Doggett dedicated a new chnrch in
Hill street, Baltimore, February 11—the debt
$2,000 on the house was liquidated and at
nigbt $700 more was raised for Sunday
Schools after a sermon by Dr. Slunscy.
While a church trial was progressing at In
dependence, Kansas, the parties thereto. Geo.
Webb and Jacob Adc, invoked the revolver
of Ute flesh rather than tbc sword of tbe
spirit WcJjb was killed and three other
meek and lowly followers wounded.
The chandelier of the Baptist Church at
Salisbury Point, Slass., containing four kero
sene lamps, tell recently daring the service,
threatening a general coztlagratioR The
pastor, however, with great presence of
mind, started from the pulpit and smothered
the flames under his bcavy riding-coat
Among tbe other changes in tbe Canons,
made at the late Episcopal Convention, a
Diocese may be formed with six prcsbvtera
who have been canonically resident one year,
and six parishes, providing that no existing
Diocese shall be so reduced as to contain less
than twelve parishes and twelve presbyters.
Henrv James, late a member of tbc
Methodist Episcopal Church, Jackson station,
Ohio Conference, gave by bequest, $7,000 to
the Sliasionary Society of tbe Methodist
Episcopal Church; $5,000 to tlie American
Bible Society for the use of the Methodist
Episcopal Church; and $1,(00 to the Tract
Society of the Slcthodist Episcopal Chnrch;
in ail, $13,000.
Increase of Cnuncnita.—The Protestant
Episcopal Chnrch in tbe United States re
ports an actual accession to iu communion,
last year, 21,124, being a larger per ccntage
upon its whole number of members (224,095)
than any other Church. The Slethodist
Episcopal Chnrch reports an increase of 53,-
387, and a total membership of 1,172,099.
Tha reunited Presbyterian Church reported
as received on examination, last year, 27,770,
and a total of 455,378 members. Tbu
Congregationalism had 18,501 added by
profcsMou, and a total membership of 900,-
618. Tbe Presbyterian Church (South) re
ported (1870) a total membership of 87,529,
and additions on profession of 5,900. Tbc
regular Baptists report a total mcmbenhlp
of 1,410,403, and 77,795 added by baptism,
and 15,030 excluded and 2,271 erased. There
are many subdivision of these denominations,
and smaller bodies, whose reports wc hare
not compared. But tbc above are worthy of
study by ministers and others interested in
church growth.
Incorruptible Inheritance.
No povertv there! Millions have left tbe
earth poor; but bas one entered hearen poor?
Lazarus, the moment he died, waa a beggar at
the gate; bnt a moment after bis death his
estate had grown so fast that the hanty world
ling, still surviving in ail his affluence, in
comparison with him, was a penniless pauper.
O poor believers, rejoice in prospect of yonr
grand inheritance. It is ically immense, Ines
timable, nndctilcd, and fade I h not away. Has
it not been your endeavor to lay up treasures in
heaven, wby not oftener think of tbe result
there? Fear not. There is good news from
tbat far off country. Unsuccessful as yon
may have seemed on earth, your heavenly
schemes have ail prospered.
The treasury of God overflows with yonr
wealth. And it is safe—perfectly safe.
Neither moth nor rust corrupts it, nor can
thrives break through and steal it More
over, it shall increase—forever increase. As
long as yon live on earth yon add to the
principal, and its interest will mutiply, be
yond computation to all eternity. Crcrsus
was rich; Solomon was rich; Lucuilns was
rich, but tbe humblest heir of God is richer
far than all. It may be that the stores you
have accumulated in heaven wonld buy this
town, buy this district, buy the world, and
still be comparatively untouched. Nay.
think not this extravagant
I would not barter tbc heritage of the most
destitute of Christians for the whole globe
and ail its improvement*. Lift up your
heart, let it expand and overflow with Mils.
At thr close of tbe short journey through
time, yon will see eternity upon yon, all
radiant with the variety of your boundless
possessions, hopeful, happy.—Exchange.
The Memory or the Dead.—One beau
tiful trait of our humanity is the tenderness
with which we cherish the memory of the
departed. Let death take from tbe boose-
bold that troublesome and ungovernable
child, and all that wc remember are his sweet
and gentle words, his rare qualities, his lov
ing ways, his beauty and bis manliness. The
child stands before our eyes, not as he was,
bnt as he migbt have been bad all God pul
in him been perfected by love and grace.
He is now always “dear child” in our
thoughts, and not selfish or unlovely. The
children long for their dead companion with
a real and tender grief; they would be pleas
anter were be back again; Urey are sur
prised to find bow much they loved him.
Friends long to have tbc opportunity, now
lost, to show tbeir love.
t# Dr. Guthrie is very hard upon read
sermons. In a capital letter upon the “ Pul
pit” in the Sunday Magazine, he asks how
mnch chance Demosthenes wonld have had
with the fierce Democracy if be had charged
them with paper in band? wbst figure Cic
ero would have cut launching bis thunders
at Cataline from a black portfolio? and how
far a man would get in his wooing who
should read his lady love an oration in a
voice as hard as iron and as cold as ice. The
Doctor acserta that be has all antiquity on his
side, and all the preachers of Christendom
save those who speak tbe English tongue.
He himself confesses only to a slip of paper
pinned into his Bible, a sort of thread paper,
in fact, containing just the straw at which
tbe drowning orator might cintch if, begin
ning to sink in the waters of oblivion, which
prove fatal to so many speakers.
Season for Cuttino Timber.—Accord
ing to Dr. Hartiff, Starch 'and April are tho
most favorable months for cutting timber in
tended to be used by builders and carpenters,
the average per cent of moisture bring lesa
than forty-seven, while in tbc three follow
ing months the average is forty-eight, and
tbe next tbree months fifty rone. lie states
that properly seasoned timber contains from
twenty to twenty-five per cent.; and if tlie
moisture is entirely removed by artificial
means, the wood loses iu elasticity and flexi
bility, and becomes brittle. Any artificial
seasoning of wood should be carried on very
gradually, the temperature at the beginning
Tow, and the process not carried too far.
ESTHcads of families should pray at their
table*, not only because they owe it as a duty
to God, and on tbeir own acconnt, but also
from a proper regard to their children, do
mestics^ and employees. If saying grace at
meals is a Christian duty, then its neglect is
a sin, and its effect on children and others
most be bad. Is it not painful and humili
ating that there are members of Ute church,
professors of religion, who do not even prav
at their table? And for the neglect of this
duty there is no excuse.—Bee. Dr. Knmer.
t3f “I want a Young Man’s Companion,”
said a spruce customer to a bookseller. “Very
well,” said tbe bookseller, picking up a vol
ume, “here’s My Only Daughter.”
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