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ATLANTA, GA., APRIL 30,1873.
far A Mississippi negro, heeling the CIril
Right*Bill rend, remarked: "Dst U * regn-
lnr Ka-Klax Bill. I Jen know nome nigger
will poke his bend where be don't belong end
git bis neck broke.”
For Cincinnati.
Among the list of delegates appointed to
Cincinnati from Nashville we notice the
names of Thomas N. Frasier, John C. Gant,
Henry B. Foote, Judge J. L. Garden hire, A.
a Coiyar and George E. Pn vis.
pr We were pleased to .a in oar sane-
tom, on Saturday last. Dr. W. A. Lore, trav
eling agent of Tint Atlanta fosrrmmus
and Atlanta Medical and bnrgical Journal.
Thk CossTiTcrrion is one of our last
dailies, and one which wc can safely recom
mend to all. The members of Its editorial
staff are talented and energetic gentlemen,
who thoroughly understand carrying on a tip-
top newsy journal.—AOaay Central City.
Bankrupt.
The reply of the South Carolina State
Treasurer to all demands is, “ no funds in the
Treasury.” Notice is given that the public
schools must be closed for want of money
to pay the teacbers.^Threc millions of dol
lar! taxes were collected last year, and ten
at fifteen millions added to the public debt,
yet the interest of the old debt is even un-
paid.
Smashed, broken, bankrupt; and Radical
misrule did it. Yet Grant and bis faction,
the authors of that misrule, seek further knee
of power to continue such misrule.
Ueorglu Crop Hevra.
Floyd county—Wheat looks well; plenty
for.hume consumption and tome over, Ays
the Rome Bulletin.
Newton county—'Wheat looks well. Fruit
prospects large. Excellent com stand. Cot-
ton planting progressing rapidly though de
layed by rains, says the Examiner.
Terrell county—Farmers too busy total the
Dawson Journal anything about the (dope.
Fruit prospect good.
Calhoun county—Planting season fully
opened. Everybody planting cotton and re
planting com.
■ireet-Ballroad to the Police Be Lean
spring.
This needed enterprise is poshing ahead
like a (team engine. Live men are canvass,
lng for snbacriptivns to it. No better paying
project can lie carried out The wonderful
cnralive virtues of tbc water in all kidney
diseases arc becoming widely known. Tbc
ronte to tbc spring is a most picturesque
drive, affording splendid [views of tbc city.
The tide of travel to and from the Springs
is daily increasing. The property holders
along the route, and in that section of Ibe
city, will find an immense enhancement of
tha value of their property from Ibis road.
Cheap facilities of access to the Spring wiil
quadruple the business Tbc track will run
from tbc Kimball House. Let our citizens
take bold zealously, and subscribe liberally.
j^The receipts at all ports last week were
39.000 bales—23.000 bales less than last year,
and ljQOO bales less than two years ago.
The receipts at the interior towns were
7.000 bales—2/100 bales less than last year,
and 1,000 less than two years since.
It is likely fte receipts will be 2E.OOO bales
this week, compared with 57,000 last year
and 10,000 the year before. And receipts at
interior towns indicate 0,0X1 bales this week,
compared with8,000 bales last year, and 7,009
the year before.
The avenge of the thermometer for the
past week was G9 at noon. One light rain,
two dear days, the rest of the week cloudy.
For the past two days the weather has been
cool, lint as we lugceslcd last week the cloudy
.weather has prevented a killing frost. A
little boar frost was seen, bnt nothing at all
injured by it, and all danger of frost for this
spring is now past.
All our information from the cotton grow
ing region of the South Is, there is splendid
weather, and lias been for two weeks, never
better for cotton planting, and the early
planting has come np with fine stands. All
we have to fear now for two months to come
is dry weather. Four weeks ago we stated
tbst a alight increase in receipts and pleasant
weather for two wceka would depress prices;
we had both lost week and os a consequence
prices are lower. Every thing depends upon
the weather. lVe are often asked why does
cotton not go up with these small receipts
Onr answer is, it will go up very fast if we
have such weather in May and June as we
had last year.
So far, our receipts compared with last
year, arc 980,000 bales less, but the quantity
for sale in the markets of the world is 109,
000 bales more than last year.
Wc are often asked about the weight of
cotton bales, as pnt up in different countries,
and will now give the average weight for ten
years: American cotton bales av.-rage
pounds; Egyptian cotton bales average 495
pounds; East India cotton bales average
080 pounds; Turkish cotton baits av<
382 pounds: West Indian cotton bales
age 210 pounds; Brazilian cotton l aics aver
age 105 pounds.
The average American crop is three mil
lions bales. The [average Egyptian crop is
three hundred thousand bales; total crop of
India is fifteen hundred and fifty thousand
bales; total crop of Turkey is two hundred
thousand bale3; total crop of West India
one hundred and fifty theusand bales, and
the total Brazilian crop is eight hundred
thousand bales. Here wc have a total of six
millions of bales, and as the prices are now
very high, if wc have good season i wc will
have seven millions of bales this yea r. I f we
do, wDl prices go up or down?
We think Governor Hoffman strained a
point of comity very severely, to j»ue bis
warrant at all on a requisition that did (not
rest on an indictment! Bollock, if in New
York State, was under the protection of New
York law. To justify his arrest and trsns-
mrtalion one thousand miles, on: of the
, urisdietton. should require stronger evidence
of “probable gui t” than the affidavit of “be
lter of one man—especially when
the JuU of the court having juris
diction of the alleged crimes could
so easily have been obtained. Such a prac
tice would enable a malicious accuser to
dreg men by the score, at immense expense
and sacrifice, over all these States, on suspi
cions. so groundless, that no one else would
entertain them for a moment. The accusa
tion is a private matter, between accuser and
accused, before indictment Then the Court,
having jurisdiction of the crime, through its
most revered institution, the Grand Jmy,
takes it in hand, the State becomes accuser,
and the Chief Magistrate demands the crimi
nal. Would Governor Smith arrest, tear
from his family and exile to a Northern pris
on, any respcctabie citizen of this State, upon
the requisition of the Radical Governor of
Ohio,based solely upon the affidavit of ..reason
to believe,” of some unknown citizen there?
Would be send a law-abiding Georgian to
Sonth Carolina Scott, on someniggerisaffida-
Vi# rif * J holtof n tlio* lbs I. m .1 —f
f3T The following exchange of affection
ate confectionary took place in Congress on
the 22d between Representatives Sargent, of
California, and Sunset Cox, of New York:
Mr. Sargent—The gentleman represents
Tammany and nothing else, that is v. hat 1:
represents-
Mr. Cox—That is a blackguard remark.
far The notorious Dan Sickles threatens,
through his lawyer, John Graham, to prose
cute the New York World for libel, unless
that journal will retract certain expressions
lately used in its editorial columns, which
Sickles and his counsel think are “grossly de
famatory upon the character and reputation
of Mqjor General 8ickles.'
The World declines to retract, and goes on
to say that “we have repeatedly and deliber
ately called Blcklca an acquitted murderer—
a man who abot the allied seducer of his
wife, and afterwarda excited the loathing
disgust of gentlemen and men of honor by
' ; back to the bed which he had killed
man for defiling—cohabiting again
tred wife wlio-e shame be
with the dishonored
bad published to'the world and proved in
court of justice as a means of saving his
nock from the gallows; these are some of tie
things which wo have deliberaiq|£ amljfc-
pcatodly said of Mr. Sickles.” '
'dtonla HuYTroad.
■ ThcJColumbus Sun, in regard to the Ala
bama and Chattanooga Railroad, in which
Georgia Is Interested through",State indjrse-
ment of a portion of the bonds, Is informed
that prominent railroad men received a dis
patch from high officials in Savannah, which
stated that the above road, which was pur
chased at the solo in Montgomery, Monday,
by an agent of the State of Alabama, for
$313,000, had been sold by the State to the
Southern Security Company for the amount.
Tbc Ssndcrsville Georgian says that Vir
gil A. Powers will finish the survey of the
road from Lousville to the Central road in
two weeks, and will then begin the surrey of
the road from Sandersviile to Tcnnillc. Tbc
latter road will cost $25/100, of which II
Central road talus half stock, and llic cii
sens bavo. taken $13,000 already, and tic
merchants of Savannah #1,000.
Georgia crap news.
The award of $500 premium for the best
acre of cotton on which soluble Pacific guano
was used, offered by jjio Columbus Industrial
Association, was given to James H. Shorter.
Dr. W. II. Felton used some of Zell’s super
phosphate on a cotton field three years ago,
and this year it is clover. Tho part where
the fertilizer was used is 25 per cent better
than the other. The difference is perceptible
a quarter of a mile off, says the Cartersvillc
Standard.
Troup county—Farmers have wiped out
the late spring. Com fine.- All the cotton
nearly planted and much up. Captain Pinck
and has the finest wheat ever seen by the
West Point News.
Pike county—Wheat]exceedingly promis
ing, says the Gazette.
Wilkinson county—Planting backward
from rains, says the Sandersviile Georgian.
Gordon county—Wheat prospects never
better, and larger acreage than usual. More
cotton than ever before. Very few fanners
done planting com, says the Times.
Gwinnett county—Hall and rain storm on
Banday, damaging considerably the plant
era Guano floating on the creeks Geo. W
Ambrose hss wheat four feet four inches higl
of the Tmppahannock variety, says the
Herald.
The career of Bullock is a fine instance of
extraordinary altcnatipn* of human vieissi
Bubbled to the surface amid the convulsions
of political disorder and social turmoil, be
rede for a while on ajdcspotic pre-eminence as
a stranger Executive of tho proud State ef
Georgia. The absolute supremacy of bis
power and his cool disdain of trammels for
three years constitute a picture of bold, evil
rule not often aeon, and admirable in its ms-
Udons and tyrannical consistency The man
made and unmade Legislature*, toyed with
the State's sacred sovereignty like a worth
lets bauble, swayed the judiciary, and scat-
tend the people's] money with the lavish
liberality °f a prince, and the reckless caprice
of a munificent madman.
He preserved bis gorgeous deportment
amid It all, arrayed like a monarch, imposing
Is pretence, smiling and affable, the princely,
impertaboble and benignant patron of thieves
!nd adventurers.
Hit abdication came like a lightning stroke
in the very zenith of his power. Never did
he appear braver and more assured th-.n in
the very preliminaries of his hegirs, and he
accompanied his release of the State from
hit fool grip with a characteristic ebullition
of grandiloquence and hypocritical asssmacy
of virtue.
He hasjbravcd it out well Never man so
heroically appeared virtuous who lacked it;
sever Pharisee made a sublimer display of
brazen effrontery as a persecuted and incor
ruptible innocent than this self-same superb
p-au-t bawd.
Down the metallic deity fell with a long
daseent and a dull thud. Governors have
played the game of justice over the highcock-
otorum fugitive, and to-day sees him a mis
erable skulker from the offended law; and
an outcast from home, friends, society and
government.
What next?
Cardoza, lire South Carolina Negro.
It will be remembered by our readers Hint
before the negro convention in New Orleans
we gave an account of bow Cardoza, the
gro Secretary of State of South Carolina,
and three other darkies forced tbeinse’.ve
into the Bleeping car on the Georgia Road
running from Augusta to this point. Wc
stated that the conductor thought Cardoza
wanted to raise a row to use politically. Like
the enterprising attorney in tbc l'ickwick
Papers be wanted to be kicked for business
capital.
Well it seems that Cardoza was not to be
chouseled out of bis fuss. So on hi- return
from the convention be got up enough of one
with the proper degree of exaggeration, to
serve his purpose.
The Columbia Union of the 21si contains
a letter from Cardoza, dated the 23(h, giving
the following accout of tho affair, with suita
ble comments by the Union, urging the grea.
need of reconstruction in Georgia, and warn
ing all the coffees hpina Democrats,V ,
It will be seeif'Uiat Cardoza nUcmptec
again to force himself into cars in which be
bad no right to go, and failing in this, be has
fabricated a bloody tale of attempted mur
der out of an insignificant squabble, that may
or may not have taken place, bqt lhat
liable to happen to any impertinent mid pre
suming “scamp,” “black” or white, lik Car
doza, or the Iloly Ivu-KInx.
I arrived in Atlanta yesterday afternoon,
and went to the cars at 8 o’clock. 1 was en
tirely alone.
I immediately went to the sleeping car to
obtain a berth, which was promptly and posi
tively denied me. I then asked the conduc
tor pvho was a different person from tiie one
that took us down,) if he ha<1 my letter? He
said he did not. I then asked lnm if
he had
heard of it, and our passing throne'll a fort
night previously ? “I have, indeed,” he said.
“Do I understand that you refuse me accom
modations?” I asked liim. “I do," lie replied.
I then said: “Mr. Conductor, you h ive the
power to keep me out, bu I have the right to
go in. The door is locked and you have the
key, anil are master of the situation; hut “
protest against your treatment”
I then attempted to go into the regular
first-class day-car. The doors were locked,
and the conductor politely informed me that
colored persons were not allowed In ride in
those cars—that I must go into the smoking
car. He expressed sympathy for me, but said
bis orders were imperative. I thanked him
for his sympathy, and told him that I had
no fault to find with his treatment; that I
knew he was simply an executive officer car
ring out the orders of his employers, the
ireclors; but I informed bim also at the
same time, that I remained out under pro
test, and would seek my redress from the
courts; if colored men could get any justice
at the hands of the Democrats in Georgia.
At this point, about ten or twelve while
men gathered around tbc platform where the
conductor and I were quietly and politely
speaking, as I have related. A young white
man then came up to the platform' to me
and asked me if I was Cardozo, the eheretarv
of State of South Carolina. I told him I
was. Ho then took me by the arm and
attempted to drag me off the platform amongst
the crowd, saying he wished to see me.
The thought instantly flashed thtciigh mv
mind that this person meant mischief, anil
that there were those in the crowd who meant
to help him. I, therefore, released myself
and refuse.! to leave the platform, and step
tv'll lmrlvtiril into tins nmobimr
pod backward into the smoking car. lie
pursued me there, and after usiagllic most
abusve and threatening language, he ilrew-
off to strike me. The conductor then inter
fered and protected me and ejected this per
son from his car.
I am perfectly satisfied in my owu mind
that this was a deliberate conspiracy to as
sault me and murder me if I resisted. I cer
tainly would have been murdered, for I
wonid rather have died on the S|hi1 than
tamely submit to such an uncalled for and
unprovoked assault The timely interfer
ence of the conductor, and his starting his
train immediately, I believe, saved mv life.
Now, Mr. Editor, the simple facts need no
words of comment from me; they teach their
own lesson.
It is a specimen of the boasted freedom and
protection the Democratic party or Georgia
give the colored man; and yet the Demo
crats tell n9 they are our best "friends. God
save us from such friends!
I do earnestly hope and pray that mv right
band may lose its cunning, and my tongue
cleave to the roof of my month before I
should ever use them to give such men jsiwer,
in either our Stale or National Government,
and 1 think hi so determining, I speak the
sentiments of intelligent and leading colored
men. Yonrs, truly, F. L. Cabdozo,
Secretaly of State, S. C.
A Sharp Radical Scheme.
There is a report circulating here, and very
generally credited among Democrats anil
others who have not already sold out 1 < the
Reform Republican movement, to the < Sect
that should the Cincinnati Convention nomi
nate a ticket for President and Vice Presi
dent which, in the judgment of the mana
gers of the Philadelphia Convention, e nnot
tie beaten by Grant, then the Philadelphia
concern will nominate Grant, who will for
mally decline the nomination on the ground
of a desire to harmonize the Republican fac
tions, and will recommend that the Philadel
phia Convention indorse the nomination
made at Cincinnati, thereby preserving the
Republican organization.
WHAT GRANT’S FRIENDS THINK.
This scheme, it is said, meets the hearty
approval of all the President’s friends in and
oat of Congress, and is regarded as a shrewd
move on his part to prevent bring disgraced
by an overwhelming defeat.—Washington
eor. Somtnnoh Sines
If the above is tine, it shows that Grant is
badly frightened, and the Cincinnati move
ment is a tagger thing than expected. We
doubt its truth, however.
Rnllocti and tloirmuu.
f3T Governor Palmer is named for the
Presidency of the Cincinnati Convention.
The Washington telegraphic correspondent
of the Courier-Journal says “ the friends of
the Administration are watching with the
keenest interest every movement looking to
ward Cincinnati, and it is noteable that their
tone has changed within a week or two into
one of very considerable respect, for it They
begin to admit that if such and such candi
dates are nominated, and aie indorsed by the
Democrats, they will be elected.”
We don’t believe the friends of the Admin
istration admit any such thing. It wonid be a
most absurd and damaging confession of
weakness that we hold their shrewdness in
too high estimate to make.
vitof “belief” that the Georgian had violated
some of the infamous legislation of that
State? This is an extreme case, and so is
Bullock’s. But we had better nsc such dis
cretion. that our precedent shall not return to
plague us. Wc think the Governor acted with
ill-advice in this matter, which is the more
to be regretted, as a cause of partisan irrita
tion, at this especial juncture. Let “requisi
tions” be made at the instance of grand juries
only.—iliUalgeriUe Iiceordfr.
Surely, our worthy contemporary cannot
he in earnest in the above strictures upon
Governor Smith? Nor can he have read
carefully our own !iw on the subject, ns con
tained in the Code, sections 56,57,'53 and 59.
Did the law require indictment by a grand
jury as the preliminary to a requisition the
above plea might bolds. But sunk a prelimi-
aiy would often thwart the very! ends of jus
tice in the delay, which might afford crimi
nals time and chance to escape. Suppose
the crime was found out several months be
fore the grand juries meet ?
It is not a matter for the Governor to set
tle as to whether the charge Is just or unjust,
but it is his duty, in the words of the law “to
cause to be arrested and delivered up to the
proper, officers of any other State of the
United States any fugitive from justice from
said State upon demand made of him by tbc
Executive of such other State in the manner
prescribed by the laws and Constitution of
the United States.’
And so careful is the law to hedge in the
guilty from escape, that it is absolutely the
duty of the Governor without requisition to
amst a fugitive criminal from another State
on proper oath filed in his office, and link]
him twenty days to give time for requisition
to be made.
Truly, our contcmporaty has not consid
ered where his most extraordinary conclu
sions do lead him.
Had Governor Smith have failed to have
made requisition for; Bollock, notorious
criminal and branded of gnilt by his own
flight and concealment, lie would have out
raged the people and laws of the State be
yond expression. And bis rebnke of Hoff
man, after repeated attempts to meet ids
scruples, was a manly and creditable demon
strationof feeling and vindication of right,
that should and will elicit the warm response
of the people of the State.
HEW VOUK CO Kit US I* ON HEN CII.
OUU WASHINGTON LETTE1S.
The Beggars and Their Friends—A
Lucky Carpet-Bagger-** lie Pluck
That Wins -Curious Termination
of a Breach at Promise Case, Etc.
Washington, April 94,1872.
MORE “CAUCUSES.”
An importAnt caucus was held at Frank
Blair’s house last night The leaders of the
Democracy, representing several States, were
present, including Beck, of Kentucky, Yoor-
kecs, of Indiana; and Fernando Wood, of
New York. Hon.EthanAllen,of New York,
was present on behalf of the Liberal Repub
licans, for tbe purpose of hearing what the
Democrats had to say on the Presidential
question.
A long debate ensued, after which the Dem
ocrats agreed to indorse any candidate that
may be selected by the Cincinnati Conven
tion, and to advise the Democracy not to
make any nomination, bnt to vote for the
candidate opposed to Grant.
There must be some mistake in this report.
It can hardly be correct We seriously doubt
whether Mr. Beck or Mr. Voorhees wonid go
to any such length.
New York, April 22,1872.
Editors Constitution : One finds unfortu
nates in New York at every turn—crippled
men, old women, little children, all begging
fo: bread. At night they pack tbe Station
and lodging-houses like sardines—in layers
and by day they ply their vocation. God
help them, for where there is one impostor
there are a dozen who deserve real charity,
and rarely get it Recently I fonnd a waif
asleep after midnight on the curb-stone
around the monument of Washington in
Union Square. Itwasbittcrcold.andlwoke
tho 1 it lira fnllrttr tin “ ll’litr rh
Beecher for President,
CHATTANOOGA,
Chattanooga, April 22,1872.
• Editort Conttitution: You will pardon me,
I know, for indulging myself in a few words
from this locality. A week divided between
the city, its trades, manufacturing interests,
and the wild, captivating scenery along the
snmrait of Lookout Mountain, has given me
a decided taste for Chat—something I prom
ise to confine, on this occasion, strictly to
matters of general interest
Chattaaoogans, like the denizens of Atlan
ta, in regard to that city, are quite given to
tho belief, and will swear by it, that'there
no Southern city with inch fine and almost
certain prospects for «$nh$|r greatness as
their own. They believ^jlhat in jfew years
it wiil be< the grand Y
CENTRAL POINT
for commerce, an I they are making the idea
substantial by rapid improvements and in
creasing trade facilities. Indeed, in looking
carefully around, one is somewhat disposed
to regard favorably a reasonable portion of
their speculative turn of mind, aud form
rather exalted notions for the future of the
place.
During the year past, a large number of
new, spacious and costly buildings have
been erected, and are occupied by
first class establishments. Among these
establishments is the block known as
THE READ HOUSE,
the finest structure in the city, facing the gen
eral passenger depot, and already sustaining
a reputation for being one of the bc3t con
ducted hotels south of Louisville. Its manage-
mont Dr .1 T !?#>•» il nml lrieenivltn^ ...,1 :
ment. Dr. J. T. Read, and his spirited and esti
mable wife, make it truly a most desirable
place to tarry at. Its details of arrangements
are complete in every respect and thi liable un
exceptionable. Mr. J. L. Jones, another Mc-
Minvillc gentleman, and a genial one too, is
the Doctor’s chief assistant in the office, and
manages to make everybody around him
quite happy. The success already made in
this line by Dr. Head in carrying on a first-
class hotel at rates of three dollars oer diem,
routs the idea of necessity ;to ‘ business
compelling landlords to charge four dollars
per day. There are two other first-class ho
tels m the city, the Burns and Stanton. The
National has succumbed to adverse pressure
and has closed its efforts for business.
AGRICULTURAL.
Clinch and other rivers have jnst sent down
their last fleet of flat boats for tbe season.
These were loaded with corn, bacon, butter
and other commodities in that line from the
fertile regions above. Almost even - tide in
these rivers has sent out more or less of the
boats, which are generally manned !>/ four
men, and make the trip down in five to eight
days. Occasionally a boast isnccidentlvsunk
and its population, if not drowned, are fiana-
cially ruined. Prices paid at the 1-nd-
iugs for these cargoes of com range from
fifteen to twenty cents below Atlanta quota
tions.
Speaking in this connection, I am reminded
that I recently met, at his establishment in
this city,
MB. GEORGE S. RUBLE,
well known to the agriculturalists of Ten
nessee, Alabama, and Georgia, as one of the
most enterprising manufacturers of farming
implements in the South. Mr. Ruble suffered
to some extent in the recent fire on Market
street, lint has an extensive stock on hand,
aud is making heavy preparations for the
summer campaign among the farmers. He
has given me some valuable and entertaining
information regarding the ogricuitural inter
ests of the State, spicing it with scrap; of Bis
own personal experience while introducing
and beating up his present extensive trade.
During bis first year’s operations, he says:
“I sold just two mowing machines, and
never worked so hard in all my life.” The
next year, his efforts proved as great a suc
cess as they had been a failure the year be
fore, and thence forward his business has been
constantly assuming still greater proportions
He has a delightful home upon Lookout
Mountain, made doubly so by a little family
as pleasant and genial as the most apprecia
tive and discriminating disposition could de
sire to meet with.
OF POLITICS
can really write you but little. An effort
baa been made to fully organize a liberal
i arty here, and has in a measure succeeded
The prime mover in the matter is a gentle^
man well known as a lawyer, Cyrus Snider
recently of Mobile, and an old time Demo-’
erst. A few nights since he put the bail in
motion by responding to the call of his
friends to hear bis opinions on the subject of
a refonnd party.
BEN. S. NICK LIN,
another lawyer here, prominent, and _
staunch Democrat, sits back, says little and
eyes the situation as though he thought there
anight be a nigger in the wood pile. He
oclieves strongly in the old party, and is very
reluctant to shake loose on uncertainties.
THE WEATHER
has been unpleasantly fickle for the past two
weeks. The moan tain streams have flooded
the Tennessee river, and the prospects seem
got d for another week of rain. A general
complaint comes down from the grain regions
of the lateness of the season.
A smtli steamer was run into and sunk by
the steamer *" Last Chance,” a few miles be
low the city, the other day.
I frequently meet familiar faces on onr
streets, from Atlanta, and am always glad to
see them. Fen.
KT Mr. Lincoln used to tell a stoxy of a
boy who was ordered by his father to scare
a stray urchin off the premises. He depart
ed on Ins mission with a “turkey gobbler”
strut, and shortly returned with a discolored
optic, bleeding nose, and very much demoral
ized, and told his father the “darn’d boy
didn’t scare worth a cent.” 1
On the 9 th of May the following organiza
tions, viz: The National Labor Party, the
International Workingmen’s Association,
the Woman Suffrage party, the Temperance
party, the Peace party, the Spiritualists, the
Liberal or non-Evangelical Christians, the
Free Religionists, the Free Thinkers, the
Free Lovers, the Land Reformers, the Social*
ists, Communists, Positivists, Harmonialists,
etc., will hold a grand convention at Stein-
way’s Hall, New York, to nominate a can
didate for the Presidency on a platform com*
posed of the crotchets of all these wonderful
folks. Ye Gods! But what a platform that
will be! What a mosaic of odds and ends of
lunatic fantasy! What a funny patchwork
of grotesque insanities! What a comical
hotch-potch of incongruous notions and rip-
snorting absurdities 1 And what a high old
bedlam of harlequin asses will be that body.
We w*mt to see that convention. Beecher
is the top man now for its selection. The
menagerie looks to him as its best representa
tive.
Wc arc afraid Beecher can’t go that con
cern, however. But let her rip. On with the
asylum, we mean the convention. We nomi
nate Brother Susan B. Anthony as tho tern
porary chairman, or any other old uupanta-
looned rooster that may be acceptable.
All about t*c Political Status—Tbe
Cincinnati Convention—Candidates
—Democratic Prospects* etc.
the little fellow up. “ Why don’t you go
home?” “Hain’t got no home, sir.” “Where’s
your father and mother ?” “ Hain’t got none
neither, sir.” “Why don’t you go to the
win y* ** W# ot’n tliancAAf n
Tho Cincinnati Convention.
Two conventions will meet at Cincinnati
on Wednesday next, the first day of May.
The conventions arc called by two organiza
tions, though their supporters appear to have
a common purpose of government reform.
The Liberal Republican Convention, called
by the Liberal Republicans of Missouri, and
seconded by leading Republicans of Ohio,
New York, etc., and in sympathy wi»h which
the great liberal meeting in New York re
cently held, attracts the most attention.
This is expected to be a very large assem
blage. The other convention was called by
the Reunion and Reform Association of
Ohio, an organization which includes both
Democrats and Republicans, and is said to
have much influence in most of the Western
Slates, in all of which the Germans have
similar associations. The New York Even
ing Post understands that the object of this
meeting is merely to take connsel, but if the
action of the principal convention shall be
satisfactoiy, the Reunion and Reform Asso
ciation will unite with the Liberal Republi
cans in making an active canvass.
void.
The premium on gold has been steadily
rising for twenty days, until it is now thir
teen per cent, premium, compared with ten
per cent on the 5th of April. The reasons
o? this are these: Our imports of foreign
goods were never so large as at present. T he
import duties required to be paid in gold
to the different custom houses of the United
States for the past three months have been
fifty millions of dollars. This bos drained
the banks of most of their surplus gold. It
is true that during that time Secretary Bout-
well has sold $12,000,000 of his horded gold,
but he now has $100,000,000 of gold hoarded
in the vaults. The speculators of Wall street,
New York, have taken advantage of this
state of affairs, and are making a corner on
the merchants who have to buy gold to pay
duties, and also have to buy gold to ship to
Europe to pay for their goods bought there.
Our United States bonds have been
high in Europe lately, tut have fallen
t vo per cent, so it does not pay to send them
over to pay our foreign debts. But this cor
ner in gold will not last but a short time
longer, as the United States pays one bun
dred and ten millions of gold interest a year,
ten millions of which goes to the city of
Boston.
The United States pays out one hundred
and ten millions of interest as follows:
January 1st. $23,000,000
March 1st 5,000,000
May 1st 22,000,000
July 1st 23,000,000
September 1st.... ■ 5,000,000
November 1st 22,000,000
Total $110000000
As the above amount of $22,000,000 in
gold will be paid out, and a large portion of
it go into the banks, is likely the premium
will fluctuate between $1 10 and $1 15 all
summer, and if a large cotton crop should
be grown this year, it is likely gold will sell
at $1 05 before a new year.
Tbe New York Journal of Commerce
This old and sterling Democratic paper,
that was last year inclined to watch in silent
observation* the New Departure movement,
has an exceedingly sensible editorial on the
present statU3 of political affairs, v. It thus
reasonably, wisely and patriotically touches
upon the Cincinnati Convention:
What it will do remains to be seen. Wc
warn all who are interested, however, that
the day is long past when a few men can
promise anything for that party. We have
seen the day when ten men could be named
whose assurance of Democratic action would
be a guaranty of the course of the party.
Not so now. Those were times when the
party was in power, when its discipline was
>erfect—when the leaders were trusted and
ollowed.
Now there arc no leaders, but there is an
immense party, unshaken by adversity, al
though acting like a mob, and devoid of or
dinary common sense. A few hundred votes
changed would have given them New Hamp
shire and Connecticut, and wili give them
Pennsylvania and New York.
But let the Cincinnati gentlemen dismiss
from their minds the idea that the Democrats
are so weak and used up lhat they are ready
to follow any lead. Some old office seekers,
weary of waiting for the day of returning
x»wer, may be willing to accept any terms,
lowever humbling, by which they may be
long to the winning party; but the truth is
too plain to be lost sight of that the Democ
racy is an immense power, welded together
by the blows of frequent defeats, and that
thousands of its members think they can win
without any outside help. Let, therefore, the
Liberal Republicans be careful and wise, or
they will make a miserable failure.**
This sets forth the Democratic status very-
well, and is a fitting rebnke to those who
would disband our powerful organization on
uncertain contingencies. The Democratic
party, notwithstanding its dissensions, is a
unit, and not sufficiently demoralized through
the imprudence and mistakes of extreme men
in either of its wings, to support an unmiti
gated centralist, or to reject the co-operation
of men who differ with it only in name, but
agree with it in principle on the great issues
of a pure, economical, honest and strictly
constitutional government.
He Knew Hdc—“Come here, my little
fellow,” said a gentleman to a youngster of
five years, while sitting in a parlor where a
large company were assembled. “Do you
know meF* “Yith, thir.” “Who am I? Let
me hear.” “You ith tho man who kithed
mamma, when papa wath in Philadelphia.”
Station House, then ?” “ What’s the use of a
cove like me goin* to the perlice office when !
can sleep in a doorway r* That conundrum
being one too much for me, I started the little
l cove” to a neighboring shelter and left him.
“Some men are bom to good luck, and
others have it thrust upon them.” Four
years ago, a citizen of New York went South,
with nothing in the world but a shirt and a
bottle of whisky. He turned politician
played the carpet-bagger to perfection, secured
a fat office, and has made two hundred thou
sand dollars The other day he drove up
the new Boulevard near Central Park, and
bought three building lots—price thirteen
thousand dollars. Before the transfer deeds
were executed, he sold two for twenty-one
thousand dollars, and then investing
“Erie,” made thirty thousand more.
Another young New Yorker, a year sgo,
pledged the only bond he had in the world
as “Margin.” It amounted to less than five
hundred dollars. He went into a stock spec
ulation, was lucky, and m six months had to
his credit ninety-three thousand dollars, lli:
friends persuaded him to abandon tlic“Strcei :
and be content. He did so and went to
Europe, but on his return could not resist the
temptation to go into what he thought “a
sure thing ” Yesterday I saw him perambu
lating. Wall street, seediest among the seedy,
and L reckon without money enough in his
pocket to buy a square meal of cold victuals
Such are the ups and dows of life in New
York.
Other men create circumstances, and have
a bold, 1 brave grit and grip about them that
win success in auy station. I have in my
mind’s eye a young man who, ten }’ears ag *
was poorer than the most of us, but with
sharp eye to business, aud a keen knowledge
of human nature, he devoted himself to the
one single, and seemingly purposeless idea
of popularizing Bath brick, lie borrowed
a hundred dollars, bought his material,
pulverized it finely, and sent it forth to
the trade in sifting boxes. It was a new
thought; it “took;” people who used
it once, wanted more, and the conse
quence is that the young man aforesaid—his
name is C. C. Sabin—is to-day the President
of the New York Bath Brick Company, em
ploys no less than twenty-seven traveling
agents,at salaries ranging from fifteen hun
dred to four thousand dollars a year, and is
himself worth nearly a quarter of a million
of dollars. Industry and pertinacity have
been his sole levers, but he has used them
with a will.
I have just heard from an eye w it ness,
good story connected with one of the city
prisons. A man had been sued by his inamo
rata for breach of promise, aud being a non
resident and unable to give bail, lie was in
carceratcd in the usual place. Time and
again the woman offered him release on con
dition of marriage, but he obstinately refused,
and for three years has lived in the firm con
viction that a prison cell is infinitely supe
rior with all its disadvantages to a matrinio
uial “sell.” At last, however, he consented to
the tying of the Gordian knot, and the woman,
all triumph, sent for a magistrate, and the
twain were duly made one. The necessary
papers to effect his release 1 icing signed, he
turned to the Warden and observed: “Now,
this 13 all right, ain’t it—no going back on
this thing, eh ?” “ No,” replied the~Warden
“yon arc free to do fls you please.*
“Well, then, good bye, old lady; you’ve kep
me in here three years, now I’m off for ar
airing. Take my old clothes, take my name
lake anything but myself aud you’re wel
come.” “But ain’t you going home, my
dear?” asked his wife.
“Home! Home!” exclaimed the man. “No.
I thank you—I’ve had a foretaste of purga
tory already, and you can save the rest oi
your brimstone and fireworks for some other
feller.” It is said that at this juncture tin
woman went for her husband’s sc.-tip, but h<
escaped, and is now a respectable noun—vo
cativc in some remote comer of our mundane
sphere.
Have you seen the last Aldinr.. Its gram
pictures and general dress make it the bell
of air the periodicals. The publishers, Janie
Sutton & Co., 23 Liberty Street, are bccomin;
os well known os Bonner and Beecher, anti
are coining money. * *
tight melange.
•raa sweetest beggar op them all.
But as I give my last penny to the starv
ing boy, I see with delight another mendi
cant approaching. Ah, Hebe! Hebe! yin
lovely beggar! I am an old man, or y<5u
would not dare to look at me with thosi
softly upturned eyes, wondering, entreat
ing, archly humorous with twinkling light
Fresh as the first rose-bud, modest as maid
enhood, graceful as a springing spray oJ
blossoms, humming as she comes ns if yov
beard her happy young heart musing. Ah
~ ~ be! you too, you fairy beggar
Hebe! Hel
What is the alms she asks? what charity cat
she require? Of old men like me, Augustus,
this maiden bloom and joyous innoccacc am
fine instinct and intelligence ask only admi
ration and delight. But of you younge;
men they will require longing and devotior*
and sometimes despair, the utmost sincerity
and fidelity and purity. For this beaut if ii
woman is the beggar who docs not ask lli'
least and the worst, but the best and the most,
that human nature can give.
chief justice chase as a scholar.
Chief Justice Chase i3 probably the best
scholar that has ever presided over the Su
premc Court. As a Latin scholar he is no’
surpassed by any man in the profession
While he was Governor of Ohio, a friem
tells me, he read through the Greek Testa
ment during his first term. He reads Frencl
as readily as English. He can translate
“Faust” into his own strong and vigorou:
tongue, and.reads Italian and Spanish liki
the natives of those sunny lands.* While li«
is not a poet he is fond of “Evenings will
the Poets” and has a high appreciation ol
Chaucer, 8hakspeare, Milton, Dante, Goethe,
and others. He lias made some good trans
lations of the Latin poets, for his own amuse
ment In mathematics he is a worthy pupi
of Euclid. He is in the broadest sense ai
elegant and accomplished scholar.
T^ WOMEN ON A SPREE OP CRIME.
Simultaneously with this flood of feminim
ferocity here, similar cases reach us from
England, and serve to confound all our phi
losophy with the proof of a mysterious screw
loose somewhere in the social fabric. Why
has crime changed its instrument and taken
the pistol, the dagggr, and the poison bottU
from the knotty hands of the bearded villain
placed them between the delicate blue-veineti
fingers, diamond-studded and velvet-skinned \
What impatience at the restraints of domestic
ties, bitter rebellion a *ainst marriage laws,
dark temptations of unsatialcd passion, fires
of revenge and jealousy, extravagance of
life, looseness of habits, worse than foolish
overfondness for dress, have brought about
this holocaust of feminine subjects for the
hangman and the prison ? Is it the new and
startling doctrines that are abroad that have
been shunned, then pitied, and are now cm
braced? Certain it is that the epidemic of
crime runs in sexes as well as times and
places; but the present harvest, proceeding
possibly from the seed of a few examples,
can hardly be accounted for by the ordinaiy
theories of social science.
PHIDIAS, THE GREAT ANTIQUE SCULPTOR.
Phidias was born in the first year of the
73d Olympiad, or B. C. 488, a date veiy near
ly according with that given by Muller. Thi-
computation will explain the f«ct that, in B.
C. 438, Phidias, then fifty years of age, rep
resented himself as bald on the shield of
the Athenian Minerva. He must also have
been about fifty-six years of age at the time
of his death.
Phidias brought to his profession a knowl
edge of all the finer parts of science which
could tend to dignify and enhance it With
the most exquisite harmonies of poetry, and
the moat gorgeous fictions of mythology, he
was no leas familiar than with geometry, o]
tics, and*histonr. From Homer, whose work,
he must have deeply studied, he drew those
images of greatness which he afterwards
mouidul in earthly materials with a kindred
spirit The circumstance .which, by a sin
gular felieity, not often accorded to genius,
elicited the powers of Phidias, was tbe coinci
dence, in point of time, of the fall maturity
of his talents with the munificent adminis
tration of Pericles.
IVewa Condensed.*
The cost of the London Times to the sub
scriber in Boston is $46 per annum; the Lon
don Globe is $50 per annum, in gold.
Zante, the well known Mediterranean Is
land, is said to have exported over 25,000
xmnds of currants the past year, and about
>0,000 barrels of olive oil.
Antwerp contains a very large menagerie,
from which birds and beast3 are supplied to
circus managers.
The Russian conscription for the present
year takes bnt six persons in each one thous
and for the ranks of the army.
Washington, April 23,1873.
A slip of the pen caused you to do me an
injustice in your editorial captioned “ Dem
ocratic Success ” published in The Consti
tution of the 18th Instant You say:
“Our Washington correspondent appears
to think, in his letter, that, in the event of
the Cincinnati Convention taking such a
course as will unite the Republican party, the
Democracy will have a poor chance. We
differ with him,” etc.
For Cincinnati, read Philadelphia; but as
even that correction does not cover the ground
permit me to reproduce what I did say:
“The Cincinnnti Convention is looming up
more and more, daily. It will certainly be a
grand demonstration against this rotten ad
ministration. Indeed, the fear is expressed in
some quarters that the Liberal movement may
assume such proportions as to induce tho
Philadelphia- Convention to drop Grant and
nominate a ticket that will harmonize the
party. In that case, the Democrats would
have a hard row to hoe.”
I was not giving my individual opinion in
writing the above; but it is the view that
veiy man}- hold hereabouts. Should the
Philadelphia Convention go back on Grant
aud nominate a man like Trumbull, there
would be harmony in the Republican party
once more; and this would, of course, render
a Democratic victory less certain than if the
present spirit continued, and we co-operated
with Sthe Liberals, or they with us, in nomi
nating candidates for the Presidency and
Vice Presidency.
OUR CORRESPONDENT “TRUE BLUE.”
So far as individual opinions are concerned
I am not one of the “doubting Thomases.”
I believe in heeding the Democratic flag fly
ing with no surrender inscribed upon it, aud
of maintaining the party organization intact
at nil hazards^ and under all circumstances.
I intrude this declaration because having
confined myself heretofore to recording the
views and speculations of those around me,
instead of presenting my own, this, with
your editorial, might convey an impression
that I had backslmcd from the true faith.
Such is not the case. I incline neither to
passivism nor look with favor on any propo
sition to make the Democratic party the tail
to a Radical kite.
THE RADICAL PACTIONS.
The Philadelphia and Cincinnati conven
tions are equally Republican. The first will
represent the “ins” and the second the “outs.”
Of the two the second will be the most
creditable in point of individuality aud sen
timent Everybody knows that the office
holders arc to meet at Philadelphia. These
are the “ins.” Now let us look to Cincin
nati. Take the prominent men who are go
ing there and j r ou will find they have been in
office aud are not, or have failed to get in.
Mr. Trumbull wanted a scat on the Supreme
Bench, Mr. Schurz wated to be Minister to
Germany, Horace Greeley wanted to be
Post Master General, and Charles A. Dana
wanted to be Collector of tho port of New
York. The same holds good of the delega
tion chosen to represent the District of Co
lumbia. John D. Dcfrees heads the list. He
was public printer during the adminis
tration of Lincoln and Johnson, and was re
moved by the present administration. Gen
eral McLellan served eight years as Assistant
Postmaster General, and was removed by
Grant, and George Alfred Townsend got
mad because Grant would not give him a
Consulship. I do not state these facts with
a view to disparaging the gentlemen who are
to meet at Cincinnati Their fight is ours,
to this extent. They want to rid the country
of the present corrupt and tyrannical admin
istration, and so do we. A friend whose
duties brings him in contact with leading of
ficials here furnished me with the following;
SPECULATIONS ON THE LIBERAL MOVEMENT.
During the past week there has been no
little comment in ;official circles licre-a-bout
over the prospects of tbe approaching politi
cal conventions. First and foremost, the
Liberal Republicans have the greater amount
of attention, (as they also produce the larger
share of earnest anxiety) on the part of those
who represent the dominant; party in official
places here.
Up to the present time, however, all that
has been predicted or opined relative to the
proceedings, and results to be attained at
Cincinnati, is to be regarded as speculative
altogether. A week from this date may give
some definite shadow of forthcoming events;
but at present, beyond the certainty of a suc
cessful convention there is nothing to indicate
final action. The constantly increasing
array of names which have been very
inlucntial in the Republican party
leave no room to doubt that the liberal ele
ment of the party will be fully represented
there by mea of character aud statesmanlike
ability. These facts have made an impres
sion among the ultra Radical politicians here
which gives them no particular comfort, and
there is a suspense engendered which will
make the Cincinnati Convention a welcome
arrival, notwithstanding the evidences it will
present of the thorough disaffection of the
Radical party.
WILL GRANT DECLINE ?
There is said to be a positive and formal
movement here to have General Grant de
cline the nomination, and if the managers of
it have the power they will consummate their
object aud have Grant out of the fluid
Every hour they become more fully con
vinced of his weakness with the people, and
the recent New York demonstration basin
noway given them confidence in putting him
forward. The matter rests alone with tbe
President; it is for him to say whether he will
withdraw as their standard bearer. A sagacious
member of the Republican party said the
other day, that ninety-five per cent of the
delegates already elected to the Philadelphia
Convention were for Grant’s renomination,
and that this wa3 easily explained, as eighty
per cent, of them were office-holders. He
believed the party were marching to certain
defeat, and the only hope lay in gettiug rid
of Grant I doubt if they will be able to ac
complish this.
THE CINCINNATI CANDIDATE,
Judge Davis, seems to he the “coming man.”
of the Cincinnati nomination, and inView of
this fact the attitude of the Democracy to
ward him becomes a matter of importance.
With this co operation,his election isassu cd.
A careful canvass of the leading Democrats
here, both in and out of Congress, shows a
remarkable unanimity of sentiment respect
ing the availability of Judge Davis as a
candidate, and his fitness for the highest
office in the gift of the people. No other
man as yet presented in this connection finds
such acceptance. Senator Trumbull aud
Charles Francis Adams is equally objections*
bl.*; tbe former because of his reconstruc
tion record, w hile the latter would alienate
the Irish vote. Trumbull could get no sup
port in the South; and Adams would lose us
thousands of votes in New Yoru and
elsewhere. Less objections is made to
Gratz Brown, but he docs not stand
so well generally as Judge Davis. I
veiy much doubt, however, whether wc
should have anything to do with the Cincin
nati nominees. Judge Davis is apparentlv
very strong now, but it 13 by no means cer
tain that he will get the nomination. The
“probabilities” are, as the Signal Service
Bureau would express it, that a Democratic
ticket will be nominated, and I see no good
reason why it should not prevail if the party
is unanimous and every Democrat put his
shoulders to the wheel
THE COTTON TAX BILL.
I am assured that the cotton tax bill recently
published in TnE Constitution is not the
genuine article, but is more liberal in its terms
than the latter. I see that the position I have
taken on this measure is fully sustained by
the letter from Hon. A. T. McIntyre, recently
published, and this is the more gratifying as
we had held no consultation on the subject
Tommy IIauck.
An opportunity was offered for all present
to become members by the enrolling of their
names.
A committee of five was appointed to re
tire and prepare a list of officers, and report
to this convention immediately.
The following were nominated and elected
viva wee:
President—A. T. Spalding, D. D.
Vice Presidents—F. H. Ivey, J. n. James,
W. H. McIntosh, D. D.; M. J. Welborne,
Judge J T. Clark, Alfred Shorter, J. L. War
ren, D. B. Plumb, T. W. Calloway.
Corree|>onding and Recording Secretary—
RW. Warren.
Executive Committee—Hon. J. R Brown,
A. K. Seago, Wm. Henrv Strickland, Dr. W.
T. Goldsmith, Colonel George llillyer, James
H. Callaway, Dr. Bozeman.
Treasurer—J. H. James.
President Spalding accepted the position
in a few happy remarks.
A committee consisting of Drs. Hillycr,
T. Skinner and R W. Warren were appointed
to make a report at 3 r. m., this evening, on
business for consideration of this present
body.
TheJ Secretary’s report was read, giving
partial statistics of Sunday Schools in Geor
gia. Adopted.
The Treasurer’s report was read and
adopted, showing an expenditure of $20,
with no receipts.
Brother Homady moved that the thanks of
the body be tendered to Brother James for
the above $20.
On motion of Dr. Cooper, the President
was added to Committee on Buriness. Ad
journed to 3 p. m. Norr-u-Trr-SNOC.
Legal Intelligence*
Value op a Life.—The Ohio Legislature
has fixed the vjiluc of a life at $10,000 by
making that the maximum amount that can
be collected from a railroad company for
killing anybody
George Christy, alias George N. Harring
ton, the great negro minstrel, left properly
worth about $45,IKK). The will directed the
sole of the property aud the division of the
proceeds into eleven equal parts. The five
children were to have two of these parts each
and the wife one. The latter contests, and
the estate is in the New York courts.
Ugorgia State Baptist Sunday Scbool
Convention.
MORNING SESSION.
Macon, Georgia, April 25,1872.
In pursuance of the call made by the Ex*
ecutive Committee of this body, a meeting
was held this morning, opening at 10 o’clock,
in tbe meeting house of the First Baptist
Church, in the interest of this great cause.
Introductory services of singing and prayer
were conducted by the chairman, A. T. Spal*
ding, D. D. Quite a large number of minis
ters are present, judging from which there is
an increase of interest in this branch of our
work. After opening services Dr. Spalding,
in a few pertinent remarks, set forth the first
work, t. e., tho work of thoroughly organizing
the body. The Secretary, Rev. i£. W. Warren,
being absent in attendance upon the meeting
of Trustees of Mercer University, Rev. l£
T. Asbury was appointed Secretary pro tem.
Rev. A. T. Spalding, D. D., was, on motion,
appointed President pro tem. A form of
constitution was presented, and and, which
was then taken up seriatim, and after discus
sion at some length, and in some respects
amended, was adopted.
Artie e 3 provides for Life Membership by
the payment of $10 and Life Directorship by
laying $25. Another article^ makes the fol-
owing offices: Pri sident, nine Vice Presi-
den s; Corresponding and Recording Secre
tary; Executive Committee of Seven, and
Treasurer. The committe is authorized,
through the Secretary, to publish a book con
taining the proceedings of the body. The
Executive Committee to meet at the call of
the President, empowered to appoint Mission
aries and others laborers.
Associational Conventions may become
members of this State bodjr by contributing
funds and furnishing statistics..
Provision is made for a traveling Mission
ary Secretary, who shall travel over the State,
organize schools, get statistics, and further
the Sunday School work.
against liim upou the
ground of any condition of mind or body,
or religious associations, which by law ren
ders hiui unfit for the marriage state, is uot
to be granted leave by the court to marry
again without proof that he has changed his
condition in this respect
Union Bank Case.—The point in the de
cision by the Supreme Court of Tennessee in
the case of the Union Bank of Tennessee
against Charles Jones aud others, was the
liability of indorsers oil notes held by the
bank, but which were not protested for non
payment until after the close of the war. The
notes matured during the existence of hostil
ity, and were protested when peace was re
stored. The Supreme Court held that the in
dorsers, for want of legal notice, were not
liable.
Orphans’ Home Anniversary Day*
1 oucuoss, Ga., April 27,1872..
Editors Constitution: On yesterday (Fri
day, Aprfl 26th,) on the grounds of the insti
tution, the first annivemiry of the Orphans
nome of the North Georgia Conference was
celebrated in the presence of a large con
course of people. The sun rose m unoh-
scured splend'»r, ,p greeting the aged and af
flicted Napoleon of the enterprise as it did
the great Emperor on tbc day of Austeilitz,
and the day, by its peaceful brightness, so
still and clear and inspiring befitted the great
Individualities.
Marshal McMahon gets $14,000 a year, and
his is the highest salary in the French army.
The expenses of the great Nilsson Opera
Troupe were $24,000 per week, the profits
twice that sum.
Andy Johnson positively declines to be a
candidate for Representative to Congress
from the first Tennessee district
Col. King, of Texas, has a little farm of
34,132 acres stocked with 05.000 cattle, 10,000
horses, 7,000 sheep and G,000 goats.
Andrew Lowe, of Savannah, has recovered
in the Court of Claims $475,000 for cotton
seized by Treasury agents just after the war
A Canadian Leander is going to make a
hero of himself by undertaking to swim six
miles from Buffalo light house iu Lake Eric.
An American correspondent writing from
Berlin, describes Minister Bancroft :is ridinj
in the streets of lhat city in a costume, “con
sisting of tight fitting trowsers/high-top boots
and highly-finished silk lial” lie calls thi:
the attire of the typical English gentleman.’
Does it not approach the garb of an English
footman rather?
JLcvltics.
The mariner’s compass has done some of
the most important needle work in tbc
world.
The storm signal; man on top of Mount
Washington held the “highest ollicc in the
gift of the nation.”
“Here’s your in-waders,” shouted a mem
her of the 11th Mississippi regiment, as Gen
eral Lee’s veteran army plunged into the Po
tomac on its way to Gettysburg. “And
Burlington buried a boy, and this is its epi
taph;
Beneath thin fitono onr baby lays,
And cost us forty dollars.
Atlanta Churches.
Louisville, April 23,1872.
Editors Constitution: There is an ancient
fable told by the Greek and Roman churches
that in one of the earliest persecutions to
which the Christian world was exposed,
seven Christian youths sought concealment
in a cave, and there, by God’s appointment,
fell into a deep and death-like slumber.
They slept, the legend runs, 200 years,
till the greater part of mankind had received
the faith of the gospel, and that church
which they had left a poor and affiicled or
phan, had “kings” for her “nursing fathers,
and queens” for her “nursing mothers."
They then at length awoke, aud entering h.
to their native Ephesus, so altered now that
its streets were altogether unknown to them
they cautiously inquired if there were any
Christians in tho city. “Christians! ” was
city.
the answer; “we are all Christians here!
And they heard with a thankful joy the
change which, since they left the world, had
taken place in the oinnions of its inhabit
ants.
Like these youths, on my late visft to At
lanta, I did not ask if there were “any Curis-
tians. here ?” My enquiry was answered by
the sight of my eyes, which were filled with
the aspect of magnificent temples erected to
the name of Jesus.
If grand exchanges and great market
houses and lofty bunking blocks, attest the
worldly business of a city and are legitimate
expressions of the same, surely stately edi
fices devoted to the Worship of God indicate
in the people a regard for the same, and are
proper manifestations of a peoples’ religion.
To give our best to our Maker and adorn st)
far as we can the place of Ilis peculiar pres
ence arc duties that can only be evaded by
covetousness.
Hear Sir Edwin Sands, a great Puritan of
the 17th centuiy. He w speaking of the
Papists. “This one thing I cannot but highly
commend in that sort and order: they spare
nothing which either cost can pci form in
enriching or skill in adorning the Temple of
God, or to set out his service with the great
est pomp and magnificence that can be
devised. And although, for the most part,
much baseness and childishness is predomi-
Uant in the Masters and contrivers of tlicir
ceremonies, yet this outward state and gloiy
being well-disposed, doth ingendcr, quicken,
increase and nourish the inward reverence,
respect and devotion which is due unto Sov
ereign Majesty and Power. And, although I
am uot ignorant that many men well reputed
have embraced the|thriftv opinion of the
disciple, who thought all 'to be wasted that
was bestowed upon Christ in that sort,
and that it were much better bestowed upon
him or the poor (yet with an eye peihaps
that themselves would be his quarter Almo
ners,) notwithstanding I must confess, it will
never sink into my heart, that In proportion
of reason the allowance for furnishing out
of the service of God should be measured by
the scant and strict rule of mere necessity,
and that for ourselves no measure of heaping
but the most we can get, no rule of expense
but to the utmost pomp we list; or that God
himself had so enriched the lower parts of the
world with such wonderful varieties of beau
ty and glory that they might serve only to
the pampering of mortal man in his pride,
and that in the service of the high Creator
Lord and Giver, (the outward glory of whose
higher palace may appear by the very lamps
that we see so far off burning gloriously in it)
only the simpler, baser, cheaper, less noble,
lesa beautiful, less glorious things should be
employed.”
All hail, then, to the Roman Catholics of
Atlanta for their imposing church! And let
the Methodists there take the highest credit
for their determined efforts, amid great dis
couragement, to give glory to God in erect
ing a building fit to be called by His holy
name.
May old St Philips, before many revolu
tions of the seasons, emerge from its crab
like structure (it seems all shell,) and offer to
the Most High a sanctuary with pinnacle and
spire pointing to Heaven, and room for all
who may wish to seek in it the “means of
grace” and “the hope of gloiy.”
More anon. Faithfully, A. F. T.
Personal,
The invincible Acton, the heavy man of
The Atlanta Constitution, and the best
newspaper drummer in theUuiftd States,
darkened the door of onr sanctum on Mon
day evening last eit route from Fayette court
to Atlanta. We were glad to learn from him
that he is meeting with fine success in bis
labors in behalf of the sterling journal he
represents. He added quite a number of
names to his list at Fayetteville, and though
other journals had live representatives on
hand, the Colonel bore off the palm as the
heaviest man on the ground, and proved con
clusively that there was no “dead weight”
about him.—Clayton Times.
occasion. ,
The important gathering commenced on
Thursday by the arrival of Key. Br. Je.sc
Boring, the father of the enterprise, ISev. W.
H. Potter, tv. B. Branham, I. J-Davl& Sam
uel Anthony, W. J. tVardlay and K B. Da
vis, the first four being a portion of the trus
tees on the part of conference; amt Messrs.
Thomas M. Meriwether, Charles II. Johnson,
and H. P. Bell, three of the six trustees rep
resenting the laity of the conference. Un
yesterday the Kev. Clement A. Evans, of At
lanta and Colonel George M. Lester, also trus
tees, arrived. Bcv. W. Ft Cook, of the
conference, and Messrs. Y. L. G. Harris and
J. l. Hopkins, of the laity trustees, were
absent. . . ..
At an early hour on Friday morning, the
people of Xorcross not delegated to provide
transportation for visitors, and loose of the
surrounding country, began to gather at the
w lions,” which is located about ono mile
and a half cast of Norcross. The train from
Gainesville added a few to the number of
visitors trom abroad; that from your grand-
thouglited and great-hearted city brought its
contribution of nearly a thousand—coming
in with seven closely packed coaches and
two platform cars, swelling the gathenng at
the “ Home” to not less than ten thousand
pconle. The morning train also added to
the number of the clergy present the Keys.
W. A. Dodge. G. M. Dickey, G. \V. Harda-
wav, and G. II. Putillo.
ft is believed that it will not only not be
improper, hut, on the contrary, acceptable
and interesting to give a brief outline of the
origin and object of the Orphans’ Home.
The idea originated during the year 1870,
ill the mind of that eminently large-licarted
and useful, as well as able and eloquent
member of the Georgia Conference, Kev.
Dr. Jesse Boring. He commenced writing
letters in its behalf, in the Southern Chris
tian Advocate. The immediate result has
uot been made known; hut the second letter
brought a donation of a thousand dollars
from a noble and generous Christian brother
in Alabama, aud this, with the purchase anti
donation of seven hundred acres of land
near Norcross, by fourteen citizens of the
locality, made the grand idea ait assured
grander memos. Iu March, 1871, the in
gathering of tho fatherless and motherless
ones began, and in April, the 26!h day, the
Orphan’s Home 'of the North Georgia Con
ference, was formally dedicated to the work
of its heaven-born mission. ,
In its first inception the Home was intend
cd for the needy orphans of Confederate sol
diers, hut thought and consultation resulted
in its expansion to a Home for destitute or
phans generally, and though Hie present
household is composed mostly of the orphans
of soldiers, the number (now about forty,]
embraces others. Thu applications for ad
mission have exceeded the accommodations,
necessitating the erection of additional build
ings, including one one hundred feet long,
so increasing the room as to accommodate
uot less than ono hundred children.
The Home is no asylum or reformatory
school, hut is made to conform to the ide:i
implied by the name. Under the Christian
fatherly care of Kev. Thomas Boring, and of
his most excellent wife, and the ever watch
ful supervision of Dr. Jesse Boring, and s
whole-souled body of trustees, the entire in
lernal arrangements, duties, and lutmrs art
homc-like, and nil the sweet and endearing
influences existing between parents and
children and brothers and sisters are assidu
ously cultivated. All arc made to feel as it
members of one and the samu great
family—inspired by the same hope,
each wishing and hoping and striving
to promote the interest anil success of all
the Olliers. And then, while on the one
hand, and during a portion of the day, those
old enough to go to school aud receive nroper
instruction from books, on the other" hand
the remaining portion of tlieday not required
for needful recreation are devoted to some-
useful employment. The first, of course,
was lint of the garden and farm: hut now
within the past two months, a shoe shop ha:
been organized and several youths placeei
there, who arc instructed by"an excellent,
competent expert. Specimens of the work,
creditable to more experienced workmen,
were exhibited yesterday; also, specimens of
needle work of various kinds, the handiwork
of the little girls.
Other industries will he introduced ns the
buildings and accommodations increase with
increasing means, and llie members of the
family increase. It is hoped and expected to
make the Home self-sustaining and that each
child entering it, wiil, oa leaving, have re
ceived a good education and instructed to
proficiency in some valuable branch of me
chanical industry. That the family at tin
Home may not feel isolated from other chil
dren, its members forma material portion of
the Sunday School at Norcross, where the
Home and townchildren promkcouslv form
the -c- *'
Pursuing tho history of the original con.
ception by Wyera and bis associates, tUc^-T *
tinguished orator dwelt with itnprcrsi Tl . an.
absorbing effect on the fact that it was in.n.
gcrated and bad been sustained iu a manner
almost miraculous by 1‘uavul Ilis dct-JlS
recital of events and of donations to WyaS
enterprise was remarkable -second only m
revelation itself. lie then referred to tho
enterprise at Norcross ns she outcroppjtg m
this Continent of that inaugurated by tha
power of Prayer in Europe forty years agoI_
repealing what had been truly said yem
ago, that “God, in uUiaucc with one n...
rnakes a majority.” *
Your correspondent repeats the hone that
the address and proceedings will he printed
in pamphlet form and generally distributed.
At the conclnsion of the address, the hum
company separated to partake of sbaunttfS
picnic repast, which the superintendent of
the bouse, (Dr. Thomas Boring) and the neo.
pie of Norcross. and the surremmliag conn
try, had provided.
This disposed of, the whistle of the engina
at Norcross reminded die visitors that it tra*
time to leave, when, after much and pro.
longed hand-shaking, and long, tearful fans
wells, the^ompany departed. May all ij Ta
to return,♦ith other thousands added niaav
years hereafter to celebrate the Arniivcrxarr
of the Orphan's Home. Ere the close of Un
present year, and in time for the next Anai
versary,> s t*» bo bored the Jesse Boring
Memorial Chapel will he ready, and thccS
creises be conducted in the beautiful, shaded
grove on tho grounds so generously donated.
J- 8. P.
Religious teems.
The Cathedral in the city of Jerusalem, be.
ing built by the Catholics, will soou be com.
pieted.
Une of the most remarkable revivals of
the season has taken place on board the
sicamer.Kate Davenport, during her passage
from New York to Bombay. * k
At a recent meeting of the Ministerial A*,
sociation in Syracuse, New York, thirty
members la-in;: present, tho nut
Betwicull and 13 o’clock, Rev. W. H. Pot
ter, Presiding Eider, introduced Kev. 8amu:
Anthony, who opened the exercises by read
ing a portion of the 10th chapter of the Ac!
of the Apostles, aud the utterance of a beau-
tifully-eolcmn, impressive prayer.
Seated among the Trustees on tire platform
was observed a large, benevolent looking old
gentleman, apparently advanced to his full
three score and tea years, whose deafness de
manded the use of a trumpet. When the
prayer was ended, U v. Dr. Boring, support
ed by crutches, rose and begged to introduce
to the audience, ami to the little *■ Home’
family, the orphan's friend, Bro. Thomas F
McGehee, of Auburn, Alabama, the warm
hearted donor of the first one thousand do!
htrs, and requested the children to rise and
receive him. rfimul taneous.y, our aged f i lend
already mentioned, and the children, wit!
glowing cheeks aud bright eyes, rose anc
greeted each other. Oh, it was a beautiful
sight, and few were the eyes that were dry.
Onr Alabama friend and benefactor was
too full for utterance; aud, with tremulous
frame and faltering voice, he was only able
to thank God for having so blessed him that
lie was able to bestow even so small a
towards promoting so worthy an object
“Don’t thank me” said he, “it is all from our
Heavenly Father; to Him be all tho praise
all the glory. I thank God for the means,
aud for the heart and the will.” His feeling
though short, address moved to tears near
ly the entire concourse.
When Mr. McGelne resumed his seat, the
family of little [orphans sang most sweetly
and spiritedly, that beautiful Sunday School
song, beginning with—
“Kinging, sweetly ringing,’
much to the delight and gratification of the
audience.
The Presiding Elder then introduced Rev.
Dr« W. W. Ili-ks, of Macou, Ga.. tbc orator
of the day.
Your correspondent intended and com
menced taking notes, so as to give your read
ers a brief synopsis of Dr. liicks’ address
hulas the orator proceeded, such was the in
terest excited—so fervid was his eloquence—
so compact and strong, so impressive and
suggestive, his language and thought—such
the grand sweep liis mind took in the discus
sion of his theme, that it was impossible tci
follow and report his utterances. Your cor
respondent trusts aud doubts not the address
will he printed—it should be; although di-
vested of the attractiveness and charm at
tending its delivery, its matter will challenge
the admiration of all pious, thought-ul men.
His theme was the “Hough House” found
ed about forty years ago. in Home, Germany
(not far from Hamburgh) by one Emanuel'
Wyerne, twenty-foar years of age, and a
candidate for ecclesiastical orders. It was
emphatically an industrial charity—a home
for fatherless and motherless, or friendless
and homeless little ones, whose general char-
ac.dristics were the same as those adopted
bv“Thc Orphans’ Horan” n1r/a 0 /i,,.7 i
Among other results contemplated and c
fluently hoped for by Wyerne and bis c< -la'i
ers forty years ago, when founding the and
institution of the kind in the world, first ol
Dr. Boring and his co-laborers when found
ing this, the first institution of the kind on
the American Continent, although ut first
announced Utopian and impracticable bv
earned Doctors and Prorossors.ihen and now
was a school of discipline for the future con
flict of life, to assuage crime and to protect
innocence, the commission of one, and the
destruction of the other being regarded
inevitable if unprotected, ujicared for
plums were left to he tempted by
gaunt want or uaUvcdepravity. Tliere were
orphan souls adrift in every community-
fatherless, motherless, friendless aud home
less, many with bright intellects, inborn traits
of morality and nobleness, others with evl
propensities, who yet could he saved from
present and ctemul ram by well-directed
effort—who should and could be cared for
To do this, under happy home influences"
was the object of Wyerne forty j ears ago—of
Boring to-day. The enterprise was
Holly humanity’s missionary to'humanity a
band of family brotherhood, of Christian
compionship, trust and confidence; and
while accomplishing these delightful, human
izing and Christianizing inlluenS-s, the prin
ciple of sell sustainment supplied its own
propelling enginery. The great con
trolling thoughtful inquiry of Wyem
was, “Could wc but reach the chil
dren?” the pauperism and crime of
Hamburg, of the world, would be
overcome, crime diminished, and human
ity in the aggregate, now and in time
to come, be benefitted. The question of forty
years ago was the important one of to-day.
The “Orphans’ Home” met and supplied this
demand.
- _ .Teat majority
advocated Imt one sermon on Sunday.
One hundred and ten persons were receiv
ed into Dr. Colyer’s church, Brooklyn, ia
one day.
The New York Observer noliu-s the very
general revival influence pervading tiih
country, and gives great importance to ono
particular feature—the spirit of unity among
the various denominations
The largest Baptist Church in the city of
New York is the Abyssism Church," color- .
cd, of which Key. Willi am Spdman Inis been
for seventeen years pastor. It has a mem
bership of nine hundred.
The Moravian Church, at the dose of
1871, reported (t.GSS members for the North
ern District of the Aihcricau province.
The new Methodist Church, eostiog JU®-
000, at Saratoga Springs, was dedicated re
cently.
The recent decision of the United Slates
Supreme Court, in thcKentucky I’rrshyterian
Church case, simply recognizes and enforces
the right of ecclesiastical organizations t»
manage their internal affairs by tribunals of
their creation.
The New York Methodist Conference have
adopted a resolution condemning Sunday
malt trains, on the ground that they lead to
Sunday travel, and consequent violations of
the Sabbath, incidentally h ading to commun
ism.
A Methodist Church lias been built on tho
line separating Ohio and Pennsylvania, so
that the preacher stands in Ohio and dis
courses to a congregation in Pennsylvania,
and which is said to he very convenient on
nuptial occasions—especially tor parties who
elope, r.s no license is required ia the Key
stone State.
Methodism i
becoming huge in extent and
vast iu numbers. Iu the ccnluary year, the
various branches iu America were estimated
at 2.000,000 of people; now the two 1 arrest
luvIi/lC ltl fill! Ulllf 0/1 Utolnn ... —1- "
bodies in the Uuited States reach that num
ber, while all the branches in Canada and tha
United Stab s embrace a population of 2.700-
mn Dnn.fjfll. of «1w> : n l...l.:>. 4. »
000. One-fifth of the inhabitants of the
United Slates, or 8,000,000, are under Metho
dist influence.
Henry Ward Beecher rays: “I consider
myself Ca'vanistic, you know,jmtd iu this
way I believe what John Calvin would
have believed if lie had lived in my time,
and seen things as I sec them. My first
desire is to know what is true; and then I
am glad if John Calvin agrees with me; Imt.
if he don’t, so much the worse for him.”
The Baptist Year-book, for 1872, says that
in Georgia the Baptists number 145,254; Vir
ginia has 129.8.85: North i....
ginia has 129,885; North Carolina lias
59,300; South Cnrolina has 75,311. Every
eighth person in Georgia is a Baptist, anil
every ninth person In Virginia aud South
Carolina is the same pursuasioa.
A London Vicar proposes an itinerant
church to reach the nrglortcd masses A
large furniture van, with a belfrv and seats
and other fittings, holding thirty or fj>rty
persons, is to pass from street to street, Gath
ering it congregation and holding worship in
one place, out-runners preceding it to invito
attendance, and then pass on to repeat the
same ill another locality, and so from hour
to hour filled and emptied, teaching-* great
number who would not go to chapels or Bi
ble rooms.
The New York correspondent of the St.'
Louis Republican, says that “ Religion is far
more fashionable in that city than formerly.
Fancy prayer books are now indispensable
adjuncts to a young lady’s toilet. Tlic mu
sical services ate only surpassed by tho
Academy Operas, in our different churches.
Another great use for churches has been dis
covered by the advanced intellect of the act
They are the great stamping ground of flir
tation. They are the modern Meccas of ap
pointment
The Episcopalian, of Philadelphia, speaks
in no encouraging strains of the future of
Episcopacy in England. It says: “ Our own
opinion is that the disestablishment of the
English Church is a foregone conclusion.”
The Toronto Presbyterian says that of 790
of the ministers in charge of congregations
in Canada, one third receive less than SWOO
per annum.
The English revisers of Hie New Testa
ment have reached the tecond chanter ef
Luke. *
Kev. Henry C. Riley, D.D., of the Amen
ta aud Foreign Christian Union, recently
aum nistcred tho Lord’s Kipper, ia a Mexi
can ex-papal church t> 400 communicants,
converts from Roinauisni, and was assisted
in the ordinance by four converted Romish
priests.
, r T i le General Conference of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church or the United
bt .tcs, will convene in Nashville, .May 0th.
Delegates from every State in the Union will
he present. Tiny represent a mcmliersliip of
"! ■ three hundred tho.usand, all colored.
.'I nsures are being taken to establish a
1 rotistant Episcopal Church iu Home, Italy.
Inc tiustecs of which arc to reside in New
York.
. Guthrie, the eminent Scotch Presbyte
rian minister, recenilv visiieil London. AVJiilo
there, Dr. \ nughn, (Episcopal,) Master of thi
temple, expressed to him regret lliat Lc
could not invite him to officiate in his pulpit.
Mr. Chambers, the Treasurer of the Temple,
undertook to remove tiiu difficulty by giving
his official permission. But it subsequently
appeared even this officer hail not power to
introduce to the pulpit of the Temple Chun h
a fftergyman not of the orders of the Chutcli
of England. 80 Dr. Guthrie did uot prtach,
and the LstablUhcd puipit was saved from
contamination by a Presbyterian minister.
A Berlin dispatch snys the German Minis
ter of Public Woiship in.s given forma! no
tice to the Bishop of Rrtncland that, as ren-
tences of excommunication siguinst German
subjects clash with the civil law, and affect
unfavorably the social status, therefore tho
consent of tbc Government must tic obt in-
ed before such sentences are pronounced.
I lie Minister insists on oliediencc to the
laws as a duty incumbent on all, and inti*
mates that failure in that duty on the part of
the Bishop will lead to the w’ilhdraw r al by
luc Government of its official recognition of
his ecclesiastical functions. The Bishop of
JuiuciaRd answers agolopelically, affirming
that civil honor is in no way affected by ex
communication.
Georgia CTctUcal Association.
Atlanta, Ga., April 20,1872.
The following extracts from the minutes
ir t}k, e Georgia Medical Association are pub
lished by direction of that body at its last
annual meeting, held in Columbus, Georgia,
April Kith, 11th and 12th, 1872.
Dr. Robert Bally offered the following
resolution. Adopted:
Resolved, That the second resolution
offered by Dr Logan be appended tothcoffi-
c . ,al of P r * poring, of the 10th of
April, 18*0, mid published in the two 3I«li-
/Ti°' 1 ! n .. 1 <>ne cc;wspaper at Atlanta.
(The letter of Dr. Boring here follows):
Atlanta, Ga., April 10,1872.
At a meeting °f the Faculty of the At!an-
^ ^cdical College of 1808, held in the city
of Atlanta, March 10, 1809, the following
resolutions were unanimously adopted:
Resolved. That this Faculty disavow any
purpose to reflect upon the Georgia Medical
Association, either ia the “ Memorial” pre
sented to the Legislature of 1XC8, or upon
any other occasion, and that our Representa
tives who may attend the meeting of the raid
Association, to be held iu the city of flavan-
nah oa the 14ih ins!., be, and they are hereby
instructed, to present this disavowal, togeth
er with that contained in said Memorial.
By order of the Faculty.-
Jesse Bokixg, M. D.,
Dean of the Faculty.
wx. S. Aiimstoxo, M. D., Secretary.
The following is tho second of the resolu
tions introduced by Dr. J. P. Logan, adopted
and referred to in Dr. Battey’s resolution :
2. Resolved, That we do recognize tha
regular meeting of the Georgia Medical As
sociation of 1808, in Augusts, as a regular
meeting of that body.
'. T. Johnson, M. D.,
Assistant Secretary
Georgia Medical Association,
Hi
xnoistinct mint J