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ATLANTA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25
■ihv Inlr*4*c*4 In Beth Bruche,
•t CMfraii
Tin. total number of bUla Introduced
tho'.Bouse cf Representatives daring the
present Congteas it 3,950, and in the Senate
1,510. Pcrhapa not more than one-eighth of
thete will become lam—the remainder fail
«Oi lhc expiration of Congress. ThePcn-
r.loti and Indian Appropriation bills have re
ceived (he approval of the President. The
Drf.'tcncy Appropriation bill wQl aooa be
reported to the House. The other appropri
ation bills are in a state of forwardness and
rnsy all be passed this week There are on
the Speaker's table seventy-fire Senate and
House lulls with amendments, waiting ac-
t'.oa. The Senate la similarly crowded, hav-
ing.fp addition to others of importance, the
Hotter bill for the distribution of the Geneva
award. _
'•|A Specimen *f Economy.
We heartily commended (the General As
sembly for its efforts to^economize the de
mands upon the treasury. Bat we ere com
pelled .to say that some of its notions of
economy were almost, if not altogether,
farcical. There la inch a thing as being too
economical, and we think the General Assem
bly proved it moat conclusively. As an in
clines of tbc fact, we will state that the
appropriation for the Printing Fund was cut
dow&.to ten thousand deHart. This la simply
absurd. Why? Because this amount is not
sufficient to psy even (he printing expenses of
the Lrgirlaturc alone, including publication of
laws and journals. Thus the Governor it
left without a dollar to pay all other neves-
sary demands upon the fund. He should un
hesitatingly veto this and all similar acts of
legislation, and the people will sustain him
Tke Credit Hafellier,
The fearful increase of legislative corrup
tion find official villainy since the first days
of the war, has become as much a matter of
everyday comment as the state of the weath
er. The best-informed know, and all feel,
that tiio days of official purity are numbered,
and that rascality pervades every branch of
the public service. Tbis condition of public
sentiment deadened sensibility and prepared
llioeway for the unmitigated, execrable and
stupendous Credit Hobilier swindle.
It was a corporation within an actual cor
poration, intended to absorb, in m quasi legal
way, the immense subsidies granted to the
Pacific Railroad by the general government.
The monied statesmen of Massachusetts aeem
to hfro comprehended the situation at the
outsell end all through the reeking aflair her
hoary, favorites, Hoax Ames and John B.
Alley,’ ere In the foreground These men
distributed the stock set apart for the pur
chase of Congreaa, “where it would do the
moat good.” Tbo shovclmskcr, with his
forthcoming memorandum book, plara lead'
ing business in the whitewashing fareo that
has kept the boards for the last month.
The distributed slock paid dividends that
amounted to twelvo hundred per cent, in an
incredible short apace of time—absorbing
millions and millions of tbo publte funds.
Ev*y Congressman that fell before the
temptations of Oakes Amea knew that such
profits were derivcd.from frauds, and that the
government was tho real loser. As some one
has said, unless they knew these things they
were not fit for their places, and if they knew
them they were equally unfit. It it simply
an insult to any man’s common sense to as
sert that they did not understand the entire
nature of tho transaction. Bach a story
should bo reserved for the marines.
But the bottom of the slimy gulf was
struck by the men whoTound profit iu their
own acts of legislation, when they denied all
connection with, or interest in, or knowledge
of the rotten schema Oar readers certainly
have not forgotten tho cards that certain
Radical leaders published in tho stress of the
Presidential canvass—thereby adding moral
perjury to official bribery. The harvest
sin was ready for the reaper.
Well, Colonel McOomb and Hoax Ames
fell oat, and<*it did seem as if honest men
would get their dees. Investigations were
ordered, and despite all efforts to the contra
ry, enough was elicited to brand with ever
lasting Infamy the Radical magnates of Con-
grots. Their Crimea were made aa clear
tho noon-day son. What was done f The
telegraph gives us a summary of
We Poland's report It recommends the
expulsion of Ames and Brooks, and
aa to tho rest, "tho facta are
stated with more or leu (even criticism"—
and that is all Oh, the very shame of it I
Well might.lames Bnokscterscterize the re
port aa unjust, partial and persecuting. Here
was a grand opportunity to stem the tide of
corruption, ana Congress and the Republican
party are uttcriyand hopelessly unequal to it.
The worst feature of the wretched busi-
• la tte injury that the scoundrels have
i of good morals and pure
— who are deepest in the
.n wero most con*
spinous at religious gatherings and
cold - water meetings. They artfully
mixed a mild theology with
their political addresses to chum their
cteese-preas and hay-loft constituencies.
The hypocritical cant of Patterson or Colfax
or Harlan or Old Pom or Dawes or Garfield
waa sore to be heard u the van of moral and
religions movements. Need we wonder that
the people at the Capital are ready to declare
that the “Sunday School business”Is played
oat?
done to the <
religion. Tho
Credit Hobilier mire were
They Did Not Steal.
The Cincinnati Commercial thinks that Mr
Stephens' political views will make him use
fnl in Congress aa n relic of ancient history
and an awful example. After snmming up
his faults, it admits that there is one thing
which should be said in his favor—he was
many years in the public service and
never stale anything. The spectacle
astonishes our Northern cotcmporarics so
much that they are thus constrained
to testify, by implication, against
their own conferees. Beady as they always
are to charge Southern statesmen with all
manner of crime, yet they bear witness that
than men would not steal. They contem
plate the fact aa they do a tale of the Genii-
it seems almost Impossible to tbeir minds,
part and pared as they are of a system that
fills the land with a corruption that is sapping
the Hfo of the Republic—a corruption that
permeate* every grade of the public service,
from the local officer who builds a single span
screes a creek to Bass Tweed who built tbc
New Court House or Subsidy Pom. who al
ternately led the land-grabbers brigade and
Sunday School meetings. The citizen ini
mnsed in his own cares scarcely realizes the
fearful condition of the public health. If
these is no remedy, if the people do not wake
up to the situation, it means Death. Thought
ful men see it; and out of the
apparently hopeless maze of rascality,
venality and crime, the Northern journalist
looks hack at the statesmen who swayed the
destinies of the country in her halcyon days,
ard exclaims, they did not steal. So far aa
tho present generation is concerned those
able rulers will not need a brighter eulogy
th m the one atthe bead of this anide.
To illustrate the national degradation let
i'-' alaoco at a recent dbcoaskm of Pomeroy’s
c . ie in the Senate. Mr. Nyc—he who sold
hk chance of rejection to the coming man
for *50,000—denounced Hr. York, and sub-
•tantially said that the morbid appetite for
investigation should be squelched. Hr. Nyc
undoubtedly b honest in this—give him
redit for that. Hr. FMinhyaen, and My
Lord Rascoe. of New York, concurred with
tin Senator from Nevada—Hr. Uonkling
c.peeially indulging in “some very severe re
marts” about Mr. York; think of it—and
in broad day light, too—abuse of a man whose
courage exposed the hypocritical villain
that was endeavoring to boy atirrd lease
of power in a body once filled with honest
a who is entitled, at tbb mo*
neat, to hb country's gratitude! It was too
much for the Senatorial stomachs, or per
haps, for their construction of the hand
writing on the wall. How quickly, in the
old days, would Senators have lisen for per
sonal explanations, and demanded the broad
est and speediest invsetigatiooi! The times
have sadly changed—they do steal now.
Self-sacrificing and patriotic us Southern
tateamea have been, we are still inclined to
accept the inward reflection of cur Radical
friends and write at the top tbeir w .-da:—
Tnav d o nor snui..
L’MI'i-E* Ji
The Kapa-esard Parisian e-iaid|—
The l'sskni ns Seen Through
French Spectacles.
The much talk'd of corned/^was uot sup
pressed by the French Government. beeape
its production might offend the pood of
imeirni who disburse their money among
the tradesmen of Psris, but it was done to*
avoid offense to Ibe great party that b labor
ing for the establishment of a constitutional
republic in France. Itb wrilier. in the in
terest of the Monarchists, and to U-c dispar
agement of the characteristics of cc- tain sec
tions of the United States.
mobs, i: , HOMME,
a Frenchman of w< .itb, who is an ardent
Republican, bb wife and three daughters,
are the principal cb r ictcra in the comedy;
and they go to America to ace with their
own eyes the model R-public, and carefully
observe its institutions. He lands at Pier 40,
North River, and hb troubles begin at once.
Gfcftom House officers are going through the
baggage and pockets of Ibe passengers with
great rapidity. Poor Bonbcmmc soon learns
the meaning of the words “come biwn" in
the American official sense. Her’ * hb bag
gage at last by the payment ol :• »)0 to Ibe
officials appointed to prevent frauds in tbe
government. The second 'act is laid in
riiiL\DETJ-niA.
whither Monsieur hastens by the Erie Rail
way. Bis joy of being in the happy city
where American liberty was first prnclsimcd
b so great that he mounts a newsboy’s ebest
and makes a speech to tbc astonished crowd.
He is greeted with such calls as, “Send for
Dr. Birkbridc," “Take him around the corner
and givu him a drink," and such like. At
once a policeman comes to protect him
from tlic intrusive demonstrations of the
public, and very nicely picks bis pocket,
banding over tbc proceeds to another police
man, who gets away with the property with
all possible celerity. The next scene is
ST IND.-I’ENDZNCK HALL,
where l.c meets the greatest living exponent
of the principles of republicanism as under
stood and practiced in Philadelphia and
Washington at the present day. “The
principles of rcpubHcanbm,” says he, “are
very easily learned. They are simply Addi
tion, Division and Silence."
There are many amusing scenes anil inci
dents in this act Alena. Bonhoromc, whose
republican enthusiasm is not easily quenched,
even under the most discouraging circum
stances, bears that there is to be an election,
and b highly elated at the opportunity of
seeing American citizens in tbc majestic act
of expressing tlic freeman’s will by means
of the ballot. In the finale of the
act, be is caught by a party
Republican roughs, and voted twenty-two
times at one poll under twenty-two different
names—the p ff icemen stationed to maintain
order in the meantime employing themselves
in the work of vigorously clubbing away the
r.-al citi t ns whom Mens. It., against his will,
h compelled to personate. He comes to tbc
conclusion that Philadelphia is not tbo best
place to study the principles of Republican
ism, and so be goes to
WA8IIIKOTON.
lie finds that General Grant and Congress
have ad’ourned—even the/ third house in
Congress has disperse** lie is told that tbc
Intter b tbc most powerful of all -tel in re
gard to tlic precise nature of Uii, body he
has been unable to gain any information of
satisfactory cnaractcr. The only member of
the Cabinet in Inwn is tbc world-renowned
mariner, Secretary Robeson. He learned
that tbc- only reason wby Ibe Secro'ary bad
remained in town was that bis carriage horses
hod the epizootic, and tlic veterinary sur
geon 1 aving recommended sen air for thc:i
benefit, lie was engaged in getting out a sloop
of war to take them on a voyage for Ibcir
beallb. Monsieur next cmliaiks on Hie fast
sailing clipper built stenuvbeel steamship
WINGS OK IMAGINATION,
of some 3,000 tons burden, bound for San
Francisco through the air line Grand Trans
Continental Ship Canal that inns under tbe
Alleghany, Rocky aud oilier mountain
ranges. This enormous canal is I be proudest
result r-f tbe
AMERICAN SUBSIDY SYSTEM.
Wc have not space to summarize tlic de
tails of Ibis great national work as they were
stated to Mons. I>. by Air. Goidcngate,
California, Suffice it that the Canal Com
pany had a land grant cf 910,000,000 acres,
an issue cf *1,300,000,000 of bonds, and
another issue of *5:0,000,000 equipment
bonds, indorsed by the Government. In re
ply to Alons. B, Air. Goidcngate exclaims,
“What! A subsidized company pay
bonds when the Government is responsible
for them ! Did you ever bear < f such a
thing?"
across Tns: continent.
Tbc passage of tbc steamship is made evi
dent to the audience by a scries of Panoramic
views, exhibiting the beautiful natural scen
ery, improved parks, and superb palaces of
the contractors and directors in tbc Canal
Company who lmd made tlicir fortunes out
of its construction, trcvcr.il magnificent
palaces of Congressmen who had voted foi
every measure required by tbc Cana! Com
pany, also adorn the banks of the artificial
river.
Tbc gambling, drinking and shooting
scenes on board the ship are vividly portray
ed. Duels, prize fights, bail fights, gander
pulllings, and other popular amusements are
continually going od, while the enormous urea
of the steamer’s deck is such that the great
national game of hose bail can be played on
it without difficulty.
L'osCLB SAM,
istheHoa. Simuel Storkwbi tics, who has
gained among hisconntrymcn the cognomen
of Uncle Sam. He is a dry old fellow—in
fact, be is always dry—who calls a pike a
pike, and has liccomc immensely wealthy as
a professional politician. Alons. Bonhomme
soon grew to like 1,1m, and they have many
pleasant conversations.
As the steamer sails on Alons. R, we are
sorry to say, is not so enthusiast tea Republi
can as be was wheu he left bis native coun
try. The Wings of Imagination finishes its
voyage at San Francisco, arriving at night
while Ibe Chinese inhabitants are celebrat
ing some iuoiatros festival, which gives op
portunity for a pyrotechnics! display, abso
lutely indescribable in its brilliancy.
HE PRESIDES!^ SOUTHERN TOLB.
General Grant Determines to I>cave for
Richmond on March 20.
OBJECTS OP. THE JOURNEY.
Carpet-Hag ism and Corruption to
be Investigated, ami Har
mony Between North
and South .Re
stored.
Cotton-tv o. 23.
The receipts tbis week are 103,000 bales—
81.000 more than last year and 29,000 less
than two years since. It is likely the re
ceipts for next week will be about 95,500
bales, compared with 74,000 last year, and
127.000 the year before; and tbe receipts at
the interior towns 17.000 bales, compared
with lCjJOO last year ^and 27,000 the year be
fore.
The weather this week has been ray
spring-like. Tbe thermometer has averaged
degrees at noon—four days clear and very
pleasant, three dsys cloudy, and steady r.in
mod of tbe time (pan of tbe time almost a
deluge) We should not complain that there
is too much rain, for it is just what we need
ed to make a good crop year. We hear from
many points the freshet is nearly equal to
tbe Harri-on flood of 1819.
Tbe indications are that Alareh will be
dryer and colder than February has been,
and we may have snow next mouth. There
is now a prospect of a very early and very
pleasant spring, particularly tbe last half of
March.
Tbe market in New York has been dull
all the week—sales 6,000 bales, with a dcctinc
of one-eighth of a cent in the price—caused
by large receipts the first dsys of the week,
and tbe qniel tone of tbe Liverpool market
There is no speculative demand, and no
life in tbc market; but bidders of all cotton
suitable for canlracls, (which is low middling
and above, with a few bales of good ordi
nary,) arc very firm in iheir ideas, refusing to
give way, believing it will all b: wanted at
sod above present prices.
Oar own spinners arc stocking themseives
heavily with these good cottons while they
can get them, having bought 131,000 bales in
the l ist three weeks, compared with 70,000
bales same time last year.
Our friends must not make the mistake
that spinners are not buying, (thinking the
price too high,) because they Lave bought
only about 8,000 hales in New York this
mod4, our spinners are all very well sntified
with the price, and are all quietly taking all
tire good cotton they can find in the South at
the prices asked fur it. This slate of affairs
will soon begin to tell on New York stocks
as the shipments to that port are bat little
more than half the average for sometime
past.
The Liverpool market has been steady,
with medium sales and no change in the
price. Wc again refer our readers to No. 23
for the state of that market, and again repeat,
we see no reason for that market dropping
any lower.
There are now 318,030 biles of American
Colton afloat for Liverpool, o’, which 65,000
will he due and should be received at that
port next week.
Wc refer our readers particularly to our
rem-uks upon this subject last week, as our
guesses came exactly true. Our estimate of
receipts at the ports, at the i terior, towns,
and arrivals at Liverpool, were almost exactly
correct. This arrival estimate is a new fea
ture in these articles and a very important
one, and also one that cannot be found in
any other circular. Of twelve sail vessels,
ships and barques, carrying 25,009 b«! s of
cotton, sailing from Southern ports, that
ai rived this week in Liverpool, two had been
at sea nine weeks; two, eight weeks; otic,
seven weeks; five, six weeks, and two five
weeks; average seven weeks As the weather
crows warmer, and Western winds prevail,
the average passage for sail vessels Avill t-o
reduced to five weeks.
The river at New Orleans is note ten feet
below higliwaler mark of 1871, compared
with eleven last week and twelve the week
before.
The stocks of cotton in tbis country are
much less than last year at this time, and
have now reached their maximum. Tito
maximum stocks at the ports for the past
five years have lu-en as follows: 1SC8, Feb-
ruaty 12tb; 1869, Alareh 12th; 1870, Februa-
ly 25th; 1871, February 17th; 1672, February
9th, and this year, January 3:st, showing the
tendency to bring the crop forward more and
more early each year.
The tendency of the exports lately have
been more to Liverpool and less to the Coti
linent, which has brought tbe total amou tto
the proper level, being now 66 2 3 of the to
tal exports to Liverpool, which is the gen
eral average for several years, except during
the French war.
To show that the cotton market does not
always go ttp, or down, all the time, and that
with pr >per judgment and prudence a man
ought to make money dealing in it.
the general course of the market for four
years, during that time tiic New York mar
ket fell during 109 weeks, rose 76 weeks an
was steady 33 weeks, the reasons the down
ward market has a majority are, there was
too large crop years and war in Europe, the
latter of which always affects cotton unfavr r-
ably.
Here we give a tabular statement of tbc
four years, and six months this year.
1608 1809 JSU) 1671 ISIS.
OUR WASHINGTON DOTS.
Tho Hobilier Muss.
MORE HKIHERY.
LOUISIANA’S 1 TRIBULATIONS.
Other Alattors.
WAsnnwioj:, D. C, F.b. 17,18:3.
Tlic CREDITJZODILIiiR COMMITTEE,
f which Judgeyoland '
most nrolnhlv tnutr. Its
THE MODOCS.
Another Account ol’ the Battle of
the 17th of December.
The ladius Laugh at the Soldiers.
F.-tiiuatc ,
Ml!**. I Sotrh Caroiiu.1...,
SUSn-v __
New Han; fhire 75 i Florida
Vermont 10D j Alabama . .
Maf5arbii9ctt'. .
Fell—week*
Roec—weeks 15
Steady-wc?ka«....\ 11
12 22
North Extern St'tca 433 * Arkaneao.......
New York........... S'.O Tennwec ...
New J«r*ey 223 Kectu
iVncsjIrmii. 370 I
Delaware 201 Soathera Sta:.fc-x2.5:o
Maryland and Di*i. | Cal.fonua
of Columbia lftl J Oregon
West Virginia 41j N.rada .
! Utah Ter.
Middle State*. 1.2C3! ttafhicgtnnTei
Michlraa
Indiana
Illinois
Wisconsin
Kinjcwta
Iowa
Nrbrvka
Mlswarl
Colorado Ttr.
Dakota Ter...
»T0j
6J0 ! I*-ciSc S
50
m
T. TAL rXITElA STATES.
W<* crnM.sic*,4c 3,M0
ScnrbcrnSuic«.^c J
racificstitea.&c..
Total United S atee 8.510
... | Total Unitedbta’cs
___ „ — I Dei SI, *72 73,178
Wertcrn Stater, Jbc. 3.580 I
Virrhns SOJ Toul (attest'd)
North Carolina. ITS Dec 31. 1873.... 7S.6SS
The Gkeeimt Es cate.—Tbe appraisement
of thcettateof Horace Greeley and wife has
been completed and sent to tbe Surrogate of
Westchester county to be filed. Tbe daugh
ters will have a fortune of at least one hun
dred thousand dollars after all legacies, in
cluding that of the Children’s Aid Society,
nave b.cn paid.
Tout s si st
Many persons are no doubt surprised
at the large exports to Liverpool when that
m:ir..et has been dull and depressed so
long. The reasons are, very large orders
were taken by Alanclu-sicr spinners to fur
nish goods for several weeks ahead. They
must have American cotton to work up to
fill those ordcre, and aa the stock cf good
spinning cotton in Liverpool tv,is very
small anl likely to continue so for some
time, they were compelled to send large
orders to this side for the good cotton they
needed, (this partly accounts for the activi
ty of all good cotton" and dullness of all
poorer grades for two mouths past, and as
we have known this, it has been one of
the reasons why wc have urged our read
ers to sell all poor cotton but hold all the
good for better prices as i; would be sure
to be in demand) and also the positive ne
cessity of the bears having cotton in Liver
pool to prevent the bulls making a disast
rous corner on them.
If the 90,0C0 bales received there this
week bad arrived earlier in the month it
might have depressed prices still more, but
arriving as it docs at the close, it will not
affect the market much either way.
BOMBAY.
Tlic receipts at and shipments from this
port arc still comparatively small, aad the
last news from the crops was unfavorable,
too much rain having fallen injuring the
quality and (fleeting the quantity.
During the last twelve years five thousand
miles of railroads (one fh> usand miles of
which in the last two year. ) have been built
for developing tbc colf.-u lands of Indi3,
Also the river navigation h is bn n very touch
improved.
Still the natives are so indolent and find
tacy can gi t as much money for a small crop
of cotton as a large one, the total receipts into
Bombay last year fell of 400,000 bales, having
amounted to 910,000 bales compared with
1,300,009 the year tx fore.
GOLD.
The clique who are balling gold in New
York are heavily loaded, but arc very rich
aad very powerful, and it is - not likely they
will give way until the premium is carried
up several points above the present price,
possibly near 29 per cent, sometime curing
the summer. Everything is favoring thorn.
Tee New York b'anks have now only 16
millions of gold, compared with 19 last year,
25 the year before, and 38 the year before
that.
MONEY.
The money market in England is easy,
the Bank of England loaning it at 3j per
cent a year, whilst the joint stork lucks
are aico.-umodarcg tutir customers at per
cent, per annnm.
The money market in New York is ex
tremely stringent, and likely to rein,in so, as
the bulks now hold one milt on less than
required by Ihtir chsitirs, compared with
four millions octr last year, nineteen millions
over the year brfore, and thirty-two millions
over in ISTO.all the same time of yea-. These
facts will cause those persons who have cot
ton which thev wish to hold until snmm cr to
export it to Liverpool, as the interest saved
will be a handsome prefit.
FUTURE.
If we have a better market with a small rise
in the price next week, it will allow anxious
holders and those who think cotton mnst go
lottrer, as opportunity to sell out.
IiicuM jnd, Va., February 14,1873.
There is no event either of State or Na
tional interest that occasions so mnch com
ment, consideration or speculation among the
Southern people as the contemplated tour of
President Grant through the late rebellious
Slates. Now, this is to be no ordinary affair,
as tbe mere casual announcement by tele
graph would seem to im ly. It is full of po
litical significance, and if the President’s
observations and deductions of tbe national
feeling and condition, both socially and po
litically, of the Southern people justify his
objects in making the tonr it will result in
nntold benefits to them.
This comes to me direct from the President
himself, through one of his most intimate
friends in this State—one who enjoys hip con
fidence and esteem, and who is -Iso received
at the White House with marked courtesy
snd attention. This gentleman returned
here from tbe national capital this morning,
having had a lengthy and confidential cliat
with the President the day previous. The
conversation was altogether in reference to
the projected
TOUR THROUGH THE SOUTH.
Throughout the whole interview, which
lasted over an hour, the President took the
deepest interest in inquiring into the condi
tion of the pconlc of tbe South, and he mani
fested the deepest earnestness in trying be
forehand to ascertain wbat clTcct bis visit
would have with them. He frankly admitted
that a great barrier had been placed between
the Southern people and th j national govern
ment by the pernicious results of the Con
gressional plan of reconstruction, which had
given the control of the Me rebellions States
to men whose policy it as to misrepresent,
detract and keep them in antagonism with
it The four years cf his administration,
now nearly closed, were peculiarly in this
lLSnentablc condition. The social and po
litical «status of the Southern States,
with the exception of Virginia,
was disturbed and unsettled r.nd
in his frequent efforts to effect some good
he was often circumvented and thwarted by
designing and tricky politician?. While there
was not one of his administrative acts to
wards the South with which he could re
proach himself, having done the best he
possibly could under the circumstance?, yet
there were many instances within his knowl
edge where a different line of policy would
have decidedly better and mojc pleasing re
sults in a national way. lie deplored, not
the carpet-baggers as individuals, for there
were many c f them good men, who had ac
complished a great deal in the way of loyalty
and good feeling; but
THE CARPET-BAG SYSTEM
he thought was not only injurious but de
structive of the very objects sought to be
attained. He casually referred to the chaotic
and unfortunate governments in some of the
Southern States, bat gave no expression of
opnion as to the mcrifcrof orthejparties to the
different quarrels. Ho was especially grati
fied at the pcaceab:-; and prosperous condi
tion of Virginia, and seemed to Ixj proud in
the reflection that the electoral vote of the
mother of States and statesmen was cast for
him, the first time she voted in a Presidential
campaign since he conquered a peace on her
sacred soil.
Coming, then, to the objects of his tour, tic
President stated that it was more than proba
ble ho would be accompanied by nearly all,
if not the whole, of the members of bis
Cabinet, besides many other distinguished
persons, Senators, members of Congress and
others.
Tt> START ON TIIE TWENTIETH OF MARCH.
They would start by special train on tbc
20th of March, and Kichmond, the late Cap
ital of the Confederacy, would be bis first
stopping place. It is his intention to remain
a few days, for the purpose of receiving
prominent citizens and of quietly conversing
with them as to the social, material and po
litical prospects of each State. Divested of
all official signillcar.ee, the great Southern
visit of the President will Ik*, by a frank .and
friendly interchange of opinions, to arrive at
the true solution of the Southern problem,
and, if possible, to inaugurate a new and
national era of good feeling and prosperity.
He has already lent his friendly aid to the
completion of Virginia’s long-wished for
water fine from the Chesapeake Bay to tbe
Ohio, and my informant thought tlic Presi
dent intends to investigate carefully the ran
tcrial wants and necessities of the South and
to devise subsequently tbe best means by
which they can be consistently ad
vanced with national aid. Perhaps the
burdensome public debts of each of
these States will also engage his attention. A
feature of the visit will bo to examine thor-
oroughly the working of the carpet bag sys
tem,'to root out such of thesa precious
birds of prey as he finds obnoxious to the
interests of the respective peoples or Slates
where they arc, and as far as he can to sup
ply their official places with natives of char
acter and respectability among the people
where they reside. Next, and lastly, the
President is detc nnined to effectually har-
monizs the people of the North aud South,
^ chairman, will
most probably'"make its report to-morrow.
As to what will lw recommended to Congress
by it b oneof those things that no fellow
can find out It is thought by some that
Brooks and Ames well be expelled, and the
rest of the singed Hobilier Congressmen
severely cenaurciL Others assume that the
committer', on account of having fuled
to agree, will merely report the testi
mony without recommendations. The
greatest kind of influence, political, per
sonal and legal, has been brought to bear
upon the committee—lions Caleb Cushing
and Wm. M. Evarts having prepared special
legal arguments, advancing tho opinion that
no proof of bribery his been obtained. The
members of the committee feci that they are
fiaced in a very delicate position, for, if
n their judgment, there was nothing to war
rant severe measures through technical rca
sons, they will hive to brave public opinion
which demands Ac immolation of the guilty
ones withdHHftrd to the quibbles or quirks
of law or custom.
GENEVA AWARD BILL.
This measure • by Ben Butler passed the
House on Saturday. The claims of the in
surance com panted tre completely ignored iu
it. During the debate, Benny and Mr. Kerr,
in par iamentaryiingo, called each other liars.
Bctkr pitched into Mr. Evarts, saying that
he had been employed :i3 counsel for the
Underwriters before he accepted the agency
for the government, and was now thcir coun-
sal on the floor of Congress through Mr.
Kerr.
This charge ersated quite an excitement,and
when Butler had concluded, Mr. Kerr, with
great vehemence, said: “That is not true,
and the gentleman knows it is false.” But
ler rejoined, bnt jtlie confusion was so grout
his words wero*inaudib!e, but bis gestures
told plainly that he was not paying Mr. Kerr
a compliment. Mr. Kerr denied being in the
and in this, bis initial movement to make
the next four years o! his administration
years of unexampled national peace, good
, will and prosperity. I might have added,
however, perhaps lie wishes to escertain the
opinions of the Southwestern peop’c with re
gard to the acquisition of Cuba, Mexico and
St Domingo, as they, being the nearest
neighbors, might be most interested.
PROMISED BENEFITS.
Already the contemplated tour of the
President has bad a good effect.
But all these things have passed—General
Graut i3 about to'enter upon bis second and
last term, lie has no inducement to resent
ment towards any of the people or to use his
office for his own ambition, and we should
by no means throw the slightest obstacle in
the way of his natural inclination—situated
and circumstanced as be is—to the side of
friendship and brotherhood between the sec
tions and confidence between the government
and the people.
Therefore, we suggest that it would be
proper for our city authorities to extend to
General Grant the invitation to take Rich
mond in his route, and to receive him with
the courtesy and decorum due to his high
office and to the reputation of this State and
city. We arc sure the whole people will
beaitily unite in. the propriety of prompt
measures of this purpose.
At a meeting of the City Council of Rich
mond a resolution was passed appointing a
committee to report at the next meeting a
plan, and also to provide in the meantime for
giving a suitable reception to tbc President
upon'his arrival here. The Legislature will
also pass resolutions to the same effect.
General Grant wiil be met and escorted
through the city by the civil authorities. The
First and Second regiments cf volunteers
will turn out; a national salute will be fired,
aud, in short, his sojourn in Richmond will
be a magnificient ovation. Similar prepara
tions are being made in Raleigh, Columbia
and Atlanta, and the prospects are that
Grant’s tour in 1S73 will be the most brilliant
series of rejoicings that the South hss known
for many a day.
Judge John I. Xlali;
LaGrange, Ga., February IS, 1873.
Editors Constitution : My attention has just
been called to so ae reflections upon Gov
ernor Smith on appointing Hon. John I.
Hall, Judge of the Flint Circuit. I knew
Mr. Hall when, in the very first years of his
manhood, he was representing the people of
Butts county in the General Assembly of
Geogia. I was Chairman of the Judiciary
Committee of the House during his service.
There was good opportunity afforded me to
know his qualifications; and I confidently
predict that Judge Hall wiil perform the du
ties of his office with ability, impartialitxq
fidelity and courtesy, so that the people of
Georgia will , approve the judgment of the
Governor. This is doubtless the expectation
of his many admirers, both in and out of
the circuit. Other gentlemen whose names
were presented are worthy and well qualified.
I write this in no spirit of reflection upon
them, but because I feel that public opinion
ought uot to be forestalled by writers for the
press as to this j*oung but able judge.
Lex.
South Carolina Items.
The Irish citizens of Charleston arc making
huge preparations for the celebration of Sl
Patrick’s Day.
General Gilmore is making artificial stone
at Fort Moultrie.
The Treasurer of Marlboro reports the col
lection of $55,000 out of the $C*J,000 assessed
taxes.
There is only thirteen miles of tb* Purt
RoyRailroad to be completed.
committee room In company with Mr. Evarts,
but was there through the courtesy extended
to members of TBc House. The hubbub sub
sided after General Banks objected to the un
parliamentary language used. Mr. Evart
who wao on the floor during the debate, at
trade t considerable attention. It is though;
that the Senate will adopt t .is bill in lieu of
the one passed by that body.
THE NEW BRIBERY CASE.
Tbe investigation into the stock brokers’
lobby, by tho Ways and Means Committee,
was continued on Saturday. President King
of the New York Stock Exchuuge was ex
amined and denied that the Exchange had
spent money to secure the passage of an
amendment iu l$st year’s tax bill, declaring
borrowed money in the hands of brokers not
taxable as capital Mr. S. V. White, a Broad
street broker and member of the law com
mittee of the Slock Exchange, is the party
from whom Colgate got the information
about Bassett, clerk of the Ways and Means
Committee, trying to get his fingers into the
stock brokers’ lpbby. The investigation is
being continued. The very atmosphere
seems to be full of bribery, corruption, fraud
and blackmailing. Considerable praise
being awarded the
PROMrr action
on the part of the Mutual Life Iusunncc
Company, of New York, which at once
squelched an attempt on the part of a tnn;
named English^ ho Jdoubt the of inter
ested parties, tolrjurc its business tool by a
tacking its management as fraudulent. The
directors, whose names arc tlic very highest
in the business world, instead of being intim
idated or black mailed, as corporations and
individuals often .are by the unscrupulous,
lodged the enterprising scribbler in jail on a
charge* of libel and only answered his charges
by issuing its regular annual statement, now
before me, which shows that it is manag-
morc cheaply tj>an any such business w_
ever managed before. The expenses of other
companies doing this business amounts to
thirty per cent, fif the r receipts, while the
Mutual for 1874 qgly expended seven per
cent. This exhibit is regardea as the most
remarkable ever made by a trust in this or
any other country, showing that it is beyond
the suspicion of “Credit Mobclicr” or Col
gate bribery revelations.
LOUISLANA’S TRIALS AND TROUBLES,
ar cnot in tbe way of closing soon. The com
promise that was set on jf«M>t between the
contending parties in Louisiana, has fallen
through. Tlrr President is very ret iccnt with
regard to matters in that State. If resistance
is made to tho collection of taxes imp*
by the Kellogg government, aa indicated b^
Governor McEnery’s proclamation, General
Emory will sustain Kellogg with the force
at his command in accordance with his pres
ent instructions. If Congress can give the
people*of Louisiana over to the tender mercy
of the Kellogg harpies, after the evidence
that was produced, showing that they we
“counted” in by the grossest fraud, it
useless for the people to even hope for jus
ticc, much less get it from those who hold
the iron grip ol power over us.
A HALT.
It is a matter of considerable astonishment
tli it the Senate Judiciary Committee, com
posed as it is of a majority of advanced
Radicals, should be bo divided as to the con
stitutional power of the general government
to regulate rates of transportation over rail
roads as to prevent a report from them this
session. I am not surprised that they did not
find the authority iu the Constitution for such
power, but am puzzled that they did not go
to the Declaration of Iinl fpeadence or Henry
Ward Beecher’s last scriu-m for it and then
rush things.
Tnn STEAMR>AT BILL.
The steamboat lobby arc here in great
strength to push their steamboat bill through
the.Senate, it having passed the House. This
bill is simply outrageous, nullifying all law
for the safety of passengers aud prove at ion
of accidents.
NEWSPAPER POSTAGE.
The Senate Appropriation Committee has
reported an araenUmvnt to tlic jKistal appro
priation that provides that no free matter
shall be transported through the mails. This
is a blow at newspapers generally, but espe
cially the country weeklies, who will be tub
jeeted to considerable expense, as they de
pend so much on their exchange lists f<
their clippings. This is reform run mad.
were much better that the franking privilcgi
and all its abuses should be continued at
cost to tbe people than such narrow lcgisl
tion, calculated to curtail intelligence and
cripple the great dispenses of light—the
press—should be enacted.
PERSONAL.
Ex-Governor Smith, of Virginia—pope
larly known as “Extra Billy Smith”—had
his disabilities removed in the Hoik-'.: by
vote of 122 yeas to 51 nays. No doubt the
Senate will go and do likewise.
General F. T. Dent has not, as reported,
applied for leave of absence from duty at
the White House.
The Caldwell bribery case will be
mitted to tlic Senate to-uay. A rumor is cur
rent that thd committee will declare the seat
vacant.
FOKSYTU COUNTY,
freshets, Crop Prospects* Etc.
Editors Constitution: Forsyth county is
quiet—peace reigns throughout her borders,
the wounded man has recovered and will
soon be on duty again. Wc have had two
freshets in one week—the highest wc have
had for several years—in consequence of
which wc have had but one mail in a week.
We nibs your paper. We learn by a gentle
man from Atlanta that the Legislature has
adjourned, and judging from the number of
bills introduced, and those that passed, wc
conclude that they have required bat little
water during tho morning, ami have woiked
faithfully while in session. But I return to
the freshets; the Chattahoochee and Etowah
rivers liavebetn out cf b-.nk, cairying away
and damaging bridges. The numerous creeks
have been all over the low laud?, injuring
wheat, and the bottom lands are considerably
damaged by washing. Our farmers are be
hind with their work—no oats sown, and eo
land broken up preparatory to the comirg
crop, garden work even not commenced.
The prospect is ra’lier gloomy, but we are
looking forward to a better day.
February 19,1873. C.
New Yuie, February 17.—It i? stated that
President Gran .’a Southern tour will be of
the greatest significance to the people of that
section. The President contemplates start
ing on the 20lli of M-«reli, and expects to be
accompanied by nearly all his Cabinet, be
sides many distinguished gentlemen, Sena
tors, members of Congress, and others.
Richmond. Virginia, will be the first stopping
place. It is the President’s purpose to make
this the initial movement in his next admin
istration, in the attempt to harmonize the
>eoplc of the North and South. He will look
nto the condition of tbe South socially, and
the local governments of the State to be vis
ited. At R chmond, and other places along
the line of his visit, preparations are being
made to give him an enthusiastic reception.
A correspondent of the Oregon Herald,
writing under date of January 22, from the
camp of the Oregon militia operating in the
Modoc country % tells the stoty of tho battle
of tho 17ih tilt., as follows:
(-aptain Bernard’s forces, together with
th.it portion of the Fairchilds party and the
soldiers that made the junction with Ber
nard during the battle, arrived at this camp
last night, a foot-sore, shattered and demor
alized “troop. A portion of these men were
compelled o lie behind recks and in crev
ices, sheltered from the deadly fire of an un
seen enemy, until darkness gave them a
chance to‘escape. Their retreat began at
midnight and continued until daylight with
out a halt. Tbc sufferings of the wounded
during that terrible night must have been ex
treme. One of these rode on horseback
through the nigut, over tbc worst imagina-
■fle trail, with bis thigh bone broken in
phnters — said, in this instance, to
>* a mortal wound. The forces upon
the cast side were in a position equal
ly critical, but were more fortunate
in their retreat. I despair of making it
clear how so formidable and carefully, pre
pared an expedition could have accomplished
such disastrous results. Everybody affected
contempt for tho enemy, and it is but fair to
sav that that enemy affected the greatest con
tempt for us. When Captain Bernard
opened his fire on the east, although the en
gagement hud already begun on the west, a
shout of derisive laughter arose upon the In
dian right and ran along and around their
line through rocky caverns, a distance of
nearly two miles. In close quarters the In
dians showed themselves proficient in the use
of slang English. Their remarks were more
exasperating than edifying. This profanity
and obscenity was enough to provoke the
envy of the’moat accomplished American
gentleman. Oac of them, hearing Colonel
Green’s name mentioned, said, “is that you,
Colonel Green V Weil, go along, you infer-
nal old , wo wont hurt yon.”
The Fairchilds party formed themselves
with a part of the infantry battalion in a
rocky gorge, when a voice, recognized as that
of Steamboat Frank, shouted across to an
other voice—Scarfaced Charley’s—on the op
posite side; “Hello, Charley, here is some
Vnil-ii luYfc. vnn fif»D I hem ? M
A TOUB OF EUBOPE—No. 4.
The Rears •! ?
Ken
scots The Ni
Mx-rAlmost a Pan*
iff It land Parade
e National Folijr—
lld-Lotaiaa—Home
Written Expressly far The Atlanta
Constitution.
I start off with the bold assertion that this
little planet of ours does not afford a town of
300,000 sou’s, more or less, that exoeN, in
picturcsqneneas, the subject of tliia letter—
Edinburgh. Its distinctive features arc
e rominent from nearly every point of view;
at I prefer to take you, first, to tho bridge
of Avoy, called
THE KARTHBN M MJND
that spans the narrow vale which separates
the new from the old town. The vale itself
was occupied by the North Loch before the
city’s greed and ambition dispersed its waters.
If tho crystal particles of the ancient Loch
could talk, what a tale they would unfold.
Railways, markets and ornamental grounds
have supplanted the water’s rightful preroga
tive. The vale is so narrow that it is span
ned by bridges; yet it is wide enough to be
an impassable social gulf, wide enough to
lend the city a curious and marked character
istic. We are on the mound, remember,
right at a central point of the city’s depressed
core. On one side of the vale rises the
queerest city that ever met our American
eyes—towering atone houses, gabled
and ancient, piled story
Yreka bovs; don’t you sec tucm?
‘ Yes.” ’
Boys, what do you want ? What makes
you come here to fight us ? ” And the same
voice continued:
Chartcy, there is old Dorris. Dorris, what
do you want here? Say, Dorris, how long
arc you going to fight us?”
All this talk was accompanied by a lively
shower of bullets. Only an occasional
glimpse of an Indian was seen. Four of the
little party had .already been shot The
men were lying fiat b.hind rocks and sage
bushes. Auy exposure or movement, how
ever slight, invited a shot. No answer was
made to this Indian talk. Steamboat Frank
persisted in trying to draw Dorris out.
“What’s the matter with you, Dorris?
Can’t you hear? Ain’t you got ears ? Can’t
you talk? Ain’t you got a mouth? 4 *
But Dorris knew his man and laid low,
occasionally blazing away at the rock from
which these questions seemed to proceed, and
conscious that his rock was being peppered
in turn.
A soldier near by peered over bis cover in
tbc direcrion of the voice—a moment—a shot
and he sank back with a bullet hole in his
foiehead, mortally wounded.
Near this spot Colonel Perry, an officer of
great gallantry, was shot through the arm
and breast. 11c involuntarily moaned, “Oh,
I’m shot 1”
A shrill voice, that of a squaw likely,
thocliing him, said, “You come here to fight
Ijuiiiu?, and you make noise like that; you
no man, you squaw.”
The number of narrow escapes, where bul
lets were stopped or turned aside by cartridge
belts, pistol handles, etc, was large.
An awkward German, unaccustomed to the
use of arms, carried his pistol at full cock on
his rbdomen. A Springfield rifle bullet
struck in that vicinity, nnd that pistol re
mains at half-cock yet. His pistol is ruined
yet the man livc3 and is happy.
Donald McKay’s horse was shot dead under
him. Donald is a nephew of tho celebrated
Dr. McKay.
To sum up, wc were eager to get in and
triad to get out, anxious in the morning that
the Indians should not escape, and at evening;
anxious that wc should. Tho nature ant
impregnable clinractcrof tbc Me doc position,
and the number of tho enemy, were not un
derstood. Better information was not attain
able except only by a reconnoissance in force
aud at the sacrifice of life. All that was
known in these respects was obtained by ob
servations made at a distance of live miles,
except what Fairchild learned in his visit to
Captain Jack, and that u*u3 limited.
To repeat the substance of a part of my
former tetter, it is impossible to imagine the
character of that terrible place or even to ap
proach it It stretches awry in expansive
awfulnccs. As you approach tho Modoc
ixisition it3 roggedness increases, and it
breaks into an endless succession of canyons,
chasmq gorges, extinct volcano craters and
mountains of reck, jagged, splintered and
toppling. From the extreme and command
ing points occupied by our skirmsh lines the
sc'cr.c had' :i sort of infernal grandeur in it
From the caa*, south aud southeast, the
rugged plain reaches to the mountains with a
gradually increasing elevation. Although
Within a few feet'of the main camp (wc
passed over several deserted ones) wc saw
nothing of the celebrated cave. It is, how
ever, universally believed in here.
The Spanish President.
He can call up storms upon the opposition
benches with the same feeling with which he
calni3 them among his own partisans. In
fine, what conscience?, what rapidity! Homer
named his Achilles the swift-footed, and the
eloquence of Figueroa we. might call the
light-winged, di-i wc not see how these airy
pinions can resist the tempest In the skirm
ish, iu the encounter, to direct a sally, to
make an assault, for all that necessitates the
inspiration of a moment, Figucras is unrivaled
in the Spanish Parliament.
He is always a combative orator, and this
is the reason that in the Constituent Assem
bly, turned sometimes by natural skepticism
from the subjects of debate into an academy,
hi3 political expositions shine less than bis
instantaneous passionate polemics. When
the conflict comes suddenly, when he replies
to a provocation, when dark clouds surprise
him among intricate pathways, when the un
expected thunder rolls in his cars, and the
lightning flashes before bis footstep?, then all
opposition invigorates him, aud he becomes
greater in faco of difficulties.
The records of the parliamentary career of
Figucras are those of the progress of the Re
publican idea in Spain. At tbc first Con
gress in which lie took part he was scarcely
twenty-five years old, and he stood alone.
Afterwards lie had two or three companions.
In 1854, twenty deputies voted against the
monarchy. In 1809 seventy members voted
for the Republic. When Figucras, almost a
boy, entered the Chamber, with the timidity
natural to one who comes for the first time
to the Cortes, and encountered so powerful
a monarchy, with a sovereign still popular,
with orators who defended both throne and
monarch, with generals who aided so mnch
power—when he faced the brilliant and gilded
wall of opposition, behind which lay shelter
ed a tradition of twenty ages, renewed by the
vigor of modern liberty—certainly none
c.iuld suppose that at his advance those bull-
warks would tremble, that at his voice the
throne would totter, and that Providence had
declined him to l>c one cf the first to dash
down the false idea. He struck it, and thus
by right became the leader of the Republic in
minority in tiic constituent field. * * *
I do not think 1 exaggerate when I 6ay
that Spanish eloquence stands as high as *’
first parliamentary eloquence in Europe,
do no more than repeat a universally admit
ted judgment in placing Scnor Figucras in
the immortal band cf our most eif ted orators.
Some shine by the r energy, others by force of
logic, and others by tbeir flood.<>f language—
none so much as he for sense of opportunity,
for ingenuity, for skill, for the most ex
cellent endowments of parliamentary orators.
For myself, I say that one of the greatest
satisfactions of my life has been to fight by
his side, and one of the mostpleasing records
of my memory h is combats and his triumphs.
Worthy of the most noble cause, worthy of
the Republic which, conquered to-day to re
appear to-morrow, wiil count him among its
founders and its heroes.—Don Emilio Castilr
ar f * Sketch.
unton'a Frophctic Views of Spain*
Forney’s Chronicle prints a conversation
hich Colonel Forney and General Sickles
had wi:h 2-1 r. Stanton immediately after
Sickles was appointed to Madrid. The ex-
Secretary ii r*presented as saying: “We
must make no mistake about Spain. She is
one of our oldest and ablest allies, and be
haved splendidly toward us during the rebel
lion, refusing to open her ports to Confed
erate cruisers, and never plotting through her
minister here like England against oar cause.
The Spaniards are a proud, peculiar peo
ple, and we c innot do any good for liberty
in Cuba by hasty action. Their prejudices
must be respected. Their interests must not
he evaded. Their traditions must be remem
bered. Things are moving on in the right
way at Madrid. I know this, gents, there is
a new Spain, and yon will both live to see a
solid Spanish repuublic there if we can only
restrain our politicians about Cuba. That
pear is ripening and will fall as soon as the
days of kings arc ended in Spaim—Cincin
nati Gazette, Washington Telegram,
above story, strange building above
strange building, rookery above rookery,—
the whole constituting the Old Town. On
the other side the hill is not as steep; its
slopes are not generally .occupied by build
ings; the beautiful, modern and palatial
s rncture of Princes street, tho groat Gothic
monument that keeps fresh the memory of
the immortal Wizard of tho North, and
handsome public buildings greet the eye; and
bock of them stretch away the elegant clean
ly streets of the New Town. Can you sec
tho two towns, separated by a narrow bridge
—spanned valley, and yet so unlike, so dis
tinct in character, and so fall of romantic
contrast ? As I go along, I will endcavcr to
explain the difference, and, possibly, divQ into
history for enough to discover their origin.
But wc are on the mound, you know; and
from that standpoint three palaces over
shadow one desirous town—the Castle, Cal-
ton-hi l, and Salesburg Crags backed by
Arther’s seat. Let us talk about him, be
ginning with the famous
EDINBURG CASTLE.
The ridge, upon which the old town is
chiefly built, starts from the valley of Holy-
rood in the valley between Calton Hill and
Salsbury Crags; and that ridge rises higher
and higher as we go westward, until it culmi
nates in a rude rouuh time-resisting rock—a
rock that is precipitous on all sides but the
one wc arc approaching. On the summit of
this rock stands the dominating castle of
fame. It is old—at least, the castle-rock is.
The Caledonians used it as a strong-hold
long before the Roman invasion; and there
King Edwin of Northumbria built a fort full
seven hundred years before Columbus got
those uneasy notions into his head that final
ly drove him to sea. For ages “ Caledonia's
Queen” was clustered about the fort, and
down the ridge that wc came up. She was
then content to be called Edwin’s burg—a
name which the corruptions of time change
to Edinburg.
As a means of further defense they built a
wall around the burg. The town kept on
growing and growing, and tho people kept
on preferring to stay with the defenses.
Corner lots soon became exceedingly scarce;
and, as the walls were not clastic—it was be
fore Goodyear’s time—they had to build high
instead of broad. To the warlike habits of
the Piets, therefore, we are indebted for the
buildings of eleven, and even more stories in
height, which constitute the ragged irregular
masses that look so picturesque from the
New Town, especially in the evening when
the lights begin to appear in the nooks and
corners of their dizzy hciglhs. Following
the High street, we come to
THE ESPLANADE,
a large paved place before the castle’s gates.
The castle is governed by eight hundred
Highlanders; and the papers announced that
they would parade on the esplanade. We
were there, and so were thc k Calidonians in
full dress—philabcgs, bare knees, kilts, pre
posterous hats, and all. And the officers—
oh, my eyes. They wore their plaids after
the manner of the Roman toga, and were got
op in a way to break the hQNH^^jm ladies
if not the lines of the enemy^^Koon as
the companies fell in. five stalwart Highland-
era (from London, iloubtlc-p) went up and
down the line, playing on the bag-pipes,
wanted to kill them on the spot Their num
bers alone prevented me from meting out the
punishment justly due the sounds they com
mitted. Butler must have been in an amiable,
after-dinner mood when he wrote these com
plimentary lines:
The bsff tiles of the loudest drones *
With sniffling, brukcn-tvlndcd tones.
Do made a y,ler noise than swtno
Iu wind/ weather, when they whine.’'
UP-STAIRS.
There is a moat and a drawbridge and a
portcullis and a peanut woman at tbo en
trance; but we don't fear them aa wc plod
our weary way up tbc well-worn stone steps,
that poor Quocn Maty, and ever so many
Scottish Kings, once trod. Y/c come to a
quadrangular court; and tbc current of visi
tors carries us to tbc regalia room, where, in
an iron cage, repose those ancient baubles
that became symbols of grief to whoever
used them. Our beautiful but sinful Queen
Mary onco wore tbc crown. Almost next
door they showed the room in waich she gave
birth to James VI—a wee bit .of a place, not
over eight feet square, opening out of an ante
chamber that contains ber portrait, from the
original by Torino. Another chamber brings
us to the top, and
MONS MEG,
the glory of Edinburgh,—perhaps, I had
ought to say of Scotland. The gun is said
to have been cast at Mores, in Brittaiuy. in
1474; it burst during the firing of a salute,
in 1682; was removed to the tower of ten
don, in 1754, to tbc great indignation of the
Scots; was restored to its ancient site in
1829, at tbc solicitation of Sir Waller Scott;
is formed of iron bars welded together and
bound by strong hoops;'being a trills over
13 feet long, with a bore of 20 inches. In its
prime the great gun threw enormous stone
balls, several of which arc piled beside it
Around tbe ruined ru«ty piece doth the Gun-
dibook brigade muster in fullest strength,
armed with the various .deceitful weapons of
their craft, from tbc tuppenny one that we
spoil to Black’s ponderous volume.
We have lingered in the co lic too long,
but wc must be permitted one last look fropt
tbe battlements before lakiog final leave. I
propose to call in a poet to help my faltering
pen describe the striking scene:
There Per. hand's ert-cn acclivities.
There Ocean with its aznre tide*
There Arthur’s Sat; an A steaming Ihrcngh
The Southern wing, Onnedln bine 1
While In Orient, L unmet's daughters,
A distant giant-range are seen,
North-Berw ck-Lace with cone of green.
is nearly a ride from the Castle, towards
Holyrood, but across the valley, at tbe end of
Princes street and Waterloo place in the
Mew Town. Edinburg without the castle-
hill at one end, and Callon-hiU at the other,
both overlooking the valley between the two
towns—^would not be Edinburg at all. They
arc of nearly equal height; but one is covered
with tne enginery of war, while the other
abounds in walks and benches aud
monuments and beautiful prospects—the
enginery of thoughtful loving hearts. The
Now Town swells into noble propor
tions from tbe base of Calton Hill;
and two miles away wc discover Leith, the
g irt of Edenburg, situated on the firth cf
ortb, a wide arm of the sea. Among the
monuments is one called the National
Folly, intended to commemorate tbc triumph
of Waterloo, and moddeled after the
Parthenon of Athens. The patriotism of its
promoters was exhausted in the twelfth
colum, and tbeir incomplete work does not
form a bad run. There is a homely monu
ment to Lord Kelson, and many other things
worthy < f mention; but wc cannot linger,
for it is a long walk down the bill, past
Holyrood, up to tbe top of -*
SALISBURY CRAGS AND ARTHUR'S SEAT.
They arc so high and conspicuous that a
geographical description of Edinburg neces
sarily includes them, although they are far
beyond the city. After we bad explored the
Hunter’s Bog that lies between tbe hills, and
domb to tbc rocky apex from which King
Arthur surveyed the field on which he de
feated tbc Saxons, we did not feel that wc
were suffering for want of exercise. The
heather grows up there, and several other
plants not included in our botany. The
view includes tbe bulk of tbe historical
district of Scotland. I do npt mean to
say that we saw the historic places, for a per
plexing haze cut short our vision. Besides,
the wind threatened to lift our hair; and be
tween the various discomforts, we beat a
hasty retreat down the hill, stopping only at
SL Anthony’s ChapeL Sir Walter ticott im
mortalized and graphically jlcscribed this
scenery in “The Heart of Mid-Lothian.” It
was at a. spot just ly Arthur’s seat, that
Jeanie Dee ns met Ocordic Robertson.
These rugged hills are apirtof the ancient
park attached to Holyrood House. The park
is five miles in circumference, and a small
body of unfortunate gentlemen are ready to
exchtim, may its shadow nevrr grow less.
The House and park, together with 100 yards
towards the city, form a legalized sanctuary
for debtors—the only remaining one in the
kingdom. The refugees from tire grasp of
thelsw can leave their retreat, without fear
of arrest, from twelve o’clock of Saturday
night until the like hour of the next night.
They live in the humble abodes that surround
Tns rALACK OF HOLYROOD.
Tho’old palace of David L was dratroyod
by Cromwell excepting that portion fronting
tbc spectator as be approaches from tbc Can
on gate. Much the largestfkrt of the great
stone structure is, therefore, comparatively
modern, but the surviving portion of tho old
palace is tho most interesting, for Mary sel
ected the two turrets saved from Cromwell s
wrath as her private apartments. The at
tendant who is anxiotuly waiting in the court
—for a fee—shows us up the stone stair case
t) the rooms that the ill-
fated Queen occupied. > - Our
faith in human testimony hard
ly permits us to believe that an indicated
stain, in tho vestibule, is Rizzio's blood. We
•would like to bclievo it, and perhaps, after a
while, we may. Her presence chamber, ha
bed-chamber and tho verv bed—sadly dilapi-
dated—on which she lay, her dressing-room
and a cabinet in which she was sitting at
supper when Rizzio was assassinated, a pri
vate stair case, through tbe solid wall, lead
ing down to Damlcy’s apartments—all these
are explained by the loquacious guide. Tbc
rooms arc surprisingly small, some of them
decorated with time-worn tapestry,
cold and deserted t It is difficult to associate
these relics of age and decay with the peo
ple’s idol, whose faults they gladly overlook,
cherishing only her beauty and misfortune a
After her Jrama comes the farce—this
time in tbc shape of a long apartment hung
with the portraits of 10G Scotish monarchs.
Yon ought to sec the noble 106. For daubs
aud big noses the collection is without a
parallel Tbe temptation to revive an an
cient pun on noses is so great that I dare not
further trust my pen this week.
WALTON COUNTY.
Tho Haiti* aad Bridges—Crops
Fertilizers—Labor and Cotton-Su
perior Court-The New Judge and
Solicitor—The Bar and Jury—Nctvs.
paper Agents and Editors.
Monroe, Ga., February 21,1873.
Bditort Conttilutim: Your paper now
having a larger circulation in our county than
any other certainly entitles us, now and then,
to a small corner in its columns. “The rains
have descended,” tho water courses have for
gotten their original channels, and not having
thefearof the court or the poverty of our peo
ple before them have swept off bridges
to value perhaps of five thousand dollars,
and no sheriff puts lorth any effort to arrest
the out laws. The fanner’s plowshares still
stands in tbe mud in the field where he left
it two weeks since, and bis wagon loaded
with fertilizers still bolds its ground where
it mired in the road ten days ago. Tbc
mules are in tbeir stalls eating tbeir summer
supplies, while tbe XV amendment rolls out
his time, snoring by the fire happy as Dex
ters wife,” only dreaming of bis autumn song
when decaying fruit, ana ill kept, but stolen
fresh meat bring to bis remembrance the ap
propriate refrain, “Shoo lly, don't bodder
me."
The tardiness in gathcringlaat year’s crop,
the indolence of laborers, the indifference of
farmers and the unpropitious fall redoced the
averago of wheat which has, under a false
economy for many years, “been growing
small by degrees and beautifully less.” Many
a boy will toddle off to school tbis rear with
a weakly, sallow-looking biscuit, which has
strayed all the way from the Northwest, aad
a slice of meat, whether it be bacon or pork
no man can tell, which ate its last acorn the
other side of the Ohio. Colton, with its
white blossoms and still whiter lint,seems to
charm tho tillers of the soil. They seem to
regard it as a badge of innocence, forgetting
that winiing sheets arc white also, and that
he who raises tho moat cotton is but mak
ing the quickest preparations for bis agri
cultural grave when some general agent
or provision dealer will come in and admin
ister on his estate, with the “will annexed,”
in the form of a lien and mortgage. The
Federal Congress -has legislated the negro
out of bondage, and now to kerpup the beau
tiful harmony intimated in tbo natural law
of universal compensation, the 8tate officials
must legislate the mules, hones and cattle
into bondage. The world can bear only so
much liberty ata time and we have too many
free things Just now. Tbo mule avd the ne
gro cannot both go free at once. Since the
negro knows no master, the mulo must know
no freedom. If the freedman takes the
range the mulo must be kept under fence.
Tbc stock law is the farmers only salvation.
Our Superior Court is in session. The
new incumbent of tbc bench oiLlhia circuit,
his Honor Judge Rice, from Uio way be
manages things, is certainly an “old band at
the bellows,” for he keeps everything hoi; the
Sheriffs move in a trot, the jurors, when the
trumpet blows, put on more steam, tbo wit
nesses are always in court and the lawyers,
who for many a day have been enjoying their
"obtiumcum dignilate," use all their powers—
one eve on tho Judge, tbe other on their
client's pocket and their mouths full-slretched
to the jury. Silence reigns in the Court
room, except when sense accompanies sound.
A $20 fine, for a few minutes' delay, is
common occurrence, and the forfeiture of
prisoner’s bond is lire work of only live
minutes.
The Solicitor, though a young man, dis
plays great common sense. He believes in
dispatch and bis arguments are as remark
able for power aa his speech c* ere for brevity.
If a man is gnilty bo proves him so and Inrns
him over to reap the reward of the law; if he
is innocent, with a look of apparent pleasure,
he turns him loose with the good advice,
“Avoid the appearance of evil.” If the Gov
ernor has made as judicious-appointments in
tbc other circuits aa he has in this, the Bench
of Georgia will bo an enduring monument to
tho wisdom and prudence of His Excellency.
It is true, we would have preferred a Judge
of our “own raising,” but since a stranger
must wear the ermine robes i f our cir
cuit, wc ore satisfied that Judge Rice
will turn them over to bis successor without
“spot or blemish, or any such thing.” He
makes the law a refuge,a secure hiding place
for tbe persecuted; but a fortress of bnatltng
bayonets, a terror to evil doers. Our So
licitor, EL Speer, Esq., is making - friends of
the true and good, aud gives evidences of
a strong desire to preserve tbe order and tbe
peace of society, and maintain the dignity
and majesty of the law.
Walton seems to bo common tramping
ground for editors, a kind of midway place
between tbe two great centres of newspa-
penlom. Christy of the Watchman is here,
hunting up old dead beads and making
new acquaintances; Grant of the N. E. Geor
gian is on tho streets presenting the resur
rected body of the Banner and asking its
old friends to renew their love and “do
tbeir first works over again”; Brantly of
the Chronicle sits like a sentinel upon the
hotel corner (he likes the table better, how
ever) watching for hit stray ing patrons. Neb-
hurt in the interest of tbc San would illumin
ate this dark corner as be asks for the privi
lege of scattering some sunbeams over this
beclouded land; and there comes
tbe “Pbat Boy”, Colonel Ac
ton of Tns Constitdtion with
a smile half as broad as his face and twice
as long as bis body and a tongue three times
os massive as his huge proportions, attract
ing attention by bis personal worth as well
as by tho exceeding merit of tbe Journal he
represents. He collects closely, adds many
subscribers to your list and furnishes a paper
not a wbit behind tbo best By the by, did
you know that you are ahead at cur office,
and, also, in the county.
The next thing, no doubt, we will sees
column in your paper headed “ Walton Ad
vertisements.” Well, by law you are en
titled to them, and no man has any right to
complain. We would hate to lose the genial
face of Col. Christy at our courts, but then I
think (and I have heard some women say so
too) that Col. Acton is just as pretty, ondas
for size, either would furnish enough flesh
and blood for a full grown, old-fashioned
country hug, with whicb, no doubt, tbey are
both well acquainted and equally well
pleased. Yours, etc,
OUR BALTIMORE LETTER.
The Emigration from Georgir.
The Georgia Bond Questions
Baltimore SmiU-POX and Ooctorv.
Baltimore, February 20,1873.
Eiifen Conttilution: As a friend of Geor-
gia, I cannot but obterve with sincere regret
the large exodus of your population which
has marked the past few months. Every la
borer who emigrates bring just so modi de
ducted from the wealth-producing power of
the country—increases the burdens of thoee
who remain.
It is the interest of every citizen to arrest
this migratory epidemic by all Iawfnl means.
Undoubtedly the redemption of Georgia
from tho rule of itenerant politicians and the
re-installment in power of her natirie white
inhabitants have bad much to do with the
depletion in progress. When the negroes
discover that they are in a political minority
so decided that their supremacy can never
again be resumed, their thoughts will bo
turned to regions in which their own dement
is more powerful. When this disposition to
change bases b encouraged by the promise
of material advantages elsewhere, we have
causes amply sufficient to explain the exten
sive cm gratioo.
I perceive that propositions have been
made to counteract this evil by legislation.
Such efforts must fail. Even in despotic
countries power cannot restrain people from
changing their homes. As the mischief arise*
in part from moral causes von mnst try
moral remedies. Let the minority ’
Figarcs -
Rhode Island has 3,000 militia.
tendon covers 117 square miles
^The value of stock in Colorado is $4,000,-
Tcxas pastured 4,615,310 cattle iu tho year
1872.
Trinity Church, New York,gives $10,000
year to other churches.
The remains of 117 steamboats lie on the
bottom of the Arkansas river.
Ohio has 3.000,000 acres more of cultivated
land than Pennsylvania.
stand that tho party in power are their best
friends. Instead of denouncing them aa “ig
norant pauper-savages” to quote the language
of a well-known Georgian, make provision
for their education and improvement. Teach
them that no State can offer* more desirable
home than Georgia. Diffuse information
which shall counteract tho exaggerations of
alien labor brokers. By inch means the
ebbing tide which effects yon will be chocked
if not entirely arrested.
You have noticed, no doubt, the report of
ti c Poland Committee demanding the expul
sion of Brooks and Ames, and censoring
some other parties. Whatever maybe tho
notion of Congress, the investigation has done
know that the public will spot delinquents, it
will assist in strengfateninglhrir virtue when
tempted. The unblushing iniquities by
which public swindlers have compassed their
schemes for years past have received at least
a momentary check, and wc hope that Con-
gressrum having tne fear of detection before
their eyes, will be more honest for some years
to come.
Colfax's case is studiously ignored. Bat
silence is scquiralent to condemnation.
Who doubts that a Republican committee
would have proclaimed hb innocence ted it
been practicable for them to do so? That
$1,000 Brecnback rent by Mr. Nesbitt was a
remarkable occurrence, b there another
merchant in New York who would send a
thousand dollar note In a letter when hb
own check on the Bank in New York, where
he resided, afforded a safe transmission? Bat
let as not be too uncharitable. Ames says
I did, n and Colfax stys, “Yon didn’t.” Poo
sibly the Utter may be tbc truth-teller in tiffs
case. Is not truth sometimes stranger than
fiction ? Does not the oppertono arrival of
$1,200 who explains the entry on Mr. Col
fax’s book illustrate this old remark. Really
itb a sad sight to behold the Incumbent of
the second officer in the government reach
ing such an important conclusion at the end
of bis official career.
Willyouallowmetoexprea the hope that
in settling the bond difficulty in your 8tale, all
other questions will be ignored save one—
Wliat is right? Nations, States and men aro
only safe and wise when they walk by tiffs
rule. 1 see that your good wbt men differ.
As a property holder in Georgia, I desire
light taxation,, bat rather than have the
shadow of a shade rest upon ber fair fame I
would cheerfully submit to increased assess
ments.
Our city has been suffering from a small
pox epidemic for some months past. Bat
thanks to a kind Providence, the last mor
tuary reports exhibit > large abatement of
the malady. No person who has been pro
perly vaccinated needs have any apprehen
sion of coming here at the present time. All
others bad better be vaccinated, whether they
come or not
The Baltimore College of Physicians and
Surgeons held its first commencement a day
or two ago. Though tbb b the first year of
its history, it bad seventy-three matriculates
and eighteen graduates—among tbe number
several from Georgia. Tho institution b
thoroughly pro-Southern. Its professors are,
Iu several instances, physicians who had long
been identified with Southern institutions.
Had yon witnessed the enthusiasm with
which the audience applauded “My Mary
land” and “Dixie,” when performed by the
band at the recent comm«ncemcnt.yoa would
not bavc doubted the political status of Balti
more. X.
JUDGE TBIPPE.
The Deflate on Ills Confirmation.
From the SsgaaU Chronicle.)
Senator. Arnow, of the Fourth District, de
clared that he could not and would not vote
in favor of confirmation' on account of the
injustice which had been done to Judge
Montgomery. He characterized Judge Mont
gomery as a noble gentleman and a good
Judge, upon whom the Governor, without
any sufficient reason, hsd cut an unjustifi
able censure by his nomination ef Mr. Trippe.
Senator Reese, of the Twenty-ninth Dis
trict, urged the Senate not to confirm tho
nomination, because the Governor bad not
sent in tho name of tbe beat man from the
applicants for the position. While he would
not utter a word in disparagement of Mr.
Trippe, for whom he entertained the highest
respect, he considered Colonel Bleckley,
Governor Johnson and Judge Irwin all pos
sessing higher claims for tho posi
tion than Mr. Trippe Whatever defer
cnee might usually be felt, by Senators for
the judgment of tbc Executive, should not in
this case be fell, as distingnbed gentlemen
bail affirmed that Governor 8mith had prom
ised to appoint other than Mr. Trippe to tiffs
place.
Senator Simmons, of the Twenty-second
District, stated that he knew Mr. Trippe well.
He was an honorable gentleman, a good
lawyer, and would make an excellent Judge.
To reject tbb nomination would be to cast s
stain on Hr. Trippe’s fair fame.
Senatifr Brown, of tbe 39 th District, said
as nothing had been said or could be said
against Mr. TrippeY character or qualifica
tions be should not be rejected. As In
promises to others, said to hare been made
by tbe Governor, there mnst be some ml*,
take about them. He believed that kind re
marks and pleasant words had been Improp
erly construed.
! Senator Peary, from the Thirty-sixth Dis
trict, said in consideration of the importanco
of the office to the people of Georgia and in
further consideration of the fact that the
name of tbe best man apylying for the Diace
bad not been sent in to tlic Seriate, the nomb
nation of Mr. Trippe should be rejected In
tiffs matter there should be no concession, no
surrender. He knew Mr. Trippe and re
spected him, but did not believe him t '
best man for the position.
Literary Items.
“George Elilot” has made $40,0C0 by “Jfid-
dlemarck.”
Selections from Mr. Greeley’s correspon
dence, edited by Whitclaw Reid, are to be
published.
The Great Portugcesc Dictionary of the
Academy of Sciences, commenced nearly a
century since, an) frequently resumed and
abandoned, has at last reached the end of
letter C.
The export of German maps, books and
pictures from Leipsic to the United States
during the first half of 1872, amounted to
160,640 thalera.
miscellaneous news.
Florida will have a State Fair.
Constantinople has forty three newspapers.
Glass barrels are to be used for the trans
portation of petroleum, in ordor to rave the
heivy loss from cyaporation in crd ; nary
packages)
spccted him, but did not believe him to be tho
’■■at man for the position.
Senator Reescsaid it would be no reflec
tion upon Mr. Trippe to reject him, in order
to give the appointment to such a man aa
Herechcl V. Johnson or Logan E. Blccklcv
whom deserved the office™ &
charged Governor Smith with having prom-
foed the position to others, and with having
broken those promises.
Senator Wynn, of the Thirty fonrth Dis
trict, replied with much fire to Senator Rerze.
and sard that Mr. Trippe was one of tho
greatest men Georgia had ever produced.
The vote upon the appointment, when
taken by yeas and nays, stood as follows:
For confirmation ........ .IS
Against j8
The nomination was tiros rejected, bat be
fore the rote was announced, two Senators
changed from nay to yea. and the result was
then announced:
For confirmation q)
Against *. 16
If the Senators had voted without interfer
ence from outside, Mr. Trippe would have
undoubtedly been rejected. Distinguished
Senators inside and distinguished men out
side the Senate chamber carried tbe nomina
tion through by tbeir personal appeals to
membere to save Mr. Trippe from theatigma
“K“2j*? Br7an ’ ot Harris county, died
on the 17th insL
Mr. John Bffiingslea, of Harris county
died a few days sinceT counry.
^“^GcoigeGoeltZ’Of Macon, died onFri-
woman near Hartford recently took
a friendless bey from the town-house to
bring up for the ministry, but tbe experiment
proved a failure, as the child froze to death
last week. The female philanthropist will
see the time when to be frozen stiff will bo a
luxury worth hankering after.—Dar.burg
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