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ATLANTA, TUESDAY, APRIL a
** Commercial Crisis Feared.
The financial situation In New York and
therlpbt statement of Secretary Richardson
; je ac'xiotuly discussed In Washington.
Ti.-;- -..-c £r ;re apprehensions of a c/..x:.irr-
tialTcr.»*s, and some predict a great advance
iagold. Twenty-five millions will baceeded
for Americans going abroad; andthedcmsnd
to pay for importations Is also extraordinary.
Jl the present movement in Wall street con
tinue*. It can hardly be doubled that the Sec
retary win step into the market with his re
serves and endeavor to crash the cliques now
operating to produce a panic.
Henry WIIsonHelurn* III* Back Pay.
Vice-President Wilson’s slumbers have
been greatly disturbed by canid enlious
scruples on the subject of the Senatorial back
pay, voted by Congress about twenty-four
hours befom Mi rwignatlon sa 8enator. lie
has, therefore, resolved to wash Ids
bands of the Iniquity by reluming the
money. He addressed, on the 27th InsL
a letter to Treasurer Spinner, .enclosing
an order on the Secretary of the Sen
ate (or about four thousand four hun
dred dollars, the amount of the back increase,
km bis mileage, with the Instruction that It
be appropriated towards the payment of the
national debt. Vice President Wilson, actu
ated by bis modesty, requested theTressurer
that the matter be kept a secret, and his In-
i strictly obeyed.
Objection to Georgia,
A Raleigh,North Carolina Ink-slinger, has
been rollicking through Georgia and Ala
bama, and pens bis spicy observations to the
Jtu'eigh flews. We regret to find that he
has unearthed what we fear will prove an in
superable obstacle to any system of emmi-
gntkra our legislature In their wisdom can
dtvise.
• The plaint of the perlpotetic Tar-heel Is
tiaply appalling, and we present it in the
timid trust that some reform may be inau
gurated in the awful difficulty.
Here is the crethig lamentation of thin
lngnbrirras correspondent:
“I must here say that the only objection I
found to Georgia was the price of drinks—to
a North Carolinian, accustomed to good
Nash brandy at moderate figures, Ucenlyfioc
cents a drink was frightful. (Woodson
couldn’t have stood this. 1 )
Georgia Relict and Homestead I. sirs
as Ueiroscslvo measures Declared
Unconstitutional by tbo Sayremi
Conn of Use Untied .Mates.
The Washington papers Inform os that on
Monday last the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States pronounced its decision in the
case of James B. Walker vs. William H.
Whitehead. This case arose in Bakrr
county, Georgia, and being founded on a
debt contracted prior to Jane 1st, 18G5, was
dismissed by the Superior Court for want of
the affidavit of payment of taxes required
by the relief set of 1670. The Supreme
Conrt of Otalgia affirmed this action of the
Soper tor (taut, and held that provision of the
reUaf act to be constitution si. From the
Supreme Court of Georgia, the case was
carried to UtcYiiprerao Court of the United
States, and. this Court, Jaitice Swayne de
livering the opinion, reverses the judgment
oLthc Supremo Court of Georgia.
The grounds of the opinion are not slated,
but tbo Court must have held that portion
of the Relief Act to be unconstitutional and
fold.
On the same day the Court also reversed
the riupreme Court of Georgia in the ease of
Uunn vs Barry. We aro informed that this
esse Involved the constitnlionality of the
Homestead Law of Georgia aa applied to
debts contracted before the Constitution of
18M was adopted. The Supreme Court of
Georgia held the law to be constitutional.
The Supreme Court of the United States
bolds the contrary.
Tke Evacuation of mace.
Within * few day* * treaty haa been con
cluded that frees the prostrate nation from
the last soldier of the conquering army, on
the first day of next September. At that
time the Republic will have paid the last dol
lar of the immune sum exacted at the point
of the sword from tho bleeding people. Five
milliards, or ?1,000,000.003 of our money,
will have been sent over tho Rhino in less
than three years. History furnishes no in-
i of such elasticity and recuperative
The Kansas farmers recently met in State
convention at Topeka. Their resolutions
demand a tax reform and' greater economy
of government; exhort the farmers to take
a more active interest in public affairs, and
make their influence at the pedis felt in secur
ing the election of honest men to office; de
mand that salt and lumber be "placed on the
free-list; that railroad fares snd freight he
fixed by law at s jest and fair sum; and de
nounce the National Bank monopoly as only
a legalized form c.f robbery.
The Illinois farmers met last Wednesday
i * convention held at Springfield, in which
jiaorly, every ononty was re located. The
convention was presided over ly the Speaker
of the Illinois HuUWWIkprtiaRflTiet.anff
speeches were made by Governor Beveridge,
Ex-Governor Palmer, and others. Governor
B. argued against the correctness of .the pro-
posiUoi a that the charters of railroads were
contracts between the people and the cor
porations. He expressed his belief
that such char ten were simply grans of
power to the corporation to build railroads,
and are, consequently, subject to the control
of the Legislature, and that the time la com
ing when the courts wQl so decide. If they
do not, then an amendment to the Constitu
tion of the United States most be obtained,
which will secure the desired object
The resolution- of the Illinois Convention
are so short and - xpressive of the objects of
this grand move -ent in the Northwest, that
we are induced i- print them m full:
Resolved by the farmers at Illinois in
rowing 1st. Tb&t all chartered
monopolies, not regulated and controlled by
law; have proven, in that respect detrimental
to the public prosperity, corrupting ia their
management and dangerous to republican in-
slUnliona.
2. The railways of the world, except in
tboee countries where they have been held
under the auia regulations and anpenfeion
of the Government have proved themselves
of arbitrary extortion; and oi-poaed to. free
institutions and free cogm- ree between
Stales, as the feudal. barons of the middle
ages. . t ,-o
8. That we hold, resolve snd dedare I that
this deposition which defies our laws; plun
ders our (Uppers, impoverishes our- people
and corrupts our government, shall be tab
daed and. made to subserve the public inter-
cst At vhitever cost
Rsaplved. That we believe the Suite did
not and could not confer any of its rpv-reign
powers upon any corporation, and that now
is the most favorable time to settle the ques
tion so that it may never be hereafter
der&lood; that a State cinnot create a corpo
ration it cannot thereafter control.
Resolved, That in view of present exer
tions we look with alarmsipon the future of
an interest which can combine in the bands
of a few men a capital of nearly two hun
dred and fifty millions of dollars in our State,
and four thousand millions of dollars in our
Union, and wo believe it essential to tho
prosperty of all classes that this contest con
tinue until those corporations acknowledge
the sunremacy of law .
Resolved, That wo regard it as tho un
doubted power and the imperative duty
of the Legislature to pass laws fixing reson-
able rates for freight and passengers without
classification of roads, and that we urge upon
our General Assembly the passage of such
laws.
In addition to tlieso a resolution condon
ing Congress for their action in votipg for
the bill increasing salaries, and tho President
of the United Slates for signing the same,
wsa offered and adopted, non. con.
It is well to secure concerted united action,
and there is no great harm or great good for
that matter, In resolutions. The people of
the West will pay diviJcnds’on the ficticious
watered stock that cram the pockets of the
monopolists, until they secure a cheaper and
more comprehensive outlet for their pro
ducts. This can he obtained at the least ex
pense by a canal connecting the waters of
the Mississippi with the Atlantic ocean. Let
the farmera of the West or of the Southwest
demand this, in an unmistakcablc manner,
from the National Legislature, and the days
of their oppression will be numbered.
Csltass Ha. 31.
The receipts this week are 49,000 bales—
13,000 more than last year, and 21,000 less
thin two years since. It is likely the re
ceipts next week will be labont 45,000 bales
compared with 25,000 last year, and 65,000
the year before, and the receipts at the in
terior towns 9,000 bales compered with 6,000
last year, and 10,000 the year before.
Tbe wcather this week has been generally,
very pleasant indeed, and the warmest of the
The payment of the fourth milliard or
$300,000,000 wffi be completed on tho 1st
day of next month, and, by the new treaty,
the remaining *200,003,000 b to be dis
charged in fonr eqnal payments on the fifth
days of June, Ju'y, August and September
of the present year. On the first of July
cvoy part of France will be rid of the hated
helmets, except the fortress of Verdun, which
will be held until the day of final pay
ment.
The treaty was endangered by the reluc
tance of Germany to give up Belfort until
the last franc of the indemnity had been
paid. Belfort b a high rock fortress on the
German frontier, of almost impregnable
strength. President Thiers rose from hit bed
at night and dictated a dispatch of such firm
ness that the German government yielded
rather than lose the anticipated payments of
the final milliard.
Can the French people forget, can the
world overlook, the fact that this un
paralleled financial achievement was ac
complished by a Republican government
while the nation lay bleeding under the woea
brought upon it by tho Empire? The ad
ministration of President Thiers—even if
ended to-day—will be regarded aa the most
marvelous, the moat brilliant io enduring re
sults, the most luccessfnl In the truest sente
ot French history.
Tke Sen- movement In Ike West.
These ot our readers, who attended the
last sessions of the State Agricultural Coo
vcntlou can easily recall the lucid speech of
Cob I>. Wyatt Aiken, of South Carolina, on
tho extension of a practical organization, in
the shape of “granges” or fanners’ club, for
salf-protcction and co-operation in the pro
curement of supplies. The West b ablaze
now with farmers’ meetings, that generally
assume the shape and name of a ’’grange” S!
described by CoL Aiken. The agricultural
ists of the country are a very patient class ol
citizens; but when they .do move in earnest
something has got to give way.
Tha principal trouble in the West grows
oat of the extortions of the railroad stock
waterere and freight-monopoliita. The ex
cessive charges cm grain shipments from
local points have lessened the value of the
com crop in the hands of the producers uatd
it bweU-nighvMurim. Ambili >ut towns that
bled freely for the construction of new, and
as they fondly hoped, competing lines, wake
up to find that there had been "a conference”
between the railway managers, resulting in
still higher rales. The roads are dangerous
ly crowded with through trains in the effort
to earn dividends on their enormously water
ed stick
The Western granges carefully avoid all
interference with partisan politics; hat still
they unhesitatingly declare that the cry of
political hail not scare them from their pur
pose, and that the movement has a greater
ol ject than the redaction or equalization of
freight rates. It is the first formidable t rgan
izatioa of the people against the gigantic
of moneyed monopolists that
now away the destinies of the country.
They recogniz? the fact that the present
administration ia bound, body and soul, to
the monopolists. The proof is too over
whelming to be denied; and the whole move
ment is fast drifting Into active opposition to
the policy and practices ot the Republican
party. They know that the worstnf their
grievances emanate from Washington, and
that it is uadem to took for assistance from
the Motiilierized politicians of the Republi
can parlyj
men at Honey, Give need!
Atlanta is a busy, prosperous, energetic,
ambitious town. Its past growth is the mar
vel of tho South. At every'step of its on.
ward progress, croakers were not wanting to
picdict its disastrous downfall; but the pace
of growth has never s'ackcned, end to-day
abe is confessedly the smartest town in the
South,—its Chicago, its inland commercial
metropolis. Io every block the noise of tho
hammer and the raw can be heard to-mor
row.
The net woik of railroads that brings in
business from all parts of the sonny land,
has much to do with our prosfcrity; and
perhaps, the rairoads should be credited with
anolhei element of the city’s progress—her
jobbing tradu It ii immense, and rapidly
increasing. No less than sixty houses are
engaged in the distribution of merchandize
at wholesale. Charleston understands this
matter, it the rest of mankind does nob
Two other, and as yet undeveloped sources
of wealth and expansion ldota gradually np io
the future. The one consists in the astonishing
revelation that Atlanta is situated in the midst
of a choice cotton-producing country. The
otner consists in the development of the
inexhaustible and surpassingly rich deposits
of iron and coal in the monntancoos regions
to the north of ns. Every bale of cotton
that is grown in North Georgia, every ton of
coal or ore that is mined or melted—no mat
ter, if it ia done just over the Tennessee line
—enriches' the commercial center. Blast
furnaces are rapidly rising, and if their num
ber were increased a thousand fold, they
could not exhaosl the iron that rests in the
bills of North Georgia. And be the furnace
where it may, its base of supply is pretty
sure to be the Capital city.
The moral of lheso facts runs to -the men
of the North, who are loaded down with
greenbacks that they cannot loan or use at
satisfactory rates. Atlanta is their point
bejond all others. Thousands of their old
neighbors now snugly and prosperously lo
cated in our midst bear us witness. Its high
and bealtby situition may have induced
them to come in the first instance; bat busi
ness reasons, present and to come, suffice to
retain th-m as permanent and useful citizens.
If you simply want to lorn yonr money,
come to Atlanta. Come hcre.'beeanse we
bave not the slightest trace of an naniy law;
money ii free; and come, because Atlanta is
a financial center. We have nine active
banks, and still there is plenty of room for
more.
Atlanta, however, presents the strongest
inducements to the men who prefer to em
ploy their money in manfactnring enter
prises. Wv do not care a fig as a peo
ple for poets or naval heroes, and
we detest the professional politicians.
Cor honors and applause are reserved for
the true heroes of peace, the men who,
while enriching themselves, help the labor
ing n.an to an honest living—the men who
aim to develop and utilize car mineral re
sources, or mane Picture something that is
needed do an ia Dixie. We refir to the hun
dreds of Northern men that are doing bosi-
in Atlanta, as to the troth ot this state
ment The City Central has wisely
exempted capital invrstel in mannfactares
from trail taxation for fifteen years; onr
railway-ystem re,dies every part oi the
Booth by the shortest and cheapest routes;
and a hearty welcome with bigprofits awaits
the energetic, ingenious capitalists, bred in
the manufacturing renters of the North, who
have the foresight to build open the natural
ail van tag) a amt impregnable position of the
Gate City.
Tke President in Sew York.
The nation deliberately preferred thorough
horsemanship to enlightened statesmanship
list Fall; and the man of their choice means
to fill the bill. During ihe President’s recent
visit to New York, he jumped into a light
wagon in Fifty-eighth si reel, and taking the
ribbons between his fingers, astonished the
friend who accompanied him—likewise the
policemen who would bave arrested him for
vio! .ting ike rules of the Park against fast
drivie;-, if th-y k id not recognized his well'
know, c-impiuion.
Tke I’m -t nt drove in a manner peculiarly
bia own, displaying by bis soothing tones, his
chiding*, and his occasional touch of (he
whip, that innate love and real knowledge of
a boroe.wkicb certainly dwell within the Chief
Magistrate of these United States. They
went down (be Boulevard like a whirlwind,
and over the CcalrmiJluJ.ca. and on towards
J-.romu Park at a slapping pace; Avoiding
the Sonlevard in rerun i .g, they got back to
Fifty-eighth street wi.buui arrest, or accident
of any kind.
The heftse is a noble animal,
The thermometer has avenged 70 degrees
at noon, and on yesterday 82 degrees. Six
days clear and pleasant with a heavy rain
one night One day cloudy, windy, heavy
rain and hail.
The market In New York has been gen
erally doll.
Sales of spots, 8,600. Contracts 100,000
bales. On Monday, in consequence of a
corner in gold, there was quite an active de
mand for cotton. Sales 2,260 bales, at a rise
of i a cent Since that the market has been
doll and nominal, with small sales and a fail
of 2-8 of a cent in the price. The cause of
the dullness in cotton just now is, the crop
is turning out much larger than many per-
believed it could be, after the great
damage which it received in the fait All
those persons who expected a sudden falling
off in the receipts before this time have been
disappointed, and the crop indicates now as
large an amount as the most sangoine “bear”
expected three months ago. Another came
is, money is so very tight in New York,
having loanedatl-S percent aday nearly all
the week—and one day 1 per cent a day,
that parties holding cotton there are forced
to sell and this pressure to sell causes buyers
to hold off, consequently the price declines.
The stock in New York is very large, being
108,000 bales, compared with 81,000 list year,
and 108,000 the year before same time.
There is but one favorable sign for this
this week, and that is gold. It may go high
er, or it may not If i’. does it will help cot
ton.
The market in Liverpool was active tho
first of the week, in sympathy with the ac
tivity in New York, and a fallingoff of 6,000
bales in the receipts for the first two days,
bat the last part cf the week that market has
been dull, with small sales, and closing at the
same price for spot cotton, as last week; but
contracts are much lower—closing at one
half a cent less than the price of last week.
The very fine spring weather we have had
for the last month, the large sale of fertili
zers, and the supposed luge crop which will
be planted, (many persons patting the in
creased planting over last year at ten pet
cent.) baa affected Liverpool in the last few
days, and without some serious falling off in
onr receipts this week, we do not expect any
better market there.
There is one thing favorable to the Liver
pool market The stock and afloat of Ameri
can for that port are only 9,000 bales larger
than this time last year, and the sales of
American there bave averaged, for the past
five weeks, 46,000 bales compared with 21,000
last year, BamC time.
Planting began in Texas two weeks ago,
and will continue active all over the South
for the next two weeks.
There are now 193,000 bales of American
cotton afloat for Liverpool, of which 100,000
will be dneand should be received there next
week.
The river at New Orleans, is falling.
Here follows onr regular monthly state
ment, given in thousands of bales.
The slock of cotton in Liverpool and alloat
for that port for five years is as follows
1869 1870 1871 1812 1873
455
313
7« 798 1,307 1.223 1,165
American cotton in tight and afloat for
Liverpool for same time is as follows:
1809 1870 1871 1872 1873
Stocks 145
Aflou 152
American cotton in sight for same time:
1869 1870 1871 1872 1873
60 77 • 61 101
HI 655 871 515
Slocks Liverpool..... 145 271 117 272 300
Afloat for Lit
Export this \
152 S18 370 318
87
SI
*k» Carrier System la Atlanta.
It was supposed that the laie.Qf 1865iim-
ited the placing of iron boxes at convenient
intervals for the deposits of letters, andthe
free distribution of mails'received, by carriers,
to towns of fifty thousand inhabitants. Closer
investigation shows that the Postmaster
General was authorized to place them, in the
exercise of his discretion, even in towns as
small as Macon.
That discretion was singularly displayed.
Eric, with 19,000 inhabitants, enjoyed a free
delivery, while the 48.956 people of Charles
ton had to trudge off to a poet office. The
20,0.0 people of Lancaster, Pa, have long
had carriers, bat the postal wishes of Atlanta,
Scranton, Mobile and Kansas City, each mm-
hexing about 87,000 inhabitants, were un
heeded. Congress remedied the crying wrong
at the last season by appropriating $100,000
for the institution of the carrier system in
every city of twenty thousand inhabitants.”
This is an important comvenience in so wide
spread a town aa Atlanta. Besides, it "has
been said that our sidewalks are occasionally
not what they shoa’d be. Mr. Creswell
smole a smile daring bis recent visit at onr
post-office, and said that wo should have the
boxes and the carriers and the free delivery
just aa soon as the city authorities complete
the numbering of the houses. The responsi
bility of the delay ia thus transferred to his
Honor the Mayor, and their Honors the City
Council. Sling on the numbers;
Bee Culture.
We are glad to see that bee culture is grow
ing in the Sonth, and we trust to see it ex
tend. There is no choicer sweet of nature
than honey. There is none easier and more
cheaply raised. There is no more; profitable
investment.
Bees were first transported to Penn
sylvania from Germany in 1627. They now
inhabit every shore and terri lory in the Union.
In twenty days from the time tho bee egg
is laid the young bees come forth folly de
veloped. For twenty days more they play
and nnrse. For forty or fifty days they
work makiog honey. Each hive of bees his
a queen that docs all the egg-laying, which
keep her busy, her daily installment being
over two thousand.
The best bee is said to be. the Italian bee.
This bee was brought to this country in 1859.
The best honey crop is tho white clover and
buck wheat. Fruit trees are a fine pasturage
for bees.
A hive of bees wiH store fifty pounds of
honey in one season. Oae Dr. Eddy says
that the profits resulting from a judicious and
proper system oi bee culture may bo esti
mated at from one hundred to fivo hundred
per cent, per annum. Three 8warms paid
him ono hundred dollars in two years.
Jane, July and August are the fruitful har
vest season for the bee-keeper.
Now is the time to be preparing for that
season. There is no reason why every one
shonld cot bave a hive and make honey for
his own table.
lion. Andrew B moo re-
769 968 1,371 262 1,155
Those of our readers who file these articles
will see that in onr last monthly statement
No. 2G the excess of this year over 1870 was
only 65,000 bales; now it is 158,000 and the
excess over last year was only 111,000. Now
it is 194,000. In these figures can be seen
one reason for the decline in the past month
Takings by our own spinners for the past
month and for seven months for five years:
18GT 1870 1871 1873 1873
One month 61 47 58 91
Berea monte* 491 415 133 560 ...
, Through the above it- will be seen that our
spinners are pretty well stocked, and aa they
bought largely early in the season we sup-
poso the most of it is good cotton.
Receipts at and shipments from Bombay
for fonr years for January, February and
March:
1870 1871 1872 1873
Recelal* Ol
Exports to Great Britain 128
Export* to Continent.... 33
Import into Liverpool from American and
all other countries for four years for three
months: •
1670 1871 1S7S 1873
American ...537 915 631
Total 799 1,304 1,084 1,065
Taken by the trade and actually exported
from Liverpool for four years for three
months•
1-70 1871 187* 1873
Trade total 626
Export 89
Tr*dc, American 3 8
KxdotL American SI 126 80 30
The receipts at thb interior town for fonr
yeais, for one month, and seven months are
as follows:
1870 1871 1872 1873
March 48 7S
Keren Monika 593 10W ...
The total receipts at the ports for seven
months for fonr years are as follows:
1870 1871 1872 1873
2,440 1,390 2,464 3,050
The per cent of American cotton taken by
the trade from Liverpool as compared with
the total of all kinds fee three month fof the
past fonr yeais, lass follows:
1879 1871 1871 1873
Ft* Cent 49 67 51 58
GOLD AND MONEY.
For seme months we have cautioned those
interested in gold of the danger of being
short, it sold lor 181-2 per cent, premium
this week—the clique may cany it higher,
but wc think it very likely they hare made
a “good thing out of it” and may have on-
loaded on the street last Monday. It is now
at a price where it ia extremely dangerous to
handle.
Money has never been sc tight in New
York, and wo see no reason for an easy
money market there for some time to come
As we are now at the end of seven months
wo*will revise onr estimate of receipts. ’
Receipts last year to this date were 2,464,-
000, which was 90 per cent of the receipts
at the ports. This year the receipts have
been 3,i.00,000for the same time. Takingthe
per cent, as a basis it makes this
crop 3.GS0.000. Bat we believe the low
prices, compared with what waa expected in
the spring, has censed planters to hold their
cotton back. In proof of which, there is now
at the interior towns 40.C0J bales more than
last year, and 24,000 more than in the
’big crop year.”
Therelore we estimate that there has been
84 per cent of this crop received to date mak
ing the receipts at the ports 8,620,000, add to
which 280,000 for overland and Southern
consumption and wc have a total crop of
3,900,00J which ia out promt estimate.
FUTURE.
For next week we expect a doll market
everywhere and possibly lower prices, but
there may be r. reaction from the lowest point
towards the last of this month.
No paper in Atlanta ever published as msny
columns of new advertisements as did Thx
Constitution; of Sunday. Just think of
lucntyodi long columns! And a pleasant
feature about it is, that we did not work the
whole week for them, but the great rush upon
us occurred Saturday afternoon 2nd night
Indeed we most complain good natnredly of
our friends, who sent in their advertisements
so late, that it was almost impossible to bave
them printed. But for the help of our job
office, which we put to work a.«i«tin g the
newspaper hands, we certainly could not
have succeeded. As it was, a great part of
our reading space had to be sacrificed, thus
depriving our readers of the usual heavy
amount ot /natter. The great body of the
local was crowded out This, however, shall
not occur again.
The CaxsTOTmas is the great favorite of
advertisers, because they know that it is the
best advertising medium to he had.
ThO'Sad intelligence reaches us that the
venerable and universally beloved ex-Govem-
or Andrew B. Moore, of Marion, Ferry coun
ty, Alabama, died on the 5th instant.
Ho settled in Alabama poor and unknown,
and started life as a teacher of an old-field
school, an honorable calling, in which he was
succeeding, when ho determined to turn his
attention to the law. In this profession his
tree noble and well directed efforts were
rewarded by place prominence and "power.
His truthfulness, that never faltered, his in
tegrity, the well spring of every thought
word and act of his life, his steadfastness of
purpose, overcoming obstacles that would
appall ordinary men,|hi3suivity of manners,
and gentleness of heart, s'amped him a true
and refined gentleman.
Twice, in succession, he filled the guberna
torial chair of the State of Alabama, and
each term he proved himscU equal to the im
portant duties, for as a public officer he was
uniformly urbane, obligim- and courteous,
winning for himself hosts ot friends by the
manner in which he discharged his delicate
and difficult duties.
In every walk of life he so deported him
self as to clicit,nothing save encomiums from
all who knew him, and the people of Ala
bama with one voice will testify to tho gener
ous qualities and private virtues of the social
and moral nature of Andrew B. Moore.
Tbe Governor’* Proclamation.
We call the special attention of onr read
ers to tbo proclamation of Governor Smith,
which appears in our columns to-day. We
are glad to see that His Excellency has fol
lowed, in this ab'c paper, the suggestion we
made some days ago in publishing his invlta
tloa to other States to scud delegates hero
that he would extend the same invitation to
the Mayors and incorporated towns in onr
own State. This is as it shonld be, and we
hope the cities will respond to it unanimously.
It is seldom that in the history of State or
country an opportunity such as tho one now
before Georgia is offered. She stands upon
the threshold of wealth and influence, and if
she fails to grasp it the opportunity maybe
lost to her for ever. The Governor points
oat the fact and the result—the cause ot
the great evils under which the
country suffers and its cure in terms so con
cise, so pointed and so clear “ that ho who
runs may read.” Indeed, we unhesitatingly
pronounce this proclamation the ablest State
paper that has emulated from the Executive
Department for many years. In it no words
are added. It goes directly to the point
aimed at and with a force of reasoning that
carries conviction withont an effort. It is
very dear that the Governor has grasped the
whole subject, which ho treats with so much
good common sense and judgment He
places himself in the front rank as the advo
cate of this grand movement and we confess
that the paper before ns gives us great addi
tional confidence in his ability as a leader.
PANIC IN A CHVBCH.
Terrible Scene ns Trenton —The
Killed and Injured.
From the Mew York World ]
Trenton, N. J., March 31.—The univer
sal sorrow that pervades the community at
the loss of Father John P. Macken was
shown by the-hundreds that thronged the
St. John’s Catholic Church this morning long
before the hoar announced for the commence
ment of the funeral services. They belonged
to every class, represented every denomina
tion. At 10 o clock there were fnlly 2,000
people in the building, and looking over the
sea of heads not a spot, excepting immediate
ly around the altar, could be seen where it
was passible that the smallest child could be
wedged in. They were packed in the aisles
like sardines, the pews were jammed, people
sat in each other's laps, while in many cases
men with goodly sized children held them in
their arms because there was no room else
where for them.
It still lacked a half an hear of the timet
for the opening of the services, and tbe mul-
titndes continued swarming towards tbe
church, even though they met others coming
awsy, and knew that there was not one
chance in a thousand of placing a foot within
the door. Checked here they continued con
gregating on the outside until the broad
marble steps were covered, the yard filled,
the pavement thronged, and the street al
most blockaded.
At twenty minutes past ten a woman in
the gallery on the sonth side sank upon her
knees and uttered a prayer. As her weight
touched the kneeling board it gave out a
sharp crack as if it were splitting, when an
other woman in the body of the church ut
tered a Might scream. At the same instant a
man leaned over and called oat to those be
neath to hurry out aa the galleries were giv
ing away. A scene of the most frightful de
scription then followed. Women screamed,
men shonted, and hundreds made a frenzied
rush for the doors. They came pouring
down the galleries, tumbling over each other,
ill struggling ia a wild despairing effjrt to
get into the open Mr. Those with
•ooler heads, who saw that there, was
not the slightest danger, shouted to
the crazy hundreds to keep their seats,
and Father Smith, with a voice that rose
above the din like that of a trumpet, told in
a few words the innocent cause of the terrible
fright, and besought them to calm themselves
and save the scores of lives that were now
imperilled. But it was useless, so far as hun
dreds were concerned. Converging at the
doors, the crowds became wedged fast, so
that for a few minutes they were immovable
as the solid pillars beside them. Jot the
pressure in the rear became tremendous, and
the panting victims, caught S3 i; were be
tween the upper JuaLnether grindstone, still
furiously essayed to free themselves, until a
break wgs. made, and out the black line was
driven headlong, the men, women and chil
dren flying and rolling hither and thither, as
if driven by a caiapmt.
On tbe outside the panic-stricken men
were Struggling to get in, and the strife at
the door was terrific. Amid, tbe horrid din
the cry of fire was raised, and the ringing of
bells brought the engines thundering toward
the spot, while the aerrams of women, the
cries of children, aod the frantic running to
and fro of those who hid friends snd rela
tives within doomed, as they believed, to the
most awful cf deaths, helped to make a per?
feet pandemonium e.f the lime.
Among the first driven out of. one of the
doorswa3 a womin^jvho, UDablc to keep her,
feet, pitched over the marble steps, and the
others came tumbling over and upon her.
Faster and faster they ponred out, and higher
and higher they piled. Herculean men made
desperate efforts to free themselves from the
writhing mass, but ere they could do so they
were buried out of sight by those who rolled
over upon them. Two men caught a friend
by his arms and puffed until they had to
cease through fear 61 dislocating his limbs,
snd these powerful men were unable to
budge him an inch.. O thei s swarmed through
the windows, and one woman was twice
caught and restrained from leaping out ot an
upper window upon the pavement below.
By and by the disintegration of the black,
seething pile on tha marble steps began. At
the very base of the pile was dragged out a
woman, frighlfattr bruised, bleeding and
senseless. “Dead F gasped the appalled spec
tators, but a brawny man, in rubbing the
blood from her face, felt the throbbing at the
temple, and she wits hurriedly carried across
the street, where evety attention-was given
her. A little girl was tsken from the pyra
mid of crazed beiogs ana laid upon a settee,
white, gasping and dying. A boy,
the son of Mrs. Evans, had his arm
broken, and received such a concus
sion of the brain that he is likely to die. Tho
mother herself wsS also injured, bat not dan
gerously. These two children lsy in the en
try ot Father Smith's house, immediately ad
joining the church. Another little girl lay
unconscious in the shoe store of Mr. Shields
near by, and was not recognized until neon,
when her sorrowing mother, Mrs. Carlisle,
carried her away to her home. A second
girl, namedM*ggio Mnffauy, was also carried
into Mr. Shield's store. The wife of Mr. Ben
jamin Stokes was con veyed home, where her
attending physician, Dr. Woolverton, pro
nounced her injuries of a dangerous charac
ter. A few hours later she died, after
intense suffering. A very old lady,
Mrs. Bridget Clstk, was badly hurt, as were
two sisters named Dissair, residing nearby.
Mis. Richard Cask lies in acriticil condition
from internal injuries, and among the other
sufferers are Mrs. Anna Roche, Mrs. Frank
Katterson.'Miss Winifred Cullen, Miss Julia
Singerland, and a boy named Samuel Black.
Scores of others received injuries of a less
serious nature. The lives of some four or
five are still despaired of, and the badly
wounded over a dozen. The injuries of most
being internal it is as yet impossible to state
how many cases will result fatally.
In consequence: of this sad accident the
funeral ceremoffies were greatly curtailed.
Right Reverend A. M. Corrigan, Bishop
elect for the Diocese of Newark, together
with more than sixty priests from that and
other secs, were iu attendance. The funeral
oration was omitted, and will he given one
month from the date of Father Mackin’s
death, and the office of the dead was
also deferred until that time. When
the absolution was given by tho Bish
op eight clergymen were detailed to con
vey tbe remains to their ffnM resting place,
in the enclosure in front of the church, where
a brick vault hod been prepared Jot their re
ception. After depositing the casket in the
crypt and the last impressive prayer being
given, the solemnprocession moved back into
tbe churb, wheroYt was dismissed.
The Atlantic Disaster,
The papers continue to bring us new de
tails of the great Atlantic disaster.
We find the following:
Harrowing details of the awful scenes at
tending tha los^of the steamship Atlantic,
continue to be received. All the women who
were asleep at the time the ship struck, were
drowned in their berths, the heavy sets
which constantly ponred over the vessel and
filled her, preventing them from reaching
deck. Some women who showed remarkable
presence of mind and appreciation of the aw
ful situation, only reached deck to be washed
into the sea and drowned. One woman, fol
lowing tbe example of the sailors and stronger
male passengers, Jookto the rigging, and was
lashed there to step her from beiog swept
away. She froze to death in that position
soon after. Six men on shore wrote on a
black-board, "cheer up, boats are coming to
yonr assistance,” and the announcement was
responded to with hearty cheers from the
ship. After half an hour of awful suspense,
men were seen on the island carrying
a boat over the rocks, and soon it
was launched and took off three boat
loads from the ontiying rock. While
rescuing those men. Captain Williams and
the passengers cHied loudly to the crew of
the beat to come to the ship and take them
off first, as they were ih most imminent
danger, the captain saying, “ I will give fire
hundred dollars^prevery boat load rescued.”
The boat afterwards made for the vessel and
took off two boat loads. Half an hoar later
another boat came and r.scued many of
those clinging to the rigging. Third officer
Brady, who had succeeded in reaching
shore over a line carried from the vessel by
himself, organized a crew and materially
aided in the work of rescue.
i. BOV’S FRANTIC STBCOCLE FOB LIFE.
The little fellow, tho- only child saved
from the wreck, ran upon the deck with the
stream of passengers when the first alarm
was given. His parents and other members
of bis family were stiff below and evidently
perished. When the Mtip filled and fell over
on her tide, hustled about among that strug
gling mass of excited humanity, the piteous
screams of the poor iitlle fellow went to the
stoutest hearts. He had leaped upon the
back of one of the men in hopet of saving
himself, but in that fearful crisis, when every
body was intent upon saving themselves, few
paid attention to the wants of a boy, and the
man upon whose back ho was clingiegAS if for
bare life, made several ineffectual attempts
to shake the boy off. The ones of tbe boy at
last attracted the Captain, who, perceiving
the tenacious manner in which he was strug
gling for life, called oat to men who were
surrounding the lines that led to the rock
and safety, to endeavor, if possible, to save
the boy, and the poor little fellow was imme
diately passed over the heads of the strug
gling mass of beings and placed in a boat.
Men who were exerting themselves to save
their own and other lives wept almost for
joy as they saw the brave little lad safely
landed on shore.
Weallnded the other day in onr comments
to tho criminal negligence of Captain Will
iams. This has been confirmed by his own
statement as evidenced in the following:
Reporter—To what cause do you ascribe
the disaster?
Captaia—I can hardly tay, unless it was
because we had overrun our distance. I
thought we were going about eleven knots,
but the speed must have been greater, or we
never could have got so far out of onr coarse.
Is it not a horrible reflection that five or
six hundred lives were sacrificed be cause a
Captain of a ship "Uumgit” instead of as
certaining matters connected with his doty.
There is bat one penally for such men.
They deserve the doom of murderers. The
severest punishment of tho law for the sac
rifice of human life, should be visited upon
them.
Personal Hems
Darwin is a bachelor.
Miss Anna Dickinson has received 2,000
begging letters in one year.
The Dnkc of Edinburgh has been playing
the fiddle in a London orchestra.
Hon. A. S. Welch, President of the Iowa
Agricultural College, has been tendered the
Presidency of the Arkansas University at
Fayetteville.
Cbatles Fratcis Adams' account as arbitra
tor for the United States at the Geneva tri
bunal has just been closed at Washington.
He received $22,500 in gold for justonc year’s
service. ^ ^
GF.ORGIi AND THE VIENNA ExPf 8ITI0N.—
The Governor has appointed no commis
sioner from Georgia to the Vienna Exposi
tion. What Governor Smith’s reasons were
for not appointing each a commissioner, wc
do not know. As the matter stands, however,
it is probable that the production of the Em
pire State will not be represented in the
great World’s FMr. This is csrtainly to be
deplored, as a good opportunity will be lost
for making known to foreign countries some
of the vast resources of our State.—Augusta
Constitutionalist.
‘‘Miss Becky Newton.” — —,,—«»- -g-
“ Well, sir.”
**WiU you many me?”
“No, I won’t.”
“Very well; then don’t, that’s all.”
Mr. Fred Stinson drew away his chair,
and putting his feet up on thepiazza, unfold
ed a newspaper. Miss BeckyNewton hither
lip and went on with her sewing. She won
dered if that was going to be the lost of it
She had felt this proposal coming for nearly
a month, but the scene she had anticipated
was not at MUike this.- She had intended to
refuse him, but it was to be done gracefully.
She was to rcmai-i firm, notwithstanding his
most eager entreaties. She was to have told
him that though icspecling his manly worth
and upright character, she could never be to
him more than an appreciative and earnest
friend. She had intended to shed a few
tears, perhaps, as he knelt writhing in an
agony of supplication at her feet. Bat in
stead he had asked her the simple question,
withont any rhetorical cmbelishments, and
on being answered, had plunged at once into
his newspaper, as though ho had werely in
quired the time of day. "She could have
cried with vexation. <:
“ You will never have a better chance,” he
continued after a pause, as he deliberately
turned over the sheet to find the telegraph
reports.
“A better chanco for what?” she asked
shortly.
A better chance to marry a young good
looking man, whose gallantry to the sex is
only exceeded by his bravery in their de
fense.” Fred was quoting from his newspa
per, but Miss Newton did not know it.
“And whose egotism is only exceeded by his
impudence,” retorted the lady, sarcastically.
“Before long,” continued Fred, “you will
be out of the market. Yonr chanco, yon
know, arc getting slimmer every day.”
“It won’t b3 a great while before you are
ineligible. You will grow old and, and ”
“Such rudeness to a lady, sir, is monstrous,’
exclaimed Miss Newton, rising hastily, and
flushing to the temples.
“I’ll give you a final oppirtonity,Miss
Becky. Will you mar ”
“Not if you were the Kit g of England,”
interrupted Miss Newton, throwing down her
work. “I am not accustomed to such insults,
"r”
And so saying she passed to the house and
slammed the door behind her.
She is never so handsome as when she is
in a rage,” thought Fred to himself,after she
had gone, as he slowly folded up his paper
and replaced it in his pocket. “ I wss a fool
to goad her so. I shall never win her in that
way. But I’ll have her,” he exclaimed aloud-
•* By Heaven, I’ll have her. cost whet it
may I”
Very different was the Fred Eckerson of
the present, pscing nervously up end down
the piazza, from Fred Eckerson of a few mo
ments ago, receiving his dismissal from the
woman he loved, with such calm and impure
tnrbable exterior. For he loved Becky New
ton with all his heart. Tbo real difficulty i-
the way, as he more than half suspected, wan
not so much with himself ns in his pockets
Becky Newton had an insupcrabte objection.
to an empty wallet.
The daughter of n wealthy Louisiana
planter, reared in luxury and the recipient of
a weekly allowance of pin money sufficient
to pay Fred’s whole hills for a month, she
had no immediate idea of changing her situ-
ation for one of less comfort and independ
ence. Besides, it had been intimated to her
that a neighboring planter of unusual aristo -
cratic lineage had looked upon her with
covetous eyes. To be sure, he was old and
ugly, but he was rich, and in her present
mercenary state of mind,- Miss Becky New
ton did not desire to allow such a chanco of
becoming a wealthy widow slip by unim
proved.
Bat alas for human nature! If Becky
really was so indifferent to Fred Eckerson,
why did she run up-stairt after that inter
view, and take the starch all out of her nice,
clean pillow-shams by crying herself into
hysterics on the bed. It was not all wrath,
not all vexation, it waa not ail pique. There
was somewhere deep down in Becky Ncw-
Becky was silent again. It is a matter of
soma doubt whether, had Fred at that mo
ment. sitting astride that cotton word log
with his feet in the water andhis arm around
her waist, proposed to her a second time, she
would have accepted him or'not To be
snre a marvelous change haa come over
Becky’s fcMiags sinee her tumble into the
river She felt just then that one strong arm
like that which supported her was worth a
thousand old anti decrepid planters, and she
recognized the fact that a man who could
talk so cooly and unconcernedly in a situa
tion of such extreme peril, was one of no or
dinary courage. But she was not yet quite-
prepared to give up her golden dreams. Tho
dross was not quite washed out of her soul,
snd she did not yet know how much she
loved Fred Eckerson. Besides she did not
half believe him.
The ciuuisy vessel floated on, now root first,
now sideways, and now half submerged be
neath the boiling current. Their precarious
hold became more uaccrtaia as their frames
became chilled by tbe cold water, and every
plunge of the log threatened to cast them
once more Into the river. In vain Fred en
deavored to attract the attention of someone
on the other shore. The cottonwood retained
a course nearly lathe middle of the stream,
too far from cither bank to render their out
cries of much avMl. As it grew dark their
situation grew more and more hopeless, and
to Becky there appeared to be no escape from
death, either by drowning in the darkness or
by exhaustion before daybreak.
Yet, to-die in this man’s arms seemed not
wholly a terror. Sho cou'd hardly think, if
death most come, of any way in which she
wonld rather meet it. Was it possible sho
loved him, and most needs he brought with
in tho valley of the Bhadow befbre she could
know her heart. Had she loved nil along?
While she was thinking altont It, chilled by
the night air, sho fell asleep. When she
awoke the stars were out, but sho was warm
and comfortable. Raising her head, she
found herself enveloped in Fred’s coat.
“Fred!”
“Weill’
“Youhave robbed yourself to keep
warm. You are freezing.”
“No I ain’t. I took it off because it was
so awful hot,” and taking out his handker
chief with his disengaged hand ho mado a
pretence of wiping the perspiration from his
brow.
“ How long have I been asleep ?”
“ About three hours. Wo arc drifting In
shore now.”
Shill we be saved ?”
I don’t know. Pot your arms around my
neck, for I’m going to take mine away."
Becky did this tlmo as she was hidden.
She not only threw her arms quickly fc round
his neck, but she laid her head upon his
breast without the slightest hesitation. In
the darkness Fred did not know that she im
printed a kiss upon his shirt bosom.
’’Hold fast nowV! ho cried. “Hold on, for
A WALL STREET WALTZ.
Gold Dances Up to 1181-2 and
Back to 117 1-2.
Exciting Scenes^ Among tbo Gold
-- *■-**■.- GaiublctF*
Rise of Seven Per Gent. In Gold During
Two Months.
Tho movement and Its moaning.
A Btoby with a Moral.—A story it told
of a French gentleman who, having lost the
balk of his property throagh the rascalities
of his ftisnds whom he trusted, crowned it
all by the loss of his mental balance, and for
the remainder of bis days found his only de
light in riding in omnibuses and passing the
fares from the passengers to the driver, taking
care when change was returned to add to it a
sou or two from his own pockef, and watch
the effect on the receiver. In nine cases out
of ten r as the story goes, the passenger,
coanting over his change, and finding, as he
snoposed, that the driver bad cheated himself,
wonld look bewildered for a moment,and then
packet the change with a quiet chuckle. The
special delight of the lunatic was in satisfy
ing himself in this way that nine-tenths of
his fellow-men were dishonest, if they only
had the opportunity.—N. 7. Tribune, Ed;
Umiak '*" 5 " ‘
ton’s heart, a fcellog very much like remorse.
She was not very sure she would not some
day be sorry for what she hsd done. She
had no doubt she conld be very happy as
FredEckerson’a wife after all.
“But then,” she cried, growing hot with
the recollection, “I never could livo with sue i
a m:n—never!"
When Fred Eckerson had walked off some
of his feelings on the piazza, he concluded to
take a look at tie river. The Mississippi,
which flowed within five hundred yards of
the hoasc, was at the time nearly at the
height of its annual “6pring risj ” Its turbid
waters, ruthing toward the sea, nearly filled
its banks, ana ia many, places had broken
through the levees and flooded the
lower lands for many miles. A crev
asse of- this description had been made
in the farther bank, nearly opposite the
house, and the Newton mansion com
manded a view of a vast and glittering in
land set, not laid down on the maps. The
main current of the stream bore upon its
coffec-colorcd besom an enormous mass of
floating timber, which was dashed along in
the boiling flood, rendering navigation wholly
impossible. The waters were still rising,
and the frequent crashes far and near told of
the underminiag_ power of tho current, ns
sections of the sandy banks succumbed and
disappeared, carrying with them the trees
which overhung the stream.
“Now, it happened that by a curious coin
cidence.Uiss Newton alto resolved to look at
the river. She dried her tears, and putting on
her hat, slipped out at the back door to avoid
Fred, snd soon fonnd herself at the foot of a
huge cotton-wood tree on the bank below the
house. Throwing herself upon the grass,
and lulled by tho babbling of the rapid flood
beneath her, she sooa fell fast asleep, nad
she possessed any power of. foreseeing the fa-
ture, it would have been the last thing she
would have done, for although it was very
pleasant dropping asleep there in the shade,
with the soft sunlight flittering through the
leaves overhead, the awakening was not at Ml
to her mind. .A terrible crash made chaos of
her dreams; the ground slipped from be
neathher; the tall cotton-wood toppled and
fell; and Miss BeckyNewton found herself
suddenly immersed in the cold flood, with
her mouth full of muddy water. In a mo
ment more, somebody's arm was around her
and she felt herself lifted up and placed
somewhere in tho sunshine; though precisely
where, she was as yet too 'bewildered to
know. Getting her eyes open at last, she
found Fred Eckerson’s whiskers nearly brush
ing her face.
“ Well r
“Weill”
“Where ami?” asked Becky, shivering
and looking around her.
“In the.middle of the Mississippi,” re
plied Fred,” and yon are in the fork of
motion wood-tree and yon are voyaging t
ward the Golf of Mexico just as fast as this
fieshet can carry you.”
“How come you here!”
“ In the same conveyance with yourself,
Miss Becky. In fact, you and I And the tree
all came together, to say nothing of a por
tion of your father’s plantation, which I
fear, is lost to him forever.” ■
Becky was silent She was thinking, not
of the accident or tbo perilous position, but
of her appearance when she wss lying asleep
on thegrass.
“ How long were yon there before this hap
pened ?” she asked.
“As long as yon were. I was np in the
tree when yon came.”
“Youhad no right to be there,” she said,
coloring—“a spy upon my movements.”
“Nonsense!” be replied. “You intruded
on my privacy, and while you slept I watched
over yon, like the sweet little chernb that sits
up aloft”
“Thank you for the service, I’m sure,” she
sMd bridling.
“You snored awfully.”
“ Mr. Eckerson, remove your arm from
my waist”
“ Then put yours around my neck.”
“ Indeed I will do no such thing.”
“ Yon will fall into the river if you do
not”
Becky was silent for several moments,
while their nnwieldly craft whirled along the
current, rolling from side to side and threat
ening every instant to tarn completely over
and tip them ott. At last she said—
What are we to do?”
I think, now that I am started, I shall
go on to New Orleans,” he replied.
“ To New Orleans,” exclaimed Becky. “ It
is a hundred miles.”
Yes, and the chances for a free passage for
such a distance is not to be neglected. Yon
can go ashore if yon prefer.”
8be burnt into tears.
“You are cruel,” she said, “to treat mo so."
“Cruel!” exclMmed Fred, drawing her
closer to him, quickly—“cruel to yon
There wss no help for it, and she again re
lapsed into silence, quite content, apparently,
to remain in Fred’s arms, and evincing now
□o disposition to rebel. For once in her life
she was dependent on a man.
“ I want to go toNew Orleans,” continued
Fred, and after a pause, “ because there is a
young lady of my acquaintance residing
there, whom I have on intention cf inviting
into this neighborhood-”
“O!”
“If we don’t go to New Orleans, and if we
get ont of this scrape, I shall write for her
to come awsy.”
“Ah!” . ,
“ I shall obtain board for her ia St Jean,
which will be convenient for me as long as
I remain your father's guest I can ride
over after breakfast every morning, you see.”
“She is an intimate friend, then,” said
Becky.
“I expect to many her before long,” he
replied.
“Marry her I Why, you—you proposed
to me this morning.”
“Yes, but yon refused me. I told yon
then you would never have another chance.”
yonr dear life 1
The log had been gradually nearing the
shore for some time, and it now shot sudden
ly under a largo sycamore which overhung
the bank ana trailed its branches in the
brown flood. Quick as thought Fred seized
the limb above bis head, and pulled with all
his might The headlong course of the cot
tonwood was checked; it plunged heavily an d
partly turned over, its top became en
tangled in tho Bycamoro, and a terrific crack
ling of limbs ensued. With a sudden spring
Fred gained the projecting branch, dragging
his clinging burden with him. In another
instant the cottonwood had broken awav and
continued its voyage down the river, while
the bent sycamore regained its shape with
such a rebound that two travelers were very
nearly precipitated into the stream again.—
Fred, naif supporting, half dragging Becky,
worked his way to tho trunk by a series of
gymnastics that would have done no discred
it to Blondin, and in a moment more both
had reached the ground in safely.
“Thai’s a business we are well out of,” he
sMd when he had regained his breath. “Now
where are wo?”
He looked about. A light was glimmering
behind them, a short distance from where
they stood. Becky conld not walk withont
great pain, and Fred lifted her lightly In his
arms and started for the honse. It proved
to be the dwelling of a small planter who
was not lacking m hospitality. Hero their
wants were quickly attended to, and under
the chcertDg influence of warmth and shel
ter, Becky was soon herself again.
They drove home the following day, Fred
having procured the loan of tho planter’s
horse and chaise for that purpose, promising
to return them by Mr. Newton’s servant the
day after. The morning was bright and
clear, and the fragrance of the orange groves
waa in all the air. Becky, who had main-
tMned Mmost utter silence since their escape
from tho cottonwood, was no less silent now.
Fred himself did not appear particularly
communicative, and many miles of tho long
ride were taken without a remark from
either. It was Becky who spoke first
“Fred 1” she said.
“Yes.”
“ You have saved my life, have you not ?"
“ Happy to do it any day,” be sMd, not
knowing exactly what else to tay.
“ I thank you very much.”
“ Quite welcome, I am sure.”
There was another long silence, broken
only by the sound’of the bone's hoof upon
the road. Fred himself seemed to It ire lost
some of his habitual case, for he kept his
whip in constant motion, and held the reins
nervously.
“Fed?"
“Yes."
“Are you going to write to that young
lady in New Orleans?"
“la’poseaa”
“Had’nt you—better—try aeaiu—btfore
you write?”
He turned his eyes full upon her, and
opered them wide;
“ Try again ? Try what ?”
“ I’ve been thinking through the night,"
said Becky, bending low to hide her face and
carefully separating the fringe of her man
tilla, “ that—perhaps—if you asked me again
the same question—that you did yesterday
morning—I might answers little—different”
“Becky’s head went against Fred’s
shoulder and her face became immediately
lost to view.
“ You darling!” he exclaimed, “I never
intended to do otherwise. The young lady
iu New Orleans was wholly a myth. But
when, may I ask, did yon change your
mind f*
- “1 have never changed it,” she murmured.
“I have loved you all the time, but never
knew it until last night.”
And to this day, when Mrs. Becky Ecker
son is asked where it was that she tell in love
with her husband, she answers, “ On a Log.
Cheap Coal for Georgia-—Tho
Remedy.
In a recent issuo we had occasion to reply
to an article in the Atlanta Herald headed
“ Toe State Road Question and the Chatta
nooga Times." In its issue of the 8d instant
The Atlanta Constitution extracts from
the Times so much of its reply as pointed
ont the doty of the press-of the Sonth to
unite in a demand on their railroAs to con
tribute each a pro rata ot coal cars for the
Southern coal trade.
The Constitution has grown, and is to-
day one of the leading newspapers of Geor
gia, if not in the South, for the reason that it
has uniformly pursued a line of policy in
reference to the development of tbe resources
of the South calculated to repair the ruin and
destruction of the late war.
In matters affecting the future of Atlanta,
it haa always been regarded as conservative,
but independent
We hope that the independent journals of
the South will promptly move in this matter
of coal cars. Let the recent letter ot Ex-
Governor Brown be obtained and read by
the newspaper men of the South. It explains
the whole subject, and demoslrates the im
portance of tuis move more ably than can be
done by any one not conversant with the de-
taila of railroad management.
Let The Constitution and other Southern
papers call on Gov. Brown, Mr. King, Mr.
Wadley, Col. Hnlburt, George Hazlehnret,
and other leading railroad men of the Bomb,
for letters on this subject. Let these several
gentlemen explain to the coal consumers of
the South whether, by an increase of <»al
cars and the establishment of regular coal
trains, the price of this necessary cannot he
reduced one half, to the people of the South.
The Constitution docs not think proper
to entrust to its readers that part of the arti
cle in which the Times sets forth the best
and most certain remedy for the evils now
attending the coal supply of the South, viz
the building of tho N. & S. G. R. R. from
Coiambus, Ga., to Chattanooga. Is The
Constitution afraid to have its readers dis
cuss the propriety of Atlanta uniting with
Chattanooga to build this road? Or does it
prefer tohaTS ua wait for ayear or two until
we are forced to look elsewhere?
More than one monopoly is endeavoring to
get control of this line. It is now thought
that if we will combine with a monopoly,
whose interests is adverse to Atlanta, that we
can “sell ont" and bnild it. There ii less
trouble about charters than most of the Geor
gia people are aware.
Our people believe that they can now con
trol some matters which may be used for our
benefit We feel unwilling to “sell ont” to
any of the present monophes. We think our
interest is to build independent But we
want the road. It is to onr interest to have
the control in the hands of the people and
the cities on the route and at the termini.
Bat if we find that we are compelled to do
so to build the road, we will “sell ont" to
whom we can, and on the best terms to Chat
tanooga.—Chat'anooga Times.
New* Cendeaaed.
Paris will pnt a tax on chesnnts.
Chicago owes non-residents $15,060,000.
Women help to pave the streets in Russia.
Fifteen women bave been made electors in
Windham, Conn.
St. Louis will erect an engine for its water-'
works to cost $280,000.
A OBAJiSraATBB
I do bo* a**, O Lord, that Wcxtatflto
For one thing only, Lcrd, dear Lord, I plead,—
Lc :d me wr'phi,
Thouth ftrcnRth ehould falter, and though te
ehould bleed, J „
Through Peace to Light..
I do not ack. O Lord, that Thou should*?*, ehed
Full radiance here;
Give hut a nr of peace, that 1 may tread
Without a fear.
I do not se£ my crcsa to understand,
*y way tnaec.
Better tu darkne** Jaat to feel Thy hand
And follow Thoc.
Joy la like reatleta day; bit peace dirite.
Lead me, o LoSftupcrfoct d«y shall ehine
■■ Ti Through Peace to Light.
From the New York Be aid.]
. Gold made many men-aick yesterday; it
has been making the business interests of the
country siek since tho middle of January*
The “buffs” have sncceeded in raising the
prico of the precious metal in two months
over seven per cent, ond yesterday they
climbed up another jound in the ladder.
A visit to the Gold Room recMled many of
those exciting scenes familiar to the seeker of
fortunes in slump. This royal road to ruin
was crowded with the gold cormorants, and
the dismal vestibule, strewn with paper frag
ments, foul with fetid Mr, and a shnek-pen of
superlative rank, contented tho chief tans of
the Wall Btrect Vox.
It was a field day. All tho scenery of a
great gold “spree” waa perfect at 2 r. u.
Around the circular railing enclosing the
little bronze fountMn whose pellncid jets of
water have so long fMlen into muddy srray
after gathering tho dust of the atmosphere,
was a crowd of sellers and buyers; they were
of all types—types of that hoarse-vo ced,
broad-shouldered, mustache-twisted being
whose business is gold.
A type enters. He wears a Bismarck col
lar, a blue scarf and a spring stylo silk hst,
snd, crowding through to the railing, ex
claimed, “A quarter million at 18|.”
A wild roar of voices follow at I8J, and the
typo moves frantically about the vestibule,
notebook in hand, seeking purchasers at his
own figures. The telegraph instrument
clicks; those fatM figures which have driven
so many men to wealth or poverty change,
and gold ia quoted at 1184.
What a howl follows. The sht Lkcrs, rising
on their tees, seek for a new note in the hu
man voice. They extend their hands, as if
they were expounding Ihe most exciting
passage in war declamation, while the typi-
cM broker puts forward bis longest arm and
proclMms,
“$275,000 AT 18J!”
He docs not neglect to turn his long white
hand over several times, snd himself bestow
glances ot silent admiration upon its form
and whiteness, while the indicator moves
back to 118), and he advances the price of
his coin. During his transaction below two
roneb, farmer-like men in the gallery discuss
their profit and loss.
“ Giv* orders to sell, I tell yon, then you’ll
know how you stand to-night. Don't yon
see, the price will tumble and fall down be
low 18 to-night ?”
“ Yea, built must go up.”
“ Sell, sell, sell, I tell youl”
Another matt staggers into the gallery and
begins to defy the roles by smoking, when a
peremptory voice from the gold pit issues
“ Put out that cigar 1”
The shriekera stop—they always stop for
a little fun—and when the pursued drops his
cigar the auction proceeds
There is one tall, smart character there
who'deserves immortality if he always howls
as he did yesterday—the crier. He is a per
fect artist on calling names, and so are the
weary, toil-worn clerks whout in the tribune
and relapse so handsomely into fashionable
lassitude—artists in sighs and yawns What
a wearisome occupation is theirs, to listen to
tho shouting of millions; to witness the
momentary transfer of fortnnes, to behold
the poor become rich and the humble become
arrogant; and yet, like the apple woman in
the streets, live from day to day their same
routine lives I But every interest was repre
sented in the Gold Room yesterday. The
curbstone brokers who aro content to accept
a commission of one-third-seoond of one
per cent for their operations; tbe ill-dad
countryman who sells out his farm for a few
thousand dollars, and comes to tho city with
Ml his baggage in a small hand parcel, in the
hope that he may become a Daniel Drew or
a Jim Fisk, as he has read the
stray of thoirtise in the vamped-up weeklies
the victim of several failures who goes to
“the street” to regMu a fortune which he has
thrice lost in the counting room; the heavy,
bold operator, to whom such adique move
ment as that of yesterday ia a mere rij '
and the silent, thoughtful gatherer of
daily balances, whose capital is bii skill
in detecting the careless admission of those
around him—these were a few of the men
who made the Gold Room echo and ring..- It
ia a 3tudy to look down from the gallery
’ daring one of these field days and measure
the brokers bdow, wild in their excitement,
irrepressible in their fun and quick to catch
tho bid or offer of every fresh operator who
dishes up to the railing. It is their “ circu,”
now; but how long will it continue? The
first gentleman who expressed himself to the
reporter stood in front of the Stock Exchange
in Broad street.
“ What docs this movement mean?”
“It means simply this, that it is a clique
movement to put up the price of gold in or
der to counteract the moral effect of the an
nouncement of tho Treasury sale of $6,000,-
000or gold.”
“Then it ha* uo bottom to it?”
“None at Ml, in my opinion. Yon know
as well as I do about the matter, though."
Leaving this highly intelligent and well-
informed business man, the reporter called at
thehonscof Jay Cooke & Co., and enjoyed a
brief conversation with a gentleman who has
a reputation for rare sagacity in the street
“Yon believe that this movement is influ
enced by the announced Treasury sale?”
“ Not.at all. If the Secretary had ordered
the sale of four or right millions of gold, in
stead of six millions, tho result wonld have
been the same. The clique who have en
gineered this movement own nearly all the
gold in the street, and their object is to make
coin as scarce as possible.”
“ Then you believe it to bo an artificial
price—118J?”
“Purely so! The clique began to ’bull 1
gold about tho middle of January, when it
was about 11, and since that time the price
haa advanced seven per cent. But these evils
correct themselves and you may look for an
early return to natural vMues.”
“Ot course this is a great public evil ?”
“Certainly. They have taken advantage
of the existing state of the market to male
the advance of to-day."
“What do yon consider the immediate
cause of the advance?”
WASHINGTON WARBLINGS.
Thomas Hauck, The Consti
tution's Savage, Sends
Some Scalps.
The Salary Increase and the
Georgia Members’ Action.
The Radical Georgia Office Ring, and
How the Savannah Paper’* Wash
ington Man Didn't Rnnw
His Business.
THE BALTIMORE SCANDAL*
“That is impossible to say. They aro ac
cumulating gold because It makes bullion
•care*. Perhaps they are largely interested
in stocks. I notice the market is very weak
to-day.”
“Perhaps we shall have a grand collapse
“Oh,everything mustfettle sooner or later
in its normal condition.”
There were those who argued that the rise
waa due to the heavy importations and the
consequent demand of merchants for coin to
meet their obligations. However, this, the
present moment, is no favorable opportunity
to enter upon a career of gold speculation for
those who operate on “small margins.” A
season of ruin and disaster threatens, in
which the imMl fry, as usual, will most cer
tainly be consumed,- and in which the heavier
operators must make or break.
»■- Alabama New*.
Selma has musquitoes.
The Opelika Baptist College has over fifty
students.
Ex Governor Andrew B. Moore, of Marion,
died April 5th.
Montgomery bos her excellent market
building nearly finished.
From the 1st of Jonnaty to the 1st of
April, there were sold la Eufaula six hundred
and fifteen mules, and about two hundred
and fifty horses.
Captain J. 8. Ferguson, of Montgomery,
will deliver the an Dual oration at the cemet
ery for the Ladies’ Memorial Association ot
that city, on the 26th inst.
Tennessee News,
On the 1st of April Franklin was dam
aged $50,tOO by a twenty minute gala
On the 5th instant, It. W. Coleman, of
Memphis, killed his broter-in-law, John
Newell.
The Scwance Coal Mining Company ship
t an average fifty car-loads of coal per day.
The company cleared $30,000 last year.
The new iron manufacturing company
which are to be located at Conan, on the
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, has
been formally organized, with a paid capital
of $75,000 In addition to this, there are
Enixeriptions amounting to $150,0(0.
Washington, April 4,1873.
editors Constitution: The salary steM, like
an uneasy ghost, will not down, hut continues
to stalk, grim and ghastly between its perpo-
trators and future political preferment Tho
public has shown an interest in thi* matter
which it did not manifest with regard to tho
Credit Mobilier disclosures, and it iian inter
est which has not yet began to wane but still
continues to increase and intensify. This is
my excuse for returning^to the subject for the
third or fourth time. In a former letter I
gave the vote of the Georgia delegation on
the adoption of the conference on the leg.
la live, judicial and executive appro
priation . bill, in which the salary steM
was included. It is sMd, however, and
truly, that this could not be considered a test
vote, as their report covered not only thoaM-
ary bill, but a number of important measures
among them, the striking ont of tho Morrill
amendment. Therefore, the vote on tho
conference committee’s report was not a test
vote. On that occasion Hon. E. W.
Beck was recorded as not voting. Tho
fact was that he was not in his seat, by rea
son of a severe attack of neuralgia in his face,
from which he had suffered frequently and
severely daring the session. His previouj
recordon tha salary question leaves no room
for doubt, however, that he would have voted
against the report had he been present.
When the bill was before the House, discon
nected with any other measure, and standing
Mone upon its own merits, Mr. Beck voted
three times against it, as the record will show.
First, when offered by Butler, under a motion
to ^suspend tbe rules to bring it before the
House for debate; again, on a motion to re
consider ; and agMn, when, the motion to re
consider having prevMled, the biff was put
on its floM p ssage. On these several test
votes Messrs. Beck and McIntyre are recorded
in thenwativc, while in the affirmative are
Messrs. Dutiose, Price, Young, Bigby and
White’*/.
The country has perhaps been too hasty in
setting its seMof condemnation upon those
who voted to increase their own salaries.
For my part I am in favor, on general prin
ciples, of good salaries. The President, the
Judges, the heads of Departments, are clearly
entitled to more compensation than they hare
been receiving. And if competent clerks in
the employment ot the Government were
better paid, the work would be better and
more expeditiously done. To carry out this
reform, however, the incompentant and ut
terly useless clerks who now fill the depart
ments and retard rather than advance tho
E ublic business,mustlie dispensed with. At
aat fifty per cent, of the Government
employees do not do a fair day,s work in a
wSek. They are fastened upon the Depart
ments by politicians, and do nothing but
draw their pay and spoil slMioneiy. But
to return to the question | of Congress
ional pay. The point made by those
who advocated an increase was that
a Congressman could not live like a gentle
man on $5,009 per annum. In reality it was
$5,030 for less than six months Bcrvico—
equal to more than $10,000 per annum. Now,
how many Congressmen realize even $5,000
yearly from their business or professions?
Very few. Could Senator Sawyer, who wss
never mo;o than a school’teacher? The
mileage more than covered the cost of travel
to ana from the Capital, a liberal Mlowance
was made for stationery, and yet men who
had never earned $1,000 clear money a year
complMned that they conld not live from five
to six months in Washington on $5,000. Ot
course they could not expect to build brown-
stone mansions io cost $100,000, as Senator
Stewart is doing, or to give a bait at acostof
$10,000, or to keep hotsea and carriages. If
the country is to place Ml Congressmen on
anequU footing there is no telling where
this thing will end. Senator Spraguo ia esti
mated to be worth $2U.090,OJU. Most every
M. C. have an income to correspond with bia?
The facts and arguments are certainly Ml
against the salary steal, and I am sorry for
some of thoso who smirched their fingers
with it
THE GEORGIA BING.
Hon. E. W. Beck hit the ruil s qardy on
the head in his definition of the Georgia ring.
When the Radical and carpet-bag “ins” and
the RadicM and carpet-bag “onto” gel to
quarrelling among themselves, it is tha duty
of tbe conservative press to egg them on.
You remember the adage that “when thieves
fall out honett men get Utrir dues.” There
is still more or less mystery surrounding the
Georgia appointments. In one quarter you
are told that they were Ml confirmed, and in
another that they were not. Even the Asso
ciated Press, which has heretofore invariably
been fnntisbed w iih lists of appointments
and confirmations, wss left to grope in the
dark. Obviously there is some rascality be
hind Ml this, and that it will sooneror later
be brought to the light those concerned in it
may rest assured.
A TELL-TALE TRUNK.
Among a lot of second-hand articles before
a shop door I noticed to-day a medium-sized
canvass-covered trunk somewhat tho worse
for wear, which bore upon one end the in
scription “Mrs. Wm. N. Stewart,Virginia City,
Nevada." This trunk, therefore, belonged to
the wife of Senator Stewart, who, graduating
as a bull-driver, came to the Senate a com
paratively poor man. That be is a poor man
no longer, the $10,000 bMl which he gave
at Masonic Temple, not long einco, and a
$100,000 residence now in process of erection,
testify. Truly, it is a good thing to have an
Emma Mnic to sell to credulous English
men, and to be Chairman of the Committee
on Pacific Railroads The trank in question
doubtless held Mrs. Stewart’s entire wardrobe
when she came to Washington, but now a
half score of “Saratogas” are necessary for
the packing of her jewels, her vdvets, silks
and lsccs; and so the modest and well-worn
receptacle is discarded.
rs THERE A GEORGIA RING ?
A dispatch sent over the opposition line
and published in the Savannah papers, a few
days ago, denied the existence of the Georgia
office brokerage ring, and gavo a sweeping
contradiction to all statements concerning iL
To-day I find in the same papers, under date
April lit, a dispatch front the same source,
in wh'ch not only is the existence of suck a
ring admitted, but it is stated that proof baa
been famished the President of $1,400 hav
ing been pMd to a member of the ring by an
applicant for office. The sender of thcsedii
patches needs to make one more correction,
to accurately impart intelligence which wrs
communicated to Tng Constitution week
g o. For $1,400 read $400. snd then give
c name of Richard H. Wbitcley. Bit I
doubt whether it is worth while for him to
telegraph now from Washington facts which
The Constitution has already made note-
riotts.
THE SLANDER ON DALTUtORE SCHOOLS.
The Baltimore American has published
some sensational articles recently, and among
them one containiog a fool slander on tho
schools of that city. This was seized ope n
by the Washington correspondent of an At-
linta paper and grossly exaggerated. Tho lie
did not attract public attention in BilUmore
until it appeared in more reputable sheets
than that which gave it birth, but now It is
creating some excitement, and school princi
pals are hearing from the South on the tab-
jcck The whole story hthc fiigmentof a
diseased imagination, and not worthyof the
slightest credence. When cornered on tbo
subject, the American took bock the sweep
ing charges, and said it referred only to fe
male public schools in the eastern section of
the city, among a class of population whoso
needs might give opportunity for temptation.
The Southern papers which have unwillingly
given circulation to tho bascjcalumny, should
hasten to rectify the wrong they have done.
Tommy Hauck.
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