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ATLANTA, TUESDAY. MAY IS.
BetirnlsgilK Steal.
The tp^tle paid into the Colled Suits
Trestnr tip to noon of the 5th by tweotjr-
Kmmrmbtnof Coogre*s,Hbeing theirre-
torn of extra compensation, was $111,000, in
cluding a ehte't received from the Secretary
of the Sens'*, Gormio, on sctoool ol Sen-
«Uir Sumner for $1444
Uagitnei.
The charge of Geueral Pendleton that to
General LooRtlre- fa treachery at Gettysburg
iadne the Confederate defeat there is elicit
ing much comment. The most remarkable
commentary that tie bare read is that nude
by the SL Loots Republican. Il disbelieves
the charge, and adds:
“The question does not belong exclusively
to the South; it is national and historical;
" ‘ t the Cm-
I the
chief belongs
i whole’countryF
The Italics are oars They are ex'.inor
dinary words. Once, however, let the idea
embodied in them become the pervading
spirit of the North, and the “happy rehabili
tation” of the Union will be the result
for, sfrwspr as if may round of present the Cc
federate struggleseas a national event, and t
reputation of every Confederate thief bdm
to the whole country.”
James L. orr.
The telegraph brings ns the intelligence of
the probably fatal ibners of Oakes Ames, of
Credit Mobiiier notoriety, and of the death of
James L. Orr, of Sooth Carolina, United
States Minister to Russia.
Mr. Orr was a man of ability. He was
Governor and Judge in bis State, and for a
number of terms s Congressman. During
his Congressional career he was electtd
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
He dimned the lustre of his fame by bis
Padkalism. He had some good points, but
be was essentially a demagogue. He would
not steal, but be helped into power and sup
ported men who did. He was a cool, clear-
beaded, shrewd, but unscrupulous politician.
He defiled a very fair fame by political pros
titution.
tiasrilaMi Stay ns flame.
Those of our fanners who are dissatisfied
with Georgia, and think of going West, will
read with some benefit the following state
ments about Kansu, claimed to be the Eldo
rado of the West.
Can farmers thrive on such prices for pro
duce:
“An enormous crop was raised last year,
wheat excepted, and the people are all out of
money. Corn is fifteen cents a bushel, oats
eighteen cents, potatoes twenty cents, ground
crops you cannot sell at any price, and hay
can be had by the one thousand at two dol
lars a too. Only one branch of produce
'bolds up’—cattle—and most of the farmers
are holding on like grim death to what few
they have, as if the daily sight of them alone
prevented them from fteling the pangs of
conscious poverty.”
This is a fine, timely, able letter. The
whole West is stlime with the great theme
that Governor Woodson, of Missouri, in a
letter to Governor Carpenter, of Iowa, calls
“the great question of tbeday.viz: The best
and most practical means of attaining cheap
transportation between the interior of the
country and the Atlantic seaboard.”
Governor Smith offers the solution of the
mighty question.
Governor Woodson makes this startling
“The truth to, our agricultural interests
must languish, and our vast Western domains
lie waste, nnlets something can be done to
cheapen the coat of finding a way to market
for the products of our soil.”
Governor Woodson, after dir cutting the
matter at length, has this to say of our At.
lanta Convention:
"The Convention that is to meet in At
lanta, Ga, on the iOih of May, to consider a
measure, as yon are aware, very similar in
design and Intended effects to the one you
have at heart, will, I am satisfied, be very
fully attended, and I hope that important re-
salts will be reached by It. Now It occurs to
me that it would be well to bring the friends
of the Georgia and Iowa enterprises, as I will
term them, together. This can be done, I am
surr, by the adoption of a resolution by
the Convention at Atlanta, calling a
Convention lobe composed of delegates from
all the States of the Mississlppivalley, as
well as all the States represented at Atlanta
Let this Convention be held in September or
October, in the city or St Louis, and I ven
ture the opinion tnat it will be one of the
hugest and moat imposing bodies of men ever
assembled on this continent Let the farmer,
the mechanic, the merchant, and every inter
est in society be represented, and wh-n it
speaks, let it be regarded as the voice of the
people speaking authoritatively to Congress,
as well as to the Legislature, of all the Stabs.”
It will thus be sera that the Atlanta Con
vention will lie the great initial point.
Governor Smith is working up the matter
with admirable tact,sagacity anl energy,and
Georgia must reap a heavy reward from his
labors.
Ths condition of Georgia.
Contrasting the condition of Georgia now
with its condition during Radical rule, every
lover of the Commonwealth finds rich cause
for content and congratulation.
Every department of the State government
is in honest hands and vigoroualy and skill
fully administered. The executive, the judi
cial, the legislative, the municipal and the
county matters are directed by men in the
confidence of the people.
A wise, discreet, skillful hand stands at
the helm. Governor Smith is practical, dear-
headed, icsolnie and patriotic. An extraor
dinary exemption from crime mulls from
the rigorous administration of law. An able
and honest iudidary, from the Supreme
bench to the magistrates'courts, decides the
great questions of life and property.
The Legislature is died with representa
tives of the virtue, intelligence and wealth
of the State.
The good administration of public tffsirs
is seen in the general prosp rity of all classes.
Business flows in regular channels; all vo
cations are sue; cssful; a healthy tone per
vades all private callings; agriculture flour
ishes; bade grows; education progresses;
public spirit rhows itself in great public
ibr.l salt
VOLUME VI.I
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY. MAY 13, 1873;
INUMBER-
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AN INTERESTING WOMAN.
elfarson Davis.
TotteKdltorof thoDstroiTtTnIon.1
aany writers have devoted themselves to
mg us about the wives of great men. TYo
know something of most of them. Their
peculiarities and domestic virtues arc-recorded
and.safely preserved. But who will tell
heir swccthcar
of Ohio, and in 1858 was reelected by a
largely increased vote.
His career daring and since the war is too
well known to need recital. He entered
President Lincoln’s cabinet on bis induction
into office, as Secretary of the Treasury, from
which place be was translated to the Chief
Justiceship on the death of Roger B. Taney.
His Judicial duties took him from the field of
active political life; but his sympathies and
tendencies of late years have been decidedly
conservative. He was favored by some men
as the most available cindidate in opposition
to General Grant
He has been in feeble health for two or
three years. At one time his retirement from
public life was considered very probable.
No particulars of bis sadden death have
been received, except that the disease which
so long threatened his life, conquered the
strong man in the end, and that his daughters
were at bis side.
Mr. Chafe’a ruling passion was a desire to
fill the presidential office. It colored and
distorted bis whole career as a statesman.
Our readers will eatily recall his tour of the
Southern States—after his elevation to the
highest judicial position in the gift of bis
countrymen—and bis repeated addresses in
favor of negro suffrage. By forestalling
public sentiment on that question he hoped
to gain the prize that had thus far eluded his
grasp. And he never lost sight of his ambi
tion until thd first paralytic stroke, of a year
or more ago, physically deprived him of all
chance in the race. He has filled a large
space in the public eye during the last twenty
yearn; bat it is very difficult to judge how
the impartial historian will estimate his
services.
OUR UPSON COUNTY LETTEH.
Jaggs Ball-Bad Storm—Vegetation
Destroyed—Things.
Tbouasion, Upson Co., Ga ,)
May 6,1873. f
Editor* Constitution: Though away from
Atlanta, I feel at home, for regularly every
day I meet my daily viaitor, Tint Constitu
tion. It has a host of friends here. Many
read it who do not take it. They thiok it a
good stride to borrow.
Tbe Superior Court of Ibis county opened
this morning. The Judge (Judge Hall) is a
young man, but be is heyoad question in tbe
right place. He is prompt, firm and will
have order, and everybody who has soy thing
to do with bis court must be punctual and
ready. Ills charge to the grand jury was
plain, forcible and right to the point. He
dwelt with earnestness on the great wrong
of passing over unnoticed the carrying of
concealed weapons. Persons who did it
must be held responsible. It was tbeir doty
and they most indict them. He added, the
Legislature h*d considered the perni
cious practice of so grave an of
fense as to make it the special du
ty of the judges of the Superior Courts to
call their special attention to it. This por
tion of his charge was a subject of general
conversation. Being a stranger, I attentively
listened to what was said, and I am pleased
add. without exception, all fully
agreed with the wisdom of stopping the
habit, believing with him that much crime
and trouble would lie prevented. The Judge
being intcreated in nearly every ease on the
docket, he gave notice he would adj-ura
court on Wednesday until the last of July,
when Judge Buchanan would be there to
hold tbo court He is evidently a great fa
vorite with this people, not only a s'a man but
aa a lawyer.
There an two fine schools here, a malo and
female, and both are well attended.
Several new buildings arc going np and
one fine church (Baptist)
The crops generally look well in this im
mediate vicinity.
On last Thursday a severe hall storm paased
over a portion of this county and into Mon-
roe. I sat at the dinner table with many
farmers from the section it visited, and all
concurred in the statement that it was the
most terrific storm they ever witnessed, and
that the bail fell from 1 to 3 inches in length,
and if condensed would have been as big as
a nen or goose egg. In many places the gar
dens, corn, etc., were entirely destroyed and
here and there tbe leaves were torn from the
trees. Tbe storm occurred about 3 o’clock
is, and, daring its continuance, it was
almost as dark aa just be fore night.
Over 2,000 bales of cotton have been ship
ped from this place. They are talking of
building a free bridge south of this place over
Flint river. It is believed by so doing that
at least 4,000 bales will be brought to Thom-
aston. Such an increase of business as it
will give to the place is worth looking after.
That big hearted, liberal minded Atlantian,
Col. Peeples, as well as that delicatei mirth
loving friend of everybody and especially of
the friends of Ttta Constitution, Colonel
Acton, sre here. Yours, )V.
UGH!
Tbo Host Remarkable Snowstorm
on Record.
Isjasensa JlbralveS.
Recently, the Bine Ridge Railroad Com
pany obtained an injunction against the Air
line Railroad for infringment on their right-
of-way. On Saturday tbe case was heard be
fore Judge Graham, in Charleston, who dis
solved the Injunction, except in tbe proximity
of the roads at Hunt House bank; and by
agreement between the officers of the roads,
He Air-Line Road agrees to give a bond in
to secure the Blue Ridge
at that point. By
the terms of tire decision, as soon as this
bond is filed, the injunction will be consid
ered entirely dissolved.
rrsarret #f a Large Sagar Crap.
A Louisiana exchange, in an article upon
the coming sugar crop of that section, re
marks : “At the present time the plant cane
is np in every field of this parish, and it Is
seldom a planter is heard to complain of not
having as good a aland as he could wish, and
never since the memorable season of 1853
have the crops promised so well. The long
rains, it was feared, had injured the seeds in
mats and winrows. But the contrary has
proven the cane planting in this parish, and
the number of acres of plant cane are greater
this year than any time since tbe war closed.
Such are our crop prospects at this early day,
and we think we hazard nothing in saying
we believe a prosperous season is ahead of us.”
A leading New York journal having al
luded to the approaching Convention of
Southern and Western Governors at Atlanta
as a political movement, looking to future
combinations for the purpose of opposing
certain policies of tbo Federal government,
and the comments of certain Southern jour-
nals serving to patronize that view of the
question, we are authorized by Governor
Smitb, with whom tbe project of a conven
tion originated, to deny, emphatically,
that any each purpose is entertained
The Atlanta convention, wc are re
quested to say, will be held solely in the
interest of cheap transportation, and the in-
dustrial prosperity of the South and West.
If the formation of a new political party, or
tbe entertainment of any political question
now agitating the pnblic mind, is contem
plated by any one, it is done in entire igno
rance of the real legitimate objects of the
convention; and,if attempted, will not be
approved by its originators and most active
friends.
Wc deem this notice demanded by the
occasion, and we trust the press will give it
a general circulation.
The April Si
ritorm In Dakota.
Toe splendid natural resources of the State
are bring hroucbl into nse by trained labor
backed with generous ctpital.
And laatly, the numberless churches and
Sunday schools show tbe general religious
sentiment of the people, and account for the
high moral tone of tbe citizens.
Georgia has dtrp cause for thankfulness in
the prosperity and progress of the people ol
the entire State.
Demis of Chief Jnattce Chase.
Salmon Portland Chase, whose death
from paralysis is just announced, was born
iu Cornish, New Hampshire, January 13,
190?. When twelve years old be went to
Worthington. Ohio, where his tuition was
superintended by his uncle. Philander Chase,
then Bishop of Ohio, ne afterwards returned
to hi* mother’s home la New Hampshire,
and wssgndoated at Dxrmonlh College in
1820. HU first venture was a school for
boys iu Washington. Int In 1839 he wss ad
mitted to the bar In the spring of 1830 he
returned to Cincinnati, where he has ever
since resided, ex-ept when interrupted by
offlcixl duties.
Mr. Chase took* prominent part in virions
early movements against the extension of
slavery. He presided over and was a leading
spirit of the Buffalo Convention of 18<9,which
nominated Van Barca for tbe Presidency,
and led to tbe defeat of the Democratic can
didate, Lewis Cass. Bat he held no office
until 1819, when he wss chaeen a Senator of
the United States from Ohio, receiving the
entire vote of the Democratic masters of the
Legislature. When Mr. Pierce was nomin
ated at Baltimore in 1853, Hr. Chase form
ally withdrew from the party, and
forward acted with an antl-davmy minority,
until the Nebraska bill gave rise to the Re
publican party, with which he has since been
identified. In 1S5« he wss elected Governor
From the Dakota Correspondent N. Y. World J
The storm came on as suddenly as the
great hurricane of January. The sky grew
pale, then darkened to an ominous yellowish
gray. The rain grew colder, then turned to
sleet, then to snow, which fell lightly till
noon. Then the wind strengthened and
shifted. By 1 o’clock It was blowing half a
gale from the northwest; half an bonr later
it was a hurricane, blowing from the north.
As the wind grew stronger, the sir became
black with snow. I say "black” advisedly,
for no other word will adequately express
tbe impression left by that storm. The
heavens were still a dome arched upon the
reclining horizon, bat the canopy waa no
longer of ateely bine and silver. It was a
sky of tea-lead, bounded, when one caught a
glimpse of it, l>j a livid ring. In tbe midst
was an nnnalnral smear of nebulous, white
light. That waa the sun. The snow no
ongcr fill in flakes. Th little needles,
which at first had been driven tinging « gainst
the face and tinkling against tbe glass, bad
given place to large, blotchy flakes, which
were not too heavy to be driven furiously be
fore the wind. Buttbese.intnrn.hadyidded
to inch gigantic splashes of mow as may
fall in tbe realm of Brobdignag. They were
irregular wreathes, patches and aggrega
tions of snow, which coaid be fairly likened
to nothing so much as an atmosphere foil of
while hats and cotton wool The prevailing
impre-sion was that of s nuss of snow
tumbled from the clouds upon the earth, not
in cabic blocks, hat in sheets of vast lineal
area. It was tLU snow-fall which really
blackened the air and covered tbe ground
knee-deep with tbe speed of thought, as if, in
stead of Fiat lux, the Great Creator ha 1 said,
“Let there be snow,” and. fur the chambers
of the great deep, bad broken np the treas
ures of the snow and the treasures of the
hall, which He bad reserved against the time
of battle, against the day of battle and iu
These great winding sheets of snow were
taken by the wind which was blowing at the
lowest estimate seventy miles an hour, some
times attainingaveloc'ty of a hundred miles
Sometimes an undulating tremor would run
through the falling avalanche and the sheets
of snow would snap and vibrate in the wind
like sails or curtains. At other times the gale
would, in a fiercer fnry, rend the great slant
ing drifts into fragments, and whirling these
along tbe ground or through tbe lower air,
resolve them into particles which were fused
as in a crucible when another current of air
or a solid obstruction waa encountered, tak
ing the form of a tube for a second, then
with a shriek—the magician's signal to the
genii of the air—vanishing in an ascending
spiral, as if the fnnnel of an ocean steams
shou’d blow itself i ff in a volume of smoke
through its own top
At midday it waa dark as Egypt- Tbe few
people who were caught out of doors groped
and guessed their difficult way. The man
who held out bis hand could not see it at the
length of his own arm. Buildings were in
visible till one ran against them and 1 '
np saw a grayer shadow in the gray
OUR GREAT AIR-LINE RAILROAD.
Graphic Description of the
Glories of the Bonte.
INTERESTING FACTS.
Incidents and Humors of a
Recent Trip.
Charlotte and Greenville Shake
Hands.
Seportel for the Blchmocd Scqotrer.)
Old Mrs. John Bobinaon, she of John, the
celebrated showman, once told a pen and
inkhom man she knew scarcely any differ
ence between railroad men, and newspaper
men, and circus men. One thing is certain,
a circus with its band wagon and pretty
ponies, never produced a livelier sen
sation along the way, than did the
excursion train to Greenville, South
Carolina, last Monday, over the At
lanta and Richmond Air-Line, when
the uninterrupted communication between
Charlotte and that place was celebrated for
the first time by the leading business men of
Charlotte, accompanied in some instances by
their accomplished wires. Four can were
crowded. One of these a new and elegant
palace car of the most magnificent finish, and
fresh from the make np of msnnfactnrer
Wade, of the Company shops in North Car
olina. The train ran the track as smooth as
oil, with a motion as gentle as a sail-boat
under a pleasant wind, and on we sped with
out jolt or jostle over a country that only
two years before had bristled with the forest
timber and the nigged hills and the jutting
cliffs. The length of the pleasurable ride
was beguiled by many points we passed of
a tractive interest. There '
of
The Wa
■f AiOUUlana.
The President’s Louisiana diabolism is rep-
idly producing tbe expected results—civil war.
Kellogg has dispatched every "metropolitan”
that he dare send from the city to snbdne
Colonel DeBIanc's force of tax resisters in
8t Martin’s parish. He sent away so many
that the few who remained in New Orlesns
were withdrawn from their beats, and con
centrated at the police stations to prevent
their capture by the citizens. Several gun
stores were broken open and their entire con
tents carried off. And yett he telegraph in
formed ns yesterd y that General Emery bad
consented to send a company of United States
troops to “protect” the metropolitans at St.
Martinsville. “It is generally supposed that
an engagement took place last night”
Pickets have been killed, and skirmishes are
constantly occurring between the belligerents.
Tbe situation is not definitely known; nor
is it known bow many parishes are co oper-
ating. But the whole responsibility of this
awful state of affairs rest* on the shoulders
of the man who is searching for pleasure in
the West, and occasionally orating to aston
ished Anglo-Saxons. Every drop of blood
that has or shall be shed is due to his appro
bation and support of acts that bis own
party friends in Congress denounced, after a
full investigation, in unmeasured terms.
The end is not yet The people of Louisi
ana will not tubmit to the infamous crimes
against their rights and liberties; and per
haps the blood of their martyrs will awake
honest men throughout the nation to a s'-nsc
of the common danger.
OUR ALABAMA LETTER.
Gloomy Condition of tbe Crops.
Tuskegee, Ala, May 7,1873.
Editore Constitution: As requested in one
of yonr former articles, I write yon npon the
condition and prospects of the growing crop,
etc. On the 28th of April we hsd a most
destructive run and hsU storm, lasting four
days. Hail weighing as much as two ounces
fell, which injured the crops and
lands tremendously. What the hail
did not beat down the reins washed
np, and onr immediate section is in
a terrible condition. It rained four days
last week, and on yesterday morning the
rain commenced again, with the wind and
donds in the southeast. We fear we arc
going to have a protracted spell of it. Many
planters are in search of seed for replanting,
bat as the rains continue they will not be
able to replant the bottom lands, if it shonld
qnit now, within ten days. Cotton seed are
selling for SI 50, and the demand canDOt be
supplied. One of tbe largest farmers of
Bullock county, near Eurauls, observed this
morning that he would take fifty cents
on the dollar for his advances and
turn the crop over to any one who
woald give it I do not buy
or sell co'.ton, do not deal in futures, and I
can have no motive iu misrepresenting the
condition of things to you. The farmers fear
a repetition of l8?l, and I heard one sav on
yesterdsy that he thougbtof turning his farm
out and discharging his bands, as his bot
toms and hammocks were rained by the over
flow, and he had no seed to replant with.
My article.!* longer than I expected when I
commenced, bnt I couiil not well state the
condition of tbe crops in much lias (pace.
Yours, eux,
F. A. Smith.
s is a perfect book
ROMANCE ALONG THIS LIKE.
We whizzed through a deep cut, 95 feet, of
Whetstone Mountain with the ragged wall of
rock on either side. We passed by King’s
Mountain and the Cowpens—those old his
toric gems of revolution that sparkle so
bright u the Palmetto diadem. The top of
King’s Mountain is exactly in the shape of a
king’s crown, snd hence the name. This
mountain is a solid mass of the itacohnnite,
or elastic sandstone rock. Two miles from
the mountain a Philadelphia company are en
gaged in working a valuable gold mine, and
they are running two 20 stamp mills snd one
40 stamp for grindiog up tbe ore. At the
foot of this mountain are several British
graves, and the British offleir, Colonel
Ferguson, who was killed there, lies bu
rled under a monument of the olden
days, with the date of the engagement, and
the name and rank and age of tbe officer.
At the Cowpens there is also a monument
that marks tbe site of the old battle-field.
Here, too, we pas] through the section that
Kennedy laid his scenes in Horse-Shoe Bob-
inson. As we cross Broad river, seated on a
bill-side a few hundred yards to the right, is
the house that old msn Ross, the Tory spy,
lived in. Ross figured under the name of
Adair in Horse-Shoe Robinson, and just down
this hill is the same old ferry where Adair
lost a piece of his hide in his fight with the
bear. Tbe ferry is still known as Ross’ferry.
A man named Mints, whose wife is a grand-
daughter of Ross, is now living in this house.
Three miles from another point of this
road is an old silver mine that wss
worked in the sixteenth century by a
of the followers of the Spaniard
Desota, and the marks of their masonry
sre still to be seen. From Charlotte
to the Broad River, the country abounds
in iron, and, in addition to the silver and
gold mines, a vast number of iron mines will
be opened up by this road. A few of these
mines are the Magnetic Iron Company, of
eight thousand acres on Broad River; the
South Carolina Company, of seventeen
thousand acres at Pacolet Bridge; and the
Kirg's Mountain Company, in York county.
SPECIALS.
THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST
CONVENTION.
Large Attendance- -long Ses
sion-Splendid Minion
Report
THE GEORGIA DELEGATES.
To The t tlaxta Constitution.] T
Mobile, Ala., May 8,1873.
That largo and influential body,the South-
n Baptist Convention, met in. this city ~
morning in the St. Francis Street Baptist
Church, a most magnificent building.
ORGANIZATION. ,
The body was organized by the re-election
of tbe Rev. J. P. Boyce, D.D., of South
Carotins, as the President TbhYIee Presi
dents are the following divines: M. P. Low-
rey, of Mississippi; John Kerr, of North
Carotins; & S. Helm, of Ken tacky; and H.
H. Tucker, of Georgia. The Secretaries are
W. B. Wharton, of Kentucky; and W. O.
Tnggle, of Georgia.
LARGE ATTENDANCE. .
The attendance of delegates is very fine,
constituting a very fall and distinguished as
sembly.
HEAVY CONTRIBUTIONS FOSXDSIOX&
The Foreign Mission Board, report that
over fifty thousand dollars ha* been raised
daring the last year. In addition to this ex
traordinary sum the large amorist of twenty-
three thousand dollars is also reported raised
for the Rome Chapel.
ALONG SESSION.
There is a great amount of vefy important
business before the Convention to be trans
acted, and the probability is that tho session
will continue until the twelfth iistanL
MOBILE HOSPITABLE.
Mobile is on her most generotis hospitality.
She is entertaining the delegates with her
well known and lavish liberality.
GEORGIA.
The following are the delegates in attend
ance from Georgia: Messrs. Skinner, Callo
way, A. L. Kilpatrick, Tucker, Jtixon, Hall,
Tnggle, McGariby, Strickland, Phillips,
Scovell, Davis, Wood, Rhoden, Kendrick,
Putnam, Harley, Wellborn, Hay good, Mor
gan and McIntosh—twenty-one. *11 told.
All EXTRAORDINARY CAREER.
Attempted sulelde at a French flat-
quit at Chicago . t ta<J
A Chicago letter says: This afternoon),
well known grain broker attempted to pot a
sensational end to a checkered life. This
was M. Charles de Belloy, who claims the
title (to which he is indeed entitled) of Mar
quis de Belloy. C'riginally heir to an estate
of nearly 2.000,000 francs, he contrived to dis
sipate three-fourths of his fortune in Paris
and Europe. With the remainder (some
thing less than $100,000) he came to America,
accompanying a well-to-do and fashionable
New York family, whose acquaintance he
had made in Paris, to your city. There his
$100,000 was soon diminished by four-fifths,
and he went onto Utica, whence, after a
brief stay, he removed to Michigan. Hespent
one winter in the backwoods hunting and
fhhlng. varying the monotony of forest life
by making love to a handsome and cultured
lady of Detroit. Thence he came to Chicago,
found the excitement he craved, engaged in
grain speculation, and was soon satisfactorily
bankrupted.
“At this juncture the death of a relative
brought him inlo a fortune of $80,000, and
for awhile de Belloy was himself again, till
‘No. 2 spring’ swallowed np almost every
dollar of the windfall. With the remnant
he retained to Michigan, wooed and wedded
his sweetheart, and set np a country grocery.
This kept him occupied for six years, duriog
which time four children were boro to him.
Then he became a bankrupt again, and
taught music and lectured on spiritual
ism for awhile, till he fell into a third fortune
of so mo $50,000, which went in grain specu
lation tike the others. Reduced again to ebb
tide, he engaged with Mr. N. K. Fair-
bank as a day laborer at $1050 a week. Mr.
Fairbank had met him years before in Utica,
and knowing him to beat honorable as ever
any nobleman was in a play, set him np as a
broker with $4,000. This went in the great
wheat corner of last August. Since then M_
de Belloy has been living on scanty remit
tances from, and seemed to have lost all
heart and hope. Early this week he offered
to bet fifty dollars that he would be dead
before May day, and the same evening
drew a pistol at Wolford’s restaurant
snd t-ied to shoot himself, bnt was
prevented from accomplishing his pur
pose. This evening, in company with two
friends, be entered a lager beer saloon, sat
down at a table, ordered Borne beer, then rose
suddenly, and drawing a small revolver from
his pocket placed the muzzle against his fore
head and fired. He fell to the floor, then
rose, walked (his face covered with blood) to
the counter, where he shook hands with the
proprietor and apoligized for the inconveni
ence ho had earned, then fell and was carried
home. The first impression was that the bal
let wss in the brain end that the wound
would necessarily result fatally, bnt latter ad-
vices are to the effect that the ball glanced
and lodged near the left temple, so that the
hnrt is only a serions one.”
Anecdote of Wobttor.
Daniel Webster was a firm believer in di
vine revelation and a close student of its
BY TELEGRAPH
TO TEE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION.
WASHINGTON.
LOUISIANA MISCELLANY.
Washington, May 8.—Governor Kellogg
heard a bullet whistle by his ear.
Forty-one horses and thirty men, with
arms and accoutrements, have left for Terre
county.
The Metropolitans marched out of SL
Martinsville and back again. There was
mnch firing, but no blood shed.
The resisters sre In excellent eplrits.
nu j. ijuuumu m Wagons are coming from , all quarters
anything Of thektadewr sera To dapture
The ran was powerless to disperse or lighten
this Cimmerian gloom, bnt at times he threw
a sickly light npon tbe storm, which hsd a
moat weird effect Broad bands of paler
color radiated from the trembling mistress
which was the ran. tra versing the dark storm-
surface tike the indistinct vistas some painters
trace in an evening ferae. When the storm
lulled fora raiment 'he shadows of the snow
flake* could actually be seen on the white
ground, seeming like a multitude of frag
ment* of chaired paper or a whole forest’s
compliment of withered leaves skimming up
wards from the depths of the drift* to meet
and mate with the flakes that were skunying
downward*.
Allxoatobs in the Mails.—Shortly after
the mail train over the Louisville and Nash
ville Railroad bad left Gsllatin yesterday,
coming North, the mail clerks in the postal
car, Messrs. Forsyth and Glasscock, pro
ceeded to distribute the Florida mails, which
they bad received at Nashville. Af li r several
bags of letters had been disposed of, Mr.
Forsyth gathered on to a Urge leather bag
filled with printed matter, as wss supposed,
and, after untocking^turnirig the sack upside
down to empty the matter on a large board
arranged for tbe purpose, when, to bis sur
prise and 1)01101. two live alligators were
spilled out, and in an iosiant they .leaped
from the board to the car fi or,'and ran be
neath a lot of lo papers and empty bags.
The now frightened clerkshnuted “alligators”
to bis companion, to Mr. (5 l uscock, and in
a few seconds they had vacated the mail
room for the purpose of procuring help to
kill the monsters. Glasscock finally re-en
tered the mail-room, and slowly but cau
tiously proceeded to remove tbe loose paper,
when he discovered a stick looking yellow-
tail spotted J resembling tbe tail of a snake.
At this sight he really declared the thing to be
a snake; and seizing a poker near by be dealt
it a blow and cut the tail off This caused
the alligator, as it proved to be, to leave its
hiding-place and ran onr, when Glasscock
killed lL The other reptile was captured
alive and brought to the city. Examination
revealed the fact that some one in Florida
had sent these curious pets through the mall
in a peper box to somebody in Miehigsn.
Mr. Forsyth, who has been sick for some
time, waa completely unnerved at the sight,
and for a few moments wss as white as cot
ton.—Louisville ledger.
De Hertnie.
Mrs. General Henry C. Wayne, of Savan
nah, is dead.
Han. Joseph B. Gender died in Mtiledge-
viDe on the 4th instant
Mr. Andrew Bay, of Elbert county, died a
few day* ago.
Whst a tremendous outlay of money the
werk must hsve required. Of these the
Booth Tyger bridge is a post combination of
five spans, 150 feet each span, and 95 feet
from the top of the rail, 750 feet in length.
The Pacolet is another bridge of superior
build, being 115 feet from rati to water, and
some 400 feet long. These two bridges of
themselves must have cost the worth of a
cheap railroad.
THE MOUNTAINS AND THE BEAUTIFUL FALLS.
Perhaps the tourist and invalid who, in the
summer, are on lip-toe for a healthy resort,
where the eye can feast and the body fatten,
have most cause to rejoice in the building of
this road. The highest point of elevation be
tween New York and New Orleans on the
highlands of this line Is at a place called ML
Airy, some 90 miles from Atlanta, and is
1,610 feet above tide-water. From it yon can
see the Blue Ridge for a distance of 100
miles; Tray mountain, 8,030 feet high; ML
Yonah, an Indian name that means bald, and
the mountain, 2,800 feet high, and is a chunk
of solid granite; Cnrrahee mountains;
Table Rock and Ctesar’s Head, favorite
resorts for the South Carolinians;
Walker mountain; Sawnee; Stone and
the old Kennesaw mountains. The
nearest and most accessible point to these
mountains is a station to be called Tnccoa
City, and is 93 miles from Atlanta. It Is on
the old national stage road, the same road
that General Jackson camped on a couple of
weeks when he marched, in the Indian war,
from Charlotte to Tallapoosa. A quarter of
a mile from here is a point from which yon
can trace, with the naked eye, the Savannah
river for one hundred and forty miles, and
with a glass yon can plainly see the city of
Augusta, one hundred snd forty miles distanL
Tnccoa City is one mile and ahsif fromTac-
coa Fails. The name Tnccoa is Indian, snd
means beautiful. The falls arc 189
feet high. Over four thousand names
were registered here last summer.
The Tallulah (means terrible) Falls are
twelve miles and a hslf from Tuccoa City.
There are three fails to the Tullnlah in a dis
tance of three mle-, and theaggregate height
is 430 feeL At the bottom of the first of
these falls, 140 feet perpendicular. Is a large
basin of water and the water looks eddy
enough, but to slip in is instant death; the
water whirls yon under and there is no
chance of escape. For this reason the basin
is called tbe Devil’s Punch Bowl. Tnccoa
City is 4 miles from Currahee mountain,
20 from Mount Yonah, and 28 from Tray.
And it is destined to become one of the
primincnt summer resorts in the South.
THE TEOFLE ALONG THE ROAD.
It was refreshing to see the people along
the way. Dressed in the country-made blue
jeans, the men waved their hats, and the wo
men their calico bonnet* One woman bad
her sleeves rolled np tike she had jnst run
from the wash-tub, and she held a frog of a
baby high np in her arms for it to see in at the
windows as the cars whizzed by. We passeg
bis rifle for a crack at a
one old
chap loading
. He pat his
stood leaning on it looking after us with a
tooth grin of pleasure parting behind
ears at the sighL Jnst a few days
since Captain Whaling stopped the train
for a countryman who had run him
self out of breath, and told him to get aboard.
Said the fellow: “Idon’t want to get on. Mis
ter. I jest want to ax you please to d '
my house to morrow, and let the oU
git a look at yonr wagon.” TbisisafacL
At Spartanburg there was more greeting snd
rejoicing. A number of citizens got aboard
en route for Greenville, 33 miles distant
Many of these were very young men, all in
kids, and one young man had a servaot along
to help him make np hi* outside for the ball
at Greenville that night.
Bnt onr arrival at that place, the ball, and
ana many other interesting incidents of this
delightful trip, mn3t form tbe subject of an-
other article, as I have no wish to exhaust
the patience of vc.ur readers by too heavy a
draft npon their time a’ once. To-morrow
the jonroey will be resumed. F.
Points from tbe Press.
The National Lifeboat Iostitntion of Eng
land now has 233 boats, and it has the past
year saved the lives of 569 persons. Its re-
ceipts last year came near $140,000. During
the forty-nine yean of its existence it has
saved 21,485 lives.
The Manchester Examiner says a move
ment is on foot urging that tobacco be tabooed
in England. Ten millions of John Ball’*
money every year ends in smoke.
A Jackson, Mississippi, letter to the Nc
Orleans Picayune says: “The whole Legisla
ture, that is a majority, could be bought, we
are told, for about $3,000—sometimes $1,000
prices of individual members ranging from
twenty-five to one hundred dollars. Sena
tors tie worth from one hundred to two bun-
dred and fifty.
the town at any time.
The Picayune states that the Metropolitans
made on attack, with their cannons, on the
citizens with both shot and shell, bnt finding
the citizens were closing in on them they
retired.
The Federal troops are still at Brashcars.
They expect to leave to-day with the under
standing that they take no metropolitans
with them.
The snperintendent of Morgan’s Texas
Railroad makes the following statement this
morniog: A detachment of police took
charge of and picketed the wharf of the
Texas Railroad Company, and, interfering
with business and creating alarm, they were
rebuked. Flanagan was in charge of the
>otice, and sent word to Kellogg expressing
lis disapproval of their condncL At half
past 4 o’clock Kellogg called at the office, cor
ner of Natchez alley and Magazine street, to
explain tho matter. While doiog so his car!
riago was surrounded by a large and
excited crowd, who commenced jeer
ing and denouncing him. Jnst as Kel
logg’s carriage was being driven off some one
le crowd fired a pistol, when the driver
>lied whip and drove up Natchez street at a
orious rate.
Kellogg’s instructions.
To IF. P. Kellogg, Qocernor of louieiana :
The President directs me to say to yon that
! deprecates an aggressive policy, and that
,e United States authorities are not to be
used except in an emergency. The officer in
command of the Department, in which
Louisiana is included, has been sent fnll in
structions in regard to the course the Presi
dent desires him to pursue. Yon will, there-
fore, take no action which would require the
sanction of the President, without orde
from these headquarters.
(-Signed) W. T. Sherman, General.
The Medical Convention elected J. M.
Toner, of the District of Colombia, Presi
dent, and W. Y. Goodbany, of Mississippi,
and M. Keller, of Kentucky, Vice Presidents.
The next meeting will be held in DetrolL
It is stated that negotiations are progress
ing for the absolution of the Pacific and
Atlantic by the Western Union Telegraph
Company.
Henry Newman, alias '’Dutch Heinrick,”
the liberated ^counterfeiter, has been sent to
the Asylum for the Hopelessly Insane.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
A special lrom New Oileans says it was a
boy of 16 who fired the pistol which Kellogg
heard.
A special also states that Fish, editor of the
New Orleans Republican, and ex-Judge Dib
ble, have been assaulted.
The Supreme Court of Missouri decides
women not voters under tbe Missouri Con
stitution, or the 14th amendmenL
Tbe Rhode Island strike is unchanged.
Ames is liable to die momentarily.
John W. Foster, minister to Mexico, has
departed for bis posL
It is stated on good authority that Gen.
Emery is instructed to concentrate his forces
in New Orleans. Three companies at Jack-
son, Mississippi, and squads from other
poiDts,have marching orders. The Attor
ney General has cautioned Marshal Packard
to nse great discretion in nsing the Federal
soldiers in enforcing the process. West hsd
another long conference with the Attorney
General, lie is quoted as saying, "one
Federal bayonet is worth a dozen metropoli-
Itunir at state fiswa,
DALTON.
The borghu* are at work in our town.
North Georgia Citimn.
■ BRUNSWICK.
Vegetation is miking rapid strides under
the influence of the invigorating showers of
notgin*
ized. WjeJcara that the Floridians Sre
luxuriating on watermelons.—Seaport Appeal.
GRIFFIN.
Vegetation suffering far the want of
shine.—-Stnwbeiiiea are becoming pi
foL An election on the stock lawnaaMra
ordered for the first Monday in July. We
hope our people will discuss this matter
calmly and not allow their paw ions to get
tbe upper, hand of reason. Mrs. Sledge,
—ho resided nesp this city, Is dead.—Newe,
Bidden on real estate in August* w
scarce at the idea on Tuesday. Most of
property offered wss withdrawn.—
Jonday night one of the children of
Charles R. Smith, cne of tho jurors in
case of U. R. Newman, charged with n
der, died tad the father was compelled to re
main wi;h the jury daring the night.
Harmony has been restored to ,the city
B vernmdnt of Augusta—tho resignations of
lyor Estes and Alderman Birrett have been
withdrawn*-CAro tide and Sentinel.
Rev. L ff Bradsl aw, of Covington, will
address the members of ML Verson lodge,
A. F. M., of Athens.on Fridsy, 9th. The
city police made their appearance, on Satur
day. in a. handsome gray uniform. This
section haat^eu favored with copious show-
era. We learn from Hart county that
dnring the recent dry weather mnch prop
erty, in the shape of fencing and timber,was
destroyed by fire, and that tbe dwelling
house of Mrs. McAllister, near Franklin
Springs, was also burned by an incendiary,
as is believed l The soldienf graves were
decorated m- Saturday IssLand an address
delivered by Prof. W. H. WaddelL The
Odd Fellows of this city celebrated tbe 54th
anniversary of the order on Saturday night,
the 26lh insL Addresses were delivered by
Messrs. A. T, Luckie.E. J. Christy, B. B.
Hodgson, T. O. Gaiiey, snd Henry Bcussc.
The speakers acquitted themselves with great
credit, and she meeting was a pleasant affair.
A correspondent from Walton informs
ns that a homicide occurred in Walton a few
days ago. John Somer, step-son of a Mr
Phillips, killed* tbe latter In a ■■
Southern Watchman.
We welcome back to our town Mr* Dr.
Thornton, who left here abont one year ago
with her husband for Ttxsa. She rays Texas
has been greatly overrated, and a great many
emigrants, who can find means to do so,
retaining to their old homes in other Sou
era States. She informs us that the Dot
will be here in. a few weeks, and resume
toS!ties rf spend the remainder of his days in tho old
^ic “ conversation^ Ch ^To? Z I&piro Slate of the South.- Tim*.
guests had preference. When the turn came
a Webster, he said: “Tho masterpiece of the
New Testament, of course, is the sermon on
the mount; that has no rival, no equal. As
to the Old Testament writings, my favorite
book is that of Habakknk, and my favorite
verses chapter Hi: 17-18: ‘Although the fig
tree shall not blossom, neither shall frait be
in the vine; the labor of the olive shall fail,
and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock
shall be cut off, and there shall be no herd In
the stall; yet will I rejoice in the Lord and
joy in the God of my salvation.’ “This,"
continued Webster, “X regard as one of the
sublimest passages of inspired literatare; and
often hsve I wondered that some artist, equal
to the task, has not affected the prophet and
his sense of desolation as the subject of a
painting.
"When in Paris, some years ago,” con-
tinned Mr. Webster, “I received an account
of a French infidel, who happened to find in
a drawer of his library some leaves of an
unknown volume. Although in tbe constant
habit of denouncing the Bible, tike most in
fidel writers, he had never read any p >rt of
1L These fugitive leaves contained the above — _ _ ..
poetic beauty, snd hastened to the clab- vention in Atlanta_on the 20th instant, the
MILLEDOEVTLLE. | '
Rev. D. E. Butler preached an able sermon
the Baptist Church in this city on last
Sabbath. He had just returned from the
Baptist Stale Convention at Rome, oyer
which he presided. CoL B. is not only an
able leader in religious and educational mat
ters but an active worker for tbe material
prosperity of the State. He is a good man
everywhere, and has capacity equal to any
position. We have been thinking for some
time that he would make an excellent Gov
ernor. Wo may say, without blushing, and
maintain onr reputation for modesty, that in
times past many of our suggestions of men
for this high office have received the indorse
ment of tho people. Wo now venture to
suggest, for the consideration of the people,
the name of Hon. David E. Butler, of Mor
gan, as the next Democratic candidate for
Governor.—Union.
At a meeting of the citizens of Rome, the
object of which wss to determine what
action should be taken in reference to the
honse to announce the discovery to bis as o-
ciates. Of cobrse, they were anxious to know
the name of tbe rifted author to which in
quiries tbe elated infidel replied: ‘A writer
by the name of Hubbakook, of comae a
Frenchman.’ Judge of the infidel’e surprise
when informed) hat the passage he wassocn-
thusiastically admiring was not produced by
one of his own clam of so-called freethinkers,
bnt was penned by one of God’s ancient
prophets, and was contained in that much
despised book, the Bible.”—Lutheran Ob-
‘•Mtr-A-TIGHT SQUEEZE.’
A Story far Congressmen Who Give
Amr Stolen Honey.
From theSr. Louts Christhn Advocate.)
Most or all of onr readers sre awtro that
just before the adjournment of tbe last Con
gross a bill was passed increasing the pay of
the members; and, also, with a sort of retro
spective character which gave to each mem-
her a handsome Bnm by way of “back pay.”
The papers generally have criticised this
proceeding very severely. Some of the
members refused at first to receive it.and
others who did receive it have since dis
tributed it lo benevolent purpose*. Very
little of such distribution, however, was
made until after mnch bad been said by the
papers against the Rction of Congress in
making the appropriation. These bene
factors, under tbe circumstance, remind
as of a certain tetion on tbe part of one
Snyder, who lived a little east of a place
called Mount Airy, then in Wythe comity,
Virginia. Snyder was a quiet, good sort of.
a man, bnt subject to fits of derangement or
insanity, daring which he usually imagined
himself to be the ruler of the universe, and
wonld often proceed to hold theday of Judg
ment, and pa-s sentence npon his neighbors
according to his own likes and dislikes. He
was the owner of a little country mill for
grinding corn; two of his neighbors, John
and Jake Fulwildcr, had in partnership a
mill also. Between these and Bny-
der there never was too mnch good
feeling, thus verifying the old adage,
“Two of a trade can never agree.” One day,
when Snyder was a little more crazy than
. and particularly mad at theFnlwilders,
he perched himself upon some elevation and
Te'egrams have been received here from
Governor Kellogg, of Louisiana, addressed
to the President and forwarded to him, giv
ing the details of the situation in Louisiana.
They do not differ materially from the re-
ports already published- to day. A consulta
tion was held at the War Department this
morning, there being present General Sher
man, sc ing Secretary of the War Depart
ment Robeson, Attorney General Williams,
and Senator West, of Louisiana—the sub
ject being the condition of affairs in Louisiana.
It was decided to instinct General Emery
that he should call for whatever troops were
necessary to enforce the laws and preseive
the pnblic peace, bnt that the officer will not
otherwise interfereexcepting in assisting the
proper anthori ies in carrying out the
p oteasts of thecourts.
CITIZENS SEIZE THE BOATA
Brasheab Crrv, May 8.—The boat- are
all seized br the citizens. The United States
troops are detained here enable to pr iceed
further for want of transportation.
London. May 8.—A special dispatch from
Rome to the London Btandtrd says the Pope
reexived the Pilgrims from France on Mon-
day last against the advice of his physicians,
and Lis holiness wss very mnch prostrated
after the andi-nce. The same dispatch says
it is generally believed in Rome that the
Holy Father is dead, bnt nothing to confirm
this belief has been received in London
proceeded, as he said, to hold the day of
judgmenL He first tried theFnlwilders. and
convicted them of taking too much toll by
their own confessions, and confined them to
the left hand “mit de goats.” “Now,”
said he, “I tries myself.” Jake Sny
der, stand upl Jake fnyder, what
has yon been about in this lower world?”
“Ah, I does not know.” “Veil, Jake, did
yon not have a mill?” “Yes, I had a mill."
“Veil, Jake Snvder, did yon not take too
mnch toll T" ‘ Yes, ven de water was low
and de mill stones dull.I did take a leetie too
mnch toll, but den I always did give it too de
poor." “Then, after considering awhile, he
added, “Jake tjnydcr, yon may go the right
hand mit de sheep, bnt it is mit a tight
squeeze I”
The reader may make bis own application.
If these men can get clear of the odium
attached to the manner in which the money
was received, by giving th&t money to the
poor, it will be “mit a tight squeeze."
Hiicellaneous Items-
Several London physicians of high stand,
ing regard sweet milk as a specific for
diarrbmi, dysentery snd incipient cholera.
The milk should not be boiled, bnt heated
sufficiently to be agreeably warm. It is also
recommended ss of great value in typhoid
fevers—as cooling and nourishing, snd es
promoting sleep.
The necessity of cleanliness andoi keeping
the pores of the skin open is well known. A
child died in a few hours after being gilded
with v irni-h and gold leaf.
The nee of orange flowers at bridals, is de
rived from tbe S iracens, and were employed
aajemblcms of fecundity.
A sexton lieing vrrv familiar with a physi
cian, was naked whether he had entered into
partnership with him. ’O, yes,” said he,
“we’ve been together for some time. 1
always carry tbe doctor's work home when
it U done."
Feminine Personals-
Tbe gill a'u lenls at Bncbtcl College, Ohio,
have formed a bsse ball club.
Within the last s<x months ten new names
hsve been added to tbe list of lady preach
Cg~Henrv Watterson, of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, left, accompanied by his
family: tat a five months’ todt lit Europe.
, difflenhy.
as, His Excellency, Governor £uth,and the
distinguished guests who will convene in
Convention in the city of Atlanta on or
about tbe 20th of this month, are expected
to visit Rome: be it therefore. Resolved,
That his Honor, the Mayor and Council be
appointed a committee to ascertain when they
will visit onr city, and extend to them the
courtesies and hospitalities due such dis
tinguished guests. The road-bed of the
Memphis Branch Railroad will be made
ready in a short time for the superstructure,
the iron laid, and the road for some miles be
pot in operation.—Commercial.
lawrencevillb.
Daring last week there were more deaths
in Lawrenceville than we have known for
many years in the same length of time And
yet there is no epidemic prevailing; no
special cause for more deaths thin usual, and
veiy little sickness, considering the severe
winter and spring, and tbe rapid and nnnsnal
changes »f the weather. On Monday Miss
Roberts was killed; Tuesday night Mr. Wash
ington Mackin died from consumption, and
on Wednesday Mrs. Garner, an old lady, died
from paralysis. Youth, the prime of man
hood, and old age have within ono “ “
“Soon after enl
be reminded
^ in to give" p
train begins tor
entering G
of tho N(
i place to
Crosby, or Maine, a veteran Whig, whoso ar
rival In onr city, on his wsy to Florida a
short time since, we chronicled, has written
a letter dated at Savannah, and describes his
journey from Jacksonville on hh ro-
tom to this city. He : says;
Georgia ono begins to
'ortli; plains of sand
i rolling ground; the
. torush through deep exits; easy
and reddish loam begin to crop out; symp
toms of thrift, energy, business vitality Be
gin to exhibit themselves- k and the listless
mind of the traveler Is aroused to the con
sciousness that he is within tho limits of the
Empire State of the 8outh- Such Georgias;'
her present Is full of promise; it is safe to
prediet for her a glorious future. Like the
strong-hearted, brave man, she has wa?tM
no Ume la moaning oyer the “loss cause,”
but has manfully .accepted the situation,’
thrown off her coat, rollod np her slecvts,
and gone to work. God bless and prosper
the old Whig8taleof Georgia 1"—Jnea "
Hanging Women in Gcorglh,
Editor* Atlanta Constitution : In my com j
munication giving an acconnt of tho execu
tion of Susan Eberhart, Istatcd that sho.ntas
the second woman ever hanged in Georgia.
I sco that several papers in Georgia are
stating that this is a mistake, snd you, in this
morning’s issue, ssy there have been a dozen
hanged in the State.
I would be glad to have Information on
thissubjecL Inave made diligent inquiry,
and have not been able to learn of any other
caw of a white woman having been hanged
In Georgia than Miss Eberhart on Friday
last, and Mrs. Barclay; in Washington,
Wilkts county, some sixty-five or seventy
years ago. When I wrote whst I did, I was
aware that a few colored wemen had been
hanged—one for poisoning her mistress,
another for killing her child, and another her
hatband.
My intention was to say that Miss Eber
hart was the second white woman who had
been hanged In Georgia. If any other cues
than tbe two Thave limed have occorredj I
have been nnahle to learn-the .fact; and I
wonld be obliged if any person knowing of
any other case or cases would give the facts
to the pnblio through the press, so I can see
In relation to tho case of Mrs. Barclay. I
have been told that she was hanged for being
accessory to the murder of her husband,
wholly on circumstantial evidence. Her
husband wu wealth v, residing near Danburg,
Wilkes connty, and they had two or three
children. A noise at his ham wu heard jnst
after nightfall, ss if some theft or depreda
tion wu going on. Mr. Barclay went to the
door and called one of his negroes to go and
see whst wu on hand, when his wire chided
him far not going hutily himself, being euro
some thief was there. Whereupon ho went
out; soon tbe report of a gun wu heard,
when Mr*. Barclay told her little son to run
to the barn, far his father was killed. The
was shot in the mouth and could not
'.bat Jived long enough to write the
name of hlstnurdcrcr, who escaped and wu
never apprehended. Evidence wu produced
In court, which, though circumstantial, ut : s-
fied tho jury that tho wife wu privy to tho
' This is the
mnrder.and she wu hanged,
way the cue has been rel tied to me,
Youn CoBitBt FONDEST.
May 7,1873.
■ To Itfcsaa Use Cap Hay Fit.
Chafel Hill, Ga., May 5,1873.
Editor* Constitution: I wrote a simple boy
ish letter, entitled a trip lo Atlanta, and re
quested its publication in the Palmetto Shield,
which wu done Uribe March number of the
14th. Sofarsogood.’ Some timo afterwards
I happened to pick up a paper at*a neigh
bor’* honse, the title of which wu .(he At
lanta Daily Herald. In looking over that
paper I saw an article headed, “ A Bostic at
theQuilL”
The gentleman, the father of the article,
seemed to think that it wu a disgrace for a
letter to be written from Douglas county by
a farmer, and put in public prinL His own
language says it wu a hefty thing, and a lu
dicrous example of how a man of good hard
sense, hat no practice at the quill, deports
himself when showed in prinL I am ready
to admit that I am ignorant and unlettered
in ocmpoii-on . withtho c-sn-qon. st"^- Of
petty lawyers of this enlightened day, hat at
the same time matter myself to be able and
competent to cope with his sort in many
things besides plowing, planting and raising
cotton and corn, etc., etc., which he mentions
in his criticism on my letter. I am proud
to acknowledge the fact that I wu brought
up between the plowhandlcs, as I consider it
a distinguished honor to belong to that class
of the community who make an honest liv
ing by indnstry and tilling the soil.
I am willing to adopt the golden rale, “do
unto others u I would have them do unto
Can you say the same? If so, allow
. man his own free will at the quill and
every other place, provided he injures no man
or tramples on no one’s good feelings.
The gentleman, in his own language, says
no doubt that onr friend Douglu can put us
to shame at plowing and planting; hence wc
can have a good-humored chuckle or two at
his inimitable letter. Now, I uk him who
he means by the words us and we, or what
class of people docs he have reference to that
will unite or combino to have their sport over
a simple letter, written by a farmer for pub-
lication. He or thejr may laugh and chuckle
drawn npon to famish their quota to the
great City of tbe Dead. Colonel Julian,
‘ ' ’ ’ i about one-fourth of a -
ver In his garden u we evt
i. He thinks he can get
off iL—Gwinnett Herald.
of this placq hu about one-fourth of an
acre of u fine clover ’ ‘ * ‘
saw at this season,
ton of clover hay
COLUMBUS.
It is stated that Bailiff Charles FergusoD, of
Columbus, it entitled to one-fifth of an estate
of $>,000,0)0 in Ireland. Tbe overseers
of the Eagle and Pbenix Manufactory, or at
least some of them, we learn are endeavoring
to get up a kind of cooperative store. Dr.
J. A. Urquhait has been elected President of
the Columbus Medic il Bociety: Dr. J.E. Ba
con, 1st Vice-Presiden'; 2d Vice-President,
Dr. J. J. Mason Last Thursday a very
heavy hurricane passed over the northeast
ern part of Chattahoochee connty, six miles
from Cossets. Every honse on the plantation
of Mrs. Alley Duncan was demolished, in-
eluding the mill-honse. In its fall, Mrs.
Duncan 'and Mr. Lee Mack were
iojured that their lives
despaired of. The storm in its course
laid waste a wide track, blowing down fences
snd snapping off and whirling into the air
the hugest trees, and leveling houses
wherever found. Tbo destruction was very
heavy. We have conversed with many
farmers dnring the past few day* Theyap-
niversally to concur in the opinion
pear nniv
hat the heavy rains of the past week baddy
beat and pressed tbe cotton seed in the ground,
and hall, in some localities, made the condi
tion worse. Some have rustled around and
secured seed for replanting. Cotton is essen
tially a sonny plant, and it is difficult to tell
whst has been the damage until we have bad
some days of real warm weather. As yet
com has been but little affected, betides the
knocking abont and chilling it has sustained.
Cool rains have again commenced, and the
damages to cotton are expected to be greater.
A subscriber writes ns that crops on the Big
Uchce. in Bussell county, Alabama, have been
cut off one-tenth.—Sun.
We publish elsewhere a letter from Gov
ernor Smith to the farmers of the West and
Northwest in relation to the Atlantic and
Great Western Canal. The document like
everything that has emanated from the Exec
utive Department of late, is able and timely.
Its style is terse ai
LUUX laiu, uauAvwiu maaswj.
and lucid, and the statistics
of the question are so graphically grouped
that their effect upon the mind of those
to whom the letter is addressed will be
of the most tel'ing character. Tuesday af
ternoon an emery wheel In the saw mill es-
tablishment of Messrs. Stewart & Symons,
on the canal, suddenly exploded. J. Strict-
land, a saw filer near, wu struck in tbe side
by a fragment and severely injured.
The three gentlemen composing the Pensa
cola delegation in attendance at the conven
tion of the mill owners yesterdsy, represent
twenty-two mills in Pensacola and vicinity.
These mills, in the aggregate, export annually
from 300.000,000 to 450,000,000 fect of lum
ber and timber. The monied interest repre
sented by these gentlement is probably not
less than $500,000. We learn from one of the
delegation that the lumber trade of Penza-
cola is
The Enow-tall vei', which the ladies are
now wearing, is quite becoming. It is of
black lace, dotted with white:
growing enormously. From August,
1872, to 1st April, 1873, four hundred vessels
were cleared from that port loaded with lum
ber and timber. Hon. Thomas M. Nor
wood, Senator from Georgia, will attend the
Congressional Convention, which meets in
SL Louis on the 16th insL -The corner
stone of the Mariner’s Home will be laid in
Savannah on the 9th insL A report and
resolutions in memory of Hon. Edward J.
Harden were adopted at a meeting of the Sa
vannah Bar on Tuesday. Ex-Governor
us .of their sweethearts who never became
Tfitli Elvis? - Of the girls whose beauty
fliled their, boyish hearts with admiration
and unselfish love; a love far purer, better
imd holier than that which accompanied
them to the altar in latter yean. Few men
»(triy their first love. Indeed, few many
for love at all. The man who flirts till thirty
cannot Iota. At least, ho cannot love like a
boy loves.
There is living in-Detroit a venerable and
respectable lady, who, to those who know
her, is the heroine of a strange story. Sho
may be seen almost any day on tho streets
hurrying from her tour of shopping to her
pleasant little home, where over needle and
thread her fancies havo fall play and memory
is supreme.
bhe is a woman of rare intellect and great
cultivation, a charming conversationalist,
and an exemplary Christian. She hu been
twice married and twico a widow, and now
u lime is drawing his silver tracings through
her.hair, she moves alone! The loved ones
of the past are gone. Her interests and af
fections draw her toward the world of spirits.
Eke was in her young days tho betrothed
at Jefferson Davis. W hy they never msr-
is not known. She treasures too dearly
the cazket of the past to open it to other
L' It may be to her near and dear ones
tells the story. I am not among them
and do not know IL
It is ccrtaifi, however, whatever may havo
prevented the cotsummaticn of their early
plass, she and the rebel president have never
ioaMhtir regard for each other. They still
.exchange letters, and watch over each other’s
welfire. Two snch lives running in such
different channels, and yet having the sympa*
thy of- heart-asd interest, most have mnch
to atlncj each other. Hi^ hu been a life of
splendid achicvmcnts and ignoble failorca—
full of excitement stud thrilllag Wto4»
Her’s,’, having^ils vicissitudes, borao_liko a
perhaps as’wocdiSfu^u'hiA^WhmY’pus
heron the street,cr seeing her in church, I
feel like running to her nnd asking for her
story. I know it wonld be interesting. Tho
sweotheart of Jcfierson Davis! Who wonld
not like to go back ofitia plot toga for power,
and his struggle in behalf of treason, and
leant something more of his boyhood, and
how ho acted when in love.
TUUI,
Closing matinee of tho Sanity Inves
tigation.
FpcVll fllfps’cT to the CWtspi Tribunal
New Took, May 2.
Tt Warns a field dsy in the Train inqui
sition. . After a number of witnesses, includ
ing Oliver Chadwick and ono medical expert,
Horace H. Day, bad testified to Train's sanity,
and the juty had forcibly protested against
tbo iolrod action of any more similar testi-
mony, oq tho ground that it wu cumulative,
George P. Demis, Train's private secretary,
wu called to the stand. Ho rapidly sketched
his cousin’* extraordinary career, and fully
bore him out in all his assertions. Ho testi
fied that Train is a millionaire, and that his
money is so invested that it cannot fail ulti
mately to bring him enormous wealth. IIo
said that Train’s incarceration in Dublin for
debt wu owing to the bad faith of James
McHenry, lo whom the money in question
bad been entrusted to pay off the obligation
six months previous. After be had finlahed.
Train, himself entered the witness-box. The
scene that followed wu one of tho most ex
traordinary ever witnessed in a court of jus
tice.., Tho,witness, in an impssskmed man
ner, and with graceful gestures and rapid
utterance, went over bis entire life from boy
hood;.described his education and ambitions,
aqd sketched his various gigantic enterprises
in their regular order, giving names, dates and
figures with astonishing minuteness. Ho
said he purchased in Philadelphia the charter
for'fr (renfeht fiscal agency for $15,000;
paid $500 runro to have tbe name changed
to Credit, Mobiiier, and then sold his
muchaso to the Union Pacific Railroad
for fitly thousand dill-rs. Hit narrative
was interspersed here and then) with
chsraetarUlto comments, which elicited up
roarious laughter even from the court
Once (he spectators burst into loud and en
thusiastic applause, which continued for
several minutes. Judge Eaiy, after rap-
ping far order in vain, became angry, and
rave notice that should a similar demonstra
tion occur ho would have tho guilty per
sona. arrested and committed to piiaon.
Subsequently another outbreak was on tbo
point of commencing, but was promptly
suppressed. At one time Train
cited, when referring to his
tin grew very ex
position, I ’
but I will say, that
if they will follow me ihrough this canvass
of criticism, the chuckle will turn on the
other side of the house. I am no literary
man. I have never hsd the advantages of a
common education.
On the other band, critics ought to be lit
erary men and have nothing to do bnt to read,
write and speak; hat npon this subject, with
my competitors, I feel that honors arc easy.
Again, far the benefit of all concerned, I
will say that if there was anything in my
simple letter that soured on any man's
stomach, I am ready and willing to make
amends, bnt if the gentleman merely took it
op for the purpose of criticism or lowering
the farmer in the estimation of tho literary
world, then I ask him to come oat In his true
colors, and I will meet him on any subject,
and leave the result or victory for the public
to decide. Yours respectfully,
Douolab.
P. 8.—Atlanta Weekly Sun and Herald
please copy. D.
Highland Pine Plants for Western
Prairie f,and.
Special telegram to the Commercial.]
Washihoton, May 3.—The United States
Consul at Dundee, Scotland, writes to the
Department of Agriculture, stating that a
firm in that city has shipped thirty thousand
fisnts of what is known ss the Scotch fir, or
ilghland pine, for distribution in the great
prairie States of theWesL These plants are
sent in packages, each containing two hun
dred and fifty. They left Glasgow on the
15th of April, and will arrive at New York.
It to thought that these trees will be peculiar
ly suited to the plains, as they are very hardy
and of free growth. Tbe same firm proposes,
if it to acceptable to the Department, to make
another shipment of seventy thousand plants
of the same kind. The plants average
eighteen inches in height, and the Commis
sioner of Agriculture proposes to distribute
them in tho original packages from New York
to parties who detire to test their utility, and
are willing to incur tbe expense of their
transportation from New York to their place
of destination.
Legal information.
A bill has passed the Arkansas House of
Representatives fixing tho pay of all teachers,
without regard to sex, at tbe same amount
A bill has passed the Illinois Legislature by
which married women who hold property in
their own right may be sued, like single
women, npon contracts they mskc in regard
toiL
Tbe Baltimore American is doubtful as to
the right of negroes to be summoned as
rors in Maryland. Though comprehended
__ the first section of the Fourteenth Amend
ment; there to, rays the American, an act of
Congress, passed in 1840, which comes in
direct conflict with the Fourteenth Amend
ment in this regard, and limits the selection
of jurors in the United States courts to such
persons as are qualified jurors under the laws
of the State in which the court happens to
be sitting.
A number of restless Massachusetts women
are abont to petition the Legislature to allow
plural marriages in that staid old Common
wealth. They think when a really capable
man to found as many women ought to at
tach themselves to him si he can conveniently
endure;
_ .but im
mediately apologized. There was no cross-
examination. The Assistant District Attor
ney Wes afraid ta tackle him. Train made an
exceedingly favorable impression. Tho
• ’’.ourned until Tuesday,
aicdtatf thiLitvjjl ba then
concluded. Thia proposition met with con
siderable opposition from Train’s counsel,
bnt the jury were firm. They will, probably,
give a verdi.t of “ssnity" without leaving
their scats.
Flirting as a Fine Art.
r. Samuel Osgood, ia mupa's Msgulas (or Msjr ]
The science of society amounts to little
true art unless a certain genius goes with
the knowledge; and who will deny that there
is a certain natural gift for social influence,
as there is for all beautiful arts? Some per
sons have a rare social witchery who havo
no other forms of genius, and women, of
very moderate abilities jin othir lcspccta,
have an art of pleating that amounts to fas
cination. One woman in famous attire will
gather a great crowd of notables in a grand
house anil give them a grcit supper, and all
shill be flit and dull; while some winsome
little body, without any flashy costume or
parade, or even without rare bcanty, will
entertain her circle of guests in a charming
way of her own, and mike them all at home
with her and each other. Sho plays upon
their various tempera and traits and associa
tions as a master hand plays npon the hup
or piano. I havo sometimes thought that
womanly charm, and perhaps even what in
the best sense to called flirting, could be made
one of the fine arts, and consecrated to char
ity. and even to religion. That bright girl
takes that halfjdozen striplings in hand, and
touches each iu turn with playful grace, until
they are willing captives to her spell, and
ready to buy her pin-cushions or watch-chains
at the fair, or go to church nnd worship ont
of her prayer book. There to a line, indeed,
beyond where this flirting cesses to be a fine
art, and becomes quite business-like and utili
tarian, to practical operation in making a mar
ket and bagging a husband—* useful but not
always ideal result. Yet, as th* world goes,
a great deal of true missionary work to done
by charming women in managing men in an
artistic and a legitimate way, and the Virgin
Mary has not all the work of snch i
OallF Csndensatlona.
Ont West little colored children arc called
charcoal sketches.
Many of the young men of SL Louis keep
fast all the year round.
Corcoran, tbe banker, has sold to the gov
ernment, for $375,000, two hundred acres of
land as an addition to the Soldiers! Home,
near Washington, District of Columbia.
Henry Heine naughtily called her the <
girl of the Catholic Church, who won over
the Goths and the Vandals!
How to moke one’s Belt obnoxious: To
walk down a crowded thoroughfare cany ing
a ladder on yonr shoulder and to torn round
every minute to see if anyone to looking at
yon.
Mark Twain, a few months after his first
baby was born, was holding it on hit knee.
His wife stid: “Now, confess, Samuel, that
you love the child.” “I can't do that,” re
plied the humorist, “bnt am willing to admit
that I respect the little thing for its father's
sake.”
At Troy, a few days since, a bride fell
from tbe third story of a building and hit a
German on tho head. The brick was broken
into half a dozen pieces’ He looked at it
with an amused smile on his face and said:
“Achhimmel! Yon dinks you bees poolv
hart. Du vas goot, by jinks,but yon findt
dot I vas a barter carakder den you via.
Yon ton’t play dem tarn tricks some more
dimes."
£5y The Montgomery Advertiser hu been
making an estimate of tho cotton crop, and
says the incoming crop to, or will have been
by September 1st, the most valuable crop
ever raised in the United States. The aver
age price bos been better sustained and high
er than ever before. The money paid for it
in its raw state will cot fill far short of
$230,000,900. Of this stun, about $55,000.-
000 have gone to the speculators and first
purchasers, leaving $295,000,000 to the pro
ducers. Alabama's share ot this magnificent
sum is nearly $33,000,000, estimating her
crop at 400,000 hales. Events have shown
that the disasters to the crop In Alabama,
lut season, were more numerous and exten
sive than in any othercotton producing Stale.
raj* The Danbury man hu been in trouble
again. He went out shopping with his roqng
lady, and becoming jaissaliificd with her
coquettish actions, retired to another part of
the store, and resting his elbow on tbednmmy
figure of a woman, gave himself np to
gloomy reflections, from which he wu rudely
aroused by a sharp push, while the dummy
received a vigorous stop over the bead front
an indignant lady’s pansoL There is hardly
enough of the English language to do justice
to the scene that followed.
The Nathan mansion, on Twenty-third
street. New York, still stands vacant It will
neither lease nor sell, and hu now been va
cant nearly three yean.
Mr. Adams, of Hartford, died the other
day and left $20,000 as a fond to support
lame horses.
March to the month of patents; it hu sent
faith Vfltl this year.