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sy ftfMs fnwtitirtum. 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- u 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.