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ATLANTA, TUESDAY, HAY 18.
Tbe 8tato Treasurer has sold nearly half a
million of the new bond*. The demand for
them (till continue*. The old (lockings *nd
uce notches are disgorging their ramble
deposits as they should.
Death of Captsla falrSek Hearj.
Captain Patrick Henry, a grandson of Pat-
rldtHenry.baa tot died in Washington
He was a former officer of the regular army,
a visitor to Weal Point under the Fillmore
administration, and during the late war was
In the Southern army.
tW" Minnesota camea off the palm for
disgraceful crime. Winona, one of its towns,
Srilnetsed the rpectadeof a man named V.
Simpson publicly horsewhipping bis wife in
Harney Appropriate* by the Last
Aegis latarw.
As we hate had enquiry for tome of the
ims appropriated by the last Legislature at
Georgia, we giro the leading items for the
benefit of oar readers:
Contingent fund, $30,000.
Atlanta Unirersity, colored, $8,000.
Academy of the Blind, $11/000.
Deaf and Dumb Institution, $13,M0.
Interest on the public debt, $000,000.
BMte public buildings, $20,000.
State Lunatic Asylum, $105,000.
Estate of Linton Stephens, $5,150.
Claims of proclamation printers, $17,-
» 15.
RomcI Sage, 375,000.
They had separated. He is n
man of wraith. He (truck the poor woman
over the face and shoulders with n cowhide
some twenty timer. Tbe public are very much
nr Colonel Amy, of Th* Arum
OU—anwiaow, adores fatty bread and frit
ters, This, together with bis new style of
gaiters, causes him to be aery popular at pic
nic excursions and prirate molasses elonga
tions.—SarannaJi Ena.
Safely ensconced under the protecting regia
of tbe malrimoeial petticoat, Jinks Harris
both invites and defies attack.
Death of Jsha smart mill.
This eminent writer and philosopher died
at London yesterday, in the sixty-eighth year
of bis are. Ilia father was also n dis
tinguished author, whd conducted at home
tbe cdocatioaof hla son. The elder Mill
wrote n history of British India, which
shortly led to bis employment in
India House. In 1833 the late de
ceased entered the aune service in which
lie continued to be occupied for thirty-three
years, rising to employment of the moat re
sponsible character. lie managed the trans
actions nf the company with the native Blatcs,
or tbe Political department. When tbe In
dian government was transferred to the
Crown, he was offered a teat at the new In
dian Council by Lord Stanley, bat declined
on tbe score of failing health, and retired
from office in October, 1856, on n compensa
ting allowance.
Mr. Mill ia better known hi America by
liia numerous works on political economy,
and other philosophical treaties. His first
publication consisted of articles in the West
minster Review, of which he subsequently
became an editor. In 1843 be published bis
Papon of Logic; in 1848, the Principles of
Polities! Economy in 1865, an Examination
of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy; and
ia 1888, The Subjection of Women, chiming
for them perfect equality with man. These
are tbe bast known of bis numerous writings.
In 1865 he was elected to Parliament for
Westminster. Ilia delivery waa wretchedly
poor, and it is said that it waa really painful
to listen to his halting speech. Tie was not
returned at a subsequent election, because be
refused, for principle's sake, to disburse any
money to control the vote.
He is said to have possessed the most elab
orated mind of tbe age—one that baa cer
tainly left a powerful Impression on modern
thought. Even those who refuse to accept
hla liberal views admit his accumco and pro
fondity, and earn tat, fearless searching for
the truth. The ablotneUphyaidan has gone
where the intellectual perplexities of this
life do not trouble.
The Cioverwora» Convention.
We feel convinced that, upon additional
reflection, our contemporary of the Augusts
Chronicle and Sentinel will concur with ua
that the agitation of any political question
in the Convention of Governors called In the
interest of cheap transportation between the
West and South wUl be out of place: With
no chance for unanimity, discussion would
be futile in effecting good, so far as redress
ing Louisiana's wrongs are concerned, while
the injury to the specific object of the Con
vention, by the introduction of an inflamma
ble political matter npon which tbe members
widely and irreconcilably disagree, would be
irremediable.
It does not even admit of discussion.
Tbe suggestion ol this matter came origi
nally from the wrong quarter. This alone
should make os view it distrustfully. But
when we consider tbe manifest Impropriety
of forcing upon n body or men called to
gether expressly for one purpose, of which
■heir very presence indicates approval and
agreement, • question foreign to that purpose
and upon which Iho moat decided disagree
ment exists, surely the matter, as we said,
tlon'l admit of argument.
; There are always enough of obstacles to the
success of measures like the great canal.
But let it not be slaughtered In tbu house of
its friends. Let not the antagonism of its
supporters be evoked, ,or their real discour
aged by mingling with It matter* irrelevant,
whose cr mice lion will divide its strength.
Tbe object of the convention to specific
and single. Tbe delegates come to it on
notice of that object, and on an implied un
derstanding Uiat that object will bo adhered
to. If that object to to be departed from and
other matters added of an entirely different
nature, then it to due to the delegate* that
they should be informed beforehand. It Is
not right to call the body together for ono
purpose in order to secure another widely
different.
It to true that n good many Republicans
coed -tun Grant's policy in Louisiana, but
unfortunately a good many other Republi
cans don’L Some of the strongest supporters
of our great canal are Republicans. In fact.
Grant himself favors the measure strongly.
What an act of folly then would it be to con
nect the enterprise, which has no politics in
it, with a political measure.
The argument of our content penny seems
to mean that unless we can relieve Louisiana,
wc must forego our canal. And that it to
our ilnty to kill the canal to show sympathy
with Louisiana.
There are earnest, zealous friends of
Louisiana who will resist every attempt to
injudiciously and abortively agitate the
Louisiana question in the Canal Convention:
and no greater iojary to poor Louisiana could
lie done thin to make tbe policy of obtinding
iu wrong* upon tbe Canal Convention n teat
of sympathy and desire to aid the oppressed
State. _ _ _
Death ot Judge Thaddens G.
At one o'clock yesterday morning when tbe
city of Macon was in profound slumber the
spirit of Judge Holt quietly and calmly left
his body and passed sway to another, to a
better world! And whilst those who knew
liis family were at the moment unconscious
of sorrow, they were overwhelmed iu grief
no language can portray.
The other day we spoke of Judge Holt as
n dying man. Ill* frtosda ami his offsprings
then clearly saw the Black Camel—Dsatii
—approaching hit door. They appealed to
all that medical science knew, and rent
prayers to the Throne of Grace to spare
him. Bat in vain. His time had come,
lltocsreer on earth according to the decree
of heaven bad ended—the journey of life
was finished—the frail body and weary limbs
were beckoned to eternal rest in their homes
not nude of hands beyond the skies.
Weep, fellow citizens, for never did a gen
tleman of a purer heart or more unsullied
honor pass away from among you. Born
during the closing years of the eighteenth
century, he had passed the allotted span of
life, coming down to us from a better da' *
the Republic. For thirty yean he has t
known in the daily walks of life of the city
of Macon, and in that time not a breath was
ever uttered perhaps agaisstjthto good man’s
Never did he /rive his word without ful
filling it—never did he enter contract with
out carrying it out to tbe letter—never did
charity appeal to him in Tain.
He waa, throughout his long life, the friend
of the city of his adoption. And no material
enterprise looking to its expansion and pro
gress ever asked him for assistance without
getting it-
The poise to still in death, the heart is cold
forever. Bat those who knew him will ever
linger around his tomb as around a blessed
memory.
Judge Holt was born in Hancock county,
Georgia, in 1783, and hence at tbe time of
his decease waa in his 80th yoar. He gradu
ated at Athens both in the literary and law
departments, and commenced the practice of
his profession, wc believe, at old Hartford.
Pulaski county. In about 1838he was elected
Judge of the Circuit
Amassing n large fortune he retired from
his profession n quarter of n century ago, ami
since that time he ha* devoted himself ex
clusively to bis planting interests. His wife
and three children survive him.
A full sketch of his life will appear so
aooa$w it can be prepared —Maem Enterprise.
The writer was profoundly pained to read
of the death of tbe above prominent and rep
resentative rittoen of Georgia. The deceased
was one of the finest types of the real South
ern gentleman that it has ever been oar for
tune to meet, and an intimate acquaintance
during the last ten years engendered a re
spect unqualified in ns fullness.
To a mind strong and practical, he added
an honor luminous in its purity, a dignity of
rare proportions, and a warm heart. Nicer
sense of rectitude, conpled with strong feel
ing and correct judgment, was never possessed
hr Southern gentlemen.
If all men were Judge Holt’s the world
would be a very different one.
Peace to a good man’s ashes.
Th* American Department.
One week ago or thereabouts, we were
represented at Vienna by the following
interesting articles: Two ernes of Uolt’sfire-
i, three UenaGee, one stuffed eagle, two
salt cellars, one denltol’a chair, tlx bottle* of
water taken from the Mississippi, four sna
il Commissioners and nine more too
Stupid for action of any kind. What A
proud spectacle for tbe 21/000 sons of free
dom who have either sailed or engaged pas
sage. Heretofore we have washed ear dirty
Unga at home, bat there were not enough
home, places to go around, and so the
beauties of “addition, division nod silence"
have been produc'd at Vienna. One Com-
mtoeioner is n defaulting tax collector from
Pennsylvania, and the whole lot are political
shysters.
Republican institutions are made ridiculous
before the princes and princelings, and cham
pions of monarchy by these disreputable ap
pointments of an administration pledged to
inaugurate a reformed civil service. While
the people of France and Spain arc struggling
to establish republican forms of government,
we ere affording tbeir enemies the strongest
kind of practical arguments with which to
undermine faith in popular government. It
to aborning shame; but perhaps the deeper
the disgrace, the sooner Ute people will hurl
the men who have brought it upon ua from
the places they dishonor.
feller frsta niltsa Cstiatr.
Alpharetta, Os., May 6,1873.
A portion of tbe citizens of Milton connty
met to-day at the court-house for the purpose
of appointing delegates to represent esid
county in the convention to hr held at At
lanta on the 30th inat
On motion of G. M. Hook, Judge J. B.
McCollum was called to the chair, and W.
IL Ncsbit rcqiicslci to act as secretary.
On motion, the chair appointed a commit
tee of three to nominate delegates to said
convention, tbe committee consisting of W.
P. Brown, E J. Camp and H. W. Paris.
After retiring a short time, the committee
reported the following names as delegates,
viz: A. W. Holcombe, J. W. Nesbit,II. C.
Rogers, Jackson Graham, II. W. Paris, II. L.
Cunningham. J. B. McCollum, J. G. Cant
rell, N.W. H. Cook, IL P. Lackey, G. M.
Hook, J. M. Ridgeway, E. J. Camp, W. P.
Brown, T. L. Lewis, 8. L. Rucker, Amlircy
Martin and C. N. Woodall.
A resolution waa then adopted in which tbe
cilizsns pledged themselves to render all the
ail they possibly can in procuring the right
of way of tbe Great Western and Atlantic
Canal through Milton county.
«A resolution waa also passed, requesting
the press of Atlanta to pnblish the proceed
ings of this meeting. The meeting then sd
Jouraed.
J. B. McCoLt.ua, Chairman.
W. H. Nesbit, Secretary.
ST VAX ADSLES.
There can bo no donbt that Rcesidc had
genius, but it was of an impracticable kind.
When I knew Mm be devoted all of his time
to labor and invention, and he was constantly
turning out amazing machines which never
did anything when they were turned out.
Down at the Patent Office they got so at
last that when a new model and specification*
would come along from Reeside, the Com
missioner and clerks would grant him a
patent on the spot, for they knew, from s
rich and generous experience, that when
Reeside invented anything it waa perfectly
certain to be unlike any other contrivance
hver conceived by the mind of fallen man;
and they were aware, at any rate, that nobody
wbo waa sane enough to be at large would
ever want to interfere with Reeside’s exclu
sive tight to pin together such a bewildcrin/;
and useless lot of cranks and axles ami
wheels. I think Reeside bad about two hun
dred /talents of various kinds; and besides
the machine's and dodges thus protected by
the law, he owned scores of others which
were never heard of in Washington or any
where else but at Rccsidc’s home.
They were always gctlingbim into trouble.
That “burglar annihilator” ot hi-, for in
stance, lilted him with gloom and remorse
for years. Bevcrai houses in his neighbor
hood had been robbed, and Itcrsldc made up
bis mind to checkmate any attempt to rillc
his residence. Ho he bought half a dozen
old muakil-barrcla, and a few sections of
gas-pipe, and rigged this up Inside of his
front door, with the muzzle pointing toward
tlic street. Then be loaded the affair with
ball cartridge, a.al invented some kind of
mysterious street trigger, wbielt was fixed to
Ibcdoor knob, so tlmt whoever tried to enter
would meet with certain death. He set the
“annihilator" one night, and by the next
morning be forgot exactly how the secret
trigger was arranged, so be was afraid to ven
ture near the machine, and the family were
compelled to go out and iu through the
kitchen.
The “annihilator" rem ained there two
weeks, and daring that time tbe house was
enleicd right limes by burglars, who roamed
recklessly through the chambers, waxed fat
in the pantry, held receptions in the parlor,
disported themselves gayly upon the stairs,
and had bacchanalian revels in the dining
room, without going near the front door
once. And when Reeside had become nearly
insane with fury at these rioloas festivities,
his auot called one day, and making too
boisterous a demonstration at the door-knob,
touched off tbe“annibilator,” and was carried
upstairs insensible, with four pounds of
bullets in her venerable legs. She walks yet
ot£a pair of Rcuidc’s patent crutches.
lie never succeeded with thcao things.
That patent roof ol his was a bad failure.
Tbe shingles leaked,and so be covered them
with concrete to the depth of three or four
inches. In winter lime it was elegant; but
when the hot weather came, the stuff soft
ened, and tbe neighbors u.cd to stop to look
at the thousands of long black strings of tar
which dripped from the caves to (be
ground. And early in the summer Rce-
side and hi* wife began to be annoyed by the
animated discussions of tbe cats in the neigh
borhood. The more he “shooed" them aitd
flung hi* boots at them, the more fierce and
awful were thciryelto. Night after night it
continued to grow more terrific, and day after
day Mr. Reeside observed that the mysterious
caterwauling continued through the daylight.
At last, one moonlight night, the uproar
became so outrageous that Ilecsidc arose from
hb bed and determined to ascertain precisely
the cause of the disturbance. It appeared to
him that the notoe-came from the top of Ihc
house. He went up to the garret and put his
head out of the trap door. There;hc found
one hundred and ninety-six cats stuck fast
knee deep in the concrete: Some of them
had been there eleven days; and when they
perceived Reeside, the whole one hundred
and ninety-six doubled up their spinus,
ruffled their back hair, brandished their tails,
and gave one wild, unearthly scream, which
shocked Reeside'* nerve* so much that he
dropped the trap door and fell down the lad
der upon the bead of Mis. Reeside, who,
courageous and devoted woman that she seas,
standing below dressed in a thing with a frill
on it, and armed wi ll a palm leaf fau and a
bed slat, resolutely determining that nothing
should harm Horatio while she was by.
Iiresidc bsd a kind of “den" of hb own in
the garret. He used to shut himself up in
this for hours together, while be perfected
hit inventions or conducted his rhranical in
vestigations. llis list idea wa« that be could
put together a compound which would rule
gunpowder out of the market and make the
destruction of armies and navies compara
tively easy. And so, for a time, Mrs. ltee
side, white bustling about iu the vicinity of
tbe den, instead of hearing the buzz and hum
ol wheels, and the click of the hammer, would
sniff terrific smells evolved by the irrepressi
ble Reeside from the contents of liis labora
tory. And one day there came a fearful ex-
plosion. The roof was tom off and reduced
to splinters, and Reeside had disappeared.
Reeside'* dwelling was in tbe town of King
ston, New Jersey. Kingston to in Middlesex
connty, bat it to also immediately upon the
boundary line between the counties of Som
erset and Mercer.
And so it was not surprising when, a few
momenta after the explosion, persons in all
three of the coantics perceived fragments
apparently of a demoralized and disintegrated
human brine tumbling from the air. Tbe
pieces of the unhappy victim were unevenly
distributed between Somerset, Mercer and
Middlesex. The last named got twelve of
the fragments. There were persons who
thenght Reeside ought have shown even
greater partiality for hb own county, but i
do not blame him; he was, in n measure, con
trolled by circumstance*.
■ft# 38.
Tbe receipts this week are 43,000 bales;
£ 0 more than last year, and 4,000 lees
two years since:
It to likely the receipt* ftr next week will
be about 35.000; compared with 15.0PO last
year, and 45,000 the year before; and the re
ceipt* at the interior towns 7,000 bales; com
pared with 4,000 last year and 6,000 tbe year
before. . , .
The weather Ihto week has been changea
ble; too cool and too much rain for the les
son. Tbe thermometer has averaged 70 de
grees at noon; three days dear and pleasant,
four days cloody and warm, with two days
good rains, and heavy, washing rains three
nights.
This week, last year, the thermometer was
83 degrees at noon; generally clear and
pleasant, no rain.
It will be seen the weather to much cooler
titan last year, averaging 13 degree* lower
temperature each day.. Next week, tort year,
tbe thermometer was 81 degrees at noon;
dear sod pleasant, sadc’oody and warm, but
no rain.
The market in New York has been quiet
and dull all the week; sates 5/000 bales of
spots and 130.000 bales of contract*; the
same causes affecting that market that have
done so for several weeks.
Tbe extremely large receipt* for first two
days of this week caused holders to give
way an 1-8 in spots, and contracts were
pressed down 38 to 1-8 a cent. At the dose
of the week tbe bad crop reports and a sharp
decline in receipts have steadied np the spot
market and regained tbe loss on contracts, as
they doted at about tbe same prices as last
Friday. The price will he governed almost
entirely by the weather fog the next few
week*. For four year* past there was no de
cline f->rnext week; two years rose 1-3 a
cent each jca“, and two years steady. In
1870, the price rose 1-2 a cent, then began a
steady decline lasting for right weeks, then
two weeks steady, then three weeks decline
again; hero was thirteen weeks almost con
stant decline, in which the price fell 4 cents
n ponnd—from 311-3 to 191-3 in New York,
nod from li 1-3 U) 0 131. in LivcrpooL
Cantes—very large receipts here, extremely
large receipts at llomby, 321,000 bales in May,
and consequently very largo exports from
that port, 383,000 baits in Jane; and n very
large crops growing in this country, which
proved to be one and n quarter millions larger
than the previous year. The spring, sum
mer and fall of 1870 were probably as per
fect, for cotton, as waa ever known. Gold rose
live points during these three months, which
helped cotton (boat one cent s pound.
We hsve mentioned the year of 1870 partic
ularly here, because it was very disastrous to
ail cotton dealers South; and, in many re
spect*, very much like this yesr so far. It
will be seen that the prices are now down
about where they were at the end of Ibc de
cline that year.
After the new crop begin to come in an
other dedine began, which did not ilop until
there was a dedine of five cents a pound
more; patting tbe price down to an avenge
of ten cents a pound all over the South.
The market in Liverpool baa been doll, de
pressed, and dedining all the week; a semi-
panic existing the first,part of the week; causes
same ss affecting New York; and also heavy
imports—the imports of American being 11
000 bales more than was actually due there.
Bat as most of the vessels so long at sea have
arrived, the imports, especially of American,
will be much smaller now for n few weeks.
The quoted price ot middling uplands this
week has been 8$ of a penny; but the anxiety
to aril has been so great that several lots were
offend and pressed on the market at 8} and
St pence. At thedose, the panicaccms lobe
over for the present; confidence is again re
stored and the market is steady at quotations.
To show that Manchester spinners arc
pretty well satisfied with the present price of
American, they took 43,000 bales of it this
week, which is 70per cent of the total sales.
We sec no special reason for any lower
prices at present, ss, at the low prices now
current, European spinners will run heavily
on American, tojhcneglcct -of India cotton,
and any general disaster at this lime to our
growing crop would cause the whole of Ku
rope to stock np their mills with American
colton at these low figures.
During this week, when the telegraph was
bringing daily the news of panic and lower
price*, and some of onr friends expected a
dedine of three fourths to one cent a pound
more very soon, wc slated to rcvcral that wc
thought that the decline was about over, and
cotton was about at the Ixittom for the
present.
Wc should recollect that cotton always has
some value, and under all the circumstances,
it is about cheap enough for the spring
months.
There are now 300,000 bales of American
cotton afloat for Liverpool, of which 35,000
will be due and should be received there next
week.
WRATII Kit.
For the information of, and in answer to,
some of our friends, wo will refer them to Mat
thew, 13lh chapter and 57th versa On March
29tit, in No. 30 of this series, wc wrote: “For
the use of our planting friends, we will now
say the indications are tbat wc shall have
generally cool, windy weather, with rain,
for two weeks; then, for several weeks,
clear, dry, pleasant weather—splendid for
planting—but for Ibc month of May it is
likely wc shall have more raja than fanners
will need; and if yon plant too mneb land
in cotton yon may not be able to clear out
the grass, and thus lose a portion of the
crop.”
The above was written six weeks ago,
when no one knew what was in the future
but wc will ask our readers, Have not tho
facts provtd it as correct as though written
to-day ? Wc think so. This is tho picnic
season, and several attempts hsve already
been made to have a pleasant time in the
country, bnt most of them have proved fail
ures on account of rain, and wet and cold
ground. Wc do not think picnic parties can
be sure of having pleasant weather until
about the first ot Jane, when we expect a
week or two of splendid weather.
rnosrr.CT* of toe growing crof.
Just now there is some fesr, and we think
rightly so, on the part of planters, of a par
tial failure of the cotton crop—similar to the
great failure in 1871. Of the cotton that was
planted before the 30th of April, tbat portion
which had come np was injured by the frost,
and badly damaged by the constant cold, wet
weather since Of the seed tbat had not
come np, on account of want of sufficient
moisture, it was expected it would come np
rs soon as the rains began; bnt, from the nu
merous complaining reports we sec in the
papers from all parts of the country, it would
seem these high hopes may be disap
pointed. The seed after laying in the
ground (partly germinated from moist
ure) for a few weeks, will never make
strong, fruit-bearing stalks; even if the rains
cause it to grow again. Then the young and
tender plants are being injured by therein
and cold night*. After the plants are well
op they need hot, dry weather, and warm
nights, to grow off and make vigorous plants.
Farmers are replanting their fields, bnt we
bear of great complaints of scarcity of seed,
the price being one dollar and twenty-five
cents a bushel. Planters will pay this price
readily if it can be bad at that.
GOLD AND MONEY.
The golJ premium seems to hang along at
about 17 cents; and it is likely if there is
any movement to amount to much it will be
upward, as there arc several reasons why the
price fog gold should be higher rather than
lower; and it would not surprise us to tee
the premium up to near 80 cents by mid sum
mer. Money is now easy in New
York, and will continue so for about
three months; but as the y lucre
of currency is much too small to do all
the business of this great country, it is likely
that next fall and winter (when the cotton
and wheat crops are to be moved and the hog
products sent to market) we shall have a
repetition of the extremely tight money mar
ket that we had the past winter; and some of
our shrewdest business men think it may be
so tight as to affect credit generally. So it
may be best for those who are crowding all
sail to do a large badness to tact about and
shorten sail; soil the gale comes,'they will
be all right, and if not, they will go safely,
at feast
FUTURE.
For the future, we have but little to add,
and refer our readers to our remarks of last
week, with this addition, that the best time
to buy cotton is when others arc very
anxious to aril, and the best time to sell out
ia when everybody is anxious to buy. This
week the first of these propositions waa true,
and soon the last one may be true aba.
CHEAP TRANSPORTATION.
■■sporran! Correspondence Between
the tender at she New fork
Producers* and consumers*
Convention mud Gov
ernor Smith,
DECISIONS
SDFBE9E COURT OF GEORGIA.
DeUtercd at Atlanta, OMoy 0,1873.
Toot, N. Y., April 19,1873.
Uu KretBauy, Jdmct JC Smith, Atlanta, Oa. :
Mr Dear Sib : Seeing your call in tbe
New York World, 1 feel at liberty to forward
yon a call, to meet at the Astor House, May
6th, 10 a. m. I earnestly hope that you will
endeavor to be present yourself, and I also
take the liberty of asking yon to have a strong
delegation present from your State, and [pi
other States which bound your State. I ask
this because I do not know the proper per
sons in those States to address. Will you be
kind enough to forward to those States copies
of this call, and urge litem to be represented ’
I will forward yon fifty copies lor that pur
pose.
Our meeting can and will consider yonr
proposed Atlantic and Great Western Canal,
and it will aid us in accomplishing and suc
cessfully carrying out our plans for “cheap
transportation." The entire West and North
west will be fully represented, and it is our
desire to have the entire Southern States fully
represented, also. Wc hsve no hobbies.
“The greatest good to tho greatest number
is what wc aim to accomplish.
1 believe in improving all water routes,
and the construction of a “people’s line of
railroad” that shall carry freight at cost I
do not wish to increase our civil service by
having the government control the railroads;
but I think wc can have a line of railroad
governed by the pcojtle; and 1 think if the
government should appoint three commis
sioner* to represent itself, and each State
through which the road passes appoint one,
we then would have a majority of State
Commissioners, and Ute government be si ill
represented. I merely throw out these ideas
to show that it is possible to have a “people’s
railroad,” managed by the people, and yet
escape the centralization principle.
Wc will undoubtedly meet with strong op
position from the more conservative and eco
nomical (1) class, who will ciy out at the
great expense that Ute government and peo
ple will be pnt to, and the corruption that
would ensue bv the government going into
the railroad and canal business. Tothc first,
I would say, white our Western farmer is
taxed three-fourths of his productions to
cany the remaining quarter to market, it is
simply nonsense to say, wo, the people, can
not afford to spend two or four hundred mil
lions in transportation improvements. Wltr,
if tbe whole population was taxed three
dollars per capita, on our forty million*,
it would bo $130,000,000, a sum much
less than is now extorted from them
every year by our bloated railroad kings,who
sit in their palatial residences, control our
Legislatures, and corrupt onr whole system
of government by tbeir wholesale land
grabbing operations! and G'rediet Hobilier
transactions. In relation to the corruption,
we must see that none but the “tried and true”
are entrusted with tbe management and con
struction of these proposed new routes of
transportation. Bo that there shall be no
jobs in Ute work.
Our meeting can be made of service to
your assembly on the 20tb proximo, and 1
would urge on you the necessity of havin ;
all vour neighboring Slates fully represented .
Please let me hear from you in relation to
it, and if you have a small map or outline of
your proposed canal route, and any facts and
figures in relation to it, I would thank you to
forward some of them to me.
Let us be a unit iu this great question; let
no party and no sectional jealousies interfere
with the success of our undertaking.
Iam, sir, very respectfully,
IL II. Fkugoson.
Executive Department,
State of Georgia.
Atlanta, Ga, May 1,1873.
It. II. Ferguton, Bug., Troy, Ecu) York :
Dear Bib—Your kiod favor of the 19lh
ultimo, conveying an invitation to meet with
you on the 6th of May, has just reached nu-,
and I write without delay to thank you for
Ute honor you,have done me.
' Three isno question so important to tbe in
tercels of tho whole country as that of chcip
transportation between the great producing
and consuming sections, and no subject that
can more properly claim the time and atten
tion of those whom the people have entrusted
with their confidence than the solution of
this problem.
To ensure onr present and future pros
perity, we must have free commercial inter
course between the North, the West and the
South, and this can only be,had by cheapening
tbe cost of tmnportetion, so as to enable the
producer in each section to effect an exebange
of products with his neighbors, and also to
secure an outlet to the markets of the coun
tries for whatever surplus remains at rate*
that will leave a living profit on his labor.
My own State and section arc deeply in
tercstcd in this movement, nnd I reerct that
yonr call reached mo too late to admit the
possibility of my being present in person, or
by such a delegation as wonld properly rep
resent the wishes of my people. I regret
this the more m view of the kind expressions
which yonr letter contains, and tho indorse
ment you give to a project in which we arc
so deeply interested, and I assure you wc are
ready to go with you, heart and hand, upon
a question of snch grand national importance,
and one that will ensure mutual prosperity
and advancement to all sections. IVc arc
well aware that the great need of yonr sec
tion, as well as onr own, is cheap transpor
tation, and wo are equally aware of the fact
that this can be secured only by lines of watr r
communication. Nature has dune much
for us in this respect. In fact, it
has already bnilt the greater portion
of a direct fine of water communication be
tween tbe Mississippi river and • Atlantic
ocean through the State of Georgia. You
will sec, by looking at the map, that the Ten
nessee approaches near the Coosa, and that
this river approaches, within a few miles, the
waters that flow into the Atlantic Connect
these navigable streams by canal and the
work is done. We tints connect two great
systems of inland navigation, one of which
permeates the great grain producing regions
of the West, and the other, tbe cotton belt of
the Southern States. Does it need an argument
to show that* work of this nature wonld be
mutoally beneficial ? Is it necessary to ex
plain tbat the increased production of cotton
wonld benefit the manufacturers of the New
England and Middle States, and the consum
er* of cotton in the West ?
I agree with you fully, that there is no
question now before the country ofcqual
importance with this, and I heartily second
yon in yonr patriotic desire that neither party
ties nor sectional jealousies be suffered to in
terfere with or impede the successful prose
ration of this grand undertaking.
It would give me great pleasure (o see you
at the Convention on the 30th of Hay, ac
companied by such a delegation as the Con
vention of tho 6th of May may select I
am, sir, very respectfully.
James M. Surra.
Louisville, May 6.—The following card
appears in the Courier-Journal to-morrow
from Rev. Jas. Freeman Clarke, of Boston:
A little paragraph is going the rounds, say
ing that I proposed B. F. Butler as Governor
of Massachusetts. I have only once referred
to him. and that was in a sermon preached
in Boston on fast day on the humiliation of
Massachusetts, in which I spoke of tbe dis
grace which came npon Massachusetts from
her treatment ot Sumner, the connection of
her members of Congress with the Credit
Mobilicr scandal and their complicity with
the salary grab. I then added that it was
understood that the member from Massa
chusetts headed that foray on the Treasury,
had announced bis intention of being tbo
next Governor of Massachusetts. If he suc
ceeded in this, I said I hoped be would not
omit the word “humiliation” in his procla
mation, for certainly Massachusetts would
never be more humiliated than by such an
event, liis friends regard this as a nomina
tion. They are welcome to it I ask that
this statement be copied.
Jar Freeman Clarke.
Mammoth Railroad Business.—The
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad earned last
month one and a quarter million dollars, be
ing about a quarter ot a million more than
the same month in 1873. About 3,000 cars
are rect ived and dispatched from Baltimore
daily, embraced in over a hundml trains.
Captain Thomas IL Bharpe is Master of
Transport- lion, and has charge of this im
mense rolling stock, r.ad Samuel Spencer, as
assistant, ha* immediate control of the trans
portation of 117 miles. Both of these gentle
men were formerly of the Savannah and
Memphis Railroad. _
tW Mississippi and Massachusetts can
afford to shake hands now across tbe bloody
chum. The son-in-law in the first and the
father-in-law in the second are - candidates
for the Governor’s chair. The firm of Ames
& Batter knows neither North nor South.
Thankful for patronage hitherto received,
they promise by strict attention to business to
mail a continuance, etc.
Hooper, Hougb & Force vs. H. Dwinnc’L
Distress warrant, from Floyd.
WARNER, J.
Tbe plaintiff sued out tarn distress warrants
for two quarters rent claimc-l to be due him
by the defendants for a store lioure in the city
of Rome. The defendants filed tbeir counter
affidavit denying that there was any rent dne
as claimed by the plaintiff. On the trial of
the issue in tbe Superior Court, the jury
found a verdict for the plaintff. A potion
was made for anew trial,which was over
ruled and tbe defendants excepted. It appears
from the evidence in the record, that ia the
fall ol 1868, the plaintiff made a verbal con
tract with tbe defendants to rent tbcm liis
storehouse, then in process of construction,
for three years from the the time of its com
pletion, for $1,001 per annum, to be paid
quarterly, or at tbe end of every three months
from the time they took possession, which
waa about the 1st of March, 1809. The con
tract was to have been reduced to writing,
but as the parties could not agree as to the
exact terms of it in relation to fire, etc, it
was not done. The contract remained in
parol, and the rent was paid p.omptly at the
end of each qnartcr up to the 1st March, 1871
Plaintiff offered defendants $100 to surren
der the possession of tbe ttorehoise, which
they refused to do. Plaintiff told them he
should expect them to keep it until the expi
ration pf tbe full term for which they had
rented it/.tbey replied wc expect to keep it
One month prior to the 1st of March, 1871,
the defendents notified plaintiff that they
would vacate the premises on tbat day, and
done so. Plaintiff took possession ot the
premises 1st of September thereafter, and tlic
rent claimed to be due is from the 1st of
March until tbo 1st of September, 1871. The
defendants in their testimony substantially
admitted tbe parol contract for the rent of
the store house as stated by tbe plaintiff. The
Court charged the jury amongst other thing*,
that they could decree a specific execution of
the parol contract, if the defendants udmiltc:
it, as a Court of equity would do. This was
a contract made between the parlies, by the
terms ot which tlic relation of landlord and
tenants existed under tbe provisions of the
Code, and is sought to be enforced by the
snmmary remedy provided for therein. Ac
cording to tny individual judgment, the
statute of frauds or the specific execution of
the contract, had nothing to do with the cast-
on trial between the parties. The rights
and remedy of the parties must be
controlled by tho provisions of the
Code which regulates the relation of
landlord and tenant. When tho owner of
lands grants to another simply tlic right to
possess and enjoy the use of sucli lands,
cither for a fixed time or at the will of tlic
grantor, and tlic tenant accepts the grant, the
relation of landlord and tenant exists be
tween them. In such case no estate passes
out of the landlord and the tenant has only
a usufruct,which he cannot convey except
by the landlord’s consent, and which is not
subject to levy and sale—Code, 3353. Con
tracts creating the relation of landlord nnd
tenant for any time not exceeding one year,
may be by paro), and if made for n greater
lime shall have the effect of a tcnacy at will-
3551. The plaintiff, by his parol contract,
simply granted to the defendants the right to
possess and enjoy the use of the storehouse
for three vests, and the contract being by
parol, made the defendants by the expressed
terms of tbe law his tenants at will, .and
being tenants at will, either party had the
tight to terminate it at will, on giving
the legal notice, the landlord by giving two
month’s notice to the tenant, nnd the tenants
Wright & Fcalhcrston for plaintiffs in
error.
Printnp & Fouche, Underwood & Rowell,
for defendant.
E. E. Bice vs. A. E. Ross, Administrator.
Motion to reinstate a case dismissed, from
Floyd.
McCAY, J.
When an action of trover, was called for
trial, and the plaintiff’s attorney stated to
tbe Court, that a case before it onlhcdockcl
was ready for trial, both parties being ready,
and asked that the older case be taken np, as
bring early on the first day of the term,
neither his client nor his witnesses were yet
tresent; th&t various witnesses, as appeared
ty the docker, had been supeeaacd, and that
as he was informed, they would prove
certain facta, which would fully
sustain the suit, and the Court failing to
find said older case on the docket
though it was in fact there, refused to delay
the case or continue it (the docket showing
two continuances already by the plaintiff,)
and dismissed the suit, and afterwards, on
tlic next day, the pla-ntiff moved to reinstate
the case, staling that he was ready for trial;
that be had been detained at home the previ
ous day until late by aa unusual storm, which
had blown down his fences and he was com
pelled to put them up or lose his crop, and
tbat as soon as he could do this he had
hurried to town; was told by his
attorney to get up bis witnesses, as his
case might be called at any lime;
that he had forthwith gone after one of them
at his house in town, and during this, his
temporary absence, his case was dismissed,
that he had now his witnesses present, who
would prove certain facts making a full sup
port of his action.
Held, That tbe Court erred in refusing to
reinstate the case.
Judgment reversed.
A IL Wright, E. N. Broyles, for plaintiff
in error.
Alexander & Wright, for defendant
by giving one month's notice to tho landlord,
which was done hi this case. This contract
under our law, was not a lease, as content
plated by the English statute of frauds, be
sides, the word lease, is not in our statute of
frauds; the words ol} mr statute are, “Any con
tract for sale of lands, or any interest in or
concerning them.” There was no contract
for the sale of the storehouse, or for tlic sale
of any interest in or concerning it, by tlic
plaintiff tolltc dcfcndants.Imttiter oatract was
that the defendants should simply have the
right to possess and enjoy tlic use of the same
for three ycats at the stipulated price for Hie
rent thereof. The defennants had only tlic
usufruct of the storehouse as tlic plaintiff's
tenant*, which they could not convey to
another, except by the plaintiff's consent
This contract was not a lease of the store
house as defined by our law. A lease is when
one grants to another an estate for years out
of his own estate, reversion lo himself—Code
2,353. Under this contract, no estate in
to the Morehouse papers nut of “the plain
tiff to the defendants. There was no con
tract for the snlcof tlic storehouse or for the
sale of any interest ill or concern
ing it by the plaintiff to tlic defendants, nor
was there any csLate for years in the store
house granted hy the plaintiff to the defend
ants, so us to constitute u tease thereof, tc
which the statute of fronds ooti d have bail
any application and a specific performance
of the parol contract have ‘sen decreed its
chanted hy the Court. The defendant.* were
simply tcnatsatwil! of the plaint iff under the
parol contract, and had tlic clear legal right
lo terminate their tenancy on giving the one
month’s notice, and thus avoid the payment
of any further rent for the storehouse. What
1 have heretofore expressed is my individual
opinion, and not the judgment of the Court
But wc all concur in the opinion, that if the
statute of frauds is applicable to the case,
and if the plaintiff is entitled to a specific
performance of tbe parol contract, it was
error for tlic Court to have so charged Ihc
jury when the plaintiff had not alleged in his
pleadings any equitable grounds which would
have emitted him to that relief. Besides, it
appears from the evidence in the record, that
the plaintiff took posse.- sion of Iho storehouse
on the 1st of September, 1871, before the three
years, under tlic terms of the contract, had
expired, so that in any view of L c case,
he was not entitled to a specific
performance of a part of the contract, liut
was only entitled, if at all, to have the entire
contract specifically performed in accordance
with its terms, and npon these two grounds
we reverse the judgment of tlic Court below.
Let the judgment of the Court below lie
reversed.
Alexander & Wriglit for plaintiffs in errror.
Underwood & Rowell, Wright & Feithcr-
ston, for defendant.
IL Q Mitclicl 1 , administrator vs. D. 8. Printup
Vendor’s lien, from Flovd.
WARNER, C. J.
Tlic plaintiff brought his action against the
defendant on a promissory note made by his
intestate, and claimed that he was entitled
a vendor’s lien on the land of the intestate,
to secure the payment of the note on the. ful
lowing statement of facts. On tlic 4th day
of October, 1850, the defendant’s intestate
executed to tlic plaintiff a lease for a city lot
in the city of Rome, for tlic term of fifteen
years, the plaintiff to pay yearly the sum of
twenty-five dollars for the rent of tlic ground,
At the end of the term tlic defendant’s intes
tate, William 1L Smith, was to have all the
improve nents which the plaintiff might put
on the lot, at a reasonable valuation, or the
plaintiff was to have tbe refusal to buy the
lot, at a reasonable valuation. The plaintiff
built a brick law office on the lot and occu
pied the same. It is claimed by the plaintiff
that in the month of October, 1857, the date
of the note tbat hcsold to tbe defendant’s in
testate, bis interest in the house built hy him
on the lot. and that the note now sued on was
§ iven in part piymentof the purchase money
uc therefor. There is no evidence in the
record of any such sale, or that the note was
given ia part payment thereof. But conced
ing these fsets to have been proved, would the
land of the intestate on which the house was
built in accordance with the agreement
of the parties in the lease, it: bound under
the vendor’s Hen for the value of the house
for which it is alleged the note was given ?
In our judgment, the plaintiff cannot enforce
a vendor’s lien for the payment of the note
against the land of tlic intestate, on the state
of facts disclosed in this record. The plaintiff
never bad any title to the land, but on the
contrary, recognized tlic title thereof to have
been in the intestate, by stipulating in the
lease, that he would pav $25 00 yearly for
the rent of Ibc ground on which thi house
was to be built The agreement was that the
plaintiff migbt build his house ou the intes
tate’s land, occupy it until the expiration of
tbe lease, by paying the yearly ground rent
of $35 00, and then, instead of removing the
house, he was to be paid a reasonable valua
tion for it, or the plaintiff should have the
refusal to purchase the lot at a reasonable
valuation. The plaintiff did not wait until
the termination of tbe lease, but as it is al
leged, sold bis interest in the bouse and bis
rights under the lease to the intesta c, and
took the note in question in part payment
thereof. Did the plaintiff sell or convey any
land to thcdefeudanl’sintestato which would
entitle him to a vendor’s lieu thereon for tbe
unpaid purchase money due therefor? Tbe
till: to Ihe laud was already iu Ihc defend
ant’s intestate. The plaintiff sold tlic value of
the improvements he had put ou the land and
his rights uader the lease. Iu other words, be
relinquished to the owner of the land all bis
rights under the lease, including the improve
ments made thereon, at a reasonable valuation
it is to be presumed, or be would not have
done so. The sale of bis righi3. including tbe
improvements on the lot, under the agreement
contained in the lease, to the defendant’s in
testate in October, 1S57, was not such a sate
or conveyance of land ns will give to the
S laintiff a vendor’s lien on the land of tbe
efcndanl’s intestate for the unpaid purchase
money due therefor.
Let the jndgmentof the Court below be
reversed.
THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
L I 1-4 J
Sad Fate of Captain Hall.
Terrible Sufferings of the Crew.
Mary A Moseley vs. E. Ly n ct al. Debts
on Sheriff's bond, from Floyd.
McCAY. J.
Where,in Oclul cr.lxjt.lhc sheriff look an in
sufficient bail bond, amt al the first term there
after the plaintiff proceeded to have the sher
iff and liis securities in his official bond de
clared by the judgment of the Court, spe
cial bail for the defendant, nnd having ob
tained judgment for his debt, be proceeded
by *eirc facias lo make the sheriff
and liis sccurics liable as bail,
but failing in this, in consequence of
a plea tbat the defendant was dead, he ap
pealed and dismissed the tcirc facias, and in
June, 1SCS, commenced suit on the sheriff’s
official bond for failure to take bail:
' Held, That having elected to hold
the sheriff and his securities liable as bail,
the plaintiff is concluded by the remedy be
he has chosen, and cannot now rciort to Ibc
official bond of the sheriff.
Judgment affirmed.
A R. Wright, E N. Broylc3, for plaintiff
in error.
Warren Akin for defendant
A Shorter and A. R. Wright vs. G. W
Nagle, ct al. Refusal of an Injunction,
from Floyd.
McCAY, J.
Under the Act of December Stb, 1S05,
granting lo the Interim Courts of the several
counties.of this State, jurisdiction to author
ize the establishment of bridges and ferries,
clc, it was not wilbin the powers of the In
ferior Court of Floyd county to grant to any
person the exclusive right to build and estab
lish bridges upon the Coosa and Etowah
rivers for three miles from thcjunction of said
rivers in said county, nor had the said Court
or its successor, the Ordinary, under any
law passed since 1805, any such authority
and tho order of the inferior Court granting
the exclusive privilege contended for, is with
out authority and void.
Judgment affirmed.
Underwood & Rowed; Wright & Fealh-
erston, tor plaintiffs in error.
Smith & Branham, for defendants.
Thos. G. W. McMcckin vs. The Stale. Col
lection of flne, from Polk.
TRIPPE, J.
1. Where a defendant is convicted of
misdemeanor and the judgment is that iiejdo
pay a specified fiuc and costs of prosecution,
and he refuses to pay the fine nnd costs, the
Judge has the power to order the clerk of the
Court to issuejan execution against the prop
erly of lltc defendant to enforce the collec
tion of the fine and costs.
2. If in addition to tlic (Inc .tc, tl
ment directs that tbo defendant shall
iu custody until the fine nnd cos * ore paid,
so that the imprisonment do not exceed six
months, and the defendant is so held in cus
tody, nnd discharged at the termination of
six months without payment of the fine nr
any of the costs:
Held, That the imprisonment was no pari
of the penalty, and the power still existed in
ihc Court to order the is. us of the execution
to collect the fine and all the costa.
Judgment affirmed.
Joseph A ISIuncc, E N. Broyles, for plain
tiff in error.
Ivy F. Thompson, Solicitor-Genera), rep
resented by Hamilton Yancey, for the Slate.
Bebb Sharp vs.The State. Assault with in
teat to rape, from Floyd.
TRIPPE. J.
1. It is not c ror for tlic Court in n charge
to tlic jury, to stale hypothetical illustrations
of a legal principle, unless it be done ill sudi
manner as would imply that they were in
tended to he used as facts which had been
proven by the evidence.
2. In this ease the jury were dearly au
thorized to ltclicvc thatthc defendant entered
Ibc house through a window into a room
where a girl of thirteen or lonrteen years of
age was sleeping, and got into Iter bed and
under the cover whilst she was asleep, and
aroused her by touching herpersoD, and that
his purpose was to have srxu-d intercourse
with her, and they having found, under a le
gal charge by the Court, that from
his reckless and daring conduct, liis
intent was to use violence in the accomplish
ment of his purpose. Ibis Court will not
say the Court below erred in refusing a new
trial ou the ground that the verdict was con
trary to law or the evidence.
Judgment affirmed.
Underwood & Rowell, Forsyth & Reese,
for plaintiff in error.
Ivy F. Thompson, Solicitor General, rep
resented by Hamilton Yancey, for the State.
NEW FOUNDLAND.
Sr. Johns, May 9.
To the State Department :
The English ship Walrus has just arrived,
and reports that tho steamer Tigress picked
up on the ice at Grady's Harbor, Labrador,
on the 30th of April last, fifteen of the crew
and five of the Esquimaux of the steamer
Polaris of Ibc Arctic expedition.
LATER.
Tbe steamer Tigress has come into Bay
Roberts, 18 miles from here, having on board
the survivors of Hall’s Arctic expedition.
The steamer was at anchor and tho rescued
men were on deck, from whom was
gathered the following deeply thrilling nar
rative ot the adventures of tbe expedition
and aid death of Captain Hall, and final
cape of survivors who were taken from the
ice by the Tigress, on 30th of April last, in
latitude 53 degrees, after having spent one
hundred and ninety-six days on the floe.
NAMES OF RESCUED.
H. C.Tison, assistant navigator; Frederick
Meyer, roctciologist; John Heron, steward
W. C. Kruecr, Fred Jolks, Will Liedeman.
Fred Autinig, G.T. Linguist, Peter Johnston,
seamen; Wm. Jackson, cook; Esquimaux
Joe. interpreter; Esquimaux Hans Christian,
of Kane’s expedition, wife and 4children, the
youngest only eight months old. This party
which had been landed from the Polaris
were driven from her by the gale which
burst her moorings on tho 15th of October,
1873, the latitude 73 degrees 35 minutes.
When they last saw the Polaris she was
under steam and canvass making for harbor
on the cast of Northumberland bland. She
had no boats left of six which she brought
from New York, two went lest in a north
ern expedition—two were landed on tho icc
with Captain Tison’s party, ono was burnt
for firewood to melt tbe ice for drinking
purposes and the other is on board Tigress.
THE POLARIS
was in command of Captain Bnddington,
wbo bad thirteen ot the crew with him and
a good stock of provisions. She was mak
ing a good deal, of water, butnot more leaky
tho spring of 1873, tho Tigress fell in
with the party in a dense fog and provi
dentially struck tho very floe on
which they were, otherwise they
must have perished They all seem
tolerably wclL Captain Tyson complained
of swollen legs and feet, but nothing serious
to the matter with them. When they left the
Polaris all on board were in good health. In
reference to the way in which the Polaris got
away from the party which was rescued from
off the iceberg, Captain Tyson states that he
felt but little anxiety at first, thinking she
would soon come to their relief. I set my
colors, ho raid, ss she stood down along the
shore, but the vessel wss soon lost to sight in
a bend of land, and being what I took to be
Northumberland island. I saw the vessel in
the harbor there. Her sails were furled. No
smoke was issuing from her smoke-stack that
I could see. I then attempted to bring my
boats across Ute flow in an Easterly
direction hoping to find water.
OUR MARIETTA. LETTER.
A Variety of Interesting Matter
All About thnt Epitaph Sent North
to Excito Sectional Hatred.
Tho Scandal Discussed from Maine
to Georgia.
What Dr. Joseph Treat Says
From tic Hartford Time*.]
Doubtless the rcadeis of the Timc9 have
carefully noted the various points of interest
in the 'atest development connected with tlic
famous “Beecher scandal," which was pub
lished in yesterday’s paper. Whatever may
be thought of Bowen—and we have
always thought him to be just about such
a creature as the Brooklyn writer shows him
to lie—docs not, and will not change the
nebulous aspect of the case for Mr. Becchcr.
The painful rc'uctancc ot Mr. Freeland, a
shrinking which reached even tlic point of
shedding tears—to deny or confirm the reve
lations of Til ton’s letter, leaves Beecher’s case
in a bad light Where there to so much
smoke there must be some fire. It is not
easy, in the constantly shipping shapes of
this painful affair, which seems to assume a
new aspect, and involve new parties, with
every additional disclosure, to (rod out
who it is tbat has been guilty of wrongdo
ing, among these lights and leaders of Ply
mouth Glturch; bnt one thing seems to be
settled, nnd that to that among them thcrcarc
one or two at least who, if not “wolves in
sheep’s cloth ing,” are certainly not consistent,
pure-minded Christian. Doubtless Beecher
has a good deal of the old Adam in him, but
he to probably a better Christian than Bowen.
Meanwhile the scandal ia becoming notorious,
and. as Tilton say*, it to discussed from Maine
to Missouri. It is not strange, perhaps, that
some of the long-haired, lank-sided, peri
patetic disciples of tbe “free love” school
should seek lo use the sensation as a vehicle
to forward their views. Here to one who ad
vertises himself as “Dr. Joseph Treat,” and
who lectured in the Opera House at Bpring-
ficld last night “on Henry Ward BcccUcr,
with Mr. Beecher’s Phrenology, Physiog
nomy. and Physiology, rendered by a most
magnificent portrait, twice lifc-sizo.'To com
mence precisely at eight o'clock.” To the
Young Men’s Christian Association he thus
modestly addresses himself in his advertise
ment:
“ I shall extort confession even from you
that the groat preacher is al I that he is charged
with being, and I shall defy contradiction and
refutation of the overwhelming impeach
ment. But still, I shall make Mr. Beecher a
greater and a belter man than you do, and
shall paint a system of sexual morals as far
transcending in purity and holiness all that
you believe in, as day to auperior to night”
Gleaning*.
Visitors to Yieuna will have a choice of
thirty routes to choose from when they reach
England, the fares varying from thirty-two
dollars to forty-three dollars in gold.
The Boston Mercantile Library has been in
existence fifty-three years. Number of books
30/311. Total membership 1,609.
Tbe plan of constructing a tunnel under
the English Channel, so as to connect France
and England, to likely to be realiz'd.
San Francisco shippers complain of an ab
sence of profits on the very large grain opera
tion of the year,
than she waa laat fall and winter. It to the
opinion of the survivors that the Porlarto
will not get clear until July, and even then, it
the ship to unscaworthy, they will have to
make new boats to effect their escape.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN HALL.
Captain Hall died of aprcplcxy on the
Stb of October, 1871, in latitude 81 degress
38 minute*, longitude 61 degrees 4 minutes,
lie was buried on shore, where they erected
a wooded cross to mark his grave. Ho had
recently returned from a northern sledge ex
pedition, in which he attained latitude 31
degrees 16 seconds. He seemed in his usual
health, and had called tbo crew into the
cabin to encourage them with tho hopes of
future rewards and to s'imulale them to re
newed exertions, when he was suddenly
struck down and expired, to the grief of those
around, to whom he had endeared himself by
his kindness and devotion.
TOR EXPEDITION.
In September, 1871, the Polaris entered
into winter quarters, and left August 12th,
1873. The ice was very heavy, and sot in
Southern direction. She was forced South,
and so continued drifting till Capt. Tyson
and party were driven from her. The Sledge
party crossed Kanes Polar Sea, which they
pronounced to be a strait about fifteen miles
wide. There was appearance of open water
to the North.
TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS.
Tlic rescued party suffered very much dur
ing their dreary drift from hunger and cold.
Fur the last two months they ate raw seal
and Polar bear as they could get it. When
they were met by tbe Tigress they showed
evident signs of tbeir great suffering.
IMPROVING.
The survivors, during tho nine days they
have been on board have improved vastly, and
arc now in fair health. They are in
charge of the United States Consul, and will
arrive in SL John’s next Monday.
CAPTAIN TYSON’S STATEMENT.
On August 27lb, 1871, we left Tissinac and
went through Smith’s Sound; we succeeded
in getting as far north os latitude 33 dagrecs,
10 minutes, when we returned and wintered
at Polaris Bay, at 81-30 lalUudo, longitude
01-44.
Wc were frozen up until the 5th of Sep
tember. On the loth of October, Capt.
Hall started on a sledge journey North and
relumed on the 24th, when he was taken
sick and died on the 8th of November—he
was buried on Ihc 11th. Wc passed the
winter at Polaris Bay and on tho 8th of
June, 1872. wc attempted to reach the North
with two b tats. We landed our other boat
on shore and returned overland on the 8th
ot July. Wc started for home on the 12lh
of August and on the 15th were beset with
icc in latitude 80 degrees. Wc drifted from
there down to latitude 77 degrees 35 minuk s,
when wc encountered a heavy southwest
gale. The ship being under heavy pressure
the night of the IStli, wc commenced land
ing provision*, etc., on the icc. The vessel
being reported leaking very badly at times,
wc continued landing provisions for two or
three hours when the pressure ceased. I
went on board the vessel and asked the sail
ing master if the vessel was making any
more water than usual; he reported she was
noL I then went to the pumps and ascer
tained site was not making any more than
she had I icon all summer. I went on the icc
again and shortly after It began to crack, and
in a few minutes was broken in many pieces.
The vessel brqjic from her fastenings and
was soon lost to sight in darkness snd storm.
On the broken tec were most of our pro-
visions to sustain the party through life, and
seeing nothing of the vessel wc attempted to
reach the shore, in hopes of finding natives
to assist us in living through the winter.
Getting about half way to the shore with our
heavily laden bo..t«, our progress became
bard hy drifting if e. and I was compelled tc
haul on the icc again. At this time I sue
cccdcd in saving fourteen cans of pcmmican,
eleven and half bags of bread, ten dozen
one and two pound cans of meat aud soup,
fourteen bam*, one small bag of chocolate
weighing twenty pounds, some mask ox
skin*, a few blankets, a number of rifles and
an abundant supply of ammunition. In the
morning, knowing that I had not provisions
enough and the articles of food, clothing,
compass, etc., on the abatement of the gale,
I endeavored to shoot as many seals as pos
sible, both for food, light and fncl, but could
only get three, owing to the bad weather.
I supposed the wind to be about southwest
On its clearing up I found myself about eight
mites from what I tuppesed to be the east
coast, and alioat thirty or forty miles below
the ship.
The ice being weak, I could not transport
the boats and provision* to land till it grew
stronger. White here I discovered my other
boat, bread, etc., and saved aiL Theieegrcw
firm, and 1 made another attempt to reach
the shore, carrying everything in the boats,
nnd dragging them on their kecL The icc
being exceedingly rough, wostoveboth boats.
Wc succeeded on the first of November in
getting about half way to shore. Night
came on, and very stormy weather. In tin*
morning the icc was broken, and wc were
drifting southward very fast. Wc raw
uo more land for many days. Tbe
bad weather continuing nil through
the month of November, wc built
snow-liouscs and made ourselves comfortable
as we could. We were ten white men, two
Esquimaux, two women and five children, in
all. We succeeded in killiug a few seals,
which furnished us with light and fuel with
which to warm our scanty allowance of food
through the darkness of the Arctic winter.
In the latter part of February we lived prin
cipally on bird*, and in March commenced
to catch seals. Through that month wc
supported ourselves on bear snd seal
flesh, wasting neither skin nor en
trails. We collected enough food in this
way to last us to the middle of May, bad
we not been driven to sea by a strong
west gale, in the latter part of March, our
floating piece being then reduced from fire
miles in circumference to about twenty yards
in diameter. We left the piece on the first
of April and abandoned nearly all our meat,
a large amount of ammunition, clothing,
skins, and other articles, taking a portion of
the meat in the boat, which wc were obliged
to throw overboard ou account of the boats
being so deeply laden. I regained the outer
edge of the pack of icc on the 8d of April,
and succeeded in geltingalittic further in on
the pick. On the 4lh a heavy northeast gale
set in snd a heavy sea was running under the
ice, which broke it in small pieces; so webad
to live on small pans, as wc could not put
a boat out; neither could we find seals for
food, and we were reduced almost to starva
tion. On tbb 21st of April wc sighted a
Polar bear. Every person was ordered
to tie down and imitate a seal, wbiie two
Esquimaux'* accreted themselves be
hind some distance, so as to get the
bear near enough to kill him. A few
days after we succeeded in getting our boat
in water and worked our way west aud south
west and continued to work every opportunity
to the westward in hopes of reaching Labra
dor coast and getting temporary relief. We
were picked up by the steamship Tigress on
the 30th of April, in latitude 53 degrees 85
minutes north, longitude 55 west or near
Wolf Island and about forty mites from
land. The Polaris is now without boats,
having lost two in trying to get north. In
BOUND THE W0ELD.
Interesting Facts About the
Cost of Traveling Over
the World.
Hong-Kong to Singapore.
The Malay Divers After Coins
Thrown in the Water.
THE TRIP TO CEYLON.
Written Expressly for Tho fi
stlintionby on Atlanta l.rnty.
Marietta, Ga, May 8,1873.
Baton Constitution: The weather has been
dreadful here for some time pasL Every day
last week, except one, wc had a continuous
fall of rain, ana this week also wc have had
heavy showers from lime to time. Lost
Thursday, w l,ich was the dsy act apart for the
Good Templars' picnic,the vciy flood-gate*of
Heaven themselves seemed opened. The
; roung folks who had retired the night before
: all of eager anticipation for the coming of
the morrow, awoke that morning to find a
damper snditehly put upon their spirits. All
dsy long, with but few and brief cessations,
the rain kept failing. Brave as our cold
water friends arc, they dared not venture out
exposed to the mercy ot the clement they so
stroDgiy advocate. For once they did not
“stand by their colors;” for once they did
not lift their voices high in tbe praise of cold
water. Well, wc suppose circumstances do
alter cases sometimes 1 Wc will admit
that to quietly drink a glass of water
and to stand exposed to a shower bath, arc
two entirely different things: It seems as if
our temperance friends at this place arc rather
unlucky, anyhow, in regard to their picnics.
On the first of May, just ono year ago, white
deep in the enjoyment of an occssion of this
kind, they were suddenly surprised by a
rather heavy cold water hath. This time
the picnic, as it was at first thought, was not
announced to take place at another day, but
was given np entirely, and on last Saturday
a large number of the ladies and gentlemen
of the two lodges here united with those
from Atlanta, and went to Acwortb, where
a grand union picnic was held. As far as
we could learn, the dsy passed pleasantly to
ail, and though the sky prcscn'cd a some
what clouded appearance, yet .there waa no
fall of rain.
The picnic season up here docs not, as yet,
seem fully organized, yet Marietta is not
wanting in amusements of other kind.
Un last Friday night wc bad the pleasure
of attending an exhibition given by thepupila
of Mr. IL Rogers’ school. The entertain
ment consisted of dialogues, declamations
and charades. Everything passed of bighly
creditable to both teacher and pupils. The
speeches, all made by little boys, were very
good indeed. Especially were wo pleased
with those of Masters Edgar Anderson, Wal
ter Atkinson, Robbie Smith, Ellison Cook,
Henry Wils. n, Baker Smith, and Dannie and
Jimmie Anderson. These two last, though
very little fellow*, ot only some six or auven
years old, acquitted themselves handsomely,
and at the conclusion of their addresses were
showered with it iwers by the highly pleased
audience. The charades, we learn, were
original. The youthful acton in each en
tered into their respective parts with groat
lirit and acquitted themselves with eclat.
iss Emms J. acta the old woman to perfec
tion, while Minnie IL, in her delineation ot
Polly, the “country lassie," is fully equal.
The music was furnished by the Marietta
Silver Cornet Band. A good many of the
members were absent, yet notwithstanding
this drawback, the playing was very good.
This band is quite a young one as yet, hav
ing been formed only some two or three years
ago, yet despite Iki*, wc do not hesitate to
say that it would be able to vie with any in
the Stale cf a much older standing. B side
this band they have another hero composed
of “gentiemeu of the colored persuasion.”
They have performed in the Park once or
twice since our sojourn here, and wc must
admit that the musical talent of these
daikica ia sadly wanting. Now.Hr. Editor,
we arc passionately fond of music, but from
listening to such delicious (?) concordant (?)
sounds ss this band discourses, wc beg to be
excused. Now, these “cullud gemman’’ may
be egotistical enough to flatter themselves
list they arc making music, but if the noise
tlcy produce bears any other resemblance
but the yetis, the groins, the screeches snd
whoops of a body of wild Com&nchca let
loose on the war path, and at times to the
dismal, wheezy croakings of a set of croaky
frogs in a mill pond, then wc are mistaken;
that’s all
We understand that not very long ago this
band petitioned to the Mayor and Council
here for Uic use of tlic stand erected by the
while band, but were peremptorily refuted,
the latter band declaring they would never
occupy it again if the negroes used it for the
same purpose. Wc admire liicirspiriL Since
that time the negroes have had to content
themselves on a bench under the trees, where
Uicy discourse their delicious (?) strains of
music (?) to a large and admiring audience,
composed i f colored ladies and gentlemen.
I suppose you have long ago heard, through
that wideawake and newsy sheet, the Jour
nal, which is on yonr exchange list, wc be
lieve, what a very musical town Marietta is
getting to he here lately. By day and by
night, hut more especially st the latter time,
the air is laden with musical sounds of every
description, produced by instruments of all
imaginable sizes and shape*, from the liorn
and Jew's harp in tlic mouth of the small
boy to the large born and drum of the band
and the piano st private residences. Scra-
nades, also, arc quite frequent.
Several weeks ago a novel one took place.
The musician* were shall dozen orao of the
fair sex, and the instruments used, a couple of
combs, one or two small tin horns, a toy
drum, and a half dozen or mote of tonguee
that were kept in rapid motion, and bid fair
at almost every moment to drown the other
music (?). They visited several private resi
dences, where they treated the inmates to a
specimen of their musical talent
And now, in conclusion, allow mo to re
deem the promise made in a previous letter
fay sending you the epitaph to which I bad
reference. I have copied it jnst ss it appears
upon the tombstone:
of Mrs Patience.
A C. Jackson
Frazier.
Korn April the L
IStO who departed
To a person of limited means—and to
many who arc plentifully supplied in this re
spect, the qaestion—" What will a journey to
the Old World ooel”—Is one of interest, and
one which claims attention while prepara
tions arc being made for the tour.
Previous to taking this tour, I wrote a letter
of inqniiy to a person who had been a great
traveler in the East. His answer, neatly and
carefully written, informed me that
TOR KXl'KKSR OF TIIK JOUHNEY
would depend entirely upon the manner in
which it was made. 8,id he, “if you go aa
cabin passenger in first-class railway carriages,
and stop at first-class hotels, the expense will
be greater than if you travel sccond-rlass,
and stop at lest pretentions bouses”—and
closed hy saying that *omo persons could
travel at about half the expense that others
could.
All this wss highly satisfactory, hut I
found it difficult to determine that informa
tion so trite wss of any great value. It has
been often said that no two persona agree as
to the expense of foreign travel, and to me
tbe reason seems quite clear. It is easily as
certained how much money lias been ex
tended on reluming borne; hut as articles
jought always form a portion of tbe aggre
gate expense, the absolute cost cannot be so
readily determined.
THIRTEEN ItUNt' RKI1 DOLLARS,
in Ibc currency of this country paid the
actual traveling expensr* from New York,
vis San Francireo. Japan, Chins, and India
to Suez, including gratuities to servanb(whick
or course one can make great or small ac
cording to their judgment or inclination, or
the depth of their pnrae*,) for yon can find
no country, however civilized or enlightened,
where servants do not expect e xirn compen
sation for their services. From the “Chins
boy” snd lurbaned Arab, down to the rail
way guard or conductor, each receives a
“present” from tlic traveler ss iLouglt it were
a rigliL And it is the extra expense of ser
vants’ fees, “ lights and sosp, snd money
paid to guides," which makes it so difficult to
make calculation in regard to Ihc cost of a
European tcur.
The cost of travel and merchandise has
largely Increased within a few van—espe
cially do Americans find this to be the case.
So many cf oUr countrymen hsve grown
suddenly rich by “army speculations," “the
flow of oil," “what comer*,” snd Wall street
panics and hsve gone abroad to enjoy their
riche*, that it has led Europeans into the be
lief that we are a nttioo of millionaire*.
Gloves in Paris, which were formerly sold
st from two to three francs per pair, now
cost from four to six franca. In Geneva,
watches and jewelry have advanced wilbin
the last half dozen years at least twenty per
cent. The same may he raid of corals in
Naples, scarfs in Rome, lacc in Brussels nr
any of the specialties pertaining to different
towns And however gratifying 'll may be
to one’s vanity to be considered rich, it h<u
its disadvantages when one has rally but
little modey to spend.
HONG KONG FROM SINGAPORE
is a distance of 15C0 miles. Singapore ia
the capital of the British colony or “Strait
Settlement of Malacca, Penang snd Singa
pore: It is but s degree and a half from the
Equator—the climate is one continual sum
mer—very hot during three months of tbe
year—but with the ccol breezes from the
•ca a very comfortable place in which to
pass tho remainder of the y ar. The air
is filled with the perfume of beautiful
flowers whose names even are unknown to
us—and fruits girtw in absolute perfection.
The Cocos, Pineapple, Banana, Brcadtrec
fruit, Mango and Maogostecn (a must deli
cious fruit, and which grows on’y in tbit
country) are in great abundance.
TIIK PEOPLE
here are Malays, il’ndoos, Chinese nnd
Europeans The B n isli garrison is here, snd
this is the home of the Governor and Consuls.
In the American O-i.Mil we found an old
friend and were well entertained at liis
houao. The hotel "Europe” is hut two
stories in height, tun of immense size. No
eholl rest from
their Labour*, ihe la
not dead hat aleveth.
lathe arm or Jams
To Llr with God.
Forererat the Last
ihc tolled the brethren,
cot to tfclraapporll her.
bat meet aer.
in heaven. Way. wo
shall part no more
Rho Is not Los* hot
Rat gon on Before,
ray Snbsth ihttl never.
End, ray Uongratlons.
rhollttevor
brake np. Way.
Milk nnd honey
flow the land.
Way. tbe pence and
plcarore raver the she romthL
the light the victory won
sad entered Into
Rest her Lovely Fhce
And Happy Spirit
her lntetL'gent Mina
and affectionate Dirporitlon oa l
obliging temper And
ceootatnat character her
patient snfferlsg a
Djing. testimony t
Jems waa prodons a
the All cherished in
the hearts of her
Tender relations.
Farewell, my dear wife, an till we meat again.
This; Hr. Editor, is the sum total of the
epitaph which that Yankee adventurer
copied snd sent to Dcmoresl’s Magazine. lie
declared that it was the composition of a
Southern man, who had caused it to be
placed over the grave of his wife. Now, we
think any one, with Ihe rmaltcst amount of
comprehension possible, an tell by the very
tone itself, that ibis epitaph could have had
its origin in no other twain but tbat of a
negro. Besides, if this enterprising epitaph-
hunter and mischief-maker had taken
the pains to make inquiriaof any of the
citizens wbo had been residing here tom-
enough, they could have given him full s'
lucid information on the subject No, he tl
not care tobe enlightened. He bsd stumble),
upon a great curiosity “down South,” as to-
thought, and bis lord's heart wss highly de
lighted over the Ida of sending it up
North to be printed ss a specimen of the
culture aad refinement (?) of Southern
people. Xben, too, he was not satisfied to take
the epitaph as it was; he must needs go to
extrema snd make it out a great deal worse
than it really was He thought tbe wrongs
and oppressions already heaped npon the
down-trodden South not sufficient; he must
needs add his share also of insults and slan
der. But enough ot this We will not
crowd your columns further with the subject.
By the tone of his article he has placed him-
helf beneath our notice, and as such from this
time forth we will consider him.
Youri, etc., Annie Maria
glass is used in windows—only gratings for
the lower ones.
It is a free port i.nd Ibc headquarters for
trade in spices of all kinds, sago snd tapioca.
Katins and Malacca cane* arc also sent from
hero. Two American agents do an immense
trade with the United States.
The country around is one vast jungle,
filled with wild beasts of every kind. It ia
said they often venture to the w-ten.’ edge,
or swim to the ships, but wc unfortunately
saw none.
Chinese emigration is very gffcal—they be
ing the tillers of the soil
We left onr sedan chairs behind ns, and find
instead little stout pontes and hacks for the
accommodation of travelers.
THE MALAY DIVERS.
It is amusing to see the little Malay divers,
ss a steamer comes in sight. Hundreds of
them will dive under and come up on thu
other side of a ship for a little coin from the
passengers. They never fail to catch it be
fore it sinks to the bottom.
CEYLON.
The next point of interest is Ceylon—four
ecu handled miles more of sen travel. It
becomes wearisome in time, with nothing to
break the terrible monotony of the sky above
snd waters beneath—liresom?, too. Intoning
to the rushing of the waters against the ship's
side, and Ute ceaseless pulsation ot her mighty
engines. The ship is a staunch old vessel,
with decks four hundred and eight feet iu
length—a French mail steamer of the
“Mcssagcrie Maritime Line.” Tho officers
and crew all French. Out of eighty
cabin passengers, only five Americans on
board—(he balance of all nstinnaiilies.
The English Governor of IIong-Kong is
one ot the many on bis way home, his term
of office having expired. The table is good-
loaded with every delicacy ;coffccat6o’clock
in tbs morning, breakfast at 10, lunch st 1
o'clock; dinner from five Until seven: supper
at nine In the evening; then music, dancing,
cards and reading until sleep comes and s'l
Ihe miseries ot the dsy are forgotten. Tbe
ship is unclean, the discipline poor, the offi
cers careless, the crew more so. In lime of
danger, passengers would stand s poor chance
for their lives. Unlike Ute t’acifie mail
steamers, which are kept in such perfect or
der snd strict discipline, that one is sure to
sleep with as great s feeling of security as in
their own homes. ^
Catching on Behind.
Catching on behind, says the Danbury
News, is Ute crowning enjoyment for hoys.
Johnny comes home st night surfeited with
fan; he has had a good time, but he is tired,
□is nose is split open st one end and one of
his teeth is gone, snd he has lamps on tho
back of his head, bat he has had a good
time, snd ho has come home to hear h s
mother read about Joseph snd his brethren,
and rub him with linimcnL There is huge
fun in catching on behind, but it requires a
great deal of adroitness and decision. The
successful lad is he who is ncTcr looking
for a ride. IIo?stan<U with his hands in his
pockets, actively devouring tho scenery
with ono eye, while tho other is prowling
around under cover on the lookout for a
good chance. And when it comes ho
pounces down on the cornice of the sleigh
in such a manner as to cover the most ten
der parts of himself in case he has fallen
on a Philistine. The solicitude with which
a hoy shields bis tender parts will bring
tears to the eyes of a tax collector. But he
always gets on the sleigh, and gets off, too,
when urged by a long whip-lssn; and when
ho gets off ho rolls himself in a lamp and
merely lets go, and the fate tbat always
protects boys sees that ho bounds into
safety. Wood sleighs, with long, strong
stakes to catch hold of, are god-senders,
bnt a box sleigh, with a place for two to al
on and make faces at rivals who sre lircakt
ing down their legs snd lungs in a vain at
tempt to catch up, is not to be despised.
Not at alL Heaven bless the farmers who
own bine sleighs with floor hjards pro
truding a foot or so beyond the tail-board.
Family prayers cannot avail much where
these boards are sawed off too etoje.