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ATLANTA,'!
CoLT. H. Acton
SAT, JULY 15.
■ only authorized
i a recent argument. Such is the
»language of thoae children of the
people are not permitted to ait at
I the lint table in any of the fint-dasa hotels
at Saratoga. Practically, therefore, they are
not entertained at all at Northern watering
placet. Bead the enforcement act
One of the famona divorce lawyen of
I New York, in hit advertisement in the city
I papers, aayi: “Hymeneal incompatibilities as
■ lint journals of I a specialty delicately adjusted. Tis slavery
I to detain the hand after the heart I
Mndei
This is one of th7
Virginia in everything | that constitutes a I
lint class newspaper, and la exceedingly I
M lhe Ao *“* dCp0t • Thursday even-
gpoo ihe^ trains bringing ns the mads with I ^ ln esger-looklng man jumped from the
I train and clasped a waiting woman in his
calanel F. B. Prides. arms. "Heaven! my wife!” said he. “Mercy!
This genUeman, i"jong mid honcM, 1 TOeh ‘ h< ” ,ed Wh “
connected with the press, announces in the I *
last number of hit paper, the Quitman Ban-1 The Cincinnati Commercial says that if
ner, that he hat retired from the editorial I Grant should conclude that be would not
chair forever. Hehaa disposed of the Ban-1 care for a third term, Phil. Sheridan will be
ner to Messrs. White &j McIntosh. Success I the favorite of the administrators of the Ad-
to all parties. I I ministration. Blaine need not bother himself.
I He will not be able to make it.
1 was the orator I
at Jo Daviess codnty, Illinois, on the I ** r - Hawn, of Leavenworth, Indians, took
Fourth,’and the bannerlof Stockton Grange. **°‘ of ^o*"'**** Library tickets and scat-
No. 87, planted conspicuously twhind u, e tered them upon the floor, telling his infant
stand.bore this inscription: “Grangers will taa ,0 ***** *° **»*“ “d hand him one.
■end men to Congreasjwho will ioT«te I The chUddid » and thermult was the draw
110,0001
P*T-
■•awoke. College, Salem, Va.
The advertisement ofl this college will be
ing of $800. The remaining tickets proved
to be of no value.
“The pleasure we have enjoyed,” says the
in our columns, lit is in a flourishing I {* ck * on i" 1 *’ P 1 "* 00 ’
nwroii M.iiB *[ I Senator Alcorn hu returned his part of the
reprcs«t nineteen 1 ^ ^ ^ TreJurai7 Tcted by ^
, , 1,1.1; « 1 members of Congress is short-lived. He has
LA I informed the Friar’s Point Della that he has
not disgorged, and does not intend to do so.”
Hymen is enjoying a vacation in Nova
Scotia. All marriage licenses in that province
must receive the signature of the Governor
before the ceremony can legally be per-
thorough course of
discipline, extensive
lion, etc.
.splendid loca-
B-Ur.AR.ff.
poem last Wednesday
niencement, of which
Saortatul poetical
tea,dHaem. Hue
•iaMol, ia vow
-. and the elofji
read an original
the Dawson com-
Jouraalsaya:
■as read by A. It. Wat-. . , _ „ ....
intros actum or himccit I formed; and as Governor Howe is dead, and
!d >ntfm*traUKdfcjuie| his successor. Judge Johnston, is still in
_ U bSaJraniDi*wuhu^| Europe, all lovers of Nova Beotia must
ftamancaorknowleS*. took hold upon oar thoughts, I wait.
aae.no far aatmaglcslloo la coocemrd. wo were a I
peat fas a than. | Following up the negotiation of a postal
card convention with Canada, the Postmaster
General has now under consideration a simi-
Jacab Thanpun’i Account
The deficit of $821,000 charged against I ] ar treaty with England, by which the cards
Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the Interior, 0 f the one country are to be delivered in the
under Buchanan's administration, is ex-1 other for a postal rate of three cents. At
plained by the statement that that amount of I present the letter postage under which they
Indian trust bonds was abstracted by one I would have to go is six cents a half ounce.
Goddard Bailey, a clerk in the Department I . . _
of the Interior Thelefldt, though charged 8 “ h ° u5e “ d ft
to Thompson’s account, is c«ried from year *■ Look, at Hartford, and at BocitUnd.
to year tathe seconds of the Secretary of M “ ne ’ have ,aft bcen »PP roved - Hr. Mul-
w jw iu me bccuuuw u» u« vi i superrisinff architect of the Treaau-
thc Interior. The Indian trust-fund accounts \ “
of Secretary Delano have been retUed „p t0 V department, is at Lmcoln.Illmom, to locate
» „ a court house and post-ollicc. It is a shame
B — I that the people of such vast cities as Rock-
ress seems to have ] an a an d Lincoln have been put off so long,
lions regarding the I and yet there arc people who grumble because
lion of the Bhab, so 1 a government building does not arise in At-
er Wespen has taken i^jj. *
be information givcD „ ... _ , . . .
bject, and produces a I Con ? r “*
raurcr bewildering portrait of the Persian ^f 90 ’ 700 ; 83, J s *™\ t 1 ^ 10 ,751.32
monarch in this style ; which was deemed sufltcient for the fiscal
The Shah Is eotpatait, thin, cr a noble, thoroughly j year of 1873. The principal increase is in
nu U,e W "’ N,v * “ d Trrasnr y departments,
ajcaara dim and aery. Ills owencaacatetT. looks I and not the least item in the general total la
am ayarTthlMwtth.lndlir^raaai. aod wMra foM aptc I ^ i ncrcasc 0 { $1,737,000 | n the appropria-
I lions to the members of Congress, tbit addi-
_ _ I tional sum being needed to pay for the
or Um*^U“ “*«y *«*•
kbBUM*aT > pe < i!kaaD^b>De *E«rai5a55o«»tibto I . We take pleasure in stating to members of
Congress, who are perplexed as to the man-
I ner of returning back pay to the place where
I it belongs, that two simple ways are open to
I them: one is to endorse the check they re-
•ibic for him to"g«inThe I ccive from the disbursing officer over to the
I order of General Spinner, and the other to
I write to the disbursing officer and direct him
. . , to band their check to General Spinner, with
Lowndes county erbp. are in a fair condi- iQstn]ct , on3 from the mem ber to the
thru. Nochsugo mkwoweeks. No cater- formcr|Qpaytboamouattat0lhoTrcasnry .
pillar, says the Tiincn. i
Heard county, say J the News, has b.,1 dry f ™‘ b5 “ *“ «>e *orld
weather, and farmer, have exterminated 8 "’ j8ra ( ?
grao. Crop* look will, but need rain.
Decatur county wil | have an overwhelm. Hadamc Do^,,. Tha avenge saUrids of
ing yield of com aa. I cotton, ray. the Sun. tidera „ c flom $175t0 $ooo per
The Clipper tcllaju 'that’M. H. Hubert bas I week. James Robinson, who has been 33
the best crops in Wa ren county. years in the business, and is regarded the as
i county cr >ps look well. I best bareback rider in tbo world, has refused
Once accept the bastard dynasty as legitimate
and the rule of the lawful ia ended. Once
bow submissively to the logic of wrong, and
blur out the healthful recognition of Its
criminality, and In (politics as in morals, we
will have boned our own righteousness.
We have a supreme sympathy with the
suffering victims of reconstruction tyranny.
We enter profoundly into thegwoes of cruci
fied Louisiana. And wbat our oppressed
brothers do in the fierce exaction ol their ne
cessities, we feel little inclined to censure,
how much soever we fail to indorse or think
justifiable: Self-preservation is the inevitable
instinct of til mankind. Wbat men do in
desperate momenta of threatened annihila
tion is not to be criticized as we would the
deliberate conduct of safe volition> Those
out of peril have no rigbOo be hypercritical
upon the defenses of others in a life and
and death straggle. Southern States in the
clutch of black dynasties, bora of Radical
usurpation and propped np by the gleaming
bayonets of centralized tyranny, are
in no condition to be unusually
nice about the means they use to remove the
deadly clutch A man trembling forlife and
property in the dark boms of the night at
the bands of a burglar, recks little whether
be brains the invader with a handy but Holy
Bible or jobs him to death with a peaceful
poker, so that he safely repels the violence
and secures bis life and home. Hence we
have felt little disposition to psss a hostile
judgment upon our oppressed Southern peo
pie, when some of them in their own Slates
not affecting others, have used what seemed
to ns questionable strategy to free themselves
from a destructive rale of ignorance and cor
ruption, that utterly destroyed present pros
perity and left no hope for the future.
Tennessee and Virginia violated the orthodox
rules of Democracy in their local efforts to
throttle Radicalism, ifet they succeeded.
They stsnd to-day exultantly disenthralled
from a tyranny that boded complete ruin.
Missouri is another signal instance of re
demption gained at the cost of accepted
party conventionalism.
Applying the cardinal Democratic princi
ple of seU-rule, wc have fell that the Demo
cracy of each commonwealth were the best
judges of what concerned their own destiny
Bnt in judging of the course pursued by our
Louisiana friends to settle for themselves
what they ought to do to unhorse the detest
able dynasty that is riding the State to death
we may have to deal with the grave ques
tion whether their proposed “unification”
may not influence the proper policy for the
Democratic party in ita national struggle.
As is well-known, we have favored in the
past certain not agreeable concessions
by tbe Democracy in order to settle war is
sues and get the impartial verdict of the
country upon the great question of constitu
tionalism.
The next act of the drama is upon us. And
in our judgment it should be a bold, aggress
ive ringing programme of democratic at
tack. War prejudices have largely subsided
The popular ear is ready to hear the riebt.
The Democracy is the party of the Constitu
tion, of law, of honesty, of economy, of
right, of true equality, and it must con-
certediy rise to its full mission. Whatever
is wrong it must strike, and it must do it
vigorously.
With this idea of Democratic duty,
Beauregard's unification whether as a state
or as a national movement, appears to ns a
grave blonder.
born la 18U. u
loir on’.lbo Per
be boa become
In Dougherty and Worth counties, says $700per week in Germany, wbflo filling an-
thc CcntralJCity, thcr b is not a field of good other more lucrative engagement. Madame
aoD. which has been properly tended, which Roland and Madame Dockrffieach command
baa not done well. ( otton ia small, but iu
good condition. The ’ caterpillars reported.
A correspondent Tub Constitution
Urns writes:
CASToi, Ga., July 13,1873.
My cotton crop is fine. I will finish work
this week. I saw thi first bloom on tbcGth
instant, two days ltu r than last year. The
old bottom is waist i igh and a week more
forward than last yea - and cleaner than ever
before My own male of fertilizer ia quite
as good as the ammoi iated dissolved bones.
The Peruvian is a ihade hotter. With no
disaster lam good foi 800 pounds per acre.
I ties.
Tbs son of Jefferson Davis is a cadet at the
Virginia Military Acad smy.
Some of the New] cut cottages cost only
No less than 1,037 p icts figured in the last
Ragliah census as resit cut in London.
Arkansas has a Chef Justice, familiarly
known as "Poker Jark,” who says: “We
play poker when wc f< cl like it, an 1 do not
care who knows”
Tbe Mobile Register appeals “from Grant
drunk to Grant sober,’ seemingly forgetful
of tbe fact that the cot rt to which it would
erpeal was abolished It og ago.
A Detroit female of twenty-fire was mar
ried to her fifth hnsbs id on Tuesday. All
Of the gentlemen are afire, and the first fonr
are doing well
AScartboro, lows, njan drove over a cow
with ids girl in the b iggy at night. The
cow got op when the Jaggy was half way
over. The scene after t lat was mixed.
“He returned his bi ck pay and met his
Creator with a dear conscience," is the
solemn conclusion of in obituary on a de
ceased Western Co:
The crisis at Vienna affects all, even tbe
highest circles. Vienn k journals report that
Frioce Heruy of Hsndt son of the cx-Elect-
or of Hesse, has been < edared bankrupt.
The Pope uses the w iters of Gastain. A
firm of that watering [ lace has just sent a
number of bottles of t le tbemnal water to
the address of tbs Pope s physician.
“A cackling "old net spsper fowl” is the
epithet applied by one Sacramento editor to
Ckotant.
It is with no ordl isry pleasure that we
chronicle tbo gradus I disappearance of the
great scourge from t le districts in which it
has been raging. In t unday morning’s paper
we gave a dispatch Tram our Chattanooga
correspondent annou icing the cessation of
specials from that cit; -, as the cholera visita
tion seemed to have p seed entirely.
In finally dismininf, as we sincerely hope,
this dread subject, wc wish to call the atten
tion of TnxConsTrrc rios’s readers to one or
two remarks. We v ould here, first of all,
commend our corresp indent at Chattanooga
for the fidelity, correc ness and promptness
of the specials (twoo-three daily) sent ns
for the last month. T esc specials have been
copied far and wide, c ren into the journals
of Ihefar Weal, and h ive given by far the
moat faithful reports t tat have appeared.
Irr addition we have given much valuable
space to a discussion < if cholera by a num-
berof learned men, p lysidans acd others.
Seme of tbe articles h ive been exceedingly
able, and have certaii Jy made our people
acquainted with the cl aracter sod habits of
the Asiatic monarch. They have also, we
think, settled the point, that Atlanta is in no
danger mUer of alia -k.
Our prompt action n reference to cholera
matters in Atlanta mt to utter rout the
feverish rumors afloat: nd at once the press
flf the State generally • iismissed the idea that
Atlanta was in any dai ger.
about $400 per week and expenses.
A very active competition exists among
the towns on tbe Northern Pacific coast for
tbe location of the western Terminus of the
Northern Pacific Railroad. Tbe people of
Portland end Puget Sound are much ex
cited on the subject, and city lota and real
cstato takes some surprising turns according
as the chances appear to be in favor of one
or another locality. The paper towns arc
especially worked up. Seattle offers, byjway
of donation, land and money estimated at
$1,000,000, and is still adding. Taco offers
the entire control of the water-front of the
icity, and a large amount of land incase
Seattle does net get tho terminus. A party
of unquestionable responsibility agrees to
build, equip, and put In running order a
branch from Seattle to connect with tbe
Northern Pacific Railroad near Taco, by
January 1, for less than the amount pledged
to the company.
They have two remarkable curiosities in
California, which it [were well not to name
in the same breath. One is a college eighty
yean old, forty-five miles from the railroad,
and approachable only through pathless
woods and over cattle tracks in the clearing-
It is the College of Oar Lady of Gnadalupe,
commonly known aa Santa Ynez College, is
coeval with the.old Santa Ynez Mission, is
conducted by the Order of Franciscans, and
has twenty-five .students in attendance—all
it can accommodate. The other curiosity is
a bona fide Japanese mermaid, now in a des-
icatcd state, but in the year 1373 it was as
lively a fish;woman as ever made silver music
in a hollow shell or banded Billingsgate with
her garrulous and ungrammatical sisters. It
is said that this mermaid has been an heir
loom in an old Japanese family for six hun
dred years. It now belongs to a Frisco
showman, who hu no doubt made more of
the mermaid than was ever made of it be
fore.
Beauregard's Unification
It has fallen to that distinguished and pa
triotic Southern soldier. General Beauregard,
to startle the country with a new political
term, comprehending a bold and sweeping
political proposition. The novel bantling is
christened “Unification,” and it hu tumbled
like a hostile bombshell amid the Democratic
legions. Cradbled to its final analysis, the
word is simply a literal synonyme for ac
complished Radicalism. Under the radiant
garb of an exceedingly captivating ideal
designation, tbe moat repulsive atrocities ol
Radical partisan ism are commended to the
country and urged to complete popular ac
ceptance. All tbe distinctions between
Democracy and Radicalism are by this word
and ita sweeping significance exterminated,
root and branch.
And we entertain not adonbt that the gal
lant soldier, who bss led in this daring move
ment, hu bcen animated by a' genuine and
disinterested patriotism. We believe that
no degrading motive of selfish or conupt
ambition hu inspired him. Beauregard we
opine to be a conscientious lover of his
country. Some personal experience of the
man hu engendered a very dear and fixed
conception of his character and capacities.
To an exceedingly imperious sense ol duty,
he does not add large gifts of intellect. Ilia
desire to do right, and his humanity, were
ever greater than his judgment is correct,
or his mental processes sound.
Beauregard, in this mauer.hu grappled
with a problem far beyond his powers, and
his attempted solution is an honest bat awful
botch. Atone fell swoop he would strike
down the tight at the feet of wrong, and
yielding the very substance of the Democratic
cause, forfeit forever all chance of its su
premacy. The very essence of future consti
tutional triumph lies in preserving the dis
tinction between the fruits of despoti—l and
thebeneficentresultaof riot*** ' utent
us itm.nouiA.Ti.
Robert E. Leo,
“Ah, Sir Lancelot,” he said, “thou wert
head of ail .Christian knights; and, now, I
daresay,” said Sir Ector, "thou, Sir Lancelot,
there thou liest, that thou wert never matched
of earthly knights’ band; and thou wert tbe
courtliest knight that ever bare shield; * *
and thou wert the kindest man that ever
stroke with sword; and thou wert the good
liest person that ever came among press of
knights; and thou wert the meekest man and
the gentlest that ever ate in hall among la-
dies; and thou wert the sternest knight to
thy mortal foe that ever put spear in rest.”—
The Merle V Arthur of Sir Thimuu Malory.
With reverence and regret we repeat to-day
Sir Ector’s words of sorrow for the great Sir
Lancelot, and apply them to the man who
died yesterday—the noblest knight of our
generation. The hero of the Arthurian leg
ends u he lay dead in Joyous-Gard, with the
record of a life made splendid by great deeds,
might have revived other than kindly or en
nobling reco'lections in the mourner’s mind;
for the wronged king and the breaking up
ofjthe goodly fellowship of the Round Table
ccnld not be forgotten, but lay'like shadows
upon tbe dead knight. But in the life of
Robert Edmund Lee, there was no reproach
of man or woman; his deeds were
dimmed by no wrong done or duty unful
filled ; there was no stain upon his honor and
no unrighteous blood upon his hands. He was
indecdagood;knight,noble of heart and strong
of purpose, and both n soldier and gentle
man. The ago that knew him, if Dot the age
of chivalry, will yet be remarkable for hav
ing produced in him a man as chivalric as
any that lives in history. He, too, was one,
end the greatest one, of a goodly fellowship
that was broken up and scattered about the
world. Some of these Southern knights
have gone before him, and with him departs
the last remnant of the cause for which thev
fought and the strength that so long upheld
In every particular he possessed the re
quisites of a true soldier. He was brave; his
whole military record and life-long scorn of
danger alike bear testimony to his bravery.
He was wise; his successes against great odds,
and bis almost constant anticipation of the
enemy’s movements were proofs of his wis
dom. He was skillful; his forced march-8
and uni xpected victories assert his skill. He
was patient and unyielding; his weary
struggle against the mighty armies
of the North and his stern tlefensc of
Richmond, forever preserve the memory of
bis patience and resolution. He was gentle
and just; tbe soldiers who fought under
him and who came alive out of the great
fight, remembering and cherishing the
memory of the man, can one and all, testify
to h% gentleness and bis justice. Above all
he was faithful; when he gave up his sword
there was uo man in his own ranks or in
those of the enemy that doubted his faith,
or believed that he bad not done all mortal
could do for the cause for wbich be made
such a struggle.
When the last chance was gone, and all
hope was at an end, tbe old hero bowed to a
higher will than his own, and accepted the
fate of the Sonlh with calm grandeur. But
he was done with all wars. He could never
take the field again; he knew that it was not
for him to see the act of secession upheld by
the South and recognized by the North, and
after lhe failure of his own countrymen he
was loo old and war-worn to draw his sword
in a foreign quarrel. He passed from the
fever of the camp into tbe quiet of the clois
ter, and aa the President of Washington Col
lege, in Vmginis, spent the remaining portion
of hi« sixty-three years in working for the
good of his native State.
We cannot express all the troth that coaid
be told about Lee, nor can we do justice to
his worth and fame, but perhaps the few
words of Sir Ector arc the best after all.
He was a good knight, a true genUeman;
knowing this, let us leave him with fame
and posterity; with the rest, tbe Resurrec
tion and the Life.
Cnriona Starr at Londn Society.
London Letter to tbe New York Graphic.]
Things have come to such a psss in Lon
don that to many and remain “ in society”
on less than £3,U00 a year, ia a perfect im
possibility. Now, the men and women with
£3000 a year are few; to remain in society
is more valued than domestic life outside of
thatcharmed circle; and the consequences
are that marriages “ in high life” yearly be
come fewer. There are other conse
quences of a still more painful nature;
one hears jot them every once and a while
at the Divorce Conn. I have iust bcen
reading one of them. A pretty littie woman
with yellow hair—a Becky Sharp, if yon
please, bnt a Becky Sharp as Becky may have
been—bad bcen married to an army officer,
who had nothing bnt his pay to live on.
They were happy for one year; they
quarreled the second year; the third
year they were happy again, for the little
woman had discovered a plan for always
giving her husband good dinners, keeping
herself smart wi'h jewelry, and yet asking
him far less house-keeping money thin be
fore. One day came an anonymous letter,
revealing the secret of this financial feat,
and—you know the rest The littie woman
was sworn in the witness-box, and asked by
a counsel whether the Captain had been
brutal or neglectful? “Ob, do,” she
sobbed, “be was always kind; bnt he used
to look so miserable at seeing me poorly
dressed, and at having inch bad dinners;
and I was afraid be might take to dining
5 from home and leaving me, and I
not bear the thought of it, for I loved
him more than—than anything on earth,
and do now.” The tittle woman wept her
blue eyes red, the honest Captain cried like
a boy; but the Sickelisian mode of arrang
ing these things not beiog in vogue here,
he insisted on his divorce, got it, and his
wife is sow walking the -pave at the Hay-
market.
Co tram—it*. 45.
Tbe receipt* this week are 15,000 bales,
13,000 more than last year, and the same
amount aa two years since.
It is likely the receipts for next week will
be about 13,000 bales, compared with 2,000
last year and 10,000 the year before; and the
receipts at the interior towns2,000, compared
with 000 last year and 3,000 the year before.
The thermometer has averaged 88 degrees
at noon.
Six days dear and hot, and one day doudy
and warm, with two thunder storms during
the week,in which the rainfall was $ of an
inch.
This week last year tnc thermometer was
81 degrees at noon—dcudy and showery
every dsy.
Next week lsst year the thermometer was
85 degrees at noon—doudy acd showery
six days, with heavy rains four days.
The public dispatches in relation to the
cotton crop for next week list year were:
’Heavy rains, damaging cotton in Tennes
see and upper Alabama, causing bolls to
fall off.” “Tbe overflow of tbe Alabama
River and tributaries bas destroyed the cot
ton, and cut off the receipts at Mobile 100,-
000 bales; luge creeks are from two to five
feet higher than ever before known; also,
caterpillars and boll worms are doing much
damage.”
The genuine caterpillar has appeared in
luge numbers on Aiday’s place in Miller
ctnnty, Georgia. Huntsville, Alabama,
bottom lands flooded, crops injured.
IIECEIPTS.
The receipts are still going beyond any
thing we expected and are perfectly aston-
ishing. 'Where does all the cotton arriving.
atNorfolk and New York come from?
The receipts this week are five times as
much as last year, same week; and will be
for the month of July larger than any year
in the history of the cotton trade, not even
excepting the “ big crops ” years 1858-00 snd
1870-71.
Some persons say that now tho receipts
do not make any difference; a few thou
sand bales more or less^at this time of th
year, will not effect the muket either way.
Wc think they are mistaken, for dealers ue
likely to look at it in this way. The floods,
worms and euly frost destroyed much of
the cotton last year, still the quantity in the
interior now teems luge for the time of
year. So, with ten per cent more
planted what will this crop be if
no serious disaster befalls it.
The first bale of new crop cotton this year,
was received at Brownsville, Texas, July 3.
Last year the first bale was received at Gal-
veston, Texas, July 15. Yeu before last the
first bale was received at Galveston, Texas,
July 21.
WBATHER.
The rain fail for this week has been 1 of an
inch ; failing t inch on Saturday and J of an
inch on Thursday. These rains were very
timely and did much good. We beu also
there has bcen local rains and thunder
showers ail over the cotton i country, and as
the fields ue now perfectly clear of grass
and weeds an inch of rain every week will
be a positive blessing. Some farmers arc
already beginning to complain of drouth.
The rain fall in three weeks past has been a
little over one inch. One day this week the
thermometer was 83 degrees at 7 a. m. and
94 degrees at noon—the hottest day of the
season thus far—snd the weather for the en
tire week has bcen the first bright, cleu,
summer weather wo have bad. Some per
sons fesr an overflow of the Mississippi
River soon, in consequence of the heavy
rains and very high rivers in the West
There is not the least danger of this. Heavy
rains on the upper Missouri that would cause
that river to rise twenty-five feet would not
affect the Mississippi River twelve inches at
New Orleans.
chop raospBCTs.
A small patch of cotton planted in the
suburbs of this city, April 15th, is now 18 to
24 inches high; very full of squares, and
began blooming the 10th inst It has bcen
worked over only twice; but is as fine as
possible. We have not heud a single com-
plaint from anywhere this week; bat all
accounts are “splendid crops, never better.”
In fact, we feu they are too good to lost;
and think it likely wo may hear of some dis
aster from some cause, for it will be very
strange if we do not.
The bulls in contracts ue suffering some
just now; and it will be an easy matter to
nave sent over tho wires some terrible disas
ter from worms or floods. -' '■
The market in New York has been dull
and irregular this week; sales 6,000 bales
spoia and 60,000 bales 'contracts;'
with a decline of a ^ quarter of a cent on
spots, and J to J on contracts, closing with a
weak and unsteady muket. For the benefit
of jbose who take past evpcriencc for a guide
in tbo future, we will state that tho muket
in New York, for the past four years, has
followed this course: July 9,1869, it was 34
cents, (gold ISO) then began to fall, and rose
again At gust 13tb. May 13th, 1870, it was
23* cents, (gold 115) then began to fall, and
never rose again until less than 15 cents was
touched. July 7tb, 1871, it was 214 cents,
(gold 112) then began to fall and reacted again
August 33. This yeu, July 8th, was 21
cents (gold 116) then began to fall, and our
readers can fill up this line in the wsy that
will best agree with their judgment or inter
est For the benefit of those persons
who like sensational reports, there
is a general understanding
the cotton dealers, here in Atlanta,
that there will be a rise and a corner in the
muket in New York about the 15th or 20tb
of this mouth. We have tried to trace the
rumor to some authentic source, hut ail we
have been able to obtain is a wise Icok and
shake of the head.
We have never yet known two successful
corners to follow each other without one
month, at least, between them; and we
would advise our readers, if they believe this
report, to stay ont of the market entirely,
and not own a bale either way, and they will
be safe; for if they bay expecting the rise,
and it does not come, they may regret it.
We will add this, if the muket should take
a sudden run down, to anywhere near a
parity with the Liverpool price, as it did in
August, 1871, and. then there should be
rumors of damage to the crop, we should ex
pect an advance, and possibly a corner, for
August or September. Just now the stocks
at the ports ue large—much luger
than any yeu since the war—and
New York is three cents a pound above a
parity with Liverpool. The market in Liv
erpool has been quiet, with medium sales
and a decline of i of a cent, in the price.
Our dispatches often comes so mixed up
that it is hard to decipher just what they
mean. For the past three weeks we have
bcen especially perplexed; and as we had to
guess at some of them wc made some errors.
We allude to this, especially, just now be
cause our report of tbe stock taking at Liv
erpool, Jnne 26th, was incorrect We ue
jost in receipt of W. C. Watts & Co’s weekly
report of tbe Liverpool muket, under date
of Jnne 87, wbich contains the actual report
of the stock in Liverpool. Actual stock
£83,160 bales, which ia only 330 bales more
than tbe rnnning count, showing an increase
of 2,0S0 bales of Brazilian, 2.860 Ejgyptian,
O.uSOWest Indian,and 13,900 East Indian;
and a decrease of 59 Smyrna, and 26,040
American. Those gentlemen also write that
there were great fears of a strike of tbe
operatives at some of the mills; and if it did
occur it would lessen the consumption of
cotton 5,COO bales a week while it lasted;
and that the feu of this caused a dullness
in the cotton muket.
There are now 115,000 bales of American
cotton afloat for Liverpool, of which 40,003
bale will be due and should be received there
next week.
For the week ending July 4. the re
ceipts at Bombay were 6,000 bales; shipments
to Great Britain, 15,000; to continent 5,000
bales. The receipts at Bombay for three
months after this time, in tbe years 1870.
1871 and 1873, were 18,000; 125,000 awl
16,003 bales. They may be 50,000 for same
time this yeu.
The time for planting in Indies, is from
about June 35 to August 10, principally this
month. Onr latest reportjfrom that country
is, “plenty of rain, and season so fu highly
favorable.”
We ue jnst in receipt of Alexander, Col-
lie & Co’s, monthly report, for June, of the
Manchester muket; and, although it em
braces tbe time when onr own muket was
active and rising, and general reports of
damage to onr crops, still their report says,
“there is no life, no animation to the trade;
-and there seems to be a want of confidence
in the immediate future for goods in Eastern
countries, cansing trade to be dulL”
moerzera.
We have bnt tittle to add to what we have
already written; but will say this: low mid-
dling cotton may sell for for 19 cents in
New York some time next week.
TOflB OFEilFHo.23
The Great City on the Spree.
The Street of Streets Stripped
of all Romance.
Warriors, Not. Poets—Sccial En
joyment Among the Lions and
Tigers—A Big Band and
Big Mugs of Beer.
Tha Bold SeldtarBoyi cf Germany and
their Personal Appearance—Public
Provisions for Popular Instruc
tion—The old Burgomaster
cf Ghent.
Hr Tbe New York Son, discussing the
imliiical outlook, says: “If the Democracy
i ighl the battle alone this fall, and are emi
nently successful, the whole opposition will
follow their lead. Bnt if they are pretty
generally nrostrated they cannot thereafter
make an effective rally, because sensible men
will not forever fight under a banner which
invariably conducts to defeat They might
struggle along until the presidential contest
of 137G, and then be annihilated—but that
would be all. Tbe Democratic magnates
enght to understand that they are staking
the existence of their party upon the results
of <he elections in the coming autumn.”
Written expressly forTnz Atlanta Cosstitutiox ]
Berlin is situated on a barren plain of sand—
a plain that extends to the Baltic Sea, and
over which come winds intensely cold in
winter, or blistering hot in summer. A
small, black, sluggish stream flows through
the city, but it neither does itself nor the
town any credit in tbe performance. The
city must be about a hundred miles from the
sea, and yet its elevation above tide is only
one hundred anff thirty feet Its general ap-
icarance is plain, rusty-brown, and modern,
ita growth has been marvelous—for Europe.
One hundred years ago the population was
only about a hundred thousand; now it num
bers nearly, if not' quite, a million, and holds
the third ptacq^mong European cities. In
the suberbs, blocks after blocks are going up
on streets named after tho heroes of the hour—
Yon Moltke,B15lharck,etc. Such are not com
mon sights in the towns of the Old
World. Why so vast a city should
spring up CIT a sandy waste and
prosper far away from deep* water, is
a mystery. The Germans turn everything
to good acconht in their wonderful economy;
and when they found the soil of Berlin
would not produce the frails Ot the earth,
they may have resolved to plant something
this it wonld bear, and so planted a city. If
that is not the true philosophy of its founda
tion and growth, then I give it up.
UH1EB DEN LINDEN.
After I was'settled in my hotel, I proceed,
cd without much delay to put myself under
the lime trees. The famous avenue had
long been a favorite subject of my day
dreams. I saw it lined with palaces and
buildings of unsurpassable.grandeur; filled
with glittering cquipsges bearing the fairest
flowers of womanhood and the most gallant of
lanrellel heroes; its sidewalks thronged
with diplomatists, statesmen, scholars and
philosophers; and over the moving pano
rama of pride and beauty, my fancy threw
the shade St historic trees, through the
glorious freshness of whose arches of
green bright flecks of sunlight fell
on the fair-haired—hold, enough. You
get the idea: I am only trying
to cay that I thought the Lindenstrasse
a very fine street. But alas, for my illu
sions! The trees of imagination fared the
worst, for I bad to accept a scraggy, stnnted,
dusty, beggarly lot that grievously reflected
on my cherished forest. My etherial palaces
dwindled to ordinary brick and mortar struct
ures,covered with a rusty coat of stucco, often
times ragged and broken, and notably so on
the principal palace itself. When man joins
brick and rftncco together the frost does not
hesitate to put them asunder. My glittering
eqoipages to droskies turned, that any bum
mer could Lire for fifty cents an hour. Of
my street in tbe air I found nothing ex
cept tbe great wide avenue itself, extending
from tha .Old Palace to the Brandenburg
Gate, a mile or more, and of such ample width
that it contains parallel walks, and ways for
horsemen—imperfectly shaded, it is true,—
with fine drives on cither side.
The city abounds in one thing—statues.
I used to go down by Ronig-strassc, ovet a
bridge bearing many of them, and throueh
the old palace into the upper end of the wide
street of fame. The Royal Library, the Opera
House, the Palace of tbe Crown Prince, and
many more palaces pretty well occupy the
upper end of the street; and on every hand
arc statues that indicate the history and am
bition of the race. Schiller, Mozart, Goethe,
and Gutenberg, arc shoved from the pedes
tals for Frederick the Great and other men
on horseback. At the bead of tho Linden
proper stands Ran h’s bronze statue of
Frederick the Great. It is an elaborate and
larpragGSr work. It is a grand picture
represenlibg tbe warrior’s life—bis love
a of art,' bis taste for music, as well
f as his military and civic career. Besides the
allegorical figures, there are grouped uuder
the regal hero several life-size images of his
distinguished officers. 'It is beyend doubt
tbe finest work qf its kind in the world. We
pass down the great street, and at its foot is
the Brandenburg gale. Here, too, is emble
matic war. A chariot of Victory, twenty
feet high, driven by a young lady in simple
attire, crowns the magnificent entrance.
When Napoleon cnteied Berlin in triumph,
he caused it to be sent to Paris; and onr hip
podromiq young lady drove her wild hrrscs
in that gay capital, eight long years before
she resumed her accustomed place. Let us
pass through the gate into
TUB TniEBOAHTEN.
This park of nearly one thousand acres
wonld be handsome if it were not so flat and
sandy. A pure white sand takes tbe place of a
velvety tnrf; and for a recompcnsive onejmust
turn to tbo trees, which send their roots down
into some better strata, and lift their lofty
shade-dispensing branches to the bine sky.
Its long drives ate much frequented in the
afternoon; and hither come the sunny chil
dren of the town, armed with wooden spades,
to make sand pics or, if boys, to throw up
minatnre fortifications.
One day I walked nearly the length of tbe
immense park, coming ont at the Zoological
Gardens;, where my landlord assnredmel
wonld be sure to see, on any pleasant after
noon, the best society in the city. Adjoining
the Bear Garden are several large concert
gardens, much frequented by theother grades
of social distinction. Wo will devote our
afternoon, however, to the monkeys and par
rots, and to (the creme de la creme of Berlin.
Such gardens, embracing animals from
every part of tbe world, are not common in
any country. I donbt it there is one deserving
the name in the length and breadth of our
land. The Regents’ Park collection in
London is the largest, but lhe Berlin “show"
is entirely satisfactory. The birds, beasts
and reptiles are dispersed over about one
handrca«cre9, among trees and tittle lakes,
in “paddocks, dens and aviaries” best suited
to their several habits The hippopotami
flounder in great tanks; white swans and
black swans too, and qneer ungainly, onge-
begged sea birds float in their favorite ell-
Intent; the zebras quietly feed in a tittle field
and tbe black ostrich, the beautiful pea-fowl
from India, tbe rare black leopard, the white’
bear froifi the north pole, the fat, lazy sea-
lions from California, and many, many more,
are ail comfortably accommodated in the
ample garden according to their natural re-
quirementa. Tho London collection contains
a few more than 2,000 animals, every one of
them rare and valuable, and every, ona of
them in excellent condition. Thus you see
it quite outdoes Uic roving sbow3 of the vil
green.
,c animals, however, are an incidental
matter. Near a large refreshment building,
ont under the trees, are hundreds of small
tables. Seating myself at one of them, at
about fonr o’clock in the afternoon, I did not
have to wait long for the incoming
tide of people- Paterfamilias comes ac
companied by the entire family, including
tbe maidenly aunt and tbe silver-
haired grandmother—all come, bringing the
knitting;,tho children, their puzzles; the
head of the family, his social pipe; and, as
soon as they are seated, a waiter comes for
an order of coffee, tea, wine, beer or whatever
is wanted. 7 be scene of the next few hours
might not please the partisans of cold water,
although they conld not find in the whole
garden a person the worse for drink.
‘All ihta time there is a rallying of men—
who have each taken at least one horn—on a
large semi-circular platform in front of us;
and when they are all in place for the mili-
taiy concert, they number one hundred by
actual count. I cannot describe tbe height
and depth of the mammoth music. Of
coarse; I can’t, for the horns and fiddles, and
cymbals and drums, all spoke in German.
With such a flood of delicious harmo
ny rolling over them, and with their
loved ones or best companions abont
them, a it any wonder that
well dressed comfortable people easily
got into excellent humor with themselves,
the world and the rest ol mankind ? And
ail over Germany, in the small towns as well
as in the large ones, similar entertainments in
the open air—on a lesser scale, of course—
are a part of the every-day life. Should this
social feature be condemned ?. They are so
communicative, so comfortable, so hanpv,
under nature’s own roof, that I cannot bring
myself to think so.
1 walked back in the cvcniog, through
elegant streets bordering the Thicrgart-
en; and the bright cheery lights, and the
meny laughter of romping children, and the
soft rnttric evoked by fairy fingers, floating
out on the stillness of the summer night, told
tbe wanderer that happy homes do exist in
thelandof social public enjoyment. They
seemed very bright, those handsome homes.
I am not sore that a lonely tongue-tied cor
respondent did not throw across the seas
bridge over which he passed to other homes
far away—in short, I believe be was
a tittle homesick that nignt
TBE BOLD SOLD IBB BOY,
with all his laurels gathered in victorious
warn, is met at every turn in Berlin. It
seems as if one-half of the population is used
to keep the other half , in subjection. I often
thought,that,.of the thousands of private
soldiers whom I saw from time to time, not
one wore soiled clothes, dr clothes that did
not fit him. The difference between the Ger
man army and that of England or America,
for instance, can be readily appreciated,
when we remember that no young man is
exempt from service in tho first, and that
the latter are made np of men picked up for
pay from the slums of large towns. It is one
of the current stories of the land that the
Crown Prince has often been seen pacing his
beat, as a private soldier, in tbe wind and
storm. Between tbe ages of twenty and
twenty-five, every subject, “without distinc
tion of fortune, birth, class or intended pro
fession,” most serve as a private soldier for
three consecutive yean. Nor docs this
release from; ever, afterwards he is con
sidered a member of some grade of the re
serve force, and is liable to be called into
active service at any time. The whole land
is thus one vast camp, tbe whole population
one army. We would be restive under a
system that inexorably takes so much of a
young man’s valuable time: But its results
have astonished tbe world. To this univer
sal soldiery, to an army that can read and
write, every man of them—for education has
long been compulsory in Prussia—and not
to one man’s genius—great as it is, is the
world indebted for the overwhelming vic
tories of German progress and arms.
THE MUSEUM
must not go unnoticed, although my letter
is, I suspect, growing long. - It is an im
mense! collection, and Its halls are free to
all. So it is in every European town; pro
vision iB always made for the education and
rational amusement of tho people; and yet
HOT SHOT FROM HILL.
Bombarding the Bilious Old
Blasphemer Brownlow.
Piling the fangs of the Fanat
ical Parson.
idiot,” if he did not know that the commu- OGB BABNESVILLE LETTEB
mention was utterly false from tbo fact that |
the editor had not dared to publish it him
self; and yet be shamelessly endorses
TUB ANONYMOUS SLAHDEBEB
“The^uorfsStatesville,| New Buildings, Manufacturers
and Leadings Mer
chants.
poorest man in Berlin, or in any other Eu
ropean center, has access to more works of
art and finer collections of antiquities, coins,
etc., than the richest American can see iu
his own land. In this particular place we
enter a handsome budding erected by Schin-
kel. In front of the lofty steps is a vast
basin of granite, twenty-two feet in diameter,
and seventy-five tons in weight, hewn out
of a huge boulder brought front a distance of
thirty miles to Berlin. Under the Ionic por
tico is the magnificent group by Kiss of the
Amazon on horseback, defending herself
against a tiger. Of course, jou do not ex
pect an enumeration of the vast aggregation
of rare and beautiful things under the roofs.
Perhaps I wonld not have mentioned the col
lection at all had it not been from fear that
? 'ou might, when on your travels, over-
ook six panels, not larger than good-
sized door panels cf Iberesent time, which
formed the wings of tho celebrated altar-
' ice of the Spotless Lamb in the church St.
ivon-at Ghent There were thirteen pan
els: six are now in Belgum; six in Berlin at
a cost of $80,000, and one is lost Both sides
of tbe panels arc painted, and the three of
onr story are turned once in three days.
Each picture is a gem, and one ot them is
absolutely perfect—the portrait of the old
burgomaster of Ghent, Jodocus Vigts.
When you see the expression of
that stolid face set on the
burly form, you will say at once that it
is unapproachable as a work of art The
artists were the brothers Van Eyck—the
same who founded the Flemish or Dutch
school of paintings, something over four
hundred years ago. How singular, that little
misty, money-getting Holland, should pro
duce such an illustrious school of painters—
Rubens, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Teniers, and
others almost as illustrious I F.
Letter from Chattanooga.
CHOLERA.
Sensible Views of a Corres
pondent of The Con
stitution.
It is quite natural to relusc to believe ia
the existence in our midst of so fatal a
epidemic as cholera. There is wisdom in the
press correcting rumors that are calculated to
demoralize the people, for I am satisfied that
one-half the deaths that occurred in this
city resulted from fright. Could onr doctors,
editors and ministers of religion devote much
of their .time to allaying alarm on this sub
ject they would do.morc to “stamp it.oul”,than
by physic, “irony” and warnings of ap
proaching death. If the people would only
believe, that with prudence and promptness,
there is no more danger of dying with tho
cholera than of being struck by lightning,
the coarse of cholera in all our cities and
towns wonld bo very, very short.
Cholera has departed from our city and
gone elsewhere. Where it will next appear,
1 cannot say, but I fear, like the
epizootic, it will spread over the
entire couulry. Surely I do no harm in
penning this. If I am in error I will it joicc;
if I am correct it is prudent to take warning
and prepare for tbe danger. How shall we
prepare? Certainlynoinformationisnecdcd
from me, when so much has been written by
professional men. And yet experience here
haa taught U3 many things I desire to print.
It is desirable that all cities and towns
should be thoroughly cleansed and yet it is
not clear how this should be done. 1 believe
the cleansing of sewers and guttcra in this
town did incalculable harm. I believe it ia
best to allow sewers and decaying matter to
lie untouched and to pour upon them large
quantities of copperas water—under no cir
cumstances u c lime. We found also,
too late, that tha sprinkling of lime
in such places was our greatest
mistake. When wc . discovered our
error we began the use of copperas and car
bolic acid, and from that moment the disease
began to abate.
When the disease fi st appeared here
everybody began the purifying of their
premises. On every side, filthy yards and
sewers were scraped up, water closets emp
tied, and the gutters of our streets scrubbed
cleau. The result of this was an atmosphere
impregnated with tbe most noxious and de
leterious gasses, set free from this filth by
the rays of the burning sun. What follow
ed? Diarbcci of course. This was neglect
ed, by those who knew not the value of
moments, and not until a collapse did they
send for a physician. Death of necessity,
followed quickly and snrely.
I am strongly of the opinion that if this
cleansing process is to be gone through with,
that it should be done between suuEet and
sunrise, and the filth should be carted i o deep
trenches and carefully covered up from the
rays of this burning summer’s sun. Then
copperas water should be poured in all tbe
gutters, sewers snd water closets. Where
parties can afford it, carbolic acid should be
used in disinfecting their residences and
offices.
Mach has been written about eating vege
tables. I have no donbt that diarrhoea has
been brought on in many cases by their im
proper use. So also I believe much damage
has resulted from their rejection altogether
as articles of diet. Hundreds here have
regularly and prudently cat all the vege
tables of the season, except, perhaps
cabbage, and have not experienced os
much inconvenience as hundreds who
have not allowed a vegetable oa their
tables since the epidemic began. I should
eat potatoes, tomatoes, beans, squashes, beets
and onions as usual; being carcrnl not to eat
too rnitch of either. If the stomach has been
accustomed to such vegetables their continued
use is necessary to prevent constipation, and
this has been the forerunner of numerous
cholera cases hero.
We have found, that by the occasional use
of calomel, and the daily use of email quan
tities of quinine, tbe system bss been able
to resist the disease. Tbe condition of tbe
liver will indicato the use of calomel, and I
think, the daily use of from two (2) to six (6)
grains of quinine will be found sufficient. I
have not heard of a single esse of cholera
where the system bas been kept under the
influence of quinine. Add to this, wholesome,
nourishing diet; prudence in the use of alco
holic drinks either as a medicine cr a bev
erage; care in hot allowing peraniration to
be suddenly suppressed, and a cheerful spirit,
sod there is aUUukly no danger vthalaer.
I believe our physicians have treated
the disease chiefly with calomel, opium and
quinine, with such “irritants” as were indi
cated in each particular case. I think iu
nearly all cases where the doctor was called
in time the patient has recovered. I believe,
however, that where the cholera baa taken
hold of the system few. recoveries have oc
curred. I write this in the interest of human
life. I wish to arouse the people to attend at
once to nausea, pains in tbe bowels and diar
rhea a. Don’t irat it off. It’s sure to hold on
if disrrbcea begins. Conanlt a doctor at
once, and jnst go right to bed,andatay there
on yonr back till yon are well. Nearly
every one of my acquaintances who died
here did not heed the premonitions. They
took some trifling thing and kept walking
about in the son and attending to buifineta.
After days of this neglect the mon
ster seized upon them, instantly pros
trating them, and in a few hours they
were dead. Attend to the first
symtoms promptly and you are safe, neg
lect them and you are lost.
This much I have written, not through
pedantry and concert, but fr. m an ardent
desire to send a few words of warning to
my numerous friends who read your paper.
I bore carefully noted daring the epidemic
here wbat I have written above. If the pnb-
licalion of this letter will arouse one dear
friend to prompt attention to the advance
“skirmishing” of this disease I will be re
paid. This letter may beget imaginary
paini and indijeation, but better that than
the lethargy and inattention that result in
death. Q. C. C.
Chattanooga, Tenn., July 11,1878.
Charlotte (N. C.) Home, July ?.]
The cursing parson has published a second
article against the editor of the Southern
Home. Its trashiness demonstrates the
statement made by me some months ago of
the driveling and imbecility of the blasphe
ming preacher. The new matter in the arti
cle is furnished by an anonymous, irresponsi
ble scalawag,and is jnst as false as
TUB BBVBUBND BLACEOUABD’s
charge that I hong 26 loyal men one morning
before breakfast—as a kind of appetizer, I
suppq*e, for tho rebel stomach. Thcpro-
slavery Abolitionist fought during the war
“face to face, knife to knife, steel to steel,
pike to pike”—by proxy. He now gets up bis
falsehoods by proxy in like manner. I have
tracked up his concealed correspondent to
hit hiding place, and find him to be a sorry
renegade, who was a tenth rate edi
tor of so fierce a Democratic paper that Gov
ernor Holden accused him of being at the
head of the Ku-Klux in his county. His
>apcr ran down; he became seedy; the
Radicals bought him up cheap, and got
badly cheated in their bargain. He is a fit
correspondent for the ranting fire cater, who
induced thousands to take up arms against
the Government, and then skulked over to
the other side. 1 will show up thi9 anony
mous slanderer before I close, and will now
notice the matter furnished by
HON. MR. BBOWNLOW
himself, champion of the back-salary steal.
There is nothiDg original in it—only a reit
eration of what others have said, and to
these others I would reply. I am denounced
for fighting against the Government which
educated me at West Point. That education
is a contract. The Government contracts to
feed, clothe and instruct the cadet for four
years. The cadet contracts to serve in the
army a specified number ot years, when he
may be honorably discharged. I served
out my full term, was in Bix great battles in
Mexico, was twice breveted for “distin
guished gallantry’’ ia action, (60 the order
read;) volunteered for the “forlorn hope” at
Chapultepec, was never absent from a scot/,,
a march or an engagement, and when my
resignation was accepted by the War Depart
ment, the spring after the close of the war, I
received from my Colonel (Walbacb) a most
eulogistic letter, signed by all the officers of
my regiment My part of the contract had
been fully compiled with, the government
given me
AN HONORABLE D1ECHABOB,
and I bad been in civil life twelve years
when, in: icordancc with the prediction of
Brownlow, tho pro-slavery champion, the
"hpll.hminri nnrfv" (na lm tnrmn.i
N. C., a recent convert to Radicalism. The
surgeon is Dr. W. SI. Campbell, of the same
town. Here is the doctor’s account of the
terrible affair:
Statesville, N. C., Juno 27,1873.
General If. H. Bill:
While in the army I heard a statement,
which I thoughtlessly mentioned to Mr. E.I Daknesvillr, July 10,1873.
15. Drake. The circumstance was that one I Editors Gonriilutioo: This is a pleasant place
rainy night a Quartermaster relumed to I and much of a business center. Nearly 9,000
camp ana took up his quarters in your tent, I bales of cotton have bcen bought and sold by
not only without your knowledge or consent, I its merchants tbit year. 1,5U0 residents are
but while you were asleep. When you dis-1 claimed, and judging from the several fine
covered him in the tent, you left and took I churches, thcr are morally and religiously
quarters elsewhere. You did not, as I under-1 inclined. The Methodists have just finished
stand, even awaken him. 1 and arc worshipping iu an edifice which I am
The above ia tlic whole story, ns I heard I told cost near 412,(IOC. It ia large and
it, and as 1 told it. The tret zieg, the horrid | elegant,
oath and the corporal punishment arc all I nkw buildings.
addenda, of which I bad no knowledge until „ , ...
I saw them in the Hon. W. G. Brownlow’s Some ‘ c “ or twelve new residences have
letter to you. My high admiration for you, gone up this season, and a.c now in process
both aa a soldier and a gentleman, are well erection-all ornaments to the place,
known, and I regret exceedingly that my I Among those pointed out to ntc were those
thoughtlessly repeating a story that I heard | gf Messre. Hightower, Middlcbrokc, the
in camp should have given you a moment’s I Hansella. The pleasant and much
uneasiness. respected railroad agent, Mr. C. W.
Very respectfully, your ob’t serv’t, I Brown, not to be behind, is remodej-
W. M. Campbell. I ing and making extensive and beautiful ad-
Late Surgeon Army N. Va. I ditions to his home.
The poor, half-frozen soldier lima out to, M«are. Slaffoiti, Blalock* Co are about
bo a Quartermaster! not a very helpless budding an addition of 59 by 90ifeetJo thar
»n,« AtA —» 1 1 Hi read v extensive warehouse. A large por-
; s icccivcxl
lOiinodato
.1 very helpless wjuaing an auuiuon m w uy w iwi
exist any more already extrusive warehouse. A lor
are uteri to Meet I lion of the cotton matkclcd here is i
“hc SCadH shipped from it. and to acorn.
class I The oath did not
than Brownlow’s “face to face,
pike to pike” battles with the “hell-bound, .. ,
party.”. The arrest and the corporal punish- l, ‘
mentof t£c we«y seont me pure tev^Sons *->«* to get a switch and track laid to it.
of tlic “citizen of high character,” who thinks . mahufactubks. ... .
that he U doing a noblo thing in Several large manufacturing cstabhfch-
IUITATINO BROWNLOW IN FALSEHOOD AND I m
blander. I and buggy establishment of Messrs, btmth *
My whole offense consisted in leaving my Summers is worthy of a visit, itiMdyto see
uninvited guest to snore away by himself. 1 1)10 operation of some of **’ c ***££,
The incident amused the soldiers as a quiet provements m the wny of machinery,
rebuke to an intruder, and it got into circnla-1 Thao I saw, for _ the hrel
tion amongst them as a good joke upon * * ire setting machine. It ia a cqmumat.qn
Quartermasters. General Magruder’a of- of the screw lever and a succession of cir-
ficial reports brand with falsehood the al-1 cular steel bauds which are opened and
leged conversation with Drake, in which the drawn together by tho combined operation
General is said to have spoken of me harshly I the former powers within these bands
and contemptuously. It is not at all proba- l b® wheel with the loose tire around it is
tile that one who knew tho proprieties of life placed by the working of the lever m Hu
so well as Gen. Magrudcr, would, in aprivate •>»»><*» ot . « nc man m , a fuw “mutes tlic lire
chat with an obscure stranger at a public r-brunk or so made to contract ns to <i x-
hotel.indulgcim a tirade ot abuse of abVotbcr ****** flt lhc , rllc , ’ ,o, ^ 0e “
officer. The General’s own official report **><} everything desired, there being; nopos-
hell-hound party” (as he termed ilj made
war upon my native land, the South. I was
a State Rights man, and believed that my
first and highest allegiance was to my own
State. . I cast in my lot with my own people
according to my earnest convictionsof duty,
and my unaltered and unalterable belief is
that I did right. I could uot have served with
Browniow’s/’hell-bound” party without doing
violence to my conscience and my whole
moral nature. But take the other view,
that the education at West Point was a
debt due to the whole country, and that I
had not fully paid it up in 18G"l. If so, more
was due to the South than to the North, for
the South had furnished two-thirds of the
exports of the United States, and therefore
had borne two-thirda of the burden of the
Government. The remaining portion of my
debt not paid by former service was chiefly
dne then to. the South, and as I could not
pay both sections during the period between
1801 and ’65,1 rightly decided to pay the
bigger debt first. It is sufficient to say,
without arguing tho question at all, that I
decided as Lee and Jackson did, and their
memory will be reverenced by the whole
earth for ages after Brownlow’a name has
SOTTED FROM TIIB RECOLLECTION OF MAN
KIND,
and is heard no more, save in the lowest
depths of the sullen pit. Others besides the
“steel to steel, pike to pike,” bomb-proof
warrior charge mo with making war upon
the dead, became I called attention to tbo
sad |fate of renegades. Two of those al
luded to in my article, Longstreet and
Brownlow, I had supposed to he living, and
did not think myself amenable to the charge
of assailing only the dead. Poor Longstreet,
whom I dcSr loved, is indeed as dead to his
own people as though he had keen buried a
hundred years. IVould to llcavcn, for his
own fame, his glorious Confederate career
had been the last known of him! But
Brownlow hossls that he still lives. Yes, he
docs drag out a miserable existence, appar
ently, that be may stand as a monument of
the effects of wickedness and the malignity
of Satan, wbich can thus transform a human
being into
A BIDEOU3 AND GHASTLY WRECK,
jeering at Heaven and abhorred of mankind.
I grant that tbe rule is wise to speak good
alone of the dead, provided these dead occu
pied obscure places while liviDtr. But if they
rode upon tho high places of the earth, and
were distinguished for their depravity, what
becomes of the truth of history if good alone
is spoken of thorn? And unless their con
temporaries tell the truth about them, must
not all history be a lie ? Contemporaries
have a right to speak of the wicked deeds
of rulers and oppressors of their race—
of such hideous wretches as Nero. Ca
ligula and the murderous Governor of Ten
nessee. During his labors as a Christian
minister, the Rev. Mr. Brownlow looked oc
casionally into tbe Bible to find cursing
texts, and he doubtless has often been struck
with the fierce denunciations in that Divine
book againrt the oppressors of the weak and
helpless. Oppicssion seems to be a sin pe
culiarly odious to a God of love and benevo
lence. I assume, therefore, that we of the
South have a right to tell the truth about our
oppressors, whether living or dead, and I for
one intend to exercise that right, spite of all
the loyal howls that
BROWNLOW’S “HELL BOUND PAllTV"
may set np. All history must be a delusion,
if facts creditable to the prominent actors
upon the world’s theatre can alone be told.
It is the duty of contemporaries to tell the
evil as well as the good of the characters that
are to live ia history. All that I said of
General Canby was true and ought to have
been said. 1 wilt now show that Rev. Mr.
Brownlow’s tenderness for the memory of
the dead is a mere sham. The Inter OccaD,
a paper of vastly larger circulation than the
Southern Home, denounced not merely the
historic characters of the Southern Confed
eracy, bnt the whole Confederate dead, aa
traitors like Benedict Arnold. The sweeping
denunciation included the dead conscript as
well as Lee, Jacksoo, Polk and Stuart.
THE BOGUS PARSON
did not cry out with holy horror against the
Intcr-Ocean, and warn it to speak only about
the living. When Matthew F. Slaury, a
harmless man of science, died, a fellow named
Blount, in the New York Chamber of Com
merce, refused to join ia a testimonial of re
spect for the memory of him whom every
crowned head in Europe bad honored
upon the ground that he had been a traitor.
Not a word of censure against
Blount escaped the lips of Rev. Mr.
Brownlow, who ia so sensitive about
the Federal dead. A little more
than a month ngo, the Grand Army of tbe
Republic, with the sanction of the War De
partment, refused to allow flowers to be
strewn on Decoration Day on the graves of
the Confederate soldiers, who sleep their last
sleep on Arlington Heights. This was of
ficial war upon the dead—the unknown,
nameless, unrecognized dead. Did the rev-
eraed blasphemer, with his tender regard for
the dead, rebuke sternly this cruel taunt to
the obscure dost? Notone word from the
scrupulous saint! It seems to make a great
difference whose ox is gored. It is a tenable
sin in me to tell
TXIK TRUTH ABOUT A DKAD OPPRESSOR,
in vindication of history and as a warning to
future tyrants, lint it is all right for loyal
newspaper and loyal associations in their
official capacity to spurn aa vile and traitor
ous the whole mass of Confederate dead—
officers and privates, great leaders and name
less conscripts 1 When I hear of Rev. Mr.
Browillow's condemnation of these wholesale
denunciations, I have some faith in his tender
ness towards tbe memory of the dead. Until
then I must regard his pretended indigna
tion as the trick of the demagogue, that
seeks to ally his own detested fiame with
that of Gen. Canby, for the time being, the
popnlaridolof the loyal North. The Bame
low demagoguery that made the old weather
cock villify the Abolitionists as a “ hell-
bound party” when they were weak and
I SICSt nimuiiw jut luuuuu mu | . a
doubtless suggest to him that it i 9 just as **“ «*»« P*** n * 11
wicked to put speeches never uttered iu the I which arc made to act will 1 b c b> a sim-
mouth of a dead Confederate, as to tell truths I P c * l,ra °* *“° hand,
about a dead Federal officer. Brownlow and . . , merchants. , ,
his man Drake both knew that their insinua- „, A “ 0 “R 'J 8 ' c * d, "e 13 ”?*?*£*“
lions about my connection with the Ku-Ktux Blaylock & Co., 1 owcll & Murphies, Cbcs-
are untrue. They both know that had 1 nult Huyulcy, Pounds, etc.
there been the slightest suspicion against 1 ' school:.
me. Drake and the beastly marshals I The Gordon Institute, as most of your
would have dragged me before readers arc aware, is located here—named
JEFFREY'S BAND and un TACKED JURY. | 8 { lcr Ibe gifted military commander, polished
The insinuation comes with a bad grace I gentleman and liberal roimb-d statesman. It
from Drake, whom Governor Holden seen- 1 bas just closed a successful u i in. The num-
ed of being a Ku-Klux leader. It comes her of students arc 120. and il" » proficiency,
with a bad grace from Brownlow, who is I judging from the opinions l lo ve heard e.\-
thcrcal father of the Ku-Klus. It is well nrewed, must have been vny gratifying l<
known to him and to all the world, that the I teacher aud patents. Gem ml Gordon was
order originated in Tennessee to protect the I here and made an address anil confcncd the
people against his brutal and dastardly lyr-1 prizes. Ilia speech is spoken of as having
anny as the reconstructing Governor 1 been exceedingly practical, eh quent and cx-
of that State. His new allies ] pressive.
of lhe “hell-hound parly” were robbing and I There is also a private school under the
murdering his oljcst disciples and followers, charge of Prof. Pixly. Fifty scholars were
until the Ku Klux frightened the Governor I in attendance. Here as every where else I
and bis beastly militia into more decent be- have been the Atlauta common and high
behavior. It ia amazing that the fiendish I schools arc looked upon as model schools,
tyrant, whoso bloody excesses made it a nc- "citors in the vicinity.
ccssity for the people to band together for I The whcalcrop has proved fur licltcr than
self-protection, should have the effrontery to was expected, t-’a'.a arc iqiial to expccta-
taunt any one with Ku-Kluxism. That word I lions, a full crop. Corn is looking excced-
should fill his guilty soul with horror end I ingly well. Colton is generally free from
remorse for his deeds of violence and oppres-1 grass with a good stand aud looks fine, the
sion. I height and color being satisfactory even to
the blackguard preacher the planters. The clover fields arc not as
admits mildly that he Was a pro-slavery [“g® or numerous as in portions of thei Suite,
man, but falsely denies that he was a Secci- »>“* seen looks well. It certainly
sionist, and falsely claims that he was always **“ *« ““e** “.»*»*> f’ 0 ,’*
for the Union. I quoted his own language I B**> ^.* ^? CS S S :„, n,u * !* brraldkald.
used six years before the war, in which he wareroonis in Griflln I saw stalks 56 inches
favored an alliance with France in order to long, and the latter gentleman informed me
whip lhe Northwestern States into ft our I J 1 ® 8oon cut a second heavy crop from
Southern Confederacy ” and then to march which »t gre w. A t us .o for good
on to the codlishcrics of Maine, desolating I stock and the raising of it is being developed
New England until he had “ extinguished I J* 118 P^P^ 0 - IheyliHve found mil that it
the last Abolition loot hold on the continent*!no more to raise $UKJ enwa than a
of America.” And then the pro slavery ® nc * One has just passed for which $ 100 baa
ranter went on: “Pace to face, knife to been refused. A step in the light direction,
knife, steel to steel, and pike to pike, we the macon bailroad and sui'KRintitndent
would cause you to bleed at every pore, wc col: nel forcackk.
would make you regret in the biitcr ngonics The road is in Orel dnss «id-r; hardly .v
of death, that you felt any concern for the jaror unsteady motion Oi l i f«ri from At-
Aftican race.’ How shameless and how I inntn here. The passenger cui a were clean,
false to claim that he was the conductors attentive to tiicir business ami
A UNION MAN, the passengers. Evcryhmly t < rma to think
while favoring an alliance with France to I Colonel Forcacre a capital iiinnager. I am
whip lhe Western States into tlic Southern I satisfied what everybody says <d him ia true.
Confederacy, aud to lay waste New England I In conclusion, let us add, that hi a general
until they ceased to care for the negro! conversation with several gentlemen (last
And this fellow is now in the Senate of the evening) Tub Constitution was mentioned.
United States ou the strength of the negro I and, withoncaccord.tbcy cxprerscdsalisfac-
Abolition vote. If he was always for I lion at the recent purchase of tbe Sun anil
the Union, it follows that while I the belief that it was hound to be considered
using tbe above fierce war-talk be I one of, if not the very leading, papers in the
always meant to betray his dupes I South. I find that it is generally taken in
and hand them over to slaughter. Be was I this place and vicinity. W.
cither a sincere Secessionist or he was n cold, I
calculating traitor who intended to lure his I
followers orfto destruction. Icarcnotwhich I PISTOLS AT A BREAKFAST TABLE
horn of the dilemma ho takes. The first I
outing ai Lai n mil -
cr—Una Kllli 1 nnd lliclr Mora.
* or verioustj Wounded -
A Family Fend.
m very tender of any reflection upon a
single dead Federal officer of high rank and
very indifferent abont the indiscriminate re
proach of all his own people, sleeping in
bloody graves! What
A SHAMELESS PIECE OF DEMAGOGICAL
hypocrisy is this 1 And now my respects to
the sorry editor who writes to Rev. Mr.
Brownlow that a surgeon told him how a
poor, half frozen soldier, who had been ont
on a seont, came to my tent for shelter one
night, and how I “drove him ont with a
horrid oath; placed him under guard and
had corporal pnniibment inflicted upon him
next day.” The pro-slavery renegade knew
perfectly well mat this tale was not true, else
the scalawag editor would have published
it in his own paper. Brownlow would be
uot “almost,” but entirely “a driveling
makes him a fickle renegade, who deserted |
the truth for the safe and strong side. The I
second makes him infinitely worse than * '
Benedict Arnold.
The reverend braggadocio did not fight
against tlic Aboitionists “ face to face and |
steel to steel,” but he did join them
“FACE TO FACE AND STEAL TO STEAL,”
the spelling of steal beiog slightly altered I
since he first issued his Secession Proclama- From the Baltimore Fun ]
tiouinl£55. He did not plant tbe tn-color Winchester, Va, July 0 A terrible
of France and the Douthern cross of the Con-1 tragedy occurred yesterday morning at tin:
fcderacy over the capitol at Washington; residence of FrmkbnLitll.-.abigblvrcsnce-
but t here, under the folds of the dear old flag, table citizen of Clarke eoimiy, Virginia
be did help the •’hell-hound pariv” “steal to abont seven miles from this place, ia which
steal in the back-salary grab. Thus, with a six brothers, Clinton. Columbus! Gilbi rt.
vulgar but loyal act of roguciy, tho cursing I Wallace, Oscar and Lyciirgiiu, were it volvrri.
parson the pro slavery Abolitionist, the Se- It seems that lhe brothers Lave been at va-
Cession-Unionist, closes bis career of blaspbc-1 rianccfor some time, the cause ia irg jeahmsv
my, obscenity, tyranny and murder. | that has existed direc.Iy between'ftic oldest
brothers, Clinton, Oscar nnd Lycurgtu.
nal, makes a Statement.
Unrequited Love the Cause of
the Murder.
Minnie Waltham, the Crimi- S!? s ? > ?^ r y!*?i BK ** pa P? t u * cf * mi| y
• I were at breakfast, Oscar ami Lvcurmis cn-
tercd the dining room, locked the door after
them, one putting the key in his pocket.
Then one of them took a scat near the door
the other off from the table. Oscar, address
ing himself to Clinton, said Hint they bad
nothing against him and did not want him
to interfere in wbat they were a!»ul to do
Clinton jumped from his scat, but before be
could speak Oscar and Lycurgus drew their
revolvers and aimed at him and tbe rest of
the family at the tabic and fired, wounding
Clinton and their mother, Mr?. Little. The
fight then became general among ell the
brothers, lasting some minutes. All were m-
vcrely wounded except Wallace. By this
lime somcof the bcligercnts bad cotton out
side the house.
Lycurgus nod Oscar then i tailed to run.
Columbus drew a rclvolvcr and fired at the
murderous brothers without cffce.t, the dis
tance being too great. Gilbert, who was
standing near, ran into Ike house and brought
ont a rifle, fired at Oscar at long range
wounding him in tbo leg. He was captured
byCoIfnmbus and Gilbert, and held until tho
* rrl **" of neighbors. He wa3 taken to Ber
ry wile nnd lodged in jail.
Clinton died after lingering a couple of
horn* in intense agony. The mother is in a
critical condition. A post mortem examina
tion of the body of Clinton was held by
Dra Somerville, Miller and Wilson. Intcr-
was found lo be the cause of
New Yokk, July 11.—Stoddard, under ar
mrest for the murder of Goodrich in Brook
lyn, proves to be Minnie Waltham, of Mid-
dlcborongh, Massachusetts, whrrc her pa
rents are living. She has made tlic follow
ing statement of the murder to the police:
She had been living with Charles, as she
called the deceased, and was greatly
attached to him. He wanted to cast her
off, but she loved bint so much that
she could not leave him. She entreated
on her knees that he would allow her to
remain, but he waa firm, and in fact brutal
in his treatment of her, and the Thursday
before the Friday on which the body wa.
found waa the day fixed for her to leave him,
he threatening her with all sorts of things if
she dared to trouble him. Further, she had
remained in the home in Dcgrmw street all
the previous evening, and in the morning
when Goodrich got up she again besought
him not to cast her off. He was very angry and
refused her request, or to hear her at all. He
then went into the basement at the front
of the house and proceeded to light tbe heater
which waa there. She loved the man so
much that shccould not leave him, and when
she saw him determined to discard her she
worked herself up to murder. She had one
of his revolvers in her pocket—not the one
which the detectives found lying at the house
beside the corpse—and while Goodrich was
stooping on one hand and knee in the
act of lighting the heater, she drew the
pistol, and extending her hand toward
him, she said, “Charlie.” He looked up, aud
she shot him three times. These were the
fatal wounds which tho post mortem exam
ination disclosed, after she committed the
murder on Thursday morning. She waited
all that day and night iu the house, watching
it Friday morning she had occasion to go
to New York, and early on that morning
she washed the blood from tbe face of
the man with a towel, which the
afterwards wrung out, and which
was also found damp by the police. She
fixed the corpse as it was discovered, and
when the had done this she went over to
New York for something or other, and was
about to return to tbe bouse that Friday
evening. She came over by the Fulton
ferry and ere she had put her foot on the
street she heard the newsboys crying out,
“Extra! Murder of Charles GoodrichP
Desperation.—An Iowa editor recently
to keep up with the styles, run away wi h
another man’s wife. He did not get ofl
easily, however, as he imagined he woul
The man followed him, and overtook the tru
ant pair. The editor got behind the woman,
and prepared to sell his life as dearly as pos
sible. He was uncertain as to whether the
outraged husband would shoot him, or mur
der him with a carving-knife. He stood
there, like the boy on the burning'deck, and
awaited the result. The outraged husband
came up within about two feet of the editor
and said: “Cuss your impudence. I want
you to stop my paper.” That was all. The
editor recovered himself, and said he wonld
have the matter attended to at once. Doling
all the trying scene the woman stuck to the
editor like a sand burr to a girl’s stocking.
Some people get mad and stop their paper
for almost nothing—it beats uh 1 p
, ?<* lodging in the left knee. A cor-
oner s inquest was held, and a verdict ren
dered that “Clinton Little came to his death
by a pistol shot fired premcdiiatcdly by bia
brother Lycurgus.” The examination will
take place at Berry ville on Monday. The
excitement 11 great in Clarke countyngr.iust
tho brothers Oscar and Lycurgus.
July It-—Tbe primary
elections in this city resulted iu favor of thb
railroad combination.
The trial of the Modocs has closed. Those
* tt “ d * d *»« no doubt the commission
iriU. find (hem guilty of tbe chsrgcsand
specifications.
General Thomas N. Case-man is dead.
A Strange Character.
“’Til not in mortals to command auceer s ”
but they can counterfeit. Gen. Van Ulletn
who was lately interred at Batignolics, in
Fans, without military honors, adopted ih is
“““V* 1 *fp* d,ent - Finding hit merits ig
nored, and being anxious to rise in hit pro-
fcssion, he took to promoting himself. Thi,
“‘“OSO diameter, who bas been known
about Faria for forty years, was a Dutchman,
who, at tho time of the siege of Antwerp in
1831 waa a lieutenant in the Dutch mar
After that event Van Utictn, not knowin-r
what coarse to take, whether to become a
Helgian or remain a Dutchman, took
he re 9 m,i^ den “ “ • P " i9 ’ wl *«*
be remained ever since on bis
own means. He would by no means, how-
?n£’5® U , wi ? ,hi * > ie »*eMHt’* uniform. In
i! 30 r,.n"o ng . b ;? 0 *? mc T*ar* a licutcntant.
he , d «*»ved promotion, and
raised himself to Uxe rank of captain, adopting
thereqfeed uniform. In 1847 he conftrred
upon himself further advancement and be-
“<* *oon after lieutenant-
** *““ of the Crimean war the
necessity of a farther rise In his profession
itself to his mind?(Sdh^
f *o a colonelcy. In 18?0
nntM?nWU? *>“MC*f the i itibon of a
Samira 1 finding bis Leriib fail in
18TO, Msnmed the rank of general. Ue was
«** way to receive fnrlher honors when
Tklr\TC T7 al