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TEE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION.
VOLUME VI.!
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1873.
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CENTRAL CITY PARK.
ET E. Y. CLASH E.
[This beautiful Park at Macon, Ga., is the
pride of the State. In natural and artificial
beanty, says a traveler, it is hardly surpassed
in this country.] '
How, from tbe strife of bury mails,
And the rash of crowded street,
Men haste away, with lightened hearts.
To the quiet, sweet retreat,
Where art and nature proudly vie,
In the fieantlfa! around.
From lovely cot or structure high
To the violet covered ground.
Soft music floats on every breeze.
From the river, fount and bird,
Weird music swells through murmuring trees,
By the scented zephyrs stirred;
And ralmbows quiver in the spray
Of the fountains on the lawn,
Where mellow sunbeams flood the way
Of the bounding little fawn.
Tall, graceful pines are bending low
To tbe tree-king’s outstretched arms,
Yet moanfully swing to tad fro
In the away of love’s a.'srms;
With here and there tbs towering form
Of a grand old forest oak,
Tbe lesions gBsrdisn, from the storm,
Of a sb:dy little nook.
Near by, Okmulgee’s waters roll.
With a steady rhythmic flow,
And terraced banka Invite a stroll,,
As the sun. In dying throe,
Faints earth and sky with crimson rays,
TUI the neighboring city’s spires.
And dome and tower are aU ablaze
With the flmxes cf gulden fires.
And Uny waifs upon the stream,
Onward floating to the sea.
The spirit drifts Into a dream
Of the Beautiful to bs.
Oh, what are all tbe Edens
In the Shadow-land we roam,
Bnt glimmerings of glorious scenes
In the Spirit-land to come.
BY TELEGRAPH
TO THE ATLANTA- 0ON8TT1XTTION.
THE GREAT MONEY SMASH.
BIX SUSPENSIONS IN PHILADEL
PHIA—FISK & HATCH EXPECT
TO RESUME-FULL PARTIC
ULARS ABOUT THE DIF
FERENT SUSPEN
SIONS.
Philadelphia, September 19.—Suspend-
d: H. H. Douglass, Bayard, J. H. Yerkes,
ohn Lloyd, Gilbougb & Co., and Bond. All
re small firms except Gilbough & Co.
New Yobk, September 19,—Fisk & Hatch
ay their suspension is temporary. Their
dvances are upon the Chesapeake and Ohio
lailroad and tbe Central Pacific. They ex-
ect to resume business as soon as tbe panic
eases.
Fitch & Co. have suspended.
The office of Fisk & Hatch is strongly
narded by the police.
A prominent Wall street banker says if
le movement now making to get the Secre-
uy of the Treasury to come to the relief
ritb ten millions should fail, there will be a
eneral suspension of banks and others.
A meeting of bank Presidents, is now be-
jg held at tbe clearing bouse.
Vernon & Hay have suspended.
The police prevent any but members from
ntering the Stock Exchange.
E. D.Randolph & Co., bankers of the Penn-
plvania Central Railroad, and Wm. H. Con
or have announced suspension.
The clearing house apoointed a committee
f five to prepare a plan to relieve the pres
et difficulties. At 2 o’clock a better feeling
revailed.
Western Union stock 72.
The ran on the Union Trust Company is
ibsiding. A more or less crowd is around
very teller’s desk.
George B. Alley, whose suspension has al-
*ady been annonneed, is widely known in
annection with fast horses, having raised
texter. He says bis suspension is caused by
general decline in stocks, especially Van-
erbilt stocks. His liabilities are not large,
od he expects to resume soon.
Greenleaf. Morris & Co. are an old and
ealthy stock firm.
President Calhoun, of the Fourth National
iunfc, Bays we have no reason to fear any
^President Tappay, of the Gallatin National
ank, says he believes the better banking in-
itutio ns will weather the storm.
Secretary Carlton, of the Union Trust
ompany. says that company is perfectly
dvent and will meet all demands It was
■ported that this company had seven hun-
red thousand dollars on deposit1 vt night
Mr. Fabnstock, of Jay Cooke & Co., Mid
l an interview this afternoon, that tne firm
oped to pay allot its liabilities.
Mr. Garland, another member of the firm,
ud that the London house would have a
jge surplus after the payment of all its
“bts, unless there is a great shrinking in the
ilue of their securities.
The latest is that the government will
jme to the rescue to-morrow by buying five
lillions of bonds. , ,,
Tbe grain and provision markets are all
osettled by the Wall street panic. State
od railroad bonds and city bank shares have
een practically neglected, while dealings in
lilroad stocks continued on an enormous
ale. This evening the principal transac-
ons have been Pacific Hail, Central and
Ludfion, Western Union, Rock Island, Wa
OBKTT
*%. T. OIT Y A Tt
Tbe State Fair and tbe Macon Fair
Grounds.
The State Fair is coming on ns so rapidly
that it will be at hand ere we realize it. As
is well known the cities of Atlanta and Ma-
a mile. These tracks are smooth, wide and
solid.
The entrance lo the grounds is picturesque.
There is what is called a “Grand Entrance,”
a graceful and lofty structure of beautiful
con have it alternately. This year it belongs 1 design, which we present above.
to Macon, and most royally is she preparing
for it. She has spared no expense in tbe ai-
rangements for a brilliant success. She has
liberally advertised it. She has stopped at
no cost to create aD interest in it, and draw
visitors by every attractive expedient.
To begin with, Macon has a Fair Ground
It presents a front of nearly seventy feet
The main gateway occupy ies the centre,
which is twenty feet wide, and upon eich
side s ri smaller ones seven feet wide. Ad
joining these in two lofty pavilions, richly
embellished 8nd crowned with neat and
tasteful turrets, rising to a height of sixty
unsurpassed in tbe Uaited States. She calls feet. A grand arch is thrown across from
it her “Central Park,” and has adorned it
with fonntains, shrubbery, statues, flower j,
walks, drives, and ornamental buildings.
The Park was laid out iu 1871, and is already
—in this short spice of time, a marvel of
beauty, owing to the munificent expenditures
inspired by the finest taste. Tbe site is a
natural one for a park.
A BEAUTIFUL PAHK.
It lies on the bank of the river and has
groves and forests and smooth areas of open
space as level as a floor. All the natural ad
vantages of the ground have been most ar
tistically improved. They have two race
one pavilion to the other, from the centre of
which rises a flag-staff to a height of one
hundred feet, which is surmounted with a
large gilded hall. Upon the arch is the
name, “Central City Park,” and conspicu
ously placed in panels designed for the pur
pose, on each pavilion, are the mottoes,
“Agriculture,” “Commerce” and “Art.” Am
ple rooms for offices, ladies’ waiting rooms,
police quarters, and gate-keeper, complete
the structure.
THE BIVER TERRACE,
One of the most unique “beauty spots” of
Central Park, Is the fine terrace into which
tracks, qne a mile around and the other half the bank of the adjacent river has been
f= . I — '
Paul, Northwestern, Lt&e Shire
bash, St. Paid,
and ErK r •'.;
Outside ptrehasers continue in ponsider-
able numbers on the declining markets for
investments, which' aided in straightening
the market this morning. Assistant Treas
urer Hlllhonse says it is in the power of the
National banks to avert farther disaster, and
thqy will undoubtedly do so.
8:15 p. M.—The Evening Post is informed
that Secretary Richardson will offer to bny
from five to ten million of five twentys to
morrow. This will throw into the banks le
gal tender notes, for the large currency bal
ance in the Treasury is nearly all composed
of . legal tenders. With the panic thus
checked, a calm, with low rates for n
will soon follow.]
Jacob Little & Co. have failed.
transformed as if by magic. The work has
been artistically done, and the effect is su
perb. .The soft green of the turf invites the
stroller, to repose,and the gladdened eye.can,
from any point of this magnificent terrace,
survey nearly a mile of the river before him.
This has been accomplished with studied
care, in order to insure the thousands who
will disperse themselves upon the lccilitya
thorough view of the boat-racing, which
sport is one of the great attractions promised
to tlie-visitors to the S>a»e Fair at Macon.
Too'tKich praise cannot be given to the \ r >-
jeetors of this unique and very beautitu! tei*
race feature of tbe Central Park.
:the fair buildings
The builfiijigs are large, ornamental, com
modious, varied, substantial, multitudinous,
and arranged With artistic e ffect. A Premium
Hal 1 , two stories, 250x41 feet; Floral Hall,
two stories, 180x72' feet; Grand Music Pa
vilion with dome 47 feet high; Machinery
Hall, 210x50 feet: Dining Hall,-150x50 feet;
Ladies Cottage 32x18 feet; Refreshment 8a-
Iood, 7-5x25; Grand Stand,300x30feet;large
Warehouse and Hippodrome, both of mam
moth dimensions; extensive stables, built on
a street sixty feet wide, each stable having
stalls;Jor twelve to fifteen horses. ' £•
money,
GEORGIA MISCHIEF.
HEAVY AND DAMAGING STORM AT
AUGUSTA—ACCIDENTS.ON THE
SOUTH CAROLINA, FORT ROY
AL AND CENTRAL RAIL
ROADS — SEVERAL
DEATHS.
Augusta, September 20.—The heavy and
continued rain storm of yesterday and last
night did considerable damage to railroads
entering here, washing away culverts, wreck
ing trains, and; killing and injuring several
employes of the different roads.
At Branchville, on the South Carolina
Railroad, the engine of the up passenger
train from Charleston ran into a washed cul
vert. The engineer, John Biyckman, the
firemen and two train hands were killed.
On the Central Railroad the engine on the
down freight train ran into a culvert eight
miles from Millen. Six cars were piled up
on tbe engine, and William Strong, engineer,
and Tom Scott, fireman, were scalded to
death, and one train hand killed.
An engine fell through a trestle on the
Port Royal Road. No one hurt.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE
KILLED.
Augusta, September 20.—The killed in
the South Carolina Railroad accident were
W. H. Bridmar, Esq, Wm. Doar, fireman,
Geo. M. Williams, train hand and a small
colored passenger from Charleston. No pas
sengers were injured. Near all the road suf
fered from the effects of the storm.
THE JAY COOKE 8MA8H.
THE PARTICULARS ABOUT THE
LARGEST FINANCIAL BURST
OF THE DAY.
New York, September 18.—Jay Cooke &
Co., make the following statement:
The immediate cause of the suspension of
Jay Cooke, & Co., was the large drawings
upon them by their Philadelphia house and
tfieir own depositors daring the last fort
night. Both houses have suffered by the
luge drain upon their deposits, in conse
quence of which an uneasy feeling has re
cently prevailed, and .which has affected
more or less all houses closely identified with
the new railroad enteprises.
-i The'Philadelphia house had previously
been weakened by a large cash advance to
the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, of
which they are the financial agents. The
business of Jav Cooke, McCulloch & Co., of
London, is entirely distinct and that house is
perfectly solvent, so that it will meet all its
outstanding drafts and letters of credit with
out inconvenience to travelers, andhavelarge
cash surpluses to apply to-the American
house of the firm of Jay Cooke & Co.;’ and
its members have a large amount of real and
personal property, upon which, however,
they cannot immediately realize. They are
confident depositors willbe paid in fall.
In the excitement consequent on Jay
Cooke’s failure, the qaestion is, who
next? Business men attribute his failure
to an operation in the North Pacific
road. It is feared that the National Life
Insurance Company will go under with
Cooke. It is said that Jay Cooke lost large
ly in gold. The members of the firm say
they are unable to make any forthnr state
ment save that they expect to resume busi
ness in a short time.
All reports about the suspension of the
firms, excepting J. Cooke & Co., Richard
Schell, and a small firm of Robinson, Sni-
dam & Co., npon investigation, proved to be
without foundation. When this fact was
made known on the street, confidence was
again restored, and at the close of business a
stronger feeling prevailed. It is not thought
that any other firms of prominence will suc
cumb.
Washington, September 18.—There are
assurances that the Freedman’s Bank had
only eight hundred dollars in the First Na
tional Band, and no balance with Jay, Cooke
& Co. The bank holds only four hundred
dollars of Northern Pacific bonds collateral
lor smalt loan.
London, September 18.—The firm of Mr.
Cooke responds to his suspension by stating
that all drafts and letters of credit on them,
issued by Jay, Cook & Co., will be duly hon
ored.
. Soutto Carolina News.
A grand barbecue is to come off at Poma-
ria on the 3d proximo.
A committee of citizens are prospecting
for mill sites in Orangeburg county.
At a revival meeting of Baptists held in
Spartanburg county recently 55 persons
joined thechurch.
Major W. K. Bradley, of Long Cane, Abbe
ville, sent off $1,200, Monday, for a new lot
of German immigrants.
The Patrons of Husbandry have nine
Granges in successful operation in Abbeville
county.
Lodges of the Good Templars are in suc
cessful operation at Greenwood, Betblekem,
Ninety-Six, Lowndesville, Shiloh Church
and Williugton.;
The Senate Chamber at Columbia is being
set in order by a company of convicts from
the penitentiary under the charge of the
Sergeant-at-Anns.
A meeting of the citizens of Marion coun
ty will be held on the first Monday in Octo
ber, at the court-house, to discuss and con
sider the advantages of a cotton factory.
A correspondent of the Edgefield Adver
tiser urges the removal of the courthouse,
jail, etc., to Johnson’s depot, on the South
Carolina railroad.
Some very handsome store-rooms have re
cently been erected in Greenville. The place
is crowded with visitors, and the streets have
very much the aspect of a fashionable water
ing place.
The Supreme Court has decided that
Masters in Equity are not liable for invest
ments made in Confederate securities under
the sanction of the court.
SIS
The s’ractnres are made in tbe most mod
ern style, with columns, festoons of tracery,
brackets uoon the angles, ornamented balus
trades, pendants from the facia, cornices,
galleries, hanging hoods and canopies, etc.
These grounds must be seen to be appre
ciated.
THE FAIR.
To give success to the Fair many attract
ive inducements hive been offered. Perhaps
tbe mo3t effi ciive agency for inducing ample
contributions of material for exhibition
has been the large premium offered for the
finest display of articles by a county- Nearly
fifteen of the wealthiest counties have en
tered lor this premium. This contest will
excite an immeasurable interest. The con
test drill between military companies,
seven of whom are booked to come, will be
another exciting feature. The gay uniforms
and music, und the dashing rivalry, will cre
ate an excitement that will know no bounds.
The brass band contest is another fine fea
ture,
Tne regatta and the races will add their
quota cf interest to the occasion. Having
raised a whirlwind of success, the next thing
will be to accommodate the throngs that pro
pose to at end. This, the city is making
every preparation to do. She is beginning
to atrange for myriads of the curious.
< -y, V, j r g-!
One hundred andtoor bales of new cotton *
have been shipped over the Greenville and ] 1
Columbia Railroad from Abbeville since the I
first of last week. j The platform at the de
pot begins to assume a business-like appear
ance.
MISTY
The claim of Mr. Garmalt, of Charleston,
for compensatisn for cotton destroyed by the
Federal troops, has been disallowed by the
mixed commission, and it is feared that the
other claims of .a like nature will share the
same fate.
It is understood that arrangements have
been perfected so as to enable shippers by the
Greenville and Colombia and South Carolina
railroads to receive their freight speedily.
All freight leaving Charleston at night will
reach Cokesbury, the lay-over station, in
twenty-four honr3 thereafter.
The store house recently erected by Messrs.
Barr & Cooper in the neighborhood of Indian-
town, was destroyed by lire on last Thursday
night. These gentlemen had purchased their
stock of goods, but luckily they had not ar
rived. There can be no doubt but tbat the
house was fired purposely.
A fatal collision took place on the Char
lotte, Colombia and Augusta Railroad, about
twenty minutes past 9 o’clock, of Wednesday
morning. The scene of the catastrophe was
about four and a half miles above Columbia,
where the down passenger train and the
paymaster’s train came into collision. Pay
master William Elliott Orchard, of Colom
bia, and a colored road hand, named James
Archie, were instantly killed; Roland Wil
liamson, the engineer of the paymaster’s
train, was severely, and, it is feared, fatal
ly injured, having his. thigh crushed, be
sides sustaining internal injuries; a little col
ored boy, named Sawney, was also *b idly
buri; and tbe express messenger, W. C. Gra
ham, was slightly wounded. The last named
was the only person on the passenger train
who was injured, the engineer of that train
having saved himself by jumping from tbe
engines second before the collision. Another
train was immediately dispatched from Co
lumbia which brought in the dead and
wouuded and the passengers. Both
engines were a complete wreck, and
the express car was badly smashed.
The accident is exnlained in this way:
The nay-train was endeavoring to make
Stock’s Turnout, three miles ahead, upon the
presumption that the passenger train was
twenty minutes behind time, as it was when
last heard from at Ridgeway, but the latter
train bad made up fifteen minutes of the lost
time, and hence the collision. Both trains
were going at the top of their speed. W. E.
Orchard, tbe paymaster, who was killed,
was the son of W. H. Orchard, of Co
lumbia, and about twenty-four years old.
He was a young man of sterling qualities.
C3F" Tbe Memphis Avalanche has learned
that, if a hall large enough can be secured, it
is proposed to call a convention of all the
authors of “The Beautiful Snow.” There
are supposed to be about ten thousand of
him—or her.
C^Mr. Douglass is about 56 years of age,
stoutly built, nearly six feet in height, and
very erect, a bright copper color, his features
prominently marked, a well formed head,
and his hair perfectly white. He seemed to
be a little feeble, bat that, no donbt, was
owing to the fatigne in traveling, as his ro
bust frame would indicate that he had excel
lent heath.
tap* The latest Chicago dodge to escape
the liquor law is to get up a mock marriage
about one o’clock at night, and then pass the
remainder of the time in celebrating the nap-
t ala by getting drank.
A Charmingly Told Tale of Bogus
Womanhood and Masculine
Softness*
T. B. Aldrich the poet, has been
himself, during the past year or two, one o'
oar happiest story-tellers. The Atlantic
Monthly for October will open with oneofhis
charming and chatty tales, entitled “Made
moiselle Olympe Z ibrlska: A piece of Club
Gossip.”
Thera is a striking air of innocent truth
fulness about the tale, of which one element
is the use he makes of well-known names,
as, for instance, when he says of his hero,
after he “became an altered man,” and did
not frequent the dub as of old: “Now and
then be would play a game of billiards with
Bret Harte or John Hay, or stop to chat a
moment in the vestibule with Whitelaw
Reid; but he was an altered man.”
Of course yon must remember
this hero, and the little gos-
sip about him. Messieurs of the Tribune?
His name was Ralph Van Twilier. He was
a lineal descendant of Wouter Van Twiller,
the famous old Dutch Governor of New
York. His ancestors had always been bur
gomasters, or admirals, or generals, and his
mother is the Mrs. Vanrennselaer Vanzandt
Van Twiller whose magnificent place will be
pointed out to you on the Hudson, as you
pass up the historic river toward Idlewild.
Ralph was, and is, for after all this is
a story of last winter, not far from 25
years old. Birth made him a gentleman, and
the rise of real estate made him a millionaire.
AUo some kindly fairy had made him a good
fellow. About a year ago there cauie a
whisper that Van Twiller was in some kind
of trouble. Nobody anew what this cloud
was. Not money trouble, surely—bis great
wealth made that supposition impossible. No
fancy was base or bold enough to associate
dishonor with bis name. What if it were
that he was in love? That seemed nearly as
impossible; for Van Twiller never could be
supposed to woo in vain—yet he had the
symptoms. Then it was that he became bo
changed. Sometimes they found him asleep
in the smoking room, but then there was
always a copy of The Nation in his hand.
Formerly yon had met him always in so
ciety—now you met him nowhere. Then
came whisper No. two—Van Twiller was in
love, and with an actress. Then the mem
bers of the dab, six or seven of them,
turned themselves into amateur detectives,
and stormed the theatres snccessfnlly. They
found Van Twiller in none of them. To be
sure, one sharp-eyed dubist thought he
caught a glimpse of him in tbe private box
of an up-town theatre, where some thrilling
trapeze performance was going on; bnt that
was too improbable a peg on which to hang
a conjecture. The next tiling was the news
that Van Twiller had gone to visit his mother,
upon the Hudson, and the next that he had
sailed for Europe. The Club made sure of
this last, for a dozen of them went down to
the Scotia to see him off Then, after a little
while, the whole mystery came out. Van
Twiller had really been very deeply interest
ed in Madeneiselle Olympe Zabriski, whose
perilous feats on the trapeze had astounded
New York. That Van Twiller of the Van
Twillers should be fascinated by a common
circus girl seems incredible, but it is always
the incredible that happens. Besides, Made
moiselle Olympe was not a common circus
girl—die was a most daring and startling
gymnasts, with a beauty and grace of move
ment that gave to her audacious perform
ance almost an air of prudery.
“She had a way of melting from one
graceful posture to another, like the dis
solving figures thrown fiom a stereopticon.
She was like a lithe, radiant shape out of the
Grecian mythology, now poised up there
above the gaslights, and now gleaminc
through the air like a slender gilt arrow.”
. was tbe way she appeared
to Van Twiller. To other people she seemed
“A girl eighteen or twenty years of age
(maybe she was much older, for pearl-powder
and distance keep these people perpetually
young), slightly but exquisitely built, with
sinews of silver wire; rather pretty, per
haps, after a manner, but showing plainly
the effects of the exhaustive drafts she was
making on her physical vitality.”
The first night Van Twiller thought how
easily he could fall iu love, if he could but
give that girl’s set of nerves and muscles to
any one out of two hundred well-born and
well-bred young women ho knew. He
laughed at himself for his interest in her; but,
week after week, he went and watched, until
a new and startling feeling entered into his
watching.
“A vaguely born apprehension that she
might slip from that swinging bar, that one
of the thin cords supporting it might snap,
and let her go headlong from the dizzy
height. Now and then, for a terrible instant,
he would imagine her lying a glittering, pal
pitating hesp at the footlights, with no color
in her lips! Sometimes it seemed as if the
girl were tempting this kind of fate. It was
a hard, bitter life, and nothing bnt poverty-
and sordid misery at home could have driven
her to it. What if she wonld end it all some
night,by unclasping that little hand? It
looked so small and white from where Van
Twiller sat 1”
Every day he thought he would stay away,
but every night he went again, consoling him
self for his own weakness with the^reflection
that she could not play forevtr, and when
her engagement was over it wonld all be-
ended. For, observe, he never forgot that he
was a Van Twiller, and he never made any
attempt, or, possibly, had any real desire to
see her off the stage. She went away at last;
but her engagement had been a success, and
she came back for another, before Van Twil
ler had got accustomed to missing her. Then
it was the old thing over again. His nightly
occupation was to watch taer, and he even
began to dream abont her..
Suddenly a bird carried the tidings to his
mother on the Hudson, and she came down
on him, I was^going to say, like tbe wolf on
the fold, but she had a very innocent air, and
more good clothes. Van Twiller answered,
all her questions, straightforwardly. Really,
he had nothing to conceal; and perhaps
there was a certain pleasure iu talking over
his emotions. She invited him to return
with her for a brief sojourn at the home
of his father’s. Tbe outward alacrity with,
which he accepted this invitation was match
ed, no doubt, by his inward reluctance; how
ever his common sense had not.quhe forsaken
him, and he knew it was the right thing to
do. But before he went he made a purchase
of the finest diamond bracelet procurable;
Mademoiselle Olympe had given him pleasure
—and a gentleman likes to acknowledge the
pleasure he has received. He made his ac
knowledgment en prince, as became a Vaiu
Twiller. He sent tbe bracelet with his card*,,
to Mademoiselle; and spent the day making
preparations for his flight up the - Hudson.
That night he found a note on his table, with
Theater stamped on' the envelope. This was
what he read:
\ Mr. Van Twiller—Dear Sir: I amverry
greatfull to yon for that Bracelett it corn-
just in tbe nic of time for me. The Mad
emoiselle Zabriski dodg is abont plaid out
My Beard is getting to much for me. I shall
have to grow a mustash and take to some
other line of busyness, i dont no what now,
bnt will let yon no. Yon wont feel bad if i
sell that Bracelett i have seen Abrahams-
Moss, and he says he will do the sqtxare-
thing. Please accep my. thanks for your
Beautifull and Unexpected present
Yonre respectful servent,
Charles Montmorbnci Walters.
I think this most have been what the
rhetoricians call an anti-climax. After it I
have no more to say except that Van Twiller.
spent a few weeks upon the Hudson, willing
ly; and then was ready to go abroad.
HIGH POLITICS.
Old Cameron and Sam BandalD
Hobnobbing; to Dodge Back
Grab Censure.
From the New York Sun.]
Since the action of the Pennsylvania
Democratic Convention, in which the back
pay business was repudiated in such fashion
as to create consternation among Democratic
Congressmen in that State who had partici
pated in the steal, some curious facts have
come to light For instance, it was known
before either of the party conventions met
that Senator Cameron and Sam. J. Randall
happened to be in Bedford Springs at the.
same time.
Cameron leads the Republican party in-
Pennsylvania, and Randall at that time sup
posed he was leadingjhe Democrats. It was
veiy naturally conjectured that there was
some political significance in the Bed
ford Sprinss meeting, tnough, precisely the
object of the conference no one could tell.
Since the conventions were held, however,.
Btiaws have attracted public attention, ap
pearing to indicate the direction in which
the wind was then blowing. The Pitts
burgh Gazette casually remarked that
the leaders of the Democratic partv
were exceedingly anxious to make
an arrangement whereby both conventions -
should ignore the back pay. To this the
Post, of the same city, a journal well in
formed in State politics, responded that in
regard to the Bedford conference Cameron-
was the anxious man, and that be proposed
to Samuel J. Randall to have the Republican
State Convention pass over the whole afiair,
provided that Randall wonld do the game
in the Democratic Convention. There are
no reasons for believing that either
of the high contracting parties to this
bargain doubted his abilty to fulfill his part
of it, but nevertheless it wasnotcarried ont.
This was evidently no fault of Randall, who
had weighty reasons in bis pocket for favor
ing the salary steal.. Bnt it appears a little
singular to see a man occupying the position
Randall formerly held as a Democratic leader
journeying to Bedford Springs to receive in
structions from Senator Cameron in relation
to the management of a Democratic Conven
tion.
£p*~Mr. Menelaus, a leading British iron
master, says that there is no commercial
question at the present time as tbat of cheap
ening the mode of purifying crude iron.
(Hg-Romantic Miss Smith of LaCrosse
wanted her father to change bis name to
Fitzgerald, St Augustine, or something aris
tocratic, and because he wouldn’t do it she-
tried to hang herself.