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By W. A. HEMPHILL & CO.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FOR THE WEEK ENDING TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1S76.
No. 7, Volume IX
The Atlanta C< nstitution!
' "weekly edition
TE*M4 OF SUB* BlFTIOSf.
Ot * rea«I<*ni in nectiona of country
infested l»y the gram hopper will oblige
ui by itending pithy letters about
their movement* and ravage*. It is
urged tliat farmers should sow wheat
ami oats liberally this fall to prepare
/or the devastation of next year.
Til* legislature of West Virginia to
be elected thin fall will be called on to
elect two United States senators—one
to succeed Senator Davis, whose term
will expire next March, and the other
Ui fill the unexpired five year* of Sena
tor C*{tefton'a term.
Mr. Wihttehoene, who drew the
terrible indictment against Secretary
rohhenton.declines a renomination from
(he Columbia district He has an eye,
it is said, oi. the seat that Mr. Cooper
will vacate next March, and, it is
thought that the next Tennessee leg
islature will promote him.
A dihpatch from I/misville announces
that lion. J. J. Hickman ia confined U>
his Inm| with dangerous alswesnes in
his throat He is at the head of the or
der of (iood Templars throughout the
world, and his illness re tan l* the oj*era-
tions ordered by the right worthy
grand lodge U> secure its authority in
'•rest Britain. We hope Mr. Hickman
will speedily recover.
Til* Savannah News is apparently
engaged in bulling Mr. Markham for
congress from this district It now de
clares that neither Mr. Candler, nor
Col. Speer, nor Judge Hall can beat Mr.
Markham. It may look that way in
the News office, hut if either one of
these gentlemen cannot beat any man
that the radicals can put up several
thousand votes, then we do not under
stand the situation.
Is Timur, no way to stop the infernal
screeching of locomotive whistles at all
hours of the day and night in our rail-
mad yards? Il switching in the heart
of the city can not lie accomplished
without the arrom|Miniment of whist
ling, it had liettcr Is? banished to some
more appropriate locality. There is
now no statute under which the whist
lers can shelter themselves, and step*
should In* taken to abate the nuisance.
A MnuPWPBraTEO ACTHORrtHIP. I ther,” which U introductory to the oth-
-1 While it ia true that the late war del- er P°* ms ‘*1 the volume, and "The Red
k uged the country with martial rhymes, 1 Georgia.” Many of the
' tong* and poems, as well as blood, i P'* ezri * *re possessed of much local in-
there were afloat upon the sea of liter- • l *rest, as they present in flowing mess
ature at the commencement of that i nn the beauties of Tallulah, Toccoa,
terrible conflict, many beautiful poems ' ^ocoochee, middle Georgia, the moan-
Tint i*ongrcssm.in w ho has to sit in a
liot chair in sultry Washington while
some detested rival is wandering over
the breezy hills of his distant home se
ducing the honest voter from the path
of duty, is not as perfect an example
of equanimity and patience as the
country sflortla. Ami there is therefore
some indication that congress ia pre-
|iaring to adjourn within the n xt ten
•lays. The reports of all the investi
gating committees are to lie ready by
Tuesday of ibis week.
Tub contest in the third congresslon
a) district is virtually over, according
to the figures presented in the Ameri
rns Kepnbli.*an. Gen. Cook lias carried
Macon, Sumter, Stewart, Coffee, Dooly,
Telfair and l**c counties— twenty dele
gated out of thirty-six. Col. Kibliee
lias carried Pulaski, Wilcox, Dodge
amt Montgomery — eight delegates.
Schley, Webster ami Tavlor have not
licen beard froni,bnt the Republican lie-
liev«*s Gen. Cook will get enouch dele
gate* from those counties to give him
two-thirds of the convention.
Tiik Tilden clubs of New York carry
large brooms in their prort*SKiona.
Some of them are twelve feet long.three
feet wide and weigh fouitecn pounds.
They are called centennial aweefters
and imluwte what our Uncle Sammy
will do when beget* at the thieves in
office on the fourth day of next March
Tux Cincinnati papers do not seem
to regret the taking off of the fast, mai Is.
They seem to regard them as an ex
pensive luxury that can be spared just
as well as not.
Tin. efforts of the republicans, by
making objections, to prevent th com
mittees of investigation ot the house
front making their repo t* will fail
Under the present rule if objection lie
made two-thirds are required ; but
new rule lias been suggested in the
committee on rules, which provides
that standing and special committees
charged with the investigation of per
sons while in the discharge of public
duties shall In* allowed to report at any
time. The committee on rules can re
port this rule at any time and have it
adopted.
Da White’s letter in the Co.tstitc
Ttoa of last Sunday deserves waim
cvimnendation and a wide distribution
It is a picture of southern affairs from
a northern man's stand point. It deal*
with the social and political problems
of the south, and we wish that a copy
of it might Is placed in the hands of
every republican in the north. Our
readers will do well.to send every copy
they can get hold of to those who do
not understand us, and even to thos
who do want «>• understand us. Dr.
White is doing a gnat deal toward*
breaking down sectional prejudice.
Ukkk is a chunk of political wisdom
and good common sense from the lUm-
bridge Democrat:
tl Alfred H. iVriquitt is nomina* ..
ormltr ramlidah- for |»vrnwr on ibr reevnd
Auzustwv shall support him ss heartily
of ht< "organs.” not on acciunt ot "hi* exalted
Christian character " t r there arathooaands
the state equally as exalted—not on awunt
"hts heroUm atOluMre.” f r every honorable
soldier la the t "on lode rate array is entitled
just aa much credit-not twonue* be ia president
of the State * gricultuimi society ana a lea
C ssneer-Lut bccaaee he ia the ntmtimm ot
•VmocraUc party. **** is qualiSed for the post-
tiou.
and stirring lyrics, called forth by the
Mexican war, which have been borne
upon the swelling tide into new and
popular ennenta of public thought
Borne of these poems and lyrics,
which possessed no local significance,
or in any other way proclaimed their
identification with the Mexican strug
gle, became popular as applied to our
late unhappy conflict, and were sup
posed to have been written for the pur
pose of commemorating event* and in
cident* ot that conflict. Others,which
were so identified with the Mexican
war that their object was too plain to
be misunderstood, were republished
on account of their martial inspi
ration or lofty patriotism, that they
might again nerve the arms and
cheer the hearts of the soldiers in the
field. One of the most beautiful and
admired of these jxiems is "The
Bivouac of the Dead,” by the late Col.
Theodore O'Hara, of Kentucky,* who
was a gallant officer of the confederate
army. The first verse of this poem,
four lines, furnish
ed the federal government a suitable
inscription to put over the gateway to
their cemetery at Arlington Height*.
We give the verse entire, as a matter
of interest in this connection:
Th« muffle drum's asd roll has beat
The soldier's hut tattoo!
No more on life’s oanufe shall m et,
Tha. brave and fallen Lw;
On Kama's eternal camping around
Ihetrat.entlentaare spread,
And glory inmd* witn soJcmo round.
The tuvouac of the dead.
Another poem of the Mexican war,
and one which had no |ieculiar feature
in it* comjNMiition by which to connect
it with that conquest of our arms, was
entitled "My Wife and Child,” by Col.
Henry R. Jackson, of Savannah, then
commander of the "Georgia Regiment,’’
whose fallen heroes' deeds he einlialmed
another and later poem, under the
tie of "The IKad of the Georgia Regi
ment,” whom be apostrophized as
l*triot soldiers and gallant Geor
gians,” a title which they had proudly
on and worn upon the bloody fields
of Mexico. Col. Jackson left Savan
nah as commander of that fine body of
Holdiers, the "Jasper Greens,” ami al
Columbus,where the troops of this stale
were consolidated, he was made colo
nel of the first, and we think, the only
regiment of Georgia infantry. The
lead heroes ot that command fell upon
many of the most sanguinary fields,and
were buried betide the turbid Rio
Grande, beneath the dark shadows of
the Sierra Madro,at Victoria anti Tam
pico, lieneath the rampurt* of San Ju-
, and under the white gleaming of
the snow-capped Orizaba. There, said
Col. Jackson in his commemorative
verses:
Each upm
Dreth Iwd tapped but one* hia Uttoo,
And ye were a a.*nt bend.
tains of Georgia, and the Oconee and
Chattahoochee rivers. No literary ex.
cellence was claimed for this volume,
which the modest author "affectionate
ly inscribed” to his "beloved mother,”
of whom he tenderly speaks, in the
poem addressed to hi* th-n sainted
father, as "widowed in this cheerless
world.” In his riper years, with high
honors clustering about his unsullied
name, Gen. Jackson does not need to
t>ut forth a claim of authorship in any
of the poems of his earlier years, yet
justice to him impels us to write this
much in regard to one of those j*oems,
as it is a literary comjiosition that will
live in the hearts of men until the last
sword of battle in the world shall have
been turned into a peaceful pruning
hook, and the sound of war shall have
(’eased forever among the nations of
the earth.
GOOD CKO IS EVERYWHERE.
From all over the world come .similar
reports of the croj#s—all good, and in
most cases bountiful. Mother Earth
never yielded such a harvest as the
present. From the wheat regions of
Eurofie, and esj»ecially from the south
of Russia, the reports are very favora
ble. Croaking disappears as the har
vest approaches, and throughout the
old world the change, if any there be,
is for the better.
in the great wheat-growing states of
this country the harvest proves to be
much larger than was anticipated.
Wheat is probably a full average, bar-
ley, rye and oat* are turning out finely,
and corn i* growing so rapidly that it
promises the largest yield in the history
of the northwest.
Iu California the wheat and barley
cro(« are fully secured. Not less than
£(,.100,000 bushels of wheat and 10,000,-
000 bushels of barley will he available
in that state alone for export. It will
take all the *pare tonnage of the world
to carry this enormous surplus to mar
ket.
In our own section largo crops are in
sight. Texas has millions of bushels
of wheat for export, and the entire
south will c<>me so near to raising their
own breadstuff's this year that the oc
cupation of many produce dealers in
Sl I.onis and other western cities will
lie as good os gone. The south will
su pply herself very soon.
ALLEN TAYLOR CAPEBTON.
l*iNom wK will have to wait another
year at least before he get* the $20,i
voted him by the senate to pay his ex-
incurred while making a contest
for a a* st in that body. The senate it
will be remembered, passed* resolu
tion authorizing this money to be paid
out ot it* contingent fund, and an
amendment to the legislative, execu
tive and judicial appropriation lull was
proposed increasing tliat furd suffi
ciently to pay this amount. This the
democrats on the conference commit
tee lefuted to agree to, one of them re
marking tliat the house would remain
in Washington until the snow flies be
fore it would appropriate money for
such a purpose. The senators were
therefore obliged to recede from their
amendment.
gTux reports from ail parts of tha
country Uiiinai* aa amount oi soriMtsm
•MoiatteKcncj which premise* tframoM
Calm your slumber*, da untie** soldier*!
Bnna were Sot, and sands were deep,
Man he* lone, and kupurka heavy,
W hen jo threw them off L> sleep.
The poem entitled "My Wife and
Child,” was frequently republished
during the late war, and is still floating
shout ti|ion the current* of journalistic
literature, hut without its author’*
name attached. In some instance*,
however, the poem has been preceded
by this introduction: "The following
beautiful and tender poem ws* written
by the late 'Stonewall' Jackson, for
whose stricken 'wife and child' so much
mpnthy hosalready been expressed.”
Three year* ago we had occasion to
correct the error contained in this in
troduction, but it seem* that the
rection failed to meet the eye of one of
the higliewt authorities in the country,
so far aa war records ate concerned,
Mr. Frank Moore, o^iew York, editor
of the "Rebellion Record,'* of the past,
and now occupying the same responsi
ble position on the "Record of the
ear,” published by Carleton A Co., of
New York. The August issue of this
magazine, i«age 538. contains a badly
mutilated copy of this poem, prohabl
cut from some newspaper, at the bot-
im of which appears the name
'General ’Stonewall* Jackson'
author. In this reliable
and permanent form, (for the Record
constitute* an annual volume of great
historical value) unit** due correction
is made, the authorship of these verses
will go down to posterity carelessly
misappropriated to one w ho needs no
l*oetic honors to make immortal among
the people of all lands, in all-time, his
unsulled name and bis heroic deeds.
The high character of the publication
as well its permanent form, makes it
necessary that we should again put be
ire the public a statement in correc
tion of the matter.
The origin of the mistake is quite
simple, if we c wider the loose way in
which some editors jump at conclu
sionsions in regard to authorship. The
fact thst the poem was written by
General Jackson, at once, and perhaps
naturally enough, suggested the name
if Gen. "Stonewall” Jackson, who had
wife and child” at home. Again,
the poem was originally published
1848, or about that time, and for man
years was lost sight of, but came to the
surface again during the late war, with
out, however, liaving its true author'
name attaches!. Col. Jackson, we are
informed, composed these verses
while in camp at Camargo
Mexico,thirty years ago, at which time
he liad at his far off pleasant home
Savannah a young wife and little boy.
That child, then so touchingly commit
ted to the kindly care of a Heavenly
Father, was Gapt. Harry Jackson, of
Atlanta, now reporter of the supreme
court of the state, and a gallant soldier
in the late war, having served as assist
ant adjutant general on the staff of Gen.
A. II. Colquitt. Although we publish
a corrected copy of this poem on tne
thin! page of this issue, we cannot
(rain from adding to this paragraph the
beautifully tender lines about that then
infant child:
"Our baby son—
Wbo slumber* ou thy zeuue brxast;
God of the trail*#, frail am! lone.
Obi guard the lender sleeper’# restf
In making this correction, sojnstly
due a distinguished and.gifted sou of
Georgia, it may not be out of place
to refer to other poems from the cultur
ed pen of Gen. Henry K. Jackson, al
though more than a quarter of a centu
ry has elapsed since they were
given to the public in a neat
little volume of 335 pages entitled
••Tallulah ami other Poems,’’ publish
ed by John M. Cooper, of Savaunah.
There are several poems in this colioc-
tiou that have von a national repute-
Our dispatcheaof yesterday announc
ed the unexpected death of the distin
guished senator from West Virginia,
from gout of the heart, lie was in
every sense ol the word a Virginian,
iiid only war legislation put him out-
ide of the Old Dominion. A gentle-
nan of the old school, a statesman of
experience uni general culture and a
man whom to see was to admire, tie
will be greatly missed in the body that
be had but recently entered.
He was born near Union, Monroe
ountv, now West Virginia, on the
twenty-first day of November, 1810.
one time he attended school in
Huntsville. Alabama, hut Yale college
IS.?.) liad the honor of graduating
the future senator, lie studied law in
•Staunton, which be successfully fol
lowed when public duties did not inter
vene. lie lmd long been connected with
orks of internal improvement* in his
part of the Mate. For many years he
as a member either of the Virginia
house of delegates tr of her senate,
his last senatorial term being from 1S59
1801. lie was also a member of the
’onstitulional convention of 1S61;
and in the same year
elected a member
the confederate states senate, in which
hotly he served with rare distinction
and usefulness until the final disband
ruent of that body. After the war lie
devoted a good portion of his energies
the development of the coal,mineral,
limber and grazing lands of his state,
seeking by every possible means to at
tract to them foreign capital.
In the de*|K»rate struggle of 1874-5
for the seat filled in the United States
senate by Mr. Bore man, all
parties finally selected Mr.
Caperton as a happy compromise candi
date, and he took his seat on the fourth
of March, 1875. If the hand of death
had not removed him, his term of ser
vice would have lasted until March,
1881. His death will be universally re
gretted, as well iu Washington, as at
his home in Charleston,and throughout
the state that he represented. He will
be succeeded by a democrat, as the en
tire state government :s in democratic
hinds, but it will lie I'iilicult to find a
accessor of equal experience and ca
pacity.
Fair plat needed.
A world of bickering and many mis
chievous divisions m’ght be avoided in
the coming canvass if all good citizens
would set their faces firmly against all
unfair movements in local politics.
Especially do we need fair play in this
congressional district, which the radi
cals are preparing to stoutly contest,
and in which we need every demo
cratic vote. We can easily whip tha
enemy if we go into the fight shoulder
to shoulder. Mr. Candler beat Mr.
Mill* nearly six thousand votes, and
there is no danger of defeat'
from without. What Mr. Candler
has done he can do again, and so can
any other candidate of equal strength
and pofularity. But uniou and har
mony are necessary.
This can be best secured by proceed
ing in a regular way. The executive
committee of the congressional district
should immediately call a convention
for the purpose of nominating a candi
date to represent na in the next con
gress. Then, and not until then, should
the county executive committees cal]
meeting* to select delegates for it
It is exceedingly irregular and very
capable of misconstruction to proceed
otherwise — to put the cart
before the horse by calling the county
conventions before the call for the dis
trict convention is issued.
This is shown in Pike county. A
letter before ns states that at a meeting
of the democracy of Pike, called for
the purpose of selecting gubernatorial
and senatorial delegates, delegates to
the congressional convention were also
elected. Col. Hunt, the chairman of
the Pike county executive committee,
stated to the meeting that its objects
were the selection of gubernatorial and
senatorial delegates^ndyet without no
tice to thepeople of any kind, the meet
ing* elected congressional delegatee.
The result is, a bad state of feeling
on the subject throughout the county.
This ia evident from the Barnes-
ville Gazette’s account of the meeting,
although it* result* were satisfactory
to that paper. The Gazette say* that
point of confusion, feeling and want
of dignity, it never saw the meeting
approximated. In reviewing the situa
tion in Pike, the GriiCn News thinks
the county will be flooded
with independent candidates, unless
stong effort* are made to
harmonize conflicting elements, and it
attributes the difficulty in part to a se
rious split over the selection of congres
sional delegates.
We do not know that the result is at
variance with the wishes ot Pike. We
presume that the people of tbe county
prefer Col. Hammond, and his nomi
nation would call out a warm support
from this end of the district; but we do
believe that fair play in Pike county in
tbe selection of congressional delegates
ould have lessened tbe opportunities
for divisions and smoothed the way for
stouter democratic victory.
Let ua avoid in the other
counties of the district the
troubles of Pike, by proceeding in a
regular manner, after due publications,
to select the balance ot the congressional
delegate*. The district executive com
mittee should immediately call a dis
trict convention.
MORE SILVER B’LLS.
THE LOU1SI vNA ELECTION.
Two efforts to pass silver bills in the
house this week greatly agitated the
hard-money people. On Monday Mr.
Kelley moved to suspend the rules and
pass a bill for the coinage of a standard
lver dollar and to make it a legal ten
der for all debts. The vote was yeas
119; nays t>S—not two-thirds. Messrs.
Candler, Cook, Felton, Hill and Smith
oted iu favor of suspending the rules.
Messrs. lV.ount, Harris and Hartrid^e
lid not vote.
On Tuesday Mr. Bland of the com
mittee on mines and mininc, called up
his coic-certificate bill. It provides for
the issue of treasury coin notes of the
denomination of $50 and its multiples
up to $10,000, through the mint and
assay offices, for the net value of gold
and silver deposited thereat. Of the
bullion thus deposited not less than
seventy-five per cent in coin or fine
bars shall be kept on hand for the re
demption of the coin notes. The gold
deposited shall be computed at the
coining value, and silver at the rate of
430 grains standard silver to the dollar.
Tbe coin notes are to be receivable
without limit for all dues to the United
States. The committee added an
amendment to the bill, directing tbe
c. inage and issue of silver dollars of the
weight prescribed by the act of 1837,
namely, 513$ grains, these silver dol
lars to be legal tender in payment of
all debts, public and private.
The republicans, under the lead of
Mr. Kasson, managed to consume the
morning hour, vthich put the
measure over. This probably
di*i*oscs of the whole subject
for this session. The fuss that the radi
cals kicked up over these bills was al
together too thin. If botn had passed
the house, could they not have headed
them off in the senate or in the White
The state of Louisiana for years has
been regarded in the same relation to
the United States as the Ottoman Em
pire—"the sick man”—to the Europe-
Iwwera. Our politics have largely
centered upon tliat state and it* affairs
and the internal government of no
other state in the uuion has ever given
rise to aa many questions of national
tiortance and interest. The power
of the federal government, when that
government has come to be a party
machine rather than a popular su
preme administration, has run riot
there and reached the utmost limits of
exercise, bordering upon the license
and wantonnes8 of monarch*!-
irresponsibility and ambi
tious selt-aggrandizement The
circumstance* which have surrounded
the state of Louisiana and operated to
retain her in the embrace of political
death are of too rgpent knowledge to
every American to need recapitulation
here. The idea of the people of the
glorious Pelican state, which has so pa
tiently and continuously bled to keep
life in the bodies of her children, as
well as of the nation, has been, since
the Wheeler compromise of 1875, to
find the true way out of their
troubles.
The day of their salvation is at hand
and it will give hope to the nation to
read of the first proceedings leading to
that end. The radical party itself can
not deny that the only true and loyal
men to Louisiana are those who com
pose her democratic and conservative
party.
These men have worked assiduously
to further peace, harmony and the re
demption of their state, and in the
state convention on Wednesday night
they made the first grand movement
toward the long desired end.
The nominee for governor is General
Francis T. Nicliolls, of Assumption
parish. He is a native of that parish,
was educated at West Point, served in
the Seminole war in 1855 and then at a
far off frontier post. He went into the
confederate army as a captain in the
eighth Louisiana regiment, and came
out as brigadier general of the second
Louisiana brigade, losing his left arm
iu the valley of Virginia and hi ft
leg at Chancellorsvill^ He was a good
soldier, is an able jurist and a cul
tured, refined and well-read scholar.
In politics he is democratic,
with the conservatism of
pure and highminded patriot.
He may well be classed with tliat class
of "ex-Confederate brigadiers” who
show the statesmanship and loyalty of
Gordon, Lamar, Ransom and Terry.
He is not a fire-eater and his nomina
tion is the tender of a name synony
mous with peace, honesty, reform and
the loftiest regard for public duty and
fealty. Louisiana has seldom made a
happier nomination, and if the wide
spread popularity and unimpeachable
liberality of views of General Nicliolls
do not give her victory in November,
and establish the renaissance of that
princely possession of the union, then,
indeed, there is little hope that may be
ex (tended upon the future of Louisiana.
We believe that a fair and free election
will carrv General Nicholls into the
alty of New Orleans by a splendid
jority. His administration of thtfoffiee
was admirable and from it he was in
1874 promoted to the legislature. Of
that body he was elected speaker,
whereby the coup-de-bayonct of . Jan.
5th, 1875, was made and he was ousted
by federal soldiers and finally retired
under the later compromise upon Mr.
Estilette. Mr. Wiltz was the leader of
the house, however, and In his Qtreer
he attached the people to him'as
with hooks of steeL He was the
the choice ef a large body jn
and out of tbe convention for the
governorship, but be has wisely chosen
the regular line of promotion. Mr.
Wiltz is an able, alert, bold and pro
nounced man. He speaks to a purpose
and acts with an object, and to place
him upon the state ticket was one of
the wisest acts of the convention.—
These two men leading equally able
and acceptabla nominees for the other
places upon the ticket will present to
the good men of every creed in Louisi
ana the promise of an administration
much to be desired. They are, best of
all, a guarantee offered to the nation,
that peace, harmony between all men,
and the protection of every right oi the
citizen, will prevail in Louisiana
when her people come again into their
own. __ _
"BLOODY SHIRT’ SENSATION.
Much as has been said by the south
ern pres* in regard to tbe untruthful
and sensational manner in which the
radical press of the north and west re
port the so-called political oat rages that
are said to have taken place in this sec
tion of ithe country, few persona here
know to what an alarming extent this
practice is carried, and what a power
ful influence these thrilling and bloody
sensations are exerting upon' the
minds of the voters of those sections.
At Indianapolis,Indiana, on the 11th,
was buried a Mrs. Willis, mother of
State Senator Twitchell, of Louisiana.
The Rev. Dr. Bayliss,an eminent Meth
odist divine, conducted the funeijal ser-
vices^nd after reviewing the pretended
horrors of the Twitchell case, he called
attention to the victim, who safthere
armless and wounded, and tlien in
dulged in this political appeal: "Has
the time come for us to elevaty this
proscription into power? Shall we dare,
with these facts before us to enthrone
the political principles with which these
assassins are identified? Shall we give
to such gigantic and bloody wrongs as
these the sanction of political victory?”
Now the truth is, as shown by a full
and fair inspection, Twitchell was shot
by a member of his own political party,
a man whose sister this radical carpet
bag senator had wronged. The shot,
•lid not prove fatal however, and
Twitchell escaped with the loss of both
arms and a severe wound in his leg.
At Indianapolis he was joined by his
widowed sister, Mrs. Willis, who sub
sequently died and w*as buried there.
The Journal of that city, without any
regard for the truth of the case^^rsdes
'hia man before its readers a? a martyr
to southern bate; and Rev. Dr. Bayliss,
forgetting the sacred character of his
office, stands in the presence of the
lead to harangue the crowd present
against voting to put in power the dem-
icratic party. The fact is, we shall not
•lily be I Iamb urged out of thousands
f northern and western votes, but we
shall be humbugged out of thousands
of other ballots by the false presenta
tion of this Twitchell case.
Tiik Newnan Herald in view of the
opening campaign and presentation of
various names for legislative honors,
says:
Every humane in! n recopuizes the uecessity
of providing additional accommodate
thofe of our unfortunate citizens whom disease
misfortune or other cause may have deprived of
their reason. There is hardly a community iu
the state that has not been forced within the
last twelve mouths to confine lunatics iu the
common jail with convicted felons because of a
tack of accommodations at Mil ledge Vi lie. We
hare ere i ia this county male and female luna
tics confined in the same cell and for weeks at
a time We Lave seen the sheriff too forced to
taxes female lunatic at his own private house
and keep her there until room could be made
for her iu the asylum. Such things should not
be, and our candidate should be required to
|peak out on this subject
CONVENTION CACOETHES.
POLITICAL POT - LOILISOS IS
PIVB STATES.
Special to the Constitut!oo.
Baton Rouge, July 27.—The demo
cratic state convention to-day nomina
ted Gen. Francis H. Nicholls for gover
nor. Gen. Nicholls commanded the
Louisiana brigade in the’army of north
ern Virginia and lost a leg and an arm
the service.
Hon. Louis A. Wiltz, of New Orleans,
the ex-speaker of the house ousted by
DeTrobriand's federal bayonets in Jan
uary a year ago,was nominated for lieu
tenant governor.
The above are compromise candi
dates, Wilt* liaving been a leading as
pirant for the first place.
The convention is enthusiastic and
believes in certain success of the
ticket
[Associated Pre**.]
Baton Rouge, July 27.—The follow
ing are the democratic nominations for
congress: First district R. L. Gibson;
second district, John Ellis; third dis
trict J. H. Jackson; fourth district, J.
B. Elam, and sixth district, E. W. Rob
ertson. The fifth district will nomi
nate A. T. Monroe.
Tbe canon nominated N. Ogden for
attorney general on the first ballot
KENTl'tKY.
Telegram to the Constitution.
Louisville, July 27.—The first state
convention of prohibitionists was held
here to-day, to organize a party for the
canvass for the presidency of the Uni
ted States.
Green C. Smith of this state, who is
the prohibition candidate for the pres
idency, was present and made a
peecfi.
A state central committee and elec
tors were appointed and the platform
' the party read and adopted.
ABUANNAS.
Little Rock, July 27.—The republi
can state convention, called by those
republicans who oppose the action
of the April convention in refusing to
nominate a state ticket, met at 12
o'clock to-day. Twenty-four counties
were represented.
Gen. A. W. Bishop called the con
vention to order.
United States senator B. F. Rice was
made permanent president.
After the appointment of a commit
tee to confer with the republican state
central committee, to see if the differ
ence existing between party factions in
this state could not be adjusted; and a
committee on resolutions the con
vention took a recess.
Tlie IlelreuM of Near York.
Tiik following statement shows ap
propriation bills passed by the honse
for the fiscal year ending june 30,1877,
over those passed for a similar purpose
by the last session of the republican
rongress for the fiscal year ending June
30,1876:
Military Academy bill *133,499 00
400,600 00
C MIL. 428.437 60
.. 615,000 00
1
. 1,7X4.417 39
770,067 50
4.94',384 11
Total amount ol reductions...9.487,665 51
Senator Capeuton was the son of
former member of congress, and at ear
ly age engaged in politics. He delighted
in calling himself an old line whig, and
clung to this designation with the same
fervor and enthusiasm which animates
all of the old stock of that party now
left in the states of the south. tSoon
after he came to Washington as a sen
ator last year he met at a dinner party
old time whig congressman from
Massachusetts, and evii.ced the great
est pleasure in talking with him of the
times of Daniel Webster and Henry
Clay. __
Patents to Sonttaerners,
List of patents bearing date July 25,
1S76, issued to resident* of southern
states reported for the Constitution
by C E Foster, patent solicitor 509, 7th
sfreet, Washington D C:
E R Archer and J Tamer, Richmond,
Va, machinery for manufacturing horse
shoes; J Van Leumen, Covington, Ky,
sewing machine binders; T M Allen L
Augusta. Ky, bridle-bit attachments;
T C Burnham, Burnett, Texas, cotton-
choppers; G F Colquitt, Bretnond, Te -
cotton-feeders and cleaners; W N Ri
die, Caddo Grove, Texas, wheel cult
vators for cottcn gins; D J Rogers
Bardstown, Ky, boot* and shoes; J I
Sibley, Huntsville, Ala, combination
locks; C J Wallace, Troy Station. Tenn,
gate latches; J K Craig, Black Jack
Grove, Texas, detaching horses; H
Due, jr, Charleston S C, elevator buck
ets; B R Murphy, Parkersburg, west
Virginia, railroad switches; D J-Rogers
Bardstown, Ky, boot* and shoes; J £
Sims, Bonham, Texas, horse power
presses; J II Snyder, Richmond, V«,
bale ties; W H Tutt, Danville, Ky,
washing machines; D F Vickery, Ox-
emotive chair by an
! majority. | „,
The democratic c*ndid»te for lieu- f Lkt us elect our Uncle Samuel and
tenant governor U Hon. Louie A.! mil *u not make tht tuna tetter. Tbe,
WILSON WARMS THE WAX. J CONSTITUTION CATCHES.
New York erreapondenoe of the Bufiblo Com
mercial Advert'scr.
Probably no city in the United States
has so many beautiful and what the
clubmen call “eligible” neiresses as
New York, and as I have written of the
rich widows and bachelors, some facts
and particul&zs concerning the maidens
rich and fancy free may be as readable
and interesting. It is not inappropriate
to bead the li6t with M s* Mancia Koose
velt, although she is an orphan, her
father, ex-Judge Roosevelt, having died
two years ago, and her mother last win
ter in Pari*. The Roosevelts came of
good knickerbocker stock, and were for
many years conspicuous among the
elite. Mrs. Roosevelt was a Mis* Van
Ness and her father was minister to
Spain. She was a beautiful and talent
ed lady in her younger days, aud a
great entertainer at tne old Roosevelt
mansion of Broadway, near Thirteenth
street At her death she left her prop
erty, valued at $2,000,000, to Miss Mar
cia. her only daughter, and it is said,
to the exclusion of her sons. The
young ladv inherits many of her dis
tinguished mother's talents, and almost
as general a favorite.
Miss Stevens, daughter of the late
Col. Paran Stevens, of hotel fame, is
heiress to a million odd, and reported
engaged to an English nobleman. She
is young, pretty and stylish, fond of
societv. horse-racing, yachting, polo,
etc. She spends some of her winters iu
Europe and her summers at Newport,
where the Stevens cottage is opposite
the Ocean House. Mrs. 8tevens was a
Miss Reed of Boston, and her sister,
who is completing her musical educa
tion in Pans, is engaged to Mr. Moses
II. Grinneli, formeny .collector of the
port.
Miss Weed, daughter of Thurlow
Weed, will one day tome in poeesaion
of many hundred thousands. She is
a very clever and accomplished young
lady, and acta as her father's secretary.
They live plainly, but handsomely and
cointortabiy, in a large double house on
Twelfth street, just west of Fifh ave-
Miss Andrews, daughter of the late
Loring Andrew*, ihe millionaire, is des
tined to be one of the richest ladies in
America, her father's estate being
$5,000,000. She is now in Europe with
her brother, and their magnificent coun
try seat at Newport has Been rented to
Mr. Havemeyer. the Austrian consul
g eneral of New York. Miss Andrews
} not yet nineteen years of age and
very lieautifal.
Miss Josephine Hoey, daughter of
John Hoev, head of Adams express
company whose wife was once leading
lady at Wallack's theater. The young
lady is poasibly two and twenty year*
of age, stylish, and the best "whip” at
Long Branch, where the Hoevs have
their summer residence. She drives a
pair of cream colored horses to a bas
ket carriage, and is known to all the
habitues oi ^the Branch. John Hoey be
gan life at the lowest round of the lad
der, and is now worth “all the way up’
from $750,000. Josephine is the only
daughter.
Mias Moller is the daughter of Will
iam Moller, the sugar refiner, whom
every body thought rich until lie failed
about a year ago. She is very stylish
and effective, and ha* been much ad
mired in Paris and Vienna. The gos
sips say her father settled half a mill
ion on her years ago, and she has al-
been regarded as an heiress by young
men in search of a rich wife.
Miss Lamont, daughter oi the late
Charles Lamont, who fell from the win
dow of his bouse on Fifth avenue one
summer’s night while the family was al
West Point, and was instantly killedL
is with her mother at the East End,
Long branch. She is just of age, very
handsome and fascinating. It is report
ed that she is to be married in the fall.
Her dot will be fully $250,000.
Mis* As tor and Miss Chandler, niece
and granddaughter of the late W. B.
Astor, are both heiresses to large for
tunes.
So is Miss Kernochan, daughter o*
AD. J. P. Kernochan, who lately paid
$112,000 cash for the celebrated Barreda
mansion on Madison avenue.
Miss Smith, niece of Mrs. A. T. Stew
art, has a large estate settled upon her
since the merchant prince’s death, and
is now in Paris with AD. Stewart,
Miss Barlow, daughter of S. L.
Barlow, the Erie lawyer, Alisa Cooper,
granddaughter of Peter Cooper, Miss
Brown, daughter of James Brown, '
Brown Brothers; Miss Lee, daughter
William H. Lee, and Alias Morgan,
daughter of ex-Gov. Morgan, are all
heiresses, and there are others whose
names at this writing I do not recalL
HE TELLS WHIT BRISTOtT HE
CL IS ED JO GIVE TO THE
PUBLIC
Telegram to the Constitution.
Washington, July 27.—Bluford Wil
son, ex-solicitor of ilie treasury, testi
fied before the whisky frauds commit
tee to the effect that
Tbe President C(H>per»leU
with Bristow and himself, in the whis
ky prosecutions, up to the time when
Babcock’s connection with the frauds
became manifest, but then ceased to
do so.
Wilson also said that during the pen
dency of the prosecutions, Babc*ck
obtained
Pomeaalon or a Letter
of hi* to Henderson, urging activity
and watchfulness, and interpolated, or
t interpolated, an expression which
distorts the meaning and made it ap
pear that he (Wilson) was trying to
connect the president with the irauds.
( He also testified tliat in a conversa
tion with Gen.. Horace Porter after the
discovery tliat
The Sjlph Telegram
was in Babcock’s writing, Porter gave
an explanation to the effect that it re
lated to the movements of certain par
ties going to tit. Louis on bridge busi
ness, ana that the signature arose in
this way.
There was a certain woman who had
I riven the president much trouble,
bibcock ana McDonald being together
in Washington one day saw her, and
McDonald recognizing her, exclaimed:
“There is the sylph.”
Babcock said, "Do you know that
woman ?”
McDonald replied, "I know her very
well.”
"Then,” said Babcock, “I wish you
would get her a way from here, tilie is
annoying the president.
"Certainly, said McDonald; “that
very easy. I can manage her,” and
he did so.
The term "Svlph” became a standing
joke between Babcock and McDonald,
and they signed their communications
that way.
When charged with
Sfltlng SptoM on the President,
Wilson, in self-defence, told the presi
dent his suspicions of Babcock and
related the explanation of "Sylph,” os
given by Porter.
The president indignantly denied the
story.
Bruihed HAwnjr AVI (la A Contempt!!-
gesture, and proceeded with his re
marks on the frands, saying lie "be
lieved Babcock innocent, but if guilty,
he was
The Worst Gnllty Wretch
the country, and no punishment
could be too severe for him.”
Wilson testified that when he first
heard this story Irom Porter he believ
ed it false, and he still tielieved it so.
He will be further examined to-mor-
.Wiltz, a native of New Orleans, and: oxaaotU-oach wont taaaUmjsre
I'—“ *• *"»#-• —
literature, and the more hard money j whomever made sohonorab** * retard! A* excursion was lately advertised
Uoa.*ud among thiwe are "My Wife itunderthey get in, &#:t*r they lap he baa tinea IS72. In F ?- >i:^-n»«oo’*to*o4owata*uy*n:Kethewwer
m*’. . above,"My Fa- are aatiafied. J vuelected by the party to cS thaMajScwtr.'
LT5CHIXG WAS LI OUT.
Telegrams to the GoostitoUoo.
ArGCSTA^Iulr27.—OaThandsT, _
20th, s negro, nt Be<l Hill, Edgefield
county. South Carolina, committed -
rape on a little wbjta girl, five years l .
age, the daughter oi Looia Pieaeeott,
indicting fearful injuries, last Tues
day evening a party of men took tt
negro istoiEewooii udbung bio.
BURKE BRISQS HER BEST RE
PORTS TO COLQUITT.
BALLOTS FROM BURKE.
El-eclal to tne Couatitutiou.
Augusta, July 27th, 0:30 p. st.
A large meeting oi tbe democracy
was held UHlaylnWayuo-boro Burke county,
for tbe purpose of acudiug delegate* to the state
convention.
A n VLIOT WAS TAKEN
and when counted out was found to have result
ed as follows:
For a. IL Colquitt.— 126 votes
" II. V. Johnson 122 "
The consequence was tbst the
COLQUITT DELEGATES
were elected by a majority of four votes Their
naurg are B. M. Blocker. G. B. Powell, J Q Mc
Kenzie, Randolph Ridgely, P. D. Cox and J. P.
Thomas. Their election was afterwards made
unanimous, amid the greatest enthusiasm.
Bow Liwlj V(Mltor* Eat.nt the Ccn-
tenn Ini.
The New?Century for Women.
‘When a lady comes into the restau
rant,” said the waiter, "she always sits
down as it terrapins and turtles were
nothing to her. I never can help be
lieving in her, counting ray experience
asuothing. She always asks for the
bill of fare, and reads tne figures first
Men, you know, say *do they cook
oysters decent?’ but she always pa vs
'what do they cost?’ Then she talks
and talks to her friend, and she says
do you like vermicelli soup?* *Of\'
says the other, ‘don’t let’s have Soup.
*‘’s so hot. I don’t want any sonp, aud
a hate vermicelli, don’t veu ?’ ‘Yes,’
says she, 'but what shall we have?’
'They have splendid chicken patties at
MaillardV, in New York; I wonder if
they are good here?’ 'I don’t know,'
says the other, 'I had sheep’s head here
once, and it was very good.’ ‘Well,
let’s have that.’ ‘No/says she, ‘don’t
let’s have the same thing. You have
sheep’s head, and I’ll have chickeu.’
'No; have you rare beef?’—to me—‘Yes,
miss,’ I say. ‘You have shad?’ says
the other. 'No, it is too late, and don’t
let both of us have fish. I wish they
had Vienna coffee, or tliat lovely rose
sherbert from tbe Turkish Bazar. Let
us go over there.* *Oh, no, it’s too hot
‘Well, what are yon going to have?’
Then they ask me if we have fried
chicken, and all sort* of things not on
the bill, and if we had—as we haven’t
—what would it cost. They talk of
this, and of that, and then one says,
*Oh, pshaw! I mean to have some ice
cream;’ and the other says it is just
what she wauts^uid then when they get
it they say it isn’t half as g<>od as the
ice cream at some other place, and
then they say bring them some cake;
and when I bring it, they say/‘Haven’t
you some other kind ?’ and I bring that.
Then one say*. ‘Let's have some coffee; 1
and they decide on lemonade. When
give the check, they count np every
thing by itself, and 6ay, 'Oh, mercy,
did the cake cost all that ?* Then they
get up and drop their gloves, and say,
Let us go up to the 7roii Frtrtt, or
else to the restaurant in some of the
balls, and 'Don't you think that ice
cream was horrid ? f ”
Executive I>eparfluent Notes
The following notaries public were
coxnmiuioned yester lay:
Warren county—W H Wellborn, 425th district;
G Lowe, 153.
Waahloztm county—E U Smith, 92 T M Har
ris. 91; Jame* Barron, 136; E A Sullivan. 97;
James tedfearn. 96; W P Davis. 91; G W Ful-
hum, 1253; p A Walden, 95; J G Whiddou, 93;
T Neal. 99; J Hunt; «9; *1 L Jacfcaon, 9.; S M
iunore. 9s; W E Martin, kh.
Whitfield county. B B Brown,
Farnsworth, GO; Rawlclgh C*ipp.
Wilkinson County—J J Shepherd.327; EJ IIol
land, 329; Ire S King. 124 ; A Penning ton, 328;
* RBottwick 31'; GW Wri ht. £»; a 11 Ad
ns, 362; W W Lev Sr, 3 3; J It Vslbrndj^Lara
tt.
Spsidiue County-G 8 Parker, l' C8; Marion
Patiick. 49 ; Kutua Lynch, ll»9; J D Sherrule,
1U36. J H Montham 1001; N 0 Monroe, 1069
hite county—Green B Dodd. *38; J McAfee,
836; W F Sears, *61; W T Reminer. 862; W L Pur
ge (SOU, 4^_W^BBn^^2l^^M21orton 427.
Terrible Grief at Fort Lincoln.
Washington, July 25.—Col. Critten
den of the 17th infantry, whose only
son was killed in the Custer massacre,
received a letter from his wife to-day ii
closing one she had just received from
Fort Lincoln. The writer, tiie wife of
an army officer at that jiost, say* when
the news of the fate of Gen. Custer's
command reached them, there
went forth a wad of grid thst it is sel
dom the lot of any human being to wit
ness. The agony and wretchedness *
has caused are something terrible,
was the announcement to twenty-four
women that they were widows, and tc
more than twice that number of chil
dren that they were fatherless. What
is the most painful of all is that most
of these poor women are left utterly
penniless, without means to take them
away from the fort or to subsist on
should they get away. Col. Crittenden
lias already called on a number of the
congressmen and presented them with
the facts, but relief seems to co
very slowly.
—When you go to the centennial,
sure to take your dog along aa.. enter
him for the d g show. A free pass
furnished every exhibitor.
—We learn on good authority tliat
the story published so extensively that
Aliss Jeanette Bennett, sister of James
Gordon Bennett, of the New York Her
ald, was to enter a convent and devote
her remainsng days to a life of self-
sacrifice, is not true. The tiistere of tbe
Sacred Heart convent, NewYork, which
institution it waa stated Miss Bennett
had entered, are not advised that 4
was ever her invention to taks pupfc $
step*
A Couple or Crimea.
Special to the Constitution.
Augusta, July 27—9:00 p. m.
List night two negro men broke into
a store iu the town of Uambu g, & C.. upon the
opposite shore from here, and
STOLE A QUANTITY OF GOODS
therefrom. Soon after they were apprehendod
by the colored officer of the town. One o' the
thieves attempted to escape, and fired at the
officer, bat the f«tal ballet struck and killed the
other prisoner.
A Brace or Ulsfewnyraen.
About nine o'clock this morning Mr.
r. J. Delph, a gentleman living
nwr this city, was riding along the public road
with his wife and child In a boggy, about six
miles from Augusta, when two negroca stepped
into the road and,
LEVELLING THEIR GUNS AT Hilt,
demanded of Mr. Delph his money and watch.
As he was unarmed and defenceless ho yield,
ed, giving np to them his pocket-book and
watch. The negroes then permitted him to pur*
suehlswayon the rood.
They have not yet been caught, bat Mr. Delph
says he will be abl» to identify them if he ever
sees them again, DiU-'eut search is being made
for them aud they will doubtless soon be In the
custody of the officers. 8.
Tbe Name AfTnisra.
[Associated Prcas.]
Augusta,Ga., July 3(1.—Two negroes
stopped Mr. Delph, a merchant of this
city, on the highway, 9 miles from Au
gusta, and leveled their guns at hitn,and
made him give up his money and
watch.
Last night the colored constable of
Hamburg. South Carolina,attempted to
arrest two negroes charged with steal
ing, caught one when the other fired
at nim, ami the ball struck the prison
er, killing him instantly. The mur
derer escaped.
Telegram to the Constitution.
1111 uni* Democrats in Sewlon
Springfield, III.. July 27—The dem
ocratic state convention appointed com*
mit'ees and adjourned until one
’clock, p. m.
Springfield, Ills., July 27—In the
democratic state convention resolutions
were adopted endorsing the St. Louis
datform and nominee, aud asking the
legislature to devise some means to pro
tect the workingmen against convict
labor.
Lewi* Stewart was unanimously nom
inated for governor and A. A. Glenn
for iieut-governor.
A veu back M. C.
Quincy, II;.., July 27.—-The demo
crat* of the eleventh Illinois district
nominated IL M. Knott This is re
garded as a greenback triumph.
WEST VIRGINIA.
Telegram to the Cousti tution.
Wheeling, July 27.—The republican
state convention apixointed committees
and adjourned to this afternoon.
RICH BtniELOR^ OF GOTH AH.
though as agent of the Lloyds here he
attends to business as regularly as one
of AD. Stewart’s clerks, who, during
the reign of A. T. were fined if they
were one minute late at their desks in
rhe morning. He is a great "society
man” and very popular among the la
dies, to whom he is ever gallant and
courtly. Mr. Leary is quiet and refin
ed in his tastes and inclinations, and
although a “dub-man,” is seldom at
the club house. Mr. Louis Meiser we
will put fourth on the list He comes
of an excellent f&milv, and as a boy
lived many years with his widowed
mother—who is a very elegant end
fashionable lady—at the New York
hotel in the days of Cranston. Air.
Messier has been
A shining light
at the New York club for many years,
and is.known as “Violet,” because he
has invariably a bunch of violet* in
his bntton-hole, summer aud winter.
He is about thirty years of age. fine
looking and popular. He has had tlio
interest on $350,000, but, according to
dub gossip, lias met with financial mis
fortune, and is not “so rich as he used
to be,” os the old song. Mr. William
P. Douglass is a Scotchman of large
means, good pedigree and great popu
larity. He belong* to a dozen clubs,
and two seasons ago kept bachelor’s
hall with Mr. Wright Sanford on Fifth
Avenue, opposite Belmonts, in elegant
style. He was the jwner of the Amer
ican yacht Sapphn, which was sold to an
Italian prince, and has a penchant for
yachting, coaching and horse-racing. A
celebrated artist of this city has just
compleied a full length portrait of Mr.
Douglass in highland costume, which
is very lifelike and effective. Air. Per
ry Belmont is the son of Augnst Bel
mont, the millionaire, about five and
twenty years of age, and
A SORT OF "JUVENILE SWELL.”
Mr. Belmont has been prominent
only about a half dozen years, but one
of these days when he comes in possess
ion of some of his father’s millions he
will be more sol At present he is con
tent to own two or three horses, a yacht
and some fine dogs. He passes liis
time coaching, playing polo and mak
ing himself agreeable to the ladies—not
a very hard existence! Mr. William
Moller, son of the sugar refiner, is
young, handsome and rather conse
quential. He was an aide on Governor
Hoffman’s staff and has never recover
ed from the distinction. Young Moller
has probably $25,000 aud some match
making mammas look upon him as a
"good catch,” although he does not go
with the Bennett, Sanford and Messier
set. Col. Wag8taff is of good family
and very popular. He has been a
member of the legislature, and did good
work. He is not pronounced in hi*
tastes, and lives quiet and highly re
spectable and esteemed by all who
know him. Other bachelors of wealth
and prominence, cf whom I will write
hereafter in detail, are Howland Rob
bins, Pierre Marie, Mr. Goedlet, Town
send Harris, Mr. Jav, son of the ex-
minister to Austria, Mr. Lorr llardand
Mr. Sherman. The combined wealth
of these gentlemen may safely be set
six or seven millions.
AVIC1DE OF AN ARTIS r.
N. Y. Sun.
Mr. W. S. L. Jewett, who for many
ears was an artist for Harper’s Week-
y, shot himself through the head in a
hotel jn Jersey City yesterday morning
and died almost Instantly. About four
months ago be went to the Bank hotel
at Washington and York streets, kept
by Albert Cox, and took a single room
in front, on the second story. He fur
nished his chambers luxuriously, and
slept there, taking his meals at rest m-
rants. He did no work, except for the
amusement of his friends and himself,
having resigned his position on Uar-
>er*s Weekly. He sal in his chamber
rom morning until evening, and only
went into the street when he was called
upon by (xarticular friends. At such
times he forgot his melancholy, and
was as genial and jovial as his friend*.
He had few acquaintances, and seemed
to care for only one or two particular
ones. Mr. William Ward, the artist,
was his most confidential friend. He
frequently asked Air. Ward to sleep
with him, and at such times he rolled
from one side to the other -of the bed
and cried out, and rocked the bed in
the agony of his dreams.
Early on Saturday evening Mr.Jewett
lloii tn Mr Hnir oml B-ii/1- "f \pflnt
From a New York Letter.
T • begin with, there is James Gordon
ileiinett, who can lioastof being known
ail over the world, at least by reputation,
lieniu-tt was scarcely ever heard of be-
his father died, aod his first b : d for no
toriety was by the means of the yaeht
Henrietta to Europe. From that time
he has been very successful in making
himself conspicuous, and to-day he en
joys being talked about from tne Her
ald bnildingto the interior of Africa,
where ids Uohcmian Stanley is said to
be “exploring.” Bennett ia probably
the
BICllBST OF TUB DACUELOR COBrS.
Hia income from the Herald is nearly
eight hundred dollars alone, and he is
in receipt of money from other aonrccs,
the old homeaea-l at Fort Washington
for instance. Bennett’s earthly possess
ions arc numerous, and include the
New York Herald, a house on Fifth av
enue valued at $200,000, another at
Fort Washington, a tract of land at Jer
ome Park, aud likewise on; Longlaland
and at Newport, a yacht, two English
four-in-hand coaches, twenty horses,
three pseks of hounds, seven carriages,
two dozen pole ponies, a steam launch,
and an ownership of a hotel in Paris,
latronizeil hugely by Americans. He
a a member of the Jockey, Yacht, Polo,
Coaching, Union, Narragansett, Gun,
K-ckett, and New York Clubs, and in
some of these organizations lie holds
office. He is liberal with his money
where he takes afanev, and will spend
it lavishly if by so doing he can attain
social notoriety, of which he is passion
ately fond. Bennett is now nearly
forty vears of age, and has grown quite
gray the last two years. He could be
called a handsome man were it not
that he is very tall, ungainly, awkward
and thin. He seldom goes to the Her
ald office, except with parties of ladies
and gentlemen; but when he does go
down there alone everybody ih the es
tablishment is made to know his pres
ence. There have been times when he
lias visited tiie editorial, composing and
press rooms late at night. He lias worn
a dress suit and oj>era hat, and lias
talked and acted very amusingly. Ben
nett has been,
KECOUTKD MATRIMONIALLY ENGAGED.
many times, aud more than once with
truth. His latest fiancee ia Mias May,
who has been written up to death.
Whether she will ever become Mrs-
Bennett, remains to be seen- It is no
secret that Bennett does not go in tho
best society here. That he goes with
the fashionable and wealthy set I won’t
dt-ny; but bow often is he found at tbe
social reunions of the refined, cultured
and Knickerbocker classes during the
the season? He is popular at the club,
and associates with heads of high and
honored families; but one cau he pleas
ant and agreeable to a man at the club,
and not feel in any way obliged to ask
him borne to dinner. There are many
odd stories told about Bennett, and no
doubt some of them are not true. He
lives in winter In his town house, 425
Fifth avenue, with his sister, Miss Jean
ette, and in summer at Newport, at the
Cushing Villa, which he rents every
seuson-Occasionaily he goes to Europe,
and makes his presence felt there, too!
NEXT
comes Mr. A. Wright Sanford, who is
perhaps five -nd thirty years of age,
and is quite handsome. Some years
ago an uncle of his, named Sanford,
died and left him some $500,000 upon
condi ion that he would take 'the name
of Sanford, his name then being Wright.
This he did and now has the interest of
the shot e named sum. He is a mem
ber of the Jockey, Yacht, New York,
and Rackett clubs, vyry agreeable, very
popular and goes in excellent society.
Third on the list is Mr. Arthur Leary,
who hag been prominent in New York
society for thirty year*, and there never
arts a charity hall without hia name
was at the head of t|je cogmiittee. Mr.
Leary is either Scotch or Irish, 1 for-
tt\ which. *»d feci * 4rg» fort#B«| 6-
UY WIFE AND CHILD.
BY GEN. HENRY R. jACXBON.
The camp around in slumber lie
rhe nfc —
Thee
The night with solemn pace t
I think of thee. Oh! dearest one!
Whose love mine early life hath blessed ;—
Of thee and him—my baby son—
Who aiumbere on thy gentle breast;
God of tbe tender, frail and lone.
Oh! guard the tender sleeper’s rest!
And hover, gently hover near
To her, whose watchful eye I
To mother, wile, the doubly dear.
In whose young heart have /redly met
Two streams of love so deep and clear—
And cheer her drooping spirits yet!
Now as she kneels before Thy throne.
Oh! teach her. Ruler of the skier.
That, while by Thy behest aloue
Earth's mightiest powers tall or rise.
No tear is wept to Thee unknown.
No hair is lost, no sparrow dies!
That thou canst stay the ruthless hand
Of dark diae«u*i\ aud soothe Its palu ;
That only by Thy stem command
The battle’s lost, the soldier's slain;
That from the distant sea or land
Thou bring'st the wand home again 1
No frowning look, nor angry tone.
Disturb the Sabbath of her rest.
Whatever fate those forms may throw.
Lov'd with a ptusiou almost wild—
By day, by night—in Joy, or woe—
By fears oppressed, or hopes bcguildcd—
From every danger, every foe.
Oh! tiol, protect my wife aud child!
Camaboo, Mrxico.lMrt.
KISS ME, PET.
Kiss me. Pet! I’ll not reveal it—
We are all alone;
*T2s my duty to conceal it
Till you are all my own.
Be not coy—1 love thee dearly.
Honorable, and sincerely;
Let us not be warm friends merely—
Wc have lovers grown.
*Ti» my duty to conceal it
Till you ore xuy uif..
Lw»t me temicrly caress thee, *
Press ray lipnto thine, and bless thee—
lhcro, ’tis done! Aud now confess thee.
Is it sweet or no?
called to Mr. Cox, and said: "I want
• rour wife to put clean sheet* on the
1 )ed-room adjoining mine, and I want
clean clothes in my chamber. Mr.
Ward is to stay with mo to-night,and I
want to have every thing right. 1
want him to stay in my room, and 1
will sleep in the other.”
“I will put clean clothes on both beds
and I don't want you to worry at all,”
replied Mr. Cox.
Mr. Jewett and Mr. Ward went out
in the street, and alter a pleasant even
ing, returned at about eleven o’clock.
Mr. Ward at once went to bed, and at
about two o’clock in the morning he
was awakened by a light touch on the
shoulder. He sat up in the brd ami
saw Mr. Jewett, who, with wide open
eyes and a strange look, said: "1 think
you ought to have your gas lighted.”
“Oh. no, I can sleep all night with
out a light; you would better blow it
out,” replied Mr. Ward.
AD. Jewett hastily returned to his
room,
At 8 o’clock yesterday AIr. Ward
opened the door of Jewett’s bed room
and saw him lying dead upon his bed.
He held a revolver at hi* breast, and
there was a bullet hole in his right
temple.
Coroner Gannan was summoned, and
he ordered an inquest for Monday.
The body was taken to tiie undertak
er’s store of Mr. Speer.
The light was burning in Mr. Jewett i
room when the body was discovered
On tiie stand wa* found a sheet of note
I»aper, an envelope and a postage stamp.
It is believed that he intended to write
a farewell letter to his family, bat at
tiie last moment his spirit fai'ed him.
Mr. Jewett was very melancholy and
depressed on the evening precedin (
his suicide, and at about nine o’doc i
he took Air. Cox aside and said that he
had "a terrible letter” from his daugh
ter. He talked much of his little
daughter Bessie. His body is to be
buried in the New York bay cemetery
on Tuesday next. It is said that he
was separated from his wife on account
of a slight family difficulty. Mrs. Jew
ett ha* often visited her husband, how
ever, and between them there has
seemed to be sincere affection.
AIr. Jewett was a son ot Mr. William
Jewett, who was one of the mo»t cele
brated portrait painters in this country.
Jewett the elder made a fortune by his
art. He lived on Linden avenue, and
owned many houses and lots on Bergen
heights. Jewett avenue was named af
ter him. Young Jewett was the only
child. He was educated in Trinity
school, and early displayed a remarka
ble aptitude for drawing. He was en
couraged, and was soon accorded i
place on the staff of Harper’s Weekly.
La*t year his father and mother
died at a great age, and he became
nearly crazed witn grief. He inheri
ted over $100,000. He went first with
his wife to New York, and they lived
for a time at Irving place. After their
parting, Mrs. Jewett and her children
went to her brother’s house in Bloom
field.
During the past three years Mr. Jew
ett did little work. He was so sensitive
that the slightest difficulty threw* him
into melancholy. He was a special ar
tist for Frank Leslie’s at the battle of
Bull Run, aud in the raid of John
Brown at Harper** Ferry. In the latter
work he was suspected of abolitionism,
—Life is said to be a journey from
the cradle to the grave, and the great
C roblem with most men seems to be
ow to perform it without getting corns.
—One of the proudest moments of a
fat man’s life is when he can eat buck
wheat cakes without getting molasses
on his shirt-front.
—An old Kentucky lady of eighty-
five can thread a needle, which is more
than some men of thirty can do—the
next morning.
—The poor Bushmen ot central Af
rica has never known the joy imparted
by a mint julep; but he can sit around
all day in a pair of linen drawers and a
shirt without a stiff bosom during the
hot weather.
-The Detroit News says the citizens
of many Michigan cities will regret to
learn tt.at Davenport, tiie rope-walker,
fell from his airy promenade at Toledo
the other day—and only broke an arm.
—Worcester Press: This is the season
of the year when undertakers have
‘•spotters’* stationed at tho corners of
the streets, taking down the names of
men w ho lug home watermelons.
—An English woman. Lady Herbert
of Lea, is writing a b-iokon the position
of the wife ant! mother in the fourth
century, in which she traces the resem
blance between the domestic life of the
present day and that of tiie early Chris
tians.
—Whenever Mr*. Jane Swissholm
takes her walks abroad in Germany tiie
the rule vaterlanders come around her
singing "Mein bretty Shane, mein dear
est Shane, oh nebber loog so shy.” And
she doesn’t neither.—Inter-Ocean.
—The belles of Doylestown, Pennsyl
vania, have adopted a new device.
They keep long Indiarubbar speaking
tubes in their rooms, and drop them
to their lovers, who are tints enabled
on the lower level of tiie streets to feci
their dames’ breath on their cheeks,
and to send in return rich whispere per
fumed with coffee, cloves and mint.
—“You needn’t takq down any more
goods,” she sa ; d to the weary-looking
clerk, who was half submerged in hi*
wares. “I don’t want to buy any, but
my husband’s sister’s niece ingoing to
New Yoik, and she said she’d buy me
what I needed there if the prices were
enough lower than here to make it
rtn while.”—Chicago Journal.
and was pursued to his house bva mob.
He barricaded his doors, and barely
escaped wi'h his life. At his death he
was 43 years old.
—When you reflect that at picnics
hundred years ago it was the custom
for the girls to stand up in a row and let
the men kiss them all good-bye, all this
enthusiasm about national progress
seems to be r great mistake.
—There is a distressing scarcity of
heiresses at Cape May this season.
—“Did Alarv got dot median® vat I
breBCribedf "Vlb, X dinlt go: I saw
gome crape* on der dwt bell P0M(
WWr"
mint Gordon BrnneH’t JDaucbfer.
Troy Timet.
During the past fortnight the retire
ment of Miss Jeanette Bennett to a
convent has been closely discussed with
a view of learning whether it could be
explained by any si»ecial disappoint
ment. There lo ? however, not the
slightest probability of this character.
The fact is that of the two children of
the once famous editor, the son hear*
strong resemblance to hi* mothe\
aud tiie daughter is very much like her
father. I do not refer so much to the
features as to the character. It is evi
dent that the dashing, 8|»orting, driv
ing, yachting proprietor of the Herald
shows little likeness to his father, wbo
never drove a horse, and never was on
a vacht, and had no care for those ac
tive sport* in which hi* non delight*.
The senior Bennett wa* a very (>e-
culiar man, and was little understood
outside of his own editorial rooms.
Notwithstanding the boldness oi hi*
columns, he was very timid, and wa*
constitutionally shy of the public. He
never attended any festival occasion,
and never made a speeclq even in re
ply to a toast, for he avoided all such
occasions. As an editor he kept him
self in his little office. He rarely ap
peared in the street, coming and going
in his carrriage. and never went to
church. Hi* only place of public re
sort wa* tiie theatre. Iu later years he
abandoned this habit, and became a
very close recluse. This was a natural
tendency which his daughter lias in
herited. Were she forced by circum
stances to battle with the world, a* her
father did, there can he no doubt of
her success, but being left to pursue
her own inclinations, she indulges her
natural love of retirement. Young
Bennett, however, inherits from his
mother a love of society.
Ad Explanation
To tbe Proprietors of Tne Atlanta Constitution!
Gzstlemkk—In TORT advertising columns I And
four Articles, zlLor which beer a tcsndalous and
libelous Attack afralnst me, mod a* act of justice. If
not of professed frieodshlp, 1 wish you to allow
i to make a short explanation to the many read-
i ofyour valuable paper. Although unnecessary
to those of your readers wbo hare come in contact
with me, either professionally, or socially, to repu
diate the Hi thy and libelous charges ia those four
articles. It is to tbe many readers who do not
know ms that I wish to vindicate myself.
1 entered Dll SHERMAN S office, as Us issist-
ant, in 1806. and, with tbe exceidion of one year,
continued In that capacity until the 6tb of May,
aa Drove hr fnem that 11
ttsedby him, in every respect, shape and form,
harinc tbs properanthority to do so.
The brag in regard to my charges I can also
easily prove to be ataisebood, and that tbe articles
which be offers to send tor**) to be trash, only
manufectared to throw dust In tbs sufferer's eyes.
I cannot send my Curative*, as each inslrmosnl
ha* to be made and adapted to meet the nature and
character of the case aa find it, on personal exam
on my return to ATLANTA, which wfB be next
Fall, 1 will give all necessary proofs to vindicate
ray character, and my numerous patients will, no
doubt, cheerfully assist me. Until than I most
request yoor renders to suspend their judgment.
W. CL iREEPIES,
former of Dr. Sherman.
p. S.-I have already taken the necessary-etepe
to proceed legally against this atrocious and
DEL CREMPIEN’S
RUPTURE
CURB METHOD
il tltt gNWlnS Bherfiffl