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ATLANTA WEFKLV CONSTITUTION, OCTOBER IS, 1877.
The Atlanta Constitution
WEEKLY EDITION.
Mr. J. F. Ryder, publisher, Clere>
land, Ohio, ban forwarded ua a email
poetical pamphlet (price twenty-fire
cent*) entitled, »a far as we can judge,
the “Fentimental Song Book, by Julia
A. Moore, with numerous additions
and corrections by the author.” We
say this is the title aa far as we can
judge, for upon the first leaf of the
cover, which is duly embellished wi*h
a portrait of a lady with her hairdown t
we find the following: ‘The Sweet
8 ngerof Michigan salutes the Public.”
Upon the same page we are informed
that the book is “composed of truth
ful pieces,” and that “all those
which speak of being killed,
died or drowned are truthful
tongs.” We are furthermore quietly
but firmly informed that “they are all
composed by the author.” This state
ment rather relieves ns, because in
these latter days nearly all the gems of
poetry are written and composed by
more than one author. “The Beautiful
Snow,” for instance, was composed by
more than sixteen different authors.
The book opens, as natural 1 }’ it
should, with a poem entitled “The Au
thor's Eariy Life.” The style of the
poem is plain and simple. There is no
s raining after effect. Witness the fol
lowing extract:
•*M j mother «m an Invalid,
A nd was lor many a year,
And I Ulng the eldest daughter.
Her life I had to cheer.
lb«d two little sisters.
And a brother which made three,
/ nd dear mother being sickly
Tbtir care it fell oo ms.”
The fact that the little brother is sud
denly and myetevioa°ly changed
to a girl in order to make
three sisters does not in any
way interfere with the merit of the
stanza we have just quoted. It is a
metamorphosis which is allowable
either by the laws of Michigan, or by a
special poetical license. At any rate,
if the “Sweet Singer” and her family
aie satisfied the public should not com
plain. It seems that the author, even
in her school-girl days, was fired with
ambition to become a poet:
••Jty hesrt was guy and happy.
This wss ever In my mind
There is better times a coming.
And I bf pe some dsy lo find
Myself capable of composing.
It wsa iuj heart's delight.
To compose oo a s aliment*] snbj c
If it came in my mind just right.'
And further on:
•'It was natural for me to oompoae,
And put worn* into rhTme,
And the success of my first work
Is this little song book of mine.”
In the same poem, which we regre t
we cannot give entire, she tbua efiec-
tually disarms criticism:
"And now kind friends, whit I have wrote,
I hope you will pe« o’er.
And not criticise m some bsye dene
Uitheito hen before.”
The poem of “John Robinson'
with one or two exceptions, the most
touching in the book. It is not stated
whether John was related to the circus
man, but it is to be presumed that he
was not. The story as composed by the
author is sentimental And yet practical.
No detail is left out-all the facta in the
case are wrought into verse with
conscientious fidelity to truth that
might very profitably be imitated l»y
poets who have a much wider reputa
tion than the author of this book :
•'III* father and mother being dead
It left him an or|han boy,
When bo wan with hia father
Ills he a ih tailed him, poor hoy.
Kind friend* they thought ’twoulddo him good
To travel for hi* he* lb;
To California be did go
With his Uncle Z r* French.”
It will be perceived that in dealing
with the biogr. phy of John Robinson,
the author uuhesitatiugiy sacrifices
rhyme upon the altar of reason. Thus
tersely and simply the story is told
Jchn goes to California, gets homesick
and wants to come back. He writes
•'The doctor says I must anon return
If I wi»h my homo to tee -
Fur if I stay my life is short.
For the air degrees with me.”
•■Ill* brother Will the let'er read.
It mi>de hi* eye* grow dim.
•Pear brother, he shall aoon ictura.
For I will go and fetch him,’ ”
John, however, starts home alone-
For he ww sick and very bad-
••Pnor boy, he thought, no doubt.
If he came heme In a smoking c-r
Ills money would bold out.”
And then we have the aflecting his
tory of “The Brave Page Boys,” which
the author informs ns, is to be sung lo
the tune of “The Fierce Discharge,’
whatever that may be. The Page boys
were five in number, nnd they all j fined
the union army, fought through the
war and all save one, Kuos by name,
returned to their respected parents, or.
as it is more appropriately expressed
in the poetic language of the “ 8weet
Singer”—
•’The one that carried the uuLc fl-tg,
Ues in * * .in hern grave.
The other brother.- ctmc back home
ToUrand Rapid* their native place!”
As for Euos, his fate is thus palhet;
cally described:
”ln Eight Michigan cavalry
This boy be did enlist;
Ills life was almost de*paired of,
% n account of nnmeious fit*,
C'auv-d by drinking water poisoned—
Effects cannot outgrow.
In northern Alabama, I hear.
There came this drewdiul blow,”
No narrative, it seems to
could be more circumstantial. Fol
lowing the biography of the Pages
comes the biography of Hiram Helsel
to be sung to the air of “Three Grains
of Corn.” Of Hiram we have this ac
count:
•*IIe was a rmal'. boy of hia age.
W hen be wm* five year* or so
Was shocked by lightning while to play
And it c*u*jO him not to grow.”
Finally Hiram died—
**He was living with his father then.
At man v a friend cao tel;
•Ti* said hit father's second wile
That sue did not use him welt.”
Then we have the history of William
Upson in lyrical form. It is ail summed
up in the concluding stanza:
"He eniolied in eighteen sixty-three,
Tne next day after Christmas eve:
He d:ed in eighteen sixty-four ”
Tweuty-third of March a* I wss told
But probably the most beautiful and
elaborate lyric in the book is the tender
little poem beginning:
"Roll oa time roil on, as it always has done,
Since the time tts-s world firs: begun
It can never chvnge my love that i gave a dear
man.
FaJthiol ,'rieod, I gave my bean and hand.”
Thestory of the “Brave Volunteer'
also very elaborate. We quote the first
stanza:
•■At tha time of the rebellion
B ‘tween the north and south*
Many a noble vo.onteer
Kent county cid send out.
Amo^gihtm WMsChylcr Davis.
He hailed from Oskfiekt town.
He enlisted in the service
Uunauve land to ahkM.**
The same may be said cf this slant
from a lyric entitled “ Little Andrea
- ua one bright and pleasant morning •
His uccie thought it would be ties
To take bis dear Hid? nephew
Down to play u;< a t ait.
Where he was to wvi* u oa it.
And this little child would company be-
Tne raft the water rusted around It.
fee he the danger did not see.”
The following from another poem u
fOWCWbat •ogg^stire of the style ol Q,
Washington Childs, A. M.—indeed,
there is much in the book to remind ns
of the vigorous obituary verses of the
great Philadelphia poet:
“ God has took their nttie treasure.
And Ua narna I'll tell yon now.
He has coce fre m earth forever.
Their little Charles Henry House.”
And this:
“One flue morning the fifth of July,
The summer Aswan were in bloom.
Eighteen se venty-one little Haule dies.
And is sleeping in her tomb.”
Bat we mod for ear. The poems are
typically western in their fervid sim
plicity, and we hail the publication
of the volume as the beginning
of s new literary era in Michigan as
well s in the county of Kent. The
publisher has given his word to the
public that if the sales of the book are
sufficient to authorize it, be will com
plete the Washington monument,'and
we verily believe he will do it.
THE EXTRA SESSION
The forty-fourth congress will meet
to-morrow m extra session. It meets
under favorable conditions, for each
house is nearly equally divided be
tween the two parties. This, with tbi
absence of the southern question,
oog t to turn the thoughts of our rep
renentatives from the manufacture of
political thunder to the consideration
the material interests of the country
This is also the “off” year of the four!
Let us therefore hope that partisanship
will be at least of subordinate impor
tance throughout the entire session.
The extra session was called to con
sider the deficiency bills, but when it
once gets in motion it can go into gen
*teral legislation and consider whatever
pleases. It will take the honse about
ten days to eleita speaker and settle
its committees. The senate will con
sume about as much time in organiz
ing anew and disposing of the disputed
Beats from South Carolina and Louisi
ana. Then, when the army bill cemea
up, there will necessarily arise the im
portant questions re'ating to the treat
ment of the Indians on the plains and
the size of the army. The Pariaexpoai
tion and the patent offices also call for
mmediate legislation. It is plain that
the extra session will find enough to
do to consume the time up to the
meeting of the regular session on the
third day of December. And why
shouldn't it ? A gain of six weeks at
the beginning of the session ought to
shorten it six weeks at the close. This
would be a change for the better, for
there is no hotter place in America
than Washington after the first day of
June. A permanent change in this
respect would be desirable. As it is
now no barineea beyond organization is
accomplished until after the Christman
holidays, whicn necessitates an exten-
tion of the session far into the summer.
We h tpe the extra session will take up
any business that will lead to an early
adjournment. We hope, too, it will
grapple at once with the tariff question,
the resumption issue, the remonetiza-
ion of silver, and other similar ques
tions, and that each and every one of
these will be cousidered on its men is
without auy intervention cf sectional
ism or party spirit.
The necessity of economy is as urgent
now as it was when Mr. Randall led
the democrats of the forty-fourth con
gress in a graud and victorious tffrt to
cut down the extravagant estimates of
the Grant administration. The present
administration is nowhere pledged to
retrenchment in expenditures, and it
may be that the democrats will be
L*otupellud to act together in this mat
ter. The estimates of the departments
should lie cut down. The people
know it can be done without impairing
the efficiency of the government, and
they would not long submit to a repe
tition of the old erh*dnle
TUB FRENCH ELECTIONS.
To-day France cbooaea a new cham
ber of deputies. I: ia a critical day in
a country that has know many such
days, and the result of the elections
will be anxiously awaited in all the
civilized countries of the world. Three
manifestoes have placed the questions
at issue plainly before the people of
the agitated country. President Mac-
Mahon led off in an insolent but char
acteristic address. He ia the Grant of
France. Hi* besotted obstinacy is pro
verbiaL He practically denied the
right of the republican party to exist—
the party that made the new constitu
tion, and elevated him to office. His
manifesto was but a continuation
of tke coup of May 16,
every word and idea of it being in ntter
disregard oi the spirit of the constitu
tion and of the will of the people.
The manifestoes of Thiers and Gam
betta are admirable documents. That
of M. Tniera was iound among hia pa
pers, after his untimely death, by the
historian Miqoet. It is supposed that
he devoted the last hours of his life to
its composition. He begins with a de
fence of the chamber and shows that it
had done nothing to alarm the most
conservative interests. He points to the
three pretenders to the throne, and the
last part of bis address contains a sum
mary of the principles on which the re
publican organization ought to be based
and around which it should rally. He
reviews at the same time the princi
pies of the constitution, and shows how
it has been violated by the arbitrary
acts of those in power. The govern
ment forbid the publication oi the
dead statesman's address, while it
printed thirteen millions copies ofjMac-
Mahon's manifesto at the expense of
the people^md distributed them broad
cast over France as a campaign docu
ment. But Thiers’ address was read
and circulated all the more because of
the governmental prohibition. It will
live to-day in every department of the
country that he loved so well.
The fiery address of the undannted
Gambetta clenches the nail which
Thiers drove. His burning words are
hurled straight at the men of the six
teenth of May, and at the clericals be
hind them. He offers no compro
mise.
In tact, there is no room for compro
mise. The speech of De Broglie at
meeting of the conservative committee
in Paris, aimed to show that the real
issue was conservatism or radicalism—
3a sc Mahon or Gambetta. But his
words are not sustained by the acts of
the government, which has officially
announced candidates for 512 of the
632 electoral districts, 20 districts in the
city of Paris and its immediate neigh
borhood being given over without con
test to the republicans, who are there
too strong to make any serious effort
against them either profitable or pleas
ant. The candidates are proclaimed by
means of circulars to be distributed by
the prefects, and these circulars are
headed: ‘ Candidates of the govern
ment of Marshal MacMahon, president
of the republic.” They are divided as
follows:
THE WEAK IN 1 HE EAST.
The Armenian campaign has acquir
ed new interest. From a chaos of con
tradictory reports it appears certain
that Gen. Melik'.ff has been foiled
all his attempts to crash Moukntar
He delivered the blow that be had locg
premeditated. For that purpose he
drew iu every available man. He de
pleted the army at Batoum, let the
rebels in Dagbeston go unmolested,
absorbed the troops of Soukoum Kaleht,
and staked all in an effort to overwhelm
the Ottoman commander. It is almost
certain that ail his efforts have failed,
and that Monkhtar's army
has not suffered any se
rious loss. It begins to be generally
admitted that 31oukhtar Pasha has a
military eye. He advances from one
point to another, but he never selects a
iine that he cannot hold. The battles of
the last ten days were not fought under
the walls of Kars, but near the frontier;
and whether the object of the Russian*
to gel between Moukbtarand Kars,
to begin a new Beige of that fortress, or
to think both Monkhtar's army and
Kars for the purpose of seizing the
passe s that lead to the plain on which
bitnated Eizeroum,they were defeat
ed. General Melikoff and bis grand
duke will doubtless re it until spring,
and it may be that their recent move
ments were but ettorts to secure strong
positions for wiuter quarters.
In Bulgaria the week was a very
quiet one. The army of the Jan-
tra did nothing of moment.
Plevna the Beige operations are pro
gressing under the direction of Gen.
Todleben. Oa the Turkish side the
principle acheivemeut of the week was
the replenishing of Osman’s army by
Chefket Pat-ha, who brought in an im
mense convov from S >fia without diffi
culty. Plevna is the Nic&ics of Bulga<
ria, and the paragraphed will soon be
at woik on the appetites of the beseiged.
If Osman's army can be re-victualled
from time to time, it will certainly be
difficult to dislodge that master cf de
fence from the thrice assailed rocks of
Plevna.
Altogether, the outlook from the
Russian si le is not highly favorable;
but the preparations for a winter cam
paign continue. Two hundred miles
of rails are to be laid in Bulgaria alone;
huts tor 150,000 men a e to be built,
and Krupp guns are to be brought in
by the hundreds. All this does not
lock like a withdrawal b?yond the
Danube. Tke removal cf the head
quarters of the army from Gorny
S.uden lo Siatov*, which is on the Dan
ube, has no meaning beyond the con
venience of command. S:stova is the
base of the army of invasion, and is
therefore the best pk a for headquarters
until active operations are renewed i
the bat tie-wm province.
It will thus be seen that a clear ma
jority of 32 is accorded to the Boua-
partists, and if the country were
answer literally the demand of the
marshal, it would give him a chamber
in which 56 per cent, belonged to the
imperialist party.
It is in brief a death struggle between
the third republic and a combination
of all the reactionary and revolution’
ary elements in the country. If the
government should succeed it would
not be long before the marshal-pre:
dent wonld find means to substitute
the empire for the republic. If the
friends of the republic succeed,
seems most probable, they hope
force MacMahon to resign. But would
he do so ? This is what really lies be
hind the ballots, and the crisis is near
at hand.
O.vcof the strongest lobbies at Wash
ingion this winter will be that of the
national bankers. A fund has been
raided to relieve these suffering mar
tyrs of their nine million* does to the
United States One wonld think that
they would be willing to psy for the
Txlaable privilege* they are allowed to
monopolize, but they are no*. They
want them free • i charge. What do
the people sty to this? Shall nine
millions of taxes be lifted from the
national banks and placed on the shoal-
dersef the producing class ? Lei your
representative* hear from voq.
The new Washington organ, the
National Union, offers, among other
icd icements, to give its weekly sub
scribers portraits of the governor and
congressional delegation of Georgia.
The pictures will *ppear in the issue of
February S&
Stanley Matthews' senatorial chair
goes to a democrat in spite of an un
usual amount of federal patronage.
That democrat” says the Su Louis
Republican, “ia Mr. Pendleton,
and Gen. Ewing are the leading aspi
rants to the position, bat while Ewing
is popular with the party in Ohio, Pen
dleton is the favorite, and will have
difficulty, we imagine, in securing the
pnze. He is fairly entitled to it. Mr
Pendleton is not half the demagogue
and greenback inflationist that the
publicans have represented him. In-
deed he is not a demagogue nor an
fiitiomstat all, as a careful reading
hi- speeches made in the canvass
debate with Mr. Garfield very clearly
shows. These speeches were an able
and fair arralgumeut of the costly
nancial policy of the republican party
for the last eight years, and were more
than his antagonist, who is one of the
ablest republicans in Ohio, coaid an
swer. Mr. Pendleton proved himself
in tbat debate a decorous, dignified
and formidable disputant, and the ad’
vantages of the discussion were with
bun. He has borne himself credita
bly through the last eight years
interesting political strife in Ohio, and
has fairly earned the honor about
be awarded him.”
The Knoxville Tribune thus sums
the eropa of East Tennessee:
The corn crop, upon the whole, is
fair one. On bottom lands, it is as good,
perhaps, aa usual—perhaps a little bet
ter; on the aplanas, not as good
usual. The wheat crop is regarded
an excellent one, both in quality. Oats
did not make a satisfactory yield in
consequence of the long continued
drouth. The tobacco crop is encour
aging thus far. It ia not yet folly se
en red. A much larger area of land was
C it in tobacco the present season than
s% and the belief ir entertained that
next year the acreage will be increased
one hundred fold.
It has been asserted by the friends
of Milledgeville that the capital was
removed, from Milledgeville by fraud.
Where the fraud comes in, has never
been specified. It is to be covered up
more than half of the assertions
favor of Milledgeville are, with gen<
eralitiea that are used for the ^express
purpose of exciting the prejuii e of the
people of the state against Atlanta.
We are informed that there was
qnite an array of republicans in the
convention of 1863 that opposed the re*
moval. Prominent among them was
CoL Akerman, who made a speech
against it The democrats, almost to
man, in that body, voted for the re
moval.
Milledgeville was not satisfied with
the decision of the convention, but
sent a special embassador to Washing
ton, CoL B. B. DeGraffenr* id, then
mayor of Milledgeville, and a leading
republican, to urge co gress to change
the constitution of Georgia, by striking
out that part relating to the capital,
and substitute a clause making
Milledgeville the capital. A printed
memorial setting forth the desire of the
citizens of Milledgeville was placed
before congress. Colonel B. B. De
Graffenreid was afterwards the repub
lican candidate for congress m the
Milledgeville district They were very
much outraged because a radical con
vention removed the capital They
were willing, earnestly willing, to
have the worst radical congress ever in
x*stence change the organic law of
the state to retain it This is worse
than the fraud tbej^would have people
believe was perpetrated when the cap
ital was removed.
to resume operations on tke war-path
as soon as the spring grass iprouts. We
have conciliated the fire-eating south
ron ; let ns smoke the pfee of peace
with oar red brother.—Chicago Times-
Tex day before the election in Colo
rado the woman-eufiiagistt had a clear
majority of several thousand Their
triumph was predicted, bnt alas for
treachery and tha vile intrigues cf the
sterner sex, they were beaten three to
one. But the end ia not yet. Colorado
women are no pretty, pull-back, sensi
tive creatures; they are, so to speak,
potato bugs of an entirely different
color. The tyrant man has received
notice to look out, and, when a Colo
rado woman says that, she means busi
hiorth Carolina has eighty-one gold
mines in operation. Georgia will soon
have as many more. A quiet Jmsinesi-
like gold fever is springing up in the
southern belt.
IE GENERAL.
ROUNDABOUT IN GEORGIA.
The pope, it is stated, though not
suffering from any organic malady, is,
nevertheless, extremely unwelL Tne
Italian correspondent of a French pa
per, writing from Rome on the 10th
instant, says that his Holiness's illness
is aggravated by the fact tbat he is no
longer able to take the exercise es&en
tial for a man of his temperament. His
mind is beginning at times to be af
fected, and his inability to any longer
take an active part in the government
of the church, and in the administra
tion of the pontificial house is also
stated to irritate him extremely.
JPOLU1CAL.
President Hayes had not visited
Iowa. —Chicago Times, ind.
Oca Ohio exchanges are very unin
teresting.—New York Times, rep.
Bihold Iowa! She has no Stanley
Mathews.—Burlington Hawkeye, rep.
Mr. Bishop as a great man how con
fronts the people of Ohio. It is a seri
ous case.—Cincinnati Gazette, rep.
Wi gave Sherman four months to
get out or be put out cf the cabinet.
The time is pretty nearly up.—New
York Republic, greenback.
Everything promises well for the
democrats and for-the country. Let
us not, by any act of ours, throw away
“Except an unimportant judicial elec
tion in California on the 17th instant,
there will be no elections in this conn-
try until the 6th day of next month,
when fourteen states will resort to the
ballot box—Louisiana, Massachusetts,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New
Jersey, New Yoik, Pennsylvania, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia
and Wisconsin. Georgia will cloee the
suffrage campaign of 1877 on the 5th
day of the following month.
A Washington correspondent states
tbat Mr. Lewis Porter, late assistant
postmaster cf Washington city, “was
required to resign because of the dis
covery that in an investigation in con
gress several years ago it was developed
that he effered Senator Carpenter, of
Wisconsin, $10,000 to secure the latter's
vote in the mtercet of a Georgia railroad
of which the then Gov. Bollock was
manager.’’
TnaOhio clerks who went home
must have voted for the other man.
Every Episcopal pulpit iu Boston
was filled by a bishop last Sunday.
Gen. Miles should give Gen. How
ard an introdcction to Chief Joseph.
Gen. Howard arrived too late to ren
der Joseph any assistance.
Pennsylvania has the largest num
ber of Sunday schools among the states
-7,660.
The orange product of Florida for the
year 1877 is estimated at 17.000,000
oranges.
John Sherman now thinks that he
was lucky when he resigned from the
senate.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad will
continue in control of the Ohio and
Mississippi railroad.
The best thing this government can
do with Alaska is to trade it off for a
new roof for the patent office.
Chief Joseph stepped up to General
Howard and thanked him heartily for
all his kindness.
Gambetta, of the pallid face and
blackeye, is thirty-nine, and his man
ner iB Italian.
That republican majority in Ohio
collapsed as suddenly as a Chicago
savings bank.
The population of the city of Mexico
has remained stationary since the fall
of Maximilian.
As an Indian fighter Crook will have
to retire irom the public gaze. Miles
and Gibbon are the heroes of the hour.
Secretary Sherman’s “ restless and
uneasy ” dreams about Ohio are over
There will be a vacancy in the senate'
out no republican need apply.
Don’t be down-hearted, Mr. Hayes.
Remember the republicans have carried
Iowa, and they may possibly carry
France.
The tramp is not particular in his
choice of plunder. At the patent-office
fire one was discovered moving off with
a lot of patent-office drawings.
The wounds of the Turkish soldiers
are chiefly limited to the index and
middle fingers being hit. This is ow
ing to their firing from the parapets of
redoubts.
not the dollars of their daddies
that the young nun sigh for, but the
dollars of somebody else’s daddy and
the daughter incidentally.— Easton Free
Press.
Probably the two happiest men in
the United States are McClellan and
Pendleton. The one is to be governor
of New Jersey and the other is to be
senator from Ohio.
Burdette, of the Burlington Hawk-
eye, consoles himself, on glancing
back over a life of misdeeds and care
lessees?, with the thought that hie
administrators will make it all right on
his tombstone.
JtsKrii Jefferson has sailed from
Liverpool for New York, accompanied
by his family, among wLoia is his son
in-law, B. L. Farjon, the novelist. He
commences an engagement, under Mr.
Daly’s management, at Booth's theatre,
on tiie 29:h iust.
Thebe are two men in the United
States who can lay their hands on their
hearts and say they have read Stanley
Matthews* speech. One of them is
Stanley Matthews and the other the
long-suffering proof reader.—Burling
ton Gazette.
The fatal hour for wealthy English
ladies is the dinner hoar, when the
burglar's ladder is put up to my lady's
window, and by the time dinner is
over, all the diamonds are gone. This
has iust happened, for about the hun-
drethtime, Lady Hardwicke being the
victim.
Secretary Evauts told a friend the
other day—thus records a letter in the
Graphic—tbat he had just received a
letter from one of bis daughttrs to
this eflect: “Dear papa: Thank you
very kindly for the donkey yon sent
me, but he's so lonely. Won't you
soon be home, papa?”
Suleiman Pasha is a man of detar-
mination. He told the surgeons of the
English ambulance corps that had they
not been able to take care of his woun
ded he would have been compelled to
shoot all who were too eeverely in j urea
to take care of themselves.
Within little more than a year the
7th cavalry has lost eighteen officers in
action. Promotion therein is altogether
too rapid. A coffin follows too quickly
a commission, as was the cate with
young Biddle, who graduated from
West Point only last summer.
After much agitation the price of
lager beer has tallen in Cincinnati to
two glasses for five cents. The beer
taverns for some time held out against
the decrease, notwithstanding a fall in
the price they were compelled to pa}
by the keg to the brewers; bnt the in*
digaation of the German popnlation
finally proved too much for them.
The Detroit Post and the Detroit Tri
bune have joined forces and hereafter
there will be one strong republican
newspaper in the metropolis of Michi-
Gen. Fpzhcgh Lxx,Bradley T. John
son and John F. Hughes are address
ing the people in the towns of southern
Pennsylvania with a view of encour
aging emigration to the Old Domin
ion. The Virginians are determined
that their agricultural and miner. 1
resources shall become known to an
emigrating world.
It appeers from a statement made by
a oorrerpondent from Griffin that the
Maoon people before the war were as
enthosiastio for removal as the Macon
I Telegraph and Messenger is pow.
a victory in I860.—Richmond Dispatch,
d*»m.
The Nex Pences have yielded to the
necessities of the situation—so. have
the Ohio resumptionista. Humanity
and civilization can rejoice over the the
two events. — Cincinnati Enquirer,
dem.
When the World brings its Egyptian
obelisk to the United States, we advise
it to set it up as a monument over the
grave of the republican party, killed by
fraud.—New York Sun, ind.
New Jeesey will fecore up her largest
modern majority for McClellan and
the empire state will deck the sceptre
of John Kelly with the green garlands
of victoiy. Thus does Ohio teach.—
Philadelphia Times, ind.
Ohio indorses, approves, yields; and
Ohio is lost What comment is needed?
What language so powerful as these
potent facts to tell the story of republi
can disaster, and the plunder which
caused it?—Chicago Inter-Ocean, rep.
Forney retires from editorial life, and
the Puiladelphia Press becomes non*
political. Foiney is too old a partisan
mariner, not to know that the republi
can craft is already going to pieces.
Rats desert a sinking ship.—Knoxville
Tribune, dem.
Bob Toombs has gone back on the
solid south and joined the New Eng
land outcry against the Texas Pacific.
Probably he is trying to coax the yan-
Eees to let him call the loll cf his slaves
at the foot of Bunker Hill. He vowed
he would do it, and where there is a
will there is a way, even if it is a back
way.—New Orleans Times, dem.
General Harlan, of Kentucky, is
to be made one of the supreme court
judges. He affects ignorance of his
appointment, but that is a little “mon
key business” Harlan is a capable
man, sud, if appointed, will fill the
place with credit He rhonld, as soon
as notified of the office having been
been given him, call upon his old
friend Bristow and smooth him down
a speck.
The republican state committee of
Georgia has voted itself out of exist
ence, thus dissolving the party in that
commonwealth. When we recall the
uoble deeds of that party in what Mr.
Tweed would call “its palmy days,’* we
drop a blistering tear upon its coffin
We knew all alorg it was dead, but
the corpse refused to believe it. Now
let a team of Bullocks, draped in Geor
gia bonds, drag the thing to its grave.
Gone to join the freedman's bank.—
New York Herald, ind.
The fraternal feeling which is now
growing between the north and the
south would have manifested itself ten
years ago if the radicals had joined the
dem ocrats, as Hayes has done, in urg
ing the removal ot the troops and for
getfulness of war hatreds. If Grant,
eight years ago, had uttered the demo
cratic sentimens which Hayes is sing
ing, he would have been received ahd
applauded by the southern people just
as they have received and applauded
Hayes.—Memphis Appeal, dem.
We have not attempted to belittle
the transformation which the republi
can party must undergo to bring it into
harmony with present tendencies; but
the transformation which Mr. Hayes is
attempting to force is the only thing
that can save it from dissolution. W e
cordially wish him success, but he will
have to win it by a pretty stiff contest
with the republican bourbons, who do
not perceive that the tide is going out
and that they mu?t fl >at on n or be
stranded.—New York Herald, ind.
Hayes's policy ? I don't believe he
has a policy. The democrats had i
policy, which was to let the states gov
ern themselves instead ot having them
ruled by bavonets. He seems to carry
oat that policy, and I believe the dem
ocratic party deserves credit for crea
ting a state of public opinion which
compelled him to protest against the
bayonet policy and to abandon it. You
know very well that he never protested
against it during Grant's administra’
tion.—Governor Hendricks.
The dissolution of the committee
leaves the party without the vital prin
ciple of organization—in fact, a mere
dead carcass. There is no person or
body without authority to summ m a
state cjnvention, which might break
anew into the departed the breath of
life. Local remains of the party may
continue to exhibit something like vi
tality for a wbi e, just as the tail of i
snake continues to wiggle long after
the head has been crashed; bat, practi
cally, the republican party in Georgia
is dead. Its dissolution will inevitably
lead to intestine feuds in and the speedy
disruption of the democratic organiza
tion, and a reconstruction ot parties
with reference to living political ques
tions. It is probable that the example
of the Georgia republicans will be prac
tically if not formally followed by the
party in other states.—Chicago Times,
ind.
The true national value of the victo
ry of 3Iondav consists in this, that it
leaves a president without a party at
hia back, disposed, as we are willing to
believe, and compelled as all men who
can see anything now must clearly see,
to administer the affairs of the whole
anion under the supervision of the
people of all sections of the nnion^nd
in Larmony with the rights, the feelings
and the interests of them all. The
great south, so long a dead weight of
doubt and danger dragging down the
prosperity of the country, is now once
more a living force in oar affairs. And
the great south, fortunately for the
country, has kept heraelf clear of all
complicity with the worst extrava
gance* and most discreditable follies o
either party in the north or in the west
| New York World, dem.
An<l because all harvest fold*
▲nd mj t
and Tribane, and the same com
pany will issue a two cent evening
paper.
The Norfolk Landmark has compiled
the peanut statistics, and says the Vir
ginia crop of the last four years amount
ed to 1,605,000 bnshe's; that of North
Carolina to 405,000 bushels; that of
Tennessee in the last eight years to
2,865,OOo bushels, and the aggregate
crop in the United Stites for the last
four years to 3,320,000.
“Our daughter never dances oat of
her own set,” said a proud dame at
cne of those nond< script ent rtainments
got up at a certain watering place. I*
it a blue set or pink set?” some one
asked, and the good lady colored up
and could make no reply. It tamed
oat that this exclusive person wss the
worthy mate of a dealer in modern
china.
Sow that Chief Joseph has Barren
dered we n ay c unt upon his going to
Washington to have a pow wow with
his great white fa: her, and demanding
a plug hat, forty dollars, a trunk, a rifle,
a father confessor, a steam plow, and
six stores. H*ycs will talk to him in a
*OTinf strain, and )ie will tp sept back full aa possible,
—Perry has a re
—Columbus negroes steal diamond
rings and get caught.
—Mr. E. Price, one of the eldest citi
zens of Macon, is dead.
—A Jackson county man killed a
negro with a jug the other day.
—Mr. J. L. Dennis, formerly of the
Talbotton Standard, is in the city. He
says he is learning Atlanta by heart.
—Times are gettirg better and bet
ter. Senoia is running a wagon train
to Atlanta.
We agree with the Grafin News
that Tom Burney is making an excel
lent paper of the Butts Con aty Argus.
—The Columbus Times says that At
lanta is gaining in the race for the capi- <*ie
taL
—Jennie Milliron, a white wemau,
was found dead in Macon on Friday.
It is thought that she poisoned herself.
—A little eon % oi Mr. Levy Jones, of
Pickens county, died recently from the
bite cf a ground rattlesnake.
—Mr. J. R. Christian, au experienced
newspaper man, has become is ornate
editor of the Rome Daily Bulletin.
—Mr. W. J. Evans, of Wilkinson
county, killed twenty five squirrels in
one day recently.
—During the past six months the
Georgia railroad has carried seventy
seven thousand Regs of beer to Au
gusta.
—Mr. Willie M. .Shaw, son of Mr. G.
W. Shaw, of DeKalb county, picked
four hundred and thirty pounds of cot
ton one day last week.
Colonel Jones, of the Macon Tele
graph, says he always tells the raked
truth. Oh, the naughty man! W hai
does he want to strip it for ?
—Albeit Col. Jones, of the Macon
Telegraph,likes truth naked, he doe an’
object to having his Christmas turkey
dressed—and in this he is undoubtedly
correct.
—Mrs. John S. Hutton, a daughter
of the late Nathan C. Munro, has pre
sented seven hundred volumes to the
Macon library association.
—A Spalding county man killed
musk-rat in the road the other day.
The News suggests that he was on bis
way to the fair to put himself ou exhi
bition.
—The editors of the Macon Telegraph
are still perspiring over Ben. Hill's let
ter on the capital question. It is
right tough document when you come
to look at it closely.
—The Irwington Appeal says that
the corn-crib of Sam Kemp, an indus
trious colored man, was burned last
week, together with his entire crop of
corn.
— Darien has b-en remarkably
healthy during the past summer—a
fact that ought to induce Grubb and
the rest of the citizens of the pretty
liule city to vote for Atlanta as the
capital.
•The Conyers Courier aays: Mr.
Sam W. Small was at Brick Store fair
last Wednesday. We learn that he
made a rousing speech for Atlanta,
reply to Furman's Milledgeville speech.
Small is one of the gamest of our young
American roosters, and whenever
tackles anything the chips fly in eyery
direction.
—The Columbus Times has this
The Griffin News says that Hon. R. P.
Trippe made a telling speech on the
capital question at Zebulon Wednes
day, and many votes were made for At
lanta. All that is to be done to secure
the capital for Atlanta bv fifty thousand
majority, is for the people to under
stand the matter, and not allow them
selves to be controlled by what some
people call ‘sentiment.*
—Mr. Edge, in Farm and Home,
marks: While all the newspapers and
their contributors aud their readers
clamoring aud quarreling about the
capital, we are as mild and quiet as
innocent little lamb. We don't want
anything said ab:>ut it, bnt we are every
one going to vote for Atlanta against
the world because we can drive our
wagons there and back in two days,and
all the railroads in the state can't stop
them.
—A smoke-house on the premi
ss of Colonel Jones,
Macon Telegraph, was discovered
be on fire on Thureday. The
building was within a few feet of the
dwelling, and it was thought at one
time that the flames could not be sub
dued. Colonel Jones's neighbor?, how
ever, turned oat promptly, and by hard
and persistent work, succeeded in pat
ting the fire out. Colonel Jones prints
a card, thanking those wko made such
heroic efforts to preserve his property
—-Thus Eugene Granberry, oi the
Hamilton Home Journal: A promt
nent farmer remarked to us yesterday
that he had been in favor of Milledge
ville far the capital, but after a careful
consideration of the question be was
persuaded tbat there would be no
economy in sending it back to that
town and should vote for Atlanta. His
ticket is for ratification oj the constitu
tion, Atlanta for the capital and the
homestead of 1877. This will be the
ticket Harris county will cast in the
election in December.
capital be removed to MiVedgeville
that town cannot hope to retain it per
manently, but it will certainly be
moved in a few years by the people,
themselves, which will necessitate the
erection of a capitol building, and
which Atlanta certainly could not be
expected then to build. We want a
permanent location for the capital; we
want the expense of a removal saved;
we want the tremendous expense
which must come within a few years to
etect a new building saved to the peo
ple, and we want the property now be
longing to the state in Atlan'a saved to
the people, eold, and proceeds applied
to paying eff the public debt. There is
only one way to do this, and *hat .s to
accept Atlanta’s offer, and let the cap
ital stay where it is
HER GIRLHOOD S FAllH.
•‘He will come, will come.” ibe said;
And her breath was like the south.
And the ran lay on her head,
And the mornieg round her mouth ;
And aae untied »c;os the eea
In her x rlhood’a surety.
-owed faun complete
Htrper'a Magazine.
Sew York. Motes.
New Ycrx, October 13.—Mrs. Drak< _
stewardess of the steamer Vera Cruz'
died of yellow fever at the quaran
tine.
The committee of the Pioneer bank
of San Francisco report that with good
management cf the assets, the depos
itors will get 11 per cent.
The Acricwltavol Krpart
W ashisgtos, October 13.—The cot
ton statement of the department of ag
riculture for October will not be ready
for publication until the 20.h inst., ow
ing to delay ia receipt cf returns from
distant points, and a desire to have the
last monthly report Qf the condition
ins FCLION GRAND JURY. |
General Presentments Tor the second
YVrfcU of the Fwll «»«n
Grand Jury Room,
Fulton Co. Superior Court,
October 13, 1877.
We, the grand jury, selected, chosen
and sworn for the second week of the
hill term of the Fulton superior court,
beg leave to submit the following gen
eral presentments under their respec**
tire beads:
county offices and cfficers.
Owing to the l&nre umount of crimi-
DOWN IN DIXIE.
ulugs fn
i nur Southern tx
RELIGIOUS IT SUN.
—The work on the First Methodist
church ia fa*t approach iof completion.
—The First Presbyterian church will
be ooe ot the handsomest in the state.
—The income of the Weslevan home
mission for (he year has been $1! 8 00J.
—The war in the east has very seri
ously disturbed missiotary work.
—There are now 200 Protestant
ctiurcbrs In the Holy Land, aud 7,000 children
in ProUfrUat schools.
—The number of borne missionaries
in the employ of the Presbyterian church last
year wss Shrt.
—The Southwestern Kentucky Med
ical convention meets in Hickman No
vember 7.
—The Colored Educational conven
tion of North Carolina, to be held in
Raleigh, bids fair to be well attended,
—The court house at Brookavil.e,
Hernando couuty, with all the record:
was ueatroyed by fire last Wednesday.
No doubt the work of au incendiary.
—The colored woman near Blount
Springs, Ala, who gave birth to five
Youngsters iu thirteen mouths, was
con fined a few days ago. Only twins
this time—a pair of boys.
—The Tampa Tribune is still stirring
up the people on the subject of a rail
road east tc the river aud a telegraph
line. It thinks Tampa would take one
hundred thousand dollars of stock.
—Col. John A. Brown, city engineer
f Mobile, died in Wilmington, N. C.,
Monday. He was a graduate of West
Point, and a gallant officer of both U.
S. and C. S. armies.
—A heavy gale visited Analnchicola
riday right, and ex'endeu one hun
dred and titty mil a above that place
and did considerable damage. On
Water street in that town the water
was three feet deep.
—The notorious Jim Simmons, au
escaped convict burglar, and one of the
most dangerous scoundrels in Florida,
has been captured at Oluatee, Florida,
by Mrjir H. A. Wise, and the villain is
now in safe custody, and will be made
to serve out hiB sentence.
—Jefferson, Texas, special to Dallas
Commercial: E. Eberstadt, a prominent
citizen of this place, and Abe Roths
child’s financial agent, was yesterday
arrested aud placed under bond in the
sum of one thousand dollars for alleged
conspiracy to effect Rothschild’s escape
from jaiL
-The Galveston News notices that
the report of the New Orleans cotton
exchange shows a falling off equal to
about 20 per cent in the cotton receipts
at that port during the last few years,
as compared with the proportion of the
euttre crop that was received there in
former years.
An Alabama paper says: By the
flood in the Warrior river, A. C. Har
grove and A. F. Prince, of Tuscaloosa,
lost $10,000 and $20,000 by the destruc
tion of the gi owing crops. The bolls of
the cotton which were under water for
any length of time have rotted. Not
enough corn will be saved in Tusca
loosa couuty to last until Christmas.
—By the death of Hon. A. L. Martin,
of Floyd county, eastern Kentucky has
lost one of her most brilliant young
men. He has served a term in the sute
senate, and was prominently spoken of
for lieutenant governor at the last elec
tion. He was a profound lawyer and a
brilliant political speaker.
—Several intelligent German farm
era, the probable forerunners of a large
colony, nave arrived in Jefferson coun
ty, Fla., for the purpose of inspecting
and put chasing lands. The German
farmers are thrifty andenUrprising.and
a more desirable population cou.d not
be secured.
—At a meeting of the Duval county
agricultural society, held at Jackson
ville on the 6th inst., it was resolved
that the third annual state fair, under
the auspices of the Duval county agri
cultural eociety, be held at the fai;
grounds in Jacksonville, Fla., Februa
ry 12tl, 1878, and the executive com
mittee he instructed to take steps to
carry out the same.
—Nashville American: William
Bland will take forty-four convicts from
the penitentiary to-night to the E
farm, in Shelby county, making a
of 146 at that point. Two good prisons
have been erected on the farm, aud it
ia stated convicts are worked with a
good deal of system. Four hundred
coLvicta now remain in the penitentia
ry proper.
—Some distance south of Elba, Ala.,
near the Florida line, is a mound of
peculiar construction that attracts the
attention of travelers. It is the vault
of Mr. Harrison, an eccentric charac
ter, who owned large herds of cattle
near the Florida line. While living,
he protested against interment, and
gave directions as to the disposition of
hia body after death, so that a feather
bed shou d be laid on the ground at
this spot, and. after bjit’g dressed with
care and taste, hi* body should be
placed upon it aud a vault ol brick
built around and over him.
nal business brought belore us, we —To-day, with us a time of peace and
have been unable to give the books in alii * ‘ “*■ * *
the offices a* thorough an examination
as we should have done had we more
time. Sj far as we have examined, we
have found the officers attentive and
efficient and their books neatly and
accurately kept.
PUBLIC ROADS AND BRIDGES.
We have been unable to make a per
sonal examination of the couuty roade
and bridges, and have been compelled
to rely upon information obtained irom
the ordinary and outside parties. The
roads generally are in good condition,
as are also the bridges which are up.
We learn that two new bridges are in
course of construction, and, when fin-
ibhed, our countv wi*l be behind none
in her public highways
PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.
We have visited and examined thor
oughly the county jail. We found it
in a remarkably cleanly condition,
which reflects great credit upon those
— Qrntmsn Reporter. We learn that
Capt B. F. Mosely, who lives on Ocean
Pond,in Lowndes county, had the mis
fortune to get his corn crib, which con
tained about two hundred bushels of
, and about 250 bushels of oats,
burned. The burning took place in
the night, and suspicion is strong
against a negro c n the piace.
—Perry Home Journal: Mr. D. H
Culler brought a blue heron from
Houston factory the other day that
measured 56 inches from head to foot
and 54 inches from tip to tip of its
wings, while it weighed scarcely more
than three pounds. Its bill measured
10 inches in leng h. This was the most
pointed bird we ever saw, and capable
of much stretching.
—Irwinton Southerner and Appeal:
Mr. Peter Youngblood, one of our beat
farmers, informs us that he has lost
seventy-five head of hogs from cholera
within the last ten days. Deputy
sheriff G. W. Wright^lso a good farmer
and au independent Liver, informs us
that he haa lest by the same disease
thirty-seven head the past week. If
the disease spreads the hog crop will
be as great a failure and entail nearly
as much pecuniary loss as the failure of
the corn and cotton crops.
—W’est Point Press: Dr. W. P. Beas
ley has been for some time engaged in
mining for asbestos on the lands of
Messrs. Hames,Winston and Bookhart.
near West PoiLt. He has shipped seven
tons from this place, and will add sev
eral more from his own piece, f^ar
Monntville, Tronj -mnty. It. is < re
signed to H. W. JohLo, oi New Ywik,
who has a patent process for manuf ic-
turing it into various useful articles. It
is made in cloth, gloves, indestructible
paper, paints, and is nsed f« r patching
boilers, etc. It commands from thirty
to sixty dollars per ton. Dr. B., if this
shipment proves a success, may go
into the business permanently. He
thinks some of the asbestos found on
the places af the above named gentle
men equal to the best Italian.
—Crawford ville Democrat: The
friend* ot Milledgeville not beinzable
to disprove the tact that the removal
of the capital to that p ace would in
volve the state in an enormous unnes*
ce-sary expense, strike a new note,
and say that Atlanta will not fulfill
her contract to build a capitol free of
expense to the state and the people.
Of course,this new dodge is only meant
to mislead the unwary, and will meet
the same fate of other like assertions
and be proved to be a mistake. We
are nor only sati-fied that Atlanta will
faithfully carry out her contract and
save the state a loss of $250,000 now,
but will by giving our capital a perma
nent location, save the people a lice .
jn&OQDt m the near tutore. Sbgpl4 u>g.
—Raleigh (N. C.) News: The bridge
across the Neuse, kuown as PeunyV,
was carri. d off last Friday night, owing
to a heavy raft lodge! against it. which
it wss impossible to clear away. The
timbers of the bridge were carried
down and lodged against the bridge at
the falls. The bridge across Walnut,
creek, on what is known as the Pool
road, was washed away. Roanoke river
is higher than it has been for several
years, and there must be a very great
destruction to crops. All of the crops
near Weldon, in the low grounds, are
now totally submerged.
—The Tallahassee Floridian has the
following: “Justice West held an .
quest on Wednesday last on the body
of Will Cassels, who was found dead
by the side of a honse on the road lead
ing to Captain Bloxham's, and about
a mile and a half from here. Dr. A. L.
Randolph examined the body and
found a pistol shot wtrch had penetra
ted the breast, causing death. The jury
decided that the deceased had been
killed by Peter McGriff, and a warrant
was issued for his arrest by Justice
Cameron, but McGriff surrendered
him-elf and is now in jail. The parties
are all colored. McGriff admits the
killing, but says that Cassels had threat
ened his life, and says besides tbat be
had debauched his ( McGriffs) wife and
that he had warned him that he would
kill him if he caught him there again.
Cassels was sliot while in McGrifPs
bed, though the woman was not
the time, but at a neignbor's.”
—Nashville American: Superinten
dent Geddis has furnished to the bu
reau of agriculture, statistics and mines
the important fact that from July 1 to
September 21, 1877, five hundred &Dd
seventeen thousand one hundred and
three barbels of wheat were exported
over the Louisville and Nashville and
Great Southern road. General Freight
Agent George R. Knox also states that
for tne fiscal year ending June 30
1877, there were exported over the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
railway 803 766 busheU. Of this quan
tity, 604 116 bushels were shipped ev«-r
the Chattauooga and 210,650 bushels
over the Northwestern division. The
total shipments over the Paducah divi
sion of the Paducah and Memphis
road, as furnished by General Manage:
N Monsarrat, for July 1 to Septembei
30,1877, amounted to 1,761,500 bushele:
and over the Memphis division to 85,
080t-U5heb-.
—The Mt. Sterling Democrat has
column of murders, manslaughters,
etc., this week. It says David Doggetr,
< f Bath, went home drunk, and in
handling a pistol knif'd his broth i
In Morgan county J-ff Ctrr, who a:
c nsiabie broke up a band of horse
thieves a few years ago, was shot and
killed by assavsins, supposed to be two
desperate characters by the name of
Richardson. The county offerd $400
reward for their capture, and two babds
out on that mission fired into each
other, wounding Louis Qnicksell and
Sheriff Rany Pieratt. In Woif cou itv
David Bark* crushed with a bowlder
the sknll of Oliver King. Banks was
arrested. As before mentioned in the
Courier-Journal, fifteen men came into
Jackson, Breathitt county, and libera
ted Haddix from jail, then shot off
their pistols, drank whisky, and para
ded the streets to the music of a violin.
Two of the party haveb en held to an
swer in $1 000 and $1,500, and the re&t
of the gang were arrested and released.
The First Bale.
Chattanooga, October 13.—The first
bale oi cotton ever pressed here was
pr» m the new eom press this mem-
rest U is France the occasion ol an exciting
national election.
—There are one thousand Christian
ooafn’galioa* In Madagascar, undertwenty
European missionaries, and fi ty lay preachers
—The earn total of the members of
e northern and southern Presbyterian church
is 670,154
—The Christian Index says: The
sooner all denominations sdopt an iron-dad
rule, that no smoker can be admitted as a
student for the ministry unless he abandons the
habit, the belter; *n.l the same rule foi Subbath
school teacher* would be singularly advan
tageous for the boys under them.
•The general conference of the Meth
odUt church, south, which meet* here next
May is one of the moat important relUtoos bodies
in the wotld. The foUowins delegates to it
wore elected last week In the tVoucsaev coufer-
euce: Clerical delegates—BeV J B MiFenlu,
DD, Bov Wm Bun. Rev D C Kelley, DD, Rev R
' Youtur, DD. R*tJB Allison, Rev R K I tars
t ove, Dl>, Rev Jo* B Was, Rev Wellborn
oouwj. Alternate*—Rev John P Hughes R*v
*21,
„ ho have it in charge. The breach
made by the escaped prisoners baa
been thoroughly repaired,and we deem
t, entirely safe for the custody of such
r risoners as may be consigned there,
n regard to the escape, we can only
reiterate what our predecessors said in
their report, namely: that no fault at
taches to any of tLe officers connected
with the jail, so far as said breach is
concerned. .
The alms house is in good condition,
having recently undergone all necessa
ry repairs. .
To best show its workings, we refer
you to the last monthly report ol its
superintendent which fully gives facts
and figures, and shows a decrease of
ten inmates during the month of Sep
tember.
The recent improvements made
upon the city hall has placed it in good
condition. We feel that we would be
derelict in our duty did we fail to make
mention of the splendid improvements
made in the city hall square. The one
great need of Atlanta has been some
suitable and pleasant place of resort for
her citizena from the heat and dust of
the city. The necessity is now sup
plied by the square, consisting of five
acres on & location overlookinj;
almost the entire city. Situate*
in the citv’s centre, beautifully
aud tastefully laid out, carpeted
with blue grass and shaded with luxu
riant trees and evergreens—it consti
tutes both a delightful and healthful
resort. We felt constrained to men
tion this matter as it reflects great cred
it upon the present management and
the city generally.
We respectfully recommend that a
nii:lit watchman be employed to guard
the city hull and its premises, said
watchman to be paid by the county
and city jointly. We deem this a ne
cessity for the reason that great dam
age might be prevented in case ol fire
both to the county and city recoida^nd
for the further reason tnat common de
cency demands it, as knowledge has
come to us that ou account of there
being no guard stationed there it has
become a popular resort for vicious
characters lute at night.
vagrants.
Personal subscription to public and
private enterprises is a practical and
beneficial bestowal of charity, alike
profitable to the subscriber and the
poor, who are employed, and in our
judgment is mure likely to give sub
stantial and lasting relief to the unem
ployed than any public place set apart
by the county for the benefit of the
class reftored to. Idleness is the in
cipient step to crime. With nothing
to do, out minds are apt to originate
infamous plans and ideas, which cul
minate in criminal acts. _ When our
people have an opportunity to engage
in honest employment, and do not take
advantage of such privilege,they should
be held to a rigid accountability ; aud
ali laws in referenca to vagrauts should
be promptly and effectually enforced,
thus nipping in the bud that which
leads to greater crime.
We would by no means discourage
laudable charity, but indiscriminate
giving is not charity. And we d*6ire
to earnestly nzotest against our citizens
giving to that class known as street
beggtra. It carries with it no substan
tial relief or good, out lead.-, in a ma
jority of cases, to ii calcuiable harm.
COUNTY CoNV
We find the convicts under the di
rectiou of our ordinary, and are well
treated and provided for. He had them
at work on the county rotds. It has
been and now is his custom to com
merce work at the county limits and
work up to the city limits. We feel
constrained to disapprove this practice
for the following reasons: The city of
Atlanta goes to nearly all the expense
of bringing these offenders to trial and
conviction and we are of the opinion
that it should not bear all the burden
and reap none of the benefit.
We * think that the work
should, instead of ceasing at the
city limits, continue upon all the thor
oughfares leading into the city to the
court house. True, the working of
cjLy ct labor in the streets of a populous
city has some bad features, but we
submit that it is but just that the city
should have a portion of the benefits of
this labor.
E ov<
OOL
K. Brown, Rev R HRauiota Lay.delegate*— •
D Fite. N T Luptoa. LLD, Wm H Morrow, J
_ Parke*, E U Fatnnon, D T Hcypoldi, S a
Caldwell, C R H*-d Ahemauw- W H Morgan,
Wm Horst, Gen J B Palmer. B J Tarver. Rtv
R K Brown praacked at nU^L
—President A. G. Haygood, of Emory
college, baa written a teU*r »o the Soithera
CorUtian Advocate oa the death of Dr Dudchu,
the late lamented prealileutof Raadolph-Mnoou
ooilese. We n-gtei that we have not space to
day to pa Alim all tnl* letter, so full of noble
■entimeat*, and telling With each path a* the
•tory of • true, devoted Ufe. We dip th» fol-
lowiuf_par»graph which la precnant wlta
truth: The church la wasteful of men. Aud toe
better they are the more prodigal she is. Alas!
our blindness and folly. We think we ccooo-
whau we board our money and waste our
But men are ecaroer than dollar*. Fuat-
class msu are rarer than first-class fertuuea.
Such a man aa Dr. Duiumu t* above all price.
For thare la so atuch difficult and nece**ary
work to be done and ao lew that can do it.
There are plenty of plantation engineer* who
throw a toot log acrus* a brook : few like
a wno can span with a tridee of steel tho
«• and deep Mississippi. Pernepa one in a
million could do it. if he ahonld give himself
fnllv to the u*k. It ia doubtful if one in a
million could do such work—ao much of It and
ao well—aa tro late president of Randolph Ma-
oollegedld.
MATTERS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
We note with a considerable degree
cf pride, tne many improvements
the places cf pleasant resort outside of
the city limits. The most prominent
of which is Oglethorpe park. With '
ten acres Lid out in beautiful and pha-
ded walks, with as fiue a track as can
be found in the south, with its main
and out buildings in perfect
repair and in their new
drere it presents to the eye as pleasant
and agreeable place of rest irom ths
cares oi labor aud business as can
fouud in any portion of our great state.
Our whole people are to becougratuL
ted upon the energy and enterprise
that has given them * such a spot
quiet and beauty and pleasant seclu
sion. We might also with propriety
mention Ponce de Leon springs. An
gler's spring ano the water works as oth
er places ol pleasurable resortAffording
to the more fortunate splendid drives
and healthful recreation.
COURTESIES.
In taking leave of his honor Judge
Hillyer and solicitor General Hill, we
desire to return our thanks for kind
nessesiend valuable assistance received
at their bands, and in this public man
ner to record our testimony as to their
fitness and capacity of zealously guard
in? the important and honorable trUBts
reprs.d in their keeping. While
ready to vindicate the law and mete
oat justice they never forget that jus
tice, however sen 1 shall be tempered
with tender mere
Wi I lam a i
William P Lnckk,
John C McMillan,
Marin Manley,
John D Hoitrns,
D^vl-I P Morris,
Wnllam A Cochran,
_ _ Heury 8 Stanljy,
William M Jett, John Pe*>.
William H * zburn, James T Peacock,
John Morrison, Samaci Wiiketu
Jeffcrsoa M Hurston, James C tsoff, ’
Fulton Superior Court,
Fall Term, 1677.
Order*d that the above and forego
ing prcsrn me: t4 be published in Tub
Atlanta Constitution October 13,
1877. By the court,
Wm H. Venable.
Tiie 9>ar> I» d Bella aud liar Beau
Franklin, Ga., October 12,1877.
Editor$ ConUilution: The article i
your iarae of the 11th Inetaut 1* all right, evxpt
the parties live in Heard instead of Troup cou -
ty. and tn> gentleman la Joseph instead of Joel
Miller, and the lady’s name is Ada Instead o:
I'M. I will Rive you a state meat of what Iran*
pired sicca J J Stephen*, sheriff of Heard
county, took charge ol them and started for
KrankliD, Heard county, Ga The two love*
were not at all reluc'ant in conversation—both
pleasant and agreeable companions with whom
to travel. Both parties are of very respretabie
families of Troup and thinooanty. and very well
off in a pecuniary Un e The parties got off : he
train at Hogantville. and the lady waa turned
o»er to her lather, who took her to hia home in
Troup county, and the genUeman was brought
to FrankUn Friday morning. ~ Tae defendant
wa*carried before JasUce Falter aud announced
ready for via!, but the case waa postponed ti 1
nexl Thursday. The defendanfa lawyers claim
that it I* no crime to love another man's wife,
ahd to teke her o the capital of the vat* If the
wants to go The defendant readily gave bond
We all expect to hear the rarer, racial and
spiciest case tr.ed next Thureday that ever
put on reoord. It ia certainly a tase or *11
tort, Mweaooa,
FACT AND RUMOR.
— Churches will all be full to-day.
—A day of rest and sweet quiet.
—Fall picnics to Iceville ere the rage.
— Crowds of strangers arrived last
nigh
—This week ought to be a bonanza
to Atlanta.
—Medical students are arriving iu
the olty rapidly.
—The busy buzz lasted all day yes
terday.
—Atlanta looks fifty per cent better
than it did a year ago.
—Paste diamonds are just as pretty
and more popular than the gennlno.
-The cemetery is visitbd bv crowds
every Sunday.
—The hotels are filling up beauti
fully.
A humming retail trade will begin
■Tne market is well stocked with
cabbages of unusually large aize and quality.
—Remember the ladies* supper at
the m*«k ball. It la given iu the o*u*e of the
benevolent home.
—Attention ia called to the advertise
ment ol Chamberlin, Boynton & Co. in ano;ber
oulumn.
—Among the attractions at the fair
wli be pbatugrapns of President llayc* nnd hi*
wile, primed by Mra Oliver.
—The number of young men iu the
city out of employment seems to be on the in-
taae.
—Stone mountain granite is as good
as aoy In Amerio*, and works in as preuy aa
marble.
—The West Point depot is fast ap-
proschin. compleUon and la a haudxome atruc-
Two or three surrounding coun-
rer,’ largely represented iu Allauia yester
day. Broad aTcet was fall ol wagons h 1 day.
The session of the Atlanta Medical
college will be commonced J>y an audree* by
i Monday morning «
- . _. Westmoreland, c
It o’clock at the college.
—The mail carriers of Atlanta have
sent a peUliou to cougra** to raise their salary
‘ ‘ * * 1 by over two
... _ leadiug uieu
heading the h*t.
•The magnificent military jewel and
Mr. bteveus Las just returned from
k. bringing an ekjt*ul aotek of new
lie jewelry. TUrir ocsuuful store. No. 34
ihitenaU suo*t. ia an t xhlbllioa which every
visitor to the fair should see
—The varied and highly attractive
procramme offered on Monday night will fill
Ue houM* with culiured and r« Sued pe p o
Thira-cloas troop* cannot get a hou»- in Atlauia,
but when our own taleui offer* to the public a
really fim-claa* entertainment, they may bo
sure of a beany and oordlsl support. Every one
who pretend* to have am ma-uoal culture will
attend the opera Monday night.
—Mr. W. C. Morril has received a
dispatch from the commissioner of agucul'ure
at Waamngton, vying he will visit the *lsto
lair iu Athuta on Weduouday, 1 hunt lay and
Friday.
We had a pleasant call last evenirg
from Mr. N. U. Porter of the Charleston N -w*
and Ootrier Mr. Potter will write up the f«ir
for hi* paper.
— Joe Jtffrram has sailed for Ameri
ca and we may aoe him this wh.ur.
—Joe Morphy in his famous play of
••Help” ia el ill popular.
—Negro minstrels never fail to get
good house* here.
—Two or three pan tom in o troupes
e on the way toward us.
—Milt Barlow is said to have some
striking new specialties.
The Harkins troupe will soon be
re-orgauiz d it is said and uko the road for a
tour of the south.
—The “naughty" female minstre’s
will open on the tSd a two day’* engagement iu
our city.
—Reserved seats for Barlow, Wilson,
Primrose and West’s minstrel* on sale to mo. row
at Puillips & Cn wa
—Doctor of Alcantara and Cox and
Box at the opera bonce to-morrow night by the
s Rowinl clu j and for the beuo-
Large Jpplre.
Colonel W. M. Lowry, came into
cur offioe yesterday with a few apples ns a sam
ple of the kind uiaed at his old home in Ab-
iugdon, V* They were sent to him by Mr.
McGcnnell of that place and axe wonde'lu! to
<ook au They are as large aa piney woods
pumpkins. One of them measured sixteen
inches in dreamierenee. They o»n be cat Amo
slices and. eaten as waUrmsUoos. and are if
sweet and delicious
Ibe (Jraud Jury.
List night the grand jury had a
pleasant re union at John Peel’s ro»taumnt,
and afU r the lah.rs of the week feasted on the
rich oyster In various aiylea A pleasant hocr
wasspen*, and tne feast that was spread w«a
good encugh for a king. We return thanks for
an invitation to he present, and ngret our ina
bility to have complied.
CltUeas'Vaslt Bull
On Wednesday night the citizens*
mask ball will take place at the new Co cordia
hall. The dcora will be opened at 8 o’cl ck,
and the dancing will begin at 9 o'clock exactly.
The ladle*’ dressing room will be iu charge of
two dressing maids, and a barber and boot-
black will be found iu the gentlemen’s room. Be.
the drees!og room and ball room, there are
two large parlors which wtll ba used by tbose
not In mask, who wish to attend as apectitor*.
All who attend In mask will be required to ua-
m *k before the maski-’g committee, which Is
composed of three oi our most respected dtl-
Professor SchuUzs and hi* band have arrang
ed a fine selection of new music, which will
continue from 9 uati! S u'c ock.
Tickets of admission can be obtained by tbote
hoi .ing lnviutlom at lb's drug store of Mrs«tre
Taylor A Wimberly, oorncr of Marietta and
Broad streets. Strangers in the city, can obtain
icviia'ions from any of ths committee through
tte>mi*ucc • of their friends.
The supper room Is upon the same flwr with
the ball room, and is under the charge of the
following ladies:
Mrs Wm H Toiler, Mrs Jame* Jacks r,
Ms Mm Dickson, Mrs John, U
James, Mrs R F Mtdlox. Mrs (1WD Cook *.nd
Mrs R J Godfrey. They will serve c< ffee aud
oyst. ra from tke opening until the close of the
bail, and an elegant supper from 11 until ia
o’dck
Profvssor Gronx ha* arrived Irom New
O.- eans with ooe hundred and fifty costumes,
which he will open oa Monday morning at No
37 Whitehall street. Those wlahitg to rent from
him had beat cad e*r!y.
Bsmevwtwnt Uom* S'U per.
The ladies oi the Benevorent Home
will prepare an elegant rupper to be given at
C meordi* Hall next Wednesday night in con
me ion with the citizen's ms»k ball a supper
with ail the delicacies of the season served in
the beat style will to iuroiabedlor one dollar.
Any parties who desire to attend the supper
with'iut going to the ball Oan do so aa It will he
•erved lu sn apartment entirely different It ia
bopsd that many will come ana patronfi: ihU
enterprise which la in the hands of nob!q
women who are working, net for thcmaelveq
hut for the poor and unfortunate. Help them