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THE ATLANTA SUN.
FBOM THE PALLY EDITION OP
Wednesday, March 27th, 1S72.
Bead the articles in this issue
taken from tlie Easton (Pennsylvania)
Sentinel, and the Savannah yews.
A. H. S.
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From the EMton (Pennsylvania) Sentinel.
The Politics of tlic “Sew York World.”
A sense of duty to onr party has forced
ns, reluctantly, again to refer to the aban
donment ot Democratic principles and
usages by the New York World. With
this sheet, however, this abandonment is
nothing new, for it always does this thing
when either the principles or usages of
the party run against the special interest
it is kept to defend. We find now that
tbis organ of stock-jobbers in the city of
New York arrogantly directs the com
mittee of the party as to the time it
shall call the Democratic National
Convention. Notsatistied with constant
efforts to disorganize the Democra
cy, by the most artful suggestions of all
sorts of policies for its adoption, it hopes
to sow the seed of discord in the Nation
al Convention, by postponing its meeting
nntil the rings of New York are prepared
to force that body of Democrats to sink
their party into oblivion and become ihe
followers of a new set of speculators and
adventurers, with whom the World and
its clique seems to have joined 'hands,
It is fearful that the honest toilers—the
workingmen and the farmers—who vote
the Democratic ticket, will not agree to
Support a nominee of the ring of stock
jobbers which hare made New York the
scandal of the times. It fears that Mr. Bel
mont, the! chairman of the National Com
mittee and his clique of architects
in plans, artizans in schemes and “deal
ers” in politics who control it, will not
be able to satisfy the Democracy, and,
therefore, urges a postponement of the
Convention until other rings of worn-out
politicians can unite in some plan that
will devide the Convention, so that tee
radical patty can re-elect Grant
This is the covert design of the World—
this is the secret motive of the stock
jobbers it represents. This is the cause
for all the twaddle in its columns about
“passivism” and the need of abondoning
Democratic principles.
Wo beg leave to tell this clique that
the Democracy of Pennsylvania will never
indorse any such schemes, devices, plots
and plans. If they can get through
without this State, very good. But we
tell them that the Democracy of Penn
sylvania will never consent to become a
bob-tail to tho TForW-Belmont-kite,
especially in the manner they propose to
fly it.
We beg leave also to say to the World
that the Democracy of Pennsylvania in
tend to have a candidate for President
who represents “the essential principles”
of the party, and not an adventurer or a
make-shift in politics. Success without
principles is like false coin—its worthless
ness is proved when it is sought to make
it valuable. We also take leave to remind
the World that in every election held
where its policy of “abandoning priuei-
{ >les” was adopted the Democratic party
ost ground. And we further beg leave
to inform the same World* this great
“Metropolitan journal,” that the Demo
cracy of Pennsylvania do not think that
a Democratic paper that boldly asks its
party to abandon its candidates, when
victory was about to close the canvass, as
it did in tho Presidential campaign four
years ago, that the party might thereby
become distracted and defeated, a very
safe craft to tie to. Such a guide in pol
itics they do not propose to follow.
THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN, FOR THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 3. 1872-
Interesting Particulars of the Conclu
sion of tlte Tichbome Trial.
From the Savrnnah News 27th March, 1872.
Inharmonious Passivism.
The New York Evening Post (Liberal
Republican), while it hns not minced its
denunciations of the Grant administra
tion or its opposition to Grant’s renomi
nation, looks not favorably npon the po
litical bargain proposed by the World,
the organ of the “New Departure,”
“ Passive” Democracy. Much less does
the Post seem inclined to submit to the
dictatorial reprimand of the World. The
Post seems to view the proposed arrange
ment in its true character of t an uncon
ditional, humiliating surrender of the
Democracy to the mythical faction
called the Liberal [Republicans in
which the former are expected to
surrender their principles, come over,
horse, foot and dragoons, to the support
of such nominees as the latter may see
fit to make, (in the event of their failure
to settle their family quarrel), and ask
ing no questions, accept such favors as
may be graciously granted to them. The
World, having ventured to scold the Lib
eral Republicans for their lukewarmness
in the approaching Connecticut elec
tion, the Post thus replies:
“Under these circumstances the World
takes it upon itself to threaten the Libe
ral Bepublicans that if they will not elect
the Democratic ticket in Connecticut
the passive policy will be abandoned at
once. ' ‘If having the power to turn
Connecticut against Grant they do not
choose to exert it, the Democratic party
(whose organization will not be dissolved
in auy event) will turn its back upon
Cincinnati, and as a sailor would
say, ‘steer by its own compass.
We have rarely met with a threat
more impotent than this, more
likely, indeed, to defeat its own object.
If we assume that the journal in question
represents its party, its language amounts
to tbis: ‘We want power; we cannotget
it alone, but you and we can get it by
working together. As far as principles
are concerned they do not stand in our
way. We are ready to barter all we ever
had for your help. But before we join
in your struggle for the great spoils we
demand that you help us to these little
ones. Before we sacrifice our principles
in joining you, you must show yourselves
to be as destitute of convictions as we
are by joining us to the sacrifice of your
own.’”
Could language administer a more
withering rebuke ? Such is the estimate
in which trading Democracy—Democra
cy that ignores principles in its intrigues
for political power—is held by honest,
conscientious men of all parties.
We have before us the London Daily
News of tho 7 th instant, containing some
interesting details of the conclusion of
the Tichbome trial.
This famous trial, by which an illiter
ate Australian butcher sought to gain
possession of probably the most valuable
Estate in England, outside of the posses
sions of the nobility, terminated at 12:40
o’clock on the 6th of March, at the Court
of the Queen’s Bench, Westminster-ball,
after a protracted session of one hundred
and three days.
It is estimated that there were 10,000
spectators present. For once in a life
time, it is said, it was impossible to ad
mit another living soul in the hall. The
jury, in retiring, had to move en masse,
and climb over the partition, and leap to
the floor on the inside.
The jury on Monday previous, had an
nounced themselves sufficiently acquaint
ed with the case to pronounce a verdict.
This disclosure produced the most pro
found excitement among the friends and
sympathisers of both the claimant and
defendant. .All considered the an
nouncement equivalent to a verdict
against the claimant. The Court re-as
sembled on Wednesday to bear the ver
dict, and dispose of the case, when the
counsel for the claimant anticipated the
jury, and stated that it was the desire cf
his client to submit to a non-suit.
The Lord Chief Justice directed that
the claimant be called. The chief clerk
then called “Sir Koger Charles Doughty
Tichbome, Baronet, come forth or you
will be non-suited,” three times in aloud
voice with distinct pauses; but the
claimant was not there. He bad
dared unflinchingly the searching in
terrogatories of the Attorney Gen
eral; he had stood upon the witness
stand for a month of days, and perjured
himself probably fifty thousand times
without a tremor; he had shown to the
court for nine months a bold, confident
and apparently honest face; he had never
betrayed the lie in his heart by any ex
ternal emotion or expression; be had in
variably preserved a dignified deportment
and sanguine eye, even amidst the most
trying and perilous stages of his suit;
but the man who had dared so much,de
fied the Judge, jury, counsel and wit
nesses, and even htfaven to baffle him,
had not the hardihood and effrontery to
encounter his antagonists in the moment
of their triumph, to face the frowns of
the court and endure the indignant scoffs
of the indignant multitude. He had, as
usual, that morning driven up to West
minster in his little brougham, but being
greeted by hisses he turned away and
took refuge in his roomat the ligoteJs.
i The Lord Chief Justice then ordered
that- the plaintiff be prosecuted for per
jury at the next session of the Central
Criminal Court, and be committed to the
common goal in default of $25,000 bond.
The Attorney General announced that
the prosecution wonld be public and con
ducted at the public expense; which
announcement was greeted by loud
cheers.
The usnal instructions preliminary to
the next trial were given, the customary
courtesies and compliments acknowledged
between the Court, counsel and jury, and
the Chief Justice adjourned the court
and dismissed the jury which had been
impanneled for nine months, with the
following singular and humorous speech:
“ I may state that the arrangement# of the officers
Of the court have greatly tended to our comfort.
Let me add further, gentlemen, that I hope In the
new Jury Acta clause will be inserted to exempt
every one of you from serving on another jurv so
long os you may bo desirous of being exempted.”
(Laughter.)
As soon as the Judge issued his war.
rant for the apprehension of the claim*
ant on the charge of perjury, steps were
immediately taken to secure his arrest.
The significant announcement of the jury
on Monday induced the police to suspect
that the claimant, might attempt to
escape; the detective department was
consequently on the alert. They pro
ceeded directly to his hotel, and on in
quiring for Sir Roger Tichbome were
shown in his private sitting-room. The
warrant was read over to him. The claim
ant, perfectly composed, said:
LEE,
“Well, it is .very unfortunate, as it wfll put me to
considerable personal inconvenience if I am to be
arrested now."
Of course there could be no delay, and he seemed
determined to put the best appearance on the matter
possible. The brougham in which he had so often
ridden to Westminster was once more ordered, but
this time to convey him to Newgate. At the hotel
Uie affair created a great sensation as soon as it was
known that the three gentleman visitors wfire detect
ive police. Tho visitors at the hotel crowded round
to take a *la§t fond look,’' and the claimant, once in
his carriage with the detectives, soon attracted the
attention of the passers-by in the street A number
of persons ran after the carriage, and the crowd in
creased all along tho road till Newgate was reached.
A he doors were opened, and the claimant walked
firmly but composedly into the interior of the goal
V ^ h . er ?., he . waR P la . ced in ordinary celL It is
stated that an examination of his private papers will
be made, and it is expected that some curious in
formation as to his career will be found.
Holsenlmlce Attempts to Escape.
The Macon Telegraph and Messenger
of the 28th has the following:
Day before yesterday, about
o clock p. m., while the guard was eating
dinner, Holsenbake, one of the murder
ers of Colonel Fish, who was confined in
jail at Oglethorpe, convicted of the
murder, attempted to make his escape
by breaking through the roof of the jaiL
He had reached the outer wall before he
was discovered by the guard, who called
to him to halt, but that being no part of
his programme he refused to obey, where
upon the guard discharged both barrels
of a double-barrel shot-gun at him, each
load taking effect—one in the left shoul
der and the other fracturing the ri"ht
leg above the knee. Passengers on the
bouthwestem train yesterday afternoon
report him in a dying condition from
the wounds. Lloyd, the other murderer,
has been'removed to the Albany jail for
greater safety.
The Patterson Case
The store of J. L. & B. H. Cobb, of
Cuthbert, was robbed on Friday night of
a considerable amount of goods. One
of the thieves, a negro, was detected by
his display of a cigar that had been stol
en. He confessed and implicated others,
six of whom were caught and lodged in
Mazziai was sick oulv one hour and
a half,
The case of Mrs. Catharine Patterson
vs. The Equitable Life Insurance Com'
pany has just been tried again in Savan
nah. It was a suit brought to recover
f?10,000, the amount of an insurance
policy on her husband’s life, who died in
S.avannah bout three years ago. The
case was earned to the Supreme Court
and a new trial granted. The second
trial terminated on Wednesday, the jury
verdict of $10,000 for the plain
tiff. ihe counsel for the defense gave
notice of a motion for a new trial.
— Connecticut votes next Monday.
In tlie election in that State the Republi
can candidate for Governor received 103
majority. In 1870 the Democratic ma
jority was 843.
Tlie Grave of Light Horse Harry.
, t
CoL W. G. McAdoo has recently made
a visit to the tomb of the father of Gen
eral Robert E. Lee, and writes for the
Milledgeville Union, an account of the
visit, from which we make some ex
tracts:
In 1813, GeD. Henry Lee, incapacita
ted by physical disability from participa
tion in our War then raging with Great
Britain, went in quest of health to the
West Indies. Early in 1818, he sought
his native land, sensible that his “end of
earth” could not be far distant. At his
request, the vessel on which he had em
barked put into Cumberland Sound, and
the distinguished and dying patriot be
came the guest of Mrs. Shaw, the eldest
daughter of Gen. Nathaniel Greene,
then the mistress of Dungeness Mansion.
This noble and lordly mansion, built un
der the direction of Mrs. Greene after
the General’s death, of massive “tabby”
walls, (now in ruins, having boen de
stroyed by fire in 1867), was then the
seat of refined and elegant hospitality.
Here, the illustrious guest received every
attention; but he died on tho 25th of
March, 1818, and was interred in the
family cemetery near the grave of Mrs.
Gen. Greeue.
The remains of General Greene, who
died at Mulberry Grove, near Savannah,
prior to the erection of the Dungeness
Mansion, have been unfortunately lost.
We reached the Dungeness landing on
Cumberland Island about 9 o’clock,
where we were hospitably received by
Mr.. George F. Johnston, the gentleman
ly occupant of the Dungeness property.
Under the polite guidance of Mr. John
ston, we visited the various places of in
terest on the premises. Tlie massive walls
of the mansion, composed of solid ma
sonry known as “tabby”—formed of con
crete lime and shells—resemble more the
ruins of some old feudal castle than any
thing else we have seen in the United
States. It was erected under the direc
tion of the widow of General Greene;
who rewarded the cunning architect, a
Scotchman named’ Phineas Miller, for
his skill iu his profession and his worth
as a man, by giving herself to him. Her
marriage to Mr. Miller soon followed the
erection of the mansion. Her death oc
curred in 1S14.
After a careful survey of these mass
ive ruins, we proceeded iu a southeaster
ly direction about half a mile to the
family cemetery. It is enclosed 1 y a low
tabby wall; the cedar and live oak inter
twine their branches closely over the
neglected tombs; and the wall on the
Southern side is crumbling to decay. A
rustic cedar gate of modern construction
alone shows the recent presence of man.
We sought, first, the tomb of Lee. Ou
the white marble tombstone is the in
scription :
SACKED
TO THE MEMORY OF
GENERAL HENRY
OF VIRGINIA.
Obiit—25 March, 1818,
iEtat 63,
Nearest to Gen. Lee’s tomb is that of
Charles Jackson, a Revolutionary offi
cer, who died in 1801; and the next is
that of Mrs. Miller. It reads,
In memory of *
Catharine Miller,
(Widow of the late Major General
NATHANIEL GREENE, Commander-
in-Ohief, of the American Army
Iu the Southern Department in 1783,)
Who died Sept. 2d, 1814, aged 59 years.
She possessed great talents
And exalted virtues.
The tomb of Gen. Greene’s daughter,
Mrs. Louisa C. Shaw, who died in 1831,
and of her husband, Mr. James Shaw’
who died in 1820, are beside Mrs. Mil
ler’s.
Many persons are under the impres
sion that Gen. Greene was buried here;
but at the time of his death (1786) he re
sided at Mulberry Grove, near Savannah,
and his remains were deposited in a vault
in the old cemetery in Savannah.
The mansion of Dungeness was erected
after his death. When his descendants
in after years sought his remains with the
purpose of removing them to Dungeness,
they could not be identified. It is certain
that they are not at Dungeness. Even
our own General Robert E. Lee was
under the impression that General Greene
was interred at Dungeness, and so states
by necessary implication in his biograph
ical sketch prefixed to.his father’s histori
cal work on Revolutionary History, in
the edition of the latter that appeared in
1869. The writer hereof ventured to call
General Robert E. Lee’s attention to this
mistake in March, 1870; and in the next
month—April 1870—he made a pilgrim
age to lii§ father’s tomb, and ascertained
for himself that General Greene’s remains
were not at Dungeness. Alas,he very soon
sank into his own grave, in his own lov
ing and beloved Virginia !
Turning from the tombs with silent
reference, we walked a short distance
through deserted fields where thorny
cactus {abounded, and the bristling
cirsium in bloom spoke of the mildness
of this delicious and half-tropical climate.
The surf came up on the white ^each in
long swells. Were a sea-bathing estab
lishment opened here it would eclipse in
many respects such resorts in the North
ern btates. The climate throughout the
heats of summer is never oppressive;
and in the winter the cold is seldom disa-
greably felt. * * * * At one part of
the beach, the heaving, restless waters
of old Ocean are slowly wearing away a
mound exposing these fragments of pot
tery, together with the bones of its
Aboriginal builders.
Near this spot the celebrated pirate
Gibbes is said to have hidden, an immense
treasure of golden coin. Prior to his exe
cution—so goes the story—touched by
the kindness of his jailor, he described
to him the spot on the Southern end of
Cumberland ^ [Island, stating that he
i Gibbes) had taken ten men ashore to
bury the the treasure; and to preserve
his secret, he had murdered these ten
men and thrown them overboard so soon
as he got to sea. The treasure has often
been searched for. We did not take time
to search for so small a sum—onlv S170 -
000 in gold! Indeed had we found it,
the weight would have been inconvenient
to carry.
Declining for want of time—wind and
tide co-operating to dictate the hour of
our return—a hospitable invitation of
Mr. Johnston to dine, we took a hasty
lunch on board the restless “Georgia”
already rocking on the waves at the beach,
impatient to sail. Mr. Johnston’s hos
pitality added -some delicacies to onr
sumptuous lunch; and we remember to
corks a short time before we set sail.
Conversation was animated as we cleft
the foamy waters in Cumberland Sound.
One of our party, in bis intense practi
cality, describing a swimming match in
his native Penobscot, leaped overboard
and buffeted the waves as lustily as did
Cresar and Cassius the noted time they
swam the Tiber. The skillful Cassidy
soon hauled to; and the “wave-stemmer”
stood triumphantly on deck again, the
acknowledged hero of the expedition.
We reached this city an hour ago.
W. G. M.
Crop X?rognosticat.„ns.
TUe Moreland Homicide.
A correspondent of the Macon Tele
graph and Messenger indulges big specu- ed with the murder of W.’t
lative fancy after the following dolesome
Tlic Freshet and tlxc Railroads.
The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel of
yesterday, has the following with regard
to the damage done to railroads by the
recent rains:
The rain storm of Sunday night and
of Monday, seems to have extended over
the entire States of Georgia and South
Carolina, and to have done much dam
age. Its effect up the country was
much more serious than in the'lower
portion of the State. The principal suf
ferers have been the railroads, and, as a
necessary consequence, the traveling
public.
The Macon and Augusta Railroad had
more than one hundred feet of trestle-
work washed away at a point called
Black Lake, three miles this side of Ma
con. The trains have not been able to
run through since last Monday. ’A tele
gram received yesterday stated that the
full extent of the damage could not yet
be ascertained. The trains run through
regularly between this city and Milledge
ville, and the wash will be repaired as
rapidly as possible.
On the Central Railroad there have
been several washes, causing the inter
ruption of mail communication between
Macon and Savannah. No through
trains have passed over the road within
the past forty-eight hours. We are- in
formed that most of the washes have all
been repaired, with the exception of one
at the 158th mile post, which is of no
great extent, and will soon be repaired it
is thought. The trains on this road at
tempted to go through yesterday, but we
have not learned with what success.
Until the road is in complete order
there will be no night trains, but tbe
energy of the company favors the anti
cipation that everything will be right in
a short time.
There is no interruption ou the road
between Savannah and Augusta, and con
sequently the regular day and night
trains will be run through ou schedule,
time.
About fifty feet of the track of the
Greenville and Columbia Railroad was
washed away, near Pomaria, on Monday.-
The damage (says the Columbia Union,
of yesterday) was so extensive as to pro
hibit the down train from passing, and
an extra train sent from that city last
night brought down the passengers.
mood. Evidently he is one of those fel
lows who is always wishing that his legs
were longer, that he might meet evil more
than half way:
I see much said about the prospect of
a large crop for tbe present year. Those
who make such calculations, in mv
opinion, reckon without their host.
It is now the 25th of March; the peach
trees are not in full bloom, nor even the
plum trees fully so. I have lived to see
many winters, but never saw the like of
this. It has rained every few days since
Christmas ; then, there have been only a
few days when work could be done ; and
then tbe land too wet to plow.
Many have tried to plow this wet land,
but it only injured the stock and prevents
the growth of the crop. Farmers had
better do nothing than do that. It has
been the coldest winter we have bad for
years, added the to wet. Even a day or so
since it sleeted, snowed and rained in a
few hour’s time. Even now, it is cold
enough to kill bogs, and raining in tor
rents. The corn planted two or three
weeks ago must rot in the ground, it is so
wet and cold that it can never spring up,
unless a sudden and instant change takes
place.
There are fewer freedmeu at work than
since tlie war. Some there are who say
that “farmers have plenty of hands, and
th.ey are working well.” But not so here,
The negroes only work when compelled,
and many of them have been able to
squat about on the lauds of others, and
are satisfied if they can be let alone.
They care to make nothing.
Less guano is purchased in this section
than usual. The guano of 1870 aided to
make the crop of 1871. But there will
be less aid to growing crops this vear
from guano than any year lately past. The
farmers are impressed with the import
ance of making their corn at home.
Their meat, at the present prices, does
not pay; but the time will come when
cotton will go down, and meat go up;
then they will have n j hogs, and will be
compelled to raise their meat at great
disadvantage. Hence some are feeding
more corn to their hogs than will buy
double the meat it will raise.
All these influences are brought to
bear against a big crop of cotton. It will
be contrary to all past experience to sup
pose such a thing. I have never seen a
good crop after such a winter; and for
continued and dreadful cold and wet, I
have never seen such winter. In truth,
it looks more like starvation, at this time
of the year, and with this weather, than
anything else to your correspondent
irom Houston.
The triM of Tobe Turner, who is ol ,„
l with the murder of W T
° u the 8th inst., at GreenvUle/fi?
Court of Inquiry, composed of r i 4
Gillespie and John C SKI
the Peace, began on wS2.' So1
20th inst. Tho State, after
three witnesses, closed Friday 8
having made a very strong cie a 5“*.
the defendant, two witnesses bv?3*
that ho fired the shot that killed ai* 8
ceased. But we learn that the testis*
of the witnesses examined forthedet
conflicts in many points with that of?
State s witnesses, rendering the ea*» “ e
of great intricacy. '' ° De
Monday the trial was suspended on „
count of the absence of one of th A 8 *
f.ippc n n;n , . llle Jl
tices, John D. Gillespie, who had A
ovvitTA/i • . not
arrived Tuesday morning when nn,-
formant left. It is supposed that S’
high waters, consequent upon the rent;!
r “<Js, prevented his attendance at cSJ
The attorneys employed in the casa Ar
for the State : W. H. Hulsey of AtW®’
Cox & Turner of LaGrange
* D. Render of Greenri£
for the defense: M. M. Tidwell of r ’
etteville; J. W. Park, Georg? rJV
and John L. Robertson of GreemiL?^
Besides Tobe Turner, who is now'
viol no 1-ivin/iitanl A L« m ” Gfl
tiial as principal, Abner Turner, J„u
f : _T“»er and J. fi. Shuttles are
der arresj^as .accessories to tho killing
Hon. J. W. Moreland, son of
is under arrest for assault with 'int^M 1
murder J. E. Shuttles; andj. ffti
rence, who was wounded in the aflhw
for an assault with infill-
intent to niurdej
Tobe Turner, all of which arrests
out of the same difficulty.-^.
Reporter, 29. •
Ground Peas.
A Magnanimous Blacksmith.
Volunteer Companies.
A few days since Major J. V. H. Allen,
of Augusta, wrote to Governor Smith in
reference to the formation of volunteer
companies, asking whether it would be
infringing upon any law to organize such
companies. He received the following
reply from the Governor:
snt, )
5RGIA, V
372. )
Executive Department,
State of Georgia
Atlanta, Ga., March 23, 1872,
Mr. J. V. IT. AUen, Augusta, Ga.:
Sir : I am directed by the Governor to
acknowledge the receipt of your com
munication, of the 20th instant, in
reference to the organization of volun
teer companies in this State, and to
say that, while he observes with pleasure,
not unmixed with pride, the very gen
eral interest and desire manifested on
this subject in different sections of
the State, he sees no legal difficulty
in the way of their gratification. The
Governor is preparing and sending for
ward requisitions for arms, etc., and
hopes to be able in a short time to fur
nish them, at least in limited quantities,
to companies that may desire and are
ready to receive them. In response to
your concluding inquiry, his Excellency
suggests that, if it. be desirable, your
company, in its re-organization, conform
to the regulations of its old charter—
which, he doubts not, will be revived by
the Legislature at its next session. I Have
the honor to be, very respectfully,
J. W. Warren,
. secretary Executive Department.
The Streets of the Rain.
Farm labor has been greatly retarded
by the recent heavy rams. A planter
told us yesterday that he had not been
able to run a plow since Thursday last,
ihe weather has been so cold that most
of the corn that has been planted has
failed to come up, and the ground is now
too wet to replant. We fear that every
. , of J arm wolk will be badly behind
hand. The streams are all very much
swollen, more so than they have been for
many months and perhaps years before,
■truly it seems that we have by some
means incurred the anger of the gods,
and they are giving full veht to their
wrath just now. Wish they’d hold up
for a short while.
Press Convention and Excursion.
In our official capacity* we have sub
mitted the question as to the place of
meeting of the Press Association, in
May next, to the members of the Execu
tive Committee. The vote was so scat
tering that no place received a majority
—some being for Atlanta, others favoring
Macon, and som e Columbus. Under this
state of facts, and desiring to conform to
the wishes of a majority, we respectfully
ask our cotemporaries to speak out at
once and indicate their preferences.—
Athens Watchman.
A one-armed horseman, recently travel
ing through Missouri, stopped at a bleack
smith’s shop to have his horse shod.
The smith noticed the empty sleeve, and
asked him if he lost his arm in the war.
He replied, with a sigh, that he did, and
even more, going on to relate how he left
home to enlist in the Southern army, and
at the close of the war, on going back he
found that bis wife who thought him
dead, had moved away, and he had since
been unable to obtain a trace of her,
“What is your name ?” asked the black
smith.
When the answer was “J. M. Walrup,
he suddenly released the hoof over which
lie had been bending, and, without look
ing at the soldier, cried: “Follow me in
to the house,” and hurriedly led the way.
Result, the discovery of Mrs. Walrup
with three new children by her side. She
had supposed Walrup dead, and had ac
cordingly been married to the black
smith. . The two meu wisely came to the
conclusion to let the lady choose between
them, and she elects in favor of Walrup.-
Then she says she cannot do without the
children, and the blacksmith says,
after a most painful pause, “You shall
take them, my dear.” “When the steam
boat St. Luke,” says the Cincinnati En
quirer, in a most touching paragraph,
“stopped at the landing some hours later,
Walrup went on board witli his still
weeping and thick veiled wife, and the
blacksmith followed with his children.
The boat’s bell rang for the starting,
and the separation was at hand. The
crew, the passengers, the captain—all
who witnessed it—were affected to tears
by the touching scene.
“With great drops rolling down his
tawny cheek, the smith kissed the chil
dren one after another, and in a choking
voice bade their mother an eternal good,
bye. The two men gazed wistfully at
each other’s faces, shook hands long and
earnestly, and then the blacksmith, by a
strong effort of iron will, released the
hand of Walrup, and walked quietly to
the shore. He never turned his face
again toward the boat, which soon passed
out of sight around a merciful bend in
the river, but strode on, with head bowed
down, to the home whither the voice of
his wife and children should welcome
him no more.”
There are numberless good, and on the
whole, healthy people, who are laboring
under the ailment described in the fol
lowing verses from the London Fun:
Declined.
The Macon Telegraph and Messenger
appears to be peculiarly persecuted by an
ambitions poet, to whom it serves up the
following notice to quit:
The verses sent from Eufanla on the
18th instant, from Atlanta on the 1st
inst., and fromEmroy College, Virginia
by J. E. D., are re^ectfu® deXS
They do not seem to us, after impartial
examination, to be of sufficient merit to
warrant their publication to the exclusion
of other matter of more public interest.
have heard some popping sounds as of Atlanta to-day.
The Sparta papers of IilS t week reached
X bear about, both day and night,
Tha most acute of maladies-
To picture it in black and white.
The object of this ballad is.
Permit me, gentle reader, please,
To breathe in your auricular:
1 suffer from the fell disease
Of nothing in particular. •
To render it tho more intense
And nearly unendurable,
My doctor says in confidence,
’Tis totally incurable.
My mind has threatened ere to-day
To lose its perpendicular,
And fall a melancholy prey
To nothing in particular.
An old farmer’s experience in the
“goober” business is set forth by the
Sandersville Georgian as follows:
We heard an old farmer, the other day
giving his experience in tho cultivation
of the ground pea. Said he, I planted
an acre of good productive land in them
They grew finely and were easy to cnlti-
vate. In the fall I turned my pork ho<-s,
one hundred in number, upou this lot
The first day the hogs went all over tho
lot, as if looking for the best. I had ar
ranged a trough in one corner of the
lot near a well for the purpose of supply,
mg them with water. After eating their
fill tbe hogs came to the trough for
water, and near this made their beds.
From tho first day they commenced
rooting for the peas near the trough and
thus advanced day by day, going only as -
far as was necessary to obtain a fall sap-1
ply of food. Upon this lot I fattened J
this one hundred hogs thoroughly. After I
killing my pork I turned my stock hogs I
upon the lot, and upon eating the re-1
maining peas they all became fat, some
of my brooding cows so much so that!
feared they would never be of further
service as such, and I converted them in
to pork also. He remarked that he crave
his hogs no corn at all, and the conse
quence was his bacon and lard was too
soft. A little corn should be given s
short time before killing so as to harden I
the fat.
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THK IV. AND A. R. R.
Discoveries of the Investigating Com
mittee of tlie Georgia Legislature*
Weather and Crops.
The Dawson Journal of the 28th, re
ports:
We are having a great deal-of the
former and the prospect of the latter is
gloomy indeed. On Friday last, consid
erable sleet fell in this section. Satur
day was a fair and pleasant day, bat Sun
day was cloudy; in the evening, howev
er, the weather moderated and Sundav
night rain fell in torrents. Streams and
ponds generally are very much swollen,
and the damage to farming lands is im
mense.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch says :
Rain is the order of the day. The
ground is thoroughly saturated, farming
is at a dead halt, hauling outside of the
road is dangerous, gardens are threatened
with being drowned out. Evidently the
seasons have changed, and we are having
a practical illustration of what is meant
by the “rainy season.•’
FRAUDS TO THE AMOUNT OF $40,000 AL
READY UNEARTHED.
_ This Committee, whose notice we pub
lish elsewhere, held a session in this city
yesterday. The evidence elicited was
relative to the transactions of Blodgett
and other officials of the State Road in
their steamboat investment. It will be
remembered that Superintendent Hulbert
purchased the steamers Mary Byrd and
Resaca in 1869, the road advancing $21,-
000 in cash to the owners of the boats,
and making a contract that this sum
should be refunded in freight. It was
clearly proven that the boats were not
worth $13,000. The money was advanced
prior ta the final purchase, and when it
became evident that the money never
could be got out of the transaction in
freights, the officials purchased the boats.
Small, the owner of the boats, prior
to the time this sum of $21,000 was ad
vanced upon them, had mortgaged them
to a citizen of Knoxville.
The boats after the sum was advanced
and prior to their purchase deteriorated
in value, and Small being virtually
bankrupt, the Superintendent was at Ins
mercy.
After the sale Blodget superceded
Hulbert as Superintendent and imme
diately took the boats out. of the hands
of au old and efficient river man and put
them into the hands of a man named
Alexander, who was recommended to
Blodgett by Horace Maynard. Alexander,
on his first trip sunk the Mary Byrd in
forty feet of water, above Bridgeport.
She was a total loss to the road.
The Resacca was shortly after taken to
Decatur and sold to J.' D. Hinds for
$4,500 on a long credit, none of which jt
has ever been or probably ever will he
paid.
After the purchase of these boats they
were found to be heavily incumbered by
liens of every kind and numberless at
tachments ensued, in every case the State
being worsted and having to foot the
bills.
This probably is about as correct a
history as will ever be writted of the ca
reer of the “Mary Byrd” and “Resacca;’’
the. purchase, repairing and running ®
which cost the State of Georgia about
$40,000, and from which large outlay of
money not one hundred dollars being re*
turned.—Chattanooga Times, 26Ou
Eillled l>y a Falling Tree.
The Savannah News of Tuesday has
an account of the killing, on Saturday
last, of W. H. Edwards, Sr., of Tatnall
county. The News says:
A gentleman from Bryan county in-
forms ns that late in the afternoon an
empty bnggy was seen standing near th®
bridge over the Canoochee river, which
divides the two counties. On closer ap
proach of the party, Mr. Edwards was
discovered on the ground leaning against
the bnggy, perfectly dead. The horse
had. broken loose, and was standing 3
short distance off. A large branch of a
tree was lying across the front of the
^ a S£Y> almost concealing Mr. Edwards
from view. The supposition is that he
was killed by the tree limb. The buggy
was badly broken, but the horse was un
injured. Mr. Edwards was an old and
respected citizen of Tattnall county, and
had lived to the good old age of seventy-
two years, in the enjoyment of the good
will and opinions of all his neighbors.