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VOL. 3, NO.‘3.)
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1872.
WHOLE
NUMBER
109.
Rev. 8. Mayfield, Conyers, Ga.
Joseph Davidson, Woodv"'
iville, Ga.
C. L. Peacock, ElUvillc, Ga.
W, G. Scncoos, Warronton, Ga.
Miller DcBose. Sparta, Ga.
T. P. O’Brien, Barnett, Ga.
Benjamin Moon, Culverton, Ga.
Mtebs & Dabracott, Crawfordville, Ga.
Iverson L. Hunter, Milledgeville, Ga.
Dr. J. T. Baker, Mayfield, Ga.
A. S. Bass, Devoreux, Ga.
C. C. Norton, Greensboro, Ga.
S. 8. Floyd, Madison, Ga.
CONTENTS
“ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN,”
POE THE WEEK ENDING
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10th, 1873.
EDITORIALS BY MR. STEPHENS—
The Late State Convention page 3
The Georgia Delegation to the Baltimore Con*
ventlon
"A Word Fitly Spoken is like Apples of Gold
In Pictures of Silver.”
More Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver....
New Books
Answers to Correspondents......
Princeton College
POLITICAL ARTICLES—
"Can the Pennsylvania Democracy Support Horace
GreeleyT” 7. Democratic meeting In Oglethorpe, 2,
Communication from 8outh Carolina, 3. Sugges
tions to tho Georgia Delegates to Baltimore, by
“Dougherty," 0. A Voice from Mississippi—a point
ed Letter from Jas.-S. -Johnson, 6. A powerful Let
ter to Gen. A. R. Wright-supposed to be from Hon.
II. V. Johnson, 4. Hon. Gsrnett McMillan, 6.
Voice from Indiana, 4. Another Voice from Sonth
Carolina, 5. Political Notes, 6. A few Words Mildly
Spoken on the Gubernatorial Question, 6.
Hon, Garnett McMillan for Congress, 6.
FOREIGN' ITEMS,
Small-pox is prevailing in Chili.
There are 630,000 street lamps in Lon
don.
Count Yalmaseda, the brutish Captain
General of Cuba, has resigned.
Minister Sickles gave a grand recep
tion at Madrid, (Spain) on the 4th July.
A telegraphic line from Sfinta Bosa
I Argentine Republic) to Santiago, Chili,
has been completed.
Two opposition journal in Peru have
been suppressed, and tbeir editors im
prisoned by the government.
The streets of London, if placed in
one continuous straight line, would meas
ure about 4,000 miles in length
The illness which proved fatal to the
late Charles Lever, dated from the death
of his dearly beloved wife, whom he sur
vived a very short while.
The publication of matrimonial advei-
tisements has been suspended in the
Vienna papers, by order of the city au
thorities.
The German Parliament has issued a
decree abolishing all orders and organi
zations of Jesuits, expelling the foreign
ers of the order, and removing natives to
places designated by the Federal Council.
MISCELLANEOUS—
Improvements in Macon; Racy Letter from our
New York Correspondent, 2. Foreign Items; Com
mencement week In LaGrango; Miscellaneous Items,
■3. Sunday in Gainesville; Koto from Hon. T. S.
Hammond; Perllons Predicament; Death from
a Singular Cause, 4. Fatal Accident, 4. Foreign
Items; Princeton and tho Claims of Princeton
• Georgia State Agricultural Society; Fall Elections, 1-
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES — OGLETHORPE
UNIVERSITY—
Including Dr. Wills' Grand Eulogy on Judge Nisbit,
pages 2 and 3.
LOCAL ITEMS—
Georgia Cadets, 3. T. G. Campbell still in jail.
Proceedings of the Pomological Society—Highly Im
portant to Frnlt Growers; A Sad Case, 4. Rev, Dr.
Wills* Baccalaureate Address, 5.
HUMOROUS—
Recorder’s Court, 4.
Recorder’s Court, 5.
Excerpts of Fun and Humor
TELEGRAM’S—Pages 6 and 8.
POETRY—
To my Wife, 1. Poems from the Portfolio of
Confederate Soldier, 1.
ADVERTISEMENTS—
Fulton County Grand Jury Presentments, page
7; other advertisements, same pages.
ircla Democracy-.
30th Jane, 1873.
Resolved, That the Democratic party
of Georgia stand upon the principles of
the Democratic party of the Union,bring
ing into special prominence, as applica
ble to the present extraordinary condi
tion of the country the unchangeable
doctrine that this is a union of States,
and that the indestructibility of the
States,of their rights, and of their equali
ty with each other is an indispensable
part of onr political system.
Resolved, That in the approaching
election the Democratiot party invites
everybody to co-operate with them in a
zealons determination to change the
present usurping and corrupt administra
tion, by placing in power men who are
true to the principles of Constitutional
Government, and to a faithful and eco
nomical administration of pnblic affairs.
Brom the Baltimore Bulletin.]
Princeton and the Claims of Princeton.
Georgia State Agricultural Society.
TO SIT WIFE.
Dr. McCosh has made another raid on
Baltimore. "When he first crossed the
border his tone was more imperious.
There were no colleges deserving the
name in the Sonth. and Princeton, as
one of the foremost colleges of the
North, claimed her share of Southern
patronage. This time he is less sweep
ing in his negations and more definite in
his demands. The canny Scot only
wants $30,000 from Maryland and the
States fnrtber South, to enable the Radi
cal professors of Princeton to live in
greater comfort. Before the impulsive
Sontbron plunges his hand into his
pocket, in quest of the little “siller” or
the stray “baubees” that Dr. McCosli’s
clan has left him, he may do well to con
sider the claims of the institution itself
and the claims of its chief.
On convivial occasions, snch as the re
cent gathering of the Baltimore alumni
of Priuceti n, no end of spurious affec
tion for Alma Mater babbles up with the
spurious champagne; and men are
ashamed to repudiate in their calmer
honrb the vows and promises which the
heat of the moment has elicited. Per
haps, however, it may not be too late to
save some who have not been caught in
the whirl, and even those Southerners
who sympathize with Princeton may
profit by taking heed to a statement,
which is not consciously colored by sec
tional prejudice or personal dislike.
At the close of the war, Prinoeton Col-
The Jesuits of Nicaragua (Central lege stood sadly in need of some potent dtejrilmti 011 '
Secretary’s Office,
Atlanta, Ga., July 4, 1872. f
To the County Agricultural Societies:
1. The second Semi-Annual Conven
tion, for the year 1872, will meet in Grif
fin, on Tuesday, August 13, at noon.
2. The Delegates to the February Con
vention are entitled to seats in all of the
Society Conventions till February, 1873.
3. A properly appointed Alternate may
take the place of any Delegate unable to
attend, and a certificate by the Secretary
of the County Society of the duo ap
pointment of the Alternate, together
with the x’.ailroad ticket of the principal,
will entitle the Alternate to pass to and
from the Convention.
4. Delegates being carried' by the rail
roads free, must pass by the most direct
routes, and tickets should not be trans
ferred. Any abuse of the liberal policy
of the railroad companies is to be care-
full avoided.
5. County Societies not represented
heretofore, may appoint three Delegates,
and report their names to this office by
the 20th of July, sending also a full list
of officers and members of such Societies.
6. Delegates are requested not to for
get the unanimous action of the Conven
tion in February last in regard to the
translation of George Ville—pledging
the County Societies to procure copies of
this very valuable work for gratuitous
1 (From Ike Portfolio of a Deceased Confederate Soldier.)
'•I only know thee as my star,
My angel and my dream.”
Yes, loved one! When life’s fearful sea
Roared round me fierce and dork,
And no kind ray beamed through the gloom,
To guide my hast’ning bark,
Thy spirit’s light rose o’er my tray
To woo where pleasures are,
And light and tender still it smiles—
My true, my only star.
Thou art the chosen minister,
By Heaven in mercy sent,
To lead me from the erring paths
O’er which my steps were bent.
And, dear one, thou with gentle hand
Thine errand doth fulfill;
Through every change, by day or night,
Thou art my angel still.
But oh! when slumber’s spell is laid
Upon each weary lid,
And ’neath its deep oblivious veil
Each waking care is hid,
*Tis then my thoughts, like rays of soul
By thee, love-lighted, beam;
Tis then “I know thee as my star,
My angel and my dream.”
And ever thus thou’lt be to me
The harbinger of rest;
The one who, with affection’s voice.
Will soothe tho troubled breast.
But aU my thoughts of days to come
With peace, contentment teem,
For thou art now, and aye will be,
“The spirit of my drsam.”
Roseville, Ga.
o^sly and easily, like the fast flowing of
a tranquil stream.
His gift of language was wonderful
an t his style pithv, yet fluent and versa
tile.
There was the orator’s controlling in
fluence in his air and eye, while his de
livery was most graceful. Ho always had
an inexhaustible fund of topics at his
command, which dashed with his hab
itual witticisms, made his conversation
extremely fascinating. He was a wor
shiper of truth in the abstract. From,
boyhood, he had a reverence for every
thing sacred, and in manhood it culmi
nated in a deep and earnest piety. All
the powers and culture of his mind be
came concentrated in the sablime act of
prayer. Thus, the creature rendered
unto the creator his greatest possible
homage and honor. That what I say of
his intellect is not exaggeration, I am
permitted to give a brief extract from
the letter of a distinguished clergyman
of the South, who was a schoolmate. *
He says:
‘We met at the old Chatham Acade
my, where, for many months, we sat side
by side upon the sa “e form. I was not
more attracted by the singular kindness
which he display ed to the shy little fel
low, who w^s then placed under his
charge, than by his spirit, his ’ ’imor and
his versatility of genius. He sketched;
he fenced; he wrote poetry; he was an
adopt in maaly ur;s; he wus skillful in
pyrotechnic*; he was rich in anecdote;
• e mastered, without any seeming effort,
*’ie tasks assigned him; in short, he ap
peared to me to be a sort of ‘Admirable
Crichton,’ and I felt it to be a great con
descension, ( hough he did not), when
one so whole-souled and so gifted, hon
ored me with his friendship. * * It
is now over thir y years since I parted
txrif.Vk Tiunf ” rnf oa T
America) have been expelled from the
country, and the property of Jesuits in
Guatamala (Central America) has been
confiscated.
The exorbitant price paid prima donnas,
and other singers, as well as dancers, is
illustrated by the following salaries to
varions artistes: Madame Patti, 3t.
Petersburg, will receive about $7,500 per
month; Madame Nillson, $6,500; Madame
Volpini, $4,500; Signor Gragiani, $4,000.
Mile. Fioretti, the danseuse, receives at
Milan, (Italy) for a short season, $5,000.
Madame Pauline Lucca, at New York
Academy of Mnsic, next winter, will re
ceive $6,500 per month and a benefit.—
Madame Nillson will receive at Drury
Lane Theatre, (London,) $9,500 for a
twelve nights engagement; and Madame
Adelina Patti at Convent Garden receives
$600 every time she Bings.
The mode of proceeding at the Gene
va Arbitration Tribunal, it is believed,
will be as follows: The Board will .first
determine the character of the Confede
rate cruisers, and seriatim prononnee
whether or not England is responsible
ally. Her Southern patronage had for
some years been restricted of necessity
to Delaware and Maryland, and the
curses, which had formed the staple of
her prayer-meetings, seemed about to
return on her own head. She conld ill
afford to lose her Southern students.—
Not yesterday, nor the day before, were
the Sonthern students the boast of
Princeton; and if Dr. McCosh would
take the pains to study the rolls of honor.-c .. m ~
of his own college, he would find that the . e , es s “\ted to. the South,
Southern boys, in proportion to their I - e .Society, at its session, elects of
Written for the Atlanta Son.]
numbers and without reference to the
disparity of years, have always out
stripped the Northern men of Prince
ton. Hopelessly unpopular in the
South, by reason of ‘her bearing dur
ing the war, Princeton found herself
under the dire necessity of strengthen
ing her hold on the confidence of the
communities from which she was hence
forth to draw her sustenance.
The only honest way to gain a high
position among the colleges of the land,
was to reform from beginning to end, to
recognize the entire corps of instructors,
to insist on solid attainments, to breathe
into the comatose body the vivid force of
modern scholarship and modern science.
The cheaper way was to put at the
head of affairs a prominent Presbyterian
Divine, with the prestige of a foreign
reputation and the charlatanic gift of talk.
will be brought before the Convention
for action and discussion, among which
will be an address by Commodore M. F.
Maury, and probably one by Bishop
George F. Bierce; the report of the
Committee on the Constitution; the re
port of the Committee on the establish
ment of a Statistical Department of the
State Governmen!; the report of the
Committee on a complete Catalogue of
M ■ etc.
officers
for the ensuing year. The meeting, it is
believed, will be one of interest not here
tofore surpassed in the history of the
Society.
8. The Press, which has always co
operated so cordially heretofore in the
objects of the Society, is respectfully re
Poems from the “Portfolio of a Deceased
Confederate Soldier.”
Editors Atlanta Sun: The few brief
poems yon have published from time to
time with the above designation, although
sweet and graceful, evincing poetio
power of a very high order, do not de
pend upon such for their deepest inter
est.
These suggest a sad private history
connected with their author. When the
tocsin of onr late war was sounded, he
was residing with his happy and inter
esting family, at his plantation home in
lower Georgia.
At that period, all his children were of
quested to publish this notice and call tender years, and neither the mother or
attention to the same.
Samuel Barnett, Secretary.
CONVENTION AT GRIFFIN, AUGUST 13,1872.
The following Order of Proceedings is
suggested, subject to any modification by
the Convention :
for the depredations of one or any of This done—to promise, to brag, and to
them. The Arbitrators will then consid
er the award of damages. To this end |
they will consult the counsel of both sides
Should the views of these as to the
amount of indemnity widely disagree,the
Tribunal will probably name a mean,
gross amount between the two estimates.
Should, however, they find it difficult to
reconcile the conflicting estimates, they
will refer the award to the assessors pro
vided for by the Treaty, and then ad
journ.
wheedle in equal proportions. And what
has been the result thus far ? The sum
total seems to be a magnificent gymna
sium on the one hand, and a torpedoed
professor on the other.
* * * * * . *
Bat why this special enmity to Prince
ton and to Dr. McCosh ? Is not the war a
by-gone, and is not the era of good feeling
at hand? Be it so, but neither Prince
ton nor Dr. McCosh is content to let the
past be past. In the very speech which
was' intended to conciliate the South, the
President of Princeton showed his real
ORDER OF BUSINESS.
Organization.—The delegates to the
February Convention, in Savannah, are
entitled to sit as delegates in the present
Convention. Slips of paper will be dis
tributed over the hall, and the Chairman
of each County Delegation will write the
name of the county, and the names and
post offices of the delegates in actual at
tendance, and furnish them to the Secre
tary, who will make up the roll and have
it printed.
Delegates from counties not represented
in February, and alternates, will report,
with their credentials, to a Committee on
Credentials.
To Economize Time.—To give the
Convention command of its own valua
ble time, and protect it from irrelevant
it seems almost as if I had seen him yes
terday. _ I recall a manly figure, a fair,
bine-veined expressive face, the brown
hair cast loosely from the forehead, the
blue eyes where the light of intelligent
and fun was softened with a certain
womanly tenderness, the quick and often
mischievous smile.”
More than seven years have elapsed
since my life-long friend has been in the
spirit land, and not a word has been
published of the manner of his death, in
commemoration of his virtues or to save
his name and fame from complete obli'
vion. Hence, I write this feeble tribute ; i n
obedience to conscience and in vindica
tion of the living, that it may not be tru
ly said that to cue is to be forgotten, and
neglected by all who survive. The deaths
during the war, and since, have been so
numerous that there is no man of the
South who bus reached or passed life’s
meridian bat feels that the most of his
friends are in their graves; and that it
is soothing and refining to have his heart
go there and commune with them, as
Anthony would have his go into the cof
fin of the dead Caisar. B. H. C.
Atlanta, Ga.
father had yet reached the meredian of
life. They were surrounded with every
comfort which a reasonable heart could
wish, and were as happy a family as
could be found in our then happy land.
Their home was a type of so many in our
now desolate land, where beauty reigned
withont and happiness within. There
were in reality, the bowers of roses, the
trellised vines and the murmuring brook,
of which we so often read; while the
majestio forest oaks cast their mantles of
shade over alL The adjacent woods
abounded in game; the waters in fish,
and everything was tliere to contribute
to the happiness of one, who loving na
ture, had a pure and simple, yet culti
vated taste.
The section of country was classic, for
it had had its bloody baptismal in our
first revolutionary war, and many were
the localities with their historical tradi
tions. Near by was a Methodist Church
—the church and religion of the neigh
borhood. It was one of the oldest
churches of the State, and with its an
cient cemetery, had its own interesting
*Rev. Dp. Winkler, of Charleston, S. C.
THe Fall Flections.
Previous to the
test in November!
and Territories hold elections this fall: I as if Southern youth were to learn these
hatred to the Sonth, or,if that be too harsh
a word, a contemptuous pity, which the I to-wit: 5
South can brook even less than hatred.! 1. Addresses and Opening Discussions,
or too protracted discussions, the follow-
ing rales, being substantially those' Jjfe* At its altar the subject of our
adopted at Savannah, will be enforced,
brief story was a devoted worshiper, and
on its graves he could lay the offering of
parental, as well as filial, love. He was
Louisville, Ky., lias a sensation iu high
life. Mr. Bussell Hancock, son of Gen.
W. S. Hancock, who is connected with a
prosperous firm in that city, has for
sometime past, been paying his addresses
to a Miss Gwynn, daughter of one of the
best known citizens of the place. For
some reason the prospective match was
displeasing to the pater familias, and he
conceived a plan to quietly explode
the arrangement by preparing to send
his daughter abroad for two years. This
was in April that these nice little plans
were laid, but though they seemed satsfac-
tory, Love was a strategist, who had seen
too many jnst such cases, and knew how
to meet them. So on the 30th of April
the young couple went to an adjoining
town and were made husband and wife
until death or divorce should part them.
They intended to keep this a secret, and
were successful for two months, when
the bride whispered it in tne ear of a
confidential friend, who at once “car
ried the news to Mary,” and every one
else she was acquainted with. Mr. Han
cock has got his wife and written full de-
tbils to her father, and a blessing is ex
pected by every mail.
Princeton College.
In another column will be found ex-
North Carolina, August 1; Kentucky,
Montana and Utah, August 5; New
Mexico, September 1; California, Sep
tember 2; Vermont, September 3; Maine,
September 9; Colorado Territory,Septem
ber 10; Dakota, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska,
Ohio, Pennsylvania and the District
of Columbia, October 8; South Car
olina, October 16; West Virginia, Octo
ber 24. All the States vote for Presi
dential electors on the 0th day of Novem-
virtnes from him.
2. Other Speeches or Discussions will
“The Southern boys be limited to jive minutes, and any ex-
were resolved to make the most of their Vision of time will be subjected to the
limited means,” as if the men who limi-1 five minutes’ limitation,
ted these means were the fittest persons
to teach them how to use the residue.
five minutes’ limitation.
3. Any member, who has spoken
twice on any particular subject, can only
There is a picture of the “Death of fcs beard again by permission.
tracts from a very caustic article in the
Baltimore Bulletin, on this old and re
nowned institution. Of the merits of
these strictures upon the present stand
ing of this college, which is the venerated
Alma Mater of so many of the distin
guished sons of Georgia, it is not our
purpose to speak; but we think them pro
per matter to submit to the considera
tion of those who have sons or wards to
educate in the fntnre.
We take occasion to add that
we chink if Dr. McCosh will extend
his visit a little farther Sonth, he may
find within the limits of Georgia alone,
at least four colleges—Emory, Mercer,
Oglethorpe and the State University,
much more entitled to the patronage of
Northern as well as Sonthern men, than
the one over which he presides, whether
they deserve the name of “college”
or not. It is true that in none of them
will he find the “desperado,” John Brown,
held np to the youth of the country as
a hero, martyr or saint; but he will find
all those great truths and principles in
Art, Science, Morals and Politics tanght,
which formed and moulded the charac
ters of the scholars and statesmen that
Princeton turned out in the better days
of her History. a. H. S.
Mercer” in the library at Princeton, and
opposite that picture stands an arsenal of
“rebel guns,” and other trophies from
the battle-fields of the rebellion. How
delicate the attention to the Sonthern I
her, and on the same day the following student!
choose State officers: Alabama, Arkan
sas, Deleware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
There is a book by Dr. McCosh—it is
his last—and in that book there is a sec-
Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachu- tion devoted to “The Present Struggle,
setts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi,
Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New
York, Tennessee, Virginia and Wiscon
sin. Arizona holds her Texritorial elec
tion on the 8th November.
Tcnuuice Wlicut Crop.
the struggle, as he tells us, between the
Serpent and the Seed of the Woman,
which “had its grand battle-field on
Mount Calvary,” and “in which we are
required to take our part.” Of this great
struggle, the protagonist in which was
the Founder of onr faith, John Brown,of
Ossawatomie and Harper’s Fesry, is, ac-
The subjoined paragraphs are bat ex-1 cording to Dr. McCosh, one of the mar
amples of such as appear in the papers
iu every portion of Tennessee tributary
to this city:
Since our last tho wheat market has
declined, and all buyers have gone out
of the trade at the figures ruling at that
tyrs. Here are his words: “A good cause
must have its martyrs before its triumphs.
John Brown has to be put to death be
fore the manacles are struck from the
slave.”
A venerable prelate, the oldest digni-
date. Sellers are holding for $1 50 per taryin his church, a graduate of Prince-
bushel, while buyers are not willing to ton, a friend of the institution, read
pay more tiian $l 30 to $1 40 for a prime that passage, and as he read it, his heart -rv n C
nrhole.—Cleveland Banner . j “ r to..:
ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS.
1. Address by the President, Gen. A.
H. Colquitt.
2. Beport of the Executive Committee.
3. Beport of the Secretary, Samuel
Barnett.
4. Beport of the Committee on the
Coistitutioi.
5. Discussion — Corn—S. W. Blood-
worth.
6. New Business—Desolations, etc.
7. Address of Commodore M. F. Mau
ry-
8. Beport of Statistical Committee—
Hon. Bobert Toombs.
9. Unfinished Business,
10. Discussion — Labor Question —
Samuel Barnett.
Xl. Discussion—Cotton—D. A. Vason.
12. Time and place of next Conven
tion.
13. Beport of Committee on Cata
logue of Fruits—P. J. Berckmans, Esq.
14. Discussion—Clover—CoL J. H.
Fitten.
15. Discussion—Dairy—J. J. Toon,
article.—Cleveland Banner.
As we expected, the wheat market .is
beginning to droop. Most of the or
ders along the line of road to buy have
been recalled, or suspended for the pres
ent. For quotations the reader is refer
red to our market report.—Athens Post.
turned away from Princeton forever.
Are our hearts, fellow alnmni of Prince- j
ton in the Sonth, more responsive to
the claims of Alma Mater than to the |
honor of our greater mother ? ***
Valuable Cargo.
The papers are having their fun
out of the scholastic dignity lately con
ferred upon Grant. The Boston Post
says it means Let’s Liquor, Dent, and
another exchange insists that it means
Late Leather Dealer.
Louisville is raising montobnyey
a copy of the Venus de Medici. What
does she want with a thing of that kind,
so long as she has Watterson to look at ?
E The Western Postal Record is the title
of a monthly publication printed in Chi
cago, devoted to information about post
al laws and regulations. The July num
ber will contain the New Postal Laws in
full. These laws are important to mer
chants and bnsiness men generally. ...
Address W. H. Leech, Secretary of the 'is frothing, and this the TF. and T. takes
“Memphis is in a ferment,” ex
claims the Jackson, Tennesse Whig and
Tribune. All a mistake. The Avalanche
Western Postal Record Co., Chicago, 111. | for a sign of fermentation.
The British steamship Darien, which
was cleared at Savannah Saturday, took
ont the following cargo:
Sixty-three bales of upland cotton,
weighing 31,979 pounds, valued at $6,
742 50; 2S0 bales of sea island cotton,
weighing 71,061 pounds, valued at $31,-
354 71; 951 bags of goano, valued at
$7,0S0; 5,633 sacks of sea island cotton
seed, valued at $5,400; 723 logs of cedar,
valued at $2,892; 100 barrels of rosin,
valued at $600; 4 bales of palmetto
leaves, valued at $40; 18,850 white oak
staves and 6,180 red oak staves, valued at
$1,724 65; 135 bundles of reeds, valued
at $49; and 25 packages of merchandise,
valued at $200.
16. Election of President, Vice Presi
dents, seven members Executive Com
mittee, and to fill vacancies.
17. Discussion—Stcck Law—Col. D.
E. Butler.
18. Discussion—Lime as a Fertilizer—
CoL T. C. Howard.
19. Beport on Brahmin Cattle—Bev.
C. W. Howard.
mor, took his place in the ranks, and
never sought promotion or a soft place.
He battled on to the disastrously bitter
end, and all that is known of his fate is—
that he went to the war, did his whole
duty, but never returned.
Some where in the good old “ North
State,” or in the enemy’s territory, is
his lost and nameless grave. Before his
death, his family had to fly from their
home, in the track of Sherman’s inarch,
to the protection afforded by Savannah.
When the ruthless enemy came, they
burned and destroyed that happy home.
There his family remained until the close
of the war the next April. Soon the
soldiers began to return. At first a few,
and then in great numbers. Bat days
passed into weeks, and weeks into
months, and onr Mend neither came
himself or sent a message. There was
the same silence as to him, that there
was with him, in his unknown grave far
away
The “months” had, however, length
ened into years, until the hope that sus
tained his wife, gave way to despair. And
then came the straggle to hold the tot
tering reason now threatened with de
thronement. That struggle, through
faith in Christ, and woman’s love for her
offspring, became a victory. But how
much of fortitude does it yet take to meet
adversity, while the ever present ques
tions are unsolved as to when, and where,
and how the husband and father died
and where his grave is, and has he ever
hud that last sad service which is the
right of the lowliest ?
The Mend of whom I write was my
cotemporary and school-mate. His
20.
name was Chas. H. Thiot, (pronounced
e, referred to, in the
Teot) and his home,
Appointments of Committees,Dele- good old county of Effingham, 17 miles
gates, etc,
21. Closing proceedings.
A. H. Colquitt, President.
Samuel Barnett, Sec’y.
£2f* “Horace Greeley has no cottage
by the Sea,” says the Golden Age. Neither
had Grant four years ago.
£2?“ “The Columbus of the scientific
universe” is what a Peruvian paper calls
Agassiz.
t®* « The Old White Hat,” is the
tame of the latest campain paper.
jS2r“ J. Bancroft Davis has bought a
villa on Lake Geneva. The fear is that | his quiet country home, in the midst of
above Savannah, on the river road
to Augusta. He was descended from
revolutionary ancestry, and was allied by
blood to many of the oldest and best
families in tbe State, among whom I can
name the Bryans, Adams, Wyllys, and
Habershams. He was a native of Savan
nah, Georgia, and married Miss Anna
Charlton, of Effingham.
As the poems disclose, he was a man
of mind and culture; yet he seemed un
conscious of his powers. There was no
avocation in life he would not have
adorned, but he sought happiness away
from the world’s current of busy life, at
he will not make it liis permanent resi- his family and friends. His humor, wit
deuce.
sentiment or logic, came foith spontane
A train of cars ran into John
Bobinson’s Menagerie near New Haven,
Connecticut, on the 4th, and half .a dozen
cage3 were wrecked. The lion and tapir,
were turned loose,but were soon re-caged.
A cage containing one hundred monkeys
was smashed, and its occupants are now
loose in the woods.
JSST* The Baltimorean says it is Chick-
umauga and not Chickamauga. U may
be right Mr. Baltimorean, but what have
I got to do with it.
JS§y John Harper, the proudest man
in America, has taken Longfellow to
Saratoga.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
called in $1,500,000 three per cent, tem
porary loan certificates, interest on which,
will cease August 31, 1872, as fol
lows: All outstanding certificates of
$5,000 each between the numbers 3857
and 3949, inclusive, and of $10,000 be
tween the numbers 4157 and 4375 inclu
sive. These certificates are of various
dates from August to September 1, 1868.
>-♦-«
On Saturday the following amounts of
currency were outstanding, as shown by
the books in the office of the United
States Treasurer:
Old demand notes $ 88,296 25
Legal tenders 357,500,000 00
Notes of 1863 178,222 00
Compound interest noteB 623,010 00
Fractional currency*• ’40,855,835 27
Total $399,245,363 52
The London Times still contends that
the candidacy of Mr. Greeley is farcical
His extravagances, impulsiveness apd
vanity, it says, are enough to make him
repulsive to intelligent people as the
chief official of the nation.
Gkeat Excitement.—About four o’clock yester
day afternoon, South. Broad street -was awakened by
the noise of many feet hurrying to a vacant lot near
The Sun office. In a few moments, at lesst fifty-
persons bad assembled, and tbe stern and troubled,
look on tbeir countenances showed that momentous
work was on hand. For an instant, the crowd halt
ed in breathless suspense, and then, with sticks and
rocks in hand, they shouted and fell to work upon
eight fat rats, whose “dead corpuses” now grace
the street.
The fine oat crop, in*City Hail yard, is being
turned under for manurial purposes. It is the in
tention of the CouncU to sow down the yard,
prepared, with grass.^
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