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L'HE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN,FOB THE WEEKENDING NOVEMBEK 13
1872.
Til E ATLANTA SL'N
The 1'riiii of iHc State on tUe Rltction.
The Onffiu Daly News is evidt-utjy
disgusted with the results, bat in ex
pressing its views, takes occasion to say
#jine sensible ti.ii gsto its readers. We
extract the following:
«• Mr. Grcoley baa been thb life long enemy of the
8ontbraml bia theory of governmeut to-,;*y. is at
dea l y i minty with ihe cherished dogma of Sts!
rights and local .-If-govei mu- Lt. ax announced and
practiced by the Demccratio party since the forma-
liou of the Couatitution, and ali'cli ia the c
•tone of the Government. Tit i willingness of 1
South to support him ia undeniable r.videnc>
their desire for peace and good feeling between the
two aectiona.
“The people of iliii country have" been humbug
ged long enough by leader* who have deceived
them, and the time has come when every man
sbonld act ind think for bimxeU, and take an
: Intel cat in tbo afialra of bi^country. For ourselves
we intend in the luture to express our judgment on
l T i! < uexii li of piibdciutcreat. leaileeely and ii.de-
pendantly. regard.e»s of t_e view of any one. We
do not intend to l*c silenced by the opinions of any
set of me", from au honest and lull expression of
ocr Mews.”
The
IOME COMMERCIAL
Several typographical errors occurred
ii i the second editorial of Mr. Stephens
ia The Scn of the 5th instant in reply
to the Consiilution.
1. In the first line of his remarks, after
quoting the Constitution s article in full,
the word “ sincere ” should have been
serious.
2. In the last line, same paragraph,
the word not should have been inserted
before the word “subject,” so as to read,
‘local self-government not subject to
Federal supervision.”
3. In line four of the last paragraph,
the word “ whom” should have been
where, and in line eight, same paragraph
the same error occurs—“ whom” should
b v where.
We hope careful readers will note these
corrections and bear them in mind.
■30(18 oat its comments ia the form of a
letter from "‘Bill Arp,” who has recent
ly tiken the editorial chair of that pajer.
We extraot a part of >he letter, ai>a
leave it to speak ior i self, only remark
that Mrs. Arp is entitled to the fin-t
position in the political governingLt of
the Arp family.
•• Balt.moro convention, and O'Coun, «c<l Aide
Steven. and a limited supply of votes has beat us.
Well, we still live. I’m not goln to tv d about it.—
Old Greeley ain’t no kin to me. Grant ain’t neither,
and that's what's the matter. I talked lor Greeley,
and wnt fur him, and voted for him. but I never d:d
hanker after urn. It made such an evcrlasUn. fuss
la my lamily I lmd like to run away. Vou see Mrs.
Arp wasn't rtkonsalid. She was a Straight, and
when she ain't ickonsilid, things ain't as piss-id as
a lilvtr lake around my house. I don’t mean
that times is hot or desperate, but to 6ay
the leaxt of it they are p< cuiiar. A man likes
to hav his bed and his board screen. Don’t
sc? So you see as my wife was a strait it diden't
o*. come me t»> bo very cronbrd And Iwau't—at
homo. She's a good omau and ehe'l endure every
thing and never grant nor groan, but sne won't
compermite worth a cent. I told her I had no per*
tikler use fur Greeley and that he was a darned old
intatyated humbug, but that our paper belonged to
the great Wtuterryfide, uneatixnde, trauemorgriflde
Democratic party and must keep into line. She ted
aura lemarku about laperalyln l.y the day and by
the week and about self-respect and independence
and the like, and I grew meek liae Moses, in few a
minutes.” • * * * » * *
••Mrs. Arp thinks the paper ought to tako ’tbutk’
for a motto and work up to it. 1 told her It would
bo a dangerous cxpci inienr, but the says it ha? never
been tried yet. If I waseut alcored tho little Arps
would perisn to detb duriii t,',e experiment I womd
fiy it. Old SUsi k says we cau be worsted for he has
trido lylo for 'iO years and it wont i ay. ■ He says it
would bo an eplsodo in the press, a kurexity, some
thing like a cit-phanior au ek.lpse or John Iiobyson'e
circus.”
THE SUN,
f Gjlambus, 1m tho allowing : •
••In the election of Mr. Greeley, we would have
lost a principledth in politics and in social moral-
ity. Crime against government may be punished, but
there la no remedy against treason against a whole
people—the subversion of tneir morals and princi
ples. Wo conclude and agree with Montesquieu
when bo says "more States have perished on ac
count of corruption of morals than because of the
perpetration of national crimes. In this regard we
admire the American people in not lollo* lng certain
leaders in the violation of political morals and con
victions. This is our consolation in the hour of de
li, t ami . resent darkness of our country.”
“ In the paragraph quoted above by The
8'jn, from the Tribun*, which it copies as a text lor
vtriuus squibs, we ate nothing improper.”— Con
stitution.
Then tho Liberal Republican move-
xnsut was without merit. Tne battle-
cry of the Tribune and the Constitution
has beeu that Grant was an oppressor, a
Centralist and incapable of reform. Now
the Tribune will support Grant in uhat-
eve r reforms “he may seek to effect.” and
tlio C<-n.tilulion Been nothing improper
in its course, which is an admission that
Grant Las been misrepresented, or else
that the Constitution endorses tbo sup
port of all the official corruptions with
which President Grant has been charged.
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The Vote of Elbert County.
Ejlbebton, Ga., Nov. 6, 1872.
Editors JDaiiy Sun : Tho election yes
terday passed off quietly in this county,
bnt little interest being manifested by
any except the Grcoloy party, which, we
.think, turned ont in full. A largo major
ity of the white voters did not go to the
polls, as they would neither vote for
Greeley or Grant, and thought it useless
to vote for O’Conor. Tho vote for this
county stands as follows:
For President— Greeley, 361; O’Conor,
254; Grant, 130.
For Congress—A. It. Wright, 397; D.
M, Du Bose, 253; P: Clayton, 130. *'
■ ■
AJ- “Whether The Sun is jubilant over Greeley’s
defeat, O'Oonor's being distanced, or Grant's elec
tion, it Is rather hard to determine—perhaps all.—
Constitution."'
The Sun is jubilant over the fact that
thongh tlio Democracy was sold, it has
not been delivered to the life-long enemy
in chief, of the most sacred principles.
There is yet hope for the triumph of
those principles if enr erring brethren
'will return to the fold.
Miscellaneous Notes.
— A precocious Minnesota infant has
Won a $130 watch a r-ffle..
— Home, the famons Spiritualist, will
return to America soon and bring his
spirits with him,
There ate about 90,000 slaves annu
ally taken from Africa to Turkey to be
manufactured into Mussulmans.
— An Arizona woman has had three
husbands murdered within tbo last ten
years, but isn’t discouraged yet.
— A California doctor and his friend
lately took a little walk of 800 miles along
the Pacific coast for his health.
— An old lady in Saginaw, Mich., has
given bonds in $300 not to scold her
neighbors for an entire year.
—Imigration toward Nebraska is rush-
in’, or will be when these 40,000 Musco
vites settle down there.
—An Indianapolis poodle is an accom
plished tobacco chewer.
--The Mandarins are breaking up the
Buddhifit nunneries at W&ch&ng, China.
, 8hty-two mummified Chinamen
BaaiflSr*™ Sacramento to
— A ^ ro T d of 100,000 visited the Ver-
started in St Louis inimteal toTheUrro
Buns,
— The prettiest tomb in thePerela
N Chaise cemetery is that of Helen Adria-
Tj^^noff, a Russian dancer.
J? — A Detroit Rough is ca-rying around
u»y. Imperial purple eyes for trying
-^rgyman.
The P« ess of the State on the Election.
The Savannah
morning news
was one of the last of our State exchanges
that forsook the good old Jeffersonian
colors for the “Baltimore wagon.” It
has never been altogether at ease either
in the road it has recently traveled, nor
jubilant in the company it has been
keeping. It* affiliation with Greeley
Republicans and Oreeley Democrats was
occasioned less by a hope of good results
from the Baltimore coalition, than
by the fear of doing harm to
the Democratic parly if it con
tinued to oppoEe it. But it were
better for the principles the paper had
s > long and ably entertained bad it stood
by its colors, unflinchingly, throughout
the campaign.
The News is not surprised at the re
s ills, but on the contrary they but serve
“to confirm its convictions of the im
policy of the course adopted by the De
mocraey at tne Baltimore Convention.’
“Accepting,” it continues, “a modified
Radical platform cf principles and a can
didate whose strength, confined to h:i
own party, was inferior to that of his an
(agonist, the friends.of constitutional
government entered the contest against
Radical usurpation, corruption and mis
rule, under the most unfavorable aus
pices. But it is not our purpose now to
recur to the past. The resnlt is upon
a*, and ire must make the best of it. It
may, perhaps, not be too late io profit
by the lesson.”
The Macon
TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER
was, on the other hand, one of the first
papers in the State to favor the nomina
tion of Mr. Greeley at Baltimore, and
has been from the call of the Baltimore
horn to the election morn, one of the
most faithful of his adherents. In an
editorial of yesterday’s edition the ad
mission is made that the nomination at
Baltimore was a huge blunder.
The Augusta
CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL
throws stones at the Demooruoy of tL©
nut ion in tbe following:
“Indifference, apathy and a lack of high, com.
manding purpose in the hitherto recognized Demo
cratic strong-holds of the countiy, North, touth,
Ea.-t and Wett have done their work.”
Another extract farther on, from the
same editorial, reads:
“ Whatever may be the ultimate resnlt of this
verdict of the Amoiicsn pet pie, there is nothing
which needs to be repented of. on the part of any
Southern Democrat who faithfully stood by his
party in support of the oniy combination which
afforded a reasonable promise of success in secur
ing a change of administration, and the constitu-
tional reform of abuses specially onerous upon his
own section.”
These reflections are no doubt consol
ing to those who followed tbe Greeley
ignus fatuus. Bnt the results have
proven tbe correctness of the Sun’s posi
tion from the first, that the sale at Balti
more to Greeley did not bring any hope
of securing a change in the administra
tion, or constitutional reform.
Mg- Some say in order to beat Grant in his next
race for the Preridency, aii the Southern Democrats
must vote for him, and then his defeat will be cer
tain.— Telegraph and Messenger.
Which is just about on a par with what
the Greeley Democrats have already
done.
GEORGIA. NEWS BREVITIES.
The Telegrph and Messenger is
clamoring now for a new party which it
describes as follows:
This party will run an electoral ticket on its own
hook, rod pledged only t» vote for the candidate
who can comenighest tolnrurlngthem against tyr
anny and outrsgt fiom the Federal Government and
equal protection with the negroes.
Just what the Straights have ad
vised yon to do all along. Better to be
right late than never.
Election! Notes.
— The vote in Covington was O’Conor
238, Greeley 558, Grant 870. For Con
gress—Blount 749, Anderson 908,
— Grant's majority over Greeley in
Griffin 408 votes. Oconor got 85 votes.
— Greeley’s majority in Montezuma
was 109.
— Five negro repeaters were arrested
in Macon.
Twiggs county stands 664 for Grant,
344 for Greeley and O’Conor.
•©“Strength! weU,thatisagoodjoke.
Will the Enquirer please compare the
Liberal strength with the Democratic
strength of 1868 ?
•©“ Speights heads his telegraphio
jws: “ Grant a Complete Hog!’’
Greeley to do the Grunting 1” “ He
Plays High, Low, and the Game on the
Farmer.”
—The Greenville, Ky., Independent
says: “The census of .Greenville* shows
iuat it contains 1,000 inhabitants and
2,000 dogs. In the enumeration of the
dogs, none of the inhabitants were in
cluded.”
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— Tbe Albany Central City says : •* So
far as B. H. Hill is concerned, he has
utterly forfeited the support and confi
dence of any true Democrat.
— Runaway in Fort Yalley.
— Columbus wants a printer too.
— Runaway in Savannah. Nobody
hurt.
— Savannah is preparing for the horse
disease.
A 46-pound pnmpkin adorns the
C&Lnoun Times office.
— The Sumter Republican man has
been eating schockley apples.
—Rev. W. L. Mansfield, of Marietta,
is convalescent.
— The Cartersville Express discusses
Swedenborg.
— “Waterloo” is what the Savannah
News calls the defeat.
—Savannah is preparing for her fair,
December 2.
—Tbe fair engrosses all the attention
of the Tbomasville folks.
—The Tbomasville Enterprise bas been
receiving calls from a whole string of
Bohemians.
-The Bamesville Gazette had a wed
ding cake in the office two days before
they tasted it.
—The Birnesviue Gazette celebrates
its fifth volume by announcing more
music.
—The B’Nai Bereth Society of Colum
bus, has fitted up a beautiful Lodge
room.
— Every writer connected with the
Carteisville Express puts his initial to
what he gets up.
—The Marshal of Tilton, Whitfield
county, fatally shot Mr. Tucker, of that
village. Cause unknown.
— The five negroes arrested in Macon
for illegal voting have been discharged
for want of evidence to convict.
— Col. J. J. Howard’s gin house, on
Petit creek, near Cartersville, was con
sumed by fire, and 40 bales of cotton de
stroyed.
—The corner stone of the Yoncg
Female College of Thomasviile, will be
laid on tlielSbh instant, under tbe direc
tion of the Masonic Fraternity.
—Eatonton sent, in the week ending
Nov. 4, 328 bales of cotton to Savannah,
41 to Augusta, and 17 to Macon. Since
September L, Eatonton has shipped 2,115
bales.
— Two colored persons had a quarrel
at Nicknjick, in tbe neighborhood
of Marietta, wherein one of them took
a slice out of the other’s breast.
— Harrison Kennedy, of Hall county
has raised eight bales of cotton, aver
aging 500 pounds each, on six acres of
ground.
—The gin-house of Col. H. F. Prce,
of Bartow, was destroyed by fire Sunday
night. Ten bales cotton ami 300 bushels
wheat destroyed. Incendiarism.
—Judge Clarke, in Sumtei Superior
Court, has sentenced Charles West alias
Louis Johne to be hanged December 27.
The prisoner was guilty of arson, in burn
ing the house of Obadiah Cannon, of
that county.
—Tbe Savannah Chamber of Com
merce on Wednesday night, passed reso
lutions invoking tbe aid of the City
Council in preparing for the out-break
of tbe horse malady in that city. It is
proposed to run a railroad track from
the upper hydraulic press to tho lower
one, so that cot ton and merchandise may
v>© tnuioi»ortea in tbe itbience u£ lion.es.
—Dr. Wright, a Macon dentist, ’ex
hibits in his office a “Dental Engine,”
which is used for drilling out teeth pre-
p iratory to filling. The Enterprise de
scribes its oneration: “The motive pow
er is a treadle worked by tbe foot, and a
fly-wheel aboat 12 inches in diameter,
which gives force and speed—about three
thousand revoluti ms per minute, to a
drill inserted in the end of a rod with
spiral points so arranged as to work in
any direction required about tbe bead.
It does away with all the prying, boring,
etc., which the patient has heretofore
had to endure, rendering the operation
far less painful.”
Marriage*.
—October 31> Mr. George W. Thom-
ston and Miss Nancy Bell, both of Butts
county.
—October 31, by Rev. li. Bedenbaugh,
Mr. H. H. Harrison and Miss C. E.
Laprad, of Coweta county. 1
—In Adairsville, 29th, J. P. Kinmau,
of Gordon county, and Miss Cr.rrl^ B.
Cockroft, of Adaiisville.
—31st, in Cartersville, Mr. John M.
Cochran, of Euharlee, and Miss M«>ry J.
Robinson, of Cartersville.
—:3l8t, near Cartersville, Mr. J H.
Franklin and Miss Eugenie Skinner,
both of Atlanta.
— At the residence of C. B. Callaway,
Esq., last evening, by the Rev. J. J.
Brantley, D. D„ Mr. James A. Nelson
was married to Miss Lula A. Callaway.
Not being satisfied wi.h- being a prisoner
of Uncle Sam, our friend James has ber
come the one of Cupid’s victims, and is
now a happy prisoner for life. He is as
free as a bird, however, having given
$2,500 bonds to Uncle Sam, and hyme-
itial bonds to Cupid. We only hope the
former will not call-a-way the happy
groom until the honey moon is over.—
Macon Enterprise,
THE CUSTOM HOUSE FRACAS.
Bradley ha* Hale and Atkins Beftre U.
S. Commissioner Wayne.
is cheering to know'that they
[the Liberals] are waging the unequal
combat with a stout heart, and are de
volving a strength that must make the
Radical party, even though successful
now, tremble for the future.—Columbus
Enquirer.
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•©“■The Columbus Enquirer says oue of
the reasons of tbe Grant Radical triumph
is “the apathy of the whites.” We think
we remember having seen something in
the Enquirer aboat a “ground swell.”
•©“ “Liberalism a humbug.”—Savan
nah News. Of course it was 1
[Savannah Morning News.]
Yesterday morning Aaron Alpeora
Bradley had Collector Jame i AtkiDS, and
Treasury Agent, M. H. Hale, arraigned
before U. S. Commissioner Wayne, on
tbe charge of a violation of the enforce
ment act. A notice of this highly cred
itable affair appeared in oar columns of
yesterday, and the reader is therefore
sdvisea of the main points of i he case.
The warrants, which were issued by Jus
tice Isaac Russell, at tbe instance of
Bradley, charging the parties with as
sault and baltery, were not executed on
act onut of want of jurisdiction. Brad
ley therefore had the parties brought be
fore tbe Commissioner on the charge
mentioned above.
Bradley was swofd, and made Ins
statement of the fracas, which tallies in
the man with the account given in the
News. We give the particulars, how
ever; as sworn to by Bradley. He says
when he entered Hale’s room, which was
set apart as a general depot for dietriDu-
tmg tickets, be asked for another supply.
Hale said: “You can’t get any tickets
here, you G—d d—n s , get out of
my office.”
Bradley—“I said, what did you say?”
He repeated it, and advanced towards
me; as thr&e words were passing vio
lently, Mr. Slcan came to the door and
said: “What’s the matter? and then
disappeared, and in about a minute Col
Atkins came in and put bis hand on my
shoulder and pushed me in the door; Mr.
Sloan came in and Atkins said: ‘‘Shut
that door;” I stood so that Mr. Sloan
could not shut the door, when he pushed
me one side and shut the door; Col. At
kins tbtn said: “You are working
against us; you are keeping voters away
from the polls.” I denied it—when At
kins said: “You are a liar, you d—n
8—, and grabbed tbe poker to strike
me, when Mr. Sloan interfered and
stopped him. Col. Atkins said be would
not have me around; tnat he would turn
me oui of office, and I said, pay me; he
said, “pay and be d—d, clear out of
here.”
Mr. Andrew Sloan was sworn, and tes
tilled as to his action in the matter. He
stated that Bradley was veiy abusive to
Mr. Hale, was exeittd, reins' d to lea*e
when requested, was boisterous, and was
attracting a load crowd; that Bralley
said something to Col. Atkins which he
(Sloan) did not hear, when Atkius picked
up the poker; heard no conversation be
tween Bradley and Col. Atkin i about
turning out of office, but heard Bradley
say, as he was leaving, that if he was
paid up in full he would willingly go.
After considering the case the Com
missioner decided that Bradley had fail
ed to sustain his charge, and therefore
dismissed the accused officials. The
“ Wahoo,” however, is worked up now.
and will, in some way or other, give tue
“ beef eaters” of the Government con
siderab'e trouble. He declares bis mis
sion is not ended yet.
Georgia Election News.
— Sloan ran ahead of his ticket in
Chatham.
— The funny part of the election in
Savannah, was paying the bets.
—The official vote of Houston is, Grant
2,209; Greeley 996; O’Conor 3; Glenn
978; Freeman 3,201.
Sumter county voted as follows: Grant
1,020 ; Greeley 012 j O'Uoaor 22. l r or
Congress—Jack Brown 1,530; Phil Cook,
(Dem.) 936.
m- The following counties in the 11th
District give Cook majorities: Schley,
50; Lee, 272; Taylor, 250; Pulaski, 465.
Webster reported a small majority for
Cook.
—Atkins has sworn out the following
against Bradley, the great warhoo:
“Siate of Georgia, Countx of Chat
ham, ss.—Before me, a Notary Public
in and for said county and S ate, came
James Atkins, of same place, who, be
ing duly sworn, deposeth and saith:
That on yesterday he entered the rffice
of Special Treasury Agent, M. H. Hale,
located in the Custom House in said
county and State aforesaid, and found
one A.. A. Bradley in conversation ~wjtb
said Hale; that there did not seem to de
ponent to be any excitement on tne part of
either of said parties, but tbat said Hale
remarked to said Bradley that he would
not give him any tickets; that deponent
interposed by saying: “Bradley, you are
not entitled 1o any tickets, or to any sort
of consideration at the hands of respect
able people;” whereupon said Bradley
made use of insulting language to de
ponent, and assumed a belligerent atti
tude and manner; wherenpou deponent
took .up an iron poker, and defied said
Bradley either to use such language to de
ponent or to execute the thxeat contained
in his attitude and manner aforesaid;
deponent farther swears that he was
entmly ignorant at the time of any diffi
culty between said Hale and Bradley; on
the contrary, deponent declares that he
was actuated to repel said Bradky’s in
solence by feelings common to all trne
men, ana chiefly from feelings which
arose from the fact that said Bradley, in
a violent and protracted harangue, deliv
ered on the night of November 4,1872,
to a large concourse of colored men, in
the presence of deponent, at what is said
to be known as Eastern Hall,
in the cify of (Savannah, en
deavored to incite said colored men to
barn the city of Savannah in revenge for
what he claimed as an outrage upon bis
rights and that of others, and also to in
cite snch colored voters as had not paid
their poll taxes to go to the polls and
commit perjury in order to enable them
to vote at the election then to be
held in Baid county on the 5th
instant; that deponent was and is in
dignant at said Bradley on acconnt of
his attempt to incite others to commit
crimes of arsonand perjury on the occa
sions aforesaid; deponent swears that he
did not attempt in the slightest degree
to intimidate said Bradley, or to prevent
him from enjoying any right secured to
him under the Constitution and laws of
theUnitad States,or of any of the States.”
—The Marquis of Bute is the principal
owner of the new line of steamers from
Cardiff to New York. Will his sailors
be Bute Jacks ?
—Why is the alphabet like cutting the
first teeth ? Because it is taught jer
(torture) when young.
—A love-lorn swain remarks that the
final rejection of his suit by his inamo
rata was of the nature of no sir-ender.
—Benjamin Chappell, colored, died in
Savannah from exposure and neglect.
•©“The Savannah Republican reports
tbat a prominent Democrat and a member
of the Executive Committee who was
charged with giving out Greeley and
Brown tickets, was detected giving out the
wrong papers. We suppose he thought
“a rose by auy other name would smell
as sweet.”
‘•We believe the great mass of the
American voters are honest.”—Mi Hedge-
vide Recorder, 6th.
Yes, too honest to be bargained off to
.tbe highest bidder!
an extraordinary old man.
What He Can Do—His Labors—Ills Pol
itics—His Wife—Relics — Historical
Facts and Reminiscences.
Col. Arthur Erwin, of Livingston,
Floyd county, Ga., recently of Cam
ming, Forsyth county, Ga., is a native of
Rutherford, N. C., and was 77 years of
age on the 30th of September last. He
is a model man even in his old age. The
following facts in bis history, are inter
esting and instructive, showing what an
old man can do. During the current
year ho aided an old negro in resetting
and repairing 400 panels of fence. He
reset 100 other panels, carrying the rails
200 yards on his shoulder. He culti
vated with i-is own hands a large garden,
producing all kinds of vegetables.
He cultivated also 2 small irish-potato
patches outside of the garden, 2 roasting-
ear patches, 1 good size sweet-potato
patch, over one acre of cotton,.some of
it measuring eight feet ana nine inches
in neight. Ho also raised two hundred
and twenty chickens without a hen-house,
(and taught the roosters to do regular
duty, and to crow for Greeley.) He a'so
read two newspapers regularly each week,
and many otheis occasionally. He read
the Bible through, the New Testament
through twice, aud was reading it
through the third time when his birthday
came on; he also read the “Night Scenes
of the Bible,” the “Women of the Bi
ble,” and other miscellaneous books dan
papers.
As to bis politics, he says his friends
accused him of forsaking the Democra
cy, but{he was a Democrat uutil secession;
he could not see much Democracy in that.
He was a member of the Convention,
and opposed secessian, but when bis
State went out, he went with her, and
voluntarily sustained her fortunes to the
extent of his ability, in camp and field.
He says lie takes Greeley as the Baptist
preacher did old Father Grimes. The
oid Bat tist brother had an appointment
to preach. His boys knowing the hymn
be would use on tbe occasion, for be al
ways used tbe same hymn, watched their
opportunity, and slipped into his hymn
book and pinned on the same page over
his favorite hymn, the following stanza:
Old Fattier Grimes, that good old man,
We n«’er shall see him more;
He used to wear his old blue cat
AU buttoned down before.
The old man opened the book, and
turning to the page he began to read as
above having read the two first lines he
stopped and looked closely at the hymn
book, and then over the congregation
with a puzzled look, and fin&lly with his
usual composure and determination to
face the music, he said : “Well brethren
I have been using this hymn book for
these forty years and more, and never
saw this ere hymn before, out brethren
we are all good Baptist, and we’ll sing it
if it kills us.” The Colonel says he has
been singing Democracy for forty years,
and shine of hi3 sons have pinned Gree
ley in his book, and he will sing him to
the end, “that ip, J[ take Greeley,” said
he “for better or worse os the boys take
my girls, and perhaps we will find him,
(Greeley) as the boys find my girls,better
than they expected.”
The Colonel was in easy circumstance
before the war, owning considerable
property, but lie met with unavoidable
misfortunes and losses, and now he is re
duced to the necessity of working hard
with his own hands for a .comfortable
subsistence ; but he enjoys good health,
a good appetite, a good conscience anu
gooa spams; *uo o^u.-
sciousness that his losses were not in
curred by idleness, extravagance or dis
sipation, and more than all, in the serene
hope of a blissful immortality, where the
wicked and Yaukee'carpet-baggers cease
from troubling, and the weary are at rest.
His wife, whoso maiden name > - as Ev
elina A. Terrel, is connected with the
Washingtor family, her grandmother
and Washington’s mother being near re
lations. Her grandtather Terrel built
the first house on the University grounds,
used for a school at the University at
Charlottsville. Thomas Jefferson lived
in sight of her grandfather’s house, and
often enjoyed tue hospitality of the fam
ily, and Mrs. Erwin has a wineglass now
in her possession (wliicli he saw) from
which Mr. Jefferson had often drank
wine at her grandfather’s table. She
also has in her possession as a family
relic, an o’.d English Bible more
than a hundred years old, and
also some leaden weights which
were’ in use daring the revolution
ary -war. Mrs. Terrel, in order to pre
serve them with other valuables from
the clutches of the thieving tories, in
geniously hid them in her hen house
floor, making a hen’s nest over them.—
Mrs. E. thinks sherman or Butler would
have found them. She farther remarks
concerning Jefferson that he had the
misfortune to loose his dwelling house
by fire, and that a negro man of Mr. Ter
rel’s distinguished himself on the occa
sion by saving his fnrnitnre, and trying
to save his valuable library of books. He
succeeded in getting the books near the
door of ihe mansion, but the flames
drove him out without the treasures, but
snatching Jefferson’s violin up as be
came out of ihe house, he bore it trium
phantly ae a trophy to Mr! Jefferson, tell
ing nim at the same time of bis failure
to save the books. Jefferson with much
chagrin replied, “Oh, harg the thing,
how can I fiddle without my books?”
W. P.
Huznor Sparks.
—Affairs in Greece—fried oysters,
—Always “hard pressed”—bricks.
—Mill dews—wages of factory girls.
—The proper home rule—full measure.
—The lost appeal — a shoemaker’s
strike.
—Educated on a sound basis—The
drummer.
—The best thro* of dice is to throw
them away.
_ —The^ pre-hjbteric period — before
tigbt lacing was invented.
—Punch has found a man too lazy to
labor under under an impression.
— No noose is good news, as the man
Laid when he was reprieved.
—When does a man look like a cannon
ball ? When be looks round.
— The yonth who would have a will of
his own has been struck out of that by
bis father.
—In making our arrangements to live,
we should never forget thut we have also
to die.
— Women like to marry men by the
name of William, so tin y can have a will
of their own.
— Betting is immoral, but bow ean tbe
man who bets be worse tban the man who
is no better ?
How Queen Victoria Behave.
land when In Church. * St0t ’
[From the North British Malt.]
“Do the audience ever clap hanfl. x
the Queen comes in Church’’! ,^
shrewd looking foreigner near
had been quietly observing tU ’
bility of his neighbors, aad ba^^
not have been surprised to hil?*
British Podsnappery went thu?£*
judging from what he saw RO inl
around him. About the first tj ° ° a
on the scene was the Queen’s pin Ppesi
fine looking Highlander—who 1
mistaken for John Brown bv
stared at with unflagging interest^i?
lady in black noiselessly entered .5
proceeded to the royal pew to bo* C
head in silent prayer. aet
ence touched a tender chord in IbelE*
ly-beating hearts around h*>r. iw
Princess Beatrice, simply drewedi?
white, came. next. The little royal k
growing up a beauty, and premises' » 0 £
the fairest of the Queen’s dauuhtai
Then came the Duke of BdmbX !
brown and hardy-looking, in hisHiff I
land costume—the youthful Prince Leo*
pold following, also in Kilts, a dress that
suit£ him well. When the royal family
were seated, there was a fresh scramble
for places, and the passages were cram
med down to the edge of the Queen's
pew.
But the revereDt demeanor of tbe ro T .
al family was a sort of check to their fd*
low-worshippers, and when the minister
rose to begin the services ft is bnt fair
to say he was followed with attention
throughout, although sometimes prji D?
eyes would wander to the royal pew, anj
forget to turn away when their persistent
stare became visibly annoying to the
gracious lady who bad come to worship
in common with her subjects their com
mon Father. The old forms are still re
spected in Crathio Kirk. The congrega-
tion sit during .the singing of the
psalms, and rise to prayer, and the
Queen set the example of con-
fjrming to the ancient role as
still observed. With the aid of her
“glasses” she looked up the places
in her psalm book and joined m the
singing, which, by tbo way, is conducted
by a well-trained choir. She rose to her
feet with the congregation, and remained
standing daring tho long prayers to the
end. The collection is “ lifted,” at the
conclusion of the services, by means of
long-handled. ladles, which aie shoved
along the pews to receive the offerings,
and no reservation is made when tho
ladle comes to the royal pew. Steadily
advancing, it holds on its way to right
and left, almost brushing the Queen’s
bonnet as it zigzags along in the hands
cf the patriarchal elder in charge. It is
pretty heavy before it arrives at tho
Queen ; but her Majesty is ready with
her collection in her hand, and
as the ladle, backiug out of the
opposite pew, wheels round into hers,
she quietly drops the royal offering,
which I am afterward told is a ten-pound
note, in among the jingling 'brown cop
pers. The Princess then drops in her
“collection,” and the ladle poison its
way to a» rive at the other end of the royal
pew, in due time for the Princes’ offering
and those seated next to them in their
order. During the lilting of the collec
tion tbo choir sou: a doxology,
and very beautimUy it was sung.
Before leaving the church the
Queen stood with her head bowed in
si'ent prayer for a few moments. Then
her daughter threw a black mantle around
her, and as quietly as she had entered,
Her Majesty departed. There cau be
little doubt that the crowd pressing close
ly upon her. together with the ill-bred
stariDg to which she was subjected must
have been discomposing to ihe Queen;
but she bore it ail with an unruffled coun
tenance, and with gentle graciousness.—
Of course the instant the Queen’s back
was turned there was a mad rush to sea
her get into her carriage, and the getting
out was about as fraught with peril to
life and limb as the getting in. In tbe
hnrry-Bcurry, little children were toppled
over and old folks nearly driven off their
legs; but there was not a moment to lose,
for the royal carriage was drawn up at
the door, and the impatient snow-white
steeds were panting to start. And now
John Brown mounts the box, the order
is given “Home,” and like a flash of
lightning the Queen is whirled away to
the peaceful shades of Balmoral.
Oreeley Defection in Decatur.
On the day of the election a Democratic
nomination for county officers was held
in DeKalb. The ballot-box at Decatur
for this nomination was placed a few feet
from the election ballot-box. Ia the
nomination box 353, votes were polled.
In the election ballot-box, which was
reached by simpiy turning around from
the nomination box Greeley received
260 votes; O’Conor, 6; Glenn, 266.
Thisshows that 87 Democratic votes
at Decatnr alone, would not vote for
Greeley, nor even for Col. Glenn, on ac
count of his running on the Greeley
tkicet.
The Vote In the Fifth District.
Every connty except Fayette, in the
District has been beard from. Mr. Free
man’s majority in eleven counties is 278.
The majorities by counties are as fol
io ws:
fob glenn:
Monroe, 712; Upson, 147; Pike, 35;
Henry, 225; Milton, 176; DeKalb, 416;
Crawford, 84. Total, 1,795.
for freeman:
Spalding, 328;Houston, l,223;Folton,
518; Clayton, 4. Total, 2,078.
— Mis. Sally Holly, of Americas.
— On the 31st, in Eatonton, Mr. John
K. Bedelle.
— Mr. Sam’l Frazer, aged 82 years, a
soldier of 1812, died in Hall county a
few days since.
— In Gainesville, on 25th October,
Mr. J. 8. R. Carter died, aged twenty*
two years.
— A thirteen-year o!- 1 son of Mrs.
Lawson, of Hall county, was killed on
Tuesday, by a pole which was leaning
against a crib falling upon aud crushing
his skull.
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