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THE WEATHER RRI\)RTS- • in _.mi . . _
article taken '*' h °,“ r nei « hbor . »>e Conatitn-
tion, to * close, we propose, briefly, to
reply to its article of yesterday morn
ing.
In expressing our opinioo$hat the
masses of the Democracy are true to
their principles, we did not intend to
acmit that they were not deceived by
“trusted leaders” in the late Presiden
tial campaign, by whom they were
first deceived and then dragged into
the support of a movement they did
not indorse, but accepted or acqui
esced in on the ground of choosing
between evils, as they regarded the
contest between the two wings of the
Republican party. We repeat what
we have repeatedly repeated, that the
Democracy who thus acquiesced did
not vote for Mr. Greeley on the score
of principle. They laid principle on
the shelf for the nonce to avert what
they conceived to be the greatest of
two impending political calamities.
The results of that campaign, both
as to the Presidential and Congres
sionnl elections, proved the Greeley
movement a most stupendous blunder
which the most ardent of its support
era are now willing to admit If tl.<
loss of the Presidential race by over
six bundled thousand popular major
ity, and the losses in the Congress of
the United States, does not constitute
a blunder, then we do not know what
our neighbor would conceive a blun
der, except it be the adoption of a
policy resulting in the complete an
nihilation of a party. Any policy
adopted by a political organization
calculated to divide its adherents, is
always a blunder. The Baltimore
Convention found three millions o
Democrats in solid phalanx which
would not nor could not have been
broken by the adoption cf a Demo
crutic platform and the nomination
of a true Democrat upon it Was it
not a blunder when the action of tha
Convention adopted a policy that
drove two Democrats away for e>ery
Republican it gained ?
Without condemning any Demo
crat for doing what he thought was
best under the circumstances at the
time, we only desire to point our po
litical friends to the record of the
past triumphs on principle and the
defeat following the “departure” from
that record. We are opposed to re
peating the blunder, or committing
another equally as fatal, or in the re
motest degree approaching to it,
That is just what we mean in appeal
ing for unity and harmony on sound
Democratic principles among all who
are opposed to centralism. It can be
secured on no other line. Let us all
come together on tnat line and vic
tory will be the result.
fe publish to-day au
i the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle
Sentinel, under the above head-
to which we invite the attention
ur* readers.
e have not seen the article in the
\ York .Journal of Commerce,
rreil to by our Augusta cotempo-
r; but we take occasion to sav
t “ weather telegraphs” were not
t published in France. It may be
t reports of this kind were first
dished in that country in 1860, as
ted; but several years before I860,
y were published in Washington
;v, the capital of our own Federal
ion. As this subject is becoming
of general interest, and involves
tters of extensive utility, it seems
U-altogether jiertinent and proper
give the origin of these “ weather
»orts.”
\r state, then, for the information
all who are curious to know, that
y originated with the writer of
i article, and the following is a
irivct history of their incipient be-
jniiig. In the winter o. 1851-&2,
writer of this was a member of
ogress, and chanced to take lodg
es at Mrs. Duncan’s, on I) street,
wr flic corner of D and Fifth, where
■ the first time he met the late
Tofessor Espy,” so-called, who was
riiaps more generally known, at
it time, as the “Storm King.” lie
* » boarder at the same house. Mr.
Jp\ was the author of a new sys-
n of Meteorology, announcing what
maintained to be the true cause of
u, and the natural laws governing
its attendant phenomena, storms,
xricaues, tornadoes, etc. Ilis
tern was in direct conflict
tli the usually accepted theo-
H on the subject, especially
of Read and Redlield. In the
•bed States, his views were not re-
nled with favor by the acknowl-
g'd scientists generally. Frof.
eiirv, ol the Smithsonian Institute,
i- an eminent exception.
.Mr. Espy had. however, visited
iris, and had submitted ideas upon
at subject to Arago, Tasady, and
th.r distinguished philosophers of
irance, who thought better of them,
li is not our purpose now to -enter
ito or revive the discussions on this
tilijeet at that day, but simply
siatt that the acquaintance thus
r.ncd between the writer and Mr.
'-Ti soon ripened into friendship
ml intimacy. Meteorology was the
hsorhing topic with him. The
iter ol ihis having a fondness for
Indies of this kind, soon took up the
.Storm King” theory, and after be-
oiiwng thoroughly acquainted with
ts principles, became fully satisfied
hut it was, in the main, unquestiona
bly Correct.
Feeling assured not only of the
nie philosophy ol Mr. Espy s views,
uit of the great practical usefulness
ATLANTA 'W-JE3E^13L,Y STTlsr— a
r "f ^-OCBATW APiKIT AWAMKMNG.
™ r - - TO« Mluta Mtw
'I the meteorological laws taught by
lini, tinder a proper system of speedy
t'tnmu mention between .distant
iuts, he suggested to Mr. F>sp\ the
Importance of daily “telegraphic
Lather reports,” who fully con
jured Ln t.iis, but how was the ex
pense to be met ? That was a puz-
tliug question The writer suggest
ed and proposed to him to inquire
M ascertain if the telegraphic com
panies would not send to Washing
ton daily short weather reports from
file distant cities, say Mew Orleans,
st. Louis, Chicago, etc., as news
Items, without charge—while lie
himself, ike writer, would iu person
L'eMr. Seaton, ot the National In-
elligeucer, and endeavor to get him
fo publish them as general news with
out charge. Both parties so solicited
cadily complied—and this is the
origin at’ these “telegraph weather
eports.”
At first they were exceedingly
pieagre—such as “New Orleans—
Uaii, wiud,JS. W.” “Chicago—clear’
—cold—wind, X. W.”
Other papers in Washington, as
h'el! as other cities, soon gave ’die
pmhlica: ion to such renerts.
It was from Mbs germ the present
Pp’aiid «\siem in this country sprung.
is now under ;he control of Gov-
fcriinuiit officers, and being founJed
■up..n ihe strictest scientific priuci-
|pbs, with a sufficient number
stations and accuiacy in the re-
[poru Imm them, the daily announce
ment from headquarters ought not
looked to as “probabilities,” but
CORRECTION.
In our published interview with Mr.
Miller in Ths Sun of Sunday we repre
sented him as sayiDg that no Public
Printer has ever had to confoim to such
a construction of the law regulating the
pay of the PuDlic Printer, as the con
struction of Comptroller Goldsmith. We
did Mr. Miller injustice in this, as he
distinctly stated that he had not exam
iued into the accounts of other Publio
Printing.
We gl-tdly make this correction. No
mau s'auds higher in the community, for
strict probity than J. I. Miller, and no
man who know? him can be made to be
lieve that he would misrepresent any per
son or any thing.
Dcatli of « Veteran Jouma iat.
William Henry Smith, «*gent of the
Western Associated Press at Nashville,
Tennessee and an old journalist of that
city, died on the 17th inst., alter a pro
tracted illness. The deceased was a for
mer editor of the Huntsville (Alabama)
Advocate, the Naslivilie Gazette, the
Nashville Patrio*, and daring the war
edited the Nashville Union.
We do not admire that style
of journalism which underrates every
b»dy else and over-estimates its own
ability. The frequent allusion to
The Sun as the “ little paper with a
high tone.” 8\ * city paper, more
than bloated with a disgusting self-
importance, does not disturb our
equanimity in the least. The ani
mus of said paper is apparent to ail
but itself. Self-esteem is a good
quality, but self-adulation is simply
disgusting to people of good taste and
refinement.
M?e take the liberty of giving our
readers a sample of the spirit which
is now astir in the land. The Bample
w r e give is from the State of New
York. This betokens a desire for
that sort of reform which means
something—that which looks to the
maintenance of the rights of indi
viduals and the rights of States.
“ , N. Y., April 19, 1873.
Alexander H S'e/.hens:
M\ Dear Sir: It would give me
much pleasure if you would please
send me a sample copy of The
(Weekly) Sun, as I am desirous of
becoming one of your subscribers;
and I think I may induce a number
of others to do the same—for far-
lam -d and noted is the paper which
is insp.red by your name as editor-in
chief.
“I take a great interest for the
rights of man and the co-equal riglns
of States. The New York World is
the only professed Democratic daily
sheet in thisState; but it is spurious,
truculent and not to be trusted. If
we had but one out-spoken daily in
this State like the Atlanta Sun, I
doubt uot its circulation would be
unlimited.
“Our State Rights Mass Conven
tion, which is to come off at Utica
three weeks from to-day, invites all
lriends of State Rights to participate,
regardless oi past party affi.iations;
and hopeful of the future, permit me
to subscribe myself with the highest
respect,
“Your obedient servant,
57
In noting the expressions of the
Democratic press throughout the
country, we see the same spirit mani
fested in many of our Democratic ex
changes, and we regard it as the un
mistakable evidence of a determina
tion on the part of the more solid
Democracy to see to it that no more
xpedients shall be resorted to in fu
ture contests either in State or Na
tional elections.
Many of our brethren of the press,
ho favored the blundering expedi
ent of last year, are opposed to any
thing like a repetition of such mon
strous folly. Indeed., we D'ay say
that the Democratic spirit is awaken
ing, and that the old fire of the party
is being rekindled to burn off the
dross of semi-Republicanism accu
mulated within the past year.
ipapera-a Wa alig.
Messrs. Editort: I really did not be
lieve it. I did not believe you wool i po
end issue Ths 8uw in a quarto form,after
the vain faahioa of those frisky and pes
ky paper*, the Herald and Conatitntion.
Their business does r.ot require it, and
jours did not require *yoo to give us so
much reading matter at yon did on Sun
day. There is not tnat mnch truth in
the wor»d, and certainly not that much
bos'ness for the newspapers in Atlanta.
I was glad to see that you apologized for
the vain attempt, and promised not to
repeat it. Like a certain pc litician, I
suppose, “yon dtdn’t go to do it.”
I hud just made np my mind to discon
tinue th* other papers, and confine my
self to The Sun as a journal o! reasonable
size, but if yon go into the “quarto bus
iness,” it will become necessary to qui;
you also. In these days of electricity
and steam, a man has not time to read
more than the telegraphic dispatches, the
local items, See., with an occasional short,
pithy editorial. The day for heavy
leaders has passed forever, except for po
litical idlers, and that class of landed
gentry who insist upon living sway from
t heir plantations and employing overseers
to do their work, and who, instead of
producing their own supplies, prefer to
borrow money at high rates and purohas
ing them in the West. Such peo
ple geneially have t.me enough for any-
tuing, even to grow poorer every day.
If the Constitution and the Herald
continue th.s inflation business much
louger, it would be safe to predict for
them the same which a frnnd of mine
say* overtook two moccasins which he
once saw on a rice plantation in tne low-
country. The moccasins had attacked
each other, and, like your cotemporuries,
had attempted to swallow each other, be'
ginning .t their respective tails. They
had succeeded in taking uown each his
neighbor, until their mouths approached
and they formed a ring or circle. But
they had gone too far. and being UDable
to diseDgago themselves, they perished 1
And so it this battle of .“^quartos'’ con
tinues, we shall wake up some fine morn-
idg and find the Herald and the Cons i-
tution holding each other by the tail,
both dead as Julius Cresar. Snaixs,
Sentinel,
Pepe Hlus Ibr Ninth..
Late advices from Rome announce the
Pope still living, although it is believed
in well informed circles that his demise,
from the natnre of his ailment, may be
looked for at no very distant day.
Should His Holiness live unti> the 13th
of May, he will have attained his eighty-
first year; and on the 16th of Jane, the
twenty-seventh year of his pontificate, a
longer period than any of the 262 occu
pants of the Chair of St Peter. But
nine of his pi/edecessors (omitting St
Peter) have held the position over
wenty years, and of these Pins VI had
the longest term, being Pope 24 years, 3
months ahd 14 Juts.
Still in Sewing machine*
An exchange says: “A Buffalo girl,
pretty aud eightsen, has sold over five
hundred sewing machines in the last two
years. Sue travels with a horse and
wagon, smilmg when 6be leaves a ma-
hme aud shedding tears if anybody af
terward refuses to keep it. This does
the busiuess.”
Pshaw, that’s nothing! If that Buffa
lo girl could only see some of our Atlan
ta girls selling a machine she might learn
something, aud they never cry either
when they are disappointed. They are
too good grit for that.
Mr. Corcoran, the millionaire
banker of Washington City, has recently
made gifts amounting to over two mil
lion dollars lor benevolent purposes; De
sides, some two years ago, ne gave a
magnificent house in Washihgton Citv
lor an art academy, subsequen'lj adding
costly collection of statuary a-id paint
ings. We like to see m- n of wealth, after
providing io- .heir families, distribute
the< r urplus means so that they may
realize the benefit they have doDe society
before they d’e. This is sensible.
'ith a much ceriainty as an eclipse
i th ■ -tin or occupation ol a s ar.
Tvi in,* genius of Espy, the modest
well as eccentric Pennsylvania
“sch... -master,” belongs all me hon-
° r °f -entering those laws of nature]
u p,.i n il (his system of “weather|
RT"! rests, and from which, if
right
•onducted and carried to |>er-
jVcn new and incalculable benefits
>' It to mankind.
A. H. s.
An interviewer recently addressed
General Sherman in Washincton, re-
spectin i the movement of troops to the
Rio Grande frontier, and as to the pros- (
peet of war with Mexico. To which
Sherman replied, there will be no wir,
adoiug: “Tnis is an administration of
peace, aud will continue so as long as
President Grant lives in the White
House. Y m correspondents are always
ou tie qui rive for excing topics, bu
y*>u can’t m:ik*- w rou Mexico with three
r giiueiits of cavalry and lour of it-
fautry.”
Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and
otbei Western States, are now combined
to make war on the Western railroad
nionopoliits to whose charges for freight
age of the vast products of that Sectior
of the country to the Eastern markets
there is no limit The movement is a
formidable one, backed np by public sen
timent, and will eventually prevail in
breaking np one of the most gross and
extortionate railroad monopolies that
has ever existed on the American Con
tinent.
From ihe Auguit* (G».) Chronicle »nd
AprU 19, 1873.
11** Weather Keporle.
The New York Journal of Commerce
recently published a most interesting
article in relation to the wonderful ad
vances that have been made within the
last decade in meteorological scienoes,
and the art of telling the weather. In
1860 the first weather telegraphs were
issued in France, and ftom that time the
system has spread into all parts of Eu
rope ard ihe United States, and the per
oentage of accuracy steadily increased.
The facts c ollected by the Journal of
Commerce relate chiefly, however, “to
the success of weather studies in Eng
land, under the able direction of Mr.
Robert n. Scott, cnief of the London
Observatory. He reports that in 1870
and ’71 the warnings issued from the
British < ffices were followed by galea
m forty-Bix per cent, of the cases, und
by strong winds in twenty per cent, more,
making a total of Dearly seventy per
cent, of verifications. Still greater pre
cision is reported for the first six months
of 1872, when th© total of successes was
almost eighty oer oent.—an improvement
explained by the more perfect working
of the postal telegraph service, and uy
the free inter-commnnication with the
continent after the close of the Franco-
German war.” This is certainly a most
gratifying suocess. But it is exceeded
by “ Old Probabilities” in tnis country,
who “can boast of eighty-two per cent,
of verifications between November 1,
1871, and October 1, 1872; and there iB
every reason to expect that this per
centage will be increased hereafter, as
observing stations are multiplied and
observers become more skillful. The
configuration and the great extent of
the United States are thought to give
our weather prophets a measure of ad
vantage over those of the British Isles
in dejecting the tigne of a storm and in
dicating its path.” The advantages re
sulting from this system of weather re-
por'ing can hardly be over-estimated.
Millions oi property is saved from de
struction by storm, tempest aud flood
each year, and hundreds of lives pre
served through this valuable idstrumen-
tality. Vessels are warned of the ap
proach of storms, and maintain a suffi
cient offing from dangerous coasts, aud
iu this manner escape wreck, or loss of a
serious character. In i tner instances
ships hasten their departure from port,
inn to sea in a't^ance of a storm, ■ nd
tuns save both time, torn sails au i nat
tered sides. Agricu tunst- also sow,
reap and house their crops by the out
givings from “OH Probaoilities.” Tn**y
thus gain time und heavy losses. Alc-ng
the streams subject to sudden rises from
rain„, and foreteiung of such events sn-
aoles the («ople to take care of their
property in a proper manner aud a
proper time. All these are advantages
arising from the operation of car
Weather Bureau, and the system should
be supported ana eccoaiaged in a gen
erous manner. If we can outstrip the
older system ot Europe in a single de
cade, still more surprising and benefi
cial results may be expected when our
plan shall be extended and operators
aud calculators have the benefit ot a
more advanced experience.
29, 1876..
Tmm J*"MW BTJTM SkVOil.
TW * aad One la Mac«.B
^wveka** tlio.oo.
Bank or th* Stats of Oeoroia, 1
Atlanta. April 4th, ’873. (
Jno. Jones, Esq., Treasurer of <, orgia:
Dean Sib: At a meeting of the Direc-
tors of this Bank to-day it was resolved
le buy ten thousand dollars of the new
Georgia eight per oent. nou-taxable
bonds at par, and herewith hand your
cn- ck for that amount Yon can deliver
the bonds to bearer. I have the honor
10 k® Very respectfully,
F. M. Coker,
President.
City Bank of Macon, 1
Macon, April 15tn, 1873. J
Jones, Esq , State Treasurer:
Sib- I have the pleasure to inform
you that the Board of Directors of this
Bank have resolved to take at par fifty
thousand dollars of the new nou-taxable
eight per cent, bonds to be delivered as
soon as they are prepared for issue.
Yours, respectfully,
C. A. Nutting,
President.
Citizens Bank of Georgia, )
Atlanta, April 17th, 1873 (
Jno. Jones, Esq., Shits treasurer:
Dkar Sib: Knowing the exigencies of
the State Treasury an.i believing it to be
the duty of every good citizen to do all
in his power to relieve this temporary
embarrassment the Directors nf this
Bank at a meeting held to-day instructed
me to put chase at par fifty thonsaDd dol
lars of the eight per cent, bonds of th©
State of Georgia, authorized by the last
Legislature.
Very respectfully, &o.,
Jno. T. Grant,
President.
GKDiKRaL state news.
— The Macon Volunteers celebrate
their anniversary to-morrow in their new
uniform.
— Strawberries and green peas are
plentiful in th© B&inbridge market.
—Governor Smith has refused to com
mute tha sentence of Wesley Tate
was recently convicted of mur
An Indiana lawyer defended a
man lor keeping his saloon open after
10 o’clock at utaht. He made a plea
that it was 10 o’clock until it was 11, and
won his rase. That dodge mishtdo very
well iu the Hoosur State. It certainly
wouldn’t win iu Aiiauta.
A Wisconsin woman lately put $2,000
m ’be stovr wLeu she went visiting, and
whm 6ue got bock she kindled a fire and
urnt it np.
—Waynesboro property has advanced
50 per cent, aud the business of the town
has doubled in that time.
— Memorial Day will be observed in
Macon on Saturday next. Jotm P. Fort,
E-q., will deliver the address.
—Th,. April term of Richmond Su
perior Court, Judge Wilbam Gibson
presid'Ug, commenced yeiterdav morn
ing.
—The surveying corps of the Atlantic
anu Gulf road selected to survey a new
route to Mi bi e, passed turougii Buin-
or.dge on the 22th.
—John, anas Esaek Kilien, a colored
^ man, was arrest- d Momi y at Norwood
- *k Audersou s p tarnation near Ferrv by
tile Marshal of Cochran, ai d taEen to
(bat place. He is cn -rgei with having
murdered a whole 'alD'l* *t i
suor- lime since. A rewatd ol $250 had
been offered for his arrest.
—Mr. Warren E Sanders, formerly a
citizen of P,rn, dieuat his box e in Doo
ly Sunday the 13th, of pneumouiu.
who
der in Eloert county, and the negro*w*iil
therefore be hanged on the 25th.
— Wor k has been commenced on the
Hawkinsville and Eufanla Railroad.
-The negroes of Brunswick are goinu
to give a series of tableaux for the ben
efit of their Presbyterian church.
—The horses ran awav with and
smashed an omnabus in Brunswick, one
evemug last week. The screaming notes
of a brass band in the vehicle was the in
centive for their rush celerity of move
ment.
—WatBon continues to weave himself
up in the tangled web of poesy occasion
ally.
- Defiance Fire Company No. 5, of
Macon, has accepted au invitation to visit
Augusta on the occasion of the annual
parade of the Fire Department of that
city, which occurs on the 13th of May.
—The baddish boys of Macon indulge
themselves in the manipulation of tne
treacherous Alabama sling, to the great
annoyance of the better class of people.
““The dnli monotony of Macon was
broken on Monday evi uing at 2 o’clock,
by the alarm of fire. It was only a little
kitohen.
—Sandersvi le ie seriously troubled
with measles, there being no less than
twenty-five casts on hand, aud still it in
creases.
— The new Baptist church at SanJers-
ville is nearly completed.
—Work has been resumed on the
North and Sooth Railroad. The erec
tion of a large bridge across Mulberry
creek, near Hamilton, on Monday last.
—Business is dull in Atheos, but sev
ere 1 n w buildiDgs are in process of erec
tion there. Cotton still continues to go
to that market. There is a demand for
gu -no.
—There is living in Banks county, in
this State, a man by the name of Henry
Jackson, who is one hundred and fifteen
years old. Mr. Jackson never had a
days sickness. The theory of tbc tem
perance people to the contrary, it is
stated that he never was. member of a
temperance society, but has been all his
life a good, honest drinker.
—The ne_;ro firemen of Athens gave a
ball fo” iui- benefit of theii company the
0- h r night, which netted them $150.
—The firemen of Thomasville are {pre
paring for a grand ball on the 6th day of
May.
.—Dr. A. L. Hamilton was in Thomas
ville last week as the agent of Mr. Ste
phens’ School History. The Times says:
Ws understand that our teachers and
Board of Commissions are very favorably
01- posed towards this work. ai.d that it
will, in all prooability he introduced at
au early day in our schools.
—Bishop Pierce, on a recent visit to
fhomaaville, received $500 from one
gentleman and $100 from another, for rhe
bencJdu ol £iiioij Coiisgp,
— Thomas Superior Coart is in' session
the present term, forty civil suits, be
sides twenty-six brought at Fall Term
72. A large number of civil cases have
been standing over on the docket and
will be called ibis term of the Court.
Inere are sixteen cases oa the criminal
docket lor trial ouc none of any magni
tude. Only five appeal cases from
Courts below, which speaks well for the
m nner in which they have administered
Justice. But five cases in equity are
docketed.
—In the Circuit Court of the United
States a suit has l een brought by Isaac
Reynolds k Son% of Baltimore, agaiust
a firm formerly in business in Griffin un
der tne name and style of J. 8. Jones,
Dnmright k Co., the facts being about
tlieiKs; Borne three years ago, when C. A.
Biudall tailed in that city, he had sold i
large amonni of guano for tnis Balti
more house and taken bonds toerefor.
The firm iu Griffin attached Siudal.’s
property, and aii the eflecte in his hand
they count find. Reynolds k Sons claim
that they had no rig t to tie np their
•"..uas. nat thev have been put to heavy
X, us'- ii* u lgatuig iu. mailer anu iock-
3 - »t*tr their interests, that many of
b oiniuis have provt n worthless becanse
• kj u:. 1.0- allowed to press .hem at
tin* ume utno** they brenght suit, and
placed tneir U *nsages at $15,000.
THE SKBATEnT S ’HOOL BOOK OF
THE AGE.
HISTuUTOF THE UNITED STATES BY
HUN. A. H. SI KPSItCNS.
What oar Piofmsora think of It.
From the B»v*Dn»h New*. 18th April.]
The distiugnishi d autnor of this work
bus succeeded iu supplying a want that
has long been felt m furnishing a com
plete and comprehensive and im|mrtial
nistorv of oui country from the ooloniaf
times down to the close of the great war
between the States. Mr. Stephens ex
hibits ! hat clear insight into character,
which is one ot his distinguishing traits^
and vividly portrays it in a few bold,
strong words. We have carefully glanced
over the pages of the work, and have
gleaned suffioi ut t > satisfy us that we
will enjoy in the fullest sense un atten
tive pernsal. Most com pends of history
are made ap of a dry detail of names,
dates and events, so imirtistically
framed as to be wearisome and
nngttractive but exactly the re
verse is the case with this work, the style
of which is natural, and the intermiug-
lmg of personal incidents so judicious as
to clothe it with th*. inft rest ot romance.
e have ou several occasions given ex
tracts from the opinions of learned gen
tlemen aud di8tinguisheu educators at
the North, as well as from our own sec
tion, highly commeudiug the work as
without a parallel of ito kind, ana as
such worthy a place iu every school room
in the United States.
Dr. A. L. Hamilton, of Atlanta, gene
ral agent for the history, has been iu our
city tor several days oast aud has brougat
the work to the personal attention oi our
Board ot Eitucutiou and professors. The
following oer.ificate clearly shows in
what estimation these gentlemen regard
the work, and we may here express the
hope that the time is not far distant
when it will be generally used in not odIj
the sch o's of our city aud State but
throngnont the Sout h. The history now
studied in our public schools is Holmes’,
and the most iuctiff-rent reader will upon
examination discover that iu no particu
lar can it be compared with the work of
Georgia’s distinguished son. Especially
do we fiud it inaccurate aud meagre in
the review of the late war :
Savannah, Ga., April 17, 1873.
The undersigned having carefully ex
amined “Stephens’ History of the Uui-
ted States,” feel no hesitation iu giving
it their unqualified endorsement. Its
accuracy and its lucid stv le aud arrange
ments make it an invaluable text book
lor schools. The !aet that the distin
guished anthor gives the real cause ot the
origin of the late civil war, and furnishes
an impartial account of the events as
they transpired, will commend the book
to the special favor of Southern educa
tors. (Signed). W. H. Baker,
Superintendent of Public Schools.
W. S Bogart,
Principal Girls’ Hign School.
H. F. Train,
Principal B >ys’ High School
W. LeContk Stevens,
Principal G'ris’ Grammar School.
J. E. Rax,
Principal Boys’ Grammar School.
Toe following notices and review - from
well known gentlemen will also be read
with interest:
Department of Education, )
Atlanta, Ga.. April 1, 1873. )
I am delighted with Stephens’ History
of the United States. It is clear in its
style, accurate and luminous in its recital
of facts, and reliable in its theory of our
political institutions. It ia a well of
truth from which the youth of the whole
country may drink without danger of de
filement.
While history is not in the list of
studies prescribed in our present school
law, I wonld earnestly ailvise the County
Boards of Education to encourage the
introduction of this werk into all the
schools where there are pupils of a suf
ficient degree of advancement to profit
by its study.
Gustavts J. Orb,
Slate School Commissioner.
It is an admirable book, and should
find a ready entrance into every school
iu the South. I wish it could be read
aud studied in every school in the whole
country. B. Mallon.
Snp’t of Public Schools in Atlanta.
April 2, 1873.
I regard Mr. Stephens’ bcuool History
of the United -naces a most valuable
book. my opinion, it has no equal
among those which have treated ot tne
same subject, because it is the only one
which gives, aloDg with the facts of onr
history, a just account of the principles
of onr State and Federal Government,
and their relations to one another.
While it is simple enough for very
young pupils, it is abundantly well
suited for the study of grown persons.
I heartily wish it cuuld be placed in the
hands of every boy and every man m the
United States, to be read and studied by
them. If this were so, I really believe
that* we should bave a good prospect of
returning to those first priuciples of our
once most happy Government, from
which we lately have so far lasped.
Yours, very truly,
R. M. Johnston,
Prof. Pen Lucy Institute, Md.
From Rev. J. J. Bnmt'ej-, D. D., Professor cl Belle*
Lettree »nd Modern Language*, Mercer Universi
ty, Macon, Ga.
I think von are to be congratulated on
having brought out a school history,
wmch on account of its fairness, its
Southern origin, and especially the full
ness and accuracy of the later political
history of tie country, ought to super
cede all orheni at the South.
From tbs Boston Courier, Hon. George S. Hillard,
_ lard, LL. D.
The work is, throughout, creditable to
Mr. Stephens, alike in its mtellectnal
and moral aspects. It shows commenda
ble industry and conocieutions research.
Tne important merit of accuracy seems
to be fully secured. The style is clear
and good, though without any peculiar
charm. And the tone is nDimpassioned
and moderate. The event and struggles
which led to the recent civil war, and the
course of the war itself, are told in a
spirit of candor and fairness not often
found in chronicles written so near the
date of the occurrences they record.
Dr. Hamilton, the general agent, is a
thorough gentleman and accomplished
scholar, and most admirably suited to the
task of introducing tnis work. Withal,
he possesses energy and perseverance,
and we trust that the same success that
has attended him thus far may reward
his efforts in other fit-ids.
—The boauug seoa--i* • about opening
at Micon. Looking to the main jeaico
of a ride, Wats an insists that it is time
the Macon oarsmen were showing some
activity.