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Beall wood School.— W. F Williams,
Esq., has resigned the position of teacher,
and Mr. B. M. Thnrman elected’to fill the
vacancy.
Gzoboe Elkins. —This disreputable ne
gro, who was shot at the jail, by Captain
Wm. Cash, of the police force, for insub
ordination, will get well.
Ruining Heb Complexion.— We heard
a sable mother, yesterday, yelling to her
daughter, who was as black as ink, Put
on dat bonnet, Liz, you gwine to run bar
headed wid dem white trash till yo’
’plexshun gwine to be ruined. ”
Neobo Militaby Company.— We under
stood one has been formed in Columbus,
and that it is being drilled very often at
night. As all the white companies have
applied for arms, and they have prece
dence on account of priority of time, we
presume there will be none left for the
sable brothers, at least for those of this
county.
Aid fob Gen. Cooper. —Owing to the
personal exertions of Gen. R. H. Chilton,
formerly Adjutant General of Gen. li. E.
Lee’s army, but now the President of the
Columbus Manufacturing Company, over
S2OO, we are informed, havo been secured
in this city for the relief of Gen. Cooper,
the Adjutant General of the Confederate
Btates. This sum should be largely in
creased.
Musical Notation. —Mr. W. 8. Acee
has shown us a colored lithographed spec
imen of the chromatic scale devised by
him. The notes are colored differently,
there being seven different shades in the
composition. The effect is very hand
some. A child would be attracted by them
und learn and remember the scale much
more readily than by the old plan. The
now idea is the “object system,” which is
proved to be superior to any other. The
scale can be prepared very cheaply and
possesses much advantage.
“A Stephens Democbat.” Bead the
communication of “A Stephens Demo
crat.” It is the able, mental product of
one of our most intelligent farmers. We
are a little afraid that some of the new
converts to Groelcyism, will be like the
man riding a one-eyed horse over a bridge.
He was so scared of the no eye that he
reined too hard in going it on the one eye,
and pitched headlong into a pool of very
dirty and poisonous water.
We make no exchanges, until compelled,
of devils and witches.
The Bain Cbow. Gentlemen have
been telling us something about rain
crows. They said they have often shot
thorn. The description is of a grayish
brown bird, with a white breast, about the
size of a mocking bird. They say its hab
its are to secrete itself. The note is a
succession of short crooks, and it is most
frequently heard before rain falls. In
fact it is regarded as a pretty sure fore
teller of showers. We know nothing of
ornithology and accept the statement as
given.
The Ice Company—Success Cebtain.—
A contract was made with the Columbus
Iron Works yosterday to build a Muhl ma
chine. It is to be ready in thirty days.'
Capt. Brain is the agent for these ma
chines. Work on the erection of the
building on the site of the Carter factory
will commence Monday. The company
wants $5,000 more of capital stock. Sure
ly Columbus will give it. The mere sav
ing in the price of ice, should the compa
ny never pay a profit, will be a handsome
dividend.
Afteb Office—Census Taeino.— We
recommended the other day that a census
bo taken of Columbus. Four persons
applied that morning to Mayor Mcllhenny
for the office. They were resolved to
speak in timo. We hope that Council
will authorize the Mayor to have this
enumeration made. The United Statos
census of 1870 did Columbus great injus
tice. We believe that a fair count will
show that Columbus has very near 10,000
inhabitants, if not more. Over the river
live 2,500 people who do all their trading
with Columbus. In the suburbs—Wynn
ton, Beallwood, Linnwood, Utah and
Cooleyvillo, are at least 1,500, if not
2,000 more. We believe firmly that
within a radious of two miles from the
Court House thero are at least 14,000
people. If this were sent out officially
its effoct upon the outside world would be
much greater than the 7,500 people re
ported in the U. 8. census. Macon is
about having a census taken. Griffin in
creased her population by a late one over
1,000. Mobile is claiming 45,000 inhabi.
tants, and is preparing to prove it by a
full count. Columbus ought to do the
same.
Receipts of Cotton in Interior Towns
The following table shows the re
ceipts at tho named interior towns from
September Ist to ‘Friday, May 10th,
respectively, for tbe seasons 1870-71 and
1871-72:
1870-1. 1871-2.
Augusta 181,720 140,328
Macon 97,086 53,999
Eufaula 37,576 21,700
Columbus 72,111 38,894
Montgomery 95,392 52,076
Selrnn 83,715 58,524
Memphis 478,298 365,211
Nashville 92,932 54,843
Total 1,138,830 785,575
This shows a deficit of this year from
the last of 353,255 bales. The stocks on
May the 10, were 31,897 against 49,-
786 same date in 1871, showing a deficit
of 17,889 which added to the deficit in
the port receipts 1,074,113 makes the
United States crop in sight last Friday
1,092,002 bales less than the one of last
year to same date.
Grant Defeated in Connecticut.— j
One of the significant signs of the times
is the re-election, by the fusion of
tho Liberal Republicans and Democrats,
of Senator Ferry, by the Connecticut Leg
islature, over Gen. Hawley, the Grant
nominee. Ferry is a Republican, but he
has shown some independence of party
and will not obey the nod and beck of the
President. Grant was strongly in favor
of Hawley, and did all in his pnwer to
elect him. He would have been a'willing
servitor. This Grant defeat is very sig
nificant at the present crisis.
The Cincinnati Enquirer “hopes the
coming National Democratic Convention
will not adopt the famous two-third rule i
for the nomination of President and Vice-
President which has heretofore been en- j
forced in conventions. The rule was ,
maintained (says the Enquirer) by tho
fc outh, because they imagine that there
was a check in it against sectional ag
ression from, the North, which had a
majority of votes. Slavery having pass
ed away, there can be no reasons for its
further continuance. ”
Col. Mosby, in a private letter, speak
ing of his interview with Grant says : “I
expressly told Gen. Grant that I would
support the Democratic nominee, but as
between him and Greeley, I was in favor
of the South going for the one that would
offer us the most generous terms, i. e.,
that the Philadelphia Convention must
outbid Cincinnati.”
The New York World now wants the
Democratic Convention to nominate ex-
Senator Hendricks, of Indiana, for Presi
dent, with Judge Church, of New York,
for Vice-President.
Our Visit to Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nash
ville and the Mammoth Cave, Ky.
This late trip will be long remembered
by the editorial fraternity of Georgia as
one of the most pleasant and instructive
eras in their lives. The beautiful weather,
the cheerful, intelligent company, the
boundless hospitality which greeted ns
day and night at every place, the endless
variety of scenery, the kindness of city
and railroad officials, will be ever appre
ciated with gratitude and affection. We
had no inclination to take notes (even if
our health had permitted) and consequent*
ly we shall not bore our readers with dry
statistics, either agricultural, commercial
or mechanical, but speak the spontaneous
impressions made on our minds by the
fresh inspirations of the mighty works
of nature. Men make railroads, tunnel
mountains, and build houses and cities.
God creates the tall peak and rugged cliff,
lifting their majestic heads high above
the rolling clouds, seuds the waters dash,
ing over the cataract lit by a thousand
colors, and utters His voice in thunder or
whispers words of mysterious music and
wisdom in the silent droppings erystal
izing into churches, temples and cham
bers, down, down in the depths of our
mother earth. They who have gone there,
with souls in unison, have seen and heard
the grandest wonders of and harmonics of
this world.
Members of the Pross who returned to
their labors from Atlanta have already
given expression of thanks and gratitude
for the hospitalities so liberally extended
to us by the citizens of the Gate City. We
can now only echo their voice, and repeat
that the entertainments by the accom
plished writer of “Heart Hungry,” Mrs.
Westmoreland, Col. Crittenden, of the
Kimball House, Colonels Adair and Wil
son, and the Press and citizens generally,
will be ever treasured as white pebbles in
the urns of memory and affection. The
music is hushed, the foot of the dancer is
stilled and the light and music of thous
ands of hearts will live on to throb in
sympathy with these fair women and
kind men. May they ever wave!
CHATTANOOGA.
At Chattanooga we were tendered the
hospitalities of the city and treated at the
Bead House like Princes right royally!
Our thanksare especially tendered to Mrs.
Bead, to whom we are indebted for an
introduction to Gen. Forrest, the Murat
of the South. If we had the power we
would establish a cooking college to be
conducted ou scientfic principles, over
which Mrs. Bead should preside. We
care not how evil a man may be, if with
a clean shirt and a meal from the Bead
House table, we defy him to do a mean
thing. On our return a fellow of low
degree attempted to pass off under the
cloak of the Press gang and go as a dead
head to Atlanta. The excellent conduc
tor soon discovered the mistake under
which the sneak thief hid, and gave him
quickly a ticket of leave—a room in the
wilderness. That vulgar dog never could
have taken his ease in the Bead Inn,
where there be plenty of cakes and ale,
ginger is hot in the mouth and you can
take it cheap either with or without sugar.
The truth is the occupation of the Fool
killer would be gone if cooking was a
science. The stomach, and not the brain,
is the seat of that greatest of mysteries—
the intellect. We believe like Falstaff, in
sack and bread, and especially when it
comes free from the Bead or Boar Head
Tavern.
We visited the ltoane and Vulcan Iron
Works, where was exhibited to us the pro
cess of iron manufacture from the crude
ora heaved from the bowels of the mine
to the rail over which the car (freighted
with the wealth of nations,) rolls and rat
tlos. The principal of the Works informed
us that the production monthly, of the
iron, was equal to nearly one hundred
thousand dollars. Think of that Master
Brook!
From the Iron Works we wont in fine
carriages to the top of Look-out Mountain
where, in Bock city, an excellent lunoh
was spread. We wore accompanied by
two ladies on horseback. Talk of the
beauty of a ship under full sail, a rose, a
rainbow, but nothing can equal a woman
on horseback or climbing a huge moun
tain. The views aro extremely handsome
and unspeakably delightful.
Lookout, from the city to the top is five
miles high. From it, you sec seven States.
The Moccasin Bend of the Tennessee,
where the river seoms running parallel in
opposite directions, washes its base. We
were asked to say the distance between
and across the apparent two rivers. We
replied— “four hundred yards." The
questioner (who knew,) answered —“Five
miles!” Such is altitude on sight. As
the Preachers say, we must hurry on.
NASHVILLE.
Here we were met by unbounded hospi
talities. The Press, the Maxwell and Bat
tle Houses, the Committees of the Expo
sitions, were rivals in kindness and atten
tions. We visited the respected widow of
President Polk and family and stood with
reverence over his honored grave.
His beautiful great granddaughter pre
sented us a rose as a testimonial (we sup
pose) that the land that gave birth to the
Polks was too, the home of our early af
fections. That rose is withered, but its
fragrance is preserved in our heart. May
God bless the child and its intelligent
mother!
We examined the majestic capitol from
turret top to foundation stone. From
there, we had the city spread out before
us and the Cumberland spanned by its
suspension bridges and filled with boats,
rolling onward to the clear blue Ohio.
The Exposition was a grand success.
Everything in fine arts and mechanical
implements were on exhibition from an
Egyptian mummy three thousand years
ago, who sat and drank and lived, loved
and wept in the laud of tho Pharaoh s to
the child of to-day preserved for anatomi
cal science. The copper, iron and mar
ble mingled with the bones of the mam
moth and the products of tho pencil, the
loom and chisel. We were glad to see
the Eagle and Pheuix, of Columbus, alive
and kicking, the one gazing at the 3Un
and the other rising from its ashes in a
higher and bolder flight.
MAMMOTH CAVE, KY.
We reached Cave City for breakfast, on
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and
ten miles from the Mammoth Cave. The
party, about forty, were hurled over a
rugged mountain in four-horse coaches in
two hours. The entrance to this, tho
grandest of nature's works, Is thirty yards
wide, rough with stones, covered with
weeds and sprinkled with water falling
from above. You descend and awe creeps
over you as you advance. The Italians
say, “See Naples and die!” “See the
Mammoth Cave,” ochoes the American,
and you will never see its like again.
True, no Vesuvius here belches out fire,
but its wonderful streets of palaces, arch
es_and temples in grandeur far surpass
Herculaneum and Pompeii. Vespasian
measured the steps and arena of the Col
liseum, and Michael Angelo hung the
dome of St. Peters high above the waters
of the yellow Tiber, but God alone here
planted the euerlasting pillars, and the
houses are not made with mans hands
and are eternal as the rocks.
To attempt a description of the won
ders you see and their infinite variety is
foolishness. Virgil, Milton, Dante and
Homer caught similar inspirations in their
regions of perpetual woe and night, and
again Shakespeare uttered its weird sounds
and sights when he tells of Prospero’s cell
and enchanted island. The sublime and
beautiful meet you at every step, and he
must indeed be cold of heart whose piety
and reverence grows no warmer and pro
found on such a spot and surrounded by
His mighty works.
We held a meeting in one of the cham
bers, and Prof. Michell, of the Law School
at Athens, was asked to pray. He could
not have given a better illustration of
wisdom, eloquence and piety than in
simply (like a child) repeating the Lord’s
Prayer. We have heard the same words
sounded in marble walls and stately ca
thedrals by lips touched with eloquent
fire, but certain are we, that no one pres
ent can forget this scene, or whose soul
can ever cease to thrill when he utters or
hears this holy, humble petition. The
sounds of “Old Hundred” and the “Beau
tiful Biver” came shortly after, rolling
from sevoral fine voices from the mystic
“Styx,” filling the arches and corridors
and reverberating through the deep, deep
caves, with less of earth thau heavenly
harmonies.
There is but a step from the sublime to
the ridiculous, and the fellow who chang
ed the following original near the “Devil’s
Pulpit,” should be hung without the bene
fit of Clergy.
“The Mammoth (lave, O! what a spot,
In Summer cold, in Winter hot;
Great God Almighty ! what a wonder,
Horace Greeley, Brown and thunder.”
To our faithful colored guide, Billy, and
our friend in need who helped us in
trouble over rough rocks and wild, deep
and dangerous precipices, over and down
which the waters were lost, our wit and
veteran pilot Matthew, he of the scrip and
staff for thirty-five years, we tender our
kindest wishes, and hope they may not,
after their last passage over the “River of
Death,” find a lower deep. To Col. Hul
bert, the Bailroad Presidents and con
ductors, we wish success to them, their
wives and families, and to our brethren
of the Press we can confidently say that
few' have risen from so low a position as
the “Valley of Humility” in the Kentucky
cave, to be perched among the Heavens at
“Lookout,” Tennessee, or enjoyed more
of the “real feast of reason and flow of
soul,” than w’e in the last few days.
SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION.
This Convention met in Raleigh on the
10th. Attendance largo from all the South
ern States. Bev. J. P. Boyce, D. D., was
elected President. The death of Bev. Dr.
Poindexter, of Virginia, was announced.
Convention passed resolutions of sym
pathy to Rev. Dr. Mell, of Georgia, who
has been the President for several years,
and tendering an amount sufficient to en
able him to visit Europe.
Dr. J. A. Broadus presented to the Con
vention, for the President’s use, a mallet
made of wood from Mt. Olivet, and the
handle from a growth on the Jordan, near
where the Saviour was supposed to have
been baptised by John.
Dr. M. T. Sumner read 27th Annual Do
mestic and Indian Missionary report. Re
ceipts of the year $38,014 83, being $6,-
791 66 in excess of the past year. Mis
sionaries and agents under appointment
177.
On the second day the sum of $20,190
was secured towards building a Baptist
church in Rome, Italy. There are now'
in Italy eight Baptist churches, with 300
members.
The Convention received a letter from
the Baptist Union of Great Britain and
Ireland, expressing their grateful recipro
cation of the expression of kind feeling
in a letter sent them last year by this Con
vention.
The Convention adjourned to attend the
Confederate memorial ceremonies. Rev.
Dr. Fuller offered prayer and Gen. Wade
Hampton delivered the oration.
On the third day the Convention adopt
ed tbe report of the Committee on the
Home and Foreign Journal presented by
Dr. John A. Broadus. The report pro
poses to employ an editor to devote his
whole time to the paper and to make va
rious improvements in it.
Dr. Curry presented the report of the
Committee on the Work of the Domestic
Mission Board among the negroes, which
after discussion, was adopted. The re
port recommends that the Board devote
as much attention as possible to the color
ed peoplo, and that the Board address a
circular to the churches urging them to
their duty in this work; that efforts be
mado to promote the Sunday-school work
among the colored people, and to interest
them in the mission work to Africa and
that the Board be directed to establish as
soon as practicable a theological seminary
for colored students for the ministry.
Convention declined to change sessions
from annual to biennial.
Among those appointed to preach or
spoak at the Sunday-school meetings we
note Rev. Dr. Augur, of Baltimore; Rev.
Dr. Dixon, of Augusta, Ga.; Rev. Dr.
Randolph, of Pennsylvania; Rev. Dr. T.
G. Jones, of Nashville; Rev. Dr. E. T.
Winkler, of Charleston, S. C.; Rev. Dr.
W. T. Brantly, of Baltimore; Rev. Dr.
DeVotie, of Georgia; Rev. Dr. I. T. Ticli
nor, of Alabama; Rev. Dr. Landrum, of
Memphis; Rev. Dr. John A. Broadus, of
South Carolina; Rev. Dr. Curry, of Vir
ginia; Rev. Dr. Manly, of Kentucky; and
Rev. Dr. Boyce, of South Carolina.
The Convention adopted the Sunday
school report and resolved to sustain the
Board and not leave its work to Stato
Boards. for Board S9OO.
On the fourth day Rev. Dr. Skinner, of
Georgia, presented the report of the Com
mittee on Indian Missions. The report
sketches and commends the work of the
Board, and especially commends the early
establishment of an orphan asylum among
the Creek Indians. Liberal contribution
was taken up.
Rev. Dr. DeVotie, of Georgia, said it
had cost the United States Government
$20,000 per head to remove the Seminole
Indians to the territory, and the cost of
the conversion of the eight thousand Bap
tists now in that tribe had been only
about one dollar per head.
Rev. M. T. Yates, a veteran missionary
of the Convention to China, dispatched as
follows per cable:
“Paris, May 11, 1872.
“Well. Voice convalescing. Psalms
107. [Signed] “Yates.”
Dr. Curry recalled the interesting fact
that at the organization of the church at
Rome Dr. Broadus, of South Carolina,
and Dr. Randolph of Pennsylvania, assist
ed ; and that in a recent ordination there
Dr. Tucker, of Georgia, Dr. Anderson, of
Philadelphia, and Dr. M. T. Yates of our
mission to China, officiated—the rising
and setting sun, the North and South, Eu
rope. Asia and America, thus clasping
hands over our work in Rome.
SOUTHERN BAPTIST TUEOLOOICAL SEMINARY.
Dr. Jeter announced that the trustees of
the Southern Baptists Theological Semi
nary had, after mature deliberation, de
cided that they would not connect the
Seminary with any literary institution 1
that they would leave the place of loca
tion to a committee of five, with full pow
er to act; that the contested locations,
are now narrowed down to Louisville,
Nashville, Chattanooga, and Atlanta; that
the locality and State to which the Semi
nary is removed must raise at least $300,-
000, that the decision be postponed till
the Ist of August, to give competition lo
calities time to put their offers into legal
forms ; but that, in any ovent, the next
session will be held at Greenville. He
also announced that the Board had elect
ed as assistant professor in the seminary
Rev. W. H. Whitsitt, of Albany, Ga.,
late of Tennessee, educated at the Uni
versity of Virginia, the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary, and Berlin, Prus
sia.
DAY OF SPECIAL PRAYER APPOINTED.
The Convention appointed the first
Sabbath in July as a day of special prayer
for an outpouring of the Spirit on the for
eign mission work of the Convention.
The report of the Snnday-school Board
was next read by Rev. S. Boykin. It
shows that there are 4,333 Sunday-schools
connected with the churehes of the Con
vention, containing 217,200 scholars. The
Board publish 92,000 copies of Kind
Words, the Sunday-school paper of the
Southern Baptists. The receipts were
$14,000.
The Convention heard the annual re
port of the Foreign Mission Board at
Richmond, which was read by Dr. Tupper.
It gives a detailed account of the opera
tions of the Board in China, Africa and
Italy. The Board employs eighteen mis
sionaries and sixteen native assistant mis
sionaries in China, six missionaries and
two assistants in Italy, and fourteen mis
sionaries in Africa. The receipts for the
last year were $31,000. For the next
year the Board ask for $75,000.
TO MEET AT MOBILE.
Mobile was selected as the place of the
next meeting. Rev. Dr. T. G. Jones was
appointed to preach the Convention ser
mon, and Rev. Dr. Wingate of North
Carolina alternate.
Criminal Court of Russell County—Decision
ofthe Attorney General—Election Remains
Ordered.
State of Alabama,)
Executive Depabtment,
Montgomeky, May 14, IS 72 )
Ulysses Lewis, Esq., Solicitor, Ac., Seale
Station, Ala.:
Dear Sie — A report concerning the es
tablishing of the Court of Russell county
has been received at this department, from
the Grand Jury of that county, which w 7 as
referred to the Attorney General, and I
now forward to you, with this, a copy of
his opinion.
The election ordered will, of course,
take place in accordance with the procla
mation of the Governor.
Very respectfully,
John 11. Gindeat,
Private Secretary.
State of Alabama,)
Office of Attoeney General,
Montgomery, May 14, 1872.)
His Excellency, Roht. B. Lindsay:
Sir—l have received your favor of the
13th inst., enclosing a communication
from the Grand J ury of Russell county.
In speaking of the “act to establish a
Criminal Court for the county of Russell,
with criminal and civil jurisdiction,” they
say by the provisions of the act in ques
tion, the law creating the Court docs not
take effect until recommended by the
Grand Jury. I presume the error of the
Grand Jnry arose from the 23d section of
the act. It is in these words: “Be it fur
ther enacted, That this law shall not take
effect until after the findings of the
Grand Jury. Said Grand Jury may order
the Sheriff to hold said election.’’ There
is nothing in it that makes the validity of
the law depend upon the recommendation
or approval of it by the Grand Jury. The
word “finding” signified that which may
be ascertained.—“ Bouvier Inst., vol. Ist,
page 525.” When used in connection with
a Grand Jury, it merely means the action
of such a body in the regular discharge of
its duties. But such finding or action can
be lawfully made or done only during the
term of the Court in which it has been em
pannelled, sworn and charged. When,
therefore, the phrase “finding of the next
Grand Jury” is employed to designate a
point of time, it is equivalent to the next
term of the Court.
I agree with you that the words “find
ing of the next Grand Jury” were employ
ed in the act merely to designate the time
at which the statute should become effec
tive.
Yours, very respectfully,
John W. A. Sanford.
Glennville, Ala., May 15, 1872.
Editor of Columbus Sun: In accord
ance with the wish of its members we
send you a copy of some resolutions pass
ed by the Russell County Medical Society,
at a meeting held in Seale, on the 14th
inst:; Jno. Norwood, Ch’n,
W. A. Mitchell. Sec’y.
Whereas, It is necessary to the honor,
dignity and usefulness of all societies and
professions, that certain rules and regu
lations should be adopted for their gov
ernment; and
Whereas, The American Medical As
sociation has for the government of mem
bers of tho Medical Profession throughout
the land, adopted and promulgated what
is known as the Code of Ethics; and
Whereas, With a view to the further
ance of that object, Local Boards and
Medical Societies have been established
throughout the country, acting under said
Code of Ethics,
Therefore, be it resolved Ist, That no
physician be entitled to membership in
this Society who is not a member of such
Local Board or Society, provided such
organization exist in his city, town or
neighborhood.
Resolved Id, That no Local Board or
Society shall be recognized by this So
ciety which does not adopt and enforce
the Code of Ethics for its government.
Resolved od, That no physician is enti
tled to membership in this Society, or to
the professional recognition of its mem
bers, whose professional conduct is known
to be in violation of the Code of Ethics
as interpreted by the Local Board or So
cietv of his city, town or neighborhood;
and
Whereas, We, a? a profession occupy a
peculiar position, being compelled from
the very nature of our business to work
on a credit,
Therefore, Ic it resolved Ist, That
whenever anyone neglects or refuses to
pay his physician, no other member will
render him medical service.
Resolved 2d, That in order to carry out
fully the foregoing resolution, that every
member of this body be under obligation
to furnish to his neighboring practitioners
the names of such persons as are in the
habit of neglecting to settle their medical
bills.
Resolved 3d, That we will visit no crfi
ployee, unless the employer will become
personally responsible, and in every in
stance the employee must bring an order
from his employer, with the exception of
those who have always promptly met their
obligations.
Confisdebate Monument at Richmond.
—The object of most interest to many on
Decoration Day in Richmond was the
monument which has recently been erect
ed by the Oakwood Association to the
memory of the 10,000 Confederate sol
diers buried in Oakwood. It is a plain
but elegant durable shaft of Virginia
granite, bearing on one side the following
inscription :
‘'The epitaph of the soidier who falls
with his country is written in the hearts
of those who love the right and honor the
brave.”
On another:
‘Tn memory of 10,000 Confederate sol
diers from thirteen Southern States.
Erected by the Ladies’ Oakwood Memo
rial Association, organized Mav 10th,
1800.”
On the third:
‘‘Maryland, Florida, Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ar
kansas.”
And on the fourth :
Texas, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama
Mississippi, Louisiana.”
This monument was crowned with a
wreath of evergreen.
An interesting feature of the celebra
tion was the appearence of Company G,
First Regiment Virginia Volunteers, in
the cemetery, under the command of Cap
tain W. P. Kellam. They turned out in
good force, though the notice was short,
and presented a fine soldierly appearence.
Not Quits Cleab on a Musical Tebsi —
An Ohio journalist read in another paper
a statement to the effect that “Miss Kel
logg has a larger reportoire than any other
living prima donna,” and he considered
it his duty as a champion of truth to sit
down and write an article on the subject,
in which he said: “We do not, of course,
know how Miss Kellogg was dressed in oth
er cities, but upon the occasion of her
last performance hero we are positively
certain that her reportoire did not seem to
extend out so far as either Nilsson or Pat
ti's. It my have been that her overskirts
were cut too narrow to permit of be
ing gathered into such a large lump be
hind, or it may have been that they hud
been crushed down accidentally.
MAMMOTH CAVE,—AGAIN.
We have a word more to say about our
visit to the Mammoth Cave, and then we
are done with it forever. Since our re
turn, the curious are anxious to know more
of this mighty natural work and we feel a
disposition to communicate (as far as we
can) the desired information.
We took what is known as the short
route, or in other words, we went in, a
distance, variously estimated, from six to
eight miles—making a walk of 12 to 16
miles. The exploration extends 15 miles.
In an atmosphere like ours, this amount of
exercise would be impossible, to persons
of feeble health, but the dryness of the
Cave at present, or something else, gives
vigor to the limbs and vitality to the whole
system until little weariness is experien
ced. The excitement caused by the mys- j
tic wonders which burst upon the visitor
at every step, may be an element in this
result. We did not suffer from thirst or
hunger and saw but one spring—the water
of which was clear and cold. It is diffi
cult to compute distance in the interior—
as the ascents and descents are often long
and steep. The numerous bridges over
fathomless ravines are the only evidences :
we saw of man’s hand, with the exception
of two houses once tenanted by an invalid
and innumerable names written, not so .
worthy or immortal as Hugh Miller’s, on j
the Rocks. We will here in passing, re
mark as a most singular fact, that we saw'
no medicines advertised on the walls, floors
or ceilings of this grand temple. We have
seen “Buchu,” “Simmon’s Regulator ’ on
fences, rocks, in rivers and on mountains
in every shape, but here only, is one soli
tary spot where God is especially rever
enced and regular printers respected. We
witnessed other marks of vandalism, but
none iu this particular. All Europe was
indignant when Napoleon the Great filled
the Louvre with Italian art, why therefore
should the works of genius be more pro
tected from violence than the effluence of
the author of genius himself?
The “Fat Man’s Misery” is a low, nar
row, winding way, for a half mile, especi
ally hard for some of our friends to travel.
We should fear for J. B. and our crino
line, Dolly Yardens. To us, it was one
of the most beautiful and unique features
of the grandest temple ever made to awe,
astonish and perplex man’s feeble com
prehension. The sides are covered with
round steiactites of various colors which
resemble—from the reflection of thirty or
forty lamps—fine shell work. We were
anxious to see the eyeless fish from the
“Styx, ” but neither Billy or Old Charon
(our especial guide and mentor) could cap
ture tho mysterious prey. We thought as
the aged ferryman carried each one over
the river of Death of the beautiful lines
from the German Poet, Johann Uhland:
Take O! boatman, thrice thy fee,
Take! 1 give it willingly,
For all mysteriously, to thee,
Spirits twain have cross’d with me.
The Cave, like Niagara Falls, never can
be a popular institution until the public
arc better accommodated in the way of
roads and hotels. Unlike Virgil’s descrip
tion of the infernal regions, it is now diffi
cult to both descend and ascend. It will
however ever remain the greatest wonder
of the world. Age cannot wither, nor cus
tom stale, its infinite variety. Time
writes no wrinkles on its rocky brow, but
it will stand forever a monument of the
creative power of an all wise and benevo
lent God until the sun itself shall be
blown out like a lamp.
communicated.
Box Spring, Ga., May, 17, 1872.
Col. G. A. Miller:
I greatly distrust the watchwords
“Silence,” “Wait,” &c., so obviously
popular at the present writing with Demo
cratic politicians and journals. If ex
cessively indulged they may be the occa
sion, if not the cause, of a disaster they
aro designed to prevent.
The rank and file of the Democracy
have opinions which cannot be bargained
away by office-seekers, and will assert
themselves at the polls to the dismay, and
it may be, to the discomforture of the
parties who vainly hope by suppressing
expression, to extinguish principle. Give
them timely notice that no considerations
of policy will move the Democracy to the
support of the Cincinnati candidates—
not that it ignores policy, but the rather,
it does not mistake it. If the Press be
that power in the land, so generally con
ceded, to what cause rather than the
fierce hand of the Tribune shall we at
tribute the overthrow of Constitutional
liberty and the great upheaval of the
political and civil foundations upon which
we and our fathers prospered? With con
stant and unremitting attacks upon us and
our institutions it fanned the prejudices
of its people into a blaze of • fanaticism
which well nigh consumed the land.
The war developed men more destruc
tive than Grant. Did peace one so for
midable as Greeley ? Had there been no
Grant we were still undone. Had there
been no Greeley who can assert that there
would have been no war ? Grant is a
rocent enemy, and within himself a weak
one. Greeley is life-long in his hatred of
us, and our wounds attest his ability. But
Grant is fickle—is not Greeley capricious?
Grant deceived us—we regret Greeley
never did. Greeley, unneeded, was a
bail for President Davis, which Grant
supposed, by the terms of surrender, was
unnecessary. It w ould be a little difficult
to determine W'hether Greeley’s bond or
Grant’s parol would be least available in
an emergency. Political ethics aro cer
tainly inimical to the laws of the land if
they tolerate the purchase of votes in
consideration of bail. l r et, for such
service, our votes are about to be de
manded. Aye, but policy! Well, if
Greeley can defeat Grant with the aid of
such Democrats as will support him, such
a division of the Radicals assures a Demo
cratic victory. If there be no Democratic
candidates, Grant will be elected, for
despite every effort which can be brought
to bear a majority of the party will with
hold their votes rather than profane them.
I speak from the people.
Yours truly,
A Stephens Domocbat.
From Savannah to North Alabama. —
A writer in the Savannah News has pub
lished three communications showing the
pressing need of a short trunk line be
tween the Mississippi river and the South
Atlantic, and that this can be accomplish
ed in the cheapest manner by a line from
Griffin, Ga., to Decatur, Ala. This was
conceived by the late President R. R.
Cuylor, who, in 1833, had the route sur
veyed. The engineer, Emerson Foote,
made the distance from Griffin to Deca
tur 225 miles.
Is the writer aware that a road called
the Savannah and Memphis is now being
built rapidly forward. It is now com
pleted and cars are running 31 miles
above Opelika. Ten more miles are to be
added by the Ist of July. Would it not
be to the interest of Savannah to aid this
line, which is progressing so rapidly to
the West ? Pittsburg Landing, on the
Tennessee river, will be the probable des
tination. It is backed by Northern capi
talists, and Columbus has large interests
in the enterprise.
A New York correspondent, writing on
the 11th instant, says: “Rumors come
thick and fast from Washington to prom
inent politicians here that anew Republi
can combination is on foot whereby, in
order to preserve the unity of the party,
General Grant and Mr. Greeley both are
to be dropped at Philadelphia and some
new man taken up. Tho overtures to that
end are sufficiently definite to excite con
siderable apprehension on the part of the
Democratic managers, and there is much
telegraphing in consequence between the
Manhattan Club, Fifth Avenue, and the
New York delegation in Congress. What
it all amounts to we shall probably see in
a day or
From the New York World
Shall the Democratic Party Commit Political
SuicideV
The life of a political party is its prin
ciples. When it renounces or abjures
these, or consents to subordinate them to
views of temporary expediency in a scram
ble for spoils or plunder, it forfeits its
self-respect, and ceases to be respectable.
For what are political parties organized?
Either for the sordid purpose of gaining
the emoluments of office for some of their
members (a base and despicable motive,)
or as a means of carrying out principles
thought to be conducive to the public wel
fare. Politics is the most degrading and
contemptible, or on the other hand the
noblest and most elevating, of human
pursuits according as the one or the other
of these ends is the predominant conside
ration.
The only argument we have heard for
indorsing Mr. Greeley by the Democratic
National Convention is, that the ticket
would succeed. But what would such suc
cess be t earth? It would no doubt enable
Mr. Greeley to distribute the Federal
offices among Liberal Republicans and
Democrats in such proportions as he might
think expedient; but of what value are
offices purchased by a sacrifice of princi
ple? Os all the prominent public men of
the country there is no one between whom
and the Democratic party there is so wide
and deep a gulf as between it and its life
long assailant, Horace Greeley. The dif
ference does not relate to merely transient
and temporary questions; it goes down to
the very roots and philosophy of govern
ment. The expediency of nominating
him does not at all resemble the expedi
ency of nominating Chief-Justice Chase in
1868, or the expediency of nominating
Charles Francis Adams now. Judge Chase
was an original Democrat; it was not on
centralizing Federal principles, but on
State-rights principles, that he enlisted
against the pretentions of Southern slave
holders. He maintained that the States
were entitled to a voice as to the condi
tions under which they were bound to sur
render fugitive slaves, and that the Fede
ral government had no right to thrust
slavery into the territories in opposition
to the local will. Charles Francis Adams,
who first came into national politics as
candidate for Vice President on the same
ticket with Martin Van Bnren, a thorough
going State-rights Democrat, has never,
that we are aware of, impugned or ques
tioned the reserved rights of the States.
But Mr. Greeley has been, throughout his
political career* an ardent, bitter oppo
nent of the fundamental philosophy of the
Democratic party. Ho has not only op
posed its particular measures, but the
underlying principles of which these meas
ures were the outgrowth and logical con
sequence. In this respect, Mr. Greeley
has been entirely consistent, and he has
never given any symptoms of a change of
view's. Not to do him any injustice we
will permit him to express his total dissent
from Democratic ideas of government in
his own pungent language:
4. There underlies the practical politics
oj our time and country a. radical di
versity OF SENTIMENT RESPECTING THE
APPROPRIATE SPHERE OF GOVERNMENT. On
the one hand, republican government is
regarded as the natural friend and servant
of the people, w'hose proper function it
is to lighten their burdens, to increase
their facilities of intercourse or intelli
gence, and to contribute in all practicable
ways to their comfort and happi
ness. On the other, government is re
garded w'ith jealousy and distrust, ns an
enemy to be watched, an evil to be re
stricted within the narrowest limits. The
mottoes of this latter school are significant:
“The world is governed too much.” “The
best government is that which governs
least,” ii Laissez faire ” (“Let us alone,”)
Ac. Now these maxims seem to me un
wisely transferred from governments di
rected by despots to governments con
trolled by and existing for the people.
They are nowhere recognized by the
democracy of Europe, which plainly con
templates the institution of governments
more pervasive and efficient than the
world has yet known. Free education,
insurance by the State, the right to labor—
these are but a part of the ideas of like
tendency, which the European democracy
stands ready to realize whenever it shall
have the power. Its policy is constructive,
creative, and beneficient, while that of
our self-styled “Democracy” is repulsive,
chilling;, nugatory—a bundle of negations,
restrictions, and abjurations. Can there
be a rational doubt as to which of these
is the true democracy ? Who does not see
that the fundamental ideas of our party
democracy are as radically hostile to
common schools and to tax-sustained com
mon roads, as to a protective tariff, a
national bank, or to the national improve
ment of our rivers and harbors, if it dare
but follow where its principles lead ?
5. There is another point on which I
must speak frankly; and I ask you not to
take offence at but earnestly ponder it.
You and I prefer the society and counsel
of those who walk, so far as we may
judge, in the ways of virtue, to that of
the reckless, ostentatious servitors of vice.
You, I am confident, will not stigmatize
the preference as aristocratic, nor seek to
confound poverty with vice, in the paltry
hope of making capital out of the natural
indignation of the former. The great
city of my residence is, perhaps, a
fair sample politically of the whole
country its parties almost equal' in
numbers, and each composed of rich and
poor, native and foreign-bom, informed
and ignorant. Doubtless the great mass,
of whatever party, sincerely desire the
public welfare; doubtless rogues and lib
ertines are to be found in tho ranks of
each of the great parties. But point
tcherever you please to an election dis
trict which you will pronounce morally
rotten, given up in great part to debauch
ery and vice, whose voters subsist mainly
by keeping policy offices, gambling-houses,
grog-shops and darker dens of infamy,
and that district will be found at nearly
or quite every election giving a large ma
jority for that which styles itself the“ De
mocratic” party. Thus the “Five Points”
is the most “Democratic” district of our
city; “The Hook” follows not very far
behind it, and so on. Take all the haunts
of debauchery in the land, and you will
find nine-tenths of their master-spirits
active partisans of that same “Democra
cy." What is the instinct, the sympa
thetic chord, which attaches them so
uniformly to this party ? Will you con
sider ?
Democracy is, I know full well, a word
of power. I know' that it has a charm for
the hopeful, the generous, the lowly, and
the aspiring, as well as for many darker
spirits. 1 know that he who aspires to
influence, office, and honors, rather than
to usefulness and an approving consci
ence, will naturally be led to enlist under
its banner, often drugging his moral sense
with the sophistry that he who would do
good must put himself in a position where
the power to do good will most probably
attach to him. But I know also that
names must lose their potency as intelli
gence shall be diffused more and more
widely. I know that to be truly demo
cratic is of more importance than to w'in
and wear the advantages connected with
the name. Os that democracy which la
bors to protect the feeble and uplift the
fallen I will endeavor not to be wholly
destitute, while of that which claims a
monopoly of office and honors as the due
reward of its devotion to equality, I am
content to be adjudged lacking. Os that
democracy which robs the effeminate
Mexican of half his broad domains, and
j regards with a covetous eye the last of de
clining Spain’s valuable possessions—
| which plants its heel on the neck of the
j abject and powerless negro, and hurls its
| axe after the flying form of the plundered,
j homeless, and desolate Indian— may it he
I written on my grave that I never was
A FOLLOWER, AND LIVED AND DIED IN NOTH
ING ITS DEBTOR.
Salem, May 8, 1872.
To the Editor of the Boston Tost. —
Seeing the views of a so-called Young
Democrat in you? issue of to-day, I am
led to a reflection that he must be very
young indeed to advocate the nomination
and election by the Democracy of the
United States by Horace Greeley, who of
all men in the country has opposed, de
graded, vilified and more outrageously
lied against the Democratic party than
any other man in the nation, and it is
only the influence of his paper, by its con
tinual lying against the Democratic par
ty, that the country is brought to its pre
sent tyrannical, deluded and almost bank
rupt position, and which, in the eyes of
foreign nations, as a Republic, is almost
a failure. If the Democracy of this coun
try have got so low' iu capacity, intelli
gence and general ability as to endorse
such a stupid nomination as Horace
Greeley, then for one from such a party
and such a nomination I say
Good Lord Deliver Us.
Someone told Voorhees that his speech
in Congress against Greeley was made in
the interests of Grant. In parliamentary
language he pronounced the statement
false. He also said, in answer to a ques
tion whether he would support Greeley in
case of his nomination at Baltimore, that
he never bolted a Democratic nomination.
The Press Excursionists—Final Card.
On their arrival in Atlanta, on the morn
ing of May 15, 1872, the excursionists of
the Georgia Press Association repaired to
the Kimball House, and in the spacious
vestibule of that magnificent structure, at
sunrise, a meeting was hurriedly organ
ized, when Col. E. Hulbert, the amiable,
intelligent, untiring and companionable
cicerone of the party, was presented with
a superb gold-mounted walking cane, in a
brilliant impromptu speech by Col. C. W.
Styles, Vice-President, on behalf of the
excursionists. Col. Hulbert responded in
a brief, pointed and feeling manner, al
together characteristic of the man who
never for a moment during the entire ex
cursion lost sight of the great undeveloped
wealth of Georgia and Tennessee, and his
anxiety to see the same partially if not
wholly developed.
The presentation ceremonies over, on
motion, G. A. Miller, of tho Columbus
Sun, S. R. Weston, of the Dawson Journal,
J. B. Gorman, of the Talbotton Standard,
C. H. C. Willingham, of the LaGrange Re
porter, and C. R. Hanleiter, of The Plan
tation, Atlanta, were appointed a commit
tee to draft resolutions expressive of the
delight of the party at their reception and
entertainment, on their return from Ken
tucky, by the press gang, authorities and
citizens of Chattanooga—with instructions
to furnish copies of the same for publica
tion in the several journals of Chattanoo
ga and of Georgia.
The Committee, in the discharge of the
agreeable duty assigned them, unanimous
ly agree upon the following:
Resolved, That the cordial reception
and princely entertainment accorded to
onr party by the members of the Press,
and the Authorities and Citizens of Chat
tanooga, on our return from Kentucky,
were such as to merit our unbounded ad
miration, grateful remembrance and pro
found thanks.
Resolved, That we do not hesitate to
declare that, while our entire excursion,
from Atlanta to the Mammoth Cave, iu
Kentucky, and return, has been one of the
most pleasureable of our lives, our stay in
Chattanooga was peculiarly gratifying.
Our extended drive through aud around
the City—our visits to her splendid Iron
mines, works and mills, our trip to and over
Lookout Mountain—the magnificent sce
nery—the generous repast furnished us in
the rugged mountain gorge, rendered ab
solutely charming by the presence of
lovely women and the brotherly attentions
of intelligent and warm-hearted men—and
the superb entertainment at the Read
House—all combined to impress us with
lasting wonder, admiration, gratitude and
pride.
Resolved, That, as the rear guard of the
Press Excursionists, after a calm retro
spection of tho situation, we unhesitating
ly declare the Excursion in all its details
and appointments a grand success, and
recommend that similar reunions of the
Press-gang of Georgia shall be held at
least annually hereafter.
C. E. Hanleiter, Sec'y pro tern.
The Last Scene at Appomattox—Speech of
a Federal Officer.
There was a re-union of the Society of
the Army of the Potomac, held at Cincin
nati, on the 7th instant. At this celebra
tion the oration was delivered by General
Stewart L. Woolford, of New York, and
from this oration wo make the following
extracts:
The morning crept slowdy on—first into
gray dawn, then into rosy flush. Still on!
still on! The mists crept upward and
into line you wheeled, and on your mus
kets lay dowm, each man in place, to get
scant rest, which even in the exhaustion
of those tliirty-six hours of terrible march
ing, you neither sought nor heeded. You
were squarely across Leo’s front, and had
closed forever his last line of retreat.
The enemy reaching your cavalry ad
vance, saw the serried line of Union
troopers. Gordon gathered and massed
his men for their last charge. Tattered
and hungry, w'om by ceasless marching
and fighting, with no hope of victory,
with little possibility of escape, they
closed their lines with a fidelity of discip
line and a soldierly resolution, to which
words can do little justice—but which
each soldier’s heart must recognize and
honor.
As the old guard closed around their
Emperor at Waterloo, so these men closed
round the flags of their lost cause. My
heart abhors their treason. But it warms
beyond restraint to their manhood so
grandly brave, even in disloyalty. Slow
ly they advanood to their lajst, attack- No
battle yell, no crack of the skirmisher’s
rifle broke the strange stillness of that
Sabbath morn. Steadily, silently they
came, when Sheridan drew back his horse
men, as parts some mighty curtain, and
there stood the close-formed battalions of
your infantry, the cannon gleaming in the
openings, quietly aw'aiting the coming of
Gorden’s men.
Instinctively your enemy halted. Mean
while Lee has turned back to meet Grant
and surrender his command. Sheridan
swung his cavalry around upon Gordon’s
left, and was about to charge, when Cus
tar reached Longstreet. Assurance of
surrender was given, and the end had
come.
That Sabbath day, with tears and in
sorrow, Southern men folded the banners
of the “Lost Cause,” and their bravest
and best sought honorably to bury them
from sight forever.
How sad it is that poor ambitions, jeal
ousies of race, the wretched greed of pelf
and place, and the miserable hates of so
cial rivalries, should so often disturb the
hearty reconciliation of that surrender
and for a time revive the bitterness which
you then sought to bury in a common
grave.
This hour is no time for politics. Mine
not the lips, I trust, to introduce them
here. But w'hen I think of that heroic
past, w'hich your faces and presence so
vividly recall, and then how trading,
trickster politicians, forgetful of what
baptism of blood sealed the new birth of
the nation seek to array races in needless
hostility, to excite the ignorance of the
one and the brutal prejudices of the other,
I would like to summon a guard, half
from the rebel army of Northern Virginia
and half from the loyal army of the Poto
mac, take such malcontents out, give
them drum-head court-martial, immediate
execution and soldierly burial under the
apple tree at Appomattox.
Mr. Editor: —Will tho Philadelphia
Convention nominate Grant ? This seems
to be the first great political question. If
not, then who will they nominate? The
answer is, “One on whom the Republican
party can agree. ” Suppose this one should
be the nominee of the Cincinnati Conven
tion. How w'ould the open-mouthed Gree
ley-Democrats (save the mark) stand, in
such a contingency ? It is by no means
an impossible one. Politics makes strange
bed-fellows. Who ever thought of having
certain newspapers say “Wo Democrats.”
Quod?
REMARKS BY THE EDITOR.
; We suppose tho present sucking Gree
: leyites, would stand firm in the contingen
cy supposed—accept the situation aud fling
\ up their hats (white ones too) and call it a
i Democratic victory— just as they pre
\ dieted!!
Important to Lawyers. —W. A. Hemp-
I hill & Cos., of the Atlanta Constitution
j with the usual enterprise marking the
conduct of that establishment, have pub
j lished the Decisions of the last term of
; the Superior Court in pamphlet form.
: Price SI.OO per copy. They can be had
; at once, by addressing W. A. Hemphill
& Cos., Atlanta, Georgia. The Decisions,
iu this form, arc very convenient for re- j
ference.
We return thanks for a copy.
Episcopalians generally will be inter- .
ested to hear that tho contest which has |
been going on in England for some time
past concerning the retention, modifica
tion or discontinuance of the Athenian
Creed, has ended in victory for the creed,
the votes in convocation being sixty-two :
for and seven against its being retained.
Dean Stanley is, of course, disappointed, j
Hall’s Vegetable Sicilian llair R;;~ :
newer now stands among the first, ;uul at •
the head of all articles for a similar pur
pose. The testimony of onr physicians is
inclusive as to its value; and wo are per
sonally acquainted with scorees of cases
where it has been used with the best of
results. It will restore gray hair to its ;
original color, and leaves it glossy, and in
a healthy condition; while, for heads
troubled with dandruff, or any disease of
the scalp, it acts like a charm in cleans
ing them. Try it, and you will not be dis
appointed.— Lowell Courier, May 2,.
1868. .
TELEGRAPHIC.
FOREIGN.
London, May 1C. —The London Globe
in its issue to-day has an article allowing
that the claim cf direct damages in
curred by the destruction of vessels by
tho privateer Shenandoah, amounts to
$0,500,000, while tho prize money
claimed by officers and by the Shenan
doah amounts to $1,100,000.
The Globe also publishes the detailed
log of the Shenandoah, giving the name
and value of every prize captured by that
vessel.
London, May 17. —The papers regard
the delay of America in acting upon the
supplemental article as fatal to the Treaty
of Washington. Indications are strong
that the Treaty of Washington will be a
failure.
Madrid, May 17. —News has been re
ceived of a fight at Maubria, aud the de
feat of tho Oarlists, numbering 5,000, by
the Insurgents. Loss 100 killed.
Madrid, May 18. —Don Carlos has cer
tainly escaped from Spain.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, May 16. —At the night
session last night the House passed a bill
to punish the tampering with jurors in the
United States Court.
A bill to repoal the statutes of July 2d,
1862, and July 11th, 1868, prescribing an
oath of office: also a bill providing that the
act of March fid, 1867, prohibiting the
payment to any person not known to have
opposed the rebellion, and to have been in
favor of its suppression, shall not apply
to sums due for services rendered prior to
April Ist, 1861, in carrying the mails, or
in taking the census.
The delegation from Georgia, repre
senting the Atlantic aud Great Western
Canal, called to-day upon tho House
Committee on Commerce, and had a
pleasant and satisfactory interview. They
also paid their respects to Vice-President
Colfax and Speaker Blaine and were duly
and cordially received. The Committee
is now waiting for the report of the engi
neers who made the survey of the route,
when Congressional aetion will be urged.
The prospects are said to be flattering.
The bill authorizing defendants in the
U. S. Courts to testify in their own behalf
passed.
The tariff duty on guano was reduced
from sis to 10 per cent..
Saltpetre was put on the free list.
The tariff on Bay rum was fixed at 50
cents.
A long discussion on books and papers
resulted in the uniform reduction of all
kinds of paper to 00 per cent, of present
rates.
Butler, of Massachusetts, offered a reso
lution for the final adjournment from the
fid of June to the last Thursday in Novem
ber next. He explained his motives for
proposing to adjourn till November, in
stead of sine die, as being to keep in force
the act authorizing tho suspension of ha
beas corpus, and which expires at the end
of the present session. This proposition
extends the session legally till tho day
fixed in November. lie was proceeding
to state why the committee should take
this recess, owing to the state of affairs in
the South, but was called to order, and
tho Speaker decided that such a range of
debate was not in order for a final ad
journment. He proceeded to speak of the
prevalence, in the South, of rape, murder
and robbery. (Loud calls to order.)
Beck declared that all Butler's statements
were untrue. (Calls to order.) Butler,
not being permitted to proceed with his
remarks, said he would grant to the other
side of the House the mercy of silence,
and would move the previous question.
The previous question was not seconded
by 64 to 106.
Dawes then moved ns a substitute, a
resolution for adjournment sine die, on
Monday,fid of June, at 12 o’clock. Agreed
to —yeas 142; nays 57.
Senate.—The Baltimore and Potomac
depot bill passed.
Bill granting the right of way through
the public lands to the Louisville and
Pensacola Railroad passed.
Senate is sitting to-night.
The extension of the suspension of ha
beas corpus conies up to-morrow.
Washington, May 17. —A card from
Gen. Hancock disavows the disrespectful
epithets attributed to him towards Grant,
saying: “My instinct as a soldier would
never have permitted me to use any lan
guage ivhich could be construed into dis
respect or disparagement to my superior
officer.”
Full Cabinet.
Nominations: Nolton Goff, Attorney of
West Virginia.
Senate.—River and harbor appropria
tions. The bill increases the appropria
tions for removing the Red Rive# raft
$50,000; dredging the St. John’s River,
$7,000.
House bill amending the steamboat
law passed. •
Tho Ku-Klux bill occupied tho remain
der of the day.
House.—The Tariff bill, with Sheldon’s
amendment, was adopted.
An amendment making tariff receivable
in legal tenders, passed by a vote of 24
to 63.
Washington, May 18.—The Senate is
discussing adjournment.
The House passed awards to the South
ern Claims Commission. It is now con
sidering individual bills.
The President has gone to Maryland.
Returns Monday.
Commissioner Douglass sustains the de
cision that brokers must pay tax on bor
rowed money used in banking capital.
Senate.—Bill authorizing Orange, Alex
andria and Manassas Railroad to trans
port passengers and freights into the city,
introduced.
Bill issuing bonds for those destroyed
or defaced, passed.
Senate recalled its resolution to adjourn
May 29th,
Several appropriation bills passed.
Col. Forney and Gov. Scott dined to
gether yesterday.
NEW YORK.
New York, May 16. —A Philadelphia,
Pa., paper relates that one of Bamum’s
Fiji cannibals died there, aud that tho
other cannibals were making attempt at
eating the remains, but they were secured
aud the mutilated, remains were qnietly
buried.
The Methodist Conference elect Bishops
on Tuesday next. The resolution to ex
clude quack doctor advertisements from
the church publications, referred.
Ilemptonville, Ontario, has been large
ly destroyed by fire.
The Stair-builders’ Association have re
solved to strike for 8 hours.
Rochester, May 16.—The Delegates-at
large : Jno. T. Hoffman, 11. C. Murphy,
James Lord.
Albany, May 16. — Hoffman vetoed the i
New York charter.
New’ York, May 17.—The Irish strikers
and German laborers had an extensive
fight at the Metropolitan gas works.
The Methodist Conference adopted j
the plan of paying Bishops by congrega
tional contributions.
New York, May 18. —The forest fires !
still rage. It is feared that Carbondale
will be burned. «
A Cuban letter states that 200 Spaniards
surprised a camp of 25 women, 6 children
and 12 old men iu the woods, between
Guantania and Arrogist, and massacred ,
all of them. Tho Spaniards subsequently
were pursued by the Cuban revolutionists
and many of them killed.
Mass meeting of carpenters rejected j
the proposition for an eight hour system j
November Ist. All carpenters aro order- j
ed to stop work Monday.
The Methodist Conference passed a res- !
olution to elect eight new Bishops.
CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, May 46,-The steam
ship Japan, from Yokahoma, April 23 l'l
arrived. Her cargo includes 1,872 pack
ages of tea, 290 of silk and fiOl of other
merchandise. It will be sent overland
A frightful fire occurred in Yedd
during a severe gale, destroying habit-, °
tions covering a space of two l, y
miles. Tho fire originated in one' of th
Prince's late palaces, which was occupied
by troops. The flames lapped over whole
block of buildings and set fire to places „
mile distant from the building i n wllic)i
the fire began. Immense amount of pr 1 ,*
erty was destroyed, and wounded and
lame were unablo to escape. The officials
slashed right and left with their swords
and thus saved many persens from a more
awful fate of burning. Thirty thousand
persons are homeless. The Government
opened rice store houses and fed all wh ,
applied. The occurrence of this fire le j
the Government to permit foreigners to
lease land in Yeddo, owners being com
pelled to make monthly reports. This act
will cause foreign money to be invested
there.
Tho Japanese Fair is to be opened soon
at Kbote, the former residence of Mikado
and hot-bed of the anti-foreign p avlv
Foreigners, on depositing S3OO with their
Consul, as guarantee for their good be
havior, may visit the fair seventy day*.
This movement is made us a test of the
disposition of foreigners in the countiy
toward natives if they are troublesome to
tho Government.
Iwaukara will be ordered to keep the
Japan seal for some time longer.
JAMAICA.
Kingston, May 17.—The steamer Ed-mr
Steward, with w'ar material for Cuba
landed a boat load of men, who failed to
return. A number of Cubans aboard
seized the steamer, but was chased by a
Spanish cruiser and restored to her com
mander, who brought the vessel here re
porting her in distress. The captain
charged the mutiny upon the crew, who
charged tho captain with fillibustering.
The vessel was put in charge of tho naval
authorities of the United States, who will
send her to Key West, from which point
she cleared.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Charleston, May 19.—National Dem
ocratic Committee having called a con
vention to meet in Baltimore on tho 9th
of July, we think it advisable that our
State should take some action iu regard to
this. We therefore respectfully recommend
that a convention of the Democratic party
be held in Columbia, Tuesday, 11th June,
next.
Wade Hampton, Ch’n.
W. B. Stanley,
J. D. Pope,
T. W. McM asters,
T. W. Barker,
John E. Carew,
. J. P. Thomas,
Central Executive Committee.
NEW YORK.
New York, May 19 —Greeley and Brown
headquarters have been established at'St.
Mary’s Hotel, Washington, until the Con
gressional organization for tho campaign
is perfected. All communications may ho
addressed to Jno. J. Dcfrees, at the above
place. Lists of names are requested.
Documents, speeches, &c., will >e fur
nished from these headquarters to all
parts of the country.
ARKANSAS.
Little Rock, May 19. —Tho Claytonite
Convention declared for Grant.
MICHIGAN.
Detroit, May 1. —Resolutions favor
Grant’s re-nomination.
The Presbyterian General Assembly of
the Northwest here has five hundred dele
gates.
Judge Ross Wilkins, appointed by An
drew Jackson, is dead.
VIRGINIA.
.Richmond, May 17. —Tho General As
sembly of the Presbyterian Church, South.
Dr. Welch, of Arkansas, Moderator, lias
one hundred delegates present.
KENTUCKY.
Lexington, May 17. —The first race was
won by Bazanie, 1:45], 1:42.
Frogtown won the second, time 3:07;
the fastest time recorded by J second.
Lexington, May 18.—The races wero
run in a heavy rain storm. The favorites
wero beaten. Elsie won the first —time
1:544, 1:574. Florence J. won the second
—time 2:23].
ARKANSAS.
Little Bock, May 10. —Orders issued
by the Confederate Courts are regarded
by the Administration as void.
OHIO.
Cincinnati, May 17.— The Diocesean
Convention of the Protestant Episcopal
Church amended the canon, when a cler
gyman is tried, a majority is required upon
the final judgment.
NEBRASKA.
Omaha, May 17.—The Republican Con
vention delegates were instructed to vote
for Grant and Colfax.
TENNESSEE.
Nashville, May 18. —Annie B. won the
first—time 1:55. Arizona won the second
—timo 1:54], 1:51 J, 1:53].
MICHIGAN.
| Deteoit, May 18.—The Moderator said,
i in making the committees, that he paid
no attention to distinctions between the
old and new school Presbyterians.
MISSOURI.
St. Louis, May 18.—Col. N. B. Brown,
a wealthy stock raiser near Kansas City,
was killed, it is said, by a brother of a
girl whom he seduced.
The Indians stole 120 mules from a bat
talion of the sth Infantry.
MARKETS.
j London, May 18 —Noon.—Consols i»3|.
j Bonds 801.
j Liverpool, May 18 Noon. — Cotton
i opened steady; Uplands ll£d;Orleans 11 j.
j Later.—Cotton closed steady: sales 10,-
j 000 bales; for speculation and export 2,000;
i shipping at Savannah or Charleston 11 |d.
New York, May 18.—Cotton quiet and
steady; Uplands 24] e; Orleans 24 |c: sales
G3O bales.
Stocks strong. Gold steady at 113s.
! Money easy at G per cent. Exchange,
j long lOOf, short 1104. Governments
! dull bnt steady.
Flour dull and heavy. Wheat quiet
! and heavy. Com a sliado firmer, l’ork
! quiet; new mess §l3 85@13 00. Lard
quiet and unchanged; steam !>]<S>9fc.
P. M.—Cotton quiet; sales 4,500; lp
lands 244; Orleans 24§.
Sales of futures to-day 3,550 bales as
follows: ]May 23J; June 23], 24
July 24 13-16; August 24; September : x:
I October 20]; Noevmber 10 0-10.
Bank Statement. Loans increased
j §750,000; specie increased §575,000; le
| gal tenders increased §1,500,000; depos
its increased §2,000,000; circulation in
j creasd §750,000.
New Orleans, May 18. —Cotton quiet;
i middlings 23c; net receipts 02; exports
1 to coastwise 4,301; sales 2,100; stock
| 453.
Charleston, May IS—Cotton quiet; mid
dlings 22; net receipts 231; sales 10*4
stock 11,635.
Savannah, May 18. —Cotton very firm
with good demand; middlings 22]c; net re
ceipts 134; sales 250; stock 1G,303.
State Endorsement. —We alluded a
few days since to the fact that Governor
Smith had given assurances that the bon is
of the North and South Railroad would
receive the State endorsement. This is
creditable to Governor Smith. Being a
sound constitutional lawyer, he thus rec
ognizes vested rights, and by this recog
nition. has not only removed many obsta
cles that overhung this young giant of an
enterprise, bnt benefited a large portion
of Western Georgia. His action in the
premises meets with the hearty approval
of nearly every one. Even those wao
have been arrayed against tho road, can
not, nor do they dissent. Officered as
tho road is, and with their rights guar
anteed, wo predict an early completion,
and a blessing to tho growth and goneral
prosperity of the city.