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CouncilStiid iac Last Mbimt. The new
offrets o:ivc ii supper lust night to the
C,iv Council anil officers in the Rankin
jji,n,r. I 'resent were some twenty-five
in.-. Mayor Mcllhenny presided, ex-
M».' >r Wilkins. Mr. I’eabi idy,representative
,i in (lie Legislature, Captain VV. 1).
CJiipli-j and other guests, were present.
Mr. Brannon was the only Alderman ab
sent.
Prof, Ryan bad prepared an excellent
supper with abundance of champagne and
cigars.
The meeting w r as one of the most inter
esting we have ever attended. The in.in
iifnrttiring, eoinniereial and railroad in
terests of tfie city and the improvement
of tie: river were discussed, and the best
el feeling prevailed.
'■■layor Mcllhenny stated he did not in
tend to run again for office. Columbus
manufactories were now running 152,000
spindles and SOI looms and l,‘_'On em
ployees. One null drew alone one and
a half million dollars from all parts of the
country. Ours is the largest manufac
turing place South.
Aid. Blanchard added she hail done this
after loosing ten millions by Federal
burning seven years ago.
Mr. Peabody said the bondholders of
the Brunswick and Albany Railroad had
proposed to the State if she would ex
change the old for new bonds, and con
tinue the aid of $15,000 per mile they
would build theroad to the Chattahoochee.
Could not Columbus bo made its terminus?
She can if she asks it. She has more
claims than Eufaula. She has done more
for Georgia and received less than any
other town in Georgia. Our people should
do all they can to secure this object.
Mayor Mcllhenny, Oapt. Chipley, Aid.
Salisbury, Col. Wilkins and others, strong
ly endorsed this move as one of the best
Columbus has ever had.
The Mayor, and Aid. Salisbury highly
complimented the management of the
Nort h and South Komi. Aid. S. said twen
ty miles had been built without money or
credit a distinguished railroad man lmd
pronounced il, a miracle—and it lmd won
him from opposition to bo one of its
strongest supporters.
in answer to a toast, he spoke of the
Savannah and Memphis Railroad, of which
ho was lately President.; 20 miles more
would be completed before many months,
ami the prospect was line for reaching the
Mobile nud Ohio Railroad.
Alderman Redd spoke of the importance
of our river.
Bunt. Chipley briefly gave a resume of
the work of the N. & S. K. R.
Mayor Mcllhenny made one suggestion
which is worthy of being impressed on
every mind that capitalists, as a rule, do
hot. invest in manufactories. They com
mence with small beginnings, and capi
talists grow from them, lie knew a gen
tleman who commenced with three looms
twelve years ago. Now his company owns
three large mills, and the superintendent
is paid $t>,(MM) per annum. Do not wait
fur large mills. Start with small ones.
We have unrivaled water power, and are
extending two roads into the richest coal
and iron regions of the world.
Short talks were made by all assembled.
The meeting adjourned after hearing
Wharfinger Burros warble his inimitable,
most ludicrously laughable “Bumble Bee
Song," which brought down the house.
Prof. Ryan anil Steward Garvey labor
ed successfully to make all enjoy them
selves. ami they thoroughly succeeded.
Change of Postmaster. —lt has been
telegraphed from Washington that. (N>l.
I login had been removed as postmaster of
Columbus, and Mr. Walter 11. Johnson, a
clerk in the niViee. appointed in his stead.
Colonel Hogan told 11s last afternoon that
he knew not whether the telegram was
true. He had held the office over seven
years, and couldn’t hold it forever; though
lie did not fully credit the message, he
would not be surprised if it were true.
He knew that friends had been pressing
Mr. Johnson's claims m case he (Hogiuß
\yts removed. • General Bethuno, of Tnl
hotton, and one other were also, we un
derstand, applicants for the position.
Colonel 11. also stated that he had plenty
of means for his old age. Republicans
generally believe the report is true, and
that Mr. Johnson has already been ap
pointed. He has for a number of years
been one of the principal clerks in the
office, and is well qualified for the place.
We must say that Colonel Hogan, as a
postmaster, is very popular, and has well
managed his office daring the eight years
lie has controlled it. Only Republicans
can secure such places.
Col Hogan also added that he said, and
always believed, his chances for reap
pointment would have been greater under
(Itvelev Ilian Grant, though he supported
the latter and opposed the former.
The Sol riiwestern U ailroad. The re
port of tlie Superintendent is very brief.
ll« states that of the three thousand tons
of new (forty pounds to the yard)'!’ rail,
with tisli bar joinings, received in Septem
ber ami October, there has been laid on !
the Columbus line, between Butler and
Wimberlv, about, eighteen miles, and the
out thing rails removed to the Blakely ia
h'usmn. This will be continued until all
the old Hang rails (thirty-two miles) is
taken up from this line and removed to
the Perry branch and Blakely extension.
[The report is dated Dee, 2d. Since
then several more miles have been 1 lid.J
file new T rail is being laid on (>xN inch
stringers, twenty-four feet long, with gain
ties it the joints and in the centre, and
liiitkes a very line track, as good as any in
the country.
It reports the rood should have twenty
■ twenty live miles of new rails annual
-I’here is twice the business between
hurt Valley and Macon as there is on oth
er portions of the road. He wants live
wiles of heavy 1 rail on stringers laid
from Tort \ alley to the heavy irflu extelld-
Coo, that distance to Macon. On
lb thirty pound rail on
•.■lt iti-.wer for years. There
i- ~1 ;5,433 02 of material
f »r repair.,.
Excursion to New Orleans. — J. Hons
t'w, General Passenger Agent of (he At
lanta and New Orleans Short Line, is
waking a public announcement that prep
arations are now being perfected to ac
commodate all who desire to attend the
-Mardi Gras Festival at New Orleans, early
111 February. Pullman’s Silver Palace
Sleeping cars will leave Atlanta, morning
and evening, going through to New Or
leans without change of any kind. The
citizens of Columbus and vicinity can
avail themselves of the reduced rates ami
advantages of this excursion, which will
announced in a few days. Persons de
wious of attending this grand Festival,
which attracts vast crowds from all parts
of the country, will do well to make their
arrangements to go by this popular and
expeditious route.
VOL. XIV.
Ihe Georgia Conference of the Col
ored M. E. Church South—Saturday.
Confeience opened w ith prayer by Rev.
P. Ford.
It was resolved to have the minutes of
the Conference published in pamphlet
form. Rev. Philips was made publisher
and Rev. T. L. Harris *muipiler.
It was resolve ! that each Elder raise as
much money for this purpose as he can,
sell the pamphlets and appropriate the
money for publication next year.
Ihe following additional delegates to
the General Conference were elected as
Reserve Laymen: F. H. Harris, T. S.
Harris, H. Brown, Green Saltmash. Ishain
Foster.
Reserve Clerical delegates: J. W.
Green, .). S .uth, T. N. Stewart.
Committees on Sunday Schools, Educa
tion, Books and Periodicals, reported.
The statistics show 75 local preachers
and 15,7:51 members; infants baptised
hli.i; adults 205; Sunday-schools 111; teach
ers 15:5; scholars 15, f>o7.
Various committees reported and ap
gointrnenfs made.
SUNDAY.
Bishop Miles ordained as ' deacons:
Ishain Jackson, Green Moore, Ran Shy;
and as elders, Burke Jackson, Hal Laf
ton, Peter Young, Allen 11. Johnson.
Tito Bishops then read the
APPOINTMENTS.
We give those only of the Columbus
and LaGrange Districts:
COLUMBUS DISTRICT —AI.FRED WALLER, V. E.
Columbus Circuit—Peter O’Neal.
Muscogee Circuit- Benjamin Enry.
Chattahoochee—Bacchus Johnson.
Talbot Circuit—Monday Cooke.
Stewart Circuit —Samuel Jackson.
Buena Vista Circuit—Robert Glass.
Marion Circuit—J. P. Edder.
LAGRANGE DISTRICT —JOHN T. PHILLIPS, P. K.
Merriwether Circuit—Robert Lowe.
Troup Circuit—Elick Johnson.
Harris Circuit —Samuel Folomer.
Hamilton and King Gap Circuit —Joseph
Williams.
Greenville Circuit—Seaborn McCullena.
Coweta Circuit—W. C. Sewell.
Lafayette Circuit—J. L. Barnett.
Heard Circuit—John Fitzpatrick.
Carroll Circuit -Joseph Lockhart.
A Touching Incident. While our
traveling correspondent, Major Sidney
Herbert, was conversing with Mr. Milton
Malone in the Fulton county jail, at
Atlanta, on Friday morning last, the day
following that, upon which he received
the sentence of death for killing young
Phillips, the prisoner was called to the
grated door of the prison by a sweet,
childish voice, which proved to be that of
tho little daughter of the jailor, Mr. W.
A. Boimell, an interesting child about
three years old, between whom and the
condemned man a strong attachment has
been formed. Hearing that he had been
sentenced to death, her childish heart
swelled with pity for his unhappy fate,
and coming to the prison door, kissing
him through the iron grates that separated
them from each other, she exclaimed,
with deep emotion, “f won’t let them
bang you, Mr. Malone.” Up to that tiino
the prisoner had appeared perfectly in
different as to his fate, but this declara
tion of this innocent child, and the heart
felt and unselfish tender of her warm
sympathy in his behalf, as might have
been expected, visibly touched his heart,
and made an entire change in liis manner.
There is something indescribably sweet
Hint tender in the loving and impulsive
sympathy of a little child like this, and
none can tell liow much her sweet will
and smiling face have cheered and com
forted this unfortunate prisoner during
his confinement.
The New Winter Route. —We learn
from our traveling correspondent that
large numbers of emigrants are daily
passing over the Atlanta and West Point
and the Western railroad of Alabama,
which constitute a portion of the Atlanta
and New Orleans Short Line, of which
Mr. VV. J. Houston is the energetic and
successful general passenger agent. Seve
ral parties have recently gone over this
line to Lit tle Rock, Arkansas, via Mont
gomery, Selma, Meridian and Memphis,
and all express themselves highly pleased
with the route. “I find,” says a gentle
man in the Atlanta Constitution, “that
this new Winter route, going by the above
points, is attracting considerable attention
in couseqnenee of the advantage of going
through to Jackson without transfer, and
the mild and pleasant climate of Alabama
and Mississippi, through which it passes.”
Alabama Legislature —Saturday.
[u the Court-house, Saturday, before the
Radical Senate went to the Capitol from
the Court-house, Mr. Wilson, of Montgom
ery, introduced a bill to authorize Gov
ernor Lewis to complete the sale of the
Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad to the
English company.
Mr. Pennington introduced a bill au
thorizing the Governor to sell two million
dollars of State bonds in order to meet
speedily nearly one and a half million dol
lars of obligation.
After the Democrats and Radicals met
in the Capitol, the Senate adjourned to
January 15th.
In the House, Mr. McCandee was de
clared elected doorkeeper, a clerical error
having been discovered.
A resolution of Mr. Jones of Lee coun
ty, that the House render all aid and as
sistance to the Governor in his efforts to
restore the credit of the State, was adopt
ed.
The Arlington Hotel of Washington. D.
C., for the third time since its opening,
has undergone a complete embellishment.
It was originally fitted up in grand style,
with every convenience, elegance and lux
ury that experience, taste and judgment
could desire, and money accomplish. Dur
ing the summer succeeding, it was beauti
fully frescoed and renovated throughout.
Within the past two months all the cham
bers have been covered with new. style of
corruseated gold and silver paper. The
House lias been re-painted, re-carpeted,
and a number of the rooms re-furnished.
From the constant efforts of the Messrs.
Roessle, to heantift and improve it, ‘‘The
Arlington” is now far more luxurious and
magnificent than when first opened, and
is beyond question what they designed it
should be— The Hotel of the Capital.
delO St
Grand Inauguration Ball. —A meet
ing of the prominent citizens of Atlanta
was held at the Kimball House on Satur
day night last, and committees composed
of efficient and popular gentlemen were
appointed to complete full arrangements
for a grand inauguration ball. A most
cordial invitation is extended to the gen
tlemen and ladies of Columbus to attend,
and it is expected that the home of Gov.
Smith will be fully represented by a host
of charming ladies and handsome gentle
men, in compliment of our Magistrate.
Save Twenty-five Cents. —Travelers
should bear in mind that all railroad Con
ductors have positive orders to collect
twenty-five cents extra from passengers
who fail to purchase tickets at the depot
of the Company. Through tickets are
now sold at Enfanla, Montgomery, Troy
and other places, to all points on the Mo
bile and Girard, and Montgomery and En
faula Railroads. A word to the wise, on
this subject, should be enough.
Mr. J. W. Shropshire, a well-known
citizen of Opelika, died on the 19th.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
Tho President and Louisiana Committee.
V e know only one precedent in point,
which justifies or excuses the President
in his course toward the anarchy which
now prevails in Louisiana. The people
there, reduced to a state of ruin morally,
politically and financially, send a hundred
of their best citizens to consult with the
President in relation to their oppressions.
In ail governments but despotism, the
right of petition has been held sacred.
The gentlemen who compose tho commit
to are not in politics, and care nothing
for the national parties, their sole object
being the rescue of. their State from the
spoliation of the carpet-baggers. They
repudiate Warmoth altogether, and speak
for merchants and the Legislature com
posed of Louisianans. When these inno
cent Lonisianans came face to face with
Caesar, the manner of the latter was cold,
stern and impassive. Judge Campbell
presented the memorials of the citizens of
New Orleans, which he asked the President
to transmit to Congress, and also there
with an argument which would be pre
pared on the subject.
The President said ho would transmit
the memorial; and as for the argument,
he would send that along also, provided
his Attorney General saw nothing objec
tionable in its tone.
Tho next request of these humble peti
tioners was that the President would re
quest the United States Supreme Court to
send down to Louisiana Mr Justice Brad
ley, one ;f Grant’s appointees, and Judge
Woods, the United States Circuit Judge
for that circuit, to hold a court for the le
gal adjudication of Ihe right in these con
troversies in Louisiana.
This Caisar declined to do. He saw
nothing in this plan of solution and up
right judicial ascertainment to promote
t.lns success of the dynasty and scheme.
The third request of the delegation was,
if possible, more modest and fairer than
the last, and equally distasteful. It was
for the President to appoint a committee
to visit Louisiana and report the facts of
the situation.
The President, who bad sent Babcock
down to St. Domingo, answered that he
had no fund wherewith to pay the ex
penses of such a committee, and with this
the proceedings terminated.
It may be set down for certain that the
President will exert to the utmost his
power upon Louisiana to compel obedi
ence to the carpet-baggers, unless public
opinion shall be too strong for him to re
sist its mandates.
It was communicated that, even before
the committee left New Orleans, amid the
tears and hopes of a greatly-wronged
State, that their complaints would not be
heard, much less answered and removed.
Two thousand years ago Virgil records a
similar rule of justice adopted by the
President. Ile says Rhadamanthus, one
of tho judges (and probably the chief
justice) of the infernal regions—“Gasti
gat quo audit, ’’ —chastises and then hears.
Surely none but a Jeffreys, a Rhadaman
tlms or a Grant could wish to exercise
power by means of a tribunal which vio
lates all rules of justice, truth, reason and
humanity.
DEATH OF GEN. A. R WRIGHT.
The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel of
tho 22d comes clothed in mourning for the
death of Gen. A. R. Wright, its late edi
tor. He was a good writer and speak
er, and a have and sncccossful Gen
eral. We sadly endorse the following
sentiments from the Augusta Constitution
alist : »
This event has produced a deeply sad
dening effect upon this community.—
Thoroughont Georgia, and among all the
brave soldiers wlio followed his gallant
lead, and served under the Confederate
Flag with him, on many of the most hot
ly contested fields of the war, the an
nouncement will be received with sorrow
ful emotions. Early enlisted in the war
as a private in the Confederate Light.
Guards, Gen. Wright was soon elected
Colonel of this regiment, the fid Georgia,
and by his gallantry, military talents, and
fidelity to duty, was first promoted Briga
dier General, then Major General in the
service, lie served on many sanguinary
fields,and was severely wounded in one of
the bloodiest battles of the war. Disabled
by his wounds, Gen Wright returned
home, and was elected to the State Senate,
and President of the Senate, serving one
term in that high office. At the close of
the war, he became a resident of Augusta,
where he resumed and continued in the
active practice of his profession, until his
last illness. Os distinguished legal abili
ties, and fine oratorical powers, he main
tained a high rank at the bar, and achiev
ed marked success as a lawyer.
Superadded to liis professional labors,
lie filled, with much talent, tact and good
judgment, tire responsible position of
Editor-in-Chief of the Augusta Chronicle
and Sentinel, one of the foremost dailies
of the South. He had but recently com
pleted an arduous and triumphant canvass
as Democratic candidate for Congress, in
the Eighth Congressional District, during
which ho labored incessantly, and made
brilliant and effective speeches in every
county in the District, ilis election in
October by a very decisive majority was a
splendid tribute to his abilities, and proof
of public confidence in bis fitness for the
position.
Gen. Wright was a native of Jefferson
county, Ga., where he commenced his
professional career and became early dis
tinguished by his oratory, his legal acu
men, close attention to professional busi
ness. lie moved io Richmond county
about fourteen years ago, and has been
during that period one of our most active
and iulluential citizens.
Thus has fallen in the meridian of a
conspicuous career, one who seemed, in
all human calculation, destined to a bril
liant ami prosperous future. Had Provi
dence spared him awhile longer to bis
constituents and his State, he would have
marked his name yet higher in the role of
the distinguished men of Georgia. He
would have taken at once high rank in
the National Councils, and won for him
self a name of which his family, his
friends, and the people of Georgia would
have been proud.
Alas! curbed in his high career, he is
cut down by remorseless disease. After
days of severe suffering, he has sunk to
rest. No clash of arms—no political tur
moil disturbs him now.
“After life's fitful fever tie sleeps well.”
A long train of sorrowing friends will
attend the last sad obsequies, and mingle
their sympathies in this great public loss,
and in this sad bereavement to his strick
en family’.
On Tuesday last, in the United States
Honse of Representatives at Washington
City,the Hon. George W. Morgan, a Dem
ocratic member of that body, from the
State of Ohio, for the third or fourth time
“introduced a resolution to make natura
lized citizens who have resided in this
country for fourteen years eligible to the
Presidency find Vice Presidency of the
United Slates. The resolution was defeat
ed, though it obtained a vote of 84 to 71.
for it required a two-third majority to
pass it. All the Democrats voted in favor
of the resolution. The three colored
members voted against it. ’
A Baltimore Prophet. —An exchange
says " A Baltimore prophet recently
wrote a long letter to the ex-Euipress Eu
genie. at Chiselhurst, to inform her that
he was impressed by the spirit of the ex-
Empress Josephine to inform her that the
ex-Euiperor Louis Napoleon would die,
and then in 1875 she and her sou would
again rule France. The letter gayemiuute
details of the death-scene of the ex-Em
peror, and of the circumstances attending
the restoration of Bonaparte rule to
France. ’’
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY", DECEMBER 31, 1872.
TELEGRAPHIC.
FOREIGN.
Rome, Dec. 24. —The Pope delivered
an allocution to the Consistory, composed
of twenty-two Cardinals. He said the
Church was still sorely persecuted. The
purpose to destroy her was shown in the
acts of the Italian Government, which
compelled the clergy to serve in the army,
and imposed heavy taxes on the Church
property. He solemnly protested against
the bill now pending in the Italian Parlia
ment for the suppression of religious cor
porations, and declared that title to prop
erty acquired by this means, would be
null and void.
He repeated his censures of those who
encroached on the rights of the Church,
and denounced Germany, where the pit
falls of open column, calumny and ridi
cule were employed to destroy the Church
by 7 men who, ignorant of religion, sought
to define its dogmas. The allocution
concluded with a protest against the
clergy of Dottam.
NEW YORK.
New York, Dee. 22.— The Adriatic, from
Liverpool, experienced heavy westerly
gales and heavy weather. She lost three
blades of her propeller.
The fire in the Central Presbyterian
Tabernacle originated in a flue. The
flames swept around the ceiling, and the
corrugated iron supports of the walls
curled up. The mammoth jubilee organ
burned. The church was built in 1871,
and was capable of seating 4,000 people.
Tolal loss $95,000; insurance $30,000.
The Herald says editorially that Horace
F. Clark, President of the Union Pacific
Railroad, has been instructed to com
mence suit for $18,000,000, distributed
among those connected with credit Mo
bilier.
Win. Orton sold 50 shales of the Tri
bune to Wliitelaw Reid. Orton retains
one share. It is agreed that Orton shall
be elected one of the Trustees of the
Association.
Thermometer at midnight was six
degrees above zero.
New York, December 23.—Woodhull
and GlatTin have been indicted for libel
by the grand jury.
Stokes’ trial attracts immense crowds.
New Yokk, Dee. 23. —The Federal Court
affirmed Ihe verdict against Lilienthal &
Cos., for $39,000 for violation of the reve
nue laws regarding tobacco.
New York, Dec. 24.—Public School No.
5, in Jersey City, is burned. 150 girls es
caped.
Barnum’s Museum is burned. One cam
el and elephant only saved.
Loss of Barnum’s Museum and some ad
jacent buildings is fully $500,000.
Last night was the coldest of the season.
Great difficulty was experienced by the
ferry boats.
Simmons, who murdered Duryea, lias
been removed from the hospital to some
unknown place, to avoid his being lynched.
INDIANA.
Wabash, Dec. 24.—Sixty engines ap
proaching here are frozen in, and out of
water. Cattle, sheep and hogs frozen to
death. No fatal freezing among the em
ployees or passengers reported.
Evansville, December 23. —It w r as
colder yesterday than it lias been since
1804. The thermometer was ten degrees
below zero.
TENNESSEE.
Memphis, December 23. The river is
virtually closed above this point on ac
count of the ice.
LOUISIANA.
New' Orleans, Deo. 22. —Judge Alex
ander Walker and E. C. Hancock, associ
ate editors of the Now Orleans Times, will
issue anew paper to-morrow —the Times.
The suspension of the New Orleans Times
causes a general expression of regret.
MISSOURI.
St. Joseph, December 23. —A fearful
wind is blowing here. The thermometer
ranges from f> to 20 degrees below zero.
Five engines and four trains are weather
bound between Stevensul and Hagor.
WISCONSIN.
Milwaukie, Dec. 22. —The weather is
the most severe known for years. Tho
thermometer here at noon yesterday was
20 degrees below zero. Numbers of ears
and toes frozen.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston, December 23. —A fire has taken
place in Washington street, in the vicinity
of Temple Place. Loss $75,000.
OREGON.
Portland, Dee. 24. Three blocks
burned. Loss $375,000.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Philadelphia, Dee. 24. —The Standard
Carpet Mills burned. Loss $50,000.
The North and South Road. —The able
management and success of this road, con
trolled by young men, is indeed a wonder.
Already twenty miles have been com
pleted, and the prospect is, that it can be
pushed through to Rome and Chattanoo
ga, there to connect with the great Cin
cinnati line. Alderman Salisbury, a lead
ing citizen and councilman, xvbo fought
the enterprise from its inception and for
months afterwai’ds, on Monday night an
nounced his high admiration of the men
who had carried it through, and added
that he now was one of the warmest friends
and supporters of the road. He opposed
it at first because lie did not think the
means could he obtained to build it. Now
the road was finished twenty miles and
was bringing business from quarters that
heretofore had gone to other channels.
The train on Monday brought in 1 It! pas
sengers and carried out 104. Mayor Mc-
Illienny also added commendation of the
management.
This road brought its first cotton to Co
lumbus on October Ist. The rails were
then laid about eight miles. Since it has
been extended twenty miles, and, up to
Monday night, Columbus warehouses have
received from it 854 hales of cotton.
Young America knows how to plan and
work.
The Talbotton Standard is led to be
lieve, with well-directed efforts on the
part of the people of that place, and co
operation with the city of Columbus, that
the branch road to Talbotton, connecting
with the North and South Railroad be
tween Columbus and Hamilton, is not on
ly practicable, but will be built.
Columbus District Stewards Meet
ing. —The District Stewards will meet at
Columbus, on Friday before the second
Sabbath in January, (loth) in St. Luke’s
Church, at 12 o'clock m.
The District Stewards are as follows:
Butler Circuit, W. S. Wallace; Talbot
Circuit. It. H. Leonard; Buena Vista Cir
cuit. M. Hairo: Glenalta, Seaborn Mc-
Michael; Geneva, W. D. Grace; Catania,
A. W. Redding; Hamilton, H. W. Pitts;
Cusseta, Theophilus Sapp: St. Paul, A. C.
Flewellen; St. Luke's, J. A. Frazier; Wes
ley Chapel, A. D. Merchant; Girard, Trin
ity and Asbury, I. Carey: Lnmpkin, name
not known; Tabotton, J. M. Matthews.
Thos. T. Christian, P. E.
Talbotton papers please copy.
C. A. Lincoln. Esq., a well known real
estate agent of Hartford, Conn., has pur
chased the tine villa of the Marquis de
Talleyrand for about $13,000, and has
gone North to arrange his business, pro
posing to return with his family in a few
weeks, and to become a resident of Flori
da.
ATLANTA CORRESPONDENCE.
The H. I. Kimball House, >
Atlanta, Dec. 20, 1872. )
Eds. Hun: We arrived at this mammoth
hotel at eight o'clock last night, after a
most delightful ride wfith that well-known
and popular conductor, Mr. J. A. McCool,
of the Western Road. The entire track is
in splendid order, and our trip was one of
the most comfortable that we ever en
joyed by rail. Col. Foreacre is never
ashamed to have newspaper men go over
his line, as he knows they can only speak
well of it. Hence, he never treats with
silent contempt the appeal of a traveling
correspondent in search of something to
write about. There are superintendents,
however, whose roads are so badly man
aged, and in such bad order, that they
don’t want editors to ride over them. They'
refuse them free passes, thinking the poor
fellows can’t raise the money to pay fare,
and will therefore be unable to repoit
their shortcomings to the public. Our
ride to Opelika was made quite pleasant
by the society of Gen. J. B. Hood, who
left us at that point for New Orleans.
During the stay of the train at Opelika,
however, he was visited by a number of
distinguished citizens of the place, by
whom he was treated with great courtesy.
Having a bad fit of the blues last night,
we started out to the Opera House, where
Col. Waguer’s negro minstrels were hold
ing forth. Although it was quite stormy,
the house was crowded with a most en
thusiastic audience. We laughed till we
cried, and were compelled to call it the
best negro minstrel show that we ever
saw. We don’t say this by way of “puff
ing,” but to let tho people of Columbus
know that they can expect a grand treat
when “Happy Col. Wagner” and his
troupe get there.
To-night Hon. A. H. Stephens deliv
ered his great speech at the Hall of Rep
resentatives, which was well filled with a
select audience of ladies and gentlemen.
Mr. S. is still quite feeble; yet, by the use
of a crutch, he delivered his address stand
ing, and displayed, at times, considerable
energy and fervid eloquence. His room
at the Kimball House has been thronged
during the day by distinguished visitors,
which shows that he is still held in high
regard by the people of this section.
To-morrow night a meeting of citizens
will be held at the Kimball House for the
purpose of making arrangements for a
grand inauguration ball, which Col. Nioh
olls desires to have worthy of the occasion.
Under his able supervision it cannot fail
to be all that is desired. Columbus, the
homo of Governor Smith, is expected to
send a number of charming ladies and
nice young men, which she can readily
do. They are there—bu will they be
wanted here?
It is hardly possible for us to say any
thing new about the H. I. Kimball House,
except it be in reference to the accom
plished gentleman who has recently be
come its proprietor, Col. W. M. Nicholls,
formerly a commission merchant at Sa
vannah, and a brother-in-law of Col. Fore
acre, the prince of railroad superinten
dents and a most popular gentleman, is
now in charge of this well-known and
magnificent hotel, in the management of
which he is assisted by two most excellent
and accommodating clerks, Messrs. M.
Conway and Frank Roach, to whom we
are indebted for a generous hospitality
worthy the magnitude of this grand hos
telry. Located but a few steps from the
Union Depot, this hotel is one of the
most convenient in the country, and un
der its present proprietor, no charge is
made for bringing baggage to the house;
and parties leaving can have their trunks
checked to any point by the baggage mas
ter of the hotel. The rate for board above
the third story is only three dollars per
day, which ought to satisfy any man who
is willing to pay a reasonable price for
first-class accommodations.
Atlanta is called the “Gate City,” birt
we think it is justly entitled to the name
of “Mud City,” as it is the muddiest place,
of any pretensions, that we have seen in a
pilgrimage of twenty yeai-s. It is not
strange that the Herald, of this morning,
asks what two gentlemen met on Pryor
street, yesterday, and both got stuck in
the mud in trying to pass each other, one
of them leaving his rubbers stuck fast in
the mud. An hour’s tramp through the
almost impassable streets sent us back to
the hotel sick and worn out. We under
stand that the local editors are obliged to
hunt up their city items on horseback,
otherwise the news becomes two or three
days old before they can get it to the of
fice for publication. A prominent citizen
said to us, to-day, “If I could control the
Constitution for one day only, I would ask,
in a twenty column article, and reply at
the same length, ‘Of what city in the
world, except Atlanta, can it be said that
the best walking is in the middle of the
street ?’ ” This is what a citizen of Atlan
ta said to us, and it needs no comment.
Wo don't propose to slander our sister city,
the Capital of the State, but it can take
the premium for being the best city on
earth in which to carry on the business of
making “Mud pies.”
Sidney Herbert.
The H. I. Kimball House, )
Atlanta, December 20th, 1872. j
Editors Sun :—A severe illness pre
vented us from leaving on the Macon
train last night, which we do not at all re
gret, as the day has been quite pleasant
after yesterday’s rain, and our time has
been most profitably spent. Asa matter
of course, the newspaper offices were
visited by us, and our reception was
cordial and our brief stay quite pleasant.
To Colonel Avery and Mr. Lumpkin, of
tiie Constitution; St. Clair Abrams and
Grady, of the Herald ; Samuel A. Echols,
of the Sun, and J. J. Toon, of the Index
and Baptist, we return our most sincere
thanks for their marked courtesy to your
traveling correspondent. Os the latter
paper we beg to say this—it needs and
deserves a more liberal and widespread
support on the part of the Baptists of
Georgia, and we trust that they will at
once respond to the earnest appeals that
are being made in its behalf by its enter
prising and hard-working proprietor
Otherwise, the Rev • Dr. Shaver will be
compelled to resign the editoriid chair,
which he now so nobly and satisfactorily
fills.
The sentence of death having been pass
ed upon Mr. Milton Malone, through the
courtesy of the Ordinary, we made a brief
visit to his cell this morning. We found
him in good health and spirits, except a
cold, caused by the dampness of the outer
wall of the jail. He has no idea that the
sentence of the Court will be executed
against him, certainly not for several
months, as an appeal will be taken to the
Supreme Court, in the event that his mo
tion for anew trial is denied. He com
plains that great injustice has been done
him by the papers, and that he killed
Phillips solely in self-defence. His cell,
aside from its present dampness, is very
comfortable, and its occupants, McAllis
ter and Malone, have made it quite attrac
tive by pictures, books and other adorn
ments. there are about fourteen negroes
and ten white men now confined in this
jail, all of w hom seem to be well-cared for
and kindly treated by the accommodating
jailor, Mr. W. A. Bunnell, who is known
to many citizens of Columbus, where he
has relatives living. Three white prison
ers are now under sentence of death—
O'Neil, for killing his partner, James;
Kelly, who killed Col. Hardman, in New
ton county; and Malone. All have ap
pealed, or will appeal to the Supreme
Court. Greer, who killed his brother-in
law, Middlebrooks, in Jasper county, is
also here, as is Kelly, for safe keeping.
The Fulton county jail is a splendid brick
building, two stories high, with granite
trimmings, and cost about forty thousand
dollars. The cells are provided with all
the modern improvements, and, when
properly taken care of by the inmates, are
neat and attractive.
In our walks about town we accidentally
found Mr. H. C. Pope, formerly of your
city, but now proprietor of a neat and
; stirring drug store at No. 27 Whitehall
j street, the best street for retail business
in Atlanta. His friends will be glad to
learn that he is doing well. A few blocks
j beyond, in a mud-bound locality at the
j corner of Hunter and Forsyth streets, we
| discovered the “shingle” of Dr. V. H.
| Taliaferro, who has but recently removed
| here with his family from Columbus. We
j found the Doctor full of business, as, in
j addition to his duties at the Medical Col
! lege, he is now attending the patients of
Dr. Westmoreland, who is absent from
the city. On every street, as we walked
about the town, new' stores, shops and
dwellings met our view r , although we hear
a great deal about dull times here, and see
a great many empty stores. Wo noticed
several fine church edifices in an unfin
ished state, and upon which work is sus
pended for the present. Prominent citi
zens with whom we have conversed, feel
hopeful in regard to the future of Atlanta,
not only as a groat railroad centre, but as
a commercial point of no small impor
tance. New railroads will soon be com
pleted to facilitate speedy transportation,
and cotton factories are talked of as a
thing to be expected in due time.
On yesterday we met the Hon. Ben. H.
Hill, who says he can’t understand why
the Sun is so hard on him; and to-day we
also met the Hon. A. H. Stephens, who
speaks in the kindest terms of the Colum
bus papers. He is obliged to walk on
crutches, but appears quite active in mind
and animated in conversation. To Col.
L. P. Grant and Mr. A. J. Orme, of the
Atlanta and West Point Railroad, we have
been indebted for substantial favors and
polite attentions; and to Col. W. M. Nich
olls and his faithful assistants, Messrs.
Roach and Conway, of the 11. I. Kimball
House, our thanks are due for the best
and most assiduous attentions ever be
stowed at an inn upon a w eary and sick
newspaper correspondent, a thousand
miles from home and with nothing in his
pocket but a second-hand toothpick. This
hotel is most assuredly a great institution,
but its generous treatment of the press
shows that it is one of the corporations
that has a soul. As we turn our face Sa
vannahward, from its hospitable shelter,
we w'ish it the abundant prosperity that is
due it under its new and efficient proprie
tor. Sidney Herbert.
Special to the Atlanta Herald.
Washington, Dec. 21, 1872.
It is worthy of remark that not one
Southern member of Congress is included
in the list of names published in the New
York World, of stockholders of the Credit
Mobilier.
CABINET OFFICE-SEEKERS.
Ex-Governor Parsons of Alabama, Gen
eral Longstreet of New Orleans, and Gen
eral Manuey of Tennessee, are seekers for
positions in Grant’s new Cabinet, and
their friends are using all their influence
with the President to obtain them ap
monts.
THE COLUMBUS POSTMASTERSHIP.
Mr. Hogan, the present incumbent,
will be removed from the postmastership
of Columbus, Georgia, and Walter John
son appointed to succeed him.
PROCEEDINGS AGAINST DEVISE STOPPED.
The legal proceedings against Colonel
James F. Dover, late collector of internal
revenue, have been ordered stopped, as
his accounts with the government are
fully settled, and there i C'licioucy what
ever found in them.
THE ALABAMA SET. > : RSHIP.
Alabama Democrats hero urge the elec
tion of Judge Richard Hi; eed, of the
United States District Court, for United
States States Senator, and James O. Smith
as his successor.
THE DISABILITIES BILL.
The bill to remove the disabilities of
prominent. Georgians failed to pass the
Senate yesterday, but will come up again
when Congress meets next month.
11ETUKNING HOME DISCOURAGED.
The Louisiana Committee, whioh came
here to seek relief from the oppressive
measures of Judge Durell, are returning
home discouraged. Specks.
Special to the Atlanta Herald.
Mills, Bridges, and Railroads Swept Away.
Rome, Ga., December 21, 1872.
The most terrible flood experienced for
many years is now sweeping over this
city and adjacent section. The bridges
over Big Cedar and Little Cedar creeks, on
the Selma, Romo & Dalton Railroad, to
ward Cave Springs,
ARE WASHED AWAY,
and the abutments completely thrown
down.
On the Home float! the trestle works,
between here and Kingston, have been
swept down before the
KUSH OF TIIK FLOOD.
Beyond a speedy readjustment and con
sequently, excepting the blessed telegraph
line, Rome is completely
CUT OFF FROM THR WORLD.
Over one-fourth of the entire city is in
undated, and there has been immense loss
of produce and other produce.
n ATT FAUX ARE PLYING
through all the overflown streets and the
flood is still rising, though it is hoped it
has about done its worst. Three mills on
Big Cedar Creek have been washed away.
IN FRONT OF THE COMMERCIAL OFFICE,
the water is flowing knee deep. The peo
ple take the thing coolly. Antony.
Muscogee Superior Court —Judge Jas.
Johnson Presiding Fortieth Bay,
Tuesday. — Court met at !) a. m.
The day was consumed in discussing
and granting motions.
The following were drawn to serve at
the April term, 1878 :
Grand Jurors—J. Walker, A. J. Floyd,
J. M. Barden, James Kent, W. G. Wool
folk, M. Barringer, Z. T. Jenkins, D.
Amyet, J. T. McKenzie, G. A. Huckabee,
J M. Layfield, R. T. Young, Z. A. Willet,
Oscar Smith, W. A. Barden, R. A. Mun
roe,J. K. Dunn, li. E. Stockton, A. A.
Dortch, W. A. Cobb, J. Knrniker, A. W.
White, C. G. Holmes.
Traverse Jurors— Henry Burk, G. M.
Venable, W. H. Blankenship, J. W. Ed
munds, C. R. Gunn, J. E. Brantley,
Walter Dortch, J. L. Dozier, Dave Wolf
son, G. W. Briggs, J. S. Matthews, A. C.
McGehee, John Meliaffey, J. A. Shingleur,
J. H. Shorter, A. C. Flewellen, James
Wilson, H. F. Abell, W. P. O’Brien, D. I’.
Dozier, W. A. McDongald, J. C. Moore,
Phillip Eitier, Jesse Kimbrough, T. D.
Fortson, Janies Yernoy, It. A. Bacon, J.
M. Stark, W. P. Turner, A. J. Odom,
Andrew Williams, F. Allen, W. D. Affleck,
Zeno Garrett, ‘Emanuel Rich, Richard
Turman.
Court may be regarded as virtually at
an end until next April. The Judge will
only go to the Court House this morning
to sign minutes.
Court has lasted forty days.
The expense to the county has been
over $3,600.
Theodore Tilton has written a state
ment denying the scandalous story con
cerning himself and Beecher put in circu
lation by Woodhull & Claflin, the women
brokers and publishers.
"THE LOST ARTS."
We sometimes envy the ease and quiet
of the book-worm who sits alone by a sea
coal fire where knowledge, rich with the
spoils of Time, unfolds her ample pages.
We pine for seclusion and an escape from
the noise and corruption of politics into a
brighter and purer atmosphere, where the
loved and great dead can bless ns with
their communion, and teach us lessons of
humility, wisdom and goodness hardly
revealed by moderns, with all their boast
ed superiority. The Lecture on “The
Lost Arts," by Wendell Phillips—a lecture
which has been regarded as tho brilliant
orator’s most brilliant production, but has
hitherto escaped phonography, is publish
ed in full by the New York Tribune of the
13th. We have read the lecture with in
tense pleasure, and, but for lack of space,
we would be pleased to delight and in
struct our readers with the whole of its
novelty and wisdom. As it is, we give
only the following extracts:
Ladies and Gentlemen: I am to talk
to you to-night about “The Lost Arts”—a
lecture which has grown under my hand
year after year, and which belongs to that
first phrase of the lyceum system before it
undertook to meddle with political duties
or dangerous and angry questions of
ethics; when it was merely an academic
institution, trying to win busy men back
to books, teaching a little science or re
peating some tale of foreign travel, or
painting some great representative char
acter, the symbol of his age. I think I
can claim a purpose beyond a moment’s
amusement in this glance at early civiliza
tion.
I, perhaps, might venture to claim that
it was a medicine for what is the most ob
jectionable feature of our national char
acter, and that is self-conceit —an u mlue
appreciation of ourselves, an exaggerated
estimate of our achievements, of our in
ventions, of our contributions to popular
comfort and of our place. Xu fact, in the
great procession of the ages we seem to
imagine that whether knowledge will die
with us or not, it certainly began with us.
[Laughter.] We have a pitying estimate,
a tender pity for the narrowness,ignorance
and darkness of bygone ages. We seem
to ourselves not only to monopolize, but
to have begun the era of light. In other
words, we aro all running over with a
Fourth day of July spirit of self-content.
[Laughter.] I am always reminded of the
German whom the English poet Coleridge
met at Frankfort. He always took off his
hat with profound respect when he ventur
ed to speak to himself. [Renewed laugh
ter.] It seems to me the American peo
ple might be painted in the chronic atti
tude of taking off its hat to itself—[great
merriment] —and therefore it can be no
waste of time with an audience in such a
mood to take their eyes for a moment —
for the hour, or for the present civiliza
tion, and guide it back to that earliest
possible era that history speaks for us.
And if it were only for the purpose of
risking whether we boast on the right
line, I might despair of curing us of the
habit of boasting, but I might direct it
better ! I might lead its circle and centre
on a liner point, on a nobler issue than
this of merely popular comfort and con
tribution by Yankee ingenuity to the me
chanical imperfection of the age.
He then gives us the origin of glass.
This material, Pliny says, was discovered
by accident; that some sailors, landing on
the eastern coast of Spain, took their
cooking utensils aud supported them on
the sand by the stones that they found in
the neighborhood ; that they kindled their
fire, cooked the fish, finished the meal,
and removed the apparatus, and glass was
found to have resulted from tho niter and
sea-sand, vitrified by the heat.
In Pompeii, a dozen miles south of Na
ples, which was covered with ashes by
Vesuvius 1800 years ago, they broke into
a room full of glass; there was ground
glass, window-glass, cut-glass, and colored
glass of every variety. It was undoubted
ly a glass-makers factory.
He then adds:
You may glance around the furniture
of the palaces in Europe, and you may
gather all these utensils of art or use, and
when you have fixed the shape and forms
in your mind, I will take yon into the Mu
seum of Naples, which gathers all remains
of the domestic life of the Romans, and
you shall not find a single one of these
modern forms of art or beauty or use, that
was not anticipated there. We have hard
ly added one single line or sweep of beau
ty to the antique.
Take the stories of Shakespeare, who
has, perhaps, written his forty odd plays.
Some are .historical. The rest, two-thirds
of them, he did not stop to invent, but he
found them. These he clutched, ready
made to his hand, from the Italian novel
ists, who had taken them before from the
East. Cinderella and her slipper is older
than a’l history, like half a dozen other
baby legends. The anuals of the world
do not go back far enough to tell ns from
whence they first came.
All tho boys’ plays, like everything that
amuse the child in the open air, are Asiat
ic. Itawlinson will show you that they
came somewhere from the banks of the
Ganges or the suburbs of Damascus. Bul
wer borrowed the incidents of his Roman
stories from legends of a thousand years
before. Ituleed, Dunloch, who has gi'oup
ed the history of the novels of all Europe
into one essay, says that in the nations of
modern Europe there have been 260 or
300 distinct stories.
He says at least 200 of these may be
traced, before Christianity, to the other
side of the Black Sea. If this were my
topic, which it is not, I might tell you
that even our newspaper jokes are enjoy
ing a very respectable old age. Take
Maria Edgeworth’s essays on Irish bulls
and the laughable mistakes of the Irish.
He says they are borrowed from the
Greeks, and were common at Athens 375
years before Christ was born.
The orator then says:
Cicero said that he had seen the entire
Iliad, which is a poem as large as the New
Testament, written on skin so that it
could bo rolled up in the compass of a
nutshell. Now this is imperceptible to
the ordinary eye. You have seen the
Declaration of Independence in the com
pass of a quarter of a dollar, written,with
glasses.
I have to-day a paper at home as long
as half my hand, on which was photo
graphed the w hole contents of a London
newspaper. It was put under a dove’s
wing and sent into Paris, where they en
larged it and read the news. This copy
of the Iliad must have been made by some
such process. In the Roman theatre—the
Coliseum, which could seat 100,000 peo
ple —the Emperor’s box, raised on the
highest tier, bore about the same propor
tion to the space as this stand does to this
hall, and to look down the eentre of a six
acre lot was to look a considerable dis
tance.
Considerable, by the way, is not a Yan
kee word. Lord Chesterfield uses it in
his letters to his son, so it has a good Eng
lish origin. Pliny says that Nero, the ty
rant, had a ring with a gem in it, which
he looked through and watched tho sword
play of the gladiators—men who killed
each other to amuse the people—more
clearly than with the naked eye. So Nero
had an opera-glass.
So Mauritius, the Sicillian, stood on the
promontory of his island, and could sweep
over the entire sea to the coast of Africa
with his norscopite , which is a word de
rive 1 from the two Greek words, mean
ing to see a ship. Evidently Maritius,
who was a pirate, had a marine telescope.
You may visit Dr. Abbott’s museum, where
you will see the ring of Cheops. Boonson
puts him at 500 years before Christ.
The signet of the ring is about the size
of a quarter of a dollar, and the engraving
is invisible without the aid of glasses. No
man was ever shown into the cabinets of
gems in Italy without being furnished
with a microscope to look at them. It
would he idle for him to look at them
without one.
He couldn't appreciate the delicate lines
and the expression of the faces. If you
go to Parma they will show you a gem
once worn on the finger of Michael Ange
lo, of which the engraving is 2,000 years
old, on which there are the figures of sev
en women. You must have the aid of a
glass in order to distinguish the forms at
all.
I have a friend who has a ring, perhaps,
three-quarters of an inch in diameter, and
NO. 47.
on it is the naked figure of the god Her
cules. By the aid of glasses you can dis
tinguish the interlacing muscles, and
count every separate hair on the eye-brows.
Layard says he would be unable to read
| the engravings on Nineveh without strong
j spectacles, they are so extremely small.
Itawlinson brought home a stone about 20
| inches long and 10 wide, containing an
; entire treatise on mathematics. It would
| be perfectly illegible without glasses.
ANCIENT MASTER ARTISANS.
j Taking the metals, the Bible in its first
I chapters showed that man first conqurer
: ed metals there in Asia, and the wonder
is that on that spot to-day he can work
more wonders with those metals than we
can.
One of the surprises that the European
artists received when the English plun
dered the Sumner palace of the King of
China, was the curriously wrought metal
vessels of every kind, far exceeding all
the boasted skill of the workmen of Eu
rope.
Mr. Colton, of the Boston Journal, in
the first week he landed in Asia, found
that his chronometer was out of order
from the steel of the works having be
come rusted. The London Medical and
Surgical Journal advises surgeons not to
venture to carry any lancets to Calcutta,
to have them guilded, because English
steel could not bear the atmosphere of In
dia. Yet the Damascus blades of the
Crusades W’ere not guilded, and they are
as perfect as they were eight centuries ago.
There was one at the London Exhibi
tion, the point of which could be made to
touch the hilt, and which could be put in
a scabbard like a corkscrew, and bent
every way without breaking, like an Amer
ican politician. [Laughter. ]
Now, the wonder of this is, that perfect
steol is a marvel of science. If a London
chronometer-maker,; wants the best steel
to use in his chronometer, he does not
send to Sheffield, the centre of all science,
but to the Punjaub, the empire of thosev
en rivers, where there is no science at all.
The first needle ever made in England
was made in the time of Harry the VUlth,
and made by a negro, and when he died
the art died with him. Some of the first
travelers in Africa stated that they found
a tribe in the interior who gave them
better razors than they had, the irrepres
sible negro coming up in science as in
politics. The best steel is the greatest
triumph of metallurgy, and metallurgy is
the glory of chemistry.
The poets have celebrated the perfec
tion of the oriental steel, and it is recog
nized as the finest by Moore, Byron, Scot t,
Southey, and many others. I have evon
heard a young advocate of the lost arts
find an argument in Byron’s ‘•Sennache
rib” from the fact that the mail of the
wa rriers in that one short night had rust
ed before the trembling Jews stole out in
the morning to behold the work of the
Lord. Scott, in this “Crusaders”—for
Sir Walter was curious in the love of the
lost arts —describes a meeting between
Richard Cceur de Lion and Saladin.
Saladin asks Richard to show him the
wonderful strength for which he is fa
mous, and the Norman monarch responds
by severing a bar of iron which lies on the
floor of the tent. Saladin says, “I can
not do that,” but he takes an eider-down
pillow from the sofa, and, drawing his
keen blade across it, it falls in two pieces.
Richard says.
“This is the black art; it is magic; it
is the devil; you cannot cut that which
has no resistance;” and Saladin to show
him that such is not the case, takes a
scarf from his shoulders, which is so light
that it almost floats in the air, and tossing
it up, severs it before it can descend.
George Thompson told me he saw a mau
in Calcutta throw a handful of floss silk
into the air and a Hindoo sever it into
pieces with his saber. We can produce
nothing like this.
THE OLD DYES.
So if you take colors. Color is, we say,
an ornament. We dye our dresses and
ornament our furniture. It is an orna
ment to gratify the eye; but the Egyp
tians impressed it into anew service.—
For them it was a method of recording
history.
Some parts of their history was written;
but when they wanted to elaborate history
they painted it. Their colors are immor
tal, else we could not know of it. We
find upon the stucco of their walls their
kings holding court, their armies march
ing out, their craftsmen in the ship-yard
with the ships floating in the dock ; and,
in fact, we trace all their rites and cus
toms painted in undying colors.
The French who went to Egypt with
Napoleon said that all the colors were per
fect except the greenish white, which is
the hardest for us. They had no difficulty
with the Tyrian purple. The burned city
of Pompeii was a city of stucco. All the
houses are stucco outside, and it is stained
with Tyrian purple—the royal color of
antiquity.
But you never can rely on the name of
a color after a thousand years. So, the
Tyrian purple is almost a red—about the
color of these curtains.
Egypt’s mechanical marvels.
Mr. Butterson of Hartford walking with
Brunei, the architect of the Thames tun
nel, in Egypt, asked him what he thought
of the mechanical power of the Egyptians,
and he said, there is Pompey’s Pillar, it is
100 feet high, and the capital weighs 2,-
000 pounds. It is something of a feat to
hang 2,000 pounds at that hight in the
air, and the few men that can do it would
better discuss Egyptian mechanics.
Take canals, for instance. The Suez
Canal absorbs half its receipts in cleaning
out the sand which fills it continually, and
it is not yet known whether it is a pecu
niary success. The ancients built a canal
at right angles to ours, because they know
it would not fill up if built in that direc
tion, and they knew such an one as ours
would.
There were magnificent canals in the
land of the Jews, with perfectly arranged
gates and sluices. We have only just be
gun to understand ventilation properly
for our houses; yet late experiments at the
Pyramids in Egypt show that those Egyp
tian tombs were ventilated in the most
perfect and scientific manner.
Again, cement is modern, for the an
cients dressed and jointed their stones so
closely that in buildings thousands of years
old the thin blade of a pen-knife cannot
be forced between them. The railroad
dates back to Egypt. Arago has claimed
that they had a knowledge of steam.
A painting has been discovered of a ship
full of machinery, and a French engineer
said that the arrangement of this machine
ry could only be accounted for by sup
posing the motive power to have been
steam. Brahma acknowledges that he
took the idea of his celebrated lock from
an ancient Egyptian pattern. De Tocque
ville says there was no scclal question that
was not discussed to rags in Egypt.
Well, I may tell you a little about an
cient manufactures. The Duchess of
Burgundy took a necklace from the neck
of a mummy and wore it to a ball given
at the Tuilleries, and everybody said they
thought it was the newest thing there.
You have heard of what is called the Es
trucare, and the Italians spent their lives
in trying to find out the secret; and it has
come down to us and our day, and we do
not know either.
The old novels of Walter Scott were
three thousand years before the popular
tales of Eastern Asia. Russell Lowell
says: “There was a town in Vermont so
corrupt that the inhabitants had to sleep
in the walls at night.” [Laughter.] Well,
he had this opinion. A Hindoo princess
came into court, and her father seeing her
said, “Go home, you are not decently
covered —go home;” and she said, “Fath
er, 1 have seven suits on;” but the suits
were of muslin, so thin that the king
could see through them.
A Roman poet says: “The girl was in
the poetic dress of the country. I fancy
the French would be rather astonished at
this. Four hundred and fifty years ago
the first spinning machine was introduced
in Europe; I have evidence to show that
it made its appearance 2,000 years before.
Well, I tell you this fact to show that
perhaps we don’t invent just everything.
Why did I think to grope in the ashes for
this? Because all Egypt knew the secret,
which was not the knowledge of the pro
fessor, the king, and the priest.
Their knowledge won an historic privilege
which separated them from and brought
them down to masses; and this chain was
broken when Cambyses came down from
Persia, and by his genius and intellect
opened the gates of knowledge, thunder
ing across Egypt, drawing out civilization
from royality and priesthood.
He concludes thus eloquently :
We have not astrology in the stars serv-
ing only the kings and priests; we have
an Astrology saving all tin wo around us.
We have not a chemistry hidden in under
ground cells, striving for weaith, striving
to change everything into gold. No, we
have a chemistry laboring with the far
mer, and digging gold out of the earth
with the miner. Ah! this is the nine
teenth century, and of the hundreds of
things w e know, I can show you ninety
nine of them which have been anticipated.
It is the liberty of intellect and a diffusion
of knowledge that has caused this antici
pation.
When Gibbon finished his History of
Rome he said : “The hand will never go
back upon the dial of Time, when every
thing was hidden in fear in the dark
ages.” He made that boast as he stood
that night in the ruins of Corsani palace,
looking out upon tho places where the
monks wore chanting; that vision disap
peared, and there arose in its stead the
Temple of Jupiter.
Could he look back upon the past he
would see nations that went up in their
strength, and down to graves with fire in
one hand and iron in the other hand lie
fore Rome was peopled, while, in their
strength, were crushed in subduing civili
zation. But it is a very different princi
ple that governs this land ; it is one which
should govern every land: it is one which
this nation needs to practice this day.
It is the human property, it is the di
vine will that any man has a right to know
anything which he knows will bo servicea
ble to himself and to liis fellow-men, ami
that will make immortal if God means
that it shall last.
Cuba, the President and Colored Brother.
Wo well remember an old schoolfellow
who was born with tho most amiable of
dispositions. He was as brave as a lion,
and usually as meek as a lamb. You
might make ugly mouths, put your fingers
on your nose in derision, stick pins in
his seat of honor, tickle him in the ribs,
and he would turn up his dove-like eyes
in almost pitiful forgiveness and resigna
tion. If, however, you called him “Tur
key Egg,” and placed your hands over his
head as though it was “Red Hot,” then at
once was revealed “the slumbering venom
of the folded snake.” His mild eyes
would then flash like balls of fire, and his
teeth and claws would sheath themselves
in your face and body. His blows would
come fast and heavy until tho offender
gave utterance and signs that he had
strikingly repented of the folly and insult.
It appears to us that there is a plain
analogy between our peacefid bellicose
friend and the disposition exhibited to
wards Spain and Cuba by the President.
The Spanish Government can, with im
punity, imprison and shoot our white citi
zens by the score; and without even a
protest, fire into and across the bows of
Amorican vessels on the high seas.—
In our infancy as a nation, this
very conduct caused us to beard
tho British lion in his don and tho
Lakes and Ocean to echo and thunder
with our victorious cannon. The Madi
sonian Republicans knew how to punish
their foreign enemies, and protect their
home friends. The sceno is changed, and
now the Grant so-called, are eager to war
on Americans, and skulk from a foreign
foe. Spain sends her soldiers to her own
Province to protect it from rebellion ; the
President and Congress employ our sol
diers in imprisoning peaceful citizens and
stirring up rebellion and revolution in
quiet and helpless States.
This cowardly conduct on tho part of
our Government cannot have its origin
from the fear of Spanish power. That
power the sun in its course once never
went down in glory upon it, and the heavy
mailed tramp of the Spanish infantry, and
her war cry, “Spain Forever,” struck ter
ror throughout Europe. Her strong arm
is now palsied, the rust is on her mail,
and she has slunk with all her ancient
triumphs by sea and land, into the lean
and slippered pantaloon of nations.
We learn from the New York Herald
that the colored brethren lately held a
meeting at Cooper Institute to take ac
tion in reference to the “irrepressible con
flict” in tho island of Cuba. Tho Herald
says:
“The black population of this country
embraces seven hundred thousand voters,
and upon an issue which, outside of Spain
and Turkey, commands the sympathies of
the civilized world, these seven hundred
thousand colored voters have only en manse
to define tlicir position in order to deter
mine the action of Congress and the Ad
ministration. Nor can it be questioned
that the voice of this Cooper Institue
meeting is the voice of all our citizens of
African descent, including especially those
four millions lately released from tho
shackles of slavery and invested with all
the rights and privileges of civil and po
litical equality.”
These Cuban patriots of African de
scent declare “ they view with abhorrence
the policy of tho Spanish government for
the last four years ” in tho island of Cuba,
“both for the unnecessary and inhuman
butcheries that havo taken place under its
rule, and for the tenacity with which they
cling to the barbarous and inhuman insti
tution of slavery.” And the line of action
asked of tho President and Congress,
after four years of patient waiting, is “to
accord the Cuban patrtots that favorable
recognition to which these four years’
gallant struggle for freedom entitles
them.” In other words, the freedmen of
the United States, in behalf of their en
slaved brethren in Cuba, ask tho conces
sion of belligerent rights to the Cuban
insurgents.
The editor of the Spanish paper “El
Chronista,” replies and warns the colored
brothor of “some cowards” from Cuba,
who have come here to live upon their
wits and to induce white and black Ameri
cans to go to Cuba iu their places; he says
that these Cubans are now agitating the
abolition of slavery in the island, “when
the Spanish government has just decreed
abolition on a plan a great deal better or
ganized and much more advantageous
than the one which made so many victims
in the Southern States of this Republic;”
that “those hypocrites who talk to you
about fraternity and of rights” and all
that, “have all their lives lived off nothing
but the labor of negroes,” and that our
colored people ought not to be deceived
by these Cuban “loafers,” nor allow “tho
rogues now appearing before you to put
you down as fools.”
England has made mouths at the Presi
dent and Congress, and Spain has put
pins in their breeches, tickled them in the
ribs, and they have borne it meekly. The
colored brother now flings a rotten “Tur
key Egg” at their head and holds his
hands up to be warmed, and we would not
be surprised if a proclamation of bellig
erent rights to the Cubans, to be followed
by a war with Spain, would be issued in a
month. There would be a fine field for
the “colored troops to again fight nobly.”
Empty Stores. The appearance of
one swallow does not herald the approach
of spring, neither do a few empty stores
indicate the decline of a commercial city.
There are persons who would produce the
belief that Columbus is on the decline
because she has one or two business
houses that are without occupants. This
is true of almost every city, North or
South, excepting those whore a rapid
growth is being pushed ahead by unhealthy
means. Our traveling correspondent tells
ns that empty stores are seen in Mont
gomery, Eufaula, and other cities he has
visited, and especially so in Atlanta, where
numerous ones are to be found in the
most central portion of the place. Iu all
these towns, however, new stores and
public buildings, with many private dwel
lings, are being built, an evidence that
advance, not decay, is their condition.
The same is eminently true of Columbus
as a thorough inspection will prove.
Steadily but surely, without pretension or
show Columbus is striding to a proud
position—that of one of the greatest
manufacturing cities in the Union. She
already is the largest in the South-—sur
passing all this side of Philadelphia.
Statistics prove this.
Mr. Alory Jordan, near Midway, last
week, killed a hog weighing 410 pounds
net. The hog was twenty-two months old.