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The Daily Herald. SUNDAY. MAY 25, 1873. THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, ALKX. ST. CLAIR-ABRAIIS, HENRY W. QRADY, R. A. ALSTON, Editors and Mnnagen. THE TERMS of the HERALD are u follow* : DAILY, 1 Year $10 00 | WEEKLY, 1 Year...$2 00 DAILY, 6 Months... 6 00 WEEKLY, 6 Months 1 00 DAILY, 3 Months... 2 60 WEEKLY, 3 Months 60 DAILY, 1 Month.... 1 00 | Advertisements Inserted st moderate rates. Sub scriptions and advertisements invariably in advance. Address HERALD PUBLISHING CO.. Drawer 23 Atlanta, Georgia. Office on Alabama Street, near Broad. TO ADVERTISERS. The bona fide circulation of the Daily Herald le larger than that of the Consti tution. The bona fide circulation of tbe Daily Herald Is more tnan doable that of the Sun. We arc pw pared to verify this claim from our books. FISH CULTURE. We republish in to-day's Herald a very in tonating article on fieh culture, and which in duces us to relato our own experience on this important branch of industry. We live in DeKalb county, five miles from Atlanta, on ths Georgia Railroad. At tbe foot of <rar yard, there was a quagmire which was too wet to cultivate. Through this bog there trickled a very small stream, fed by a spring about a hundred yards above the head of this bog. In ditching it we found the stream to .increase ia size. Having one of Hr. Penn Youge's circulars on fish culture be fore us, we decided to make a fish-pond. The ground selected is 279 yards long and an av erage of 50 yards wide. We commenced to excavate the dirt and throw it up for a dam, and we struck so many little streams that we were encouraged to continue our excavations until we had removed over ten thousand cubic yards of dirt. We built a dam 198 feet long, 6 feet bigb, 10 feet wide at the top so as to answer for a road. One hundred and eighty yards above this dam we built another, 186 feet long, 5 feet high, ahd 10 feet wide. The work was commenced on the 5lh day of Au- ——1 gust, 1871. Our money gave out on the 15th We publish this.morning two accounts of of A P ril - 1872 ' when we had finished » the Opelika tragedy, suppressing the name ! lar 8 e P art of lhe work ; bllt ,ftfore we of the young lady whose reputation is in- ] had carried out onr original purpose— volved, and in so doing adhere to our fixed ddui thing was to stock the purpose never to give publicity to any state- | P ond - ^* e wrote Penn Youge ments affecting the honor of a woman, unless I at °P elika on 25th A P ril - 1872 ' ordering $125 they are made in a court of justice. Of the | worth of fi “ h « 8 P awn ' Mr - Yon S® replied to merits of the case wo do not propose to offer j onr request that he would be at our house in an opinion, preferring to await ihe develop- P cr80E as 800n as be could “ ak « il CODTe - ments of the trial: but we trust that justice I n,ent About 9 °’ clock - p ' "" 0,1 tbe 3d of will be done no matter what the result mav onr little sonsaid, “Father, there is a ^ j gentleman at the gate in a buggy who gives ♦ « [his name as Yonge.” Very much delighted A QUERY TO BE ANSWERED AT. I _ . . .. „ xr\r i we went to the gate and gave Mr. Yonge a Moses Hull, the great spiritualist debater, cordial invitation to come in and remain all asserts in debate that he and other spiritual- \ night with us. He declined, stating that he ists have seen spiritualists bite pieces out of bad only come to bring the fish ordered, apples, and write visible figures into pastry ; I “^Vhere are they and how shall we send for also that they have seen men carried throngh j them ?” supposing of course that so many the air, jerked across a room by spirits, and thousand fish would have to be brought from a joung lady under the influence pick up a the depot in a two horse wagon. Mr. Yonge piano and march across the room. These and ! Ter y qnickly dispelled our anxiety about divers other wonderful tales they tell. j hauling them from the depot, by Now, for our question : quietly remarking, I have them here with me, If they can see these things, and see them i and he reached out of the buggy three small every day, why can’t tuey arrange for other tin cans. We were very chopfallen, but man- cup. To-day they vary in size from six inoh- es to eighteen inches in length, and we do not believe there are any two of exactly the same size. We have devoted much space to our trout pond: but the increase in oar upper pond has been still more remarkable. There the small fish are as numerous as the sands of the sea, and we have seen days when the surface of the whole pond appeared to be so covered with small fish that you could hardly stick a thumb lancet in the water without touching a fish. In conclusion, we will add that we know very little about scientific fish raising. All we have stated are facta well known to many gentlemen who have visited our ponds. Up to this time our experiment has been a com plete success. If the increase in another year keeps pace with what it has been since we commenced, we feel assured that our expendi ture will not only prove a great source of pleasure but also of great profit. On* swal low does not make a season, and one years’ experience, we have found, is not sufficient in matters of this kind to justify giving advice. However, we feel great confidence in fish raising becoming a very important branch of industry in this county, for we have the ad vantage in this, as in most other industries, over other climates. TUB OVERTHROW OF X. THIERS. The news from France is the most impor tant we publish this morning, and is a fulfill ment of the prediction made in the Herald a few weeks ago. As we then predicted would occur, Bonapartists, who hold the balance of power, joined the Orleanists and Legitimists and compassed the overthrow of M. Thiers. Not even the knowledge that bis opponents were in the majority filled Thiers with appre hension of the result He was sanguine that when the supreme moment came his threats of resignation would whip in some weak- kneed Orleanists, but the majority held well together, and he went overboard. It is very certain that, in th6 election of Marshal MacMahon as President, the Bona partists have obtained all the substance of the triumph aohieved over Thiers. His election was, most probably, the price of their alliance with the Orleanists and Legitimists. Of course, he is doubt less pledged not to make any effort in be half of the Bonapartists; but MacMahon will never dare to pursue the proscriptive pol icy of his predecessors toward them. Napo leon III. found him a subaltern, and gave him opportunities to distinguish himself. He be came a favorite of the Emperor and was re- THE OPELIKA KILIM DETAILS OF THE KILLING OF MR. THOMAS PHILLIPS. Alleged Improper Conduct the Origin of the Difficulty. A Young Lady of Respectable Family Involved. Two Arrests of the Unhappy Affair. people—unbelievers—to see them? Dr. Harri son has been investigating a long time, and yet he has never seen a single manifestation. We have frequently attended “sittings,” and yet we have never seen anything even inter esting—that is, anything that approached to the wonderful. Unless the spiritualists can show some outsiders some of these manifesta tions, they must stand as idle assertions of things that to be believed must be seen ; and not being seen, cannot of course be believed. POPILAR SYMPATHY INALS. for cri .vi- aged to conceal our disappointment as well as we couid, but my sod. who was near, began to peep into the cans with a lantern and turning to where we were talking with Mr- Yonge, he said, “Father, have you agreed to give $125 for these fish?” “Yes, my son,” trying at j peatedly promoted until he obtained the Fish grow more rapidly here than at the , rauk of M , rshal Rnd the titie of Dnc North. In a book on fish culture kindly : jjajenta tarnished us by Judge Hopkins, we saw it j All he is, therefore, he owes to a Bonaparte- stated that the Rev. Dr. Bachman had spoken . True, Ija Duchesse de Magenta is said to be a more than 2J inches, and not longer than a goose quill. We can prove by a number of witnesses that we bad trout in our pond at that age eleven inches and fully one pound weight. What we have written is given to the pub lic with diffidence, as we only know what we have experienced, and as we have before re marked, this experience does not extend very far. A FOOLISH FIGHT. Opelika, Ala., May 23, 1873. The citizens of Opelika were startled into excitement on yesterday evening, by the report that Mr. Thomas Phillips had been shot and instantly killed by Mr. John Hooper, both parties being residents here. an actual fact. He in speaking of the matter men tioned the occurrence, time and pLaoe, but omitted mentioning the name of any of the parties, other par ties supplied the names of the actors, and converted his conjectures into positive statements. I don’t be lieve, if the report had been circulated as originated by Phillips, that any offense could have been taken. It was after hearing the report circulated as a positive assertion that he commenced making an effort to sup press it,as there was a possibility of his doing the lady a great injustice? Reporter—How did these people stand ia the com munity. Mr. T—All stood high. The lady figured in first circles. No family stood higher than hers. No lady was more universally esteemed by aU. These reports astonished*everybody. I could not but believe that there was some mistake. I was intimately acquainted with Mr. Phillips. No one. in my opinion, bad a better record for integrity and honesty. He stood well in the community, and was universally respected. Hooper is of an excellent family, nephew of Jonoe Hooper, the author of "Simon Suggs.” His father is a prominent lawyer in Op lika, and his brother arlic- itor of the county. Hooper ia only eighteen or nine, teen years old, but was a young man of some promise. Mr. Thomas Phillips was one of the most highly es teemed members of this community—a maa of fine character, who had for many years been prominent and influential in this county. He had held various positions of trust and honor, having been Judge of the Court of Macon county, and sheriff. It used to be his boast that he had served thirty years as sheriff, deputy sheriff and constable, without having a diffi culty with any person in tbe discharge of hii official falsely, because he stated that he had eaten I Legitimist, an d woman possesses great in-i ^“ Uee : Mr - Dilips was a member of th. Methodist tront for breakfast that were only nine months fl ufmce : n F, eno h nolities ■ hut (lie old Mar f hurch - “ d WM lbout !' eare of He ,, . .. ... ( nuence m Trench politics , bat the old Mar- . leaves a wife and family to mourn bis untimely death- old , the ■writer stating, that trout of that age ^ s h a j j s a t heart an Imperialist, and it may be the slayer. were never known to attain the length of set down as certain, that if be does not give The slayer, Mr. John Hooper, is a young man about Bonapartists open countenance, he will do twenty year8 of *S e - * * on of Judge J. D. Hooper and ... , . , . . a brother of George W. Hooper, the Solicitor of the nothing to put them down. At auy rate he is i coucty now in a position that will demonstrate if he * origin or the difficulty. possesses any gratitude for the dynasty that i The origin of the difficulty was, it is said, aa follows: enriched and ennobled him. . Some weeks ago while Mr. Phillips and his wife were We are somewhat surprised that the j ln thc garden onc eveniag just lbout da * k - the J were Legitimists and Orleanists did not ms.st: ‘ T" 1101 00 of 0 | John Hooper and a young girl of this place, in the raar upon carrying out the project of [ 0 f their premises, electing the Due d’Aumale, President. Their ! hooper admonished. abandonment of this design is a confession of j Mr * Phillips, a member of the church, and also weakness. True enough, they have struck | as * friend to Mr * Hooper, sought the young man on the death blow to the republic, but we venture j TJ°TZ d * T ““ r * mob6tr * tad w ‘ th b ‘ m r I conduct, at the same time admonishing him to be more the prediction that they have given the Bona- , cautious, aa to privacy, in his indecent intercourse partists a weapon with which they are likely ; with the young woman In question, as not only he and t© receive their own quietus. It is not proba- j Mrs - ^hillipa, but others also had been witnesses of ble that the law exiling the Bonapartists will j hftd occurr ^ be repealed at once, but if MacMahon Don Quixote’s foolish charge upon the windmill has found a parallel at last, in Dr. Harrison’s absurd charge upon Dr. Hull of Bawston, the leading spiritualist of America. We publish in another part of to-day’s Her ald a careful and concise statement of all the leading points made by either speaker in the great debate now being waged in Nashville. A more ludicrous affair we have never read about. Dr. Harrison stood there an earnest, they are small enough to have been hatched An illustrated paper in New York had a , on the road.” ., .. . . , . pains-taking, dry-eyed scholar and Chnstiao, the same time to keep him from saying any , .... ... , Jt . , ... .. .7. . ® r battling with sober strength against a flip- more, but he said with an air of disgust, “I i , - .. . , , _ ° 0 * ... , . . . .. . , , , 1 pant, foolish, word-buffoon. think you had better stop me from school a, „ ... , ^ . - * * day and let me go seining.” Turning to Mr. ! Faucy the learned Doctor attempting to • i ac tion of MacMahon as Thiers' successor, are Yonge, he said, •• How old are these fish?" i tL ® ass ® rt,0 “ made by Hull that he alike significant indications. “ A week old, sir.” I h “ d See “ a T rlt pick ° P an apple and bltc a I A « for Thiers, we trust that he has retired “I suppose they are quite young-in fact i ?' e< £ ,°" t ° f U ~ tbat th " e ' vas a J°ung lady permanently from public life. He does not m B^imore who could lift a piano off the posse88 the firBt element of a statesman. A floor; that he had seen spirit fingers with no political trimmer for nearly half a century, „ , .« ... , , 1 llTT .., ... ... hand or wrist attached seize a pencil and cartoon the other day illustrating the obstruc-1 “How did you count them, sir, mv son a a . , . % . . . 4 , ■ .. a , . . * J write sentences; and that he had been jerk- tions that are interposed to the punishment, continued, much to our embarrassment, for - . . . . . ., . - , . .. .. . 1 , , ., ' ed sixteen feet by the mflaence ot a spirit 01 murderers, the disagreeing jurors, or, in i we had been doing what we could to conceal w«r . .. . .a • .. J ’ » I » We can imagine the heartfelt indignation .... - ... .... , . - 1 . . .. ...... °f Dr. Harrison at this juncture, when, application for a new trial, political influences, sir—so many to the spoon. At this point appeals to the Governor, a respite, and final- we ventured to gaze into the cans, and float- ly, the pulpit, the press, and the people all ing about like wiggle-tails, but not so large, blockading the way to the gallows. “That ! were the thousands of little trout and red- these last three named influences,” says a horse and braem. We hurried to the pond cotemporary, “should be arrayed to prevent and poured them in. We felt that we were the punishment of a convicted and nndenia- ■ “casting bread upon the waters” that would ble manslayer—as in the case of Stokes, who return no more to gladden our hearts, but i , . . , . . . .. , , r ., . ,. , _ ’ , _ .. . . . * a laugh of derision in the crowd, and put the Rilled Fisk—shows a disordered condition of we were greatly mistaken. Never did we i . , . .. . . . .. 1 , . ... . ,. . naan who furiously attempted to discuss them make a purchase wh.ch gave ue half the in the U htof . dolt or ^ Szr.'Sir ” ”* - “”! »•— W, ib. UoMatt •#»,' a, uwt i. Mdl. fo, criminal law. —_ tsnmi in- pond. We then took our son’s advice, and PHILLIPS THREATENED. I Young Hooper, it U said, flew into a passion, de- refuses to proscribe Imperialists; if he daring that nobody but Mr. Phillips had seen it, aud appoints them to office, and allows them to ; tll *t H that gentleman ever told it to anybody, he distribute documents among the soldiers (Hooper) would ahoot him. Mr. Phillips rejoined that they will be greatly strengthened. Thestead^ ! othe ”“ th *f° far “ he C T , ... , ... . cerned he did not intend to make any mention of the 1 increase in their numbers in the Assembly, in j mllter t0 „ y one . he deslrtd WM t0 wsrn Bxper the face of a bitter official proscription, the recent election of a Bonapartist from the usually hostile city of Rochelle, and the se- PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. H. Fontaine, representing Procter A Gamble, the largest grocery house in America, was in the city yesterday. He is a clever, affable gentleman, and knows his business. Mr. Salem Dntcher, who is probably the most bril liant writer on the Southern press, and an accom plished scholar, has purchased the Augusta Constitu tionalist, and will henceforth edit that paper. We heartily wish him success, and plenty of it. Mr. P. M. L. Burbanks, of Hallett, Seaver .. Bur banks, New York, paid us a pleasant visit yesterday. Aside from being a tip top gentleman, Mr. L. is the President, and, we may say, organizer of the “South ern Club” in New York. This club is composed of Southerners living in New York, who Lave rented a magnificent mansion and fitted it up superbly, aa a re tort for Southern gentlemen visiting the great me tropolis. It is a “crack” institution, and flourishing finely. Mr. F. B. Lucas, of Athens, is in ths city. T. B. Williams, Jonesboro; Tbos. J. Min tecs, Wartmce Tenn.; W. F. Whittle, Athens; Wallace Rhodes, Ice* ville; J. W. Atkins, Baltimore ; B. F. Allen, Fia., P. R] Young.Cincinnati; E. C. Hanna, Louisville ;W. A. Parks, Marietta ; B. Y. Sage, Air Line R. R.; F. E. Habersham, Richmond, Ya.: J. D. Harris, Ga.; T. £. J jhannis, Au gusta; A. H. Cox, Lagrange; J. G. Maya, August; S. D. Meek, Virginia ; J. T. Coleman, Opelika, Ala.; Geo. O. Reodry, Air Line Railway ; O. C. Braumuller, city, with quite a number of others were stopping at the National last night. Misses Moomaugh and Davidson from Cnthbert are in the city. These young ladies will captivate some of onr young' gentlemen if they don't watch, as their beauty and accomplishments are unsurpassed. Capt. T. B. Statham—representing the house of Scott. Colliers k Co., Provieion Brokers, at St. Louis—is in the city. Literary Entertainment. the public mind and conscience which ac counts for the laxity of the administration of criminal justice in this country, without saddling it upon the inadequacy of our after having studied faithfully and con scientiously for years to meet 6ome champion of Spiritualism, and discuss with him the great suggestions and hints that lie hid in that theory, to be brought face to face with a pack of unsustained and impossible as sertions, so ludicrously false that they raised u pilsit, the press and tbe peo ple—not having the obligations of an oath upon them, allow their humane emotions to silence their sense of public duty and respect for the law. How often do we see juries, who, upon hearing the law and the evidence, promptly return a verdict of “guilty’' against a murderer, as soon as discharged from the box and remanded to their position as simple citizens, affix their signatures to a petition asking that the law be set aside, and the criminal either turned loose upon society, or subjected to a grade of punishment wholly inadequate to his crime? Even judges and prosecuting officers are sometimes moved from what they believe to be legal and right, by the same morbid and misplaced sympathy. Men are prone to for get their duties to society—duties as obligatory upon them as if imposed with the solemnity of an oath—and sometimes even aggravate the offense by con demning faithful public officers who have the virtae, often with the severest struggle to which the human mind and heart can be subjected, to suppress feeling and perform their duty to the law and to society, despite the mental agony occasioned by the act This is not right. Instead of reproaching such an officer as hard-hearted, cruel and unmerciful, we should honor him as better than ourselves, in that he has the virtue and the firmness to subordinate self, to subdue even generons emotions, in obedience to the behests of law and the public good. Such men, thorny as may be the path to be trod, will surely get their reward. As time advances, the unthink ing sympathies of to-day will give place to sober reason and judgment, and the adverse verdict of an excited populace be changed to plaudits of “well done, good and faithful ser vant.” For these a brave man, conscious of the rectitude of bis acts, can afford to wait In capital trials, the condemnation, tbe sen tence, and the awful scenes of the scaffold, the mind, overpowered by tbe startling effect, is apt to wholly lose sight of the cause. In contemplating the punishment, we forget the crime, which in its day sent a feeling of horror to the hearts of the community. In the case of Susan Eberbart, the very thonght of a young woman 4 still in her teons and of vigorous health being doomed to an ignominious death on the gallows, was enongh to take sole possession of tbe popular sympa thy and banish for the time all consideration for poor Mrs. Spann, who, at the dead hour of night was strangled in her own bed, and bj the hands of a brutal husband and hie para mour confederate, sent all unbidden to the pretence of her Mak< r. Who, in contemp’a- tion of tbia latter scene, as detailed in the evi dence, will say that tbe law was not righteous- '•uted ?. went seining, and caught a few perch and suckers and put them into each pond. We had so little faith in our purchase, that we paid very little attention to our ponds for some weeks, when a negro boy said to us that those fish which we had poured into the pond were as long as his finger. We could scarcely believe it, but a few days after, my son killed a crane which had twenty-three small fish in his craw, and among them was a trout about four inches long. Being fully satisfied that there was not a trout within a hundred miles of our pond, we felt assured that the trout which we found in the crane’s craw was one of the little specks which we had turned loose a few months before, with so little faith. From that day we carefully watched for them and saw the increase in size from day to day, till the following October, when they had attain ed a size that was truly astonishing, some of them appearing to he at least twelve inches in length. Up to this time we had fed them on young fish, caught from our upper pond, and tadpoles and small frogs. When cold weather set in, they disappeared, and we saw no more of them until the 23d of February. Col. S. C. Williams and other gentlemen were dining at my house, and inquired about my fish. We remarked that we had not seen them since November, and did not know whether they wore alive or dead, bat proposed that we take a fly and angle for them. To our great joy, in a very littla while after we had drawn tho fly through the water, it was siezed by a trout, and in less than five minutes we drew out five tront some of them measuring eleven inches in length. They have continued to grow with great rapidity, and at £this writing there are trout to be seen any morning, that vary in size from six inches to eighteen inches. Wo fed them this very morning—they are quite tame and very voracious. At first they were very dainty and refused to eat anything but small fish, but after a few weeks of abstinence they Lave ceased to be choice, and now eat any kind of animal food that is offered. They still refuse bread or vegetable diet, but eat ham, beef, chicken, intestines, or any other animal food. For the past few weeks they have been spawning. We hare watched them carefully. They seem to keep their nests about twelve days. Then a slight mist is discernable; this mist in a few days takes shape and is endowed with locomotion; then they take the form of fish and are very active in moving about From this time they grow rapidly, but what is singular they do not all grow with tha same rapidity. We turned into our pood 2700 fry, on the 3d day of May, 1873. At that time these 2700 could have had abund ance oi room to sport tbemfe'ves in a pint of the consequences of his open disregard of ordinary caution in the practice of his immoralities. THE SCANDAL SPREAD. It appears that among those who were witnesses to tbe improprieties of tne parties were several negroes, who, as might be kupposed, spread the story on every side, giving the young ladj’s name, together with all the indecent details. Very soon the scandal spread from one end of the town to the other, and as the young lady’s connections are very respectable, it be came evident that Hooper must do something to repel the charge of guilt. MR. PHILLIPS ATTACHED. This Hooper did by killing Mr. Phillips. He ap proached that gentleman yesterday afternoon in the presence of two of our most respectable citizens, and charged him with having spread the report. Mr. Phillips replied, denying that he had ever spoken of the matter to any one. Hooper then demanded that Mr. Phillips should deny ever having seen him en gaged in any improprieties with the young lady. Mr. Phillips replied, declining to accede to the demand, on the ground that he would not voluntarily tell a lie. THE KILLING. Mr. Phillips was entirely unarmed and at the mercy ^ . of his opponent. No sooner had be refased to deny Council is awakening to what is probably the ! tl! , t hc M witnot8ed impropcr cocduct , unm ! most essentiaJ matterjirpj/ 0 lj2|- na| j e orer t |,,; s r’ate'm.u. Mr. Phillip, called out to him, in dilapidated bridge to convince the most caf- I the D *“ e ° r Ood ' not to ehoot, and made , ual observer that there is an active and ever ; mov * ment as tf to “ oitl3 the weapon. u. x • i* - a I Before he could execute his purpose, however, present danger of its tumbling in at any mo- ixy . * * , , , . J i Hooper fired and the bullet entered above his left ment. Being situated, as it is, upon one of ; breast, penetrating the heart and causing instant our most important thoroughfares, there is death. A second shot was fired, but the bullet missed. with ability to destroy and without the nerve to build, his entire career has been a series of vaccillation*. It was in his power to have established a Republic, but he was afraid to offend his Orleanist friends, and so he played the “little joker’s” game, until tbe Bona- partists qwietly trumped his cards. THE BROAD STREET BLlIDGE. We were glad to note by the debate upon ; the Broad Street Bridge, reported in the Council proceedings of Friday night, that the j Past Grand Madir Barnes Master of Ceremonies. The trouble commences *t eight o’clock on Thurs day evening next, at Concordia Hall. The reputation •f this gentleman as one of the most entertaining speakers on the American continent, is now perma nently established, and it is with pleasure we chron icle the fzet that all who heard him in Atlanta in 1861 and ’65, and many others besides, will now have an opportunity of hearing him once more. He is not only among the ablest of men, bat socially he is also one of the cleverest and most estimable men within the range of onr acquaintance. We hail his appoint ment here with feelings of joy and exultation. Citi- izens of Atlanta, do not fail to hear this lecture from one of the highest Odd Fellows of the United Suites. 8ee advertisement in another column. party of festive Spiritualists, missed tbe train and sat down and commenced playing, “The Last Rose of Summerwhile grinding out this somewhat melancholy tune, the wretch ed Patts, like a modern Elijah, was picked np by unseen spirits and borne wriggling through the air to Mechanicsville, where he jerked the jnice ont of his fiddle according to programme. Aside from the fact that it is impossible for such a thing to have happen ed to a party by the name of Patts, we are | tempted to doubt if it could have happened to the melliflnons-named Moses Hull. j i° ru down at once. With the Dixon bridge J prevent people talking. it is our opinion that the Patts’ romance is horror fresh in the minds of the Council, we renue erKTiaasx. the fantastic outgrowth of an undigested po- j do not wonder that they have adopted speedy ! *1”.* b * n J 1 tato which the said Patts wrestled 8 with L : -d prompt measures for the remedying of j night of the Mechanicsville transition. ; ^“ 1S danger. cold-blooded end premeditated murders on record in But the truth is, that Hill is a flippant fall- .... I?**,,.. I thi, State. Hooper .ought, parleyed with, and delib- erstely shot his victim without resistance, and without scarcely a moment throughout the day or early night, when there are not from ten to twenty people crossing it, and often during the day it is hotly crowded with carriages, horsemen and pedestrians. At some of these moments it is certain to give way, and an im mense loss of life and property must ensue. The bridge is rotten, shaky and dilapidated, an eyesore and a man-trap. end before he could fire a third time, he was arrested. A JUDICIAL FARCE. The deed committed. Hooper walked off calmly with tbe officer and surrendered himself to the au thorities. Then took place a perfect farce. Mr. Hooper was a clerk in the office of a Justice of the Peace named Vickers, and he was brought before his former employer. It is said that when bail was asked, Vickers promptly agreed to take it, and named $2,600 as enough, and that Hooper's brother, the Solicitor, It should be : suggested $6,000, as this sum was larger aud would ure, a blasphemer and an ass. His illusion to the great Jehovah as an “ illiterate, re vengeful, passionate man, whom the Chris tians call God,” is enough to rule him out of the good opinion of all decent men. Dr. Harrison had better drop him, and come home. He (Dr. H.) has earnestly strived to get the discussion of Spiritualism, which in certain aspects challenges the attention of all thinking men, down to a rational point. His unfortunate scuffle with this New England clown shows how miserable has been his fail ure. He would do well to stop right here. Therejs a basis—a mysterious but beauti ful basis—on which genuine Spiritualists can found their religion and iheir hopes. There is an undeveloped mesmeric science, a faint de licious aroma, wafted from the world of spirits into this, our world, undefinable, and yet cer- j tainly existent, which would give at least par tial justification of the belief that there is some connection between the dead and the living. As long as the Spiritualists confine themselves to the serious and faithful investi gation of this sweet influence—so pregnant with happy hints and soulful suggestions— they will have attentive listeners, earnest co laborers and earnest converts. But when they import a blaspheming Yankee, from Harriet Beecher’s home, to spout disgusting foolish- We love to think of old Charleston. Never will there be such a constituency in this coun try again as existed in this city before the war. Here men were not only prompt to re pel aggressions on their own rights, but they were equally careful not to infringe upon the rights of others. Money was not the sine qua non to society ! Without integrity, there was no respectability. Everything was conducted on a high plane, and her commercial standing was not equalled by any other city in tte land. The bills of the Bank of Charleston were like bills of Exchange from Maine to Texas and the notes of the Merchants could be discounted in any mart of ihe world. It affords us pleasure therefore to know that much of the business of that dear old place is still in the hands of such men as we have de scribed and in referring to the cards that ap- pcftr in to-day’s Herald it is sufficient to say that the men all did business in Charleston before the war. The Savannah Republican has this startling item. We suppose that remorse, arising from daily distributing such a dull paper as the Republican, run the negro crazy: One of the city carriers of tbe Republican, a colored man named London Small, has been missing from the office and his home since 5 o clock a. m., Tuesday. At that hour j Reporter—Did yon ever hear of these reports as ness before intelligent audiences, they will “ e 18 reported to have come into the office, ! coming from Mr. Phillips, and what was tho nature of Mr. Phillips knowing of his purpose. 11 is the gen eral opinion that if Hooper is ever tried, and if Judge of the character of Judge Hopkins, of your city, presided over the trial, that he would be con victed. Unfortunately, we have no such men as Judge Hopkins here. It is all a question of money with our trenchant and venal officials. INDIGNATION. The bailing of Hooper hae excited deep indigna tion among all claaees of our respectable citizens. I trust that you will send a reporter of yours over here, to make an investigation of this killing. Although your correspondent believes he writes without prej udice, st 11 your readers may not think eo, hence the necessity for your sending a reporter here. My sole purpose in writing has been to correct the lying tele grams sent to the newspapers from this city, which represent Mr. Phillips as the slanderer of s young lady and as a young man. Opeltea. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. On last night our reporter called on Mr. W. B. Thomas, one of the most prominent lawyers of Ope* lika, for the purpose of obtaining any information per taining to the Phiilips-Hooper affair, that he might be able to furnish it. After exchanging courtesies, and stating the object of his call, tho following interview took place: Mr. Thomas—I cannot furniah you with any infor mation concerning the aff«ire, as I left Opelika the day before Mr. Phillips was killed, but am fkmiliar with the cause of the disagreement which was the circula tion of oertain rumors credited to Mr. Phillips. find that they have a hard road to travel. The Rome Commercial has the following important announcement: Judge Harvey announced in open Court yesterday, that ho would not contest Judge Underwood's appointment to the Judgeship of the Rome Circuit Had Judge Harvey de cided otherwise, his course in the mfttter would not have lessened him one iota, either in the opinion of the bar or the people at large. Judge Harvey has presided on the bench with superior dignity and ability, and Floyd county is proud to number him amoncr her most worthy citizens, whether as an offi cial oc occupying the humbler walks of life as ft private citizen. stared about in a wild manner, and rushed j ti, fm * out, disappearing down the steps at tlio Ex- j Mr . Thomas-i hare heard many reports reflecting c ange going o e^nver. j <«a (he character of a lady of our town; each of my in- At tUa Presbyterian picnic, given at Mont- ; f o rm » n " «*'» Ur rhuu l'“ “ bU direct or indirect gornery yesterday, a little boy named Kerup- j * ull,orU J'- Th '«’ ««»*“ tuld “■ » continual * -- - U * " • - — 1 manner, but waa not oonfiaed to a few. Reporter—Did you over apeak to Mr. Phillips re garding these rumors ? Mr. Thomas—I never spoke to Mr. Phillips iu ref erence to the matter, bat understood from a friend of his that Mr. Phillips had made many endoavoro to suppress ths rumor, as there was a possibility of his laboring under a misapprehension, and a more es pecial retsou for his desiring that the matter should be “hushed up” was. that he was a particular friend of the Hooper family. Reporter—Did Mr. Phillips make any positive state ments about ths criminality of this couple? Mr. T—The runs or was circulated by Mr. Phillips, giving ths cocurrsnoe rather as a conjecture than an ton, eleven yeaig old, fell overboard off a yacht and sunk beneath the water. Mr. Hab ersham King boldly plunged in and after div ing and making considerable search found him, and gallantly swam ashore with him. When terra firma was reached, the rescued and Lis brave rescuer were both nearly ex hausted. On regaining his breath, little Kempton’s first words were: “ Thank God— where’s my bat ?” The Ban Francisco Alta says that the Cali fornia farmers had ft right to expect three times as much rain in April as they had. They will be demaading a constitutional amendment next to secure their right. Our State Exchanges. The Griffin Star gives us the following pen pieture8*of two of Chattanooga's sons * — ociuum seen a more complete spec imen of variety and complacency than Mr. James presents. He appears to bear the world upon his shoulders without an effort, and Chattanooga is the pivot upon which it rests. Mr. Snyder is entitled to the first premium in the matter of cheek: he can stand up and address a crowd a half day that is de termined not to hear him. He was cheered down and hooted down a hundred times, but stood Ins ground without the quiver o.‘ a muscle or the faintest semblance of a blush. He made his speech, as he intended to, when he left home, and he did so in defiance ot the crowd. There is as much stolid indifference about him as we ever have seen exhibited by any hog drover that ever introduced pork into Georgia. This young man is bound to make his mark. He has advertised himself thor oughly and well. We copy these items from the Gri ffin Star. We learn from a friend that John G. Brown, William Revel, James Reems and Bob Brown, of Meriwether county, and James Justice, of Pike county, were arrested on Wednesday, by the United States Marshal, charged with illi cit distilling. Is Luck.—We learn with pleasure that our esteemed frieud, Dr. J. S. Pemberton, of At lanta, has strong hopes of gaining a suit which was brought in the United States Court of Claims by his father before his death, for cotton taken by the United States army after the close ot the war. The claim amounts to $215,000. The Franklin News says Horace King, the well known bridge builder from Columbus, has taken the contract for $3,600 to re build the bridge across the Chattahoochee at that place. Major Moses, a large and successful grower of peaches, informs the Columbus Sun that his crop has been ruined by the hai!. The pilot of a locomotive on the State Road knocked a negro ten feet high near Dalton, a few days since. The negro being still alive, it is supposed he was struck on the head, and fears are eutertained that the locomotive is in jured. Messrs. Beard & Kimball, of the Savannah Advertiser, have purchased the Savannah Republican and will consolidate the two pa pers on the 1st of June. The Advertiser is surely very prosperous, as it truly deserves to be. The Republican, Savannah, gives us these items: Two Negroes Drowned.—Two negroes, Benjamin Camnbell and Jack Cook, who were employed by Captain H. J. Dickerson, w'ere accidentally drowned at the wharf of the Clack Star Line, yesterday morning. It appears that Campbell and Cook were en gaged iu discharging cargo from the port batch of the steamship Montgomery, aud while engaged in bringing a case ot goods from the port to the wharf, the lashing of the stage gave way, precipitating them and the case into the river. One of the men could swim, and would un doubtedly have been saved had not the fates willed it otherwise, for the one who was una ble to swim, seized with a death grasp his comrade, and thus they struggled together for a few minutes in the water, when they sank before assistance could be ren dered them. Search was made for the bodies but np to Ust eTMtoe ttwj bad not Vwen rv- cor»r»d. Miss Maj M. 8h«ibWy, of Rom., bane I yestordajr.