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The Daily Herald.
SUNDAY. JUNE 1, 1873.
THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
ALEX. ST. CLA IR-ABRAMS.
HENRY W. GRADY.
R. A. ALSTON,
Editors and Managers.
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JOHN K. WARD AND
FRAUDULENT BONDS.
TO ADVERTISERS.
Exactly what Mr. John E. Ward aims to
advise in the matter of the bond question, we
are nnable to ascertain from his letter to Dr.
Westmoreland. He first admits that every
fair-minded man must concede “ that most of
them were illegally issued, that almost all of
them were fraudulently put in circulation.”
While making this admission, however, he
goes on to argue that some of the holders of
these bonds purchased them in ignorance of
$ so | weekly! s Houma 1 W, their ''legal and fraudulent issue, and Mr.
Ward intimates that those men ought to be
| paid.
We cannot see that either justice or equity
requires this. No bondholder purchased di
rect from the State. All the illegal bonds now
j in circulation were either sold to individuals
by Henry Clews & Co., or were pawned
The bona fide circulation of the Daily without a shadow of authority, to Russell
""on* “ '“ rB " "'“ n ,, "‘ t ° f ' UeCo "*“‘ Sage and others. If we are to recognize as
‘“rlTbona fide eireui.fion of the Daily ™ lid those held by men who purchased from
Herald i* moic tnan double that of the these agents, we must recognize all—or, rath
er, we will be compelled to recognize all; be
cause it will be an easy matter for Clews and
others to transfer every bond to “innocent”
purchasers.
Much of what Mr. Ward writes is, it seems
This morning and hereafter it is demanded i USf mere special pleading. In one part of
by the great and good government under hi s letter he is most illogical. He writes that
which we live that newspapers shall pay “if it should be ascertained that any of the
postage upon each one of its exchanges.
We merely allude to it to-day to say that i advanced upon them sums of money entirely
the editors of the Herald feel that they j inadequate to the amount of bonds which
cannot well spare any of their State Ex- they hold, it would taint the transaction with
changes, and that they will cheerfully pay J f raU( t a nd justily the State in refusing to pay
postage on all of their present list of ex- ; them.” We do not see that this follows at all.
changes rather than give up any one of them. | jf Governor of Georgia was not limited as
And we trust that with each and every one > the price he was to take for the bonds, he
of them we shall have tor many a year that VO uld have the right to 6ell for any price,
same pleasant and cheerful intercourse that i ant j if the price was even so low as to “taint
has existed in the past. We can all prosper j the transaction with fraud,” unless the State
yet, brother editors, despite this mean little cou id prove collusion and fraud between the
law. It was passed by a revengeful Con- j Governor and the purchaser she would be
gress because the press forced the abolition hound in honor to pay them.
We are pi pared to
from our book*.
CAN’T SHARE ANY OF THEM.
A WRATHY OPELIKA NEWSPAPER.
We publish elsewhere this morning an
amiable article from the Observer, a news
paper published in Opelika, Alabama, in
which the indignant and virtuous editor
deems it his duty to “denounce, in emphatic
terms, the dastardly and brutal effort made
by a correspondent of the Atlanta Herald,
who signs himself ‘Opelika,’ to blast, by a
purely sensational article, the reputation of a
young and innocent female.” Furthermore,
the irate editor denounces the article as “vile”
and “slanderous,” and characterizes it as
“utterly indecent and untruthful.”
In response to this violent assault upon our j
correspondent, we will begin by saving, that !
the telegram announcing the killing of Mr.
Phillips was sent to all the Atlanta papers
from the office of the Opelika Observer, and
that it represented the act as having been
committed because Phillips had slandered
a young lady, This same Observer, we un
derstand, also sent the dispatch to the Colum
bus San, in which it was stated that both the
parties were young men,
fifty-eight years of age, Mr. Hooper twenty.)
We could here dismiss the Observer on the
ground that it was too plainly in the interest
of Hooper to be anything but prejudiced, and
that “Opelika,” having characterized the tel
egrams sent from its office as “lying,” it was
endeavoring to prove them true. Justice,
that Hooper had himself in a cowardly man
ner boasted of his ruining her, and so long
as the testimony already given remains un
impeached, the most are can do is to decline
taking sides in the matter. And if our Ope
lika cotemporary, instead of being so much
on the side of the Hooper family, would dis
play a little more of that impartiality which
belongs to the true journalist, ic would not be
so anxious to put the young lady forward, ap
parently for the purpose of using her as a
screen behind which Hooper can unlock his
prison doors.
holders of these bonds have paid for them, or , however> to our correspondent, who has been
~ A A f *** ” f Qi man ^. years a prominent and influential
of the franking privilege, and we are per
fectly willing to stand it.
LET IS HAVE IT BY ALL MEANS.
With the bonds outstanding and unrecog
nized there can be no question of their valid
ity, because their illegality has been clearly
proven by the committee appointed to inves
tigate them. The State laid down certain
conditions precedent to the issuance of the
indorsed railroad bonds, which conditions
The approaching sale of the small triangu-1
lar lot of land at the intersection of Peach-1
tree and Pryor streets, just in front of the haTe not been complied with; hence, the
new Methodist church, has reawakened pnb- railroad bondg are not and cannot be legally
lie interest to the importance of our harm* | bindiog npou Georgia. It does not matter
something like parks in the city. We under-1 whether or Dot the p Urc haser was ignorant of
atand that this lot is not of great value, that | the fraud . He cannot put in a plea ot lack
in fact, it will not bring more than twelve or , of koowledgt) heca „ se the law eipectg him to
fifteen hundred dollars at public outcry. j ami i; arjze himself with the con ditious of a
Such being the case it seems to us that the bargaia before becoming a party to one. The
city authorities should purchase it, especially : moment the conditiong are complied with,
as two responsible gentlemen of the city hare j the indorsed nilroad bondg wiu b e binding
offered to contribute seven hundred dollars
of the purchase money, and we are certain
that the church before which ic stands would
citizen of Opelika, and whose name, we have
good reason for believing, is well known to
Mr. Hooper, and probably to the Observzr
also, compels us to reply to the attack made
upon him by the Hooper family and their
organ, the Observer.
Senility and asininity were never so plainly
exhibited as when the letter is called “inde
cent.” And as for any “brutal” assault being
made upon a young lady that is simply non
sense. “Opelika” did not mention the lady’s
name at all, and he merely gave a statement
of the affair as he had heard it. Now, to
show that the letter was not indecent, we re- | ture.
publish the paragraphs relating to the alleged
cause of the killing; and to prove that it was
not untruthful, we give in parallel columns
the testimony of Mr. Ross, a gentleman
friendly to Mr. Hooper and tha young lady:
The sudden and forcible lifting of the ne
gro from the warm and satisfied condition of
slavery into turbulent and uncertain freedom
by the emancipation proclamation of Presi
dent Lincoln, gave rise to conflicting doubts
aa to what the effect of snch change would
be. At first it seemed that the flood
of rare sensations that poured in
on Cuffee’s not overly strong system
(Mr. Phillips was \ when he was led off of “old marster’s place”
into an unexplored Utopia, would absolutely
overwhelm him—crush him, and reduce to
permanent maudlincy. For months he wan- |
dered about in vagabondage, willing to work
but unable to organize; starving, with muscles,
hungry for labor, but utterly unable to plan or
contract; loafing about in listless helpless
ness, enjoying freedom on an empty stomach,
singing emancipated paans in filth and rags;
not “folding his tent like an Arab,” because
he had no tent to fold, but “silently stealing
a way” or anything else he could get his hands
on,honoring no sentiment, admitting noattach
ment, holding home to be always the place
where the stray crust was; a great beast that
warmed and mellowed in the sunshine of one
day only to be chilled and sickeDed by the
storms and frosts of the next. Freedom
was called a failure; and emancipation it w'as
thought would soon rhyme with extermina
tion in fact as well as verse.
But a change gradully came over the pic-
The first flood of sensation swept off
WHY ARE NOT THE SEWERS BUILT I
We must again call the attention of the
City Council to the condition of the business
centre in the matter of sewers. We are about
to enter the heated term, and yet there is a
large cesspool in front of Judge Pittman’s
house on Loyd street, while at various points
along Decatur, Peachtree and other streets,
the public health is endangered by reason of
the utter lack of sewerage, in localities which
most need them. We learn that Judge Pitt
man has been three times summoned before
Recorder Hammond on account of the cess
pool before his place, and that on each occa
sion the Recorder has very properly decided
that he is not to blame.
The whole fact is that the authorities are
not performing their duty in this matter. It
is the business of the corporation to construct
main sewers, so that property holders may
be enabled to connect branches with them.
A main is needed down Peachtree street to
the corner of Decatur, thence to Collins street
where it will empty into flowing water; and
a short main is also needed along Loyd
street. It cesspools are permitted to remain
in our principal thoroughfares, filled with de
cayed vegetable and animal matter, it is very
certain that they will breed disease. Already
we hear whispers of cholera in New Orleans,
and common prudence should dictate to the
Council the necessity of taking every precau
tion to keep the streets, Ac., in a thorough
state of cleanliness daring the coming sum
mer. We trust that this matter will be at
tended to without delay.
A STERN EXAMPLE OF DUTY.
An Incident of the War.
(WRITTEN FOB THE ATLANTA HERALD.)
We had in our command a Presbyterian
minister. He was Captain of one of the
best drilled and best disciplined companies
in the regiment He was a man of high per
sonal courage, amiable but firm disposition,
and very popular with the entire command.
He had the respect of his superiors, and the
love and obedience of his inferiors. Prompt
in the discharge of every duty, his example
was not lost on his company; and no matter
how long and weary the march, Captain K.’s
company was never known to straggle. In
battle they were always selected for the post
of danger and in tne hottest of every fight
he was always at the front encouraging his
men to deeds of valor.
When the battle was over Captain K. was
found at the side of the wounded, giving
them not only temporal but spiritual comfort,
receiving their last words for home, and care
fully superintending their burial. In camps
on Sunday morning he could be seen with
Bible and hymn book, expounding the joys of
salvation. Duty was the guiding star of this
man’s life. He left the pulpit to serve his
country, and from the first day that he enter
ed the army until the close of the unhappy
struggle the South had no truer or more
devoted follower. It is not singular, there
fore, that Captain K. should always have
been selected on occasions which required
nerve and judgment in their execution, and
the following is one of the most remarkable
• that occurred during the whole war.
! The Federal army was at Nashville, under
' ! the command of Gen. Buell. The Confederate
A valued friend sends ns the beautiful little j forces were near Murfreesboro. Captain K.’s
poem found among the posthumous works of I command was on the front at a place known
.. * m • tt'i a as Black s Shop. For several weeks there had
tko great Tom Paine. Who ever supposed been , IuU in movementg of botu armie *
that this old philosopher could write such
sweet poetry. They are almost equal to his
prose.
From Mr. Ross' Testimony
Mr. Phillips told me that
the parties, on the sixth
of April, Sunday evening,
went to a certMi'i place
near Mr. Phillips’ home,
bock of the patch near the
Terrell Lake. I was speak
ing of Hooper and Miss
Barnett; I did not mention
to him the names of the
parties I referred to; Phil
lips said, “I saw them go
to a patch near my house.
* * * * Phillips
stated that hsdid not know
the lady’s name nor did be
say what it was; he said
that he saw them getting
up, and that he saw Hooper
time admonishing him to, brush the dirt off her dcesR
be more cautious, as to orback. In that conversa-
privacy in his indecent in-' tion he was standing sigh-
tercourse with the young teen or twenty feet from
woman in question, as not 1 them at that time. Mr.
only he and Mrs. Phillips,!Phillips said he was in his
bnt others also had been! own lot at the time he saw
tnesses of what had oc-|them; he said his wife was
present when he saw them
From Opelika's Letter.
The origin of the diffi
culty was, it is said, as fol
lows: Some weeks ago,
while Mr. Phillips and his
wife were in the garden,
one evening just about
dusk, they were witnesses
of a gross act of immoral
ity on the part of John
Hooper and a young girl of
this place, m the rear of
their premises.
Mr. Phillips, as a mem
ber of the church, and also
as a friend to Mr. Hooper,
sought the young mat
the following day and
monstrated with him on
his conduct, at the same
upon the State, but not a moment before.
Concerning the bonds “in which the State
; is principal, and not indorser,” we cannot see
cheerfully meet the expense of putting a neat I wbat Mr Ward ig dnving at We do not
iron railing around it, and in laying out knov of any state aecnritieg unreC ognized,
walks and planting flowers and shrubbery. which wer , not cither pawned fcy KimbaU and
It will be scarcely jnst to the congregation ; ISullock for their indiTidoa i
use, or sold by
of the Church, after spending some forty Henry Clew* * Ca, with a full knowledge of
thousand dollars In the construction of a fine | their ntter worthlessness. Let the “inno- ! SEZ
edifice, to have the lot sold to some private cent - purchasers look to Clews for payment. „ Youn * Hooper, it is said, he did not say .nybod'y else
individual who is likely to confront the place 1 Wby sball the state be called npon to do ?ng lb« \^TburMrj£«. law” Zm '™jov 0
of worship with an unsightly shanty. But more than aQ indivjdua i ? Supposes dishon- j f^MuentTe-tt .«,!*““■
aside from this consideration Atlanta is in ab- egt man wag t0 sell f orged and fraudulent ac- ! told it to anybody, he,! Mr. Phillip, Letter to Mr.
solute need of parks, and when an opportuni- cep t anceg 0 f General Alfred Austell to an “in- ! M^phiilYp^'r^Jced *uSt! juy 9,1873
ty offers for having one at small expense, it nocent - purchaser in New York, could this I others had witnessed it. ini Mr. John Hooper:’
should be promptly embraced. Me under- • *; nnoeen t" purchaser expect General Austell ! cernedhe did not intend , :1 V: epolie\nd talk/c\ of
stand that the owners of the lot in question to pay ^ bccauge he had relied upon tbe “J “
will not do anything to prevent the city pur- we u. kn0 wn character of the General and his ’ '
chasing it, and in view of the fact that nearly ability t0 pay hig debtgV Koteven Mr. Ward
at last, and it was found that the ebbtide,
remorseless as it was, had left stranded on
the African beach much that was valuable,
much that was admirable, and much, even,
that was to be respected.
Gradually Coffee began to settle down.
He began to find that “Infernal labor was
the price of liberty,” and he made contracts
and went to work. The country gentleman
rented small tracts of land—garden patches—
from his old master, and commenced raising
chickens, melons, dogs and children. Then
as he organized and systematized his work,
he enlarged his patch, planted cotton, com
and wheat, and finally became a respectable
farmer. He would build him a home, and
from this home sentiments and affections
would bud and vine, and wind themselves in
his heart, just as the honeysuckles and jas
mine would fling their graceful tendrils
around the doorstep, on which his picca
ninnies basked like young turtles and ripened
in the suwmet suu.
The city cousin in the meantime was not
behindhand. He devoted himself to the use-
character of the General and his ; desired was to warn the rounds about tbecityj
^Hooper of the consequen-ii will not name the subject
MM of his open disregard; from the fact I told you I
one-half of the estimated cost has been vol- i woulJ venture t0 ma i nt ain any proposition I of ordin » r >' caution in the would nob I have kept
P/mnail J r r I practice ot his immoral- my pledge. Have refused
nntarily subscribed, we trust the City Council
Iso preposterous. And yet this “innocent” ,
will order its purchase, and thus do some-; nnr . hfls ._ r h . v _ *Yr»Allpnt nri™ LJ* ap £ ear8 that among when requested to do
. , 4 . .. . a purenaser ma ; na^e paid an excellent price those who were witnesses:You. of course, will hei
thing towards ornamenting the, at present, , for tbe paper . It wonld probab i y gratify' " ~
best aesthetic city in the United States. We Genera , Angtell t0 know that hig credit was
are heartily in favor of the project, believing , B0 good; bnt u certainly would not indace
it can be carried out without material expense . him to reC0gniz8 tbe forgery acd gaYe the ,. in _
to the city, and without the tax-payers feel-, noceDt " purchaser from loss.
ing it.
, , hear it
to the improprieties ol the soon. I think its first start
parties were several ne- came from some negroes,
groes, who, as might be B ut I am satisfied that it is
supposed, spread the story out. How far it nas gone
on every side, giving the i can t say; but I tell you
young lady’s name, togetb- that I am not the exposer
er with all the indecent; to the public,
details. Very soon the: Yours, etc.,
We lav it down as abroad principle and a ! ■ ca p dal fP rea<1 fro “ ?“ e Thos. H. Phillips.
* . r end of the town to the
fai trades, carpentering, blacksmithing, etc,,
j ucjlv uivtuiu^ nucu uo uomotett uia cuui&c.
and after awhile commanded full and remu- I They retired and after a short absence re-
Letter from East Tennessee.
Special Correfpondence of the Herald.
Knoxville, Tenn., May 30.
To the Editors of the Herald:
Your correspondent left Atlanta on Wed
nesday night and, of course, had no oppor
tunity to see the crops until after we had
passed Dalton. From that point to Knox
ville we paid close attention to the fields on
either side ot the train and made all the in
quiry possible. On the old lands the grain
is thin and poor, but on the river they are
very fine. The stand of wheat is thin, but
the heads are full and it is generally supposed
that what wheat is harvested will be plump
and fine.
When we arrived here we found many of
the people making preparations to decorate
the Federal graves.
HOW SOON FOROOTTEN.
Tbe Supreme Court was in session and the
trial of young Nelson for the killing of Gen.
J. H. Clanton was progressing. Strange to
remark that there was no one preaent from
Alabama to conduct the prosecution. On in
quiry we learned that Gen. Clanton’s widow
had married and consequently the conduct
of the case was left entirely to the prosecuting
Attorney for the State, who is the law partner
of young Nelson's brother. Alter hearing
argument the Judge respited the jury until
next morning when he delivered his charge.
THE SITU ATION IN FRANCE.
An erroneous impression prevails among
some editors as to the strength of parties in
the French Assembly. Of the five factions in
it, the Bonapartist is the smallest; but the
remaining factions,representing the two wings
of the Bonrbon-Orleans monarchists,and Com
munist-Conservative Republicans, are so even
ly balanced in numbers that the Bonapartist
votes give the majority to one side or the
other, with which they coalesce for the time j been issued illegally, and demand to be
being. As a consequence, the Imperialists | saved from the consequences of his own care-
hold the winning cards in their hands. In a lessness and folly. Let him rather go to the
recent number of “ L'AbeiUe de la Xouvelle Or-! real culprits—the men who sold him the
leans," we read an interesting extract from a bogus paper—and seek redress by legal or
other, and as the young
i lady’s connections are very,
r " | respectable, it became e vi
true one, that in transactions of this kind
there are no such thing as “innocent” pur
chasers. A man who invests his money in ] Hooper must-do
“promises to pay,” should make it his duty
to inv estigate and ascertain the character of
the securities he is purchasing. If he trusts
to the honor and the honesty of the seller
alone, he voluntarily takes a risk, the result
If anybody can find anything “indecent”
in our correspondent’s letter, why, let him
make the most of it. And if the statements
nerative wages, from which he saved money
and looked forward to permanent investment.
He founded schools and seemed to crave for
knowledge, and insisted on his children tak
ing educational advantages. Thus the poor,
patient, thick-skulled fellow climbed the
ladder.
It is now seven years since the slaves were
set free, and let us look for some of the prac
tical results of freedom. We need not go out
side of Atlanta to find them.
Take the case of the Freedmen’s
Savings Bank whose workings were
published in the Herald from the pen of a
city reporter some weeks ago. It was found
by this report taken from the books of the
Bank, that during the two years this Bank
has been in existence three hundred and fifty-
seven thousand dollars had been deposited by
the working negroes of Atlanta, and that
eleven hundred negroes in this town are
regular depositors, some of them very large
ones. This number is constantly increasing,
and we are assured that a negro who com-
of which he must abide by. It is neither just j testimony of Ross and the letter of Phillips,
nor equitable in him to go to others whose | W e are unable to understand what corrobera-
of “Opelika” are not lully 4 borne out by the mences a Savings’ Bank account never gives
it up. If he can only deposit twenty-five
names have been forged and whose securities
Frencu paper, giving an account of an inter
view between M. Emile de Girardin and one
other means.
Under no circumstances shall we favor c
of Thiers’ ministers. M. de Girardin, who is opening of tbe bond question, excepting in
a Conservative Republican and a bitter hater j matter of the indorsed railroad bonds, and
of the Bonapartists, 'charged MM. Roaher I th en only (and not until then) after every re-
aod de Cassagnac with having stabbed Napo- I qnirement of the law authorizing their issue
leon IV in the interest of Henri V. This, ! ha* been rigidly complied with. Neither can
however, is preposterous. Nothing is more we a &r ee to the State's voluntarily incurring
certain than that MM. Rouher and de Cassag-1 th® expense of a long litigation in the courts
tive evidence is.
If the Observer, whose observations seem to
be limited to everything in favor of Mr.
Hooper, desires to know it, we will inform
that paper that in editing “Opelika’s” letter
cents a week he piously takes this trifle
around and drops it in. As a direct result of
this saving system Mr. Cory, the cashier,
says that nearly $100,000 has been drawn
from the bank to purchase real estate with in
this city and county. There is now, we are
we suppressed certain statements which have | informed from best authority, that the negroes
since been developed in the examination, bnt ; 0 f Atlanta own $200,000 worth of real estate
which we would not then make public be- | ; n the corporate limits. The good that this
nac could not possibly desert the imperial
cause for that of the Legitimists, unless, in
deed, tbe rumor that de Chsmkord has secret
ly adopted tbe. Prince Imperial should
prove true. De Chambord is old and
childless. He hates the Orleans fami-
orer a matter whose merits have already been
fully discussed and acted upon by the law
making power of the State. The illegality of
the bonds is unmistakably evident, and that
which is evident needs no affirmation, legal or
otherwise. A fact is simply impregnable. It
ly, though they are his cousins. Old cannot be made a phantasy.
“Egalite,” of Orleans, voted to put Louis XVI. j However, we foresee another agitation of
to death, and that prince of peddler , Louis ; this bond question when the Legislature next
Pbillipe, slipped into the vacant throne of meets, and it might be best for the hard
Charles X. without compunction. The bad
blood between the two branches of the family
renders it not impossible that the old Count
has really agreed to a coalition with the Bon
toiling, suffering tax-payers to demand of
their representatives, now, what they propose
“to do about It.” Georgia has enough on her
hands, paying off her honest debts, without
apartists, based upon his ascending the throne adding to her burdens by assuming obliga
tions which are not hers, either legally or
morally. We doubt, too, if many newspapers
in this State will be found to advocate any
re-opening of the question. The first one to
advise a compromise—the Augusta Constitu
tionalist— has already suspended; the second—
a Savannah paper—dies to-day, and the third,
of any notoriety, will not be long in following
these to that bourne whence no newspaper re
turns, unless it leArns, before it is too late,
that the people are as terribly in earnest in
their purpose not to pay one cent of these
fraudulent bonds as they are determined to
pay every honest legal debt to the last cent,
principal and interest
and naming the Prince Imperial as his suc
cessor.
It would certainly be a curioas spectacle.
Of all the strange occurrences of the nine
teenth century, nothing would be more singu
lar than a onion of the representatives of Le
gitimism and Divine Right and the represen
tatives of Revolntion and Popular Sovereign
ty. Only in the event of snch an onion, how
ever, could the Bonapartists support de Cham
bord. “We are forty-five Imperialists,” said
M. Rouher some weeks ago, “devoted, heart
and sonl, to tbe Bonaparte dynasty, and nn
changeable in onr convictions that the Empire
alone can give power and happiness to
France.” It is not possible, then, for M. de Gi-
rardin’s bitter sarcasm on the Bonapartists to
contain the truth. We had bsgun translating
the article, as it is very interesting, bnt matters
of importance called us away, and when we
sought for the Bet we could not find it.
When Attorney General Williams was asked
a few days ago under what Jaw the United
States troops were employed to sustain the
Kellogg government in Louisiana, he replied
that he did not know and did not cere, but
that the administration was determined to
stand by Kellogg in any event.
cause we feared it might do injustice to
others. We have also suppressed the evi
dence of the last witness, not only because of
the filthy details it gives of grossly immoral
conduct, but also because it is most damaging
to the character of the young lady.
What strikes us as singular, is the fact that
in thus denouncing our correspondent, the
Observer is assailiDg the sentiments of its own
community. It is notorious that the feeling
in Opelika against Hooper is intense. Doe3
the Observer mean to insult its people by as
serting that they are so lost to manhood and
to honor as to condemn a defender of inno
cence and a slayer of a slanderer? We now
desire to ask the Observer a few questions:
Is it not asserted in Opelika that before Mr.
Phillips had spoken of the alleged criminal
conduct of the parties, Hooper had himself
boasted of bis triumph over the unfortunate
girl?
Did not one of the witnesses swear that
Hooper had confessed to him that he was im
properly intimate with her?
Why has the Observer suppressed the testi
mony thus far taken in the case ?
What interest has the Hooper family in tbe
Opelika Observer?
After these questions are answered we may,
if in a good humor, condescend, perhaps, to
take further notice of the vaporiugs of this
Opelika paper. All we deem necessary to add
now is that at no timo has the Herald or its
correspondent made any effort whatsoever,
“ brutal ” or otherwise, to destroy the charac
ter of a young lady. On the contrary, we say it
from our soul that we hope to see the reputa
tion of the poor girl fully vindicated, and it will
afford us the greatest possible pleasure to give
publicity to its vindication. Furthermore,
when it is proven that Phillips was the slan
derer of a young girl we shall justify Hooper
institution will do in steadying the race is
incalculable. As soon as a negro commences
saving he begins to yearn for land and a
home. As soon as ho buys a home, he quits
his predatory life, and becomes a solid, sub
stantial citizen, interested in the growth and
prosperity of the country he lives in, and of
course less liable to be influenced
by foreign and injurious agencies. In
regard to the schools, there are now
in Atlanta several very fine ones of high and
well selected curriculum* and competent
teachers. There are about 950 little students,
most of them industrious and pains taking,
and some of them of marked quickness and
ability. The next generation of nogroes will
be a decidedly more intelligent, better educa
ted, race of people than they have ever been.
The results we have noted are not confined to
Atlanta, but are duplicated in every city and
town in Georgia, and in the South as far as
we can judge.
Hence, we are justified in hoping and be
lieving that while the negro, by reason of his
very nature, cannot ever become either the
rival or companion of the white race, he may
become before long a useful, steady, and re
spected part of our tax paying population.
At least let us pray that this may be so.
Cuffee is a good enough fellow if he will
jnst keep out of Yankee carpet bags.
George Francis Train has beaten all his
opponents. IIe was charged with insanity
and he proved that he was perfectly sane.
He was next tried for publishing indecent
matter, and he proved that he was insane,
and therefore not responsible, so they ac
quitted bin). Ordered to a lunatic asylum,
he sued out a writ of habeas corpus, and a
Sheriff’s jury decided that he was perfectly
sane. Bo George has been discharged, and
we may now expect another flood of epi~
for killing him; but so long as it nppeari grams nud another series of lectures.
General Bragg was very anxious to get infor
mation from Buell’s army. All the secret
service men had failed in their efforts, and
application was made to our Commanding
General to send some one into Na6bville.
He at once sent to Captain K. He explained
to him the necesityof sending him into Nash
ville. Captain K. declined. He stated that he
did not desire to go for several reasons: First,
the service was an exceedingly hazardous one,
and if he should be captured that he would
behuDg for a spy; second, he felt sure that he
could not go in and return without exposing
himself to the risk of doing things which
he would prefer to avoid. His commanding
officer explained to him the great importance
of the mission, that he knew no other that
he could so well trust and who was capable
to perform the duty. That he regarded it to
be his duty to go, and if he refused it would
be impossible to get the information. When
the General appealed to him in this manner,
he consented, asking that he might select but
one man. He selected Lieutenant G., a brave,
prudent soldier, but who was anything but a
minister.
They started on their journey quietly and
unknown to any but the commanding Gene
ral. Alter days of absence they returned,
with very valuable and important informa
tion. About a week after their return, one of
the privates came to my tent and said to me,
“Colonel, do you know that Captain K. cut
the throats of two prisoners on his recent trip
to Nashville ?” I replied that I did not be
lieve it possible, as 1 knew Capt. K. to be one
of the most tender-hearted and humane of
men. The soldier said. “ It is true; i have
heard it lrom undoubted authority, and you
can send for Capt K. and you will find it to
be so.” I sent lor him and said, “Captain,
I have just heard that on your late reconnois-
ance you killed two prisoners. ” He appeared
much surprised, and remarked in a quick,
impulsive manner, “Lieutenant G. told this;
he must stop talking abont it or I shall be
compelled to overhaul him.”
He then said to me, “Colonel I will explain
this matter. It is true I killed two men, but I
was obliged to do it I did right acd I have
no regrets for it. I carefully considered the
matter and prayed over it, and feel that I
only did my duty. I went into the Federal
lines at Nashville against m3’ will. I pro
tested against being sent. It was urged upon
me as a duty and I undeitook its performance.
I succeeded in getting valuable information
as to the number of troops and the contem
plated movements of the army, also 'drawings
of the fortifications and other matters that
were of vast consequence to our army. When
I got all things ready for my return, I started
back. I succeeded in getting clear of tbe
Federal lines and stopped with Lieutenant G.
at his house to take breakfast
We had scarcely seated ourselves at the
table, when Miss G. said, “Oh, brother#
look !” and glancing our eyes to the gate at
the end of the lawn, we saw a body of Federal
cavalry approaching. It required* but a mo
ment to seize our pistols and start for our
horses. We were met at the door by two sol
diers, whom we ordered to surrender and took
captive. We made them mounted behind ns
and escaped to the banks of the Cumberland
river. We were hotly pursued, and crossed
and recrossed the river four times. It finally
became apparent that we must get rid of our
prisoners or we were gone. We could not
turn them loose, because we were then almost
in hearing of the cavalry in search of ns. I
realized that we must kill them or be cap
tured. I would have preferred the latter, al
though I felt that my own life would pay the
forfeit, but then I thought of the great im
portance of the information I had, and my
sense of duty to my country decided me. I
said to G. these men must die, there is no
alternative left but this. G. said. Captain, by
G—d, I can’t do it. (G. was a wicked fellow,
but he had no such high sense of duty as the
Captain.) I persuaded him that we must do
it, and he finally consented, saying, you kill
* ! the little one and I will kill the other. We
Chatham Superior Court was occupied all | oamod them to a bluff on the river and tk,n
1 r 1 ve told the men ot our purpose. They were
day Monday with the case of the bondhold- j paralyzed with dread and begged very hard,
ers of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad vs. J but my mind was made up. I prayed to
turned with a verdict of “not guilty.” Thus
it is that one of the noblest of Southern
Generals, and purest men that ever lived,
has been sent to his long home by the bullet
of one whom he scarcely knew aud for no as
signable cause and in a brief while his slayer
is brought to trial, and turned loose without
an effort on the part of General Clanton’s
friends to bring him to justice. Our readers
are too familiar with all the painful details of
his killing to render it necessary to again re
fer to them. It is a sad thing to remember
that the great and good Clanton should have
passed away and in so short a time that not
one of his former admirers and friends should
have sufficient love for his memory to see it
vindicated. “VeDge&nce is mine and I will
repay,” still stands in God’s word and to Him
we leave this young man.
COAL.
After a day in Knoxville we visited the
Coal Creek Mines and found the mines idle
and their owners quite despondent. The
workmen have formed unions to demand
higher prices for mining and as their figures
have not yet been announced, the proprietors
are hesitating abont making future contracts
at any stipulaed price. It would seem that
it would be the part of wisdom for all who
can la}’ in their winter’s supply now to do so,
as it is altogether uncertain what they will be
called on to pay next winter. •
JOE. BROWN AND GENERAL MACRAE.
"We met with a number of railroad men at
the mines and they were all anxious to know
how the Herald’s fight against Joe. Brown's
management of the State road was progress
ing, and when we informed them that Joe.
Brown had been stripped of all power to
continue his unjust discriminations, they
seemed to be quite rejoiced and they stated
that if General MacRae should be left alone
to manage the detuils of the road in the in
terest of the general public that it would do
away with much of the prejadice that has
recently sprung up against the lease.
TaAY ELER.
God to have mercy on their souls, and
» , , . , , 1 then caught my man by tbe hair and
Quite a lengthy argument was had in this ; cut throat. As he sank ou the grounu.
the road. The Advertiser says:
case, which is brought up here on an order of
tbe judge to argue the legal points in order to
facilitate the proceedings in tl.is case. The
attorneys in the caso are Jadge O. A.
Lochrane, who represents the foreign bond
holders to the amount of $1,958,000; Col
onels A. O. Bacon and T. J. Simmons, who
represents the American bondholders to the
amount of about $840,000. The road is repre
sented by Judge Wm. M. Sessions. Tbe argu
ment was conducted yesterday by Colonel
Bacon in the interest of the American bond
holders. and will be concluded to-day by
Judge Lochrane in the interest of the foreign
bondholders, who claim that they hold bonds
on the finished portion of the road, which is
172 miles, as against the American bondhold
G. with horror in his countenance said, by
G—d, Captain, I can’t do it It was the work
of a moment to seize tbe other and kill him
also. We then tied them with our hand
kerchief, and sank them in the river. Tbe
cool narration ot these facts filled me with
horror and I said to him: “Great Heaven,
Captain, how could you do it
He replied: “Suppose, Colonel, that you
were to receive to day a new
piece of artillery and wanted to try
the range of it You would probably point it
at the enemy who are encamped on the other
side of the river. If a ball should 6trike
among a squad of men and kill a half dozen,
you would all cry out “fine shot’’ and yet
what would this be but killing uselessly at a
ers. The order to argue the case was issued j ml |o aud a half distance. No possible good
for the purpose of settlmg nil legal points ; cou i d come Q f j t . it would not affect either
before the case is submitted to the jury upon - ariu y an j ota . i u my cage> j bad information
the tacts, which will probably be done in a j ou which depended the fate of our army. Mr-
few weeks, his honor Judge Schley sitting in , capture would not only have involved uiy
place of Judge Harris of the Brunswick Cir- j deR th but also the fate of our whole army.
My duty was clear, and I did not hesi tate.
When we had sunk these men in the river,
we went into the woods, and 1 laid dowu to
sleep. Lieut. G. waked me up aud said he
could not sleep; that the scene he had passed
through could never be effaced. I said to
him that he must never speak of it, as it
might reach the enemy and produce military
retaliation. He promised that he would not,
but I see that be has not kept his vord and
he must be stopped.” I was amazed at
the Ceptain’s coolness, aud decided to watch
hie future course. He never faltered, and in
every battle-he was foremost, and was finally
ao severely wounded that bis life was despair
ed of, but he liTed through the war, aud ia
now preaching, na I understand, to a fine
congregation.
cuit
London was illuminated on Saturday night
in honor of the fifty-fourth birthday of Queen
Victoria. The manner in which tbe day was
celebrated throughout Great Britain is an un
mistakable indication of the love and affec
tion which exists in British hearts for one of
the beat sovereigns that ever sat upon a
throne.
A letter has been received in New Orleans
from a German intending immigration, in
quiring whether it will be safe fornlm to ven
ture through New Orleans on his way to Tex
as, provided he is well armed and has a pass
lrom tie German Emperor.