About Georgia weekly telegraph and Georgia journal & messenger. (Macon, Ga.) 1869-1880 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1870)
Telegraph and Messenger. MACON, MAY 24 .'870. From Pntnam County. The general idea about the growing crops in Pntnam is that about one acre of corn has been planted to two of cotton. An early rain will improve the appearance of both crop3 very much. Some of the wheat and oat fields are very promising, bnt all need rain. The weather is very dry—and gardens are burning up. Cot ton is looking very well, with generally a good stand, although there are some exceptions, due to indifferent seed or other causes. A good any of the planters, we are glad to say, have about equal areas in grain and cotton. The Superior Court is holding an adjourned term in Eatonton. A true bill was found against Sandy Luther for killing Thomas G. Perryman, and he will probably be tried this week. Also, against Nathaniel Gorley, for killing .Richard Lawrence, and a negro in the same case as ac cessory for famishing Gorley with a knife. Gorley has never been arrested. Court will probably continue in session through the week. Bullock’s Last Little Game. The Washington correspondent of the Balti more Gazette, says “Bullock’s present scheme is to secure tho adoption of a bill drawn by Butler, which is identical with the Virginia bill, save that it will contain a clause permitting the organization of a negro militia. This is ap parently a concession on the part of the Bnl- lockitcs. It is really a trick. Bullock’s agents say that if such a bill passes, the Legislature can and will be perpetuated. Bullock is arrang ing for this In Gftoroin. whila Ilia oaranta »ro «* work in Washington.” It will be remembered that a bill to this effect has been agreed upon the Re-Construction com mittee, but not yet acted upon by the House. We are not without a strong hope that no bill that extends the term of office of Bollock and the miserable Atlanta agency can be passed through both Houses. A C haracteristic Return for Southern Hospitality In the debate in tho Senato Monday, Senator Cameron “expressed his conviction as the re sult of personal observations during a recent visit to the South, that the rebellious spirit of the people was still alive, as shown by the con temptuous reference to Northern men. When they appreciate their guilt, it would be time enough to bestow clemency." This man was at tho Georgia State Fair held in Macon last November, and to our personal knowledge, was the recipient of the kindest and most generous hospitalities, both public and private. Ho could not have been treated more courteously anywhere in the North. And if we are not most egregiously mistaken, he so ex pressed himself to many gentlemen in this city. He certainly made no sign of entertaining a different opinion while here. And this is his return for it all. Is it to be wondered at that the Southern people are reluctant to take to their homes and hearts men who repay kind treatment by such wicked slanders. IIow They Mean to Pass If. The Courier Journal’s Washington special of Wednesday says there was an exciting time that day in tho Reconstruction Committee among the Republican members as to the course to be pursued when the .Georgia bill shall be brought into the House,’and finally General Butler tri umphed in tho result that the previous question should be moved, debate cut off, and only per mission given to the Democratic members of the oommittee to offer amendments. This is a scheme to prevent conservative Republicans from amending the bill when the matter comes up in the House. There is every prospect of a lively time on the latest phase of tho intermin able Georgia muddle. An experiment over the Western Union Tel egraph Company's wires of working a long cir cuit through a number of repeaters, was tried Sunday with remarkable success. Mr. R. C. Duncan, chief operator at New Orleans, sent through nine repeaters, one each at Rome, Ga., Lynchburg, Va., New York City and Pittsburg, fivo at Cincinnati, and one each at St. Louis, Chicago and Memphis, the writing returning to New Orleans almost as clearly as when leaving the office, having passed through eighteen States and over four thousand eight hundred miles of wires. Tho electric current traversed the distance in about three-quarters of a sec ond. The writing was transmitted as rapidly as on an ordinary short wire. Fobney is out against the bill for reimburs ing tho losses of Southern loyalists, and the New Orleans Times thinks he is right. The Times says their principal loss was that of char acter, and they have long ago supplied the va cuum with a damaged substitute. Besides this, as Forney naively says, “the rebels would be come so bold as to demand of Government pay ment for losses sustained by them in the war.” AtiA that would’nt do, you know. Oh, no! They might commence making inquiries in re gard to the whereabouts of various pictures, pianos, silverware, etc, and that would be ex ceedingly unpleasant. “No Postponement on Account op the Weather.”—Some have supposed that the hot and dry weather in Washington, conpled with the dust and pungent odor d’Afrique, will lead to the postponement of the further africaniza- tion of Georgia till frost, Tho latest news, however, announces that Gov. Bollock and the sons of Ham have reported for duty, and the curtain will now rise on the 14th act in the drama. It is said that the fat will begin to fry in the course of a week. Whipping In Delaware, and So On* The Herald of Sunday devotes three columns to the “Story of the Lash” in Delaware—an account of a special correspondent sent to New castle to witness and report the shocking spec tacle of seven petty thievea, tied np in the jail- yard, one by one, and whipped. He was great ly disappointed in the magnitude-of the hor rors. There were few or no spectators of the tragic scene, and the criminals, one after another, were tied np to the post and re ceived their twenty lashes with supreme in difference. The lashes were not “well laid on” in the terms of the law. The Sheriff, who is the legal flagellator, did not do his duty, and turned the punishment into pretty much of a farce. Delaware should either abolish whipping or makeitapenoZfy. As matters stand, accord ing to this report, ail tho world is abasing little Delaware for the barbarity of her penal code, whereas, in point of fact, the lash, as ad ministered, is little or'no punishment at all in respect to pain inflicted. Bat the degradation—ah, the degradation Think of tho degradation, says Sister Snooks. A lash instead of a penitentiary cell—stripes on the back instead of striped breeches, and half shorn heads—a sweat box—the treadmill—suffo cation by water—hanging by tho thumbs, or baring a shorn head in an iron collar to the ac tion of dripping water, which is said to bo the most intolerable pnnishment known. Well, we fail to see a greater personal indig nity in the Delaware lash than in any of these inventions of modem philanthropy. The male factor is degraded by his crimes and not by the punishment. Humanity demands that legal nfinaiMoo ua us light as may consist with the vindication of law, the suppression of crime, and the maintenance of public order. All experi ence goes to show that the certainty, and not the severity of punishment diminishes crime. The great practical vice of the law is its uncertainty and its dely. It is practical nonsense to talk of the degradation of penalties to that class of of fenders who subsist by depredations upon the industrious, and sap the foundations of the pub- lio security and welfare by a system of petty thieving. It is this class which do more mis chief in every community than all others com bined, and it is ibis class which is pecnliarly destructive to tho property of Georgia. The interests of society demand a system of criminal jurisprudence which shall dispose of such cases with tho same celerity and dispatch with which they arise—which shall dispose of a man who has robbed your premises or depredated on your stock or crops during the night by 9 o’clock the next morning, and administered some punish ment, not excessive, and yet sufficient to satisfy the rascal that, on the whole, it is better to work than to steaL As matters stand the machinery of semi-anna al court sessions—Grand Jury indictments—long trials and semi-occasional punishments is a prac tical and costly humbug. It amounts to little or nothing in the way of suppressing crime and maintaining the rights of property. Here is the grand point in which a reform is needed more than any other. Time to do Something.—A correspondent cills our attention to the alleged fact that there were three cases of pistolling in Macon last week, and asks if it is not high time to stop this business. We think so. A Change Demanded. The Washington correspondent of the Balti more Gazette writes, last Tuesday, as follows Some of the Associated Press Agents in the South need reconstructing badly. The agent at Atlanta needs looking after particularly, as it is very evident he is merely the tool of Bollock & Co. On tho 10th instant he telegraphed that Bollock had commenced a suit for libel against the Atlanta Constitution, accompanying the statement with an entirely gratuitous threat from his carpet-bag Excellency. We endorse every word of this opinion. This Atlanta agent does need looking after very badly. He does not give satisfaction at all, we know, to the newspapers composing the South ern Press Association. They are fully con vinced that be is not a proper person for the position he holds, and at their late meeting at Savannah, passed a resolution requesting Mr. Simonton to remove him, and to appoint in his stead Mr. Hemphill, of the Constitution. When Mr. Simonton returns from Europe, his atten- tention will be called to the matter, and an im mediate change asked. Tho fact of the agent’s being an employee of the Western Union Telegraph Company was deemed by the Association sufficient reason, of itself, to ask a change, even if there had been no other ground for dissatisfaction. But they are dissatisfied for other reasons, and the instance alluded to by the Gazette’s correspondent will not tend to change their opinion. Agents of the Associated Press are not sup posed to have any politics as officials, and are expected to send only facts—not opinions or speculations, and, least of all, personal threats or menaces. If any such are indulged, let the utterer give them publicity as specials. We have had our attention directed more than once before, to such derelictions of duty on the part of this Atlanta agent, and we re peat the hope that at an early a day as possible, the resolution of the Southern Press Associa tion looking to a change, will be carried into practical effect. We know it will not be the fault of those charged with the work, if it is not speedily done. Sonllicrn Cultivator Receipt Books. We have reoeived, through the courtesy of Mr. O. D. Camp, of the Cultivator office, Athens, a copy of the above named receipt book, just published by him. It appers to be an admira ble collection of receipts of various kinds com piled from the files of the Cultivator, and will, wo doubt not, have a largo sale. It certainly deserves substantial appreciation by the public. Wagons & Oabbiages.—Smith, Westcott & Co., on Cherry street, just above us, are doing an active business in all manner of rolling stock for dirt roads, including a particular description of wagons, which they advertise in another place. They are very strong and serviceable wagons, which anybody can see who will exam ine them. A writer, signing himself “Canton," sends ns a communication on “City Speculations.” He ought to know, it seems to us, that we pay no attention to any communications unless the Writer sends his real name with them. This is a rule that will never be violated in this office. We hope “all it may concern” will make a note of the fact. Gbzkn County, Tennessee, boasts two iron fomaoes, which turn out daily from fifteen to eighteen tons of the best charcoal pig iron, and employ about two hundred thousand dollars capital, and from one hundred to two hundred men. > - , Miss Maby Vachk, a member of tho Richings- Bemard Troupe, died in Charleston, Saturday, after an illness of three weeks. The Salt Lake Telegraph, hearing thatHing- ston, the showman, is to publish a book, says that “his book will l>e a euocess, as Hingston is pe of the raciest liars in existence.” From the Memphis Conference. Memphis, May 16, 1870. Editors 1 degraph and Messenger : The Committee on Education made a report on the speoial subject of ministerial education, which had been referred, with directions to re port immediately. They repudiated tho idea that Methodism was opposed to an educated ministry, and as earnestly denounced the charge that they desired to substitute learning for the power of the Holy Ghost Also declared that education unsanctified was dangerous, and would lead to disaster. Referring to the fact that many of our early ministry were uneducated and did most effi cient work; but all admitted that if they had been educated, this usefulness would have been greatly enhanced. They hoped that an educa tional requirement would never be demanded of applicants for the ministership into our Con ferences. They designed no such thing. Still the time had arrived that greater attention should be given to the cultivation of our min istry. This they argued from many considera tions, and thought there was no division among Methodists upon this point. They recommended a theological institute for the benefit of candi dates, under the direction of tho Bishops, hut leaving it optional with each candidate whether he attended or not. They do not make it com pulsory upon any one, leaving all to decide for themselves when they shall go forth into the regular ministry. The minority, under tho load of Dr. Craven, of North Carolina, made a report demurring against tho establishment of a theological insti tute, which was signed by nine members of the committee. Both reports were laid on the table. The Conference resolved to hold an afternoon session. The report from the Committee on Itinerancy referring to the abolishing of tho vestive rule in the pastorate, Dr.-L. O. Garland, of the University of Mississippi, had the floor. He spoke in favor of the measure, and a general discussion ensued, and finally the whole subject was indefinitely postponed. Bishop Fierce presented a report from a com mission appointed at the last General Confer ence to bear the fraternal greetings to the Prote6trnt Methodist Church. They had performed their doty, and were dieobarped. LxRxrx. Tlae Georgia Press. The Constitutionalist reports the death of Hon. John Foster, ex-Mayor of that city, Tues day evening, of canoer. He was Mayor in 1866, but was removed by Pope, and Blodgett put in his place. The Constitutionalist also reports the death at Columbia, S. C., on Sunday, of Mr. John Caldwell, a former President of the South Caro lina railroad. Stealing geraniums is the latest phase of kleptomania developed in Columbus. Of crop prospects, the Sun discourses as fol lows: Here, and in the country adjacent hereto, a drought has entered on its sixth week. During a larger portion of this time, high cold winds have prevailed. The result so far has been that the oat crop is well nigh destroyed, and the wheat crop considerably shortened. Com and cotton have stood the test remarkably well, though both have been injured to some extent Upon stiff lands the stand of cotton is defective, and on light lands it is dying out At the pres ent writing the prospect for rain is not promis ing, nor is the prospect for a crop. . The spring was backward, and neither com or com have been able to grow much. Between this and the first of July, the weed of the cotton plant must be made; after that time comes the fruiting season. Without propitious seasons during this interval, the crop must bo shortened. Crops are clear from grass and in good condition for rain, and if we can get one not accompanied by hail and wind, we may be able in a faw days to chronicle a more cheerful state of affairs for the farmer. We may add that the berry crop, by reason of the dry weather, is small and back ward. The lumber business of Savannah is pretty brisk. On Tuesday 222,960 feet of yellow pine lumber was cleared for Buenos Ayres, and 100,070 piccco ©f pilcli pluo lotubor and 0,035 pieces pitch pine boards for Boston. Tne News says: The double turreted monitor Terror, seventy- six hours from Hampton Roads, for Key West, put in at Tybeo last night for coal. Her steam convoy Pilgrim came up to the city with a num ber of the officers of both ships, who are stop ping at the Falaski House. The Monitor car ries four 15 inch guns, twenty officers and two hundred mer. The Columbus Enquirer answers the ques tion : “Where does the money go,” with the fol lowing facts that ought to startle the country: The question has been frequently asked of late “What has gone with the money ?” We are prepared to throw a little light on the sub ject. On Saturday last the Montgomery and West Point Railroad brought to the depot at this city, thirty-six heavily laden cars; Monday 20; yesterday 40, and for the past ten days an average of 22—all freighted chiefly with com, hay, floor and bacon. Total in ten days 220 car loads of Western produce and provisions to one little Southern city—and that a city which some people consider dead. Well, when we take into consideration that this is only a drop in the bncket, when compared to tho flood tide that has been pouring into all the villages, towns, cities and cross-road groceries in the cotton States, can there longer be any wonder what goes with the cotton money. Instead of remaining here to improve onr lands, build railroads, factories, and strengthen industry generally, it has all gone West and North to buy victuals, clothes, fertilizers, etc. Not only is this the case, bnt many planters, throughout Georgia, Alabama and Florida, are actually mortgaging the next cotton crop to obtain sup plies to make it. If this is not suicide in the first degree, we sbonld like to know what yon call it. Is it any wonder that business of all descriptions is languishing, and the vast major ity of onr people find it difficult to eke out a miserable existence. The Sandersville Georgian reports cold winds and heavy chilling dews as having injured the young cotton seriously on some farms in that county. Wheat is said to be fine everywhere. On the 4th of April, Mrs. Cofield, aged 75 years, died in Washington county, and on the 12th of the same month her husband, died aged 86 years. The Newnan Defender says : Mystebious Homicide.—On Sunday morning, at an early hour, a negro man was found on the street near College temple, with a ballet-hole in his forehead, and, in a dying condition. He was taken to the house of his wife at the resi dence of B. H. Wright, Esq., and survived only a few minntes. It takes seven fall grown men to get up the local columns of the Atlanta dailies. They most work very hard. We are sory for them. Miss Mary Samford, aged fourteen, daughter of Rev. A. M. Samford, of Cartersville, was burned so badly, Saturday night, by the oil in kerosene lamp catching on fire, that she died Sunday morning. The Hawkinsville Dispatch reports gardens and crops drooping for lack of rain, and the heat really oppressive. Tuesday afternoon, at o’clock, tho thermoneter stood at 94 degrees. We get the following items from the Atlanta Constitution: Mb. Edward Parsons, who has jnst returned from Montecello, reports the wheat crop be tween Covington and Monticello as extraordin arily fine, and the com and cotton crops as promising, though needing rain. The weather is unusually dry for the season, and the dust very disagreeable. Rain is need ed in this locality very much. Garden and field crops aro suffering for want of it. Six car-loads of Stone Mountain granite pass ed through here yesterday, consigned to Major Campbell Wallace, Montgomery, Alabama, for the South and North Alabama railroad. We get these items from the Americas Re publican, of yesterday: A number of Federal ex-officers are coming to superintend the decoration of the National Cemetery at Andersonville, on the 30th of May. Senator Sprague has sent an agent to this place with the view of making a selection of a site on which to erect a cotton factory. The cotton along the line of the Southwes tern railroad, from Fort Valley to this city, presents a very weak appearance, and not like- y to yield much. LODGE OF SORROW, Imposing Masonic Ceremonies—Bnrlal Service Over Deceased Dlgnltarles—Es cort of Knlgbta Templar—Orations, Etc., JKte_ Etc. Reported for the Baltimore GazeUe.~\ The opening of a Lodge of Sorrow, and the services by the Supreme Council Of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Thirty-third De gree, connected therewith, an event whioh has never before transpired ia this city, took place last night in the grand saloon of the Masonic Temple, and attracted, as might have been an ticipated, an overwhelming audience.^ The Lodge was opened in the main saloon, and the services were held to commemorate the deaths of several distinguished members of the Order of Symbolio Masonry, which have taken place since the meeting of the Supreme Coun cil, two years ago, in Charleston, including that of William S. Rockwell, Lieutenant Grand Com mander of Georgia, whose remains passed through this city a few months ago. the main saloon. The main saloon was hung in festoons of black aronnd the four walls, with white rosettes sus taining the loops between, and opposite each window. In the centre of the room stood a sil ver-mounted black doth casket adorned with flowers, and burning beside it three oandles of black wax, and around it stood a Guard of Hon or, Knights Templar, with drawn swords, com posed of the following gentlemen: Thomas H. Kugler, General D. L. Stanton, v ’iam Par rish, George McCann, Dr. Philip >- -.''ield, and James Parish. To the east of the casket was placed the altar of black cloth with white fringe, upon which lay tho Holy Bible open, support ing the square and compass. Still farther to the east, on the platform of tie saloon, stood a large Gothic stylo organ, fron the manufactory of Mr. A. Pomplitz, of this city, and loaned by him especially for tho occasion. This fine instrument ha? twenty five stops, is Financial Condition or Texas, In an article upon the resources and finan cial condition of Texas, the Galveston News says: In this respect onr situation is trnly enviable as compared with the almost hopeless state of bankruptcy into whioh moat of the other South ern States have beenplunged. Oar Stateis now out of debt Indeed, according to the Gov ernor’s message, we have some thousands of dollars in the treasury over tho payment of every ascertained obligation. The amount on hand, on the 16th of April last, exclusive of the school and other special funds, was $2,952.97, specie, and $368,426.75, currenoy, after all de ductions. We do not think this can be said of any other Southern State, if, indeed, of any other State in the Union. Bnt if we are to judge of (he future financial legislal’on of our own law-makers now in session from that of the other States of the Sonth, we may naturally look for a debt of many millions by the time our Legislature adjourns. You may, without a shadow of a doubt. If the crowd calling themselves a Legislature in your State do iiot improve npon all the prece dents set them by their like in other Southern States, we shall be badly fooled. The other so-called Legislatures have had only bond3 and greenbacks, to whet their appetites, bnt your treasury is filled with hard money. The Lord help you. Look out for the grandest and most comprehensive raid, and the cleanest sweep ever witnessed, even in tho history of these “loyal" plunderers. Why, they’ll pick you as bare as a bone. We undertake to say that when they get through with you, there wont be a dime in specie in the whole State. You may just as well make up your mind to come to ragged shinplasters like yemr neighbors. The proposition made in the House, Monday, to instruct the Re-Construction Committee to report a general amnesty bill reoeived only thir teen Radical votes—two <Jf whioh, only, were from the North, Bingham and Hale.'. Prof. Agassiz is said to.be very sick and lit tle hope is entertained that he will be' restored hie old vigor and capacity. twenty-four feet higb, nawteer. feet wide and fourteen feet deep. Opposite the organ, against tbo gallery at the west odJ, hung an oil portrait of Hon. Howell Cobb, deceased, formerly In spector General of the Order in Georgia. Seats were placed about the ctsket and altar, leaving an aisle from the main entrance as a means of approach from the platform. The seats on the main floor, as well as in the gallery, were filled at a very early hour in the evening. Above and against tie organ were suspended escutcheons bearing the names of the deceased members, in commemoration of whom tho Lodge of Sorrow was opened, namely: names of tee deceased. Joseph Francis Louis Lamarre, Sovereign Grand Inspector General of Louisiana; Willis P. Coleman, same of Louisiana; Howell Cobb, same of Georgia; William S. Rockwell, Lieu tenant Grand Commander of Georgia; Edward Hale Gill, Sovereign Grand Inspector General of Virginia; Edward Rutledge Ives, same of Florida; Tho3. Ross, «ame of California. ESCOPT OF KVHJHTS TEMPLAB. At 7:20 p. m., the several Commandaries of Knights Templar entered the saloon in fall pharaphernalia. Maryland No. 1, M. H. Em mons, Generalissimo, commanding; William D. Jones Captain General. Baltimore No. 2, H. D. Mosselman, Eminent Commander; Thomas H. Knghler, Generalissimo; Murphy, Cap tain General. Monumental No. 3, Frank Lin coln, Eminent Commander; H. J. Irwin, Gen eralissimo; Byron Holmes, Captain GeneraL Crusade No. 5, (U. D.) Charles A. Hatter, Act ing Commander [Commandery No. 4, stationed at Frederick city, not being present to partici pate in the ceremonies.] After a few evolu tions, these Commanderies took their stand in donble file on each side of the aisle, saluting, as the officers and dignitaries of the Supreme Council, composed only of thirty-two members of the 33d degree, passed through the saloon to seats npon the platform. Among the dignita ries of the Council were Albert Pike, Sovereign Grand Commander: B. B. French, yesterday elected Lientenant Grand Commander; and Al bert G. Mackey, Secretary of the Supreme Council; F. G. Fisdall, of Pomeroy’s Democrat, New York, and others. THE BUBIAL SERVICE. After an opening anthem by the choir, the ritual of the Episcopal burial service was read by the Sovereign Grand Commander, who was responded to by the Grand Senior and Junior Wardens in the South and West. At the close of each of the three portions into which the service was divided, one of the three burning candles was extinguished by the Junior Deacon of the Council, who advanced to the coffin for that purpose. The Sovereign Grand Commander then men tioned the names of the deceased brothers, and read distinctly the formal but exquisitely mourn- fal “Words of Sorrow” appropriated to their memories, after which tho choir sang, with great feeling, the following anthem: Among the dead our brother sleeps ; Bis life was rounded true and well, And Love in bitter sorrow weeps Above his dark and silent cell. The insignia of mourning about .us is not for I. . W a. IA 2_ A_ - Mlfc »!t- 1L« Rmnm tn inAltA As Hiram slept, the widow’s son, So doth our brother tako liis rest; Life's battle fought, Life's duties done, His faults forgot, his worth confessed. So let him sleep that dreamless sleep, Our sorrows clustering round his head; Be comforted, ye loved, who weep, Ho lives with God: he is not dead. The Sovereign Grand Commander thon, af ter prayer and other readings of the service, said: “Come, my Brethren, with me around the coffin where the last remains of our broth ers repose; aid me in paying the last honors to their memories.” The Supreme Council thereupon left the platform, preceded by the Grand Commander, and circled about the cas ket three times, pausing each time to cross the arms and bow before the remains and saying thrice, “farewell, farewell, farewell.” The Council thon returned to the platform, and after prayer a voluntary was performed upon the organ, immediately after which the candles surrounding the coffin were successive ly relighted by the Junior Deacon, the last one 'og relighted upon tho pronunciation of the words: “Death is swallowed up in victory: O, Death, where is thy sting ? O, Grave, whore is thy victory ?” The will of God is accomplished; blessed be the name of the Lord.” An anthem was then sung, and the Sovereign Commander said: “In Egypt, among oar old masters, where Masonry was more cultivated than Vanity, no one could gain admittance to the Sacred Asylum of the Tomb until he had passed under the most solemn judgment. A grave tribunal sat in judgment npon all, even the kings. Masonry has no snch tribunal to sit npon her head, but rho requires that whatever is said in her behalf concerning them shall be the simple truth. “Brother orator, let Masonry, through thy lips, speak to ns of onr brothers who have gone away from us; tell us the story of their lives, andreconnt their virtues and good deeds that we may remember and imitate them; but let their faultB and errors be forgiven and forgot ten, for to say that they had them is but to say that they were human.” ’ ORATIONS. GileB M. Hillier, of Mississippi, Minister of State of tho Snpreme Connoil, then came npon the platform and delivered an oration, tho learn ing and eloqnence of which no sort of, justice can be done in this notice. The noon of spring, he said, was passed; it is the season of flowers, of nature’s sweetest at traction, with the green emblem of truth, and the bine of enduring constancy and affection. In nature's calendar there are vernal and solsti tial seasons, and we ourselves partake of the earth’? movement and changes, while the stars of the firmament sink to rise again with renewed splendor. So Masonry had its solstitial periods; the heroes of ancient Masonry, smitten with persecutions, rise again to tun in the appointed race to greater and more lasting glory and hon or. 'Wo join ia theso ceremonial honors for onr brothers who have passed away, wisdom di recting the proceeding, strength nfferding its protection, and beauty lending its charms and graces. No political asperities enter in this cir cle, where unkindly things aro not kept out by the Tyler’s sword, but where the motto shines prom inent— ll Masonrie Oblige.” Masonry teaches seaoe, toleration, brotherly affection. The All- seeing Eye in the centre of, the cirole, to whioh all things tend, and whioh upholds all, as in the physical world the sun, emblematic of the Great Architect in veneration of whom Solomon is said to have erected that magnifioent temple upon which no sound of tool was heard. We live in an age of fancy and imagination, as well as of praotioal life; we hear it said that money buys everything—talent, place, suooess, power, fame and honor; but there is still some^ thing greater, for every one seeks sighingly for what seems still denied him, pining for the wings of the morning to fly away and be at rest. The poet who made Erin’s harp so melo dious, represented that “a Peri at the gate of Eden stood disconsolate,” who had vainly sought for the talisman for entrance; who had tried the depths of humen joy and woe, patri otism, martyrdom and Icve; but found it at last in the sublimity of repentance. the dead; it is to admonish the living; to incite us to take home with us the recollections of the good deeds of onr departed friends, taking them as examples for our guidance. They were rich in honor; they illustrated and adorned Bodety and practical life, the bench, the bar, and the councils of the nation. For them, Masonry brings s great regret and sorrow. They had not to chide themselves fortune misspent; they bad labored as Masons, and loved their breth ren; they made few hgTnli judgments, and threw the mantle of charity over the failings of their fellows. Masonry has no need to be ashamed, but much to be proud of, in the lesson of their lives. Who does not recall the illustrious rep resentative of the mother of statesmen ? Who can forget the noble two from Georgia, one struggling with the storms of States, and fall ing with his falling State ? They have passed away; their rapture and glory now the angels only know. Most puissant Commander, my task is nearly finished. With particular forms of church and religion Masonry has nothing to do. Its mis sion is to dispel ignorance and conquer fanati cism. AU men of every creed may enter and worship in the temple which it has bnilt. Ma sonry is still stronger than the philosophy which tho East has taught; it teaches troth gathered from the past, which have been made glorious by succeeding ages. It inculcates upon all the observance in the earthly career of the duties which she has made typical in her ceremonies, whether derived from the arch itecture of Greece, or from the more ancient mysteries, no matter whence it may have spnmg, it is proper to say that Scottish Free Masonry means work. Its symbols, are but drapery; the Mason most search their hidden meaning in snch a way that when he looks back npon the ending of the Masonic year, he may exclaim, in the words of Richelieu: “France, I love thee; all earth shall never tear thee from my heart; who shall proclaim divorce be twixt me and thee?” Mr. Hillier was followed by Wm. L. Mitchell, of the Supreme Council, who gave a rapid sketch of the lives of Cobb and Rockwell, two of the deceased dignitaries of the ConnciL The Cobbs, he said, came originally from Wales.— Howell Cobb was bom in Georgia in September, 1816. He removed to Athens, at whose State University hegraduated. Ho afterwards studied law with Gen. Arden, and entered practice in 1836. In the following year he was elected Solicitor General of tho Western Circuit, In 1842 he went to Congress, and was returned for four successive terms. He was afterwards elect ed Governor of Georgia, and was elected again to Congress for the last time in 1753, beoame Secretary of the Treasury under President Bu chanan, and entered the Confederate service, having attained the rank of Brigadier General when the army surrendered. In 1840 he was made a Mason, receiving in daetime the several and highest degrees. In connection with others he greatly advanced the status of Masonry in the Sonth, having been a working member of the Order for fourteen years. He was very social in bis nature, and mingled among tbe Lodges with great zest, and never lost bis taste for such enjoyments. Hehadadmirable talents for the association of Masonry. It was not so much to mere intellect that wo look for charac ter—rather to the heart. He gave to friend and foe, many of whom were relieved they know not how. He was distinguished by many vir tues. He was stricken down by apoplexy while on his way to Niagara Falls, and died in New York. Mr. Mitchell also spoke of Mr. Rockwell, whose family existed in the time of the Con queror, and of their emigration to this country in 1630. Ha removed from New England to Georgia when young, and took charge of the old Georgia Journal, which he edited a long time. He was a poet, and displayed exqnisite taste. He was a great student, his knowledge of languages embracing Greek, Latin, French and Hebrew, nor was his knowledge the mere' smattering of the sciolist He explored the circles of the sciences, and no man in America could throw more light upon the Eastern hiero glyphics than be. Mr. M. compared him to Sir Wm. Jones, and said that he had studied muni cipal law as a science, was acquainted with the chief masters on tho civil law, and was by na ture a logician, addressing the understanding. For twenty years he had studied everything that could throw light upon speculative Free Mason ry. He died, aged 61, in Maryland. Mr. Mitchell further alluded to the two char- acters ho had so briefly sketched, and was fol lowed by Albert G. Mackey, Secretary of the Snpreme Council, who spoke until a late hoar. The ceremonies were most impressive, and the masio selected from Trovatore and other operas, most excellently rendered by the corps of amateur singers, under the leadership of Prof. Geo. V. Walter, organist of Dr. Lay- burn’s church. The Supreme Council will meet in consisto- rial session to-morrow, for tho transaction of business appertaining to the Order; and at night, in tho saloon at the Temple, will install the officers and dignitaries of the Grand Con sistory of Maryland, when the Knights Templar will publicly escort them from Neal’s building, on Baltimore street, to the Temple. The Ger mania Mtennerchoir have kindly offered their services for the occasion, since last Tuesday night, without cessation, sleep or rest, was literally jammed with deep ly interested spectators. Shortly after sup per a living stream of human beings poured into the room and filled every nook and corner. The air, breathed by so many, became hot and impure, and showers of perspiration fell freelv from the faces of the curiosity- loving crowd. Mr. Sheppard, however pre- fered that the room should be kept warm, as the letting in of too much cool air gave him cramps. At 10 o’oloek he wore a rather melan choly look, and seemed to be almost completely fagged out. He kept his mouth open, and his eyes had a glassy appearance. He nevertheless kept moving, with Ids head hanging somewhat forward and downward. There was a continued buzz of voices in the room, and tbe crowd would greet him with such expressions as, “Only 20 minutes, Jack!” “Keep up your courage; you’ll make it 1” “Give him the bottle!” “Get down!” “Rub him up!” He continued to stare at the crowd with the utmost indifference, and seemed bent on accomplishing his object. His trainer continued to fan him vigorously and occasionally to punish bis legs rather severely. When one of the judges went up to take him down, the crowd gave a vociferous yell of applause. He was taken from the plank just after 11 o’clock, laid upon the floor and dressed, daring the per formance of whioh office it seemed impossible to keep the crowd off his body, so eager were they to observe the wonderfnl pedestrian in the last agonies of his peculiar triumph. When he was taken out, the crowd made a rush through the narrow door, and broke down the inner par tition of tho room. Attaining the outside, the whole street, as far as the Mechanics’ Exchange, to which he was taken, was crowded with peo ple, who soon dispersed, on finding the door of the establishment closed against them.—Jfas7i- ■oi'.le Banner. eastwardly, witnesses watched the af<*7 while near the scene the pavements were with spectators. The two brothers ^,7? Partner Particniars-Rivers ami Brooks the scene by this time, and the ascent emir A TUVUIPI* MOM hnnn " THE GREAT FIRE. as Bed as Blood—a Bailroad Train VIuuk spire proper had been commenced Tho lag into an Ocean of Fire-Family Roast- ladder of tMg fiaal gcrieg rested Qn A .“ *4 Alive. nf lb A cnlrA and tpqq IocKa.! ^ General News. Discovery of the Original Documents fob the Books of Genesis.—Mr. Charles Welford, in his last London letter to tho Book Buyer, published in New York by Scribner, Welford & Co., gives an account of the remarkable an- nouncement jnst made by Sir Henry Bawlinson before the Asiatic Society. It is not merely that iMa eminent Oriental scholar claims to have dis covered the original recoids from which the Book of Genesis was composed, bnt he illus trates his position by details of the most strik ing kind. He himself said: The progress now reached in the collection and arrangement of the Nineveh inscribed frag ments, made it beyond a doubt that they would be able to derivo the whole of the history given in the Book of Genesis, from the time of Abra ham, from the original documents; and it was not too much to expect that almost the same facts and descriptions wonld be fonnd in the Bible. He hoped very soon to have ready a paper on the Garden of Eden (Paradise,] in which he would show that was the natural name of Babylon. The river bore the same name, and the Babylonian documents gave an exact geographical account of the Garden of Eden. The flood and the Tower of Babel wonld be fonnd to be most amply illustrated in Babyloni an doenments. The Pacific Gable.—The distance to be cov ered by the proposed cable from San Francisco to China is as follows: From. San Francisco to the Sandwich Islands, 2,0S0; thence to Midway Island, 1,140; thence to Yokohama, Japan, 2,200; thence to Shanghai, 1,035 miles. To this is to be added one-sixth of the whole to make statnte miles (1,086,) and also the usual twenty per cent, allowance for slack in paying out cable (1,520 miles,) making tho total length of cable required to connect San Francisco, Cal ifornia, with the Sandwich Islands, Japan, and China, 9,121 miles. * The Committee of the Massachusetts Legis lature went all the way to Nantucket to look in to the condition of the jail there, which is thns reported on by a casual visitor: “There has been but one inmate of the jail here for a num ber of years, and not long since the occupant walked down to consult with the city fathers in regard to the Bheep, whioh he stated came in through the openings and annoyed him to that extent that he, the prisoner, would not stay there if it waB not attended to.” The Arcade Bill.—The "World says that Governor Hoffman’s objections to tho Arcade Railway bill are; to be regarded merely as rea sons for framing a new Dill to accomplish the same object. The Governor has only shown that this bill ought not to become a law. But there can be no difficulty in framing a new one that will obviate all his greater objections; and the minor objections must yield to the urgent necessity for better and quicker means of com munication. The Bullock lNVEsnoATioN.-T-The New York Herald’s speoial of tho 4th says ; The Senate Jndioiary Committee aro now awaiting the pleasnro of Bollock before con tinuing their investigations into the alleged cor rupt practices in regard to Georgia. Bullock has been expected here for several days, but has npt yet put in an appearance, though sum moned sometime since. This examination, it is intended, shall close the investigations, when some rich developments may be expected. It is said that the incorporation of the Southern Express Company is part of a programme to establish a monopoly of the carrying trade of the Sonth through the medium of the Georgia State road by the new company using that route and crowding out all competitors. A Feet Feat—Walking On* Hundred Hours without Sleep ob Best.—All day yesterday and up to 11 o’clock last night, No. 32 North Cherry street, where John Sheppard had been walking From the New York JTerald, Bay 13. J Additional intelligence in regard to the great forest conflagration in Sullivan, Orange, Delaware, Dutchess and Madison counties of this State has been received. Never before have these mountain flres raged so furiously or extended over so large an amount of terri tory. It i3 generally believed by persons liv ing in those counties, that the conflagration was started by the hand of an incendiary. In those regions where the fires broke out live many persons who are called gipsies, who re side in shanties which have been erected in remote nooks on the mountain side and other solitary; places that are seldom reached by the more civilized world. These gipsies are de scribed as a thriftless community, having no regard for, and, therefore, no love for, the in dustrious farmers and woodsmen who live near them, and it is believed that they set fire to the underbrush, well knowing that the flames would extend to the forest proper, and spread many miles in extent. THE LOSS. Usually these fires—which more or less oc cur every spring—have been confined to dis tricts of limited extent and value, but this spring they have ravaged thousands of acres of valuable woodland, destroying millions of trees and cords ot cut wood, logs, ship joints and hark. The loss, so far as it has been as certained, is estimated at over $5,000,000, not one cent of which is covered by insutance. For the most part the fires have been con fined to the mountains, but covered in their march an extent of territory one hundred miles in length. The Sullivan county forests have been burnt for a distance of twenty miles. The Delaware county woodlands have been devastated some fifteen miles. In both of these localities the fires are still raging. In Orange county the flaming tempest has spent its strength, and the mountain ridges and nill- sides are a smoldering waste of land. A SCENE OP DESOLATION. The whole country thereabout presents a scene of utter desolation. During the height of the conflagration the country for a long stretch of mile3 was overhung with dense clouds of smoke. At some points cinders and chaff floated about in the air currents and were scattered in showers over the villages and farms, in several instances kindling into flames upon barns, fields, and dwellings. The population was all in commotion and terror. BLOOD-RIYEBS AND BROOKS. The rivers and brooks were blood-r§d from the reflected flames. In some places the water was steaming hot Thousands of fishes, snakes, birds and squirrels perished and float ed upon the surtace. The crags and rocky walls of the mountain sides were baked by the intense heat, and many of the bowlders are cracked and crumbled. Here and there the bones of wild animals (and some cattle) tell the story of the holocaust tragedy. The deep gorges and ravines seemed like minature gates of the bottomless pit gaping out fierce flames, smoke and heat Where the trees were dry, and piles of wood and bark had been stored, there arose vast volumes of white and red flames, towering toward the sky. Such was the terrifying influence of the sight that the dumb beasts, the horses and cattle in the vi cinity, fled in alarm, and the night echoes were resonant with their bleatings, neighs and lowings. A FIERY TRAIN. Along the Erie railway track the rails at one place were twisted out of shape and the ties burned. The heat was so intense that la borers could not repair the damage for hours. The trains, however, suffered no long deten tion. The Cincinnati express train eastward bound from Summit, rushed through a sea of flame and smoke for nearly a mile. The road had previously been tested by an extra engine. Although the train had been wet ana prepared for the passage, the glowing heat blistered the paint, ana the windows were stained with smoke. The engineer and fireman were slightly singed. ROASTED ALIVE. A Perilvds Adventnre—DarjtoT'T'' plot! br Two Spaniards. 1 *»• From the Cincinnati Gazette. Two brothers named Rodriguez, Snarm-j as their names indicate, came to ward Parcell and asked leave to put in'* o*' the lightning rod that runs up the tall of the cathedral, at the coruer ofPl^L^ Eighth streets. The Father told them the insulators on the rod were broken other repairs to it, no one could tell how were needed, but he besought them to nm ' scaffolding in order to get at the rod wk-'*? was to be repaired. Having been sioned to do the work, they proceeded to^ execution of it without delay. 0 . To the passers along the thoroughfares,! sight of two men threading their way outside of the spire was fall of interest p ' ing out of the spire at one of the Louvre k?' dows, just above the dial faces of the tn* the men swung a ladder, partly by a ’ dropping down from a narrow anotnLt* below the base of the spire, and partly hooks caught upon the stone moulding the next story above the towc-r. Up the r dulum ladder one of the men clambered ha?" to the rings like a parrot to its perch. f?‘ in.r flm L* .» * .'-'I: mg the ledge of the moulding the hooks the I,- 5 der huDg to was a good base of operatienki half dozen ladders -WimUeToST, A drawn up and planted on the new base 2? lashed in place, both at the top and hniw The top touched the last ledge ofuwSfc in the ascent, the base out ot which the tow°f On the streets for squares distant aim, Plum, iu both directions, and along of the spire and wa3 lashed to it both at fiu top and at the bottom, by ropes passing aro J the spire. _ The two men carried a second kl* der up this one, and lashed the bottom of it former to the top of the ladder. The no, thing was to secure this last edition ofcfimUar apparatus. One of the brothers climbed i- while the other held its base. Up in that dii zy height a rope was thrown around thesfr ar,d the top of this ladder secured by it, nafl five or six ladders were strung in the series, the topmost reaching within two or three fee of the base of the cross, which terminates spire at a height of two hundred and tirecr. two feet above the base of the Cathedral When the line of spliced ladders had crept j;. the eastern face of the ppire to this potitks, a ladder with hooks at the top was carried pj and hooked upon the cross. One of 4* brothers ascended this, took position first np. on an arm of the cross, and then stepped q and_ stood erect upon the very tip-top of tb« upright portion of that stone cross. Stani mg there, he unscrewed the top of the lift;, ning rod and tossed it to the ground. Seven! variations of the performance took place about this time. Once, both of the broth® were on the opposite arms of the cross. The standing upon the top of the cross and the climbing about its arms continued for sect time, when the men descended, leaving their ladders for a continuation of the performance to-day. The crowd cheered when the top of the cross was reached—that is, the boys iu the crowd cheered. The men were sober observers. One strong fellow tinned from the sight with the remark that it was too much for his nerves. Others shuddered audibly, and wished aloud for the men to come down, bat still they continued to look. Men who had passed at four o’clock, when the work began, rnturned and saw it completed at sundown. Everybody expressed relief when the men came down, and many gave vent to regrets that the perilous work would be continueato- day. Tlie Secret or Advertising. The secret of advertising is not yet discov ered by all who advertise. A good deal of money and space is wasted in clumsy an nouncements, which nobody reads, heavy standing placards, which no more stimulate purchasers than the names on sigDS. Moth money is also wasted in circulars, which are thrown into entries and down cellarways, and always received with contempt, or in so-called advertising sheets, whichnohody reads. There is no medium that comes into such close cob- tact with the people as the newspaper; and if advertisers only understood their business, they could make their part of the paper as interesting as any other part of it In many of the German papers, advertising is carried to an extent of which we have no idea. The newspaper is the real, exchange. Everybody goes to it with all his wants, and almost all tris woes. The consequence is that the sheets arc as lively .as neighborhood gossip, and often the pages devoted to advertising are the best parts or the paper. Aud the papers are read through. The announcements aro always short, always “transient,” and one looks at them in the morning to see what the world has to offer him that day, by way of business or amusement Perhaps his next door neigh bor has a rare piece of china or a choice en graving to sell, or he would like to get an odd number of some serial, which you happen to have; somebody, somewhere, , announces something that interests you, and so life is made more endurable, trade is quickened, and general wants are supplied. We look to see a more general use of the advertising columns of newspapers in the country, for all the wank and queries of life.—Hartford Courant. By far the most awful spectacle and calam ity yet reported occurred on Sunday night near Deposit station. As darkness gathered over the dying day the fire had reached the base of the West Mountains, and before nine o’clock had completely encircled one of the prominent peaks as with a girdle of fire. The flames roared and crackled with horriblcsound as they swept up the hill-side. The glare brilliantly illuminated the whole adjacent re gion. A party of sportsmen returning through a gorge on the opposite side heard shouts and cries of distress, apparently proceeding from the flaming forest. Looking up through the flame and smoke, they thought they discovered the forms of a man and woman upon a rocky height, swaying their arms to .ana fro. The cries continued, and one of the party is sure that he afterward caught a glimpse of a child in the woman’s arms. Soon after the walls of flame shut out all view, and the cries ceased. The horrified witnesses, driven away by the heat to a greater distance, lingered as near as possible, but neither saw nor heard any more. . [t is believed that the persons thus seen were a man, wife, and child named Hough, who lived in a shanty in a remote place ou the barrens, and in escaping across tne ridge were hemmed in upon the rooks where seen, and so perished in the conflagration. Search is to he made for their remains. NARROW ESCAPES. A number of instances of narrow escapes and more or less serious injuries are reported. A large number of poor people have been thus bereft of home, goods, and means of a liveli hood, and, what is worse for them, no oppor tunity for indemnification seems probable, as the country itself is not, in their vicinity, very productive. Altogether this is the most seri ous devastation oi the kind ever known in this State. JLNobby Bight.—A friend says abont the sor riest sight he ever saw was “a team of sorry mules hauling a wagon load of down east hay and St. Louis com from a country station on one of onr railroads, thirty-five miles into the interior. It gave him the headache for twenty- four hours. Ioy.—The editorial staff of the Telegraph and Messenger are due Mr. Riddle several for a waiter of frozen cream and strawberries, which reached the sanctum about roasting time Thursday afternoon. It assisted materially in the gTeat work of internal improvement and re construction. The Bullock-Bribery Business.—Tho latest information of this alliterative affair is fur nished by the following 'Washington special to tho Courier Journal, of Tuesday: The Senatorial investigation into the allega tions of bribery to inflnence votes against the Bingham amendment to the Georgia bill vis closed to-day, so far as the evidence is con cerned, and the oommittee will now proceed to make up their report. Gov. Bollock, of Geor gia, was before the committee a long toe day, and was very emphatic in his denials that any money was improperly used, with hs knowledge, to influence legislation in the Geor gia bill in the Senate. The money he paid w Forney, he said, was for legitimate public aw private printing. The commmittee have nc- earthed some of the operations of the Wash ington lobby, bat it does not appear that acj Senator was bribed. Interesting Masonic Fbooeedings.—We copj upon the fourth page of this edition the pro ceedings of the Knights Templar of Maryland in a Sorrow Lodge, held to commemorate th e deaths of several distinguished Templars, is* eluding Hon. Howell Cobb and William S. Boca- well, late of Georgia. ■The report thri Take Warning, Brethren. Austria is not going to permit the promulgati® of the canon of Papal Infallibility in her donas- ion, is a warning to the brethren. The Be 1 ' menical Council will hardly respect it, but the? will wish they had done so, perhaps. — eta Senator Buhner's Supplementary Rights Bill is running the gauntlet of the ?•*“' ical press, and catching a kick from every of them. The idea is now gradually percolls-- ing through the Radical skull that there s &*** “nigger enough for the present." What of the Future? asks a catenaP 0 ^ in a long editorial. My dear sir, the present 15 as much as we can endure. Let the W*v take oare of itself. Sufficient unto the 15 the evil thereof. The Clouds.—Yesterday we tried oar h**^ at arranging the clouds for rain, but we be they are quite beyond our jurisdiction. mey are quite ueyumi our juiiou.—— ^ ever, we have satisfied ourselves that it the The little rascal who was roasting egg’ sand yesterdayand retailing tom to to ^ need not hope to esoape the ©tty license - public victuallers. Col. H. C. Gajulawa*, late of to Avalanche, has bought an interest is to phis Appeal, and will flash his sharp pen its eolumna hereafter. - —-- .--V— . ~Ci-••ft..*
