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MACON MaY 111875
»ptnrr say that Senator Jones will spend
5150,000 in building himself a palace m
XTftshington. It will riral the Honest
Viper’s camp.
At a spelling match, in Candia, N. H.»
IV low evenings ago, Deacon Ezekiel Lane,
eighty-three years old, spelled down all
tho yonng folks and took the first prize.
Thx Baptists in Kentucky have se
eded near $200,000 as their quota of the
Endowment Fund of the Southern Bap
tist Theological Seminary to he located
at Louisville. --
Ah Atchison, Kansas, girl ate four
pOtinda of wedding cake in order that she
might dream of her future husband. And
HOW she says that money wouldn’t hire
her to marry tho man she saw in that
firham. £ '.•*
Up in Connecticut they are now manu-
picturing butter at three cents per pound.
But those who havo tried it say that when
& man takes a mouthful of it, his first
impulse is to hunt a good place in which
to have a fit.
The Virginia Truck Chops.—The Nor
folk Virginian says that the lo8se3 of the
ifnekers in that vicinity, by tho frosts,
Kftve been greatly exaggerated, there be
ing eveiy reason to expect nearly a full
crop.
TUK citizens of Alts, Utah, no longer
trouble themselves abont going down
Stairs. It is only necessaiy for them to
throw open their second story windows
HJld tread majestically over ten feet of
bfcantifal snow.
During a heavy rain storm last Satur
day afternoon at Knoxville, Tennessee,
tho county bridge over the Holston river,
which was finished last year at a cost of
65,000, was swept from its pillars at a
c5at to the county of at least $45,000.
A Chicago tailor has secured a patent
for what ho calls "the married man’s pre
cautionary coat-collar.” The collar is
made of some glazed suhBtance to which
a Mr cannot adhere, and which will bear
tho closest inspection of the wife of his
b030m.—Bt. Louis Republican.
A Sr. Louis merchant who has entered
the lecture field begins by telling his
audience: "I havo had the d'era firmly
secured, and not one of yon can escape
until I have got through. Beecher, Gould
and those fellows are very good, but what
the publio wants is something fresh and
green, and here it is.”
The Pennsylvania Eailroad Company
ha3 declared a semi-annual dividend of
four per cent, and not the usual five per
cent, the one per cent, being reserved as
a means for improvements and additions
to the road and its equipments, which
will be taxed to its utmost during the
centennial year.
Witch a young man in Patagonia falls
in love with a girl, he does’nt visit her
six nights in a week and twice on Sun
day, and feed her upon molasses candy
and gum drops, and Bit up until two o’
clock in the morning burning the old
man’s oil, and that sort of thing. Not at
all. Courtship in Patagonia is much more
simple. Ho lassoes the girl, drags her
home behind his horse, and that is all
the marriage ceremony necessary.
A correspondent who signs himself
"Free Seats,” in noticing the fact that
church property in New Tork and Brook
lyn is valued at $360,000,000, on which
taxes are not paid, suggests that the laws
should be so amended as to exempt from
taxation all churches where one-half or
more of all seats, pews, and benches are
free to the public, and taxing at half
rates all others. His thcoxy is that if the
public exempt churches from taxation on
the ground of "Public Worship” they
havo a right to require churches to have
public and not private worship.
The Bessemer Steamer made a very
successful trial trip tho other day, the
voyage from Dover to Calais having been
performed, with apparent ease, in less
than threo hours, and tho return voyage
in half an hour less. Considering that
this wa3 done in the second week in
April, when tho waters in the Straits of
Dover are always rough, this may be re
garded 03 a very good beginning. It is
duly reported that not one of tho passen
gers in tho suspended saloon was in the
slightes manner affected by the seasick
ness which makes it so voiy unpleasant
to cr03s tho Channel at its narrowest
point. The regular voyages will average
two hours and twenty minuter, the dis
tance from pier to pier being about twen
ty-four miles. ■
The traditionally wealth-compelling
business of the brewers is said to be
coming to grief and there is a marked
falling off in the consumption and a de
pression in the market for hops and bar-
loy. Tho agricultural interest in the
North and West is thus affected injuri
ously by the lesssened demand and prices
of tho two articles named as the raw ma
terial for producing boer and ale. In
England the large brewing establish
ments, famous tho world over, are losing
their trade, not by tho decline in the
homo consumption, but by reason of
many minor establishments, springing up
in tho different towns, that manufacture
quite as good products, and securo by in
terest or purchase tho exclusive supply
of ale and beer houses ia certain dis
tricts.
Civil Bights.—In an address to the
grand jury of the United States Court
for tho Eastern District of North Caro
lina, at Elizabeth, last week, Judge
Brooks charged the jury that the crimi
nal features of tho civil rights law, in
which they, os a grand juiy alone, were
alono interested, were unconstitutional.
During the same week Judge Dick
charged tho grand jury of tho Western
District of North Carolina, at Statesville,
in which he declared that "a citizen of
tho United States, under the broad Con
stitution of this country, can go to any
portion of it and exercise all the immuni
ties which by bis freedom he possesses,
but no law, human or divine, can compel
a hotch-potch of citizens; all that is nec-
os*>®7 are suitable comforts, and every
innkeeper bas a right to exercise his
privilege os to where he -hull place his
guests, convenience and comfort being all
that is required, and no law can say all
»ep «haU be equal socially.”
The Terrors of the Air.
Again we are daily chronicling the in
exorable wrath and power of cyclones
and tornadoes. These terrible air-bolts
have become a eoutco of far more fear,
apprehension and dread than lightning,
or flood or any other physical force of
naturo. Their frequent recurrence, of
late, foil* us that we may as well regard
them as one of tho great perils of the
situation, which we can neither remedy
nor resist.
But as every effect is traceable to some
exciting cause, so here thero must be
some physical causo for this great and
disastrous increase in tho fury of tho
air currents. True, we have had torna
does occasionally all along, but they have
been of such infrequent recurrence a3 to
constitute epochs in half centuries. What
then brings them every year, or twice a
year or oftener, and with a violence that
seems little short of miraculous ?
We believe they may be found to bo
due to great changes in the face of the
country, wrought by tho devastation of
the forest growth in tho North, and a cor
responding lapse to bush and forest in
the South. The cleared country in the
Southern States has diminished in the
past ten years by one half or two-thirds,
while in the North and Northwest within
the same time almost equal area3 of dense
forest growth have been laid bare by the
axe.
Noticeably within this period great
meteorological changes havo occurred in
both sections. Tho North and North
west, swept by storms from tho great
lakes and the Artis circles have suffered
winters of extraordinary severity, while
there has been a corresponding ameliora
tion of the winters in the South. In the
former, the summers have also displayed
on equal violence—fierce heats and burn
ing droughts—resulting in the los3 of
crops and the most extensive and furious
conflagrations of towns and forest regions.
All this while in the South our summers
have become generally milder and a good
deal more rainy than they used to be.
It seems to ns that these changes in
the climatic conditions of the sections,
operating reciprocally on each other, may
very possibly produce these violent ef
forts of nature to preserve an atmospheric
equilibrium which axe displayed in these
fierce air currents called tornadoes and
cyclones. If not to thi3 cause attributa
ble, where shall we look for one ?
Assessing Taxes.
It is of no importance how property is
valued for the assessment of taxes, if the
valuation he uniform throughout the tax ju
risdiction. To illustrate: We (citizens of
Macon) have three tax jurisdictions in
this county—the city—the county and
the State. The city being ordinarily lim
ited to a tax rate of one per cent, and
this unfortunately affording a scanty rev
enue to meet her debts and expenses, the
valuation of property is naturally made
high in the interests of an adequate rev
enue.
Clearly, however, it would be very
wrong in the county tax assessors to take
these valuations of city property for their
guidance in assessing for the county tax,
unless they were applied as nearly 03 pos
sible to all property in tho county lying
outside of the city. If this be not done
it is easy to see that thero would he
practically two different rates of taxation
applied to citizens of the same county;
and the Macon citizen would perhaps be
paying double as much county tax on a
really equal value of tarables as the
country citizen.
Then when we come to the State tax,
the evil is vastly aggravated. The State
government levies a uniform pro ratum
of tax on assessed valuations—say five
mills in the dollar. Now the assessed
valuations of property vary enormously
ia the different counties. It is said, for
example, that the valuation in Jones
county is sixty per cent, less than in
Bibb, and in Monroe it is seventy-five per
cent. less. If this be so. then the Bibb
county man will pay two dollars and fifty
cents State tax for every one dollar the
Jones county man pays, and four dollars
for every one paid by the Monroe county
man.
We do not assert on our own knowledge
that so a great a difference of valuations
really exists, for wo havo not looked into
the matter personally. We hare only
been fold so by one who professes to bo
informed.
But that very great differences in as
sessment valuations in the various coun
ties do in fact exist, no one will dispute,
and the effect of them is approximate in
equalities of the public burthens such 03
we have noticed.
A great error was committed (no doubt
undesignedly) in pushing up assessed
valuations in Bibb to the standard of city
valuations, (1) because the city valuation
applies only to a uniform city tax and
creates no disproportion and injustice be
tween citizens of Macon and other tax
payers in their relations to or liabilities
under a county or State assessment. (2d.)
becanso the city standard of valuation
seom3 fo be inherently inapplicable; and
(3d.) because it has made the State tax
liabilities of tho citizen of Bibb, far great
er than those of the citizens of all, or of
most other counties of Georgia.
We say thus much while tho matter is
on our mind, for thought and subsequent
correction, if wo aro right. It is too late,
perhaps, for this year, oat may be reme
died in the next assessment.
Last Week's Cotton Figures.
The New Tork Chronicle’s report of
receipts at all tho ports for tho seven
days ending last Friday night, 30th ult,
22,190 bale against 30,825—falling off
8,624 bales. Total receipts of the year
so far 3,310,082 against 3,576,307 bale3
for tho corresponding period of the pre
vious cotton year—showing a decrease of
237,225 bales.
Interior cotton port receipts for the
same seven days, 5,919 bales against 11,-
890 last year. Shipments 13.593 against
11,890. Stocks 95,076 against 101,469.
The Chronicle’s visible supply table
shows total visible supply last Friday
night 2,844,859 bales, against 2,890,665
last year and 2,880,096 the year before.
The price of middling uplands in tho
Liverpool market last Friday was
7.15-lGths d. At that date one year ago
it was 81 to SJ and at the same date in
1873 in was 9 to Old.
The weather during the week was cold
and wet. The Chronicle estimates the
probable volume cf the increasing crop
at 3,765.000 bales against 4,171,383 last
year—showing a deficit of 406,000 hales.
It is now 2o7,000, with about four months
to run—say seventeen weeks. We think
the Chronicle is a little below the mark
this time. , The crop will be larger
probability. We do not look for an av
erage weekly falling off of £.,000 bales tho
remainder oi the year,
Sabbath-School Union Cele
bration and Festival.
For once, all nature smiled beriignant-
ly on the rejoicing multitudes of children
who met at the park yosterday, to cele
brate the advent of spring, with its green
sward, ringing birds and blushing flowers.
At an hour almost matutinal, nearly
the entire juvenile population of the city
were on foot and in a fidget of excite
ment. It wa3, “Mama, do hurry break
fast;” "please take out these curl pa
pers.” "Oh S don’t say I can’t wear my
white dress, it ain’t cool one bit.” "Won’t
yon pin my collar ?” "I am so glad it is
a pretty day.” “Won’t we have fun. 1
“B on’t forget the bouquets to throw at our
speaker.” “I declare, I aint in the least
hungry.” “Let’s start—remember we
must be at the church at eight o’clock
precisely.” And so tho little sprites had
up the "old folks” almost with the first
notes of chanticleer, and it was impossible
not to sympathize with their exuberant
joy and expectations.
What would not the care worn, busi
ness harried, disappointed adnlt, who
had tasted, and tested life’s pleasures at
their full value, give for one hour of this
supreme happiness and entire exemption
from care ?
But we didn’t intend to moralize or
preach a homily. Nor shall we enter in
to any detail of the joys and mishaps
tho pouts andkisses, the eloquent speech'
03 of the orators, the soft, whispered
words of lovers, how the children ate so
many mixtures that the druggists and
doctors will be busy for a week to coma—
of the silent, weary, straggling homeward
march, or finally, attempt to estimate
what number sank to rest on tho carpet,
or retired without undressing. Neither
would it be kind to relate how one of our
best doctors affirmed, that, with the
weather as cool as it had been for several
days, if parents persisted in arraying
their children like summer butterflies,
one banner at least should bear the legend
“to the memory of the murdered inno
cents.” None of this comes within our
province, and we would not trench upon
the bailiwick of the city editor, who saw
it all, and wields his pen so deftly.
But we assert that never did Macon
pour forth a larger crowd of little chil
dren, and grown up people too, on any
similar festal occasion. Nor havo we ever
seen any such multitude better managed,
more orderly, or as superabundantly sup
plied with cieatnre comforts. Each table
we visited seemed the lest, and the little
trenchermen were equally persistent and
industrious in their efforts to demolish
their full share, and then pochet the re
mainder. Many a happy urchin will
munch cake and crack nuts for days to
come. Well, this is all right, as tho feast
and the fragments thereof were certainly
provided for Mem, and if the little fellows
don’t help themselves " on the sly,” bet
ter they should enjoy the pickings, than
tho loafing negroes and interlopers who
have usually made way with the lion’s
share.
We repeat, it wa3 a bright day in the
calendar of the rising generation, and
withal so mild and balmy, that even
white dresses and short sleeves could not
possibly work any harm. We love these
seasons of innocent amusement and re
creation, and are a staunch Bomanist, at
least in our regard, for gala occasions
and holidays. The world will never be
tho poorer for them, while to how many
over-worked people and delicate children
are they not seasons of incalculable hap
piness and delight ?
Tlie Place to Spend tiie Sum
mer.
According to the Baltimore Gazette,
Berck, on the French coast a short dis
tance from Boulogne, must be a free and
easy watering place. Tho lady visitors
who know the spot come and go with tho
smallest quantity of baggage. Saratoga
trunks are unknown and are voted a bore.
Many clothes are not wanted. The fish
women set the fashion, and the wealthiest
visitors easily follow it. A single thin
garment, falling from the neck to a little
below tho knee, and a pair of gaily-
worked slippers, constitute the entire
costume at Berck. Stockings aro un
known, or, at least, if any lady appears
with stockings sho is recognized as a new
comer. It may require twenty-four hours
for her prudery to wear off; at tho end
of that time she will appear in as scanty a
dress as tho rest. Abont half of them, in
deed, dispense even with slippers, and one
sees groups playing croquet, tho gentle
men clad in snowy linen and wearing red
or blue caps, and tbo ladies in bats and
short bright-colored skirts, but neither
encumbered by shoes or stockings. Oft
entimes, however, the wind blows tho
dry sand for miles over the beach; and to
prevent thb from getting into tho eyes,
glasses or spectacles with wire gauze
frames are worn, which on young and
fair faces have a droll effect. One would
think also that the same sand would sting
tho lily-white ankles and calves which
are so freely exposed; but if so, tho ef
fect is not severe enough to induce their
owners to don the stockings. To these
they have an ineradicable antipathy, and
one likely to remain so as long as tho
village has to be reached only by twenty
miles of staging away from the nearest
railway station.
The Buffalo Gnat In Alabama.
Tho Eufaula Times says a gentleman
who is cultivating a piece of land about
seven mile3 from this city, in ono of
the Cowikee bottoms, assures U3 of tho
presence there, of tho genuine buffalo
gnat, which is now killing so many
homes and mules in the Mississippi bot
tom lands. He say3 that he and his
neighbors are compelled to give their
horses and mules tho closest attention,
by keeping tbo cars, flanks and other parts
of the animal well coated with tar and
grease, and they also keep fires burning
in their stock lots at night. He attrib
utes the presence -of the unusual num
ber of these dangerous insects, to the
great amount of wet weather wo have
had this season.
Tho Mississippi buffalo gnat is about
half the size of a common house fly and
jet black. They have a hump back, or
shoulders, like the buffalo, and hence
their name. Those in tho Cowikee bot
toms of this county, aro about half tho
size cf those in the Mississippi river bot
toms, but aro identical in shape and
color.
This beats Beecher: A Chicago gamb
ler the other day being asked by tho
court, in a case in which ho was a wit
ness, whether he had a partner, replied
that he had, and when requested to tell
who his partner was, declared that he
didn’t know.
Eight steamships left New Tork for
Europe on Saturday, carrying in the ag
gregate 697 cabin and 1,190 steerage pas
sengers. This is a great increase over
the numbers sailing on previous Satur
days and indicates .that the spring exo
dus has fully set in. All the steamers
carried full cargoes.
CXiurch and Theatre.
Under this head the New Tork Com-
msreiaX Advertiser, taking as a text the
recent splendid contribution ($25,000) by
the various theatres of that dty to the
relief of the widow and children of the
late Dan Bryant, whose death had left
them almost peniless, makes the follow
ing-point : .. . ji
This deed is without a parallel in the
the recent history of the Christian
church. A Varley can gather his fifteen
thousand auditors at the Hippodrome,
but finds it impossible to extract fifteen
hundred dollars from their purses for
missionary expenses. Scarcely a month
passes but that some hard-working, self-
sacrificing clergyman is gathered to his
fathers, and even his flock care not that
pulpits of New Tork—or even of a single
denomination—made an appeal for the
made an appeal for
fatherless family of a faithful minister,
and it is feared that the response would
be feeble if it were made. Collections
are taken np annually for . the heathen
abroad, but seldom for the Christians at
home. This is why the work of visiting
the sick and feeding the poor has to be
done by voluntary societies outside
of the churches, when it should be done
by the congregations themselves. The
preacher of to-day continually marvels at
the spread of infidelity. He may find his
answer, in part, in the fact that during
the hard times of the last two years
members of tbe theatrical profession
have given liberally for the benefit of tho
poor, whero the churches hare done but
little. He will do well, too, to ponder
over the care taken of the fatherless
children of the dead minstrel by a pro
fession which the Church affects to des
pise. It is with a feeling of sorrow for
tho parallel that wo write these words,
and yet we know them to be true. When
next the Church condemns the theatrical
profession, it must be sure that it has
done its own duty by the widow and or
phan of its flock as well as by the
neathen. It is written, “By their fruits
ye shall know them.” And the world
will alwaya give its homage to the man
who puts the charity of Christianity into
practice, whether he be priest or player.
Strange People—tbe French.
A Paris correspondent of the St. Louis
Democrat says no one has to go for in
France before discovering that in every
thing appertaining to the exterior, it is a
well-ordered country- There is an inva
riable rule in the slightest transaction,
and its infringement is looked upon with
a horror which knows no bonndsbjthe
great masses of Frenchmen. A gendarme
whose uniform were awry or tarnished
would be no gendarme at all in French
eyes, and a person who should affect to
disdain the petty regulations which stare
one on printed posters from every comer
would speedily find himself in trouble.
Tho best way is the simplest, to learn
that obedience to the. rules and customs
is in the highest degree necessary, and
to practice it, although it may sometimes
be very disagreeable.
For instance, when landing from an
ocean steamer at Havre, it is quite un
availing for any blustering and imposing
father of a family to hurry tho method
ical French touters and baggagemen. All
tho persuasion in tho world will not pre
vail upon them to alter their ancient plan
of ranging the trunks first in one long
row on the Custom-house floor, no matter
how much time might be gained by
wheeling them directly to the bench
whero they pass under tho eyes of the
Customs officers. I found this out to my
cost. Both officers and touters snubbed
me, and I relapsed into tho insignificance
naturally engendered by the sudden fear
that they might fancy I, as an American
fresh from my native wilds, had endeav
ored to bribe them. Bribery, by the way,
would be a very serious offense to have
charged against ono by a French Customs
inspector; he would call tho nearest po
liceman and deliver you over to the law
as ono suspected of endeavoring to do-
fraud tho government.
These suitably uniformed but meagre
and overworked men about tho customs
bureaus do not receive veiy large salaries,
but they know that their positions aro
for life or daring good behavior, and they
aro consequently incorruptible. Itisnot
long since a somewhat distinguished for
eigner, desiring for numerous reasons
that his tranks should not be overhauled,
placed a few Napoleons in the hand of an
inspector only to havo them thrown in
THE GEORGIA
—
bis face by tho indignant Gaul, who could
scarcely bo prevailed upon to accept a
confused apology which naturally follow
ed. This freedom from itching palm3 is
ono of tho best fruits of a really admira
ble, although somewhat cumbrous, civil
service system, and on absence of any
thing like rotation in office.
What Donn Platt Says About
It.
We printed the other day an account
of old Zach Chandler’s going down to
“Newspaper Bow” at Washington loaded
to tho guards with wrath, whisky and
eight or ten revolvers to shoot Donn
Piatt, whom ho didn’t find. Tho Donn
tolfa the sequel in his Capital paper of
last Sunday, as follows:
The next day we had business with the
Sergeant-at-Arms of tho Senate, Mr.
French, and while sitting upon a sofa
talking to that gentleman, who should
loom np at the door but the war man of
Michigan, and.as he approached directly
upon us we gently slid our right hand
into the pocket of our overcoat, where
our fingers gently caressed a revolver,
and had the cx-Senator made any move
indicating, the production of that navy,
wo rather flatter ourself there would have
been a vacancy in the court circle of
Ulysses. We do not propose being snuff
ed out by an ex-Senator or anybody else,
drunk or sober. We have observed
through life, in our checkered career,
that when a man is killed he is just a3
dead when murdered by a drunken man
a3 when demised by a son of temperance.
Sale of the Savannah and
Charleston Kailway.
• Hie News and Courier says Judge Beed
has authorized tho sale of the Savannah
and Charleston'railroad for $1,500,000.
Of this amount $1,100,000 will be applied
to the payment of tho six per cent mort
gage guaranteed bonds of 1856 and tho
seven per cent, first mortgage bonds is
sued since tbo war (amounting together
to about a million dollars) and to the
payment of coupons, etc. Tho remain
ing $400,000 will be applied to the pay
ment cf the funded interest bonds (State
guarantee) and the eight per cent, bonds
and other claims. Tho State, under the
decree, will be responsible for any amount
of guaranteed bonds not provided for out
of tho proceeds of tho sale.
At Pompeii they recently found a cu
rious record. It was scratched on the
stucco of a kitchen wall, and has been
thus translated: "Lighted the fire,
cooked his meals, and swept his house
for him 28,000 times to this day, and he
refuses to take me to the circus." Be
neath this, in a different hand, is written:
“Women are never satisfied.”
If the depositors in that swindling ma
chine, the Freedman’s Bank, can hold on
to- their claims until the next century,
there is a possibility of their getting
about twenty-five cents on the dollar.
Our advice, however, is to grab at tho
tea bents on the dollar, and be thankful
its bo worse.
A lewis for Mias Melvina SymaNi,
Macon, is held for postage in the Savan
nah office* Uaut.l
The boiler of Sallivaa & Hull’s saw
mill, at No. 9, oa the Atlantic and Gulf
railroad, exploded last Saturday after
neon, fracturing the skull of tho sawyer
and scalding the fireman.
The News announces the death, last
Sunday, in his 84th year, of Mr. Thomas
Eden, the oldest citizen of Savannah.
He had lived there since the close of tho
war of 1812, and for thirty years was
coroner of Chatham county.
We clip the following from the same
paper: , c
Singular Combination or Circum
stances.—It i3 stated that : Mrs. Ellen
Hogan, sister of Mr.^John Beedy, who
died on the 26th of April, was bom in
Ireland on the 26th; landed in' America
on the 26th; was married on the 26th;
her eldest daughter was born on the 26th;
and as above stated, she died on the 26th
ult., aged 66 years.- Sixty* six years, equal
772 months, which 1 divided by 30,1 the
number of days gives as the quotient 26
days and a small fraction.
The total through cotton via Western
Alabama and Mobile and Girard roods
for Savannah and New Tork, since Sept
1st and up to last Friday night, aggre
gated $39,518 bales.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun says:
The Atlanta Herald reports a "most
novel” (and we think very profitless) law
suit about to be commenced. It arose in
this way: After tbe Constitution had
postponed its lottery of last year once.or
twice, Colonel Alston, of the Herald, of
fered to bet his fine Durham bull against
Colonel Clarke’a fine horse that the draw-:
ing would be again postponed. The
Constitution accepted the bet, andpnt
the bull among the prizesto be drawn.
It drew the lottery on the day named in
the bet, and gave Mr. Moon, of Athens an.
order for the bull, he having drawn him.
But Colonel Austin refused to give up
the bull, on the ground that tho Constitu
tion, though called upon, has failed to
show that it held the lottery and distrib
uted the prizes according to promise.
The Herald says that Mr. Moon will , sue
the Ccmriitution for the Talue of the bull.
The Albany Central City'ia offered for
sale. It ia also very much in love with
tho Bov. W. Watkin Hicks.
The Monroe Advertiser notes the death
of Mrs. Eebecca Zcllner, aged seventy-
two, and of Mr. Solomon Pruett, aged
ninety-two—both of that county.
It is also glad to learn thht the peach
crop of that section is not -s6 much in
jured as was feared, and thinks there will,
be three-fourths of a crop.
Mb. W. G. Boss, of this city, who was
in Covington at the time has kindly fur
nished ns with an extra from the office of
the Covington Star, which contains tho
following account of tho tornado in that
section last Saturday:
On Saturday afternoon, May 1st, about
half past 2 o'clock, a very blade cloud
one-half of those present bad
planted more cotton than earn; precisely
an equal number had planted more corn
than cotton. The remainder of those
preeent had planted about equal quanti
ties of each. Taking oats, peas, pota
toes, etc., into consideration, however,
the. "feed” crop was considerably in the
ascendancy.”
The Irwinton Southerner is informed
by Bev. G. M. Preeoott, of'that county,
that a short time. since hq owned an
Essex sow, the progenitor of a valuable
breed of hogsnow possessed by him, from
which in 15 months he sold sity-seven
dollars'worth of hogs,, and fattened and
slaughtered pigs enough to nett him
1,160 pounds of pork, and at the end of
the fifteen months he still possessed the
sow and eleven young pigs.
The same paper says the "negroes of
Wilkinson county have learned that for
$2 they can take the old homestead of
$500,’ and the records of our Court of
Ordinary show that numbers of them
have paid their debts in this fashionable
way.”.
Ida Shiver, aged ten years, and daugh
ter of Mr. Evan Shiver, of Mitchell
county, was burned to death last Thurs
day by her clothes taking fire.
■ rThe Constitution says the “Mayor of
WestPoint and aprominont citizen of Ho-
gansvillo were , brought there yesterday,
by Deputy Marshal P. Sheridan, for some
alleged violation of the enforcement act.
They will probably go before the com
missioner to-day”
We quote os follows from the same
paper:. ; * i
The Sewauee coal mines shipped 9,806
cars of coal and coke last year, being an
increase of nearly 800 over tbe preceding
year. The year’s profit was nearly sev
enty-five thousand dollars. The super
intendent mentions with commendable
pride the fact that of the 19,280 oars,
hauled over the company’s railroad, not
one was ditched, although for seven
miles the grade is one thousand feet, and
the whole road, twenty-one miles long,
runs among the mountains.
The tornado of Saturday -passed
through portions of Greene and Ogle
thorpe counties. A correspondent of the
Chronicle and Sentinel, writing from Max-
ey’s, Oglethorpe county, says scarcely
a house remains in its coarse. George
W. Maxey, white, and Peter Wat
son, negro, were killed at that place and
twenty persons, white and black, were
wounded—some mortally.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun has the
following details of the tornado in Talbot, regiment transportation at.reduced:rates.
t past 3 o docs, a very
was observed rising a little southwest of
Covington. It was preceded by loud and
heavy poob of thunder, and the most
lively and vivid flashes of lightning. Its
approach was very rapid, and 03 the sky
overhead bccamo obscured, it was imme
diately followed by almost midnight
darkness. All eyes were turned in tb
direction from which it wa3 coming, and
all hearts were awe-stricken by its a]
palling blackness. But a few momcn
elapsed, when the storm burst upon U3
with terrible fury, bending tho shade
trees half double before it, shaking
houses, rattling windows, and flooding
tho streets with a perfect sheet of water
in a few minutes. But no mnterial dam
age was done in Covington, a3 the clouds
had parted a short distance from town,
and ono part had gone up Yellow river,
and had exhausted itself in hail and rain;
while the other, or main body of tho cloud,
hod passed about one and a half mile3
south of town, passing nearly from west
to east, in its general course, and pro
ducing a perfect cyclone, or whirlwind,
which literally destroyed everything
in its track. Tho first wo hear of its
damaging effects, i3 at Mrs. Melton’s,
several miles west of Covington, where
it blew down a new dwelling house, and
destroyed much other property. It next
struck Captain G. M. Cunningham’s
place, blowing down every house on tho
premises, seriously wounding a negro
man, and destroying fencing and timber
to a fearful extent. Coming on east,
sweeping eveiything in its track, it next
struck Mr. Harmon Wheeler’s residence,
crushing in tho windows and doors, and
doing considerable other damago. Its
course being almost due cast, it passed a
little north of Cedar Shoals factory, de
stroying all the timber and fencing in its
route until it reached the residence of
Bill Henderson, colored, which it blew
down, and scattered before it. But a
short distance farther on, it struck the
new and beautiful residence of Mr. John
Norton, which fronted tho west, on the
road leading to Henry’a shoals. Hero
tho work of destruction i3 most fearful.
Language fails us to describe it. How
tho family escaped with their lives, is
truly wonderful and miraculous. Tho
dwelling wa3 a two-story frame building,
and was blown entirely away. Scarcely
two pieces of timber were left together.
The chimneys were leveled with the
earth, and the brick scattered in every
direction. Mrs. Norton, Miss Nancy
Norton, Master-Johnnie Norton, and sev
eral small children, were in the house at
the time, and were all blown out among
the debris together. Mrs. Norton and
Miss Nancy Norton were both severely
wounded about the head aud limbs, but
great hopes aro entertained for their re
covery. Master Johnny Norton was
painfully, but not seriously injured. The
rest of the family escaped unhurt. Sev
eral colored men were in tho kitchen at?
the time it was blown down, one. of-whom
had his arm broken in three place's, and
one was badly bruised abont the head.
Scarcely a vestige is left to mark tho
place whero filr. Norton’s house stood.
Eveiything in his house was de
stroyed. All the furniture- and cloth
ing was broken, tom to pieces, and
blown away. Not a single build
ing of any character, whatever,
i.-s'loft standing. Mr. Norton U thu3 loft
in a very destitute condition, and must
have assistance. About $40 -in money,
and a $75 cheek were blown aiway with
his house. From this point it slightly
changed its course to tho south, striking
Mr. Littleton Petty’s residence with all
its fuiy, and blowing: down every house
oa the promises, except the dwelling, the
escape of which ia quite wonderful. The
Cat trees were blown down all around
tho windows were broken and tho
fencing all destroyed. At Judge Harris’
plantation it blew down a negro house,
in which Elder W. L. Beebe and family
had taken shelter, bnt all escaped but
Elder Beebe, who had his right leg bro
ken below the knee, by a falling timber.
These are all the casualities we have
heard of np to this writing. The loss of
property is very great all along the track
of the cyclone, and unless assistance is
immediately rendered the unfortunate
people, great suffering will result. All
tho fencing is destroyed, and in many in
stances provisions, and everything is
gone.
A convict in the gang hired by Mr.
Henry Stevens, near Milledgeville, is
manufacturing counterfeit silver half
dollars, and the Every Saturday cautions
all persons to be on their guard.
Two hundred -and tmrteen cases on
the common law docket have been re
turned to the May term of Troup Supe
rior Court—the largest return in twenty
years, says the LaGrange Reporter.
We learn from the Early County Newi
that a discussion "is the Blakely Grange
i on Saturday lost developed the fact that
is torn np badly. The houses of J. M.
Weaver were blown down, he badly
wounded, one negro killed and several
wounded. M. V. Wilson’s house was de
stroyed, and his wife fatally hurt. The
place of G. W. Kennedy was demolished,
his wife killed and himself seriously in
jured. Miss Nancy Trussell and Mr.
Kendrick’s houses were destroyed. Mrs.
Kendrick’s shoulder was broken and Ed
die Kendrick killed. Valley Grove
Churoh, and another, and a school house
were swept off. B. H. Bullock’s, Judge
Means* and George Elder’s houses were
completely: destroyed. Judge Means’
two daughters were seriously injured.
Several negroes killed. James Weaver
was badly hurt in the chest. Two of his
daughters, Miss Nealy and Mrs Holmes,
were badly hurt in the head. One negro
was killed on the place. Two negroes
were killed at Jim Ellison’s place. The
losses in Talbot were 16 whites killed, 10
negroes killed, 4 whites mortally and
many slightly wounded. Two churches,
a school house, houses, fences and crops
destroyed. The people took to the ditsh-
es everywhere.
The Tolbotton Standard, however, re
ports, only fire persons killed in that
county, and adds that the width of the
storm was from one to two hundred yards,
and that it was precisely similar to the
one of the 20th of March.
The Columbcs Times reports one of
the heaviest hail storms ever known in
that city, which occurred Monday night.
Many of the stones were largo as par
tridge eggs, and there was a wholesale
destruction of window glass. The "noise
and confusion” on top of tho Conrt-house
was so great that the City Council was
compelled to take a recess.
-The deposits in the Augusta Savings
Bank during the first day it opened for
business amounted to $11,000.
We find this very uulrind paragraph in
the Sumter Republican. Ero. Hancock
must have been suffering from dyspepsia
when he wrote it, or he never would have
spoken so harshly of such a trooly good
man as Bro. Hicks:
Bev. W. Watkin Hicks, L. D., L.L. D.,
F. B. S., Reformed Lutheran, Methodist,
Straight Democrat, Badical, Lecturer,
and in fact anything that he finds profit
able, ha3 squatted himself in the edito
rial chair of the Fernandina (Fla.) Ob
server.
The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel re
ferring to the proposed re-unlon of the
survivors of the 3d Georgia regiment, at
Portsmouth, Va., on the 4th of August,
says the Atlantic Coast Line, through its
agent, Mr. A. Pope, bas tendered to. the
THE STORK 1 Rf SOUTH CARoS^
Tfce W*rk«ftbe item at column.,
Steeple of the rrtabyterum Cm^th
and Harris counties:
In Harris county the first trace of the
storm was northeast of Hamilton. Hon.
E. Moss, Jr., member of the Legislature,
narrowly escaped. He got himself and
family into a cellar when he aaw the
storm coming. His house, to the floor,
over them, was swept away, with all out
houses and fences. Stock killed. No
person injured. Mr. John Booker's fine
residence, outhouses and fences, are all
gone. Here Mr Elbert Cornette and son
were injured, one severely. Mrs. James
Campbell'had her right thigh and lower
leg badly broken aud was injured other
wise. Many negroes were seriously hurt
here, none killed. Mrs. Smith’s house
was torn to pieces. She was wounded
seriously in the back. Her eldest girl
had her head ent; the next was bruised
all over; tho youngest. Miss Clara, had
her left arm broken, the right ear nearly
severed from her hood; the head cut in
two places, and bruised all over. This is
a very serious oase, and without veiy
close attention she may die. Next the
storm struck Mr. Caloway Davis’, tear
ing eveiything to pieces. Ho is wound
ed very much like M:s3 Clara. One
of his daughters had a leg broken and
a negro boy & leg broken. Many more
on this place were injured. The planta
tions of Mrs. HoDkins, John Hadly and
Lemuel Davis, Mr. Crawford and John
A. Middlcbrooks’, came in succession and
were badly damaged. On the place of
Judgo M. H. Spence three negroes were
killed outright and ono more is expected
to die. Murrah Mills and Mr. Pink Hur
rah’s houso were next struck. Judge
Spence had just paid, in cash, $1,000 in
gold for an interest in these mills. This
is the second timo they havo been torn
to pieces in about two years. From Mr.
Caloway Davis’ to thi3 point one has only
to havo seen tho destruction of H. W.
Pitts’, W. S. Webster’s and Dennis Mil
ler's places on March 20,1875, to havo a
correct idea of the vast power of the de
structiveness. Words cannot tell it. At
Murrah’s mills Jordan Baily, colored,
was killed instantly. He was a clever,
good man, and had many warm friends
among the whites. Mr. Thomas Alver-
son had his right big too mashed, (which
caused him more suffering than nil his
other wounds), his left arm (both bone3
broken in two places) broken and disloca
ted at the elbow joint, two cut3 on the
head and otherwiso bruised up. He will
get well. Mr. Dobbs was at tho mill; also
Mr. Johnston’s little son—both ware
bruised up considerably. Mr. Alverson
was taking hi3 mule from tho buggy when
the storm struck him. The buggy was
blown to atoms, and the mule seriously
hurt. Two mill-stone3 and a big water
wheel is all that i3 left of the mill. The
race was torn np. Beach Spring church
(Baptist) was scattered to the four winds.
From the mill the storm struck tho Beach
Spring school-house, doing it as it did
the other buildings. Mr. G. Murrah’s
(sr.) residence was damaged, not very
bad. He was only in the edge of the
Btorm. It passed on between Murrah’s
and Wm. T. Nelson’s houses and struck
Picken Murrah’s .tearing everything to
pieces. He and his wife were in the
tiouse when it went off—neither of them
were hurt. Sho remarked, Saturday
night, “I havo nothing at home, every
thing I had was blown away.” She had
a needle, -thimble and thread in her
hand when the Btorm was over. From
hero it went to Mr. Calvin Teel’s, (a very
old man, a pensioner of the Indian war.)
Soma of his family were injured—tho
samo old tale of destruction here. From
hero the storm crossed the Pine Mount
ain, east of the North and South railroad
grade, between Hog and Biyan’s trail, to
J. S. Irvin’s and Mrs. Westwood’s far m3,
on to Mr. A. C. Harris’ and B. B. Mobley’s.
Here many of his (Mobley’s) negro houses
were tom to pieces and one negro had a
thigh 'broken, and others were hurt.
From here to Mr. Jesse Bobert3’ (an old
man, also a pensioner) houses were dam
aged. No one was seriously wounded.
Thence through the plantations to Pink
Grants, passing between Oscar Barnes’
and T. N. Sparks’. Pink Grant’s houses
were all swept away; Morgan Murrah’s
houses blown down and all provisions
gone. McGrant’s building all down ex
cept one room. Here the cyclone enter
ed the track of the one on March 20th,
going due east and destroying houses
which had been rebuilt. Dr. S. G. Biley’s
houses were all destroyed, except his res
idence. At T. J. Middlebrook’s a great
many trees were blown down, and his
orchard completely riddled. These last
threo places were in tho track of tho
storm of March 20th. Losses in Harris
were four negroes killed, numerous whites
and blackB wounded, one mill, ono church,
one school house, and thousands of dol
lars of property destroyed. Harris has
suffered terribly. This is her third heavy
storm since March. The storm struck
Talbot county at J. D. Myeris place in
the valley, at 3J o’clock Saturday after
noon, destroying all his fencing and tim
bers, and badly damaged his grain crop.
Every house on the plantation of Ber. J.
H. Harris was blown down, and a negro
woman and child was killed, and several
others wounded. At Simeon DeLoach’s
place one negro was killed. M. V. Wil
son’s house was swept away, he slightly
and his wife severely wounded. At Bev.
Johq H. Barnes’ residence all the out-
houses except his dwelling are gone, and
white peraoas kUte&apd wounded,
besides Begreei. W< P. Crawford'* place
It will be prepared to offer ample accom
modations of a satisfactory character on
its train, leaving Augusta at 4:15 r. m.,
August 2d, to all visitors to Portsmouth,
intending to participate in the re-nnion.
Whatever extra sleeping ears that are
desired will be furnished. The round trip
fare for this occasion, between Augusta
and Portsmouth, will be twelve dollars.
~ The storm.
The following ia all we hear of special
interest, that is reliable, with regard to
the storm of Saturday:
Talbotton, Ga., May 3,1875.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: On
Saturday, 1st instant, the upper part of
thi3 county was visited by another
cyclone which is reported as destructive
03 the storm of the 20th cf March. We
have heard as far west ns Hamilton,
Harris county, Georgia, as traveling a
part of the time in the same track as
the former one, rendering some of the
ons tho second time homeless and
ituto, and traveling with great speed
. __ „ r .*f ’ in nearly an eastern course, destroying
Ithe houses and fences of Ber. John Har-
M.ss Clara. One rig> killing tw0 negroea . destroying also
tho school house of Miss Trussel, wound
ing her and her sister, Mrs. Kendrick,
badly, and killing young Mr. Kendrick;
destroying Mr. Canada’s place, mortally
wounding him and killing hi3 wife.
Mr. J. Weaver had his fine residence
and out-honscs all demolished, wounding
him, it is thought, mortally, and killing
two negroes. Tho two churches known
as the "double churches” were blown en
tirely away, as well as the Academy lo
cated on tho road from Talbotton to
Greenville, about nine miles north of this
place. It destroyed Captain Gamble’s
plantation. His com fields are reported
to loot: as if swept with a broom, and ev
ery plantation in tho track is literally ru
ined. The worst part is reported to have
been about one hundred yards wide,
taking all before it. The treeB in many
places fell inward, as if trying to fill a
vacuum. .It crossed Flint river south of
Double Bridges, about four o’clock, being
but a few minutes in crossing tbe county.
Many persons ore wounded, some badly,
some slightly. Joseph Jackson.
Good Point.
The Nashville Banner says in discuss
ing the misrule in South Carolina, Mis
sissippi and Louisiana, Badical papers,
no longer able to deny the fact of misrule
in these States, say that the people havo
only themselves to blame for their suf
ferings, for had they taken hold in the
right way when the war closed, they
might havo saved themselves all their
troubles. Now, lot us see if tho point is
well taken. Admit that the white peo
ple in these States were guilty of tho sin
of omission, are they, therefore, to blame
for tho state of things that followed ? We
help a robber into our neighbor’s house,
aud aid him all we can to rob and steal.
Then when our neighbor complains of our
conduct, we retort that he has only him
self to blame, for if he had securely fast
ened his doors and windows as he might
and ought to have done, the thief would
not have injured him.
• Rough, on Delano.
The Washington City Capital, Donn
Fiatt’a paper, rather “goes fori’ Mr Sec
retary Delano in its last issue. It says
‘Sir. Delano is undergoing his “baptism
of fire.” President Grant’s devotion to
his friends is proverbial; he carries it so
far as to mako the virtue a vice and at
the same time, paradoxical os it may
seem, in his cose the vice reaches on ex
treme which makes it lean towards vir
tue’s side. Who but General Grant would
countenance the prolonged official life of
a man for whose retirement nob merely
the opposition press, but tbe public, is so
unanimously crying out against ?
lord bless me and my wife,
3Iy son John and his wife.
Us four and no more,”
has been the prayer and practice of Mr.
Delano. The defrauded red man, the
debauched white man, an abused trust, a
degraded Cabinet and a disgraced coun
try urge upon Mr. Delano tho propriety
of "stepping down and out.”
Read This.
Any'person or family, having [auto
graph letters of General George Wash
ington, Israel Putnam, or any other
Bevolutionary celebrities in their pos
session, will please describe the same by
letter to this office, and state whether
they are for sate or not. mayC 3t
A Vermont man recently sued his son-
in-law for the sum of $42. Ho had
charged him for board on the eighty-two
Sundays on which the young man had
courted his daughter, being at the rate
of half n dollar a day—which certainly
couldn’t be considered high, only that it
isn’t considered to be the correct thing
ia the best circles to make any charge of
the kind. The droH dispute w*£i *etU*d
by tompremiae.
Special Dispatch to the News and Courier]
Columbia, 8. C„ May S-Foliowi*..
close and sultry day a terrific storm of
wind, rain and hail passed over Colambit
yesterday afternoon at five o’clock, it
came from the west, from which quarter
the wind had blown all day, and traveled
nearly due east. The squall lasted abont
thirty minutes, during which time tb
air was thick with blinding dust ud
sand, and limbs and leaves of trees w«e
wrenched and revolved in whirling ed
dies. Thunder and lightning added their
terrors to the scene. Men looked onwith
a vivid recollection of the disasters of tb*
recent cyclone and prudently kept within
doors. Fortunately no life was lost and
no serious injury reported except in
case. The destruction of property
considerable but not ruinous to any
person. 1 ae
Huge trees were uprooted in every di
rection and signs, awnings, bill-boarda
fences and walls blown down. Maav
dwellings have been seriously damaged
by the rain which was driven throusfc
the smallest crevice and soaked throu'b
the walls, in some instances causing tL
plastering to fall and in others ini inn.
to an extent sufficient to compel replaa-
tering. Many houses narrowly escaped
being crushed by falling trees. ^
The most serious injury was dona U
the Presbyterian Church. Its fine «tee
pie was prostrated and blown down The
roofisahugemara of ruins crushed in
by the falling timbers. The rear wall is
sprung and the ornamental parts of th»
church badly damaged. The steeple eri!
dently fell its full length alosg the top
of tho bailing and rolled off on the eouth
side, where the fence and wall were bro.
ken down. Some portion of the debris
fell into the churchyard, breaking the ta
blets which marked the resting places of
the dead. It is estimated that it will
take ten thousand dollars to repair the
damage.
The roof of the State-house was tom off
at the west wing, a door blown out, and
a chimney hurled to the ground. The
cast iron palmetto' tree, in front, was
prostrated, and the ornamental work Bar-
rounding it broken down; the strong
bolts and hooks which held the tree op
were tom out of their places and straight-
ened out. The .tree was divided into
three parts.
Other injuries to buildings are reported
as follows: Squieris store and residence,
Kinard’s residence, Dr. Woodrow’s resi
dence and printing office, Carroll & Spell,
man’s carriage factory, tho Lunatic Asj-
lum. the buildings of the Fair Grounds,
and the Penitentiaiy, (it was here that a
man was seriously hurt in the back,)
Crawford’s warehouse, City Hospital, un
finished; the City Market, Altee’s store,
the car-shed at the Greenville and Co
lumbia railroad, Graham’s gm-hense,
Dr. Wallace’s residence, and Geo. Davis’
residence, near the race-course. Slight
damage was also sustained by Fine’s res
taurant, George Symmer’s store, Col.
Dodamead’s office, CoL Pearce’s resi
dence, the South Carolina railroad depot
and the Republican Printing Company
office. At Batesburg, on the line of tbe
Charlotte, Colombia and Augusta rail
road, buildings were destroyed. The
track of the railroad was washed away
near Graniteville, and handB have been
ordered to rebuild it.
The roads leading to Columbia were
blockaded by the rise of small streams
and prostrated trees. Trees which have
stood the storms of half a century, and
which had grown to immense size, were
snapped like pipe-stems and hurled to
a considerable distance. A colored man
was lifted off his feet and carried thirty
or forty yards. After the storm had
passed that sign which was placed in
the heavens after the subsidence of tho
flood mado a beautiful appearance and a
grand sunset, and many colored rainbows
were hailed with delight. The Presby
terian congregation held religious servi
ces to-day in the Opera House. Great
regret is felt at the destruction of the
beautiful steeple of the Presbyterian
Church and of Werner’s elegant mona
ment to the State and her noble dead in
Mexico. Congaree,
THE CENTENNIAL.
Where is the Necessary §3,503,000
to come from ?
Prom the Philadelphia Times.
The question is often asked: How is
the Centennial Commission to raise the
$3,500,000 necessary—if we understand
the last report of the Board of Finance,
which was not very explicit—to cany oat
it3 plans? Tho answer is: From tho
people. But how to do it is another
question. It cannot be done by holding
tea-parties, peddling medals, or giving
loan exhibitions- There are millions to
be raised and these are means of secur
ing hundreds. The whole country is now
aroused—or it seems to be aroused—to
the importance of making the exhibition
a success. Suppose its-enthusiam takes
the shape of subscriptions to the stock?
New York has given $150,000, when its
quota i3 more than a million. Boston his
contributed only one-tenth of her shire,
and nothing has been heard from Cin
cinnati, Chicago or St. Louis. Co*e,
sisters, it is time that you walked up to
the General’s office (Hawley’s) and settle
yonr bills. We want money now, rot
fine words.
Wo suppose it i3 too late to change the
programme; but a strictly national exhi
bition and gathering, at a moderate cost,
would have been far better than so nmek
spread-eagleism, which, if paid for at all,
will be paid out of the Federal strong
box.
An Abolition Convention.
There was, says the Baltimore J :-,
a reunion in Philadelphia the other day o:
old abolitionists which was not altogether
harmonious. The political and pbi!*a -
thropic elements did not appear altogeth
er to coalesce. Mr. Heniy Wilson Wi*
mated that thero was in progress ‘a
counter revolution against the negro.
Abby Kelley Foster said some people got
a great deal of credit—not to mention
substantial rewards—whero they didn-
deserve anything at all. She (Abby)
an inconoclast—for her part she wa,—
and announced her intention of P r0 ??y.'
ing then and there to smash a few 1( to *»
just to show the aged and doting
ence how it could bo done. With that»
struck a few blows from the shoulder ■
the late Abraham Lincoln. But it vans
pected that Abby was striking at the »i
President instead of Mr. Lincoln*
also said it was a mistake to suppo? e
Lincoln was an abolitionist. Ho
nothing but a brutal old unionist,
had no object on earth but the sllT r? v ,
of his country, and who would never n
sacrificed a single half million ora-*
countrymen, or even a single hiUioa ^
their money, for tho elevation cc ,
African above the whites. Ho ha
turned more fugitive slaves than .
other President ever did, and if *
other power had not taken ths e®.j.
of the war out of his hands, it
have ended by leaving the negro no *
ter off than the white man, and tn
tire South as free, prosperous and
tented as ever before. rtase
The New York Sun, referring; to
facts and to an expression attnbuisu
Mr. Lincoln, “we must whip up the
horses and hold in the leaders, ,
carry the load through,” say* , na i;
“was the union of these States, an . _
Henry Wilson, Abby Kelley Foster,
onet govenmant, negro aseenaM.V’.
pet-baggery, nor yet the Bydical
with ita ma«s of crime* aud foUs- t
the editor of the New Tort
member of the War Depart®***"^
administration, his auijw .i
ought to be accepted by those who
concerns.