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MACON, MAT 18,1875
Congressman House, of Tennessee,
lost the prize in a Nashville spelling
match on “karpet.”
Darwin's income is $20,000 a year
the result of long, labored efforts to prove
man’s descent from monkeys.
Tme badge for newspaper reporters at
tending the Philadelphia Centennial will
bo a little hatchet and a sprig of cherry
tree.
“Sinful sectarianism” is what a Uni
tarian theological student called it be
cause a Methdist girl refused to let him
hug her in a campmeeting tent.
We saw a young lady this morning
wearing a very pretty badge lettered
"Press.” But we didn’t.—Bidde/ord Times
We should have been a better man in
his place.—Boston News.
"There is no sunset in heaven,” says
a noted divine. “Wo go farther than
that,” says an exchange; “There’s no
getting np of nights to draw the baby’s
leg3 back under the cover.”
Edwand C. Marshall, son of Chief
Justice Marshall, seventy years of age, is
a clerk in the Pension Office, at $1,200
salary. Mr. Marshall resides in the city of
Alexandria, Va.,lost all hisproperty during
the war, is delicate in health, and resem
bles his father.
In the hymn book of the United Pres
byterian Church in Great Britain, in
Montgomery’s “Hail to the Lord’s Anoint
ed,” the phrase, “the mountain dew” was
changed to the heavenly dew, “mountain
dew,” in Scotland, signifying a glass of
whisky.
The Hon. and Bev. Lord Francis G.
Godolphin Osborne, M. A., rector of Great
Elm, near Frome, in England, son of the
late Duke of Leeds, and nephew of the
Eev. Lord S. G. Osborne, was received t {”a e " that~ho did not involuntarily
f—lt*M nnnvAn Of Hino— ( . #
dodge. So these awful cyclones which,
What the Framers of tlie Con
stitution Tbouglit About It.
The Cincinnati Commercial mentions
as a fact not generally known that the
Convention that framed the Constitution
of the United States twice determined by
a large majority to make the Presidential
term six or seven years in length, and to
render the President ineligible to a sec
ond term. This was done by the Con
vention over which Washington himself
presided, and at a time when it was as
certainly known as any coming event
could be that Washington would be the
first President of the United States.
That tenure of office to which the Fathers
of the Bepublio would have restricted
Washington, and to which he gave the
sanction of his great example by ntterly
refusing to consider the possibility of his
own election to a third term, after he had
been persuaded by the exigency of public
affairs to remain eight years in office, has
since become consecrated by the exam
ple of his most illustrious successors, and
fixed and established in the public mind
as a limit beyond which no President
should be permitted to go.
Ibe Vote in tlie Ninth;
The Atlanta Herald, of Thursday, pub
lishes the official returns from all the
counties in the above district, except
Towns, from which it appears that ont
of a total vote of 10,562, Hill has 6,371;
Estes, 2,986; and Price, 1,205—making
Hill’s plurality over Estes, 3,385; his
plurality over Price. 5,166; and his ma
jority over both, 2,180. Towns is a small
voting county, and the result there can
not materially alter the above figures.
Inbound numbers, and giving Towns to
one or the other of hi3 opponents, Mr.
Hill’s majority may be safely set down
at 2,000.
Can’t Stop Dodging—How to Escape
the Cyclone.
A gallant young friend who, in many a
campaign had listened to the music of
minnie balls, and the roar of artillery, de
clared to us the other day that he never
heard a gunshot or a sudden clap of
into tbe Roman Catholic Church at Bris
tol a few days since.
The Washington Star says there seems
to be no doubt that Secretary Fish has
indicated to the President his purpose to
retire from the Cabinet at the close of
the present fiscal year. (June 30.) It is
surmised that Edwards Pierrepont, the
recently appointed Attorney General, will
succeed him,
A Good Chance foe the Butchebs.—
Mr. S. M. Hunt, of Warwick, Worth coun
ty, offers to deliver five hundred head of
fat sheep at Macon, averaging 40 pounds
net, for $3 a piece. At the present price
of mutton, here is a magnificent speck
for somebody. But he says $2.50 is the
best offer yet received.
According to a reporter of the Cincin
nati Enquirer, Beck, of Kentucky, thinks
Tilden stands’no chance for the Presi
dential nomination. “The South and
West will have the naming of the candi
date—you can’t keep it from them if
yon want to—and no Eastern bondholder
candidate will stand any show whatever.”
Ann Eliza, the seventeenth Mrs. Brig
ham Young, has come to grief. Chief
Jnstice Lowe has practically reversed the
decision of his predecessor, Keene, which
awarded her $300 per month alimony.
The new judge decided that as there
could have been no legal marriage, there
could be no legal divorce, and hence no
alimony.
It is said that daring the thirteen
years that Oliver Charlick, who lately
died in New York city, was President of
the Long Island railroad he never drew
any part of his salary, although it had
been fixed by the Board of Directors at
$10,000 a year. This makes $130,000
which his estate will, of course, call upon
the company to pay up.
“Gath” makes this observation as the
drift of Democratic sentiment: “The
free trade question is assuming a promi-
■’cn ^ ^ a3 never had since 1842-46.
■^err Wo ^ an ^ ^ oz are * ree traders.
I fin’d Demoo' wt * * mild ^ hke
Congressman Ely and ^-Congressman
Roosevelt, who wouiu not touch free
trade in 1870, now radical that way.”
■ -»« • •
Judge Willard Hall died at Wil
mington, Delaware, last Monday, aged
ninety-fivo years. He was appointed
Judge of the Federal District Court for
that State, and he entered upon a judi
cial career seldom equaled in length, he
having served until December 6, 1871,
when ho resigned because of bodily in
firmity, though his mind was clear and
strong.
The Philadelphu North American says,
"money is in snch abundance in the
banks and fiscal institutions, and in the
hands of all engaged in discounting, that
the demand is far below the offerings.
Money for loanable purposes is, in fact, a
drag in consequence of tho total absence
of enterprise. Much as has been said
heretofore on the subject, the surplus,
which is greater than ever, shows that
the expected recovery of business activi
ty has not yet set in.”
A hatch of a novel character came off
at Wolverhampton, England, the other
day. Two slaughtermen, named Gill and
Martin, were matched to kill and dress a
somber of sheep—namely, Martin, ten
sheep while Gill only killed and dressed
sine, the stake being for J£3 a side. The
two men wero shut np in a slaughter
house with the requisite number of
sheep, and Gill, it is stated, was “ most
fancied.” tho betting being three to ono
on him. The confidence of his admirers
was not misplaced, for Gill managed to
perform his task in 1 hour and 4i min
utes, while Martin did not finish for 8)
minutes later.
A oooD.old minister of ono of our New
England Baptist churches was agreeably
surprised by the intelligence from one of
bis flock that five individuals had ex.
pressed a desire on tho next Sunday to
have the baptismal rite performed upon
themselves. After its performance, how
ever, ho was somewhat chagrined that
only one of tho fivo joined the society of
■which he was pastor. A few Sundays
after the same worthy elder waited on
him with the intelligence that ten more
desired immersion. "And how many of
them will join the society ?” queried tho
minister. “Two, I regret to say, are all
we can depend on,” was the elder’s reply.
“Very well,” said the goad old minister,
•’’you may as well inform tho other eight
that this church doesn’t take in washing.
Boston Com. Bulletin.
in some parts of the country, are becom
ing distressingly common, have alarmed
the people to such an extent, that they
are unhappy except when the sky is per
fectly serene and clear.
The slightest cloud, especially if an oc
casional flash of lurid, jagged lightning
reveals more distinctly the opaque back
ground, sends a thrill of fear to every
heart. In a recent visit below, we heard
one lady say she had been trying to stop
a gully in her garden ever so long, but
now she wanted it deep enough to cover
tho family every time it thundered.
Some have dug regular pits of ref uge
into which they scamper when the wea
ther is portentous, and burrow like dor
mice. Others have the subterranean sides
of their wells so hollowed out and arrang
ed, that they can descend from tho career
ing tempest above, and take refuge in
those friendly niches. Many intend to
get behind a pillar beneath the lowest
foundations of their dwellings. In short,
but for tho frightful realities of the theme,
much that is comical and amusing might
be related, growing out of the wholesale
terror of the inhabitants of tho cyclone
district.
Recently at ono of the numerous
handsome towns that fringe the track of
tho Southwestern railroad, an aged and
pious gentleman was sick and confined
to bed in the upper story of the hotel,
when it began to storm and thunder.
Hearing an unusual sound and bustle in
the house, he inquired of a servant the
cause of the disturbance. “Oh,” said he,
“the boarders are jist gittin’ up an’ git-
tin’, becase that ar* cyclone they is
afeared am cornin’ along." The old gen
tleman was too weak to rise, and said,
“well, God can take as good care of me
here as any where else.”
The report that he mounted Sambo’s
back and spurred him down the stairs,
i3 nothing bnt tho invention of a mis
chievous wag, without a particle of truth
connected with it.
No Fraternization with “Rebels.”
At a large meeting of ex-Federal sol
diers and sailora held at Baltimore on
Tuesday night, to mako arrangements
for the annual decoration of tho graves
of Federal soldiers, Gen. Adam E. King,
offered a resolution that a committee of
five be appointed to confer with a com
mittee of ex-Confederate3 with a view to
the joint decoration of the graves of Fed
eral and Confederate dead, and advocated
his resolntion in an eloquent speech.
Tho chairman of the meeting, Harrison
Adreon (Grant officeholder), ruled the
resolution to be not in order, and Gen.
King’s movement toward fraternization
was thn3 suppressed.
Annexation of the “New Dominion’*
of Canada.
A convention of delegates from both
countries ha3 been called to assemble at
Buffalo on the 4th of July, to recommend
some feasible plan for the nnion of Cana
da to the United States, before the 4th of
July, 1876, the centennial year.
The scheme does not seem to make
much headway, though it is probable as
many as one thousand delegates will try
their.hands at it. Just now, the Yankees,
and their cousins over the border, are
wrangling abont the fishery question, and
in no very amiable mood.
U’o hope John Boll will put in a timely
word on the subject, and that he may
have better luck than when he sought to
curb tho rebellion of the “Old Thirteen.”
Tbe Whisky Sensation.
Our beneficent Government offers
premium to fraud and rascality by im
posing an oppressive tax upon ardent spir
its, and then, forsooth, prosecutes and
drives to the wall the knaves of its own
creation.
An intelligent wholesale liqnor dealer
in this city, whose transactions are all on
the square,truthfully remarkedyesterday
that whisky was the hobby of the present
administration. Grant, who quaffs oceans
of the fluid free gratis and for nothing,
as no one can donbt, seems resolved to
mnVft the “rosy” a power in the realm,
Accordingly, the Radical Congress and
himBelf, relying upon the thirsty propen
sities of tho nation, have assessed a tariff
upon the manufacture of the article,
which would be prohibitory upon every
thing save tipple.
Bnt never a dram the les3 has been
dranken, nor has the production dimin
ished a single gallon so far as we con as
certain. On tho contrary, stimulated by
tho increased demand, every mountain
recess and hidden brook sends up a tiny
column of smoke from it3 forbidden
“ still,” and wholesale dealers resort to
ingenious contrivances, worthy of a better
cause, to smuggle their contraband wares
into bibulous circulation, duty free.
Look at tbe result in St. Louis alone,
where it is estimated the Government
has been defrauded ont of a million of
dollars by the dealers in liquors. Num
bers are duplicated, agent3 bribed, pack
ages falsely labelled, and the darkness of
night made to cover many a transaction
which Uncle Sam’s officials would have
discovered in open day.
But this has over been the case tbe
world over. Not all of Mr. Madison’s
gunboats conld check the exportation of
cotton to old Fernandina and Havana,
during tho embargo, and the whole Brit
ish navy and coast guard system were
powerless to exclude those famous "tick
lers” of French brandy, which smugglers
were wont to laud all along the coast of
Britain.
The fault begins with the Government,
which had far better resort to direct tax
ation for revenue, than heap unequal
taxes upon any’particular industry of the
country.’ Such a course provokes fraud
and peculation, and not only defeats the
collection of the proposed revenue, but
ruins the honest dealers.
Thus, we heard one merchant who
would scorn to violate the law, declare,
that however repugnant to his inclina
tions, self-preservation would make it
necessary for him to expose the frauds of
those who evaded the revenue laws,
Otherwise, honesty would be foreed to
succumb to trickery, as goods upon which
the excise had been paid, cannot, of
course, compete in an open market with
those that are sold duty free.
“Free trade and sailors’ rights” is the
only remedy that we can devise, or at
least a modification in the excessive tax
ation imposed upon the article in ques
tion.
And just here, in conclusion, it gives us
real pleasnre to bear testimony to the
integrity, moderation and fidelity of Mr.
Clarke, the revenue assessor for this dis
trict. All who have transactions with
him affirm, that while vigilant in the
discharge of duty, he is yet kind, courte
ous and accommodating.
It is refreshing to bo able to speak
thus of any official who holds office under
the present Radical administration. “Bnt
let ju&tico be done if the heavens fall.”
Not Dead.
Recently Rev. E. H. McGehee, who is
the pastor of tbe Dawson Methodist
Church, received tho tender sympathies
of a clerical friend, at the untimely death
of his brother John, another minister,
who our readers will remember was re
ported among the victims of the cyclone.
•But John is not dead,” said his rela
tive. “My dear sir, you are painfully
mistaken. Poor John is no more, for I
preached his funeral sermon last Sunday,
and took up a collection for his family.”
John, and no ono save John, is entitled
to the avails of tbe collection, and he
ought to have a copy of his funeral ser
mon in the bargain. >
We need not say his brother was right,
and the friend misinformed as to John’s
unhappy demise.
Nathaniel Eaton celebrated liis one-
hundredth birthday at Sutton, N. H., on
the 4th instant. The incident receives
an additional ani painful interest from
the fact that this centenarian has sow
passed away by an attack of pneumonia,
induced by the excitement and exertion
. caused by the birthday celebration.
A Waste of Words.
The Atlanta Herald, it seems to ns, is
not showing much wisdom in giving
snch prominence in its columns to the
chatter of a few men abont what the “in
dependents” are going to do next year.
It printed on Friday some more utter
ances on this subject by another Chero
kee statesman. He, too, talked the usual
raw head and bloody bone3 stuff of pop
ular opposition to conventions in upper
Georgia. It is really fearful, this disaf
fection in that section, hnt it looks moro
like a Cherokee Georgia bluff to us than
anything else. It may bo the first stage
of a little game by which tho party is to
be frightened into taking a North Geor
gia candidate for Governor, under pen
alty of defeat. Who knows ?
Bnt it won’t work. The people of Geor
gia know too well what will be the
result of division among themselves.
They intend to keep the control of their
State in their own hands, and are equally
certain that the only way to do it is*
through the agency of a Democratic con
vention. That is tho long and short, the
height, breadth, depth and true inward
ness of the whole matter. That convcn-
will be a fair, honest expression of the
popular wish. The delegates win repre
sent the voice of the majority of their
constituents in each county, fairly ascer
tained by such methods as the latter may
desire. If necessary, by primary election
and the choice of their agents by a direct
vote. That would flank these anti-con
vention howlers effectually.
We have little fear, however, of them.
They talk big, and assume a sickening
air of superior virtue and purity, but
that’s about oU. They have no more
brains, nor courage, nor talent for lead
ership than other people and generally
have sense enough to know which side
their bread is buttered. Let them fuss,
and threaten and predict then. The Dem
ocrats of Georgia will nominate such a
candidate for Governor as suits them, and
will elect him; and these so-called " in
dependents ” will either have to keep np
with tho procession or march with the
negro party. As old man Lincoln used to
say, we gues3 the Democrats “ will still
keep house,” no matter what they do.
Served Him Bight.
A correspondent at Rome writes that
the Pope had occasion recently to rebnko
an Englishman for rudeness to his holi
ness in the Vatican. The person had
gained admittance in some way, and, in
stead of rising when the Pope entered,
he sat during the entire audience. In
tho midst of tho benediction the Pope re
monstrated with him in this way: “Do
yon como here to insult mo in my own
house ? Is it a gentlemanly-like thing
to sit down when all the others are stand
ing or kneeling After this outburst
the guards promptly put the intrader
out.
The New York Sun says Weston walk
ed 100 miles without stopping, last Tues
day. He completed 117 miles within 24
hears from his second start, and 120 miles
in 7 minutes less than 25 honrs. He fin
ished his 150th mile at 6:01:19 Tues
day, and at midnight had walked 173
miles. He intended to walk until day
light without rest, and thus catch up
with his original time table. He is still
fresh and hearty.
The Atlanta Herald says Governor
Smith advertises the fact that over fifty
penitentiary convicts, who have been
hired to Mr. Harris, of Cartersville, have
been so badly treated that jnstice and
humanity require that he abrogate the
lease, and take them from Harris’ con
trol. The Governor advertises for bids
from responsible parties for these con
victs.
Dissolved.—Tho Atlanta News says
the Typographical Union of that city has
disbanded and surrendered it3 charter.
Of Mr. Hill’s speech at Atlanta Tues-
night, the Herald bos this synopsis:
Mr. Hill said that ho did not accept
the grand demonstration as a tribute to
himself, but to the triumph of tho princi
ples of right and fairness, which had been
effected by the late election. He said, in
reviewing briefly the i3sue3 of that can
vass, that ono plea set np by his oppo
nents was a justification of the acts of
reconstruction on tho ground that “tho
conqueror had a right to prescribe terms
to the conquered.” Said-Mr. Hill, when
Democrats of standing in the party should
assert this monstrous doctrine, and re
ceive Democratic votes on this assertion,
it is time—high time—to reassert the
fundamental principles of the Democratic
party, and reform the faith. Mr. Hill
corrected an error, that some men seemed
to be laboring under, in regard to his
views on conventions and party organiza
tions. He believed strongly in the necessity
of perfect organization, and would never do
aught to destroy the organization of his party.
“The man,” said h e, “who,in view of the grand
struggling just ahead of us,would lend himself
to the disintegration of the party, when above
all other times discipline was necessary, de
served to be beaten. This is a period when
self must be abrogated, and the good of
the party made the leading principle,”
Hence, Mr. Hill said, he had refused to
allow hi3 name to bo used independent
of a convention, or anticipativo of the
convention. He had gone into the con
vention fairly and sincerely, and had it
made a fair nomination ho would have
abided it; as it made none he took the
field. Yet while ho was a friend to con
ventions he deprecated the use of conven
tions to defeat tho will of tho people;
and this was precisely what tho people
of the Ninth district had rebuked in the
late remarkable canvass. Mr. Hill con
fessed to a sense of gratification at the
result of the election in the Ninth. Ho
felt thankful that at last he had been
permitted to go before the people, to go
before them even without the adventi
tious aid of a nomination, and get thoir
judgment unbiased and fully expressed.
F. S. The italicized lines in tho abovo
are commended to the consideration of
the Griffin News and Mr. W. H. Felton.
There were three convictions for mur
der in Fulton Superior Court on Wednes
day. In one CS30 it only took three
hours to do the job. The crime was com
mitted on the first day of April.
We find the following in the Atlanta
Constitution, of Thursday:
An Interesting Case.—In the decis
ions of tho Supreme Court published this
morning will be found a very interesting
case. The child of the late Dunlap Scott
was, at his death, in the possession of
Mr. Janes and wife, to whom the father
hod given it when a babe. Mr. Cleghorn,
a relative, obtained possession of it, and
refused to give it up, whereupon Mr.
Janes brought suit for its recovery, but
the decision of the court below was ad
verse to his claim. The Supreme Court
decides that the lower court was in error,
the child having been obtained for a visit
through a promise to return it, and the
lawful possession still remained with
Janes and wife. The court also decides
that a father has no right to revoke the
releasal of his parental authority without
some good legal cause, and that there is
not sufficient evidence to show that in
this instance the father over attempted a
revocation.
Duluth, Ga., May 12.—On last Satur
day night, in this place, a negro man,
Dave Drummond, about 30 years old and
lamo in one leg, made an attempt to rav
ish a white girl, who is some 16 or 17
years old. The girl lives in a gentle
man’s family here, and he was absent
from the house. The negro raised a
window and went into the room where
she was. The girl screamed and raised
so much noise, the negro ran off. The
gentleman reached the house in time to
see tho negro, and fired several times at
him but missed him. Quite a number
are on the lookout for tho negro.
The Atlanta News says some time in
March Mr. T. G. Garrett, of that city,
left home one day and while he was away
a telegram was sent by Dr. J. S. Lawton,
of Macon, over the Southern and Atlan
tic Telegraph wires directed to him at
this city. A gentlemen was left in charge
of Mr. Garrett's office during his absence,
but for some reason the telegram was not
deli 7cred, nor was any notice of its ar
rival left for him, cither written or oth
erwise, and by some neglect the tele
graphic people failed to return tho dis
patch to Macon with an explanation
showiDg that it was not delivered. Mr.
Garrett did not know of the dispatch
having been sent until several days after
wards, when Mr. Lawton telegraphed to
him requesting him to answer the dis
patch sent him on “Wednesday.” Mr.
Garrett called at the Western Union
office and the Southern and Atlantio
office and inquired if any dispatch
had been received for him on tho day
named. Tho managers of both of the
officers declared' tljat none had como on
either of their lines. Shortly afterwards
—tho next week probably—Dr. Lawton
arrived in the eity, bringing with him a
copy of the first telegram sent, which
proved to have been sent through tho
Southern and Atlantic Telegraph Com
pany. A3 the dispatch was an important
one, and the company failed-to deliver it
as per their contract, Mr. Garrett brought
suit for damages immediately against the
company, claiming that he had been dam
aged by neglect. On the 10th of April
ho got judgment against the company
for tho sum of fifty dollars before a Jus
tice of the Peace. Mr. J. J>. Cunningham
acting as his attorney. The office of the
company was advertised for sale on last
Monday. A day or two previous to the
sale day, the Southern and Atlantio Com
pany procured a writ of certiorari and
carried tbe case to the Superior Court for
a rehearing.
At the Augusta Schutzenfest the
Clinch Rifles won the company prize for
shooting; Capt. Wilborforco Daniel, of
Oglethorpe Infantry, Co. A, tho officers’
prize for Bhooting ; and Oglethorpe In
fantry, Co. B, tbo prize for tho best
drilled company in the manual of arms.
Judge Claiborne Snead, of the Rich
mond County Court, has this “broad
bint” posted in his office :
“The Mathematics of Crime—Statis
tics show that of every ten men who die
in this country sei-«a are talked to death.
Take heed that tho a no murder do.”
The Savannah Advertiser says a care
fully compiled statement of the amounts
of fertilizers shipped from Savannah,
shows that the shipments of the present
and of the past seasons are almost iden
tical—the difference being less than sixty-
seven tons in a business that annually
amounts to neatly forty thousand tons.
The shipments from Savannah in April
aggregated the unnsual amount of 11,324,-
267 pounds. The Advertiser odd3: “From
reports received from the coantry we con
clude that the amount of guano used
the present year will exceed that em
ployed daring the past season, as last
foil there were large amounts of fertiliz
ers stored from the previous years at
almost every depot. This has all been
sold, and with this season’s shipments
will show an increase in the use of guano
of some eight to ten per cent.”
The “Pulaski Loan Association” of Sa<
vannah, sold $4,000 last Wednesday night
at from 53 to 54 per cent, premium.
We learn from the Columbus Enquirer'
Sun that Joseph J. Martin, of Girard,
Alabama, “has been sentenced to the
Albany (New York) penitentiary for one
year for abstracting money from letters
while ronte agent on the Mobile and Gi
rard Railroad. He was arraigned before
tho United States Circuit Court at Mont
gomery on Tuesday, plead guilty, and
was sentenced by Judge Bruce as stated.
The act was committed last year. He is
a young man, and was formerly useful in
marshaling the Radical clans in Girard."
Butts county has decided in favor of
"prohibition” by a vote of 89 to 51.
The Sanderaville Gazette says Mr. A.
Herman’s house at Daviaboro, was burned
Tuesday morning with all the fnrnitnre
and .’most of the clothing of the family,
who had barely time to escape.
The Marietta Journal says a tornado
visited “Douglass county (adjoining
Cobb), last Monday morning. It scat
tered tbe house of Mr. Gourk to the fonr
winds, blowing some of the rafters and
timbers three quarters of a mile. Mr.
G. and wife were badly but not seriously
hnrt.
Mr. Hugh Quinn died in Chattooga
county recently aged 88 years. His de
scendants numbered over one hundred at
the time of his death.
Pomp Haney and Jim Cooper, negroes,
were hung at Franklin, Heard county,
yesterday for the murder of another ne
gro.
The Atlanta Herald says the salutes
fired on Tuesday night in honor of Mr.
Hill’s election cost the State $80, by
breaking out that amount of glass in the
State House.
We entirely agree with the Herald that
it is simply “impossible to estimate, as it
is impossible to retrieve, tbe damage
done to tho South by the indiscriminate
use in onr schools of histories prepared
by Northern historians for Northern
schools. Tho misrepresentations of the
motives which led our fathers to battle
the depreciation of their valor and prow
ess; the perversion of every fact to pre
judicial ends—form the staple of most
of them. In one we have it stated that
■the sainted Lincoln was murdered by
friend of the Confederates, while Jeffer
son Davis, the President of tho rebellion,
was captured attempting to make his
escape to a swamp in a woman’s clothes,
and ended his’career in humiliation and
disgrace.’ This is bnt a sample speci
men. Tho discussion of centennial mat
ters discloses another fact that is pertin
ent. In no histoiy that wo have seen is
thero any allusion to the revolutionary
battle in Alamance, in North Carolina.
Bunker Hill, Lexington and Concord are
duly exalted, while Alamance, though
the scone of just as bloody and just as
significant a battle, 13 not mentioned.
As apropos of this point, we reproduce
an extract from a letter written to the
Augnsta Constitutionalist upon the sub
ject by a gentleman for a long time a
teacher himself:
'An especially interesting phase of this
question arises in connection with the
subject of history, after all the most val
uable of all studies, and in its very na
ture the most easily taught in tho hands
of a good teacher who has a good text
book. To ns of the South this branch of
education takes precedence of all others,
for upon the wholesome instruction of
Southern children in American histoiy
depends largely their judgment of our
selves as well as of our immediate and
remote ancestors. The self-respect, the
manhood of the South in the future are
at stake, and we cannot insist too earn
estly upon having Southern children
taught the histoiy of their country from
text books prepared by those who are ca
pable of its just interpretation. In tho
average “American School History” the
services of Southern patriots are uni
formly dwarfed, and those of eminent
patriots of the North are correspondingly
exalted. Bunker Hill is impressed with
emphasis upon the youthful mind, while
King’s Mountain, Moore's Creek, and
Cowpens are disposed of in a breath;
Boston harbor is made tho beginning
and end of the Revolution; John Han
cock, Roger Sherman, and the Adamses
were the patriots; Massachusetts was
the Revolution, while Virginia, the Car
olines and Georgia wero the mere outlay
ing adjuncts of tho great movement- for
liberty.”
The Chronicle and Sentinel says Alston,
of the Atlanta Herald, has discovered a
big bonanza,” in tho shape of a new
and veiy cheap fertilizer. It is saw-dust
which, at the suggestion of Capt. Miles
Turpin, he has scattered broadcast over
his farm. In a few years he will he able
to supply tho great and growing city of
Atlanta with pine. Tbe business of the
firm will be conducted under the name
and style of Alston & Turpin, dealers in
pine and manufacturers of the great
saw-dust fertilizer.
The Savannah Advertiser learns that
on last Wednesday afternoon Mr. Norton
Johnson, of Bryan county, and a negro
man named Bob Ruffin,, were both in
stantly killed by lightning while stand
ing under an oak tree where they had
taken shelter from a storm.
Frost tho Columbus Enquirer-Sun :
Presentiments and-Force ssWind.—
People may laugh at thorn as much as
they please, but two-families in Stewart
county saved their lives-by a gentleman
obeying a presentiment he could- not re
sist. He had a foreboding, that a storm
would' visit that section, and that hi3
house would be in its path. He told oth
ers of it, but they only, laughed, at him,
saying he was frightened from reading
and hearing the accounts of the late cy-
clonos. He gave credence to the thought,
which would not down at. tho bidding,
and dug a hole near his house. He had
no sooner finished it than.the storm did
come, and barely bad. bo and his family
sought refuge thereinbefore the tornado
tore his house to pieces. Ail in tbe hole
in the- ground escaped! The people in
the storm legion, and many who are not,
are preparing places otrefuge to avoid tho
next-cyclone. lathe bite storm, in East
Alabama a gentleman, saw a negro wo
man being blown over his house. She
had been at work in. a. field. Tho wind
caught her up and carried her haVf a mile.
When found she was dead, with her body
broken in several places.
A Storm Blows Down Another
Council.—The lata storm in Marion
county blew down.the Methodist church
building in Bllaviilo. This makes nine
country church edifices which have been
demolished in the last two months in
Harris, Talbot, Stewart and Marion
counties.
Bonds of Georgia Cities.—Colnmbu3
bonds are quoted in New York, in tho
last Chronicle, at 70 bid and 78 asked.
Those of Macon are at the same figure.
The highest quoted bonds aro those of
Savannah, which are quoted at 86 bid
and 90 asked; those of Augusta come-
next at 83 bid and 87 ashed. All of thesa
bonds hear seven per cent, interest. At
lanta 7s aro given at 72 and 74, nnd her
83 at 77 and 82. The bonds of Georgia
cities, as a rale, average better than any
in the South. They are away ahead of
those of Alabama. Thus Montgomery
8s are quoted at only 65 asked, and were
lower before the last election, while Mo
bile 8s are given at 35 and 45.
The Columbus Times is of opinion
“that the race for Governor will be be
tween General Alfred H. Colquitt, Col.
Thomas Hardeman, and General W. T.
Wofford.”
The LaGranga Reporter agrees with the
Augnsta Constitutionalist that “the most
modest papers in Amerioa are those of
Atlanta, and. adds t
“Everything that takes place in this
world is due to the Atlanta papers, and
yet they claim credit for only about half.
For instance, the transit of Venus was
altogether owing to the Atlanta papers,
bnt they never once claimed the credit of
it.” 7
Mb. Simeon Hester, an old merchant
of Washington, died in Wilkes county
last Tuesday, aged 69 years.
The Hawkins ville Dispatch reports
splendid weather for crops, and corn, cot
ton and grass growing like “a house a
fire.” Cotton choppers are in great de
mand at from fifty to soventy-five cents
per day.
A deer was run down in Houston coun
ty last week and caught and killed by
two men, who found him in a field that'
was so wet that he soon bogged down.
The rattlesnake season has opened
early in Wilkinson county. The Appeal
notes the killing one near six feet long
last week.
The same paper says on the 8th inst.
a little boy, named John Deason, was
playing in his father’s yard, with a piece
of bread in his hand, when a pet sow ran
np to him, “took hold of his arm, and
before it could be rescued, dragged it off
to the distance of some thirty or forty
yards from where it was. Mr. Deason
struck at the hog with a crowbar before
it could be induced to let go the child.
Fortunately, the child was uninjured,
with the exception of a few scratches and
bruises on its arms.”
The Rome Commercial says that on
Friday last Mr. Bill King, who lives on
the line of Floyd and Chattooga counties,
“rode out horseback to attend to some
business. About eleven o’clock he was
returning home, when some cowardly
creature in ambush fired upon him. He
was struck by four balls, two in the right
leg and two in the right arm. His horse,
which was also wounded, became fright
ened and ran away with Mr. King, and
could not be checked np until getting
almost home, abont four hundred yards
from whero the attempted assassination
occurred. We are glad to state that Mr.
King’s wounds ore not of a fatal charac
ter.”
The Carrollton Times says while some
miners were blasting in a shaft near Villa
Rica recently, one them “placed a lighted
timefaso in the blasthole, and was being
drawn ont of a shaft by a windlass, when
the running gear suddenly got out of or
der and refused to perform its office.
There the man was suspended for several
terrible moments. His life hung upon
a thread, and another minuto’s delay
would have ended his existence; but,
with great presence of mind, he leaped to
the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 20
feet, snatched the burning fuse from its
position, and thus escaped a catastrophe. 1
The Clerkship op the Next House
op Representatives.—Under this head,
the Augusta Constitutionalist, of Friday,
pays Colonel A. R. Lamar the following
high and well merited compliment. We
indorse every word of it in regard to
Colonel Lamar’s qualifications for the
position, and sincerely trust he may be
elected:
The Richmond Whig, Oho of the ablest
and wisest of Southern political journals,
nominates Colonel Albert R. Lamar, of
this State, as a candidate for Clerk of the
next House of Representatives. It seems
to be conceded that this position in the
organization of the House will be ten
dered to the South. Georgia has borne
herself so bravely in this reconstruction
business that her claims are just and
great, and in the selection of Colonel La
mar she wonld be honored in tho honor
paid to a worthy son. His pen did yeo
man service in the cause of Democracy,
as we can attest, when champions of
courage and ability wero few, and to-day
he can carry more political following to
tbe position than any man named for
it. He wa3 tho faithful and efficient
Clerk of the Confederate House of
Representatives. Whilo Radical poli
ticians may see in this a bugbear,
sensible men all know that the perma
nent rehabilitation of the country can
only be brought about by tberecognition
of tho Confederate element—the only el-
ment representing tho brains and virtue
of tho South. Col. Lamar’s claims are
almost irresistible, politically. In a so
cial point of view, he has not his superior
in America. If there bo one man in the
Union who con oufshine him on festive
occasions, when wit and beauty meet over
the spoils of the elements wrought into
miracles of cookery, we have not seen
that individual. Orator, statesman, true
knight, man of brains, mellowed and glo
rified by experience, where, in tho whole
land, can a person of such rare combina
tions of brilliancy and substantial merit
be found for'the honorable and responsi
ble-position of Clerk of the House ?
B«tatloB «r the Jtfgee tat the Clr-
cult* ef the Superior Court.
Within tho past year Judge Hill, ot
Macon, Kiddoo, of Randolph, Tomp
kins, of Savannah, and probably others,
have been greatly inconvenienced by the
difficulty experienced in clearing their
respective dockets of the cases in -which
they were personally interested as coun
sel for the litigants. Of course both law
and equity demand that these expound
ers and executors of jnstice should not
try their own causes, and as a conse
quence, those like Judge Kiddoo, who
were in the enjoyment of an extensive
practice, have fonnd it difficult to wind
np their private business.
That gentleman, we believe, has had
four of his judicial brethren to sit for
him since his accession to office, and still
we are not certain that he has cleared
the docket of his own cases.
At a recent social meeting of several
prominent members of the bar, one sitting
Judge, and one ex-Judge being present,
the question of rotation was discussed.
This is meant by rotation: That eaoh
Judge, after presiding one term in the
circuit over which he was -appointed,
shall go from circuit to circuit afterwards,
until the round of the whole State has
been completed, thus placing a new Judge
on the bench at every session of the va
rious County Courts.
This system would very soon dispose
of the private cases of new appointees,
and at the same time do much to estop
that unconscious bias which by every law
of human nature is so apt to intrude it
self, where the judge, owing to long in
tercourse, learns who are the knaves and
honest men of his circuit, and therefore
is supposed to have a prejudice against
the former, even when they may be inno
cent.
Hon. B. H. Hill’s Great *- i
Speech on Wednesday
We publish below
romauAtUnta correspond*^
stanee of the Bpeech itself fo D ’^ 4
ayounff friend who took j
Editor* 1S7S.
I have just returned W :
noblest intellectual
Mr. B. H. Hill this night is ^ e '
to an earnest request, addr^>^
■ens of Atlanta, in Represent ^
It was an ovation to Mr win • , T *
by martial music, and thund*^
nuinnit J. - 1
Thi3 was ono argument used. An
other set forth, that rotation wonld make
our Jiylges really more independent in
the discharge of their official duties, as
they wonld not be required to offend per
sonal friends and life-time companions so
often by their decisions.
Per contra, it was declared that it re
quired much time and experience to ac
quire tho regular routine of business in
any one circuit, and learn the status of
complicated and long-standing cases in
litigation. The lack of this information
wonld greatly retard the ends of justice.
Of course this is a question to be de
cided by legal minds alone, and would’
require an enabling act of the Legisla
ture before it conld take effect. At first
blnsh, however, the proposed change
wonld appear to be desirable, as calcu
lated to enlarge tho legal experience of
each occupant of the bench, and demon
strate who of their number were most
worthy to wear the ermine. It wonld
also tend to allay prejudice on the side of
court and people, and render almost im
possible long continued corruption and
venality, which happily, however, are
seldom to be found among tho judiciary
of the South.
Well Answered.
The Chicago Times makes this neat re
ply to the argument of tho lately con
verted Pennsylvania Kelley, that all the
Sonth- needs io make it prosperous is
plenty of paper money. It says:
Mors currency is what tho prostrate
South wants to set it on its feet again,
says Mr. Bond-Greenback Kelley. Well,
time was when the South had plenty of
currency—oceans of it, in fact. During
the last year or two of the war tbe South
had all the currency that tho heart of
Kelley could desire. And yet tbe South
wa3 not prosperous. It was considerably
les3 prosperous than it h&3 been sinoe.
A strange phenomenon indeed. How can
Mr. Kelley account for it? On the score
that the Southern ports were blockaded
so that Southern products could not con
veniently be marketed abroad ? No, not
according-to tho Kelley philosophy, be
cause tho-blockado was only an efficient
sort of protection. It was ten times as
effective ns any tariff in protecting the
infant industries of the Soutii against
foreign pauper labor. It ought, there
fore, according to the Kelley philosophy,
to have conspired with the abundance of
cheap money” to make the Sonth pros
perous in tbo extrome. And yet the
South was not prosperous. It is a great
mystery.. Who but Kelley can account
for it ?
Tlie i’mtngPoem on theB.<T.
Scandal.
That; barbaric yawper, Walt Whitman,
concocting a few lines on the Brook
lyn filth. Tho following verses which wo
find iaithe Brooklyn Argus, will servo to
show that tho terrors of his genius aro
unabated:
Cernucopceiaof pestiferous.peccadilloes!
Slaguc, pestilence, slaughter, famine,
arson, murder, tempest,
lightning, shipwreck, North
Pacific bonds, and Orange
county butter—
What aro these to that, or this to thoso ?
Warming the Pole; icing tho Equator;
Sitting sad, solitary; leaping, crawling.
llying, all around the world, anil
on the rocks of Terra Del Fuego
Parthenope horrida t Periscopie woe!
Succotash ot social dime immense.
Dimming the argent plenilune;
Mush, slush, gush. Shearman avaujtt!
O Elizabeth 1 O Henry 1
Intense heat prevailed on April 19 in
the north of Scotland. Eighty degrees
were registered at midday in the sun, and
sixty-five in the shade. Two deaths from
sunstroke are reported.
Close Vote.
The vote for President of the Georgia
railway. In tho stockholdars’ convention
last Thursday, stood: For John P. King.
13,130; for Charles H. Phinizy, 13,058;
for John H. James, 160. The directors
elected were Messrs. E. E. Jones, A.
Poullain, J. W. Davies, L. M. Hill, Jo-
siah Sibley, S. Thomas, George T. Jack-
son, J. S. Hamilton, M. P. Stovall, D. E.
Butler, John Davison, W. M. Reese, Geo.
Hillyer, W. W. dork, C. H, Phinizy,
John H. James,
Thq Approaching Meeting of the
Stockholders of the Macon and
Brunswick Railroad.
Our citizens, and all interested parties
should bear in mind that next Thursday
is the day appointed for the convention
of the stockholders of the above road.
Mr. Hazlehurst counsels wisely when
he advises the stockholders, North and
South, to combine and purchase the con
cern, as tho only possible chance of saving
any of tbe previous outlay. Four mil
lion of dollars have been expended upon
tbe enterprise, half of which came ont of
tbe pockets of private individuals. It
will probably sell for leas than $2,000,000
—every dollar of which must go into the
coffers of the State. The investment,
therefore, will prove a dead loss to the
original owners, unless theybny it in and
make such extensions north as most open
up new channels of trade and develop a
rich country now in need of railroad com
munications. He proposes the extension
of the rood from Macon to the Georgia
railroad, at Covington or Social- Circle,
distant only about 60 miles, and eventu
ally 40 mile® beyond, to the Air-Line
road, or Athens. Tho grade it is said’
would-be very easy over the entire-line.
Macon has a deep stake in this move
ment, and we doubt not a very moderate
subsidy from her citizens and the other
portions of the State directly interezted,
would encourage the Northern stockhold
ers, who haveamjle capital at their com
mand,. to- come forward and aid in the
proposed' purchase and extension. Bet
the whole question he calmly and tally
discussed, .after every source of informa
tion has been givan-to the meeting. Its-
importance to our eity cannot be overes
timated.
Since tho foregoing was pencilled, we
notice the following paragraph in the
Augueta Chronicle emit Sentinel ot the 14th
instant:
Injunction Against the Receiver ox
the Macon and Brunswick Railroad-.—
A bill.brought l>y John P. Branch, Ekq^
of 'Virginia, asking the United States
Court, to rostrain Col. E. A. Flewollen,
Receiver of the Macon and Brunswick-
raikoad, from selling, that road, was for
warded’ to Savannah last evening. The
grounds on which the injunction ia pray
ed for aro briefly as follows: That the
complainant owns bonds of the road-en
dorsed by the 8tate, that as such holder
he has a statutory lien on the road, and
thatthe State has foreclosed its mortgage
axd is about to sell tbe road without re
gard to his rights-in the premises..
Wo apprehend Governor Smith knows
what he is doing in the premises. If
the bonds of the complainant belong to
thoso pronounced legitimate by the Gen
eral Assembly,.then the State will see
I that he i3 paid; either from tbe avails of
the sale or tbe pnblio treasury..
If they are a part of the hateb ($600;-
000,) rejected a3 illegal, then, the qneo-
tion must be decided by the courts, pro
vided it bo competent for him to sue the
State. It remains to be seen whether the
Federal Court will grant the injunction
asked for.
More Reminiscences of Dr. Stile*.
Our readers will peruse with interest
the article from the pen of Rev. R. Q.
Mallard, copied from tbe Southwest Pres
byterian of New Orleans, and published
elsewhere. Mr. Mallard is one of the
most consistent and honored ministers of
God’s church. Several years since he
received a unanimous coll to the Macon
Presbyterian Church, but his people
would not hear to his leaving them. He
is doing a good work in New Orleans.
New Yorkers pay dearly in taxes for
the privilege of living in the metropolis.
May 1st, the municipal debt was $150,.
330,191, showing an increase of $8,526,433
in four months. In New York the prac
tical definition of “reform” is: "Increas
ing the pnblio debt.” It ia a definition
not entirely unknown outside of New
York.
apologetic i
WEiling regret*, because of L2 >aj -
Hill counsels f No painful rX2*
nor sad prophesy ings of evil! S?
ingembarrassment! No doubto-T*’
rags of uncertainty! No
friends, if happily,le nSht fb/>
But the free, full, elastic utterance?? 1 '
man who knew and felt that tWi^ 1
of tho people were his. v- T 0 ®**
no section&lisi
No
m, no party ism f or
ttoea,
sake. It was a feast of good
love-feast, an a noble »
on the altar of our
whole country. A libation
on the troubled waters—a vok?!
and faith dispersing glad echoes npcnZ
political wilderness. Call him
Benom the son of sorrow, of disaom.?
S&SVS* b “S““*K
ftSrsssfSBK;*
auditory, in graceful terms, fot T*
warm welcome. Fellow countrymen
thank you for the flattering greetmgl 1
have given me to-night, but I attest
it more to tho principles I intend to 2
voeate, than to myself; and those
ciples are the principles of pure Dorm
racy. It would be hnt bare affectation Z
me to say that I am not pleased with tb
result of the election in the 9th District
I am gratified, I am glad that atlastl
am enabled to come before the peotV
and devote whatever of the poor a®:5
I possess at their disposal.
twenty years ago,
I changed the intention and course ;•
my life to mingle in politics, and at tht
time, and ever since, I was actuated ij
no selfish ambition, bnt God knows Iri
only moved by the lore I bore fom
country, and my desire to serve m y.
tive land.
What we desire is peace, not war.nl
peaco we can only find in strict adh-
anco to Democratic principles; weny
bury the past in the mouldering past
There are certain questions we of th
South can never get—can never eir-er.
the North to concede—and there'iV
others the North can never induce tit
South to acknowledge. The North rdl
never say that secession was right, an!
we will never say that it was wronj.
No, never, never, never will we consent*!
While the blood is warm and the heart
beats true, that those who died as heroes
shall be remembered as traitors! E:;
secession is past. Whether right a
wrong, the future historian, when record-
ing the harrowing details of the last fif
teen years, will be compelled to say that
—though the South was slaughtered,
she never for an instant lost her integ
rity or her sincerity. There wero ir&aj
good men at the North who sought to
preserve the Union by destroying the
Constitution. And there were non;
good men at the South who sought a
preserve tho Constitution by destnijisg
tho Union. Then there is coercion, tie
remedy of secession. Will we ever ac
knowledge its constitutionality? W3
the North over say it was wrong ? Nero!
And last of all, reconstruction—tlie most
unpalatable of all our wrongs—tint
which has struck deeper than all else ia
our hearts. Deeper, yea, than the battles
of our enemies. Let all the evils alone-
they are past. Let us, liko good neigh
bors, forget without discussion.
We must establish a good state of feel
ing between the people of the North and
South. Mark my words—between the
people—not the politicians of the tvt
sections, since he is but a vain visiosarj
who wonld attempt it.
Let old issues die, and with them the
passions of the war. He is the greater
aero who seeks most to repair the
breaches of our constitutional and polit
ical ramparts. The passions ef tbe w
are ruining us now; they are the great
resource of the party in power; by these
means men wbo are wholly ineompetest
and unfit for their responsibilities are
placed in the offices ot state.
Now, gentlemen, joking apart, wmli
Grant ever have been Bre.-ident if it had
not been for the war ? Will any man fc
this house tell me that if the war hadset
come on, Grant would not have been*
jolly fellow, tanning leather inGalem.
Illinois, this day, or that Bntler void
have been the hero of New Orleans.
Would he have had any more spoons than
you or I ? Why, he would never ha«
been heard of. The only thing he era
’did before the war, he did regularly. Ok
was to practice in the Court'of Oyer an:
.Terminer, in Massachusetts, and t-J
other was to draft equivocal platfora*
for tho Democratic party ef the Sorts*
The various efforts of the Repntlian
party to keep itself in power have
been, based on, these passions^-oli yi'
passions, reconstruction, coercion, art
rights, and all. They love power,
this love of power is tho secivt cl n ar
trouble. This tends to centralizafi° B -,
to the overthrow ot the institutions e.
our fathers. But Democracy is the oinf
form of government that can *»*
America. Lotus stand up for the ng-'
—for tbe Constitution of eur'fat®^-
Let no- hand-ouff sovereignty
oar national centennial. _
I want to transmit to my children
pure a democracy as that which I *1
ceived from my father, ©h!'
could* see tbe time when everj m&v, fr*_
ocean to ocean, from tho lakes to t
gulf, will exclaim and feel “this 13 D (
country !’* My countrymen, the- em
battle of constitutional liberty raj* .
fought in 1876, and whero will 1 1*
fought? Not in popular addresses t
the-present, for none North or South ^
be -willing to listen to cwpwtostatenien
Where, then ? Why, in the haU 3 c * 1
national assemblies. ,
I confess I have an ambition,
er.;.
great and consuming iboubw^-j
•f these defenders of cor-principle 3 '
though I fear my abilities will P r0Te .-i
adequate to the task, yet I- will —
to defend a right off attack a **? j
Louisiana must be raised. The
cloud must be removedfrom South
lino. Arkansas must assert her »»
identity once more, and Georgia “
indeed be the Empire State
What I demand for Georgia I ty -j
cede to Massachusetts, and whatA J ,
to Massachusetts that I will d- 5 . ^ 0 ;
for Georgia. I will pursue the h®
the Democratic party so long ai
coincide with my opinions, and when
diverge I will still follow my P art ^’ ; s ,
motto will be no concessions to
no ultimatum to friends, and in *» ^
sion I would say to my party in tM .
guage of Ruth'to Naomi: “Thy Pvh.
shall be my people, thy God n>J
where thou dieat I will die, and the*®
I be buried.” , -a*
The above oan convey but a W® 1
ot the power and grandeur of Mr-
speech. At its dose the crowd g»®® , jj
loud and hearty cheers to Ben
fact, all through the speaking he
peatediy interrupted with the ® 0i ’
thusiastio applause.
It was a proud night for Ben H 1 *' 1
Georgia and for the Democracy^. ^ j
Mb. E. D. Winslow has
three-quarters interest in the Boston,
for $300,0001, The editorial
of the paper, like it* politics, will re®* 1 *
unchanged.