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ESTABLISHED 1799.1 favjgw
THE CHURCHES to-day .<££■ i
First Baptist Church, corner of Greene
and Jackson streets. Sunday school at
jv, o'clock. Morning service at 11
At 7% p. to., brief: Sunday evening
talks by the pastor on “Cording fo one’s
seif." __
First Ward Bapt st Church, Greene and
Houston streets—Preaching in the morn
ing at 11 o’clock, and at night at 7 o’clock
by the pastor, D. Shaver, D. D. Meeting
for singing at ®% o clock. a. m. Sunday
school at 3p. in, Prayer meeting Tuesday
night at 7 o’clock.
Christian Church, corner Greene and Mc-
Intosh streets— Preaching by the pastor. J
S. Lamar, at 10% a. m. and 7 p. m. Sun
day school at 9 a. m. Bible School In
Templar's Hall at 3p. m. Prayer Meeting
Wednesday night at 7 o’clock.
German Lutheran Church—Eer. Theo
Koeberle, Pastor. Services at 10:30 a. in!
Sunday School at 2:30 p. m.
Presbyterian Church— The following ser
vices will be conducted To-day at 10 :30, a
m., and 7:30. p. in. Bible class, 3, p. m. :
Monday at 7:30, p. m., at Bethesda Hall
subject by (special request) “An Open
Bible” Tuesday, 7:30. p. m.. at Riverside-
Wednesday. 7 :30, p. m., in Lecture Boom
Thursday, 7 :30, p. m., up town mission—to
be held at General M. A. Stovall’s; Satur
day. 4, p. m., at Lecture Room, Sabbath
school lesson expounded.
f-t. John’s Church'—Preaching morning
and evening by the pastor.
Curtis Church, Broad street—Preaching
by the pastor, B. R. Womack, at 10% a. m.
and 7 p. m. Prayer meeting, Thursday
night. Sunday school at 3% p. m.
St. James' Methodist Church-Preaching
at iu% o’clock, a. m., and 7 p. m.. by Rev
H. 11. Parks.
St. Paul’s Church—Service at 10:30 a.m.
and 7:30 p. m. Sunday scuool 3p. m.
?• M. O. A -4% p. m Hall, T. H. Gibson.
Jail, Leo. Brown, J. P. Foster, Wm. Bekr
inan. Hopital, Robert Thompson, W. J.
Steed. M. J. Cofer. Widows’ Home, W. H.
Warren, Boyken Wright, Jos. r. Derry.
Hotels—W. M. Jordan. J. S. Bean Jr., F. H.
NVwbery, J. C. Lee. The committee to
visit hotels, in addition to inviting stran
ger-to church, will make special inquiry
after the sick.
COLORED.
Central Baptist Church, Rev. H. Jackson,
pastor. Divine services at 11 o'clock a. in.
and at 3 o’clock p. m., and at 8 o’clock
p. in. Sunday school at 9 o’clock a. m.
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Important Charge,
in the case of the Charlotte Columbia &
Augusta Railroad vs. Wyley, principal, and
Wyley and Gow, securities, tried in the Su
perior Court a day or two since, Judge Gib
son delivered the following able charge to
the jury. As the matter is of some public
importance we give the charge in full :
Corporations are composed: of persons and,
perhaps, many of them widows and or
phans and public spirited meu who have
contributed their funds for the public good,
and in courts of justice are entitled to the
same rights and privileges as individual
suitors.
The obligations of Wyley, the maker of
this bond, to pay plaintiff, is very different
from that of Gow, the surety. If the maker,
Wyley, permitted goods to be delivered
without payment of freights and loss oc
curred therefrom and the plaintiffs knew of
such delivery without prepayment, the su
rety, Gow, cannot be charged with such
Joss. One of the requirements of the
bond being that Wyley should
make daily settlements. * If the
plaintiffs permitted, allowed or consented
to weekly or monthly payments aud losses
thereby occurred, the surely, Gow. cannot
be charged thcrevviih. Any change of the
terms and the bonds wiihout the consent of
the surety, within the knowledge of plaint
iffs or the superior oiliccrs of Wyley by
which losses occurred, cannot be charged
to the suret y. Hence, if the default of
Wyley, was by reason of non-payment of
freights before delivery, or non-transmis
sions of collections daily, with the knowl
edge, permission or consent of plaintiffs,
he is not liable therefor, and your verdict
should be for the defendant, Gow
No delay, or non-action by plaintiffs in
compelling payments or allowing freights
delivered without payment,unless for a con
sideration or benefit to plaintiffs, will dis
charge the surety unless loss accrued there
by to securities held, or it amounted to such
conduct on the part of plaintiffs as to so
change the contract, or bond, as to increase
the risk of the surely.
This is a bond tor the faithful per
formance, by Wyley, of the duties of
agent for plaintiffs aud in two of its most
important stipulations, the in tuner of its
performance specifically slated. Any
change of its mode and manner of per
formance by the agent, with the
knowledge, or approbation of the plaintiffs
by which the risk of the surety was in
creased, or trom which losses accrued, will
discharge the surety and you should so
find. It no change was made by which
the risk of surety was increased or from
which the default accrued, you should fiud
for the plaintiffs.
• [communicated.]
For Sheriff.
Mr. Editor : 111 endorsing a communi
cation in your issue of yesterday, com
mending Mr. C . A. Fleming to the office of
Sheriff, subject to the Democratic nomina
tion, L would express my satisfaction at
seeing Mr. Fleming a pronounced candidate,
tic is a young man of abilii v and one emi
nently qualified for tlio office to which 110
aspires. Sound in politics and popular
with a large number, his candicaev will be
supported by a great many voters, and il he
be nominated we will have in him a man
who will do his duty without fear, favor or
compromise. * Citizen.
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[COMMUNICATED.]
Mr. Editor: The Richmond Hussars,
wight before last elected to the office of
Junior Seeond Lieutenant, Mr. C. A. Flem
ing, and I cannot allow the opportunity to
pass off without paying a just tribute to
oiip of the most talented and enterprising
of our young men. He is a model man in
every respect, a perfect type of a gentle
man. He combines ability with popularity,
and if nominated by the Democratic Com
mittee, will give satisfaction to the citizens
°f Richmond county I have written this
without his knowledge, and only do it to
Put before the convention a name well
W’orthy its consideration. Hussar.
When Hamlet was trying to put up a job
°n his uncle he thought everybody was a
pawnbroker, or something ot thatsort. To
a good soldier he said, “Holdyou the watch
to-nigla ?" The man said ho did, and then
thunlet began to question tuuj.“, and bicker
over the witching hour of night.
The other day a boy about seven years
old c illed at a hou.se ut the West-end, and
asked the lady for ten cents, saying he was
the sole support of his mother. She reached
after her purse and inquired : “How old :s
your mother V” “She’s seventy years old 1”
Promptly replied the lad, and ho wondered
what made the lady hustle him out without
giving him an y money.
An old lady at Newark, N. J. claims
that she possesses a lace handkerchief held
‘0 his hand by Charles I. of England when
he was beheaded. It may be a success as a
' hriosity, but for an able-bodied cold in the
head, a twelve-cent cotton handkerchief is
more serviceable. We judge that Charles
T "'as not troubled much with a a cold in
the head about the time he lost it. —Norris
tmn Herald. ‘/ < m H >'
®J)e Stngnnta Constitutionalist.
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS.
he CRUSHES a lie.
that He Favors a Friend
°f Hayes FaiaeTh
llw. Llberty 18 Obedience to the
The following explains itself:
Washington, December IG.
the Editor of the Constitutionalist,
The statement going the rounds of
the paper that I am advising a friendly
acceptance by the people of the South
, the lna uguration of Mr. Hayes
is utterly unfounded. I never
have and never shall advise' them or
any other people to give a friendly ac
ceptance of any administration inau
gurated by the grossest frauds and
most palpable usurpations. While I
might not advise forcible resistance to
an administration thu3 inaugurated
yet I never could give it the sanction
of ray approval orjfriendly acceptance.
For the overthrow of such a dynasty
I should rather appeal to the peaceful
Instrumentalities of the Constitution.
These are the legislative halls, the ju
diciary and the ballot box, the latter of
which should ever be held as sacred as
the ark of the covenant.
(Signed) Alexander H. Stephens.
CONGRESSIONAL.
WHERE ORTON GETS HIS BACK
BONE.
Obstacles Thrown in the Way of the
Investigation Committee— Action of
the House—Grant A Cos. as Bulldo
zers.
Washington, December 16.—Speaker
Piantiall lias received a dispatch from
Chairman Morrison of the Louisiana
Investigating Committee which says:
“Every obstacle has been and will be
interposed to hinder this committee in
the discharge of its duty. Tho Re
publican witnesses have been threaten
ed and dare not testify without recur
ring loss of position and personal dan
ger. The production of papers and
telegrams is refused. It is believed
that this has been done upon assurance
of protection from Washington. With
out the power of the House to enforce
obedience to its process the committee
cannot discharge its duties. The House
should remain in session.”
House—After the passage of the
post office appropriation bill, the
Speaker laid before the House a tele
gram received by him from Mr. Morri
son, Chairman of the Louisiana Select
Committee and that of Mr. Morrison
from Mr. Orton, President of the Wes
tern Union Telegraph Company, refus
ing to produce the originals of tele
graph dispatches. The dispatches
have been read.
Mr. Wood, of New York, rose to offer
a resolution, premising it by the ex
pression of his belief that the House
would not be slow to vindicate its righto
and privileges.
Hoar, of Massachusetts, made the
point of order that the question was
not properly before the House, a3 a re
port of the Committee could not be
made to the House by telegraph.
The Speaker overruled the point of
order, anti ruled that it was a question
of privilege, and was properly before
the House.
Wood’s resolution was then read as
follows:
Resolved, That the communication
presented by the Speaker from the
Hon. Wm. R. Morrison, Chairman of
the Select Committee, appointed to in
vestigate certain matters relating
to the late election in the State of
Louisiana, be referred to the Judiciary
Committee with instructions to report
at the earliest practicable moment what
action the House should take in the
premises to enforce its rightful au
thority.
Kasson, of lowa, again pressed the
point of order made by Hoar, but the
Speaker gadhered to his ruling and
Hoar remarked that on reflection it
seemed to him that the position of the
Chair was entirely correct. The reso
lution was then passed without discus
sion or division.
The House then proceeded to the
special order, which was the delivery
of eulogies on the late speaker.
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NBW YORK.
Crimes and Casualties- End of the
Railroad War.
New York, December 16.—Julia
Deems, whose drunken husband drove
her into the streets last night to beg,
was found this morning with her dead
baby in her arms. It had frozen to
death during her wanderings.
Mrs. H. P. Glattan, a well known ac
tress, died here yesterday.
The relief fund for the sufferers by
the Brooklyn fire, reached §24,278.
J. P. Perkins was fatally poisoned at
Fair Haven by a drug clerk giving him
by mistake hellebore for valerian.
The Evening Post says the railroad
managers signed a positive agreement
this morning. There will be no dis
criminations against New York save as
regards local freights. This ends the
railroad war.
On Monday next there will be a
general advance in freight rates. East
bound freights from Chicago will be
advanced to thirty cents per hundred
on grain and flour, and to thirty-five
cents per hundred on fourth-class and
provisions. West bound freights will
be advanced to fifty cents per hundred
on first class and in the same propor
tion on other classes—all thorough
competitive rates will be the same on
all the lines. On purely local rates, as
between Chicago and New York, Balti
more and Philadelphia, Baltimore will
have ten per ceutum and Philadelphia
about seven and a half per centum less
than New York, on the local rates be
tween St. Louis and Now York and
Baltimore and Philadelphia. The dis
crimination against this city will be
about this ten per centum in favor of
Baltimore and about ten per centum in
favor of Philadelphia.
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Advisory Meeting.
Washington, December 17.—The
World of to-dav says a meeting of
some dozen influential business men
was held last evening at the residence
of Wm. E. Dodge, by his Invitation, at
which the political condition of the
country was informally discussed in
its bearings on business matters. The
meeting came to no definite conclu
sion aud was regarded as initial to fu
ture larger gatherings, where some
plan can be devised, to submit to the
country, to obviate present difficulties
in the Interests of the business men of
the country.
LOUISIANA.
Fight Between Police and Negroes—•
Hon. Wm. R. Morrison After Mr.
Orton—The Congressional Commit
tee.
New Orleans, December 16.—The
mate of the Pteamboat Poudevente,
otdered twoie >ro romd bouts .from
the boat, ana they returned with a
crowd of negroes, when the deck
hand fired at the negroes, wounding
three of them. He was arrested by
the police, but was rescued by the ne
groes, and again rescued by the whites
and locked up. The police, when rein
forced, attempted to remove the priso
ner to a place of safety, when a fight
occurred. Ten or twenty negroes and
three whites were wounded.
New Orleans, December 15.
JFm. Orton, President Etc., New York:
I have nothing to do with your mo
tives for refusing to obey the process
of the House of Representatives. My
duty will be performed by invoking its
aid in the enforcement of such process.
Regretting your refusal or the inform
ation necessary to ascertain the whole
truth as to the Louisiana election,
I am yours, respectfully,
Wm. R. Morrison.
Before the Congressional Committee
M. S. Pleler, of New Orleans, Republi
can, testified: He was United States
Supervisor of poll 3, Second Ward. An
attempt was made by the Republican
Commissioner to prevent Democrats
voting; the names on, poll lists being
different from names on registra
tion paper. The day arter election
Mr, Heare, Republican Commissioner
said to him, there was some trou
ble about the poll; that the Demo
cratic Commissioner would be ar
rested and they would take the
box and tlx it up to suit ourselves.—
Later two deputy marshals called
witness out and asked him ff he bad
gone back on his party. Mr. Casey,
tbe Republican marshal, said there was
money in it; that if witness would let
them have the box they would give
him §500; witness declined, aud in
formed the Democratic commissioner,
who sent a force to protect the box!
TheKepublicans finally made an at
tempt to seize the box after it had been
taken to Mr. Bain’s office, where they
were to make affidavit to returns.
The plan was to arrest Democrats
and take the box to the Custom House.
Hare, Republican, finally refused to
testify to the returns, saying his in
structions would not permit him to do
so. The Friday after the election he
met Deputy Marshal Casey, who said
to witness : “You of a— you
are a traitor to your party,” and
knocked witness down. A colored man
named George Dean then struck wit
ness over the head. Witness ran and
was pursued by Dean with a pistol to
the corner of the block, where he met
three men who protected witness and
prevented Dean from firing upon him.
The offense of witness was that he had
certified to the returns as correct, and
had refused to allow the ballot box to
betaken possession of by the Republi
cans.
Cross-examiued. The election was
peaceable, quiet and fair. Casey is an
employee of the Custom House. Witness
did not make a complaiut to the au
thorities about the assault because be
intended to settle it in a personal a
fair. Mr. Donnelly came to his room
and told witness that ir he (the wit
ness) did not keep in doors he would
be killed for going back on his party.
The witness is still a Republican. He
asked Col. Potter and others for pro
tection from violence.
Potnpey Stoots, colored, testified :
Voted the Democratic ticket in 1874
and 1876. Colored people attempted to
injure him aud used abusive language
toward him all the time; had been
twice assaulted. The colored people
were afraid to vote the Democratic
ticket.
Marshal Taylor, colored Democrat
gives similar evidence. He had been
cut about seventeen times, and shot at
four times by colored men who be
longed to the Republican party. E.
H. Flowers, who went to school in
Philadelphia, but came to Louisiana in
1865, employed as a school teacher,and
who has voted the Republican ticket
at every election except the last, when
he went with [the Democrats. He
changed his politics because he desired
a chauge in Government, and imagined
the success of the Democrats would
ameliorate the condition of affairs.
He came out openly as a Democrat in
the latter part of August. He made a
proposition to the Democratic State
Central Committee to canvass the State
for the Democrats if they would defray
his expenses,and was accepted. He made
speeches in Rapides, Grant, Natchito
ches and several other parishes. He
conversed with a large number of
colored men who affirmed that they
would vote the Democratic ticket, and
was told by a great many that they
were afraid to vote the Democratic
ticket owing to the threats which had
been made regarding the colored De
mocrats. He heard P. G. Deslande,
Secretary of the State,remark to J udge
Phillips, some time previous to the
election, that the Democrats would
probably carry the State, but that they
would not affect matters—as even if
they were successful, the Republicans
would get in the colored men
throughout the State who ex
pressed an inclination to side
with the Democrats. He said they
did so as they were tired of bad gov
ernment. They wanted more schools
or better ones. There was plenty of
money to pay the teachers, but some
how it disappeared before it could be
applied to its destined purposes. They
were disgusted with the Freedman’s
Bureau swindle and S. B. Packard, to
whom some of them had given bounty
claims for collection and they had been
defrauded out of their bounty. The
witness states that he was threatened
by the Republicans, and was advised
by friends to leave New Orleans, as his
life was in danger from the Republi
cans. He heard Anderson, Super
visor of East Feliciana, remark
that he could not get any colored
man to run for office in his parish, and
that some of them ought to be killed,
as every colored man’s murder was
worth fifty thousand dollars to the Re
publican party. Witness never knew
of any intimidation practiced by the
Democrats, but knew the colored men
were intimidated by Republicans.
The Senate Committee commences
its sessions Monday in the Custom
House.
Good News for Drummers.
Montgomery, Ala, December 16.
The Alabama Legislature has repealed
the law taxing drummers fifty dollars.
It goes into immediate effect.'
The revenues of the general post
office for the past year have been up
wards of $29,000,000, and the expenses
upwards of $33,000,000. A deficiency of
four millions.
AUGUSTA, GA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1876.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The New Ministry—Abolishment of
the Death Penalty—The Eastern
Question - A Russo-Turkish War
Inevitable.
Paris, December 16.—The Eqpublique
Francaise declares that the Simon
Ministry is bound to satisfy Republican
demands on the questions by which the
Dutaure Ministry was defeated.
Rome, December 16.—The Parlia
mentary Committee on Revision of the
Penal Code have unanimously voted to
report in favor of abolishing the death
penalty.
London, December 16.—A special dis
pajeh from Vienna to the Daily Tele
graph says: “Serviajhas signified her
willingness to make proper reparation
for the recent insult to the Austrian
flag, in the forcible detention add
searching of an Austrian mail steamer
by Servian police,”
A special dispatch fram Berlin to the
Standard says: “Despite all peaceful
statements elsewhere,the news received
from the conference in high political
quarters here maintain that a Russa-
Turkish war is inevitable.”
FLORIDA.
The Mandamus Casa—A New Canvass
to be Ordered—The Congressional
Committee at Work, etc.
Tallahassee, December 16.—1n the
mandamus case, before the Supreme
Court, the defendants made answer,
which the court deemed insufficient
aud gave them till Monday to amend.
Avery general impression prevails that
the Court will issue a mandamus for u
now canvass, which will operate directly
on the State and Congressional vote,and
have indirect influence on national;
politics. The face of the returns on
which the new canvass is ordered to
be made, elects Drew aud both Demo
cratic Congressmen.
The Congressional Committee will
give nothing official until the work is
concluded.
The Seuato Committee commences
its session on Monday.
Mexicauizing the United States.
The Sun pithily says : “Gen. Esco
bedo, Secretary of War of Mixico, was
captured by the opposition party a few
days ago, and shot down like a dog.
It has just been announced that the
Mexicans have the greatest admiration
for Geu. Grant.
Well they may have; for our present
President is doing everything in his
power to reduce this country to the
condition of Mexico.
He has sent General Ruger to South
Carolina with orders to preveut Demo
crats, at the point of the bayonet, from
entering ths State House.
We learn from our esteemed contem
porary, the New York Times—indispu
table authority on such a point—that
no longer ago than the 10th day of De
cember, current, General Grant said
there were six or eight hundred troops
id V\ ashiugton, and if more were re
quired he would ordor them there.
Required for what ? Why, of course
for the triumph of Hayes over Tilden.
Why should not' the Mexicans ad
mire General Grant? He is trying to
conduct the Government of the United
States on the military and bloody prin
ciples that rule in Mexico, and to re
duce the United Stutes us nearly as
possible to the condition of that semi
barbarian country.”
Attitude of the New York Germans.
Avery large meeting of the German
citizens was held in New York Friday
evening, at whick|Mr. Oswald Ottendor
fer, who was one of the prominent
Democrats sent to Louisiana to watch
the Republican board, made an impor
tant speech. Referring to a dispatch
which he sent from New Orleans to his
paper, the Slaats-Zeitung, charging
apathy on the American people in re
gard to election rrauds, Mr. Otteudor
fer said :
“We adopted citizens have taken
oath to observe and maintain the Con
stitution of the United States and the
laws promulgated under it, and we are
determined to conscientiously fulfill
the oath. Hundreds and thousands of
our fellow-countrymen havegiven their
lives in the recent war for the preser
vation ofjthe Union; they have imposed
the duty upon us not to allow this
Union, maintained by their sacrifice, to
be degraded to an arena of wild party
passions, because such union were not
worth the sacrifices brought, but to
preserve it as a home of free and inde
pendent citizens; and we are determin
ed to carry out this sacred duty. Wo
nave tho same interests as native born
citizens to preserve the laws and con
stitutional authorities, a disregard of
which would spread misery and briDg
ruin upon us, and we will be prevented,
by the raging and noise of fanatical in
triguers, from rousing tho attention of
the American people to the dangers
that threaten us, and, if possible, awak
en thereby a storm of public opinion
that would induce the conspirators
against the public welfare to desist
from their pernicious agitation. The
time may come, and that at no distant
future, when ths reproaches now made
by narrow minded nativists will be
credited to its merit that adopted citi
zens of German nativity have recogniz
ed, sooner than their native fellow-citi
zens, the dreadful consequence .1
brought about by party fanaticism, and
that they had the courage to raise
their warning voices in time. What
ever the attacks may be to which we
are exposed now, the consciousness of
having performed our duty will be suf
ficient satisfaction to us.
The St. Gothard tunnel, the greatest
engineering work of its kind in the
world, is being steadily pressed to
wards completion. Work is progress
ing upon it from both ends through the
mountains—from Groeeohenen to
wards Italy, and from Ariola towards
Germany. Two thousand men are em
ployed, divided into gangs, which labor
day and nigbt. The work has been
four years in progress, and it is thought
four years more will be required to
complete the stupendous undertaking.
The funnel will be ten miles long. The
St. Gothard tunnel will be the shortest
route from England to Italy, and will
doubtless be part of the direct route
from India to England.
Diet) Laughing.—On Monday, while
August White, a well known New York
news dealer, was sitting in conversa
tion with his wife in their house on
Broadway, his hearty laugh over some;
joke suddenly changed to a look of.
agony, and he sank to the floor dead. -
Two hundred Georgia lawyers are
applying for about fourteen solictor
ships.
THE MAN ON HORSEBACK!
Respectfully Addressed to the House
of Representatives, at Washington.
(N. Y. Freeman’s Journal.)
Oa November 9th, 1799, the supreme
power, in France, was supposed to be
lodged in two Chambers—a Senate,
called “ Council of the Ancients,” and a
House of Representatives, five hun
dred in number, and so-called, for
short, the u Cinq-Cents.”
Napoleon Bonaparte, after his bril
liant campaign in Syria, suddenly
turned over his army, there, to the
next in command, and hurried back to
France, plotting as he travelled. A
few days after arriving in Paris, he or
dered a review of all the soldiers, aDd
ex-soldiers, in Paris, for the morning
of November 9th. Taking into bis
confidence such of the general officers,
and such of the Legislative leaders, as
he thought safe, and best, on the morn
ing of November 9tb, 1799, he entered
with a few of his soldiers, the HH
of tho Council of Ancients. Be
low, we translate from JSardeau’s
vivid volume the brief and studied ad
dress he made to the French Senate;
and the account of how he dealt with
the French House of Representatives,
It i3 nice reading for this cool weather:
“Representatives of the people, you
are not assembled under ordinary cir
cumstances ; you are resting on a vol
cano. Let me speak to you with the
franknoss of a soldier. I was quietly
in Paris when I received the decree of
the Council of the Ancients, which told
me of its perils and those or the Re
public. In an instant I summoned and
found my brothers in arms, and wo
came and offered you the services of
the nation, because you were at the
head of it. Our intentions were pure
and disinterested, and as a reward for
our devotion of yesterday, we are to
day overwhelmed with calumuies!
There are rumors of another Ctesar,
another Cromweil; it is asserted that 1
want to establish a military govern
ment.
“ Representatives of the people, if I
had wanted to oppress my country, if I
had wanted to usurp supreme author
ity, I would not have obeyed your or
ders, I ueed uot have received author
ity from the Senate. More than once,
and under most favorable circum
stances, have I been called upon to
take it. After our triumphs in Italy, I
was invited to take it by the voice of
the nation, and I have been invited to
do so by the voice of my comrades.
“Representatives of the people, the
Council of the Ancients is invested
with great power, but it is animated by
still greater wisdom; consult only this,
and the imminence of the perils, guard
against ail disruptions. Let us not
lose those two prizes for which we
have made so many sacrifices, Liberty
and Equality ! ”
Here a member of the minority,
cried out : “And about the Constitu
tion ?” Bonaparte replied with anima
tion : “The Constitution ! does it be
come you to invoke it ? Is it, forsocih,
any longer a guarantee to the French
people? You violated it on the 18th.
Fruetidor, on the 22d Floreal, and on
the 30th Prairial, but tho sovereignty
of the people, liberty, equality, these
sacred principles underlying the Con
stitution, still live, and we must save
them.
“Moreover, I declare that, this ac
complished, I will be to the republic
simply the arm that will sustain what
you have established. If lam a trai
tor, be ye each a Brutus. And you, my
comrades, who accompany me, let
those very bayonets with which we
have achieved so many triumphs to
gether, be turned against my heart!
But also, if any foreign-paid orator
dare pronounce agains; your General
the word outlaw, the thunder-bolts of
war will instantly annihilate him. Re
member that the erods or War and For
tune march by mv side !”
The most enthusiastic "bravox” greet
ed these words; the Ancients were
electrified. Bonaparte left them aud
hurried to the Saile des Cinq-Cents.
Followed only by a handful of
grenadiers, he enters the Hall, hat in
hand; the grenadiers who followed
him, and who are seen through the
open door, remain without. On seeing
them, more than two hundred deputies;
still under the heat of the oath they
had just taken, sprung to their feet
with the terrible cry : “Sabres in this
place! armed soldiers here 1” They
rush upon the General, they bear upon
him, aud drive him back. “Down with
the Dictator ! Down with the Tyrant 1
the outlaw, the new Cromwell!’’ The
grenadiers press forward, rescue their
General from the crowd, seize him
bodily, and escort, or rather, carry him
out of the Hall, pale and excited. He
had not been three minutes in the
Hall, and he did not have the chance
to utter a single word. It is said that
in the affray some of the grenadiers
received poinard thrusts that were in
tended Tor him. It was then a little
after four. He mouuted his horse in
the garden, called his soldiers around
him, told them that an effort had been
made to assassinate him, and was
greeted with the most enthusiastic ap
plause.
The most fearful confusion prevailed
in the hall. On every hand cries of
outlaw were hurled against the Gene
ral. They summoned Lucien to put
this proposition to vote. He refused
to do so amidst the wildest clamors.
“I,” said he, “brand my own brother
as an outlaw ! I would rather resign
my chair. Ido resign it.” He descend
ed and tried to go out.
Bonaparte, who heard all this tumult
from beneath the window, was solici
tous for his brother, and detailed ten
grenadiers, who entered the Hall, seized
Lucien and carried him off. Lucien
took horse with his brother, and cried
to the soldiers that the Salle des Clinq-
Cents was full of assassins who op
pressed the majority of tho Council.
Bonaparte saw that his soldiers were
ready to dare anything, and he gave
orders to clear the hall by force.
It was Murat who, at the head of a
battalion of grenadiers, was charged
with the execution of this order.
Murat, followed by his grenadiers,
advanced at a double-quick, crossed
the threshhold and entered the Hall.
At sight of this the Deputies uttered
loud cries which were drowned by the
beating of drums. The grenadiers at
a “Charge bayonet.” keeping time with
the drums, which beat a “Double
Quick,” ffled the Hall and drove the
Deputies toward the numerous large
windows. Compelled to jump out of
the windows, the Deputies fled across
the garden and the park, strewing the
walks and the grass plats with their
Roman head-gear and togas. In a
short time Murat and his grenadiers
were in sole possession of the legisla
tive halls.
AT ARLINGTON.
Leaving Washington—Crossing the
Potomac—The Long Bridge—The
Virginia Shore —Arlington.
(Special Correspondence Constitutionalist.)
Atlanta, December 11, 1876.
I left Washington some days ago—
raaklDg the fourth time this year I
have shaken from my feet the dust of
the city of magnificent distances. The
earliest rays of the sun were kissing
the blue waves of the Potomac as I
rode slowly over the Long Bridge,
and off to the right, on the Virginia
shore, stood Arlington, in a flood of
glorious, golden sunlight. How beau
tiful it looked in the distance ! How
majestically it towered on the wooded
height, facing and overlooking the
White House and the Federal city,
and “the broken column, reared in air
to him who made our country great 1”
How it reminded mo of tho calm, grand
man who trod its halls but a few short
years ago—true typo of the Southern
cftvallar.-and now lies sleeping in tbe
bosom of Virginia, his mother. She
gave him to the world ; ’twos meet
that when life’s fitful fever was over,
he should rest in her loving embrace!
Beautiiui. queenly Virginia! Land of
heroes and sages, of gallant men and
devoted women ! Of till whose mortal
remains are mingling with thy dust
there were none nobler than this erst
while kingly man of Arlington.
"Never hand
Waved sword from stain so free,
Nor purer sword led braver band.
Nor braver bled for a brighter land.
Nor brighter land had a cause so grand,
Nor cause a chief like Lee!”
I visited Arlington once—and only
once. It was a crisp and clear De
cember day, now nearly two years ago.
I walked through the halls of the old
mansion, all bare ami desolate looking
now—how unlike the time when they
echoed the laughter of pretty Nellie
Custis, I traversed the once magnifi
cent grounds, now converted into a
vast cemetery for the Federal dead,
slain in the war between tbe States ; I
found the littlo spot of earth where,
“Almoct lost iu myriad graves,
Oi those who gained the unequal light,
Are mounds that hide Confederate braves.
Who reck not how the North-wind raves
In dazzling day or dimmest night.’’ ’
Until then I had never appreciated the
vigor and exquisite beauty of the lines
—“At Arlington”—written by the same
hand which contributed “My Mary
land” to the war poetry of the South.
One who has ever read them cannot
visit Arlington without thinking of, if
not repeating those lines which tell
how
I Q that vast sepulchre repose
lnethousands reaped from every fray:
1 he men in blue who once uprose
In battle-front to smite their foes—
X he Spartan Band who wore the Gray.
lhe combat o’er, the death huar done
Ia summer blaze or winter snows,
they keep the truce at Arlington.”
And as he stands in tho solemn still
ness of that awful “truce at Arlington ”
in the midst of “that vast sepulchre ”
with the graves or the “Blue” aud the
‘ Gray on either side, ho will remember
these words of the poet:
•ri^edeadhaverest: the Dove of Peace
Broods <j or both with equal wings;
1 o both haye Some that great surcease,
The last omnipotent release
From all the world’s delirious stings.
1° bugle deaf and signal-gun,
They sleep, like heroes of old Greece,
Beneath the glebe at Arlington.”
What added much to the impressive
ness and dramatic interest of my visit
to Arlington was the presence on the
grounds, at the time, of the ex-Vice
President of the Southern Confeder
acy. He had come over in a close car
riage from Washington, and was riding
slowly over the winding roadwav
through the burial-ground, looking
sadly at the graves so thickly dotting
it, where
“The victims of a grand despair
In long, long ranks of death await
Tir . 4he last loud trump, the judgment-sun,
dome for all, and, soon or late.
Will come for those at Arlington.”
I shall never forget the scene at Ar
lington on that December day.
ALEXANDRIA.
You aro not long in reaching Alexan
dria from Washington. The distance
is only eight miles. Alexandria is a
highly respectable but very sleepy old
town. It was once, and for many years,
a very flourishing place, and might be
such again but for the mortal apathy
which has fallen upon it. It was here,
in the beginning of the war, before the
battle at Manassas, that Jackson, the
hotel keeper, killed Col. Ellsworth, of
the New York Zouaves, in the attempt
to pull down the Confederate flag
which was waving over Jackson’s house.
The population of Alexandria is
about 15,000. Among its citizens it
claims a former resident of Georgia, in
the person of Col. Foreaere, well known
in railroad circles throughout the coun
try. He is at present superintendent
or the \ irginia Midland road, and bis
management of it is marked with that
ability for which he is so justly dis
tinguished wherever known.
J did not stop at Alexandria. The
old town looked entirely too lifeless
and sleepy to be at all inviting, and I
had been there before. Besides, seme
fifty miles westward, nestling under the
shadow of the Blue Ridge, was a fa
mous little town of which I had heard
much and was curious to see. In other
years
WARRENTON
was a place much resorted to in the
summer time by the elite of this fair
land, and, while the number of visitors
during that season has not of late been
equal to that of former years, it is still
much frequented by summer visitors
from Washington, Baltimore, Richmond
and other parts of the country, who
like the place on account of its accessi
bility, the purity of its atmosphere,
and its excellent society. A short dis
tance from the place f.re the Fauquier
White Sulphur Springs, where Chief-
Justice Marshall used to spend the
time between the sessions of his Courts,
Warrenton is a small town~-of big
men. Its population is about 1,500 or
2,000. Such names as Hunton, Brooke
Forbes, Payne, etc., make quite a gal
axy for a little place like this. Hare,
too, lives one or the most remarkable
characters in Amerioa, in the person of
ex-Gov. Smith (“Extra Billy”). He is
now nearly or quite eighty, still hearty
and spry, and as a talker Is perhaps
unequalled by any man of woman born
unless it may be Henry S. Foote, who,
by the way, is a native of Fauquier
the county in which Warrenton is situ
ated. Ho made more speeches than
anybody else In the Virginia Assembly
a year or two siuoe, having the floor
three times in one day, on as many dif
ferent subjects, making a set speech
each time. John S. Mosbv, too, is a
Warrenton man, though ‘i believe b*
has lately moved to Washington
A NOTED OLD GEOBGIAN.
About two miles from Warrenton
lives another remarkable man, bet^r
known in Georgia than in Virginia, on
account of his loDg residence— extend
iog over nioro than half a century in
the former State, and his conspicuous
connection with her politics during that
protracted period. I allude to General
Bethune, for so many years a promi
nent citizen of Columbus, and so well
known throughout Georgia as an edi
tor and politician. I was his guest for
a night, and richly was I entertained
by his reminiscences or the past, from
tnA aHrelnn* r.l A „ n *
tne stirring old times in Georgia when
Troup and Ciaike were the two great
political antagonists iu the State, down
tho fateful day of Secession. The
old General seems as yonng and stout
and is as strong-voiced as when I first
saw him. many years ago, when I was
a boy. He has been living in Virginia
since the close of the war, but I think
he has a yearning for his native State
and shali not be surprised if he yet
returns to her “red old hills.”
I like Warrenton, and hope, in sum
mer days to come, to catch many a de
licious breeze wafted from the moun
tain-tops that look lovingly down on
that pleasant, old-fashioned Virginia
town.
A. railway ride of two days and a
night brought me
ATLANTA.
And what shall I say of Atlanta?
Built upon and surijpunded by hills,
overlooked by mountains, cut up and
traversed by railroads and ravines
rugged streets ever resounding with
the rattling noise of cars, carriages
wagons, drays and eaits; no pleasant
drives or walks, or places of resortand
rest for the world-weary toiler, no city
hospital, in wet weather the muddiest
iu dry weather the dustiest, in all
weathers the fussiest; headquarters of
sensalionalism in Georgia, humbug’s
eternal camping-ground, going to sleep
later, getting up earlier, doing more
devilment whiie awake, and dreaming
of more while asleep than any other
place of its inches under the sun—is
this Atlanta ? Come and see
T. K.O.
FOR LETTER, OR FOR WORSE 1
THE SITUATION LAST NIGHT —
FACT AND SPECULATION.
A Suggested Explanation of the Con
duct of the Senate The Democratic
Plan of Campaign—Pay for the Bay
onet House and Senate—The Demo
cratic Senators Tane Their Share
with the Rest,
(Charleston News and Courier.!
Columbia, December 15—11 p. m.— The
action of the Senate to-day, in referring
to the Judiciary Committee the letter
or application of Lieutenant-Governor
Simpson, means one of two things:
First, that the committee propose to
bury it and leave the matter unsettled;
or second, that they propose to report
that Simpson is a pretender, and that
Gleavea is the legally elected Lieuten
ant-Governor, and consequently Presi
dent of the Senate.
This latter will most likely be done,
and then Col. Simpson will, under the
provisions of the Constitution, notify
tiie Senate that ho will be at a cortain
place on a certain day and proceed to
organize the Senate. The Democrats
will follow him and, under the Consti
tution, he will iSsue writs of election to
fill the vacancies. There is no provis
ion that a quorum shall be present; the
single requirement is that the Presi
dent of the Senate shall organize that
body. If the judiciary committee un
dertakes to decide that Simpson is not
President of the Senate they go beyond
their jurisdiction and attempt to decide
who is Lieutenant-Governor, and if it
is thought necessary Simpson may file
a petition for a writ of quo warranto
against Gleaves.
The purpose is not to take any
further steps until thp Judiciary Com
mittee make their decision, unless, bv
delay, it is showu that they intend, to
smother the communication. Then, of
course, Lieutenant Governor Simpson
will proceed at once to carry on the
above plan of action. It is understood,
likewise, that a United States Senator
will not be elected until either Simpson
is recognized by the present Senator o
he has organized anew Senate.
Governor Hampton served notice to
day on the Carolina aud Central Na
tional Banks uot to pay out any public
money, except on checks countersigned
by himself.
The members of the Bayonet House
were paid two hundred dollars each to
day. The Senate has not been paid
yet, and all the Democratic Senators
have accepted certificates. Some of
them even presented the certificates
Tor payment, and were informed by
Cardozo that they would be paid in the
morning. Tho money, it is alleged, has
come from Corbin, who thus bought his
slim onaneo for the United States Sen
ate.
lhe Democratic Senators say they
were in the Senate to-day only in the
capacity of hearers cj Jfimpson’s com
munication, are divided on the
quesUoq of going in to-morrow. If
they do go in to-morrow in all proba
bility the Judiciary Committee will re
port against Simpson, and they will
sanction by their presence the whole
transaction.
The Lunatics Starving—Mast be Dis
charged from the Asylum Unless
Provision is Made for Them at Once-
ISpecial Dispatch to the News and Courier.
Columbia, S. C., December 15.—Dr.
Ensor, the superintendent of the Luna
tic Asylum, to-day gave notice to the
Board of Regents that he will be com
pelled to discharge all the patients in
that institution unless steps are speed
ily taken for their further maintenance
He stales that 829,000 of last year’s
appropriation, and §5,000 or the ap
propriation or I&7* are now due, which
he is unable to collect, lie has had
but SI,QOQ from the State since last
spring, and has sustained the institu
tion on his personal credit, and upon
supplies advanced by Northern mer
chants aud the Carolina Natioual Bank
for several months.
Without immediate aid from the
State or ctharitable contributions he
will b 6 compelled to oloee the Asylum.
Notices Served on the Banka by Gov
ernor Hampton.
(Special to the Journal of Commerce.)
Columbia, Deoember 15.—This morn
ing Governor Hampton had notices
served on the banks notifying them
not to pay out the State funds on any
alSh ; signature as governor ot
2°' Carolina. Childs and
r-restou, Preaktentg pjr the Carolina and
Central \ational Banks were duly
*er yed with the said notices.
Air. Clay Wheeler died near Mayfield
in Sancodfc county of pneumonia, ‘
SIX DOLLARS A YEAR
GEORGIA NEWS.
Macon Is given over to social dances.
Macon is also having an interesting
time with burglars.
Numerous marriages are projected
in Griffin for January.
Corn sold In Worth oounty last week
at forty cents a bushel.
Marietta has had a big meteor to
pass over her town.
The Mayor and old Board of Council
of Newnan have been re-elected for
1877.
The Knights of Honor of Covington,
will have a grand supper Christmas
night.
The house of Mr. George Orr, of
Dalton, was consumed by fire a few
nights ago.
The fine mill of Mr. Dobbins, near
Griffin, was destroyed by fire Tuesday,
in day light.
J. M. G. Medlock retires from the
Sandersville Georgian, aud William
Park takes his place.
Ben F. Bayly and Miss Emma Ogle
tree, of Columbus, were married oa
Tuesday evening.
Tommie Wheeler and Miss Gus9ie
Beddo were married near Mavfield on
Wednesday night.
Young Ben Hill is said to be a caudi
date for the Constitutional Convention,
provided there is one.
The gm house <4 Park Arnold, and
six bales of cotton, in Uoweta county,
was burned last week.
A horse ran away with Mr. E. A.
Brinkley near Warrenton,and sTi m-sly
hurt him about the head and fact-.
Albany m acting On the old rr.otto •
‘The spirit .ff nf age is progression.”
She is said to be the liveliest; town in
the State. W “ m
The board appointed to examine tho
qualifications or West Point applicants
are in session in Griffin. Prof. Orr
is chairman.
On Wednesday morning, in Russell
county, Alabama, Mr. J. W. Nesbit, of
Macon, was married to Miss Emma
Abercrombie.
Conyers has received and shipped
t> Odd bales of cotton this season, aud
McCalia will give a candy pulling in
honor of the thing.
A cowardly aoaiup at Newnan Satur
w a t threw a rock and struck Mr.
L. h. Buchanan over the eye, seriously
fracturing the skulL
_,The city editor of the Columbus
Enquirer, T. D. Huff; has been elected
wharfinger of that place. At last we
begin to see port.
Times ; Every day crowds of young
men come to Adauta in search of busi
ness, and nearly every one gets the
same sad negative answer.
Jack Wallace, who some time since
absconded from Atlanta, has been ar
rested in Texns, and is now on his wav
baca in custody of officers of tbe law.'
Mr. W. C. Mathews has sold tho
Sandersville Messenger to Rev. J. D.
Anthony, who proposes to enlarge ami
otherwise improve his paper in a short
time.
Oapt. Medlock, formerly of the
Sandereyllle Georgian, will commence
the publication of anew paper at an
early day at Swainsboro, Emanuel
county.
The young ladies belonging to tho
collegiate department of the OoLyero
Female College will have a sapper at
the hall of the College on Thursday
mght, 21st inst. 3
A runaway couple. Mr. Allen H. Reid
and Mies Belle V. Thaxton. of Milner
were married at the National Hotel in’
Atlanta, last Wednesday evening, and
left for Texas the next day. e
Messrs. .Tames B. West & Cos. have
established a pew line of steamships
from Savannah to Providence. Tho
ship George Appold will make the first
tup. She is a first-class vessel.
Butler Brown, colored, shot in a Ma
con melee on Thanksgiving day, is
dead. Austin Brlghtaup, colored, who
shot him, has delivered himself to tho
sheriff. Both negroes are well spoken of.
The Lewis High School, a eolored
institution of Macon; was destroyed bv
fire Wednesday evening. The loss on
the school house and several adjoining
buildings amounted to about §l4 OOU
covered by insurance.
A wild rabbit ventured out on Hill
street, GrifflD, one day last week, and
in no time some eight hundred’curs
were giving chase. Gene Speer sa w
and made for the cotton-tuil at. tho
head of the pack. His meat was out.
A young man, aged sixteen years,
namsd Chariton H. ltussuiL fell acroJ
a circular saw, at Malawi Miil uTr
Smyrna, and had h* right arm split
from his finger* to his elbow. It was
amputated i\y physicians afterward
Jo rnwib A young man of Marietta
has caught seventy-five “possums in
the last three months. They seem to
be plentiful in this vicinity, a citizen
the other night caught one in his
parlor under the piano, while another
caught one in bis chicken coop, and
another in his yard.
The gin houses of Reese Thaxton of
Butts county, and L. B. Kirkiana of
Early county, are numbered with the
other sixty odd gone before since Sep
tember Ist. That also of Abraham
Sanders, of Pike county, has keen
burnt. Also that of Mr. Willett or
Marion county. All within ten dayk.
The Augusta Chronicbis endeavoring
to get at the cost of the canal This
is a very small matter. The canal just
as it stands, is worth uore to the city
of Augusta than any work that has
been accomplished m any American
city during the last hundred years.
This may appear to be an extravagant
remark, but we depend on posterity to
vindicate its truth.— timstitution.
The CarterevUle Stress, in an edito
rial on the Senatorial question, says:
'GovernoE Smith, in our judgment, is
less fitted for the United States Semite
than any other gentleman yet named
We are not aware that he
any of the peculiar qualities requisite
in a man for the position. Mr. N' r
-wood and Mr. Hill are the leading can
didates for Senator. Mr. N. b j
faithful and true, and we cannot find i?
in our hearts to displace even r
Ini Mr -fl^isbrUlLt
seeh?m Vo Bbould likQ to
we ™± Both gentlemen
friends, and both are
•alttuul to their trusts respect
lv'£o\ Wo have no inclination to
Ijoae the services of either in Congress.
To elect Hill and misplace Norwood is
to make two changes in Congress
f whereby we may have a brilliant Sena
tor and an inferior man in Hill’s place
'jh the House. This is the trouble.
; The power of a State in Congress ami
in the government is to keep her best
men as the representatives of the
people.