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Greorgia "WeeJsly Telegraph..
TELEGRAPH.
^JuDAyTaPRIL 24. 1888
A VEW association
on bos been recently organized
cboractcr somewhat
•*», “Patrons of Husbandry.”
,mlars has been forwarded to us
^L»l Grange, D. C., February 9,
secretary, O. H. Kelley, Esq.,
LmpftoytoS 5t > re< l QCSts ua to no-
. ’ TELEORAru, in the hope that
oS y find favor with our readers
.j, and that associations, auxiliary
'*dU«. «‘* bH8bcd bere *
0 f the p! .n i>. Hi - «vurse, the
'o! the science and practice of hus-
its most extended sense, and the
^ t desirable sympathy among ita
Tb« mor0 effectively, ns it is
promote these purposes, it is to
^society.
f first mention of the object and
*Je of operation of this association,
' t»o inquiries naturally suggested:
• litre need of any more agricultural
' tt ,l fairs than wo have already ?
ffby should it bo a secret society ?
tolar replies to these doubts thus:
Tint it» becoming a matter of history
dissociations are gradually losing
j’. jrr, so that tho adjuncts of borso-
l0 (i other amusements still less corn
et, h*« been latterly brought in, to
, a up, and clubs, having for their
*he interchange of ideas, the reading
i»tion*,etc, lose their attractions, as
lie novelty of their organization
They are ssldoiu permanent. The in-
oftven the fruit-growers’societies is
!) felt by the masses. The unity of
upon which alone the value of these
ions rests, must in some way be made
permanent, and not trivial and
— . fA r\ A A A til AM
mil
On the other
odic, as they now are.
there are certain associations tb at have
.iaed their existence, and effectiveness,
t length of time-one of them, as
• D ic Order, for hundreds .of years,
i beta Kapj>» Society have retained
, or in somo of our leading universi-
: i great part of a century. And why
Xo reason can bo given, the circular
L the principle of secrecy upon
:hey are founded.
lhovo is the true explanation why, tho
asks, should not the principle be
1 in societies established for the pro-
isay kind of useful knowledge, and
;~iil of those principles which lie at
iition of national wealth and power!
jrinciple is the keystone to a perma-
.ndation, why not secure it ? “If such
r thread as a secret or exclusive cere
initiation before membership can be
lill bind a society, then let us adopt
Jt of forming the farming commu-
bodics where they will have a tan-
aiittacc, where unity of action can be
ti by discipline, ancl where discipline
enforced by significant organization.”
KBtitution for the guidance of this
jbubeen formed. It provides four de-
napoDdiog with the four seasons,
failing its own beauty and its own
munition has another feature, on
ppirite judgments will be enter-
I: admits to its membership all per-
:i Kies over sixteen and eighteen
^.respectively. The co operation
sa is solicited, say they, from a con-
uhst without her aid, success will be
|a nd decided.” “Every husband
sitrknows, that where be can be ac
id by his wife or sister, no lessons
learned, but those of purity and
■> h-*t measure we would not advance
-'•ion, if wc were less gallant than we
I*. Indeed, wo do not desire nicely
imuij of the provisions of this ex-
There is plausibility in the main-
: J of secrecy, upon which it is based.
: o*y succeed. But secret societies
■t always prospered, as the Sons of
~ce can attest. But wo need not
lehave said, to scrutinize it too
15 * e incline to the opinion, that long
^ People of the South, struggling qs
m destitution, will he at leisure to
-l any refinements of art or science,
1 any “unities of action,” the “Pa-
icrno is very likely to be tested for
•action at the North. We do not
: South is ready for it. Despoiled,
■Jicd, discouraged, we are thrown too
• V balance to hesitate, or ponder.
wait for the grammar, and to com-
J , kttcr and best. Like him who is
^ in deep water, we struggle des
patch at the float that is nearest,
■••ill have reached the shore, then
• pat we shall look about us to find,
/• th * good craft that shall safest
arr Jus to our haven of rest and
ais or Indiana for Vick Presi-
[pKocrats from all sections, includ-
■-ourths of the members of Congress
4 ; ! -°°d to favor the presentation of
n t *®e and that of Hendricks, of
• *ome other stanch Western Dem-
' ; r *« President. Enough has been
'* *o indicate that Hancock will bo
: in the contest for the nomination.
‘Kington dispatch.
better man in this broad land
' lent than Thos. A. Hendricks
'•istnau and patriot of the old
people of tho United States
• themselves in honoring him.—
p'-it, would it be policy to nomi-
|---hicks in preference to n Bepub-
1 who is fully identified with
LpfJ on oil existing issues, and
••‘tty Would bring very much if
![* Patriotic portion of that party
•aiocraUc ranks? Wo think it
I'.- Tories Francis Adams is the
k* P^fe, and tho Democracy, in
LA*® ®ake a great mistake to
pw anybody. .
L"’*xdP A8 iiion Periodicals, in
now be found at the News
I& Brown. IX morests Mag
i' 1 ** choice number, and gives
i-i-t f d * Q b jn "''ilion in matte is
clight. Thflpictorial month-
I'ttfr 1 measuro devoted to im-
Lilian outrages. The former
I . ' J ®gh, and the latter probably
| Northern mind" for n big
- Wvor of the manufacturers und
; au J- The Yankees are a
| ~
; toll., CL -:it home jj»,- ■
’-is promt.
JOHN B. GORDON.
From the Auoutta Chronic!: <fc Sentinel.]
Gen. John B. Gordon, whose name is now
before the public as candidate for Governor
under the Constitutional lteconstruction acts,
is of Scottish decent. General Gordon’s an
cestors came originally from Scotland to Vir
ginia but subsequently removod to North
Carolina. The father of General Gordon,
Rev. L. H. Gordon, was born in I^orth Caro
lina but emigrated to Georgia in 1829. The
General’s grandfather entered the army of
the Revolution of ’76 a mere boy, at the age
of fourteen, and served throughout the entire
war. A great uncle, a Captain Gordon, dis
tinguished himself in a charge at the battle
of Kings Mountain by seizing a British offi
cer and carrying him off successfully adown
the mountain side. Captain Wiley Gordon,
an uuclc of the present General Gordon,
raised a company in North Carolina to aid
Texas in her war for independence.
John B. Gordon is a native Georgian—
born in Upson county, on the Cth day of
February, 1832. At the early ago of eight
years ho became profoundly impressed by re
ligious truths chiefly through the influence
of material teachings. Not long afterward
he was added by Baptism to the membership
of tho Baptist church, of which his father
was an esteemed and zealous minister. He
completed his educational course in the
“University of Georgia” at Athens, receiving
high marks of distinction in all the classes of
the college nnd becoming particularly dis
tinguished in “oratory,” carrying off the
highest prize awarded, the “gold medal.”
Subsequently selecting the profession of law
as his avocation he entered upon its study
under the guidance of Judge E. Y. Hill, of
LaGrangc. Having been admitted to the
Bar he removed to Atlanta and entered upon
the practice of law as a partner in the estab
lished law firm of Overton & Bleckley.
Not long after his removal to Atlanta, he
was united in marriage to Miss Fannie Haral
son, the beautiful and accomplished daugh
ter of the late Hon. Hugh A. Haralson, of
Lagrange. Sirs. Gordon is one of those
charming ladies of which every Georgian
feels proud. Her genial tenderness is vividly
recalled by many a sick and wounded sol
dier as a “ministering angel,” nnd claims and
receives tbeir gratitude for unwearied kind
ness. At the commencement of the “seces
sion agitation” parental obedience and fam
ily interest demanded Gen. Gordon’s assis
tance for the development of a coal mine, the
chief part of which lay in Alabama, just
across tho Georgia line. Here be remained
until the outburst ot war—his family still re
maining and claiming residence in Georgia.
Brought up in the old line Whig school of
politics so far as he took any active part in
politics, he advocated the doctrine of the
Bell and Everett party. The preservation of
the Union can only be maintained by a faith
ful support of the Constitution and laws.
*On one occasion when asked his opiuion
upon tho exciting topics of the day, he said
“I would submit to no wrong,suffer no injus
tice, but I wquld faithfully execute all that is
nominated in the bond. Let us all do that
which is right. Stand by the Constitution
and laws until wo see that there is no hope
but in resistance.” After the rejection in the
United States Senate of tlie propositions of
the Georgia Legislature, he simply said “I
shall go with my section. I was lioru and
reared in the South und shall never desert
her. Her fate shall be mine.”
At the outburst of war, he was quietly pur
suing the pursuits ol civil life. He had not
received a military education. His tastes
were wholly domestic, amid the quiet of a
happy home. His pecuniary interests urged
undivided personal attention, nr-tl would
necessarily suffer greatly, alike from the want
of such attention and by a state of war. But
this did not swerve him from what be be -
lieved to be bis duty. Raising a company
of border men from North Georgia, Alabama
and Tennessee, their services were tendered
under n vote of the company to the Governor
of Alabama as cavalry. This company was
declined as a cavalry company, but accepted
as infantry and assigned subsequently to the
sixth Alabama regiment.
Repairing to the appointed rendezvous, at
the organization of the regiment he was elect
ed Mujor, afterward becoming its Colonel, he
led his regiment in those terrible fields of
Sewn Pines and Malvern Dill, so as to seal the
affection of bis men, by bis coolness and he
roism, and command the confidence of bis su
periors. Alabama claimed him as her son,
and his renown as her glory. Next at Sliarps-
burg he held the position assigned his com
mand, until, streaming with blood from four
desperate wounds, lie was taken from the field.
Upon his recovery, upon the recommendation
of his superiors in command, his name was
preferred for promotion to the rank of Briga-
dier General. In the appointment bytbcCon-
federate Senate his name was placed by Sena
tors from Alabama ns one who should be ap
pointed from Alabama.
The Senators from Georgia had also put
his name in nomination. A debate arose as
to which of these two States he should be
assigned. Reference was had to General
Gordon as to his place of residence and citi
zenship, without reference ns to the object of
the inquiry. His reply was, “I am a Georgian
—I have never surrendered my citizenship;”
and he was accordingly made Brigadier from
Georgia, and assigned to the command of
Lawton’s brigade, whose commander lay dis
abled by wounds. He led the charge which
retook Marye’s heights. At Gettysburg he
penetrated the enemy’s lines to “Cemetery
Height,” but in obedience to orders with
drew, notwithstanding these orders were con-
trnrv to both his judgment and desire—thus
ever recognizing duty and obedience both in
civil and military life.
The history of his daring charge at the
battle of the Wilderness, with his little brig
ade, is known to every one, and tho recogni
tion of bis services on that day is fully re
cognised by all as one of the most gallant
exploits of Southern achievement, command
ing the udmiration of Federal and Confede
rates. In the wild wilderness of Spottsylvanin,
when Hancock had shook the centre and
shattered the left of the “Army of Northern
Virginia,” in the confusion nnd darkness of
night, Gordon handled the division, of which
he was acting commander, with commensurate
skill, struck a blow upon the weak points
which his acute eye discovered, which called
forth tho approbation of tliat noble old
hero, Robert E. Lee, and moved him to nomi
nate in the fields os Major General John B.
Gordon. In all conflicts Gordon always bore
himself a true soldier—ever obeying orders
with alacrity, never downcast but ever
resolute, always reckless of bis own life in
discharge of duty, but ever careful of the
lives of his men, and the wants of his
command. Always recognized as a true Chris
tian, his men reposed in him the fullest con
fidence, and he led them as by parental com
mand.
Pure, gifted, and courageous, honest and
honorable; devoted to principle, yet not lost
in the abstractions ot political theories; nor
wandering after the delusions of lost rights,
John B. Gordon, as Governor of Georgia, will
administer the State government without fear
or favor, aud in all impartiality, nnd brinj
back the days of peace and prosperity.
A Bonaparte for the Papacy.
Prince Lucicn Bonaparte, a grandson of Lu
cien, one of the brothers of the great Napoleon,
who preached the sermon in St. Peter’s, in
Rome, on receiving the tille of cardinal, has
been named St. Prudentienno. A saint among
the Bonapartcs is not an every dny occur
rence, although the present head of the fam
ily is known ns the eldest son of the Church,
whose filial affection to the Holy Father has
been proved in the mdst substantial forms.—
The Church, then, has reason to be proud of
St. Prudentienno, and may be expected, po
litically, to turn his elevation to a good ac
count.
A London paper says that there is on foot
a deeply laid scheme for the elevation of the
new cardinal in the next election to the
Papacy. It[is supposed that this prince of
the house of the Bonaparte; may, as a Roman
prelate, succeed to the pontificate on the
death of Pio Nono, which the prophets will
hold, in spite of his good hcaltu, to be nearly
approaching. The programme surmised is
that, with a cousin of the Emperor of the
French at the head of Mother Church, the
pair of them will play into each other’s hands
lor the abolition of the temporal power, and
so aid in settling the complicated question
of Italian unity to the glory of France, and,
under her protection, to the security of tho
Cbarcb.
Assuming, however, that there is a good
foundation for this report of a scheme for the
elevation of Cardinal Bonaparte to the chair
of St. Peter, we think it more likely that it
emanates from the Church and the Empress
Engcnie than from Lonis Napoleon, and that
the object in view is not the abolition but the
maintenance of the Pope’s temporal power.
Considering the inflexible posiiton main
tained by the present Holy Father on this
subject—ngaiDst all approaches, all threats
and every combination from every quarter—
it is badly possible that he will become a con
senting party to the gift of a cardinal’s red
hat even to a Bonaparte and then pronounce
him St. Prudentienno without a distinct un
derstanding and pledge upon this question
of the temporal rights of the Holy See.
But alter the settlement of this controver
sy, after all, depends less upon the succession
in the Vatican than upon the succession in
the Tuileries. Upon the life of that one
man, Louis Napoleon, hang not only the des
tinies of France, but the destinies of the
Pope aDd Italy, nnd continental Europe and
Asia Minor, and Egypt and the great Eastern
question. Such is the frail thread upon
which the present peace of Europe is sus
pended. Nor is it certain that “the empire
is peace” while Louis Napoleon holds the
helm, if we may judge from his formidable
preparations for war. All speculations and
all contrivances, therefore, ns to the Papal
succession, arc vain nnd profitless, in view of
that tremendous continental convulsion for
which all the great Powers are arming; for
for against this impending revolutionary
shaking up even a Bonaparte at the head of
the Church would be powerless.
[IV. T. Herald.
A Story from Paris.—A Paris letter tells
the following story of a Twelfth Nightfete in
that city; A wealthy family in the aristo-
cractic boulevard Malesherbcs where amusing
themselves in seeking the King’s portion, or
the ring in the festival cake, when a lady of
the company says to the hostess:
“I wish my portion to be given to the poor
est little boy we can find in the street.”
The servant was despatched on this freez
ing night, and'not far from the house he
found a ragged urchin, trembling with cold
and hunger.
He brought him up, was ordered into the
saloon, where a thousand lights glittered, and
a sparkling fire gladdened and surprised him
Ho drew his portion, which'the benevolent
lady had promised, and as luck would have
it, the little fellow found the “ring” (beams
they use in Paris instead), and, of course, be
was “King.” They all shouted out that,
being a King, he annst choose a Queen. He
was asked so to do, and, looking round
the company, he chose the very .lady who had
proposed to cede her portion of the cake.—
He was asked why he chose her. He said :
“I don’t know! she looks the most like
mother I”
“Mother! whose mother ?”
“My mother! I never knew her, but was
stolen away from her, and here is her por
trait 1”
With this he drew’ from out his ragged
coat a likeness, which proved to he that of the
very lady herself, who, in Italy, had her child
stolen from her, and now he turns up a poor
little ragged Savoyard, dragging along amis-
erable existence in Paris, while his mother,
by an intuition, perhaps, felt that in the air
near to where she was was one so dear to her.
Faithful £o the end—resolute and courage
ous to the last, when Leo pronounced the
struggle useless he gave up his sword. True
to tiie wisdom of his chief, nnd the plighted
cn"n“cments of bis chief he, ns did his
brother officers, counseled the war-worn vet
erans whom lie had so often led amid, the
storm of battle, that the “supreme test of no
bility is adversity,” “the true test of the sol-
dier is devotion to the plighted faith of their
chief.” It is to the influence of such men ns
Gordon that*tho termination of so long and
so bloody a war has been not only without
the bloody anarchy of guerrillaism, but an
immediate, absolute and complete return ol
the blessings of peace. The most remarka
ble event in all history.
Modest nnd retiring since the close of the
war, General Gordon has chiefly sought to re
pair liis shattered fortunes. Recognizing the
sudden "
Importance of Social Order.—The fol
lowing extract from the Washington corres
pondence of the. Charleston Courier will
show how vitally important it is for the
Southern people to abstain from everything
like disorder and infringment of the law at
the present time:
The new rebellion in the South which is
alleged by the Radicals to have been com
menced, affords them great satisfaction, for
it will give them a pretext for the adoption
of some stringent measures of reconstruction,
and serve, also, for electioneering purposes iu
the Presidential canvass.
If the New Orleans riots wi re, ns it was
alleged, worth eighty thousand votes to the
Republicans in the Fall of 1866, the mysteri
ous secret organizations reported to have
been formed in the South against Union
men, black and white, will bo worth to the
party a still greater number of votes in tho
Fall ot 1868. The reported murder of Ash-
burn is held throughout the country as a sure
presage of Radical triumph at the Presiden
tial cfection. It has even been urged upon
Senators as an- additional reason for the re
moval of Johnson, that in Tennessee and
other Southern States the public peace can
not be maintained if he be acquitted.
Radical meanness can reach no lower
depth than that referred to in the following
paragraph, taken from a New York paper.
When a gentleman’s domestics are to bo
pumped, and the private affairs of home pa
raded before the world for wretched party
purposes, what is to become of society in this
country of oars ?
One of our prominent City publishers is
about to issue a book by a woman wbo has
been a servant in the houses of Jeff. Davis
and of President Lincoln, and who promises
very “spicy” revelations concerning the pri
vate life of the families of both. This str: kes
us as rather & scnndalous adventure a style
of authorship which it stems scarcely worth
while to encourage. If •arvaats are to be
called on to feed the public appetite for per
sonal revelations nnd gossip of this sort, their
position will acqnirc a degree of importance
which has not hitherto been accorded to
them.
Judge Field, also.—In alluding, a few
days ago, to the postponement of the pro
mulgation of the decision of the Supreme
Court in the McCardle case, wo omitted to
mention that it is generally understood that
Judge Field coincided entirely with the
ue.. elevation of the colored race, he ha, . opinion expressed by Justice Grier as to the
sought* forewarn them of the dangers which duty of the Court to render its dec.s.on in
menaced them in the struggles of life by the j the case without delay .-National IntcUiyen-
competition of tho white race—their superior .ear. , t ,
in numbers, and their superior, foruntoldcemj PcnLic.-John A. Grubb is no
turic ? in intelligence, and lias given to them i-0 . . n. v 0 , v> , f-
“ii fill of wisdom, usgiog thm to strive! tog®- for i
for tho highest intellectual development hut IHendd »Jd patrons will plouo
to t'lke no Dart in ephemeral strifes, which Our cotempor-un a , i
m ill engender bitter antagonism, without ( take notice of the ab . ^ &
bringing to them any possible good. u
Address to tiie Colored People of SoutU
Carolina.
The Convention of’the Democratic party
of South Carolina feels it a high andbounden
duty to speak to you candidly aud. earnestly,
and with no further apology than that our
interests are to a certain extent identical..
You have been suddenly put into position
to exercise certain powers, the abuse of which
may result disastrously to you and to us. It
is impossible that your present power can en
dure, whether you use it for good or ill. The
white race already outnumbers you in the
South. Disease has made the mortality
among you twice what it is among the whites,
and the rate is daily increasing. Emigration
has carried off thousands ot your color to
distant States, while it already begins to fill
their places with whites from Europe. Let
not your pride, nor yet your pretended
friends, flatter you into the belief that you
ever can or ever will, for any length of time,
govern the white men of the South.
The world has never seen such a spectacle,
and its whole history, and especially the his
tory of your race, gives no ground for the
anticipation. Perhaps, however, you expect
to attain power by the aid of the Radical
party at the North. The Almighty, in His
wisdom (perhaps to prevent the amalgama
tion of the separate races which he created
and marked) has implanted in every human
breast a sentiment called tho prejudice of
race, and when this feeliDg is once aroused, it
is one of the strongest and most universal
passions of our natures. When your race
was among us as slaves, this sentiment slum
bered, and only a companion for you influ
enced every heart—those among your mas
ters—to treat you kindly; those who be
lieved you wronged to desire to set you free.
When you were set free, compassion ceased
to exist. When undue power was given you
by the Radical party, (from motives which
all men appreciated and despised) prejudice
of race sprang up.
The whites of this State endeavored to
allay it, here, at least, by inviting you to a
course and a compromise which would have
given it nothing to feed upon. But their
efforts resulted in such an utter failure, that
it would be mortifying bad it not been a
Christian duty to make the effort. Every
step of your political career, so far, has culti
vated this prejudice, until it now speaks
aloud in England, and is already rapidly
changing the politics of the entire North.—
This is the odium which must soon prove the
death of the Radical party. It is too strong
to be resisted, being the operation of a law ot
nature. Do you not see it even in your white
Radical friends, in spite of their industrious
efforts to conceal it, so long as they have use
for you I Is it not apparent, also, in the
officers, and even the very private soldiers,
of the army whose bayonets stll prop up your
power, only because they arc paid to do it ?
Do you flatter yourselves that your “Loyal
Leaguers” can prevail against it?
“Blood is thicker than water,” and the
league which the Almighty has organized is
one to which there will he no traitors, when
once an issue is fuirly made.
To repeat, then, as we began: Your pres
ent power must surely and soon pass from
you. Nothing that it builds will stand, and
nothing will remain of it but the prejudices
it may create. It is therefore a most dan
gerous tool that you are handling. Your
leaders, both white and black, are using
your votes for their individual gain. Jinny
of them you have only known, heretofore, to
despise and mistrust, until commanded by
your leagues to vote for them. Offices and
salariresfor themselves are the heights of
tbeir ambitions, and so that they make hay
while the sun shines, they care not who is
caught in the storm that follows. Already,'
they have driven away all capital and credit
from the South, and while they draw eleven
dollars a day, thousands of you are thrown
ont of employment, and starve simply for
lack of work. What few enterprises are car
ried on are only the work of Southern men,
who have faith that the present state of affairs
is but temporary.
The world does not offer better opportuni
ties for the employment of capital than are
to be found in lire South, but will your Rad
ical friends send their money here to invest ?
Not one dollar. They would just as soon
venture on investments in Hayti or Liberia,
as commit their money to the influence of
your legislation. Capital has learned-to sbuu
it as a deadly plague.
We, therefore, urge and warn you, , by all
the ties of our former relations, still strong
and binding iu thousands of cases by a com
mon Christianity and by the mutual welfare
of our two races, whom Providence has
thrown together to beware ol the course on
which your readers are urging you in a blind
folly which will surely ruin both yon and
them.
We do not pretend to be better friends to
your race than we are to ourselves, and we
only speak where we are not invited because
your welfare concerns ours. If you destroy
yourselves you injure us, and though but
little, compared with the harm you will do
youselves, we would, if we could, avert the
whole danger.
We are not in any condition to make you
any promises or to propose to you any com
promises. We can do nothing but await the
course of events—but this we do without the
slightest misgiving or apprehension for our
selves. We shall net give up our couutry,
and time will soon restore cur control of it.
But wc earnestly caution you, nnd beg you iu
the meanwhile, to beware of the use you
make of your temporary power. '^Remember
that your race has nothing to gain and every
thing to-lose, if you invoke that prejudice of
race which, since the world was made, has
ever driven the weaker tribe to the wall.—
Forsake, then, the wicked and stupid men
who would involve you in this folly, and
make to yourselves friends and not enemies
of the white citizens of South Carolina.
The Military and the Soutoehn Secret
Societies.—The order of General Meade
providing for the suppression of the “Ku
Klux Klan” will meet with the approval of
all who espouse the cause of order and good
government. But the General must not exer
cise his power on that organization alone.—
He must rigorously suppress the secret “Loy
al Leagues” of negroes ; for they are equal
ly, if cot more, pernicious in their influences
than the white men’s society. The arrogance
of the negroes and tbeir attempts to reduce
the whites of the South to political vassalage
by means of the “Loyal Leagues,” and the
many outrages that have been committed by
these same Leagues, are equally as dangerous
to the peace and safety of society as are the
retaliatory actions of the “Ku Klux Klan.”
[IV. T. Herald.
The Impeaciiment Management.—Col
John Forsyth, who is now at Washington,
writes to his paper—the Mobile Advertiser—
as follows:
On Saturday Mr. Manager Butler an
nounced that the evidence on tho part of the
prosecution was substantially closed. The
universal sentiment is that it has closed uppn
a hopeless case, with not a point proved upon
which a decently just judgment of condem
nation could be hung. The mountain has
labored and there has been brought forth
“ridiculous mass.” Standing so, now* when
the whole fire of the managers has been de
livered ex parte, what will be the condition
of the cause when the learning and skill of
the President’s giant counsel shall have mar
shalled the law and the evidence on the side
of their distinguised client.
Mrs. Tiiad. Stevens.—The Laucastcr
(Penn.) Intelligencer relates a sad case of dis
respect for one near and dear to old Tiiad.
Stevens. On Wednesday morning last “that
attractive female, familiarly known ns Mrs.
Tkaddeus Stevens—the widow of the late
Jacob Smith, colored barber of Harrisburg,
and at present housekeeper, and of
old Tbad.—had her pocket picked at the
depot. She states her los3 to be as follows :
One hundred dollars in greenbacks, three
Mexican silver dollars, one diamond breast
pin, a safo key, a bunch of household keys,
nnd free passes over the railroads from Lan
caster to Washington.”
Frightful Scene In Church.
THE CROWD PANIC STRICKEN—THREE WO
MEN KILLED AND MANY INJURED.
That an intense alarm was occasioned in
St Mary’s Catholic Church, Chicago on Fri
day evening, resulting iu a general rush, and
the death of three persons, has already been
announced in our dispatches. ■ The Tribune,
of Saturday, gives the following details:
All were listening with reverential silence.
The tenebrae were being sung on this thelast
day. • The officiating priests, Fathers Fan
ning, Noman, Butler and Halligan, was say
ing .the third nocturn, when suddenly, from
some almost inexplicable cause, a panic seized
hold of the entire congregation. Whether
it originated in a falling abutment, a break
ing scat, or a cry of fire, is not absolutely cer
tain, but it is too sadly true that all, with one
impulse, sprang from their seats in the galle
ry, and in the body of the church, and made
one frantic desperate rush lor the door.
TIIE STAMPEDE.
They sprung from the narrow and incon
venient pews and rushed along the crowded
aisles, forgetful of all, animated only by the
blind desire forself-presrevation,and poured
out into the vestibule. Those who were in
the galleries, nearly all timid and nervous
women, fled down the sharp, pitched stairs,
which led directly into the vestibule, and
not into the body of the church, and thus
added to the confusion that was already pre
vailing there.
To preserve quiet the doors of the church,
which open inward, had been closed.—
Against them the crowd threw itself seeking
safety, and yet so blind as not to see that it
could not be possibly obtained in that way.
For a few moments’everything was blind
and terrible confusion.
The people in the vestibule were pressed
till many of them were nearly suffocated,
while some had fallen, or had been pushed
down the gallery stairs and trampled to death
beneath tho feet of those who came after
them. There were shrieks and cries and
stifled groans, ancl agonizing appeals for aid.
The aid finally came though too late for
some. The crowd recovered from the alarm
and passed out into the street. Some person,
hearing the cries ancl noticing the rush from
the church, struek an alarm of fire. Several
minutes passed, however, before sufficient or
der was restored to allow of any attention
being paid' to the victims.
Some of the women, as they emerged
from the structure, ran frantically from the
scene, ancl in their blind hurry rushed wildly
against each other, and over one another, and
in a few minutes Wabash avenue and the in
tersecting streets in that neighborhood pre
sented a scene of hurry and confusion and
panic, that completely beggars description.—
Some would cry, “Oh, my head is broke;”
others, “I can’t see, I’ve lost my eyes;” others,
exhausted and breathless, would break down
in the middle of the streets, and - under the
impression that their last moment had ar
rived, would lie prostrate, and frequently
seem insensible, until some person, by pick
ing them up, ancl with words of encourage
ment, reassured them they were more scared
than hurt. Others had no sooner reached the
outside of the enclosure, which serves as a
protection to the front entrance, than they
fell on their knees, and as the tide of hu
manity came upon them, they were actually
forced along the street in that position.
STREET SCENES.
But the greater the pressure the louder
grew the prayers, for #bich the attitude had
been assumed, and now ancl then a wail
would be heard so agonizing ancl startlin
that it chilled the ' blood of all about, am
even strong men would shut ears to the ter
rible sound,.and involuntarily exclaim: “Ob
it is terrible, terrible.” And still the almost
exhaustless stream of human beings continu
ed to pour out of the narrow entrances of
the structure. Now and then there was a
complete block, and strong arms on the out
side would take bold of the nearest arm, or
perchance clasp the body, and pull with des
peratc strength to effect an opening, and then
as body was pressed against body so close.ns
if under the pressure of a vice, fearful cries
would rend the air, and next a dozen forms
would be hurled prostrate on the ground, but
safely on the outside. Perhaps in another
moment this scene would be repeated, there
would be another fearful struggle to effect a
passage, ancl the terrible scene was protract
ed to nearly half an hour.
REMOVING THE DEAD AND WOUNDED.
The police officers in the neighborhood
were prompt vo render assistance, and finally,
when the greater portion of the inmates had
effected tbeir escape, they entered the struc
ture to render such assistance to the wound
ed and maimed as lay in their power. Some
of the least severely injured were immedi
ately taken home, and in the confusion their
names could not be ascertained, but the
dead, and those among tbe wounded who
had friends at hand, were conveyed into the
Convent adjoining. During the transit few
of the victims were recognized, and as none
but those whose presence was required were
admitted into tho building, the thousands
who were kept on the outside were in a fe
verish suspense, while many were racked by
the most agonizing suspicions.
Thaddeus Stevens for Grant
Wade. —Old Thaddeus Stevens has written a
letter in which he declares in favor of Gen
eral Grant for President ancl Ben Wade for
-\jjco President. Of General Grant ho says:
*As to the candidate for tho Presidency, I
presume yon all agree that none other than
General Grant is to be thought of. Honest,
firm and well indoctrinated in principle,
'without ostentation and without pride, I do
not see how a better selection can be made.
His judgment of men is so sound that I have
full faith that he wHl call around him the
ablest and purest men of the ’nation. With
Grant and Wacle to guide and defend us,
this nation in four years will have acquired
a prosperity which will be the wonder of the
world.
Of Wilde lie ■■■■■
He is a true man, in whom you and I, and
every Radical man, can confide; and you will
find that the country, as well as our particu
lar friends, will profit by his success.
Inisn Emigration. — Correspondents in
Ireland write that the exodous from that
country to tho United States has again be
gun, and that all the steamers coming to
America, and also numerous sailing vessels,
are filled with emigrants. The various ports
of Ireland are also filled with emigrants
awaiting passage, and the majority are said
to befroml6 to 25 years of age.
jcgpA grand-neice of Benedict Arnold is
saicl to be employed in one of the depart
ments.
pgT’Qne ot the chief beauties in a female
character is modest reserve;.that retiring deli
cacy which avoids the public eye, and is even
disconcerted at the gaze of admiration.
When a girl ceases to blush she has lost the
most powerful charm of beauty. ,
A Merited Rebuke.—A number of South
Carolina negroes have addressed a forcible
letter to Beverly Nash about his attempt to
stir up ill feeling between the blacks and
whites, and to bring about a war of races.—
They tell bim that the success of his efforts
will be the ruin of the blacks, and charge
him with trying to “lead astray our people,
while you arc yourself led astray.by the low
and corrupt teachings of unprincipled white
men, who have not the respect of their own
color, and who certainly ought not to be
trusted by our people.’’
Personal.—General Skinner, Assistant
Postmaster General, is confined to his bed by
cerious illness^
Sold Out.—Mr. Wm. Wheatley, the actor
and theatrical manager, has sold out his in
terest in Niblo’s Theatre, in New York, to
Messrs. Jarrett & Palmer, his partners, for
$100,000. Ho intends to retire from business
Geifc Gordon on the Stump.
Our gallant candidate for Governor seems
to be drawing ouc the enthusiasm of the
people and winning golden opinions wherc-
ever he speaks. We annex some paragraphs
from our exchanges :
From the Madison Auditor, lith.
Gen. Gordon in Morgan.—^The people
of Morgan aud adjoining counties, were
in very respectable numbers on Saturday, to
receive their noble standard bearer, Gen.
John B. Gordon, who was announced to ad
dress the people at this place only two days
before.
The large committee ot reception, com -
posed of our solid, earnest men, repaired to
the depot, and at the hour of two in the af
ternoon when the train from Augusta arrived,
the General made his appearance on the
platform of the cars supported by Colonel
Butler, and other members of the committee,
three cheers were proposed and heartily
given to “General John ii. Gordon—the next
Governor of Georgia.” The General made
appropriate acknowledgment of the compli
ment, and as the hour had grown late, hur
ried to meet his friends who had assembled
as tbe court-house to hear him.
* * * *
To the colored friends in attendance he
addressed his closing remarks, who, we are
proud to say, gave him their earnest and
thoughtful attention, and who, may we not
hope, went away convinced that General
Gordon was and ever will be the friend
of the black man.
From the Columlut Enquirer, 15(/i.]
Gen. Gordon’s Speech.—The meeting last
night was a “rouser.” The old Hall was filled
to°its utmost capacity, ancl the enthusiasm
of the large audience attested a thorough
appreciation of the importance of the con
test. The colored population were strongly
represented.
Gen. Gordon’s speech far exceeded the
high anticipations of our people. It was
thriilingly eloquent, convincingly logical,
and characterized by much tact and ability.
It produced the happiest effect, and aroused
onr citizens^to the highest pitch of enthusi
asm in support of the gallant Democratic
standard-bearer. We have not time for a
fuller report for this issue.
ggP The philosopher “H. G.” says he
thinks about impeachment as the hotel keep
er.did about the obstreperous guest to whom
he presented a bill of $9 for “two days’ board,”
and $50 for “raising hell generally.” And
common sense thinks about impeachment as
the obstreperous guest did about the undig
nified landlord, to whom be replied: “Sir,
your bill in that shape is unconstitutional,
and you can’t collect it.”—Chicago Times.
jgT* The St. Louis Republican says that
tile memorial for the abolition of the Presi
dency, forwarded from Missouri to Senator
Drake, is not signed by a siDgle American
name 1
Col. Sumner J. Smith.—.This gentleman
delivered a powerful speech at Homer last
Friday, in reply to Wimpy’s harangue, which
he has repeated al! around the District. We
did not have the pleasure of hearing all of
Col. Smith’s address, but have heard it praised
in highest terms by numbers of tbe most in
telligent gentlemen wbo were present. He
has long enjoyed the reputation of being a
very able debater, and exceeded the expecta
tions of bis friends on the occasion referred
to.—Athens Watchman.
gy Thurlow Weed, a Grant mao and a
Republican, says : “However blatantly mem
bers of Congress may affect Southern negro
suffrage in their speeches they know enough
to keep negro delegates outot the Chicago
Convention. If negro delegates appear in
that Convention not even General Grant’s
popularity will enable us to carry Indiana.’
Years.
1$64_
Quarters
1865
t 7D
1866
72,446
1S67
j>7 5S4
1868
The Supply of rtreadstall's.
From th- St. I.- lit Republican, April !3.]
Surveying the entire field, it is safe to pro
nounce that tiie consumption of breadstuft'3
lias now reached a point at which it has be-
comemore difficult than at any former pe
riod to accommodate the supply to the de
mand. Wheat especially feels the effect of
this demand, since the use of it as an article
■of daily food has greatly been extended with
in the last twenty years. It does not appear
that in Europe the cultivation of this cereal
has been very considerably extended. It is
stated, indeed, that in Scotland, while ten
years ago, there were 243,240 acres in wheat,
there were last year only 110.G09 acres; and
it i3 contended that, taking the whole list
of grain used as food for man, the quantity
produced is to-day less than it was some
years ago in tLe Britisli islands. Owing, per
haps, t7j this fact, and certainly to a succes
sion of bad harvests, Great Britain has for
some time suffered fron. a short supply. As
strikingly illustrativethis connection, we
may refer to tbe statements of deliveries of
domestic wheat at one hundred and ten mar
ket towns in England'and Wales during cor
responding weeks for tbe years undermen
tioned :
Price.
•(Os. Id.
3&>.3d.
4Sa.6d.
59s. Sd.
73s. Id.
This table, for which we arc indebted to
the Financial Chronicle, shows that, though
the price is now nearly double the price four
years ago, this great advance failed to bring
to market much more than half the quantity
marketed then. Nothing could more im
pressively witness to the fact that the supply
is short in England. It is ascertained that,
though Great Britain imported over thirteen
millions of quarters of wheat more in 1SC7
than 1865, when she imported nearly twenty-
one millions, the stocks atfkh close of last
year were less than two years befo®?. In
France the scarcity seems to be quite as
great, if not greater; the harvest last year
was deficient, both in quality and amount.—
In no country is a dearth of bread more to be
dreaded,Tor political reasons, than in France;
and every French government, in prospect of
such a calamity, makes extraordinary exer
tions to avert it. A leading agricultural jour
nal of France estimates the deficiency in the
French crc-p at 34,000,000 bushels. So anxious
are the French authorities to meet such an exi
gency that, as the World informs us, wheat is
purchased even in England, and cargoes
bound for England are intercepted by French
dealers, and, by a more tempting price, di
verted to French parts.
We know that there are certain parts of
the Old World scourged by famine. A
large portion ot Scandinavia 'is suffering in
an unusual manner. So is Finland. Starva
tion broods over all East Prussia.’ Gallicia
is. a victim-to it, and so are Tunis and-
Algeria. Save Hungary and some parts of
Southern Russia, there is no portion of
Europe where the last year’s crops of cereals
can be pronounced good.
As some offset to these gloomy statements,
it may be remarked that the renorts of the
growing crops in England and Europe, and
of the characteristics of the present Spring
season, are. so far, favorable. The Marca
accounts trem England speak of prevalent
fine weather lot pitching the Spring crops,
and the stimulus of high prices had extended
the cultivated area. Upon the whole, the
promise was never better, and this remark
appears to be one of general application tc
all the European grain regions.
But, no matter how abundant a yield may
be realized this year, the exhaustion by harv
est time will be such that the stock on hand
then will not probably be raised to the stand
ard reached some years ago.. More attention
to wheat culture in Europe, and a succession
of good harvests, are requisite to restore
cheap bread to Europeans.
In tbe United States the corn crop was re
ported from the Agricultural Bureau to have
been last year deficient Yet tbe stock on
hand is now quite large, and the comparison
of last year with tbe present shows’an in-
Wkcat
186-3 1867
ggp” Thomas Hanlon, one of the famous | ^
“Hanlon Brothers,” committed suicide a few j crease, as will appear’from the foliowing
days ago in the-countyjail at Harrisburg. Pa. table:
He is the one who had the great fsll at Cin
cinnati. some time ago, while proforming one
of his daring feats. It is supposed that. the
lasting effects of that fall, in connection with
later troubles of the brothers, deranged his
intellect. .
i£p” It is said to be true, that San Fran
cisco, with a hundred and twenty thousand
inhabitants, pays more money into the in
ternal revenue of the United States than New
York city with its eight hundred thousand.
pgf°Alex. L Menken obtained a decree of
divorce in Cincinnati, on Friday, from Adah
Isaacs Menken on the ground of adultery
with John C. Heeaan. The suit was brought
in 1860.
The Clift Electioneering Trick at
Valdosta. Yesterday Lieutenant Bard,
United States Army, arrived in this city on
the train from Valdosta, having in charge five
youn" men, whom he had arrested there the
day previous, on a charge ot having been the
originators of tbe disturbance wbicb occurred
at That place on last Saturday night week.—
AXD This is the general supposition, as nothing
was said by the arresting officer ot the way
and the wherefore of their being taken into
custody. Their names are Alexander H.
Darrell, John Calhoun, John Bambo, Benja
min L. Smith and Iverson L. Griffin. They
arc all young men of good family, and en
tirely innocent of all blame in tbe matter.
Mr. Calhoun was Deputy Sheriff of Lowndes
county, and a faithful and efficient officer.—
Mr. Grifliu was not present at the Court House
on the night in question, aud In no way con
nected with the affair. Thus are innocent
men torn from their homes and families and
thrust into prison by the strong arm of mili
tary power, and made to suffer by the rascal
ity of a Radical carpet-bag adventurer.
J [Sao. Hep., mh.
22?” Twenty thousand dollars an hour,
day and night, is tho interest on the public
debt.
pj^~Hon. James Guthrie was stricken with
paralysis at Louisville, Ky., on Thursday, and
serious fears of the result are entertained.
Female Physicians.—On ‘Wednesday last
there was quite an exciting scene in Boston,
in the Convention of the Homeopathic Med
ical Society, on the admission of Mrs. Mercy
B. Jackson, a practicing female physician of
Boston. The debate was very animated, the
opponents claiming that the question wap a
very serious one, and quoted from the Scrip—
tures to show that the relation of a wife iO a
husband was the same as that of the Church
to Christ, and she should not be subject to
the temptations which would arise in ihe
course of their profession. One ot the oppo
nents argued that it would tend to produce
effeminate men aud masculine women, r.nd
said that, if women are to engage in the
medical practice, they should stop by them
selves and confine their practice strictly to
the afflicted of their own sex.
Those who favored Mrs. Jackson’s admis
sion to the society argued that there ought
to be no objection if she possessed the requi
site ability, and that if women became mem
bers of the society germane subjects would
be discussed at their meetings just the same,
and that woman’s presence would elevate dis
cussions on delicate matters. After consid
erable discussion of this nature, on both sides,,
the vote on the question was taken, and .ne
admission of Mrs. Jackson refused by a i ote
of thirty-three against thirty-one, which cre
ated great enthusiasm among those compos
ing the majority.
SjTTbe steamer Zodiac, of the regular line be-
tween Boston and Savannah was burned to the
water’s edge at the Boston wharf yesterday morn
ing. Thera was no cargo on board. She was
owned by Murray, Ferns & Co., of New 4 ork.
rxyGen. Sheriuanhas been before the Congrcs-
r>«TY,Tnl*tn» nn Indian A Hairs to impress them
Other grain.
186S 1867
New York, bushels 947,842 1,371,600 3,017,919 4.557,752
Chicago I,0c5,522 541,267 4,217,975 1,891,472
Buffalo 260.009 167,442 76,000 675,967
Milwaukie 1,120.000 655,000
Total .3,386.364 2.735.S09 7.311,934 7,025,191
Add grain other
than wheat 7,311,931 7,025.191
Total breadstuff's.JO,69S.29S 9,760,500
To the above must be added the large
amount detained in transitu in the canals.—
The increase in the stock of corn is remark
able. La^t year tbe stock in Chicago was
875,071 busliels, against same time this yeat
3,013,900 bushels.
The crop prospects for the present year in
the country are, upon tho whole, quite en
couraging. Tbe drought of last year did not
prevent the sowing down to wheat of an in
creased area; and the appearance at this time
ot the Fall-sown wheat is very good. The
planting season this Spring is so far favor
able. From the fact that the last two crops •
of corn have been below the average, we have
some reason to expect a turn in the season
which will give us a full crop of that grain
the present year.
Hopes of abundant harvests, both at home
and abroad, may be indulged in, nnd may be
realized. But; even supposing there should
be no disappointment, we donot-imagine the
price of wheat will experience any consider
able fall. Cora and some of the other grains
will probably be lower, but such is the con
sumption ot wheat, that the demand may be
expected to press hard upon the heels of any
such supply us may be reasonably calculated
upon.
TnE Region of the Beautiful.—How
many are there whose religion is nothing
more than a shallow, aud sometimes preten
tious, sense of the beautiful? Their religion
is made up of decencies, if not gayeties, in
the house of God—velvet, gilt, fine carpets,
with hymn book, prayer book and clothing
to match Their rajitures are transports of
aesthetic feeling over operatic music, and a
finely intoned liturgy. Their interest in the
sermon is rhetorical, it has its hold on forms
of expression, on figures of speech, on tones'
of voice. Ancl even when Christianity is
more broadly and profoundly viewed, it’is to
be* feared that sometimes even then its
strength is only admired as sublime; and its
revelations of heaven as beautiful. In such a
case as that it is only a wretched, sterile, crit
ical taste, handling the word of life. Multi
tudes of such people attend fashionable
churches, of whom the Prophet might repeat
his words, “They come as my people come;
they sit as my people sit; thou art to them,
Son of Man, as one that hath a pleasant voice,
and can play skillfully on an instrument, for
they hear thy words, but they do them not.' 1
S3T" Life, according to the Arabic pro
verb, is composed of two parts; that which
is past,^a dream—and that which is to come,
a wish. This is exceedingly well exempli
fied in the lives of all of us. We regard
past experience as a dream, and worth no
more consideration. Our future life a wish,
is in no measure regulated by the past, till
we grow so old as to look to no future, this
side the grave. Then we say, “If we could
but live over again !
The Oldest Woman in Alabama.—Tho
oldest woman in Alabama is Mrs. Sallic Sam
son, living in Bibb county. Sbe is a native
of Jasper county, Georgia, but has been
living in Bibb county since 1817, in the
snmc°neighborbood sbe now resides in, and is
1Q9 years oid. She is as active now as she
was thirty- years agp, frequently riding horse
back in the night time, ten and fifteen milef,
to answer professional calls.—Hontgomery
Sentinel.
. , , sional Committoe on Indian Affairs toiraprei
altogether. The arrangement is to date from the idea that it is Both cheaper amt more bu-
September next. ’ mane to feed the Indians than to light them.
PgTBrowulow’s Militia cost the State of Team a-
see $317,000. To meet this expense all the cur
rent receipts oft ie f easaiy were used, and it be
came necessary to rob the children of the State ny
using the - pay the January niter*’
on the State debt.
b?/*Genc-ral Giuiay who commanded the Aus
trian army in Italy in 1> V.', is dangerously ill.