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the constitutionalist
SUNDAY, JANUARY 17,1875.
A MOVE OF THE HAMBURG RADI
CALS.
They Want a Toll-gate at the Other
End of the Savannah River Bridge.
It seems that the irrepressible, im
pecunious leaders of the extreme party
in the burg across the river, finding
their pockets becoming empty, have
again inaugurated a move for the es
tablishment of a toll-gate at the other
end of the bridge across the Savannah
river. They have carried the matter
into the Legislature of South Carolina
but have met an antagonist in Mr. E.
M. Brayton, Representative from Aiken
county. We give below the remarks
of Mr. Brayton on the subject in the
Legislature, taken from the Columbia
Phoenix :
Ou the bill relative to the Hamburg
and Augusta Bridge, Mr. Brayton, of
Aiken, made a strong ancl effective
speech in opposition to its passage.
He said that while his name appeared
among the incorporators of the Act
passed two years ago, which this bill
sought to amend, he desired iu this
public manner to disclaim any respon
sibility for its passage. He was neither
instrumental in effecting the passage
of the Act, nor had he ever attempted
to exercise or claimed to possess any
rights or interests under it. He now,
as always before, disavowed all pur
pose to participate in a franchise which
fie not only looked upon as being im
properly granted, bur. as an attempt to
have this State confer a charter to a
right that did not exist. It was not for
him to say whether the original Act
was conceived in iniquity, as suggested
by his colleague ; but he would say that
the influences which lay at the root of
this present bill were, in his opinion,
born of improper motives and fraudu
lent designs. Ho would not, however,
consume time by discussing the ques
tion whether the Legislature could de
prive one set of corporators of their
rights, and confer the same upon the
town of Hamburg, without any better
reason being given than that assigned.
His objections to this bill went further
and deeper. He was not only in fa
vor of defeating this bill, but also of
the repeal of the original act. He
thought that this State could not grant
to any one the power to erect a toll
gate upon this side of the Savannah
river at Hamburg, without acting in
bad faith to a neighboring State and
defrauding the city of Augusta of in
terests and rights which it had ob
tained at great expense and after pro
tracted litigation. He gave substanti
ally the following history of the Au
gusta bridge at Hamburg:
Walter Leigh and Edward Powell ob
tained the original ferry right across
the Savannah river at" Hamburg, in
1803, paying a yearly rent of $1,600 to
the Richmond County Academy. Leigh
and Powell sold their ferry rights to
Lewis Cooper and Henry Shultz for
$8,500, iu 1813. Cooper and Shultz
built the bridge in 1813-14, and sold it
to John and Barney McKinney. The
McKinneys mortgaged the bridge to
the Bank of the State of Georgia, in
1819, and by virtue of various legal
proceedings, the bridge became vested
in the bank in 1820. Suits were then
brought in the Sixth Circuit Court of
the United States, by the creditors and
assignees of McKinney and Shultz,
and the court appointed commissioners
to sell the bridge. These commission
ers sold the bridge to the Bank of the
State of Georgia, in 1822. McKinney
and Shultz also executed to the bank
an entire release of their interests in
the bridge in 1828-29.
The bank sold the bridge to G. B.
Lamar, in 1838, and at the same time
sold to Lamar certain lots in Hamburg,
on which the abutments of the bridge
stand, and over which the road to the
bridge run ; these lots having previ
ously been bought from the State of
South Carolina, which guaranteed a
highway over said road to the bridge.
Lamar sold the bridge and lots to the
city of Augusta, iu 1840, for SIOO,OOO.
After muclrlitigation in the courts of
South Caroling and Georgia, the title
of the city of Augusta to the bridge
was confirmed by the Supreme Court
of the United States. The city of Au
gusta also purchased lots in Hamburg,
on each side of the road leading to the
bridge. The Legislature of South Car
olina, in 1848, gave to Samuel Jones
and Henry Kennedy the right to col
lect toll on the South Carolina end of
the bridge, and subsequently, in 1853.
Some litigation ensued, wheu Jones
and Kennedy sold all their right to the
city of Augusta, in 1855, for $7,000.
Since which time the city of Augusta
had held undisputed possession of the
entire bridge property.
And now, said Mr. Brayton, after the
city of Augusta had bought the bridge
for SIOO,OOO, and bought out all claim
ants, and had its title confirmed after
repeated and protracted litigation, and
had also, paid taxes to the State of
South Carolina and town of Hamburg
for tldrty-Jive years, and also had twice
rebuilt the bridge when washed away
by freshets, besides keeping it in re
pair—now it is that the town of Ham
burg, (which never had any interest or
right in the bridge, which never paid
one cent towards repairing or rebuild
ing it, which has recognized the right
and title of the city of Augusta to It
and the adjoining lots by taxing them
as the property of the city of Augusia,)
comes and asks this Legislature to
give it a right to erect a toll-gate and
collect toll for crossing over a bridge
confessedly owned by the city of
Augusta. He said that if such a
power was conferred upon the town
of Hamburg, it would be nothing less
than legalized confiscation and the
perpetration of a monstrous wrong.
The bridge was the great avenue of
approach from South Carolina to Au
gusta, Ga. It spanned the Savannah
river at a point over 1,000 feet in
width, and connected two neighboring
States. It was the duty of South Ca
rolina, with that spirit of comity and
deference which was recognized and
practiced by all States aDd nations,
in their dealings with each other, to act
with great circumspection and strictest
justice. He said he knew the people
°f Augusta well, and he felt they would
not supinely submit to being robbed
of such a valuable and important right
and property as the Augusta bridge.
If this act should pass, and the town
of Hamburg should attempt to collect
toll for crossing that bridge, he was
sure it would involve the town in trou
ble, litigation and expense, which was
not now foreseen, and might embroil
the two States in violence, strife and
bloodshed.
Mr. Brayton was frequently inter
rupted, and showed his readiness for
quick and effective reply. We were
especially pleased when, referring to
the fact that he had been told that he
had better keep quiet upon this meas
ure, he said, that while upon all ques
tions affecting the wellfare of his party
and tending to advance its proper in
terests, when not detrimental to the
State, he would be found as faithful as
the most loyal; yet he would not be
hampered by considerations of local
popularity or personal advancement.
It was a matter, at best, of such doubt
ful honor and small profit, to hold the
position he now occupied, that to re
tain it, he would not for one moment
consider the policy of sacrificing his
independence and bridling his tongue,
or submitting to the dictation of others.
While speaking, Mr. Brayton read a
note just handed him, asking how much
he was paid to speak in the interests
of Augusta. He indignantly told the
one who sent it, that he would neither
deign to answer such an insinuation,
nor would he be deterred from doing
his duty by imputations as harmless to
himself as they were disgraceful to the
one who made them. Mr. Brayton’s
speech was well worthy of a liberal re
port. If he is as honest and indepen
dent as he appears, his ability must
make him an influential member of the
House.
Mr. Eiliott followed, after which the
bill was referred to the Judiciary Com
mittee.
THE LOUISIANA OUTRAGE.
Spirit of the Press.
[The Nation (Independent).
It is the most outrageous subversion
of parliamentary government by mili
tary force yet attempted in this coun
try. To get the full flavor of the out
rage we must recall the fact, that as
now the troops are brought in to turn
out an adverse majority, so two years
ago they were brought up for the op
posite purpose—to seat a favorable
majority. This time members are
turned out on the strength of returns
ridiculous and fraudulent on their face.
Two years ago they were seated on the
strength of a midnight order, on its
face illegal, issued by a drunken Uni
ted States Judge.
[Chicago Times (Independent).
One thing is certain : If Sheridan is
allowed to carry out his bloodthirsty
scheme, scenes of horror, to which
America has thus far been a stranger,
will be enacted on the soil of Louisiana.
TCourier des Etats Unis (Independent).
The voice of the nation should be
heard in solemn protest against the
outrage. The people should assemble
everywhere to express their indigna
tion and vindicate their rights.
IN. Y. Staats Zeitung, Independent.]
What were the arbitrary measures in
Kansas compared to those in Louisi
ana ! and still they ruined the Demo
cratic party. The arch-traitor in the
White House may hold public opinion
in contempt, but he will hear from it in
a few days!
[Boston Globe, Independent.]
We have had enough of this business;
of Federal bayonets in the South. It
is time now for a little fair and honest
legislation.
[Utica Herald, Administration Republican.
It is a strange and shocking sight;
the United States army, at the point of
the bayonet, compelling a partisan or
ganization of a State Legislature. The
Republican party jnust disown it, or
take the consequences from an aroused
and indignant people.
[Philadelphia Enquirer, Republican.
Sheridan’s suggestion and demand
are alike atrocious. They stand alone
in their monstrous bloodthirstiness;
in their defiiance of law, justice, hu
manity and the judgment of mankind.
This is the work of disfranchising a
State, and giving up its revenues to
alien adventurers less respectable than
the freebooters who once made the
Gulf their headquarters; and now, in
furtherance of that monstrous wrong,
the more atrocious suggestion is made
that those politically opposed to them,
shall be given up to the sword, butch
ered like Cuban school boys or Piegan
Indians by Cavalry Sheridan !
[Boston Post, Democrat.
The scenes in New Orleans are a
timely warning to the people of the
United States. They must come to
gether openly and resolutely against
this outrage and betrayal of their lib
erties. No business can take prece
dence of this. It involves the salvation
of the Republic.
[Boston Advertiser, Republican,
Military despotism now exists in
Louisiana. The American people will
not sanction it.
[Boston Journal. Republican.
An election contest, when both par
ties have been guilty of frauds, is no
ground for carrying the bayonet into
legislative hall3.
[Albany Journal, Administration Republican.
The Republican party must not be
betrayed into a false position. It can
not justify, and must not attempt to
justify, military domination of legisla
tes bodies. It must clear its skirts of
it.
Determined to Win.— The Lanville
(Ky.) Advocate says : “ There is a stu
dent attending Centre College this ses
sion who is a citizen of an adjoining
county, is married and has two chil
dren. He can be found promptly at
his post on Monday morning, with a
wallet of provisions sufficient to supply
him until Friday evening, when he re
turns to his home. The only expense
that he incurs is a small fee for a bed
in the dormitory during his stay from
Monday to Friday, which is a mere
trifle, the college generously furnishing
tuition free.” It is safe to predict an
honorable future for that student.
The Rev. William King, the English
clergyman, who was lately brought in
to bad odor with his superiors by his
love for horse flesh, has revenged him
self for his reprimand in a singularly
effective manner. He has named one
of his horses Hyprocrisy, and another
the Bishop of Lincoln, and he doesn’t
hesitate to have them out together.
The Rev. William King is a man who
doesn’t find it hard to kick against the
bishoprics.
BEECHER-TILTON.
Scenes from the Trial
THE HUSBAND AND WIFE.
After Mrs. Tilton had been sitting a
little while, she turned her eyes upon
her husband, of whom she had the ad
vantage, as she was ten feet behind
him and could watch every movement
of his face as he sat silently behind
Morris, his long grayish brown hair
tailing on his shoulders and his profile
a little stronger by time and thought.
The young Tilton of 1870 is growing
hoar in the Tilton of 1874.
The wife watched this man narrowly,
without any nigher feeling than strong
curiosity. It has been long since she
spoke to him. For seven months they
have not, probably, looked at the each
other. Yesterday he saw her for the
first time. After a whilejlooking sud
denly to thefleft, Tilton observed his
wife just drop her eyes from his face.
He looked steadily until she confronted
him again. From this time forward
there wdte 'frequent glances between
the pair—on his part sensibility and
inquiry, on hers merely exaggerated
curiosity.
Mrs. Tilton was in a very perfect
state of equanimity. She was in pur
ple, a velvet hat with a black bow and
bunch of feathers, an uncommonly
large ear for so small a woman, and
lean, sharp, inharmonious features,
composing a very small head. Her
forehead was of the medium size, al
most a straight line ; she had a straight,
thm, bloodless nose, and cheeks rather
hollow : but the mouth, lips and chin
were grosser and fuller than the lean
woman who looked out alone, and the
colors of the flesh and eyes were warm
and ruddy. The lips were quite red
and inviting; the coarseness of the chin
rather increased its power ; the eyes
and expression were those of an emo
tional, unrestrainable, over credulous
young married miss, who possessed
great power to fascinate men, particu
larly. mature and elderly men, who are
readily moved by childish coquetry.
[Chicago Tribune.
The Champion Ignoramus.
The impaneling of the jury in the
lilton-Beecher case has presented the
anomaly of a would-be juror who
knows no mere about the world-wide
scandal than a new-born babe, and yet
conducts real estate and insurance bus
iness, is presumed to have the senses
of seeing and hearing, to move in so
ciety, and to be endowed with the or
dinary intelligence vouchsafed to aver
age mortals. There is one way of
looking at this exceptional spectacle
which tends to make this juror an ob
ject of envy. Accepting the Scriptural
statement that much study is a weari
some of the flesh, and that knowledge
is all vanity, the amount of felicity
enjoyed by this man must be something
\ ery remarkable—a happiness not only
growing out of general ignorance, but
out the special ignorance with refer
ence to this scandal. The man who has
not read or heard the statements and
counterstatements, the affidavits and
letters, who has never learned of the
cave of gloom, and the ravages of
hypochondria, who knows nothing of
the “Mutual Friend,” or of Bessie the
simpleton, or of the ferocious mother
in-law, must be iu the enjoyment of
one of the celestial beatitudes before
his time, which will make his future
angelic existence seem somewhat slow
and tedious. Notwithstanding this
man’s happiness, however, his ignor
ance is something which is alike sad
anti profound, tender and touching,
and thoroughly unintelligible. It is a
problem which can never be solved ;
but we doubt whether even the un
usual happiness which must exalt this
man above others can make compen
sation for the dark and empty void in
which he lives, moves, and has his
being, for some mysterious purpose.
Under the ordinary impression as to
the qualifications which constitute a
juror, a man of this stamp would seem
to be a prize to the profession and an
ornament to the jury-box. The coun
sel in the case, however, rejected him,
and in doing so did very wisely. The
opinion is rapidly gaining ground that
blank ignorance is not the first qualifi
cation of a juror, and that the judg
ment of a man of this kind, although it
may be entirely unprejudiced, is good
for nothing, and as likely to be wrong
as right. The only qualification of a
juror should be honesty. An honest
man who reads the papers and keeps
himself informed upon current topics
is more likely to give an honest verdict
than an ignorant man who does not
read and knows nothing of the
events transpiring all around him.
Ignorant men are always more pre
judiced than intelligent men, and
less capable of forming an unbiased
opinion. In the particular case in-ques
tion, the ignorance of this juror as to the
alleged facts of a scandal which has
been discussed in every household of
rfffie United States, was a fact so ap
palling that it was the very best reason
in the world for rejecting him. The
most mysterious fact aDout the matter
is how a real-estate aud insurance
agent, who knows nothing about this
scandal, can conduct his business with
any degree of intelligence. If he was
too moral to read the scandal, he is
certainly too moral to be engaged in a
line of business where he has to deal
very often with sharpers. If he was
not too moral, but does not make a
practice of reading newspapers, we
shall not be surprised to learn before
long that he has purchased real estate
on the Mountains of the Moon, and in
sured powder magazines as first-class.
In any event, he has the proud con
sciousness of knowing that, out of the
40,000,000 of people in this country, he
is the only one who is not more or less ■
acquainted with the Beecher-Tilton
scandal.
Wright Not in the Wright Place.—
At Yemassee, the junction of the Savan
nah and Charleston and Port Royal
R. R., is a fine dining saloon, kept by a
Mr. Owens. The other day J. J. Wright,
a negro luminary who figures as one
of the Judges of the Supreme Court of
South Carolina, stopped over at this
station, and pranced into the hotel
with the intention of taking a seat at
the table with the other guests, Mr.
Owens sententiously informed the in
dividuaf that he was in the wrong pew,
whereat the legal luminary became in
dignant and announced that he was
Judge Wright. The proprietor calmly
remarked that he might be Judge
Wright, but he had certainly judged
wrong when he imagined he could
sling his brogans under the table d’hote
of that establishment. In high dudgeon
the dusky Judge whisked off to Beau
fort aud had Mr. owens arrested for a
violation of the Civil Rights bill. Mr.
O. gave bond for his appearance at the
next term of the court.
\Savannah News.
Blood will tell. A granddaughter of
Dr. Paiey has beaten all tha boys at
Cambridge in moral science.
AUGUSTA, GA., SUNDAY AdIORISTITsTG. ,T A ~NTTT A T}.~y 17, 1875.
Mothers-in-Law.
Our current light literature in all its
departments furnishes hits at mothers
in-law. The fashion had its origin in
England. The American witticisms are
mere imitations. What foundation
there may be for these slurs on a large
class of English women we do not know.
That they are unjust in America we
are sure. And yet every week one
reads something which the writer mani
festly thought to be smart, which, as it
reaches the eyes of hundreds of the
most self-sacrificing of our women,
must give them pain, because it is an
unnecessary and unjust aspersion of
their whole class.
Sometimes the form of the joke is
put into the mouth of the son-in-law,
some severe hit at his wife’s mother.
It is noticeable that it is never the
husband’s mother, but always the wife’s
mother that gets the blow.
It is time to pause and inquire into
the justice of this. Is there anything
in the nature of the relationship to ne
cessitate an antagonism between a
woman and her daughter’s husband?
or, i a point of fact, do these women
conduct toemselves in such a way as
to justify these hits ?
In a very large majority of instances,
so iar as the husband is concerned, he
has to thank his mother-in-law * for
what is beautiful, attractive and profit
able for him in his wife—the man mar
ried the girl whom this woman raised.
Now, if mothers-in-law are such hid
eous things—-so base, so mean, so im
pertinent—that a visit from them is to
be dreaded, Row is it that such hags
are the mothers of sucii houris, and
that such hateful women have been
able to turn other women to be so
charming ?
Daughters must be very precious to
their mothers. When a gentleman se
lects a girl to be the object of his pro
fioundest and most manly affection to
be the sharer of his fortune, and to be
his other self, he must become an ob
ject of interest to the mother. She
knows that it is in the course of na
ture and of grace that her daughter
shall marry someone. If that hus
band proves to be true, and noble and
kind it seems to be natural that the
mother-in-law should love him with a
very peculiar affection. Her own sons
have come to her in order of nature,
but this new son has come a gift of
God’s gracious providence. So far as
we have been able to observe, this lias
been almost invariably the case with
mothers-in-law. Where they have been
Christians it has been the rule without
an exception. Whenever, therefore, a
man slurs his. mother-in-law simply in
virtue of her holding that relation to
him, it would seem to imply something
wrong in his own character or conduct.
No true gentleman would give his wife
any treatment he would not be per
fectly willing to have her mother wit
ness.
Ordinary delicacy should cause a
gentleman to be as careful of speaking
of his wife’s mother as of his own.
Whenever a man has had some seem
ing ground for regarding his mother
in-law as a nuisance, an investigation
would probably detect that his wife
had never thoroughly married him. A
woman nover thoroughly marries a
man until she is ready to become so
one with him that she shall consider
how the observance of the wishes of
others, even her own parents, shall
promote his happiness and prosperity.
At the moment of marriage, and by
the very act, she removes herself from
under the authority of her mother, to
be under that of her husband ; and
every wise mother gives up her daugh
ter thoroughly to the man who is to be
the husband, and thereafter studies
his wishes and his prosperity as much
as those of her own daughter, and as
feeling that they are really one. An
occasional failure to do this ou the
part of mothers-in-law may have given
rise to these caricatures of the whole
class.
As humSn nature is constituted, it is
always safer that when a young couple
marry, the wife be taken to a distance
from her home and not to that of the
husband’s parents. They then cling
to each other, each looking to the other
for help and pleasure. It is the wife
who is more in danger of trouble from
her mother-in-law. A man has to
dread trouble more from bis own mo
ther than from his wife’s, and yet we
have to see the first arrow of witticism
shot from a woman’s bow against her
mother-in-law. It is his mother who
is apt to torment the young wile with
intimations of how she did when she
first married.
But none of these disagreeable things
happen where a man truly marries a
woman, and she truly marries him, and
the parents on both sides have correct
ideas of the sanctity which belongs to
this unity. Even as things are in
society, how many a married man is
indebted to his mother-in-law for tak
ing a thousand burdens from his wife’s
shoulders aud his own! It is the
mother-in-law who assists in securing
the new house, procuring the furniture,
arranging it in its place, suggesting
many an expedient for comfort from her
own experience, and putting the machin
ery of the household in working order.
£ o h. er the husband owes many an hour
of his wife’s society which otherwise
wou.d be absorbed by domestic drud
gery, and when the little children come,
it is the wife’s mother to whom they
seem nearest and dearest. It is she
that nurses them most tenderly in the
most trying portion of their lives. It
is she who spends so many a wearisome
hour in the nursery, that he and his
friends may have his wife’s company in
the parlor, or at the place of public
amusement. A thousand touching
stories of devqtion upon the part of the
wife’s mother could be told, but we do
not intend to be pathetic.
Whenever we hear a man making a
disparaging insinuation with regard to
his mother-in-law, we always feel like
saving to him, “ Sir, you never would
have been anywhere if your father had
never had a mother-in-law.”
In New York, commeucing with the
present year, the law for compulsory
education goes into effective operation.
All children between the ages of eight
and fourteen are required to attend
school. The officers have announced
that it is their intention to see to the
vigorous execution of thn provisions of
the act. It will no doubt largely in- i
crease the number of pupils iu the pub
lic schools. The law provides that not
only the parents who allow their
children to stay away from school, but
also all persons who employ them in
any way, are liable to a fine.
A Connecticut editor writes home
that he was walking with Mark Twain
through one of the lower streets of
this city, when a boy with a very un
clean face, but with a head showing re
markable phrenological developments,
attracted their attention, “What an ex
traordinary head!’ said the newspaper
man; “that boy has a regular Colonel
Sellers head.” “No doubt,” replied
Mark, “there’s millions in it.”
[New York Times.
FR32D : S FATHER-IN-LAW.
The Chicago Palmer-Honore Scandal
—Tne True Story of That Domestic
Episode.
On the 9th of December the Chicago
Times and the New York Sun published
what purported to be a recital of a
spirited domestic episode in the history
of the families of Potter Palmer and A.
Honore, of Chicago—the latter the
father-in-law of Col. Fred Grant.
That report was highly colored, and
it attracted the delighted attention of
scandal mangers, but when the truth
came out it proved to have been very
far fetched, going so far even as to say
that Palmer actually kept his wife a
prisoner under lock ‘and key for four
days to prevent her visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Honore. From a friend
of the latter family—now visiting New
Orleans—the writer has learned the
circumstances of the case, and as a
matter of interest, herewith presents a
narration thereof:
ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO
Potter Palmer married a daughter of
Honore, then one of Chicago’s
wealthiest citizens, and as her wedding
portion the bride received frQm her
Husband one million dollars in hard
cash. Last Summer Mr. Honore met
with disastrous financial reverses,
which swept away his entire fortune,
and in this dire extremity Mrs. Palmer,
like a faithful daughter, came to the
rescue of her parents’ and not only de
claring herself ready to support them,
invited them to live at her husband’s
great hotel—the Palmer House—free
of charge.
THIS ARRANGEMENT,
however, was made without the knowl
edge of Potter P., who, although aware
that his father-in-law was financially
reduced, thought that he had saved a
few shekels and that he was paying
his board out of his own bank account.
It seems that Honore, besides accept
ing his daughter’s bounty, assumed
lordly airs about his son-in-law’s hotel,
and presuming upon his family connec
tion, frequently gave the very pro
nounced impression
THAT HE WAS THE LANDLORD
of the establishment. This style of con
ducting affairs pleased not the high
strung Palmer, and he hesitated not to
beard his father-in law on divers and
sundry occasions with ebullitions of
sentiment that resulted in a lively war
fare, and which bred much strife and
coolness within the family. Palmer
was, however, said to be exceedingly
liberal toward the Honore family, and
on the occasion of the marrhige of
FRED GRANT TO IDA HONOUR,
he generously footed the bills, for not
only the bride’s trousseau, but paid for
all the appointments furnished at the
wedding ceremony, amounting in the
aggregate to a cost of many thousands
or dollars. Having thus done the hand
some thing, he thought that he had
earned for himself and his a claim uDon
the courteous consideration of the
Honore party, but 10, when the wedding
invitations were issued, it was discover
ed that a niece of Mr. Palmer’s was not
included in the list of the favored ones,
BUT FOR WHAT REASON
was not definitely ascertained, for when
Palmer in excited wrath demanded an
explanation, there was vouchsafed him
none other than the assertion that the
Honores invited only such as they
chose to—although it was intimated
that the crime of the rejected damsel
lay in her beauty, and of which Fred’s
bride—a not very handsome girl—had
become so spitefully envious that she
sought to wreak.
HER SATISFACTION
by forbidding the invitation.
This incident widened the breach be
tween Palmer and Honore, and the row
culminated, when later on—on the oc
casion of the return to Chicago of the
newly wedded party, attended by a
train of friends—Honore engaged about
twenty rooms in the Palmer House, and
invited the entire party to make their
home there free of charge, while they
remained in Chicago.
Directly upon Palmer’s hearing of
this lordly freak.
HE DEMANDED TO KNOW
who was to foot the bill, and then for
the first time learned that his wife had
not only been paying the board of her
parents during their stay at the Pal
mer House, but that she too, was to
pay for the entertainment of Fred
Grant and his regiment of traveling
companions. To say that Potter P.
was mad would be using a tame ex
pression—he was wild—and he swore
a big oath that the thing was played
out, and that Honore would have to
pay his board or go.
WHAT FOLLOWED
proved a lively row, even for Chicago.
Mrs. Palmer took up the cause of her
parents, declared that her money was
her own, and that she could support
her father with it, or throw it into the
streets, just as it pleased her. Palmer
rose up in his anger and said he wouldn’t
stand it. Honore pere and mere said
they wouldn’t stay under that roof
another minute, and away they went,
bag and baggage, to an opposition
tavern called the GiandiPaciflc.
Mrs. P. declared she would leave her
lord, but he vowed she shouldn’t, and
that furthermore she shouldn’t ever
visit her parents, but subsequent re
flection urged him to raise the em
bargo, and she visits them now, al
though the feud between Honore and
Palmer is as bitter as ever. The asser
tion that Palmer imprisoned his wife,
and that he had a knock down fight
with Fred Grant, was a base born—
fabrication.
Legal Precocity.— An old lady
wrlked into a lawyer’s office the other
day, when the following conversation
took place:
“ Squire, I called to see if you would
like to take this boy and make a law
yer of him.”
“This boy appears rather young,
madam. How old is he?”
“ Seven years, sir.”
“He is too young—decidedly too
young. Have you no boys older ?”
“Oh, yes sir, I have several; but we
have concluded to make farmers of the
others. I told my man I thought this
little fellow would make a good law
yer, so I called to see if you would take
him.”
“No, madam, he is too young yet to
commence the study of the profession.
But why do you think this boy so much
better calculated for a lawyer than any
of your other sons ?”
“ Why, you see, sir, he is just seven
years old to-day; when he was only five
he’d lie like all nature; when he got to
be six, he was sassy and impudent as
any critter could be ; and now he’ll
steal anything he can get his hands on.
The weather is again pleasant.
Aspirations.
Our aims are all too high; we try
To gain the summit at a bound,
When we should reach it step by step,
And climb the ladder round bv round.
He who would climb the heights sublime
Or breathe the purer air of life,
Must not expect to rest in ease,
But brace himself for toil or strife.
We'should not in our blindness seek
To grasp alone for grand and great,
.Disdaining every smaller good;
For trifles make the aggregate.
And if a cloud should hover o’er
Our weary pathway like a pall,
Remember, God permits it there,
And his good purpose reigns o’er all.
Life should be full of earnest work,
Our hearts uudashed by fortune’s frown;
Let perseverance conquer fate,
And merit seize the victor’s crown,
The battle is not to the strong,
The race not always to the fleet;
And he who seeks to pluck the stars
\Y ill lose the jewels at his feet.
[Atlanta Constitution.
The Public Schools.
Commissioner Orr begins his excel
lent report with the encouraging state
ment that public sentiment strongly
inclines in favor of the pm he schools.
The friends of popular ed ucation are
yearly increasing in every part of the
State. Every county now lias a local
school organizat ion, and one hundred
and twenty-five of them have had
schools in operation during the past
year. In many of the counties more
than double the number of whites are
annually admitted to the public schools
than attended the private schools be
fore the inauguration of the new sys
tem. A good foundation has been laid
for educational institutions that can be
made the chief pride and glory of the
State.
The amount apportioned for the sup
port of schools during the past year
was The poll taxes collected
since the twenty-eighth day of last
February were retained in the counties.
The commissioner estimates the col
lections from that source at 8133,000.
He claims that his department has a
lawful claim to interest from the 13th
of October, 1870, on 8350,000 of school
bonds now in the hands of the Secre
tary of State.
The Commissioner forcibly advocates
the policy of engrafting the power of
local taxation upon the school law. He
wants each board of education, com
posed as it is of freeholders, to have
the power to levy a limited local tax,
which shall supplement the appropria
tion of the State in the support of such
schools as the citizens of a county may
think they need and can support. Such a
local tax should be ratified by a popu
lar vote of the county. If the people
of a populous sub-district want still
better schools, similar powers should
be granted them. Under the present
law, the schools are only partially free.
A local levy equal in amount to the
sum apportioned by the State, would
secure absolutely free schools from
three to six months in the year. No
compulsory levy is advocated, but sim
ply the power in the people of a coun
ty to tax themselves if they are so
minded. The General Assembly will
scarcely refuse to at least entertain so
reasonable a proposition.
The want of good teachers even for
the white schools is seriously felt; and
the colored schools are especially suf
fering in this respect. The smallness
of the school fund, however, forbids
the establishment of an institution for
the education of teachers. The com
missioner recommends that the annual
appropriation of 88,000 which has
heretofore been given to the Atlanta
University be hereafter applied to the
support of a school that will prepare
colored youths for teaching their own
race in elementary schools.
The donations from the Peabody
fund to the schools of the State, for
1874, amount to 810,350, of which
At lanta received 82,800 ; Macon, 82,000;
Brunswick, 81,000; Savannah, 8800 ;
Columbus, 8600 ; Dahlonega, £450, and
nine other places 8300 each.
Number of white children, 218,733;
of coloied, 175,304—t0ta1, 394,037. Num
ber between ten and eighteen years of
age who are unable to read, 106,244.
Number of scholars admitted to the
public schools during the year, 121,940.
Average monthly cost of tuition per
pupil, 81.70, of which the State paid
81.09. The last table in the admirable
report shows the apportionment of the
school fund of 1874 to the several coun
ties of the State.
It would be unjust to close this sum
mary without a word in commendation
of the officer at the head of the depart
ment. His whole soul is in the work,
but he never permits his enthusiasm
for popular education to overcome his
judgment. His conduct of the public
schools of the State has been marked
throughout by discretion and common
sense. Ever beset by difficulties, he
has nobly struggled with them, yield
ing when it was necessary, and insist
ing when it was wise and prudent, until
he has put our system of public schools
fairly on its feet.
[communicated.]
The Poor Again.
Augusta, Ga., January 15,1875.
Mr. Editor : Thinking that you are a
friend to the poor, I beg you to publish
this short communication in their be
half. It is well known by some, sir,
that the wood and provisions donated
by our generous hearted citizens is
given out to some who do not really
need it. To my own knowledge, there
are parties in the First Warn (of which
I am a resident) who have been up and
got wood, while at the same time they
own two or three houses and, I have
been told, as many as two milch cows,
the income of which alone would sup
port them, and others who have stroDg
able-bodied husbands at work, while
the destitute cannot'get It. A working
man told me to-day that he would like
to go up and get some wood as he had
no money to buy any, having been out
of work for two months and not able
to get anything to do, but he said he
was afraid he would be refused, and I
know that he does need it. lam one
of the unfortunates myself who are on
about one-third time, but thank God
for it, I have kept my head above
water so far. I think, sir, something
should be done to prevent this imposi
tion or else the means will be exhausted
and the destitute as bad off as ever.
A Citizen.
Mrs. Charles Hardy of Groveland,
Mass., who has been deaf for years,
had her hearing restored recently by a’
blow upon the ear from the leg of a
chair which one of her children tipped
over.
\
Nothing recalls to the mind of the
married man the joys of his single life
bo vividly as to find that the baby has
seen eating crackers in bed.
I Atlanta Constitution.
Hon. Garnett M cMillan.
Hon. Garnett McMillan was bom in
Eloerton on the Bth day of May 1842
He was educated at Emory
College, and graduated in 1861 He
soon after engaged in the study of the
law but m March, 1862, abandoned it
and entered the Confederate service as
a private in the 24th Georgia com
manded by his father. b ’ m
In November, 1862, ho was elected a
' e , u o tenant of Company K, and in June,
1863, was promoted to a captaincy in
Company B, Third Battalion of Geor
gy Sharpshooters. Capt. McMillan
did gallant service in all the campaigns
of Lee s army, from Fredericksburg to
the last battle of Cold Harbor, and re
ceived slight wounds at Fredericks
burg and Spotsylvania Court House.—
He was detached from his command in
September, 1864, and assigned to duty
as Assistant Adjutant General in the
Engineer s Bureau, and at the time of
the surrender was in the Secret Service
Department.
After the war had closed he resumed
his studies, and was admitted to the
bar in October, 1865. He entered ac
tively into politics, and soon became
a prominent advocate of Democratic
principles, and in 1868 was chosen as
an alternate elector on the Seymour
and Blair electoral ticket, for the Sixth
Congressional District. In 1870 he was
elected to the Lower House of the Gen
eral Assembly by a large vote over two
competitors, from Habersham eounty.
On the third of November last he was
elected as a member of Congress from
the Ninth District, by a majority of
over 5,000 votes. He received the nom
ination over the Hon. B. H. Hill
We are informed that consumption
was hereditary in his family, he having
lost two brothers and a sister, who
died before reaching his age. He was
slight iD person and apparently frail,
yet his unbounded energy and indomi
table will rose' superior to physical dis
ability and enabled him to accomplish a
great amount of work. He attained
the first rank in his profession in his
circuit. He had a logical mind, and as
a debater was ready, decided and
efficient. He was ever at his post and
never omitted an opportunity as a law
yer, legislator or citizen to meet the
obligations of any trust confided to
him. He was a minister of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church and a Christian
gentleman.
North Georgia has lost one of her
representative men, and the entire
commonwealth a faithful citizen and
an honest man.
COL. CHARLES T. GOODE.
Col. Charles T. Goode was the son of
Hon. Thomas W. Goode, of Upson
county. He was born in Upson county
about the year 1834 or 1835, and re
sided there until a short time previous
to the war. Ii ■ married a daughter of
Gen. Eli Warrtv. of Houston eounty,
and moved to that county. He gradu
ated at the State University in 1853,
and entered upon the practice of the
law several years thereafter. When
the “war between the States” broke
out he entered into the Confederate
service, and was elected Major of the
gallant Eleventh Georgia. Owing to a
severe affection of his eyes he was com
pelled to resign, but before they were
scarcely restored he re-entered the ser
vice as Major of a battalion of Partizan
Rangers, and at Chattanooga the bat
talion was consolidated with an Ala
bama battalion, under the name of the
“Tenth Confederate Cavalry,” and Maj.
C. T. Goode was made Colonel. He did
gallant service until the close of the
war, and fhe writer, who was in his
command, bears testimony to his cour
age and devotion.
He was elected a member of the
Constitutional Convention of 1865-’66,
; and in 1871 was elected a member of
the Legislature from Sumter county to
fill the vacancy created by the death
of Wright Brady.
Colonel Goode was a fine lawyer,
possessing an active intellect and a
quick mind. Asa debater and orator
he had few equals. He spoke with ease,
grace and fluency. He was generous
in his impulses, and noble in his in
stincts. For truthful, honest manhood
he had no superior. He was genial in
his manners and brilliant in his conver
sation. Brave as a lion in the denfense
of right, his heart was melted to tears
at human woe, and the stricken, be
reaved and oppressed found In him a
sympathizing friend. Like the truly
brave man he exemplified the lines of
Bayard Taylor :
“ The bravest are the tenderest,
The loving are the daring.”
The news of his death will cause tears
of regret to flow down the cheeks of all
his surviving comrades-in-arms.
South Georgia can sympathize with
North Georgia in her bereavement, as
they mourn the loss of two gallan:
sons, while every section of the State
feels the common loss. Let us honor
them by imitating them in their devo
tion to duty, to principle and honor.
— ■ ■
An English Merchant in New Or
leans.
The Savannah Advertiser says that a
well known English cotton merchant,
now on a visit to New Orleans, writes
to a friend in that city as follows :
Politics have been much talked of,
but there has been no excitement, not
withstanding the most' flagrant provo
cations on the Radicals’ part. Of
course, you have seen in the papers all
about the United States troops inter
fering with the Legislature. Quiet peo
ple like and were denied pro
gress by rifle and bayonet along oyr
own street a few blocks from our own
house. Sheridan is, of course, the
standing joke. He lias had rooms at
the St. Charles Hotel for a day or two,
and closeted there, has discovered that
the city is full of murderous assassins.
It may be so, but no one else has found
it out. I have been all around and
found every place as quiet as in an
English village ; much less chance of a
clout on the head than in Dravton
street, Savannah, on a Saturday night.
The great Irishman walked across
the rotunda of the hotel a few nights
ago. A countryman who was both old
and tight, and by name O'Brien, told
him (Sheridan), referring to his dis
patch about murderers, that (to put it
mildly) he was “ the) mendacious off
spring of a female dog.” The bold
dragoon immediately retired to his
room and telegraphed to Washington
that the banditti had threatened to
assinate him, “ but he was not afraid.”
Poor creature ! his lies and his tele
graphic heroism are going to get Louisi -
ana quicker out of the hands of the
robbers than anything else.
Verily, he has written himself down
an ass. '
Marble men now make small tomb
stones by the quantity, with the epi
taph already cut: “ Didn’t know it
was loaded.” They leave a blank for
the name and age.
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