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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
THURSDAY. APRIL 29, 1875.
Our dispatches announce the inau
gural services attendant upon the in
stallation of His Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales, as Grand Master of
the British Freemasons. He succeeds
the Marquis of Ripon.
We welcome Mr. Brown, the agent of
Senator Jones, to Georgia. He has
bought a lot in Atlanta, upon which he
proposes to build an ice factory, and
will come to Augusta for the same pur
pose. So an Atlanta paper states.
The mulish juror, who stood out
against eleven others in the libel case
of Bowen and the Charleston News and
Courier, was a white man named
Ahrens. He is said to be a henchman
of the much-married and detestable
Bowen. The editors of the News and
Courier have been overwhelmingly vic
torious, and Bowen is, if possible, more
infamous than before.
Hon. Edwards Pierrepont will take
“ Landaulet” Williams’ place as At
torney General of the United States.
Mr. Pierrepont gave SIO,OOO in gold to
help Grant’s election, and, not long
ago, is reported, in an address before
Harvard University, to have denounc
ed; the Reconstruction Acts as the
greatest crime of the century. This
lo|>ks like Grant was taking anew de
parture with a vengeance. No telling
what the Sphinx will do.
The news from the 'i'oxas-Mexiean
Wiki' grows worse. There is now no
sifad'iw of a doubt that strong bands
of aimed bandits from Mexico are
making at least weakly forays into
Texas. The details given this morn
ics leave no room to doubt that there
elists a state of affairs absolutely dis
graceful to both governments. As
these robbers have paid their respects
to a Post Office we presume the Presi
dent will take some notice of the whole
tLjing.
In the Commercial Column will be
found a statement cf the failure of
produce houses in Georgia, taken from
the tlanta Herald. For what period
of time the figures are intended to
cover is not clear. As to Atlanta hav
ing “three times as many produce deal
ers as Augusta,” the statement reminds
us of the rabbit that boasted to the
lion of its fecundity, pointing to a litter
qf< ten, and received the reply, “One,
but a eion,” and was shown a whelp
competent to swallow the whole family.
——o
In his speech at Cu aiming, Hon. Ben
Hill said that “if there was anything
that he did understand, it was recon
struction ; and if there was anything
that he did hate, it was reconstruction.
That his greatest anxiety was to pre
vent secession, but when it did take
place he was for his country. That he
has gone into this canvass to abuse no
man, but to disabuse the minds of the
people.” That’s good enough Democ
racy for anybody, and as Mr. Hill is
the only candidate running on that
platform in the 9th District, his elec
tion ought to be assured.
We hope the New York Chronicle is
eortect in its report that the bond
holders of the Macon and Brunswick
Road have determined to buy it at the
sale on the first of June. The sale is
by order of the Governor upon a fore
closure of a mortgage to the State for
the
holders hold a second mortgage for
perhaps half that amount, which wiil
be an absolute loss unless they make
.the purchase, for there is not the least
probability of the concern bringing
any more than its debt to the State.
We had a pleasant call yesterday
from Lieutenant Calver, of the United
States Signal Service, just returned
from au extended aud exhaustive ex
amination of the terrible cyclones
which passed over Georgia the 20th of
March. He traversed the track of the
northern one from Appling Court
House, near the Savannah river, to
Harris county and the Chattahoochee,
where it first entered this State. Its
course from the Chattahoochee to Han
cock county was a little eccentric, but
from thence was perfectly straight. It
would occasionally ricochet from the
earth and leave an interval of three,
five, ten and twenty miies, when
at would again descend and recom
mences its work of demolition. He fully
corroborates all the statements of this
writer at the time, in that its velocity
Wi \s seventy miles per hour, passing
over the
hours. The second, or southern cyclone
of that day, was developed in the north
ern part'of Muscogee county, and,
traveling in a straight line due east,
through Milledgeville, crossed the
Oconee and the Ogeechee, went through
Glascock, Jefferson aud Richmond
counties, as stated so often at the time.
This one was exactly like the other
save that it did not travel quite so fast
-—its velocity being sixty miles per hour,
'jvfie incidents related to him by people
a the route were simply innumera
ble. It would take a big book to hold
them, k ut wouldn’t that book not only
be inter." 1 ’ 11 !? but a treasure? He will
continue iN 9 investigation from the Sa
vannah rive’? through South Carolina
to where they* ran into the Atlantic,
and afterwards niake au elaborate re
port to the War Office, which will be
published. In regard to the cyclones of
1804, he found many*, l-raooa and heard
many legends, but fmbd to further es
tablish theif identity than they were
the same iu force and passed generally
over the same territory.
Five daughters of a family in Mc-
Nair county, Tenn., were all married
one day recently.
file Mi) loMittimraM.
WASHINGTON.
Edwards Pierrepont Attorney General
Washington, April 28.—Judge Ed
wards Pierrepont, of New T York, has
accepted the position of Attorney Gen
eral and will enter upon the discharge
of his duties on May 15, at which date
the resignation of Attorney General
Williams takes effect.
The President to-day appointed Maj.
Robert McFeely, now on the staff of
Lieut. Gen. Sheridan, to be Commis
sary General of Subsistence, vice
Shiras, deceased.
The Attorney Generalship.
(Special to the Cincinnati Gazette.)
Edwards Pierrepont, as matters now
stand, is the coming man for Attorney
General, though a strong effort is on
foot to defeat the formal tender of the
place to him.
Delano’s Dubious Position,
The Star takes it for granted that
Mr. Delano is going out, and says that
rumors to-day affirm that the Hon.
Henry T. Blow, of Missouri, has been
tendered the portfolio of the Interior
Department, and that he has indicated
that he will accept the office. A promi
nent gentleman from the far W est, to
day, gave it as his opinion that Secre
tary Delano’s successor will be a West
ern man, and probably a Californian.
He declined to mention the name of
the latter, but some guess that it is
Senator Sargent, and others that it is
ex-Senator Cole.
(Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.)
It has been positively ascertained
that Mr. Delano did receive an intima
tion from the President, not long
since, tlfat his resignation would be
accepted, and the change would doubt
less have been made by this time if the
newspapers had not got in their work
‘with the facts as a text. The intima
tion that Delano, senior, has not
whacked up with John in all of his al
leged ill-gotten gaius is received with
a great deal of incredulity by those
who know all parties concerned. As
the matter stands, Delano will possi
bly remain in ofiice for a while, but
ouly long enough, it is believed, to
permit the affair to blow over, when
he will step down and out with rather
more dignity than is possible just now.
Ex-Senator Chandler says he has
spent SIO,OOO in his attempt to secure
the conviction of Buell, the newspaper
correspondent.
Addition, Division and Silence.
[Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
A dispatch to Forney’s Chronicle,
from Philadelphia, represents -that
there is a great deal of excitement
growing out, of the refusal of State
Treasurer Mackey to open his bookp
for the examination of the committee
appointed by the last Legislature, and
allow an expert to examine his ac
counts. This refusal increases the pub
lic belief that there is something rot
ten in Denmark, and it is thought will
be a heavy weight on the Republican
party of Pennsylvania in the ensuing
canvass.
A Radical Ku Klux at Large.
One of the Republical Congressional
leaders, prominent for years iu the
howl of Ku Klux outrages in the
South, appeared to-day (Sunday) on
Newspaper Row, in a violent and excit
ed condition, and inquired of three or
four correspondents for Col. Don Piatt.,
with whom he intimated he had an ac
count to settle. The ex-Congressmau
was around with a navy revolver,
which he cocked and flourished exten
sively, threatening to call to account
any newspaper correspondent who
should hereafter assail him. He was
so drunk that he was liable to shoot
any one, friend or foe; but whether
drunk or sober, armed or not, his Radi
cal principles and affiliations with the
Administration are a complete protec
tion, so far as the vile partisan policy
and judiciary of this District are con
cerned. If he were a Democrat or
Southerner they would pounce upon
him quick enough, hustle him into the
Police Court, and put him through,
while the Republican press all over the
country would gloat over this exhibi
tion of Ku Kluxistn on the Sabbath
day at the National Capital.
Capital Notes.
National banks are responsible for
counterfeit money sent here for re
demption. Characteristic letters have
passed between Williams and the Presi
dent. Williams disavows coquetting
with Oregon for Senatorial honors. He
will mend his fortunes by practice for
the Supreme Court.
NEW YORK.
Marine Disaster--Death of a Noted
Actress.
New York, April 28.—The bark Ja
cob, from Limerick, which arrived to
day, reports, April 26, latitude 38.64,
longitude 70.10. she fell in with the
steamship Metropolis, from Bermuda
for New York, in a helpless condition.
She had broken her foremast head,
aud main topmast. The boilers were
leaking badly, the sails were split, and
she was short of coal and provisions.
The Jacob took off five of her twenty
two passengers, and furnished provis
ions, She would try to get to some
port for repairs. The passengers taken
off by the Jacob were: J. Bean, Martin
Boylan. Mr. Blacker and wife, and A.
M. Williams.
Mrs. Sarah J. Conway, of the Brook
lyn Theatre, died at five minutes past
sev en o’clock to-night, at her residence,
Brooklyn, of gastric fever and enlarge
ment of the liver. Her last public ap
pearance was on the 15th iust, when
she played iu the Academy of Music,
in Brooklyn, in aid of St. Mark’s Hos
pital.
CARL SCHURZ.
His Speech at New York.
Washington, April 28.— Carl Seliurz
is going to Europe uoxt week, aud last
night his friends gave him a dinner in
York. His brief speech was mainly
iu praise of the independent voter aud
his growing influence in politics. Mr.
S<£iurz thinks that it is the voters who
are not found to either party, who
must be relied upon to place a states
man in the Presidential chair. There
were a number of brilliant men present,
among them Charles Francis Adams,
Jr., Peter Cooper, S. B. Chittenden, Jno,
J. Cisco, Parke Godwin, D. A. Wells.
Murat Halsted, Professor Botta, Chas.
Butler, Whitelaw Reid, and Dr: Ham
mond. Win; Evarts presided.
Oskosh in Flames.
Milwaukee, April 28.— One-third of
Oskosh is in ashes. The fire engines
Rave ceased working. The best engine
was burned. The firemen are blowing
up buildings, hoping to save a portion
of the town.
AUGUSTA, GA„ THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 39, 1875.
FOREIGN.
Notable Deaths—lnstallation of the
Prince of Wales as Grand Master of
Masons—Sporting News.
Madrid, April 28. —Lord Hobart,
Governor of the Presidency of Madras,
is dead.
London, April 28.— Gillery Pigftatt
Puisue, Baron of the Court of Exchange,
died to-day.
The ceremony of installation of the
Prince of Wales as Grand Master of
the United Grand Lodge of the Masons
of England, took place to-day in the
Royal Albert Hall, in presence of an
immense concourse of Masons. Great
enthusiasm was manifested.
The race for the two thousand guinea
stakes, took place to-day at New Mar
ket. It was the first spring meeting
and was won by Camballo.
Bueno Ayres, April 28.—The bark
Raundrup, while iu port, was damaged
seriously by a collision.
Prussia and the Bishops--Saluting
the German Flag—John Bright Fires
a Volley into the United States.
Berlin, April 28.— Legal proceedings
have been commenced by the Prussian
Government for the removal of the
Prince Bishop of Brestau for violation
of the ecclesiastical laws.
Santander, April 28.—As a final act
of reparation for the Gustav outrage,
the Spanish commander at Guetaria
on the arrival of the German fleet off
that port fired a salute of 21 guns with
due ceremony as agreed upon.
Brussels, April 28.—The trouble with
the miners at Charjero continues and
serious riots are reported.
London, April 28.—At a reception
given to M. Chevalier, the distinguish
ed French economist, of Birmingham,
this evening, John Bright made some
remarks on free trade, in the course of
which he said: “It was ludicrous for
the United States to invite foreign
manufacturers to compete at an exhi
bition when a protective tariff pre
vented them from competing in Ameri
can markets.”
In the two thousand guinea race to
day at New Market, 13 horses started,
with Mr. Yigueislay’a colt, Camballo,
the favorite, at the odds of 3to 1. The
race was won easily by the favorite,
beating Mr. Lel’eori’s Picuie, and
Breechloader, 3d. The betting on the
second and third horses was 7 to 1
against Picuie, and 14 to 1 against
Breechloader.
MEMPHIS
More Ravages by the Buffalo Gnat,
Memphis, April 28.— Complaints are
pouring in from all surrounding coun
ties of the fearful destruction of horses
and mules by buffalo gnats. Many
small planters, especially colored® ones
are ruined by having their ouly horses
or mules killed, aud being unable to
replace them at a time when they are
so badly needed. The Ledger publishes
a letter from a planter near MacoD,
Fayette county, which says that not
less than 200 horses and mules have
died during the past three days within
ten miles of this place.
THE TEXAS-MEXLOAN WAR.
An Engagement Between American
Scouts and Mexicans—Further Oper
ations on the Frontier.
[Special to the Galveston News.|
Corpus Christi, April 24. —Yesterday
evening, near the Laparra Rancho, a
party of fifteen American scouters were
attacked by forty* Mexican raiders.
They had a short light, but the Mexi
cans proved ton strong. One Mexican
was killed and one wounded. A call
for assistance by courier reached
here this evening, and was promptly re- j
sponded to. McNelly’s company of!
State troops aud Clark'a company of
citizens leave at once for the scene of
action. On the twenty-second the
telegraph lino repairer, while search
ing for interruption on the line, was
chased by a body of seven Mexicans
about three*miles, but he having a good
horse, escaped into the timber. He
was fired at as he ran.
Communication with Brownsville by
telegraph is still cut off.
Corpus Christi,, April 24.—A letter
from Carizo, Texas, says Dr. Lovell,
who was murdered by Mexicans on the
19th, was surprised and shot six times.
They robbed the Post Office, and at
tempted to break open the safe of the
custom-house, but failed.
Dr. Lovell had many friends, and a
feeling of retaliation for the brutal
murder is exhibited. Couriers from
all portions of this frontier report largo
bands of armed Mexicans moving this
way. Yesterday a party of fifteen
Americans, who were endeavoring to
ascertain the true state of affairs in
the vieinty of Laparra Rancho, about
fifty miles from here, were attacked by
forty Mexicans, and a short light en
sued. One Mexican was killed and one
taken prisoner. The Americans lost
none, but being outnumbered, were
compelled to retreat; but they imme
diately summoned aid from here.
About fifty well armed Americans
left here this eveuing aud as many
more will leave to-morrow to meet these
raiders, who forced the telegraph
operator to leave Laparra, and have
cut the line. On the 22d the line re
pairer from this place started out to
repair the line and was chased three
miles. They fired several times at him,
but he escaped into the timber. These
Mexican bandits seem to be determined
to keep all telegraphic communication
with Brownsville cut off. A deep sense
of iudiguatiou is felt at these repeated
raids. The people of this portion of
Texas are goardod to desperation, and
they are determined that thpse things
shall soon cease.
Robbery of a Texas Poat Ofiice.
The Postmaster General this morn
ing received the. following dispatch,
which he has forwarded to the Secre
tary of State:
Coapys Christi, Tex., April 24.—T0
Postmaster General, Washington D. C.:
The Post Office was robbed aud plun
dered at Cariso on the 19th inst., by
Mexicans. Dr. Lovell is killed. The
Custom House safe is in the same build
ing, but as far as known, it could not
be opened. Particulars will be report
ed by mill, Americans here are on official
duty. J. M. Clellard, P.M.
The Weather,
War Department, 1
Office ok Chief Signal Officer, -
Washington, April 29—1 a. m. )
Probabilities:
For the Middle and South Atlantic
States, clear and warmer weather wifi
prevail, with Northwest to Southwest
winds and slight changes in tire ba
rometer.
By a recent act of the Norwegian
Legislature, Norway, Sweden aud Den
mark now have a common currency.
THE NINTH DISTRICT.
[Athens (April 28th) Watchman.]
BOR CONGRESS, HON. B. H. HILL.
We carefully abstained from taking
sides in the scramble between the
friends of Messrs. Hill and Bell—sim
ply promising to support the nominee
of the convention.
Having failed to make a nomination,
we, the people, are left free to choose
for ourselves. Much as we esteem the
other gentlemen in the field, neither
they nor their friends can blame us for
expressing a preference for the Hon. B.
H. Hill, whose transcendant abilities
are acknowledged throughout the State
aud all over the country.
Need we say one word to urge the
people to turn out on the sth of May?
No one doubts Mr. Hill’s election. But
give him a rousing majority.
THE GAINESVILLB CONVENTION.
All who desire to preserve Demo
cratic unity as a means of securing con
tinued Democratic ascendency in this
District and throughout the State,
must regret the failure of the Gaines
ville Democratic Convention to make
a nomination for Congress. The masses
of the people generally would have
been satisfied to support either of the
two prominent gentlemen before the
Convention. Failing in this, they would
have been satisfied with the nomina
tion of any gentleman of integrity and
respectable capacity. The Ninth Dis
trict is not yet so poor as to have but
one or two citizens worthy of repre
senting it in Congress.
As our readers are aware, the t.vo
thirds rule was adopted, aud it appear
ed on the first ballot that Belf had 33,
and Hiil 28 votes. There was a gap of
from five to ten between them during
all the long and continuous session,
running through eight or nine days.
The Bell men contended that the liili
meu, being in a minority in the conven
tion, ought to yield. The Hill men con
tended that, though outnumbered iu
the convention, the counties they rep
resented contained a large majority of
the voting population of the District.
These were the salient points of the
dispute between them, and it is no pai l
of our purpose to take sides in it, nor
do we intend to utter one word that
wiil stir up strife. On the contrary, we
prefer pouring oil on the troubled
waters. To this end, while we have no
reproaches to utter, we beg of our
friends everywhere to keep cool ; and
as they are not bound by the action of
the Convention, let it pass quietly into
history, and when the election comes—
which will be on the sth of May—let
every man vote according to the dic
tates of his own judgment—free from
all sectional, local or personal preju
dice.
Do this,- aud the Ninth may pass
through the ordeal unscathed; whereas
a contrary course may produce divis
ions which cannot be easily healed.
PROGRESS OF THE CAMPAIGN.
[ Dispatches to Atlanta Herald.]
Gumming, Ga., April 25. — Hon. B. H.
Hill spoke here yesterday to a good
audience. His speech was well received,
and did much to dispel the false im
pressions that have heretofore pre
vailed against him. He was concilia
tory rather than otherwise, but was
firm and outspoken. His friends on
the county are actively at work. Estes
will not control near all of Bell's
strength here, aud if 700 votes are
polled I will risk my judgment on the
statement that Hill will get at least 300
of them. G. E.
COLONEL J. J. FINDLAY IS ANNOUNCED AS
THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE.
Gainesville, April 27.—C01. J. J.
Findlay was announced on yesterday
as the Republican candidate for Con
gress from this district. Col. Findlay
cannot control a fifth of the Radical
vote of this district. Col. W. P. Price
is the man that Ben Hill will have to
beat. Put that down. A.
{lt is said in Atlanta that a runner
was sent from Gainesville to Col. Price
at Homer on yesterday, asking him to
retire from the race. The request is
said to have been based on the state
ment that he had promised to with
draw if at any juncture a Radical candi
date should be offered, We do not
credit this rumor.—Ed. Herald. |
NOTES OF THE CANVASS.
We have seen a letter from Col. J.
C. Allen, of Gilmer count}*, the Chair
man of the Democratic Committee, iu
which he states that Dr. Watkins, the
proxy from Gilmer in the late conven
tion, promised to represent the Hill
delegation at the convention, and
broke the agreement after he reached
Gainesville, by acting for the alleged
Bell delegates. He says Hill wifi get
two-thuds of the Democratic votes in
Gilmer couuty.
Col. Price will have the pleasure of
meeting the Hon. B. H. Hill on the
stump to-day,at Homer. Homer.hereto
forehistoric as the homo of the Hon.
James Jackson Turnbull, will proba
bly acquire anew fame from the little
tussle that takes place there this
morning.
Col. Estes speaks at Madison this
morning, where he will be met by Col.
T. H 8. Brobston aud Dr. Godfrey. At
Athens; on to morrow, he will measure
words with Col. T. W. Rucker. The Col
ouel’s path is not strewn with roses
Minor Telegrams.
New Orleans, April 28.—Gov. Kellogg
has instructed his Attorney General to
commence a suit, which will ventilate
the Treasury Department.
Philadelphia, April 28 Jaggar, as
Bishop of Southern Ohio, was coneerat
ed with Great ceremony.
Boston, April 28.—The Metropolis,
over due from Bermuda was seen April
17th with head foremast gone and
sailing slowly, but did not signal for
assistance. There was a heavy gale
the next day after she was seem
Bellows Falls, Vt., April 28.—Several
fires within last 24 hours, including
Graham’B woolen blanket factory.—
Loss heavy.
Herman, N. Y., April 28.—Business
portion of this town burned. Loss,
SIOO,OOO.
Havana, April 28.—Antonio Luaces, a
rebel surgeon, was executed at Puerto
Principe.
The Baptist Convention.
(Special to the Constitution.)
MUfcLEpGEViLLE, April 26.—The Bap
tist Convention has adjourned sine die.
The oommittee recommended the
establishment of The Southern Baptist
Remew, with Rev. Dr.. D. Shaver as
editor.
The convention tendered thanks to
the Constitution for impartial reports.
The memorial exercises at Midway
enm? off JO o’plock, with 1L H. Boy
ers as orator,
Hon. Geo. F. Pierce, Jr., was orator
of the memorial exercises here, which
came off at 3 o’clock. Over one thous
and people were present.
Milledgeville is alive on the female
university. W. G. W.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
The City Press and the Bribery Case-
Memorial Day—The Mann and Mc-
Gill Shooting Scrape—The Cotton
Factory.
[From Our Regular Correspondent.)
Atlanta, Ga., April 27,1875.
1 he three morning dailies here carry
on a rivalry perfectly startling. They
have pickets and skirmishers, with
keen scent and thorough vigilance,
poking their news-hunting noses into
every hole and corner wherefrom comes
the faintest hint of an item. If one
gets ahead of the other on a paragraph
there is a broad giggle, and the print
ers in the victorious office are regaled
with Havanas. But the little evening
paper, the Commonwealth, arose one
evening last week, shook the drowsy
god, and with a spirit of enter
prise truly commendable, gave the
people of Atlanta a nut to crack, as
well as showing the morning papers
that the “little evening paper” could
knock the socks off any of ’em when
she had a mind to. I refer to the
bribery case. From a few-line item, it
has grown much and assumed propor
tions prodigious. It hastplaced the
social standing, political ‘integrity (?)
and private character of three public
men in jeopardy. It has given the peo
ple an insight into the workings of
rings within rings. If not true, there
exists a suspicion that there is cer
tainly something rotten in Denmark.
The case has been brought to trial be
fore the City Council, and on the stand,
Capt. T. G. Jones, a former Chief of
Police, swears that he paid money to
officers of the city to elect him to the
position of Chief of Police. Jones says
he was able to pay one or two thous
and dollars for the office as his pet
quisites paid him enough. Under the
state of tilings that existed when he
was in office, the chief was paid a nomi
nal salary (I think §SOO per annum),
and the perquisites. For instance you
get drunk, carried before his honor,
fined ten and costs, which amounts to
$14.50, only $2.50 of this goes to the
city and the Chief buys his cigars and
political influence with the balauce.—
And it also comes to pass, from the
evidence, that the little item in the “lit
tle evening paper,” not only had the ef
fect of showing how Capt. Jones got his
office, but also how other men received
offices. For instance—it comes in the
evidence—Mr. Goodwin, a city officer,
went to Col. Clarke, of the Constitution,
and made a bargain. If Jones for
Chief, he (Goodwin) will vote for Clark
as City Printer. You tickle me, I
tickle you. The ease has enlisted
much attention. The people are clam
orous for a full exposition of the whole
thing. They will give the guilty man
a wide berth In the future. I would
advise him to shake the dust of At
lanta from his boots, for he is politi
cally and socially dead. The three
parties now arraigned stand high,
and I only wish they could all prove
themselves clear of every Charge. The
case has not vet been decided.
MEMORIAL DAY.
Pursuant to custom, the people turn
ed out and decorated the graves of the
soldiers in the cemetery yesterday. I
don’t want to be regarded as too mat
ter-of-fact, or as saying aught against
this beautiful custom, but I can’t help
saying that one-half of our people look
at Memorial Day in the wrong light. It
is an occasion on which the urns of
memory should be veiled; when hearts
should mourn; when the bustle of busi
ness should be toned down to the
silence that ever dwells in the thous
and graves wherein lies the dust of
those whose blood was given for a
glorious but ill-fated cause. It is a day
when flowers should be strewn not as
we would a gaudy May polo, but as
we drop the sprig of evergreen upon
the coffin lid of our dead brother.
There should be sacredness and
solemnity. But alas! Many regard
the daj T as a gala day, and drink whis
key and frolic with'a Fourth of July
gusto. Again, there are others who
hang an air of rigid observance about
their iront door, and let fly the wheels
of work just the same as on any other
day. Every urchin and piccaninny is let
loose on that day, and the Christmas
yelling and festive fussing is rampant.
May the future lay a gontle hand of
reproach upon them, and may the
sacred day be observed with that re
spect and reverence so befitting a na
tion’s tribute to heroic dead.
THE SHOOTING OF THOS. m’SILL.
Col. It. D. Mann, the well known rail
road ticket agent and broker in cou
pons, was shot last night by Mr. Thoa.
McGill, who is also a ticket broker.
Their offices are within one door of
each other, in the Kimball House build
ing. It seems that there has long
existed between the two a frigid cold
ness.
Yesterday McGill weDt into Mann’s
office to have ’some business transac
tion with the Southern and Atlantic
Telegraph Company, which has an
office with Mann. Col. Mann ordered
him out, and, it is said, drew a pistol.
Later, McGill again went into the office,
a few hot words passed, and McGill
shot Mann, inflicting a painful though
not serious wound. McGill was ar
rested and released this morning on a
SI,OOO bond. Both parties are well
known and have many friends, who
deeply regret the occurrence.
THE COTTON FACTORY.
Augusta with her many old and pros
perous cotton factories looks, perhaps,
at Atlanta’s hubbub to get one with
the same kind of smiling and approv
ing indifference that the elephant
looks at the efforts of the ant to crawl
up his leg.
But this hubbub is over, and we are
to have one. There remains but little
else to do now but to hit upon a
suitable site, and to commence with
brick and mortar. The subscription to
stock is quite or very nearly so taken
up, and we have men full of enterpris
ing progressive spirit at the head. It
will prove a blessing, a saving and a
glory to Atlanta. For which, we should
be truly thankful. Roanoke.
When you aro given a word to spell,
go through it at one jump. Don’t go
feeling along as if you were on thin ice
or down you will go sure. Tackle it in
this style: I-n In, with an In, d-i dl,
with a di, with an Indi, a-n an, with an
an, with an In, with an Indi, with an
Indian, a-p ap, with an ap, with an ap,
w T ith an In, with an Indi, with an Indian,
with an Indianap, o, with an o, with an
lu, with an Indi, with an Indian* with
an Indianap, with an Tnpianapo, 1-i-h
lis, with an In, with au Indi, with an
Indian, with au Indianap, with an In
dianapo, with an Indianapolis.
[ Hartford Herald.
C. W. Tayleure, who used to be a
saileure, and not a shoemakeure, as in
correctly reported, is a prolific aA
theure of dramatic plays.
[lndianapolis Herald.
BEAUREGARD'S RECORD.
His Treatment of Federal Prisoners
During the War—Frank Sherman
and His Rancorous Utterances Put
to Scorn-Fresh and Interesting
Correspondence with Gov. Porter.
Below will be found a very readable
letter from Gen. G. T. Beauregard con
cerning the invidious remark made by
Gen. Frank Sherman at the recent
meeting in Chicago, when the question
of inviting ex-Confederate3 to partici
pate in the national reunion there was
under consideration. The letter is in
response to one from Gov. Porter to
Gen. Beauregard, on the subject, and
was received by the Governor yester
day :
New Orleans, La„ April 28, 1875.
Dear Sir; Your favor of the 18th
inst. has been received, enclosing the
form of an invitation adopted by a
general meeting of the soldiexs, sailors
and citizens of Chicago, to bo sent “to
all who recognize the American flag as
an emblem of nationality undivided
and indivisible, to attend a graud re
union of all the soldiers aud sailors of
the United States, to be held at Chicago
May 12, 18 and 14,1875, and inquiring
how much truth there is in the re
marks of a certain Gen. Frank Sher
man, who objected to the invitation
being extended to me, as “he was not
in favor of extending an In vitation to a
man who had said he was in favor of
shooting all prisoners taken under the
American flag.” I had hoped that the
passions aud enmities occasioned by
the late war were replaced by kindlier
feelings, but it seems that there are
hearts still rancorous enough to be
eveu anxious to again stir into a flame
the dying embers of the war.
In. this section of our country such
exhibitions of animosity are confined to
those who, during the war, were far
thest from the enemy, gathering up
the spoils in the wake of tho contend
ing armies. Is not this Gen. Frank
Sherman one of those despicable char
acters?
Not from any regard for such windy
declamation, nor for the man mean
enough to sink to such base pandering
to popular passion, but out of respect
to myself and to that cause whose high
and holy purpose history will some
day vindicate, I will very briefly and
frankly state the position l took in re
gard to the conduct of the late civil
war, as concerned Federal prisoners.
After the battle of the first Manassas,
when it was reported that the Federal
Government refused to recognize Con
federate prisoners as “ prisoners of
war,” that Christian hero and able sol
dier, Gen. Thos. J. (Stonewall) Jackson
and mvself advocated that the Confed
erate Government should then pro
claim a “war to the knife,” neither ask
ing nor granting quarter. We more
over thought that the war would
thereby come sooner to .an eud, with
less destruction, finally, of life and
property. We thought, also, that such
a mode of warfare would inspire great
er terror in the armed invaders of our
soil and reduce greatly the number of
army followers, bummers, etc., who are
ever tiie curse of all armed invasions.
Subsequently, when the Fedei’als had
penetrated certain portions of the
South and developed a system of war
fare so diametrically opposed to the
one practiced by the Confederates,
when they invaded Maryland and
Pennsylvania under the great com
mander Gen. R. E. Lee, aud I saw the
emaciated forms and wretched con
dition of our returned Southern pris
oners, I again advocated the hoisting
of the black flag, willing at any time
to forfeit my life in the deadly struggle.
Notwithstanding tlieso views, 1 al
ways treated my prisoners with hu
manity and proper consideration. I
had the fortune of taking many thou
sands of them at Manassas, Shiloh,
Charleston, Drury’s Bluff, Bermuda
Hundreds and Petersburg, most of
whom are still alive I suppose, aud
can (and certainly would) testify to tho
fact.
After the fall of Fort Sumter, iu
April, 1861,1 granted to the garrison
the same considerate terms which I
had offered before the attack.
Through ray intercession, the Federal
surgeons and ministers of the Gospel,
taken at Manassas, were released with
out exchange by the Confederate Gov
ernment. The day after that battle
one of tho Federal officers (whoso
friends I know in New York) applied
to me for a small loan for himself and
friends, which I furnished at once from
my private funds. It was faithfully re
turned.
Shortly after the battle of Shiloh, I
sent, under a cartel, a certain number
of able-bodied Federal prisoners to
Gen. Hulleck, who, several weeks after,
returned an equal number of conva
lescents from St. Louis to Fort Pillow;
the offler in command there refused to
receive them, because several of them
were just from a small pox hospital.
Gen. Hal leek failed afterward to make
good the exchange.
At Charleston I authorized Admiral
Dahlgreen to send supplies of clothing,
etc. to the prisoners we had taken from
him ; those supplies were scrupulously
issued to them.
At Bermuda Hundreds, in May, 1864,
when passing in front of a large body
of Federal prisoners, who had gal
lantly defended a position which I con
sidered indispensable to us, I took off
mv hat to them and they answered this
salutation with cheers.
Terribly as I desired the effects of
the war to fall on all armed invaders
of our country, I wanted exempted
from them non-combatants, that is the
old men, women and children, and
wished also that private property, not
contraband of war and not needed by
the contending armies in the field,
should be entirely protected from
seizure or destruction. Such would
have been my course had I penetrated
with an army into Federal territory.
Unless it were in strict retaliation for
material departures by the Federal
forces from this civilized mode of car
rying on tho war.
In tho statement made above rela
tive to the system of warfare adopted
by the Federate, diametrically opposed
to that practiced by the Confederates,
I had reference to their operations in
Louisiana, Mississippi and Virginia,
aud the inexcusable burning of Atlanta
and Columbia, and the destructive
march of Gen. Sherman through Geor
gia and South Carolina, whose track
was inarmed by smoking ruins and
blackened chimneys; to the suggestion
of Gen. Halleck to destroy Charleston
and sprinkle salt on the site* that not
even grass should grow thereon, to
which Gen. S. replied that no salt would
be needed, as one of his most reliable
corps formed the right wing of hte
army, an<j that it always did its work
thoroughly; to the devastating march
of Gen. Sheridan through the Shenan
doah \ alley, relative to which ho re
ported to tfife General-in-Chief of the
United Statep armies, that *% crow fly
ing over the cduntrv would have to
carry its own rations;” but he did not
say what became of the old men,
women and children, who then lived in
that fertile valley!
With regard to the mortality of pri
soners on both sides the Washington
Union, (Radical), of October, 1868, con
tained the following article:
“In reply to a resolution of the
House of Representatives calling upon
the Secretary of War for the number
of prisoners either side held and that
died during the war, he made the fol
lowing report: Number of Union pri
soners South, 260,940 ; died, 22,590 ;
number of Confederate prisoners
North, 200,000 ; died, 26,435.”
That is, 2 of the former out of every
22, and 2 of the latter out of every 15.
Comment is here unnecessary in view
of the condition aud resources of these
two sections of couutry. I remain,
dear sir, yours most truly,
G. T. Beauregard.
To His Excellency Gov. Jas. D. Porter
Nashville, Tenn.
Orthographi calities.
Bill Smikes came home mellow the
other night, and when his wife asked
what ailed him be said he had been to
the spelling-school, and had (hie) got
full of hip-pip—poppo—poppo—hip
popity— hip-por— hippity-hop —himus
—hippimus—hip-pip—hip— hippitymus
—hipopy timus—or some such (hie) con
founded word, and it had given him
one of his “spells.”— Saratogian.
At a recent spelling-match in Sara
toga a gentleman offered a library,
worth $l6O, to anybody who would
spell correctly the following sixteen
words: Baa, llama, eteve (dropped),
emeute, tureen, demesnial, eau do vie,
bauister, scirrhosity, pharmacopoeia,
esquisse, eleemosynary, caoutchouc,
cyclostylar, ipecacuanha, tic doulour
eux. The worst effort to spall them
road as follows: Baah, lama, ateve,
emute, tnrrene, demesenial, o dive,
baunister, skirrotcity, pkarmaeopia, ac
skiss, ellemosissary, coocliouk, seielte
tila, epieacqaua, ti dolaroo.
A correspondent of the Boston Ad
vertiser proposes the following elegant
sentences as au exercise for spelliog
matches: “Looking up into his golop
tious eyes, she said, ‘And is it indeed
true, Alfred, that our soul, iu the pro
cess of transmogrification, expluueti
fles itself through the whole caboodle
of eternity?’ -Nay, dearest,’ replied Al
fred, and his countenance betrayed au
expression of irasifieation, not to say
disgruntlement, which cavorted over
his features for au instant: ‘Our souls
cannot become sufficiently matterated
to admit of the necessary spifflicatien
which— ’ The sentence was never fin
ished; for as he spoke he seated him
self upon a chair whose legs had be
come exserrated two inches, • and he
came down suddenly kerchunk.”
They had a burlesque spelling match
in San Francisco the other night. The
Chronicle reports : “Noah Webster and
Josh Billings officiated as umpires, and
the standard works of Nasby aud Bil
lings were the authorities which were
supposed to govern the match. Ladies
and gentlemen in costume represented
the characters of Nasby, Sairy Gamp,
Mrs. Partington, Artemus Ward, Em
peror Norton, Anna Dickinson, Mark
Twain, aud other celebrities. The
orthography was of the most eccentrie
character, and furnished considerable
amusement for the audience. Virtue
was spelled beeehertitton, and this treat
ment of the word was one of the hits
of the evening. Emperor Norton won
the prize, an elaborately inscribed tin
medal about the size of a soup-plate.”
Forwarding Packages by Mail—lm
portant to Dealers.
Tho following correspondence will
be read with particular interest by
dealers who have occasion to send
sample packages by mail. The official
information is to the effect that sugars
carefully packed will be graded as “third
class” matter for the present. The
correspondence is sufficiently explicit
to require no additional remarks:
Post Office Department, 1
Appointment Office, v
Washinqton, D. C., April 25, 1875. )
To Hon. Geo. S. Bangs, General Super
intendent 11. M. S.:
Sir: The sample package of sugar
submitted by you appears to be done
up iu double boxes—the inner one of
tin, the outside ono of paper. Under
these circumstances tho Department
will object to giving such package a
fair trial in the mail. You are there
fore authorized to request some of the
larger offices to admit such packages
at third-class rates of postage, with a
view of testing whether they can be
carried in the mails without injury to
other mail matter. After such tests
have been made you will report the re
sult to this office.
Very Respectfully,
J. W. Marshall,
First Ass’t P. M. G.
Office of the l
Svp’t. Railway Mail Service, 4th Div., >
Chattanooga, Tenn., April 22,1875. \
Sir: Please find inclosed copy of a
letter relative to forwarding through
the mails trial packages of sugar, which
will explain itself. In compliance with
instructions contained therein, you will
please notify dealers In your city that
you will admit such packages at third
class rates of postage, with a view of
testing whether they can be carried in
the mails without injury toother mail
matter. I will be glad to learn your
views of the test arter a fair trial shall
have been made. Very truly,
L. M. Terrell,
Superintendent R. M. S.
Tennessee Crop Reports.— We have
now given very full reports from
almost every portion of the . State of
the effects of the late cold snap upon
the crops. The general opinion ap
pears to be that the fruk, with the ex
ception of apples, has been seriously
injured, and that the crop of peaches,
pears, plums and cherries will be
unusually small still, in some localities
there will be a pretty fair yield. There
is a good prospect for a fair yield of
apples. The wheat has been but
slightly damaged, and as tho report
comes up from every direction that the
area seeded to wheat Is much larger
than test year, we may look for a very
arge crep; unless it should be injured
hereafter. The injury to the tobcacco
plants has not been very serious, and
there will bo ao lack to put in as large
a crop as can be cultivated. The out
look is greatly more favorable than
was anticipated ten days ago.
[Atishvitle Union and Ain., April 27.
“ Fi-ah !” —The Sing-Sing Bepubhean
observes : The Putnam county Stan
dard comes to the relief of its readers,
who have tamely submitted for years
to reading stereotyped descriptions of
Area, and stasis out ou anew depar
ture of descriptive composition, ita
efforts in that direction should be en
couraged. Here Is the way it starts]
out to tell all about a fire that occur
red in Brewster’s last week, which de
stroyed the school house and Mr
Sweetman’s residence;
JNew Series—Vol. 3, No. 82
Georgia Crop Nows.
A friend who has just returned from
a business tnp.through Newton, Wal
ton, Morgan and Jasper counties in
forms us that the wheat was looking
very fine along hte route, and that
there is a larger area sowed than he
has seen since the war. He Llinks the
prospect for a good crop is now very
flae. Our farmers are still busy plant
ing cotton. —OovingUm Star.
The Madison Journal has been shown
some wheat grown on Mr. James Coch
ran S place two and a half feet high,
well headed, and free from any disease.
It is claimed to be a fair sample of the
whole crop.
The editor of the Thomasville En
terprise says: We learn that the cold
snap on Saturilay and Sunday nights
damaged cotton and garden products.
In some localities cotton and Irish po
tatoes are reported to have been killed
Where cotton was not killed outright ’
it was seriously injured, and it is fear
ed that in many localities the stand
will be a bad one. The weather since
Monday morning has been verv fine,
and farm operations are being rapidiv
pushed forward. Farmers consider
that their crops are from two weeks to
a month behind.
The Bainbridge Democrat tells of an
old farmer In Decatur county who has
been preparing for a famine for the
last twenty years. At this time he has
three crops of corn in his cribs, as
well as bacon, syrup, sugar, etc. He is
never without three years’rations on
hand.
Savaunah Advertiser: This year will
probably witness the largest crop of
wheat produced since the war, that is
in the Southern and Western States’.
Texas has put iu an immence quantity,
and a letter from a farmer in that'
Stats says it will scarcely bring more
than sixty cents per bushel next Fall
in consequence. We fear, however,
that the solid crop, corn, has been
rather neglected, it being indeed a
herculean task to beat into the heads
of some planters that cotton must not
be Iriug any longer. Now meat has
jumped, and when a farmer pulls out
his not very bulky purse and pays
eighteen cents per pound, he is in
clined to be profane, and wonder why
he did not raise his own bacon instead
of having it raised for him. But next
year he will repeat the old foils. It Is
impossible to tell him anything; he
knows his own business. ‘ “It’s' my
money, sir, and I have a rigtn to buy
meat and corn if I do not choose to
provide my own.”
Dr. Wm. Speer has sent the editor of
the Forsyth Advertiser some specimen
stalks of hte wheat which has headed.
It measures accurately sixty-one inches
in height. This is the best the editor
has seen and he doesn’t expect to see
any better. It is good enough. The
wheat was sown in October last, on rich
land, without manure.
The Bowen Libel Suit.
As stated yesterday, this prolonged
trial in Charleston, the suit of ex-Con
gressmau C. C. Bowen against the
editors of the and Courier, ter
minated by a mistrial, the jury stand
ing eleven for acquittal and one for
conviction. We copy from that paper*
HOW THE JURY STOOD.
The jury were then dischaiged, and
a mistrial was entered upon the back
of the indictment. On Monday night,
when the jury retired to consider the
case, the opinion prevailed very gen
erally in the community that* there
would be a mistrial—that the jury
would not agree upon a ver
dict, and, singular to relate, pub
lic rumor had it that the jury would
stand eleven for the acquittal of the
defendant and one for conviction. It
may also be stated that it was general
ly believed that W. H. Ahrens would be
the juror who would “stiok out for
Boweu’ (that being the popular phrase).
Ahrens was generally spoken of as one
of Bowen’s well known henchmen, and
it was predicted that he would never
consent to a verdict of acquittal.
When the jury were discharged, the
court having instructed them that they
were not bound to secrecy as to what
transpired in the jury room.it was as
certained that on the first, vote Monday
night eleven of the jurymen voted for
acquittal of the defendant, and one for
his conviction, aud that this W. H.
Ahrens was the juror who constituted
the minority. The case was then talked
over for a loug time, hut a second vote
was not taken until Tuesday morning,
when Ahrens announced tliat two of
the colored jurymen, Nat Ba -nwell and
Peter Brown, had come over to his
side. Ufk>n the second vote, on Tues
day morning, the two jurymen referred
to voted with him for the conviction of
the defendant. After this there was a
dead-lock, and, as has been stated,
there being no prospect of an agree
ment, the jury were discharged. It has
also been ascertained that Nat Barn
well and Peter Brown, the two jury
men who voted with Ahrens, took no
part whatever in the discussion of the
case in the jury room, ard did not
seem to understand much about it.
The result having been generally an
ticipated In the community, there was
very little surprise expressed when it
was made known.
The Tom Scott Party.
Galveston, April 28.—C01. Tom Scott
aud ex-Congressman Phelpa arrived
here last night from Mexico and de
parted in a special train to examine
the railroads in which they are inter
ested.
Transfer of Lae’s Statde.— The
transfer of the Tecumben; statue of
Gen. Robert E. Lee, from Richmond to
his grave at Lexington, Va., has been
attended with ceremonies that show
the affection with which his memory is
cherished among Virginians. At Rich
mond a regiment of troops .rad several
civic organizations accompanied the
box containing the statue to the rail
road station, where it was placed in
charge of ten students of the Rich
mond University, as a guard of honor.
The box itself was beautifully deco
rated with flowers and evergreens; at
every depot fresh flowers and wreathes
were added by deputations of ladies
Among the committee receiving the
statue at Lynchburg was the ex-CJon
federate Gen. Jubal A. Early.
Not ft bad story comes from the
bavage Club, London, but it does not
seem clear who first made the joke. A
Savage was standing on the steps at
Evan s Hotel, Convent Gaiden, where
the club is now located, when a gentle
man cauae up to him and asked him if
was “a gentleman w:th one eve
named Walker” in the club. “I don’t
know,” responded the “Savage;” “what
was the name of his other eye ?”
Prince Blueher, a son of t he celebrat
ed field-marshal, died on the Bth in
stant at Radnau, Austria, seventy-eight
years of age,