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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
SUNDAY, MAY 2, 1875.
Everything in this world that ap
pears calamitous has its compensation.
While the recent cold snap injured a
portion of the early crop of vegetables,
fruit, etc., it is now said to have exter
minated the grasshoppers of the North
west.
The election in the Ninth District
takes place next Wednesday, the sth
day of May. Our letter from Athens
would have us think that it will be
very close between Messrs. Hill and
Estes, but expresses the hope that
“ the transcendent abilities of the great
Hercules of the South will carry the
day before the prejudices of some of
the people.”
The Atlanta Herald has become a
joint stock company, Alston & Grady
having control editorially and other
wise. Mr. James A. Burns will be busi
ness manager, and subscribe $5,000 to
the enterprise. Mr. Burns was for a
year or so in Mr. Kimball’s office ; was
afterward Superintendent of the Bruns
wick and Albany Road, and has since
occupied his present position. He is a
man of means, and has a first-class
financial standing. May the Herald
live forever and prosper immensely!
Gen. Bartlett turned up in Rich
mond, Va., the other day, and was
complimented with a serenade by Gen.
Bradley T. Johnson and other Confed
erate soldiers. It is pleasant to hear
him say that in hi3 Lexington Centen
nial speech he “only spoke the hopes
and the feelings” of the people of Mas
sachusetts. To quote the language of
Napoleon to Alexander, when they met
on the Tilsit raft, “If that be true,
peace has been made.”
The refusal of Gov. Porter, of Ten
nessee, to recognize a requisition of
Gov. Smith, of Georgia, for a defaulter
named Saunders, was a tit-for-tat
affair. It seems that Gov. Smith de
clined to recognize a similar requisi
tion of the Tennessee Executive, some
time ago, and hence this bit of Guber
natorial spite. We dare say a volumi
nous correspondence will be the result.
Playing at Governor seems to be play
iug at schoolboy.
In the case of Hightower & Cos. vs.
Slaton et al, coming up from Spalding
county, the Supreme Court of Georgia
decided, on the 27th ult., that a salary
of a teacher of a public school institu
tion of this State is not subject to gar
nishment. The court puts its judg
ment on the ground of public policy,
saying “there is no class of persons in
the State whose services are more im
portant to the welfare of the people
thereof, than the industrious, compe
tent, teachers of the children of the
country.”
Counterfeit greenbacks are making
their appearance in Augusta and all
persons handling money should be on
the watch for them. Our banks have
received quite a number of these bogus
papers, purporting to be the issue of
the Traders National Bank, of Chicago,
aud the First National Bank of Paxton,
Illinois. Mr. John North, Teller of the
First National Bank, of this city, whose
delicate fingers instinctively detect
wild-cat currency, aud whose eagle eye
pierces the fraud of impecunious men,
states that he will be most happy to
redeem and receive genuine “utter
•.llo63” of paper money, but respective
ly declines to take on deposit the base
but well executed bits of parchment
which are now afloat.
A Bouquet of the Cloth of Gold
Bose.— Our office was made all fragrant
yesterday afternoon by the glorious
perfume from a bouquet made of the
vdoth of Gold Rose, It was sent with
the compliments of Mr. F. Cooin, and
collect from that renowned specimen at
the Augusta Factory of this the most
spleudid flower that ever came from
the bands of the Creator. The bush was
planted all of thirty j ears ago, is now
sixty feet in height, with branches fifty
feet wide, and the main trunk thirteen
inches thick at the base. The flower
is an exquisite commingling, in color,
of white and gold, the most delicate
perception failing to detect where the
one hue ends or the other begins, so
perfeet is the blending of the whole.
A Horse Brake.— A San Francisco in
vestor has applied for a patent on a
horse brake of his contrivance. It is
intended to control a horse in pretty
much the same way as a wagon is gov
erned in its movements by a brake. A
buckle with a belt i3 attached to the
ring of the breeching on the left aide of
the horse, and the belt is continued
aroqnd the latter’s breast, where it is
fastened to the martingale. Thence it
passes to the right-hand side of the
Buggy seat, where it is caught by a
Buckle and a loop. When the reins
are pulled tight the brake presses
on the fore-legs of the horse imme
diately below the breast, stopping him
instantly, and preventing him from
rearing or kicking. Should the reins
slip from the hands of the driver or
Break, the horse can be brought to a
stand-still by pulling the strap which
is buckled tk® right-hand side of the
seat.
i m Sails fonstihitionalist
Another Terrible Cyclone
THE TOWN OF RUTLEDGE
DEVASTATED.
EVERY HOUSE IN IT BLOWN
DOWN. EXCEPT ONE.
It Passes from Georgia to
South Carolina.
GREAT DAMAGE AT COLUMBIA.
Tlio State House Hoof*
Blown Oft;
AND MUCH OTHER
DAMAGE.
A TORNADO AT KNOX'
VILLE, TENN.
Georgia and South Carolina have
again been visited by a cyclone nearly
equal in intensity, fury and destruc
tiveness to the one of the 20th of
March.
At 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon a
brief dispatch way received from Rut
ledge, a village of 300 habitants on the
Georgia Railroad, 115 miles from Au
gusta, that every house in the town,
except the railroad depot, had just
been blown down by a cyclone, and a
great many people were supposed to
be killed and wounded along its track.
The tornado was passing when the dis
patch w'as sent, and. notwithstanding
repeated efforts were made during the
afternoon and until 12 o’clock last
uight, nothing further could be heard
from there. The wires from hence to
Rutledge ceased working a few min
utes after the reception of the dispatch.
The Cyclone at Columbia.
(Special to the Constitutionalist.)
Columbia, S. G, May 1, 1875.
A hurricane of fearful intensity pass
ed over this city at about 5 p. in., do
ing an immense amount, of destruction
to property, houses, trees and fences.
The steeple of the Presbyterian Church
was the first to come down with a
crash. Squier’s furniture store has
been entirety demolished, and the
sheds and offices of the Charleston and
Greenville Railroad have been blown
down. All the fences tying broadside
to the hurricane are down. The State
House has been unroofed, and the new
Palmetto tree in front snapped like a
reed. The city is covered with the de
bris of fallen chimneys, trees and
fences. One lifo was lost. The market
house wps unroofed. The hurricane
was fearful while it lasted, which was
about thirty minutes. Canton.
The Tornado at Knoxville, Tenn.
Knoxville, May I.—A heavy storm
occurred here this afternoon, blowing
down the county bridge over the Ten
nessee river. It also damaged the
Charleston Railroad bridge. Loss to
the county, $40,000.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Judge Kelley’s Testimony a Bomb in
the Kadi cal Camp—An Ultra Jour
nal Wakes Up to the New De
parture.
Washington, May k—The Philadel
phia Enquirer says, editorially: “Hon.
Wm. D. Kelley, having returned to
Washington from a prolonged tour
through the South, declares that the
vote he most regrets during his four
teen years’ service in Congress is that
which he cast last Winter in favor of
the Force bill, and he added that so far
as h:s observation went during his ex
tended tour, there was no more neces
sity for the use of Federal military
force South than there is in Pennsyl
vania or Ohio. He talked with all
classes and conditions of men regard
ing the political feelings of the people
of the South, aud was surprised to And
the prevalence of amity and good will
to be universal. Judge Kelley has lost
ail faith in the stories of Ku-Klux and
Southern outrages, having personally
proved them to be- the myths of mere
partisau malevolence. When a Repub
lican of such eminence as Judge Kel
ley gives testimony such as this, it
would seem as if it was time indeed for
Mr. Williams to retire to his native
wilds of Oregon, and for the super
serviceable organs of the carpet-bag
gers to learn new tunes to stir up vin
dictive feeling against the South. It
would also appear to be time to with
draw our army from those places
where it is not wanted, and to send it
to the Texas frontier, where it is want
ed very much, as anew crop of South
ern outrages will be wanted next Fall.
It will be just, as well for the North to
remember the testimony of Judge
Kelley.”
[Note.— The Enquirer has been an
ultra Radical sheet, and Judge Kelley
is he who took refuge under a table
when there was loose shooting in Mo
bile some years ago.]
VIRGINIA.
A Deed of Blood-Important Meeting.
Norfolk, May i.—James Botton, of
Princess Anne, was murdered this
morning by two negroes, who attacked
him on the road eight miles from Nor
folk. Botton was asleep in his wagon
and his little son was driving. The
boy escaped and returned when the
negroes had left, and found his father
dead. No arrests.
Alexandria, May I.— A conference
will be held in Richmond, Va., on Tues
day, to consider the question of ex
chequer. G. K. Pistare, D. H. Loudon,
O. M. Frey, of New York ; S. F. Wil
son, of Providence, R 1., and repre
sentative men from all sections and
States, are expected to take part; also
to urge the modification or repeal of
the tax on tobacco and spirits.
The Fire Fiend.
Montpelier, Yt., May 1. — A disas
trous fire occured last night. Barre
street is in ruins. Loss fully 3150,000.
Whitehall, N. Y., May l.—The pa
per mill, barnes and offices of John
McLeah, at Factoryville, near Ballston,
New York, were burned last night.
3U>s, 370,000 ; insurance, 332,000,
A.TTGT7STA. GA„ SUNDAY MORNING. MAY 3. 1875.
FOREIGN.
Abolishing Religious Orders in Prus
sia. Bad Blood Between Fishermen.
The Coal Mine Disaster.
Geneva, May I.—Gutierrez, who was
President of the Revolutionary Junta
of Carthageoa, Spain, is dead.
London, May 1. —Representations are
made of the ill-feeling existing between
Frenchmen and Englishmen engaged
in the fisheries of New Foundland,
are likely to lead to collisions. The
Governments of England and France
have resolved to send war vessels to
those wafers to prevent, a disturbance
Edwin Browning Stephens, an English
sculptor, is dead.
The number of miners killed by the
explosion in Bunker’s Hill Colliery,
North Staffordshire, yesterday, is
greater than first reported. Forty-one
dead bodies have been recovered from
the mine. These are probably all who
have perished. Many bodies of the
victims were mutilated beyond recog
nition. A great number of dead miners
left large families of children, who are
in a destitute condition.
The ship B. Hazceline, from Sa
vannah for Reval, before reported
stranded off Skew, Denmark, has been
hauled off and towed to Elsinoi’9.
Revolt of Carlists--A Sweeping Bill
against Religious Orders in Prussia.
Madrid, May I.—-A portion of the
Carlist force on the frontier of Navarre
have revolted against their leaders.
They demand peace and submission to
thfe government of Kmg Alfonso.
Berlin, May I.—The Emperor
given his assent to the introduction of
a bill abolishing religious orders iu
Prussia.
Dr. Balk’s bill provides that all re
ligious orders shall be excluded from
Prussia; existing establishments are
forbidden to receive new members,
and their present organizations must be
dissolved within six months after
the passage of the bill. A partial ex
ception is made in favor of religious
bodies engaged in the work of educa
tion, which may prolong their exist
ence, and of those whose object is the
care of the sick, which may continue
their organizations, but are liable to
dissolution at any moment. Associa
tions thus continued are to be subject
to the supervision of Government offi
cials. The property of convents is not
to be confiscated, but will be tempo
rarily administered by the State.
FROM NEW YORK. .
Music by the Band—Dan Bryant’s
Property.
New York, May I. The American
College of Music will be organized in a
few days under a recent act of the Leg
islature. Some of the best known and
wealthiest citizens have applied to be
enrolled among its patrons.
Dan Bryant’s widow, in an applica
tion to the Surrogate for letters of ad
ministration on bis estate, seta forth
that the property left by him does not
exceed S2OO in value.
Saratoga, May I.—The United States
Hotel sold for $350,000 cash, which,
with the mortgages, makes the value
ot the property half a million.
Rochester, May I.—A barge laden
with iron ore, supposed to have been
lost on Lake Ontario during the gale
Thursday night, made safe anchorage
about twenty miles east of Genesee
river. All hands on board are safe.
New York, May 1.-—Cardinal MeClos
kev, accompanied by the Papal en
voys and a number of Bishops and
clergymen, left the city this morning
for Boston to conduct the service in
elevation of the See of Boston to an
Areh-Diocese.
Debt Statement-Appointments.
Debt statment: Decrease, $2,125,000 ;
in Treasursy—coin, $94,500,000 ; cur
rency, $1,000,000. The Treasury De
partment has called in five millions of
1862 bonds, interest to cease August
next.
Appointments: A. Scichlestqi, Sur
veyor of Customs at Lavaca, Texas ;
H. M. Atkinson, qualified as Commis
sioner of Pensions.
Freezing Grasshoppers.
St. Paul., Minn., May 1.- Dispatches
from various points encourage the
hope that the cold weather has killed
the grasshoppers.
Mob Law in Nashville.
Nashville, May l.—The people took
Joe Reed, who killed the policeman
that attempted to arrest him for whip
ping his wife, and threw him over a
bridge of ninety feet fall. Reed’s body
was not recovered.
Minor Telegrams.
Phiuadelpiiia, May l.—The Pennsyl
vania Railroad has declared a 4 per
cent, dividend.
Detroit, May l.—The Straits of
Mackinaw are open.
NI3vToRLEANS.
Kellogg Goes for an Auditor.
New Orleans, May I.—Kellogg sues
Auditor Clinton’s bondsmen for va
rious sums alleged withheld from the
State, and money unauthorizedly paid
by Clinton. Half a million is involved.
BOSTON.
A New Rate of Cotton Brockeraga.
Boston, May I.—On aud after May
Ist, 1875, the cotton brokers of Boston
have deeided to adopt the rate of
brokerage on cotton of fifty cents per
bale to be paid by the seller, in lieu of
one-half of one per cent., the former
oharge.
What the Nervous Require. —What
the nervous require more than any
thing else is invigoration. Sedatives
alone will not cure nervousness. The
reason that the nerves are so suscepti
ble is that they are weak. Compensate
for this deficiency of strength, and
over-acute nervous sensibility disap
pears. The most rational, wholesome,
and agreeable tonic is Hostetter’s
Stomach Bitters. Medical men recom
mend its use for the cure of general
debility, knowing it to possess strength
giving properties of the highest order,
and at the same time to be a means of
reforming those bodily irregularities
which induce nervousness and loss of
vigor. It is the best known remedy for
dyspepsia, whether nervous or bilious,
and is powerfully conservative of a
regular habit of body. As it is notori
ous that those who are afflicted with
weak nerves, biliousness or constipa
tion, are peculiarly llablo to the influ
ence of malaria, it is invaluable to such
persons on account of its preventive
efficacy. It endows the body with
health, and the mind with cheerfulness.
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LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
Attempted Suicide of a Young Lady.
Brilliant Wedding. The Muddled
Ninth. Minor Items of Interest.
Suspension of the “Daily News,”
Etc.
[From our Regular Correspondent.!
Atlanta, Ga., April 30th, 1875.
Carlyle says the population of Great
Britain is twenty-seven millions, most
ly fools. Judging from the present
stream of suicides in the States, Car
ty.j would reckon our entire popula
tion as subjeots for the fool-killer.
There is a musty air that circles
around suiciding that I can’t like. It
looks to me like robbing the doctor of
his rights, and easing off some of the
terrors of a natural, peaceable death.
Death is a terrible thing at best, but
when we tackle it with a few grains of
morphine, arsenic or strychnine, or
coax its sudden approach with the end
of a yope or the keen edge of a razor,
it turns blacker and more terrifying.
A young lady, whose name is identical
to that of the bride of Rambaldo, the
Norman troubadour, undertook to send
her soul adrift last Tuesday night, at
her boarding house on Peachtree street.
She worked in one of the bookbinderies
of the city during the busy season, but
for a few weeks past she has not done
scarcely anything in the way of earn
ing a living. A young man who slings
type in one of our newspaper offices,
has for some time paid his “distresses”
to her, and to the observing portion of
the hash eaters at her boarding house,
the goose hung high with them. Being
a light, giddy-headed girl, susceptible
to flattery, and imagining the faintest
smile of a man to be an open profession
of love, the dreamy-eyed maiden soon
had too many strings to her bow to
suit the somewhat fastidious taste of
her typographic adorer. Hence, it was
not uulooked for by the boarders when
he announced his determination to
leave the city. The lady heard of his
contemplated removal and grew frantic.
She swore by all that was lovely that she
would put an end to her miserable ex
istence if he carried out his Intention.
But Charles Augustus, with a firm be
lief in the old song that absence con
quers love, as well as smelling a con
siderable rat. told her she could do as
she darned pleased about it.
Following this laconic and not overlv
polite advice, my heroine uncorked a
bottle of morphine and was soon in
that somnolent state tnat follows an
indulgence in potent opiates. Having
occasion to go in the parlor after sup
per, Charles Augustus saw his lady
love tying in charming negligence upon
the sofa. At first he thought her ’pos
suming, but on close inspection he dis
covered that she was sleepily drifting
to the daik stream, and the way he
darted for a doctor and a stomach
pump would have done credit to a red
hot locomotive.
The pump soon relieved her from
the dose, but it took considerable
rough handling to drive off the effects.
All night the lover watched over the
lady. She has now sufficiently re
covered to regret her action, but the
young man is contemplating a sudden
exit from Atlanta. It is said that the
first thing my heroine did upon re
covering from the sleep was to ask for
the morning papers. Were Ia re
porter, her name should have been il
lustrated in black caps. One of her
relatives came up yesterday from the
country, and the would-be suicide will
now brood over her lacerated heart,
and the frustration of a cherished plan,
among the sympathising trees of an
adjoining county.
society flutter.
The wedding of Gen. Colquitt’s ac
complished uiece, Nannie, to Mr.
Ansley, of Decatur, Wednesday after
noon, was a brilliant and recherche
offair. The elite of Atlanta were pi esent,
and the Central l’resbyteriau Church
was ablaze with beauty. The bridal
party are now on their way to Vir
ginia.
THE MUDDLED NINTH.
Hill is undoubtedly ahead. He is
the coming man. The candidates are
stirring the District up, leaving no
stone unturned; but the people seem
to have made up their minds that they
will take Hilt in ther’n, and all the
hand bill extras of the Gainesville
Eagle, the twisted speeches of Estes,
the bumeombe lallygags of Price,
or the thundering tones of Find
ley, are but aids to Hill’s now brilliant
chances.
DOTS.
The sickness of Mayor Hammock
has delayed the trial of the bribery
case. It is hard to venture any guess
as to the result, but the thing is pretty
well concluded that somebody will
catch fits.
Willie Spencer, who was stabbed by
John Bard, sou of the Governor, is still
lying in a precarious condition. The
wound is of a peculiar nature, and it
may be several days yet before the re
sult can be definitely predicted.
Col. Mann, whose arm was broken
by a bullet from the pistol of Mr. Mc-
Gill, is slowly recovering.
The unfinished rooms of the Kimball
House, 125 in number, are to be fitted
up in splendid style. When this is
done, there will be no hotel south of
Washington that can hold a candle to
the Kimball.
The owners of Ponce de Leon Springs
object, through a card in the papers,
to the negroes holding their civil rights
scenteunial on their grounds. In con
sequence, the nigs have announced
Richter’s Brewery as their rendezvous.
The gush of water will lay our dust
on the 4th of July, so they say. Work
has commenced in earnest, and if not
by the 4th, very soon thereafter we
will have the long dreamed of water
works.
The last bit of idle real estate on
Alabama street was purchased yester
day by Major Campbell Wallace, Presi
dent of the State National Bank. This
is anew bank, and will soon commence
active business.
H. I. Kimball makes an earnest ap
peal to the people of Atlanta for 330,000
more subscription to the cotton facto
ry stock. This amount is all that is
necessary to put the spindles in mo
tion.
The pic-nic season opens to-morrow,
May Ist, with an excuision of the First
Baptist Sunday School to New Holland
SpriDgs. These springs are quite a
favorite resort. They are under the
charge of Col. Wm. M. Nichols, for
merly mine host of the Kimball House.
SUSPENSION OF THE DAILY NEWS.
Notwithstanding the advertisement
of A. St. Clair Abrams in the Herald , I
think the News has entirely suspended.
Mr. Abrams says the paper will re
sume publication Sunday, but the af
fairs of the office are in such a condi
tion as to preclude any such wished
for consummation. This is to be re
gretted. Besides depriving us of the
readable editorials and spicy news of
the paper, it deprives printers and
others of work. But three papers are
too much for Atlanta.
Mr. Abrams is, undoubtedly, the
most versatile and sparkling writer we
have in Georgia journalism, but he
lacks judgment. He is too Don Quixo
tic. He is not happy unless in hot
water with three-fourths of the muni
cipal fathers, or at variance with one
or two of his contemporaries. He
imagines himself- alone right upon
every subject, and none dare his rights
to dispute. But as for news-gathering,
tackling all sorts of subjects and doing
the work of everybody in the office
from office boy to chief editor, there is
no one in Atlanta that can touch him
with a ten foot pole. He is a hard
worker, a prolific writer, but money
slips through his fingers, not exactly
foolishly nor extravagantly, but he has
a big heart and he loves his employes.
He would give his last cent to the
printer. What a pity that this kind of
liberality does not pervade his edi
torials !
I would be glad to see the News once
more on its feet, but there lacks even
a hope. Roanoke.
LETTER FROM ATHENS.
Congressional Campaign—Speeches
by Estes and Rucker-Hill Stock
Above Par in Clarke County.
tOur Special Correspondence ]
Athens, Ga., April 28, 1875.
Mr. Editor :—A large audience as
sembled at the Court House last night
to listen to the talk of Col. J. B. Estes,
the reeommendee of the honest yeo
manry of the Ninth. In a very mod
est and most gentlemanly manner the
Colonel narrated the facts and evi
dences of the Gainesville Convention.
Though originally a Hill inau, he
thought that the compromise of se
lecting a third party, when there was
no hope of nominating either Bell or
Hill, should havo been accepted by the
Hill delegates, especially since Bell had
led the ballot. He charged Hill with
being an independent candidate before
the convention adjourned, and hence
his delegates were bolters.
After touching lightly upon the sub
ject of his opponent’s residence, he as
serted that the wit and brilliant rc
parte of the latter would do more
harm than good in Congress, and
finally charged Mr. Hill with inconsis
tency in the “Notes on the Situation”
and the famous letter of 1870.
Col. Estes was followed by our tal
ented young “fellow burgher,” Col. T
W. Rucker. Being Secretary of the
Convention, this gentleman said that
he could narrate some things which
were not mentioned in Col. Estes’ ac
count. The talk of a compromise, was,
ho said, made too late for any action
to be taken, and besides the Hiil men
woro not allowed to select the third
man. Though Mr. Hill’s delegates were
in the minority at the convention, yet
Col. Rucker stated that they realty
represented 2,800 more votes than the
other side, and hence it was unreasona
ble to ask them to yield to the Bell
men.
He declared that every man in the
District knew that Hill Jiad higher
claims to a seat id Congress than mere
wit and repartee. His statesmanship
and great ability needed no encomium.
Col. Estes’ point about eminent ability
not boiDg needed in Congress, Mr.
Rucker said, reminded him of the jay
bird, who declared that there was no
melody in song and sang to prove it.
Col. Rucker’s speech was replete with
sallies of wit and bits of sarcasm. It
was decidedly a fine effort. Loud calls
being made for Solicitor-General Emery
Speer, that eminent youDg gentleman
entertained the crowd for some time
with a most eloquent address.
He alluded to the fact that Col. Estes
had at first persistently refused to be
come a candidate, and did not yield
until some potent influence was brought
to bear. He believed that that gentle
man was influenced to run by the anti-
Hill men, who promised him that if
“sacrificed” they would support him
next time. Col. Speer delivered this iu
his usual happy style, and most gal
lantly defended Mr. Hill against the
charge of inconsistency. Athens is, of
course, a unit for Hill.’ Old Clarke will
probably roll up a cool 1,500 majority
for him. He will address the people
here to-morrow uight. The contest in
the District will be very close, but it
is hoped that the transcendent abilities
of the great Hercules of the South will
carry the day before prejudice of
some of the people. Picciola.
The Congressional Contest in the
Ninth District.
(Macon Telegraph.)
The annals of party present nothing
more disgusting than the Hill-Estes-
Bell-Findley-Price, and heaven kuows
who else besides, canvass, to fill the
McMillan vacancy for Congress. But,
it certainly is significant that the
Gainesville Eagle should be so out
spoken, gushing and demonstrative
for Estes, and denunciatory and bitter
against Hill. Were the writer a voter
there, this alone would make him go it
“blind” for Hill.
Now let them consider the question
as they may, and it is impossible to
condemn the course of the distin
guished ex-Senalor of the Confederate
Congress. The convention by a solemn
vote adopted the two-thirds rule, and
then wont back upon its own action by
recommending Estes by a bare ma
jority. Per contra, though the coun
ties supporting Mr. Hill represented a
large plurality of the voting popula
tion in the district, they yet refused to
bolt, bfit manfully stood their ground
until the convention bolted.
Of course they then rallied to their
favorite, when no one had received a
legitimate nomination.
But we protest against the ad cap
landum, undignified, vindictive and ma
licious contest waged by the Eagle
against Hon. B. H. Hili, and predict it
will create a reaction in his favor,
While not pressing the claims of
that gentleman with the pertinacity
and blind partisanship of the Atlanta
Herald, we do yet sincerely hope that
this gifted and eloquent Georgian may
win the race on the sth instant, the
more especially as the Constitution of
the United States makes him clearly
eligible, and it is only a question of
preference with the people of the
Ninth District.
The Weather.
War Department, \
Office of Chief Signal Officer, V
Washington. May 1—4:16 p. tn. )
Probabilities:
For Sunday, in the South Atlantic
States, rising barometer, west and
northwest winds, cooler and partly
cloudy weather will prevail.
Report of the United States Signal
Service Bureau.
Augusta, May 1—4:16 P. M.
Augusta, 78 deg.—Threatening.
Buffalo, 47 deg.—Threatening.
Charleston, 75 deg.—Clear.
New Orleans, 87 deg.—Fair.
New York, 45 deg.—Cloudy.
THE PORT ROYAL EXCURSION.
A Visit to tne United States Fleet in
Port Royal Harbor—Land-Lubbers
Among the Monarohs of the Quar
ter Deck—Port Royal and the Sea
Side.
(Special Report for the Constitutionalist.)
It is a well defined trait of the hu
man intellect that privileges and op
portunities are never appreciated until
the hour of enjoyment has passed.
Never Was this principle or peculiarity
better illustrated than by the want of
appreciation exhibited by the people of
Augusta in the p reat privilege that they
lately possessed of witnessing the very
novel spectacle of a full-rigged United
States fleet under such advantageous
circumstances. The excursionists from
Augusta consisted of about twenty-five
ladies and gentlemen, the former de
cldedly in the minority, and though
small in number, yet were powerful in
giving an air of dignity to the trip, as
well as conducing much to the pleasure
of the occasion. Our party arrived
safety at the ambitious and enterpris
ing village of
PORT ROYAL
about 6 a. m., without anything of In
terest and excitement occuring, the
railroad running through a compari
tively desolate country, and, with the
exception of the refreshing sight of an
occasional rice field, the scenery was
decidedly monotonous.
the appearance
of the village to a perfect stranger is
not very inviting, yet it bears upon its
face marked signs of rapid growth pro
duced by capital and enterprise, and
great prospects of many additional im
provements, in both its mercantile and
manufacturing interest. Its boardiag
accommodations far surpass the ordi
nary class of country hotels, furnish
ing a delightful meal and cleanly apart
ments at most reasonable rates, the
house having lately been completely
renovated by Miss Bussey, who is the
sole proprietress. After loitering around
this promising
SEAT OF COMMERCE
for an hour or two, the shrill whistle
of the steamer summoned us to pre
pare for our much coveted sea ride
and visit to the naval squadron. Here
we were met by a large delega
ion of citizens from Beaufort, to
gether with a baud of music which
swelled the proportion of the excur
sionist to about one hundred. As the
boat moved off, Col. J. D. C., the
handsome man of the party, intoxi
cated by the sweet strains of the
music and the delightful effect of his
first taste of sea bretze, exclaimed in a
perfect paroxysm of enthusiasm—
“ GAZE ON THE SEA GULLS,”
which after closer inspection were
found to be only of that useful genus
of birds which relieve scavenger carts
of their prey. (“All our swans are geese
saith the Col.”)
The scenery along Port Royal stream
while not exactly comparable to that
of Lake George has just enough of
the historic celebrity attached to it to
keep the beholder’s’interest constantly
excited with the painful bloody remin
iseens&s of the past, while the ap
parently barren, deserted sea islands
on either side, once the homes of
wealth and refinement, rise before him
like spectres of some better days. The
lands on either side of the stream are
know in common parlance as Sea
Islands where the great staple
SEA ISLAND COTTON
was raised formerly in such excellence
and abundance. These islands were
the scenes of the first war conflicts,
and were occupied by the Northern
army as early as 1861, while, as a nat
ural consequence, their owners fled
before the invaders, and then was the
crowning act of Northern legislative
infamy enacted, namely—that legal
ized public robberv known as the
“Direct Land Tax,”'by which all these
islands of wealth were sold for a mere
pittance, for unpaid taxes on the land
itself. Port Royal itself was formerly
the property of Gen. Stephen Elliott,
but was sold to Mr. Appleton, of New
York, for unpaid taxes.
The sail down the stream was re
markably pleasant, the monotony of
the occasion being dispelled by danc
ing, telescoping the fleet from a dis
tance, and various other amusements
suggested by the ingenuity of the Au
gusta delegation. Eight miles down
the river and we beheld the objects of
onr trip riding the crested waters as if
conscious of their very grandeur. On
one side stood
HILTON HEAD,
on the other Bay Point. The former
was the scene of the maiden efforts of
our short-lived Republic, and was
without doubt the key that unlocked
the granite gates of Carolina and Geor
gia to the enemy. Directly between
these two points stood the South At
lantic squadron, under command of
Rear Admiral Mullaney. These five
vessels, with their colors extended to
the breeze, seemed to us like huge
water giants,’and to an inexoerienced
eye presented a most novel and beau
tiful appearance. To the left of these
stood the monitor 1
dictator,
on which we first descended. To de
scribe it with any degree of accuracy
requires one |better versed in nautical
expressions than “ye improvised cor
respondent.” It is one solid mass of
iron work, lying twenty-three inches
below the surface of the water, and
about six to nine inches above the sur
face. The upper deck contains, in time
of action, nothing but an iron turret
about twelve feet high. In this turret
are placed its principal means of of
fense, consisting of two cannons, whose
very dimensions made the Augusta
party tremblo in mere thoughts of
their power. The charge alone weighs
four hundred and seventy-five pounds,
its bore being fifteen inches, and its
total weight 42,890 pounds.
They estimate each shot at about
#6O. This vessel is worked entirely by
machinery and contains eighteen separ
ate engines. The mechanics,l display
here was of the most intricate nature,
and in it gave only another evidence
of the steady rising power and strength
of our navy. This monitor is also a
FLOATING BATTERING RAM,
its end being so sharpened that if
traveling with any degree of velocity it
sinks its opponent by striking it The
officers of this vessel were uniformly
polite. Anxious to visit the much re
nowned
FLAG SHIP,
the floating home of the Admiral, we
bade farewell to the defiant looking
Dictator, and in a few moments we
were alongside of the finest vessel now
in the service of the United States
Navy.
THE COLORADO.
To attempt to descril& this mam
moth sea hows with our inexperienced
pen would be as idle as presumptuous.
We, therefore, will merely give its
most salient features, so that our read
ers can draw some idea of its proper
dimensions. Its length is 392 feet, its
width is 52 feet and it contains four
decks. Its full complement of men is
600. Our arrival *as greeted by the
sweet strains of “Inman’s Quickstep ”
performed by the Marine Band in hon
or of the visitors. The vessel was
placed at our disposal, and the privi
lege allowed of examining its every
part, and thus, accompanied by the of
ficers ot the vessel, who were all most
assiduous in their attention to gratify
the silliest wish or reply to the sim
plest question of our
SILLIEST MAN OF THE PARTY,
we roamed through this palatial man
of-war, in wonder and admiration at its
power, its strength and its scrupulous
neatness. Dancing, with music by the
marine band, on the upper deck, was
then commenced, and the dashing uni
form of the naval officers and the
bright looks of our Southern beauties,
completed a scene of loveliness seldom
witnessed. A more courteous, affable
and reflnod assembly of officers could
not be found, and to them, in behalf
of the excursionists, we return our
most grateful thanks, especially to
Capt. Ransom and Lieutenants Holman
and Salter, for favors received. After
three hours of delightful enjoyment on
board this mighty man-of-war, we re
luctantly took leave of our newiy-made
friends, and, amidst the cheers of the
crew, and the waving of the flags
spread in our honor, we began our
voyage home, charmed with those we
had met, delighted with what we had
seen, and wonderfully edified by what
we had learned.
Our visit to the remaining ships was
deferred in order for the party to stop
at Beaufort, one of the most aristocra
tic of all Carolina cities iu antebellum
days.
An hour was as long as we desired
to linger over this grave of fallen
greatness, and gaze on the antique yet
elegant mansions, the former resi
dences of wealth and refinement, now
defiled by some negro official. A large
edition of our Hamburg was the uni
versal criticism, though we think the
picture a little overdrawn. And now
our trip was virtually over; so with an
adieu to Beaufort, and a hope of her
speedy Phoenix-like resurrection from
the ashes of her misfortune, we left for
Port Royal with the universal comment
on every lip of its being one of the
most delightful excursions of our
lives. So we therefore take this me
dium to return to Messrs. Cunningham
& Wells our most grateful thanks for
tlieir kind attention, and our heartfelt
congratulations over the complete suc
cess of the trip, with the hope of an
early repetition of the same.
Kenelm Chillingly.
BARBARA FRIETCHIE.
Old Jubal Early Explodes Whittier’s
i Poem.
(Richmond Dispatch.]
Haviug seen in a recent number of
the Dispatch a communication from
Frederick, Md., to the Baltimore Sun,
in relation to a letter from “An ex-
Confederate” to the Los Angeles
(California) Bulletin, endorsing the au
thenticity of the oft-repeated story of
Barbara Frietcbie’s flaunting the “old
flag’ in the faces of General Jackson
and his troops, and being fired upon
by the General’s order, and also an ar
ticle in the supplement to the Sun of
the 24th instant, containing two let
ters from Frederick to disapprove the
story ; and having been appealed to
twice to take some notice of the story—
ODee when it appeared in a historical
magazine published in Philadelphia, I
believe; and again when Whittier’s
poem on the subject appeared in a
reader or book containing “choice se
lections,” or something of that kind,
designed for use in the schools, I take
this occasion to tell the true story of
the flag flaunting before our troops as
they passed through Frederick, Md.,
in September, 1862.
In the first place, I must give an ex
tract from what the writer in the Sun
calls Whittier’s “lofty numbers” as
follows:
“ th *t pleasant morn of the early Fall,
wnen Lee marched over the mountain
wall—
Over the mountains winding down
Horse and foot, into Frederick town,
“Forty flags, with their silver stars.
“Forty Hags with their crimson bars,
“Flapped in the morning wind; the sun
“ Gf noon looked down, and saw not one.
“Up rose old Barbara Frietehie then,
Bowed with her fourscore years and ten;
“ Bravest of all in Frederick town,
“ She took up the flag the men hauled down.
“ In her attic window the staff she set,
“ To show one heart was loyal yet.”
It must be confessed that these are
pretty tall figures ; especially when it
is remembered that Gen. Lee’s army
crossed the a short distance
above Leesburg, in Loudoun county,
and did not have to cross any moun
tain at all to get into Frederick. Then,
too, if there were “forty flags, with
their silver bars,” and “farty flags,
with their crimson stars,” flapping “in
the morning wind” over the “clustered
spires of Frederick” there must have
been eighty in all; though if the poet
means to assert that the flags which
had the silver stars were the same that
had the crimson bars, forty was a
good number to have floating over one
little town. If the flag which Barbara
picked up had been “hauled down,”
then it must have been hauled down
from a standing flag staff; and it must
have been rather a {lofty featfor her to
pick that up, too, and set it in her attic
window. But I suppose it was an
allowable poetic license for Mr. Whit
tier to convert the Potomac river into
a “mountain wall,” and one dingy old
flag hoisted probably over a Quarter
master’s office, into—
lorty flags, with their silver stars,
I orty flags, with their crimson bars."
Eighty or forty, as the case may be.
However, he ought to have accounted
for the other seventy-nine or thirty
nine, and not left them to be trampled
in the dust by the “rebel tread” that
came up the street with “Stonewall
Jackson riding ahead,” even by poetic
license. If there were forty regimen
tal flags, and they were flapping in the
morning wind that morning, then they
must have been flapping over forty
regiments, which incontinently fled on
the approach of the “rebel tread,” one
of them dropping its flag in the panic.
Now, I suppose it is useless to quarrel
with the license which a poet takes
with his subject, but I presume it is
allowable to say that our poet in this
case has taken an equal license with aU
the other facts of the case.
Gen. Jackson had been severely in
jured by a fall of hia horse on the sth
and his corps reached the vicinity of
Frederick on the afternoon of the6th
of September, 1862, under the corn-
JMew Series— Vol. 3. ISTo. 84-
maud of Gen. D. H. Hill. One division
pS? k S? a rt° WD) ’ U u der tho command of
Gen Stai-ice, marched through Freder
ick that evening, and camped in the
vicinity—one brigade of the division
under command of General (then Colo’
oel) Bradley T. Johnson (a citizen of
Frederick up to the beginning of the
war), being#osted in the town to pre
serve order and prevent any depreda
tions on the oitizens. The other divis
ions were halted, and camped near
Monocacy Junction, near which Geu.
uackson also camped;and lam very
confident that ho did not go into Fred
erick until the morning of the 10th,
when his command marched for the
°! arper ’ s Ferry. The Gen-
WeDt t irou £ h Frederick, with a
escort, in advance of his troops,
nnHi d h ld DOt paSB thr °ugh the town
intil he was some distance beyond it.
rßiifnrn1 0 Ca L ed “ ex *Oonfederate” in
TrpwS a W . h ° ! ayß that “Stonewall
W6d , hiß dust-browned
ranks to bait in front of Mrs. FriAt
chies house, and that a bullet from his
fW , mau y that bit
flag she held, if indeed he was ever a
Confederate soldier, has strayed as far
from the truth in the tale he tells as he
has from the land of his birth. It is
possible that he may have once been in
the Confederate army, but if so I vern
ture to affirm that all the shooting he
ever did was with a “Jong bow ” If he
heard Gen Jackson give any such or
dei as that mentioned by him and de
fl rl Wh [ ttieFß Poem, or witness
ed any firing, by his or any other offi-
UP ° U a “ Barb2?a
fhin l h h or an y ether woman’s hand,
then he heard and witnessed what was
ta?ma“ NeE 6d G bj ; i Q J OU 1 ‘ er m ° r '
bW b?r - oflioei ' iQ our
ble of giviug such a command. P
tnrouga Frederick, on the expedition
>i the capture of Harper’s Ferry the
0[ O wWch'?w^ lnCl ' ie ,“ t ” oceu l' oue
other* wiii Ti tß f . ln P ersoQ > and the
otner was described to me by in en
tirely reliable officer of Hays’ Louisi
divisioif 3 vras my brigade > of Ewell’s
town on S? mar chmg through the
S’,- .he street which connects
witn the road to Boonsboro’, a voum'
ftandffiffon^h 01 ’ f e ! eU yearß old "'as
standing on the platform in front of
of a The I 0 ° d f houße > ou the left side
of the street as we marched with t
small flag (United States), ot the size
commonly called candy’ flags in , ,
hand, which she was slowlf ’wav
tone 6 ISSS tt Jell, monotonous
n h for the ’ Star ami
h“ Wit ? tbe Stars and
a ho,n yher Blde Btood another
f" fi h Ve J >r , 81 x years old . leek
Ijf “ Bbe d * d not know what it.
all was about, and the girl who w i
to U hli r ° the P erfor manceseemed
to have no heart in the matter, but
through merG,y goin S mechanically
a recitation she had been
gnt The doors and window-shut-
ters of the house were closed* and not.
f t no! Sh r human beiQ g was visfbieabout
Lna tSf ? e ?’ “ the >' Passed, laughed
and joked pi easanth- about thcaffai:
, a rude or unpleasant remark
vyas made by them. The only indiea
tlon of a disposition to interfere with
£•B*2 was b >' a one-legged man who
had been accompanying one of my regi
ments on horseback during the cam
paign. When I got up I found him
somewhat excited, and upon my ask
ing him what was the matter he called
my attention to the girl with the flag,
and said he had a good mind to get
down and take the flag from her. He
had ev ideotiy taken two or tlire© ex
tra drinks, and I told him he was a
fool—to go on and let the girl
alone—she could do no harm with her
fla-g; and thereupon he moved on.
The other incident occurred farther
°u I think just across the bridge in
the western part of the town. As the
Louisiana brigade (Hays’) was passing,
a coarse, dirty looking woman rushed
up a narrow alley with a United States
flag, very much soiled, which she thrusv
out of the alley, when an Irish soldier
in the brigade, with his ready Irish
wit, made a remark about “that dom’d
ould dirty rag,” as he called it, which
sent her baek with her flag iQ a hurry,
and no effort to take the flag from her
was made. Upon these two incidents,
I presume, are based Mr. Whittier’s
‘lofty numbers” and the disputed
claims to the honor and glory of hav
ing flaunted the “Union flag” in the
face of Stonewall Jackson’s “ragged
rebels” as they passed through
Frederick. The story told by the
Frederick correspondent of the Sun
about a flag being stricken from th&
hand of a Mrs. Quantrill by one of our
officers is, I think, os groundless as that
told in Whittier’s verses. If any such
incident had occurred, and it had been
the subject of reprimand or disappro
val by his superior officers, I think I
would have heard of it I have wit
nessed a uumber of instances of the
display of small flags, or the Union
colors, as they were called, by ladies in
thH enemy’s country as we passed
through their towns, but I never heard
of an instance In which any violence or
rudeness was used by our officers or
soldiers on such occasions ; though,
when the exhibitions became obtru
sive, our boys were always ready with
a good-natured witticism or jest that
put an eDd to these exulierant displays
or patriotism. I have also seen ladies
even in Pennsylvania, wave their white
handkerchiefs to our troops. Whoever
is disposed tx> claim the honor of either
of the two incidents in Frederick that
I have mentioned is entirely welcome
to do so.
I will add that I have been informed
by a gentleman who was for a long
time a citizen of Frederick that Mr
Barbara Frietehie, or her husband, was
a descendant of one ef the Hessians
that were brought over to thrash into
obedience another set of rebels, and if
she had been the heroine of the inci
dent which Mr. Whittle! ’a prolific im
agination has created she would only
have been acting in accordance with
the traditional principles of the family.
I believe Mr. Whittier’s Quaker anees
tors were somewhat in sympathy with
the cause for which the Hessians
fought, and henoe, perhaps, his admi
ration for the supposed exploit of one
of their descendants. I have seen,
within the last year or two, a letter
or statement Horn Barbara Freitchie’s
niece denying that her aunt had hoist
ed the flag or been fired on, but saying
that she had driven off some of' the
“ ragged, lousy rebels ” from her house
with a broom stick—and who would
not run from an old woman with a
scurrilous tongue in her mouth and a
broomstiok in her hands ?
J. A. Early.
Lynchburg, April 26tb, 1875.
The Emperor of Japan talks of go
ing on a tour around the world, calling
Japan the world. — Kocl<tsler Demo
Give me to write the songs of a na
tion a I care not who does tee out-doof
vtork,—New York World,