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LHE CONSTITUTIONALIST
FRIDAY, May 28,1875.
The Atlanta Daily News has again
suspended publication. No reason has
been given, but we presume it failed
for the want of support.
We have had no rai'yih this end of
Georgia and South Carolina in over
three weeks. Field crops have as yet
suffered no material damage, but gar
dens are wanting moisture very much.—
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We publish three decisions of the
Supreme Court of local importance to
Augusta, namely, W. H. Goodrich
against the City Building and Loan
Association; John T. Shewmake, as
signee. againgt Mary A. Williams, and
Dye against Denham.
The McDuffie Journal says that the
reason the Press Association failed was
because it undertook to control papers
not belonging to the concern ; or, in
other words, like Maj. Jones, it at
tempted, after pulling the grapes, “to
skin the cat,” lost its hold and fell iu
the branch, much to the amusement of
the ladies.
The public debt statement of Ala
bama, republished in our commercial
column, is something frightful. It rolls
up to the thundering tune of “Total,
$32,100,000.” This is not ail the people
of that State owe : They are due the
thieves who have stolen seventy-five
per cent, of this money a debt of exe
cration which the wrath of ten genera
tions can si arcely pay.
The suicide of F. W. Sims, at San
Francisco, will not astonish the many
.acquaintances of that man who knew
ut his shortcomings recently at Savan
iost citizen of that city informs us
ic wife'- was short some $20,000 iu the
i among his friends. The dis*
FRAJ“, T jouncing his death should
nave appeared yesterday morning, but
if received at the office it was mislaid.
Newspaper Enterprise.—The Augus
ta (Ga.) Constitutionalist has exhibited
most commendable, not to say wonder
ful, enterprise, recently, in spreading
late news before its readers. The next
day after the recent terrible tornado
swept through Georgia, the Constitu
tionalist had six or eight columns of
details of the disaster from all accessi
ble points along its destructive course.
Again, on Friday last, this spirited and
enterprising journal contained near
seventeen columns of matter, descrip
tive of tlie Mecklenburg Centennial
which took place the day before, at
Charlotte, N. C., two hundred miles
distant from Augusta. Such enterprise
is worthy of all praise, and should
command the liberal patronage of ail
trueaud enlightened Southrons.—Ett
faula (Ala.) Times.
We had a call yesterday from Capt.
Montgomery, of t#c mercantile marine.
He had just read the details of the
Schiller disaster, published yesterday,
and freely expressed his opinion as to
the causes which led to it. He said
that tiie assertion of Dane, in charge
of Bishop Rock Lighthouse, that he
•“ timed the bell properly at six strokes
per minute, and saw all was right,”
was a patent falsehood. He blamed
Dane for the terrible calamity, and
said that had his bell been ringing the
officers of the Schiller, who were all
awake, dreading and apprehending
what subsequently happened, would
certainly have heard it. The Captain
made the deeply interesting assertion
and fact that if the Schiller had had a
calliope on board, and made music from
it, it would have been heard to a far
greater distance than even her signal
guns of distress, for the human ear
will catch the sound of music much
quicker than harsh sounds of far
louder report.
Tije ” death or Gen. Breckinridge
leaves but four gentlemen living who
have been elected to the second high
est office in the United States. They
are Hannibal Hamlin, Andrew John
son, Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wil
son. The mortality among Vice Presi
j dents does not seem to b# as great as
that among the Presidents. Mr. John
son is the only ex-President now liv
ing, and he was not elected to that
office by the people.
The Brussels Echo is facetious. It
states that the Belgian Government, in
order to leave Bismarck no room for
further complaint, intends enacting a
hill making the “ intention ” to commit
crime a legal offense. Human courts
a.nd human scrutiny can hardly fathom
the dark secrets of the heart. Besides,
a proof of good intentions would be no
proof of innocence, because we have
the authority of St, Augustine for say
ing that a very hot plfce is paved with
c-ood intentions
ike flaily fanftMioraM
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Berretta Envoys Visit the Presi
dent.
Washington, May 27.—The Papal
envoys who brought the Berretta to
Cardinal McClosky visited the Presi
dent and Secretarys to-day.
Rev. Dr. McGlynn addressed the
President thus: “The Holy Father in
sending me to present to the Arch
bishop of New York the insignia
of the Cardinal at the same time in
structed me not to fail before leav
ing the United States to call
upon your Excellency and express
to you his regard and best wishes
for the great and illustrious American
nation, and for your Excellency as its
honored chief. I feel greatly honored
in fulfilling this commission, and I re
joice that it gives me the opportunity
of knowing your Excellency personally
aud presenting also my own most re
spectful compliments.”
The President said : “In reply, I beg,
Monsigner, that you will convey to the
Pope my thanks for his kind expres
sion of regard and good wishes for the
country and for myself, and I am hap
py to reciprocate your own kind ex
pressions for me.”
I Notes from the National Capital.
The President orders the Departments
closed Saturday for the decoration of
the Arlington Federal graves. Gen.
Meigs has been detached on special
duty to report upon the organization
of foreign armies—especially regarding
the Quartermasters Department. Meigs
will be absent one year. Gen. Ingall
has been assigned Quartermaster Gen
eral meantime. The President, with
family, goes to Long Branch Tuesday.
Delauo had a general talk with the
Black Hill Indians, who showed little
disposition to move in the Indian Ter
ritory. Spotted Tail wanted to know if
that territory was so beautiful, why
white men did not go there instead of
coming to the Black Hills?
FROM RICHMOND.
The Convention of the Young Men’s
Christian Association.
Richmond, May 27.— The delegates to
the Young Men’s Christian Association
held a prayerful meeting at the Baptist
Church this a. m., at ton o’clock.
President Hardin called the Convention
to order. Yesterday’s proceedings
were read and approved and commit
tees announced. Southerners: On As
sociation, J. M. Dovvele, of North Caro
lina ; Credentials, L. S. Edwards, of
Richmond ; A. J. Dodmead, of South
Carolina ; Devotional Excercises, J. W.
Wallace, of Georgia; W. L. Peck, of
Texas ; Junes Gordon, of Richmond;
Executive, R. B. Russell, of Florida.
Rev. Duncan McGregor, of England,
was elected Honorary Vice-President.
Several satisfactory addresses were
made.
In the Young Men’s Christian Asso
ciation an extract was read from a let
ter of Stuart Robinson endorsing lay
preaching.
The afternoon session was occupied
by reports. The progress of the Asso
ciation was very satisfactory in all de
tails.
Explosion of a Drug Store.
Boston, May 27.— There was an ex
plosion at Daw’s drug store, Washing
ton street. A wall fell. Two dead and
three taken out fatally hurt. Twelve
have been sent to the hospital. The
street was crowded with people and ve
hicles. A street car was thrown on its
side by the explosion. A horse and
buggy were found under the ruins. Ad
joining buildings shattered. Cause un
known.
Later. —Three are dead, four seri
ously wounded aud twenty-two slightly.
ii m
The Baltimore Turf.
Baltimore, May 27.—1n the first race
11 horses started, Springlet Bay filly
won, Springlet second, Vagabond third.
Time, 1:48. In the second race five
started, Freakness won, Fadladeen
second, Botany Bay third. Time, 4:09
In the third race six started, Stock
wood won, Scratch second, Standford
third. Time, 2:44)£. In the fourth
race eight started, Audubon won.
Time, 1:47, 1:46^,1:49^.
Memphis Crop Report.
Memphis, May 27.—One hundred and
sixty-six responses of planting are
completed. Except replanting, 2 7 £ less
acreage than last year. Stands: 95
report good, 71 report 11 per cent short,
two-fifths of which will be replanted.
The weather is favorable, except too
cold. 94 report material improvement,
31 moderate improvement, 36 no
change, and 5 not so good in labor.
Average stand six days later than last
year.
- Condensed Lightning.
Baltimore, May 27.—At the Biennial
Session of the Synod of the Evangeli
cal Lutheran Church, composed of
over one hundred thousand members
aud 700 ministers, being the 92d an
nual convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the diocese of
Maryland, the question of prayers for
the dead will be brought before Bishop
Smith, of Kentucky, Bishop Whitting
ham having failed to take action ar
raigning the Rectors of Calvary
Church.
Hartford, May 27.—The Commis
sioners of the United State Centennial
desire to say that no selection of ora
tors, poets or marshals has been made.
Ohio River Steamboats Burned.
Pittsburg, May 27.— The steamboats
Juniata and Mollie Ebert, with three
empty barges, lying at Monongahela
wburf, were burned to the water’s edge
this morning. The Juniata, a side
wheel boat, had been held here by
order of the United States Marshal,
and was only released yesterday. She
was valued at about $75,000, and was
uninsured. The Mollie Ebert, a stern
wheel boat, valued at $35,000, was in
sured for about one-half this amount
Total loss, roughly estimated, 8120,000.
Suicide of F. W. Sims.
San Francisco, May 26 —Col. F. W.
Sims committed suicide last night by
taking morphine. Papers found on his
person indicate that the deceased had
been business manager of the Savan
nah (Ga.,) Advertiser, and that he came
here from New York a few weeks ago.
The Political Turf.
Portsmouth, Va., May 27. —The Con
servatives carried the city, except two
Council men.
“Hopper-cusses” is the latest name
for them out West And the Chicago
grain merchants pray that thej’ may
continue to prey.
Over one thousand newspapers sus
pended last year.
Queen Olga, of Greece, is the most
beautiful woman in Europe.
AUGUSTA, GA.. FIRDAY MORNING. MAY 28. 1875.
SUPREME COURT.
Decisions in the Cases of Goodrich vs.
City Loan and Building Association—
J. T. Shew make vs. Mary A. Wil
liams, and F. L. Dye vs. C. Denham.
W. H. Goodrich et. al. vs. the city. L. &
B. Association. Equity, from Rich
mond.
Trippe, J.
The Stockholders of a Building and
Loan Association, after sixty-six in
stallments had been paid in, unani
mously resolved for the purpose of
closing the business of the company, to
appoint a committee of their number to
report some equitable plan for a settle
ment of their rights and claims inter sese
A mode was reported by this commit
tee, which was adopted by a majority,
but which was objected" to and pro
tested against by others. The latter
filed a bill to enjoin the carrying out of
the plan adopted, as being unjust and
in violation of their lights—claiming
that the spirit and intent of the reso
lution first adopted, and the object of
the members in agreeing to it, was to
have their rights determined accord
ing to some equitable method of ad
justment, independent of tho rules
of the body, and under such as would
govern in a settlement between creditor
and debtor. They also asked for gen
eral relief, account, settlement, etc.
The chancellor, to whom at a regular
hearing of the bill were referred all
questions of law and fact, decreed that
“an equitable adjustment is to charge
each borrower with the amount he re
ceived, with seven per cent interest;
credit this debt according to the law of
partial payments with the additional
dollar per month that he paid by reason
of being a borrower, let him pay the
balance thus ascertained into the funds
of the Association. Then let the entire
amount on hand, after deducting costs
and expenses, be equally divided among
the shareholders.”
Held, that the complainants who
are of the class called borrowers, can
not, under the allegations and claims
set up in the bill and sustained by their
testimony, complain against the decree
as being unfair and inequitable.
2. If the plan adopted by the major
ity be not binding on the Association,
and by it a number of stockholders
have been settled witli aud discharged,
whereby complainants allege that they
received an undue share of the assets,
such stockholders may be made par
ties to the bill for the purpose of hav
ing all questions arising in the case ad
judicated, one of which is their liability
to refund for such amounts as they
may have received in excess of their
proper portion—nor could that matter
be determined unless they be made
parties.
3. If, < n the application of complain
ants, such new parties are made at the
hearing, the cause may be proceeded
with so that there may be an interlocu
tory decree as to the proper rule of set
tlement for those who are then before
the court, and the Chancellor can order
iu the decree that it may thereafter be
opened for the adjudication of all ques
tions touching the liability of those
who were brought in at that stage of
the case. Nor is there any necessity to
postpone the collection of what may be
due by complainants under the rule
prescribed by the decree, until the mat
ter of the liability of such stockhold
ers, thus made parties, is determined.
4. If the officers of the Association in
good fath carried out the plan as was
adopted as hereinbefore referred to, so
as to settle with a portion of the stock
holders in accordance therewith, they
cannot be made individually responsi
ble for such action, though it might
finally be held that such stockholders
could be compelled to refund any ex
cess they may have received over what
they may rightfully be entitled to.
Judgment affirmed.
Hook & Webb, for plaintiffs in error.
McLaws & Ganahl, for defendant.
John T. Shewmake, assignee vs. Mary
A. Williams. Equity, from Richmond.
WARNER, c. .j.
This was a bill filed by the complain
ant against the defendants, to set aside
certain deeds to a house and lot in the
city of Augusta, on the ground that the
same were without consideration, and
had been obtained by deceitful repre
sentations, with intent to defraud the
complainant. On the trial, it was agreed
that the Chancellor should determine
both the law and facts of the case,
without the intervention of a jury.
After considering the evidence submit
ted at the hearing, the Chancellor de
creed, that the deed made by the com
plainant to tho defendant, Mathews,
and the deed made by Mathews to
the defendant, O’Dovvd, be set aside
and annulled. Whereupon, the de
fendants expected. It appears from
the evidence, that the complainant is a
colored woman, that the defendant,
Mathews, is a colored man, who was
engaged in the grocery busiuess ; that
complainant and Mathews were mem
bers of the same church, lie being a
deacon thereof; that the deed from
complainant to Mathews was procured
from her on the representations of
Mathews that he wanted it to pledge
as collateral security to raise S4OO, to
enable her son Augustus to become a
partner with him in the grocery busi
ness ; that on the same day he got the
deed from complainant he executed an
absolute deed for the property to
O’Dowd, the other defendant, for the
consideration of SI,OOO, taking O’Dowd’s
bond to reconvey the property to him
(Mathews) on payment of that amount.
At the time of this transaction it ap
pears from the evidence in the record
that Mathews was indebted to O’Doml
S72J 05; that the papers wppp drawn
by O’Dowd’s lawyer, who was instruc
ted to draw them so that they would
stick. There does not appear to have
been any consideration for the deed
from the complainant to Mathews,
either good or valuable, except his re
presentation to her, that he wanted it
to pledge as collateral security to raise
S4OO, to enable her son to become a
partner with him iu the grocery busi
ness ; that this representation to her
was false pnd fraudulent, is mani
fested by the fact that as soon as he
procured the deed from he* he con
veyed the property to O’Dowd to secure
the payment of his own indebtedness
to him for $721.05. O’Dowd Dever paid
but SIOO in money to Mathews. The
record shows that he paid to the lawyer,
for his services ip drawing up the pa
pers, $43, for Mathews’ taxes for the
years 1868-’69-’7O, $280.25, to Geraty &
Armstrong for Mathews SIOO, and let
him have merchandise to the amount of
$274.89. All these amounts appear to
have been paid for the benefit of
Mathews. The complainant had entire
confidence, as the evidence shows, in
her colored brother in the church,
Deacon Mathews, and it is pretty clear
from all the evidence, that he took ad
vantage of that confidence, and fraueju
-1 lently procured the deed fron her
under false pretence# for bis own bene
fit. The court, in passing on the facts
of the case, having found that O’Dowsd
had notice iu relation to the transac
tion between Deacon Mathews and
complainant, as to the procurement of
the [deed from her without considera
tion, there was no error in rendering
the decree setting aside the deeds of
conveyance.
Let the judgment of the court below
be affirmed.
J. T. Shewmake, for plaintiff in error.
Hood & Gardner, for defendant.
Francis L. Dye vs. Charles Denham.
Trespass, from Richmond.
McCay, J.
1. When an action was brought for
damages, caused by the illegal suing
out and levy of a distress warrant, and
tiiere was some evidence of malice and
want of probable ground, it was error
in the Court to charge the jury that
“iu this case you cannot find vindic
tive damages,” and the jury having
found such damages, it was error in
the Court to grant anew trial on the
ground that the jury found contrary to
his charge.
2. In an action of trespass, the ques
tion of damages is a peculiar one, to be
decided by the jury, and if, under the
evidence, the verdict is not unreason
able and excessive, the Court ought
not to interfere.
3. Iu this case there was, in our
judgment, sufficient evidence to justify
the verdict for vindictive damages, not
withstanding the defendant’s consulta
tion with a respectable attorney.
Judgment reversed.
H. Clay Foster, for plaintiff in error.
James C. C. Black, for defendant.
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ANOTHER BOSTON HORROR.
A Little Girl Killed in Cliurck —The
Sexton Her Supposed Murderer.
Boston, May 23.—Another murder
even more horrible in its details than
that of Mrs. Bingham, a few weeks since
was perpetrated in the city this after
noon. A bright little girl, five years of
age, was murdered in- a church and her
bruised and mutilated body carried up
into a tower and thrown upon the floor
of the loft. The victim was Mabel H.
Young, who with her widowed mother
resided with her grandfather at 50
East Chester Park. The latter, Mr.
James Hobbs, is a well known and
highly respected merchant, senior of
the firm of Hobbs, Pope & Cos. This
afternoon little Mabel, iu company with
an aunt, attended the Sunday school
anniversary excercises of Warren
Avenue Baptist Church, and, on
coming out of church, at half
past three o’clock, the aunt re
mained in the vestibule about ten
minutes conversing with some frieuds,
and as she was starting home she miss
ed the child, who a few minutes before
was at her side. First it was supposed
she had gone back into the church, but
when she was not found inside, and
outsiders declared she had not come
out, her aunt became alarmed, and
search commenced iu every direction.
About four o’clock some ladies at an
open window across the street heard
faint cries of a child apparently from
the church tower, and noticed an un
usual commotion among tho doves that
swarmed iu and out of tho window.—
Some young men who had joined in the
search started at once to ascend the
tower. They found the door leading
up from the organ to the loft locked,
and on forcing it open were startled
to see fresh blood upon the floor
and steps leading up to the next laud
ing. They also found a strip of
boajd covered with blood at one
end aud heard low meanings from
above. Ascending a long, steep flight
of stairs and raising the scuttle, which
resisted the strength of a strong man,
they found the mangled body of the
child lying near the edge of the scuttle,
as though it had been carried up the
steps and hastily thrown down there.
Carefully they carried her down into
the church where a large number of
persons had congregated and iuto tho
presence of her agonized friends. [From
the top of her head, which was broken
in, the blood and brains were slowly
oozing, while the nose was crushed iu,
and the face terribly mangled. Thomas
Piper, who has been sexton of the
church about a year, was soon after
arrested and is now confined at the
chief’s office. He wa3 engaged at work
about the church, but his suspicious
manner and his denial that ho had the
keys when the two keys fitting the doors
of the tower were token from his person,
points strongly to him as the party.
He is a dark, heavy set man, about 26
years old, and has once before been
under suspicion of murder, but was
discharged from want of sufficient evi
dence. Many of the police still believe
him guilty of the murder of a young
girl in Dorchester district, about fifteen
months since. This last affair has
caused a profound sensation fii the
community, and intense excitement
prevails. The very boldness of the
affair lends additional horror to it.
Scarcely three-quarters of an hour
elapsed from the time the child came
out of the vestibule of the church until
she was found ip a dying condition.
How she was enticed away, and for
what motive, has not transpired.
The Victim Htill Breathes.
Boston, May 2k—Little Mabel H.
Young is still alive but unconscious.
Physicians think that if inflammation
does not ensue her life may be saved.
Cumulative evidence, among other
things, blood stains on his collar, hand
kerchief and clothing, strengthens be
lief iu the guilt of Sexton Piper.
Death of the Victim.
Mabel H. Young, the victim of the
Wairen Avenue Church tragedy, died
this afternoon. The feeling against
Pjper, the supposed murderer, is in
tense with all classes.
One Question too Few.— During a
class meeting held by the Methodist
brethren of a Southern village, Bro
ther Jones went among the colored
portion of the congregation. Finding
there a man notorious for his endeavor
to serve God on the Sabbath, and Sa
tan tfye pest of the whek, he said :
“ Well, Brother Djck, I am glad to see
you here. Haven’t stole any turkeys
sipee { saw ypu last, Brothep Dicfc ?”
“ No, po, Brother Jones, no tur
keys.”
“ Nor chickens, Brother Dick ?”
“ No, no, Brother Jones, no chick
ens.”
“ Thank the Lord, Brother Dick 1 —
That’s doing well, ray brother !” said
Brother Jopes, leaving Brother Ijick,
who immediately relieved his over*
burdened conscience by saying to a
near neighbor, with an immense sigh
of relief, “If he’d said ducks, he’d ’a’
had me.”
The air of the March in Faust is 170
years old.
The greatest number of suicides oe
ppr amopg tfie Aqstpiaps.
Miss Rqcker, General Sherican’s
bride, graduated frorp St. Leonard’s in
Philadelphia.
SCIENCE AND RELIGION.
A Rejoinder to “Catholieo.”
Mr. Editor —Until this hour I was
not aware that you published, some
weeks ago, “ Catholicus’ Few Correc
tions,” written for the Savannah Ad
vertiser, April 24th, together with a
review of the same by a certain “ Ca
tholico,” a strange name for an adver
sary of Catholicity! But what’s in
a name? Both documents have just
been forwarded to me from Augusta,
through the kindness of a friend. Had
I received them on the day of their
issue, my answer to “Catholieo ” would
have reached you the following day.
My new reviewer owes to this involun
i tary delay the satisfaction of having
entertained for three weeks the thought
that I meant to abandon the position
taken by me in a “ Few Corrections.”
He will have to thii k differently for
the future.
“Catholicus” was first reviewed by a
certain “Samaritan,” (Savannah Adver
tiser, April 20), who proved so honestly
ignorant of the first principles of
science and religion that I deemed it a
duty of charity to give him a little in
formation on both subjects. The burden
of his questions was, “If science does
not antagonize with religion, what of
miracles ?--what of these chief proofs
of the divinity of Christianity ?” I an
swered him that true science is incom
petent to understand or explain, by its
own resources, all the phenomena of
one miracle, yet it does not in the least
antagonize with any of them. A mira
cle is simply a phenomenon different
from other phenomena taking place
under the same circumstances. A
miracle is not properly a deviation
from the laws of nature—it is simply
the result of a law different from those
laws of nature known to men. The
laws of nature are but “the will of the
author of nature.” He wills that you
and I should not be able to walk over
the sea without Paul Boynton’s float
ing apparatus; but one day He willed
that Saint Peter should tread the waves
without said apparatus ; and He con
tradicted not Himself for it. This, our
answer to reviewer No. 1, was refused
admission in the columns of the Sa
vannah Advertiser, for reasons not
fully explained to us by the editor of
that paper.
Reviewer No. 2, who styles himself
“Catholieo,” but means doubtless Auti
catholico, seems to know as much
about things natural aud supernatural
as “Samaritan” does. Before I ven
ture to make the readers of the Con-
HEmmoNALisT share this, my opinion of
his science, I must remind him that
tl|e positionjtaken by me in “A Few Cor
rections” is not what he is pleased to
make it. “Catholicus,” he says, “chal
lenges Dr. Ford or any Protestant to
prove that the dogma of transubstan
tiation and the dogma of Papal infalli
bility are not in harmony with the
principles of science.” I made no such
challenge, and will take good care never
to make it, for the simple reason that
I am not prepared to prove the haimony
of *uuy dogma of faith with the princi
ples of science. Dogmas of faith, that
of trausubstantiou, or the infallibility
of the Pope, are truths of the superna
tural order neither eoneeivablo nor
demonstrable by the natural light of
human reason, they simply lie beyond
the reach of man’s natural faculties,
yet not against them. If science can
not prove their harmony with any law
of nature, because it knows not their
essence, for the same reason it cannot
prove their antagonism with any of the
same laws. This is precisely what I
asserted in my challenge which ran
thus: “We challenge any scientist to
name one truth of science that contra
dicts one single doctrine upheld and
taught by this Church, from her doctrine
of the real and substantial presence of
Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist to
that of the Infallibility of the Pope.” An
assertion altogether different from the
following: “That Trausubstantiation is
in full harmony with the laws of scien
tific truth,” which my reviewer No. 2,
would have me to hold. I illustrate
for his future guidance. If he be a
Christian, he believes in the mystery of
the Holy Trinity: One God in three di
vine persons. (.lan he point out to us
one law of science in harmony with
this dogma ? Yet, can ho not challenge
the scientific world to produce one
truth of science that contrad cts the
mystery of the Holy Trinity ? If he
cannot, we can and we do. If he be not
a Christian, and nevertheless believes
with Plato, that there is a spiritual sub
stance in him called spirit; does he
know any lav/ of science which
explains the harmony or union
of his spirit with his brain, that won
derful organ of flesh and blood, as in
the best it is, yet necessary to the
spirit that it may thiuk, love, will, in
a word, be a man. He is ignorant of
the laws regulating the union of his
soul with his body. Will he pretend
that there is antagonism between the
science of zoology and his spirit or
brain? Thus, with* the facts of the
supernatural order; that they are in
harmony with, some laws of nature, in
asmuch as the Jaws of nature are God’s
will, may be asserted, but we perceive
that harmony does not necessarily fel
low. Again from the fact that we per
ceive not that harmony, can not be con
cluded this other fact that they are an
tagonistic.
This is the position which I main
tained in my “few corrections.” This
reviewer No. 2 vaguely perceived, for
he made an attempt to produce what
4e faneje4 to be a truth of poiepce con
tradicting the Catholic dogma of Tran
substautiation. “ Every school boy in
the land knows that a real body can only
occupy one point in space at the saine
time,” said ho, with that air of assu
rance wh}ch so well becomes shallow
ness of mipd.
I mosf emphatically deny that “ a
veal body, by its substance (the ques
tion of species, modes or qualities be
ing out of the present issue) can only
occupy one point of space at the. same
time. The science of physics that lays
down the axiom quoted by my antag
onist deals only with the outward phe
nomena of bodies aud pretends to de
cide nothing as to their substance, that
spbstanture of theirs which no eye of
man has seen, no hand touched, no
chisel carved, no hre melted, no scale
weighed, no sense of man reached.—
And the dogma of the Holy Eucharist
is that only the substitute, not the ap
pearance, or species of bread and wine,
are changed into the substance of the
pody uqd blood of Jesus Christ. Now
the law of space is a consequence of
the law of extension. Bodies are said
to be in a certain space because they
are extended ; if they were not extend
ed there would be no relation between
qud space. The question is
Simply this, therefore, is the law of
extension so necessary to the substance
of bodies that it cannot exist without
}t? | answer, No! with all the received
schoqls of philosophy. Thus taught
Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas, with the
brightest geniuses of humanity ; and
to come down to modern philosophers,
and Protestant ones, too, I first quote
Leibnitz:
“If it could be demonstrated by in
vincible arguments that the substance
of bodies requires absolute exten
sion, that is, determined space; as one
truth cannot contradict another, we
should conclude that any given body
could not, even by Divine power, be in
several places at once, no more than in
a square the diagonal cannot have a
common measure with the side thereof.
But far from its being demonstrated
by any school of philosophy, the wisest
and best of them give the strongest
reasons that can be had to prove that
there is no absolute necessity for the
substance of bodies to be extended,
hence localized in one particular place.”
(Systema Theol. Leibnitzii, cxiv.)
After the above quoted passage,
Leibnitz gives his reasons for assert
ing the non-extension of substance, and
he ends by admitting the possibility of
the Catholic Dogma of Transubstan
tion.
Kant teaches the same doctrine of
the non-extension of the substance of
bodies, of matter in its essence; and so
do the leading scientists of the present
century. We decline including among
them Darwin, Tyndall, Draper & Cos.
The great chemist Faraday teaches the
doctrine of Leibnitz in his essay: “The
Nature of Matter.” Priestley’s great
theory of matter is, that its essential
and ultimate constituents, the atoms,
are not extended, but mere centres, or
causes of attraction snd repulsion.—
Thus, the most authorized representa
tives of chemistry and physics agree
with metaphysicians in asserting the
non-extension, and hence non-localiza
tion of the primitive elements, the sub
stance of matter.
But enough of quoting. If any one
pretend that the substance of bodies is
necessarily extended, so that God Him
self cannot without contradiction dis
pense with that law, hence with the
consequent law of space, let him stand
forth and give his proof for it. I dare
him to do so, because he would have
first to flud out what the substance of
bodies is, to define it accurately as to
what it is, and what it is not—a labor
beyond all those of Hercules.
The mere affirmation of reviewer No.
2, after the fashion of every school boy
in the land, that “ a real body can only
occupy one point in space at the same
time,” may mean that he cat not con
ceive, any more than the school boys of
the land and their teachers, “a real
body in two points of space at once;”
but it does not follow from their inca
pacity to conceive it that the fact does
not exist. “ There are a few more
things in heaven and on earth than are
dreamt of in (his?) your philosophy.” A
scientific affirmation is one backed by
conclusive argument, not a mere “ ipse
dixit.”
Therefore I reiterate my challenge :
“There is notone principle of reason,
not one truth of science that contradicts
(scientifically i. e. with proofs) one
dogma defined by the Homan Catholic
Church, from the dogma of ti ansubstan
tiations to that of the infallibility of the
Pope, and others.”
Let scientists and all other kinds of
Protestants take it as they choose. Let
Reviewer No. 3 review me, yet not
without good arguments to back his
assertions learned from the school
boys of the land, or not; let him name
truths, not guesses, contradicting
Catholic dogma.
About the infallibility of the Pope, I
have nothing to say, as Catholieo did
not produce as yet one error in mat
ters of faith or morals taught ex-ca
thedra by a Pope. Some Popes may
have been as wicked as Judas, but
this is not to the point. I am sorry
that a friend of mine wished to take a
side view of my position ; methinks I
bring it pretty nearly back to its hon
est front view.
“ Catholieo ” is also mistaken in his
opinion that I have entered my pro
test against a few utterances of Dr.
Ford for the sole pleasure of discuss
ing. A Catholic priest has nobler and
more important reasons in view, when
he does what I have done. He does not
give up father, mother, sisters, broth
ers, and his eountry, and the hope of
all earthly ties and affections for the
sake of quarreling ; but for the sake of
helping souls redeemed by the blood
of Christ to work out their salvation.
Infidelity under cover of a false science
is trying its best to ruin the youth of
this country. Woe to those who side
with it or are afraid to resist it! I
know, and able Protestant divines have
declared it of late, that what can be
saved of the world will be saved by the
Catholic Church. All may not believe
it, yet it is as certain a truth as this
affirmation of Christ: “If ye hear not
the Church, let him be to thee as the
heathen aud publican.” The lowliest of
us may lend his hand,weak as it is, to
holy mother church in the war now rag
ing more fearfully than ever between
heaven and hell. It is the only excuse
for the course taken by me.
That my reviewers, past and future,
may know that I 4m in earnest aud
may find mo when they choose. I do
away with lenom deplume “Catholicus.”
lhope they will follow my example.
Rev. Ch. Tanquerey.
Savannah, Ga., May 25.
A Old Puzzle, but a Good One.— A
Boston chambermaid is said to have
got twelve commercial travellers into
eleven bed-rooms, and yet tu have
given each a separate bed-room. Here
we have the eleven bed-rooms •
\I2 1 3 jT~j~s~i~6 f7 | BlirrKil n ~
“Now,” said she, “if two of you gen
tlemen will go into No. 1 bed-room and
wait for a few minutes I’ll find a spare
room for one of you as soon as I’ve
shown the others to their rooms.”
Well, now, having thus bestowed two
gentlemen in No. 1, she puts the third
in No. 2, the fourth in No. 3, the fifth
in No. 4, the sixth in No. 5, the seventh
in No. G, the eighth in No. t>, the ninth
in No. 8, the tenth in No. 9, and the
eleventh in No. 10. She then came
back to No. 1, where you will remember
she left the twelfth gentleman along
with the first, and said i “I’ve now ac
commodated all the rest, aud have still
a room to spare ; so, if you will please
step into No. 11 you will find it empty.”
Thus the twelfth man got his bedroom.
Of oqqrse there is a hole in the sauce
pan somewhere; but we leave the rea
der to determine exactly where the
fallacy is.
Lieutenant Governor Hubbard, of
Texas, being unable \o accept an invi
tation to a Granger festival at Kauf
man on the Ist of May, wrote a letter
instead, in which he earnestly advises
the Patrons Qf Husbandry to keep from
involving themseives, as an order, in
L g political strife of the day, and says;
“ Ifhe history of the teaches the
itpportaQL lesson thqt no secret or
ganization, however great its numbers
or eminent its talents, when c|ebusv.d to
mere political ends ever yet survived
iqore than a brief and stormy hour
Upon the stage. It will always be so,
and it should.”
GEORGIA CROP NEWS.
We would be glad if our friends in
the country would send us reports of
the condition of the crops. Nothing,
scarcely, we can publish would be read
with more interest by everybody.
The Albany Central City says that
the farmers are complaining that the
drought has greatly injured their oats,
cutting off the yield in some instances’
they estimate, one-half or more, some
of them being now engaged in cutting
that seasonable and important crop.
The drought eastwardiy is thought to
be doing considerable damage to the
crops. This, however, may be only tem
porary, except that done to the oats,
they having already made all they wili
make.
A correspondent in Tatnall county
informes the Hiuesville Gazette that the
great promises in reference to this
crop in the early Spring have been ful
filled. The farmers are sharpening up
their scythe blades, and this week
“Reaping Bees” will be popular. The
yield wili far exceed that of former
years. The cane crop iu the same
county is said to be remarkably fine.
Especially is this the case in the lower
part of the county and along the Alta
inaha.
Covington Star: Mr. N. P. Hunter
claims to have a field of wheat which
he thinks wifi yield forty bushels to the
acre. He also expects to make 5,000
bushels of corn, if the seasons continue
favorable. His farm is under the im
mediate supervision of Mr. Joseph Har
ris, one of the most industrious
men in our county.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun: If the ac
counts that have reached us of the de
struction of a large portion of the
growing wheat in the Northwest by se
vere cold weather are correct, and if
tiie grasshoppers of which we now hear
so much should commit the destruction
in the same region that is apprehended
it is plain that the people of the South
must rely in the main on their own pro
duction for the “ staff of life.” True,
they can get some portion of what
is raised iu the West, for that
section must still make more than
enough for its own consumption;
but it may be at a price that
eaunot be afforded if it must come out
of the proceeds of the cotton crop.
We have seen that there was no profit
in raising cotton wherewith to buy
corn, even when corn sold at 25 cents
per bushel in the interior of Illinois
and producers then used it for fuel.’
Much less, then, will be the chance for
profit to the cotton planter in this bar
ter when corn and wheat are unusually
scarce and high in the Northwest.
That there is great danger of their be
ing so this year, the accounts received
fully warrant us iu apprehending.
We do not write to cause any alarm,
but merely to call the attention or
Southern planters to the uncertainties
of the situation, and to urge them
while it is yet time, to avoid depen
dence for bread upon a section of the
country whose wheat crops have been
cut short one-fourth by the severity of
the winter, and whose remaining wheat
and young corn are now threatened by
the grasshopper pest. We have strong
hopes in the truth of reports that our
people have planted more grain this
year; and we trust that propitious
seasons will enable them to make crops
equal to their expectations. But this
last reliance, especially, is precarious
and may prove a bitter disappointment.
There is still time to plant late corn,
and to put in large crops of peas anti
sweet potatoes. With plenty of the lat
ter, the planter may make even a small
corn crop sufilce, and thus avoid buying
flour and corn at prices which cannot
be afforded out of the proceeds of cot
ton at twelve or fifteen oentg per pound.
At this particular time there is general
solicitude as to the efficiency of the
grain crops of the country, and we may
rest assured that speculators are
already preparing to make matters
worse if the crops should really be
short. Their selfish and pernicious
“corners” will greatly aggravate a bad
situation, and our section of the coun
try will be especially at their mercy
unless it takes care of itself. We re
peat, there is time enough yet to do
this, and we hope that every tiller of
the soil will do his part. Nothing can
possibly be lost by it, but much may be
saved. '
An Incident of General Breckinridge’s
Career.
(From Forney’s Reminiscences.]
Perhaps the most dramatic scene
that ever took place in the Senate
Chamber, old or new, was that between
Breckinridge and Col. E. D. Baker of
Oregon, on August 1, 1861, five days
before the adjournment sine die, in the
darkest period of tho war, when the re
bellion was most defiant and hopeful.
Tho last week of that July was full of
excitement in Congress and the coun
try, aud I know how much labor and
patience it required to keep alive the
hopes of our people. The course of
Powell and Breckinridge, of Kentucky,
and Bright, of Indiana, in opposing the
Government, had nearly obliterated
party feeling in the Senate. McDou
gall, of California; Rice, of Minneso
ta ; Thompson, of New Jersey, ail
Democrats, had declared for foree to
crush the rebellion These men were
especially emphatio, though closely en
deared to Breckinridge. Thompson,
of New Jersey, spoke loud and firm
from his seat: “ I shall vote for the
bill as a war measure; lam in favor
of carrying on the war to crush out the
rebellion.” The same day McDonald
questioned the right of Powell, of Ken
tucky, to his seat in the Senate. An
drew Johnson reiterated his determi
nation to stand by the flag to the last.
Carlile, of West Virginia, would vote
for force to put down the rebel foe. It
was in the midst of this feeling that
Breckiniidge rose to make his last for
mal indictment against the Govern
ment. Never shall I forget the
scene. Baker was a Senator and sol
dier. He alternated between his seat
in the Capitol and his tent in the
field He carpe in at the eastern
door v while Breckinridge was speaking]
in hia blue coat and fatigue cap. riding
whip in hand. He paused and listened
to the polished treason,” as he after
wai and called it, of the Senator from Ken
tucky, and when he sat down, he re
plied with a fervqr never to be forgot
ten. * * * An amusing episode fol
lowed the debate. Breckinridge thought
it was Sumner who answered Baker’s
interrogatory, “What would have been
done with a Roman Senator guilty of
such treason ?” by exclaiming that
“He would have been hurled from the
Tarpeian Roch ” And he denounced
the Massachusetts Senator in severe
and angry Saxon. When Breckinridge
discovered it was Fessenden, and not
Sumner, who, had given this response
he did not complain of the first nor
apologize to the second.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean, of Friday
was the largest newspaper ever pub
lished. It had 144 pages.
-New Series—Vol. 3. No. 105
[Denver News.]
THE HOPPER GRASS.
He Cometh, from W hence aud How—A
Rocky Mountain Pastoral Epic.
The grasshopper;
i He cometh ;
He oometh numerously;
He bringeth his family ;
Also his relatives,
Apd his friends ;
Likewise his motner-in-law,
And her friends ;
As well as all that hate her,
And they are legions ;
DO B reen thing remaineth where
the hopper hath been.
His pathway is tho abomination of
desolation.
ranchman raourneth for his
green fields that were, but are not;
Mayhap he sweareth ;
alouTSam 68aith a " d ‘ bly ' onJ criell *
What careth the hopper-trras a '*
It troubleth him not.
Ask the prophets of Kansas ;
And the w ise men of Nebraska ;
And they will answer likewise ;
But the Relief Committee Agent
lifteth up his voice and calleth the
hopper blessed.
He cometh in the later Summer
days ;
In sun darkening myriads ;
As the winds come when forests are
Tended ;
As the waves come when navies are
stranded ;
Like unto a Democratic victory.
He alighteth on the potato vine ;
-^ n ‘] on the fragrant tomato tree :
succu l e nt roasting ear,
whilst it is yet in the milk and tooth
some ;
Aud upon all other feuits of the field
that cometh late into market;
And they all disappear, and are seen
alter that evil day no more for ever.
And the lady grasshopper rnaketh
straightway her nest “down in tho
corn field;”
And in the wheat stubbie ;
And upon the hillside ;
And all over the sandy plain ;
And everywhere else under the sun ;
A ad she tiileth the nest with eggs ;
And then she continueth to make
nests and fill them likewise with eggs
every day, until the winter days cometh
and the ground freezeth hard, when no
grasshopper can make nests.
And the eggs, are they not ranch
eggs ?
With double yolks ?
And warranted to hatch ?
Tea, verily, and the warranty is
good.
And the lady grasshopper’s matt*.
what of him ?
\eiily, I say UDto vou, he sitteth
upon the sweet potato vine and singeth
all the gladsome Summer day ;
He dimbeth up the corn stalk and
loppeth off its verdant brauchee;
He taketh no heed for the morrow ;
Nor for the groans and curses of the
irate lanchman;
And in the hottest Autumn days he
leadeth the fisherman beside the bab
bling waters ;
Aud up the steep mountain side;
And over the prickly pears;
And through soap weeds;
And among thorny bushes;
And when at last the fisherman falls
upon his knees aud puts his hand upon
Mr. Hopper, where is he ?
Alas, he is not there;
But he soareth aloft;
And cracketh his heels together -
And laugheth out of his left optic at
the fisherman, who is seated on the
hillside,
Digging cactus thorns from his hands
and knees,
And framing cusswords.
Royal Reception.
Queen \ ictoria’s last drawing-room
reception at Buckingham Palace wit
nessed an extraordinary assemblage of
the nobility in gorgeous array. All
the serene highnesses in the Kingdom
were there, and the rustle and glitter
of satins and diamonds were appalling.
The Queen, accompanied by the Prince
and Princess of Wales and the other
members of the Royal family, entered
the throne-room arrayed in a black
silk dress, with a train trimmed with
crape and jet emoroidery, and a long
white tulle veil,surmounted by a coronet
of diamonds. Her Majesty also wore a
necklace and stomacher of diamonds,
the riband and tte Star of the Order
of the Garter, the Victoria and Albert
Order, eto. The Princess of Wales
wore a dress and train of paille poult
de-soie, richly embroidered in paille
and nacre with draperies of tulle em
broidered to correspond; guerlandes of
Marguerites, buttercups, field daisies
and poppies. Heaudress, a tiara of dia
moniis, feathers and veil. Ornaments
of diamond, pearls and sapphires; or
ders, Victoria and Albert, Catharine of
Russia, and the Danish family orders.
The Princess Louise A of Hesse wore a
palo lavender dress, with violet velvet
—Brussels lace aud violet and white
flowers; ornaments, diadem, necklace
stomacher and bracelets of diamonds
order, Victoria and Albert, Louise of
Prussia, St. Catherine of Russia, St
Isabel of Portugal, and the Prussian,
Bavarian and Hessian. Orders for Care
of the Wounded in 1870.
Widows’ Rights.
A gaunt woman jumped into the
Central Station yesterday, bonnet as
kew and eyes blazing, and as she
reached the Sergeant’s desk she ex
claimed :
‘ I’m the Widow C'oon!”
“Ah !’* remarked the Sergeant.
‘And I want to know if my landlord
can raise the rent on me ?” she went
I guess so; landlords can do most
anything.”
“But I*m a widow!”
“So you say.”
“And isn’t there a law to protect a
widow from having the rent raised ?”
“Never beard of one.”
“And I haven’t any more rights than
a married woman ?”
“Not one.”
cry well,” she said, shutting her
teeth together and striking the desk ;
“if a widow hasn’t any rights I’ll marry
somebody afore sundown—you hear
me now ?”
And she kicked over a chair and
walked out. —Detroit Free Press.
The Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion of Dubuque moved into their new
rooms a tew days ago. Their new quar
ters were formerly occupied by a bank
called like unto an Egyptian King, and
Jt oa w ? 8 somewhat embarrassing to the
officiating clergy man when a party of
} oung men, a little balmy, came in dur
ing the most impressive portion of the
services, and walking up to the stand,
said.' “Say, old anoozar, open up a iittla
snap and give us a stack of reds.”
Mr. Sothera has assumed a
the management of the Baymarket
Theatre, London.
Fresh suits out of the Tiohbornq
eases are occurring weekly.