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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
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In the organization of the editorial
staff of the new Catholic paper, Albert
R Lamar has been given the position
of political editor.
We publish another communication
iu reference to the Planters’ Loan and
Savings Bank from a Stockholder in
Trust, calling loudly for a showing of
its actual condition.
Augusta is just now busily engaged
renting houses for next year. A great
clamor is made for a reduction, but so
far we learn little concession has been
made by landlords.
In the College Regatta on Saratoga
Lake yesterday the Cornell crew won.
The President was present and the
winning crew was carried with loud
hurrahs before him.
j
We are requested by Col. S. K. John
son to say to the people of Athens that
he has no intention of discontinuing
either train on their road until after
Commencement, and not then if busi
ness will justify running both. If either
is taken off it will be the night.
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The Cotton Congress, now in session
at Raleigh, make a sensible recom
mendation to planters : To raise their
own provisions. It is now well demon
strated that no planter can buy bis
corn and meat and keep out of the
hands of the sheriff.
The Athens Georgian says “ a white
man and a negro were floored by light
ning on last Wednesday afternoon, at
a down town bar room, kept by a col
ored man.” We have lightning in this
town which will knock off the shingling,
flooring and weather boarding of any
of its customers.
We publish the concluding portion
of the Catholigo-Tanqueray correspon
dence. As heretofore announced our
columns will be closed against any
thing else upon the subject unless paid
for. From the beginning we have taken
no part in this controversy and are
glad it has reached a conclusion, so far
as this paper is concerned.
If Kkk.lv has succeeded in discover
ing a cheap substitute for steam, it
will produce the most tremendous
revolution since its discovery. There
is hardiy an article in common use
which is not made by steam, and if a
greater power has been found
which can be introduced without the
expense of wood or coal, the cost of
everything will be far less than now.
m i m
The first bale of new cotton was re
ceived at New Orleans yesterday, and
the first open boll at this office. The
Orleans bale is nearly one month earlier
than last year. This news will pro
duce a sensation among cotton men. To
announce this moruing the beginning
of the new cotton season is as agree
able as surprising. We hope it will
have a good effect upon the dull times.
The headquarters of the average
dead-beat Bohemian will be at Phila
delphia until after the Centennial. He
has already commenced sending out
printed propositions to the rural press,
offering to grind out any amount of
stuff demanded from date to the close
of the great national show. We recom
mend him to Gurney to keep his
Charleston buzzards in good order.
The news from the crops, not only iu
Georgia but all over the South, con
tinues most favorable. More so, in
deed, than known in a whole decade of
years. A gentleman just returned from
Nashville says he never saw such a
prospect all along the road from At
lanta to that city. The Georgia corn
crop south of Atlanta will be made in
the ce;;t ten or fifteen days, or at least
placed beyond the possibility of blight.
The counsel in the Parker trial
opened argument yesterday, and the
day was consumed by them. The case
may be given to the jury to-morrow.
The mere fact ithat Parker is being
tried at all shows some progress
in South Carolina morals. The result
of the ease is another thing. He baa
flaunted his brazen face before the
public for four years unmolested, whilst
a full knowledge of his crimes was
notorious. , - &
In the South Carolina Department
will be found the obituary of Mis.
Jane T. Butler, of that State, one of
the most remarkable ladies in the
United States. The noblest blood of
the, country flowed in her veins. She
■was the daughter of Commodore C. B
Pebby and the sister of the renowned
Commodore O. H. Perry, of the Battle
of Lake Erie and “We have met the
enemy and they are ours,” fame; the
mother of Gen. M. C. Butler, and a
relative of many of the most distin
guished families of South Carolina.—
She had reached the great age of 84-
(I In 4 pailij fmisfMiimcilM.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
The French Assembly—English Cotton
Mill Lockout— The Spanish Civil War
—The Rifle Team—Canada and Eng
land—The King of Burmah.
Versailles, July ll.—The Assembly
declared the election of Burgoing null
and void, by a vote of 330 to 310.
M. Duval (Bonapartist) interpolated
the Government as to the line of con
duct it intended to pursue towards the
Imperialists.
Buffet replied that the Government
regarded it as its duty to insure re
spect to the Constitution, and would
tolerate no factious intrigue from any
quarter, nor take the initiative in legaf
prosecution, but refer unlawful acts to
tribunals. The declaration produced
great excitement.
Rouher introduced a proposition for
anew election in Nievre notwithstand
ing the law forbidding supplemental
elections to the present Assembly. In
the course of his remarks he made al
lusion to the committee for appeal to
the people which he acknowledged he
directed. The avowal of the existence
of such a committee which Rouher had
previously denied on his honor was re
ceived with surprise and caused a sen
sation. Debate adjourned to to-day.
London, July 14.—Masters of cotton
mills in Ashton, Staly Bridge, Dunkin
field and Mossley, decided to give no
tice of the commencement of a lock
out on the 24t,h instant, because work
people employed in certain departments
refuse to refer disputes in regard to
their wages to arbitration, and other
employes have quit work.
London, July 14.—Mr. Mackenzie,
Canadian Premier, iu a speech at Dun
dee last night, referred to the great re
sources of Canada. He contended it
was quite consistent for two nations to
exist on the North American Conti
nent, governed differently and with dif
fering political institutions. He was
convinced, so long as Great Britain
maintained her present attitude to
wards the colonies, that friendship and
confidence would be maintained.
The Telegraph reports that tents for
the American Team were pitched at
Wimbledon yesterday.
Recent rains have swollen the rivers
and streams in the valley of Severn,
causing serious inundations. A num
ber of dwellings in Blaekency are
flooded. The waters continue to rise
rapidly. There is great excitement.
A meeting called by the Radical clubs
to-night at Trafalgar square to protest
against a grant for the Prince of Wales’
Indian journey was a failure.
The American Team arrived to-night
and proceeded quietly to their hotel.
They will decide to-morrow morning
on the latest proposition of the Council
of the National Rifle Association.
Advices from the Spanish frontier,
received by way of Bayonne, report
that General Dorregaray, being unable
to penetrate into the French territory,
has turned back in the direction of
Barbastro. Six officers and 172 men
belonging to his rear guard were com
pelled’ to take refuge in France Dear
Gavarnel. They were promptly arrest
ed by the French authorities, disarmed
and interned. Troops have been sent
from France to guard the frontier.
Don Carlos is at Villa Real with a
strong force
Madrid. July 14.—The official Gazette
reports that a great panic exists in
Estella, where the news of the Car
lists has only just become known. The
Carlists are removing their artillery
from the city. Gen. Dorregaray is hem
med in by several brigades on the
higher mountains near Huesca. Gen.
Catnposo will shortly arrived and com
plete the cordon drawn around the
Carlist Chief.
Madrid, July 14.—1 tis asserted that
the article of the new constitution em
bodying the principle of religious
liberty will be supported when it comes
up for final action in the Constitu
tional Committee by a vote of 23 to 10.
Calcutta, July 14. —Further commu
nication has been made to the King of
Burmah regarding the passage of Brit
ish troops through his country, and it
is hoped that the King will yield.
THE SARATOGA COLLEGE RE
GATTA.
The Cormll Crew Win the Race,
Saratoga, July 14—In the University
boat race Cornell was the winner.
Columbia second, Harvard third. At
the first half mile Cornell and Harvard
ahead : first mile Harvard ahead ; sec
ond mile Cornell ahead. The race was
officially declared as follows : Cornell,
first; Columbia, second; Harvard,
third ; Dartmouth, fourth ; Yale, fifth ;
others straggled. There was great en
thusiasm over the Cornell crew. They
were carried back and forth before
Grant who stood amid the enthusiastic
demonstrations.
The exact time of Cornell, 16 minutes
53% seconds; Columbia, 17:04%; Har
vard, 17:0524 ; Dartmouth, 17;10?£ ;
Wesleyan, 17:132/; Yale, 17.14%; Am
herst, 17:29%; Brown. 17:33%; Wil
liams, Bowdoin, 17:50%; Ham
ilton and Union not taken The Prince
ton turned back at the second mile,
Parmley having fainted.
The single scull was won by Yale by
six lengths.
Ithaca, N. Y., July 14.—The news of
Cornell’s second and greatest victory
aroused the most intense enthusiasm
here. The great fire bell and other
bells are ringing and the University
chimes pealing, bombs and firecrackers
exploding, guns firing, and business
places and private buildings are fes
tooned.
Niglit Dispatch.
The University race to-day was a
complete success. The buoy system
proved feasible. At least twelve thous
and people witnessed the race. The
only accident that marred the days en
joyment was that to the Princeton
crew, par in iy receiving a sunstroke at
the end of the seeond mile. He had
also been suffering from a felon on one
of his fingers for several days. The
University race started at 12:10 o’clock.
The water was in good condition. The
first half of the race was uneventful,
Harvard leading at the start with 33
stroke, Cornell taking the lead with a
34 stroke. At second mile when Yale
fell back to 4th or Stjj placo with a
moderate stroke, after getting the
lead, Cornell it kept to the finish.
Jn the siDgle scull race, two miles.
Kennedy, of Yale, won easily. Weed
coming in an eighth of a mile behind.
Time, 14:21%.
THE LAWRENCE RIOT.
Card from the Mayor.
' Lawrence, Mass., July 14. The
Mayor publishes a card claiming that
the riot was caused by a floating popu
lation drawn here by the building of
the new water works. The boarding
house used by the water works haDds
was burned; two perished,
AUGUSTA, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 15, 1875.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Miscellaneous Dispatches.
Washington, July 14.—1 t is estima
ted that one hundred and twenty mil
lion postal'cards will be used the pres
ent year.
Professor Marsh, in a letter to the
President regarding the Indian frauds
wherein he gives full details, declares
he has no confidence in the sincerity of
the Secretary of the Interior, or the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs in
prosecuting the investigation into these
frauds, and that the evidence in his
possession reflects unfavorable on
both.
The Light-House Board give notice
that on and after the 31st of July, 1875,
the arc of visibility in Barratarla Bay,
La., light will be increased so that it
can be seen around the entire horizon.
The Secretary of the Treasury makes
a call for ten million coupon bonds of
1862.
To-day the special agents of
the Treasury were transferred,
from the office of Commissioner of
Customs to that of the Solicitor, a suf
ficient number, however, being detailed
to attend to the accounts in the Com
missioner’s office. No change in the
assignments of duties of the special
agents are immediately contemplated.
THE COTTON CONGRESS.
Proceedings of the Meeting at Ra
leigh.
Raleigh, N. C., July 14.—The Con
gress delegates have reported. H. N.
Leary, of Louisiana ; R. D. Wynne, of
Georgia. Judge Jones, of Arkansas,
addressed the Congress upon the sub
ject of establishing agricultural bu
reaus in the several States. He read
a telegram from the agent at New Or
leans of the Rockdale Co-operation
Company of England, asking a com
mittee of conference. Maxwell, of
Tennessee ; Jones, of Arkansas ; Jones,
of Georgia ; and Butler, of Georgia,
were made said committee. Col. Holt,
of North Carolina, introduced resolu
tions requesting the delegates to
the Congress to urge the Legislatures
of their respective States to follow
the precedent so wisely establisded by
Georgia, iu establishing a State Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Dr. Jones, of Georgia, spoke, advo
cating the resolution, and explaining
the great good that had been accom
plished in that State by this depart
ment. He claimed that two million
dollars would be saved to the farmers
of Georgia this year by its workings.
The resolution was adopted.
The affairs of the Direct Trade Union
were discussed. It was stated that
while its workings had not been alto
gether satisfactory, it had established
the fact that it could be productive of
great good to the Southern States.
An essay was read from Dr. E. M.
Pendleton, of Georgia, pertaining to
agricultural colleges of the Department
of Agriculture.
Col. Johnston, of North Carolina, re
ported from the special committee, ad
vocating the re-establishment of the
State banking system as peculiarly ad
vantageous to the whole country, and
asking Congress to relieve the tax upon
State banks, as a matter of justice and
right.
A constitution and by-laws were
adopted, making the election of officers
biennial.
Col. D. E. Butler, of Georgia, was re
elected President, Col. J. D. Whetford,
of North Carolina, Secretary, and R. M.
Sims, of South Carolina, Treasurer.
Nashville was selected as the next
place of meeting.
A resolution was adopted urging the
importance and absolute propriety of
producing an abundance of all articles
of prime necessity.
The Committee of Proper Basis to
write the commercial interests of the
South and Western States, said these
States should be more closely united
together, as the strongest ties of com
mercial interests exisited by reason of
their diversity of climate and soil—
each producing the prime articles of
domestic necessity required by the
other.
A resolution was adopted requesting
Congress to afford such aid as will en
sure the construction of three great
trunk lines of railway : From Chicago
to Morristown, Tenn.; from St. Louis
through Cumberland Gap to Knoxville,
and from Memphis to or near Atlanta,
Ga. The question of co-operation with
the Rockdale Society of England was
referred to the National Grange.
AN ILLINOIS WATERSPOUT.
Great Destruction of Crops,
Cincinnati, July 14.—A dispatch from
ShawneetowD, 111., reports the heaviest
rains yesterday that has fallen for
years. The track of the Springfield
division of the Ohio and Mississippi
Railroad, in the vicinity of Mill Shoals,
is covered with water from three inches
to two feet deep. It put out the tire of
an engine to-day as the train came
through it. People in the bottom lands
along the Ohio and Wabash rivers are
seriously alarmed on account of the
threatened overflow. A great many
farmers have lost their entire crops by
the flood.
THE FIRST BALE OF NEW COTTON
Classed Middling 1 Fair and Sells for
25 Cents.
New Orleans, July 14. — A bale of
new cotton was received laaf night from
St. Landry parish which classed mid
dling fair to fair, now classification, and
weighing 400 pounds. It was sold at
25 cents per pound. The first receipt
of Louisiana cotton last year was Au
gust 12th.
FALL OF A VIRGINIA HOTEL.
Singular and Fatal Accident.
JjYNCHBURG, July 14. — About 4 o’clock
this morning |ffi e r !- ar portion of the
City Hotel fell with a great crash. For
tunately the five or six rooms destroyed
were not fully occupied. As far as
known only three were domiciled in the
wrecked rooms. Mrs. L. Brown was
killed, T. E. Harris, commission broker,
badly injured, a negro man severely
brqised, and a negro child missing.
Mrs. Brown was dead when reached by
the firemen. The building was old,
but considered safe.
The Hebrew Union.
Buffalo, N. Y , July 14.—The Hebrew
Union adopted resolutions embodying
the idea and setting forth the objects
of the Hebrew College, and pleading
fop the hearty co-operation of the He
brew people throughout the land.
Philadelphia, July 14.—The Japan
ese Commissioners to the Centennial
have arrived. They are preparing to
put up centennial buildings.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
That Flying Machine Story—A Re
porter Swallow's the Joke and Tries
to Hunt it Down—Anticipating the
Future—A Scandal Case—The Pub
lic Schools—The University’ Embro
glio—Learning and Common Sense-
Gossip.
(Regular Correspondence Constitutionalist.]
Atlanta, Ga., July 13, 1875.
Out of your 5,000 Sunday readers,
there were, perhaps, ten who gave cre
dence to the truth of my account of
the flying machine. One of the city
papers here sent a reporter to
Clayton county iu hot haste to in
stitute an interview with the colored
inventor. As I was careful—deuced
careful—to keep dark as to his true
whereabouts, the jaded reporter came
back in profuse perspiration, swearing
that I had perpetrated a diabolical
fraud on the community. Yet, forty
thousand years ago there wasn’t any
such thing as a chill and fever medi
cine, or a female regulator, or a cross
cut saw! Now look at it. Look how
Progress rolled up his trowsers and
waded through the puddles of ob
stacles that surrounded him on
either side, like so many passenger
agents at a depot! Look at the inven
tion of the steamboat, the locomotive
and Henry Ward Beecher! Look at
the sewing machine, the reversible rat
trap and the Iveely motor! And last,,
but not least, look at the chicken tor
pedo ! And then as you gaze in awe
upon these specimens of old Prog.’s
handiwork, tell me that my nigger fly
ing machine is a fraud ! No, sir; the
time is not far distant when the white
canvass fans of that air boat will be
flecking the cerulean sky of our land,
transporting the mail of Uncle Sam
from New York to Augusta, from Bos
ton to London, from St. Petersburg to
Yamacraw, in the same ratio of speed
as the telegraph, by jingo ! Imagine
the billet doux of the Queen of the
Fiji Islands, delicate as a rose petal,
and as fragrantly perfumed just
as it issued from her taper
fingers, dropped into the hand of Gen.
Grant or Gov. Bard, all on the same
day. Think you Bennett, of the New
York Herald, would not avail himself
of the privilege of dropping a friendly
call to the people of Ujiji for the pur
pose of au interview on annexation !
And yet these feats will be accomplish
ed. In less than twelve months my
Clayton county nigger will sail out of
the city of Savannah and take his sup
per in New York on the same day—
little as you think of it.
Scan. Mag.
A case of genuine sensation has
erupted. It’s one of those cases that
crop out of a too close perusal of pro
ceedings of Beecher’s trials and tribu
lations. lam sorry—it harrows my
soul and rends my heart to think of it
—that the hero of this romance sailed
under so plain a name as Jake. My
bliss would have been supreme, my
ecstacy complete, had he been named
Adolphus, Lorenzo, Theodore or some
thing of the kind; but it’s plain Jake.
If you think it will look better in print
you might instruct your intelligent
compositor to set it up Jacob—just to
set off this romance a little better.
Well, Jake carried a high "head here,
moved in high circles, and was pretty
well thought of. Notwithstanding this,
however, he sold his interest in the
brewery here for a good sum, put the
money in his pocket and took a car for
the North with somebody else’s wife.
At least everybody says so, and of
course there is something in it. He is
gone, that’s certain; she’s gone, that’s
certainty.
The Police Schools.
The question which perplexetk the
Atlanta taxpayer now is—shall the pub
lic schools be continued ? If you buzz
among the rich bugs who send their
children off to Virginia, to Harvard, to
Princeton, to the German Universities,
&c., you will And that a heavy per cen
tage advocate an abolition of the sys
tem because its a tax from which they
derive no direct benefit* But when you
tackle the poor man—the hardworking
mechanic—whose children receive a
liberal education by means of the sys
tem, he says “bully for the public
schools.” lam no enthusiast on agra
rianism or communism, nor do I favor
either, but I feel ray plebeian blood
tingle when I read the reasons given by
“our prominent merchants” for the
suppression of the schools. Hear
one, “it is wrong to tax the people
for a faqcy education of the poor, and
it is dangerous for the poor because it
unfits them for the sphere in which
they have been raised, and makes them
opposed to the kind of work in which
most of them will have to engage and
to which they have been accustomed.”
As if the poor man’s child should
grow up in ignorance—and ignorance
is the granddaddy of vice—simply be
cause it “unfits them for work ! Egad!
in my way of thinking, education is
just the thing to make them work.—
And then besides it is a spur to the
ambition to reach higher than menial
work. It not only fits them for their
sphere but fits them for higher spheres,
and lifts them above the thousand
temptations a life of ignorance throws
in their way. Give us the public schools,
even at the cost of drawing a few dimes
from the well-fined purses of our
“prominent merchants.”
The Chancellorship.
There seems to be a growing dispo
sition to recall Dr. Lipscomb to the
Chancellorship of the State University.
Dr. Tucker has given entire satisfac
tion as a teacher and as a ripe scholar,
but as a disciplinarian he has proved
himself a fraud. It takes a man who
can combine with his scholarly attain
ments a way of winning the love and
commanding the respect of the stu
dents. To be mild yet firm, to live in
common yet live superior, is the tactics
of a Chancellor who expects to gain
the love, respect and reverence
due his position as ;;n officer
and worth as a man Dr. Tucker is
eminently qualified, so far as “book
lamin’” is concerned, but lie knows no
more about controlling boys—and boys
will be boys wherever ypq pqt ’pm—
than I (Ip of Beecher s guilt! •
It was Dr. Lipscomb who gracefully
and worthily wore the robes of that
office, and if his health will not aelmit
of being recalled, then, for gracious
sake, put somebody there who forgets
hirnsejt and bis dignity, and his
office, to apply the epithet of “ asses ”
and “fools” to a wtide university of
boys on every occasion J
Pencil Marrow,
A capital shower fell to-day, washing
off the dust and throwing a thrill of
deliciousness into the atmosphere.
|Truit rolls into town promiscuous
ly, and finds a goqd sale. Good
peaches sell for $1,50 per bushel, and
rapidly falling.
The Irishmen here will celebrate
Dan G'Connefi’s centennial birthday on
the fith of August They intend giving
the grandest ball ever given in this
city. Roanoke.
THE PARKER TRIAL.
Col. Rion’s Speech—Cumulative Evi
dence of Parker’s Guilt—He Prob
ably Stole the Whole Pile—Ladd’s
H cstimony a Deadly Dose.
(Reported for the Constitutionalist.]
Columbia, July 15, 1875.
To-day, before a full court and a
large audience, Col. James H. Rion, of
counsel for the State in the case of the
State vs. Niles G. Parker, opened the
agreement for the prosecution in a very
conclusive and able speech. He disen
tangled the case from its involvements
and presented a clear, connected out
line of the facts proved and showed
their pertinency to the issue. He pro
posed, he said, to place stone upon
stone, timber upon timber, until the
structure of proof should rise clear to
the view and comprehension of the
jury, and the fraud of Parker be de
monstrated. He would call it Parker’s
stumbling block, making in this a ref
erence to the building which Parker
erected in Columbia and which, because
the community persisted in calling it
Parker’s Haul, he changed to the less
objectionable name of Parker’s Block.
I give you such synopsis as I am able
to make up in time for the present
mail. At this stage of the proceeding
it is difficult to form a judgment as to
the probable issue of the case. Par
ker’s counsel have prudently put up no
witnesses and will rely upon the neces
sarily difficult task imposed upon the
State’s counsel of proving a fraud
by reluctant witnesses. The jury is not
of a character to raise high expecta
tions that in a matter of duty to the
State, they will be able to rise to its
faithful performance, or even just ap
preciation of it. But leaving specula
tion aside, we give you the line of Mr.
Rion’s ingenious argument, which pre
sents a theory which will carry con
viction to all who thoroughly take it
in. It will be observed that he takes
the view that Parker himself appropri
ated the whole $450,000 of coupons, and
that the story of division with others is
not likely to be true and is far from j
being probable.
Col. Rion said that the plaintiff re
cognized the rule requiring them to
prove fraud, and they were willing to
take that onus upon them. It was not
necessary to prove it positively; the
proof might be by circumstances.—
Prima facie proof was sufficient. This
principle of law originated necessity,
from the very nature’of fraud, which is
always careful to conceal itself and all
traces of its presence. He referred
to the reserve of Mr. Kimpton,
to the peculiar manner iu which the
books of the Treasury had been kept,
to the fact that, according to his own
statement, Cordoztf had kept no mem
orandum of the bonds he signed while
Secretary of Stat?, as difficulties in the
way of discovering the great fraud on
the part of the defendant in this case.
Yet he said that, notwithstanding these
obstacles, and though the plaintiffs
were not required to introduce posi
tive proof, they had brought forward
positive proof of fraud.
Capt. Ladd had proved that Parker
had $450,000 of coupons, which Parker
said himself he had obtained at
the time of the final settlement
with the Financial Agent in New York.
Capt. Ladd not only had Parker’s ad
mission of that fact but he had actually
seen and handled $150,000 of them.
Slurs had been cast upon the testi
mony of Capt Ladd. Reference had
been made to favors which Parker had
done him, and it was attempted to
show that he was ungrateful in thus
testifying against his benefactor, but
it was evident that Capt Ladd was
very reluctant to testify. The Attorney
General was at one time on the point
of dropping the examination of this
witness when being asked if Parker
had any further conversation with
him, he answered no, not at that time,
but catching the words, not at that
time, the Attorney General fortunately
asked him if Parker had any further
conversation with him at any
other time, and then he was
obliged to answer yes. Capt. Ladd
himself testified to favors that Parker
had shown him, and to his own sense
of gratitude and good feeling towards
him. He felt it due to Capt. Ladd to
say that with (ill the temptations be
fore him, with all the obstacles to tes
tifying, in his regard for his oath, in
regard for the mandate of the subpoena
of this court, he had shown in giving
his testimony before the court and jury
he had dai’ed do all that might become
a man, and he that dared do more was
none. His armless sleeve showed that
at some time in the past he had
shown physical courage in the service
of his country, but he never could
have shown physical courage greater
than the moral courage he had ex
hibited as a witness in this case.
Parker’s letter to Capt. Ladd and the
written memorandum he had given him
were positive testimony than which
nothing could be stronger. Ti'fie the
memorandum wa3 not signed by Park
er, but if it was not given by him to
Capt. Ladd he had not said so, although
he had full opportunity.
%e then referred to Maj. Gulick's tes
timony that Parker had a large number
of coupons, and to the proof that Sen
ator Owens had funded these coupons.
Senator Owens was chairman of the
Legislative Committee on Accounts,
and therefore was properly the man to
take care to prevent any such frqud as
this, and this was one of the very
things taken advantage of to prevent
detection. Parker said that Owens
had funded coupons for him and the
record shows that Owens funded oou
oons on separate oocasions as agent.
The amount funded by him on the
second occasion was exactly five per
oentum on the whole amount he fund
ed, and the reasonable conclusion is
that it was his remuneration for his
services in the matter.
As to the division of the coupons with
other parties, it should have no effect
upon the amount of the verdict whether
the jury believed that the division was
made or that Parker kept the whole
$450,000. The action was for damages
and tire verdict must be for the amount
qf damage jffie plaintiff had received,
and not the benefit received by the
fendant,
But if the jurj would not accept this
proposition of law, then as a fact it
could not be believed that the division
was ever made. Scott had denied re
ceiving the share alleged to have been
given to him As to Chamberlain’s al*
Jeged share, the manner in which the
statement was made was itself evi
dence that he had never received it or
known of its being set aside for him.—
The evidence was that Parker had said
that $50,000 were get aside for
Chamberlain, but he did not
know whether he had received
it or not. Was it possible that
$50,000 of coupons could be
cfispqsed of in that mysterious, uncer
tain, ' careless way. Was it possible
that any man could have this large
amount of securities, which were like
to be worth dollar for dollar, placed
some where for him and not know of it,
not had some friend to go and carry
the good news to him ? And, as for
himself, he said humorously, he
thought that animal magnetism or
electricity, or some other mysterious or
supernatural means must have in
formed him of it very soon. Mr. Cham
berlain’s character was sufficient to re
but such a charge sustained only by
such weak and uncertain proof as this.
Kimpton, he said, was not an object
of his admiration, but he could prove
and would prove to the satisfaction of
the court, at another stage of his ar
gument, that Kimpton never received
the share that Parker said he did ; and
if the statement that there was a di
vision was false as to three of the
parties, it is in all probability false as
to all. He was sony that Neagle had
not followed the example of Scott, by
going upon the stand and saying
whether he did or did not receive his
portion. Home.
BURIAL OF BENNINGr.
Funeral of General Henry L. Benning
—Honors to the Memory of a Grand
Old Man.
[Columbus (July 13) Enquirer.]
The funeral of General Benning took
place Sunday morning at half-past nine
o’clock. Before that hour hundreds had
assembled to pay honor to the memory
of a grand hero, the true type of the
chivalrous, noble gentleman.
The funeral service was read at the
residence of the Rev. W. C. Hunter,
Rector of the Episcopal Church. After
this the column was formed iu the fol
lowing
Order:
1. Military companies.
2. Confederate soldiers.
3. Officiating clergymen.
4. Attending physicians.
5. Hearse.
6. Horse led by a groom.
7. Pall-bearers,
8. Family.
9. Members of the Bar and City
Council.
10. Citizens, gent rally.
The March
was directly to the cemetery. The two
military companies numbered 61 mem
bers—the Light Guards 28 muskets
and three officers, and the Columbus
Guards 26 muskets and three officers.
Col. Shepherd commanded the entire
column, with Lieut. Brantley as Adju
tant.
Following them were Fire Company
No. 5, in citizens’ dress, but having caps
and belts, headed by the Chief Engi
neer, numbering 32 men ; and then 112
Confederate soldiers in citizens’ dress.
The latter were under command of G.
E. Thomas (of Thomas & Prescott.) The
march was by column of fours.
Two carriages bore the officiating
clergymen and attending physicians,
Dr.s Colzey and Stanford.
The hearse was drawn by two horses.
The coffin was literally covered with
flowers.
The coffin had been opened in the
moruing. The deceased seemed to be
sleeping sweetly, and his face was ven
natural. Thrown lightly over the foot ol
the coffin was the battle-riddled flag of
the Twelfth Georgia. Eight men were
shot down while carrying it at Sharps
burg. Five were killed. Deputy Mar
shal Robinson was among the terribly
wounded.
Directly after the hearse came the
General’s horse, with sword and mili
tary trappings, and led by “Old Billie.”
“Old Billie” was in the Twentieth Geor
gia, of Benning’s brigade, during the
the entire war. He wore his old gray
coat. Looking on, one could but re
call the times that tried men’s souls,
when Benning’s brigade wa=? a terror to
the foe when “ Old lloek ” led them
Especially does memory dwell on that
terrible charge at Gettysbuig, where |
threo guns were captured and next
turned on the enemy. Then to the
lifeless form in that coffin.
Carriages containing the pall bearers
and family came next, followed on foot
and in twos by thirty members of the
Columbus bar and the Mayor and every
member of the City Council except one
—Alderman Brannon who could not
attend.
A long train of vehicles followed. We
counted sixty-five carriages. When the
head of the column had reached the
upper cemetery gate, the rear was at
Slades’ school house. On foot and in
column were sorqe fi7Q men.
Many attended who were prevented
from joining the line by the intense
heat, There were hundreds who came
front Girard and Browneville, and
crowds from the city and Wynnton and
surrounding villages. The colored peo
ple were out in force.
Thus the column headed by an excel
lent field band with muffled drums beat
ing, moved slowly to the city of the
dead—God’s acre. Everyone had som
thing to say of the love and esteem felt
for the heroic dead whose name they
uttered in tones of tenderness.
the pall-bearers
were John Peabody, Judge Porter In- |
gram, G. deLannay, Judge M. J. Craw
ford, Col. W. A. Barden, Capt. Thomas
Chaffin, Col. M. H. Blaqdford, Major
R. J. Moses.
In the Cemetery
the burial service was yead, the milita
ry salute fired, and tfie dead—a great
and good man—left to sleep alone. He
has left a void that no one can fill. He
had in him the stuff of which heroes
are made. With a slight ghaoge
O’Hara’s beautiful lines may be repeat
ed over him:
On Fame’s eternal camping ground
His silent tent is spread,
And memory guards with solemn round
Trie bivouac of the dead.
“ I’m shot! I’m shot! Here’s some
of my brains',” shrieked a Newburyport
tffan, on the stb|, clapping his hands
suddenly to the back of his head,
showing a handful of something’ soft
and squashy to the horror-stricken by
standers. A doctor was called, and
found that the rqpojfc of a firecracker
find a simultaneous blow on the head
from a rotten banana were what had
produced the delusion,
Milwaukee News: It may be thought
remarkable that the discoverer of the
“new motor” should be able to run a
sewing machine all ejay with a pall of
water and an inch air pump ; but we
now have a railroad conductor who
oan run a whole traiu from here to
Prairie du Chien on a pint of whiskey.
“ I declare,” said Susan, as she
watefiefi the people coming into church,
“ that man looks like a piece of dried
beef.” “ Hush,” said her sister, “it
isn’t meat in you to talk so.”
“ Folks can’t be toq keerfql nowadays
wfiat ffiey let their children eat,” said
an old lady as her eye fell upon the
heading of a newspaper article—“ Little
Emmaline’s Diary.”
THE PLANTERS’ LOAN AND SAV
INGS BANK.
“Timely Warning'’ Not Heeded.
Mr. Editor: In your issue of the 2d
instant appeared a communication
signed “ Trustee,” headed “ Timely
Warning,” in which was used the fol
lowing language:
“ The stockholders of the ‘ Planters’
Loan and Savings Bank’ owe to the
community, the depositors and them
selves the very serious duty of coming
together and demanding a full state
ment of its affairs. * * * Such of
the stockholders as are not in the con
! fidence of the President have a right to
hear hoiv much has been carried to
shrinkage account and what amount is
being paid to salaried officers.”
I read that communication with in
terest, as it led me to hope that its
effect would be to elicit from the offi
cers of the Bank, the information con
cerning its condition—the kind and
real value of its assets—for which I
and others had been long and fruit
lessly seeking. Instead of that, how
ever, a report of the “condition of the
Bank” is published in the papers of the
11th inst., and which, by the way, I
will venture the opinion, would not
have been given at all, but in obedience
to the call of the Governor. It is an
admirable document—fixed up accord
ing to rule—in real “double entry book
keeping” style. The debit and credit
sides agree to a “quarter of a cent."
The figures look beautiful, aud, I dare
say, are a correct transcript and sum
ming up of the big ledger so familiar to
the daily gaze of the worthy President,
but a “sealed book” to those stock
holders so unfortunate as not to be in
his confidence.
But the misfortune is, that after
reading and diligently studying this
admirable paper, and getting others to
help me, I knew no more about the ac
tual condition of the bank than I did
before the report was printed. It shows
“resources” equal, nay, more than
equal, on paper, to “liabilities;” but the
question recurred to me, as it had a
thousand times before, what are the re
sources really ? Among the “resources”
are Stocks and Bonds $28,413 20; Notes
and bills, including past due paper,
$77,101.85; Notes in suit and suspended,
$12,079.38; Real estate, $37,314.03. Now,
I demand to kDovv the kind and value
of these Stocks and Bonds, what por
tion of these notes and bills and past
due paper, and in suit and suspended,
are good, what portion doubtful, and
what bad or worthless. There appear
ing no Profit and Loss account in the
report, unless “Undivided Profits” may
be called so, I presume the real estate
is put down at its cost. I demand to
know its real value, and in what it con
sists, and how it came (all of it) to be
the property of the bank.
Does not every stockholder who is in
the dark on this subject join in these
demands? If so, it is, as “Trustee”
says, a serious duty to come together
and institute an examination into the
bank’s affairs. The result of such an
examination might evolve the reason
why the stock, once so readily taken at
par, is now selling, when a buyer can
be found, at about fifty cents on the
dollar of the par value.
Cestui Que Trust.
Tlie Charleston Riflemen.
[Charleston News and Courier.]
Avery large and enthusiastic meet
ing of this corp3 was held on Monday
evening, at which, among other things,
the recent Fourth of July excursion
was talked over, and as a preliminary
step towaids perfecting the organiza
tion, a resolution was adopted provid
ing for weekly drills during the Sum
mer.
A communication was received from |
the Washington Artillery, stating that
the 22d of February would be observed
by them with a grand military display
and oration, and requesting the co-ope
ration of the Charleston Riflemen in
the same. A resolution was unani- j
mously adopted tendering an escort to |
the Artillery on the occasion referred
to. Arrangements were also ma,de to
perfect the new uniform of tho compa
ny, which will be, when completed, one
of the handsomest uniforms in the
South. The following complimentary
resolutions were unanimously adopted:
The officers and members of the Charles
ton Riflemen desire to place on record a
faint expression of their unbounded grati
tude for the many kindnesses that were
shown them by citizens and soldiers at Au
gusta, the officers of the First United
States Artillery, and by the citizens and
soldiers of harleston. Be it therefore
1. Resolved, That the cordial and earnest
thanks of this command are due to Gen.
Vqgdes, commanding the post qf Charles
ton, and to the officers of the First United
States Artillery, fur the handsome send-off
in the way of the national salute that
was tendered them on the morning of the
Fourth.
2. That to the members of the escorting
detachments who participated in our ex
cursion to Augusta, we desire to convey
our most cordial thanks.
3. Thai our heartiest thanks are due, and
are tendered to the citizens of Charleston,
and more ■ specially to the ladies, who
honored us with their presence and patron
age pn the occasion of our excursion to
Augusta.
4. That our cordial reception and hospi
table welcome by the military and by the
civilians of Augusta, have filled our hearts
with emotions of gratitude, which can
scarcely he expressed in words, and we
hereby pledge ourselves, should the oppor
tunity present itself, to endeavor ta repay,
to the best of our ability, the many obli
gations which were incurred by us on the
occasion of our visit to tho Empire City of
the Houth on the Fourth.
a. That these resolutions be printed in the
Charleston News and Courier, apd that a
copy of them be transmitted to Gen. Vog
ues, United States Army, and Col. Barrett,
commanding Augusta Independent Volun
teer Battalion.
MffiVV Telegrams.
Providence, R. 1., July 14. — The Na
tional Division of Sons of Temperance of
North America are in session. Ninety
foqr representatives are present.—
Twenty-seven representatives were in
itiated.
Boston, July 14.—The vinegar fac
tory of E. M. Pettinghill was seized for
manufacturing distilled spirits.
Atlanta, July 14,—Tom. Wells, form
erly a commission merchant of this
city, suicided. Financial troubles.
New York, July 14.—Cardinal Mc-
Closkey sails for Rome, August 7.
London, July 14.—The Swiss General
Dufour is dead.
■.
Lynching in Florida.
New Orleans, July 14.—A letter in
the Bulletin, from Melton. Florida, re
ports the lynching of a white man and
a negro, each oharged with rape. Yer
dict of the coroner’s jury : “Hanged
by parties unknown, and served them
right.”
The tobacco worm has attacked the
plants, and good elocutionists are
posted on the fences by the farmers,
reading the excellent anti-tobacco tracts
by the late Mr. Trask.
“ Our inside columns to-day,” says a
country editor, “ ‘ Dyspepsia,’ * Crook
ed Whiskey,’ ‘ A Chinese Restaurant,’
and various other interesting selected
articles,”
-New Series—Vol. 3. No. 155.
THE MAN WITH THE EX
TERMINATOR.
fDetroitFree Press.]
He smiled blandly as ho halted for a
moment in front of the City Hall. He
looked like a man who could, palm off
almost anything on the public at 100
per cent, profit and yet leave the cus
tomer in a grateful mood. He had a
tin trunk in his hand, and as he sailed
down LaFayette avenue the boys won
dered whether the trunk contained tax
receipts or horse liniment. The stran
ger halted in front of a residence, his
smile deepened, and he mounted the
steps and pulled the bell.
“Is the lady at home?” he inquired
of the girl who answered the bell.
The girl thought he was the census
taker, and she seated him in the parlor
and called the lady of the house. When
the lady entered the stranger rose,
bowed and said:
“Madam, I have just arrived in
this town after a tour extending clear
down to Florida, and wherever I went
I was received with glad welcome.”
“ Did you wish to see my husband ?”
she asked as he opened the tin trunk.
“ No, madam ; I deal directly with
the lady of the house in all cases. A
woman will appreciate the virtues of
my exterminator and purchase a bot
tle where a man will order me off the
steps without glancing at it.”
“Your—your what ?” she asked.
“ Madam,” he replied, as he placed a
four ounce phial of dark liquid on the
palm of his left hand, “madam, I de
sire to call your attention to my ‘ Sun
set Bedbug Exterminator.’ It has been
tried at home and abroad, and in no
case has it failed to ”
“What do you mean, sir?” getting
very red iu the face. “ Leave- this
house instantly.”
“Madam, I do not wish you to infer
from my ”
“I want you to leave this house!”
she shrieked.
“Madam, allow me to explain my—”
“I will call the police !” she screamed,
making for the door, and he hastily
locked his trunk and hurried out.
Going down the street about two
blocks he saw the lady of the house at
the parlor window, and instead or
climbing the steps he stood under the
window and politely said :
“Madam, I don’t wish to even hint
that any of the bdsteads in your house
are inhabited by bed-bugs, but—”
“What! W’hat’s that?” she ex
claimed.
“I said that I hadn’t the remotest
idea that any of the beadsteads in
your house were infested by bed-bugs,”
lie replied.
“Take yourself out of this yard!” she
shouted, snatching a tidy off the back
of a chair and bradishing it at him.
“Beg pardon, madam, but I should
like to call your ”
“Get out!” she screamed; “get out, or
I’ll call the gardener !”
“I will get out, madam, but I wish
you to understood ”
“J-a-w-n ! J-a-w-n !” she shouted out
of a side window, but the exterminator
agent was out of the yard before John
could get around the house.
He seemed discouraged as ho walked
down the street, but ho had traveled
less than a block when he saw a stout
woman sitting on the front steps of a
line residence fanning herself.
“ Stout women are always good na
tured,” he soliloquised, as he opened
the gate.
“ Haven’t got anything for the grass
hopper sufferers,” she called out as he
entered.
There was an angelic smile on his
face as he approached the steps, set his
trunk down, and said :
“ My mission, madam, is even nobler
than acting as agent for a distressed
community. The grasshopper sufferers
do not comprise a one hundredth part
cf the world’s population, while my
mission is to relieve the whole world.”
“I don’t want auy peppermint es
sence,” she continued, as he started to
unlock the trunk.
“Great Heavens, madam, do I resem
ble a peddler of cheap essences?” he
exclaimed. “I am not one. lam here
n Detroit to enhance the comforts of
the night—to produce pleasant dreams.
Let me call your attention to my Sunset
Bedbug Exterminator, a liquid war
ranted to ”
“Bed what 1” she screamed, ceasing
to fan her fat cheeks.
“My Sunset Bedbug Exterminator.
It is to-day in use in the humble negro
cabins on the banks of the Arkansas, as
well as in the royal palace of her Ma
jesty Q ”
“You r-r-rascal! yo u villyun !” she
wheezed; “how dare you insult me
in !”
“No insult, madam, it is a pure mat
ter of ”
“L-eave ! Git o-w-t!” she screamed,
clutching at his hair, and he had to
go out in such a hurry that he couldn’t
lock the trunk until he reached the
walk.
He traveled several blocks aucl
turned several corners before he halted
again, and his smile faded away to a
melancholy grin. He saw two or three
ragged children at a gate, noticed that
the house was old, and he braced up
and entered.
“I vhants no soap,” said the woman
of the houB as he stood in the door.
“Soap, madam, soap?” I have no
soap. I noticed that you lived in an
old house, and as old houses are pretty
apt to be infested ”
“I vhants no bins nor needles to-day!”
she shouted.
“Madam, I am not a peddler of Yan
kee notions,” he replied, “I am selling
a liquid, prepared only by myself, which
is warranted to ”
“I vhants no baper gollars !” she ex
claimed, motioning for him to leave.
“Paper collars ! I have been often
been mistaken for Shakespeare, madam,
but never before for a paper collar ped
ler. Let me unlock my trunk and
show .”
“I vhants no matches—no dobaeeo—
no zigars!” she interrupted; and her*
husband came around the corner and,
after eyeing the agent for a moment
remarked:
“If you don’t be quick out of here I
shall not have any shoking about it!”
At dusk last night the agent was sit
ting on a salt barrel in front of a com
mission house, and the shadows of
evening were slowly deepening the
melancholy look on his face.
A deaf and dumb medicant was sud
denly startled by the rude shouts of
some boys while walking down a street.,
and in turning, slipped on a piece of
orange peel and feel. He gave the lads
a severe lecture, much to the enjoyment
of the blind beggar at the corner, who
saw the whole occurrence through his
green glasses. —[Punch.
The Sultan, to "the new American
Minister: “Now, Horace, you must
keep away from the harem and attend
to your international affairs. We don’t
know anything about true inwardness
and moral Niagaras here.”