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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
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Augusta, Ga.
Daniel O’Connell, whose centenary
will be celebrated in Dublin, with im
posing ceremonies, was born in Kerry,
on the 6th of August, 1775.
And now the intelligence reaches us
telegraphically that Tilton is probably
suing Beecher only in a Pickwickian
sense. The Plymouth pastor had bet
ter give Theodore a five dollar bill and
let him go. Polly wants a cracker.
The Mississippi Democrats have, in
convention assembled, recognized the
civil and political rights of all men, and
call upon ‘‘everybody and the rest of
Inankind,” black, white and brown, to
help establish good government. We
judge from this that a tremendrous ef
fort will be made to convert the colored
people from Radicalism to Democracy.
A gentleman in Tallahassee, Fla.,
writes to the editor of this paper for
information concerning the Japanese
corn. We have already informed Dr.
Means that $6,000 a grain is the latest
market price. If the Florida Granger
wants a bushel or two of this valuable
cereal, let him send on the stamps.
Savannah News please copy and state
that we are not now accepting the pa
per of Duncan, Sherman & Cos.
We clip the following from the At
lanta Herald:
Andrew Johnson, four years ago, said
of Brownlow: “Death has already laid
his icy fingers upon you! And yet you
sit, a poor galvanized corpse, and laugh
in the face of the King of Terrors!” And
now the shrivelled parson, in tolerable
good shape, sits and listens at the clods as
they fall on Andy’s coffin.
When Brownlow' shall have followed
poor Andy, will he be wrapped in “the
old flag?”
The Athens Watchman says:
The newspapers are dull during dog
clays, but unusually so this year, as it
strikes us. We this week contribute our
full quota to this mass of dullness. It
being Commencement week, and our office
over-run with job work, we have not been
able to devote as much time as usual to the
preparation of matter for our columns.
We throw ourselves “upon the mercy of
the Court,” with the promise to make
things more lively hereafter, when the
weather moderates.
“Commencement week” ought to be
pretty lively at Athens. How about,
the Third Georgia Reunion for some
thing startling ? And then what think
you, friend Christy, of the great inun
dation of the West as a relief to dog
day dullness?
A Bel-Air Granger writes to us for
information concerning the Torpedo
Chicken. We respectfully refer him to
Col. J. Gbimson Harris, of the Savan
nah News, who is the State agent, and
solely authorized to supply all de
mands. He will send a specimen on
receipt of a three cent postage stamp,
and also enclose directions for use.
This same Granger writes: “I was axin
some of the boys about it at the last
meetiu’ of the Grange, and the boys
laffed at me and sed twant no macheeh,
but only runniu’ rigs on a red-headed
man in Savannah. I hope taint no rigs
cause I want one mity bad. It’s
mighty hard to get a little fried chick
en.” Apply to Col. Harris, of the Sa
vannah News, friend Granger, and wipe
your weeping eyes.
Hans Christian Andersen, whose
death, at an advanced age, is an
nounced by cable this morning, was
born in Odense, April 2,1805. He was
the son of a poor shoemaker and had
few advantages for obtaining an edu
cation. He attempted to learn the
trade of a manufacturer, but was ill
treated by his fellow-workmen, and
abandoned them in disgust. His mother
tried to make a tailor of him, but he
went to Copenhagen and assumed
the profession of an actor, in the
humblest capacity, but was rejected
for awkwardness and ignorance. The
poet Guldberg helped him in his stud
ies, and he wrote some tragedies which
received attention, but were not suited
for the stage. Councillor Collin pro
cured him admission to the Govern
ment schools, and shortly afterward he
commenced to develop an extraordi
nary literary talent. Hi3 poems, at
this period, were considered very credit
able. By the bounty of friends he
visited Italy and wrote a wonderful
book recordiug his impressions of that
classic land. His novels evince the
possession of a most ethereal fancy and
pn.re imagination. Asa writer of fairy
tales for children he never had an
equal. In 1841 he received a royal an
nuity which secured him comfort for
life. Recent accounts of him represent
that he was very unsophisticated, but
intensely fond of speaking of himself,
receiving praise, and reading his own
productions to all who would listen.
In spite of these foibles, he was a Sid
gularly pious man, and the possessor
of a genius which was faithfully em
ployed, for many years, in delighting,
instructing and elevating the young
old alike.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Moody and Sankey Coming Home-
Sailors Refuse to Go Down to the
Seas ia an Old Tub—Parliament
Squabbling Over a Few Millions.
London, August 4.—Mood}' and San
key sail for New York on the Spain.
Tho crew of the ship Sunbeam, from
Plymouth, and bound for the United
States, August 22d, discovered that she
was unsea worthy, and they refused to
proceed. An examination has justified
their refusal,
In the House of Commons there was
a sharp debate over supplementary
estimates of £2,000,000.
Gladstone pointed out the laxity of
the Government’s estimate, and de
clared that such looseness tended to
destroy Parliament’s control over ex
penditures.
The Chancellor admitted au apparent
defect, but was confident that an in
crease of £3,000,000 of revenue would
more than cover supplementary esti
mates of the Supply bill.
Prorogation is expected on the 12tli.
The liabilities of Laeosta, liaalte &
Cos., whose failure was announced July
Ist, are $3,000,000.
Death of a Great Romance Writer —
The Prison Congress—A Bishop, Un
der Prussian Surveillance, Takes
French Leave —Montenegrins Help
ing Servia.
Copenhagen, August 4.—Hans Chris
tian Andersen the poet and novelist
died to-day, aged 70.
London, August 4.—lt is decided that
no session of the International Prison
Congress be held in 1876. The perma
nent Prison Commission is composed
of Dr. E. C. Wines, of the United States,
Baron Hulzendorff, of Germany, M.
Stevens, of Belgium, M. Pots, of Hol
land and others. They will meet at
Frankfort to receive reports for con
sideration of a Congress which will be
held later, probably in Zurich.
Berlin, August 4.—The Bishop of
Paderborn, who was deposed from his
functions by Prussian law courts, and
has siuce been interned in Wesel, has,
without permission, quitted that towu.
On leaving he addressed a letter to the
Governor of tbe District assigning as a
reason for his departure impaired
health and his duties to his flock.
Vienna, August 4.—ln spite of efforts
of the Prince of Montenegro to prevent
it, several bodies of his subjects have
crossed into Herzegovinia to join the
insurgents.
Banquet of the Lord Mayor of Lon
don—Mr. Disraeli Makes a Speech—
He Believes Europe is Tranquil
and will Continue So—He Reiter
ates that a Common Englishman is
Better than a Foreign Noble—Music
by the Band.
London, August 4.—The annual ban
quet given by the Lord Mayor of Lou
don to Her Majesty’s Ministers took
[•lace to-night at the Mansion House
and was attended by the usual large
aud distinguished company. Mr. Dis
raeli, responding to a toast to the Gov
ernment, declared the country was pros
perous and the people content. Allud
ing to foreign affairs, he said peace pre
vailed and, iu his opinion, it would con
tinue to prevail. If the foreign rela
tions of Great Britain were scrutinized,
he believed it would be found that
they had been conducted with pru
dence aud firmness. The Colonial
empire would be developed aud con
solidated. Its interests and sympa
thies ought to be assimilated with
those of the mother country and ulti
mately the colonies would prove a
source not of weakness but of strength
and splendor. Reviewing the work of the
present session of Parliament, he ad
verted at some leDgth to the incident
of the shipping bill. He stated that in
proposing anew measure the Govern
ment had been assisted and not coerced
by public opinion. In conclusion he re
peated the opinion, which he once be
fore declared here, that the people of
Great Britain were better off than the
nobility of other countries. The speech
was received with entliusiastic cheers.
Other members of the Cabinet spoke in
a similar strain.
Recovery of the Schiller’s Treasure—
The Collie Case—Australian Items.
London, August 4.—Divers at work
on the wreck of the steamer Schiller
have recovered SIOO,OOO of her treas
ure.
At a hearing of the case of Collie
Bro.’s, Mr. Rainbow, of the firm of
Rainbow', Holberton & Cos., testified
that a quantity of cotton was bought
in 1873 by the Collies on joint account
with his firm. Iu consequence of a de
cline in value they never had an oppor
tunity of selling it at a profit. The
Collies drew bills against the cotton,
and Rainbow, Holberton & Cos endors
ed them. The Collies subsequently
sold the cotton, and had the bills origi
nally drawn against it renewed, after it
had passed beyond their control. It
was the maturing of these bills that
caused the recent disaster. In conse
quence of the absence of Sergeant Bal
lantiue, the leading lawyer for the de
fense, the further hearing of the case
was postponed until Monday next.
Versailles, August 4. —The session
of the Assembly was formally closed
to-day, iu accordance with a resolu
tion for recess, until November 4th.
Melbourne, August 4.—The ministry
of Victoria has resigned in conse
quence of opposition of Parliament to
the Budget.
Sydney, August 4—The Parliament
of New South Wales has approved the
tender for carrying mails made by the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company.
Sporting News.
Boston, August 4.—Landers beat
Plaisted in a single scull race of two
miles for $2,000 and the championship
of New England. Time, 14:40.
Saratoga, August 4. —Iu the three
quarters of a mile race for two-year
olds, Lorillard’s Parole was the winner.
Time, 1:18%.
In the two mile race for three-year
olds, Viator won. Time, 3:43%.
In the three mile race Rutherford
was the winner. Time, 5:38.
Au international regatta occurs Au
gust 24th, 25th and 26th.
Minor Telegrams,
Montgomery, August 4. —The first
bale of new cotton was received to
day. The first bale last year was re
ceived on the 11th.
Pittsburg, August 4.—Nail manufac
turers fixed the price at $3 per card.
Montreal, August 4 —The sudden
rise of grain caused increased confi
dence in the carrying trade. Boats that
were laying up begin to move.
Boston, August 4. —Dr. Winslow
Lewis, surgeon, 76 years old, is dead,
i New Orleans, August 4.—Assistant
Attorney General Hiram R. Steele has
been appointed by Gov. Kellogg Judge
of the Superior Criminal Court, in
place of Judge Braugba, snd ex-Judge
H. C. Dibble has been appointed As
sistant Attorney General.
AUGUSTA, QA_ THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST 5, 1875.
THE GREAT FLOOD.
MOVEMENT OF THE WATERS.
A Plantation on the Mississippi Sub
merged-Figliting Against Crevasses.
Memphis, August 4. —Apperson’s plan
tation of 900 acres, opposite Friar’s
Point, is submerged. A crevasse was
made at De Soto, 27 miles below
here on the Mississippi side. Planters
are endeavoring to stop it. All plan
ters are at work strengthening their
levees.
Special River Report.
Washington, August 4.—The Ohio
has risen during the past twenty-four
hours, thirty-eight inches at Cincinnati
aud twelve inches at Louisville. It is
above the danger line at Cincinnati,
Marietta, Louisville and Evansville,
but it is now falling at stations above
Marietta, and is fourteen inches below
the danger line at Pittsburgh. The
Mississippi river is four and a half feet
above the danger line at Cairo, where it
has risen 9 inches. It has risen one inch
at Memphis and two inches at Vicks
burg, and is reported eight inches
above the danger line at Helena. It
has fallen eleven inches at St. Louis
and eight at Keokuk. The floods will
continue on the lower Ohio during
Thursday, and the danger will increase
on the Mississippi between Cairo and
Memphis during Thursday aud Friday.
The Upper Ohio and the rivers in Penn
sylvania have fallen rapidly. The Cum
berland, Missouri and Red rivers have
changed but slightly. Rains have pre
vailed during the day in the regions of
the Upper Mississippi and Lower Mis
souri Valleys.
The Mississippi River Still Rising—
Miugled Hopes and Fears.
Memphis, August 4.— The river at
this point is rising steadily, having
risen an inch aud a half since last re
port, and is now standing within four
teen inches of the danger line, which
covers the country westward to Madi
son, Arkansas, a distance of 40 miles.
The feeling to-night among those in
terested is more hopeful, in conse
quence of a decline at St. Louis, but
reports from Ohio cause gloomy fore
bodings.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Yellow Fever Bulletins—Capture of
Crooked Whiskey—Marine Disaster.
Washington, August 4.—Commodore
Cooper telegraphs everything quiet
and healthy in the Navy Yard and
vicinity.
Secret Treasury agents captured four
hundred barrels of crooked whiskey in
Chicago, which wore concealed since
the raid in July.
The vessel which foundered off the
Chickomacoinico, N. C., on the Bth of
May, proves to be the schooner Mary
Eliza, of Portsmouth, N. H., from Sa
vannah for Damarescotta with lumber.
She sprung a leak and capsized. John
O’Neal, Freeman Blake, seamen, J. L.
Lestrim, mate, and Thos. Hughes, color
ed cook, are supposed to be lost. The
vessel’s papers were lost.
Gen. Branuan telegraphs from Bar
rancas that there were no new cases
since yesterday’s report and only one
death.
Sternberg is improving but not out
of danger. No case from Fort Pickens
for nine days.
The Typographical Union Sticks to
Old Prices —Mail Squabbling.
A full meeting of the Typographical
Union unanimously determined to ad
here to the old scale of prices and sus
tain those printers who are now on a
strike against the reduction of the
scale.
Jerome J. Hinds, recently on trial for
complicity in mail frauds, tiled a bill in
equity to restrain the Department from
paying the money to John Allman &
Bro. for carrying the mails in Texas.
Hinds recites that he had an interest
iu said contract, and was illegally de
barred from executing it. Judge
Humphreys made a preliminary re
straining order, returnable on the 10th
of September.
POLITICAL.
Democratic Convention in Mississippi—
The Amendments Gulped Down aud
Sambo Requested to “Join the Cav
alry.”
Jackson, Miss., August 4.—The Demo
cratic Convention was the largest
since 1861. Mr. Lamar addressed the
meeting at length. H. C. Heminway
was nominated Treasurer. The plat
foim is mainly eoniiued to State affairs.
It recognizes to the fullest extent the
civil and political equality of all men
and asks aid and assistance of voters
of all parties and both races iu the es
establishment of good government.
Under appointment of the Executive
Committee the convention adjourned.
A Constitutional Convention Called in
Alabama.
Montgomery, August 4.—Returns
come in slowly, but enough is known
to render it reasonably certain that a
Constitutional Convention has been
called by 10,000 majority.
Datus E. Coou, who issued an ad
dress to the people favoring Congress
man White’s Force bill, received but 7
votes in his own city out of 2,400
polled, 1,800 of which were Republican.
Many leading Republicans supported
the call and several Republican coun
ties have given majorities for the con
vention.
Montgomery, August 4.—The Con
vention has carried the State by 5,000
majority.
North Carolina Convention,
Wilmington, N. C., August 4. — The
State election to-morrow is for 120 del
egates to the Constitutional Conven
tion, called by the last Legislature.
The representation in the Convention is
like that of the Lower House of the
Legislature, which had 120 members in
that body at the last session. The Con
servatives had a reliable majority of
42. The result is considered very im
portant, and the election will undoubt
edly be much closer than last year.
Both parties seem confident of secur
ing a majority of delegates, but the
chances seem to be largely in favor of
the Conservatives, who will probably
elect not Jess than 65 of the 120 dele
gates, although there has been less
spirit in the canvass than usual. The
anxiety to know the result is iutense, as
the Convention js charged with the
duty of amending the orgauic law of
the State.
Savannah, August 4.—The first bale
of Florida cotton was received here
from Gainesville, Fla.
"When you hear a good story from
the lips of a stupid man, and see a silk
umbrella in the hands of a man who
does not pay for a newspaper, you
may know that both have been bor
rowed.
LETTER FROM ATHENS.
THE UNIVERSITY COMMENCE
MENT.
A Heavy Rainstorm—Progressive In
terest iu the College Exercises —Sen-
ator Gordon as a Model for Youth-
Junior Day—A Disorderly Audience
Address of Mr. Van Epps—The Soph
omore Prize—Sam.
[Special Correspondence Constitutionalist !
Athens, Ga.. August 3,1875.
The heavy rainstorm which swept
over the city yesterday afternoon cool
ed the atmosphere to a degree abso
lutely balmy, and this morning a glori
ous breeze sweeps down from the sur
rounding mountains.
A few additional visitors arrived on
the trains last night, and this morning
the chapel of the University is crowded
with an audience the Athens papers
will surely call fashionable. The exer
cises grow more aud more interesting as
they progress—as they step from one
grade or class of students to a higher—
just in the ratio of the expansion of
the mind of a youth from one epoch to
its succeeding. Schoolboy oratory has
its charm, not so much in its own
merit, but from that ever longing anil
burning desire of the patriotic and in
telligent citizen to peer into the future
—to, upon the evidence present now, t
form an opinion of the character of
men upon whose shoulders the imme
diate destiny of the country will fail.
In his character of soldier, states
man, patriot, and in each and all a gen
tleman of unsullied honor, Senator
Gordon presents a splendid example to
the students of our University. He is
present at every Commencement in the
double capacity of father and member
of the Board of Trustees. To imitate
him calls forth the highest ambition,
and doubtless inspires the young men
of our laud.
Junior Day.
The exercises were opened with
prayer by the Rev. W. H. Potter, D. D.
We then had speeches as follows:
L. M. Landrum, of Oglethorpe coun
ty—subject, “Our Social Propensions;”
H. C. Ayer, of Floyd, “Geniuses;” W.
M. Henry, Walker, “A Persian Aphor
ism;” H. H. Tucker, Jr., Athens,
“Knowledge au Antidote to Pride;” P. j
E. Dennis, of Talbot, “The Farmer;” I
and by A. W. Davis, of Atlanta, whose 1
subject was “Tho Press.”
A Disorderly Audience.
There was such a constant hum and
buzz on the floor and in the audience
that I could hear but little the young
gentlemen had to say. Such is the
case, lam told, at every Commence
ment. It would be a harsh measure,
though just, to adopt the “regulations”
of a city; station police in the building,
with orders to expel people who cannot
keep their mouths shut while the exhi
bition is in progress. It is to the last de
gree bad breeding, as well as rank in
justice to visitors who have come a
hundred miles to hear the orations,
and not the brainless clatter of “young
bucks” talking to their sweethearts.
Address of Howard B. Van Epps.
The orator selected by the Literary 1
Societies, the Phi Kappa aud the De
mostheniau, Howard B. Yan Epps, of
Atlanta, was next presented to the au
dience by Chancellor Tucker. He is a
graduate of the class of 1869, a young
gentleman of a broad, open face, blonde
complexion, auburn hair, of modern
stature, slightly inclined to the corpu
lent, has evidently paid great attention
to the training of his voice to popular
speaking, and in gesticulation is al
most free from criticism.
This address was upon the birth,
progress and present status of Ameri
can Liberty—an old theme to be sure,
aud had it been chosen by anyone less
eloquent, or had he fallen below his
own standard, he would have worried
his audience—an audience not com
posed of the rustic and Fourth of July
occasion, perfectly conscious and se
cure in his immediate prospect of get
ting his barbecued dinner, aud con
vinced, too, that he would get a plenty
for he full well knew the number of
carcasses smoking over the pot. His
audience on the other hand were the
literate, so-called, and so supposed of
the State, accustomed to hear ora
tions upon his text.
The speaker went back to the
Elizabethian, that heroic age of Great
Britain, to find the birth, the germ, the
womb of the American Constitution.
He had little else but condemnation for
the character of the British or the in
habitants of the Continent of Europe,
up to the close of the Sixteenth Cen
tury, and seemed to have drawn from
their history the conviction that they
had neither courage, the love of liberty
nor true religion. On this side of the
Atlantic he found nothing to condemn
from the appearance of “the almost
divine Washington to the present
hour.” His country, his people, for the
last hundred years, was a model
of greatness and perfection, and
other nations dwindled into in
signillcanco and contempt in com
parison with it. The address was a
huge puff of the United States, clothed
in the purest English, uttered by a
young Georgian for whom I feel a real
pride. But I judge he has never been
in Europe, and that it has not yet oc
curred to him, (as it has not doubtless
to a single student in this Univeisity
to-day) to road the other side. The
history they read is written by Yan
kees and is usually composed of one
half conceit and the other half false
hood, especially when speaking of those
epochs in our history when our blood
was shed by British arms.
It would be a monstrous speech to
these young gentlemen to say the Eng
lishman marches at the head of civili
zation, yet it is true. Nor would he be
lieve iu the equally true assertion
that his nation is the “slop bucket”
of the world, largely composed of the
speculator, and in lieu of statesmen
presents the buffoon politician ready to
sell his vote for a month’s board, and
does do it every session of Congress.
Howard Van Epps should spend two
years in England, and I will guarantee
that upon his return he will cry aloud :
“Give me more Integrity, more protec
tion against publio thieves, and not
quite so much of what we call glorious
liberty.” We have exchanged the ty
rant, George 111, fora thieving carpet
bagger, anti Gen. Grant, and negro suf
frage, and tax collectors at all hours of
the day and night. We whipped the
standing armies quartered upon us in
a time of profound peace off our soil a
hundred years ago, and for them had
Sherman and his hammers in a time of
war.
But I had no intention of criticizing so
severely this excellently written oration.
I only wished to remove from what
seems to rpe an otherwise dear and
splendid young mind some of the falla
cies thrown upon it by Yankee histo
rians, whose assertions should be taken
with a bushel of salt, every time.
The SophoiHojrp prize.
At the conclusion of his regular oration
Mr. Yan Epps delivered the decision of
the Judges, and the Prizes iu the So
phomore Declamation contest. To W.
M. Howard, of British Honduras was
given the first, and to J. G. Zachry, of
Rockdale county, the second prize.—
Howard in point of merit was not
nearer than fourth, and I presume was
given the medal because he lives in
British Honduras, which, I will
add, is all right. I hope his victory
will induce more subjects of the Queen
to come to our University, for I like
them, and perhaps they may teach our
youths that it is not right to pronounce
Anathema Maranatha upon everything
and everybody English.
Sam, the Centennial Janitor.
One of the most noted characters
about Athens and the University is old
Uncle Sam, who has been its janitor for
thirty years. He was born here a
slave, entered (?) the University simul
taneously with Dr. Church iu 1844, aud
has not graduated yet. To graduate
lias never been his ambition. That is
about the last thing he wants to do.
Sam has heard enough eloquence to
amount to a first class cyclone, if col
lected, boiled dowu, concentrated, sup
plied with the necessary electricity
and powers of propulsion. But
all this worry over books, am
bition to make a big name, to
raise a noise in the outside world has
not troubled him in the least. He sits
iu the corner of the chapel this morn
ing, near his bucket of water which he
lias brought for the speakers, aud
hands out witli a polite bow, but never
failing to catch a short nap between
drinks and while a speech is being
made. As he sits there nodding I see
a full blooded negro, whose wool looks
like a handful of salt has been thrown
over it. The college boys have always
been kind to him, practising, of course,
a practical joke frequently at his ex
pense, but always of the more gentle
order of such jokes. His keenest ap
preciation is grounded upon an extra
greenback quarter, and chief sorrow
tho occasion of the graduating of the
student who has given him the most
money. Who is tho happier, Sam or
the hoy who bothers himself so much
about the contents of books ?
The Chancellor’s Reception.
It is said that in other days the
Athenians were renowned for their
hospitality, and upon every Commence
ment occasion threw open their doors
and invited neighbor and stranger to
walk in. It is different now, brought
about by “shrinkage in values” in part,
and in part by the death of Howell aud
T. R. R. Cobb, who used to lead the
people here in social as well as in spir
itual aud political matters. I intend to
visit the grave of T. li. R. Cobb, for
having great admiration of the man, I
have curiosity to see the spot where—
The hero lies still
And the dew-drooping willow,
Like fond weeping mourners,
Leans o’er his grave.
Dr. Tucker has inaugurated a cheap
substitute for the old receptions given
by the Athenians. Last night ho bor
rowed the Library room of the Uni
versity from the Trustees, faced the
divisions with square pieces of tin and
‘Candles, in vited the crowd aud called
it “the Chancellor’s reception.” The
Doctor and his lady took position at
the head of the room, whilst a detail
of Sophs acted as a Presentation Com
mittee. You will find by reference to
almost any correspondent that it was
“a brilliant affair.”
It moved along smoothly until Mark
Cooper, accompanied by a stately ma
tron, appeared. Their combined weight
being nearly half a ton, the floor at the
centre gave a premonition of giving
way. Two sharp reports were heard
under it, brief consultations took place,
when several gentlemen, including the
Governor of Georgia aud this writer,
moved out witli as much rapidity as the
laws of dignity would allow.
But I must reserve something to say
to-morrow, which will positively be my
“last appearance on these boards.”
Jean Valjean.
LETTER FROM M’DUFFIE.
Exhibition of the Wriglitsboro High
School—The Crops Badly Injured.
Clay Hill, Ga., July 30, 1875.
Please allow me space in your excel
lent paper to give an account, briefly,
of the examination and exhibition of
the Wriglitsboro High School, McDuffie
county. This school is taught by that
accomplished young teacher Mr. N. E.
Ware, of Wilkes county, Ga., assisted
by his brother, Mr. A. F. Ware.
Wriglitsboro is an old town; so old that
it is nearly worn out; but if you had
seen the crowd there during the exam
ination you would have though that
emigrants from the West were return
ing. “Nettie” has worked hard to
build up this school, and by hard work
he has succeeded iu rearing up one of
the best schools tho country affords.
The Board of Examiners consisted of
W. D. Tutt, Esq., Paul C. Hudson, Esq.,
and J. H. Casey, Esq. The scholars
showed from their examination, that
they had been well taught. I never
have seen young scholars stand an
examination better. After the exam
ination exercises were over, Mr. Chas.
Z. McCord, of Augusta, addressed the
people. This was au excellent speech.
Next in order was the exhibition. The
scholars were well trained in these ex
ercises, giving great credit to them
selves and teacher.
The crops are being cut off very fast.
To look upon vegetation now, it makes
one feel badly. The grass, oh! how
withered. The leaves upon the trees
look sad aud shorn. Mr. Wind (not old
Tom) has not ceased to blow this
month, not long at a time. King cot
ton, look at his body, how withered!
D >es he look like he can rule nine or
ten States in the Union now? Withered
old Rex. If thou would’st burn up,
some would be much better off, and
some would say : “ Ma.y you live long
and prosper.” Corn that was planted
soon and worked well was nearly made
before the drouth hurt it. I think it is
cut off one-third in this section of the
county. Pet.
Macon Telegraph : The maddest man
in Georgia is in Savannah. He recent
ly received, as we learn from the News,
two Southdown bucks from Louisvile,
the express charges upon which were
$47.25. Their original cost was only
S4O. We suggest as a means of easing
his mind that he immediately proceed
to kill about one hundred dogs. That
is a much more practical method of
getting rid of the surplus steam than
using bg,d words.
Rome’s taxable property aggregates
$2,932,550.
The Baltimore thinks the navy
yai’4 at Pensacola, in view of the fre
quency of yellow fever outbreaks there,
should be abandoned. It is not of suffi
cient importance to compensate for the
deaths of officers and men causecj by
th e fever,
THIRD GEORGIA.
THE PORTSMOUTH REUNION.
Old Soldiers in Council—Decorations of
the Hall—Speech of Col. Nisbet.
Oxford Hall, where the Reunion pro
ceedings took place yesterday’, was
fitted up on the interior with flags and
appropriate devices. The stage par
ticularly was very handsome with or
namentation. On either side was a list
of the battles in which the Georgians
participated. On the right was a framed
copy of “Lee’s farewell address, with
flags crossed above and the following
battles : Capture steamer Fauny, Chic
amaeomico, South Mills, Seven Pines,
Seven Days’ Fight, Drury’s Bluff, Fra
zer’s Farm, Malvern Hill, Second Ma
nassas, Harper’s Ferry, Sharpsburg,
Fredericksburg.
On tl& left were United States flags
crossed and the following battles : Mer
rimac, Gettysburg, Manassas Gap, Wil
derness, Spotsylvania, Atlee’s Station,
Twenty-Second June, Crater, Ream’s
Station, Yellow Tavern, Burgess’ Hill,
Hatcher’s Run, Davis’ Farm, Sailor’s
Creek, Guriy House, Appomatox.
In the centre background uf the
stage was a line representation of the
“Virginia Coat of Arms,” surmounted
by a centennial spread eagle, and “old
thirteen.” Ample seats were arranged
for the officers, speakers, celebrities
aud “press.” Just above the speakers’
stand was a banner inscribed “Virginia
Greets Georgia,” with the figure of
hands clasping in the centre.
Maupin’s Hall will be the headquar
ters of the Georgians during their
stay. The facade of the building will
contain appropriate mottoes and au im
mense banner stretching across the
street to Oxford Hall bearing the
words,
“Headquarters Third Georgia Regi
ment,”
with the flag of Virginia above it.
One of the chief features of the day
was the speech of Col. Nisbet, which is
hereto appended :
Mr. President and Comrades:
Meeting as we do to-day, hero amidst the
scenes of our first service in the fields and
surrounded by the generous hearts who
then entertained us at their hospitable
homes and made us comfortable around
their glowing firesides, I shall address my
self, in my introductory remarks, more
particularly to these old and never to be
forgotten friends.
Citizens of Portsmouth :
It is my pleasing duty to address you in
behalf of my comrades, to whom you have
again extended a kind and hearty welcome.
Would that some magic power could touch
my lips with eloquence, and endow my
brain with genius, fitting to give full ex
pression to the many emotions that fill our
hearts.
Life is full of strange and wondrous inci
dents, springing up in its pathway with
startling unexpectedness. Thoughts, emo
tions and associations we had long deemed
buried irretrievably in the past, suddenly
awake to vigorous life and move our in
most being with their wonted power. Such
an incident is this. Never in the wildest
dreams witli which fancy paints the future,
did it ever picture this scene. Some of us
may have thought that the calls of busi
ness might perhaps hurry us on passing
train or steamship by your city, giving us
a hasty glimpse of what was once so fa
miliar ; but never did one of us expect to re
turn as we do to-day—as an organization,
and self-invited—yet we feel that we are no
less welcome guests to your hospitable
gates.
Wehavecomo from the mountains and
the seaboard, from the villages and cities
of the “old red hills” of Georgia, a scat
tered and broken few—come once more to
greeL you.
Not for a holiday excursion, nor to waste
a few days in reckless revelry or thought
less dissipation, but impelled by the strong
est and purest motive—we have come be
cause we love you. Can yuu not theu sym
pathize with our feelings, standing unex
pectedly, as we do, amidst these long-loved
scenes; these streets in which we once
paraded, our hearts tilled and our cheeks
flushed with the enthusiasm of young and,
as yet, untried troops; these shores, the
scenes of our formeiiabors; yon field, on
which for months our tented homes were
spread; these beautiful waters, in whose
bosom we were wont to bathe our wearied
limbs; these homes and firesides, and sur
rounded by old friends whose warm hearts
prompt the hearty grasp of the hand and
the kind words that again bid us welcome
here.
1 am not here to deliver a carefully pre
pared and ornate addresi; but to talk with
you as friends long separated an I now met
again. I will be pardoned, then, if 1 speak
of persons and things that are mutually
interesting to us alone, and you will be pa
tient with me whilst I recall some of the
facts connected with our life here.
A little more than fourteen years ago,
company by company of the Third Geor
gia Regiment, promptly responding to
the call of your Governor, reached this city,
hurrying forward, badly armed and but
partially equipped, and entered your navy
yard ere the smoke had ceased to rise from
its burning ruins. Here we were organized;
here were elected our field officers—the
lirst full regiment from the South that
mustered upon your soil, and the advance
guard of the sixty thousand troops that
"illustrated Georgia” on the hundred bat
tle fields of Virginia.
You received us then with open arms.
For several mouths camped within your
corporate limits, we gave ourselves up to
the full enjoyment of the boundless hospi
tality and the social pleasures which you
so generously tendered us. Thus and then
were formed those associations which the
vicissitudes of years have failed to oblite
rate. Every soldier, however humble, had
a home of his own within some kind house
hold; our sick were nursed into renewed
health by kind and tender hands, or their
passage to the tomb was soothed and
brightened by loving hearts. Thus were
we almost weaned from the attachment of
our own dear homes.
Ordered to the coast of North Carolina
for four months, wo were engaged in de
fending and fortifying the island of lioan
oke. There was often demonstrated the at
tachment of the regiment to your people.
On many a night, when worn out with ex
hausting labors, and with numbers pros
trated by the malarious fevers of the island,
melancholy and dispirited, no sound to
reach our ears save the tread of the senti
nel or the loud booming of the billows
breaking forever upon the storm-beaten
shore, the sweet strains of that loved mel
ody, “Carry me back to old Virginia, to old
Virginia’s shores,” would come stealing
over our senses, every man was instantly
aroused, cheer after cheer burst from thei'r
throats, echoing and re-echoing along those
solitary shores, awaking the myriads of
sea fowl that haunt those waters, and call
ing up from their sleep of ages, if it were
possible, the spirits of .Raleigh’s murdered
colonists.
How joyous was our return! How de
lightful the renewal of our pleasures, until
sept to oppose tlje fues th t tii reatoned
your rear. We did oppose them; we did
protect you. Cql. A. li. Wright, with one
thousand Georgians, and scaroe one hun
dred Virginians, in open Held, defeated and
drove back to their licet in haste and con
fusion, six thousand of the enemy. MilL
tary men thought this battle—fortunate as
it was—a reckless hazard; but it was the
promptings of that military genius which
characterized the man that won fur him
his spurs, ana inaugurated a reputation
for lus regiment which they sustained on
many a hard fought field. Returning exul
tant and flushed with victory, joyous with
anticipations of a warm welcome from you
a few miles from the city we received the
tidings that Norfolk and Portsmouth were
being evacuated. Sad and sudden was the
change that came o’er the spirit of oqy
dreams, as with heavy hearts we bore to
the left and silently wended our way on to
Richmond.
It was the duty of your speaker to enter
this city on that night, ana l can say that
although I witnessed during the war maqy
sad and terrible scenes—deserted cities and
dismantled homes -yet neyer shall I for
get that eventful flight. I was mot upon
my arrival by the sad intelligence that
death had been busy in my own home, and
torn from my embrace, forever, mure than
one of my loved once. Although crushed
bv a grief abidelh with me still, I
almost forgot my own sorrows in my
peady sympathy with yours. These streets
were crowded with hurrying throngs; men,
careworn and anxious; women with tears
streaming from their eyes; little children
with wondering, upturned faces; the rumb
ling of countless wagons; the shouts of
men despeiate and angered in their misery;
the gloomy skies made lurid by the loud
explosions which again and again told of
the destruction of fort after fort and bat
tery after battery; and the shrill whistio
of the engines of rapidly moving train s
sounding in our ears like shrieks of des
pair, rendered the night hideous and tue
scenes pitiful indeed. Thus rudely were
severed the bonds of our twelve months’ in
timacy. But the memory of your love went
with us; and not a rumor of oppression in
flicted upon you that was not listened to
with sorrowing sympathy; not a message
of cheerful character tiiat was not re
ceived by gladdened hearts. Your sons
went with us, and on Malvern’s bloody hill
their familiar uniforms and loved faces
were seen in the midst of our ranks. ’Twas
in the front of the regiment at Sharpsburg
that the gallant Grimes fired his last shot,,
and thus fulfilled his pledge, that he would
stay with us even unto death.”
But enough of this dark and bloody pic
ture. You know it all, from its bright com
mencement to the gloomy end. I have
spoken not only for those who are present,
but also for the absent, as each one of us
comes charged with many and loving mes
sages from those who are unable to be with
you to-day. On leaving home my old com
panions told me to say to you, that al
though unable to come,’they are with you
in spirit, and rejoice with you in the de
lights of this reunion.
And now, my comrades, what shall I say
to you ? How deeply am I moved, as for
the first time iu ten years, I meet you—
years to us full of struggles—years full of
vicissitudes, and of hardships greater than
those of the war—years in which you have
been manfully fighting the battle of iiio—
fighting against poverty aud want, work
ing: to restore the wrecked fortunes of your
families and rebuild your ruined homes;
struggling on amidst grief aud disappoint
ment, sometimes hopeful, but often ready
to exclaim:
“That the burden laid on you
Seemed greater than you could bear;”
But always sustained by that stern phi
losophy which teaches us to
“Let the dead past bury its dead,”
you have wisely followed the poet’s injunc
tion to
“Act—act in Lhe living present,
Heart within, and God o’erhead.”
Each of you, I doubt not, lias also done
his part, humble though it may be, to re
surrect our prostrate State. In this labor
you have known no such word as fail, and
Georgia is redeemed and once more fills
her wonted place—“ Tho Empire State of
the South.” Her star is once more in the
ascendant, and iu mid-horizon sheds its
rays as brightly as any proud common
wealth that mingles in the*glorious con
stellation of our Union.
Your presence hero, comrades, revives a
thousand memories of our services in Vir
ginia. But what can I toll you—soldiers
yourselves—of the soldier’s life? Has not
each fireside its narrator, and eacli house
hold its hero? Shall I tell how, sometimes,
we were cold, sometimes hungry, and many
times exhausted by fatigue and exposure?
How, during tho long Winter months, our
hearts were almost broken by that con
stant yearning for our loved ones at home?
How, affected with scurvy, wo actually
loathed the scanty ration of i ancid bacon
and unsifted corn meal; yet how, when
Summer came, and the clarion call of Lee
sounded through the camps, our loan
aud starved “rebels” would shake off
their lethargy, “like dew drops from
a lions mane,” and make ready for
the march-ready for the battle, and,
if God willed it, ready for tho soldier’s
death, and for the soldier’s solitary grave?
Or shall I tell of things grand? Of the
mighty army moving over the turnpikes of
Virginia, stretching through the valleys
and along the slopes; the clang of sabres,
the glint of the sun upon shining steel, the
wiki strains of military music, and the
sounding trea 1 of Lee’s trusty veterans?
How we stood and gazed upon tbe grand
spectacle of fifty thousand of the chivalry
of the South, who, with song and shout, for
miles up and down the river, as I hey cross
ed, covered the broad bosom of the historic
Potomac; of the meeting of contending
hosts, hurled again and again upon each
other in the terrific shock of battle—the
volley, the charge, the wild hurrah and the
fury of men in desp rate, deadly combat?
Or shall I tell of things pleasant? Of glo
rious mountains, gre -n clad valleys, cool
springs and shady groves; and, God bless
them in every spiritual and temporal bles
sing, of the people of Virginia and Mary
land—of their open doors, their great warm
hearts, and their tender love for the “Geor
gia Volunteers?”
And, passing all these, shall 1 tell you of
death—death as it came to many of our fal
len comrades; of the soldier shot dead in
the fight; of the soldier left on the battle
field, with no sound save the groans of his
wounded comrades, or the sighing of t'.e
night winds—alone to die; of death in the
gloomy ho pital, or the pestilent camp; or
of the solitary picket, with the safety of an
army, as it were, in his hands, pacing his
post tiie long nigbt through, and at the
peep of day, perhaps, shot by a hidden foe?
Such were tiie scenes you witnessed, such
the trials you endured, and such the emo
tions you felt until the last and fatal day at
Apomattox Court House, where ceased
"The soldier's hope, the patriot’s zeal,
Forever dimmed, forever crossed.
Oh! who can tell what heroes feel.
When all save life and honor's lost?”
We are called the “Survivors of the Third
Georgia Regiment,” but oh! the dead, the
many, many dead whose silent graves are
found in every valley and by every stream
from the Carolinas to Pennsylvania. Their
fame belongs to history, and their memory
is being preserved as a sacred trust by
those who loved them most, the noble
women of the South, who are so faithfully
recording their heeds of valor in song and
history and enduring marble.
I would be recreant to my duty did I not
allude on this occasion to him who was the
centre, the soul, the very life of the rogi
ment—the lamented Wright. Elected here
your Colonel, and subsequently promoted,
for gallant services, to be your General,
your early fame was won as Wright’s
Georgians; and your matured laurels were
secured as the leading regiment of
“Wright’s Brigade.” How distinctly clear
is his image -how boldly stand forth the
scenes in which he was so prominent a fea
ture-how perfect the memory of his splen
did person in camp, on the march, in the
privacy of his “mess,” or in
“Jlattle’s magnificently stern array.”
I commenced my service under him here.
I closed it in 18G5, still under him, in Caro
lina. None knew him better, none studied
his peculiar character more closely. He
had faults of temper, faults or manner;
but few were they compared to his many
noble traits. Quick, irritable and some
times almost tyrannical, yet he never be
came subservient to his superiors. Often
chafing, conscious of his superiority to
some who ranked him, he was sometimes
inclined to be insubordinate, still always
doing his duty, always true as steel, and
active, energetio, self-possessed and brave
—for he was born with all the instincts of
a soldier and, with the exception of Gor
don, I firmly boliove him the ablest general
from his State.
It is gratifying to record that Ids last
earthly labors were given to his country.—
His health was shattered by thoir severity
and just when he had been triumphantly
elected to a seat in the National Congre-s
and the eyes of the whole State were upon
him, as the head of its delegation, he who
as a soldier escaped death in so many and
varied forms, died surrounded by the
blessings of peace. Cos uu,ending his spirit
to the God who gave it, we, his comrades,
have ever cherished, and will continue to
cherish his memory with an unfaltering
devotion.
It would seem foreign to the object of our
gathering were I to dwell at length upon
die subject which is so deeply engaging
th 5 thoughts of all good citizens—l an
the spirit of reconciliation which is .<• ’el
oping itself throughout the whole com -y.
But there may be among my hearers s.me
who, perhaps, have a natural curio ity to
know how men like us think and feel.
We do nqt pveteud to be full of "gush,”
nor do we aftect any mawkish sentiment.
Deep wounds heal slowiy. But, with an
honest purpose, we give this movement
our hearty and honest co-operation, and
welcome all overtures from our late an
tagonists, in the same spirit in which they
are extended, particularly when they come
from the ranks of that gallant soldiery
whose courage and fidelity to what they
deemed the right we so often tested, and to
which we here freely hear a most willing
testimony. But, sir, we do not repent of a
singm a<?t of our State in the past. We
owe our allegmnce to her—she has yielded
that allegtance under the Constitution to
the Union, sincer. ly and in good faith. We
approve her action, and will prove loyal to
her professions,
New Series—Vol. 3. Tsl o. 3
lam one of those who believe that the
sufferings of the present gonerati >n will
ripen into blessings in the future. Already
the principles of government which we
have been taught to revere are again
springing into life. And, strange as it may
seem, their first triumph was in old Con
necticut, where, for a century, they have
always lurked, sometimes slumbering, but
never dead. And now Massachusetts, like
a giant as she Is, has arisen in her majesty,
and once more the “Old Bay State”
marches side by side with with this grand
Old Dominion.” God speed the good
work.
Mr. President, I cannot pass from our
friends without making a feeble effort to
express the high regard in which we hold
this State. Feeble it is obliged to be, com
pared with the strength of the sentiment.
O ,V r ¥ inia > Virginia! so justly called
the‘Mother of States,” from the Chosa-
to the plains of Missouri, and from
the Potomac to the distant Rio Grande, thy
children and thy children’s children rise up
and pay thee homage. More dear art thou
now, broken and dismembered though thou
be, and with thy wounds scarce healed,
than wert thou in thy proudest days! More
honored art thou than when thy statesmen
enunciited thoso principles which estab
lished and -o long governed a nation. Thy
wisdom and thy conservatism still direct
thy sister States, and iead them onward
and forward as of yore. Gladly, willingly
we yield obedience and cnoerfuily fall into
line, knowing that where thou leadest honor
goes before.
Remarks of Col. David J. Godwin.
At the welcome reception of the 3d
Georgia Regiment on Tuesday evening,
Col. Godwin spoke as follows:
-Mr. President, Soldiers and Gentlemen of the
Third Georgia Regiment:
Gentlemen: We welcome you to Vir
ginia, and we thrice welcome you to the
city of Portsmouth, the scene of your mili
tary services in the late war. My people
not only remember you kindly, but lovingly
appreciate your patriotism then, and we
have not forgotten your gallant services
curing that war. We are not only at
tached to you as a regiment and as indi
viduals. but we cherish and honor your
noble deeds done and performed in that
cause Many of your brave dead are
interred in Virginia soil, and the bones
of some, in common with their brother
Virginians, bin not through neglect, now
perhaps are bleaching upon every battle
field of the Old Commonwealth.
I will not attempt here to speak in detail
of the splendid record made by your regi
ment during that war. History has done
it for me. But I will say that no regiment
in that whole service can boast a prouder
roll than the Third Georgia Regiment.
Will thecountry say thatthes ■ re-unions,
these demonstrations are wrong and calcu
lated to keep alive the animosities of the
yvar V It is not true. Such is not the ob
ject, or the fact, the reverse is true. It does
not seem to me that this is out of place
upon occasions like these to recall the past
with the associations and to do honor to
die living and the dead, who were actors
in thatgreatstruggle.lt moans nett eason,
it is simply loyalty to the loftier and sub
iimest sentiments oT our nature; it means
peace and good will.
All “pomp and circumstance of glorious
war” has laded away—the great and good
Lee, Jackson and others, rest in com pan
ionship with the kindred dust or then
fathers—the tramp of their legions on the
march is hushed, the roar of artillery has
died away upon the Held of their victories,
and nothing remains to us but the honor,
the glory and the renown of that great
struggle—which surviving./bial disaster re
mains, and will ever remain, an imperish
able inheritance to the children of our
heroic people. The achievements of the
South in that prolonged struggle, not only
attracted the attention of our own country
men and their sentiments, but the world
paused to read the story of her great deeds,
and from every quarter of thcglobe came,
while get the clangor of war resounded,
the eommoij as.-ent and recognition that
whether her cause bo just or unjust, suc
cessful or unsuccessful, she had achieved
enough m arms and proved enough in con
duct, to entitle her to be held, as a people,
permanent, illustrious, noble and good.
It is becoming us to remember and cher
ish these noble men—our leaders and their
bravo deeds, as well to honor and cherisii
the humble soldiers who followed the
standard of their country, upheld by them.
All proud nations have done it and will con
tinue to do it, and I honor them for it. It
is the truest index of a chivalrous and gen
erous people. But in doing this let us not
remember to cherish anything of the pas
sions and asperities of the war—it is not
brave, it is not manly to do so. To the fu
ture, and not to the past, looks true nobil
ity ; we cannot afford to carry dead corpses.
We are soldiers, the present is before us
and the future just ahead of us, is too
full of hopes to stop to repine over the
things that have been lost. We have no
time and should have no taste to mope
over the past. We want reconciliation and
union—we want a happy and a united peo
ple. This country is ours; let us strive not
to undo, but to make it what it should be,
a great, a good, a just, a generous Govern
me t! Let us cultivate the idea that we
are a part and parcel in it, Let us honor
and respect it—let us seek to break down
a I estrangement between the sections. It
is our duty, it is our interest, and itshouid
be our pleasure.
I want to see the times when this great
Government shall shower alike its bles
sings and protection upon a whole and
common people—when under the American
flag, all sections of this Union shall stand
in sympathy and in peace—when the ac
tions, the passions, the sentiments and
emotions of our people shall bo centered
in the mighty industries of a united and a
happy country,
Let us bend our efforts to accomplish
this great object, and when it shall have
been achieved, who shall doubt the splen
did future of our country.
FROM NEW YORK.
Tilton’s New Case a Probable Fraud
—News from the Black Killians.
New York, August 4.—lt is stated
that the notice of trial served on Bee
cher’s lawyers by Tilton’s attorneys is
purely a formal notice. It is said this
does not indicate necessarily that a
new trial will be pressed. It is a pro
forma document drawn up and served
because the last trial did not result in a
verdict.
A dispatch from the Black Hills
country says Gen Crook, in his order
directing miners to leave August 15th,
suggests that they assemble at the
military post about to be established
at Camp Harney, on French Creek, on
or before the 10th of August, and there
hold a meeting and take such steps as
may seem best to them, by organiz
ation and drafting of proper resolu
tions, to secure to each, when this
country shall have been opened, the
benefit of his dieooveries and labor ha
has already expended.
News from the Defective Cable.
New York, August 4. Capt. Dun
kerton, of the ship Ellen Everett, which
arrived on Tuesday, from Yarmouth,
N. S., reports that, on July 11, in lati
tude 49, longitude 43.15, the officers of
the Faraday boarded his vessel, and
informed him that they had picked up
the defeotive part of the cable about
four miles from that point, a few days
previous, and had set a number of
buoys. On account of a boisterous sea,
they were compelled to drop the cable
again. Some defect exists in the cable.
It has not parted as reported.
Suspension of a Carpet House.
Foster Bros, carpet dealers, of Brook
lyn, suspended. Liabilities estimated
at $265,000 and assets $200,000. All the
creditors are New York merchants.
None of them will suffer by the suspen
sion. It is expected by the Arm that,
in a few days, satisfactory arrange
ments will be reached, and in the mean
time business will go on as usual.
The famous French surgeon, Ricord,
reoeatly had a corn extracted by an
operator in the neighborhood. After
the operation tho great surgeon drew
from his pocket a twenty franc piece.
“Gh, air, 1 ’ cried the,chiropodist with
emotion, whfle declining the money,
“there is no charge between profes
sional brothers,”