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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
Jas. G. Bailie, Francis Cogin, Geo. T. Jackson,
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Augusta, Git.
Grant has given Athens anew Post
master. _
We publish the O’Connell Centen
nial on the third page, including the
telegrams received yesterday and last
night.
The news from the Western floods
continues distressing. We are afraid
that the levees will soon give way be
low Memphis and destroy property by
the million.
—
The crops from Augusta to Thom
son are as dead as Hector ! Corn
along the Georgia Railroad looks like
it will not make ten bushels to the
plantation.
A detailed account of Commence
ment Day at Athens is given this morn
ing, which closes up our history of
the annual occasion. We have un
doubtedly given the fullest reports
which will be written.
Our letter from Europe contains a
graphic account of the revival of the
French capital, the political situation,
and the sewers and catacombs, which
are not iuaptly described as “Paris un
derground.” The reader will be pleased
with this correspondence from the first
line to the last.
We call attention to the outrages
perpetrated by United States officers
as detailed in our Clarkesville corres
pondent. The Attorney General at
Washington who has the reputation of
being a vigorous disciplinarian and
iover of justice, should take the neces
sary steps to redress the grievances of
the people of North Georgia.
Fallows who are shivering with cold
at the Springs and in the Mountain
country write home in tones of pity for
us poor devils who remain behind and
burn midnight oil. They really think
we are burning to death gradually,
while, in sober earnestness, our even
ings are deliciously cool and our morn
ings all that the heart or body of man
could desire.
Chances of travelers in Europe real
izing on the circular letters of Duncan,
Sherman & Cos., grow small my degrees
and beautifully less. Our foreign dis
patches give a lively picture of the con
sternation and suffering caused by the
bad faith of this wild-cat firm. If ac
counts wo receive from the North are
true, the people of that section are
standing upon the thin crust of a
commercial and social volcano.
GoJNo off to reunions is not what
many people suppose, as the following
item will show:
Major Geo. TV. Grice, Portsmouth, Fa.:
Please postpone reception speeches in
Oxford Hall till 10 o’clock a. m., to-morrow,
as two (2) of our chosen speakers are sick
and completely fagged out. The balance
.of programme carryout.
Claiborne Snead,
Colonel 3d Georgia Regiment.
But Major Grice did not see it in
those lamps. It was down on the bills
and had to be done.
Our table contains quite a number of
communications from friends on a
variety of subjects. They shall receive
due attention gradually. When the
orators at Athens and Portsmouth give
us a chance, we will be most happy to
oblige other people. Brother Christy,
of the Watchman, says the papers are
dull. If this be so, Athens and Ports
mouth must have the lion’s share of
blame. We are not prepared to admit
tthis charge ; but if true as to the rea
der, what must it be to a man who has
to read proof, edit telegraph, write
leaders, arrange correspondence, inter
view irate people, kill mosquitoes, read
exchanges, clip items and be bedeviled
generally? For our part, wo wish
times were a little lees lively. Auy
man or set of men who make speeches
in the dog-days should remember that
jjjere is a hereafter. Luckily the
speakers “dun it mild.”
Washington Notes.
Washington, August s.—The In
dian agent at Fort Sill telegraphs that
the Kiowa and Comanche women are
unwilling to go to Florida. The agent
wants instructions about compelling
them to go.
Lieutenant Wm. H. Mayer, Jr., is or
dered to the Canonicus, New Orleans.
Appointment of a New Athens Post
master.
Washington, August 5. —R. S. Taylor
has been appointed Postmaster at Ath
ens, Ga., in the place pf Jno. S. Milford,
not commissioned.
A startling triple coincidence is tiljs:
Beecher obtains §IOO,OOO from Ply
mouth Church; Joe Howard’s dirty lit
tle Star comes out with new type, and
white-souled Elizabeth has anew dress.
We await the latest news of Bessie.
A dove flew into a church at Hoosick,
New York, the other Sunday, and rest
ed on Rev, H. J. S. Lewis’ head. The
superstitious among the congregation
believe the omen meant that the pas
tor will soon die and go to heaven; but
the pastor does not seem overjoyed.
THE THIRD GEORGIA.
Continuation of the Ovation—Present
ation of a Flag—Entertained by Nor
folk—Excursion to the Capes.
[Special to the Constitutionalist.]
Portsmouth, Va., August 5,1875.
The ovation and demonstration in
behalf of the Georgians continues. A
Georgia State flag was presented to the
citizens of Portsmouth by the Third
Georgia, through Hon. S. A. Corker,
who delivered a most appropriate ad
dress on the occasion.
To-day the Georgians were enter
tained by Norfolk, Hon. John Goode,
Congressman-elect from Virginia, mak
ing the address of welcome.
Speeches were also made by Mayor
Whitehead, tendering the hospitality of
the city, and which was responded to
by Cols. Snead, Nisbet and Corker. The
most happy time that the mind can
conceive of! Enjoyment all through.
Among the courtesies extended was an
excursion on shipboard to-day to the
Capes.
A part of the Third Georgia will
visit Petersburg on an excursion ten
dered by Gen. Mahone, to-morrow, un
der charge of Capt. S. A. Corker, the
Vice President of the Association. A.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
The British Turf.
London, August 5. —Marie Stuart won
the Brighton cup. Louise Victoria,
second; Kaiser, third.
The Turks and Herzegovina.
London, August 5. —A Berliu special
says the Turks are collecting a large
force to crush Herzegovina with one
blow.
France and the Centennial.
Paris, August s.— There was a meet
ing of the committee to promote the
representation of France at the Cen
tennial exhibition at Philadelphia yes
terday. A communication was received
fro m the General Trans-Atlantic Steam
ship Cos., promising to reduce the tariffs
for freight and passengers destined for
the exhibition. The list of exhibitors
will close on the 15th.
Hans Christian Andersen—Great
Mourning Over His Death.
Copenhagen, August 5. — Hans Ander
sen died of cancer. There is universal
mourning in Denmark at his death.
Deputations from various parts of the
country and elsewhere in Europe will
attend his funeral.
The Direct Cable Steamer.
London, August 5. —The Faraday
cleared for St. Johns, N. F.
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DUNCAN, SHERMAN & CO.’S TRAV
ELING VICTIMS.
Great Destitution Among Tourists.
London, August s.—The officials of
the Union Bank say no arrangements
have been made with that institution
for the redemption of Duncan, Sherman
& Co.’s letters of credit in the hands of
travelers. Negotiations, therefore, have
been pending since the failure but have
not been completed, and the longer
they are postponed there is less prob
ability of a successful result.
Letters received here from Ameri
cans in Paris say that over one thou
sand holders of the suspended firm’s
letters of credit have been heard from
in Germany alone.
Many of them are utterly destitute
of funds and have been compelled to
apply to local authorities or to the
American Consuls for relief. One lady,
a teacher, of Massachusetts, had but
thirty francs in money when she heard
of the failure. American and English
people, where she was staying, sub
scribed sufficient funds to pay her ex
penses to Hamburg, from which place
she took steerage passage home.
Appeals for aid from persons holding
these letters come from all directions.
A document stating these facts and de
nouncing the house is preparing for
publication.
Chicago, August s.— The report of
the Comptroller shows he deposited
with Duncan, Sherman & Cos. §367,000
for the city coupon and bond account,
of which §42,000 were unpaid at the
time of the suspension.
New York, August s. — Mr. Duncan,
of Duncan, Sherman & Cos., says his
father has offered him §250,000 to pro
tect the firm’s letters of credit to trav
elers abroad. The matter has been
placed in the hands of Drexel, Morgan
& Cos., to be carried out by J. S. Mor
gan & Cos., of London. He says the
sum is amply sufficient for the pur
pose, and is sure that the affair will be
satisfactorily arranged.
THE AMERICAN T. RF.
Poughkeepsie and Buffalo Races.
Poughkeepsie, August s.—The unfin
ished 2:24 race of yesterday was won
by Clementine. The 2:29 race of to-day,
purse §4,000, was won by Jack Draper;
White Cloud, second; Twilight, third;
time, 2:282.4, 2:27%, 2:31%, 2:31,%,
2:31%. White Cloud took the first
heat and Twilight the second.
The next race was for horses who
have never beaten 2:18, for a purse of
§4,500. The race was won by Hopeful,
Lady Maude second, Huntress third,
and John H. distanced in the second
heat. Judge Fullerton took the first
heat but was distanced in the second.
Time, 2:21, 2:22%, 2:28, 2:28. At the
start, in the second heat, Fullerton
broke badly and stood almost still, and
when he did get to business was una
ble to save distance. A rain storm
which prevailed just before the last
r.F’e made the track heavy.
Buffalo August 5.— -At the first day
of the August
present. Purse, §2,500, 2:38 class;
§1,250 to first, §625 to second, §375 fo
third, §250 to fourth. Twelve started.
Breeze took the first, third and fourth
heats, auu the first money; Sandhill the
second heat and money; Gumball third
money, and Hattie R. fourth. Time,
2:34%, 2:34%, 2:28, 2:28%.
Purse §5,000, 2:29 class, §2,500 to
first, §1,250 to second, §750 to third,
§SOO to fourth. May Queen won
straight heats; General Garfield 2d,
Lady Star 3d, Music 4th. Moisey, Sea
foam, Monarch, Jr., and Frank Wood,
aisO started. Time— 2:22;*, 2:21%,
2:23%.
The North Carolina Election.
Wilmington, N. C., August s.—The
election in this city and throughout
New Hanover county passed off with
unusual quiet. Neither party polled
their full strength, the Republicans as
usual carrying the county by a large
majority, electing Geo. Z. French and
S. H. Manning, white; J. H. Smith, ne
gro, delegates to the Convention.
AUGUSTA. GA.. FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6. 1875.
THE WESTERN FLOODS.
Cincinnati Partiallv Submerged—Ten
Million Damages in the Terre Haute
District—The Rivers Falling Above
and Rising Below.
Cincinnati, August s.—The water is
invading the cellars of Broadway, Syca
more, Main, Walnut, and Vine streets.
It is up as far as Second street.
A dispatch from Terre Haute says
the Wabosh river is steadily falling.
Railways have began transferring pas
sengers, and mails can get through to
morrow. At Seymour the Ohio and
Mississippi bridge is gone and several
wash outs on that road besides. This
city appeared to be the center of the
storm, extending about one hundred
miles in each direction.
The total damage to railroads, crops
and private property in this Congres
sional District is estimated at ten mil
lion of dollars.
Washington, August s. —The Missis
sippi is eight inches above the danger
line at Helena, has risen one iuch at
Memphis, two inches at Vicksburg, and
nine inches at Cairo, and has fallen
eleven inches at St. Louis. Probabili
ties in the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys
—areas of light rain. The Lower Ohio
and Central Mississippi will continue
to rise.
Memphis, August s.—Heavy rains
prevail. Plantations on Islands No. 10
and No. 35 are submerged. At New
Madrid the flood is running through
the sunken land to the St. Francis
Valley. The river here is rising stead
ily and slowly encroaching on the ex
posed plantations. The crevasse at the
De Soto front is repaired.
A dispatch from Pine Bluff says the
river rose six inches this mourning,
and is within four feet of high water.
A telegram from Little Rock reports
another rise with 25 feet on the gauge.
Flood Report of the Signal Office.
Washington, August s. —The Lower
Ohio river will continue to rise at sta
tions below Cincinnati and fall rapidly
at stations above Cincinnati. The floods
will become more dangerous between
Louisville and Paducah. Central Mis
sissippi will rise at Cairo, Memphis,
Helena and Vicksburg and fall at St.
Louis. The danger will increase in the
Lower Mississippi between Cairo and
Vicksburg during Friday and Satur
day.
Special River Report.
7:36 p.m.—During the past twenty
four hours the Ohio river has risen
twenty-eight inches at Cincinnati, two
feet at Louisville, one foot at Evans
ville, and ten and one-half feet at
Paducah, where it is now four feet and
three inches below the danger line. It
is from two to five feet above the
danger line at stations between Evans
ville and Cincinnati. It has fallen and
is now below the danger line at Mariet
ta and Pittsburgh. The Mississippi has
risen six inches at Cairo, two inches at
Memphis and is rising at Vicksburg,
but has fallen one foot at St. Louis
and five inches at Warsaw. It is now
four and a half feet above the danger
line at Cairo, and ten inches above at
Helena. It is one foot below the dan
ger line at Memphis, and one foot and
ten inches below at Vicksburg. The
Missouri has fallen slightly at all sta
tions. The Cumberland has risen six
inches at Nashville. The floods will
increase in the Lower Ohio and Central
Mississippi during Friday and Satur
day. Heavy local rains are reported
from the western portions of Tennes
see and Kentucky and Southern In
diana.
In India and Germany.
Calcutta, August 5. —The floods in
the Northwestern provinces destroyed
many dwellings, and a great loss of life
is feared.
Berlin, August 5.— A waterspout
burst over the town of Kernin, Rhe
nist, in Prussia. The bridge and sev
eral houses were swept away. Thirteen
persons were drowned.
THE ALABAMA ELECTION.
The Convention Carried by Fifteen
Thousand.
Montgomery, August s.— At twelve
o’clock to-day the National flag was
hoisted over the Capitol and 21 guns
fired in honor of the carrying of the
Convention by the people. The ma
jority will be from fifteen to twenty
thousand.
Minor Telegrams.
Key West, August 5.— -The thousand
cigar makers who have been on a
strike since July Ist have resumed
work at lower wages.
Chicago, August 5. IJon, Jesse O.
Norton, formerly Uuited States Sena
tor, Is dead-
Minneapolis, August s.— The Nation
al Educational Association elected W.
T. Phelps, of Minnesota, President; W.
D. Hinkle, of Ohio, Treasurer, and 34
Vice-Presidents.
New York, August s.—Twenty car
loads for the Indian Agency are de
tained here at an expense to the Gov
ernment. They are contractor Mc-
Cann’s goods.
Montgomery, August s.—The second
bale of uew cotton has been received.
The first bale sold at and weighed
540 ibs.
Bjddeford, Me., August s.—Large
numbers are gathering at the National
Methodist Camp Meeting, which will
continue to the 15th.
Chester, Pa., August s.—The Pacific
Mail Steamship Company’s steamer,
City of Sidney, was safely launched.
New York, August 5. — Archhuckles’
spice mills were burned. Loss §IO,OOO.
The yacht Octavia, recently seized on
suspicion of being a Cuban fillibuster,
sailed for Uruguay.
A special from Cheyenne states the
Indian fraud commissioners find diffi
culty in their getting anyone to testify
relative to Indian servioe. Those
having facts are interested in the trade.
The committee started for Fort
Lorraine on the 2d.
Omaha, August 5- —John Gordon,
leader of the first miner’s expedition
into the Blaok Rills, arrived from Camp
Sheridan last night in obedienoo to a
summons of Judge Lake on General
Crook. The hearing of the habeas cor
pus will take place next week.
In France the economists set down
the afflictions of the United States as
due to three causes—an excess of rail- j
roads (over 100,000 miles), paper money
and a protective tariff.
Medad Alexander, who died at Mon
tague the other day, had a cancer that
prevented his taking any nourishment,
except a little cider and water, the last
70 days of his life.
Teachers and students of theology
get a certain look, conventional tones
of voice, a clerical gait, a professional
neckcloth, and habits of mind as pro
fessional as their externals.— Holmes.
Mgr. Capel has received into the
Catholic Church Lady Flora Hastings,
the elder of the two daughters of the
late Countess of Loudoun, and cousin
of the Marquis of Bute.
WESTERN CROP SITUATION.
The Damage by Cold and Floods.
Cincinnati, August 5. —It is difficult
at this time to form more than a rough
estimate of the damage done to crops
by rains and overflow in the Ohio Val
ley, but it is believed they will be
heavy. The wheat crop has suffered
severely by cold. It is believed, a third
is hopelessly lost, and the remaining
two-third# partially damaged, though
it is believed the damage will be much
less than is generally expected.
The acreage of wheat sown was lar
ger than last year and the relative
yield compared with last year will be
50 per cent. less. The chief damage to
corn is in the river bottoms, where the
crop is a total loss. That planted on
high ground has suffered principally
from being broken down. The acreage
was much larger than last year and
the prospects before the flood were
favorable for an unusually heavy crop.
It is now thought there will be a fair
average crop, not much if any less than
last year. Much depends, however,
upon favorable weather for the re
mainder of the season.
The oat crop has suffered more se
verely than either wheat or corn, hav
ing been beaten flat, and so badly dam
aged that it will be impossible to har
vest it. The pei cent, saved will be
very small. Barley suffered severely
from the cold weather, and but little
was growing. Of this grain the quan
tity saved in a condition for milling wili
be comparatively insignificant. Hay
promises a partial crop, but of inferior
quality.
LETTER FROM ATHENS.
THE UNIVERSITY COMMENCE
MENT.
The Great Day of the Year- Fine Spe
cimens of College Boys—A Bird’s Eye
View of the Audience —Fleming, of
Augusta —Other Orators—P. A. Sto
vall and 11. N. Starnes—Prize Medal
ists—The Alumni.
[Special Correspondence Constitutionalist. 1
Athens, Ga., August 4,1875.
Athens went to bed late last uight
aud woke up early this morning. It
was Commencement Day at the Uni
versity, and the greatest day in all the
year to Athens. This needed no trum
pet to tell you. The young gentlemen
drew on their best cloth, and the young
lady and matron old selected tiie very
finest and gayest in wardrobe, box tn J
drawer. And surely they did make, as
a rule, a fine appearance. Hardly any
thing stronger than the proverbial bot
tle of Congress water was swallowed by
that other and more substantial class
which Cm sar lias immortalized as tiie
“Conscript Fathers,” for they were es
pecially interested in seeing how “then
second principle of life,” as Byron epi
gramatically calls-him, acquit himself.
Forward, Guide Eccentric, March,
Uncle Isaac, the Janitor, had hardly
time to ring his bell, nor was it neces
sary, for the guests and citizens before
the hour approached, moved towards
the Campus and into our room of an
other chapter, the Chapel.
On the first floor, extending from the
two rows of front benches reserved for
the Seniors, to the rear of the hall was
not “ a vast sea,” as Webster said, but
a sparkling bright lake of upturned
faces of the fairer and more gentle
division of the descendants of Adam
and Eve. Mustering as a Senior upon
this occasion only, and for the reason
that the press “ has certain inalienable
rights,” and among these a reserved
seat in the most crowded assembly, i
was given a good position to hear ami
watch the proceedings of the day in
their various stages.
In the galleries the scene was no less
animated. Alow and aloft, as the jack
tar would say, it was really a brilliant
assemblage of Georgians aud Geor
giennes.
The Orations.
At the hour of ten the Trustees
marched through the room and as
cended the platform, followed by the
Senior class. Prayer was offered by
the Rev. Dr. Lane, of the Presbyterian
Church.
“ Primus ascendat orator, W. E.
Fleming, of Augusta,” proclaimed
the Chancellor, when a splendid look
ing representative of our own city
came forward, and with a truly man
ly and polite bow to the audience, com
menced an oration upon “Ambition.”
I thought it both in matter and in man
ner of delivery the best effort of the
day, and felt a real glow of pleasure in
seeing Augusta thus represented in
this intellectual feast in a style com
mensurate with our glory. Being the
first city in Georgia in p oint of refine
ment, wealth aqd intelligence, it was
expected that her speakers to-day
would exhibit talents of no ordinary
kind. Aud gloriously did young Flem
ing speak like a man, for himself and
his constituents.
D. H. Hardy, of Texas, was next in
troduced and made a speech upon the
American Centennial.
He was followed by J. H. Lumpkin,
of Athens, who made an oration in
blank verse from the text; “There are
Hands Untwisting all tfie Chains that
Tie the Hidden Soul of Harmony.” It
was a remarkable production for a boy,
but utterly failed, as such efforts ever
do, to interest the audience. I pre
sume this young Lumpkin is a leg from
the old legal bench, with which all Geor
gia is familiar, and a not altogether un
worthy representative. What an ad
vantage to have groat men as fore
fathers! A diamond, however, is origi
nal charcoal, and a diamond when burn
ed leaves nothing but the ashes of ego
tism.
P. P. Vincent, of Athena, next enter
tained us with a speech upon Evolu
tions of Forces. The noise in the room
had by this time become so great that
his voice was lost in a hundred echoes.
Now I love the ladies and love to have
them talk to me, hut I get fretted with
them (only for a little while, however)
when they keep qp an incessant clatter
“in meeting’' as they did tq-dqy. Had
they been addressing mo I would have
liked it better than the regular speeches
from the platform, but as they were’nt
I missed what they had to say and Vin
cent, too—cut off with not even a shill
ing. I arn free to maintain that they
are the most expensive, the fussiest, the
dressiest, the most noisy, and bother
some thing we have in the world. But
with all their faults I |ove them still.
P. A. Stovall, of Athens, was next in
troduced by the Chancellor. He was
pone other than “ Picciola,” of the
Constitutionalist, oqr regular corres
pondent. As we muster him as a m eru ‘
her of our family, I will pass his ora
! tion upon Science in this connection
! and tell him privately that it was flrst
rate, aud that he is one of the most
pleasant speakers I have heard since I
have been in Athens.
Following him was H. N. Starnes, of
Augusta, whose subject was—“ I dare
do all that may become a man—who
dares do more is none.” He spoke like
a veteran, and with perfect coolness
and self-possession.
G. T. Go her, of Marietta, who re
ceived the degree of A. M., aud I. B.
Inghram, A. 8., of Gordon county,
wound up the regular bill.
Prize Medalists, 1874-’75.
The Secretary of the Faculty then
read the list of Prize Medalists, as fol
lows.
A. O. Murphy, Monroe county, So
phomore Scholarship ; H. H. Gordon,
Fulton county, University Prize Essay ;
D. W. Rountree, Brooks county,
.■school of Latin : W. T. Huguley, Ala
bama, School of Greek; M. Erwin,
Fulton county, School of Mathematics ;
C. R. Twitty, Mitchell county, School
of Nat. Phi. and Astron’y ; J. H. Lump
kin, Athens, School of Ethics aud
Metaphysics; T. C. Gibson, McDuffie
county. School of Agriculture; C.
Terry, Jr., Columbus, School of Ap
plied Mathematics; M. Erwin, Fulton
Mechanical Drawiug ;J. H. Robinson,
Fulton, School of Chemistry; W. T.
Huguley, Alabama, School of History ;
F. H. Gordon, Fulton county, Stephens
Medal for History of the United States;
T. P. Vincent, Clark county, School of
French ; T. Wetter, Chatham county ;
School of German ; H. G. Dickinson,
Dougherty county, School of Belies-
Letters.
Conferring of Degrees.
The Chancellor then conferred the
following degrees upon members of the
Graduating Class :
BACHELOR OF PHILOSOPHY.
G. D. Case—Milledgeville.
BACHELOR OF ARTS.
T. C. Carlton, Elberton; H. G. Dick
inson, Albany; W. H. Doughty, Au
gusta; W. C. Foster, Alabama; D. H.
Hardy, Texas; R. M. Hodge, M. T.
Hodge, Houston county; W. T. Hugu
ley, Troup county; J. I. Inghram, Gor
don county; D. R. Keith, Putnam coun
ty; J. H. Lumpkin, Athens. H. B. Mitch
ell Athens; J. H. Mobley, Harris coun
ty; D. W. Rountree, Quitman; P. G.
Smith, Alabama; H. N. Starnes, Au
gusta; W. W. Sturges, Waynesboro;
G. H. Tanner, Atlanta; J. H. Worrill,
Talbotton; W. C. Worrill, Cuthbert.
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE.
P. A. Stovall, Augusta; T. P. Vincent,
Athens.
BACHELOR OF LAW.
H. W. Barrow, Oglethorpe county; J.
M. Bellah, Chattooga county; F. L. Har
alson, Union couuty; R. Hardy, Texas;
-T. C. Hart, Greene county; J. H. Hos
kinson, Floyd county; R. S. Howard,
British Honduras; S. G. McLendon,
Thomas county: J. A. McWhorter,
Greene county; R. S. Summerlin, Flor
ida; J. C. Williams, Bartow county; B.
Wright, Newton, county.
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING.
M. Erwin, Atlanta; W. H. Fleming,
Augusta; J. M. Hodgson, Athens; M. L.
Morris, Henry county; C. R. Twitty,
Mitchell county.
CIVIL AND MINING ENGINEER.
Carlisle Terry, Jr., Columbus; S. W.
Cozart, Terrell couuty.
► MASTER OF ARTS.
G. F. Gober, Marietta.
With a short parting address from
Dr. Tucker to the class, the session of
1874-75 passed into the history and
the memories of the University of
Georgia.
ELECTION OF NEW TRUSTEES.
The Alumni have elected A. H. Ste
phens, and Thad. G. Holt, of Macon, to
fill vacancies in the Board of Trustess.
The Ball.
After tea the Senior Class met their
lady friends, and such other guests as
had been invited, at Dupree’s Hall and
engaged in the quadrille, valse, gallop,
and lanciers. The beautiful hall was
well filled, and the dance kept up until
after midnight.
Sensational Dispatches.
I have noticed several sensational
dispatches iu Georgia papers about
the number of people in attendance.
I do not think exceeding one thousand
strangers have been in Athens during
this Commencement. This is readily
accounted for iu the tightness of
money. It costs at least fifty dollars
to attend, and not many people are
willing to make the outlay these hard
times. The number present was ex
ceedingly complimentary under the
circumstances.
I would, just here, say in all kindness
to the proprietors of the Newton
House, if they would introduce modern
furniture and accommodations in their
hotel many more people would visit
the annual Commencement. In justice
to Mr. Clinard, the lessee, I will state
be neither owns the building nor its fur
niture. To his fare I heard not one
single complaint, nor to his attentions
to his guests. But everybody objected
to the rude rooms, their old bedsteads,
granite mattresses, and they in the
most scanty supply. I would suggest
to my confreres of the press that they
had better first know the facts in re
gard to Mr. Ciinard’s position in the
house before censuring him.
Leaving for Home.
The train to-night carried away a
great many students and visitors, and
to-morrow pretty much everybody will
ieave foj- home.
In Conclusion.
I will say in concluding this corres
pondence that the Commencement Ex
ercises, \yhilat far below others in for
mer years, were interesting, neverthe
less.
I take hope for the future of our
great University in the pressure for
the abolition of many old ideas for
those purely modern. There is to be
found among the youuger members
of the Board of Trustees a pro
gressive spirit, which is truly com
mendable. The University unfortunate
ly has no endowment, unless wo call
tffat an eqclqwnieat drawn frorp the
State, not enough with which to make
much headway. It is the duty of all
friends of the institution to work for
this. Jean Valjean.
Statistics have been collected iu
France, Algeria and Prussia by which
it is shown that the Jewish race has a
mean average duration of life exceod
ing that of Christians by about five
years, and that this people enjoy great
er immunity from disease than Chris
tian races, The eausea asprjbed are
the inheritance of a sound physical
constitution, and the watchful care of
mothers over their offspring. The
plagues vyhieh haye visited various
countries have left them unscathed.
Croup is said to he extremly rare
among their children, and they fyaye
yery little scrqfu|a owing to their ab
stinence‘from. pork,
Mrs. Sweetly—“But why are you
making so many dolls’ pantaloons, my
dear Mrs. Jinxby?” Mrs. Jinxby—
“These are not dolls’ clothes, my dear ;
they are for the poor frogs, who go ex
posed in the water in winter in our
ponds.”
THE THIRD GEORGIA.
ECHOES OF THE REUNION.
r f lie Reception Along tlie Route—A
Real Old Virginia Welcome—Murie
Speeches.
[Portsmouth Enterprise.!
Franklin had a fine outburst. A
large throng was at the depot cheering
as the train came in, and the greeting
was vociferously responded. A salute
was fired from a small piece of ordi
nance, and every echo was the signal
of an outburst from the Georgians.
At Suffolk
the streets were filled with men, wo
men and children, comprising the en
tire population of the town. The Suf
folk brass band was stationed on the
balcony of Col. Swett’s hotel, and as
the train stopped the ears of the visi
tors were greeted with stirring music
and the most enthusiastic demonstra
tions of welcome greeting. It was
quite a creditable ovation and entirely
unexpected.
Dr. J. T. Kilby.
tiie old surgeon of the regiment was
taken on the shoulders of the men of
his regiment and carried to a flat car
and being vociferously called on for a
speech bid his veteran comrades a
hearty weicome to Virginia in words
of genuine eloquence and heartfelt
warmth. The train moved on amid the
resounding cheers of the soldiers and
citizens and a cloud of waving hand
kerchiefs, while the band rang forth its
most stirring and inspiring notes. A
short time now and the spires of
Portsmouth
come in sight. After changing cars the
passage of the train along High street
was accompanied by one continued out
burst of human shouts from east to
west and every window and porch was
crowded with ladies waving their hand
kerchiefs in token of welcome. When
the train reached the lower depot at
the foot of High street the Chambers
Artillery Company were thundering
one hundred across the harbor and
Countless Acres
of people crowded the train and the air
rung with shouts and huzzas. The
“veterans” were duly received into line
according to the programme published
and moved off down Crawford sti’eet.
The Georgians were in front led by the
New Hampshire band; the veteran or
ganizations of Virginia followed and
the survivors of the war and citizens
brought up the rear of the column.
Lines of Flags
and banners appropriately inscribed
were stretched from the American
House, Crawford House, Bank of Ports
mouth, Maupin’s Hall, Oxford Hall and
other prominent places. The march of
the procession extended down Craw
ford and along North to Middle and up
Middle to Oxford Hall, where the for
mal welcome took place.
All Along the Route
fireworks blazed and people cheered,
and the outpouring of the ladies tossed
their saluting handkerchiefs with a zeal
that evinced their hearty appreciation
of the visiting Southrons. In fact the
ovation was grand almost beyond de
scription, and Portsmouth never wit
nessed a greeting more warm and en
thusiastic. *****
Capt. John H. Gayle, of the late 16tli
Virginia, was introduced by Maj, Grice,
and spoke as follows :
Capt. Gayle's Speech.
Veterans of the Late Third Georgia
Regiment: By the courtesy of the com
mittee of arrangements appointed by our
citizens to receive you. it is my privilege
also to extend to you the greeting and wel
come that Virginia ever holds for the brave
and true, to extend to you the hearty hos
pitality of our gentry, and the hand clasp
of your soldier comrades in which there is
the thrill of many memories. Asa citizen
ot Portsmorth, and as a former member of
the 16th Virginia regiment of “Mahone’s
Old Brigade.” I have personally for you
an unaffected joyous welcome.
After years of separation, it is well that
you, comrades, who for four years encoun
tered common privations, cherished com
mon hopes and shared common joys and
common sorrows, be once more brought
together if but for this brief season, in
social and friendly reunion, and doubly well
we feel it, that your first regular reunion
should take place here in this city, where
upon its borders lies the old camp
ground, the scene of your first discipline in
the duties of soldier life, which afterwards
you so nobly, so gallantly and so unsel
fishly performed. It was here, with us; you
fed the heart with hope which was so soon
to become despair. It was here you first
buckled on the armor which at last you
laid when your valor could no longer
withstand the inexorable power of num
bers, and it was here that those of your
number who first fell prostrate from the
exposure of an unaccustomed life, were
tenderly nursed and cared for by the fair
women of our city. Surely the occasion of
your reunion must gather something of
joy from the genius of the place which
holds these treasured memories.
Fourteen years ago, when you left the
comforts and endearments of home, in that
genial sunny clime from whence you came
you found us in the gloom, cast by the
shadow of a fearful impending strife, you
entered a city populated by a busy soldiery,
in whose harbor ships lay idly anchored in
blockaded water, and you came whoie
vague unrest and fearful foreboding had
taken the place of hopeful labor. And there
was a welcome for you then, every hand
was open to receive you, and you found
comrades ready to share with you the pri
vations of a soldier life, whose hearts glow
ed with patriotic fervor, and who to the
bitter end shared with you an imperishable
renown of self-sacrifice and heroic daring.
Now you come to find us emerging from
the desolations of war and already restored
to something of the prosperity of the hap
py, peaceful days of the olden time.
But we will not impair the joyousness of
this re-union by a fruitless sorrow. You
have not come to, brood over the misfor
tunes of the past, or to keep alive any
thing of bitterness or resentment towards
any portion of a common country, but you
have come to join in friendly and social re
union. you come as soldiers now, but each,
for a time forsaking the pursuits of daily
business life, to enjoy a holiday enlivened
by the revival of old association.
“Tq take a cup ’o kindness yet,
For Auld Lang Syne.”
As the years go by, as the scars of a long
and bitter conflict are wearing away, you
and the cause which you maintained are
being better understood, and though the
history of the struggle which made you
heroes is yet unwritten, the future historian
will pay you the tribute of merited praise.
Brave men have no resentments—they im
pose no degrading terms after the bade is
fought and the victory won, and if those
wtyo rpet qs in deadly affray had been the
power to adjust the affairs of the countr y
when the wager of battle had settled the
issues whicli precipitated the mighty oon
flict, we should havo boen borne for long
years with a heroism as much to be ap
plauded as that which earned you the
knightly plume,
But we hail with joy the dawning of a
brighter day, and we hear from all quar
ters of our oommon country the chorus
Which swells the anthem of good will—pro
claiming the union of hearts and the
union of hands, in the promotion of
of tfio glory and re-union of a
a mop country, and as the centennial
versqry of our country’s independence
approaches wo shall see the boys wflo war®
the blue and those who wore the gray, in
one grand re-union to celebrate their na
tion’s birth.
Reassuring you my friends of the spon
taneous welcome of our entire people, and
of our desire one and all to contribute to
your pleasures, let me indulge the hope
that you may carry with you on your re
turn to your homes, pleasant remembran
ces of your re-union here on the historic
grounds of old Virginia.
This speech was responded to by Mr.
John D. Cartel - .
Captain C. W. Murdaugh was next
introduced and amid frequent bursts of
applause spoke as follows :
Capt. Murdaugli's Speech.
Mr. Chairman, Friends and Comrades :
After the eloquent addresses that have been
made on this interesting occasion, I feel at
a loss to how suitably and appropriately to
respond, for I can but repeat the words and
reiterate the sentiments already expressed
by my friends who have preceded me. But,
when thus called upon to speak, as it were
in the name and in behalf of our dear na
tive Virginia, to her beloved Southern sister
whose brave sons of the gallant 3d Regi
ment have come so many hundred miles to
stand again upon her sacred soil, to visit
the scenes of their first bivouac, to renew
old ties and associations and to perpetuate
the friendships formed from a close and in
timate association for four long and event
ful years, I should be recreant to myself,
and to my State and to the honored cause
which first brought them and us together,
did I not respond by bidding to our distin
guished friends and comrades a welcome, a
sincere, a cordial and a hearty welcome to
our city.
Virginia here greets Georgia and we as
Virginians, with open hands and out
stretched arms welcome you, her sons, to
the scenes of your early soldier life.
We welcome you a•> former soldiers of a
common cause who have stood with us
shoulder to shoulder in defense of our dear
Southern land, but now as private citizens
of a great republic, forgetting and forgiv
ing the animosities and harsh asperities of
the past.
We welcome you as friends and former
comrades in arms who have with us a com
mon history, a history written on every
field of honor by the blood of the sons of
Georgia and Virginia mingling together,
as it was freely poured out in support of
their convictions of duty, and in defense of
the “Lost Cause”—now forever lost—but
yet honored wherever the spirit oi liberty
lives.
We welcome you as veterans, for what
men can better claim that title than those
tried and true of the Army of Northern
Virginia—men whose deeds and whose
names shall be remembered as long as
Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and
Gettysburg, and Cold Harbor, and Peters
burg, shall have an existence in fact, in his
tory or in song.
It has been said, and truly said, that the
force of local associations is the potent
spring in the system of man, and there
fore it seems most proper and appropriate
that this, your reunion, should have been
held here—here where you were first or
ganized as a regiment, here where, on a
bright Spring morning, in those early days
when our great hopes were the brightest,
you were first called upon to pack your
knapsacks and prep ire in earnest for “grim
visaged war”; here where you brought
back from Soutli Mills in triumph, though
bullet rent, the flag of the Stars and Bars!
Aye, proud memories and glorious recol
lections and associations cluster around
those days and around that flag—the flag
of our Southern cross—for whether in
victory or defeat it was never dishonored,
never trailed in the dust and never drop
ped until the surrender at Appomattox.
But with that surrender let us not forget
it was folded forever, and as wo were true
and faithful then in allegiance to our
States and in the performance of our duty
so let us be found now—now as then—
Georgia and Virginia shoulder to shoulder
in solid phalanx, ready to do battle for our
country and the proud fiag that iloats
over us.
Fellow soldiers and comrades from the
“Empire State” of the South, I again bid
you welcome, thrice welcome to our State
and our city.
Captain M. P. Carroll, of Augusta, hav
ing been introduced by Major Grice, spoke
as follows:
Capt. Carroll’s Speech.
Fellow-citizens of Portsmouth and veterans
of the Third Georgia Regiment:
I am not a Georgian by birth, but proud
of her adoption.. lam from Maryland. I
was not even .a member of the veteran 3d
Georgia Regiment, which has come back to
Virginia to rekindle the sparks of gratitude
which should be always kept aflame, but I
served upon the staff of Col. A. R. Wright,
the peerless soldier and galla t man.
T’was here his military fame commenced,
where he flrst leaped upon the field of Mars
and began to heap up for himself and his
regiment a fame which will last longer
than brass.
You people of Portsmouth knew him as a
soldier only, but I want to tell the people
of Virginia what he has been to the State
of Georgia and the South since the war.
He was the most fearless champion of
Constitutional Liberty and the rights of
States we had seen since the war—Georgia
lias her Stephens, her Norwood and her Gor
don. He was fearless in debate and upon
the hustings. He drove the carpet-bagger
from our State. He wielded the pen as
fearl ssly as he wielded the sword and the
carpet-bagger skulked before his invective.
We shook the vermin from the soil of
Georgia and sent General Wright to Con
gress.
He sloops to-day beneath tho sod an
honored soldier of the South. His blood
was spilled upon the soil of Virginia and I
trust the blood of this gallant man will
cement the union of Virginia and Georgia
as long as they are Sates.
Music by the band.
The Third Geoi'gla at Fortress Monroe.
Fortress Monroe, August s.— The
survivors of the Third Georgia Regi
ment arrived here on the steamer
Adelaide to-day on a visit to the fort.
They were met by Gen. Roberts and
staff, and escorted inside, where they
received a salute of thirteen guns,
after whioh they repaired to the ram
parts and witnessed the firing of some
shot and shell from a fifteen-inch gun.
After spending an hour v-ry pleasaut
ly they were escorted to the wharf.—
The baud played Dixie, when they em
barked and proceeded to the Capes.
OUR CLARKESVILLE LETTER.
True Inwardness of the Revenue
Laws —Disgraceful Conduct of U. S.
Marshals—Prudence and Good
Sense of the Military—Something
for Attorney General Pierrepont’s
Consideration—The Despotism of
Petty Tyrants—Visitors, Etc., Etc.
[Special Correspondence Constitutionalist.] j
Clarkesyiele, Ga., August 2, 1875.
I desire, through your valuable col
umns, to give the publio some idea of
the manner in whioh the Internal Rev
enue laws of the United States are
used by means of corrupt Commission
ers and irresponsible and unauthorized
Deputy United States Marshals, to
outrage and annoy the people. On
Saturday evening last, great excite
ment prevailed here, owing to a lie put
in circulation by a pretended Deputy
Marshal, to the effect that the citizens
were about to rescue a prisoner charg
ed with illicit distilling. It seems that
a young man by the name of Taylor
Willbanks had been arrested under a
warrant issued by United States Com
missioner John M. Church, upon the
affidavit of one Wm. Kano, charging
him with aiding and abetting the re
moval of liquors upon whioh the tax
had not been paid, and he was await
ing the arrival of the Commissioner iu
order to go into the investigation.
As was natural, a large crowd gath
ered around to “see the oove.” A
drunken fellow sitting in one end of
tho piazza was talking to a friend, and
said in a voice loud enough to bo heard,
“Damn the Yankees, and anybody who
is a friend to them.” The Marshal in
charge of the prisoner, instead of at
tending to his own business, walked
over and said that he was a friend to
the Yankees, and was told, “We don’t
care a damn if you are, and let’s see
you help yourself, if you can.” The
Marshal replied, and told the
crowd if they fooled with him he would
have the last one of them handcuffed
and sent to Atlanta. Just then a lean,
lank-looking boy, with a sallow face
and disheveled hair, who hud on a pair
of breeches out fn the style usually
worn by olownsiu a pantomime, a piece
of a shirt and old slouch hat, and a
pair of red boots, with the manuer of
a flrst class circus fool appeared. Ho
had a stone in each pocket, and would
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walk up and down in front of the crowd
hallooing “Hupee, I’se a good un, I’se
a good un !” His remarks were not ad
dressed to any one, and iiis expression
and gait were so comical that the
crowd would just whoop every time he
broke forth. One of the Marshals then
went for Lieutenant Frank O. Briggs,
of the second infantry, who is in
command of a squad of men here,
and asked for troops, saying that
the people were cursing him and
creating a great disturbance. The
Lieutenant told him he could not get
troops for any such purpose. The
marshal then returned and in a few
minutes dispatched a messenger to the
lieutenant saying the people were
about to rescue the prisoner, and that
he was obliged to have assistance to
hold him and prevent bloodshed. The
lieutenant then ordered out his squad ;
they marched to the Court House,, were
drawn up iu line and loaded their
guns and stood in readiness to defend
the majesty of the law against “hoopee
I’se a good un,” for that was ail that
could bo heard, and the ouly thing
that had any appearance of a rescue.
The Lieutenant and all his men
laughed with the crowd and he seemed
to have a very thorough contempt for
the proceedings on the part of the Mar
shal. As soon as the commissioner ar
rived the troops were dismissed and
the prisoner put upon trial. The first
witness knew nothing about the case,
and never saw defendant with any
whiskey or knew of his receiving any
in his life. The next witness said, “I
must tell the same old story, the only
whiskey I ever knew defendant to
have was about three years ago. I was
at his mill and he gave me a
drink of bitters and roots out of a jug.
Seven other witnesses swore to know
ing nothing, and the prisoner was dis
charged, the Commissioner remarking
that he wished he could get at the fol
low who gave the information, so as to
make him pay the cost. I asked him
where the man was who signed the
warrant, and he said, “Well, you know
these fellows sometimes swear out
these warrants and then go off.” I
asked one of the witnesses how he
came to be subpoenaed, and he said he
had no idea except that he lived as a
near neighbor to defendant; that he
had never told the Marshal, or any one
else, that he knew anything about the
case. He further said that the Marshal
came to him after he arrived iu Clarkes
ville, and told him he wanted him to
swear to something that would convict
Willbanks, and if he would, that he
would not push the case which he
knew of against him (witness.) Henry
Martin is the regular Deputy Marshal
for this district, and it seems that he
appointed two fellows—Pinion and
Kinsley—as deputies under him, and
they are the miserable scullions who
are informing and arresting men against
whom there is not the shadow of a
charge.
One of them it is said knows every
path in the county and that he learned
them stealing hogs, and the other is
so low that he is not permitted to take
a drink in a bar room in this place. No
one has ever heard of the fellow whose
name was signed to the warrant. I had
a long talk with the Lieutenant whom
I found an educated gentlemau, aud
one not disposed to countenance for a
moment any such proceedings. He said
he was thoroughly disgusted with the
manner iu which the Marshals had been,
proceeding, and that it was only when
application was made to him which
came strictly within the purview of his
written orders, whioh he showed to me,
that he ever furnished any aid to them,
and said he was going at once to look
into the matter as he was satisfied that
gross frauds and a regular system of
blackmailing were being practiced.
This morning he came to me and said
that he had found out that tho Wm.
Kane whose name was signed to the
warrant, was one of his men; that he
recognized the name when read, but
that he did not for an instant suspect
that he was one of the soldiers. Geo.
H. Bennett, a Sergeant in his command,
he found out has signed five of these
warrants. Both of them have made
affidavits to the effect that about July
23d, they were called upon to sign some
papers as a matter of form by the
Marshal, Nelson, and Kane says he
signed 14 in blank. The marshal said
he would fill them up, and it would be
all right. Bennett says the affidavits
he signed were filled out, aud he told
the Marshal he knew nothing about
the men and never heard of them in
his life, and that the Marshal replied,
“We’ve got the dead wood on them,
and you only say you have reason to
believe. It is true, and I tell you it is,
aud therefore you have reason to be
lieve it;” and saying that he had for
forgotten to make the informer sigu.
And thinking, Bennett says, it was
only to cure a clerical defect of the
Marshal, he signed. Both of them
swear they never were sworn by the
Commissioner, or signed a paper in his
presence in their lives, nor did they
ever give any information to him or to
any one else in reference to the subject
of any of the warrants. The Lieuten
ant is going to send these affidavits to
headquarters and have the matter
looked into. He says he does not won
der that the people are indignant, and
expresses surprise that indignation is
all. Two men are now under arrest by
virtue of warrauts signed by Bennett.
The Lieutenant told the Commissioner
this morning that he was prostituting
his office, and that he would not longer
disgrace the uniform he wore by lend
ing his aid, uuless ordered to do
so by a superior officer, to the
execution of any warrant he might
issue. Now, I ask iu all seriousness,
was ever a more damnable outrage
known ? Here, for over a month, men
have been arrested, taken from their
beds, dragged fifty and sixty miles for
trial for offenses that they never heard
of, and all done, too, by virtue of war
rants never sworn to, or signed by per
sons who either desired to or could
give any information, and arrests made
by officers acting without the shadow
of legal right The question naturally
arises, how long can human nature
stand this system of tyranny aud op
pression? The feeling hero is very in
tense against the Commissioner and
the pretended Deputy Marshals, and
many here want those who have been
tried to prooeed against them.
We had a splendid rain here yester
day and to-day. This afternoon it is
so cold that a thick coat is comfortable.
Farmers feel cheered aud say their
oorn is safe.
Dr. Henry F. Campbell and wife, and
his lovely niece, Miss Campbell, from
same city, arrived here Saturday. Tho
Augustians here do not intend to bo
sick, but now that the doctor has ar
i rived, think they could do so with im
punity.
Gen. Gartrell and John H. James are
spoken of for Govornor, but I think
i Hardeman seems to have the prefer
ence here.
J would like to send you a whiff of
mountain air but fear it would not
reach you fresh. More anon. Lex,