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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
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H. C. STEVENSON, Manager,
Augusta, (ia.
'J he broadest joke of the season is
that dispatch of Colonel Styles to the
Atlanta Herald, and the double-leaded
editorial.
They had an extra scene at a Lynch
burg hanging on Friday. The victim
three times caught the platform with
his feet, but was finally kicked off by
the Sheriff.
Ax open letter from Rev. Dr. Deems
will be found on our first page. It
touches on a subject dear to the hearts
of many Georgians, and is written in
the happiest style.
The whole country has received a
superabundance of rain, except the peo
ple of Charleston. They are as dry as
a patent office report. They cau, how
ever, at least find plenty of , water on
one side of the city.
The Grand Army of the Republic
protest against Mr. Davis making the
address at the Illinois State Fair.
Nothing else could have been expected
from these political bummers, fanatics
and fools.
Thf. rains continue. We have had
one every day this week. The atmos
phere and the clouds feel and look
like more is to come. It is much like
Fall weather. It would pass muster
as equinoctial gale weather.
— —i m
Moody and Sankey arrived last night
at New York in the steamship Spain.
They have accomplished wonders in
England. Their trip there was novel,
and the results read more like a dream
than a reality.
Beecher is going to have another ex
pression of confidence. What they call
a “Summer church ” will be built for
him on the White Mountains. Some
people at the North are deranged
about this man. After all that has
been proven, to still worship him is
pure, unadulterated lunacy.
The midnight telegrams inform us
that the war in Herzegovinia is as
suming a religious aspect. The people
there pass for Christian, and if they
raise the cry of Mohamedan against
Christian, the Cross against the Cres
cent, there is no telling what will be
the end.
Oi k Clarkesville correspondent con
tinues his narrative of outrages that
are now being perpetrated upon the
people of North Georgia by the United
States officials. The attention of the
Attorney General is respectfully drawn
to these rank offenses against justice
and law.
Asa valued contribution to the moot
question of “Why Sherman did not
take Augusta?” we publish this morn
ing a masterly exposition of the milita
ry reasons for this so-called mystery.
To our mind, the argument is as con
clusive as it is logical and profound.
That it will be read with eager interest
in this community is not to be doubted
for a moment.
Fifty bloody heads of fifty post
masters rolled from block to basket
yesterday. It was a regular guillotine
field day. They were stricken right
and left, hip and thigh. And what do
you suppose it was all for? Only “for
using stamps, thereby increasing their
salaries.” It wasn’t for stealing—only
raising salaries by the aid of stamps
which didn’t belong to them.
Chamberlain has addressed a
forural letter to Judge Reed, of the
Charleston Circuit, in regard to the ac
tion of Lieutenant-Governor Gleaves
in commuting the death sentence of
Joseph Gibbes to imprisonment for
twenty years, in the absence of the
Governor. “The action of the Lieu
tenant Governor,” he says, “is, in my
judgment, wholly without authority of
law, and hence null and void; and my
purpose in addressing you at this time
is to call your attention to what I con
sider the necessity of action on your
part, if you agree with me in regard
ing the action of the Lieutenant Gov
ernor as unauthorized and void.” And,
furthei: “It presents a case, there
fore, which compels me to seek a judi
cial determination of the question in
volved, and to this end I beg to call
your attention to the case, and to say
that, in my judgment, your Honor
should regard the action of the Lieu
tenant Governor as null and void, and
proceed to enforce upon the said
Joseph Gibbes the sentence of your
court, subject to such action by the
Executive as he may take whenever
the case may be submitted to him for
his action.”
Atlantic City, August 14.—Mrs.
Hannah Rogers, of Wedmore, on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, near Philadel
phia was drowned here to-day. She
came down to-day with a party of ex
cursionists. Her body is not yet re
covered.
tElif fldiln i fondihititmalM.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
The Last British Failure—Great Tor
nado in France—The Black Eagle
and Russian Bear.
London, August 14. —The liabilities
of Denegri & Sons are a quarter of a
million pounds sterling.
A hurricane and hail storm at Pon
taisi, twenty miles northwest of Paris.
Houses unroofed and windows and
chimneys everywhere demolished, cat
tle killed and fruit trees arid vines
destroyed. Many were seriously hurt
by enormous hail stones, some of whom
will die. Loss, SIOO,OOO.
Germany has addressed Russia a
formal complaint for a recent infrac
tion of territory by a Russian soldier,
who caused trouble and is dead of
wounds received in the affray.
France and the Centennial —Paying
Oft" Letters of Credit.
Paris, August 14.— La Rappel says :
Fifty Commercial Corporations and
Trades Unions will each send delegates
to the Centennial to study and report
upon objects exhibited.
Drexel, Harjes & Cos. redeemed SIOO,-
000 of Duncan-Sherman letters of
credit, which are coming from ail parts
of Europe.
Catholico and the Ecclesiastical Law.
Berlin, August 14.—A1l the Catholic
clergy holding State appointments in
Posen have submitted to the ecclesias
tical law.
Loss of the Steamship Boyne.
London, August 14.—The mail steam
ship Boyne, from Brazilian ports to
Southampton, was lost off Brest. Crew
and passengers saved.
The Extradition Treaty.
Berlin, August 14. —It is understood
the Federal Council will soon consider
the extradition treaty between the Im
perial Government and the United
States, aud the existing treaties with
individual German States.
European Crops—The 'limes on tlie
Situation.
Washington, August 14.—The Navy
Department has advices of the death
of Lieutenant Commander G. W. Ar
meutrout in the steamship Spain, en
route from Europe.
Branuau telegraphs that the Super
intendent of tne National Cemetery
had taken sick, a corporal of marines
dead, and all the rest doing well.
London, August 14.—The Times’ city
article to-day says : “The following is
the condition of the corn trade, de
rived from good sources, admitting
as certain a further rise in
the event of bad weather. In the con
trary event there is still time to secure
a large proportion of the wheat crop in
good condition. If so, the recent ap
prehensions will probably prove to
have been extreme. If the American
crop is secured iu good order there cau
be no great change in the result of the
spring wheat crop from what we had
reason to expect a few weeks ago.—
There had been then already reason to
apprehend a deficiency which had not
been sufficiently heeded, which should
be heeded now. The last report from
France is much less unfavorable than
was apprehended. Most of the recent
rains have done little injury. Our own
farmers’ stock of old wheat is reported
small, but cannot be quite so exhaust
ed as it was last year, and deliveries
during the last two weeks have been
nouble those of the corresponding
weeks a year ago.
Ye Spanish Conscripts.
Madrid, August 14. —A royal decree
orders the conscripts to join their regi
ment before the end of October. The
price of exemption is fixed at 8,000
reals.
The Herzegovinian War—lt is Assum
ing a Religious Aspect.
Vienna, August 14.—Advices from
Heizegovina indicate the insurrection
there threatens to assume the character
of a religious war.
FROM SOUTH AMERICA.
Persecuting the Jesuits.
New York, August 14. —A letter from
an American resident of Costa Rica
says : In July a number of Jesuits en
tered Costa Rica fromGautemala, from
whence they had been expelled. When
within ten miles of the capital they
were ordered to stop. Congress met
the same day. Two thousand Masons
went in a body to Congress Hall aud
petitioned for the Jesuits’ removal, as
mischievous members of society’. The
President, who is a Mason, and several
members prominent in debate and in
fluence, made able speeches on the sub
ject, overruling those who favored
charitable protection for the Jesuits.
Congress finally voted them $1,500 for
relief of immediate wants, and ordered
them to leave the country 7 .
—i—
SEIZURE OF CROOKED WHISKEY.
Large Haul of High Wines.
Philadelphia, August 14.—Early this
morning a heavy seizure of crooked
high w'iues was made by the Internal
Revenue Department. The stuff con
sisted of fifty-two bairels of high
wines, containing 3,435 gallons, and
were taken as the property of F. Ber
geuthal & Bru., distillers in the first
district of Wisconsin. The goods were
consigned to parties in this city, upon
whom no suspicion rests, and while the
spirits are believed to be straight, yet
its being the property of parties who
were implicated in frauds in the West
in May last, they were seized en route,
the law forfeiting the property of dis
tillers detected in fraud.
HANGING OF A NEGRO.
A Desperate Struggle for Life.
Lynchburg. August 14. —Thos. With
ers, a negro boy who killed a girl, was
hanged yesterday. He suoeeded three
times in placing his feet on the edge of
the trap and drawing himself up, and
the sheriff as often pushed them off.
He made a full confession.
THE TURF.
Saratoga Horse News.
Saratoga, August 14. —Weather fine.
Track heavy. Sultana won the % mile
for two year olds ; time, 1:19. Rodo
mantlius won the 1% mile for 3 year
olds; time, 2:04%. Acrobat won the
2% mile race ; time, 4;16%. Caroline
won the mile selling race ; time, 1:47%.
mi ■ m
THE FATHER OF WATERS.
Special River Report.
Washington, August 14.—The Mis
sissippi has risen one inch at Memphis
and Helena, and two inches at Vicks
burg. Probabilities : It will rise slowly
at stations between Memphis, Vicks
burg, and probably reach the danger
line at Memphis.
AUGUSTA, GA., HIINTDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15, 1875.
FROM WASHINGTON.
“SO MUCH FOR BUCKINGHAM.”
Off with the Heads of Fifty Post
masters.
Washington, August 14. —The fol
lowing Postmasters have been removed
for improper transactions in postage
stamps, whereby their salaries were
increased: Win. M. Turner, Warwick
Cross Roads, Union county, Tenu.;
Neal Ferguson, Cross Plains, Calhoun
county, Ala.; John T. Wells, Warrior
Station, Jefferson county, Ala.; F.
Rotheuofer, Elmore, Elmore county,
Ala.; David Johnson, Union Court
House, Union eouuty, S. C.; Alexander
S. Waugh, Elk River, Clay county, W.
Va.; James Rogers, Valley Fork, Clay
county, W. Va.; Win, Atkinson. Cress
woll, Washington county, N. C,; .John
C. Keeting, Cuba, Rutherford county,
N. C.; Win. A. Kolifield, Mica, Mitchell
county, N. C.; C. C. Bregan, Wolf Knob,
McDowell county, N. C., aud about
thirty in other States.
FROM NEW YORK.
JEFFERSON DAVIS AND THE ILLI
NOIS STATE FAIR.
The Grand Army of the Republic Pro
test.
New York, August 14.— A Rockford
(111.) dispatch says the Grand Army of
the Republic protest against Mr. Davis
making an address at the State Fair.
Arrival of Moody and Sankey.
New York, August 14. —Moody aud
Sankey arrived on the Spain. No re
ception. Moody goes to Nortlilield,
Mass., for two months. Sankey goes to
Philadelphia.
Raising Telegraph Rates.
New York, August 14. —8 y mutual
arrangement the Western Union aud
Atlantic and Pacific Companies have
decided to advance the tariff between
Boston and Washington and New York
and Albany twenty-live per cent. The
advance goes into effect on Monday.
A Little More Beecher Confidence.
New York, August 14. —A proposi
tion is on foot to build a summer church
for Beecher on White mountain.
New York, August 14. —Early on the
morning of the lltli, Mary Ann Weiss,
who exhibited sigus of insanity, left
home with her child ten months old.
In the evening the body of the child
was found in North river, and to-day
the body of Mrs. Weiss in the same lo
cality.
CARS FROM THE TRACK.
A Villainous Act.
St. Loris, August 14.— The night ex
press train No. 3, on the Oiiio aud Mis
sissippi Railroad, was thrown from the
track last night half a mile east of
Huron, Indiana. The cause of the ac
cident was the removal of a rail, which
is supposed to have been taken out by
some malicious persons. Railroad au
thorities say, although several cars
were thrown from the track and pretty
well shaken up, no one was injured.
The company offers SSOO reward for
the arrest of the miscreant who re
moved the rail.
Isaac Merritt Singer.
This eminent mechanician died at his
residence at Old Paignton, near Torquay,
England, on the 23d day of July, 1875, in the
sixty-fourth year of his age.
it rarely happens tnat a great mechani
cal inventor permanently identifies his
name with the useful inventions he gives to
the world. The men of talent too often
seize upon and carry off the fame which
properly belongs to men of genius. Still
more rarely does it occur that the merito
rious inventor secures the pecuniary re
wards which justly pertain to the highest
efforts of the mind.
The subject of this notice was so fortu
nate as to achieve, in both respects, a grand
success. His name and reputation will be
perpetuated by a great manufacturing cor
poration, whose beneficial operations ex
tend over the whole civilized world, and he
died in the passession and enjoyment of a
colossal fortune. His father was a German,
a millwright by trade; his mother a native
of Rensselaer county. New York, where the
future inventor was born. At an early day
the family removed to Oswego, but the
father met witii little success in his busi
ness, and the son, when about twelve years
of age, witii very imperfect school educa
tion and no money, departed from a home
to which he never returned.
From that time forth, he fought the bat
tle of life alone. He soon turned his atten
tion to mechanical work, and maintained
him-elf as a machinist, but he never served
any regular apprenticeship, and never pre
tended to be an accomplished artisan. His
mind naturally employed itself about novel
means of reaching important results, and
for manyyears, while engaged in inventions,
it was his practice to employ the simplest
materials, such as steel wire bent to some
peculiar shape, or a piece of sheet iron
cut to some strange form, or a pine stick
curiously whittled witii a pocket knife, to
elucidate the principles of some of the most
useful and curious mechanical devices. The
inventions being thus made, and the
method of operation distinctly shown, any
skilled artisan readily put them into per
manent form. At one time Mr. Singer was
engaged in the employment of the Messrs.
Hoe, in the city of New York, as a machin
ist, and then devoted his leisure hours to
study for the stage. He enjoyed the ac
quaintance, and, to a limited extent, the in
struction of Placide, Povey, Clarke and
others, who then adorned the stage of the
old Park theatre.
During several years he was a theatrical
manager, and gave frequent representa
tions of plays in the interior cities of Ohio,
Pennsylvania and New York. In a certain
line of characters lie is said to have acted
with much success. To the close of his life
he had an ardent love for theatricals and
music, and in the splendid mansion, which
he had built within the last few years, a
theatre, complete in ail its appointments,
was included.
While he was still a young man lie inven
ted a steam drilling machine, which was
used with much advantage in the ( onstrnc
tion of various railways and canals. Sub
sequentiy he invented a machine for carv
ing wood, metals, or marble. While en
deavoring to iut! odnee this invention to
public notice and use, his attention was
casually directed to the sewing machine.
At that time (A. D. 1850) though several pa
tents on sewing devices had been
granted in this and other countries,
no practical machine capable of pro
litablo employment to do ordina
ry work had ever been produced.
Up to that time sewing machines had
been experimental merely, and had failed
to be useful. In eleven days the llrst Singer
sewing machine was invented and built
complete, it contained much that was new
and useful, subsequent improvements, for
which numerous patents were obtained,
added greatly to the value of this machine;
but it was successful and profitable from
the beginning to all concerned in it, and,
against all competition, has steadily and
continuously increased in public favor, thus
establishing the reputation of the inventor
and securing him a \ ast fortune. In
1860, Mr. Singer retired from the active
management of business, and since that
time has resided mainly abroad. After sev
eral year’s residence in Paris, he went,
with his family, to England, and finally
purchased an estate and settled down at
Old Paignton, near Torquay, in Devon
shire. The last years of his life were de
voted to the improvement of that property,
where he dispensed a libei’al hospitality,
and to the poor of that neighborhood his
death will be a severe bereavement.
A Chicago dispatch says Revenue
Agent Joyce, of St. Louis, at Green
Lake, Wis., says the court officers
know that he holds himself ready to
obey an order of the court at all times.
OUR CLARKES 11,1,K LETTER.
More Official Outr; (res—How a United
States Commissio or Mocks at Jus
tice—Swift Wi leases Used to
Swear Away the I eeedom of Accused
Persons —Drum I ead Courts-Martial
Outdone—Attornt j General Pierre
pont’s New Brooi Needed in North
Georgia.
[Correspondence ol 1 ie Constitutionalist 1
Clarkesville, i ugust 11th, 1875.
That immaculate United States Com
missioner, John M Church, convened
his court in this ph> e on yesterday for
the trial of four j ; isoners, Isham B.
Blalock, Francis 1; l Blalock, Spencer
Duke and Moses Ci jitrell, (col.), arrest
ed and brought 1 j-re from Dawson
county, charged wi i violations of the
Internal Revenue juvs. The warrant
was drawn up in [he omnibus style,
aud embraced nea ly all the offenses
known to the codt :in relation to dis
tilling and selling & irituous liquors.—
F. M. Blalock wat placed upon trial,
and the only shrlow of evidence
against him was thj|t of a convict by
the name of Purcei* who is now serv
ing out a sentence <Y the United States
Court for illicit Slistilling, in the
Atlanta jail, and pho, it seems, is
amusing himself bjpqving information
and swearing againf| all the men who
live iu his neighb§| hood. This mis
erable wretcli was || ought here from
jail to testify in theft) cases. He swore
that about “a year ,feo last Spring he
saw Blalock pourin|| mash in a still.”
Four other witnesses, and witnesses
for the prosecution Et that, swore that
Blalock never did v?Uk in a distillery ;
that they never km s? him to handle or
have anything to <|j> with whisky, ex-
cept to take a dri;|| Each of them
further swore that jlhey were well ac
quainted with the j|il bird’s character
tor truth and veracity, and that he was
not to be believed oF oath in a court of
justice. They furtlpr swore that they
knew of no distillerthe place men
tioned by Purcell. ||here was no evi
dence showing, eveifSC the distillery ex
isted, that it was *•) illicit one; aud
yet, upon this cf; fence alone, the
Commissioner bounds the prisoner over
in the sum of ssofyjjto appear at the
U. S. Court at Atkilta for ferial. The
Court then adjourn|fl;until this morn
ing, when the other||Blalock was tried,
and the only evideil) :in his case was
by Puicell, that he Uad “seen him once
in a still, and he ’peered to be helping
his brother.” |l
Cantrell was ther* tided, and the evi
dence in his case showed only that he
had “been once seGi in a still drawing
something out of £ keg that ’peared
like it might havebjtjn whiskey.” The
evidence further shewed that this ne
gro, instead of working iu a distillery,
had been frequently solicited by Pur
cell to work in his, ind had, under ad
vice of the neighl|)!H, refused. The
other witnesses for she prosecution tes
tified the same at. ia the first case,
aud upon such) evidence both
prisoners were t|)uad over. The
evidence against i Dyke, although
wholly insufficient|t( bind him over
was much stronger, iiaoo^im S to the
opinion of everyone who heard Ui,
case, than in eitheuoi the other cases,
and yet he was diseparged. One of the
witnesses said Dyke.had some under
standing about hisgiTse with the Mar
shal or court, but §d£at it was he did
not know. Mr. G,|3f. Netherland, an
attorney of this without fee and
wholly as an act ol|charity, represent
ed the prisoners ; ;|tid the evening be
fore, when Blalocl| was tried, Dyke
was very anxious |io be represented,
but this morning, jwhen his case was
cafied, he positively refused to have
counsel, saying, iif a very confident
manner. “No, I a|n just going to de
pend on the mercy Jf the court.” Why
this chauge? Mr. |Dyke was the best
dresssd man in thelcijowd, and seemed
to be a man of means, find had announc
ed theeneningrbefoifi, in open Court, just
upon adjournment,jjthat he “could give
half of Dawson county as security on
his bond.” Your cjrrespondent was in
Court this mornirfg, and was asked
by Mr. Netherlanij to assist him. I
consented to do so, add was in the act
of reading a statute t. > the Court, when
tiie Marshal objected to my practicing
in the Court, and, *fter argument, the
commission decided that I could not.
I then prepared to iassist the prisoner
simply as a next fdieml. The Marshal
and the Court botlifobjected, and I was
ruled out, unless £[ could show my
license. So malignant was the Mar
shal that he appealed to the Court as to
whether I should be fallowed to look into
the revised status belonging to the
Court, which I at |ho time held in my
hand, and the bJolc was, under in
structions from tht|Court, taken from
me by the Marshal' A United States
soldier then took tne book and kept it
during the balance iof the trial. The
whole affair was st| damnable that Mr.
Netherland declinej: further to repre
sent the prisoners before the court,
saying he could not with respect to
himself appear before such a tribunal.
Mr. C. H. Sutton? another attorney
here, who happened to be present, was
asked by the Cou|t to represent the
prisoners, and as a| act of charity con
sented, but after til.! evidence aud de
cision in one case| be also declined
to further appaal: before the so
called Court. Softho eases proceed
ed without counsel, except the Mar
shal, who, contrary!to the express pro
vision of tho statute, examined wit
nesses and conducted the prosecution,
sitting on the bencji with the Commis
sioner, and carrying on nearly all the
while a whispering conversation with
the Court, so-called) There is a United
States Commission:" living in Dawson
county, within a fei’ miles of where all
these men live, njid yet they were
brought here, ove- sixty miles away
from home and from friends, who
could and would Ggn their bonds for
trial. Mr. Netherland asked the Mar
elm! why he did- not, as the law
required him U? do, take “ the
prisoners before the nearest and
most accessible officer authorized to
hear the case,” as he said, because Mr.
Church had issued the subpoenas.
After court, however, he said, in talk
ing to one (J his '.“hums, “By G and, I
know my and I’m not going
to take them before a Commissioner
that might turn them loose. Hereafter
I am going to have these warrants
sworn to in Atlanta, and take the last
darn’d one of them there.” If the ob
ject is not to have them turned loose,
whether the evidence shows guilt or
not, then surely tbyke can be no use of
taking them beyoiffi Clarkesville.
When Church If: und over the pris
oners. he announjpd from the bench
that he “did not tjjiink there was any
evidence that woujc- convict them, but
as he could not ffiaas on that, and
there was a prtw,imption that they
might have violate^ithe law he should
bind them over fo trial.” And yet he
sits as a judicial ?qfleer to administer
law. Henry Martial the Marshal above
referred to ia tlSel same one about
whom the soldiers mentioned in my
former letter, made affidavits as
to his getting them to sign
warrants in blank. Church is the same
Commissioner whom they swore
issued these warrants without their
signing in his presence, or even admin
j istering to them an affidavit. And it is
j because I ventilated these outrages
that I was refused the right to repre
sent, as counsel or friend, an ignorant,
unprotected and persecuted mountain
boy 7. Mr. Netherland asked Mr. Church
whether the warrant under which the
prisoners were arrested, was signed in
his presence, and he had “no distinct
recollection on the subject,” and could
not even say “whether he ever went
through the formality of administer
ing the oath or not.” Mr. Church is
not an ignorant man, but one of
remarkable shrewdness and has at least
a good ordinary education. So, what
ever he does is not chargeable to igno
rance. The prisoners being away from
home, and consequently unable to give
bond, are now in jail here, witii every
prospect of their being taken to At
lanta, there to lay until Court meets.
Surely no grand jury composed of hon
est or decent men will ever fiud a true
bill against either or any of them.
I have endeavored to lay before you,
Mr. Editor, a bare statement of facts,
without comment. You can make such
as you see fit, for my indignation is so
thoroughly 7 fatigued that I am utterly
unable to command language suffi
ciently expressive to convey my con
tempt for the judicial mockery that I
have just witnessed. How long Judge
Erskine, the District Attorney aud
others in authority expect to allow such
things to continue time alone will show.
There is one thing very certain, the
people do not intend to submit to it
always, and unless redressed by law,
which they are willing always to obey,
they 7 will use the means a wise Provi
dence has placed in their hands, and
protect themselves.
There is a diiving rain now falling,
which has every indication of being a
general one, and I am only afraid that
the complaint will be too much rain.
Corn is safe, and these rains are just
what is wanted for potatoes, etc. The
weather is cool, and begins to feel very
much like Fall. Lex.
REV. DR. DEEMS’ OPEN LETTER.
To Row Albert S. Hunt, D. D., Rev. Charles
IT. Fowler, LL 1)., Gen. Clinton B. Fisk,
Rev. W. Morley Punshou, LL. I)., the
Very Rev the Dean of Canterbury the
Rt. Rev. Bishop de Schweinitz and Rev.
John J. Murray, D. D.:
Rev. and Dear Brethren: The only
place in America which enjoyed the
regular labors of John Wesley was the
city of Savannah, in Georgia. His visit
to that town, and the circumstances of
his voyage thither, did much to place
him in that spiritual condition which
enabled him to be an immense blessing
to the whole body of Christendom.—
Every intelligent and candid man of
every Christian Church now acknow
ledges the indebtedness of his own de
nomination to John Wesley.
Last Winter I spent a Sunday in the
beautiful city of Savannah. Bishop
Beckwith's father had been my friend
in my early ministry, and I had tho
pleasure of hearing the Bishop preach
in the morning. At night I sought out
“Wesley Chapel,” and had great diffi
culty in finding it; and when it was
found it was so poor a structure to
bear so honored a name that I felt that
a generation given to erecting memori
als should place something in Savan
nah to be a monument to him who did
so much for us all.
And now a movement is on foot to
erect what shall be called the “Wesley
Monumental Church.” Already thou
sands of dollars have been subscribed.
Dr. Holdich and the writer of this let
ter have been designated to represent
the enterprise in this city.
I address you, honored brethren,
because I have had the pleasure of
meeting, each of you personally, and
believe you to be so large-hearted that
you will take no offense at my at
tempt to interest many by placing your
names at the head of this letter.
It is the age of alliance for evangeli
cal work. Faith never loses by chari
ty. It seems to me that it would boa
beautiful thing if the Church of Eng
land, the rrotestant Episcopal Church
in this country, the Wesleyans of Great
Britain and Canada, the Methodist
Protestants, and the Moravians, should
unite in invoking contributions to a
fund which should open a fountain of
Christian effort on the spot where Wes
ley’s earliest struggles began.
The church is to be built in tho
South; it has made my heart glad to
hear of the generous donations now
coming in so bountifully from the
North. John Wesley lived and died a
clergyman of the Church of England;
that great church has had few sons
whom she could not more easily spare
than Wesley. His labors in Georgia
were helpful towards preparing the
way for Episcopalianism iu that State.
I know the Episcopalians of Georgia,
and shall trust that they will take a
Christian interest in this enterprise.
John Wesley was, in some sense, the
spiritual son of Moravianism; the Mo
ravian Church is the grandmother of
America Methodism. Why should not
all unite in this work?
Will not Drs. Fowler and Hunt and
Gen. Fisk be willing to receive contri
butions from members or tho Metho
dist Episcopal Church ? They were the
fraternal delegates to the Southern
Church at the last General Conference.
Will not Dr. Punshon receive dona
tions from the Wesleyaus? He has
done much to make Englishmen and
Americans of all denominations feel
that “ blood is thicker than water.”—
Cut off so long as the Wesleyans have
been from tho Southern Methodists,
does not the Divine Providence now
herein offer a graceful opportunity for
practical fraternity ?
And the Dean of Canterbury won so
many hearts at the General Conference
of the Evangelical Alliance that he
might take pleasure in aiding to erect
a memorial to one of the greatest cler
gymen of the Establishment, even if
that Memorial Church should be under
the Christian guardianship of another
denomination. Cfould he not induce
members of the University of Oxford
to send at least a for
the Church of tho most of all
the Fellowaiof Lincoln
And could not Bishop Beckwith in
crease the respect and love of the
Churches for each other in the noble
State of Georgia by stimulating the
people of the diocese to do liberal
things for this structure, which is to
beautify still more their beautiful and
attractive city of Savannah?
To the glory of God, who put John
Wesley to school to the Moravians that
he might learn Christ, Bishop de
Schweinitz might turn some of the
missionary vigor of his beloved denomi
nation thusward, to a memorial of the
most active, laborious and successful
missionary that Moravianism can count
among her spiritual sons,
Let a most worthy Memorial Church
be ereeted; and then, as I am on the
line of free advice, let a clergyman from"
the Church of England, from the Pro
testant Episcopal Church, from the
Methodist Episcopal Church, from the
Methodist Protestant Church, and from
the Moravian Church, be brought to
gether to the dedication, that the world
may know that we speak the truth
when we repeat in our several services,
“I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Holy
Catholic Church, the communion of
saints.”
If I have made too free, dear breth
ren, I beg pardon. I have written out
of my heart, and am comfortable iu
feeling that ye are all such godly, hum
ble and earnest Christians that I might
make the venture of this open letter,
and do no harm, if I did no good.
With very great respect aud Christ
ian love, I am your brother,
Charles F. Deems.
Church of the Strangers, N. Y., July
20th, 1875.
THE CONVICT QUESTION.
Judge Snead’s Instructions to the Su
pervisor.
Office County Judge, |
Richmond County, Aug., 14, 1875. j
Joseph E. Burch, Esq., Commissioner
of the Boor:
Dear Sir: Supplementary to the or
der of August 13th, 1875 (which is
herewith enclosed) conferring upouyou
the duties of Supervisor of County
Convicts, I wish to give you the follow
ing directions:
Ist. You will be in attendance at the
brick yard of the contractor each day
to inspect the convicts; you will see
that the quarters of the convicts are
kept clean, and that sufficient bed bed
clothing is provided.
2d. Wholesome food and necessary
medical attendance must be furnished
the convicts, and no convict represent
ing himself to be sick must be put to
work unless passed upon by a physi
cian, who finds the contrary to be the
case. The sick must be placed in quar
ters separate and distinct from those
that are well.
3d. No convict will be detained be
yond the time of his sentence for costs.
4th. Bucking, gaggmg and running
the gauntlet must cease, and only
such punishment will bo inflicted in
your presence as may be necessary,
aud which is consistent with humanity.
A registry must bo kept, which will
show each case of punishment, the
name of the offender, the offense and
the mode and extent of the punish
ment.
The above instructions are given for
your general guidance, which you will
please observe in the discharge of du
ties imposed upon you. And in enter
ing upon your duties suggest to the
contractor the discharge of Mr. B. T.
Olive, who shows by his evidence be
fore the Commission his unfitness for
the position of guard. Respectfully,
Claiborne Snead,
County Judge.
A Private Letter of Andrew Jolmson.
The Nashville (Tenn.) Banner, of the
stll lust., prints the SUOjomeu private
letter, written by the late Andrew John
son, in October, 1865:
Executive Mansion, )
Washington, October 9, 1865. J
R. W. Bowen, Esq.:
Dear Sir : Your letter of the 30th
ult. has just been received and read
with care and much interest.
I write this short letter for the pur
pose merely of acknowledging its re
ceipt, and to thank you for such a
letter. There is much I would like to
confer about, but cannot do it now—
the pressure is too great. I hope all
will go off right in the Legislature, and
that there will be a harmonious and
successful session. God grant that our
people may see what is before them and
act with wisdom and social discretion.
I periled all in opposing the rebellion
and dissolution of the States. I peril
more now for restoration of the Union
and against consolidation, in which, if
successful, all free government would
end. If the Southern States will they cau
materially aid in saving the Constitu
tion and thereby restore all ffieir rights
and also do justice to the one who
thought, from the beginning, that lie
was their real and best friend, aud that
the time would come when they would
see and admit it to be so. Oh, let the
people have a heart of love and wis
dom from on high to guide and direct
them through this dreary night, whose
sable mantle has covered the land witii
gloom, and all will be well. My faith in
them is unabated. My hope is strong
that their decision, when made, will be
just, and a triumphant vindication of
man’s capability for self-government.
Very respectfully,
Andrew Johnson.
Which Did He Mean ?
As the Georgia boys were returning
home last Saturday, the train stopped
a short while at Franklin, Va., when
some on* of them got to speaking of a
certain pretty girl who was seen there
as they were going down, and making
inquiries concerning her address, etc.
At that time up stepped a Newton
county youth and said, “Yes, by
George, and didn’t she belch loud !”
The indignation of the “usher” was
suddenly aroused, and he asked what
was meant. “Oh, I was talking ’bout
that blasted little cannon ; wan’t you ?”
“No, sir,” said the first, “I was alluding
to one of the prettiest young ladies
that I ever saw!” “Well,” said our
friend, “she is Sue sweet I am sorry I
spoke.” The laugh was on Cheney the
balauce of the way to Weldon, who
said he’d never smile again. —Roanoke
News.
A Youthful Murder and Murderer.
On Monday evening, the 2d of Au
gust, a negro boy, aged eight years,
living on the plantation of Mrs. Mas
senburg, near Franklin, Va., being left
as nurse for his little brother, aged two
years, lost all patience with his charge
who began crying for broad. The little
villain took up his smaller brother and
slammed him against the floor, knock
ing him breathless, and then threw him
out of the door, breaking his neck,
from which he died instantly. Brother
number one then left for parts un
known. A jury of inquest was held the
next day, which rendered a verdict in
accordance with the above facts. — Ro
anoke News.
CROPS IN THE NORTHWEST.
Summing Up the Per Cents.
Chicago, August 14. — The Inter Ocean
has advices from one hundred and fifty
points of the Northwest and Wyoming,
that in Illinois, lowa, Indiana, Michi
gan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas,
Nebraska, Missouri, Ohio and Dako
tah showing the crop of 1875 to be—
wheat, 65; oats, 79, and corn 91 per
cent, of an average crop,
SHERMAN AND AUGUSTA.
11 ! ♦
Strategy vs. Romance and Bribery—
The “ True Inwardness ” of the
March to the Sea.
Mr. Editor— Considerable specula
tion has recently been indulged in as to
the motives which actuated General
Shermay iu giving Augusta the go-by
in his ‘jjVLn’ch to the Sea.” In your
editorial upon this subject a short time
ago you told a beautiful story of that
officer’s having witnessed, while sta
tioned at the Arsenal near this place be
fore the war, the marriage of a lovely
girl, the image of whose fair young
face he had ever carried iu his heart.
l r ou stated (whether as your own opin
ion or upon the authority of an infor
mant, I do not remember) that there
was reason to believe that this
tender reminiscence of by-gone
days had moved Sherman to
turn the head of his columns from our
city, and that thus, probably, was Au
gusta spared the cruel fate of Atlanta
and Columbia. Your readiness to ac
cept a solution of the question as
cribing sentiments so chivalrous to one
who lately brought such desolation to
the hearthstones of many of our people
was highly creditable to your heart.
But I think (as I will hereafter en
deavor to show) that General Sherman
suffered no associations of the past—
no recollections of bright eyes and
bridal veils—to enter into his calcula
tions, either at the initiation or during
the progress of his march through
Georgia. Neither am I disposed to
think that his movements in that mem
orable campaign were influenced by any
complications with blockade-runners,
or that he avoided Augusta, as lias
been alleged, on account of any pecu -
niary consideration they may have of
fered him to protect their interests.
From a personal acquaintance with
General Sherman in former years I am
not prepared to believe him capable of
accepting a bribe, however much I may
see in his character to condemn in
other respects. That he is selfish, as
well as ambitious, can scarcely be de
nied ; but I never saw anything to lead
me to think him either sordid or dis
honest. It is hardly to be supposed
that he would have risked his charac
ter for integrity and his reputation as
a strategist for the comparatively small
sum of one hundred thousand dollars.
In my opinion Sherman was deterred
from taking Augusta in his line of
march purely by military considera
tions involving not only the success of
his immediate undertaking, but under
certain contingencies the safety of his
army. It should be borne in mind that
when he cut loose from his base at
Atlanta, be reduced his transportation
to the minimum required, and his
troops were provided with only two
days’ rations. When this temporary
supply was exhausted, the problem of
sustaining so large a force became one
of great difficulty. True, much of the
country through which he must needs
pass was rich and abounding in pro
visions for man and beast; but there
was at least a belt of territory between
Milieu aud Savannah which offered
very meagre facilities for the suste
nonoo nt on ormjr fGlr>ritsr nf move.
ment was indispensable to the success
of Sherman’s plans; for he knew not
at what moment he might be confront
ed by a force which, though it might
not be able successfully to cope with
him in a pitched battle, might at least
so retard his march aud circumscribe
the operations of his foraging parties
as to reduce his army to starvation and
consequent disbandment or surrender.
To show that there were grounds for
such apprehensions, I will state that a
council of war was called by Gen. Hood
at Florence, Ala., for the purpose of
considering the propriety of transfer
ring his army from that point to Macon
by rail, and either thiowing it in Sher
man’s front or upon his flank. This
movement could have been effected in
three or four days, aud had the plan
been adopted the “ march to the sea ”
might have ended in disaster. But
this proposition, though approved by
a majority of the council (and con
curred in, I think, by Gen. Beauregard,
the commander at the time of the De
partment of the West) was overruled
by Gen. Hood.
I think enough has been said to de
monstrate the necessity for Gen.
Sherman to make a direct and rapid
march through Georgia. Indeed the
dangers of delay at any point are
so potent to a reflecting mind as
scarcely to have required demonstra
tion. I come now to the discussion of the
considerations which may have more
immediately influenced Gen. Sherman
to pass Augusta by in his movement
through our State. Some of these
reasons may be inferred from what
has already been said. By glancing at
the map, it will be seen that a straight
line drawn from Atlanta to Savan
nah (Sherman’s immediate objective
point) would leave Augusta consid
erably to tho north, and for an army
to accomplish this detour would re
quire at least two or three days even
if unopposed. But Sherman might
reasonably have expected considerable
resistance at a point so important as a
depot for supplies, and where most of
the powder for the Confederate armies
was manufactured. It may be said
that the very importance of the place
and the large amount of stores it con
tained would have warranted him in
risking the delay. But no doubt Sher
man, in making his calculations—if he
ever seriously entertained tho idea
of coming to Augusta—consider
ed the probability of tho sup
plies being destroyed or run off to
a place of safety on his approach.
Be this as it may, however, he knew
that the success of his general plan
would virtually involve the loss of Au
gusta to the Confederate Government.
For though his immediate aim was to
reach the sea and open communication
with the fleet, his ultimate object was
to establish anew base at Savannah,
aud moving northward to operate
against Gen. Lee’s flank and rear.—
Having destroyed the railroads radiat
ing southward and westward from Au
gusta, it was only necessaiy for him to
place himself between it and the Army
of Northern Virgiuia when to all intents
arid purposes it would fall. Asa depot
for stores it would be completely cut off
from the troops it was intended to sup
ply, and would therefore no longer be of
any military value to the Confederacy.
All of these objects were actually accom
plished by the plan Sherman adopted,
and it is not unreasonable to suppose
that the considerations briefly noted
above had their weight in shaping his
course. At any rate, from my knowl
edge of General Sherman’s character,
I do not think he was turned from our
doors, like Coriolanus from the gates
of Rome, by woman’s influence, ex
erted either in direct appeal or through
the eloquent memories of beaming
eyes. Nor do I believe that he was
swerved from the course which his am
bition pointed out as the road to fame
by the subtle power of sLining gold.
Omega.
New Series—Vol. 3, jSTo. 12
THE SHOT-GUN TEST.
A “Materialized Spirit” Fired Upon
in St. Louis—Fifty Dollars Paid for
the Privilege.
[St. Louis Republican, August 10.]
A somewhat extraordinary exhibition
of confidence on the part of a material
ized spirit took place last evening at
Concert Hall, when Mr. W. C. Clark, a
St. Louis medium, permitted one of his
materializations to stand the test of a
rifle shot. It has for some time been
contended by the skeptical that tho
true way to prove the spiritual nature
of these phenomena was with a shot
gun. If a face smiling through an un
glazed window could receive a charge
of shot and still smile, it was
thought the test might be ac
cepted as proof at least that tho
face was not human. The exhibition
last night grew out of a challenge to
Mr. Clark from Henry Timkens, a car
riage-maker. Mr. Timkens offered SSO
for the privilege of loading and firing a
rifle at a face which Mr. Clarke should
produce at the aperture of a cabinet,
the medium to disrobe before entering
the cabinet and put on clothes which
the challenger should produce. After
this the challenger was to fasten the me
dium to the bottom of the cabinet. The
audience was very small indeed, com
prising only a few of the believers and a
full representation of reporters from the
daily papers. At 8:30 the doors were
closed, and Mr. Clark retired to a side
room to effect the change of raiment.
The clothes provided were a white
shirt, a pair of linen trowsers, and a
pair of white cotton socks. The change
was effected under the close scrutiny
of several reporters and Mr. Timkens.
He was then conducted directly to tho
cabinet. Before the medium entered
it was carefully examined a last time.
It had been scrutinized all over, inside
and out, while being put together, and
there was nothing of it, at least noth
ing that could be seen.
When the medium entered the cabi
net he seated himself on the floor with
his back against the wall furthest from
the aperture, and then Timkens tied
him. Timkens had brought along a
brace and a good-sized auger-1 it, and
with this he proceeded to bore holes iu
the bottom of the cabinet. Through
these holes he passed stout cords. The
cords passed over tho medium's legs
and the ends were tied outside the box.
Each leg was corded down iu two
places, above and below the knee. An
other cord was passed around the body
and through the two holes in the side
of the box, aud the end of this cord be
ing likewise secured outside. The
hands were then tied together and
drawn down to the bottom of the box,
the ends of this fastening also being
knotted on the outside. Mr. Timkens
was handy with the rope, and looked
upon his work with a considerable de
gree of satisfaction. When the fasten
ings had been duly examined the door
was closed.
This was at precisely 9:20 p. m. Iu
about three minutes there was a suc
cession of raps from a considerable
portion of the interior of the box. Then
it was still a little time, after which
cords. The lights, of couse, were
turned down and the stillness became
so oppressive that it was a relief when
a small boy was heard whistling
out on the street. Somebody in the
audience started a song in a feeble,
quavering voice, and quite a chorus
gradually joined in. A German vocal
ist favored the seance with a tremen
dous bass solo, iu the midst of which
an impish street Arab that had
dodged the doorkeeper, fetched a
piercing shriek and fled. AVith
out any exaggeration it can safely
be said that the musical performance
last night was quite enough to raise
spirits auywhere. At 9:50 o’clock tho
audience had warbled themseives into
a mild excitement by marching John
Brown’s soul onward toward some un
defined destination, and had just struck
the refrain, “Glory Hallelujah !” when
suddenly the curtain moved aside and.
the face appeared. There it was. A
pale, ghostly countenance, that looked
as though it might have begged to a
girl of seventeen at some previous time
of the world’s history. It don’t look a
bit like actual flesh and blood, Had it
been possible to remove the front of tho
cabinet suddenly, one never would have
expected to see any piuned-back gear
about the nether portion of the mate
rialization.
It was the face that might have be
longed to some Greek maiden 2,000
years ago, and reminded one of the
marble countenance of some statue.
So much of the figure as was visible
was strongly suggestive of a lost collar
button a little lower down. All who
saw were fairly transfixed witn aston
ishment. The features were pefeetly
clear and distinct, being illuminated by
a soft light. There was not the slight
est movement of a muscle or any eye
lid that could be distinguished. While
all were eagerly gazing at the vision
there was an explosion that caused a
rude interruption to the imaginative
reveries the more superstitious had
fallen into.
As soon as the face appeared, Mr. A.
B. Cunningham, at Mr. Timkins” re
quest, had coolly sighted a small rifle
at it. The wide open eyes looked
almost into the muzzle of the guu with
out any sign of flinching. Without the
tremor of a muscle, Cunningham fired,
apparently thinking no more of shoot
ing a couple of girls than a Comanche
would. At the shot the face remained
steadfast. It wasn’t scared and didn’t
wink. A few seconds it remained as
befo r e, and then the curtain mys
teriously slid across and obscured it
from view. After about ten minutes
waiting the medium asked for a glass
of water. This was given him, and in
a little time after he asked to be let
out. When the door was opened he
was found tied just as he was left
when the door was first closed. The
cords had evidently been strained a
little and that was all. Everybody
said it was a good thing and nobody
could tell how it was done if the
spirits didn’t do it.
The medium professed to be very
much exhausted by the exhibition, and
said he wouldn’t do it again for any
thing. The difficulties in the way of
any imposition in this matter appear
to be very great. It would have been
almost impossible for any material for
the production of the image as by a
mask to have been introduced into
the cabinet. The medium was very
securely tied, and there was no possi
ble chance for collusion on the part of
a confederate. The Bullet certainly
went through the aperture and through
the face, whatever it was. This was as
certained beyond a doubt by the find
ing of the ball, it having passed
through the back of the cabinet and
imbedded itself in a board.
Boston, August 14. —A freight loco
motive exploded in the yard of the
Fitchburg aud Charlestown Road. Sey>
eral hurt,