About The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907 | View Entire Issue (April 3, 1875)
JOHX II. SEALS, - K«li»or and Proprietor. ATLANTA. GA.. SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1875. The money must accompany all orders for this paper, and it will be discontinued at the expiration of the time, unless renewed. Write your name and post-office plainly. Club Rates.—Ten copies at $2.50 each, if all are ordered at the same time. JJ-Ofllfe of “The Sunny South” In Young Men’s Library Building, on Broad Street. Major Phil. Tracy. —The excellent article on this distinguished Georgian, by Judge Richard H. Clarke, will be exceedingly interesting to all Southerners. It presents facts concerning the death and burial of this once favorite citizen of Bibb which are not generally known. Thai Fearful Tornado.—If all or even half the accounts which have been published of the recent cyclone which swept through portions of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Caro lina be true, it was certainly the most fearful ever known in this country. It is difficult to believe many of the statement* we have seen and heard, but there can be no doubt that the loss of life and property was very great, particularly in the counties of Harris, Talbot, Upson, Monroe, .Jones, Baldwin, Jefferson, Hancock, Glascock, Warren, McDuffie, Columbus and Richmond in this State. Many families were utterly ruined. Georgia Sunday School Convention. — This body will meet at Union Point on the twenty- first of May. Miss Blackburn, of Bamesville, and Miss Barnes, of South Carolina, will read essays, and Miss M. L. Eve, of Augusta, will read a poem. Schools of all evangelical denom inations are expected to be represented. The , president of the convention, W. G. Whidbv, Atlanta for Invalids—Indiana Ladies.—We have recently seen a practical illustration of the beneficial effects of this climate upon Northern invalids. A party of excellent ladies from In- dianopolis and Zionsville. Indiana, reached here some time since in an almost exhausted condi tion from the fearful inroads which disease had for years been making upon their physical Esq., is working up a lively interest in the mat- 1 strength. But they soon discovered, to their ter, and a better place than Union Point could not have been selected. Those people know exactly how to entertain a large gathering. Novels with a Moral. —We saw it stated some time ago, in an essay by a distinguished writer, that no novelist or poet was in the true aesthetic great joy and relief, that they were growing stronger and rapidly improving daily. At first they could not ascend a flight of stairs without great physical exhaustion, but very soon were able to run up or down with no unpleasant effects. They gained flesh rapidly, and the hectic flush soon gave place to the beautiful car- condition who wrote with any other purpose mine of nature. Indeed, the change in so short than the creation of beauty. There is undoubt edly much in what he says: yet were his rule enforced, it would cut off' some of the best liter- a while seemed almost miraculous. Mrs. Clarke, from Zionsville, Indiana, almost I a confirmed consumptive, and laboring under tfgj" Published every other Saturday for the present, but every subscriber will get the full number of copies. Fifty copies make a volume complete. and it is a double misfortune that such an oc- ature that has been given to the world during great physical debility on her arrival, found Hack Numbers—New Stories! currence should have taken place just now when the people are so little able to help them. But we are glad to know’ that some action is being taken in the matter and some assistance is being extended to them. Let all do what they can. SPECIAL NOTICE! It is utterly impossible for us to supply the back numbers of this paper. The editions of some of them have long been exhausted, and it is out of the question for us to reprint them. We regret it exceedingly, for the demand seems to be universal. We had intended, however, to reprint number one, on account of the persist ency of the demand, and ordered paper spe cially for it, but the manufacturer made a mis take in the size. In the next issue Mrs. Bryan will publish a full and COAIPLE TE S1 NOP SIS of her great story, “Twice Condemned,” bring ing up the connection to the last chapter pub lished, which will be a good substitute for the back numbers. She and other eminent writers will soon commence some grand PS-- XE If s r O It IE S in the paper, and we beg the people to be in time to secure the opening chapters. We can not stereotype our forms, and when the first edition of any number is exhausted, cannot supply any more. Hon. II. H. Hill.—The portrait of this pop ular Georgian will appear in our next. A Distinguished Daughter.—The poem on our fifth page, “Only a Moment,” was written by the daughter of General and President Sam Houston, “the father of Texas.” Church and State.—The interesting commu nication on this subject was written by a distin guished officer of the United States government, now stationed at a foreign court. Club Rates.—Clubs of four and upwards can get The Sunny South for one year at $2.50. Any one sending a club of Jive and upwards at $2.50, shall receive a copy free for one year. Mrs. Mary E. Bryan.— We are delighted to announce that our lady editress has at last reached her post. She was detained by bad health and the irregularities of the mails, but is now here to give her whole time and great tal- | ents to the paper; and so soon as her health im proves and her system is relieved of the Red River malaria which has well nigh broken down her constitution, we can promise to our readers a paper superior to any we have as yet published. She is now digesting and arranging the plots of some of the most brilliant stories she has ever written, and her editorial page begins to sparkle with new life. Her great originality, and the power, beauty and versatility of her genius, make her a universal favorite, and she is destined I to occupy the first place on the list of American female writers. Read her miscellaneous edito rials, poems and stories, and see if we over estimate her. News at this Office .—We find the following paragraph in the Key West Dispatch, copied from the Jacksonville Union: “We have received several copies of The Sunny South, and Thursday last had the pleas ure of meeting in our office the energetic propri- etors, Messrs. Hancock and Pendleton, who are dow’n here on a tour of business and pleasure combined. While here, they w’ill write articles to their paper descriptive of Florida, and partic ularly of that section through which our noble river flow’s,” etc. We have a gentleman by the name of Hancock traveling as “ agent” for this paper, and he was in Jacksonville some time since, but as to his ; proprietary interest in the publication, we know i nothing; and so far as we are aware, no one by the name of Pendleton is connected with it in J any capacity. It would be a novel case for both “proprietors” of a concern like this to go off' on a pleasure excursion at the same time. Our Florida editors are in error as to the proprietor ship of the paper. Tilt* Stone Mountain. —In our next issue we shall present a fine cut of this wonderful granite pile in this State, and accompany it w’ith a beautiful apostrophe by Rev. A. Means, D. D. LL D. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe.—This distin guished lady sends us three dollars for The Sunny South, and promises an interesting article on birds, from the “Land of Flowers.” We shall be pleased to receive it. Hon. 0. A. Loclirane’s Speeeli.—The address of this patriotic son of Ireland, and popular and distinguished citizen of Georgia, on St. Patrick’s Day, was in every sense a truly grand success— beautiful, touching, eloquent, and handsomely delivered. Gordon in Frank Leslie’s Newspaper.—The last number of Frank Leslie's Xewspaper contains a fine engraving of General Gordon, but it is not considered, by any who have seen it, so good a likeness as the one engraved for this paper, and w’hich appeared in our last issue. Our Illustrations —$40 Each.—It seems to be a difficult matter for people to realize the great amount of labor and expense necessary to get up illustrations for a paper. The engravings for our front page cost forty dollars for every issue. That on the front page of the first num ber cost us fifty-one dollars. Our portraits cost from twenty-five to thirty-three dollars. The first of Mr. Stephens cost this latter sum. Un der our present arrangement for engravings, this expense is exceedingly heavy, and hence our great desire to secure engravers of our own. While in New York in October last to purchase material, we foolishly concluded to have our first number gotten up in a job-printing office in that city, and it cost ns more than double the expense of getting it out in our own estab lishment, and it was not done so well in any particular. We hope to have our own engraving depart ment very soon. the last half century. During that time there has been a great effort made to popularize poli tics, ethics, religion and science, and some works of fiction of decided merit have been gotten up with the main design of enunciating or defend ing some favorite dogma of the author. Even such great masters of the art of fiction asBulwer and Dickens have not hesitated to use the novel as a vehicle for promulgating a creed or con demning a custom. Indeed, the latter author did more than the ablest pamphleteers could have done in behalf of social reforms. The world owes him a heavy debt of gratitude for his rich humor and for his soul-stirring pathos. We can never thank him enough for having created Pickwick and Micawber, Pecksniff and Dick Swiveller, Captain Cuttle and Boffin, Mrs. Jel- laby and Sarah Gamp, and a host of others whose conception and delineation would seem beyond the powers of the most fertile genius. But per haps more than for all these characters, humor ous and pathetic, does he deserve our gratitude for having portrayed so powerfully the tyranny . of the school-room, the heart-breaking delays of f the law and the miseries of the debtor's prison. In all these, if the moral impairs the beauty of the j work from an .esthetic view, we may well afford to overlook the defect for the sake of the good accomplished. In this country, novels have been written in advocacy of all sorts of creeds and theories—some vile in design and wretched 1 in execution, and some rising to a High degree of literary excellence. Perhaps first of the latter class stands Mrs. Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” It will require a hundred years yet to prove whether or not this lady deserves to be called a benefactress. As things now appear, she seems to have done incalculable mischief to a poor, harmless race. But whether she wrought for good or evil, her work was well done. Not a host of pamphleteers, journalists and politicians combined did so much to prejudice the world’s mind against slavery as this one work. True, it contained much that was false, but this was so ingeniously woven in with what was true that the effect wik m^re. powerful than a closely logi cal dissertation in which no flaw could be de tected. All the world reads fiction now—many read nothing else. Through this medium alone can the great mass of people ever be reached. Even the vendors of quack nostrums and guano agents find it necessary to put their advertisements in the form of little stories. While we do not con demn this nor deny that a good novel may be written to inculcate a lesson, still we subscribe in the main to the doctrine of our author, that the best novels are those written with no other purpose than to give a picture of human life and thereby awaken emotions of the beautiful. herself able a few days since to walk four miles with but little fatigue ; and Miss Nettie Baird, a sweet little girl of Indianapolis, who has been a sufferer all her life from asthma, says she has not *• wheezed” a single night since she got into this atmosphere, and when at home during the win ter she was scarcely able to live. These are facts which came under our own observation, and were altogether as susprising to ns as to the happy and rejoicing ladies who left us on Tues day last with rejuvenated strength to present themselves in newness of life to their anxious friends at home. We apprehend there will be great rejoicing when they meet. PERSONALS. John Mitchell, the Irish patriot, died in Ire land on the twentieth of March. H. S. Glover has been confirmed as postmas ter at Macon, and Arnold at Albany, Ga. The great speech of ex-President Andrew John son is the grand sensation of the day. We were pleased to meet in our office, recently, Colonel' Herbert Fielder, of Randolph county, Georgia. General A. H. Colquitt delivers the address before the Atlanta Memorial Association on Me morial Day. Ex-Governor Joseph Brooks, of Arkansas, has been nominated by the President as postmaster at Little Rock. His Excellency, Governor Smith, has recov ered from his recent illness, but his face still shows the effects of a severe attack. Hon. John T. Clarke and Col. Arthur Hood have recently made eloquent and learned speech es at the Fort Gaines bar, in this State. Hon. J. H. Guerry, one of the rising young men of Georgia, presided as Judge during a part of the recent term at Fort Gaines. Dr. W. P. Harrison, of this city, will deliver the address at the commencement exercises of the Rome Female College, next summer. Judge Kiddoo has given his decision in the Strozier-Wright contest over the bench in the Albany Circuit. He sustains Judge Wright. The failure of the banking houses of Lamkin & Pye, of Forsj’th, Georgia, have brought great trouble and loss to the citizens of that place. [For The Sunny South.] BROADWAY. BY L. E. BLECKLEY. From early dawn till after dark. A current flows towards the Park. And full as fast, the other way, A counter-current to the Bay: This mighty stream, from side to side, Is thus a double living tide. Ye restless ones, who to and fro. In such wild hurry come and go, Who run in haste both up and down This roaring river of the town. Say what it is ye all do seek, Yrom day to day and week to week,— What treasure of the heart or mind Ye seek, but never seem to find ? To judge your purpose by your speed. It must be something great indeed; 'Tis surely not a rash surmise That life-eternal is your prize: No meaner aim, methinks, could you With ardor such as this pursue. And yet, alas! if truth were told, The most of you are after gold! [Communicated.] CHURCH AND STATE. The Gladstone-Manning controversy is deep ening in interest and widening in numbers and importance. As far as the providence of God can be read in the workings of men, it would seem that the last conflict is approaching, and that we are near the trial of the great problem, whether God reigns in the hearts of men, or their consciences are to be controlled by the as sumed infallibility of one of their own species. “Render to Cresar the things that are Ciesar’s and to God the things that belong to God,” was the precept of divine wisdom given to prevent conflict with human governments and the spir itual kingdom of our Saviour. The history of nearly nineteen centuries shows that whatever contests have occurred, have arisen in denying to “Ciesar the things that are Cmsar’s.” Human government cannot come in conflict with the moral law of the Bible, and there is no part of Christian teaching that can conflict with the rules of action for man’s government in relation to the human authority to which he is a subject or of which he is a citizen. From the many letters of American Bishops which have and are appearing, denouncing the position of Mr. Gladstone; from the late an nouncement at the capitol of this country, cele brating the beautiful and sacred rite of marriage, that God’s blessing was attendant only upon those marriages that had the sanction of the Pontiff and his adherents; from signs unmistak able, and which it is not necessary now to men tion, the agitation of this question portends a storm that may shake empires to their founda tion. Even in our country it is assuming an importance outside the limit of that Christian charity which belongs to God. If the boldness which marks the defenders of th e Apostolic See on the Continent and in Great Britain should attach to the friends of “Infallibility” in this country, it may assert some influence in politi cal organizations that cannot be foreseen. But my object in this communication is not to discuss or elicit controversy, but to ask you to publish the real issue as it appears in the corres pondence between the Pope and the Emperor of Germany in 1873. It is remarkable that while the Pope announces persecution of the Catho lics as his reason for soliciting the interposition of the Emperor, and the Emperor in his dis- Governob Kellogg has issued a call for an | claimer puts the onus on the Catholic clergy and To Our Exchanges. The Can-Can.—We most heartily applaud our city editors for the bold and outspoken stand they have taken against this obscene importation from the vulgarisms of the Parisian Jardin Ma- bille. It is astonishing that so disgusting an exhibition should ever have been countenanced on the American stage. It is shocking even to the most depraved and abandoned of men, and we do not believe that a simple announcement of it alone would draw out a baker’s dozen of any class of people. Keep up your fire, brethren, upon this and all ' other innovations of the moral code. It is the duty of the “fourth realm ” to guard and defend the bulwarks of public virtue, and there is al- Seeing, every week, num- wa y S great assurance of the moral purity of a bers of original articles from this paper floating oa tion so long as the public press is the open around promiscuously with no credits, we beg leave to inform our confreres that, since our jour nal is made up almost exclusively of original matter, exchanges are worth nothing to us, save for the notices and credits they may see proper to give us, City Carriers and City Post-Office. — This paper is delivered in all portions of the city by the regular mail-carriers of the Post-Office De partment. and a more faithful set of fellows we never knew. Their energy is unflagging, and their great desire seems to be to do their work honestly. And in this connection we are pleased to bear public testimony to the uniform cour tesy and efficiency of all the attaches of the office. They are attentive and obliging to all comers, regardless of class, style, color or “previous condition.” Nall, the cashier and order clerk, seems to have completely mastered his department, and dis charges its onerous duties with great fidelity. Mills is a faithful grinder, and is assisted by a Stout and clever set of fellows. The distin guished head. Governor Bard, is the very em bodiment of cool dignity and unaffected cour tesy,—ready at all times to grant every facility consistent with duty, to correct all errors or transact any business that may come under his immediate direction. and avowed enemy of crime and prostitution. Its influence is almost omnipotent in the educa tion of public sentiment, and so long as its tone is high, pure and elevating, the glories of an exalted civilization will bless the land. Strange, Passing Strange.— One gentleman heard a conversation between two other gentle men in this city, a few days since, in which one of them informed the other that this paper was printed in New York, and the third gentleman came to us to know if it was true. The idea is simply ridiculous. To sit here in Atlanta and get up a paper every two weeks in New York, have it printed and shipped here for distribution, would be a remarkable feat, to say the least of it. But we beg leave to say again, for the ben efit of these parties, and others in like ignorance, that The Sunny South is not a Northern job, but a Southern one—an Atlanta specimen; and if those doubting Thomases who think that noth ing good or handsome can be gotten up anywhere but in New York, will call at our office, they may stand by our printers and see the entire modus operandi. It is a Georgia job—edited by Georgians, set up by Georgians; and if there is a paper of the kind, printed in New York or elsewhere, that surpasses it or even equals it in mechanical beauty, we do not know which it is. A Costly Monument.— At James’ Bank is a small glass case in which may be seen, piled up promiscuously, Confederate treasury notes and Georgia notes, amounting in the aggregate to one million and a half dollars. Here are all denominations, from fifty cents up—some that have seen service and some as bright and new as if just issued from the press. What a monument!—what a reminder! Once it was the semblance of wealth and power; now it is waste paper. Here is a ten-dollar bill that has evidently seen service—wrinkled, greasy, mutilated ! For this some poor private endured the biting blast, the nipping frost, the wearisome march, and the privation of the camp; aye, lost a leg or an arm or an eye—mayhap his life. And this ten dollars was for one month’s service of privation, hardship and danger. The carmine that illumes it may well remind us of the blood that was spilled. This package of one hundred dollar bills, so smooth and so elegant, is a memento of the bar ter of manhood for mammon—of patriotism for pelf—of Christianity for covetousness. For this the speculator sacrificed all the finer feelings of his nature and repressed the higher emo tions of his soul; for this he ground down the soldiers' wives and passed by unheeded the wails of suffering childhood. Little recked he of hu manity or charity, so he possessed the power of Midas to turn everything into gold, even the tears of starving women and the groans of perishing children. Ah! how many departed hopes, crushed aspirations, blasted lives, broken fortunes and scattered households does this monument represent ? How many priceless tears, unavailing cries, untold anguish and va cant chairs does it call mind? How much of happiness gone forever! of how many aimless lives, early graves, shattered constitutions and mutilated limbs, is it the symbol ? Aye ! It symbolizes the vanity and uncertainty of wealth. Why toil simply to hoard up that which is worthless in itself?—that which only represents good as it is used for good. The love extra session of the Legislature, to meet at New Orleans on the fourteenth instant, to carry out adjustments. The Hon. Alexander H. Stephens has reached his home at Cmwfordville, and is in fine health and spirits. Long life to this great, good and generous man. General Marcus J. Wright, a well-known Confederate officer, has been tendered, it is said, an important military appointment by the Khe dive of Egypt. Hon. John T. Morgan, one of the finest legal believers of interfering with “political order,” and violating the laws of his country even to rebellion, his Holiness drops the controversy without denial. Justice. CORRESPONDENCE. Letter dated August 7, 1873, from the Vatican of the Supreme Pontiff Pius IX to the German Emperor, Wilhelm the First: “All the various measures taken by your Maj esty’s government of late are more or less in tended to destroy Catholicism. Much as I have minds of Alabama, is addressing the people of re fleeted on the possible cause of these severe that State on the subject of calling a constitu tional convention. Major General Sir Garnet J. Wolsi.ey says that General Lee has had no superior in military genius since the great Napoleon astonished the world by his marvelous career of victory. Mr. George Price, of Danville, Virginia, aged seventy-eight, led to the hymeneal altar, the measures, I confess I am unable to discover what has occasioned them. On the other hand, I am told that your Majesty, far from approving the proceedings of your government, is, on the contrary, dissatisfied with the stringent course adopted. If it be true that your Majesty really disapproves the policy pursued, and the letters yon have formerly addressed to me are calcula ted to demonstrate that you cannot but be dis- young and beautiful Miss Florence Faulkner, pleased at what is happening now—if, I say, your Majesty really disapproves of your govern ment injuring the religion of Christ by perse vering in the rigorous measures adopted in this case, I may well ask whether your Majesty will not convince yourself that these doings can have no other resuit but to undermine your Majesty’s throne. I speak out frankly, because I fight under the banner of truth; and I address you on this subject because I am bound to tell the truth to all, including non-Catholics, and be cause all those who have been baptized in a manner which I cannot at present explain, be long to the Pope.” aged nineteen. Ridiculous! Colonel Virgil Powers has been appointed superintendent of the Macon and Western rail road. He is one of the best railroad men in the State, and will manage the road with credit and ability. Dr. J. F. Bozeman has been appointed by the Governor, under resolution of the General As sembly, to assist Treasurer Jones in righting and systematizing the books and accounts of his department. ‘Colonel R. Barnwell Rhett, formerly editor of the New Orleans Picayune, and at present residing in Huntsville, Alabama, will soon settle in Dallas, Texas, with a view of entering the journalistic field. Reply of Emperor Wilhelm the First, of Ger many, dated September 3, 1873: “If the reports which have reached your Holi ness on what has recently happened in this T . i*. j i n * vr country had contained onlv what is true, your Judge Emmons, of the Federal Court at Mem- Holiness could not have indulged the supposi tion that my government has adopted a course disapproved of by me; under the constitution of phis, declared the Civil Rights bill unconstitu tional; that offenses created by the bill are such as come exclusively within the jurisdiction of the State courts. The funeral of the venerable Dr. L. F. W. Andrews took place last Thursday, from the res idence of Mr. T. J. Lane, Macon, Georgia. He was buried by Macon Lodge, No. 5, F. A. M. A goodly number of members turned out. Dr. De Haas, the American consul at Jerusa lem, sends the information that for the first time known to the present inhabitants the cold weather was so severe as to form ice. The Arabs, having never seen ice before, were completely puzzled, and could not understand “why water should change to glass!” Mrs. James K. Polk has presented the Ten nessee Historical Society with a pen made from an eagle’s quill dropped by an eagle in Virginia and presented to President Polk in 1845, and with which he signed his first messrge to Con gress, the treaty of peace with Mexico, and other important documents. We had a delightful call recently from Mrs. _ Wm. Henry Peck, the wife of the author and a of it for its own sake indurates the soul; the de- most excellent lady, and were pleased to learn sire to accumulate it for the purpose of affording the means of good enlarges the heart ? “ Wealth in the gross is death, but life diffused, As poisou heals in just proportions used ; In heaps like ambergris, a stink it lies. But well dispensed, is incense to the skies.” We build ourselves monuments with each pulse-beat, imperishable, if we live in noble deeds and virtuous thoughts ; in higher aspira tions and grander achievements, by taking in the whole of Humanity instead of Self. Shall from hei that she fiad secured a residence in this city, and that they would locate here per manently in the Spring. She will bring several charming daughters, some of whom are already making fine reputations with their pens. The Fort Gaines editor of the Cuthbert Appeal speaks thus handsomely of our esteemed friend, Colonel J. T. Flewellen, Solicitor-General of the Pataula Circuit of this State: “He is a host in himself—a man of large brain and expanded views, and commands alike admiration and re- Gold, then, the most dazzling evidence of speet, for there is nothing little about the man.” r\tir 1 i vps Tlin cold oditAt* TinmiDofoc )iim fnr a “rlllpfll wealth, be the monument of our lives ? mortal type the immortal ? ‘ Beam-ethereal, suily'd and absorpt. Though suily’d and* dishonored, still divine.' Shall The said editor then nominates him for a “ducal ' coronet” when the “ Em pise " comes. His noble 1 companion, we are satisfied, would make a charming duchess. my States such a thing is impossible, the laws and administrative measures adopted in Prussia requiring my sovereign consent. Deeply do I grieve that som| of my Catholic subjects have in the last two years organized a political party bent upon disturbing, by revolutionary in trigues, the good relations which have so'hap pily existed between the various denominations in Prussia for centuries. I regret that persons belonging to the higher ranks of the Catholic clergy have not only approved this movement, but supported it even to open rebellion against the existing laws of the country. Your Holiness will not have failed to perceive that similar in cidents have recently occurred in the majority of the European States, as well as in some coun tries on the other side of the ocean. It is not for me to investigate the motives which have prompted priests and believers of a Christian de nomination to join the enemies of political order; but it is my duty in the States where govern ment has been intrusted to me by God Almighty to watch over the preservation of domestic peace and to uphold the authority of the law. Con scious of being answerable to God for the ful fillment of my royal duties, I shall maintain order and law in my States against each and every attack while God grants me the power to do so. As a Christian monarch, I am compelled, though with sorrow, to attend to my royal func tions, even when they should oblige me to pun ish the servants of a church which, I presume, agrees with the Evangelical church in recogniz ing obedience towards secular authority as a command contained in the divine revelation vouchsafed to us. Unfortunately, many of the clergy, under your Holiness’ control, in their conduct, deny this teaching of the Christian doc trine, thus obliging my government, supported by the vast majority of my faithful Catholic and Evangelical subjects, to compel observance of j the law by secular force. ”
