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(ieil. A. Garlington.—We are pleased to announce that this distinguished gentleman is now identified with this paper as a regular lite rary contributor and traveling correspondent. He is now representing it in his native State, Hon. B. H. Hill.—This issue of our paper will be received with universal gratification be cause of the splendid likeness and biographical sketch of our distinguished “ Ben Hill." Every body likes him, and everybody desires his pic- South Carolina, and his great personal popular- ture. He has now consented, for the first time ity in all portions of this gallant little common- in his life, to be thus presented on paper in order wealth will insure him a cordial welcome. He that the countless applicants for his photograph is a gentleman of fine literary attainments and may be supplied, and because of the excellent has already written some beautiful gems for style in which our portrait engravings are exe- j^PLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1875. these columns. We shall have interesting arti- cuted. lie feared it would be a difficult mat- JOH.V H. SEALS, - Editor and Proprietor. 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-Oflifeor “The Sunny South” in Young Men’s Library Building, on Broad Street. IMMENSE SUCCESS!! 100,000 (READERS!! 100.0(H) HILLING NEW STORIES BA CK NUMBERS EXHA US TED ! We shall soon commence some cles from him. Rev. David Wills, D.D. — This eminent di vine, so well and favorably known in Georgia, has accepted a call to Washington City, and en tered upon the duties of his new position on Sabbath last. While we deplore the great loss our State sustains by his departure, we can but congratulate the Washington people upon his ac quisition and himself upon his enlarged sphere for the exercise of his great powers. He is learned in the literature and doctrin of the Bible, eloquent and persuasive in oratory, and ever faithful in the discharge of his ministerial obligations. He leaves multitudes of admirers in Georgia, and their fervent prayers accompany him to his new home. 44 The Calico House.”—Parties now in the city wishing board and those contemplating a summer residence in Atlanta would do well to secure rooms as early as possible in this splen did house. It is located in a most beautiful por tion of the city, removed from the noise and dust, and with its broad yards, branching shade trees, excellent water and fruit gardens, it is cer tainly one of the most pleasant and attractive residences in all the South. And built as it is Brilliant and Exciting Xcw Stories, of immense blocks of solid granite, cyclones give art department. ter to get a correct likeness of his features, be cause of his being a blonde: but our artist has succeeded admirably. No one who is at all familiar with him will fail to pronounce it a most faithful picture. The biographical sketch by Frank H. Alfriend, Esq., the distinguished biographer of Hon. Jeffer son Davis, and one of the most brilliant writers of the day, will attract general admiration and be read with universal interest. Harper and Frank Leslie. These are cer tainly the king publishers of the world in the line of illustrated papers. Harper's Weekly and Bazar have no competitors save Leslie's Illustrated Xeicspaper, and these three publications have no superiors in the world in mechanical and artistic make-up. The Bazar, devoted mainly to the fashions, is the handsomest thing issued from the press. Harper’s Nast is a regular brick, hut Leslie’s Keppler is two bricks, and the humor ous political cartoons of these two artists are doubtless more effective in shaping public sen timent in the United States than all the political papers combined. Nast is thoroughly Grant- ized, and Keppler is powerfully anti-Grant. A most excellent and competent gentleman is Leslie’s Gulick, the superintendent of his exten- [For The Sunny South.] THE BRIDE OF HOPE. BY L. E. BLECKI.EY. The Future, pure and peerless one! That seemeth nigh while still afar, By day more splendid than the sun, By night more precious than a star: Fit bride for Hope, in truth, is she, The pure and peerless Is-to-be. And Hope, alive to all her charms. Holds out his fond, impatient arms, And strives, with over-ardent haste. To clasp her unsubstantial waist: But ever does the maid retire, And laugh at Hope and his desire. More constant still because denied, Hope deems the nuptials must be near; And so he woos no other bride. But waits for her from year to year: Of all blind lovers most absurd, To think his bliss is but deferred! He does not know and cannot see That she, the charming Is-to-be, Within another world abides, Apart from this where Hope resides, And that if into this she came She would no longer be the same. [For The Sunny South.] How Tom Claxton Got His Wife. Written especially for ‘THE SUNNY SOUTH!” EMINENT SOUTHERN A UTHORSI Be in Time for the Opening Chapters. WE CANNOT SI PPLY BACK NUMBERS. Our forms are not stereotyped, and when and tornadoes can never effect it. Its genial and well-known host, Colonel Marcus A. Bell, and his kind, intelligent and most accommo dating hostess, find their greatest pleasure in rendering their guests comfortable. Thanks to these numbers. great publishers for back The Female Garter.—Here is something from the Book of Beauty. Women should read it: “ A handsome leg is a rarity, we had almost ¥ , ,ii i T , , • said an impossibility among American women. Hancock & Pendleton.-In our last issue we The re&son l of this - the pl | ce where thev un noticed an article from the Jacksonville Union the garters. No French woman, nowadays, wears representing these gentlemen as proprietors of her garters below her knees. It is ruinous to this paper, but a private note from the editor of ^. ie sba P® *^ ie cidb More than this, it has se- ,, * t .. ,. , , nous consequences of another kind. The pnn- tlie l nion relieves them entirely from any sus- c i pa i vein of the leg, vena saphrenabrevis, runs picion of having intentionally made such an im- just beneath the skin until it reaches the knee, pression. We quote from the note: when it sinks beneath the muscles. Now it this “At the time the article was written, we were under the impression that the gentlemen—- Messrs. Hancock and Pendleton—icere proprie tors of your paper. We were, however, unde ceived the next day by the gentlemen them selves, w-lio called at the office, and after thank ing us very courteously for the notice, called our attention to the mistake, telling us they were agents, and not proprietors." Mr. Hancock is a regular agent for the paper, the first edition of any number is -exhausted, j and Mr. Pendleton, an excellent young gentle- | man, was kindly assisting him Vbile there in the interest of the paper. we cannot supply any more. A Word to Contributors.—Be patient. We Glorious Richmond !—Thanks, many thanks have many excellent articles on hand, which to the noble citizens of this illustrious city for will appear soon or late. J the remarkably liberal patronage which they | have given to this paper. Every three or four .Jim. D. A ailglll).—This gentleman, who took days for months past have we been receiving subscriptions for this paper in Brunswick, Live long lists of subscribers from our local agent Oak and Madison (Florida), will report to this there, until now we number them by hundreds. office without delay. Club Rates.—Clubs of four and upwards can get The Sunny South for one year at S2.50. Any one sending a club of five and upwards at $2.50, shall receive a copy free for one year. Excursion to Florida.—Tickets for an excur sion to Jacksonville, Florida, and return, can be had at Central Railroad ticket offices at low rates—good to return until the fifteenth of May, by way of Savannah. See circulars and posters defatigable agent. Office at No. 3 South Twelfth issued by Superintendent Rogers. Intelligence, patriotism and chivalry will assert themselves wherever found, and these have ever been characteristic elements of this grand Old Dominion race. First in war, first in peace, first in encouraging Southern enterprise and fostering home genius, they occupy pre-emi nently the first place in the hearts of their coun trymen. Again we thank them for their patron age. R. G. Agee, Esq., is our most worthy and in street. Andrew Johnson and A. S. Collier. — The beautiful and appropriate sketch which accom panied the portrait of ex-President Andrew Johnson, recently published in this paper, was written by Colonel A. S. Collier, one of the most popular and influential men of Tennessee. Our Biographies in Book Form. — The ex cellent biographical sketches of prominent Southern men now appearing in this paper are being received with so much interest everywhere that we shall probably republish them with the engravings in handsome book form. It seems to be the general desire of the reading public Synopsis of “Twice Condemned.”-On the i that we should do so - 11 would certainly make front page will be found a complete synopsis of ' a popular and interesting volume. The sketches Mrs. Bryan’s great story, which is creating such are a ^ prepared by brilliant writers and display a sensation everywhere, and it will partially dne ^ as * ;e ’ and ever N Southern man will be answer as a substitute for the great demand for pleased to have them in a more permanent and back numbers, which we have been utterly convenient form. AVe were not aware of the unable to supply. Dr. Means and the Stone Mountain.—On the eighth page we publish a beautiful poetic apostrophe to the Stone Mountain, by the Rev. A. Means, D.D., LL.D., and ordered an engrav ing to accompany it four weeks since, but the engraver has failed to get it ready in time. It is quite a disappointment. great interest which the people feel in the biog raphies of our prominent men, and had not an ticipated such popularity for this feature of the paper; but we are elated at its success and hope BY HOPE DE VEKE. Tom Claxton loved Minnie Wayne. That was a fact he had known ever since the day he had first met her. But how to get her was the ques tion which had worried his mind until he de clared he felt as old and feeble as if he had the weight of three-score years upon his shoulders instead of one. But have her for his wife he would, by some hook or crook, regardless of the watchful eyes and stern refusal of her cruel guardian; and while he is sitting in the vine- shaded arbor awaiting the coming of his lady love, we will leave him trying to devise some means to gain the old gentleman’s consent to their union, and for the space of a few brief seconds we will find out who Tom Claxton and Minnie Wayne are. Tom and Minnie were cousins-the children of a brother and sister, and niece and nephew to their uncle and guardian, Oliver Claxton, a wealthy banker of C , who had taken charge of the orphans at their parents’ death. Uncle Oliver, as they both called him, had kept Tom at school until he was eighteen; then sent him to Europe for two years, at the expira tion of which time he returned and entered upon his duties at once as a clerk in his uncle’s bank. Tom’s was rather a wild nature, although he was one of the best-hearted fellows in the world. In his schoolboy days he had always been the ter ror of his companions, and was his cousin Min nie’s horror, for many were the times he caused her to miss her lessons and be kept in. But withal she loved him dearly; for even after he would turn her pet bird loose, or destroy some of her favorite flowers, he would come peni tently to her and confess his fault, and be for given by a kiss from her cherry lips. Thus it was, in their early childhood days, these two children loved each other devotedly; and when Tom returned from his European tour, Minnie was the first to meet him, and hers were the only white arms that encircled his neck and hers the only lips that pressed his sun-burnt cheek. While Tom was absent, his cousin had grown into a beautiful woman. She was one of those small, fairy-like creatures, full of fun and mer riment; dark eyes which sparkled like diamonds, and a mass of hair which hung in thick curls down to her slender waist, and was as black as the raven’s wing. Tom said she was the sweet est creature he had ever seen. I think their love was mutual, for Tom had hardly arrived before he told her that he was going to marry her, and she—little witch—an swered that she had no objections; and as soon as he had rested himself and changed his trav eling suit, he told his uncle of his determina- - - tion. He was not prepared for the answer he flood nor parched by drought. received; but nevertheless it did not dampen The Telegraph and Messenger says: ; his ardor one whit, — it only made him more “A small planter cultivating mostly high, determined, sand)’ soil has, to our knowledge, in twenty “ AVhat!” exclaimed his uncle, when Tom told years never once missed a fair crop of corn for him of his plans. “*Do you dare to stand here such land, among all the droughts which have before me and say to my face that you intend to afflicted the country, simply because his furrows marry my niece, whether I will or not?” were about eight inches deep; and the true ex- “No, not that, Uncle Oliver,” replied the wily planation of all the drought-blasted corn crops Tom. “I said I loved Minnie, and with your in this region is that the land was broken scarcely permission -or without it, in an undertone—I to the depth of three inches and the seed dropped wanted to make her my wife.” in furrow's no deeper. Corn will struggle long “ Sir, she is but a chit of a child, scarcely out and lustily against drought w'ith half a chance of her short frocks!” exclaimed the old man, for its rootlets to creep about in search of water j highly indignant at his nephew, and nutriment. AVhere the error of shallow' “But,” persisted Tom, “Minnie loves me, too, planting has been committed, then a free use of | and it w'ill break her heart—this refusal of the bull-tongue while the plant is yet small w'ill i yours.” give it a better chance to stand dry weather.” | “Have yon dared to speak to her of love?” | cried his uncle, now in a towering passion. “I “Let Him that Thinketh He Standeth Take win send her back to school at once, until she learns some common sense. And as for you, sir, begone from my presence before I so far is obstructed at the largest point by a tight gar ter, the blood is checked in its return to the heart, the feet are easily chilled and more liable to disease; the other veins of the leg are swollen into hard, blue knots, become varicose, as it is called, and often break, forming .obstinate ulcers. This is a picture which a physician sees every day. With the garters fastened above the knee, all this pain and deformity is avoided, but it is still better to wear no garter at all and to sus pend the stockings by tapes around the waist. In this case, how'ever, a well-fitting stocking is needed.” Prepare for Drought.—On account of the excessive rains of the past winter, many are ap prehensive that we are to suffer from dry w'eather the coming summer, S.-A the press is urging planters to prepare for it. The Nashville Chris tian Advocate says: “We feel as if we were almost called to go through the country and beg and implore the farmers to plow deep. We noticed last year w'here there had been deep plowing and other wise proper culture, there were good crops of corn and cotton despite the drought; w'here the plowing was shallow there was a failure. A deep furrow receives the rain and retains it as in a reservoir, and the plant is not drow'ned by the “ Go for the doctor !” he shouted; “be quick ! Run for life, for my darling is dying.” ••I’ll go, uncle,” said Tom, that instant ap- pearing at the door. . ^ ‘-Do, Tom,” cried his uncle, almost frantic with grief, at the same time rushing to the bed side and clasping the small, white hand of his darling, begging and beseeching her not to die and leave him. .... . , Tom. after leaving the house, walked leisurely in the direction of the residence of the old family physician, concocting some scheme in his mind, as was plainly visible by the smile which over spread his face. The old doctor and Tom were great friends— had always been since the young man was a mere baby, and he was now wondering in his mind if he would assist him in his scheme. He could do nothing but try, and if he tailed he would try some other plan. So he stepped boldly into the little office and was met by a cheerful smile and a cordial shake of the hand. In a few minutes they emerged and walked rapidly in the direction of Mr. Claxton’s. AVhen thev arrived, the doctor was at once ushered into the presence of the sick girl. Feeling her pulse, he shook his head, saying it was impossi ble for him to give his opinion then, but would leave a prescription and call again in the morn ing, when he would be better able to decide as to the nature of the disease. Mr. Claxton passed a very restless night, sleeping but little, and every few minutes send ing to inquire how the sufferer was getting along. On the following day the doctor came a second time, and after examining his patient, said: “Mr. Claxton, there is something ailing your niece which I cannot cure with medicine. Her nervous system has received a severe shock by something preying heavily upon her mind, and unless we can find out what that something is, it will be impossible to prescribe a remedy. ” Oliver Claxton then told the doctor of what had transpired between himself and Tom the day previous, and of his threat to’send Minnie to school. “But I will not send her,” he said. “If she will only get well I will keep her at home, and I will go at once and tel! her so. ” “No,” said the doctor, “the threat of sending her from home is not what has affected her. To be candid with you, Mr. Claxton, if you don’t want your Minnie to die, you must give your consent to her marriage with Tom, and the sooner you do so the better.” “Do you really think, doctor, that is our only hopes of saving her ?” asked the old gentleman. “Your only hope,” he replied. “Then I consent,” said Uncle Oliver. Tom was at once summoned to their presence and informed of the determination his uncle had arrived at, and I assure you, gentle reader, he was not at all opposed. The minister was sent for and Minnie noti fied to hold herself in readinesss. She gave a ghastly little smile when told, and said she was ready. The minister arrived and soon these two lov ing hearts were made one. It was surprising to see how rapidly she began to recover. From the time she was pronounced the wife of Tom all pain began to leave her, and on the following morning she was down to breakfast as bright and active as ever. Her uncle scanned her roguish, smiling face curiously, but what thoughts there were in his mind he was too wise to divulge. PERSONALS. Heed.”—The vaunting confidence and subse quent fall of the Apostle Peter is one of the most forget myself asto kick youout.” instructive lessons of Scripture. It teaches sev eral truths which if borne in mind would ren der men more modest and more charitable; for if people would only remember their own lia bility to fall, they would grow less harsh in cen suring the failings of others. The error of the Apostle was a very common one—that of judging Tom acted on the suggestion, and hastily beat a retreat. He went at once to Minnie and told her of his interview with their guardian. “I will marry you, Cousin Tom,” she cried, “in defiance of his threats to send me back to school, if you want me.” But as anxious as he was to call her his own, he would far rather have the consent of his uncle; for Tom was wise enough to look into the future, to be able to gratify the public with sketches of hastily, and it would seem presumptuously, of and he well knew that both he and Minnie would all the more prominent men of the South. Our Washington City Editor. — The Rev. David Wills, D.D., will represent The Sunny South as local editor at the national capital, and the public may anticipate many interesting things from his pen. His genial nature and so cial disposition will soon ingratiate him with AVashington City society and the public func tionaries, and his notes from the great center will be exceedingly interesting. Poems on Spring. — The Burlington Haick- Eye makes the following pathetic appeal to the spring poets: “Every day brings us in the resistless march of time nearer and nearer the dreaded days when poems on “Spring” will be in order. Men of America, whose handwriting no created living thing can read and whose spelling no dictionary can justify,—women of the republic, who inva riably write on both sides of the paper, never indent a paragraph and sign your verses Maud”—listen! AVe are aware that spring is coming. AA’e will observe the season with the most solemn and impressive ceremonies. AVe T{mnti assert ions like that of Peter, will do all that your poems of last spring com- his ability to withstand temptations to which he be cot °ff without a cent if they married con- had never been subjected. That which the Sav- to his , wishes ’ go, Rearing the footsteps _ _ . , ,, , _ . , ! of their uncle approaching, they both agreed to lour assured him he would do seemed as improb- let the matter rest until the morrow, when they able as did the prophet’s prediction to Hazael 1 would have more time to think it over, when he foretold of the woes which he was to That night the young girl was told to prepare v- „ t iTi -, • ,, herself to start for school in a few days. But bring upon Israel. Just so it is with us all. ghe det ermined not to go, if she could possibly AA e almost daily say that we would not do this avoid it, and therefore set her wits to work to thing or that, when really, never having been I form some plan by-which she could outgeneral tried, we do not know what or how we should ber cru€d uncle. At last she hit upon something , , ,, „ ., that seemed to please her, and with a smile upon do. “Circumstances alter cases, says an old her cherry lips, went to sleep. adage, and it is just as true that circumstances Early the next morning she sought her lover, and together they had a long talk; after which they separated, both apparently much pleased and each confident of success. Mr. Claxton was not an early riser, and when alter men. Most men who bring upon them selves the charge of inconsistency, do so by Doing 44 The Ring Accursed,”—This brilliant story - manded, suggested, entreated and invited us to to-day what they yesterday avowed the) could he came down to breakfast at a late hour, he ivas continues to increase in interest as it draws to- do - Me will walk down mossy paths ’neath the not be induced to do, they are of course adjudged surprised to jniss Minnie from her accustomed its clow tad « .tail soon commence ££* SSftSt jta goS ' another grand story by this favorite authoress. We will “walk the bee line, Aunt Jemima, ho, we wl “ see _ at tbe > need be neither. A ques- Her grace, force and beauty of style make “Ruth ho, ho,” even. AA'e will pick violets in cool, se- tion, when it becomes practical, is seen in a Fairfax” a general favorite, and the thousands questered glens, where the checkered sunlight widely different light from that in which it who are now reading -The Ring Accursed” with pkl^buttor^ups. dZte, a PP eara whUe P ure ^ s P eculative ’ ™ at ? hi< * so much interest will be delighted at the an- and all other spring flowers; we will pick our seemed ier) sound reasoning may be found very false when it comes to application, and the course which was once deemed criminal may be found at once more expedient and more right. Even when persons act in a manner which ap- delighted nouncement of a new story from her pen. A Beautiful and Sensible Agent.—Miss Sallie H , an acknowledged belle in a cultivated town of Georgia, has given all the young men to understand that none of them can call to see her unless thev are subscribers to The Sunny and all other spring flowers; we will pick teeth, pick some man’s pocket—old A'anderbilt’s, for instance. AA’e will try to satisfy your adora tion for spring, but don’t—and we say it kindly but firmly—don't—and we use the word in its most orthodox sense—don’t send us any poetry on spring. Don’t do it. If you must write it, pears grossly wrong to others, they may be im- write it and bum it up at home where your pelled by influences which none save themselves friends can see you; they will think better of or apprec iate. Let us judge spar- vou for it. Cut this out and paste it into your 11 ° hat. Get it “by heart”and recite it as an encore ingly; for, scan as closelyas we may, we never He alone South; and she is so charming and universally popular that all who have not already been put to your poem ever)- time you read that sublime can accurately weigh human actions. down on her list are skurrying around for the and beautiful effusion to your friends. ^Look^at w h 0 made the heart of man can understand it go ghaTH) necessary funds to do so. She shall have a Khe- ^vin' dra^one^sad heart nearer to you in true, and rightly appreciate the motives by which it violently, he soon had the room filled with ter- necklace to wear at her wedding. grateful affection.” * is controlled. rifled servants. place at the breakfast table. On inquiry, he was informed she had sent down word she was too | unw'ell to leave her bed. ‘ ‘ Ha! ha !” chuckled the old gentleman. ‘ ‘The little minx is angry at what occurred yesterday; but she will soon get over it.” But when he returned from down town that afternoon, and was informed that she had not yet come down, he became somewhat alarmed, and rushing up the stairs, burst into her room. There he found her, pale and drooping, lying on her bed. “Minnie, my child!” he exclaimed, “what is the matter, dear ?” for with all his rough, cross ways, he loved her dearly. “I don’t know, ‘Guardy,’” she replied, “but feel as if death was creeping upon me.” “AA'hat!” he exclaimed; “you so sick, my pet, and I know nothing of it. I will discharge every one in this house,” he cried, “for neglecting you so shamefully!” and jerking the bell-pull AV. AA T . Turner, Esq., will deliver the address in Eatonton on Memorial Day. Major R. C. McCalla, of Tuskaloosa, has a cow that gives eight gallons of milk a day. Colonel Avery has withdrawn from the At lanta Herald, Colonel Alston buying his interest. Hon. Jeff. Davis and family have returned to Memphis, after a stay of several months in New Orleans. Governor Coke, of Texas, has called on Presi dent Grant to send troops to Texas to defend the people from Mexican banditti. Governor Smith has ordered the sale of the Macon and Brunsw'iek railroad to take place on the first Tuesday in June next at Macon. Captain John Milledge, of this city, has been selected to deliver the address in Marietta, Ga., on the occasion of the celebration of Memorial Day, April 26. General Joseph E. Johnston has been chosen to act as Chief Marshal of the Mecklenburg Cen tennial at Charlotte, North Carolina, on the twen tieth of next month. Spinner has retired from the Treasury. Coun terfeiting will flourish now'. Spinner’s auto graph was a safeguard against a correct imitation of national currency. Colonel Thomas Hardeman has accepted the invitation of the ladies of Columbus to deliver an oration at the forthcoming celebration of Me morial Day in Columbus. Colonel AV. A. Hawkins, of Georgia, who has been seriously ill for the past two weeks, is improving, and his physician now entertains strong hopes of his recovery. AV. J. Storey, editor of the Chicago Times, has been sentenced to ten days imprisonment for the publication of articles constructively reflecting on members of the grand jury. Governor Chamberlain, of South Carolina, has been invited by the faculty of Yale Law School to deliver the oration before that institu tion at the next commencement. General Spinner, who has been the Treasurer of the United States for fourteen years, says that his experience as Treasurer has proven to his mind conclusively that women do not steal. Goverfor Porter, of Tennessee, has pardoned ex-State Senator Robert McKenna, of Shelby county, sentenced to the penitentiary for five years for marrying his former wife’s grand daughter. Mrs. Ann Saffold, widow of Judge Adam G. Saffold, died in Madison on the second instant in the eighty-third year of her age. She had oc cupied the room in which she died nearly sixty years. P. T, BARNUMwas elected, last Monday, Mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut; but old John Rob inson, who was run by the Republicans for the same office in Cincinnati, was instructed to go on with his show. Hon. Horace Maynard, United States Minister to Constantinople, left Knoxville AA’ednesday for his post of duty, via AVashington and New York. He is accompanied by Mrs. Maynard, and by his daughter and daughter-in-law. * Miss Gallow'ay, the Abbeville young lady w’ho recently left Key AA'est to become a missionary in Egypt, with her traveling companions, was in Rome on the fifth of March. They expected to reach Nap'es the next day, and to sail from that point on the eighth for Alexandria. The Rome Courier says: “AVe invite our read ers to a close aid unprejudiced perusal of Mr. Stephens’ letter They will find a cool and de liberate pungency in the statement of facts that must carry conviction to every unclouded mind, and they will see, too, the scintillations -of an intellect not the least impaired by age nor phys ical suffering, but as bright and clear in its ex pression as ever radiated from a brilliant mind. Every charge he has met and torn to pieces as so much paper, throwing his traducers in an at titude of defense under which they must go down like stalks of wheat before a hurricane. ”