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JOHN H. SEALS, - Editor and Proprietor. W. B. SEALS, - Proprietor and Cor. Editor. MRS. MAKY E. BRYAN (*) Associate Editor. ATLANTA, GEORGIA. APRIL 6, 1878. Burton Bros., of Opelika, Ala., are Agents for The Stony South. Geo. W. Norman Esq. is our general traveling Agent in Kentucky and the North W estern States. X‘8~ The Sunny South is always discontin ued at the expiration of the time paid for. What “Gath” Says of Charleston. Gath is strolling about in Dixie, and sending back pengraphs of its scenery, society and mat ters in general. His views are fairer than we usu ally get from the Northern standpoint, and his comments in the main more sensible than bril liant The style of the pattern correspondent seems to have lost much of its Champagny sparkle, but this is no great matter, er wonder either. The popping of puns and the fizzing of funny epithets pall on the evolver himself, sooner than it does on the partaker, - that is if there is any genuine wine of genius in him, and he is not, like syllabub, all froth. He will strip off his gauds and grow more earnest in spite of himself, and then the public, that likes better to be tickled than taught, will miss the jingling of the jesters bells and cry out, “He is growing dull. He makes ns laugh no longer; bring out another harlequin Mr. Ring-master,or you may hand back our money at the door.” “Gath” says that Charleston is the best built of all cities in the South. No, he doesn’t call it “city:" he says, “of all places in the South. He never dignifies our little Southern collections of houses with the name of city; and, of course, he has much to say about indolence and decay, and dilapidation : and, though he doesn’t make out Charleston the dilapidated buzzard’s roost that another correspondent pictured Tallahas see, yet he enlarges on the decayed grandeur; the battery, “barren as the grass grown squares of Siena” and intimates that the inhabitants have a tendency to laziness and unpracticality to “reading ideal state-craft rich with fundamen tal nonsense, advancing into confidence and logic toward a baseless ecstacy and ruminating on honor with optimistic egotism.” Then the Charleston ladies; are they really those veiled, nun-like creatures, stealing out of their gloomy abodes for a half hour’s dreary gossip, or cheapening of calico, and then back again, as if bat-like they loved the gloom of their mouldering halls? Surely that cannot be. The last Charleston ladies I saw were sunny and fresh as they were handsome, and carried no suggestion of Ichabod about them. But Gath pays the industry of Carolina la dies a compliment at the expense of the men, who, he intimates, could not better advance the interests of the State than by dying and leaving their affairs to feminine management.He says : “How can this poor, war-ridden country car ry so many idle women and children ? But the women of South Carolina are not unwilling la borers. David Ramsay, of Lancaster, Pa., their patriot and historian, wrote seventy years ago: ‘When they are left widows, though with small means, large families and great embarrassments, they in many cases extricate themselves with wonderful address and devote themselves to the education of their children.’ Speculating, in- semperate, mismanaging husbands advance their families by dying and leaving to their widows the sole management of their embaras- sed fortunes.” He is complimentary also to the German citi zens of Charleston and of the South in general, and says: No other race is systematically growing in the South and the reasons are plain; they believe in labor for their children and wives and them- gelves—actual contact with dirt and manure, and in German temperance, w’hich is neither ice water nor raw alcohol. All the the German’s pleasures and sacrifices are his family’s, too; but the American husband steals away from his family for enjoyments, and they generally steal away from his work. Gath renders due honor to Gov. Hampton, for the immense good his wise and temperate policy has already wrought throughout the state and says that he thoroughly is believed in and honored by all the better class inhabitants. He says; Wade Hampton has almost universal honor and confidence, and the scurvy elements in Edgefield and else where, get no coun tenance in belittling him. He will be the next Governor of the State, it his life is spared, and he presents a model to aspiring Southern statesmen of how mildness, honor, faith and loy alty invariably triumph oversullenues, severi ty and selfishness. The Edgefield district is almost without respect in South Carolina, and at the mention of it the average native gives a smile of pity. Said one stump speaker, before the war: “When the devil took the Lord into the mountain, he said: "All that you see I will give you to worship me—except Edgefield! That’s mine! I can’t let Edgefield go!’ ” • A Doable Endorsement. We take pleasure in copying the following en dorsements of the author of ‘Battles Around Atlanta,' and his ‘valuable contributions’ to the Sunny South, from the Savannah Morning News: The Atlanta Christian Index pays this compli ment to our Atlanta Correspondent: ‘Major Sidney Herbert, special correspondent for the Savannah News, we regret to say, has been quite ill for some time, at h»B rooms in this city. We are glad to hear that he is convalescent, and will socn be out again. ■He is one of the ablest and most versatile correspondents connected with the Southern press, and as ‘Chatham’ of the Savannah News, has acquired well merited distinctiop for the freshness, point and reliability of his corres pondence. His sketches of noted persons, and his memorabilia of the war between the States (published in the Sunny South,) are valuable contributions to the literature of ycur country. A Pastor Without a Pulpit. A young minister who has the charge of a family and has not the charge of a church, in quires, “If God, who seemed to call him to the work of preaching by impressing upon his heart the salvation of souls, has not, with equal sig- nficance, called him from that work by cutting him off from means of support?” The situa- tien is not new, and in these days, alas ! not rare. Times of financial stringency are hard on all the learned professions, but hardest upon the ministry. Men will retrench some extrava gance in diet and dress to indulge in the harass- sng luxury of lawsuits; they will sacrifice some thing in order to pay the doctor for his pills and plasters; but will hardly dispense with a single dish from their board or a single feather their wife’s hats that the gaunt spectre of want may be kept out of the parson’s door. The piety that pays the preacher, wanes in the time of a financial crisis. What, then, shall we say to our young minis ter, whose habits in life demand a large salary while his prospects for a small one* grow more j faint? It were vain to bid him preach on and ! practice patience; for not even the strongest i faith now expects ravens to come laden with I flesh and bread for hungry prophets. Shall wa j tell him that God has called him from the min- | istry, and that it is now his duty to abandon a i vocation which promises so little? This we do j not believe. If God has con.scribed him, He i has done it for life, and he can not leave the service without acting the part of a deserter. The New Testament idea of a call to the minis try, is that it is one for life, and, in accordance with this, public opinion attaches some blame to any one who having once entered upon this sacred vocation, leaves it in pursuit of worldly gain or glory. But while God does not only not order but positively forbids those whom He has called to the work of the ministry to abandon that work, He may, and often does, indicate by His provi dences, a change in the mode of pursuing it. Sometimes the country preacher has a fitness for work in the city, and, by some train of cir cumstances, is carried thither. The city preach er, on the other hand, may be driven by a ne cessity, which for the time seems hard, into the country, and there finds the field for which his capacities are best adapted. There are diversi ties of gifts, and, of course, there must be diverse places in which the gifts are to be exercised. All are not required to be pastors who are re quired to preach. All whose anxiety for the salvation of souls prompts them to plead with men for their eternal welfare, are not required to give themselves wholly to the ministry of the Word. We suspect there is much erroneous theory on this subject, which, under different circumstances, might lead to much bad practice. Some urge that pastors should be so paid that they could give themselves wholly to pastoral work. Now, except in our cities and larger towns, the vast majority do not demand or de sire the whole time of their pastor. It would be inconvenient, indeed, for farmers and me chanics to receive those weekly visitation* which forms the most wearing part of the city pastor’s life. The amount of service which they require does not materially interfere with very fair attention to some secular business. Paul did valuable service as a minister while he sus tained himself by working at his trade of tent- maker. To our querist, then, we would reply : Do not think for a moment of abandoning the vocation which your conscience gives assurance that God has assigned you. We admit all that you plead in regard to the darkness of the prospect, and w - e admit that it is a prime duty to provide for your household. You can not, as you would prefer, give yourself wholly to the ministry of the Word. Doubtless, God does not design that you should. Choose some business which is not incompatible with piety and which will not engross all your time. There are occupations, and those not the least remunerative, which will not derogate from your character as a minister. Having found such an one, pursue it with dili gence for the support of your family, and, in the meanwhile, preach as often and ably as you can. Chamberlain's Popularity. The Chicago Journal says that Chamberlain of Carolina robbery Ring infamy can get from the Republicans of New York any political hon or or preferment they have in their gift This fall, if he wishes, he can go to Congress from any one of half a dozen districts. And the Journal seems to base this assertion solely on the ground that the Alpha Delta, Phi fraternity composed of graduates from the various col leges have selected Chamberlain to deliver the address at their forth coming anniversary, to be held in Connecticut. As if the worthiest, smartest or most popular men were .always or even usually selected to deliver addresses on such occasions. A crowd is wanted, and curi osity is an effective force to draw a crowd togeth er. The nuisance which Hampton and Hayes abolished would draw well even here, though we acknowledge that it would be on the same principle that one of our neighborhood urchins drew a posse of village boys around him by running up with a defunct polecat tied by a string and crying out: ‘Here’s the skunk what’s been a eaten all your mother's chickens and duckseB. * Morphine and Divorce. Shall the habit of morphine-eating be held as sufficient ground for divorce? The question has lately been brought into notice by a case that has come under the jurisdiction of Judge Barber, of Cleveland, Ohio. The plaintiff in the case brought suit against his wife charging habitual drunkenness and neglect of duty for three years. When the case was brought on for trial the prosecution claimed that the intoxica tion consisted in the excessive use of morphine. The Court held that it made no difference in law whether the intoxication occurs from the use of strong drink or from narcotics. Tnis is a new case in this country. It may have some tendency to check the spread of this dreadful habit which, as druggists tell us, is becoming alarmingly prevalent. * Straining at Gnats—A Victim to Mi»» Kan- eyism. Miss Cook, a modest and intelligent young school mistress, hus fallen under the severe dis pleasure of the women of Holden, Missouri, because she forgot her ‘prunes and prisms’ in an earnest lecture to her girls on the evils of tight lacing. She adverted to some facts in physiology, and told the young ladies that drawing their corsets to wasp-waist proportions would interfere with their becoming mothers, whereupon the ladies of the school district, declared that Miss Cook was no better than she should be, and had her summarily dismissed. Their daughters might expose their busts and shoulders under the ball room gas light; they might give their waistq to terpsichorean embra ces, they might read police gazettes, Ouida and the Mercury, but on no account must a teacher —of their own sex —be permitted to talk to them about the internal construction of their bodies, or their natural duty and destiny as women. Miss Cook has entered suit for a thousand dollars damages, and we heartily hope she may get the money, and emigrate to some place where women are more sensible and Miss Nan- cyism is not in the aoCb ndancy. * Women at the Polls. It is often asserted that the reformers which women have proposed to make in the manner j in which the voting business is conducted, are all “talk” or that they are not practicable and cannot be carried out. A good beginning has lately been made in New York State where the women of Utica undertook to prevent intoxica tion and quarrelling upon the voting ground. The evil has been especially noticeable in Utica at previous elections, and great praise is due to the ladies of the various Christian and Temper ance Associations who, we are informed, “labor ing unceasingly in every ward, serving refresh ments tp candidates and voters; now sandwich es, now biscuits, now now pie, now crack ers and cheese, always coffee, and never whisky or beer. At the various polling places, five thousand seven hundred and twenty-five cups of coffee were handed to politicians and voters | during the day. There was good order every where, and very few cases of intoxication were reported by the police.” * The First Steamboat on the Mississippi. The death of Mrs. Lydia Roosevelt, in New York, recently at the age of eighty years, has re vived the tact that she was the first woman who ever descended the Mississippi and Ohio rivers in a Steamboat. Her husband, Nicholas Roose velt planned, and built the first steamer that ev er plied these waters. The name of this pion eer steamboat was the New Orleans. She was built at Pittsburg in 1811 and cost $38,000. Mrs. Roosevelt accompanied her husband in the first trip of the New Orleans down the Mississippi. * Florida l T Id Virginia. Florida has been a pet of the North ever since Aunt Harriet Stowe settled her substantial cor- porosity within ii^W^-ndary New England pats and praises the flower-land, and sends her children there out of the way of the winter snows; and in short is a very mother to Florida. She is a step-dame to poor Virginia, and loves nothing better than a chance to snub the ‘old Dominion.’ The Boston Post finds such a chance in two recent news items, and thus comments. Virginia, the Mother of Statesmen, permits her festive sous to tie a negress to a sapling and then jerk her into the air, a performance which maudlin sentimentalists will call barbarous, in asmuch as the woman might have been hanged decently. On the other hand, in Florida, a sheriff actually faces a mob, kills one of the 8 neaks, and wounds several others—a most ex traordinary feat for a sheriff in these degenerate and unmanly times. Let Virginia be called the Mother of Statesmen—Florida shall be known as the Mother of Sheriffs. • BOOK NOTICES. Thirty-four Years: Ad American Story of Southern Life. By John Marchmont. This volume from the pen of a distinguished and most talented lady of South Carolina is at tracting large attention among the literary peo ple of the South. While much beautiful fiction is woven into its pages, it contains a true and faithful picture of Upper South Carolina for thirty-four years. Its incidents and actors are all taken from real life and every reader will be impressed with its truthfulness to nature. It will interest any and every one, and we suggest that you order a copy immediately from your book-seller. The following commendation is from the pen of one of our most intelligent and popular At lanta ladies: We have recently read this volnme and take great pleasure in commending it to the reading public. It is written in admirable spirit, prin ted in clear aad beautiful type, and possesses much Anglo-Saxon sweetness. Especially do we think that it cannot fail to interest South Carolinians. Fanny A. Holmes. Atlanta, March 30th., 1878. Atlanta Notes. IIOMK ART. Mr. Guerry’a Latent Picture. Mr. Guerry’s studio on Whitehall street, Atlan ta, is now the centre of attraction for all lovers of the beautiful. In addition Jo his other works, which may be seen there, he has just completed a picture that illuminates his studio with its rich ness and beauty. It is the portrait of a child— little Willie Cox—the deceased grandson of Mrs. Cox, of this city. How the artist, working from g mere photograph, has caught so perfectly the peculiar look in the eyes, the subtle expression of the features, figure and attitude that belonged to the child in life, is one of the marvels of genius. The accessories of the portrait form a picture in themselves. The child is standing on the steps of a broad winding stair, lie leans lightly on the balustred, over which drops in rich folds, a drapery of gold-bordered crimson. His lovely hands hold his pretty riding whip and black vel vet cap, whose long white plume is so exquisitely painted that one almost looks to seethe wind blow about the light-floating mass. The feet in their gold-tinted boots stand on the crimson carpet carelessly crossed, and above the glimpse of deli cate stocking, are seen the pure flesh tints and sweet rounded swell of the graceful limbs. It is all touchingly natural. The child, riding whip and cap in hand, is waiting for his ride ; the eyes seem to look forward for the coming of the poney that is to confer the morning delight; but mean time, in spite of the childish eagerness, they have a wistful look, prophetic of the early blighting that overtook this cherished flower. The figure, in its little demi-loose velvet gabrielle, has all the unconscious, pathetic, nameless grace of child hood, and the rich surroundings, the gold and crimson drapery, the graceful curve of stairway, the massive vase with its wealth of green leaves and peail-white lilies, come in with file effect to relieve the simplicity and wistful sweetness of the child’s face and figure. Every detail is worked out with the minute care of the loving student of nature. The very figures on the enameled vase, each leaf of the lilies, each fold of the drapery, each hair, it seems, of the boy’s light, lovely curls is painted with tenderest fidelity. * Atlanta Musical Institute. One of the most worthy and popular institutions of Atlanta is Prof. Schultze’s Musical Institute. As a musician and teacher, he has doubtless very few equals, and it is gratifying to know that he has awakened a new interest in musical culture throughout this entire community. New life has been infused by him and his most excellent lady into both of our musical societies, and an improved taste for the higher order of music is perceptible among our people generally. On Monday evening last a large audience as sembled, by his invitation, in the hall of his in stitute to hear a recital from his pupils, and it was most gratifying to every one present to note the proficiency of each performer. The programme opened with a pretty duet by Miss Rosa Crown on the piano and Prof. Schultze on the violin; then came a well executed caprice on the piano, by Miss Maggie Jones, after which Miss Julia Rushton rendered LaDanza d’Amore in a fine soprano voice, but farther on in the musical feast, sue brought down the house by her clear voice in “Once Again.” Miss Kate Bleckley then executed, in artistic style, a solo on the piano, when Misses Fannie and Sallie Collier performed a beautiful duet. Every one was then captivated by the rich and powerful voice of Miss Lena Bradfield in “Judith.” She has indeed an extra ordinary voice and may be set down as one of the very best singers in our city. To volume and richness of tone it has wonderful flexibility and if she can prevent an occasional harsh break in its register, she will make a star. Sweet little Buddie Ilill then displayed remarkable skill on the piano. She has a fine touch and will make a brilliant performer. Miss Eugenia Arnold and Professor Schultze gave a beautiful duet. Miss Eugenia executes with fiue taste and expression on the piano. “Sing Birdie, Sing” brought a storm of applause as the last birdling notes died away on the lips of little Mabel Haynes. To hear her clear, strong, pure voice it is diificult to realize that it is the voice of a little girl. Miss Rosa Haiman then gave us “Silver Bells” with true emphasis and artistic touoh. Miss Susie Howell rendered “Fairy Festival” in excellent style on the piano, and Miss Jessie Mims the “Feast of Roses.” For one of her size and age little Jessie has the most remark able touch on the piano that we have ever heard. Her execution is simply wonderful. Under her manipulation the piano sounds as if in the hands of a Master. Messrs. Florieand Nattie Seals con cluded the programme with a “Charge of the Hussars,” a brilliant duet for the piano, which they executed with fine effect and to the general delight of the audience. The entire entertainment was a genuine treat to all present. Each performer reflected much credit upon the institution aud made every visitor a friend to the Atlanta Musical Institute. We are pleased to learn that the Professor’s noble and accomplished lady will return from Germany in a few weeks restored to her usual good health. The C'hanfraus—A Grand Treat in Store for l T s. Cooking Parties in Bmtnn-A Novel Enter tainment. Fashion d ies accomplish wonders, and no mis take. In fact there is nothing that this queen over women cannot bring to pass when she sets about it. Her latest mandate is that all her sub jects especially her more wealthy and stylish ones, shall learn to cook. Music, painting, danc ing, French and Italian lessons have long been ordained, but now the one thing needful and in dispensable in upper-tendom is cooking lessons. And as one's own kitchen, or one’s mother’s is not always available for this purpose, owing to the high-handednes of the reigning monarch of the kitchen, who will not have his or her domin ions invaded, everybody who is anybody flocks to the cooking parlors of Miss Parloa, and groans because they came not sooner, and are obliged to wait their turn before a vacancy can be found for them. This mistress of a new profession, who has suddenly become a very oracle of wisdom, be fore whom Beacon street and Commonwealth ave nue bow down in worshipful admiration, and who lectures, scolds or praises her high-toned patrons at her own sweet will, has a pleasant suite of rooms at No. 171', Tremout street; of which, how ever, the only one about which anybody cares is the kitchen, with its attendant pantiy. It’s a perfectly glorious old kitchen ; in fact, there nev er before was such a kitchen, for it was original ly a photographer's saloon, and one whole side of roof and wall is of glass, so that the light is thrown down directly upon the long table on which the cooking mysteries are compounded. Under this glass roof, curtained by trailing vines and pendant mosses, are placed many rows of chairs, each row raised above that in front, which are always filled ou the afternoons—Wednesday, Thursdaj and. Friday—when Miss Parloa gives her practical lectures. In fact, some of these lectures bring out so many that they cannot be accommodated at all; as, for instance, when a week ago the lecture was on bread and pufl' paste (i. e., pie-crust; this to the uninitiated male) the room was thronged, ladies even crowding ON TO TIIE VERY STOVE in their anxiety to see, and many who jcould not gain admittance at all went away. These lec tures, it must be understood, are not made up of “ words, words, words,” but Miss Parloa shows practically and conclusively how the thing is done, bo doing it right before the eyes of her audience, intersprinkling such explanations as may be need ful, and answering questions (often ridiculously childish and puerile ones) propounded by the la dies before her. It is a significant fact that among the most interested and constant atten dants at these cooking seances are old housekeep ers who realize that newer and better ways have been discovered for doing very common things since the days when they learned to cook. At the conclusion of the lecture, when the various dishes have been cooked, plates are passed around, and each lady produces from her pocket a spoon with which she tastes the delectable meats and compounds, surreptitiously smacking her lips over the appetizing morsels and betraying all too plainly by longing glances at the tabli her desire to cry with poor Oliver for “ more !” BEACON STREET IN CALICO. Evety morning there is met a class of six young ladies in this model kitchen, who having defied their usual costumes of silk aud novelty cloth in the cosey little dressing room, and donned pretty calico robes, short and serviceable, dip their own fair hands in flour, and strengthen their weak little wrists by wielding the great mixing-spoon, coaxing together the two halves of the lemon- squeezer, revolving the tiny crank of the egg- beater till the foaming mass will stand alone; they astonish joints of meats by dressing them themselves ; they cook the unpoetical potatoe in unheard of delicious ways ; they make—oh ! such cake that one feels willing to risk dyspepsia for the rest of his natural life for just one taste ; they “ coddle” apples and crack “ Cupid’s jokes,” and make “ kisses” and play innumerable petty and fascinating pranks with their unaccustomed toys, bui they don't wash the dishes ! (Moral—It’s very good fun to cook when you don’t have to wash your own dishes.) And then, when all is done, they sit down to a cosey little dinner of their own making at 1 o’clock, after which the room is cleared up for the afternoon lecture. And once or twice in the course of each term of twenty-four lessons, these jolly little classes “ do up” a lot of cooking, solid and fancy and invite each a gentleman friend to come to the cosiest imaginable little dinner party in the evening. Each may fancy for himself the delights of these occasions, when that bright par ticular “he” for whom all this study aud work have been accomplished, is brought in triumph to witness the results ! Editors with Gifted Wives. The Daily Tribune, says Mr. D. G. Croly, the able managing editor of the New York World, has long been at the head of the list of the few journalists whose wives are distinguished in newspaper circles. Mrs. Croly as “Jennie June,” having won a world-wide reputation as a spark ling and brilliant journalist and correspondent But just now a new literary star is fast rising to view, in whose future career there is the most glowing signs of promise. We allude to Mrs. M. P. Handy, the accomplished wife of Mr. M. P. Handy, at present the able and popular man aging editor of that Stirling paper, the Phila delphia Times. Mrs. Handy wields a versatile and graceful pen, and her magazine poems are as meritorious and as sprightly as her newspa per letters and sketches. Her description af domestic life during the last days of the Confederacy, written in a most charmingly interesting and vivid style, has been published and republished, from Maine to Cal ifornia, by all the leading newspapers and pe riodicals. When such popularity attends a new writer in her field, Mrs. Croly may well look to her laurels, especially when that writer is al ways handy with a pen. i “Whispering Winds.” By George K. Camp, Sunny South Publishing House. This is the title of a handsome little volume of rich and racy humor, which will be issued in two or three weeks from the Sunny South Steam Publishing House. George K. Camp, Esq., a popular attorney aud brilliant humorist, of this city, is the author. The price is only 50 cents. Send in your orders. At this season all who love flowers are look ing out for something new and pretty for their gardens. If they will send for “\icks Illus trated Priced Catalogue” or Monthly Magazine and see what a fine collection of flowers and seeds he is advertising, they will not fail to give him an order. He is in every way reliable and parties who buy from him will find their flowers and bulbs so carefully packed that even the most delicate plants will not be injured in transportation. See his advertisement in this paper. It is a rare thing for two such celebrities as the Chanfraus to visit a place like Atlanta at the same time' Though man and wife, they do not travel together, for such a combination is too much for most audiences, and we are to have a treat which seldom falls to our lot. See thespecial announce ment in another column. Hiss Rose Eytinge. We are also delighted to announce the coming of this celebrated emotional actress who will ap pear on our boards in the role of Cleopatra on the 8th inst. Special announcements will appear in our next. Remember at Phillip’s «fc Crew’s book store, on Marietta street, are to be found all the new books and freshest pnblications, among them the charming young folk’s magazine, Wide Awake, with its premium picture—a lovely en graving called “The Proffered Kiss.” V|UUUI VUUUIg 1UU 111 AUg ^Liuumry, Miss Mary Baldwin, the distinguished Prin cipal of Augusta Female Seminary in Staunton, Virginia, has found it necessary to issue a cir cular contradicting a malicious statement made by an anonymous correspondent of a Cincin nati paper, and extensively copied throughout the country, to the effect that an opium mania prevails in Shenandoah Valley, especially in Staunton. Speaking for the whole community, she pronounces the story an utter fabrication! She says: “Of the many persons cited by the writer as testiiying on the subject, most of them are fictitious; and the few citizens named by him indignantly deny every one of his asser tions. All the druggists and physicians of Staunton have united in a publication declaring that the use of opium, in this community, i 8 noi common or extraordinary.” Her statement is fully confirmed by a certificate from Dr Wad dell, the physician of the college.