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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST- i
Seorgia Baptist Convention. .
Monday, April 27 -A. M.
The convention met at nine o’clock. Brayer
by Rev. Steely. ,
On motion. Rev. Mr. Landrum, the Clerk,
was instructed to print and distribute five hun
dred copies of these minutes, and ordered that
seventy dollars be appropriated to the Clerk
for his services.
On motion of Rev. Mr. Warren,
Reso.’rerf, That the Georgia Baptist Sunday
School Association be authorized to publish its
proceedings in connection with the minutes of
this convention—additional expense of being
printed being provided for by that body.
Sssoift'rf, That at four o’clock this afternoon
the convention will adjourn, in order that
members who desire may have an opportunity
to attend the Fioral Decoration of the graves
containing the Confederate dead in this city.
On motion of Rev. Mr. Landrum,
Resolved, That it is the opinion of this con
vention that the Christian Index and Baptist
was never, upon the whole, better managed in
its editorial department than at present. In
variety of information the paper is excellent,
and worthy of unqualified commendation.
Resolved, That in tbe present destitution of
preaching supplies for churches, and in the
general inability to purchase books, there is
reason for special effort to extend the circula
tion of our denominational paper.
Mr. John Milledge, in behalf of the Commit
tee on Education, read the report of the com
mittee.
On motion of Dr. Tucker.
Resolved, That the editor of the Christian
Index be requested to publish in his columns
the report just read.
Resolved, That the chairman of the commit
tee be requested to prepare a condensed copy
of the report for our minutes.
On motion of Rev. Mr. Burney,
Ordered, That the Treasurer pay to Rev. J.
H. Campbell, our State Evangelist, nineteen
dollars and sixty-five cents, the amount of
interest which has accumulated upon the Per
manent Mission Fund.
The following named delegates were then
elected to the Southern Baptist Convention as
recommended by the committee appointed to
make nominations :
P. H. Mell, J. M. Calloway, W. T. Brantley,
A. R. Calloway, D. A. Vason, W. C. Wilkes, B.
F. Tharpe, E. G. Cabiniss, S. Landrum, E.
■Steadman, W. L. Mansfield, H. A. Tapper, J.
H. Cuthbert, J. H. Kilpatrick, J. H. DeVotie,
L. R. L. Jennings, A. M. Marshall, N. McDuf
fee, T. A. Reid, John Milledge, S. Boykin, J.
DeLoache, J. L. Biitch, S. P. Calloway, D. San
ford, Dr. J. G. Cheeves, T. 3. Sharman, D. G.
Daniel, D. Shaver, D. P. Hamilton, G. C. Con
ner, 8. M. Spinger, T. B. West, D. W. Gwin,
Samuel Lumpkin, N. A. Bailey, G. R. McCall,
C. Peoples, W. J. Lawton, E. W. Warren, J. F.
Autrey, J. T. Clark, C. M. Irvin, .B. M. Turner,
J. L. Warren, G. A. Nunnaly, R. W. Fuller, D.
E. Butler, K. H. Watson, J. H. Calloway, M. J.
Welborn, P. B. Robinson. E. A. Steed, F. H.
Ivey, A. J. Kendrick, T. M. Calloway, A. E.
Cloud.
The appointed time (11 o’clock) having ar
rived, a half hour was spent in devotional ex
ercises, Dr. Tucker leading.
Brother J. H. Kilpatrick presented the re
port of the committee appointed to examine
the report of the Board of Trustees of Mercer
University.
Pending the discussion, the convention ad
journed to 3, p. ra., after prayer by Rev. Mr.
Landrum.
The crowded state of our eolumus compels
us to defer the publication of the afternoon
(and closing) session of the convention.
Application was made to Rev. Dr. Steed for
a copy of the able discourse which he preached
Sunday morning, in the Greene Street Baptist
Church, hut the Reverend gentleman declined,
upon the ground that he had not time to write
it in full.
Monday, April 27-3, P. M.
The convention met, and after prayer by Bro.
Carswell—
The discussion of the report of Mercer Uni
versity Committee was resumed. After full
discussion, the report was amended and adopt
ed. as follows :
The special committee on the report of the
Board of Trustees of Mercer University offer
the following: On examining the report of the
Board your committee find nothing which, in
their judgment, demands special notice, ex
cepting tbe question of the removal of the
University. Respecting this matter, your com
mittee is happy to say that they cordially en
dorse the final action of the Board as far as it
goes ; and, in addition thereto, your committee,
acting in accordance with provisions of this
convention, and in harmony, as we believe,
with the prevailing sentiment of Georgia Bap
tists, and looking solely to the increased and
lasting prosperity of the institution, which is
dear to all our hearts, do recommend, as ex
pressing the sense of this body upon the whole
subject, the following:
1. Resalved, That while lamenting the fact
that Mercer University has not attained that
high degree of prosperity which its founders
desired and anticipated, we are nevertheless
firmly persuaded that this lack of prosperity is
not exclusively attributed to its location.
2. Resolved, Regarding the continued agita
tion of the question of removal as greatly in
jurious to the interests of the University, we
earnestly and affectionately entreat our brethren
to cease agitation of the subject of the removal
from the town of Penfield, where our fathers
pliced it, and where it has already achieved
such signal success.
3. Resolved, Considering that the question of
removal is settled, this convention does hereby
instruct the Trustees to put the University
building and enclosures in a state of complete
repair as soon as practicable, and indeed, take
all necessary steps, looking to the permanency
and efficiency of the University.
A resolution was adopted looking to further
efforts on the part of the Trustees and Faculty
of the University to render available tbe ap
propriation of the Stale for the education of
disabled soldiers.
Tne Committee on Deceased Ministers pre
sented a report suitably referring to the follow
ing named brethern, who have died during the
year: Rev. John G. Fry, Rev. Joel Thomas
West, Rev. Thos. D: Key, Rev. Jonathan Tool,
Rev. William Sanders and Rev. M. D. Robin
son.
The Finance Committee reported, f 1,250 21,
as received during the present session. Tbe
"Bible funds reported were distributed between
the Foreign, Domestic and Sunday School
Boards.
The report of the Committee on Missions
was read and adopted ; as also a resolution
commending Mercer University, as now located
and now conducted, to the confidence love
and support of the Baptists of Georgia.
Tbe usual vote of thanks to the brethren in
the city, and to citizens generally, to the vari
ous denoninations for tbe use of their pulpits
and to the railroads for courtics extended.
Ou motion,
Ztao/twZl, That this convention recommend
every Baptist Church in Georgia to adopt a
plan of systematic benevolence as nearly as
* possible in accordance with the plan of tbe
Bible : That “ every one lay by him in store, as
God hath prospered him, upon the first day of
. the week.”
Resolved 2d, That we recommend as objects
worthy of our prayers and liberality, Domestic
Missions, Foreign Missions, the Georgia Sun
day School Association, Ministerial Education
at Mercer University, and our denominational
papers.
The convention then adjourned, after touch
ing remarks by the venerable brother S. H.
Stocks, and prayer by Rev. J. 11. Cuthbert.
[From the New York Wdrld, 17th.
Sorosis.
THE NEW LITERARY LADIES* CLUB.
Some of the papers have undertaken to give
account of a new Literary Ladies’ Club in this
city, stating that it is a mere social club, estab
lished for the purpose of taking occasional
lunches at Delmonico’s, and these papers have
been printing a deal of misinformation and
nonsense about the enterprise. It has been a
choice morsel, too, for the city correspondents
of provincial papers, and the greatest absurdi
ties about the design of the association have
been widely disseminated. Those who have said
the most, seem to know the leist about it, and
the quite at sea as to the names of those who
are personally interested in the new scheme.
To correct these errors, and moreover, as an
item of interesting intelligence, we lay before
the readers of the World a full account of the
club, its formation, its membership, and its ob
jects, as correctly and officially stated in the
constitution and laws of the club itself, as fol
lows :
SORO3IS.
The object of this association is to promote
agreeable and useful relations among women
of literary and artistic tastes.
It is entirely independent of sectionalism or
partizanship.
It recognizes women of thought, taste, intel
ligence, culture and humanity everywhere, and
particularly when these qualities have found
expression in outward life and work.
It aims to establish a sort of freemasonry
among women of similar pursuits, to render
them helpful to each other, and bridge over in
some degree tbe barrier which custom and so
cial etiquette place in the way of friendly inter
course.
It affords an opportunity for the discussion,
among women, of the new facts and principles
which are constantly being evolved; the re
sults of which promise to exert a most import
ant influence on the future of women and the
welfare of society.
OFFICERS :
President—Alice Cary.
Vice-President—Jennie C. Croly.
Corresponding Secretary—Kate Field.
Recording Secretary—Charlotte B. Wilbour.
committee :
Phebe Cary, Joseph in e Pollard,
Ella Clvmer, Lucy Gibbons,
Celia M. Burleigh, Ellen L. Demorest.
BUSINESS.
Members are elected by ballot.
Tne initiation fee is two hundred dollars.
The members meet once a month for busi
ness, which will be transacted in order, and
for lunch and social conversation.
Each member present at a regular meeting
bears her proportion of the expense incurred.
At any special meeting every member noti
,fied bears her proportion of the expense in
curred.
No public notice is given of meetings.
ETIQUETTE.
Members can invite friends to a regular
meeting, on assuming the extra expense.
Ladies receiving an invitation to any meeting
will return answer of acceptance or declina
tion three days previous to the date of meet
ing.
At all meetings lunch will be ordered by the
committee, who will attend to the reception
and introduction of members and invited
guests.
Business letters and orders for insignia, note
paper and envelopes with the monogram, are
sent to the treasurer.
The name of the club, “Sorosis,” wiil be
Greek to many, and as it is intended to be
secret, we do not feel at liberty to disclose its
meaning, though we may do so in another
article. Naturally, the name will excite a good
deal of curiosity among those of the masculine
persuasion to whom it is a mystery, and is so
intended to be. The constitution clearly states
the objects of the association, which are cer
tainly worthy of ail encouragement. Tbe
literary ladies of Boston who, by the way, do
not live in Boston, but who find it essential to
their health, happiness and general well-being
to go to Boston every day, or oftener, haye re
cently established a club, and intend to open a
club house which will afford even sleeping ac
commodations for such ladies as may not de
sire to return to their rural residences at night;
and for the sake-of the prude masculines, have
admitted several literary gentlemen as active or
honorary members. For the present, at least,
the New York club contemplates nothing so
extended, but will confine itself to the objects
specified in the constitution, and will occasion
ally lunch at Delmonico’s or some other first
class hotel or restaurant. We must not dis
close when or where the first symposium of
tbe Sorosis will be held, but the club, including
as it will all literary ladies and female artists of
reputation, will present a striking and attrac
tive assemblage, especially as it is contemplat
ed to elect as honorary members several of the
most distinguished women in the world of
literature and art. The Sorosis is a fixed fact,
an institution, and its successful establishment
in this city will no doubt lead to the foundation
of similar and associate societies in other lead
ing cities in the Union.
Somebody Has to Leave.—A good joke,
connected with a visit from Major Pierce, soon
after the election, has just been communicated
to us:
The Major, solicitous about a seat in con
gress, asked one of our prominent colored
politicians what he thought of having the elec
tion over again ? The freedman replied that
he thought the result would be worse than be
fore. “ Why ?” inquired the Major, as his eyes
made an effort to get a glimpse of each other
across the bridge of his nose. “ Because,” said
tbe freedman, “ de darkies isgettin’ dissatisfied.
De fact is, Major, we’re beginnin’ to link dere
is too many kinds of people here. Dere is de
whites, an’ de blacks, an’ de Yankees. Dal’s
too many to get along well, an somebody’s got
to leave. De whites has always been liere, an’
dey owns de land ; an’ de blacks is here, an’
can’t get away ; and de fact is, Major, some
body’s got to git away ’fore I can see any use in
havin’ the ’lection over.”
Whether this dialogue had anything to do
with the exodus of the carpet-baggers that soon
followed, deponent saith not.
| Livingston (Ala.) Journal.
Nothing is more delusive than what is called
success. Its only certainty may be said to be
its uncertainty. You have it, and then you
don’t. There is not much difference as to
where or on what it is exercised, whether iu
politics, love, friendship, art, literature, almost
religion. Men think they succeed in love.—
They wake up and find a mistake. Either the
object of their affection is a cipher, or they
have themselves mistaken a mere whimsical
impulse for affection. Nevertheless there is
real success; but most people who pass as
successes are nothing ot the sort.
Twelve years ago Rev. R. G. C. Hempie, a
Presbyterian minister, was suspended on the
charge of intemperance. His wife, unable
longer to live with him, obtained a legal separa
tion. Some time ago Mr. Hempie reformed.—
After a long probation, he was re-united to his
wife, and his scattered family were gathered
together. Last week, the Third Presbytery
assembled in New York, and restored him to
the Christian ministry. The scene was a very
j impressive one.
Arson.—At an early hour Thursday evening
fire was discovered under the fine residence of
Mrs. Win. A. Koss, on College street. It was
discovered before any material damage was
j sustained, although in a few moments more the
i rnullsi on would have been in flames.—
j lhe tire was unquestionably placed there by
Jan incendiary with the worst intent diabolical.
| Macon Journal $ Messenger, 25th.
Burial'of General Morgan.
LARGE CROWD TN ATTENDANCE—IMPOSING
CEREMONIES.
The mortal remains of Gen. John H. Mor
gan were intefhed in their final resting place
at Lexington, Ky., on the 17th hist. Large
numbers of citizens, among whom were
many of the General’s old comrades in arms,
joined the train from Louisville bearing his
remains at the various stations, and they
evinced their regard for the memory of their
old commander in a very striking manner.
Says the Louisville Courier!
At an early hour in the day eager and en
thusiastic crowds of old and tried veterans
collected around the Phoenix and Southern
Hotels, anxiously awaiting the arrival of
the train that was to bring the body of
their departed chisf.
At last the train arrived, bearing all that
was left of the dashing cavalier. A general
rush was then made by the gathering hun
dreds to testify, by their presence, the re
spect due to a gallant commander. Im
mediately on the arrival of the train at the
statiAi, the necessary steps were taken, and
the body removed to Christ Church, where
the Rev. Mr. Shippman officiated, going
through the usual burial services of the
Episcopal Church.
When the body was brought into the
church, the minister reading the solemn
chant,
“ Lord let me know mine end,”
and the choir responding, a number of
young ladies advanced to the place where
the remains were lying, and deposited their
offerings, consisting of crosses and wreaths.
It was one of the most sublime sights we
ever witnessed.
After singing the 177th hym,
“ Guide me, oh thou great Jehovah,”
and closing prayers, the remains were taken
up, and while the funeral cortege was leav
ing the church, the choir chanted the beau
tiful hymn—
“ Peace, troubled soul.”
The procession, after forming at Christ
Church, proceeded to the Cemetery. Every
window and doorstep on the route had been
occupied at an early hour by myriads of
ladies and others eager to catch a glimpse
of the boys in gray, who had followed a
leader that had carved a name high up in
the annals of fame.
About two weeks ago the remains of Lt.
Thomas Morgan were brought from Le
banon to Lexington, and placedin the vault
at the Cemetery, and to-day were removed
to their final resting place, by the side of
his brother. After the Masonic ritual was
over, and the brothers resting side by side,
the ladies decked the graves with wreaths,
bouquets and flowers, and the crowd gradu
ally dispersed from the burial ground, with
a solemn benediction from each heart that
had loved them.
Hayti and the Negro.
A gentleman who is thoroughly conver
sant with affairs in Hayti, assures us that
the following article from the Richmond
Dispatch correctly portrays the condition of
the negro on that island :
The scenes in Hayti make it more than
probable that order and law will never be
restored to the black inhabitants of that
island. They have overthrown their late
government, which was itself built on the
ruins of its predecessor, and are amidst the
aggravated horrors of that state of anarchy
and barbarism which has long prevailed.—
Yet these negroes succeeded to the posses
sion of the most fertile spot of earth on the
globe, in a high state of cultivation and
teeming with the fruits of tillage.
Having massacred the white inhabitants,
they took possession of their comfortable
and elegant mansions, and their lands and
tenements of all kinds. Besides, they found
an immense foreign commerce, whose pros
ecution was rapidly increasing the wealth
of the island, and a government under which
law and order, and comfort and abundance,
blessed the land. After fifty years of pos
session of such a spot of earth, especially
favored by nature, what is the condition of
affairs? The large annual production is
diminished to an aggregate which is con
temptible compared with that under the
rule of white men—the commerce has been
reduced in like manner—dilapidation and
ruin have been the fate of all the works of
art and mechanical industry—disorder and
indolence prevail—there is no safety, no
peace, no comfort anywhere—revolution af
ter revolution have followed in rapid suc
cession—and Hayti, one of the brightest
gems of the Antilles, has become an abomi
nation on the face of the earth.
This is the sort of self-government which
the negro has proved himself capable of
after the fairest test which was ever afford
ed a community. The black Haytiens were
not like colonists struggling in a wilder
ness, menaced day and night by tribes of
savages. They were heirs to a lovely and
thrifty domain, provided amply with houses
and every known mechanical appliance and
conveyance adapted to their wants and the
the uses of labor as prosecuted then and
there. They had everything their own way.
They were so jealous of the white man that
they allowed him no place to rest the sole
of his foot. He was not allowed to own
one rood of land in their island. Even the
mulatto was put under the ban, and driven
into obscurity, often fleeing to fastnesses to
escape persecution and death.
Such is the notorious example—the liv
ing and daily familiar illustration —of negro
rule. Hayti is near our coast. Our own
people are frequently spectators of the de
solation and barbarism which have there
succeeded to thrift, refinement, virtue, order
security and happiness. And yet a besot
ted party in the control of the Government
at Washington are seeking now—in order
to secure the prolonged enjoyment of the
offices and emoluments they hold—to bring
a similar fate upon ten Southern States of
the Union by making the negro the ruling
class of society.
Important Decision in a Fire Insurance
Case.—ln the Kings County (New York) Cir
cuit Court, a few days ago, an action was
brought by George P. Steinbach against the
Lafayette Fire Insurance Company of New
York, for damages amounting to $4,500.
Plaintiff is a jobber of fancy goods in Balti
more, and was insured in the company to the
above amount. The store was some time ago
destroyed by fire, and defendants refused to
pay tbe insurance, on the ground that the
keeping of fireworks on the premises was a
violation of the policy. They admitted that
the policy allowed plaintiff to sell fire-crackers,
but claimed that it did not give him the privi
lege of keeping any other kind of fireworks in
the building I A verdict for the full amount
claimed was rendered in favor of the plaintiff.
This decision involves a similar claim against
another New York insurance company of the
same amount, making $9,000 in all, which Mr.
Steinbach recovers.
The refusal of Gen. Gillem to recognize the
gang that has assembled at Little Rock, Arkan
sas, as the Legislature of that State, has created
a great stir and furor in the Radical camps
throughout the North. Under General Gil
lem’s directions, very rigorous examinations
are going on in Arkansas —every day discloses
new frauds and makes the Radical vote beauti
fully less.
Forney—Butler’s Family, &c.
We make an extract or two from George
Alfred Towu»eud’s last letter to the Cleve
land Leadger :
FORNEY IN STRAITS.
Forney fell into trouble this week, upon
the grave matter of a default in his accounts,
and enemies everywhere sprang up to prove
him criminal, prematurely. The matter
was this, however :
Forney has been saddled with a great
many people of his wife’s family, Pennsylva
nia Germans, I believe, and among these
there was one Wagner, a cyphering old
man. Wagner had no particular vice except
a. desire to get rich without paying interest
tor his capital. This capital he borrowed
from a fund the Secretary of the Senate has
control of. Before he got his speculations
to a head there was a call from the Treasury
for the money Wagner had received. For
ney hastily got an apology or something
from Wagner, and paid up the money to
the Treasury Department by a special
“ raise.” This is one story.
Another is that Forney himself borrowed
in a quiet way this money out of the Senate
fund, and applied it to personal and news
paper uses, expecting to recover it by cer
tain Government printing whk h the Chroni
cle had received. This printing job, it is
said, the paper did not ultimately get, and
crippled itself in great expectations. The
Chronicle is still printing post office and
other matter, with designs to get it paid for
some time, probably after Wade’s acces
sion. The Chronicle is thought to be losing
money ; the Press, at Philadelphia, is as
badly off, and the Chronicle, I believe, is in
the market. These are partial consequences
of making a political sycophant of the press.
Against him in this matter Forney has
the potential enmity of Simon Cameron,
who is the chairman of the committee ap
pointed to investigate the delinquency.—
Cameron is a hawk-faced man, faithful to
the meanest of his friendships and unre
lenting to any mean enemy. The Senate
can scarcely afford to retain Forney. He
gave a dinner last week, probably in an
ticipation of this explosion, to all the im
peachment managers and fifteen Senators.
We hope that dinner will not cost the coun
try anything.
GENERAL BUTLER’S FAMILY.
A man so potent and yet so terrible looks
like a lion lying down with lambs when you
see him daily, after the adjournment of the
court, come down the Senate stairs, wear
ing an old slouched, high crowned, soft hat,
no overcoat, and no gloves. At the bottom
of the stairs in a sort of open chariot, wait
his wife and daughter Blanche. Mrs. But
ler is a dark-eyed, handsome, and very
young appearing lady, with a tine bodily
carriage and much elegance of dress.—
Blanche Butler has dark auburn hair, fine
expressive eyes, and a skin where the rose
and the lily blend. She wears generally a
green silk dress. Her figure is like her
mother’s, slender and tall, and of course, she
looks no more like Gen. Butler than Des
demona like the Moor or Rigoletto like his
child.
HAILSTORM GRAMMAR.
“ What he done,” is an elegant and famil
iar phrase of General Butler. “To who
did you say it ?■” says the hot-livered Mr.
Stanbery. We want a national gramma
rian. A fact is always more or less true by
being ill said. The mal-pronunciation of a
word in a sentence is almost as great an of
fense t<3 the perfect standard of truth as
the perversion of the fact. Truth, like a
law, has'its own tastes and phraseology.—
To say “ what he done ” is to tell a lie, be
cause it is to affirm an impossibility. A
man could not “done” anything, any more
than he could “ gone done ” it. Thus Mr.
Johnson is being impeached for false ety
mology and syntax. The same loose habit
of expressing things which made him ridic
ulous grew into a looseness of affirmation
which made him unreliable. Form has its
religion as really as intention has it, and
words revenge themselves as truly as lies.
About five-sixths of the members of Con
gress speak in loose English, but I must
not say that not more than one-sixth speafc
the truth.
Forney’s Peculations.—ln his last le t
ter to the Cincinnati Commercial, “ Mack ”
thus refers to Forney’s little stealings:
Cameron charged Forney the other day
with the abstraction of forty thousand dol
lars from the funds intrusted to his keeping
as Secretary of the Senate, and the matter
assumed such a serious aspect to the Senate
that a committee was instructed to inquire
into and report upon it. It is not denied
by Forney’s friends that the money was
spirited away, but they allege that the
guilty party is not Forney, but a relative of
bis, who at the time was acting as finan
cial clerk of the Senate. So, at all events,
it is in the Forney family. Cameron, how
ever, very stoutly defends the clerk, for
whose character and integrity he willingly
vouches—which strikes me as a very rash
thing for a Senator to do, when it is remem
bered that the alleged defaulter is one of
Forney’s relations.
He must have spoken in a comparative
sense, merely. But since the charge was
made in open Senate, two days ago, Forney
has said nothing about it. The Chronicle
maintains a guilty silence as to the $40,000,
but yelps as usual as to loyalty. Forney
tells us that the Kuklux Klan and other
benevolent institutions are sharply after
him because of his stern devotion to prin
ciple, but doesn’t say a word about Cameron
being after him for the missing forty thou
sand. In view of the possibility *of his
martyrdom at the hands of the Kuklux,
would it not be well for him to explain the
financial delinquency as early as possible ?
Were this fair flower of loyalty nipped by
an untimely blunderbus while the missing
forty thousand dollars are still a mystery,
it is needless to say that lie would not leave
behind him such foot-prints in the sands of
time as would be encouraging for honest
men to tread in.
A rather good story has leaked out, in
which the principal actors were Senator
Grimes, of lowa, and Mr. Grinnell, ex
member of Congress from that State. The
course of Senator Grimes was not entirely
satisfactory to his Radical constituents, and
they began to entertain fears that he would,
as they expressed it, “ go back upon them,”
in the impeachment trial. So they prepar
ed a budget of documents, with a view to a
correction of this supposed divergence from
the Radical path, and entrusted it to Mr.
Grinnell to bring to Washington and lay
before the Senator. Mr. Grinnell reached
his destination, but was so unfortunate as
to lose his carpet-bag on the way contain
ing the papers which were to be used in
terrifying the honorable Senator into sub
mission. This being the case, Mr. Grinnell
had no resource left but to present himself
without his documentary credentials, and
state orally what was the purport of the
lost papers. He used every argument that
suggested itself, and urged the suspected
Senator to fail not in casting his vote for
the conviction, to which Mr. Grinnell, it is
said, received the following satisfactory
reply: “You may go to —.(naming a
place supposed to be in an opposite direc
tion from heaven) with your papers. I
will cast my vote in this case in accordance'
with the law and the evidence.” The reply
of Mr. Grinnell, or whether he made any,
to this candid avowal of an honest man,
has not transpired; but it is said no further
argument was used.
[Correspondence New York World.
Hatching Chickens in Egypt.
On the opposite bank of the river is the
rather dilapidated towu of Geezeh, where the
process of hatching eggs by artificial heat is to
be seen. The Egyptians have long been fa
mous for this art. The Emperor Hadrian, who
visited Egypt in the year 134 A D., mentions
this practice in a letter, which is so quaint that
I cannot refrain quoting a portion of it: “This
Egypt (he wrote) which you extolled to me, I
find utterly frivolous, wavering, and flying af
ter change of rumor. They who worship Se
rapis are Christians, and some who call them
selves bishops of Christ are devoted to Sera
pis. There is no Jewish ruler of synagogue,
no Samaritan, no presbyter of the Christians,
who is not a mathematician, an augur or a
soothsayer. * * • That one God of .heirs
is no God; Him the Christians, Him the Jews,
Him even all the gentiles, venerate. I could
wish indeed the city (Alexandria) were better
manoeuvred and worthy of its importance,
since for magnitude it holds the first place in
Egypt. I have granted them everything, re
stored old privileges, and added so many new
ones, that they give me great thanks while I
am here ; but the moment I am gone they will
speak against my son Verus, as I believe you
know they did of Antinous. 1 wish them
nothing more than to feed on their own chick
ens, which they hatch in away too ridiculous
to be mentioned.” The building in which the
hatching is carried on is a long, low structure,
built of sun dried bricks ; dark, smoky and un
comfortable within, and decidedly unattractive
without. Ou each side of the interior is a row
of small ovens and cells for fire, divided by a
narrow-vaulted passage, each oven being about
nine or ten feet long, eight feet wide, and five
or six feet high, and having above it a vaulted
cell for fire of the same size. Each oven com
municates with the passage by an aperture
large enough for a man to enter, and with its
fire cell by a similar aperture ; the fire cells,
also, of the same row communicate with each
other, and each has an aperture in its vault for
the escape of smoke, which is opened only oc
casionally. The passage, too, has several such
apertures in its vaulted roof. The eggs are
placed upon mats or straw, and one tier above
another, usually to the number of three tiers in
the ovens, and burning “ gelleh ” (dung of ani
mals mixed with chopped straw) is placed on
the floor of the fire cells above.
The entrance of the building or vaulted pas
sage is well closed. This building contains
about twenty ovens, and is said to receive
during the hatching season, which is only in
tbe spring, about 150,000 eggs, one-quarter or
one-third of which generally fail. The attend
ants of the ovens receive the eggs from the
peasants and gives in return one chicken for
every two eggs received. The general heat
maintained during the process is from 100 de
gree to 103 degrees Fahrenheit. On the
twentieth day some Os the eggs first put in are
hatched, but most on the twenty-first day; that
is, after the same period as is required in the
c ise of natural incubation. The chickens are
placed in the passage, where they remain a day
or two before they are given to the person ‘to
whom they are due. The above particulars of
this process I have obtained from Lane, who
gives all the necessary particulars on page 310
of his valuable work on the modern Egyptians.
To fowl raisers this subject may be interesting.
In the year 1831 the following official report
appeared in the Egyptian newspapers :
Lower Egypt. Upper Egypt.
Number of establishments
for the hatching of
fowls’ eggs in the present
year 105 59
Number of eggs used 19,325,600 6,878,900
Number of eggs spoiled... 6,255,867 2,529,660
Number of eggs hatched.. 13,069,733 4,349,240
Both the chickens and the eggs of this coun
try are very small, whether on account of tbe
manner in which they are hatched or not, 1
know not. The flavor is however, as good, I
think, as of other countries.
[From the Irish Citizen.
John Mitchel on the Murder of McGee-
As might have been expected, the loyal
British Canadian authorities, and those who
furnish our telegraph news from Ottawa and
Montreal, have shown from the first a malig
nant j determination to bring this vallainous
murder home to the “ Fenians.” They tell us
that it is intimated “ that the authorities are in
possession of facts,” and clues, and so-fortb,
implicating what they call the Secret Society—
a society to us unknown And the man Whelan,
whois now distinctly charged with the murder,
had in his possession cards of admission to
Irish Benevolent Societies, and also copies of a
New York newspaper.
We have g'veu the substance of the evidence
elsewhere. So far as the facts have come out
before the examining magistrates, there is noth
ing of the slightest importance to criminate
even this Whelan, not to speak of a political
organization whose aims and proceedings are
public ; an organization which has never, up to
this time, given an occasion to suspect it of
“ detailing men to go and murder its enemies.”
We trust that on the renewed examination,
the author and the origin of the crime may be
traced, so that the responsibility may fall on
the actual assassin, whoever he may be. But
in the meantime it is but right to protest most
earnestly .against the diabolical attempt to fas
ten every crime or attempted crime upon a pa
triotic society which is certainly as little stain
ed with crime as any other organization which
has ever existed.
In this the Canadian loyalists are only copy
ing England and echoing the ferocious howls
of the British press. In England, whenever
any man has been murdered, or even frighten
ed, or any building burned down, or any at
tempt made to burn it down, or a morsel of ex
plosive substance found concealed anywhere,
at once rises the cry of Fenians! Fenians!—
Pack a jury at once! Hang some Irishman, or
two or three, and that without delay. The
British mind does not perceive much difference
between Irishmen in regard to guilt and inno
cence ; for the calls them a “nation of
murderers.”
On the contr.arj’—and we say it with a just
pride in our countrymen—on the two oc
casions, once in Canada and once in Ireland,
when they attempted to levy war against their
enemies, their conduct was marked by the
most chivalrous regard to the laws of legitimate
warfare, if they had happily been in force to
succeed in arousing a real war, no stain of
humanity or of treachery would have defiled
the escutcheon of our race. Bo it was in ’9B,
when our gallant Wexford men did not even
retaliate (as they were bound to do) one fourth
part of the atrocities committed upon them
selves.
As for the unfortunate man who has thus
suddenly fallen by a felon hand, we would wish
to speak of him with respect, if that were pos
sible. As it is, we must leave his eulogy to the
Attorney General and other officials to that
Queen of England whom in his latter years he
so zealously served.
Union Pacific Railroad.—The track of
the Union Pacific Railroad has been extended
across the highest point in the Rocky Moun
tains which is to be passed by the locomotive.
Os this railroad 500 miles are built and equip
ed. Iron sufficient to lay 200 miles of track
has been accumulated, and probably not less
than 300 more miles will be added to that now
in operation before the beginning of 1869. This
will require 8,000 additional laborers, 1,000 me
chanics, bridge builders, etc., 2,000 teams and
1,500 wagons and carts. From Omaha to San
Francisco is 1,845 miles. The Union Pacific
Company expect to have from 800 to 900 miles
of road in operation this years, while the Cen
tral Pacific, building the Western end of the
through line, will have completed 400 miles. —
Tbe gap of 500 to 800, which will then remain
between the ends of the two roads will, by
the end of one more year, be nearly or entirely
closed.
Another House Fired.—At eleven o’clock
morning the residence of the Rev.
F. ■ Haygood, on First street, was suddenly
filled with smoke. Upon search being made,
a lire was discovered to have been kindled un
derneath it, which was promptly extinguished,
and before the house sustained any damage.
It was plainly the work of an incendiary. Il
the scoundrels who are attempting to burn our
homes are bold enough to apply the torch in
broad daylight, thu question arises, whose
house is now safe ?
[Afccon Journal 8$ Messenger, 25th.
Press and Sup-Press.—We haa the plcaonre
of a call, on Friday morning last, from CoL
Maurice Maloney, commanding the Post of
Savannah, and his Adjutant, Lieut. H. B. Bar
son, and were made acquainted with the con
tents of a document, a copy of which has since
been furnished us, and which is as follows :
Headquarters Sub-District of Georgia, )
Office Acting Ass’t Adj’t General, >
Atlanta, Ga., April 18,1868. )
Brevet Colonel Maurice Maloney, U. S. A.,
Lieut. Col. With U. S. Infantry, Commanding
Post of Savannah, Ga. :
Sir : The Brevet Brigadier General com
manding directs me to instruct you to imme
diately call upon the editor of the Savannah
Advertiser and direct him to discontinue the
publishing of inflammatory, threatening and
intimidating articles in his paper as have of late
appeared in its issues. It is a violation of Gen
eral Orders No. 51, current series, Headquar
ters Third Military District. If this warning
is not sufficient to suppress them, you are di
rected to stop the publishing of the paper and
close his office, reporting your action to these
headquarters. I am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
[Signed] John E. Hosmer,
First Lieut 16th Inf’try, A. A. A. G.
A true copy.
H. B. Sarson,
2d Lieut. 16th Inf., Post Adj’t.
f Savannah Advertiser.
Headquarters Third Military District, I
(Department Georgia, Ala. and Florida,) >
Atlanta, Ga., April 24, 1868. y
General Orders, No. 69.
Application having been made to the Com
manding General for permission to allow per
sons convicted of minor offenses by civil courts
to work out the fines imposed on them on the
public highway, it is hereby ordered:
That sub-district commanders may, on the
application of the proper civil authorities, allow
the employment on the public highway, at a fair
compensation, of all such persons. Great care
will be taken that this authority is not abused
by overworking the prisoners, or retaining
them longer in confinement than is necessary.
The use of the ball and chain is permitted iu
cases where it is impracticable to furnish the
proper guard, or when there is danger.of es
cape; but this order is not intended to revive
or authorize the use of the chain-gang, previ
ously prohibited.
By order of Major General Meade.
R. C. Drum,
Assistant Adjutant General.
No Demonstration.—We have been re
quested by the officer in command here to pub
lish the following order, for the information of
all concerned:
Headquarters, U. S. Forces, >
Augusta, Ga., April 27, 1868. $
Special Order, No. 2.
In compliance with instructions issued by
the Commanding General, Sub-District of Geor
gia, any public demonstration is prohibited in
the city of Augusta, Richmond county, Ga.,
upon the result of the late election becoming
known.
By order of Brig. Gen. C. C. Sibley.
C. Fred. Trowbridge,
Capt. 16th U. S. Infantry,
Bvt. Maj. U. 8. A., Commanding.
A Parting Piece of Humor.—The Dickenss
dinner in New York evinced a graceful disposi
tion on ’the part of both the entertainers and
the guest to throw the mantle of charity over
the subjects of irritation arising from the first
visit of the great humorist to this country.
The banquet was given by the members of the
press, which, in the American Notes, was de
scribed as one of the most degraded institutions
of the “ false republic.” This magnanimous
overture of the journalists to their quondom
reviler appears to have been met by Mr. Dickens
in a becoming spirit, for he spoke with appro
bation of the improvements which have taken
place in this country since his first visit, and
promised that he will add an appendix to that
effect iu every future publication of the two
books in which he caricatured America. We
observe, however, that in his appropriate and
genial recognition of the courtesies of the occa
sion bis natural tendency to a humorous view
of things showed itself in an unintended bit of
facetiousness when he spoke of England and
America having each in its own way “ striven
so hard and so successfully for freedom,” a sen
timent which elicited immense applause, the
company rising to their feet and. cheering rap
turously. Considering that the greater part ot
the country is under military rule, and the
President now on trial for seeking to restore
to it the blessings of constitutional liberty, this
.back handed compliment of Mr. Dickens is un
doubtedly one of the best jokes of the season.
Under the exhilerating influence of this piece of
pleasantry, Mr. Dickens on Wednesday sailed
from New York in the steamer for Europe.
. [Baltimore Sun.
Strange Case—A Sick Man Appoints the
Moment of his Death and Dies on Time.—
A few days since the following circumstance
occurred in this county, as we learn from a per
son who was present on the melancholy occa
sion : A physician was called to see a noble
young man in his sickness. He examined the
case carefully, felt of the pulse, which appeared
strong and almost healthy, pronounced the case
hopeful, and after prescribing was about to de
part. The patient requested the doctor to re
main, with the remark that he should be dead
in just ten minutes. The doctor supposing it
to be only a whim of the imagination, thought
it best not to heed it and left without delay,
with a remark that he was sure he would soon,
be better. As soon as he left, the young man
firmly and in about his usual voice told a gen
tleman present to look at his watch and note
the time, for in just ten minutes from the time
he spoke be should be dead. The friend, wish
ing, like the physician, to turn his attention
from the subject, paid no attention to it, but
performed some other slight attention. After
about five minutes more had elapsed, the sick
taan again spoke to his friend : “ Why did you
not look at y®ur watch ? Five minutes have
passed. I have only five minutes more to live;”
The friend then looked at his watch and noted
the time. Injust five minutes the patient was
dead. — Galena Gazette, April 18.
A Negro Who Calls Himself a Negro.—
“ Mr. Thomas Chester,” a very intelligent ne
gro, who was, during the war, a correspondent
of Forney’s two papers, and who knocked
down a rebel in Richmond who insulted him,
so Forney says, writes as follows from Europe:
“ I feel it my duty to communicate these
facts to you, and through you to Mr. Sumner,
who has contributed so much towards having
for the first time a negro leceived at foreign
courts from tbe United States. General Clay,
at St. Petersburg, and Hon. George Yeaman. at
Copenhagen, both Southern gentlemen, sent in
my name to their respective courts.
“Yours, gratefully,
“Thomas Chester.
He calls himself a “negro” and the two
ministers “Southern gentlemen.” He is right.
None but a fool can deny that the blacks are
negroes.
The beautiful murderess, Baroness Eber
genyi, now in jail in Vienna, was recently
caught bribing oue of the keepers to take a let
ter from her to her relatives. For this attempt
to violate prison rules, she was sentenced to
forty eight hours in the dark cel), on bread and
water. Up to that time she bad always main
tained the most surprising self-possession, but
when she was taken to the dark cell, and saw
the straw on which she was to lie for two days,
she burst into a violent fit of weeping and sob
bing, and then, getting desperate, she resisted
the jailers, who finally, after tearing her whole
dress, hurled her headlong into the cell. Only
five months since she was admitted to the most
aristocratic circles, and generally admired for
her beauty and grace.
A Queen Reforming Fashions in Hair.—
A Dresden letter says that the Queen of Saxony
has expressed displeasure at the untidy, dishev
elled style of wearing the hair which has lately
come into fashion. Having frequently to re
ceive English and American ladies, who some
times appear with their hair hanging loosely
about their shoulders, her Majesty has estab
lished a regulation that all persons with suck
coiffures shall not be admitted at court.