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^Wn “• Do flu Mon of *ho OnaMnoor *ol< Alono r'-i» Address boftoro the Histories!Soctotjr»*Now Qrtoonoo Uoa Dor- . Ladies ami Gentlemen—It would be almost superfluous to addsera to an au dience of New Orleans any argument in favor of the preservation of the history of our Confederate struggle. Your course is too well known—marked by too many deeds, both In war and peace to render it at all doubtful that your hearts be true to the cause for which *o many of 0"r friends and broth ers have died. The early colony of Louisiana were constituted of men who ■NO. LIL ATHENS, GEORGIA, SDAY, MAY 9* 188$ quirted by patriotism an' valor, on me Into a wilderness to make for themselves a new home. And their de- scendents have shown from that day to (lii-* the same characteristics which mark ed their fathers. I believe it lias been generally conceded, and I think most truly, that never was a people more universally gallant than the creoles ,_f Louisiana. At the very first sound of the late war your citizens ran forth to the defense of their country, and gave their sons todio upon its altars. It was here that the chieftain who distinguish ed himself on so many battle fields went forth to battle, the chieftain w hose name i- »o honored, General Beauregard. It v a- here that so many brave women gave up their homes and luxury to serve al most by the side of their fathers and brothers. It would eonaume the whole evening were I to attempt to enumerate the list, but von have just seen standing before you the maimed wreck of one who went forth sound and vigorous, who lost one ILuhand was -cm hack, who went into the tffV. again and lost another and never faltered in his zeal, it is here that the daughters of Louisiana, always foremost in good works, instituted the plan of decorating the graves of the Confederate dead, and bringing their fragrant tribute, which, in its beauty and annual recurrence,express the heartfelt io\e von hear the dead. Then here, first too, wus organized the Historical Socie ty in view of preserving the records of the Confederate war. That society has I "'i'll removed from here, Imt still looks back to this, the place of its birth, and lit re w here you h vc been swept by the ho-oni of desolation, where you have bad more trouble than any other town which was overrun, here has risen more monuments to the Confederate heroes than any other city of the south. Peo ple of New Orleans, you have a right to be proud ut the past, and we have a right to lie confident of you in the fu ture. Hut there is yet a higher and more important duty to perform. Mon- miients may crumble, their inscriptions may lie defacen he time, hut the records, the little slips of paper which contain the memora.'.da of what is passed, will live forever. To preserve these pu|iers l.iitlifully is a higher and a holier duty Mill. They are now said to be in dan ger, but when did Louisiana ever hesi tate to put form efforts when any of her II i iid. were in danger? They come and : p ent to you now ill the midst of dieas- !■ r; hvic w ln re your country has lieen over a helmed with the flood; here when ever) thing points more to the want of v"itis Ives than a pledge to furnish sup- plies l.i ot hers, they still come to Louisi am as the first place in which they ask that the Confederate records may lie preserved. 1 do not doubt that you will respond to the extent of your power, do not doubt that you will nobly assist the organization, which is growing front year to year, and spreading from city to i-ity. wiil render secure the perpetuation of tlio-e records, the value of which it wonld be impi -sible to commute. This is a duty that, wc owe to tins dead—the bead who died fonts, but whose memory The highest quality of man Is seif-sac rifice. The man who gives his life for another, the man who surrenders all bis most nearly, follows (hat grand exemplar which Is giveu to us as the model of weak humanity. That we had many of these, it is the purpose of this society, by collecting the evidence, to show to the world. Let it suffice to say here that I would have our children's children to. know not only that our cause was just— that may he historically established— but I would have them know that the men who sustained it were worthy of the cause for which they fought. These are the great objects of the society. The other side has wiitteu and is writ ing their history ol the cause. We want to preserve ours also, that the future his torian, by comparison of both, may evolve that fair statement which- proba bly no contemporary could make. I would frankly acknowledge that I would distrust the man who served the Cora- federate cause and was capable of giv ing a disinterested account of It. If he had any heart, he must be on his own side. I would not give tuppence for the man whose heart was so cold that he could be quite impartial. We all remetn- l>er the fable of the lion who saw a statue which represented a lion prostrate at the feet of a man, and who said : “If the lion had made that statue, the figures would have been reversed.” I want our side of the history. It may la? like the other, but we don’t take exactly an equal view of it. But the two will be compared by some one who comes after us who will do justice to our cause and our people. You all know it would be needless for me to (leak of it; how thoroughly unprepared ve were when we engaged in war— without money, without a name among the nations, without credit, without pro stand us, and it is to be- hoped that the time is not far distant when the offensive H epithets, only too common to-day, nl j] I soon be bloOeff MH of the northern vo cabulary. We are not revengeful. The factfe, the southern people are not capa ble of hate, and I tell you why I think *o—hate is the child of fear, and biave men draiiot bate like cowards. X- itber are bwve men ever cruel; so I wish you to draw from those who can testify on both aides of the war, that we did every- thing iu our power to assist those taken prisoners during the war—we tried to release them; we tried to have them ex changed, and I want these faets to go down to posterity, so that our children cannot have the name of Andersonville thrown with opprobrious epithets in their faces. It is false, utterly false that our people ever did treat prisoners with cruelty, and 1 want the fact shown as It can be shown. You can get witnesses who were prisoners; you can get the men who when prisoners were paroled, went to Washington to get relief, were denied an audience, and had the honor to come back to prison. You can get these men to testify that if they were nortreated aa well as they might have been,-there were canses, there were pltysieal causes, there wete climatic causes; we were wanting in supplies; wens wanting in medicines; were want ing In the food to which they were accus tomed—even medicine was made a con traband. How could we supply them ? It is all the vilest slander that ever was perpetrated. It is here where the His torical Society can assist ns; and if you can succeed lu giving such an impulse to the organization as will preserve the sectety and increase its usefulness, you will have anotheaelairu to the gratitude of your country. Why, friends, it is somewhat difficult visions, without arms, without arnmuni- I for a Confederate, whose heart’s love lies tion, without even factories to make it; j burled in the grave of our cause, to speak we went in relying solely upon brave j to you on a subjeet which revives the hearts and brave arms, whose constant 1 memory of »h-t jieriod, to speak to you with that forbearance and meekness which the occasion requires. I have trust during the struggle was equaled, I ontend, only by the morality and una nimity of our people. The heroism of our soldiers has caused the admiration of the world. Generally they know the disadvantages under which they fought; they know the great achievements with which our soldiers covered themselves with glory, but there is much that is not known. You may ask the schoolboy on the lowest form who commanded at the pass of Thermopylae, and he can tell you; but my friends, are there not many of this great audience who, if I asked, could tell who commanded at Sabine pass, and yet 1 tell you, that the battle of Sabine pass was more glorious than the battle of Thermopylae. Who temembers hov- the iron-clad fleet came steaming up the river with nothing to oppose it but a mud fort with field guns and held by forty-two men; how its commander was asked by a comrade what was to be done, and sug gested that they had Iictter retreat; but j how this gallant man said, “We wil* ARRESTED FOR FALSE BmlaoXotthtnOxMllMWinl I pfatOUH that I of all the shares of state Bm Ymrtrnm. Deputy Sheriff Me arrested Robert Naylor,^ in an action brought t chweSnk and Edv The order of arrest i Judge Truax, of the t the 24th day of April, j ed is $35,000. The a recover the sum of f cost of the suit, wj; leged Naylor i tilt under fals The comp] that in the. ‘ in this cit; represent' was ihe si _ the capital stock of a corporation ed under the laws oTthfe known as the Ceni and Lumber Com_ ny owned and has thirty-three acre*' cola, FnwitkUo-coi _ which was a. valuable cliinery ■ expensive- water front of ' thousand feet ouT"r:le -Hq large and commodicms i he rep ing of meat, ward induced "V with Mr. N two-tldrda . provide and famish for operating the ness thereon, and provided other moneys est of the business, claim thattbese re. known to be false and The plaintiffs farther stat paid Naylor, besides th*. . additional amount of £10,68151 That all these moneys were paid on the strength of representations, as given by the defendant KaylUri The plaint- ifis further allege thatthe tnfll aid the pro|>erty without the water front and wharfage, is of very little value,, and they would not have entered into an agreement iffltey knew that the mill property did not contain the-wa- ter front; the plaintiffs therefore seek to recover the sum of $35,000. In an affidavit of Eld ward Kilpat rick, one of the plaintiffh, lie states that an investigation was made with regard to the real estate, and it was CURRENT HAPPENINGS. no, of unparalleled splen-1 ince ol Wales’ wedding | old. ^attempt has been made life of Guite&u. Dr. Mary i called on him. lanta Constitution greets the tried to do so, and all I can sav is that 1 ‘hat.the company did not own if I have exceeded the proper limit, you 1 le *ater rout. don’t know how hard I have tried to keep within it. And now my friends, ladiis and gentlemen, let me assure you j that this same affectionate regard for you, the same hope for your future des tiny, the same lief in your prosperity, the same high expectations of New Or leans which I have so often declared, will follow me in the few remaining ilays which I may yet live among you. Mr. Davis received tumultuous ap plause at the close of his speech, which was frequently interrupted by loud plau dits. After lie finished he was present ed with a wonderfully gorgeous floral tribute that seemed to afford him much pleasure. AN EXCITING CASE IN DANIELSVILLE. A Fight Between *» White Lady nod • Negress and the FlncJ landing. lage has H s last been treated to a sensation of some magnitude. It seems that most scauilaloiis and libellious rejiorts vere in circulation respiting a highly-es teemed lady of that place, which the in jured party traced lo a worthless otegro woman. Meeting the creature a few days since she asked her about the slan der, w lieu the woman spoke up and said of t brace of thoroughbred r Governor Colquitt, examination, the infernal lines mailed to Vanderbilt and i proved to be entirely harmless, plored female preacher from Spar- ' i carrying on a revival in the laptist church at Audersou, evangelist asks: “Can a ;to heaven?” We hasten can—if he has the hand ling of thf Returns. i<k Bonner. Superinteud- f and Dumb asylum, ports the colored department of the stitution is progressing finely. ie deepest known hole in the ground arte*lan!well in St. Louis, 3,750 feet tlie surface. The water was salt seless. Brooklyn has one 3,500 leep. K. Bickerstaff,- of Mt. Hilliard, took tiia family US' a traveling pho- pher to have their pictures taken, the little two-year old son got 1 some poisonous mixture, drank died in two hours, e of the strange features of the y murder case is the presence court room every day of a nuni- of women who listen to the dis- .Cvidence apparently unniov- »Certainly not an orna- i - '■ ex - MaPfttr aflas General Burdlong Morton, the naughty old man now serving a long term in the Virginia penitentiary for marrying a multi plicity of wives, is said to lie writing a history of his life, which is to be published.in pamphlet form. ‘ The sister of a wealthy St. Louis mer- chanrwas dying in a poorhouse. She Mnt him a message, begging him to overlook their estrangement after she was dead, and give her remains a re spectable burial. He refused, and she was interred in Potter’s Field. John L. Morgan had spent all his ready money in dissipation at Erie, Pa., and wanted wore. He caused a letter to be sent to his parents detailing his death, and asking for a remittance to ship the remain. The mourning moth er soon arrived, with an undertaker and a casket. She was nearly insane from grief. The scapegrace fled. The Republicans have completed their gerrymandering in Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, ' Minnesota, Kansas. Ohio and Pennsylvania. They have done a very niee job, ’having so carved up the above named States that a Republican voting population of l.SUO.-iOO is to send ninety men to Congress, and a Demo cratic voting population of 1,(141,200 is to send only twenty-one. The English Sparrow. reports, and moreroyr a true and she inteilrfartff pi At this infamous acknowledgment the lady’s indignation got the better of her judgment and she (dapped the hag’s face. The negress was a stout, able-bod ied woman, and ns tbe whin? lady had •io one near to liefriewd her (die was cru elly lieaten by the ( feature. The news of the outrage soon spread, and the mar shal. knowing that the lady’s husband mid certainly mu.-der the .assailant of The importation of English sparrows, I which was urged, a few years since, as never retreat!” How they shook hands j of great importance to the fruit growers | with each other, and said, “be will.of the Foiled States, and which was j his wife sholihLiie get life lunula ou. her, fight to the death !” How the iron clads I enforced to such an extent as to fill ihe j h eked the woman in jail, '.'.here she came steamirg in but were repuled by ] whole country with these little birds, is that gallant little army of forty-two men. j now being charged bv those who profess This .was lMu. _ Now"wlu> knows oi- Dowling! me. The object of those importations ■ ..n iicvr die. This is tlie duty we owe t' poMcrily, an obligation to see that o n cliihlrc.i learn the worth of their j.ao ol-; to see that tile sons grew up w iihy if their liohle mothers. thol r m >thers who never faltered in all the hours of trial through which we have • >i»sfd. They who now sleep in the gri' e cannot he ls-netitted, it is true, l>y anvthing »c can do. Their ease is gone to a high- r tribunal than of any earthly judgment, hut their children’s children arc to he hem-fitted by preserving the record of wlint they did and of all the motives for which they died. As for me I only s|n-:tk for myself. It is to me a most desirable object that the conduct of our men in the de- i. use of that cause should lie so present ed I., the world as to leave no stain upon it. They went through struggles which might have corrupted weaker men, but yet, during the whole war, I never went into the army before a battle without finding evt rv camp engaged in prayer, mid after the war was over, see how many of these men forsook their arms and went into the ministry of God, as in case of that worthy young nmn you have llie gisid fortune to have preside over your diocese now, the successor to one who gave his last breath for the cause lie loved .,> well. It is not enough that wo hand down what was settled, that our men were brave, that our men were noble and that our men exercised self- denial. You must add to that, if you would hove your children rise to the high plane 1 desire them to occupy—you mils, add to that evidence of the morali ty, the sobriety, the forbearance, rhe ab- scnce from that crime and stain of the soldier, under all the circumstances of the war. True we did not Invade to any great < xfent; we did to some, and it is a fact which I choose to remember that, when our army invaded the enemy’s country their property was sacred. I draw no comparisons, but if anybody • l>c didn’t liehave well, let It rest. We had no army, our troops were not pro fessional soldiers. They were men w ho loved th dr wives and their children and their peaceful occupations, but at the first call of llicir country they seized such weapon as they could gather and stood around their country like a wall of fire to defend the rights their fathers left them. Could there be cause more sacred than this? 11 there be anything that justifies human war, it is defense of duty, defer-e of country, defense of fam ily, defense of home and defense of eon- Hlliutioiiu! rights. Then, if I be asked, a- |Mmsihly I may be. why I wish to per petuate such painful memories, I say, in no spirit of vengeance, in no desire for vain glory, and in no wish for sectional exaltation, hat that the posterity of the men, surli as I have referred to, may rise equal to their parents—higher if possible—and that tlie south hereafter may be reinerniiered in all time, and all the glorh s recorded which she has here tofore manifested; and It is only by pre serving the se records, by gathering those facts together that you can ever hope to convey to posterity and exact idea of the men who fought and perished in your struggle. It is not enough to show where some general won a battle, oriuecess(ul- ly carried some breastwork; it is not enough to show where one army de stroyed another, but what was the char- octer of the men and how they behaved yet this Dowling I hold higher than Le- i was to destroy the insects regarded un onidas. It is such events as this that I I we must preserve. They will Is? lost. 1 Perhaps it will occur to sonic one that if tall this was in my knowledge, why I didn't put it in my Isvik. Well. 1 will answer. 1 did, every word of it: all the facts and all the names of the forty-two soldiers. The state of Texas honored these men by striking off a medal, on vas kept for a short time. But assoon as she a stott gVftlg WT(tlW( MONSTERS OFjyCIENT TIMES. -Qepbfante iMrgmr Qua Jmbo -T “ Jumbo wasn't the elephants around this count sor of natural history wheu asked a reporter of the 8un whethe beast just laded wa size. Iu 1860, whe of ex excavating that she had started and circulated the A poor woman of eighty could not pay a - we ” ve thet friendly to the production of truits.bttt .oudy jny^. ~ it seems that the birds have proved much ''’-V*—- - * more unfriendly to the fruit growing in terest than the insects they were ex pected to destroy. A writer in the West ern Mock Journal says of them: “ They seem to he a nuisance tvithout a redeeming quality, and unless some strong measures are taken for their ex- rrent at Hast Brooklyn, Mass., and ie landlord removed the doors to force her out of the house. When she hung up blankets for a shelter from the wind, he palled them down. She was already ill, and under this ’.reatmeut soon died. But her imbecile daughter, aged sixty, still remained. The landlord ejected her. Then a mob of women broke open the replaced doors with axes, reinstated the daughter and hooted the owner. Late advices from Labrador coast are to the effect that the people are on the verge of starvation. In some of the villages not a pound of an v kind of food can t»~pareturned. At Forteau light house a young man left home to go to -lirn.1 1 ■■■-*-—1 r- v "» into-Lie snow and when noes, N. Y., workmen brake (into what seemed to be a big pot-hole or well, such as is seen sometimes m the rock-bed of river*. It was full of muck and peatty soil, and at thef bot tom was found the chief bones of an immense elephant. It was determin ed that the animal had been washed into the hole when New York -state was covered with glaciers, hundreds, perhaps thousands of feet thick. .That conditibn of the country can explain the number of pot holes from ten to fifty feet in depth near the Mohawk river. They were .formed lfy water from the surface of a glacier falling into crevasses and forming cascades, often a thousand feet in height. The Cohoes elephant was half a million years ago, perhaps, entombed, in a great mass of moving ice, and -when thawed out was washed into the' bole in which it was preserved so many years. , “ In the collection of Rutgars col lege is a fragment of a tusk that is worn down and polished on one side, showing plainly the peculiar glacier stria?. A tusk in the collection of the Philadelphia acarb*i:.y of sciences shows similar markings. The Amer ican elephant was probably exfx-rmi- minated by the glacial drift. A fa mous piece for these elephant remains is the Big Bone Lick, in Kentucky. Iu Wurieu county, New Jersey, some farmers iu cutting pea j in a bog, found the remains of six animals less than ten feet below the surface. The most perfect specimen vyt*» discovered in Newburgh, N. Y.^’he skeleton is now in the British museum. It is twelve feet in height, and the tusks are twelve feet in length. The ani mals roamed the western parts of the United States and Canada, and the entire Hue of tlie Andes from 5° north latitude to 40 : south, and re mains have been dug up at tfuito, nearly two miles above the level of the sea. Their tusks are often plowed up by farmers in St. C'athereues, Can ada West, Western Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi and Vermont. In Ne braska there was a similar species. Compared to those animals the _ele- plians of to-day are pigmies. The Newburgh elephant was twenty-five feet In length and more than twejve feet in height, and its feet were two feet across. . So perfectly, was it pre served thatthfe remains -of-spruce and hemlock branches that had lieen eaten by it were found In tlie position of the stomach. *“ “Those elephants rarely ranged further north than the latitude of St. C’athereues, but beyond this.ranged a hairy elephaut u third larg i and nearly three times as heavy as an el- z v vk ,‘stri j /sdeW *u dt*» odw -aiosilA |tT>! iK fed ir»*pn nijihl/nijiv m ltllair « ... :i fit tort IV ' nil) ?o k'Vtsj Ixta v.iv-.H".! bonne' Jure tf'-Stol roxo vol. xXViiC; IKi i-i S/ tM t It had been portly, devoured by boars and wolves, and the flesh was bo ftps!, and well preserved that the tneqt WM served^ •KfabtfeU l < "UMM1 gfets, these animals have been, dgad hundreds of thousands of yean... Tbe skeleton Is in the museum of natt|fgl history at St. Petersburg. Abont JU^ aame time a gigantic hairy rhinoq&cos was found in tbe ice, but it, was de stroyed by bears before it couid ■ he saved.” sJ.d*n From Dark Corner Oconee County. Banner-Watchman : The gener al meeting of the Baptist church of second district of the Appalachee as sociation convened with Bethabara church on Friday last. The buaiuesji of the meeting was conducted wi th great harmony, and several good speeches made, the best and most ap propriate of which was made by Hon. G. C. Thomas, of Watkinsville. Judge Thomas is an eloquent speaker and a most.excellent man and a man of won derful influence in this part of tlie country. Everybody in Dark Corner and Buncombe ' district' < say that he is the only man that they will support unanimously for office. •' » The small grain crops are as fine as the lands can produce. There are num bers of acres of oats in Dark Corner district, Oconee county, that' will make 100 bushels per acre, while the wheat crop is just as good as the land can make. Corn looks well and hits been ploughed once. » ,;ii j As to politics there is very little said about It in this part of thecounty, though I believe the majority of the Sttrr.y ot tiio Bou u» tl»t Will Link ua by a. Said TO"-*: | - For sume time pastm. few of otto ,;iUzt!,ls ’ 'VitUau eye to the future prosperity or oil r cityyhKVq been quietly ?at works .investigating the proposed^ foppeej^qn^the Jug Tavern railroad, the more they thooght about, it' the .more - they be- f o convinced thatthe building of road is a not only‘ df gri#at a niaxiei.' Tbe rtgtpn 'roifhd abottff Jug Tavern bds’ beeVt kiioifrn -to '6tH merchants ' os' 'the home of our moM (terrain farmers‘.and thrifty eouA£ jt"> hsv»*^w^'»e.tuv, a year ago ’fels' eneflsCTfe^gfeahead pie (It termlned to secure railroad eon- * nectfoti with tHfe outlAlticf world. Paifi ing to secure any co-operation bn tlie part of the citizens of Athens, theif turned theirattention towards GaintV ville, and with their aid and assist* ance, secured an outlet through the Gainesville, Jefferson dc Southern railroad, and at this writing a gap of only one and a half miles is to be graded and ten miles of track to be put down. When this Is finished, as it will be within the next two mouths, a most valuable trade will be turned away from our doors and our life long friends will drift intoother channels and seek uew friends In other quar ters. - Whilst this will be tlie inevitable result of inaction on the part of the citizens of Athens, It can easily be avoided by determination on our part not to. surrenderwhat is ouris by right of possession. By united effort on our part a road from this point to Jug Tavern can be easily secured and the opposition checkmated. Tlie leading and most influential men along tlie line, and at the terminus of the pro posed route, are heartily in Uceord with this movement, and are now at work agitating this question in their respective neighborhoods. Tlfese who are taking an active in terest in this matter are men recog nized for their ability In matters of judgment and forethought. They see voters are for Jennings for the legislu-j the vital necessity of the successful t ure,and I know that A big majority are. for Hon.G. C.,Thomas forstate senator;! and furthermore, J believe that Odd- nee is entitled to the senator tills time. • “’ Ili.oo'i u i I have just heard that Mr. Edmund Thrasher’s house was burned on Sup-; day night, but that it was insured oto the full worth of the. property destroy j ed. ■ II I understand that the-Advance has changed both name and editor. ' The present name of the county piiper is the County Monitor and J. M. Rat- liffe is the editor. • • A boat twenty feet long and three feet wide iH the attraction iu Watkius- ville. This boat will be launched, oil •the Oconee • souu: ■ "J? tr. JHWiisiap>fc Co. are the proprietors. ' This part of know who pointment gressional disti We see that tin E. Brown, theiixihiortal Hill, and the iimiluerable mond are all from the 5th abtfhei coBgressby thp organized; Vti we see a great many negroee viH fcd- ippoiuted to office iu the flth me act Ih TW} rejoin right'f and ctt.lorsotl t»y l*qtu whites ami blacks, as tlie sX'.ufiyn-r Was un . ot till, vilest crea tures in the county. This righteous ehastiseiuent rest on.-. ! quiet, and Datiiels- ville soon relapsed iuOyits iteepatjjuC<i peace and iranqniiilyj’ — t. • Tin Methodist Conference. the one side of which ws the date and termination, they will overrun or fly the Sabine Pass; on the other the letters and I l an( j, driving out the unfriendly birds D. G. and. D. G.—I think you won't take a ,„] making fruit raising impossible. In it as egotism on my part—stood for“ Da- I a favorable climate they produce four or vis Guards.” The company had done five broods a year, and one of them, it is me the honor to take my name, and 1 was tlie only honorary member of it. Hut as the virtue ami conduct of our he roes are kn tin to ourselves, we desire to perpetuate it for the benefit of poster- i said, will strip a peach tree of its fruit buds at a single meal. They feed upon all kinds <>f fruit, nor do they spare the grain fields or gardens.” The Chicago Tribune lias tbe fellow- itv. Be It ours to keep their memory j ing to sav concerning the introduction green forever; yet we but wish to show j of these birds into Australia, and the that they do not belong to us alone, I character (hey have subsequently devel- They lielong to tlie whole country ; they | ojied on thit island: belong to mankind. Wo do not desire to ! “ A few years ago Australia w elcomed deprive the whole country of the glory j with many demonstrations of joy the of our heroes. Nor were those services | arrival of a few pairs of English spar- rendered alone in our war. There was | row's. To-day there is a premium of six Jackson, the man who, even after he | pence per dozen upon the heads ot the had marched up to tlie storm of battle, ! little creatures, which have multiplied was often heard to mutter an ejaculate- I to an amazing extent amid their eon rv prayer; that man marched into the j genial surroundings, and are a source of valley of Mexico amid the fiercest con" fli'-t before our war had commenced; that man who had been the terror in the hour of battle of all who eneouutered him, was as ]>eaceful as a lamb soon as the conflict was over, and who, when he found himself in the arms of death, resigned his soul to God and said: “Let us pass over the river and rest under the shade ot the trees.” We do not claim or appropriate him, but we do elairn every other part of him that no- liodv else wants. And there was Lz?e— the calm, fearless, resolute, unflinching, faithful I.ee. We do not desire to take him away from those who have an equal right to him with us, and I say it would be well if they would claim some share of the grand conduct of Lee at the Wild erness, Chancellors ville, Fredericksburg great loss to fruit growers. Before the commission apjiointed to investigate in the matter one witness said that in the short s|»aee of ten days that sparrows took a ton and a half of grapes. They Btripped the figs off five trees, ami kept low fifteen acres of lucerne during the summer. Another romplain g that in the season they took i!30 wort.t of fruit; while a third declares that he sowed peas three times, anil each time they were destroyed by the sparrows* Neither apricots, cherries, figs, apples, grapes, |>eaches, plums, pears, necta rines, loquatsjolives, wheat,ibarley, oats, cabbages, cauliflowers, nor seeds, nor fruit of any kind are spared by the spar row’s omnivorous bills; and all means oi defame tried against its depreda- Nashville, May 3.—The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, met at 9 o’clock this morning. It Is very largely attended, and its unusual important delibera tions will be watched with the great est interest. The business that will come before it will he the election of bishops, the condition of the literary institutions of the church, the publi cation interests and financial status of the Nashville Publishing House, mission work, the question of frater nity, perhaps, and certainly the ap- proaching Centenary Conference. The conference comprises all the Southern States from Maryland south, and all the Y.’estem States from Illinois to the Pacific coast, including all the Territories. It also includes missions in Mexico, China and South America. Delegate* nro jn attend ance from all the snutml conferences in the above districts. Thrte areqver two hundred delegates fa all. ’The different bishops of the church pre side over the conference and atton alternate days. One se**ion a day will be held and this usually fn the morning. The balanceof the daywill, it is understood, be used In co work, most of the conference! being done by committee*.' A Bear In a North* Canolinafnffitfcn. rektikj irge bear has been creating con- ble excitement In the neighbor- tions, whether scarecrows, traps, net ting, shooting, or poisoning, arc declared and everywhere that soldiers met sol- j to be igreifieient to cope with the diers, even against great raids. And j enemy.” V£x there was the great Albert Sidney John ston, conspicuous at the storming of I Monterrey, holding a position which j might have induced him to remain in the northern army, who surrendered | everything in order that lie might vindi cate the principles which he believed to lie true, and came to us with nothing bu t his right arm and his good sword and offered his services to the Confederacy. Never was man more true; never was man more brave, as was shown in the way ol his death, wheu ou the fields of 8biloh, haring swept every place be fore him, save one, the one which he deemed the most important to carry and without which victory would not be com plete, rode forward to lead in person the storm and received the death would, but still he rode on Until he fell dukd. Then I repeat tlie idva of before. Do such men belong to us alone? Shall not 'adding Cake. Ihe* tbe bridal cake Helen as follows: ■ “ The eake i* built in three tiers. It rises from a gold stand to the height ot six feet and weighs 200 pounds. At the base arc swan* and dolphins swimm ing* in imitation water. The first tier is ornamented- with four medallion groups representing Europe, Asia, Africa and Jttbbrtck, separated by pillars on which ts painted- n lily upon satin. On the pjafnira are > vases filled with flowers em blfematlc 6t the United Kingdom. Cupids reading snpporl the figure of literature, lie second Her isoctagoual iu form mud the medallions 'beat 1 the arms of Eng land and-Waldeek With the royal mono- ’grants. "Aii the pillar* are orange blos- and . trophies of love. Cupids Ration water on the flowers. A lai slderal hood of Long Creek, Pender county, recently. On Sunday night last a col ored man named Williams heard a commotion at his big pen and went out to see what was the matter, when he found what lie supposed to be. In his own words, “a man a pestering along o’ his pigs,” and he sung out to him two or three times to “letdem ar pigs alone!” When begot to the pen, however, and saw that It was a big black bear instead of a-man, and that he had made a meal upon one pig and had thrown the old sow and the remaining portion of herofibpring into a state of wildest consternation, he got no farther. The next morning eariy a large party went in search of the bear, and found bin tracks, which were very large, but they did not come up with the animal himself.—Wil mington C.) Star April 28. legs were so had to be amputated. . y that rescued him ear- his boose they found that child had been frozen to during his absence. ur, h Frenchman, has rfected a novel plan for «nal>- ng vessels crossing the Atlantic to ffimiinft-ate with the main land. He proposes to lay a cable from Europe to America with a central station, a ship moored iu mid ocean, and a series of BuojVat intervals of sixty leagues, hath numbered and connected by wires with the cable on the bottom, so that when a passing ship desires to establish communication with land, an apparatus on board is connected with the wire of the buoy and also with the buoy itself, by means of its two wires, and the desired communi cation is at once available. The Hendeomeet in the Drove. Detroit Prte-Preu. When he had finished with the cli mate, soil and productions of Idaho, Olie of the group asked: How shout education facilities?” That’s the only thing we lack,” re plied the old man with a sigh. “ We’ve got schools enough, but we can’t keep no teachers.” What’s the trouble?” Welt, take tny school, lor instance— only two miles from the n-wrest house, eminently situated on the nearest hill and paying the highest salary. We can’t beep a teacher over two weeks.” Do tliev die!” Some ilo, though it’s no place for dvlng. We bad a young fellow from Ohio, and he met a grizzly and whistled for him. The grizzly cum. We had another, and a widder run him down and married him inside of a mouth. The third one was lame, and the In- juus overtook him. Then we tried wo men folks. Tlie first one got married the night she lit down there; I took the second about the middle of the third week, and the next one was abducted 4>y a stage robber.” “ Why don’t you get the ugliest, homeliest woman you can find—some perfect Old terror, like that lantern-jaw ed, razor-faced female over by the ticket window ‘ Why don’t we! Stranger, you East ern folks will never understand us pio neers in the world—never. That’s my wife—the identical school teacher I mar ried, and she was the handsomest in the drove!” truidc to tliut of the toil it was tliirty- rfi. Tho-enonuous f out'in great curves five feet.br feq tusks that reache were from ten to si xteen feet ill length and thirty inches in circumference at the base icals appointed I’lease ex; completion of this project. What they are'undertaking is for the com mon good, for the increased prosper ity of our people nnd for the direct ad vantage to oar-city. The people of Jug. Tavern and along the line ore fully alive to the benefits which wijl accrue to them by this close connec tion with our market. They recognize in the.fullest sense the many advan tages which .Athens can aud .lias afforded to her patrons. .These men see in the proposed Knoxvillecomies 1 ' tion the vast possibilities which must result, and the increased facilities which this place will afford as adesir- able market, nud will lend their ener gies aud ahl all that they can in this enterprise. If the people of Athens will now join together and each mail do his part, this road can easily he built. All will >tUare tlie benefits, aud all should help hear the burden. Books of subscription, will soon he o|iei.itsd, and the names of our enterprising, go-ahead citizens who have the interest of our city at heart, will prove their faith by their works. No one with a knowledge of the mag- uiticcut country adjaceut to Jug Tav ern, and of tlie class of well-to-do far- ; | mersof Walton, Gwinnett and Jack- | son, can fail to take in the situation. FOU0OVEHNOR. ! Ms. Gantt—My Dear Sir: Some came to A Gant a the night at the Calhoun house, on Peters street. At one o’clock to-day j thanJudge^E^win.^Althoughlama P«t him against other*. Th «ro fe no one I would- more readily support for congressman at large or for governor “All along the Imrders of the Arctic !* e waB ta ^ en U P on the corner of Ala- fast friend of Mr. Stephens, I would sea the remains of these monsters are I banla aml Pr >’ or 8t roets, with small 1 1Mffc f er j u d go Erwin for governor, be- found, and within a few month* an | P®* interesting discovery has been made. A company of men started from Sitka, intending to search for the remains of ancient elephants on ac ivory. TheyJTollowed t the Polar sea far" 1300 r finding a bone most discount; determined ti» 1 cause Mr. Stephens, like myself, is ount of the ie Shores of jle*? without tusk.'^When al- dlslieartCned, and udon tile search ,one of the party,-in cross!ig a glider, broke through the ice and disappear ed. As the mass of the iee .was more than 1,000 feet thick, lie was given up us lost, the fiatnre of theferevossu be ing well known to the rest. Oj4e o the party, however, volunteered to All the volunti man. ur|y wa: There was one case or small pox de- | superanuated. .Mr. Stephens is .. veloped to-day on Jenning's alley, be- j good man, hut we all loose by too tween Jones and ltawson streets; one ! lmlc ; h agl .. Men or my age are less near the corner of Haynes and Rhodes! fit, V<1 to fill any important position nt\«l Htroo ti« Ann fumiln ' n«\ T unoL?.. * • nnd three iu one family on lunch’s alley, near Collins street. ’All tlie eases developed are colored people; andthey have been removed to the small pox hospital. Tlie premises have been fumigated, disinfected and quaran tined. - , u , i ?7 ”, than when younger. I am not against Alex. Erwin, hut for him, and I lie- lie ve he can carry more white votes for governor, than any man lit the •state. I have as much right to put hiitr in nomination for the guhemato- , , fial chair as a eaxtcmv lian. What > fay f “ t A li * c ° nneeti0n U ™. ay 1)0 ' Tel1 1 Y™' fri«n.l Gantt; Youra troly, as bound learn the fete of the rope and cord-ln the pur together, and the into the hole, dred feet down the line a hail was heard. The hauled to the surface ed that the crevasse Was mous room in the glacier, and that the incline was so gradual (fiat with hut little work steps could lie*cut and the bottom reached. Tlie line was live state that there is ati ordinance, malt- j i. ing it a penal offence for atiy hotel dr boarding house keeper or other 1 citizen to conceal from or fall to report to the board of he (toucher was lowered Wfh'ti about one liun- lackeued.aud h0fer was htexplaiu- A* ine slue lie |ca: ?,ntfll L A Genuine Wolf. The wolf we made mention of last week as being fn the country above EI- lierton Is a genuine article, and ' reports appt Ed. Kinnebrew syv of ten or twelve feet him, but his wolfsli! a short distant^ >aM Jifliu Ph last the memory of such men be preserved, | TBFtMMTfefheara a fountain enclKted saul oft «*11 *irit riaintr ffnrwimilnnn fool til A \S. 1 lL ^ ! s_i —til.—a and shall not rising generations teel the influence ol such men? In any struggle, where will you find such as I have enumerated, and many others that I could add to the list? It all depend* upon you, friends, whether the aonth will have them or not, with tidves by oruameiital pillar*, fea- med yrith “wedding.favors. The whole moraited by a vase containing bouquet of flowers.” ThejrjU 1,239 convict* in the peni tentiary, an increase of 22 over last Senator Brown. Senater Joseph E. Brown arrived in the City this morning, and will remain a few days. In conversation with a rep resentative of the Post-Appeal, the Sen ator conveyed the welcome intelligence that he 1* perceptibly improving in health. He has recently been examin ed by Dr. L. P. Logan, ob this cit v, qnite as thoroughly as he was by Surgeon Gen. Wales, at Washington, and Dr. Logan's diagnosis was about the same as that oi Surgeon General Wales’ with the additional information that tbe lungs had began to work more satisfactorily, and that there is no tuberculosis. This is very gratifVing ni ws. Senator Brown will visit Ids brother in South Carolina, then attend the Baptist Convention in Greenville, S. C., and then return to Washington and resume his seat in the Senate'about the 15th iustant.—Pott-Ap peal. made fast, and, armed of the party were iowiredUntn the chasm. They found a feot-hold, aud soon reached the bottoin where the] body of theit comrade as only stunned, restored. It was theu. t! ing become accustomed to ness, that the nature of their sur roundings became apparent. The room was about 500 feet in circumfer ence. Against the waits of ice dark, irregular shaped jfessea appeared. Each minute they^eeflme more dis tinct, until the men saw high above them tbe indistinct i'orni of a gigantic auimal standing erect ii*Ihe icy mass. Below it, but further ia,ljjd fully in closed, was another, and in a short' time jhey traced the fonus of thirty- five entombed monsters.- Some were standing erect on their massive legs, others were lying on theyr baqks as if ,1 they had failnn info a crevice and be- beast, bnt fall and geese aifl and the pCeple —Elbrrttm S'exrt At i Trouble Innivir I New York, ■ [papers state that Col. E. \V. ColeB resigned bis position ns president ■ I the East Tennesaee,Virglnln and Geor gia railroad company, The directors Rave elected Gferafatoid ntwraCj. themselves ou the field; and this you 1 whether you will give your children a 1 month. v JChey are divided upas follows: can only do by collecting such evidences 1 tree statement of the deed* of their lathe I Company No". 1, 909; company No..2, as Gov. Nicholla stated to you It was the let* and tbe principles that actuated I WO; oompany No. 3,366; Marietta and bject ol this society to gather. them. Ths other side will then under- ' Jlortb Georgia railroad* ?19, Gene: as his successor, Fink, as vice-president. Cof. Cole con tinues to be a director of tbe company. His resignation is said to he due to 11 health. A Philadelphia man killed his mother, on the3d,hycnMhiTChet8)rtlft ***** a Chattasoooa. May 4.—At a point few miles below the city, a most remark able phenomenon has occurred. The rMst* flow* into a basin seventy-five feet deep and of twenty acres area. Theeu- tire body cf water suddnuly rose yester day about eight feet, as ir the result ol some volcanic action. A mass of sedi ment that had accumulated at the bot tom of tbe basin rose and floated off when the water subsided. The occur rence is .inexplicable. Tbe same thing ie eSU ta nave .happened at tbe same place several year* ago. The heirs of one Colonel Jacob Ba ker, wh|> “fit ill the Revolution,” are laying claim to fifteen acres offend in the heart - of Philadelphia, valued * ♦315,000/100. PetbrCoep. 1-Mr. Gulp Iras- certainly as much right to nominate a candidate' Us a convention; but. we hardly , think, Jiis liomlnvo vyould liaye tlie same back fill pox es - ing itn tJie, fuau jpqt out by u great par ty. ,We jutenfi no reflection when we l?ay that, (lie deiuoeratic party fe a lit- .tie better kuqwq than Mr, Peter Culp. A curious null in Pal for $20,1 ayoungCount, circles, baoked animal from the to Veraalell- eight ' five wealthy i iV the tree and A^ordln match, the liberty to stimulate with due fresh cabbageleaf sprinkled with powdered sugar^ 'Spall, rauti* Lave been run in England before 'ttow^ ’fu fbe fierce gambling''fljnei* of'juat n century ago, botfae eontonFb^tween a horse and suaif jk*qpiJtiiing new. ble. of the e”of The snail is at came wedged In, while otie huge nion- id down, wit i if it had fe ty pit. Obe i partly thav liead and tui pondesdua to icicles, Vsaartting the fle^qr ning a column for itMwpput. lies were eWtlSWy coyerrafwi •sembling jult at it -could not be d badtSeen oatrap er, adSTwasigradu . with the tiody half fallen bead- Obeofthe anl- thawed out, nud the ska. hung down, trunk depended and The with a mblingjule, but ly t^at it -could pot be itrap- ster had its head thrown over as long into the let mala was pa: massive h< From the pon< large icicles, 1 forming bo«ii _ thick, hail frozen so cut. An pedin some jnanner. andlwaa ally moving fnlmrbody&jdth* glacier someday east up one of’the ctStiuree, ] ^coultfajie Obtained without months oliworkfRndRM men reluctantly abandoned thenu-^ Early in the oentur^Rl fisherman ring near the mouth oPMc Lena riv er, ta SlbSKa, discovered one of these monsters protruding feoBKan iee cliff on the shores of tbe trunk, tusks -and head were tow fall view] twenty feet above him. 3Por five suc cessive years he vfeited^e spot, and, was finally repaid one spring by find- l lag the huge body on the sands below j but none sea ^£Wf^> < «W»W*UvilWlii;h acm33 A 3H n, says •> (• ,-. Tha Colored Man. • — lie is the same here os iuany other Southern state, lazy, shiftless and hav- 1*1 o’no cdt'C for to-morrow. 'H Tie lives in'town'tic'has a hovel. (Vhen he works lie wants big wages for doing as lrtrte as he Can. When not at work he steeps on a bench, or in a chair, or on the grass, and At meal tithe is satisfied with bread ami meut. IT he lives on a farm, his house is a cross between a pigpen and a barn. His old mule is lame and blind, his har mless irfot' ropes; and he expccts'tbbor- 'rowall the tools to farm with. If it Is cool he wants to go up town, ft it is hot lie feels like resting. If the weath er is exactly right, he goes to the circus. The average negro farmer of Tennessee doesn’t work enough fn a whole year to mvest a paper collar, and he doesu’t raise enough to keep a red calf in good condition.—if. Quad in Detroit Fret Frerni. ' Mr. Hill’ Resignation. Washington, D. C., May 6.—It is rumored this morning that Senator Hill’s resignation lias been forwarded to Gov. Colquitt, and that Col. Bacon is to be appoiuted to fill the vacancy. Members of the Georgia delegation say they know nothing about such , an arrangement and are inclined to dis- Credit'It. | * ■ ’ A dispatch received her^ says, that Sir. .Hill's condition is critical w'ith Montezuma Weekly; A gentleman writesuSo that" he. has sucoecdcd in catching several: crows fromi bia corn jfieW; in the-following novel manner: ►. “I arranged an umber Of large twine strings, With a:slip noose in each,aud placed them on stumps in tbe fiblite in such a ^manner that when piffled