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VOLUME IV.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 18, 1870.
NUMBER 9
Hy Quarrel.
liave succeeded in
pot. XIcCreery, a
Senate, has published a letter wherein
charges the good Democratic Governor (Steven
■on) with every species of political rascality.
The Governor's reply fills some sixeolnmns in
the Kentucky papers. The battle is a sharp
one, bnt it effects only that prototype of po
litical parity, the modem “Democracy.
Looking Ahead#
In Virginia City, Nevada, the only Demo
cratic candidate for Mayor was a colored cit
izen. The “decency" all supported him with
avidity and enthnsiasm, and thus scented the
lull strength of their party.
We note this fact as an intimation on the
part of the “Whiteman's party” to fall into
line, and to lead where they have heretofore
refused to follow. Who knows but that the
“Democracy" of Georgia has found.its ‘Cam
ming man" in the person of its new .leader in
the Senate, Aaron Alpeoria B. ?
A Tennessee Democratic paper speaks of
Governor Bullock as “the miserable make
shift of a Governor of Georgia.” It would
seenv from all indications, that the Georgia
Democracy have come to the conclusion that
he is such a “makeshift” as will be the
death of their hopes for party ascendency.
The fact that Governor Bullock is the best
abused man in America, at the hands of Dem
ocratic editors, shows conclusively that he is
a most formidable antagonist-'-onc they are
all hissing at, but who gathers political strength
day by day.
A Libel Salt.
We publish this morning, as an item of
news, the Declaration filed by the plaintiff's
counsel in the case of Bufus B. Bullock, Provis
ional Governor of Georgia, rs. W. A. Hemp
hill and J. H. Anderson, Proprietors of the
Atlanta Constitution.
This action arises, as the Declaration alleges,
upon certain false and slanderous matter, ad
mitted to the columns of that Journal in the
form of a correspondence from Washington
city; and which effects the Governor-os a pri
vate gentleman, os well as the credit of the
State, and for which he seeks redress in the
The words upon which the action is predi
cated, will be fonndTn the Declaration. They
ate as remarkable for their positive assertion,
rut the writer was unfortunate in pushing his
efforts to manufacture political capital in vio
lation of truth,and at the expense of the credit
Me interests The Constitution
I to seek. We would fain believe that
such articles as that, wore admitted more
through ignorance of the duties and respon
sibilities of journalism or carelessness, than in
accordance with any settled purpose to propo-
gato slander.
Democracy Tried by Its Own Standard.
In nothing is the Bryant Democracy more
inconsistent than in its advocacy of measures
looking to an election this fall. They believe
(or pretend to believe) that the respective
tenns of office of the Governor and members
of the General Assembly, began with tire or
ganization of July 4th, 1868; and, consequent
ly. that tho two yeora term ends July 4th,
1870- And yet they advocate a measure pro
viding for on election in November, 1870—four
months beyond the term limited by the Con
etitution, according to their own construction!
Thus, according to their own construction
of the Deconstruction enactments, proceeding
upon their own assumption that the organiza
tion of 1868 was legal, and, ronseqnently, that
the Act of Congress of December, 18C!t, was
an' risurpation; ‘and accepting their own as
sumption that the .Provisional Government
ceased, and that the Beconstrnclion Acts of
1867 became inoperative before their provi
sions had been fully complied with, they
stand convicted of the grossest inconsistency.
■-Democracy” to be RrvI.rd.
The Knoxville (Tcnn.) Whig, a paper that
represents the left bower of the East Tennessee
Democracy, says:
Wbst we now aim to accomplish is, to ag
gregate ail the elements, and to unite them in
one indissoluble body for tho purpose of eur-
lmdying a vigorous and healthful jxditicnl
sentiment We arc not tenneions shout the
name. Clay's idea was, that a rose would
smell as sweet by any other name. We now
find society upheaved, torn into shreds, and
hissing and boiling like a tronbled caldron.
Is it wise, in this anomalous condition of the
social system, to talk about reviveing two old
parties which, for a century, had taught each
other with a vengeance unprecedented in tho
annals of political warfare? Will the old and
bitter enemies of the Democratic party feel like
going over bodociously to this organization V
We trow not They arc, however, willing to
rally under some other colors, and to do their
utmost to labor for the wealth of the conntry.
In other words, not only are the principles
of the Democracy defunct, but even the very
name thereof is a ueuclus around which clns.
ten a multitude of unpleasant associations.
Nevertheless, the Democratic leaders still live;
and, for them to live without office, is moral
crucifixion. Henee they must organize under
some new name and hunt up new hobbies. Will
the founders of this proposed new party, tell
as what particular feature of the National Ite-
publican Platform they propose to oppose? Is
it the XYth Amendment, the Policy of Beeon-
strnction, the Tariff Beforra, Free Schools, In
ternal Improvements, All Bights for All; or is
it, that primary allegiance is due to the Fed
eral, and not to tho State Government?
The Female Lawyer of St, Louie.
Miss Barkoloo, the Female Attorney, bos
commenced her professional career in St.
Louis in a peace-making way which does her
credit. Her first cose was that of on unfortu
nate dog run over and mortally ruined by
bone-car. The lady who had called the dog
her own, demanded $G0 damages of the
slaughterers of her pet. The corporation of
course demurred. The bereaved lady brought
her action. The railway defendant, probably
from some suggestive appropriateness in the
name, retained Mim Barkoloo, who, instead
of rushing into Court with a green bag full
of papers in her hand, advised the Company
to settle, which, we are told, it did upon fn-
.\orable terms.
The following order was issued yesterday
releasing another colored “apprentice
HEADQUARTERS MILITARY Dis’t OF GEO.,
Atlanta, Georgia, May 10, 1870.
Special Orders No. 9.
I. Alfred Crawford, of Coweta county,
•Georgia, will, upon receipt of this order, con
vey one Oliver Clecklcr, (colored,) to Fair-
burn, Campbell county, Georgia, and place
him under the care of Hillary Clecklcr.
Bv order of Brevet Major General Terry :
R. P. Hughes.
Glut, and Breved Maj. U. S. A.,
A. D. C and A. A. A. C.
Official: John G. Telford,
A. D. C.
Rev. Dr. McCosh, President of Princeton
-College, is widely spoken of as being in all
probability the first Moderator of the next
•General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church,
which meets in Philadelphia on May 19.
The Code Duello.—An Amendment.
Two men in a Kansas town had a misunder
standing. An effort to settle it by the
standard of Reason failed, and an appeal to
Muscle was had. Seconds were chosen, and
the agreement was to fight it out in a dark
room, the door being securely locked, with the
key and the seconds on the outside. After the
first report of the pistols, the door was to
be opened, and the seconds and medical at
tendants admitted. This was done, and the
room was opened to find both antagonists dead.
Their dispute had been settled. The “ honor ”
of each had been made clean in the blood of
the other; and their disembodied spirits had
adjourned to Hades, there doubtless to renew
a controversy which had been settled by brute
force only, so for as it pertained to their brute
natures. What will be their exact method of
warfare beyond the river Styx, we are left
to mere conjecture.
Meanwhile, the power of their example re
mains. The intelligence of the tragedy was
duly heralded over the wires, and now the
malls bring in the more elaborate details, and
the comments pro and con, of the daily press.
The weight of opinion seems to be in con
demnation, not of the killing, per se, but in
the mourner of the killing; not of the proposi
tion that immortal men should resort to the
same method of settling their disputes as do the
outs and beetles; but of the “irregular” man
ner of combat chosen by the antagonists.
We presume that duelling means killing. It
would be an imputation to suppose that a man
would deliberately challenge his fellow to mor
tal combat, unless he feally intended to kill or
get killed. To send or accept a challenge
from any other motive would imply, weakness
or cowardice. It would be merely acting a
port It would be child-play. It would be
simply contemptible.
I£ then, duelling means killing, and not
mere braggadocio, what is there seriously to
condemn in the manner of killing adopted by
the Kansas Chivalry? The object is to kill;
nothing short of a deliberate purpose of that
kind would exempt the parties participating in
it from the imputation of both dishonesty and
cowardice; and if t since they mean to kill, the
shortest, quickest and most effective means of
securing the desired object, should be prefera
ble. Furthermore, sinco the object is to kill
each other, and not to endanger the lives of
others; to burnish their “ honor ” in each oth-
blood, and not to put themselves on exhi
bition as bullies and gladiators, the style of
duelling in a darkened room, with the door
thereof locked and the key outside, ought to
be less objectionable, because less conspicuous,
than open field shooting or sword practice.
Gladiatorial exhibitions, known in modern
times os “prize fighting,” is confessedly dis
reputable with all gentlemen; and none but
roughs and bullies, or those who instinctively
seek the society of brutes and abandoned hu
manity, are willing to bo seen in attendance
upon them. It would seem, therefore, that
any method of duelling calculated to subserve
the ends sought, and at the same time place
it above and beyond the sphere of the prize
ring, ought not to be seriously objectionable
with those who resort to the “Code” in repa
ration of wounded honor.
There is another view of the case which lias
often impressed tho minds of earnest and
honorable men, in connection with this sub
ject. If the “code” coaid be so revised as to
prevent “bloodless duels,” there would
be fewer cartels; and, possibly “mortal in
sults” would be less frequent. Yf all duels
were fatal—as they ncrossariulJy would be
under the regulations adopted by the Kansas
chivalry—they would not only lie more satis
factory’, but there would be fower of them.
They would not be resorted to upon trivial
occasions, nor made the means of acquiring a
cheap notoriety, or the occasion for getting
one’s name conspicuously in print, or of
affording a cheap amusement for gossips and
bullies.
In short, when an appeal from intellectual
to physical forces is deemed necessary to the
settleiueut of a dispute, or to the vindication of
wounded honor,that appeal,being the ultimate,
should lie decisive; and when two men arc ear
nestly intent upon mortal combat, that combat,
to be more than farcical, ought to mean death—
nothing more, nothing less. Therefore, with
out touching tho issue involving either the
morality or equity of tho “Code,” bnt pro
ceeding upon the assumption that, as a der
nier resort, it is legitimate and proper, sincer
ity and candor, no less than the instincts of a
chivalrous nature, would seem to sanction the
decisive method adopted by Kansas duelists.
The C'r«xnn Bill will Give Satisfaction am
a Compromise Measure.
Outside the dimnnitivc precints of the Bry
ant faction of the Democracy—a faction by
the way which represents very little of either
the intelligence or wealth of the State—there
seems to be no very serious objection to a
compromise of tho “Georgia cose” upon the
basis of the Cessna Bill. The Democracy
outside that fungus excrescence, whereof
Bryant and Bradley are leaders, regard the
policy of Reconstruction as part of the Gov
ernment—as a question set at rest by the ver
dict of the American people at the last Presi
dential election—and are now* disposed to ac
cept the result, and let the strife be at an
end.
Only a few days since, a representative Dem
ocrat of this city, who lias all along opposed
the Republican policy of Recoustruotiou, was
heard to remark that, “ under all the circum
stances, and barring all abstract issues, he
considered that the policy of the Administra
tion was the one best calculated to advance the
material and . commercial interests of the
State.” It is true, be said, that it involves the
endorsement of the policy of Congress—a pol-
icy which he had conscientiously opposed; but
as tho time had now passed when successful
resistance to that policy was possible, he
thought the interests of Georgia demanded a
closing np of the canvass by the admission of
the State, and the entrance of the present
government upon its legal term as provided in
tho new Constitution.
This is substantially the opinion of an At
lanta Democrat, a representative of Atlanta
capital and intelligence. And we may here
remark that, it very generally responds to that
of the substantial men in other sections of the
State, who are getting tired of a useless wran
gle kept np in the personal interests of a few
political mountebanks who see in the pro
posed settlement, the finis ot their political
career. We know further that, independent
of mere partisan affiliations, those men in
Georgia who represent the wealth and intelli
gence of the State, would infinitely prefer a
compromise of the question upon the basis of
the Cessna Bill, to the reopening of the issues
of 1867-8 in a heated and destrocting political
canvass this lalL
The Republicans of this State, through
their representatives in both branches of the
General Assembly, with on unanimity seldom
witnessed, and in a manner too pointed to be
misunderstood, endorsed the policy of the
Executive, and signified a willingness to ac
cept the Cessna Bill as a basis of compromise
upon which our Republican friends in Con
gress may unite without incurring the charge
of inconsistency on the one hand, or a dire
liction of duty on the other.
Since, therefore, the substantial and repre
sentative men of Georgia, outside of partisan
circles, are anxious for the admission of the
State, and a settlement of this distracting is
sue; since even the abler and better class of
Democrats accept the result, and are willing
for the sake of the peace and prosperity of the
State to recognize the legality and binding
force of the government set up in virtue of the
Reconstruction acts; and since the Georgia
Republicans ore firmly united. in support of
the Executive, and of a compromise on the
basis of the Cessna Bill, we hope that our
friends in Congress will promptly bring this
distracting question to an issue by admitting
the State under the provisions of that or a
similar measure.
Bryo»t mud Caldwell to toe Repudiated
by their Hew Political Allies.
There is evidently “something rotten in
Denmark. ” After receiving the united support
of the Democracy for Speaker of the House,
last winter; after having spent two months i
lobbying Congress, os an accredited emissary
and minister plenipotentiary of the Georgia
‘Democracy” to Washington; after fighting
their battles in the House during the recent
ion of the Legislature; in a word, after
having been fully installed as the leader of
that faction of the Democracy whereof The
Constitution newspaper is the accredited or
gan, Mr. Bryant (and we presume Mr. Cald
well also) is to be repudiated by his new allies
and reeded by his own organ!
The organ seems restive. Does the “party”
now see its mistake in taking np a man who
never commanded the respect or confidence
of any party in Georgia? Has the thing
called “Democracy” discovered that its new
leader represents neither the intelligence nor
the “respectability,” (so called) even of its
own faction ? Alas for Mr. Bryant, who was,
nevertheless, the Democratic candidate for
Speaker in January last ’ Is he now to be
mercilessly repudiated by his new political al
lies V
It would- s£cin so. The Organ intimates as
much. It insinuates that Bryant, and Bradley
and Caldwell and Joshua Hill (the same who
wanted to bo Governor in 18C3,) have .nothing
in common with tho Democracy; that they
and the Democrats are widely variant; but
that they and “ the Democrats ” agree in their
opposition to Governor Bullock and tho Act of
Congress of December JSC9. They seem to
agree, then, on the proposition that the Legis
lature of 1868 was a legally constituted body;
that ineligible members were justly entitled to
participation in the organization attempted
July 1868; that the twenty-seven eligi
ble members were rightfully expelled
by the Democracy, in September of the
same year; that,Congress did a monstrous, an
outrageous and on unconstitutional thing in
providing for an organization in 1869-70, an
organization whereby tho ineligible members
were thrown out and the eligible members put
in ; that the Senators elected by tha revolu
tionary body of 1808, calling itself the Legis
lature, ought to be admitted,-and that the Rccau*
siruclion Acts became inoperative before tlic
organization of the Legislature had been com
pleted or its action approved by Congress, and
therefore before our Senators and Representa
tives were admitted to.seats in Congress. And
hence that the Act of Congress of December,
1869, is, to all practical purposes, a nullity.
And this seems to cover the whole ground
The cause of one, seems to be the cause of the
other. Both seek the saino object; and this
by the same means. For the furtherance of
this object, Mr. Bryant was accredited to
Washington, and there supported by Demo
cratic funds. For this object, Mr. Caldwell
(after failing to get the nomination for United
States Senator) made a pilgrimage northward,
and thence wrote epistles, and got himself
into hot water with his Church for neglecting
his clerical duties in lobbying Congress in the
interest of the Georgia Democracy. For this
Mr. Angier has been at tho trouble to compile
a scrap-book, which ho very considerately of-
ferred to loan to the Investigating Committee,
when called upon for specific charges against
the Executive. And, was it not for this that
Aaron Alpeoria Bradley has been posted off to
Washington, there to lobby in behalf of the
things held in common by him and tho Dem
entis who sent him, and who arc to pay his
expenses?
If, then, the “Democracy” aud its new lead
ers arc agreed in all these things; if they arc os
one upon all the issues upon which tho Geor
gia Democracy make with the Republican or
ganization, where shall we begin to trace
their political differences? There may bo a
distinction, bnt it is clearly a distinction with
out a difference; unless indeed tho Democracy,
finding Mr. Bryant a dull and eminently un
successful leader, have decided to look abroad
for a new standard bearer. In that case, they
will have to throw Bryant overboard, because
he is nothing if not a. leader. We hope our
Democratic brethren will not allow jealousy to
mar their harmony!
American Utll^.riani«iu.
The progressive spiritHtf'the nineteenth cen
tury, is more distinctly impressed upon Ameri-
hociety than elsewhere in the world. In
the old world, where the endowments of an
cient colleges and universities gave ample sup
port to scientific investigators, perhaps there
are to be found more men who are pre-emi
nently distinguished in some of the special
branches of human knowledge.
In America, the genius of the people is
chiefly occupied in experimentally applying
scientific knowledge to practical uses. While
Liebig, on the continent, and Faraday in Eng
land, were successfully unfolding the arcana
of nature in the laboratory, and earning a
world-wide reputation by developing the laws
of Electricity and Magnetism, the task of ap
propriating the galvanic current as a carrier of
thought was accomplished by Morse, the
American.
This is only one of the many notable in
stances in which the labors of European savans
have first been practically utilized by
Scientific Americans. Inasmuch as on this
continent the practical value of knowledge is
so highly appreciated and so successfully ap
propriated, the great mass of the people of
every class have caught the characteristic
spirit of the age, and immigrants of every na
tion and phase of enlightenment, soon acquire
ift after landing upon oar shores.
The Old World is now feeling the reflex L
flaenco of the achievements of the American
people, who are so often sneered at because of
t&cir Utilitarianism, as contrasted with the
dreamy Ideality of the intellectual aristocrats
of Europe. It is worthy of note in this con
nection that, this very utilitarianism, when first
its spirit is impressed upon any people who
are suffering under the oppressions of he
reditary tyrants, discontent and bloody rev
olutions often result. But in the pro
gress of time, as the masses learn
appropriate the discoveries of science in ame
liorating their physical condition, more time is f
afforded for thought and mental and moral im
provement Their individual wealth mak<
them wary of destructive civil convulsion
They proceed to the acquisition of politi' 1 !
emancipation with more caution, but wifij!
more determined and enlightened wilL Where
' lunch on Sunday, in a respectable restau-
ut ? Why may he not tender hospitalities to
» acquaintances there as well as in his pri-
te house or boarding house ? All min
ers and laymen of the Christian Church,
3 not, either in principle or practice, total
etinence men. On this subject they are as
entitled to exercise the individual right
^opinion as arc worldlings.
formerly physical force was too often rashlyi^Zf a minister chooses to take “ a little wiue
resorted to, now the moral power of the morel T< r his stomach’s sake,” it ought to bo his
enlightened millions is shaking hereditary fcgivilege to take it without concealment, as
thrones and accomplishing revolutions monlE v other honorable gentlemen. If when
astounding than"any of those the previous ((BT-ag so, he is entertaining guests, would he
history of the world records. ’ Ijnol be iinpolite and ungentlemonly not to ten-
The utilitarianism of Americans, so oftjMver it to those guests, whose privilege it is to
sneer at, (and which is no more nor less than vs x pt or refuse ?
the practical application of knowledge to the - If ono of those guests is so ungentlemauly
amelioration of men’s physical condition,) i^« s to publish, f or filthy lucre's sake, what takes
setting tho bondsman free, giving liberty the table of his host, (which ta-
tho captive and promoting peace among men ! blf> though it may have been set in a restan-
rant, was to all intents and purposes a private
Table,) is it gentlemanly to countenance such
a disgraceful breach of hospitality, simply be
cause the host happens to be a Clergyman?
Preachers arc only human, and Preachers
may be, and all of them ought to be, gentle
An Old Hobby to bo Revived.
The differences of opinion existing amonj;
certain members of the Republican party,
growing oat of the proposition to reduce the
Taxes by the decrease of the list of income*
taxed, and the increase of tax on spirits and^.,,/ n ^ ^ other gentlemen differ in regard to
Protective duty in favor of homo mana£act/q uu . 1>rincipJe and practice of totnl abstinence
rics, has given rise to a hope with the Demov] of a!eo hoh'c beverages, so da ministers of the
Gospel.
racy that the party is bound to split; and tha
the old, antiquated, Free Trade issue of a forme’
decade, is again to appear and assimilate tlrr
odds and ends of the now defunct Democracy .
in the canvass of 1872. ;i'
It must, indeed require a hopeful tempera
ment to derive any very substantial consolathft
from a contingency at once so remote and isT-
probable. The people, independent of the
claims of more party, arc interested in any
scheme looking to the reduction of taxes; anlT ciety. Though the Bev. Charles B. Smythe
being equally opposed to Repudiation in any
and all forms, they are likewise interested in
any measure looking to the honest payment^?
tho National Debt. Hence, whilst they favor
a reduction of. the Internal Revenue, tHey
would make good the deficit by increased im
port duties; thus securing protection to Home
Manufactures, whilst they would not diminish
the aggregate of the National Revenue. They
would impose a heavy import duty upon all
luxuries, but at the some time, odd to the
list all articles of necessity, such, for instance,
as tea and coffee—thus emancipating the poor
man from a burthensome tax, by increasing
the duty upon all articles of mere fancy and
luxury, used only by the wealthy and luxuri
ous classes.
The time was when the hobby of “Free
Trade” was a successful one in the cotton
growing regions of the South. That time has
post, never to return. Under the new ordflfof
things, manufactures will enter largely into the
industrial pursuits of the Southern people.
Capital will now seek investment in Iron Foun-
deries, Rolling Mills and Cotton Factories ;
and it is only a matter of a few years, when
the Southern States will bo equally interested
with those of New England in all questions
looking to the promotion of American com
merce and manufactories frqm. the monopolies
of the Old World. ^
If, therefore, The Democracy would restate
itself with tho Pcejile, and regain its dominion
even in tho Southern States, it will find m-twe-
„ to abandon its ancient Free Trade
heresies, and address itself to tho impi.vr.tive
demands of tho living Present, rather i! u to
tho prejudices of the dead Past The death
In this regard then, Ministers are as much
entitled to gentlemanly charity as other men!
Behind all the ridicule that has been heaped
upon the head of Mr. Smythe, and the wicked
sarcasm that has been flung at him, it is until'
nil to infer the zeal manifested to rebuke him
is suggested by a spirit of retaliation for his
bold aud outspoken condemnation of a Crime
that sap3 the very foundation of civilized So
may be the veriest drunkard, for anght the
public knows, upon no hypothesis can the
persecution of him for exercising the right of
hospitality every gentleman is entitled to, be
accounted for, except that the public sentiment
in regard to the rights and dnties of clergymen
is morbid and needs to be corrected, or that
the guilty rejoice at every opportunity to sneer
at those whose office it is to expose the enor
mity of their crimes.
Tho Rev. Smythe, to tho disgrace of journal
ism, has been rudely and unjustly handled,
for an act or acts that would be regarded as
gentlemanly, honorable, generous, and inof
fensive if committed by any of the numerous
Smith (or Smythe) family in tho laud, save only
those whose affix may happen not to be that of
Reverend. Is this just? Is it honorable?
Above all tho miscreants who gives publicity
to what may occur around the hospitable board
of our honorable gentlemen, should not re
ceive the reward of betrayal by directly or
induce* iv receiving the approving countenance
of the pi ess. It is .worse than Pharisaical; for
when the Master sat at meat with Publicans
and Sinners, and received the sobroquet of
“wiue bibber,” his guest had more manliness
than to appear first- among his accusers.
of Slavery was practically the death v* the
old Democratic Free Trade hobby of a i
generation, mid I&nfs to upntotim
of those great American Principles whereof
Henry Chy and the Whig party of ’40 and ’44
the champion and the exponent#
Iiijutticc-Thc Case or Rev. Mr. Smythe.
There is prevalent, among many otherwise
very good people, a disposition to meet out
injustice to clergymen whenever a specious ex
cuse therefor is offered. The case of the Rev.
Charles B. Smythe is one in point.
It appears that not long since this gentle
man preached a sermon on adultery and the
punishment prescribed for it by Divine Author
ity. What occurred afterwards, is indicated in
the following, from one of onr exchanges:
Even the most savage tribes make hospi
tality a sacred rite, and respect the persons of
those whose bread or salt or venison they have
eaten. Not so the piratical editor who seeks
to make the New’ York Sun sell by outraging
every sentiment of decency. His reporter ap
plied to the Rev. Charles B. Smythe, after the
dismissal of his congregation from morning
service, for access to his notes to make a report
for next day’s paper. * Mr. Smythe told him
he was going to lunch, and he could accompa
ny him and there see his notes. Another re
porter did the same. Mr. Smythe went to a
hotel on Broadway, as was his wont, and to a
private room, and called for his lunch, hospi
tably saying to the two reporters-to call for
what they wished.
It appears they were not slow in availing
themselves of this hospitality, which, under
circumstances that seemed to compel Mr.
Smythe to make the offer, it would have look
ed better in them to decline. They -called for
beef steak, oysters and ale. Mr. Smythe was
wont to take gin and milk, for a restorative
after the exhaustive morning labors of a min
ister. Seeing this, and availing themselves
of the chance to ride a free horse, tho report
ers also called for gin and milk. The Sun re
porter mentioned his entertainment at the of
fice, whereupon the editor took his notes and
changed them so as to make a sensational
story of a drinking revel given by .a minister
to reporters at a drinking saloon on Sunday,
and it garnished the reverend gentleman’s
conversation with the slang phrases of the
shop. And from this came a trial of Mr.
_ the by the Presbyterian and an ecclesias
tical censure. Bat what shall be said of the
newspaper which thus scurrilously libeled a
clergyman whose hospitality its reporter had
so freely appropriated?
The zeal with which the changes have been
rung upon this story of lunch-taking in a re
spectable restaurant on Sunday, and the im
bibing of a milk and gin punch, would seem
to indicate that it is unbecoming and unchris
tian for a gentleman to take a lunch on Sun
day—to invite guests to eat with him or to
take that lunch in a respectable restaurant
Further, it would appear that all, (to be Chris
tian,) most be total-abstinence men in princi
ple and practice, judging from the utterances
of the zealous critics who so severely censure
Mr. Smythe’s hospitality on the occasion re
ferred to.
While Mr. Smythe may or may net be up to
the highest standard of a Christian Minister,
it may well be doubted if Christian gentlemen
are consistent when they unmercifully ridicule
any man, even though he be a clergyman, for
doing that which honorable aud well-bred men
may do without censure, if in the pursuit of
any other calling.
The truth is, there is too much rant about
the sanctity of the clergy in all quarters. Cler
gymen ore at lost only men ; and if there were
less effort on tho part of many of them to con
ceal the faults, foibles and weaknesses which
they possess in common with other gentlemen
in the community where they happen to reside,
tho unjust criticism, to which frank and honest
ministers, os in the case of Mr. Smythe, are
subject, whenever a specious opportunity is af
forded, would not be countenanced among
honorable men.
Why may not a respectable clergyman take
Cuba—General Jordan.
Gen. Jordan has recently returned to the
United States, and a publication of his record,
as given to an interviewer, appears in the New
York Sun of the 7th inst We condense it.
~ More than a year ago ho was sought out by
Cisneros, ono of the most active of the Cubans
in the incipiency of the present revolutionary
movement, yho came to this country to obtain
munitions of war, and the services of men of
all riwii experienced in the art of making
’vn "
He proposed tohim to'go to Cuba and or
ganize the patriot army. It was stipulated
that he should bo second in command to Pres
ident Ccspedes, with the rank of Lieutenant
General.
In a week he was in Charleston with Cisne
ros. At Jacksonville, Florida, Cisneros, com
manding the expedition, General Jordan, two
other Americans, a Frenchman and forty-live
Cubans went aboard the Burden, a small
steamer which was lying there. They failed
to reach Cuba and General Jordan and Cisne
ros went to Nassau, whence they returned to
New York. -
There Jordan submitted an elaborate plan
of an expedition and military operations to
tho Junta. His knowledge was not apprecia
ted. May 4, 18C9, he again left New York, on
board the steamship Perit.
Notwithstanding Jordan's request to the
contrary, tho pilot, Camacho, landed at El
Ramon, on a very narrow peninsula, which is
place less than a mile wide, while
there is bnt one road to the interior. After
much delay on the shore of the Bay of Xipe,
and a battle with the Spaniards, in which the
latter were repulsed, he marched into the in
terior of the country with a column consisting
of twenty-five of those who came in the Perit,
200 Cubans, and two mountain howitzers
drawn by oxen. During this march he was so
exhausted that he fell asleep while sitting on
his horse. The second day of the march he
met a small detachment of Spanish troops
which he engaged and succeeded in routing.
Jordan was assigned by General Quesada to
tho command of the Eastern Department. Pe
ralta and Maraud were opposed to the concen
tration of the patriot forces, and wonted them
fought on tho system of detached commands.
In the movement on Cuava he was not sup
ported properly—Peralta failed to carry out
orders and gave false information. Peralta
was relieved and arrested.
GENERAL JORDAN'S LETTER TO CESTEDES.
When at Colabasas in Holquin, the General
addressed the President an elaborate, earnest
letter, urging the concentration and mobiliza
tion of the forces and resources of the Repub
lic, and dwelt upon the false strategy of the
enemy—their wide dispersion—which enabled
the Cubans to unite their own forces into an
invincible mass upon the enemy’s fragments.
As these views were not accepted, the General
asked to be relieved from the command of the
Department of the East and assigned to some
other duty. Meanwhile the Congress of the
Republic had created the office of Chief of
the General Staff, who, with tho rank of Lieu
tenant-General, was to be charged with tho
organization, discipline, and administration
of the army, and to command in the absence
or sickness of the General-in-Chief; and Gene
ral Jordan was called to Camagucy to take the
position.
gen. Jordan’s letter to gen. grant.
Befo- * leaving the vicinity of Santiago de
Cuba L> sent through that place a letter to
Gen. Dent in Washington, giving a careful re
view of the military and political situation and
resources of the country. In that letter he
said that the Cubans in genernl on the island
were enthusiastically in favor of annexation to
the United States, according to what he heard
them say himself. He also wrote in another
letter the following:
“ The blame that to-day there is slavery in
Cuba, rests upon tho Government of tho Uni
ted States in its blind and harsh enforcement
of an un-American neutrality law.”.
NEGROES AND CHINAMEN VOTING.
At Santa Ines Gen. Jordan witnessed a pop
ular election in Cuba for Governor of the State
of Camagney, and two members of Congress.
The ballots, written on the inner coating of
the bark of the royal palm, were deposited in
a basket, hung near the person appointed to
receive and register the votes. Among the
electors were negroes and Chinamen.
CONGRESS VOTES THANKS.
The Congress, appreciating the generous ef
forts for the organization of the army, gave him
a vote of thanks in October. From mis time
till the middle of December, ho was industri
ously occupied in organizing the army includ-
ing tho administrative staff deportment, and in
developing the many military resources of the
country, but found many unexpected obstacles
which he labored hard to overcome. The
headquarters were at El Horcon, fifteen miles
south of Puerto Principe, and the President,
Cabinet and Congress were at Palo Quemado,
near Guaimaro. General Quesada, assuming
that his powers were too much restricted, call
ed a junta of the chiefs of the battalions of the
army in Comoguey, and some few of the citi
zens of that State, who assembled at El Hor
con on the 15th of December. When this jun
ta met, it was proposed by the friends of Que
sada that the island should be declared in a
state of siege, and that the functions of tlic
civil branches of the Government should bo
subordinated in all* respects to the military.
GEN. QUESADA DEPOSED.
At the same time, Quesada declared, in a
set speech, that he had found it necessary to
violate the laws passed by Congress, and that
ho would do so again. The junta, however,
did not accept these extreme propositions, but
resolved to petition Congress, through a com
mittee, to give the military larger powers.—
The assembling of the junta created much ex
citement in the country. Many regarded it as
a revolutionary measure, fraught with the sub
version of the principles of Republicanism,
and the Congress, taking this view, at once
deposed Gen. Quesada, directing him to trans
fer his functions to Gen. Jordan, who, howev
er, when ho went to Polo Quemado, urged the
reinstatement of Quesada, without avail, as he
found no one to aid him in that effort.
General Jordan returns to the United States
to prevent, if possible, the continuance of
those obstacles debarring the Cubans from pro
curing the means of defense against the veiy
arms and munitions freely furnished their
enemy in the United States.
He states that in many places tho women
and children are almost destitute of clothing,
and that the soldiers are naked with the ex
ception of a covering around the loins. Shoes
are not needed as leather is abundant.
Of the colored soldiers he speaks in great
praise for their bravery. He says that:
Whcresover the patriots have possession of
the territory, there the negroes are as free
those who were once their masters, and .are
addressed, when their names are not known,
by the title of citizen. In turn, they address
the whites in the same* manner.
The patriots universally favor annexation to
tho United States. The more intelligent wo
men also favor it on account of their convic
tion that their sex would be relieved from
odious social restrictions which have descended
to them from Sixain.
He denies that he shot on one occasion 300
prisoners of war and says:
The story is utterly without foundation. I
do not believe in shooting prisoners of war,
and have opposed it in Cuba even as a measure
of retaliation; however, on the ground of expedi
ency, even while I knew that tho Culbans
would be fully justified under existing circum
stances by the laws of war in executing all
Spaniards who fell into their hands.
Of the Americans who landed in Cuba with
Gen. Jordan the sollowing are dead:
Bush, Harry Cleaves, Eudicott,
Forbes, Patrick Carey, Henry Hellem,
James Hill, George Lowe, Michael Mossback,
John Reid, Smith (not Win. A.,) Peter
Umbach, Williams, Whitney,
West, Wm. F. Crossland, James Brown, James
Fikins, Albert Simmons, James Abbot, John
D. Moriarty, John de Ponte, Richard Thomas.
Of the Europeans who landed in Cuba with
Gen. Jordan, the following are dead:
Alexander Folkersahn, Hartman, *
Helfrich, Hierholzer, Emil Jaeger, * Rob
ert Jonas, Emil Rappelhoff, Fritz Last,
Max Ludomay, Eugene V. Barre, Henry Nico-
litz, Emil Olbrect, Paul Pickenkamp, f Theo
dore Rauch, Louis Reinhardt, Rowe,
Louis Selberg or Sellery, Emil Smith, Joseph
Sohnabel or Snabel, “Baron” Lcrtlienau.
* Executed by the Spaniards, t Missing siucc June
s, mo.
• Georgia fUtiroui.
We take the following extract from an inter
esting article on tho history and condition of
tho Georgia Railroad in tho Augusta Chronicle
and Sentinel of Tuesday :
“The estimates for the year 1870 of gross
earnings ore $1,352,029 55, and earnings above
ordinary expenses $G03,917 70, or greater than
any year in tho history of the company, and
tho net earnings above extraordinary expenses
are placed at $349,104 00 or forty-nine thou
sand one hundred and four dollars greater than
any previous year. Popular opinion places
this increased business of the road as duo to
increased facilities and closer connections with
the great West, and to the inauguration of the
Green Line system, which permits and en
courages the transportation of Western grain
and products, both to the benefit of the road,
aud to the economy of the consumer as well as
to the benefit of the traders.”
It is perhaps more than we can expect
from our radical democratic cotemporary that
credit should be given where due, for this in
crease of traffic over our Georgia road; but it
is well known to tho managers of those Roads
ami the business public, that the management
of the State Road, inaugurated by Governor
Bullock, in inakiug it operate in harmony
with, instead of antagonism to—the connect-
roads is the real cause for this iucrcsed
trade.
While the political mountebanks make a
rent noise about “bad management” of the
State Road, no such complaints arc heard
from responsible and intelligent men like
Judge King, Col. E. W. Cole, S. Iv. John
son, Capt. White, Col. Cothran, Capt. Barney,
Ac., &c.
While the political maniacs rare, Governor
Bullock is quietly but vigorously pursuing a
system of development of the material resour
ces of the State that will soon astonish the old
fogies.
The fact will now hardly be credited, cer
tainly not by Democratic newspapers, that
more miles of railroad have been built in
Georgia since Governor Bullock was elected
than during fifteen years before that lime; but
none the less true. And since his taking
charge of tho State Road, in July, 18C8, more
Northern and Western freights have been de
livered to connecting roads—thus distributing
the benefits throughout tho State—than during
any similar length of time in the history of
the Western and Atlantic Railroad.
The Governor’s practical knowledge and dc
termined purpose to work out his policy in
wakening enterprise, and bringing in for
eign capital to build up railroads and factories,
will soon command the attention and approval
of all right thinking men. And the Governor’s
traightforward course in adhering to the le
gitimate and full execution of the Reconstruc
tion Acts, will be of vast benefit to the State in
securing a settlement of our political troubles
that will be lasting because complete.
Whilo onr political opponents hate the Gov
ernor because they cannot use and abuse,
because they cannot defeat him, they are still
compelled to admit his ability, and in no one
particular has it been more prominently pre
sented than in the practical management of the
material interests of the State.
A .Vermonter made a bank of an old stove
and deposited in it a number of government
bonds. Some one lit a fire in the stove. The
result was a quantity of baked bonds, which
he is to forward to Treasurer Spinner for re
demption, if they can be identified.
After the Richmond disaster of 1811, public
amusements were forbidden for the space of
four months.
Governor Bullock's Actionagainst W. A.
Hemphill and J. II. Anderson, for Libel.
The following is the Declaration filed by his
Excellency Governor Bullock in his action
against W. A. Hemphill and J. IL Anderson,
Proprietors of The Constitution:
Georgia, To the Honorable Superior
Fulton County, f Court of said County:
The petition of Rufus B. Bullock, Provision
al Governor of the State of Georgia, slvoweth
that W. A. Hemphill, ofsaid county and State,
andJ. H. Anderson, of Bibb county, and said
State, partners doing business under the firm
name of W. A. Hemphill & Company, have in
jured and damaged your petitioner in the sum
of Twenty-five Thousand Dollars by falsely
and maliciously printing and publishing in The
Atlanta Constitution, a daily public newspaper
published in the city of Atlanta, county and
State aforesaid, by the said W. A. Hemphill &
Co., on the 9th day of May, 1870, tho follow
ing false and malicious and defamatory libel of
your petitioner in the words and figures follow
ing, to-wit:
“Our Washington Letter. More of Bullock’s
Frauds and Schemes.”
Thereby insinuating that your petitioner had
committed frauds heretofore in llis official ca
pacity, contrary to his oath of office os said
Governor.
And the following, to-wit:
‘ 4 Proceedings of Congress —Theatrical—
Washington Municipal Affairs— Items of In
terest, Ac.
■Washington cor. of Atlanta Constitution.]
Washington, May C, 1870.
“The Baltimore Gazette of to-morrow morn
ing will contain the following from its Wash
ington correspondent, “Y :”
“It is an ascertained fact, that Bullock, the
so called Governor of Georgia, has already
sold to tho Adams Express Company the
Western and Atlantic Bailroad, better known
as the “State Road*” This road is not only
the most important and valuable work of in
ternal improvement in the State of Georgia,
but is the most valuable railroad in the South
ern States. This road runs from Atlanta to
Chattanooga, Tennessee, throughout what is
known as “Clirookec Georgia,” and is one
hundred and thirty-six miles in length. This
road supplies and feeds all the roads of the
Gulf States in western produce, stock Ac., be
sides being the great thoroughfare of travel.
Before the war this road more than paid tho
taxes of the people of Georgia; but since
Bullock lias been acting as Governor, it has
paid comparatively nothing into the treasury,
although doing three times as much business
as it did in ante helium tsmes. The sale ofcliis
great work only remains to be consu mated by
a varpct.bag legislature.”
Meaning that your petitioner* is corruptly
taking advantage of his official position to
squander and misuse, and misappropriate tho
rasources of said road, contrary to law and
his oath of offico.
Aud the following:
“Independent of the sale of the road, Bul
lock has planned to sell a building to the State
for a Capitol for half a million of dollars, which
cost about $75,000. The private residence of
John H. James, which cost not exceeding
$00,000, is also to be purchased as a Guberna
torial mansion for Bullock at a cost of $250,-
000.”
Meaning that your petitioner is corruptly
and fraudulently conspiring, contriving and
scheming to defraud the State of Georgia out
of large sums of money.
Aud the following:
“Such schemes of wholesale plunder and
fraud are perfectly intollcrablo, and if Congress
does not arrest by appropriate legislation this
wholesale robbery of the people of Georgia by
Bullock, there will bo just cause for forcible re
sistance on the part of tho sufferers.”
Meaning that your petitioner contemplated
plundering and defrauding and robbing, and
was robbing tho people of Georgia, contrary to
his oath of office.
And the following:
“It is not to bo expected that nnv people
should submit to such outrages without a
struggle, nor is it surprising that the people of
Georgia should more earnestly beseech Con
gress to give them a military Government pure
et simple, that they may be protected from tho
robbery of Bullock.”
Meaning that your petitioner, acting corrupt
ly in his said offico and in violation of law aud
his oath of office, was robbing tlic peoplo of
said State.
Ail of -sriik'h -foregoing libellous matter so
expressed in print, as aforesafijfTs lalsfe, mali
cious and defamatory, tending to injure the
reputation of your petitioner and to expose
him to public hatred, contempt aud ridicule.
Wherefore your petitioner prays process may
issue regarding the said W. A. Hemphill and
the said J. II. Anderson, parties as aforesaid, to
be and appear at the next Superior Court to bo
held in and for said county, then and there to
answer your petitioner’s complaint.
Hopkins A Brown,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
Filed in Clerk’s office Superior Court, May
10, 1870.
Mr*. Lincoln's Pension.
We referred a few days sinoo to the mean
ness displayed in the picayune pension pro
posed for Mrs. Lincoln. Since then thoso
grave and reverend seigneurs—the Judiciary
Committee of the Senate—have, through Sen
ator Edmunds, reported against even the
small snm of three thousand dollars, and on
that report the Cincinnati Gazette mokes the
following sensible comments:
The Senate and Mrs. Lincoln.—The Senate
committee reported against the House bill to
give a pension of $3,000 to Mrs. Lincoln, for
two reasons. 1. Tho President is a civil and
not a military officer. Lincoln’s death oc
curred whilo ho was engaged in tho business
of civil life. No such provision has ever been
made for the widow ot any of tho Presidents
or other civil officers. There is nothing in
this case to distinguish it from that of a great
body of the civil officers. 2. Mrs. Lincoln re
ceived $22,000 balance on her husband’s sal
ary and $36,765 CO from his estate, and there
fore has enough for her support in republican
simplicity.
The committee shuffle off a national obli
gation by a small quibble. The President’s
office is both military and civil The Consti
tution so declares. What right has this com
mittee lo say that “although by the Constitu
tion the President is made Commander-in-
Chief of the army and navy, he is a civil and
not a military officer ? ” By what authority
does this committee say that the President's
office is not what the Constitution makes it ?
As Commander-in-Ckief he not only did exer
cise a high military offico in appointing com
manders, aud suggesting campaigns, and or
dering military policies; but at the very time
he was killed he was exercising the highest
military office by directing the terms of capit
ulation to be allowed to the rebel armies.
It was because he held this office that the
conspirators plotted to abduct him and carry
him into the rebel lines, and being thwarted
in this, shot him. Mr. Lincoln’s case is whol
ly unlike that of any former President, and wo
do not expect such a case to recur. In justice
the country owes his widow a pension. Tho
sum proposed by the House was‘but small.—
As it is due, it is not necessary nor honorable
that the committee should take a close inveto-
ry of what she has received. She came into
the remnant of her husband’s salary before tho
scale of expenditure which was forced upon them
could be terminated. In the vicissitudes of cur
rency and property during the last four years,
all investments have been uncertain, and wo
know not what she has remaining. Especial
ly has it been difficult to decide how to invest
money securely for income. The pension is
due her. We know not what she has remain
ing from her husband’s estate. We have
reason to believe it Is not adequate for her
support Congress has no right to calculate
closely in this matter. Nor has the commit
tee any right to talk as if she wanted to vie
with royalty in her style of living. Let Con
gress do justly by her, and leave to her her
unwisdom; for if we should pay pensions to
none but women of approved wisdom, the pen
sion list might be much shortened.
Fearful Hailstorm in Pliilntlclpliiu,
We have details by mail of the terrible bail
storm which devastated Philadelphia on Sun
day last The Enquirer, of Monday, says:
About thirty-five minutes after the first ap
pearance of a storm—at five minutes after two
o’clock—those within doors were surprised upon
lpoking out to see the hail coming down in a
terrific manner, each stone being larger than a
walnut. There was immediately a scamper
through the house for the purpose of closing
the window-shutters, where there were any,
and those windows which had none were com
pelled to remain exposed to the terrible storm.
Thoso who happened to bo on tlic streets at
the time immediately sought shelter, and it
was well they did so, as the lifo of any
was in danger who remained exposed to the
pitiless peltings of the huge hailstones. The
storm lasted about fifteen minutes with undi
minished fury, and then as suddenly ceased as
it began.
In glancing at tbe windows as one passes
through the city he would imagine tliat Phil
adelphia had been suffering lrom a terrific
bombardment. Awnings also were badly in
jured in many places through tho city. The
large hail-stones coming down with great force,
would go right through tearing them to pieces.
Horses were terrified. In many cases the
cars had to be stopped and the horses put
dcr shelter, and those attached to lighter v
cles were almost unmanageable.
Tho windows facing to the north aud west
were the only ones which received any injuries
from the hail, the storm coining from a north
western direction. These presented a dreaiy
looking appearance. In numerous cases every
pane was shattered to fragments.
The hail-stones were of extraordinary size.
Some picked up were found to be as largo as
duck’s eggs. Their average size was that of
walnuts, and a few were smaller than marbles.
Sky-lights particularly suffered severely.
With them there was no escape from the se
vere pelting. The public lamps present a
ghastly appearance. Not a lamp can be found
in the city which is not badly damaged, aud
last evening the light from these useful articles
is anything but certain.
A number of casualties are reported. One
man fell dead while holding an umbrella
_• kis horse’s head. Another was thrown
from his buggy and sustained severe injuries.
Hot-houses and conservatories of course were
demolished generally. The driver of a car
riage in a funerai procession was thrown from
his seat by the frightened horses and died.
The Continental Hotel lost 150 panes. Mr.
Jno. Dick, florist, had six acres ot glass all
shattered. Hie Bingham House lias scarcely
a pane left
The storm will prove a perfect harvest to
glaziers, and glass and putty will bo in great
demand. This storm was the heaviest ever
experienced in Philadelphia, aud far exceeds
that which occurred in the latter part of the
summer of 18C7.
Millionaires.
William IL Astor is declared by thoso who
ought to know to represent $50,000,000; A. T.
Steward, $40,000,000; Cornelius Vanderbilt,
$30,000,000; Daniel Drew, $6,000,000; George
Law, $6,000,000; August Belmont, $5,000,000;
Samuel N. Pike, $7,000,000; James Fisk, Jr.,
$6,000,000; James Lenox, $5,000,000; and two
or three hundred others are variously estimated
from two to five millions. There are a thous
and persons in New York who are worth at
the lowest calculation, $500,000 apiece.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer, 10th iusL]
A Perilous Feat.
Few persons have ever passed the Cathedral,
at tho corner of Eighth aud Plum streets with
out admiring its tall and beautiful spire which
stretches heavenward with such rare symmetry
and architectural elegance. From tho founda
tion of the edifico to the top of the handsome
spire tho distance is cxactlj’ two hundred and
twenty-two feet Not so wonderful, it is true,
but if the idea of climbing up to the top of
that spire, and sitting on the cross thereof
ever presented itself to one’s mind, we will
wager that tho bare thought produced a shud
der.
But that very feat was performed yesterday.
For some time past the lightning rod attached
to the spire lias been out of order, and some
repair became necessary to render the steeple
safe. The contract for this work was let out
to Mr. J. R. Weston, who promptly took the
job in hand, and, assisted by two workmen,
John Slicrrell and Milton Campbell, pro
ceeded yesterday afternoon to fulfill tho same.
About three o’clock the trio began the work
of scaling the steeple. Beginning at tho base,
just above tho face of the clock, they began
erecting short ladders, one upon tho top of
another.
As soon as one ladder was placed in position
and firmly lashed to the steeple, another was_ , .
attached to the top, and so on in this way tlie
bold workmen proceeded until tho very sum
mit of the spire was reached Some ninety
feet of Ladders were used in this way. As soon
as the perilous ascent began, a crowd com
menced assembling in the street below, and
by the time tho men of nerve had reached tho
top, some five or six hundred spectators had
gathered about tho cemer of Eighth and
Plum, all watching with breathless anxiety *
At this juncture the excitement became in
tense.
Reaching tho very apex of tho steeple, one
of the men crawled up on the cross which sur
mounts it and stood upon its very top. The
other two stood beside him upon the transverse
beam of the cross. The central figure, holding
to the slender lightning-rod, proceeded to re
move the point or replace it with a new one,
whilo at the same time he adjusted the insula
tors, and did such other work as was necessary.
The crowd in the street watched the man on
tho dizzy height, with but one misstep between
him and eternity, aud were perfectly horrified.
It made the blood curdle to contemplate the
danger which surrounded the man in the
clouds, as it were, and of all the crowd, he,
perhaps, was the only one who was free from
fear and trembling. Many turned away pale and
sick with the excitement and strange emotions
produced by the sight
Having completed his work, the bold artisan
and his companions quietly began the descent
with as much gravity and composure as if they
had only climbed to the top of a sugar-liogs-
head on terra firma, and alter due time readi
ed the ground in safety. There was a sigh of
relief when the crowd'beheld them in security
once more, and while there was scarcely one
there who would have gone to the top of that
cross for the church full of gold, these daunt
less, self-composed fellows strutted about
with a swelling pride equal to that which ani
mates the bosom of one who has conquered a
kingdom. The work was not completed yes
terday, and the two will brave death again
this morning. Thoso who are fond of witness
ing such perilous feats should attend the free
show.
ISccentricitlrs of Adelina Patti.
Peerless Patti—she with tlic Caux attached
to her name—is becoming wilfully capricious
and national. She still sings at the Italian in
Paris, but she is said to cause her manager a
world of vexation, and sometimes drives the
poor* fellow almost crazy with her whims.
While warbling the role of “Lucia,” a few
nights since, she suddenly made the discovery
that a small pimple existed on her shapely
neck, and at once stopped singing, asserting
that she had the small-pox. As there was an
audience worth 20,000 francs awaiting her
pearly notes, the manager was in a terrible
quandary. He nevertheless summoned a phy
sician at once, who examined tho offending
pimple, and smilingly pronounced it a resuit
of the spring season. Ho failed to satisfy tho
songstress, however, who insisted upon con
sulting several physicians she saw in the au
dience, who confirmed the judgment of their
confrere, so that aft - an annoying wait of
nearly an hour she consented to finish the
opera. Several nights afterward she aroused
another turmoil between tho manager and
doctors, because of a fancy that she was grow
ing hoarse. The popular Diva, though as
good as a gold mine to theatrical managers, i;,
evidently a troublesome subject to deal with.
Demoralized—Badly Demoralized.
The Democracy of South Carolina is evi
dently in a bad way. The Charleston Courier
(Democratic) says: “At this moment, then.
South Carolina has but one osganized party,
which is the Radical party. The Democratic
party, as a State party, is not in being.” Un
der the name of “The Citizens' Party” the old
defunct leaders are attempting to reorganize.
Baron James D. Rothschild, it is said, once
had his portrait painted in the garb of a beg
gar. A sympathising visitor to tho studio
slipped a louis into his hand. The gratuity
was taken and invested for ten years, when it
was returned to the donor with ten thousand
francs os accrued profit, and a note to the effect
that a good action always brings good fortune.
