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Western & Atlantic R. R.
Ohange of Schedule.
On an! after this date the Fassenger
trans will run on the
Western and Atlantic Rail Road
AS FOLLOWS:
AVestern Exnress, connecting for New
York and the West
leaves Atlanta, 10:00 p. M.
Arrives at Dalton, 3:09 A. M.
Arrives at Chattanooga, 5:08 A. M
Day Passenger Train, to the North and
West, carrying Pullman Palace Car to
Louisville-
Leaves Atlanta, 8:30 A. M
Arrives at I'alton, 1:34 v. M.
Arrive at Chattanooga, 3:50 P. M
Lightning Express—Passengers leaving
Atlanta by this Train arrive in New York
the second afternoon at 4:4-: P. M. 14 hours
and 35 min ntes earlier than Passengers
leaving by Augusta the same evening,
leaves Atlanta, 5:00 P M,
Aarrives at, Dalton, 10: OOP. St.
Southern Express, carrying through Pal
ace ear from Louisville, North and West,
leaves Cbattanoc ;a, 4:4.. P. Sf.
Arrive at Atlanta, 11:20 A. m.
Day Passenger Train from the North and
West.
LeaveChattanoo a* 5:50 a. m.
Arrive at Atlanta, l:10p. K.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN.
Leaves Dalton. 12 45 A-m
Arrives at Atlanta. 9:50 A. M,
JOSEPH E. BROWN.
President •
Quickest and Eest Routs
’lO TIIE
NORTH, EAST & WEST
is
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TKR3E Dail. Express Trains running
through from Nash,’.lie t.o Louisville, milk
ing close connections with Trains and boats
for the NORTH, EA*ST AND WEST.
IVo Clianffo of* Cars
riton i.oi i'Vii.iiFi to
St. Lows, Cincinnati, Indianapolis,
Chicago, Cleveland, Pitts
burg, Philadelphia,
ana New York.
ONLY ONE CHANGE TO
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asking for Ticket s
By the Wav of Louisville. Ky.
Through Tick tsand Baggage Checks j
may be prc’Ciired at the office of the Nash
ville and Chattai noga Railroad at < liatta
noogs. and at all Ticket Offices throughout
the South. ALBERT FINK,
W H. KING, Gen’l. Sup’t.
Gen’!. P issen er Ag’t. Juneß.
Saint Louie Memphis,
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Rock, Cairo, and St. Louis, Mo.
MORE THAN
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Than via Memphis or Louisville, and from
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Than via Cos. inth or Grand Junction.
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AND TO
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ville a id Hickman —Rail
and River.
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TAGES. QUICKER
TIME. AND FEWER
CHANGES OF CARS
pgrTIIAN A NY OTHER ROUTE.-**
Tickets for Sale at all Principal Ticket
(’ffices in the South.
.T. W. THOMAS. Gen’l. Supt.
*V. TANARUS,. DANLKY. G. P. A T. Agent.
MfesrihFaeSsiff*. Ten*.
Roms Railroad Company
Change of Schedule.
D\Y PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Rome 8:40 a m
Arrive at Kingston 10:30 a m
Leave Kingston 11:48 a m
Arrive at Rime 1:00 p m
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leaves Rome 8:40 p m
Arrive at Kingston 12:40 a m
Leave Kingston It'S a m
Arrirc at Rouio 11:20 m
C-H- Connecting with train-, on the Wes
tern A Atlantic Railroad at Kingston, and
on the Selma, Uouie and Dalton Railroad
at Rome. ;
C M. PENNINGTON,
•_ Eng. and Sup’t.
The following extracts from a re
cent letter of the Atlanta Constitu
ti'iin Washington correspondent will
le read with interest:
There could be no better evidence
of the desperate plight in which the
Administration finds itself than the
expenditure of $75,000, or $750,000,
unwarranted by law, for a batch of
documents purporting to be the com
plete archives of the Confederate
States; but which many believe to be
forgeries, done to order for the pur
pose of aiding in Grant’s re-election.
Suppose these letters to be what they
are represented to be? Was the
White House the proper recepiac.e
for them? Should they have been
handed over then to the ‘‘Union Re
publican Congressional Committee”
for use as campaign documents? Cer
tainly not. But no appropriation was
made for their purpose; there is no
guarantee as to their authenticity, and
they have been made, thus far, the
vehicle of the grossest falsehoods and
calumnies, as your correspondent, who
was personally cognizant of the facts
relative to Confederate operations in
Canada, can testify. I propose at an
early day to write up a truthful histo
ry of these operations, which will
make clear many a mystery, and re
veal many things until this time dis
torted and misrepresentei in their
true light. Meanwhile, let me say
that the gentleman instructed with
Confederate merits in Canada, not on
ly sought to avoid any breaches of in
ternational law, hut disavowed and re-
fused to have any connection with en- i
terprises which were not warranted |
by tbe rules of civilized warfare. It j
s a matter of history which cannot
be disputed, that General Lee in his \
invasion of the North scrupulously re
garded private interests, and his ar
my neither burned nor pillaged. Is
it reasonable to suppose then, that
while the Confederate armies were
thus controlled that the agents of the
Confederacy abroad would lend them
selves to the most outrageous schemes
of refusal for the vandalism of the
Northern armies? It is not only un
reasonahle to suppose so, but there
are no substantial grounds on which
to base such an assertion. My recob
lection, fortified by documents at hand,
is clear on this point, and I am fur
ther sustained - by the testimony of
Mr, Edwin DeLeon, ex-diplomatic a
gent of the Confederacy in Europe,
in a letter recently published. Re
ferring to the document purporting to
be a letter from Jacob Thompson to
Judah P. Benjamin, he said:
“As an impartial witness, the wri
ter solemnly declares his convictions
that the charges made are utterly false
and without foundation, and the pre
tended paper (if it implicates the ex-
President and the Confederate gov
ernment) is a forgery anrl a fraud,
and not a genuine document.”
I find further corroborative evi
dence in* a late issue of the New Or
leans Picayune, which says:
“We were informed a couple of
days since, on the best authority, that
Hon. Jefferson Davis has spoken to a
friend about these Pickett ‘Confeder
ate archives.’ Mr. Davis desires the
publication of these pretended docu
ments. lie is not afraid for any doc
ument, to which he or his Cabinet
gave their assent, to be placed before i
the world. He says no such plan ever ;
went from the Confederate. Executive !
office, or from any officer in cbar 6 eof
a Department of the Confederate gov
ernment.”
Mr. Davis’ testimony is conclusive
so far as relates to the plans of the
Richmond Government, and your cor
respondent is perhaps equally as well
informed regarding movements ip Can
ada. My belief is that these docu
ments are forgeries, wholly or in part.
Access to the newspaper files in Can
ada would place the papers in posses
sion of sufficient truthful details, ru
mors and surmises to form the basis
for any number of reports of the kind
given to the public. But it was surely
an oversight (an • intentional one, rio
doubt) to charge Mr. Thompson in an
advance telegram with instigating the
St. Alban’s raid and then, in the let*
ter which followed, to make him say:
“I knew nothing of the St. AJban’s
raiji until after it had taken place,”
; or words to that effect.
SUMMERVILLE. GEORG! A..ERI DAY. AUGUST 23, 1872.
Even supposing these Confederate
Agents had warranted the undertak
ing of the measures they are charged
with | which was not executed after
all—they were no worse than what
was done by the Federal armies.—
Witness the order from General Grant
quoted in the following editorial from
the Sunday Herald, of this city:
“So much has been said of Mr.
Greeley’s enmity toward the South
! ern people in days gone by, with a
view to discourage them from support
ing him now, that it occurred to us to
examine General Grant’s record. In
a -e rap.biKiiitSl*«pt diiwwg the war. we
‘find the fi.l lowing, ex tract from an offi
cial, order: ’
"Do all the damage you can to the
railroads and crops—carry off stock
of all descriptions, and negroes, so as
to prevent further planting, if the
war is to last another year, let the
Shenandoah valley remain a barren
waste.
[Signed] U. S. Gr. NT.
The above atrocious order is not
warranted by the rules of civilized
warfare, and deserves to rank with
the infamous “woman order” of Gen.
Butler. Yet we are told there are
Southern men who support Grant in
preference to Greeley. There is no
accounting for taste. On this point
the Dallas (Texas) Herald aptly re
marks :
“General Porter professes that ma
ny Democrats are going to stump for
Grant. He says that he will publish
a list shortly. The man who stumps
for Grant is no longer worthy of be>
iug called a Democrat. A Democrat
has the right not to like Gieeley, but
lie can be no true Democrat who can
stump for Grant, or vote for him ci
ther.”
A Prophecy Fulfilled.
In turning over the leaves of a scrap
book the other day the following par
agraph from a Washington letter to
the Constitution, under date March
8, 1870, attracted my attention:
“So with the year 1872 will Bul
lock fade out of public life so far as
Georgia is concerned. There will not
at that time he a village or hamlet
which would elect him pound keeper.’
When it will bo recollected that at
the date these words were written Bul
lock was in high feather, and the Bui’
lock ring rich and flourishing. It
seems as if some mysterious power
must have guided the pen which pre
dicted his ruinous downfall. Not only
Bullock, however, hut all his assoei'
ates in crime, have since then vanish
| ed, leaving only a bad odor behind
i beiii.
Psalm Bard
was here yesterday, en route for Long
Branch to invite the President to visit
Chattanooga. Psalm was wed dressed
—appears to have been well fed—and
was smiling as a basket of chips. He
says lots of Democrats down his way
are going for Grant, as they can’t
swallow Greeley. He didn’t pretend
to say, however, that Tennessee would
go for Grant.
Cabinet Duties.
Grant gives his Cabinet officers very
little rest, but makes them earn their
salaries (?) by electioneering for him.
He has ordered the Postmaster Gen.
oral to start for Michigan this week,
and to stump Indiana before return
ing to Washington.
$75,000 or $750,000?
The public has been informed that
$75,000 was paid, for the contents of
those four yellow trunks. Colonel
Pickett says the amount paid was
$750,000, and he ought to know. It
was very naughty to drop off that 0.
A Party "f Dead Heads-
The Syracuse Courier of July 31st,
announcing the arrival at Utica of
the Presidential party by the devious
wav of the Erie, Delaware and Lack
awana and Western Railroads, ac.
counts for it thus:
The reason is as follows: Grant
was dead-headed over the Erie. He
has to pay fare over the Central and
Hudson River Road, and Ulysses isn’t
in the habit of paying anything when
lie can help it.
It will be remembered that Grant
attended the funeral of the late Gen.
Thomas at Troy, April Bth 1870.
He returned to New York in a special
car via the Hudson River Railroad.
Shortly before theArain arrived at
Poughkeepsie, the conductor went in
to the ear for the purpose of collect
ing fare from the President and partj.
He was met at the door by the Dent,
whd'g'ruffly asked him* “what he want
ed.” The conductor replied that he
wanted the fare of the party. Dent
declared that the President, was in
sulted by such a request, as ho was
not in the habit of paying fares on
railroads. He declared that the Presi
dent and party were insulted by the
conductor, and that they would not
pay one cent. Then, icplied the con
ductor, I shall cut your car off at
and leave it on the
bran'-f Dent saw*>Lg conductor was
t0 * ""*??'•
by telegraphing to Oum
mi’ The conductor
asjen-fV to this proposition. In a
few RtukienG the tihsw4r returned.
fare from the whole ptirty."
r i*>ent paid, and swore the President
should never travel a mile eupr the
Hudson River and New York Central.
Shortly after this Boirtwell ordered a
tax of .$400,000 collected mint
the Central. This was singly a mean
revenge. TJic money his not yet
been paid, and may neverfbe.
,X- Jrn sen, .mm /
[Communicated.
Han’s Destiny.
The greatest problem to man is the
man himself.
It is not until be is advanced in
years, and lias lived more than half
his allotted time, that he stops to look
iu upon himself, and discovers his ow n
mysterious being, 'i ke first half of
his life was spent in thenissurance that
his being was well His
was the progress of experience. His
ken was cast ahead of him—he «
looking to the therhfuture. No one
of riper years could instruct him. —
To usq a trite expression, “He knew
it all.” But now his shadow is length'
ening, it attracts his ierehtion whilst
traveling down the declivity towards
the setting sun. He stops to rnedi*
tate. lie asks what am jt ? For what
purpose was I made? What is my
destiny? He remembers the .crowd
that started up the hill of life with
him. i/e has seen one after another
fall by the way. lie is almost alone,
and is amazed at the consciousness of
his isolation. He knows that his race
is -verging to a close, all is dark be
fore him, and he is astonished tat him-
self. His eye is becoming dim, his
oar dull of hearing, his 'Mste is im
paired ; but yet Ids heart pulsates in
unison with humanity, whether young
or old. Os some things he is ifcssuved.
First, that this world w:i& made for
him and his fellows, so far as all things
suited to gratify, his senses. Secondly,
that the full and complete enjoyment
of these things depends upon peace
of mind and healfh of b My. That
peace of mind is* aidtie attainable by
a clear conscience tin 1 'an * asTswWe
of safety; that an assurance df safety
depends upon right government m a
free country. These are sous? things
that he knows. Thtsu appeal to his
experience, his consciousness,' his ob
servation. But, though he is ’capable
of turning Ins mind U-eye in upon his
own thoughts, his mind itself is a
mystery —indeed both his mind and
his body. Between him arid the uifi
inate purpose of his creation hangs an
impenetrable veil. Beyond, all is
dark and unfathomable. He reads iu
the Book, of a future state. The doc
trine is congenial with his hope; hut ■
alas! it, is only a subject of belief.— |
He has no tangible evidence, no dem
onstrative assurance. Now, he brings
to his relief, in his dilemma, that which
alone affords him a siligle ray of com
fort. Direct demonstration has failed
him, and, the rednetij and absurdum
the indirect, he appeals to. Hear
him: A being so wonderfully formed
—a world so full of evidences of de
sign, implies a Builder, a wise, a pow
erful Builder. The immense number
of the good things, anti the limited
number of, apparently, bad things,
implies beneficence and goodness in
tbe Builder. The shortness of life—
its uncertainty, and in Die majority of
instances, its miseries, are not in keep'
irig with the wisdom and power and
goodness every where else displayed.
Man comes upon the stage of such a
life not of his own accord. Better,
far better, had he never come upon it,
if this life be bis last—-it is his first,
so far as he knows. Few, very few,
arc they, whose existence in full frui
tion compensates for the risk, had it
depended upon their own volition,
thus to enter upon it.* Arid can it be
that the author of man’s being has so
signally atome short of his wisdom,
and power, and goodness, with respect
to man alone, and, he too,"the master
piece of all his visible creation? Or,
is it a reasonable deduction that the
creator has.more regard for the per-
of Inorganic blatter, than
for that which is organized? sis
trfe. the latter becomes the former,
iu priTccsS of time, after life is extinct,
and is imlistructible. And hero is
the conclusion. Nothing that has been
made need be annihilated. The Greit
architect made every tiling to induce,
lie will not, and there is none else
that can, destroy, the smallest particle
that he has created. The inference
then is, that that which we style lite,
must still live*. The mind—the soul
is the creation of the same invisible
power, and, a for.tio.ri, is indistructible.
it may indeed remain in an uncctt
,sciouff state, in company with its Hav
tenement, for agg.; but it is only a
sleep, and must awake sooner or later,
To sleep ever, would be annihilation
To sleep, implies awaking.
Again: Man finds himself assoeia
ted w,th bis fellows, and mutually de
pendent upon them. This mutual do
pendenee creates mors! obligation.—■
CNF T'~«v
There is, what every, ene . recognizes
as right, and also, what evoty -one
pronounces wrong, as between man
and man. From right, flows what is
pleasing; from wrong, flows what is
displeasing. These are the unmistak
able standards of right and wrong,
even amongst savages. In all na
tions, the one is the condition of peace
and safety, the other, that nf opposi
tion and retribution - This is a law of
our social being. Fell' interest, if
not inclination, shuts us up to submis
sion to this law. Man finds himself
.then, a responsible agent. He is ac
countable. 'llis creator has constitu
tedJiim S<UTjfflPNnw, in view qf this
accountability; whilst be. lives »ti or
ganized being, and, as lie’ is to con
tinue to live, the question naturally
arises, does his accountability cease
with the present life? If he should
violate the moral law, and go unpun
ished here, will ho escape entirely?—
If so, what are the purposes he has
subserved, and what were the purpo
ses of his living at all? In all, and
every instance, a law implies a pen
alty—there can be no exception.—
Mon - do not always suffer tbe penalty
of wrong doing bore, therefore, they
must suffer hereafter. If they shall
suffer hereafter, this implies a moral
law, enacted by the creator, and man
should know it. For Him not to know
it would be wrong, therefore he does
know it. It is in the Boole.
But turn we from the metaphysical,
the speculative, to the real, the tangi
ble. /Lis destiny may be said to be
placed within his own grasp. Espec
ially is this the case in a free and en
lightened country, a country like ours
has been, and such an one as, we hope,
ours will yet become. What then are
the objects worthy the aim of men?
We answer, wealth and knowledge. —
There was never a greater error than
the almost universal tirade against
wealth. TFe lay it down as sound in
philosophy, that it is the duty of eve
ry one, honestly, to seek it. It is an
adequate means to a greater and no
bler end. It fosters enlightenment,
promotes health and comfort, estab
lishes government. Jt enables its
possessor to hu a benefactor—builds
navies, railroads, canals and magnetic
telegraphs. Gives opportunity for
meiitai acquisition, and procures the
results. Iu science, in law, in medi
cine, in the mechanic arts, it is at the
same time benefactor, and makes its
possessor a beneficiary. It feeds this
hungry, clothes the naked, rejoices
the laborer, pillows the aching head,
and. even the dumb brutes are rend
ered happy. In no possible instance
is it an evil per se. its tendency is
for good, and that continually. We
repeat, it is a means to every great
and noblo end, but particularly is it
the ne phis ulita to the attainment
and diffusion of the next grand object
of human pursuit, knowledge. And
here we are reminded of the truism,
'‘knowledge is power. ' How far this
assertion accords with the facts we
now proceed to see: The history of
the world does not furnish an excep*
tion. Whilst knowledge flourished,
Greece and Rome flourished. When
knowledge decayed, they crumbled
and fell. Look at the most intelli
gent nations now. Are they not by
far the most powerful ? Look at in
dividuals. Wherein consists the su
periority of otie man above another?
Is it not because of superior enlight
enment? Wealth itself calls loudly
upon knowledge for its efficiency. —
Without her aid, and her ability to
manage and disburse, wealth were as
well stored up in the mountains and
vallics from whence the hand of in
dustry had obtained it. The one is
but a haWd-maid to the other. But
we must not forget, that the attain
ment of-both,immediately, in the
path of Ants- Duty to man, duty to
God—such is man’s destiny. “To do
good and to communicate.” The pos
session of wealth and the knowledge
how to use it. These united, confer
a power and a dignity upon man.—
They put in play all the appliances
requisite to virtue. W caltb, knowl
edge, virtue, these three, the earthly
trio, alone worthy of human pursuit.
Worthy I say, for they are the nehmc
of man’s highest destiny upon earth,
arid rightly blended, and duly appro
priated, fit him, ultimately, for a far
bigher sphere, to receive the plaudit,
“Come thou good and faithful set - ,
vant, &c.” Nous Perrons.
Electric Eccentricities. —Mr. Jas,
Mullens, of timedvillc, Ten., must
know as much about how it feels to be
struck by lightning as any man.—
While* - under a three where he had ta
ken shelter from a storm lightning
struck it, tearing the trunk to pieees,
“till it came, about from ten to twen
■ ty feet from the ground, to a crack
which seemed to extend through the
. : tree. The lightning passed through
this to the side where Mr. Mullens
- was, and tore out a large block of
- wood, ItMben left the tree about the
- hight of Mr. Mullens’ head and pass
-i e<f thnngh’kis hat brioC on tbe right
t/lfT i... utn fibmgp*
mad. "" ' ; t~.
shouller, running round his arm and j
down bis side to his hip, and there it I
forked and went across the lower part
of the abdomen and both legs, burn
ing as it went. Hi; right leg was
badley burned, and the hoi’ow of his
foot and on the hall of his great toe
were two places exactly alike ; each
having a star with eight points. His
clothes and shoes were literally torn
to pieces, and torn mostly from his
body. His son nml other hands, who
were sheltering under other trees,
were shocked badly. lie is still liv
ing, and his recovery is probable.”
Fearful Mortality In One Family.—
On the 29th of July diptheria at
tacked three of the children of Mr.
Jocob Kurtz, a farmer living in Stiv
dr c mnty. Pa.--a boy six, one eigh
teen and a girl four years of age.—
Oa the 25th all died, the little hoy at
one, the girl at three and the other
boy at six o’clock in the morning.—
On the next day (Friday) all tbe rest
of the family were attacked, and on
the Sunday following a girl aged four
teen died, and on Monday one aged
sixteen years. Only two children are
left, one of whom will probably die.
Ten children in all havejdied in this
family.
Notwithstanding that rules and
reglations of the civil service prohibit
any head of a department or any
subordinate offices of tbe Govern
ment from leaving, or permitting to
be levied, upon any person under bis
control any asessmertf of money for
political purposes, either under tbe
form of voluntary contributions or
otherwise, tbe clerks in the various
depart ments at Washington are reg
ularly taxed to assist in defraying the
expense of attempting to reelect
Grant. Some of the Cabinet officials,
for political effect, have issued orders
prohibiting such assessments, but they
are made, all the same, and the clerks,
dare not refuse to contribute, as the
Grant organs in Washingtan have
boldly threatened the dismissal of
such as failed to respond to these il
legal requistions for money. In some
instances these assessments La.*e
been made over and over again, and
the unfortunate victims are wonder
ing if they will have any money com
ing to them at all this summer. All
this is in direct violation of low — N.
Y. Sun.
Shocking Suicide. —The following
is from tho Wheeling Register, of the
Ist instant:
Last evening, as the Cumberland
Accommodation, due here about five
o’clock, came into tho Narrows, a mile
or two below Betiwood, a man, who had
evidently been hid in the hushes by the
side of the railroad, sprang out in front
of the rapidly approaching engine and
grasped the rail with tlia*ouergy of a
desperate man. Ile was so close to the
train that it was impossible to stop it,
and in a second the iron wheels of the
engine had torn him asunder. The
train was stopped as soon as possible,
and the horrified engineer, conductor
and passengers went back to look at
the remains. The head had been cut
off at the shoulders; the arms were cut
off and ground to a jelly; one leg had
been Cut oft’ above the knee, and stood
in an upright and natural position by
the roadside; the other leg was cut off
near the thigh, and was, together with
the body and intestines, ground into a
pulp. Mrs. Thomas Shallcross, who
wason the train, recognized the suicide
as Henry Solnvfgart, a well-known
wliitowasher, formerly of this city, who
has latterly lived in the neighborhood
of the place where he met his terrible
death. Domestic difficulties and ex
cessive indulgence in liquor are -said
to have caused the suicide.
The North Carolina Outlaws.—
Since the killing of Tom Lowrey, the
two remaining outlaws, Stephen Low
rey and Andrew Strong, have disap
peared from their old haunts about
Back Swamp and Moss Neck. The
Robesoman says it, is understood that
they have established anew base in a
settlement several miles above, and
known as Upper Scuftle'.own, where
they are keeping very quiet, and seem
to be concerned only to keep out of
the way of Mr. VVishart and his gal
lant little band of pursuers.
One Hundred Years Ago*
One hundred and ten years ago
there was not a single,white man in
Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana or Illinois.
Then, what is the most flourishing
part of America was as little known
as the country around the mysteri
ous mountains of tho moon. It was
not until 1767 that Boono left his
home in North Carolina, to become
the first pioneer settler in Kentucky.
The first pioueer of Ohio did not set
tle until twenty years ago. Canada
belonged to France, and the ponula
tion did not exceed a million and a
half of people. A hundred years ago
the Great Frederick of Prussia was
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performing tl*ose grand exploits wtrch
have made him immortal in military
annals, and with his little monarchy
was sustaining a siugle contest wiih
Russia, Austria and France, the
three great powers of Europe com
bined. Washington was a modest
Virginia Colonel, and the great events
iu his tory of the two worlds in which
these great but dissimilar men took
leading parts were then searcely
foreshadowed. A hundred years
ago tho United States were the mast
loyal part of the British Empire, ami
on the political horizon no speek in
dicated the struggle which, within a
score of years there after, establish •
ed the great republic o'" tbe world. A
hundred years ago there were but
four newspapers in America! Steam
engines had not been imagined, rail
roads and telegraphs had not eutired
into the remotest conception of mon.
When we come to look back at it
through the vista of history, we find
that to tbe century just passed has
been allotted more important events,
in thir bearing upon tbe hapiness of
tbe world, than almost any other
which lias elapsed since the crea*
tion —Dakota Advertiser.
The Andy Jounson-Harold Scan*
dal. —The Nashville (Tenn.) Banner,
referring to the recent suicide of Mrs.
Emily Harold, of Greenville, says the
sad event was attributed to a mis«
chievous scandal circulated about the
unfortunate lady and ex-President
Johnson, and the means by which
these scandalous rumors were brought
to Mrs. 7/arold’s ear was through an
anonymous letter sent to Mr. Harold
through the post office. The very
general verdict of the good people of
Greenville was that these reflections
upon Mrs. Harold’s character were
false. Ever since her death, it has
been the aim of her friends to discov
er tho author of the anonymous let
ter that brought the scandal to the
ears of the family circle, and last
week a warrant was taken out for the
arrest of a man named R. C. Ilarne,
on the charge of libel. The bearing
on the charge began last Tuesday be
fore three magistrates of Greenvijle.
The Knoxville Chronicle, in giving
an account of the preliminary exam
ination, says that proof, as to the
handwriting of the anonymous letter,
was of a circumstantial character, but
the evidence has taken a wider lati
tude, and now the whole merits of
the case are under consideration.—
The truth of the charges against the
deceased and Mr. Johnson are in is
sue. So far, the evidence of the
charges has come from two colred men
atid one white man, who were arrest
ed for perjury after their examination.
In the meantime, the examination will
proceed. It promises to involve many
of the residents of the place, an
to turn out a long bitter, and exciting
trial. The Nashville Press and Herald
of the 20 th ultimo has a dispatch from
Greenville, which says that the witness
arrested for perjury Has sued his
prosecutor for ten thousand dollars
damages for false imprisonment.—
The defense have closed their testb
mony on justification, and are now
endeavoring to shift the authorship
of the libel.
Too Many Pasbetigeus For a Sin
gle Trip. The New Haven (Conn)
Ilea inter says, “The list of recusants
from tho Grant ranks are pouring in
upon us so numerously that we are
considering the necessity of limiting
the publication of such renunciations
to Colonels, Judges of the higher
Courts, postmasters and collectors.—
This may look like ‘pulling in the
gangplank’ before the passengers are
‘all aboard,’ but it cannot be helped,
if we have to make two trips.”
Death of a Millionaire Pawnbroker.
Mitchell Hart, the millionaire pawn
broker of New York, died in that
city last Wednesday, worth a fortune
of $0,000,000. For over thirty years
he bad not been out of the city, and
from his boyhood lived in the same
dingy old house on Chatham street
where he died. Among other property
ho and his brother owned 22,000 out
of the 40,000 shares of the Third
Avenue Street Railway.
The Eufaula Times has heard one
man assert that the caterpillar had
ruined him; that they had eaten up
1 is entire cotton crop and were now
disposing of his gin house. JTq has
some hopes, however, of saving the
saws of his cotton gin, and also two
large cast iron sugar kettles in tho
vicinity of his gin house. Others
contend tho grass worm and caterpil
lar are the name thing. After they
finish the grass, they go for tho cot
ton.
Mr. Addison once bet that he could
make tho worst pun that had ever
been heard, and succeeded admirably
by going up to a man who was carrying
a hare in his hand. “Pray,” or: ;d b*
to the man, “is mat your own hare, or
s wiss.