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• ' ." s ■ . VOLUME ti THE CHAI fUOGA ADVtH HsiEH PUBLISHED A C SUMMERVILLE, GA., EVERY FR (DAY MORNING. BATES OF SUB SCRIP TION. > Inc Copy One Y :ar : $2 00 One Copy Six >1 mths ::::::: $l f 00 No Subscription wiil be taken for a .ess time than six mo. ths. OUR ADVLRTISINC BATES. »*«!.. i 3 uioi hs |<3 months jl2 moil's i I * 4 1 oo TTToo UUTTh) ' soitarcs lsf> j 00 sin on 1.. .00 ,C iriiinrf-* I $ S 00 sl4 !00 s2oi 00 column I *l2 |OO S2O 100 $ .30 jOO j t column j *2*ll 00 $35 jOO C 1 00 JOO i column ! S4O >OO $75 100 100 !<» RA TI RO A OR. 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 "Via I i<misville. 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 ALTIMORE W \SM\GTO\ & BOSTOI Quicker time by this route, and better accommodations, than by any other- Se cure speed and e mfort when traveling, by 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, NASHVILLE & CHATTANOOGA RAIL.UO/1® LINE. CENTRAL SHORT ROUTE!! O Without Change of Cars to Nashville, Mc- Kenzie. T ni m City, Hickman, Co lumbus, Humboldt, Browns ville, and Memphis. —O — Only < >ne Change To Jackson. Teun., Paducah, Ky.- Little Rock, Cairo, and St. Louis, Mo. MORE THAN 150 Ifiles Shorter to Saint Louis Than via Memphis or Louisville, and from 8 TO 15 HOURS QUICKER!! Than via Cos. inth or Grand Junction. ASK FoITtICKETS TO MEMPHIS AND THE SOUTH WEST VIA CHATTANOOGA AND McKENZIE!! AND TO St. Louis and the Northwest via Nashville andColum’me —-all Rail; or Nash ville a id Hickman —Rail and River. THE lowest~special rates FOR EMIGRANTS. WITH MORE ADVAN 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 I NO. 33 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.