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SATURDAY, MA7830, 1874.
K2IT-E3 CORRESPONDENCE.
. Livk Oak, Fi.a.. My Wtb.
U.* liny afternoon Wi’ loft our CfuM
and ijun of attending the Base Hall content
for the ciinmpionshfp of the State, be
tw-Wtbe TaHetinssee club arid the Jerfer
ftottc, at MoutioJUi, on , the”7th 4fU*rv
ilu-.tr and smoky rids we rhaeKe'd Ijswton, .
stripfed at the .leu ton House, which is mi
pqiir.teuded by - Mrs. Jenkins. Meeting
wiiti-i* number of friend*. al>d wHUUtom
partaking of an elegant npi>er and doctor
turnfali for an hour, weretitVd to ohr little
bed like a little man, to bo refreshed by
balmy sleep' until tjie arrival of the Florida
train at filii (‘clock, but the night wus
bratbleos, the atmosphere wna paralytic
and stagnant, %ud our wooing of the
zephyr* were all in vatu, and during the
pendancy of this atmospheric crisis and
panuvmorphens refused to soothe and em
brace us, and to preserve our precious life
we had. ty leave our little bed for a more
exposed position', and to coWt tile nightly
winds on. the long piazza, and to seek
fur wafer to oenlionc pgrqhed tongue, und
there we sit zaul wUheii-ulteniately, pump
ing until we lnul exhausted ourself in the
t-mirt to inflate our lungs, oM ocean had
pone dead, and ceased to breathe, and onr
effort to woo her baek to life and anirnn
tiou was all in Vain. The train arrived in
due time, ami,we took passage for Madi
f on, ’ onr first dostitiUen, (and which
proved to bo our ultimatum). Under the
ci luduetorshipof that geniAl gentleman, M r.
lfeynardie, to lave Oak, and then with the
,*cty iitoyor. and gentlemanly conductor,
Mr. J. ff. Dunoven, bn the J. I’. * M.
Hoad, to Madison, where we arrived at fix
oVl.ift' -At the'depot Ve took passage in
an old fashioned, but comfortable vehicle
aemathlug.less thou Noalis Ark and but
little leas modern, which carried
TCi in safety to the McCall House, with its
Itch oaken shades and beautifully viuo
rift'd porticoes, an inviting place of rest to
t,O wearied. It is kept by Mrs. Moduli
i./vd daughters, most w orthy ladies, who
through our genial frietid, Col. Wsrdlaw,
suou after w*> arrived, tendered us the hos-
pitalitie* of their house and home during j
onr stay it the village. We accepted the
rtlTer, and enjoyed the kindness, and in
return tender to those estimable ladies onr
gratitude and kindest wishes, and without
suy intention af prejudicing the interest
of any one else, either nt Madison, or else
vhtß;, we. take pleaauiy in re coin mending
this house to the traveling public. 1 Al
though Tuesday night was sleepless, woa
rtsotn and exhausting, so agreeoblo was onr
'Witeroimrso- with friends ,on. }iVed ties day,
*ifuff*HtbeiUy’.long;we fr it as fresh as dewy
loom, .tbtr friends were so numerous and so
fttnd to us, that we felt the sacrifice to us
Vonld be too great to leave that, to visit
another town, w here we have no netjuuin
tOnoeft, much less' friends. Ho Wednesday,
to us, was another day of pleasurable asso
ciations, and as th day grew old and the
evening shadows lengthened, we ateped
rote n delightlul little pheaton, and
through all the oakey shaded avenues of
that lovely village, we were conducted by
tue most interesting driver wo evor rode
with. Among other places of interest, we
visited the cemetery, while a young wife,
Ihe bride of a year ago, was being inter
red. This little city of the dead is in a
lonely and lovely glade in the rear of the
village where nature did w-01 its part to
make it sacred, and which is uowc,
iitillowed in the memory of thousand on
on account of the profound and uninter
rupted, nngossiping silence of its citizens
we do not want to reflect on our friends in
Madison for a seeming neglect of their
lowed 1 ones thut are gone, but we do tliiuk
that if all the citizens, ladies and gentle
men, girls nnd boys would devote one hour
in each week in beautifying that sacred
i ity, in one year it might fat truthfully
said that art is as faultless as nature. At
the lower extremity of these sacred
grounds is au oblong, substantial and per
manent enclosure and in it is the soldiers
graves,-and-at or near tine .penter of this
line of graves a beautiful little monument
Ims been erected to the memory of these
soldier boys whose marches ended, ere the
cause was lost/. And from other lips, not
we learn that Miss Belle Hnus
man was the prime motor fn this benevo
lent and patriotic enterprise. And her
concerts which she gave, be it spoken to
five great credit of the citizens of Madison,
were liberally patronized and ljey labors of
love and appreciation of the merits of the
fallen poldior .-boys Were richly rewarded.
The soldier boys interred at Madison are
not dead, they only sleep, they and their
deeds are still fresh and green in memory,
.sad' their ashes are fossilizeing into a glo
rious immortality. This is the work of
tae ladies memorial association of Mndi-
Sou. The sleeping heroes at Madison arc
not forgotten iu the’r bivaux ou this sa
cred and' bed Sternal camping ground.
From thence we drove through wauy
streets atul beyond the railroad until it j
a ;** too lute to return and meet the curs,
and wi were glud'for w ith our friends we
lmd another day. And now of Madison,
we most siiy, th.it nature left it complete
as one of the luvliests spots of earth -and
art did well it* part while the country
prospered. But time and circumstances
lsate it in the shadows of
gloom "ohd despondency. Radicalism
nnfi rtnnately was trausplauted iu this ge
nial cHine, and in .ngsiutpecting u'nd lirtfcd
ucated winds it to*ih jr*i<!t ajin! grew, aud
like tlie fatal upas that is death to the man
who touch it. It l* likewise fnttij. to the
Slftte that emt>rnce it. With this deathly
poison in its veins the State has been, and
is an tiling in political agonies, but the
-star of hopak* now set high up the zodiac
end is radiating throughout the entue
Mate. Floridians, you who call coast of
noble parentage don't give up the ahip be
cause the elements sro still furious *id tlte
storm protracted. Make one more strug
!gl ami vielory will turn to the nle of
justice and right, and the happy destiny of
vonr loved HI ah; w ill be to arise from Iter
political grave and the news of ita rosur
| reetk/w srfH thrill tha popular heart, and
I swgelic couriers on swiftest wings will waft
i tbe intelligence to tile skies, and the rep-
I resentative Ha I tits from Florida in the eter
nal Canaan will catch the inspiration,
and on the sweetest lntes of heaven, the
joyotrs social in of Florida’s redemption ;
will reverberate through all the sweet j
grntes. of bliss.
To every friend in this lovely village for
their courtesies, we retnru our thanks ami
acknowledge our gratitude. And for speciul
favors of Mr. Kiitzi-nliurg and Captain
Huusman and hia interesting family, we
sun only acknowledge a grutitudu that we
have not words to express, and for the
kindness of the Indies of the McCull House
and the courtesies of Col. B. F. Wardlaw
we cun say tlio same.
Our letter is already too long, wo will
begin with Live Oak neWJweek.
THE LAMP
of pariotism is still bright and burning in
the hearts of the ladies of Madison, und in
response to a call from the Lee Monumen
tal Association of Savannah, a rare musical
entertainment will he given sometime next
mouth in Madison by Miss Belle Haus
rnan,aided by ladies of eminent musical at
tainments, of sister towns uud cities. Madi
son will (on this, uH on other occasions)
when Southern pride was involved, (ami
benevolence invoked,) respond liber
ally. Much an entertainment as will be
given on this occasion, is rarely, if
ever enjoyed in country towns, and we
feel safe in promising all who avail them
selves of this delightful opportunity, that
aside from the enjoyment consequent upon
the patriotic and benevolent act, that they
will be richly compensated in the exquisit
rendition of the elegunt programme of
music l>y the gifted and talented Miss
Bailsmen and her equally talented ossoci
ciutes. Wo wish the society at Savannah
would procure at least one excellent inule
voice to aid and accompany these estima
ble ladies in their beloved enterprise.
The time will be uppointud, and the pro
gramme will be completed, ami probably
reach us-in time for <mu> next issue.
FROM WASHINGTON,
Washington, May 27 —Confirmation:;
.Kiinders, postmuatcr ut Lafuyctteville, i
North Carolina.
Nomination: WalterH. Johnson, post
master at Columbus, Ga.
Iu the Senate, Bhewnan from the Com
mittee on Finauee, reported fuvorably on
the House bill amendatory of the act to
reduce the duties on imports und to re
duce internal taxation approved March
2(1.1873. It was laid over.
The contested election case cif Hykt-s vs.
Spencer, from Alabama, I hen came up.
Hamtttou reviewed ut some length tbe ur
guuwiits before the Committee on Privi
leges and Elcotiuus aud the condition of
affairs in Alabama, and argued that the
Legislature by which Spencer, the present
occupant, was elected, was not the legal
Legislature of the Htate. In conclusion,
be aubrnittdd an solution and, daring Silen
cer not entitled to a sent in the Senate,
and that it be awarded to Sykes.
Morton said lie did not view tbs en;e
in u pnrtizan spirit. Alabama hud a de
cided Republican majority. General Grant
having cuiried the State m 1872 by ten
thousand majority. Die w holt trouble in
that State grow out of a conspiracy to se
cure a Democratic majority iu the Legis
lature to control tlie patronage thereof,
and more jiurticiiliirly the election of a
Uuitcd States Senator.
Hnulsbiiry defiled that thero was any
fraud on the part of tho Democrats in Ala
bama, nud Haiti if there was any it was on
Hie part of the Republicans. He con
tended that the Legislature which elected
Sykes was the legal Legislature ’of the
State.’
The discussion was interrupted by a mo
tion for executive session.
The House passed bills ns follows: Pro
viding that uo jK-rson shall serve ns a ju
ror iu the United States Courts who can
not read und write the English language;
fixing the times for holding the Circuit
Courts in the fourth Judicial District;
making the colored persons iu the Choc
taw and Chickasaw nations members of
these nations and entitled to all rights aud
privileges as such.
The House also adopted a resolution for
the appointment of a select committee on
the disturbed condition of Arkansas, and
whether it has a government republican iu
form, and which ought to be recognized
by the United States Government.
The House also passed a bill removing
the disabilities ol George E. Pickett und
Chan. H. Williamson, of Virginia; Tims.
Hardeman, Jr., and James Jackson, of
Georgia; und John H. Reagan, of Texas.
GEORGIA NEWS.
The Hiuesville (hurtle man has a dog
that is boti-d for limiting ret tie snakes.
Ho has brought three of them to grief
within the last twelve months.
Governor Smith lias again respited the
death sentence of Henry Jackson, ol Lee
county, until the 19th ot June, in order to
allow further investigation.
The jail of Webster county was burned
last week by the inmates, iu order to make
their escape, but failed. The negro that
furnishes them matches has been arrested.
Tlie Conference of the Methodist
Chur-h held at Louisville, Ky.. re-eleoted
Rev. M Kennedy as editor, and Rev. Mr.
Burke as assistant editor of the Southern
i'hriflhnt -It/eocMte, published at Macon.
The Cotton States Convention, com
posed of Patrons of Husbandry, Stock
holders of the Direct Trade Union aud
Representatives from the Stab* Agricultural
Societies will meet iu Atlanta oa thu 3d
day of June next.
The Griffin AWs says: The Grangers
were in session yerterdav, and transacted
the usnul routine of business. \\ e are
told that the taganization is subscribing
*piite liberally to the capital stock of the
Direct Trade Union ot the Patrons of
Husbandry, aud they si eni quite eoutident
that tlie requisite amount w ill be made up
during the ye“ l '.
The Savannah Advertiser liepuhUam
says: “Calvin Mathis, negro, living oil the
plantation of Mr. AY. C. Odum, of Baker
• comity, 'crushed'.the skull o/-another ne
gro, named- Charlie Mathis, with a. button
Saturday last, aud liisutU nding physicians
t 11 us that it will be impossible for him to
recover, congestion of thebrtdu having set
in. Tire murderer escaped, and bias not
becu heat X of siuci the occurrence.
Tbe Civil Rights Bill.
We give the full text of the civil rights j
! bill as it pusaod tlie Senate and as it pends
in the House. It reads as follows;
Muctiom 1. That all citizens and other
| persons within tbe juriadietioo of the Uni-'
ted Htales shall be entitled to the full uud j
equal enjoyment of tbe accommodations,
advantages, facilities arid privileges of
iniiH, public conveyances on land or water,
threat res and other places of public
amusement, and also of common seimols
and public institutions of learning or tie
nevolence supported in whole or part by
general taxation, and of cemeteries so
supplied, und nlao the institutions known j
as industrial colleges endowed by the
United Htut.es subject to the conditions
and limitations established by law and
applicable alike to citizens of every race
and color, regardless of any previous con- i
ditioti of servitude.
Her. 2. That any person who shall vio- :
lute the foregoing section by denying to
any person entitled to its benciits, except
for reasons by law applicable to citizens of
every race and color aud regardless of any
previous condition of servitude, the full
enjoyment of any accommodations, ad-;
vantages, facilities or privileges in Baid
section enumerated, or inciting such de
nial, shnll, for every such offence, forfeit
and pay the sum of five hundred dollars to
the person aggrieved thereby, to be re
covered in action on the euse, with full
costs, und shuli nlao for every such offence
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, aud
upon conviction thereof shall bo fitted not
less titan oue thousand dollars, or shall be
imprisoned not more than one year, pro
vided. that the party so aggrieved shall not
recover more than one penalty; aud if the
offence is a refusal of burial, the penalty
tuny be recovered by the heirs at law of
the person whose body lias been refused
burial; and provided further, that all per
sons may elect to sue for the penalty
aforesaid, or to proceed under their rights
at common few and Cite Htate statutes, aad
having so elected to proceed iu the one
mode or the other, their right to proceed
in the other jurisdiction- shall be barred;
but this proviso shall not apply to crimi
nal proceedings either under this act or
the criminal law of the Htate.
Hue. 3. That the dietriet arid circuit
courts of the United Htutes shall ltavtt, ex
clusively of tiie courtsof the several States,
cognizance of all crimes and offences
against and violations of the provisions of
this act, uud action for penulty giVeil by
the preceding section may be prosecuted
| in tlie territorial, district or circuit oourta
i of tlie United States whenever the defen
dant may be found, without regard to the
; other party slid district attorneys, aud
tiiarsliulH uud deputy marshals of the Uui
i ted Htutes and commissioners appointed
liv the circuit and territorial courts of the
i United Htutes with powers \,f arresting
! and imprisonment mid bailing offenders
i against tlie laws of the Uuitcd Htutes urc
! hereby specially authorized and required
j to institute proceedings against every per
: sou who shall violutc tlie provisions of this
act and cause him to he urrested or im
prisoned or bailed as the case may lit-, for
trial before such court of tho United
Htutes or territorial court as by law has
cognizance of the offence, except in res
pert of the right of action accruing to the
person aggrieved; and such district attor
neys shall cause such proceedings io pros
ecuted to tiieir termination as in other
cases; providing that nothing contained in
this section shall be construed to deny or
defeat the civil action accruing to any per
son by reason, this act or otherwise.
Sec. 4. That no citizen, providing Uo
meet ail the other qualifications which are
or may be prescribed by law, shall be dis
qualified for services for grand or petit
jurors in uny court of the United Htutes or
of a State, on account of race, color, or
previous condition of servitude, and any
officer or other person charged with any
duty in the selection of summoning of ju
rors, who shall exclude or fail to summon
auy citizen for tin- cause aforesaid, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, und
fined not more than SI,OOO.
Sec. 5. That all cases arising under the
provisions of this act in the courts of the
United Htutes, shall lie reviewuhle by tlie
Supreme Court of the United States,
without regard to the sum in controversy,
under the same provisions and regulations
as are now provided by law for the re
view of other eases iu Said court.
Good Bye, Joe.
Each train over tin- Cairo nnd Fulton
aud Iron Mountain railroads brings to St.
Louis crowds of fleeting Urooksites, who,
since that little proclamation of tlie Presi
dent's, find tlie land of the Haekcn-s- ks
too hot for them. At the different hotels
were registered last night Colonel John
M. Claytou, brother of the great head and
front of the late attempted usurpation, a
member of the last General Assembly from
Jefferson county, and recently a Brigadier
General of Brooks’ forces; Col. John
Hooker, also a member of the House, the
leader of tho force who fired into the
steamer Hullie, and who afterwards scut
tled her; Lieut. Col. A. H. Fowler, for
merly sheriff of Pope county, and who is
; known in connection with the seizure of
the State arms from the Arkansas State
Industrial University at Fayetteville, aud
; for whose capture the ill-fared steamer
Hal i was eqniped aud started out. Cap
tain H. R. Pinkney, formerly of the State
‘Laud Department; Captain J. T. Cox, Jr,
of the Brooks forces; Captain Ed. Stowell,
I of the State Treasury Department: Lieut.
; Charles Taylor. Chief Clerk of the Chan
i eery Court; Colonel M. L. Andrews,
Quartermaster General of the Brooks for
ces, and a large number of the followers
of tlio dreorguniziug parson. With these
! gentlemen tho dretuma is over, the enr
taiu has fallen, the desperate game they
attempted baa not won, and now, after n
short ami fitful season of the “pomp,
pride and circumstances of glorious war,”
they fiud themselves refugees from a land
they have for years impoverished, and
well nigh converted intoa“howling wilder
ness.” The reign of the carpet bagger is
over in Arkansas, aud the horde of
vampires that has for tbe last decade
been drawing the life-blo >d from the com
mon wealth, must seek other scenes more
congenial to their vandalism. Poor Jt>e,
; had he served his God as fnithfully as he
i served Benjamin Clayton, would not lie
deserted in this, his last extremity, Not
a single prominent Republican is left in
i Little Rock to console tho deposed nsur
; per in thin sad hour of trial. Yale, vale,
1 Joe. —SV. Louis Times.
An Amebtcan Piusonf.b in Havana.—
\>ir York May 26.- A Havana letter says
the fate of the American, F. A. Dock ray,
who was arrested at Nuevitas on April 3d,
is still uncertain. The authorities repre
sented by General Partilis commanding
tb it district ordered his removal to Puerto
Principe for trial.' It-is expected from
\ the hesitation shown to extreme measures
that his life utav be spared, but the entire
; matter rests with the Governor General
and his decision must lie patiently waited
j for. Dockray has been heard from Up to
, the 14th inst.’, and is iu good spirits, not
withstanding the rigor of Jus confinement
w hich has, by reason of the poor food and
water,rough aoonramodutious aud tlie heat
somewhat effected his health and reduced
1 him iu weight.
(1-Yum the Atlanta Herald. J
HEROIC arV&URISM
tin MU-pticiu and KrawluK A Picture of
l>antl<i Ulan).
Hut for heroic invalidism, if there is such
a word, 1 know of no cases like Alexander
Hamilton Stephens, of Georgia aud Wil
liam Gannuway Brottbinw, of Tennessee.
Stephen* was G‘2. February 12, 1874;
Browniow will be (iff, August 29, 1874.
Their lives have Wen? crowded with vicis
situdes. Born poor, they fought u long
and bitter battle with ’ adversity. Hte
phens was a school master for eighteen
months; Browniow was apprenticed to a
house carpented. Stephens became a dis
tinguished lawyer; Browniow an equally
distinguished Methodist clergyman. Both
were Whigs in the old party divisions;
both opponents of General Jackson; both
Union nten iu 1850, ami in iB6O both op- -
pusfil the Breckinridge party, Stephens ,
declaring for H. A. Douglas* aud Herschel
V. Johnson, and Browniow for John Bell
aud Kdwar<l Everett. But when the war
broke out Stephens joined the rebellion,
and Browniow denounced it. Both art
now in the Congress of the United Htutes,
Browniow in the Senate, an extreme Re
publican, and Stephens in the House, u
decided Democrat,
Tbe mental powers of these two uncom
mon men have strangely resisted the rav
ages of disease. When Alexander H.
Stephens, in 1849-50, sat in Congress witli
Howe.ll Cobb und Robert Toombs, tiiat
triumviate wtrs rnnhfcd among tliqudvauced
Union men, aud w ant Cobb became the
Union candi late for Governor of Georgia
against Charles J. McDonald, iu 1850, tlie
issue was made squaro against the uulifiea
tiou doctrine, all three standing on tlie :
same-platform. The election of Cobb was
heralded as the victory of the nutioiial
sentiment. The feeble Tiealtli of Stephens,
bis treble or tenor voice, his light and
boyish frame, hie- deadly pale face, were
an odd contrast to tlie stern visage, impc-
rious tones and fierce temper of Toombs,
and the laughing face and rotund figure j
of Cobb. They were strong men, but tbe
palm of statesmanship was conceded to tbe ,
fragile Stephens; aud perhaps tbe other
two yielded to him more readily because
lt was so much of as invalid. Cobb tiled i
several'years ago, and Toombs is iu Geor- j
giu. But Stephens survives, huving out
lived thousands who fell iu battle ami
tiled iu tiieir beds. He passed through
the fiery tempest of tlie rebellion, and was
heaped iu all its councils. That ended, be j
returned to the House of Representatives,
in w ftich he has fignttd among the leaders
for many yt are. Tbw removal of his disa
bilities, anti his greeting by men of all
I>u-ties, proved the friendly ami forgiving
spirit of the nt-wr regime; but no scene of
the thousandth in ithd drama of his life—
and I have been witness of many a temp
est in which Tootnb# or himself led their
fiery hosts—equalled? that last January,
when his greut speech uguinst the civil
rights bill wuh answered 1 by Robert Brown
F.lliott, a black man, representing the fa
mous Columbia, South Carolina, district,
for nearly a hundred' years the sent of the
aviotoereoy and eußnile of the I’almetto
Htate.
No picture of the--paneled history of the
Capitol, whether the bas-reliefs which pre
serve the early treaties between Penn anti
the Indians, or tbe pictured Mrrriage of
Pokahontns, the Landing of tlie Pilgrims,
the Discovery of the Mississippi by I)e
Hoto, the Declnraiion of Independence,
the Hurrender of Lord Cornwallis, of the
Path of Empire, by Feutzt none of these
market! such a ttiinsformatlon, or empha
sized such an idea as tbftt conflict between
the types of a vanishing prejudice and a
vindicative principle. Mr. Stephens, the
Vice President of tbe Confederacy, of
which slavery was tlje cornerstone, tqioke
January 6, 1874, and Mr. Elliott, the Col
ored champion of the liberated ruce, fol
lowed him the next day. I give extracts
from the two speeches, but I cannot des
cribe the House when the two men lid
dressed it, especially when the African an
swered the Caucasian. Here wo haven
new history that may, indeed be repeated,
but which stands alone in tlie novelty of
all its surroundings, aud iu the eloquence
af all its lessons.
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The Untutored Negro in His Native
Wilds.
The whole of my experience in Central
Africa says that the negroos not yet
spoiled by contact with the slave trade,
arc distinguished for friendliness and
sound sense. Home can be guilty of great
wickedness, anti seems to thiuk Tittle
about it j otl ers per orm actious as unmis
takably good w.ih Ho great self-compla
cency, uud, if one Catalogued all the good
deeds or all the bed, ones he came across
he might think the men extremely good
or extremely bad, instead of culling them
like ourselves curious compounds of good
aud evil. Iu oue point they are remarka
ble—they are honest. Even among the
cannibal Mansenina a slave-trader at Bam
liaure and I hud id send our goats ami
fowls up to the Muuyucina village to pre
vent tiieir being stolen by my friends’
own slaves. Another wide-spread trait of
character is a trusting disposition. The
Central African trfbi s are the antipodes
to some of the North American Indians,
and very unlike inaiiy of tiieir own coun
trymen who have come into contact with
Mohammedans and Portuguese and Dutch
Christians. They ut once perceive the su
periority of the strangers in power of mis
chief, and. rtadilv listen to aud ponder
over friendly atj(*sb. After the cruel mas
sacre of Nyuugno-ltwhich 1 unfortunately
witnessed—fourteen chiefs, whose villages
hud been dcstaoyd nu/l many of them
killed, fled to my house aud begged me to
make peace for then! with the Arabs, and
; then come over to. their side of the river
Lualabu, divide their country anew und
point out where each should build anew
village aud cultivate other plantations.
The peace was easily made, for the Arabs
had had no excuse for their murders, nnd
each blamed the other for the guilt.— Dr.
| Licim/stoiie.
EccKNTmerriEs op Tbade. —One of the
current eccentricities of trade is the ship
ment of fruit and vegetables from the sea
board west w Hid. If anything could be
produced westward, one would think it
would be fruit tin*! vegetables. If peaches
are scarce along the line of the Ohio, it is
not because nature is chary of her gifts, but
because little or no attention has been paid
to their cultivation. Arrangements have
I just been made to send a large propotion
of the Maryland and Delaware peach crop
i to Pittsburg and as much further west as
they can marketed. The enormous crops
Of these two States have long been the
chief source of supply for the markets of
New England and New York; and the crop
exceeding the facilities for shipment in that
direction, shipments commenced years ago
to tlie interior of Pennsylvania and the
cotd aud iron regions. But even this has not
taken all that chh tie marketed, aud so the
enterprise, as we have said, is turning
westward, and will probably reach Chicago
and St, Louis, as California fruit reaches
New York.— Stru- )~ork Bulletin.
Ex-Governor Seymour, of New York,
positively refuses to he a candidate forany
1 office iu the gift of l_c people.
(From the Sew York Post (fUdtcal.)]
South Carolina Takes Another Torn.
We hope, for the sake of human nature,
there is no man whose heart is so callous i
that he can wish the lately rebellious pco
| pie of tlie Houthern States to be punished
I or humiliated beyond the treatment which j
: they have received at the hands of their I
| ••carpet-bag” niters. The steady and de
moruHzing torture to which they have
j beet) subjected would seem to be sufficient
jto melt tbe stoutest heart anil reduce to
1 humility thu most impenitent rebel.
.The administration Of most of tbe South
ern States have been absolutely tireless in
usurping extraordinary powers aud in
robbing tbe treasuries. One after an
other tin se Htutes hove furnished history
with some of the most disgraceful inci
dents that ever characterized any kind of
government, and no sooner has the list
been apparently exhausted than the inci
dents are repeated as regularly as the cogs
in a wheel approach a given point iu their
revolution.
Arkansas having retired from view,
South Carolina is called upon to take her
turn again in the pillory of public opin
ion. Tiie star actor in this latest affair is
the Governor of tne Htate, Mr. F. I.
Moses. He is not unknown to fame for
the leading parts he has played before.
He bus risen rapidly from a nobody,
througb various offices, to the Governor
ship. He was very conspicuous under
Governor Scott as Speaker of one House
of the Legislature, in which capacity he
exercised his peculiar “talent” for legisla
tion. It was in great part through his in
fluence that, the debt of the State was in
creased by many millions-of dollars for
no conceivable public object. At the same
time it was remarkable that tbie able fi
nancial manager, upon a salary of two or
three thousand dollars, in five or six years
accumulated a large fortune. But rupa
cious as be was, he also indulged in
dreams of empire; he loved money much
for its own sake, but not so much as for
promoting his petsonal jiower in politics.
What were riches to him without honors ?
When the power of Governor Scott began
to wane, the people who hail heard of his
lieutauant were somewhat startled to learn
that Moses bail come out a full fledged re
former. He deplored the extravagance
anti corruption of past years, and prom
ised retrenchment. With these promises,
and with a liberal sowing of liis money,
he obtained the Republican nomination,
and tiie election of himself for Governor.
The emphatic commentary iu his refarma
tory profession is that the cost of the State
governuientis much greater than ever be
fore; anil the fact that lie has lately been
adjudged u bankrupt >qieak* loudly of the
means he used to obtain political promo
tion.
The latest act in his career ia not worse
than many others; but once upon the
downward grade and every act tells
against a fellow like Moses. His money
procured him ffiimde; anti his money gone,
liis friends abandon him. He is charged
with conspiring to rob one of the comity
treasuries to pay liis debts. Tbe county
treasurer, who was co-conspirator, became
a defaulter for $25,000, of which Motes is
said to have received SO,OOO. It may be
urged an a comparatively favorable circum
stance that Moses manifested the least de
sire to pay his debts, uinl also that he took
the smallest share of the plunder. The
law, however, is merciless, and the officers
threatened to prosecute him for ferct-ny.
They went to arrest him, and he called
out the colored militia, who stood guard
over this sr.mple Southern Executive, de
fying the sheriff with “fixed bayonet*,”
while the-y were rt g led v ith , h mpugue
and cold chicken in the Executive apart
ments. Finally, however, the attorney
of Moses advised him to submit, and he
so fur condescended as to surrender him
self to the coroner instead of to tbe sheriff.
This was a suggestive compromise, for
the people of south Carolina buve bad
more than one good reason before to wish
that the coroner might perform his grace
ful offices on Moses.
boor Houtli Carolina ! we may well ex
elairn. Where this will end uo one cau
tell. Ruined with taxation; oppressed by
foreign speculators; disgraced by the loss
of credit—her cup seemed full before her
Governor was arrested for larceny. If
there is lower depth to be reached by
any people, it is possible that Hollth
Carolina may fiud it.
♦♦ fe-
A Young Man Kills His Mother with a
Hatchet.
The details of a most shocking murder
come to us from Frankfort. The terrible
deed was committed in that city on yester
day morning, the murderer being Jobn
Fry Walcott and liis victim bis mother.
Young Walcott had been drinking very
hard of late. His mother greiving for her
son, implored him to turn away from the
paths of vice. On yesterday morning,
while iu a state of intoxication, he went
home, and becoming enraged at his
mother, seized a hatchet and struck her
with it, inflicting a wound so serious that
she died from the effects of it iu an hour
afterward. The sharp edge of the hatchet
struck tlie poor lady just behind the right
ear, cutting into the skull.
Walcott, after committing the deed,
gave himself up aud was placed in jail.
A correspondent of the 7’rcss visited the
prisoner in the jail for the purpose of ob
taining an interview. Tbe murderer is a
young man apparently about twenty-five
years of age, dark complexion, and has
the appearance of being a villuin. He
would talk very little about the matter,
and expressed the wish that the papers
should say nothing about the affair until
after his examining trial. Upon being
asked whether he regretted the deed, he
replied that “he did not care whether he
had killed her or not.”
The tragedy has caused a great deal of
excitement, aud fears of lynching are en
tertained.—Lexington (Ay.) Press, 'Lid.
Cotton Tax.
Washington, May 23.—The hill re
ported to the House to-day to refund the
eotton tax was the one agreed upon at the
recent caucus of the representatives from ;
the cotton States. It provides for a com
mission af three persons, to bo appointed
by the President, and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, to adjudicate the
claims which may be presented. The tax
moneys are to be refunded to the parties
who actually sustained the burden of tiie
tax, or their legal representatives. The
judgment or award is to be based oil the ,
established principles of equity as held ill
1 the highest Courts of Chancery in this
: country in like cases. Bonds of live liun
-1 dred and one thousand dollars are to be
issued, payable at the end of forty years
i iu gold from the date of judgement, bear
ing interest at the rile of four and a half
per cent, per aunum, and to be called cot
ton bonds. It is not expected the bill will
be acted on during the present session.
Death is Too Good, fob Them. —At
Seymour, ludiana, last week, two men
] named Fleetwood (brothers) were convicted
of the murder of a little German boy a
year ago, and sentenced to the penitenti
ary for life. The evidence showed they
■ enticed the child into a field and beat out
: his bruins with a club, cut his throat aud
threw the body into a creek. The object
of the murder wns the robbery of the child
; of two-dollara.
A NOVEL KAN.
rn Sooth Atlantic and MMhtlppl Comet
('•Halt
A citizen of South Carolina has laid be
fore the Mobile Board of Trade a plan for
opening cheap transportation. from the
Mississippi valley to the Atlantic seaports.
We are informed that the Board look
upon it fuvorably. The plan ia to connect,
by a series of canals, the existing inland |
water courses, along the Atlantic and
Gulf coasts, from Norfolk, Virginia, to the
Mississippi river. There have been two.
projects lately brought prominently before
the public, liaviug for their object the
connecting of the great rivers of the West
with the tide water of the Atlantic coast,
to-wit: The canal tocomiectthe Tennessee I
und Savannah rivers, aud the James river
and Kanawha canal, just reported to Con
gress, to connect the Ohio with the James
at Bichmoud.
Both of these cnuals would lie limited in
the freight facilities they would afford, as
fi eights coming by either from any point
ou tiie Mississippi would have to ascend
the Tennessee or the Ohio for a loDg dis
tance uguinst the current, and could only
be received at one point of outlet ou tlie
seaboard. Added to this, the heavy c"t
of construction, estimated at from 850,-
000,000 or $60,000,000 for each, would
necessitate high rates of tolls to pay iuter
; est on the capitul invested, aud in oper
ating and keeping up the numerous locks
required to carry the water over mountains
und through tunnels, etc., while the line
by the coast would be so nearly uniform
with the sea level as to require scarcely a
lock iu its whole length, and its construc
i tion, consisting mainly in the deepening
and straightening of tlie existing channels,
would require a much smaller expenditure
than either of the other proposed routes.
The proposed coast line is described as
follows;
Beginning at Norfolk, Virginia the route
would lie through the Dismal Swamp canal
to the Pasquotank river, und through Albe
marle, Pumlico and Core sounds to Beau
fort, North Carolina, thence by Bogue
souud to New river, and up that river to a
point whence, by a canal of eleven miles,
the Cape Fear river above Wilmington may
be reached; passing down the Cape Fear to
Smithville, the line would continue by
means of tbe Elizabeth, Lockwood’s Folly
and Sliallotte rivers nnd sounds to little rtv
er South Carolina; a canal of four nnd%*ha!f
mi lets would connect with the Waecumaw
river, by which Georgetown Would be
reached, thence s canal of seven miles
would connect with Santee, from which a
few short cuts would reach Charleston
thence riti Port Royal and Savannah to
Fcriiaudina, the route is already open nnd
would require an expenditure only for
deepening and straightening; ascending
the Ht. Mary’s river from Fernandhia to
the head of navigation, the Apalachicola
river can be reached by a canal of alamt
forty miles, and from that river through
Ht. Andrew's nnd Ht. George’s bay, and
Huuta Rosa sound to Pensuc' la bay will
only require three cuts of less than eigh
teen miles in the aggregate; from Pensa
cola, Mobile bay may be reached by a cut
of five miles, couneting the Perdido and
Bon Secour havs, aud from Mobile bay
riti the Mississippi sound* to the Missis
sippi river at Luke Pontehartrain, or by the
Pearl river.
By this route, the total length of new
canals to cut would not exceed ninety-six
miles, and the total cost to make the w hole
route navigable for steamers of eight feet
draught would be inside of $15,000,000
against $50,000,000 to $60,000,000 by ei
ther of the other routes, while it would
connect by an iutand water route every
seaport from New Fork to New Orleans
uud Texas would be available to the gov
ernment in time of war, would lie unob
structed by ice, aud would have less than
half a dozen locks in its entire lcDgth.
The special importance of this proposi
tion to the cities of the Gulf is the beuring
it has upon a ship canal across the penin
sula. The construction of the Florida
ship canal would 5ave52,376,000 annually,
which is uow paid by commerce for extra
muriue insurance agaiust the reefs. This
sum alone would pay a handsome interest
upon even a greater amount of money than
the construction of the entire coast route,
from the Mississippi to Norfolk would cost.
To the Executive Committee of the Demo
cratic Party.
Macon, May 18, 1874.
Desiring, above all things, unity of ac
tion by the Democrats of Georgia in our
approaching elections, and knowing the
great importance of harmony in our ranks,
I have determined, with a view to these
desirable ends, to call together the Execu
tive Committee of tbe party on tfio first
Wednesday in July in Atlanta, for consul
tation. Untill then it is desired that no
action looking to nomination of candidates
will lie taken by the party. Gentlemen of
the Convention, the interest of tlie people
demand your attention.
Taomas Habcehax, Jr.,
Chairman Dem. Ex. Com.
The Present Democratic Executive Com
mittee in Georgia.
The Htate Democratic Executive Com
mittee of Georgia consists of the following
gentlemen:
Hon. Thos. Hardeman, Chairman.
Htate at large—Col. J. L. Harris, Bruns
wick; Hon. Warren Aiken, of Bartow;
Hon. Nelson Tift, of Dougherty; Hon. J.
H. Christie, of Clarke.
First District—Hon. J. C. Nieliolls, of
Fierce; Hon. James H. Hunter, of Brooks.
Second District—-Hon. Herbert Fielder.
| of Randolph; Hon. T. M. Furlow, of Sum-
ter.
Third District—Hon. E. H. Worrell,
of Talbot; Major J. C. Wooten, of Cow
eta.
F’ourth District—Col. J. S. Boynton,
of Spalding: Hon. T. G. Lawson, of Put
nam.
Fifth District—Hon. Aognstns Reese,
of Morgan; Hon. James B. Jones, of
Burke.
Sixth District—Col. Tlyie. Morris, of
Franklin; Col. J. Estes, of Hall.
Seventh District—G >l. I. W. Avery, of
Fulton; Hon. L. N. Trammell, of Whit
field.
The committee was appointed under
resolutions of the last Convention of the
! party that assembled in Georgia the 24th
. of Jnly, 1872.
| Here is the resolution:
“Resolved, That this committee recom
mend that tlie President of the Convention
appoint an Executive committee of the
i Democratic party of the State, to serve un
til the meeting of the next State Conven
i tion, and to consist of two members for
each Congressional District as now exist
-1 ing, and four for the State at large, which
committee shall have power to eleot a
'■ chairman outside of its own body,”—At
lanta Herald.
I The Alabama Benito bship.— Washiiu -.
ton. May 29.—The committee, by a strict
1 party vote, was discharged from further
'consideration - iu the-case-of Sykes vs.
Spfencor, in the Alabama Senatorial cpfi-’
, test. This confirms ftpenofr ia his se.'.t
THE WREATHED SUBJECT.
A Tale ofDliKttliig Table.
In a narrow little street, full of nooks
and angle* stands a quaint brick hou*e,
nooky und full of angles, too. It has
survived many yean, and time ha* filled
its crevices with mould and green mom now
nnd then is seen on its cornices or gitt*
close on its walls.
It is old enough to have had a history,
and people say it is the broodiug haunt of
memories that are better lost than keflk-T
ulive. Be that as it may, it is a scene of •
little incident in life, which was told U
me, anti I relate it here. Those connec
ted with it have passed away, bnt others
beside myself will receollect the doctor’s
story.
The old college near by was in the hey
day or its fame before the war, nnd stu
dents from all parts of the Htate were in
attendance. By some of these the old
house, we speak of was rented for dissec
ting purpose's, and hither were brought
the subjects they desire to practice on.
a gloomy place it was, and with close
shutters and doors excluding daylight, the
heavy atmosphere seemed instinct with
ghostly presences. Coming into the
! house from the keen air outside, a chill
j would strike to the heart, like tbe breath
|of a Texas norther. An iuspiratou of
constraint, of 4ear and dread, was all about
; the place.
“Imagine then my feelings,” said the
. narrator, “when, long after midnight, I
L crept cautiously into the old house alone-
I had made arrangements to have js
■■subject brought me for my next day*
j study. But a feverish unrest pursued me
und an inclination I could not resist car
ried me there long before any one elite
was stirring, I knew my commissaries
had done their work long before and in
! the silent figure on the table, and lined
through the muslin draprries, I perceive
I that for which I come in search. My
nerves were always strung and I had a
passion for science. I hod no fear of tha
dead and yet I trembled preceptibly os I
stood that night beside the voiceless clay
that I had come to view.
What was it—fear? or that subtle
sympathy which despite all reasonable
causes at times prevudes the heart and
mind? I can’t describe the sensation;
but I felt as if I was approaching some
event of controlling force and power on
my life. But whatever the feeling was
I shook it off aud turning tip the gas,
approached the table. My hand shook
a little as I exposed the face of the dead
to view.
It wus a young girl apparently shoot sev
enteen years of age; it was a sod face,
beautiful ami calm, anil a smile, like-tha
shadow of holy memories, lingered on tha
lips. A garland of white flowers wreathed
her brow like a bride. The golden flnsa
of sunny hair that crowned the bead waa
stired by a breath of air. I started,and
turned pale. It seemed to me on the
unreasoning instant that on that silent,
viewless breath of air life wus returning to
the inanimate frame.
What if it should be so ! I came closer
and looked eagerly into tbe face—a calm,
still face with yellow lashes voiiiug tho
palely tinted under-lids nnd a waxen Idoom
like a roseate shadow swept the face— iudia
tinct—such as sometimes a glint of sun
light flings on ice or steel.
It was life. I was certain of it now.
Quick as thought 1 lifted tbe figure and
curried it to a sofa in mi adjoining room,
room, aud disorbing the artn struck my
luiice deep into a vein. The blood’ came
dark and clotted n drop at a time then
swifter and a ruddier stream- My braiu
wus on Are and my blood leaped like a
courser in my vMtis; but my hand was
steady and my senses did not desert me.
Through her set teeth I poured a draught
of ammonia nnd life began to finttefi back
intoth pi. i v • fr:me;tlie mouth twitched;
the cht ek* fluslied and paled alternately;
the eyelids quivered and the blue eyes
opened wide.
“I have been dreaming,” shb mur
mured, wearily.
“Yes,” I replied! “pleasant dreams, I
trust.” “Very pleasant —1 thought of
clouds and shadow tinged with rainbow
hues; uml gentle murmuring streams and
gardens full of blooms.”
“Take this and dream again,” I sail;
and almost as I spoke she s uk back in
sleep. And then the doctor relasped into
silence too.
“Well, doctor, what next?” I asked
eagerly.
“Well, I called a carriage and took her
to my boarding house—hud -her made
comfortable, ’ lie replied, curtly. '•
"She wasn't dead then, after all ?"
“No !”
"But she had been, buried ?”we asked.
“Yes, in a trance. That is all you need
to know”- —and the doctor ended hiß story.
Origin of the K u ights Templar.
The Knights Templar were organized as
a distinct military fraternity in 1113—
Hugh DePayoes, the first Grand Master,
being installed on the'lsth of February,
1113. The Order was called intoexistenco
for the purpose of checking the power of
the infidels, and fighting the battle of
Christendom ou the plains of Asia. Sug
gested by fanaticism, as Gibbon'observes,
but guarded by an intelligent und far
reaching policy, this Order became the
formidable bulwark of Christianity in tbe
East, aud mainly contributed to preserve
Europe from Turkish desolation and prob
ably from Turkish conqnest. When the
Holy City was taken by Cntsaders, the
Mosk-el-Aksa, with the various buildings
constructed Wound it, became the property
of the Kings of Jerusalem. If js denomi
nated by William of Tyre, “tli'e-Palace or
Royal House to the South of the Temple
of the Lord, vulgarly called the Temple at
i Solomon.” It was this edifice or Temple
on Mount Moriah which was appropriated
; to “the poor fellow-soldiers of Jesus
1 Christ,” as they had no church and no
particular place of abode, and from it they
derived the name of the Knights Tem
plar. It is unnecessary to follow- the Ot
\ der in the various trials through which if
passed after the ever celebrated and won,
dt-r'ul crusade, the persecutions, tortureq
and outrages to which its members were
subjected in France and England in 1312,
and its violent and terrible dissolution,
These matters are of history and are fa
miliar t all. The fact that the Order
lives and is a powerful bodv throughout
, the country is patent. The French theory
is that the Knights Templar were never
annihilated, but that Janies DeMolay,
who was burned at the stake at Paris l n
: 1313, auticiputing his terrible fate, ap
: pointing Jobu Mark Lanneiripus as his
successor in office, and from that to the
j present a regular and uninterrupted suc
cession of Grand Masters has been main
tained.
A Cube fob Corns. —A French medical
journal reports tlie cure of the moat refrac
j torv corns by the morning and evening
applications, with a brush, of a drop of
a solution of the perehloride- of iron. It
states that after a fortnight’s continued
j application, witho it pain, a patient Who
had suffered martyr lom for nearly forty
. years from a most pa nfni corn on the
inner side of each little tofF' was entirely
r lieved; pressure w-as ho longer painful,
and the core aeetne 1 to be rad-c.l. Other
and-sifitilau esses hixc-repoatt-ti as equally
' successful- trader tbs treatment.