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4aUa#res #tulfpnulcttt. '-f . *~r~*| — -- TT^r ~ -" S! - J. V. CAI.LAHIiU, Eiitor. 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. -*-• 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.