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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION; ATLANTA, HA., TUESDAY, APRIL. 29, 1879.
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ATLANTA, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1879.
The subaidiary silver coins bill intro
duced by Mr. Stephens passed the bouse
Thursday. The bill may be amended in
the senate, bat it is not likely to meet
with any opposition. A synoptical state
ment of the main features of the bill will
be found embodied in our telegrams.
Tint 10-40 binds will all tie refunded
the 21st of July next, or at least interest
will cense to accrue on them on that day.
The public debt will then stand as fol
lows:
HI* per rente redeemable IM1 t2C4..Tn.2'iO
Five per finite redeemable18*1...... 508.410,300
Four and one-hall per rente redeema-
able im ~ ... 2TA0m,00rt
Four per eentt. mk-emable V*fl 736,731,350
The annual saving in interest on ac
count of the refunding operations will
amount to a little over thirteen millions—
a handsome contribution towards the
sum that will soon lie annually due the
sinking fund.
We are to have three, instead of two,
conventions in the second week of May
for the national board of health has asked
every state and municipality to send rep
resentatives here to confer with it for the
purpose of securing a general system of
health and quarantine regulations. This
will bring to Atlanta the health officers,
quarantine physicians and sanitarians
generally of the United .States—enough to
make another convention. Atlanta will
be filled to overflowing,and The Cosstitu-
•nos proposes to greet the multitude of
visitors in an immense double issue set
ting forth the advantages and facilities of
the city. We hope to have the cordial
and prompt co-operation of the city'
business men in this enterprise.
Mil Ajcdejwon* W. Reese, of the Macon
Telegraph, says that Atlanta “has both
“the senators.” This is a new and patrio
tic view of the matter. Twelve hours
ago, if our opinion had been sought upon
this important subject, we should un
hesitatingly have said that Georgia has the
two senators now at the federal capital
In our thoughtlessness we should have
boldly remarked, even in the presence
witnesses, that the senators represented
the state and all parts thereof; that
they are Macon’s senators as well
Atlanta’s and .Savannah’s; that, in fine,
they are the senators of all Georgia. But
it ap[tears not. Our friend Keese has dis
covered that Atlanta “has the senators,'
and nothing remains for ns to do but
revise our hastily formed opinion and
proceed at once to heartily congratu
late Atlanta. Wc believe that if luck as
sumed the shape of a cyclone the capital
of the great empire state of the south
would he right in its pathway.
Ix the trial of the political cases before
Judge Bond, in the circuit court
Charleston, Tnesday, a very astonishing
result was reached. In one of the
—probably the strongest—the indictment
contained five counts. The first four
charged the prisoners with conspiring
prevent certain colored men from meet
ing peaceably in consultation, and the
fifth charged that the prisoners conspired
to oppress certain negroes in the exer
cise of the right to vote at the federal elec
tion. Judge Bond instructed the jury
bring in a verdict of not gnilty on the
ground that the first four counts con
tained no allegation that the parties were
interfered with on account of their race,
color or previous condition, and that the
fifth count had not been proven. Judge
Bond is evidently growing conservative.
A year or two ago he would have turned
this packed jury loose upon the prisoners
and a verdict of guilty would have been
found in a few moments. The other
cases, to the surprise of everybody, were
continued to the November term.
Poindexter, the murderer of Curtis,
goes to the penitentiary for two years.
The whole case may he very briefly
summed up. A young lady of the period,
in shopping in Richmond, imagines she
is insulted by a clerk in a store. Not-
" withstanding this, she returns to the.store
some time afterwards, and it occurs
her that she is insulted again. After
awhile she informs Poindexter, to whom
she is engages], of the circumstances,
immediately seeks Curtis out, and not
withstanding the fact that the latter
pudiates any intention of insulting
lady, and offers to apoligize, Poindexter,
with jui exhibition of that peculiar
“chivalry” which too frequently turns
the heads of our young men, subjects
Curtis to the indignity of a cowhiding.
The latter seeks to avenge the insult and
is killed—and the result is a nice day 1
work for a thoughtless and frivolous
young lady, who, under all the circum
stances, is entitled to the pity and com
miseration of all who have read the story
of the murder as told upon the witness
stand.
convictions ranged themselves upon
every side of nearly all important ques
tions, awl his belief graduated in the
schools of all political parties. Never
theless, his belief and his convictions
were backed by such energy and such
vigorous impulses as to seem almost
reckless in their manifestations. He
was horn in New Hampshire, on the 24th
of July, 1798, and was therefore eighty-
one years old at the time of his death.
On the 12th day of the present month,
General Dix, in attempting to rise from
his bed, broke hi* collar-bone, and since
that time has been gradually sinking.
His life lias been active. He served on
the frontier as ensign in 1812, and ad
jutant of a battalion; practiced law in
1828, and was a democrat; was appointed
1830 adjutant general and superin
tendent of common schools in New York
served in the state assembly; and, in
1845, when Silas Wright was elected gov
ernor, was chosen to the United
States senate. When the qnestion
slavery came to he agitated, General
Dix attached himself to the free-soil fac
tion of the democratic party, and was
candidate for governor, but was de
feated. He was made assistant treas
urer of the United States at New York,
but soon resigned. In December,
when the cabinet of Buchanan was dis
rupted by the retirement of the southern
members, he became secretary of the
treasury in place of Howell Cobb, of
Georgia. New Orleans at that time was
in virtual possession of the secessionists
two revenue cutters were there and the
new secretary ordered them to New York.
The captain of one of them, after con
sulting with the collector at New Orleans,
refused to obey. Secretary Dix there
upon telegraphed to the lieutenant to ar
rest the captain and to treat him as
mutineer in case he offered any resist
ance. His dispatch closed with the sen
tence: “If any one attempts to haul
Mown the American flag shoot him on
“thespot.” When the civil war broke
out Mr. Dix was appointed major general
of the New York militia, and on
May . 16, 1861, major general
United States volunteers. He was in
command of the department of Mary
land, and in 1862 he was transferred to
Fortress Monroe, having command of the
seventh army corps. In 1863 he was sta
tioned in New York, where he was mili
tary commander during the riots which
ensued upon the president’s order for en
forcing the draft. During 1864-65 he
commanded the department of the east.
From 1866 to 1868 he was minister
France. In 1872 he was elected goveriior
of New York by the republicans. He
published two volumes relating to the
common schools and also “A Winter
Madeira” and .“A Summer in Spain and
Florence.” General Dix was a profound
scholar and possessed the strongest lite
rary instincts.
The Geological Narvejr.
A comprehensive review of the work
done by the half-completed geological
■array of the state is printed in another
column of this morning's Constitution.
The existence of the bureau under which
this survey was begun is a live issue, and
will be submitted to the legislature for
final action in July.*
The state of Georgia has never, in our
opinion, undertaken a more important
work than the survey of her domain.
That there is a mineral wealth of vast ness
and variety unequaled buried within the
limits of Georgia cannot lie doubted. To
summon enough capital to bring this
wealth into the state, it is only necessary
that the world slutll be notified of
what we have, and how easy it
is to get at it This can only be done
through a thorough geological survey
apeh as Dr. Little has commenced. The
fine effects of this survey is shown in the
enormous expansion of the gold mining
nterests. That interest has grown with
a rapidity only comparable with its
steadiness. Those northern gentlemen
who have invested in Georgia mines are
pleased almost without exception with
their ventures, and as a general rule
have extended their investments. There
is only one thing that can check the
further growth of gold mining, and that
is the withdrawal of the survey. Such a
step would he an almost fatal admission of
weakness, or scantiness of resource, and
would stop the flood that is springing
this way. An idea of the wide-spread
advantages derived from this survey
may be imagined when we say that the
article in another column, as carefully
prepared as it is, does not note one of
the most important results of the survey,
vix: the discover)' of the rich and abun
dant iron pyrites that are scattered over
our hills and their heavy per centage of
sulphur. This discovery will doubtless
add to tht. establishment of a factory for
the making of sulphuric acid in Georgia.
It seems that it must he unfair to have
taxed the people for the survey of one-
half of the state, and then refuse to allow
a tax for the survey of the other half. A
complete survey by the state is needed,
and that survey we must have. We
hope the legislature will see it in this
light.
General John A. Din.
The death of General John A. Dix
removes one of the most prominent
Americans of our time—a man typical
Of the period in which be lived. His
In n Xu (ahHI.
It is difficult to discuss the next presi
dential canvass without incurring the
odium of • pre-nomination bias—without
being charged with an attempt to ad
vance the interest of this or that aspirant
hut there are certain incontestible pro
positions that the people would do well
to keep in mind. Let us begin with
three that no intelligent man will
tempt to refute.
1. There are to he cast 369 electoral
votes, 185 being the number that the suc
cessful candidate most at least receive.
Of the whole number, the northern
states will cast 231; the sixteen southern
states, 138. In the southern state
are included Delaware, Maryland,
West Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri
If the contest evolves a sojid north and
a solid south, the latter will come out
beaten by 93 votes.
2. No state will be carried by the
tionals. The contest will he between the
conservatives and the radicals. The only
part the nationals will play in the contest
will he to swell the vote of one of the two
great parties in this or that state by
coalition, movement or to diminish it
a third ticket In no event can the
nationals secure an electoral vote.
3. The vote of the south will be cast
without a break for the democratic can
didate. This will give him 138 votes, and
he must get 47 more in order to secure
lease of the executive mansion for a term.
Here the indisputable propositions end
but we propose to add three more, letting
the reader, who pays his money, take
course his choice:
1. A coalition might be formed between
the south and the west, under the
leadership of Tom Ewing and other
popular leaders. To get the needed 47
votes by this plan we would have to carry
Ohio (22), Indiana (15) and Illinois (21)—
or Ohio (22), Indiana (15) and Michigan
(11)—or Ohio (22), Indiana (15) and Wis
consin (10). The last-named trio would
leave not a vote to spare. Ohio has of
late turned on the vote of Cincinnati,
and that city has just elected a republi
can mayor. In Michigan a coalition
ticket supported by the democrats and
greenbackers was beaten this month by
about 5,000 majoriy. In Wisconsin a re
publican supreme judge has just been
chosen by nearly 20,000 majority. Indi
ana may, however, be considered safely
democratic.
2. The south and the states about New
York city can elect a president. To get
the 47 needed votes we would then have
New York (35), New Jersey (9) and Con
necticut (6). These nineteen states cast
their votes for Tilden and Hendricks in
1S76. Owing, however, to the greenback
craze the three metropolitan states have
since that time cast, not republican ma
jorities, hut republican pluralities.
3. The drift of events and wise inter
vening legislation can settle the more
difficult currency questions before the
national democratic convention is assem
bled. If then a broad platform is adopt
ed upon which all democrats can stand,
the nominee of the convention can get
the missing fortv-seven votes in New
York, (35), and Indiana (15). If the
Chinese question enters largely into the
canvass, they might be had in New York
(35), California (6), Oregon (3), and Ne
vada (3).
Moral—It would be altogether better to
nominate a ticket that would have a sure
grip on New York and Indiana—leaving
New Jersey, Connecticut, California,
Oregon, and Ohio, for marginal battle
grounds.
Grorfla In fagrm.
On Wednesday of last week, Mr.
Stephens presented the first rejort based
on a petition that ever came from a com
mittee of congress. He reported the sub
sidiary silver coin bill^andMr. Conger o!
course, objected. The speaker sustained
Mr- Stephens, and the reported bill was
afterwards acted upon and is now before
the senate. Mr. Blount was granted leave
of absence for ten days, and Mr. Smith
“for a few days on account of important
business.” Mr. Stephens put in the
petition box the petition of William
Wheeler Hubbell,who wants congress to
pass a bill for his relief.
Upon the proposition to close the de
bate on the legislative bill on Friday
of this week, Messrs. Hammond and
Stephens voted “my”; Messrs. Cook,
Felton, Nicbolls, Persons and Speer voted
“no”; Messrs. Blount and Smith did not
vote. The proposition was adopted.
Mr. Felton presented, last Friday, the
petition of citizens of Georgia for a post
route from Dirt Town to Chattoogaville.
At the same time Mr. Stephens utilized
the petition box freely to get- in several
hills of a general nat ure.
The SolxadLiry silver coin hill was
taken op last Saturday as unfinished
business. Mr. springer moved to amend
it so as to make such coins legal tender
in all sums not exceeding $20, instead of
$10. Upon this proposition, Messrs.
Cook, Felton, Hammond, Nicholls, Per
sons, Speer and Stephens voted “ay”;
Messrs. Blount and Smith did not vote.
Mr. Blount was paired. The amendment
was agreed to. Mr. Felton presented the
petition of Horace J. Gambrill, to be re
stored to the revenue-marine service.
Mr. Hammond presented the petition of
John Usserv and others, for the establish
ment of a post-route from Forytb to Cor
nucopia.
Last Monday the republicans offered
objections to the introduction cf new busi
ness, and the first practical call of the
states for bills and resolutions took place.
Nearly 1,400 were introduced, Georgia
furnishing a goodly number. Mr. Cook
led off with a bill to provide for the ju-
ial ascertainment of claims against the
United States, and a hill to admit duty
free marble for monumental purposes.
Mr. Smith introduced a bill for the relief
of banks and bankers. Mr. Nicholls pre
sented three bills—one to grant the right
of way to the Atlantic and Mexican gulf
canal company of Georgia and Florida
through the lands and waters of the
United States along the route of the pro
posed canal—one to amend the act for
the relief of Robert Erwin, and one for
the relief of William Battersby. Mr.
Speer came op smiling with five bills, as
follows : one for the relief of Joel A. Bil
lups, which he introduced “by request’
—one to apply the proceeds of the
sales of public lands to the educa
tion of the people—one to provide
improved breech-loading rifles to the
University of Georgia for the purpose of
drilling the students of the university—
one to exempt farmers and planters from
special taxes for selling leaf tobacco
their own production, and one to exempt
the distillation of brandy made exclu
sively from apples,peaches or grapes, from
taxation. Mr. Hammond introduced,
“by request,” a bill for the relief of Jas.
A. Stewart, of Fulton county. Mr.
Stephens introduced a hill to repeal the
existing tax on state banking; a hill
enable importers to use the metric
weights and measures; a bill to authorize
a new gold coin, to be known as the
“Stella;” a bill to authorize the issue
the goloid dollar and other coins, and
bill to provide for the erection of a pub
lic building in Augusta. Mr. Felton,
however, exceeded all his colleagues
introducing bills. He got in no less than
fourteen, as follows: A bill to appropriate
$200,000 for the improvement of the
Coosa river between Rome and Wetump-
ka; a hill to authorize the refund
ing to W. B. Farrar, of Whitfield
county, of taxes illegally collected
from him in 1877, a bill for the relief of
William Hedgpeth, a bill to compel
national banks to recognize and receive
the standard silver dollar, a bill for
relief of the estate of Xehemiah Garri
sons, assignee of Moses Perkins; a
granting pensions to the soldiers and
sailors of the Mexican, Florida and Black
Hawk wars; a bill to make the trade dol
lar a legal tender, a bill for the relief of
Balaam A. Bridges, of Bartow county
hill granting a pension to Jacob Snite,
soldier of the war of 1812; a bill to repeal
the duty on sulphate of quinine, a bill
place the name of Reuben Fletcher,
Catoosa county, npon the pension roll
bill to prescribe and establish a form of
oath or affirmation to be taken and sub
scribed by members of congress before
entering upon the duties of their office
a bill for the relief of L. P. Gudger, and
bill to allow farmers and planters to sell
leaf tobacco of their own production
other persons than manufacturers, with
out special tax. Mr. Speer presented
paper i elating to the establishment of
post route from Long creek to Clayton.
And then a recess was taken in the pre
sentation of Georgia business until next
Monday.
The hard-money organs object to this
feature of the bill without knowing
exactly why they do so. There ls.no
inflation” in it; it would not affect bar
gains of the futnre; and as to debts that
have been incurred, we do not suppose
anybody will fear the receipts of money
that will soon be exchangeable for green
backs.
The truth is, the bill that Mr. Stephens
used to open the doors of congress to
general legislation, is one that should be
passed just as it came from the coinage
committee. It is not a great step in cur
rency reform, but it is a measure that
will protect dealers from a glut of small
change, and keep the issues of subsidiary
silver from depreciation, and thus from
becoming discreditable nuisances.
Or late the orgaus are not furnishing the
country with the usnal number of health
bulletins concerning Mr. Tilden’s condition.
Can it be that our Uncle Samuel has en-
lirely recovered the use of his limbs and his
intellect?
The colored convection at New Orleans
adjourned to the tune of “John Brown 1
Body Lies Mouldering in the Grave.” The
rumor that bis soul is still marching on,
engaged in a perpetual exodus in search of
some spiritual Kansas, seems to have
escaped their attention.
The census-taker that tackles Colonel Sue
Anthony must necessarily go armed. And
even then the chances are against him
There will be a vision of a hrogan with red-
flannel fringe around the top, a frenzied
war-whoop, a short but vengeful tussle and
the unfortunate official will be removed to
his home in detachments. No woman who
conquered a megitbarium in the pliocene
[teried will sit down quietly and have her
census taken.
Emigration is probably a good thing for
the colored people, but those who have tried
of the opinion that a lunch now and
then would make the emigratiou go further
and last longer.
AMONG THE ARPS.
IN THE CAPITOL.
A DOUBLE FIRE IN THE FAMILY.
Bill Tell* as Ha - He 0am® to Goon His Lecturing
hut, asi tk® Part tbe Old Lady Had in it—
Mrs. Arp Prot®sts Against the Fre
quent Use of Her Hunt by Bill.
. ou jest scratch it out an stick in somethin
agin him, an jest let me know what it was
he said, an If n»e an the gats don’t pull ever
hair out of the top of his head. I’ll die '
afore I’m buried, shore. If raisin his hair WHAT TKS STATESMEN ARE DOING,
‘n’t quiet him, you will hear from me
agin. Like as I don’t knot
truly.
Written for the Constitution.
KoiroEs Constitution:—It was my time
to go. Mrs. Arp said it was for I looked
puny and she thought a small excursion
would do me good. A rolling stone gathers
no moss andasldout like moss I conclu
ded to roll. When she went away the
motto was a settin hen never gets fat.
For six months Ive stayed right close at
home and I felt like my feelings was a feel
ing stagnant A man can keep on doing a
thing untell he settles down in abed of
inertia and dont want to get out of it By
and by he gets deeper and deeper and has
to be prised out or else he becomes fossil
ferous. Some men get fossiliferous runnin
after money and keep on and keep on a
long time after they have got enuf. Some
get fossiliferous in binkerin after office and
keep on and keep on long after theyve
played out
My good wife was a thoughtful observer
of my brief preparations. She carefully
Sew Bill* In the Hense.
Mr. Stephens’s triumph and the defeat
of the dilatory tactics of the radicals were
not complete until last Monday. On that
day the radicals unconditionally aban
doned the stand they had taken as to the
introduction of bills, and Mr. Stephens
had the satisfaction of witnessing the
biggest bill-day in the history of
parliamentary bodies. No less than
1,3S5 bills were introduced on that
day—enough, it is estimated, to keep
every committee in the house going
for the balance of the congress. But the
committees will not trouble themselves
much over these measures. Very few of
them will ever be heard of again. JThree-
fourths of them are for pensions or oth
er private claims. At least twenty bills
were presented to repeal the duty on
quinine, about thirty to change the reve
nue laws, and nearly two hundred are
of a financial nature. The friends of the
growers of tobacco put in about twenty
bills to lessen taxation on that article,
and fully as many more were presented
to pay- pensions to the soldiers of the
Mexican war. Very few war claims were
offered. At least ninety per cent of this
flood of bills came over from last congress
to meet a similar fate in this congress; for
it is within bounds to say that not over 25
of the 1,385 will become laws. The whole
business was somewhat ridiculous. The
call of states lasted nearly six hours, and
each member strove to unload himself.
Mr. Turner,tof Kentucky, won the cham
pionship by getting in forty-five, and sev
eral put in thirty apiece. Now that the
bills are in tbe members breathe freer,
if the country does not, and there is
really no harm done. The bills had to
come anyway, and the incidental ex
penses were not increased by filling the
legislative hopper with a grist of unex
ampled dimensions, Mr. Stephens, with
the aid of the petition box, having first
opened the gates.
The Subsidiary Coinage.
M r. Stephens’s bill for the relief of re
tail dealers is favorably received by men
of all parties throughout the country. It
contains two important propositions.
1. It establishes interchangeability be
tween subsidiary silver coin and legal ten
der notes, by providing that the sub-
treasuries shall give lawful money for the
small coins whenever they are presente 1
in sums of ten dollars or multiples
thereof. The government issued these
coins, and Secretary Sherman, who hates
silver worse than a mad dog does water,
took great pains to flood the country with
them. They contain only 3S5.8 grains to
the dollar, while the standard dollar con
tains 412.5 grains. The Sherman plan
would rob the retail dealer who is
forced to receive these coins by compell
ing him to submit oftentimes to a discount
when he deposits or pays out in large
sums this debased currency. Mr. Stephens
says the government should uphold its
small coins by nlokingthem exchangeable
for United States notes. England, France
and the other countries of the Latin
union, maintain in a similar manner the
credit of their small silver, and it is only
strange that this feature of Mr. Stephens’s
tall has not long been a part of Ihe fed
eral statutes.
2. The bill increases the legal-tender
property of the^small coins from $5 to $20.
In England «m*11 silver is a legal tender
up to two pounds, and in France up to
The debate in tbe house is becoming
melancholy.
Oca highly esteemed contemporary, the
Savannah Recorder, says that Atlanta “has
‘ the governor.” This is a truism that for
many years to come will go without laying.
In this connection, it may be well to re
mark before history makes up her wallet,
that Atlanta also has the capitol. Alio
gether, we are a proud and progressive
people.
It was Mr. Allen, a brother-in-law of
William H. Vanderbilt, who was asxious
that his negro servant should eat out of his
plate at the hotel in Jesup. Mr. Vander
bilt has telegraphed to Mr. Perham, the
editor of the Quitman Free Press, a denial
of the statement connecting his name with
the affair, and an investigation shows it was
fellow named Allen, who claimed to be
son-in-law of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Any
how, we are glad it wasn’t Bill, because
we have a sort of vague, admiration for
the boldness of a man worth one hundre d
millions who shuts his eyes and swears that
he has no taxable personal property. Tl
hotel man at Jesup has, we regret to say,
missed an opportunity for making himself
famous. He should have fixed up the vict
uals in a tin-pan, placed the pan in the back
yard, seized Allen by one of his flowing
ears, and led him to the feast: because th
is a free country, and if Allen wants to eat
with his negro servants he ought to have
place fixed up for them. No first-class ho
tel should be without a fifteenth amend
ment feed-trough.
Tirz Georgia legislature is ready enough
to pass laws protecting the birds of the air
and the fishes of the sea, but when it comes
to protecting tbe health of the people of the
state by supporting a sanitary board, the
average legislator at once becomes rigid in
his economy; but, after all, the trouble
with the people themselves. The Hon.
Potiphar Peagreen, in spite of the ridicule
that is offered up in his name, is a repre
sentative man. He is tbe embodiment
the intelligence of those who select him
make their laws. He knows nothing of the
uses of vital statistics and cares less. While
the state board of health was in operation, he
thought one of its duties was to prevent hog
cholera, and if the measles appeared in bis
neighborhood, he immediately framed the
fact to use as an argument against voting an
appropriation to buy stationery for a secre
tary. The worst of it is, Colonel Peagreeu’i
ignorance is so dense that he really believes
such legislation as this is in the direction
economy. Argument is utterly wasted
upon him, and the best that can be hoped
for is, that the Influence of thoughtful men
will finally make itself felt upon the peo
ple. Until progressive and intelligent men
re in the majority in legislative bodies,
i idle to look for progressive laws and re
trenchment in the right direction.
repaired the shattered linen, got me a fresh
handkerchief out of that same old trunk,
ironed out the wrinkles in my black cravat,
and brought forth a new pair of socks which
she knit more than a year ago. When *
was all fixed up she perused me with ui.
usual interest and said: “now, William,
dont forget £ how to behave yourself for
what—with |your foolishness in the news
papers and your little slanders of me and
the children—you have gotten somewhat
notorious arid the people will be watching
you. DonVyou give them any chance to
talk abou^jVh. Dont gas around. Dont
try to show off. and above all things dont
go to flying around the women.” (I k no wed
that was a coming.) “ If theres anything
in the world I do despise it is to see a man
with a wife and children making a fool of
himself about, other women. You wont,
will you ? ’
l uot, my dear,” said I. “I never
ur sweet and |>atieiit face is always
before me. You ure the bright particular
star that—’’ /
Well, never mind the stars,” said she,
T haven't got up there yet. Kiss the chil
dren a good-by and go along, and I hope
you will have a good time.”
So I departed those lovely coasts amid
the fond embraces of my numerous wife
and of&pring, and now find myself in the
midst of the central city, where I’m having
such an elegant time I don’t want to
back —not yet.
I’m sorter like the old cow who had to __
pulled by the horns up to the slop pail and
pulled by the tail away. I’m delighted
with Macon and her. refined and intelligent
people. There is nothing crowded here and
nobody In a hurry. When a horse runs
away there is plenty f dodgin room. The
SENATORIAL STATISTICS.
OF INTEREST TO GEORGIANS.
New Yoke Herald: North Carolina is
rapidly increasing the number of her cotton
factories. That is the sort of reconstruction
the south most needs.
Louisville Courier-Journal: • The trial
of Colonel Alston’s murderer, our Atlanta
special says, wilt begin next Monday. The
array of lawyers engaged is startling. Alas
for the poor jury!
New York Letter to Washington Post:
It is rumored that the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad con pany has leased the Louis-
ille and Nashville road. The agree
ment, it is understood, provides that
the Baltimore and Ohio shall guaran
tee a dividend of eight per cent,
on the Louisville and Nashville common
stock, which is contemplated to increase
from $9,000,000 to $13,000,000. This increase
will be made by a declaration of fifty percent,
of the stock, the dividend to represent the
cost value of the branch roads recently ac
quired by the Louisville and Nashville rail
road. These branches include the Mont
gomery and Eufaula railroad, and the Ten
nessee branch of the St. Louis and South
western railroad. The lease to the Balti
more and Ohio railroad is to run ninety-
nine years. ^ It is believed that the larger
Garfield Entertains th® Boys Again, 'While
Braa New Michigander 0a s*s the
Greerbacker* to Grin—John Sher
man's Silver Admissions.
part of Louisville and Nashville stock
held by persons in New York and the east.
If the lease were signed, the Baltimore and
Ohio would, through the Ohio and Missis
sippi railroad, be able to lap all the south
western region.
Washington Special to the New Or
leans Democrat: General Gordon, who
may be called the inventor of the financial
scheme of currency bonds, is so much en
couraged by its success in Georgia that he
is preparing and will soon introduce a bill
providing for fundiug, in similar currency
bonds, all that portion of the national
debt which bears more than 4 j>er cent, in
terest and which may be called after the
close of the fiscal year of 1880. All fund
ing operations are necessarily at an end for
the present, because no more bonds can be
called until the end of the next fiscal year.
This state of affairs is due to the activity
of John Sherman and the syndicate, who
have for the last six months been tak
ing every advantage of the condition
of the money market here and in Europe
to force their four per cent, bonds into the
market, and the last batch of $189,000,0QQ
heights that surround the city look like Ar
lington. and are adorned with grand and
beautiful residences, where the nabobs live
iu elegant luxury. Most everybody is rich.
The business men wait for trade but don’t
run after it. When a friend comes to see
cm they order a carriage, and shut up the
store, and ride him to Vinevilleand Arling
ton and the Central park, and if some
other fellow gets the trade while they are
gone they jdont care a darn. Colonel Harde
man came to see me, and was the same
genial gentleman he always was. He said
there were four important things about
Macon that needed the fostering care of the
* , and must be protected at all liaz
which was the blind asylum, the,
female college, the agricultural society and
Hardeman’s warehouse. He went off last
night to make a speech for the ladies of
Thomaston, which his private secretary told
me, upon honor, was the 297th since the war.
If the ladies could only vote he would be
elected governor as long as he lived. I ain’t
sure but what he’s the coming man, anyhow,
for if our good govenor wont run the next
time 1 dont know of anybody who has got
more friends. His apple is about ripe. He
thought it was several years ago, but I reckon
was mistaken. But its ripe now. Theres a heap
of apples on the gubernatorial tree. Some
of them are green and sour—some are half
rotten. Tlie yaller jackets have bored into
some like a slander gimlet; some look
mighty smooth and pretty on one side, but
have got an ugly flaw on the other, and
some are rotten at the core. But the colonel
is like a big ripe red round smooth skin ap
ple that hasn’t a speck or pimple aiul smells
as sweet as a juicy girl. Home of his friends
told me that we must make him govenor—
thai it was a matter of imminent necessity
fer the pressure was so great upon him the
fear Wits that he might speak him-elf to
death They -aid that it whs impossible fer
him t • tjv lgtr it; that he tried various little
whim iiw a.id prevarications saying that
“other previous engagements,” etc., but
now they wrote him six months, and twelve
months, end two years in advance, so as to
be in time.
Well, we will all see about it, colonel, and
do the very best we can. Bill Arp.
exhausted the call of maturing bonds. Ml.
Gordon says the lull in the funding opera
tions from now until 1881 will give ample
time for a discussion and examination of
his measure, and he has no doubt of its ul
timate success. He is anxious to see the
experiment tried in Louisiana, and thinks
its success would be as great as in Georgia.
He informed me to-day of his intention to
address a communication on this subject to
the constitutional convention, now in ses
sion, as soon as he could prepare it.
Washington Letter to Savannah Ni
Another development was had last Satur
day. Senatois Hill and Gordon learned
that a tuan named Sneed, of Georgia, was
on duty in the senate in a twenty-one hun
dred dollar position, as neither of the
senators had recommended Sneed 1
poiritmrnt, they were considerably at a loss
to see exactly how things were. 'They ap
proached Mr. Burch on the subject, and
asked him upon what authority be bad
given Sneed a position. “On my own
tlioiity” ?as the answer, laconically,
am secretary of the senate, and when I de
sire ail vice as to how I shall run ray oflbre
f will call upon you, but until I do, I shall
deem your offices in the business entirely
gratait«>us.” The Georgia senators were
considerably put aback, not to draw it too
strongly. There may be war upon Mr. Burch
from them as well as front other quarters,
where the sky looks threatening. In
versation last night, Mr. Burch
marked that J. Roddy Sneed,
appointment has caused so much
trouble, was a prominent Georgian, as
much so as Senators Hill and Gordon; that
he had been collector of customs at Savan
nah during the late war, and. moreover,
was favorably known as a prominent south
ern journalist. He was, he said, the found
er of the Savannah Republican, and
should be retained, despite all the opposi
tion that Senators Gordon and Hill might
make. To such an extent has Mr. Burch
permitted his prejudices against the Geor
gia senators to carry him that he has
lowed the old republican incumbent
charge of the senate folding-room to
main, declining to remove him with
vie«* tn npprpntini» llm nmmnfinn
THE HOUSE,
Washington, Apr’! 26.—The house im
mediately went into committee of the
whole on the legislative bill under the five-
minute rule. The discussion, tinder that
rule, closed at 12 o’clock.
Mr. Ewing, of Ohio, first got the floor and
continued his sjieech of last evening. He
declared that the men who were insulting
the president were not men on the dem
ocratic side of the house, but stalwarts of
the republican party who now held the lash
over the president, threatening him
with party expulsion. if he dared
governed by his own judg
ment only, instead of by the necessities of
sectional issues at the north. He classified
among the stalwarts of the republican party
Mr. Garfield, who had said that if the presi
dent signed the bill lie would be violating
his conscience and sense of duty; Mr,
Frye, who had pledged the president in ad
vance to veto the bill, which pledge
threat to the president; and Mr. Conkling,
whose opinion the president would be a
dog” if he signed the bill. He then pro
ceeded to laud southern representatives,
declaring tuat since the confederate briga
dier generals were here, there had been
more great jobs passed through congress.
His speech was much applauded
democratic side, and was replied to by Mr.
Garfield. The speeches of Messrs. Kwing and
Garfield elicited much applause on their
respective sides, each of whom spoke fifteen
minutes by unanimous extension of their
time. Mr. Garfield declared that it had been
tbe power of tbe humblest or greatest of
democrats to have ruiued him and proved
him to bo a traducer and slanderer by
simply rising and saving in contravention of
his assertion as to its being the purpo&eof the
democratic [*arty to starve the government
we do not propose to refuse to vote supplier
to the government; we wish to get our
legislation through in reference to elections
and everything else wc can constitutionally
but if* we cannot get it through under all
constitutional sanctions we will pass the
appropriation bills like loyal representatives
and go home. But though 45 democrats
had spoken', that sentence had not been ut
tered by a single democrat. After these
two serious speeches, the house was enter
tained with n humorous dissertation from
the new member, Mr. Horr. of Michigan.
He commenced by holding up to ridicule
the greenback representatives, and created
greatamusement by the assertion that if all
the greenback money demanded by the bills
Some Briefly Interesting Facts Con
cerning tbe Noble “Seventy-Six. 1
Washington Post.
The change that the senate has under
gone has not robbed Mr. Hamlin of the
proud distinction of being the oldest mem
her of the body. He has reached the three
score years and ten. and still goes without
an overcoat The youngest senator is Mr.
Bruce, who is only thirty-eight Next
Mr. Hamlin, in point of age, is Mr. Morrill
who is sixty-nine, and Governor Houston
comes next at sixty-eight Messrs. Thur
man. Chandler and Kickwood were all born
in 1813, and Groome is the most youthful sen
ator, except Bruce, he being forty. Senators
Wallace, Pendleton and Logan are appa-
rentlv sensitive as to their age, as they do
not allow the congressional directory to tell
it Ohio is the mother of seven senators,
viz: McDonald, Voorhees(both born in But
ler county), Pendleton, Allison, Plumb,
Windom and Sharon. New York, Virginia
and Kentucky are all even with Ohio in the
number of senators who first saw the light
in those states. New York can boast of the
production of Teller, Hill (CoL), Paddock,
McPherson, Conkling, Kernan and Came
ron (Wia); Kentucky, of Walker, Call,
Williams, Jones. Vest, Saunders and Maxey
and Virginia, of Farley, Bruce, Thurman..
Coke, Johnston, Withers and Here
ford. Tennessee and Maryland comes next
with five each; Morgan, Houston, Garland,
Bailey and Harris having been born in the
former state, and Davis (111.,) Davis (W. Va.)
Kirkwood, Whyte and Groome, in the
latter; Kellogg. Edmunds. Morrill and
Carpenter were bom in Vermont; Blaine
McMillan. Wallace and Don Cameron,
in Pennsylvania; Gordon Hill and
Lamar are natives of Georgia; Ingalls. Hoar
and Dawes of Massachusetts; Chandler,
Rollins and Bell of New Hampshire; Booth
and Burnside Indiana; Logan and Slater Il
linois; Hamlin and Grover of Maine; Ferry.
Cockrell, Randolph, Anthony, Ransom and
Vance, Butler and Hampton, Bayard and
Saulsbury. Eaton and Platt, are all natives
of the states they now represent. Alto
gether, there are thirty-four senators who
represent their mother states. Senator Beck
was born in Scotland; Jones, of Florida, in
Ireland; and Jones, of Nevada, in Englaud.
Of the thirty senators from the south (in
cluding Kellogg) fifteen were in the con
federate army, viz: Morgan, Walker, Gor
don, Williams, Jonas, Lamar, Cockrell,
Ransom, Vance, Butler, Hampton, Harris,
Maxev, Coke and Withers. Of the other
fifteen. Garland, Hill and Vest were in the
confederate congress. Logan, Plumb and
Burnside are the only ex-union solders
whonfthe great north has sent to the sen
ate. Allison figured ou the governor s staff
and helped to raise troops, and Hill, of
Colorado, skipped off to Europe. Kellogg
claims to have resigned a judgeship to fight
for the union. Governor Randolph, of New
Jersey, though a democrat, devoted his
time, means and influence to the organiza
tion of troops to save the union, and Blaine
contented himself with baying a sub
stitute. Twenty-one of the present repub
lican senators held bomb-proof positions
during the war, ranging from seats in con
gress and on the bench down to seats in
state legislatures. They are: Booth, Platt,
Allison. Kirkwood. Hamlip. Blaine, Dawes,
Hoar. Ferry. Chandler,Windom, McMillan,
Paddock, Saunders, Rollins. Bell, Conkling,
Anthonv, Edmunds, Morrill, and Cameron
of Wisconsin. Senators Butler and Hamp
ton have but a single leg each. General
Burnside has the finest whiskers, and Logan
has the loudest voice, but it is hard to tell
whether Dawes or Teller can clear the gal
leries quickest when they get up to address
the senate. ^
An Acquittal.
Special dispatch to The Constitution.
Springfield, III.. April 27.—The trial of
D. T. Mills A Co., of Boston, commission
merchants and rectifiers, who had been in
dicted for complicity with the Pekin and Pe
oria whisky ring, which has occupied the
United States court here for the past two
fifty francs. Mr. Stephens thinks $20 j concluded to-day by .the acquittal
is tbe proper limit in this country 1 of ’defendants.
The JInctnrae Pays Her Rcspeets to
“tliat Husband of Hei
Editors Constitution: I’ve alius beam it
said by them what knowed that the only
way to git even with the divil is to fight him
with bis own tire, an I never did exzocly
understand jest what wuz the meanin of
that proverb afore. We aint never too old
to lam, howsomever, an though I’m up in
the fiftys, I bed jest now learnt how to git
at the kerrect meanin of that old say
in, an I’m agoin to use it for the cause
of womans rights. Here Mr. Arp’s
been intringin on my name so long till I’m*
troubled nigh on to distraeshun, an its
been gettin worse and worse for ten years,
till I’m actually afeared to look into a
newspaper, kase I might see sumthin agin
my good name an my good sense. I her
tried to. make him sto p it by beggin an
teacin an prayin an scoldin an threatnin an
every other thing, but it ain’t
You might jest as well try to make a blind
mule quit kickin. My frieuds hez been
advisin me to writ a piece
for the newspapers for many a day, an I’m
jest through findin out that they hev been
tellin me the right thing to do, an if I dont
quit even with Mr. Arp you may choke me
to death on ingun tops fur a month. I hev
tried mighty hard to keep from writin him
up in the papers, but women hez feelins
jest as well as men, an I dont kere what any
body sez agin it, I’m agoin to show Mr. Arp
that somebody else can write letters
S oke fan at other folks besides him.
on’t keer about gett : n mixed up in the j
pera myself, like one of my nabors 1
mixed, but I’m jest agoin to show all the
folks that I aint nigh as big a fool as Mr.
Arp makes oul Everybody thinks he’a
f owerful smart, an here they’ve bin invitin
im all around to Macon and Dalton and
Forsyth and sich places, to make lectures
and give addresses to schools and the like,
jest like he was some big man like Mr
Luster or Mr. Felton, and I do believe he’s
jest common enuffto go ever where they axes
him—that is if they pay his way an give him
his board with wash in throwed in. He
makes believe as how he don’t want
to go off a bit, but I knows him too well for
that If he could, git anybody else to sow
on his buttons, an darn his socks, and tie bis
cravat an comb his hair an the like, I dont
believe he ever would come back agin. But
sich is life. We women do hev a hard
time. I’ve been tbreatenen an threatenen
for many a day to take my nabor, Mrs.
Freeman’s, advice an git devorced, but I’m
justafeard he’s made everbody think I’m
sich a.lunacy that I cant even hire out for a
washwoman. tVhy, bless me, he said I
didnt even how what good lace was, an I
know if theres any woman in Georgia who
can tell it betiern me I jest want to
see her. I’ve seed lace all my life.
I never did wear any thing but tbe yellerest
kind of lace an I never will to my dyin*
day. Mr. Arp he says he didn’t mean to
hurt my feelin’s about that lace, an jest
said it to make the Yolks laff, bat I aint
agoin to be run down an made a fool of for
nobody to laff at. Narry time. This
trouble hez been goin on for nigh thirty
years, an hev raised ten children, an
there aint but one rant in the lot of ’em an
he aint too old to grow yet, for he’s jest
twenty o this month an is as pretty as any
gal, an Ive worked an sowed an darned
an patchee for every one of ’em with the
the old man throwed in an I never
get any thanks at all excep to
be made a fool of in the newspapers. Mr.
Arp is jest a little too upity for nis raisin.
He’s gettin purnickity cause away from
home everybody thinks he’s perfecsbun
perfectorfied, but they am mighty mistaken
about that. Just let em step down in the
kitchen some morning an hide around an
see. 1 don’t want no man foo»in around
my kitchen, but I can’t begin to keep Mr.
Arp out of there, so I jest let him do the
cookin. You see, be lamed how to cook in
the army, an he jest thinks there aint no
body as can cook likebim. I’ve been trainin
him for many a day, an now I hev him
party well broke in, an he’s gettin used
to it, an be gits up in the momin an
never says a word agin it, but goes
down an starts the fire an
goes to gettin breakfast just as natrul as any
body, and lets me sleep on till hits ready to
eat. Mr. Editor, I love to sleep in the
mom in, and whenever Mr. Arp lets me
sleep jeqt as long as I want, I begin to feel
sorter sorry for him, poor man, and I dont
think I orter say anything agin him for
wri ten me up in the papers, but I jest think
of that lace and all my good meanins
go right out of my mind. I do won
der if folks ever will think I
know lace, rale lace agin. But I reckin its
time to stop, kase l don’t want to take a
whole side of your paper jest to settle fami
ly disturbances. I aint been hard on Mr.
Arp. her I? I’m jest a warain him. If
view to preventing the promotion of •the
first assistant in that room, who is a friend
of Senator Gordon’s. The appointment
Sneed can only be accounted for
ground that he has been a prominent jour
nalist, and having himself been a journal
ist, Mr. Burch may regard that experience
THE PEN’S MIGHT.
A Perfect Pen and fnfet Counterfeit
Special dispatch to The Constitution.
Washington, April 25.—The secret service
has come into possession of one o*
most remarkable counterfeits that has
been discovered. It is a bogus twentj•
lar United States legal-tender note and
calculated to deceive a person accustomed
to handling notes of that denomina
tion. What makes it so remarka
ble is that the work on
note is executed with pen and ink.
the intricate figures and curves, all ....
heads, the seal, the' fine engraving work,
and even the fibre in paper are almost per
fectly counterfeited by pen and ink. The
signature of John Allison, formerly regis
ter of the treasury, is almost exact, wb : *~
that of John C. New, formerly treasurer,
perfect. The whole bill, back and face,
wonderful piece of pen work. The bill „
detected at the sub-treasury at New Orleans.
HANGED AT LAST.
United States. I will not post him as a
scoundrel and poltroon, for that would be
in violation of the local statutes, but I do
publish him as one who knows how tj> in
sult but not how to satisfy a gentleman,
ami I invoke upon him the judgment of ,
the honorable men of the community. j
“Very respectfully.
Wit. M. Lowk.”
CRIME’S RECORD.
A STORY OF LOVE AND MURDER.
Rerapbl* Man Not Allowed to Take
lit* Furniture to Nashville.
Memphis Appeal.
... M. Jones, of this city, in removing to
Nashville proposed to transfer his furniture
from the Worsham house, of Memphis, to
tne Commercial house at Nashville. The
city council of Nashville adopted a resolu
tion instructing the board of health not to
permit the furniture to be removed. This is
great hardship on Mr Jones, and has pro-
oked much comment and considerable c«in
dent nation. But in view of the recent de
velopments concerning the outbr ak of yel
low fever on the steamer Plymouth, we can
not say that the people of Nashville were un
necessarily rigid in their precautions. The
New York Herald shows that “after the dis
ease broke out on the Plymouth last Novem
ber she was brought to'Boston, thoroughly
fumigated and afterwards frozen out. Ev
erything movable in her was removed at
the time, and all bedding and other matter
that kind was either destroyed or thor
oughly fumigated, disinfected and frozen.
In spite of this care and cold yellow fever
broke out on her on the 23d of March, when
she had reached a warm climate, but lie fore
she had touched at or been near any south
ern land, and while two hundred miles at
sea. But the most curious and remarka
ble fact of all is that the first man at
tacked, Richard Saunders, machinist, had
his hammock slung in the precise place of
the man who first showed symptoms of yel
low fever in Santa Cruz in November last
This is worthy the attention of medical
perts, for it seems to show that the infec
tious matter not only resisted extreme cold,
but that it remained In one place. The
essel lay all the winter in Boston, where
erything known to sanitary science was
used to disinfect her of the germs of yellow*
fever. She was entirelyforoken out, all the
stores landed and exposed to a freezing tem
perature and the ship thoroughly fumiga
ted several times. A part of the time
th3 9hip was in dock, where large quantities
of ice remained, and the temperature fre
quently reached a point below zero. The
water in the tanks and buckets in the store
rooms was constantly frozen, and when she
removed from the dock and fires lighted
under the boilers, she was so thoroughly
chilled that tor several days the water re
mained frozen in her bilges. When the
Plymouth left Boston all men of weak con
stitutions or susceptible to climatic influ
ences were removed from her, and she went
with a crew entirely healthy.’*
already introduced, w« re to be supplied,
the greenbackers would have, to get their
clergyman, De La Matyr, to ask the Deity
to vary the miracle of the deluge—to open
again the doors and wiudows of heaven,
and to rain greenbacks for forty days. He
then turned on the southern democaats.
and told them what their section wanted
was more corn and cotton and less
cussed ness. and he wound up . by
tuggesting that one of the best things
that could happen to the country would be
thetumingon of the yellow fever in co
gress, only that he would want Divinity
use great discrimination in making his :
lection. Mr. Horr moved up and-jJown t
area as he delivered himself of his senti
menls. and all his good sayings were ap
plauded on both sides and in the pilleries
At 12 o’clock the discussion on the legis
lative appropriation bill closed. An amend
ment was offered by Mr. Weaver, of Iowa,
striking out all proposed legislation, exce;
that relating to the test oath; defeated wit
oul division. The vote was then taken
by tellers on Mr. Garfield’s amendment
striking out all legislation, and it was de
feated, 124 to 130. The result was received
with applause on the democratic side.
tiie senate.
Washington, April 25.—Soon after meet
ing, the senate proceeded in the considera
tion of the resolution relating to
pointments to office by the secretary and
sergeant-at-arms of the senate. Amend
ments declaring that no union soldier shall
be removed except for cause, and also that
no confederate soldier shall take the place
of any dismissed union soldiers, was defeat
ed by a strict party vote of 29 to 34.
The resolution giving the secretary and
sergeant-at-arms, absolute power over the
removals and appointments in their respect
ive detriments was agreed to.
The senate passed the army appropriation
,:o «. u ——— *—— without
Secretary Sherman appeared before
coinage, weights and measures committee
of the house to-day and gave his view’s rela
tive «o the conversion of trade do.lars into
bullion. The value of the trade dollar,
said, was greater than a like amount of bul
lion, hence it would not be possible to pur
chase coin for the purpose of melting
into bullion. He considered the act
1873 demonetizing silver a grave blunder.
In reply to the question he stated that small
notes would be exchanged for fractional
coins at the treasury department at air
time. The bullion value of the trade dol
lar, he said, was eighty-five cents.
The president to-day issued a procla
mation stating that it lmd become
known to him that certain
disposed persons have set ujH»n
A Nebraska Murderer Brought to Bay.
Special dispatch to The Constitution.
Lowell, Neb., April 27.—Richards,
Nebraska murderer about whom so much
has been said, was hung at Minden, Kear
ney county yesterday. He mounted the scaf
fold with a steady step and stood facing
crowd of 2,500 people. The enclosure had
been erected on the publier square, and
pen made of pine boards, sixteen
square, in which the execution
to be held—the law of Nebraska
making a private execution necessary. ___
noon to-day, a mob tore this shed down and
the execution was public. After mounting
scaffold he spoke to the crowd for five min
utes. saying he was not guilty of the crime
under which he was convicted. He spol _
with amazing firmness and astonished ev
erybody who heard him. When
the final prayers were made, to the
surprise of everybody, Richards’s spiritual
adviser said Richards requested everybody
to join him in singing, “There is a fountain
tilled with blood.” Two verses of this
hymn were sung. The man was then
tied with a rope and straps, but
continued to talk all the time. When the
noose was adjusted and tbe black cap drawn
down he still talked until the sheriff kicked
tbe lever. He fell six feet, his neck being
dislocated and only a nervous twitching of
bis legs showed any sensibility. He died
in ten minutes.
Too Much nip Pocket.
Dallas Commercial.
It is useless to attempt to conceal the fact that
there has been a great falling off in immigration.
Not that the reckless tide of humanity Is not roll
ing onward the same as ever, bat because it has
turned from the lone star stale to Kansas, Nebras
ka, Colorado and the territories. We have con
versed with a number of passengers , and railroad
agents in regard to the matter and the testimony
of all is about the same. They are all agreed that
the falling off is very heavy and that one of the
principal causes is too much “pocket on the hip.”
In other words, immigration has been shut out
of tbe state. A few papers have been idiotic
enough to suppose that this red-handed
business could be covered up and outsiders never
hear of it. But you might as well try to cover the
top® of the Rocky mountain range.' This is an
Mr. StephcnVt “ Rend y;lf wde” Platform
Washington Post.
There has been a good deal said about the
“ready made” platform which Mr. Stephens, of
Georgia, submitted to the last democratic caucus,
but we haven’t heard from anybody who has been
able to inform us why it is not eminently worthy
of adoption. We are not especial admirers of Mr.
Stephens, and have never chanted his refrains,
bat so for as his late platform is concerned, we can
say that it meets our approval to the extent of its
every declaration. It u sufficiently comprehen
sive for all purpose*, and we doubt if a score of
committees on resolutions, selected from the
ablest men in the democratic party, could con
struct a better one. Those who sneer at it have,
of coarse, the right to do so, but their time would
be much better employed if they would spend it
in trying to improve npon iL
One of Bln Spell*.
Ohio State Journal, rep.
The Atlanta Constitution and other southern
papers are circulating a report that General Grant
Is crazy. Yes. from their standpoint, we rueai he
is. He had one of his spells, which lasted: several
yean; it struck him at Shiloh and stayed with
him till he got to Appomattox court-house.
General Toombs Stand* Alone.
Gainesville Eagle.
General Toombs has turned himself loose on
tbe subject of carrying pistols, and, aa usual,
comes oat broadly in opposition to nearly every
body else. He thinks men ought to be allowed to
carry arms when, where and in any way they
please. Tbe general should be watched.
Has the Very Latest.
Harlem Colombian.
The Atlanta Constitution is on* of the best
daily papers in the southern states. Its columns
are always full of news^-including the very la
test by telegraph.
Concise bat Not Polite.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Old Toombs, of Georgia, is in favor of carrying
concealed deadly weapons.
he ever, say* anything agin me agin, wont laxta Coxxincriox.
Compliments from a Good Source.
Dalton Citizen.
Th* rural press are complimenting The At-
THE YELLOW DANGER.
A Dlstien’ug Death from Hydrophobia iu Htw York
—Mo.® About tbe Attempted Anamination
of Edwin Booth—Tbe Assassin Proves
to be a 8t*ge-3truck Youth.
A GREAT HISTORY.
evil
. . . foul
preparations for organized and forcible pos
session of and settlement upon lands known
as the Indian territory, and warns all
such persons not to do so and further warns
and notifies them that if they so offend they
will be speedily and immediately removed
by the agent, and if necessary assistance «*f
military forces will be invoked to carry
the laws into execution.
The house committee on epidemic dis
eases to-day reached next to the last secti»
in the bill introduced by Representati
Young, to increase the efficiency of the
tional board of health, and to prevent
introduction into or spread within
United States of contagious or infecti
diseases. The section referred to provides
that nothing in the act shall be so
stmed as to supersede or impair any
tary or quarantine law of any state. Some
objection bein£ made to the clause,
committee adjourned, subject to a call
the chairman.
Senator Cockerill. of Missouri, has
.reduced a bill directing the secretary
war to have a survey made for the pur;
ascertaining the practicability of connecting
the i’acific ocean with the Gulf of Mexico
by a water route. It appears from the
veys of the war department that there . _
distance of only 150 miles between naviga
tion on the Columbia river and navigation
on the head waters of the Missouri, and re
cently some miners have built a trench for
mining purposes through which the waters
that shquld naturally have gone V* the gulf
through the Missouri, were conducted to
the Pacific ocean. Mr. Cockerill believes
that the time will come when there
will be a water way across tbe continent.
The April returns to the department of
agriculture show that the acreage of winter
wheat is about per cent, greater than
last year. This increase is due mostly to
tbe transfer of spring sowings to fall sow
ings in the northwest and west. Unless the
spring sowings increase beyond the present
expectation there will be a reduced aggre
gate of wheat acreage in 1879. The wheat
in ground, takeu as a whole, is about two
per cent, below the average. The crop, in
some sections, was unfavorably affected by
the fall drouth, and in others by the ab
sence of snow during the extreme cold dur
ing the winter. Rye has fallen off about
four percept, in acreage, and is about four
per cent, below the average. It follows the
general analogies of the wheat crop.
The tvnininnUtN.
Paris, April 26.—President Grevy signed
to-day three hundred and seven pardons
of communists.
Records that Will Shade Nome of the
“ftrrowi” of the Yfar.
Baltimore Sun.
The arrangements made by Gen. Wright
for a free exchange of records between the
Southern Historical Society and the W
Department was eminently satisfactory to
General Maury, as he felt that by this the
object of his struggle had been accomplish
ed. There are now in print, for preserva
tion only, fifty-one volumes, as follows
United States—Reports of operations, 14
volumes; military correspondence, 3 vol
uines; war department letters received,
volume; war department letters sent,
volume; war department telegrams receiv
ed, G volumes; war department telegrams
sent, 4 volumes; Halleck’s telegrams
ived, 5 volumes; Halleck’s tele
ants sent, 4 volumes; summary
Hilary operations, 1 voluiue-
fc-tl, 39 volumes. Confederate states—report
of operations, 4 volumes; war department
letters received, 1 volume; war department
letters sent, 1 volume; war department tel
egrams received, 1 volume; war department
telegrams sent, l volume; adjutant and in
siteclor-generai’s telegrams sent, 1 volume
miscellaneous, general and special ordei
1 volume; military correqiondetice an
general and social orders, 1861, 1 vol urn
troops tendered confederate war depart
ment, l volume—total confederate, 12 vol
umes
Colonel Robert N. 8cott, of the Second
tillcry, is in charge of the compilation of the
war records. He is an officer of high stand
ing in the army, of thorough culture, and ’
admirably fitted.lo the work. He is the a
thorof a valuable work on military law.
Mr. A. P. Tasker, of the adjutant-general’s
department, has charge of the confederate
archives. Mr. H.jE. Ellerbrook has charge
of the union archive*. Doth of these gen
tlemen are thoroughly familiar with the
record!, and are admirably suited for the
sponsible place they fill.
The present work is confined only to pre
paring for aperuianent publication, although
the secretary of war has urged upon congress
the necessity of an additional appropriation
to begin the permanent publication (for the
year 1861). No action has yet been taken.
It is sincerely to be hoped that this con
gress will not fail to make the necessary ap
propriation for the publication for publn
distribution of this immense collection
of valuable matter. The idea of Sec
retary McCrary is that provision should
be made for the printing of so many
copies for the president, the war depart
ment, and so many copies for each senator
and representative, and that the public
printer should be authorized to dis)>ose of
copies to all who may desire them at the
cost price of publication. It can be readily
understood what a valuable acquisition to
public and private librarict would be the
immense mass of pai»ers and documents a:
is set forth above by reason of the op|»ortu
nity to form correct opinions and judg
ments of the varying phases of the greatest
civil war of all times.
Briefly, it mav be summed up that this
publication will give to the country and
the world all of the confidential correspond
ence of the war on either side, will disclose
the strength of the union and confederate
armies in all of the great battles, with the
field orders given and acted on at the time,
which explains movements, defeat * and vic
tories much better than formal accounts
written at leisure; the real causes, with
the correspondence, which led to the ...
moral of McClellan, Hooker and Burnside,
and on the other hand the reasons of the
removal of Bragg and Joseph E. Johnstc
will fully appear. The public has only t._
yet seen the iiortiou of the records of the
war on both sides which it was not deemed
improper to publish.
This publication will leave out nothing
official which is important to a true under
standing of all the movements of both ar
mies. Mauy of the articles published from
time to time in the newsjiapers by both
union and confederate officers will be real
with a new relish and with greatly inr
creased interest when this official publica
tion is placed before the people, and many
of the heroes of the war on both sides will
be somewhat shaded when all of their pri
vate correspondence and orders shall ’
read.
FOOD FOR REFLECTION.
LOWE AND LOGAN.
Some Fan for the Prairie Patriot.
Washington, D. C., April 26.—The Star
this evening publishes a card from Colon* 1
Wm. M. Lowe, representative from Ala
bama, containing the copies of three letters
written by him this week to Senator
Logan, asking for an explanation
of the latter’s communication to
the Washington Republican of last
Monday. . In that communication General
Logan said that a certain statement alleged
to have been made by Colonel Lowe wich
regard to Logan raising troops in Illinois
for confederate service was “false and
slanderous.” Colonel Lowe substantially
repeats what a correspondent of the Pitts
burgh Poet understood him to say on the
subject and then asks General Logan
whether the words “false and
slanderous” was used to refer to
him. Failing, he says, to elicit a reply to
his first two letters, he wrote him yesterday
as follows: “I have thrice addressed you a
note calling your attention to this
language. You have failed and re
fused to answer either of them, and
you thereby force me to the last alter
native. I therefore demand that you
name some time and place out of this'dis
trict where another communication will
presently reach you. My friend, Chas. Pel
ham, Esq., is authorized to. act for me in
the premises.” Colonel Lowe concludes his
card as follows: “Thus ended this one-sided
correspondence which explains itself,
needs little or no comment from
will not brand Jno.
Bradford, Penn., April 26.—Canaseraga,
New York, was thrown into a state of the
wildest excitement last night over a social
tragedy, in which highly respectable parties
figured. Young Lou Luce has been paying
attention to Miss M~: lha Wyman for some
time )»ast. He has made frequent visits to
the house of the young lady, and was re
ceived with apj*arent cordiality and affec
tion. He finally found expression in a pro
posal of matrimony, and, for some reasons
known to herself, Miss Wyman refused the
proposal.
took the math-r to heart, and deter
mined upon a shockimg trage ly, which
was enacted last night. About nine o’clock
Luce again visited the home of Miss Wy
man, and he again made reference to his
proposal and her rejection. Miss Wyman
again renewed her reasons for her refusal to
become his wife. Before the young lady
bad concluded sjwakitig Luce jerked a rc-
olver front his pocket and, taking a quick
but accurate aim, fired. Tbe ball took ef
fect in the young woman’s head near the
ear. After seeing his victim fall and the
blood gush from tbe wound. Luce gazed a
few moments and immediately left the
llOU9C.
This afternoon the young woman was still
lingering in great agony. No hope, how
ever, is entertained for her recovery. Im
mediately after leaving his victim (as he
upposed dead) Luce repaired to his home.
He went to his apartment, and drawing
forth a pistol, placed it to his bead, and
sent a ball crushing through his brain.
He lingered unconsciously until eleven
o'clock, when he died.
Canaseraga is quite a through-going town
of 690 inhabitants located ou the Buffalo di
vision of the Erie road, twelve miles from
Hornellsville. The people are unaccus
tomed to such a startling tragedy, and arc
the greatest slate of agitation over the af
fair. Miss Wyiuatv was still alive at nine
o'clock, but her attending physicians gave
j hoj*es of her recovery.
New York. April 26.—It is a remarkable
and i>ainful coincident that two strong men
should die from hydrophobia in Brooklyn
within twenty-four hours of each other.
The victims of that terrible malady are
Thomas Kelly, aged twenty-two years, and
John Nee. aged forty. Kelly was a car-
driver by occu;*ation. He was bitten by a
large black dog in the right hand on the
20th of February last. Tbe wound was
cauterized immediately thereafter, and in
due course of time it healed. On Saturday .
last he complained of violent pains in the
right arm, and shuddered at the sight, as
well as at the noise, of running water. He
took to his bed, where he endured ull the
horrible symptoms usually accepted as the
accompaniment of hydrophobia, rejecting
1 food, and suffering from the mania at
tendant u{»ou the malady. He finally ex
pired at an ear’y hour Thursday morning.
But while the medical faculty of Brooklyn
were discussing thc^peculrarities of the case
of Kelly still another subject was brought
to their attention by Drs. Ambrose
and Byrne, who have been attending John
Nee. The latter person was bitten by a
large Newfoundland dog in the early part
»f January last. He told the doctors on
Thursday that the animal came into the
premises of Messrs. Pease & Pel ion, on
Third avenue, where he was employed as
assistant engineer for several years. Being
fond of dogs, he stroked the brute and pat
ted it on the head in a kindly manner.
Suddenly, without warning, the dog snap-
I»ed at him three times, biting hitu on the
left hand. He had the wounds cauterized
and poulticed, and paid no more attention
to the incident until last Monday, when ho
was taken with violent pains in the right
A wise man, when he rises in the morn
ing, little knows what he may do before
night.
Few things in this world are useless—
none, indeed, but tvhat are of man’s own
invention.
Our best intentions, even when-they have
been most pri * * * -
in their issues
Opportunity, which makes thieves, makes
many lovers also, and is the greatest of all
matchmakers.
Far happier are they who always know
what they are to do than they who have to
determine what they will do.
There is no truth, however pure, and
however sacred, upon, which falsehood can
not fasten, and ingraft itself therein.
What Solon said of individuals, that
one could truly be called happy till his life
had terminated in a happy death, holds
equally true of families.
That which is called good company has
led many a man to a place which it is not
considered decorous to mention before
ears polite,” is a common, and, therefore,
the more an awful truth.
^ll men and women are very, as Shaks-
peare has said of them, merely players—
when we see them ui*>n the stage of the
world; that is when they are seen anywhere
except in the free*lorn and unaddressed in
timacy of private life.
They who are wise unto salvation know
feelingly when they have done |*»t— that,
their best works are worth nothing; hut
they who are conscious that they have lived
inoffensively may have in that conscious
ness a reasonable ground of comfort.
Alas! it is neither so easy a thing nor so
agreeable a one as men commonly expect to
dispose of leisure when they retire from the
business of the world. Their old occupa
tions cling to them, even when they hope
that they have emancipated themselves.
Under the worse scheme of government,
the desired end would be in a degree at
tained, if the people were trained up as
they ought to be in the knowledge of their
Christian duties; and unless they are so
trained, it must ever be imperfectly attain
ed under the best. -
Ypu meet in this world with false mirth
as often as with false gravity; the grinning
Hypocrite is not a more uncommon charac
ter than the groaning one. As much light
discourse comes from a heavy heart as from
a hollow one, and from a full mind as from
an empty head.
It Seems 1 in possible
That a remedy made of such common, aim-
as Hops, Buchu, Mandrake,
Dandelion, etc., should make so many and
nich marvelous and wonderfulcures as Hup
Bitters do, but when old and yonnit, rich
kwyer «nd
and che.it, and conceived a violent
aversion to water. The doctors found the
patient growing rapidly worse, more nerv
ous and violent each hour until yesterday
afternoon, when he began to grow very
weak after each raj idly succeeding par
oxysm, and finally expired as above stated
this morning.
Chicago, April 25.—The chief point of in
terest in connection with the attempted as
sassination of Edwin Booth—that is. the
motive of his assailant—remains as deep a
mystery as ever. Mark Gray refuses to give
any explanation of his conduct, denies that
he is insane, and says it is not true that ho
claims Booth to be his father. When nr-
raigned in the armory court yesterday
morning upon the charge of assault with
intent to commit murder, his response w f as:
“I am guilty,” silken in a tone of tragic
bravado.
Mr. Booth, being called upon by the jus
tice, gave his testimony as follows: “Dur
ing the scene of the {»erformatice at Mc-
Vickeris theater last night, as I was seated
on the stage reciting the soliloquy, 1 heard
a pistol snap. 1 supjtnsed it was an acci
dental noise, and paid no attention to it.
In a moment I heard another shot, and
looking up into the balcony saw a man ap
parently in the act of cocking the pistol
again. Thinking I was in jeojiardy, 1 got
up and jHiinled toward the man. Then
some one said, ’that’s the man,’ and lie yas
seized. I retired to the side of the stage,
but returned at once and told the audience
I would finish the play if they would grunt
mo a chance to see my wife, to whom some
one hail foolishly staled I was being shot at.
I wrent off* the stage for a minute, and then
returned and finished the play.”
Mr. Booth didn’t attempt to recognize
the man, and it was not necessary. Other
witnesses jmsitively identified Gray as the
man who tired the shots, and the we»q»oti—
•a silver-mounted six-shooter, with two
chambers empty—was presented in evi-
dence._ Justice Sumnierficld then asked
Gray if he had anything to say. and he re
plied: “No, sir; I don’t want to sxy any
thing but to plead guilty.” The justice
then said: “It is not your fault that you
are not arraigned for murder instead of an
assault with intent to kill.” “I am sorry it
is not the reverse.” coolly observed Gray.
“It is,” said the judge, “a much more than
ordinarily desperate case of its class, and I
shall fix the bond at $10,000, in which sum
the prison* r is held to the criminal court.”
Gray walked off, apparently relieved that
it was so soon over. As he passed Mr.
Booth that gentleman was noticed to step
back, as though fearing harm from a con
cealed weapon. After a brief consultation
with his friends, Mr. Booth stepped up to
the desk, and expressed doubts as to the
sufficiency of the bond. He was afraid
Gray might procure bail, and renew the at
tempt on his life before he left the city.
Judge Sun.merfield said he did not think
it ipossible for the young man to secure bail,
but to make assurance doubly sure he in
creased the bond to $20,000, which seemed
to be a matter of the utmost unconcern to
Gray. As the accuser and accused stood
side by side the resemblance between the
two men was easily perceptible. Shave off
bis mustache, remove the tan, and clip bis
hair, and Mr. Gray would be almost a count
erpart ot“Mr. Booth in everything but the
intelligent look of the latter.
Mark Gray, who attempted to take the
life of Edwin Booth in Chicago, has lived in
heokuk for the last ten years, until OcU»-
ber last, when he went to St. Louis. Hi*
real name is Walter Lyons—Gray being tbe
name of his step-father. For several years
he has been badly stage-struck, ami has
been regarded as a monomaniac on this iiar-
ticular subject. He was in the habit of
shutting himself up in the evening and
reading and reciting plays and poetry until
nearly morning. He was also given to read
ing sensational literature and attending a 1
the theatrical performances that came
alo? g He imagined himself to be a*
great ah actor as Edwin Booth, and used
to talk of starting out on a starring tour
in Booth's name. He was not con
sidered dangerous, hut has long Wen re
garded as insane on this one subject. For
five years he was employed *n • dry poods
house of this city, and woul im; rove every
opportunity to get away by himself and
v* 1 ® “^haksperean” plays. Except for
this failing lie was looked upon as a reliable
and valuable clerk. He was formerly very
much dissipated, and was dismissed on
three occasions for getting drunk; but for
the past few years he has been strictly tetn-
K rate. About three years ago a revolver
was handling was discharged and he was
shot in the head, receiving a
slight wound He asserted that the
shooting was accidental, but it was thought
at the time to have been an attempt at
suicide.
A gentleman who lias seen Gray, and
knows him, saidhis right name is Donohue,
and Gray is his stepfather's name. He
was asked what prompted the boy to shoot
at Booth, and replied: “As I understand it
Mark’s mother used to be an actress, and
Booth abused her on the stage, and the two
boys swore they would kill him if they
ever got a chance. That happened some
years ago, but I don’t know where. Mark
went to St. Louis to kili Booth, but he
didn’t succeed, and he went to work. He
quit there and came here, and I am told he
K.fl . AnilMil „ a. A T
, liar, for he U a aeuitoTlS' tiTe And thi, 1, ^1 thegenUemao