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Newspaper Page TextCONSTITUTION PUBLISHING CO. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1879. VOL. XU., NO. 21 RIGHTS OF STATES. REMEDIES FOR CENTRALIZATION. A Talk * *-b Dr. H. V. X. Kilto-A History of Ik* guard* Oft 8ut*« R'cfcU !a its AS Br Special cormpoadmee of Tb* Constitution. Atlanta. Oa . November I.—An enthu- •teatsc Kentuckian once said, speaking of Henry Clay, the Idol of the bloe-grass re gion: "I tell 70U, air, there is more sense inside of hie bea titan there la outside of it." While I can no hardly agree to apply tbia panegyric to I>r H. V. M. Miller, I am free to aay 1 do not know of any man, north or Booth, in whoa* judgment and diacretion I have superior confidence. He ia beyond qoeation, I »think. the moat sonora pitched political atudeiit tliat I know, and tu gen eral eultnrr and acItoUndiip is equalled on* ly by Senator Lamar, of our armtbarn states. Utterly unealfi«b and pa trio i ic—removed from the hustle of active politics and inde- pendent of partisan methods or machinery —he Mirveya thing* quietly, thinks calmly and tuakea up his mind dispassionately. I bad a talk with him the other day, and it asemed to me. tliat as we talked, be plant ed steed fast rocks in the vague and troubled waters that beat snout us. It is donbiful if any single election ever so unsettled pub lic sentiment or disturbed party methods, as the defeat of Ewing in Ohio hat done. It has discouraged and disgusted many south ern democrats especially, and if the demo crate are beaten in New York next Tuesday It will increase the perplexity and dismay. In view of this contingency—which is not improbable—I thought it might be well enough to print the substance of hr. Mil ler's conversation—fer in its steadfast and eternal truths, any drifting party may drop its anchor, and swing secure am id the storm. The interview was <q wued by a question as to i lie real meaning of the Ohio elect ion. and its rfleet on the national campaign of lfwn? . • Of course the money issue was an im portant one in that canvass, sectionalism had somettiing to do with the result.and the confederate brigadiers, or the idea they rep resented. had more, lint the controlling issue in that election, as in Calfornia, and as it will lie in the New York election, and, unless we remedy it, in the election of 1880, was a much deeper one—one that lay be neath the snrfare of detail*—and in pro found and commanding." "What was this ismef It was the old issue of the states against tli* rights of the government. Not the iaaueofthe rights of the stales per ar, hut the remedy that is proposed for infractions of these rights. I say to you very frankly tliat itis impossible for the democrats to win on the present platform of the party. I was not surpri-cd at the result in Ohio * I •hall not lie surprised at the result in 1880; unless the party ehanges front. Understand me thoroughly mi one punt in advance; I Would not see the |Mirty abandon one single essential principle. On the contrary I had rather see it defeated on the sacred princi ples of the rights of the states and honest money, than victorious on any mere time serving principles. Itut I believe that it can achieve victory, in lMSOhy cutting away certain undemocratic an I revolutionary entanglements and going into the race on a statesmanlike and patriotic platform." A ntsToRr or tiic statics riuhth stuoule. "What is the plat form 7" "In order that it may lie properly under stood it is twceory to review the history of our (Militirul campaigns a moment. The main issue, and in fact the only real issue, over which the American people have di Tided since the adoption of tnc constitution, is the rights of the states as against the rights of the general government. That is the greatest question to-day." "In the framing of the constitution this very matter was discussed and discussed with some bitterness, and it may lie said that two parties were formed from the day that instrument was written. There was no outbreak during Washington’s administra tion. but it came when Adams was in pow er. The first manifestation of states rights was then made. There were certain tin- naturalized person- who,living in Philadel phia and other places, published the sever- eat criticisms of the administration. The •dutiiiieiralioit took in hand the punish ment of these men, and pus-ed the alien and sedition laws. Under these laws the alien* were tried in the federal courts. The states right people claimed that the states had the right Pi punish th -e men, and that the federal courts had no right to them. The famous Virginia and Kentucy re-so lutions which were written by Mr. Jefferson were taroe-d at ibis time. These resolutions, probably the first foundation of states rights, recited that "the states were judges of any infraction of the consti tution, ami also of the mode and measure of redress.*' The feeli. g was very bitter, but no remedy was pr>*T*o«ed, as the alien and sedition laws wen' only teni|»orary. The »tat«*s rights people uppe iled to the fi.il lot box, am) Mr. A lani* was turned out and Mr. Jefferson elected. As soon as be was installed be pardoned otu the few men still imprisoned under the seditionary lavra. You will observe as we go along that the doctrine of states rights is id ways Till n (A or TIIIC OPT* AOAIRST TIIC ISH Mr. Jeffe*son went into |»ower as estates rights man. Very soon the federalists began to raise the cry of s:ai*s rights Under Madison, the atuwesaar of Jefferson, this feeling was very strong and the New K «g- lam) states we.e no outraged at the war with Britan and the embargo tliat pre.'eded it that they called a convention of the New England states at Hartford to protest against the unwarranted usurpation of power by the federal government These were the’ old federalists, you will remember, who now raise the flag of states rights. Toe Hartford convention issued some excellent stales right doctrine, and it is believed that they would liave seceded in a b sly if the war with England bad not closed ami their g rievance thus wiped out by natural means o that the second crises threatened by the stares rights doctrine passed without trouble The third tine was more serious. When the protective tariff was laid, the people of South Carolina declared that a tariff tor protection was u.ic institutional, and then openly declared that they would not sub mit to it. They prop<»s*d a*> the rentedv for what they deemed an invasion of the rights of the states the pa-sage of nullifying laws by the states. Tins you will perceive was precisely the doctrine laid down by Mr. the polls, bat that each state had the right to control its own elections. The grievance was a sore one. and became almost intolerable. But what was the remedy to be tried? Nullification had been tried and failed—secession had been tried and had failed—what then was left? The dem ocratic boose decided this question, and supplied the third remedy, which was to starve the government by withholding the supplies, which the botua alone can vote. Tbia remedy was jn«t as revolutionary as either of the other two. and was much more dangerous. And I thinh it has been ktl'ed just aa effectually as either. The election in Ohio was the answer to this rev olutionary remedy, and if the answer was not plain enough, I think the voice of New York will make it very plain next week. THE TEACH J XOS orOCE HXSTOKT. "Now/’ Dr. Miller went on to aay, " let us see what lessons are taught by this glance at aurpolitical history: "1. That the doctrine of states right* is an eafenlial one; that it is dear to the hearts of the American people, and that it is not a sectional or partisan doctrine.but one that is dear alike to all sections and to all par ties. It now arouses New England and now Carolina—now the north and now the south. It i* the only guarantee that each section and all sections have that the party bolding the reins of power for the time may not oppress and paralyze one section at the ex perneof the others. It is the essential spirit of our government—the balauce- wheolof the republic. **2. That while the principle of states right* is dear to all sections and all parties, a dear majority of the people and the stronger sections will not tolerate or stand the enforcement of this prinriple by revo-l lutionary means. Those who believe in its violent enforcement have tried three plans. | and each time have met with crushing and Idisaarroua defeat. Once it was nullification, then accession, and at last oiercion of the government by throttling it." "Then what ought the democratic party do?" "It ought to satisfy the people thatl it does not mean to try these methods again. It should reaffirm its principles in the very atrungest language, but, and at the rame time, should pledge ite sacred word that it would forever and eternally abandon I all revolutionary methods of enforcing its views." "Where would it then get its principles righted?" 1 "By an appeal to the only con stitutional tribunal, the supreme court. If that fails, then an app al to the ballot boxl is all that is left. It that t then there is nothing else Indeed, if a majority of the people decide against us at the ballot box, them should be nothing else. Tim is a government of majority rule. Besides, what is the use of trying violent or revolu tionary methods? We can do nothing with them. We have tried three times, and each time we were overwhelmed." "Doyou believe that on a proper ap(*eal we could carry the country in *80?" "I do. I feel certain of it. I am firm in the conviction that thousands of honest men north and west, have viewed the recent rapid strides toward centralization taken bv the republican party with genuine alarm and repugnance. Bnt the trouble is they are more afraid of the revolutionists than they are of the centralists. They are more afraid of JoeBluckbum than they ate of U. 8. Grant. The war of the last decade has made them timid and apprehensive. ■’fne truth is the attitude of the demo- rratslfi the houseon the withholding of sup plies was brought to alarm tlie north. I. myself, consider it more dangerous than either remedy tried before. A northern man would have felt safer in seeing the right of secession established than to have seen established the principle that a ma jority in the house can coerce the govern ment by withholding its supplies. Either means revolution. The difference is that secession could lie accomplished only hy the solemn scion of states, and must therefore be deliberate, while their starva tion policy can be agreed on by a few con gressmen. or a single night’s caucns of hot headed inen. You can see, therefore, how terrifying this Blackburn policy must have been to the north, and how repugnant it must have been to even southern men. who reflected that it placed within the hands of a mere majority in one branch of congress the power of forcing the country into a revolution.’* "But you think that on a platform of stains lights under the constitution the country can be converted?" "I do. Why see how jealously the rights of the states have been guarded u<l the time The constitution is over one hundred years ■MWe have had wan, struggles, parties, I fact ions, hchisras, al o ition, everything! And yet do you know that in only one ■ingle particular have the rights of the [south been lessened? And that is in this: lit prescribes that no stule shad deprive a [man of his franchise because of his race, color or previous condition of servitude In every other respect each *tate is left as before, the supreme judge of its qualifica tions for franchise. And in every other respect, every state has every right ever grant* 1 to if under the constitution. It is true that the constitution has never defined natio ud citizenship. Before that was done the citizens were citizens of the states alone, land now holds United States citizenship. I but that does not interfere with the rights [of the states. □ I believe that if we repudiated all [violent revolutionary intentions, pledged ourselves to appeal only to the supreme court and the ballot-box. and put a man on ithia platform in whom the people have con fidence. I believe I say, that we could easily! carry the country in T S0 If we did not win this time we would at least have re-estab- [fished confidence, and would win nextl time. The people are tired of the republi can party, and 1 believe they are Seriously alarmed at the apparent schemes of the centralists. IS RAT ARP T1IR CnMIXO MAH? What man should lie nominated?" Ah, I don’t know about that. I d | care to try to start a boom for any roan But] I must say that Mr. Bayard combines the very elements that we need. He has been opposed to the revolutionary policy all the time. As determined as he be. be is patri otic and statesmanlike. He opposed the course of Blackburn and his friends in me I la f e hou>e, and is a man of such unques-I tinned integrity and fairness that the north would accept his nominal on, if j coupled with the proper platform, as a sin cere one. They would know that Mr. Bay ard would not accept a nomination uule-sl he meant to stand by the platform on which] he was p a e h hhh d A HARD MOSEY FLAXK. Mr. Bayard, too, is sound on the money| [question. This is a very important point. The north must be reassured at every point. THE GALLANT NAVEE . for bis size. nv TUP koiith iHPBiriH o T »te«j * Two humorists cannot get along in the OP THE SOUTH AMERICAN STATES. sa m e neighborhood any more than two 1 country doctors; indeed two rivals of any A Gnphie Dwcriptlra of tki 5.Til Pijht B.- sort (duellists excepted; they are always ettanun in hi* resolution* pvard by thr Sow you ran «ee where the soft money cru an.l Kentucky legislatures, but “'•« might create alarm. The north -.raid V irginia heie for the first time. THE AMKRIC\H PEOPLE WERE CONFRONTED with m remedy against the encroachments of the general government that meant either disunion or revolution. Everybody knows what a tnrmention * ex cite men i nullification created Andrew Jackson met it holdiv and swore that he w*and hang the Carol in iana if they violated lh« law; he said that the union must stand ami the constitution be respected. Oongrera promptly nav«od a bill putting the army and l.avy at his d a poeal. ami the pcopis hacked him in such an emphatic ms-1tier, that nullification was crushed out forever. Thus the first remedy again«t the alleged invasion of the government iuto the rights of the state, was proposed and rejected forever TME SECOND EEMCDT AGAINST CEHTEALlSM Altar the death of nullification there was quiet for a time, the iron rule of Jackson enforcing ii and the popular >entiment be ing against violence; hut at length another protest came, t his time t was from eleven northern and western stare*. and was based on oppaaitiou U> the fugitive state law. The const it ution expressly stipulates that persons fiecing from service shall b* deliv ered up. The irersoilers and abolitionists who by this time in '56 and ’8 had gained considerable tamer, held that the authori ties of the free states were not bound by this constitutional law to deliver up s!ave» that Aval from the slave sts.es but that the slave states mu>i send for them. They therefore raised the flag of states rights and dec!ami that any citizen of a free state who •S'i't* l in delivering up a fugitive should he considered a ielon, under the state laws. Ti* s was a *» n .*f evasive nul Itrtcaiion, as i proctnailv annulled tb twe*a the Chilian sad tha P«rar.aa Flaats ia wuicttte Haaacar West to the Bitten*—Nsvifrcm Earope- Panama, October 25.—Farther infornra- friends,) in a country neighborhood are always sure, sooner or later, to have a falling out. So it was with John and Billv. Divers were the schemes and tricks tried by Rosser on William—such lion of the cniiae of the Hu»*rar and “ . filIin 5 *PP , “.* ith ®5“? and Union Sooth and of their meeting with giving them to Billy until he hadukenas two divisions of the Chilian navy is de- much of the savory weed into bis month rived from the official report of Captain • as your regular lover of Cavendish or »y that as we could not defy the govern ment by nullification, destroy it by seces sion, or coerce it bv starvation, that we had determined to undermine it by weaker.ing its credit. By adopting an honest money platform and nominating an honest man, we would remove this fear; and put it out of the power of onr enemies to misrepresent us or our purpose. "To sum up then: I believe that Thomas F. Bayard, on a platform of the constitu tion, the union and the enforcement of the laws—with a declaration for honest money and the rights of the states—could be tri umphantly elected next year. Certain de feat, and crushing def at, awaits us if we try to shoulder the policy of the late demo cratic house or anything like it. We must stand hy the sacred doctrines of stales’ riguta, but we must change the remedies we have been trying ” "You d » not think Tilden could carry the country T* "Oh, I care nothing about Tilden and his grievance. I have no sympathy with the one and no confidence m the other. Mr. Tilden bos injured himself since the elec tions of 1876 very much. He is not the same style of roan as Bavard " "What ioyouthinkot the Grant move ment T y "I think it dangerous. If we a’.low the democracy to go into the fi,;ht ou the revo lutionary ’ pr\w;ranime. as laid down by the house, that will force the election of Grant. In the eyes «)f the north, that revolutionary threat w’ill dwarf all other issues, and the Aurelio Garcia, commander of the Union. The two reseda ‘called at Iquique, then aloud south, arriving off Barcu. a Chilian port, on the 4th inat., where they captured the Chilian schooner Coqoirobo. On the morning of the 5th they entered the harbor of Tcnquey, when they learned an attempt would be made to land a strong Chilian force at Iquique or some other point on the coast of Peru, when Admiral Grau deter mined to return to Arica. Proceed ing north the two Peruvian steamers ou the eighth sighted the first division of the Chilian fleet, which was looking for them. The Huaacar and Union at once put about and made off as fast as possible to the southwest. They had drawn well away from the land, the Chilian fleet following them, when Gran resolved to steer u^rth and en deavor to run between the Chilian fleet and the shore. In tbia inanenvre he succeeded and swept by the enemy's first division without firing a gun. The superior speed of the Peruvian s tips was manifest, os they rapidly steamed away from their enemies, the Bianco and Encalada a.id three wooden steamers, and they thought escape certain, when suddenly they sighted the second Chilian division, composed of the Al- mirante, the Cochraue and several smaller vessels coming down uj>on them, in a few minutes Grau saw he could not escape from this iron-clad, whose speed was equal to his own. He accordingly steered for shoal water where, on account of his light ness of draught he might lead his huge ene mies on the rock* or be able to out-man- euvretiie.i. The Uuionliere deserted her contort and escaped to westward, closely followed by several smaller vessels of the enemy. These could not come up with her, and she proceeded north to Arica without having fired a shot during the disastrous fight. The fight was begun by the llua-car discharging her two three-huiidred-pounders at ciose range at the Almiranle Cochran, which Grau fol lowed up by an attempt to ram his antago nist. This was unsuccessful, as the Chilian iron-dads are double screws at:d can present any front they choose to snack by ram ming. As the Huascar swept bv at such close range she received a broadside Irom the Cochran, and before she hud proceeded far the other Imttcry was injured into her. and at the same time the other Chilian iron clad came down u|>oti her, and Grau, undismayed by the odd- against him. boldly placed himself between the two ships, which were thus prevented from tiring so rapidly, on account of the danger of hitting each other. This no doubt pn»- longed the fight, which it is said lasted two hours before the Peruvian flag was hauled down. For about an hour the officers of the Union were able to observe a deadly comitat, and speak favorably of the manner in which all three of the ironclads wen- handled. It is not known whether the t-car was taken by bearding, or that after the death of Grau, which it is said occurred early in the nciiou, and the wounding of iho executive officer and several subordi nates the remaining officers unhurt, »ly four in number hauled down the ffug The Huascar los a large number of men and officers, the circumstance of which was afterwards reported at Iquique by the Chil ian vessels O’Higgins and Lu The hull of the ilua-car is said to have been riddled. Her engines wt re damaged so that she \ra> afterwards towed to Antofagasta, her turret jammed so tliat it would not revolve, and everything was swept from her decks by the terrible fire from tlie iron-ciads. It is said, indeed, that lw»r turret is rendered com pletely useless. The Chilian irun-clad which «ent first into the action tired her broadsides very rapidly, a- with her twin crews she was able to present to her adver sary in a few niinntes any battery she wished to use. The Huascar’s guns were well served. Old ITnele Joint Ko««*r and tbe Billy Goat. Richmond Literary Messenger, 1851. Speaking of these individuals, it occurs to me that the latter, the genus we mean, has never tieen rightly appreciated. Billy (or William, as he should more properly be called, from the gravity and respecta bility of his appearance and manner) like many other meritorious individuals, has lieen in a great measure overlooked; and yet he is a character of no mean pre tensions and claims to respect. Observe him. What a stately gait—how dignified —how decisive and soldierly in his movements—not a bull v and popinjay strutting and puffing about like a cock, nor chattering and gimcracking like a baboon, nor putting on ponderous airs of dignity like that overrated old fogy snob, the lion; permiting no unbecoming or unseemly liberties, yet familiar enough in his way when he likes to be, and pre ferring civilized life and neighborhood to tbe savage habits of that old hermit of the jungle. Docile and tractable, too, is Billy, ‘‘except when roused,” and even then ouTying his indignation only to Christian extremes, and not tearing out entrails and beating out brains like a fil ibuster or one of your fashionable he roes. See how domestic the old fellow is. How he puts himself at the head of the harem and orders things about with a se date anti self-appreciative authority, like a gentleman at his inn, and keeps his wives straight, bnt in a quiet, patriarchal, Turk-like way; never leaving his own family for a friend’s, and never suspect ing fidelity—unlike biped specimens of the gentler who w«*ar horns. To l»e sure, William, liket-very other fine gentleman, g>>es perfumed, and there may be some questions of taste as to the kind; but de gust ii>os and so forth, as Governor C****** would have said if he had put him in his last message. Then ltiok at his countenance. Did you ever see any thing more graveorfull of respectability? Did you ever see more elegant repose of manner? And his beard, does not the cut and make of that remind tis of some of onr most valued and fashionable ac quaintances? A braver fellow than William never lived; for*consider, that like some of our politicians and generals, his only armonr is the thickness of bis skull. Who of them can make more out who on not be bnilic — Tne sooner ww appreciate this the better never vote for Grant, because tie u Honey Due. Unde John's jovial features were com manded by a nose which was the delight of his life. It was a regular cut-water. The style of its architecture was half Dutch, half Roman, none of your little stuck up, turn-ups, as if ashamed of, or too proud for his mouth—nor one of your angular, thread paper concerns, sticking to a round face like the shadow- caster on a sun dial; but a nose that was a nose—strong, well defined, well cut out, well hollowed, well proportioned, and well set on the face. He was fond of stroking and caressing it, and, being of a musical turn, would blow out a clarion on it occasionally, that could bring the boys to dinner like a cow’s horn. Ah me, pnde will havfe a* fall, and so did tliat nose. But I am anticipating. On a certain Sunday morning, Uncle John had gone to his blacksmith’s shop to do a little work on a wagon which he had neglected the eveniug be fore, in consequence of a call he had to a shooting match—an innocent pastime which he much affected. He was en joying alone his felicitations, with which he w as regaling his mind at tliat calm pe riod, over the good fortune he had met with in winning a-quarter of beef, by a shot that had covered the cross and knocked the black out of the mark; and no doubt felt piously grateful for the suc cess of his adventure. He had nearly finished the job—there being but little work to lie done on theti-e—fixing a nail or two or something of the sort. As the work was lying on the ground in the shop, he had got down ou his knees to it, and was bending over it, habited in his red flannel shirt which Uncle John used to wear of hot days under the idea that it was cooler—by making him per spire freely. Billy was, about the same time, walking leisurely around the prem ises, observing what was going on, and picking up such items of interest as might present themselves to liis notice. Seeing the red shirt, Billy’s anger grew somewhat inflamed; for nothing so aroused William’s combative propensi ties as tliat martial color. He did not wait to see whether there was a man in it; and probably if he had, it would not have altered his purpose. So beckoning and nodding his signal to the object, and viewing only the movements of Uncle John in return, which he took to be a challenge, Billy came up to within a few’ feet—then backed a step or two, and then taking aim, came clattering on towards the object of assault. Uncle John had only time toget himself half straightened, before Billy took him a clew on the side of the head, which sent him reeling back, and w’ould probably have knocked him senseless, but that, fortunately, his head fell into the water trough behind. Billy, seeing what he had done, bleated out his surorise, and retreated in great haste to a sate distance from his irate foe. As soon as the stars had ceased falling, and Uncle John had satisfied himself tliat it was not the devil that had come after him for breaking the Sabbath, Un cle John resolved on revenge. He was not long in putting his plan in operation, for with Uncle John action stood close to resolution. As the old hunter said of General Jackson, when it was objected to the hero that he had ordered a few Indian women and children to be-shot one morning, Uncle John was "a punctil man.” As to cudgelling William—that was out of the question; for William con tumaciously refused to come within cudgelling distance—but bore off, keep ing a vague watch on Uncle John's move ments, but as if he were going about his business and preferred slaying where he was—and was not at all alarming or afraid of Uncle John—as many other would-be great fighters before and since have done. After divers abortive efforts to bring Billy within striking distance, a brilliant idea illuminated John's understanding. He had in the shop a kettle, or pot, kept there to be repaired; it just about fit his head by moving the hair from bis tem ples: Uncle John thought if he could be guile Bill to make another butt at him lie would, by suddenly ducking his head, bring Billy’s head in contact w;ith the iron legs of the pot and damage his coun tenance considerably; so covering op his face except tbe eyes, and pulling off his red flannel shirt and hanging it before him, he got on all fours aud approached his enemy. Everything succeeded ad mirably. Billy came up and reconnoi tred—Uncle John shook the red at him in the most provoking style; he tannted and tantalize him until no goat of spirit on earth could have stood it. Billy, like other bullies, though as brave as com mon, was no braver. He was a little du bious. He wanted to see whether his challenger was anxious to fight before he concluded whether he wanted himself to fight—for there’s a great deal of human nature iu a goat Uncle John pretended to retreat, and began tracking. Billy straightway found himself very pugna cious. file advanced—reared up— bleated — backed—and nodded ami writhed his neck and put on terrible swash-buckler airs, as if he were going to tear things and do wonders. Uncle John still made pretence of backing out, and Billy, nerving himself for a vigorous on set, came charging-yjnst in time Uncle John threw down his head and let Billy drive at the spikes a plorab. It was a dead level shot Billy bounded back, bleated, shook his head, dropped his tail and gallopped off. But what became of Uncle John? Unfortunately the shock knocked the pot down over liis ears—the rim breaking his nose as it came down— and sent him reeling back on the ground. He tried to get up, and partially succeed- A BRAVE ‘GIRL THB CAPTURE OF MtSS MEEKER. Hov the Women Wen Carried off Proa the Ageaoy —Bcea-e la Camp and oa the Ifiroh—Bal- lled by a Coward and Served hy aa IsdlaaBiave—Iadiaa Life. than Gutielmus? Washington City can’t show one. But it was not of the genus but of the particular individual we designed to speak. Billy Rosser—as lie was named alter his owner—was somewhat peculiar, as much so as the "charming Miss Julia.' He had got to be a public character, and,, like other public characters, he was a little spoiled by the attentions he re ceived. He was naturally a fellow of very good parts, and of excellent dispo sition; but ne had been so petted aud deferred to—the little negroes, dogs and "other varmints” on the plantation had o flattered his prowess, by retreating be fore him and letting him have his own way, that he had run himself down to the level of a regular fillibuster, pitching into everything and everybody that he could get to; and this not only at home, but "he quit his own to stand on foreign ground.” He used to come to the gro- what was tbe matter—wtiat was he laugh- He! haw! he! I ain to teach him to drink the heeltaps in the ul”**-??*,* nh will anawer that threat by presenting gU*ses and to chew tobacco fbut it is thaft raU H^he^hTw^he ed by a threat | iinlv 5M tU to Rille to «>v •.« too ? fooled that goat. He. he. hovr.—rtie himsel* to bits of cheese ou the counter, • ^ mt9 c.:a or anything else he liked. The bovs tried in £ », ‘i - .. "-i. — * A .k» v i, •_ .i —he. he: P* i-ior .u* »*J> ante*** the «iel Mr. Fllmorv. hoaever. lug the alac*' who had run away, and dered the federal official* io arrest and re turn them Tbe free soilers becoming bolder and utu’i. n* which g ;*r-j »«ie e*nb nlim*, t of the centralizing lend- [only justice to Billy to say he was too tawka-mercwIT ‘ eh of a gentleman to indulge in such " aw * Laws a m - ‘ come back any more—it was a tight fit and a fixture. He was nearly smothered. No one was near. He couldn’t see how to get away, and he couldn't hallo. He laid there for several hours nearly dead. At length a negro came along and gave the alarm. Some of the neighbors got together; but they could not get the pot off; they stretched Uncle John’s neck until he used to say it was as long as an Indian hen’s—but it would not do. No farther time coaid be lost. So they raised him up, put his head on the anvil, and with the hammer broke the pot; but tbe blow knocked Uncle John into the ildle of the next week—at least it was then before he fonnd himself in his senses. When he came to he made signs for them to take the bandages off his face; they had splintered his nose—the trackbone of it and some of the ribs hav ing been broken; as soon as this was done he commenced shaking all over and Alomoaft (Col.) Dispatch In N.Y. Herald. Mrs. Meeker .her daughter, Josephine, and Mrs. Price and her two children have been detained here two days on wcconnt of Mrs. Meeker's illness, caused by Aervousreaction after a terrible journey of five hundred miles on stages and Indian fonies, bareback and with poor saddles, over ^mountains and alkali doerat. During thisbrdeal she was • nly half clad in a calico drew and a single shawl, wit:.out blankets, aud had only the bare ground to sleep on in the Indian camps. Tbe party leave for Denver in a day or two. going thence to their home ia Grfeley. Mias Josephine Meeker was threatened with death, and her escape was a narrow- one. She is a blonde, with bjue eyes and light hair, and ia tall in statore, and viva cious in manner and conversation. She was a teacher at the agency and a great fa vorite among the Indians. She taught the boy of Chief Douglas*, aril had half a dozen offers of marriage Mow the Cte braves. Her qu»ck- wit ieJge of the language undoubtedly saved her life. Miss Meeker says: "1 was in the kitchen with my mother washing the dishes. It as after noon. 1 looked out of the win- d *w and saw the Utes shooting the boys who were at work on the new building. Mrs. Price was at the door washing clothes. She rushed inland took Johnny, the baby, tolly. Just then Frank Dresser, an em ploye, staggered in, shot through the leg. I said, ‘Here, Frank, is Mr. Price’s gun.’ It lay on the bed. He took it, and jost as we were flying out by the door the windows were smashed in and half a dozen shots tired into the room. Frank Dresser fired and killed Johnson’s brother. We into the milk room, which had only one small window and locked the door and hid under a shelf. Firing went on for several hours at intervals. There was no shouting, no noise, but fre quent firing. While waiting in this horrid suspense Dresser said he had gone to the employe’s rooms, where all guns were stored, but found them stolen. In the intervals of shooting Dresser would exclaim: ‘There goes one of the government guns.’ Their sound was quite different from those of the Indians. We stayed in the milk room until it began to fill with smoke. The sun was half an hour high. I took May Price, three years old and we all ran to father’s room. It was not dis turbed. The papers and books were just as he left them. "Pepy’s Diary" lay open on the table. We knew tbe building would hie burned and ra« across Douglass avenue for a field of sage brush beyond the plowed ground. The Utes were so busy stealing the annuity goods that they did hot see us at first. About thirty of them, loaded with blankets, were carrying them toward Doug- r —’* camp, near the river. We had gone hundred yards when the Utes saw us. They threw down the blankets and came running toward us, tiring as they came. Bullets whizzed as thick as grasshoppers around us. I do not think they intended to kill us—only to frighten us—but they tried t*» shoot Frank Dresser, who had almost reached the sage brush. Mother was hit by a ballet, which went through her underclothing and made a tiesh wound three inches lqng. As the Indians came nearer they shouted: ‘‘We no shoot! Coine to us!" I had the little girl, and the Indian named Pursune said to me to go th him. He and another Ute seized me the arms and started toward the river. An Uncompabgre Indian took Mrs. Price and her baby and mother was taken to the headquarters of Donglass. We came to a wide irrigating canal which father had the Indians build. I said I could not cross it The Indians answered by pushing tne through the water. 1 had on only mocca sins, and the water and mud were deep. The baby waded, too, and both of us came out wet to the skin. As we were walking in Chief Jueeph came and pushed away Pursune, and in great an ger, told him to give me up. I understood some of the latiguage. Pursune refused to surren-ier ine. Hot words eusimd and I feared the men would fight fora moment, i thought I would ask Douglass to take ine. but as both were drunk I kept silent, and afterward was glad I did not go. Douglass finally went away and we walk- l on toward the river. Before reaching the stream, not more than two hundred yards away, both iny conductors pulled out bottles aud drank twice. No whisky was sold at the agency. Their bottles were not agency bottles. Tbe Indian, Pursune, took nie to where his ponies were standing by the river, and seated me on a pile of blank ets while he went for more. The ludians were now on all sides. I could not escape. Pursune packed his effects, all stolen from the agency, ou a government mule which wat taller than a tall man. He had two mules stolen from the agency. It was now sundown. Packing was finished at dark, and we started for the wilderness of the south. I rode a horse with a saddle, but no bridle. The halter-strap was so short that it dropped continually. The child was lashed behind me. Pursune and his assist ant rode each side of me, driving the pack ules ahead. About twenty other Indians were in the patty. Mother came later, riding bareback be hind Douglass, both on one horse. 8he was sixty four years old, feeble in health, wounded, aud not recovered from a broken thigh, caused by a fall two years ago. Chief Douglass gave her neither horse, saddle nor blankets We followed the river, and on the other aide Pursune brought me a hatful of water to drink. We trotted alone until nine o’clock, when we halted for half an hour. All the Indians dismounted and blankets were spread on the ground, and I laid down to rest, with mother lying not far from me. Chief Douglass was considerably excited, and made a speech to me with many ges tures and great emphasis. He recited his grievances and explained why the massacre began. He said Thornburgh told the In dians that he was going to arrest the head chiefs, take them to Fort Steele and put them in the calaboose—perhaps hang them. He said my father had written all the let ters to the Denver papers, and circulated wild reports about what the Indians would do, as set forth by the western press, and that he was responsible for all the hostility against the Indians among the whites in the west. He said pictures of the agent and all his family, women and children, had been found on Thornburgh’s bodv just before the attack on the ogenev, and the pictures were covered with blood and showed marks of knives on different parts of the bodies. The throats were cut. The one of the agent had a bullet hole in his head. He said 1 was represented iu one of the pictures as shot through the breast. Douglass said my father had made these pictures, represent ing the prospective fate of his family, and sent them to Washington to be used to in fluence the soldiers and hurry troops for ward to fight the Indians. This remarka ble statement, strange as it may seem, was afterward told me by a dozen different In dians. and the recital and the particulars were always the same. Grand mountains with the Indians talking in low tones among themselves. The little thiee-year-old May Price, who was fastened behind me, cried a few times, for she was cold and had had no supper, and her mother was away in Jack's camp, but the child was generally quiet. It wa» after midnight when we made the second halt in a deep and sombre canyon, with tremendous moun tains towering on every side. Mother was not allowed to come up. Douglass kept her with him half a mile further down the ravine. Pursune had plenty of blankets, which were stolen from the agency. He spread some for my bed and rolled up some for my pillow, and told me to retire. Then the squaws came and laughed, and grinned and gibbered in their own grim wav. We bad reached the camp Douglass had chosen for the Indian women who had been sent to the canyon previous to the massacre. Jack's camp, where Mrs. Price was kept, was five or six miles away in another canyon. When I had laid down on the blankets two squaws, one old and one young, came to the bed and sang and danced fantastically and joyously al my feet, llio other Indians stood around, and when the women reached a certain part of their recitative thev all broke into laughter. Toward the eud of their song my captor, Pursune, gave each of them a newly stolen government blanket, which they took and then went away. The WHO OWA T S THE LINE? SOME STARTLING RAILWAY CHANGES The Hi rthem Stockholder! *ln ths Westers and Atlur.lc B&ilroad Lease Dispose of their Interests to (Lionel E. W. Cole- Interview with Cot. Brown. The air was full of rumors yesterday in regard to the sale and transfer of a conside rable portion of tbe stock of the Western and Atlantic railroad lease company. These rumors assumed various shapes, and created considerable excitement in railroad circles, the most persistent statement being to tbe effect that the stock in the lea-je company recently owned by Cameron. Deland, and other northern men, had been pur chased ny Colonel E. W. Cole in the interest of the Nashville, Chatta nooga and St. Louis railway, and that it was a blow at the Cincinnati Southern. A reporter of The Co.Nsrmrriox, who has always displayed un interest in railroad in cidents and accidents, was detailed to look the matter up. After discovering that there was truth in the rumors, to the extent at least that the sale of stock had been made - some days ago, and that the transfer was strangeness and wild novelty of my position ! effected yesterday, the reporter sought out kept me awake until toward morning, when i fell iuto a doze, and did not awake until tbe su*. Was shining over the moun tains. Next day Pursune went to fight the soldiers, aud he placed me in charge of his wife with her three children. That same day mother came up to see me, in company with a little Iudian girl. On Wednesday, the next day, Johnson went over to Jack's camp and brought back Mrs. Price and her baby to live in his camp. He said he had made it all right with the other Utes. We did not do anything but be around the various camps and listen to the talk of the squaws whose husbands were “ ;bting the soldiers. edne>duy and on other days one of Snpanxisquait’s three squaws put her hand n luy shoulder and said: "Poor little girl, feel so sorry. You have no father and you are away off with the Utes so far from home." She cried all the time and said her own little child had just died aud her heart was sore. When Mrs. Price came into camp another squaw took her baby, Johnny, into her arms and wept over him and said, in Ute, that she felt very sorry for the captives. I asked the Indians before Brady came where the soldiers were. They replied that they were "still in that cellar," and the Indians were killing; their ponies when they went for water in the night. They said: "Indians stay on mouutaius and see white ttoldiers; soldiers no see Indians. White soldier not know how to fight." A SCRAP OF HISTORY. While Douglass was telling this he stood in front of me with bis gun, ami his anger was dread nil. Then he shouldered hia gun and walked up aud down before me iu the moonlight and imitated the employes who langerous and so Billy—like another Billy we wot of— er>cy that I consider d on deliver- fatal. "So you think the democratic convention should' run BayardT’ "I think the people should run him. I mii do not believe in conventions. I should •tiun'fjrr Yu pu»hr*i »h«3 «uwi I pr.ferio«« him pal brfora th* people on » ilm.rv until the atHtibern pent.!, in turn i »'Ond platform by maa. meetings I should begin'io raise th* riant, cry, and de- like hire.* a Bayard electoral teket put up in M ml that the .tatea-.*• left to rriulaie ti e OratgUmt-l rut. thtooghonagood platform. .oration *.f slavery tor :hen-.aeivra. At i « ’d 1 beitev. u would carry tbe statei oaer |“" u " * length, on the election of Mr. Lincoln, aim i nomination of tbe ent.rt party, if the Bev - *,“*■ belonged to the “Pitch-in school,” and made a pass at every thing that was going that promised benefit or amuse ment. His pranks were sometimes very diverting; for instance, at the camp- meetins. where William came walking up. and seeing worthv old brother Amen, on a hot evening after a hearty meal, seated under a tree, nodding under the lectKMi -I Mr. Lincoln, who i M" 5 no nun*; ion ox me eui.r? pony, u me , ^ # r_ ", ," , t_7 was opposed to tii**** vie**, thev fried the two par iea mod,* nomination* It requires couree, took it lor a tranter; mud, making second remedy against centralization. In very little machinery or wire-working u> put | up to him. hit him such a spat between tbe nullification debites Mr. Col boon hod • candidate before the people where be is I the eyes as made him think anc oueuh proclaimed the rights of the st**** • the[.right man and on the right platform, ' of falling stars had come down, to arced*, and now tliat course was adopted j Still,jd a convention should meet I think J Old Unde John another set Rosser was as full of hy the American people. herewith commit it to tbe criticism of tht I “f. TIIC STATES RIGHT* STRUGGLE SINCE TWE WAR. | UnWba - H. \V G. be^So 0 ^ ^tiTS^’ofXl M«™,w Noram^r k-A, . Howard dcnly taken,jmdrt-k., himself ,U| ___ laughing mania cacoethes ridentis; he "took on” as if p__ ? nested by a laughing devil—would sud- SaZe or the Atlantic and Golf Rail road. Savaxsah. November 4—The Atlantic and Gulf railroad was sold uxiay under a decree of the United States court for three hnndred thousand dollars over the fim mortgaging and other claims to H. Plant. The purchase money Juts already b-?cn paid. _ Short Crops. Little Rock, Ark., November 5.—Ad vic-s from Indian Territory report that the Arkansas river is entirely dry at Big Bend. Tbia was never known to occur before. The corn crops are very short in the Chero kee, Choctaw, Chickasaw Seminole and Creek nations. Much suffering in conse quence is anticipated. —General Loring (Pacha) says that the ex-kbedive was very much surprised when E:.gland paid the Alabama claims; it per suaded him that no country in the world so fearlessly held England responsible for her acta as the United States. Thereupon he gigantic war bad died out, th# old strugRl* j meeting last night John Johnson, treasurer, over unul be fell down in a fit of laugh-. i^^ined that American friendship might wa* renewed. This time tha grievai oa was submitted a report showing that the re- ing- He was always carrying on jokes av *;. j,j. a something, and be made us a tha ! he federal government had no right to celpt* have been 173,862.92; disbursements and running nga, verbal and practical pre- • • of the obelisk, which ~ ~ * sup* 2 .is* the election* and have troops at $66,476,51; bRfeoee on hand, $5,336 41. He waa a large, fat fellow; but until the call* «-« true Cleopatra Needl i glits before the massacre. them and sneered aud laughed at them and raid he was “a heap big Indian.” Then he rang English songs which he had heard the boys sing in their rooms at the agency. He sang the negro melody. “Saing low, sweet chariot.’’ and asked me if 1 understood. 1 told him I did, because he had the words and tune perfectly committed. lie said father had always been writing to Washington. He always saw him writing when he came to the agency. It was write- write. write all day. he said. Then he swore a fearful oath in English, and said if the soldiers had not come and threatened the Indiauswiih Fort Steele ami ihp calaboose and threatened to kill tbe other Indians at White river, the agent wouldn't have been massacred Then the brave chief, Douglass, who had eaten at our table that ver>;dav walked off a few feet, returned and placed his loaded gun to my forehead three times and asked me if I was going to run away? ‘ told him I was not afraid of him nor death, and should uot rnu away. When he found hia repeated threats could not frighten me. all the other Indiana turned on him aud laughed at him, and made so much fun of him that he sneaked off and went over to frighten my mother. I heard her cry “Ob!” and I supposed that she thought some terrible fete had befallen me, 1 shouted to her that I was not hart; that she need not be afraid; that they were only trying io scare her. The night was still, bat 1 heard no response. The Indians looked at each other. All hands took a drink around my bed; then they saddled their horses, and Pursnne led my hone to me and knelt down on his hands and knees for me to mount y bone from his back. He always did this, and when he was absent his wife did it. I saw Pursune do the same gallant act once for bis squaw, bnt it was only ones, and none of the other Indians did it at all. ‘ We urged onr horses forward mod j jur- 1 neyed in tbe moonlight through to the Cemlniscencee ol the Battle of Chan- cellorsTlIle. Richmond, October 30.—The Virginia division of the Associntion of the Army of Northern Virginia had its annual banquet here to-day. General J A. Early presiding, on which occasion General Fitzhugh Lee, nephew of General U. E. Lee, delivered the annual address, his subject being “Chancel- lorsville.” The address was very lengthy. hat makes it important is the fact that the speaker gave the first and until now only "ublished account of the last interview tween Lee and Jack-on before the latter was killed. After reviewing th* battle, and claiming that Hooker had 133,703 available men. while the confeder ates had only 53.363, he gave an account of the last meeting between Lee and Jackson. The only person now living who heard this conversation between the two confederate leadere is Colonel Marshall, of Baltimore, and he told it to General Fitzhugh Lee, who combats entirely the position taken by northern and southern military writers uj*on this subject. General i^e said: “Ah. what an earnest tal k Lee and Jackson had on the night of May 1. Atsunse: they took their seats on a logon the north side of the plank road, and a little distance in the woods. Colonel Marshall, the well-known aide-de-camp of General Lee, was the only other person present, hav ing been ordered to cotue to the spot for the purpose of writing a letter to Mr. Davis, to be nictated by General Lee. Marshall sat theemlof a fallen tree, within three feet the two generals, and heard every word that passed between them, aud this is what tells me Lee and Jackson talked about ... that eventful night. Jackson sjtoke to General Lee about what he had seen and heard during the advance; commented on the promptness with which the enemy had appeared to abandon his movement towards Fredericksburg, when opposed, and the ease with which he had been driven back to Chaucellorsville. and concluded by express ing the opiuion very decidedly and repeat ing it more than once that the enemy would recross the Rapirahunuock before morning. He said in substance, “by to-morrow morning there will not be any of them this side of the river.” General Lee expressed the hope that General Jackson’s expecta tions might be realized, but said he did not look for such a result : that he did not be lieve the enemy would abandon his attempt 90 easilv. and expressed his conviction that the tuain body of General Hooker’s army was in his front, and that the real move was to be made from this direction und not from Fredericksburg. On this point there was a great difference of opinion among our higher officers, and General Lee was the on ly one who seemed to have the absolute con viction that the real movement of the fed eral arinv was the one he was then meeting. In this belief he never wavered from the first. After telling Genet al Jackson that he hoi»ed his opinion might be proved to be correct. General Lee added, “But, gen eral. we must get ready to attack the en emy if we should find him here to-morrow, and you must make all arrangements to move around his flank.” General Lee then took up the map and pointed out to Jack- son the general direction of his rou.e by the Furnace and Brook roads. Some conversation took place as to the importance of endeavoring to conceal the movement from the enemy, and as to the existence of roads further to the enemy’s right, by which Jackson might pass so as not to be exposed to observation or attack. The general line of Jackson’s route was pointed out, aud the necessity of celerity and secresy was enjoined upon him. The conversation was a lengthy one. and at the conclusion of it General Lee said to Jackson that before he moved in the morning, if he. should have any doubt as to whether the enemy was still in position he could send a couple of gnns to a spot close by and open fire on the enemy’s position, which v.ould speedily settle the question. From th-' spot referred to two of oiirguus had to be withdrawn that after noon, as the infantry were suffering from the fire they were drawi.ie from the enemy. General Jackson theu withdrew, and Gen eral Lee dictated to Colonel Marshall a long letter to President Davis, giving him fully the situation. In it he regretted he would not have the assistance of Pickett’s and Hood’s divisions, but expressed confidence in the good judgment that had withdrawn and kept them from him, and closed with the hope that, notwithstanding all our dangers and disadvantages, Providence would bless the .efforts which he was sure his brave ariuv wou d make to deserve succera. AH this gsven in detail, to show the errors writers upon Chsncellorsville have fallen into in respect to the origin of Jackson’s famous flank movement. In a little pine thicket, close by this conference. General Lae and staff bivouacked that night. During the evening reports reached him from Early that all wa* quiet along the Rappahann<.ck. Wilcox was ordered back to Banks’s ford consequence of other rumors. Use's orders had been issued: plans digested; his trusty lieutenants were to carry them out; the chieftain slept. Hooker st Chancellorsville. one and a half miles aw*y, was. however, awake. 1:55 on the morning of the 2d of May, he dispatched to Butterfield to order the pon toon bridges taken np below Fredencksbuig and Reynolds’s corps to march at once to his headquarters. The morning of May 2, 1863. broke clear. General Lee emerged from the little thicket and stood or its edge at sunrise, erect and sol diery. to see Jackson’s troops file bv. They bad bivouacked on bis right, ex-Governor Brown, president of the lease compauy, fqr tbe purpose oftnflw at the facts in a matter in which the public has such a lively iuterest. The ex-governor was found at the Kimball house, and informed the reporter that he bad norortof objection to making public any fact in connection with the sale of stock that might seem to be of general interest. "I understand. Governor Brown," said the reporter, "that there have been some changes made recently iu the ownership of the stock of the Western and Atlantic rail road company.** "Yes,” replied the governor, "there have been some changes made. As the public has no doubt frequently noticed from the new»pai>ers. several leading northern politi cians and railroad men were interested in the lease of the Western and Atlantic railroad, and held shares as lessees. This has frequent ly been made an objection to the lease on the part of many persons in Georgia Recently Colonel E. W. Cole, president of the Nash ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway, who is also one of the original lessees, to gether with a few friends, purchased the iuterest of these northern stockholders, and there are now only two or three fractional interests ovvtied by uorthern men. This transfers almost the entire stock in the lease lo Georgians and southern men.*’ "What effect will this change have on the general management of the railroad and u|>on its connections with other com panies?" was asked. Governor Brown—It will uot materially affect the general mauag itue nt of the road. Of course the new stock holders may have some ideas of tlicir own iu reference to some of onr internal management that they may want to carry out, but so far as It relates to the public or connt-ciing roads the change will in no way materially uffect th*' management of the Western and At lantic railroad company Reporter—As Colonel Cole and some of the friend-iinterested with him.are reported to he connected with the Nashville, Chatta nooga and St. Louis railway, does uot this change look to some discrimination or ad vantage in its favor as against the Cincin nati Southern railroad, which is soon to lie completed? Governor Brown—No; it has nothing whatever to do with the connections of the Western and Atlantic railroad with those great lines at its western terminal point. So long as ( have anythiug to do with the management of the Western and Atlantic railroad. I shall not permit the slightest discrimination to be made in favor of or against any one of the com panies connecting with us or working over our line. Our policy will be one of strict justice and strict impartiality between all competing lines that work in connection with us. This 1 understand to be the view taken of the matter by Colonel Cole and those interested in the late purchase. They neither seek nor ex|*ecl any discrimination in favor of their line against the Cincinnati Southern, nor will they at any time request the Western aud Atlantic railroad company to make such discrimi nations, nor will they be made under any conceivable state of facts. We consider both of these great lines as friendly allies, and the Western and Atlantic railroad company will treat both justly and impar tially. If the competition between them should at any time rui * to a point where they are hauling freights at a rate so low that it will not reasonably compensate us for carryiug it the Western and Atlantic railroad company may decline to do so at a rate not remunerative, but the rate which we may fix for one company will apply in every case to the other, aud they and all other companies doing business with us will be treated alike. Reporter—Are you sati.-fied that these are Colonel Cole’s views on the subject? Governor Brown—I am thoroughly satis fied of that fact. Colonel Cole is one of the ablest and most conserva tive railroad men in the south. His ability and capacity are generally known to, and recognized by, oui people, and his character for justice, impartiality and fair dealing are such that noue who know him doubt his intention to do right aud deal justly with all. I have had inti mate association and connection with Colo nel Cole us a railroad man for many years, and we have never, in any instance, mate rially differed on a line of policy, nor has he at any time since 1 have managed the Western and Atlantic {railroad desired or asked me to dhcriininate in any way what ever in favor • f the line managed by him. The large interest which .Colonel Cole and his friends now have in the Western and Atlantic railroad company, which will tie represented in fnture by Colonel Cole him- ilf, has cost them a very considerable sum * money and it is very natural that they uuhl desire that the road be worked ou a line of equal justice lo all, and in such a manner as to yield a reasonable income to its stockholders. They cannot afford there fore to have the Western and Atlantic railroad made the tool, or subordinate to the interest of any other company or associ ation. It must be worked upon an intelli gent, fair and business-like basis, and my long experience with, and knowledge of Colonel Cole aa a railroad man, fully justi fies me in stating that there ia no question but that this will be done. Tbe change in stockholders, which has recently been made, will not therefore in any way injuriously a fleet the public or any line of road which may be worked in connection with the Western and Atlantic railroad or that tuay bring freights or pissetigers to be carried over it. As already stated, it is a simple transfer of stock from the hands of those gentlemen north who originally owned it to the hands of intelligent andeti terprising persons of the south. Reporter—I understand that T. W. Wal- ra, of Baltimore, has long been a leading and influential man among the lessees Does he still retain an interest and remain member of the board? Governor Brown—Yes. I am glad to in- . rm you that Mr. Walters still retains au interest ar.d will remain a member of the board of directors, aud of the executive minittee. Mr. Walters is not a politician, it is one of the best business ...eii in the country, aud his course in connection with the Western and Atlantic railroad has always been intelli gent, upright and just. He is popular with ail of us, and we should have regarded it a great loss u> have had him sever his con nection with the company. And, a* al ready stated. I am very nappy to be able to say that this is not contemplated, and I may here add that Mr. Walters entirely approves of the purchase made by Colonel Cole and his friends, and be will no doubt act in harmonv with Colonel Cole and those ho manage the road. and were now commencing the flank move ment. About a half hour after sunrise Jackson bimseif came riding along. When opposite to Genera! Lee he drew rein and the two conversed for a few momenta. Jackson then started forward, pointing in the direction his troops were moving. His race was a little flushed as it was turned back towards General Lee, who nodded approval to wbat had raid; tne sun rose unclouded and brilliant, gilding the hill-tops and penetra ting the vapors of the valley, rising as gor geous as did the sun of Austerlitx, which produced such an impression upon the im agination of Napoleon. It should be re membered by the people of the south, for its rays fell upon the last meeting in this world of Lee and Jackson.” The True Republic Laexaan (Iowa) Sentinel, rep. If state lines interfere with national progress U irate oonaUtutioas hamper the national pur- stately court train. Around the skirt was one flounce, very deep, and sli htly full, of old point lace, and such lace! fine as a cob web, and woven into airy 1 lilies and orange blossoms, with occasional birds and butter flies. This flounce is said to have cost $3,000, and was once worn by the Empress Eugenie, who furnished the design for the pattern. Above this flounce was a delicate fringe of orange blossoms, and on either side, where the train was caught to convey a bouffant effect, a large diamond buckle was used. The veil was of point de Venise, and hung in graceful folds about her figure, and was fastened to the coiStore by an im mense diamond star, so mounted as to trem ble and quiver with every movement. A diamond butterfly held the neck of the corsege together, and a superb necklace of graduated stones, with a cross pendant, was fastened round the throat and matched the solitaire ear-rings. ‘‘She wore.” said a con noisseur in precious stones wLo was pres- sent, "at least $300,000 worth of diamonds, and diamonds remarkable for their size and luster." The butterfly, buckles, and star were gifts from her own family, the neck lace and ear-rings from the groom. Mrs. Astor appeared in a rich old-gold brocade, toned down by flounces of duchesse lace, a fichu of the same almost concealing the corsage. She was also elaborately be sprinkled with diamonds, and wore a clus ter of roses and leaves in her hair. As to the presents, thev included every thing artistic, novel and costly that could be bought. Among them was one uot dis played, but talked of, presented by an old ScIkmiI frfend nt rha kn.U** T> OVER THE ABYSS. A MOMENT OF INTENSE TERROR. school friend of the bride’s It consisted of a pair of flexible gold garters, upon which "Honi soit qui mal y pense" was engraved, and the clasps set with tur- S noise and pearls. These presents are get- ug more and more common, and in the leading jewelry stores form quite a feature of the trade. The wedding ceremony took place at Mr, Astor’s residence, the interior of which blossomed into a bower of flowers of the rarest kind. Orchid*, odd palms, strange cacti blossoms, and odd varieties of ferns were used with exquisite nicety of taste. However, the chiet floral design was the Astor coast of arms, a mammoth lion’s paw surmounting the motto, "Semper Fideles.” The marble-pieces, door-iranels, and cabinets were almost concealed by the lavish use of flowers. Mr. and Mrs. Drayton left last evening on a wedding tour through Canada, on their return to leave for Europe, where they will reside for a year or so. THE CLEMENT ATTACHMENT. Thrilling Adventure of Mias Floyd Jonts. of Haw York, st a 8;rantcn Coal Mme—The Hoist ing RjDe Breaks Over an Abyss Focr Hundred and Fifty Feet Deep- The Best Sort of a Boom and One that Seems to Hold Its Own. The descriptive letter published in The Constitutiom, of a few cays since, giving tin? dttails of the management of the Clem- ent attachment, has created a widespread discussion. We doubt if there ever was an in-mituent evolved from, human brain con cerning which there was so much curiosity. it was pretty well understood that it was a little machine that put money in the pocket of the owner and that virtually doubled the value of the cotton crop, but tin re were few who Hectuetl to understand it did its work. There were many per il ho visited the various sites of tbe yarn mills and saw the attachment at work, but there were of course thousands who were interested in the matter wo uitt notbe able to visit the mills and make p -rsonal ex animation. The article in The Co.nhtitu* tio.y, carefully prepared aud elaborate, an sivcred all questions as to the working of the attachment and thoroughly explained ita operations. That it has been apprecia ted t6 attested by the constant demand for the paper containing it, notwithstanding the fact that the article has been reprinted in >cores of pa;>ers. the effect or the article. The effect of the article has been most happy. It has awakened an interest in the attachment that is well nigh universal. It is almost impossible to meet a man who is not figuring on the matter one way or au- other. It has sent a number of men to Westminster irom this place already to look into the actua! workings of the attach ment. The machinery for one yarn mill has al ready been purchased, and the building is now being prepared for it in this county. A Mr. Lyons, who lives near the city, has determiniHl to put one up aud have it ly for the next year’s crop, beside* spinning what seed-cotton lie can lay aside of this year’s crop. Colonel L. F. Living ston, of Newton county, says tliat arrange ments are beiug made to build one iu that county at ouce. These are the only two new mills that we can locate as certain, but perhaps a hun dred others have been reported to us as pro jected. One gentleman at West End, a practical mechanic, says that he will put $1,500 in one and run it himself, if any oth er party will put iu as much more. A gen tleman who is a shrewd observer said to the writer on yesterday: "It is my deliberate opinion, from what I have heard, that there will be enough of these mills at work iu Georgia by next year’s crop to convert 50,000 bales of cotton into yarn. This looks like a big estimate, but you just wait and see." One thing is certain. The farm era are get ting better prices for their cotton than ever b fore, and they are making a pretty sur- E 1 us over the cost of production. They will e» better able next year to invest in a thing of this sort than they have ever been since the war. As to the inven tion and utility of * this thing no man can doubt. As to its effect on the cotton factories I can only quote an old opiuion given me by Mr. H. I. Kimball, president of the Atlanta cotton mills, four or five years ago. Said he: "I shall never he satisfied until I seea thousand cheap little yarn mills scattered about in Georgia—one in every neighborhood, and along every creek—spinning the bulk of the crop of the neighborhoods into yarn, which shall be sent to great central factories in Atlanta to be woven into cloth, i shall never feel that the problem is fully solved until 1 have seen that much accomplished!" When Mr. Kimball was talking of this sort of tbirg, the Clement attachment had nor been heard of. It may be that he di vined it and we may therefore hope that his view was prophetic. At any rate he is very deeply interested in the Clement at tachment fast now—and he never gives his attention to things of this aort without having a vety definite object in view. You may put it down, gentle reader, that no matter how the political j elections may go, the Clement attachment boom is going to hum! _ Grant on the election. liOxn.iRDvu.LE, III., November ft —A dis patch from the Associated pres- office in Chicago giving the latest election returns from New York, was handed General Grant, who said that he only hoped the later returns would confirm the indications of Cornell’s election. "If Cornell is elected,” raid the general. "Tilden will be shelved as effectually as Thurman now Is, and if Rob inson is re-elected, in my opinion, the cou- ie-«t for the democratic nomination will be narrowed down to Tilden and Thurman ” 11 is ntaied that General Shermeu has ritten to a military friend in this city that General Grant has an important message to deliver to the people of the United States, which he will first, give to them when he reaches this city. Washixotojj, November ft—An invira- ..j>n has been sent to General Grout at Chi cago to vitit North Carolina in December, or such other time ss may be convenient. This invitation is from Judge Settle, and •ther leading republicans. They promise him a boom irrespective of party. Demo crats from that state say they will join in a •eption to Grant provided it is non-porti- . _ i There are many indications of a strong effort to get Grant to make an extended tour in tbe south inis winter. Galls a. III.. November 5.—General Grant arrived at his old home to-day. Scranton. Pa., November 5.—If it were possible to turn gray of terror the hair of Miss Floyd Jones, of New York, should be on white as snow, in oonsequence of an aw ful adventure which she passed through at the Briggs colliery of the Lackawanna coal and iron company, in this city. She is vis iting the family of W. \V. Scranton, gen eral manager of the iron company, and ex pressed a desire to visit the mine for the purpose of witueeslng the interesting and perilous process of mining and preparing anthracite for use. Accordingly Mr. Scranton, acting as her escort', took along Mine Superintendent Reese G. Brooks as an extra precaution against venturing into danger. After inspecting the mine and seeing the men at work the trio, guided by their flickering lamps, re turned along thesubterreanean halls to the foot of the shaft for the purpose of making the ascension. Superintendent Brooks sig- nailed to the engineer overhead, Albeit Koskelly, and told him the party wanted to be boosted directly to the tower of the breaker, which risee 150 feet from the mouth of the shaft, and is 450 feet from the bottom, where they were standing at the tijne. The object of ascending to the tower was to make an ex amination of the screen rooms, rollers and other departments where the work of break ing and cleaning coal was going on. Ths engineer answered down through the tube, "all right;” and the trio, taking their places on the platform of the carriage, were hoisted swiftly up out of the minetn- to the shaft of the tower. Upon the carriage approaching the sheave-wheel at the top, Engineer Koskel ly lost control of his engine and the party was hurled against the heavy timbers of the roof, snapping the wire hoisting rope asunder with the visitors over an abyss 450 feet deep. It was a moment of awful fear. They expected to be dashed to the bottom. They feu the carriage slip sharply down a few inches; then came a sudden jolt, a halt and they were standing still. The safety catches, which are generally more ornamental than useful, sprang to their places and held the carriage there. Even then the situation was painfully perilous. The slightest movement might cause the catches to slip again, and everybody seemed afraid to breathe The position in which the halt, was made was not within easy access of any lauding, and the party was forced to remain there until the workmen came with ladders to their relief. This took but a very few minutes, vet it seemed an eter- nity, aud it was with feelings of deep and heartfelt thatiknefs that they touched a firm landingouoe more. The only bodily injuries inflicted by the shock were a slight cut which Miss Jones sustained on the ude of the head when the rope broke, letting a bolt descend from the top of the carriage where it was attached, and t he braising of her shoulder by contact with the post. They are in no way serious. A “BUNG TUNG** WEDDING. The Cotton Balls. It has been fashionable for a long time to abuse tbe speculators and to ray that they cheat tne farmer out of his hard earned rights. The south has been especially severe on all who speculated in futures and has held that "in making a foot-ball of our great crop,” for Wall street to play with was not only un holy but profitless. Those of our own l»eople who went into it were denounced and abused. It begins to look as if those who have defended the speculative craze are beginning to have their reward. A short time ago a combination was formed Wall street, probably with THE FAMOUS list KEENE AT THE HEAD, for the purpose of controlling the present cotton cron, or at least for fixing its price. After a snort but (Wire Mruggls they sue cecded in getting the swing and they shoved the price of cotton up fully two cents a pound and have been holdiug it there ever since. The bears are, of course, trying with desperate endeavor to break down this in flated price, but they fail to do so, and the best advices are that the price will be main tained. The effect of this speculative advance on the south is enormous. By pushing the price up two cents per (>omia, the specula tors have added $10 in value to every bale of cotton that ia sold. The receipts in Atlanta alone on yesterday were about 1,200 bales, and the day before 1,100 bales—eo that the surplus cash paid out iu this one town in two days, because of the speculation, is about $25,000 It is estimated that fully ~ one million bales have been sold already at the advanced price in the south. This would have added ten mil lions of dollars to the cash receipts of the fanners on their cotton up to this time. It is believed by those who should know that this fancy price—for it U two cents belter than the regular price—will be maintained until the bulk of the crop of the south is marketed—if indeed it is not held all the way through. The farmers are hurrying their crops to market as fast as possible ana getting the benefit of the advanced nrice, and if the bulk of tbe crop can be marketed at these figures, it is safe to calculate that $50,000,000 in cash will have been put in the pockets of the southern people that would not have been paid to them except for this combination of Wall street specu lations* A OOTTOX CROF THAT PATS A PROFIT. The best part of it all is that the $10 a bale added to the value of cotton by this increase is all profit. At eight cents a pound cotton barely pays for the production. At ten cents a pound a profit of $10 a bale is secured. This profit the farmer can either lay up for a nest egg with which to improve his farm, or expend it in treasures which would otherwise be out of bis reach. It will be seen, therefore, that the $10 a bale profit, makes trade livelier and adds more to the general prosperity than $30 a bale does when it is obliged to go in the fixed routine of guano, wages, etc. We doubt very much if there has been a crop of cotton made since the war. that has paid a clear profit over the cost of pro duction, up to the oresent season.. The price of cotton has ol course been higher, out at the eame time the price of every thing that was used to make the cotton was higher. A closely calculating business man on yesterday told us that the present crop Had been made with meat that costCK to 714 cents a pound, and he thought the cotton had probably not cost over 7 cents a l>ound to put it into market. If this esti mate be true, and we have no doubt it Is, tiie present crop has paid larger profits by twice over than any crop grown in the south since'64. It is not easy to calculate the advantages of this speculative rise to the farmer. It will give almost every small worker in the country a little surplus of profit that will lie worth ten times the amount in actual money. It will enable him to fix up his farm a little; to improve liis machinery, anti above all to clear away his debts and start even with the world. _ Indeed, we should not be surprised if this advance in cotton does not furnish the means with which to build many a Clement attach ment, and then, with the power in every neighborhood to add 9 cents a pound to the value of every pound of cotton that is grown, we should bo sadly mistaken if the time would not soon ©tune when we would scorn to grow joyful on the speculations of Wall street ’change, as we now do. ■e n Joined to er. New Yobk, October 22.—The first social event of any importance this season took place yesterday alternoon in the marriage of Mis** Charlotte Augusta Astor, a daugh ter of Mr. William Astor. to Mr. J. Cole man Drayton, a well-known voting lawyer, ar d a member of an old family. The bride ia better known by her second than her first name, and under the title of "Innocence" large numbers of her photo graphs ha»*e been sold. At the Jerome races she is frequently to be seen in g..rgeous coaching toilets, and in the ball-room her face is a familiar one. It has been rumored that ane was to marry an English lord, and the dear five hundred openly expressed their regret that this important change in her estate would not prefix a title to her name. However, she looked very well satisfied with her choice on tbe occasion, and cer tainly her spirit was not jarred upon by any lack of harmony or elegance in her dre-e, which was considered the handsomest worn by any bride in a long time; at the same time it was In the height of simplicity, but that sort of simplicity which is very much more expensive than the usual run of elab orate toilets. For instance, the material used was heavy cream-white satin that in the gathers Uo:ed like thick cream when you wrinkle WeelmlCMter. Louisville Port and News, are not referring to the Abbey, we are not writing an elaborate trcatlae on the Presbyterhn catechism. To do this would be to interfere with the regular press. The catechism will no doubt do its part la civilizing the human race, and the Abbey will hare iu «duilrers. but we wish now to CM 1 attention to a cotton mill, tVeaaninster jsrn mill«, in * ,< outh Carolina. We referred to the matter some days ago; since we have found it ■re elaborately discussed In Th* Aucta <*»■«- tctiox. One’s imagination ru *- add -lien „ trie* to picture »-V«8 wasted—aeeking to in rent a cotton picker, just i ^ the grain producing dis- trlcto~ Now. this Westminster mill does more than it Is possible for a cotton picker to do; the advantages ore far greater than any one has claimed tor that future invention, but It In no wise interferes with 1L By all means, invent a picker. If poddble, but in the meantime give some attention to the Westminster mills. It will be asked what is the coat of the machln err? ItU very slight. A mill capable of doing the work for several miles ar rand will not exceed in value $5,000. If these statements are true, and there is no reason to doubt them, the south con torn tier cotton into yarns in her own neighbor hood, and every great plantation will be a small ***** ana jgSi’chtc been nude for it. and ewept away inti Small«*aiton Mills. Columbus Enquirer. Tbe Clement attachment may be improved to un extent which will work a revolution in the -rath. We give an a-tide today regarding a mill in South Carolina. K* move ! of all ltssur- nluxage of words. It only gives w hat the Eagle »nd I'hcnlx mill* of our city have been doing for jrssfMrjfjaasfiiassssa: looms. Last season this «stabfishment used 623 balc-n of cotton—lint obtained from seed cotton purchased and ginned on tbe ground. Unfortu nately few I laces have such a grand industry: None such exists in tbe south It was reserved for the big brains ol a slow town to evolve and carry It Into execution. II the Clement attach ment will approximate to anything .Ute what b d»- = — * dry be will enthuse every energy an activity. The dullest will *«j awurj ... ««** fields, and make green pastures where hitherto a barren waste. Plantations can combine and r Utile mills for the productions of yams and have the water powers be utilised. Then again they will sdd a stimulus to invention and Improve ment. Tbe article alluded to is of great iuterest especially where the genius of activity is presid ing ar.d all domes desire to benefit their fortunes. Who knows but a new era may be dawning in our section, which may lead to grand results? Many have predicted tire time when the south would manufacture the yarns and coarrar cloths the worlo>equlrea. We hope for that and some hing better, and tire Clement attichmeat to be lul ls claimed for it, there wttl be au awakening of A Good Account. "To sum it up. den eicku- Galena MUlnff Up Chicago Timas. ■ - —~ -- — —. O.IMU. b .boat to b. ^populated. Th. office «»«rybody to know It for their b»i loMen Rod offlee'houter* ore preparing to hasten I fit.” “Johh W exxs, Butler, N. X. flecitfg. xr*v.c.g $20*» rrr J ear. tiitsi, $i 2 6—a.l of wnvoa vt - -"; y Uarte bctiio o! Hop B.tt*i-- * -*.•• •’-/ wife, who has dt.ue her «-wu Luura' ora .i’i a year since without the has of a day, and I

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Atlanta weekly constitution. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1878-1881, November 11, 1879, Image 1