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JOE JOI^STOX
DISCUSSES DAVIS’S NEW BOOK
TO THE PUBLIC.
Tk# Coifadtral* Cfciaftala Pau th* Ex-Pmidaat
oa Baoord u a It: whn Allowed Pr.rata
Piqaa U IxSusm Official Aetlci—
Th# Cam pales Aral ad Atlaata.
A Woman CHtm Birth to S*»en 3irl Babi**—
A Sixteon-Yrar-O.d Girl u a Mmr-
darar-A Wowaa’a Bxly Inhab
its d by Crawling Bepsiier.
From a fluff Comvpo ident of the Philadelphia
Pit».
Washisotom, June 10.—General Joe i
Johnston sat this afternoon in bis coxy
house in ti is city, on Connecticut avenue
nr nr L a*rf<“, wr* mindly m joying life i
bu quiet,diguififd v»>, a.vl in good health
aidrpiriia He did not beem in the least
«lia*tirt>«<l at Jeff I>avis's attacks upon him
In bis bock or in recent newspaper inter-
:e*,4 From o military standpoint Gen-
«-fsl Johnston *acr;f»ced more for the coo-
cder-cv than any effieer of the Uni
the
22 —A woman
nutty, '£
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 2rf, 1881.
NO. 3
r»Wr.on. He was a hriq
ar.d the quartermaster
the United 8rates army, and the fact
that lie occupied that [Knition. was, and is
the cause of much of Mr. Davis's malignant
hostility to him. In I860, when the then
quartermaster general died. General Scott
wrote Mr. Itucbanan a note, saying that be
might like to make use of his knowledge of
the officers of the army in the selection of
a quartermaster general. He submitted fiv*-
names to him. including Colonel Albert
Sydney Johnston, Colonel Robert E Lee,
Colonel C. fl. Smith, a Philadelphian;
Colonel Joseph K Johnston, and oneotb*r
whose name 1 do not now recall, I he cabi
net selected Joseph E Johnston. Mr.
l)avia, who was then chairman of
military
;*r general freeaboro where that terr.fic battle was Wff I I \ If tl P Q A WW* UTi * s'S** 1 rebuke in the resolution Quincy Adams, secretary of state; William
general of fought and his troops beaten. Then Chat- ff llaijl. .*t JA U. vHA >1 X 1 ultU j of Clark, enraged him beyond euduranc?. • >i. Crawford, sijcretary of the treasury;
* -■ * : tanooga and then the undecisive bat-! and he assailed MY. Crawford in a published ; John C. Calhoun, secretary ofwar. ' rw ~
tie of Chicamauga. which I regard t.h the ! j pamphlet, replete with vitnperatii
bloodiest battle of the war, and thei.ee to ; A SKETCH OF HIS NOBLE CAREER. | the coarsest abuse. Subsequeutiy
the senate corum mo
affairs, had a hallucination that
account of his p'+itioo at the head of that
committee he nhould regal a* «• the military
appointment* in the army. He wanted the
qnartarm-.tf. rri’e-.q. !its favorlu
officer, Albert bydr.ey Johnston, and when
Mr. Uurhanan’a almtniitration selected
Joseph E J»!iRatot instead he was ureatiy
affronted, and never forgave General John
ston for having secured the place. The
animosity thus held by Mr Davis wjl*
noticeable in every act of his affecting
General Johnston while the confederacy
lived.
has
When 1 tret General J h ns ton to-day lie
as taste fully dreMed m a suit of black” and
ok»d every inch a *o dier. None of his
elutes ! have seen do him justice, for he
is a strikingly kind yet firm expression,
id Im fare is fringed with a gray beard
atlv trimmed, in ,rend of a mustache and
as represented in the portraits. He
p essant wwy in conversatic
talks
i to the
nd wlut he say
point, 1 ttcited to him the story in rein
lion to the quartermaster generalship,
which I had heard from a distinguished
f outherner some months ago. He t orrobo
i df.l the rsnential |K>inUt 1 have g.ven. 1
found in the course of conversation that he
had not yet read Mr. Davis's book, I ut had
it, which satisfieJ him
of ila gew
i far si
dealt with
els.
Dalton, covering a series of disasters under
one leadership rarely known in the history j
of war.
‘•While this army waa in Dslton, I re
ceived an order from Mr. Davis to retort
immediately at Dalton and relieve General
Bragg of the command ; that 1 would lied
instructions awaiting me there. When I
arrived I foond instructions the most ludi
crous I think ever written for a like pur
pose. They consisted in detailing the
sujerb morale and spirit of the forces of
winch 1 hail taken command. After recit
ing their character, they concluded with
the statement that I was takiDg com
mand of as strong and effective a forcejas
then represented the confederate army in
any quarter, etc. The facts were that there
were only about two thousand mounted
efficient cavalry and about thirty-eight
thousand infantry, just from the serious
--nm I have described and the terrible
conflict of Chickamauga. I realised the
necessity of gathering a more effective
force of cavalry and of augmenting and
putting in condition the infantry force
which had so long marched to battle with
out an inspiriting victory before making an
aggressive campaign. My fear was that be
fore this could be done, Sherman who had
280,000 men under his call, all of whom
were not, of course, at Chattanooga, but
under his command, would strike us at
Dalton before ray arrangements were com
pleted.
“General Long.itreel, with his corps,
although not with me, waa to reinforce the
shatted army I have described. But the
absurdity of Mr. Davis’s proposition to in
vade Tennessee, the failure to appreciate
which, being one of hia grievance:-, <
by the fact that to do so General
duel with Van Allen, Clark challenged
j Crawford. That was accepted, and on the
Mr. Crawford's Basis With Van Allea aad Clark j morning of the meeting, on the port of
-His Promotion From S'-ata to Federal
Councils—Appointed B*critary of
War—Interesting Beading
No prouder name has Georgia ever pre-
sented to the world than that of William
H. Crawford. No more talented or honor
able, no more chivalrous or gallant has this
or any other state of the union ever called
into the public service.
Mr. Crawford was born in Amherst coun
ty, Virginia, on the 24<h of February, 1772.
His father removed to South Carolina in
1707, and located in Edgefield district.
Here he remained until 1783, when lie it-
moved to Georgia ami made bis home in
Columbia county, where, a f-w years there
after, he died. Hi- eon. William H., was
then of an ace to assist Ms mo*her, which
he did by teaching school. This vocation
he followed for several yean. All this
while he devoted every leisure hour to the
acquisition of know.edge. Georgia was
then comparatively a r e« country, sparsely
populated, and afforded but very alight
means for the cultivation of the mind.
There was but little wealth in the state,
and no libraries of any importance, and the
student's opportunities, so far as books were
ricerned, were limited to a very few ele-
Clark and his friends, there was not
j grabbling as to certain points to be ub
" served in the combat and such as was cal
culated to irritate and offend Crawford. It
had the desired effect and he fought under
high excitement, which was well calcu
lated to insure the safety of Clark. Craw
ford was shot through the left wrist, aud
his friends refused to permit him to pursue
the fight. This was not satisfactory to
Clark, and subsequently he renewed’ the
challenge. The frit nd? of Mr. Crawford
interfered and moat positively insisted
upon his refusal to accept this, urging that
l>e j mentary works, but where there is a will
.., . . there is a way, and in borrowing from one
street would have to m.rcta from one point I anrt ,^„ t |, e r such works as were to be found
by a circuitous route to the nver snd I by j h«. procured enough to afford him the means
- . ^ 0CCU p a tion ana information
another and there form a junction,
having an army on his flank, while I was
to leave .Sherman’s army on my flank or
rear and move with a wagon train forty
miles long.
“After General Bragg had been relieved
of this command Mr. Davis took him to
Richmond as one of his advisers and gave
| him a position, unknown to the law. of
| commander in-chief of the armies, and it
through Bragg that I received many of
ill reeled wdcl v
hie with Mr. D«vi«," said Gen-
on, “is that since the war be
practical M c^ri.-cori, stirrounded j these suggestions as to the contemplated
• .*' n 1 military maneuvres in Tennessee, which
hink he is « i Mr. Davis evidently thinks were brilliant
•«1, and he As I expected. General Sherman attacked
opinion on j me a t Dalton before I could recruit theeav-
nre himself j :i j r y nn ,i reinforce the infantry, and then
l ‘d j began the running fight to Atlanta, where
“ r 1 waa relieved.”
IIKFOHK ATLANTA.
“Mr. Davis in his book undertakes to
prove that you were removed while at
Atlanta became you would not give him a
positive answer as to whether you would
tight General Snerman there, and quotes
an interview with Ben Hill to show that,
you evaded bis categorical question as to
whether or not von would make battle
>.f fact «
lie, after teaching and reading, found his
education incomplete, and this created the
desire for a better and more thorough one.
To accomplish this he became a student
in the academy then taught by the
celebrated teacher, Moses Waddell. Under
his teaching he studied closely the classics,
and was so proficient that Waddell tender
ed him the situation of assistant. In this
situation he remained for two years. He
then joined Mr. Charles Tait in the man-
agentent of the Richmond academy, in the
city of Augusta, then but a saiall village
Of this academy he subsequently became
rector. During all the time ha was in this
academy he was reading law with great as
siduity,srtd was prepared for admission to
show that h.> 1 . « c.in-picunm part in the
lust battle o! Dud Run!"
"Ho I have understood,” r« plied thegre:it
soldier; “the facts are ihn: Mr Davis d t
not arrive upon the ti*dd o! battle dur.i.g
that engagement. I remember distinctly
ttint I was sitting on my horse lookii g in
the direction of the retreating enemy, intent
U(ion his motementa anti grat lieu ai the
result of the days fight, when 1
felt a horse’s head against my knr •
1 turned, and as I did *>, Mr. Davis’s
fare was p ished close ’• mj tnr, and in
almost a whisper he sac., lias the
battle gone?’ * J’he enemy are beaten,’ 1
replied, hilt it liar 11 v needr t my statement
toshow him tsi.it, I*no e,
sight, ai d not oa.y »*v
<k.xen officers about me. gave n
“Mr. Davis
kept a class of men
about him ft r witnesses, and Ben Hill was
<»ue of .tiie nmsi prominent of them. Judah
i\ Benjamin’s duly w.ia to keep his record
straight. There is r.-. a person who knows
anything about Atlanta who does not know
that it r >uld have t»een held to this dsv
.urainst any force that could have been .sent
against it’ 1 so informed General Hood
when 1 turned over the command to him
ana detailed to him my plan for then and
there resisting Sherman's attack. I have
never had any doubt but that General
H.khI left his impugnable position at
Atlanta and went off into Tennessee from
suggestions made to him either directly or
. - . j indirectly by Mr. Davis himself, and tliMt
“Mr Davis c »:.vey>i the iiwf»re.-sio.»iii his : | ie j„ primarily responsible for Genera!
book that you should have gone into i\ asu | fjfMXj'g operations, which be characterizes
mgton. ! now in such severe terms. I did no*, to be
“*» I have hear d: tut many of Mr. Davis • etsrr |, y telegram <o Mr. Da via nr any
statements thud are a tissue oi lnoonwa- ■ one — «•' **• —-—
* 1 j*—i ■_ first | to do •«“-
ivti up the occupation of
the half ;
steel trap
S plans. I did not think it
Ir. Davis waa constantly nsniiig
questions by telegraph, which would have
| uniat certainly made common property of
dent j .} lt , moal importa.it military' movements in
men advance of execution. He did not seem to
j have the slightest »dea of the necessity of
! "I werecy.
A CASK IN 1*01 NT.
“I remember distinctly that some time
after the battle of Manassas Mr. Davis sent
for me. He desired my presence in Rich-
rr*that* the moD( ^< ^ ie M *d, on matters ?o important { Allen was put forward ior this
, thut
the bar lndoie he
teaching.
lie came to the bar in 1770, and went to
Lexington, the county site of Oglethorpe
county, and there opened an office. Very
soon it became apparent that he would, ere
long, become the lending lawyer iu the up
country. At that time there was forming
the scheme which ultima ted m the famous
Yazoo fraud Those projecting this scheme
were then termed loud speculators, end
they were anxious to secure every one of
ii tluerce and talents to their interest aud
aid The famous Elijah Clarke, and his not
less famous sou, were supposed to be inter
ested in this stupendous scheme. Their
influence iu that section of the state was
paramount, aud they had drawn around
them a formidable array of those »up|*osed
to influence in a great degree public sen
timent. Amongst these were moat of the
lawyers cf the up-country—one of these, a
man named Van Allen, was a tuau of
abilities and unscrupulous; ambitious of
wealth and desiring its acqusition s
tensely that he was not particular as t*
character of the menus to be used foi
purpose. He saw a formidable rival a
bar in Mr. Crawford, aud aspixe 1 to control
him by enlisting him as a coadjutr
land speculating views. This ma
cousin of Martin VanBuren; was from New
York, and was as well a kindred spirit in
intrigue.
Overtures were made by this clique to
Mr. Crawford to become one of tUem. This
was at once indignantly refused, and ho
frankly avowed his opinion as to the
John
postmaster general 1
the cabinet. Abf
of Mr. Monroe’s s
me need be* wee!
The
in was not a member
it the commencement
ond term a rivalry
" friends of Craw-
it was apparent the life of Mr. Crawford
was vindictively sought, without cause,
and that he was too valuable to the country
arid to his family, a second time to risk
life to gratify the i vengeance of an uu-
i-nting foe.
This was l he origin of the feud between
the two men, which divided the s'ate into
parlies or more properly factions for more
than twenty years. For their political
principles w’ere identical, both men sup
porters of the republican or Jeffersonian
party ard ardent advocates of state rights.
Early in 1806 Governor James Jackson
died. His efforts before and after
his election as governor to make odious the
Yazoo fraud and all who were connected
with it had made him very dear to the
people of the state, and as he was appreci
ated, so all the coadjutors in that wor.derfui
speculation were degraded and despised. It
was known that John Clark and his father,
Elijah Clark, held stock iu the company,
and this, with the affair with Judge Tail,
had made him very unpopular; and as he
sank from public view Mr. Crawford be
came more and more prominent.and though
the opposition to him was formidable and
inveterate, it was ineffectual, save only it:
its influence in causing his friends to he
more united, and to cling the closer :o him.
This popularity was deeply ingrafted iu the
hearts of the people of the whole state. It
was not that evanescent popularity which is
won by some fortuitous incident, ami
which perishes with its cause, but the pop
ularity of merit which grows with time,
when sustained by talent and demonstrateu
by an honest and straightforward indepen
dence in always persuing rightly high prin
ciples and au exalted patriotism.
This was eminently true in all its essen
tials of Mr. Crawford. He was continued
in the legislature for several years, and
mainly shaped its action on' all important
matters. He had been appointed in con
vention with Leonard Marlary to digest the
laws of the state, and in the discharge of
this duty he became not only acquainted
most thoroughly with the laws, but also
with the necis-vity for the enactment of
ford, Adams an • Calhoun for the succes
sion to Mr. Mor .ce. For a time it was be-
lieved Mr. Crawforil would certainly be
the successor. Theaedantary and labori
ous life imposed by the discharge of his
duties as secretary of the treasury bad told
sadiy upon his vigors*!* constitution. He
h*d been greatly annoyed- by the perils tent
efforts of bis encmiif to impeach his char
acter and blacken hi* fame. He was sensi
tive to these efforts’ and he .was stricken
with paralysis. 8tuV his friends insisted
t on his continuing a candidate.
u The results of this election disrupted the
republican party and the union of the
east and the w^ffc-^'-lected. John Quincy
Adams. Mr Adrift* tendered the secre
taryship of the tr^L'.uyrto Mr^Crawford.
wno declined - -a -*" =iw*jfClTWt to
to
his heme in Ojlefwrp^ eoutfty, Georgia
and here he contin^'t ‘ • r-: -ide until his
death, which cc&.;ed ‘ iu 1831. It
may not be aini-3 to mention one
of the incidents occurring during the last
term of Mr. Monroekiadministration which
greatly annoyed Mr. Crawford, and which
preceeded but a short time his paralysis.
There was no especial depository for the
treasurer of the United Stales, and under
a law of congress, the secretary was em
powered to make hia deposits in local state
banks to be by him chosen. Mr. Crawford
had selected one of two banks in Illinois,
and these had failed with the deposit* of
the treasurer in them. The senator, Xin-
:an Edwards frot* that state, preferred
charges of corrupt’ collusion between the
secretary and these banks. He had been
appointed by Mr. Monroe minister to
Mexico, aud through his son-in-law, Mr.
Cook, who was at ff e time the only repre
sentative in congre ss from Illinois, and the
public press these charges were made
the eve of his dep«j^ture for Mexico.
Monroe intimated to Mr. Crawford that he
iiad better resign his position and defend
Prompt!; Mr. Crawford replied
A STRAWBERRY FARM
A DAY SPENT WITH THE PICKERS, quare
first they derive much nourishment ami I
strength from the original plant, but aher- I
ward the latter is nourished by them. Ere j
there will be a solid Gcd eijAit feet .
WATER WE WANT
Thirteen Hundred Crates the Befall cf this Sen-
•onhOrowth—Wk»tExp*ri«nci* has Taught
in Bailing the Berries-Sdiqs of
the Difficulties t: be Met.
he pareut..
mated that with some varieties about :t
thousand plants will spring from the origi
nal. Two acres, treated properly, ought t«
contain about three hundred thousand
I plants, and as two hundred and sixty ber
ries may be expected from each plant, the
AND ONLY A CANAL CAN GIVE IT.
New York Sun.
Take care, Kate, that crate’s too heavy
for you! Wait a minute till I tell out the
quart tickets to these pickers, and I’ll help
two acres would yield seven million eight
hundred thousand berries. Rut to attain
these figures the weather must be moist.
Growers who are up with the times usu
ally piant the Crescent City, while old-
Gensrnl Saerwon Writes a T.stt-*-, in which Ho
Strongly Advocates the ?*cpo»td Wata-
Way, and Giv. s tbs Nsw Company
the Use of His Mi lit ary Maps
himself.
you cau ? remove me and l "will
appeal to the country. I will as it is, ap
peal to congress, and you shall recall your
place, if Mr Davia took ’art
in the battle of Bull Run, !
ninmter-in chief of the wri
of the confederacy and >.n
the responribnity of outer
upon Washington Mr. Dt
knew anything about tin
after that battle ended tt» our •ucress
the army was in no condition
for nn adva r<* movement. The
!limit.I?,* !hr"» .r^ he said, on matters :o important j Allen was put forward Tor this work. The
permanent sttrorw of iSSrow™” md secret that he dared not trust to the character of Mr. Crawford as a quiet and
fund" With th.it ’Mtirit—and those mui or telegraph, i went and had. con- j unobtrusive man deceived this ctique into
had borne .he hr<;t»i *.t the hr-.' haul* oi I ference with him and the cabinet, which j the belief that he could be intimidated and
the war—(he talk ciftltiring Washington l, ‘ i,,e d nearly all day,and when I finished 1 j driven from the county. This was attempt-
was simply ridiculous * Besides Mr Davis : * ent to the hotel Just after walking into j ed but failed, and this strengthened the
seems to forgot the mile oi watercourse to ,he corridor a colonel of one of the regi determination to be rid of him oy having
have been cro*t«rd to reach the capital an.l nients cam* up and said, ‘General, these ; him killed. Van Allen challenged him.
others demanded by the best interest:
the state.
In 1807, he was chosen a senator in the
congress of the United States. Here he soon
became prominent as one of the great
minds of the nation. During his incum
bency there arose momentous measures
pending before congress growing from im
pending hazards to the cation. These were
met, and not only wisely, but boldly d s-
cus>ed by Mr. Crawford. The presumptions
insolence of England, accompanied with
most arbitrary conduct was provoking war.
She assumed the right to stop all American
ships upon the high seas, and to take there
from any able-bodied seamen whom her
officers chose to designate as English by
birth, and in doing this to treat American
captains and all other officers of the ships
as inferiors, and to insult and abuse them
iu the mo<t offensive manner. At this time
Mr. Clay, Mr. Calhoun. Mr. Lout dy, John
Randolph, DavidR Williams, and l.angdon
Chives, were men.hers of congress Na-
ihaniel Macou, John Holme*, Daniel
Webster, and Rufus King, amidst thw
galaxy of wonderful men, Mr. Crawford
stood prominent for his wcnderml intellect.
ter, nmi he shill be compelled to
sustain his charge^ before congress. This
was done, and Edwards was overtaken at
New Orleans by the order of the president
aud ordered to Washington. The investi
gation resulted in the triumphant acquittal
of Mr. Crawford and the ejection from his
mission of Edwards and his entire destruc
tion as a politician. From that
time until the. termination of the
administration, thin relations between Mr.
Crawford aud tb’e president were only those
of business. Tbfesubsequent career of Mr.
Crawford is too w'eU known to all intelli
gent Georgians-tb require recapitulation
here.
That he was unquestionably one of the
ablest men of tha nation, there cannot be a
doubt. The testimony of liis compeers at
test this. I will prdy mention one—the
great Nathaniel'/Macon, of North Carolina,
was ahktd who he thought the able* 1 '
knew. He answered promptly,
William H. Crawford
As Judge Tail’s name has been mention
ed in this sketch ^prominently, and his re
lationship to Mr. Crawford as friend and
associate, it may not be improper to state
i but he was a native of Virgiuia, came in
very early life to. Georgia, taught school,
read law, and wavappointed judge of the
Western circuit ia 1803, and held it until
1819; was a senator in congress from Geor
gia when President: Monroe appointed him
judge of the district court oi the Unite '
States for Alabama. *FIe held the office for
six years, when ue resigned. He died
Wilcox county r-ed 63 year*.
‘ ' W. H Sparks
CRITICISING THE REVISION.
He ’
bold and wise statesmanship
senior of most of these, and only the junior
of Mr. King. He concentrated’the opposi
te the temporising measures of the
rainy the scheme iml that of those of ^mmistration and virge.l war as the only
its projectors. This cave great offense to paeans of hnmblmg inland amt susta.n-
all concerned, especially to the Clarkes amt ■oe Amencan ngms upon the h.gh seas.
Van Allen. This refusal placed him at Webster. Ktngand ymney, moststrennons
once as a formidable foe to their machine- j)?. opposed the waging ot war with England,
none, and he must be gotten rid of
ill® fi
Pole
destroy**! before even the people say,’ waving his hand toward the
s hed My judgment is that «""i* th ® cabinet have h’,
bought ol marching upon Washing
cussing with you ell day the
failure to capture Washington after the
fas, was an afterthought. How | b *“' e o[ «»>' Ktln -’ This early experience,
ever, 1 assume the responsibility, rparhapa. tllnstrales the reason why I do'
whatever there i.**, because at Bull F ' * «
accepted
uy •
id ns Mr. Di
_ithat
thni lime, it also d»s|
1 bad yielded tl.e ■
Beauregard and that ho fought the battle.”
“Did you ever have any personal contro
ver-v writ Mr. Davis winch would account
(or i he animosity which he has ever evinced
always so promptly disclose to Mr.
l>a\is by telegraph my plans, as he seems
to have desired.”
“Mr. Davis says in his book that your an
swer to his telegram whether you would
urrender Atlanta without a tight
“No
t! '
i Mr. Dai
«ide.
rid.
nnt should Im*
•r his own signa
liking officer at . ..... ». _
J the storv that surrender Atlanta without a fight was not
—id to tieneral ■ on *Y evasive, but indicateti the contingency
of the surrender of Atlanta on the ground
that the governor i f the state havl not fur
nished, as expected, sufficient state trooj*s
to defend the city while the army was giv
ing battle outside ’’
“This is absurd and utterly without
truth. I never hud any intention of sur
rendering Atlanta without a tighi. as ad my
statements to General H.iod will show.'
relieved
“Not until the ’
again . .
operations. For instance, while n tu-
rampaign at Manassas, after the battle ol
Bull Run, he hud a very peculiar arrange
merit tor (imiishirg supplies t > the army.
I bad a very competent c mimissary officer
Colonel I.ee, who thoroughly understood i and after Columbia,
his business, but he was obliged to apply to oeen captured."
the general dtqa»; at Richmond, and ii the “Mr. Davis claims that you did no*, after
supplies were th ro he would get them; if , again assuming cammand of the array,
instructed to buy the re real to some portion of the south, irath-
were, which was no: ering reinforcements as you progresae t and
do, and in the delay the men • making a stand somewhere in rhe south
astonishment of his foes
A meeting was had, ani Van
Allen was killed.
This put a new phase upon matters.
Such an event startled the community,
and very soon it was divided into parties,
the more substantial citizens taking
part with Crawford. It was in 1799, that Mr.
Crawford located in Lexington. In 18U6, he
was a member oi the legislature and very
soon became the leading spirit of the house,
if not of the entire body. Mr Tcit. tbe
former rector of the academy
whose power was omnipotent upon the
Sue had but recently destroyed the Spanish
»»nd French fleets, and assumed to be the
mistiess of the seas. America bad but a
few ships of war, and these were being
tired into by British cruisers aud insulted
insolently in American ports. This had
s-roused the American people, and war was
inevitable at all hazards This necessitated
a clearer and better defined relation with
other European powers, and especially
France. A holy alliance, as it was termed,
had been entered into by the great powers
of Europe against France—in reality against
Napoleon. England was the head and
front ol this alliance and her hands were
full at times, and the advocates of the war
in the American congress urged this as a
reason why war should now be declared.
At this juncture, Mr. Crawford was sent as
minister to France, onr ancient ally, to
.u IIU « ... Augusta, I s ' c “ re her countenance and such aid as her
had U|»U retiring from that position, goni P° hc ? an<J interests might suggest. In hts
“ . _ . r. 2 g I camicitv of minister nlenmotentiarv he
b»r, aud alter a few years of praciice eapcciiy minister plenipotentiary he
had become sufficiently prominent to be ! manifested ereat abthtv.
had
supplies
always r .
oft luma gut hungry. I had some oorre
spondeuce with Mr Davis on the subject,
but he adhered Jo Ids original plan, arul
ttnaliv 1 asked Colon ell Lee to furnish
letailed statement of the supplies on hand j falling back through the country to Texas
and their cast, which he din. and in tuy 1 is absurd. The war waa really emled before
next letter to Mr, Davis l transmitted si Gen. Grant compelled the surrender of Gen
with my deduo ions. The very next day Lee, and there was nothing left for us but
ColourI Iav was removed, and 1 oelieve w».> to accept the best terms that we could cet.
never again employed in the service during Mr. Davis was not in a position to und. r-
the war. Tnis was Mr. Davis’s method ol stand or appreciate the situaiio. 1 . I was
punishing uie for my suggestions in refer- satisfied that me war was virtually ended
nice to the care of my owu troops He I when Hoovf vacated Atlanta and was after-
hardly eared to remove me, but Leo had to ! ward destroyed near Nashville,
gratify his spite. ' . . j Tint strucndek.
_ “When 1 took command of tbejarmy af
l notice, however, that, he savsthat when
Shenian was making his march to tl
death Af.
and \et I understand one of his charge
against me is mat l did not prolong the wa
by retreating and maneuvering after h<
himself acknowledges that the cause was ii w
its death agflny The (>oint he makes about ! Iaa i.“
“Where did yi
(ilaeod on the bench of the Western circuit.
He and John Clark had married sisters,
daughters of the brated Micajah Wil- j
liamson, but were never friends, fait had
bren cjnsistently the friend of Mr. Craw
ford, and sided with him in hts difficulty
with Van Allen This fact increased the
animosity of Clark towards him.
About’the year 1805, a warrant for negro
stealing was issued from Sanlsbury. North
Carolina, against one Robert Chary, then re
siding in Wilkes county, Georgia. This
warrant was placed in the n-snos of one
John Ginas, to whom it was directed. This
warrant was presented to JudgeTait in the
town of Sparta, on the 21 h of February,
1806 with the request that *:c would back
the same, which was door with in t ; e*iiit-
tion It was then prerented to, and indorsed
by Edward Brya.:, Eaq., a justice of ths
peace for the county of Washington.
Robert Clary was taken prisoner upon said
warrant, and carried to- Greene superior
court by G!a?.«, to which court Glass was
himself recognised, to answer sn indictment
for assault and baiterv. 0.i the first day of
the court Glass,by letter.rcquested the judge
to attend and lake the examination of a
man then in custody who would make con
fessions highly interesting to the state and
United States. That on the night of the
same day the judge, accompanied by Oliver
Skinner, a lawyer then resident in the town
j of Sparta, attended to take down the con-
'olumbia fell all that was to be done was j fession of Clary. This, however, was not
to oonf.*r witn General Sherman np>n some completed that night, but accompanied by
military basis of peace that would be *qui ; Skinner the jndge finished the examination
taole to both contending forces. It was j the following day, and gave Glasi a certified
not alone the surrender of the army, hut
basis of peace that was most impor-
west, and thus prolong the war.'
^•r.. ral Jounston seemed much atnm
a^liis proposition, and said with mu
'pint: “Faat is ridiculous The idea
a«v. Dr. Barritzs’s Noret Exreptionn
to tbe New Text.
Washington Post.
Ksv. Dr. Uarrkoa, pastor of the Jiouui Verron
Place M. E. church, south, resumed his remarks,
last night, on the revision of the New Testament.
The more he examines the revised edition, he
the stiouger he becomes in his opinion, al
ready expressed, that the revision is a f&ilme
The revisers, as a matter cf course, have not
wholly thrown their work away, but the im
provements are so far nullified hy the neediiss
changes made that the entire re-
may be put __dowu
great failure. Last evening Dr. Harrison confined
his comparisons between the old and the revised
cditious to Paul’s hcrmou on Mars hill, at Athens.
iiolatry.” The new edition has
it, “Paul’s spirit was provoked withiu him i
beheld the city full ol idols.” Now, Paul was
not provoked, for the very term indicates
indignation accompanied by rcsentmeut
The old text is correct; Paul’s spirit was
stirred withtn him, with deep emotions
of sympathy for the Athenians, aud a desire to
enlighten them. The main error iu the net
vision, however, is in Paul’s address tn the i
mans. The old edition has it, “Ye me
Athena. I perceive that in all things ye are too
superstitious.” The new revision has it, “In all
things I perceive that ye are somewhat super»ti
tious.” The last is not a correct translation of the
Greek text—the Greek adverb in the original ex-
S resses a superlative sense, while the revision uses
; iu a mol;bed sens'-. The inscription “To the
Unknown God” i« rendered in the revision “To
an uuknown G*kl.” Eiih*=ris a correct transla
tion, but the one in the King James edition is to
be preferred. Paul did not intend to insult the
Atheniaus, but :o compliment them. They had
Kz’.c let go the crate, took a fine straw
berry from the top of a quart basket, and
allowed the blushing fruit to melt between
lips as ripe and ruddy as the berry. The
hcod she wore seemed a useless precaution
against'sun, far she and Mr. George H.
6tout, tbe strawberry grower of Bay View,
N. J., were standing under a wooden shed
near the strawberry patches. But if the
hoed was net useful it surely was very be
coming. It pressed her nut brown curls
over her forehead, and threw a shadow over
her hbzel eyes and beautifully curved
brows. As sue dropped a berry from her
fingers she might have been the girl of
whom Fitz James O’Brien wrote in his
“Strawberries:”
The strawberrv dropped from her fingers.
And she stretched out her little hand.
And I know that, instead of fruit, it held
The sweetest heart in the laud.
So we left the strawberries lying
In their shadowy leaves that day,
Aud silently walked n the garden,
While the long hours stole away.
Some pickers had iust come in from the
patches, carrying wooden earners, each of
which held from six lo eight quart baskets,
or cups, as they rre technically called. As
the pickers handed in the cups they re
ceived a corresponding number of blue
tickets.
“If any of you have ten blue tickets,”
Mr. Stout said, ‘you can exchange them
for a red one. This is the way I keep the
amount of the picking,” he continued,
turning to the reporter. “A blue
ticket "represents a quart and is worth
two cents; the red tickets are for ten quarts.
Now, Kate, I’ll lift the crate off the table.
It weighs nearly ninety pounds, and that’s
too much for you to lift. Now then—here
goes.” In a jiffy the full crate was oa the
ground aud Kate began packing another. It
held thirty-two quart cups in layers of
eight, with slats between the layers.
“These will do for toppers,’’Mr. Stout
said, selecting a couple of baskets and
putting them »3ide “Toppers, you see. he
explained, “are cups of particularly tine
looking berries which we put in the top
row. We have to do this because everybody
else in the business does it. Ail the com
mission merchants and buyers know the
custom, and judge the craic accordingly.
If the top layer is very fine, they know
that the other layers are good; if there are
only ordinarily good berries on top, they
think there’s nothing but leaves in t‘
bottom cups. Some people take
great deal more pains with
thetop layer than I do. They arrange all
the berries in the upper baskets so that you
only ate the points, but 1 let mir e lie any
way, because I think the green hulls con
trast prettily with the crimson berries, aud
because the fruit loses its gloss when han
dled too much (>•: course, if the pickers
bring in an overfull measure we have to
take off a few berries to keep them from
being mashed. Kate’s finger tips, you see,
* red from handling the fruit.”
‘Is it oftcu that the pickers fill their
baskets beyond the measure?” he was asked.
“Not.very, though sometimes it happens
by cbnnce. About the only picker I ever
saw Who did it for a purpose- was a man
from Michigan. He was a grower, and he
came here to see if he could get some new
points. He went right in and picked at
two cents a quart, but you could fill an
extra cup from four of his quarts.”
At this poiut Mr. Stout quit the shed
hurriedly, aud, running toward the patches,
.mooted:
“if you step over those beds again, you
young rascals, you’ll have to stop picking ”
“If you’re not careful with those boys,”
he said on returning, “they’ll step or kneel
on more berries than they’ll pick. I don’t
object to their eating them, they get tired
of them so soon. Indeed, I wouldn’t object
if they would eat all the ripe berries tney
conhl find. We never ship ripe
fruit, because it would get
mashed during transportation. When 1
first went into raising straw berries I used to
eat a good many, but new I am curiously
affected by them. They give me a slight
sore throat. I believe it is the effect of the
potash they contain, l'otash, you know, is
a cure for sore throat, and it seems a cause,
too. But come and take a look at the
patches. Kate wilt attend to giving out
tickets while we are away. She is really
engaged only to pack the crates; but she is
! st art and willing to lend u hand whenever
fashioued growers still prefer the Wil
The forager has a long, dark leaf, and its
outlines are slender. Mr. Stout has found
it to be more prolific than the Wilson, and
also to bear prettier fruit. He says that
growers do not consider flavor when they
ship to the New York market, because city
l*opiecare more for line tiutand firmness.
The Crystal City is another prolific berry
.Vilsoa and CresceaL and if the grower
has Glendaks, which ripen about a week
later than the ordinary fruit, the picking
season will thus b« extended, and may
last twenty five days or more, begin
ning early in June. More crops can be
picked, and the number of pickers em
ployed will be smaller, than it the berries
all ripened about the same time. Tbe
Sharpless, named after a Pennsylvania
amateur grow* r, is one of the largest ber
ries. The reporter saw some larger than
Seckle pears. The name has been corrupted
to Shapeless, because their outline iadrreg -
ular. It is a luscious fruit, melting away
between the lips and leaving a sweet
flavor lone afterward. Crystal Cities are
trifle more ztcid, and on this
account axe preferred by many. It takes
considerable practice to become expert in
identifying the different kind* of plants be
fore they are in fruit. With some persons
the classification is intuitive.
ii is a boy on this farm,” said Mr.
Stout, “who can be led blindfolded into a
field containing many kinds, and after
beinu turned around several times, he will
identify in au instant the plant at his
feet.”
The Seth Boyden, No. 30, is another good
berry, a little above the average size, finely
colored and well flavored The Crescent has
a pistillate blossom, while the Wilson,
Sharpies and Boyden are stauienites. It is
a curious fact that in order to get strong,
healthy fruit from pisfillite.*, they should
be planted not further than fifteen feet
General Sherman seems to feel quite a
lively interest in the proposed Atlanta
canal. Some days r.go he wrote a letter
ing his views on the practicability of the.
project ar.d expressing the hope that it
would be carried to succeis. The subject
:eeuis ic rest upou his mind, for he bus
written again. Yesterday the following
letter from him was received It will be
found practical and interesting:
Kra&qo AamtBS Amur or the c k mu Bt>An,
Mashinctoa, D. C . June U>th, 18SL—Waiter R.
Brown, K^q., Atlanta, Georgia —Dear Sir: Yours
of Juuel7tn is before me. It so happens that
Colorado. M. Poe. who was the chief ot my en
gineers at Atlanta lu 1864 is still on my ataff.
lioochec has &>
waters into Atlanta.
by their own methods „
water of forty and sixty miles ior washing ior
canal
jrnia th
1 labor bring caua's of
cold.
The engineering problem Is tho simplest, i
I am sure you must have in Atlanta plentj
such engineers to run a line of levels up the vnl
from staiuenites. The bees and the winds
carry the pollen from plant to plant so
that the adjacent rows affect each other iu
regard to both color and fruit.
The Duchess is three days earlier than
tbe Wilson. Itdoes not run much, but if
planted in hills or stools the fr H it
be large. If it is desirable to have foe ber
ries ripen later it is Recessary to manure
very highly. The result is to multiply the
number of runners and thicken the foliage
iu the shade of which the fruit ripens more
slowly.
The worst enemies of the strawberry
grower are the grub worm, which eats away
the roots, so that the plants die a lingering
death, and the mole, which in burrowing
for the grubs tunnels the ground, thus
letting in air to the roots. Rain also beats
down the bushes aud flat ti
the berries into the sand To prevent th'
salt hay is spread by hand about half nn
inch thick over the entire patch when the
ground is frozen hard enough to allow a
ley till they reach the ne -es«Miry place ior a -darn
the water into the caual to supply a basin
system of water pipes. I assure you that
u interest in your growth arul prosperity,
imagine ::o single enterprise that would
Louisville. Kv., .
residing iu Jackson
recently gave birth to seveuctri! ’rru at one
accouchement. After the f.i-t child was
born the pains of iabo ! c.-mmued. An
examination convinced the physician that
there were two instead of one, and the
woman was soon delivered of a second
child, both girls. The physician gave di-
ructions as to the care of both mother aud
children, and prepared to take his leave.
Before reaching his horse at the gate he
was recalled and delivered the woman of
another girl baby. Again the physician took
his leave, and again was recatie*!, bringing
to light another girl baby. This was con
sidered remarkable, and the physician was
greatly puzzled over the matter. He, how
ever, congratulated the husband on hts good
fortune, aud departed for home. He had
not gone more than half a mile before he
«vas overtaken by the excited husband of
:he woman, who, in breathless haste, in
formed him that there was still another
child to be boru. Hastening back, the phy
sician arrived in time to aid in delivering
the woman of her fifth child.
The physician was then prevailed on by
the husband and father to stay during the
remainder of the night He was not slow
to accept the invitation, and sat down to
await developments. In the course of fif
teen or twenty minutes he was again called
to tho bedside of tho woman, and very soon
the sixth child was breathing the breath of
life. Morning dawned, aud the doctor took
his leave. Having had no deep during the
night, he threw himself across the bed on
his arrival at home and was soon sound
asleep. About e : g'it o’clock he was
aroused by his wife, who stated that
Mr. B. was at the gate, and w v anted
to see him immediately. “What s
the matter now?” asked the doctor.
Mary appears to be going to —you know,
eplied Mr. B. “What, another one!” ex
claimed the doctor, excitedly. “That’s it,”
said Mr. B,a *‘-
; ful <i
nl so protltnble 4
will yield au abundtiut supu'._
by an open caual. and distributed by iron pip;a,
without the intervention «! expei sive pumps
BOARD OF VISITORS.
Aunnat Report or ihn Kxninlnntlom
of tbe Senior flam of tbe University
of Georgia.
The following extracts are taken from the
port of the visitors:
It will be remembered that h recent attempt
as made to transfer the normal school of Ten
ncta*’<\ which was largely supported by the Pea
r. ceived
C t - ...
ve indorsement. But in the eleventh hour the
whole scheme fell thiough by tbe dctcimiuatiou
of the people of Tennessee to retain the school
within their borders by continuing to appropriate
$6,000 annually for its support.
lougcr remain passive on a question of sucl\
vital importance It is slated upon the highest
authority that the sucoexsor of Dr Scars, Rev J
L M Curry, LL D, himself a graduate of the Slate
successor
. . . 5S3f liis willingness
make an annual donation of toivards the
establishment of a normal college ior the educa
tion of teachers of both sexes in Georgia, pro
vided that the legislature will appropriate s
similar sum. The new cousliiuiioa emphatically
enjoins that a proper system of public schools
shall be maintained in the commonwealth. But
how can this be done with in
competent and inefficient instructors?
lake the matter in hand aud v
i> incorporate t
cart to be driven over it. In the spring of
the year, when the patch is to be picked,
the 'cultivator is run or.ee through the
rows, excepting thosa from which plants
for a new bed are to be taken. The strong
est plants around the edges are usually dug
out for this purpose. A patch is allowed
to bear ior three years. After that the
fruit becomes weak and unpalatable, be
cause the potash is exhausted from the
ground. .Chemical potash is an artificial
stimulant, aud;the lasting effects are not so
satisfactory as when the patch is p'oughed
up and planted with a. variety, cf ciops
during thesucceeding lour years.
The Jersey berries bring high prices be-
lusethty reach New York in a firm condi-
i i _ . i.: i v v-..-*-
tion and can be shipped to New York and
further east. The early berries sell at whole
sale as high as twenty-six c°nts, but
i will
rthera fruit comes in the pne
fali as low as seven cents. O.ily ilia first
dozen berries from a plant are very fine;
after that they lose iu size, gloss and flavor.
Sandy loam is the best soil.
“A* well-filled bed,” Mr. Stout said,
“leaves little room for weeds. But we make
clean cultivation with plough, cultivator
and ho**, or by hand weeding, if necessary.
from the commencement to the. end of the
season. It is the only way to raise large
crops of good-sized, well-shaped berries.”
of tne university system and locate it at Athens
Thus placed, the students would h<*ve acces*
library; could listen to the lectures of the
.-ever&l professors, and iu turn be lectured
them oa such subjects as were germain to their
course of Instruction. The normal college itself
might be presided over by some educational ~
t»ert clceted by the trustees, and the whole be
der the general .supervision and control of Chan
cellor Melt, as is the case with the other branches
le spreading his mouth
The doctor mounted his
horse and was loop, at the house of Mr. B.
too lale, however, to be of any ser-
the seventh child, a girl, was born
inutes previous to his arrival. The
doctor remained about the premises during
day, but his services were
net again needed.
The gentleman who made llieabove state
ment, aud it is almost in his exact words,
tays he has seen the babies several times,
and, while not large, weighing from four to
five pounds each, lin y appear to be healthy,
well-developed children. The cccurrence
has created considerable excitement in the
neighborhood, and the people for miles
around flock to see the woman ami her
babies. The husband is described as being
of small stature, and, iu fact, exceedingly
thin, while the wife is said to be strong anil
healthy. A most singular feature ot the
children is that all of them have blue eyes,
and so closely resemble each other that it is
hard to tell “which from t'other.”
A VlratnlM irnspily.
Danville, June 22.—Mamie Harris, the
sixteen year old c-irl (white) who, on Satur
day, killed Ruth Gwynne (colored) by
cutting her throat with a pocket-knife, was
arraigned to-day. The girl wore an air of
the greatest coolness, and was perfectly
calm aud self possessed. During the whole
examination she sat without the tremor of
a muscle or the quiver of a nerve. 8he is
more than ordinarily good looking, lias wbat
are called gray, “magnetic” eyes, regular
features, fine lore head, a handsome mouth.
and hair betweeu chestnut and auburn i;
color. The tragedy occurred near a settle
ment in the vicinity of the Dry Bridge,
Iu the event, however, that they decline t
make the transfer,
“EOCK
to fall back upon, which is i«i every way suitable
l foundation. That bnilfit'.g contains
t could be iullv
u admirably
ould s
The board would therefore
UTg-iupon tbe trustees th<
of bringing this matter bef<
bly at its approaching a*.
mixing for the needed appropriation of £6.000
so diligently sought after !
that, finding a Providenrt
they erected su altar “f
Dr. Harrison will con tint
revision at a future day.
j Unknown God.’
snitested great ability.
War had been declared, and was being
waged. Our few ships had gallantly sus
tained themselves as equal if not superici
»o those oi England of the same military
opacity, l’erry and McDonough had cap-
ured the English fleets upon lakes Cham
plain and Erie, and Stewart, Rodge, Nor-
rington, Decatur and Biddle bad upon the (
high seas proven more than a match in j _
conflict for the English cruisers i’roposi- *°a Koair. Carolina Jnry.
lions for peace had been msdeacd favorably Charleston, 8. C., Juns a sped si from
received. Commissioners to negotiate for ! Darlingtou says the trial of E B. C. Cash, who
this had been appointed to meet at Ostend, i killed ‘V. M. Shoanou iu a csuel, was begun here
but was subsequently changed to j to-aay. The evidence for the tute was the same
the previous trial. The defense put for-
MURDER NO CRIME.
all Jackson's ’foot cavalry*
very trite saying in 1>61, but the condition of
that ntpcrb'body of men was quite different
in 18**1 They were badly shattered even
before Jackson died. His calling me the
Fabiusof the civil war, thus contrasting me
with the famous Roman general who won ]
lus victories by avoiding bait lea. is amusing ,
He forgets rluit Gnar.t, with no la.ger force
than Gherman had. pushed Lee with a
force equal to mine further
in a month than lieneral Sherman
pushed me in t mo months and a half of
continued lighting. The difference be
tween Gram and Sherman was that Sher
man seemed to avoid fighting as much a*
possible, so as to save his men. while Grant
orced the fighting from the time he struck
Lee
meet Genera! Sher-
for peace?”
“About twenty five miles west of Raleigh,
North Carolina.* We were alone, in a lift e
room in a wretched, hovel, when w;* talked
over the basis of surrender. I never shad
forget that meeting. Before we proceeded
to the discussion of the term* of capitala
lion Genera! Sherman handed me a dispatch
from Mr. Stanton, then secretary of war
stating that Mr. Lincoln had been assassi
nated. I was greatly shocked at the an
nouncement. as was General Sherman,
for it seemed to us both to bear with
great force upon the important event-,
that railed ne and 1 together. Gen
eral Sherman at that time told me that lie
had been called to City Point not many
day* before to confer with Mr. Lincoln upou
__>pv to be used as testimony against the
moat notoriou* thief ever known in North
Carolina, Collins, who had long been en
gaged in stealing negroes and horses, and
w as known to be the chief of a gang cf
ih-'eves extending from North Carolina to
Georg's. The confessions of Clary were
damping to the expectation of John Clark
a-jd f .* i.-.r a* Clark was concerned, unques
tionably false.
This fact excited to fury Clark and his
fnsnda. and intensified his hatred of Tails.
horn he charged as being the instigator of
Ghent, in Belgium. These,
the part of the United ri'ates
were John Quincy Adams, Albert Galiatio.
Henry Clay and Jonathan Russet 1. This
change of place for the meeting of the com
missioners was mainly owing to Mr. Craw
ford, as he desired to be more convenient to
them and as he wished frequent communi
cation with them. His letter to Mr. Clay,
during the pendency of the negotiations,
demonstrates the influence of his counsels
in bringing about the happy conclusion of
that remarkable congress, in establishing
upon a most permanent basis a lasting
peace with England, because of its carefully
guarding the rights of both parties, and
settling forever that tbe claims of England
to the right of search were inequitable and
never to be renewed.
Whilst in the senate of the United States
the question of the power of congress to
create a r.aii*-nai bank wasdiscusseu by the
ablest men in the nation, Mr. Crawford
belonged to the republican party, or the
party advocating the strict construction o'
the 'constitution. This party, headed by
Mr. Jefferson, had consist*.ally denied any
Mr. i
ae had wauled _ ...
for an insult to his wife. Solicitor Dargan spoke
for the ftete. Judge Cothran then charged the
jury tnat the crime of which the prieouet stood
accused waa murde..
which is malice. The killing was
admitted, and tr.e jury must decide if
there was a formal desigu to take the life of the
deceased. It has been argued that because the
U«r has been allowed to sitep it has no force.
This is nut so. The law has never been abro
gated. it is alleged that this duel was fair, but
self-defense is no plea where one has a purpose.
After reading the
the jury «
* "ejury
s penalty is death.
dosed and i
bly be out ail night.
CHASLE-
night t
idmony and again charging
case, the judge
They will proba-
i verdict ol ..ot guilty.
the terms of surrender which should be
SHERMAN * SWERK ARMY.
“In many respects General Sherman had : offered to
the strongest arinv. It was made up mostly ocr talk was full Aar* free.
of men raised in ihe west and used all their “The basis of surrender and peace whtch
live* to firearms—men who were self-reliant were agreed upon between General tshir-
and would tight without officers almost, man ani myself at the time were such that
The best soldiers do no*, oome from the General Sherman understood M*v Lincoln
populous cent. r». The min who has always | hims«*lf had suggested to him. Tne ques
relied upon himself *.s fuller of resource - - ‘-* ’ ”
the charges against him. Judge Tait was a
cripple and aided his locomotion with a
wooden leg. Clark made on him a personal
attack whilst he was riding in nis gig and
repeatedly struck the back of ti e vehicle
in the attempt to horsewhip him. He did
not suffer thq,ruatter to end there, but pre
ferred charges of corruption against Tait to
h e legislature.
These charges, in the form of a memorial,
were presented to the legislature by a ruem-
i emergen
than anv other and safest ..
Thu* bold, self-reliant force of Sherman
wa* officered by men of the same mettle,
and, 1 believe, it is geuerally conceded that,
taking it as a a hole, Sherman's army was
officered all through with stronger men
than Gram's It was a superb army for the
service it undertook."
“Mr. Davis charges that when you took
command of the array of Tennessee he urged
upon you an aggressive campaign, but that
you utterly opposed the plan of an invasion
if Tennessee.
“The history of that matter is a peculiar
one. General Brag.* **< ne of Mr Davis’s
pet*, aud lie had had command in the west
of a super * body of troop* for a long time
without doing much more with them
than to stand and then re
treat when the enemy gave battle.
Look at the march through Kentucky
where Brag: nearly reached the banks of
ihe Onto nver and was within gunshot of
Louisv.lle and Lexington He then rc-
trea:<-d through tin Ouraberiand moun
tain: to Knoxville and thence to Mur-
how his death would affect them
discussed and both thought, as President
Johnson retained Mr. Lincoln’s can-net,
ihat it would carry out Mr. Lincoln's plans
for my surrender, as state*! by Mr. Lincoln
himself.''
l*er real t'enpea Bend* Bo
reived.
*, June 22—The amount of 5 per
treaeury de-
ber named Simmons and were referred to
committee. This committee reported the
facts, with tbe following resolution:
•Resolved. That the several charges ex
hibited against the Hon. Charles Tait in
the memorial oi General John Clark are
unfounded in fact and unsupported by evi
dence. and that the official conduct of the
Hon.ChaMes Tait ent:tlea,him to tae confi-
•nstitutiou&I power in congress
and charter a national bank. Iu :i
cussion Mr. Crawford differed wi
party, and announced his indepeu it-nee of
party in the formation of his opinions and
the direction of his conduct on great public
matters. He advocated the recharter of
the bank as constitutionally within tbe
j*owers delegated to congress, and it
Voices from Georgia.
Hamilton Journal.
The atlisu Constitution is to be enlarged
create ’ and improved.
dig. | its managers e
> hardly possible, }
t they t
markable that in his great speech
occasion his arguments were sustained iu tbe
famous reports oi Mr. Calhoun and Mr.
McDuffie in a subsequent rechartering oi a
national bank, and were almost literally
quoted in the decision of thesaprem
dence of this house and of his fellow-citi-
of the United States, d^clari^g the p- wer
constitutional in the United State: con
gress. It was in that wonderful sp«.-cn he
eliminated his knowledge of finance, and in
the same, that he declared that he had
never been inside a bank, and had never
had a transaction with one. And it was
this speech which led to bis appomtmentof
secretary of the treasury of the United
States.
Oa the 5th of March. 1S15, Mr. Crawford's
by Mr. Madison, as secretary
excluttve of
... .. i) date !
million dollars. ,
amount presented
Tnis resolution was adopted by
yeas 5S, nays 3
Mr. Crawford was a member of this legis
lature and throughout all this matter voted
to sustain the conduct and defend the rep
utation of Judge Tail. Clark had furnished
m the committee with the name? of a very
Yor ! large number of the moet respectable citi-
xtnunuasce a; tne London agency "wbieix z*ns of several counties to testify as to the
w reporwd to te about SU.OM.OX. Tbe director truth of his charges Not one of those ex-
t^S^SA^SSSLmill 1 «*•*»«*of «wa
bureau. SNewOriattafor thepuiwof^a»i*;- Ci * rk T ro:< * * Xo speaker. Rerja-
a bim in tbe examination of tbe Sew Orkar.- mm W h:;taker, requesting the privilege of
Lwubavlew to making a regular annual ; examining personally the wilncs.- b-fore
I the committee. This request wa* deemed
impertinent, and by a resolution h*
permitted to withdraw tbe Vtrer Mr 1
lord voting for the resolution, in th-
bate in the house Mr. Crawford was
his support of Tait, and
appointment by Mr. Mad
of war, was confirmed
During the recess, oa the 22J of October,
1816. he was transferred as secretary of tbe
treasury. On the coming in of Mr. Monroe’s
administration, March 4, 1817, he was again
nominated to the same office, and
firmed the next day. In this office he
tinned during the entire administration of
Mr. Monroe—a period of eicht years. Mr.
Crawford, though strongiy solicited by his
friends, declined to contest the nomination
of Mr. Monroe before the caucus of the
members of congress belonging to the re
publican party, which was the method of
nomination.
It was during the administration of Mr.
Monroe that tne federal party .dissolved,
and ceased its opposition to that of the re
publicans. On the election of Mr. Monroe
for a second term, there waa but
Hcallby far Its Ass.
Cleveland Herald.
The Atlanta Cosvrrrvnos wa* thirteen yean
old i**t Friday. Conaidenuf tbe climate. w>claLy ,
and geoftrapbkally. in which it has grown, it ia a ; ? P c '* ou
Albany Nev.
- earnestly hnpe our legislature will turn
their attention to tais good cause, aud provide all
necessary to tbe proper aud buioane care
valuable variety berry
sometimes takes many years, aud the
grower will be disheartened by many fail
ures. He has to take a berry and separate the
seeds. Each seed will give a new variety,
which is generally poorer than the
establish a normal college as a part of the univer
sity system for the benefit of the people of Geor
gia. In no other way can stale aid be constitu
tionally granted for this most worthy and indis
pensable object, which, if inaugurated, will prove
a priceless bie.-sing to the entire commonwealth.
It requires no argument to show that the pro
posed college should be located at Athens, be
cause at no other point can similar or even ap-
roximate advantages be enjoyed by its matrlcu
and D. railroad, about four
miles from this place. From the evidence
it appeared that the difficulty originated
several days since, and on that occasion
resulted in au assault upon the accused hy
the deceased. They were separated, but
the deceased declared then that she would
kill the accused. On Thursday Mrs. Har
ris and her daughter were going up the
■ ailroad to the woods to gather fuel, and,
when a short distance this side of
ihe Dry Bridge, they met the
deceased, accompanied by Betlie Thorpe,
her sister, and June Mitchell. Charles
Thorpe saw the white girl running from the
colored woman, and saw the latter throw a
stone at the ftqtper, which struck he,von
the back of the head. The colored woman
then ran and overtook the white girl, who
thereupon turned upon her aud
menced using a knife. She was cut, and
both the colored woman and white girl
started for home, but the deceased had
walked only about 200 yards when site fell
dead. The coroner’s verdict w*as to the
effect that the deceased came to her death
by a knife wound inflicted by the prisoner,
who was subsequently committed to the
county jail.
A Wo
Ihe patches were on the slope of a hill,
irom the top of which you could look up
the bay through the Narrows to New York,
and down along the coast and the Shrews
bury river to Pleasure bay and Long Branch.
In cne of the patches about twenty pickers
—men, women and children—were bending
over the beds busy at work among the
green leaves. Some of the women wore
stockings over their hands to keep them
from being tanned. Every now ami then
•»ne or the other would stand up for a few
moments or move a little further down the
row. There were only two pickers for a
row, so that they were distributed all'
the patch.
‘That woman,” Mr. Stout said, pointing
a tall, shapely young girl who
s carrying a number of full
baskets to tae shed, “will pick a hun
dred quarts on an ordinary clay; and is
good for a hundred and fifty wheu we have
plenty of sunshine, and the berries are
thick' There are very few who can pick so
many. They mostlv fall ten or twenty
quarts bthind that figure. To-day isn’t a
good day because it has been rainiug. Rain
is good for people who have ducks, hut not
for people w*ho raise strawberries Some ol
the pickers I got in the neighborhood; the
others 1 bad to get from a place about 18
miles from here. I board them clown the
road with Kate’s mother. It i* very hard to
keep help in the house here during'berrying
time. They all want to go picking. You
will find plenty of theta in the patches in
this part of the country.”
Among the pickers was a very stout Ger
man. He did not teem accustomed to the
work, for he stopped picking and stood up
more frequently than she others, and dole
fully wiped the perspiration from iiis fore
head with a handkerchief on which a pic
ture of ihe ba*tle ot titds.. was printed.
• s it bard work?’ lire reporter asked,
ry bad tni». de: back,” he. said rt
I’d sooner tight mil der Frenchmen
made over and over again. “I know sirae
persons,”,Mr. Stout said, “whesehairs have
erown gray over their efforts to get a new
variety I expect a new variety, which is
svd to he\< ry good, from a friend. He
. r b red some years ago, a barrel of fine po
tatoes l rora tlie wen. Among them was a
strawberry, which be p« an ted just for fun.
It came up and multiplied in the usual
way, and happens u> have turned out very
weil.”
It wa3 now getting dark, and the pickers
were carrying their last load from the patch
to the shed, where Kate was still busy
packing crates and telling out tickets
“Well, Kate, how many crates t
going to send off this evening?” Mr. Stout
asked.
“About fifty, I think,” she answered.
“At this rate we ought to get about thirteen
hundred crates by the end of the season.
Let me see—thirty-t.wo quarts to a crate:
that’ll be forty one thousand six hundred
quarts. That’s doing first-rate.”
tales. The imperfectly taught common schools
ill *‘ * *
.f the s
this institution.
I loudly for the establishment of
FORTY
tests of fertilizers have been made, covering the
most popular brands in
Each is applied to
isection of five rows—the alternate five receiving
io artificial help. The results will be keptsepa-
atc and carefully noted-
The profe-sor is also instituting another very
interesting and useful
sets of five ro#rs each, i .
upon which the best nltrogenising compounds
have been applied lu equal quantities. The
object sought £s to ascertain how much nitrogen
is necessary in the growth of cotton and what
the cost of fertilizers.
Experiment os to distance in the plmting of
• Body Inhabited by Rep*
■lies.
N. J., June 22.—Some months
ago Mrs. Hannah Young, who lives on the
outskirts of the village of Irvingtou, about
three miles from this city, began to com
plain of peculiar sensations in the stomach
and the region of the heart. She became
nervous, had fainting spells, and, although
her craving for fowl and water daily in
creased, she gradually lost flesh, until she
is at length little better than a living skel
eton. She thought she was troubled with
a water or a milk snake. Within the past
year she has lost nearly fifty pounds. To a
reporter she said: “I cat voraciously, but
ray food docs not give me strength. My
thirst is so great that I drink much water
and tea. When I cannot allay my thirst
once I feel something crawling about
,my stomach, and sometimes it cree|»s
and skillfully done One very Important ad
dendum, however, is lacking, aud that is * ~
gin and several other implements which
<luired to give accuracy to the various tests. The
! folly.
,rd.”
ol the insane.
Miik-dgeviile Union and Recorder.
The Constitution will shortly appear
gut page paper. The t/sur-k of thi, '
•inetaing
mrnalism and must attract attention.
Eaton ton Messenger.
The Atlanta Constitution surely
“It doesn’t look
“Well, eubbo&e you tried it?" and he
hsraled the reporter an empty quart cup,
while his face brightened up. Where
“She’s a smart girl,” Mr. Stout remarked,
i he walked up the hill with the reporter.
THE TOBACCO PRODUCT.
Report From the {Jennas Department.
Washington, June 22.—The report of J.
R l)jdge, special agent for the collection
of statistics of agriculture, showing the to
bacco product of the United States. f**r the
census years of 1880 arid 1870, was issued
from the census office to-day. A compara
tive statement presented in the report
shows an apparent increase in the produc
tion of 80 per cent during
the decade, the product in 1880 being
pieced at 473 107 573 pounds, and that of
is70at 262,735 341 pounds. This apparent
increase, Mr.Dodge says,exaggerates the rial
advance in tobacco. The cultivation,
as preceding the census crop, was
a small ore. and fear of
taxation may have operated to prevent
it full census of tobacco m 1870. The crop
reported ia 1880 wa<? o::e of medium pro
duction, not in excess of the present re
quirements of home consumption aud
Attention of the honorable board of trustees Is
respectfully directed to this deficiency.
FREE TUITION.
The step already taken in that direction by the
ustees of the umvendiy in the establishment of
four subsidiary branches of the main Athens
long extend the same guerdon to her matrlcu-
among the masses. However wrong and
founded, the fact cannot be disguised that srore*
of sensitive larmcrp aud men in moderate circum
lances, refuse to accept of the free scholarships
tendered by the trustees, from the belief that their
, positions in
_ looked dowu upon os
charily studenis.
Every attempt thus far has failid to disabuse
them of this erroneous idea, and os a eon requeue*.:
SAOUOordy—an amount,toe, which willconstantl:
1 grow smaller and beautifully lem,”
whom attend them from inot.vea of economy,
the univi . .
ucompnracly superio
FEASIBILITY
it need only be said that
MEASURE,
customary cant
fee of ten dollars per student, which is
juired in each of the branch colleges, with per-
five dollars more to keep the apparatus —
X and provide chemical* f«i
.n lees than twoyc&rs double or treble the present
amount derived from tuition. The report of the
Georgia
xlnrai
ing Prerideat t
Tuiater” on tt r other
rtly appear as an I upon, the reporter picked a cup half
pluck of this journal is j fail, sicod up, and straightened out his
~ bac k against a stone walL The stout, in id-
die aged German seemed to enjoy tuis. and
■ when next he stood up he chuckled and
m,-- wo- re S3 i ri-cate as*u ’ ^Iied out: “Veil, how is it mit tier back?
*Mim ••general ’ on one page and j "These eider vreetL,’ Mr. Stout said
1 stooping and tearing a handful of tnem,
•‘iirow again, no matur how often you puli
them up. I read in an evening paper the
ether day that if you hoe them at certain
Limes they die out. Well, I’ve had them
port at ion. Fifteen s’ates produce
in 1870, more than 99 per cent of the tobac
co of the United States, though it is report
ed in 22 other states and six territories. Oi
these 15 only Missouri, Illinois, Indians
aud Massachusetts produce less than
howe-
and comraer.
that - he CossTncTios f-houtJ be closely read.
It pays .o read ihe Constitution.
Darien Timber Gazette
Hon. Benjamin E Crane, at the Gordon ban-
qufctin Atlanta, recently, fold The Atlanta
1870. Ken I ucky occupies the first position,
producing 30 per cent of the total crop
of tbe county. Virginia holds the second
piace. Per. nsylvama has advanced from
the twelfth to the third; Wisconsin fro
the fifteenth to tbe tenth, and North Caro
lina, Connecticut and New York have each
gained one point in the rank of tobacco
states Those that have retrograded
.•eiativep reduction are Massachusetts, Mary
land, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois.
Missouri and Tennessee. The average yield
shown to be 731 pounds varying
to advertise Atlanta
always done things ;
acy thing that co-aid bar: it.”
l dozen or two n
that it is appreciated in Georgia as well os the
whole south and north.
Eaton ton Messenger.
The Atlanta Constitution will
red os on eight page taper, neatly
be is-
_ .... . at the
posted. The constitution is
deserve* a liberal suj
erywhere. No paper has
Georgians
much to moke known abroad 'the resource* of
Georgia and to cause immigration to the state.
be aii the oetter prepared ,to do battle for the
industrial progress of the state. Thoae of our
readers who desire a first-claas daily newspaper
should subscribe for The Constitution
Macon Herald.
The Constitution_is now a blushing youth, of
frequently between these times,
bat they always come hack.”
Strawberry beds, he said, have to be
planted a little more than a year before the
iruit is to te picked. In the spring the
patch is laid out in rows varying in width,
hut rarely more than four feet, with a path
about* one foot wide between each row.
The plants are set in the
rows at from one to five feet apart, accord
ing to their running capacity. Tnen the
field is manured broadcast and plowed in
iightiy. After that it is hoed and gone
over with the culuvat »r, running close to
the rows and around in the same direction.
Tne latter implement is used especially
during a dry season, as it loosens the ground
nicely and brings fresh earth to the surface.
It is uuought Dy some that the cultivator
does away with the necessity of frequent
watering. The strawberry, perhaps more
than any other plant, requires moisture,
and Mr. Stout says he has known the plants
to siand cold water during the hottest days,
when it would destroy other plants. As
he blossoms appear they are cut off
■eduction
f yield the report states is due
in different degrees to the use or neglect
of fertilizers, the habit of growth
the different varieties, and
vicissitudes of the season. The
following . table shows,
bers, the total product in 1839 in fifteen
leading tobacco growing states: Kentucky,
171,000,000 pounds; Virginia, 80,000,000;
Pennsylvania. 37,000.000; Ohio, 35.000,000;
Vnrrh I’arnl ipn
Tennessee, 29.000,000; North Carolina,
27,000.000; Maryland, 26,000.000, Connecti
cut. 14, OUO.OOO; 'Missouri, 12 000,000;
experiment were :
would be magical upou . ..
Ity of eur beloved university. To show «
giving
heart and coils there,
great pain and a choking
sensation. As soon as I drink any fluids the
coil about my heart is removed, and I feel
something crawl back into my stomach.
Frequently I have been awakened at night
by the same sensation.” I)r. Charles W.
England, of this city, has lately been at
tending tbe woman. He is the |»e.rson who,
about two years ago, claimed to have coaxed
A NEW RUMOR
Regnrtl to Winning the Federal
Correspondence Louisville Courier-Journal.
Washington, D. C., June 20. 1880.—
When congress assembles next December there
will be a repetition In the- house of the Mahonc
act, that made the extra session so Interesting, but
it will be on a smaller tc&le. There will not bo
h> much importance attache 1 to the house busi
ness ss there was to the al’ltudc of Mahone in tho
senate, but it will be on the some principle.
down as democratic.
The vote bcloni
Geoigi t. He, alifcougb elected os a democrat.
young Emory 8peer, of
__i elected as a democrat.
& republican organization in tho
house. He has several tilings connected with
federal apt<ointmcnts in Georgia that he wants
the president to accede to. A friend of 8pecr’s
* • e way to Garfield by staUug that 8pccr
paved — „
intended to vote with the republicans in the ar-
gtUiiziiicn of the next house. The other day
from you exathly how
the time fer action in the premiss, it
confideru.y suited that both
MERCER AND EMORY COLLEGES
with iar teeing sagacity axe seeking by the
speedy endowment
Idol wish to 1 . .
intend to vote in theor/a:iiz*tlon of the next
To this ripeer replied:, “I expast, Mr.
n tion s to open
_. way for free tuition Air. «.dy Emory col!«ge,
through the liberality of M Ueney, has made a
good I-tart, and the eameat e Corea of their recently
appointed agent. Dr Landrum, cannot foil t
make large additions to the endowment fund of
Mercer. Thia step is rendered absolutely neoes
wiry by the inroads which the branch colleges of
the university under the free tuition system will
cere.1 ly rnaxe upon the patronage of both of
taose excellent literary foundation*. But shall it
be fciid that the mother institution, after seudln
forth avant couriers in the cause of free educa
tion. halted midway in the work and allowed
these institutions to outstrip her in reaching this
very desirable result Mo^t? assuredly noL Lot
wealth who thirst* after knowledge and literary
fame.
FINAL REMARKS.
The board take pleasure, after the most dili
gent investigation, in announcing to your e
celleccy and the general assembly, that the
ditlon of the university in every respect, savi
number * ’ *
isfoctory.
Perfect accord exist* betweeu
faculty and ttudeu’.s and among
ptoleaaon thtxnacive*. Tee relations
President, that tne opening of the
will bring upon me an attack similar tn that
made upon Senator Mahone by Ben Hill; I will
vote wiih the republicans; I want to break the
bourbon clement in Georgia ”
The president tlten asniretl Mr. Speer that his
wishes, in r ganl to federal ap;»ointmenta iu
•rgia would be granted. Is there a democrat
a party
perform
will n u:d by the president
Mr. Blaine
«_ tbD matter, a* will
I the other members ol the cabinet, and the
on. expecting that the president would «
Ut5 the it ' — “*— * ’
irgiaia pie.
i hand* out of the
lle|irrMBtollfe Journal*.
Providence Journal.
1 here is, perhaps, no better evidence of thrift
rad progrers in a community than the prosperity
and suggeats toe arguments essential to
the acvdi.c-jmeni and welfare of its constituency.
It Is gratifying, therefore, to find that two s
and We
wry"hewiSFCoNarimcioN. Y; talks'of“puuiag I *psr: r e m Lis* remarks toward Clark. ! * »***
mu«fbi-iafe«NB. | la. failure of these cnargn, and ihe | Hr. Sionroe
“sweet fourteen ” It is one of the few newspa
per *nc«-a8bs in Georgia since the war. It was on
the “ragged edge ’ a ionz time—scraping along
vote lhe saceruic snores of the journalistic sea—wiffi
tbe electoral college of the United , StS^g reughly o?Jr ^ialdbara of financial j for if the plants were allowed to bear fruit
States against him. this was given by one nghui-esa?—but toe's a full-jigg-rd “clipper" now. ; tbe first season they would deteriorate sadly,
ot the New Hampshire electors, who was Tne favorable wu..is of -periry fill her Kills, j perhaps die. In September they begin to
chosen to vote for.him. and who ^ave a* a wa:cr b v yV 1 I s*nd cut runners and the cultivator cannot
reason for hia vote that Mr Monroe t jffif w1 be guided so cioae to the plants. The ran-
slaveholder. The cabinet of I **n>und now. Every issue of the paper i* like a nfcrs rtniAio connected with the parent, I bimkirom co operating with
especially able. John } morning gun for Atlanta. ) bat also send down roots of their own. At I united aouthem movement.
wuoiu. 11,000.000; Indiana, 9,000,000; New —_ v -----
York, 6,500,01*1; rt««hu*.a, »I «» re-
\ irginia, , malM to ^ <jonc but for to« authorities to unite
! upon free tuition, and under the f a wring a.t<
! of the legislature and the combined and earnest
The Great Caw Qneatfon. ! effort* cf her alumni and an appreciating people,
; our giorio 'h university must certain ly aliaiii iu
LouisvlLe Poe~ 1 the near future to the very highest plane of ex-
Atlanta claims to be a growing metropo is, bat j c^llence, and become the peer of any institution
the less agitated
allowing the poor man's cov
the streets. The occasional poor n
.w feeding _ "
1 America.
ordinance
pasture hen eU
. or man’s brie- ' - A Rarity.
—---- -— . V*.? a rich man's | By ^ir-Line train, under Jim Mc-Gool’i
yard ie whM make* Atlanta so picturesque. j 4 actoI fihip, there arrived In Atlanta Bunday last
The Ureal Fair.
Springfield Republican.
The Atlanta cotton exhibition will be a succeaa, 1 welghaoue hundred "and thirty seven pounds.
" “ *■'•“*ay. He is th *
: seven-year-old colored boy. who halls from
toe wheel, and Joe Harris s bead for a “light v j i . I although six states-Viraiaia, North Carolina, [ the seal<s at theca
litile or no danjrer of her running j ^ 60 close .° the plants. Ihe ron * ; Aikanaas ML"i»ippi, Texa* aud Florida— hang i Inches tail, and U
— - • ..." i -.-.in —>*s »Ka i — —..w ..... should be a j'———
will eniiat
1 wesson oi ’hi.
the canhed a
rot
Barenm’s
banner for.toe
^pruyentallve papers «
- * "‘HR ATLANTA
lpelled by t
utof expen
. the ord mary effort
keep a little more toon
abreast of the demand* of The hour and of the
people There would seem to be no reason
of things why New Orleans should not
ngniaund very far *uip*»s her former impor-
iai.ee. That she should co so is fervently to be
hoped. Atlanta mu*: be, in ibis yearof grace ’81.
a very different aud more premising (in every
wav) town man it was when, in i860, an enthu-
dld Norta Carodniaa sold in her
the wxiter. “this is to be the capi-
‘*l\)f tbe southern confederacy.” The Consti
tution i» equally ardent and a good d al i
sensible. ^
thougn'u
nennoi!, we cordially admit mat u no* reason to
look hopefully at the future, and that tt fa wise
d patriotic in stimulating It* readers to a real-
ug sense of their material advantages, aud to a
proper recognition of the dignity of labor.
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