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*S& CORDIAL FOR THE BOWELS&CHILDRENTEETHING It Is THE GREAT SOUTHERN REMEDY -for the bowels. It is one of the most pleasant and efficacious remedies for all summer com plaints. At a season when violent attacks of the ibowels are so frequent, some speedy relief should be at hand. The wearied mother, losing sleep in nursing the little one teething, should use this medicine. UOcts. a bottle, Bend 2c stamp to Walter A, Taylor, Atlanta, Ga., for Kiddle Book. Twylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein will cure Coughs, Croup, and Oonsomption. Price 25c. and 91 a bottle. . H. Croukshiw A Co., 176 8. Foryytb, Finish and Rough Lumber, Laths and Shingles. CAPITOL CHAFF. Fish >n great variety. Donehoo’s. Pare candies —wholesale —G. E. Johnson. Good table board at 42 N. Collias. Board and lodging, $4 00 per week at 42 N. Collins. There were 682 Atlanta veterans, and 1,400 veterans from over the State, in line this morn ing. McNeal Bros., Decorators and Designers, sella Wall Paper and Picture rods, 42 Broad street. Still they come. New customers every day are finding out where to get fine shoeing done to suit. Horses and mules happy. Business booming. No. 20 E. Hunter. J. N. Cook, V. S. Mitchell A Parker have had the misfor tune to have a very line horse seriously ipjured by fall ing on a crossing on West Harris street. His spine seemed injured, and he could not be got ten on bis feet. Go over to the warerooms of the Estey Qfgan Co. if you want to see the coming Piano of America. It is the new “Estey” with many novel features. There is no Joubt but this house is the leading one in enterprise, amount of business being done with music-loviug people of all classes. Their organs are the most celebrated in the world and can be had on the moat reasonable terms and fairest prices. Just call and see them, it will do you good, and whether you want to buy or not they will be glad to see you and give you some fine music. Cli'Y NEWS. Afternoon Item* Hotted Down From 'Jl'bia morning’s Paper. The engine that will pull the Governor’s Horse Guard special Pullman palace train to Savannah, leaving to-night at 8:30, has just been completed in the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad Company’s shops in this oity, under the sii|>orviaion of Mr. C. F. Thomas master mechanic. This will be its maiden trip, and it is considered the finest engine in the South, as all the modern improvements were need in her construction. James McCoy, the murderer of Deputy Mar shal Ke'lett, has been found guilty of murder in Ih* first degree, and will be sentenced to death. Aa alarm of tire was turned in last night, ateoat V o’clock, from box 32 on Whitehall and Hood street. The tire was located in West end, •nd was consuming the residence of Mr. J. B. Boseer, in West End. The building was a five room frame structure, and was almost entirely destroyed. The origin of the fire is unknown. The fire communicated with a cottage adjoining, and only the hardest work saved it from com plete destruction. STILL a-Biion motes'’ Club Systeaa Continues to Flbnrlab. The photograph club rate system, which was instituted by Mr. C. W. Motos, the Premium Artist, has taken with the people most wonderfully. Scores of clubs have been formed and others are being made up. Twelve members constitute a club and those who join are entitled to one dozen Cabinet Photos for $4.00. Getters up of clubs receive 1 dozen photos or $4.00 cash m pay for same. Call at Gallery, 34 Whitehall street. Fine corned beef always on hand. C. A. Rauachenberg, 133 Whitehall street. (Continued from first page.) Guards met at their armory and marched by double-quick time to the depotto meet the Busch Zouaves, but as it was learned that the Zouaves would not arrive until later, they marched back to Mrs. Hill’s residence, where the procession began. In the meantime s pro cession beaded by the Griffin band started from the depot. The band began by playing “Dixie” and a yell went up from the throats of thousands of ex-Confederates. This procession marched over thh city until 9o’clock, when it bolted on Walton street at the inter section of Cone, to await the arrival of the vet erans iu front of the custom house. About 9 o’clock the procession of veterans was ergan ized at the court house; from there thev march ed to the custom house and opened ranks on Marietta street to await the arrival of Mr. Da vis and parly. In this line there could be keen men who were maimed in different ways, some minus a leg, others aa arm, some an eve, but each only served to make the old soldiers love their chiefeain whom thev had come to honor all the more. Gov. Mcfianiel made bis appearance from ths Capitol and was greeted with cheere. While the line was in waiting, the procession of veterans march ed uu the line and back with hared beads. About 10 o’clock, the Davis party made its appeapance on Broad street, headed by a squad of mounted police: then came the colored band; then the Gate City Guards, followed by Means' cadets; after them were the Governor's Horse Guards. Then came the carriage containing ex-President Jefferson Davis, Hon. J. C. C. Black, orator of the day; Dr. R. D. Spalding, president Ben Hill Monu ment AsMxjiation: Henry W. Grade, master of ceremonies. In the second carriage were Gov. McDaniel, Gen. C. A. Evans, chaplain; Mayor Reese, of Montgomery; Mayor Hillver, of Atlanto. The third carriage contained Chief Justice Jackson, Major Minims,General Lawton, Captain J. Mc- Intosh Kell. The fourth carriage was occupied by Colonel Printup, of Rome; Hon. Patrick Walsh, of Augusta: Hon. J. W. A. Sam'ord, of Alabama, and Judge L. W. Harris, of Georgia. As the party turned trom Brosd into Marietta street, cheers. • many and loud, rent the air. The Cereuaeniea Begin. AT TH! STITI’B. When the procession reached the statue, the veterans opened ranks and the military and carriages passed through. There was the wildest 'axeitement over Mr. Dav is, and the people swarmed around the platform until they were pack'd. The stage was handsomely decorated with flowers and banners. Mr. Henry W. Grady opened the ceremonies by saving: “We have gathered here to-day to A do honor to the memory of a great man, and to W perpetuate his name in our hearts.” W Mr. Grady then introduced Rev. Mr. Evans, the patter and friend es Senator Hill, to com- mence the ceremonies with prayer. That prayer was beautiful and touching. “0 Lord, our God, thou art the Father of all mankind. We come together to worship, and we invoke thy blessings upon us—upon our State and country. Gen. Evans prayed for Mr. Davis and Mr. Hill and his family. Mr. Grady then alluded to the valuable ser vices of Dr. Spalding as the chairman of the Hill Monumental Association, and introduced him to the peoplt. Dr. Spalding in a neat address presented the statue to Governor MeDamel for the people of Georgia. Dr. Spalding gave a history of the commit tee’s work and alluded in touching words to Senator Hill’s noble life. He said “Captain Burke, will you unveil the statue?” Dr. Spalding’s speech was a surprise to those who dp not know hiu and a revelation to all of finished and stirring eloquence. He manifested as ease, a grace, a fervor that carried the great crowd by storm, and evoked thunders upon thunders of applause. There was a felicity, a force and elegance in bis utterances that placed him in enthusiastic rapport with the audience. As Capt. Burke unpinned the clothand gave it a slight jerk it fell in an instant, revealing the familiar form and features, and a great shout arose from the immense crowd. Governor McDaniel, in behalf of the people, received the statue in a fine and eloquent ad dress. M. Black closed amid deafoniog applause and received many congratulations. JIEEKBSOM DAVIS IS INTRODUCED, When Col. Black ended the people cried for Davis, and Mr. Henry Grady introduced the distinguished guest in the most eloquent man ner. Mr. Davis said: "I came here ailentlv, rever ently, laving, to see unveiled the statue of my friend, as one who wanted to show him respect. If I was asked to name three of Georgia’s noblest sons, I would sav Oglethorpe th* great, Troupe the dauntless, and Hill the faithful. It it was ex ected es me, if I could make a speech, there would be nothing to be ahded. It all has been said. But I can say something of my dead friend. If he was last to precipitate the States in war, he was the last to give it up. When the South was under the power of a conquering enemy, Mr. Grady introduced Hon. J. C. C. Black, who spoke as follows : Mr. Black’s Address. J. C. C. BLACK. Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : His tory has furnished but one perfect character; humanity nas but one example in all things worthy of imitation. And yet all ages and coun tries have recognized that those who, devoting themseivos to the public service have led the people through great perils, and by distinguish ed careers added to the just renown of their highest respect, honor and veneration. The chiloren of Israel wept for their great leader and deliverer on the plains of Moab. The men of Athens gathered at the graves of those who fell at Marathon and pronounced panegyrics upon them. This sentiment is an honor to the living as well as the dead. It iajust, for no merely human pursuit is higher than that pub lic service which honestly and intelligently de votes itself to the common weal There is no study more worthy of the highest faculties of thu mind than that which seeks after the nature of civil government, applies it to its legitimate uses and ends, and properly limits its powers. No object is more worthy of the noblest philan thropy of the heart than society and the State. It is not only honorable and just, but like all high sentiment, it is useful—for honors to the dead are incentive to the living. Monuments to our groat and good should be multiplied, May I take the liberty on this occasion of suggesting to thu bar and people of the State to provide a fitting memorial to the distinguished Chief Jui tice who so long presided over our Supreme Court, whose decisions are such splendid speci mens es judicial research and learning, and who-i* career recalls Wharton’s picture of Nottingham, “seated upon his throne with a ray of glory about hie head, his ermine without spot or balance in his right hand mercy on his left, splendor and brightness at his feet, and his tongue dispensing truth, gosd ness,' iitue and justice to mankind.” And by its side, soil worthy of such association, another to couiniiunorate the sturdy virtue ; unswerving fidelity under great trials, and worthy public career of that other Chief Justice who so re cently passed from among us. The public dis position to honor the dea,d too often finds its only expression in the resolution of public as semblies, and the exhibition in public places of emblems of mourning, soon to be removed.— “And the children of Israel wept for Moses in tue plains of Moab thirty days ; so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were en ded.” Too often the great and good lie in un known sepulchres, or, if kuown, they are un marked by any lasting monument. When the feeling does crystalize in enduring marble or graite, in most cases it is after painful effort and long delay. Eighteen years elapsed after the laying of ihe corner stone of the Bunker Hill monument, erected by the patriotism of New England, before its completion was cele brated. The statae of Chief Justice Marshall, appointed during the second administration,was unveiled within a very recent period. Imme diately after his death in 1790, Congress voted a marble monument to Washington. Half a century elapsed before the founda tion was laid. After this for seven and thirty years, it remained unfin ished. Although intended to commemorate tee life aud character of him who was “first in ths hearts of his countrymen,” and had just claims upon the Treasury of the Government, it stood as if insulting him whom it should have honor ed, symbol of nothing but the ingratitude of the prophecy of nothing but a broken con stitution, a civided people, and a disrupted union. Its completion was not celebrated until the 21st day of February, 18S5, —more than three quarters of a century after the resolution of Congress voting it. The history of these similar organisations marks with peculiar em phasis that of the Association whose completed work we come to celebrate with becoming cere mony. Amidst profound and universal expres sions of grief at the public calamity to the country indicted by his death.—on the 18th day of August, 1882, bis body was buried to await the dawn of that resurrection day of which he so, beautifully wrote after he could no longer speak. Within a few days after his burial, a public meeting was call ed to assemble in the State Capitol on the 29th day of August thereafter. That meeting re solved itself into an organization that under took the patriotic duty of commemorating his public life by some fit and during memorial. The success, brilliant as his own resplendent career which calls ua together within less than half a decade after its inauguration to crown the completion of its work, is highly hon orable to those who have achieved it, but most honorable to him who inspired it. It has few, if any, parallels. It is in itself a more fit ting and eloquent oration than human language can pronounce, for that mar speak in exaggera ted phrase of the worth of the dead and the sor row of the living; this is love’s own tribute, thia is griefs truthful expression. As we come te dedicate this statue to his name and memory, all the surroundings are moat auspicious. No place could have preferred a claim above this. It was bis own home; it is the capital of the State, and his fame is a com mon heritage. The progressive spirit that has already made thia populous aad growing city the pride of every citizen, the woader of every ■tranger, shall furnish opportunity te apeak, as THB EVENING CAPITOL: ATLANTA. GA- SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1886 it shall speak, to the largest number of behold ers. It is the time, too, when all over this Sou'hern land, in the observance of a custom that should be perpetuated, fair women and brare men pay tribute to our dead. May we not think of the spirits of our honored dead who preceded him in our history, aa well as those of his woithy cotesnporaries, coming from that world where no uncharity misjudges, no preju dice blinds, no jealousy suspicions to hover over us and rejoice in the tributes of this day. And surely, if the honor this occasion pays the dead could be enhanced, er the joy it im parts to the living could be heightened by human presence, we have that augrv'nted honor, and that elevated joy in the presence of one worthily ranked among the most renown ed of the living; whose strength of derotion to onr lamented dead has overcome the infirmities of age, and the weariness of travel, aud who comes to mingle bis praises with ours Illus trious son of the South, thy silent presence is loftier tribute than spoken oration or marble statue or assembled thousands. Alas ? Alas 1 we this day mourn the silence of the only ton gue that could fittingly and adequately voice the honor we would confer upon thee. Beside the grave of him who never swerved in his de votion to thee and the cause of which thou wert and art the worthy representative, we this day acknowledge thy just claim upon the confidence, esteem, love and veneration of ourselves and our posterity. May these auspicious su-round ings help us to commemorate the, life aad character of him in whose honor we are assem bled, and move us with the higher purposes of devotion to our State aud country that life and character inspire. As a son of Georgia he eminently merits this enduring memorial and all the honors conferred by this vast concourse of his grateful and ad miring countrymen. Born upon her soil, rear ed among her people, educated at her schools, permeated by the influences of her society and civilization, he plead with an eloquence unsur passed by any of her sons for whatever would promote her weal, and warned against every danger his sagacious eve detected threatening her prosperity. Called into public service at an early age, he at once gave assurance of the high distinction he afterwards attained. For years his public career was a struggle against prevailing principles and policies he believed to be dangerous, and he stood conspicuous against as powerful a combination of ability and craft as ever ruled in the politics of any State. Upon every field where proud est gladiators met, he stood the peer of the knightliest. He did not always achieve popular success, but that has been true of the greatest and best. His apparent failures to achieve victory only called for a renewal of the struggle with unbroken spirit and purpose. Failure he did not suffer, for his very defeats were victories. To say, as may be justly said, that be was conspicuous among those who have made our history fer thirty years is high en cenium. During that period the most memo rable events of our past have transpired. It recalls besides his own the (names and careers of Stephens, Toombs, the Cobos, Johnson, and Jenkins. In what sky has brighter galaxy ever shone? The statemanship, the oratory, the public and private virtue it exhibits should swell every breast with pa triotic pride. In some of the highest qualifications of leadership, none efhis day sur passed him. He did not seek success by the schemes of bidden caucus or crafty manipula tion. He won his triumphs on the arena of open, fair debate before the people. An ear nest student of public questions, he boldly pro claimed his conclusions. The power of oppos ing majority did not deter him. As a leader of minorities he was unequaled. As an orator at the forum, before a popular assembly or con vention, in the House of Representatives or the Senate Ch'mber, iu Congress, ho was the ac knowledged equal of the greatest men who have illustrated our State aud national history for a quarter of a century. He was thoroughly equipped with a masterly logic, a cap tivating eloquence, a burning invective, a power of denunciation —with overy weapon in the armory of spoken and writ ten language, and used all with a force and skill that entitled him as a debater to the high est distinction. While the most unft.endly criticism cannot deny him the highest gifts bf oratory, some have withheld from him the praise due to that caltn judgment that looks at result#; that political foresigb. that belongs to a w>se statesmanship. Judged by this just standard, who among the distinguished sons of Georgia in that period when her people most needed that judgment and sagacity is entitled to higher honor? Who more clearly foresaw in the clouds that flecked our political sky the storm that was coming? What watchman stationed to signal the first approach of danger bad more far reach ing vision? What pilot changed with the guid ance of the ship of state struggled more earn estly to guide it into clearer skies and calmer seas? With . it devotion to the Union that always characterized him, and believing that the wrongs of which we just ly complained could be better redressed in than out of the Union, or had better be borne than the greater evils than would follow dissolution, he opposed the secession of the State. We may not now undertake to trace the operation of the causes that brought about that event. We can justly appreciate how it could not ap pear to others as it did to us. As to us, it was not prompted by hatred of the Union resting in the consent of the people, and governed by the constitution of our fathers. It was not intend ed to subvert the vital principals of the gov ernment they founded, but to perpetuate them. The governement of the new did not differ in its form or any of its essential principals from the old Confederacy. The constitutions were the same except such changes as the wisdom of experience suggest ed. The Southern Confederacy con- templated no invasion or conquest. Its chief corner stone was not African slavery. Its foundations were laid in the doctrines of the Fathers of the Republic, and the chief corner stone was the essential fundamental principle of free government ; that all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the gov erned. Its purpose was not to perpetuate the slavery of the black race, but to preserve the liberty of the white race of the South. It was another declaration of American independence. In the purity of their motives, in the loftiness of their patriotism, in their love of liberty, they who declared and maintained the first were not worthier than they who declared and failed in the last. Animated by such purposes, aspiring to such destiny, feeling justified then (and without shame now), we entered upon that movement. It was opposed by war on the South and her people. What was the South and who were her people? There are those who seem to think she nurtured a Upas whose very shadow blight ed wherever it fell, and made her civilization in ferior. What was that civilization? Let its products as seen in the people it produced, and the character and history of that people answer: Where do you look for the civilization of a peo ple? In their historv, in their achievements, in their institutions, in their character, in their men and women, in their love of liberty and country, in their fear of God, in their contribu tions to the progress of society and the race. Measured by the high standard, where was there a grander and nobler civilization than hers? Where has there been greater lore of Laming than that which established her col leges and universities? Where better prepara tory schools sustained by private patronage ar.d not the exactions of the tax gatherer—now unhappily dwarfed and well-nigh blighted bv our modern system. Whose people had higher sense of personal honor? W hose business and commerce was controlled by higher integrity? Whose public tnan had cleaner bands and purer re cords? Whose soldiers were braver or knight lier? Whose orators more eloquent and per suasively? Whose statesmen more wise and conservative? Whose young men more chival ric? Whose young women more chaste? Whose fathers and mothers worthier examples! Whose homes more abounded in hospitality as genial and free to every friendly comer aa the sun that covered them with its splendor? Where was there more respect for woman, for the church, for the Sabbath, for God, and for the law? which next to God is entitled to the high est reapect and veneration of man for it is the fittest representative of His awtnl majesty, and power and goodness. Where was there more love ofhome,of country and of liberty? Deriving their theories of government from the Constitution, her public officers never abandoned those prin ciples upon which the government could stand; esteeming their public virtue as highly as their private honor, they watched and exposed every ' form of extravigance, and every ap proach of corruption. Her religious ' teachers driving their theology from the Bible, guarded the Church from being spoiled “through philosophy and vain deceit after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” Her women adorned the highest so cial circles of Europe and America with their modesty, beauty and culture Her men in every society, won a higher tit e than “the grand old name of ‘gentleman’”—that of Southern gentleman.” This in herself what contributions did she make to the material growth of the country 1 Look at the map of that country and see the five States formed out es the territory north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi generously and pa triotically surrendered by Virginia. Look at the vast extent of country acquired under the ad ministration of one es her Presidents, which to day constitutes the States of Louisiana, Arkan sas, Missouri, lowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Minne sota west of the Mississippi, Colorado north of the Arkansas, besides the Indian Territory and the territories of Dakota, Wyoming and Mon tana. It is asked what she had added to the glories of the republic? Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? Jefferson. Who led the armies of the republic in maintaining and establising that independence? “Who gave mankind new ideas of greatness?” Who has furnished the sublimest illustration of self-government? Who has taught us that human virtue can set proper limits to human ambition? Who has taught the ruled of the world that man may be entrusted with power? Who has taught the rulers of the world when and bow to surrender power? Os whom did Bancroft write “but for him the country would not have achieved its indeped ence, buffer him it could not have formed its Union, and now but for him it could not set the Federal Government in successful motion?” Os whom did Erskine say “you are the only being fer whom I hare an awful reverence ?” Os whom did Charles James Fox say in the House of Commons, “illustrious man, before whom all borrowed greatness sinks into insignificance?” Washington. What State first made the call for the con vention that framed the constitution? Virgin ia. Who was the father of the constitution? Madison. Who made our system es jurispru dence, unsurpassed by the civil law of Rome and the common law of England? Marshall. Who was Marshall’s worthy successor? Taney. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Marshall, Taney—these were her sons. Their illustrious examples, their eminent services, the glory they shed upon the American name and character were her contributions to the common renown. It is asked where her history was written? It was written upon the bright est page of American annals. It was writ ten upon the records of the convention that made the constitution. It was written in the debates of Congresses that met, not to wrangle over questions of mere party supremacy, but, like statesmen and philosophers, to discuss and solve great problems of human government. It was written in the decisions es the country’s most illustrious judges, in tne treaties of her most skilful diplomats, in the blood of the revo lution, and the battles of every subsequent war, led by her Generals from the Chippewa to the proud halls of the Montezumas. “Braathte there a man with «oul so dead, Who to himself hath never sa.d, Thia is my own, my native land?’’ Forced to defend our homes and liberties aftfcr every honorable effort for peaceful separ ation, we went to war. Our leaders were worthy of their high commission. I say our leaders, for 1 believe that he who led our armies was not more loyal, and made no better use of the re sources at his command than he to whom was entrusted our civil administration. Our people sealed their sincerity with the richest treasira ever offered, and the noblest holocaust ever consumed upon the altar of country. To many of you who enjoy the honor of having participa ted in it the history is known. You ought to prove yourselves worthy of that honor by teach ing that history to those who come after you. Theugh in no wise responsible for it, though he had warned and struggled to avert it. Georgia’s fortune was his fortune, Georgia’s destiny was his destiny, though it led to war. Others who had been influential m bringing about dissolution and the first to take up arms engendered disaffection by petty cavils, dis couraged when they should have cheered, weak ened when they should have strengthened, and the spirit of his devotion never faltered but through all the stormy life of the young repub lic, what Stonewall Jackson was to Lee, he was to Davis. If the soldier who leads his count y through the perils of war is entitled to his country’s praise and honor, no less the states man who furnishes and sustains the resources of war. Our flag went down at Appomattox. Weakened by stabs from behind, inflicted by bands that should have upheld; his front covered with the wounds of the mightiest war of modern times; dripping with as pure blood as ever hallowed freedom’s cause, our Confederacy fell, and Liberty stoed weeping at the grave of her youngest and fairest daughter. Our peerless military chieftain went to the noble pursuit of supervising the education of the young, proclaiming that human virtue should be equal te human calamity. Our great civil chieftain went to prison and chains, and there as well as afterward in the dignified retire ment of his private life, fer twenty years has shewn how human virtue can be equal to human calamity. The one has gone leaving us the priceless legacy of his most illustrious char acter; the other still lingers, bearing magesti cally the sufferings of his people, and calmly awaiting the summons that shall call him to the rewards and glories of those who have suffered for the right. Our Souhern soldiers returned to their deso lated homes like true cavaliers willing to ac knowledge their defeat, abide in good faith the terms of the surrender, accept all the legiti mate results of the issue, respect the powers of those who had conquered, and resume their relations to the gov ernment with all the duties those rela lations imposed. The victorious Generals and leaders of the North awaited the highest honors a grateful people could confer. Their armies having operated over an area of 800,000 square miles in extent, bearing on their rolls on the day of disbandment 1,000,516 men, were peace fully dissolved. Then followed the most remarkable period in American his tory —iu any history. After spending bil lions of treasure and offering thousands of lives to establish that the States could not withdraw from the Union, it was not only declared that they were out of the Union, but the door of admission was closed against them. While it cannot be denied that the gravest problems confronted those who were charged with the ad ministration of the government, a just and im partial judgment must declare that the most in genious statecraft could not have inspired a spirit, which, if it permanently ruled, would mere certainly have destroyed all the States. Its success would have been worse for the North than the succeas of the Southern Con federacy, for if final separation had been estab lished, each new government would have re tained the essentials of the old, while the domi inance of this spirit would have destroyed every vital principle of our institutions. The success of the Confederacy would have divided the old into two Republics. If this spirit had ruled, it would have left no Republic. It was, therefore, a monumental folly, as well as a crime. It was not born of the brave men who fought to pre serve the Union: it was the offspring of that fanatacism that had in our early history, while the walls of the Capital were blackened with the tires kindled by the invading army of England, threatened disunion, and from that day forward turned the minister? of religion into political Jacobins, degraded the church of God into a politic*! junto, in the name of liberty denounced the Constitution and iaws of the country, and bv ceaseless agitation from press and rostrum and pulpit lashed the people into the fury of war. In this presence, at the bar of the enlightened public epinion of America and the world, I ar raign that fell spirit of fanaticism, and charge it with all the treasure expended and blood shed on both sides of that war, all the sufferings and sacrifices it cost, and all the fearful ruin it wrought. And in the name of the living and the dead 1 warn you. my coantrymen, against the admission of that spirit under any guise or pretext into your social or political systems. There are trials severer than war, and calam ities worse than the defeat of arms. The South was to pass through such trials and be threaten ed with such calamities by the events of that period. Now and then it seems that all the la tent and pent up forces of she natural world are turned loose for terrible destruction. The foun dations of the earth, laid in the depths of the ages are shaken by mighty upheavals, the heavens whose blackness is unrelieved by the Continued on next page. A GRAND OPPORTUNITY THE EVENT OF THE OCCASION I Visuors to Atlanta at the Unvailing of the BEN BILL MOlfflT Are especially invited to visit the new and Mammoth Establishment of M. RICH & BRC S>, 64 and 56 Whitehall Street. A GRAND SPECIAL SALE DAY FOR THIS OCCASION. Unparalleled Bargains in Carpets, Dry Goods, Etc. LARGEST STORE IN THE OITY. Immense Stock in Every Department.. LOWEST PRICES IN ATLANTA GRAND SPECIALTIES FOR TO-DAY: CARPETS. 50 Rolls Extra Heavy Brussels at 50c yard 29 “ Extra Heavy Ingrains at 50c yard 20 “ Ingrain at 20 cents per yard. RUGS. 50 Large Turkish Hugo, 4 by 7 feet, $7.75 each, reduced from sll. 65 Large Turkish Rugs, at $5.00 each, reduced from $7.50. 70 Large Turkish Rugs at $3.00 each, reduced from $5.00. MATTINGS, MATTINGS! 100 Rolls Fine White Matting at 12 l-2c. per yard, worth 20c. 90 Bolls Bed and White Matting at 12 l-2c. per yard, worth 20c. Shades and Curtain Poles. 1000 Dado Shades with Spring Fixtures, all complete, 50c, each, all colors. 1500 Curtain Poles with Brass Trimmings, at 50c. each, complete. IN DRY GOODS! Planlr Sillr. Worth 90c > we now JDlClUlx 0111x3 sell at 60c.; our regu lar $1 silks at 75c., and a good $1.35 silk at sl. All the |1.25 colored Surahs at sl. Ponge silks |4.75 per piece of 20 yards. New Foulard silks at 75c., opened first of the season at |l. Dress Goods- “line ot Tatted Eta mine and Zephyr cotton dress goods of our own importa tion, just in. x Un c? pieces and 15c. VTllly XlCim&“"Gin|hains marked down to 6c. PqtQCalq °^ er a satin Coaching parasol *O.l dbUlo*"in all colors at one dollar; twenty inch Twiled silk at |1.25; Pongee silk at |1.75; a fine satin, with all silk lace, at $3.50; children’s parasols, all colors, at 25c. These are very, very, cheap. YTraQI AW w F,ve or 10 cents will buy a child’s Jf good school hose, or a lady’s solid and striped hose. Misses’ full regular made black or solid color in all sizes at 15c. Ladies’ full regular made Balbriggans 15c, and solid colors and black at 25c. Ladies’ French Lisle black and colored, at 50c. Gents’ fill regular made British tocks at 15c. Besides Numberless Other Bargains. These mut be Sold down, so come if yon want real Bargains. We Are Headquarters in Atlanta. M. RICH & BROS., 54 and 56 Whitehall Street. QHirtc Gents’ reinforced Shirts, linen fronts, at dill lO’* - 5o cents. Shirt Waists—Boys’ Shirt Waists, perfec fit ting, at 50c. Towels—Think of buying a good Towel at 2>£«. Table Linen—Fast color Turkey red Table Lin en at 25c. Doilies—Linen Doilies at 43c. per dozen Bed Spreads-Full size white bed spreads at 50 cents. Laces.—Just teceived, new Yak, Chantilly and Gui pure Spanish all over Laces, Flounces and Skirtings, in black and colors, new and beautiful. Underwear—Loek at our prices for Ladies’ Under wear. Chemises worth 50c, !0c and |l. we now offer at 30c, 60c and 70c. Skirts worth 75c, $1 and |1.25, we sell at 50c, 75c and 9( c. Gowns, our regular 75c, |1 and |1 15 gowns, at 50c, 60c and sl. Drawers at 45c, 60? and 75c. Corsets.—We sell you the best 25c corset you ever bought,