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Wednesday, October 27, 1860. j
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Augusta Constitutionalist. t
The article headed “ The State Road Again, ” i
in the Cwis/ftutwnaZtsf oi Oct. 21st, is not a reply
to our recent articles as to the original purpose ]
ot the Western & Atlantic Railroad, but simply j
an evasion. We will inform our respected co- <
temporary that the Intelligencer speaks for
itself on all subjects, and don’t allow others to
speak for or control it; and if the Constitution
alist desires to question the correctness of the
position of the Intelligencer and to contro
vert its articles it must deal with the Intel
ligence!!, and not with outsiders. We don’t
deal in “shadows,” but in facts and figures.
The Georgia Baptist Association— Ke
marks of the Hon. Thomas Stocks.
We copy from the Southern Baptist & Chris
tian Index, an interesting account oi the proceed
ings ot the “Georgia Baptist Association,”
which recently met at Greensboro’ in this State.
One ot the questions discussed in the body was,
which “ was the best and most practical man
ner ot advancing the interest and prosperity of
Mercer University at Penfield ? Among those
who addressed the Association upon this sub
ject, was the Hon. Thomas Stocks, one of the
most venerable members of the body, as well as
one ot the ablest—a Georgian who “in his day
and time” had rendered valuable service to
the Blate in prominent public positions, and who
now lives at an advanced age to still speak
words of wisdom, truth, and soberness, to his
brethren. We invite attention to what this ven
erable gentleman said in regard to this “re
moval ” question, and trust that his eloquent
and forcible appeal to the members of the Geor
gia Baptist Association, “to banish the question
of the remcval of Mercer College from their
councils now and forever ” will henceforth, as
it was on the occasion, be respected. We have
not a doubt that the agitation of the question
has injured the institution; but if those who
Lave it in trust will bend their energies to sus
tain it where it is; where its founders placed it
and endowed it; it will soon regain its former ,
prosperity, and become, what it promised to be j
twenty years ago.
The article referred to, will be found in an
other column.
Senatorial Contest In Tenueanee.
This is perhaps one ot the most exciting, of all
Senatorial contests that have taken place in the
several States oi the Union, for many years past.
Indeed, we do not remember one over which so
much general interest has been manifested from
one end of the Union to the other. This pro
ceeds doubtless from the high position which
one ot the candidates has recently held in the
Government —his eventful life, his uncompro
mising character, self-made, defiant in the right,
or in the wrong, pursuing his way regardless of
all consequencess to himself, his friends or his
foes, never swerving from what he conceived to
be his duty to the people. No one questions the
ability ot Andrew Johnson, and each ot the
political parties now, and that has been, in ex
istence, has alternately given him credit for
elevated pati iotism. Hitherto, he has been in
luck, seldom meeting with defeat, but he is now
engaged in fighting the great battle of his life,
to come out ot which victorious gives him a re
newed lease oi political power, while to come out
with defeat lays him upon the political shelf,
as an old book with many good things in it, but
fitted only for the past. We confess, while
viewing this Senatorial contest with interest, we
care hut little for the final result. Let Tennessee
send to the Senate ot the United States whom
she may, she will doubtless have her own inter
ests well represented, and it is tins she should
now care for, regardless of her past, and looking
only to her future material prosperity. But as
our readers, we have no doubt, desire to know
something more of the progress of the Senato
rial election in that State than what they see in
the telegraphic items concerning it, we lay be
fore them this morning, two extracts, the first
from the Nashville Union <fc American, and the
other from the Knoxville Press Herald, both
of the same date, the 21st instant, which go to
show that confidence is still felt in “ Andy’s ”
luck, a thing that has never failed him, from the
day he settled in Greenville till his return to it
an ex-President ot the United States.
Bays the Union <t American :
“Again, as was anticipated, there was no elec
tion. It will be seen by reference to our Legis
lative report that Senator Cooper of Bedford,
who voted for Mr. Johnson the first dav, on
yesterday voted for his brother, Senator Cooper
ot Davidson; and Representative Young ot
Oveiton, who voted for Mr. Johnson on Tues
day, yesterday voted for Gov. N. 8. Brown. —
Although this shows a falling oil of two votes
in the ballot for Mr. Johnson, it has not dis
cougaged bis friends, who believe that he will
not only receive those two votes to-day, but seve
ral others which have hitlitrto beeu given as
compliments to other gentlemen. Mr. Ethe
ridge fell oft one vote on the second bal
lot yesterday. It will be seen that there was
but little change in the ballots for the other
gentlemen. It will be gratifying to our friends
to learn that Mr. Johnson’s triends are more
sanguine now than at any preceding time. The
developments are such as to give the greatest
encouragement, and wai rant us in the belief
that his election is certain. There are more
than enough of those, now voting for others,
who express themselves as decidedly favorable
to Mr. Johnson, to elect him whenever the com
plimentary balloting shall cease. The arrange
ment which was understood to have been made
with Radical members by which they were to
run Mr. Etheridge up to withiu a tew votes of
an election, has not yet been consummated.”
Says the Press 16 Herald :
“We do not feel competent to make any pre
dictions upon these tacts, nor are we inclined to
indulge in any speculations as to the result.
We are sure that Johnson will carry on the
tight to the end, and we feel the greatest confi
deuce in his pluck as well as in his luck."
“The Republican members, who have now for
two days cast their votes lor Fletcher, hold the
balance of power in their hands. We believe
that there may be contingencies in which some
ot them may vote for Johnson, but we do not
think they will divide their strength in that
manner, until the contest becomes closer than
it has yet been."
Victoria's Sons.
It the stories concerning the good Queen’s
sons be true, they are certainly a scandlous set
ot fellows. The latest we have set u says “that
the accounts given of the life ot the Prince of
Wales are most scandalous in their details. We ■
alluded yesterday to his shameless "loan” to a
gay woman oi Paris. This is only one of his
many adventures with females who are gen
erally regarded as unfit to be seen or spoken of
among decent people. His every day life is
pictured to be positively disgraceful—disgrace
tul even for a single man, but intolerably so tor
a married man. His male companions are ■
openly shameless, and his female companions
are equally disreputable. His example is said I
to be telling upon the morals of the community I
with terrible eflect. His brothers are reported ;
to have inherited the same looseness ot princi
pie with reference to the fair sex. The Duke ot
Edinburgh is as bad as he; and Prince Arthur ;
(the young gentleman on tills side of the water) ’
has the reputation ot being no monk. The wife
of “Wales" is dying of a broken heart, it the
small talk of London fashionable; may be I
credited."
Alabama in Good Financial Condition. — •
i'be Montgomery (Ala.) Joum tl says complete |
arrangements have been made t »r paying all the
t -Merest on the State debt, which . wls due on the *
Lrai oi next month. The requisite amount ot
money lor that purpose was drawn from the
Biate Treasury J yesterday, to be placed in a
proper bank iu New York , y, where the inter- <
«st m payable. This information is derived
from an authoritative source, accompanied by
the assurance th.it the financial condition ot the i
Btate government is perfectly healthful.
The Georgia Baptist Association. f
This body met at Greensboro’, on Friday, the
Bth instant, and organized by electing Rev. Dr.
P. H. Mell as Moderator. The Introductory
Sermon was delivered by the regular appointee,
Rev. H. A. Tupper, ot Washington, Ga., from
Acts viii. For the space oi an hour and fifteen ’
or twenty minutes, he so enchained the atten
tion of his audience, that all who listened to 1
him were sorry when he closed.
The Association was numerously attended,
both by messengers and visitors. Salem Bap- 1
tist church, in Taliaferro county, was received 1
ih full fellowship with the Association. The 1
churches reported a membership of 5,983, with
743 additions by baptism and 552 by letter.
The most important and interesting question
which was presented for the consideration of the
Association, was, the best and most practical
manner of advancing the interest aud prosperi
ty of Mercer University at Penfield. The dis
cussion was particioated in by Rev. Messrs. Jen
nings, Marshall, Haygood and Tucker. The
venerable and Hon. Thomas Stocks, also, spoke,
delivering the following address:
Brethren: Little did I think when I left, my
home to bo present ou this occasion, and wit
ness your proceedings, that I should appear as
a speaker before your honorable body. Nor do
I now rise to make you a speech ; but the deep
interest which I feel on the subject under con
sideration forbids my silence, and I propose
only to say a few words. In 1829,1 attended a
convention of our church at Milledgeville as a
delegate from this county, and on that occasion
we were informed that brother Josiah Penfield,
of Savannah, recently deceased, had made a be
quest to that convention of 1f2.500, the interest
ot which was to be used for the purpose of aid
ing poor young men, who were candidates for
the ministry; provided the convention would
raise from other sources a similar amount. A
committee was appointed, my sei f among the num
ber, who soon succeeded in raising the necessary
amount. The question then arose as to how this
fund should be used and where. It was decided by
the committee to found a Manual Labor School,
and although many sites were ottered and recom
mended, some oi them accompanied by liberal
inducements, the committee, consisting of Jesse
Mercer, J. Marshall, James Armstrong, Jonathan
Davis, Jack Lumpkin, Malcombe Johnson and
myself, decided to locate it at Penfield, its pres
ent cite. The school went into operation in the
year of our Lord 1833, with Rev. B. M. Sanders
as Principal, aided by one Assistant. For the
first two years, it labored under many serious
disadvantages; but in 1854 the number of stu
dents was so largely increased that we may date
its success from that time. Brethern, it is need
less for me, on this occasion to give a detailed
History of the College from that time to the
present; suffice it to say, that it soon became
i the pride of the Baptists ot Georgia, and con
j tinned to advance in prosperity and usefulness
’ ’ip to the breaking out of the late civil war.—
Phen, the students of the Senior and Junior
classes, and some of the Sophomore, to the
credit of the Institution be it said, volunteered
in the service of their country, and deserted the
halls of learning for the battlefield.
The exercises of the College, however, con
tinued, and we were favored by Providence in
saving the most of the endowment of the In
stituton. Previous to the war, there had been
three unsuccessful! attempts to remove the Col
lege from its present site; each one ot which
resulted injuriously to the College, and, in my
humble opinion, was an injustice to the heirs oi
its founders. This question of removal has been
i agitated principally by men who never con
tributed one dollar towards either founding or
sustaining the Institute.
> Brethren, I was born in an Indian fort on the
I frontiers of our Btate, nearly 84 years ago, a
i poor boy—my poor lather, dying, left me an or
phan at the early age of eight years, to struggle
‘ with adversity, and win my own way in the
■ world. Well do I remember the struggles of
! my youth and early manhood, and the disad
vantage which I labored under for the want ot
a liberal education. I then resolved that, should
Providence favor me in the future, and I ever
i came in the possession ol wealth, that I would
r contribute liberally of my means, as well as aid
by my prayers and worldly influence, to found
’ an lustitution of learning of an exalted charac
’ ter, where both the rich and the poor might
I avail themselves of the advantages of a liberal
education. Without boasting ot what I have
done to found and sustain Mercer University, I
am free to state that my conscience approves
’ my acts, and that I have done nothing which 1
> would undo, and only regret my inability to
; have done more. Can the triends of the remo
( val ot the College from Penfield, where it was
located by such men as Jesse Mercer, B. M.
‘ Bauders, Jack Lumpkin, Jonathan Davis, and
i their pious and noble compeers, say as much ?
r Should iny brother Baptists of Georgia decide
’ to remove the College from Penfield, but I ask
S no remuneration tor my contributions, but Ido
r ask Justice for the heirs of my noble and liberal
■ colleagues who now rest in their graves.
, Brethren, 1 have been told that there is no
law on the statute book ot Georgia which
would render its removal illegal. That may be
I so; but I answer, there is a moral law, which all
j good Baptists should respect, which forbids it.
, When it was determined to locate the College
at Penfield, brothers Banders, Devaut, Greene,
’ Brooks, and others, purchased lots and made
many valuable improvements, more with the
j view of advancing the interest of the College
i than benefitting or increasing their own private
fortunes. And I now ask if the Baptists oi
Georgia will consent to destroy the value of
these improvements by the removal of the Col-
lege, witnout ample compensation to the heirs
of these good men’? I cannot and will not be
lieve it. For one I hereby enter my solemn pro
test against an act s>> grossly unjust, if not im
politic.
But, brethren, I feel that I have trespassed on
your patience, as well as on my own strength,
long enough, and wi.l conclude my remarks in
a few words. I am now an old man, having
contributed freely ot means, and aided by my
prayers, lor the last forty years, to sustain Mer
cer College. I feel that the sauds ot my life are
fast running out; and withone toot in the grave
and the other tottering on the brink, I appeal to
the members of this Association, and through
you to the Baptists of Georgia, to banish the
questb -n ot the removal ot Mercer College from
their councils, now and forever. Slay a merci
ful Providence aid you in determining wisely,
and acting justly.
This discussion resulted in the passage of the
following resolution, by the decisive vote ot 65
to 5, viz:
Resolved, That in tlie opinion of this Associa
tion, the best means to promote the prosperity
ot Mercer University is to cease, henceforth and
forever, the agitatio < ot the subject ot its re
moval from the town ot Penfield.
The following resolutions were also adopted
by the Association:
Resolved, Thai this Association do advise the
members present, to laj' the claims ot the Board
ot Domestic Missions before their several
churches, and it possible, procure the necessary
fun us to liquidate the debt ot the Board by the
next meeting ol this Association.
j&io/vrtZ, That each of the churches of this
Association be requested to send up annually
the sum ot ten dollais, to be used in aiding indi
gent youug candidates lor the ministry.
The members, present, then subscribed the
sum of $lB5 for the above purpose. The Asso
ciatiou also rece.ved as contributions from the
several churches which it embraced, the sum ot
$2,162 05 ; ot which sum $447 65 were for For
eign, $926 05 tor Domestic ; slll 30 for Indian
and $42 50 for Atrican Missions: sl4l 45 for
the Sunday School Board. The meeting passed
ott with the greatest harmony and brotherly
love, and all who were present tell “that it was
good to be there.”
The following are the names of those elected
as delegates to the next Georgia Baptist State
Convention, viz: Revs. P. 11. Mell, P. B. Rob
inson, 11. A. Tupper, J. A. Carter, P. F. Bur
gess, J. IL Stockton, T. B. West, J. H. Kilpat
rick, James Foster, E. A. Steed, B. M. Calloway,
J. IL Young, M. M. Landrum, and W. A.
Overton.
During the session. Divine services were held
in the Methodist aud Baptist churches, morning,
aiternoou and evening, which were generally
attended by both visitors and citizens, and a
deep religious feeling was manifested. Four
persons were baptized, and received into fellow
ship, at the Baptist church, on Sunday night, by
the pastor, Rev. P. B. Robinson.
Coughs, Hoarseness, and the various throat
after'. ;o s to which public s|>eak<-ra, military ot
ticeis, and singers are liable, relieved In
“Brown’s Bronch a! TnxtlKS." Having a di
rect influence to tlie afleciiM parts, they allay
pulmonary irritation, she freedom from all
deleterious ingredients makes the Troches a sale
remedy lor the m< st d licate female, or young
est child, and has caused them to be held in the
bichest esteem by those who use them.
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Wxstsrs Atlantic Kailsoad, 1
Sn’KitSTixpiMT'# Orriu®, >
Ai xuta. ua.. OctotMM- ia. > •
lo His ExcsUenty, Rufus B. Bullock, Governor,'
Atlanta, Ga. :
Sir—l have this day paid to N. L. Angier,,
Esq., Treasurer ol the Sta'.c ol Georgia, Twety- I
five Thousand ($85,000) dollars for the month j
of September, 1869, from the earnings of the I
Western & Atlantic Railroad.
I am. Governor, ven- resfiecufuliy, your obe
dient servant, E. Hulbert,
Superintendent,
Special Telegraphic Corr •epondeiica ot tho (Jourior-
Jonrnal.
WASHINGTON.
CUBAN PRIVATEERS.
Washington, October 19.—At the Cabinet
meeting to-day considerable routine business
was transacted, alter which some important offi
cial evidence was submitted regarding addi
tional Cuban privateers, alleged to be fitting out
in New York and other ports. The under
standing was that the United States Marshal
should continue to keep a sharp lookout under
existing instructions, and that the Government
would follow the legal result in the Hornet case
as a precedent lor future action in similar cases.
THE VERGER CASE.
The counsel in the Yerger case say that the
newspapers misapprehend their client’s appeal
to the Supreme Court in the pending habeas cor
pus case. They do not raise the question ol the
right Os Congress to establish civil Blate govern
ment in the South through military power, and
do not ask that the Court shall decide such a
question. The point they make is, that the
Court has jurisdiction in the matter of habeas
corpus over any citizen who has been tried for
crime by a military court in violation ot that
section of the Constitution which guarantees
him a trial by jury, and that it this Court enters
into the details ot the law, it cannot go further
than to pronounce that section of the reconstruc
tion law unconstitutional which provides for
military trial; and that it need not go further
and discuss the power of Congress to provide
for State governments in the Southern States.
It is with this kind ot reasoning that counsel
believe that the writ will be granted in the Yer
ger case. Parties who are also lawyers say that
the whole question ot the constitutionality ol
the reconstruction laws must necessarily come
up for decision by the Court, aud that any other
view is mere legal quibbling.
NATIONAL CAPITAL CONVENTION.
There is no disguising the feeling ot interest
among resident Washingtonians over the Na
tional Capital Convention which meets in St.
Louis to-morrow. They do not so much fear
that the capital will be removed as that Congress
will be deterred by Hie agitation of the subject
from making any appropriations for this
district.
NEGRO JURORS.
It was discovered to-day that two-thirds of
the grand and petit jurors of this district who
were summoned yesterday were negroes, and
that halt ot them could uot read and write.
The National Republican, a strong Radical
paper, come out with a loud cry against such a
proceeding.
COUNTERFEIT 7-30’S.
The statement telegraphed from this city that
evidence had been discovered showing that the
olates from which the counterfeit 7 30’s were
made about two years since were electrotyped
from original plates in the department is denied
by the officers at the Treasury. These plates, it
will be remembered, were captured in New
York, and so defaced by scratching and blows
from hammers that it is utterly impossible to
identify them, though experts express the opin
ion that they are electrotyped from the original
plates, as the notes printed from them were re
deemed at the Treasury and banks throughout
the country before they were detected.
TROOPS FOR FLORIDA.
The only member of Congress from Florida
had an interview with General Sherman to-day,
and asked that troops might be sent into the
Btate to repel the outrages there. Gen. Sher
man referred him to General Terry, whose de
i partment embraces Florida.
A MISSOURI APPOINTMENT.
Senator Drake had interviews yesterday and
1 to-day with the President aud Secretary Bout
-1 well, but did not succeed in securing the revo
cation of the appointment of Supervisor Mc-
Donald, ot Missouri.
THE VIRGINIA SENATORS.
The new Virginia Senators made to-day are
quite acceptable to the administation officials.
Lieutenant Governor Lewis, chosen tor the long
. term, was an Old-Line Whig and a Union man
during the war. He was elected Lieutenant
, Governor in August last on the Walker ticket.
I The other Senator, Judge Johnston, is also a
; native of Virginia, and a nephew of General
; Joseph E. Johnston. He is a resident of Wash
t ington county, and was disqualified by the
fourteenth amendment, but had his disabilities
i removed by act of Congress. He is at present
. Judge of the Abingdon Circuit, having been ap
i pointed by Gen. Sherman.
. GOV. LOW,
' now Minister to China, is expected here to
morrow to confer with the President. He sails
■ in November.
“ I DIFFICULTIES WITH PABAOUiY.
! The House Committee on Foreign Affairs
will meet in New York on the 25th inst., to
* continue their investigations into the Paraguayan
! difficulties.
Special Dispatch to the Conrler-Journal.
NEW YORK.
! FATHER HYACINTHE.
; New York, October 19.—Father Hyacinthe
■ was called upon to-day by a large number of
’ clergymen and laymen. Great ettorts are being
■ made to induce hitu to expnss his views on the
j great religious questions of the day, but as yet
he steadily refuses to address an American audi
ence. He is dressed in a plain, black suit, with
out any peculiarity to distinguish his clerical
1 character. In reply to a question asked him to
day by a prominent memlier ot the press,
whether he bad broken with the •Lurch, he em
phatically stated; “ 1 have not. 1 have only
broken with the abuses.” lie further said that
he intended to remain here two months and try
1 and study the religion and manners ot the peo
ple, and then would go to Rome. W hether he
would present himself at the council depended
upon circumstances.
This afternoon the preacher monk had a long
interview with Father Heicker. who leaves for
Rome to-morrow. He also visited the French
consulate, and for the first time appeared at the
public table at the hotel, where he created quite
a sensation. The Boston Clergymen will call
upon him to-morrow aud extend to him a cor
dial invitation to visit the hub.
An operatic manager who has been hanging
around tho door ot the hotel to engage Father
Hyacinthe as a public lecturer, has been uncer
emoniously excluded.
THE WOMEN.
Another call is out for a national woman’s
convention, to meet in Cleveland, November
24th and 25th. Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Mary A.
Livermore, Abby Kelly Foster, Julia Ward
Howe, and numerous others, are signers ol the
call.
SICKLES.
News has l>eeu received from Spain that
Sickles has become the laughing stock ot the
Corps Diplomatique in Madrid. Since he has
withdrawn his belligerent Cuban note the Mad
rid papers have commenced the publication of
his previous scandalous career, and every day
are bolding him up to scorn and ridicule.
monetary.
The money market is more active, but rates
are without change, ranging from 5 to 7 per
cent Considerable amounts of currency have
been shipped to the Southern States, but they
aie limited by the scarcity of small currency.
Foreign exchange is firmer and a shade higher,
owing to the increased demand from importers
alter the gold board adjourned. The gold quo
tations were 130 to 180 j at the close.
The stock market advanced in the Vanderbilt
stocks, but was irregular in the rest ot the
market.
A Singular Legal Decision.—A Mr. Bow
era, of Harrisonville, Cass county, Mo, was ar
rested and charged with abducting aud murder
ing a young lady, and tried before a‘ Justice ot
the Peace. While the trial was going on, the
said young lady ap|>eared befoie the Justice, but
he refused to take her evidence whether she had
been killed or not, and committed Bowers to
jail for murder. Bowers was discharged on a
writ of habeas corpus
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National t’urreucj,
The forthcoming report of General Spinner
will show that the total amount of national
currency, of all kinds in circulation ou ttie 30th
ot June last, was $478,035,t5is 01.
General N. B. Foßtunr.—Tins Selma
■ says General N. B. Forrest has wii.tea a sharp
letter, denouncing a Southern editor who spoke
of his associating with persons whom he does
not agree politically, disgraceful and disgust
ing. He says he is engaged in building a rail
road, which wilt be ot vast advantage to Ala
bama, Mississippi and Tennesse, and that, in his
opinion, the accomplishment ot this enterprise
i is an object worthy the ambition of any man,
‘ and to one who loves his country and humbly !
I seeks to serve the interests ot his fellow-citizens, I
i is tar above the considerations of mere partisan i
I politics. He adds that his object has been to 1
I bring peace to the country aud prosperity to j
j the people ; to soften down the prejudices ot I
men ot both parties, and in the development ot
the great material interests of the country, to
smoothe the asperities engendered by the war,>
and eflace alike the marks and the memories of
strife.
Wk re produce from the tiles of the Intel
ligencer, in this morning's issue, an article
which appeared in its columns, on the Past,
Present, and Future of Atlanta, December
22d, 1864—a few days alter its return from a
few months’ exile from the city, consequent upon
the approach to, and the subsequent occupation
of it, by Sherman’s army. In re-producing the
article, it is far from our intention to stir up the
passions of the past, or of the day in which the
article was written. Our only object is, to show
what Atlanta then was—which but few save
those who saw her in her ruins have ever con
ceived—to contrast her now flourishing present
with her past, and to make some brief relerence
to her promising future. At the time the article
referred to was written, the city was still smoul
dering in its ruins, its population numbering but
a few hundred, and mail facilities almost com
pletely cut ott from it—military communication
with other parts of the State being nearly all
that could be relied upon for the transmission of
this journal to distant points. We had indeed
only a city circulation, and how limited that
was, under tlie circumstances, the reader can
readily imagine. Hence we re-produce the arti
cle. We are satisfied, too, that the article itself,
is the only record extant of the fearful destruc
tion, at the time, of our city, and this, of itself,
will impart to it an interest now at heme and
abroad, which it might otherwise fail to possess.
The first issue of the Intelligencer, after
its return to Atlanta, was made on the 10th De
cember, 1864, on a 10x16 sheet. On the 20th of
the same month, the sheet was enlarged to
nearly its present’ size, and it may be a matter
of interest to its present readers to know that
the j rice charged for it was $1 Confederate cur
rency per singfe copy ; $6 per month to sub
scribers, and no subscription received for a
longer period than three months.
Col. Luther J. Glenn was'in command of the
post at the time, and remained so till the “ sur
render.”
Atlanta’s history, previous to the war, and du
ring its existence, is as remarkable, as it is enter
esting. She had her “riw” and her “progress,”
and at the close of the great struggle for South
ern independence, she had her “fall.” Who
that saw her in her ruins, would know her now ?
No city has ever made such remarkable pro
gress. But little of her “ruins” remains. These
have nearly all been cleared away, and she now
presents the appearance, and is in reality, one of
the most flourishing cities in the South, with a
population largely exceeding, nay doubling that
which she had preceding the war, and a popu
lation which for energy and enterprise has no
rival in the South. What, then, of Atlanta’s fu
ture f Let her present speak for it!
One word more in regard to the article which we
republish to-day. It was written at a time when
we were surrounded by its ruins; by the
destroyed dwellings of our fellow-citizens
and our own ; at a time when the “blood
was hot,” and, were wo called upon to do so,
have no apology to offeator a word or sentiment
which it embraces. True, our then proudest
hopes have been to earth; true, our
dearest wishes have cwne to naught; a great
change has come, and must submit to what
it exacts from us. This we shall do, but iu do
ing so, we will not 'Mil the record we have
made, nor will the m< among those
who came out of the g ‘at struggle between the
two sections victorious expect or ask us to do
so.
Military necessity may be set upas an excuse,
with some propriety, for the destruction oi gov
ernment and other property, that might pass
into and be again used by an enemy, but the
destruction of a resistless city—the homes oi
women and children—is a wanton and barba
rous act, and will be so regarded by a civilized
people till time shall be no more.
From the At anta Dally Intelligencer, of December
2Sd, 1864.
Atlanta—Her Past, Her Present, and Her
Future.
Twenty five years ago, and the site which
Atlanta, the “ Gate City” of the South, oc
cupies, was a forest, which but a few years an
tecedent to that period was the abode of the red
man, who roamed over it in search of game,
and who subsequently reluctantly abandoned it
for other lands west of the Aikansas river. The
march of civilization—the rapid advance of the
white man with bis implements of agriculture—
had imposed this necessity upon the poor Indian,
and soon alter his removal, nay, before it was
fairly accomplished, the axe had telled the for
est in many a locality, and the ploughshare and
the hoe bad begun their work, in fulfillment, as
it were, oi the decree of the Eternal, that by
the sweat of the brow, the children of Adam
should earn their bread. Then was developed
that great System of Railroads in Georgia,
which brought the line from Savannah to Macon,
and from Macon in continuation to the present
site of Atlanta; which brought the line from
Augusta to it also; which carried from it the
great Sials Rond through Cherokee-Georgia, to
Chattanooga, in Tennessee; ami which ali-oear
ned from it the Atlanta & West Point Kailroad to
connect with the Alabama Road leading to
Montgomery—a system of Internal Railroad
improvements, deemed in its conception, ideal
and extravagant, but which, through the energy
of our people, was finally triumphantly accom
plished, and which, in a few short years, built
up the most flourishing interior city of the South
—a ci’.v at the opening ol the piesent war that
bade fair to rival in population and wealth, as
it did in commercial enterprise, any city iu the
Southern Confederacy. War tame, and still
Atlanta was a progressive city. Population and
wealth, until the Spring of the present year,
literally almost poured into it. Asa Commercial
Depot, it was in advance of any city in the ad
joining States; as a Financial Mart, it rivalled her
moat prosperous sister cities of the South ; and as
a Military Post, it became second to none, save
Richmond, iu importance. Would that we
could even now agree with the authorities at
the Capitol of the Confederacy, that it should
have occupied that relation only in their con
sideration, and not the first— but we forbear, in
this particular, to the future, and not to the past,
it were better to turn an observing eye. Such
was the importance of Atlanta, that to the enemy
it liecame a prize eovek-d as nmeh as Rich- i
rnoud. It were idle in us now i<> fake even a !
brief retrospective ,i v w im aiumsl superhu
man ettorts made, alas ' too succe-rlully made, |
to capture and possess it—the powerful army I
that at last invested it—the thousands slain, and i
the oceansof blooi, as it were, that were spilled
before it was evacuated by our forces, and was
occupied by the enemy’s. These are themes fa- j
miliar as “household words” to every Georgian, j
and,are indellibly impressed upon the hearts of ,
every loyal son of the South. They are known
with the past of Atlanta—the past, upto the
time the barbarian hordes under the leadership i
oi their barbsuian chief—(than whom no vandal
Captain ot ancient times left a blacker or more ’ ;
cruel record for the historian to indite, than he ; i
has done)—took possession of, and then, amid I
the glare ot its tfioasands ot burning tenements, • i
its splendid mansions, its ve-.-t warehouses, its I'
magnificent and costly mirhanical workshops,'t
down to the humble cottage residence, all in • i
one vast sheet oi fire, the Hames rising so as to
light the country round for miles and miles—
ingloriously took up hia march to the sea.—
Why, oh I why did the vengeance of the Eter
nal sleep when this foul work was progessing.
But no I—“ Not my will, but Thine, O Lord
be Done.”
Bo much now only for the past of Atlanta.—
We must turn next to her present, and in doing
so have a melancholly duty, indeed to perform.
As you approach the city from either side, you
will find it, as well as the Stone, and Kinuesaw
range of Mountains at a distance of over twen
ty miles, no longer hidden from your view by
the dense growth of forest trees, which, but a
few short months ago, obstructed it and their
view from the eye of the traveller. For miles
around, scarcely a tree is standing, and near and
within a few miles of the city fire and the axe
have destroyed the habitations ot the rich and
of the poor, and laid waste the fields. But a
few days ago, the putrid carcasses of dead hor
ses and mules met the eye, while the stench
that exhaled from them filled the air, producing
a loathing on the part of all who ventured into
the city, unutterably disgusting; nor were those
exposed to it, relieved from the oppressive sen-
sation when they first entered the city, for with
in its corporate limits lay the last remains of
man aud beast emitting the same disgusting
odor. Now, as you approach the city, the des
olation that meets your view is painful in the
greatest degree. Within the limits of an edito
rial article like this, it is impossible to present to
the reader any graphic description of it. To
record it, as it should be, lor the benefit of pos
terity, would require the historian’s pen, and
many a chapter iu history. To the eye, it ap
pears that “ destruction's devastating doom” had
been dealt upon the once flourishing city, the
pride and boast ot Georgia ; the monument ot
the staiesmauship and enterprise, and industry
of the people of the “ Empire State.”
As you advance nearer and nearer to
the city’s lines, the enemy’s Hues of for
midable ioitificatious—though of earthworks
only, equal in strength to auy in the Confedera
cy-meet your view, and within them others,
some erected by our own forces, but none so
formidable as those which Yankee industry and
Yankee dread, have placed, before tor the pro
tection and holding of the city—all now aban
doned in Sherman’s flight to the sea. Appall
ing as is the foregoing picture, it falls far short
in horror, when compared to that which greets
you on entering the city’s limits. Here you will
see the awful eflects of one vast extended con-
flagration—a city destroyed by FlKE—two
thirds at least of it devoured by flames—naught I
remaining of that portion of it doomed to des- <
traction bv a remorseless and cruel foe, but i
what could not be destroyed—the stone, and
the brick and the mortar—ashes alone remain
ing of what had been combustible in its nature. '
We sicken as we present this picture of Atlanta
to our distant readers. Even now as we look
upon the smoked and blackened ruins, familiar
at last to our view, by which we are surrounded,
we are amazed and appalled at the savage feroc
ity oi our Yankee foes, and at the fiery vengeance
they have inflicted upon the city. But these
feelings soon gave way to another, that of con
tempt for the miscreant who ordered it, and lor
his legions who did the bidding. Never before
have we ielt more confident in final triumph
1 over such foes, than we do, as we pen these lines.
Doomed to utter destraction, one-third of At-
I lanta still lives. This will be the nucleus, the
corner stone, the foundation as It were, upon
’ which the city will again be restored. Oi this,
more anon; and for the present let it suffice that
we lay before our readers, a condensed statement
of what Yankee outrage has perpetrated, when
influenced by fear that he could not hold the
city, the dewon Sherman determined to destroy
L it-
We will take as our starting point that place
: in the City where the four principal streets con
( verge, to-wit : the streets of Whitehall, Peach
, tree. Marietta and Decatur. That point is Hun
nicutt’s Drug Store.
We will first extend our walk over Peachtree.
The first is the business house on which was the
> beautiful drug store before mentioned. This is
all a heap of ruins which the torch of the ene
, my has occasioned. Nearly opposite was the
building for a long time occupied as a barracks
and latterly as an auction and commission house.
This has shared the same fate. Extending our
walk in a Northerly direction, we find on our
left a small wooden building in Judson’s Marble
Yard, that escaped the ravaging element. After
this we see on this street nothing but the rains
of A. C. Wyly & Co.’s large commission house
and the business bouses on our right, known as
Cherokee Block, and Windship’s buildings,
which were among the largest edifices in the city.
They were in number about twenty, three stories
high, with cellars. A great deal of the business
of Atlanta was done in these buildings. The
second building standing is a small wooden <<ne
owned by Dr. Tucker, of Penfield, and at the time
of our giving up the city, occupied by Ralls as a
family grocery. The mansions of Sassien and :
Ezzard stand, though one of them bears the •
mark of shells. The Wesleyan Chapel remains, 1
but horribly desecrated. It is left more in the
condition of a hog pen than the Hou-e of God. 1
Alter this. Peachtree has suffered but little until 1
we reach the suburbs of the city, when occasion
ally we find a bouse torn down to build huts. 1
We extended our walk on this street to the resi
dence of Col. R. A. Crawford, and was surprised 1
that the vandals who had spread rain and deso- '
lation over «o portion of the city should <
even have spared the fences and shrubbery of
this favored street. What arts were employed !
to induce the modern Attila to spare the be»u- *
t tul residences on this street, or whether the £
urn sual promptin. sos humanity came to their ’
relit f, we do not know. We only know the re- 1
suits in the cas-, but not thecause. From Ralls’ 1
S'ore to the dwelling house of Mrs. Lnckie, all *
the dwellings remain except Mr. Ripley’s, Mr. i
Grubb’s, Rev. Mr. Pinkerton’s, and a house built ’
by J. R. Wallace. '
The street wh’ch we next notice, as it stands
out in striking contrast, is Marietta. This street 1
runs in a parallel direction with the Western &
Atlantic railroad for the distance of a mile and 1
a quarter. All the business houses on this ’
street are destroyed. After leaving these houses, 1
no house on either side is completely destroyed
for the space of a block, and as far as the resi t
dence of Mr. Goode, which is standing. De- a
structive shells, however, have penetrated them 1
all. The Presbyterian Church received half a t
dozen or more which at one time we learn, t
drove out a uum'rer of citizens that had sought a
it as a place of rtfuge and safety. We exam- d
ined the bouse of Mr. Silvey, which stands on 1
the top of the first rise, and found it pierced &
through and through with shells, some of which v
exploded in the very midst of the building,caus p
ing great destruction. We counted as many ss n
twenty shell marks on the premises of this n
single house After passing Mr. Goode’s house’ n
I the torch had been applied to eveiy building on it]
i this street, its entire length with the exception Jt
iof the residences of Deau, Mills and Mrs. j c
Sowers, and a tew insignificant structures im- ' V
' mediately east of Marshall’s Sword Factory. ' c<
The fiends assigned to the work of destroying i s<
a large portion of Marietta street did their duty ■ tl
recklessly. Nothing but charred ruins are left a|
to mark the spots of business houses, private | 1c
residences, the Sword and Button Factories and ! gi
the Grist Mill. oi
Whitehall street is an entire ruin except ttie 34
space extending from Roark’s corner to Captain w
Gaskill’s residence, which is left standing.— st
Those acquainted with the city will know what b>.
amount of destruction this implies. Full one in
halt the business houses of Atlanta are included dt
in Ibis count. The ruin is complete. Costly ki
structures leave nothing to tell what once they
were, but fragments of walls which stand in so
silent grandeur. On this sfrset was the resi- kt
dence of CoL J. 8. Tbraaher, the Superintendent te
of the I’ress Association, situated in a plat of .
ground of twenty acres. Nothing but a small i
out house is left. The tasteful and ornamental I
residences near the Macon & Western Railroad
have ceased to be. Millions of dollars even in
peace times would uot suffice to restore this
wreck to its former beauty. It is a matter of
surprise that the block on Whitehall, bounded
on the north by Mitchell, and on the south by
Peters street, should have been guttered to re
main. An old gentleman of 73 winters, who
resided in one of the buildings on this block,
has given us the reason. He informs us that the
order had teen given to fire this portion of the
city also, but on Ids reporting to the authorities
that a man by the name of Baker, who lived
near to him, was at the time in the agonies of
death, both blocks were spared, as well as other
blocks, the fire from which would have inevita
bly communicated to this. Il niay be owing to
this fact that that portion of the city, remaining,
which extends from Roark’s corner to Captain
Gaskill’s house on Whitehall, in an easterly di
rection to Washington street, and which is the
largest body of buildings left in any one place,
was suffered to remain.
The next street that claims our attention is
Decatur. On this were the two principal hotels,
the “ Atlan.a Hdtel ” and the “ Tiout House."—
Both of these have been burned, and also the
“ Washington Hall,” on the Georgia Railroad,
another house of entertainment. The business
houses on Decatur street have all been consumed
except the one under the Masonic Hall, which
the square and compass, the symbols of the
mystic brotherhood, saved, aud a lew small
wooden buildings. For the space ot three hun
dred yards on this street, beginning with the spot
where stood the “ Christian Church ” and end
ing where the Government Armory was located,
the private dwellings have been left. After
these, for the remainder of the street, some
threee miles in the direction of Decatur, all the
dwellings on either side have been burned, with
two or three trifling exceptions. In this burn
ing, the fine mansion of General L J. Gartrell,
who, we regret to say, was recently wounded,
has yielded to the devouring element whose aid
the enemy so generally invoked.
Having disposed ot these principal streets, let
us pay our attention to others.
On the street in the rear of the Trout House,
every house was burned. t
On Butler street, every house is safe except
Mr. Toon’s.
On Calhoun street every house stands except
Joseph Barnes’ and the brick house adjoining.
On Houston street every house is destroyed
from Mrs. Williamson’s, East, which stands, ex
cept Bab Yancey’s (servant) Col. W hitaker’s,
and Mr. Johnson’s. From Mrs. Wiliamson’s to
Peachtree, all stand.
On Ivey street the houses destroyed are those
of A. Wallace, and all on the same block, E B
Walker’s (badly injured,) Joseph Wyky’s, Cleve
land’s, and the house on the corner oi Ivey and
and Houston. John Glenn's uninjured.
On Walton street .nearly every house des
troyed.
On Prior Street all standing from Alabama
street to Rawson’s house, except the Kilby
boarding house and a house C. 0. Hewly lived
in, and the house opposite. From Rawson’s
out all destroyed except the one Mr. Colt man
built.
On Washington street the hou~.es are all
standing except that of W. P. Inman’s, the house
adjoining, and the two houses opposite.
On Crew street all the houses are standing
except the one built by E. E. Rawson, the one
occupied by F. M. Richardson, the one owned
and occupied by T. S. Stoy, the one occupied
by Mrs. Enright, and the one owned by E. Buice.
On McDonough street from City Hal) to Ball’s
house all the buildings stand except those of
John M. Clark, James Morriss, Williams, and
B. T. Lamb. From Mr. Ball’s out, all de
stroyed.
On Hunter street all houses stand except
Reid’s, Browning’s, and an old house occupied
as a hospital. Every house between McDon
ough and Fair streets destroyed except L. P.
Grant’s, Pettus’, and one in the rear of Wil
liams’ on Frazier street.
On Fair street,all stand except two bouses own
ed Marshal Jones, two belonging to Z. R Jones,
and the two houses opposite Dr. Hardin’s, and
Dr. Grant’s.
If you ran a line from Walton Spring nearly
South to the Mineral Spring, then South west to
Thomas Scrutchin’s, on Mitchell street, then
Southeast to the Protestant church, then South
to Col. L. J. Glenn’s, nearly every house is
destroyed.
Lynch’s building between the W. & A. R R.
and Lambert’s garden, is destroyed. All “Snake
Nation” is destroyed. The block of business
houses on Alabama street, on which is the
“Gate City Hotel” is left.
Edwardy’s and Joiner’s magnificent mansions
are destroyed.
The railroads are destroyed in the completes!
maimer by burning the cross ties, and bending
and twisting the iron. As you stand on the
crossing on Whitehall and look up the Western
& Atlantic road, the piles of cross ties are so
numerous and spread out to such an extent, as
to remind one of the ocean when its waves are
raised by a brisk wind. It is an ocean of rains.
The walls of the extensive and elegant car
shed were battered down by battering rams
The City Hall, Masonic Hall, 2 Baptist Church
es, 2 Methodist, 2 Presbyterians, the Catholic,
and one Episcopal, St. Pbilip»’, are all the
churches left.
The tire is represented by those who beheld it,
to have been terrific and sublime. The city
from c< ntre to circumference was enveloped in
a sheet of flame, which, in the opinion of those
who witnessed it, was to have consumed all, or
nearly all, the buildings in the city. By the fail
ure of the fire fiends to perform the task assigned
them, of destroying the private dwellings, near
ly one out of every three escaped, while of the
whole real estate of the city fully five-sixths in '
value have been laid in ashes.
1
it is very evident that the Yankees intended <
to remain peacefully in Atlanta until the next 1
Spring. They so declared their intention to the ]
citizens who remained, and the preparations ]
which they had made for the approaching win- <
ter led us to the same conclusion.
While the Yankees were In Atlanta, besides
their general bad behavior, they were guilty of
acts which show their character in its true light. 1
Their general search for silver and gold led ,
them in the very vaults of the dead They took i
the pailing from around the public cemetery
and made two enclosures for the burial oi their f
dead oi the 20th—the star corps of Sherman J
The marble was taken from Oatman's and Jud
son’s yards, and the turf of blue grass with
which the graves are coated over, from the
private yards of some of the citizens. The
monument erected by this corps to “ovr dead j
heroes,” we must confess is Imposing, but we r
must remember that the marble was stolen, and o
the fence of the Cemetery taken a > ay, thereby c
leaving ali the other graves exposed 1 Such y
jondnet is more characieuatic of Goths and b
Vandals than of Christiin men of the 19 h J
century. Nor did these Yankees content them
selves with desecrating the burying place oi r
he dead; they made a burial ground of places C
ippropriated to the living. On a back lot be- c
ongingtoCol. Whitaker, about forty Yankee ri
rraves are to be seen ; and on the S. E corner u
>f the Atlanta Hotel, a few feet oft is to be
leen a Yankee grave. We caution our people C
vho come back to occupy their houses, against £
hellsand parcels of gun powder which our u
wrbaric foe may have left in places to cause
njury or death to the unsuspecting. One acci
lent of this kind has already come to our
mowledge.
In referring to the unmilitary conduct of our n
oe, we must not omit to mention that the Yan- A!
:ees be ned the Are engine No. 2, and the ma- n
erial of “ Hook and Ladder Company,” shipped q
Norih Nos. 1 aud 4, leaving No 3 in a badly
damaged state. They, according to unques
tioned authority, ship[>ed North the furniture of
the citizens by train loads. All the pumps were
ruined. Our foe respected neither the private
dwellings of the poor nor the superb mansions
of the wealthy, and what remains of our once
beautiful city is due to causes with which we
are not yet sufficiently familiar to lay before our
readers. The stillness of the grave, for weeks,
reigned over this once bustling, noisy city. No
whistle from railroad engines, no crowing of
cocks, no grunting of hogs, no braying of mules,
no lowing oi cows, no whining of machinery,
no sound of the hammer or saw—nothing but
the howling of dogs was heard in our midst.—
The human voice was hushed in our streets, no
pedestrians on Whitehall, no children iu the
streets, no drays, no wagons, no glorious sonnd
of the Gospel in the ebttrches; the theatre Was
hushed in the sileuce oi death. Ruin, universal
ruin was the exclamation of all. It i> true that
the same sun shines above our heads, the same
healthful breezes sweep over our hills, the same
refreshing draughts of water flow from under
the ground, but all else havechanged I We can
only liken Atlanta t« Moscow after her own
c.itiz :ns had find it; but a merciful God has not
suffered it to be like Babylon and Tyre, like
Thebes or Palmyra. The energy for which her
citizens have been disting.iished has already be
gun to manifest itself. But so much lor the past
and present of Atlanta. Let us look now to its
future 1
That which built Atlanta and made it a flour
ishing city, will again restore it, purified, we
trust, in many particulars, by the fiery ordeal
through which it has passed. Soon the whistle
of the steam engine will again be heard in its
limits, and soon the cars from Macon, and Mont
gomery, and Augusta, will bear their burdens
into and through the city. Ere long, too, we
feel confident that the State Road will be in pro
cess of reconstruction, a poition at least of it
being engaged in transporting to it the rich pro
duce of Cherokee-Georgia. Let no one despond
as to the future ol our city I
The business portion ot it, though now in
ruins, is, in the main, the property of individuals
who have abundant means to clear away the
ruins and to re-bu.ld,or of traitors who have fled
, to the enemy, and who have, in their base dis
loyalty, forfe ted their estates to the Confederacy.
Doubtless our Government Authorities, in the
rich harvest they have thus reaped, will not hea
ita'e so to dispose ot it as that its proceeds may
be applied to the clearing away and re-building
of the city R
What Atlanta now first needs is energetic,
good government. This combined with devoted
loyally and enterprise on the part of her citizens,
and she will soon rise from her ashes. We
write of loyalty for the reason that ever since the
day Georgia seceded from the old and rotten
Union, Atlanta has been cursed with the pies
ence of men and women who were as spies in
its midst, aud did all in their power secretly to
promote its downfall. The number of those
who have gone over to the enemy is, though too
late, proof strong as holy writ, of their disloyal
proclivities. In the future, Atlanta must not
contain, must not feed, and must not, as she
has heretofore done, tolerate the presence of such
as citizens, much less place them in high posi
tions. There should, too, in the future, be unity
of action, and devotion to the city’s interests, on
the part of its present and coming citizens. We
want no drones in our midst. Such legis
lation too as under its peculiar condition, our
city has a right to ask from Con
gress and the State Legislature, must be speedily
invoked, aud we doubt not what is asked lor
will be promptly granted. But her citizens must
“put their own shoulders to the wheel,” and
pull hard themselves to draw her out of the
slough into which Yankee ferocity and Yankee
vengeance have cast her. Efforts like these will
soon restore her to her former greatness For
our own part, and we say it for the Proprietor
of this Journal, our lot is cast in the “ Gate
City.” It is our home, and, thank God, we are
again in it. All that we can do to promote its
future prosperity, as we have done in the past,
shall be done. At its p ist, nor at its present,
are we dismayed. Outraged, we are not con
quered. Overrun, we are not subdued. At
home again, after an exile of a few monihs, we
feel buoyant in looking to the future, doubting
not that “ He who giveth the Victory" will, in
His own good time, give to the Confederacy that
Independence tor which so much blood has
been shed by her patriotic sons, and tor whisb
Atlanta has suffered so much— alas / so muoh I
From the Lonisvllle Courier-Journal %Oth ine'ant.
(.HEAT SNOW STORM.
The first enow of the season commenced fall
ing at a little before twelve o’clock yesterday.—
The flakes at first came down small, and were
whirled swifily to the earth in roaring eddies of
wind, and then, as the storm increased, they grew
large and white and clear and beautiful, tossing
about in the air in a thousand fanciful ways,
making the city look like the pictures of Quebec
in the geographies, only there were no sleighs or
sleigh bells, or tall gentlemen in fur hats stick
ing out from under big buffalo robes. Indeed,
the streets were quite deserted, and nothing
could be seen to indicate animated nature in any
form save now and then a lonely umbrella that
groped along through the blinding storm, with a
pair of shambling legs and the lower portions of
a greatcoat, just visible from under. There was
a little more life on Fourth street when the Ma
sonic procession returned, and several well
meaning gentlemen nearly lost their eyes in dog
ing wholebone. The tall hats of the Knights
Templar looked for all the world like sketches
from some of the more prominent peaks of the
alps, and little avalanches threatened every mo
ment to sweep down magnificently from the
plumed higbts.
The storm continued until about three o’clock
in the afternoon. The snow melted as it reached
the pavement, and changed to a dirty slush. Cm.
many of the shade-trees throughout the city tha
green leaves had not laded to the autumnal yel
low, an I the snow retqing upon these made a
most singular and unusual winter scene. So
heavy was the weight of snow upon the branch;
es that many of them gave way, and at various
points the sidewalks were strewn with broken
boughs. It is estimated that very nearly a foot
of snow feil during the day. In places the
frosty element clung so tenaciously that several
inches accumul ited, and part of the circus tent
on the corner oi East and Walnut is reported
to have gone down under the pressure.
The wiseacres predicta terrible winter. They
have predicted the same thing every fall for at
least five years past, and it is about time some
of the prophecies were being fulfilled
We have the following telegraphic accounts
of the storm elsewhere:
CINCINNATI.
Cincinnati, Oct. 19.—Snow commenced fall
ing at halt-past eleven this forenoon, aud the
storm continued until three. The fall was light
and the snow melted as soon as it fell Driz
zling at lour, with the thermometer at 40.
Chicago, October 19 Snow was falling in
Springfield nearly the entire forenoon to-d.»y.—
An inch of snow covered the ground at one
time, but it afterwards disappeared.
[Special Dispatch to the Conrfer-Jonrnal.
The Dead Alive Again.
New Orleans, October 20. A gentleman
who arrived in this city last night on the brig
Rosas, from Potto del R y stages that a regi
ment of black horse cavalry has been recently
o'gan.z. d undei General Jordan, and that it is
creating h ivoc amo -g di - Spaniards.
It is commanded by Colonel Lawrence Orion
Williams, who his been for the last six years
believed to have been executed as a spy at
Franklin, Teuuessre, m 18(13, -y a United
drumhead court, martial. L seem-, that be was
not executed, having l een smuggled out of the
country by old armv friends and coi.veu-d to
Cuba, where he settled and married a wealthy
creole, aud has since lived in affluence H»
regiment ot patriots is made up <>t negroes,
mounted on black horses, aud is said to be not
interior to Forrest’s original squadron
Colonel Williams is known a» D n Immanuel
Orton. His rank is Brigadier General. He sent
his wife to Europe in September, and has en
listed for the war, contributing his entire for
tune, which is very large.
For six years he has lived on a ranclie near
Santa Malo, which his wife inherited soon alter
her marriage.
Crape Vines.—We ru'-ite attention to the
notice m another column concerning grape vines.
Mr. Mark W. Johnson, the advertiser, has just
received a fine variety, which may he had in
quantities to suit purchasers. Give him a call.