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ERROR CEA&BB TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”—Jefferson.
VOLUME XXII
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 18T0.
NUMBER 20.
UlrrMi) JutflUgrnrcr
ATLANTA GEORGIA-
Wednesday* May 13, (870.
The McPheraon Jlunumert-
It 5b known to moat of our readers that (Ikn
J/iMKs B McPherson, a corps comui , tml« , r ol
Gen 8berman’» army tliat inva'el Georgia in
1864, and in July ol tbe aaiue year lai*i Hiei»e to
Atlanta, tell on the 22-J day ol tliat at
the head ol his command, which was n dlaoll,
resisting tbe valiant and desperate assault made
U|*on it by Gen. Hardee wi-b his brave com
mand ol Conledera’o lorces. The bailie was
one ot the fiercest ol the war, ai«d the b*>u*> ol
bundieds on both sides lay bleaching lor months
alter peace was proclaimed, upon the b.ils au«i
in the plains near Atlanta, where the terri: e
conflict took place. Gen. McPherson was out
ol the most distinguished officers ot '.lie Federal
army and such was his character otherwise
that, like Stonewall Jackson, he wu-. ad
mired by both friends and toes engaged in the
assault and defense*of Atlanta. Recently the
event of his death, and the erection ol a monu
ment to hia memory, have been subjects ol dis
cussion in Congress. As tbe reader wdl be
interested in them, we transfer Iron) a iate num
ber ot tbe Washington Ulohe into our columns
this morning, tbe proceedings ol that iai.ly ot
length in relation to the aarm-, and to which
we invite their attention.
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Colored Pa«Mintem.
The United States Ciicuit Court, silting in
Baltimore, has decided that where a railroad
car is especially provided lor colored passengers,
equally good in all respects with any provided
lor white passengers, the colored traveler has
no right to iDsUt upon a seat in another car.
Woman Suflrite In Ilie IMfttricl of
Columbia.
Tbe Benate Committee on Ilie Distiict of
Columbia decided against female sufiiage in the
District of Columbia, and so reported to the
Senate. It is not very probable, however, that
this will be the end ot the movement even dur
ing the present session. Mr. Pometoy, or some
one else, will endeivor to have tbe Dill pi.-sed
over the report of the Committee.
La me and Iminnrul Con<‘lii*)nn
The New York T me* ot the 7th instant con
tains an editorial article Loaded “ l'n- Old Meu
and tbe New.” iu whicn cmnpaiisons are insii-
tuted bet ween AmetiCtu sta'e.men of the past,
such us Clay, Calhoun, Hayne, and Webster,
aud those who lecently have had much to do
with diieclmg the atlairs of the nation, occupy
ing stations similar to those tilled, by the former
in past times. The artiele closes as follows:
‘'Comparisons,” it says, ‘‘are odious, hut we
doubt it any elder trio will stand higher than
Lincoln, Seward and Stanton. It is unfair to
judge men in the light of prejudices aud pas
sions ot their own time, and bcuce we regard
the discusaton ot our ' political degeneracy ” as
an unprofitable exercise of human ingenuity.”
Most lame aud impotent conclusion 1 Lincoln,
Seward, and SUutou, by tiie side ot Calhoun,
Clay, and Websttr, the three former to stand
bigber in the estimation ot posterity than the
three latter 1 The editor ot the 1 lines must be
“ datl.”
•pain will not Pari With Cuba.
The New York Herald says, “ such is the ten
or of a telegraphic dispatch trom London pub
lished in our issue ol yesterday’, ‘it is reported,’
tbe dispatch says, ‘that the Spanish govern
ment, deferring to the petitions received lront
the Antilles, has suspended action on the con
stitution lor Porto Rico, aud wit consider no
pro|tosilion lor the sale of Cuba.’ This news does
not come dirtet front Spain, it is true, and it may
have been concocted by some British or Span-
isb agents, who have no love for the United
States, and who -would like to blutl us otl on the
Cuban qnt si iou; but it is not uulikely the
Spanish government has given express! >u to
such views. That government is quite capable
ol playing a tricky part with the United Stite a ,
of humbugging and cheatiog us about Cuba.
We never had any confidence in the prosptet
ol Spain selling Cuba. She never did sell or
voluntarily give np a colony. We recommend
our government uot lute Hided with, but to
learn definitely aud unquestionably what Spain
prop »cs to do with Cu >a.”
NEW YORK.
TBE CIGAR MANUFACTURERS STRIKE
now must* rs 300 men.
VBKY SMALL.
Contributions to the Richmond sull. rets thus
far is under $4,000.
AN ILLICIT DI8TIII.KRY
in Brooklyn was seized yesterday by Internal
Reveuue officers, aided by ' he ;v ’ice.
A DINNER
was given to uight by Richard Schnell to Qcne-
tai But It r and Iho House Ways and Mraus
Committee.
IN LUCK.
Eighly grandchildren of William Jams,
residing iu New Jersey aud Bnulord county.
Peunayl' auia, have fal eu heir to an estate ol
$30.000,000 iu Scoltaud.
AN ACCIDENTAL EXPLOSION
of nitro-glycerine occurred iu the Mid’aml rail
road luuuit, near urtzltoro. New York, \es
terday atumonn, aud a workman uaiueit 11 m-
uuue was blown three huudieu leel iLt*> the
air aud tom to pieces.
NOT VERY SERIOUS.
Early this moruiug a fire bioke out iu the
basement <>1 the Southern HoStI, Broad "ay.
Tuir*eeu girls asleep iu the immediate vtciuny
ol‘.be fire got out in safety. The kitch n a d
laundry wete badly damaged. Loss not ascer
tained. M my oMbe guests ran into the s re« is
iu their mgut c.olbing. The prompt reap.-use ot
tbe fireni* u saved the building.
THE FENIANS.
Tbe councils of tbe Fenians become daily
uioie Irtqi.eul and secret. Yesterday, pnisuaul
to a Call ol General O'Neal, the members > I the
Executive Council ol Mine, appointed by tin
la e Congoa=, arrived in this city to comer with
them on the apptoaciuug expedition At a lau-
bour last nigbt the meeting was held. The
business transacted did rot transpire, bat it was
ssi'«r ained that its object was to decide upon
the Ume when a movenn-ut should L.k«- p'.u-e
Tbe council mi-els sg .iu lo-Uaj.
IHE CROWING HkSS.
At h met- 114 ot tl.e Mi* Y->rk City W in -u
Bufirage A -o^iAt.ou yesterday, alts. Eusah t>
Anthony, who Uas just returned trom the
Western stumps, made a region ot her travels
in behalf of the cause, hue coutessed to a
great admiration for tbe Democrats ol the West,
whom she claimed supported woman suffrage
Tbe white Republicans sneered at tne niea ot
tern nine voters. Mis Leirgut berated Horace
Gitely, and Miss Bi delia Bales scalded the mcu.
A CHEATING BROKER.
It is seid the Stock Exchange has taken steps
to expel one of its members tor cheating a cus
tomer. That customer deposited $10,000 as a
margin for 1,1*00 share of Lake Shorn when lue
once was about 85: The stock was rep r*es
bought, aud wheu the customer ordered it iota-
S"ld at ad, the nrukir then said the person r..m
whom he bought it had failed on him; ti.u lie
Lai not got the stock, but < .fisted to return the
$10,000 margiu with interest. The custom, r iu-
SisteU on the profit as well as his mtrgiu. Brut
•was tried in the Hudson county, New Jersey,
ourl y esterday, belore Judge Bedle, iu which
ie question of the validity ol gold contracts
£ras involved.
Prom the Washington Globe.
YlrPheraon Itlrnuraeal,
Th<- next onsim-ss on th<* Calendar was the
jo:u' r« solution (M. R No 273) donating eon-
de nned cannon t> tbe McPherson Monument
i A^s c niion; which wa« considered as in Conr-
! mince ot tbe Whole. It proposes to direct the
St-eri laiy ol War to deliver to the McPherson
Mm.util ui Assocu-ition such number of con-
• h tuned bforze "inis as may be required by that
a<tocia'tna to he useii in tbe erection or orna-
mi"ilntion ol a monumenl to the la-e Mr jorGeu-
er .l Janies B McPherson.
Mr. Warner. 1 claim the indulgence ol the
Senate for a few minutes.
Mr. President, I speak on this resolution with
teelings ol unusual inleievt, growing out ol the
remarkable character ol • lie man wh en it is
in ' ndeil to honor, aud of my lone association
lin ing the late war with him. I first met him
just .il'er we had lougbl so successlu'ly the hat
th n! F..U Donelson, when he was a lieutenant
co iip : on the start of General Grant, and from
tluii inn i,mil the hour of his death I was iu
>hc same aimy, campaigns, and battles will
him. During tt.e ever memorable and brilliant
Yt i lit t campaign it was my honor to serve as
iiu in'ia-ct ir general on tbe start of Genetai
Sin mni and as snrlt was brought much in
co it ii w itb G neral McPhcnon, and had large
nop .riuioties ot ii arning his character and ser
vin' , and tiie r.gaid in wh ch he was held by
the \r iiy and by liis military pe< rs and supe
ri is That esteem was iu some respects peculiar.
General iSbeiai'tn had, above a.* 1 others, the
supr ine confidence of the entire Army in his
noli ; r\ skill and bold energy, and stood bigber
tor i etsoual patriotism,putity, and it tegrdv—
an integrity <>t Roman firiuutss, rigidity aud
si-ft-dctdal. 'l'ln-se qualities are well shown in
bii letu.-al to accept, iu the beginning ot the
Ail .nia campiJgn, a commission as Major
General in the tegular army, on the ground that
the Dover .mi ni had already sufficiently re
am ied u d It moredl him tor his services, and
ti>u! it -mould be held up as a pr ze ior the most
u.entorious service during the campaigns then
ai.i ut to be Ui gun, ot Atlanta and. the Wilder
n s . General I'ho mas, in his Washing! on iun
gre tiiess, folidity, anti purity, mad universal
r. sped and ccnlidence throughout the entire
Army. General Schofield, though less widely
kuown than either ^Herman or Thomas, yet
had i he entire confidence and'perfect respect of
his own army, aud of all who were competent
to judge him, as a soldier of skill and courage,
and as a puie patriot and just man. Bui Me-
Pin rsou, added to the utmost confidence in his
military skill and personal courage, such noble
beau v ol hum and countenance, such winning
geinh inol expie-sion anil manner; his face,
which in repose had an expression of almost
womanly i-wiein -ss. would to light up and blaze
with fiercest courage and daring in the moment
ot baric ih it iu daDger he was worshipped as
t hero; in q net tegarded in tenderest love as a
mau. It seemed as though tbe love of the
oeautiful one whom he worshipped, but whom
the tabs in blind cruelty decreed be might
uever wed, so lighted the noble soul whi ‘U God
gave him as to illuminate his lace and make
gentle and true and winning bis life, bis own
love attracting to him the love of all other men.
Aud then the circumstances of bis life and
deal It were so touching and Iragic. At two
o’clock ot the morning ol the memorable 22J of
July, 1804, when Geueral Bhertnan’s army wks
laying close siege to Atlanta, I was called by
him and ordered to go to General McPherson,
some six miles distant on our left, and inform
Inin I hat I he enemy had evacuated his works in
lront ol our cento, and with directions for him
to pursue by certain roads in case the enemy liad
ah uidoiied his whole liuc and Atlanta. I louud
ii m a* daylight iu bed. Waking him up, he
gave in tanliy the necessary oroer for a recon-
uoissauce to ascertain the movements ot the en
emy. We ate breakfast together, mounted our
ho sts, iode to the lront, aud louud the enemy
had only retired about a mile to an inner and
stmi ter line. We then rode to his skirmish line
and outside ot it, and a mile in lront of the
ground on which tbe great battle was iouglit
Uier iu the day, passing twice over the spot on
which he h 11 a tew hours later. Very near this
spot we met Generul G. M. Dodge, and then
General McPherson gave him the order to halt
tiis two divisions of the sixteenth corps, which
were then marching by the Punk in a direction
at right ant ics to our line, tbe head ot tbe col-
iimu being then U ss than a mile trom our ex
treme left. Neither McPherson nor Dodge nor
Genetal Frank P. Blair, who was with us, then
comprehended the mighty and happy influence
which tins order, given only to await the in
trenching by working parties ol the extended
aud iidv meed line on our left, which Dodge
was to net upy, was to have on the day’s battle,
whose stillness was even then upon us One
tuny wed regard it as providential. No one
then knew or thought that Hood had during
the night lu-lore contracted his line so as to
be able to spare Hardee with a corps of ten
to filteeu thousand men,to make by anight
march ol lilteeu miles a circuit round our left to
attack us iu flauk and rear, and who was then
just out ol our sight, forming his troops ior the
attack. We left the field ou our 1< ft aud rode
lapldlv to tlie center, to General Sherman, at
the Howard Home, an abandoned private
dwell.ng near the center of our line and within
easy reach of the enemy’s rifles. Ou o.ir way
W; halted lor a lew moments at the tent ot
Major G-neral Frank P. Blair. While there
B1 or’s surg. on reported that rebel cavalry had
bet.u seen near the hospital ot the seventeenth
corps, which held our lelt. It was also reported
to McPliejson that rebel cavalry had been seen
near ids headquarters, located in the rear of our
li lt, ou the Decatur road. The necessary orders
were given by McPherson ami Blair to guard
Hgaim-t dii-lus of handsel cavalry, but no ini-
poitauce was attached by any one to the fact
ol the ; r appearance, as it was so common,
thmiga in tact it was the first patterings ol the
great storm of battle which was so soon to
burst upon the two armies and prostiate in
wounds and death ten thousand brave men. A
lew moments alter dismounting at General
Sherman’s headquarters the sharp, raillmg fire
of musketry was heard in the direction of our
led rear. Sbermau and McPherson listened to
it attentively lor a tew moments, boih
detecting iu it the deceive sound ot coming
battle, when McPhets; u quickly mounted his
h. rse aud rode rapidly toward it. In less
than two hours his ileai body was laid at Sher-
m m's liet on the porch ot the Howard House.
In tiding from the right of General Dodge’s
line through the interval that separated it from
the led of f>egeeU’.i division ot the seventeenth
corps by a bliud road through tne woods, at
tended only by an orderly, his staff having ail
hi eii sent away with orders for the conduct ol
the Little, he was bsited by a f-quad ot retiel
infantry and ordered to surrender. Raising his
ha' as it in token ot surrender be essayed to
rein bis horse quiekly away and plunge into the
w.xxis and escape The rebels instantly detect
ing Ins purpose, fired a volley, and the brave
and chivalrous McPherson fell to rise no more.
I can never forget the touching scene at the
llowas d House as his body lay there still aud
eautiful iu death. McPherson was bethrothed
to a girl ot tare beauty and worth iu Balbmoie,
and had the piomiseot a leave ot absence in
the- spring ol lsG4 to go to Baltimore and be
uiatried. Tee exigencies of the military ser
vice, in connection with the grat’d movements
of the At’anla and Wilderness campaigns,
which General Grant directed should be begun
sitmtlt neously, compelled General Sherman to
the paintel nece-sdy ol denying this leave. He
a rote a kind and touching letter to the girl,
t .kicg in i\h-'te responsibility, and begging
her to con-iJer that General McPiietsou had no
op inn lnu obi-d euce <.rsoldierly dishonor, and
pi..' -i I - *. : m leave the earliest lire the -er-
, t • d.o-.v. As w looked on lus l:u'- p lie
aud I'ea'ii, even she remembta: c« s ol
h.s viiiues aud his vame to the Army’and to
the cor.ntry was kn'fced in the thought of the
deep love which bnt a *ew hours betore had lent
s icli light to his eyes aud such geniality to h*s
manners, ana o: the irreparable sorrow soon to
come to i .ne from whom death had so cruelly
suiiti-he ! her beautitul hero. Sherman slowly
paced ih • tl or, tri-quenily stopping tffirrt to re-
c< ive r< p uts of the piOLtess ot the fighl, or to
give . r ters lor its conduct, or to gaze into the
!itt-le>s lace of his beloved captain, the tears
raeanwhile rapi i.y coursingdowu his war-worn
luce
Mr. President, tbe tears shed on the la’t'e-
in id . > o-idbo-jy by his great chief Te-
. urns, i) a-.! his brave meu, would have made
bis m- ot li iug monument, had the skill of
oitu r Uui'i a divine artist been equal to the task
. f Lai tiering them in the form in which they fell,
amt of giving them the perpetuity as they bad
ibt radiance ot diamonds, oi lashioning them
into “a form ot beauty,” sparkling in”God’s
light while lime shall last the story of his vir
tues. But earth caught them, mingled with the
blood of those who 9hed them, and her flowers,
nonri. bed by them, will be nature’s sympathetic
testimony to his kindred beauty ot form and
sonl.
The high military renown of General Mc
Pherson, together with the poss«-s8i<>n b>’him
ol those gentle qualities which won toi him the
subriquel ot “the beloved McPherson,” so pe
culiarly dieting is'ied him as to wart ant us in
making this contribution, to aid in raising a
monument which shall leil to all future ages of
his services and tame.
Mr. t ates. Mr. President, though unpre
pared to address the Senate, 1 cannot permit the
op|Hirtuoily to pass, as perhaps I shall never
have a better one, to say something in relation
to General McPherson. Mv |K-rsoual acquaint
ance with him was when the Army staited out
undtr General Grant lor Vicksburg. 1 was six
months with turn, and during those six months
l remember now that 1 became more attached
to him than to any other man in tbe Army from
my own or auy other State. I saw him iu every
variety oi situation. I saw him ex nosing hitn-
selt, as 1 must confess—and perhaps that is not
lo his credit unnec ssarily to danger: so much
so that General Grant once said, “ McPherson
is going too tar." That was at Port Gi'ison,
when he was leeonnoiteriug the position of the
enemy in some plantation houses.
Mr. President, I do not hesitate to say now
that ot all the officers of our Army, from the
Gcnerul-m Chief down to tbe lowest suhorinate
officer, McPherson had more the hearts of the
Army ol the Southwest than any man dead or
1 ving. He was a soldier from head to foot; he
wiis a gentleman ; and when I remembered hint
iu those mighty struggles which we were mak
ing to open the Mississippi trom its source to
the Gulf; when I remembered how prompt he
was, whitest the same time be was the most
reiiccDt, modest, and retiring of all the officers
ot the Army; when I remembered his appear
ance, so young, so robust—not robust in body,
bin in physical strength—with so much person
al heau'y; when I heard the news of his death,
it seemed to me it was a pity that be should die.
But, sir, he was a sacrifice upon the altar oi his
country; he was one of the jewels the.t we cast
out to save liberty and the cdutttfy. He has
gone; but while I live I shall netlY-r reflect upon
mm without a tear coining to my eye and aike-
tion filling my heart.
The joint resolution was reported to the Sen
ate without amendment,ordered lo a thiid reafe
u g, nad the third time, and passed.
sew Turk.
FENIAN MOVEMENTS.
New York, May 7.—A call has been issued
by General O’Neill, as Commander-in-Chief ol
the Irish Republican Army, tor a meeting ot alt
tbe centers of Fenian circles in the district ot
Manhattan, to be held at headquarters, No. 10,
West Fourth street, to-rn rrow (Sunday) at 8
P. M. The business to be brought before the
council is asserted to be ot great importance,
looking to an invasion ot Canada at an early
day. General O’Neill is said to be in favor ot
an “ on to Canada” movement. Now that the
Red river difficulty has been settled, as per dis
patch through the Atlantic cable, the Fenians,
as a matter of course, have given up all hope ol
a co-operation with Hied, and thtir leader is en
gaged looking for a new field.
General O’Neill, as it were, in inticipation of
tbe settlement, has culled around him his nine
counsellors to-day. They are closeted at the
Green Home, discussing difficulties which seem
to heset them with closed doors. Geneial
O’Neill, us Comrnauder-in-Chief of the Irish
Republican Army, is in favor of doing some
tbiDg to elevate the organization from tbe con
dition it has fallen into; he knows that at pres
ent the most influential way to avoid it is on the
grounds that those who run the machine are in
fluenced only by salaries paid them from the
treasury.
A movement on Canada has been decided
upon, but it is uot intended that men lower in
grade than Colonel shall know ot it until the
final order is given for the concentration ot
troops on the border.
New York, May 9.—A convention of all
Centers ot Circles of the Fenian Brotbeihood in
Manhattan district was held ytslerduy at head
quarters. Matters ot tbe greatest interest to the
organization were discussed, but most of their
proceedings were secret. It was made known,
however, that the late difficulties between Gen-
ral O’Neill aud the Senate constituted the chief
subject of discussion and action. The Senate
was bitterly condemned. Centers report au
enthusiastic feeling in favor of an onward move
ment existing in their circles, and pledge them
selves that in the event General O’Neill com
mencing a war policy, he may rely upon eflect-
ive support.
m'farland’s trial.
The great ti ial was to day resumed^ in the
Court ot General Sessions, in the old brown
stoi.e building. An immense crowd, among
whom the ladies largely predominate, filled every
available inch ot room, and listened with the
most rapt attention to the eloquent speech ot
Mr Graham, counsel for the defense. Iu the
course ot his speech Mr. Graham said that all
the witnesses lor the prosecution were from the
Tribune office. It is notorious that the attaches
ot this paper are implicated in this tree-love
transaction. In (act, the Tribune is arraigned
in this court, aud all those employed in the
office were interested in clearing that paper
trom tbe charge rendered against it.
0 The court adjourned at the conclusion of Mr
Graham’s remarks, and to-morrow the District
Attorney will sum np for the prosecution.
dedicated.
Tiie new Roman Catholic Church, of Holy
Cross, in Forty-second street, was dedicated
yesterday by Rev. Wot. Starrs, the Vicar and
the Ai ebb shop, of the diocese. The church
cost over a $100,000.
A NEW SWKDENBOIiGIAN CHURCH
was dedicated iu Jersey City by Rev. Cbauncey
Giles
THE EMIGRATION FEVER
is im reasing, and d; partuies for Colorado are
very numerous.
HON. J. ROSS BROWN,
lute Minister to China, is in this city.
fall of a church.
Las’ night a column supporting the gallery of
a colored Baptist Church on Third street gave
way, causing the gallery to settle about a loot.—
The congregation made a rush to escape, some
jumping troin the first and second story win
dows, and were taken home insensible; an
other had left side bruised ; a third one foot in
jured, and several others leceived cuts and
bruioes.
immigrants.
Over ten thousand immigrants arrived last
week.
Daniel drew
K oses to give another million to the Drew
dogieal Seminary to establish a literary de
parlnunt and n.ake it a university.
THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.
Interesting services were held yesterday even
ing in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church,
Rev. Dr. J< hn Halt’s in reference to and pie-
paratory lor a meeting of the World’s Evangi li
ra! Alliance in this city from September 22 to
October 3d. Addresses were made by Revs. Dr.
Hall, Schafier and John Cotton Smith, giving a
tu:l description ot the objects of the alliaoce
and the prospects and purposes of its next
meeting.
The European delegation will number one
hundred and fifty, including twenty or thirty of
tbe most eminent scholars and divines ot the
continent, and a number rf members of the
English Pari-ament Presidents McCosh, Wool-
sey, H ipkiBS, Mcllvatne :tud Cummings, and
Krv. Dr. Stores and Henry Waul Beectiir,
have prepared essays on Christian union ami
Christian lile, which will be read during the
meeting of the alliance, and other essays in
loivign languages will also l»e read. The
revision ot the version of the Scriptures and the
Bible in the common schools will be among
the prominent topics of discussion.
A Father Kills His Son.—A few days ago
a man named Ktt Erwin, living in Manry
county, struck his little son, fifteen years ot age,
with a chair, injuring him so severely that he
died in a short time. Erwin was once a good
citizen and respected in the community, hut
whisky proved his ruin. He was under the
influence of liquor when he perfected the tearful
crime. For several days the murder was kept
secret, but Erwin’s wife having become insane
trom grief and trouble, finally divulged it The
unfortunate woman in one ot her insane fits
tore the flesh almost entirely from her arms
with her teeth before she could be prevented,
and in her wild ravings disclosed tbe fearful
particulars ot her husband’s crime.
Personal.
Judge Erskink, of the United States Courts
for Georgia, accompanied by his accomplished
daughter, Mi9s Erskine, left our city by the
Georgia Railroad train last evening for New
York, from which point they will embark for
Liverpool, intending to take a European tonr of
three or four months. We regret that the
health of Judge K. requires this recreation.
Ever since his appointment to the Bench of the
U. S. Conns ot this State, now more than four
years ago, his labors have been relieved tut
little by brie! interval here in the Northern,
and in the Southern District at Savanuali. The
wear and tear ol these pressing duties have
naturally impaired his usually, heretofore,
excellent health, and he now takes advantage
ot a favorable opportunity to improve it by
crossing the Atlantic, and by travel in Europe.
The many friends of the Judge aud MissE.,
while regretting the present loss of both to the
social circle of our city, will look to their enjoy
ment abroad, an» return again to their Atlanta
home, with much interest. God speed them in
their travels!
Southern Baptist Convention.
Late accoun's trom the Southern Baptist
Convention at Lodteville, Ivy., state that a reso
lution looking to a co-operation ol Baptists,
North and South, had, atter a long debate, been
referred to & committee tor examination.
Another account states that the Convention
has declined to co-operate with Northern Socie
ties at the present time, as there is doubt if any
benefit will arise trom it.
General Conierence of the Methodist
Episcopal Church at Memphis.
In the General Conference ol the Methodist
Episcopal Church at Memphis, Tennessee, on
Saturday, Bisnop Wigbtimm briefly called at
tention to the waste ol time in speech-making.
Among much other business, a memorial was
presented, aud property referred from Virginia,
asking for the punishment of members who
make and sell whisky.
Lopez, a Tyrant.
The Committee oc Foreign Aftuirs in Wash
ington have made an elaborate report to the
House on the Paraguay question, which is in
the hands of the public printer. It will be
ready by the beginning of the next week. It
is said that it shows Lopez to have been a cruel
and bloodthirsty tyrant, and that he maintained
a fright!ul terrorism over his subjects.
Rev. H. W. Beecher says that instead ol
greeting the brethren with a holy kiss, as Pan!
exhorts! the Thesaaloniaus to do the sects of
Christendom have hitherto treated each other
as it the command was “Greet the brethren
with a holy kick.”
If Beecher meant to be witty in perpetrating
the foregoing, he has most signally failed. It
he did not mean to be witty, what did he mean ?
Alas I for the piety of the Plymouth preacher.
A Counterfeiting Scheme Detected.
A conuterfi iting* ’.'cheme has been foiled in
Charleston. South Carolina, by the discovery
that W. W. .Thompson, Chief Clerk ot the
Treasury in connection with L.
D. Metcalf, of Auburn, New York, had pre
pared for issue coiV#5erleit State (umling bonds.
Thompson has pleaded guilty. None of the
bonds have gone into market.
Seir-'-Tlte Ruling Passion Strong In
Death.”
A man who died in Allegheny county, Penn
sylvania, the other day, left his wile one cent,
his brother a few dollais, a ad directed that the
rest of his money, amounting to $5,000, be ex
pended in building a monument over his own
grave. His wife, we should say, could write
an epitaph for that monument that would be
worth reading.
The “Eagle Orator*’ ot Tennessee.
The sickness of The Hon. Gustavos A. Hen
ry, we learn from the Nashville Banner of
Tuesday last is of such a serious character—can
cer of the stomach—that he cannot live but a
few days. Although well advanced in life, his
death would be a great loss to Tennessee, as
well as to the country. His many friends here
and elsewhere vt ill hear of the “Eagle Ora
tor’s,” as well as of the profound jurist’s dan
gerous illness with profouud sonow, and as
the Banner says, if the heart-felt prayi rs can
avail, he would be spared, at least, to see his
beloved country once more everywhere -tree,
prosperous, and happy.”
Senator Revels In Boston.
More honors are being pai l to Senator Revels
in Boston than would be paid to any white Sen
ator in America. These are the last recorded of
his reception and entertainment there:
“ Senator Revels has been engaged this fore
noon in a drive in the suburbs, and in calling
upon various promineut persons who had invi
ted his presence. He leluhe Custom House in
a tour horse barouche at about ten o’clock, in
company with Collector Russell and Major
Chadwick. As the party came down the steps,
the officers and employees about the Custom
House, and others, to the number of about two
hundred, oFsembkd there, gave the Senator a
round of cheers. The party drove to the State
House, where tlH;y were joined by Governor
Claflin, and pr. ceeded as above stated. A visit
was paid to the United States Court House,
where Mr. Revels was received by District At
torney Hillard, and by him was presented to
Judge Ciifford and Judge Lowell aud officers ot
the Court.”
Value ot liumleratlon.
Tbe value and extent of immigration into the
United States, are but little understood in the
South, and Georgia knows scarcely anything of
either. The attention, however, of our people
having been turned recently in that direction,
infotma'ion connected with it being important,
we lay before them the following estimates taken
from a New York journal:
“ The aggregate value of all immigration to
the United States at this time is estimated at
$380 000 000 a year, or over $1,000,000 per day
The average value of the personal property oi
immigrants arriving at Castle Garden, New
York, has been found to be $150 for each per
son, man, woman and child, German immi
grants alone have for many years brought an
average yearly amount of above $11,000,000.
Tbe total increase to our wealth, estimating both
property and labor, !y immigrants who arrived
from Mav,_ 1_847, to December 3'., 1858, was
$5,140 113 o.’i), a bum nemly double tiie amount
ot the entire national debt,”
Romance of a Sprained Ankle.—A little
romance of a sprained ankle comes to us from
SL Louis, in which & young clerk, a young lady
school teacher, and a dog are the leading fea—
tores. The clerk ^ and the school teacher had
fallen desperately in love. One evening, as the
couple were proceeding to church, a ferocious
dog jumped over & fence and “went for” the
lady. Here was a chance for chivalry, and the
young man gallantly improved it Throwing
himself in front of his lair one, he gave the at
tacking monster a blow which sent him flymg
with yelDS of ignominious defeat; but, in the
very moment of victory the young man fell and
sprained his ankle. It was now the turn for
womanly heroism to show itself. The school
teacher was a girl with no nonsense about her.
She at once ordered a hack, helped her lover
in, accompanied him to his room, bathed and
dressed his ankle, watched over him all night,
and naturally enough went for a friend and
minister next day, and m&xried her mau in the
evening.
A DUEL IN_THE DARK.
BY JUDGE ARRINGTON.
The city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, has al
ways been remarkable, even before tbe re
cent war gave her a profound national inter
est. Many years ago she supplied tbe class
of writers who furnish the substratum for
most of the circulating libraries with plots
dark aud dreadful enough to satisfy eveu
the present craving for sensation. The
place had been noted since its earliest set
tlement for the belligerent character of its
inhabitants and the number aud atrocity
ot the violent deeds which stained its
streets with the blood of human hearts.
It is not our present purpose, howev er,
to sketch any of these more' celebrated
brute battles, but merely to select, for the
sake of its mournful moral alone, a soli
tary tragedy, which was briefly chroni
cled by the press of the day, and which
then faded from the recollection of all,
save one from who the WTiter received
the story in all its particularity. She, of
course, could not forget. To the latest
hour of her existence the wife of the mur
dered hero wept at the reminiscence.
In the year 1827, a young lawyer, John
Thomas, emigrated from Worcester, in
Massachusetts, to the State of Mississippi.
He was poor, had recently married a beau
tiful, accomplished woman, who had re
nounced wealthy parents for his sake and
hence was anxious to better his fortune
in as little time as possible. This consid
eration determined the legal adventurer
to locate at Vicksburg, then considered
through the West as the paradise of the
bar.
In a very short time the new lawyer
had ample reasons to congratulate himself
on the choice of his position. His bland
demeanor, studious habits, and more than
all, his eloquence in debate, won him pa
tronage ; and he rose, almost at a single
bonnd, to the first place in his profession.
He was employed in all the land suits, and
in most of the still more numerons and
equally lucrative cases of homicide, so
that in the period of two years after his
advent he had cleared the round sum of
thirty thousand dollars. Let no sceptical
disciple of Lord Coke deem this state
ment incredible. S. S. Prentiss, realized,
cash in hand, forty thousand dollars by
his opening speech in Vicksburg.
Duringdiis career thus far young Thomas
was remarkable in one respect. He never
went armed, and although in the fierce
and fiery altercations of the forum he ne
cessarily made some enemies, no attack
had hitherto been ventured on his person.
The athleticism of his noble form, and the
look of invincible determination in his
keen blue eyes, had doubtless warned the
desperadoes that “ the Yankee orator,” as
he was generally termed, could hit as hard
blows in the court-yard as he did in the
court itself. However this may be, two
years elapsed, years too of eminent suc
cess, before the peaceable attorney was
even insulted. Alas! this halcyon period
was doomed to a change alike sudden and
terrible.
There resided at that time in the town
a notorious duelist by the name of John-
eon, whose matchless prowess inspired
universal fear. He had slain half a dozen
foes on the public “ field of honor,” and
as many in private and irregular encoun
ters. All the members of “ the bloody
fancy club ” spoke of Mike Johnson’s feats
with rapturous enthusiasm. But all good
men, all lovers of peace, when the “ brave
wretch ” passed, turned pale, and were
silent.
At the Mav term of the District Court,
1829, the grand jury, mustering extraor
dinary courage, returned a bill against
Johnson for the murder of William Lee,
an inoffensive youth, whom he had shot
down in a drunken frolic; of peculiar ag
gravation. Thomas was retained by a
friend of the deceased to aid in the prose
cution, and, notwithstanding the earnest
advice of his well-wishers to the contrary,
appeared on the trial of the case one of
the most exciting ever argued at the bar
of Vicksburg. On the last evening of the
session, after adjournment, Thomas
rushed into the presence of his wife, with
looks of such evident agitation as to fill
her soul with overpowering alarm.
“ My love, tell me, in the name of heaven,
what has happened ?” she cried, pale as a
corpse, and shaking like a leaf in the wind.
“Nothing,” answered the husband,
thinking to conceal the most fearful part
of the intelligence. “Nothing, only the
murderer,Mike Johnson, after his acquit
tal, grossly insulted me in the court-yard,
aDd I knocked him down.”
“ And he challenged you to fight him with
pistols 1” almost shrieked the wife, antici
pating the rest, with the quickness of wo
man’s keen commonsense.
“ It is even so,” replied the lawyer,
mournfully.
“Oh ! say you that you will not meet
him, Oh I swear that you will not turn
duelist in this Sodom of the South!” im
plored the n ife, throwing her arms around
his neck, and sobbing like a child on his
bosom.
“ There, do not weep now. I will not
turn duelist, dear Emma, although I much
fear that the consequence will be my
ruin.”
“ God will protect you from the bold,
bad man.”
The next morning it was known in
Vicksburg that “ the Yankee orator ” had
been challenged and refused to fight.
Accordingly, he was generally denounced
as a coward—a word which at that day
might be considered as expressing far
deeper scorn than either robber or assas
sin. As he passed through the streets,
he was astonished to witness the coldness
manifested by his old acquaintances, and
even professed friends, while the great
mass of the people seemed to regard him
with ineffable contempt. “ Yankee white-
liver,” “ boaster,” “ poltroon,” were the
sounds most frequently rung in his ears,
especially when near the groceries, and
there was one then on every terrace of
the broken hills.
The matter grew worse. About a week
afterwards, Johnson met his victim in the
public square, presented a cocked pistol
at his heart with one hand, and belabored
him unmercifully with a cowhide which
he grasped in the other. Resistance at
that moment was altogether out of the
question, for the slightest motion would
have been the signal for immediate death.
He thought of Emma and her sweet babe,
aud bore the castigation in silence.
After this, clients deserted his office,
gentlemen refused to recognize him or re
turn his salute in the thoroughfares of
business, or during his morning strolls
over the hills. Had his tonch been con
tagion, or his breath pestilence, he could
not have beeu more carefully shunned.
Another week passed, and the degra
ded lawyer was in a state of mind bor
dering on insanity ; and yet all the while
he concealed the mental torture from his
affectionate wife. One evening, in a more
than common hitter and gloomy mood, as
he walked through the public square, he
was again accosted by Mike Johnson, with
his cocked pistol in one hand and uplift
ed cowhide iu the other. The assault was
the more aggravating as the place was
thronged with spectators.
“Coward and villain!” exclaimed John
son, “ did I not tell you that I would cow
hide you every week, until I whipped the
courage of a man aud a gentleman into
your Yankee hide ?”
“ I am not a coward,” retorted Thomas,
in a hollow tone, so unearthly fierce and
wild that it caused every hearer to start.
At the instant, his lips were livid, and
clenched between his teeth till the blood
ran. His eyes were red as a mad dog’s
and the muscles of his face quivered; but
his body and limbs seemed to have the
rigidity of marble.
“ He will fight now,” rung in an eager
whisper through the excited crowd, as
they saw the terrible tokens of the fiend
aroused—the fiend which lurks, at differ
ent depths, in all human natures.
“ If you are not a coward, why will you
not fight ?” asked the duelist, somewhat
struck, in spite of his thorough despera
tion, hardened in the hot gore of a dozen
murders. “ I will fight if you wish it,”
was the loud ringing answer.
“ Then you accept my challenge ?”
“I do. Will any one present he so
good as to act as my second ?” inquired
the lawyer, addressing the spectators.
For a minute or two no one spoke, so
great was the dread of the arch duelist,
Mike Johnson.
“ Will no one in such a mass of gener
ous men he my second ?” repeated the
lawyer, in a louder tone.
“ I will,” said a shrill, trumpet-like voice,
on the outskirts of the crowd, and a tall,
commanding form, with bravery written
on his brow, and the eagle’s eye beneath
it, made his way to the scene of conten
tion, and stood close fronting Johnson,
with a smiling glance, before which the
latter, for an instant, quailed.
The question “ who is he ? who is he ?”
circulated among the looktr',on. But no
one had ever seen him before, and yet ev
erybody would have sworn to his courage,
so bold, yet tranquil was his hearing.
“Who are yon?” inquired the duelist,
recovering his presence of mind.
“ A stranger ft om Texas.”
“ But who will vouch for your respect
ability ?”
“ I can give you vouchers sufficient,”
replied the stranger, frowning till his
brows looked frightful; and then stoop
ing forward he whispered something in
Johnson’s ear, audibly alone to him.
“ I am satisfied,” said tbe duelist aloud,
and trembling perceptibly. “Colonel
Morton, will you serve as my friend ?”
The individual last addressed gave his
assent.
“Now, let us adjourn to some private
room to arrange the preliminaries,” re
marked the stranger; and the principals
and seconds left the crowd, then increasing
every minute, and excited nearly to mad
ness by the thick-crowding events of the
hour.
The meeting took place the following
night, in a dark room, with the door
locked, and the two seconds on the out
side. The principals were placed in oppo
site corners of the apartment, which was
twenty feet square, and each was armed
with a large bowie-knife—no more. It
was midnight—a night without moon or
stars. Black pitchy clouds enveloped the
sky, and a slight sifting mist rendered the
shadows of the earth more intense.—
Hence, the room where the d uel was about
to begin was wrapped in rayless darkness.
The combatants could not even see the
blades of their own knives.
At first, they both stooped and steal
thily untied and took off their .-hoes, so
as to make ihe least possible noise in
walking over the floor. The same thought
bad struck them Loth at the same time—
to manoeuvre for the vantage ground.
Thomas moved in a circle, softly as a
cat, around the apartment, till he got
within a few feet of the corner where his
enemy had first been placed and then
E aused to listen. For four or five seconds
e conld hear nothing in the grave-like
silence but the quick beats of his own
busy heart. Presently, however, there
crept into his ear a scarcely audible sound,
as of suppressed breathing, in the corner
of the room which he had previously left;
and then he knew that his foe was trying
the same stratagem. The ruse was re
peated thrice, with a like result. At
length Thomas concluded to stand per
fectly still and await Johnson’s approach.
Motionless now himself, and all ear, soon
he could distinguish a soft rustling noise,
like the dropping of flakes of wool, cir
cling around thajioor and gradually ad
vancing toward him.
At last, when the sound appeared with
in about three feet of the lawyer’s posi
tion, he suddenly made a hounding plunge
with his knife, aimed in the dark air, where
he supposed the bosom of his foe to be.
His blade struck against that of the other,
and a few sparks of fire rolled at the fierce
collision, and fell expiring on the floor.
And then for an instant, the seconds
without the door heard a sharp ringhig
of steel, a groan, a fall, and all again was
silent as the tomb! The duel at midnight
had ended ; hut how ? They were appalled
at the horrible question.
Waiting some minutes, and hearing no
thing more, Col. Morton and the stran
ger prepared a light, unlocked the door,
and entered. The spectacle was most af
fecting. There lay the bloody corpse of
the duelist Johnson, mangled dreadfully,
and above it stood the erect and imposing
form, of the lawyer, Thomas—unhurt,
not a cut on his skin or i o ut in his cloth
ing, but weeping as if his heart were bro
ken.
He started hack as the flashing light
dazzled his eyes, and, growing pale as the
dead at his feet, exclaimed, in accents of
immeasurable anguish-“Oh, God! how
shall I endure to meet my dear wife, with
this murderous gore on my hands! Such
stains would defile the very gates of
heaven, and blacken the floor of hell it
self!”
He did, however, after wards meet Emma
and her bal e; but we shall not attempt to
paint the scene. A week subsequently,
he was shot to pieces in his. own office,
while employed in writing after night.
The assassin was not known, bnt supposed
to be a younger brother of the duelist,
Johnson.
The stranger who acted in the combat
as the second of Thomas was indeed, as
he said, from Texas, and then traveling
through Mississippi, and was the bravest
man, perhaps, that ever drew the breath
of life—James Bowie, who fell only with
the fall of the Alamo when his red knife
was drunk with the blood of Mexicans.
Mr*. Lincoln Exposed.
Tbe shameless importunities of Mrs. Lincoln
and her persistent thrusting of herself before
the public as a pauper, have driven the Senate
to making an exposure which even the political
enemies of Mr. Lincoln have been magnani
mous enough not to make, even though the facts
were well known and generally talked about in
Washington. We allude to her wholesale
plunder ot the White House before she left it
after the death of Mr. Lincoln, a fact ot which,
for tbe credit ol the country, even the Demo
cratic press has forebore to speak. The circum
stance is referred to iu the report of the Senate
Committee refusing her a pension, which ia thus
synopsized by the correspondent of the New
York Herald:—Savannah Republican.
The committee are constrained to find, from
the facts belore them, that Mrs. Lincoln is not
in fact in the destitute condition which has beeu
represented, and that her means must be reason
ably sufficient to the just necessity of a citizen
of the United Stales, cither at home or abroad.
A recapitulation of her assets show that the
balance ot salary for her husband’s unexpired
year was $22,000, and that on the 13th of No
vember, 1867, she received as her share of the
personal estate of President Lincoln $36,765 60
(Ihe same sum bemg also given to her minor
son Thomas,) making her total cash assets $58-
765 60, in addition to which there is some un
productive real estate of which the committee
have taken no account. They have good reason
to believe she also received no inconsiderable amount
of clothing, plate, household goods, &c. after the
death of Hr. Lincoln, which, in considering her
pecuniary condition, should be added to the
above mentioned sum. Subscriptions were
opened for Mrs. Lincoln, but the committee are
not informed what amount has been realized.
Mrs. Lincoln does not seem to urge her claim
entirely on the grounds of actual want of the
comforts of life.
In her petition transmitted from Frankfort
praying ior a pension she states she has been
advised to try the mineral waters during the
summer, and then to go to Italy; “but my
financial means do not permit me to take advan
tage ot the urgent advice given me, nor can I
live in a style becoming the widow of the Chief
Magistrate of a great nation, though I live as
economically as lean.” The committee say
from the standpoint of a European kingdom
and European society this, very probably, is cor
rect; but in a republican country, where there
is no distinction of rauk, and where all duties
are measured largely by the means of perform
ance, the committee think a fortune of $60 000
or even one-third ot that sum, for a lady must
take her out of the category of those whose ne
cessities in consequence ot the casualties of pub
lic service give them a claim upon the Treasury.
After other argumenfs the committee conclude
by saying: “Under the circumstances ot the
case they do not think that either sentiment or
duty requires a further provision in accordance
with the request of Mrs. Lincoln, and therefore
recommend that the bill be indefinitely post
poned.”
The report is signed by Senators Edmunds,
Tipton, Pratt, Spencer, Howell and McCreery.
Certain Cure fob Chicken Cholera.—
As this dreadful scourge to the chicken race, is
still lingering among us, though much modified
In form, we deem it prudent to give our readers
all the information we have at our command on
this subject. Our family has sustained heavy
losses daring the pa9t year by cholera among
onr chickens. First and last during that time,
over one hundred and fifty of ours have died
with it. So disastrous was Us effects among our
grown fowls, we had but one grown hen that
survived, and no rooster. The only remedy
that approximated to an effectual remedy which
we discovered, was alum and paste, mixed to
gether. We recommend the following for its
simplicity. If it proves better than the alum
and flour remedy, let us introduce it into prac
tice, and have two remedies instead of one. The
following is from the Augusta Constitutionalist :
“ A gentleman, who has repeatedly tested its
efficacy, lnmishes us with a recipe for the core
of chicken cholera, which disease has recently
spread such destruction among fowls of the hen
neries of this city, and indeed throughout the
State. The remedy is simply fat bacon pills, of
convenient size to thrust down the throat of the
fowl, the pills well coated with strong mustard.
Two pills usually suffice to effect a cure.”
A Ball in Idaho.—The local editor of a
Journal in Idaho having attended a ball on the
frontier, has felt moved after the manner of
Jenkins, of the metropolitan press, to furnish a
report of some of the dresses worn by soma of
the eminent ladies present:
Miss A. was everlastingly scrumptious in an
underskirt of red calico, flounced with blue
muslin, surmounted with a overskirt of linsey
hooped m the rear en saddlebag with yellow
bows. Waist a la anarugeon de buster. Hair in
a chignon resembling halt a cabbage head. Ex
traordinary hefty.
Mrs. B. wore a skirt of home made flannel,
displaying in a very beautiful manner her No.
11 moccasins. Corsage de suuyanosh ornament
ed with soldier buttons. Hair fricassee, perfume
of cinnamon drops. Exclusively highfalutin.
Madame C., a noted half-breed belfe, attracted
an all fired sight of comment by appearing In a
hoopskirt ornamented with fox tails en evreum-
bendtbus. Waist of yeliow flannel, slashed with
strips ot Buffalo hide. She carried a big sun
flower, and danced with great luceness. Terrifi
cally magnificent.
Rev. Robert Collyer, the Unitarian, in a
recent lecture ou “ the theatre, the opera and
the church,” said: “I confess that I never saw
snch power; I never remarked such nature in
any Christian pulpit that it ever was my privi
lege to sit under as in Joseph Jefferson’s ‘ Rip
Van Winkle.’ It is nature, not art. No ser
mon scarcely in the world, except that of
Christ, when he stood with tbe adulterous
woman, ever illustrated the power of love to
conquer evil and to win the wanderer, as that
little piece, so perfectly rendered by this genius
which God has given to illustrate in the drama
the power ol love over the sins of the race.”
A lady went info the rooms of a noted man
ufacturer of hoop skirts, in New York, to ex
amine a new style of hoop-skirts, which he was
anxious to introduce. The wife of the manu
facturer, in her zeal, put one of them on, and
to exhibit their convenience, and to show that
they would not pop up here and there just
where they should not, as is the wont of thu
particular article of dress, sat - down and laid
downwith it on. Finally, as the crowning re
commendation she said, “Indeed, it is a most
excellent article for the communion table. Sea
how well one can kneel in it.” And she drop
ped upon her knees and leaned forward as
though about to partake of the sacrament.
An Illinois female, not an ignorant servant,
but an intelligent housekeeper, who took in the’
Chicago papers, and mast have been posted as
to kerosene accidents, recently poured coal oil
into her fire to make it burn more rapidly. Re
sult—she wa3 also roasted alive. Parts of her
body were burned to a crisp, and she was found
in that condition, screaming with agony. Death
relieved her after she had suffered indescribable
tortures for lonr hours. Thousands of people
will read about this shocking disaster. How
many of those who will read abont it will at
some tntnre period not far distant try to im
prove their fires by tbe same dangerous process.
Plkbiscitum.—This word, which has been
so frequently given of late in the dispatches
from France, is thus rendered by Webster:
“Latin, iiomplebs.plebis, common people, and
seitum, decree. A law enacted by the common
reople, under the superintendence of the Tri-
rane or some snborainate plebian
Without the intervention of the fjeaate.”