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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. Wl K 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.”