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ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, May 18. 1870.
Xlie Era on Bryant.
« Bryant thinks Hon. Foster Blodgett a
man of weak intellect because he makes no
speeches! It is Mr. Bryant’s speeches that bc-
ti ay him. as one ol the weakest men, intellectu
ally and morally, in Georgia. II he had sense
enough to hold his peace, his stupidity and ig
norance would not now be a by-word in the
mouth ol both political parties.’
This is one utterance of the Era which is
every whit tree. We Lave no kind ol use tor
this man Bryant. He is a bad man, and would,
we believe, plunge Georgia into chaotic contu
sion in the accomplishment of his nefarious per
sonal aspirations. Had he and his crowd not
gone to Washington when they did, but remained
ot home and kept tlieir mouths shut, we verily
believe the Bingham Amendment would have
gone through Congress despite the efforts ol Bul
lock and bis parasites. Bryant is no friend to
Georgia or the South.
The fokegoing comments on tbe Era’« notice
of Bryant appeared in the Norik Georgia Citizen,
of the 12th instant. Wc heartily endorse every
word of it said ol him. The Democracy of Geor
gia have no use for ihc man. A graver mistake
was never made by the Democrats in the Legis-
latu'c who took him up and put him inihe lead,
castwg their votes lor him lor Speaker, and
otherwise endorsing him. We believe too, with
!be Citizen, that had he notgone to Washington,
the Georgia bill, wilh the Bingham Amend
ment, would this day have been the law of
the land, and the State now one of
the States of the Union. No benefit can accrue
to any party in Georgia tuat will rccoguizo such
men as Bryant and the “ Waboo” Bradley as
leaders in it. Their offenses against the State
have been so rank that “they smell to Heaven,’’
and tho sooner that portion of the democracy
who took the former of them up and attached
impoitanco to him, and who seem now to be
willing to embrace “Aaron Alpeoria,” cease to
do honor unto them, the belter lor Georgia —
Let them be neither recognized as chiefs nor
lieutenants, for they can but be marplots in the
way, as well ot the peace and prosperity of the
Stalo, as ol any party to which they may be al
lied. The Georgia democracy—the bone and sin
ew and intellect of the parly—have no use for
cither of them. Our North Georgia cotempora
ry is right, in what he says of Bryant, and
doubtless entertains ol Bradley the same opin-
A Southern Hallrond Charter Alter All.
Our readers are aware that the contemplated
Railroad from Cincinnati, through Kentucky to
Chattanooga, and which, when constructed,
would open a direct route from the “Queen City
of the West,’’ to the Georgia seaboard, and
confer vast benefits upon Atlanta, has been, by
the action of the Kentucky Legislature, estopped
in its progress, much to the discomfiture and
chagrin ol those having control of that great
enterprise, and much to the gratification ot the
business men generally ot Louisville. It seems,
however, that the barrier in the way ot success
ful prosecution of that great enterprise is about
tG be, perhaps is already removed. It is so, if
the following from the Lexington Gazette con
tains no Qaw in it. That paper says : “While
the city of Louisville aud Nashville Rail
road Company were busy in defeating the
ellorts of General Breckinridge, R. M. Bish
op and others to procure a charter for a Southern
railroad, the Representative of Garrard county,
Hon. Geo. R McKee, one of the most acute law
yers in the State, got a railroad charter passed
which embraces every lrauchise which tho
lriends of the Southern railroad wanted, and
which was drawn up by the author so that it
would conform in every icspectto the Ferguson
bill This charter is the most comprehensive
document of the kind ever pr-sed-by any 7 Legis
lature, and the committee who reported it did
so in despair, after laboi ing on it lor weeks and
still were not able to digest all its provisions. It
is drawn with the precision ;.t a lawyer’s brief,
and being drawn by a lawyer it will be found
to be unassailable in eveiy respect. We, ourself,
have devoted all spare time tor three weeks to its
study and have not been able to accomplish
more than four hundred of its volumin
ous pages. The company under this Union
charter has been organ zed, with Judge McKee
as President, and we understand that the fran
chises will be oftt-red the trustees ot the Cincin
nati ten-million fund, under which they can go
on aud build their much desired road, the Wes
tern Camden and Amboy monopolists to the
contrary notwithstanding. There is no question
about tho coutormily ot this Union railroad
charter to the celebrated Ferguson bill, tor it
was drawn by its acute anther, wilh special re
ference to that bill, and so drawn that w hile it
would escape the Argus eyes of the numerous
agents ol the Louisville interest, a shout of
laughter aud exultation will go up from all parts
ol the State when it becomes fully known u >w
ent.rely the conspirators have been circum
vented by the sagacity and shrewdness of a
grim old lawyer from the rural districts. This
charter will do away with the necessity of Mr.
Sherman’s national mad, to which relerence has
been made recently, tor we are assured by those
whose leisure has been an ;.ter than ours, aud
whose patience has been equal to the task ot
mastering its voluminous provisions, that its
franchises arc as liberal as is cousLteut with
the Constitution of the State, and much mere
so than the most ardent advocates ol the Cin
cinnati Southern rairoad charter ever dreamed
of asking tho Legislatuie. Wc look forward
with no little iuterest to the negotiations which
are said to be on foot between the Union Rail
road Company and the Cinciunati trustees.
What blank astonishment will snffuse the coun
tenances of the monopoly conspirators when
the denouement takes place.”
Wc congratulate all Georgia upon this result
of the “McKee charter.” The merchants of
Louisville and Nashvilie have been overreached
by it, and are, no doubt, mourning over their
fate. The Cincinnati Road completed to Chat
tanooga, and Atlanta’s harvest upon it will be
great. In five years thereafter she will double
in population any city in the State.
The Tariff.
Congress has spent a great dealof time in dis
cussing and amending the tariff bill, and now it
is stated tiiat there is no possibility of its passage
by the Senate, even if it should pass the House.
; The New Yo;k Express says: “Its friends ad-
i mit that it cannot pass the Senate, even if it
gets tb rnugh the House, which is now very
doublfnl. It is a fairly debateable question,
whether the friends or enemies of the measure
have done most to kill the bill. It is enough to
know that it is practically dead for the session,
and that both the committees of Ways and
Means and Finance and the Executive are turn
ing their attention to Internal Revenue. Gen.
Butler also has a personal finger in the pie oi
Tarifl reconstruction, which may follow action
upon the Georgia bill, provided that Georgia is
to be admitted at all this session oi Congress,
which just now is by no means certain. The
only thing, indeed, which is so far certain is
that Congress has been nearly six months
in session without abating one dollar ot Federal
tax.”
Georgia Railroad and Banking Company.
We lay before our readers this morning the
annual report of Hon. John P. King, the Pres
ident of the Georgia Railroad and Banking
Company, made to the stockholders thereof, at
their late meeting in Augusta. Next to the
State Road our Atlanta readers feel a deeper
personal interest in the success of the Georgia
Railroad than in any other connecting road at
this point—many of them being stockholders
in it, and it beiog a work to which our city
owes much of its progress and prosperity. The
report itself is a business like document, clear,
concise, and considering the importance ot the
topics it embraces, brief but to the point At
tached to the report of the President of the
company, is the repoxt of the General Superin
tendent of the road. Col. E. W. Cole, giving
elaborate details of the workings and improve
ments made upon the road during the last year,
and which, but for the large space it would oc
cupy in these columns, we would also lay belore
our readers. Perhaps we may yet do so.—
These reports show that the road is in a most
prosperous condition; that its progress is an
onward one, its management steering clear, at
the same time from that “ railroad mania ” which
its able President says “ seems to pervade the
whole country,” and which, as he truthfully re
marks, excites" apprehensions that vast amounts
ot capital may be wasted on useless and unprofit
able works that might bo more profitably em
ployed, to be followed by financial embarrass
ment and general bankruptcy.” But the re
port Bpeaks for itself, and to it we refer the
reader as an able and interesting document, well
worth attentive perusal.
Tbe Brigand* ot Greece.
It is now said there “ can be no doubt what
ever that the party recently captured by the bri
gands in Greece lost their lived through the folly
of the Greek Government. Lord Muncaster was
sent on parole to arrange for raising the money
demanded as ransom—only $25,000 ! A banker
at Athens generously offered to advance the
money at once, without security—how many
lords not in the bauds of Greek bandits must
wish they knew that banker. Lord Muncaster
returned to the bandits in a country cart, and
then the government seul troops alter the party,
with orders not to listen to proposals of amnesty.
The order was the death-knell of the captives.
As the soldiers surrounded the brigands, they
shot the travelers one after the other—Lord
Muncaster, it is believed, having managed to es
cape. It will, perhaps, be remembered that
every bod y supposed that King Theodore would
serve the Abysinian captives in the same man
ner, as soon as the British forces got in sight ot
Magdala—and why he didn’t, no one has ever
been able to explain.”
A Beautiful Prayer.
At the ceremcny of decorating the graves of
the “ Confederate dead,” at Charleston, and ol
laying the corner stone of a monument to be
erected to their memory, the following brief but
beautiful prayer was otiered to the Throne of
Grace, by the Grand Master of the Masonic
Fraternity, who officiated on the occasion :
“ May the all-bounteous Author of Nature
bless those engaged in this important enterprise,
and give them all that is requisite to speedily
complete their work; assist in the election and
completion of this monument; protect the work
men against every accident; long preserve the
structure from decay, and grant to us all a sup
ply of the corn of nourishment, the wine of re
freshment, and the oil ot joy. So mote it be.—
Amen.”
Tbe Georgia Railroad and Banking Com
pany.
At the meeting ot the stockholders of the
Company recently held in Augusta, the follow
ing officers were elected :
President—John V. King.
Directors—E. E. Jones, John Bones, Edward
R. Ware, Samuel Barnett, Antoine Poullaio,
James W. Davies, L. M Hid, Richard Peters,
Stevens Thomas, James S H iindton, George T.
Jackson, M. P. Stovall, Thos J. Burney, D. E.
Butler, Josi.xh Siblty, G( r.rge Ili’lyer,
Col. E. W. Cole was re elected to the position
ot General Superintendent, and S. K. Johnson,
Esq, to that ot Sur-eiic'endei t.
we know—
suggestions,
Wliat (lie tVeitleru Farmer* Say of tbe
Tariff.
According to the New York Express, except
upon axes, the Western fanners say:
“ Everything that a farmer buys is protected;
everything he sells is free; and on every farm
ing tool, fer every shoe for his horse, for every
tin pan for his dairy, he has to pay two priceB
on account ot Protection. If he would put a
nutmeg in his gruel, he must pay two prices for
it, that the enterprising manufacturer of that
article in Connecticut may be properly pro
tected. If he would put any salt in his porridge,
he must pay the Onondaga Salt Company a tax
of one dollar and a quarter ou each barreL It
is generally supposed that the English people
are heavily taxed. A British larmer gets twice
as much for a bushel of grain as a Minnesota
farmer does, and for each dollar h3 gets lor it
be can buy twice as much of the comforts of
life as the Minnesota man can, making one
bushel ol grain there equal to four here. If we
did not have the richest country in the world—
where the most could be raised for tbe least
Jabor—we could not stand it a year.”
Tbe Word Loyal.
In a recent debate in Congress, Mr. Eld ridge,
of Wisconsin, declared that tbe term “loyal"
always reminded him of a definition given to it
by an army contractor during the war, when
asked to explain what he meant by saying that
he felt “loyal." “I meant,” said the contrac
tor, “ that I felt like stealing something.” Mr.
Eldridge continued, that for himself, he was pa
triotic, not loyal The word did r.ot belong to
this country; it only belonged to Massachu
setts.
The Apple Tree Borer.
The Western Rural advises trail growers to
build fires ia the orchard at night in summer
for the purpose ol attracting those moths and
beetles, the larva; of which are so destructive
to wood, foliage, and fruit. A lamp placed on
& stand in a large tub nearly full of water, will
b« an excellent trap lor catching and destroy
ing nocturnal motbs and beetles of various
IfjpHa, The lamp is more permanent and less
troublesome than a fire, and the numbers of
the 0l{4DJp9D he seen every morning in the
water,
A Good One on Ben Builor.
The New York World says the 6iock Joke of
the drama of the gay spend-thrift who writes a
deprecatory letter to his tailor and a flaming
billet-doux to the heiress he is courting, and then
absent-mindedly misdirects them, so that Miss
is overwhelmed with excuses, and Snip wilh
love, finds something of a counterpart in real
life in the case very lately of the good Dr. But
ler. Ben, it seems, had been invi'ed to some
Skowhegan college, away off in Maine, and
when the master ot ceremonies rose, omnes
intend, to read a letter of excuse lor his absence,
horror smit the assemblage at these words:
Sir: If Mr Whittemore told you that I had
anything to do with the sale of cadetships, it
was a downrignt falsehood.
Youis, B. F. Butler.
Ben had mixed his envelopes—that’s all.
Tbe Georgia Queailon.
When the Georgia bul was last before the
Committee on Reconstruction -the 10th instant
—it was proposed to report to the House tho
bill as originally introduced in that body, which
is similar to the bill admitting Virginia to rep
resentation, with an amendment providing for
the employment of militia instead of the regular
forces in cases of necessity for the preservation
of peace and the enforcement of the laws. The
amendment is in lien of Senate substitute. In
stead of fixing the time ot election tor members
ot the Legislature as in that substitute and in
the Bingham amendment, the question of the
lime of office is to be left to judicial decision.—
Tbe committee arrived at no definite conclusion
and tbe consideration of the subject postponed,
with an understanding that it would be resumed
on yesterday. -
•*A Grand Splurge.”
We see it stated that a number of Boston men
will start on the 23d of May on an excursion to
San Francisco. An equal number of ladies will
accompany them. Capital to the amount ot
$50,000,000 will be represented. Nine cars fitted
up with restaurant, sofas, billiard tabks,‘- j etc.,
have been built expressly lor the occasion. The
Governor of Massachusetts, Mayors of Boston
aud surrounding towns, will be among the ex
cursionists. It has been arranged that the Gov
ernor of the States through which they pass
will meet them on the confines and escort them
through their States, a newspaper published
on the train every day, giviog a description of
the country and notable persons they meet, will
be one of the principal features of tbe occasion.
Charles W. Brooks, Chinese Consul at San
Francisco, has charge of tbe affair.
This will be a “grand splurge’’ indeed I
Strange,
After an interruption of 1,800 years, a theater
has been re-opened at Pompeii with Donizetti's
opera, “The Daughter ot tbe Regiment.” Di
rector Laumi made a speech to the audience,
in which he requested the public to extend to
him the same leniency and good wishes
which his predecessor, Marius Quintas enjoyed,
who at the eruption ot ML Vesuvius, in the
year 76 ot our Lord, was drowned in the fiery
lava stream, and whose endeavors he promised
to take as an example for himself.
Good Sense.
Some one—a sensible tel low
makes the following excellent
which we commend to the attention of our city
readers: “It you want to kill a town, put up no
more buildings than you are obliged to occupy
yourself It you should have an empty building
and any one wished to rent it, ask about three
times its value. Look at every new comer with
a scowl. Turn a cold shoulder to every busi
ness man and mechanic who seeks a home
among you. Go abroad lor your wares rather
than purchase from your own merchants and
manufacturers at the same prices. Refuse to
advertise, so that persons at a distance will not
know that any business is being done in your
city. A prompt and close observance ot these
rules will ruin any town in two years.”
Iron Around Peach Tree*.
At a recent meeting ot the American Insti
tute Farmers’ Club, Mr. Wagner, who lives on
Long Island, about 50 miles east of New York,
exhibited some pruning from his orchard to
illustrate the efiect of putting iron around trees.
He took an old place wilh 20 trees in the
orchard, full of dead limbs, with yellow leaves,
and the crotches oozing thick gum. He gave
the earth a good top-dressing ol iron, breaking
up old plows and stoves and scattering the
fragments. The efiect has been marvelous.
The trees have renewed their youth, and now
look strong and thrifty. The bark is tight and
the leaves all greeD, and the borer has dis
appeared. He thinks the slag of iron-furnaces,
ground up aud spread ou orchards, would
prove a very valuable fertilizer for fruit trees of
all kinds.
On Confiscation..
Judge Woods, presiding over tlieTTnited Slates
Courts in Louisiana, reports to the Attorney
General that he has dismissed a number of oases
that have been pending in hi3 court, brought
under the confiscation act, ia accordance with
the recent instructions of the Attorney General
to have all cases under ‘’aid act discontinued.—
A number of cases ot a similar nature are pend
ing in the courts at Washington, and will be
probably dismissed immediately 7 .
The Cadet* at West Point.
Nearly all tbe cadets at West Point are from
Northern and Western States, yet they do not
take to negro equality very gracefully. It is re
lated that when one ot tbe cadets was asked
how he should have liked it if the proposed ne
gro cadets had been admitted, he answered
“They would not have lived two nights after
they entered.”
Are there any Ku Klux at West Point? How,
otherwise, can they get rid of negro associates ?
Atlanta.
The editor of the North Georgia Citizen says
that 11 whilst in Atlanta a few days ago, we
were forcibly impressed by the rapid and
almost stariliag growth the city has made in the
last twelve months. Extensive improvements
are being made every day. Buildings are going
up as if by magic. Atlanta seems destined to
become the metropolis ot Georgia. She does
indeed remind us of that mythical female wlio^e
name she bears. Aoreast of all Georgia cities
now, she will in a few more years far outstrip
them in the race.”
That editor’s head is on a “ dead level.”
[communicated.]
Atlanta, Ga., May 13.
I see that the Griffin papers are advocating
w th considerable enthusiasm, the claims of Mr.
S. W. Blood worth, of Griffin, to the office ot
Secretary ol the State Agricultural Society, an
election for which is to take place on the 22d
of June next. Mr. Blood worth is well known
in Spalding county as the “ model farmer,” and
well does he deserve the title. He it was wno
received the premium at the tair last tall tor the
largest yield ot corn to the acre in tne State, and
he has more recently received the premium,
awarded at the same lair, lor tbe best essay
founded on experience, on *• economy in resus
citating worn >*ut lands.” This makes tbirty-
tour premiums received by bim at different lairs
in the State, tor agricultural essays, products
and implements. Mr. B is a man of great ener
gy, and has given tbe subject of fairs a thoiough
iovestiga'ion, and from his long connec
tion and experience wan them, I suspect
he is as welt posted in matters con erect
ed therwith, as any man in the State.—
He is not only a thorough business man, but he
is asuccesaiul practical larmer, and that is just
the kind ot man we need for tbe place. It is
with pleasure I notice the enthusiasm of the
Griffin papers tor their “ model. larmer,” and I
heartily endorse their commendations.
An Atlanta Voter.
Another View ot the McFarland Verdict.
The vedict rendered in the Me Far land trial
shows that it is useless to argue against the wick
edness of private vengeance as murderously
taken upon the destroyers of domestic happi
ness. Urge, as we may, the sacredness of human
life, the enormities of assassinat’on, and the un
pardonable nature of murder—there is the fact,
staring us in tne iace, that men whose marital
honor has been shamefully violated will not
hesitate to use the knife or the pistol in seeking
for revenge. They know they may do this with
impunity. The Sickles, the Cole, and other
cases have established this knowledge. The
McFarland case has now set the seal of cer
tainty wherever there mav have any doubt ex
isted. It is as certain as that the san rises and
sets that in no part of this country can a jury be
lound to conv’et of murder the man who slays
the seducer of bis wile. Nay, it is even clearly
demonstrated that juries will not find verdicts
against the men who kill the attempted
destroyers of their sacred married rela
tions. We have nothing to say concerning the
right or the wrong ot this determination of
tbe community to secure the safety of the con
jugal tie seemingly at a hazard. The fact that
the determination is made and will be adhered
to is plain. It cannot oe argued down. It can
not be set aside. Proper or improper there it
stands, and will surely be sustained. The
laws concerning murder are, in such cases, a
dead letter. Let the free-lovers engrave this
upon tbeir memories. Public opinion is unani
mous upon this point, and libertines will do well
to bear lurever about with them the recollection
that when they enter tbe sanctuary of a felllow-
beiog’s household with intent to defile it they
take tbeir lives in their bands, and become out
laws. People who have no reverence for the du
ties and obligations embodied in the matrimo
nial covenants, and who think that the grosser
passions should be gratified at will, irrespective
ot the marriage tie, bad better cease proclaiming
their vile doctrines, for the peril of the practical
illustration thereof is mortal. % This is one of
the lessons ot the trial just concluded. Another
taught by the trial should Bink deep into the
hearts of husbands.- Those who regard their
honor as worth a pin’s fee should be cautious in
whose soe’etv they allow their wives to mingle
Moral contagion is as hateful and as readily
taken as physical contagion. There is no
society so dangerous to the unsophisticated
woman, with a petty ambitioD to be “some
body,” as the kind into which Mr. McFarland
allowed his wife to wander, and from which he
in id- n > efl.irt to extricate Iter until it was too
h.'e. Th* man who values his domestic peace
will be cautious and circumspect with regard to
the social companions ot his wife and children.
These should De well weighed when asking for
admission to the lamily circle, and if lound
wanting rigorously excluded. No man can too
vigilantly guard the citadel wllich protects all
that he holds most dear, and upon whose preser
vation from pollution hia chief happiness de
pends.—Neio York Express.
From the Memphis Appeal, May 10.
Conservatism In the Church.
Bishop Andrews, in a conversational tone,
delivered a brief address in which he urged the
necessity for conservatism in the conduct ot
the Convention. He adverted to the accession
of laymen to the body, and thought that the
Conference was the gainer by this reform. He
seemed apprehensive, however, of danger that
might arise from a tendency to change. Per
haps the age in which, we live is revolutionary,
aud which our political government absorbs un
heard ot pow'ers and gathers lorcts unknown
belore. The spirit of Methodism may be too
strongly directed in the opposite direction ; such
it seems are apprehensions entertained by the
venerable Bishop. He spoke of his advancing
years, ol his physical weakness, of the difficul
ties he encountered in reaching Memphis,
of his indebtedness to a kind friend who had at
tended him hither, ot his wife who had urged
him to come that he might once more meet
those whom he had known, loved and labored
with through so many successive years. He
said that his most earnest desire was that the
Conference should act with moderation in aT
its measures, and insisted that it would be well
to enter upon no radical changes; he said, to
use a vnlear illustration, we should run the ma
chine slowly, as it is tor four years, and then, it it
performed not the service required, knock off its
wheels and set it up again. Sudden, violent,
radical changes were dao/frous. Tbe organi
zation, as it exists, has wrought wonderful moral
triumphs, and unless assured that a proposed
change was u certain reiorm, it were wise to rest
where we are Such, substantially was the
Bishop’s advice to his intently listening children.
He adverted to the abuyjrTo yyhich he has
been subjected for a series of ^ears, before, du
ring and since the war, by Northern Methodist
papers. He designated a Cincinnati Methodist
paper that had been especially denunciatory,
“and yet,” said the Bishop, “I knew well and
esteemed the conductor of that journal. I asked
him, said the aged man, to withhold his paper,
and I have never heard more of his assaults ”
A better feeling is perhaps growing into
existence. In any event Bishop Andrews
evinced no spirit of vindictiveness, and uttered
no unkind word affecting Northern Meth
odists. He tnen appealed to the affection
entertained for the Methodist Church by
those who had been its members from child
hood. "I have never known one,” said he,
“to leave it because there was social or political
advantage to gain by the change.” The Bishop
then spoke of a disposition among ministers and
others ot the Church to glorify one another m
the newspapers of the Church. His animad
versions were good humored and effective, and
the point was appreciated when he referred to
the facility with which the prefix “Professor”
was applied to the names of “humble follow
ers ol Christ.”
BY TELEGRAPH.
NEW YORK ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES'.
SUNDAY’S DISPATCHES.
Washington, May 15—The Cabinet, on Fri
day, decided against allowing the Big Horn
Mining Expedition to start till after the confer
ence with the hostile chiefs, who are now on
the way here. General AGgur, commanding
the Department of the Platte, has been instruct
ed to carry out this determination.
Louisville, May 15.—Quartermaster General
Meigs has issued an order to the officers in
charge of the National Cemeteries, instructing
them to make all necessary arrangements and
afford the proper facilities lor the decoration ot
the Union Soldiers’ graves on the 30th ot May.
He has furnished a copy of this order to the
Grand Army ot the Republic, thus officially re
cognizing, for the first time, tne existence ot this
organization.
Ithaca, May 15.—A war party of Ogallalas,
clothed by the government, killed the wile and
little son, and captured the daughter, aged 13
years, of a settler on the Nebraska river, one
hundred and twenty miles north of Sioux city.
The husband escaped. It creates intense ex
citement. There are load calls tor Sheridan and
Baker.
Chicago, May 15.—Adviq^s from Atlantia,
Wyoming Terntoiy, report a fight with the In
dians; two were killed and several wounded
Tbe Indians were pursued, when they renewed
the fight, and five more Indians were killed —
Daring the fight St Staabach was killed and
Sergeant Brown seriously wounded.
Louisville, May 15.—Henry Clay’s son,
Theodore, tor 50 years an inmate of the lunatic
asylum, is dea l.
Paris, May 15.—The Corps Legislatiff has re
assembled. There are no developments re
garding the new Cabinet.
Barncell, the well known radical deputy, is
hopelessly sick.
Rome, May 15.—The Ecumenical Council has
closed the discussion on catechism. The debate
ou primacy and infallibility commenced to-day.
London, May 15.—At the annual press fund
dinner last night, W. H Smith presided. Lord
Honghton was the orator.
New York, May 15.—An expedition of 300
men, all Cur ans except iive 'merican captains,
left here early Saturday morning as passengers
on the steamer hound for San Domingo. They
carried 7,000 rifles and six large guns, uniforms,
equipments, powder, &c.
Memphis, May 15.—The 4th resolution pro
posed by the committee, to whom was referred
a proposal for Union, says: “It is the judgment
ot this conference, that the true interests of the
Church of Christ, require and demand the
maintainance of a separate and distinct organiza
tion. Resolution adopted.
NOON DISPATCHES.
SENATE.
Washington, May 16 —A hill grantiug the
public lands in Alabama to the Decatur and
Aberdeen railroad has been passed.
HOUSE.
Bills were introduced granting lands to the
New York and Nortolk railroad; tor the im
provement of the Tombigbee river; not to ex
clude women from the census; marshal ships;
constructing a bridge across the Ohio, at Me
tropolis, Illinois; granting lands for a railroad
from the Mississippi to the Arkansas river along
the 35th parallel.
The House refused to order the Reconstruc
tion Committee to report a bill lor General
Amnesty, vote 51 to 78.
Nothing from the Committees.
Congressman Perce, from the Fifth Missis
sippi District, nominated a negro to West
Point.
New York, May 16.—The steamers South
Carolina and Idaho have arrived.
Lacrosse, Wis., Mav 16 —A boy dropped a
lantern near a leaking barrel of kerosene on trie
steamer War Eagle. The vessel, the Milwaukee
& St. Paul Railway depot, and the elevator
with contents, were coosumed. The passengers
of the War Eagle escaped by jumping into the
river. Two lives lost.
EVENING DISPATCHER.
May 16.—Revenue to-day
sent
Condens«d Telegram*.
The news of the victoiy ot the yacht Sappho,
in the race with her British rival Cambria, cre
ated quite a sensation in New Yo:fe. Congratu
latory telegrams were sent per cable to Douglass,
owner of tbe Sappho.
Gilbert W. fhomas was arrested in New-
York yesterday on the charge ot having roobed
the firm of Dabney, Morgan &Co., o! $60,000 in
bonds on the 12th o! April.
Henry Ward Beecher made a lengthy speech
to the American W Oman’s Suffrage A&ssouali >n
in New York yesterday. Tbe National Wo
man’s Suffrage Association, which was also in
session, adopted a resolution of sympathy with
the crowing hens oi tbe other association.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton offered a resolu
tion in the National Woman’s Suffrage Asso
ciation yesimday, which was received with
unbounded and" prolonged applause, declaring
that “lhie late trial and decision in tbe
McFarland case, like that ol Cole send Siekks, .
is a virtual declaration that a man may hold 1
pro, erty in woman, and creating a public senti
ment tbat is in its - working a p-.rpetuai fugitive
slate law tor woman, saying,- ‘ No friendly baud
shall dare, at the risk r.t file and reputation,
feed, shelter or cloibe the unhappy wives of
depraved men under any ciicamYtaiie-is what
ever.’ ”
Over a column of statement irom Mrs Me
Farland-Richardson couctming her domestic
troubles, came to hand last night by telegraph.
The Cenaus.
As the 9th census will be taken the ensuing
June, which ri now close at hand, and as there
are numerous applications for position of Assist
ant Marshals in this section and throughout the
State, a lew tacts in regard to the method of ta
king the census, and the remuneration ot those
engaged in the statistical labors, may not prove
uni n i cresting.
The act ot May, 1850, provides tbat the census
be taken in tbe month of June every ten years.
Tbe assistants are paid as follows: Two cents
for every name taken; ten cents tor eveiy farm;
fitteen cents tor every productive establishment
of industry, two cents lor every dead person, and
two per cent ot the gross amount of names enu
merated lor social statistics, and ten cents pei
mile for travel. It will be seen by the foregoing
tbat the compensation allowed an assistant or
enutmr tor, provided ’he district allotted to him
sh'.ll not contain less than 20,000 persons, will
he about six hundred dollars or more.
The United States Marshal is forbidden by
law to accept any bribe or consideration lor an
appointment ot assistants, and is liable to a fine
ot $1,000 should he be convicted of so doing.
The law provides that each assistant, after quali
fying shall p<-riorm his duties by a personal visit
io ea-.. ... .n.' house, and to each family in his
si;hdivi>i iti, and shad ascertain by inquiries
made * y some member ot %ach lamily, if any
one can be lound capable of giving such infor
mation. but it not, then of the agent of such
family, the name,of each member thereof, the
age, piaceof nirlh of each, sex, color, etc., aDd
shall also visit personally tile terms, mills, shops,
mines or other places respecting which informa
tion is r> quited, and when such information is
obtained a id entered upon bis blanks, then his
memoranda shall be read to the person furnish
ing the facts ior revision.
Thtre is a penalty lor refusing to furnish the
required information to th-: assistant. The act
provides that every person more than twenty
yeais of age belonging to any family, In the
case of the absence of the heads and other mem
bers of the family, shall be an agent for such
family, and is required to render a true statement
fit the iniorraation required, on pain of forfeit
ing thirty do lars, to be sued on and recovered
io action of debt by the assistant, to the use ot
the United States.
one or other ot the
several hours atter we had noticed it iu the Schools, railroad employees, and others of our
May.—This is emphatically the picnic sea
son. From time immemorial it’has been the cus
tom to celebrate the first day of this month,
by going through the ceremonies of crowning
the May Queen. This seems, from some cause
or other, to have gone measurably out of vogue,
for what cause we are not prepared to say; and
the substitution ot tbe picnic in its place has
horn till 'pie-! This -.cy all be very well, bat
.ic arc ot opinion that ijoth customs should be
kept up The May party tor crowning the
queen suits the convenience of these who are
not so situated as to go on an excursion to the
eountry, while the picnic affords a wider field
for those who are desirous of novelty of scene
ry, and a large range to rove in. Tbe present
month, so far, has been well donated to the pic
nic excursion. Scarcely a day has passed since
tbe coming in of the month, but has witnessed
one or more excursions of this kind, by some
various societies, Sunday
Louisville papers. Wc imagine it es.n be of
little interest to the public outside of free love
circles.
A severe thunder storm parsed over Terre
Haute yesterday. A chareh was struck oy
bghtning, but sus'ained no great damage.
Preparations have commenced in \ lenti l for
a fitting observance ot the l<j0th birih-day of
Louis Beethoven.
The Macon Journal says, the people of ba-
vanoah have voted a subscription of $100,009
to the capital stock of the Montgomery & Eu-
fanla Railroad. There were but ten dissenting
ballots.
city. And we learn that the season has not yet
closed, but will likely continue through tbe
greater remaining part of the month. The va
rious ra'droads running into the city have showed
a commendable spirit ot liberality in transport
ing the parties to thetr several places ot ren
dezvous. Tbe weather has been favorable, and
all the expeditions have been well patronized.—
These occasions have - happyfying effect upon’
our females and young people, who are thus'
brought together, exchange civilities, extend ac
quaintances, rest from the confinement and bus
tle of city life, enjoy country air and scenery,
and are made better and happier in every re
spect.
Washington,
$1,250,000.
SENATE.
The new San Domingo treaty was not
into the Senate to day.
There was a special meeting of the Cabinet
this afternoon, the object of which has not yet
transpired.
A bill to repeal all laws authorizing the trans
portation and exportation of goods, wares and
merchandize in bond to Mexico, overland, was
reported lrom the committee without amend
ment.
A bill to enforce the 15th Amendment was
considered.
An amendment was proposed to enforce the
proceedings by the United States District At
torneys in several districts against persons hold
ing office who are ineligible under tne 14th
Amendment, imposing, upon conviction, fine
and imprisonment, and disqualification for office
thereafter. Also re-enacting the civil rights act.
Discussion ensued; Ferry expressing his opin
ion that all the political disabilities of the
Southern people would be removed in the course
of two years; Morton declaring the policy a
failure and hoping that the Senate bill to repeal
the test oath might be defeated in the House.
The Congressional caucus did nothing be
yond making arrangements for appointing Con
gressional committees.
HOUSE. *
The features of the House proceedings to dry
were the postponement ol the tariff bill until
atter the passage of all appropriation bills,
equivalent to an indefinite postponement, and
the report from the Ways and Means Com
mittee, of a partial internal revenue bill, repeal
ing most ot the special taxes on gross sales,
except to liquor aud tobacco manufacturers
and dealers, and contract and receipt stamps,
and continuing the income tax at 5 percent,
the exemption being raised to $1,500; and the
passage of a bill, reported from the Judiciary
Committee, to protect the colored population in
exercise of suffrage, providing pains and penal
ties against any State officers or individual citi
zens who attempt to prevent the exercise of that
right.
The usual large number of bills were reported
and referred.
The internal tax bill will come np for action
early next week. It reduces taxation about
$33 000,000.
It is stated tbat the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs favor subsidizing the California
aud China cable to $500,000 pier year for twenty
years.
The President nominated Philip Jacobson
Attorney of the Southern District of Missisippi;
P. B. Hawkins, postmaster Bowling Green,
Kentucky.
The Secretary of State requests the Governor
of Michigan to prevent armed expeditions from
passing Sault St. Marie canal toward the Red
river country without express permission from
Washington.
The Freedmen’s Bureau on the Howard Cor
ruption investigation still progresses. Nothing
tangible has transpired.
A new internal revenue bill was reported to
day, it takes taxes off of nearly everything ex
cept fermented liquors, distilled spirits, tobacco,
cigtrs, stamps and incomes. Taxon sales ex
cept on liquor dealers is abolished, also tax on
legacies and successions; gross receipts from
railroads, corporations, etc.; though tax on re
ceipts of theatres and salaries is retained, in
come tax is fixed at 5 per cent, with the exemp
tion of $1,500; but all the inquisitorial features
of the tax are abolished. The tax on gas,
pianos, carriages, watches, etc., is done away
with. A tax of three per cent, per annum is
levied on ail public monies deposited in banks.
The amount reduced is about $33,900,000.
The report of the Committee of Agriculture
considers the season, so far, favorable to a large
crop of winter wheat.
The Grand Army of the Republic have desig
nated their officers to superintend the decora
tion of tbe Federal gravis at Anderaonville, on
May 30 th.
The Senate confirmed John F. Appleton vice
Watrons, District Texas Judge.
Lgndon, May 16.—Fifty persons from Bir-
with plenty of money, were arrested - Feni-J.
The race between Sappho and Cambm, on
Saturday, was fair, notwithstanding rumors to
tho contrary. . .
Motley and Clarendon have signed the natu
ralization treaty.
Paris, May 16.—A decree has been published
announcing the Duke de Graunnout as Minister
of Foreign Affairs, Jaques Phillippi Meges as
Minister of Public Instruction, Charles lgnace
Pliechon as Minister of Public Works.
The Emperor’s health is excellent. He at
tended the race yesterday, walked a long time
among the people, and was heartily cheered -
The list of Fathers opposed to infallibility
now number over oue hundred.
Madrid, May 16.—In the Cortes. Saturday, a
republican deputy made a speech, wherein he
spoke ol insurrection as still existing in Cuba,
notwithstanding the repeated statements on the
part of the Government that it had terminated.
Senor Monet, minister for the colonies, replied
at some length, persisting that the insurrection
is really ended. Predatory bands of insurgents
are still in Cuba, and some skirmishes have
lately occurred, but entire order would soon be
restored.
The official news from Captain-General De-
Rodas gives universal satisfaction.
New York. May 16 —Gov. Hoffman vetoes
the Arcade Railroad bill, which proposed to
run under Broadway.
Toronto, Mav 17.—Troops continue to leave
for Red liver. The gunboat Rescue leaves for
St. Mary’s river cautionary against Fenians.
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES.
London, May 16—It is supposed that the
Fenians arrested here will be remanded, the
evidence being unsatisfactory.
Rev. Thomas Dale Canon, of St. Pauls, is
dead, aged 73 years.
The English pilots speak highly of the sailing
qualities ot the Sapho. They say she shipped
no water, and made sixty miles on one reach.
Madrid, May 16.—In the Cortes Minister
Moret promised an early introduction of the bill
abolishing slavery in the colonies.
Paris, May 16.—Madame Allierier, wife of
the Minister, has received a decreetion of the
noble ladies of Spain.
Queenstown, May 16.—The steamer Ama
zon, from New Orleans, arrived here in distress,
having lost her propeller.
Southampton, May 16.—The steamer Ohio,
from Baltimore, has arrived.
Brevet Major General E O. C. Ord and P. St.
George Cooke have been ordered to duty by the
President, according to their brevet rank.
Various stories are afloat concerning the rea
sons of the special Cabinet printing of to-day.
One report is that St. Domingo was under con
sideration ; another makes it that our Indian
policy was discussed, while others assign the
discussions to the New York and New Orleans
Custom Houses. The authority of a prominent
official is had lor asserting that no question was
discussed which should agitate unduly the pub
lic mind.
Gen. Smith left here to-night to meet the
Red Cloud at Fort Fetterman, where he ar
rived on Sunday. The party ia expected here
in about a week. Red Leaf who accompanied
Red Cloud is not the sanguinary Chief of the
Brute Sioux, as has been reported, but belongs
to ihe Ogallalas. The other is dead.
The President, Gen. Sherman and several
Cabinet officers, Bowen Gerolt and Senators
and Representatives are attending a celebration
here to day, for the purpose of laying the corner
stone of the Steuben monument, which was
done with Masonic honors. Schurz and De-
Gener, of Texas, made speeches.
The special agent list of the Treasury De
partment has been reorganized in accordance
with the law just approved by tbe President.
A new district is to be established on tbe Rio
Grande, and the Department is confident of
preventing further infractions of laws in that
locality.
Several important seizures were reported to
day, of establishments violating the revenue
laws, among them a rectifying house and distil
lery at Charlotte. North Carolina, and a match
factory at San Francisco.
A bill was reported paying a company of
Tennessee scouts, attached to the army of the
Cumberland $50,000
The Late Bishop Soule.—In the address of
the Bishops, read by Dr. Wightman, ol South
Carolina, before the Methodist General Confer
ence at Memphis, were the following remarks
upon the character of tbe late Bishop Soule:
With profound emotion we announced to
you that since your last session our venerable
and beloved colleague, Joshua Soule, has de
parted this life. His death occurred in Nash
ville, Tenn., March 6,1867, in the 87t.> year ot
his life, and 'he 70th year of his intin. ra >r min
istry. In many respects Bishop Sou.c was a
remarkable man. At the time ot his death he
was probably the oldest traveling preacher in
America, if not in tbe world; and was thus the
connecting link between the Methodism ot
Wesley and Ashbury and that of the present
day. Throughout bis whole ministerial li * he
was eminently devoted to God, and employed
exclusively to the service ot the Church; often
fiiliug p jsitions ot tbe highest responsibility,and
ai way* honorably and useful. His mind was
clear’ and vigorous, bis deportment dignified,
and his whole course was marked by consis
tency, purity, and unswerving fidelity to princi
ple Whether viewed as a man, a Christian or
minister, or as filling the highest office in the
Church lor forty-three years, his character
deserves to be held in the highest esteem, and
his memory to be perpetuated in the history of
the Church. We devoutly thank G">d ior such
a man, and for ihe gifts and grace which ren
dered his eventful life so useful, his declining
years and closing days so beautifully serene, so
snblimely triumphant.
A Significant Dinner at the White
House.—General Grant gave a dinner yester
day, which, in its way, exhibits a knowledge ol
diplomacy tbat is highly creditable to so young
a student ot that intricate branch •* political
economy. He count' d among his guests, be
sides the leading lights of the administration
parly, and tbe prominent loreign minsters, Mr.
Thomas Ewing, «Tr., a war Democrat who at
present opposes the administration’s policy; Mr.
Frank P. Blair, the old gentleman ot the fam
ily. who, believing, as he does in the infallibility
ol Frank, Jr., is certainly no intimate irtead ot
the administration; Mrs. Biair, his wife, and
Air. W. W. Corcoran, the banker, who has a
decided rebel record, and who, so tar as heard
from, is not a supporter ot the present party in
power. These unusual elements were sand
wiched between a glittering array of army and
Daval officers of undoubted administration
bias, the Vice-President, Secretary ot State
and the Prussian and English Ministers and
their wives. The President shows, if we may
judge lrom this dinner—and dinners are among
tbe most important elements in diplomacy—that
he is disposed to negotiate a national peace, and
to use his best efforts to harmonize tbe little dif
ferences that partizan excesses may have occa
sioned. With every bit of good cheer tbat his
honest, opponents may eat at bis board a pro-
ionnder respect for his qualities as a man is apt
to enter their souls, and with every diplomatic
master-stroke like the present a proioundtr
regard for his political skill is apt to he engen
dered. We must remember that dinners, wisely
■tii ii uislered. secured to England Lite mock Al
ai.atua claims treaty tha' Keverdy Johnson ne
gotiated, and that, lab r. a iitde luacbeon almost
drove a worthy pastor front his pulpit, and we
must not treat this palatable peace-offering ol
the President aa anything less significant than
a happy overture for a peaceful blendiDg ot dis
cordant elements.—New York Herald.
On she Georgia Case,
The recently elected Speaker of the House of
Representatives of the Connecticut Legislature,
the late Senator Foster, on assuming the duties
of that position, said: “That one State, and that
one of the old thirteen, should still be unrepre
sented in the national councils, is a matter of
deep regret. So protracted, so unnecessary
seems the delay, that many are also regretting
that there is not more wisdom among those who
control our public affairs.”
This regret is not confined to Speaker Foster;
it is almost universal in Georgia, and we believe
is almost the case with the masses of the people
in every State in the Union. Congress in pro
crastinating its reconstruction ot Georgia, for
the State is powerless, and cannot recoustruct
itself, commits a political crime lor which soon
er or later it will be held to account. There is
no power on earth tbat can long successfully
run rou'gh-shod as it were over public sentiment,
and that sentiment now declares itself in tavor
of the admission of Georgia to her rights and
privileges as a State, equally with those that are
now in the Union.
spring Weather.
Spring weather has come at last For two
days past we have had it, and soon ’twill be
summer. The sun’s rays on yesterday were
forcibly suggestive ol this, and should they in
crease in intensity we may have to record the
wonder that the spring-time ot Atlanta tor 1870
was limited to two days only, ot the quarter
known heretofore as the spring of the ye r r.—
Our city soda founts and ice cream saloon* are
now in lull blast. As we write, to irnbil a li u
the lormer, and sip the latter would be a gr de-
ful performance; but alas ! tor an editor’s lr jor.
He must turnish copy, and dictate editori: , and
has no time to leave his sanctum t r such
enjoyments. Well, if summer is to be upon us,
and we have had but a trifle of spring, we do
not know of a city in this wide world, however
oppressive tbe sun may be in midday, that has
more pleasant mornings, evenings, and nights,
than Atlanta can justly boast ot. During the
latter especially, unlike most Southern cities, the
cool breezes that prevail animate and invigo
rate ihe system, and with renewed strength our
people are prepared to endure the midday’s
heat, and so it is all through the summer ia this
progressive “ Gate City ” ot ours. Come to At
lanta all you who are torced to seek a cool and
healthy summer retreat. You will find it as we
state it, for it has been so since it was Atlanta,
and so it will doubtless be, lor lo I these many
years.
Tlie Last and Crowning: Act of tlie Great
Political Dram*.
Mr. Sumner’s supplementary to the civil
rights bill provides in effect for absolute equal
ity all persons in the enjoyment ot all kinds of
proper privileges without distinction on account
of race or color. It requires all hotels, restau
rants, railroads, theaters,churches, concert halls,
academies, common schools, colleges, etc., to
treat all alike, and imposes penalties punishable
on conviction in a United States Court, tor any
refusal ot any privilege to any one on account
ot he or she being of African descent. The bill
is so sweeping tnat it prohibits cemeteries even
from being devoted to the sepulture exclusively
of white persons or of colored people. The bill
has been referred to the Judiciary Committee,
Irom which Its author hoped it would soon be
reported and passed into a law.
This, Sumner vainly boasts, is to be tlie
crowning act of his anti-slavery record. Well,
if it must be so; if Congress, which assumes
now to be all powerful, shall put this thing upon
the country; the 3outh can endure it as well aa
the North. We doubt much, however, that,
practically, either section will ever endure it.
Tbe Crop*.
The Dawson Journal says: “The seasons
this year have been propitious, and the report
from Calhoun, Webster, and Terrell counties is,
that there never were better stands of cotton ;
owing to the cold and bs ckward spring, the
lands were put in good order before planting,
which is halt the battle in the cultivation ot a
crop. Chopping cotton is the order ot the day.
Some, we hear, have gone over the first time.—
Com is looking remarkably well, considering it
is only of secondary importance among many
planters.”
Vice versa, the Macon Telegraph & Messenger
says:
“ A gentleman from Southwestern Georgia
says the protracted cold and dry spell of wea
ther through which we are now passing ia be
ginning to tell upon the youag and tender cot
ton plants—checking their growth and giving
them a rather sickly color. Corn is also needing
rain, ana a seasonable warmth very much. The
average temperature ot the atmosphere tot the
week ending this evening, has been lower than
ever before known tor the second week of
May.”
And the Intelligencer says, that saving
the wheat crop, which promises a tine harvest,
the cotton and corn prospects, as it is informed
by reliable parties, were hardly ever before more
unprom sing. The cold spring hath done them
great damage.
Vnading the Public Debt.
Secretary Boutwell’s Funding bill is vir ’ ally
dead, but it seems the scheme of fund eg the
public debt will be accomplished upou ic ms
more favorable to our government than the de-
lunct bill proposed. A prominent Pa sian
banker, the Herald says, was before the Ways
and Means Committee yesterday a ju made a
statement showing ffiat the entire rwi lve hun
dred millions of our public debt could oe funded
in Europe at four per cent, upon bonds having
torty years to run. Congress, however, is op
posed to issuing long bonds, as our financial
condition will enable us to pay off our obliga
tions within thirty years, even with material
reduction ot the present oppressive rate of taxa
tion. Tbe Ways and Means (Joumittee have
wisely determined to report in tavor ot bul one
class ot bonds for the whole amount to be bond
ed with four per cent, interest.
A Mean Act.
Mrs Mary Curtis Lee has received an adverse
report from the Congressional committee on her
application to have the relics of Washington
now in the Patent Office restored to her. A co-
temporary says truly that “that committee
should be indicted aud properly punished for
receiving and refusing to surrender stolen
goods.”
The Woman's SnlFrase Sill in Kusland.
The N. Y. Herald oi the 13tn instant, says the
woman’s suffrage bill was virtually defeated by
postponement in the English House ot Com
mons, yesterday, by a majority of one hundred
and tweDty-six against the second reading. It
may appear malignant. It may be accepted as
a fresh proof of British conservatism. A resolu
tion tided backward temporarily.
A Proper Legal Decision.
We see it stated that in the Federal Court at
Nashville recently, in the case of a distiller who
had refused to comply with an insulting demand
by a revenue officer to show his books, and was
charged therefor with obstructing the execution
of the laws, Judge Trigg charged the jury that
the moment an officer so far forgets himself as
to treat a citizen in a brutal, hectoring manner,
he disgraces the position he holds, and forteits
all claims to obedience or respect. A demand
made in an abusive or insulting manner is not a
legal demand ; the citizen is not bound to obey
it, and cannot be punished for refusing to obey it.
Oceaulc Cable*.
But a few years ago the submerged cable was,
l'fce the first railroad, a bonder. Now it is
stated tbat there are sixty-tour cables in active
use, the shortest of which is three miles long,
and the longest is 3,014, and tbeir total length is
22,007 miles. During this ye-ir and the next
20,828 miles more of cable are < ou traded for, in
lengths to vary from 116 to2,975 miles, designed
to connect various important points in both the
Eastern and the Western hemispheres.
Cables are no longer a wonder, nor is the ca
ble any longer an experiment. Truly ’us an
age of progress.
Sheridan Severely ltebnked.
Sheridan’s trucu ent endorsement of the mas
sacre oi the Piegan women and children does
him no good any where. The Baltimore States^
man says of it: “TVs is the my thit third-
class military men are accusioiut d to ta)K.
They never permit the public to forget that they
are men of war. Sheridan, in particular, seems
ambitious of a reputation for ferocity which,
even it deserved, aoes not imply any super unity
either of courage or military skill.”
This rebuke is the more severe because
its decided aptness, addressed as it is to a Uiit^»
class military man.