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>IA) SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
<£hmwU & Sentinel
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► 11RICK WALSH, Associate Editor*
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To llic Public.
W e have the pleasure of announcing to
the public Mr. Patrick Wat.su as an
Associate Editor of the Chronicle <t- Sm
tuul. Mr. Walsh has been connected
with our editorial staff for .several months
past. His identity in interest, and formal
connection to-day, is simply a public an
nouncement of our appreciation of his
professional qualifications and our high es
teem for his character.
Hknry Moore,
A. R. Wriuut.
Rumors of War. —Rumors of war
eome from Europe. The Moui/cur of
Monday contradicts certain statements in
circulation on the Continent, but the Timm
seems to doubt the sincerity of the contra
diction, thereby, -creating tlm impression
thaf there is some foundation for the re
ports.
Mu. 1 Ifi.i. h “Notes.”—As an evidence,
ay- the Bainbridge Georgia it, of the
1 ivor with which the great speech of' Ren.
11:11, at Atlanta, is received by the intelli
gent men of this county, we have an order
from one of our best citizens to print five
hundred copies of it, in pamphlet form,
for gratuitous distribution.
Cotton* Markets. —The advices from
Liverpool and New York are favorable.
Roth markets are firm at Saturday’s
prices, although New York appears to he
a shade (inner, Middling Upland living
■ luotod at 27tc, while Liverpool remains
steady at Ktjjd. for Orleans. We arc ap
prehensive, however, that the war ru
mors, no matter how groundless, will un
settle the markets.
Railroad Convention. —The annual
meeting of the stockholders of the Atlanta
and West Point Railroad was held in At
lanta on Thursday last. T'lio reports of
the officers of the road showed it to lie in
a prosperous condition. The Board was
unanimously re-elected, viz: John P. King,
President: Richard Peters, Ferdinand
Phiuizy, I lon. <). A. Itull, Jesse McLendon, !
and John E. Robinson, Directors.
Plan i.t Sati ; rn. —The Charleston News
of yesterday says tile rings around this
planet can he seen by looking in the south
ern heavens—and that the flat sides aro
presented to the earth —and that on a
clear night they can be distinctly seen with
an opera glass. This phase ol the planet
will not be again visible in several years
—Therefore those of our readers who have
telescopes or glasses, had better avail
themselves of the opportunity now afford
ed of witnessing if grand show without
paying for it. We distinctly saw the
satellites of Jupiter Monday night in a
coinmon looking glass.
“The Radicals and tii e Georgia Rail
road.”—The attention of our readers is
called to a communication headed “The
Radicals and the Georgia Railroad,” which
is from a respectable citizen. At first we
were loth to beliovq the. statement yfifio
writer, thiukjng that someone hail sWftght
to mislead him, but we received suektesti
to. „ tu Juan o ve
it. Now we respeef'ully submit to
llio stockholders of the (ieorgia Railroad,
lion. John P. King, aud Col. Cole, that
this attempt to ostracise a man because he
is not a Loyal Leaguer,is a studied insult
to the intelligence and respectability of this
community. We therelore suggest to the
gentleman who appointed Mr. Garganand
afterward notified him to defer taking
charge for a few days until further investi
gation was had, to confirm his first ap
pointment. We have known Mr. Janies
(i argali for many we know him
to he an upright citizen and a first elass
mechanic. That game of forcing the Irish
into Loyal Leagues won’t go down, and
Head Centres and all, as you are, we tell
you now that the day will eoiue when
you will hide your heads in shame. .This
first open move is checkmated, and so arc
you, sweet Leaguers.
Mkktixo ok Tenants in Monies.—A ,
largo mooting, composed iiniinlv of mer- |
chiuits, was hold in Mobile on the ovoning
of the 25th inst., to take into consulera- j
tion the present high rents, and the adop- ;
I^hi of sonic concert of action whereby the |
tenants of that city could be heard in their
demands for a reduction of rents.
The nicotine; passed resolutions declaring
that: First. In view of the disastrous re- j
•mlts of the last year’s business, and the
gloomy prospects for the future, the rates
demanded by landlords were excessive and [
oppressive. Second. That the continuance
of the present rates render it impossible for j
the merchants and business men of Mobile
to maintain successful competition with
their commercial rivals, and will drive Cn
orgy and capital from the city of their j
choice. Third. That with so uncertain a j
future before them they deem it unwise at
present to make contracts for the coming
\ ear. believing that the, surplus of vacant
IcaildiuL's will he larger the coining season i
than ever before known in Mobile.
We call the attention of our landlords i
to this action of the Mobile tenants, with
the hope that they will so reduce their rates
for the coming year ns to render unneces
:irv Mich action on the part ot Augusta ,
tenants. If they do not, tenants here will
be forced to combine for their own protec-!
tion and safety.
(iKORttiA News via New York.—
“Quondam," the Georgia correspondent
of the New York Times , closes his last
letter, dating from Augusta, the 17th, as
follows :
You may have remarked that Hx-Gov
ornor Brown took no part in the recent
Radical Convention held at Atlanta. It
is slid that he absolutely declined to do so.
and that he has cut loose from his asso
eiates of a few weeks ago, being unwilling
to go the length to which Farrow and Mar
coin have gone.
The Convention will certainly be adopt
ed. Os the white votes registered in
Georgia, a majority will vote against it :
but the negro vote will be all polled and
wiil be a unit in iavor of it. It will be
controlled and directed by such men as
Farrow and Bryant, Marcomand Eberhart,
and will adopt such a constitution as even
Sir Thadeus Stevens will approve. But
what then ? Will such a consummation
l , reconstruction such as the intelligent
un -es of the North desire in the interests
Vhc whole country ? These are ques
tions which thinking men ask, and which
I hear every dav
, )ITrY 'Will somebody be good enough
to inform us of the whereabouts of the
• Republican party, which was formally
organized in this city on the fourth day of
l e present month ? Its platform appears
lave disappeared from public view!
We are a little apprehensive of foul play
on the part of some pretended friends.-
Era. ,
The Griffin Star says: Just as we ex
pected Old Aguecheek has lost his party.
He learned to close bis rear, but forgets
another important military manoeuvre-to
keep closed up. He's been stragglmg
he’s missed one or two meetings of the
“Timoney Guards,” of which ngment he
run for corporal, and got beat (so rumor
says), the guards preferring Sice ruggs
You must keep close up, dear AguMc
You need nt stray off thinking you 1 be
missed and Mowed after. That s p.aj
-1 out .” You arc the only solitary indi
vidual’living that counts presence
your support, or opposition, as of the leaa
consequence. Close up '
The Mulatto Republican.
The first number of this mongrel—th
, offspring of the African Loyal Georgian
and the Dirty I/iaper , which expired in the
act of parturition—was issued from the
press of the latter on Sunday morning*, as
we had anticipated.
The editor of this miicegenating organ
'D. G. Getting, Esq.), naively say.-, in his
salutatory, “the name of the paper is a
sufficient indication of its principles." Os
course we are forced to accept this naive
declaration as the sole guide as to its
course and policy. The bare announce
ment of its parentage would have been
sufficient. However, its nursing mother
assures us that it is “an out andout Radical
paper.”
The Radical party in Georgia is com
posed of a tew Africanized white men and
a body of colored people, a large majority
| of whom are the most ignorant and de-
I ecived, or the most vicious amongst this
class of our population. The object tor'
which this organization has been establish
ed, as shown by its creed and constituent
elements, is to build up a party here
hostile to the white race. That the
i legitimate consequences of such an organi
zation will culminate, sooner or iater, in a
j war of races is apparent to every reliecting
I mind- This dire calamity can only be
avoided by the cool forethought and pru
dent action of the true men of the country.
The respectable people of the South should
spare no efforts to prove to the colored peo- j
pie that these would-be friends, with white
faces and black hearts, arc their most 1
deadly enemies. The colored people are
generally ignorant and confiding. They
arc easily cajoled by the Africanized whites
and lend a willing car to all their profes
sions of brotherly regard, and promises of
social and political equality. Their minds
have already been more or less inflamed
against the decent whites, and it will re
quire some efforts to disabuse them of
these wicked calumnies.
This cannot be done by supporting the
men and presses who are known to be
tampering with the poor negroes for these
base purposes. If the black people of»
Georgia choose to be arrayed by these
Africanized whites in hostility to their
true friends, they must expect that the
Jatter will be driven to the alternative of
organizing against the blacks. We had
hoped that such an array of antagonistic
classes would not be made in this State.
We are still not without some hope that
it may be avoided. But it can only be
done by a firm and united determination
on the part of all the Conservative ele
ments in the country to treat, these Loyal
Leaguers, as their conduct shows them to
be, enemies to the best interests of both
races. The decent people of both races
are bound, by every consideration of in
terest and safety, to use every measure in
their power to cripple and destroy this
insidious enemy.
The old enemy, under anew name, is
now before them as a candidate for
popular favor and patronage. Those who are
in favor of the supremacy of the black over
the white race, will support it. Those
who wish to make a cat’s paw of the ne
groes with which to gather for themselves
all the roasted chestnuts in the way of
fat offices will place their names on its !
subscription list, and give it the material i
aid of their advertising patronage. A few
days will develope who these are, by the i
appearance of their names in its list of ad
vertisers.
On the other hand, every true constitu
tional union man will spurn the dirty
thing from their homes and avoid its con
’ffVPßßS'flrniey would that of the most
loathsome viper. The high priests of the
mulatto Republican party have,in a printed
circular which has been sown broadcast
throughout the Union, declared that “only
money was wanted to carry every Southern
State for the Radicals.” Will the true- j
hearted Southern people become co-work
ers with this Radical Executive Commit- \
tee in furnishing the means to destroy their
own happiness aud safety 't
The mulatto Republican is but the
“ Loyal Georgian ’ in disguise. While it
may essay to wear the lion’s skin, the .
EARS are unmistakable. The careful avoid- I
anee of any allusion to the pet of Bureau I
Bryant, while it showed considerable tact j
in the management of the concern, has not !
deceived any of our citizens as to their true
identity. In another column of our paper j
will be found a few extracts from the vale
dictory of Bureau 8., which we cut from
the Georgian of Sunday morning. It will ]
be seen, by reference to these, that the
“mulatto publishing company”'will issue, !
in connection with the daily Republican
(Loyal Georgian) under the supervision
of Bureau 8., the weekly Loyal Georgian , I
also.
The Realities of the Radical Legislation.
lu its fanatical attempts to destroy the
prerogative of the Executive office, and j
degrade the President, the Radical Con- i
gress have been guilty of not only palpa- :
bio violations of the Constitution, but their
crude and revengeful legislation hasentailed
upon tho country a series of laws the mere |
mention of which should cause the cheek
of any honest man in the land to mantle
with shame and disgust. Asa specimen
of this legislation we call attention to-day
to the “Tenure of office Bill” passed over
the President's veto by the Thirty-ninth
Congress. This act provides that “every
person holding any civil office to which he' 1
has been appointed by and with the advice
of the Semite, and every person who shall
become duly appointed to act therein, is !
and shall be entitled to hold such office
until a successor shall have been in like
manner appointed and duly qualified.”
The practical working of this disgrace
ful and revolutionary act is aptly illustra
ted in the report of the following case, i
which we clip from the New York Tribune :
The tenure of office law lias had an un
expected result, which we hardly know
whether to call deplorable or comical. A
postmaster was suspended for defalcation ;
the Senate rejected the person nominated
as his successor, and under the law the
delinquent had to be reinstated. In com
municating to him this amazing result,
the Postmaster General politely requested
him. "as a favor to the Department, to use
as little of the money ot the Govern
ment, and make as few false entries j
as possible.” It is not said whether
there is any legal punishment for stealing
in the State wiiereinthis gentleman lives.”
Further comment upon this thief pro
tecting law and its infamous authors is un
necessary. The time will surely come
when the sober second thought of the
people will hurl from power and place the
infernal erew that now desecrate the places
ones filled by Webster, and Calhoun, Clay,
Randolph an 1 Adams.
Another Royal Decree from District
No. 2.
In every State ot the I’uion, North and
South, we believe the iaws prohibit the
intermarriage of the white and black races.
These laws arc based upon sound ethno
logical reasons, and have received the
sanction of not only the scientific savans of
the world, but of all classes of statesmen
aud politicians. We do not propose to
argue to-day in support of these whole
some restrictions against the amalgamation
of the races. It would be an insult to the
intelligence of our readers to attempt it.
Our purpose is simply to call attention to
the following edict, whieh we find in an ex
change. of King Daniel the Ist. of District
No. 2, upon the application of a dergy
; man in North Caroliua, asking if he
would be authorized to marry a negro man
tea white woman :
“The commanding officer is of opinion
that under the Civil Rights Bill the«e inter
marriages are legal, and Rev. Mr. Hood is
authorized to solemnize the ceremony in
i case, notwithstanding the objection of
1 the county officers.
brant and Pope on Confederate Paroles.
A paragraph is going the rounds, of the
paper.-, as yet uncontradicted, to the effect
that Gen. Grant had written’a letter to Gen.
Pope, declaring his concurrence in the
views of the latter that a Confederate
officer who opposes the bherman-Sheila
barger Acts, jriolats bis parole.
We have no idea that either Gens Grant
or Pope entertain any such opinions. The
absurdity of such a po ition is so plain’that
no one who’has the slighte-t intellectual
capacity, can fail to acknowledge it. A
reference to the parole, which was given
by the Confederate soldiers, will demon
strate to any one not willfully blind aqff
ignorant, that our officers aud soldiers are
not committed to the acceptance of these
laws in any degree greater than all other
citizens of the United States—that is, to
support them if they believe them to be
constititutioual and right—to reject them
if they believe otherwise. That we are
right in this view is shown by reference to
the following parole, issued by Gen. Grant,
and which is the paper signed 1A the Con
federate army:
Headquarters U. S. Font es, t
“I, the undersigned, , a
of the , do solemnly
swear that I will not bear arms against the
Gutted States fit America, or give any in
formation, or do any military duty what
soever until regularly exchanged as a
prisoner of war. . Descrip
tion : height , hair , eyes
I certify that the above parole was given
by me on the date above written, on the
following conditions: The above named
person is allowed to return to his home,
not to be disturbed by the military authori
ties of the United States so long as he ob
serves this parole and obeys the -laws
which were in force previous to January
1, 1801, where he resided.
By order of Brig. Gen. - ; —.
Capt. and Provost Marshal.
Agents for the Mulatto Republican.
; We find the following names of geutle
i men in this State, published in the first
number of the mulatto Republican, as
agents of that sheet, in their respective
local ties.
We happen to know most of these gen
tlemen, and from’ our acquaintance with
them, we do not believe that they have
authorized such a use of their names in
connection with this Hybrid Bastard.
If, however, they have turned traitors
to their race and section, which we can't
yet believe, in thus becoming the voluntary
aiders and abettors of these mulatto Re
publicans, it is but. justice to their friends
throughout the State that their position
should be made known, lie that is not
for his race in this tight is most certainly
against it.
agents fop. tiie national republican.
The following gentlemen are authorized
to received subscriptions and advertise
ments for tliis paper:
James P. Swain, Warrentoh, Ga.
M. 11. Mandeville, Athens, Ga.
Sturges & Chew, Waynesboro, Ga.
H. A. Merry, Berzelia, Ga.
K. S. Womack, Covington, Ga.
John W. Mayo, Rome, Ga.
Carmichael & Smith, Greensboro’ Ga.
Ely Otto, Savannah, Ga.
G. P. Stovall, Thomson, Ga.
Dr. T. 0. Heard, Griffin, Ga.
T. Corbin, Washington, Ga.
F. J. Robinson, Lexington, Ga. •
J. F. Maddox, Fort Valley, Ga.
J. W. Darracott, Crawfordville, Ga.
J. D. Perry, Lester’s District, Ga.
E. S. O’Brien, Barnett Station. G. R. R.
E. Nebhtit, Union Point, G. li. R.
[ National Republican.
Southern Royalty.
Our readers have already seen elaborate
royal blazonings with which the sovereign
of No. 2 regales the eyes of his potty serfs
in the good old republican city of Charles
ton. It seems that his “royal cousin” of
No. sis determined that the insignia of
royalty in his own court shall not lie
eclipsed by that of No. 2.
We give the following description of the
state carriage of King Philip the Ist, which
we find in one of our exchanges, credited
to the Missouri Republican:
The state carriage used on such occasions
is a landau, a covered carriage which opens
at the top, so as to give ail unobstructed
view of the inmates. Therein sits his little
Highness, surrounded by select members of
bis staff, lie and they bedecked and begew
gawed all over with elongated yards of
gold lace, with plentiful besprinkling of
gold buttons and other ostentatious orna
mentation, for the eyes of wondering nig
gers to gaze at. To this vehicle are at
tached six horses (it takes six to draw such
a weight of character), and these are
caparisoned with the most elaborately or
namented harmless that vanity and self
conceit can invent. But, to cap the climax
of absurdity and ostentation, all this fiip
pery is finished off’ with a grand display
of the long white plumes, tipped with red
feathers, which are fastened to the horses’
heads, in such fashion as to cause them to
undulate in all the graceful mazes of the
j poetic motion. It is altogether anew and
unique display of “ fuss aud feathers.”
| The royal cortege is completed by a train
| of out-riders and guards, all enrobed in the
i tinsel of military pomp, and consisting of
i two regiments of mounted troops, who, on
: such imposing occasions, are admonished
to appear in their best bib and tucker ; for
nothing common or unclean is permitted to
j pass “betwixt the wind and his nobility.”
But this style of regal ostentation is not
I peculiar to Sheridan, we are told. Sickles,
the satrap of the Carolinas, it was charged
ill Congress, the other day, is inflated with
a similar emulation of royal display. It
takes four black horses, with a correspond
ing exhibition of finery, pomp, and self
importance. to haul this General.
Important to Cotton Planters.
We find the following letter and certifi
cate in the Savannah Republican of the
27th instant. We give it to our readers
for what it may be worth, premising that
wq have had qp opportunity for forming a
satisfactory opinion upon the relative
merits of the two methods of baling cotton.
To our minds, there seems to be much
force in the objections which the Liverpool
merchants state the spinners and manu
facturers have raised against the iron ties.
Whether or not these objections out
weigh the manifest advantages which the
iron-tie has over the rope in other respects,
is a question which our planting friends
and the merchants must settle for them
selves :
Savannah, July 27th, 1567. — Mr. Jno.
E. Hayes , Editor Savannah Republican :
— Dear Sir:— lt is hoped that for the
j benefit of the planters of the South, you
will be kind enough to publish the follow
! iug certificate isssued by four of the largest
I cotton brokers of Liverpool, and referring
i to the comparative merits of rope and iron
• ties in the preparation of cotton for
market.
CERTIFICATE.
We, the undersigned, cotton brokers of
| the port of Liverpool, having been re
' quested by Messrs. \N . H. and A. Stuart
to give our opinion as to whether the rope
bound or iron bound cottou finds the most
i favor with our spinners, do hereby state,
that so far the rope bound bales are much
preferred. They complain of the diniculty
they find in opening up the bales, from
j the'feet of their being so tightly riveted,
1 and of the great danger there is of firing
i the cotton in striking off the hoops ; also,
that while they are able to dispose of the
ropes at a fair price, they cannot get any
thing at all lor the old hoops. A\ ere there
| two lots of cotton of equal quality aud
i value before us, the one rope bound and
; the other iron bound, we should certainly
give the former the preference, for by >o
I doing we should only be carrying out the
! instructions of our spinners.
Thos. Falclough,
Jas. Howell & Sons.
Per J as. Howell.
0. H. Williams & Cos.
Williams & Buckley.
j Liverpool, Ist June, 1567.
Wheat Market.-Tlm demand for
wheat is active and all brought to market
jjg readily sold at $1 80(31 95 for red. and
$2 a 2 15 for white. We advise our eoun
| try friends to bring in their crop.
Six hundred thousand people died from
i the famine in Orissa.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 7, }S67.
Bryant Hauls Down the colors of the
Daily Loyal Georgian.
THEV ARE RAISED WITHOUT THE
SOU SO OF A SINGLE GUN I! V THE MU
LATTO PUBLISHING company.
THE WEEKLY LOYAL GEORGIAN STILL
SURVIVES, AND TTiLL EE PUBLISHED
EY THE MULATTO PUBLISHING
COMPANY.
Bryant Announces anew Radical OrganT
the Mulatto Republican.
VALEDICTORY OF BUREAU B.
“With pleasure, mingled with sorrow. I
announce to the readers of the Daily Loyal
Georgian that its publication will cease
with this issue.”
(Oh, dear, how pathetic !j
“A Northern friend promised to loan us
money—the failure of some parties from
whom he expected money made it im
possible for him to accommodate us.'
(The wicked and ungrateful dogs.)
“We used every effort in our power to
raise money, but it was impossible.''
(The poor negroes had put in their last
quarter and it, too, is gone.).
“We were upon the poiut of suspend
ing and of giving up the undertaking en
tirely, when a few wealthy Union men in
this cit/.came to our rescue. ”
(Expressmen, Revenue Collector, Fed
eral Tax Assessor, Postmaster, &c., &c.)
“They proposed to form anew compa
ny, continue the publication of the ‘ Week
ly Loyal Georgian buy out the ‘ Daily
Press, ’ and establish anew paper, to be
called the ‘ National Republican, ’ with
which the ‘ Daily Loyal Georgian was
to be merged.”
(What clever fellows these Union men
aro. Os course they don't want the toil
earned quarter of the poor darkeys. Then
what a splendid combination ! the Loyal
Georgian and the Dirty Diaper.)
“We were assured that this paper should
be an out spoken advocate of the prin
ciples of the Republican party, and that
the ‘ Weekly Loyal Georgian' should con
tinue under my management.”
(0 noble miscegenation ! And the Rad
ical negro-loving principles shall be kept
shining and illuminating the colors of the
mulatto concern.)
“A meeting of the stockholders of the
I Loyal Georgian Publishing Association’
was called, audit was decided to accept the
proposition.”
(A wise conclusion under the circum
stances. )
“The now company was formed. Both
papers will be printed by the ‘Georgia
Printing Company.”
(That's so. We have seen the first num
ber of the sheet but it don't look well.)
“I have given this brief history of the
‘'''Loyal Georgian ,” because I consider it
necessary to answer some of tin? Rebel
falsehoods that are now in circulation in
this city, by a simple statement of facts.
As I have before said, we have been
obliged to meet these falsehoods from the
very day we commenced to publish the
‘ Loyal Georgian,' but, at length, we have
placed .our paper on solid ground. Every
attempt made to break us down, has made
us stronger.” ,
(Got so strong couldn’t run at all—col
lapsed, but didn't break down—merged
and fizzled out.)
“We are to-day much very much stronger
than ever before. Our cause has triumphed,
and our paper lias triumphed.”
(Don’t doubt it—Express ineii, Tax-gath
erers, Shoe-dealers and Postmasters most
always rich—got lots of money.)
“The ‘ Loyal Georgian,' the same old
‘ Loyal Georgian but every way im
•proved, will be continued, and talk as it.
has always talked, but with more ability,
I trust.”
(But how about the name, dear old
Georgian / are. you to be slain in the
house of your friends to
Ynongret
“It will never fail to advocate the cause
of the oppressed, and, as formerly, its
motto will be ‘Equal Rights’ for all
citizens of the United States, except those
who have been convicted of crime, or have
participated in the attempt to destroy the
Government.”
(That is, all rights for the darkies, all
offices for the Africanized whites, and
no rights for gentlemen and honest citi
zens.)
“Friends of the ‘ Loyal Georgian!' re
joice with me ; many long months we have
toiled; sometimes full of hope, sometimes
discouraged.”
(Poor fellow; how his little grey eyes
twinkled when the darkeys’ quarters
were poured in, and how his stern brow
knitted when they didn’t.)
‘‘l never doubted. I always felt that our
cause was just, and that we should succeed.
My Northern friends will remember I told
them that wo should not lu.il. At length,
I can say to them, ‘ success has crowned
our efforts.’ We have established in
Georgia an out and out Radical Republi
can paper.”
(Bully for you, Bureau B.)
. “The Rebels may howl; their political
fools may write poetry, it makes us strong
er. J. E. Bry’Ant.”
(That’sintended for sawkasm. Don’t it
hart mighty bad, brother Randall ?)
| COMMUNICATED.]
The Radicals and the Georgia Railroad.
Messrs Editors :—The attention of your
readers is called to the despicable conduct
of the Loyal Leaguers in a certain case.
The vacancy of master-workman in the j
Georgia Railroad carpenter shop, caused I
by the death of the lamented .Mr. John E.
Maemurphy, was tendered to and accepted
by Mr. JamesGargan. Mayor Blodgett and
the Loyal Leaguers, it appears, do not
approve of the appointment, and an effort
is being made to procure the position for a
member of the Loyal League. Matters
have come to a pretty pass when the Loyal
Leaguers, net content, with controlling and
appointing all the city officials, now seek
to control corporations. It. is sincerely to
be Imped that neither President King nor
Superintendent Cole frill be influenced by
the recommendation of these men. Mr.
Gargan is a compbtent workman, and an
old and respected citizen, and, as sa
Irishman, no doubt, heartily despises
Loyal Leagues and Loyal Leaguers.
Hence the determined effort of this clique
to have him deposed, _ and one of their
own ilk placed in position, evidently with
the remote purpose of securing votes for
the Radical party.
I have been positively assured that Mr.
Gargan was to enter on his. duties Monday
morning, but that, in deference to the re
quest of the Committee, headed by the
Mayor, he received word to wait a few
days.
The selection of Mr. Gargan is entirely
satisfactory to the employees of the de
partment. as weil aS to many Stockholders.
.Stockholder.
Augusta, Geo., July 29th, 1867.
[communicated.]
St. James’, Again.
Memorizing poetry, it is said, greatly
improves tiie memory. Nothing, in an
cient or modern writings, is more strength
ening to that faculty than memorizing the
precepts contained in the Bible ; because,
what is therein written is inspired, and
contains the very essence of all that is ele
gant iu prose or poetry. They are not
alone beneficial to the retaining faculty,
but extend their refining influence over
the heart. How commendable is it, then,
in grown-up folks, by means of prizes, to
induce the rising generation to commit to’
memory words of . Holy Writ, which, if
religiously treasured, must prove a savor
of life unto life 1
Such an effort is now being made by the
Superintendent of St. James' Methodist
Sabbath School; it is destined to prove
deservingly successful. A short time since
vour correspondent reported the name of
a little girl, who received a beautiful prize,
for having committed to memory the
Proverbs of Solomon. Sabbath afternoon
a nicely bound hymn book was presented
to Miss Mary Belle Crocker for accom
plishing a similar pleasant task.
The writer .of these brief communica
tions does not desire to make them the ve
hicle whereby to bring into prominence Sr.
■ James’ Sabbath School, as contrasted with
others, but rather his purpose is to praise
those who show themselves ambitious of
attaining good ends, with the hope at the
same time of inciting other> to the emula
tion oi their illustrious example.
Observed
Augusta, Ga., July 29. 1867.
Yokohama has gas. a newspaper, diurnal
suicides, and villainous whiskey. Thus
does civilization interpenetrate Japanese
! habits.
Another Radical Falsehood.
Soon after the .appearance of the first
few numbers of the “ Notes on the Situa
tion,” by Hon. B. 11. Hill, a paragraph
appeared in one of the Atlanta papers—
Little Dingy, we believe —to the effect that
; Mr. Hill’s attacks on Governor Brown
was ungrateful and io bad taste, a- he was
’ mainly indebted to ths Governor for
his parden from the President. The im
pression was sought to be made that Mr.
\ Hill had sought Governor Brown s reeom
| meedation for his pardon. Os course, we
knew that this was a lie trumped up by
Brown’s friends to weaken the force, if
■ possible, of the tremendous blows which
Mr. Hill was giving to the Georgia Atadi
eals, and we should not have noticed it,
but recently we find the lying paragraph
going the rounds of the Radical press, and
copied, in some instances, in quasi re
spectable journals. i.
The charge that Mr.* Hill ever applied
to Governor Brown for a recommendation
for Executive pardon, is absolutely false.
Neither he or his friends, by his advice or
consent, ever made application lor such
recommendation. - The facts of the ease are
briefly these :
During the sitting of the Federal Court
in Savannah,. Juse Spring, $5, Hill was.
approached by a friend —a leading' citizen
and former J udge in that city—who asked
Mr. Hill to sign a recommendation, which
he held in his hands, for the pardon of
General A. R. Lawton. Mr. Hill replied
that it would give him great pleasure' to
assist the General in any way, in his power,
but that as he was himself still unpardoned,
he thought it would be indelicate or im
proper for his name to appear on the Gen
eral’s application. Ilis friend expressed
greatsurprise that he was still unpardoned,
and said, “I will take the liberty of get
ting up a similar application for you. ’ ’ To
this, Mr. Hill said, “I card? very little
about it —you may do as you please,” and
gave the matter no more thought.
The next day one of his up-country
friends, who was in Savannah attending
the Court, approached him and informed
him that the leading gentlemen of the Bar,
then in Savannah, and some of the most
prominent citizens, had signed a. petition
to the President asking for his pardon—and
added Governor Brown ashed the privilege
of putting his name to the paper, which
vjas granted. Mr. Hill immediately re
plied : “I wish no pardon which may be
procured upon an application signed by a
traitor to his country. No paper in my
behalf must besont with Governor Brown’s
name upon it. Go to the gentlemen who
are taking an interest in this matter and
tell them they must either erase Brown’s
name or not send the paper forward.”
His friend remonstrated against sucli a
course, saying “you- have nothing to do
with the matter—it is in tha hands of your
fiiends and you have no right to dictate to
them in the premises.”
Here the matter, so far as Mr. Hill was
concerned, dropped, and neither he or his
friends heard anything more of Gov
ernor Brown’s connection with it until the
Governor’s Atlanta friends (doubtless
instigated by Joe himself) ■ started the
falsehood that Mr. Hill was mainly in
debted to Joe for his pardon.
Just here we desire to brand as false, also,
the statement that Mr. Hill waited till lie
received his pardon before he began to
write against the Military Bills. He had
lost sight of the Savannah application in
his favor—it had passed entirely out of his
mind when he, unexpectedly, received
Aiotice of its success. lie was then engaged
in his notes, several of which had. been
ir dtli 1 ’ "“ : " ' '
Intolerable Impertinence.
It is stated, publicly, on the streets that
our Military Mayor, in company with two
members of the Military Council, It. B.
Bullock and Ephraim Tweedy, called upon
one of the officers of the Georgia Railroad
a few days since, and insisted or demahded
that the vacancy as foreman .in the shop
of the Railroad should be. filled by one ■
White, a reputed member of the Loyal j
League.
Th,is insufferable impertinence was,
doubtless, prompted by the thought that
these Loyal Leaguers could influence Gen.
Rope to remove the railroad officials if
their demands were not complied with.
Two of these Leaguers, it will be remem
bered, are (and it may be that the third is
al:3o) reputed members of the new publish
ing concern which is now conducting the
Weekly Loyal Georgian, and Daily Mu
latto Republican.
Betivixt Two Bundles of Hay.
The Mulatto Republican organ of the
Loyal Leaguers seems to be like the ass
betwixt two bundles of hay. When it
turns its ravenous jaws to take in the
Press bundle of deluded patrons, the
Loyal Georgian supporters turn their
backs upon elm mongrel concern. When
in its wild attempt to nibble at the African
bundle it makes sardonic grimaces at the
“poor negro,” the patrons of the Press
snubs it, and withdraw their patronage
from it.
There must have been a lively time at
its counter yesterday and the day before.
The negroes were stopping their paper be
cause the concern did not have courage
enough to carry the old name— Loyal
Georgian— and the, whites were indig
nantly withdrawing subscriptions and ad
vertising because, under a white face, it j
supported Radical negro principles.
Ail day long this cutting off was briskly |
carried on, until, in ths agony of its heart, j
the poor, puny little mongrel exclaimed: |
“We do hope those who intend to stop !
(their paper), will do so immediately.” '
But the incorrigible, “cutters off” would j
not down at the bidding of the cadaverous j
little creaature who ruus the mershine for j
the mulatto company.
Just in time, however, to prevent the
little Johnny Bud, who was becoming pale i
in the gills, from committing some reckless '
deed, “a gentleman stepped in” (strange j
place fora gentleman to just drop in) and j
said: ‘Put down all you have lost to me,
and send me the bill to-morrow. ' ”
Verily, these ex-Press people must have
cords ot money! Don’t bite too soon, lit
tle mongrel; you haven’t got your money
yet. The gentleman did not say that he
would pay you for the losses, only that you
might put down ail your losses to him.
Look out for a Yankee trick when you call
for the spiserinctum.
The Federal Union.
The last number of this sterling old jour
nal completes its thirty-seventh volume.
The present editor, in announcing this fact,
-ays: “We intend to keep the principles
under which we have so long fought, in
scribed on onr banner in letters of living
: light, as long as a vestige ot our liberties
remain; and when we can no longer ad
vocate these principles we will draw the
, drapery of death about the old paper and
let her die in peace."
The Union was the leading organ of the
Democratic party in this State for a num
i her of years, and has always wielded a
: powerful influence in the State. We are
! glad to know that its columns shows as
j much of vigor and zeal for the cause of
constitutional liberty now- as it ever did in
its palmiest days for the principles of the
Democratic party. It. is one of tiie ablest
and most fearless opponents 'ot the fcher
j man-Shellabarger iniquity winch reaches
j our sanctum. Long may it wave!
The First Cotton.—The Fort A alley
»Ga.) Gazette of the 27 th inst. reports that
! cotton bolls are opening in that section of
the State. The Tallahassee Sentinel
makes a similar statement in regard to
i cotton in that section.
Periodicals.
M 0 have received from the publishers
th August number of the “Land we
, Love.' The copy before us is filled with
a rich and instructive series of original
articles, and fully sustains the previous
high character of this favorite Southern
monthly.
tabee of contexts.
the Second Missouri Cavalry, by Col.
V.. H. Brand. o£ Missouri; Egomet Ipse,
by Mrs. Dourine, of Charlotte, N. C.;
| Twelve months in Spain, by V. C. Bar
ringer : The Garden of the Tuileries, by
G. T. Webster; Perfect through Suffering,
i by Mrs. Fannie Downing ; Undertow, by
j Mrs. Margaret J. Preston ; Rambles in
\ orkshire, by JoiTu R. 'Thompson ; SOll
- net, by Paul H. Hayne ; Mary Ashbur
i ton: Song and Chorus, by Dr. F. O.
I Ticknor ; Strawberry Culture ; Personal
! Recollections of Eminent Men, by a Yir
! giuia Matron; The Eloquence of Ruins,
| by Mrs. Virginia French; Cavalry Scouts,
by General Wade Hampton; Editorial;
Book Notices ;
Die Modes welt. —This is the Title of
an Illustrated paper, of recent origin, de
voted exclusively to Fashion and Fancy
work, for the Ladies. It is edited by
F ranr Lipperheid, Berlin: Published by
E. Fidel man Leipzig; and sold by the
agent, S. T. Taylor, 349 Canal street, New
York city.
This enterprise is unquestionably one of
the direct consequences of the Battle of
Sadowa, and the Prussian triumph in the
Luxemburg Congress. The Prussians
seem determined to invade French pre
rogatives and French Imperialism at all
points. Hitherto Paris has dictated the
laws oi Fashion to the civilized world and
particularly in the Haut-Ton and Bon-Ton
—to the Beau-Monde and Demi-Monde of
the Imperial Democracy of the so-called
United States of America.
Now we have thfe Die Modenwelt,
Now Prussia contests the supremacy of
France and enters the field against Paris,
which is France. Fortified by German care
and minute economy, she invokes the learn
ing of Leipzig and the elan of Berlin to
refine and diffuse correct taste, and instruct
the world in feminine elothes-philosophy.
Although the German title is retained
in this Art instructor, the language used
is the English, except a single article under
the English heading of “ Important to
Ladies.” This exception we take to be
in a world-wide feminine dialect or angelic
language, and not understood by man’s
radical nature.
It is quite evident that the editor de
nies his knowledge of American mankind
through British representations. Per
haps he has read, and has been shocked
at Sydney Smith’s talk about pulling off
bis flesh and sitting in his bones, or dis
gusted with Carlyle’s picture of the British
Parliament sitting without clothes, and
therefore communicates his Berlin clothes
philosophy in a cabalistic dialect, which
cannot be understood by the vulgus pro
fani. Or it may be that this teufetsdroclct,
or has heard that our Radical Congress is
about to reform, under legal penalties, all
constitutional conditions of every politic,
corporate and individual me, on this conti
nent, and asserting, under paramount
authority, what every one shall eat, drink,
swear to and believe ; that they will regu
late as a matter of course the what and the
wherewith we shall be clothed. The how,
. the wherefore, and the how much even to
j sans culottesism. Hence he speaks in a
tongue not known of men. What the
editor soys in his article “Important to the
. Ladies''lypcaimucconjecture, .Itisesidenfc.
1 that however well he may understand
I red-republicanism, he does not understand
i the procession of colors on this side of the
! great waters; and fears to write plainly
lest our Radical Congress may take ad
vantage of what he should disclose and
legislate on fashion. But Franlein Freida
Lipperhide is not so cowardly. She speaks
plainly. She scouts the Parisian decollete
style openly; and rejecting every approach
to the primitive fig-leaf economy of Eden,
discusses fully the latest mode ; gives its
exact admeasurements in inches, and says
firmly that “any attempt to show more o f
the foot can only be regarded as vulgar co
quetry.”
The issues of this paper are bi-monthly
—illustrating by over one hundred cuts
•everything from the nethermost to the up
permost garment and embroidery. Lest
by possibility the reader should err, a ty
pographical map, gotten up with all the
exactness of Smith’s survey of the “lines
around Petersburg, ’ ’ giving the character of
the lines and the dimensions in inches, is
added : and ail for $3 00 per annum.
The Pope. —Addresses to the Pope are
pouring in upon his holiness from various
quarters. The Bishops assembled in Rome
have assured, him of their fidelity to his
throne and to his teaching, and declared
that neither princes nor peoples will permit j
the rights or authority of the Pope to be
ignored. In reply to an Italian deputa
tion, the Pope said lie had always done
what lie could to aid Italy, and he liopod
those who had charge of her destinies
woufd save her from moral and religious
ruin.
Merchants’ Un ion Express Company.
—We have been kindly permitted to read
a letter from the Secretary of' this Gom- |
pany to a citizen of Augusta, in which it is j
stated that the . recent attempts of the i
Adams’ Express Company to break down \
the Merchants’ Union Company lias sig
nally failed, and that the latter Company
is stronger now than it was before the |
war was made against them. Wo are glad !
to hear this, as it gives assurance that the •
Southern business public will soon have j
the opportunity of selecting for their ex- ;
press business a corporation which has not i
yet invested any of its funds for the build- j
ing of a Radical negro party in the South ;
in hostility to the docent white people.
Court Martial, —A court martial has j
been in session in this city for several
days, trying the case of General Sweeney,
against whom several charges and specifi
cations have been trumped up. So frivo
| lous, untenable and groundless were two
! of the charges and four of the specifica
! tions that the court threw them out. Gen.
| Sweeney has been in command of this
| Post for nearly eight months. So far as
; -,ve have observed or can learn, be has dis-
I charged his duty in such a manner as to
I aid in the preservation'of law and order.
There has been no effort on his part to
I humiliate our people, or to make them
i feel that the sword of the conqueror stil
hangs'over them. We believe that he has
; generally discharged his duty impartially
! and'faithfully.
It ruay he, however, that he has only
discharged his duty as an officer, and not
permitted himself to be used to promote
j political organizations, and hence his per-
I secution.
1 V, e learn that the court is composed of
brave, intelligent and honorable soldiers,
and in their hands the reputation of Gen.
j Sweeney, as a brave and gallant soldier,
is not likely to be tarnished.
A Wide Platform. —The Charlottes-|
ville (Va.) Chronicle says the following
arc- the planks of its platform : !
“\V c- are in favor of railroads, free trade, i
a gold and silvercurrency, low taxes, ships,
: canals, steam, machinery, patent wringers,
rifled cannon, photography, solidified
milk, newspapers, gas, and congregational
singing.
''We are opposed to test oaths, to Po
land, Ireland, and all forms of oppression; |
to standing armies, passports, juries, tax i
ou paper, political disfranchisement, sec- ;
tional tyranny, military government, kero- .
sene, hoops, stav laws, usury laws, free •
‘ tickets, and chewing tubacco.
j Our Oxford Correspondence.
j THE RECENT COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
OF EMORY COLLEGE, ETC., ETC.
Oxford. Ga., July 29. D67.
Messrs Editors ; —Having looked in vain
1 for a brief and explicit account oi' the late
Commencement Exercises of Emory Col
lege, and believing that some :u;n ac
; count wiii prove interesting to very man;
; of your readers, I have determined to
i submit, for in your columns,
! the following facts :
1 As is generally known the graduating
CLASS OF 1861,
in company with other class,--, left
J Oxford in the Spring - ot that year, to enter
j the Confederate army ; therefore, until
j the present year, no .opportunity of pre
j senting those young gent Ami n their
• diplomas was afforded the faculty.
COMMENCEMENT DAY,
July 17th inst., a few members of the
j elass were present, delivered the customary
! addresses, and received, in due form, cer
j titieates ot‘ graduation. Diplomas were
j forwarded to those of the class whom eir
! cuinstances kept at home, and, in cases of
death, io the graduate’s relatives.
Three gentlemen of the class mentioned,
who delivered adresses, were: A. S.
Florence of Thomaston, Julius Gardner
of Macon, and. W, Travis Weaver of
Thomaston.
0 I'UE CLASS OF 1562.
The class which, but lor the war, would
have graduated in 1862, was composed' of
the following named gentlemen :
S V Bailey, Clarke county, Ga ; W P
Baldwin, Macon county, Gu : W F Bass.
Smith county, Texas; *L M Boring,
Americas, Ga; SS Brown, Newton county,
Ga ; Martin V Calvin, Augusta, Ga : T J
Dobbs, Carrolton, Ga; Charles G Good
rich, Augusta. Ga; II L Graves, Newton
county, Ga; Cliff B. Grimes, Columbus,
Ga ; G W Hardaway, Barncsville, Ga; J
G Harrison, Macon, Ga ; J F Henderson,
Tampa, Fla; W Steele Hoard, Woodville,
Miss; *G R W Hubert, Warrenton, Ga;
*T S Jones, Fort Valley, Ga; XV B Leake,
Starrsville, Ga; *H S Mapp, White Plains,
Ga; TM McClesky, Athens, Ga; *G B
Medlock, Culverton, Ga; *F F Page,
Coweta county, Ga; R E Park, Greenville,
Ga; *J C Shaw, Oxford, Ga; W A Shaw,
Oxford, Ga; M R Simmons, Sparta, Ga;
1111 Shatter, New Orleans, La; B 0 Smith,
Macon, Ga; P F Smith, Coweta county,
Ga; *ls F Stewart, Americas, Ga.
• Abandoning college halls, and laying
aside text books, the members of this class .
entered the Southern army, and those who
survived the storm of buttle were found at
their post until the surrender of Lee and
Johnston’s armies metamorphosed their
liope’r cause into the “Lost Cause.”
THE DEAD.
Those marked with an asterisk fill sol
diers’ graves. Perhaps others of this class,
of whom we have not heard, fell victims lu
the same fell-destroyer. They fought well,
and nobly illustrated the State and section
that gave them birth. Full of promise,
they died yodng. Peace to their souls !
THOSE PRESENT.
At the recent Commencement, the fol
lowing named members of the elass were
present and delivered brief speeches;
Joseph Murrell, W. P. Baldwin, P.
Franciso Smith, Chas. G. Goodrich, 11. L.
Graves.
Diplomas were dispensed just as in the
case of the class alluded to in the out
set.
It affords the writer great gratification
to say that he has heard the speech of your
young townsman, Mr. Chas. G. Goodrich,
spoken of in the highest possible terms of
commendation. Mr. G. is an accomplish
ed gentleman, and one of sour most promis
ing young merchants.
. THE BACCALAUREATE ADDRESS.
The usual Baccalaureate address was
delivered by President Thomas, and is
spoken of as a splendid effort, which did
honor alike to the speaker’s great head
and heart. It made a profound impression
upon all who heard it.
General J. B. Gordon’s oration, before
the F'ew and Phi-Gamma Societies, was a
real literary treat.
DEGREES CONFERRED.
- -The JLL
upon President Thomas, by Bishop Fierce.
•in a \%ry happy speech. Dr. H. V. M,
Miller was the recipient of a similar honor.
Rev. Josephus Anderson, of Florida ;
Rev. J. M. Bonuell, of Macon Female
College ; XV. P. Harrison, of Atlanta, and
Professor L. M. Smith, of Oxford, Ga.,
received the honorary degree of D.D.
Isaac S. T. Hopkins, Joseph T. Derry,
of your city, and Julius Gardner received,
in course, the degree of A. M. The same
degree (honorary) was conferred upon W.
A. Shaw, of Oxford.
The exercises passed off very pleasantly
and? it is hoped, profitably for “Old
Emory,” than which there is not, in Geor
gia, a college more deserving ot mention
Air worthy of more generous support at the
hands of the people.
THE PRESIDENCY.
President Thomas having accepted the '■
charge ofa College in California, Dr. Luther
Smith, formerly Professor of the Greek :
Language and Literature, was appointed 1
President pro tem. of Emory.
THE CONDITION OF THE COLLEGE.
During the scholastic year, just closed, :
the College was in a very flourishing eon j
dition.
IMPORTANT CHANGES IX THE COURSE OF STUDY.
The Faculty propose, at an early day, j
introducing several important changes in I
the course of study, that are imperatively j
demanded in the existing condition of the j
country. They propose incorporating in
their economy the normal element, and
hope to have soon a department of
SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE. I
It has been wisely said: “An improved |
agriculture is a necessity of the South, and j
•will contribute largely to her future
wealth, prosperity, and power.
A*I:LK TEACHERS WILL ISE NEEDED j
to educate the rising generation—to train j
them to the responsibilities and duties 01 !
coining years. Emory College is an indis- j
pensahle instrumentality for the aceoni- |
plishment of these grand results—in a |
word, a necessity of tiie Church and State.
The institution has been eminently useful j
in the past, a blessing to the country. I lei - j
graduates are, today, the foremost men in !
every noble enterprise, in every good work !
in the land.”
THE country’s GREATEST WANT.
Men constitute the country’s greatest
want. “Send Emory College the boys, and ’
she will give yon the men.”
The next session of the College* will open I
the third Wednesday (21st) us August, '
proximo. Mignonxe
To the friends of the Loyal Georgian ,
who have stood by it in the past, I wish to
say thatit (the Mulatto Rrj/nblican) will be
as true to the cause we love so much, in
the future, *Us it has been in the past.
[Bureau Bryant.
The Radical negroes are assured by this
high Priest of Georgia Radicalism that the
new Mulatto paper, published by the hybrid
publishing company, will be as true to the
cause of social and political equality of the
two races as was the Loyal Georgian.—
The negroes have a few quarters left yet,
though, the poor things, thegreater portion
of their little savings have been swallowed
up in the capacious maw of the Savings
concern and the Loyal Georgian, and it i
important to the success of the new paper
that they should have the support ol' the
colored people.
But what will the white people say who
are solicited to receive the mongrel bant
ling in their houses and places of business,
and give to the slimy thing their support
and assistance? Will the assurance of
Bureau Bryant, that it will be true to the
cause which he has been advocating in the
South for the past two years, give it an
additional hold upon the patronage of re
spectable white people? The next f'ew
weeks will settle this question.
No Separate Ticket in Decatur.—
We believe that the sensible course adopted
by the colored people of Decatur county,
Ga., will be more generally pursued than
is generally believed. The Bainbridge
Argus says : “Registering in this county
has reached seventeen hundred names,
the colored largely in the majority, but it
is not yet known the exact number. We
are informed that the colored people will
run no separate ticket, but will be satisfied
to vote with the whites for any good,
reliable man for the Convention. — Talla
hassee Sentinel.
Caterpillars. —We were shown yes
terday, by Mr. Baszinsky, a stalk of cot- j
ton perfectly covered with caterpillars. The
stalk was taken from Mr. N. B. Lanier’s
place, a few miles out in the county. — I
1 iekxlrurg Herald.
A Norwegian artist is to perpetrate a j
full length portrait of Abraham Lincoln. 1
NEW SERIES VOL..XXVI. NO. 31.
The Roman Centenary.
CANONIZATION OF TWENTY -FIVE MARTYRS
IN ST. PETER S—RICH AND GORGEOUS
SPECTACLE—A GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF
j THE CEREMONIES, ETC.
The correspondent of the London Times
\ furnishes the following, detailed description
: of the recent imposing ceremonies in Rome,
of which the cable has already given a brief
account :
] , Rome, June 29.- -I Lave just returned
from witnessing the magnificent ceremony
of the canonization of twenty-five martyrs
ti the Roman Catholic Church, and any
thing so gorgeous, anything so unique aud
| out of harmony with that world in whitjj
: we live, and move, and think, it has never
been my lot to witness. The fetes began
last night, which was the virgil of St.
Peter, and. as I entered Rome by the
Porta San Pancrazio, there rose on the
korizou, still blushing with the gorgeous
colors which an Italian Summer’s sun had
left, a thing of light, a nisgic cupola, so
exquisite in its beauty and so rapid in its
birth, that one might have fancied it had
been created by Him who said, “Let there
be light.” All the world was out to view
it, and though no novelty to myself, still it
was a pleasure to hear the admiration
which every one expressed at witnessing a
: spectacle of which they had dreamt far
i aerossithe Atlantic on the one hand, and
I across the Pacific on the- other, for there is
a multitude here of every race under the
i sun.
i Os the number of foreigners I fear to
| speak. Os bishops there are 500. Eccle
siastics of all ranks are said to amount to
25,000, of Yvliotn 15,000 are calculated to
be French. Certain is it that 10,000 ap
plied to tiie Cardinal Vicar for permission
to say mass, aud, for various reasons, they
are believed to be French. In short, never
tvas Rome so full, Especially of the clerical
element, and many a stranger has had to
pass a sleepless night, or lay his head on
j the boards. The great day of the feast
was, however, yet to come, and wearied
\ travellers wore appalled to hear that by
six o’clock the Church of St. Peter would
Ihe full. A brilliant morning it was when
1 I started at half-past five o'clock-, and found
crowds in carriages or on foot, all tending
toward one point. Many a window was
hung with crimson tapestry ; the Papal
banner was floating over the Ponte St. An
gelo, and Papa! troops were dashing about
in all directions.
I entered the church by a private gate,
the Porta Santa Martha, and from my
place under the ambassador’s loggia, and
close to the Papal throne, will now describe
the scene which thousands besides my
self were gazing at even at that early hour.
The taste displayed in the decorations is
much more pure and siuijilo than that
which was shown in 1862 at the last great
canonization. The effort has been to give
the effeefof color, and this has been done
so as to bring out in bolder relief the archi
tectural ornaments, ft would be useless
to note the materials employed. One
looks at the whole, at the general, effect,
and this was rich and gorgeous in the ex
treme. Richer still it became when about
7 o’clock the Scrvitori began to light the
greafewax tapers which hung suspended in
festoons beneath (lie arches, under tiie
colossal statues.
Twenty-five thousand tapers were thus
soon made Jo shed their light upon the
building, giving to the crimson tapestry
a deeper hue, now that all daylight was
excluded, and lending increased brilliancy
to the gilding. Sometimes a puff of wind
blew aside if curtain, and then down stream
ed on one particular spot a sunbeam so
bright and unexpected that it seemed like
a flash-of lightning, startling those around
as if danger were near. Grander, how
ever, than all else in thet*iy of light was a
colossal inverted cross formed of prisms of
glass, which has been sought for far and
wide. Above it were the keys, gigantic in
their proportions and formed of the same
material, while above them still was
suspended an enormous tiara of colored
glass. Hanging, as did these brilliant
symbols of the Roman Catholic faith, in
! the centre of the nave; and flashing :tnd
; glittering with direct and reflected light,
! the spectacle, was. indescribably beautiful.
Meantime, all the great people are
I Prussian' ana Austrian and Spanish and
1 Mexican, in fact, all the ambassadors now
1 in Rome, not excluding the ambassador of
the Grand Duke of Monaco, who has been
i recently appointed, together with the wives
and families of those who have the good
fortune to possess them, and their attaches.
In tiie opposite loggia were the ex-King of
Naples and the Dowager (Yiieen with her
family aiid a large suite better adapted to
better times. The Portuguese Princess,
the aunt of the present King of Portugal,
is also there, together with her ladies in
waiting. There are few English of the
laity. Lord Nortlicsk and Mr. Howard of
Corby, who has lately had the misfortune
to lose his daughter, are in the same loggia
with me, and n(Tt far from us is the gene
ral of the -Jesuits, who attracts much at
tention, Cardinal I’eiitini, unable from
iH-healtn to take part in the procession,
walks in feebly and seats himself.
Soon after eight o’clock some minor or
ders began to enter, and then came the
bishops, two and two, amounting to four
hundred and eighty. Wearing a red cope
in honor of the martyrs, they presented a
grand spectacle. Many of them wore a
violet-colored berretta on the head, in
stead of a black one. Each carried his
mitre, white for*the most part, though
there were varieties, as in the dress. Some
had mitres resembling imperial crowns,
studded with precious stones, while some
wore over the cope, a dress resembling Ti
Hussar’s jacket with upright collars rigid
with gold. Os European bishops France
lias the greatest show, Austria perhaps
t lie smallest, being represented only by the
Primate of Hungary, who is followed by
four servants in Hussar uniforms. Eng-j
land send; more than half her bishops ;
Ireland has 14. Scotland, too, is not lie
hind. There are bishops also from Canada |
and the United States, four from India :
and China, besides many other arrivals.
Each bore a lighted taper, and as soon as 1
they were seated and the archbishops had
arranged themselves on cither side of the j
throne, the silver trumpets in the cloister j
announced the approach of tiip Pontiff, j
They always perform the same music, but. j
sweeter notes ii is impo.-i-.iblc to conceive. 1
In advance were the cardinals. Dr. Cullen 1
among them, and Anionelli, looking, as he \
has done for Twenty year.;, calm and im
perturbable. These took their seats on the !
lower 1 ouches mi cither side of the Presby
tery, forty-three in number, andin the cen
tre of fivs hundred and twenty-three
princes and dignitaries of the Church Pius
IX.. vas borne in on bis chair. So large a 1
number lias never. I believe, been as- ;
sembled together, at least in modern ‘
times; in 1. ii 2 there were not more than :
two hundred and fifty bishops. Altogether
the Church posses.-.s between eight and
nine hundred, and fifty-three or four
cardinals; so that more than one-half of
her staff, so to speak, met on this occasion.
Call it vanity, or wlmt you like, I’ius IX.
must have been more or !es.-; than hufcian,
had.he not felt deeply moved and gratified
at the homage which lie received.
TIIE CEREMONY OF CANONIZATION.
Rome, .June 30. —Two hundred years
have passed away since the fete of the Uen
tenary of St. Peter was celebrated. In
that interval, thrones and dominions,
principalities and powers, have been swept
into oblivion, while the Church of Rome
exists, and, externally, never presented a
grander phase than it did yesterday. I
do not urge it a an argument in its favor,
f state a simple fact, arid a hard one it is
for those who think to upset in an hour
an institution founded in the traditions of
antiquity, and in the faith and affections
of many millions of human beings. What
Pius IX. felt aud thought as he was borne
into the centre of this gorgeous see fie,' it
would be imp®.dole to conceive. Leaving
his chair and a sending his throne, he
stood for several minutes as if transfixed,
cardinals and bishops, with their lighted
tapers, surrounding him, and a sea of heads
surging and stretching away to the extreme
distance. I thought he looked pale, and
no wonder if he did : for if a heretic trem
bled with emotion, what must have been
sensations of one who regarded himself as
the representative of the Great Apostle
whose centenary they were celebrating,
the very centre and depository of truth !
Yet there were no indications of weakness
in his voice, which was as firm and clear
as I ever heard it. The cardinals having
paid their homage by kissing the hand,
and some of' the bishops by kissing the
knee of his Holiness, the great function of
the day, the canonization of" the martyrs,
began.
I abstain from all criticism, and merely
report what I saw aud heard, describing
great general effects. To Roman Catholics
the* ceremony which added so many advo
cates to those already before the Throne of .
Grace was most interesting, and everything
that art could supply was borrowed to i
make it more effective. When all was
ready the Cardinal charged to conduct tiie j
canonization advanced to the throne, ac
companied by a master of ceremonies and
an advocate of the consistory, who, in the
name of the cardinal, begged instanter that
his Holiness would permit t: e names ot
the twenty-five lleati to be enrolled in the
I catalogue of saints. The Prelate Secretary
! of the Brefs ad Pnncipcs replied in Latin
| that die Holy Father was well acquainted
: with their virtues, but before deciding on
so important an affair exhorted that iuter
■ cession should be made to the Apostles and
all the Court of Heaven for light to guide
! him The Pope and all the mitred host
, then knelt, while two singing chaplains in
! toned the Litany of the saints, rite ecclesi
; astics joining in, and the vast multitude in
‘ the church responding as with the voice of
many waters. There is a plaintive monot
ony in the notes which is very touching,
and familiar as they are to the members of
the Roman Catholic Church, not a voice
was silent, and a body of sound rose and
swelled through the vast edifice that made
one’s nerves thrill.
The same forms being observed as in the
first instances, a second time the cardinal
advanced, and the request was made in
stanter et instantins that the lleati should
be canonized, when, in answer, prayers to
the Holy Spirit, the soni'ee of light and
holiness, were implored, Again the Pope
and liis prelates knelt and prayed, and,
rising, his Holiness intoned the Veni Cre
ator Spirit ns with a voice so clear and
loud, and with a precision so remarkable
that people looked ujion one another with
astonishment. A third time the postu
lants advanced and entreated mstanter
instantius. et instantissine that the canon
ization should take place, ami an answer
was returned that the Holy Father, con
vinced that the act was approved of God
would now pronounce his definitive de*
cision, which he accordingly did, seated in
his chair of state, with his mitre on his
head. After some other forms the Con-
Jiciemus or Dicemimus, was repeated, the
silver trumpets sounded, thecannon roared
from St. Angelo, and all the bells in the
city were rungfcr joy at the consumma
tion of the hopes of the Church.
The Pope now intoned the T< Dmm ,
that fine, old Ambrosian hymn. Oh. how
grandly it rose and died away, as it was
sung by the choir, and was then taken up
by forty thousand voices, pealing forth
with a power which lifted one above the
world, and then dying away, as if the
effort was too great for the human soul to
sustain! Do not call this rant or ovor
excited enthusiasm. You s'hould have
heard and seen properly to have felt. I
confess that even now I choke with emotion
as 1 recall the impression it made upon
me. That glorious hymn, chanted as it
was by tens of thousands in unison, will
ring in my years forever, and I iimnd my
self joining in the universal song of praise,
not as a Roman Catholic with Roman
Catholics, but as a Christian man with his
fellow-man in acknowledgment of that
Croat Power whom wo all worship. Iligh
mass was performed immediately after the
conclusion of the ceremony of canonization.
It presents no peculiarity until we come
to the ofiertory, which, on this occasion,
included the presentation of the offerings
made to the Pope by the friends of the
new saints, or the religious orders to which
they belonged. During the whole of the
morning they lay lay on tables on the left of
the high altar. They consisted first of five
large wax candles, weighing, two of them,
fifty Roman pounds, and three 125 pounds.
Those were beautifully painted with
flowers, intermingled with arabesque, in
gold and silver. Secondly, two largo
loaves, on silver salvers, one of which was
gilt, bearing the arms of the Pontiff
Thirdly, two barrels, one plated with gold,
the other with silver, filled, one with wine
and the other with water. Fourthly,
three cages with elegant construction, in
one of which were two turtle doves, jn
another two pigeons, and in the third
various small birds of different kinds.
Each saint presented the offerings above
described, and the ceremony was conduct
ed with great pomp. As many saints, so
many processions, each formed by two
macebearers and a master of the cer
j emonies, two cardinals preceded by their
gentlemen, and followed by two members
! of the order to which the saint belonged, or
I by two priests or laymen, the postulator of
the cause and two cardinals with their
gentlemen bringing up the rear. The cer
emony therefore continued for some time,
and during this interval wo were indulged
; with a Litany composed expressly for the
occasion the well-kuown soprano,
MusafcJji.jyfeyklhjajunuw afctUw
saints were introduced for the first time.
To give effect to the music three sever
al choirs were formed, one of which was
placed under the direction of Mustafa,
near the high altar; another over the great
window at the entrance of the church,
directed by Melizzi; and a third, composed
of four hundred voices in the cupola, under
the direction of Capocci. Such delicious
music surely was never heard, as the dul
cet tones floated in a series of echoes
through the vast building, first rising from
the earth in a full body of sound, then
gradually diminishing in power, though
not in distinctness, and then softly breath
ing forth as though.they were angel whis
pers. As the high mass proceeded and the
incense began to spread its misty veil over
every object, nothing could exceed the
beauty of color. IJis Holiness took the
sacrament in both hands: the benediction
was given, and the loiur expected ceremo
nies of a day which will mark an important
epoch in the history of the Church were
over.
The day before yesterday the Pope got
a silver yacht full of gold eagles from the
American Episcopacy, a gigantic cake, full
of bullion and jewels, from the Latins of
the Orient, a big silver fish, stuffed with
louis d’ors from a religious Transatlantic
Sisterhood, £4,000 (lOO.OOOf.) from the
Poles, through their Primate, money,,
money, money, from North, South, East
and West. More than £300,000 have been
poured out at bis feet in the shape of vol
untary contributions.
Maximilian's Will —I have already
announced to you that the testamentary
executor of the Emperor Maximilian was
Count Francois Zichy. I now learn that
there is a second Count Hadaik. Con
cerning the wills of the Emperor Maxi
milian and the Empress Charlotte sonic
information of a precise nature has reach
ed rae. which cannot fail to excite tho
highest interest. From what I learn,
which, of course, 1 cannot guarantee,
although I have it from the best source,
two wills, perfectly analogous, were drawn
up by the Emperor and Empress. Each of
them, in case there was no issue of the
marriage, leaves all the property to the
survivor. Thus, Maximilian being dead,
bis fortune, estimated at from ten to
twelve millions of florins, only calculating
bis property at Miramar, Laconna and
the artistic wealth collected there, revert
to the Empress Charlotte. The will of
Maximilian is there to attest it.
Jiut now comes the strange affair. It is
asserted that the Empress Charlotte’s
will, written with her own hand, and which
was carefully locked up in one of the rooms
at Miramar, has suddenly disappeared,
nobody knows how or where. From that
circumstance it results that, as the Empress
Charlotte has no will and is not in a state
to make one, seeing the almost complete
absence of her mental faculties, all her
fortune, including the part coming from
her husband, the ttmperor Maximilian,
j and which ought in justice, after her
death, to revert to the Austrian Imperial
; family, will now legally fall to the royal
; one of Belgium.— Vienna [ July 10) cor
j respondence of the Paris Liberie.
Meeting or tiil Heirs of tiif, In
<i rah am Estate. —An interesting meeting
was held at the Astor House to-day. In
room No. 14 were assembled over two hun
dred persons, gathered from all parts of
the country, including male and female,
old and young, who believe that they are
lawful heirs of the great Ingraham estate,
at Leeds, England, and which is said to
belong to persons living in the United
States.
This property is of immense value, com
prising as it does a large part of the ground
i upon which the thriving city of Leeds is
: built. The sum named in connection with
this property would nearly pay one-half
of tho debt of the United States —if it
could be obtained.
The most singular feature in connection
with this case is the fact that it is said the
present occupants of the property known
! as the Ingraham estate are not only willing
but anxious to pay the lawful heirs for the
1 same, thus securing a clear title to the
: lands. ,
The meeting to-day was held for the pur
pose of appointing committees and raising
money to begin proceedings for the re
i covery of the property. The attendance
was remarkably large. Women on the
shady side of life had come as far as from
Ohio and lowa, to see “forthemselves”
what the prospects were for obtaining a
share of the property. Some of the men
j and women were over eighty years of age,
and while they could not rea-onably ex
! pect to long enjoy their wealth, they ap
peared to be as much interested in the
matter as the greater part of tlie audience.
After the meeting was organized subscrip
tions were taken up and some unimportant
business was transacted. — N. Y.Post, 2ith.
At Saratoga the gambling .hells as
signs a picture of a key with the word
“no” under it—keno. Asa general thing
the dupes of professional blacklegs need no
guide to pilot the way to their tuin.