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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
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Atlanta and Wot Point Railroad
Convention.— As the 25th of July fail
on Sunday, the annual I /invention of the
stockholders of this company will be bold
in Atlanta on Friday, the 23 1 instant.
We are requested to state that cars will
be provided for the convenience of the
stockholders who may attend by the regu
lar freight and pa--en;-r train that arrives
in Atlanta at Mi o’cl kof the morning of
the convention. It is hoped that all the
stockholder-. will attend.
Saif, of Blooded Chickens. —The
Atlanta Era says that (.'apt. J. H. Bar
rett sold, on yesterday, a lot of chickens
raised by Capt. 0. A. V. Rose of this city,
at the following prices: Three Black
Spanish, brought $lO each, three Leg
horns brought sll each, six Brahmas $5
each, lour Brahmas $1 25 each and !ive
of the same $3 25 each. A laige num
ber of others were sold at correspondingly
high (igur.es. Capt. Rose sold at private
saloon Friday, six Brahmas, three Black
Spanish and three Leghorns for the net
sum of two hundred dollars. This is the
larg"-t sale of fowls that ever took place in
Atla-ta, and rival- the great'New York
foul sale.).
A Railroad from Tennille to At.
lanta. Iho Central Railroad will, in a
short time, commence the con. (ruction of
another “feeder” to the grand trunk erf
that line. The Atlanta papers ways that
there is a movement on foot to build a
railroad from that city to No. 13, on the
Central Railroad, which, it is paid, will
shorten the distance from that place to Sa
vai.nah between twenty-five and lorty
im!' The Central Railroad pro ose.s to
build the new road for the purpose of con
iiccting at that point with the new route
to the West, which will bo opened when
’the Cincinnati A Southern Railroad is
built. By reicrenee to the map it will be
seen that this is an air line to Savannah ;
atnl with all the connections complete bo
tv ori Cincinnati and Savannah, by this
route, tie: latter city will naturally be the
port, if entry for the whole West. Savan
nah will then be nearer Cincinnati than
any seaport city, except Baltimore, and
the great diliorence in the grades on this
route atnl the Baltimore and Ohio road,
will give the route decidedly the advan
tage.
W. B.'Johnson, E-q., on the part of
the Central Railroad, was in Atlanta on
Saturday, to confer with the City Council
and citizens relative to the building of the
road to T mmlle. On Friday night, Aider
man Am!, i in, Mayor pro lem, appointed
tiie May ir mid C tiincil as a committed to
confer with Mr Johnson. Dr. Angier and
other citizens acted in connection with
Council. The Central Road is determined
to build the road, and are negotiating for
the right-of-way.
The new route, if built, will run, we sup
pore, from Tennille, Washington county,
to Atlanta by way of Milledgoville, Clinton
and Mechansvillo.
Southern National Bank Reports.
The abstracts of the national bank re
ports of the Southern States, showing
their condition on the morning of the 12th
of Juno last, show the following among
other items :
The L misiana hanks, three in number,
belonging to the city of Now Orleans -how
an aggregate ot resources anil liabilities of
$4,02:2, Go 1 ; loans and discounts, $1,125,-
210; Uni cd States bonds, $1,208,000;
specie, $72,343 ; capital, $1,300,000; .pro
fits, $182,500 ; individual deposits sl.-
302,31)3.
The aggregate resources and liabilities of
tbc Alabama banks is $1,217,720; loans
and discounts, $374,978 ; United States
bonds, $310,500; specie, $44,294: capital
stock, $400.000; profits, $80,975 ; de
posits, $470,914.
The (!i orgia banks show an aggregate
of $5 730,005 ; loans and discounts. $2,■
054,377 ; United Statos bonds, $1,483,-
500 ; specie, $32,690 ; capital stock, sl,-
600,000; profits, $500,311; deposits,
$2,293,695.
Aggregate of South Carolina banks,
$2,555. 170 : loans itnd discounts. $1,121,-
705; United States bonds, $2 7 8,000;
sdccie, $14,740; capital, $823,500 ; pro
fits, $197,127 ; deposits, $1,285,956.
Tin: Direct Land Tax at the South.
-The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald says there is some talk
of enforcing the collection of the direct
land tax in the South. The Southern
States share of this tax—which amounted
to twenty millions among all the States—-
was six millions; of this sum only about
three millions has been paid into thoTrea
ury from the Southern States. It will he
remembered that when this amount had
been collected President Johnson sent a
nie.-.-ago to Congress setting forth that, in
view ot the poverty produced in the South
by the war, it would,in many instances, be
ruinous to that section to enforce the col
lection of the tax at that time, and recom
mending that it be suspended for some
time, mas to allow the industrial interests
of the South to recuperate. It is stated
that the limit of the suspension fixed by
Cougre.'S has now passed, and the law pro
viding lor the levying and collection of the
t x e nact into full force again. It is ar
gued by those who ui go this proceeding that
the industrious of the South have greatly
improved in the interim, that the crops
are abundant, and that there is no longer
any lieu ft >r delay on the score of pov
erty. \\ he; her the Secretary of the
Ti '.try o ’act upon the advice tender
ed him in this matter remains to be seen.
I lon. A. 11. Stephens.—We regret to
learn, through private letters,that this dis
tinguished Georgian does not recover
rapidly. He has not Iven out of the house
since February, and at these instances was
carried out with difficulty because of the
great pain which the effort occasioned
him. Th - second volume of his great work
eominu - to receive daily attention to the
extent of his strength, necessarily,however,
from phys cal weakness, progressing slowly.
A New and Important Macon Enter- 1
PRISE.—We are glad to learn, says the Ma- j
con Aftssc >ir, of Saturday, that a uumberof |
our prominent and enterprising merchants ,
contemplate the formation of a company, |
with a capital of $150,000 to $200,000, j
for the m.. scuire and sale of fertilizers, |
and that i ,s probable they will purchase '
trom t al Railroad Company the
fine build'.; . and depot now used by that
Company. .: List Macon.
I.< •<. ' Ot v t i Your Wild Lands.— |
The Colum Sun says that parties own- j
ing wild t>y p itim ot the State j
had best . ' t th. i xes and titles J
of the same. It' is reliably informed th3t
a company has been termed to steal all the
lands of this character that may be reach
ed. and that the projectors of the seheme
haw been busy, in Atlanta, for weeks
forming and maturing their plans of opera
tions.
The Caterpillar in Florida.—A oor
i spondent, who writes from Gainsville
Older date of the 17th, says that it is not
trie that there are caterpillars in Alachua
ail Columbia counties. The so-called
caterpillars are grass worms, and the cot
toterop is the best that has been had in
fif> n years. The worm is expected in
Aiif.st, which may reduce the crap onc
halt _
lAy Murray, eldest daughter of the
Duki t Montrose, has become a convert
to thUßomun Catholic Church.
A feculitor in Paris proposes to print
all ihtParis journals on one huge print
ing pro, an 1 effect a saving of ten per
onL
Get Out of Die Way for Ole nan Tuefcer.
Wendell Phillips, the great Light of the
; Republican party, the irrepressible tinker
of American morals, who never fails, as of
j Christian duly, to cherish that sort of
! chanty which begins and ends at home ;
i the great American Asitaor, who. for a
! long lifetime, has made profitable to in
dividual and sectional interests National
philanthrophy, is now engaged in the fas
cinating employment of shooting pins at
Grant and his Cabinet. The President he
styles the “Our Smoking Ceasar.” Is ;
such language compatible with loyalty at
the Hub of the Universe? General repu
tation assigns to the President great fond- j
ness for a fragrant Havana. Is the \
Partaga regalia inconsistent with Radical j
Republicanism ? Are wo to infer that i
“Our smoking Ctezar” is now casting
about for a pretext fur seizin, the “gem
of the isles” for a Republican Tobacco
Patch? Neither is “our smoking Caesar’s
Cabinet of counsellors in accord with
the great New Englander who rules the
roost at the Hub of the Universe. Hear
him :
When Grant, so absurdly and without
consultation, flung an administration at the
country, we trembled at such proof of his
unfitness for his great place. And every
hour’s experience with that administra
tion has increased our fears. There are
able men in that Cabinet; men fuliy equal
to the special duties of the place assigned
them. But we utter only the unanimous
judgment of all parties when we say that,
as a Cabinet as a unit —it is the weakest
Cabinet the nation has ever seen. There
arc not more than two men in it of any po
litical significance or of any national re
pute. There is only one mart in it able to
counsel his chief on the great issues, and
he shows no willingness to assume that re
sponsibility.”'
“Our great smoking Caesar” “flung an
administration at the country” just as he
would have “flung” away a mean segar,
and “our smoking Caesar’ ’ has but ono coun
sellor of capacity equal to the great issues
of the times, and lie is afraid to counsel
his chief, lest he should become bestnoked.
But what is lacking in the. Cabinet is
atoned for by the boldness and sagacity of
this great conservator of Radicalism. He
points out Stanton as the model Caesar,
and boldly defines the true Caesarean policy,
thusly:
“Lot. not the world say the nation could
produce but one Staunton, with a grip of
iron enough to strangle resistance. Until
Georgia admits colored men to their legis
lative scats, fill every other ojjice in the
State with bl/jclcs , to make rebels under
stand the government and keep the bal
ance even. Throw the whole weight of the
national government into that scale in Ten
nessee, Mississippi and Texas which will
give loyal men the rule—loyal men sus
tained by education, land, political rights,
and by business so fostered and protected
that it will remodel the State.”
This is the dying echo of the Peace
Jubilee, an anvil chorus for Republican
imperialism. We tender our profound
sympathy to the painted Georgia Repub
licans who are now expected “to git out ob
do way for eld Dan Tucker,” that the peo
ple of Georgia may “understand” the
imperialism of the Radical party. Another
reconstruction is wanted “by all parties”
—by outside “loyal men” —sustained by
education in New England and by “land
and political rights and by business” in
Georgia. This time we are to have true
ebony.
Tiie Good Time Cuming in the South.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
The condition of the Southern States at
the present time is full of promise. They
seem to have fairly tided over their indus
trial and political troubles and the future
is bright with the promises of a high and,
we trust, enduring prosperity. Another
good cotton crop, of which the indications
appear to be most favorable, will place
them in a position which even the North
ern States may envy. The Southern peo
ple, fortunately for themselves, have had
no credit for several years past, and have
therefore no debts at the present time.
They have been forced to live economically,
and depend entirely upon their own re
sources, while the Northerners, a t a rule,
have been extravagant and wasteful. It
is probable that in the event of the occur'
renco of the financial panic which some
persons regard as imminent, the Southern
people would feel the shock much less
keenly, and recover from it much more
rapidly than some of the more wealthy
and apparently more prosperous Northern
States.
Tho condition of the cotton market at
the present time indicates that no material
reduction is likely to occur in the present
prices of the great staple. The supply of
cotton iu both England and United States
is scarcely adequate to the requirements of
consumers during the interval that elapses
before the new crop begins to come forward.
The cable quotations of 12ld. for Middling
Uplands at Liverpool, is a fortune for the
Southern planter. That there’ will be no
important reduction from the price is ap
parent from the evident inadequacy of all
the cotton fields iu the world to supply the
demands for consumption. The supply is
falling off from India in spite of all tha es- j
forts of England to stimulate production in J
that region. The South, for a series of
years to come, will be the great source of
cotton supply for the world. King cotton
is recovering his lost throne, but he will
reign henceforth as aconstitutional monarch
over freemen, not as a despot over slaves.
Free labor will ultimately vindicate its
I superiority even in the cotton field.
Nothing, then, but the contingency of
unexpected aud unlocked for deserters to
j tho new crop can prevent the South taking
anew start. At present the accounts of
| the cotton and corn crops are favorable,
and the yield of both these products will
|be largely iu excess of last year. With
| the prospect of plenty of money, attl with
J no debts on hand to absorb it, the South
I at the cl se of another successful harvest
: will possess the means and capital required
j to stimulate the groat railroad and other
I industrial enterprises that are destined to
j impart to it anew impulse on the road to
i prosperity.
The Campaign In Pennsylvania.
The political campaign which has begun
in Pennsylvania, possesses a bearing on
the future of the United States, which, we
believe, few State elections have ever had.
The main i-sue presented is the Fifteenth
Constitutional Amendment and its ratifica
tion by a Radical Legislature in defiance of
rights reserved by the State Constitution.
The State itself has been long since recog
nized as the Keystone State of the Union.
The division at this election will do much
to settle the suffrage question, and to
mould the policy of the future.
There is a conscious strength indicated
by the tone and proceedings of the late
Democratic Convention which augurs well
lor success. There is no lia;ting as to
principle, nothing of concession to oppo
nents, uo temporising to gain strength.
The principles arc boioly an 7 - unced and
the banners thrown boldiy to the breeze.
Unity and harmony were the character
istics of action. Upon the third
ballot Hon. Asa Packer received
the nomination for Governor.
Asa Packer, the Democratic nominee, is
a native of New London, Connecticut. He
was born in ISO 6, working at a tannery
until at the age of seventeen, when he re
moved to Susquehanna county, Pennsyl
vania. From seventeen to twenty-one he
served as apprentice to the trade of the
carpenter, at 3priofield, Pa. Upon the
completion of his apprenticeship he settled
a farm on a piece of wild land. This
growing in value with the rapid growth of
the population was sold out a few years
; afterward. At the age of twenty-seven
he fixed Lis residence in Lehigh Valley,
became engaged in transporting coal from
! Mauch Chunk to Philadelphia, and build
; ing locks and dams for the Lehigh Coal
and Navigation Company. Ia 1830 he be
came possessed of a controlling interest in
the Delaware, Lehigh, Sehuykill and
j Susquehanna Railroad,which he completed
with his characteristic energy, laying the
foundation for his large fortune. He has
been a member of the Legislature, Judge
of the County Court, and from 1853 to
1857 wa3 a Representative in Congress
from the thirteenth district of Pennsyl
vania. His great characteristic is immense
energy. The utmost that his opponents
can say agaiost him is, that he “was a
peace at any price man.” The New
York Tribune endorses hint a? an honest
man, “as a man of respectable abilities
and good character,” but charges that
“he is worth twenty millions of dollars,”
which, although it believes he came hon- I
estly by them,” ought to defeat him, be- j
cause it is at “ones baleful and perilous” :
that a man- woo has honestly made so I
much money should fill an office in the gift j
of the people. The Philadelphia Press re- I
grots that so excellent a man should “run”
to his defeat, being on the wrong side—a
life-long Democrat. The Democrats al
ready cheer him as the next Governor of
Pennsylvania.
Which Is to be the Most Potent ?
The Radicals are now attempting to cul
tivate the “rich Irish brogue” through
the instrumentality of a Philadelphia
Irishman by the name of Moriarty. The
idea seems to be, Pat be aisy, and if you
can’t be aisy, be aisy as you can,till we get
Koopman Schapp, the celestial, to bring
over a few millions from China to aid us
in building railroads, canals and the like.
The country wants cheap labor, and China
furnishes it by reason of its abundance in
humanity.
The honest “German accent” has been
the delight of the Radical ear. This ac
cent is best caught at Sangerfesta and
Schutzenfests. It is well to linger upon its
cadences as it floats musically from some
joyous band. But then the German
never works for another when he cau work
for himself or herself. By diligence,
thrift and economy, these Germans
soon become independent workers
for their own pleasure, and profit,
and this does not cheapen labor.
The great want of the Republican party, or,
as Forney’s Press phrases, “the great
want of the country” is cheap labor. Cheap
labor means low wages and a pint ol lager
and black bread,or whiskey, buttermiik arid
potatoes. The loyal colored wards of the
nation, it was expected, would do much to
free the Radical party from the embarrass
ments of strikes anu unions, and all that.
But these “loyal wards” flee from the
freezing influence of the North Pole and
persistingly set their laces toward the Sun ;
and, therefore, the loyal wards have re
turned nothing, not even cheap cotton to
their Radical benefactors. Now, under
the plea of universal freedom and universal
suffrage they demand protection for manu
factoring lords, but free trade in labor.
Let all the world come in so that capi
talists shall have cheap labor and
plenty of it on the farm to have
cheap cotton and" cheap wheat—. irr the
mine to have cheap iron and cheap coal,
in the factory to have cheap cloth and
big profits for the manufacturing lords of
New England. The manufactured goods
protected by high ’tariffs againstaTf the
world ; but there must be tree trade and
equal rights in labar, to all the world, for
these Princes of factory labor. Let all
the Koopman-Schapps of all the Orient
bring in all the pigtails. They shall have
“equal rights.” “If the negro cannot
compete let him go under.” If the Irish
and Germans cannot live “lot them go
under.” The people should bo made to
“understand the government,” and the
Radicals continue to grow rich and pros
per, receiving gold for their bonds, all
offices for their honors, and protection
for thoir manufactured goods, and the
Government imperial as Imperial Franco.
We ask the generous Radical what is
to be the mo-t potent the rich Irish
brogue, or the sweet German accent, or
the celestial lingo of the Fiowery King
dom ?
The Augusta and Hartwell Rail
road. —The provisional direction of this
Railroad Company held their appointed
meeting at the Augusta Club Rooms yester
day. We learn that subscriptions to the
amount of two hundred thousand dollars
or over were reported. These, we under
stand, were for the most part, conditional,
some being predicated upon tho ridge
route being adopted, others that the river
route be selected. On the part of Augus
ta assurances were given that the feeling
iu Augusta was entirely in favor of the en
terprise, and that Augusta fully recognized
her interests in the matter, and would re
spond liberally so soon as the country gave
evidence of active earnestness. The direc
tion, wo are informed, after canvassing
various reports, resolved that inastnucu
as this was the busy season among the
p’.auters and the season at which most of
the merchants aud citizens of Augusta
were abroad, that no appeal for co-operation
to the municipal authorities and citizens
of Augusta would be made until the Fall.
But tha; on the second Tuesday in October
a committee of one from each county would
present the result of their efforts to the
City Council and citizens of Augusta and
ask their co operation. Dr. Wilkes, of
Lincoln county-, asserted that bis county
had agreed to subscribe an amount nearly
equal to one-fifth of the taxable property
of the county, but that those he represent
ed were like the people of Elbert —they
recollected Augusta’s action in the Savan-
Dan Valley Road, and while he believed
that the subscription he presented could be
doubled, his people were unwilling to
make their subscriptions unconditional un
til they saw Augusta committed this time
and a fair prospect of having the road
built. His people were like those of Elbert
county 7. They wanted railroad facilities,
and intended to have them. They were
not content with the miserable, thieving
pole-beat system, which placed them at
the mercy of a shoal and of
irresponsible thieves besides. But whip,
restless underthis condition they intended
to be sure i t their purpose,and,fortunately,
there was a scheme nov projected by their
Carolina neighbors which he had good rea
ods tebelieve. with a favorable cotton crop,
would be carried out, which would afford
them equal facilities at no more cost. A
runing conversational debate took pause on
the v.due of the two proposed routes, the
water power of the Savannah river, the
possibility of effecting a union with the
Savannah valley corporation, Ac. The ac
tion of the Board terminated in a resolu
tion to take all subscriptions for both
routes, to have county meetings to raise
county subscriptions in the bonds of the
several counties, to get an alteration of their
charter .-o as to allow the trunk line to be
built;.- Clayton or Anderson, and. as be
fore stated, to bring the matter pruminent
]y before the citizens and corporation of
Augusta on the second Tuesday in Octo
ber next. The Board then adjourned to
meet the second Tuesday in November
next in Augusta.
Great is Atlana.— She has risen like
the Phoenix from her ashes, built an
opera house, with all "the modern con
veniences ’ for modern Legislators was
the first city on the continent to introduce
the stink pot inode ot warfare, and now is
the first to introduce Nev 7 York Bar-
Rooms with “ the waiter girl attach
ment.”
The Elections of 1869.—Political
parties in a number of States are busily
preparing for elections to be held next fall.
The canvass is already active in Tennessee
and Texas, and in time other States will
| take their turn. The following are the
j State.s and Territories which hold elections
this year, and the principal officers to be
| elected:
Kentucky, August 2—Treasurer and
! Legislature.
Alabama, August 2 —Members of Con
; gross.
Tennessee, August 6—Governor, State
officers and Legislature.
Montana, August 10—Delegate to Coir
gress.
3 ermont, September 7 —Governor, State
officers and Legislature.
Maine. September 13—Governor and
Legislature.
Colorado, October 12—Delegates to
Congress.
Pennsylvania, October 12—Governor,
Judge and Legislature.
Ohio, October 13—Governor, State offi
cers, and Legislature.
lowa, October 12—Governor, State offi
cers and Legislature.
California, October 20 —.Judges of Su
preme Court.
New York, November 2—State officers,
Judges and Legislature.
New Jersey, November 2—Legislature.
Massachusetts, November 2—Governor,
State officers and Legislature.
Minnesota, November 2—State officers
and_ Legislature.
Wisconsin, November 2—State officers
and Legislature.
Mississippi and Texas (dates not ascer
tained) —Governor, State and Leg
islature.
Enterprise in Elbert County.— The
citizens of old Elbert are displaying a spirit
of enterprise of the right sort—real,
practical and independent. They desire
railroad facilities, to be in accord with the
spirit of the age, and to meet the demands
and requirements of our new social and
political condition. They recognize the
power and consequent advantages of com
bination, but retain the independence of
individuality. The people of Elbert have
raised an hundred thousand dollars under
the expectation that the Augusta and
Hartwell road would bo built, but wisely
hold it in hand to be used as opportunity
offers, making no pledge in any quarter.
Now no cheering prospect for co-opera
tion offering in the direction they prefer,
they are looking elsewhere. The Elberton
Gazette says :
For some time past our people have
talked considerably of Railroads, and even
wen tso lar as to open books of subscription
to aid in the construction of a road "from
Augusta to Elberton and Hartwell. We
learn that the people of this county have
subscribed one hundred thousand dollars
to aid in but we have seen
uo account of subscriptions from aDy other
quarter, and we are of opinion that the
burden will be rather too heavy for old
Elbert to build the entire road herself.
She has undoubtedly shown a willingness
to do her full part in the matter, and her
action should be a stimulus to the other
counties along the proposed route, if they
really desire to build the road ; but from
all the indicatious that we have seen we
fear that the right spirit does not pervade
the minds of our neighbors, and therefore,
the prospects of ever getting the said road
completed looks decidedly gloomy to us.
That we need a railroad, and ought by all
means to have one, we suppose no one will
undertake to deny, and we be
lieve that the people of Elbert
county would be a unit in its fa
vor. Now the question for us to
consider is, where can we build a road at
the least expense, that will afford us the
most advantages ? Assuming that this
road from Augusta to Hartwell can, and
wiil be built, all know that it would require
a very large sum of money to do so, and it
is by no means certain that the road would
be a paying investment, unless it should be
connected with the Rli\e
tion with the Northwest. This, in our
opinion, would be indispensable to its pros
perity. Again, if the road should termi
nate here, or at any other place, without
making such connection, it would leave us
but one' outlet for trade, and Augusta
would be oar only market. If we desired
to travel North, or Northwest, we would
first have to go to Augusta before we could
start in the direction of our destination.
AH our freights, etc., would have to take
the same route, which would make a great
difference in the price of corn, bacon, flour,
&c., all of which we get from the great
Northwest. So much for this route.
The proposition to extend the branch of
the Georgia Railroad from W ashington to
thi3 place, does not meet with favor either
from the people of Wilkes county, or from
the Stockholders of the Georgia It. 11, and
it is cot probable that Elbert county will
this road at her own expense. It
is said that the Washington Branch does
not pay now, and to extend it to this place
as a terminus would add but little to its
advantages. It, also, to be profitable,
would have to be connected with some
other road which would open to us a direct
route to the North and West.
Now in our opinion there is a route
which would be less expensive and afford
our people more advantages than any
other which has. or could be proposed.
That is, a branch road from Elberton to
tap the Air Line Railroad. This route
has never been considered in comparison
with others which have been proposed,
and we think it has been an unfortunate
oversight on the part of our people. It is
a reasonable supposition that it would not
cost more than one-tenth as much to build,
a road from tbis place to tap the Air Line
as it would to build one from Augusta to
llartwel-l, or more than one-third as much
as it would to- extend the Washington
branch to this place) therefore, it is un
doubtedly the cheapest road we could build,
and at the present state of the country,
and with all the circumstances surround
ing us, it is the only one that seems at all
practicable to us. As to the advantages
it would afford us, we will simply say that
it would place us almost indirect commu
nication with the North, South, East and
West.
Commencement at Mercer.
BPSCIAX. OKBES PON DUNCE OF THE CHR NICLU & SENTINEL.
The annual literary festival of this
Baptist institution has just closed, with
great gratification-to its friends and pat
rons. The number of visitors lias been
unusually large, but, though the little
woodland village of Penfield had large de
mands upon its powers of accommodation,
ail found shelter and entertainment for the
physical man and abundant intellectual
diversion in the literary exercises from day
to day.
The Biecalaureate sermon was deliver
ed on Sunday morning, July 11 th, by
President H. 11. Tucker, D. D., from 1
Cor., xii, 58. “Thirdly, teachers; after
that miracles.” Paul is here giving the
divine classification of gifts and powers in
the church. “First, apostles; secondarily,
prophets ; thirdly, teachers; after that,
miracles, then gifts of healing, helps, gov
ernments, diversities of tongues.” The
eloquent divine first presented the im
portance men attach to miracles and to
gifts of healing, in a graphic sketch of the
healing of the blind, the deaf and the
maimed, the raising of the dead and the
multiplication of food for the feeding of
thousands. Men would place miracles
first iu toe catalogue. But the apostles
has placed miracles later, and secondary
even to teaching. This teaching is the
of relieious truth ; and tho
religious teacher ranks higher on the rolls
of heaven than the worker of uuracies and
the highest potentates of earth. The
teacher of secular knowledge, when he
I presents the truths of science from a re
| ligious stand-point, may claim a place
; among the teaehers thus described by the
apostle. The sermon closed with an ap
propriate application in an address to the
graduating class.
Rev. S. Laudram. D. D., ot Savannah,
delivered an earnest and practical sermon
b the afternoon. The religious services
of the day were ably seconded by the
choir, whose anthems and chants reminded
one of the choicest renderings of the best
city churches.
On Monday came the contest for two
prizes in declamation, by the Sophomore
The young men, fourteen in num
ber, gave evidence of careful training, and
performed their part with entire satisfac
tion to their friends. The profusion of
; bouquets thrown by fair hands showed that
| each speaker had mo,e than one well
; wisher among those, whose smiles makes
and unmakes kingdoms, and breaks Col
! lege boys’ hearts. As an unknown com
mittee was appointed to watch and report
upon the speeches, your correspondent
I need not particularize. It would, however,
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY ‘2B, IBGO
i be unjust not to mention Mr. James W.
Armstrong, of Wlkes county, Ga. In
choosing a humorous piece, he tacitly an
nounced that he hid not entered the list
! for a prize. Possessed of a respectable
' proboscis, he displayed its comely propor
tions in “Follow your nose,” to the huge
delight of the audience Though neglect
ed by the grave and judicious committee,
“the man with a nose” certainly bore off
the repeated plauditspf an appreciative
audience.
At 5 o'clock in the afternoon Mr. R. J.
Larcombe, of Savannah, delivered a very
chaste and well turned 1 poem before the
Literary Societies. Mr.Lareombe is engaged
in “trade,” and had heretofore so modest
ly concealed his poetic gifts that but few,
even of his intimate frinds, had suspected
his power cf weaving .“tuneful rhyme.”
But it is hoped that th} endorsement he
received in this,his firs; public appearance,
wiil embolden him to uore ambitious at
tempts in the field of p*esy.
In concluding the exercises of the
morning, President Tucker announced
that a novel exhibition, not down in the
programme, would come off at night—
viz : The exhibition of the Ugly Club of
Macon University. He said that the
Faculty were not members of the club, and
disclaimed all participation in its honors,
but, that sympathizing in all harmless
amusements of‘the boys,’ they had per
mitted the young men to come upon, the
boards ia this new role.
Everybody, of course, was present iu
the Chapel at the appointed hour. Thir
teen students seated themselves upon the
rostrum, uud. ail or the usual prelimina
ries, the of the Club stated that
the object of the exhibition was the pre
sentation of prizes to thote who had been
elected by the elub as Th* polite man, The
fop, The ugly man, The pretty man, The
conceited man'aml t he. college bore. The
priezs—a pair of gloves—a dumb watch
and highly gilt brass chain, a hideous
mask and green veil, a hand mirror, a
razor-strap and a razor, and a huge two
inch auger, were then presented to them in
the order above given. The awarders of
the prizes given accompanied the present
ation with some most telling hits, while
the witty retorts of the receivers brought
down the house in rapturous applause.
Though not a part of the regular perform
ances,this exhibition was a happy interlude
which well illustrated the motto of the
: rogramme,
“A little nonseuse now and then
Is relished by the wisest men.”
Tuesday ushered in the Junior exhibi
tion- The fourteen speakers acquitted
'themselves with credit. Most of them had
appeared as Bophomores last year, contest
ing for prizes in declamations, and,
though their own original speeches of this
yeariell bsiow the extracts then delivered,
in thought, expression and finish, yet thoir
orations gave evidence that, during the
year, they had learned to wield the pen,
while their tongues had not lost the cun
ning acquired in the Sophomore drilling.
At the conclusion of the speeches the
Sophomore Class filed before the rostrum
to hear the award of prizes. Rev. W. T.
Brantiy, D. D., in one of his happiest ex
temporaneous efforts, then unfolded to
them the characteristics of the orator, as
being partly bom and partly manufactur
ed—the highest gifts innate, but much
that is necessary to respectable success
communicable by diligent training. By
the direction of the Committee of Award,
he then delivered the first prize to 3ir.
Ker B. Tupper, of Wilkes County, and
the second to Sir. John J. Brantiy, jr., of
l’ennfield—consoling the disappointed con
testants with the thought that, if the com
mittee had consisted, of wiser men, the
award might have been different.
In the absence of the customary Alum
ni oration, the Alumini Association held a
large and enthusiastic meeting of its mem
bers in one of the Society Halls. The As
sociation, we learn, is collecting a military
record of all the Alumini of the University,
who were victims of the late war; and
these manuscript memorials will probably
be bound in an elegant volume, to be pre
served as a monument of their patriotic
martyrs in the Lost Cause.
The evening of the day was closed by a
most pleasant re-union at the President’s
mansion. To the regret of her numerous
friends, Mrs. Tucker was prevented from
mother of Dr. Tucker, assisted him in
receiving the company, with great grace
and dignity; and the numerous guests
promenaded through the mansion and
grounds in delighted converse, until a sug
gestive tap from the chapel hell reminded
them that it was half-past eleven —“the
hour of retiring.”
Wednesday, Commencement day, was
the hottest day of the heated term, the
thermometer rising to 99° Farh. The
audience was probably the largest ever as
sembled in the chapel. Notwithstanding
these untoward circumstances, the exer
cises, as shown in the_ following pro
gramme, passed off satisfaetorily to all
concerned :
(IltDEll OK EXERCISES.
MUSIC.
PRAYER.
MUSIC.
Latin Salutatory :
II P Carswell, PBS, Richmond Pc’ty, Ga.
Succciss in Life :
R L McWhorter, O S, Penfield Ga.
Tendency of Mind to Seek its Level :
Thos Willingham, P D S, Albany Ga.
MUSIC.
Motion the Law of the Universe :
F S Loftin, P 1> S, Hogansville, Ga.
Imperialism :
Wot J Alexander, C S, White -Plains, Ga.
MUSIC.
Folly of Pride :
E R Carswell, P D S, Waynesboro, Ga.
Pleasures cf Science :
A A Fluker, C S, Crawfordville, Ga.
MUSIC.
Influence of Literature on Society :
John Robinson, P D S, Newnan, Ga.
Pumpkins :
F Ernest Rpese, PDS, Thomson, Ga.
MUSIC.
Woman's Sphere:
T'J Ingram, C S, Putnam County, Ga.
Steam :
C it Carswell, PDS, Richmond Fa’ty,Ga.
MUSIC.
Self-Tormentors :
AUS Moore, PDS, White Plains, Ga.
Disappointment:
A C Felton, PDS, Montezuma Ga.
MUSIC.
.1 Pica par Muscles :
Henry F Carswell.
The Lawyer :
F C Foster, C S, Madison, Ga.
MUSIC.
CONFERRING OF DEGREES.
MUSIC.
BENEDICTION.
FIX A L E.
At five o’clock this afternoon, the Ora
tion before the Literary Societies of the
University will be delivered by Alvin D
Freeman, Esq , of Newnan, Ga.
a, 7 b.—“C S” and “P D S’’- are the initials
of the Ciceronian aud tho Phi Deita So
cieties. .
The President closed by a short, touch
ing address to the class, and by announcing
the following degrees: —D. D., Rev. S. M,
Shute, of Columbia College, D. C.; L. L.
D . Prof. J- E Farnham, of Georgetown
College, Ky.; Honorary A. M., Rev. S. P.
Callaway and 11. J. Smith, of Georgia, and
\. 31. in course, Professors Dennis N.
Sanders and Poleman J. King, of Cave
Spring, Ga.
At 5 p. m., the literary address was de
livered before the Societies by Alvin D,
Freeman, Esq., of Newnan, Ga., on the
Study sf History. The subject promising
only dry details and dryer moralizing, was
handled earnestly and discriminatingly by
the speaker. The positi-n of orator, at
the heel of commencement, is usually a
very undesirable one, because ot the noise
and confusion in an audience, fagged out
by the protracted exercises of the week.
Bat, owing to the happy tact and ready
wit of'the presiding officer, the exercises
at Macon this year, even to the closing
•oration, passed off with unexampled good
order and pr sperity. .
A fx™ hours wore bore to their homes
your correspondent, the troops of roilick
some college boys, t’.e many visitors from
the hills and lowlands of Georgia, and left
the little village, embowered in its native
forest groves, to a long vacation nap.
Occasional.
Chinese Rubor for tme Selma,
Rome & Dalton Railway.—We learn
from a Northern Georgia paper that a
large force of Chinese laborers has been
employed by the contractors to finish the
Selma. Rome & Dalton Railroad. For
soma time past a large number of convicts
from the State Penitentiary nave been em
ployed on that Railway; but the recent
lease of the Penitentiary audits mmates to
Grant. Alexander & Cos., has caused them
all to be turned over to these gentlemen,
by whom they are now employed on the
Macon A Augusta Road. Deprived of the
labor of this force, the contractors on the
Selma, Rome & Dalton Road have deter
mined to supply its place with Chinese,
anti have, accordingly* made arrangements
out West by which many of the Chinese
who were employed o the Central Pacific
Railroad until itscompletnn, willlsooa be
at work on the former Railroad.
THE BLUE BILGE KAILBOAD KING.
! HOW A TEN MILLION DOLLAR CON
TRAC T WAS MADE.
luside History of the Whole Transaction.
GOV. SCOTT DEMANDS SIX MIL
LIONS MORE!
THE NAMES OF THE CONTRACTORS AND THE
AMOUNT OF THE BIDS—WHY THE HIGH
EST BIDDER WAS CHOSEN—THE COST OF
THE WORK—WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
Columbia, S; C., July 15.
To the Editor of the News:
I know that your paper has supported
the Blue Ridge Railroad througn thick
and thin ; but an article upon the Asheville
and Spartanburg Railroad, which I read in
the News a short time ago, encourages me
to believe that you will not refuse to ex
pose the huge job which has been devised
ia connection with the. Blue Ridge Rail
road. My information comes from a first
rate source. The statements 1 w ike can
be proved to fee true, and will convince the
people that the Biue Ridge Railroad Ring
may hold up its head by the side of the
great Whiskey Ring, and not lose'by the
comparison. I believe that the whole
scheme has but one object—to put money
ia the pocket of Dr. R. K. Scott, the so
called Governor of South Carolina. Why
should he care if eight or ten millions be
added to the State debt? All that he.
cares for is to make hay while the sun
shines,and ho will doit if we let him'alone,
CALLING FOR PROPOSALS.
I need not remind you that'the Legisla
ture in September last passed a bill au
thorizing the guarantee of four million of
dollars for the completion of the Blue
Ridge Railroad, and that at the meeting
of the company heid lately in Charleston it
was determined to make the principal and
interest of the guaranteed bonds payable
in coin. About the end of Juno adver
tisements were .published in the State
papers, and in the Northern and Western
papers, calling upon responsible persons to
come forward and contract for building the'
road from Anderson to Knoxville, a dis
tance of one hundred and fifty-two miles,
payment to be made iri the aforesaid coin
bonds. Colonel Low, the chief engineer,
was to have plans and specifications
ready, and the bids were to be opened at
Columbia on July 8. The Chief Engineer
was very close and gave no information as
to what his estimate of the cost of building
the r.oad was; yet, queerly enough, it
turned out afterward that the bid ol one
contractor was iu every item so little
above or so little below, the estimate of the
Chief Engineer, that the total bid was
just about the same.
OPENING OF TIIE BIDS.
When the Bth came the bidders, or their
representatives, met in Governor Scott’s
office at Columbia, and it was found that
bids had been submitted by the following
persons: J. M. Christy & Cos., Crissvill,
Patterson & Sellers, Dudley, Bardwell &
Cos., J. A. Hunt, of North Carolina; D.
Tyler & Cos., ot Pennsylvania; 18. D. Ha
seli, of New York; and J. D. Champlin,
of New York, and one other. All the
bidders named were responsible persons,
and could guarantee the fulfillment of their
contracts. The. lowest bid for the work
was, [in round numbers, $7,500,000, and
the highest $10,000,000. ’ n his last was the
bid of Crissvill & Cos. There was one
higher bid, but it was understood to have
been put in only that Crissvill’s might not
be the highest.
MAKING TIIE BARGAIN.
When the bids had been exposed, Gov
ernor Scott said he found that it would
take at least $8,000,000 to complete the
road, and he could only command $4,000,-
000. It would not do to spend any of this,
as it was his intention to apply to the Leg
islature to increase the guarantee to the
full amount required. [The engineer’s es
timate was, I think, $8,500,000.] This
caused the contractors to prick their ears ;
one of them, however, was in the secret.
Mr. McClure, representing Crisvill & Cos.,
came forward and said that he had known
the views of the Governor, and had so ar~
ranged his bid as to the company
work for nine months, at a coki itry o£ .
$1,000,000, without touching the bonds!
The other contractors very properly ob
jected to this way of doing business They
’said that they had not known what Scott’s
views were, and asked to be allowed to
modify their bids so as to be able to offer
the same advances. Scott could notrefuse
this. The contractors revised their bids
and submitted them afresh, Crissvill &
Co.’s being still, of the bona fide hi As,
the highest. All the contractors were
then bowed out, except Crisvill & Co.,who
seemed to occupy permanently the Gov
ernor’s back room. When the uninitiated
were out of the way, there was a palaver
between bcott and* Crissvill & Cos. After
some talk they agreed to reduce their bid
to about $9,000,000, which teas accepted.
There were other l ids as responsible in
every way, at $8,000,000 and less, but the
$9,000,000 bid wafi accepted. Is Scott in
partnership with Crissvill? He certainly
was not in partnership with the bidders
at $7,500,000 and $8,000,000/
THE PRICE OF THE WORK.
Now lot us look at the prices at which
the work was proposed to be done.
The estimates Tor earthwork, per cubic
yard, ranged from 28 to 45 cents. Oriss
vill & Co.’s price was4o. [When there is
any bid at a higher price than theirs, it
may be set down to the account' ct the
“covering bid" put in to prevent Criss
vill & Cos. being at (he top.]
For grubbing and clearing, per acre, the
bids were from S3O to $175. Crissvill’s
bid was SIOO.
For loose rock excavations, the bids
were from 50 cents to sl. Crissvili’s bid
was 70 cents.
For solid rock the bids ranged from
$1 75 to $1 90—the last being CrissviU’s.
For tunnel excavation the bids ranged
from $9 75 to sl6 pci yard. Crissvill’s bid
was sls 50.
For first-class masonry the bids were
from sl2 55 to S2O. Crissvill’s bid was
$lB.
Now I come to the cream of it. . For
spikes and chairs per pound, respectively,
the bids were from 7 and 7] cents to 14
.'and 15 cents. These spikes and chairs are
worth about five aud a half cents a pound
in NewYhrk.
For railroad iron, the bids were from
SIOO to $l5O a ton. Crissv.U’s bid was
$135. This iron can be bought and de
livered at Anderson for ninty-two dollars a
ton. Crissvili, Scott & Cos. make a profit
of only forty-three dollars on tacit ton of
railroad iron. Upon the iron alone there
would be a profit of about $500,000.
is IT NOT A JOB?
I Now I ask you, Mr. Editor, is not this a
| huge job? First of all we were told that
! the road wotlld cost $6,000,000 to complete
! it. Now it is to co-st $9,000 000. The
Legislature has given $4,000,000 (besides
the $4,000,000 already spent), and is to
be asked to give $5,000,000 more. Re
sponsible men offered to build the road for
$7,500,000, yet the $9,000,000 hid was ac
cepted. Here is 1,500,000 thrown away—
absolutely thrown away. Who can tell
where the demand for money will stop ?
Will Scott &Cos ever be satisfied ? Why
not spend $20,000,000, and then the com
missions will be twice as large ? I say that
‘the whole business is a job from beginning
to end. It must be stopped, and I call.on
you, sir, to expose it to the eye of the peo
ple. Let them see the way in which they
are being bamboozled. Let us see whether
the Legislature will give Scott & Cos. the
spending of many more millions in which
they have no share.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
It is proper for me to add that. Scott
alone is responsible for making this $9,-
I 000,000 contract. Mr. George 8. Cameron,
j the banker, of your city, and General Har
! rison, the President <f the Blue Ridge
Railroad. wL . with Scott. are members
j of the Executive Committee, did ad that
j men could do to have the lowest responsi
i bie bid accepted. They were powerless.
! Scott for the State, and Mayor Pillsbury
! for Charleston, represent about nineteen
! twentieths of the stock of the company,
i and can work things as they please. The
; other directors of the road can do nothing,
and the sooner they leave so rotten a
concern the better. They cannot afford
| to be associated with Scott, who wields all
the influence and enjoys all the sweets,
while they must share the public responsi
bility.
Apologising for the leDgth ot this letter,
I am, &c. • Lex.
Savannah to Vicksburg.— On Satur
day the last bar of iron for the-Western
Railroad, connecting Montgomery with
Selma, Ala., was shipped by the Central
Railroad. The Western Railroad will be
completed in a few weeks, and is the last
link of our line of direct communication
with the Mississippi. The_ distance from
this city to "V icksbarg is 678 miles. Sa
vannah News.
The German journalists will hold a Cor
gress at Vienna from the 24th to the 26th
of this month.
Frohi the Macon Telegraph .
T te Turner Uase.
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION BEFORE U. 8.
COMMISSIONER MORRILL.
l ulled States vs II M Time) Charged
until having in his possession and at
tempting to pass large quantities of
counterfeit National Bank Currency.
SECOND DAY.
The Court met yesterday pursuant to
adjournment, at 10 o’clock, in the third
story ol the Ayers’ building.
Before proceeding wi ll the examination
of witnesses, H W Cowles, Esq., couusel
for the defence, asked the permission of
the Court to read a few leading principles
ol law, in regard to the nature and char- \
aeter of such evidence as had already been I
introduced _in this case, and as to what !
weight it might have as to the guilt or in
nocenee ot the accused. The Commission
er granted the request, and Mr. Cowles
occupied about one hour in reading such <
points ofiaw as were applicable to the ease ;
in hand, and by which he contended the
Court should be governed. At the con
clusion of his remarks, the following testi
mony was introduced by the defence for
the purpose of impeaching the testimony
of J Clarke Swayze, as given in the case' on
1* ridav:
J F Long, (colored), sworn, says: I
know J Clarke Swayze; I had a conversa
tion with him when the dispatch came,
announcing Turner’s appointment as post
master, in Swayza’s office, within a month
past; I asked him if he had heard the
news; I told him that ic was reported that
Turner had been appointed postmaster; he
said he reckoned it was not so; about three
o’clock I again weot to see him, and told
it was positively true ; he said, “Turner
has taken advantage of me; d— n him, I
intend to kill him; Long, 1 want you and
all other Republicans to stand by me;” I
told him he had bett r wait till Turner
came home and find out how it happened ;
am acquainted with Swayae’s general
character; it is bad; from my "knowledge of
him, I wouid not believe him on his oath.
Cross-examined—Have known .Mr.
Swayze fnr over a year, have frequently
been with him at hfe office, on intimate
terms, ever since he has been here..
Direct examination resumed—Found
him out lately; associated wi h him up to
a very late period; on Tuesday or Wednes
day, after Turner’s return from Atlanta,
on the 6th dly of July, a*i article appear
ed in the Telegraph, of this city, with ref
erence to the matter ; Swayze asked me if
I had seen a paper .to-day; I told him yes;
I asked him if ho believed Turner guilty;
he said no; it was a d— 1 rebel lie; no tell
ing how low they could go; you can’t ex
pect any better of them ; look *t their ar
rest of the colored man for the murder ol
Ayer, and their cheek in arresting Mrs.
Adkins, about the 7th inst this occurred;
I do not know whether I believed Swayze
then or not.
C T Ward, sworn, says: I am Ordi
nary of Bibb county; [ met Turner at
Swayze’s office some four or five momlis
ago; Turner showed a SIOO note, he said
he had presented it. at Nutting’s Bank,
and it was rejected. I told him I would
take the bill and have it presented to some
other bank and see'what they would »ay
about it; l did not examine the bill closoly;
L directed Mr Gerry, my clerk, to present
it at another bank a few moments after
ward; Turner never told me the bill be
longed to any woman over the river.
M B Gerry, sworn, says : Mr. Ward di
rected me to take it to some bank; I car
ried it to the banking house of Cubbedge
& Ilazlehurst, in this city ; presented it to
she Teller; he examined it; earned it to an
adjoining room, and brought it back, and
said it was a genuine bill; never carried any
other bill to First National bank of Macon;
it was closed; think I returned there in the
afternoon; it was my impression that I
presented some bill at. that bank; am not
certain as to the result; I returned the bill
afterward to H 31 Turner.
P. W. Doyle, sworn, says: I know
Swayze; about the first day of May I had
a conversation with him in reference to
Turner, in my store, in this city; he came
in and asked me if I had heard what Tur
ner had done; Turner had gone to
Washington with a list of namys asking
his (Swayze’s) anney-t, — 1 <*« Pos*--■ -a
in
the documents orwould procure them with
which to do it; Swayze said he had re
ceived a letter from Washington to that
effect, and that Turner had collected money
for his paper and wrs travelling on it there;
Swayze’s character is bad ; I would not
believe him on his oath.
William Jones, (colored), sworn, says
T know Swayze by sight; cm the corner of
Payne’s drug store, in this city, I heard
one evening after 6 t’elock, Swayze say to
another man, “Turner is a d—d rascal—l
will soon have him where the dogs will not
bark at him,” according to what “the
people” say of Swayz", his character is
bad, and 1 would not believe him on his
oath.
James Fitzpatrick sworn, says: I have
lived in Macon almost twenty year:; been
here, for a few years, continually; am a
member of the Georgia Legis'rture; lor
twelve months past have bee i well acquaint
ed with Swayze’s character in thi3 commu
nity; his character is bad ; I would not
believe him on his oath.
Cross-examined —Am not very friendly
with Swayze, -nor with Turner.
Frank Dishroon (colored) says: The
people have an opinion that ‘ Swayze’s
character is bad; according to what the
peole say I would not believe him on his
oath; I had no right, on Wednesday last,
to disbelieve Mr. Swayze’s statements to
me about anything. t
T- G. Steward (colored) sworn, says: I
am acquainted" with the general character
of Swayze in this community; it is had;
from his general character I would not be
lieve him on his oath; lama minister in.
charge of the African Methodist Episcpal
Church in this city, *
Cross examined —Si nets April my opin
ion of Swayze has been the same as now ;
I am Cashier of the Freedman’s Savings’
Bank ; Mr. Swayze was a member ol the
Advisory Committee for some time ; my
intercourse with Swayze, as with all men,
whether I would believe them on oath or
not. is pleasant, and bus been all the time,
Wm H Whitehead, sworn, says : lam
assessor internal rivenue, Secon-l District
of Georgia ; am acquainted with Swayze s
general character ; it is had ; from my
knowledge of it, would not believe him on
oath.
Cross examined —Do not havo respect
for Swayze, and have noth ng to do with
him.
Fred Johnson (colored), s.vorn, says:
Know Swayze’s character in this com
munity ; it is lad ; I would not b l.i-ve
hint on his oath.
Adjourned till 2i p. in.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Court met pursuant to adjournment,
and after being called to orler, the counsel
for the defence proceeded with the exam
ination of witnesses:
R D Shropshire, sworn, says: Am local
and commercial editor of the Macon Tele
graph; referred to an article in the Tele
graph', recognized it as one reproduced
from the Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel
of the 6th of July, aud republished in the
Telegraph on the' Bth; the article refers to
the arrest of the Macon Postmaster: the
Chronicle & Sentinel arrives in Macon
late in the afternoon of tie day on which
it is published; wo usually get it from the
po3'.office the next morning after its ar
rival,
The object for introducing this testimony
by the counsel for the accused was to im
peach Swayze’s testimony, by showing
that in his remark that he referred to the
article in the Telegraph, which did not ex
ist at the time ot said conversation be
tween Turner and Swayze—the article be
ing published subsequent to said conversa
tion. The article was admitted by the
Court. (The conversation alluded to, as
the counsel contended, toftk place, as
Swayze stated, on the 4th of July, and the
article ha-1 no existence until the 6 h )
The following witnesses were then intro
duced to prove the bad character of
Swayze, and impeach his testimony in re
gard to Turner’s alleged confession to him.
The same questions were put to each of
the witnesses, and the same replies, sub
stantially, were made by all of them, viz :
That Swayze was a man of bad character,
and that they would not believe him on
oath in a Court of Justice: \V II Berry,
Wm R Avant, James Martin, 8 F Gove,
whites, and Wm Clarke, colored..
At the conclusion of the examination of
these last named witnesses, the testimony
of the defence closed, with the remark, on
the part of Colonel Weems, that five hun
dred witnesses could be adduced to prove
the same thiDg to which they testified,
but he presumed that it was unnecessary
to proceed further on this subject, and the
argument then began.
Mr. John A. Stevens, of Atlanta, had
the opening speech, and for about thirty
minutes very ably defended the accused,
insisting upon the point that if Swayze’s
testimony wa3 rejected,the. prosecution had
no case, and that the prisoner at the bar
must be acquitted. He was followed by
his associate in the case, Col. John B.
Weems, in a speech of over an hour in
length. _ The Colonel, as is usual with him,-
NEW SERIES, YOL. XXYIII. NO. 3<‘
defended his client most ably, and at times
eloquently. He insisted that the action of
Turner in regard to tbe SIOO bill be pre
j sented at the City Bank, was that which
any honest mau would adopt. If Turner
knew the bill to be spurious, he was not
I such a fool as to present it to au expert for
: detection ; and after 3lessrs. Powell &
| Nutting pronounced the bill to be spuri
| ous, Turner gave still stronger evidence of
j his innocence by showing it to others and
getting them to pass an opinion upon it.
Col. W. further contended that the Gov
ernment had wholly tailed to connect
Turner with the woman, Marian Harris,
in a criminal manner, if the testimony of
Swayze was rejected by the Court. He
closed with a most bitter rebuke of the
motives which induced Swayze to seek
Turner’s overthrow and destruction.
The United States District Attorney,
Colonel John 3lilledge. then took the floor,
and after a few preliminary remarks, in
which he congratulated the Court on the
termination of the interesting examination
of the case before it, proceeded to examine
the testimony which had been offered, in a
calm, dignified and deliberate manner. He
had no desire to do any one injustice; no
personal revenge or ill-feeling to gratify,
but proposed to investigate the ease ac
cording to law and the testimony, and if
he failed to show that the prisoner should
not be committed under. the testimony
against him, then, no one would more glad
ly see him set at liberty’ than the speaker.
He insisted that the action of Turner from
first to last, from the time he left Washing
ton until he was arrested in this city, was
that of a titan laboring under a conscious
ness of guilt. That Swayze’s testimony
was corroborated by 3lurphy’s. Turner
told Swayze in Macon that he had given
Marian Harris about $1,809 of counter
feit currency; 3lurphy swears that he
found $950 in counterfeits on the
woman; how could Swayze have
known that the woman had counterfeit
money in her possession, if Turner had
nit old him so ? Where did ’Turner get
the counterfeit bill in his possession ? If,
as lie says, from a woman, why has he-not
brought t> at woman into Court to prove
that fact? And thus the able and learned
Attorney went on link by link in his chain
of argument, until be finally concluded
that it was a duty which the cominittin ■
Magistrate owed to the credit of the Gov
ernment, and to this community that the
prisoner be bound over to the United
States District Court. That the com
munity was being flooded with counter
feits, and it was high time the Courts were
bringing the guilty parties to justice!
As the speaker seated himself, the large
crowd of spectators present gave him a
hearty round of applause.
The argument being closed, Commis
sioner 31orrill solicited from the counsel in
the case of privilege of associating John
U Shorter, Esq., with himself, while
endeavoring to sift the testimony, which
was agreed to, and the Commissioner then
announced the adjournment of the Court
till 3londay morning, at 10 o’clock, when
his decision would be given.
FROM NEW TORE.
Terrible Accident on. the Erie Railroad —
An Express Train Demolished--Passen
gers Burned to Death—List oj the Killed
and Wounded. ■
New York, July 15. —Vn evening pa
per has a special from Middletown, Ncw
Yoik, giving the details of a horribl - -ai -
road accident which occurred to tin' tr-.-.i.
leaving New York, last night at 6.3 U, at
Mast Hope, Pike county, Pa., on the
Erie Railroad. The Express train at that
point ran into a freight train standing on
the track, and the engine, tender, baggage
car, express car, smoking car and one pas
senger coach, were thrown off the track
and smashed to pieces. The splintered
ears fired from the smashed locomotive,
and all the wounded passengers were burnt
up. Seven cars were destroyed. Six pas
sengers are known to have burned to
death. One of th’em is supposed to be
Rev Ben. B Halleck, pastor of a church in
New York.
ACCOUNT OF A PASSENGER.
One of the passengers gives the follow
ing account of the disaster : Left New
there werelour sleeping and tiveother cars I
in the train; at 11:45 was awakened by a
jerking motion; found speed was slacking;
did not feel apprehensive of going off the
track; inquired what was the matter, and
was told the engine had run into a freight
train, got up and went out; found flames
bursting out of Mast Hope station house,
and the baggage carß next to the' locomo
tive wore also on fire; found the I'reight
train, which should have been waiting on a
side track on the left of the road, this side
of the station; it had started on before tne
arrival ot the express ; the engine of the
former had not yet reached the main track
when it was stru ;k by the locomotive of the
express train, which was running forty
miles an hour ; the engine of the freight
train was standing on the bog, and was
so firmly fixed th it it was not misplaced ;
the engine of the express train struck the
station house, to whieh it set fire, and then
turned round and went off the track on the
lefr, headed east; the tender went to the
right, headed wost; the express went down
the hill toward the river; the first passen
ger ear telescoped in the baggage ear ; the
whole train was burnt, except three rear
sleeping cars; only a dozen pieces ot bag
gage were saved; the freight engine stood
locked up in the passenger engine; after a
vain effort to put out the fire toith water
carried from the river, the passengers
moved the freight cars east; two ears were
moved at a time; many of them were load
ed with oil; at half-past one o’clock this
morning there was no engine at the scene
of the accident. Some were suffering ter
ribly from their injuries ; some were past
all pain; at six o’clock this morning nine
bodies could be counted ; some distressing
scenes of suffering occurred, and there
were some remarkable escapes; the en
gineer of ihe express train stood bravely at
his post, and turned over several times
with his engine, but fortunately escaped
serious injury.
Rev Mr liallcck told his brother-in-law
he was not hurt at all, but was Wedged in.
His fellow-passengers used every effort to
save him, but he died a slow, agonizing
death in the presence of sympathizing
friends, who were unable to help him.
| A young German said his father was
I burned, and when the ruins of the smoking
i car were removed he recognized the re
mains of his father by his watch. The
disaster is attributed to the engineer of the
freight train, who-started out before the
express train passed him. It is said he
has disappeared. The management of the
i road is severely criticised by all who saw
| the accident. It is said there is no disci
pline among the subordinates.
LIST OF KILLED AND WOUNDED.
Pout Jervis, July 15. The following
is a list of killed and wounded by the ac
cident at Mast Hope, on the Erie railroad
this morning: Killed —Rev B B tlalleck,
New York city, David Bear, a German
emigrant, a German woman and two chil
dren, names unknown, and several others
whose charred remains have not been
identified. Wounded—Charles Bear, a
German emigrant travelling West, only
slightly wounded.
Hts father, David Baer, was killed and
burned iu the smoking car. Gotlreid
Graus, a German emigrant, had a small
bone in his leg broken. There are no other
.serious injuries reported.
Mr D Wentworth, of Randolph, New
York, was bruised in the back and hurt
internahy. Jno Flowers, of New York
city, bound for LiOro-se, Wisconsin, was
bruised and injured in his back, bur. not
dangerously. John Hunt had his leg
broken below the knee. He was jammed
between seats and held fast until the
flames had almost reached him before he
was rescued. He resides at Waterford,
New York.
In addition to the abive, the following
train men wer- injured : David Smith,
flayman on the freight train, slightly. P
D Schuyler, express messenger, cut on the
forehead and sightly bruised Perry Hoyt,
of Port Jervis ; Charles Coffee, of N-;t
York ; Erastus Whiten and Lawrence Pe
drick were also slightly injured. Only
those persons in the smoking car were
burned. The baggage car, smoking car,
two sleeping cars, and two messenger cars
were consumed by the flames.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OP THE DEPLOR
ABLE ACCIDENT.
New York, July 16.—There are a few
additional particulars of the Erie railroad
accident. Mr. Gibson, a passenger, says
of the burning of the smoking car, that in
it, wedged in his seat by the heap of brok
en timbers, sat the Rev. Mr. Halleck, of
New York city, perfectly unhurt, but un
able to extricate himself from the wreck.
In calm accents and perfectly collected
tones, he told us to get an axe and try to
cut an opening in the side of the ear. We
searched around and obtained one from a
house by the roadsi e, hut it was so blunt
that we could do nothing with it We
worked and strove to liberate the unfortu
nate gentleman who sat there sound in
limb watching the approach of the angry
flames. Nearer and nearer they came un
til his hair began to crisp and burn, aud
his skin to crack, then when we, in like
manner, found the heat unbearable, we
reluctantly retired, compelled to leave this
poor gentleman with his eight fellow-suf
ferers to their terrible fat:. We moved
off until all was over. Nine persons were
thus burned to death, and nine others in
jured more or less severely. Another pas
senger says : I heard the little children
screaming for their mothers, aud the pas
sengers who were in the ruins calling for
help, and groaning with pain, an axe was
got and one or two were actually chopped
out of their imprisonment. Most of the
passengers in this car were killed, or their
bodies consumed or injured. I should
think there were sixteen or seventeen per
sons in the front end of this car, and I
think but two were taken out. I do not
think a person was killed by the smash,
but all the deaths were from burning.
The Most Important Dccision»j’et.
In our report on the Supreme Couri de
cisions will be found one ruling that we are
disposed to regard as the most important
practical dictum that this tribunal has
made this session.
In the case of Nathan ChapmaD against
Warren Akin, from Bartow county, the
momentous principle is established that
the 8525th section of the Code, which pre
scribes four years as the time in which exe
cutions can be levied on transferred real
estate, applies to the time covered by the
war. and that said section uoes not fall un
der the statutes o! limitation.
The effect of it is to relieve hundreds of
thousands of acres of land from danger of
sale at the Sheriff’s hands—to kill hun
dreds of executions that.but for this, would
be collectable, and to strike another h.-avy
blow in the direction of relief
We do not speak of the law of the mat
ter. Asa legal question, we agree with
Judge Warner, who dissents from the
majority of the Court.
In some cases, it will work miserable
wrong and hardships—in others, it will
secure undeniable justice.
Many lands have passed through various
owners, all the time covered with the
iien of some old unknown judgment, and
finally innocent purchaser who lias
paid full value js pounced upon and bled
heavily to save his acres from going to the
block. Not a section in Georgia but
where such hard luck has occurred. And
tile loss of papers and records during the
war has rendered it impossible to guard
against such contingencies.
Thousands of cases of this kind will be
settled as they should be—tlx* hom st buy
er wifi hold his laud, and the judgment
owner, who has stood by and seen men
rush into the trap without a word of notice,
wi’l lose his lien, and probably his money.
But on the other hand it will do wrong,
too. Many an owner of a jus- execution
has held off his levy in' mercy to his debtor,
aud now to lose his debt by his clemency,
is certainly severe.
The truth is, that the whole Relief Law
reminds us very much of the Con federate
cavalry saddles that we used in tiie war—
they would hurt a horno any way they
wore put on. Relief cannot be enforced
wit bout wounding some-' here
The result of this decision will be to
utu'peumber many an oppressed debtor.—
Atlanta Constitution.
From the World.
Am Packer-Danlel It. Sickles Horace
Greeley.
Iho Democratic nominee for Governor
Pennsylvania happily vindicates the
-dum of his selection, and assures his
Mioccss before the people, alike by the
praise which springs spontaneous from the
lips of bis friends aud by the admissions
compelled by his worth from the worst of
his enemies at the very mention of his
name.
days yesterday’s Tribune in enforced
praise of the man :
“Asa Packer, a smart Connecticut boy of
old fashioned Yankee stock, left his native
State when seventeen years old, with some
ten dollars in money and clothing of about
equal value, and brought up in Susque
hannacounty, North Pennsylvania, where
he apprenticed himself to learn the trade
of carpenter and joiner, which he followed
fir some years thereafter; marrying in due
season, and buying a tract of wild land,
which he nroopoded to o.luur U ml oil! a .
coal region, whence he ran a coal boat to
Philadelphia, then started a store, and
soon engaged extensively in buying coal
lands, building railroads, etc., etc., where
by he grew rapidly and enormously rich.
Ho is now worth at least twenty millions of
dollars, and we believe he came honestly
by them. Though we do not belong to his
thrifty class, we appreciate them as useful
men, and believe the world is better for
their existence.’’
Though clumsily told, this brief story
of the facts of Asa Packer’s life —to
which, as will be seen, it does insufficient
justice—contains yetenougu to deuionstr.-.te
the mould and mettle of the man, and that
ability and integrity in the discharge of
his own affairs which will guarantee his
worthy oversight of those of his adopted
State.
Nevertheless, in what follows this re
luctant summary of Asa Packer’s career,
the comments are so doubie-edged a- to
wound the band that wrote them. Iu his
feeble effort to break the force of his own
statement, the Tribune proceeds to remark:
“We don’t like the idea of making a Gov
ernor out of one whose chief distinction is
the ownership of twenty millions of dol
lars.” Nor does the Democratic parry
like oy propose to entertain any such idea,
Mr. Greeley The “chief distinction” of
Asa Packer’s life is far from the acciden',
of' his wealth. It rests in the sagacity and
honor and honesty with which he attained
this wealth, and upon the noble philan
thropy with which he has dispensed it.
Yet mere it “an idea,” there is a ‘‘chief
distinction,” which this critic and je s like,
and on the embodiment and possession of
which he bases bis “persona), eß teem, re
spect, aDd friendship.” The man ’ who
slurs Asa, Packer slavers Daniel E. .Sickles.
The one is in his unfit to be Govern
or. The othec , 8 proper to be Minister to
Spain and ?ne recipient of praise in the
Tribune and of the greeting and praise of
its editor. For the gentleman, Christian,
and Tiiiilauthropist, Mr. Greeley has sus
picion, sneers, and abuse. For the whore
monger, mail robber, pimp, panderer,
adulterer, murderer, defaulter, and muti
neer. Mr. Greeley has “personal esteem,
respect, and friendship.”
Mark the difference ! Asa Packer left
home and embarked in life with hi- entire
youthful savings,netting seventeen dollar.,
Daniel E. Sickles began at about the stauie
age with ODe hundred dollars extorted from
the credulous generosity of Peter Qoopcr.
This generosity he abused by squandering
the money, which was a loan, io such licen
tious courses as led the mao of whom he
had borrowed it, and who would have wil
lingly doubled the amount, to an honest
debt >r, io cut him off forever. At the
period when Asa Packer was “apprenticed
to : earpeu er aid joiner,” Daniei E.
Sickles was a budding burglar o the mort
gage of a trust estate, for the theft of
which he stand:- indicted at the bar of his
native city to-day. When Asa Packer
“ha 1 married in duo season,” Daniel E.
Sickles was living in open commerce with a
public prostitute, and is credibly r. port and
to have solicited for her from others such
attentions as he gave her himself. At this
stag , it was Packer the mechanic and
Sick !cs the pimp
\Y bile A-a Packer wa- “clearing wild
land and tiding it,” Dame] E t ickles was
robbing the Broadway Postoffice and sit
ting cheek by jowl with hi, ad the public’s
trull in the Assembly Chamber at Albany.
V\ bile Asa Packer was amassing wealth
and distributing it with a discrimination
and abundance to which the benefactions
of M*. Peabody alone are equal, Daniel E.
Sic • , having been pimp, burglar, mail
rob! ballot-box stuffer, and defaulter,
became in quick and suitable succession
adulterer and murderer and Radical.
Among the acts which Asa Packer has
dor® to attract the distrust of Mr. Greelev
has been the endowment with half a mil
lion dollars cf a university in which the
youth ofhisSta e are gratuitously educated
iu ali the practical sciences and in the
| principles and practices of a business
i career. As the outcome of his magnifi
! ceDt bounty, the Lehigh Valley is filled
| with homes to-day—homes whose heads
lor whose sons he has educated,
and to whose success in life and to
: whose standing and eminence in this age
I his benevolence has chiefly coirributcd.
! Impoverished men and women, destitute
I orphan children, deserving and struggling
| charities, needy churches of all Christian
I faiths, know the name of Asa Packer only
Ito bless it. He has maintained them from
1 the riches Heaven has reward -
I cd his honorable and industrious labor,aud
1 ten thousand subjects to his la ish gencr-
I osity to-day rise up and tail him blessed
I from all parts of the Keystone State...
I Among the acts which Daniel E. Sickles
\ has done to win “the personal esteem, re-
I spcct, and friendship' of Mr. Greeley are
I the robbery ot his patron, the burglary of
a mortgage, the piliage ot the mails, the
j open endearment and companionship of a
i wa iton, the adultery of decades, murder
and the re-consecraticn of a dishonored
I married bed.
1 1 is fit that Mr. Greeley should contemn
a Packer with the same lips with which
' he caresses a Sickles.