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OLD SERIES, VOL, LXXYIII. (Lbronixlc & Sentinel. O TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY. One month t 1 66 Three months 2 SO One year 10 00 THI-WKEKLV. One year I 0 00 Hix months -3 oO Throe months 2 00 WEEKLY. Three months $ 1 00 Hix months 1 60 One year 3 00 VnittiiT IHfllg, MAY 31. BONK TO TEXAS. Horace Greeley has gone to Texas to tell tbe Texas Btate Agricultural Society all about farming—about growing sugar cane and cotton, and tbe long horned prairie cattle; and we hope that the Texans will tell Horace all about tho Ku-Klox and what the Tribune says about them, and thus both parties will become mu tually enlightened. It will not at all sur prise us to learn, before the visit of the philosopher of the white bat is over, that ho has determined to plant a branch of the Tribune and a Greeley colony Id Texas, and that he will carry home with him to the Tribune» sanctum a buffalo, a horned frog, a prairie dog, and a Tarantula, as all horn free and equal, but out of his lati tude. If the philosopher should chaoce to come this way on his return to the Me tropolitan city, we will engage to give him one of Joe Brown’s lastditoh pikes, where with to defend the Ku-Klux principles of the Republican party. REPUBLICAN PBI.NCIPLKS. The address of the Republican Centra] Committee affirms tliat “ the fundamental princijlos of the Republican party are founded in Justice and Equity. “Equal and exact justice to all mcD, with the per fect equality of all citizens before the law, arc the principles which we profess to take for our guide.” Liberty, equality and fraternity, shouted the Red Republi cans of France, while with an eye to “ ex act justiee,” they improvised courts, ap pointed dictators and erected the guillo tine- “ Equal and exact justice” is the pleasing generality proclaimed by the American so called Republicans, while their leaders in Congress disfranchise white men and enact a Ku-Klux law, which invests the Republican Presi dent with all the powers of a dictator; and Wendell Phillips and Beast but ler, the great public leaders, clamor for a Peripatetic Hanging Committee, and the lives of a lew Southern men- “Jus tice and equity” are very good pclitical principles. Tucsc tbe Democratic party say can best be attained by the civil courts and juries of the country. But tbo Radi cal party demand military courts and drumhead courts martial to miko all equal bofore the law. Wo should like for a single Republican to point out the time at which the Republican party took “ Ju-tico and Equity ” for a guide. The fundamental principle of tho Radical party is to deceive the people—say one thing and do another —prayerfully ex claim, “let us have peace” bofore the elec tion, and as delibarately, a r ter the election, proclaim the Winchester Rifle tho best Law. TIIK I’KKAC IIKK AND THE ZANY. Tliat compound of the Preacher mid the Zany, says the Baltimore Gazette, tho Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, brought, a Sunday or two ago, his step-mother on the plat form. lie did not do this bodily ; for, we believe, she was happily “taken off” in the llesh long before Mr. Beecher ventured to reproduce her, dramatically, in the 1 ulpit. Tho scene, as described by s cor respondent of the Boston Journal , is a capital illustration ot the sort of comic en ter! ainment which Mr. Beecher not un frequently offers to his congregation. Uis sermons, wo are told, “ are sharp, racy utterances, ” and every word that falls from his reverend lips is duly taken down by an accredited reporter, “ who oc cupies a seat at a little table in front of the platform. ” These reports Mr. Beecher subsequently revises, and “many of his keen remarks and witticisms, that shake Plymouth audience as the forest leaves are shaken by the wind, are stricken out from the public report. ’’ In other words, the cap and bells, and the fool’s bauble, are temporarily hidden away, and tho decorous preacher makes his appearance before the general public, not, indeed, wholly divested of broad grins and facial grimaces, bnt clothed sanctimoniously, nevertheless, in solemn black. Occasionally, however, a daring scribe penetrates the Plymouth sanotunry, and, without earing to subject his surreptitious report of the sermon and its accessories to tho prudent revision of Mr. Beecher, sends it to the newspapers. But for this, none but his congregation—aptly called “ the audience ” —would probably ever have known anything of the exquisitely funny manner in which Mr. Beeoher “ took off” his step-mother. He began, we are told, by describing her as “a wernau of great exoullenee;” but equally ** great as a martinet.” She was rigidly pious, and every week gave her children “ a stiff dose of the catechism.” She was, moreover, “ the pink of pro priety, and abhorred vain and trifling amusements.” So far the Puritanic char acter of the step-mother comes out promi nently and well. Mr. Beecher next con fessed that, as a boy, he “ bad a weak ness —that of playing on a fiddle.” Ac cording to his own account, he had one defect as a musician—he was apt to mix his tunes. Ho did not know where one begun and tho other ended. The result was a compound of Yankee Doodle, Old Hundred and a country dance. For the rest, we prefer to let the writer tell the story in his words, and as Mr. Beecher told it, and acted it, before bis admiring “ audience “ One day,” he said. “he was amusing himself on his favorite instrument, and struck up a genuine jig, which, unsancti fied, had been running in his head ever since he was a boy. Just at that moment tho mother eame in, and, catching the in spiration of the tune, placed her hands on her hips and actually danced a minuet- Mr. Beecher described the scene. He stepped back on the platform, placed his hands on bis hips, and showed the audi ence how his mother did it. He described the consternation of the children. He clasped fcis hands, rolled up the whites of his eyes, like a regular mawworm, opened his mouth, drew down his hip, and stood, the personification of rustic humor. The whole scene was irresistibly comic. He wound up with the moral, that, if his mother had danced more, and plied the catechism less, he would have had a hap pier childhood.” All this was admirable fooling. We dare say the audience laughed heartily at the rich comic talent displayed by their clerical mimic, and became duly solemn as be drew the moral. We oonfese, never theless, that we have been educated in the belief that the pulpit was intended for higher and holier things. It is true that the pulpit ofPlymouth is not unfrequent ]y called “the platform,” and is so desig nated by the correspondent from whose letter we have been quoting. But when we remember that the wood of which that pulpit is built, grew on the Mount of Clives, and is suggestive of the most eaered of memories, it looks like desecra- tion to degrade its uses by aotic3 such as we have recorded- We do Dot believe, with the old Puritans, that re'igion is a daily peDancc, and that cheerfulness is incompatible with it. But we hold, nevertheless, that in the pulpit, acd in an edfice devoted to Christian wot ship, the very panctity of the place, and the tran scendental importance of the ttuths which it is the duty of the minister to expound, should shield it from that sort of profana tion for which the notorious orator “ Hen ley" was so justly censured more than a hundred years ago, and whose pernicious example is so closely followed by the Rev erend HeDry Ward Beecher. THE WATER J'OWKB OF THE SAVAN NAH KIVKK AT AUtiUSTA. Few persons are c gnizant of the im mense water power of the Savannah river above Augusta, which may be utilized at small cost. The SavanDah river and its tributaries dram an extent of country estimated at more than eight thousand iquare miles. The length of the river from its mouth is estimated at 450 miles, whereas the direct distance is placed at about 250 miles. The The length of the channel from Augusta to Savannah is about 250 miles, while, as the crow flics, the distance to Savannah is about 115 milep. Just above the corpor ate limits of Augusta, within a stones throw from West Boundary street, the river courses for the most part over a bed of rock of premitive formation, and is marked by rapids and a series of falls to its source, the juncture of the confluence of tne Tallulah and Chattotga rivers. Its principal tributaries, Broad and Lit- tle Rivers, Stevens’ Creek and Turkey Creek, lichee, Keokee, Greenbriar; Talu lah and Chattooga Rivers, rising in the mountainous region, or among the high hills which characterises the Piedmont region of the Blue Ridge mountains, par take of the general characteristics of the main stream, and with it affords an im mense water power which, at no distant day, will be made available. The country traversed is undulating, abounding in springs of the purest freestone water ; the climate—the unrivalled climate of Middle Georgia, and the soil fertile, embracing among its products all the cereals—wheat, barley, corn, oats, sorghum, &c., and for the most part permitting the successful cultivation of cotton, indigo and tobacco; and is adapted to the fig, the grape, the pear, the peach, and the apple—growing the last two named fruits in great abun dance and in great perfection. Nature seems to have designed that this area should become the seat of a large popula tion, providing at once an abundant water power upon the streams, abundant build ing material of the best quality among the hills, made conveniently accessible bv the cutting streams, and fertile, alluvial lands, yielding a cheap and good living by the production of cereals, and in the choicest fruits and vegetables. The advantages of this region for fur nishing future manufacturing sites for factories, of tho largest dimensions, and in supporting a very large population, has not escaped the attention of those who project the Augusta and Hartwell Rail_ road. On the contrary, the present direc. tion estimates a large revenue from the present local traffic, and a still larger reve nue to the road from tho future develop ments ol the water power of this region, and this they keep steadily in view in making an alignment of the road for per manent location. Sorne of the facts acquired by the en gineers for the company, with regard to the water power, have been kindly placed at our disposal by Major A. Grant Childs, Eugineer in Chief in charge, which w T e lay before our readers. Assuming Hiuh W atrr Mark at the August* Bridge as the initial level for convenience in reference and comparison, the following table exhibits the rise or inversely the fall at the different points and distances named: Distance. Elevation. Augusta Bridge Head of Cana) 7.4 miles. 27 feet. Point No. 1 8.6 “ 32 “ Mouth of Little Kio kee Creek 17.3 “ 54 “ Point No. 2 80.7 “ 104 “ Shiver’s Creek 82.8 “ 120 “ Fishing Creek 51.5 “ 158 “ The table above given only covers the distance of fifty miles above Augusta. The water power of the Augusta Canal, en larged to 150 feet wide and 10 feet deep fed by a wing dam of 800 feet, which di verts only about one-fourth of the water from the volume of the river, gives an es timated power of fourteen thousand horses. Between Point No. 2, thirty miles from Augusta, and Shiver’s Creek, thirty two miles, we have in a distance of two miles a fall of twenty-five feet, or a fall nearly equal to that possessed by the Au gusta Canal, aiul can utilize the whole volume of the river, free from all embar rassing questions touching right of naviga tion. The full development of these two falls, say the Augusta Canal and Point No. 2, will give an aggregate power exceeding fifty thousand horses. This is the manu facturing power which we have at com mand at Augusta, and within fifty miles of Augusta. Cau any one be doubtful of the effect of utilizing such a power as this upon the prosperity of Augusta. Major Childs very properly icmarks that the first spade full taken in the enlargement of the canal will attract tho attention of capitalists, who, becom ing acquainted with the extent of the immense cheap water power which can bo commanded, will push the develop ment of every available site, and bring large investments of foreign capital, and a large population. Our topographical and climatic advantages in manufacturing cot ton is now conceded. In heavy goods, shirtings and sheetings, we have already that stand which will give us, at ro dis tant day. the command in the markets of the United States. Already the reputa tion of Augusta and Graniteville goods is established, and the demand for them increases day by day. This is our new departure, and we believe that the en larg.'mert of ihe caual and the construc tion ot the Augusta and Rabun Gap Road, which we are assured is no longer prob'e matieal, is the dawn of a prosperity which the most sanguine among us little dream. THE NEW CURRENT IN TRADE. Asa significant sign of the times, the following fact is worthy of close attention and careful study : The present price of nails for an invoice of 100 kegs at Pitts burg is $4 75 per keg, with a discount of twenty-five cents per keg, or 14 50 net: at New York, $4 75 per keg, with a dis count of ten cents per keg, or $4 65 per keg- Freight from Pittsburg to Augusta, 80 cents per keg, from New York to Augusta, 90 cents per keg. It is unneces sary to deduce the results which inevita bly follow. Neither is it necessary to multiply illustrations, nor elaborate argu ments as to cause and effect. That which is true as set forth by the foregoing illustra tion is true in very many other particulars of trade, and holds true at many other estern centres of trade. The iron pro ducts of Pittsburg, nails, hinges, locks, files, stoves and castings of every de scription ate not the only articles seeking anew outlet, but this rule holds true equally with the products of those areas of which Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis, are the great distributing points. Bacon, whisky, lard, alcohol, can dles, &e., are staple articles of Western ex portation. Agricultural implements manu- j factored in the West are multiplying daily in our corn and cotton fields. Buckeye reapers mow our wheat and oats. Ken tucky plows till our cotton and corn. Ohio threshers and fans winnow ourßmall grain, and Westarn 6hellers shell our corn. Cincinnati wagons do our farm work. Western leather gives us harness, and Bt. Louis white lead adorns our houses. This must and will bring reciprocity. Already the sales of our cotton fabrics to the West, made at our own doors, equals iu amount the sales on consignment to New York and the East, and Western enterprise is seeking our cotton as return freight, and multiplying factories for its fabrication. Cincinnati holds an annual exposition, en couraging Southern production. Louis ville leads in internal improvements, reaching out her arms to effect direct and close connections with the South and the Southwest; and St. Louis, strengthening her connections with the Atlantic and the Gulf, fosters reciprocity by cheap, quick freights and premiums fflr Southern pro ducts—offering SIO,OOO for the best one hundred bales of cotton on exhibition at her next annual fair. This new current from the West seems patent to all eyes except to the eyes of citizens of Augusta, and stimulates every where eUe fcti'orl ami enterprise. Colum bus is pushing her North anti South Road ; Macon is moving in the same direction; and Atlanta, recovering from her Eastern Air Line hallucination, now seriously agi tates her long forgotten Northwestern Road. Now. what is Augusta doing? We have talked for years about a Rabun Gap Road. We admit very candidly that such a direct connection, which Avill penetrate the very heart of the new manufacturing centre and the dense population of the fertile West, and will bring Cincinnati and Louisville and Pittsburg nearer to us than New York. andfurnishiDg the natural outlet for the abundant productions of the rich valleys of the Little Tennessee, and Sweetwater, will be ot great benefit. But we have been content, and seem still to remain supine, satisfied with the admis sion. Are we poorer than Atlanta, Ma con, or Columbus? Have we not means equal at least to that which their enter prise has utilized, and is about to utilize ? The Athens extension commands— By State aid $1,200,000 Cash subscriptions 250,000 Subscriptions payable in labor, cross ties, lumber, &c 200,000 A total of. $1,650,000 The survey of the road places the cost of construction and equipment of eighty miles at $20,000 per mile, or $1,000,000. Cannot this road be built? But it must be remembered such assets are outside and wholly independent of Augusta. This road built, and under Athenian control, will nat urally, in the end, seek an extension and alignment by easy grades through Mad ison with Eatonton. Again. The line of the Augusta and Hartwell Hoad, 158 miles in length, is shorter by fotty-seven miles than the line by tbo Athens extension. Minute and careful estimates, for construction and complete equipment, by competent engi neers, places the whole oost per mile at $23,000. The charter commands all the rights and immunities enjoyed by the Georgia Railroad, with State aid to tho amount of $15,000 per mile. Surely the financial difficulties, with such a beginning, are not formidable impediments to the construction of a road which, tapping a fertile country on both sides of the Sa vannah river, and making accessible an immense water-power, which will make the distance from Knoxville and the grain and coal region of East Tennessee almost as short as from Knoxville to Atlanta, and Louisville, Cincinnati and Pittsburg neigh bors nearer to to us than Baltimore, Phil adelphia, and New York. Are we to have either or both of those roads? or are we to remain as heretofore —supinely idle, out off on all sides by vigilant, active enter prise ? TIIE GKORhII WESTERN ROAD. We see that the peoplo of the “Gate City” are being stirred up upon the sub ject of building the Georgia Western Railroad, looking to a short and direct connection with the Mississippi at Mem phis, and anew connection with the Lou isville system of railroads at Decatur, Alabama. This project long since has been urged by the people of Augusta as desirable to themselves and essential to the control ol Atlanta; but it has not seemed to be of importance in the eyes of the Atlanteans. They could not sce&t. They could only see the Air Line. But the Atlanteans moved by the flank move ments, which promise to deprive her of the power and the prestige of being the gate city of the West, are now becoming alive to its great importance. Hulburt, who has been swinging around the circle, tells the Atlanta people some home truths about tangential lines; and while his facts are no more than any one oould obtain from Ap pleton’s Railway Guide, he has placed them in a strong light before the party most deeply interested —the citizens of Atlanta. MR. HILL’S LETTER. For the information of our readers, who are stockholders in the Georgia Railroad, we publish this morning, from the Atlanta Constitution, Mr. Hill’s explanation of what he considers the reeent action of the stockholders of the Georgia Railroad, in reference to their position on the State Road lease. Mr. Hill’s views upon this question, or upon any other great question in which the people of Georgia are inter ested, will not affect public sentiment favorably at this time. As an interested party, his peculiar views must necessarily be received with caution. There was a time when we looked upon Mr. Hill as above suspicion, but we are very free to confess that the scales have long smee dropped from our eyes. Mr. Hill as the champion of the rights and liberties of an outraged people—as the fierce denunciator of native and alien political incendiaries and robbers, and Mr. Hiil as an incorporator of the company leasing the State Road, and as the apologist of Brown and Bullock, are, in our opinion, two very different character*. Hence it is that we cannot agree with Mr. Hill that “ our State ” has done a good thing for the people in leasing the road to Messrs. Brown, Hill, Cameron & Ce. The process of reasoning by which Mr. Hill arrives at the conclusion that the ac tion ot the Convention amounts to a vir tual endorsement of the lease is fallacious. The re-clection of Judge King was a fore gone conclusion, as the most violent op ponents of the lease did not contemplate making an issue against him tor ’he Presi dency. It does not, therefore, follow as a necessary consequence, as Mr. Hill main tains, that the re-election of the old Board was a virtual endorsement of the lease. The reports of the President and Superin tendent were received. Mr. Clark moved to strike out those portions relative to the lease. Mr. Cooper moved to adopt the rtporis, aDd Mr. Montgomery subse quently offered, as a substitute, a resolu tion that the reports be ratified and ap proved. AUei a long debate, this substi tute, with the original motions, were laid upon the table by an unanimous vote. The whole matter is therefore simply an open question. There is news from Yeneznela to the 10th. Complications had taken place with the British authorities relative to the boundaries and rights to gold mines on the frontier of Guaenco. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 1871. Bishop Janies O. Andrews. ; MEMORIAL SERMON BY REV. GEO. F. PIERCE. | Bishop Pierce, on Sunday, May 7th, I delivered a funeral sermon on the late James O. Andrew, in Nashville. The text ; was Ist Philippians, Ist chapter, 20th to , the 26th verse, inclusive. The first por ! tion of the discourse was an elaborate | analysis and estimate of the character of Saint Paul. The portion relating particu larly to the lamented Bishop Andrew, we append: Our late senior Bishop was himself a noble specimen of the self-denial devotion which I have outlined in the foregoing dis course. Indeed, the subject was suggested by my know-ledge of the man, his senti ments, Lis habits of thought and action. As myself, the son of a Methodist preach er, among my early household memories the name of Andrew mingles. My father, then a young man, was presiding elder of the district when he was recommended to the annual Conference for admission on trial, and he felt an official if not a pater nal interest in the awkward and unpromis ing ycuth whom he had introduced to the itineracy. He thought he saw the dia mond w-ithin the surrounding crust, and he commented freely, and frequently with admiration and delight, upon the rapidly unfolding outcome of his young friend and brother ; and it is one of the marvelous demonstrations of onr peculiar system of training and development that this boy, for he was not twenty years of age when received on trial, with the bare rudiments even of a common school education, in a very few years took rank with the leading minds of one of the oldest and most dis tinguished conferences of our then united Methodism. He was the peer in pulpit power of such men as Oldham and Capers —men whose mental endowments and varied scholarship would have dignified any church in any age. My personal acquaintance with him be gan while I was yet in my teens, and he was in the flush of his prime and his vigor. He was stationed in Athens and Greens boro, my native town, iu 1829. I had just returned from school to my father’s house, and in the secrecy of my own soul, I was anxiously revolving, as a question of duty, my call to the ministry. My lips were sealed to every human being; I dwelt alone upon this subject, and I had commenced tho study of another profession to rid myself of the convictions that were pressing me sorely, but this good man dis cerned my secret trouble, invited me to his house, took me into an upper cham ber privately and alone; adroitly drew from me a cODf ssion of my feelings, and then, with counsel and tender exhortation, encouraged me to do my duty. Perhaps, as I then thoueht, the cast of all my life was determined by that meeting. At any rate, from that hour, considering tho dis parity of our years and of circumstances, our future intercourse was intimate and affectionate and confiding. At different times, and under some cir cumstances to me peculiarly tryiDg, I was indebted to him for judicious advice and a truly fatherly interest. In the second year of my ministry I was sent as a junior preacher with him to Augusta, Ga. I lived in his house, saw him daily, mingled with him in the ease and freedom ol do mestic life ; and there my boyish awe of the great preacher softened into filial rev erence; my admiration softened into love. Tbe thought that I was to preach alter nately with such a man was a source of alarm and torture to me. For weeks and weeks, when my turn came around, I be sought him to go out, to spare me the em barrassment of his presence. With kind, forbeariDg sympathy, he yielded to my wishes. He remembered his own early years and his struggles with timidity, and he deferred to the foolish and yet real fears of his youthful assistant; but after a sea son, he announced to me that his sense of duty would not longer allow him to absent himself from the house of God ; and to relieve me, he gave me advice, the assu rance of his assistance, and the promise of his prayers. I mention this only to show that beneath the somewhat stern exterior there beat a soft and gentle heart, which never failed to respond to the cry of weak ness. Bishop Andrew’s head was phrenologi- fine, but the features of his face were broad and strong, inclining to coarseness, and the solemn gravity of his look when in resposo or when performing any ministerial service, would have misled an unpracticed eye in judging of his char acter. A stranger would never dream that that rugged countenance could soften into beauty, grow radiant with humor and beam with magnetic love ; hut as the brightest waters gush from among the craggy rocks, and the sweetest flowers bloom amid the thorns, so he could wither with his rebuke and petrify with his frown and awe with his dignity and startle with his voice of authority. He was, both by nature and by grace, gentle as a nurse cherishing her children, soft as a dove cooing to its mate, meek as a Christian praying for his enemies. Asa husband, and father, and host, there was the most harmonious blending of authority and love—-eonnubial respect, with the most genial tenderness, parental government with the most affectionate in tercourse ; an open, hearty hospitality, with the most informal politeness. Pie was independent, without defying public opinion ; free to express his thoughts, without waiting to see how the wind would blow ; respectful to all, without subser vience to aDy. Indeed, ail the elements of a noble manhood met and miDgled in him in beautiful proportion. There was about him a strange accord and concord of contrast, if I may so express it, an equilibrium of antagonism, strong and tender, firm yet sympathetic, stern but always ac cessible. That man who, on trial with out accusation in 1844, lauded as a saint, but rejected as a Bishop, commended for his wisdom and purity iu official ministra tion, wronged in his rights and outraged in his feeliDgs by a foul conspiracy—as one of the actors in it has lately confessed and published, and thu3 made the innocent occasion of a great ecclesiastical catastro phe—that man who could stand up before that General Conference, and with a brow unblanohed, demand, in the tone of a master, that the debates should come to an end, and that the foregone conclusion should be settled by a final vote, that man in the chamber where appointments are made, could sigh and groan and suffer over the minor trials of his humblest brother. I have known him to toss the livelong night in sleepless unrest, and to go burdened all the day, because his sense of duty constrained him, by some hard assignment of work, to impose a burden upon some good brother in his’ family. He who could wither an offender as a simoon, when meanness or hypocrisy pro voked his scowl of indignation, could cheer the desponding and soothe the wounded spirit with the fittest word and with the gentlest breath. Intellectually, Bishop Andrew was in many respects a great man. His mind was broad, comprehensive in its sweep, rapid in its operation, intuitive in its per ceptions. His judgment was sound, strong, tree, independent, rarely warped either by favor or affection, discriminating amid many perplexities with wonderful accuracy. Hence, he was ajways a wise and safe counsellor. He was a great reader, though not much of a student. For lack of early rraining he was never very methodical. He thought much, but discursively. The material which he gathered he passed through his hand by a process of his own, and it always came out stamped with his own image and superscription. He wrote with great facility- His conversation was rich in thought, fluent in language. He was cheerful in spirit, fond of humor, ready in repartee, and yet I do not believe I ever saw him betrayed into levity, and his speech was well nigh always seasoned with grace. Asa preacher he was somewhat unique. He had no model. He stood alone. He was original, net so much by creative pewer as by his peculiar style of appro priation. He never dwelt in propositions; he had nothing to do with divisions, first ly, secondly, thirdly and lastly. He dealt with one great leading idea, and that idea he made to revolve upon its own axle, un til every spot of its surface was bathed in sunlight. His powers of amplification were amazing; and on some of his favorite themes, when his mind was fall, the opening of his mouth was like the letting out of many waters, nor was it a thin sheet turned into spray and descending in mist, but a thundering volume, that rush ed and roaied and swept on resistlessly. Those who heard him ODly in the latter years of his life will regard what I am say ing as extravagant, but I know whereof 1 affirm. Making him a bishop ruined him as a preacher. Soon after Lis election, he conceived the idea that he must be an ex ample of extreme simplicity, for the bene fit of the younger brethren in the mjnistry, lest, I suppose, by undertaking to imitate him, they should render themselves ridieu lous, and hence he changed his style ; he compelled his mind to work unnaturally ; ihe cut of the inspiration that used to bear him up and carry him along quite above the level of common men. In his palmiest days there was always a peculiarity in Bishop Andrew's preaching that distinguished him from all others. The first half of his serums was always the best —often lofty, grand, imperial in the range of thought, the sweep of imagi nation, the wealth of words. The latter half was commonly colloquial, simple and sometimes common-place. It seemed to me that in prayer and meditation and com munion with God he had ascended some lofty elevation, some bright mount of vision; and when he entered the pulpit and announced his text, he launohed out on bold, broad pinions, like an angel flying through the midst of the Heavens ; and bv and ky he grew weary and com menced to descend by gradations, until at last he w alked upon the earth like an or dinary mortal. Here is the explanation of the comparative feebleness of his latter years. His mental action depended upon his muscular energies, and when the high-wrought tension of his system gave way, his mind let him down, and, like a motive power in machinery, ceased to operate, because the fuel was consumed. But to those whom he ministered in the days of his strength will never forget it. No man in his day had warmer friends or more of them. His converts were numer ous ; the church always flourished under his ministrations. The rich and the gifted welcomed him to their fellowship; the poor and afflicted received him as a min istering angel. His devotion, to children grew with his years; he talked to them in private; he addressed th;in in public ; he invoked their prayers in his behalf; he lavished upon them the affections of his age; and next to his last service upon earth, I believe, was for their benefit. Our venerable father, before he had been called hence, had well ligh reached his four score years, beyond at least his three score and ten. Convened at ten years of age, he had a loDg experience of the grace of God. Through a protracted ministry, he realized, by turns, the sorrows and victories, the honors and disappoint ments peculiar to a faithful preacher’* life. His religion was deep and quiet; he was never demonstrative. He walked ia the light, and saw with the eyes of that faith which is the evidence ot things unseen, There never was any chasm in his itineracy. He never located, or farmed, or puisued any secular calling. For him to live was Christ. He was a man of one business; he loved the Master and the Church,and the work which Jesus had given him to do ; and even on his dying bed, when the checkered past all rose up before him in solemn review, he affirmed that if he could live his life over again, he would be a Methodist preacher still —the only greater fidelity. In the lapse of years aud the oncoming of decay, our beloved friend was no dotard, imagining himself strong and active and capable as ever; but, coi scious of his growing infirmities, five years ago he gracefully retired from the regular work; and when the strong man bowed himself, and his tottering limbs could scares bear the burden of his failing body, it was a beautiful thing to see the oid man vis.t the churches where he had preached ; anl as he stood up, leaning Upon his staff, talkiog to them of Jesus and glory, and it last shaking hands in sweet farewell, per suaded that lie should see their faces no moro ia the flesh, and yet inviting them lo come on to Heaven. I shall Dot, nor is it necessary that I should, detail the circumstances of his last illness and death. They are widely known. Suffice it for me to say, ho fell at his post, not a veteran slumbering on his arms, but a warrior, sword in hand, still warm with recent fight. The chamber of death was made glorious by the presence of God. His body, worn out with age, shaken to pieces by paralysis, his soul flamed up amid the ruins, happy and triumphant. Poor in this world’s goods, dying in his daughter’s house, he sent me his last message. “ Tell him I love him, and that I have a home on the other side.” Aud you, my colleagues, doubtless feel as I do, that his words to us deserve to be treasured among life’s cherished memo ries. The love, and confidence, and blessiDg of such a man deserve to be reckoned arnoDg the benedictions of heaven. Well, my dear old father, as we loved to call him, is gone; we shall see his face no more. But let his example stiroulato uo to fiUolity and endurance, and his message of love bind us in closer fellowship. Bet us labor on for the purity and progress of the church he loved and blessed and died all the hap pier because, under God, and as he verily believed, the management of the church was left in our hand. Heaven help us to vindicate the confidence of the good old man by brotherly-love, by a wise adminis tration, by a holy, fruitful ministry. And now, let me say, Bishop Andrew did not live iu vain. The world is better than it would have been without him. There is no stain upon his long career. The grace of God was magnified in his life and by Uis death. His name has passed into his tory, and though dead he speaketh, and his testimony to the church and to the world is, that God is good, religion true, Christianity the highest style of character, the noblest honor of humanity. And now may this funeral solemnity, the precious truths delivered, the noble example com memorated, incline us all to God and to the church, win us from the world and lead us to the skies. CROI’S IN TALIAFERRO. Crawfordville, Ga., May 20th, 1871. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: It is always interesting to hear from the farmer, we should promote his welfare, for we are all dependent upon his success. I think we should communicate with one another through our pubiic journals, that we may keep the better posted concerning the crops and their progress throughout the country. As nothing has been said as yet, relative to the crops in this couDty, I give you briefly their present condition. The wheat crop is not so good as was anricipatc-d sometime ago; rust has com menoed upon it, and will, doubtless, injure it considerably. The oat orop is excellent- The low price of cotton last year somewhat wearied the affections of the farmer for his king, and this year he i giving more of his attention to corn, which I thiok is the beginning of a brighter era in cur country. The damp, cold weather, during the past few weeks, damaged cot ton somewhat, but it is fast recuperating, and, if properly cultivated, a good crop may yet be made. Corn is beginning to look well, and I think if the interest in this crop that is now manifested should be con tinued for a few weeks longer, we can feed our stock on ears of corn, and be under no obligations to the Tennesseean or Ken tuckian for bis exported grain. Cuffee seems to be doing as well, or bet ter it aoothing, than formerly, and is more confident of getting justice under Demo cratic rule than under former deceitful forty-acre promises. The Southern farmers deserve a great deal of credit for their patience and perse verance. Since the war they have labored under every conceivable disadvantage, and in spite of the oppressive influences and exactions of corrupt Radical politicians, they have managed to make an honest living. They have gradually gained the confidence of the negro, and he has be come convinced that his interest is Dot with Loyal Leagues or political disturbers, but with his former owners. Indeed, everything begins to present a brighter appearance. It may be because I combine a hope, made strong by our last political successes, with realities; but cer tainly there is a greater foundation for hope. Feeling confident that we will all remain firm, and be successful in our next politi cal crisis of ’72, I am yours, &c., J- "W. Rhodes. Change of Schedule on the New Yobk and New Orleans Line.—The Macon Telegraph says •: A convention of parties representing this line met here Thursday, aDd made a complete revision of the schedule going North from the lat ter point. The schedule, as it now stands, is about as follows: Leave New Orleans at 11 a. m., Mobile at 6p. m., Mont gomery at 7 a. m., Columbus at 12 m and MacoD at 6:15 p. arriving at Au gusta at 3:30 a. m. next day, where passen gers will be detained until S s. m.—four and a half hours. The schedule, it will be observed, greatly lengthens the time between New Orleans and New York via the intermediate points Darned above, and if we are correctly informed, was adopted solely to accommodate local interests, it being found impossible to compete with the fast schedule made since the opening of the Alabama and Chattanooga road, over which route the time between the two cities is only 70 hours —against about 90 hours over this route under the sche dule just adopted. [communicated J Melon Hill, Ga., May 22, 1871. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: We learn from the Courier-Journal , of Louisville, Ky., that Georgia produces diamonds as large as a peck measure, and so plenty are small precious stones, of the value of two hundred thousand dollars, that they are used as marbles. But the announcement that among our recent natural productions, we now can claim earthquakes, may interest your readers. To the people of “ beautiful Augusta, ” " more lovely than the vale of Rssselas, ” it may be consoling to speculate upon the chances of having a volcano added to its already numerous attractions. Perhaps, within the limits of the Fair Grounds. However, the narration of the facts may attract the attention of those who are deeply, darkly wise. And they may divest this new product of our State of its pleas ing attributes, or they may find some other name for these mysterious sounds. But the facts are known to many, particu larly tbe occurrence of Saturday last. Around Berzelia the moving of the ground, the shaking of the bouses, and the loud rumbling noise was noticed very generally. From that point to your citv, twenty miles, these were observed and re marked by many persons. It may have occurred beyond Berzelia, and likewise be low your city. This letter may draw out the information from these, and from other points, and thus enable the learned to ar rive at some useful oonolusion concerning the earthquake. At any rate, the Chron icle & Sentinel is too faithful an observ er of everything calculated to attract atten tion to Georgia, and its limitless capacity to produce anything raised in any other part of the globe, or the power of its peo ple to perlorm any worthy deed ever per formed by woman, or maD, or child, to permit it to remain in ignorance of such an occurrence as an earthquake in Rich mond county. During the month of June, 1870, about six o’clock P. M., one cloudless Sabbath evening, a loud and prolonged rumbling sound, such as would pnoecd from the. explosion of a quantity of powder, was heard, apparently originating in the southwestern portion of this oounty, or that section known as “Pine lucky,” be tween Bath, Bel-Air and Berzelia, which is a very hilly, almost mountainous re gion. To those near your city, the sound seemed to originate among these hills, but twenty miles to the west of your city, it was generally attributed to Home heavy explosion, either in the city or at the ar senal, near Bel-Air, the middle ground. Some said one side, some the other, but it seemed very near. On last Saturday, the 20th of May, 1871, 7J o’clock a. m. (Georgia Railroad time), two similar reports were heard—one much tuore distinct and prolonged than the second, with a short interval. These were accompanied by a perceptible shaking of the ground and buildings. And to those at and near Berzelia, twenty miles dis tant, the noise seemed to originate near your city, the same as last year; but four or five miles west of your city, the noise seemed to come from the “Pine Tucky Hills,” west of Rowley’s Mills and south of Berzelia. The course or line in which the shaking was most distinctly felt was south of west or north of east. If you will take a point near the southeast corner of your city, and one about two miles south of Berzelia, and draw a line between them, you will strike the current, or the line in which the shaking was most ob served. In the valleys it was more per ceptible than on the bills. So far as I have been able to ascertain, this was the course in June, 1870. This line will pass near Aiken, 8. C., and Eat onton, Ga., and south of Sparta, Ga. Last Saturday morning was a olear and pleasant day—perhaps the noise may have been heard and the shook felt at other points- The crops are generally good. The small grain has been affected injuriously by rust in some localities, and the wheat was injured whilst in bloom by the heavy The gardens are very fine, and are be ginning to assist the corn crib and smoke house. The corn is good and is generally well looked after. Cotton is not now considered as sacred, absorbing all the attention. By your paper, we learn that the draw ing of the Confederate Monumental Lot tery, with its seventeen hundred and forty five prizes, of which Messrs. L. & A. H. McLaws are the general agents at Augus ta, has been changed to the 12th of Octo ber, the anniversary of General Lee’s death. This change was a good one. Can you inform us where the monument is to be built? The two monuments to Greene and Pu laski, in Savannah, the corner stones ot which were laid by General Lafayette, in 1825, with Masonic ceremonies, could not be built until they adopted ihe lottery plan. This was authorized by the Legis lature, and the plan was successful. It is to be hoped tliat your citizens may be able to attain their object this coming Fall. Many of the planters are determined to try clover. Who has the genuine red clover seed for sale? As it should be sown in September, in damp weather. Yours truly, O. geigfreldism. DR. SIMMONS’ REPLY- Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: Please publish the following reply of Dr. Simmons, touching the Seigfreid out rages, taken from the Richmond Religious Herald, aid oblige A Subscriber. DR. SIMMONS’ REPLY. We copy the following document—the same that was forwarded to us for publica tion —f r om the Examiner and Chronicle. We deferred its publication, hoping, by that course, to secure for our refutation of the Seigfried charges a circulation in that journal commensurate with that of the charges themselves. Failing in our pui pose, we now publish the reply of Dr. Sim mons, not only in justice to himself, but as the most satisfactory evidence that the monstrous statements of Mr. Seigfreid were groundless: THE QUESTION OP SOUTHERN MISRULE. To the Editors Religious Herald , Rich mond, Va Dear Brethren: Your i-sue of April 6:h is at hand. lam glad your able paper is being taken in the North, acd that Northern papers are gradually making their way southward. The better we know each other, the sooner will sectional differ ences disappear, and we shall be able to work unitedly lor Christ. Your journal is teaching its readers some admirable les sons. For example, in that good article on the first page of the Herald, of March 30tb, upon the Province of Journalism, we are told that ‘‘one great and valuable ob ject of journalism is to keep the peace; to know when to strike, and then to strike with dignity and moderation ; to know and to feel that Christ’s meek and loving cause is more promoted by long-suffering than by sharp-shooting, and that a time will come when it will give us more comfort to have spoken three words with charity than ten thousand words with malice.” I determined, from the beginning of my work as Secretary, that I would en deavor to be candid and fair and courte ous in my intercourse with all meD, from whatever part of the country they might write or speak to me ; that if any used hard words, I would try to use none in re turn ; that, if need be, I would remain silent’ under censure ; and so, whether by doing or suffering, promote the cause of I addressed myself to the Chris tian Standard-bearers of the South, a few weeks ago, I did it under the solemn ap prehension that, unless Christians at the South and Christians at the North can stand together against lawless men, seri ous evils will again come upon our land- I believe so still. In my journey through the South, a little more than a year ago, I received many expressions of fraternal re gard and the marked attentions of Chris tian courtesy. The spirit of Christ is not sectional) Dor cb&r&cterizsd by & narrow partisanship. Leading pastors, editors and laymen in every Southern State through which I passed receded and treated me most kindly. Jn Richmond, in Raleigh, in Charleston, In Augusta, in Atlanta, in New Orleans, and other places, these attentions were everything one could ask. And in no State was 1 treated more handsomely than in Georgia; in no cities more so than in Augusta and Atlanta. Letters are now before me from both pastors acd laymen in Augusta, of such excellent spirit that I feel cheered and strengthened as I read them. . One of these letters, signed by several solid men, says: . “We are not enemies—we are the friends of the work in which you are en- gaged. Send us teachers who know noth ing among men save Jesus Christ and Him crucified, and we will rejoice with them, help them, and, if need be, suffer with them We reciprocate your wishes, and would be glad to see you. Onr pastor (Dr. Dixon) speaks of you in such terms as we love to hear used toward our North ern brethren who understand us and de sire our prosperity. ” I do not believe that any of the Chris tian men whom I met iu my journey, or who have written me in snch a spirit as above, would harm either a negro, or a Northerner. But now, there is another class of men in some sections of the Sooth quite differ ent from these; wicked men, lawless men, bloody men. Some of them inay have come from the North. We have such here. Suppose every one of tliein came from the North, or originated there; it makes no difference. Wherever they came from, or whoever they are, be they white or black, law-abiding citizens both South and North, and especially Christian people, both North and South, should stand np with united front against them. A man must needs doubt the existence of his own eyes, to sit at the table where I sit day after day, and read the letters which come in, from time to time, from Southern States, mostly written by Chris tian men, some Northerners and some original Southerners, who speak either directly or incidentally of outrages com mitted, and yet doubt the existence of snch outrages. A Southern Baptist min ister, of irreproachable charaoter, assures me that : “The lawless men who commit these acts of violence in the South come some times from fifty or one hundred miles away, and do their shooting, or wounding, or burniog, in obedience to the decree of the secret order to which they belong, and thee suddenly disappear. No one in the nlaoe where the crime is committed knows them.” When the letter of Rev- Mr. Seigfried, our missionary, reached me, 1 printed it, as I had scores of others since I came to the rooms, taking it lor granted that it told the substantial truth. I simply gave it credence. If it was false, no one could blame the people of the South for feeling indignant. If false, I feel as indignant as they. And there has Dot been a moment since that letter appeared, when I would not gladly have given to the public any retraction which our missionary and his witnesses would justify. No Buoh retrac tion has boon furnished me ; but on the other hand, testimony explicitly in his favor. For example, a Baptist who spent some months in Augusta aDd vicinity, (embracing a circuit as far perhaps as Washington, Ga.,) who was in the rogion at the time our missionary wrote his letter, as well as before and after, and who im presses me as a man of great oandor and fairness, says: “The picture of the reign of terror, and the peril, and the threatened acts of vio lence*, as quoted from brother Seigfried, io the * shooting down ’ article, was not over drawn in its application to the colored people and their friends from the North. •I have no doubt as to tho existence and the desperate character of tho Ku-Klux; and that they ramify extensively, and operate in local districts, as circumstances favor or provoke.”* One eminent brother, who writes me from Georgia, and who disagrees alto gether with the preoeding witness, as well as with others whose letters 1 have, utters these charitable words: “I do not wish to be understood as say ing that brother Seigfried has made wil fully false statements. It is a serious thing to make suoh a charge.” 8o says tbe Bible : “Lot all your things be done with charity.” “Charity think ethnoevil.” “With what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged.” Questions of veracity are often difficult to settle, beoause the witnesses testify from very different planes of observation. I am asked for names and dates and places. The following letter, addressed to an editorial friend of mino, under date of January 14, 1871, will explain itself. I am permitted by the author to print it as follows: LETTER EROM A SOUTHRON. Dear Brother: I writo in justice to Rev. Dr. Simmons, in connection with the article in the Examiner, entitled “Shoot ing,” &c., in respect to which you write in these words: “The charge is too in definite There are no names given, either of persons or places.” I think you overlook an obvious diffi culty—an old difficulty, existing, as you must well know, before the war, and, I beg loave to assure you, existing just as much since the war. It is, and for at least twenty years has been, hazardous for a Northern resident in the South to allow anything which re flects upon the character of his neighbors to bo published in the North, particularly if it bears upon the condition of the negro or his wants, when there is any chance ot its being copied in Southern papers, and traced to its source. Even in writing this letter, I have to enjoin that not a word of it be published —and wherefore? My wife is Southern, and so am I. Her family have always lived on a plantation, and though profess ing no other feelings towards the Federal Government than such as are common to the mass of Southern people, yet in their letters they have incidentally spoken of outrages similar to those communicated to brother Simmons. Now, are you not aware, that should I give you extracts from these letters, ac companied with dates and names of per sons and pldces, and other circumstances, according to the requirements of the Rich mond Herald, my wife could never visit her old home again ? And that her family themselves would be in jeopardy ? In my opinion, it would have been the height of indiscretion in brother Simmons to have acted according to your requirement. I think prominent men of the South know perfectly well the truthfulness of such statements as have been made to brother Simmons, and the reason why names of persons and places are not published.. I visited the South three winters ago, with the desire of remaining there to aid the poor, whether white or black. I hap pened, in a business letter to the editor of a Northern religion paper, to allude to the friendless condition of the colored peo ple ; adding that no Christian should come to the South to make money, but to spend it in alleviating the wants of that class, physical as well as moral and intel lectual. In his reply to the business part, he closed with the remark that he should like to be with me “in getting the negro upon his legs.” This letter fell into wrong hands, aod explains the cause of my sudden departure from the South. A man of reputation, like yourself, Dr. Simmons or Dr. Sears, going into the South, commonly stops ODly in the en lightened oentres, and has contact with the best spirits of those centres. Accordingly, he sees much that is fair and hopeful, and can honestly give such an account to the North as can safely be repeated in the South. But let him remain there as a resident, especially let him live in the plantation districts, away from United States garrisons, and I think that ere long he will have occasion to sympathise with the Home Missionary who feels im pelled to make a statement of the woes around him, though it be indefinite as to dates, names, Ac. I The author of the above letter is report ed to me as a Baptist clergymen of supe rior standing aod excellence. Y ours, fraternally, James B. cimmons. New York, April ilth, 1871. There are many kindly sentiments in the above article ;which we fully endorse and cordially reciprocate. We are for peaep. Our only objeot in the review of Dr. Simmons’ first communication was to impose some restraint, if possible, on the custom, distressingly common, of publish ing in Northern papers anonymous qpd wholesale charges of Southern outrages. We desired that oqr brethren, at least, might be enabled to perceive that some, possibly all these oharges, were baseless, ur grossly exaggerated. We bow with unfeigned reference to the authority of the divine directions, quoted by Dr. S.: “ Let all your things be done with charity,” etc. We only la nent that they were forgotten when the atrocious accusations, which have elicited this dis cussion, were penned and published. It should, too, be borne in mind that the same apostle who affirms that “charity thinketh no evil,” immediately adds, “ re joiceth not in iniquity, but rejoioeth in the truth.” Let the point at issue between Dr. Sim mons and ourselves be clearly understood. It is not whether outrages have been com mitted at the South, but simply whether the charges in his first communication, of daily murders, a reign of terror, and general outlawry, which were made by Sr. Seigfreid, of Augusta, Ga., were true within the range of his knowledge. To tha£ single point our inquiries and re marks been directed, and from it our attention shall not be diverted. All that ♦Who is he ?— Eds. C. AS. IGive us a name I— Eds. C. & S. NEW SERIES, VOL. XXIV. NO. 22. may be said of outrages at other times and in other places, or of outrages in general, have no material bearing on this question. We showed by the testimony of six re spectable citizens of Augusta, of tbe Rev. Mr. Needham, of au intelligent corres pondent, whose character we endorsed, and of a respectable minister and several esteemed colored pastors of that city, whose written statements Dr. Simmons had in his possession, that the acousations ot Mr. Seigfreid were untrue—without even the semblance of truth. Now, let the reader especially notice that Dr. Simmons docs not oall in question the competence or veracity of any of these witnesses, or tho genuineness of their tes timony. He does not deny that he had in his possession the written testimony of the respected colored pastors of Augusta, de nying the charges in Mr. Seigtried’s letter. He might suppose that the white witnesses were biased in their testimony ; but the colored pastors surely did not sympathize in the cruelties charged to be practiced on their race. They, at least, if biased wit nesses, are not biased against the views and mterests of Mr. Seigfried and his party. Now, if the concurrent testimony of those wituesses, white aud colored, is true, then Mr. Seigfriod’s charges were false. With what rebutting testimony! does Dr. SimraoDs meet this moro than three fold evidence ? Ho brings forward two anonymous witnesses to testify. The first says: "The picture of tho reign of terror, and the peril and the threatened aots of violence, as quoted from brother Seigfried, io the ‘ shooting down ’ article, was not overdrawn in its application to the colored people and their friends from tho North.” Let us examino this testimony. The witness is very cautiously endorsed by Dr. Simmons. He is a “Baptist ” —not a minister —who impressed the Doctor “as a man of great oandor and fairness.” It would seem that the Doctor knows but little about him ; but was favorably im pressed by his apparent sincerity and truth fulness. _ Tho witness was a stranger in that region, and, therefore, more liable to be deceived than the colored pastors re siding there. His testimony, too, is gene ral and indefinite. There was “ a reign of terror;” but just when, or where, or how produced, he does not state. Ilis testimony falls short of vindicating Mr. Seigtried. It contains nothing of the be loved pupil, shot through the head, back and bowels; ol his murderer going at large; and of the daily murders. Dr. Simmons introduces another witness —an “eminent brother,” who writes from Georgia. He "disagrees altogether,” the Doctor admits, “with the preoeding wit ness.” He does not wish, however, “to be understood as saying that Bro. Soig- Iried has made wilfully false statements.” This testimony is plain, and does not need to be analyzed. Now, to say the least, the Doctor’s witnesses neutralize their own testimony. Dr. Simmons very naturally felt that some reason should bo assigned for tho paucity of his witnesses, their unwilling ness that their names should be published, and the want of names, dates and places in their testimony. To meet this necessity, he furnishes a long extract from a letter purporting to bo from a Southern man, affirming that no Northern person, resid ing in the South, can publish anything in Northern papers, disparaging to the South, without great peril. The brave man is afraid to publish tho naked truth over his own name, lest his wife, who is a Southern woman, should never bo permit ted again to visit her friends. It, is diffi cult to reply to such a vague and gen eral statement. It is iucredible. A man may provoke the displeasure ol South ern people by writing unkind and false things about them ; but that he would incur any danger by a kind and candid statement of truth, we do not believe. Radical candidates, most of them Northern men, as ofieDsive to the white people of the South, with few exceptions, as can well be conocived, traverse their respective distriots throughout the South without guards, and, so far as we know, without fear, and make violent political speeches. If they utter their sentiments, without re straint and without fear, we do not teo why others may not publish, over their own names, what they know to be true. Admitting, however, all that this name less and timid witness affirms, still the question returns, Were the statements of Mr. Seigfreid true ? The readers of tho disoussion mav answer the quos'.ion for themselves. Wo are only sorrv that (he readers of the Examiner and Chronicle have been able to sec but one side of it. With one or two remarks, we will close our article. Os the multitude of scanda lous, sweeping charges, which we have seen since the war, in Northern papers, against Southern society, the Simmons- Seigfreid accusations are the first which we have been able to trace to their source. Os their falsehood all candid inquirers, we think, must be convinced. Whatever out rages may have occurred,at other times and in other places, in Augusta and in its vicin ity, at the date of these charges, there was nothing of which to complain. Now, it is reasonable to conclude that, could the other anonymous and defamatory charges have been investigated* they would have been found, in a vast majority of cases, to he mere fabrications, excited misrepresen tations, or, at most, partial accounts of contests, in which the blame was not wholly on the Southern side. One more remark : How important it is that the people, North and South, should deal candidly aDd fairly with one another. We are one nation ; descended from a common ancestry, speaking a common language, having a common and glorious heritage, and worshipping a common Father, and we can gain nothing by hold ing up one another to ridicule, contempt and scorn, or by magnifying one another’s faults. There are evils in every portion of the country to bo deplored and corrected. We do not deny the existence of outrages at the South. We lament aDd would gladly prevem them. What we maintain is, that these outbreaks have not been so numer ous or so great as excited travellers or political partisans have represented ; and so lar as they have really occurred, they have not been unprovoked attacks of Southern people on Northerners and f'reed men ; but conflicts, growing out of unset tled relations, in which the white natives, to say the least, were as much sinned against as they sinned. When it is con sidered to what a fearful process of “re construction”—misconstruction, wc would call it—we have been subjected, the won der is that there has boon so little excite ment aDd violence at the South. In conclusion, permit us to assure brother Simmons that we entertain toward him no unkind feeling. In an evil mo ment, he gave publicity to charges which he beheved to he true. Ho has erred, we think, in making his retraction of them conditional on the confession of their false hood by their author—an event not likely to occur. Atlanta and Richmond Air line Road. —A private letter from Habersham couDty, to a oitiaen of Augusta, states that there aro now upwards of two hundred hands at work on the Air-Line Road, within seven miles of Clarksville. It would appear that our citizens will soon havo the opportunity of going through Rabun Gap by way of Atlanta.— Augusta Chronicled: Sentinel. Os course, friend Chronicle, this very soon will be the nearest way !o Rabun Gap—so come aloDg. We will uot only give you transportation over this line, but will do a great, many other clever things for you when you do come. — Gainesville Air- Line Eagle- Thanks for the invitation. J.t will give us pleasure to stop by the wayside and re new a youthful pjoasuro in the enjoyment of the delightful atmosphere, sparkling waters aod charming scenery of Gaines ville. But wo can’t stay long. We must push on to Soruggj’, at Rabun Gap, to look again at the grand scenery of the Blue Ridge, with its tall mountains and beautiful cascades, and the beautiful valley of the Little Tennessee. The Chinese in Georgia. —The Ma con Telegraph announces that Rev. J. B. Hartwell, who married Miss Eliza Jewett, of that city, and was sent as a missionary to China several years ago, returned re cently, and is the guest of Mr. Jackson De Loache. Mr. Hartwell has brought with him a China man and woman, who, in that far off land, became, under his ministration, converts to Christianity. Mr. H. lost his wife in China, and these people are with him in the capaoity of nurses for his children. Montgomery, May 24.—J, J. Chap pell, a member of Congress from the Co lumbia (8. C.) District from the year 1812 to 1815, died yesterday on his plan tation, near this city, after a lingering ill ness. IjKTTKK FROM KLBKKTOU. Ei.i!RRTON, Ga., May 17th, 1871. Editors Chronicle Sentinel: Tho adjourned term of the Superior Court for Elbert county convened here on the 15th inst., Judge Andrews presiding. The liar is represented, mostly by visiting gentlemen from adjoining coun ties. 1 learn there are only a few eases of importance on the civil and criminal dockets, and the Court will likely close about Thursday or Friday. Planters report the crops quite back ward, owing to the severe weather, but they will doubtless he much revived and advanced if the genial sunshine of the last few days continues. The wheat crop of this section is more or less infested with rust, aud though confined to the blade, will seriously ell'ect the yield. I noticed several fields between here and Lexington of very fine promise, ami only ono that showed signs of the plague, but I suppose in bottom lauds it is much more common. One of the plagues among tho people, if it tie such, is the scarcity of money. Nearly every other man you meet says lie’s got none, and don’t know whore to get it, but hopes for better results from his labors the present year. The figures that told him ono awe in cottoß was worth three in corn, are no longer to bo relied upon, aud the financial ease aud comfort of those with full crib) and smoke-houses, will go far to correct the folly and stu pidity of tho former in tho future. El herton has mado great improvement in tho last twelve months. Several new stores have gone up, and others arc on the way. Tho Masons havo built them a hall which is quite an ornament to the town and an honor to tho fraternity. The trowel, hammer, and painter’s brush liavo given quite a lively and attractive air to the place, and really the spirit of progress and improvement is everywhere apparent. The people of this section arc deeply interested upon the subject of building the Augusta and Hartwell Railroad, and are a unit in their determination in this matter. From what I havo seen of tho country, and heard of portions above and beyond of the varied and abundant resources that can only be successfully developed by such a a enterprise—l should regard tins as ono of importance to the city of Augusta, and to all who desiro a safe and profitable in vestment of oapital. This road boiug in the direct channel of oommoroc, and form ing, as it would, such close connections be tween sections of country mutually de pendent upon each other, is obliged, sooner or later, to be built. B. The First Floor op the Season prom New Wheat.—The Augusta Mills and hie Granite MiLLS.--Through the gen erous rivalry of the principal flouring es tablishments of Augusta, in ondoavoring to be the first in market, with flour from new wheat, wo were favored, at an early hour Monday morning, with full samples of rho first new flour of the season. At half-past seven o’clock, or a few minutes after, Mr. John W. Clark, tho gentlemanly superintendent of tho Au gusta Flour Mills, of Messrs. John M. Clark & Cos., entered our office with a sack of their well-known brand—“ Gilt Edgo,” which was followed a short time alter by other saoks. This flour was ground from wheat grown by Mr. 11. F. Thomas, near this oity, and is nine days in advance of the first flour of last year. It was ground before six o’olook, a. m., yesterday, and several shipments woro mado during the day by Mossrs. Clark & Cos., to New York, St. Louis, Savannah and Charles ton. Messrs. Goorgo T. Jackson & Cos., of the Granite Mills, were but a few hours behind their competitors, and a samplo of their host flour, from now wheat hnrvcsted in Kiohmond county last Sat urday, was received about cloven o’clock, a. id. The few hours that clapsod be tween the receipt of the two brands makes it a very close race between these (wo en terprising establishments, and as they were both in the field with their new flour on the same day, and wilhin but a few hours of each other, they may, perhaps, be induced to share tho honors of the o<: • sasion ; otherwise, Mebsrs. Jno. M. Clatk & Cos. will bo cntitlodto the oredit of hav - ing in market the first flour of the season from new wheat. Fashion Notice.— Tho leading pat toms in pantaloon goods aro straight lined and ribbed oassimeres, and they arc munu facturod in full lines of drab, lavender aud gray. The faoc of tho goods is covered with a fine cloth finish, whioh, while giv ing a character to the make of the goods, imparts a brilliancy to tho various shades. Pantaloons this soason aro cut eloso fitting in the leg, with considerable spring at tho bottom. Among tho olass of goods suitable for suits and business suits, wo havo noticed anew Hootch stripe in all the shades of gray. The cheviots and Scotch twood, wo find in almost endless variety of patterns and colors. The oolors rango lrom the light gray and drab, and a dark shade of brown and olivo, with bright and striking colors intermixed, producing somo excel lent effects. Our task in describing the different vestings is an easy one, the varie ty and assortment being so significant as to allow the several styles being noticed in very few words. We have seen seme good patterns in plaid merinos, marseillos and corduroy vesta, and white linon duck re ceive general favor. Single breasted vosts, with throo or lour buttons, rolling oollar, are the prevailing stylo, although double breasted, with roll ing and coat collars arc, worn to some ex tent. Revision of the Freight Tariffs.— Our merchants were glad to receive, last week, the usual notification announcing, at this time, further reductions in the freight tariff regulating the charges foi transportation between Augusta and points Northwest of us. By the new rates we perceive that the rates of freight on baoon to Augusta has been reduoed per 100 lbs., from St. Louis and Cincinnati, to 90c ; from Louisville, 85c, and from Nashville, 800. We are glad to notico those efforts to promote direct trade and intercourse with the great distributing points of the West, and we look forward to a largo in crease in tho volume of Western trade, to the profit of the Goorgia Railroad and tho merchants of Augusta. The District Court.— Judge Harrell has recently rendered a decision on the District Court question, in which he takes the ground that the J udges and Attorneys have been legally appointed. He granted a mandamus against the Ordinary of one I of the counties in his circuit, compelling him to pay the salary of tho District At torney. Georgia Railroad Workshops.—Wo were sorry to learn, on yesterday, that busi ness has become so dull in the workshops of the Georgia Railroad, in this city, that the operatives—over two hundred—have been put on half time and half pay. The men, we understand, only work now from seven o’clock in the morning until twelve, and have had their wages cut down ona balf. Memorial Monument.—Wo direct at tention to the announcement of tho Geor gia Monumental Association, of a plan of subscription for the purposo of erecting a monument to the Confederate dead. The object in viow, the tempting prizes offered, and the names of the distinguished gentle men connected with, and inchargo of the enterprise, recommend it to the favorable consideration of our people. Disposed to lend a helping hand to so worthy an ob ject, they will appreciate the disposition of tho managers to give value received for all contributions. We do not deem it neoessary to more than call attention to this attractive scheme, to insuro for it the sympathies aod support of our citizens.— Wilmington Journal,
