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OLD SERIES—VOL. LXXVIII.
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«HOW HE XIC£B KM.’ -
The letter of Mr. Copeland, to the New
York Journal of Commerce , in this morn
ing’s issue of the Chronicle & Sentinel,
gives a detailed and truthful account of
the outrageous peculations of the Radical
Administration of llufu3 B- Bullock,
Blodgett & Cos.
THE CKNBI'S.
As yet wo have no official report of the
Federal census. We presume, however,
that the report will be in readiness by the.
next session for the use of Congress. The
next elections will tako place under the
apportionment to be made by Congress
upon the basis of the official census report,
anJ tti. pat.irtnmon* " a * mill
alter t’uo distribution of political power.
One of the greatest changes, it is con
ceded, will be the great increase in political
power to the West. Looking nearer
home, tho report will excite deep interest
as indicating the movements of our Afri
can citizens. Every one remarks that the
curront of Afro American citizens, true to
a great law of nature, is towards the bud.
This is the well settled opinion derived
from daily obsirvation. There has been,
of course, an exceptional movement to
wards larger cities and towns, but this
applies equally to both the white and
black population, and was not materially
tile general question relating to the blacks.
Tho receipt of the offijial figures will en
able us to measure the volume and mark
the direction which has taken place in
population throughout tho States.
I’KKSIDKMIAL.
A great movement to make Gen. Win
field S. il tnoock tho next Democratic can
didate for the Presidency is engineered in
St. Louis, under G. T. Glover, a leading
lawyer of the State ; ex-Senator Trustcn
Folk, Mr. Mantz, President of the Atlas
Insurance Company, and many others.
Hancock is exceedingly popular there,
where he married his accomplished wife,
and his genial manners have made him
hosts of friends. A number of conserva
tive Republicans iu St. Louis and the
State favor Hancock’s nomination, among
whom aro Senator Sehurz and ex-Sonator
HendcrsoD. Mr. Glover is a leading friend
of Hancock in the State, and a man of
great intellect. It is only recently that he
has turned his attention to politics. It
was be who mado tho reoeption speech
welcoming Senator Sohurz from Wash
ington ; and an allianoe between these two
menwvill securo the suoooss of the Han
cock tiekot in*Missouri.
Morton, of Indiana, is also a possible
candidate to succeed Grant. “Barkis wil
lin,” even though Barkis says Grant first,
last and all tho time. There is policy in
this. Os Grant, the Boston Transcript
(Rep.) says: “President Grant’s Adminis
“ tratiou has moro to fear from the syoo
" phantie fawning of camp followers than
“from any honest criticism of thoso who
“ aided in placing him in power.”
Logan considers himself the only man
in the Republican party capable of beat
ing tho Democracy, and is working like a
beaver to secure tho nomination of his
party. Poor old Greeley is moving heav
on and oarth to accomplish tho same ob
ject, but as yet has mado no headway with
tho Radicals. The moro politic and
hrewd Republicans aro backing Grant
against tho field, bciug well convinced that
Ulysses, with lus fifty thousand office-hold
ers, will absolute control of tho Re
publican National Convention.
CKO 1* I’ROHPKCrS.
The crop accounts, from all portions of
the South, agree in the statement that the
•orn crop is better than was ever known
before. Our own observation in the east
ern anil middle conutios of this State—
the heretofore great cotton growing re
gion—leads us to the conclusion that ail
abundance of corn will bo made for the
home supply—a cohdition of things which
has uot, within our memory, existed here
before.
A large area has been planted, and the
crop is better than we have ever known
it. This valuable cereal is now beyond
the danger of untoward seasons.. All
through this section tho corn, except that
grown on bottom land, and which seldom
suffers for want of moisture, is so far ma
tured as to be safe from excessive heat
and drought. With largo corn crops we
shall find no difficulty in raising meat.
We trust and believe that Georgia planters
are at last realizing the importance of
raising full supplies of previsions of all
kinds. On all sides and from every quar
ter wo hear of diligent efforts directed to
this important matter.
The cotton crop is backward and tho
stand defective. In some localities it lias
suffered materially from bad and imperfect
cultivation, and the grass has materially
injured the young plant. It is yet too
early to say with any degree of confidence
to what extent the crop will he short. The
diminished era planted, and the universal
bad “stands” must, under the most favor
able circumstances, make the crop less
than that of last year. Favorable weather
during this amt the next month may, how
ever, secure to the planter better results
than the prospjets just now seems to in
dicate. Cotton is a coquettish plant, and
we never know what it will do until it is
gathered and prepared for the market.
Munificent. —Among recent gifts to |
Princeton College have been $2,500 (rotn
Henry Clews, of Wall street, with which \
an organ has -been purchased for the !
chapel, and $117,000 from John C. Green,
a retired merchant of New York, for the I
erection of a library building,this sum being ,
in addition to SIOO,OOO previously received i
from the same giver.
We have no Greens at the South that
a * e able, however willing, to bestow such
munifieent dinations so worthily as to en
dow institutions for learning. But a
rightful appropriation of the Government
land donations ought to compensate meas
urably for their absence. We hope that
the appropriation for Georgia will be re
ligiously kept and sacredly used, so that
we may Lave an institution that will com
pare favorably with those of the North.
Col. E. H. Bottle, of Warrentou,
writes a long letter, republished in the
Clipper, in reply to false, scurilons and
malicious charges made by the notorious
Chap Norris, and published in the Geor
gia Republican. Chap Norris is notori
ously infamous, and charges coming from
him can injure the character of no one,
much less a gentleman of Col. Pottle’s
position in the State. We suggest to the
Colonel that “the game-he is pursuing is
not worth the candle.”
Mr. Bonner's horse Startle trotted half
a mile to saddle in 1.5} at Fleetwood Park,
Friday rftemoon. His stable oompanion,
Bruno, a four-year old, afterwards trotted
a mile to harness in 2.25}. He was driven
by Carl Barr, wEo weighs 2Q3 pounds.
1 NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD BUND
FROM A CARPET-BAGGER'S CARPET.
BAG. AND WHAT COME OF IT.
When the carpet-baggers and tbeir al
lies took possession of the so-called Rebel
States to achieve the loyal reconstruction
of their govermerits, to make them Re
publican in form, they found the Treasury
vaults of the States swept and garnered
by the bummers who hail preceded them.
Bat reconstruction was imperative, alike
to fill the carpet-bags of the loyal Repub
lican carpet-baggers, as to effect a recon
struction which would be loyal enough to
satisfy the cravings of a Republican Con
gress. Money being wanting, there yet
remained credit, and it was to State cred
its and corporation credits alone the car
pet-baggers and their aids and allies, tbe
scalawags —whom theloyal carpet-baggers
had inducted into pnwer, and the taxing
power which they usurped—that they look
ed to to replenish the empty coffers of the
respective State treasuries, and to fill their
empty carpet-bags. And right “ loyally ”
did they do their work. Ilut these 'mis
sionaries of Northern morals were not al
ways suffered to retain their spoils. Doubt
less the carpet-bagger’s principles were
fully understood by national patriotic
Congressmen, ft was right to spoil the
enemy, and the “war was not over,” was
the loyal Republican cry. Rut as between
the patriotic Congressman and loyal car
pet-bagger, the national representatives
laid down the principles that “ a fair di
vision was no robbery,” as cardinal amoDg
loyal knights,
“ Who would rob a hermit of bis weeds,
ilia few books or his beads,
Or maple dish,’’
Much more a State or a Railroad cor
poration of credits, that oould be vended
in the brokers’ market. These bonds be
came so plentiful in W asliington, acd so
desirable, as to lead one indiscreet carpet
bagger to declare that he carried Sen
ators in his breeches pocket. But it tarns
out at this late period that a loyal Radi
cal Congressman, with generous liberality,
franks a North Carolina Railroad bond to
his friend, a tailor, as a souvenicr of loyalty.
Tho facts, of this remarkablo case, as
elioted by judicial inquiry, are as follows :
Addison il. L-iflin, now a loyal represen
tative of the administration, as Naval
Offioer at the port of New York—cf Her
kimer, New York—formerly, and for sev
eral terms represented Herkimer District
in Congress as a loyal Republican. About
St. Valentine’s day, in February, 1870,
John Hartman, a tailor residing there,
received a letter, and upon opening it
found (hat it contained a bond of the
Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford
Railroad of North Carolina, of tho par
value of SI,OOO. Ho kept it for a time,
but considered it worthless, though sub
sequent inquiry revealed tho fact that it
had some value. Afterwards he sold it
to his son Douglass for SIOO. Tho rc
reocipt of tho bond by Hartman was gen
erally known, and much comment arose
from the fact that it was sont to him in an
envelope bearing Mr. Liflin’s frank. At
last Mr. Laflin heard of tho matter and
sent a demand for the bond, which was
refused. Laflin claims that he had re
ceived the bond for safe keeping from his
brother, Byron Laflin, who was one of the
oarpol-bag representatives in North Caro
lina.
Byron was gay and festive, as all loyal
missionaries of reconstruction are, except
duringsohool hours, whon a Visitor at some
benevolent Bureau Sohool of the nation’s
wards, or at a chosen God and morality
Mooting House, where grave decorum
was demanded. And Byron at Washing
ton, where the name and place mado tho
inspiration irresistible, and withal, “being
reasonable,” but “a mild sort of ayouth,”
had a “frolic” of such extent and dimen
sions that Addison, his careful lov'mg
brother, doomed it ncocssary to look after
him, and particularly necessary to take
from him a SI,OOO bond of the Wilming
ton, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad
Company, as ho now alleges for safe
keeping. How many more bonds of like
nature wero taken by the providential
naval officer from his “frolicking” brother,
Byron, docs not appear. Neither does it
appear that thcro was any reason why
this particular bond should ba enveloped,
and franked, and mailed jto John Hartman,
tailor, Herkimer, State of Now York,
postago free, under tho frank of gentlo
Addison Laflin, Representative in Cosn j
gress about St. Valentino's day. But
thero is little reason to doubt but prudent
Addison took from wayward Byron his
carpet bag, as every loyal brother would
do, and it is hardly possible that festive
Byron’s carpet-bag should contain only
one bond of the Charlotte, Wilming
ton and Rutherford Railroad Com
pany,* or else the sober, prudent, vir
tuous Addison would have been more care
ful to nurse the slender fortune of his
Byronic brother, carpet-bag representa
tive in the National Congress from the re
constructed State of North Carolina. The
inference is both natural and conclusive
that bonds of the Wilmington, Charlotte
aod Rutherford Railroad Company did so
abound in Byron’s cirpet-bag as to pro
voke but little solicitude, and that, in all
probability, Addison LrfliD, M. ,C., State
of New York, franked as Pub. Doc., to
John Hartman, tailor, Herkimer, State of
New York.on or about St. Valentine’s Day,
of the year 1870, this identical bond, as a
iving tribute of distinguished loyalty to the
knight of the goose, to show abundantly
what sort of a goose a loyal M. 0. pluoked.
Butthe tailor put but little value on a bojd
of the Wilmington, Charlotte and Ruther
ford Railroad Company ; but the tailor’s
I fortune “became noised abroad.” The
I gentle Addison, M. C-, hearing the re
port touching John Bartman’s receiving
the bond, franked Pub. Doc. by Ad
dison Laflin, M. C., demanded the
bond, and the demand being refused, sued
John Hartmau for its market value,
i Judgment was given for the plaintiff in
the sum of $756, the assessed value of the
bond. But Hartman being nulla bona,
| and the judgment worthless, the “wild,
| wayward,” festive carpet-bagger, Byron,
j instituted a criminal prosecution against
i the impecunious tailor of Herkimer ooun
ty for larceny; but the prosecution fails,
aod the tailor is acquitted. And now the
: tailor has indicted Addison—late loyal M.
C., now General Grant’s naval officer for
tho port of New York—for perjury, and
the grand jury has found a true bill.
Will any one knowing the whereabouts
of A. J. Fairfield (a hatter by trade), and
Mary, his wife, give the undersigned any
information they may have of the above
parties. The last heard from them they
were at Rome, Ga., aod left that place on
tbe evacuation ot the Confederate army.
It is supposed that the said Fairfield went
to Baltimore, Md., as that was his Bative
home. Will papers throughout the coun
try give publicity to the above, as it will
be a great blessing to the distressed chil
dren, who wish to learn the whereabouts
of their parents. Address, W.H. Collier,
Madison, Ga.— Madison Appeal.
Atlanta is getting steam well up on
the subject, of tbe Georgia Western Rail
road. A public meeting was held the
other night iu front of the Kimball House,
aad speeches were made by Cols. Adair,
Glenn, Capers and Campbell Wallace, the
newly elected President.
Plunge the lower end of a thermometer
into the gsound. If the mercury goes
much below 60° there is no use in putting
corn seed in. Corn planted as late as
June 10 will often overtake corn planted
May 10.
Tiie Last Railroad Horror.
DETAILS OF THE AFFAIR,
The fqllowing particulars of the Nash
ville and Northwestern Railroad accident
are taken from the Nashville Union and
American :
The accident occurred at the bridge
i over Uarpeth river, one mile the other
| side of Newsom’s station. As the engine
i and baggage car had reached the other
| aide of the river, the bridge sndilenly gave
way, and three coaches were precipitated
into the river.
The engine and tender had cleared the
bridge, the baggage car was nearly on a
balance, tbe hind tracks hanging unsup
ported over the break, but tt e tront and
body held it on the track. The smoking
car, which came next, went directly down
and was a complete wreck, appearing as
a disordered, broken mass. Next to this
came the ladies’ car, which plunged, front
end foremost, into the water, to the depth
of some seven feet, and stood nearly per
pendicnlar. The sleeping car, being last,
followed, end foremost, striking just at
the edge of the water, the rear end resting
against the bridge abutment above.
It was about half-past nine o’clock when
the accident occurred, an hour and ten
minutes after the train left the depot in
this city.
An inquisition, taken at the office of
R. IL Groomes, on Cherry street, on the
4th of July, 1871, before P. W. Brien,
Coroner Os the fo* tho county afore
said, duly commissioned and qualified ac
cording to law upon tbe view of the bodies
cf J. G. Hornbcrger, John Marshall,
Alexander Wright, Charles Campbell,
John E. Crockett, Wylie C. Howard.
William Crockett, Mrs. Charles Campbell
and child, Miss 11. Jor.es, of Ohio, and
Miss Emma Yeatman, then and there
lying dead; and upon the oaths of J. IS.
Daehiell, foreman, G. T. Thompson,
Thos. 8. Hays, J. F. Demoville, T. 0-
Morris, Hiram Vaughn and R. A.
Fraley; good and lawj'ul men of the coun
ty aforesaid, who bclDg sworn and charged
to enquire on the part said State, when,
where and after what manner the said
persons came to their deaths, they do aay
upon their oaths that having reviewed the
above bodies do agree unanimously that
the cause of their deaths was occasioned
by an acc dent on the Nashville and
Northwestern Railroad, by the giving
away of the bridge No. 7, across the
Harpeth river.
The verdict of the coroner’s jury gives
the names of the dead so far as is known,
but it is feared that others went down with
the wreek, and wero either drowned or
crushed beneath the debri.q of the suspend
ed train.
Among the names of the dead aro
Charles Campbell, his wife and child, of
Edgefield. Mr. Campbell was formerly
the well known member of the firm of
Campbell & Spire, wholesale dealers in
queensware and china ware. The circum
stances attending tbe death of Mr. Camp
bell aod his family are peculiarly distress
ing- He has been in bad health for over
a year. Early last spring he visited
Florida, where he remained several
months, Bnd returned to his home much
improved in health, but the warm weather
of the past weeks had weakened him con
siderably, and he had concluded to spend
the balance of the summer at Kingston
Springs. With his wife and child he left
on the ill-fated train, and tc-day a father,
mother, and a largo cirole of relatives,
mourn the untimely death of the husband,
while kindred also weep over the remains
of his beloved wife and child. Mr. Camp
bell was an enterprising and upright citi
zcd, and enjoyed the esteem of the com
munity at large. In connection with his
death, it is not inappropriate to say that
some years ago he retired from.business
for the purpose of studying for the min
istry, and close attention to his books no
doubt helped to create a disease which
was hurrying him to the grave. Truly do
wo sympathize with his family in a be
reavement so sad.
In addition to the name of Mrs. Camp
bell referred to above, Mrs; F- Dunn, men
tioned among tho killed was the wife of
Thos. M. Dunn.E-iq., of Kingston Springs,
formerly Sheriff of Cheatham county.
Mis. Emma Yeatman we formerly Miss
Moon, and the wife of Captain Wro. E.
YeatmaD, of Memphis. She and her
husband were en route for tho Springs to
see their parents. .
Wiley Howard who was among the
killed, was a resident of Chapel Hill,
Tonnes,see, and late a student of Cumber
land University. Ho was on his way to
seo his half-brother, B. F. Boyd, at Boll’s
Station, on that road.
■ John E. Crocket and his soon, William
Crockett, both of whom were residents of
Chapel Hill, Tennessee. The latter was a
clerk in the house of E- T. Williams, at
that place.
Mrs. Borns and child, ■ living near
Smith’s Station, two hundred yards be
yond the wreck, {for whose getting off
they had rung the car to stop, were among
the killed.
Mrs. Lynch, living near Newsom’s, w»3
killed outright.
Deputy Sheriff Pendergast, of Dixon
county, was killed.
Miss H. Ettic Jones, of Huntsville,Ala.,
in whose trunk a certificate was found,
signed by R. S. Rust, Cor. Sec. F. A. S.,
recommending her as a successful teacher,
bearing date June 26, 1871, was also
among the killed.
Wcgive below a list of the wounded,
which, however, is not believed to be full:
Thomas Waio, of tho firm of Wain &
Walker, hatters, of this city, very consid
erably bruised, but not dangerously hurt.
W. W. Ghee, brakoman, leg bmkoD. Miss
Sophronia Heard, of Trenton, Toon,, was
on her way home with lier cousin, J. W.
Scott, freight agent. Her head is badly
cut, besides having severe bruises, and it
is feared she is seriously injured internal
ly. She is cut on the forehead and badly
bruised all over, but is resting quietly.
She is at the Nicholson House, well cared
for, and will go to her relations, near Li
vergne. this evening.
Mr. Scott and Miss Heard were sitting
just to the right, of Mr. John Marshall, on
a seat opening both ways. When the
shock came he fell and they upon him.
He was uoarly suffocating and asked them
to get off him. Miss Heard told him she
was so fastened in the rubbish that she
could not move. He then told her he
knew she would get off if she could, and
be soon eeased to speak or breathe. Mr.
Crutcher, formerly of this place, and Mr-
Brown, of Johnsonville, wero both slightly
injured, but they went on the train to
Dickson county.
Capt. Wm. E. Yeatman was injured
considerably in the lungs, and his brother
Thomas Yeatman received injuries in the
spine. Both are at the Maxwell House
and being cared for.
V. Haile, Point Isabella, Indiana, is
mentioned among the wounded. His in
juries, however, are only slight,
. Thos. M. Dunn, husband of the lady
who was killed, was badly hurt in the
back, and received injuries which it is
thought may prove fatal.
John Campbell, ot this city, son of the
late Rev. John P. Campbell, . had his
head cat and leg considerably bruised.
Mr. Wilhoite, of this place, had his leg
broken. _
J. M. Thompson, of Amherst Court
House, Virginia, had his hip injured ai*d
was cut in the face.
Miss Clem Leake, of this oity, had her
arm and wrist fractured. .
W. Walker, cf Union City, had his jaw
broken. .
Tbe conductor of tho train, Mr. Landis,
hail his leg broken.
Two brothers named Pegram were also
wounded, bnt only slightly.
S. S. Brown, of this city, jaw broken
and internally injured.
Robert Daniel, Bedford county, arm
broken.
Conductor Davis had passed over the
bridge, No. 7, with train No. 4, at o
o’clock p. m., coming to Nasoville, and
passed safely, the bridge being regarded id
a sound and safe condition, bridge No.
7 was built four years ago, and is ot tbe
Howe truss pattern. The bridge beyom
it was torn away last year and retmil ,
but No. 7 was not deemed unsale and was
permitted to remain. Train bccS, to
which the accident occurred, lett Na»n
ville, bound west, at 8:20 p. m. Monday
evening. The train was composed oi
one baggage car, one second class car,
one first ladies coach and sleeping car,
and between fifty-five anil seventy-nye
I passengers. The train arrived at Reli-
I view, twelve miles from Nashville, at
I 9;10, on time, and dropped several pas
sengers. It proceeded two miles further
on to bridge No. 7, over Harpeth, and the
scene of the disaster, 14 miles from the
city. On reaching the bridge Conductor
R. L. Landis rang the bell to DOtily tbe
engineer that he had a passenger to let off
at Smith’s Mill, a flag station about fifty,
yards beyond the bridge. The speed of
the train was slackened at this signal, and
as soon as the the engine struck the
bridge, tbe engineer felt it giving way,
aftd soon the crash came. Had the train
been running at the usual full speed when
crossing, the conductor is of opinion that
it would have passed safety ; but running
AUGUSTA, GtA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1871.
: 3lowly, with a view to stopping it, it was
; precipitated below. The locomotive aDd
! baggage car passed safely. The lady who
was going to get off at the flag station
was among the killed. The train fell
a distance of 24 feet, there being ten
| feet of water below at the time. The
I ladies’ coach and the sleeping car jammed
j into each other, the other ear tumb
ling crosswise, the wreck falling in
the river in tbe shape of aT. The sceue
that followed beggars description. The
screams of the living, the frantic efforts
for life, tbe groans of the wounded, and
bleeding forms of the dead to be resaueu
i from the wreck, so recently full of hope
i and lusty life, presented a sa 1 and a sick
ening scene, the like of which has never
before been witnessed in this commupity.
Most of the killed must have bfen killed
outright, or have died in a few minutes af
ter tho crash. Mr. Landis, the conductor,
is badly hurt. A deep abrasion appears
across the temple penetrating to the bone,
and several inches in length. His leg is
also badly broken and badly shattered-
He is at the Commercial Hotel, and in a
fair way to recover.
The Paris Commune.
HEINRICH HEINE ON THE RULERS
OF THE FUTURE.
A HALF FULFILLED PROPHECY.
An illustration of the gift of prophetical
insight, which has been often attributed to
poets, is given by a very interesting ac
uouut by “R. G. ” in the current number
of the Ixmdrm Spectator, of certain antici
pations by Heine of tbe mad doings of the
Paris Commune. “It. G.” writes : it may
interest some people to know what Heine,
the most gifted' of recent Germans, on
whom, according to Mr. Mathew Arnold,
fell the cloak of Goethe, thought, felt
aud predicted on the Commune. His let
ters from Paris, written thirty years ago
to the Augsburger Allgemine Ze'tung
during his long expatriation, arenot, very
widely known in this country ; we accord
ingly translate the following extracts from
them :
PROPHETIC WORDS.
“ Had I lived in Rome in the time of
the Emperor Nero, and been correspon
pondent of tbe Bcetia Post, or of the un
official journal of Abilera, my colleagues
would have steered at my having nothing
to report on the State intrigues of the
Empress Dowager, for instance, at my not
even mentioning the grand dinners at
which the Jewish King Agrippa every
Saturday entertained the Diplomatic
Corps at Rome, and at my constantly
speaking ; and on tho other hand, of those
Galileans, of that obscure gang which,
consisting chiefly of slaves and old women,
dreamt away its vapid existence in visions
and struggles, and was repudiated even by
the Jews. My well-informed confrerers
would of a certainty have smiled particular
ly ironically if I had perhaps had nothing
better to relate to tbe CouU fete of Caesar,
at whiijh Lis Gracious Majesty himself
played the guitar, than that a few of these
Galileans were smeared with pitch and set
on fire, and thu3 illuminated the Golden
Palace. That was, iudeed, a very remavk
able illumination, and it was a cruel, thor
oughly Roman jest that the sc-ealled ob
scrui had to serve as light to the gala of
ancient voluptuousness. But the jest was
marred ; these human torches scattered
sparks at which the old Roman world,with
all its rotten splendor, burst into a slime ;
the number of this obscure gang became
legion. Caesar's legions, in their struggle
with it, had to lay down their arms, and
the whole Empire, by land and sea, now
belongs to tho Galileans. It is by no
means my intention here to relaose into
homiletioal considerations. I only wish
to show by au example in what a
triumphant manner the distant future
might justify the predictions with which
I have often spoken of a little congrega
tion that, very like the Peeks ia pressa of
the first century, is at present despised
and persecuted, but which is spreading a
propaganda with a warmth of faith and a
sinister spirit of destruction that also re
call the Galileans’ beginnings. I moan
the Commune, the only partv in France
worthy of earnest atteoiioD. The confes
sion that tho future belongs to the Com
mune, I make it in a tone of forctiudiug and
of the greatest anxiety, which is not,alas,by
any means, a mask. Truly, only with fear
and trembling can I think of the time when
these dark picture stormers shall attain
empire; with their horny hands they will
break up those marble statues so dear to
my heart; they will shatter all those fan
ciful playthings and gewgaws of art which
poets loved so much ; Jdiey will cut down
my laurel groves anil plant potatoes there;
the lilies, which neither spun nor toiled,
and yet were as gorgeously arrayed as
Solomon in all his glory, will be uprooted
from the soil of society, unless, forsooth,
they take a spindle in hand ; the roses,
tlioses lazy brides of the nightingales, will
incur the same fate; the nightingales,
useless songsters, wtll be expelled ; and,
ah! my ‘ Rook of Songs’ will serve the
grocer for paper bags to pour coffee or
snuff into for the old women of the future.
Nevertheless, I frankly acknowledge this
same Communism, that is opposed to all
my interests and inclinations, exercises a
spell on my soul from which I cannot free
myself; two voices in its favor rise in my
breast; two voices that will not be
silenced, which perhaps are, after all, only
diabolical instigations—but, be that as it
may, they master me, and no power of
exorcism can overcome them. For the
first of these voices is the voice of logic.
‘ The devil is a logician, ’ said Dante. A
horrible syllogism entangles me, and if I
cannot refute the proposition, ‘All men
men have a right to eat, ’ then I am forced
to submit to all its consequences. When
I reflect on this I run the risk of losing my
senses; I see all the demons of truth
daricing round me in triumph, and at last
the high-souied despair of my heart seizes
on me, and I cry out, ‘lt is tried and con
demned long since, this old society. Let
it have its due! Let this old world be
destroyed, in which Innocence was over
ridden, in which selfishness prospered so
famously, in which man was preyed upon
by man 1 Let them be utterly over
thrown, those whited sepulchres on which
falsehood and flagrant injustice sat en
throned !’ Aod blessed be the grocer who
will one day make bags out of my poetry
to pour coffee or snuff into for the good,
honest old women who, in our present un
just world, would have to go without these
loxuries. Fiat justitia pereas mundus !
The second of the commanding voices that
held me prisoner is still more powerful
and devilish than the first, for it is the
voice of hatred, of the hatred I bear to a
party, of whicht ha gieatest opponent is
Communism, and which, therefore, is a
common enemy of ours. I speak of the
National party in Germany, those false
patriots whose patriotism consists only in
a stupid aversion to foreigners and neigh
boring nations, and who daily pour out
their gall on France especially; all my
life long I have loathed and combated
them, and now that my sword is sinking
from the grasp of a dying man. I feel com
forted by the conviction that Communism,
which will find them the first thing in its
l ath, will give them the coup de grace ;
and by no blew with a club assuredly, but
I by a simple kick, the giant will crush
! them, as one crushes a wretched worm.
; That will be its first step. From hatred
ito the representatives of nationalism. I
| could almost feel affection for the Com
j munists. At all events, they are no
; hypocrites, with religion and Christianity
constantly on their lips ; the Communists,
in truth, have no religion (nobody is per
fect) ; the Communists are even atheists
(which certainly is a great sin), but they
acknowledge as chief dogma the most ab
solute cosmopolitism, a universal love for
all peoples, an equality of possessions, and
a brotherly relation of all men, the free
citizens of this earth. This fundamental
: doctrine is the same as the Gospel once
preached, so that, in spirit and in truth,
the Communists are far more Christian
than our so-called patriots, those narrow
minded eharapions of exclusive national
ism.”
IL THIERS.
Heine bits on the Vendome Column a3
the first victim to Communistic fury, and
speaks of M. Thiers in what seems almost
prophetic language: “The mind of M.
Thiers overtops every intelligence around
him, though there is more than one of
lofty stature among them. He is the
cleverest head in France, although it is re
ported he says so himself. He ean speak
from morning till midnight unwearicdly,
continually putting forth new, brilliant
thought, flames of intelligence, delighting,
instructing, dazzling the hearers; fire
works, so to speak, of eloquence. And yet
be conceives rather the material than the
| ideal requirements of mankind; be per
ceives not that last link by which earthly
phenomena are attached to heaven; he
I has no understanding for great social in
stitutions. In one of his recent speeches
he owned, with almost simple candor, how
little he trusted the immediate future, and
how every day was a respite. He has a
sharp ear, and already distinguishes the
howling of the wolf Fenri, announcing the
kingdom of Hela. Will despair at the in
evitable not some day suddenly impel him
to over-violent measures!” This, and
much more in the same strain, Heine wrote
in !84i*. Half of' what he foretold has
already happened ; the future must show
hov far he is right ic his maiD point, the
final triumph of the Socialist Party.
G eat Treasury Frauds.
Radicals Peaching on Each Other—
Serious Charges Against the Treaswy
Department—The 'Late Chief of the
Secret Service Department of the In
ttrnal Revenue Office Unfolds a Tale of
a Stupendous Fraud on the Govern
ment.
Washington, Jaly 4 —Considerable
sensation bas been produced bv the pub
lication, in the National RepubHcan, tho
Aaninistration organ in this ci!y, of
statement'* purporting to come from Col.
Clifford Thompson, who was recently
called upon to resign his position as Chief
of the Secret Service in the Internal
Revenue Bureau. The story is as fol
lows :
Saturday night the town was alive with
rumors that authentic information had
been given, coming, it was alledged, from
Colonel Clifford Thompson, who recently
resigned his position as Chief of the
Secret Service department of the Internal
Revenue effiee, to the effect that tho
animus exhibited in causing him to break .
his conneetion wth the Treasury Depart
ment was beenusi he knew too much of
certain transactions lately discovered, and
which would scent ta prove that recently
a stupendous fratd fwsslteen cimmiffed.
“ The matter, laid to have been hid be
fore the Secretary of the Treasury, was as
follows: Som« mouths since a man by
the name of Sione, formerly a distiller in
Brooklyn, received propositions from cer
tain parties in the Treasury Department
that they could furnish him a large quan
tity of genuine United States bonds at a
liberal discount, and that under the work
ings of tho Treasury Departmont there
would be no danger of discovery. After
some diplomacy, Stone became oonvinced
the propositions canid be carried out, and
proceeded to try »nd raise $20,000 cash.
For this $20,000 Gere was to be delivered
to him at Newark, New Jersey, where he
was to meet the other parties to the oper
ation, $60,000 in United States Bonds.
The bonds were taken to Newark, but
owing to delay in ribing the money, StoDe
did not oorne to time, and the bonds were
brought back. •
“A short time subsequently Stone sent
word he had fixed the question of cash
and to bring the bonds to Newark. They
were takeu there, and the money changed
hands. Subsequent tiansaotions followed
this one, under the agreement that so
much cash should ba paid down, and that
Stone should share the profits with the
parties furnishing the bonds.
“ After collecting a large number of the
bonds, Stone went to Quebec, and from
there sailed to Europe, where he is be
lieved to have put the hoods on the mar
ket in small quantities in tho different
European citiep. Stone carried to Europe
with him a young man by the name of
Sprague, who was his olerk while a distill
er, and who materially aided him in the
disposition of the bonds.
“ About the first of June Stone came
back to Quebec, where he divided about
$400,000 made in his now mode of nego
tiating a public loan. After this division
of spoils Stone resailed for Europe imme
diately, and is now in St. Petersburg.
“ In his first efforts to raise money
Stone communicated a portion of his pfaDs
to two or three parties from whom he at
tempted to borrow. Those individuals,
from fear or morality, declined to go in,
but kept an eye on Stone.
“The information received from Stone
was quietly imparted to one or two parties
in strictest confidence. Tho confidence
was so strict that it reachod the ear of
Col. Thompson, then chief the revenuo
detectives. He immediately told the whole
story to Gen. Pleasanton, and asked his
advice as to what to do. Pleasanton ad
vised him to go to Secretary Boutwelland
lay tho mattcr.before him, as such matters
were not within the jurisdiction nf tho In
ternal Revenue Bureau. Cel. Tnompson
laid the ease before Mr. Boutwell, and was
laughed at for his pains. Boutwell as
serted that such things oould not be in his
department. Oh 1 ’twas impossible, im-.
possible, sir. Thompson insisted that the
account came to him with such circumstan
tial correctness that he thought it ought
to be looked into; but if Mr. Boutwell
differed with him, it was none of his
(Thompson’s) business, and he would drop
it.
“ Subsequent to this Col. Cross and Mr.
VV hitney Frank, of New York, came down
here, accompanied by a New York lawyer
named Herbert, and told to Mr. Boutwell
substantially Thompson’s story, and of--
sered, if authority bo given them, logo to
Europe, oapturc Stone, and bring all the
parties to justice. Os course, they wanted
to be compensated, if they succeeded,
and so stated to Mr. Boutwell. The Sec
retary laughed at them, aS he had done at
Thompson, and they left without meeting
the hearty co-operation they expected.
“ During the discussion of the case by
Herbert, Cross aod Frank, one of them
suggested that possibly the* parties who
were abstracting these bonds were substi
tuting counterfeits for them, so as not to
alter the size of the packages. As soon as
Cross and Frank left, the Secretary ap
pointed, as the public is aware, a commit
tee of three from bis office to examine the
bonds, purchased and undestroyed, to see
it they could find any counterfeits amQng
them. This committee reported that
there was not a single counterfeit bond
among tho seventy millions examined.
This examination was to make the minds
of the people easy if a report should get
out that the bonds purchased by Mr.
Boutwell and kepi in the Treasury unde
stroyed were being stolen and counterfeits
substituted.
“ This iB the whole story as related to
Mr. Boutwell, aud whether be will take
any action on it remains to be seen.”
The New Cancer Cure.
A SUPPLY EXPECTED IN AUGUST—HOW IT
IS OBTAINED.
[ Prom the N. Y. Tribune ].
No discovery in the medical world could
be received with greater rejoicing—a cure
for consumption, perhaps, excepted—than
the new cancer remedy ; lor while cancers
arc less frequently met with than con
sumption, they present a certain,, linger
ing death in its most awful form, and they
are hereditary. It is not surprising then
that the announcement of a cure should
call out innumerable applications for the
cundurango. The steamer Ocean Queen,
which arrived at thi3 port from Aspinwall
Saturday, brought intelligence that a large
supply of the plant may be expected in
the Aspinwall steamers due here on the
Ist and lath o*'August.
About three months ago the State De
partment at Washington received a few
pounds of the cundurango from the Gov
ernment of Ecuador, through its Minister
to this country, with a communication de
scribing if. But little importance was at
tached to the matter at first, and it might
have been neglected altogether, had not
Dr. Bliss been given a small quantity of
the plant by the Ecuadorian Minister,
who happened to be under his care.
I hough skeptical as to its virtues, he be
gan to use it in his practice, and obtained
such surprising results that the limited
supply of the remedy in Wasbiugfon was
soon divided among eager applicants.
About fifteen cases of cancer have been
treated with it in this coumry, and in all
I its use has been attended by a wonderful
improvement of the patient, though the
I necessarily small doses given have been
I insufficient to produce its full effects.
I Mrs. Matthews, the mother of Vice-Presi
dent Colfax, has been nearly cured of a
cancer which it was feared would end her
life within the year, although she had
i taken less than five ounces of the cundu
j rango when the supply gave out. The
I wife of George C. Gorham. Secretary of
1 the Senate, and a lady in Utica, to whom
| some of the remedy was sent by Secretary
I Fish, are among the other sufferers whom
Ia few ounces have nearly cured. The
mode of administering the plant is very
i simple, it being merely steeped in boiliDg
water, and the infusion taken internal'y.
As the news of the discovery gained cir
culation, a great number ot applications
for the remedy were sent to Washington
from all parts of the country, twenty or
! thirty letters a day being received by Dr.
; Bliss, and an equal number by the State
| Department. Many persons, refusing to
1 believe that the supply was exhausted,
went themselves to Washington from dis
tant points, in the fruitless effort to ob
tain the precious drug. Dr. Bliss, when
convinced that the cundurango was a spe
cific for eancer, sent an order few 500
pounds of it to a business house iu Guay
aquil- He soon learned, however, that,
as it was not an article of commerce, it
was impossible to obtain it by ordinary
commercial methods- He therefore dis
patched his partner, Dr. Keene, as an
agent to procure a supply. To facilitate
his mission. Dr. Keene was given an offi
cial character by an appointment as bearer
of dispatches to the Government of Ecua-
dor, and was supplied with letters of
recommendation by President Grant, Mr.
Uolfax, Mr. Fish, and otbei prominent
persons.
He writes that the task of obtaining the
cnndarau<?o is more difficult than was ex
pected. she road** to the Loja district
are rough gnd unfrequented, the rainy
season is- not yet over, the streams are
swollen, and dangerous to cross; and the
Indians are disposed to throw every ob
stacle in the way of foreigners, of whom
they are deeply jealous anil suspicious.
However, when he wrote he was on the
point of starting for the interior, and was
confident of procuring a supply of the
cundurango in season for it to reach this
port early in August. On arriving in the
Loja district he will hire a force of Indians
to gather the plant, aud bring it down
from the mountains where it grows at
points so high as to be inacessible to
beasts of bunlen. It will then bo packed
on mules, aud transported to the coast.
Dr. Keene found that orders for cundu
rango had been received at Guayaquil from
persons in England, France, Italy and
other countries, to the Governments ot
which the Government of Ecuador had
furnished samples. None of these orders
had been filled. Ex-Governor L. L.
Gibbes, of Idaho, sailed from this port for
Ecuador last week, Dr. Bliss having en
gaged his services in aid of those ot Dr.
Keene.
National Issues— Letter of Hon,
John Quincy Adams.
Somo short time since, Mr. J. T. Treze
vant, editor of the Augusta (Ark.) Bulletin,
wrote a letter to Hon.' John Quincy Ad
ams, of Massachusetts, upon political mat
ters; expressing, among other things, the
apprehension that', as. he puts it, “with
Grant’s vast patronage, most unscrupu
lously used, he would not yield the Presi
dential chair, even if defeated before the
people in 1872; and that our Republic,
like its predecessors of old, is so rapidly
drifting into the channels of corruption,
the people in despair may look to one mil
itary leader as the only means of saving
them from the utter ruin threatened by
another.” This was the general scope of
the letter, to which the following is a re
ply, dated at Quincy, Mass., June 5,1871:
Dear Sir— l cannot pass over, silently,
a letter which gratifies me as much as
yours, which I receive 1 to-day.; and yeti
feel shy of speaking to you or any citizen
of the “subject States.” I dislike to earn
the retort—“Oh, it is very easy to preach;
but suffer as We have, and then tell us
how you feel, and we will listen.” Ido
try to take it' home to myself; and Ido
not doubt that, under similar circtuns
stauces, I should be to-day an “unrepent
ant rebel”—sore, angry, beaten and defi
ant. And with me it would doubtless be
as it has been with you, that “the tender
mercies of reconstruction had been harder
to bear than all the horrors of invasive
war.” I should have been galled by mis
government, robbed by imported knavery
of the pittance which the war had spared ;
exasperated by willful and persistent mis
representation, and cruelly condemned to
hopeless impotence for the imputed.guilt
ot cowardly crimes I abhorred. I should
have been condemned, too, to hold my per- -
siJnal liberty at tile nod of a mercenary
carpet-bagger or the whim of a military
satrap.
I say that I fear I should have been an
“ irreconcilable.” In such a ease. I think
I should be sulky; but I know I should be
silly if I yielded to tho feeling. For,
whence must my relief come if my last
estate is to become worse than the
first? Is there a man outside an asylum
who thinks that by suoh a course the
“ lost cause ” can bo regained ? By whom,
then ? If by the North, believe me that
the experiment of secession has satisfied
us that no cause is worth a civil war.
That war has confirmed, beyond a shadow
of a turning, tho destiny which decreed
that there shall be but one confederated
people of the North Anerican Union. No.
Rebellious I might be ; but weak enough
to await the resurrection of secession I do
not think I could be. You and I, and
your friends and neighbors and mine, are
of one blood ; we were once “ fellow citi
zens;” and tho old-time kindness • mmt
linger yet in spots. Our fathers were
“ brethren,” and that must count for
something. The whole political problem
of the future toms upon the answer to tho
question, “Shall wo live together as
friends or enemies?” Now, tho whole in
ternt.l policy of tho present administration
says war. Reconstruction meant war, and
the Ku-Klux bill declared war. •
This Union is now held together by force.
Certainly, if this is to be permanent, it
would have been better to have parted at
first. If the struggle to cast out slavery
overthrow .the Constitution, what chance
is there for a “free” government, if the
North is to rule the South ? South Caro
lina is to-day the most shameless parody
on republican institutions since republican
Rome bestrode all the nations ofjtho an
cient world, put the sword to iheirthroats,
stripped them bare, and then lacked words
to laud the loveliness of liberty. You can
not bo subject, aod we be long free. The
untrammelled exercise of local self-govern
ment by tbe people of the States is tho
salt which preserves our whole system.
Take that away, and our frame of polity
will rapidly rot into despotism. There
fore it is that, not as a partisan, but whol
ly as a fellow-citizen, I trust that all the
good citizens of the seceded States will
frankly and honesty acoept tho revolution
ary changes which have been forced upon
the Constitution, and with them cheerlully
adopt the new relations of amity and po
litical and civil equality towards the eman
cipated olass which these changes involve.
And therefore lam glad when I see the
noble spirit of your letter pervading the
aouthern people as it does, despite the
malignity of a partisan press, while the
sterling sense of Mr. Vallandigham has
reformed the Northern Democracy. And
it matters not what man may be chosen to
lead us so long as his heart is large enough
to hold his whole country, his soul brave
enough to embraoe a Confederate as a
brother, and his platform wide enough for
every American citizen to stand upon. To
compass this end something of sacrifice is
required of us all; much of self-control is
demanded of the South. You and all I
hear assure me that the attempt will be
made; and if made honestly and in earn
est, iit cannot fail. Again thanking you
for your letter, 1 am. &0.,
J. Q. Adams.
A Man Mistakes his Wife for a Burg
lar and Cuts iier to Pieces with- a
Bowie Knife.— A gentleman from the
neighborhood of Grimes county, some five
miles from Navasota, where the sad
dest occurrence which we believe we
have ever recorded took place, on last
Saturday night, gives some particulars ad
ditional to those which have already been
published. We refer to the accidental
killing of his wife by Briggs Goodrich, a
kind husband, as we learn, and a sober,
industrious and respected citizen.
There were, it seems, several robbers in
the house, and Mrs. Goodrich hearing
them, had aroused her husband, and he
(not being able to find his pistol) had ta
ken a bowie knife and was in pursuit of
the thieves. He had struck at one of
them, and another hail passed him inside
of the house, aDd beseems to have has
tened outside and around to the wiudow
of his own bed-room, which he knew to
be hoisted, with the expectation of inter
cepting the escape of some of the burglars.
It is said that chloroform had been used
by tbe thieves, bat not sufficiently to pro
duce stupefaction. Y’et it is likely that
the feeling of faintness caused by the in
halation of the chloroform induced Mrs.
Goodrich to rise from the bed where she
had been left by her husband, and go to
the window for air. There-she was found
by her excited husband, and, as the night
was so dark that he could discern only
the outlines of the figure, he .naturally
imagined he saw one of the robbers about
to pass out through the window. Then
came blows, bearing all that tbe hmnan
mind can conceive of the terrible—blow**
by which a husband took the life of his
own wife with the knife. We learn that
he is distracted, and cannot be trusted
alone, but is guarded constantly to pre
vent the commission of suicide. Mrs.
Goodrich is represented as a very accom
plished and noble woman, Lnd it is said
that she died with words of sympathy for
her unfortunate husband upon her lips.
In the utter consternation and desolation
which followed the terrible tragedy, we
are informed that the only child of the
marriage, which is still almost an infant,
was seen pillowed upon the slain mother’s
breast, begging her to awake and grant it
an evidence ot recognition. Houston
{Terns) Union. .*
The Massachusetts Temperance Alliance
is doing a great work (on paper) by send
ing its ageDts among infant schools, where
in over 4,000 little boys and girls have
been persnaded or frightened into signing
a pledge to abstain from stimulants here
after.
The Journal of Commerce Commission
at the isouth.
Letter No. 14.
[Correspondence of the Journal of Oom
. weree.]
Atlanta, June 23, 1871.
I have not yet soon much of Ailanta-
But I have seen enough to convince me
that the city of Atlania has a8 much ‘.‘vim”
in it as any inlaud Southern city I have
yet visited. I presume that fact arises
from several causes. But prominent, aud
in fact supremely great among the causes
is that this is the hub, not tbe hub of the
universe, as they' say Boston is, but the
hub of the South, audits spokes are rail
roads which pomt to each corner of tho
oontmcDt. To speak of Atlanta as a city
it would probably be better first to learn
mere about it; so I dismiss it for the
present to speak of
TIIE VINANCES OF GEORGIA.
This is the capital of' the State, and
here the Governor lives and the Legisla
ture meets. The taxes flow to this cen
tre, and the money is paid out here. Men
who steal, steal bore. As to tho great
question of finances, only the ridiculous
aspect is presented here. Tho finances
are the taxes, and they aro absorbed by
the politicians.
It will be remembered that tho Ku-
Klux Committee requested the Executive
of each State to forward answers to cer
tain questions touching their debt, taxa
tion, election laws, ifee. In response to
that request tho Treasurer of the State of
Georgia forwarded information, of whioh
1 will make a brief abstract.
Governor Bullock had printod in New
York and sont here State bonds amount
ing to $6,000,000. $4,000,000 gold, and
$2,000,000 curronoy, $500,000 of the cur
rency bonds were canceled in Ne.w York
and returned hero. He also had printed
$2,760,000 State gold bonds under the act
of 1870 granting subsidy to tho Brunswick
and Albany Railroad Company. About
$5,000,000 of all these bonds were sent to
New York iu January last. In addition
to this, large amount of bonds have been
promised “in aid” of railroads.
The indebtedness of the State at the
commencement of the war was $2,114,500;
at the close of (he war it was the same,
with tbe addition of accumulated interest
of about $60U,000. The $3,900,000 issued
in 1866 was to fund the matured State
bonds and interest, and to put the Slate
Railroad in repair. A further amount cf
$600,000 of Stato bonds was issued in
1868, but not used .by the Governor until
last year. These with tho bonds previous
ly issued made the legitimate bonded debt
of the State in January, 1850, $6,544,500.
To this must be added, but
which may not yet be all
sold, the new gold State
bonds ...$ 4,000,000
Currency bonds sent to New
York • 1,500,000
State gold bonds under act
granting aid to the Bruns
wick and Albany Railroad. 2,760,000
$14,804,500
At a very low estimate we will
place the bonds endorsed
as -subsidy to build new or
repair old railroads, already
made necessary or issued at 5,923,000
Total... $20,727,000
I do not much like the looks of the ac
counts of the State of Georgia. They sug
gest broken promises. Hero I find bonds
due and unpaid, matured in 1859, 1862,
1803,1804, 1865, 1868, 1869,1870, amount
ing to about $170,000, witii a prospect of
its being increased during 1871 by .bonds
maturing this year, amounting to $150,-
000. In 1808, sterling bonds held in Eu
rope, amountyig to £15,000, and £3,000
interest, became due. They have uot been
paid. •
that awful railroad job.
During the year 1870, the Legislature
granted State aid, or what we would call
in the North, subsidy, to railroads, which
bear enumeration, for it may be of inter
est to those who desire investing in the
stocks. The aid granted was as follows:
Albany and Columbus Railroad, $12,-
000 per mile.
Albany. Mobile and New Oilcans Rail
road, $12,000 per mile.
Americas and Florence Railroad, $12,-
000 per mile.
Atnericus and Hawkinsville Railroad,
$12,000 per mile.
Amerieusand Isabella Railroad, $12,-
000 per mile.
Athens and Clayton Railroad, $15,000
per mile.
Atlanta and Bluo Ridge Railroad, $15,-
000 per mile.
Atlanta and Lookout Railroad, $15,000
per 8 miles.
Augusta and Hartwell Railroad, $15,-
000 per mile.
Brunswick and Albany Railroad, SB,OOO
additional per mile. *-
Camilla and Cuthbcrt Railroad, $12,000
per mile.
Chattahoochee Railroad, $12,000 per
mile. •
Columbus and Atlanta Air-Line Rail
road, $12,000 per mile.
Dalton an'd Morganton Railroad, sls
- per mile.
Fort Valley and Hawkinsville Railroad,
$12,000 per mile.
Georgia S‘aboard and Northwestern
Railroad, $12,000 per mile.
Grand Trunk Railroad,sl2,ooo per mile.
Great Southern Railroad, $12,000 per
mile. .
Griffin, Monticello and Madison Rail
road, $15,000 per mile-
Lookout Mountain Railroad, $15,000
per mile.
Macon and Brunswick Railroad, $3,000
additional per mile-
Marietta, Canton and Ellijay Railroad,
$15,000 per mile.
McDonough Western Railroad, $12,000
per mile.
Memphis Branch Railroad, $15,000 per
mile.
Newnan and Americus Railroad, $15,-
000 per mile.
North and South Railroad, $12,000 per
mile.
North Georgia and North Carolina Rail
road, $12,000 per mile-
Oomulgoe and North Georgia Railroad,
$15,000 per mile.
Polk Slate Quarry Railroad, $15,000 per
mile-
Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama
Railroad, $12,000 per mile.
South Georgia aud Florida Railroad,
$12,000 per mile.
St. Mary’s and Western Railroad, $15,-
000 per mile.
There you have thirty-two railroads,
whose bonds aro endorsed by the State
Legislature- Tney cover a distanco of
more thaa 2,000 miles, and amount iu
value of endorsement to probably $35,-
000,000. True, tho State guarantees the
bonds only in an anticipatory sense, but
with the inducements held out in amounts
of subsidy, it is reasonable to believe that
every dollar granted will be applied for.
THE OEY IS BEI'UDIATION 1
It will be noted that this extravagance
in subsidizing railroads was started in an
extra session of the Legislature, held after
its legally adjourned day—(he last session
hell here. In order to make the beat of
it a law was passed adjourning the session
over till next fall, so that the old Legisla
ture might get the pickings, and the Dew
one, which is Dc-mocra'ie, might not
assemb'e to undo what that Legislature did.
A great cry has been raised through
Georgia about repudiation. By that they
mean repudiation ol tho subsidy bonds.
Many gentlemen of financial note protest
ed against a direct repudiation, believing
it would be misunderstood, and damage
the credit of the State. So they made up
a case for the Supreme Court of the State,
on certain points, 3nd it will be tested
when tbe Court meets about two weeks
irom tc-day. The points arc like this:
First—The Constitution Jof the State
provides that the second session of a Leg
islature must adjourn on the fortieth day
after its {meeting, unless a vote of two
thirds nf both Houses shall extend the
time. Qacstion —Was the necessary two
! thirds vote secured ? Plaintiffs say it was
not, and that the body was organized in
violation of law.
Second—ls the body was illegally in
session, are not its acts illegal ? It re
quires no reasoning to answer that ques
tion. The decision of the first point will
govern the secoud.
It would, therefore, be a good thing for
those who think of investing in the rail
roads named, in expectation of tbe subsi
dies, to wait a few days aod be governed
by the Supreme Court decision. My
oninioD, based on good grounds, ft) that
tho Court will decide that all thcacts ol
the session during which they were grant
ed were unconstitutional.
GOVERNOR BULLOCK AND HIS ECONOMY.
Gov. Bullock lives in the best private
residence in Atlanta. The Legislature
paid SIOO,OOO of State funds for it. Gov.
Bullock is not as economical as he might
be. Witness a comparison of expenses
QDder his administration and those of his
predecessors. The Bnllock legislature,
from its organization in July, 1868, to
NEW SERIES—VOL. XXIV. NO. 29.
January, 1871, cost for its expenses over
$1,000,000 cash. From 1855 to 1862 (seven
years) the en ire cost was $866,000. Last
year the legislative expenses were greater
than for any five years before the war.
The clerk hire expenses last year were
$82,000, being two clerks for each three
members of the Legislature. The legisla
tive clerk hire from 1860 to 1863 was only
$48,000, and part of -that was paid in
Confederate money. The cost of the en
tire Legislature, clerks anil all, in 1862,
was only $62,849. In 1870 the cost was
sixteen times that amount.
Governor Bullock’s incidental expenses
amounted, up to November last, to
$23,800; those of his nreileoessor to $350
for fifteen months. Governor Bullock’s
extra printing to November last looted up
$76,000. llis predecessor got along a year
with $1,070 for that purpose. Among
other expenses of tho present Govornor
are: $34,000 attorney’s fees for work the
Attorney-General should bavo performed;
$40,000 for executive clerks, fully four
times what tho law allows, or has been
customary at any time; $300,000 for
special services to his predecessor’s $7,412,
or in the ratio of forty to one. He hired
Mr. Conley to make an analysis of tbe
State Constitution, and took 10,000
copies at $1 15 oaeb. They afe worth
probably 20 or possibly 25 oents each
at retail. The Stato Road—tho Western
and Atlantio—paid to thq State last year
$45,000, but at the end of the year it was
found that it aocuinulatcd a fliating debt
of $700,000, and tho Stato was obliged, to
assume it. There must bavo baen elegant
pickings for somebody in that transaction,
because it is well known that tho road,
well equipped as it is, does a business that
pays handsomely. Bofuro the war it paid
a very largo portion of all the State ex
pense-. As the Congressional Ku-Klux
Committee does not pay mo for unoartb
ing these evidences agaiust tho real Georgia
Ku-Kluxes, 1 propose to stop. Every one
seems to be talking of them, but l get my
data from tho books, uud there are plenty
more where I left off.
THE LAST KU-KLUX OUTRAGE
was the reoent offer by Governor Bullock
of largo rewards for tho arrest and de
livery (not oonviotion), of allegod Ku-
Kluxos. Three days ailer bo issued his
proclamation 1m commenced drawing war
rants on tho Siato Treasurer, amounting
to $1,500 each.
It would seem by this that Governor
Bullock wants to raise a Ku-Klux Klau of
his own, for the purpose of creating bogus
outrages in order to secure tho offered re
wards. This is the only organized Ku-
Klux Klau in the State of Georgia.
THE CHIPPEWA CHIEFTAIN’S STRATEGY.
The pooplo all through tho Stato of
Georgia express considerable dissatisfac
tion at the manner in whioh the Slate
Road was leased. It appears that Senator
Cameron, known in Pennsylvania as tho
Chippewa Chieftain, Secrctaiy Delano and
others, determined to lease the State Road
if they oould. They appealed to tho Leg
islature, honestly of course, as Mr. Came
ron does to the Pennsylvania Legislature,
and had a bill passed as they dictated ic.
The bill was do framed that the securities
to be fuanished could not be provided by
any other party, and no matter who
should bid against them they would
get the road at their own price. The
bids were opened and the road was
leased to Cameron & Cos. for a term
of twenty years for the sum of $25,000 per
month. Security for $8,000,000 was given
that the road should ho returned in as
vood condition as when tho lessees took it.
But tho shrewd Senator from Loohicl had
the contract so worded that no penal sum
attaches m case of failure to perform the
contract. Tho security is not held liablo
for payment of tho rents', and by some
adroit provision, which requires its delivory
over to the State in certain contingencies,
it is made optional whether the lesseos
keep the road one month or twenty years.
Therefore Messrs. Cameron & Cos. are
simply trying an experiment.
The complaint is that even in this trans
action, out of whioh tho people ol' Geor
gia expected so much good, the Legisla
ture oould not act without duplicity. It is
not probable, however, that any man in
tholStato would dosiro tho oontraet an
nulled. Tho road has beou so corruptly
managed of late years that any lease of it
is preferable to the State’s possession.
POST OFFICE ANNOYANCES.
Yestorday, having only two throe cent
postage stamps on hand, 1 placed them on
a letter .to the Journal of Commerce anil
sent it to the post office. After the evening
mail had gone the letter was returned
(the hotel envelope having identified the
sender), marked in two places “Hold for
postage, ” postmarked, and tho stamps
canceled. In another place it was marked
“ Due 3 cents. ”
Now it is a well known fact that the
law reads as follows; “ All letters deposit
ed for mailing, paid only in part, shall he
forwarded to destination, charged with
the unpaid rate, to bo collected on deliv
ery. ” The regulations of the postmaster-
General then define a “ rato” to he three
cents, anil say any letter must ho forward
ed if prepaid by three cents. I called on
the Postmaster of Atlanta, aud he says he
does that thrng every time n letter is not
folly prepaid, if he cun find the party send
ing it, hut If not he lets it go forward. It
is surprising that the postmaster, who is
a very intelligent man, should not know
better. I argued the point with him a
long time, hut he would not be convinced
otherwise than that the practice adopted
by him is sustained by law and regulation,
and by custom in all post offices of the
United States. W. P. O,
Hints bn Cunning Fruit.
The season when fruit will be plenty is
fast approaching, aud those housekeepers
who have seen how much their canned
fruit was enjoyed the last winter, will bo
making calculations to put up a largo sup
ply tbe present summer. There is noth
ing healthier, and really hardly anything
cheaper than canned fruit.
It may seem unnessary to thoso who
are already adepts at the art to write
any'biog on this subject; but T ean assure
such that there aro hundreds of bushels of
fruit spoiled every year in this town
alone.
A lady not long since was telling me
that last fall she put up three baskets of
a9 handsome peaches as were ever gath
ered, and every bottle was spoiled. I
constantly hear tho ladies talking about
their spoiled fruit. There is another re
mark I often hear, and which seems ab
surd to me, “ My fruit always whitemolds,
and I think it improves it.” Thero is a
thick, leathery white mold, which often
forms on tbe top of the fruit, and which
can bo removed whole without affecting,
apparently,, the flavor ol (he fruit ; but it
is not desirable to have even this sort of
mold. It would be out of the question to
send such bottles to a long distance, as the
mold would be spread all over the fruit, if
it did not impart any unpleasant flavor.
There is such a thing as having bottled
fruit without any mold whatever. I
think the reason white mold forms is that
the lid of the can is not applied soon
enough, and many ladies consider this as
part of tho process. Only yesterday a
friend told mo that she always waited
three or four minutes after the fruit was
in tho bottle before she put on the lid.
“It lets out the air,” she said. 1 looked
surprised. “You know there are always
bubb'es of air to come up.” “Oh, yes!”
I said, “ I know ; but always run a knife
quickly down the inside, and that brings
them up.” The quicker the lid is applied
the better, and it should not bo disturbed
UDtil you wane to use tho fruit.
In regard to the air-bubbles, which often
form while the bottle is filling,a little care
will obviate the and fficulty. In putting the
fruit into the bottle, do uot pour it in such
a way as to olose the whole mouth of the
bottle, because that prevents the escape
ot the air; but rather let the fruit slide
gently down the side of tho bottle. Itcao
be done just as quickiy this way as the
other.
The secret of having bottled fruit keep
is, to have a perfectly air-tight cover, and
to be sure that the fruit perfectly boils all
throughout, before putting it into tbe
bottles, and then to be quick about putting
on the cover, and letting the cover alone
until you want to use the contents of the
bottle.
It is not necessary to let out the steam
or air after the cover is on. Do not plaoe
a string under the rubber for this purpose.
Do not insert a pen knife under tho rubber
(according to some directions) to let out
air (I know a lady that learned this lesson
after her peaches bad all fermented). It
is not ueoessary to bury the bottles in tho
earth, or to havo a dark vault made in the
cellar for tbe. purpose. Mine keep per
fectly, without mold, on a shelf in a rather
light cellar. It you bottle your fruit in
the right way, it will keep almost any
where but by the stove. If you don’t do
it right, and let in tho air with a knife or
some other way, it won’t keep, no matter
where you put it. Qf oourse, if you have
not done it right, it will keep longer in a
dark, cold place, but it will suooumb to the
atmosphere in the end. Bottled fruit, put
np in a proper manner, will keep lor
years, if desired. I had some splendid
peaches at a friend’s tho other evening,
aod she said she did uot know whether
thoy wero two or three years old. But
she knew they wore not last year’s, (or she
did not put up any, as .she had used up all
her empty bottles for ohcrrios, plums,
raspberries, etc , and as sho had several
bottles of peaches on hand, she did not
think it necessary to buy more bottles for
a fresh supply.
Prospects of tlie (tot ton and Corn
Crops.
From the Journal of Commerce.
Meridian, Miss., July 2, 1871.—Hero
1 am, at the eastern end ot the State of
Mississippi, having penetrated tho cotton
belt from the Atlantic ooean, through
South Carolina. Georgia and Alabama to
Mississippi, and had the best opportuni
ties for judging the condition of the crops.
The rolling lands will, it the season is now
favorable, mako a seveh-eighths to a lull
crop of the planted staples, except where
through negligence the grass has been
allowed to got too far ahead. That is the
fault of the planter, in tho lowlands it
depends entirely upon the drainage. In
some spots tho too frequent and very
heavy falls of rain have drowned tho
plants, and in others the grass has got too
far ahead of the crop. But the planters
aro becoming soared, and both whites and
blacks are now working the plantations
with probably more energy than they ever
worked in their lives before. They have
an idea that the crop will be very short,
and that they will roacive splendid prices
tor ail they save. Mauy afield that would
have been abandoned last year in its pres
ent condition is being cleaned, and will
yield a good crop, unless somo groat draw
back ocours. Last your cotton was cheap,
there was an immense yield, and a con
siderable amount of it was wastod on the
plantations and never counted in the
actual yiold. This year every scrap will
bo saved and baled. My cstiuiato, based
on reports from every section of every
Stale through which I have passed, and
Mississippi, will dcvialo somewhat from
Mr. Oapron’s. Tho clearest ostimate of
aereago in cotton will average 15 per coni,
less for tho whole South, which would take
15 per oent. from the crop of last year if
the yield wero the same. That would givo
as the estimated full yield about 3.600,000
bales. Tho host ostiuiatc that oan be made
now is that tho whole orop will, with oareful
culture and favorable woatbor, and no un
expected reverses, lose one-fourth of a
crop. That would still givo 2,700,000
bales, and with tho savings and twistings
and energy that will be displayed to mako
the most out of it, it is reasonable to ex
peot that tho yield will bo about 3,000,-
000 bales. As matters look now tlie re
sult to producers will be that many a
planter will be ruined, white mauy will
make fortunes on this year’s orop. But
the average result will probably ho to
bring more pro tit to the planter than he
has experienced sinco the war, unless
some great and unexpected misfortune de
stroys tho crop. 1 have seen somo most
excellent Holds of cotton—as good as wero
raised last year up to this time. Then
again there aro some sorry looking cotton
fields iu low places. But every man,
woman ami child is now at work, plow
ing, hoeing, pulling up grass, and using
determined endeavors to savo the crop.
These efforts cannot fail to have a good
effect.
The corn crops is almost a failure in tho
average lowlands, and in somo it will only
be good to feed, stalk and ear, to cattle.
Still in the uplands thoy have promise of
.a pretty decent crop, and, on tho whole,
the average will probably be a little less
than will he needed for homo supply. By
shipping from good to poor crop localities
much freight expense will ho saved .on
corn, and in that way corn will bo cheaper
South-after this crop than for many years
before, counting, of course, on a yield
based upon present indications. A good
season from now may help it considerably,
or a bad one ruin it. Mauy pluntors have
good corn and had cotton, and nice verta.
A good many reports from hero must
bo taken with a grain of allowance. They
oome from despondent planters, Now
your farmer, the world over, is a consti
tutional growler. Bui your plamor iu
the Gulf States has got so disoouragod by
talking of tho misfortunes ho suffered dur
ing ami growing out of tho war that ho
believes thero ih no hope lor him politi
cally or materially, and that even Provi
denoe has desorted him and the planters
as a class. They got together and talk
gloomily till they boliove th# worst. Why,
no less than five planters have talked to
mo in tho deepest earuostuess about an
anticipated inroad of tho boll-worm on
ootton, and I venture a belief that not one of
them has seen a boll-worm this year or
the remotest indication of tho probable
appearance of that infliction.
These statements are, of course, founded
on indications, and while’l believo they
represent tho exact condition of affairs
now, I would not, if. J wore a speculator,
invest a cent on these or anybody’s figures
as to the probablo yield, for the reason
that somo favorable or unfuvorablo cir
cumstances might change the predicted
result three or lour hundred thousand
bales either way. W. P. C.
The Alleged Ku-Klux Outrages.—
The Aetes says the prisoners confined in
Chatham county jail on Saturday after
noon, to answer the charges preferred
against them as engaged in the late Ku-
Klux outrages in Washington oounty,
whose oases were commenced ou Saturday
and continued until Monday morning, in
order to allow them timo to produce tho
necessary witnesses in their dofenso, wore
brought into tho United States Courtroom
at 11 o’clock. Additional counsel—Hon.
Ilufus E. Lester, of our city, and Col.
Beverly B. Evans, of Sandersville—wore
present to aid in the defense. A number
of witnesses, citizens of Washington, wore
present to testily in behalf of the pris
oners.
Counsel made a motion for a severance,
which was overruled by tho Court.
After the examination of all the wit
nesses, by request of counsel, the prison
ers were each permitted to make their
statement to Court, which they proceeded
to do, showing where they were, on tho
night of June 17th.
At the conclusion of the testimony
Court took a recess until 8 J o'clock in the
afternoon, at which time the argnmeut
was opened by Oupt. George A. Mercer
for the defenso. Ho argued the points in
volved in the case for some time, and then
took a lengthy pn<l Very close examination
into the testimony, showing a nuin -
her of inconsistent and contradictory
statements on the part of the witnesses
for the Btate. His argument was
able, terse and conclusive, lie was fol
lowed by Mr. Lester, who devoted his
attention particularly to tho constitutional
provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment,
and the aot of Congress approved April
20th, 1871, to enforce the provisions of
the Fourteenth Amendment to tho Con
sdtution of the United States, and for
other purposes, showing that there was
do intention on tho part of Congress to
legislate on tho private rights of individ
uals in the States, and that oven
if the charges set forth in the warrants
wero established beyond a doubt against
the parties accused, that none of thoir
private rights, as guaranteed to thorn by
the Constitution, were infringed. In
short, that it was in substance no more
than an aot of assault and battery, for
which the parties had their romodies.
Mr. Lester mado a very lengthy argu
ment upon these points, which he sus
tained in an able and masterly manner,
showing much familiarity with tho- consti
tutional question. Ho then sifted tho
evidence as his colleague, C'apt. Mercer,
had done, and finished bis argument. Tho
case was concluded by the argnment of
Col. B. B. Kvans, of Handersville, who
took a general review of tbo law and tho
evidence, making a very able and interest
ing defense for his clients.
After tho arguments of eounnrl the
Court consulted a short time, and linally
the prisoner;) were diseharged, and all re
turned to their homes in Washington
county by the train last night. Thus
ended the Ku-Kiux outragos in Wash
ington, county, on tho night of .June 174 b,
at least so far as those citizens aro con
cerned- ,
Tho oynocophalus*, that gentlemanly
equestrian of Lent's circus, having booonio
tired of a pubiio life, retired into privacy
the other day, and Ilia friends have been
unable to find him.
Three Texan women wero rooently shot
whilo robbing a house. One of them,
while dying, said : “My father forced mo
to steal for him before I was ton years old,
and God surely will not punish mo for a
father’s crime.”
A conductor who was recently discharged
from ono of the city railroads told a friend,
confidentially/ that whon he was thus em
ployed, he never took home loss than $7 a
day. He said that it ho had been paid pi
or 15 he wouldn’t have fallen $7. Kail
road companies may take the hint.—Ai
Y. Timt.