Newspaper Page Text
OLD SERIES—VOL. LXXVIII.
llii'amclc t£ Sentinel.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
DAILYi
One month —«• ** fI 00
Throe months ” 50
(Jno year *0 00
XUI-WKIiKLY.
One year ~ $ 0 00
f-ii months 3 50
'Jhreemonth 2 00
WEKKJLY.
Three months ♦ 1 00
Si i months 1 60
One year 3 00
wiMii*Ai ■oi.fixe, Avstn u.
THE POLITICAL BlTlll ION.
Nkwkkrn, Newton Cos., Ga., J
August Bth, 1671. )
Elitors Chronicle it Sentinel:
I notice in the Chronicle 4 Sentinel,
of the 2d inst., a letter over the signature
of M. C. Kerr, purporting to be taken
from the Philadelphia Aye, and commend
ed by you as a “ very able letter on the
political situation.” This letter appears
to contain, in detail, the political views of
the Democratic party at the North, and
your commendation of these views argues
that they are the political sentiments of
the South, consequently we have in this
letter, and your commendation together, a
joint and harmonious concesdon of the
political views of the Democracy of the
United States.
This Is an important matter, as It re
duces the varied sentiments of the whole
party to a unit, and brings their views in
bold relief to the gaze and comment of all
who desire to see or respond to them.
After commenting on the “ vicious policy”
of those in power, and giving a catalogue
of the real or imaginary wrongs, of which
they have been guilty, the writer sums
up the doctrines of the party in the follow
ing terse way. They accept in good faith
the Pith, 14th and 15tli amendments to
the Constitution, in proof of which they
sustain:
1. The perpetual abolition of slavery.
2. The counting of all ex slaves instead
of three-fifths only, in making a basis for
the apportionment of representation in
Congress,
3. The equulity of civil rights to citizens
of all races and colors.
4. The inviolable character of the Fed
eral public debt.
5. Thcpcrpitual invalidity of all the
Confederate debts.
0. The sacrcdncss of pensions and boun
ties.
7. The disqualification of certain persons
to hold office unless relieved therefrom by
Congress.
S The equality of all citizens in political
rights and privileges, including suffrage.
9. And certain inhibitions on the States,
ar.d negativo guarantees, chiefly declara
tory in more specific terms of the pre
existing law of the land.
From what wc understand of the
matter, this ii, almost verbatim, tho
doctrines of tho Republican party ;
and if these arc the Democratic doc
trines North und South, and of the
Radicals wherever found, why not unite
and put an end at onoo to tho villainous
partisan strife, so long continued, so
potent, in mischiof, and so disgraceful to
an enlightened age and a ptofessionally
civilized people ? We ask for information,
and would he glad for a response through
your paper.
You know, and all sensible people know,
I hat whilst good and wise men may honestly
differ in opinion on almost auy subject,
yet party ism is purely the work of dema
gogues, gotten up for their own special
benefit, and for nothing else, and that the
oommon people arc the tools with which
they work to carry out their plans.
Most respectfully, yours, M. S.
Remarks.— Our correspondent orra in
stating that the Chronicle & Sentinel
approved the views of Mr. Kerr, expressed
in a letter to Hor. Jeremiah S. Black, of
Pennsylvania, and published in these
columns some weeks since. Mr. Kerr ac
cepts all of the amendments bayonetted
to tho Constitution by Radical Congrosscs,
among which aro tho infamous 14th and
15th amendments. Tho pooplo of the South
do not and will not accept theso amend
ments as Qualities. They will, however,
continue to obey them until repealed. Tne
13tli amendment was ratified by the Legis
lature of Georgia, and .wo accept it as a
finality—as setting at rest forever, so far
as tho Stato of Georgia is concerned, the
question of slavery. Our poopb da not
want tho institution re-established. They
would not if they could, because they are
satisfied that in tho ond it will bo more
conducive to tho development of their re
sources, and tho growth aDd increase of
the State, both in wealth and population.
Noither the representatives of the peo
ple, nor tho pooplo themselves, have
or will approve the iourtcenth and fif
teenth amendments, bocauso they be.
liovc the measures in violation oi the let
ter and spirit of tho Constitution, and de
structive ot the liberties of the people and
that freedom of action in tho enactment of
laws and the rxcroiso of authority so
vitally ossential to the well-being of the
States in their sovereign oharacter.
Whenever the people of the South and
tho North return to the Jeffersonian
principles upon which tho Government
was administered in the better days of the
republic, theso illegal enactments, which
we obey for the time being, hut do not
accept or approve, will bo repoaled and
erased from the statute books of the
oountry.
The Chronicle & Sentinel is of the
opinion that the bast interests of our
oiato and people will bo promoted by at
tending to homo affairs. The laborer,
farmer, manufacturer, mechanic and
merchant and professional man, who at
tend to their privato interests, will be
better off at the end of the year than those
who spend their tima in idle and useless j
discussions of national polities. Lit us !
take care of our home government and I
see what we can do to advance onr j
material prosperity. There is abundant
time ahead to devote to a campaign
which will be fought on Northern soil and
between parties recently united in the oon~
quest of the South, but now arrayed
against one another in battlo for political
supremacy. We do not propose to tram
mel the action of that party at the North
whom we believo and know to bo friendly
to the South ; and while wo do not ap
prove cf tho “New Departure,” we do not
intend to enter the lists and wage a fierce
warfare against our friends aud the only
party in the North that wo ean ever hope j
to do justieo to the South and the South
ern people. Wc have no heart tor such a ,
fight; but if any of our cotemporarics |
South Lave, we purpose to leave the mat- ;
ter in their hands. They will, we fear, i
prove powerful allies of the Radical party. ]
We have enough to do in Georgia to take
care of and purify our own State Govern
ment. To this end cur efforts will be di
rected when the proper time comes —about
the ides of November.
lien, lirnat and the South.
L The Southern correspondent of the New
H'ork Journal of Commerce has written to
journal from Washington, under date
the Sth instant, the following interest
account of an
WITH PRESIDENT GRANT.
Understanding from General Babcock
that the President would be glad to have
a talk with me about Southern matters,
jour correspondent embraced an opportu
nity to step into the tanctum sanctorum of
the W bite House and indulge in an inter
view. A remarkable improvement in the
President’s health is apparent at the first
Bl &n cc- t He is much 6touter than usual,
and looks well. Our conversation at first
was a mere matter of explanation of af
fairs in the Southern States from the stand
point on which I based general conclusions
as to the material, social and political con
dition ot the different States, as shown in
letters sent you from the States themselves,
together with the business and political
prospects in those States. The President
listened attentively, and interposed many
questions. He seemed particularly anx
ious to know what the people there thought
of his appointees in the custom houses
and post offioes and other. Government po
sitions. Ho was answered that the gener
al complaint against his officers is on po
litical grounds, and that the chief dissatis
faction at the South is with State and
county officials. The course of the South
ern people toward Government officials is
generally determined by the honesty and
capacity shown by the incumbents. Asa
general thing Government officers get along
well with the people, and many of them
are highly respected. The men again t
whom the people of the South generally
show a vindictive spirit are men who are
dishonest at home in the North, and are
now thieves at the South, conducting their
nefarious schemes under the shield of offi
cial position, as Republican?, and as Re
publicans only, because they thereby man
age to use the negro votes to elect them to
office.
WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID.
i The President admitted a belief that
i there are many very bid men in office in
I the South claiming to be Republicans,
but who would Lc anything in the
political line that would further their
bid designs, and are not therefore
chargeable to the account of the Re
publican parlv as a great political or
gan zation. lie believes a large number
of Ku-Khix outrages have been commit
ted, hut ihat the gradual advance of a
better feeiiDg throughout the South, be
sides the moral effect of the passage of
the Ku-IClux bifl, has stopped Ku-Klux
ism and outlawry to a very great extcDt.
He did not propose, in making appoint
ments, tc consult politicians in the South
who vote egainst tho Republican party
any more ti.an he would ic the North.
Ihit ho urcu <ictermined to give them honest
ounU (Jo'm , nrnent T jffvcieJn, und
he would talce it an a favor when men, of
any shade of politics discover dishonesty or
incompetency on the part of his appointees
to acquaint him with the fact. YVell
authenticatcd complaints from any quarter
would receive cireful attention. He had
removed all objectionable men from tho
New Orleans Custom House, aod ho be
lieved he had a good set of officials there
now. Ho regarded the condition of the
South generally as improving.
Row Shall wk Make Augusta Grow?
—No resident of Augusta has failed to no
tice how few new buildidgs have been
erected in the city since the termination
of the war. While the wealth of the city
has increased in other species of property,
there has been but little increase in the
quantity of real estate. High taxes and
the high price of lands, combined witli the
scarcity of money, have prevented many,
who now rent each year, from building
houses of their own. Hundreds of me
chanics and laboring ineu who desire to
build are kept back by the high figures and
easli prices of the real estate owners.
Until something is done in thi direction,
the prosperity of the town rests on a very
insecure basis, one which will soon give
way. In other towns, when a mnn of
moderate means manages to save a little
money, he purchases a lot, and on it builds
a home for himself and his family. In
Augusta, the man with a little spare cash
prefers to rent a home, and puts his funds
in a bond or a few shares of stock. In this
manner Augusta has become the largest
and best stock and bond market in the
South, outside of New Orleans, and the
poorest real estate market, now to rem
edy this state of affairs; how to give
building a stimulus ; how to induce hun
dreds of limited means to take their money
out of securities and put it in homes for
their wives and children ; liow to induce
strangers to come here and settle, and
thus add to the wealth and solid prosperi
ty of the city, are questions in the solu
tion of which Augusta and her citizens
aro greatly interested.
We are glad to bo able to announce to
our readers this morning that we have in
formation of a scheme which will accom
plish, if any measure will, the result so
earnestly desired, we learn mat, at me
next regular meeting of the City Council,
an ordinance will be introduced on this
subject, and wo give below a brief synop
sis of the proposed law :
The ordinance provides that the City
Engincor shall make an accurate survey
of that large and useless tract of land, the
Parade Ground, and all of tho “ town
oommons ” owned by the city of Augusta
and tho Trustees of Richmond Academy ;
that tho land so surveyed shall be laid out
into streets and blocks uuiform with the
rest of tho city. jj)hc blocks aro then to
bo divided into building lots of suitable
dimensions. When this has been done
the city will dispose of every alternate lot
upon the following conditions ; Any per
son who wishes to purchase a lot shall
rnako application, an 1 the city will ap
point a board of appraisers, who shall
ascertain the value of tho property. Tho
applicant may then take tho lot, paying
for it by annual installments in ten years
from tho date of purchase, upon condition
that within twelve months time he shall
ereot a substantial store or dwolling house
on the promises, scoure the city by mort
gage, and pay legal interest on the pur
chase money. None of the lots will be
sold to speculators to hold, but only to
bona fide settlers, who will improve the
property.
From this outline the reader may see
the nature of the plan to be proposed.
We think that it is a good one, the best
that could be devised, and that it will ad
mirably answer the purpose for which it
is intended. Every laboring man in the
city—clerks, mechanics aud professional
men, for every worker in the hive belongs
to this class—who can save a few dollars
will bo enabled to build him a home and
pay lor the ground at the rate of a few
dollars per annum ; the city will increase
rapidly in area and population—for a law
of this kind would bring many settlers
from abroad ; the wealth of the city and
its taxable property would be largely
augmented, and an impetus be given
building which will not stop when the
city lots shall be exhausted.
The owners ofland adjaoent to the city,
when they witness tho success of the plan,
would bo induced to inaugurate a similar
movement, which would be attended with
similar results, and in ten years time
Augusta would be a city of fifty thousand
inhabitants. Asa home for skilled
mechanics and iudustrous men from
abroad, she would be able to offer advan
tages which could not be found elsewhere.
With the oanal enlarged and water power
enough to drive a hundred cotton factories
and machine shops, with numerous rail- !
; roads aud a trade daily increasing in size : |
; and, to crown ail, with a lot for every mao !
who wished to build a home, wc might
safely expect large numbers from the
North and Europe to east their lot with
us. And besides the advantages which
j the city would derive directly from such
; a scheme in the way of increased tax is,
; etc., as well as the numerous indirect
benefits which would arise from such a
policy, there would also be the revenue
I springing from the rale of the alternate
; lots which will be reserved. In a very
short time, so soon as purchasers were
1 found for the other lots, their value would
be greatly enhanced and would continue
! to enhance as the new territory was built
l a p and improved. The city would be
greatly the gainer by the operation.
If tho ordinance is introduced, as we are
informed it will be, we hope that it will re
ceive the careful attention and, ultimately,
the hearty approval of the members of the
City Council. Let not the work ot im
provement stop with the enlargement of
the canal. Let us hope that this is only
the first of a series of “ internal improve
ment measures” which will make our city
the moat prosperous in the South. Let
land be furnished every man who is able
and willing to build, and our word for it,
we will soon have plenty of houses and
plenty of people to live in them.
Paris, August 16, night.—lt is rumor
ed that the Right wing of the Assembly
offered the Presidency of France to Duke
D'Aumale, and that he refused it.
BUte Agricultural Society.
FOURTH DAY’S PROCEEDINGS.
NIGHT SESSION, THIRD DAT.
I l SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OP THE CHRON
ICLE A SENTINEL. ]
Rome, Ga., August 11, 1871.
A practical address on the impoitanee
of manufacturing interests was delivered
by Col. Steadman, of Newton, last night.
He referred to the Augusta Factory to
prove the profits arising from manufac
tures ; dissented from the view that the
planting was the only money making in
terest h. this section of our country ; in
stanced Maine, whose area, swamps ex
cluded, is equal to that of Georgia, and
showed that »here Georgia obtained
1200,000,000 from cotton, Maine had
realized over $600,000,000 from her four
hundred odd factories ; implored the peo
ple to bestow more attention upon manu
facturing enterprises.
In connection with the above mention
of the points most prominent in the
Colonel’s address, I may say that quite
an enthusiasm has boon awakened in the
minds of a number of farmers in Berrien,
and adjoining counties in our State, on the
subject of manufactures.
FOITRTU DAir’a MGUMNU HBOOIUIt.
The Convaatiao met at 8J o’clock.
Journal read and approved.
Resolution in reference to law compell
ing owners of stock to pen the same was,
after prolonged discussion, indefinitely
postponed.
The Convention thanked railroads for
courtesies extended.
Colonel W. O. Tuggle, of LaGrange,
Chairman of the Committee on Digestion
of County Crop Reports, reported that it
was advisable to refer the same to the
Secretary for condensation and classifica
tion. Reference made.
The reports show that the crop of this
year will not exceed five-fifths of the crop
of 1870; corn crop the same; one-fourth
guano used this year as last. Greater at
tention is being paid to manufactures,
stock improvement, home-made fertilizers
and the raising provisions enough for all
uses. More money is invested in manu
facturing enterprises. Farmers are acting
with great prudence—inte-change of views
among them constant and profitable.
The thanks of the Society were, on mo
tion of Colonel T. N. Howard, returned to
the citizens of Rome for hospitalities ex
tended.
A happily conceived and carefully pre
pared paper on the “Cultivation of the
Grasses” was read by Dr. T. B. James, of
Greene county. The Doctor exhibited
some very fine specimens of clover, which
yields five tons per acre.
Col. Yancey, of Clarke, offered a resolu
tion of thanks, and requested a copy of
the address lor publication. Adopted.
Goveruor Brown had listened with
pleasure and profit to tho addrese. He
waß rejoiced at the Doctor’s success ; it de
monstrated the fact, in whose behalf he
had long battled, that in this section of
Georgia clover can he successfully culti
vated ; believed it would even lower down
than tho county of Greene; tho yield on
the Doctor’s farm was as gratifying as it
was astonishing; tho Governor’s best crop
had only reached three tons to the acre ;
that was the average Western yield, too ;
tho necessity, therefore, is proven not to
exist for Georgians turning to tho West
lor every blade of grass given to their
mules and horses ; 33,000 bales of hay,
costing $200,000, had passed oyer tho
Western and Atlantic Railroad from Jan
uary to July of this year, coming from the
West; its clover crop is likely to prove
better and more profitable than that of
cotton.
Col. Ashton, of DeKalb, said 27,000
mules were sold in Atlanta alone last year.
The Governor said he had experimented
on his Gordon county farm in raising
mules ; be was succeeding admirably, and
at no expense ; he could see no reason why
we should not raiso our own horses and
mutes.
The Governor, in response to tho dc
mands of the Society, continued to speak
at length and instructively.
Col. Yancey, of Clarke, endorsed the
views of Dr. J. He had given attention
to the cultivation of clover; found that
tho freights were too high for a man to
hope to realize any profits from the salo,
if shipments had to be made to distant
poirtp. He hoped tho President of the
\V. & A. Railroad would use his influence
to bring about a reduction in the freights.
Col- D. Wyatt Aiken, of South Caroli
na, addressed tho Society by special invi
tation. He is a versatile and vigorous
speaker; has a most wonderful store of
useful information always at liis bidding.
He entertained the Society for quite a
length of time, relating his experience and
recounting the success which had crowned
his efforts. On grass culture, stock raising,
farm management, etc., otc., ad infinitum,
ho was home, and spoko with great fluen
cy.
A committee was charged with the duty
of trying to have tho “labor contract” law
so amended by the next Legislature as to
guard more fully the interests ot all con
tracting parties.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Dr. A. Means enchained the Convention
in a short and characteristic speech on fer
tilzers.
Capt, E. T. Davi?, of Thomas ocunty,
offered the following resolution, which was
adopted:
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
C svention that the next General Assem
bly should pass a law adding to the tax
digest suoh columns as will make up a
complete census of the acreage of the
various products planted in the State, and
the commercial fertilizers used by our
people to completo the information upon
this question, and thus often save them
from the preying and peoulation of specu
lators.
The selection of the place where the
next semi-annual meeting of the Society
shall be held was left to the Executive
Committee, with power to act.
Judge Dupont, oi Florida, addressed the
Convention on immigration. His county
had induced a number of Swedes to im
migrate thither. The Swedes nre a moral
and a very temperate people. Oao Swede
is equal in work to two negroes. They
readily become acquainted with our lan
guage. The expenses incurred in landing
a Swede in Florida amount to $75. The
Judge hoped the Southern States would
unite in inviting to our sunny land a de
sirable cla?8 of immigrants.
Col. Chambers, of Columbus, did not
agree with those who hoped so much from
immigration. He had not lost confidence
in the negro ; bo knew his ways and
capacity ; had experience in their man
agement ; thought they were the laborers
for the cotton field. He desired to see the
negro elevated and Christianized; believed
in making white men and negroes stand
up to the contracts into which they enter.
Colonel Yancey spoke also. He related
his experience with Germans whom he
had employed.
The discussion was continued.
The Committee on “ State Agricultural
Journal” reported adversely to the estab
lishment of a separate journal, but rec
ommended that the Executive Committee
be authorized to accept the otfer of the
Farm and Home , of Macon, and the Plan
tation, of Atlauta. as the official organs of
the Society. Laid on the table.
A resolution expressing a de«ire that
j the revenue tax on distillation ot fruit be
removed, was voted down; because (as
Col. Alston suggested) it is better that the
tax remain than that the fruit be distilled
into whisky.
i Convention holds adjourned meeting m
: City Hall at Macon, Tuesday night, Octo
-1 ber 24th, prox., at 71 o’clock, at which
; time the land scrip question will again
; come up.
RESUME— THE SOCIETT’S TROUBLE.
Societies are like men: they all have
j thorns in their sides. The thorn in the
i side of the Georgia Agricultural Society is
a too great desire od the pait of a number
j of the members to talk, and do naught
t else but talk- There are men in the So
] ciety, at least were present at this meet
i ipg, who seem to be chronically affected
with a most provoking attack of cacaothes
loquendu They are always ready to say
something, appropriate or not. When
they have been happily delivered, one may
truthfully exclaim, on beholding the bant
i ling : J lontes parturient nascitur redicuhu
i mus I What a pity that men who have
nothing to say cannot hold their peace.
This has been (declamation left out) one
of the most interesting conventions ever
held by the agriculturists of Georgia. Let
the order of exercises be somewhat
changed, and subsequent meetings will be
eTen more successful. Arrange the busi
ness for the first days, transact that,
and then a day or two will remain, during
whioh the speakists oan orate to their
hearts’ oontent.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23, 1871.
I have seen veiy little of Rome—hence
can venfuro-no description of her. I have
not seen any of her beautifal daughters ;
therefore, I can tell you Dothing of them.
Os the m wspaper men. I must say
something—Mr. Dwinall, of the Courier,
impressed me favorably—though I chanced
to see bat very little of him —as being an
exceedingly clever and accomplished gen
tleman.
Mr. W. S. Grady, of the youthful pro
prietors of the Commercial, met mo
shortly after reaching the Hotel and ex
tended me such a fraternal greeting that I
felt thereafter at home. The editors are
Mr. Henry W- Grady and Col. Shankling,
two of the sprightliest, most brilliant and
skillful newspaper mcD in the country. I
found Mr. Theodore Milton, formerly of
Augusta, in the Commercial office, Ailing
with credit to himself and bn old home
the position of travelieg agent for the
Commercial, which is by odds the livest
paper in North Georgia.
I shall bear in mind, with emotions of
great pleasure, the kindly manner I was
dealt with by the above named gentlemen.
The meetings of the press gang at the
Commercial office were cccaJons of great
mirth and flow of soul, led off by the
geDial G.-adys, the i .imitable Srnnk
ling, the generous Milton, and followed by
the good humored Speights, Hubner, of
the visiting press ; Eastman of the ready
pen, and Yancey, one the most promising
young lawyers of this section.
To them all, am I greatly indebted for
numerous courtesies.
I stopped at the Choice Hotel, kept by
Mr .T O --J
--performs with admirable taste the duties
of his position. To him acd his attentive
clerk, Mr. W. A. Camp, Jr., I am under
obligations so- repeated favors and most
watchful care. Persons visiting Rome
and in search of really choice accommoda
tions should go to the Choice Hotel.
Mr. Mitchell Nevin, another Augusta
boy, is here, occupying a high position in
tho community.
In concluding those letters—lor whose
imperfections I make my apologies to the
readers of the Chronicle & Sentinel —I
desire to take off my hat and bow very
low to my newly made friends bore, in
acknowledgment of countless kindnesses
shown me. Loraine.
Letter from Pendleton, S, C.
DEATH OF A GRANDSON OF JOHN 0. CALHOUN
BY A RAILWAY COLLISION.
Pendleton, S. C„ August 11, 1871.
Editors Chronicle <£ Sentinel:
Last night John Calhoun Clemson, Esq.,
was killed at Hunnicntt, on the Blue
Ridge Railroad. A train belonging to the
Greenville and Columbia Railroad Com
pany was passing up the line for lumber
and following the up-passenger train, in
which was Mr. Clemson. At Hunnicutt a
passenger was landed, and whilst the mail
train was stopped for this purpose the
lumber train ran into it with great force.
Mr. Clemson seeing that a collision was
inevitable, tried to escape into a forward
car, but in passing from one platform to the
other received a blow in liis chest, which
broke several ribs and caused liis death in
about two hours. Mr. Clemson was aged
30 years, and the only son of the Hon.
Thomas G. Clemson, formerly U. S. Min
ister at Brussels, and grandson of John C.
Calhoun.
Only two weeks ago his sister Florida,
the wife of Gideon Lee, died in the State of
New York. Thus, in fourteen days, the
parents are left childless, and this com
munity has lost two of its most promising
and most amiable members. Every one
sympathizes with tho sufferers and all de
sire to console them, but no one knows
how. There is no parrying such heavy
blows.
Is it not a most extraordinary thirg that
a lumber train should be so close to a pas
senger train as to run into it ? I hear it is
done very frequently in this up country,
and that it is a oonsinon thing for two
trains not to be 50 yards apart. I observed,
on the Greenville and Columbia Railroad,
that the brakesman always sat in the oars
until the whistle blew. Surely if the en
gino driver can fix his undivided attention
on his moving machine for twelve hours,
as be does on this line, the brakesman
can stay at his post, where he has so little
to do. There is want of good management
on theso roads, andheDce the death of Mr.
Clemson. E.
Letters from IVew York.
Stamford, N. Y., August 5, 1871.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
If I remember right, I left your readers
at Stony Point, on tho Hudson, the scene
of one of the revolutionary struggles be
tween the Americans and British.
Peekskill is the next place pointed out
to the tourist. It is named after Jus-
Peek, a Dutch skipper, and in English
would read Peek’s Creek, but up in the
highlands here every creek is a kill, be
cause the Dutch, after they took Holland,
you will remember, took New York also.
Rev. Homy Ward Beecher has a residence
near this village.
Opposite this place is Caldwell’s Land
ing, at the Dondcrberg or Thunder Moun
tain, around whose craggy summit the
storm clouds often gather, and give such
echoes to the thunder which rolls lrom
thorn as to cause no wonder at the super
stition mentioned by Irving, as peopling
the hills with little imps in sugar loaf hats
and short doublets, who aro often seen
“tumbling heels over head in the reek
and mist.”
A little above the Donberberg is An
thony’s Nose, over 1,200 leet in height,
named after the nose of one Anthony Ho
gans, a captain of a Hudson river sloop in
the olden time.
Brocken Kill falls into the river near
this point. It is full of romantic cascades.
Forts Clinton and Montgomery, points
of Revolutionary interest.
Sinnipink Creek, at the mouth of whioh
is an ice depot, for ice from Sinnipink
Lake, half a mile distant.
West Point, 51 miles from New York.
Not much to be seen of it, but knowD as
the site of the National Military Academy
and the scene of some Revolutionary
events. Buttermilk Falla may be seon
breaking into the liver at this point.
Cold Spring, 54 miles from the city, no
ted for its pure tendency; and the site of
Undercliff, the residence of Geo. P. Mor
ris.
This is the heart of the Highlands.
Bull Hill, or more classically speaking,
Mt. Tauner, is seen here. It is 1,586 feet
in height, and Breakneck Hill, near by, is
1,187 feet hub. Ou the west side of the
river, Cro’ Nest and Butter Hill are con
siderable elevations. The scene of Joseph
Rodman Drahe’s poem, “The Culprit
Fay,” is laid among these hills. Kidd’s
Plug Cliff is the precipice forming the riv
er front of Cro’Nest. The Storm King,
another mountain, is 1,519 feet high. N.
P. Willis’ cottage, “Idlewild,” stands al
most in tho northern slope of this moun
tain.
Next is passed Cornwall Landing, the
Showangunk (pronounced Shong-gum
Mountains, Pollipel's Island), and in the
distance tho blue outliues of the Catskill
Mountains ; B'ishkill Landing, Newbere. a
1 ,rge and thriving town ; Liw Point Vil
lage, Dor Durgvei’s Duus Kamcr, a flit
neck ; New Hamburg, Marlborough, near
which is a beautiful grove of arbor vitae,
or white cedar; Milton Ferry, or Barnegat,
Locust Grove, the country seat of Prtf.
S. F. B. Morse; the oily of Poughkeepsie,
New Paltz, Hyde Park, named in honor
of one of the early British Governors of
New York ; Placertia, the former home of
James K. Paulding, of literary fame.
Somewhere in this vicinity is an apple
farm belonging to R. L. Pell, E'q., on
which are said to be twenty-five thousand
bearing apple trees !
Next come Staatslurg, Eropns Island;
Rondout, at the mouth of the Delaware
and Hudson Canal; Port Earing, King
ston, Rbinebeek. near whieh is the country
seat built by Freeborn Garrettson, an
eminent Methodist preacher. An exten
sive vein of gold bearing quartz is found
in the village. A little above Rhinebeck
is the residence of Win. B. Astor, the
estate bcaringthe title of Rokeby. Barry
town, Conger's Island, Tivoli, Saugerties,
Germantown.
From this point the entire range of the
Catskill mountains can be seen, and even
the outlines of “the Mountain Hou'
located high up among these towering hills,
eight miles distant- Catskill, Hndson,
the head of ship navigation, Prospect Hill,
Mount Merino, Rogers’ Island, Colum
biaville, Coxsaehie, whieh derives its name
from an Indian word, signifying “out
banks,” Newton Hook, Stuyvesant, for
merly Kinderhook, long a residence of
President lan Buren, New Baltimore,
Schoduc, Coeymacs (pronouncod Qac
mans) Castleton. Greenbush, and Albany,
146 miles from New York. Albany is a
quaint old city. Its streets are very ir
regular, and being hilly, it is rather an up
hill business to walk them.
I noticed a cust»i here which I am
glad does rot prevaflwith us. The ladies
ali g) out alone until! o’clock, or later, at
night, and, passing trough the principal
streets, you would s*pose there was somo
female procession racing along—all keep
ing to the right, jostled by men and
boys, and mingling wih all sorts cf people,
I couldn’t help thiokig them out of place,
and hotter at home, c with somo gentle
men to oscort them abut.
Thera is here ontof the handsomest
Cathoiic churches it the United States,
and several fine pubb acd private build
ings. Tbe Argus, a terling Democratic
journal, is published here. Anew and
costly State House isoeing built.
Passing a night aj ibis place, we took
the cars of tbe Albny &■ Susquehanna
Rii’road tor Riohmoalville, some 50 miles
distant, reaching whito wo took the stage
for this village, 16 mibs distant, where we
arrived, after a regula Decemboi day, and
in a December rain. iVinter clothing and
fires were comfortable, hut the weather is
more pleasant now.
In my next I shallgive you some ac
count of this beautifuloountry. lam in
debted for much that I have written to
the guide-books, and I have given the re
sult to your readers, hoping that it would
not be altogethtr devoid of interest, pai
ticularly to those who »re anxious to hear
from Old Hurricane.
Stamford, N. Y., Aug. 10, 1871.
Editors Chronicle & Sentme 1 :
In my last letter I left your readers in
tuuf oeautitul little Vin&gc, and shaii now
take them with me a short trip through
the mountains of this granj and pictures
que region. Stamfcid is a village of
about 1,000 inhabitants, in a valley sur
rounded by mountains ranging from 1,500
to 3,500 feet above the level of the sea.
These eminences arc all as fertile as the
valley lands, and are cultivated, many of
them, to their very summits. Tho scene
from one of the surrounding high points
is beautiful indeed. In the vilage below
the new and tasty buildings, all trame; the
church spires; the mountains forming a
large amphitheatre of hills;'the harvesters
at work, or tho dense foliige cn some of
the craggy heights, is a picture of sublime
and beautiful grandeur.
There are four churches here —Catholic,
Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist—all
of which are well attended. Some ten or
twelve storep, a hotel, a livery stable and
a billiard saloon make up tlia rest of
the tout ensemble.
A number of brooks or mountain
streams flow either through tho village
or in its immediate vicinity, and afford
some of the finest trout fishing imaginable.
If H. R., J. M., and H. T. P. could only
spend a week about these brooks, how
they would enjoy themselves. No such
fishing about our way. Hero it is oniy to
throw in your line and pull them out; and
then you have a most delicate and de
licious fish for your trouble.
Col. E. Z. C. Judson, better known as
“ Ned Bantline,” the author of a great
many stories, in the New York literary
journals, : s rusticating here. I have had
somo very pleasant interviews with him,
in which he showed me his handsome rifle,
hunting apparatus, fishiDg tackle, etc.
Ha is very fond of fishing, and once in a
whilo goes a hunting bears, of which
there are said to be some in this section.
Col. J. is a stout, hardy looking man, of
about fifty years of age, gonial in his
disposition, courteous in his manners, and
full of anecdote and good humor. He has
seen a great deal of wild life in the West,
on the ocean and in the Yankee army, and
many of his adventures form the ground
work of his stories. He proposes to locate
in this village, where be is now engaged
in writing for the New York Weelcly.
The people in this section with whom I
have met are courteous, sociable, and, bet
ter than all, thoronghlyj Democratic in
politics. Many of them have “ proved
their faith by their works,” and have stood
the test of patriotic devotion to principles
—a test under which many of our South
ern people failed to stand. These people
were bitterly opposed to the war. bitterly
opposed to our subsequent oppression, and
bitterly opposed to the so-called “New
Departure.” It would do your soul good
to hear some of these people talk, and I
know it is not for buncombe, because, I
am credibly informed, they talked the
same way through the war, and they had
no special interest in talking so to me.
One venerable old gentleman, the father
of my excellent host, won particularly on
my heart. Old in years, his white hairs
pointing to the grave, lie spoke with all
“the fiery vehemence of youth” against
the outrages of Radicalism. He has even
declined to attend his church because the
minister brought Radical politics into liis
pulpit. And he is not alone, for although
this (Delaware county) is a Radical coun
ty, the Democrats are numerous and
sound ; and the people generally hospitable
and kind.
I have visited the villages of Richmond
ville, Summit, Jeffersonville, and East
Davenport, and in the last place met some
kind friends, who gave me an insight into
what is called “Sugaring off.” In the
maple sugar season, this is a great time
with the people, but now this entertain
ment was gotten up for my special benefit.
The syrup is boiled, then put into a dish
or saucer and stirred with a spoon until it
becomes sugar. It is excellent for eating
as well as for sugar uses generally.
Farming about here is very different
from what it is South. The ground is
only plowed up and seeded every three or
four years, the grass coming up spontane
ously. and growing rich aud luxuriantly.
Tliehay is made from Timothy and Red
Clover, and the harvesting season is
nearly over. The mowing is princi
pally done with machines, aud the barns
are large, commodious and well filled.
Land sells high here, but is fertile and
easily disposed of. The Rondout and
Oswego Railroad is being rapidly pushed
forward through this town, and another
is in contemplation near by, which will
greatly benefit tbe farmers and the people
generally. Corn is planted thick here
and not chopped out; it is also sown broad
east and out for cow feed in the fall.
Wheat, oats and rye are cultivated to
some extent, and butter is produced in
immense quantities. It is such butter as
would make your mouth water and give
an appetite to the veriest dyspeptic. The
ladies attend to this department, and seem
to think more of their dairies than they
do of their parlors. The churning js done
by dog, ram and water power, and is quite
a novelty to strangers. Vegetables are
late. Raspberries grow wild ; peaches and
watermelons do not grow in this neighbor
hood, but apples are produced in abun
dance, and cider fliws freely. The water
is ice cold, pure and delicious ; the atmos
phere pure and braoing, the people, as I
have already said, courteous, hospitable
and kind, and if cur Southern people feel
like spending a few quiet weeks in a health
ful and invigorating region North, I
know of no better place than Stamford and j
its surroundings. It is about 140 to 150
miles from New York city, and in a spur
of the Catskill Mountains, accessible from
Rondoubt on the Hudson or from Albany,
enjoying the advantages of a daily mail
from both of these points, and supporting
a spicy little paper, called tbe Stamford and
Bioomville Mirror, published by Mr.
Champion, who is also the postmaster.
His press is a small power press, run by
water power, and hi3 patronage is excel
lent. Yours, truly,
Old Hurricane.
Latin Grammar for Beginners. By
W. H. Waddell, Professor of Ancient
Languages in the University of Georgia.
New York: Harper Brothers. 1871.
This is a work that has been long needed
in our schools and colleges. In it every,
thing is clearly and concisely arranged in
the simplest and most intelligible manner.
It gives all the elementary principles of
the language, and is just the book for be
ginners ; for it will do more towards giv
ing a correct knowledge of Latin than any
work of the kind before published. All
superfluities are thrown out, and it con
tains nothing but what will be found ne
cessary in commencing the study of tbe
language. We predict for it great success,
and commend it to the attention of our
educators.
This book is a companion to, and is of
precisely the same character as the “Greek
Grammar for Begianers,” issued by Prof
Waddell last year, and which mat with
1 such a cordial reception.
“Augusta In 1871.”—The book with
the foregoing title, recently published by
J. W, Call, is now ready for those who
desire to secure a copy. A limited num
ber will be found at the book and period
ical depot of D. Quinn. Price, 25 cents.
THE POLITICAL SITUATIO.Y.
Bartow, Jefferson Cos., Ga., 1
August 14th, 1871. j
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
In the LaGrange Reporter, of August
lltli, is a letter from our Representative,
Colonel W. P. Johnson, which we would
like to see in your paper, as it expresses
the sentiments of a great portion of the
people of this section.
Yours, truly, J. W. C.
[Fiom the Li Grange (Ga.) Reporter.
LETTER FROM COL. WINDER P. JOHNSON.
We are permitted to publish the follow
ing letter from Colonel Johnson by Major
D. N. Speer, of this place. Colonel J. is
a son of Hon. H. Y. Johnson, and a mem
ber elect to the present Legislature from
Jefferson county. In the main we en
dorse the views of Mr. Johnson; but we
do not agree with him in the views that
Southern Democrats should remain quiet.
We are in favor ot the Southern Democ
racy claiming all the rights that belong to
it as an integral part of the National De
mocracy, and the to say what and
advocate what they conceive to be the
proper platform for the contest of 1872 ;
Bartow, Jefferson Cos., Ga., 1
July 25, 1871. J
Major D. N. Speer, LaGrange, Ga. :
Dear Sir—Your letter, addressed from
the St. Nicholas Hotel. New Ynrlf. cw
only tb nano, ion asked me to give you
the political news in Georgia. It is a
difficult task to give ihe true condition of
political affairs in this State. The Demo
cratic party seems to be divided into two
factions, each equally patriotic and honest,
and seeking to accomplish the same re
sult—the overthrow of Radical power and
the restoration of the Government to con
stitutional principles. This schism in our
ranks will, I fear, prove disastrous in its
consequences. The party, weak before,
is weaker now. United, there was little
hope of victory ; divided, there is none.
It is of the highest importance that we
should present to the enemy an unbroken
front. Oar columns should be marshaled
in solid phalanx and hurled, with a deter
mination to succeed, upon those who rule.
Let us first gain the victory, and then we
can dictate terms, looking towards the
recognition of every right. It is unneces
sary to disclose our plans to the enemy or
capitulate before the battle. It is suffi
cient to know that those in power have
trampled under foot the Constitution of
our fathers, and denied to us the right of
self-government. It is the duty ot every
man who loves liberty, to unite in the
overthrow of this common enemy.
I have said that there are two faotions
in Georgia, and in fact throughout the
Sonth, equally honest, equally patriotic,
ar.d seeking the same noble end— the sub
jugation of Radicalism. Oao party, led
by Mr. Stephens, one of the purest of'
men and ablest of statesmen, proposes to
stand by the issues set forth in the Demo
oratio platform adopted in New York in
1868, upon which the Democratic party,
North and South, entered the Presidential
contesr. Those issues were adherence to
principle—time-honored principles, that
the leaders of all parties in the purer days
of the Republic admitted and thought it
treason to dispute, and whioh bavo been
subverted by the sc-called XLVth and
XVth amendments to the Constitution.
It is true that the platform adopted in
1868 declared those amendments “uncon
stitutional,” and, therefore, null and void.
It is also true that Mr. Vallandigham. and
those who are termed “ new departurists,”
endorsed that platform. It is further truo
that a largo class of honest and patriotic
men, who denounced the XlVth and
XVth amendments in tho last Presidential
contest, propose to acquiesce and accept
them now as legal parts of the Constitu
tion. We cannot accept an amendment to
the Constitution as valid whilo we are con
scious of its unconstitutionality, and of the
fraudulent and illegal manner of its pro
curement; We cannot accept a lie as the
truth. It is a moral impossibility to convert
the one into the other. When we assert
that the XlVth and XVth amendments
are legal parts of tho Constitution, we
assert that which we know to be false. If
W 6 acquiesce uud aooept Llicm fto oonotit'i
tional, we acquiesce and accept a false
hood. It is urged by some that they must
be accepted as binding and constitutional
until settled to the contrary by the Courts.
They are binding and must be obeyed un
til the Courts have adjudicated. So is the
law of any despot binding upon his sub
jects as long as he has bayonets at his
command to enforce obedience; but when
power forsakes the despot and returns to
the people, his law binds no longer. But the
constitutionality of the XlVth and XVth
amendments is a question of fact—is a
question of figures. They were not rati
fied by the requisite number of States.
We know this to be a fact as much as we
know that two and two make four. Shall
we assert the truth to be a lie, and wait
for the Courts to proclaim that which is
self-evident? We acknowledge no power
short of Heaven, our guide in morals. We
will not accept what we know to be false
in the discharge of any duty, public or pri
vate. Those obnoxious amendments have
been forced upon us without our consent.
They are the offsprings of corruption, and
of a spirit of insubordination to the Con
stitution, that persisted in will lead to
anarchy.
What shall we do ? To boldly assert
and stubbornly adhere, at all times and
under all circumstances to the truth, is
honest and sino're, but it is sometimes un
wise and impolitic. We are weak. We
want assistance. We want relief from
those burdensome and oppressive meas
ures which our unrelenting enemies have
fistened upon us in a thousand different
ways. It is useless to look for relief from
our own feeble and unaided struggles.
Tho only hope is by making common
cause with tho Northern Democracy
against the common enemy. We want
victory. We must draw back those con
servative Republicans, who deserted us in
the last Presidential contest, frightened at
the announcement of principles, which
they regarded as squinting towards the
right of secession and the surrender of the
fruits of tho war.
The sacred cause of truth is frequently
injured by too suddenly announcing her
principles. Men are not at all times in a
state to receive truth ; prejudice must be
removed ; passion allayed ; ignorance dis
pelled, beforo the mind can receive truth
in all her blazing glory. We would not
depart from constitutional truth, nor sur
render one jot of our sovereign rights.
They are dear to us. We would oherish
and preserve them, patiently and silently,
until a fitting time, when they should burst
forth in the splendor of victory and reign
supreme in constitutional majesty. The
time has not arrived for the announce
ment of a strictly State rights platform.nor
for the vindication of sovereign rights. Vic
tory must first beaehieved. To accomplish
that we must be united at homo and join
those we least distrust at the North, when
the decisive battle is fought. We cannot
accept the Vallandigham platform. To
do so would be to surrender every sover
eign right belonging to a State. To an
nounce an “out and out” State tights
platform, would drive lukewarm friends
into the Republican rank-, and widen the
breach already begun among ourselves.
Our true position is one of silence and
inaction. Wc will not force our views up
on those who claim to be Northern Demo
crats, nor will we accept theirs ; but we
will join them in the fight against those
who have planted the banner of centralism
within the sacred precincts of State sover
eignty.
Let the Vallandigham party meet in
convection —draft a platform and nomi
nate a candidate for the Presidency. We
will have nothing to do with their plat
form or convention, but will vote for the
nominee as a ohoice of evils. Should the
South send delegates to that convention,
they will be bound in honor to abide its
action, or, in the event of the adoption of
obnoxious measures, to withdraw from it.
To withdraw would certainly elect the
Radical nominee; to remain, would bind
them to “ accept the situation.” Either
result would be a terrible calamity.
Silence and inaction on the part of the
South will heal the breach, and the ex
treme measures of the Radical party will
drive off the conservative element from
their own ranks. Should we succeed and
elect the Democratic candidate, while he
may not come up to our views in every
particular, still, we venture to hope sthat
his administration will be more moderate
than Grant’s has been. It will be one
step gained in the right direction. We
may then begin to claim our constitutional
rights. The restoration of the Govern
ment to a constitutional basis may then
commence. That_ restoration will neces
sarily be slow in its progress. The sub
version of the Constitution can be accom
plished in a moment’s time. The passage
of a law like the Ku-Kluxbill can change,
as it has done, our whole form of govern
ment into the meanest of despotisms. It
is an easy task to destroy a government.
It is exceedingly difficult to re-organize it
upon just and equitable principles. Under
the present rule there is scaroely a feature
of the Constitution preserved. Were the
revolutionary dead to arise they would fail
to recognize in the present dynasty a single
principle for which they suffered and died.
They would find that the Ship of State
they left sailing before propitious gales,
had been seized by pirates, her rich cargo
squandered, her flag torn down, and even
her name changed.
It is the high mission of Democracy to
restore the Government to its constitu
tional purity. To accomplish that desira
ble end, every effort consistent with honor
should be used. The greatest effort that
we of the South are called on to make, in
view of the surrounding circumstances, is
to remain siltnt and active until the day of
battle ; on that day let us join aDy party
that proposes to fight and conquer the
minions in power who have wrested from
us the dearest rights of freemen.
Yours, truly,
Winder P. Johnson.
An Imperial Scandal.
The Real Cause of the Ex-Empress Eu
genie’s Journey to Scotland—The Ex-
Emperor's Intrigue with Marguerite
Bellanger. _
Tho following editorial from the London
Times, on an incident in the private life of
the ex-Eaiperor Napoleon, elicited a denial
from the ex-Empress Eugenie that she
ever contemplated divorce, as alleged
Towards the latter end of November,
1860, tho Empress Eagenie startled the
iriends and the enemies of the Bonaparte
dynasty by a private visit to this oountry.
Although the Emperor, made aware of
the resolution at the eleventh hour, so far
saved appearances as to be “just in time”
to seo her off at the Northern Railway
Terminus, and although it was given out
that the Empress’ jiurney had no other
object than to spend a few days with her
former governess in Scotland, still there
was something so sudden and clandestine
in her departure and in her style of travel
ing, that it could cot fail at the time to
give rise to every variety of report and con
jecture. The members of the French Em
bassy in London, whom the telegraph ac
quainted with the Empress’ movements,
attended at an early hour to reoeivo their
Sovereign’s Consort at any of the stations
at which she might be expected to arrive.
Somehow, the august traveler contrived to
escape their attentions, and drovo unrecog
nized and accompanied only by one gentle
man and two ladies of her suite to Cla
ridge’s Hotel, whence, after a quiet saun
ter in Regent street, she proceeded by rail
to Sootland, and was Dext heard of at
Edinburgh, at Glasgow, aud on the track
of summer’s tourists in tho Highlands.
After a three weeks’ stay, and a private
visit to the Queen at Windsor, she reap
peared at the Tullerics. One explanation
ascribed the Imperial lady’s visit to grief
for too death of her sister, the Duchess of
Alv.; another to a passing fit of harmless
eccentricity; another to & longing, natural
in one not born in the purple, to withdraw,
for however short a period, from the weary
monotony of her lofty station. But none
of these seemed sufficient, and the suppo
sition which obtained most public favor
was that the flight of tho Empress was
tho result of some storm in the Imperial
household ; and, as Eugenie was extreme
ly devout, and at that moment the Empe
ror had just openly countenanced the
Italian invasion of the Marches and Um
bria. and was endeavoring to prevail od
the Popo to consent to the loss of those
provinces, it was surmised that tho hus
band and wife had quarreled about the
Roman question. But thoro were, be
sides, shrewder nowsmoDgers, who assert
ed that jealousy was at tho bottom of the
Imperial disagreement; that the Empress
had taken umhrago at somo iudisarctioa of
her lord the Emperor, and had vowed not
to go back, unless the oause of offonso was
removed.
Whatever mystery might yet have hung
upon that now almost forgotten episode in
a wedded life which has been otherwise
singularly free from domestic clouds; has
been unvailed by tho sentence pronounced
by the French Court of Cassation in favor
of M. Devienne, tho late first President of
the Court ol Paris. It seems now certain
that the Kmpcror had really, sometime
before that short breach ot his domestio
peace, succumbed to the fascinations of a
young lady whose beauty was tho theme
of much conversation iu tho Paris world,
and that the displeasure of tho Empress
was caused by the reports which reached
her of the degree of intimacy existing be
tween this lady and the Emperor, and of
the consequences the connection had en
tailed, whioh oould hardly fail to lead to
scandalous exposure. The happiness of
tho wife and the safety of the husband re
quired something more than the removal
of tho rival. It was necessary to obtain
from her a retraction of tho asseitions
upon which she founded her claims, and
upon the strength of which she threatened
to bring the Emperor before a court of
law. The Empress, gonerously giving up
all id aof a divorce, and consenting to a
reconciliation with her erring husband,
exerted herself to extort from her rival a
declaration to the effect that she had de
ceived the Emperor, and that their inter
course bad no suoh results as she had led
him to believe.
We do not think that, out of Franco at
least, people will greatly conoorn then
selves above the part played by the Chief
President of tho Imperial Court in this
delicate transaction. All the interest con
centrates itself on one point, and that is
the wholesome fear the Emperor Napo
leon entertained as to the consequences of
his indiscretion. He was at that time at
the height of his popularity, for his Lom
bard campaign had won him the applause
even of his enemies’, while the annexation
of Saxoy and Nice had reconciled to him
the advooates of a more strictly national
policy. But; a lawsuit such as his culpable
attachment so nearly involved him in was
more than even in all his might he would
have ventured to face. His wife, though
placable to the fault, would have been in
exorable to its exposure, and peaoe oould
hardly have been made unless a nrans
had been found to hush up the scandal.
The Emperor’s proßpets for himself and
his dynasty Would have lost much of their
brightness, and the nation which had con
doned the coup d'etat and accepted per
sonal rule would have murmured at do
mestic irregularities to which generally
society shows only too much indulgence,
but which the high rank of tho offender
would not havo allowed it to ignore.. In
our age, when we plaoo kings and princes
above us, we expect them to be the best
among n9 ; and if they actually are not
what we would havo them, we insist, at
least, on their secmiDg to be so.
The Georgia Historical Society, of Sa
vannah, is about to pay a very neat tribute
of respeot to the memory of Georgia’s
sweetest poet, Richard Henry Wildo. At
a meeting of the above Society, on Tuesday
night, as is stated by the Morning News,
“ a resolution was adopted in regard to
the number of copies, style of binding,
and distribution of the beautiful poem
about which so much has been said and
written, Wilde’s 1 Summer Rose,’ tho
offspring of the late Hon. Richard Henry
Wilde’s genius—a gifted son of Georgia,
of whom she is justly proud, and whose
chaste and beautiful poem tho Georgia
Historical Society have determined to
perserve and perpetuate, together with a
correct history of its wonderful career in
the literary world. The publication is
now about ready, and the Society have
determined to have three hundred copies
bound with gilt edge extra binding, and
sold at $1.50 per copy; two hundred
oopies in plain binding—one hundred
to be sold at $1 per copy, and tho other
hundred to be reserved for the benefit of
Society, and for exohange with other so
cieties.”
Miscegenation.—ln the Atlanta District
Court on Wednesday, five miscegenation
cases were disposed off. The Judge sen
tenced William Hibbs, a white man, con
victed of living in fornication with a negro
woman, to pay a fine of one thousand
dollars, or to be imprisoned in the oounty
jail for the term of six month. Martha
Johnson, Hibbs’ negro paramour, to pay
two hundred and fifty dollars, or three
months imprisonment. William Harris,
negro, convicted of fornication with a
white woman, to pay two hundred and
silty dollars, or six months on the public
works. Mary Harris, his white paramonr,
to pay one thousand dollars, or six months
on the public works.
Cincinnati, August 16.— One hundred
and fifty thousand dollars seven per oert.
water works bonds have been taken at one
hundred and four.
NEW SERIES—VOL. XXIV. NO. 34.
STATE ROAD STEALING
“FOSS” IN A NEW ROLE.
The Atlanta Sun says that on Monday
two highly important arrests were made in
that oity, connected with a matter of the
greatest importance to the people of the
State of Georgia.
One of the persons arrested was Joseph
Fry—who is a nephew or other near rela
tive of Foster Blodgett—a boarder at his
house acd member of his family, aud who
has been his confidential secretary or clerk
in the office of Superintendent of the Wes
tern and Atlantic Railroad; the other a
member of a prominent mercantile firm in
the city. These parties woro both arrest
ed at the instance of Foster Blodgett, who
oharged them, under oath, with cheating
and swindling the State, or the State
Road, in the sum of sixteen hundred dol
larsl
The parties wero brought before Judge
B. D. Smith, N. P., and gavo bond in the
sum of Two Thousand Dollars! for their
appearance at tho Superior Court to an
swer to tho charge. Fry, as soon as the
bond was given, ferfeited his recognizance
and left tho city. The merchant arrested
has no ido> of Wvlo«, Lut \a going to stay,
attend oourt, and see the case out —so wo
learn.
For more than a year certain parties
have made it their special business to
watch narrowly, iu order to learn where
the earnings of the State Road were going
to, aud exactly what beeame of tho half
million of dollars which Foster Blodgett
ought to have paid into the Stato Treas
ury. They have carefully picked up
threads here and there, and preserved
them with sleepless vigilance, giving hoed
to but little else. They, it seems, had
either made some discoveries which were
tangible, or were on the eve of getting a
oluc that was likely to make so r.o rioh
developments, when Foster Blodgett, who
must havo known or suspected what was
going on, caused tho arrest of the persons
alluded to, ohaging them with swindling
the State Road in the sum of $1,600 i
It is believed that Fry lias carried off
with him a large amount of money—per
haps twenty-five or thirty thousand dol
lars, more or less—which justly belongs
to the people of Georgia, and that ho will
never be seen here again, unless he is
caught and brought back by force, which
we hope will be the oase.
It is strange that these arrests should
have boen made at the instance of Foster
Blodgett; that the sum involved, as named
in the warrant, is only $1,600; that the
investigation before the magistrate should
have been so quietly conducted—soarcely
any one knowing anything of it, and that
bail should have been fixed at the pitiful
sum of $2,000, and that Fry should have
had an opportunity to oscape! All these
things are suspicions.
We hope the earnest effort to unearth
she secrets of the financial administration
of Bullock and Blodgett will be pursued
vigorously, till they are all fully unearth
ed and exposed to tho public gaze ; and
that whoever may be found to be guilty,
may be made to suffer the extreme penalty
of tbe law.
A Murder or a Mystery. —The Savan
nah papers are full of tho details of a hor
rible crime committed early on Wednes
day morning, in the house of Mr. Joseph
Davis, near tho line of Bullock and Bryan
counties, and about twenty-eight miles
from Savannah, Tho victim was Mrs.
Davis, a young a woman of about twenty
five or twenty-six years of ago, who was
found sitting up in bed, at about 8 o’olock
in the morning, with her throat cut, and
who died in a few minutes thereafter.
Iler husband was away from home at the
time, and Mrs. Davis had been sleeping
with two of her step-children. She had been
out of bed, and had gone to a cupboard,
on the door of which the little boy’s pants,
containing a pocket knife, were hanging.
Soon after returning to bed, sho screamed
out, “I aw bleeding to death,” and soon
after died. The pocket knife was after
ward found in a tub of water on the floor.
It is possible that she may have killed
herself by accident, cr some night prowler
may have got into the house and murdered
her, but, with the very meagre testimony
at hand, it is impossible to form any idea
of the truth. The coroner’s inquest was
a most inconsequential investigation, and
the verdict of the jury was that “deceased
came to her death from some sharp in
strument in the hands of an unknown
person.”
Legality of Sunday Marriages.— -In
New York the question of the legality of
Sunday marriages is exoiting considerable
attention in legal as well as clerical minds.
There seems to bo an equal division of
both parties in this important matter. It
is held that as marriage is a legal civil
contract, and that legal civil oon tracts are
illegal if made on the Sabbath, it is void if
performed on this day. An interesting
test case is now pending in Rochester, N.
Y. A millionaire died there reoontly, and
willed all his property to the children of
his second wife, disinheriting two of his
own ohildrcn. The marriage was per
formed on Sunday. It is not clear how
this will invalidate tho will should tho de
cision bo against Sunday marriages, but
some lawyers bolievo that in such a case
the will could and would bo brokcD. If
the Court decides that marriages arc in
valid if performed on that day, no doubt
many more interesting and pointed cases
will arise.
Port Royal Railroad.—The Beau
fort Republican says: "Work has teen
commenced on this road in the vicinity of
Yemassec, and as wc are informed by Mr.
QftgC) the engineer, fifty men arc alroaiy
preparing the road for use. Three hun
dred tons of rails have been purchased in
New York and will shortly be en route for
Battery Point. Tho * chairs’ have been
ordored from Richmond, and will shortly
arrive. Seven hundred tons of rails, con
tracted for by the old regime, were to have
sailed from Europe by the 21st of June,
direct to Charleston, but as yet no tidings
have been heard of tho vessel. Upon her
arrival at the latter port, she will bo order
ed to discharge her cargo at Whale Branch,
midway between Ycmassee and Beaufort.”
The Barnwell Agricultural Soci
ety.—At a meeting of the committee,
held on the 7th inst., arrangements wero
made for organizing tho Society into a
joint stock association. Upon conference,
the President was instructed forthwith to
issue a premium list for the annual fair in
October, and to take all proper steps to
wards making it a suocesf. It was further
determined, to add interest to tho occasion,
that a tournament be ridden on tho seoond
day with the sabre, and that Messrs. Al
fred Aldricb, H. W. Richardson and Coun
cil Danbar boa committee in ohargeofthe
same* Young gentlemen intending to ride
will communicate with the chairman, Mr.
Alfred Aldricb, Barnwell.
Caldwell.—lt is rumored hero, says
the Atlanta Constitution, that Attorney
General Akerman, several months ago,
secured the appointment of Rev. J. H.
Caldwell as a Specinl Commissioner, to
prosecute all persons who intimidate voters
at elections, with a salary of $250, and
SIOO for traveling expenses per month-
As Radicals will not bo prosecuted, the
position will be a fat sinecure. “Loilty
WB-” .
Pittston, Pa,, August 16.— Seventeen
dead have been taken from the shaft, not
one escaped,
AUGUSTA AND HARTWELL RAILROAD.
THE CONTRACT RATIFIED BY THE
DIRECTORS.
THE ROAD TO BE BUILT IN TWO
YEARS.
TEN MILES TO BE FINISHED IN SIX
TY DAYS.
For the past two days the Board of Di
rectors of the Augusta and Hartwell Rail
road Company have been in session in
Augusta. This meetiDg has been looked
forward to with great interest by the peo
ple living in the section of oountry lying
between this city and Rabnn Gap, as it
was to decide the question of direct rail
road communication between Augusta and
Clayton.
There were present at this meeting of
the Northern Directors one—Mr. W. H.
Thorpe.
Os the Southern Directors four—Messrs.
John Thomson, James Hope, T. H. Rem
son, and John D. Butt.
Mr. J. A. Underwood, the President of
the Company, was not present, being de-
La\ned la New York by airiness.
The letter of resignation of one of the
Northern Directors, A. H. Gibbes, was
read and the resignation aocepted.
George D. Chapman was nominated as
a Director to fill the vacancy, and was
elected by an unanimous vote.
Mr. Chapman made a long statement in
reply to the charges which had been made
against him, when lio was formerly con
nected with the road.
THE CONTRACT RATIFIED.
The contraot for building the road was
submitted by the Building Committee to
the Board for ratification or rejection.
After hearing it read and discussing its
features, the contract was ratified by an
unanimous vote. The names of the cou
traotors will not be given to the public,
but wo are informed that they are in every
way able to perform what they undertake.
They are represented as being men of
ample means and great practical .expe
rience in the building of American rail
ways. By the contract they bind them
selves to commence work at once on the
road, and to oomplote the entire lino from
the city of Augusta to Clayton by the first
day of January, 1874—two years from
next January,
On motion of T. H. Remson, a resolu
tion thanking Goorgo D. Chapman for
having procured State aid for tho road
and for having had the charter amended,
was passed by an unanimous voto of tho
mombers of tho Board.
Charles Seymour was unanimously
eleoted Chief Engineer of. the road, vie
A. Grant Childs.
Charles R. Abbott was unanimously
rc-oleoted to tho position of Sooretray of
tho company,
A committee of throe was appointed to
secure tho right of way, Goorgo D. Chap
man, James Hope and T. H. Remson.
WORK TO BE COMMENCED AT ONCE.
Work on tho road will ho oommenoed at
once. The contractors aro reprosentod as
responsible parties, and it is to their in
terest to oomploto tbo job as soon as pos
sible. Tho only thing whioh oan dolay
them will bo difficulty experienced in
in getting the right-of-way. On this soore
wo think that no uneasiness need bo felt.
Tho people in tho oountry aro too anxious
to Sen thn iron Viaraa to throw any obetaolo
in the way of its ooming. Wo havo no
doubt that alter they got a short distanoo
out of tho city every planter will gladly
give them the right of way through his
plantation, knowing full well that the
value of the remainder of his land will bo
enhanced ton-fold upon tho building of
the road. In the city and suburbs some
little trouble may attend tho procurement
of the right of way, but wo think evory
oitizeu will make his demands for com
pensation as reasonable as possible.
THE SUB CONTRACTORS.
Tho principal contractors will divide the
road into sections and sub let them to
other parties. Several of those sub-oon
traetors havo already been ohosoo, and aro
said to compriso some of tho best railroad
men of tho North. Thoso will soon be out
here, and will bring with thorn large forces
of experionood whito laborers, whom thoy
have had regularly employed on railroad
work for some time past. Os oonrse, any
other parties who desire sub-oontraots oan
get them, but these men from tho North
aro old stagers, who will havo plonty of
trained laborers that oan be used to great
advantage on the hoavy sections of tho
route. Tho representative of tho princi
pal contractors, Edward Hanford, has
been in the city during the past two days
awaiting tho action of tho Board, and re
turned this morning with the news of ita
ratification.
THE ENGINEER.
The Chief Engineer, Charles Seymour,
is considered one of the finest railway en
gineers in this country. He was associat
ed with Sir Morton Pete, the English
Railway King of a few years back, as chief
engineer in the building of the Atlantic
and Great Western Railway. He lias also
been employed upon several other impor
tant railway enterprises. He is determined
to push matters, and starts out over the
line to day on a reconoisance. He will
return in a few days and organize a corps
of engineers.
TEN MILES OP THE ROAD TO BE BUILT IN
SIXTY DAYS.
To give some idea of the rapidity with
whioh tho work will progress, wo state
that the contractors confidently assert they
will finish the first ten miles of tho road
voithin ntWy *1 no difficulty shall bo
experienced in obtaining the right of way.
the route.
Work will be oommenood near th°
Union Depot in this city, and proooed
along tho valley of tho Savannah by what
i i known as tho river routei
Enterprise.—A friend has called our
attention to tho following paragraph, to
show what enterprise oan do for a oity,
and hopes that a hint may bo taken from
it:
The LaGrange American says tho con
tract has been signed by P. C. Brinck,
Esq., of Philadelphia, President of tho
United States Iron Company, by whioh
that oompany agroc, with tho oity authori
ties of LaGrange, to creot and maintain
in that oity a rolling mill of 25,000 tons
capacity annually, and toooßt not less than
$600,000, to employ not less than a mil
lion dollars capital, and to bo in running
order within two years from the date of
the contract. To obtain this, tho city of
LaGraßge furnishes tho ground aDd do
nates $200,000 to tho company. The ad
vantages to be derived from such an en
terprise can be easily oomputed in dollars
and cents. This will give employment to
five hundred men, to whom will bo paid
$25,000 per month in wages, making tne
sum $300,000 in cash annually, neary
every dollar of which will be expended in
LaGrange. These five hundred men will
nearly all be men of. families, and will re
quire houses to live in, wtnah wi
bo erected by LaGrange mechMH.*
fair to oa'enlato five persons to every la
lair to oa_ ou |j be aQ , ncreaHe in tho
b ° rer i * Jon of LaGrange of 25,000 souls,
population oi rnur g lfttion 0 f that
£ b! ' Ut otETtoU “ and oitioß in the
gtato make a note cf^this.
Tho London Globe understands that
some important intelligence has been re
ceived from Australia with respeot to the
Tichborne oase. One of the gentlemen of
the long robe has started, on the shortest
possible notice, on an errand whioh i*
bkely to reveal the whereabouts of the
second principal hero in this romance ot
real life,