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THE BALTIMORE CONVENTION—
VIKH H TO BK CONSIDERED.
The following letter is from the pen of
one of the ablest and truest men in the
South. The views which he presents
are worthy of most careful considera
tion. The writer is a gentleman who
more than once has been honored by the
people of Georgia with the highest office
in their gift, and whose public record is
one of which they are justly proud.
It will be seen that his views are not
widely different from our own. On
some points we fully agree. Like him,
we wonld prefer the nomination of a
true Democrat at Baltimore, if we be
lieved there was u possibility of our be
ing able to carry the election with such a
candidate. We, like him, would also
prefer a straight Democratic nomination
if, upon a calm and careful survey of the
field at Baltimore, it should appear that
the probability of electing Greeley with
the addition of the Democratic vote was
not almost an absolute certainty. Ts we
jre to be defeated let us fall under our
own colors, upheld by one of our own
trusted and true leaders.
We have been inclined to the support
of Greeley only upon the ground that
with him success was almost certain,,
w hile under a leader of our own the can
vass would be, from the beginning, a
hopeless one. In this view we may be
wrong. The information which we may
receive at Baltimore as to the public
sentiment of the country may produce a
change in otir views. We shall not go
there committed to any man, nor to any
particular line of conduct. We shall go
there free to adopt, with all the lights
then before us, that course which shall
offer the best chance for ameliorating
the condition of the people of the State
and of the South.
There is another point—and it is an
important one—made by our corres
pondent. It is that in no event should
the Baltimore Convention formully nom
inate Mr. Greeley. This view has been
taken by some of the earliest and strong
est friends of that gentleman. A few weeks
since the Missouri Republican publish
ed several able articles, arguing that it
would be best for the party and for Mr.
Greeley that no formal nomination
should be made. We confess that at
first wo were inclined to doubt the
wisdom of such a course. Upon more
mature reflection we have yielded our
doubts, and now fully agree that the
course suggested is the one which will
give more complete satisfaction to the
mass of the party, and at the same
time secure better results iu the canvass
for Greeley.
We should say, in conclusion, that the
letter below is a private one, and that
the writer neither conteiriplated or de
sired that it should be made public. We
have taken the liberty of making it pub
lic because we feel that at such a time
as this the people should be fully ad
vised upon the great questions which
now agitate the public mind throughout
the entire State.
June 30tli, 1872.
den. A. It. Wright, Augusta, da.:
Dkah Hut —Seeing by the newspapers
that you are a delegate to the Baltimore
Convention, and feeling a lively interest
in the result of its deliberations, I ven
ture to make a few suggestions for your
consideration.
T havo inferred, from the general tone
of the Chronicle, k Sentinel, that you
are in favor of tlie Cincinnati ticket be
ing adopted by the Baltimore Conven
tion. If lam mistaken in this, I can
only say that I share in the general im
pression which your editorials have pro
duced. I have no quarrel .with those
Democrats who take this view; for I
readily concede that there is ample
verge for an honest difference of opinion
amongst Democrats touching this, a
pure question of policy. The older I
grow the more tolerant I become of the
opinions of those who differ from me. I
do believe, after the most calm and de
liberate consideration, that the adoption
of Greeley and Brown will prove disas
trous. But if you think otherwise, I
can readily see that you may be just as
honest and sincere as I claim to be.
You may be right in one aspect, and
from your stand-point. I don’t think I can
be iu cuoi in iiiin-riug rrom you. Tour
position is predicated upon tlie idea that
it is better to forego your objections to
Greeley and Brown, and thus, for the
nonce at least, to let sound principles be
held in abeyance in the hope of defeat
ing Grant. I maintain that it is better
to adhere sternly to our principles, even
though Grant should be re-elected. The
defeat of Grant may bring good to the
country by the installment of Greeley
and Brown. But, admitting this, the
good will be but temporary and transi
tory; whereas, the maintenance of sound
principle, even in the face of defeat,
leaves us some hope—-very faint I ad
mit—of the future restoration of the
Government to constitutional adminis
tration. It. is rarely, if ever, safe to de
part from sound principles. The rule
of mere policy is never to be adopted,
except far tin advancement of sound
principles. Now what sound prin
ciple is promoted by the adoption of
Greeley and Brown ? Is it not the mere
preference of one man over another,
when neither of them holds to a single
principle in harmony with the Demo
cratic creed ? Wliat I have said pro
ceeds upon the assumption that we will
elect Greeley and Brown. But I have
little, if any, expectation that we can
elect them. Then, how humiliating our
position ? To depart from principle
to vote for the worst enemy the South
and the Democratic party have in the
United States, and then to be defeated,
combiue the concentration of immeasur
able humiliation. Ts defeat must come,
as I think it will, I prefer to meet it
under the old flag of the party, all illus
trious with the glory of its past renown.
But wliat must be the effect of the
support of Greeley and Brown by the
1 )euiocratic Convention, whether we elect
lnm or not ?
1. Disavow as we mnv, their nomina
tion at Baltimore is a moral endorse
ment of the men and their principles,
and it will emasculate of nearly all its
energy and power our future opposition
to the principles and measures, the life
long advocacy of which has given Gree
ley all the character lie has for talent j
and political position.
2. Having endorsed and voted for!
Greeley, how vain and feeble in the I
future will be our opposition to the 14th
and 15th amendments, totho “Ku-Klux” j
law, to political and social equality—the i
civil rights bill—between the races ? !
How weak we will be in maintaining that
the right of local self-government is;
inherent in the States, against the cen- I
tralizing doctrine of Greeley, that it is i
derived from and depends upon the j
grace of the Federal Government ?
3. It will dissolve the grand old Demo- :
cratic party, ami you will never see it i
reorganized upon the great principles to i
which it has adhered throughout the !
whole history of the Government,up to the
beginning of the late war between the
States — principles which are indispen
sable to the existence of constitutional
liberty.
In my judgment, these results are in
evitable, whether we succeed in electing
Greeley or not His election will not be
the triumph of a single great constitu
tional doctrine which is peculiar to the
Democratic party. It will be the tri
umph of Radical principles. They may ■
be enforced iu a manner less objection
able— it is so to be hoped—thau that
in which Grant has executed them. But I
his election will be flaunted before the ;
world as a gTeat Liberal (so-called) Re
publican triumph, and truthfully, too. :
For they profess to nothing more than a
milder enforcement of Republican i
principles. So that, by adopting !
Greeley and Brown, we consent "that
the Government shall be adminis
tered upon the principles which, it is,
well known, constitute the creed of the
Republican party.”
1 fear I atn becoming tiresome to you, 1
but you will, I trust, pardon two orj
three other observations.
We profess to believe —and so tlie
tnith is—that the great political contest
now is between centralism on the one
hand and constitutionalism on the other.
The Republican party, in all its factious
and divisions, that hold our Government
is purely national, of which Congress is
the supreme head ; w hereas, the Demo
cratic party insists that it is a Federal
Government, formed by coni pacts between
Statin. We are justly alarmed lest the
former theory should prevail and be
come the settled doctrine as to the
character of our government. Now,
does not Greeley hold that to be the
correct theory of our political system ?
l)o you not give it force and momen
tum bv endorsing him at Baltimore?
After all, is not this the great vital issue
of the campaign about to open ? Being
so, can we safely disband our forces
simply to aid the enemy in changing
their chief in command ? Can we afford
to allow an armistice merely to accom
modate a discontented portion of the
enemy's hosts ? Is there not danger
here ? Should wd jiot hesitate *
It may be said —it is said by many—
that to elect Grant continues for four
years the power of the centralists ; it
can lie uo worse under Greeler —it may
be a little better. Grant it. But in this
contest the friends of constitutional
liberty must never cease the fight, and
that under their own flag, if for no
other reason, to preserve organization,
discipline and manly courage. ( en
tralism may hold sway for years. But
their own follies and corruptions will
ultimately alarm the massess, who will
drive them from power, if there be an
intrepid organized nucleus around which
they can rally in the final and eventful
struggle between despotism and liberty.
The Democratic party, in round num
bers, contains 3,000,000 voters—the
Republican party scarcely more. Think
vou that the theory of nationality, held
bv the latter, can ever become the ac
cepted theory of our system, so long as
the former, numbering its 3,000,000 of
firm, brave, patriotic, organized and dis
ciplined freemen, are unalterably deter
mined to uphold constitutional Liberty! ?
Never. This is all the hope I have, or
have had for fifteen years, for the
future of this country. If our cohorts
waver, if our forces disband and
join one wing of the enemy merely to
put it in power over the other, disinte
gration is inevitable, and we pass into
centralism, imperceptibly perhaps, but
certainly. Our salvation hangs upon
unremitting, patient and courageous
fighting for the right. We never can ar
rest the tendency to centralism by making
its biggest devil our leader. We can
only hope to doit by a breastwork of
our 3,000,000 brave voters. If central
ism must come, let ns not assist in its
advent. Honor, pratiotism—everything
dear to ns—bid us tight on, and if van
quished at last, let our colors be
furled amid the smoke of battle. So vital
is tins momentous issue that I feel sure
it is more important to meet it man fully,
though defeat be certain, than to depose
Grunt by electing Greeley, or any other
man known to be an advocate of the
theory of centralism. I do not sub
scribe to the cant phrase “anybody to
beat Grant my maxim is, anybody to
expel from power the despotic dynasty
of centralism, and give supremacy to
the great principles of Constitutional
Liberty. If I cannot get that, I cannot
say I have much choice between tyrants.
Now wliat more I have to say is this:
When you get to Baltimore, if it be well
ascertained that wo cannot elect a pure
Democratic ticket, see if it is possible
to secure a conference with the so-called
Liberal Republicans, with the view of
agreeing upon a candidate that will
, unite all the elements of opposition to
Grant, without abject humiliation to
any. Greeley cannot do it. It is just
impossible. To secure such a result, I
would be willing to have an adjourned
meeting of the Convention, allowing
time for a grand committee from your
body to confer with the Greeley party
Whether this is practicable I know not,
but I think it desirable.
Failing in this, I would nominate a
pure Democratic ticket. If this should
fail, I would make no nomination ; but
proclaim our principles and leave every
Democrat free to act in accordance with
his convictions of duty. My opinion is,
that if you attempt to bind every man of
the party to vote for Greeley and Brown,
by an affirmative adoption of them, you
will get up seism —-fatal seism. Few men
can be found who will hold that the
Convention can bind Democrats to vote
for one who is an enemy to the party
and all its principles. There are 10,000
Democrats in almost all the States that
will not vote for Greeley.
From what I have said, you see I pre
fer a straight Democratic ticket. If I
cannot have that, I feel free to vote as I
deem most consistent with patriotic
duty. Should Greeley be embraced by
the Convention, and I be shut up to a
choice between him and Grant, I may
not vote at all. In this 1 shall be guid
ed by the light of events, as they may
arise, in the progress of the canvass. If
I should feel it my duty to choose be
tween Grant and Greeley, I slrall vote
for the latter upon the principle
that I prefer ipecac to tartar emetic—
because it is less nauseating. To de
feat Grant will confuse,, without destroy
ing, the Radical party; but we canuot
expect any substantial advantages from
such an administration as Greeley will
make, unless he should belie all his
antecedents. Yours, sincerely, *
PISTOLS ANI( COFFEE FOB TWO
IN A HOBS,
The following appeared as an adver
tisement iu the Atlanta Constitution yes
terday morning :
Atlanta, Ga., July 2, 1872.
Editors Constitution :
My attention has been called to a let
ter published in the Griffin Daily News,
signed R. Toombs, in reference to the
passage of the resolution of the Legisla
ture of 1870, compromising the litigation
between the heirs of Samuel Mitchell
arid the State of Georgia, in which Gen.
Toombs uses the following language :
“The Legislature accepted the offer of
thirty-five thousand dollars from Loch
rane, Kimball and Brown, who engineer
ed the bill through the Legislature in
the name of the Mitchell heirs. The
term, ‘Orphans of Mitchell,’was applied
to them in derision of the pretenses un
der which the people were stripped of
this property, for the use of these ‘or
phans.’ This action of the Legislature
was the result of bribery, pure and sim
ple. * * * I did state further, as
far as my knowledge extended, all of the
public plunderers who pretended to be
Democrats, from Tammany Hall down
to tho smallest petty larceny thief on
the State Road, were Greeley men, and
so is the fact.”
Now, if General Toombs intends by
this language to say that I have been
guilty of bribery in “engineering” this
bill through the Legislature, I pronounce
his statement an infamous falsehood,
and its author an unscrupulous liar.
Very respectfully,
Joseph E. Brown.
THE SUPREME COURT.
The July term of the Supreme Court
commenced in Atlanta on Monday last,
all the Judges present.
The four cases on the doeket from the
Bine Ridge Circuit, and two from the
Western Circuit, were disposed of on
that day. . v
It is thought that the Court will set
until October, owing to the heavy
docket to be disposed of.
No Dead Weight ! — The St. Louis
Republican and the Cincinnati Commer
cial now agree with the News iu urging
| tlie Baltimore Convention to make no
formal nomination at all. Being the
leading organs of Mr. Greeley in the
West, they are entitled to be heard.
They say : “ When President Grant ad
mits that ‘an open Republican and
Democratic battle’ is the sort of fight
he prefers, it is our manifest duty, as it
clearly is in onr power, to force on him
some other sort of battle. We might
beat him on his own ground ; Horace
Greeley, even incumbered with a Demo
cratic nomination or endorsement, wonld
probably have a good show to defeat
him. But Horace Greeley, not incum
bered with such a nomination, would
assuredly defeat him : for Horace Give
ley, unendorsed, will receive all the
Democratic votes that an endorsement
would bring him, and perhaps a great
many Republican vote's that a Demo
cratic endorsement would repel from
him. ”
Novelty in Porcelain Portraits.—
Photographers iu New York, the Messrs.
Gurney, have just introduced an im
portant novelty iu porcelain portraits,
which is worthy of the attention of the
art-loving public. The uew process re- j
quires that the impressions shall be
taken ou genuine porcelain plates aud
worked up in colors prepared for the !
purpose by an artist. Each successive
coloring is passed through a furnace and I
burnt into the plates, thus rendering
them imperishable so far as permanency
of color is concerned.
, Vm. On.i.EN Bryant for President,
: —The New Orleans Picayune strongly
urges Wm. Cnlleu Bryant for nomiua
i tiou by the Baltimore Convention, as
the tiling which would console the sore
heads who have sought the displaee
! ment of Greeley “with harrowing solici
tude, and grieved almost to the point of
1 despair not to have found.” The prea
' ent prospect is that they will be com
piled to endure still further grief, if
i the nomination of Mr. Bryant is all that
can relieve their troubled souls.
' Honors to Georgia Boys.— Washing
-1 ton, June 28. —The following Georgia
boys, pnpils of Georgetown College,
were awarded prizes or received honor
able mention at the annual commence
ment, which took place yesterday : Ansel
B. Cook, Henry C. Cohen, G. B. Lump
kin, Thomas E. Schells, George A.
Speer, Patrick W. Lynch and Joseph
M. Hall.— Special to the Macon Enter
prise,
THE SELF-NOMINEE FOB GOV
ERNOR.
The Hon. John H. James, the Well
known bond and bill broker of Atlanta,
bas announced himself a candidate for the
high position of Governor of the State
of Georgia. His card is as pretentious
as a guano advertisement. The rich,
aspiring broker means business, and
acts business, and his action is as clear
and well defined as a bid on ’change ;
and he (James) does the business of
making his nomination under his own
sign manual in the newspapers of the
day—eschewing all the arts by which
the more modest politician screens him
self. The Atlantean uses not the in
vitation of admiring friends, or a show
of public service, or tlie public expres
sion of public sentiment by public
meetings. The great Atlantean is for a
short ent and a bold stroke for public
fame and emolument. He tells the
people what he wants, and means “to
go for it,” just as he told the people of
Charleston and the stockholders of the
South Carolina Railroad Company,
last Spring, who he was and what he
was, and what lie intended to “go for”—
charitably advising them to “accept the
situation,” but to accept it like men, be
cause he, John H. James, who was the
Mayor of Atlanta, but not then discharg
ing the duties of Mayor—who was the
man who “run” James’ Bank, but was
not then acting the role of Bank Presi
dent ; but was then and there bodily
present, and in the interest of John 11.
James per sc, and meant business for
John H. James, and that they must do
as they were bid. It is true tlie Caro
linians, humiliated as they are, were not
soliumble as to obey the great Atlantean,
and we are quite sure that the people
of Georgia will prove less tractable.
To say nothing about tlie fact that tlie
people of the State, w ith remarkable una
nimity, have recently endorsed Gover
nor Smith’s administration as honest,
wise and patriotic-—which would make
any one but a political broker pause be
fore nominating himself for the high
office—what the Atlantean can find
iu his public record to stir his
hope and aspiration for high honors, or
induce him to believe that he would be
fit and acceptable to the people of the
State, and move him to publish a claim,
like a business card, for the office of
Governor, is a marvel to us. Is it be
cause he Iras been shifty—so shifty as to
shift himself from danger to a Northern
latitude when Thomas and Sher
man swept tho State with fire and
sword ? Is this a meritorious service
which demands public recognition and
high honor? Or is it because, when the
storm-cloud had passed aw r ay and the
people were in tho depths of desolation,
he gathered riches as a bill-broker,hunt
ing down for speculative profits the
stockholders’ remnants in banks that,
stood by the State in days of peril,
which stockholders, for the most part,
were widows and orphans and men with
empty sleeves, who were powerless and
penniless and almost beggars ? Does
this entitle him to our gratitude ? Aro
these the great financial abilities which
seeks honor and reward in an office of the
highest trust ? Or is it that great abil
ity and intimate relation with the dis
tinguished fugitive from justice and ex-
Governor, which enabled him to “put” a
twenty thousand dollar house for one
hundred thousand dollars in State bonds
upon the Stato as a Governor’s mansion?
Was this an achievement which merits
gratitude and renown ?
That John H. James,broker, should cov
et tho trusts of Governorship, which
would enable him to “financier” about
so many millions of rejected, fraud
ulent bonds, iu manipulating a
Legislature, is not at all surprising.
Many a Wall street broker would covet
the same power. Did Bullock or Blod
gett dare return to the State, free from
the legal probability of tho penitentiary
and Tom Alexander’s buggy strap,
either one or the other, and perhaps
both, would put forward rival preten
sions to control so great a field for
‘'financiering.” Bullock was selected as
\i fmauoior —wiw " llllßnciered ” Into
office by count, and “financiered” tho
State into debt many millions, besides
“ financiering ” from the State many
more millions of State bonds, and educa
tional funds, and railroad property,
and receipts from taxes. Bah ! No
more financiers for Governors. Let
us have a plain, straightforward, old
time, honest man, that will appro
priate honestly the revenues of the
State to discharging our honest debts
and lighten the burthens of taxation.
Such an ono we believe Governor Smith
to be. But from all professional “finan
ciers” we cry, “God save the State,” and
tho people will cry amen! We have had
our surfeit of modern “financiers.”
What a Georgia Negro Told Doctor
Greeley—llls View of the Situation.
We find the following in the New
York Sun, of Friday :
Dr. Horace Greeley made a flying trip
from Chappaqna to the city yesterday.
Ho put up at the Lincoln Club, where
he attended to his private correspon
dence aud was in consultation with a
few gentlemen. At 3:55 p. rn. he re
turned to Chappaqna. Among those
who visited Dr. Greeley at the Lincoln
Club was Mr. James L. Richardson, of
iSylvania, Scriven county, Georgia. Mr.
Richardson is an intelligent colored
gentleman, who lias been sent North as
a representative of the sentiments of his
race to confer with the next President,
and express to Dr. Greeley the high
esteem and veneration in which he is
held by those who were once slaves, and
who feel that they owe more to Horace
Greeley for their freedom than to any
man who ever lived except Abraham
Lincoln. In a conversation with the
Sun reporter, Mr. Richardson said that
the colored people were willing to sup
port Dr. Greeley, because the Grant
men, carpet-baggers, and office-holders
have always deceived them in their
promises.
Reporter—Have yon been much through
your State, and what is the sentiment of
the colored people there ?
Mr. Richardson.-—I traveled extensive
ly through Scriven, Effingham, Burke,
and Bulloch counties, and can assure
you that tho colored people in those
counties will support no other man but
Dr. Greeley.
Reporter—ls any person stumping the
State in the interest of Grant ?
Mr. Richardson—There are always a
lot of fellows going round making
speeches aiul telling the advantages of
re-electing Gen. Grant. We have heard
that story so often that I for one don’t
believe it. I return to Georgia to-mor
row, and will take the stump for Dr.
Greeley myself.
Reporter —Do you think Dr. Greeley
will carry any of the Southern States ?
Mr. Richardson —If the four counties
I can speak for are any indication of the
sentiments of the people in other States,
Gen. Grant is a badly beaten candidate.
The colored people will vote for Dr.
Greeley anyhow. They don’t care wheth
er the Baltimore Convention nominates
him or not. I had a long conversation
with Dr. Greeley to-day, and told him
so, and I also told him that I would take
the stump for him.
The Dootorhadbetter take Jim’s state
ment cum grano. But he needn’t fret if
the darkeys do go back ou him. Tlie
white people will put him through if :
Baltimore endorses his paper.
Ex Route to the .Albany Peniten-
TIARY . Yesterday afternoon, under cus
tody of United States Marshal Williford
and' ten Yankee soldiers, seven prisoners
from Alabama were brought through
this place from Montgomery, via the
Western train, en route to the Albany
(N. Y.I penitentiary. Their names are
N. J. Young, Ringgold Young, Young,
Grav, Neil Hackens and two others
whose names we did not learn. One is
a son of Mr. Bird Young—the original
“Simon Suggs.” Two are over sixty
vears of age. All are of good personal
appearance. All but one was in chains.
They were charged and convicted in
Busteed’s United States Court of intimi
dating voters, on evidence of the most
worthless, ignorant and despicable char
acter. They are to be imprisoned from
five to ten vears and pay from 53,000 to
35,000. The fine will take everything
their families possess.— Columbus Sun,
29th ult. '
The bar of Knox county, Illinois,
which gave Grant sixteen votes
■will give him but four in 18Pi. Seven
teen out of twenty-one of the Galesburg
lawyers are against him, and nearly all
of them are for Greeley and Brown. It
is said that 700 Republicans in that
county will support Greeley, and that
the Democrats are unanimous lor him.
[ Correspondence New York Herald.
BALTIMORE.
THE PLACE POR HOLDING THE CONVENTION.
I went through Ford’s Theatre to-Jay,
the place of meeting for the Democratic
representatives, and found that, with
the gas all lighted, it was a spot ad
mirably adapted to expedite business of
a warm day.
It stands in the western end of the
city, about half a mile from the Carroll
ton Hotel and Barnnm’s, and only one
block from the Eutaw Hotel Tlie
Washington Railway station is close at
hand and handy for Southern delegates,
and the new Potomac Railway station,
which will commence running trains on
the cheap line uext Tuesday at a fare of
sixty (some say eighty) cents, or half the
price charged by the old line, is no
great way off.
ford’s theatre
Is anew- edifice on Fayette street by
Eutaw, bnilt in the new style, with Man
sard pavilions, several entrances and
two galleries. The parquette and par
quette circle will hold eight hundred
persons, and the whole theatre will give
seats to one thousand eight hundred,
although, no later than Friday night,
on the occasion of a school exhibition,
there were two thousand five hundred
people crowded into it.
It is small, however, compared to the
buildings where tlie party conventions
of the present year havo been held,
although larger than the Front Street
Theatre and the Hoi 151 ay Street Theatre
—the latter also controlled by Mr. Ford
—where previous great National Nomi
nating Conventions have met. The
stage is about fifty feet deep. The
flies will be removed for the Conven
tion, and a platform, inclined upward
and backward, laid down to accommo
date the officers, the telegraph operators
and 200 correspondents. Chairs, with
leather seats, will be provided for these,
and the seats in the body of the house
are reversible, padded with leather and
framed of iron, in sets. The colors of
the house aro buff and green, with gild
ings upon the iron columns and woven
iron work enclosing tho galleries. The
gas is lighted by electricity, and the
wires are already carried into the house
and the instruments attached by the
Franklin, Pacific and Western Union
Companies for newspaper uses. All the
side scenes will be taken from the stage
during the proceedings of the Conven
tion. Committees must retire to the
dressing rooms below tho stage, or to
ono of tlie foyer rooms on the third floor
front. There are six private boxes, and
seats w*U be distributed, it is said, to tlie
unnecessary and uncomfortable number
of 3,000 spectators.
HOW THE DELEGATIONS WILL SIT.
The seats in Ford’s Theatre have been
already distributed among the State del
egations, and a plan of the theatre pro
pared to put the arrangement within the
comprehension of every delegate. Mary
land, with her sixteen delegates, sits in
the extreme rear, farthest of all from the
stage, behind even tho eight Territories,
which, with tlieir two delegates apiece,
sit in front of her, flanked by Utah’s two
votes and Nevada’s six. The front row
of seats immediately under the stage, in
the parquet, will be occupied, on the
right hand of the President, by Maine,
with her fourteen votes, and Louisiana,
with her sixteen, on the President’s left.
Next behind comes Arkansas, with
twelve delegates; Michigan with ten, and
Rhode Island with eight. In the third
row will sit Mississippi, with sixteen
votes; Connecticut with twelve, and tlie
District of Columbia with two. Next
behind, and quite across the middle of
the parquet, will be Missouri, with thirty
votes; Massachusetts, with twenty-six;
Virginia, with twenty-two; Indiana, with
thirty; North Carolina, with twenty; and
filially, in the rear of the parquet, under
the eaves of the gallery, will be West
Virginia, with ten votes; Georgia with
twenty-two, and Illinois with.forty-two.
The seats in the parquet circle, which
are not so good, but still afford a fair
view of the stage, will bo occupied, in
tlie front row, by New York’s seventy
delegates ; immediately behind Penn
sylvania’s fifty-eight, and then, continu
ing back on tire right hand side towards
the rear, will l>“ Kansas. ten ; W*«
cousin, with twenty-two; lowa, with
twenty-two ; Michigan, with tweuty-two;
Nebraska, with six, and Minnesota, with
ten.
On the left hand side of the main
aisle, the front row of the parquet circle
will lie filled with Delaware’s six votes,
Florida’s eight and Alabama’s twenty.
Next behind, on the same side, come
Tennessee’s twenty-four and Kentucky’s
twenty-four. Behind Tennessee will be
Ohio’s forty-four, and behind Kentucky
California’s twelve, New Jersey's eigh
teen, the sixteen votes of Texas and the
six of Oregon.
THE STAGE AND FIXINGS.
Tlie Secretaries will sit, on either side
of the President, and the Vice-Presi
dents behind them, upon the stage, and
prominent in front will be the Associat
ed Press reporters, flanked at the wings
by the Western Union Telegraph on the
one side and the Franklin and Pacific
on the other.
To make the matter of delegates’soats
more distinct, small banners will be
placed in the part of the house where
each delegation is to be, bearing the
coat-of-anus of the State so located aud
the name of the State iu full.
The delegates will all enter by ono
particular door, and by the other main
door tin' audience exclusively.
A triumphal arch is to be put upon
the street in front of the theatre, and the
whole exterior decorated with flags and
floral insignia.
To-day tho artist is at work upon a
new drop curtain, which is to fall about
one-third of the way from the ceiling in
front of the stage. The artist is Mr.
Shaffer, a scenic painter, aud the design
represents a flag looped up, and beneath
it au eagle stretching half way across
the stage, from whose beak flies a
scroll bearing the motto, “Peace and
Good Will.”
Tlie shields and banners to ornament
the gallery fronts are nearly completed,
and the entire arrangements have been
conceived, perfected aud approved.
WHERE THE DELEGATIONS WILL STOF.
Nearly every State delegation has se
cured its quarters, and the various hotels
where they are to stop are making ac
tive preparations for tlieir care. The
Carrollton, tho new and gorgeous hotel
on tlie corner of Baltimore and Light
streets, will be the great place of resort
for the more distinguished delegates
aud delegations, aud press headquarters
has also beeu established there ; and
tlie representatives of all the first-class
journals, from the Herald down, have j
engaged from one to a half dozen of its
best apartments.
THE NEW YOKE DELEGATION,
With several distinguished attendants,
numbering in all 150, makes headquar
ters at the Carrollton, and Gov. Hoff
man, Fernando Wood, S. S. Cox, Gen.
John Cochrane, Hon. James Brooks,
Thomas Creamer, Colonel Dunlap, Nor
man E. Davis, W. A. Fowler, John Fox,
W. H. Crenelle, J. G. McGee, H. R.
Richmond, H. W. Richmond, J. S.
Thayer, Win. Williams aud Nelson W.
Young have engaged its most superb
parlors—Nos. 136, 138 and 140—-for con
sultation rooms, and each oue of them
lilts also a private parlor, and Gov. Hoff
man has two—Nos. 112 and 114. August
Belmont and a few of his friends will
stay at the Mount Vernon Hotel.
OTHER DISTINGUISHED ENGAGEMENTS.
Governor Randolph and the New
Jersey delegation will dine at the Car
rollton, liaring parlor 230 as committee
room ; as also Hon. W. H. Barnaul and
the entire Connecticut delegation, con
sultation room 300. Amasa Sprague,
and his delegation from Rhode Island,
will have fine quarters there, head
quarters at parlor 209. Ex-Governor
Bigler, from Pennsylvania, will head a
list of twenty from that State delegation
that will have headquarters there. Gen
eral D. M. Barringer, of North Carolina,
heads the delegation of thirty from that
State that will have quarters at the
Carrollton, with parlor 117 as head
qurters. The delegation from New
Hampshire will have headquarters at
the same hotel, parlor 329. The Ver
mont delegation will be there also, with
parlor 423 as its headquarters. The
Missouri delegation have spread them
selves in good quarters, and obtained
the best in the city. They come on in
great strength to work for Greeley and
Brown, and have engaged as head
quarters parlor A and B of the Carroll
ton, the largest in the house. Frank P.
Blair will accompany them. The Ala
bama delegation, headed by Hon. P. M.
Dox, will also stop at this hotel, and
have headquarters at parlor 513. A
delegation of fifteen prominent gentle
men from Louisville, Ky., who come on
to help get np enthusiasm, will also
stop at the Carrollton. The Maine dele
gation will also live there, having parlor
409 as headquarters. Hon. Eugene
Caseerly heads the California delega
tion, which will domicile at the Carroli
ton, having parlor C as headquarters.
The Arkansas delegation will stop there;
as also tlie South Carolina delegation.
The New York delegation and its at
tendants have secured the greater part
of the Carrollton’s best rooms, nearly
every gentlemen of prominence having,
besides a fine sleeping apartment, a su
perb parlor—some of them two.
At Bamum’s the array of delegations
and distinguished individuals is also
great. W. C. Conner, H. W. Genet,
Judge Scott, J. P. Sanders, W. H.
Quincy and Lieutenant-Governor Allen
C. Beach, of New York, have engaged
elegant quarters there, and the irre
pressible George Francis Train will also
stay there. The Pennsylvania delega
tion make that hotel its headquarters, as
does ex-Senator Cowan and several dis
tinguished gentlemen from that State.
Ex-Senator Doolittle and the entire
Wisconsin delegation have also taken
quarters there. Hon. Henry G. Davis,
United States Senator from West Vir
ginia, one of Greeley’s firmest and
ablest supporters, has engaged elegant
quarters at this hotel, and the entire
delegation from that State will stop there.
OTHER HOTELS.
The Tennessee delegation, Michigan
delegation, Louisiana delegation, In
diana delegation, Kentucky delegation,
Massachusetts delegation, Ohio delega
tion and Mississippi have all engaged
quarters at Barnum’s, and each will
have a parlor, as headquarters, assigned
them next week. At the Eutaw House
the Texas and Nebraska delegations are
only the ones registered, but a large num
ber of private individuals have engaged
rooms there. At the St. Clair the
Americas Club, of Philadelphia, num
bering 150, with a band of music, has
engaged quarters. The Virginia dele
gation will also stop at this. hotel, and
have fine quarters there, where its thou
sand attendants, who come to shout for
Greeley, can gather from tlieir humbler
retreats in tlie various parts of the city
wherever they can fifid a place to shelter.
Governor Walker, of Virginia, and ex-
Attomey General J. S. Black have also
line quarters at tkia house, and it will
be the headquarters of tlie German
Democrats, who ire to meet hero on tho
7tli. At the Maltby House the Kansas
delegation will stop, and portions of the
larger delegations wh > have headquarters
at the larger hotels.
POLITICAL NOTES.
The San Antonio (Texas) Herald says
that the nomination of Wilson for the
Vice-Presidency has created great dis
gust among the Radicals of that State.
North Cardina and Maine will lead off
in the elections of the campaign of
1872—the former voting for State offi
cers in August, and tho latter in Sep
tember.
General Tirry, of Virginia, has an
nounced himself a candidate far re-elec
tion to Congiess. Hols out for Greeley
and Brown.
Tho Joliet (111.) Signed says: “ There
are at least tvo hundred Republicans in
Joliet who vill voto for Greeley and
Brown. In tho other towns of the
county at leait one-third of the Repub
lican voters vill do the same thing.”
In his Indianapolis speech, Mr. Mor
ton expressed the opinion that Horace
Greeley, if elected, would infallibly turn
Democrat, and that his Liberal Repub
lican supporters wonld be “dissolved in
Democracy Ike Hies in vinegar,”
Representative Platt is authority for
the statement that Governor Henry A.
Wise, of Virginia, will support Grant
aud Wilsou iu preference to Greeley
and Brown. Platt adds that they will
probably pul Wise on the Grant electo
ral ticket.
Governor Palmer, of Illinois, in a
speech at t,h« Liberal State Convention
of that State, said : “We are going to
elect old Horace Greeley to the Presi
dency. lan not for ‘anybody to beat
Grant.’ I tin for anybody to elect
Greeley, and in that spirit I give* my
hand to the strongest Democrat of you
all.” Governor Palmer is oue of the
most popular and influential Republi
cans in Illinois.
Os Mr. Greeley’s popularity with the
Irish, the Irish People, says: “From
the expressions of opinion that appear
in the columns of the newspapers that
reach us from every part of the Union
—from the four points of the compass
—it would appear that, in view of the
coming Presidential campaign, the al
most universal voice of Irish citizenship
is in favor of Horace Greeley. He may
now be said to be emphatically the fa
vorite candidate of most Irish citizens. ”
The Galveston News furnishes the po
litical opinions of some twenty-five of
the journals of Texas. Os these, four
or five are Radical papers and support
Grant, and three are “independent” and
support Greeley and Brown. Os the
fourteen Democratic papers cited, ten
have Dronounced for Mr Greoloy, tnree
are for a sunight-out Democratic ticket,
and one, while favoring a Democratic
nomination, is willing to accept Mr.
Greeley if nominated at Baltimore.
Tho Rev. W. W. Walker, of West
moreland, Va., in his speech at the
Richmond Convention, referring to
Greeley’s old record, said : “But, after
all, Greeley s record is not a bad augury,
lie fought slavery, and slavery went
down ; lie fought secession, and seces
sion failed; aud now he ii dywn on
Grant, it is safe to expect that Grant
will go tho road of slavery and seces
sion.”
General Wolworth, tho President of
tho first Republican Convention ever
held in Wisconsin, says : “No candid
man, who is acquainted with the pre
liminary steps taken by General Grant
to secure his nomination, can regard
the Philadolpilia Convention as the
voice of the people. It is the voice of
the office-holders, expectants, and de
pendants upon tho favors of the Presi
dent.”
In Lanehester county, Penn., the
successor, of Thud. Stevens in Congress
has declined to run for a second term,
because Esaias BiUingfelt, a Republi
can, who supports Buckalew for Gov
ernor, is the favorite of the people.—
This county gave Grant over 1,000 ma
jority, and there is now talk of Btieka
lew’s carrying it by ‘.*,000 majority in
October —an anti-Grant majority which
will be repeated in November.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.
Near five thousand palmetto hats have
been manufactured at Fefmindina, Fla.,
and shipped North this season.
It is estimated that in five years there
will be between Palatka and Lake
Jessup, on the St. John’s in Florida,
five hundred thousand fruitful orange
trees.
-An enceinte North Carolina woman,
who had witnessed the death of a parti
colored calf a few days before her con
finement, was delivered of an infant
spotted like a leopard.
We learn from the Carroll (Va.) News
that Mr. Daniel Harman, of that comity,
was almost instantly killed a few days
ago by a limb of a tree falling on him
and crushing his skull.
In the same county, one day last week,
Mr. Elisha Lowe, aged seventy years,
while weeding oats, fell upon his scythe
blade, servering the; femoral artery of his
thigh, and bled to death in a short time.
One of the delegates from Galveston,
Texas, to the recent Corsicana Conven
tion, finding the sand in that thriving
town of a peculiar character, brought
home a tight flour barrel full for experi
mental purposes. Ou its arrival home
he invited some friends to inspect the
same. Wheu the head of the barrel
was removed, to the chagrin, disap
pointment and surprise of our delegate,
in less than one minute over three
fourth of the sand hopped out. The
wicked flea was there.
Forney, mindful of what Mr. Greeley
lias achieved by taking up agriculture,
has begun to write on tlie same subject.
His first article appeared in the Phila
delphia Press, of June 26tli. We quote
a paragraph : “An ancient monk, hun
dreds of years ago, in the quiet cloister
garden, litUe by little transformed a
thin, ragged weed from England’s chalky
cliffs into the fleshy-stalked turnips of
modern times. In its natural state the
turnip has but a thin, long, hard root,
with a few rough green leaves, and the
plant speedily throws up flowers during
the first few warm days of Spring, and
before Summer is over dies outright.
The turnip raised, it was found an ex
cellent food for sheep, and the wool for
manufacturing goods, until the whole
country became a huge sheep-walk, and
mills for wool manufacture often sus
tained half the population of the towns.”
The LaGrange Reporter gives the fol
i lowing as the status of the North and
i South Railroad : The company was or
j ganized on the 11th of August’last— less
j than eleven months ago. Over fortv
! miles of heavy road is graded, the iron
laid on over six miles, with engine and
train running, material in hand to com
plete fifteen more. Seventy-three miles
have been located, of which all not fin
ished are under contract and being
pushed to an early ccmpleton.
In Lancaster county, last week, a
young lady, aged about fifteen years,
daughter of Mr. John Falkenbnry, was
so severely burned, while carrying fire
from a neighbor's house, that she died
soon after.
In Aiken county there is said to be
twenty-seven candidates for Clerk of the
Court, forty-nine for Sheriff, seventy-six
for Probate Judge, two hundred’and
nineteen for Connty Commissioners, and
three hundred and thirty-six for members
of the Legislature,
'
Democratic Meeting in Oglethorpe.
Lexington, Ga., July 2, 1872.
Editor's Chronicle & Sentinel :
A large number of tlio Democratic
citizens of Oglethorpe county assembled
in the Court House at Lexington to-day,
for the purpose of organizing the Demo
cratic party of Oglethorpe 'county and
selecting delegates to represent the
county in the Convention, to be held in
Atlanta, on the 24th inst.
On motion of Judge Platt, Thomas
H. Hawkins, Esq., was' called to the
Chair, and James J. Green was request
ed to act as Secretary.
On motion of W. G. Johnson, Esq.,
the Chairman appointed a committee of
two from each militia district to report
on the organization of the party and to
suggest names of delegates to represent
the county iu the Couveution in Atlanta,
on the 24th inst.
The committee, afterretiring, returned
and reported for President of the Demo
cratic Club of Oglethorpe county, Geo.
F. Platt, with six Vice-Presidents and a
committee of five from each militia dis
trict, with Geo. 11. Lester as Treasurer,
and IV. W. McLester and J. T. Oliver
as "Secretaries—the Club to be subject
to the call of the President.
And the committee made tho follow
ing further report :
Resolved, That the Democratic party
of Oglethorpe county cordially invite
all of our fellow-citizens to unite with
it in sustaining the great principles of
local self-government against centraliza
tion, and in sustaining the principles of
the Democratic party in the ensuing
political campaign.
Resolved, That we recommend the
following names, to-wit: Whitson G.
Johnson, Z. H. Clark, T. D. Hutchison,
W. M. Willingham, M. W. Johnson,
Joseph Wise, C. M. Witcher, John T.
Hurt, as delegates to represent, this
tliis county in the Convention in Atlanta,
on the 24th inst.
On motion, the foregoing reports of
the committee were adopted.
()n motion, it was ordered that the pro
ceedings of this meeting be published
in the Atlanta Sun and Constitution, a till
the Chronicle & Sentinel and Consti
tutionalist,ol Augusta.
Ou motion, the meeting adjourned.
Thomas 11. Hawkins,
Chairman.
James J. Green, Secretary.
Letter from Franklin County.
Bold Spring, Ga., June 27, 1872.
Editors Chronicle <(: Sentinel :
After a drouth of eight weeks’ continu
ance, we have just beon blessed with
very refreshing and copious rains. In
the counties of Franklin, Banks, Jack
son, Habersham and White, tho oat crop
is rather short. Wheat is good ; corn is
late and small, but now promising ; and
cotton (wliicli is cultivated in the three
counties first named) is backward and
very small, but is looking well. More
cotton than usual lias been planted this
year in Franklin aud Banks, and twice
the amount of fertilizers have beon
bought. In these counties the people
are generally sober, civil aud industrious.
In Northeast Georgia wo feel consid
erable solicitude just now in regard to
the political situation. The few negroes
among us seem more intent on work than
politics, and there are few white Radi
cals, and they are, and 'have been, quite
mute since Bullock’s exodus. But we
Democrats, who are tho great mass of
the population, are in quite a ferment
and painful suspense. We await the
action of tho Baltimore Convention with
much solicitude. I think nearly every
Democrat among us will abide by the
decision of that Convention. We wish
Grant beaten, and therefore if Baltimore
says we can beat him with Greeley, and
in no other way, we will swallow Gree
ley, but we will swallow him with very
wry faces. In short, almost every Dem
ocrat in this part of tlio State will say to
Baltimore, “give us a simon-pure Demo
cratic candidate, if you believe we can
elect him ; but if not, let us have Gree
ley, for any body is better than Grant.”
More anon. Franklin.
Democratic Meeting In Hart.
Hartwell, Ga., July 2, 1872.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel :
A meeting of the Democratic Club of
Hart county, was hold to-day.
After reading the proceedings of last
meeting, and transacting some business
of minor importance, the following
motion was made and carried : .
On account of the difficulty in sending
a delegate from here, to attend the
Gubernatorial Convention, soon to bo
held in Atlanta, we elect tho lion. Jas.
W. Jones, our lUipiosentativo, as the
delegate from this county, to represent
the interest of this county in the con
vention ; which resulted in the election
of the Hon. J. W. Jones as our dele
gate.
The following resolution was intro
duced by F. B. Hoges, Esq., an<J car
ried :
Resolved, That our delegate bo in
structed to vote for Governor Smith,
with all the lights before us at present.
On motion, the meeting adjourned,
until the first Monday in August.
Joel L. Turner, President.
C. W. Seidel, Secretary.
Railroad Meeting lu Ilart.
Hartwell, Ga., July 2, 1872.
Editors Chronicle <fc Sentinel :
At a meeting of the Agricultural Club
of this county, a letter was introduced
by Dr. J. L. Turner, from Dr. Wilkes,
of Lincoln county, President of the Au
gusta and Hartwell Railroad ; also, the
address of Dr. Wilkes was read, as pub
lished in the Chronicle & Sentinel,
upon which the following resolution was
unanimously carried :
Resolved, That wo express our pleas
ure at hearing that the Augusta and
Hartwell Railroad has been re-organized
and fallen into the hands of good and
substantial men of our own State, and
that we, the people of Hart county, hi
case of this road coining near or through
our county town, hereby promise that
we will energetically canvass our county,
and use all our efforts to insure a liberal
subscription from this county.
Resolved, That the Secretary will
please send a copy of this resolution to
Dr. Wilkes, also to the Chronicle &
Sentine, which paper is respectfully
requested to publish tlio same.
Joel L. Turner, President.
C. W. Seidel, Secretary.
Letter from Sparta.
Sparta, Ga., July 3d, 1872.
Editors Chronicle <fc Sentinel:'
An adjourned term of the Hancock Su
perior Court has closed up a session
of only two days’ at this place, Judge
Andrews presiding. Several visiting
gentlemen of the bar were present, and
among them our Congressman—Dußose,
of Wilkes —whose genial disposition,
lively flow of spirits, . wit and humor,
has contributed much to the interest of
the occasion.
The civil and common law dockets, I
think, were disposed of, but the criminal
involving two or three, murder cases,
which occasioned the call of the Court—
was deferred udtil the regular Fall term.
The attendance has been quite slim,
owing to the very busy time in the
farming interests of the country.
The crops of the county are generally
very good, with a few exceptions, where
they have suffered with severo drouth.
A number of the planters have informed
me that they have rarely ever had a bet
ter prospect for an abundant crop, and
with no disaster their most sanguine ex
pectations will be fully realized. The
retrenchment and reform system, which
has so many advocates, I fear too many
though on paper, I am pleased to learn,
is being successfully carried out by some ;
of the model farmers of the county:
Mr. W. L. Wilson, of this class, in- j
forms me that he has averaged his crop !
the present year fifteen acres to the
l ian( j five in cotton and ten in coni. !
He used two hundred pounds of fertil- j
izers to the acre of cotton, and cotton !
seed and stable manure on his corn, sub-1
jeering both to the highest state of cul- ]
tivation, and is very certain of making j
just as much as the hands with ordinary i
diligence can gather. Perhaps those in i
a few places that I have observed, who ,
have been compelled to give up their |
crops to the weeds and grass, might j
profit by his example.
\t a meeting of citizens yesterday, I
Messrs. Linton Stephens, C. W. Dußose,
G F. Pierce, Jr., W. J. Northern and !
F. A. Butts, were chosen delegates to ,
tlie Convention in Atlanta for the nomi
nation of Governor.
The people here say there is but one
man in Georgia that could compete with j
Governor Smith, and he is a citizen of
your city, and is not and does not ex
pect to become a candidate.
1 • Traveler.
S. Adams Lee, the Yankee Swindler.
Columbus, Ga., July 4th, 1872.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel :
Gentlemen — I see in your issue of
the 2d, a statement that Captain Lee,
a cousin of our beloved Gen. R. E. Lee,
is to deliver a lecture on Hampton
Roads, in this city.
May I request yon to publish this
swindler and scoundrel, as au act of
justice to the gentlemen who were of
ficers in the late Confederate States
Navy. There never was but one Capt.
Lee, and his name was S. S. Lee, a
brother of the late Gen. Lee’s. This
scoundrel's name is S. Adams Lee; be
is from Washington, Pa., aud is the son
of a minister of that place. This
swindler was shown up in Murphrees
boro, Tenn., last Summer, by Gen. Cus
tis Lee,as an impostor. InFeburary.this
year, S. Adams Lee was shown up in his
true character by Gen. John C. Breeken
ridge in Frankfort, Ky. He never was
on board of the Merrimac or any other
Confederate ship. He might have seen
her from the Federal lines. Said im
postor served iu the Federal army aud
lost his left foot. Ho is now traveling
with ft forged letter, purporting to be
from tho Hon. Jefferson Davis, stating
that he is from Virginia. While he was
the guest of Gon. Joel A. Battle, of
Nashville, Tenn., and before he was
shown npbv thepapersin Murfreesboro
and Nashville, be solicited subscrip
tions for the Orphan’s Home at Talla
dega, Ala. (Os course ho put the pro
ceeds in liis own pocket). After this he
traveled through Missouri and lectured
for tho Lee monument—(/. e,, his
own pocket). He next turned up
iu Frankfort, Kentucky, Lexington,
Versailles, .to. At Versailles lie was
fully exposed by Lieutenant W. 11.
Craig, who served on board of the Mer
riniao as an ofli’eer in the late Confed
erate Navy. I have before mo a copy of
tho Confederate States Navy Register,
dated January Ist, 18(54, and, for the
benefit of your readers, I will give you
the names of tho Leo family who held
commissions in the Confederate States
Navy : Captain S. S. Leo, in charge of
office of orders and detail ; Lieutenant
SidneyS. Leo, Jr., naval station, Wil
mington, V. C.; and midshipmen Ik M.
Lee and W. A. Lee. I refer yon for the
truth of my statement to Admiral Frank
Buchanan, Into commanding Confed
erate States steamer Merrimac; General
John C. Breckinridge, General Joel A.
Battle and General Onstis Lee. I take
the liberty of requesting you to publish
tho Yankee imposter as ail act of justice
to thoso who served the Lost. Cause.
John C. BiiatN,
Ist Lieut. Com’dgC. S. Navy.
Augusta District Conference.
Sparta, Ga., July 4th, 1872.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
The annual Augusta District Confer
ence convened at the Methodist Church
of tliis town to-day, at 8 o’clock, a. m.,
tlio Rev. C. W. Key presiding. On
calling tho roll it was found that a good
delegation was present, all the circuits
and stations being represented, except
St. John’s, of Augusta. A number of
committees wore appointed to take into
consideration the different interests of
the churcji, and make their reports
during the session ol' tho Conference.
The afternoon lias been occupied in re
ceiving reports from the representatives
of the different charges, which has
elicited considerable feeling and in-
terest, and made development that
may be very profitable to the church.
Foremost among the interests under
consideration is the Sabbath school
cause, which is said to bo in a very pros
perous condition. Dr. Pilcher, well
known throughout the connection in
Georgia for liis ability and success in
this business, reports six hundred
children in the Methodist Church alone,
in Warren comity, who are the regular
recipients of Sabbath school instruction.
A great achievement when wo consider
tlio sparsencss of the population.
A motion was made, and is pending
for futnro action, to adopt measures
to secure religious services at least once
a week in every church in the district.
Tliis matter is regarded as vital to the
health and prosperity of the church, and
cannot be safely neglected.
Bishop Pierce arrived homo this even
ing from a long tour of arduous labors,
much exhausted, and I learn feeble in
health, but his presence is expected to
morrow, to preside over the meeting.
The town is in quite a stir with visi
tors, and among them a number of
young ladies, that grace, the streets aud
parlors with their virgin smiles, soft
and pleasant words, that make the hours
pass gently away. The citizens seem to
vie with each other in their profusions of
hospitality and kindness, and aro enter
taining the Conference in a princely
manner.
Tlio fourth of July passed off quietly;
no rattling of drums or booming of can
non to commemorate tho heroism of
seventy-six, and but for tho wagons and
carts and negroes in the streets, the day
would hardly be known. Traveler.
Mercer University. —ln tlio progress
of tlio commencement exercises of Mer
cer University, on Wednesday, Rev. Dr.
Rattle, the President elect, was inducted
into office. After reading his inaugural
address, Dr. Battlo took tho oliair, anil
announced tho following speakers in
rotation. Tho gentlemen named ns tho
speakers were the graduates upon whom
tho degrees were conferred :
Latin Salutatory—Thomas F. Stubbs,
P. D. S., Bibb county, Ga.
Oratory—John Atwell, P. D. S., Jef
ferson county, Ga.
Life is What We Make It—John C.
Weaver, 0. S., Putnam county, Ga.
Elevation of Labor a Result of Re
cent Social Changes—Bennett A. Salter,
P, D. S., Jefferson county, Ga.
Want of Backbone—Joseph B. Miller,
P. I). S., Burke county, Ga.
The Influence of the Fine Arts on
Civilization—Thomas F. Stubbs, P.
D. S.
An Old Saw Reset—Edward W. But
ler, I’. D. S., Morgan county, Ga.
Valodictorios—Bennot A. Salter, P.
D. S.
The honorary degree of A. M. was
conferred on the Rev. G. A. Lofton, of
Memphis, Tenn., and Richard .T. Lar
combo, of Savannah. The degree of A.
M. (in course) was conferred on James
A. Carswell and John S. McGinty.
Organization op Ex-Cadets Georoia
Military Institute.— Quite a number of
the ex-Cadets of the Georgia Military
Institute met in Marietta, on the 2d
instant, for the purpose of organizing
an association of the surviving cadots of
the institution. The organization was
perfected with the following officers:
President—Captain John Millodge, of
Fulton.
Vice-Presidents Hon. 11. D. D.
Twiggs, of Washington county; William
Ross, Esq., of Bibb; Maj. G. W. Lamar,
of Chatham.
Secretary—Mr. H. A. Dnuwoody.
Assistant Secretary—W. I’. Mc-
Clntcliey.
Treasurer—Colonel David Dobbs, of
Marietta.
Executive Committoe —General P. M.
B. Young, of Bartow, Chairman,
i The other members of the committee
i are Colonel B. Jones, of Polk county;
! Captain Robert Stiles, of Bartow; Dr.
{ Gilbert Tennent, of Cobb; Captain E. I’.
, Howell, of Fulton; Hon. A. D. Nun
( nally, of Spalding; Thomas 11. Barrett,
Esq., of Richmond; Milo S. Freeman,
J Esq., of Bibb; Colonel John A. Iverson,
j of Muscogee; General Robert Anderson,
! Charlton H. Way, Esq., and Captain
| Charles 11. Olmstead, of Chatham. The
} organization will meet annually.
\ What John Morrissey Says, and
i How He Will Bet.—A Saratoga corres
' pondeut of the Now York Sun writes
j that paper as follows :
I met John Morrissey to-day. An
1 eager shake of the hand with a word or
two of mutual recognition was all that
was necessary before the question of
Greeley’s chances for success became
the animated topic of conversation.
“ Well, John, what do you think of
the old philosopher’s prospects for the
Presidency ?”
“ Good enough, and dnily improving,”
was his ready answer.
“Do you think with his endorsement
of the Baltimore Convention that his
ejection will amount to a certainty ?”
“Certainly Ido,” he said, “ and al
though I may bo wrong in my conclu
sions, my money ain’t, and I stand ready
to put up on it to the amount of $5,000
or SIO,OOO, and would go it several times
over at that. With no flank movement
on the part of his openly declared
friends, and a proper ‘hushing up’ of
his own, and but little letter-writing
from his ready, fertile pen, he will be
the ‘winning card,’ sure !”
Frank Dibble, one of the most daring
and successful hunters in East Florida,
killed a bear in the Gulf Hammock re
cently that weighed, when skinned, 342
pounds, and yielded over nine gallons of
pure oil.
James Black, often called “Blind
Black,” the celebrated maker of the first
bowie knife, died the residence of Col.
D. W. Jones, at Hempstead, Arkansas,
on the 28th of June,
“ Augusta All Alive.” —Under the
above truthful caption the Charleston
News publishes the following letter
from Augusta. It will be read with in
terest by our citizens :
Augusta, Ga., June 29.
The manufacturing interest of this
city is of large aud growing importance.
The cotton mill, situated on the Augus
ta Canal, in the suburbs of the city,
known as the Augusta Factory, is a
splendid success. The stock sells for
one hundred aud ninety-five cents ou
the dollar, and the holders have for
several years received a dividend of
twenty per cent, on its face. This fac
tory runs sixteen thousand spindles,
five hundred looms, employs five hun
dred operatives, and produces an aver
age of thirty thousand yards of cloth
per day. The report of the President,
Mr. W. E. Jackson, for the year .ending
June 8, 1872, is out of the press to-day.
This shows the condition of the factory
to be most healthy. During the period
embraced bv the report it has turned
out 8,097,810 yards of drills, sheetings,
Arc. ; dispensed $(54,178 51 in wages ;
earned the handsome not amount of
$149,(514 42, and lias paid a dividend of
$120,000 oil a capital stock of six hun
dred thousand dollars.
Three or four miles from the city is
another cotton factory, tlio Richmond
Mills, which is about tho same size of
the other, and is likewise netting hand
some profits. In addition to these are
several Hour mills.
Tlio high price of ice during the Bum
mer of 1871 gave rise to the Augusta lee
Company. This company issued a
limited quantity of stock at twenty-live
dollars per share, and purchased suit
able machinery during (lie latter part of
that Summer, but did not i'airl v com
mence operations until tliis Spring.
Since then their success has been some
thing astonishing. Ice lias been reduced
in price from two and a half to one cent
per pound by lots of twenty pounds or
more ; the company’s stool; has run up
to a marketable value of twenty-four
dollars per share, and tho company
have been enabled to purchase a neiv
and improved machine. As Ihe process
of making ice is not generally under
stood, a short description will not be
out of place here. The principal instru
ments are a large iron boiler and the
“ice box,” standing at opposite ends of
a room. The “ice box” is simply a
large tank, tho interior of which' is
divided into a number of small spaces by
a series of iron tubes laid horizontally
and crossing each other at right angles.
Between tlio “ieobox”and the boiler is a
smaller tank containing a number of
small iron tubes laid horizontally, but
not crossing each other; and on the side
of this tank, next to the “ ice-box," is a
small iron reservoir. The boiler is filled
with ammonia, and at the application of
fire generates a gas which tlows through
a pipe into tlio smaller tank. This tank
is kept full of cold water for the pur
pose of cooling tho gas as it flows
through tho tubes already mentioned.
This gas is hero subjected to a pressure
equal to one hundred aud twenty pounds
to the square inch, which reduces it from
the volatile state, and forces it into the
reservoir a colorless liquid. Relieved
from tliis pressure, the liquid* immedi
ately reassumes the volatile form with
highly increased powers of absorption,
and (lows on through a connecting pipe
into the “ice box ” and its ramification
of tubes. The “icebox” is filled with
a liquid called chloride of calcium,
which will not freeze, and yet re
tains cold for a long time. A con
stant flow of gas through tho “ice
box ” carries away all tho heat from
this liquid, which, iu turn, extracts
it from the water that is to bo converted
into ice. The water for this purpose is
placed in long and narrow cans, which
are made of galvanized sheet iron to lit
tho interstices formed by tho intersec
tion of the tubes in tho “ice box.” A
short time suffices to freeze this water;
when it is ascertained to lie frozen, the
cans are taken out and dipped into a
barrel of tepid water to loosen tho iee,
which will then slide out witli perfect
easo. Tlio cokes of ice are about three
feet long by one wide, and four inches
thick, and are very much the color of
milk. This peculiar color is due to the
air frozen in the water. The machine
which the company is now using pro
duces from six to seven thousand pounds
of ico per day. The new machine is up,
aud will be running next week; it will
turn out twenty thousand pounds of
transparent ieo per day, at an average
cost of one-sixth of a cent per pound.
The Augusta Exchange is now in full
operation ; it opens at 11 a. in., and at
12 m. stocks, bonds, &e., are “called.”
This is done by a member calling oil' the
names of tho different seenritures, whieli
are printed in alphabetical order upon
strips of paper. As the name of a
security is called, if any portion is
offered tlio members make their bids,
and tlio highest bid is recorded on a
litaokbunol at ttie farthest end of tho
room, while the Secretary notes the
name of the bidder. If no bid is made
the caller passes on to the next. Only
members are admitted. The crowd as
sembled nt the calling present a busy
and interesting scene.
The Augusta Bout Club have recently
purchased a first-class papier-mache
racer, built by Waters, Baleli & Go., of
Troy, New York. They will test' the
merits of tho new comer on the Fourth
of July, iu a regatta with their old boats.
Reports from the cotton crops in this
neighborhood continue very favorable.
Melons and June apples are in abun
dance. Peaches have appeared at tho
fruit shops in limited quantities. Money
tight; business dull; weather hot and
showery. Sr rite.
[From tho Savannah Itopnblican.]
A Georgian in TeXas.
Georgia is proud of her meritorious
sons, in whatever land they may east
their lot, and claims their famo as part
of her inheritance. But a few yoars ago
(it at least seems so to us), the writer of
this knew a bright, curly-haired boy,
who, with an intellect, ambition, and
sweetness of character rarely excelled,
gave promise, of no ordinary career.
His widowed mother emigrated in com
pany with a son-in-h w to the State of
Texas, taking with her the youth refold
ed to. in the wilds of his adopted
(State he prosecuted his academical
studies, then the law, was admitted, and
before he had reached his twenty-fifth
year had risen to distinction at the bar.
In reorganizing her Supremo Court af
ter the war, the State of Texas promo
ted this young Georgian to a seat, on
that high tribunal, wliero he won judi
cial honors that have been accorded to hut
few of his age. But his bright intellect
and many excellencies of character wore
destined to shine on a more popular
theatre. The late apportionment act
gave one additional Representative in
Congress to Texas, to be chosen by the
State atLargn, and the Democratic, Con
vention, which met a few days ago, from
among a host of distinguished names,
made choico of the young Judge as
their standard bearer in the contest for
the position. His name is Asa If.
Willie, and the good people of “Old
Wilkes” will feel proud in the contem
plation of iiis honorable record. From
a recent issue of the Galveston Civilian
we clip the following notice of h.'s nom
ination and complimentary reference to
his character and career :
“The nomination of A. H. Willie, as a
candidate for Congress, is a high honor
both to the nominee and the convention.
Judge Willie had not intimated any
desire for the position, and tho nomina
tion was the spontaneous movement of
the solid citizens of the interior, who
have known him since his youth, llis
claims rest wholly upon his solid quali
ties as a citizen, jurist and statesman.
No man is freer from all that character
izes the professional politician. He
stands wholly above all electioneering
devices. His is the honor that follows
. high qualities—not the honor that is
sought by self-praise and the tricks of
the • demagogue. Tho strongest and
shrewdestpoliticians of the State brought
all their energies to bear to secure the
nomination for themselves; but the
patriotism and good sense of tho con
vention were not to bo perverted. All
the other candidates were men of ability
and having high claims of one sort or
another; but the sterling integrity,
purity of character and pre-eminent
ability of Judge Willie were too strong
to be ignored. His election will follow
as spontaneously as his nomination re
sulted from the pre-eminence of his
qualifications and character.”
A Protracted Law Suit Settled.—
Nearly all of our country readers are
f a with the ease of Horn vs. Bar
bour county, which has so long been in
the Courts, but wo will briefly run over
it. The plaintiff, William D. Horn, fell
from a bridge in this county, over Lick
Greek, in October, 1852, and received
serious injuries from his fall, and on ac
count of which lie brought suit for dam
ages against the county, in Barbour Cir
cuit Court, in February, 1859. The first
trial took place in 18(57, with a verdict
for the plaintiff of $4,500. The defend
ant appealed, and tho Supreme Court
reversed and remanded the case. At the
next trial, in 1870, the plaintiff recovered
a verdict of $fi;000; again defendant ap
pealed, and again the Supreme Court
reversed and remanded the case. It
was next tried at the Spring term, 1871,
of the Circuit Court, when a verdict
was rendered for defendant, anew trial
granted, and on a change of venue to
Henry county, the plaintiff recovered a
verdict of SIO,OOO.
Another appeal was taken, and at tho
present term of the Supreme Court it
was decided that a county cannot be
held liable for accidents that may hap
pen on a bridge similar to tho one in
question. If it hail been a toll bridge,
then the plaintiff- could have recovered
damages. This decision is final, and
saves to the county about SIO,OOO ; but
it is disastrous to Mr. Horn. —Eufaula
Tillies, 30 th ult.
THE COLLEGE OP NEW JERSEY.
[From tlio Princetonian. of June 29th, 1H72.]
The College of New Jersey has just
held its 125 t h Annual Commencement.
The occasion was in many respects a
memorable one. It is now four years
since President McCosh's administration
began. The present graduating class cn
temHhe College the same year with him,
and is therefore the first that has com
pleted its full course under his auspices.
It is also tho largest class that has over
graduated from the institution. The oc
casion has been made further memorable
by two munificent gifts, one of $200,000
from John O. Green, Esq., mid one of
SIOO,OOO from Henry G. Murquand,
Esq., both of Now York city.
Tho exorcises of the wool* began with
t he Baeenlaureate Discourse of President
McOosli, on Sunday. It. was generally
thought to be the ablest effort of tho
kind that Dr. MoCosli lias yet made in
this country. It produced a profound
impression upon the minds of the stu
dents.
Monday was given up to the Class-Day
exercises. These were of a varied and
entertaining character, and drew, as
usual, a largo concourse of visitors. This
bringing tlie Class-Day into Commence
ment week, instead of having it some
weeks beforehand, in a great, improve
ment. It produces a ooncent ration of
interest not otherwise attainable. The
Class-Day exercises are all managed by
the students themselves! Tho Oration
was by John 0. Davis, of Missouri ; t lio
Poem, by Davison Decker, of New Jer
sey ; the History, by Karl base, of New
Jersey ; the Ode, also by Kase, with
Music by McCall, of New York city ;
Mu' Ivy Oration, by Lewis Dowart, of
Pennsylvania ; the Library Oration, by
Warren I!. Shortl., of North Carolina ;
the Presentation Address, by James L.
Wilson, of New Jersey.
During the evening of Class-Day t lio
Sophomores went, through the perform
ance of “ burying tho Greek,” with
grotesque and imposing ceremonies.
Ou Tuesday, Senator Frelingliuysen,
of New Jersey, delivered the annual ad
dress before the Literary Societies. It.
was a finished and classical performance,
worthy of the occasion mid of the Sena
tor’s reputation for eloquence.
On Tuesday evening the usual Junior
Orator contest, came of between the Oli
osopliie and American Whig Societies.
This has become of late yours tho most,
exciting and brilliant, part of Commence
ment, week. Four prizes of $25 each are
awarded by the Trustees, and one of
SIOO, known as the Maclean Prize, and
endowed by the will of the late Mr. St.in
nocke. Eight speakers, four from each
Society, contend for these prizes. Tho
arrangements for the occasion were un
der the exclusive management, of tho
Junior Class. Anything more complete,
or more perfectly ordered, in all respects,
it would not hi possible to imagine. Tho
interest in the result, was intense, and
the contest was as keen as it was honor
able.
Tlio regular Commencement exercises
took place on Wednesday, beginning at,
9 a. m., and continuing till 2J, j>. m.,
with a short, intermission at 1.
Tho graduating class numbered 92.
The number receiving the degree of A.
M. was 40.
Only two of the higher degrees wore
conferred, namely: I). I). on Rev. Thus.'
Murphy, of Philadelphia, of Ihe class of
1846, and LL.I). on Parke Godwin, Ksq.,
of New York, of the class of 1834.
The Latin Salutatory, which is tho
highest, honor, was delivered by Leigh
Richmond Smith, of Alabama; the Eng
lish Salutatory, by James Adair Lyon,
of Mississippi; the Valedictory, by Rich
mond Pearson, of Nortli Carolina.
The other honorary orations were ns
follows: Philosophical, by John Craw
ford, of Delaware; Classical (Greek), by
Henry N. Van Dyke, of New Jersey*;
Metaphysical, by Cornelius S. Scott, of
Kentucky ; Physical, by Melbert, B.
Cary, of Wisconsin ; Rhetorical, by
John C. Lane, of Maryland ; Mathe
matical, by Walter R. Frame, of Illinois;
Political Science, by George A. Blake,
of New Jersey; Classical, by Samuel E.
Ewing, of Pennsylvania.
The Master’s Oration was by Edward
Q. Keasbey, of Now Jersey.
The inducements to high scholarship
at Princeton aro now very strong. Be
tween four and Jive, thousand dollars
were distributed in Fellowship anil
Prizes,gained by study, and under open
competition. The announcement and
distribution of thoso awards constitute
tho grand climax of Commencement and
of the academic year. As those awards
aro kept strictly private until ,iho an
nouncement at tlie close of tlio exercises!
the excitement at. that supreme moment
is intense. Tho following were the
awards:
Classical Fellowship, $(500, Winfred
It. Martin, Pekin, China.
Mathematical Fellowship, $llOO, James
A. Lyon, Mississippi.
Mental Science Fellowship, $(500, L.
R. Smith, Alabama.
Experimental Science Fellowship,
$(500, Albert. Williams, California.
Historical Fellowship, $250, James F.
Riggs, Constantinople, Turkey.
Modern Language Fellowship, $250,
John if. Scribner, New Jersey.
Junior First I touor Scholarship, S2OO,
not awarded until next week. It. was
gained last year by L. R. Smith, of
Alabama.
Sophomore Prize, .S(SO, Mathemati
cal, George 11. Ferris, Micigan.
English Literature Prize, $l4O, Davi
son Decker, Now Jersey.
Rest Essay on Religion and Culture
(Junior), SOO, George S. Burroughs,
Pennsylvania.
Isibfic.nl Scholarship Prizes, S3O,
each, Frederick 15. Du Val, Maryland,
and Arthur N. Bviien, New Jersey.
Muelean. Prize for Oratory (Junior),
SIOO, Si moil J. McPherson, New York.
Trustees’ Medals, $25 each, for Ora
tory (Junior), Josinh R. Adams, Penn
sylvania; George 11. Duflield, New Jer
sey; Henry J. Van Dyke, New York,
and J. P. Kennedy Bryan, South Caro
lina.
It is proper to mention also, in this
connection, that, valuable prizes for
gymnastic excellence were awarded a.
few weeks ago to Robert, L. Sl,evens.
New Jersey; Samuel E. Ewing, Pennsyl
vania, and M. S, Shot,well, North Caro
lina.
Tho chief prize of all is to be awarded
in September, at the opening of the next
term. This is tho Stiuneeko Scholar
ship' of SSOO a year for throe years
($1,500 in all) for tho one who passes tho
best examination in Latin and Greek,
for the Sophomore Class. This prize in
open to competition both to the Fresh -
men of tho last year and to tiew comers
from without, and will doubtless draw a
large crowd of competitors.
Old graduates of Princeton who have
not visited it of late years would hardly
know the College under its new dross.
Besides the old North, West and East
Colleges, we have now Reunion Ball, a
finer building than either the Observa
tory, the Gymnasium, Dickson Hall
(erected for lecture and recitation rooms,
and costing $100,000), the new Library,
now almost completed and costing
$120,000, with a fund of SIOO,OOO for the
purchase of hooks and for additional
buildings, and lastly, $200,000 just given
for building and endowing a Scientific
School, and SIOO,OOO for other purposes.
Hard Times Among the New York
Printers.— Tho New York Evenhuj Ex
press, of Saturday, says:
The unemployed printers of the city
have issued a circular for a meeting «>f
tho craft to-day, declaring that very
many of their craft have long been with
out work, and that some of them are
almost in a starving condition, wliilo
many others who have work are earning
from SSO to $35 a week on some of tho
morning papers. Those out of employ
ment seem to think that they should
share in the work of those who have
good situations here. 'These unfortu -
nate men, so long out of employment,
must consider the reason why so many
are out of work here. Tho high prices
paid in New York for composition havo
taken one half of the work formerly
done in the city to Old England, New
England, Western New York and else
where. All through tho country we ob
serve that th« type on many weekly
newspapers are now being “set up” by
girls. The scale of prices for type set
ting in this city is from one-third to one
half higher than country prices, and the
talk of still higher prices or shorter
time, with the fact of dull times, lias
prevented a great many publications
contemplated a few months since.
Death of Mrs. Poullain. Tim
Greensboro Herald, of tho ‘27th nit.,
has the following announcement:
Mrs. Harriet Poullain, the venerable
wife of our worthy friend and fellow
citizen, Dr. Thos. N. Poullain, departed
this life on Saturday evening last; aged,
seventy-nine.
The Chattanooga Herald says that
Capt. Ben S. Nicklin, of that city, who
has a happy taste for mitiipio specimens
of ingenuity anil taste, is the possessor
of a snuff-box made m the 10th century,
and but recently parted company with
the descendants of a long line of Ger
man nobility, ft is a remarkable pre
servation from the devastation of cen
turies, and, it is said, was at one time
the favorite pocket-piece of Frederick
the Great.
Sound red cedar is worth sevcnty-ltvo
cents per cubic foot in Florida,
ed at a shipping point,