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WEDNESDAY JULY 17.1
TIIK GREENWOOD AM) AUGUSTA
RAILROAD.
This project has been repeatedly
brought before our merchants mu] bnsi
iii * men throngh the columns of tlie
( ’intoNicL,F. A Hkn tivki., in the hope of
enli 1 iie/ their m rioiiM consideration of
mi enterprise which promises 11 very con
nl' rable expansion of the trade of All- :
"'I .1 i, and it corresponding contribution
t" fin; material advancement of tlio city. |
S'. far as developing any organized ex-j
pr. doll of favor of the eiiteprise goon, !
iv have failed to discover tile fruits of
our elfnrts to arouse our mercantile corn- j
■nullity to a just appreciation of this op- j
portnuity to extend the sphere of their
commercial influence to a large and pro- j
duetne scope of country in our sinter
Slate, anxious to empty the wealth of its j
no u nit Ural products into the lap of Au- j
pa li. Whatever interest may have |
I" en excited in the enterprise is of that j
viomio and shapeless character which
cnrrii with it no power to inspire the j
indent and aefive friends of the proposed i
i".id in the upper counties of Carolina
with I lie encouraging belief that Augus
ta appreciate,-, its importance to her
trade, and stands ready to respond with
material pledges of her appreciation in
siding them to secure direct communi
cation with the market of their prefer-
Tliis spiritless favor (if indeed favor
and all) should not longer characterize
that class of our citizens who have it in
tln ir power to give this enterprise an
impetus which will drive it to successful
completion.
• >nr (larolinn friends evince an en
thusiastic earnestness in this project
which plainly enough indicates that they
mean business, and not the mere record
upon paper of high-sounding purpose,
bereft of corresponding contribution of
substantial investment in the enterprise
which they urge upon the favorable con
sideration of our citizens. They do not
n I Hercules to take the entire heavy
burden from their shoulders, but simply
invite the citizens of Augusta to aid
tln-in in reaching the market of their
choice with the annual products of their
l'erlile soil, to bo exchanged for planta
tion and family supplies. Inasmuch as
Augusta is to reap largely of the bene
fits accruing to that section of country
through a more direct and desirable
railroad connection with the commercial
world than at present, it is but proper
tlml she should materially aid an en
terprise which promises to increase her
commercial importance, and enhance her
general business interests. Our enter
prising and public spirited citizens will
certainly not remain passively inclined
to the project, willing to accept the
larger share of benefits which may arise
from the consummation of the road, but
unwilling to invest of their substance in
enlarging the area of our trade. Let
our leading commercial men give this
proposed road such consideration as its
bi aring upon their direct interests de
mands, entering heartily into a confer
ence with our Smith Carolina friends at
Greenwood on the Ist of August, on
which occasion a grand barbecue will bo
spread, and ngeueral rally of the friends
of the road be made, ft is to be hoped
that Vngusta will have a delegation of
her solid men present on that occasion,
as an earnest of her willingness to co
operate with our South Carolina friends
in any practical movement, looking to
our mutual interests in the construction
of this additional feeder to our growing
commercial importance.
\s uii evidence of tho fooling which
controls ovir Bout.li Carolina friends in
t heir oHurts to securo railroad eonnee
ticui with Augusta, wo annex tho follow
ing private lottei received by a gentle
man in this city:
(ihki’.nwood, S. C., Juno 21, 1872.
My I>k.\h Sill After compliments and
kindest wishes, you will please excuse
i lie intrusion. A common interest in
duces this correspondence, and perhaps
a matter of no ordinary value attaches
to the enterprise of which 1 wish to
peak of to tho people of Augusta
through yon. Tho Greenwood and All-'
■ pistu I tail road can be a living reality
provided the people of Augusta will
come forward and assist us. tu this and
surrounding country, and in fact all the
up country, the friends to the road are
spreading themselves. You will be really
astonished to learn that the road has
friends in Walhalla, Anderson, I)no
W est and Greenville. We have comfort
ing news from each of those places.
Augusta seems to be the favorite mar
ket of the people throughout Upper
('arotinn. The great drawback to Au
gusta is its distance over rail, which our
present project will supersede, if suc
cessful. The inducements to a success
ful undertaking are many, and should
l>e seriously considered by the citizens
of Augusta.
In the first place, the freighting of
10,000 bags of cotton over the road is no
small item. Think, then, of the sale of
this cotton in Augusta. In a few years
what a vast amount of money would be
emptied in Augusta. Imagine again the
other sources of trade from the upper
section of Carolina. Os this you know.
Again, Augusta will never reach this
trade only by the present scheme.
The Laurens Railroad has been bought
by a party who will put it. in miming
order, which, of course, will throw the
I,aureus cotton to Charleston. The
people of Laurens would come here and
ship their cotton to Augusta if our road
was running. They are clamorous for
the road. We flatter ourselves that with
this road Augusta can be made the se
cond city in Georgia. You have but a
faint idea of the feeling of the whole
country on the subject. Arouse Augusta
efficiently. Ail immense barbecue and
pie-nic will be held here on the 12th of
August ill its behalf. Have your speak
ers ready. We want them here. Dis
miss the matter freely among yourselves.
Ciive tt general publicity. We want the
road. The mountain people want the
road.
We are fully persuaded that this
movement referred to in the above letter
is really a movement of the people for
the people, and not a stock-jobbing
scheme. We hope, therefore, that our
merchants will take steps to be repre
sented at the meeting, and that our
worthy Mayor and Council will have a
representation there also, which will in
tend business, not buncombe. We under
stand that our Carolina friends desire
simply that Augusta will build a road to
or near Fury's Ferry and bridge the Sa
vannah river to meet them. This done,
they feel assured of their own fbility to
accomplish the rest. Now, surely, Au
gusta and her merchants can pledge
themselves to this extent. Again, we
commend this matter to our citizens.
Let not this l>e numbered as a lost
opportunity, like many others in times
past. Our influence and prosperity will
expand with our facilities for interior
i liter-communication.
< )VT oF Jam, —The notorious “Hon."
Tunis G. Campbell, negro Senator from
the Second District, who was lately com
mitted to Fulton county jail on a bench
warrant from Judgo Hopkins, charging
him with marrying a negro mau to a
white woman in this vicinity in 1808,
celebrated his 4th of July by giving the
required $3,000 bond—and again “walks
to and fro in the world and up and down
in it .’’—Atlanta titm, 6f h.
TIIE PALI, ELECTIONS.
Previous to the great Presidential con
test in November, the following States
and Territories hold elections this Fall:
North Carolina, August 1 ; Kentucky,
Montana and Utah, August 5; New
Mexico, September 1 ; California, Sep
: teinber2; Vermont,Septembers; Maine,
September 9 ; Colorado Territory, Sep
ternlierlO; Dakota, Indiana, lowa, Ne
-1 bra.ska, Ohio, Pennsylvania and the Dis
| trict of Columbia, October 8; South
Carolina, October 16; West Virginia,
I October 24. All the States vote for
Presidential Electors on the sth day of
November, and on the same day the fol
lowing choose State officers : Alabama, .
Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, ;
Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,
Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jer
sey, New York, Tennessee, Virginia and ,
Wisconsin. Arizona holds her Territo- j
rial election on the Hth of November.
TIIE LUNATIC AS YUM.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Sa
| vannah News states that the committee
appointed last Winter to look into the
condition and management of the State
Lunatic Asylum will be prepared to
make a report when the Legislature as
sembles. The committee consists of
Drs. Win. Henry Cumming and James
P. Bozeman. In order to gain as much
information as possible with regard to
the proper management of these institu
tions, Dr. Cumming visited all the
principal asylums in the Northern States
and Canada. The subject, is one which
demands the early attention of the
Legislature. The. building near Mil
ledgeville is entirely too small for the
proper accommodation of the insane of
the State, and in many of the county
jails are poor wretches who have been
unable to get admission to the institu
tion, and are too dangerous to be allowed
liberty. In Richmond county there
have been several such cases. The evil
is one which calls loudly for redress,
and we trust that prompt action will be
taken.
THE HOUTHEItN PACIFIC ItA 11.
HOAD.
There are those amongst ns who be
lieve that the day is not far distant
which will witness a continuous railroad
connection stretching across the Ameri
ca»l continent, between San Diego, the
best harbor on the Pacific coast, nml
Port Royal, the equal, if not the supe
rior, of the best port on the boisterous
Atlantic. In either of these harbors the
fleets of the world—ships of the largest
class achieved by modern science—may
enter with ease, ride safely at anchor
age in a royal roadstead, thoroughly
land-locked, or lie securely moored at
doeks in a depth of water ample, and to
spare, to float the grea test Leviathan of
them all. Just now Colonel John W.
Forney, of the Philadelphia Press, who
prefers to explore, in company with Col
onal Thomas A. Scott, of the Pennsylva
nia Central, Southern resources along
the proposed route, in Texas, of the
Southern Pacific Railroad, to wielding a
political buttle axe for Grant and Impe
rialism, en route writes a long and—
barring now and again a little effusion
of Radical gas—an interesting letter,
from which we make the following ex
tract. Following a description of
Shreveport, Louisiana, and predicting
for this city “a glorious future,” Colonel
Forney says:
At this gateway of the grandest ma
terial enterprise of this or any age, let
me give the general reader an idea of the
work undertaken by Col. Thomas A.
Scott and his associates. “The Texas
and Pacific Railway Company” finds
iiuished to its hands 60 miles of railroad,
from Shreveport, on Red river, to Long
view, Upshur county, Texas, which is
doing a good freight and passenger busi
ness. This is the line heretofore known
as the Southern Pacific, and extends
from Marshall, Texas, through a mag
nificent region, to FJ Paso del Norte,
near the boundary between the United
States and Mexico, thence to the junc
tion of the Gila and Colorado rivers of
the west. at. Fort Yuma, and thence to
the magnificent, harbor of San Diego, on
the Pacific coast, which is land-locked,
and large enough for one thousand ves- 1
sels to ride with ease on its bosom, i
There is another branch, the Transcon
tinental, which begins al Texarkana, in
the county of Lafayette, Texas, ten miles
west of Fulton, Arkansas, and extends
through a most fertile region of country
to Fort Worth, in the county of Tarrant,
Texas, where it joins the main line,
above described, and the two together
pursue the route to the Pacific on the
:i‘2d parallel. To Fort Worth, after
visit ing the towns of Marshall and Jetl'er
, son, Col. Scott and his party will pro
ceed to-morrow, when we will stage it
, one hundred and seventy-five miles
across the country, reaching the railroad
at Dallas, whence we proceed through
Houston and other places to Galveston.
There we board the Morgan steamer for
New Orleans, and so home, which, with
the good fortune that has so far atten
ded us, we hope to reach by the 10th or
15th of July, or a little over a month
since we left. This is a long route ; |
when completed we shall have traveled j
nearly S,(KX) miles by rail, steamboat,
stage, and ocean steamer. Col. Scott
and his chief engineer have been con
tinually occupied during our trip con
sulting maps, laving out routes, provid
ing for materials, workmen, Ac., so that
when he reaches Marshall, the threshold
of his work, he will give his orders
clearly. Col. Henry G. Stebbins, Vice-
President of the company, is now in
London, negotiating the first loan, which,
under the prestige attending this grand
scheme, will be easily secured.
By uniting the two lines referred to,
chartered by the State of Texas and by
Congressional enactment included under
the title of “The Texas and Pacific,”
Colonel Soott secures all the lands and
bonds voted to the said Texas roads by
the State of Texas, equal in value to
over twenty millions of dollars. This is
exclusive of the subsidies of Congress of
pub'ic lands in the Territories, between
El Paso, in Texas, and San Diego, in
California.
The distance from the eastern boun
dary of Texas to San Diego is about j
1,800 miles, or. including the Trans-!
continental Road and its branches from
Texarkana to Marshall, about 1,900 j
miles. There are no engineering ditfi- j
eulties of any kind to be met with :
there is no practical difficulty in regard to
fuel or water, aud the country generally
presents more facilities for the construc
tion of a railroad than can be found ou
a line of equal length ou the Western
Continent. Comparing the different
estimates of cost of this line, and com
paring *ll the estimates with the esti
mated cost of all tho other roads in the j
United States, there can be no doubt j
that this road can be constructed in j
a first-class manner and thoroughly
equipped for business at a cost, as be- j
fore stated, not exceeding $40,000 of j
bonded debt per mile. To aid in the 1
construction of this road, the United
States has made a grant of its lands in
the Territories of New Mexico and
Arizona and the State of California, in
all not less than 15,000,000 acres, in al- j
termite sections, along the route of said
The company offers its bonds, issued
under the provisions of its charter, se
cured bv a mortgage of the road,
its franchises, property, rolling stock,
i and appurtenances, including the fifteen
| millions of acres of land granted by the
! United States, aud believes that no bet
j ter or more satisfactory security exists.
; The bonds are payable in forty years,
! in gold, and the interest, at six pel
cent., with one per eent. for sinking
: fund, also in gold, payable semi-anuual
j ly. The principal and interest will be
| j .ay able at the option of the holder, in
! Europe or America, as set forth in the
! bond.
Besides this divelopmrnt of business
is the actually existing business await
ing transportation, and already adverted
to, in Texas, Chihuahua, Sonora, New
Mexico, Arizona, and California. Mr.
Greeley, who traveled extensively in
Texas iu 1871, estimates that in 1880 she
will have a population of two millions,
aud that her industry and enterprise
will have far outstripped the increase of
population. It is estimated that at
least 100,000 emigrants have arrived
within her borders during the past year,
and that there will be shipped from the
Red river country alone, during the
present year, 75,000 bead of cattle, 750,-
000 pounds of beef, 100,000 pounds of
tallow, with hides, 225,000 bales of cot
ton, and large quantities of wool, and
that the receipts from all sources will not
be less than $50,000,000.
; Os the through trade between Califor
nia and the Atlantic, and the trade and
i traffic of the Eastern Continent, this
j road, from its superior advantages al-
I ready adverted to, must inevitably se
i cure a large proportion. The gross
j earnings of the Union Pacific and Cen
tral Pacific Railways combined, fox
187], the second year of their through
| business, as officially reported, amount
led to §17,250,000, of which amount 65
per cent, was local business, mainly
i created by the railroad itself, and about
I 53 per cent., or nearly nine millions and
j a half of the above sum, was a net profit
i over operating expenses. An equal rev-
I enue oil the Texas Pacific, estimating its
| total cost at say $75,000,000, would give
| a return of over 12 per cent, as the net
: earnings, and the amounts will expand
in an ever-icreasing ratio as the country
is settled and its resources developed.
But stiperadded to all this is the mu
nificent contribution of lands by the
Government, the general character of
which is such as to secure their ready
sale, and the proceeds of sales of which,
by the terms of the mortgage, are devo
ted to the payment of interest on the
bonds and the purchase of the bonds
themselves—the latter of which features,
it is believed, will put the bonds at par
as soon as the company itself shall be
able, from the sales of land, to announce
itself as a purchaser of its own bonds.
Judging from the experience of other
companies in the sale of Government
lands, the inference is fairly warranta
ble tLilt the value of the lands them
selves will be amply sufficient to build
and equip the entire road, thus doubling
the security for the payment of the
bonds.
i The Union Pacific Railroad Company,
during the year 1870, sold 294,000 acres
! of land, at an average of $4.46 per acre
—51,311,240. At a like rate per acre the
15,000,000 acres of the Texas and Pacific
Railway Company would produce §67,-
900,000.
I have now given you an outline of the
last project with which Colonel Scott is
identified. Its magnitude is almost be
yond comprehension ; its prosecution
and completion worthy of the loftiest
ambition. Needless for me to say that
our young and daring leader looks to no
pecuniary reward. That, he has already
secured. He now aspires to the higher
object of reuniting North and South in
the bonds of increasing commerce and
lasting peace.
How mysterious are the ways of Pro
vidence ! A little more than twenty
years ago, when Thomas A. Scott was an
humble subordinate in the employ of
the Pennsylvania Central Railroad, Jef
ferson Davis was a Senator in Congress
from Mississippi, and Franklin Pierce a
candidate for President. Scott voted for
Pietce, and the latter, elected in Novem
ber of 1852, made Jefferson Davis his
Secretary of War, March 4, 1853. One
of the first steps of the latter was to or
der a survey of the Territories to find
out the best route for a railroad to the
Pacific. Four reports were made by the
ablest of our engineers, which he sent to
Congress, ably supported in one of his
best papers. The war made by himself
and a few reckless men postponed all
work on the route over the thirty-second
parallel, which was the favorite route of
Davis, but did not stop the speedy con
struction of that now known as the
Union Pacific by Northern enterprise,
even when Davis was forcing the people
of tile South to fight against their coun
try. And now, just at the moment these
same people are prostrated by the results
of their rebellion, and when they are
looking forward for one brave, strong
and sympathetic heart to help them out
of the gloom, Col. Scott steps forward
in the 51st year of bis age, and accepts
the trust, which, but for that rebillion,
would have been lon# ago <liaohr».rgcd by
other hands.
OFFICERS OF THE TEXAS PACIFIC RAIL
ROAD COMPANY.
President—Thomas A. Scott.
Vice-President —Henry G. Stebbins.
Treasurer —Edwards Pierrepout.
Secretary—Emanuel B. Hart.
Assistant Secretary—Geo. B. Krumb
haar.
Board of Directors —Thus. A. Scott.,
I’a.; E. Pierrepout, N. Y.; IT. G. Steb
bins, N. Y.; G. W. Cass, Pa.; W. T.
Walters, Mil.; J. N. McCullough, Pa.;
W. C. Hite, Ivy.; W. C. Hall, Ky.; H.
B. Plant, Ga.; H. D. Newcomb, Ky.; E.
W. Rice, Iowa; H. S. McComb, Del.; J.
McManus, Pa.; J. W. Forney, Pa.; W.
W. Travers, N. Y.; J. H. Harris, La.;
J. W. Throckmorton, Texas.
TUB BOLTERH’ CONVENTION.
On Monday and yesterday a number
of gentlemen opposed to tlie nomination
or endorsement of Air. Greeley, by the
I lemocratic Convention, met in the city
of Baltimore. These gentlemen, we be
lieve, call themselves Democrats—
Simon Vines, Bourbons and Red llots.
Among them .are such choice spirits as
Brick Pomeroy, of New York; Blanton
Duncan, of Kentucky, and Stokes, of
South Carolina. From the report of
their meeting it will be seen that these
gentlemen propose, with refreshing
coolness, to act as supervisors of tho
National Democractie Convention.
Summoned by no one knows who,
and representing none others than
themselves, they modestly assume the
right to superintend the labors and
direct the efforts of tho representatives
of the great Democratic party of the
Union. They intimate very strongly
what is to la l their course. If the Con
vention nominates a “ straight-out ”
Democrat, on a “straight-out platform”
(of both of which Messrs. Pomeroy,
Duncan & Cos. must be the judges), they
will give the action their sanction. But
if the Convention should see proper to
nominate Air. Greeley, or endorse him,
and make no nomination, these gentle
men will repudiate the nomination or
endorsement, issue an “address to
the conntry,” and take such other
measures as they may think proper
to preserve the Democratic party—
meaning, we presume, the nomination of
“ straight-out” candidates. Apart from
high sounding words and absurd threats,
the meeting seems to have been, like the
anti-Greeley conference in the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, a complete failure, and
whatever may be its course, its only ef
fect will bo to bring ridicule upon its
originators and participators.
THE CAMPAIGN IN NORTH CARO- J
LINA.
First on the list of States holding
elections preceding the Presidential
election, Grant and his administration
and military rings are unscrupulously
employing every corrupting appliance j
which promises to secure a Radical
triumph iu North Carolina on the first
of August.
Among other things resorted to, it is j
given out that ex-Senator Abbot lias se
cured $25,000 in New Y'ork, to be em
ployed as a corruption fund. Thus pro
vided with the most powerful element
of strength iu swaying an ignorant float- j
ing vote, aud backed by the shrewd
rascality of a host of carpet-bag robbers :
and scalawag thieves in its application !
to the purposes intended, Grant aud j
his sympathizing horde of State pluu- !
derers are jubilant over the prospect of ;
crushing out in the “ Old North State”
all opposition to the plundering schemes j
which Radical villainy has concocted for
the further robbery of a people who
have already been plucked to the bone
bv these merciless plunderers.
Asa supplemental aid to the cor
ruptive influences of a liberal distribu- j
tion of money in the campaign, the;
tongues of a number of the leading;
stump spouters of Grant’s Cabinet have
been oiled up for service. Secretary
Boutwell is billed to leave Washington
on the 18th inst., to make } speeches at
Morgantown and Charlotte. He will
make other addresses in the State be-
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1872.
fore ho returns. Other leading Grant
speakers are to participate, among them
being Secretaries Robeson and Delano,
Postmaster-General Creswell, General
Logan, Senators Chandler aud Harlan,
if the latter can get away from the ex
acting duty of editing the Administra
tion organ.
Thus, it will be seen that our conserva
tive friends and allies in the “ Old North
State” are to have no holiday work in
throttling the serpent of Radicalism
which threatens to draw its slimy folds
still closer around their vital energies.
The issue, to our mind, is to say the
least, of doubtful result, unless every
true son of the grand old common
weal tli shall rally to the rescue of their
stricken mother from the hands of the
plundering spoilsmen. The conserva
tive leaders appear to be making the
campaign red-hot, and are vigorous,
earnest and eloquent in their appeals to
the masses. We can only hope that
they may be instrumental in arousing
the great mass of their people to a full
sense of the importance of the issue be
fore them, to the end that tho army of
carpet-baggers and thieves which lias
fattened upon the shameless robbery of
the State may be swept beyond the pos
sibility of resurrection to curse a people
great in oil the elements of strength
which dignify anil exalt a State. To do
this requires but the adherence of the
advocates of an honest administration
of State affairs to a high resolve not to
indulge an indifferent attitude in the
great contest, but to buckle on the
armor of an active and uncompromising
warfare against the machinations of
Grant anil his sympathetic State plun
derers. An earnest concert of action
from the mountains to the seaboard will
break the rule of the despoiler, and
cause the thieves and plunderers to take
up their line of march from the good
old North State, as they did from Geor
gia.
It is gratifying to note the evidences
of patriotic sympathy among prominent
speakers from other States with our con
servative friends in North Carolina, in
the gallant fight they are making against
Radicalism. Wo observe that there will
be a grand mass meeting and barbecue
at Weldon on Friday next, the 12tli
inst., at which time Senators Schnrz,
Trumbull, Ransom, Blair and Thurman,
ex-Senator Doolittle, ex-Gov. Yance,
Gov. Walker and Col. James W. Hinton,
of Virginia, General J. B. Gordon, of
Georgia, and other distinguished speak
ers, are expected to addressjthe people.
Preparations have been made for a very
large attendance. Excursion trains will
be run from Wilmington, Raleigh, Ports
mouth and Petersburg, anil the fire com
panies of the principal cities in North
Carolina and Virginia will be invited to
be present and parade.
A HAMPER UPON TIIE “RED
HOTS.”
Among our dispatches received yes
terday evening is an authoritative de
nial of a declaration concerning our
Confederate soldiers, imputed to Hor
ace Greeley, now the chosen can
didate of the people for the highest
office within their gift. The declara
tion ascribed to Mr. Greeley is as fol
lows :
“When the rebellious traitors are
overwhelmed in the field, and scattered
like leaves before an angry wind, it must
not be to return to peaceful and con
tented l'Minoa Tl.Mjr iv.v.,,1 j
at tlieir firesides, aud sec privation in
the anxious eyes of mothers and in the
rags of children.”
In addition to being daily flaunted
from the mast head of certain of our
respected Georgia cotemporaries, essay
ing to run the “ red hot” schedule of
tho past in defiance of tlie expresssed
preference of the great mass of our peo
ple for a policy founded upon the living
practical issues of the present, this dec
laration has furnished material for a
recent harrowing caricature in Harper's
Weekly —that journal of “civilization”
which achieved such unenviable dis
tinction during our late civil war in the
line of scurrilous portraiture of South
ern civilization and sentiment. Ap
pearing upon the eve of and dedicated
specially to the Baltimore Convention,
the design of this cartoon was evidently
to prejudice Mr. Greeley’s chances of
support from the Southern tier of the
States there represented, who are sensi
tive of the duty which must ever rest
upon them to defend and vindicate the
honor aud courage of those who wore
the gray. But tho movement of the
whole people in tlie interest of a release
from Radical misrule was of too mature
growth,and calm, deliberate purpose, to
be set aside by such ridiculous attempts
to influence the well tempered judg
ment of the patriotic representatives of
the South by a repulsive portraiture of
a scene never desired by Mr. Greeley
in his most enthusiastic moments of
support aecurded the Federal arms.
Hence, despite this machination of the
enemy to divide the counsels of tlie
Convention, in the hope of assisting to
continue Grant’s oppressive and corrupt
administration four years longer, we
have a harmonious proclamation of the
people’s chosen representatives indi
cative of the dawn of a brighter day for
tho plundered and bayonet-ridden South.
Now that the choice of candidates
has been made by the highest represen
tative assemblage recognized in party
discipline, and an unqualified denial
made of the declaration imputed to Mr.
Greeley, we' respectfully suggest that it
is now in order for our cotemporaries in
the State, alligned with the Democracy,
to withdraw the paragraph in question
from their masthead.
r>R. LIVINGSTONE HEARD FROM.
The telegraph informs us that Dr.
Livingstone, the great African traveler,
has married—married a Princess —mar-
ried ail African Princess—has quietly
settled down in primitive costume to
his duties as dutiful spouse, and to
breadfruit and baunanas, and the domes
tic duties of a Royal household. This
is given upon the authority of a London
letter, and of course, unlike a Liverpool
estimate when the stock of cotton is
low, and the prices rule too high for
profitable manufacture, it must be true.
Well, if this be true, Dr. Livingstone
will no more trouble us with anxiety for
his safety, for marriage is a quietus that
would “settle down” a Salathiel, much
less a Dr. Livingstone, an English ex
plorer of Nile mysteries and African mys
teries and Darwinian mysteries. The
next thing we shall hearjof the doctor
will be, and it will be the last, that hav
ing undertaken a bridal tour to Loudon,
he and his ebony bride will quietly chat
the matters of international policy with
Qneen A*ic, his regal sister, at her tea
table at Windsor—provided that Airs.
Livingstone left at home will forego
all pretension to any woman’s rights
over him.
The Rice Crop and the Caterpillar.
—The Savannah Republican learns from
a gentleman who has just returned from
an extensive tour among the various
plantations on the Savannah, Ogeechee,
Alt&maha and Satilla rivers, that the
caterpillars, which recently created such
fearful apprehensions for the coming
rice crop, have entirely disappeared.—
While some damage has been done, it is
not quite so extensive as was at first
supposed.
AUGUSTA AND IIARTWIU. RAIL
ROAD.
i Editors Chronicle <X• Sentinel
Permit mo the use of your »lumnsto
eall the attention of the pblie, and
particularly the Board of rreetors of
the Augusta and Hartwell Roil, to the
following letter, which we relived from
au old friend, in reply to our elicitation
for business :
Anderson Count? S. C., i
July 2, 872. \
My Dear Sir: In answer t your let
' ter soliciting consignments < cotton, I
| would gladly ship to your larket, but
; the facilities are not sufficien The riv
er is too slow and nucertair In these
; days we can’t wait a week or wo to ship
cotton ; we must “realize” qickly. The |
| trade of this country wool all go to '
I Augusta if we had the faci ties neces-i
| sary ; and why the citizens f Augusta j
! —who are a wide awake, envgetiepeo- j
; pit—do not make exertions > get it, is :
i beyond my comprehension. lin y have !
; now a splendid opening to g< the trade j
of the whole Savannah Valiev-the coun
ties of Elbert, Hart and I anklin, in '
Georgia, and a large portin' of Ander
son and Oconee, in South Crolinn, and >
also to tap tlie Blue Ridge lailroad at
Wallialla by tho shortest lie that can
be made to the seaboard, i would be
useless to enumerate tho aduntages of
such a connection, as they an obvious
to every one. But there is a project on
foot now that may not only take from
you this trade, but lose you what you
now get from Elbert and all tlie counties
adjoining and above. You are aware
that they have a railroad chattered from
Elberton to intersect the Air Line at Dry
Bonds. I hear that company have made
propositions to the Air Line Company
to lay the track and equip and run the
load. If this is done, of course the Air
Line Company will hold the controlling
power and run the road for their advan
tage, and all the freight will go North.
I hear, also, that it is proposed by the
Augusta and Hartwell Road to unite
with that road at Elberton or Hartwell.
You cau see in a moment what tlie con
sequences would be. Instead of getting
more trade, Augusta would lose iiucli
that she now lias. There is a way now
opened for you to push forward and take
advantage of the opening in this country
and secure tho trade that if left to
seek its own way to market, will go
to Charleston or New York. That is,
take hold of tlie Augusta and Hartwell
Railroad and run it up the valley of tlie
river to or near this point—cross tie
Tugaloo and run to Perryville or Wal
halla. If you do this at once the Elber
ton road will not be built, and, cf
necessity, Augusta would get all tha
trade of the Georgia side, and a very
large proportion of the Carolina side oi
the Savanm.li would take that route in
preference to the Greenville and Colum
bia Road. When you got to this point
and cross the Tugaloo all the produce
would take that route, as well as that of
Hart and Franklin counties, as it would
bo the • nearest point for them find
posssess more advantages.
The Air Line Company made a
grievous mistake in the location of their
road ; they see it already, but it is too
late to remedy it now. They have lost
all the produce of Franklin and Hart
counties in Georgia, and Anderson nnd
Abbeville on this side, by running too
high up, but it lias left a fine opening
for Augusta, if slie will only step in now
and take it. Augusta is compelled to
have an opening in this direction and
sooner or later it will be built, but if
she delays much longer other roads will
be built and divert all tlie produce to
some other market. It is easy to keep
a trade, but very hard to get it back
when lost.
I merely make these suggestions,
hoping that you will talk this matter
over with your friends—get up some in
terest in the matter and see if you can’t
induce your city to move forward and put
this important road at work—send out
your engineers—survey the route—get
up subscriptions, and capitalists will
take hold of it and build the road for
you when they see ymu are in earnest,
Wo have a charter for a road from Wal
liaiJa to tlie Tugaloo winch can be used
for this road if secured in time., other
wise it may be taken by tlie “Air Line”
for their own advantage.
Yours respectfully', H.
Now, Messrs. Editors, the points made
in this letter are plain and direct. Our
correspondent states that time is too
important an element, in these days of
high rates of interest and stringent
money matters, to be overlooked. The
river is too slow a medium of communi
cation,' and existing lines of railroads
are unfriendly by location and control,
and therefore we cannot expect them to
further Augusta interests. Cannot some
arrangement Vie made by which the con
trol of tho charter of the Augusta and
Hartwell Road can be made, which will
give confidence in the enterprise? It
seems to me that there can be, and I am
sure that every Augusta merchant will
take a little stock to help the enterprise.
Merchant.
Annual Report of the State Road Com
pany.
(From the Atlanta Constitution.]
The report of the State Road Com
pany covers the period from 27th Decem
ber, 1870, to January Ist, 1872. Tlie
gross earnings were $1,397,712 60, and
the expenses $1,678,705 11, or $281,-
022 51 more than tho earnings.
The road was in bad fix. It is now in
very good fix. Twenty-six miles of new
iron have been laid, and seven new en
gines, two hundred and fifteen new box
cars and twelve new coal cars bought.
Forty miles more of new iron are needed.
There tire twenty-six bridges, aggregat
ing 5,550 feet long. These are being
covered. The road has lost business
because much Western freight and travel
that used to go over the State Road goes
by the Dalton and Selma Road, the
Alabama and Chattanooga Road, and the
North and South Road.
Other railroad enterprises threaten
further loss of business which tlie lessees
must counteract, the Air-Line Road
from Charlotte to Atlanta, and the road
from Columbus to Chattanooga, Griffin
to Stevenson, Macon to Knoxville, and
the Georgia Western Road.
They,..propose to encourage manu
facturing enterprises and secure freight
lines to the West. They have already
taken steps to secure a line to St. Louis
and Cincinnati.
President Brown urges tlie lessees to
push forward and put the road in first
class condition. The use of the air
brake has diminished the stock bilb al
most one-half, and saves labor. He
winds up with complimenting the
officers of the company.
The Superintendent, Colonel Cole,
says the road will have to be worked
economically to make it pay. The ton
nage of the road passing south was
651,001,490 pounds, and "8,504,837
pounds going north, or only oie out of
thirteen cars going loaded back, 77 per
cent, returning empty. The loaomotives
run 966,387 miles, aud consumed 32,306
cords of wood.
The highest monthly earhiigs were
January, 8156,529, and the invest in
June, $76,834 52. The total eilTiings at
the Atlanta depot were $295,711 95.
The heaviest shipment of otie article
was corn, 125,414,296 pounds; second,
bacon and lard, 95,215,668 pounds; third,
flour, 72,224,000 pounds ; fourth, coal,
64,320,000 ; fifth, wheat, £2,616,640
pounds. These figures show how we
are dependant on the West for pro
visions. Hay ran to 22,699,500. Whisky
whisked up to the formidable aiiount of
12,582,000 pounds, or some twenty-five
million solid, unqualified drunks. Oats
went to 16,685,394 pounds. .Sab reached
12,112,000 pounds. Lumber reached
30,064,000 pounds. ’
Last Order of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston.
The following last order of General
Joseph E. Johnston, which we copy
from the original, has never appeared in
print.— New Orleans Times.
Headq’rs. Army ov TlrE Tennessee, '(
Near Greensboro, N. C., Alay 2,1865. i
General Orders , So. 22 :
Comrades — In terminating our official
relations, I earnestly exhort you to ob
serve faithfully the obligations of good
and faithful citizens at your homes as
well as you have performed the duties of
thorough soldiers in the field. By such
a course you will secure tlie comfort of
your families and kindred, and restore
tranquility to our country. You will re
turn trvour homes with "the admiration
of our people, won by the courage aud
devotion you have displayed in this long
war. I will always remember with pride
the loyal support and generous confi
dence you have given me.
iniiw part with feelings of candid
ndsliip and with earnest wishes that
yon may have hereafter all the prosperi
ty and happiness to be found in this
world. J. E. Johnston, General.
GEORGIA AGRICULTURAL, ME
CHANICAL AND MILITARY IN
STITUTE.
Interesting Commencement Exercises.
From the Marietta Journal, of the
sth, we compile some interesting points
in regard to the late commencement of
this institution. Os the
COMMENCEMENT SERMON,
The Journal notes that the commodious
Presbyterian Church was crowded to its
utmost capacity with the elite of the city
aud visitors from abroad. The sermon
was preached by Rev. R. Irvine, D. D.,
of Augusta, Ga., from the 13th chapter
and 33d verse of Matthew: “Another
parable spake he unto them; the king
dom of heaven is like unto leaven, which
a woman took, and hid in three measures
of meal, till tlie whole was leavened.”
The erudite divine, after reading his
text, quoted several cognate verses, com
menting and elucidating their bearing
and signification on that part of his text,
“the kingdom of heaven,” and then pro
ceeded with his sermon, which was
one of tho ablest pulpit efforts we
ever beard. To attempt to give an
outline of the discourse, we fear would
convey such an imperfect idea as to de
tract from its sterling merit, grandeur
and sublimity. It was argumentative,
replete and convincing'—matchless in de
livery, elegant in diction, chaste in sen
timent and beautiful in vivid illustra
tions. The theme was a grand one, but
the orator was equal to its mastery'.
True, it was very lengthy, but it was
profoundly interesting, and at times elo
quent. At night lie delivered another
i sermon of equal merit and interest, evin
cing the same intellectual prowess, per
specuity and scholarship.
DECLAMATIONS.
The declamation exercises, on Mon
qiv night, were attended by a very large
akdience.
The President, Rev. D. L. Buttolph,
w ifi Prof. A. S. Atkinson anil Prof. W.
O' Atkinson, were on the stage, while
Pibf. Cater commanded the Cadets on
tin right. Rev. \V. E. Eppes, and other
Professors, Trustees, Committee and ex-
Ca4ots, occupied positions on tlie right.
The contestant declaimers, in turn, oc
cupted the stage in three divisions.
Aker the students had delivered their
speeches, tlie Cadets marcliod in front
of tic stage, when
COL. C. W. nOW'ARD
Was Ltroducod, who delivered a highly
entertaining and enthusiastic address,
briefly reviewing tlie past history of the
old G.fM. 1., from its incipiency to the
day tint tlie flaunting torch of the in
vader lift it a smouldering heap of black
ened rdjns, and also touchingly alluded
to the liindreds of noble sons that had
graduated in the Institute, some now
rilling prominent positions in the land,
and others tilling soldiers’ graves. He
congratulated the people on the restora
tion of tie Institute and the encour
aging tokens of its success, and then
gracefully
AWARDED THE FRIZES
To the successful contestants, who were
Cadets W. 8. Buttolph for the third
prize, E. V Williams for the second,
and W. J. Winn for tlie first. Tlie pro
ficiency of tlie Cadets was alluded to by
the speaker ai glowing terms, assuring
tlie President and Professors that it was
on au average of any institution lie ever
witnessed.
THE SUPPER,
On Tuesday tight, was attended by a
large multitude of people,' consisting of
ex-cadets, cadets, professors and citi
zens. It was a sumptuous feast and
recherche affair and preparations ample,
but lacked system and order in catering.
TIIE ANNUAL ADDRESS.
Wednesday night w'asset apart for the
Annual address. At the proper hour,
President Buttolph introduced Hon.
Thomas Hardeman, of Macon, who ad
dressed the people on the subject of
Education, in connection with the Geor
gia Agricultural, Mechanical and Military
Institute. He gave an historic account
di lha xa.ii ana rise oi tiupiius mm re
publics, the corruption, the partizanism
and the ignorance that buried the liber
ties of the people in the cemeteries of
the past, applying the whole to our own
degenerate Republic; how a “little
learning was a dangerous thing” in the
elevating of the slave to rule the mas
ter, and that knowledge, virtue and
intelligence must regain the sceptre
of Israel. He dwelt at length upon
the educating of y oung men and the
boon to be secured in the substantial
re-establishment of the Institute. He
would have tlie people educated in
the arts and sciences, in utilizing the
gifts of nature, in tlie advancement of
agriculture, in turning to use the dash
ing waters of the mountains, putting in
motion looms and spindles ; he would
make their education utilitarian, and
not of fashionable display, pimps, friz
zles and dissipation.
The address was grandly conceived,
classic, rhetorical and edifying, inter
spersed with sparkling wit and garbed
in the most choice and chaste language.
It is worth something to hear an oration
from Col. Hardeman. He is a sound
logician, a philosophical reasoner and a
biblical erui lite.
TRUSTEES MEETING.
At tlie close of the address a meeting
was held of tho Board of Trustees of
the Institute, at which Rev. D. L. But
tolph was elected President of tlie
Facility, Gen. Wm. Phillips continued
as President of the Board of Trustees,
and an Executive Committee of five, to
transact all business relating to the In
stitute, subject to the annual or called
action of the whole Board, was ordered
to be appointed by the President.
Important Railroad Conference.—
t\.n important conference took place on
Tuesday last between Col. Thomas
A. Scott, the groat railroad manager
of Pennsylvania, on the one hand, and
parties represen ting the North Louisiana
and Texas Railroad Company and the
bondholders of the Vicksburg, Shreve
port and Texas Railroad Company on
the other.
The object of this conference was to
ascertain if terms could be agreed upon
satisfactory to all parties interested in
the property (at present in the pos
session of and operated by the company
lirst named) by which the litigation in
volving the title and ownership of this
railroad; now' pending on appeal before
the Supreme Court of the United States,
could be settled at once, the appeal
withdrawn and the road go into new'
hands, with a view of its early comple
tion to Shreveport. The North Louis
iana and Texas Railroad Company was
represented by a committee of three of
its members, and the bondholders of
the V., S. and T. R. R. Company, who
reside principally in Georgia, by the
Messrs. Grant, of Atlanta, extensive rail
road contractors in that State, who are
the largest holders of these securi
ties. We have not been advised as to
the result of the interview, but from a
bondholder who had on his own account
a conversation with Col. Scott, we learn
that the latter is disposed to purchase
the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Texas
Railroad if the parties interested in it
accept his terms and give him a clear
title to the property. He does not re
gard the sale of this road by the Sheriff
of Ouachita parish, in 1866, as being a
valid sale, or as conveying a title to
Lndeling, Ray and others, the purchas
ers at that sale. He regards the title as
still being in the original company, and
the claims of the bondholders of the
latter as not having been extinguished
by the sale to Ludeling and company;
consequentlv, Col. Scott would not pur
chase their title. As to the value of the
road, Col. Scott places a very different
estimate upon it from that of the parties
now in possession, and if there be any
difficulty incoming to an understanding,
it will be as regards the price to be
paid. ,
We may be able in a day or two to
give our readers additional information
upon this subject. —New Orleans Pica
yune, 6th.
Port Royal Railroad.— During the
month eight vessels have arrived at the
battery loaded with iron for the road,
and other vessels are under way from
New York and England. Ey the end of
the week the track will be laid as far as
Allendale, which is fifty-five miles from
Beaufort. From that point the track
will be laid at about the rate of ten
miles per week. At the Augusta end
the work is progressing as rapidly as
possible. The Superintendent informs
us that by the Ist of October the bridge
below Augusta will be completed, and
the rood will be in running order to the
terminus. In the meantime, at the bat
tery everything looks busy and business
like. Stores and hotels are going up
ready for the Fall trade. — Beaufort Re
publican.
VERY SAD.
A distressing heart story is in circula
tion in Washington. Miss Grundy gives
the particulars, as follows ; “A lady had
two lovers who hated each other with an
intense and bitter hatred. There were
more reasons than rivalry in love mat
ters which oceasioned this state of
affairs. There were violent political
animosities and aggravations in addition.
One of them, a soft-hearted creature,
begged earnestly for a lock of bis fair
lady’s hair. Now, not to be too severe
on the customs of a by-gone generation,
I must insist that there is nothing iu my
estimation quite so absurd in the list of
love gifts commonly exchanged as a lock
of hair. And in these days it’s danger
ous as well, for you never know ;
but to my story. The lady for a long
time denied the gift to her beseeching
swain, but one day, tiring of repeated
refusals, she suddenly relented and
promised it. A short time afterwards
lover No. 2 called. He has a fine suit of
hair, and my lady, who has her work
basket by her, playfully lifts her scissors,
and first praising the dark wavy curls
which he tosses back as lie wipes from
bis brow the moisture provoked by the
climate, aud mayhap, by his emotion at
seeing her, she asks, “Oh ! do let me
out off one of your Conklin curls.”
Pleased and flattered he does not say
her nay, but inclines his head and j>er
liaps manages to detain tha little white
hand as it strays through his hair and
deftly clips a short thick curl. But,
alas ! his triumph at ha ving provoked
such a request is short-lived, for next
day he detects his rival slyly kissing
this veritable curl which he has, imag
ining himself unobserved, drawn from
his card-case that lie may pay it secret
adoration. For a moment a denouxnent
is imminent; then he reflects on tlie
sweetness of such a revenge as this.
He will let the rival keep that curl, be
lieving it to be, that of the girl lie adores,
and let him “spooney” over it to his
heart’s content, while he, tho original
owner of the lock, will have the satis
faction of knowing how great a dupe
the other is. But he has cut the lady.
He says baldness is too common now
among men for him to bo willing to
grow a crop of curls for other men to
languish over.
A Tight Rope Maliciously H evered
and a Female Performer Mortally
Injured.— Capt. Gus Fowler has given
ns the following particulars of an acci
dent that a tight rope performer met
with in Sliawneetown, Illinois, Thurs
day evening: Connected with Keivne’s
Rip Van Winkle combination was a
young lady, billed as “ M’lle Celestine,
the world-renowned lady rope-walker,”
whoso duty it was to give a free exhibi
tion of her skill, outside of the tent, just
previous to each performance.
The company showed in Shaneetown
Thursday, and in the evening M’llo
Celestine was giving her part of the
performance on a rope stretched from
the ground to the top of tho tent centre
pole, which is about fifty feet high. The
young lady was on the rope near tlie
upper end, balancing on one foot, when
the rope suddenly parted, and slio fell
to the ground with terrible force. A
subsequent investigation proved tlie
rope to have been cut near the ground,
aud so recently as to leave no doubt of
its having been dono while the performer
was going through her naturally dan
gerous performance.
Medical aid was summoned, and an
examination developed tlie fact that
M’llo Celestine had dualities received
mortal injuries ; one of her legs was
broken in two or three places, an arm
and her jaw bone were also broken, and
all of her teetlij knocked out. In ad
dition to this she sustained internal in
juries, and when Captain Fowler passed
Sliawneetown early yesterday morning,
the unfortunate girl was still alive, but
no hopes of her recovery entertained.
The citizens were terribly incensed, and
it is thought if tho fiend who cut the rope
r- *—.«<!, he will be ljiicm-.u with.An
ceremony
There was a rumor that the deed was
the result of jealous madness, in the
heart of au admirer of the lady, but the
rumor was not sufficiently corroborated
to warrant our stating who the man is.
There is a reasonable hope, however, of
his being found and hung with the re
mains of the tight rope. —Evansville
Courier, June 23.
Accident to a Circus. —New Haven,
Ct., July 3.—John Robinson’s circus,
while coming up on tlie New York road,
met with a serious accident at West Ha
ven, this morning, about five o’clock.
While going under the bridge, the bridge
settled, and the menagerie cages of the
platform cars struck it. Six cages were
knocked off and broken up. The lion
and tapir escaped, but were soon secured.
The zebra was fatally injured. A cage
of birds was also broken up, but all were
saved. A cage containing fifty monkeys
was among those wrecked, and all the
monkeys are now loose in the West Ha
ven woods. The loss is estimated at
§IO,OOO.
A Fine Fish Pond. — The writer lias
had the pleasure of visiting one of the
finest fish ponds in the State, on Meadow
Nook, in DeKalb county, owned by Col.
R. A. Alston. The pond covers nearly
three acres of ground. It has two large
islands in it. The upper pond was
swarming with millions of perch anil
redhorse. Such another host of fish has
rarely ever been seen collected together
in such a space. The lower'point is filled
with trout. The fish just hatched were
put in some eight weeks ago, and are
growing amazingly.
With great ingenuity Col. Alston lias
changed a morass into a beautiful lake,
and an unsightly bay into a source of
profit and pleasure.
Tho water has been obtained by cut
ting ditches through the quagmires into
the hillside, and turning the springs into
a small stream.
The pond cost about §15,000, and will
repay the investment more than quadru
ple in a few years.
Col. Alston bought Meadow Nook some
thirteen years ago, and has changed a
waste place into a garden spot, and made
the barren blossom as the rose.
He owns 550 acres in a body—22s acres
are in com and 140 in cotton. With the
present prospect he expects to make 5,000
bushels of corn thisyear. —Atlanta Con
stitution.
Marriage of the Queen of Song.— On
Friday last a letter was received in this
city by a friend of Miss Christine Nils
son, in which Miss Nilsson writes that
she is to be married to M. Auguste
Rouzaud in London the last week in
July. M. Rouzard is a French gentle
man, about thirty-six years of age, and
is a stock broker, now residing in Paris.
Miss Nilsson first metM. Rouzaud in the
city of Paris when she went to that city
some seven years since to begin her
brilliant career as the “Queen of Song,”
Since that time they have been devoted
ly attached to each other. During Miss
Nilsson’s tour in America, M. Rouzaud
made a brief visit to this country, at
which time Miss Nilsson gave him the
promise of her hand and heart. The
delighted Frenchman returned to his
native land overjoyed.
The union is founded on lovo alone.
M. Rouzaud is by no means a wealthy
man, his property having been impaired
by the late war. Miss Nilsson has had
many offers of marriage from titled
noblemen and from most wealthy gentle
men, both in this county and iff Europe,
but to all she has turned a deaf ear.
Other private letters, received in this
city during the past week by friends of
Miss Nilsson, state that this wedding
will be one of the grandest and most
brilliant that has taken place on the
continent for many years. The bridal
pair intend to sojourn in Switzerland
during their honeymoon, and Miss
Nilsson will reappear on the operatic
stage in Russia in September next. Dr.
Fordyce Barker, of this oity, who is
now in Europe, will represent Miss
Nilsson’s most instimate New York
friends at the wedding. Notwithstand
ing her legions of European admirers,
Miss Nilsson seems most anxious of
meeting those to whom she became de
votedly attached while in this country.
She has alreadey forwarded earnest in
vitations for them to be present at the
marriage.— New York Sun.
Child Killed at Hdrtville. —An
infant child of Mr, Pollard Crawford,
nephew of Judge M. J, Crawford, of
this city, was kUled in Hurfrille, AJa.,
yesterday, by the falling of a shelter
to the house. The fall slightly injured
Mrs. C. and two of her boys. We are
told the falling timber knocked the in
fant from a little sister’s arms. The in
fant was killed, the little girl escaped in-i
jury.— Columbus Sun, 6th.
NEW SERIES—VOL. XXV—NO. 29.
The Sage Solon Taketh to Himself
Another Wife.
The sensation iu Jacksonville, Florida,
Sunday last was tlie marriage of Solon
Robinson, which was duly solemnized in
tlio Baptist Church after morning ser
vice. The ceremony and tho parties aro
thus described in tlio Union:
* * * At last, the organ rolled out
the iloxology, or something similar.
Faintly a glimmer was caught of a blush
ing groom, venerable in years, perhaps
beyond the throe score and ten allotted
to this earthly pilgrimage, yet still in
the full bloom of love’s glorious passion.
Ho stood at the altar more like the
slayer than the lamb, ready to sacrifice
tlie patient victim. The groom was
dressed without ostention and apparent
ly with the object of keeping cool, ltis
legs wore embalmed in tho richest qual
ity of Kentucky jeans, which neatly
fitted over a pair of number ten and a
half agricultural pumps; a white vest
loosely flowed about liis waist, and a
lengthy brown linen duster completely
surrounded liis person and Ins boots.
His hands were recklessly embosomed
l in a pair of yellow cotton gloves, which
toned well with tlie various other arti
cles of his costume. A glazed cap (un
dress unifqiail&jfciie fire department),
and a gre AjßaßPu'tihivll.i are said I"'
have gnieefflKgWlined together m the
The bride boro horself will) resigna
tion. She appeared younger than the
groom. In fact, it was said that she
was really somewhat less aged than her
swain. She is about twenty-seven. She
did look “chirrup” anil nice, and her
apparel was tasty and 0001, being a light
white muslin, with brown stripes and
trimming. White straw lmt with brown
toggery, and veil to match very nearly
the gloves and linen duster of the come
ly groom. The ceremony, was impres
sive for its brevity and affecting in its
simplicity. That is, it was as grand
and imposing as it could be for short,
and under the circumstances. The min
ister prayed and did it fervently. There
is no doubt ho was sincere. Then he
remarked to the individual in jeans,
that he supposed it was not necessary to
explain to him the solemn duties of the
connubial situation. Not much, the
groom quickly coincided. Ho was post
ed. Thereupon the twain were pro
nounced husband and wife. The ser
vice was what might bo called tlio soul
of brevity. ’Twas a good thing for a
hot day, and gratifying to the couple,
who were doubtless in a hurry to get
home. Romeo, ho turned with a sort of
sickly smile, and slowly he bonded bis
linen duster anil impressed upon the
chin of his blooming Juliet the custom
ary seal of unquenchable and adoring
love. And then there seemed to come
a sigh—mute, plaintive—but rather ap
propriate. Solon Robinson and Mary
Johnson were one and tho same.
Slowly they marched from tha holy
altar. The groomsman, 0. L. Robinson,
aud the bridesmaid, Miss Louisa. John
son, followed. Not a leaf stirred. Not
an utterance. Not an emotion was visi
ble. But the gentle breath of tho west
wind could, if it would, have blown a
memory which might well have added its
solemnity to this transient scene.
NO CAKE —NO CARDS.
The bride and groom—Juno and De
cember —started on their bridal tour on
Monday evening.
A Millionaire in Sackcloth and
Ashes. — A Saratoga correspondent of
tlie Albany Wines says:
Among tho recent arrivals at Saratoga
is a young gentleman of great fortune,
who is a regular Summer visitor hero,
and who has invariably made a great
display. This season lie proposes t 6 do
the place on a quieter scale, on account
of liis mother’s recent death. This is
how he goes about it. He has a suit of
rooms at tlie Congress, that under liis
supervision, have been so arranged as to
present a rather sombre appearance, for,
out of respect for liis mother’s memory,
they have been put in mourning. A
deep black border runs around tlie ceil
ings, wmiu mo rt«U paper is of a very
gloomy color; the furniture, which ar
rived to-day, is from Egypt, and is ex
ceedingly grotesque in appearance anil
mysterious in stylo ; nothing like it has
ever before appeared in Saratoga. The
gentleman announces that he will not
enter the ball room this Summer, but
will entertain liis friends in liis rooms—
in an elegant and costly manner, of
course—no levity. Ho is to drivo a
four-in-hand, liis groom nnd coachman
are to bo attired in mourning, and
mourning lap robes, like funeral palls,
are to bo spread over the seats of liis
carriages, which will be painted in keep
ing with tho habiliments of woe. For
these emblems of sackelothand ashes ho
pays SSOO per week. Shoddy society
calls this “filial devotion,” and speaks
of him as “such a good son,” “but so
odd and eccentricwhile common
sense people aro unkind enough to call
him a snob, and one of tho most outre
kind.
The Butter Trade. —Few people have
a just idea of the immense amount of
capital invested in the butter trade. Ac
cording to statistics the dairy products
of the United States aggregate in value
§600,0000,000 annually. From official
sources the total sales of dairy products
in tho United States for 1870, from
8,935,332 cows, was : Rutter, 514,092,683
pounds, at mi average of 30c. per pound,
or $171,364,236 ; cheese, 53,492,153 lbs.,
exclusive of factory product, statistics
of which aro not at hand, at an average
of 15c. per pound, or §802,382 29 ; milk,
235,509,599 gallons, at an average of 300.
per gallon, or $70,652,879 70 ; making a
grand total of §242,819,488. This is ex
clusive of tho enormous amount con
sumed by producers that cannot be reach
ed, as it goes into consumption without
salon or account, and can only be esti
mated. This, with tlio increase of pro
duction since 1870, is currently esti
mated to rnako up the balance of the
$600,000,000, which, without statistics
given, might seom too high. The but
ter trade in Now York centres, in Orange
county to a considerable extent, furnish
ing that city over half a million pounds
during the season of six months. Proba
bly tiiero is not a trade of the sanio
magnitude that is so wholly without or
ganization as tlie butter trado, and lias
so many errors and abuses.
COLLAPSB OF THE VENERABLE PETER
Cartwright.— A few months ago it was
announced that the Rev. Peter Cart
wright, the oldest minister in the Metho
dist Episcopal Church, and the father of
Methodism in the West, had been strick
en with puralysis at his homo in Pleas
ant Valley, in Illinois, and was not ex
pected to live. The news excited the
sympathies and regrets of thousands
who knew him only by name, but who
knew what a useful, zealous and inde
fatigable servant he has been for more
than sixty years. His great age, nearly
eighty-seven, and his extreme bodily de
bility for several years, left little hope of
his recovery, but the old man, with his
wonderful energy, rallied, and was
thought to be in a fair way to get well.
And now comej tidings thatjho lias been
adjudged iuoapahle of attending to his
own affairs, and has bean placed under
the guardianship of his son, Madison
Cartwright. The old veteran seems to
be failing rapidly, though he occasional
ly shows flashes of the old time spirit
and energy.
Unclaimed Cotton— A Field for
Swindlers. —We are informed that there
is now in the hands of the Government
about a million and a half of dollars
arising from the sale of unclaimed cot
ton. This was caused by the fact that
large quantities of the seized cotton were
without marks, some never having had
any, and the names on other bales hav
ing been erased and in some instances
changed. Rumor says, and there is
reason to believe it, that parties have
put in olaims fur some of this ootton
who are known never to havo owned a
bale. It is exceedingly unfortunate for
many of the farmers in the country to
lose a large sum of money from the sole
cause of having this ootton in an un
marked condition. Home of tho agents
of the Government are said to have
enriched themselves by erasing names
on cotton bales, putting names on such
as had none, and putting in claims now
for tho amount. So it happens every
time that the Southern farmer comes oft’
second best. —Savannah Advertiser.
The pronunciamento of Wisconsin for
Greeley and Brown has significance, in
view that Wisconsin has the largest pro
portion of Germans iu respect to popu
lation of any State in the Union.
W. W. Rockwell, United States Reve
nue Collector of the 16th New York Dis
trict, and member of the Republican
State Committee of New York, throws
up both positions to support Groaley
and Brown.
Sons of Temphbanchi, —The sooond
meeting of the representatives of the
Sons of Temperance of the Southern
States was held in Chattanooga, Tenn.,
on the 2d July, 1872, in pursuance of
the resolution adopted by the Conven
tion at its first session held in the same
city, November 22, 1871.
The Convention was called to order,
and Isaac Litton, P. 51. W. P., of Nash
ville, was elected President, and Dr. ,1.
H. Curry, (1. S., of Tennessee, Secre
tary.
The following States wove duly repre
sented: Teenessee, Louisiana, Ken
tucky, East Tennessee, Arkansas, Missis
sippi, Alabama and Georgia. The ob
ject of the Convention waste establish
a national organization of temperance
people, upon the basis of tvhih mem
bership. The former head of the order,
the National Division of North America,
has passed laws admitting the negro
into the Order, and it became necessary
for the South to form anew order, with
anew head, upon the basis of white
membership. The Convention adopted
the following name for the new organi
zation: “The International Division of
the Sons of Temperance.”
The committee appointed at the first
session of this Convention for tha 1 pur
pose, presented to the Convention a most,
complete code of laws for the govern
ment of the Order, which was unani
mously adopted for the government of
the International Division.
Constitutions for Grand and Subordi
nate Divisions, and a ritual for Order,
was adopted by the International Divi
sion.
Isaac Litton, of Nashville, Tenn., the
oldest Son of Temperance in the South,
was unanimously elected P. 51. W. P.
of the International Division.
A committee was appointed to report
the names of suitable persons for officers
of the International Division. The re
port of the committee was unanimously
adopted, and afutl set of officers elected
for the term, which is to continue until
the next session, which is to be bold in
Nashville, Tenn., on the 4th Monday in
slay, 18711. Dr. S. M. Angell, of New
Orleans, La., was elected 51. W. P.;
John 11. Thomas, of Savannah, Ga., M.
W. A., and Dr. J. Ts. Gurry, of Nash
ville, Tenn., W. S. The officers elected
were duly installed. A full report of the
proceedings will be furnished by the 51.
W. S. in a few days.
Something Aiioijt Drinking in Warm
Weather. —Drinking is a habit. Some
people drink little, not that their con
stitutions require less than others ; it, is
their habit. These people never per
spire so much ns those who drink more.
The more that is drank, the more water
passes away, or the system would suffer.
As it is, the strain affects it. The skin,
the kidneys, bowels, lungs, are all drawn
upon. The result is, as may be expect
ed, exhaustion. For this reason the man
who drinks much water, particularly
during the Summer ami in the hottest
woather, is less able to endure fatigue.
The water is of no benefit to him that
is, the excess. It must pass away, and
this requires an effort of the system,
which is the sweating process. It is a
bad habit to drink water so much ; a
false thirst is created. We should drink
only what is needed. The habit of
drinking moro will soon be overcome,
and tlio person will feel much stronger
and more capable of bearing fatigue. In
Winter, little fluid is no«lod beyond
what our food furnishes ; in Summer,
some more, but not much.
Augusta and Hartwell Railroad.--
A meeting of tho Board of Directors of
tho Augusta and Hartwell Railroad was
held in this city on yesterday morning.
Henry Moore, Esq., of tho Chronicle
and Sentinel, was elected a Director of
tho Company, to Jill a vacancy occasion
ed by tho resignation of one of the
Board.
The business transacted by tho Board
was of a general character, and nothing
of special interest transpired. Several
of the Directors from "the coun try spoke
most encouragingly of the prospects of
the company, and guaranteed large
subscriptions from the counties along
the Savannah river. We learn that, in a
few days vigorous efforts will be made
to get the machinery into operation, an and
that an active canvass for subscriptions
will be commenced. Tho road is a
great public necessity, and having fall
en into the hands of the right sort of
men, its success is assured.
Will Blodgett “Peach ?"■ — The At
lanta correspondent of the Savannah
Advertiser says: It is quite likely that
Ed Blodgett will ho released <m a $15,-
000 bond in a few days. 1 heard to-day
that ho intends going to South Carolina
to havo a cliat with his father. The old
man is said to have arrived at that con
dition of mind when, to save his son
from Grant, Alexander & Co.’s gang, li o
is willing to give the State much needed
information concerning the frauds on
tho State. It is believed tliat if he will
do this, Ed will he permitted to esca pn
punishment. I cannot say what truth
therois in this story ; but if Foster will
make a clean breast of all he knows, I
for one will endorse the act of the Gov
ernor if he gives Ed a pardon. Foster
ought to bo able to produce a first-class
sensation by his revelations.
A Post Office Invention Equal to
Ten Clerks. —The Pittsburg Mail says :
“ We had tho pleasure of witnessipg tho
trial of anew machine for facilitating
business in largo post offices. It is tho
combined ingenuity of Messrs. Cunning
ham and Geyser, of this city. The old
system of cancelling postage stamps by
hand is superseded by this new inven
tion. In addition to cancelling the
stamp it prints tho name of the post
oflioe, tho time it leaves the office, and
then automatically counts each letter ns
it passes through tho machine. It will
do tho work of about ten clerks without
complaining of fatigue. It will cancel,
stamp, and count ten thousand letters
per hour.” _
The Htrikes. —The New York Tribune
gives statistics of the great labor strikes
North. The number of laborers that
havo struck is 01,1X10. Os these 26,050
have obtained concessions of eight hours
a day; 27,221 have been obliged to re
sume work at ten hours a day, and 11,403
are still on a strike. In the eight weeks
of tho strike the loss to the employers
has been $2,043,650, and to the laborers,
$1,675,950, making an aggregate loss to
both of $3,711,500. Other losr lias oc
curred in driving trade to other cities.
Spf.ith Shipments.— The Tribe nr pays
SS9,(XX),(XX) have been shipped to Europe
from the port of New York alone, within
the past twelve months, and during tho
preceding year the shipments amounted
to. SB3,(XX),(XX). In the meantime, tho
influx of gold into Europe from Austra
lia and America is greater than can bo
absorbed into tho ordinary channels of
business, and tho consequence is a gen
eral and unprecedented rise in the prices
of labor and merchandise.
A Bet of $19,001) on Greeley. —At
Long Branch, on Tuesday, George
Wilkes bet ex-Uollector Thomas Murphy
SIO,OOO that Greeley would beat Grant.
Mr. Murphy admitted that it was not
his own money. Was it put up by
Ulysses hiniHglf ?