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THE MBMIHBIPPI' TENNESSEE
AND ATLANTIC CANAL.
There Booms to be an earnest move
ment for effecting a hearty co-operation
of all the States interested in the great
project for connecting the waters of the
Mississippi awl Tennessee with the At
lantic Ocean, through Georgia. The fea
sibility of the project has been asserted
by eminent engineers, acting, we believe,
under the authority of the Government
as well as that of the State, and their
preliminary report is now of file in the
War Department at Washington and
will bring up at the next session of Con
gress the enterprise for consideration.
To facilitate harmonious action and co
operation, we see that Gov. Smith, at a
large and influential meeting at Atlanta,
lias proposed a convention of Governors
of the several States, directly and indi
rectly to he interested. This is the first
step in effecting an active and energetic
combination. A convention comprising
the Governors of Ohio, Indiana, Il
linois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Alabama and Georgia, and indeed Os
lowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, com
bining harmoniously to secure the suc
cess of the project, and acting in
concert, cannot fail to exert a large and
powerful influence, both in determining
public opinion and public action.
Hitherto we have not been disposed to
attach much importance to the move
incut which initiated this magnificent
project not because of want of faith in
its practicability; for that necessarily de
pends upon the decision of scientific
experts after topographical and instru
mental surveys—but from a failure to
perceive such a combination as would
secure the financial resources adequate
to so great an undertaking, however
beneficial or practicable it might be.
Rut in the proposed combination our
doubts vanish The interests are harmo
nious, awl the benefits of the enterprise—
which will be to the fertile valley of the
Mississippi in the West, and to the
Booth, what the Erie canal is to the
Northwest are immeasurable.
THE PROPOSED EXPANSION OK
THE CURRENCY.
Simultaneously there is a demand in
tne business circles of Philadelphia,
Pittsburg and Chicago for the re-issue of
$■ 11,000,000 of legal tenders, retired and
canceled during the Secretaryship of
Mr. MoGullooh, Johnstou’s Secretary of
the Treasury. The demand does not
meet, with favor in the commercial cir
cles of New York and Boston. The
moving cause which leads to the de
mand for this expansion of the currency
is the habitual and periodic stringency
of money, usually occurring when the
agricultural productions of the country
ure to “be moved” or carried to market
in the Fall, working grievous injury to
commercial interests, and damaging the
honest labor of the country by depress
ing prices below the legitimate values
determined by supply and demand.
This spasmodic control by “locking up,”
at the great controlling money centre,
the currency to depress prices, is becom
ing exceedingly onerous and grievous
to the commercial us well as the farming
interests of the country. The remedy
proposed is expansion. But expan
sion is not desired by those who are
largely interested in Government se
curities, because its tendency is to
lower the gold value of these secu
rities. New York, therefore, proposes
a return to specie payments and a flex
able currency—a modification of the
existing National Bank arrangements,
which would insure the return of Na
tional Bank currency for redemption
ut the center when the currency was re
dundant and admit of the issue of such
currency without limit, but without
altering the existing security, when
activity in business calls for expan
sion in circulation. In other words,
the New York remedy, as we under
stand it, is a reciprocal conversion of
Government bonds into legal tenders
and legal tenders into bonds by the
National Banks, according to the ex
igences of trade. The West, while not
suffering more than the South by these
spasms at. the money centres, grows res
tive', under the immense losses that the
artificial control of ft “lock up” oc
casions. and begins to growl; and com
mercial and agricultural interests all
over the country are combining against
a system which permits so great an
evil US a “look up” to disturb so greatly,
at the will of large capitalists, the busi
ness interests of the country. We look,
therefore, for early Congressional action
liv the next session probably adopting
some modification of the New \ork
remedy in any event to legislation
w hich will either prevent or restrain that
artificial contraction and expansion in
the volume of the circulating medium
which now disturbs and renders uncer
tain and hazardous business interests
throughout the country.
'l'llK ENFORCEMENT ACTS IN NEW I
VORK.
Tl u . North begins to roup souie of the
traits sown by Radicalism. The en
forcement acts were specially designed ,
for Southern rebels, to awe them into :
subjection; but like all general laws, ;
their application extends to all parties .
and over the entire country. In their 1
special application now at the North j
they arc brought to hear by the party
in power against Democrats and against
Liberal Republicans. This exteusiouin :
their application displays the enormous
power which has been eoutided to the
Executive, and makes luminous the
strides which the Great Republic—“ the
best Government the world ever saw"—
lias made in centralization. To-day the
dissenting and recalcitrant Liberal Re
publican is disloyal and as obnoxious as
a Democratic copperhead, simply be
cause he opposes the. Administration
which has failed to “Let us have peace.’
The particular ease which agitates the
Northern public mind is that of Mr. G.
H. Heinrichs, a citizen of the United
Butes, but a German by birth, who was
arrested on a warrant issued by United
States Commissioner Davenport, who
acts as Supervisor under the “Xational \
Election Law," charged with the a vice j
latiou of the provisions of that law. A
deputy, appointed by the Supervisor, j
visited Mr. Henrieks, claiming author- j
ity under the “National Election Law”
of verifying the registration list, made J
under and by the authority of the j
laws of the State of New York. Mr. j
Heiuricks refused the deputy admission
to his house, demanding his authority. ;
Threats were given as the return far this
demand, and the deputy endeavored to
force his way into the house,but was re
sisted. Foiled in hisattempt, hereturns
w ith a w arrant, arrests the defender of
the domicil, and hurries him away to
prison, leaving his storehouse unguard
ed, to be cared for as best it may. Sub
sequently Mr. Heinrichs is bailed in the
sum of $5,000, for the offense of resist
ing a deputy official in the discharge of
his duty, under the National Election
Law of the, United States fso-called ).
This transaction wears the air of that
imperialism to which the South has been
made subject anti to which she is still
subject. Commissioner Davenport as
sumed to be the impersonation of the
Government in New York, just as Swayze
and others assume in Georgia, and ar
rogate powers superior to all Btate laws,
and executes orders fearlessly and sum
marily.
The New York Commissioner holds that
the law authorizes the Commissioner, or
his deputy, to “verify lists and that
in the exercise of this authority deputies
have powers equal to those of census
takers, and may enter houses, demand
answers to questions from the inmates,
and arrest all who resist or refuse to re
ply. /
As originally of force, it is conceded
that the law, as it stood, gave arbitrary
powers to commissioners and deputies
fully equal to those which he claims.
But at the last session of Congress a
supplemental and amendatory act pro
vides expressly that the supervisors
“ shall have no power or authority to
make arrests or to perform other duties ”
than to be in the immediate presence of
the officers holding the elections, and to
witness all their proceedings, including
the “counting of the vote and the
making a return thereof.” But Commis
sioner Davenport declares that this
clause does not apply to cities having
over twenty thousand inhabitants, and
that the powers of arrest given by the
law, as first enacted—to-wit: powers
equal to those of the Census Commis
sioners—still remain with the United
States Commissioners, under the “ Na
tional Election Law,” in such cities.
Accordingly, lie bails Mr. Heinrichs, and
proceeds to make other arrests upon
similar grounds. The powers claimed and
exercised by Commissioner Davenport
are just such powers as are exercised in
Imperial Governments—in Prussia, Rus
sia and Imperial France—and are exer
cised by the officers of President Grant
just as the officers of an Emperor would
exercise theirs in the administration of
an Empire. The Republicans of the
North desire a strong government, and
see in Grant the embodiment of the
principles of a strong government.
Verily, they have it—in defiance of the
Constitution of the United States and its
provisions, which secure the people
against unreasonable searches and
seizures in their persons, houses and
property, and which provides that no
warrants shall issue except upon pro
bable cause, supported by oath or
affirmation, and particularly describing
the place to be searched, and the persons
or things to be seized.
THE HORSE EPIDEMIC.
The telegraph still continues to bring
us disastrous accounts of the spread and
extent of the distemper which prevails
among horses in New York and other
Northern localities. This disease seems
to have originated at or near Toronto,
Canada. From this point it spread to
Montreal, and thence to Portland, Bos
ton, Springfield and other towns and
cities in Maine, New Hampshire and
Massachusetts. It has appeared in
Chicago and Bt. Louis. But tlio chief
line of its ravages has been Buffalo,
Lookport, Rochester, Syracuse to New
York. The attack of tlio disease lasts
about ten days. It seems to be conceded
as evident, from the facts recorded and
observations made, that the spread of
the disease is due to the atmospheric in
fluences and not contagion. One result
which may be predicted as the conse
quence of this epidemic, is the substitu
tion of steam for horse power in all large
cities as the motive power for transpor
tation.
Supervisors of Elections.
The following circular, issued by Mr.
A. W. Stone, Chief Supervisor for the
Southern District of Georgia, we find,
on comparison with the acts of Congress
regulating the matter, to be correct, and
therefore publish for general informa
tion :
THE ACT OP CONGRESS JUNE 10, 1872, AU
THORIZING THE APPOINTMENT OF SUPER
VISORS OF ERECTIONS.
“ Whenever in any county or parish,
in any Congressional District, there
shall be ten citizens thereof of good
standing, who, prior to any registration
of voters for an election for Representa
tives in Congress, or prior to any elec
tion at which a Representative in Con
gress is to be voted for, shall make
known in writing to the Judge of the
Circuit Court of the United States for
the district wherein such county or
parish is situate, their desire to have
said registration or election both guard
ed and scrutinized, it shall be the duty of
the said Judge of the Circuit Court,
within not less than ten days prior to
said registration or election, as the case
may be, to opeu the said Court, at the
most convenient point in said district ;
and the said Court when so opened by
said Judge, shall proceed to appoint and
commission from day to day ami from
time to lime, and under the hand of the
said Judge, and under the seal of the
said Court, for such election district or
voting precinct in said Congressional
District, as shall in the manner herein
prescribed have been applied for, and to
revoke, change or renew said appoint
ment, from time to time, two citizens
residents of said election district or
voting precinct in said county or parish,
who shall be of different political par
ties jvud able to read and write the Eng
lish language, and who shall be known
and designated as Supervisors of Elec
tions. * * * * *
Provided, That the: Supervisors herein
prodded for shall have no power or
authority to wake arrests, or to per
form other duties than to be in the im
mediate presence of the officers ho/diug
the election, and to witness all their
I proceedings, including the counting of
I the votes and the making of a return
• thereof.”
act of congress approved 28, 1872.
“Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, !
That the better to enable the said Su- |
pervisors of Elections to discharge their
duties, they are, and each of them is j
hereby authorized and directed, in their i
or his respective election districts or i
voting precincts, on the day or days of
registration, on the day or dap when
registered voters may be marked to be
challenged, and on the day or days of j
election, to take, occupy aud remain in !
such position or positions, from time to :
time, whether before or behind the bal- 1
lot boxes, as will, in their judgment, best
enable him or them to see each person
offering himself for registration or offer
ing to vote, and as will best conduce to
their or his scrutinizing the manner in
which the registration or voting is be
ing conducted ; and at the closing of
the polls for the reception of votes, they
are, and each of them is, hereby required
to place themselves or himself in such
position in relation to the ballot boxes
for the purpose of engaging in the work
of canvassing the ballots in said boxes
contained as will enable them or him to
fully perform the duties in respect to
snch canvass provided in this act, and
shall there remain until every duty
in respect to such canvass, certificates,
j returns, and statements shall have been
wholly completed, any law of any State
or Territory to the contrary notwith
standing."
To the Supervisors (if Election appoint
ed under the provisions qf the fore
going Acts of Congress :
To
You having been appointed Super
visors of Elections for the Election
District in the county of , in
the Congressional District,
State of Georgia, as a good citizen of
the United States it is your duty to ac
cept and serve. It is required of yon
that you do so. Your duties are clearly
defined in the aforementioned acts.
Carry ont the requirements of these acts,
no more and no less. And make your
report immediately after the vote is
counted to A. W. Stone,
Chief Supervisor of Flections for the
Southern Judicial District of Georgia,
Savannah, Ga.
LETTER OF HON. JULIAN HART
RIDGE IN REPLY TO HON. A. H.
STEPHENS.
Editor Savannah Advertiser:
On my return home I have been shown
an editorial in the Atlanta Sun, over the
initials “A. H. 5.,” reviewing and eriti
ciaing an address delivered by me at
Savannah on the political questions of
the day. lam aware that Mr. Stephens,
the author of the criticism, would not
have devoted his time and the space in
his paper to this address, but for the
fact that I am a candidate for Elector
for the State at Large, on the Demo
cratic ticket, and as such an advocate of
the election of Greeley and Brown. He
seizes hold of any declarations on my
part which seem objectionable to him,
to use them as the doctrines of the party
I have the honor in part to represent.
It is for this reason I ask space in your
paper to reply to the article of Mr.
Stephens; for I an unwilling that his
assertions as to what my position is
should go forth uncontradicted, and
thus create an impression that I, and my
associates, as he styles them, maintain
any such doctrines as he attributes to
us.
Mr. Stephens derives his ideas of
what my speech was from the report of
it in the “Morning New*:” Speeches
made without notes of any kind ure
never very accurately reported. But
for the purpose of this communication,
I am willing to assume that the report
referred to gives substantially my views
as expressed.
The copy of the Sun which contains
the criticism of Mr. Stephens, sets forth
also the, report of the speech criticised.
Could I hope or expect that all who
read the remarks of Mr. Stephens
would also peruse the address, I would
be satisfied; for in that case the poison
would carry with it its own antidote.—
But lam not vain enough to suppose
that all who may be attracted by a de
nunciation from Mr. Stephens will do
me the justice to seek the true merits of
the matter attacked.
Tn the article of Mr. Stephens there is
a tone of bitterness almost personal in
its character, which, under the circum
stances, I can afford to pass unnoticed ;
and I shall direct my efforts simply to
an exposure of the false premises as
sumed by Mr. Stephens in reference to
my address and the illogical conclusions
drawn by him.
The great cause of complaint and at
tack is, that I appealed to Democrats to
vote for Greeley and Brown “on prin
ciple.’’ I said then, and 1 repeat now—
if I could not appeal to my countrymen
to vote in the way I designate on prin
ciple—if it were not for the principles
involved —I would not whisper a word
in favor of the candidates. I said
then, and repeat now, I am the advo
cate of no man and no set of men ; hut
seek to show my fellow-citizens that the
principles of local State government and
personal liberty “ are best to be main
tained by voting for these candidates”—
Greeley and Brown.
From these propositions, and kindred
ones, bnt all enunciating nothing more
nor less than what I have above stated,
Mr. Stephens deduces the conclusion
that I advocate all the principles of
Mr. Greeley. In order to give some
show of truth of his assertion, he is
careful, skilfully, to isolate particular
expressions, and leave them unaccom
panied and unexplained by the context.
This may be a politic course for one
seeking to mislead; but it is certainly
open at least to reprehension in a
statesman and public journalist who j
desires to convince the people of the !
propriety of his own views by argu
ments based only on truth and reason.
When Mr. Stephens declared in his
criticism that 1 advocated the election
of Greeley and Brown “on principle,”
he should have added on what principles
I did so, as set forth in the address it
self. I maintained and still maintain
that under “the exigencies of the times,”
as proclaimed in the platform of the
Georgia Democracy at Atlanta, in July
last, the principles of local State, govern
ment and personal liberty can be best
sustained by voting for Greeley and
Brown. The platform adopted at Cin
cinnati and reaffirmed by the Democrat
ic Convention at Baltimore, expressly
recognizes these two great principles;
principles which are the cardinal and
life-giving features of Democratic faith,
and have been so since the time of Jef
ferson. I was opposed to the nomina
tion of Greeley at Baltimore; more so to
the adoption of the Cincinnati platform,
because of certain features in that plat
form repugnant to the feelings of South
ern men. But when the wisest and best
men of the Democratic party, in Conven
tion, nominated Greeley and adopted
the Cincinnati platform, it became prop
er matter for deep and serious considera
tion whether that platform did or did
not recognise the great and vital prin
ciples of government advocated and sus
tained by the Democratic party. In the
present juncture of political affairs, and
indeed at all times, the right of each
State to local self-government, and the
security of the personal liberty of the
citizen, are the two great, leading fun
damental principles upon which rest all
our rights of person and property; the
enjoyment and possession of the two
will obtain for us all the blessings po
litically we can desire.
I repeat, the Cincinnati and Baltimore
platforms and Mr. Greeley’s letter of ac
ceptance guarantee these two principles
to us. The same platform requires the
subordination of the military to the civil
power, and the preservation of the writ
of habeas corpus. Mr. Stephens urges
that these rights of local self-govern
ment, the writ of habeas corpus, etc.,
are in the Democratic platform adopted
at Baltimore made subject to the “right
ful control” of the General Government.
This is true, but it is nothing more than
Jefferson himself recognized, and the
Constitution of our own State admits.
No one can object to the exercise of the
“ rightful control” vested in the Federal
Government by the Constitution. It is
to bring back the General Government
to the limits of a “rightful control”
that the Democratic and Liberal parties
are now in alliance. It is to circum
scribe the Federal power with the re
strictions of a “rightful control” that
we seek to drive out of power an admin
istration which for four years has exer
cised and enforced an unlawful control.
It was in this view, and this alone, of
the principles contained in the Cincin
nati and Baltimore platforms, that I
urged my countrymen to support Gree
ley against Grant. And I challenge any
fair-minded reader, who is not so pre
judiced, either politically or personally,
as to lie incapable of arriving at an hon
est conclusion, to peruse my speech as a
j whole —not isolated expressions or dis
torted fragments—and say that he can
derive any other impression as to un
meaning and object than such as I have
! herein designated.
With wliat show of reason or sem
! blance of truth, then, can Mr. Stephens
: say that I, and those who tliink with
j me, endorse the Reconstruction, En
forcement and Ku-Klux acts ? The
proposition is as wanting in a basis of
fact as it is illogical in argument The
assertion of it is only an effort to play
| upon the feelings and prejudices of the
! people.
Mr. Stephens says: “Mr. Hartridge
| must know that Mr. Greeley’s platform
: is in direct antagonism to the principles
of the resolutions of 1798- 99, and to
the Jeffersonian Democratic party from
that day to this.” I have sought to
show that such is not the case, and that
the great fundamental principles of
Democratic faith are recognized in the
j platform referred to. In the adoption
of those two principles in their platform
at Baltimore, the representatives of De
mocracy there assembled gave np no
rights of the States, or of individual
citizens, but reattinned the doctrines of
Jefferson. The Liberal Republicans, in
promulgating these principles at Cincin
nati. abandoned the policy and course
of the Radical party , headed by Grant,
and planted themselves on Democratic
faith. The triumph of this platform in
the next election will secure the right of
self-government to the States, and thus
overthrow the power of centralization at
\ Washington, which is the cause of all
onr evils—a power now represented by
i Grant and his followers. Let me quote
j from the language of a distinguished
Virginian—one whose Democracy is at
least as pure as that of Mr. Stephens—
one who was bom and reared within the
influence of the lives and the graves of
Jefferson and Madison. I refer to
Robert M. T. Hunter. In a speech re
cently delivered in Virginia, referring to
Mr. Greeley and the combined parties
supporting him, he uses this language:
“If we pnt this leader and this party in
the rale, does anv man doubt that we
shall stay the further progress of the
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY" MORNING, NOVEMBER •6, 1872.
concentration of all power in the hands
of the Central Government, and the
further tendency toward imperialism in
| onr political institutions, if, indeed, the
! two things be the same, as we have
always been taught to believe, until the
people can be brought np to the resene ?
; In such a contest as this, ran any TYr
; ginlan doubt as to the side he will take f
; Remember, it is a question of popular
! rights—aye, of American liberty itself.’
i Mr. Stephens says that I, “with the
1 adroitness of an advocate whose object
| is to ‘make the worse appear the better
j cause,’” in my speech, brought in the
names of Davis, Johnston, Gordon, and
j others, to induce the belief that in all 1
I said I was but fallowing their lead.
Here comes in again this unfairness of
statement and this distoition of facts so
| common in this article of Mr. Stephens.
The simple perusal of the speech will
I show that I never urged that I was but
I following their lead in all that I said;
but simply that when wo saw such men
| as these taking the path of support of
i <Jrerlry , we surely could follow their
I lead without dishonor. By what pro-
I cess of reasoning they reached their
conclusions, I never pretended to jndge
or declare. And I am willing to repeat
'the a-sertion, and ask the people of
Georgia whether they do not believe
with me, that if Johnson and Gordon
vote for Greeley, we can do so likewise
without disgrace; and whether they
think such men would support a candi
date whose principles carried into power
will continue and perpetuate Ku-Klux
and enforcement laws, and all the evils
now maintained by Grant. Not all the
sophistry and ingenuity of 51 r. Steph
ens ; not all the influence of his name
or the persuasive power of his tongue,
or his pen, could induce our people to
believe that sucli men are advocating tin
election of a man, and establishment of
principles, antagonistic to their rights.
Mr. Stephens says : “Whatever of
honor, or its contrary, there may be in
one calling himself a Democrat to sup
port Mr. Greeley ‘on principle,’ will be
left to Mr. Hartridge and such of his as
sociates as are ready to abjure the faith
of their fathers, aud swallow Radicalism
in its most odious forms.”
I have already shown what was meant
by supporting Mr. Greeley on principle;
and how false is the assertion that by so
doing I “anil my associates” advocate
the principles of Radicalism. And lam
willing to let my fellow-citizens decide
who “swallows Radicalism in its most
odious forms,” the man who advocates
the election of a candidate pledged to
reform and the maintenance of the
rights of the States, and the subordina
tion of the military to civil power, or
the man who openly defends the finan
cial course of Grant, and by his writings
divides the Democratic party aud se
cures the continuance in power of the
present Administration, thus strength
ening its hands to continue in future the
same career as in the past, deriving ad
ditional boldness from an apparent en
dorsement by tire people.
Julian Hartridge.
SOUTH CAROLINA ITEMS
Up to Wednesday night the ascer
tained majority of Moses for Governor
footed up 31,940.
Mr. Jacob Levin, of Charleston, died
on Friday morning of congestive chills,
at Yemassee, on the Port Royal Rail
road.
John D. Reeks, convicted at the
51 arch term of the United States Court
of violating the internal revenue laws,
and sentenced to one year’s imprison
ment iu the jail at Greenville, S. C., has
been unconditionally pardoned by the
President.
A personal difficulty occurred on Tues
day night between two colored men
farming together on Dr Moon’s planta
tion, near Chappell’s Depot, Newberry
county, resulting in the killing of Blu
foril Nelson by Anderson Williams.
Borne disagreement as-to the division of
the proceeds of their crops is assigned
as the cause of the quarrel. Measures
have been taken for the arrest of the
alleged murderer.
At the late election two amendments
to the Btate Constitution were adopted,
with but little opposition. One of them
changes the day of holding the State
election, so that, every four years, both
the State and Presidential election will
take place on the same day. The other
amendment prohibits any addition to
•the State debt, without the approval of
a two-thirds vote of the people at a
general election.
The Governor has pardoned John Arc-
Cord, of Abbeville, who was convicted
of assault and battery with intent to kill,
at the February, 1872, term of the court,
and sentenced by Judge Orr to twelve
months’ imprisonment at hard labor.
Also, George A. Berry, of Richland,who
was convicted f grand larceny in two
cases at the October, 1870,term of court,
and sentenced by .fudge Melton to three
aud a half years’ imprisonment at hard
labor. The pardon of Thomas DeHay,
of Fairfield, who was convicted of aid
ing a prisoner to escape at the March
term of the court, 1872, and sentenced
to ten years' imprisonment in the peni
tentiary, has been cancelled by the Gov
ernor.
Governor Scott, on Alonday, notified
State Auditor Gary that Ills office no
longer existed, and that his books aud
papers must forthwith be turned over
to the Comptroller General. This action
of Scott is based upon the act passed
by the Legislature in March last, en
titled “An act to abolish the office of
State Auditor, and confer the duties of
his office upon the Compt roller General. ”
The Comptroller General, Neagle, made
a demand upon the State Auditor to
surrender his office, which was refused
when Scott immediately ordered Gary’
commission to be cancelled. Gary stood
in the way of the levying of the enor
mous taxes required to pay the interest
on the fraudulent bonds issued by Scott
and his ring—estimated at twenty-six
mills on the dollar. Hence his removal.
The Comptroller General now has full
sway at the tax-payers, aud will, it is
thought, make his levy in a few days.
The American Peddler —George A.
Townsend has been gathering legends
of the “Long Island Pilgrim Fathers,”
and adds this bit to the common stock
of traditional lore :
“ ’Twas only ’bout seventy years ago,”
said the driver who carried ns, “that the
Easthampton folks undertook to git the
better of a peddler that come among ’em
with the measles. He was as smart as a
fish-hook, and, measles or no measles,
he would go to meeting next day, being
Sunday, in order t’hev it understood that
he had arriv. Everybody know’d him !
The landlord of the tavern where the
peddler stopped sez : ‘Don’t you go to
meetin’ man, with them measles cornin’
aout all over you !’ ‘Yes, I will,’ sez the
man, ‘for,’ sez he, ‘a trade is a trade,
and there is no place like a meetin’ to
advertise notions. I’ll go and hear the
Word expounded!’ And go he did.
Now, you see, the landlord told the peo
ple, and, says he, ‘that peddler all brnk
out with the measles, and he went to
church among the children.’ The young
men got right daown mad, and made it
up to whip the peddler ; but hearin’ tell
of the feeliu’, had gone over to South
ampton. Haowever, they gave chase,
and tuck him up and fetched him back,
and there they ducked him in a horse
pond, and rid him on a rail. Waell,
now, wliat do yon think that pesky ped
dler did ? He sued the town through
lawyer Aaron Burr, and rekivered SI,OOO
damages! And, by George, he give
ninety on ’em the measles, and twenty
two died ! ‘A trade’s a trade,’ sez he,
as he left town.”
“What did they punish the peddler
for?” said the retired capitalist of twen
ty-six ; “for having the measles, or go
ing to church ? The measles is a fair
swap for a good many of those long
sermons which will never let you br. ak
out."
“They thought ’twant proper respect,
I guess,” said Jehn, with a wink, “to
dress up in anew suit of measles to go
to worship in.”
The Passaic Falls have been for prac
tical purposes shorn of most of their
beanty. Many changes have recently
taken place there. There has been
erected, just at the edge of the iedge of
rock over which the water falls, or fell,
a dam to insure a supply of water for
the reservoir. Another dam owned by
the Society for the Encouraging of Use
ful Manufactures, about three hundred
yards from the falls, has been raised to
force more water into the raceway. He
now. at certain seasons of the year,
there is no water at all going over the
precipice.
Coffey county, Kansas, has preserved,
canned and dried at least SIO,OOO worth
of peaches this year.
The prevailing style in ladies’ jewelry
just now is massive, solid and wofully
expensive.
CRIME.
Battle, Murder and Bnrgl&ry—Radi
cals Mob a Colored Democrat -Three
of the Party Arrested-Murder Up
Town Yesterday-Burglary Sunday
Morning.
During the twenty-four hours ending
last night Augusta was almost as lively
as New York city, in a criminal point of
view, and there was no scarcity of items
for the reporters. Within that space of
time a murder was committed, a colored
man was mobbed for opinion’s sake, and
a daring burglary was perpetrated.
THE MOBBING T J'
Os the colored man was a very aggra
vated offense, and one which the juries
should severely punish. Tliere is a col
ored man named Stephen Brown, a resi
dent of this city, who is a respectable,
orderly'aud industrious person, but who,
like a sensible man, believes that the
whites are his best friends, and, there
fore, has always acted aud voted with
the Democratic party. By so doing
he incurred the hatred of mauy of the
intolerant colored men who wish that no
negro shall vote except as they may dic
tate. This feeling has not be-en confined
to Augusta, but has extended icross the
Savannah river to HamburgA vliere the
Radicals are in the ascendoii.ys^d bold
er and more lawless than in Augusta.
On Sunday night Brown wished to at
tend church in Hamburg, and went
across the river, accompanied by Iris
wife anil Louis Williams, a colored min
ister, and his wife. They entered the
church, and Brown conducted himself
in a quiet and orderly manner. But it
seems there were present several men
who work, and perhaps vote, in Augus
ta, but who live in Hamburg. These
men saw Brown in the congregation and
thought it a good time to vent their
hatred. They circulated the intel
ligence, and a large number of
bad men heartily joined in their
plans. Whoa church was over, and the
congregation was dispersing, a large
crowd of men commenced cursing him,
and calling him opprobrious epithets.
They endeavored to get hold of him,
and their purpose was evidently murder,
but ho clung to the preacher, who was
with him, and several of tire more re
spectable colored men had the manli
ness to take his part, and stand between
himself and death. The mob was arm
ed with every variety of weapon, and
made several ineffectual efforts to seize
their victim. They charged upon his
defenders several times, but were re
pulsed. The men who were defending
Brown then began to retreat towards
the bridge, in order to bring him to the
city. When near the middle, of the
river, and while within the jurisdic
tion of Georgia, the mob, enraged
at seeing their prey about to
escape them, made another rush, aud
this time were successful. They seized
. upon Brown and beat him with sticks,
staves and bludgeons. The blows were
showered upon his body, arms and head
until he was almost rendered insensible.
His wife was maltreated and some of
tire wretches threatened to throw her iu
the river. In the meantime the noise of
the encounter was heard upon this side
of the stream and assistance rendered
Brown just in time to save his life. The
men who were beating him, cowards as
they were, ran back to Hamburg as soon
as they saw that their victim was re
ceiving succor. Brown was brought
back to this city and carried to his
home. Yesterday morning he gave the
police a description of a number of the
men who attacked him, and also their
names. Several of them were recog
nized anil three of them—Thus. Carroll,
Bilas James and Richard Anderson—were
arrested. Another—Butler Edwards—
was found at the machine yard of ATr.
Win. 11. Goodrich, on Reynolds street,
lint jumped over the hack fence, swam the
river and made his escape. The other
parties were committed, and we under
stand that Solicitor General Jackson
intends having them all indicted for
riot. We hope that if guilty, they will
he convicted and punished to the full
extent of the law.
BURGLARS’.
On Sunday morning a daring burglary
furnished a first-class sensation to the
lower portion of the city. It seems
that a little while before daylight Mr.
H. T. Jordan, who lives on the north
side of Ellis street, between Lincoln
and Houston, happened to got out of
bed, ami, before lighting the gas, heard
a rustling as of clothes near the foot of
the bed. Looking intently at the spot
he discovered the dim outlines of a
figure, but before he could spring upon
him the man rushed to the door, ran
down stairs to the back door, which
was unlocked, and made his way
through the yard into the garden. Mr.
Jordan, unarmed and cn deshabille, fol
lowed in close pursuit. In the garden
the thief endeavored to climb the wall
but failed, and Mr. Jordan came near
capturing him. The burglar eluded his
grasp, however, struck at him, and then
retraced liis steps through the yard,
through the house, ont of the front
deor aud into the street. Mr. Jordan
followed him up the street until the
fugitive came to a high gate, over which
he leaped and made his escape. The
noise brought several persons to the
spot, but no trace of the runaway could
be discovered. The burglar was a negro
man, aud made liis entrance into the
house through a low window which he
unbolted aud raised. He then unlocked
the doors of the building, in order that
he might have a means of retreat if dis
covered. His presence was detected
before lie had an opportunity to steal
anything, though if Mr. Jordan bad
slept a few minutes longer he would un
doubtedly have lost his watch and his
money. The third sensation was a
murder,
Which was committed yesterday after
noon, about half-past two o’clock, in the
upper portion of the city. From the
testimony taken at the Corouel-’s inquest,
we obtained the following particulars of
the affair : It seems that early yesterday
afternoon John H. Zeely, a colored mail
living near the intersection sf Mills and
Pond streets, was on the street under
the influence of liquor. David Craw
ford, also colored, caught hold of him
to carry him home. When near his
door the drunken man fell in a ditch,
but soon recovered himself. Crawford
! carried him in. his house, where
i his (Zeeley’s) wife was sitting, then
| left him and went back to a place,
[ accompanied by Maria Munroe. In a
few minutes Zeeley came into the
street and started towards Munroe’s-
When he entered the yard Crawford,
who was in one of the rooms, snatched
np a cavalry carbine and went to meet
him. They met near the corner of the
house and some abusive words seems to
have passed between them. Crawford
then raised his gun, took deliberate aim
and fired. The charge (small shot) en
tered Zeeley’s head, near the mouth,
i penetrated to the brain and caused
death to ensue almost instantly. As
; soon as Zeeley fell Crawford partially
S reloaded his gun and swore that he
would kill any negro who attempted to
| arrest him. A policeman arrived a few
minutes afterwards and captured him
without resistance. He was taken to
the City Hall and committed until this
morning. He admits the shooting but
declares that he was only using the gun
t and frighten Zeeley, and that it was dis
charged accidently. The Coroner’s jury
fouud that the deceased came to his
death from a gun shot wound inflicted
by a weapon held in the hands of David
Crawford.
The Confederate Monument.— Our
readers will see, from the address of the
general agents in another column, that
the time is rapidly approaching for the
close of the effort to honor our lamented
dead. Whether the attempt to build a
monument to perpetuate their fame and
our gratitude was wise or unwise, it was
inaugurated, and has been persistently
kept up for a long time. Society is the
creature of necessity and self-interest,
and as such has been acknowledged in
all ages to be under obligations to those
who, in their individual character, main
tained and defended it in eminent de
grees. We will not undertake to show
iu what ways, and to what extent, States
and nations liavp become indebted to in
dividual effort in literature, science, art,
statesmanship and arms. That is un
necessary for our purpose. In the weak
ness or degeneracy or malignity of our
race, wars will sometimes occur. These
are the instances in which a people are
more dependent than in any other upon
the valor of their sons, and there is
danger in the battles, sieges and terrific
encounters which follow. Obligations,
in this respect, differ from those of any
other. Life is involved—the shedding
of blood. They are not merely the
obligations of friendship. They are of
a deeper, tenderer, sadder nature. They
spring from the heart-touching fact
that our friends, onr kindred, our sons,
have given their lives in our defense.
He who can contemplate this fact with
indifference has a heart as cold as an
iceberg, aud proves that lie, at least,
was unworthy of such defenders. The
Confederate States called upon then
gallant sons to defend the positions
they had taken, and never was a call
more cheerfully and gloriously answered.
We are now called upon, whether wisely
or unwisely, as we have before stated,
to honor them in a peculiar way. The
call has been publicly made, and is
known at home and abroad. How shall
our people answer it ? We trust with a
generous and grateful response. Let
our people stand surety for our heroes’
fame, as well as their own. We again
ask attention to the address of the gen
eral agents, which will bo found in
another column of our paper.
Something About Pills. —The mod
ern era of explosions influences even
the contents of the pill-pox. Borne pills
prescribed by a physician in England
contained, it is reported, one-half grain
nitrate of silver, one-sixtli grain extract
nux vomico, and one-lialf grain muriate
of morphine, together with cons. ros.
and extract of gentian. They exploded
in a very short time, evolving a consid
erable amount of heat. A similar case
is reported to have occurred at Notting
ham, England, where the physician pre
scribed pills containing four grains of
nitrate of silver, one grain muriate of
morphia and extract of gentian. The
lady patient, who had the box about her
person, was badly burned by the explo
sion. Despising all such chemical, de
tonating pellets, the Chinaman goes in
for those of a thoroughly animal char
acter. Thus, a druggist at Ningpo in
vites the public to swallow “pills manu
factured out of a whole stag, slaughtered
with purity of purpose, on a propitious
day.” It appears that the wealthy whole
sale druggists are in the habit of pur
chasing large and handsome stags, which
they expose in a pen at the door of the
shop, until “a propitious day” is select
ed for the animal’s conversion into pills,
when he is deliberately pounded entire
into pulp, from which pills are made.
After all, these must be greatly prefera
ble to the “explosive” sort.
Unparalleled Outrage.— A gentle
man from the vicinity of Gordon called
at this office yesterday, says the Macon
Teh graph, and made the following start
ling disclosures :
On Wednesday night, about 2 p. m.,
a baud of ten United States soldiers led
by some brevet official, appeared at the
dwelling of Dr. J. B. Terrell, in quest of
the Doctor and his son, who were from
home. They entered the house and
searched the promises in the rudest
manner, violating with tlieir ruffian pres
ence the sleeping chamber of two young
ladies, and even tearing from their per
sons the bed covering which protected
them. Disappointed atnot finding their
prey, they then visited other domicils
and arrested and bare away with them
Messrs. Win. Fountain, Win. Califf,Wm.
Bridges, Frank Kennington, Edward
Walker, railroad agent, and Jas. Foun
tain. Not content with thus outraging
the homes and persons of their victims,
these exemplary representatives of Rad
ical law oroceeded to rifle the pockets of
one of their prisoners, Mr. Wm, Foen
tnin, of about sls. For the truth of this
ter characteristic act our informant has
the authority of the brother of slr.
Fountain.
Zinc Water Tanks. —Of the nnhealth
fulness of these for domestic purposes,
there would seem to be no doubt. A
recent French periodical contains an ar
ticle by 51. Zinrek, who had examined
water which had long been kept iu such
tanks anij who has found that the water
dissolves so much the more zinc as it
contained more chlorides, such, for ex
ample, as the cliloride of sodium. The
water also takes up larger quantities of
zinc in proportion to the length of con
tact. Boiling does not, however, pre
cipitate the zinc from water charged with
the metal. A sample of the former was
tried, in which the chlorides were in
small proportion, but which had been a
long time in a zinc tank ; as much as 15
grains of zinc was found in each quart.
To prevent this state of things, M. Zin
rek advises that the tanks be coated in
side with an oil paint, with ocher or
asphalt for the base ; but no minium,
ceruse, or carbonate of zinc should be
used. Fifteen grains in a quart seem
an enormous proportion. Ought not
the use of such tanks to be discarded
altogether.
Free Tnnos fob White and Color
ed. — From the Griffin Star, we learn
that Prof. Orr, State School Commis
sioner, delivered a most excellent, sound
and interesting lecture on Saturday last,
at the Female College in that city, upon
the subject of education, and more par
ticularly the bearings of the free'school
system upon the subject.
He maintained and demonstrated clear
ly that the very salvation of Georgia de
pended upon a thorough system of free
tuition, not only for white children but
colored ones. For the latter, he believed
that ‘further than reading, writing, and
the rudiments of arithmetic, the race
was not competent to take education,
only in exceptional cases. But this
much they should have at any rate. The
Professor alluded to the States and
cities where such a system has been in
operation as proof positive of the cor
rectness of his opinion.
The Selma (Ala.) Fair.— The annual
Fair of the Central Agricultural and Me
chanical Association of Dallas county,
Ala., will be held at Selma, on 12th
November, and will continue for five
days. We acknowledge the receipt of a
complimentary ticket.
MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES OF
THE UNIVERSITY OF GKOROIA.
They Establish a Branch at Dahlouega
—Hon. D. W. Lewis Electe«i Princi
pal—Dr. E. M. Pendleton Elected
Professor of Agricultural, Horticul
tural aud Mechanical Arts, iu the
University of Georgia.
[From the Atlanta Constitution, 25th.]
The Board of Trustees of the Uni
versity met in this citv on yesterday
morning, according to the call of the
President, at the request of the Pru
dential Committee. Present, Gov. James
M. Smith, ex-Gov. Charles J. Jenkins,
Major M. A. Cooper, Col. W. 1/. Mitch
ell, Hon. B. H. Hill, Col. Bonj. C.
Yancey, W. Hope Hull, Esq., Dr. It. D.
Moore, ,T. J. Gresham, Esq., Hon. Dun
lap Scott, Col. J. A. Billups, Major
Lamar Cobb, Col. N. J. Hammond, and
Pope Barrow, Esq.
The meeting was opened witli prayer
by Col. W. L. Mitchell. Minutes of
the annual meeting were read and con
iirmed. A communication was read
from the Chancellor, with a report from
President Brouu.
The were present., also, W. P. Price,
President of the Board of Trustees of
the North Georgia College, and A. G.
Wirnpey.
A basis of agreement was agreed upon
and ratified by the Board of Trustees of
the University of Georgia.
The North Georgia Agricultural Col
lege at Dahlouega conveys to tho Trus
tees of the University of Georgia the
use and control of the buildings and
real estate at Dahlouega for. such length
of time as tin; Trustees of the Uni
versity of Georgia shall continue to per
form its part of the stipulations.
The University of Georgia shall pay
annually §2,000 from the interest of the
Agricultural Fund donated by Congress,
as long as the same remains intact in
their hands, to pay one or more teachers
in the institution. The principal is to
be elected by the Trustees of tho Uni
versity of Georgia. The control of de
tails and tho management of the insti
tution and the appointment of subordi
nate teachers shall be in the bands of the
local Board in Dahlouega, subject at all
times to the revision of the Trustees of
the University of Georgia, in whom is
vested the ultimate power of legislation.
This arrangement is on condition that
after 1875 one hundred male students
shall be kept at the institution in Dah
lonegu—a proportionate sum to be paid
for a less number, but to cease when the
average number for one year shall be
reduced below fifty. The expenses of
repairs of building, furnishing, warm
ing, etc., and the pay of teachers be
yond the §2,000, shall be raised by the
local Board, and the Trustees of the
University of Georgia shall not bo liable
for any debt of said college beyond the
§2,000.
Nothing contained in the agreement is
to prevent the North Georgia Agricultu
ral College from deriving the full bene
fit from any appropriation hereafter
made by Congress for establishing a
School of Miners in connection with said
institution, or any other appropriation
given for its benefit by Congress.
We learn that the buildings to be used
by the North Georgia Agricultural Col
lege cost the United States §70,083 33.
The College will open on the first of
January, 1873.
Hon. D. W. Lewis was elected Princi
pal of the North Georgia Agricultural
College at Dahlouega.
Dr. E. M. Pendleton was elected Pro
fessor of Agricultural, Horticultural and
Mechanical Arts in the University of
Georgia.
Captain S. L. Cherbouier was assigned
to the duty of Inspector of Military
Tactics. This is a synopsis of their ac
tion, so far as our reporter could obtain
them.
A New Southern Product. —There is a
plant growing very abundantlyin our piny
woods and in the pine forests through
out the South known as the “Deer
Tongue.” It presents a bunch or tuft of
light green, tongue-shaped leaves,
springing immediately from the ground,
the leaves measuring from six to eight
inches in length, and about one incli
in breadth. From the centre of this
bunch of leaves starts up, as the season
advances, a straight stalk, rising to
the height of from two to three feot, and
terminating in a collection of bright
purple flowers. The leaves aro very fra
grant when bruised, having a strong va
nilla odor.
“This little plant—a growth peculiar
to the lower States —is now,” says the
Mobile Register, “attracting no little at
tention as articles for scenting tobacco
and wrappers for fine cigars. Even at
this time it is commanding a high price
in the market, and as it becomes better
known, tlie demand for it will doubtless
be greater. We are confident that the
day is not far distant when it will figure
as one of our most important products,
aud since it is climatically secured to
tho South, and can be grown to perfec
tion upon our poorest pine lands, the
freak of good fortune which brought it
inti notice is like to prove a freak to us.”
The Forty-Third Conoress. —The
impression prevails amongmany persons
that the act of January 22, 1807, re
quiring anew Congress to assemble on
March 4th, immediately on tho adjourn
ment of its predecessors, is still in
force, but this law was repealed by the
thirtieth section of the United States
statute, approved April 20th, 1871, and
to be found on page twelve of the laws
passed at tho first session of the Forty-
Second Congress. The repealing sec
tion is contained in a deficiency appro
priation act, and tho entire statute is
well worth examining, as a curious il
lustration of the incongruous measures
that are crowded into one bill during
the expiring hours of a session of Con
gress. The Forty-Third Congress will
not meet until the first Monday of De
cember, 1873, unless sooner called to
gether in extraordinary session.
Parceling Out Florida. —A corre
spondent of the Savannah Netus, writ
ing from Mouticollo. Fla., states that a
growing disposition is expressed in that
section of the State to annex West Flor
ida to Alabama, tack Middle Florida on
to Georgia, and to allow East Florida to
constitute the State. This indicates the
restivenesi am' dissatisfaction of the
people in a strong and forcible light.
A Wonder. —Mr. W. A. Kennedy, of
Atlanta, who lives on Deeatiu street,
has a pear seedling that came up iu
1864. It bore its first fruit in 1871, when
it had two crops—the second not ma
turing.
This year its first bloom was seen the
last of March. The first crop matured
the second week in Juno. The seooud
blooms appeared the last of July. The
seoond crop matured the first of October.
The third blooms appeared the middle
cf September.
The third crop is a healthy, unmatured
fruit of the size of a pigeon’s egg at this
time, the 16tli of October. And the tree
has its fourth blooms on it now.
This is a wonder. Three crops of
fruit in one season, two of them ma
tured, one-half matured, and still an
other crop in the blossom from the last
of March to the middle of October, con
stitute a marvel in fruit experiences.—
Atlanta Constitution.
People from the country about Macon
report the picking of the cotton crop as
rapidly going forward—that if the
weather continues as fine it now is,
the whole of it will be gathered by the
15th or 20th of November. Two-thirds
have already been gathered, ginned,
baled, and either on the road to market
or already there.
The gin house of Mr. John A. Patman,
near Watkinsville, Clarke county, was
burned on Friday night last, together
with twenty-three bales of cotton, fif
teen of which belonged to Mr. Patman.
Fire supposed to have been incendiary.
♦
The Wisconsin marshes are yielding
alternate crops of intermittent fever and
cranberries.
A company at Pleasant Valley, N.
made a half million bottles of champagne
this season.
“Extending your shop front into the
newspaper” is the latest definition for
advertisements.
NEW SERIES—VOL. XXV—NO. 45.
HEBREW' GENIUS.
Intellectual Triumph of J. P, Benja
min, the New Rival of D’lsraeli.
It was announced by “cablegram”
that J. P. Benjamin, Confederate Secre
tary of State and Minister of War, at
the instance of the Lord Chancellor
(Hathaway), has been raised to the rahk
of Queen's Counsel, the leaders of the
English bar. The London Standard
says:
\Ve trust there are none of Mr. Benja
min's former co-patriots aud competitors
in the Courts of tlio United States who
will not rejoice to hear that their com
rade has achieved success in his now ca
reer,, and is once more restored to n po
sition not unworthy of his talents and
industry, however far below that which
lie might have held, and did once hold,
in his native land.
Benjamin is now an old man, but as
an English barrister ho is probably the
youngest that ever appeared in a silk
gown. Twenty years ago, at the age of
forty, ho was among the foremost plead
ers of the United States,' and represent
ed Louisiana in the Federal Senate. Ten
years ago he had resigned that position
oil the Recession of his State, aud was'
first Secretary of War and then Secre
tary of State in the government of the.
ill-fated Confederacy. In tlio former
post it was liis misfortune to be officially
responsible for evils and disasters which
no resources at bis command could
avert; to have, tinder the supreme direc
tion ot a chief, whose special aptitude
aud experience were those of a war min
ister, to maintain without money, with
out ships, without artillery, with scanty
supplies of arms and ammunition, and
very inadequate numbers, a life and
death struggle against the overwhelming
power of the North. His vindication
lies in the fact that it took four years to
crush the Confederate States. As Sec
retary of State and director of the for
eign policy of tii<* government, he was
confessedly as successful as the circum
stances permitted. In 18(15 the fall of
Richmond sent the Confederate Govern
ment into banishment, and the capture
of the President finally dissolved it,
Mr. Benjamin was fortunate) to escape
into exile—a ruined man, n great
lawyer, a man of fortune and posi
tion iu his native land, late First
Minister of an incipient Common
wealth, lie had to begin life again at the
age of fifty-five in a foreign country,
and without any of tlio advantages of
fortuuo, interest or connection which he
had won in the course of a long and
laborious career. Must men would have
sunk into despair- and apathy, finding
their own fortunes and the hopes of
their country ruinod by the same blow,
and compelled at so advanced an age to
start again with all the difficulties of
youth, but without the strength aud
spirits of youth to conquer them. Not
a few would have been simply stunned
by the depth of the fall. Not so with
slr Benjamin. The late First Minister
of lus country recommenced life as a
law student; the leading lawyer began
again to learn the laws of another coun
try. , He was called to the bav after a
year s study—a becoming and rightful
concession to his years and learning, but
one which, as slr. Benjamin would be
the first to acknowledge, scarcely any
bar but that of England would have
made in favor of the foreigner and an
exile. Still the former leader had totake
rank as the junior or juniors; and in that
position it is very difficult for a barrister
to obtain lucrative or important business,
seeing that the etiquette of the bar places
the lead iu every case in the hands of
the seqior counsel engaged, aud that the
junior s work is at once the least distin
guished, the worst paid and the fullest
of mere drudgery. slr. Benjamin had
but this one incidental advantage, that
the close of the war had entailed certain
suits between the United States Govern
ment and the agents of the Confederacy
in Europe, and in some of these he was
retained by the latter, and the conduct
of the cause left in his hands. Such a
man needed only an opportunity of
proving liiß quality. Mr. Benjamin
forced solicitors to recognize him as one
of tlio best lawyers at the common law
bar; his professional brethren treated
him with generous respect and con
sideration, and within six years from
his admission to the bar, he has achieved
a position of which the rank now be
stowed is but the formal sanction aud
acknowledgment. Nevertheless, wo
give Lord Hathaway credit for a just and
graceful act, as we give credit to the bar
for their prompt decision to call 51r.
Benjamin after a year’s study, waving
all technical rules and usages in his
favor. He had such faro as good will
and courtesy would give to a stranger,
and nothing more. The victory he has
achieved is due to no favor or interest,
but purely and simply to his unques
tionable superiority ns an English law
yer, after bnt seven years spent in Eng
land.
Grand Division Sons of Temperance.
--This body continued its session in
Savannah on Tuesday. Tho regular or
der of business was transacted, which
was of a nature particularly interesting
only to members of tho order, and
which will bo reported to them in the
subordinate divisions by tlicir represen
tatives.
Under tho head of “ The Good of the
Order," a resolution was offered ap
pointing a committee to draft a set of
resolutions, oarnbstly asking the minis
try of the Gospel, tho Christian aud re
ligious community, and the preps, as
the great medium of communication,
aud seoond to no other in its inlluonoo,
to join with the order iu its efforts to
advance this great cause of humanity.
After the adoption of this report, the
Grand Division adjourned to meet nt
Spring Hill, near Augusta, on tho 4th
Wednesday in April next.
Internal Revenue.— The Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue will be vory
brief in his annual report. Tho late
changes iu tho law work so satisfactorily
that no recommendations for improve
ment can be suggested. The rovenuo
from whisky, malt and liquors is largely
increased. The amounts realized from
tobacco are twenty per cent, beyond
calculations. The troubles with brew
ers will be left to Congress for action.
The present uniform tax on tobacco has
been found to work especially favor
able. Tho number of distilleries, es
pecially iu tho Southern States, has in
creased in an unprecedented manner.
It is estimated that under the reduced
figures the revenue from internal sources
will amount to §12.5,000,003, which is
$20,000,000 above the figures agreed
upon by the financial authorities when
the reductions went into effect.
Love Powders.—A country youth in
quired at a Savannah drug store, re
cently, for ten cents worth of “love
powders"— “something that wonld’ntstir
her much, but would make her dream
of him nights.” The urbane drug
gist’s clerk put np some magnesia, anil
cautioned the purchaser not to give his
victim too much at a time, but rather
win her affection by degrees.
The Largest Grain Elevator in the
United States.-—A floating elevator is
now iD the coarse of construction in
New Orleans of double tho capacity of
any other floating elevator in the United
States. It will be finished and in active
operation in November, three or four
weeks lienee. It will be able to deliver
to the receiving ships 10,000 bushels of
grain an hour —100,000 daily.
Ijlght Bales This Year. —A friend,
who holds the position of agent at one
of tho Central Railroad depots, writes
us that so far this season (perhaps ow
ing in part to the exceedingly dry weath
er) the cotton weights fall considerably
short of those of last year. Last year
the average weight to tho bale at this
station was 487 pounds. This year, so
far, it is only 435 pounds—fifty-two
S >unds short of last year’s average.
ere is noarly eleven per cent, short,
and if this deficit is general it becomes
a vastly important element in figuring
up cotton receipts this year. —Macon
Telegraph
Matamobas, October 28 —) commis
sion lias been appointed to invcKßgate
tlie complicity of uncials with tlie Rio,
Grande catHo stealing. Cortina has
able lawyers preparing his defense.
LADY VILLULA.
BY THE AUTHOR OF “ OINX’S BARY.”
From tho fit. Paul’s (Loudon) Magazine,
Lady Pillnla was nearly eighty years
of age, with the withering marks’of time
deeply written on her features and mit
tened hands. Yot no small vitality re
mained in her frnino. She had nothing
to do, so she took modicino. With little
interest in those who were about her t.o
attract attention, she fixed it on herself,
and that port of the body which bocamo
the sonl and specific object of her re
gard was her intestines. It is affirmed
by physicians that one may, by nervous
concentration of thought upon, one spot
of the body, iuduco or aggravate a local
morbid action. This was Lady Pillula’s
peculiarity. Her passion was pills. Os
these she was at once an artist, a con
noisseur, and a miser, Vnst collections
of empty pill-boxos lumbered her room.
She tooK pills before she roso in the
morning, before breakfast, at eleven in
tho forenoon, at one. She took Hollo- *
way’s as an appetizer for lunch, and
counteracted the eHoots of that Untimely
meal with tho celebrated anti-bilious
{■pills of Cockle. Her dimipr was inaugu
rated by three boluses of rhubarb, and
concluded with aloe. Her nocturnal
podophyllin was never omitted. Slio
scanned the newspaper every morning
for one purpose, the discovery of-new
pills; while her sister, Lady W., sought,
the columns of fashionable intelligence,
and Lord W. perused tho stock lists, she
was busy registering tue latest novelty
in pilhilat invention. On the first occa
sion of her reading the advertisement "3T"
tho notorious Rovnlonta Arabics, headed,
“ No more pills or any other medicine,”
the announcement proved too much for
her, anil she fainted. She only recover
ed on the exhibition of a whole box of
“Brandreth’s,” One form of pill she
abhorred, namely, the minute globules
of the homeopathists. Thoso she con
demned as utterly unworthy of a trial
by any adult interior.
The most agreeable surprise you could
pass upon her was to present her with a
box of now pills. She would take thorn
tho same evening and pronounce on
their qualities tho next day with the pre
cision and gusto of a connoisseur. In
deed, the mania affeoted her morality.
She became morbid in pursuit of her
fancy; invading her sister’s boudoir, or
even Lord W.’s dressing-room, in the
hope of finding some stray box of lior
condiments. If a visitor happened to
carry such specifics about with him, or
left them in his room, Lady Pillnla took
tithe of them. She luvd several times
been nearly poisoned. Once she swal
lowed a number of buckshot which an
incautious sportsman had turned into
an empty pill-box on unloading his gun.
In another instance some glass beads
met with a similar accident.
One item of comfort to be extracted
from this strange but authentic case,
should not pass unmarked. Notwith
standing the vast numbers of portentious
patents, from tho exhibition of which
innumerable consequences were pledged
to ensue, Lady Pillula’s organs seemed
contrived to resist them nil. It w/is only
affected by the blue pill in unusual
quantities, or prescriptions administered
by her physicians; the hnrmlessuess of
most patent pills was a source of vexa
tion to her, though it proved the sim
plicity of materials with which peoplo
arc gammoned.
Lord W. used to amuse himself occa
sionally at his sister-in-law’s expense.
He asked Savory of Oorbyn for their la
test inventions, and brought home boxes
of them. Ho himsolf slily mixed some
rare and monstrous compositions, rang
ing from pitch to beeswax or bread, and
was entertained to find that the old lady
placed some of these high in her stair
dard of excellence. When, however, ho
twitted her with her credulity, and with
the perils to which she was exposing
herself by her unreasonable addiction to
such fraudulent devices, she replied
upon him rather sharply :
“Everybody takespilis of Homo sort,”
sliesaid. “ SomoswalTow opinions whole
sale without knowing much of what is
in them. Some people take their
priest’s prescription uh if it were certain
to contain a specific for their souls.—
Others take their political ideas from
political quacks, and gulp them with
the most credulous simplicity. I have
seen you take for granted any pill tho
editor of the Chimes makes up for you
of a morning, aud have known you to bo
tho worse for it. Otliher peoplo”—hero
she lookod wickedly at her brothcr-in-
Official Meanness. —This Adminis
tration has done many moan tilings, but
tho meanest of all its meannesses, was
the dismissal of Cmlet Digges from the
Annapolis Academy, which wo announc
ed yesterday. Tho simple facts are,
that this youth mot the colored cadet,
Conyers, in tho grounds, that they came
to blows, aud that tho wliito cadet Hog
ged tho black follow, as ho probably de
served, for somo impertinence. It was
nothing clso, after all, but a boy’s quar
rel, such as has occurred a hundred
times before, mixed up, perhaps with a
littlo of tho “irrepressible conflict.”
Now, tho practice always has been, in
such cases, to liavo an inquiry anil to ad
minister tho discipline of the institu
tion to whoever violates tlie rules.
That would not answer a partisan pur
pose, however, on tlie eve of the Presi
dential election, so the Navy Depart
ment disgraces the service with an order,
which, so far from being a stigma upon
the youngster against whom it was ma
liciously directed, is a burning stain
upon the man who was despicable
enough to soil his epaulettes witli such
filthy flnnkeyism.
When the negro cadet at West Point
was convicted of lying and other offenses
which are punished with expulsion, and
which made him nn unfit companion for
the youth of that academy, he was par
doned and forced upon their society, in
defiance of honorable principle which is
professed and inculcated in that institu
tion. This partiality was entirely parti
zan, and prompted only by the low mo
tive of gaining negro votes. Under a
system where the firßt law of military
organization is thus sacrificed, and men
dacity is officially protected, it is easy to
see-what the future of Annapolis and
West Point must be.— Washington Pa
triot, October 24.
The Reaction in the English Iron
Trade. —Recent mail advices from Eng
land show that the tendency to a decline
in tho price of iron in that country still
continues. In North Staffordshire an
other reduction of £2 per ton on finished
iron is announced, making bars £l2 10s,
hoops £l4, best plates £ls, and other
kinds in proportion. In South Stafford
shire there is also a decline, with an un
settled and downward market for com
moner qualities. In Monmouthshiro
and Soutli Wales the iron-masters liavd
issued to the workmon tho usual pre
liminary notice for a reduction in wages
in consoquenoc of the recent decline in
iron. In Wolverhampton the iron trade
is extremely dull, notwithstanding tho
recent decline of prices, and iron-mas
ters complain of a difficulty in obtaining
orders.
As there is an impression among buy
ers that a further decline must take
place, they limit their orders to actual
pressing requirements. Taken altogeth
er, the iron market may be described us
in a transitory condition, with prospects
of a still further reduction and a conse
quent readjustment of wages. The man
ufactured iron trado has of course con
formed to tho fall in metals, and nearly
all descriptions of heavy Birmingham
goods are quoted at a reduction of from
10 to 20 per cent. But owing to the an
ticipations of a fnrther decline, manu
facturers cannot obtain new orders even
at tho red need rates, and their opera
tions are, for the most part, limited to
filling old orders. —New York Bulletin.
Smith’s Official Majority.— Wo be
lieve that the official majority of tho
Democrats in the late State election lias
never yet been published. Henco wc
give it below:
Smith • 103,076
Walker 41,452
Smith’s majority 61,024
This is obtained from the Executive
headquarters, and is absolutely correct.
It is a fearful denunciation of Radical
misrule in Georgia, and will have a ten
dency to make scalawags hide tlicir
heads, and the luscious carpet bagger
steal his carpet-bag from the pawn
broker’s shop, and hie liis dirty carcass
to that blessed country where tho
wooden nutmeg flourishes and tho flan
nel sausage ever wends its savory links.
—A tlanta Jfveald.
Howard After tlie Indian Agents.
Washington, October 28. Howard fn
vors the removal of many Indian agents.
Ho says that when tho agonts pay fif
teen thousand dollars for a position, the
Balary of which is only fifteen hundred
dollars, there is something wrong, and
a reform is necessary.