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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1873)
Chronicle anb jjentintl. Vi KDN'ESDAY JULY 16, 1873. BILL ARP. The readers of the Chronicle and Sbntinel will be glad to learn that Bill Arp, the celebrated Southern humorist, will contribute a series of letters to this paper. The articles will contain an ac count of the author’s travels North and his observations upon what he saw and heard on the other side of the Potomac. The first of the series appears in our columns this morning, and carries the readers from Rome to Baltimore via the pretty girls and the eating houses of East Tennessee. Aside from the quaint humor of the epistle, it also contains much to instruct, and one cannot help feeling interested in the account of Dr. Chisolm's scientific “eye-shop” in the "Monumental City, nor fail to be pleased at the happy result of the operation performed by the skillful oculist upon the eyes of Mr. Arp’s traveling compan ion. A COSTLY PAVEMENT. Borne time since the city of Memphis determined to treat herself to a large supply of Nicholson pavement. This she did without hesitating to count the cost, and when the work was done and the bill presented for>payment the city was unable to respond. The contrac tors brought f|uit in the United States Court and obtained judgment for the neat little sum of five hundred thousand dollars. To satisfy the execution a tax of seven per cent, will Vie levied upon IJy* property of the city. The dispatch states that the people are greitly exas perated, at ybich we are not at all sur prised. But their exasperation will lrardlv reduce the amount of the judg > meat or the pf taxation. They had Wetter pay -Mpjpi soon as they can and then pfdflt 'ftotnethiug by the informa . tioo which they- have purchased at such a fancy figure. Cities, like individuals, should remember that pay-day , comes and they had better be satisfied of their nbility .to foot the bill before they rush , into extravagant expenditures. It is a little astonishing how much wisdom and economy a seven per cent, tax teaches. A LARGE HALE. A salens recorded of four-fifths of the vast property belonging to the Central Pacific California Railroad* Company.— This is probably the largest transaction < \&k made in railroad property. The corporation owns and controls about 1,56a miles of railroad, besides steam boats and ferries, valuable real estate in Ban Francisco and othef places, and im portant privileges and franchises. It owns the road from Ogden to San Fran cisco, 900 miles; another from Sacramen to to San* Francisco, 100 miles; lines running through Jthe centre of the State to Oregon in the'north, and connecting ; with the Southern Pacific in the South, about 400 miles; and the Napa Valley . Road, 00 miles. It is reported that Col onel Thomas A. Scott and others have bought the/ southern lines in the in terest of the. Southern Pacific. Four fifths of all the rest of the property have been trgljpn'rred, to a company of San Francisco capitalists. The other one fifth is ret&inCll by Leland Stanford, one of the original, owners and now the President. The Springfield Republic,an draws attention to the fact that this transfer breaks up a combination of five men, consisting of Judge Crocker, his brother Charles Crocker, Leland Stan ford, C. P. Huntingdon and Mark Hop kins, who were the first to give life to >the project of spanning .the continent With an iron rail. UNIFICATION IN NEW ORLEANS. General Beauregard lias published a bold, frank and manly letter, vindicating the part which .lie took iu the recent ** unto, i.tion" meeting held in the city of New Orleans. He declares that his conduct ltas been governod by no wish for office or individual emolument, but from a sincere desire to restore peace and prosperity to the people of Louisiana, and he states that his recognition of the social equality of the colored race is only a recognition of the Constitution of the State which was adopted several years ago. We repeat now what we have said before, that we believe the course of General Beauregard aud his associates iu the unification folly has been ex tremely unwise and imprudent; that they will discover pre long how fatal is the mistake which they have made. But, at the same time, we do not feel prepared to denounce them for their participation in that meeting. We who live ‘in Geor gia, though we read graphic recitals and vivid accounts of ’the outrages heaped upon the people of Louisiana, cannot form an adequate idea of what they really have to endure. Tho malady is violent enough to induce them to try any remedy, however desperate. Our fear is that the remedy will prove worse than the disease. Such men as Beaure gard and Harry Hays are undoubtedly honest in what they are doing, and have been grossly and unjustifiably abused. It will require some stronger proof than the flippant assertions of hot-headed newspaper scribblers to make the South ern people believe that the hero of the first Manassas is “ more infamous than Beast Butler." COPPER MINK IN GREENE COUNTY. « The Greensboro Herald says about titty years ago considerable pure copper was discovered on the surface of lands recently owned by Judge Tuggle, situat ed in Greene county, about three miles from Union Point. A company was fornfed and a shaft forty feet deep was opened, goiug below the copper vein without touching it; the work was then abandoned. The works remained in tact. Quite recently anew company has JUeen formed, with a capital of SIO,OOO, nil of which will be expended, if neces sary, in fully developing the resources of the mine. They have a twenty horse power engine, and are slowly pro gressing with their work. A tunnel of twenty-eight feet carries them to the bottom of the vein, which is exceedingly rich in pure copper. They haVfe already brought to the surface many tons of ore mixed with dirt. The value of this mix ture is estimated at $75 per ton, yielding from 15 to 36 per cent, of copper. This estimate is not from their last analysis, which is much richer. It also contains /Sulphur in large quantities, which may readily be converted intoltnlphuricaeid, for which there is great demand as a means of converting the bone phosphate into soluble matter for the farmer. As yet none of the ore has been shipped, but arrangements are making to do so at once, making Baltimore their market. According to its present measurement and estimated value, it is placed at 38,- 000,000, THK DUELLISTS TO BK PUNISHED. The gratifying intelligence comes to ns from New Orleans that an effort will be made to punish the parties engaged in the murder of Judge Cooley. In order to evade the laws of the State in which they lived, the combatants select ed their duelling ground in the State of Mississippi. But it seems that the arti fice will not be allowed to protect them from, the consequence* of their crime, but will rather ensure a double punish ment of their offense. The Governor of Mississippi has been called upon to pros- 1 eeute them in that S»to for murder— " the surviving principal and the seconds— while in Louisiana the Attorney-General has been instructed to have them in dicted for sending and carrying a chal lenge, which is a penitentiary offense. “Tint is right, Now let the Courts and juries do their duty, and an example will be give* which cannot fail to be of ben efit to the whole jtoqatry. There is bnt one way to suppress duelling, and that is' to strip the crime of its so-called chiyakig features aud punish tbs mm nals as if they were ordinary mur derers. Each State has a law on the subject amply sufficient as a reme dial agent, if enforced. Let the So licitors-General, the police, the Judges and the juries only perform their sworn duty, and the barbarism will soon disappear. Heretofore in the South it has been winked at and connived at by officers of the law who had not firmness enough to run counter to what they be lieved to be public sentiment. But that day has, we trust, gone by, and forever. The .great masses of the people are aroused against a practice which must always end in a farce or a tragedy. They can see no justice in allowing “gentle men” to murder with impunity while the poor man is sent to the gallows or to the penitentiary. RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE. The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial states that there are now in the United States, 63,514 miles of railway mail service, that being an increase of 5,603 miles since the same period last year. Massachusetts is the only New England State in which there are 1,000 miles of railway ;mail service, that State having nearly 1,700 miles. Delaware has 248 miles, while of the other Middle States New York has 4,726 miles; New Jersey, 1,184 miles and Peuqsylvania, 3,670 miles. Os the Southern States, Arkansas, Florida and West Virginia have less than 500 miles, while in the others there are from 1,000 to 2,000 miles. Illinois has the lagest railway mail service, 6,526 miles; Ohio next, 3,877 miles; New York third; Penn sylvania fourth and Missouri fifth. Iu the latter State there are 3,340 miles. PROTECTION 18 ROBBERY. The St. Louis Republican pitches into protection after this fashion : “When the American iron-master ships iron to England at 840 a ton, he proves that he, can make a profit at that price. Why, then, should the people be taxed 37 a ton for his protection against the very manufacturers he is underselling ? When American iron-masters sell iron to for eigners at sll a ton less than they exact of their own countrymen ; and the Onondaga Salt Company sells its salt iu Canada for thirty-five cents a barrel less than it asks in the home market; and tho Boston sewing machine manufac turers sell their machines in Europe for 825 less than the price they compel ns to pay at home, they all prove that the whole system of protection of which they are the beneficiaries, is a hypocriti cal and fraudulent pretext for robbery, and that the sooner' the people are re lieved of it, the better.” SWINDLED CAROLINA. Our Carolina dispatch, published yesterday morning, announces that Judge Carpenter, on motion of counsel representing the tax payers of the State of South Carolina, has granted »an in junction restraining thelevying orcollect ing of any tax for the payment of the interest upon seven millions of what are known as conversion bonds, and which, we beliete, are held by Morton, Bliss & Cos., of New York. This is right. It is time for the people of South Carolina to show the Shylocks aud plunderers who have been swindling them for the past six years that they will no longer be robbed with impunity. They should refuse to pay the principal or interest of any bond, no matter by whom issued nor by whom held, until it has been subjected to a thorough investigation and its validity clearly established. If scheming Rings in Wall street have allied themselves with native thieves to rob the State, they cannot now hold themselves out as innocent purchasers and demand pay ment cl their fraudulent obligations. They must learn that the day of spolia tion has passed. UNDER THE OLD BANNERS. The New York Tribune says : The leading Democratic journals in all sec tions are showing a disposition to re turn to the old party camps and to fight one battle at least under the old ban ners. When the famous Allen county resolutions were first published there was a warming on all sides, and for a time it looked as if it only needed usig nal from some prominent leader to start a stampede aloug the whole line. But each waited for the other, and so all stood still. Now the reaction has come: and the more liberally disposed Demo cratic organs arc holding lauguage like this iu the St. Louis Republican con cerning the invitation of the Liberal Re publicans ; “The Democracy are strong ly to go into the next battle under their own banners, and some Democratic organs are declaring that they will not fight under any other. But if the Liberals win a single local battle—if they will, by any reasonable combination, carry Ohio and New York, or either of them, this Fall, we believe they will be able to secure all the Demo cratic votes they may need for future en gagements. What more can they ask ?” A LEARN KD JUDGE. In the conrse of his address to the jury in the Walworth case, Charles O'Conor, of counsel for the defense, read from the works of Jeremy Taylor. Judge Davis, iu his charge, referred to Mr. O'Conor’s argument on this point, intimating to the jury that the views of Jeremy Bentham were not entitled to any consideration whatever. Mr. O’Con or set the Judge right as to the authori ty, when he blundered still worse, show ing that he did not know the difference between the two famous men, though Taylor died nearly one hundred years before the other Jeremy was bom. Judge Davis, immediately before his election to the bench, was United States District Attorney for New York city. Previous to that he had beeu a member of Congress. And while it is not to be expected that a member of Congress could discriminate between the two Jeremys, better things might with rea son be looked for from a District Attor ney, and certainly from a Judge, espe cially as Jeremy Bentham has been dead but forty years, and was one of the greatest writers of his time on jurispru dence. Judge Davis was District Attor ney when Phelps, Dodge Jt Cos. made tlieir compromise with the Government, and in view of the ignorance he dis played on this occasion it becomes even more questionable than ever whether the Government had any lawful claim upon that firm. —lYee I*ress. CHICAGO TO THE BEA. We republish, this morning, an edi torial from the Anderson Intelligencer on the proposed railroxd from Chicago to Augusta. It will be seen that our co temporarv is very much in earnest, and that South Carolina is being aroused to the necessity of early and energetic ac tion. The Intelligencer thinks that ac tive measures have been inaugurated to make the route diverge at Seneca City, cross the Savannah river at Anderson ville, and thence come to Augusta down the Georgia side of the stream. The editor thinks that such a location of the road would be favored by Georgians be cause of their prejudice against South Carolina. We are sorry that the Intelli gencer has made such a hasty and en tirely unwarrantable charge against the people of Georgia. We shall be glad to be informed where any such prejudice has ever t ,,3e jtself manifest either in words ojr action*. Two railroads in South Carolina—the Charlotte, Colum bia and Augusta, and the Port Royal owe their successful completion to the assistance rendered by Georgians, and even now we are trying to make a suc cess of a third, from Greenwood to Au gusta. Such an ill-natured assertion as that made by the Intelligencer is not calculated to do good, and its unkind words had better havejbeen left unsaid. Apart frwu thin fling at Georgia, bow ever, the article from the Intelligencer contains a suggestion on another point which deserves consideration and adop tion. The editor urges the building of a road by Abbeville and Anderson to the line of the Augusta and Greenwood sur vey. If this should be done—if the people of Anderson aud Abbeville sub scribe two hundred and fifty thousand dollars each, the road can be easily built and a direct line between Walhalla and Augusta secured. Augusta is ready, willing and able to contribute liberally to the Greenwood Road whenever the people of the country through which the line will pass show some disposi tion to help themselves. The Green wood Road will be a profitable invest ment in our judgment to both South Carolina and Georgia, and we are anx ious to see it built. But we must say that but little progress seems to have been made in the only way whereby success can be secured. We have had plenty of plans and a great deal of talk, but we have heard of very little money being subscribed. Money is needed, and until we have something more than words the iron will never be laid. Our Anderson friend bits the nail on the head with his five hundred thousand dollar subscrip tion. Let us have more of the same sort. THE RADICALS IN TEXAS. A Washington dispatch states that the Radicals of Texas have a bitter quarrel on hand about the nomination for Gov ernor. The present Governor (Davis) is a candidate for re-election, and he is violently opposed *bv W. T. Clarke, post master at Galveston, who is snp poHeSfo represent the Administration. As isthe custom with Southern Radi cals, they have appealed to the Presi dent for arbitration. Governor Davis and Postmaster Clarke have arrived here on their way to Long Branch. — Clarke asserts that Davis has goue back on the party, while Davis charges that Clarke has demoralized the negroes and neglected his duty as postmaster. The proposed pardon of the Indian chiefs Big Tree and Satanta enters into the contest. Davis has heretofore opposed the pardon of these murderers, while the Administration has favored it. Os course the large majority of the people of Texas oppose it, and are with the Governor on the question. Davis is very confident of renomination, even without the support of the Administra tion. LEGISLATIVE CONTROL OF RAIL ROADS. The veied question of legislative con trol of railroad charges is exciting a great deal of interest in the Western States. The question is of great mo ment, involving not only important points of interest but of law. In the New York Bulletin we find the points of an important case bearing upon this question, from which it appears that a little over two years ago the Legisla ture of Minnesota passed a law “regula ting the” railroad freight charges in that State, which has practically remain ed a dead letter ever since. The Su preme Court of the State decided that this law was constitutional so far as it did not apply to railrc ad companies which enjoyed a cliarter right to estab lish their own toll rates. But notwith standing this sanction of the highest Court of the State, the law has not been obeyed, chiefly on account of its im practicability, and adso because of popu lar impression that its enforcement would not, after all, conduce to the in terests either of producers or consumers. The railroad companies, however, were liable to vexations law suits and heavy penalties under its operation, and have taken steps to bring the whole question before the United States Supreme Court on a test case, involving the entire ques tion of the legality of the State legisla tion on transportation rates. But in the meantime the entire ques tion has entered a liew and important phase. The Southern Minnesota Rail road is in the hands of a receiver, ap pointed by the United States Circuit Court, at the instance of the bond holders, to foreclose the first aud sec ond mortgage bonds for nearly five mil lions of dollars. The receiver, Mr. Charles Mcllrath, applied to the United States Circuit Court at St. Paul for in structions as to whether he should obey or disregard the State laws regulating railroad charges. The question was in vested with additional importance from the fact that conformity to the State law involved a reduction of the earn ings of the road, which are already in sufficient to pay the running expenses and interest on its bonded debt—slso,- 000 per annum. It is, indeed, stated as the opinionfof the receiver that the receipts under the tariff fixed by the State would be insufficient to maintain the road iu repair and pay operating expenses. The petition was supported by appropriate affidavits. These affi davits raised the important question as to whether the State railroad law was not a breach of the United States Con stitution, decreeing the inviolability of contracts. The law was not obeyed, by any railroad company in Minnesota on this ground, and also because, while professing to prevent discriminative charges, it really operated against some important interests and in favor of others. It was also alleged that com pliance with the law would involve a loss to the company, and that no legis lation could compel either corporate or private interests to do business at a loss. Several instances of this alleged legal discrimination were given. For instance: A literal construction of the first clause 1 gives for carrying a car load of wheat— ! say from Lake Crystal to St. Paul, 100 miles—B4o ; and for the same freight from Madelia to St. Paul, 110 miles—but i 838 50, thus discriminating arbitrarily i against the latter place. A car load of ! lumber from St. Paul to Lake Crystal is fixed at 821 90, about one-half the price for a car load of wheat over the same road the same distance, while the lum ber must be hauled against the rising grades, and the wheat with the descend ing grades. Similar examples are given, showing that almost every railroad and industrial interest in the State would be injuriously affected. The act was also defective, because it failed to discrimi- I nate between first and second class freight, and failed to provide special rates for special freight. Judge Dillou delivered the decision of the Court. He said the question was so important and the issues so diversi ; tied that it would be a work of time for the Court to prepare a final decision. In the meanwhile it was necessary to i give the Receiver of the Southern Min nesota Railroad instructions as to Lis i duty. The United States Circuit Court would hesitate to assume the responsi bility of over-ruling a State law which was still further sanctioned by the high i est judiciary in the State. He would de cline to order the Receiver to disobey the law, but at the same time, he de j elined to order him to obey it to the in jury of the bondholders of the road. In effect, the question pending a final de cision, was left to the discretion of the Receiver. The Judge took the import ant ground that the State legislation, so I far as it infringed on the contract right of companies, threw the whole solution ! of the question upon the Supreme Court ! of the United States, i Another test case against the same railroad company has been brought be fore the same Federal Court. Mr. Charles L. Colman brings suit against Charles Mcllrath, Receiver of the South ern Minnesota Railroad Company, to re cover $3,000 damages for alleged over charges and extortion for charging higher rates for the transportation of lumber those established by law. Both parties with a view of obtaining a speedy decision waive all technicalities, admit the questions of fact, and waive a trial by jury, The Receiver admits that he charged higher rates than were au thorized under the Minnesota law of 1871, but he denies that they were un just or unreasonable, unless made such by the mere force of this act. BILL ARP ON HIS TRAVELS. His Arrival in Gotham and What He Saw-Gordonsville Vittels-The Grand Hotel—Mr. Arp in the Elevator—A Breakfast on the European Plan- Civil Rights in New York No Go —In New' Orleans it is a Whack. Rome, Ga., July 9th, 1870 three. Mb. Edittk, Sub— Leaving the Genrul in the blind room with liis eyes all ban dagd up close I took the first train for Gotham. We lunched on the side of the road at Wilmington, and I can safely say that a man can get nicer vittals and coffee and more of it for fifteen cents at this tavern than any place in the world. The next best fare.for the price is from the waiters of the' old nigger women at Gordonsville. “Annty,” sed I, “who learned you to fry chicken and make these rights and lefts, these turnover peach pies ?” “My old Missus, sir,” sed she with an old-fashund crnchy. “My old Missus cum down from de Washin tons and de Lees, sur. She live up dare at Cedar Mountin, sur, whar Stone wall Jackson whip dem Yankees so bad. I seed him do it sur, dat I did. I lived dar at Mr. Wharton’s, sur.” When we got on the ferry boat I axed a knowin lookin man about the big taverns, and he recommended the Grand Central—that is I thought he sed the Grand, and meant it was central. When we landed I axed a poleesman to tell me the way to the Grand Hotel, and he pointed to sum ears a crossin the street, and told me to go up there and wait for one with a bright yaller light and it would take me right there. Payin the con duktor 5 cents I set down, and the fust thing I saw was “Look out for Peck pockets,” stuck up at both ends of the ear. I took this as a cautionary signal that we might expekt an attak at most any moment. I therefore kept lookin out on both sides and at both ends, for nobody could tell which way they would be likely to cum. I had sum kurosity to see a peckpoket, but they didn’t make no sign that night. It was growin quite late, and it seemed to me that was the furtherest tavern to be central I ever heard of. 1 rode and I rode and I rode, until finally everybody had got off but me, and the thing cum to a ded halt. In fact, the bosses was gone, and the conduktor was goin. Ses I, “Mr., is this the Grand Hotel?” Ses he, “No; its Central Park Garden; the Grand Hotel is away back yonder a mile.” “Why dident you tell me?” sed I. “How did I know where you wanted to stop ?” ses he. “Take this car here and it will cake you right back in a few minutes.” I felt somewhat as a fool feel eth, and tried to lay the blame on the po leesman, or the conductor, or the peek pockets, but it wouldent stick. Arriv al at my tavern 1 registerd my name and pnrty soon a white Irishman took my baggage and said “ this way sur.” I follerd him into a little room about 8 feet square with a carpet on the floor and two sofas settin on the sides. I had no idee what he put me in there fer. There wasent a sine of a bed nor a win der nor a table. I set down and waited for him to come back. It struck me that per heps this was a little reseption room, and he wa,s agoin to brush off my clothes or clean up my boots so that 1 wouldent dirty up the fine room I was to sleep in. He com back in a min.it and the room giv a trimble and as I looked out I saw the ballance of the house agoin down. Thinks I theres arabian nights and genii about this place shore, but I never let on. All at once it flashed all over me thqt I was in a elevator and I felt in tensly releeved. The white Irishman carried me up about half a mile, more or les, and put me in my little bed and I went to sleep. Next mornin I dressed up as fine as possbul and went out of my r room to look round—sorter on a skout —and to see about gittin down stairs. I found the hole I cum up in, but there wasent no body about it, and seeiu sum stairs I cautiously went down ’em to a floor, and seein another pair I went down again, and so on and so forth and so on, till I was down. Watchin around I saw soaks buyin newspapers and then goin into a room, which I perseeved was the eatin room with a few hundred little tables in it, more or less. So I bought me a Herald and walked in, and another white Irishman with a gal’s apron on showed me to a seat. I picked out a few things on the bill of fare, and then told him to bring me anything else he thought I would like. He was gone a right smart while, but he did bring me in an elegant breakfast. I did think that Spanish mackerel was the best thing I ever did eat. If there is anything in the world that I’m a judge of its vittals, and that’s why I mention such things so often. I was telliu Gim. Anderson that day about that breakfast, and he looked at me sorter quizikul, aud sez he, “ Bill, you know that house is kept ou the Uropenn plan ?” “Wliat’s that ?” sed 1. “ Why the more yon order the more you pay for. I expekt that breakfast cost you two or three dollars.” Yes siree, and that’s xactly what it did cost, $2 75, as I found out when I settled my bill. I mention it as a warnin to all peepul to find out the plan of your tavern before you order your breakfast. From Gim I learned all about the difference between the Grand Hotel ana the Grand Central, but I thought as long as I had got the swing of the elevator and the hang of the din ing room and the barber shop and all the little side shows, I would stay where I was. It was a strainin me to keep learnin new things at new places, though I can do it, and I can embezzle my ig norance as genteelly as a cashier em bezzles a bank. Startin out purty early as a foot slcout I made for Broadway, and in the course of two hours I got to the City Hall Park and saw the new rock post office a loomin up with its hat off. I axed a big dubble brested poleesman liow much it would cost. He sed lie dident know exactly but he thought about as much as it could—that it was a sorter of a cash Mobilier. Seein a crowd about the May or’s office I slipped upon em unawares and found cm all mad as the dikence. Pickin out an Irishman (I always pik out an Irisliman)ses I, “What seems to be the trouble.” “It’s the domd nagur polees,” seshe. “They talk about mixin up the black and white the togitlier and it can’t be dun in this town. The first na £ur that wears' a shtar and a sliillaly w ill gav his domd head smashed into a smitli hreen—and thats all.” “Is it the sivil eites hill thats workin like a mtdisin” saysl. “Domtlie sivil rites bill” says lie. “ft uiver was a bill for nuork—it was a bill for the domd rebels and they sliant send their black nagurs up here. Nuork is a republican government—so it is. ” Suspiktin that he kuew me I slipped aw'ay to another crowd and they was all cussin the niggers and the in j uns and shokin and shoknasty and the modoks and the liethen chiuee. I heard a man talking furiously, and he sed he was a Genrul Grant Republican and this was a a white mans country. About this time a big man with a low boosum cum out of the Mayors house and spoke. He sed he was iustruckted to say that it was all a mistake—there wasent no nigger polees nor never would be—that they had only employed a few darkeys to clean up sum assafidity that had been thrown in the rear of the tooms. The crowd theu giv three cheers and dispersd to their re spectiv drinkin plases. I met my old friend Hamp Smith that night, and told him about it, and he sed, “Yes, this is what our rulers call peace. IleftNew Orleans last week, andl tell you the peepul are desperate. The Legislaturis full of niggers. There’s nig ger officers all over the city. Two big black rascals cum into the car on the Mobile road, and when the conduk ter told ’em there was another car for them just as good, they cussed him and sed they would ride where they pleased. A nigger man and his wife went to the capten of one of our finest boats and called fora state-room, and be cause the capten wouldn't give him one he reported him, and the capten was fined a thonsan’ dollars, and his boat is tied up to the wharf. They now demand to set by you in the theater aud at the hotel tables. Not long ago about 40 of ’em went into anew hotel at Little Rock and registered their names and called for rooms just out of devilment. This whole thing is goin’ to end in blood, sur— blood, and Grant is responsibul for it. Property has gone down a hundred per sent in New Orleans in the last six months. Some folks aktuly beleeve this whole game is a combination to ruin the sitty and get property down to nuthin, and buy it up and then send the niggers to the devil.” Hamp talk ed mighty fierse for an old man, and it made me feel melankolly to hear him. I don’t want to kill nobody but I thought if there was an insurance Companv that would insure another man to’die it would be mighty well patronizd. The 4th of Jewly has just cum and gone but it wasent nuthin to us. The liberty and independence we’ve lost is a bigger thing than that our four fathers gaind. Nobody selebrates it now but a passel of luniak niggers who git on a skursion train and go taren over the country to hear sum radikul sneaks talk lies and union and freedum and nigger equality, and then these nigger elevators will go back to their families and their firesides and expekt a descent j respektable woman to look at em and sav “howdy.” Such impertinent impu dence is unparalelled in the annals of histry. _ Bat I forgot about New Lork. 1 al ways forgit evry thing when this cussed administration crosses the line of my re flektton. In mv next I will put on the brakes —hawl in the led line and see if I can’t stik to my text. I’m consientiously inkliad to harmonize if I can. indignantly, \ Btli. Arp. P. S.-fls there any bnte prdspekt of afuit iu (war ?Jm afeerd not. B. A. A MODOC’S SUICIDE. Indian Lamentations—The Fuwral Services. A correspondent of the San Frauqsco Morning Call, writing from the iwa country under date of June 17, givesthe following description of the suicide *nd burial of Curly-headed Jack, one of the captured Modocs. The Western iivev erenee for all matters connected with Indians is strongly marked; As has been the custom ever since :he Modocs were brought to Boyle’s eatip, the Cottonwood branch of the tribe jud Jack’s adherents were separated, uid sentinels placed between the two fac tions as around them, on account of the threatening language used toward the former by Jack and his men. Jack ani his crowd look upon the Cottonwood as traitors,*f Sr having left him after thebat tle at Dry Lake, where Hasbrouck per formed such gallant work, and taken steps looking to a surrender. The xiglit at Lost River, however, was quiet in every respect, and the Indians slum bered as soundly as the whites. The next day being Sunday, Col. Xason thought to give the men a rest and not resume the-march until Monday, but a tragedy occurred that caused lain to change his mind. At half-past 11 o’clock Sunday morning a pistol shot was‘fired in the Modoc camp and tem porary excitement among the tmops caused. In company with the offirer of the day I visited the scene of the distur bance and learned the cause. Curly headed Jack, a prominent warrior of the Cottonwood faction, lay in one of the tents with a bullet-hole as big as one’s fist in the side of his head, v bile his right hand grasped an army revolver. He had done the work quickly and well. His mother and female friends gathered about him and set up a dismal howling, and as he was unconscious and fast fail ing they besmeared themselves with blood from his wound, and endeavored by other Indian customs to save his life. The mother took his head in her lap and scooped the blood from his ear; another old woman placed her hand upon his heart, and a third blew in his face. The sight of the group, these poor old wo men, whose sorrow was unfeigned, and the dying man, was terrible in its sad ness. Outside the tent stood Bogus Charley, Hooker Jim, Shacknasty Jim, Steamboat Frank, the Curly-headed Doctor, and several nameless warriors, all affected to tears, who had been Jack’s companions from boyhood. Groans, nor tears, nor anything in the shape of human aid could save Jack, and at the end of an hour a prolonged shriek of agony from the women announced that his spirit had fled to the happy hunting ground, or some other mythical region known only to Indians, and the Modocs were out one warrior. The Cotton wood women shrieked and groaned and tore their hair, the tears stream ing down their checks, and the war riors of this faction wept in silence; but Captain Jack and his crowd chat ted and laughed as if nothing unusual had occurred, and in some cases even glanced over to tho mourning Cotton woods with an air of supercilious indif ference. The bereaved squaws kicked up such a hubbub in camp that Colonel Mason decided to bury the dead warrior and continue the march, iu order to tone down the prevailing spirit of sadness by a change of scene. Capt. E. M. Camp, the officer of the day, took charge of the obsequies, in a quiet aud effective man ner arranged the programme for the oc casion, detailed soldiers to assist in car rying it out, and in the short space of half an hour had Jack’s toes turned up to the daisies. The body was wrapped in a blanket, and so laid in the grave ; the pistol with which he accomplished self-destruction was placed near his heart, and all his property, consisting of clothing, trinkets, and a sliek half dol lar, was tumbled into the grave and upon him. The pistol, the Indians said, would be of service to Jack in procuring game upon Ins arrival in the happy hunting grounds. Unfortunately for Jack the caps were removed from the pistol after its seizure by the military authorities, and not replaced. Before the grave was covered I noticed Hooker Jim scudding through tliemilitary camp as one possessed of devils, and had a cu riosity to leam wliat ailed him. It seems that Jim owed the suicide two dollars, but had only seventy-five cents in silver and a two dollar greenback, with which to make the payment, and as he had bor rowed coin he wished to return the same, having grave doubts whether greenbacks would be of any use to Jack in the next world—sad commentary on the national currency. One of the soldiers gave him two dollars in silver for his greenbacks, and the coin was at once flung into the grave. Jim’s face wore a garb of contentment after the payment of this debt. The exercises at the grave concluded with the ceremony of providing food for the use of Jack on liis way to the distant hunting ground. He will have to diet on Indian flour made from roots, as that was the only kind of food his friends could spare. The military officers were surprised to find that the Modocs had arms in their possession, as several searches for the same had been made, and immediately instituted an inquiry about the history of Jack’s pistol. It seems that he did not give it up upon entering Fairchild’s ranch, but placed it in the scant folds of a squaw’s petticoats, where it remained until brought into use as above related. COTTON GAMBLING. Playing at Rouge-et-Noir With a Na tion’s Staple—Thimble-Rigging the Cotton Market, [From the Neiv York World ] In describing to the Cobdeu Club the results of the economic aud fiscal legis lation of the United States for the past twelve years, Mr. Wells said so uncer tain are values that even in the most legitimate industries “the nation plays at rouge-et-noir.” It was a strong ex pression, but we have a fresh piece of evidence to show that it was none too strong. The game has been played for a mouth upon the Cotton Exchange of New York, and successfully played, by men who were engaged in an industry precisely as productive and valuable, and no more tlxau that of the man who throws down his money to await the turn of a card. They have made cotton 5 cents a pound dearer in New York than in Liverpool. In Liverpool cotton is quoted at Bfd., or 174 cents, and in New York at 21 cents. When it is remem bered that cotton is sold in Liverpool net and iu New York gross, the differ ence, allowing for the premium on gold, is found to be 3 cents; that is, a pound of American cotton can bo bought for 3 cents less iu Liverpool than here. Let us see what this means. Our consumption of cotton is about 23,000 bales a week, or twelve hundred thousand bales a year. For the last four weeks the enhancement of price has amounted to sl4 a bale, and in all to more than $1,250,000. This enhance ment is borne first by the manufacturer and finally by the consumer. The for mer cannot predict or make the first ap proach to predicting the course of the market. Cotton may drop three cents a pound any day, if the bulls should take it into their heads to be bears, aud he must have cotton to keep his mills going or else shut them up altogether. Un true reports are set afloat to mislead him with prophecies of a short crop, when the best opinion is that, owing to the extension of soil planted, at an average rate the crop will be over 5,000,000 bales, and it may easily reach 6,000,000. In September and October the price will probably fall to fifteen cents, but the manufacturer will have to run his mills on the stock for which he will have paid twenty-one cents. Stock gambling is maintained by cus tom, and some stocks have come to have precisely the same value aud sig nificance as a gambler’s chips. But here is a great staple thimblerigged in the same way by men who have no need of cotton and no knowledge of cotton, and to whom cotton is nothing but a thing to bet money upon. And their thimblerigging upsets all the plans of the men who have need of cotton and frightfully deranges one of the chief in dustries of the country. The manu facturer's troubles we have seen. The planter’s are as grievous. In June and July, long after lie has sold his cotton, he sees the price of it quoted at 21 cents in New York. In September and October he sends his cotton to market and can only get 15 cents for it. And he is utterly unable to forteil what the chances of his crop will be, as the manu facturer to foretell the chances of his stock. This is the result of the legis lation of the last twelve years, and the Bystem which it has built up in trade. Is it not true, as Mr. Wells so strongly put it, that the nation plays at rouge et-noir ? TRYING THE MODOCS. The Court Martial Commenced for the Trial of the Modocs. Fobt Klamath, July 10.—The milita ry commission met and proceeded with the trial of Capt. Jack, Schonchin, Bos ton Charley, Black Jim, Sloiuck and Brancho, implicated in the Canbv massa cre. The following are the charges against them ; First.. Murder in viola tion cf the laws of war. The specifica tions repeat the facts already known. Three witnesses have been examined— Biddle, his Indian woman Toby, and L. D. Dyar. Toby swears positively that Capt. Jack shot Gen. Canby, Schonchin Mr. Meacham, Boston Charley Dr. Thomas, and that Hooker Jim tried to kill L. D. Dyar ; also, that Brancho knocked her down with a gun, and tried to take her horse. The testimony of Biddle corroborates his wife’s testimony. MINNIE WALTHAM ALIAS KATE STODDARD, THE MURDERER. The Murdered Man's Rings, Pocket book and Money Found in Her Trunk—Her Statement. New York, July 11. —The Goodrich murder mystery is solved. The police have found in the trunks of Kate Stod dart, now under arrest, at her boarding bouse, Goodrich’s rings, seals, pocket book and money,which are no doubt the same he had in his possession at the time he was murdered. The pistol, of which three chambers were empty and which it is supposed she used to commit the mur der, was also found in her truuk. Kate’s real name is supposed to be Lizzie King. Later.— Kate Stoddard, under arrest for the murder of Goodrich in Brooklyn, proves to be Minnie Waltham, of Middle borough, Mass., where her parents are living. She has made the following statement of the murder to the police : She had been living with “Charlie," as she called the deceased, and was greatly attached to him. He wanted to cast her off, but she loved him so much that she could not leave him. She entreated on her knees that he would allow her to re main, bnt he was firm—in fact, brutal in his treatment of her, and the Thurs day before the Friday on which the body was found was the day fixed for ‘her to leave him, he threatening her with all sorts of things if she dared to trouble him further. She had re mained in the house, in Degraw street, all the previous evening and in the morning when Goodrich got up she again besought him uot to cast her off. He was very angry and refused her re quest, or to hear her at all. He then went into the basement at the front of the house and proceeded to light the heater which was located there. She loved the man so much that she could not leave him, and that when she saw him deter mined to discard her she worked herself up to murder him. She had one of his revolvers in her pocket, uot the one which the detective found lying at the house beside the corpse, and while Goodrich was stoop ing down on one hand and knee in the act of lighting the heater, she drew the pistol, and, extending her hand towards him, she said, “ Charlie,” He looked up, and she shot him three times. These were the fatal wounds which the post mortem examination disclosed. After she committed the murder on Thursday morning she waited all that day and night in the bouse watching it. Friday morning she had occasion to go to New York, and early on that morning she washed the blood from the face of the murdered man with a towel which she afterward wrung out, and which was also fonud damp by the police. She fixed the corpse as it was discovered, and when she had done this she went over to New York for something or other, and was about to return to the house that Friday evening. She came over Fulton ferry, and ere she had fairly put her foot on the street she heard the news boys crying out “Extra, Murder of Charles Goodrich.” Loitering in London. [Correspondence of the Courier-Journal.! London, June 17, 1873.—1 t used to be said that Paris was the wickedest city in the world; therefore it was the Para dise of the Americans. By the same token London is beginning to offer it self as a rival of the gay French capital. There was a time when the British me tropolis, if slow and steady and dull, possessed a simple and very attractive geniality of its own. That time is gone. Villainy and vice are now served up au gratin in Loudon, and one can no longer find a plain chop and potato, a mug of ale and homely song, without having them seasoned with all sorts of las civious feminine condiments, which be long of right to the Boulevards and not to the Strand. I do not mean that there were fewer prostitutes in London ten years ago than there are now, or that the aggregation of crime in London was ever less than in Paris. I mean that they made lighter of it in Paris than iii London; that the French dress ed and caressed it as the English did not; and that whilst yon met it, so to say, in good society at Paris, you met it in" London only where you expected to meet it, in its own proper haunts. One goes to the Jardin Mabille and the Argyle Rooms to see a world which is given over to licentiousness. The deco rations are beautiful, the illumination is fairy-like, and the music can hardly be improved. The demi-monde is there in its most voluptuous attire. It is really bad enough and bright enough to be exceedingly entertaining. But there are those who have passed the age when such enchatments have any substantial fascination in them ; who turn away from pink cheeks and spangled petti coats and colored lamps as Dr. Johnson once turned away from two vestals, say ing “fiddle-de-dee, my dears;” who, having exhausted the frivolous senti mentalities of Cremorne, look with a hungry stomach towards Cos vent Garden Market. There once was, and there still is, in this particular quarter of London a famous coffee-house, which the old wits and beaux were wont to visit, and which Thackeray celebrated in the second chapter of the Newcomes, known as Evans’. When I first knew Evans’ it was a rough place, facing the market, without any show or ornament whatever. My recollection is that no fee was charg ed at the door. You entered a great old room hung round with old portraits of old habitues; such as Betterton and Macklin and Diston and Farquar and Keene, and furnished with roughdeal tables and chairs. A retired comedian, Paddy Gren by name, was its manager; and he treated each comer as his own private guest. The bill of fare was limited. You got a chop and potato and a pewter of ale; nothing else. But these were peerless, prepared and served in an incomparable way. You sat down at table; a neatly dressed xvaiter came and laid you a napkin as white as snow, and a pewter plate as shiny as silver, and a knife and fork. Then he went away and presently returned witti two little shiny pewter globes, smoking hot, and a pew ter tankard. The air began to glow and grow odorous. The globes parted; in one there was a chop and in the other there was a potato. The waiter caught up the potato in a napkin, gave the nap kin a twist and emptied a bag of flour in your plate. He twirled the tankard j and out poured a stream of foamy am- [ ber. All the while a droll, old-fashioned j concert was going cu, old songs, old dances, old glees and old choruses, with | one moral, be kind to the weak and poor, be generous and be jolly, eat heartily, j sleep soundly, love God and serve the King. Not a chemisette was to be seen, j There was one place in London at leakt j where a man might be free and easy without having to bi'eak the seventh j commandment. A more virtu jus, a more upright and elevating, a more un- j couth, cleanly, primitive and delightful j entertainment could not be devised. If | Vesuvius Alhambra Dawson had been j fed on Evans’ chops nourished on Evans’ | ale, and softened by Evans’ music, he would now be a useful and energetic | missionary in the cannibal islands, or a | leading Christian in the Society of Be- | neventura at Kickapoo. The other night, being considerably bored at the Alhambra Theatre, in Lei cester Square, where they are doing a anew edition of the Black Crook, I be thought me of Evans. So, making my way out through the tobacco smoke and strumpets, I strolled down there, finding it without any trouble, for a great flaring sign in glittering gas jets, “Evans,” now illuminate the entire market place. Pay ing my shilling at the door, I entered to find not the jolly old deal-board com mon places, the smoke-stained beams and rafters, the old portraits, but a magnificently furnished and frescoed apartment, fitted up like a case chantant in the Champs Elysees, gorgeously lighted, and quite as splendid and un natural as Bob Acres after his entre into polite society. The music, however, proved to be unchanged and good, the chops still excellent, and, on the whole, the evening passed off pleasantly enongh. But it was not Evans’ ofold. The wire covered boxes ranging round the j main hall were occupied, and, chancing j to look innocently into one of them, I distinctly saw a young man kissing a j young woman. Perhaps it was hisl sweetheart, but it was enough to satisfy one that the glory of the place had de- j parted. Its glory was its homeliness j and its genialty, its quaint and hearty humor, its chops, potatoes and ale. it was a place in which one could mellow and overflow about his mother, about j his sister, and even about his wife and : his mother-in-law. It was a place where j a man felt himself to be safe. Women were not admitted. Good ones did not care to go; and middle-aged gentlemen do not care for the other sort. But all this is set aside, and Evans’s is the like the rest—a mere musical restaurant. Next vear, I dare say, the waiters will wear short red frocks, and smirk and ogle like the bar girls in the Haymarket. This Frenchification of everything goes even farther. Half the women you meet at Cremome are foreign, some of them speak very indifferent English. Cremorne itself is reopened after many years of litigation with great display, and after the style of the Chateau des : Fleurs. It is simply a modern Bane-; iagh. It is certainly magnificent, and Derby night it surpassed itself ; long eolonades of light ; flaming arches and temples and kiosks ; illuminated foun tains of variagated water scattering their . myraids of emeralds, rubies and saphyrs high in the air ; fifty thousand wicked, gaily dressed people moving like the figures in a puppet show through the endless promenades to tuneful and , voluptuous dance music. The rout and I revel went on all night. There were tableaux vivantes. There was opera bouffe. There was the ballet. There was a ball for the festive. There was a banquet for the comiiviaL The crowd was as mottled and almost as brilliant as the scene in which it disported itself. No end to noble lords and noble turf men and noble harlots and noble roughs; plenty of fire works, no end to the roll of wheels aud the row of cabmen with out, to the swirl and racket within. A very pretty show for a good American, very pretty, indeed. No one should go there, however, without carrying liis church letter iu his pocket and taking it out now and then and running his eye over.it for conscience sake, as I did mine ! Ah, well, these things must be, I sup pose; though we should look to it that they do not o’ercome us as easily as a Summer’s cloud. They are e’en now telling some curious, scandalous stories about poor John Stuart Mill; that he went about circulating free-love tracts among servant girls, and that the woman he married and buried, the woman to whom he dedicated that marvelous monumental preface to his “essay on liberty,” was his mistress long before he married her, she being then the wife of another man. Foil ! ’Tis rank and most vile, and the world does not seem to be mending either its morals or its pace. I don’t know, I am sure. But there is no doubt of this, that London is as licentious to-day as Paris was ton years ago. The English, the decent, sober-seeking, self-righteous, preten tious and respectable English, can put that in their pipes aud smoke it. H. W. TIIE KILLING OF KUSTNEK. Hoboken’s Latest Murder Mystery- Further Particulars of the Life and Death of Carl Kustner—His Career as a Prussian Officer and a Tobacco Merchant—The Last Parting with His Mother —Carried Much Money, but Feared No Thieves—The Coron er’s Inquest—The Murder Still a Mystery. Yesterday morning the narrative of the tragic death of Mr. Carl Kustnei was read with poignant sorrow in many a homestead, but lengthy as was the de tailed account, it pierced no hearts so deeply as did the few brief words, flash ed across the cable, wound his aged mother, who is his sole surviving rela tive in Germany. The busy cares of an unusually active life engrossed the ex clusive attention of Kustner during the years he lived. He was engaged in an extensive tobacco trade, ami so rapidly was he borne onward in the trade of worldly affairs that he had no time to think of changing his condition, and he lived with au affectionate mother whose tender care aud love for him knew’ no bounds. Up to the year 1870 lie had no occasion to bid her even a temporary adieu, but when the moment for part ing with her had arrived, the affection ate farewell interchanged proved what a substantial link of love bound them to gether. Kustner, being a man of re spectable family, was appointed as First Lieutenant in the Prussian Landwelir. The legions of France had invaded the soil of Germany, and the Lieutenant was called away to swell the ranks of that sledge-hammer soldiery that, in the cause of Fatherland, were employed to batter down the phalanxes of imperial France. Kustner was known as a gallant cavalier. During the eventful struggles of the Franco-Prussian war he faced death manfully upon the battle field, and at one time had his leg broken by being thrown from his horse. But that which his foeman in open and manly contest had not been able to achieve—the destruction of his life—it was left to a ruffianly coward and assas sin in Hoboken to accomplish. The war was over, and the deceased returned to the pursits of his business iu the tobac co trade. Eager to establish connections with the great tobacco centres of the world, he took a second farewell of his mother, relying on his heath aud per sonal bravery to carry him successfully over every obstacle aud to return safely home. This adieu proved to be his last. He traveled through Russia, Italy, Spain, and then, having gone to Hamburg, set sail thence for the land which gave him first a welcome and then a grave. His arrival at Hoboken has already been de scribed in tlie Herald. During his brief stay in Hoboken and visits to New York he ‘ made the acquaintance of several prominent merchants and traders, all of whom seem to have been most favorably impressed by him. From the various gentlemen into whose companionship he entered, the details of his career have been gleaned. His objective point ap peared to be Havana, where he intended to make a heavy purchase of tobacco.— He was about to visit Saratoga and San Francisco, as he said himself, “half for business and half for pleasure.” During his leisure hours he proved himself to be the genial, educated and wealthy gentleman already described. He put none of his money in any bank in this country, but carried constantly on his person a very large sum. On one occa sion he was asked by a friend, Mr. Mul ler, why ho was in the habit of carrying so much money in his pockets in the midst of a city like New York. Kustner simply replied : “Oh, I have been in so many large cities in my life-time that I am not afraid of being lobbed.” Several individuals certified to his continued gay and cheerful disposition and business tact. And the last few days of his existence were on, and on Thurs day night he was in the wine room of Acker & Catoir, in Third street, Hobo ken. This store was his favorite resort, it being accessible to no low characters or boisterous citizens. While convers ing with these men he spoke of the ex cellent condition of his health, and men tioned a bath he had taken near Fifth street on the previous (Wednesday) morning. He went to the shore, he said, and divesting himself of his clothing, left them in charge of a man while he was enjoying the tossing of the waves. To this individual he paid twenty-five cents for taking care of his apparel.— From this it would appear that Kustner had uot been in the habit of bathing at the public bath near the foot of Fourth street, but went further up the bank of the river. It is highly probable that he was about to enter the water in a similar manner on Friday morning, when he re ceived the fatal blow, or lie may have taken a walk towards the spot late on Thursday night and been robbed and murdered in the dead of night. This j was possible, inasmuch as the hotel of ! fieials cannot say whether lie was there during Thursday night or not.— His bed was undisturbed, and his i valuables and trunks unmoved, as i though he had not slept there last night, i Night or morning, however —it makes [ little difference which was* equally fa j vorable to the perpetration of the bloody deed. The place at which he was wont to swim is a wild, desolate spot. The walk thereto varies from forty to twenty feet in width, and is edged on the right by the Hudson river, and on the left by a tier of frowning rocks, rising precipit ously to a height of one hundred feet and fringed with shrubbery and weeds. There is no chance of escape for the traveler whe may there be set upon by thieves. If he flees ahead he js carried by the path into the bleak recesses of the Elysian Fields, where he falls a more easy prey to his merciless pursuers. Flight to the right or left is impossible. Hence it is that for more than twenty years robbers of every grade have found here a home and a base of operations. They are not molested by the Weehaw ken police, because some of the latter, perhaps, may be too busy arresting ball players ten years of age. Murder after murder may take place in Weebawken, but the murderer is certain never to be found out. On a large rock near by, which is washed by the waves at high tide, streaks of blood were discovered yesterday. There was blood also on de ceased’s coat, as might be expected from the mutilation of his head. Beyond the facts herein given, nothing was discov ered yesterday that can furnish the slightest clue to the perpetrator of the brutal murder. A division of responsi bility exists between the police, the coroner and the countyphysician, which is far from being favorable to the attain ment of the ends of justice. GEORGIA ITEMS. The Federal troops in Savannah knocked down a portion of the fence around the Park on the Fourth, and re fused to repair it afterwards. A youth named John Henry McGin ley, aged thirteen, was drowned while bathing in the river opposite the lower end of Savannah, Wednesday morning. The report that there has been a case of cholera at Catoosa Springs is false. Peaches sell on an average of $4 flO per bushel in Atlanta. At the election held in Washington county, last Monday, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the Hon. W. G. Mcßride, late representative in the Legislature, from that county, Mr. Green Brantly was elected by a majority of seventy-five oyer J. W. Sessions. The examination at the Sandersville Academy took place last Friday and Saturday. A colored Susan B. Anthony wanted to vote on the fence question, in Spald ing county, last Monday, The managers eouldn’t see it, The patriotic wards of the nation danced the bottom out of the old post office building in Fort Valley, on the evening of the Fourth. The prospects for a good, cation crop in Spalding county aye excellent. Corn looks tolerably well. There are between six and seven Id»n-. dred hands at work near Vienna, L ooly county, on the Hawkinsville and Eufaula B&ilroad, THE EMPRESS EUGENIE. , What She Says of Thiers, MacMahon, Victor Emmanuel, Bismarck, Prince Napoleon and the Pope The Future of Franco and of Europe. [Correspondence of the New York World.] “They say that you and the Prince now revisit Europe for a political pur pose,” I remarked. “And it is true,” said the Empress. “What do I do—what do I think—what do I say, that has not ‘a political pur pose’as they phrase it? But then this ‘political purpose’ which never leaves me—which lies down with me, which rises w ith me, which mingles even in my prayers—what is it ? Is it that I w’ish to plot and scheme and intrigue; to prepare coups d'etat: to receive discon tented officers of the army; to encourage revolts against the authority that France now recognizes as the best for the day ? You, my friend, who know me, know it is not so. But since France is always in our hearts—siuee Louis and myself live only for France and for God—since everything we do is done for France — since our prayers, our tears, our suffer ings, and our rejoicings are for her— then, naturally, our visit to the Conti nent is for her, and it has, thus, its ‘political purpose.’ It would be useless to conceal it”—this with a smile—“one might as well try to conceal that she breathed.” We spoke then of the recent changes in France—of the downfall of M. Thiers and the elevation of Marshal MacMahon; of the palpable reaction against the socialistic republicans; of the wonder ful manifestations of religious feeling throughout the whole country; of the Pope, Italy, Victor Emmanuel, the Ger man Empire, Bismarck and the persecu tion of the Church, and of Spain. You will see that our conversation took a wide range; and you will be glad, per haps, that I only indicate, rather than repeat at full, what the Empress said on liese great topics. “It is clear, is it not my friend,” said the Empress, “ that the foes of order and of religion have gone as far as the good God will permit them to go, at least iu our day ; and that we are about to witness a general return of the peoples to faith aud sobriety ? France is still the inspirator and the guide of the world, and France is to-day more fervent in her love for God and for his vicnr than she lias been for ages. What is going on in France to-day ? Every where the churches are filled as never before ; everywhere immense pilgrim ages to the holy shrines ; everywhere addresses of sympathy and encourage ment to the Holy Father —whom may God preserve to see the ruiu of all his foes ; everywhere the enemies of re ligion and society are dispirited and east down or if they still retain hope they prepare for new excesses which will only hasten their final discomfiture. Do you know with what fear this awakening of Catholic France inspires the Piedmontese Government at Rome, the anti-Christian and pagan court at Berlin, and the wild communards at Madrid ? They tremble as did Baltha sar when he read the writing on the wall.” Here the Empress read to me some passages from private letters, speaking of the extraordinary religious manifesta tions which have recently occurred throughout France, and of the series of grand religious fetes which aro to take place at Bordeaux next month, when great numbers of French and foreign bishops are to be present, the civil and military authorities of the departments are to attend, and General de Paladine is to furnish an imposing military con tingent from the regular army to add brilliancy to the ceremony; and then she told me of the advices which she had from Italy and Gornmiy concerning the remarkable reaction, among the most important classes, against the policy of the Lanza and Bismarck cabi nets. Her information from Italy and Germany fairly staggered me. I had suspected something of the truth, but I was not aware of a tenth of the facts which showed, in Italy, how immense was the strength of tlie Catholic party there; and iu Germany, how precarious was the hold which Bismarck had upon power. “All goes well in France, then,” I re marked, “aud you would not wish, had you the [tower, to hasten affairs ?” “Au eontraire!” she replied with great emphasis. “We are perfectly satisfied, and if one might complain at all it would be that some of our friends are not satisfied to let affairs move on as they are going, but wish to hurry them a little. That is not wise. As long as M. Thiers—the wretched man !—was al lowed to coquet with the reds and to en courage the communards there was dan ger. Now that he is gone all troves well. Marshal MacMahon is a prudent man (un tres prudent et un tres honnete homme.) He loves Franco. His wife, who counsels him well, is perhaps am bitious, but she is devout and fears God. The Orleans Princes are no longer to be spoken of. The friends of Henri V.—loyal to au idea—are ours when we want them. Yes, my friend, all goes well; the future is ours, and God is on our side. ” “But this future?” said I. “Eh, bien !” replied the Empress ; “You know what it must be. France, in her good time—in God’s good time will lead the reaction against the forces which have until now seemed to threaten the very existence of society and of reli gion throughout all Europe. Her suf ferings and her humiliation have been great; her sins demanded this penance, she has performed it; God lias absolved her, or will soon absolve her; and then, once more, she will become his sword to chastise and his balm to heal. This future of which you ask—do you not know it ? I see it all before me—France once more at the head of nations ; the robbers driven out of Borne; the Pope restored to his dominions; Germany di vided again into small and harmless States; Austria, freed from the sickly dreams that now enfeeble her, strong again in her ancient faith and hand in hand with France. This is the future— if it be the will of Heaven.” At another stage of our conversation I mentioned the recont arrival of Prince Napoleon in Paris, and the current re ports of his ambitious hopes. Some what to my surprise the Empress spoke very mildly of her cousin. “One sometimes trembles,” said she, “to see how retribution follows sin even in this life. Iknow my cousin well—ah ! I have cause to know him—and there are great qualities in him, He is not my friend, but lam not his enemy. In that tomb at Cliiselhurst are buried many enmities. If ever I cherished enmity against the Prince, it is buried there. My husband loved him—tie y were chil dren together. When we met at the coflin of my husband, although tears blinded my eyes, I sawtoars in his also— that was enough. The Prince is very able ; ho is ambitious ; he has a party, a strong one ; he is rich ; he is an excel lent judge of men, and he knows how to win the aid of women ; above all, he is a Napoleon ; but with all this he can never win France.” “And why?” I asked; although I thought I knew why. “Not because he is the son-in-law of the King of Italy—although that would go for much—but because France is re ligious and Catholic at her heart, and he is—what youjknow. France would shrink from him with horror, and she would have reason. There are things which cannot be forgotten, and France will nevef forget what this mail lias said and done. His deeds and words have per haps been exaggerated; but the simple truth is enough, and the truth is known in every hamlet in France. To consent to place him at her head would be to in sult and defy God, and that France will never do. It is not unlike, «s perhaps you know, that Victor Emmanuel will abdicate. He wishes to celebrate a civil marriage with the Countess Marflon. It is a good thought. But Prince Humbert and Lanza "say ‘No,’ and the King is powerless against them. By abdication he can enjoy a freedom that lie has not as King, and abdication iH common in his family, If he abdicates, then his beau Jtla my cousin would be deprived of one of the props on which he leans— he values it although I do not. It is a curious intrigue that he now carries on —an intrigue that has its strings in London, in Paris and in Rome; but it will come to nothing.” In speaking of the Pope, at another moment of our conversation, the Em press said some words that are strongly impressed on my memory, “The Holy Father,” Said she, “repre sents in himself and in his office the principle of divine sanction for all law; and that is why his existence and his in dependence are essential for the world. Being thus essential, God will preserve them. If lie were swept away, we should have nothing left on earth but the un checked and unguided will of man, ex pressed either bythevoiceof a majority, in which case the minority would be slaves, or by the mouth of a dictator, under whom all would be slaves. Ihe world has grown too old to submit to dictators. It would not long be content to be ruled simply by plebiscites. The divine sanction for law is needed—that sauotion that is above all, and that rules all alike; that depends not upon votes or bayonets; that prescribes what is right because God wills it, and forbids what is wrong because God condemns it. The Por.o, whom God has made to be tho jiving interpreter of this divine code of duty, is hated by those who wish to get rid of God. France, who has God in her heart, will protect him.” We did not separate without speaking of the Prince Imperial, who accompa nies his mother, “You have seen Louis,” said she; “and tell me v/hat you think of him. Do you observe that he has greatly grown ? He is already taller than his father was. He studies with assiduity and with intelligence. We are, very fond of each other- I need not tell you that. If we were not what we are how simply happy we should he to gether ! As it is we are happy; hut great burdens rest upon tis,” DEADLY EXPLOSIVES. Explosion of Nitro-Glycerino and Giant Powder. Batesvidde, Bedford County, I’a., July 3.—At half-past ten, p. m., to-day the magazine of the Cambria Coal and Miqing Company blew up, containing seventy barrels of nitro-glycerine and 70u barrels of Giant powder. The scene of the disaster is situate some mile or so fioin the village, the inhabitants of which, on hearing the fearful noise, rushed madly from their houses, believ ing that it was an earthquake or some other terrible convulsion of nature. Strange to say, the shaking of the earth, aud, of course, the houses, continued for some seconds after the explosion, there by strengthing many in the belief that it was really an earthquake; and, amid tlio crash of broken windows and the cries of the frightened women and children, the noise was little short of Pandemo nium. On repairing to the scene of the disaster every trace of the building was found to be obliterated, and for a dis tance of 500 or 000 yards around the earth was torn into chasms of from sixty to seventy feet deep; lingo trees were torn up by the roots, many being hurled to a great distance, while ingly overtaken by the immense masses of earth and rocks, were buried almost where they grew. The cause of the explosion, as believed in the neighborhood, is that some of the young men of the village had obtained an entrance into the magazine for the purpose of stealiugpowderforthe Fourth of July; that either their candle or matches came in contact with some of the loose powder ; and hence the loss of their own lives and the destruction of much valuable property. Three men were seen in the vicinity of the maga zine shortly after sundown on Thursday evening, but were not recognized on ac count of the growing darkness. It is difficult at present to find out who is missing and who is not, as many of the young men who have been working at Batesvllle had their relations living elsewhere, and perhaps have gouo to them fora vaoation and spend the Fourth at home. No traces have yet been dis covered of any bodies near the site of the magazine, though sufficient earth and stones have been displaced to cover the remains of hundreds, and cannot he removed without immense labor and cost. Our Railroad Interests. [From the Anderson Intelligencer,] We are gratified to note the increas ing interest among our citizens to for ward the movement set on foot to secure the location of the Chicago and Augus ta Railroad by this point. The present, activity in the public mind indicate that, there will bo no laggardness in fully discharging every obligation likely to accomplish the desired result. The feeling now apparent denotes a full pur pose to work heartily in the right direc tion, when that is plainly developed. We must agree upon the basis of action, aud then unitedly press forward, urging harmony in council and co-operation in vigorous effort. Success will be deserv ed, if not attained. No delusive hopes should bo indulged, but the difficulties in our way boldly met and overcome, if possible. Wo propose to indicate the most feasible plan, in our judgment, now offered to the people of Anderson. It is conceded that the purchase of the Blue Ridge Railroad by parties friendly to our interests will greatly enhance our prospects, yet, it must be remembered, that the mere purchase of this road to parties intending to complete it from Wallnilla to Clayton does not necessari ly bring the through route by way of Anderson. Active measures are already inaugurated to make the line diverge tit Seneca City, passing through the Fork, and crosssug the Savannah river at Au dersonville, thence to Augusta on the Georgia side. The survey of this route is now being made, aud we are not blind to the fact that, whatever its advantages or disadvantages mayfprove, the citizens of Georgia will naturally look with favor upon the proposed scheme. The preju dice against South Carolina will doubt less influence the citizens of Augusta to some extent, but it is our duty to show them that their best interests will bo materially subserved by uniting with the people of Anderson, Abbeville and Edgefield, thereby securing a local trado of much importance, whether or not the great scheme of a national high way across the mountains is perfected. This can be done by adopting a lino in which Augusta is already interested. We mean the Greenwood and Augusta Railroad, which has been chartered and surveyed, and found to be a most prac ticable route. This contemplated road is to pass within ten or twelve miles of Abbeville Court House, and our propo sition would be to construct a road from this place to the nearest point of inter section within the Greenwood and Au gusta survey. The counties of Abbe ville and Anderson ought to subscribe $250,000 each to tho construction of this road, when by uniting with tho citizens of Greenwood and Augusta the line would bo complete from VVallmlla to Augusta, thence to Port Royal, Savannah and Charleston. The scheme is practi cable and reasonable, and with proper effort the subscription of $500,000 by the two counties can bo obtained, to gether with additional subscriptions from other quarters. Augusta would enlarge her subscription to the Greenwood and Augusta Railroad, as that city would re ceive the enhanced benefits of the length ened line. Tho construction of such a road is a necessity to the people of Anderson and Abbeville, even though there was no prospect of furthering the project of tho contemplated lino from Chicago to the South Atlantic coast. ('an any one doubt the result of the location of tho through line, were tho road from Au gusta now in operation or being con structed ? We would have infinite ad vantage over all other projected Hum from Clayton to Augusta, and the timo is now at hand when we may safely ven ture to expend our means and energies in securing this decided advantage. Another idea in the construction of a road to unite with tho Greenwood and Augusta Railroad. The route from Chicago is not definitely and irrevocably fixed, although it is strongly indicated, and subsequent events rnay demonstrate, the desirability of constructing the main line through the Sassafras Gap, as our friends in Pickens propose. Doubtless the prime movers in this Chicago anil Augusta connection will bo influenced by the disposition made of tho Blue Itidge Railroad, and should this road pass into the hands of parties inimicul to the through line, which is not at all improbable, thou another route will be selected, and tho Sassafras Gap line will 1)0 prominently urged for adoption. Hence, tho road from this point to Au gusta would place us on the through line in any event, and we are furnished with another powerful incentive to en gage in its construction. The most striking point, which we de sire to impress upon all interested, lies m the fact already stated that tho con struction of the line from Anderson to Augusta would permanently benefit this section, whether or not tho connection West is ever made. It would boa direct outlet to tho principal markets, and would carry into execution the wishes of our people, as embodied in the Savan nah valley project, which received so much attention before the war. The counties of Anderson and Abbeville, with the assistance of Augusta ami Other points, can well afford to make the investment, as they arc destined to be cut off from the great thoroughfares of freight anil travel, unless the present move is successful. Here is our last arid only chance. Duelling. [Milledgeville Union i £e ,-order. / Whilst fearful Occidents and casual ! ties are daily thinning out the ranks of | mankind, and pestilence is claiming its i victiq;a by thousands, some impatient 1 individuals are not willing to wait for i tiie visitation of Providcu ce, but prefer ! to take the woik of tho destroying angel 1 into their own hands, and madly anil foolishly invito ihose who have offended them to come and kill them or consent to be killed themselves for the amuse ment of the public. This is the result if not the intention of most modern duels. The great mass of the people have come to look upon a duel us a sublime piece of folly. The result proves nothing. The most innocent party is as likely to be killed as the most guilty, It does not even establish a character for bravery. Borne very great cowards have been known to light duels and some very brave men refuse to fight duels ou principle. To kill a mun in a dnel is to commit murder in the eye of every law, human and divine. Notwomen have any right to agree to murder each other, and no true code of honor can sanction an act which God nnd the laws of our country has forbidden. We be lieve the time will soon come when duelling will be considered as dishonor able as other kinds of murder. Sam Bard is going to resuscitate tho Atlanta Era as a square out Republican weekly, in support of the National Ad ministration. Columbus was never healthier than at the present time.
