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WEDNESDAY MAY 2ft, 1874.
MINOR TOPICS.
Toledo. Ohio, boasts of a business man who
bays car tickets for sla hundred, and when
traveling sits in the aorner nearest the box
where the fares two pot in. Then he obligingly
takes the nickels of the other passengers, de
posits a ticket in tiie box and makes twenty per
cent, on his investment.
Napoleon 111 never had the reputation of a
wit, hut he sail one sharp thing after he had
made himself mister of the destinies of
franco. It was at the expense of his princely
cousin. Hon Hon, who said to him one day,
“• Yon have nothing of your uncle about yon."
"Yes.” ho replied—" his family.”
In tbe will of the late Countess of Loudoun,
just proved, her ladyship, after desiring that
her funeral may he as quiet as possible, goes
on to say: "I further wish my right hand to he
cut off and buried in the park at Castle Rem
ington, at the bend of the bill to the Trent,
and a small cross or stone over it, with the
motto, 'I byde my tyme.’ ”
The manufacturing business formerly owned
by the Spragues is going on successfully under
the assignment to Zachariah Chaffee. All of
the mills aro running, and the thousands of
workmen are made happy by employment. The
cotton and woollon mills of ltliodo Island aro
generally running on full time and with their
usual number of operatives. In the iron trade
there Is still groat depression, and few of the
coneems aro paying expenses. One largejen
gine manufacturer discharged three hundred
hands last week. The retail trade of Provi
denco is not up to the usual Spring condition,
but it lias some promising aspects.
A lady correspondent of an Lantern paper
lias "struck it rich" in giving her ideas of Ma 1-
amo do Metternicli, who has recently returned
to Paris. She says: "Never pretty, but always
elegant, stylish, and ifttrartive, even while she
frankly displayed her skeloton (being the thin
nest of mortals) in the most dec ollrtr of ball
dresses, often wild, foolish, and outre, hut
always the great lady even in her maddest
capri es. An Austrian who sets the fashion to
Parisians, a plain woman who eclipsed the
loveliest belles of the imperial court, the wild
est and most erratic beings, yet she is of
spotless virtue and unsullied reputation.”
Tho dreary winter blockade on top of Pike’s
peak is over, and one of the men who has been
doing duty on that elovatod weather post haH
come down to tell his experience. At, times
the thermometer was ovqr thirty degrees be
low zero, tho wind blowing so strongly that ex
posure to it was dangerous, and the snow driv- j
ing in blinding clouds. Tho signal norvico
men in tiieir substantial stono liom-o, with
plenty of wood and provisions, wore socuro
from hunger or frost, and came out of their
seclusion in good health. Tho now trail is so .
easy of ascent that a man can rido a mule to j
tiie to]i of tlie peak.
Fun and finance were somewhat unpleasant
ly combined fore party of students in Troy tho
other evening. Each contributed liis very best
clothes for tho adornment of a ghost which !
was placed on tho staircase of a newspaper of- j
lice about the time that churchyards yawn, |
while the young gentlemen retired to listen to j
the anticipated howls of horror. Unfortunate
ly, the first passer was an editor of a practiced
turn, who was so dreadfully frightened that he
immediately deprived the awful apparition of
its garments, and is at present calmly and gor
geously moving about in handsome now j
clothes, while divers es the students take their
pedestrian exercise iu vonerable attire on un
frequented streets.
Though the schoolmaster may lie abroad in I
England, tho condition of dense ignorance in
which the average llritisli peasant resides is
something wonderful. A woman was recently
arrested for annoying another who, she said, j
had "overlooked” her children, causing tiie |
death of two of them. This oaso is matched |
by that of another young woman who was not j
long ago found drowned, arter going through a
season of melancholy, with tho constantly re- j
peatod assertion that she had been "over
looked” by a witch. It is strange to read of j
those superstitions in tho England of to-day
superstitions exactly like tlioso of the New j
England of two hundred yoars ago.
The recent high tide in tho Thames was so j
accurately projietod by scientific men that ,
ovary preparation was made for it. The water
rose to tho top of tho arclios of lJlaekfriars
Itridge. A Gloucester paper says that the !
“ boro” prognosticated by Mr. Frank llucklaiwl
made its appearance in tiie Severn at and be- j
low Gloucester, at nine in tho morning aud |
half-past niue in tho eveuing. Tho effect was
remarkable. The river, which was flowing
genilv toward the sea, was in a moment re
versed in its course and rushed up a mass of
waters some foot in height, throwing mud and
water high in the air. The tide only flowed
three-quarters of an hour atd rose loss than
six foot.
The destruction by tire of 149 houses in the
picturesque little Indian city of Masaya. in
Nicaragua, is not an event likely to excite
much emotion in the world in general. But it
is a grievous misfortune for a very quiet and
industrious population of some 12.000 souls,
devoted to the native manufactures of ham
mocks, coarse cotton cloths, matting, straw
hats and tho like, ’lho town is situated on a j
very beautiful lake, and near one of the finest
and most interesting of thoixtinct volcanoes!
of Central America. That it should have suf- j
sered from a conflagration is not surprising, as
all the water in the place was brought up steep ,
roads from the lake on the l acks of women
until two years ago. when a steam pump was
established bv an enterprising American.
One of tho largest weddings since the fa- ;
mous diamond wedding of Oviedo, twenty
years ago. has just occurred at New York. The
groom is the new Mexican Minister to the j
Court of Berlin. Gen. It Benavides, a personal
friend and partisan of lTcsidont Tejada. Ho
: * about forty-five years of age. and euomious-
U wealthy ; and is noted in the City of Mexico 1
for his great learning. His bride is Mis- 1
Priederika Isabella Holden, daughter Frederick j
Holden, of New York city. Sim is ouly eighteen, l
and not wealthy, except in charms of person, j
lieiug one of the most beautiful br.mottos in j
Hie city, and of tall and graceful carriage.
The gross, fat Kniglit, whose means are now
as slender as hi# waist is great, lias not only
raised his country’s expenditures and prepared j
insanity for all legal historians : he has gone !
into song aud antic romance. In short, with
linger softened to liuggiero, he lias been mode
the hero of an operetta which has been suc
cessful at Home and is coming out in Paris. It
is even proceed to turn "La Causa Tieeibor
ui’’ into a ballet, but the picture of the im
mense rotund Claimant tu a light satin doublet
and trunk hose executing a fantastic pas ilta
lie fore his judges is not propitious. Mean
while, this vulgar humbug, picking oakum iu
bis prssou. has the satisfaction of kuow.ug
that his counterfeit presentment is filling the
Continental eye »nd 641 wlth ,he S oo * '‘ cloes "
and awful woes of the first tenor.
One of the disadvantages of dying is that it
deprives you of the opportunity of seeing jus
tice done after your death iu cases that very
nearlv concern you. Here is a trial now going
on before the courts about some property left
by Mr. Ntiner. who was recentlv burned to
death with his whole family, in New York.—
The point to be settled is whether the wife or
the daughvr of the defunct, both of whom
penshed with him. lived the longer. It is hard
to see hew such a point can ever be satisfac
torily settled. Years ago a similar case arose,
not by lire but by water, out of the loss of the
steamship Pulaski off Cajie Hatteros. The
Pulaski was a crack boat, bound from Charles
ton to Philadelphia, and she was full of "peo
ple of society.” A gentleman of Charleston
was lost on board of ber with his wife, and the
courts were called upon to decide which of the
two, the husband or the wife, had been the
survivor. It was a long and dreary litigatiou.
and we forget now how it was decided. But
who can ever have felt sure that it was decided
in accordauee with the facte ?
THE GUERRILLA MOVEMENT.
What the Savannah News terms the
“ guerrilla movement” iu Qplitics seems
to be directed at the supremacy of the
Democratic party. The leader of this
movement is Col. John S. Mosbt, the
ultra Democrat who strained at Gree
ley and swallowed Gkant ; and he has
commenced operations by “ standing ”
for Congress in the Alexandria District.
He is backed by Gbant and tho Admin
istration, and seems sanguine of suc
cess. Those who are unacquainted with
the objects of the guerrilla movement
will doubtless suppose that Col.
Mosby, like a true Kniglit, is striving to
rescue the district from the rule of
Radical caitiffs. This, unfortunately,
is not the case. The district is already
represented by a good Democrat, Gei.
Hunton, against whom his constituents
have no cause of complaint. The greut
guerrilla is endeavoring to split the
white vote, and if he succeeds the Radi
cal candidate—for the negroes will run
a candidate notwithstanding the Ad
ministri*ion —will be elected. This
seems to be the object of the guerrilla
movement, and this will be tho result
wherever it shows any considerable
degree of strength. The guerrillas j
should be treated in politics as in war— !
they should be shown no quarter.
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THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
From Memphis and above down to |
New Orleans aud below, the Mississippi i
river has risen up out of its bed and 1
rushed over its banks, submerging the
country for miles and miles, and des
troying millions and millions of prop
erty. This is perhaps the most fearful
calamity that has ever befallen the peo
-1 pie of the Mississippi Valley. This in
undation is more destructive than the
ravages of the iiereiest conflagration
' that has ever taken place in this coun
try, or the devastations of a hostile
army. An idea of tiie fearful extent of
this deluge cannot be properly conceived
at tliisdistancefrom thesceneof disaster,
but when it is remembered that the river
is over fifty miles wide at Memphis, the
extent of the damage to property may
be imagined. The duration of the flood
and the area of land covered aro fearful
to contemplate. Over fourteen thous
and square miles of territory in the
States of Arkansas, Mississippi and
Louisiana, embracing the rich alluvial
lands oi those States, have been cover
ed with water for two months. All
crops have been destroyed, and every
thing in the sliape t of cattle and stock
and supplies have been swept away by
the angry waters. Speedy and liberal re
lief can alone save the people from death
by starvation. Sometliingmustbe done to
prevent a recurrence of this great ca
lamity. And what that something is it
is easy to determine, provided the peo
ple of the upper and lower Mississippi
act in concert. Private enterprise aiul
State aid are inadequate to prevent this
periodical inundation and devastation
of the territory in tho valley of the
Mississippi. Tho United States Gov
ernment should have control of this
! groat artery of the country, and Con
gress should make ample appropriations
to so construct tho banks of the river
as to prevent inundations in future.—
The people of the North and the
i R ist would unite with those of
tho South and West in approving
the necessary appropriation of sufficient
money for the completion of a "work of
such universal necessity to the agricul
tural and commercial interests of the
' country. There should be neither sec
j tional animosities ncr party strife to in
voke against such a measure, and if pro
perly presented and pressed a bill would
bo passed by Congress making tbe ne
cessary appropriation to begin tho work.
Unless something is done by the Gov
ernment the most valuablo lauds in the
States subject to tho overflow will be
{ abandoned. In addition to tho almost
j certainty of losing their crops aud their
property, people cannot afford to run
the risk of losing their lives during the
periodical overflow of the Mississippi.
I The construction of impassable barriers
against the overflow of the waters can
only be accomplished by the Federal
| Government. Tho Mississippi is the
j great chanuel of inter-State commerce,
aud as such its liould receive the pro
: tooting care of the General Government.
SOMETHING FOR LAND OWNERS.
The Mobile Register publishes a let
ter from Mr. J. G. Cullmann, who has
successfully established a colony of
Germans upon tho South and North
Ijfciilroad in Morgan county, Alabama.
Eight mouths ago Cullmann Station
was in the backwoods, with not a single
log cabin. Now' there is a neat town
there, with forty-five houses, and others
going up, threo schools and churches,
two hotels, three stores, two saw mills
aud one planing mill, with all kinds of
shops. One hundred and sixty-five
more lots are sold, and will he occupied
withiu six months ; about 200 families
are living around the town, and 42,000
acres of land have been sold to new
settlers, who will move in shortly. Im
migrants are arriving daily, and the
colony is in a most flourishing aud pros
perous condition. The land was pur
chased very reasonably, the owners
wisely concluding to sell cheap rather
than to run off tho immigrants by ask
ing exorbitant prices for their lands.
Mr. Cullmann states that it was his
desire to settle near Tuscnmbia aud
Florence, Alabama, but the land owners
made the usual mistake of raising the
prices of their lauds to from S2O to S3O
per acre, which lands were offered
eighteen months before for from $3 to
$lO per acre. The immigrants who are
settling iu Alabama are from the West.
Georgia can readily procure industri
ous immigrants whenever the proper ex
ertions aro made. The land owners
should never drive away good settlers
: by high prices; for it is better to sell a
; certain number of acres at a nominal
figure in order that the value of the rest
jof the land may be enhanced. The
wonderful rapidity with which the
towns of Birmingham and Cnllmann’s
Station have been built up should di
! reet the attention of prominent citizens
iu the various portions of Georgia to the
important question of immigration.—
; There should be an organization effect
ed under State auspices to promote the
cause of immigration. In this con
nection we are pleased to see that Gov
ernor Smith is thoroughly alive to the
j great importance of direct trade and the
j speedy increase of onr population by
healthy accessions from abroad. In no
way can the Governor do the State more
benefit than by vitalizing aud popular
izing a movement so certain to result in
the appreciation of the value of proper
ty and the development of the material
interests of Georgia.
Mr. James Gordon Bennett, the pro
prietor of the New York Herald, has re
cently won some notoriety as an athlete.
He has won a walking match and three
thousand dollars. His competitor was
Mr. John Whipple. The distance was
ten and one-fighth miles. The course
was from Mr. Bennett’s Fifth avenue
residence to Jerome Park. The time
seven o’clock in the morning. Mr.
Bennett distanced his antagonist about
three hundred yards, and won the raes
in one hour and forty-six seconds.
the sparta times and
PLANTER.
Mr. B. H. Sasnett and Judge F. L.
I Little have each sold their interests in
I the Tones and Planter to Mr. J.vo. 11.
! Christian, late of the Thomasville
Times, who with Rev. M. H. Lane is
now the sole proprietor of the paper.
We wish them abundant prosperity and
have no doubt that they will make the
Times and Planter as popnlar in the
future as it has been in the past, which
is the highest compliment we can pay
them. We are pleased to learn that our
friend Judge Little will still contribute
to the editorial columns es the paper.
TIIE ERA OF GOOD FEELING.
Coming close after Lamar’s eulogy ,
upon Sumner and tho decoration
of Confederate graves at Mobile by
Federal soldiers, we have further and
convincing proof of the approach of a
lasting place and permanent reconcilia
tion between the tvro sections:
New York, May 5, 1874.
It was agreed to-night, at a meeting
of the posts of the Grand Army of the
Republic of New York, that there shall
bo no distinction between Union and
Southern graves on Decoration Day.
Botli those of Union and Confederate
soldiers will l>e decorated. Os the latter
there are many in Cypress Hill and
other cemeteries around New York.
Times have changed since that shame
ful day at Arlington when Radical par
tisans refused to allow Southern men
and women to deck the graves of their
fallen kinsmen. The bitternesses of fifty
years are passing rapidly away, let us
hope never to return.
CANDIDATES AND THE PRESS.
The Macon Telegraph and Messenger
informs a correspondent who had writ
, ten a long communicati m suggesting
lion. Thos. G. Lawson, of Putnam, as
a candidate for Congress, that all such
articles will have to bo paid for as ad
vertisements. This is tho rule which
we have thought necessary to adopt in
tho management of the Chronicle and
Sentinel, and we do not think that even
the candidates themselves will question
its correctness or its justice. At the
commencement of every political cam
paign the newspapers are flooded with
articles from the pens of zealous parti
sans, commendatory of candidates and
their principles. These are published
at a considerable expense to the pro
prietors of newspapers, and to the ex
clusion of other and vastly more inter
esting reading. If the friends of a cau
didate wish his personal merits and
political principles placed before the
public, they must pay for the privilege.
If they are friendly enough to write
laudatory articles in his behalf, they
must also be friendly enough to pur
chase Hie space necessary for their in
sertion. They have no right to expect
the newspapers to dead-head their can
didates to glory.
"TIIE CHIEF CRIMINAL.”
We find in the Columbia Union-
Herald, of Sunday, an account of the
trial and sentence of H. A. Smith, ex-
Treasurer of Fairfield county, S. C.,
for being a defaulter to the State. The
prisoner plead guilty. He admitted
that the money had not been turned
over in the time prescribed, but ho de
nied having stolen it and maintained
his ignorance of how it had disappeared.
The impression seems to be that Gov
ernor Moses converted tho money into
his sinking fund; that Smith has been
made tho victim of misplaced confidence,
and that,rather than betray Moses, he has
determined to take the disgrace and
punishment upon himself, relying upon
tho clemency of the Executive for speedy
pardon. Mr. Melton, tho Attorney-
General, who has dissolved copartner
ship with Moses & Cos., and who
is working in favor of reform, de
nounced the ring of thieves who had
impoverished the people and destroyed
the credit of the State. He called on
God to witness that before the Ides of
November, if others did not take warn
ing from the sad example of Smith, they
would ho punished in like manner.
Judge Mackey, in pronouncing sen
tence, reviewed the remarks of the At
torney-General, and took occasion to
arraign Governor Mo3es. He sentenced
the prisoner to pay a fine of $2,000 and
be imprisoned in the penitentiary for
one year. The Judge firmly believed,
however, that “he was performing a
duty merely technical and formal, and
that the judgment itself was merely a
precursor of a pardon that would surely
follow. The State House throws a
shadow deep and broad over the very
threshold of tin temple of justice, and
in releasing from confinement those indi
viduals who have been punished for
their misdeeds it strikes a deadly blow
at public safety.”
Judgs Mackey even went farther than
this, and expressed the hope that the
Court may yet reach “the chief criminal
of the State, and show that, however
strong, his power may be broken by the
iron hand of the law. Tiio Court had
hoped that in this trial the opportunity
would have shown itself, but that hope
has been defeated.” It is stated that
this arraignmeilt of Governor Moses by
Attorney-General Melton and Judge
Mackey created a profound sensation in
Court. There is no longer any doubt
of a serious breach in the Radical
jparty of South Carolina. Melton and
M \ckky seem to be acting in good faith.
Whatever their shortcomings in the past,
and they have been numerons and griev- j
ous during their connection with the
party that has worked so much injury to
the State, they are deserving of the en
couragement of the people in their es
! forts to bring about reformation of ex-1
istiug abuses. The old aphorism, let us i
hope, may soon be verified by the rescue i
j of the State government from the cor- ]
rupt hands into which it has fallen, and 1
the restoration to office of men of intelli-!
geuce and probity.
HOTEL KEEPERS AND SUMMER
RESORTS.
The New York Times lias a word to !
say upon this theme—of more interest
to its readers, perhaps, than all of its i
political articles and comments upon the I
Presidential veto. It says that the peo- I
pie of Jew York and other large North
ern cities are less able this season to pay !
for a change of residence than they have :
been in some time, and that prudence
I and economy will keep many at home
who have hitherto gone to Europe, to
:be sea shore and to the mountains.
: The proper ion of persons who will be
tempted tu seek health and refreshment
at Americas watering places and sea
beaches will entirely depend on flie kind
of inducements offered to them. Places j
; like Newport, Saratoga or Long Branch
may. or mat' not, be able to disregard
the demand for lower rates of board and
a somewhat higher level of comfort.
Minor holiday resorts certainly cannot
disregard that demand with impunity.
The city is a very tolerable place to spend
the Summer in, as ninety-nine out of
every handred of its population have
had occasion to find out. During the
heats of thd most torrid season, the
stoop of a New York dwelling is a fair
exchange, so far as comfort is concerned,
for the crowded parlors or piazzas of a
fashionable hotel, and the sleeping apart
ments of a commodious home are luxury
itself compared with the stuffy bed
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1574.
j rooms of three-fourths of the Summer
| hotels of the period. The calls of fash
j ion, seconded by abundant means, may
cause people to disregard all such con
siderations ; but when money is scarce,
and economy for the first time in many
years is becoming fashionable, such con
siderations will have an excellent chance
! of being heeded. Mine host of the lower
latitudes will do well to heed the words
j of warning addressed to his Northern
j brother. If the North feels poor and
prudent, what must be the feeling in the
South ? Here nearly every one is pinch
ed by the hard times, and there are but
few, either among merchants or plan
ters, who feel able to incur the ex
pense of a Summer trip for plea
sure. There are some, however, im
pelled by a higher consideration than
the desire for amusement, who will be
compelled to seek a change of climate
within the next sixty days. If the South*
ern watering places attempt to keep up
the high prices which have obtained
since the war, they will receive but little
of this custom, and will pocket a hand
some loss on the business of the season.
Their two and three dollar per diem
rooms, with everything extra, will re
main unoccupied, aud the ancient chick
ens, doubtful eggs, sole leather steaks
and india rubber rolls will ruiu only the
digestion of Boniface and his family.
The people are poor, the country is
poor, aud the future bears no promise.
Watering place prices must be made to
contract so as to correspond with other
contractions, or the traps will catch no
prey for this Summer at least. Invalids
will seek out quiet places in the moun
tains of Georgia, of the Carolinas and
Virginia—places where the band cometh
not and dancing is unknown. Where a
spring containing more or less bad
smelling and bad tasting water, gushing
from the hill side or rock, and impreg
nated with the virtues of old boot leather
and rusty iron, will furnish the imagina
tive sufferer with an excuse for getting
fat and strong under the influence of
regular hours, nutritious diet, plenty
of exercise and a cool and'bracing tem
perature. Many such heavenly oases
are springing up in the deserts of fash
ionable hotels and expensive and ill
kept boarding houses, and many more
will be discovered by the pressuro of a
tight money market, and last year’s
business losses. Many even of the mere
pleasure seekers will find fishing, hunt
ing, picturesque scenery, spring chicken,
mountain mutton and unimpeachable
milk, ample compensation for flirting,
dancing, dissipation and dyspepsia.
GENERAL GRANT AND THE CUR
RENCY RILL.
We publish this morning a letter from
Hon. H. W. Hilliard, of Atlanta, upon
the President’s veto of the currency bill,
to which we invite the attention of our
readers. We are afraid that Mr. Hil
liard’s opposition to the measure which
lie discusses has clouded his judgment
and made him discover agreat statesman
where others have only found a success
ful soldier and a sordid, selfish man. In
his zeal for hard money he gives the
President praise which he does not de
serve, and which as yet he lias only re
ceived from blind and unreasoning par
tisans, or from those who anticipate
preferment by the formation of a
“Grant party.” It is hard to discover
the “moral heroism” of the veto, or tho
opposition to “popular clamor” which it
embodies. Those who have studied the
votes upon what is popularly known as
the “inflation bill,” taken when the
measure was pending in the Senate and
House of Representatives, aud the views
of tke leading journals of tho country,
know that the West and South were not
united against the North and East in
this contest. Had those two sections been
allied as closely in favor of inflation as Mr,
Hilliard intimates the veto would have
availed but little when confronted by a
two-thirds majority. It is well known
that both, the West and South were al
most equally divided upon this ques
tion, and that some of the ablest and
best men «of the West,especially, fought
upon the side of New York and the
money-lenders of New England. It is
well known that many of the most influ
ential journals of the West and South
opposed a scheme which they believed
would flood every State with worthless
paper currency, and bring disaster and
ruin upon the whole country. The bill
passed Congress by a very small ma
jority, and General Grant had no rea
son to suppose that he wa3 braving pub
lic opinion when lie refused to give it
the Executive approval. We do not
agree with Mr. Hilliard’s opinion that
General Grant is stronger than his
party or that he is the coming man of
the country. Had the currency bill
been supported by the Republican party,
it would have passed both Houses
by a two-thirds]majority. But it is a
noteworthy fact that as the currency
bill did not receive the support of
any particular section of the Union,
neither was it adopted or sustained by
either of the £feat political parties. The
Republicans, like .no Democrats, were
seriously divided upon this question
and the veto was no more a defeat of
Morton, Logan and Cameron than of
Gordon, Norwood aud Mereimon. Gen
eral Grant has, as yet, given us no rea
son to suppose that he is better than
his party, or that lie has opposed any of
its vicious legislation. Its worst laws
have either been suggested by him or
else have received his hearty sanction
and approval. Indeed, when lie has
broken with his party at all he has in
variably gone with its worst men and
extreme faction—as iu the Santa Domin
go swindle, the Louisiana usurpation,
the appointment of Williams and the
nomination of Simmons. The Southern
people have no confidence in General
Grant or in professions which his acts
belie, and they cannot be forced to give
him their support, notwithstanding the
efforts which some Southern men are
making in this direction. We do not say
that such is Mr. Hilliard’s design, but
there are others of whose intentions there
can be no doubt. There are those who
are looking forward to their own ad
vancement by the erection of a “Grant
party” upon the ruins of the Democratic
organization. There are those who wish
to fight not for the success of principle
but for the triumph of a man. But they
will.find that they have undertaken an
Herculean task, and they will be com
pelled to abandon a ssheme which they
may never hope to accsmplish,
The public will not be at all surprised
to learn that the editor of the Washing
ton Republican, whish paper claims to
be the special'organ of the President, is
! concerned in the ring frauds of the Dis
trict of Columbia. Se became a dead
head member of * Credit MobHier
: paving company, and paid for his stock
| with his dividends. Os course the Re
-1 publican has sworn upon divers occa
! sions that the garmAits of the ring were
i as white as snow.
A letter from thi pen of Jacob Dun
derhead, Esq., i|xm the Stephens-
Hill controversy rf.pears in the Chron
icle and Sentine* this morning. We
had determined >to pnblish nothing
more about this personal quarrel,
but have been compelled to yield to Mr.
D.’s position in tie community and to
bow to the influence which he exercises
in ward politics—#tn influence which, we
cannot afford to leglect or to offend.
GENERAL Y*UNG.
One of the Radical organs in Colum
bia—the Union —makes the recent pub
lications concerning General Young and
the Washington ring, a’ pretext for a
! savage assault upon the. Democracy of
Georgi l The organ says:
“Who this Young is, we learn from
; the Georgia press, and thus discover
j that he is the representative of the
genuine chivalrous, alias Ku Klux
Democracy of Georgia. Those honored
men wlio wouldn’t steal a red hot stove,
or whip a ‘nigger’ unless he was de
fenseless. That he went to Washington
as the embodiment of the Democratic
honesty of the Empire State of the
South. * * 4 * * *
Whereupon the Chronicle and Senti
nel lustily calls on Mr. Y'ogng to rise
and explain to Georgia and the country,
and save himself and the oeople he
represents from the black dishonor
which he has brought upon them. Tho
I Democratic press is bewildered and
stunned, not that their Democratic ally
is corrupt, but that it has been found
out. That is where the shoe pinches.”
If the writer in the UnioH had been
in the Federal cavalry during the war
he would have known perfectly well who
General Young was without waiting to
he informed by the Georgia press. The
Democratic newspapers are neither be
wildered nor stunned by sie»e reports,
nor have they had any proof that the mem
ber from the Seventh District is guilty
of the offenses which the Union assumes
to have been proven against him. The
Sun, which has published these charges,
has given no evidence of their truth,
and, as wo have before said, the state
ments of that journal should generally be
received with many grains of allowance.
But it cannot he denied that the people
of Georgia are deeply mortified that
such a charge should have been made
against their Representative, and 'hat
they expect of General Y’oung the ex
planation which they certainly have a
right to receive. The Carolina ring can
not divert attention from their own
rascally deeds or lessen their own in
famy by charging dishonesty upon the
public men of this State.
THE INUNDATION.
The New Orleans Picayune estimates
the total loss to this year’s crop as not
less than 300,000 bales of cotton, 40,000
hogsheads sugar, and the almost total
destruction of the tobacco and rice
crops. From Memphis to the Gulf the
crevasses average upwards of fifty miles
wide, and through these are flowing
streams more powerful than even the
Mississippi itself. Os the fifty-three
parishes of Louisiana, thirty-one are
partially or eutirely covered by water.
These parishes contain about 375,000
people—one-half of the whole popula
tion, and seventeen-twelfths of the pro
ducing population of tho State. The
lands overflowed are calculated at about
2,300,000 acres, one-fourth of which was
under cultivation in corn, cotton and
sugar when the flood began.
Looking at the various sections thus
afflicted we find first the Yazoo Valley.
Here the Mississippi has broken through
at Huslipakana aud Bolivar, and trans
formed the whole Yazoo Valley into an
inland lake. Along the Amite, from its
source in Mississippi to Lake Pontchar
train, the low lands aro nil under water,
washing out a poor but industrious class
of people, almost all white. The Pearl
river overflow is more of a freshet than
a flood; the rains alone aro answerable
for it. Tho bridges between New Or
leans and the North have been washed
away, and the saw mills along that
stream, that supplied New Orleans and
the Southwest with lumber, have suf
fered a great deal.
In Arkansas, although tho Chicot and
St. Francis crevasses cover some 1,600,
000 acres, yet they have not caused such
loss as in other parts of the country, as,
for instance, the Oucliita and Black
river bottoms. Here the condition is
most frightfully appalling, with little
chance of relief for months to come.
For over two hundred miles the Ouchita
has spread out its stream to from ten to
fifty miles wide. When the inhabitants
fled to the back lands with their prop
erty, they encountered the waters flow
ing from the Mississippi crevasses.
Thus between two floods their only
refuge was the house-tops, where they
are now living, having lost their cattle,
their clothing, even their power to work.
The four great cotton parishes of
Madison, Tensas, Concordia, and Car
roll are filled by quite a number of cre
vasses; at Bass, quarter of a mile wide;
Point Lookout, Hard Times, Buck
Bridge, Glasscock, half a mile wide; all
of them averaging seven feet in depth,
ami opening the country to an artificial
river to miles in width. Just below the
mouth of Red river occur the two most
murderous crevasses in the State, the
Morgauza, nearly a mile wide, running
at the rate of three and a half miles an
hour; the Hickey, a third of a mile in
width, ten feet deep, and pouring in at
the rate of nine and a half miles an
hour. After covering the river
front parishes of Point Coupe.
West Baton Rouge and Iberville, the
water from the crevasses swelled the
Atchafalaya, Lafourche aud Teche to
such a volume as to overflow every parish
on its course to the sea—St. Landry,
Lafourche, Lafayette, Terrebonne, St.
Mary and others. Here the waters deal
donlile destruction, overflowing the
richest alluvial country in the world,
and destroying one-third of the sugar
crop of the State. Back of the banks
dwell the small settlers, Cadiens and
others, who are dependent on their hunt
ing and the products of their fields and
their cattle for support from day to day.
Several lives have been lost here. Those
who remain are crying for food and
clothing. Below New Orleans, in Pla
quemines, almost tie whole country has
been inundated.
To sum up the floed from Memphis to
the Passes, the crevasses aro over fifty
miles in wiith. Through them flow
streams greater and mure powerful than
the mighty Mississippi itself, and which
pour out on this devoted country
1 2,000,000,000 cubic feet of water every
{ hour. Not only is this water thrown on
j the land, but it must find its wav to the
| sea throngh 600 miles of low alluvial
lauds.. It is not hyperboleAthen, to say
that the Mississippi is wider now than
the far famed Amazon, whole month is
250 miles in width.
LETTER OF HON'. HENRY W. HIL
LIARD ON THE VETO OF THE
CURRENCY BILL.
Atlanta, Ga., May 7, 1874.
I/O the Editors of the Chrorricli and
Sentinel:
Some days since a gentleman culled
on me, and entered into conversation
up jn the subject of the President’s vtto
of the currency bill. I spoke without
reserve, and expressed my views at
length without the slightest expectation
that they would be made public. But
at his earnest request I have written
them out, and forward them to you.
As the question which they touch is of
the greatest importance, and still the
subject of discussion, it may be that the
general expression of the views taken of
j it by these who’ hold no official relation
; to the Government, and who may be sx
' pected to think and speak indepen
j dently, will contribute to a satisfactory
i solution of a problem of acknowledged
1 difficulty.
! The President, in returning to Con
i gress the bill submitted to him for ap-
I proval without his signature, assumed
i a grave responsibility. He never dis
| played higher courage on the field of
battle. So far from deserving censure
j for his marked reserve upon the subject
while it was still pending in Congress,
his silence was eminently creditable to
him. It was proper and statesmanlike.
There is in some respects a striking re
. semblance between General Grant and
William the Silent. Both may be fitly
i described as men of thought and of
i action. It is impossible to deny to Gen
i eral Grant the possession of qualities of
j a very high* order. His career in the
• army, rising to the chief command by
| merit, and not by favor, and never reced
j ing from any position that he took until
the close of the war, illustrates his char
acter and his ability. The distrust of his
ability to conduct the affairs of the Gov
ernment felt by many upon his election
to the great office which he fills, has
given way; and while some of the acts
of his administration have not met the
approval of some of the truest friends of
j constitutional liberty, still it is plain
I that the confidence of the country in his
! ability, and integrity, is greater to-day
than it ever was. He, is far stronger
than the party that bore him into power.
That might perish to-morrow, but he
' would stand like a rock. He seems now
i to comprehend that he is responsible
■ only to the country, and to history.
The President’s veto of the currency
bill was, in ray judgment, an eminently
patriotic act. In the language of Crom
well, he made some conscience of what
ho did. Some of the trusted leaders of
his party confronted him. The people,
more formidable than any party leaders,
seemed to demand the passage of tho
bill. Yet, the President, comprehending
fully the responsibility of his position,
returned the bill without his signature.
The act was as momentous as a battle.
The message of the President, accom
panying the bill which he returned to
Congress, was very brief, but it was the
ablest of his administration. So far
from expressing any disseut from the
purpose of the friends of the measure to
increase the amount of available cur
rency, he approved the object. But in
his judgment, the bill would fail to ac
complish that object, while it would im
pair the value of the currency to a
greater proportion than any relief that
it would bring, and at the same time
commit the Government to tho con
tinued use and sanction of a circulating
medium not only inferior in value to gold
aud silver, but without any support
from, that-' only true baeie for a
paper currency. He at the same time
suggested appropriate legislation for
bringing out reserved funds, and for ef
fecting a fair distribution of the bank
ing capital of the country. It is idle,
then, to charge the President with hos
tility to those sections of the country
which require an increase of circulation.
No proposition is sounder than his terse
statements in regard to paper money :
“ It is valuable exactly in proportion to
the amount of coin that it can be con
verted into.” The measure was a de
parture from the true principles of
finance. If it had become a law wo
should have witnessed a decline in
the public credit without any com
pensation to the agricultural sec
tions of the country. The currency
would nave poured its increased volume
into the same channels in which it now
flows, with the regularity of the current
of tho Gulf stream. The truth is, the
theory of a system of finance for the use
of a commercial paper is the most
difficult of human problems. The his
tory of the civilized world illustrates
this broadly. The fortunes of men aud
of States alike attest it. It is impossi
ble to regulate anil control the currency
of a great country by artificial rules.
It will obey the laws of trade. Os
course it is too late now to reverse the
order of things in this country, but the
sooner we return to the original spirit of
the Government the better will it be for
us in every way.
Who could have conceived the vast
growth of the money power iu this
country if he had been present when
the Government was organized under
the Constitution ? In looking into the
enumerated powers of Congress, we find
the words : “To coin money, regulate
the value thereof, and of foreign coin.”
The history of tho origin of the financial
system, adopted even in General Wash
ington’s administration, is, known to
the country, but the far reaching in
fluence of that construction of the pow
er of the Government, no living man is
able to estimate. Money is the repre
sentative of all values. Blit what is
money? No legislation can create it?
It exists already. It is diffused through
out the civilized world. It is everywhere
recognized as having a certain value. Os
course it can be nothing but gold and
silver, or what may be at once converted
into gold and silver.
Never was the truth of the French
phrase—which we translate, “it is only
the first step that costs”—more perfect
ly illustrated than by our paper money
system. The exigency that seemed to de
mand, in the first stage of the progress
of our Government, the use of money
other than gold and silver, affects us to
day, and will continue to affect us
through many days to come. The pa
per money of that day was the forbidden
fruit. Its fatal taHte has affected the
whole commercial system of the United
States. Ido not propose to enter into
an elaborate statement of my views of
the state of the country and of the finan
cial system best adapted to it, for I make
no claim to the special ability and the
full information which one ought
to possess to enable him to lead
others over that Serbouian bog,
“where armies whole have sunk.”
But at this crisis—for it is a crisis—any
one who has had the advantage of ex
perience in public life, and who feels a
proper concern for the welfare of the
country, may well express his views.
I therefore wish to state the following
propositions before I close this paper:
YVhile it would bo unjust and oppres
sive to require those who have con
tracted obligations wlhch it was under
stood might bo discharged in paper cur
rency to pay specie, yit the policy and
the duty of the Government require a
direct, even if- it be a gradual return to
the use of money equal in value to gold
and silver. Either the precious
metals, or paper readily convertible
into specie, ought to be restored
to use by the authority of the
Government at as early a day as the
actual state of the country will permit.
In the cotton growing States, it seems
to me, that we may demand the cur
rency that we want. Here our command
of the situation is supreme. The
strength of the South is still immeasur
able. Her locks have been shorn, but
she is not blind, and tie fetters are fall
ing from her free limbs.
She will soon fulfill the splendid pro
phetic picture of Milton, applied to
England, and turn her unsealed eyes to
the sun, which sheds his splendors upon
her fair fields to warm and nourish
them. Let her be true to herself, and
give her support to principles which will
conduct her to real prosperity and
happiness. Her safety is still "to he
found iu keeping close to the rock of the
Constitution. Henry W. Hilliard.
FROM ATLANTA.
The Agricultural Congress.
Atlanta, Ga., May 13. —The National
Agricultural Congress met to-day. About
one hundred delegates are present. A
number from the Northwest are ex
pected to-night. Mayor Spencer and
General Colquitt welcomed the Congress
aud Secretary Green responded.
Secretary Green recommends, in his
report, the reorganization of the Con
gress, and measures making the local
orgnizatiou tributary,
Vice-President Lawton, of South Caro
lina, in a paper on transportation, char
acterized the report of the United
States Senate Committee on Trans
portation inaccurate, vague and abor
tive, and urges a memorial to Congress
, for the survey of three narrow gauge
direct routes to Port Royal, Norfolk and
New York, from Council Bluffs, Mis
souri river and lowa direct,
I Tho Trade Convention meets to-mor
! row.
Wife Murder.
| A man named Brinkley, at Newnan,
: Ga., fatally stabbed his wife to-day.
i Brinkley is in jail. Four children, one
! six months old, are left motherless.
| Georgians Goino West. —Yesterday
morning there Arrived, per the St. Louis
and southeastern Railroad, a large party
of influential business men and promi
nent citizens of Rome, Ga., who are on
their way to Texas, seeking new homes
and opportunity for the investment of
their ImgS capital in some enterprise
which premises to be remunerative.
The party «as met at Belleville by J. W.
, Mass, gemral ticket agent of the St.
Louis and Southeastern Railroad, and
P. H. Cronn, his efficient assistant, who,
upon arriving at East St. Louis, trans
ferred the -visitors across the river in one
of the transfer busses, and safely landed
them at the Southern, where the party
now is stopiing. They propose remain
ing in the city until Sunday evening,
when they will take the Missouri, Kan
sas and Tex# Railroad for Dallas, where
most of thmi will locate. Among the
excursionist* are W. R. McEntire, A. E.
Ross, L. P. McCord, J. L. Johnson, W.
A. Branson.of Rome. Ga.; Dr. C. H.
Williams, Jifison E. Price, F. L. Brown
and Green Cunningham, of Cave Spring,
j Ga.; Major 4. Buen and J. L. Everett,
I of Cedar Torn, Ga.; S. A. Cunningham,
A. Griersonand Col. D. S. Printup, of
Shelbyville, Ttun.
Several o' the party propose to go
no further \lest, and will take up their
permanent residence in this city. Among
the latter rte Dr. C. H. Williams ami
Judson B. Ifiee. — St. Louis Times.
Memphis, May 13. —The levee at Ap
puson’s pliCtation, opposite Friar’s
Point, brok*. The water in Friar’s
Point is thr4 feet deep.
GEORGIA RAILROAD STOCKHOLD
ERS’ CONVENTION.
The Convention assembled at Masonic
Hall yesterday, and was called to order
by President jno. P. King at 12:30, p.
m. By request, tho stockholders re
ported themselves to the Secretary iu
alphabetical order. Those personally
present not constituting a quorum, the
President appointed the following Com
mittee on Proxies: Messrs. D. E. But
ler, M. P. Stovall and R. L. Moss. Col.
Butler asked leave to retire to make up
their report. They were directed to pre
sent the same at 3:30, p. m. Air.
Davies moved to adjourn to the hour
last mentioned. Mr. W. W. Clark hoped
the reports would be read first. Mr.
Cohen said Air. Clark’s object was to
put the reports before the stockholders
that they might have time properly to
consider them. Air. Davies withdrew
Iris motion, and the reports were read
by Mr. Davies.
President’s Report,
The President’s report, owing to the
indisposition of that official, is a very
short document. He complains of the
feeling which exists against railways,
and asserts that all creeds, classes aud
professions seem combined against these
corporations. Every one wishes new
lines, yet the highest officials and hum
blest artisans combine against those
already in existence, aud it is boldly
that railways have no rights
which the public is bound to respect.
Asa consequence, not a single road in
the South, and but few in the West, me
paying regular dividends, and the com
panies are rapidly running into bank
ruptcy and the hands of receivers.
During the past year the expenses in
some departments of the road have been
heavy and an effort made to reduce
them, but generally with unsatisfactory
results. The great difficulty of fiuding
men worthy of trust in confidential posf
tious has been one of the troubles at
tending railway management. Perfidy
and peculation are the order of the day,
aud all moral responsibility, all power
to resist temptation, seems to be ban
ished from the land. Though the losses
of the road have been heavy, and the
value of assets fluctuating, the stock of
the company is still whole, with a hand
some surplus. Among the investments
winch have improved in value is the
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
stock, which is worth double the value
placed upon it in tho balance sheet.
The report concludes as follows:
“As the President informed the Board
in October last that bodily affliction dis
qualified him from duty, the Board ap
pointed Mr. James W. Davies, Presi
dent pro tan., to perform the executive
duties. So far as known to the Board,
Mr. Davies has been vigilant and atten
tive to the duty assigned him, and given
entire satisfaction to tho patrons of the
road. The President has long since,
and on various occasion notified the
stockholders of a wish to bo relieved
from the position in which the confi
dence of the stockholders has so long
continued him. To select a successor
now becomes a necessity, and it is hoped
the stockholders may he able to harmon
ize and make a judicious choice.”
General Superintendent’s Report.
Col. E. W. Cole, General Superinten
dent, reports that the gross earnings of
tho company during the past year have
been $1,571,785. The expenses have
been $1,045,266, leaving as net earnings
$526,579. The gross earning are $51,-
671 less than they were during the pro
ceeding year, and the net earnings have
increased $36,382. This makes a very
gratifying showing, when the epidemics
of last Summer and the panic of the
Autumn are remembered. While a large
number of railroads, influenced by these
causes, were unable to meet their obli
gations, and others were compelled to
resort to mortifying and damaging de
lays, the Georgia Railroad met promptly
all its liabilities and paid its usual divi
dends. The Air Line Railroad was
opened last October, and has consider
ably affected} the Georgia Road by com
peting for the through travel between
the South and East. Tho benefits to be
derived from the Port Royal connection
will depend mainly upon the establish
ment of steamship communication with
Eastern cities and European ports. As
yet but little has been done in that di
rection, but, for good reason, it is be
lieved that some plan will yet be devised
for ocean transportation, in connection
with that road, which will greatly in
crease the Western freight and passen
ger business of the company. Tho view
is also expressed that Port Roynl may be
made a large coaling station for Euro
pean steamers. From the statements
published it is seen that there was a
large increase in every department of
the service for the first six months of
the year, and that tho falling off
in receipts commenced about the
first of October, with the beginning,
of the panio, The shipments show a
small quantity of fertilizers used this
year in comparison with last season,
which argues a decline in the production
of cotton and a diminishnjent of the
business of the company to some ex
tent. An average Summer business in
freights from the West is anticipated.
Forty miles of new iron for the main
line and eight for the new branches is
needed, and will be furnished as rapidly
as the financial interests of the company
will permit. Quito a number of tanks,
turn tables, etc., have been built at va
rious points along the road during tho
year. Since the last report five new en
gines, costing $69,591, have been pur
chased, aud lour old ones condemned
leaving at present fifty-two locomotives
of all classes, forty-nine of which aro in
active service. During the year eighty
seven new cars have been added to the
rolling Stock of the company, but the
number is often inadequate to perform
the service required.. The receipts of
the Maoon and Augusta Railroad have
been $121,374, and the expenses SIOO,-
405,. leaving a net profit of $20,968.
Thirty thousand cross ties and ono and
one-half miles of new iron are required
to place this load in good condition.
In closing his report Colonel Cole
says: “J commend to your kind consider
ation all tho officers, agents and em
ployees, for their prompt and faithful
discharge of duty. To them the com*
pany is mostly indebted for siiopess and
prosperity in the management of the
road, and wliefe all have done so well it
is difficult to individualize.
“But the industrious and intelligent
attention to the business and interest of
your road by S. K. Johnson, Superin
tendent; Carlton Hillyer, Auditor, and
W. T. Richards, Collecting Agent, de
serves our special notice.”
Railw’ay Statistics.
Os the receipts of the company, $1 -
239,330 came from freight, $307,047 from
passengers, and §23,401 from postal ser
vice. The Macon and Augusta Road
earned $78,410 from freight, $39,013
from passengers, and $3,950 from postal
service. The largest business done by
the Georgia Railroad was in December,
when the freight amounted to $107,577,
and the passengers t 0527,158; the small
est in June, when the freight amounted
to $48,022, and the passengers t 0521,408.
The numbor of bags of cotton hauled
during the year was 273,293; previous
year, 294,300; bushels of grain, 1,107,-
382; previous year, 1,897,040; barrels
flour, 123,209; previous year, 90,181.
The shipments of guanofor theyeurend
iug April Ist, 1874, amount to 39,171,240
pounds.
Mr. Clarke read the following resolu
tion, which has been adopted by the
Directors, and which he considered
practioally a part of the President’s re
port :
Resolved, That the Directors dissent
from so much of the report of the Presi
dent as presents the necessity for his re
tirement from the Presidency. We feel
sure that a longer period of his valuable
services, with suitable assistants, is ne
cessary to the proper settlement of
many grave questions involving the in
terests of the company. With this quali
fication we adopt the report of the
President.
On motion of Mr. Davies, the Conve
ntion adjourned until 3:30, p, m.‘
Afternoon Session.
The Convention met pursuant to ad
journment., President King in the Chair.
Col. Butler, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Proxies, reported 21,825 shares
represented in person and by proxy.
On motion, the Convention went into
an election for President and Board of
Directors Messrs. Butler, Jackson,
Stovall and Moss, committee.
The committee retired to canvass the
ballots.
Mr. Clarke offered a resolution creat
ing .the office of Vice-President, and
making it the dnty of the President and
Board of Directors to fill said office from
their own body or otherwise whenever
they become satisfied that a necessity
exists for such office.
To show that it was competent for the
Convention to take the step contemplat
ed by the resolution, Air. C. read the
sixteenth section of the company’s char
ter, which provides that it shall always
be in the power of the stockholders to
select President, Secretary, and all
other officers required.
President King said there were
very few railroad companies in the
United States of the magnitude of
the Georgia which are without a Vice-
President. It was believed that such an
officer was needed, aud that the creation
of the office needuot necessarily increase
the expenditures of the corporation, Iu
great many roads in this country the
A ice-President was the working man.
He thought the Georgia Railroad auit
Banking Company should have a Vice-
President, aud tiie Board of Directors
should be given full authority to select
one. He thought the resolution pre
sented by Mr. Clarke a good one.
On motion of Air. John Davison, the
resolution was unanimously adopted.
Col. Cole explained the delay in dis
tributing the printed reports of tho Di
rectors and Superintendent—an acci
dental transposition of a few paragraphs
had necessitated the printing of anoilier
edition of the pamphlet.
Air. Cohen suggestively stated that at
the last annual meeting of the Central
Railroad Stockholders’ Convention the
reports were ordered to bo printed a fort
night before the day fixed for the as
sembling of the Convention, thus en
abling the stockholders to become ac
quaint'd with the condition of the r.oatl.
Mr. Clarke, of Oglethorpe, thought the
idea was a good one and would like to
see it adopted by this Convention.
President King thought the more use
ful, sensible, and practical course would
be to use tho reports in manuscript be
fore the Convention, then publish them
and the proceedings in one pamphlet,
aud mail to stockholders. The stock
holders would then have before them all
matters of interest touching tho road for
any given year.
Mr. Mullarky thought it wise and in
good time to require the reports of of
ficers printed and distributed at least
two weeks before the meeting of the
Convention. He subsequently embodied
his views in a resolution, which provok
ed considerable discussion, participated
in by Messrs. Mullarky, Alattox, Clarke,
of Covington, and others.
Air. Aloss moved to amend the resolu
tion so as to provide for the publication
of the reports at least five days before
the annual meeting—the pamphlets to be
furnished to stockholders on applica
tion. The amendment was accepted,
and the resolution as amended adopted.
Col. Butler, Chairman of the Commit
tee on Election, reported the result of
the balloting as follows ; Whole num
ber of votes cast, 19,742 ; necessary to
a choice, 9,872.
President—Jno. P. King, 17.274.
E. E. Jones, 19,742; James Hamilton,
19,742; Antoine Poullain, 19,065; At. P.
Stovall, 19,742 ; Jus. W. Davies, 19 542;
D. E. Butler, 19,742; L. Al. Hill, 19,742;
W. M. Reese, 19,680 ; Thos. ,T. Burney,
19,742; George Hillyer, 18,084 ; Josiali
Sibley, 19,654 ; John Davison, 19,689 ;
Stevens Thomas, 19,742; G. T. Jackson,
19,742; W. W. Clark, 18,873 ; Ckus. H.
Phinizy, 19,740.
On motion of Air. Moss, it was re
solved that no Director of the Georgia
Railroad shall be employed as an attor
ney.
Mr. King saiil he would bo something
less or more than man did he not feel
most deeply the obligations thrown upon
him by the action of tho Convention, [ u
the face of a resolution ho had made
aud wish ho lmd to retire
from the Presidency of the i„o,,i ( ] u .
stockholders had again and again roitn
posed the duties from which ho desired
to bo released. He hud advised the
stockholders to elect, a successor to him
self, believing that their interests would
be thereby promoted. While not regard
ing himself as possessed of special fit
ness for the office of President of the
road, he would do all in his power to
protect and advance its interests.
At the conclusion of the President’s
remarks. Air. James moved that the
Convention adjourn until 9, a. m., to
morrow.
Col. Butler moved, as an amendment,
that the Convention adjourn nine die.
Air. James accepted the amendment,
and the amended motion was adopted.
HILL AND STEPHENS.
What a Carolinian Thinks of tho Con
troversy.
Barnwell, 8. C., Alay oth, 1874.
To the Editors of the Chronicle and
Sentinel :
I have read with much pain the un
fortunate, and, as I view it, ill timed
controversy now going on between
those two able sons of Georgia—Alessrs.
Stephens and Hill. It is very plain they
will never agree about the factp of the
case ; and as tho conclusions must flow
from the facts, the friends of each gen
tleman will differ as to the conclusions
as widely as they now differ about the
facts themselves. And the arbitrament
of the public to whom this question has
been referred will inevitably be what it
is, that these two able men might have
been much better employed than in try
ing to tear down the well earned repu
tions of each other. They are both un
questionably good and true men. They
differ upon certain points of history, the
ultimate settlement of which either way
(if such a thing be possible, and I never
yet saw a disputed point of history
definitely settled), will result iu no pos
sible good to the country. The South
needs the combined efforts of all her
men to raise her up from her present
distressing attitude. Harmony should
be the watch word of the hour, the day
and all the years to come, with men oi
the same household ; and if they cannot
harmonize their personal differences, or
at least keep them out of tho public
arena, then let the public harmonize by
excluding them both from public con
sideration until they can come before it
in a garh calculated to advance the pub
lic welfare.
It may appear impertinent for a
South Carolinian thus to speak about
a Georgia quarrel ; but you must re
member wo have a common interest.
We both embarked upon that sea of
trouble together, the result of which
voyage being much suffering to Georgia,
and more suffering and longer to South
Carolina- thus your people were our
people. Now, I say, let your people be
our people, and our cause your cause
until the sun of deliverance which lias
dawned upon you may shine alike upon
us, and by the united efforts of us all
we may reward all our common public
servants with favors aud benefits, and
our country with the services of such
men as these. Then may we rejoice in
the principles which make ns free, and
continue to live iu “the land we love.”
Peace.
FROM ARKANSAS.
More Fighting In the Streets.
Little Rocjc, May 13.— The opposing
parties had a sharp skirmish yesterday,
with varied results, when the Federuls
interfered and the mobs returned to
their quarters. The Baxtoritos lost a
horse, and a man was slightly wounded.
It is reported that the Brook.sites had
eight killed and wounded.
Soon as the skirmish on the outskirts
yesterday was known in the city, Col.
.Rose gave orders to have it stopped,
One company formed behind the barri
cade, facing Baxter’s line with loaded
guns and got ready to prevent their ad
vance. Another company, under com
mnnd of Lieut. Noble, marching toward
the battle field, halted half way, and the
officer went ahead. Brooks’ men were
behind the rifle pits oil the side of the
hill which were thrown up when Mark
ham street was being graded. The firing
had been quite brisk on both sides.
Baxter’s forces had been driven over op
posite the hill, between two of the Cairo
and Fulton Railroad buildings. The
forces were about three hundred yards
apart. Col. Rose was soon seen riding
towards Baxter’s lines, which had then
moved back towards the city, bieut.
Morrison and Colonel Rose both gal
loped to different points to st>p the
firing. Their efforts were ineffectual,
however, and the firing now
sharper and near towards the c'W Now
the regulars marched between, hut soon
came back to their original .position.
The firing between the picket' was not
intermittent. Baxter sent out infantry
to support White. When sJtne blocks
from the State House and passing it
they fired at advanced Brooks’ pickets.
His company, one block M m the State
House, fired a volley b*«k, and the
Brookites retreated in order. Sev
eral were seen to fall. The Brooks’
forces were under immediate command
of Col. Brizzolari. Towards evening
King White’s command moved back to
wards the end of to*n. The fighting
during the afternoon occurred in the
early settled part of the city. Women
and children were scared badlv. Lieu
tenant Morrison, of the regulars, was
NUMBER 20.
shot at throe times by one man, a Bnx
terite. Morrison was on horseback at
the time and endeavoring to prevent
bloodshed. He drew his pistol to re
turn the tire, but it snapped.
There is a quorum in both Houses.
The Legislature is now in session.
There are fourteen members in the Senate
and forty-five in the House. Both
branches are proceeding with business.
LET US ALL BE UNHAPPY ON SUN
DAY.
•We zealots, made up of stiff clay,
iho soar-looking children of sorrow,
while not over joliv to-day,
ltesolve to be wretched to-morrow.
We can’t for a certainty toll
What mirth may molest us on Monday :
But. at least, to begin the week well, *
Let us all bo unhappy ou Sunday.
That day. the calm season of rest.
Shall come to us freezing and frigid *
A gloom all our thoughts > ball invest ; .
i 1 nt< Ca,vm ' v °uld call over-rigid.
With sermons from morning (ill night,
\\ o 11 strivo to bo decent and dreary ;
lo preachers a praise and delight,
W ho never think tiiat sermons can weary.
All tradesmen cry up their own wares ;
In tins tlioy agreo well together ;
the mason by stone and lime swears ;
the tanner is always for leather •
The smith still for iron would go ;
I ho schoolmaster stands up for teaching ;
And theparson would have you to know
Ihore s nothing on earth like his preaching.
The face of kind Nature is fair ;
But our system obscuros its etfulgonoo :
How sweet is a breath of fresh air V *
But our rules don’t allow tho indulgence,
i hose gardens, their walks and green bowers,
Might be free to tho poor mail for one day ;
But no, tho glad plants and gay flowers
Musu t bloom or Bmeliswoetly on Sunday,
What though a good precept wo strain
Ti 1 hateful and hurtful wo malto it !
What though, in thus pulling the rein,
Wo may draw it so tight as to break it!
Abroad we forbid folks to roam,
Po- fear they get social or frisky ;
But of oourse they can sit still at homo,
And got dismally drunk upon whisky.
Thou, though wo can’t certainly toll
llow mirth may molest us on Monday,
At least, to begin tho week well.
Lot us all bo unhappy on Sunday,
WHISPERING WIND.
BY MAYDEW.
What beautiful tale aro you telling so low,
Whispering wind ?
Os blossoming meadows and waters’ still flow,
Whispering wind f
Aro you tolling us softly from whence you havo
oomo,
‘Noaill bright, sunny skios, whore the ante
lopes roam,
And in freedom (lie soft-eyed gazellos havo
their homo,
Whispering wind ?
Aro vou*telling of climes wlioro (ho mocking
bird sing—
Wlioro the notes of tho dovo (ondor momorics
bring.
And tho roses forever proclaim it is Spring,
Whispering wind ?
Arc you praising a maiden So wondrously fair
That the Himsliine seems prisoned and bound
in her hair,
Whispering wind ?
Whoso lips with tho crimson of ccval tint vies,
And the blush on her cheok seems caught
from the skies,
While the dusk of the, twilight glows deoil in
her eyes,
Whispering wind ?
Aro 'von humming llio song you havo loarnod
by the Bea,
When the waves wore all laughing in freliosomo
glee.
And in breaking, proclaimed : “Wo aro froo 1
wo aro free !’!
Whispering wind ?
Or ou_.. voll ] am ] H whore Winter roigns
king,
And no Hong of tho blue-bird brings tidings of
Spring,
Whispering wind ?
Do you come from tho mountains, whoso
forehead of snow
Ilolleot with now boauties tho sunset's rich
glow,
Where the ice novor molts, nos tho Spring
waters flow,
Whispering wind '<
Ah, no! not of this aro you tolling ; your tone
Lacks tho glorious, soul-stirring ring, which
alone
Comes from Winter’s eternal, magnificent
home,
Whispering wind !
Your voice lias a swoetnoss so tondor and low
That you sootlio all my anguish and still all my
woe,
Whisrering wind ;
And I’m fain to believe that you boar on your
breast
The spirits of loved Olios who dwoll with the
blest,
Who have come with their presence to lull mo
to rest,
Whispering wind !
For though I perceive not tlioir forms in tho
air.
So shadowy and dim, yot I fool they aro there—
That tlioir fingers are straying over forohead
and hair.
Whispering wind !
That they linger around mo forovor and aye,
in life's troubled scenes auil when joy flutters
high,
Whispering wind !
Then welcome—thrice welcome, thou sweet,
balmy breeze !
Chant low through tho cedars and sigh through
die trees,
And bring to mo ever such visions as these,
Whispering wind !
And I'll fancy that tlum art a mossongor given
To bear to my heart tiie peace-blessing of
Heaven,
Whisporing wind !
THE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION.
The Strawberry Festival—A CJraud
Display.
The strawberry festival given by tho
Ladies’ Memorial Association at tbeCity
Hall, lust evening, was a grand success.
The festival was opened at 0 o’clock,
and before ß the court yard, in front of tho
Hall, and the lower floor of tho Hull itself
were literally packed with people,a largo
proportion of whom were ladies. Tho
Park and Hall were, brilliantly illumina
ted iind presented a gay and attractive
appearance. The tables—nine in num
ber—wero placed in the central hall, and
in the Superior Court room. They wero
loaded with delicacies and were under
charge of the following ladies :
First table—Mrs. Clark, Mrs. 8. 11.
Sibley, Mias Jane Musgrove, Miss
Georgia Estes, Mrs. N. K. Butler.
Second table—Miss Mosher, Miss Dart,
Mrs. E. T. Miller.
Third table—Mrs. J. J. Thomas, Mrs.
Brenner, Miss Meanot.
Fourth table—Mrs. Mooro, Miss J. S.
Clark. Miss Jennie Simmons.
Fifth table—Mrs. Quarles, Misses
Cranston, Miss S. Crane.
Sixth table—Mrs. Dortic, Mrs.
Dutcher, Mrs. M. P. Carroll, Miss Alico
'Petit.
Seventh table—Mrs. J. J. Cohen, Mrs.
G. A, Whitehead.
Eighth table- Mrs. A. G. Whitehead,
Mrs. J. B. McKinnie,
Ninth table—Mrs. Bridges, Miss Gar
vin, MrJ. Clemeuce, Miss Anderson.
At 8 o’clock the Fire Department and
a number of the volunteer soldiery of
the city, in uniform, reached the Park,
when an eloquent address, eulogistic of
tho Ladies’ Memorial Association anil
the Cause for which they were working,
was delivered by the gallant chieftain of
the Lost Cause, Gen. Wade Hampton,
why was introduced to the vast assem
blage by Judge Claiborne Snead.
After tho address tho balloting for
the memorial banner proceeded.—
The polls were under charge of
M.rs. F. J. Moses and Miss Grattou; L.T.
Biome and John M. Clark, Esqs., acting
as tellers. Tho majority of tho com
j panies did not contend actively for Hie
banner, and the only two really in the
field were Georgia Independent and
Richmond, No. 7. The friends of each
of these worked earnestly for their suc
cess, and the excitement ran high, par
ticularly towards the close. At t welve
o’clock the polls wero closed and the re
sult announced to be as follows :
Pioneer, No. 1 joi
Georgia 2,401
Mechanic 105
Washington, No. 1 143
Clinch, No. 2 189
Vigilant, No. 3 57
Gazelle, No. 4 241
Augusta, No. 5
Blennerhassett, No. 0 48
Richmond, No. 7 2,270
Citizen, No. 8 ’ 2
Total 5,791
Georgia was declared the winner of
the banner, having received the largest
number of votes. The banner was pre
sented to tho company on behalf of 1 lie
Memorial Association by Mr. Patrick
Walsh, and received by Walter H.
Levy, Esq.
It will be seen from the summing up of
the votes that the total amount realized
for the banner was $1,425 25.
Parties sending articles to the Asso
ciation, to be used during tho festival,
will please call at the City Hall for them
this morning at ten o’olock.
Louisiana Relief.
Boston, May 13.—The Louisiana re
lief fund has reached $44,500.