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WEDNESDAY .MAY :20, 1874.
MEETING OF THE COTTON EX
CHANGES.
The representatives of the various
Cotton Exchanges of the country will
meet in Convention in this city, on
Wednesday, June 10th. Each Exchange
is requested to send five delegates. The
merchants of this city will make ample
preparation for the reception and enter
tainment of the gentlemen in attendance
at the Convention. Our exchanges are
requested to publish this notice, in
order that there may be no misunder
standing as to the time of the meeting.
AMERICAN WINES.
The New York Herald learns that
many leading French vine growers pro
pose to introduce the American vines
into France—the French vines having
been destroyed by the ravages of what
is called the phyloxeros, and which it is
believed the American plants will es
cape. let the wine made from the
grapes which will grow upon these
vines will be imported into this coun
try, adulterated by unscrupulous whole
salers, and sold for ten times the price
of the American vintage. The experi
ments made in Missouri, in Ohio and in
California have shown that just as good
wine can be made in the West and on
the Pacific slope as that which comes
from the Champagne country and the
provinces of the Rhine; but the native
grape juice slowly forces its way into
use, while spurious imitations of Eu
ropean brands command fabulous
figures. American vineyards now fur
nish good port, sherry, claret and cham
pagne—pure liquors at low prices—yet
most people prefer bogus amontilado
and Tjondnn Dock and bastard Bor
deaux and Cliquot.
the colored trooph.
A few days since the memorial adopted
by a colored military convention of
Georgia was presented to Congress. It
recites, in substance, that although they
have formed military companies in ac
cordance with the laws of the State, and
the State has received from the United
States since the close of the war 1,180
breech-loading rifles, 870 muzzie-loading
rifles, 520 pistols, 500 cavalry sabres, 5
light 12-pound bronze guns, and 50 non
commissioned officers’ swords; all of
these arms, but 150 breech-loading rifles,
have been distributed to white compa
nies. The memorialists say that they
are alarmed ut this and other circum
stances, which convince them that the
Democratic rulers of Georgia intend, so
far as possible, to keep the colored peo
ple of the State in ignorance by neglect
ing to establish schools for their educa
tion, and prevent them from organizing
military companies, so that they will be
weak while cunningly devised plans are
matured to control absolutely their la
bor. Among other things of which they
complain is the organization of a secret
society of planters known as “ Patrons
of Husbandry,” which they fear intends
to control the labor on the plantations
of the members, to the injury of the
colored men. They therefore ask Con
gress to provide “ for organizing, arm
ing and disciplining the militia of Geor
gia, so that military compauies com
posed of friends of the Union may enjoy
the same privileges that its late oppo
nents enjoy,” and that in the organiza
tion and equipment of military cotnpa
nits no discrimination shall be made be
tween said companies on u»oount of
race, color, ui former condition of ser
vitude. Like most of the romances con
cocted by the white Radicals of Georgia
and their colored dupes, this memorial
will prove new to the paities most inter
ested—the citizens of Georgia. Its
statements of the purposes of the Demo
cratic party are silly fabrications which
will receive no attention from Congress.
The day has gone by when such a step
could have any influence upon the legis
lation of Congress or upon the people of
the North.
MAY 20, 1874,
CIItCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
The reaction in favor of the prompt
and severe punishment of criminals,
which has been caused in this State by
the Bullock policy of releasing culprits
and rewarding crime, is in danger per
haps of being pushed’a trifle farther
than the ends of justice require. On
last Friday a man narrowly escaped
hanging for a crime which he never com
mitted. Some mouths ago a young
boy clerking in a store near Leesburg
was awakened one night, called to the
door and murdered. Suspicion fell
upon a colored man named Henry Jack
son, and ho was arrested and brought to
trial. The evidence against him was
wholly circumstantial, but public opin*
ion was inflamed by the perpetration of
such a brutal and cowardly crime, and a
victim was demanded. The evidence
was found strong enough to warrant an
indictment, and when the trial came on
circumstances were linked into a chain
which neither the testimony of witness
es nor the ingenuity of counsel was
able to break. A verdict of guilty was
rendered and the execution of the ac
cused ordered to take place on Fri
day, the eighth instant. All the pre
parations for the hanging were made
and the doomed man resigned himself
to his unhappy fate. On Friday morn
ing, however, facts were developed which
rendered it almost certain that Johnson
was innocent. But the sheriff could not
postpone the execution except by order
of the Governor. The County Judge,
Ordinary, Sheriff and Clerk, as soon as
this information was received, telegraph
ed Governor Smith stating the facts,
and urging a respite. The telegram
reached At'anta at nine o'clock and was
delivered at the Capitol. But it happen
ed that Governor Smith was out of the
city, having gone to Marietta for the
purpose of riding over the proposed
route of anew railroad. If he had left
Marietta he could not be communicated
with until night, and by that time his
interposition would have availed noth
ing. The Secretary of the Executive
Department, Colonel P. W. Alexander,
telegraphed, however, at once to Ma
rietta, and fortunately the Governor was
still in town. He at once telegraphed a
respite to Atlanta, which was forward
ed to Leesburg. When the dispatch
reached the sheriff the prisoner was
making his last statement—professing
his willingness to die, but declaring that
he was wholly innocent of the murder
for which he had been condemned. —
Asa chain of suspicious circumstances
bad brought him to the gallows, so a
chain of fortunate circumstances rescued
his neck from the halter. We protest
that the portion of our criminal code
which allows capital punishment to be
inflicted under a conviction based upon
circumstantial evidence should be amen
ded. We are well aware what reply will
be made to this proposition: that in
some capital cases the only attainable
evidence is circumstantial and tc pre
vent its employment would be to ex
empt atrocious criminals from punish
ment. To this we answer with the old
maxim of the law, that it is better
a hundred guilty persons should escape
thau that the life of one innocent man
should be taken. Hail the discoveries
which were made in the Jackson case
been made twenty-four boursJater, had
Leesburg not been a telegraphic station,
had the Governor have left Marietta a
few minutes sooner than he intended
doing, an innocent man would have been
murdered by the law of circumstantial
evidence, and had his guiltlessness been
made to appear as plainly as the sun at
noon day reparation would have been
impossible. It does not follow that
one charged with murder should escape
soot-free unless the testimony against
him is of a positive character. By no
means. Let the law provide that in
•uch cases the punishment inflicted
shall be imprisonment for life. After
wards should it be discovered that a
mistake has been made it can be recti
fied, to some extent at least.
THE ARKANSAS TROUBLES.
The troubles in Arkansas will soon
cease. The President has recognized
Baxter as the legal Governor of that
State. He has issued his proclamation
commanding the dispersal of Brooks’
adherents. If they do not obey the
regulars will be brought into service
and they will soon put an end to hos
tilities. The solntion of the whole ques
tion has, for some time, rested with the
President. Now that he has acted the
squabble will cease and Baxter will per
form the duties of his office without let
or hindrance from the rival faction.
Petitioned by each of the contestants
and the Legislature of the State, the
President could not well refuse to inter
pose, and having recognized Baxtkb,
Brooks must retire from the field.
A QUID PRO QUO.
A Washington dispatch states that a
large number of Southern members
voted against the Centennial bill on the
ground that they could not see the pro
priety of having a grand peace conven
tion while some of their fellow-citizens
were disfranchised by harsh legislation.
This is right. Now is the time to drive
a bargain with our Republican friends.
No amnesty, no centennial. This will
bring them to terms and remove the
ban which still rests upon two or three
hundred of the old Southern leaders.
The senior Senator from Pennsylvania,
Mr. Simon Camebon, has already taken
the hint, and will, at an early day, call
up in the Senate for consideration two
bills previously passed by the House,
and one of them several times namely,
a bill favoring universal amnesty, and
another a bill repealing existing pro
visions of the law by which the names of
pensioners of the war of 1812 and the
Mexican war living within the former
Confederacy were stricken from the pen
sion rolls.
PATENT OUTSIDES.
It seems to ns that the Georgia Press
Association did a very foolish and un
just thing when it commenced a warfare
upon “patent outsides”—that is, upon
those weeklies which purchase the two
outside pages of their issue from North
ern or Western publishing companies.
We can see nothing wrong nor disreput
able in the business that it should be so
violently censured and condemned. If by
the purchase of a patent outside the
Warrenton Clipper is enabled to give its
subscribers a better paper at less ex
pense than it could otherwise issue why
should the other papers of the State
object ? Why should they attempt to
control the business affairs of Major
McGregor or of any other newspaper
proprietor? We hope that the Press
Convention, if it does nothing else, will
rescind its action upon this subject
when it meets in Macon next Tuesday.
MACKEY’S SENIENCE.
A day or two ago wo gave an account
of the conviction of H. A. Smith, County
Treasurer of Fairfield, for embezzle
ment of the public funds, and of the
edifying lecture delivered from the
Bench by Judge T. J. Mackey while he
passed sentence upon the criminal. It
was obvious to those who read the re
marks of this pure and just Judge that
in addressing Smith he was really speak
ing to the State government of South
Carolinn ; that he was striking at the
Governor over the shoulders of the
Couuty Treasurer, and denouncing that
corruption, that leniency to crime and
criminals So revolting to his virtuous
soul. A few days afterwards Governor
Moses seemed to convict himself of all
the charges made against.him by com
muting Smith’s sentence. Indignation
was freely expressed at an act which not
only outraged justice and public opinion,
but which also seemed to be done in the
very teeth of an earnest protest from the
Bench. But now comes Moses and pub
lishes a letter written him by the im
maculate Mackey the day after the trial,
and recommending that the term of im
prisonment imposed upon the culprit be
reduced one-half. Under the new
regime the South Carolina politicians
are as slippery as eels, and it requires a
firm grip to hold one of them for more
than a second.
GRAIN SHIPMENTS.
We have heard a great deal of the de
pendence of the South upon the West,
since the war, and of the glorious “hog
and hominy” times prior to the late un
pleasantness; but, as is not uufrequently
the ease, we give our ancestors credit
for more wisdom than they deserve. It
has been the custom to declare that our
fathers did not depend txcl naively upon
cotton and keep their smoke houses in
Illinois and their corn cribs in Ken
tucky, but tlie figures published by the
officers of the Georgia Railroad show
that Western grain was imported long
beforo the surrender of Lee and the
emancipation of the negroes. In their
last report a statement is given of the
grain and flour transported by the Geor
gia Railroad from 1846 to 1874—a period
of nearly thirty years. Iu 1867 the
road only brought 265,241 bushels
of grain, while as far back as iu
1848 it brought 278,651. Last ye .r we
received 1,107,382, while iu 1856 the
receipts were 1,172,331. So it will be
seen that the way to the West was
known long before the days of free labor
aud reconstruction. It speaks well,
however, for Middle Georgia that the
receipts of graiu by this road have di
minished 800,000 bushels from the
figures of last year.
NORWOOD ON CIVIL RIGHTS.
The speech of the present session of
! Congress seems to be Senator Nor
wood’s effort in opposition to the ini
quity known as the Civil Rights Bill.
Mr. Norwood has been so quiet since
the session commenced, though always
attending faithfully to his duties and
working iudustriously for his State, that
the speech has proven a great surprise,
and astonishment has added to the
effect of the sensation which the address
produced. It has received the high
est encomiums of the leading Democrat
ic journals of the country, and favorable
comments from those opposed to the
Senator’s politics. Its delivery occupied
two days, and its great length prevents
its publication in the columns of a daily
paper, but it will be found well worthy
of perusal. The Richmond Enquirer
says of it:
It is one of the finest and fittest polit
ical productions of the times. And if
Northern Republicans who favor the
Civil Rights Bill from a false sentiment
of humanity, would read it and reflect
upon it, they could not fail to be per
suaded that they are nnjnst to them
selves, unjust to the colored race, and
untrue to the ordinance of Deity by
which the white man and the black man
are contradistinguished and divided.
Mr. Norwood attacks the Civil Rights
Bill with a candor and boldness irresis
tibly attractive; and he lays bare its
enormities with a hand so masterly that
the most earnest and ingenious of its
advocates in Congress must have ex
perienced au inward recoiling of their
own arguments and efforts to commend
:it to the country. In humor, in satire,
; m apt illustration, and intrne eloquence
and crashing logic, this speech has been
I seldom surpassed, even in the best days
j of the best men of the Senate before the
war or since. The country knows little of
this Georgia Senator, who has but re
cently entered public life; but he must
soon' be known, and known well,
I throughout the Union, if the time has
1 not passed for splendid abilities, educa
tion, patriotism and fearless indepen
denae to make men distinguished.
The Macon Star says of it :
In satire it is equal toDEfN Swift. In
, learning it is almost up to the standard
;of the first scholars of the land. In
j pure classic diction it comes up to the
Spectator papers. * * * * All the
ear marks of the article show its genu
ineness, and establish at once the repn
, t ition of Mr. Norwood as a scholar and
a master of rhetoric and a thorough stu
dent of human nature. There has been
nothing to aompare with it since the war
from the mouth or pen of any Southern
statesman. Norwood has waited long
: to make a shewing, but he has at last
covered himself with glory. In point of
wit he excells Proctor Knott. In logic
he equals Mr. Beck, and in learning he
falls little short of Charles Sumner.
THE SIXTH DISTRICT.
The Milledgeville Union and lie
coYder has a strong editorial endorse
ment of Hon. C. A. Nutting as a candi
date for Congress from the Sixth Dis
trict. It thinks that he is the proper
man for the position and that there is
great need in Congress of the services
of men of sound practical business
talent. He is also entitled to reward
for saving the credit of the State and
defeating the schemes of the bond ring
by the famous financial measure known
as the Ncttisg bill. Our Milledgeville
cotemporary urges Mr. XuTTiNG’sfriends
to commence work at once and not de
lay action, as they did two years ago.
THE RAILROADS VS. THE STATE.
The Herald says that last Winter the
Wisconsin Legislature passed an act
known as the Potteb bill, limiting the
rates and charges of the railroad corpo
rations in that State. The act was very
obnoxious to the railway corporations,
and the Chicago and Northwestern Rail
road undertook the work of resisting its
execution. The principal ground of re
sistance is based upon the allegation
that if the law is obeyed the business
of the roads will become unprofitable.
Consequently we see the remarkable
spectacle of the railroads boldly defying
the laws of a State and ignoring the
proclamation of the Governor, charged
with the execution of the law. Asa
matter of course, the next step will be
to test the validity of the act in tlie
Courts ; but instead of waiting to make
their arguments before the only tribunal
which can legally determine the question
the roads are seeking to forestall the
decision by exerting an influence upon
public opinion. To this end the “opin
ions” of two eminent lawyers—Benja
min R. Curtis, of Massachusetts, and
William M. Evabts, have been ob
tained, both of these legists upholding
the rights of tlie roads to set aside the
law.
COTTON FACTORIES.
The advantages possessed by the
Southern cities for the manufacture of
cotton are so manifest that Northern
men are compelled to admit them, and
are making considerable investments in
onr section. Senator Sprague, of Rhode
Island, recently one of the largest and
most successful manufacturers in Ameri
ca, delivered a speech in Charleston, a
few years ago, in the coarse of which he
said :
I claim that the South, with its
abundance of raw material, and with its
erenial climate, can produce fiuer yarns
than any other country now engaged in
manufacturing ; and to prevent the sup
ply from ever exceeding the demand, so
as to reduce the price below the present
gold standard, I advise all cotton plan
ters to employ their surplus money in
the manufacture of yarns for the India
market.
In the speech from which this extract
is taken Mr. Sprague pronounced the
cotton factory at Augusta, Georgia, the
finest in America. The Hon. Amos
Lawrence, of Boston, another wealthy
manufacturer, writing upon this same
general subject, uses the following lan
guage :
That the South will become a seat of
various manufactures nobody can doubt,,
It seems to be for-ned by nature for
that, not lf“3S than for agriculture. They
have all the requisites in the greatest
abundance. Your profits can be more
profitably employed in manufacturing
than in any other way. The more you
can use your capital in employing the
labor of your State iu manufacturing its
profits, the more independent you will
be, and the more wealthy your people
will become.
A VICTIM TO "FINANCE.
The first victim to tho financial pro
blem is a Congressman, a Republican
representative from New York—Hon.
David B. Hellish. The present was his
first session, he was anew member, and
he grappled tho currency conundrum as
soon as he arrived in Washington. He
studied the question from many points of
view. Ho analyzed and pondered all
the different bills introduced. He lis
tened to tho speeches delivered in the
House and attempted to follow the ar
guments of the speakers. Still not
satisfied, the unfortunate man waded
through the Senate debates upon the
same subject, and was held spell-bound
while Morton thundered for currency
aud Scnunz pleaded for hard pan. At
last ho exclaimed Eureka, and declared
that he had mastered the mystery. He
presented a finance bill of his own to
the House on the sth instant. The
next day he advertised the mea
sure in the Washington Chronicle,
together with the publisher’s receipt for
the cost of its publication—sl7s—a
poem by Emerson aud quotations from
various poets. The next day he was
pronounced insanse aud was placed in
custody. And now no one knows what
to do with his bill or the finances. He
was the only Congressman who under
stood anything about them, and he ad
dled his brains in acquiring the knowl
edge. Like the horse which succeeded
in living upou one straw a day but died
the day afterwards, Mr. Hellish only
got the key of the enigma to lose it
again. We don’t know what will be
come of Congress and the currency now
that Hellish has gone to the Asylum.
The leaders are not green enough to
lose their sense in solving the riddle
and the rank and file have no sense to
lose, strive they never so hard.
THE MAN ON HORSEBACK.
We call tlie attention of our readers to
an article headed “The Political Out
look,” which we publish in another
column this morning. It is in the shape
of a Washinston letter to the Courier-
Journal, and is from the pen of Mr.
Henry Watterson. The views advanced
are by no means new, but they revive
old opinions upon the same subject in
rather a startling manner. Mr. Watter
son is a lively and ingenious writer, and
where imagination will supply facts lie
is never at a loss for material. Asa con
sequence his utterances generally are not
as much to be depended upon as the words
of Peter or Pail. But his opinions con
cerning the designs of General Grant
uro founded upon facts of which the
whole country is cognizant. There was
a time when many persons, especially in
the South, considered the President
a man of the most limited in
tellectual capacity. This opinion is
now held but by few. While he
cannot make a speech nor write a
letter, while he is ignorant of many
things which one in his position should
know, and while he is, in no sense of
the word, a great party leader or states
man, he is by no means a fool. He
seems to be a man of strong opinions
and decided convictions, cautious and
careful in acts and words, resolute and
of remarkable tenacity of purpose. If
history is studied it will be found that
successful usurpers, from the time of
Henry IV., of England, down to the days
of Oliver Cromwell, William 111. and
Louis Napoleon, have usually been men
of the same type. Every five hundred
years, perhaps, there flashes across the
world some wonderful genius like
C-ksar or the first Bonaparte —the great
est soldier of the age, a forcible writer
and eloquent speaker, a wise law giver
and sagacious statesman—bat usually
the overturners of governments and
founders of dynasties are the silent, pru
dent and determined men, who live and
die unnoticed and unknown in times of
peace, but who are thrown upon the
surface by the troubles of war and revo
lution and take the reins from the
hands of the speakers and writers. Mr.
Watterson believes that the President
is playing a deep game for a third term,
and should he succeed in this will ma
ture at leisure the coup d'etat which is
to destroy even the form of self-govern
ment. He is now striving to place upon
the shelf those leadeis of the Republi
can party whom he might find formid
able opponents in the nominating con
vention of 1876. Death has removed
Mr. Sumner, who, however, was too
honest to be popular; Wilson is totter
ing upon the verge of the grave; Col
fax is covered with the infamy of the
Credit Mobilier; Horton, the most for
midable of his competitors, staked his |
all upon inflation and, by the skillful
manceuvering of the Executive, has lost.
Washburne and Blaine alone remain,
and he has two years in which to com
pass their destruction. In the mean
time he has constituted himself the
guardian of New England’s pocket and
at the same time coquets with such
Southern Democrats as show themselves
willing to receive or permit his advan
ces. The people take all these warnings
and prophecies of impending usurpation
very quietly and pay but little attention
to the apparition of the “man on horse
back,” which the press so often parades
before them. This indifference may
be a good sign, as meaning that
the idea of one-man power in America
is too absurd to be seriously considered;
or it may be a bad sign, in this that
continued misgovernment and corrup
tion, accompanied by many successful
attacks upon the Constitution and en
croachments upon the right of local
self-government,have produced an apathy
which is preparing the way for Cassab
and imperialism.
SENATOR SCHURZ ON THE SITUA
TION.
The Missouri Senator has announced
that he will be a candidate for re-elec
tion, and, failing, will resume his old
position in the editorial room of the
Wcßtliche Post —a leading German daily
of St. Louis. He will run an anti-GRANT
schedule and seems sanguine of success.
He wishes to be understood as commit
ted to the cause of the people against
rings, against oligarchies, against mo
nopolies and in favor of honest govern
ment, purity of elections and the re
sponsibility of the governing to the
governed. He has taken his stand on
this platform for better or for worse, in
success or in defeat, and for all time to
come. And he asks to be judged accord
ing to the strennousness of his efforts
and the merit of his services. He thinks
that our Government has lost its charac
ter of responsibility to the governed
and popular sovereignty has been al
most entirely displaced. A coalition
has been effected between the money
power and the military power, which is
subverting the rights and material in
terests of the people. The question
now was not merely, Shall we re
sume specie payments ? nor, Shall we
reform tho civil service ? nor, Shall
we regulate the power of corpora
tions ? nor, Shall we permit Louisiana
to regulate her own affairs ? nor, Shall
we purge the judiciary ? nor, Shall we
reduce the tariff ? The issue that is upon
us is simpler than any of these ; vaster
than all of them—Shall the people gov
ern themselves ? It is no time to talk of
the incidentals of governmental policy
when the very nature of the government
is at stake. A single proposition re
lating to a specific object of ordinary
public concern will not do for the issue
of a campaign when a question involv
ing all objects of public concern is unde
cided. It will not do for tho people to
consume their time and energies con
tending about surface affairs, when an
insidious agency is at work consuming
the very right of the people to contend
about affairs at all. Mr. Schurz is bit
terly opposed to the oligarchy now in
power, and will make a formidable fight
against one man power. We hope to
see him returned to the Senate, where
his services will be of great import mce
to the whole country.
The agitation of the bond ques
tion in Rome lias resulted in a bill
in equity, and the granting of a
temporary injunction restraining the
payment of tho interest upon four dif
ferent issues'of city bonds, aud to re
strain the levying a tax for that purpose
—the North and South Railroad bonds,
the plain bonds, the Fire bonds, and tlie
Water Works bonds, It is alleged that
the act of the Legislature authorizing
a subscription to the North and
Sontli Road is unconstitutional; that
the plain bonds were issu and to re
deem illegal city currency; that the
Fire bonds were issued without any
act of the Legislature; that the Water
Works question was not submitted
to a vote of the people, and that the
bonds wore sold for less than ninety
cents on the dollar. This municipal
bond business is getting to be a serious
matter, and the purchasers of this class
of obligations must exercise a great deal
of care bef.re they part with their
money. The debts of the different
cities of the State have very heavily in
creased during the past five years and
taxes have become so onerous that prop
erty owners are not disposed to respond
unless satisfied that there is no loop
hole of escape.
The Brooklyn ice dealers have estab
lished the following rates : For ten
pounds per lay, $1 per week; for fifteen
pounds per day, $1 25 per week; for
thirty pounds per day, $1 per hundred;
to butchers, &c., 60 cents per hundred;
to small cash trade, 70 cents per hun
dred; to “independents,” $8 per ton; to
pork packers, &c., $8 50 per ton. —
These, the prices, are an advance of
fifty per cent, upon the rates of last
season, though they seem a marvel of
cheapness to those who live in Southern
cities. Whether the Winter be mild or
severe, the ice companies usually con
trive an excuse for keeping up or rais
ing the price of an article which is a
prime necessity in our climate. Va
rious expedients have been resorted to
in order to make it attainable by men of
moderate means, but up to the present
time none of them have proved success
ful. • •_
The prisoners in Edgefield jail are
all in a fair way to suffer death, though
but two or three of them have been con
victed of capital offenses. The sheriff
of the couuty publishes a card stating
that during the past two years he has
only received S2BO for the support of
the jail and “that it is utterly impos
silile for him, any longer, to keep the
prisoners under his charge from starv
ing.” He says he has complained to
the Governor, but that the latter cares
as little about the matter as if the cap
tives were “dumb brutes shut up to be.
fattened aud killed,” which is very
wrong iu his Excellency. Decidedly
there are pleasanter places in the world
than South Carolina prisons under ring
management.
Supposing that there might be per
haps a score or so of the Peninsular and
Waterloo veterans still alive and in im
pecunious circumstances, the new Minis*
ter of War at Westminister announced
that the Government would pay to each
and every old soldier of this class a
pension of half a guinea a week. No
sooner did this interesting fact become
known than more than 400 of these
hoary veterans suddenly started up, as
it were, from the grave; and Mr. Hardy
finds that he has let the Government in
to the tune of about £II,OOO a year.
Why doesn’t our Government do some
thing for the few remaning survivors of
the Mexican war ?
mm-
A Confederate Monument in Scot
land. — We have been shown by a friend,
lately arrived from Scotland, the design
of a beautiful monument lately erected
in the Dean Cemettty at Edinburg,
Scotland. “To the Msnory of Colonel
R. A. Smith, of the l9nth Mississippi,
Confederate States A*ny, a *^?** ve , °|
Edinburg, who fell ifrtally Wounded
at the Battle of Mnafordsville, Ken
tucky, September 14, ;1562, while gal
lantly leading in the charge on Fort
Craig; aged 26 years. * The monument
is a beautiful obelisk pf white marble,
about ten feet high, the lower plinth
being of yellow marbf from the Craig
leeth qnary. The chf ge at Mnmfords
ville was a desperate Jffair, in which the
Confederates lost severely, and was one
of the series of confli4s of Gen. Bragg s
Kentucky campaign —New Orleans
Picayune. . ,
There are 2,024 wUte Sunday School
scholars and teachers ,and 1,549 colored j
in Macon.
The Central Railr«d has given the,
Gate City Fire Comply of Atlanta one j
hundred dollars.
LETTER FROM MIDDLE GEORGIA.
The Last of (119 Troops—The Father of
States Rights—The Lost Heir - A sur
feit of Kailw ys—Hard Pan Prices—
An Insurance Dispute.
[special correspondence chronicle and
SENTINI L. ]
Macon, May 12th, 1874.
The Last of the Troup Family-
It is now a settled conviction that it is j
impossible for a great man to transmit j
his greatness to his children. It some- !
times happens, however, that distm- '
guished sous have distinguished fathers, j
as in the case of Alexander, Hannibal, j
and Geu. Lee. But it is the ambition
of all men, aud particularly so of great
men, to make their children great.
Whilst it is within their power to trans
mit thrones and wealth, they cannot
hand down brains. Such was the case
of the father of State Rights, the Gov
ernor of Georgia, the eloquent and gift
ed George M. X’roup. He could spring
to his feet in the presence of the Marquis
de LaFayette all unexpected and say:
“All hearts to welcome the nation’s
guest; all hands to defend him,” but he
could not teach his children to say it. j
The last living child of Governor Troup !
is his daughter, Orie. Many years ago
she married a Mr. Vigil, with whom she
lived up to the time of his death iu
Laurens couuty, a few years ago. When
Vigil died a paper was discovered in his
effects by which she was alleged to have
been fraudulently deprived of her prop
erty. This was tested in our Court,
and I think Mrs. Vigil won the case. Not
long since she was pronounced a person
of uusound mind aud seut to the Luna
tic Asylum at Milledgeville, where she
now is. Rut the question has arisen in
the minds of some of her immediate
blood relations if this too was not
a scheme to get rid of her and posses
sion of her property. Dr. Green, the
Warden of the Asylum, has been re
quested to closely watch her with this
view of the case borne in his mind.
An Heir to SIOO,OOO Turns Up.
Some time about the beginning or
just a few years before the war, one of
the wealthiest men in Middle Georgia
died, leaving all his property to a grand
son. The"boy was of a wild aud eccen
tric disposition, and eared more for per
sonal freedom than he did for his grand
father’s estate with the trouble of taking
care of it. So soon as he was large
euongh he joined the Confederate army
in Virginia, and after a large battle had
his name printed in one of the Rich
mond papers as among the killed. He
was mourned ns lost, afid the only infor
mation which his immediate comrades
could ever give of him was that he went
into tlie battle with them, and during
a manoeuvre on the field lie disappeared
ami had not been seen since. Knowing
him to have been a brave and faithful
soldier, they could not help thinking
him slaiu. The other day a returned
Texan, who knew him well when a boy,
reported that he was alive and in that
State. He had both seen and conversed
with him, but he expressed no desire to
come back to Georgia, where he must
know that a fortune of all of SIOO,OOO is
here indisputably his own, aud which
would be readily handed over upon his
arrival. But he no doubt prefers roam
ing free over the prairies of Texas than
living a rich man in the old staid State
of Georgia. He refused to tell his old
acquaintance his exact place of abode
or what business he was following.
No More Railroads, I Tliank You.
As written you the other day, an effort
has been recently making to revjve the
drooping fortunes of the embryonic Ma
con and Cincinnati Railroad. Jese
Carolls came South a few weeks ago
with some gentlemen from New York
and one from Montreal. They stopped
at Knoxville and at Nashville, where they
got duly into the- papers. When Jese
got hero the obligation of Macon to pay
the company several thousand dol ars
per mile upon the completion of each in
cash, and within a specified time, had
about run out. His company appealed
to the City Council to extern! the time,
which was granted by that body and
last Saturday submitted to a vote of the
people. But “the people,” only to tlie
small number of 250, did not go to the
polls at all. So the project, so far as aid
from this city is concerned at present, is
dead. I have no doubt this road some
day will be built, but the plain truth is
we have more railroads now, not only
iu Georgia but all over the coun
try, than wo have either freight
or passengers to support them with.
We have got ahead of the hounds
in that chase,, and must slow up and let
the hounds pass, or else thegame will es
cape. If we can keep some of the
tracks already down from being torn up,
it will be all we can do for the next de
cade at least. It was once thought by
every man in America that it was impos
sible to get a surfeit of railroads, but
tho Mayor of Cincinnati said the other
day that his State had now oue-tliird
more than were making expenses. We
know that scarcely one in Georgia has
been able to pay a dividend intwedve
months without borrowing the money to
do it. And any one at all acquainted
with the existing material situation of
our commerce can but see that tho im
mediate prospects before them are as
blue as indigo. They flourished upon the
importations of Western produce and
upon guano and the exportation of cot
ton, but now we propose to buy precious
little of the former, and to raise a lesser
quantity of the latter. The officers of
the Central Railroad wisely foresee the
future, and are endeavoring to some
what counteract it by putting on foot
the direct trade scheme so much talked
over iu Atlanta the other day. But we
need foreign white industrious farmers
more than French silks, British cloths
or Swedes iron. The direct trade steam
ers can bring all, however.
Another Koad that Don’t Pay,
The Macon Street Railroad. It has
now been in operation three years, and
originally cost a deal of money—has
been well managed and all that, but
still no dividend has ever been declared,
and the stock is within the atmosphere
of zero. The chief difficulty has been
that people will not ride on it. They
prefer walking and saving that little
odd change, which, to a regular cus
tomer of the road, foots up twenty-fire
cents a day, and 87 50 per month. With
this sevei# fifty you can buy a pile of
ginghams and ribbons, hats, shoes, bon
nets, buttons and thread.
Old Prices—“ Teu Pounds to the Dol
lar.”
We are getting dowa to old time prices
in Macon. I went out this morning and
bought a regular Maracaibo hat for
81 25, which sold luie just alter the war
for 86. Calicoes which used to cost 30
cents per yard arenow plentiful at 10.
Black silk 81 25 yor yard, and sugar “10
pounds to the dollar,” as your grand
mother used to bay it. Coffee still holds
out at 30 cents y'er pound, but that will
have to come down with everything else.
It is really gratifying to see all articles
of merchandise in this country except
cotton coming/down to where they were
twenty years ago. When we realize
twenty cents per pound for cotton next
Fall, and ca 4 get dry and wet goods at
these figures, there will be rejoicing
throughout all the land of Israel. Moses
will then oome out from the bulrushes
ai,d lead <s from the land of the Egyp
tians. Another good sign of the times
is the reduction of board at hotels and
boarding houses. We have a good house
here wj/ieh only charges 82 per day now
and aifually sits a table no one can pos
sibly grumble at. The old rates of 84 a
day TfiU have to be given up ; this is
too much in the face of the universal
cheapness of provisions.
The Bibb Superior Court,
This judicial tribunal drags its slow
langth along. It commenced on the 27th
; of last month, and up to this, 12th day
!of May, nothing has been accomplished
I except “the setting down of cases.”—
: Jurors and attorneys are worn out with
| the everlasting slowness of the proceed
-1 iugs. The Judges and lawyers all over
the State are eternally complaining that
they never can get anybody but profes
sional Court House loafers on the jury.
They are to blame for all this. No man
who lias any business at all can afford to
lqave it and lie around the Court room
for three or four weeks tiyiug cases
which might be disposed of in three or
four days. The loss is too great, and
hence every fire company is full to re
pletion. For my own part 1 don’t blame
a man one whit for doing all be can to
keep out of this jury duty.
The Policy ol Dr. Castlen Contested.
When the late Dr. F. G. Castlen,
whose wiilo v married Col. Victor Hugo
Sturm died he had his life insured in
the .Etna, of Hartford, for 85,000. He
had paid up the company all he owed
except 826, which perhaps was due a
short while before his death. Now the
company refuses to pay the policy on
the ground that he had thus failed to
comply with the contract.
Jean Yaljean.
_ m wr |
A Radical Convention will be held in
Griffin on the 18th of June to nominate
a candidate for Congress from that Dis
trict.
Mr. Sharp, conductor on the Macon
and Brunswick Railroad, was killed on
Tuesday by being run over by his train.
He was'arranging the bell line, and in
passing from one car to another fell be
tween and was ran over.
A heavy hail storm, last week, did \
great damage in some portions of Meri
wether county. The stones were so j
heavy that they beat the bark from the
trees', and battered up timber and plank
fencing. The crops in its were j
ruined.
0l ! R ATLANTA CORRESPONDENCE.
The Chisolm Case—The Chances—
Garnet McMillan a Candidate for
Congress Dentsts and Farmers—
Hill and Hardeman—Atlanta Notes.
[special cobbe&pondexce of the chronicle
AND SENTINEL.]
Atlanta, May 12, 1874.
The Trial of Gaines Chisolm,
Who killed Penn Bedell in a street en
counter, in February last, has been
fixed for to-morrow," it occupying the
first place on the criminal docket. Some
doubts are entertained, however, as to
whether the trial will proceed, as it is
alleged that the leading witnesses for
the prosecution are absent. There are
rumors current to the effect that their
absence has been procured by the de
fense. These rumors need to be con
firmed however. The prevailing im
pression is that Gaines Chisolm will be
convicted of murder. Public opinion is
against him, and, despite the indignant
protest of offended justice, we all know
that the most impartial juries are not
wholly uninfluenced by the weight of
public opinion. Chisolm’s prospects
for acquittal, however, are not hopeless.
His friends have obtained the services of
distinguished counsel, conspicuous
among whom is Ben Hill, who will spare
neither time nor influence to save his
life. Chisolm admitted in the prelimi
nary examination that he killed I
Bedell, but in self-defense. This con
fession is considered by many as fatal
to his chances for acquittal; for, though
it is admitted by nearly all that his pro
vocation was great, yet it was insuffi
cient to justify him in killing Bedell.
It i.i supposed that a day or more will
be consumed in obtaining a jury, for the
case has excited such unusual interest
throughout the county that there will
be few persons qualified to judge and
decide the case impartially. Chisolm’s
health has improved considerably, and
it is believed that the defense will never
be better prepared.
Garnett McMillan.
Several candidates for Congress are
announced from the Ninth Congression
al District. Conspicuous among these is
Hon. Garnett McMillan, of Habersham, a
man of great talent and wonderful moral
stamina. It is said that he was induced
to withdraw his name from the nominat
ing convention in 1872 upon the distinct
understanding that Mr. H. P. Bell, the
present member, and his friends, would
co-operate to secure his (McMillan’s)
election this year. If this be true, there
remains little doubt as to the person
who will represent the Ninth District in
Congress at its next session, for, in ad
dition to this advantage, Mr. McMillan
is said to be probably the most popular
man personally with the people in his
district.
The Dentists.
The members of the State Dental As
sociation assembled here on Monday in
annual Convention. They had two ses
sions daily yesterday and to-day, and
will continue their deliberations to-mor
row. The attendance is said to be not
so full as usual. Many able representa
tives, however, are present, and your
readers may rest assured that the best and
wisest measures will be adopted to pro
mote the pliysicial and spiritual welfare
of their teeth. The members employed
themselves to-day in reading essays on
various subjects connected with their
profession.
The Agricultural Congress.
TTp to the present time (9, p. m.) only
a few delegates to the Agricultural Con
gress, which convenes here to-morrow,
have arrived. It is expected, however,
that many will arrive on the night
trains. Addresses of welcome will be de
livered by Governor Smith (perhaps) on
the part of the State, General Colquitt on
the part of the Agricultural Society, and
Mayor Spencer on the part of the city,
Onr citizens are somewhat at a loss to
determine in what manner to entertain
their guests on this occasion. They de
sire to furnish some amusement in which
their guests can participate; and think
ing that their tastes and temperaments
are better suited to eating than dancing,
it is purposed to banquet them without
the usual auxiliary pleasure of a ball.
The Congress will be in session four
days, presided over by Mr. Jackson, of
Nashville, who was elected President at
the last annual Congress.
The Colored Odd Fellows.
Eight or ten lodges of colored Odd
Fellows from the surrounding country
had a grand celebration here to-day,
making a most gorgeous display and
parade. After parading the streets,
dressed in dazzling regalia, led by bands
of music, they assembled in the Hall of
the House of Representatives, where
several addresses were delivered by va
rious members. One of them during
the delivery of his address took occasion
to say that they did not purpose to ob
tain their rights by Congress, by Legis
latures, by churches, or anything else
except by secret societies. Governor
Smith assumed the responsibility and
allowed them to use the Representative
Chamber for their deliberations ; and
they showed their appreciation of his
kindness by deporting themselves in the
most becoming and orderly manner.
Big Pie-Nic.
The most important picnic of the
season will take place to-morrow. An
excursion of several hundred will leave
the city to-morrow morning for Toccoa
City, on the Air Line Railroad. At that
place they will be addressed by Ben
Hill .and Thomas Hardeman, the one of
whom will likely remind the people of
that remote district that Congress great
ly stands in need of honest and intelli
gent representatives, while the other
will possibly remind his hearers that
the gubernatorial election will occur in
the course of a few years. The Hiber
nian Society also have their annual pic
nic to-morrow at Iceville, a suburban
resort on the Chattahoochee river.
Mr. Stephens.
Yonr correspondent to-day saw an au
tograph letter from Hon. Alex. H. Ste
phens, in which he states that he is rap
idly improving, and that hg hopes to en
tirely regain his wonted health in a
short time. Your correspondent noticed
that Mr. Stephens wrote a steadier hand
than he had ever seen from that distin
guished Georgian, better known lor his
statesmanship however than forliis fault
less penmanship !
Facts in Brief.
The Governor made no appoint
ment of Commissioner of Agriculture
or State Geologist yet. It is said that
he awaits the acceptance or peremptory
refusal of Dr. Le Conte, of California,
before taking further action on the ques
tion. The Governor seems intent on
enticing back to their homes all talented
Georgians in exile from their nativity.
* * * The United States and city au
thorities are quiet on the question of
jurisdiction of offenses committed in the
city limits by United States soldiers.
The city authorities, however, continue
to exercise their jurisdiction in these
cases. * * * Abrams is still here en
deavoring to awaken interest in his news
paper enterprise. * * * Great num
bers of Atlanta’s citizens left for your
i city to-day to attend the “May Conveii
j tion.” * * "* Messrs. John Jenkins
| and daughter, P. H. Laugdon and W.
H. Hull, of Augusta, were in the city
to-day. * * * The communication
of “Jacob Dunderhead” in your paper
is pronounced the most entertaining
commentary on the Stephens-Hill con
troversy that has yet appeared.
Halifax.
SOUTHERN SENATORS.
[Washington Correspondence Courier-Journal.]
Now take your seat in the gallery of
the American House or fcenate and the
contrast is very curious. Before the
war the distinction between the North
and the South was almost as plain as
that between the Scotch and the Irish
in the British Parliament; but new in
gredients have been introduced. The
oM leaders from the South have all
gone. Their successors are moderate
men of the same school—Northerners
who came in with the Union army and
remained after it was disbanded—and
former slaves now free. The result is a
strange admixture. But the great ideas
which beat the rebellion permeate and
leaven the whole. The new colored vote,
equal to ei|ht hundred thousand ballots,
increases the Southern force in Con
gress, and threatens to absorb old par
ties. This influence compels the whites
to retire tin former leaders and make
way for another order of men, of whom
Gordon, of Georgia; Ransom, of North
Carolina; Johnson, of Virginia, and Dr.
George R. Dennis, of Maryland, in the
Senate; and Jno. Hancock, of Texas, and
Waddell, o 5 North Carolina, in the
House, all Democrats, are fair represen
tatives. Th»se new Democrats are very
different men from their predecessors.
The most prinounced is General John
B. Gordon, <f Georgia, whose brilliant
achievements as a Confederate officer,
especially in the last stubborn defense
of Richmond, are conceded by all the
Union soldies. His martial appearance,
Southern ace ait and frank manner make
him a conspicuous Senatorial feature.
He resembles&eneral Sickles, and bears
himself a good deal like John C. Breck
inridge- His lace indicates fixed and
unaltered Convictions, but his conversa
tion is gentle and conciliatory. We
shall hear of km in the future, and, I
am sure, on thi side of fair play. Gor
don entered th*.Senate in Marcli, 1873,
in his forty-firsiyear. He is a graduate
of the University of Georgia. When
the war broke oit he was mining coal in
Dade county, in his State. He raised a
company, and fought his way from
captain through all the grades to
the position <<f Lieutenant-General,
and was bady wounded several
times. He is a constant and strict
member of the Methodist Church, and
is said to be the most popular man in
liis State. Georgia sets a good example
in elevating such material to her high
representative positions. These South
ern fighting men are nearly always quiet
fellows. They were never heard of in
the North before the war. Most of the
secession talkers in the Senate and
House made poor soldiers. I do not
want to specify, but if you will run over
the list of the violent volubilities in
Congress, who forced on the conflict,
and follow them into the rebellion, you
will fiud that they were mostly conspicu
ous failures. Gordon is one of the lead
ers of the new Democratic dispensation.
To hold the hundred and four Southern
electoral votes for the Democratic party
in 1876, beginning at Delaware and end
ing at Texas, the old fire eaters must
stay in retirement, and men like the sol
dier-Senator from Georgia must lead.
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.
[Carrespondence of the Courier-Journal.]
Washington, May 9.— lt is generally
conceded here that the inflation bal
loon has collapsed, and with it two or
three Presidential aspirants. The veto
did certainly cook the goose of the Sen
ator from Indiana, and from all itppear
ances was so designed by the ingenious
gentleman who put his name to it. Say
what they will of Grant—that he is an
offense to the crusaders and the gram
marians, that he is a whirligig employed
by the the gods to bring in their re
venges—it can not be denied that there
has been a singular method in his opera
tions, both political and military. I
have a fancy that the Courier-Journal
used to observe, in its unreflecting,
facetious way, that there was a danger
that he might never be got out of the
White House except upon a stretcher.
Well, this silly conceit, in a rather
milder form, begins to obtain something
like consideration here. It is now be
lieved in Washington, soberly and by the
coolest-headed men, that Grant means
a t hird term, and that he does not reckon
without his host.
I confess that I think he has even
more than that in his mind’s eye. When
•I look back into the origin, course and
tenor of his administration, how he
played with parties before he became
President and how he has played with
the politicians since; when, bewildered
and awe-strnck, 1 gaze upon the compo
sition of his Cabinet; when I consider
the cool way lie disposed of Morton and
the cool way he disposed of Washburne;
when I see his equipage rolling through
the streets in a defiant, regal style, un
used to the simplicity of a republican
court, and know that his private habits
are equally defiant, and mindful of these
things, when I remember that nobody is
shocked or alarmed, I can w'ork out no
other result as tlio natural, the inevitable
purpose of his mind nud heart than that
sort of personal government to which
Prince Louis Napoleon addressed him
self after his elevation to the Chief
Magistracy of the French Republic.
And why not? What is to prevent
him and who ? Look at the state of
parties. There are in the Republican
party but two considerable men remain
ing on the scene as Presidential possi
bilities—Blaine and Washburne. The
veto killed Morton as dead as a door
nail. It set Logan back a thousand
years. Conkling is not in Grant’s way.
He and Grant have made a league offen
sive and defensive. If Washburne
comes home and goes into the Cabinet
that will be the end of him. Blaiuo is a
man of extraordinary energy and spring
—by odds the brightest man in Con
gress—hut, with a divided party, what
show will he have? Cross over to the
Democratic party. It is not only di
vided, but it has not one single leader
of genius and nerve. Thurman is a
solemn respectability, cold and virtu
o’us. Hendricks is an amiable common
place.
The Grangers come in between the
two. They are merely slate-smashers.
They embrace only a class, are sectional
and local. The, out-and-out Liberals
are scattered. The South is a cipher.
It is in a condition to sell out or be
crushed out. Thus behold the oppor
tunity and the man; a dismal prospect
indeed, but a real and- dangerous pros
pect.
Arkansas is nuts to Grant. Instead
of injuring his administration it adds to
his personal strength by contributing to
a gathering national and popular discon
tent. Strangely enough there is little
disposition to hold him responsible for
such occurrences that, under his sanc
tion and through his agents, have dis
graced the whole country in the various
Southern States. They only render it
more easy for him to mold the South to
his hand in 1876.
Thus matters stand at the present
moment. Grant is the central figure.—
The Democrats are just strong enough
to lose. The Grangers arc just weak
enough to hold their own. The Liberals
are not strong enough uor weak enough
to count, except as idealists. Every
thing seems to favor Grant. No matter
what is done, it leans Grantward. If
the Presidential election should come off
this year nothing could keep him from a
third term; and, elected for a third
term, the Courier Journal's, stretcher
will be the last resort of the impracti
cables. They will not be able to com
pass his overthrow by the old, peaceful
means. A third term means revolution,
and Grantism and revolution are synony
mous. They imply the same thing.—
They are convertible terms.
Enough of this, however. I scribble
down a few stray notions which come to
me between the sherry and the cham
pagne, none the less serious for the
wine, believe me. It makes a South
ern man of liberal ideas and good inten
tions, schooled in the dangerous field of
practical revolution, sick to see the ob
tusity and the callousness of the North
in Congress. Take any or all of them—
take such languishing idiots as Hoar
and such protesting harlots as Hawley
—twin representatives of the prevailing
hypocrisy—and then jump to the rank
and-file of adventurers, Democratic and
Republican, and one is tempted to ex
claim, “There is but one honest man at
Washington, and that man is Ben But
ler !” It is cruel but it is at least half
true, for they are for the most part hum
bugs or imbeciles, and it cannot be
said, whatever his deformities may be,
that Butler is either. 11. W.
BAYED FROM*TIIK GALLOWS.
The Sumter Republican gives an ac
count of the negro, Henry Jackson, who
was saved from the gallows in Leesburg
last week, from which we make an ex
tract which follows. After being placed
upon the scaffold with the rope about
his neck, he spoke as follows .
“ Town people, come listen to what I
have to say. This is a solemn time. I
have to die. And why have I got to die?
Poor Henry Jackson has got to die for
that he did not do. I am innocent of
this great crime. And why did I say
that I was innocent ? Because poor
Henry Jackson did not do the crime.
Henry Jackson said others done it; but
then he did not have the fear of the
Lord before his eyes. They came and
took me away from my wife for that I
was innocent of, anil carried me to
Smithville, and poor Mr. Warwick put
the rope around my neck. I said others
done it. I said poor Martin done ft, but
I am in Jesus now and He is in me, and
now I say I don’t know anything about
it. In this hour or the next Henry Jack
son must die the innocent death ; but
they can’t kill me. They say they will
carry me to the gallows andv hang me,
but I will go straight to Jesus. This all
comes of my not being good ; whenever
a man said anything to Henry Jackson
he would go for him, and now you see
what it has brought me to. I want yon
all to raise up your children right.
Teach them to go to preaching and serve
the Lord. Had poor Henry Jackson
done so he would not have had to die
the innocent death to-day. Poor Brother
Lester has put the love of the Lord in
my heart.. 1 want the Smithville people
to hear what I have to say. Wliere is
Mr. Johnson ? It hurts me as much as
it does him. I did not kill the boy, and
having the love of Jesus in me, if the
real murderer was to come to me and
say he did it I would tell him to go off'
and not tell anybody else, and I would
die for him.”
The sheriff announced to the crowd
that there was a possibility of his inno
cence, and the Governor had respited
him, advising the colored people to raise
upon the spot the i|4cessary funds to
assist him to gain his life, if he was in
nocent. The two colored ministers also
made some sensible remarks to them,
but they seemed disappointed, and soon
disappeared.
This is the substance of the statement,
and his repetition oiused it to appear
five times as long. Whenever he spoke
of going to Heaven, t>r being confident
of Jesus’ love, the negroes would ap
plaud.
THE PRISONER RESPITED.
He was rambling l on this way when
the sheriff was called down stairs, and
handed a telegram from the Governor in
reply to one which had been sent by the
officers of Lee o&Unfrv, asking a respite.
A glance at it showed that the request
was granted and the sheriff broke the
news gently to .the prisoner, who seemed
surprised and contended in round terms
that it was not right to delay his sen
tence when he was ready to die.
CoL C. T. Goode has been regularly
retained by the prisoner's friends, but
we have not learned whether they will
go to the Supreme Court for aid, or look
to Executive clemency in the prisoner’s
behalf. *
Farmers about Elberton are greatly
behind hand with the planting of their
crops. I
THE ARKANSAS WAR.
The Government Recognizes B ixter.
Washington, May 15.—Attorney-Gen
eral Williams has given an opinion in
the Arkansas matter, referred to him by
the President. He says it would be
disastrous to allow* the proceedings by
which Brooks obtained possession of
the office to be drawn into a precedent.
There is not a State in the Union in
which they would not prodnee a conflict
and probably bloodshed. They cannot
be upheld or justified upon any ground
and in his opinion Elisha Baxter should
be recoguized as the lawful Executive
of the State of Arkansas. The Presi
dent will to-day issue a proclamation in
accordance with the opinion.
Lively Times in Arkansas.
Little Rock, May 15.—The Baxter
ites to-day captured Brooks’ carriage,
with his daughter and coachman. Col.
King White, while attempting to kill a
Brooksite, killed a Buxterite instantly.
Numerous murders and outrages are re
ported throughout the State.
The Bresldent’s Proclamation.
Washington, May 15.—The following
is the full test of the President's procla
mation in relation to the Arkansas
troubles :
Whbkeas, Certain turbulent and dis
orderly persons, pretending that Elisha
Baxter, the present Executive of Ar
kansas, was not elected, have combined
together with force and arms to resist
his authority as such Executive and the
other authorities of said State; and
whereas, said Elishaßaxter has been de
clared duly elected by the General As
sembly of said State as provided in the
constitution tlieteoi, and has for a long
period beeu exercising the functions of
said office, into which ho was inducted
according to the constitution and lawk
of said State, and ought by its citizens
to be considered as the lawful executive
thereof; and whereas, it is provided in
the Constitution of the United States
that the United States shall protect
every State in the Union outlie applica
tion of the Legislature, or of the Execu
tive, when the Legislature cannot be
convened, against domestic violence;
and whereas, said Elisha Baxter, under
section 4 of article 4 of the Constitution
of the United States and the laws passed
in pursuance thereof, has heretofore
made application to me to protect said
State and the citizens thereof against
domestic violence; and whereas, the
General Assembly of the State convened
in extra session at the Capitol thereof on
the 11th inst., pursuant to a call made
by said Elisha Baxter, and both houses
thereof have passed a joint resolution
also, applying to me to protect the Stale
against domestic violence; and whereas,
it is provided in the laws of the United
States that in all cases of insurrection
in any State it shall be lawful for the
President of the United States, on the
application of the Legislature of such
State, or of the Executive, when the
Legislature cannot be convened, to em
ploy such part of the land nnd naval
forces as shall bo judged necessa
ry for the purpose of suppressing
such insurrections or causing the laws
to be duly executed; and whereas, it is
required that whenever it may be neces
sary in the judgment of the President
to use the military force for the purpose
aforesaid, he shall forthwith, by procla
mation, command such insurgents to
disperse and retire peacably to their
respective houses within a limited time,
Now, therefor®, I, U. S. Grant, Presi
dent of the United States, do hereby
make proclamation and command all
turbulent and disorderly persons to dis
perse and retire peaceably to their re
spective abodes within ten days from
this date, and hereafter to submit them
selves to the lawful authority of said
Executive and the other constituted au
thorities of said State, and I invoke the
aid nnd co-operation of all good citizens
to uphold the law and preserve tho pub
lic peace.
In witness whereof I hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
[Signed] U. S. Gbant.
Rejoicing in Little Rock.
Little Rock, May 15. — The effect of
the President’s proclamation is most
gratifying. Crowds of men, women and
children now throng the streets, the
stores are reopening, flags are wav
ing and hands playing. Hundreds of
people are visitingßuxter’s headquarters
to congratulate him.
Baxter Issues an Address.
Little Rock, May 10. —Negotiations
are progressing favorably for the peace
ful dispersing of mobs. Baxter has is
sued a congratulatory address to his ad
herents.
MIDDLE GEORGIA.
The •‘Constitution’s’’ Colton Articles
—Norwood on Civil Rights.
lo the Editors of the Chronicle and
Sentinel:
If you have a file of the Atlanta Con
stitution I wish you would refer to the
“cotton articles” published last year,
and let the planters refresh their memo
ries with the prognostications of the au
thor of them by publishing tho number
of bales of cotton England was made to
believe would be raised in this country
last year. I think four and a half or
five millions was tho number we were
told would be gathered and marketed
for that year. Who now believes we
shall make five million bales ? If the
European consumer knew tho facts of
the last and the prospects of the present
crop lie would hurry up the price or di
minish his estimates, pay more for what
he buys or put his establishment on
shorter supplies. The truth is, the
planter must take these “crop reports”
into his own hands or loose ono-fiftli of
the value of his annual productions.
See what he has lost already this season
by selling his crop at 13[c. in place of
17c.
Have you read Norwood’s speech?
There is nothing like it that has ever
been delivered in tho United States for
wit, linraor and satire. “Proctor Knott’s”
Dnlutli is tame in comparison. The
“Georgia Scenes,” “Major Jones’ Court
ship” or “Bill Arp’s Fli lit from Rome”
do not equal at least surpass in piquancy
this inimitable, witty satire upon the
Republican party’s management of the
negro question of “civil rights.”!!'
D. J. C.
The Betrayer of Morgan.
Tho Kansas City Timex, of a recent
date, had this as editorial: “To one
person in Little Rock tlio warlike pre
parations of Baxter and Brooks brings
any but plcasapt recollections. The
hills of East Tennessee, tho beautiful
little town of Greencville, the dripping
forest and the sunshine struggling
through the mists of early morning,
pass like a panorama before her eyes.*-
Ten years have passed away, and still
she sees in her dreams the spectres of
war—visions of men on horseback dash
ing in and out through long red lines of
battle, and the roar of artillery and the
rattle of fire-arms dispel slumber from
the eyes. There was a time when Mrs.
Williams gloried in the triumph of her
treachery, and laughed at the misery she
had wrought. Her betrayal of that
gallant Confederate, John H. Morgan—
the circumstances of which are too well
known to need recital here—she once
regarded as the crowning act of her life.
But the hour of her triumph has fled.
Upon her once raven black hair care lias
sprinkled its powder of gray,*and over
her guilty soul remorse has hung its
mantle of gloom. The busy prepara
tions for war recall to her mind the bus-
tle and confusion that followed her ad
vent into a dark gap of the mountains
in Tennessee on a stormy night in Au
gust, in 1864 Now she takes uo part in
what is going on; then she was the
leader of the troop that marched through
the rain and tho gloom to surprise
the man who had accepted of her hos
pitality, and who had trusted in lier
honor. Mrs. Williams is still a hand
some woman, and a widow. She sel
dom appears upon the streets, aud
when she does her face is closely veiled.
Many conjectures are made concerning
the cold, beautiful woman who always
walks alone, but no one has ever ven
tured to break in upon her meditations.
What they are, or how she passes the
weary hours as they come and go, none
may ever know. Solitude is alike her
passion and her misery. Often in the
silent watches of the night she is heard
walking steadily to and fro across her
eiiamber floor, and this is all that is
knowD. From those around her she
keeps her history and her sorrows. For
getfulness is the only thing she craves,
and death alone can bring that boon to
her. There will come a time, however,
when all her horricj; visions will fade
away forever, when even the echoes of
strife and war will fail to reach her ears.
Nothing disturbs tliequietof the grave.”
Darwin has a practical supporter of
his theory in the shape of the first go
rilla ever tamed and now in London. A
small party dined with him not long ago,
and wc are told that Monsieur Gorilla
behaved like any other courteous diner
out, except that his conversation was
not brilliant, and that at one point in
the meal he calmly extended his paw
and removed from his neighbor’s plate
to his own some pretty tiny kickshaws,
which particularly- pleased him. He
drank claret with his steak, lounged in
his chair between the courses, and
cracked his walnuts and took his after
dinner glass of port with the most grace
ful ease. He is very particular in his
food, and always takes hot rum and
water, sweetened with honey, before re
tiring. Darwin ought to be a happy
man.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The Financial Problem.
Washington, May 15.—The following
is a carefully prepared statement of tho
meaning of the currency bill passed by
the Senate, though
No One Seems to Understand It.
It is telegraphed as the closest ap
proach to the solution of the riddle ex
tant: The new Senate currency bill
passed yesterday by that body provides
for free bunking, releases the reserves
on circulation, except five per cent.,
which is to bo deposited in tho Treasury
for the purposes of redemption in United
States notes, and requires reserves on
deposits to be kept by each bank in its
own vaults, a part of which reserve shall
be one-fourth part of the coin received
by it as interest on the bonds held as
security by the Uniteel State Treasury.
Prepare for Snecie Payments.
Tho bill requires the retirement of
greenbacks equal in amount to 25 per
cent, of tho new National Bank cur
rency issued—tho retirement to begin
within thirty days after the amount of
$1,000,000 of the National Bank cur
rency lias been issued. The maximum
amount of the United States notes is
fixed at $382,000,000, and retirement
shall bo in reduction of that amount un
til it be reduced to $300,000,000. Tho
redemption section of the bill provides
that on and after July, 1878, the green
backs whenever presented in sums of
SI,OOO or any mutiple thereof may bo
redeemed in coin or bonds bearing 4}
per cent, interest in coin at the option
of the Government, and it shall bo com
pulsory on the Secretary of the Treasury
to reissue the notes excliauged for
bonds.
The Best Features
In this bill are those which require the
reserves on deposits to bo kept by tho
banks of the different parts of the coun
try in their own vaults, instead of send
ing them off to Now York to be loaued
for speculative purposes in Wall street,
and that which provides that a part of
these reserves shall be constituted of
one-fourth part of the coni received as
interest on the bonds held by the Gov
ernment as security. These provisions
may serve to strengthen the banks at
homo, and perhaps tend to keep up a
better distribution of currency—the vol
ume of which, however, it seems inevit
able, must beliacreased if the bill bo
come a law. Thus there is to bo
More or Less of Inflation
Under it and the much talked of “elas
ticity.” The provision releasing the
batiks from the maintenance of a reserve
on their deposits except 5 per cent, de
posited in the Treasury for the purposes
of redemption is a liberal oue for these
institutions.
Congressional.
In tho Senate, Mr. Edmunds gave no
tice that on Monday tho Senator from
Now Jersey (Erelingliuy mu) would ask
the Senate to assume the consideration
of the civil rights bill, and dispose of
it before taking up any other measure.
Mr. Clayton gave notice that on Mon
day lie would call up the resolutions
introduced by him on Tuesday to pro
vide for the appointment of aoommitteo
of the Senate to proceed to Arkansas to
investigate ns to the condition of affairs
there.
Washington, May 10.—Representa
tive Lamar, of Mississippi, has been ap
pointed Visitor to tho Naval Academy.
Tho House Committee on Banking
and Currency discussed the currency
bill which passed Thursday. Tho senso
of the committee is adverse to tho origi
nal bill and are not disposed to accept it
as amended.
FOREIGN.
A Crisis Coming.
Paris, May 15.—Tho Duke do Broglio
to-day accepted the challenge of tho Left
and Extreme Right on tho electoral bill
and will make his motion for its imme
diate discussion us a cabinet question.
London, May 15.—Tho Times' cor
respondent at Paris, in a letter to that
journal,published this morning, says the
Duke do Broglie, French Minister of tho
Interior, will to-day present to tho Na
tional Assembly a bill for tho formation
of an Upper Clmmbcr. It is a curious
fact, says the writer, that the mere pro
ject of presenting that measure was the
real cause of the downfall of Thiers. In
many respects the projects differ,
but a strange analogy consists in tho
fact that now, as under Thiers, the
Government, resolved to organize a su
preme power, meets tho same adversa
ries, and is confronted by the irritated
Right; which will not allow it to effect
that organization, and without which
the Duke do Broglie is said to have de
clared that he will iiot.reinain in office.
The Queen Wines the Czar.
London, May 15.—The Queen gave a
State banquet last night to tho Czar
and Grand Duke Alexis, tho Prince and
Princess of Wales, the Duke and
Duchess of Edinburg nnd other mem
bers of tho royal family, and Gladstone
and DTsraeli, with all members of tlio
Cabinet, were present. The Czar will go
to Buckingham Palace at noon to-day,
and will probably visit the Empress Eu
genie next Sunday.
A Prince Fit for a Congressman.
Berlin, May 15.—A special dispatch
is published, in which no names are
mentioned, but which leave the inference
that the Grand Dulco Nicholas of lins
sia was arrested in consequence of tho
disappearance of certain diamonds.
A New Turn In Spain.
London, May 15.—A letter to tho
Times from Paris says: “It is the im
pression here that tho new Spanish
Minestry will shortly exhibit Alfousist
tendencies. Unquestionably a largo pro
portion of the better classes of Spaniards
look forward to the enthronement of the
Prince of the Osturis as offering the
best chance for the prosperity of Spain,
despite tho strong doubts existing
whether he possesses the qualities fitting
him for the duties of a sovereign.”
The California Bandit.
San Francisco, May 15.—There is
great excitement at Los Angelos, in con
sequence of the arrest to-day of tho
great bandit, Vasquez. Tlio jail is
guarded by a strong forco of men to
prevent the escape or lynching of tho
prisoner. The total appropriation for
the capture of Vasquez and his men is
$15,000-SB,OOO for the chief.
The Agricultural Convention.
Atlanta, Ga., May 15.—The Com
mittee on Transportation of tho Agri
cultural Congress to-day reported that
whilo recognizing the value of railroads
arid the necessity of their further exten
sion, they deem the cost of tho trans
porting of tho crude products of the
fields, forest and mines so dispropor
tionate to the cost of water carriage as
to render it the imperative duty of the
United States Congress to improve the
rivers in the interior and connect them
with tho ocean by artificial water
ways—giving tho Mississippi Val
ley a continuous water transit to
the seaboard. That it is the duty
of tho Government to enter at onco into
the work of constructing artificial water
ways adequate to tho present and pros
pective demands of inland transporta
tion; to continue it by annual install
ments of aid until restricted channels
of trade aro opened, not only through
the Mississippi Valley, tint connecting
that river with the Atlantic ocean, via.
the Lakes, via the Ohio, Kanawha and
James river, via Atlantic and tho
Great Western- adopted unanimously.
A resolution that tho Agricultural
Congress believes it within the power
of the people to reform the corporate
transportation system by the same
agency creating them, viz : State legyi
lutionf controlled by public opinion;
that we oppose any legislation under
the plea of regulating commerce be
tween the States which interferes with
the authority heretofore exercised by
the Stuto over ruilroads entirely withiii
or passing out of the borders, adopted
unanimously. D. Wyatt Aiken, of
South Carolina, was appointed to
memoralize Congress on the subject
of revising the patent laws. The
Committee on Scientific Industrial
Education reported, recommending tho
Government to appropriate one half
of the net proceeds of the sale of
public lands to agricultural colleges or
ganized under the act of 1862—uuani- *
raously adopted. The Committee on the
tax on tobacco recommended tho Gov
ernment to reduce tne tax on tobacco to
a uniform rate of 12 cc nts per pound,
and articles imported and used in the
manufacture of tobacco to come duty
free—adopted. Committees were ap
pointed on these subjects. Gen. Jack
son, was re-elected President; C. W.
Green, Secretary, amid enthusiasm; J.
S Grinnell was elected Vice-President
for the District of Columbia. Cincinnati
was elected the next place of meeting.
The citizens have given the Congress
a complimentary drive to the Fair
Grounds. The Congress will adjourn at
a late hour to-night. •
Lateb. —C. W. Green, Secretary, re
signed, and Geo. E. Morrow, editor of
the Wisconsin Farmer, was elected.
The next meeting is fixed for second
Wednesday in April, 1875. Adjourned
sine die.
Death of M’lie. Tostea,
New York, May 16.—The Journal de
Paris announces the death of M’lle,
Tostee. No other newspaper makes
mention of the fact, but the Journal
affirms that she died at Pauj of grief at
the loss of her daughter. M’lle? Tostee
will be remembered as having been the
original Grand Duchess and Bello He
lene in this country.