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OLO SERIES—VOL. LXXXI
KEW SERIES- VOL. XXXVIII.
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WEDS i BDAY MAY 27, 1874.
MINOR topics.
The Ilev Adirondack Murray ears he doesn't
believe in borae racing, but if any fellow comes
dashing up behind with the expectation of
passing hint in the road, lie Will find himself
most—nably mistaken.
The followingJexhibits the gold and silver
coinage, exclusive of liais. for the month of
April, and for the ten moutliH ending the same:
For April gold. $2, 390,400j trade dollars,
412fi.fi(W; subsidiary silver coin, $158,085;
total. $3,991.*’>58. For ten mon lis ending April,
1874 gold. M 8,214.040 ; trade dollars. $2,525.-
<IOO ; subsidiary silver coin. $2 051,014 ; total,
$50,801,854.
Next inauguration day, March 4. 1877, falls
on Sunday, so that the presiding officer of the
Senate pro tent. will be President of the United
States from Sunday midnight till Monday at
the hour that the President oleet is sworn in.
This has occurred twice before, Monroe com
mencing his socofi 1 term Monday, March 5,
1-21, and Zachary Taylor his term on Monday.
March 5, 1810.
A dramatic version of Hawthorne's “Scarlet
I.ettor” is drawing crowds at the Ambigu, in
Pari-. The scene is laid in Massachusetts, and
the brilliant geographic and knowledge of tho
playwright is shown by the fact that the stage
is covered with tropical plants. A few palm
trees admirably indicate tho environs of Bos
ton. and if a cotton plantation could have been
added to the background with a tiger or two
and a boa constrictor, tho illusion would have
boon complete. —Button Pott.
Another horrible rceiio in the British royal
family. The Duchess of Edinburgh had bor
rowed the Princess of Wales’ crimpiug irons.
In returning them she presented tlie hot
ends to Her Jtoyal Highness, who thought
lessly took hold of them, and then
waltzed around with one hand between her
knoos for Hcveral minutes before eho could
speak. Eye-wPnnsees of the occurrence ex
press their b lief that, tho days of the Uussiau
Empire are numbered —Brooklyn Argus.
The Washington correspondent of the Bos
ton Journal writes: “A Western Congressman,
who has ju.-t returned from his State, repre
sent himself as very much surprised at the
feeling of his constituents upon the veto ques
tion. He was himself an Inflationist, and had
consistently voted for all inflation schemes in
this Congress, supposing Ilia* ho represented
his people, but lie finds that they almost
unanim msly support tho voto. He states that
this is the feeling ovor a large portion of the
W’ost, whatever Congressmen may sav, and he
has been so impressed with his visit that lie
declares lie shall hereafter oppose all inflation
measures.’’
If the South Carolinians fail in their appeal
to tho General Government for roliof it will
hardly ho from lack of flexibility in the ap
peal. • Recently they asked relief because
Bouth Carolina is in law the equal of the
other States, and ftbis petition not meeting
with great success) now’comes Mr. Ellison S.
Keitt, who asks reliof because “South Cam
illa is not a s iverign State in eitlior theory or
fact." The case recalls tho Indian’s applica
tion for whisky at the commissariat. “Me
want drink whisky. Mo good Indian.” Re
plied the, commissary : “Then yon don’t want
whisky. Good Indians don’t drink whisky.”
Promptly r sponded Lot “Mo damn rascal.”
A French writer has drawn a comparison bo
tween Livingstone and Michelet, to the dis
paragement, of ootirso. of the groat travoler.
The attempted parallel is odd enough, and
such as none tint a Frenchman could have
thought of ; “but," says M. Vacquorie, for it
is he. “which of the two has made tho
greatest disoovorios—tho traveler who has
explored Afrioa. or the historian who lias ex
plored the past ? Ah \ wo blush when we look
at tho conduct of England toward him who
discovered the sources of the Nile, and com
pare it with the conduct of our own country
men toward him who discovered tho sources of
France !’’ M. Vacqueiio thinks that France
has not done her duty.
A Pittsburg Arm, doaliag largely in photo
graph cards and stereoscopic pictures, received
a letter fmm a customer in an adjoining county
last week, in which was the following singular
request: "Mr. .living here, wants a pic
ture of his wife. Site lias been dead forty
four years, .vas a medium-size l woman, light
sandy complexion, hair a little on the dark
sandy order, blue eyes, weight 140 pounds, red
chocks, and 3t! years old when she died. In
closed And fifty cents for the picture." This
bona fiite request was complied with. A pic
ture was selected from the large assortment in
stock as near the description as possible and
forwarded on. Siugu'arlv enough it proved en
tirely satisfactory, tho simple-minded Granger
expressing much surprise at the marvellous in
ventions of tho present time, and especially
was he astonished at the wonderful things they
could do in Pittsburg.
Wo have spoke of tho face of the French
actress, Croisettc. the last sensation in Paris,
and of her acting the dying scene of a woman
who has taken strychnine in tho most realistic
inautier. The actress studies the part from
the actions of animals under strychnine, say
the Parisians. They, moreover, have this
joke: One day Croisotte was attentively etu y
iug her part, when a pale, attenuated, shabby
young mau entered. Ilia complexion had a
greenish hue. his step was feeldo. " Pardon
me.’’ he said. “ I wan weary of life : I have
poisoned myself with strychnine, and have
come to give you the benefit of niv death.”
Ho was seized with convulsions, he writhed, he
frothed at tho mouth, he clutched her hand
and the actress fainted. When she recovered
the supposed dead man was as active as Mother
Hubbard's dog. and was sprinkling her face
with water. “ l hope you will pardon me,”
eatd he : • 1 1 am proud to have moved you so
deeply,” and ho bowed himself out.
The Ottawa, Canada, papers tell a story of a
most disgraceful ceremony that lately took
place iu the quiet village of New Edinburgh
It was a marriage ceremony. A young man of
respect ability had been going to see a young
woman of like stamp, and it appears she was
more in earnest than he. Nome of the girl’s
frieuls were resolved ujxni hav.ug a wedding,
and thev go! the man ready. They prepared
him by pouring into him a Urge quantity of
bad whiskey, and when he was perfectly in
sensible to all his surroundings they got a
license, took their v.ctirn to tht girl’s house,
got a preacher, and had the marriage cere
mony performed for them. They then pnt the
young man to bed to come to his senses at
leisure. Iu the morning he made a discovery
The girl toki him they were married, and
•showed him the certificate. He got out of the
room and out of the house as de-ioately as
possible, and left without bidding his wife
good morning or good bye. He has written to
Ins friends to sell out his effects and seud him
the money. He received such an awful fright
that he will never return to New Edinburgh
again.
Ik<ry ire trying to get up »u American TicV
bome rare in Pennsylvania. and the Legisla
ture is asked to lay the foundation for it.—
There is probably a big jc-b in it, for there is a
•Nann pending in that legislative body to
«vi■. ■ the law regulating land ti rets, with
reference to this particular job. It involves a
*-ery large tract of coal lands and a good many
rich coal n>-U£* that have beau worked for a
number of year* by large companies. Alexan
der Turnbull. Jr., of Ttiiladelphia, owned the
propcrtv in question a long time ago. Some of
his papers have been sou id; kx* divorced
widow ha* turned up. and a long lost son and
fceir has onie to light after a life of the
•trangest adventure all over the world. He
Jiad been sufficiently assaulted, and had acci
dents enough by sea and laud to kill any man
who was not pulled through by Providence to
serve some great . urpose. The lost heir is in
the hands of a (lowerful ring of lobbyists who
are at *ori. to break up corporations by which
the titles t> vast rra tsof real estite and t e
most valuable coal mines in Pennkyivanta are
to be wrested from their pre» nt owners and
given up for division among the conspirators,
so it is said.
THE RIGHTS OF CANDIDATES.
The Macon Star takes issue with the
i Chronicle and Sentinel upon the pro
'priety of charging candidates and their
friends for* the publication of com
munications recommending them for
office. The Star says:
Then if the friends of a prominent
man should write a short and interesting
1 letter recommending him for Congress
or some other office and request us to
publish it, should we refuse and demand
pay as an advertisement? We can see
no propriety in this. The communica
tion would probably interest as many
readers as a letter from Hardscrable,
giving a flaming account of a great
school exhibition, and quoting half the
speech of Rev. Mr. Sourclabbeb, the
orator of the day. Yet we should a; 1
j jump at the Hardscrable letter, and
give the cold slioulderto the admirers of
Col. IJlowhard, who want to send him
to Congress.
The very same argument which the
Star advances in support of dead-head
ing this class of announcements will ap
ply with equal force and quite as much
justice to any other species o( advertis
ing. If Col. Cleabsides, the grocery
merchant, is willing to sell sugar ten
per cent, cheaper thun his neighbors, the
information is certaiiily of interest .to
the public and will be read with
more eagerness by the great mass of
subscribers than the best penned edi
torial upon centralization or the most
caustic contribution to the “truth of his
tory.” Yet a journal which should de
cline to charge for such communica
tions would soon become a fit sub
j ct for cremation. A line must be
drawn somewhere, and the conductors
of newspapers all the world over have
decided that matter which only directly
benefits one person —no matter whom
or how many it may help indirectly—
must 1)6 charged for. No matter how
short nor how interesting Col. Cleau
sides anil Col. Nainsook may make the
announcements of cheap groceries and
unrivalled dry goods they cannot expect
them inserted gratuitously. We know
of merchants in Augusta, for instance,
who make their advertisements as at
tractive and interesting as many office
seekers’ letters of suggestion and ac
ceptance. The Star thinks that the
matter which we are discussing should
be left to the discretion of the editor :
He is supposed to know the character
of aspirants for office in his bailiwick,
and their qualifications for office. He
is also supposed to know, approximately,
the strength and influence of their
several friends and supporters. He is
pretty certain to know whether any par
ticular communication seeking entrance
into his columns will be interesting to
any considerable number of his readers.
The adoption of such a policy would
provo very unfair to candidates as well
as injurious to newspapers. If one
communication of this character is ad
mitted others should not bo excluded.
They all come under the same head,
anil it would bo manifestly wrong to tell
the friends of Hon. Boanerges Thunder
bolt, the sld anu well known political
leader, “you may parade the virtues,
the patriotism and the moral loveliness
of your candidate gratis,” while the ad
mirers of young Spreadeagle are not
allowed to write of the budding glories of
their candidate. It would be improper
to make an exception in favor of any
candidate. If one pays they should all
pay. If one is dead-headed they should
all go free of charge. The Star thinks
it a deception upon the public to pub
lish articles of this character as reading
matter, whilo demanding pay for their
insertion. Possibly this might be true
if the public was not informed of tho
rule upon this subject. But as every
paper which adopts it generally makes
it known in the most censpieuous man
ner, there are but few who are left in
iguorance. We think that the announce
ment of a candidate is as much an ad
vertisement as an announcement of seal
ing wax or whisky for sale, and we shall
eharge for one just as we do for the
other.
IMPERIALISM.
The question. Have We a Bourborn
Among Us ? which was discussed for so
long a time in Putnam's Magazine
many years ago, and never satisfactorily
settled, pales into insignificance when
compared with the formidable inquiry,
Have We au Imperialist Among Us?
We publish this morning another graphic
letter from the peu of Mr. Henry Wat
terson upon the subject of C.esarism,
which will be found well worthy of pe
rusal. Whether the editor of the
Courier-Journal is developing facts or
constructing a sensation upon au atmos
pheric basis, it is impossible to decide.
At all eveuts, his letter is a very read
able epistle, and will be found to fur
uish ample food for reflection. Whether
General Grant does or does not medi
tate the establishment of a monarchial
form of government upon the ruins of
Republicanism; whether he -.tends tore
tire gracefully, a second Washington,
to the shades of private life with the
expiration of his present term of office;,
or whether he is aspiring to a third term
and tho “possibilities” which might at
tend sticess iu that hazardous design, it
may prove interesting to discuss the
practicability of an assumption of kiugly
power by the Executive. It will be
readily conceded that if opposed by the
people no such scheme would be feasi
ble for au instant. We have no large
standing army as iu European States;
wo have no important, no commanding
forts and citadels which constitute the
keys of the country, as iu Eugland and
France. Our army is ridiculously small,
iu proportion to tho population and
when compared with the immense arma
ments of foreign powers. Our territory
is of enormous dimensions, comprising
every variety of climate and formation.
We have a population of forty mil
lions, full of pluck and determination.
Clearly imperialism is impossible un
less established by consent of the peo
ple. The most important poiut to con
sider, then, is whether the inhabitants
of the United States are ready to accept
personal government ? Have they be
come satisfied that Republicanism is a
failure, and that the only hope of the
country lies in a centralization of the
power once so widely diffused ? Has
the war between tbe States and its re
sults—the.liberation of four millions of
slaves, ignorant alike of the practices
and principles of free government, the
overthrow of the governments of thir
teen States aud the substitution of Con
gress created authority, the disfran
ehisemeßt of citizens for opinion's sake,
the alteration and perversion of the
Federal Constitution until what was
framed as the charter of our liberties has
become au instrument of injustice and
oppression—prepared the minds of the
people for a change w hich shall give them
a Monarchy with its supposed strength,
instead of a Republic with its acknowl
edged weakness? These are all ques
tions which must be answered in the af
firmative, or else we are no nearer
C.BS.UUSM now than when Aaron Bcrr
dreamed, beneath the fragrant rose trees
and trailing vines of Blennerhassetts
Island, of imperial power and an Em
pire beyond the Mississippi. To those
who have given much thought to the
subject it is evident that a great change
has taken place not only in our form of
government, but, as well, in the feelings
of the people. Usurpations and acts of
arbitrary power in derogation of the
rights of the people and of the States
which were connived at or submitted to
under the plea that they were the fruits
of war, or were necessary for the pre
servation of the Union, have since been
perpetrated when the reason which
first excused them has ceased to
exist. Deeds which twenty years ago
would have fired the country from
the Great Lakes to the Gulf aDd roused
a million of indignant freemen to arms
are now regarded with indifference if
not with approbation. States’ Rights
have become but a name, end local self
government, instead of conferring the
benefits of former days, is coming to be
looked upon by many as an expensive
and useless burden which it would be
good policy to remove forever. Every
department of goveniment has grown so
corrupt, the abuses of official position
have become so numerous and so fla
grant that n any would not seriously ob
ject to a stronger if a purer administra
tion. Frauds at elections have become
so common that the ballot box has fallen
into disrepute and many of the best
citizens in every community almost whol- j
lyabstain from participation in political !
affairs and view with indifference contests
in the determination of which they are
vitally interested. Again, tho money
power every year grows more conserva
tive as it becomes more formidable. It
opposes political changes and revolu
tions which may, which will, affect the
finances. Capitalists prefer a settled
government, whether it be Democratic,
Liberal or Radical. Since the war the
conntry North and South has baen filled
with old officers and soldiers whose
military life learned them to exercise
and to endure arbitrary authority. All
these things, say the Imperialists, have
prepared the country for a strong con
solidated government, and but a few
years time is needed to complete the
ripening of the imperial pear. In the
meantime, all true lovers of the Re
public, while admitting the premises
will deny the correctness of the conclu
sions, and will not readily believe that
the people are ready to put a third rate
C.lsak in the place of Washington and
of Jefferson.
ALARMING ALIMONY.
A ease lias recently been decided by
the Courts of New York which, if gen
erally sustained by the tribunals of the
country, will constitute an exceedingly
annoying and expensive precedent for
married gentlemen whoso wives deem it
prudent, pleasant or profitable to have
the nuptial ties dissolved. Some years
ago tbe wife of Mr. Gihand discovered
that she was the victim of incompati
bility of temperament, immorality, cruel
treatment or habitual drunkenness on
the part of her husband, and going into
the nearest Divorco Court procured a
separation and a handsome annual al
lowance as alimony. The male Girand,
perhaps considering the money which
rid him of his wife a good investment,
paid it without murmuring, and doubt
less songht consolation for his bereave
ment in some other sympathizing bosom.
The female Girand, free of her fetters,
found other and fresher fields, and soon
drew iilto the matrimonial noose the
neck of one Shepeiid, who, like her for
mer lord, was also blessed with a com
fortable substance. Not long had the
lovers lived together ere troubles arose
between them which the mediating
agency of the Divorce Court alone could
settle. Thanks to able counsel and to
the justice of her cause, Madam was
again triumphant. She secured her re
lease and, what was of far more import
ance, obtained a round sum as alimony.
Her total income from her two ex-lxus
bauds now amouuted to three thousand
six hundred and seventy-two dollars and
fifty cents (we like to be particular about
the cents) per annum—a by no means
contemptiblo sum, even with tho pros
pect of inflation ahead. It is not to
be supposed that a lady of such
great experience and alimonied to such
an alarming extent would be long with
out admirers. Fate overtook lier a
third time in the person of General An
derson, a Collector of Internal of Reve
nue in the State of South Carolina.
They were married, and clubbing the
legacies of a lost love (or rather lost
loves, for there were two of them) with
tho stipend of Uncle Sam, they man
aged to solve the great housekeeping
problem, how to make both ends meet ?
without difficulty. But after awhile a
cloud appeared upon the horizon of her
third and last married life. Numbers
one and two objected to making soft the
couch and pleasant the ways of number
three. It was bad enough to pay inter
nal revenue tribute with the knowledge
that from it must come the salary of
their successor, but it was concentrating
the agony to have to be taxed to the
tune of thirty-seven hundred dollars per
annum upon a matrimonial investment
which had ended in bankruptcy—to be
kicked out of the firm, and be forced to
support the new partner who had assum
ed their places iu the business. They
determined to resist, and Sheperd in
stituted proceedings in the Court to
have stricken out the alimony portion o 1
the divorce decree, on the ground that
it was annulled by the lady’s subse
qneut marriage. Mrs. Anderson vigor
ously resisted the application, and again
came off victor in a contest with
“Old Father Antic, the Law.” The
Courts have held that nothing in the
American books warrants such a con
struction of the law of alimony as the
plaintiff seeks to procure. When a di
vorce and an allowance has been decreed
to a woman, the continuance of the ali
mony does not depend upon her remain
iugsingle. She may mate as often as she
likes, and still draw her income. To es
tablish a contrary doctrine would be to
pnt a restraint upon marriage, which
should never be Attempted. Messrs.
Sheperd and Girand will continue their
work of benevolence and tbe collector
aud his bride will live peacefully and,
let us hope, happily upon the income
arising from broken hearts, blasted
hopes and withered aspirations.
The chivalry embodied in the decision
cannot be questioned but its wisdom
may be seriously doubted. So far as
poor men are concerned it makes no dif
ference. Vacuus cautabit coram latronc
viator.- a husband without money may
whistle in the Divorce Court. But to the
rich man of the country this settlement
of the law of alimony is fraught with
vast importance, and we shall strike
a manly in their behalf.—
| (Just here ■we will remark that
there are no -fcalthy persons connected
with the Chk*;icle and Sentinel, and
that we, therefore, consider it a hand
some thing on oar part to take up the
cudgels for Crests.) It places them at
the mercy of ail needy man layers, and
will deplete their pockets more rapidly
than a bear movement in gold or a cor
: ner in fancy sticks. The facilities for
divorce are so great under the benign
laws of an advanced civilization that the
owner of a hiudred thousand dollars
may be captu-ed, despoiled and dis
charged half a lozen or a dozen times
in the coarse oliin ordinary life. Mar
riages will be Prevented, and the very
evil brought tAxmt which the Courts
wish humanity to escape. Instead of
learning that a man is too poor to marry,
, we will be told chat he is too rich to
afford that luxury. The man of opu
j lenee, when he leaves home in the nsorn
| ing, will expect that jtpon his return at
I evening he will
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 27, 1574.
a summons to the nearest Divorce Court.
He will shun marriage as he would the
plague, and wealth will be made a curse
instead of a blessing. We have heard a
great deal of Woman’s Rights ; let us
hear something now of the Rights of
Man.
A NEW ROOK.
We have received from Mr. William
Dugas Trammel, of Waverly Hall,
Harris county, Georgia, a copy of ~“Ca
Ira” — a novel from his pen which has
just been published. The scene is laid
principally in Atlanta, aud many Geor
gia men and women figure prominently
in the pages of the book. We recognize
Governor Brown, Mr. Henry Grady,
Mre. Westmoreland, the Minister who
was tried for the seduclion of a DeKalb
county girl, and the girl herself figure
under fictitious names, while twogentle
men of Atlanta figure in propria per
sona. We have only had time to glance
over “Ca Ira.”
DEATH OF ADMIRAL BUCHANAN.
Admiral Franklin Buchanan, the
hero of Hampton Roads and Mobile
Bay, died in Baltimore on the 13th inst.,
at the ripe age of seventy-four years.
He was an officer in the United States
service until the secession of the South
ern States, when he resigned, and was
appointed to the temporary command of
Drury’s Bluff. A short time afterwards
he was appointed to the command of
the ironclad ram Virginia (Merrimac),
then lying at Norfolk. On the Bth of
March, 1862, he steamed out into Hamp
ton Roads and attacked and dispersed
the Federal fleet, sinking the Constitu
tion and the Congress. But during the
action he received a severe wound which
disabled him for several months. After
his recovery he was appointed to the
command of the Confederate fleet in
Mobile Bay, and in the great fight be
fore Fort Morgan, on the 12tli of March,
1864, received another wound, which
compelled him to turn over the com
mand of his ironclad, the Tennessee, to
Lieut. Johnson, who continued the ac
tion until the gallant little flotilla was
overwhelmed by tho superior numbers
and guns of the enemy.
AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY.
There is an excellent opportunity for
some political economist to make a repu
tation by explaining a very difficult
problem in which the people are just
now very deeply interested. It appears
from the statements of Administration
journals that there is a vast difference
financially between issuing the $44,000,-
000 “for the sake of getting it into cir
culation” and issuing it as a reserve
whenever an emergency requires or the
revenues fall below the expenditures.
It does not appear, however, in what,
this difference consists. To the un
scientific mind it seems very doubtful
whether there is any difference. If the
currency of the country is in any sense
a measure of value, it would seem very
clear—to the unscientific mind—that
the actual measure is not the amount ac
tually in circulation at a given moment,
but the amount which can be put in cir
culation. To suppose otherwise seems
—still to the unscientific mind—like
supposing that the measure of values
can be suddenly changed at any mo
ment by the locking up of a few thou
sand dollars in New York or Boston or
Detroit. This being the state to which
the unscientific mind is reduced, it is
very important that an opinion should
be had from the scientific mind. If the
issue of a million of dollars, because the
Secretary of the Treasury thinks there
is an emergency, does not inflate the
currency while the issue of a million in
the ordinary course of business does,
the people ought to know it. Tho
knowledge might not do them any per
manent good—it certainly would not if
the Treasury Department retains its pe
culiar power over the so-called reserve
—but it would be a pleasant thing to
have.
ENGLISH CAPITAL IN THE SOUTH
The Exeter,(England) Post publishes a
column prospectus of what is termed
the “South Carolina Rice Plantation
Trust, Limited.” The promot; rs of this
enterprise propose to buy up twenty-five
of the rice plantations on the North
Santee and Ashepoo rivers, South Caro
lina, and, as the prospectus expresses it,
“rehabilitate and financially develope
and restore them to the fertility thrown
out of cultivation by the late war.” The
tracts to be purchased comprise an area
of 36,666 acres of freehold laud', of
which 10,113 acres ate rice lands, under
bank, with about 2,000 acres now in cul
tivation, 8,700 acres rice lands not un
der bank, and the rest corn and cotton
lands and pine and white oak woodland.
All this land is to be sold to the com
pany by John Chadwick, owner, witli
all its improvements, banks, canals,
dwelling houses, etc., etc., for £190,000
in cash, aud £250,000 in paid up shares,
these shares to receive no dividend un
til each certificate holder, in addition to
dividends on his shares up to ten per
cent, per annum, is paid back the whole
amount subscribed as a bonus, and still
retains his share, which will participate
in all future profits of the undertaking.
The managers say tl; at “no difficulty is
anticipated iu procuring an ample sup
ply of efficient and instructed labor from
the negroes upon the spot. These people,
warmly attached to the localities where
they were born,are peaceful and orderly,
and willing to work when honestly and
fairly treated. They have invariably
preferred the rice plantations,on account
of the abundance of game, wild fowl
fish, oysters, &c., to be found there
(which they have always been permitted
to enjoy without restriction), and they
are thoroughly accustomed to, and
skilled in, the cultivation of rice. Many
of them are mechanics, carpenters,
blacksmiths, &J., of remarkable intel*
ligence and usefulness. Since the
emancipation different systems have
been tried in the employment of the
freedmen, but it is now generally ad
mitted that the most successful in at
tracting and retaining labor is that of
weekly payments of wages in cash. It
is this plan which will be adopted, and
by paying with scrupulous punctuality,
the directors are assured and believe
that their supply of labor will be ample,
regular and reliable. They propose,
however, to introduce all labor-saving
machines which can be usefully and
profitably employed.” The capital of
the proposed company is to be £500,000,
in shares of £lO each, a bonus certificate
of £lO being given with each share. It
is proposed to put in cultivation by the
Spring of 1875 ten thousand acres of the
rice lands, and at an average production
of forty bushels per acre. The profits
including sales of naval stores, rent,
etc., are calculated at £78,540, or 8392,-
700. The Post, editorially noticing the
enterprise, says :
“The English and American capital
ists wno are combining in the ‘South
Carolina Rice Trust’ hope to restore the
fallen fortunes of that far-off district,
and bring back the old days of rice
profits and planting prosperity. The
time coaid not be more opportune, and
the speculation looks like the most
promising speenlatiqn now out Jt is
the newest, and if it is earned out, we
may be able to feed India in her next
famine with American rice. This is
rivalling Canning’s feat—calling anew
world into existence to redress the bal
ance of the old, and to make twenty
per cent, by the transaction. Dr. Rus
sel, the special correspondent of the
limes, is one of the directors, and
several good names are on the list.”
STATE COLLEGE OFAGRICULTCRE
AND THE MECHANIC ARTS.
We copy from the New York Tribune
the following notice of this college:
The Georgia State College of Agricul
ture and the Mechanic Arts, located at
Athens, and presided over by Wm, Le-
Roy Broun, M. A., makes in its first re
port lately issued a reasonably satisfac
tory showing of resources and prospec
tive results. We judge that the new in
stitution is well equipped in way of in
structors aud apparatus, and the roll in
dicates an attendance of 151 students
during the session of 1872-’3, of which
140 were received without oliarge for
tuition. For the present term, 131 have
already been admitted, all but three
free. Preparatory investigations have
been made by Prof. H. C. White, touch
ing the chemistry of the cotton plaut as
grown on different soils, and the Profes
sor of Agriculture, Dr. Pendleton, has
conducted experuments on the few acres
of land set apart for his purpose, aud
will follow with others, with the view of
ascertaining, among other things,
“whether bone phosphate, ground suf
ficiently fine, will bo so decomposed and
rendered soluble iu the waters of the
soil by the action of stable manure and
cotton seed, or by either, as to answer
all the purposes of Southern agricul
ture?” Profs. Pendleton and White
fills several pages with conclusions and
suggestive remarks of interest to intelli
gent planters.
While our Minister to England has
disgraced the country which he repre
sents, by using his official position to
further the plans and promote the suc
cess of a wild-cat mining company with
which he was connected, recent events
have shown that the late Minister to
Brazil is even more of a swindler than
his brother diplomatist at the Court of
Sr. James. During the Paraguayan
war the Brazilians condemned a vessel
claimed by an American. The Minister,
General Webb, insisted upon reparation
under penalty of demanding his pass
ports. He afterwards transmitted $15,-
000—the amount of the indemnity—to
the Department of State. An investiga
tion subsequently showed that the
United States was in tho wrong and the
money was refunded. But the Brazili
ans say they have General Webb’s re
ceipt for $65,000, and they wish to know
what has become of the missing fifty
thousand.
TOOMBS AND THE EMPIRE.
Have We an Imperialist Among Us?
[Editorial Correspondence Courier-Journal.]
Ebbitt House, May 11, 1874.
There is no especial reason why at
this time there should be a speculative
leaning towards tho Presidential succes
sion. We have but just entered the
second year of the present term. The
elections already held : ell little or noth
ing, and no one would risk his reputa
tion by undertaking to predict the char
acter of those which are to come. There
is, indeed, a general notion that the
Republicans will lose their old partisan
control over the next House of Repre
sentatives. Yet, in spite of this belief,
it is not thought the Democrats will be
able to secure a working majority.
From thirty to fifty independents, gran
gers and guerrillas are looked for, and,
as it would be the sheerest folly to build
any calculations on these, the prospect,
immediate and remote, is shut in by a
dense fog. In spite of this, however,
the last fortnight has developed an un
usual liveliness among political thinkers
aud theorists. General Grant’s relation
to a third term is freely discussed; and,
along with it the claims and chances of
other aspirants, for it is not doubted by
any watchful, well-informed observer
that General Grant is an aspirant. The
President’s career has been a series of
ad vestures and surprises. His suc
cesses have defied all rule. He has
taken large and uncommon risks,
aud there is nothing, from his stand
point, more remarkable in the idea of a
third term than he has constantly en
countered and grown used to considering
iu his past experience. That he will
find plenty of friends to impress him
with the force of the idea—to turn it
round aud round for him—to put it in
fair lights—to make it simple, plausible
and common-pluca—we may be sure.
Nor will these advisers come only from
among the sycophants and office-holders
who look to a continuance of the pres
ent dynasty for a renewal of their lease,
coupled with a proportionate increase of
chances.
The visit of Gen. Robert Toombs to
the President was doubtless meant to be
a simple courtesy aud nothing more. It
was received, in all likelihood, in the
way of a curious good nature character
istic of Gen. Grant. But when it is re
membered that Gen. Toombs is an
earnest and out-spoken imperialist, who
does not claim allegiance to this country,
aud seeks nothing so ardently as a revo
lution which shall give it a master; the
cordiality which he met at the White
House, and tho pleasure which a call
protracted muoli beyogd thp convention
al limit gave to the occupant of
the White House, may be worth
making note of. It is a straw which
points Southward, where it shows the
existence of a small but in cases of emer
gency a resolute bodyof men, who, worn
out and disgusted by partisan misgov
erument and malignity, regard a third
term as the beginning of the end of
both. This class has no present ill-will
toward Gen, Grant. It recognizes the
many soldiery acts which marked his
conduct in the closing of the war and
the many accessible and complacent
features of his disposition as a man. It
thinks, mistakenly, that any change
would be for the better, not seeing that,
under the personal government it would
set up for Gen. Grant, the present abuses
would be magnified.
Gen. Toombs is but the spokesman of
this element. He is at once a most in
trepid* and a most brilliant man, and
however a sound and rational Republi
canism may detest his destructive ten
denceies, I am not; prepared to set him
down as the reckless person he is des
cribed to be. Daring thirty years he
has been as rashly advanced iu his opin
ions aud utterances as he is to-aay. I
hope he is not now so dangerously “ pro
phetic. He destroyed the Whig party
to make himseli a leader of the Demo
cratic party. He destroyed the Demo
cratic party to make himself a leader of
the Secession party. His destructive
predilections and prowess manifested
themselves for the third timejust as the
Confederacy wa3 on the eye of its inlie-
rent destruction. lie is by no means ’
too old to come again to the front as a
destroyer of the Republic, which, after i
his failure to destroy the Union, seems ;
to be a sort of seoond n|ioice with him. !
He is perfectly logical iu his views and '
aims; and, if the fight for the old tradi-1
tions of liberty is lost in ’76—for those ;
sentimental traditions whose extinction i
w*ll be the forerunner of a practical and
progressive revolution in the Govern- !
ment —we may see Toombs once more :
the leader of a party, supporting a
court and squaring the old account’ at j
last by the agency of a ooup d’etat.
In the meantime General Grant is!
backed by the capitalists, who dread
| political changes of every kind and fee!
j that they can rely on him, and by the
: office holders, who ought to be strong
enough to command the forms of a third
j nomination. This secured, he can trust
to luck, as he has always done, for the
issue, and, in short, will be the candi
date to be beaten. As time moves us
i up nearer and nearer to' the field, un
known and unexpected objects may re
veal themselves. Bat in the midst of
the prevailing fog these outlines appear:
the Republican party is ruled by the
office holders and the President rules
them by the common law of reciprocal
interest; there is no one Republican
strong enough to unite the party- against
its organizers: each of the Republican
1 leaders is just *trqng enough to make
; way with his next-door rival; and thus,
: if the election were upon us, we should
1 find Gen. Grant master of the only com
pact body in the political field, equip
ped with munitions and money in abun
dance, with a disspirited South, a de
i moralized North, and a divided opposi
tion to stand between bin* and bis ambi
i tion. Those whq pooh-pooh suggestions
like these are those who believe nothing
j possible which is oat of the old order,
and those who will readily fall into the
| programme after it ha« been developed.
There are not fifty Republicans in Con
gress whom Gen. Grant may not count
on iu an emergency. Those who protest
the contrary with most vehemence will
be the surest to come up to the scratch
when the time for action arrives. The
South is a convenient lever by which
the party drill can be at all times en
forced, and thus a petard shaped by tbe
North may in the end hoist it out of its
liberties.
Tbe time may come when the South
will find no escape from malignant leg
islation and misgoverument bpt by fol
lowing General Toombs en masse into
the imperial camp. But it should at
least make one more fight for the old
freeborn signals. The people of the
North were not conscious ot the wrong
they did themselves when they put the
South in irons, and they do not at heart
support the scandalous outbursts of
hate which every now and then appear
in Congressional legislation and may be
heard every time such maliguants as
Conkling and Hoar open their lips.
The trouble has been that the South
has had no audience at the North. The
people of the North have received most
of their impressions from professional
libelers of the South. Lamar’s speech
on Sumner surprised New England, as
it rebuked the hypocrites who, detest
ing Sumner, would have made a vindic
tive Radical jubilee over his coffin-lid.
I declare, without the least fear of con
tradiction, that the only really sincere
eulogies on Sumner were those of La
mar, who represented the generosity of
the South, and Schurz, who was Sum
ner’s private friend, and neither con
tained a syllable offensive to any pa
triotic national sentiment. One day, let
us hope at a day lief >re it is too late,
New England will learn that such men
as Hoar and Hawley are her worst ene
mies The South should also know
that the people of New England are as
liberal as the Southern people are, and
as willing to reach a good accord. Bos
ton would welcome Lamar with honors,
and yet Lamar only spoke iu the name
of the South, obtaining by hiseloqueuce
and address the audience which is often
denied to men of less genius. Both
sections should consider the circum
stance. It mdy, or it may not, be of
good omen ; but one thing is certain, if
it is not—if the missionaries of ruin
who walk abroad in Congress and
out of Congress, fomenting strife
and raising up mutual distrust, are
not supplanted by better men, we
may as well bid good-bye to the Re
public, and say all hail to Toombs aud
the Empire ! H. W.
A TAMMANY” SQUABBLE.
The Fight at the Maison Doree, as De
scribed by Morrissey.
[From the New York Sun ]
General excitement was caused last
evening by the report that Senator Fox
and John Morrissey had agreed to settle
their differences by fighting a duel. Ru
mor fixed the place of meeting at Sara
toga, iu a clump of trees behiud the In
dian encampm&ut. Mr. Morrissey was
to have for second the valiant Arkansan
and ex-Oonfederate Colonel, Fellows,
while Fox would be sustained by Nick
Muller, so rumor said. i
At dark a Sun reporter crossed the
threshold of Fox’s domicile on Morrie
street. The Senator was absent at Alba
ny, it is said. A male relative denied very
positively that there was any truth in
the report about the intended duel.
Senator Fox had gone to Albany to set
tle his bills and other affairs there, and
would be back that evening.
The reporter sought the home of John
Morrissey. Mr. Morrissey told the story
of his difficulty with the Senator: “I
went into the Maison Doree with Char
ley Walsh,” he said, “and saw Shook
and Fox in conversation. Fox said to
me, ‘You gave me the cold shoulder to
day ou Broalway. ’ I asked him what
he meant. Fox answered, ‘You gave me
two fingers.’ I said, ‘I did not mean
anything by it, and if you take it in that
way lam sorry. ’ Then Fox said that I
had gone back on him politically, but
would do well enough for a prize fighter.
I told Fox that he was a thief; that we
had elected him Senator, and sent two
men to Albany to watch him to keep
him from stealing. Fox said bis record
was good in Albany. I replied, ‘Yes,
and so was Diok Turpin’s in England.’
I then told Fox that he g 4 elected
through the circumstance of his father
in-law being killed, which created sym
pathy for him, and through that sympa
thy he was elected. From working for
two dollars a day he had beoonqe a mil
lionaire.
“Fox got excited and put his fist up to
me, and I put mine up to him, and told
him to take his hand down. Fox said,
‘You are not going to hurt me, are you?’
I answered no. Fox then said : ‘You
dare not hurt me ——Then I hit him
on the cheek hoire, and my hand
slipped, grassing fiis forehead. I bucked
him and ho honored, ‘Don’t, John.’ As
he made no further demonstration I de
sisted on the interference of friends.” *
Mr. Morrissey denied any intention to
fight a duel. The reporter ascertained
that the rumor had its origin in a re
mark made by a friend of {’ox's at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, that Fox had a pis
tol to shoot Marissey, The parties have
been quietly hostile since the fight. Fox
returned on the evening train from
Albany.
The Gaines Chisholm Trial. —The
trial of Gaines Chisholm for the murder
of Penn Bedell closed in Atlanta Satur
day evening last. The ease was given
to the jury who were instructed to baud
their verdict pita Court Monday morn
ing. 1 lie Herald, of yesterday, says:
Yesterday morning a.large and anxi
ous crowd gathered at the Court room
to hear the verdict of the jury, in the
case of Gaines Chisolm, charged with
the offense of killing Penn Resell. There
were numerous surprises aa to what the
vertjict would be, a majority favoring
the idea of an acquittal. The prisoner
was brought in a short while before tho
Court convened. He was neatly dressed
and appeared perfectly calm. There
was no excitement visible] he took a
seat near the jury box anti conversed
with bis counsel and other friends.—
Judge Hopkins then convened the
Court, the Bailiff in attendance was or
dered to bring in the jury, who came in
and took their position in the box. The
foreman handed the sealed verdict to
Solicitor-General Glenn. As the pack
age was being torn open the vast au
dience was hushed to a death like still
ness; the fate of a human being hung on
one or two words. The verdict was read
slowly and distinctly, “We, the jury,
find the prisoner not guilty.” A mur
mur of applause ran through the hall,
but was promptly suppressed by the
Court. The Judge then addressed the
jury briefly; he commended them for
their patient performance and close at
tention during the trialjthey had weigh
ed the matter well, and had rendered an
impartial verdict. He thanked them in
behalf of the Court, and dismissed them.
The counsel in the above case deserve
great praise for their successful efforts
in behalf of their client. The following
gentleman spoke in defense of Mr.
Chisolm: Colonels Peeples and Evan
Howell, General Gartrell, Judge Wright
and B. H. Hill.
Gray was the most oareful of poets,
and so severe was his taste that he ex
punged the following beautiful stanzas
from his immortal “ Elegy in a Country
Churchyard.” Even Lord Byron said,
in his Diary, February 27, 1821, “ I
wonder that Gray could have had the
heart to oipit such lines :”
Here scattered oft. the earliest of the year.
By hands unseen, are showers of violets
found ;
The red-breast loves to build and warble here.
And little footsteps lightly print the ground.
With grim delight the brood of Winter view
A brighter dav, and heavens of azure blue,
Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose,
And quaff the blushing vintage as it grows.
It has been well said that the leavings
of Gray are saperior to the finished com
pasitions of most other men.
The surviving members of Hood’s
Texas Brigade held their third annual
reunion at Galveston on the 7th instant.
Their battle-torn flag was greeted with
enthusiastic applause. The Galveston
New* prefaces its account of the day's
proceedings with a historio record of the
gallant corps. Colonel Woflordand the
Eighteenth Georgia are credited with a
share in the earlier honors of the famous
command.
Paris, May 20.—The Ministerial crisis
continues. The only progress made to
dav was an agreement between President
MacMahon and the K. ght Centre that
pa Bonapartists should be called to the
Cabinet, which excludes M. Magne.
Paris,. May 30.— The Duke de Char
tres has not challenged Panl de Gassag
nac.
HIE FATAL FLOOD.
A History ot tkg Massachusetts Dis
aster.
New Haven, Conn., May 16.—A
twenty-four inch pipe iu the dam of the
great Ashtield reservoir, above Williams
burg, Massachusetts, had been leaking
for weeks, and some people had shaken
their heads and said the dam must be
attended to or it might break. It did
break. At eight o’clock this morning
the masonry around this outlet gave
way, and then, all in a minute, as if a
piece had been bitten out of the. dam, a
great wall of water seemed to spring up
into the air and leap into the sink be
low. The standing joke of Mill River
Valley, “Look out, the dam is broken,”
was proved no joke at last. The torrent
was upon Williamsburg in ten minutes,
and sent its spray above trees sixty feet
high. It crushed one house like paper,
and killed a woman and her two chil
dren; then unother and another, swept
the woolen mills aud rushed on at the
rate of twenty miles an hour. As it
came
Raging Down the Valley,
It dug up houses and swallowed them
in an instant, leaving no trace. Tree
buts and great stones came down with
tlie flood. The mountain of water roar
ing like a thunder storm of hail, reached
Skinnerville and lifted the silk mills
upon its shoulders before shreding them
into oits. At Haydenville it swept away
the factory iu a- moment. At Leeds it
came down a wall of water, faced by an
abattis of timbers, trees, and iron boil
ers, which struck the village iu full front.
There was an hour and a half of flood
and then ebb, and at noon those who
had escaped came back in crowds to see
the ruin. It is au awful sight. Houses
are twisted like crumpled paper, trees
stripped of their bark and limbs even
when their roots have clung to the soil.
The beautiful valley is a waste of mild
aud muddy water, laden with dis
torted and strange shapes. Great
boilers have been carried hundreds of
yards aud left crushed together aud
buried. A man was picked up from a
tree upon which he had ridden six
miles on the torrent, cheering aud wav
ing his coat. The poor fellow’s mind
was gone. Everything was ground tine.
When the flood was past the timbers
were iu toothpicks, aud scraps of iron,
bricks, great stones, newly become
boulders, and here and there a corpse or
a piece of a corpse. All the windings of
the valley were filled with the debris—a
terrible picture of waste and death in
tbe most beautiful valley of Massachu
setts.
The gracious work of saving the dead
from this burial began at noon. At
Skinnerville the first bodies were picked
up, dug out from the mud, or taken with
difficulty from overloaded ruins. All
through the valley the work went on till
night, and then men went with their
lanterns seeking their dead find stood
guard. At Haydenville forty bodies
were gathered by night; at Leeds forty
five. There had been, in the afternoon,
gangs of plunderers promptly tuined to
workers by no stinted threats; the people
were ready to brain them with the first
stone. There were fewer dead at Flor
ence and Northampton (140 in all), and
many more are oertainly buried in the
mud and rubbish that fill the valley with
black heaps from Williamsburg to North,
ampton.
A Man On Horseback
Gave warning through the upper half of
the valley, but some would not hear aud
some turned to their houses and to the
great factories for safety. One man at
Haydenville Factory saved his life by
sticking to the house, but he was a mar
vellous exception. He ran into a closet
that stood against the great chimney of
the factory, and when the factory was
crushed the chimn y stood, anti his
closet stuck to him like a lantern against
a wall, with him waving his arm for help
out of a breaoh he made in its walls.
But a mau and a girl who ran out at
the roar of the waters to run back for a
haven of safety, went down under the
building. At Williamsburg a factory
and twenty-seven houses were blotted
out; at Haydenville, a factory, a gas
house, a oottuu mill, a bank, and 100
dwellings; at Leeds a button faotory and
twenty-five buildings; at Skinnerville
every house is gone except Mr. Skin
ner’s own. Such houses as are here set
down as “gone” are utterly vanished
and distributed iu sh eds—not a piece
over six feet long—ovey mfica of coun
try. To attempt to estimate the money
loss would be folly now. It will be
counted iu tens of millions, and the
whole valley will be a house of mourn
ing to-morrow. The “Licking Water
River,” as they call it, has been a sea,
and is now a trickling stream lost in
miles of mud. The lake, hemmed in by
defective masonry up among tho Goshen
hills, has done Its work terribly.
Another Account.
Springfield, May 16.—Never before
in Now England, and rarely in the
country, has an accident of a similar
nature been attended with such sad and
fatal consequenoea, Even the terribb
floods in Louisiana and other sections
of the southwest, still so fresh in the
public mind, seem to sink into insign fi
cauce oompared with the terrible catas
trophe whiah in one half hour this morn
ing swept out of existence two or three
of the most thrifty manufacturing towns
in New England, and cast a gloom of
jadness and sorrow over the community
which it will take years, if not a genera
tion, to recover from- During the past
twq days tffieye have been a few mild
showers all along the Connecticut
Valley, but the aggregate of raiu which
fell was not sufficient to cause any
very perceptible rising in the mountain
streams, and therefore the terrible dis
aster cannot properly be regarded as one
of the consequenoos of an unusual flood
or freshet. On the contrary, and as la
mentable as the fact may be, the calami
ty is nothing more or less than the fruit
of an insecure and probably an ill-oon
structed reservoir. It was located iu
the town of Williamsburg, about ten
miles northwest of Northampton and
the terminus of the New Haven and
Northampton Railroad. The surface of
the reservoir was about 125 acres, and
the average depth of water at the time
it gave way wa3 not less than thirty feet.
It was the joint property of the various
manufacturing establishments in Wil
liamsburg, Leeds, Haydensville, and
Florence,and was usM for the treasure of
water during the Spring and wet seasons,
to be used for the running of the mills
during tho Summer and other periods
when the streams did not afford sufficient
water power. The water thus gathered
wasfrom the eastern and western branches
of what is known as Mill river, which
empties into the Connecticut river, a
few miles below Northampton.
The Dam Itself
Is about nine years old, has received but
few if any repairs since its construction,
and common rumor in Williamsburg
savs, has been pronounced unsafe as
long ago as three years. The break
came very suddenly, almost before the
inhabitants of the inundated villages
had partaken of their morning meal,
and in some instances before they had
awakened from the slumber of the night
before. The morning was dark and
cloudy, as if in keeping with the melan
oholy event, and the operatives in the
various mills along the lineof the stream
were generally wending their way to
their daily toil. It was not far from
seven o’clock when the first symptoms of
the break were discovered by the watch
in charge of the dam. These consisted
of a small leak through the lower em
bankment in the direction of Williams
burg. At first the watchman thought
little or nothing of the circumstance,
but at length the gap began to widen
and be very* properly became alarmed
and hastened to notify the inhabitants
in the villages below. He started on a
run for Williamsburg, which was less
than two miles distant, but long before
he got there the whole embankment gave
way, and the stream of terror, death
and destruction was there ahead of him.
He had to take refuge upon a neighbor
ing hill to save his own life, and thus
became an agonized and helpless witness
of a calamity which he had done
all in his humble power to avert.
The rush of the waters and the fear
and consternation which ensued among
the besieged citizens was most heart
rendiug to witness. The flood came
without the slightest warning save a
heavy rumbling not unlike thunder or
the sound of a heavy train passing over
a covered railroad bridge. Almost in a
moment the torrents swept successively
through the villages of Skinnerville,
Williamsburg, Haydensville, and Deeds,
the three first named hamlets being
about three-quarters of a mile apart,
and the latter about two miles below
Haydensville. To those who saw the
terrible volume approaching it looked .n
the distance
As if a Terrible Fire
Was sweeping aoross the country. The
spray or foam had the appearance of
heavy blaok smoke, and the deception
was so complete that in the village of
Haydensville the fire bolls were ring
ing for a few minutes before the
devastating flood struck the town.
The loss to the industrial enterprises
in the vicinity may be safely reck
oned at not less than $1,500,000,
and many of the manufactories destroy
ed will probably never be replaced, in
fact ail of the villages inundated may be
said to be literally destroyed. All the
large factories and very many small ones
are completely wip ul out of existence.
The work of destruction is three times
aS thorough as if a second Chicago or
Boston fire had swept over to the terri
tory. Large brick and stone mills
crumbled like so many piles of sand,
aud small wooden dwellings were no more
to the raging current than so many toy
steamboats would be in the suVgiug
waters of Niagara river. The scene was
most horrible? ml frightful and made even
the strengest men go frantic with fear.
Women fainted in the streets aud were
borne away by the relentless current.—
So sudden was the inundation that many
lost t.her presence of mind and rushed
wildly from point of safety into very
death itself. Others who remained to
save loved aud dear ones were them
selves lost. One painful case was that of
Dr. E. N. Johnson, of Williamsburg,
who seized his two children and iu com
pany with his wife started for a high
prominence just outside the village. He
became exhausted and stopped for a mo
ment to rest. The flood came before he
could get away, and all were loaf, his
wife preferring to share death herself
rather than abandon the ones she so
dearly loved. There are numerous cases
of where whole families were swept
away, as will be seen by the partial list
of oasualities which is'appended to this
account.'
Latest Details by Telegraph.
Springfield, May 20.—Twenty of the
missing have been dug from the ru.ua of
bu hlhigs and the sand ; twenty-five
known to be lost are still in the debris.
The committee of the Legislature find
that the specifications were not. fulfilled
by the contractors in the construction of
the reservoir. Fifty thousand dollars
has been contributed for the relief of
the victims of the flood. It appears that
the walls of the reservoir were required
to be built three feet below tho ground.
The contractors based them on the sur
face, making the calamity a mere ques
tion of time. The contractors wiii be
hanged if caught. The empty reser
voirs expose tho villainy practiced by
the contractors. The bodies found yes
terday were nude and much disfigured.
It will require a week to find all. The
poor people are earning money by
searching for models, and brass derricks
have beeu erected to lift safes from tho
streams, most of which are intact. They
were all locked at an early hour of the
flood. The streams are being diverted
from the natural channels to save the
spoils of the flood.
COTTON.
A Few Facts and Figures.
The cotton market in Augusta, yes
terday, was dull and nomiual—ordinary,
13) to 14; good ordinary, 16; low mid
dling, 17; middling, 17). The receipts
were 254 and the sales 84 bales. The
total receipts at all the ports were 2,975
bales against 7,003 last year, ou the
same day,
We gather the following items from
tlie New York Financial and Commer
cial Chronicle for May 16tli:
The total receipts of American ootton
from September Ist, 1873, to May 15 h,
1874, were 3,603,955, against 3,342,974
bales same date last year. The total
exports last week were 48,540 bales
against 48,356 same week last year. The
total ootton afloat May 9th, 1874, was
1,005,000 of which 384,000 bales were
American. .
Movements of Cotton at the Inte
rior Ports.—Below we give the move
ments of cotton at the interior ports—
receipts and shipments for the week,
and stock, May 15th, aud for the corre
sponding week of 1873:
Week ending May 15, 1874.—,
ltecoipta. HUqimenta. stock.
Augusta 430 1,117 13,963
Columbus 171 1,442 8,9u8
Macon 461 854 3 910
Montgomery.,. 228 846 1,073
Selma 250 278 3.482
Memphis* 3,305 4,998 30,000
Nashville 557 1,917 7,050
Total, 01d... 5,409 11,452 63,886
Shreveport 881 1,617 1,889
Atlanta 161 471 1,228
St. Louis 805 631 9,794
Cincinnati 4,003 3.709 11,819
Total, new.. 5,853 6,429 24,730
Total, all . ... 11,202 17,880 88,116
,-«\Veek ending May IQ, 1873.—,
Receipts. .Shipments. Stock.
Augusta 894 3,312 10,334
Columbus 117 714 6,652
Macon 85 942 6,022
Montgomery... 2 9 560 4,751
Selma 184 597 1,410
Memphis* 6,024 8.040 33,719
Nashville 1,014 1,775 10,154
Total, old 8,527 13,940 73,042
Shreveport 722 1,212 2,909
Atlanta 290 350 1,337
St. Louis 781 919 4,384
Cincinnati.. . 3,157 3,191 13,737
Total, new.. 4,950 5,072 22,367
Total, old
Total, a1118,477 19,612 95,4i)0
* Three hundred andtiinety-eiglit bales
were added to receipts discovered on re
count of Htoek.
The above totals show that the old
interior stock decreased during the week
6,035 bales, and were May 15th 9,650
bales lean than at the same period Ia t
year. The receipts have been 3,118
bales leas than the same week last year.
The Chronicle says: “Aocording to
Ott Trumpler the entire takings by Con
tinental spinners of American cotton
last year were 669,000 bales, and In- es
timated that with these takings their
stock had neither increased nor de
creased, so that this total, according to
his belief, just about measured their
consumption of the American staple;
and yet here we have an increased sup
ply already (with, we think, about as
much to go forward the balance of the
year as for the same time last year) of
303,000 bales over lust year's supply up
to this time, and 315,000 bales in excess
of their entire consumption of American
last year. In other words, if not another
bale of American cotton was shipped af
ter May Ist to the Continent this year of
1874, they would still be able to consume
just as much as they did last year aud
have on hand next December in the
ports and with spinners, slock of Ameri
can to the amount of 315,000 bales.
Nor can it be supposed that continent
al spinners are taking largely to Ameri
can cotton and giving up other descrip
tions, for we have seen above that they
are supplying th -rnselves with unusual
amounts of the India staple, and, ac
cording to their takings from Liverpool,
are increasing their demand for the
growth of every other country. And,
besides this, there is another quite re
markable fact, which is that aconsidera
ble portion of this iB going directly to
spinners, and does not appear in our
visible supply after it reache- the Con
tinent. That this is more decidedly the
case than last year may be seen from the
fact that although the supply from the
Continent of American up to May Ist was,
as stated above, 984,288 bales against
681,059 bales for the same time of 1873
(«m increase of 303,090 bales), yet the
continental stock and afloat of American
May Ist, this year, was only 534,000
bales against 391,000 bales May 1, 1873
(143,000 bales increase), showing, there
fore, that 160,000 bales more liave gone
out of sight during the four months of
1874 than during the same period of the
previous year.
But it will most likely be said that
the Continental spinners are increasing
their consumption of all kinds of cotton.
Is this probable ? We have frequently
shown in our editorial columns by
figures aud facts taken from Continental
papers that business there, as well as
throughout Engia and, was in a very
quiesent state. This, however, our
readers well know through their own
correspondents, for the fact is beyond
dispute that trade is stagnant and the
world in general is economizing.
Convention of Confederate Surgeons,
Atlanta, May 20.—The Convention of
Confederate Surgeons met to-day. Abou*
forty delegates are present. Dr. Henry
F. Campbell, of Augusta, is President,
with Vice-Presidents from every South
ern State. Tne general routine busi
ness was transacted. The meeting to
morrow is anticipated as being very
interesting.
The p pnlation of Newuan is increas
ing. Four births last week.
NUMBER 21.
A CHINESE POEM.
Mister Edditors —Yen I vus gone
oop dot Canel by der new Enlargement
I vas got dot beases of Shineae Boetries,
vicli 1 vas gife you sboost like v.is I got
it, uud of you don’t make no differences
about it you can but it in der basket
bei your voste, of you blease or not.
Os koong-.i oon und Minnie-Leen vas
see dot beases, I vish you vould tolo
em he vajs got der goot vishes of
Yours, druly,
Jacob Dunderhead.
A Bomaunt of Chi-nese Love and Pi
(lel-i-ty,
IIV AU CIICNO, OVER-SEER OP 20 RANDS.
Ou Peek-eon’s grand immortal domes.
Where ( hang-fu sheds his lus-trous light,
And Confa's wis-dom tills the tuiueH
Cf knowl-edge and eeles-tial might,
ahe long ring rays of set-ting sun
Were shiu-mg as if molt-eu gold
Had flow’d from tow-ers of Me-on-fun
l’o gild a-n. w their glo-ries old;
Young Ivoang-fun loved Minnie-Leen,
The daught-or of (ho Etn-po-r a-;
In none more beuu-tca o'er was scon
Thau in this child of Tem-so-nor—
Os Tem-so-nor, the villa seat
Os him who ruled the Ein-p -or.
She, al-mon oy’d, boiu-toa-ous, sweet,
Had set all youth-ful heart h on lire.
hut 'rnong the muu’-rous swains who swore
l n dying love to Minuie-l.een,
’Twas plain for whom a out love she bore.
tis whose heart olio was the reig-uing Queen.
Hut ’true love liov-or did run smootho
And no excep-tion hero ih seen,
For while thov did each other soothe
Tho i.mp'-ror acted ’* re ill mean."
lie surn-mon’d Hoang to his Hall—
His An dicnce Had at Tort)-o-nor—-
And thus in sc -ontH lou I did call :
Host know boy, I’m the Em pe-ror
Os all this grand Celestial La. and
- Em-piro. North South. East and West,
And yet you seek my dangh-ter’s hand -
My daugh-ter to whom i love tno best!"
“Most grac-ious Sov’reign,’’ Koang said,
I know thy pow-or, great-ness love ;
lint 1 would give my lieari. mv liead,
For her my gen-tle coo ing' dove
”( ease Pre-sump- iuus youth !” now cried
_ The Em-pe-ror, so tierce eu-raged,
I’ll teach thee. Pau-por and thy bride,
How soon thy love can be as-suaged I
‘ I’ll bavn tbeo doused in Ho-ang-ho,
Dipii’d in yel-lnw Yangts-Ki-aug,
Qu .rtered m old Wu-ohaugo,
Cre-matod in Si-an-gy-ang !
I’d lock Ibis rebel girl of mine
In Nang Urn’s top-most don-jeon tower ;
I’ll feed her on dry bread and wine—
You both shall feel my le-gal powor !’’
Then Koang-fun and Minnio-Leen
Hid Irem-ble at her Hire's de croo.
But swore that naught sb uld oomo ho-twoon
Their lovo which know no mild and -groo.
So. lock’d in aw. et and fond em-braoe,
They bid tlieir Siro de-fi- iuoe stern ;
While down their ebooks tears sad-ly trace,
And sor-row s ands ai every turn.
But darU-est day lias bright-est end,
And sor-rmv last not for si-way;
Wo of-ton liud the trn-est friend.
When frieud-sbip seems fur-lhost a-way.
So Keang-fuu and Mimiio-I.een,
While toss'ii with wild and tierce alarm,
Wore snatoh-ed from Pa-ren-tal spleen,
And boruo boyond the realms of barm.
****** % * *
On Now-port b dear delight-fill shore.
r Where sea-waves boat in tierce de-light,
Young Krang-fun and Minnie-Leen
In liy-man’s silk on bonds u-nite,
The liugr’mg rays of sot-ti g sun
Arodmc-ing o’er the joy-uus waves ;
While o’er the beach the Mermaids run,
And each in Ocean’s waters lavos.
B t Koang fun and Minnio-T.een
Have left old F,w-port’s hap-py sports
(Like drant. who bets his hot-tom 1).
On Nag and Jock-ee Club lie-porta,)
And on Au-gus-ta's now Ca-nal—
En-largeu, im-proved, and new-ly hound—
A love lm-mense, a for-tuue small,
Have in eaoh other tru-Jy found.
THE NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD.
Athens, Ga., May 18, 1874.
'Jo the Editors of the Chronicle and
Sentinel:
I was pleased to see a notice of our
Northeastern Railroad in your paper of
Friday 15tli, but there are several mis
takes in the article, which I know Mr.
Moss, your informant, would bo glml to
see corrected. Tho road extends from
Athens to Clayton and taps the Air Lino
Railroad at “Lula,” not Tallulah City.
It Jins been graded from Athens to Lula,
39 miles, and surveyed from the latter
point to Rabun Gap (three miles beyond
Clayton) 50 miles more, at which point
it connects with the Blue ltidge Rail
road. Tho grading, engineering, &c.,
cost $4,500 per mile, instead of $7,000.
A contract has already been made for
iron—7oo tons—to place on nine miles
of the road. The total cost of the road,
including iron, will ho SII,OOO per mile.
Please make the above corrections, and
allow me to add that a final settlement
was made with Messrs. Grant, Alexan
der .fe Cos., and they paid up in lull on
Friday, the 15th mst. Ah our line ifa
road passes in sight of Tallulah Fall, we
may have a Tull lull City on it soon. Wo
expect to be at work beyond the Air-
Line Railroad in a short time. The en
tire line from Alliens to the North Caro
lina line is a remarkably cheap one—
there never Ims been a railroad route
found aerosff't'he Blue Ridge Mountains
that can compare with this one in any
respect, us our maps ami profiles will
show. Very respectfully,
.1. Calder Turner,
Chief Eng. V E. R. R.
MILITARY ENCAMPMENT.
Georgia Holiller Hoys to Assemble at
the Capital ibis Hummer.
The following from the Atlanta
Herald will tie read with general in
terest: For some time there has boon
upon discussion in military circles
throughout the State, a plan to at'sem
ble all the military companies ut, Atlan
ta during the Summer m one common
encampment, where they could organize
more efficiently State militia, form
regiments or brigades, elect a General
or so, have dress parade, drill contests,
give military bulls, flirt and make love,
ala mllitaire, and awaken, or rather
keep alive the cliivulrio spirit of the
State.
July has been suggested ns tlio month
in which the companies would find it
pleasantest and raostconvenient to attend.
Poneo de Leon Springs, West End
Springs, or any one of the delightful
suburbs of Atlanta would given splendid
place for the encampment.
The Governor expresses himself ns
very much in favor of the proposed
scheme, and said he had been thinking
it over, uud talking it up some time, flu
had prepared letters to send to the offi
cers of the several companies through
out Georgia and ask their attendance and
co-operation to make the meeting a
thorough and complete success. He will
request their early answer. He thinks
that troops sliould remain in encamp
ment at least two weeks. The Governor
is much in earnest in the mutter, and
probably every company in Georgia will
be here.
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
Congress will adjourn on the 22d of
J line.
In Southern Minnesota the ground is
alive with grasshoppers.
The Canadian Pacific Railway bill
passed the Dominion House of Com
mons.
The seconds of Prince Metternich re
fuse to allow the duel with Count do
Montebello to take place.
At New Haven, Connecticut, ffm. W.
Eaton, Straight Democrut, was elected
to the United States Senate.
At Pine Bluff, Ark., Murphy, who had
been exciting the negroes, was jailed.
Further trouble is not apprehended.
At a meeting in Philadelphia of the
Centennial Commission, it was stated
that $4,500,000 has been subscribed and
that $8,750,000 were required to com
plete the plans of the Commission, who
declare that without Government aid it
is impossible to make the celebration
creditable.
A vote was reached yesterday in tho
Presbyterian Council at Chicago, en
gaged in hearing the heresy trial, and
resulted in the triumph and vindication
of the accused. Tho vote Btood 15 for
to 45 against conviction.
A Conference Committee of the Bos
ton Board of Trade and Commercial Ex
change adopted resolutions r< questing
railroads to reduce their rates to prevent
the withdrawal of the Cunard steamers
from that port.
Macon, May 20—The Georgia Press
Association, after a two days’ profitable
session, adjourned. J H. Estill, of tho
Savannah Morning News, wus unani
mously re-elected President.
London, May 20. —The protracted
“Loi k out” of farm laborers in Lincoln
shire has been ended by a settlement
which will probably be adopted in other
agricultural districts of England.