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(EtltomcLc anti gmtiml
WEDNESDAY MAY 27, 1874
HEN. VOUNO.
Gen. Young thus denies the statements
concerning lntnT published in the New
York Sun :
The charges in the above are mali
cious and false, and when the slander
ous accusations therein contained are
preferred by a responsible person who
can be reached, I shall make such re
sponse as becomes the Representative
of the honorable men of my District.
Verv respectfully,
P. M. B. Young.
CONGRESSMEN OP THE PERIOD.
The Honso of Representatives has a
contested election case before it which
has given the country some rich revel
ations. John M. Bradley, of Arkansas,
claims the seat of William J. Hynes,
who is sitting as Congressman-at-large
from that State. Bradley swears that
he was elected by a large majority and
that this fact was admitted by the act
ing Governor Hadley, but that the cer
tificate was given to Hynes. Hynes af
terwards confessed, when a contest was
commenced that the testimony taken
showed he was not elected, but that he
had the Governor’scertificate and should
not give up the seat without a struggle.
In order to avoid a resort to “extre
mities,” however, he offered to purchase
peace at a reasonable price. Bradley
on his side agTeed to suppress the evi
dence and abandon the contest for five
thousand dollars. A compromise was
finally arranged upon the basis of a pay
ment of fifteen hundred dollars. Hynes
paid one-third of the amount but failed
to pay the remainder, and BbadeEY now
comes forward and lays claims to the
seat. This statement shows a fine brace
of scoundrels, and it is to be hoped that
neither the Radical raßcal nor the Dem
ocratic rascal will be permitted to dis
gnee Congress by his presence.
PARTY ORGANIZATION.
Hon. Tiiob. Hardeman, Jr., signing
himself “Chairman of the Democratic
Executive Committee,” has published a
card in which he states :
Desiring, above all things, unity of
action by the D.-mo rats of Georgia in
our approaching elections, and knowing
the great importance of harmony in out
ranks,•! have determined, with a view
to these desirable ends, to call the Ex
ecutive Committee of the party on the
first Wednesday in July, in Atlanta, for
consultation. Until then itisdesiredtbat
no action looking to the nomination of
candidates will be taken by the party.
Two questions arise in connection
with this matter. The first is, has
Georgia any Democratic Executive Com
mitte with authority to bind the party
by its action during the coming cam
paign ? If we are not very much in error,
Executive Committees only hold office
from one general election until another.
The present committee has been in
office since 1872, and, if we are cor
rect, there should be anew organization
of the party this Summer. Iu the sec
ond place, if nominations for Congress
are delayed until after the meeting of
the committee they cannot be made un
til some time in August, which would
not give the candidates time to go into
the different counties of their districts
before the election. The fight this Fall
promises to be a hard one, and it will
not do to postpone for so long a time
the work of preparing for the struggle.
THE PRUBB CONVENTION.
And behold the people that dwell by
the river Oconee, yea even those who
inhabit tho walled town of Macon (sig
nifying great-blowing-about-nothing) are
uffiicted with an exceeding great fear.
The knees of the women smite together,
and every man trembleth luhis brogans.
For has not that monster from the
wilderness of Hebron, called among
men Press-cuu-ven-shun (or mighty de
vourer) —even the same that robbctli the
ohildreu of Israel of their first fruits and
flowers, of their early chickens and
Spring garments—come among them for
their destruction ? And has he not taken
a grout oatli by the templo of his God
Dagon that in tho land of the Macon
ites, which has been delivered over into
his power, ho will have a mighty
jamboree (which is oholdee for big
drunk)? And hath he not a hundred
mouths and a belly like unto a water
works reservoir or the cave called Mam
moth, which is in the laud of the Kaiu
tueks ? And is it uot this beast con
cerning whom the Prophet has said:
“Woe unto thy people Oconee, and woe,
woe to thy walled towns oh Macouites,
when I'rons-cun-ven-shuu shall come
_ sunoug you. For lie shall be dead
headed by the horse which is of iron
and tile ureath of whose nostrils is fire,
and he aiiall slay the kunducter with a
free ticket. Verily, I say unto you,
vhut lie shall not tarry a space greater
iliuu the rising and going down of the j
sun before thy city shall sing desolation
and thy ohildreu robe their limbs
aiickoloth and cover their heads with J
fine ashes. For ho shali devour the I
substance and make sad the hearts of ;
thy hotel keepers, and the hash houses,
even the places where thy people get
strength for the labors of the day, and
the bar rooms, where thy warriors make
themselves brave for the fight, wil he
.take by assault, auduo man shall say him
naj-. Thy men servants and maid ser
vant i, thy ox and thy ass—for he goeth
upon the principle of dog-eat-dog and
preyeth upon his own kind—thy Spring
fowls au.t early vegetables will ho take,
and with thy rot-gut and thy red eye,
.thy catawba-cobblers and thy miutjnleps ;
wi.’l he elevate his soul. And if by
change he eutereth into the store houses
of thy merchants, yet will his journey j
come to naught. For he will say to the
mau who suiiletli at him from behind
the wall of the place, even the counter,
‘tell me the value of that claw-hammer
coat;’ and the mau will answer:‘assured
ly the garment is of fine cloth and the
latest style; it is worth ten shekels of
silver or thy servant lieth like » dog, but,
to Press-cun-ven-slmu will I sell it for |
eight even though my wife and my
babes should eotue to want.’ But
Press-cun-ven-shun shall saj ‘I come
fromjthe land of Bohemia, where dwelleth
the dead boats and my purse is a* free
from silver and gold as my heart from i
the imagining of evil. But I am a scribe
who writeth for the Buugtown Bugle,
and with a tpiill have slain my thousands
and tens of thousands. Bestow thou
upon me the coat called “claw-hammer”
and I will • give yon a ‘puff. ’ And the
man who stsndeth behind the counter,
but who smileth no longer, will straight
way answer, ‘Puff.be d—d.‘ And hisheart
shall be filled with anger and parsing,
eveu as a brook with bitter water. Ami
tajiold when the monster shall have
Dutttjcd his jamboree (which signifieth
tug drank) and shall have departed out
of the gates of the Maeonites the people
will sing so&gs of g adness and thank
God iu the temples for their deliverance. ”
TKN PICTURES OP GEORGIANS.
In his neC novel Ca Ira, Mr. W, T>-
Trammel deals very freely with a num
ber of living Georgians —some of whom
perhaps may object to tn,® P en portraits
of themselves given by tu e author.
Several pages are devoted to a ascrip
tion of the person and character fff
“Mr. Malcomb" who is undoubtedly in
tended to represent ex-Governor Bbows
He says : “Mr. Malcomb could smile
from ear to ear without a moment’s no
tice. He had been for many years an
eminent lawyer and political leader, fee
fore the great war—in which the people
of New Orleans lost their silver spoons
—he had been a politican. After said
war he had risen to the dignity of atatea
man. He was also now deeply engaged
in the profession of money getting. He
was not an aristocrat—in truth there
were not half so many aristocrats iu this
part ■ f the world as some people seem to
imagine. Mr. Malcomb was the repre
sentative native Southern statesman of
the new orlerof tluDgs. He wore rusty
alpaca pants, a black coat that reached
to his heels, and upon his head he car-,
ried, slightly pitched forward, the tallest
aud rour dest beaver hat in this or any
other Southern State, with the same
precision that a darkey carries a pail of
water. In religion he was a strict Bap
tist ; and when he walked he jerked
himself along as if bound to a twisted
board up and down his back.”
Os Dr. Lipscomb, he writes as follows:
“When Mirabeau met in the library
the venerable Chancellor of the Uni
versity, he recognized at once his ideal
of a man. His long silvery hair, his
noble head, his large, dark eyes beam
ing with the snbdued fire of eloquence
and poetry, his thoughtful and reverent
brow, his whole face lit up with the
largest and rarest human sympathy—in
all this Mirabeau thought he saw the
stamp of the loftiest character. And
Mirabeau was not mistaken.”
Fbed. Van Comer, who is believed to
represent the author himself is: “a man
who dances and laughs like a boy; asmail
man, slightly built, with a great head—
the top being much too large for the
lower portion—thick, curly, blonde
hair, and steel-gray eves. Ha was
determined after a while to try the
uncertain field of literature, but was
now employed as reporter for one of the
city papers.” Fbed had “some experi
ence as an editor” in Etowah a “vil
lage of two thousand inhabitants, most
ly preachers.” But, like good Deacon
Swim, he had wicked partners who
“prayed for him in public and cheated
him out of his profits in private.” The
Savannah New* inclines to the opinion
that this character is meant for the
author who had a newspaper ex
perience iu Cartersville a year or two
ago. There are several other spirited
likenesses of living Georgians in the
book.
“ CIVIL RIGHTS” - WHAT THE
PRESIDENT SAYS.
The Herald * Washington correspond
ent telegraphs under date of Saturday
that many Republican Senators arc un
settled as to the advisibility of urging
the “civil rights” bill at this time, and
that the President, in private conversa
tion with his friends, is said to have
stated that “he did not think any great
good could come from forcing the meas
ure on the South. ”
Aud yet the President has not sent a
message to Congress during the past
four years in which he has not recom
mended and urged the passage of the
iniquity.
THE NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD.
In another column this morning we
publish a communication from the Chief
Engineer of the Northeastern Railroad,
which will be read with interest. We
are gratified to learn that the prospects
of the enterprise ure so good, and trust
that no untoward occurrence will dash
the hopes or disappoint the expectations
of the company. It strikos us that the
course pursued in this matter by the
Georgia Railroad has been very injudi
cious; that its policy with reference to
this extension has been short sighted
and illiberal iu the extreme. That cor
poration will be greatly benefited—al
most immeasurably benefitted—by the
success of the scheme, and yet it lias
given it, so far as we know, not a single
dollar either in money or credit. On
the contrary, it has persistently turned
it the cold shoulder, and left it to strug
gle along as best it could. The Direc
tors of that Company should remember
that, when finished, the Northeastern
Railroad will furnish anew route to
Atlanta via the Air Line, as well as one
to Augusta over the Georgia Road, and
they should endeavor to make it a friend
instead of incurring the enmity of such
an important line.
BILIOUS.
A “Stockholder” writes an exceeding
ly bilious communication to the Athens
Watchman upon the recent session of
the Georgia Railroad Convention. The
writer says that in accordance with’the
usual custom he went with others to
Masonic Hall at eleven o’clock, expect
ing to get a seat. To his surprise the
Hall was not open, and the large crowd
was compelled to stand in the rain for
an hour, when some of the stockholders
found tho janitor and obtained admit
ance, “but no officers of the road were
present.” Os the early adjournment he
says :
It was now about time to adjourn
over, as .usual, until ten o’clock next
day, to give stockholders an opportunity
to discuss and hear argued such mat
ters of interest as usually come up on
the second day. To the astonishment
of all not in the secret, a motion was
made by a Director to adjourn sine die,
and withbut any time for discussion, the
vote was taken, and the body adjourned
accordingly.
The writer enters his protest against
such snap judgments and gag-law pro
cedure, and hopes that it will not bo re
peated. Ho also makes the point on
the Directors that, while they are all
clever gentlemen, they represent only
about fourteen per cent, of the capital
stock of the company.
“ GEORGIA PROSPECTS.”
Under this heading the' Philadelphia
North American has au editorial arti
cle giving a bright picture of tho future
of Georgia. We make the following ex
tracts :
In faot Georgia has reached the point
where it is not driven by necessity, aud
is in condition to improve some of its
many and mighty advantages. It has
cotton, coal, wood, iron, gypsum. It
seeks to populate its pastures; to com
plete its lines of railway; to obtain
capital by former crops aud new invest
ments; and then to add manufactures to
this recovery and thereby secure settled
population by whom all of the possibili
ties can bo carried forward abreast aud
harmoniously; “to have Georgia, cov
ered with cotton that supplies her cotton
mills, raising the iron that supplies her
furnaces aud mills; growing the grain
aud grazing the herds and flocks that
feed her laborers aud sustain her manu
factures.”
Perhaps no Southern State has so vig
orously and intelligently improved in the j
last few years as Georgia. It is true !
that a fortunate situation, fine climate !
and multiplied resources rendered these j
resource* easier than it is iu many :
States, but it is equally true that the j
spirit was as wise a* the resources were
abundant. Politics were subordinated
to industry; the harmonizing of old
creeds with new practices was left for ;
a time, and every man took hold.
* * * The instant, therefore, ap
proaches when the agriculture that fur
nishes the* textile, aud the mining that
provides coal and ore, and the farming
that yields food, will unite and create
those manufacturing industries, already
more than begun, to which the State
looks to complement what it ia and has
done and affect what it may do.—
Those who are counting the Southern
future err unless they reckon this in
teger. and even then fall short unless
they recognize the same advantages in
some near measure, and much of the
s&imb spirit and ability in Alabama, East
Tennessee, Western North Carolina and
Virginia and Kentucky. And with such
resource* in full headway, what are the
limit* to be placed to thi wealth of this
regiou ?—wh*t is the power ft will not
exert ?
Very often recently we have bad oc
casion to show and to comment upou the
friendly feeling of the Xorth American
to the South and especially to Georgia,
i Siu« <l,l* w:jr we have had but few kind
word* from tins or people of Phil
adelphia; bat rwcaiwiy Quaker City
! has extended th« olive branch ip nn
mis*akable manner and -be
,„rj foolish if she does promptly
a&4 vofdially respond to these friendly
overture#, Before the war Philadelphia
did a large tad business with
this State, and the «*w£ons between
them were of the friendliest character.
Nov. (that city has it in her power to re
gain all of her lost trade and with it a
great deal at additional business. She
has it in her power to voly us with our
enterprises and she must gut *,s assis
tance. She has millions of surplus cap
ital. which if invested here would com
mand a handsome return and would di
vert a large proportion of the trade of
the State to Philadelphia. We have
tried Baltimore faithfully since the war; j
and while that city is friendly enough j
her friendship has not been worth much j
in a pecuniary way. Baltimore though 1
wall disposed is unable to help us. We
mnst seek a coalition with a wealthier
and more powerful ally, and Philadel
phia fills the bill exactly.
THE KING GOVERNOR.
After a short resistance Moses de
cided to submit, bat afterwards changed
his mind and refused to be arrested.
He says that he refused to be ar
rested because he believed that im
peachment must precede auy action
against him by the Courts of the State.
There is no doubt that this corrupt man
richly deserves the penitentiary, and
every good citizen will rejoice to see him
receive the punishment which his crimes
merit. At the same time we hardly
think that the people of South Carolina
will be satisfied with the conviction of
the Governor alone. They will not con
sent to see Moses made a scape-goat for
all the rascals of his party. They will
not allow the Radicals to get np a repu
tation for honesty by such an act as
this. They wish Moses sent where he
belongs, but there are many others who
must accompany him. The whole thing
looks like a shrewd device of the Ring.
They have discovered that the people of
the entire country are disgusted with
their corruption and misgo7ernment,
and tbat they are in danger of losing
the State at the next election. They
have, therefore, attempted a flank move
ment against the friends of honesty and
reform and hope to save themselves by
sacrificing Moses. We think, as we
hope, that they will, soon be made to
know their mistake. They have in
augurated a movement which they will
find themselves powerless to control.
They cannot try the Governor, aud then
stop. Muses must go, and the remainder
of the ring must be made to follow him,
to the penitentiary—the only public in
stitution in which their presence will
not be a disgrace to South Carolina.
AMERICAN WINES.
In a speech made iu the House on the
7tlx iust., Mr. Luttkell, of California,
gave some interesting statistics to prove
that the wine-producing capabilities of
California soil far exceed those of the
most favored wine-growing countries of
Europe. The wine crop of Germany is
about 50,000,000 gallons per annum,
grown on 300,000 acres, which would
make the average yield 160 gallons to
the acre. The crop in France in 1869 was
2,000,000,000 gallons, on about 6,000,-
000 acres, which would show an average
yield of 330 gallons per acre. But the
average yield of wine from the Califor
nia viueyards is 600 gallons to the acre,
nearly twice as great as the French aver
age and more than three times the Ger
man. Foreign wines are generally esteem
ed superior to the wines of this country,
but the reason for this opinion is rapidly
passing away. Tho best judges have pro
nounced the soil of the Pacific slope
equal, if not superior, to the vineyards
of France aud the Rhine. Our grapes are
considered good enough to be taken to
Europe to replace the vines destroyed
by the insects. The men principally en
gaged in tho manufacture of wine are
foreigners who bring to their work the
same skill and experience which is em
ployed beyond the Atlantic. We may,
perhaps, never be able to compete with
the fancy brands of European vine
yards, such as Chateau Y’quem and
Johannisberg, but then we must recol
lect that these wines are made iu such
limited quantities that none of them can
be obtained in this country, except from
dealers of known integrity. If wc ever
expect to rid the United States of the re
proach of intemperance we must bring
native wines of good quality and low
price into general use. A good article
of wine at twenty-five or fifty cents a
bottle will do more towards stopping
drunkenness than all the temperance lec
turers and praying women combined.
The London (Eng.) Telegraph, in an
elaborate article on the condition of the
Southern finances, charges directly up
on the Administration the responsibility
for a condition of tilings unexampled iu
the previous history of the States of the
late Confederacy. The London journals
hold that the white citizens of the
rebel States, representing in the most
part the wealth, intelligence and virtue
of their respective communities, very
properly object to a government forced
upon them by impecunious negroes and
by the selfish and mercenary white
strangers who employ them in political
agitations for their own larcenous ends.
Nor it is surprising that European capi
tal, alarmed for the insecure tenure of
bonds held by no better security than
the good faith of such governments, is
pressing closely for payment. Under
ordinary circumstances it is not likely
that foreign bondholders would care for
tho delay; but in the present aspect of
affairs it is not improbable in their
miuds that the present difficulties at
tending liquidation is the forerunner of
final repudiation. While making a due
acknowledgment of the proverbial honor
of Southern debtors, they have no faith
in the financial integrity of carpet-bag
governments. v
The Columbia Union says that the
“interview” between D. H. Chamber
lain aud the special correspondent of
the Constitutionalist, published in that
paper last Friday, is a frod. It says
that Chamberlain was several hundred
miles away from the place where the in
terview was stated to have taken place,
and that it is authorized to say that
there is not one word of truth iu the let
ter so far as the said Chamberlain is
concerned. What will not these public
men deny next? Judge Lochrane has
the hardihood to say that he is not a
creinationist, and Mr. Stephens swears
by the truth of history that he is not the
architect of the latin version of “Rock
of Ages.”
The verdict of the jury in the Chis
olm case has been a surprise to the
State, as there were but few persons
who imagined that the trial would ter
minate in an acquittal. The Atlanta
Constitution, however, seems to think
that the verdict was warranted by the
testimony produced by the defense. It
says that several witnesses swore that
Chisolm did not fire the fatal shot until
Beokll had attempted to fire upon him,
and that the prosecution was unable to
impeach the evidence of these persons.
It will strike the public as a little singu
lar that such important testimony was
not brought out when the prisoner’s
counsel were making frantic efforts to
have him admitted to bail.
Among the rich things of reconstruc
tion is the guarding of the State House
and Governor’s mansion in Columbia by
soldiers with empty guns. Moses is at
enmity with the Adjutant-General, who
keeps the keys of the ammunitiou chest,
and himself called out a company of
militia to protect him from the sheriff
of Orangeburg. There is not a cart
ridge in the whole company, but the
colored troops fight nobly with barrels
barren of powder and ball.
We are glad to learn from the Cou
\ rier-Joumal that General John C.
Breckinridge is slowly recovering from
his recent attack of pneumonia—not
hemorrhage, as has been stated. A gen
,'r.om Lexington, Saturday, re
poCH ofe {‘■r.nyuriog »* greatly improved,
although litfi <&'&***?** iUne5S
are still exhibit » gFW
and emaciation.
Verily Press Conventions have played
There was but one daily paper in
the Stan., Macon, represented
in the meeting or by its own
ers or editors—and there - ten
weeklies out of more than a hundred.
The brethren had better have anew deal
or else stop &£ game.
— sc?—
Pct not your faith in him *V> pre
dicts a hot season—he keeps ice; nor in
him who predicts a cold one—he owns a
cheap clothing store; nor yet in him who
declares a wet one—he has umbrellas;
nor a dry one—he sells beer.
A HOSTILE MEETING AVERTED.
The following war-like Washington
dispatch appeared in the columns of
Wednesday’s Atlanta Constitution :
It is reported that Hon. Robert
Toombs and Congressman Lamar had a
personal altercation at a dinner given by
Gen. Gordon recently, growing out of
Mr. Toombs’ criticism of Mr. Lamar’s
eulogy on Sumneb. A hostile meeting is
expected to result therefrom.
But the following pacific special, also
from Washington, appeared the same
day in the Macon Afar. “You pays your
money and you takes your choice:”
Senator Gordon a few nights ago gave
a dinner at his residence in Georgetown,
at which were present a number of
Southern gentlemen, including Repre
sentative Lamar, of Mississippi, and
ex-Senator Toombs, of Georgia. Mr.
Toombs took occasion at the table to
animadvert very severely upon Mr.
Lamab’s eulogy on Sumneb, and ex
pressed his disgust, as a Southern man,
that a Southern Democratic Representa
tive should have eulogized the Massa
chusetts Senator. Mr. Lamar bore
Toombs’ taunts as long as it was reasona
ble to suppose he could, and finally
called him a poltroon and a coward. Mr.
Toombs replied that he would see Mr.
Lamar again on the subject, but the fact
is noted that he left the city on the earli
est train on Sunday.
As if the above dispatches were not
contradictory and puzzling enough, the
mail which came last night still further
mystifies the matter. The Constitu
tion's special says there will be a hostile
meeting, and the Star's says there will
not be a hostile meeting. The Star's
special says Lamar pronounced Toombs
“ a poltroon and a coward.” The Her
ald's special, on the contrary, says he
only intimated that he was “an ass and a
fool—unworthy of notice and deserving
of contempt.” This is bad enough,
but the Herald makes the muddle worse
by stating the follow-ing as the facts :
General Toombs and Lamar are old
friends. They met at a dining in Wash
ington, and Mr. Lamar asked General
Toombs his views of the eulogy. The
General, with that frankness that be
longs to the man, gave his opinion can
didly, disagreeing with Mr. Lamar. It
was simply a sincere difference of senti
ment between two very able aud honest
friends. No quarrelling ensued. No
hostility was expressed, and there is not
the slightest basis for a possibility of
any unfriendly consequences.
Really there is no keeping pace with
the thing. The Senate’s financial mea
sure is as plain as a sum iu subtraction
compared with this eulogistic emliroglio.
SCOTT AND MOSEif.
The New York Tribune and the Balti
more Gazette rebuke in fitting lan
guage the cheek of Scott in putting
himself forward a3 the champion of
honesty and good government. The
Tribune says that voters generally have
short memories, but when they come to
compare the administrations of Scott
and Moses they will find, though their
memories be ever so short, that if there
is auy choice between the two it is not
in favor of the latter. Moses and his
followers have undoubtedly robbed the
tax payers outrageously and spent the
people’s money in -ways that would not
bear investigation; but Scott and bis
associates set them the example and
introduced the system of public plun
der which lias become au unwritten law
better observed by officials high and low
than anything upon the statute books.
When it is said of the Moses
administration that it has spent all
he money it could extort from
the tax payers, pretty much the
whole ease against it is stated. Scott’s
administration did exactly the same
thing; in addition, it increased the debt
of South Carolina from $6,000,000 to
$16,000,000, and left not a solitary thing
of value to show for the money. Worse
than this, Scott and his subordinates
perpetrated a fraud so enormous, so au
dacious, aud so criminal, that it has not
its match in all the black annals of car
pet-bag government. They h<d nearly
$6,000,000 of bogus bonds printed in
New York, which were sold to unsus
pecting persons as genuine. There was
a law authorizing them to exchange new
conversion bonds for old bonds of vari
ous issues, but instead of doing this
they sold the conversion bonds just as
if they had been valid aud authorized
securities. What they did with the
proceeds the people of South Carolina
would very much like to know.
Gov. Scott professes innocence of this
swindling transaction, and tries, we un
derstand, to shift the whole responsi
bility upon Treasurer Parker and Fi
nancial Agent Ktmpton. There has been
a great deal of this shifting of responsi
bility in South Carolina. When a rascal
is nearly run down he tries to fall back
iuto the crowd of pursuers, and pointing
out one of his late associates he cries
“Stop thief” as lustily as his neighbors.
Scott was a member of the Finance
Board that putout the fraudulentbonds.
If he did not know what Parker and
Kimpton were doing it was because he
shut his eyes to their operations. Kimp
ton was his appointee, and lie accepted
from him a bond with no other security
than the irresponsible financial agent’s
own signature. And when the gigantic
swindle was exposed, Scott made no,ef
fort to have the men punished whom he
now accuses of planning and perpetrating
it.
The Baltimore Gazette goes for honest
Bob in the lollowing style:
That Moses is utterly bad; that he
squandered the money of the State in
bribes to procure his election, and that
he has appropriated other moneys of
the State to his own private uses, there
is a superabundance of testimony to
prove. But Scott, who taught what
Moses practiced, and who also himself
practiced what he taught, is a worse
man even than Moses, inasmuch as he
set the example of rascality, which
Moses has servilely imitated, and which
lias brought him within those meshes of
the law that Scott had the adroitness or
the good fortune to escape. We sin
cerely trust that, instead of getting the
Governorship a second time, he will get,
like Moses, his deserts.
The people of South Carolina will not
put much faith in a reform movement
headed by Scott, and the sooner his
friends retire that worthy the better.
He has no capacity for playing the role
of an honest Executive.
If the following be true they have a
queer system of law-making in Tennes
see, which allows a man to frame a law
covering an injury which was not cog
nizable at the time by the courts and to
brirg suit for its violation. There is
certainly some mistake about the mat
ter, though the New York llcralcl, which
is a journalistic Georoe Washington,
vouches for the correctness of the state
ment. In 1866 a sleepy traveler on the
the East Tennessee and Georgia Rail
road was carried by his point of de
barkation, owing to the station not be
ing called. He was a member of the
Legislature and introduced a bill, where
it is provided that conductors of passen
ger trains shall call out at each station,
in a loud voice, its name and the length
of time the train is to stop. For each
failure to do so the road must pay a
penalty of one hundred dollars. His
declarations are printed and consist of
two thousand five hundred counts, the
aggregate of peaalty amounting to two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
This is the amount claimed for failure
to call the names of the stations and
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
more is olaimed for the failure to call
the stopping time, making in all half a
million dollars. The law is very dis
tinct, and it is not easy to see how the
road can escape the penalty. The law
provides that half of the penalty shall
go to complainant.
Trk QeoigpZ~lfc],.e Journal malici
ously reports that the adtoor pj ,tne Fort
Valley Mirror mistook a fire bug tor
the head light of an engine the other
night, and came near breaking his neck
getting out of the way. The next day
he attendee a temperance pic-nic.
The New York papew-give a iiniUirg
account of the fail of an ice hotise in:
that city, to the damage of the proprie
tor fifty ffeijsand dollars. If the fall
had been in tbs ise of the house
the satisfaction of the people would bp
unalloyed.
A MIGHTIER MUDDLE.
There seems to be some danger of the
winning faction in Arkansas carrying
things too far. Elated over their recent
victory, which was only given them by
the decision of the Attorney-General
and the proclamation of the President,
Baxter and his friends are disposed to
push their adversaries to the wall. The
Legislature, which is thourougly Bax
ter, is not only intent upon securing the
fruits of the triumph but upon fettering
the Brooks party so effectually that it
will not be able to move again. The
State Geologist is known in the verna
cular of the telegraph as a “Bbooksite.”
Therefore the act creating the office has
been repealed aud the incumbent uncere
moniously legislated out of his position.
The time of meeting of the State Su
preme Court has been changed from
June until November, in order that the
unscrupulous partisans who compose
that tribunal may be retired to private
life by the agency of a constitutional
convention. Senators Clayton aud
Dorset are to be vigorously attacked aud
an effort made to vacate their seats iu the
Senate by proving fraud and corruption
in their election. The indications are
that things will be made so lively in
Washington for these statesmen that
they will have no time to assist their
allies in Arkansas. A convention will
be held which will remove all the disa
bilities of Confederate sympathizers and
place the State government in the hands
of the Democrats so securely that it will
prove an impossibility to take it away.
This programme seems proper enough.
No one can blame B ( axter and his ad
herents for doing everything in their
power to break the strength of the Clay
ton riiig and to guard against such
another coup d'etat as the country has
just witnessed. But they do not seem
disposed to stop with these vigorous
measures. They are determined to car
ry the matter into those Courts of the
State which they can depend upon and
supplement their arrangements by a few
hangings. They intend to expel all the
Senators aud Representatives from the
General Assembly who acted with
Brooks, and indictments are being pre
pared against all the State and county
officers who espoused the cause of the
Arkansas claimant. The offense is al
leged to be treason and the punishment
death. Now it strikes us that there had
better be a halt in these proceedings
or the whole country as well as
Arkansas may be made to regret
this hasty attempt to “make treason
odious.’’The fact is that while “treason”
is a very handy word for politicians and
journalists, its meaning has never been
clearly defined in this country aud
under our form of government. Across
the Atlantic it means something. In
Europe it is a word which has brought
the heads of many gallant gentlemen
and dainty ladies to the block. But
during our eighty odd years of Repub
lican rule it has uot lessoned the stature,
or destroyed the digestion of a single
citizen. We have had a good deal of
war and bloodshed, but passion has gen
erally been expended upon the battle
field, and we have had none of those
cold-blooded murders under forms of
law which disgrace the annals of every
other country on the globe. But if Mr.
Baxter succeeds in his little experiment
there is no telling where the fun will
end, or what we may not come to in a
a few years. We have no doubt that
the feelings of the Governor would
be considerably soothed, and the tedium
of life in Little Rock dissipated by the
projected tiglit-rope performance of a
dozeu or so of the most obstropulous
Brooksites. But' suppose that Bax
ter’s plan miscarried aud Brooks should
again get the upper hand. Then trea
son would be shouted against the other
side, and servile courts would furnish
material for another gallows spree, which
might not be so keenly enjoyed.
Thanks to Radical reconstruction, insur
rections and emeutes are becoming as
frequent in the South as in France. To
punish the participators ini these little
affairs with death would soon reduce the
different States to the condition of Bug
land during the wars of the roses, when
a Lancastrian Parliament attaining one
half the people a Yorkist Parliament tire
other half, the whole kingdom was
under the ban, every prisoner was made
a subject for the executioner, and the
murderous axe could scarcely do its
bloody work fast enough. Mr. Baxter
had better let the treason business
alone. Playing with edge tools is a
very dangerous as well as a very foolish
species of sport.
The Spring fights have commenped,
we are sorry to say, among the newspa
per editors. A few days since an Ala
bama editor attempted to pull a Colum
bus editor’s nose because the latter de
clined to retract a playful article nine
months old. And now the report comes
that the brethren in Montgomery are by
the ears. For some time past the Ad
vertiser and the Radical paper, the State
Journal, have been publishing lively
articles concerning each other. Colonel
W. W. Screws is the editor of the Ad
vertiser and Mr. J. B. Bingham of the
Journal. Last Sunday morning the
parties met upon the street and Colonel
Screws attacked the enemy with a walk
ing stick in gallant style, and engaged
him for several minutes iu a hand to
hand fight. Bingiiam came out of the
scrimmage with a cut head, black eyes
and bloody nose; Screws without a
scratch. Result: Screws fined sixty
dollars for ten minutes amusement,
which would have been dear at five ;
Bingham discharged. Next!
The Cincinnati Gazette —under the
heading, “A Fearful Calamity Foreshad
owed in Romance” —reproduces from
Charles Reade’s novel, “Put Yourself
in His Place,” the novelist’s description
of the breaking of “Ousley’s Dam” in
order to showhow accurately the writer's
fancy photographed the recent disas
trous occurrence in Massachusetts. The
Gazette —usually well posted in such
matters—is at fault here. Reade’s pic
ture was not a fancy sketch, but was a
vivid account of the breaking of a dam
in or near Sheffield, England, in 1864.
Under the circumstances it is no more
wonderful that the novelist’s picture of
the English horror should resemble the
newspaper sketches 'of the Massachu
setts disaster than that one pea should
look like another.
We are sorry that the Press Conven- i
tion determined to continue its unjust ,
and useless war against weekly -papers ,
which think proper to use patent out- ,
sides. It is wrong because a newspaper
proprietor has the right to manage his j
business in his own way, provided that •
by so doing he does no injury to other j
parties. It is impracticable because the
rules against the practise cannot be en
forced. We will venture the assertion
that out of one hundred and ten papers
published in Georgia not a dozen have
refused to exchange with the offenders.
If it comes to a “pinch” most news
papers had rather give up the Conven
tion than a good “patent outside ’ ex- j
change.
In view of the recent run of disasters in
mid-ocean, the New York Herald is
elaborating a very simple plan of its
own for the safety of all ocean travelers.
The central idea is that all steamers
should be compelled to sail in pairs,
leaving port together and keeping com
pany throughout the voyage, never get
ting beyond hail or signalling distance
of each other. The number of Steamers
belonging to various lines, now travers
ing tke watery plain, is so large that this
sensible suggestion might be carried
into effect with but little delay. It cer
tainly should be adopted with regard to
vessels that have been “lengthened.”
Nnrt Monday evening the Havannah
Thespian- Association will give a per
formance at the theatre,, for the benefit
of the Confederate Memorial fund.
The two military companies of Griffin
are poking vigorous efforts for guns and
uniforms,
PARTY ORGANIZATION.
A few clays since we noticed a call
issued by Hon. Thomas Hardeman for a
meeting of the State Democratic Execu
tive Committee, on the fiist Wednesday
in July and a request that no action be
taken towards putting candidates in the
field until after that time. In com
menting upon this call the Chronicle
questioned the right of the present com
mittee to manage the next canvass and
doubted the propriety of postponing
Congressional nominations until August
or September. Th<j Atlanta Herald re
plies, ia behalf of the committee, as
follows:
We would reply to the first question,
that the present committee was specially
authorized by the resolution creating it,
to hold authority until another Conven
tion should assemble. The very con
tingency of expiration of the commit
tee’s power that the Chronicle speaks
of was anticipated and provided for.—
The authority of the present committee
extends to a dozen campaigns, unless a
Convention should be called and until a
new committee is created. The last
Convention expressly provided that the
part}- should not by any construction be
without a committee, but that the
present committee should be empowered
to act until relieved by anew commit
tee. An examination of the proceedings
of the last Convention will show our
contemporary that it is in error on this
point, So far us the second question is
concerned, the time will bo ample be
tween the first of July and the time of
the election, four months after, to do all
the preliminary work.
We do not doubt it was the inten
tion of the Convention of 1872 that the
committee appointed uuder a resolution
of that body should hold its posi
tion until a successor could be
appointed, but we are equally certain
that it was never intended to give it a
four years’ lease of authority. So far as
we know the Executive Committees of
Georgia have never held office for a
term exceeding two years. A State Con
vention was held in 1808, another in
1870, another in 1872, and there should
be one held this Summer to shape the
policy of the part} in the coming
campaign. So far us the members
of the present committtee are concerned
we have not a single objection to urge
against one of them. We believe that
they are able and patriotic men, who
have labored faithfully and well to ad
vance the interests and perpetuate the
power of the Georgia Democracy. Not
the least able and patriotic of their
number is the editor of the Herald,
who, as Secretary, contributed so much
to the organization and success of the
party in 1872. But we do not believe
that they should undertake the conduct
of another and equally important cam
paign until they hold a consultation
with their constituents—the people.
We believe that the prospects are
good for the Democracy to secure the
next House of Representatives, and for
the first time have a working ma
jority in one branch of the Federal Con
gress. Such a victory will prove of in
calculable value to the party, and will
pave the way for a complete overthrow
of the Republicans in 1876. The one
thing necessary for the achievement of
such a glorious result is wise and judi
cious management. In a State like
Georgia, for instance, we cannot afford
to lose a single vote to the party. We
must not only maintain in unbroken
strength the ascendancy of the Demo
crats in the General Assembly, but we
must send nine Congressmen to Wash
ington instead of six—the present num
ber. In Kentucky, in Tennessee, in
North Carolina our friends are actively
organizing. Other States are similarly
employed. We must commence work at
au early day in Georgia. We must put
our best men in the field in every Dis
trict. We must give full notice of the
time for holding a Convention. After
nominations have been made our candi
dates must go into every county and
arouse the people to the importance of
the contest and to the magnitude of the
issues involved. This July meeting
means a short canvass, a tame fight and
a doubtful victory.
BUSINESS IN ATLANTA.
The Constitution thinks that the corres
pondent of the Chronicle and Senti
nel is mistaken in his statement that
Atlanta merchants are hard up. Wo
certainly hope that there is some mis
take about the matter; but as there is
only the Constitution's opinion against
our correspondent’s statement we do not
see that a negative lias been proven.
There is an outside circumstance too
which appears to confirm the correctness
of our report: The Atlanta merchants
do not seem to be patronzing the press
of their city as much as two such ex
cellent papers deserve. This is every
where recognized as a bad sign. The
prosperity of a paper is often the meas
ure of the prosperity of a town. When
merchants are doing well or when the
prospect is good they generally adver
tise freely; but when a collapsa ap
proaches printer’s ink is discarded as
useless.
The New York Commercial Bulletin
says that one of the signs of the times is
the determination of numbers of Na
tional Banks to withdraw from National
banking and go into business under
State laws. No less than five cases of
this kind, in the interior of Illinois and
Indiana, are reported in the Chicago
Tribune of Monday. Taxation on their
capital is so large, and the profit on
their circulation is so infinitesimal, that
there is no good reason why they should
remain under the National Banking law.
In a country town where there is only
one bank, it is sure of all the business,
whether it be National or State. By
withdrawing their bonds National Banks
can now realize a large premium on
them, and can escape the heavy local
taxation.
It will be gratifying to the Southern
people to know that Miss Nellie Grant
has become the wife of a Confederate
sympathizer. We are told that the
bridegroom is an “extremely clever fel
low, who plants himself squarely on Re
publican institutions and Southern hero
ism. He is intensely enthusiastic over
everything Southern, and don’t hesitate
to say he was for the C. S. A. during the
‘late unpleasantness.”’
Gen. Sherman has for some time past
been working to have the headquarters
of the army removed from Washington
to St. Louis. As usual the General has
been successful, and the change will be
made on the first of October. Sherman
says he wishes to be nearer the army,
which is now stationed principally upon
the plains, and he also prefers St. Louis
as a residence for private and social
reasons. The imperialists will say that
Sherman has only gone closer to the sol
diers in order that he may control them
more effectually when the threatened
coup d'etat is made.
The St. Louis Republican has dis
covered that Norfolk is the coming cot
ton market of the South Atlantic, and al
ready sees salt sowed upon the sites of
Charleston and Savannah. The SU
Louis man may contain his soul in
peace. Charleston and Savannah will
be thriving sea ports long after Norfolk
is resolved into its original mud and is
only known among men as the cabbage ’
garden of New York and Philadelphia. !
A Northern schoolmarm was arrested
in Macon last Wednesday on a charge of
cruelly beating a colored pupil of the
school. The father of the child had
the warrant issued, and the accused was
bound over for trial. Verily our Aboli
tion friends are progressing rapidly.
What next ?
The Kelly Springs and Oconee De
bating Clubs had a public debate at
Bay Springs Church, Washington coun
ty, last Saturday night. The former
were the victors.
At “a grand ice cream festival,” at
Stuitevant Hall Savannah, a walking
coutest was the feature, a prize being
“awarded to the most graceful lady in
the house,” colored.
Mrs. Sfury Brantley familiarly known
in Sandersville as “'AuHt Roily,” ja dan
gerously 41, - rr ' nIM
McDuffie county. j
[special correspondence chronicle and j
SENTINEL ]
Thomson, May 18, 1874.
As your readers may be interested in
the crop news and prospects of this por
tion of the country, I will give you all
the information I have recently gleaued
from a trip through McDuffie and Co
lumbia counties. The prospect is in
deed a gloomy one for the poor, debt
oppressed farmer. The oldest inhabit
ants say they have never Seen such a
gloomy one. This talk is not for the
cotton speculator, for it is too long till
harvest to keep up the delusion. The
trouble is real, substantial. It can not
only be seen by inspection of the bare,
rain-beaten soil which everywhere meets
the eye of the passer-by, but it may be
Been in the despondency of the farmer,
who generally looks forward from the
failure of oue year to the success of the
next. Corn crops where they have been
worked are looking very well—the plant
is casting off its yellowish, sickly hue,
aud promises well. A much larger, area
than usual is planted, but the dispirited
farmer, after so much rain in the Spring,
looks forward with gloomy forebodings
to a dry July and August.
A Good Stand of Cotton
Is the exception rather than the general
rule. Those who planted early had their
cottou killed-by the frost and cold rains
—and what was not up at that period,
has failed to come up on account of the
subsequent beating rains, which packed
the soil upon it. The present cold
weather is causing the young and tender
plant but recently springing up to sicken
and die, and taken all together, a failure
in a cotton crop seems to bo the inevi
table result. The soil, even where it has
been well prepared, is now beaten down
to the consistency of a brick bat, and
with the general want of thorough pre
paration, and absence of guano to
push forward its tardy growth, it
is a physical impossibility to make
a full cotton crop this year.
It seems like the poor farmer lias “the
worstest luck and the m< stest of it” of
any people in the world. If he makes a
good crop he gets uothiug for it, and
when he gets a good price for it, there
is not enough to divide liberally be
tween his cotton factor, grocery mer
chant aud the hungry outside creditor,
aud so with this constant surfeit on the
one hand, and a famishing scarcity on
the other, it is “heads I win and "tails
you lose.” The war on the “middle
men” don’t seem to improve his pros
pects much. To use the word in its
school boy sense, it would seem more
appropriate to denominate the poor
farmers “the middleman,” for lie gets
nothing hut “plumps” every time the
balance of mankind goes “to taw.”
An Inflated Currency
Is what we most need now—an ex
pansion almost equal to Confederate
currency, till we can all pay our debts
aud then let it contract- as rapidly as the
hard money men may desire. It is all
very pretty to talk about farmers being
independent, by raising their own pro
visions, supplies, etc. This looks well
on paper, but when we consider that
nine-tenths of them are now sweating
under a burden of debt, engendered (ii
it pleases yon) by extravagance or what
ever else you may please to term it,
with a demoralized and utterly worth
less system of labor; with interest rang
ing from twenty-five to forty per cent,
in our midst, when in New- York it is
worth from five to s ; x, when you talk
of independence under these circum
stances you surely possess “a faith that
will remove mountains.” The only hope
of the country is in a general system of
bankruptcy. Let farmers come up and
give up everything to their creditors, ex
cept just barely enough to keep them
from want. Let them avail themselves
of the benefits of the old homestead of
fifty acres of land, and let them he de
clared free from their debts forever. —
They have toiled for nine years tinder
these serious disadvantages, and instead
of getting out of debt, they have been
getting deeper in.
Interest is What is Ruining
Them, and interest will always be ex
orbitant where so much property is ex
empt from levy aud sale. Lot the pro
cess of Courts be unobstructed—let
creditors assert their rights, as well as
debtors. Let every man reserve only
enough, in his misfortunes, to cover his
immediate wants aud necessities, and
let the year of Jubilee dawn at once
upon a people who, for nine long years,
have suffered from cruel bondage. You
may establish Granges all over the land
get up immigration aid societies, and
inaugurate direct trade movements ad
libitum, but while enterprise is shackled
and industry paralyzed by debt, as it
now is, prosperity will never come. I
find the
Old Chronicle and Sentinel,
The faithfulchronicler of passing events,
and the trusty sentinel of the people's
interests, side by side with the family
Bible in every well regulated house
hold. Continue to watch our interests,
end the honest yeomanry of the coun
try will swell your subscription list to a
decree hitherto unknown.
McDuffie,
PALMETTO LEAVES.
Columbia is rejoicing over ripe water
melons.
The Edgefield Sabre Club will have a
pic-nio at Pine House next Wednesday.
Wm. L. Murrel, who killed young
Ramsay some five years ago, aud was
convicted and sent to the penitentiary,
has been pardoned by Governor Moses.
A letter from the Fourth District an
nounces the fact that a number of gen
tlemen of influence have approached Dr.
J. P. Latimer, and propose to run him
as a candidate for Congress. Dr. Lati
mer is at present County Treasurer of
Greenville, and, it is said, a very popu
lar man in his section.
An old colored man, who was sitting
on or near the track at Fort Motte
station, on the South Carolina Railroad,
was struck by the pay train going up on
Sunday morning, cutting his head and
rendering him insensible for some time.
At the arrival of the down passenger
train he was recovering, aud his injuries
were not considered fatal. His name
was not ascertained.
The latest on the situation appears to
be that a severance of the indictment
has, on motion, been granted, aud the
Governor will stand his trial, as any
other private citizen, on the 29th inst.,
at Orangeburg. There has l>eeu no ac
tual arrest, but bail, it is said, lias been
given before the Clerk of the Court, and
the ease will go on as usual in othei
cases.
The executions of the two negro merl,
Henry Kilerease and John Mitchell,
has been stayed until November next—
pending a decision upon application for
new trial. Kilerease was sentenced to
be hanged on the 22d instant; Mitchell
on the 3d of July. Patrick West bciDg
dean, there now remains but one, of the
four men orginally sentenced, who will
probably be executed"—Tom Padgett, to
be hanged on the 29th of this month.
One of the inmates of the Lunatic
Asylum, at Columbia, a lady by the
name of Darcy, escaped from that insti
tution Wednesday night; it is supposed
by scaling the walls, but just how it
was done is not known. She was seen
by one of the attaches of this paper,
about 10 o’clock, p. m., passing up Main
street as unconcerned as possible, with
no hat or bonnet on her head, her hair
streaming in the wind, aud, apparently,
perfectly at home.
Seasonable Foop. —The wholesome
ness of food depends nearly as much on
the time it is taken as on the quantity.
We have grown so luxurious in our phy
sical as well as mental tastes that we are
constantly tempted to eat things out of
season. Yielding to the temptation, as
we often do, we pay the penalty, soon or
late, in temporary or chronic derange
ment of our health. The meat which is
excellent in cold may not be desirable in
warm weather ; fish is best during Spring
and early Summer ; vegetables and fruit
are nutritious when they are fully ripen
ed by sun and season, aud not artificially
stimulated. Nature knows what she is
doing; she fnrnislieofor every latitude
the productions fittest for such latitude.
We need variety, not so much at one
time, as from time to time. The delica
cies of the season will not hurt us ; but
the delicacies ont of ifeason certainly
will, if long continueili The appetite
so jaded as to crave oilers in July, or
strawberries in Decemßt-r, needs careful
correction by the ado#ion of the sim
plest habits. The fhalate naturally
relishes what Nature b as near at hand.
Asa rule, net only is Che simplest food
the best food, but the most seasonable
is, in the long run, the most appetizing.
There is no difficulty in determining
what we skonld eat, since the products |
of our climate show us plainly month
by month. Fish, fesh aud fruit, by
their plumpness, te'aderness and ripe
ness, themselves denote when they are
ready to be eaten. A sound stomach
will profit by whatever an unspoiled
palate enjoys. —“ Heme and Society;"
Scribner’s for June.
The opening cruije of the Savannah
Regatta Assoeisticii took place last
Wednesday. Eight yachts started.
The Coquette was *the winner of the
race.
The Marshal of Conyers arrested a
negro boy by the name of Isaac Brown,
la Covingtoin, last Saturday. Ike had
been obtainiugipropertv from a bouse
during the owuer’s absence, is the only
excuse the Maphal goffered for making
the 7 * | ’
A VERY LIVE GHOST.
Remarkable Manifestations by Miss
Florence Cook—Are They Spirits
from the Nasty Deep or Goblins
Damned?
Miss Florence Cook is creating just at
this time a great deal of excitement in
England by remarkable manifestations
after the manner of the Davenports,
Home, aud others of that ilk, and seems
to have gone considerably ahead of any
of her predecessors. The following
statement of a recent and thorough in
vestigation by Prof. Crookes, editor of
the London Quarterly Journal of Sci
ence, will be read with interest :
‘•)u a letter which I wrote to this jour
nal early in February last, speaking of
the phenomena of spirit forms which
have appeared through Miss Cook’s me
diumsliip, I said, ‘Let those who are in
clined to judge Miss Ccok harshly sus
pend their judgment until I bring for
ward positive evidence, which I think
will be sufficient to settle the question.
Miss Cook is now devoting herself ex
clusively to a series of private seances
with me and one or two friends. * * *
Euough'has taken place to thoroughly
convince me of the perfect truth aud
honesty of Miss Cook, and to give me
every reason to expect that the promises
so freely made to me by
KATIE WILL BE KEPT.’
“In that letter I described au inci
dent which, to my mind, went very far
toward convincing mo that Katie " and
Miss Cook were two separate material
beings. When Katie was outside the
cabinet standing before me, I heard a
moaning noise from Miss Cook, in the
cabinet, lam happy to say that I have
at last obtained the ‘ absolute proof’ to
which I referred in the above quoted
letter.
'“ I will, for the present, pass over
most of the tests which Katio has given
me on the many occasions when Miss
Cook has favored me' with seances at
this house, and will only describe one or
two which I have recently had. I have
for some time past been experimenting
with a phosphorus lamp, consisting of a
six or eight ounce bottle containing a
little phosphorized oil aud tightly
corked. I had reason to hope that, by
the light of this lamp, some of the niys-.
terious phenomena of thefcabinet might
he rendered visible, and Katie has also
expressed herself hopefully as to
THE SAME RESULT.
“Ou March 12, during a seanco here,
after Katie had been walking amongst
us and talking for somo time, she re
treated behind tho curtain which sepa
rated my laboratory, where tho company
was sitting, from my library, which did
temporary duty us a cabinet. In n min
ute she came to the curtain and called
me to her, saying: ‘Gome into tho room
and lift my medium’s head up; she has
slipped down.’ Katie was then stand
ing before me, clothed in ln-r usual
white robes and turban head-dress. I
immediately walked into tho library up
to Miss Cook, Katie stepping aside to
allow me to pass. I found Miss Cook
had slipped pnrtiallv off the sofa, and
her head was hanging in a very awk
ward position. I lilted her on to the
sofa, and in so doing had satisfactory
evidence, in spite of the darkness, that
Miss Cook was not attired in the
‘Katie’ costume, but had on her ordi
nary black velvet dress, and was in a
deep trance. Not more than three
seconds elapsed between my seeing the
white-robed Jyatie standing before me
and my raising Miss Cook on to the sofa
from tho position into which she had
fallen.
On returning lo the post of observa
tion by tho curtain Katie again appear
ed, and sad she thought slio should
be able to show herself and her medium
to me at tho same time. The gas was
then turned out, and she asked for my
phosphorous lamp. After exhibiting
herself liy it for somo seconds she hand
ed it back to me, saying : ‘Now conic in
and see my medium.’ I closely follow
ed her into the library, and by tlie light,
of my lamp saw Miss Cook lying on the
sofa just as I had left her. I looked
around for Katie, but she had disap
peared. I called to her, but there was
no answer.
“On resuming my place, Katie very
soon appeared, aud told me that she lind
been standing close to Mis i Cook all the
time. She then asked if she might try an
experim nt herself, and, # taking the
phosporous lamp from me, she passed
behind tho curtain, asking me not to
look in for tire present. In a few min
utes she handed the lamp back to me,
saying that she could not succeed, ns
she had used up all the power, but
would try again another time. My eld
est son, a lad of fourteen, who was sit
ting opposite me in such a position that
he could see behind the curtain, tells
me he distinctly saw the phosphorous
lamp apparently floating about in space
over Miss Ooolcj illuminating her as she
lay motionless on the sofa, hut he could
not see any oue.
HOLDING THE LAMP.
“I pass ou to a seance held last night
at Hackney. Katie never appeared to
greater perfection, and for nearly two
hours she walked about tho room, con
versing familiarly with those present.
Ou several occasions she took my arm,
when walking, and tho impression con
veyed to my mind that it was a living
woman by my side, instead of a visitor
from the other world, was so strong that
the temptation to repeat a recent cele
brated experiment became almost irre
sistible.
“ Feeling, however, that if I had not
a spirit, I had, at all events, a lady close
to me, I asked her permission to clasp
her in my arms, so as to he able to
verify the interesting observations which
a bold experimentalist has recently
somewhat verbosely recorded. Permis
sion was graciously given, and I accord
ingly did—well, as any gentleman would
do under the circumstances. Mr. Volck
manwillbe pleased to know that I can
corroborate his statement that the
‘ghost ’ (not ‘ struggling,’ however), was
as material a being as Miss Cook her
self. But the sequel shows how wrong
it is for an experimentalist, however ac
curate his observations may be, to ven
ture to draw an important conclusion
from au insufficient
amount of evidence.
“Katie now said she thought she
should be ablo this time to show herself
and Miss Cook together. I was to turn
the gas out and then come with my
phosphorus lamp into the room now
used as a cabinet. This I did, having
previously asked a friend, who was skill
ful at short hand, to take down any state
ment I might make when in the cabinet,
knowing the importance attached to first
impressions, and not wishing to leave
more to memory than necessary. His
notes are now before me.
“I went cautiously into the room, it
being dark, and felt about for Miss
Cook. I found her crouching on the
floor. Kneeling down I let air enter the
lamp, and by its light I saw the young
lady, dressed in black velvet, as she had
been in the early part of the evening,
and to all appearances perfectly sense
less. She did not move when I took her
hand and held the light close to her
face, but continued quietly breathing.
“Rni-iug the lamp, I looked around
and saw Katie standing close behind
Miss Cook. She was robed in her flow
ing white drapery, as wo had seen her
previously during the seance. Holding
one of Miss Cook’s hands in mine, and
still kneeling, I passed the lamp up aud
down, so as to illuminate
Katie’s whole figure,
And satisfy myself thoroughly that I
was really looking at the veritable Katie
whom I bad clasped in my Arms a few
minutes before, and not at the phantasm
of a disordered brain. Sho did not
speak, but moved her head and smiled
in recognition. Three separato times
did I carefully examine Miss Cook
crouching before me, to be sure that the
hand I held was that of a living woman,
and three separate times did I turn the
lump to Katie and examine her with
steadfast scrutiny,- until I hud no doubt
whatever of her objective reality. At
last Miss Cook moved slightly, and
Katie instantly motioned me to go away.
I went to another part of the cabinet,
and then ceased to see Katie, but did
not leave the room till Miss Cook woke,
up, and two of the visitors came in with
a light.
“Beforeconcludingthis article I wish
to give some of the points of difference
which I have observed - between Miss
Cook and Katie. Katie’s height varies ;
in my house I have seen her six inches
taller than Miss Cook. Last night, with
bare feet, and not ‘tip-toeing,’ she was ’
four and a half inches taller than Miss
Cook. Katie’s neck was bare last night;
the skin was perfectly smooth, both
TO TOUCH AND SIGHT,
While on Miss Cook’s neck is a large
blister, which, under similnr circum
stances, is distinctly visible and rough
to the touch. Katie’s ears are uupierced,
while Miss Cook habitually wears ear
rings. Katie’s complexion is very fair,
while that of Miss Cook iB very dark.
Katie’s fingers are much longer than
Miss Cook’s, aud her face is also larger.
In manners and ways of expression there
are also many decided differences.
“ Miss Cock’s health is not good
enough to allow of her giving auy more
of these test seances for the next few
weeks, and wo have therefore strongly
advised her to take an entire rest before
recommencing the experimental cam
paign which I have sketched out for her,
and the result of which I hope to be
able to record at some future day.
“ 20 Mornington Road, N. W., March
30, 1874.”
A party of Savannah youug men on a
marooning expedition were capsized in
Calibogue Sound. Aside from the wet
ting none of the party received any
damage. - " •
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The Wedding at the White House.
Washington, May 21.- Tho marriage
ceremony is over. The presents ag
gregate fully 860,000 aud are very beauti
ful. The party will cross the Atlantic
on the Baltic. The captain has decorat
ed his deck cabin as » boudoir for tho
bride. The only thing that marred tho
simple citizen-like character of the cere
mony was the presence of the marine
band.
Washington, May 22. Hnys and
Sheats, of Alabama, appeared before
tho Senate Committee on Military Af
fairs on the joint resolution which
passed the House Monday last, giving
aid to the destitute of Alabama. The
Committee agreed to the report favor
ably to-day.
The Senate passed a bill authorizing
the President to issue army rations and
clothing to the destitute people of tho
Tombigbee, Warrior and Alabama rivers.
It goes to the President.
In the Senate, the memorial of tho
Agricultural Congress for half of the
public lands for agricultural colleges was
reierred to the Education aud Labor
Committee. The conference report on
exportation of distilled spirits was
adopted. Civil rights bill was re
sumed. Mr. Stockton, in concluding
his argument, predicted that the sad
dest consequences would flow from the
passage of the hill. The Senate is still
in session, and it is believed it will sit
till a vote is reached.
In the House to-day, the Ways and
Means Committee changed the wine bill
from 50 cents to 40 cents per gallon on
all still wines, aud from $2 to 81 50 per
case. The committee also voted lo fix
the duty on unmanufactured steel at
two cents per pound, without regard to
classification, which is a slight reduc
tion.
In the House, the appropriation for
the Southern Claims Commission pass-'
ed. Over one thousand names are in
the bill. None were excluded, though
an effort was made to throw out General
Bayley, of Louisiana, on account of dis
loyally. The House went into Commit
tee ou Private Calendar.
The Grant Family.
The President and family have gone
to New York.
Civil Rights.
The Judiciary Committee of the
House gave a favornhle consideration to
the civil rights hill. They seem appre
hensive of losing the jewel consistency
if, after having allowed tho negroes to
vote, they withheld other things, includ
ing access to gambling resorts and
houses of ill-fame.
Later. —The Senate is still discussing
the Civil Bights hill. No vote reached.
Merriinou has just taken tho floor for
a three hours speech, and gave notice
that after lie finished if the majority per
sisted in sitting it out the. minority
would see who could sit longest.
Speeches have been made by Howe,
Boutwoll, Pease and Alcorn in favor of
the hill and Stockton Cooper, Saulsbnry,
Kelly and Merriinon against.
Consummation of ilie Civil Rights
Iniquity.
Washington, May 23.—The civil
rights hill passed this morning at half
past seven o’clock, by a strict parly vote,
forty-five Senators being present. Car
penter, upon the final vote, was among
the nays. His point was that the Fede
ral Government had no right to inter
fere with State juries any more than
State Legislatures, lie swullowed tho
hill ill other respects.
The Vote.
Tho vote on tho civil rights hills was
as follows : Yeas—Messrs. Alcorn, Alli
son, Boutwell, Buckingham, Colliding,
Edmunds, Flanagan, Freliughuysen,
Hamlin, Harvey, Howe, Ingalls,
Mitchell, Morrill, of Vermont, Oglesby,
Patterson, Pease, Pratt, Ramsey,
Robertson, Sargent, Scott, Spencer,
Stewart, Wadleigh, Washburn, West,
Window, Wright—29.
Nays—Messrs. Bogg, Boreman, Car
penter, Cooper, Davis, Hager, Hamil
ton, of Maryland ; Johnston, Kelly,
Lewis, McOreery, Merrimon, Norwood,
Ransom, Saulsbury, Stockton—l 6.
Messrs. Morton, Cameron, Hitchcock,
Chnndler ( Ferry, of Michigan, Sherman
and Logan, who would have voted for
the bill, were paired with Messrs. Ste
venson, Thurman, Tipton, Bayard, Den
nis, Goldthwaito and Gordon, who
would have voted against it.
A Gleam of Hope.
It is asserted by the best informed
parliamentary tacticians that tho Demo
crats have the power to stave off action
on the civil rights bill until after ad
journment.
Civil Rights aud Free Schools.
Many colored and old white people
who are not government pap eaters de
plore the action of the Senate as destruc
tive of public schools throughout the
South.
FORTUNE.
Tho Crisis in France.
London, May 23. —The Times' corres
pondent at Paris thinks the new Min
istry will fall if it attempts to go be
yond rnero administration, uml states
that President MucMuhon yesterday
morning threatened to resign.
Tho Hews' special Paris dispatch
reports that all the hopes of passing the
constitutional laws have been abandoned.
Tbe appoin'ment of Gen. Oessey to tho
Premiership causes a sensation. Tho
Haris papers generally think that the
Ministry is more of a business one than
a representative of any distinct political
programme.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
The steam saw mill of Til man Fulloy,
located near Whitesburg, was btirued
last Monday night. Loss, $3,500.
The Fulton Blues have been reorgan
ized, with A. J. West as captain
John Chisholm, who was charged by
the Fulton county grand jury with as
sault with intent to murder, has return
ed to Atlanta.
Rev. Dr. Munsey lectured in Savan
nah Friday evening. Subject: “Ideal—
Art—Music,”
Strawberries are selling at twenty-five
cents 2>er quart in Savannah.
Tom Collins is still being hunted up
in Savannah by two confiding citizens.
Tho ceremony of laying the corner
stone of the Confederate Memorial
Monument will take place on the 29th
inst.
Anew compuny, to bo called the
Cleburne Light Infantry is being or
ganized in Savannah,
Crop prospects in Thomas county are
improving.
Atlanta has had a case of white in
fanticide,
Betsy King, an aged colored woman,
was knocked down aud probably fat-.lly
injured by a train in Macon, last Wed
nesday.
The prospect of (lie completion of the
Elbertou Air-Lino Railroad are brighten
ing.
Cotton of the late planting in Elbert
county is coming up fluely. Thcro will
boa short crop of corn.
Reports from Madison, Hart, Frank
lin, Oglethorpe and Elbert, unanimously
pronounce in favor of an abundant
wheat harvest. Rust is taking it in
places, but with anything like favorable
seasons the injury will be trilling.
.Commandant Brown, of the Atlanta
garrison, met the Police and Ordinance
Committee Thursday evening and dis
cussed the proposition which the Com
missioners made to him some days ago,
and which was that when a soldier was
arrested lie would bo tried by the Re
corder, fined and then turned over to
Commandant Brown, who would become
responsible for the fine, reserving it out
of the soldier’s wages. Col. Brown de
clined to accept the proposition, assert
ing that lie had no right to retain any
part of the pay of his men’s wages, and
lie thought the city had no right to try
them. The conference adjourned with
out accomplishing anything definite.
The commissioners and the committee
have but one idea, and that is that the
city has a right to try and punish all
men who break her laws, and that rlio
must, under no circumstances, yield that
right to any one.
Beethoven’s noble opera of “Fidelio”
was recently produced at Drury Lane,
London, with such u magnificent success
that London papers are anxiously in
quiring why it is not oftener selected.
Mme. Tietjens was the Fidelio, and pro
duced an almost unparalleled effect in
the part. Two of the four overtures
composed for this unique opera were
played, and perhaps the immense suc
cess of the opera owed not its least
measure to the finest operatic orchestra
in the world under the baton of Sir
Michael Costa.
The New Orleans Picayune has a sad
but truthful exhibit of taxation in that
city. It appears that the taxes are 2j
percent, on an assessment of SIBO,OOO -
000, and at this enormous rate’ the
revenue will not defray the expenses of
the municipal government. But tlm
assessment is really double the produc
tive value of the property taxed. Tho
outside estimate should not exceed S7O -
000,000, which runs the taxes up to 4
per cent., and absorbs the entire income
of the holders. Nothing is left for re
pairs, for insurance or subsistence.
Those who have heretofore laid by
money from their incomes, Jmvo now to
mortgage property to pay their taxes.