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WEDNESDAY IUNF. 3, 1874.
MINOR TOPICS.
Prescott, the Boston lawyer who refused to
state what he did with the large sums of money
given him by Sanborn, was recently dis
charged from custody by the Cornnn tee on
Ways and Means, they resting on his statement
that ho gave none of it to CoDgrcfl&men or
Government official*. No doubt he could nafe
jy H av thi*», a* accomplished rancilu are not in
the lial.it of accenting bribes at first li#nd.
The Memphis papers had t. ttcr look after
that paragraph that is going the rounds about
General Forrest and Ins new venture in the
fire-wood business. Home of cur exchanges
have it tha* the General has adopted buckskin
breeches, brogatis, and a black snake whip, and
comes into the cuy every morning astride of a
mule, with a load of cord wood in tow.
The Texas papers are enthusiastic over a
large prospective emigration I’rom Kentucky
ami Virginia this Spring, it is said that some
12.010 acre* of land have been purchased by a
colony of Kentuckians near Dallas, who per
haps will experiment in the hemp culture. The
introduction of this staple into Texas will form
another link in the cb uu of prosperity she is
forging. Every possible in 'ustrv seems suited
to lhe rich aofl and gonial ohm ato of our sis
ter State.
It is somewhat bewildering to us “ outside
barbarians," hut at the same time a triffle
ainu iog. to note the imperturable regularity
will, which telegrams from Madrid re
port i'.opublican success's, while those
from Bayonne report the reverse. It
is wed enough to remember that the
tho telegiapliio at tho former city is under
Government censorship, while the sym athies
of the French town arc largely With the Car
lists. because they profit by tho forwarding of
munitions and supplies, if nothing more.
Murat Halstead says there "is no other city
iu tho world where so many editors can be
purchase*! with a few dollars as in Madri
The poets have already seize 1 hold of tlia
incidents of the Mill river flood, and are em
balming tho " tide for life" in verse of more
or less excellence. Unfortunately, however,
tho r.de w as made in sounpoetioal a vehicle aH a
milk wagon, and the prancing steeds, chargors
with lightning feet, otc , read a little awk
wardly in the light of known fact. But, after
all, tho useful is often really sublime, and Col
lins Graves, with his peaceful Dobbin driven
to a wild run, his milk cans dashing and flying
about, and, with straiued gesture and hoarse
shouting, warning tho people to fly for their
Jives, will be effective on canvas, and may be
even fitted into nol.lo verse by a Holmes or a
Whittier. 1,-ssor poets will And its homely
features hard to deal with.
Due of iho chief arguments of the opponents
of the new Poim-ylvaiiia Constitution was that
the clause requiring a two thirds vote on ap
propriations to charitable institutions would
prevent tho giving of aid to worthy causes. A
contrary result has ensuod, and tho Philadel
phia Jfrvortt saya : "Mori attention than usual
lias been paid to niea-ures relating to the allo
viation of tho miseries of the unfortunate.
Ilemedies have boon devised for tho relief of
insane prisonors anil paupers. An act was
passed for tho osla lislmieut of hospitals in
tlie coal regions. A measnro was adopted to
prevent the traflloin children, which is intend- j
od to abolish tho cruel practice arising from
the importation of young Italians and thoir urn- |
ployment as street musicians. Appropriations J
were also made to all or nearly all the estab- j
imbed chant able institutions which have hith- I
erto boon ni.lt *1 by tho State."
Tho Mobile Unjister, of tho 18111 inst., no- 1
tices the formation of a Tax Payers’ League in
that State, pledged to tho prosecution of all
office-holders avlio fail in an honest tliseliargo
of thoir duties. In many instances, says the
Mobile paper, places of public trust and fidu
ciary employments arc might aiul hold for tho
purpose of unlawful gain. The money so mis
dirocted from public trust iB the property of
tho people raised by taxation. It is therefore
the obvious duty of the tax payors to know
how, whoa, and by whom these injuries are
intlictod. The league is operating admirably,
and alread*- through its influence a number of
derelict offl ials have boon prosecuted and
punished for their crimes. Os its salutary
effect there can be no question. Not only w ill
it check and intimidate public plunderers, but
its effect abroad will bo beneficial to Mobile
ereipt. Perhaps a similar airaugement would
do good in other Southern States.
The first year's experience of tho Govern
ment in tho salo of postal cards lias proven
that they are far uioro popular as a means of
cheap communication than the post office au
thorities had anticipated they would bo. Tlie
estimate by the department of tho number
that would be required the first year was 100,-
000,000, while tho number furnished wa sU3,-
002.000, which would have been largely increas
ed if (here had not been a delay in furnishing
them on tho part of the printers during the
tiist throe months after their introduction
The following i» a list of sixteen eities in which
the greateet number was sold, and iu which, it
will be seen. Detroit stands the twelfth : New
York. 12,500,010; Boston. 6.1*4,000; Chicago,
5,900, t*o; Philadelphia. 5,0.10.000: st. Louis.
3,5 0.00*; Cincinnati. 2.400,000; Baltimore.
1.875.0*0; Buff.lo, 1.500.000; San Francisco.
1.4)0,600; Pittsburg. 1.800,000; Washington.
1,175,0*0; Detroit. 1.150,000; Louisville,
l.i ski’ooo: Cleveland, flSl.OO; Milwaukee.
800.000 , Indianapolis. 720,000.
Oiuoiunvi is excited over Oleomargarine or
artificial but'er. And well she may be. If it
is made out of cow’s fat, why may it not bo
made ont of hog’s fat ? In that case anew in
dustry loom* up. and Cincinnati reaps tlie
benefit. From the character of the compound
indeed it would s. em that any kind of suet or
tallow will make it. At present that from
1 .coves and cows only i< used. The discovery
was made l-y M. Mournez, a Frenchman.
Being engaged in making economical experi
ments for his Government, he noticed that
oows kept on a small allowance of food gave
less milk but more blitter. This led him to
think Unit the butter came from the cow’s fat.
llenc' ha Cried many experiments, and it was
not long before he found in beef suet an excel
lent biso for tho preparation of artificai but
ter. French ingenuity has given to it a fine
ness and flavor not yet obtained iu this coun
try, and which accounts, perhaps, for its
gre iter popularity in Paris. Their is more sold
in this country than the public is aware of. and
new establishments are being starte i ever
mouth or tw o. It is at present principally used
for cooking purposes.
Tiio AuvtrUn Embassador in Paris is not j
fortunate in Uia fights In tiie duel, a few 1
years ago which grow out of the Beaumont j
wcaudal. he was daugerou-ly wounded in the i
rm. and the'dispaiehes recently from Tans
it that in his late encounter with the Duke j
de Montebello, Prince Metteruich was again ,
placed "in the impossibility of continuing the
combat." Fate has not been kind to the good- I
natnred nobleman, for neither of these quar
reU was his own. The first time he assumed
Ins brother s cause, aud the occasion of the
lata affair was that the spirited and eccentric
Princess of Metteruich declined to speak to
the Duke de Montebello, at a recent ball. The
cynics will have a good opportunity to repeat
their moth-eaten witticisms about the lo
quacity of women, now that one of the most
fascinating of the sex has drawn her husband
tnto trouble by holding her tongue. But a
more serious re-ult of this affair will probably
be a revival of dueling among fashionable peo
ple. now that it has once more received the
sanction of the son of the great Prince Metter
nich and the grandson of the great Marshal
I.anues. There has been a prospect for some
time that France would follow the lead of
England aud allow this irrational and unfair
ordeal to lapse from among gentlemen to
sporting people. But there is enough in a sin
gle example like that of MeU-.-nuch. cr that of
the Duke of Montpensier. to keep up the
fashion for years among the petits-crezes of the
Jockey Club aud their imitators of the Wash
ington.
THE “OLD THIIID.”
From the Madison Home Journal we
learn that a meeting of the surviving
members of Company D, Third Georgia
Regiment, was held in Madison, Satur
day, the 16th inst., over which Captain
C. H. Andrews presided. Twenty-four
survivors were present and enrolled
their names. Letters were read from
Captain Corker, of Company A, Cap
tain Nesbit, of Company B, anil Ser
geant Levy, of Company H, cordially
favoriDg a reunion of the “Old Third.”
It was determined to hold a meeting of
the survivors of the regiment in Union
Point, on Thursday, the 30th of July—
the session to continue lor two days. A
resolution of thanks “was unanimously
voted to our old comrade and regimen
tal quartermaster, Captain A. Philip, of
Company G, for his attendance.” We
hope that the regiment will be fully rep
resented at Union Point—and that dele
gates will be sent from Richmond,
Clarke and all the other counties which
furnished companies to this grand old
command.
LET THEM DIG.
The Sanborn business has the happy
faculty of showing, every time it is
opened, that there is something worse
beneath. The latest mystery in connec
tion with the affair concerns itself with
the use made by Prescott, Sanborn’s
lawyer, of some 830,000, which was left
with him by his client, and for which lie
gave no receipt or acknowledgement.
There was $13,000 in all—at least that
was all Prescott has yet confessed to—
hut about 812,000 of that sum was paid
for legal services. Where the rest went
does not appear. The possibility of
finding that it is connectedin some man
ner with Sanborn’s remarkable success
in securing contracts where all others
had failed seems to have nerved the
Ways and Means Committee to fresh ex
ertions. Let them dig away, by all means.
There is no telling what official or Con
gressman they may unearth if they keep
digging. Os course nobody believes
that Butler is down there anywhere,
but if he should be, the labor will not
have been in vain.
SOME THINGS NEEDED.
Tlie changed condition of affairs in
the South, caused by the surrender of
tho Confederate armies and the abolition
of slavery, has been no where more
keenly felt titan in the homes of the
country, and by no class more than the
housekeepers. It tnay safely bo as
sumed that the leading idea with all
newly wedded couples, or of young per
sons abont to be married, is a separate
establishment—or as lovers fondly
phrase it, “a home of our own.” No
one escapes tlie infection. Ev. ry couple
experiences an attack of what may be
termed the housekeeping mania just as
every child contracts measles or whoop
ing cough. Like many oth?r tilings
perfectly patent to every observer but
incapable of explanation, no one has
ever given a satisfactory solution of this
post-nuptial enigma. No matter how
pleasant the paternal or maternal roof,
nor how commodious the old home, nor
how welcome the son or daughter-in-law,
Spooney and his bridehaveno disposition
to remain. Perhaps their feelings are
analogous to those which governed the
faithful slave who remained contented
with her old mistress for some months
after emancipation and then suddenly
announced an intention of seeking a
home elsewhere. Was she dissatisfied
with her situation ? >o. Was her fare
bad? No. The work liiyrd ? No. Was
any of the family harsh ? No. Every
thing was pleasant, but she wouldn’t
feel like she was free until she left “old
Mistis.” So perhaps the newly mated
do not feel as if they were really mar
ried unless they shut themselves up in a
place largo or small, according to the
state of their finances, and play at
house keeping.
Before the war the worst that befel
them thus engaged was found while j
undergoing that process of “ be-!
ooming acquainted with each other,”
with its attendant troubles, which must j
come to every couple, whether they j
have been “ engaged” for a long or a
short time—whether they have plunged
into matrimony hurriedly as if
it were a cold bath, or ap- I
proached the altar cautiously like *
a man hunting a rattle-snake. For j
tho rest their path was made easy
enough. Money was plentiful and rents
low. Eligible houses were always to be
secured without much difficulty and the
majority of married men of the middle
classes were usually able to build
or purchase. Generally among the mar
riage gifts were a perfectly trained cook,
nurse and house servant who robbed
housekeeping of all its troubles aud ■
vexations. If they were not given they
were easily supplied by purchase.—
Slavery may have been the fearfully
wicked institution which our English
aud Northern friends would have us be
lieve, but, iu the language of the board
ing school, it was “horribly” convenient.
Now the case is widely different. Money
is scarce, rents high, living dear, and
servants are delusions and snares. The
youug wife begins to have her troubles ’
almost before the honey bijou aud its
bliss have waned ; and certainly there is
no ruder dispeller of Love’s young
dreams than an India rubber roll or an
ill-starched shirt for my lord, the hus
band. Cooks come with t'*e new moon,
and depart before its full ; some are
impudent, some lazy, some slovenly,’
most of them incompetent. Some are
not willing to do the washing, some ob
ject to having the supplies closely
watched, while others wish to make the
premises an asylum for broods of little
ebonies, or au infirmary for decaying
relatives. The house girls are like the
eooks, only, as our Hibernian friend says,
“more so.” They come like the mists of
the morning, and vanish like frost in
the sunlight. Mart is addicted to rib
bons and surreptitious conversations at
the back gate. Matilda is sullen and in
solent. Jane's fiugers are slippery aud
annihilate the contents of the China
closet. Amanda is piously inclined, but
prigs her mistress’ laces and under
clothing. They cotne and go like the t
weird forms which startled the guilty ;
soul of the murderous Macbrth, and
like them the line “stretches out to the
crack of doom.” On the subject of
nurses we hardly feel able to write with
that calmness and justice which a social !
subject of such magnitude demands.—
Perhaps the eloquence of silence might
be best employed in treating of this
theme. With the end of the first year
the baby puts in an appearance, and after
submitting to the tyranny and exactions
of the monthly nurse at the end of four
weeks that formidable female carries her
self and her manifold bags aud bottles,
some of the latter redolent of suspicious
smells, away and the regular is installed.
From her first entrance upon the scene
she recognizes herself as master of the
situation, as someone whose presence
cannot be dispensed with and she acts
accordingly. The wife weak and with
plenty of other troubles ou her shoul
ders is willing to submit to anything.—
Ditto the husband who misses his
night’s sleep and dreads the first
shrill notes of the awakening angel more
than an alarm of fire. If the nurse is
bad you must put up with all her faults
without a murmur. But if by any
chance she be what ecstatic females
term “a treasure”,then the friend of your
wife’s bosom, yea even her kinswoman,
will seduce her from her allegiance by
offers of higher wage3 and rtulimited
church privileges.
Our readers will ask, what is to be
done ? Every one knows the evil, but
what of the remedy? We answer that
it cannot be wholly remedied, in part it
may be. In the first place we need
* houses bnilt differently from those now
, iause. Instead of putting Mr. and Mrs.
Spooney in a six or eight roomed
! building with a rent commensurate with
the rooms let our philanthropists and
capitalists (for philanthropy is ever a
profitable investment; build houses'with
two, three or four rooms en suite, and
furnished with all the conveniences of
gas, water and grates, for the accommo
dation of families unwilling to board
and who do not wish to encounter the
manifold annoyances and inconveniences
of orthodox house keeping. If properly
arranged and conveniently located these
suites would rent for enough to bring a
handsome profit upon the investment to
the owner, while greatly lessening
the rent which a tenant would
otherwise have to pay. In this way le
nflisance of cooks would be abated and
no family would be compelled to employ
more than one domestic, nurse or house
servant as the case may be. In the
second place, let the hotels and restau
rants make arrangements for'supplying
families thus situated with their meals.
Here again the return to one party
would be large and the saving to the
other great. In this way families would
have all the comforts, with but few of
the drawbacks, attendant upon house
keeping and the perils of matrimony
would be very considerably diminished.
Wo venture the asssertion that a hun
dred suites of rooips could be rented in
Augusta to-morrow, if the hotels and
restaurants would supply the tenants
with food. Who will inaugurate the
good work ?
TIIE COAXING CAMPAIGN.
We do not think that much respect
will be paid to the recommendation of the
Chairman of the Executive Committee
that no steps be taken towards making
nominations until after the committee
meeting in July. Como of the papers
in the Second District urge the holding
of a convention during June or July,
and tlie Griffin News calls for early ac
tion and the return of a full Democratic
delegation to the next Congress. The
Savannah Advertiser sharply criticises
the position which it assumes that the
Chronicle and Sentinel has taken.
Because wo declared that the Executive
Committee appointed in 1872 should not
undertake the conduct and management
of another political campaign until that
body had consulted taieir constituents, the
people, the Advertiser inveighs against
holding a convention this Summer. It
declares that there is no necessity for
attempting to invoke this “ponderous
machinery;” that if,called the conven
tion “would be, anil would justly de
serve to be, a failure;” that “there is n.ot
upon record an instance in the history of
Georgia where a convention waSv ever
called to appoint an Exeeutive Commit
tee or to run a Congressional campaign,
either or both.” So far as the assem
bling of a convention is concerned the
Chronicle and Sentinel *s not disposed
to press the issue, though it sees no
good reason wiiy such a body should
not be called together. We only say
•that if the Executive Committee intends
to manage the coming campaign and to
shape tho policy of the party in Geor
gia, a convention should be assembled.
Otherwise the district organizations
should pay no attention to the recom
mendations except so far as they may
think proper, but should proceed to the
work of organization regardless of the
views or wishes of the committee. So
far as the other assertion of the Adver
tiser is concerned, we know that a State
convention was held on the 17th of Au
gust, 1870, preparatory to an election for
exactly the same offices, and only those,
which we will be called upon to fill this
Autumn ; and we have been under the
impression that the editor of the Adver
tiser was one of the delegates to that
body.
TIIE CIVIL RIGHTS INIQUITY.
The civil rights, or more properly, so
cial equality bill has passed the Senate
by a largo—more than a two-thirds—ma
jority, aud an equally large vote in its
favor may be expected in the House.—
Our Washington dispatches assert that
action may be staved off in tlie House
for the session by a resort to parliamen
tary tactics familiar to skillful debaters.
Os the truth of this assertion we enter
tain grave doubts. It is but natural to
suppose that were such a thing possible
it would have been attempted by Thur
man and Bayard and the other promi
nent Democratic leaders in the Senate.
The Radicals have made the bill a strict
party measure, it is sustained with the
whole party strength, and it is • but
reasonable to suupose that they will find
a way to force it through the House. A
few credulous persons affect to think
that the Presidential veto power which
pricked the expansion bubble will be in
terposed to prevent the consummation
of this iniquity. There are two reasons
for believing that no assistance may be
expected from this quarter. Iu the first
place the passage of a civil rights bill
has been repeatedly urged upon Con
gress by the President in his annual
messages and he will scarcely veto
a bill carrying ont his recommenda
tion. In the second place the
same vote which passes the bill
is‘large enough to over-ride the veto. It
is well then for the Southern people to
make up their minds that the bill will
become a law and to consider what ac
tion should be taken for the purpose of
defeating the operation of this mis
chievous statute. The bill was amended
by the Senate and its exact text has not
yet been published, but so far as We
have been able to discover the altera
tions made have only been forthe worse.
It is obnoxious iu all its provisions and
from every possible point of view. It is
unwise, unjust, oppressive and unstates
manlike. Instead of benefiting the
blacks it will injure that race as well as
the Southern whites. It was conceived ;
in a policy of hate and is consummated
for the purpose of embroiling the two
races in the South and of perpetuating
the power of the Republican party bv
means of the trouble which it is expect- j
ed to bring about. As they won the !
campaign of IS<2 by means of the Kn- !
Kiux excitement so do the Radical
leaders expect to conquer two vears
hence upon a civil rights platform. * But
however much we may abhor such a law
and its authors there will be something
needed besides denunciation and revil
ing. The white people of Georgia must
consider what is to be done, or what can
;be done under the circumstances. We
j publish a communication this morn
* i Q g urging the Governor to convene the
Legislature in extra session in order
that the common school system may be
swept away. This is our corresdondent’s
remedy ; but his suggestion is so
grave tbit it should not be hastily
acted upon or hurriedly endorsed.—
That this system must go seems a
j foregone conclusion, for we cannot
i expect the white people to consent
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 1574.
to mixed schools. We must also devise
some means to save our State Univer
sity, and to protect the hotels and
boarding houses. Perhaps, however, it
will be best to await the-action of the
House upon the bill; and we may then
trust to Gov. Smith to do everything in
his power for the protection of his peo
ple.
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA.
We are in receipt of the annual cata
logue of the State University. It is a
neatly printed pamphlet of 78 pages and
gives a full account of all the depart
ments erf the University as organized at
present. These embrace the academic,
State college and law departments, at
Athens, the medical department, being
the Medical College of Georgia, at Au
gusta, and the North Georgia Agricultu
ral College, at Dahlonega. The cata
logue reports in the three departments
at Athens 266 students—ll 9in the aca
demic department, 132 in tlie State col
lege and 15 in the law school. This is a
very flattering showing, when we call to
mind the extreme financial difficulties
under which our State and the country
generally were laboring during the past
year.
The University is now doing a great
work for the State, and whatever she
needs to render this work more efficient
should be liberally granted «by the
Legislature. We should not stop at
small beginnings. What answered a
quarter of a century ago will not do
now. In the matter of education,
great energy is everywhere manifested,
and for Georgia to stand still now would
be to lag behind.
Fine buildings alone will not make a
University, but they add greatly to its
efficiency and popularity, and from what
we remember of the college edifices at
Athens, we can hardly err in saying that
they are neither tasteful, appropriate,
nor worthy of the State. The people of
Georgia, the whole people, own the
University, aud they, through their
representatives, should see that hand
some, appropriate structures mark tlie
highest seat of learning in our State.
The University seems to have entered
on anew era, aud, in harmonizing its
mode of instruction to the wants of the
age, it is rapidly becoming in reality
wliat its name imports—a University ;
not a college for special subjects and a
special class, but a University for all
subjects and all classes. We rejoice in
its prosperity, and hail its advancement
with pride.
Its present position and future repu
tation and influence requires that only
experienced educators of the largest
reputation should be invited to fill its
offices.
The Harrisburg Patriot gushes over
Elliott, tho colored Congressman from
South Carolina :
Elliott, the colored Representative
of South Carolina, seems destined to be
the avenger of the white race who have
been robbed and the deliverer of the
poor negroes who have been duped by
the infamous gang who have that State
by the throat. He has been the relent
less pursuer of Moses, whom he has
finally brought to bay. It is reported
that he is still on the track of Patter
son, and that he does not mean to desist
from the pursuit until .lie has driven
that adventurer from the Senate of the
United States. Elliott has been inde
fatigably accumulating proof of fraud
and corruption against Patterson,
which he will produce ns soon as he gets
through with Moses. In this labor of
hate lie is going to work systematically,
and is disposing of the gang in detail.
Our excellent Democratic contempo
rary is not, perhaps, aware that the
“avenger of the white race” and the
“relentless pursurer of Moses” is the
Governor’s counsel in the Orangeburg
case, and that he will receive a fat fee
for his services, which will havo to come
from the pockets of the plundered peo
ple. The colored statesman has not
brought Moses “to bay” to hurt. The
Patriot, perhaps, does not know that
tlie colored statesman is only hostile to
Patterson because “honest John” de
feated him for the Senate, and that
Elliott is as unscrupulous as any of
the South Carolina gang, only he hasn’t
as much money.
Mlt. Stephens has replied to Mr. Hill
and Mr. Hill has replied to Mr. Ste
phens, and still the truth of history
does not seem to be satisfactorily es
tablished. Mr. Hill in his last letter
states that as Mr. Stephens in his first
made a special point upon the fact that
he (Mr. H.) was not in Richmond at the
time stated in his address, aud branded
him with falsehood on account of that
statement, and as he (Mr. Hill) has
shown by the evidence of several Con
federate Congressmen that he was in
Richmond, he will not continue the con
troversy until this question of veracity
is settled. It is a little curious that
both gentlemen complain of unfair treat
ment from the press. Mr. Stephens
says the newspaper men should remem
ber that he was the party assailed, and
that he was forced to reply. Mr. Hill
says they should consider that he was
the party assailed, and was compelled to
a vindication of his honor. Who shall
decide ? The finance bill and the eulo
gistic embroglio are simple things com
pared with this conundrum.
Ip Mr. Stephens does nothing for the
“ truth of history,” he will certainly do
a good deal for philology before he fin
ishes his wordy warfare with Mr. Hill.
“Carmiguole” puzzled the people and
press for some time, but now the author
of “ Notes on the Situation” is crushed
with “ gauderleering.” It seems to us
that thi3 is a most unfair as well as fero
cious mode of fighting. “Falsehood,”
“shamelessness” and “brazen-faced”
will do well enough—they are the recog
nized weapons of the fish market—but
it is hardly right to assail an enemy with
such polysllabic epithets as those which
Mr. Stephens ha3 heaped upon his ad
versary. In the meantime the Elbertou
Gazette says that a runaway horse “car
magnoled” in that town recently, and we
suppose men will say in a few days
that Col. Coriolanus is “ganderleering”
for office.
The cotton ass has made his appear- ;
ance in the sanctum of a Southwest
Georgia newspaper with the “first cot
ton bloom of the season.” Os course
the stalk is more than two feet high, has
any number of forms upon it and is a
fair sample of the crop of a whole
plantation. These wonderful blooms
and crops do the planter infinitely more
mischief than either the boll worm or
caterpillar, drouth or deluge. Because
Smith has a sheltered cow lot which has
not been affected by the rains and frost
he rushes off with an “early bloom” to
the printing office and soon the world is
informed that the cotton crop of Geor
gia is growing luxuriantly and is covered
with blooms and forms. The bears
parade the information everywhere and
one foolish planter in each county is
able to depress the market and injure all
his neighbors.
| A whiter in the Constitution suggests
Col. R. A. Alston as a suitable candi
date for Congress from the Atlanta dis
trict. At the risk of being charged with
intermeddling with affairs which do not
! concern us, we second the motion with
all our heart. If we would have a brave
and effective defender of the rights of
the South in Washington let us send
there such a man as Col. Alston,
CARRYING THE WAR INTO AFRICA
The Baxter party in Arkansas is neg
lecting no means for improving the re
cent victory. The official guillotine is
in continnal operation, and the heads of
the Brooksites are flying in every di
rection. They have also determined to
neutralize the efforts of that brace of
Senatorial scoundrels—Clayton and
Dorsey—by waging an active war
against them in Washington. The House
of Representatives has passed a resolu
tion, by a vote of forty-seven to nine, re
questing’them to resign, and in case
they refuse to comply with this invita
tion the Senate is asked to investigate
the charges contained in the preamble,
which accuse them of bribery, corrup
tion and treason.
THE COMING CAMPAIGN.
The two Atlanta papers have their
little say about the Chronicle and Sen
tinel’s comments upon the powers and
duties of the State Executive Commit
tee. The Constitution thinks that there
is no necessity for calling a Convention
merely in order to appoint anew com
mittee. We shall not take issue with
this position, provided the committee
does not attempt to exercise its authori
ty in the coming campaign. The Herald,
which is nothing if not personal, of
course addresses its remarks to the
fancied author of the articles which
have appeared in the Cheonicle, and,
of course, shoots very wide of the mark.
It concludes its article, however, by say
ing that the necessity of the Executive
Committee meeting is questioned, and
“ that it looks as if the Districts ought
to be abl# to run their own affairs.”
Good enough. Let those Districts
which wish a long canvass and an early
nomination have them; ditto those which
think it wiser to defer action and organic
zation.
BRINGING THE MILLS TO TIIE
COTTON.
British cotton mills are rapidly trans
ferred to India, and profits on stock in
India mills are said to be enormous.
They consist in freights on the raw ma
terial to England from India, in the dif
ference of value of cotton goods made
from cotton fresh from the fields, and
from that which has lost its elasticity
and freshness by long compression and
folding together of fibres to be broken
when straightened by beaters and other
machinery. It is believed that then
will be mills enough erected in India,
sooner or later, to absorb the whole In
dia cotton crop. The same reasons
which will produce this condition of af
fairs in English cotton manufacturing
will cause the South to absorb the cotton
manufactures of the United States. The
mills must come to the cotton, not the
cotton to the mills. While such a result
is inevitable, and the question only one
of time, still its coming may be hasten
ed by judicious management upon the
part of the Southern people. We must
make the North and East acquainted
with our manifold advantages. Above
all things we must show our faith by
our works. Our own citizens who have
money to spare must put it in manufac
turing enterprises, and not conceal it in
stocks and bonds, as they have done
heretofore.
TIIE ATTEMPT TO REVIVE THE
WAR SPIRIT.
Tho Detroit Free Press says if any
opinion can be formed from the occa
sional utterances of the Republican
press, the next campaign is to be fought
on the part of that party on the war
issues. Defeated in Ohio, in Wiscon
sin, in New York and Connecticut, they
have discovered that the majorities in
those States are “copperheads;” and
their leader, the New York Times, sneer
iugly suggests, that it “will shortly be
as much as a man’s reputation is worth
to have it said to him that he was a
Union man during the war.”
In view of the fact that the war has
been over nine years, this is a singular
view even for the Republican press,
which is noted for taking singular views
of things. The people all over the land
have become heartily tired and sick of
the war and the issues raised by it, and
want nothing so much as a complete
restoration of confidence and fraternal
feeling between all sections of the coun
try. The Union soldiers invite the ex-
Confederates to meet with them; the
graves of the Confederate dead pre deco
rated by the same hands which strew
flowers on the Union grave, and every
thing betokens peace but the discord
ant shrieks of the organs.
All the more singular is it when one
reflects how silent the organs were on
this question during the late Presiden
tial campaign. Then there was hurry
ing to aud fro in search of Southern
votes for Grant, and there was no traitor
in all the land. Some of the leaders of
the “rebellion” were in the front rank of
the Administration party at the South,
and Mosby was Grant’s right hand man
in Virginia. So the organs forgot their
warlike strains, and piped them as
peacefully as the most enthusiastic ad
vocate of universal concord could desire.
But singular as the change is it is not
inexplicable. It was upon the war
issues that the Administration party
first succeeded, and as it begins to find
itself baffled and defeated at every point
where it has essayed the issues of peace,
it returns in despair to its first love.” If
there were any hope of success in a
battle fought upon the questions which
now interest the people—the vital ques
tions which affect our present and future
prosperity—it would undoubtedly pre
fer to make the issue upon them ; but
there is no such hope. Upon all those
questions the Administration party
finds itself either hopelessly weak or
hopelessly divided ; and forgetful of the
lessons of the past two years—forgetful
that the world moves, it is endeavoring
to roll back the car of political progress |
a dozen years and to revive that pro
scription for opinion’s sake which
marked the days of its power. As an
exhibition of impotent rage this attempt I
to revive the war spirit is simply
pitiable ; but as a confession of weak- i
ness on the part of the Administration
party, and of inability to keep pace with
the march of events, it is valuable and
instructive.
The Athens Georgian gives this ad
vice : We would respectfully suggest
to all former slave-owners to preserve a
correct list of their slaves, and have
their names recorded in the clerk’s
office of their respective counties. This
will require but little trouble and ex
pense, and the day may come when a
nation’s returning sense of justice might
; make this a wise present precaution.—
Stranger things than the payment by
the General Government for our eman
cipated slaves has happened, and im
probable as it may now seem, yet it may
be. Let the record be made; it will
| serve as a contribution to history, if not
as a step towards securing our just and
correct deserts.
Two daily papers are not enongh for
Atlanta. She is to have another. Mx.
Alexandre St. Clair - Abrams, the
founder of the Atlanta Herald, with
three or four otherar has applied
for a charter for a publishing company,
which will issue the daily news. We
may rest assured that Mr. Abrams will
; make things lively when he gets in the
1 journalistic traces again.
AFTER TEN YEARS.
A Delayed Communication Published
at Last—Soldiers’ Res lotions.
Below we publish' the resolutions
adopted by the Thomson Guards aud
Ramsey Rifles—two gallant companies
from Columbia county—at their* camp
near Bristol, Tenn., April 4th, 1864
more than ten years ago. As the meet
ing requested the publication of its pro
ceedings in the Chronicle and Senti
nel, it is necessary to state why the
resolutions have just reached the com
positors’ hands. The preamble and reso
lutions were brought to this office for
publication, but at that time the Chron
icle and Sentinel was the property of
N. S. Morse, and was a recognized and
bitter opponent of the Confederate ad
ministration. Mr. Morse declined to
put in print a paperwhich seemed aimed
so directly at the faction with which he
was acting. The gentleman who had it
in charge then carried it to the Consti
tutionalist office; but the then manage
ment of that paper declined to give it
publicity. The gentleman to whom we
have alluded—and who was himself a
gallant officer from Columbia—retained
possession of tlie paper until a few days
since, when he handed it to us for pub
lication. A portion of the roll of the
Ramsey Rifles is alone missing:
[communicated.]
Camp Cos. F, 10th Rest. Ga. Von., )
Near Bristol, Tenn., *
April 4, 1864. )
At a meeting of the Thomson Guards,
held at their camp ground this day, on
motion, Captain S. T. Neal was called
to the Chair, and Lieutenant George P.
Stovall requested to act as Secretary.
The object of the meeting having been
explained by the Chairman, the follow
ing preamble and resolutions were sub
mitted for their consideration, which
were unanimously adopted :
Whereas, We have learned that many
of the citizens of Columbia county who
owe military duty to tlie country, as well
as all other aid in the power of a citizen
to give to his country, in her hour of
greatest need, have by various cunning
devices avoided the one and refused to
give the other; aud whereas, wq, also
citizens of Columbia county, and sol
diers in the Confederate army, who have
from the inception of this struggle
bared our breast to the storm of battle,
as well as to the storms of Heaven, feel
ing humiliated by this action of a part,
of the citizens of Columbia county, and
wishing to give expression to the indig
nation and contempt which wo feel foi
these men, and the miserable subterfuges
by which they have avoided their duty
to the country, do therefore
1. Resolved, That no language can
sufficiently express the scorn in which
we hold them, and we hereby suggest to
the true men at home that a brand of
shame be put tipou these vile miscreants,
that they be scourged from the commu
nity which they dishonor by their pres
ence, so that they may be remem here*
by the rising ge eration as men without
honor and without patriotism, and that
this may descend to the remotest gene
rations.
2. Resolved, That the distinguished
men whom in former days it was our
oleasure to support for any position n
the government, but who have now
leagued themselves together against
the present Administration, even to
the contemptible part of aiding
these men to avoid the duties of citizen
ship, and who by thus opposing the
Administration are paralyzing our ef
forts in the field, have forever lost our
confidence, for we conclude that any
man whose personal spite or disappoint
ed hopes of ambition leads him at this
time of trial, either to oppose himself,
or to array any number of citizens
against the existing government, is
wholly unfit for any position of honor
or confidence; and for the future we
hereby pledge ourselves never to forget
their present action, and never again to
yield them our support.
3. Resolved, That we look with sor
row upon the action of the people of
other sections of the State, and we are
fain to believe that their’s is more an
error of the head than of the heart; that
they are but the witless tools of wiser
but worse intentioning men.
4. Resolved, That in his Excellency,
Jefferson Davis, we have all that our
hearts could wish, as the Chief Execu
tive of the nation; that his ability, in
tegrity and energy have won our un
bounded applause and our lasting confi
dence, and we who havo .been with him
from the beginning are willing to go
with him and trust him to the end—the
action of fools aud knaves at home to
the contrary notwithstanding.
5. Resolved, To the ladies at home,
(who are always true,) we return our
thanks for the unceasing kindness which
has ever characterized their action to
ward us. We regard them as the grand
reserve upon which we may always ral
ly; and with such a reserve we never
can fail. They are the bulwarks of the
revolution. And to the true men at
borne we say stand fast-, having conquer
ed that peace which we all so much de
sire, and having wrung from our merci
less enemy an acknowldgement of that
independence which we swear to have,
we will return home and join you in a
campaign against these men, who are
doing all they can to break us down, and
the device upon our banner will be a
gibbet and our battle-cry “No Quarter!”
6. Resolved, That these preamble and
resolutions be published in the Consti
tutionalist and Chronicle and Senti
nel, of Augusta, Georgia.
Captain, T. H. Wood; First Lieuten
ant, G. P. Stovall; Second Lieutenant,
Jerry Blanchard; First Sergeant, Thos.
M. Steed; Second Sergeant, W. E.
Spoir; Third Sergeant, E. T. Langford;
Fourth Sergeant, G. L. Harrel; Fifth
Sergeant, J. T. Smith; Corporals, A. E.
Wiley, R. W. Lassiter, E. Y. Amerson;
Privates, A. J. Bailey, J. S. Caldwell,
D. W. Cliett, J. T. Fuller, D. Fitzger
ald, W. B. Garrett, Thos. Gay, T. J.
Herring, H. C. Howell, Robert Holly,
S. D. Morris, T. F. Morris, S. H. Mor
ris, C. H. Morris, D. Megahee, R. Mega
hee, C. Neal, D. Reeves, W. W. Reilly,
B. W. Smith, G. W. Sims, J. A. Stapler,
A. G. Thomas, H. A. Thomas, J. M.
Wilson, W. E. Wade, O. 1). Worrell,
Geo. Welch, H. W. Young, J. P. Mor
ris, M. F. Walker, company K; J. T.
Yaun, company K; P. L. Robeson, G.
B. Cartledge.
The above preamble and resolutions
having been submitted to the Runsey
Volunteers (Cos. “K,” 16th Georgia Regi
ment), by the committee appointed for
that purpose, were unanimously adopted
by all the members present.
Captain, G. D. Darsev; First Lieu
tenant, VV. G. Toole ; First Sergeant,
J. L. Smith; Third Sergeant, F. W. M.
Cung; Second Corporal, W. H. Jones;
Fourth Corporal, W. B. Langford; Pri
vates, J. H. Thornton, R. H. Harrison,
J. A. Johnstone, Lewis Mauge, J. C.
Bingham, Dixon Stewart, _ William
Mims, P. Stewart, Russell Adams, Tnos.
Ruck, J. J. Harrison.
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
The North Apprehending Trouble.
[New York Herald.]
The bill now goes to the House, and,
as a party measure, will doubtless pass
that body, though as a political make
weight there is some talk of tackling on
to the bill in the House Horace Gree
ley’s grand idea of a universal amnesty
to the parties concerned in the late re
bellion. Here, however, the implacable
Jefferson Davis, who does not recognize
the new order of things, who asks no
favors and who still adherea'to the “lost
cause,” is a stumbling block to many
Republicans, who still believe that jus
tice called for the hanging of Davis “on
a sour apple tree.” In fact, if a univer
sal amnesty be not passed this session it
will be mainly on account of the unre
constructed and intractable Jeff Davis.
And so we apprehend that this civil
rights bill will be finally passed without
the' equivalent to the Southern whites of
a universal amnesty, the wisest measure
in behalf of the reconciliation of the
South to the Union as it is that could be
adopted. But, as this civil rights bill
may be considered henceforward a law
of the land, what will be the conse
quences of the enforcement of its pro
visions ? It will not be long before the
hotel keepers, theatrical and operatic
managers, and other parties concerned
in the city of New York, will be put to
the test of the equality of all races and
colors as citizens and customers; for we
understand that certain colored men
have promised to take the conceit out of
certain would be exclusive establish
ments in New York on the first oppor
tunity.
In the Southern States this bill, from
all that we have heard and seen on this
subject, will close the public schools,
not only in Georgia, where retaliation
has been threatened by the Legislature,
but in every Southern State where the
whites hold the power, and in those
States where the blacks are supreme, as
in South Carolina, Mississippi aud Lou
isiana, tL whit s will withdraw their
children from the publio schools rather
than submit to their mingling with the
blacks under this Congressional law of
equity. Mr. Sargent, of California,
tried an amendment authorizing sepa
rate schools fer whites and blacks ; bit
the proposition,was declar das destruc
tive of the great leading principles of
the bill, and so it was promptly voted
down. There will unquestionably be a
great commotion throughout the South
close upon the heels of the passage of
this bill, and the political consequences
may be far more serious and extensive
than any of the Republican leaders of
this Congress antici ate.
[forthe chronicle and sentinel ]
IUIDDLE GEORGIA AdLEOLUGY.
The Churches, Forts and Sepulchres
of the Indians and Spaniards.
BY H. 0. STEVENSON.
The Ancient Indian Church and Fort
Near Macon.
Not a great while since I visited and
closely examiued the Indian mounds in
East Macon, and found them many
times more interesting than I ever sup
posed they were. I had, without taking
a close observation, accepted as true the
popular idea that they were graveyards,
or burial lots, of the Creek tribe who
owned all this country around Macon
before the white people took it from
them by brute force and artful bargains.
They are neither cemeteries, rn r were
they built by the Creek Indians. One
was a fort and the other a church.
Reaching the base of the one on th*
right, which is five hundred yards from
the machine shop or round house of the
Central. Railroad, I scrambled up the
side, taking a little path probably made
and kept beaten by wild animals. It
was very steep, so much so that I had
to sieze hold here and there of small
bushes for assistance. Gaining the top
—what’s that ? As lam born a regular
ditch, and even now, after the lapse of
probably three hundred years, deep
enough to quite conceal a man fitting
down, and enough to hide half his body
standing erect. Getting into it I walked
along all of its four sides. The west and
east ends were probably twenty yards
long, and-the sides seventy-five'or one
hundred. The square within had ample
room for one thousand men to fight. It
was even plainly visible that the dirt
from the ditch had been thrown up
much higher on its outer than inner
sides, and iu a few feet of this fosse the
escarpment commences, aud very pre
cipitately tends to tho plane way below
[ did not discover the sally-port, the
bastions, the curtains, ravelin or moat,
and perhaps none of these were known
to tlie Indian military engineers. Tilt
strongest points were the east, sonrii
irid west. The north was the weakest
■ itself, but ill reality stronger thai
either, as I will explain.
Tiieouly thing lacking in this aborigina
Gibraltar was water. But as the Oomul
<ee river was only a few hundred yard
listant, perhaps it was supplied the garn
<on, when besieged, by a subterraneai
assage, and perhaps' from a well suui
in
The Parade Ground,
On the north side of this fort is a leve
piece of ground containing fi.ve or six
acres, which was either used as a farad*
or drill ground, and perhaps for th
wigwams of the tribe. It is at least quit*
large enough to manoeuvre a respectable
sized brigado. On tho north side and
rising to tho full elevation of the fort if
not a little higher, was tho
Church of the "Worshippers of the Sun.
Exceedingly skeptical about the unitv
of the human race, and no one ever yet
having pioduced the slightest authentic
proof that Adam was not created in
America, aud that this was not tlie ori
ginal Garden of Eden, not knowing,
therefore, whether the Indian came upon
this Continent by way of Behring’s
Straits, or that Africa, Asia and Europe
received its tribes by that or some other
passage, I do know that a conviction
that there is a Deity is innate with all the
grand divisions of the human race.
Whether the idea that the situ was actually
God originated with the Persian or the
North American is also unknown, but
that it was worshipped as the real living
God by tribes of both countries is a well
established historical fact. .Standing
upon the top of this immense church, I
wondered what their mode of worship
was—whether it was in singing and pray
ing, in sacrificing members of their
tribe or prisoners captured in war. But
the answer to all this is as silent as the
earth with which it is made.
No llnman Bones Found.
In my life time I have seen twenty or
thirty Indian mounds, all somewhat
similar to both of these, and as in near
ly every one thousands of bones had
been found, and can be found to-day, I
suppose everybody thought these were
burying places also. But no one lias
ever unearthed any bones from either
this fort or church. Five years ago the
Central Railroad cut away one-third of
the north front of the church, and al
though the workmen sometimes came
across undoubted and unquestioned In
dian relics, they found no “reeking
shanks or yellow chapless skulls.” But
about half way between there and the
river they did find plenty of them, un
derneath as smooth earth as the white
man uses for toombs. They can be
found there now by any gentlemau look
ing for that class of archaeological curio
sities.
Who Built the Church and the Fort ?
Not the Creek Indians, for they
neither worshipped the sun nor buried
their dead in level earth. Their mounds
where they did bnry are from one to a
great many miles .below Macon. My
additional proof is this: Old men now
living in Macon tell me that when they
first came here they found a tribe of
people’ called the Creek Indians, which
the white man bought and whipped out
of the country. Those Creeks told them
in turn that they came from another
country, and whipped away a tribe they
found here.
A Fort Built by Hernando DeSoto,
Six miles below Macon, in plain view
of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad,
and on top of an elevation known as
Brown’s Mound, are the remains of a
fort built by Hernando DeSoto.
After,leaving the coast of Florida and
starting in search of the New Eldoiado
aud the fabled spring which would give
eternal life, he no doubt, hero or here
abouts, fought the first of the numerous
battles on his march to the Mississippi
river. Our forefathers found the Creek
Indians of true courage, and so no doubt
did DeSoto. Perhaps he erected this
defense as precautionary before deliver
ing battle, and it may Vie that he was so
worsted in it that he had to halt aud re
cruit his army, aud, like generals of
our day, ho did not call a prolonged
halt in an enemy’s country without
throwing up breastworks around his
camp.
Tue way this was determined to be
unquestionably a Spanish fort was that
various Spanish cffins, portions of arms
used by Europeans in war, and not by
Indians, crosses, crucifixes, etc., have
been found in and around its remains,
and then the plans of it exhibit far more
skill than the red man ever displayed in
similar works. DeSoto had no lively
American newspaper correspondent in
his camp, and hence not only the history
of his march but the locality of his bat
tles and sieges, and the life, manners,
character and religion of his enemy were
all buried with his body in tue Missis
sippi river.
The tribes along the coast of Florida
had been reduced by DeSoto into friend
ship, and therefore his marauding expe
dition set out on its mission of religion
and plunder without any opposition,
and did not meet with any until it jump
ed the Creeks on the Ocmnlgee. I here
argue from their nature that he did not
go through them without a fight, and
the hottest kind of one, for the Creeks,
like their successors of this day, would
fight when called upon.
The only other publication of this
kind that I ever heard of in the line of
DeSoto’s march from Florida to Mem
phis is in Ittawamba county, Mississip
pi, where he no doubt again had to fight
a pitched battle. He was in c mmand
of a huge well armed band of robbers,
who made war npon all the Indians they
met for the pure love of money. They
never had harmed him or his country,
and to suppose that he had an easy
march and planted his cross on the
banks of the Mississippi without serious
opposition, does not at all accord with
the nature of the “untutored savage,”
as all such civilized, savages as that
Spaniard delighted in calling the own
ers of America that day and time. Had
bis object been one of discovery and
Christianity, he could have easily trav
eled through the whole country with an
escort of a few followers. But he was
imitating Cortez and looking for an
other Montezuma, aud, therefore, had
an army along. When he died on a
raftasn the Lower Mississippi he lmd so
few followers along with him and so
many enemies on shore that they were
afraid to land to bury him, and," there
fore, sunk his body in the water.
Macon, May 24ti), 1874.
LETTER FROM ATIIEXB.
[special correspondence chronicle and
SENTINEL ]
t Athens, ay 25, 1874.
Editors Chronicle, and Sentinel :
I have thought that au occasional let
ter from this charming old town would
not be without interest to your many
readers, although we are considered by
the outer world an old fogy, easy-going,
sleepy sort of community. We do not
claim—like some of our more preten
tious neighbors—to be the lmb of the
universe, but are content to go on our
way quietly and peaceably, without noise
or parade, until by a natural growth we
can take our place among the commercial
cities of Georgia. That this time will
come, when our contemplated railroad
connections are completed, any one who
will take tho trouble to look at the map
will be convinced—which brings me to
say something of the city of
Athens as a Future Railroad Centre.
Many of your old readers know that
more than forty years ago the first rail
road survey made in Georgia by au
thority of the Legislature developed
the fact that the best route from Augus
ta to the great West was via Athens and
the Rabun Gap, aud that the Georgia
Railroad was chartered from Athens to
Augusta with the intention of extend
ing it via Rabun Gap to Knoxville, Ten
nessee. At that time Athens was the
head of the road—the President, Wil
liam Dearing, Esq., resided here, aud
the Georgia Railroad Bank was located
here. Various local influences contin
ued to divert the road from its original
course—first to Greensboro, then to
Madison, then to Covington, until it
dually reached Marthasville, ail obscure
post office in DeKalb county, where
were a single dwelling house, a store
and a blacksmith shop—now the city of
Atlanta. A glance at the map will
show that the Georgia Railroad
might have reached the Rabun Gap at
a distance of 204 miles from Augusta,
and that she would then have been more
convenient to the great cities of the
West than the present city of Chatta
nooga, which is 136 miles from the head
of the Georgia Railroad. In other
words, if tlie Georgia Road had been
built as was first contemplated it would
have been the shortest possible route to
the great West and through the most
available gap in tlie Alleghany Moun
tains. But she lost her opportunity aud,
strange to say, refused to avail herself
of it when again offered her in later
years. Nov/, those good honest people
who imagine that the Athenians are go
ing to be content with a simple connec
tion with the Air-Line Road will find
themselves vastly mistaken. Wo shall
iav. tlie connection wiili the Air Line
n full operation, we trust, by the Ist of
October. In the meantime, however,
•ve are going to push the road beyond
the Air-Line towards Clayton, with every
prospect of being met at the Rabun Gap
•>,y a continuance of the Knoxville aid
i 'hariestou Road, already running from
Knoxville to Maryville, about 20 miles.
The connection with Knoxville com
pleted that link of 20 0r25 miles to Chit
wood will put in a connection with
Cincinnati by a short and direct line.
At Athens wo already havo connection
with Charleston, Port Royal and Savan
nah,via Augusta, while the Athens, Madi
son and Eatonton Railroad, which will
certainly be commenced and vigorously
pushed forward within the next twelve
months, will give us a short line to the
Central Railroad and Savannah. If our
Macon friends ,e really in earnest about
their Macon and Cincinnati Road, we
can demonstrate to them that Athens is
only five miles out of an air line between
Macon and Knoxville, and a more availa
ble route than they can possibly get else
where. You will see, then, that withe
doublo connection with Atlanta, via the
Georgia and Air-Line, a double con
nection with Augusta, via the Athens
branch aud the Madison Road, direct
connection with Macon and Savannah,
and the shortest possit le lines from
all these points to tlie West passing
through Athens, she will become a rail
road centre of no small importance. She
may never bo able to build an opera
house and sell it to the State or a Capi
tol, nor a Kimball House at the expense
of the people of the whole State, but
she will probably dispute the claims of
some of her metropolitan sisters to having
all the trade, all the talent and all the
wealth of the State. But enough of
this for the present. Let me say .a word
of
Athens as a Summer Resort.
I can imagine no more beautiful or
delightful place at this season of tlie
year than Athens. With its pure, cold
water, its delightful, bracing climate,
its charming society, its educational ad
vantages, it only needs railroad facilities
to make 'it what it was years ago—a
place of general resort in tho Summer
season. The writer remembers when,
years ago, Athens was on the regular
route from the low country to the moun
tains. Then it was crowded every Sum
mer with the better class of people from
Charleston, Savannah, Augusta, Talla
hassee, Mobile and New Orleans. But
our Gate City friends, with their Air-
Line Railroad, this Hi Kimball House,
their Ponce de Leon Spring, &c., have
gobbled up all their travel, and now,
except at Commencement times, Athens
sees but few Summer visitors. By an
other Summer the Northeastern Rail
road will again give us the short line
through Athens and a return of her
good old times.
Minor Notes.
A kitchen and servant’s house belong
ing to Mrs. T. W. Rucker, on Mil
lege avenue (Cobbham) took fire lust
night about half-past nine o’clock
and was entirely consumed. The
dwelling house was in great danger,
but after tremendously bard work
it was saved, a largo oak tree which
stood between the burning building and
the dwelling having contributed more to
its salvation than anything else. * *
By the way—the importance of trees as
a protection against fire cannot be over
estimated. The people of this place
have done wiselj m leaving so many of
the original forest trees around their
dwellings. They not only serve toadorn
and beautify tlie city, but add to the
comfort and safety of the premises
where they are left, growing. * * But
I have already m«de this 1* tter longer
than I expected to do when l began it,
and I must close. * * We arc suffer
ing very much forthe want.of rain, but
I cannot learn that crops are being great,
ly injured. Iu many localities cotton
has come up very poorly, and tlie pros
pect is anything but promising. Tho
wheat crop is good. Senex.
Death of Major Robert Martiv.—
It is with sincere regret that we are
called upoD to announce the death of
another respected and valued citizen. —
Maj. Robert Martin died in this city on
Sunday night last, after a brii f hut pain
fill illness, of errysipe as. He was a na
tive of South Carolina, and for some
years a resident of Charleston, in that
State. During the late war he served
with distinction in the Confederate
army; and a few years ago settled in this
city. Upon the death of Sir. E. 1J
Gray, the Secretary of the Cotton States
Agricultural and Mechanical Associu
tion, Maj. Martin was elected to fill that
position, which he held up to the time
of the dissolution of that organization.
He was subsequently appointed Secre
tary and Treasurer of the Port Royal
Railroad Company, which position he
held up to the time of his death. He
was, we believe, about 49 years of age,
aud during his sojourn among us had,
by his urbanity, his integrity, and his
gentlemanly deportment all witJ
whom he had dealings, won the respect
of the community and the friendship of
a very large circle of acquaintances. In
every position to which be iias been
called be has filled it with credit to him
self aud satisfaction to his employers.
His death is indeed a loss to the city.
Mrs. Victoria Woodhull has been lec
turing in Salt Lake City npon her bocial
theories, and the Mormons are delighted
with her.
A great affliction has befallen Lord
Lytton (“Owen Meredith”) in the death
of his only son. His little daughter is
also in very poor health.
Rhinebeck, New Jersey, has decided
to issue no liquor licenses. Ticon
deroga’s Hotel is closed, and the door
bears a placard, “No license, no
hotel.”
Business of every character is dull in
Griffin.
NUMBER 22.
! LETTER FROM ITLAMTt.
[special correspondence chronicle and
BENTIN L 1
Atlanta, Ga., Alav 2fi, 1871.
The New York Editors and Mr. Mill.
This afternoon an informal banquet
was tendered the New York editors, who
arrived here last night. There was
much interest manifested by all parties.
Bon Hilt, in behalf of Georgia and At
lanta, delivered a happy speech of a few
minutes length, which was received
with applause and the best, of humor,
lie took occasion to touch upon the
civ 1 rights bill and reconstruction, de
livering a most conciliatory discourse,
ingenious in its presentation and pleas
ant in its effect. In reference to our re
lations and feelings towards Northern
adventurers and carpet-baggers, lie said:
“Gentlemen, I consider myself a gen
tleman. Now, suppose there existed in
your midst m Now York an ignorant
class, such as the negro among us, and
suppose I, by false persuasion and so
phistical arguments, were to produce
a spirit of envy, hatred and discord be
tw en yon and that class. What, would
be your feelings towards me ? The best
evidence that there are no Ku-Klnx here
is the fact that just such interlopers
among us were uotku-kluxed Were you
to fail to ku-klux me for such unpardon
able meddling, I would lose all respect
for you ” [Laughter] Mr Hill spoke of
the Union and the Constitution, and de
clared that the former was impossible
without an absolute observance of the
latter, and the latter conceded to every
State the undisputed right to regulate
its own domestic affairs; therefore Geor
gia was entitled to the privilege of Ray
ing whether or not she should have
negro social equality or not. Mr. Pease,
of Saratoga, seems to be the leader of
the excursion, and in his address ho
dwelt with enthusiasm upon the uppoar
ance anil prospects of Georgia. Ho
said that Georgia was more like New
York than any other State, and that At
lanta was the livost, most enterprising
city in the South. The party express
gratification at the hospitable reception
given them. They make a thousand in
quiries relative to the negro, his social
and educational prospects, and express
themselves convinced from inquiries
among the negroes themselve- that this
class receive the kindest consideration
from the white people. A large party of
these editors were grouped about. Mr. Hill
tins evening in the Kimball House rotun
da, who was discoursing on the present
statusof thenegro, when Mr. Hill remark
ed “Hud I been permitted this evening
at the banquet I would have stated that I
was in favor of only one more war, and
that upon certain conditions. If Massa
chusetts should ever seuil auy more
African negroes down South for us to
make slaves of I would consider it an
indignity upon our people, demanding a
signal rebuke. I would be in favor of
declaring war against her.” Tins volJy
was received with laughter and created
mu h merriment among the group of
editors. All these Yankee Bohemians
expre s a keen desire for a literal version
ot Mr. Hill’s speech to present, to their
readers, and Mr. Hill has promised to
write it out and forward each oue of
them a copy. The party leave to night
via the W. k A. K. B. to Chattanooga,
and thence home. They are impressed
with the fact that Georgia is the Empire
State of the South.
Fulton Legislators.
Atlanta is beginning to give some at
tention to her forthcoming representa
tion in the Legislature. Candidates for
nomination are already in the field, it is
said. Among them are Colonel E F.
Hoge, of the last House, esteemed by
many the ablest representative on the
floor of the House ; Captain Lowndes
Calhoun, aiso present member from this
comity ; ' aptain John A. Stephens,
nephew of Hon. Alex. H. Stephens, a
lawyer of tbs city; Mr. Howard Van
Epps, a young lawyer and eloquent
speaker, who, aside from a more sub
stantial reputation, enjoys the distinc
tion of being a conspicuous character in
Wm. Dugas Trammell’s “Ca Ira,” and
Mr. Robert Young, a member of the
present Citv Council. The contest will
be an interesting one.
Hill and Stephens.
Mr. Stephens’ third letter Ims met
with .a more favorable reception than his
second, because of its more calm, dis
passionate, temperate tone; and his
friends rest, easy, satisfied that no forth
coming testimony can affect his over
powering logic. In regard to Mr. Hill’s
second letter, it has been noticed that
ho clings, with peculiar fondness, to
that part of the controversy declared
altogether immaterial to the issue by
Mr. Stephens.
Mr. Hill’s Congressional Prospects
A group of gentlemen were this even
ing discussing Mr. Beri Hill’s jirospects
for Congress, and nearly all agreed that
lie-was much needed there at this time;
but as readily expressed their belief
that he would never go there. Some
thought that liis prospects for a nomi
nation in tjiis'District would ave been
more favorable than in the Ninth, be
lieving that Atlanta’s influence would
liavo secured him Ins election.
Abram's Paper.
Alexander St.-Clair Abrams says ho
will commence the publication of his
paper in about two weeks. Ho lias or
ganized a publishing company, as will
be seen from his published application
for a charter in the press ol' this city.
’I woof the gentlemen—Messrs. D. M.
Bain and Louis Ghobstin—are mer
chants in this city—both young men,
both directors of the Young M n’s Li
brary, and botli gentlemen of somewhat
literary tastes, Mr. Fitzpatrick, another
one of the stockholders, Mr. Abrams
says, is a New York friend and lead
ing stockholder in the company. \brains
says he will devote his entire personal
attention to the editorial department of
the paper, leaving its business depart
ment to a business manager.
Dots.
It is said by some that the passage of
the civil rights bill in the Seuate is in
part the effect of the irritating speech
of Senator Norwood. * * i would
state that trade is still quite dull, but as
I have not nonsuited the “committee of
three," I cannot hazard such an asser
tion. Halifax.
“Treasure(Not) L'rovu.”—On yester
day an intelligent lo<iking co ored tiiun
presented himself at police headquar
ters and made the following statement :
A few evenings since a colored fellow
came to bun aud asked him who he was.
ho complainant leplu-d that his name
was Hollevmau, and that ho was a doc
tor and a. preacher. His interviewer
said, “ You’re de berry man 1 want.
Come wid me, Doctor, and I will show
you wliar you kin git a trunk full of
money. It’s a ecret, and nobody knows
anyting about it but me. and I want you
to have it.” The doctor, nothing loath to
“increase his store,” and add lo his “flit by
lucre,” went, with his new found friend,
whithersoever he went. Their loute lay
some distance beyond the Orphan Asy
lum, aud when near that building the
guide called a halt for the pnrpos* of
explaining to the reverend doctor the
locus in quo and the modus oprrundi of
securing the stock in “the Graml trunk,
lie (the doctor) wus to take oil from his
I person nil liin valuables, Ijis boots and
socks, and in this manner proceed to
the point named, while hi friend and
I guide would take a circuitous route with
i tiie doctor’s property, and meet lom at
the spot where the truuk was to be
I found. The doctor readily complied,
and started on his mission of disevery.
He didn’t discover the spot where the
trunk was hid. nor the trunk itself, noi
the money that was in the truuk ; but he
discovered, upon further investigation,
that his friend could not be found, that
his boots, sock , valuables and jewelry
were “non cst concatibus in swumpo,
and with them a gold watch, some “tooth
pulliams,” and $55 in money.
He now desires the aid of the police
in getting back his lost property, but it
is probable that nobody but the pro
prietor of the New York Herald will
ever be able to find the trunk or the in
dividual whogot Dr. Holleyman’s cloth
ing, watch and money. The search, to
he successful, must be necessarily on a
scale commensurate with that for Dr.
Livingstone. .... ,
p doctor says that lits friend
is a “big nigger, a large body,
long legs, and red eyes.”
Ex-Governor Rufus B. Bullock, of
Georgia, the carpet-bagger, that ab
sconded after depleting the treasury,
has turned up again in New York.
The City of New Orleans and the
Juckson Railroad have been sued by
English bondholders for $1,157,000 of
principal due on the Ist instant.
Mrs. Helmbold, wife of the doctor of
Buchu fame.in this country, has entered
a convent in Faria,