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NEW SERIES VOL, XXXVIII.
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(,'mtonict.p k ShSTiM.t.. Augusta. Ua.
€i)rom'clr anD Sntfmel.
WEDNESDAY . . -JUNE 10, 1874,
MINOR TOPICS.
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Brooklyn, ah one writer lia» it. “blossomed
with children” on Wednesday. Fifty thousand
from the Sunday school* of the Cityof Chitrch
es parad and the streets. The hands played
proper tunes, and all went o‘-. nicely, hut in a
moment of loose morals they struck up the
“Mulligan Guards." and it was too much for
llnj children. The hoys and somo of the girls
were wild, and with their feet, hands and ton
gues kopt lime to the march.
It is strange that the laws concerning the
destruction of infected clothing, bedding and
furniture should lie so loose. As is well known,
we have ha! drill ulty hero on this subject.
Anil now the authorities of tlio city of London
find that they have no right under any act of
Parliament, or any law whatever, to touch a
shred of an infected article, although there is
a “OisoaHCH Prevention Act" in full force. It
is proposed to destroy the old disease-breed
ing clothing. Ac., when necessary, and for the
present give the owners new things of the
same kind a favor which will doubtless bo
gratefully received.
Oregon is the next Ntato of special interest
i'ai political circles, as, in a little over a week,
it a quSßronnial election for State oflicers takes
plEca, besides a choice of a Representative in
(' ingress and anew Legislature. In the last
Presidential election ihe Republicans carried
tlie Ntato by 3,502 majority over all opposi
tion, bnt the next year Mr. Nesmith, Demo
crat, was elected to Congress by nearly two
thousand majority. The reaction was largely
attributed to the feeling occasioned by the se
lection of Mr. Ilipple-Mitcholl as United States
Senator. Tho Congressman to be elected next
week will be the first now member of tho
Forty-fourth Congress.
Tho Irrepressible World fun maker tells us
tha “ Mr. Morton’s inflation credit system
must lie a sort of national lick douloureux.."
He also indulges in another cremation joke.
“ Our unprotected bachelor hopes his landlady
won't join the cremation society, as ho would
he sorry to have her hashes handed down to
future generations."
A good thing from Punch on cremation is
“ The KemoiiHtranco of the Undertakers to Sir
lleurv Thompson," which runs aH follows :
“ Who are you, to be thieving
Tho poor sexton’s broad ?
How can wo earn our living,
If you urn our dead ?"
Which is very good. But what are wo to think
of the printer who, in one of our city journals,
hopelessly extinguished tho joke by printing
the last lino as follows:
"if you burn our doad ?”
Wo are told that “tho young girls of Romo,
after they have boon promised in marriage,
are soeu by their lovers for tho first time in
public, iu. the rotunda of (ho Pantheon, be
cause the light enters tliero by a single open
ing iu tho roof, and tho light from above is
moat favorable to beauty.” It is angular that
this advantage of lighting rooms from above,
not only as regards tho increased beauty of
trie features, but on account of tho greater
charm in which every object appears, has not
been undoi stood by our fashionable women. A
boudoir lighted in this fashion would render its
mistress irresistible. With this source of light
“tho eyebrows become more prominent, tho
eyes more brilliant under tho dark cavity hol
lowed by tho aroli of tho brows, tho cheek
hones slightly raised, the nose simplified and
lengthened, marked by a luminous lino that
supports the shadow thrown where tho black
©f tho nostrils is softened and lost."
The deoorationa of one of the bed rooms in
Cardiff oxHtle, now being reconstructed by the
Marcus of Buto, are described in the Archi j
which aays that tho adjacent bath-room !
and batli are lined with alabaster, and that in
each window of the bed room is the form of a I
jewel,-on which is ciphered a figure to repre-!
sent its nature. The wall stories aro of the
precious metals, and twelve glass knobs in tho
vaulting are significant of twelve precious
stones peculiar to the signs of the Zodioc. j
Portraits of celebrated goldsmith's and jewel
lera are to be recognized. At tho springing of
each vault and over the chimney pieco is a ;
shield bearing tho Buto arms and surmounted !
by his oorouot. while the face of tho stone all j
around it simulates the earth, and is Jeweled |
here and (hero with polished bits of mineral. :
procured from the Buto estates. Tho room is j
not yet furnished, but rough models of tho
furniture to bo placed in it aro there, and each
article is to bo carefully thought out before
being enstrusted to a skilled Workman.
Tt is vary bail to have a crazy horse in tho
house. So Mr. Robinson, of Albany. 111., found
it. He was leading his horse, valued at three
thousand dollars, past his dwelling, when tho
animal suddenly broke from him. entered tho
front door, nearly scaring Mrs. Robifson into
convulsions, and driving her quite into tho
vard. Unfortunately she left in the room a
child in its erib. and by tlio time Mr. Robinson
arrived and rescued it, the crib had been
broken and the child wounded. 'Jlien tho
horse went on the rampage. Windows, a sew
ing machine, chairs, tables, carpets, vanished j
before him. Having finished the parlor, he ;
wout for the next apartment, which was a bod
room. Ho got his fore feet on the bed. and it
came down, and a general wreck followed. By
this time men had gathered, ropes had been
procured and tho horse lassoed and confined.
He died at midnight. l)r. Robinson made an
examination of the head, and pronounced the
sudden , madness congestion of the brain.
Wlnle in the house the horse was undoubtedly
totally blind.
It is pretty well understood that there will be
no more investments of English capital in tho
South until tho State governments pass to the
control of the actual and responsible citizens.
The era of oatpet-bag rule has depressed alike
the industries of the States it afflicts and their
commercial credit abroad. Nor can capitalists
bo blamed for hesitating to outrust means ill
contact with tho Infectious bankruptcy and
prevalent ruin that follow in the steps of these
adventurers as desolation follows the path of
an army. The people of some of the South
ern States, aware that the single alternative of
utter ruin or tho expulsion of the carpet-bag
gers is left them, are gathering their strength
for one supreme effori in the latter direction-
Notably among these States is Alabama and
Florida. They will succeed if it is possible.
Aroused to ttie full measure of the grand neces
sity. they will leave n> stone unturned, no
effort unemployed, to accomplish a result on j
which not only tho preservation of their prop
erty. but their honor abroad depends. In the
effort they have the sympathy and good wishes
of every honest community in the country.
A scientific negro laborer in Baltimore has
invented a hydraulic cure for the rampage in
cattle. A certain festive steer, with well de
veloped horns, broke away from a drove of his
fellows. and thought he would have some rare •
fun with the boys. He chased his tormentors,
the drovers, paid his respects to an unoffend
ing dray horse, visited a dry goods store and
sent the clerks flying, aud behaved in a very
tuiboviue like manner generally- At last he
got tired of the -port, and lav down on the
sidewalk to rest. He was secured and tied
fast before he knew that he could not bring
his legs to bear upon the crowd. He was.
however, more unruly than ever, though his
violence took different forms of expression.
Now comes nfl old negro with his specific so
bovine biliousness. lie poured water into the
est ear of tho animal, and the cooling
disappeared as fast as it could down a rat hole.
After his Jfead had been sufficiently water
logged, he became as gentle as a lamb, aud
suffered himself to be leu around like a yearl
ing calf. But in a majority of cases of like
character, the water cure would be impractica
ble, as tlie great difficulty is to get hold of the
ear. The experiment is like sprinkling salt on
little birds' tails to catch them. What s the
pse of the salt when you’ve got ’em?
PREVENTIVES OP MATRIMONII.
A New York paper, in discussing mat
rimony recently, stated that the statis
tics show the number oi marriages in
the large cities of the North to be yearly
| deceasing. The same fact has been
i noticed in the Southern cities with re
gard to what are known as the middle
and upper classes of society. Those
who not only are poor, but are willing to
be thought poor, and to live like poor i
people, take wives and hu-bands nnto
themselves just as rapidly now as the
poor have proverbially done since matri
i mony has been known among men. Butit
cannot be denied that marriages are de
creasing among tbe classes first mention
ed. The true heroes and heroines of the
altar are the poor ; the cowards who ap
proach it with fear and trembling, many,
not all, are the so-called “respectables,” |
of small means and great “pride.” Os
course we do not mean to say that marriage
is becoming, or that there is any great i
danger it ever will become, obsolete.
But what we do mean is that a large and j
yearly increasing number of young men
in nearly every Southern city —afraid to j
venture upon a step which they have !
seen result so disastrously to their asso- j
ciates —seem determined to eschew rnatri- ,
mony aud are becoming confirmed celi- J
bates. There must be some cause for j
such a condition of affairs. What is it ? j
We believe that it is found in the false j
pride, prevailing principally among I
tho women, which will not allow j
persons of moderate means to occupy
their true position in the social world.
The war which swept away the wealth of
the Southern people did not sweep away
their pride of position. Those whose
parents were in easy circumstances be
fore the surrender, and whose purses al
lowed them to participate in all the
pleasures of the fashionable world—for i
Savannah and Charleston and Augusta i
have their fashionable worlds just as do !
Paris, London and New York—wish to
follow in tlio same path which their
fathers and mothers trod. They do not
recognize or realize the changed condi
tion of affairs, nor are they willing to
make their mode of life conform to their
altered fortunes. Miss Monteagle starts
when she hears such an assertion : "Os
course I know that we are poor ; that
papa lost his negroes and his bank stock
in the war, and that we are obliged to
economize fearfully.” But, my dear
young lady, though you know that
you are poor, do you really feel
that knowledge ? Wo are afraid not.
Are you not living in pretty much
the same way now as tlio family did
in the good old days of slaves and
stocks ? When Mr. Monteagle, the
estimable citizen and merchant, pro
posed giving up his house on the fash
ionable street and taking a smaller
dwelling on an humble thoroughfare
in order to save the high rent, did you
not combat his determination with tears
in your eyes and vow that you had
“rather die than live in that stuffy
little house on a back street ?” Is it not
a cardinal principle of your philosophy
that though “people may be poor there
is no reason why they should not enjoy
themselves just as much a3 the
rich;” and is not this ingenious
little piece of sophistry used to cover
many expenditures which could only
have been afforded before the days of
emancipation and panics? Do you not
know that pater-familias is struggling
rigorously wo ouui iu wuv.
to solve that knotty problem of bow to
make both ends meet, and that he is get
ting old and careworn in the contest;
that his business affairs are sadly en
tangled ; that your respected parent
lias had high words with the butcher
and almost a serious altercation with the
gas collector; that he is rapidly losing
his peace of mind and his piety under
the incessant attacks of annoying and
not-to-be-paid-off duns? Miss Mon
teagle admits that this is all true; that
poor papa is worried to death. But
then what can sho do ? “If a girl is in
vited out sho must go, and if she goes
sho must bo dress and decently. If slie
takes a walk she must not look as shabby
as a muipcr, when every other woman iu
town has handsome clothes.” Who is
not familiar with this feminine fashion
of arguing and summing up in one aud
the same breath, and who lias ever been
able to reply to it ?
But, and now we are coming to the
marrying business, is it not the preva
lence of the Monteagle idea which is
so sadly depressing tho matrimonial
market and causing such a marked dis
proportion between supply and demand.
Take our young lady again. Her female
friends are constantly remarking, behind
her back of course, that there does
not seem much prospect of Angel- j
ina’s getting married; and some of
them do not scrnple to intimate I
that she is quite old enough to think of j
taking such a step. Down in the hot- j
tom of her own heart she entertains j
such thoughts occasionally herself.
Miss Monteagle is passably good look- j
ing and ordinarily intelligent. She t
neither paints, pads nor powders any j
more nor nuy less than her sisters, nor i
is her tamper less amiable. She lias
good points of which she is well aware,
and bad ones which are known only
to the friends of her bosom. She has
had her share of attention and her just
quota of admirers. She rides, dances,
walks, drives and flirts, but somehow
she doesn’t marry. She has a partner
for tho ball room, the parlor aud the
promenade, but she is offered no eligi
ble partnership for life. She has been
“iu society” a good long while—longer
perhaps than she cares to recollect. She
has reached the point where she dis
likes to converse about her age and
where the mention of dates is disagreea
ble. Younger sisters who have been
kept in short dresses and pantalettes on
her account aro beginning to mutiny and
to make spiteful remarks of easy appli
cation. Even patient, kind and affec
tionate P.yrA thinks it high time that
Angelina was well married and settled
in life. Bnt the young men come and
go-they dou’t stay. As much as some
of them admire the young lady and as
much as tliov would like to take her for
a helpmeet, they are afraid to marry.
They are unable to afford matrimouy;
and Angelina’s virgin heart is sacrificed j
to the timidity of man and the selfish
state of society.
This is the feminine verdict; but is i
the decision correct ? We think not. If
a young man fears marriage with Miss
Monteagle. it is because he feels that
marriage would wreck-her happiness
and his own. The same war which has
made butchers’ bills aud dry goods ac
j counts a burden to the young lady’s :
father has despoiled his father of wealth. ;
He has been obliged to go to work on
his own account, and he esteemed :
himself fortunate when the cotton firm
of Longstaple, Middling A Cos., in
whose warehouse he is employed, raised
his salary to twelve hundred dollars per
aimmn. In the present state of society 1
it is manifestly absurd to think of mar
rying on such an income. If Miss Mon
teagle were willing to accept the situa
tion, there would perhaps be no difficul
ty in the way of matrimony. But she is
not. Instead of hiring a two hundred
and fifty dollar house away from the
centre of the town, he must rent one at
double that figure in a more eligible
locality. It must be “nicely” furnished
for visits from fashionable friends.—
Angelina's soul revolts at the idea of
j hofjje work, and they must haveasmanv
servants as there *are members of the
family. The wife does not like to give
up her former pleasures, and she natnr
ally wishes to “look as well” on the
streets as her acquaintances, the daugh
ters of old Moneybags, the millionaire.
Every expenditure makes a fearful hole
in tLe monthly salary. After a while
Charles Augustus is presented with an
j heir and with him comes the nurse. Every
one pronounces it one of the sweetest
things ever seen, and the piece
of red-faced humanity twenty-two
inches long by six wide mus? have
clothing enough to supply an orphan
asylum. When the little tyrant takes an
airing he must do it in the handsomest
vehicle which the carriage dealer could
' persuade the father into buying, and if
I Mrs. Ckcbsus’ cub lias three ' inches
more lace on its little body than has the
infant heir to nothing a year the moth
er’s heart is filled with anguish. Two
or three years at most of this style of
living, suffice to wind up Charles Au
gustus, and misery and a Magistrate
appear upon the scene together. This
is one of tiie reasons why marriages are
decreasing: Men of small salaries and
moderate means are unable to support a
wife after'he manner in which she ex
pects to live. It has been abundantly
demonstrated that twelve hundred per
annum caimot compete with twelve
thousand. The earthen pots cannot
swim with iron pitchers. When women
who marry poor men are willing to live
like poor men’s wives—are willing to
abandon costly habits aud to give up
pleasures which they cannot afford,
there will be more marriages, and cer
tainly happier marriages. We have
given one reason why we think matri
mony is on the wane. There is another:
The selfishness of men, equally as po
tent and equally reprehensible. But as
our sermon for to-day is long enough,
we shall have to reserve the male mon
sters for another occasion.
NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE.
Something must be done to stop the
enterprise of our big journalistic cous
ins of the North or there is no telling
what they will do next in their rage for
news. The marriage of Miss Grant
gave them an opportunity of which
they were quick to avail themselves.
The wedding was, wisely, a private affair,
and none of the bohemians were for
tunate enough to obtain cards of invita
tion—the Presilent, perhaps, well know
ing that they would make the most of
his hospitality his kindness
by writing the monstrous fictions
concerning his guests, himself and his
family. Bnt such a policy only put the
representatives of the “great dailies”
upon their mettle, and various and
ingenious were the ruses which they
employed to get a report of “the pro
ceeding*.” Two of the attaches of a
New York journal played a desperate
game—aud lost. No stratagem had been
practiced which could baffle the
vigilance of the doorkeeper and they
were almost in despair. Their hopes
revived, however, when they saw a
jeweller from Philadelphia and his two
assistants enter the White House with
the wedding presents. Here was a
chance. If they could not get within
tho charmed precincts themselves they
could pump those who had been there.
Tlw>,. ; n , if and yl'*" ’ey'’«vV
assistants came out they sought tm m
at once. But the men, perhaps having
been cautioned, were reticent and would
tell nothing. The easiest way to render
them communicative was by wining
them aud the reporters did not hesitate
an instant as to tlieirluty. In the course
of several hours they filled them with
liquor and then applied the pump, but
without effect. They had gone too far.
Tho men were too dnnk to do anything
except raise a row, i. id get themselves
taken to tho station house to cool off.
The enterprising reporters lost both
their liquor and their labor, and they
were obliged to rely wholly upon their
imagination in framng a wonderful
account of the wedding, the presents,
decorations, etc., for the journal by
which they were employed.
There was another i.evice employed
by the correspondent of a rival New
York journal which was jf a much more
daring nature and whipl was attended
with complete success This knight of
tho quill formed a comfiuation with the
head butler and was admitted to the
White House in the diguise of a negro
waiter. The burnt coripreparation was
very skillfully applied tpil beneath the
gas light escaped detedon. While re
moving the covers aid changing the
glasses the enterprising bohemian took
a full mental inventory bf the guests,
their dresses and eonvrsation which
were faithfully re-produ<M next morn
ing in the telegraphic cttimns of that
great Gotham journal thefoaily Earwig.
Keally the enterprise oj journalism is
j rapidly reaching such a ioint that do
’ mestic privacy is almost ri impossibili
! ty. On the happening o such family
! events as marriages, birtls and deaths
\ the coal cellar aud the clot-ts will have
to be searched and the pttlieus of the
kitchen closely scrutinized iu order to
guard against the undesirgl presence of
journalistic spies employei by such en
terprising papers as the Earwig.
CROWD WHITES AND BLACKS IN
TO TIIE SAME SCHOOLS.
This infamous idea is th- very foun
dation stone of the Social hpiality bill.
We fiud ample confirmatior.of this opin
ion iu the speech of Bodtw 11, of Mas
sachusetts (the leading Ralieal in the
United States Senate), as reported by
the Congressional Ilecord, the official
organ of Congress. In the ssne of that
paper of May 22d, we find jßomvELL’s
speech, fry in which the foll ( wing is an
extract:
A system of public inst action snp- ‘
ported by general taxatiou jis security,
first, for the prevalence aiiih-ontinuance
of those ideas of equalit which lead
every human being to reci inize every
other hitman being as at equal in-ail
natural and rig ts; and the
only way by which those 1 eas can be ■
made universal is to bring together iu !
public schools, during tha'forming pe- j
riod of life, the children o-t all classes,
j and educate them togetiei-’l
The public school is aij epitome of
j live, and in it childnii -re so taught
that they understand tllise relations
! and conditions of life vh«h, if not ac-1
quired in childhood ani vjuth, are not i
likely afterward to be gamed. To say
that equal facilities shal be given ia dif
ferent schools, is to ro: your system of
public instruction of hat equality by :
which onr.people, with ut regard to race :
or color, shall be assii dated in ideas, j
personal, political and public, so that
when they arrive at thl period of man
‘ hood they shall act toj ther upon pub
j he questions with ides i formed under
the same influence ah l directed to the
same general results; tnd therefore, I
say, if if it were pot ible, as in the
large cities it is possi le, to establish
separate schools for bit ?k children and
for white children, it i in the highest
i degree inexpedient to rither establish
or tolerate such school.
The theory of hums equality cannot
be taught in families, taking into ac
count the different corn tions of the dif
ferent members and t e families com
posing lmman society ; tut in the pub
lic school, where childr-n of all classes
and conditions are bi night together,
this doctrine of human*equality can lie
taught, and it is the chtef means of se
curing the perpetuity 4 republican in
stitutions. And inasmi?h as we have iu
this country four millioicolored people,
. I assume that it is a jublic duty that
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY .MORNING, JUNE 10, 1874.
they and the white people of the country,
with whom they are to be associated in
political and public affairs, shall be as
similated and made one in the funda
mental idea of human equality. There
fore, where it would be possible to es
tablish distinct schools, I am against it
as a matter of public policy.
HARD TO WHITEWASH.
The Detroit Free Press thinks that a
great deal of uncertainty still exists as
to the time when and the manner in
which Secretary Richardson will be
whitewashed; but it begins to be very
clear that at some time and in some
manner the operation will be performed.
It is more than probable, too, that if
there is enough of the mixture the As
sistant Secretary and the Solicitor of the
Treasury will also receive a coat. There
has beeo a faint expectation that the
Republican party would jump at the
chance of securing a reputation for
honesty and capacity at the compara
tively small cost of disapproving the
Sanborn job with all its unsavory sur
roundings. But when it is found that
this means of dispensing with the future
services of the men who, to say the
least, might have preserved the country
from the disgrace of that job and neg
lected to do so, tbe sacrifice seems too
great. Richardson and his subordi
nates have friends and supporters.—
Richly as they deserve punishment they
can hardly be expected to submit to it
tamely or to kiss the rod. Punishment
means, therefore, not only a loss of their
services to the Government, which can
well afford to dispense therewith, but
means also a loss to the party in power
of such support as they cau control,
and this theparty in power cannot afford
at all. It may be taken for granted,
therefore, that whether Richardson be
nominally censured or not he will be so
tenderly dealt with that he shall find in
his treatment no cause for reproaching
his party or its leaders.
And yet it will take an immense deal
of whitewash to cover Richardson and
his subordinates, and hide all the stains
of the Sanborn iniquity. Mere failure
of censure of the part of the House of
Representatives will hardly do it, nor
will permitting the Secretary to resign
and accept a position in the Court of
Claims answer the purpose. The stains
are too numerous and too dark. Even
without going to the full length of as
sorting that impeachable offenses have
been committed, it is absolutely impossi
ble to ignore the fact that a most nefari
ous system of jobbery has been carried
on directly under the noses of the Treas
ury officials; and the only way to acquit
them of connivance and participation
therein is by the assumption that they
are too thoroughly incompetent and im
becile to bo intrusted with even the
smallest interests of others. I ither this
is so or the report of the Committee of
Ways and Means is utterly wrong in
statement and conclusion, and the testi
mony taken before that committee, in
cluding that of the Treasury officials
themselves, is a tissue of falsehoods,
without any foundation in fact. No
whitewashing can be at all effectual
which does not obliterate all traces of
that report and blot out the testimony
upon which it is based. As the House
of Representatives is hardly equal to
that feat, we look for some such imper
fect covering of the Treasury incompe
tents as was bestowed on most of the
mittee which hadTllnV com " J
The Atlanta Herald thinks that the
author of the communication in tliej
Chronicle and Sentinel calling upon
the Governor to convene the Legislature
in extra session, in order to prevent
mixed schools in Georgia by abolishing
tho common school system, was not
well posted. It says :
In regard to the correspondent’s sug |
gestiou that the Legislature shoulil
abolish tho common school system, a*
little wholesame information may h I
given him by a report of a debate in th J
Senate. Senator Saulsbury asserted : l
his speech that if the bill passed lu*
would go to work aud at once break’ ijJ
the public school system in
Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, then intro'
duced a bill which gives Congress tli l
right to force any State to support a!
system of public schools at its own ex'
pense. If this bill is carried, as i!
doubtless will be, it will be useless tC
convene the Legislature.
We can give the Herald a “little
wholesome information.” In the firs':
place, the communication was written
before the publication of Mr. Stewart’s
action. In the second place, Mr.
Stewart has riot done the foolish thing
of which the Herald makes him guilty.
He has offered an amendment to the
Constitution, which must receive a twe
thirds vote in both Houses of Congress,
and be ratified by the Legislatures of
three-fourths of the States before it be
comes a law.
Among the freshest of the political on
dits wafted from Washington is one to
the effect that the Democratic leaders
are intriguing to make President Grant
their candidate for a third term. Geor
gia Toombs and Virginia Mosey are
said to be conspicuous iu their advocacy
of the novel programme. A still later
canard is that the bondholders have
made up a fund of one hundred million
dollars to make Grant Emperor, and
that the Louisville Courier-Journal ,
New York Herald, Washington Chroni
cle, Cincinnati Gazette, Charleston
Chronicle and Beaufort Republican
have been purchased to advocate the
Imperial movement. —Montgomery Ad
vertiser.
It is a great pity that some news
papers cannot tell the truth. The
amount raised by the Imperialists is not
one hundred, but ninety millions. The
Chronicle and Sentinel has been given
seven millions with which, after deduct
ing something for itself, to subsidize
the press of Georgia. Applications
must be sent in at once. No distinction
on account of outsides.
Last year the President, through the
Secretary of War, thought propa- to
issue an order prohibiting the decora
tion of the Confederate graves in the
national cemetery at Arlington, ot the
30th of May. This year the President
will issne no such order, aud the Secre
tary announces that “ the grounds on
that day will.be opened to all orlerly
persons who desire to decorate aig of
the graves within the enclosure.” Why
this sudden change of front ? Is it be
cause General Grant sees that the whole
country—North as well as South —is
emancipating itself from the cont-ol of
the passions engendered by war tnd is
anxious for true peace and a real recon
ciliation ? Has he discovered tint it is
dangerous to pursue farther the policy
of hate ? It seems so.
What the 11 orld calls “a queer prop
osition” was made in the Honsi last
Monday in the form of a bill entitled “A
bill to incorporate the ‘National Grange
Fire Insurance Company.’” It vas in
troduced by a Western member, and
provides for the incorporation of i com
pany with a capital of 81,000,000, to in
sure honses and personal property
against fire. One provision of tie bill
is that the company shall make a full
report of its affairs to the officers of the
National Grange of the Patrons o: Hus
bandry.
A Hall county schoolmaster Ins for
bidden his pupils to eat turnips “in time
of books.” Something will certainly turn
up against that expounder of knowledge.
ROME BONDS.
We have taken the pains to collect all
attainable information concerning the
bonds of the city of Rome, now in liti
gation. We have endeavored to put the
case fairly aud to give the citizens of
Rome, who have brought the suit, tbe
benefit of every statement calculated te
justify the course which they have
thought proper to pursue. We also
freely admit that the qnestion of muni
cipal and county indebtedness is rapid
ly becoming one of the greatest impor
tance to the people. lu. comparison
with it most political issues sink into in
significance. It is a question which has
long been agitated aDd discussed in the
North and East, but up to a compara
tively recent date has not been given
much consideration in the South and
West. The rage for works of internal
improvement, which, however advanta
geous they might be made to appear in
newspaper editorials and speeches, were
not tempting enough to induce private
subscriptions from capitalists, has been
the source of much of the trouble. Each
town and city, inflamed with the desire
of becoming a railway ceulre, has been
made to subscribe to stock in companies
which could not obtain private subscrip
tions, aud the stock thus taken has been
paid for in bonds which could never be
negotiated for more than ninety cents on
the dollar, while they more frequently
sold at sixty aud seventy. The result has
been that during the past ten years the
bonded debts of muaicipalties and coun
ty corporations have increased to an
alarming extent, and, as a natural conse
quence, taxation has been made onerous
in proportion. The evil has become one of
such magnitude, is inflicting so much
injury upon the country and its pros
perity that men. are casting about for a
remedy. It is a noticeable fact that the
strongest and Host convincing arguments
used by those persons and presses who
favored the calling of a Constitutional
Convention were those which urged
such a step is the only means of giving
permanent irotection to the tax payers
of the State. We do not doubt that the
persistent igitation of this subject will
yet bring ibout some measure of relief.
The fears of office holders and the an
tagonists of local interests may prevent
the holding of a Convention ; but even
if this siould prove the case protection
may b' obtained in other ways. The
tax pirers in each town may be able to
secure Charters which will prevent the
issuan e of bonds for any purpose, or
place /ucli safeguards around the ballot
box tl/at the men who have to shoulder
the b'irthens of government may be able
to coitrol the elections.
Scknuch for the general question of
mm|cipal indebtedness. But while we
syrrbathize with the people of Rome in
the Jr troubles, aud condemn the finan
cial management which has heaped such
a Dad of indebtedness upon their shoul
ders, we cannot but declare wrong
anil unwise the step which they have
thought proper to take in order to avoid
tlfeir liability. The time for question
ing the validity of £he bonds which have
b*ten issued iu their name lias passed.
Jtho different issues were put
rth illegally, or if the law permitting
eir issue were not complied with, it
!eems to us that objection should have
>een made before they were put upon
he market. The tax payers should have
.-.poken then. That was the time for in
junctions. If the city government was
affairs without regarding the wishes of
the people, and contracted debts despite
the protests and opposition of the pro
perty owners, measures should then
have been taken to break its power and
drive its members from position. If
this were impossible, if the tax payers
were powerless at the ballot box, the
Courts were still open to them. Judges
and juries would have listened to their
prayers and redressed the injuries of
whir i they made complaint. We know
nothing of the Mayor and Council who
were in office at the time these bonds
were issued ; and wliat we write is based
upon the statements contained in the
communication from Judge Wright.
But admitting the entire correctness
of liis statements, will not the pub
lic say that the proceedings which
were instituted in the Courts a
moutli ago should have been com
menced before the bonds, whose vali
dity they attack, were placed upon the
market ? The same remedy existed then
as now. The case of the complainants
was just as good, indeed better, because
the rights of third parties would not
have been so heavily involved, and a
judgment in their favor would have been
equally effectual. But instead of pur
suing this course the tax payers of Borne
wait until the bonds are issued, until
they are extensively advertised, until
they become the property of third per
sons, until the interest has been paid
for some time and until the principal of
one issue matures, before they break a
silence protracted 'for years with the
cries of “fraud” and “illegality.” So
far as we can learn not only were no
proceedings instituted in the Courts to
prevent the issuance and sale of these
bonds, but not even a word was uttered
or printed which would have the effect
of giving the world notice, of putting
the public upon their guard. Citizens
of Georgia ignorant of any taint of
fraud in these securities, ignorant of
any irregularity attending their issue,
unaware of any charge made against
their legality or validity, bought them
at the market price and became innocent
purchasers for value without notice—
a class which has always received and
which deserves to receive the strongest
protection of the law. Putting aside the
legal question involved, it is manifest
that one of two parties must suffer—
granting that the bonds are invalid—
to-wit: The citizens of Rome, orthe in
nocent purchasers. As to which of these
should be the loser there can be no
doubt. If there is any fault proven it
has been committed by the former; if
any negligence has been shown it
rests upon the former; if any benefits
have been obtained they have accrued
to the former. Clearly upon every prin
ciple of natural justice the purchasers
should not be made the victims of the
unauthorized transactions of the city
government of Rome.
In a legal point of view we think the
: bonds of a city are entirely different
! from the obligations of a State, and that
what would be a legal defense against
| payment in one case will not avail in the
other. A city bond is but the promii
! sory note of a municipal corporation, and
] when it passes into the' hands of third
i persons, who take without notice, the
i purchasers are entitled to the protection
! which the laws of Georgia and of every
other civilized country have wisely
‘ thrown around the innocent purchaser
j for value.
When Mr. Benjamin F. Butler offer
ed a bill in the House of Representa
tives the other day to convert certain
negroes into Choctaw Indians, a Demo
cratic member inquired, in a timid sort
of way, whether the Government had
any right to do what the General pro
posed. “The Government,’ was the
prompt and contemptuous reply, “has a
right to do what it pleases with any
body within its jurisdiction. The Gen
eral Government, if it chooses, can take
the shirt off your back.”
LETTER FROM MIDDLE GEORGIA.
Effects of the Drouth—The Crops —
Murder ot Mitchell—Dictionary Del
ving—Rains at Last—Judge Hutch
ings-Radical Blarney.
[special correspondence chronicle and
sentinel ]
Macon, June 2J, 1874.
The Drouth—3lijt Day.
It will be one month to-morrow since
we have bad any rain in Macon, and,
with the exception of light showers here
and there, in any portion of Middle
Georgia. Passengers who reached the
city last night report light showers from
the lower edge of Macon county to Eu
faula on Sunday and Sunday night aud
from that intermediate lins east and
west a conjectural rainfall for an unde
fined distance. Here, in the city, the
gardens are ruined. They look like the
hot breath of an African simoon had
swept over, ot that the fabled upas tree
had emitted its poison to the atmos
phere surrounding them. Yon might
stand in the center and repeat the epi
taph most truthfully :
How many fond liope9 lie withered here,
And the people of Macon are loud in their
wail.
For their idol is broke in the Temple of Baal.
For their gardens of snaps, uusmote by the
hand.
Hath perished like snow in the glance of the
sun.
The snn comes up every morning and
by 8 o’clock destroys the repairs that
nature lias made during the night. By
noon the thermometer has passed 90 in
the shade aud 120 in the sun, aud at 3
o’clock it culminates at four degrees
higher. Human nature gropes and pants
around the residence, lounges about the
counting room, aud creeps under the
shade of an umbrella along the sidewalk
with a dull, slow and heavy tread and a
perpiring face. Nature and human na
ture droops under the enervating effects
of the sun. There is something in cli
matic laws after all. They have a direct
influence upon disposition aud destiny.
Does history record a flourishing nation
between the tropical lines of Capricorn
and Cancer ?
The Cotton aud Corn Crops.
“I don’t think the field crop* are hurt
much yet. It is fine weather for cotton
just the thing for it,” say all the farm
ers. Not one of them, however, would
have a particle of objection to a good,
soaking rain.
The Assassination of Mitchell.
The commital or preliminary trial of
Dr. John Bull and his son, George M.,
for the assassination of W. D. Mitchell
last Friday afternoon will take place at
the Court House to-morrow (Wednes
day). There is scarcely a doubt iu the
mind of any one that they killed him,
though the evidence in many important
particulars is said to be of a circumstan
tial character. It is said that the ca
reer of Mitchell will be shown to have
been that of a libertine and, in many
other respects, disreputable. Will send
you the full details of this, one of the
most remarkable crimes ever commit
ted, when they are drawn out at the
trial.
Leiclieuverbrening.
In the language of A. Ward, “I have
received several skurrilous uoats” from
the press because I used such a plain
and simple word as bucoliceroticism,
threatening leiclieuverbrening unless I
explain the meaning of it. When Pope
Gregory was issuing bovine documents
from Rome lie ordered the construction
of a large house in Spain, called after
wards the Alhambra. He wanted it put
up in Madrid, but at that time there was
a politician and Minister of State there
by the name of Buridan, who owned a
negro by the name of Allan Ham, who
could bray like a Spanish ass, black
boots and mix up a cocktail all at the
same time. Buridan formed a syndicate
which bought up all the choice ground
in Madrid and then asked the Pope an
outrageous price. This ring was com
posed of Buridan, who was President, a
fellow by the riameof Emauuel Eroti and
another by the name of Cism as part
ners. One night Buridan asked his
partners to take sunpo.,,, _ i*»i oi
trad ilrt’AiAii. ‘ xjm’zix.'got tight aud re
ceived such an unmerciful thrashing
that he ran off and told the Pope the
whole trick gotten up to cheat him. Tho
Pope was fighting mad about it, and
issued a special bull of excommunica
tion against the ring, and ’ever after
wards, when anybody would do any
thing particularly mean, he would say
“ Worse than Buridan, Eroti aud Cism,”
which eventually passed into the word
bucoliceroticism. Asa reward for the
“peaching” of Al. Ham aud hik peculiar
voice he called the building Alhambra,
which not only acconnts for tbe milk in
the cocoanut, but affords valuable statis
tics for almanac makers aud others.
For explanation as to how this phrase
was contracted and got to America from
Spain see Christopher .Columbus’ in
structions to his mate upon close storage,
page 890.
'J en Miles from Lemons*
Owing to the shortness of the cash
crop, I think there will not be a great
mauy Middle Georgians who will get
ten miles from lemons this Summer.
We have not much money to spare upon
watering places, and I have not heard
of a single representative who will be
upon the excursions of Echols aud Good
now to the West and to Chicago. It is
no doubt pleasant to be at these fash
ionable Summer resorts if one has plenty
of money or plenty of confidence iu him
self at a game of draw poker, but iu the
lack of each it is better to stay at home.
It is Actually Earning. .
After writing the above the clouds
rolled up from the west, and whilst this
line is going down rain is coming down
from above with indications of heavy
showers in the directions of Miledgeville
and Fort Valley. Everybody is at his
front door, feeling thankful and h opeful
that the prolonged drouth is at least at
a temporary end. It is pleasant to hear
the loud detonations of thunder away
off below the horizon and to feel that
thirsty vegetation is being revived by
that which is essential to its existence.
According to the moon philosophers,
this was the last chance we had for some
time—being the third day after its
full. I still stick to it, that as we are
helping ourselves this year Providence
will be on our side. Up to this time we
have secured : Ist. Fifty per cent, more
oats than in ten years. 2d. A full
average wheat crop. 3d. More than an
average amount of vegetables, though
threatened seriously with being cut
short by drouth, but with a good rain
even now we will have nearly as many as
almost any year in a long time. 4th.
Corn is as fine as known in many years,
though in many places not as forward as
usual, but there is twenty-five per cent,
more planted than any year since the
war. sth. The area of cotton planted
is much less than in the last three or
four years; the stands not satisfactory,
but the last thirty days of dry weather
I has produced a wonderful change for
| the better. It is now everywhere free
from grass and in splendid condition for
growing. 6th. The prospects for a fruit
crop is splendid. It wholly escaped
frost after the trees were in bloom
and nothing is now likely to happen
which will be called a disaster.—
In view of all these facts sanguine-bil
ious temperaments have a right to take
a cheerful view of the situation, and the
most incorrigible old croaker ought to
smile at least once a week.
Illness of Judge Hutchings.
The many friends of Judge Richard
Hutchings, of Jones county, will regret
to learn of his hopeless illness in this
city. He has cancer of the face. The
fatal disease has already eaten away one
whole side and is now beyond any hu
tan remedy. He is a Georgian of the
and school of gentlemen, carried his
heart on his sleeve, his little hatchet in
his pocket, and upon his tombstone may
truthfully be written :
: Here Lies the Body of a Man who :
; Loved People who had no Money. ;
The Cat’s Soft Paw.
The Radicals have thrown another tub
to the Southern whale, and it is amusing
him charmingly whilst the boats are
nearing and the harpoons arc being
made ready. They have succeeded in
making a great many of our people be
lieve that they have little notion of pass
ing the Civil Rights bill this session.
This is for the purpose of lulling the
victim to sleep and inducing the Demo
cratic laggards who are absent from
Congress half their time away from their
pasts. The first thing you know Butler
will spring that bill upon the House,
and it will be put through under whip
j and spur. This is a game as old as that
party, and we need expect nothing else,
and our hopes that Grant will veto it is
equally as baseless as a dream. The
only way to defeat it is to demand the
presence of each Democrat in Con
gress, and demand of them to talk to
death the balance of [be session. I
hea>d an old Democrat say this morn
ing that even Mr. Stephens ought to re
sign, and give way to a man physically
able to attend to his duty. And he was
a warm friend of Mr. S.
Jean Valjean.
SKETCHES OF THE ItIXG.
Chamberlain’s Spiked Team or the
Great Carpet-Bagger-Sealawag-Niir
iter South Carolina Supreme Court
Uippodrome.
[special correspondence chronicle
AND SENTINEL.]
As I purpose to take in review during
the Summer the South Carolina thieves
seriatim, I shall give precedence to the
first in skill as in villiany, in renown as
in rascality, and begin with Chamber
lain and his pals. This institution is
known as the Supreme Court, but is,
in fact, nothing more nor less than an
Infamous Judicial Hippodrome,
And for the enlightenment of such as
are iiuacquainted with the methods of
robbing the public, practiced by the
sharpers of the trotting turf, perhaps it
will not be amiss to explain what a hip
podrome is. A seasoned scoundrel,
acquainted with the “ways that are
dark” of the sporting world will, during
the racing season, induce—say three
owners ol' fast trotting horses to form
an alliance offensive and defensive
to defraud the spectators who
are disposed to bet in every race
where these horses are engaged,
and the modus operand), is as follows :
the horses are entered iu the race, and
then a pool seller, previous to the hour
of starting, will begin selling the
chances to win that each horse is sup
posed, on his merits, to have, and where
three horses are to compete it always
happens that one of them will be a fa
vorite and will have more backers than
the others. Well, after a few pools are
sold Mr. Sharper ascertains which horse
is the choice of the betters, and he forth
with, on behalf of himself and confede
rates—the owners of the horses—buys
all the chances against the favorite’s win
ning ; and no matter how easily that fa
vorite might be able to defeat his so
called competitors, his driver, under in
structions, prevents his doing it, and
consequently Mr. Sharper wins all of his
bets, and the hippodrome is happy.
From the fair or race meeting where this
transpires the hippodrome goes to an
other meeting, aud the result of this
race having preceded the horses to
the next race course, the horse who
won before is the favorite hero, and the
crowd back him to win; but Mr. Sharp*!'
backs him to lose, and he loses, and the
hippodrome’is serene. Sometimes an
outside ring of rascals will make up a
sum of money which they guarantee
Mr. Sharper in the event of a certain
horse winning the rate whether he is
fast enough to do it fairly or the con
trary. In this case Mr. Sharper takes
the money, divides it with his pals, and
the ring reaps the unsavory fruit of the
pools, while Mr. Sharper and his con
federates pocket the bribe. Voila the
hippodrome ! Now for the similitude
between the Hippodrome of the Turf
and the South Carolina Supremo Court
Hippodrome.
Mr. Chamberlain in the Character of
Mr. Sharper.
A cause is to come up foradjudiaation,
the appelant having the odds against
him, by reason of his having lost iu the
Circuit Court, offers Mr. Sharper Cham
berlain SSOO to “manipulate the tape,”
so that his spiked team will “sulk” at
any shadow of obstacles that may be
laid in their way by their opponents; or
if not to “sulk” certainly to “sour” in
such obst icles—which they invariably do
unless they take the form of “green
backs.” Mr. Sharper Chamberlain will
say to the first comer—“put up your
‘blind’ while I Rtep and look at my
cards; if I ‘see it,’ your hand is strong
enough to win—if I can’t see it, j’ou will
have to draw down as being too weak to
play.” The delay of looking at his cards
“nass."'' and'if tliev offer BLOUU and the
first comer won’t go over that figure, the
appelant loses, if he does go over, and
continues to “go one better,” he eventu
ally takes the “pot.” In either phase
of the hippodrome neither single horse
nor spiked team run any risk of detec
tion. Mr. Sharper, in the one case, and
Mr. Chamberlain, in the other, stand
between bribery and purchased rascality.
The
System in South Carolina
Is the same as that which prevailed in
the middle ages—after subjugation
comes robbery under the semblance of
legality. But the difference between the
actors of the middle ages and these pitiful
pickpocket thieves of to-day is that the
first named were bold, brave men, who
persuaded themselves that they had
some right to the possessions of the
conquered, since they had periled their
lives to win victory. They at all times
held themselves ready to maintain by
gage of battle, body to body, singly or
otherwise, their claim to rightful do
minion in their usurped estate. But
these camp-followers skulking curs
that they are —made up of all the con
temptible vices of their degenerate era,
with no traits of courage or semblance
of magnanimity to paliate their depravi
ty, with all the base fear of the coward
combined with the insatiable cravings
of the thief, are striving incessantly to
gorge themselves with plunder while it
is yet to-day, believing that they will
ever be able to anticipate the evil day of
reckoning, and preserve their cowardly
carcasses by flight. They know that
The Great Tidal Ware of Fear
That swept over the North in the Sum
mer of ’6l, increasing in volume and
force as tidings of Manassas, Fredericks
burg, Seven Pines, and other battles, were
borne upon its crest, has not yet receded
sufficiently to suffer our old enemies to
calmly view the situation, and concede
now, what they will eventually do, our
right to govern ourselves. Or if the
fright has subsided, resentment because
of its experience is yet visible in the
Northern mind, as the thief is swift to
appreciate. But your thief is sometimes
overconfident, even, as better men are,
and in his flight it not unfrequently
happens that Nemesis persues. Let us
hope that these our judicial thieves may
not flee too soon, and that when they do
Nemesis may delegate her authority to
Bourbon.
STATISTICS.
Circular Sent by the Augusta Ex
change.
Captain Roswell King, Secretary of
the Augusta Exchange, will to-day send'
to some prominent individual in each
county in Georgia, Alabama, South and
North Carolina and Southwestern Ten
nessee the following circular :
Augusta Exchange, June Ist, 1874.
Dear Sir— Will you oblige me by re
plying, at the earliest moment, to the
following questions. Please make your
ahsweis brief and to the point.
Yours, respectfully,
Roswell King, Secretary.
How does the acreage of cotton, plant
ed in your county, compare with plant
ing same date 1873? How does the
acreage of cotton, planted in your
county, compare with 1872? Has the
cotton planting season closed in your
county ? If not, what proportion more
do you estimate will be planted ? How
does the acreage of corn, wheat, oats
and hay, planted in your county, com
pare with planting 1873 ? How does the
acreage of corn, wheat, oats and hay,
planted in your county, compare with
planting 1872? Has corn planting been
completed ? If not, what proportion
additional do you estimate will still be
planted ? Has the labor force in your
county increased or decreased ? State
which, and your estimated proportion
since planting of 1873 ? How does the
labor force in your county compare with
that of 1872 (numerically) at planting
season? Do field laborers iff your
county improve in industry and thrift
uess, or do they retrograde? How do
they compare with past two seasons ?
How does the condition of working
stock in your county compare with that
of 1873, in numbers and condition ?
Are planting operations, as applied to
cotton, as far advanced this year to date
as at the average of past two yfears ?
State difference, as near as possible, in
days. What proportion of the cotton
crop planted is up ? And what the con
dition of stand ? What is the condition
of corn and other cereals planted in
your county ?
The information is desired for the
benefit of the Convention of Cotton Ex
change delegates, which meets in this
city on the loth instant.
There are now only forty-nine candi
dates for Congressional honors in the
seventh or Rome district.
LETTER FROM ATIIE\S.
[srECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THK CHRONICLE
AND SENTINEL.]
Athens, May 30, 1874.
I am glad to see that the Chronicle
and Sentinel loses no opportunity of
saying a good word for
The University of Georgia.
It is a reproach to the State that tho
Legislature lias done so little for this
institution. Indeed, it may be said with
truth that it has done nothing. Many
persons think that the beggarly dole of
SB,OOO a year to the University is a free
gift, when it is in fact only the lawful
interest on a debt of one hundred thou
sand dollars duo by the State. Michi
gan was admitted as a State iuto the
American Union iu 1837—thirty-seven
years ago. She has now a State Uni
versity, numbering in its three depart
ments of Literature, Science and the
Arts, Medicine and Surgery, and Law,
thirty-seven instructors aud over twelve
hundred students. It has a State en
dowment so liberal that its doors are
thrown open free to every youug man iu
the State—the matriculation fee of ten
dollars on entering being all that is ever
required of any student. It has at
tached to it an excellent astronomical
observatory aud a flourishing agricultu
ral school.
The University of Georgia was or
ganized in 1801—36 years before Michi
gan became a State. In 1860 the popu
lation of Georgia was 1,057,286 —the
population of Michigan the same year
was 749,113. According to the census
of 1860, Michigan contained ten col
leges, liavin • 1,730 students, with an in
come of $95,099 from taxes aud public
funds, while at the same time Georgia
had thirty-two colleges, male and fe
male, wirh 3,302 students and an income
of $167,931, of which $4,770 were from
public funds. What is the result ? The
University of Michigan created, sustain
ed and controlled by the Legislature of
the State, is a young giant; the Uni
versity of Georgia, created and control
ed, but not sustained by the State Leg
islature, is almost helpless, and the
measure of success which ithas achieved
iias not been owing to, but iu spite of,
the General Assembly. Her buildings
are a disgrace to tho State, and her
Faculty, one of the ablest in tho Union,
are paid less than at any first class Uni
versity in the Union, while, in conse
quence of the thorough course of in
struction and the limited number of
professors, theirduties aremuch heavier.
The New Laboratory
Os the Agriculture College will be,
when completed, the handsomest build
ing in the campus; indeed, I may say
that it will be the only handsome build
ing in the campus. 'lt is to be 50x
100 feet, three stories on a basement,
finished with Mansard roof. The first
floor will be for the use of the Professor
of Chemistry, with Lecture Room and
Laboratory; the second floor will be
devoted to Natural Philosophy, with
Lecture Rooms, Working Laboratory
aud Museum; the third floor to the En
gineering Department. The contracts
have all been given out, and work will
begin about the first of June. This
building will cost about $25,000, that
amount having been donated by the city
of Athon3 to the Agriculture College for
this purpose. Between three and four
thousand hollars have been already con
tributed co assist in the purchase of ap
paratus. Such an apparatus as is needed
to equip it thoroughly will cost not less
than $30,000. It is hoped that the
friends of the College will see that this
amount is furnished, unless the Legisla
ture, in an unexpected lit of generosity,
should make a special appropriation for
that purpose.
A DUEL ON THE STREET.
One of the Most Desperate Encounters
on Record—Both Parties Badly
Wounded.
[Jackson Whig ami Tribune, May 30.]
On Tuesday evening last, at 5 o’clock,
A. J. Sellers and J. N. Patterson met by
prior arrangement in the streets of Cot
t C\K\ 1 4 r^ r in " v.linn ». u'llL&u (i UOtl
ble-barrelcd shot gnu and two single
barreled pistols, and the latter with a
navy six, and fought one of the most
desperate duels on record. After seve
ral shots Sellers fell, bleeding from three
painful wounds, one in the right shoul
der, another iu the right temple and the
third in the upper hip, and Patterson
retired with a ball in his left side. The
following are the facts of this bloody
encounter, as furnished us by a reliable
gentleman : Patterson was living with
and working for one of the Sellars. On
Saturday last he purchased anew suit
of clothes, and on Sunday morning A.
J. Sellers wanted to try them on. This
Patterson objected to; but still Sellers
insisted that he would, aud straightway
went at it. Patterson then snatched the
clothing from Sellers and remarked that
no gentleman would act in that way.
This Sellers promptly resented by invit
iug Patterson put to tight him. Patter
son declined the invitation, alleging that
Sellers was too large for him, and that
he (Patterson) had a crippled hand.
Sellers then proposed to fight it out in
some other way. This Patterson agreed
to, remarking that ho would be ready
next day. Next morning (Monday)
Sellers seeing Patterson on the street,
armed himself and approaching him
asked: “Are you ready ?” Patterson re
plied: “Not yet; but will be to-morrow
evening at five o’clock.” Sellers re
marked: “All right, I will meet you here
at that time;” and went back to his
home. Patterson came to Jackson onMon
day, purchased a navy six, had it careful
ly loaded, and returned to Cotton Grove
without saying anything to anybody
about his intentions. The people of Cot
ton Grove looked upon the whole thing
as a piece ofbraggadocio, that would end
in wind. But promptly to the hour on
Tuesday evening Patterson and Sellers
were observed approaching each other
from opposite directions, armed as
above stated. When within übout 30
yards of each other both came to a halt,
Sellers levelling his gun and ordering
Patterson to throw down his 'pistol.—
Patterson refused To obey, saying that
Sellers had him at a disadvantage, but
fired on Sellers instantly with effect.—
Sellers then attempted to shoot, but
both barrels of his gun snapped. Pat
terson fired again. Sellers steadily
advancing, having thrown down his gun
and resortt and to his pistols, tired once,
the shot taking effect in Patterson’s
right side. Patterson again opened
rapidly, striking Sellers twice, making
three in all. About this time Sellers fell
from loss of blood, and Patterson, con
cluding he had killed his man, turned
and walked off, nor has his place of re
treat yet been discovered. Hrs. I. N. <fc\V.
: F. Jones were promptly called to the
side of the wounded Sellers. A careful
examination showed that one ball en
tered the back part of the right arm,
just below the shoulder, and passed into
his body, another entered his right tem
ple and came out beliino his right ear,
and the other passed through his upper
lip, lodging against his gums. The ball
iu his body could not be found, and he
is thought to be in a critical condition.
Sellers has been a citizen of this
county for several years, is 33 or 34
years of age, 6 feet high, weighs about
175 pounds and is a man of family.
Patterson is anew comer, has no family,
is 27 or 28 years of age, G feet high and
weighs about 150 pounds. The facts re
lated prove both to be desperate charac
ters and possessed of courage enough
for a half dozen men. Their encounter
is one of the coolest and most desperate
in the annals of the Southwest, famous
for such affrays.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
The Bar pic-nic at Stone Mountain
was a success.
Cherries sell at twenty-five cents a
quart in Savannah.
The Mountain City Guards have been
reorganized in Rome.
Good reports come from the wheat
crop in Elbert county. •
McDuffie pleads guilty to the posses
sion of one white Radical.
Mrs. Westmoreland left Atlanta Wed
nesday night for the North.
The ladies of Athens have tendered a
benefit to the Athens Guards.
No real estate transfers have been re
corded in Columbus in three weeks.
Right Reverend J. W. Beckwith,
whose health of late has been feeble,
has left Savannah for the Summer.
On Saturday, May 30th, Mr. J. B.
Myers, an old citizen of Rockdale coun
ty, was killed near Conyers. He was
supposed to have been drinking at the
time, and falling out of his buggy caused
his horse to run away. He became en
tangled in the tunning gear of the bug
gy, and was dragged some distance, re
ceiving such severe injuries as to cause
his death in about an hour and a half.
NUMBER 23.
HON. B. H. HILL.
What He Told a New York Sun Cor
respondent.
In the above paper, of Monday, we
find a long account of a conversation
between one of its correspondents and
Hon. B. H. Hill during the latter’s rd l
cent visit to Savannah to attend the
session of the Federal Court. The re
porter seems to have made the Delano-
Bullock banquet u special subject of
conversation, and asked Mr. Hill more
questions about it than it seems to us
any man with ordinary patience and
courtesy could have endured without
showiug his temper, but lound Mr.
Hill—as newspaper men always do—po
lite, long-suffering and outspoken. Ac
cording to this report, Mr. H’ll said
that he felt badly when “he went in”—
to the banquet—aud “was sick as a
dog” when he came out, but “managed
to sit the flung through.” Also, that
he told “Delano that while the Republi
cans had passed resolutions of thanks
to Grant aud Sherman and their armies
for conquering the Confederacy, they
had made one omission, and a very
grave omission. ‘What is that ?’ said
Delano. ‘Why,’ said I, ‘you have omit
ted to thank Joe Brown aud those who
acted with lnm. He aud his friends
did more to embarrass and weaken the
Confederacy than the armies of either
Grant or Sherman, aud I tlnuk they de
serye special mention in that connec
tion.’ ”
Os his connection with ex-Goveruor
Brown, Mr. Hill said :
“If my connection with Joe Brown
has exalted him in my estimation [ am
not aware of it, and I don’t think his
friendship for me is very intense. At
any rate, it seems to afford him a won
derful amount of satisfaction aud amuse
ment.”
“Now that it is all over, Mr. Hill, do
you think that the saerific ■ you made in
attending the Delano banquet was worth
the results that followed?”
“Yes,” said Mr. Hdl, after a pause in
which he seemed to be reflecting over
the matter. “Yes, I think it was. But
it was very unpleasant. If he whole
thing were to be gone over ugaiu, I
should deliberate a long time be.ore I
tried it. It was worse than fi h ing a
barn full of skunks. Through it all,
however, I had the consolation of know
ing that I was actuated by the purest
motives.”
In response to a question if he inten
ded to make public all he knew about
the removal of Gen. Johnston, there
upon quotes .Mr, Hill as saying :
“I cannot Hay th 11 will,” said Mr.
Hi 1, “I shall merely endeavor to show
that Mr. Davis was not anxious to re
move Gen. Johnston. I was iutimate
with Mr. Davis, aud my relations with
him, personal and official, were as. close
and as confidential as those of uny other
public man around Richmond; and I
know that Mr. Davis had the very high
est opinion of the military genius of
Gen. Johnston.
“I was cognizant of all the corres
pondence that passed between Mr. Davis
and Geu. Johnston, and to my knowl
edge the former deliberated a long time
before he decided to remove tue General.
The burden of the correspondence be
tween them was, on the part of Mr.
Davis, ‘Will you give battle at Atlanta?’
and on the part of Gen. Johnston, ‘I can
not tell; I will seo about it when I get
there,’ or words to that effect. Had
Gen. Johnston given the Administrati n
assurance that he would make a decisive
stand at Atlanta, he would not have
been removed; and if the stand had
been made, in my opinion the history of
Sherman’s march to the sea would have
been something different from what it is.
But that assurance was never given, and
the necessities of the ocoasion, together
with the pressure brought to bear from
Georgia, compelled Mr. Davis to name
another commander for Gen. Johnston’s
army. I was in frequent consultation
with him at that time and wo had many
conversations on the subject.
DAVIS’ OPINION OF JOHNSTON.
“In going over the list of Generals
for the purpose of choosing General
rather trust Johnston than all of them.
If he would only fight Sherman there
would be an end of the mutter. But he
does not know his own power.’
“And so it was. Johnston is a great
General—one of the best the Confed
eracy had—but over-much prudence
made him unduly distrustful of his own
capabilities. In removing him from the
command of the army confronting Sher
man, Mr. Davis consulted freely with
General Lee, and he only needed an as
surance from General Johnston that he
would defend Atlanta to retain him as
the leader of the Army of Tennessee. —
Telegraph and Messenger.
INVKH MENTB IN SOUTH CARO
LINA.
What Is Needed to Induce Improve
ments.
The great trouble in the way of im»
provements in the Palmetto State, at
present, is the oppressive taxation. Un
der the State Constitution nothing can
be exempted and every!lung must be
placed under the same burden. This
provision has kept back many invest
ments that would otherwise have been
made iu South Carolina, and which
would have been beneficial to her peo
ple and government. This is not mere
ly a presumption but a fact capable of
proof. We have only to point to Port
Royal as an illustration. The finest
port on the'South Atlantic coast, it is
nevertheless kept down for the very rea
son stated above. Capital which would
be quickly invested in docks, ware
houses, and other enterprises if there
was any protection for it when so placed,
is within Id or put elijewhe e. Ami
while there is no assurance that enter
prises of the character we have men
tioned, will not be ruinously taxed,capi
tal will continue to be chary of iuves -
menets, even at Port Royal. But with
a different order of things the re
verse would be the case. A prominent
capitalist of this city, a gentleman who
is earnest aud energetic in whatever he
undertakes, stated to us a day or two
ago that if there was* a provision in the
South Carolina Constitution exempting
docks, warehouses and kiitdred enter
prises from taxation, thus insuring pro
tection to capital, he would organize a
company with a large capital to improve
Port Royal. If this was done there is
no doubt but that Port Royal would
soon become the place of importunco
that its situation and advantages ent.tle
it to. The question then for the people
of South Car lina is how is this exemp
tion to be brought about. The answer
is plain. A constit tional coave tion in
the only power which can i icoiporate
such a provision iu the State Constitu
tion, and such a convention, if South
Carolina desires the development of her
resources, should be held as soon as
possible, with that object in view. The
exemption will not by any means lessen
the revenues of the State government.
On the contrary, they will be increased
Progressiveuess induces immigration,
and immigration enhances the value of
property. The subject is worthy the
serious consideration of both political
parties iu South Carolina,as a matter af
fecting the vital interests of all classes.
The Grange Convention. —A Conven
tion of the Patrons of Husbandry will
be held in Augusta ou the second Wed
nesday in July. All Granges in the sur
rounding counties in South Carolina and
Georgia, whose members trade in Au
gusta, are cordially invited to send three
delegates. The purpose of the Conven
tion, it is hoped, will insure a full at
tendance. iiue notice of the place of
meeting will be given.
W. H. Atkinson,
Secretary Beech Island Grange.
Papers friendly to the cause please
copy the above notice.
Agricultural Congress.
Atlanta, Ga., Juno 3.—The Cotton
States Agricultural Congress met here
to-day, with Mr. Butler, of Georgia, as
President. Delegates are in attendance
from all the Cotton States except Lou
isiana. A resolution urging the United
States Congress to adopt the policy re
commended by the Senate Committee on
Transportation was adopted unanimoua
ly. A resolution to memorialize the
State Legislatures to adopt a uniform
system of crop and agricultural statistics
was adopted. Direct trade is the spe
cial order for to-morrow.
Columbus has received, so far, the
present season, 60,061 bales of cotton, a
gain over last year for the same time of
4,052 bales.
The Postmaster General has decided
that it is a violation of the law to call a
man “a pir .ticul old reprobate” on a
postal card, but yon cun put on a three
cent stamp and call him a dozen elegant
names and not infringe any law.