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’tVUUNESDAY JCNE 17, 1874.
MINOR TOPICS.
A magnificent feather cloak was wasted when
King tnualiio was honed. They wrapped him
in it, though it was worth $11X1,000; as if a
cheaper article would not have served the dis
tinguished corpse as well. A million of birds
of rare plumage were sacrificed to furnish the
unfterial of which this gorgeous garment was
made and it had been handed down to Luna
lilo through generations of royal chieftains.
During tbo Franco-German war, wild boars
and wolves were left undisturbed in France
sportsmen being engaged in more serious
work. Hence those animals have increased to
an alarming extent. The whole of the district
' between the Vosgen and Ardennes is continual
ly, ravaged by Ihem, the hogs doing serious
dlwiago to the crops, and the wolves attacking
*Wigc> lose stock. So bold ere some of the wolves
lifcpjotog, <luit it is said wayfarers are in con
'4*nt danger of losing their lives.
Verier*! Sherman has never agreed with
Secretary IJolknap as to where the dividing
lino between their functions should he drawn.
Once Re tried to make alt the heads of bureaus
in the War Department report to him as staff
ofiiecrp which would have reduced the Secre
tary to a sort of head clerk to register the or
ders of the General. Secretary Belknap, who
is about as positive a man as General Hherman.
would not submit to this, and the President
sided with him. Since then General Hherman
has spent much of his time in traveling.
The New Orleans Picayune, of Wednesday,
announcing the arrival in that, c tyof Gov. Mc-
Euory, from Washington, says that g. ntleman
brings no encouragement of any favorable ac
tion, but he is not despondent of the eventful
triumph of right and good government in this
State. He be.ieves that tho Democracy, em
bracing all the elements of opposition to the
dominant party, is making rapid strides to au
early and glorious triumph in die nation. When
that victory shall he gained, tho South may
hope for the restoration of honest and good
government.
The elephant, liko the whale, is dying out.
In India ho is becoming almost as rare as is the
red deer in lb gland. Tho hunters have driven
him farther aud farther inland; unless some
tiling be done to protect him, ho will before
long bo ome, upon the main continent, at any
rate, altogether extinct, nml Hah b will have to
import his elephants from llirmali and (ley-
Imi, much as we in England import our horses
from Ireland and our foxes from any country
that will sand them to us in sufficient number
and of sufficient size and strength.—bond ot
Ttlegraph.
The latest ecclesiastical difficulty occurred
recently in Oregon, in this wise: Bov. Mr.
Proctor, of Ogle county, made a prayer in
Freeport, in which ho made the cheerful an
nouncement that Lev. Mr. Jenkins, of that
city, who had refused to sign the temperance
pledge, was “ damned not only from all etor
nity, but to all eternity.” Mr. Jenkins de
manded a public retraction, which itov.* Mr.
Proctor refused to make, and tho case has
gone to the Presbytery, where tho question
will Re decided w hether the Almighty bad made
Mr. Proctor tho custodian of his will as to
Jenkins’ future In tho noxt world.
The newest crop alarm comes from New Ha
ven m the shape of a mournful wail over the
prospects of the oyster crop In the waters of
i lliat vicinity. The papers state that where
have been taken up of late in various
Billions of the oyster grounds, tho bivalves
Km fouiuldead by tho wholesale, and it is be
flievod by so u> of tho dealers that the trouble
|h general throughout the grounds, making a
’heavy loss to the interest. Natives and plant
ed oysters both are taken up dead in large
quanti ies. The dealers and raisers do not
know how to account for the trouble, and are
naturally greatly exercised over tho business.
Very painful news has arrived from Jerusa-
I lem. A grievous famine prevails there, and a
measure of corn, which at 20 piastres would
usually .have boon considered beyond tho
roach of all hut the rich, is now sold for 12
piastres. Jerusalem depends for its supply of
bread upon the crops raised on tho plains of
Sharon and in tho valley of Jordan. But this
yoar the Jordan overflowed, ami all the plains
on the western side were converted iuto
swamps. The consequence has boon an actual
famine in Jerusalem, and tho leading Jews of
the Holy C itv have sent a most pathetic appeal
for aid to their coreligionist, the venerable Sir
oses Moutefioro, in London.
What would bo said of an American lady
having a distinguished visitor, one who was
not only eminent in liis own sight, but had re
cently become connected with her family by
marriage, who should take herself off during
the visit, leaving the guest to entertain him
self or to be entertained by others ? This is
precisely w hat the Queen of England has done.
Sue left her guest, tho Czar, to his own devi
ces the day before Uis departure from Eng
land, ami proceeded to Balmoral. It is sup
jKised that pique at the question of precedence !
having been settled in favor of the Duchess of
Edinburgh and against her daughter Beatrice,
was the causa of this ungracious manifesta
tion.
An Indianapolis man, who wont to attend tho
opera at Cincinnati, tells a pleasant story on
tho high-toned musical audiences of that
place. Tho piece was " Faust,'* amt when tho
curtain foil on tho chapel scone, closing with
tho death of Marguerite, the audience ap
plauded. the bibulous ones rushed out, as
usual, to get their Inter-act drills, while tho
remainder of tho listeners began chatting and
fanning, awaiting the next act. Finally, when
tho hoy wanted to turn off tho gas. he was
obliged to explain that the s tigers had gone
home and tho opera was' out." The Indian
apolis nun says ho never heard an audience
get out of a place so silently and promptly as
that one left the l'ike.
There are some folk who think it of no im
portance whether they writs well or ill—a class
not affectionately beloved in printing offices.
Let careless hand o' writers read of a law ease
l>ending in tho Supreme Court at Jackson
1 Tenn , in which the sole question to bo deter
mined is whether a certain letter in a promis-
note for #5,000 is "I." or "J."—whether
said note was made payable to "I. Blanek
■ eusee” or "J. Blanckoneeo”—to "Isaac "or to
"Julius," tho representatives of each party
claiming the money. As usually written. “I”
and "J'’ are nearly identical; but the great ab
surdity here was in putting an initial letter into
a promissory note at ail.
One of the best jury stories comes to us !
from California. The jury was out for j
tome time, when the Sheriff had been dis- |
patched by the Court to see if the> were
likely to agree. He found them performing a j
tort of triumphal march round a big bottle of
whisky, from which they had all been copi- !
ously imbibing, to the music of a fife and j
•lrum. the latter instrument being home on the j
’ back of the foreman and vigorously pounded !
by the next juror, while the rest of the happy j
Miand w ere singing. “We couldn't agree noon !
a verdict nohow,” was this affable foreman's;
explanation to the Court, " and we didn't think
it was any hart for to have & social time I
slong's we was a congen'l party."
A voting couple ten year* ago agreed to dis- •
xgree. and the she of the firm went West to
the Eldorado of discontented wives in those 1
days, Chicago. Then she commenced suit, but
diefore it was granted he went on. made up the
px ace between them, and ixand in hand they
retc/ned. Before the year was out. however,
ther quarreled again, and this time he didn't
reach her quick enough: the bill passed, and
as a divorced woman she resided in Boston for
five years. Then man idle hour she answered
a matrimonial or a personal in a New York
paper, corresponded some months, journeyed
on to that city to meet the Adolphus of her
mature dreams, and found in him the Ichaboi
of her early days. They had lied so faithfully
in theit letters and so unanimously that neither
jiad discovered the other’s identity.
NON EST.
The Nexv York Herald states, npon
I the authority of a letter from Lieuten
i ant Haynes, of the British ship Chal
, lenger, to Dr. llayes, the Arctic ex
[ plorer, that there is no land to be found
where Wilkes discovered the Antarctic
| Continent in 184'1. The Challenger is
said to have sailed one hundred and
twenty miles to the southward of the
position assigned by Captain Wilk is to
the coast of the land, but could find no
appearance of it.
MANUFACTURING ARSENAL AT
ROME.
General Young has introduced a bill
in Congress to provide for the examina
tion of Itome (Ga.), with a view to the
establishment of a manufacturing arsenal
at that point. The bill has been read
twice and referred to the Committee on
Military Affairs. It directs the Secretary
of War to appoint a commission of three
officers of the Ordnance Department to
visit Borne aud report the result of their
investigations to the next session of
Congress. Borne is admirably located
for a manufacturing arsenal. Iron is
cheap and abundant and of a superior
quality. There is no Government work
of this character in the South, and we
should rejoice to hear of tho passage of
this bill as a preliminary step in this di
rection. It is a matter of great import
ance to the Government that a manufac
turing arsenal should bo established at
a central and secure Southern location.
The citizens of Borne would be greatly
benefitted by it, and the value of the
iron interests of that section very much
enhanced there.by.
SUFFRAGE IN ENGLAND.
The Baltimore American states that
the different English reform acts by
which since 18:11 the right of suffrage
has been greatly extended, have not pn
frauchised tho entire male population
by a good deal. While there are nearly
two million votersin England and Wales,
there are over one million men who have
no voice in public affairs. The residents
of towns have boon better treated than
those who live in tho country ; so that
while towns people in comparatively
humble circumstances have been en
franchised, the farm laborers have no
direct representation. Mr. Gladstone,
before his defeat, had given assurances
of his disposition to remedy this in
equality, but there is no hope of any
thing of the kind from tho Tories, who
are now in power. Indeed, two or three
weeks ago a bill proposing further suf
frage reform was defeated in tho House
of Commons by a majority of 114 in a
total of 4(50. Mr. Disraeli contributed
to this result in a speech abounding in
arguments more specious than sound,
but sufficiently convincing to members
who were in agreement with him from
the first. The cause thus discomfited
is, however, checked ouly for a time, aud
will, in tho end, derive greater force
from the obstacles which have impeded
its progress.
A REMARKABLE REPORT.
If the House of Bepresentatives shall
adopt the report of tho Committee on
Judiciary, in regard to the remission of
the fine imposed upon Susan B. Antho
ny by Judge Hunt, it will not only be
exercising a very doubtful power, but
will establish a very dangerous prece
dent. There is a great deal of force in
what the committee says as to the con
duct of Judge Hunt in taking Miss An
thony’s case from the jury and instruct
ing that body to bring in a verdict of
gsilty; but it could hardly have been tho
intention of those who framed our Gov
erment, and separated tho judicial from
tho legislative branch, that Congress
should try appeals from the United
States Courts, oven in cases of as great
injustice as Miss Anthony’s conviction
is claimed to be. If such was their in
tention, or if Congress so declares, that
body will, in all probability, havo an
ample opportunity to exercise its novel
jurisdiction in the future; for when a
new trial can be had for nothing—or
rather when the judgment of a court
can be reversed without anew trial—de
fendants will be exceedingly apt to avail
themselves of the opportunity, especial
ly if they are in favor with tho party
which happens for tho time being to
dominate in Congress.
If it were not for the explicitness with
which the pardoning power is given to
the President, wo might have supposed
that the committee believed itself to be
recommending a pardon instead of a re
versal of judgment. Indeed, it was
practically a pardon which Miss An
thony asked for and not a reversal of
the judgment against her. It is easier to
believe, however, that such men as But
ler, of Massachusetts, and Poland, of
Vermont, were willing to give Congress
appellate jurisdiction over the Courts
than that they were ignorant of the con
stitutional provision as to the pardoning”
power.
For one portion of its report tho com
mittee deserves commendation. Its
avowal of a determination “to sustain iu
its integrity tho common law right of
trial by jury” lends new force to the re
cent decision of the Supreme Court of
tho District of Columbia, overturning
the one-man Court on which Congress
attempted to eoufer the power to try
persons charged with crime without a
I jury.
A POPULAR MISTAKE.
It is a very popular mistake to sup
pose that all tlie cotton in the South is
made by negroes, 'flfis opinion is not
only prevalent universally at the North,
but to a very great extent at the South.
Before the war nearly all the cotton was
made by slave labor, but this is not so
now. Thousands of white men, all over
the South, have gone into the cotton
fields since the war, and have labored
faithfu lv in the production of cotton.
This opiuion is supported by an article
before us from the Memphis Appeal, in
which it is stated that a greater part of
the cotton shipped to Memphis is raised
by white labor. The Mobile Register
asserts that “ the great cotton region of
Alabama is cursed with African labor,
which has excluded white labor and has
destroyed the production of cotton upon
the richest lauds of the South.” The
Appeal states that “ while the culture
of cotton has been nnremunerative in a
large portion of the negro States, it has
been highly profitable and greatly ex
panded in the white States. The acreage
which the negro has paralyzed in Mid
dle Alabama, Georgia,Louisiana and Mis
sissippi, has been substituted by a great
er acreage in Tennessee, Arkansas, North
Texas, the Indian Territoiy and even
South Missouri.
There is no donbt as to the falling off ;
in the production of cotton in certain j
sections worked exclusively by negro
labor. While this is true, it is easy to
i find the cause. The negro has been led
jnto idleness by being dragged into
, politics. In the black belt of Alabama,
! as shown by the receipts at Mobile,
I Selma and Montgomery, the falling off
has been more than counterbalanced by
j increased receipts at other points, show
ing that white labor has entered largely
into the production of cotton. Saint
Louis has received a quarter of a mil
lion bales from the white counties of
North Arkansas, South Missouri and
! North In Missouri, North Ar-
and North Texas
white works the cotton fields.
Ii our ■Bfctate in Northern Geor
gia, eJline of the Air Line
R°ad, ®TfcjSf»ilaction is on the in
crease. the receipts of
cotton t Atlanta were 29,210 bales.—
This jßur the receipts were 54,889 —
; nearly increase of 90 per cent. This
cotton jut produced by white labor. In
the upper counties of South and North
Carolin owhite labor is forced by neces
sity intoihe production of cotton. Small
farmers it remunerative. They
raise tin* own supplies, and in this way
make it jofitable. ,
In the Southern Magazine for June
is an esuy by Mr. Edwin De Leon
npon “Th Ruin and Reconstruction of
the Kontbcn States.” The writer cites
the follow.ig admission made recently
by an o bur van t Englishman : “More
remarkabhthan is the competition that
has arisen A the same tracts of country,
] betwixt thelarge plantations, on which
the negros are chiefly employed,
and the sialler farms cultivated by
white people under their own hands,
with as labor as possible.
This planting in the
South is at conspicuous, for I
hold it, as well as tes
timony, to Bcertain that the larger
portion of ti’Knnnal expansions of the
cotton crop rice tho war is due to the
energy in smJ farms, in gardens, and
in crops taker fm waste and unoccupied
plantations, o white labor.”
The idea lie itofore so generally prev
alent, that tbejvLite people of the South
do not work >n le cotton fields does them
injustice. A luge portion of the crop is
made by white labor. Should there be
an increased prelection of cotton in the
future, it will bidtie largely to the ac
tive competition energy and increase of
white labor iu tie cotton fields of the
South. In the tiddle and upper tier
of counties in eery Southern State,
white men, belonging to the frugal class
of small farmers, who live within their
income, will inakei small crop of cotton
to supply them will ready money. This
class will be largeu increased by immi
gration within the iext decade.
NEW YOKE CITY DEBT.
We learn from tie New York Tinier
that during May the funded debt of
New York city incHised about a million
and a half; the deb represented by as
sessment bonds dec eased six hundred
thousand dollars, cad four and a half
millions were borowed on revenue
bonds, payable from the taxation of the
year, to meet the current expenses of
government. Forthrfirst time the city
anil comity debts app ar under ono de
nomination, the corn didation act hav
ing terminated all distinction between
them. Including theshort bonds pay
able from the taxes this Fall, tho net
amount of the debt was, on June 1,
$119,762,299. Exclusive of these bonds
the net debt amounts to $108,379,199.
In two years and threr-quarters of so
called reform the (let has increased
$11,091,674. The incre.se for the same
time during the Tamnuny regime was
$60,993,596. As Twebi and his asso
ciates had stolen all hey wanted, it
would have been ecommy for the tax
payers of New York to have continued
the Tammany ring in pover. It is only
a question of time afte; all as to the
hungry reformers appropriating as much
money as Tweed & Cos.
THE TRANSIT Os VENUS.
The dispatches of Snndiy announced
that the United States stetmer Swatara,
with a number of astronoaers on board,
was about to depart on its mission—the
object of the scientists being to observe
the transit of Venus. Tlie Baltimore
American states that the first stopping
place of the Swatara will be the Cape of
Good Hope, where she remain for
five or six days to take in* applies and
to verify the chronometers, of which she
carries thirty-two. She will next pro
ceed to Croxet Island, about 1,400 miles
from the Cape, aud there leave a party
of astronomers aud photographers to
make observations, &c. She will then
sail for Kerguelen’s Land, w Mre another
party will be left, and from l A>nce go to
Van Diemen’s Land, where a third party
will disembark. The Swatara will next
proceed to New Zealand anil land a
fourth body of astronomers and photo
graphers, after which she wll go to
Chatham Island, some 300 oe 400 miles
from New Zealand, aud tliertland the
fifth aud last portion of the expedition.
She will remain there until tfter the
transit of Venus, and then, in al proba
bility, will go back over the sami course
previously traversed, “ picking ip” the
several parties, land them at Hobart
Town, or at some other convenient port
in Australia, from which they nil pro
ceed by steamer to Yokohama and
thence to San Francisco on thtr way
home. Should course be adipted,
the “Observaroty Corps” will havimade
a circuit of the globe. Circumstances
may, however, arise to prevent thijroute
being pursued. Commauder ChaiDler
may find it necessary to proceedifrom
Chatham Island in an easterly direition,
and going round by Cape Horn, tale the
men up as he proceeds, aud bribing
them back in the Swatara via the Ctpe
of Good Hope.
There are people in Atlanta, sayftlie
Augusta Chronicle, who are unwind
enough to allege that the passage ojthe
Civil Rights bill in the Senate is in part
the effect of the irritating speed-, of
Senator Norwood.— Early News. 1
Our Early county cotemporary is
taken. The Chronicle and S rnti yin
; said no such thing. On the contrtty,
the Chronicle and Sentinel has state j
I what it most certainly believed—t;at
I Senator Norwood’s speech has done tie
i South a great deal of good. It isijl
! bosh to assert that it “irritated” fN
' Senate into the passage of the bill. "ie
Radical majority in that branch of (j n
; gress had determined in caucus cron
the passage of the bill before Mr. I r
wood opened his lips. His speech 'ty
I not have caused any member of the s
tile majority to oppose the bill. <ah
j gressional speeches rarely cause a chaf je
in votes. But that it did us much god
j in another way we have no donbt. jit
j has been scattered broadcast over te
country, and has influenced public opi
; ion, and public opinion controls De
gress. If the bill is defeated in tie
House, its defeat will be largely dne;o
j Senator Norwood. Sarcasm has alwrs
been the most powerful of weapon.
Where denunciation and argument fil
; ridicule is always successful. The snees
j and sarcasms of Voltaire prepard
j France for the atheism of the first Rexi
| lution. laughed chivalry ojt
of Europe. May we not hope that Nor
wood has shamed Civil Rights to deatlj?
Rev. Isaac M. Wise, of Cincinnati
a distinguished Hebrew pastor, has dJ
livered an address in Pittsburg, uponrf
matter in which our Jewish fellow-os -
zens everywhere feel considerable int*--
est—the founding of a national collie
for their special use. In this institataa
it is intended to train young men for te
ministry, as well as to impart instract>*i
of a general character. Liberal si.
scriptions have already been made, aai
it is believed that both in respeetf >
finances and sympathetic encouragem|l
the enterprise is started under the m|
favorable auspices.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 17, 1574.
j GOT. SMITH AND CIVIL RIGHTS.
In regard to the operation of the Civil
i Rights bill in Georgia, Governor Smith
i informs a correspondent of the Macon
| Telegraph that should this odious meas
ure become a law, after patiently wait
ing for the negroes to take action in the
premises, if they attempt to intrude
] iheir children into the white schools, he
would not hesitate to issue his official
proclamation suspending all payments
to teachers from the school fund, and
thus practically abolishing the system.
CIVIL RIGHTS.
The third attempt by the Radicals in
the House to take up the Civil Rights
bill was made on Monday and failed.
The vote showed that the-friends of the
measure lacked twelve votes of having
a two-thirds majority. Several Demo
crats, as usual, were absent, but not
enough to ensure the passage of the
iniquity. Congress has but ten work
ing days left and the prospect for
the defeat of the bill is every day get
ting better. In the meantime the North
ern and Western Republican journals
continue to vigorously assail the measure
and every blow they strike does a world
of good.
ROTTEN BOROUGHS.
The Republicans in Congress never
grow weary of the work of making rot
ten boroughs. The House of Repre
sentatives has passed bills during the
present session organizing two new
States—Mexico and Colorado. Each of
these newly made States will be entitled
to two Senators, and will have a repre
sentation in one branch of Congress
equal to that given New York and Penn
sylvania—though the population of two
wards of New York city is equal to the
entire population of both States com
bined. A few years more and the Sen
ate of the United States will bo con
trolled by about one-tenth of the votes
of the conntiy.
AN INEBRIATE EARL.
It seems that the ancient expression
“drunk as a lord” really means a very
bad state of inebriety, and that the
United States is not the only country
cursed with intemperate rulers. Those
of us who have blushed at the recital of
the drunken antics and disgusting de
bauches of such Senators as Chandler
aud Carpenter and have thought, with
envy, of the sad difference between onr
Congressmen and the members of the
British Parliament, found some consola
tion iu the dispatch published yester
day announcing the disappearance of
the Earl of Yarborough. It appears
that this distinguished member of the
House of Lords is as fond of liquor as an
American Senator, and stays drunk with
a Washingtonian regularity. Like Yates
and his compeers, he lias a fondness for
attending the sessions when in his high
est state of elevation, and displaying
himself for the admiration of his brother
members and the occupants of tho gal
leries. The other day he was “over
come” to a greater extent than usual,
and a Sergeant-at-Arms felt it his duty
to conduct the drunken law giver to a
private apartment. Since that time
nothing has been heard of him, and the
reports seem to intimate that he lias
committed suicide. Will Mr. Chandler
“go and do likewise?”
m
PLATFORM OF THE NEW POLITI
CAL PARTY.
The new party movement is at length
under way. Some thirteen Western
members of Congress have recently
adopted a platform which they propose
as the neucleus of anew party organiza
tion. This platform runs somewhat as
follows:
1. A call for a Constitutional Conven
tion to effect several changes in the
fundamental laws of the United States,
among which will be (a) the election of
President, Vice-President and Senators
directly by the people ; (6) subordi
nating all corporations to tire National
Government; (c) disallowing special
privileges to any corporation; (and) add
ing largely to the authority of the Gene
ral Government in matters affecting the
transportation and trades of the country;
(e) and making such banking provisions
as will allow the General Government to
institute banks under its own authority.
2. An immediate agitation for com
mitting Congress and the nation at once
to the carrying out of the scheme of the
five great artificial water routes recom
mended by the Transportation Commit
tee of the Senate—that is the opening
of the mouths of the Mississippi, the
connection of the Mississippi with the
lakes, the ship canal asound Niagara,
the enlargement of the Erie canal, and
the joining of the James river with the
waters of the Ohio by a canal.
3. The construction of at least two
freight railways under the authority of
the General Government, so as to regu
• late the charges of the main lines of the
country.
THE ESCAPE OE MOSES.
The decision of Judge Graham—pub
lished in our telegraphic columns yes
terday morning—enables the Ring Gov
ernor of South Carolina to escape pun
ishment for the present, at least. This
will be a matter of regret not only to
the oppressed and plundered people of
South Carolina, but to every friend of
honesty and good government North
and South. At the same time, however,
there are many who will contend that
the judgment of the Court is a correct ex
position of the law of the case and that
the Judge could not legally have pursued
any course other than that which he
thought"proper to pursue. Many able
lawyers are among those who hold this
opinion and declare that the first step in
the punishment of the Executive of a
State for crime must be impeachment
and deposition from office. After, and
only after, that has been done can the
machinery of the Courts be put in
operation against him as against an
ordinary criminal. It may seem mon
strous that a citizen who has been
chosen Governor of a State may rob,
rape or murder with perfect impunity
from arrest, trial or punishment until
after a resort to the doubtful, slow and j
unsatisfactory process of impeachment, j
while another citizen who occupies no ;
official position is at once visited with i
the full penalty of the law for the com
mission of such offenses. But there i
must be some seat of power, some sov
ereign authority iu every form of gov
ernment, and the Governor is the foun
tain head of power in the States which
constitute the Am. -'eo_. Union. A blow i
struck at him does violence to the whole I
State ; and no matter what may be the
man’s character or his crimes his posi
tion shields him from the operation of
the summary remedies which the laws i
famish against other offenders. While
the application of the rale to this par
ticular case is extremely unfortu
nate, still the wisdom and justice of the
rule itself cannot be successfully denied, j
Were this not the law one can easily |
- imagine how much mischief might be |
| produced and what a scene of anarchy j
would ensure in all the States. An in
dictment found by a packed grand jury
or by a legal jury upon the ex parte
statements ofsuborned witnesses would
$e sufficient to overturn any gov
ernment. The law, therefore, has
wisely determined that it is better to
choose the infinitely lesser evil of the
two End to give a guilty Executive a
chance of escaping well merited punish
ment rather than sanction a practice
which would prove so fruitful of mis
chief to the whole country. No one can
I donbt the guilt of this miserable wretch
who disgraces by his crimes the high j
position which he holds. Every one j
must regret that he still escapes the fate j
! which has overtaken so many less guilty ’
; criminals. Bat it is better even that
Moses should escape than that such a
damaging precedent should have been
established as bis trial at Orangeburg
would have furnished.
It seems evident to us that Moses
l has compounded with his Republican
! competitors; that he has promised to
! give up all designs on a second term
j upon condition that he should be shield
! ed from punishment by the Courts and
iby the Legislature. When the Assem
i bly convenes the party lash will be free
; ly applied and party persuasions freely
; used. Bribes, threats and promises
| will be brought into play and Moses
will escape scot free so far as impeach
ment is concerned.
NORTHERN VIEWS OF DIRECT
TRADE.
Some of the Northern journals have
professed to discover an abiding hostili
ty to their section in the efforts of the
South to secure direct trade with Eu
ropean countries. They affect to think
that it is the revival of a spirit which
they say existed before the war, and
which prompted the Southern people to
seek foreign markets in order to stop
business relations with the abolition
ists of the Northern and Eastern States.
The entertainment of such an idea is the
height of absurdity. The South, like
the North, seeks the establishment of
direct trade with Liverpool, Havre,
and Bremen, because it expects to be
benefitted by such a system of com
merce, and for no other reason. Are
the importers of New York and Boston
hostile to America because they pur
chase the goods of English and French
manufacturers? But they say that im
portations for the South should be made
through the established channels of
Northern seaports. To this it may
be easily replied : that (1) it will be
cheaper to import direct through a
South Atlantic or Gulf port, and (2)
that it is wiser aud better for the South
to build up Charleston and Savannah
than to add to the already overgrown
wealth of Northern trade centres, and
permit her own cities to decay. There
is no feeling whatever of sentiment or
vindictiveness in this direct trade move
ment. It is simply a matter of business
—nothing more nor less.
The Philadelphia North American
takes a different view of the subject. It
regards such suspicions as those men
tioned above as “unreasonable aud un
just.” it says :
“Boston, Portland, Providence, Pliila
“ delpliia and Baltimore liave long and
“ earnestly sought direct trade with Eu
“ rope quite as much as Charleston,
“ Savannah, Mobile, New Orleans, Gal
“ veston aud Norfolk; and latterly
“ Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati and
“Louisville have exhibited the same
“spirit. It is to the interest of the
“ trade and commerce of the Republic
“ that this should be encouraged, since
“ nobody is benefitted by the monopoly
“at New York, which is alaiost entirely
“in foreign hands. All attempts to re
“sist the several movements liave
“ failed. The direct foreign trade is
“prosperous in all the Northern and
“Western cities, and looks auspicious
“ at the South.”
But the North American suggests a
new objection to direct trade. It de
clares that tho movement Nvill ruin
manufacturing in this section. It says
that the South has for years been
wearying the North with invita
tions to work up its mines and fac
tories ; “and now that this lias fairly
begun the South sets to work to invito
foreign interests to come there aud de
stroy the domestic.” It does not think
that the foreign and domestic interests
can flourish together, and plainly hints
that if we succeed in getting direct
trade we will lose the Northern capital
which wonld otherwise be invested in
manufacturing enterprises, This is
rather unfair treatment. Our Northern
friends threaten us with the loss of
their patronage if we establish more
intimate relations with Europe, aad un
less we do succeed in obtaining direct
trade we we will sustain serious injury.
In the first place we need not hope for
foreign immigration unless we can get a
steamship line to some South Atlantic
port. Thanks to the fine stories which
our Northern friends tell of ns, ninety
nine out of one hundred foreigners who
land at Castle Garden would as soon
think of settling among the cannibals
of the South Sea Islands as attempt
ing to find a home south of the Po
tomac. It is only by bringing them
directly among us and allowing them
to see the country for themselves tliat
we can succeed iu filling up our sparsely
populated territory. We can see no
reason why direct trade between
Charleston or Savannah and Liverpool
should prevent Pennsylvania capitalists
from putting their money in the coal
andjiron mines of Georgia, or in manu
facturing establishments along the
banks of the Augusta Canal. We can
not see why there should be any antagon
ism between “domestic and foreign in
terests,” or from whence such antagon
isms shall spring. The Southern people
are prepared to extend the same cordial
welcome, the same grateful greeting to
each. We invite both the Pennsylva
nians aud the Germans to come into our
country, to cast their destiny with us,
to make our home their Lome, our peo
ple their people. But we have so often
called fruitlessly upon the North for
help that it cannot blame us for now go
ing a little further. We have appealed
so often in vain 1 1 the Yankee Hercules
that it is time for us to turn to him of
Europe.
John Bright took part in the discus
sion of the temperance question at the
annual meeting of the Society of Friends i
i in London, recently, and expressed views j
| entirely antagonistic to those usually
| expressed by his hearers. He found that
j they were always crying to Parliament
j for the cure of this great evil, and the j
' propositions before them showed that j
j they adhered to that course. They asked i
i for things to be done which in the pres
j ent state of public opinion were impos- j
j sible. The asking for these things in
j itself revealed an amount of simplicity |
j which he could not understand. It is
| for the Parliament to make such changes j
as arc necessary for the public good, :
and for the proper administration ctf ]
| police regulations. But if the public j
! houses were closed on Sundays, if the \
j hours of sale were shortened, if the li- j
censes were taken from the grocers, the
amount of drinking is so absolutely ap
palling that it would still be lessened
, but to a small degree.
i n
Some American poet—for the love of
Heaven not Walt Whitman —may cele
j brate anew “Rape of the Lock.” A
young lady living in Louisville, Ken
tucky, had an unusually fine “head of
| hair” which she wore in two braids. The
j other night she awoke with what the
i local reporter calls “a sense of some
| thing wrong and discovered that one
;of the braids was missing. The thief
entered her apartment through an open
window and despoiled the virgin of her
tresses while she slept. Whether the
j motive of the robbery was love or lucre
i is still among the mysteries.
ALEX. H. STEPHENS.
HIS SPEECH TO THE SUNDAY
SCHOOLS.
Some days since we published an ac
count of a great Sunday School reunion
at Crawfordville, furnished us bv a cor
respondent at that place. To-day we
have the pleasure of laying before our
readers the speech delivered on that oc
casion to the assembled thousands by
Hon. A. H. Stephens, together with the
resolutions subsequently adopted by the
Sunday School. They have been kindly
furnished us by the “Union Sunday
School
The Resolutions.
Union Sunday School Rooms, )
Union Point, May 31, 1874. \
Resolved , That the thanks of this
Sunday School and our entire communi
ty is returned to the Sunday Schools
and the citizens of Crawford ville, for
their ample, liberal and full arrange
ments made for our enjoyment and ac
commodation on the2Bthinst.,at the Sab
bath School reunion at their place,
Resolved, That we will ever cherish
the recollection of the pleasure, enjoy
ment and instruction of that day.
Resolved, That we return our thanks
to the Hon. A. H. Stephens for tlie use
of his beautiful grove and grounds, but
above all we desire to thank him for
his address to our reunion of Sabbath
Schools, for his words of encourage
ment, his advice and instruction given
us on the great truth of man’s trinity
and his salvation through the redemp
tion of Jesus Christ.
Resolved, T hat we solicit from him a
copy of that address for publication.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolu
tions be forwarded to the Sabbath
Schools of Crawford ville and to Hon. A.
H. Stephens.
Union Point, June 3, 1873.
Hon. A. 11. Stephens, Crawfordville :
Dear Sir —lt is our pleasure to for
ward you a copy of resolutions passed
in our Sunday School rooms on Sunday
morning, with our kindest regards. We
are your obedient servants,
Mrs. J. B. Hart, ,T. B. Hart,
Mrs. P. W. Printup, T. M. Bryan,
Mrs. R. B. Smith, L. J. Harwell,
Committee.
In accordance with this flattering re
quest, Mr. Stephens furnished a report
of his remarks.
Mr. Stephens' Speech.
Mr. Stephens appeared at the north
end of liiH east portico, and stood sup
ported by his crutches while he ad
dressed the assembled multitude gath
ered around him, standing in the shade
of the wide-spreading oaks, in substance
as follows :
Teachers and pupils, patrons and
friends of all the Sunday Schools here
assembled, aud to all other present—
adults, and children, the aged and the
young, fathers and mothers, sons and
daughters, who compose this large
audience—r appear not only to give
you a cordial greeting, but my
earnest aud profound congratulations
upon the manifestations of zeal
you have this day exhibited in the
great cause which has brought you
together. You from a distance have
already received a welcome from the
Sunday School in. this place, and more
than a twice or a thrice welcome I give
you to these grounds and to those
shades for the celebration of the
progress of the great work in which you
are engaged. Would that my extreme
feebleness did not render it utterly im
possible for me to address you on this
occasion as my impulses prompt 1 I
have seen and addressed many large
audiences in days gone by, assembled
in this village to hear discussions
upon political questions, and mat
ters that concerned their immediate
temporal interests; but this is the larg
est collection of people I ever saw con
gregated in this vicinity; and it is not
the less gratifying^to me that the pres
ent object relates/not so much to secu
lar and worldly matters as to those
which are spiritual and eternal. The
one is as small in importance, when com
pared with the other, as time is with
eternity.
It is true, the position I now occupy,
and the sphere I now fill, is new to me.
Never before have I addressed an audi
ence, large or small, upon topics relating
exclusively, not to things of this life, but
to that higher life which is to come af
ter. If I have not thus before spoken
publicly upon such subjects, it has not
been because I have not thought most
intensely and profoundly upon them
from my earliest youth. It is a source
of high gratification to me to say to you
all upon this occasion, and especially
to these little boys, that the first awak
ening of such thoughts iu my mind, as
well as my first taste for general read
ing, was first quickened and brought
into active exercise in a Sunday school.
It was at the old Powder Creek Log
Meeting House, not five miles from this
place, more than a half century ago, I
became a pupil iu what was known as a
“Union Sunday School.” The day I en
tered it was a great epoch in my life.
It was in the latter part of the Summer
the school was opened, or when I enter
ed it, and though but a small hoy at tho
time, still I had to do such work on the
farm as I was able to do during the
week. This was picking cotton or peas
or going to mill, or other light work of
like character. It was only at night, and
by a pine-knot light, that I had any op
portunity to study the lessons assigned
me; and yet so deeply did I become in
terested in the questions of the Union
catechism that 2 o’clock often found me
pouring over the chapters of the Bible
set apart for the next Sunday’s examina
tion. To the impressions thus made I
am indebted in no small degree for my
whole future course in life, whether it
has been for good or for evil. If, iu the
midst of any evil that has marred that
course, there is anything good to be found,
or anything worthy of imitation, then
it is due to that Sunday School and
to that great cause which you to-day
celebrate with inspiring mottoes, ban
ners and music. What I propose to say
at this time will be addressed chiefly to
the teachers, though I trust some
thoughts I may express will be under
stood by even the youngest pupil
present. Teachers of all these schools,
let me, then, deeply impress upon your
minds the high and sacred mission you
have assumed. In responsibility it is
little, if any, less than that of those
ambassadors whose mission it is to be
seech a sinful world to become recon
ciled to God ! What I shall say to you
will be brief, and will cover but few
points. Ist. In the first place, then, let
me conjure you that iu your teachings
you abstain from all religious polemics.
Let the leading object with you be to
impress upon the minds of the young
under your charge nothing but the plain
precepts of the Holy Scriptures, with
out reference to sect or creed. The
great mystery of human redemption,
through the mediation of Deity incar
nated, leave where the Bible leaves it.
The mystery of the God-Head, aud the
mystery of human salvation, by grace,
through faith, with the operation of the
spiritual agencies and instrumentalities.
; attending it is not within the power of
! human intellect to comprehend, much
; less to solve. Many have ventured upon
1 this and reasoned
“Os Providence, foreknowledge, will and fate;
“Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge ab
solute,
“And found no end in wandering mazes lost!”
One of the great truths you should
teach is: that these are subjects that do
not lie within \fhe domain of human
reason or human intellect. Spiritual
matters can only be discerned, felt, ap
preciated, and known—known, too, as
fully and clearly as all other matters are
known—but not through the operations
of the intellect. They are known
through tne operations of the spiritual
laws and attributes of man’s triune na
ture. This leads me to the second point
in what I have to say to you.
2d. One of the greatest errors of
this age is an attempt upon- the
part of those who are properly styled
Rationalists to reject all truths or
to admit nothing as true which will
not bear the test of their, intellectual
crucible. From this class at this time
the cause in which veu are engaged
is in more danger, perhaps, than ever
before. In the history of the human
race there have been several marked
epochs. The creation of' Adam and Eve,
the original progenitors, with their fall,
is one of them. The flood in the days
of Noah is another. The Covenant with
Abraham another. The coming of the
Messiah, with the institution of that
mystic organization, known as the Chris
tian Church, another. We now live in
the nineteenth century of this last great
epoch or era; and never before, perhaps,
as I have said, were the great truths of
! the Bible, from Genesis to Revelations,
more powerfully assailed than at pres
i ent. Those who lead the assault are the
I Rationalists referred to. They are also
known as Materialists in philosophy.
They are indeed philosophers of a high
order; and many of them have done a
vast deal towards the advancement of
physical science iu this day and genera
tion; but upon the subject of religion,
or man’s relation to the Deity, they
have done and are doingiufinite mischief.
These writers, among whom may be
named Compte, Huxley, Spencer, Dar
win and many others of the same school,
you may be assured, are making a deep
impression upon the thinkers of the age.
Their disciples are numerous, including
men, and women, too, of minds of the
highest order. This fact is not to be
ignored. The assaults of this school are
to be met, and their sophisms answered
and confuted by the Sunday School—
by upholding and sustaining, as it is
your mission to do, the plain and simple
spiritual truths of the Bible.
The fundamental error of those phil
osophers referred to is the assumption
that nothing is to be received as true
which lies beyond the power of human
reason and human intellect. They ut
terly ignore the great fact and truth of
mans triune nature. In philosophy
they may well be termed Materialists,
for they hold that man is composed of
but two elements—matter and mind—
body and intellect! The higher and
nobler part of his nature—his spirit or
soul—-that which links him with
the Divinity, they seem to know nothing
about. According to their philosophy
man is but a dual existence, in which
lie differs not from the brute or inferior
animals, except in the form of his body,
and the higher development of the
thinking attribute. The Bible teaches
the great truth that after tho inferior
animals were made God called man into
existence, created in his own image and
“likeness,” as to the trinity of his com
position. Man was composed, not only
of body aud the elements of thought or
mind or thinking principle with which
the inferior animals were endowed, but
in addition to these tho Great Creator
breathed into him a living spirit or im
mortal soul! Man, therefore, is a trinity,
composed of body, mind and spirit or
soul. These three elements of his nature,
though united in harmonious action, are
yet separate and distinct. The laws,
moreover, which govern one are totally
different from those which govern each
of the others. The Jaws which govern
the origin of life and the vital functions
of tlie body during life’s existence are
no less distinct and different from
those which govern the intellectual ope
rations than the latter are distinct and dif
ferent from those which govern the moral,
devotional and spiritual part of the triune
being. When intellect, therefore, un
dertakes to subject to its tests the ope
rations of the soul or spiritual part of
man, it travels out of its domain; and
attempts to solve questions which lie
entirely outside of its sphere. Man is
indeed most mysteriously as well as
“fearfully and wonderfully made.” In
body, he is lord of the animal creation
on earth. By intellect, lie can solve many
abstruse problems in physical and ma
terial science. He can and has unfold
ed many of the secrets of nature around
ns. He can explain the phenomena of
ocean’s currents and depths; explain
the principles which govern tides, winds,
stortns and tornadoes. Mo can make
clear to the commonest understanding
the principles which govern cloud-me
teors in their formation aud progress,
with their tremendous elements of rain,
hail, and lightnings! Guided by the
unerring laws of the intellect, in search
of those physical truths which lie within
its proper domain, lie can not only pene
trate earth’s innermost parts, and read
with unerring accuracy its history for
cycles of ages anterior to the creation of
the human race, blit can soar to the
skies—ca’culate eclipses—measure the
distances to tho moon, the sun, the plan
ets aud the far off stars, and give their
weights to the fraction of an averdupois
pound. All this lies within intellect’s
legitimate sphere, but under its guide
exclusively man can gain no knowledge
of the operations spirit, or
iHI an..! . h, ) ,
in communion, by through
the mystery of the atonement, with tho
Almighty Himself.
On this subject, intejject, by itself, is
as utterly unable to give himany light as
it is to enable him to understand any
thing about those laws which govern the
principles of life, or those vital func
tions by which it is sustained. Far be
it from the teachers of Biblical truths
to decry the grflnd achievements of
science in its legitimate sphere. Their
province is to show the proper bounda
ries to which intellect, according to "the
laws of its own existence, and, by tlie
rules of reason, must be confined. Noth
ing is truer than that
“A little learning is a dangerous thing’;
“Drink deep, or taste not, the Pierian spring ;
“For shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
“And drinking deeply sobers ns again.”
While the shallow draughts drawn
from the intellectual fount do often but
intoxicate the brain, yet “drinking
deeply” from the ever-living waters of
Divine inspiration never fails to “sober
ns again.” It is from this source that
man is taught that in spiritual matters
the wisdom of this world is often found
to be but foolishness when balanced in
the Heavenly scales. The doctrines of
the Bible teach not only that man is a
trinity, with separate and distinct com
ponent parts as stated, and which are
each governed by laws operating in a
different sphere, but that the great ob
ject of this probationary life is to culti
vate, develop, and keep pure all these
parts or elements—the body, as well as
the mind and soul.
These are some of the plain and sim
ple truths, teachers, which, I have
thought it proper to say, you should im
press upon the minds of your pupils.
By these doctrines and principles they
will not only bo shielded against the
errors stated, but their innate moral
sense will be cultivated—their spiritual
attributes of worship and devotion will
be developed through the mysterious
agency of prayer; and their regenera
tion—that new spiritual birth—through
faith—so essential to salvation—will be
consummated; and by which their fallen
human natures will be elevated and sub
limated to a proper fitness for that
higher life, in which they will be in per
fect and eternal communion with their
Creator.
To you, little children, I say, “ let no
one deceive you”—let no tempting doc
trines of any philosopher, however
learned, beguile you into the belief that
you have not in you something which
places you high in the scale of existence
above the bare brute—the horse or the
dog ! Ever keep it in your memories
that you have not only a body, with its
various members,, and an intellect to
control these members, but that you
have within you a soul, a spiritual part,
which gives you immortality. Recollect
“that according to the Divine teaching
gthe body is the temple of God; and
should therefore not be neglected or
unduly cared for, but that it, as well as
the intellect and the soul, should be
duly cultivated and developed, so as to
fit them in the resurrection for that life
hereafter where there will be no more
pain nor suffering, but an eternity of
perfect happiness.
With these few precepts I must close,
I can stand no longer. To the teachers
I will add, that it will be a source of
gratification to me if they will bring the
children of their respective schools, each
in its turn, through the hall, when I am
seated, so that I can give each of them a
shaking of the hand and a parting fare
well. To all the rest I now give a fare
well adieu.
The above is but an abstract of the
general outlines of the address, which
was entirely extemporary and impromptu
in its delivery. When it was over the
different schools passed through the hall
in regular order of separate columns in
double file, numbering a thousand or
more, and gave Mr. Stephens the invited
shake by the hand, while the multitude
still stood standing, looking with inter
est on the passing scene.
DOWN IN A COAL MINE.
Explosion and Loss of Life.
Wilkesbabke, June 9. —Last night an
explosion occurred in the shaft of Nan
ticoke Mine, burning three miners and
setting fire to the breaker, which was
soon destroyed. While fighting the
flames, some burning timbers fell upon
William Vivian, killing him instantly.
Alex. Ale, Charles Keller, Hawley
Walsh, Tom Lowell, Tom McManus,
Henry Reimer, Snyder, and Lorenz
Kr§b3, of the gang who were also en
gaged in fighting the fire, were over
come by gas and had to be carried from
the mine. The first two were insensible
when brought to fresh air ftnd have since
died. The others are doing well. ..
Meeting of Directors. —The Direct
ors of the Georgia Railroad held a meet
ing yesterday aud declared a dividend
of four dollars per share, for the past
six months, payable July 15th.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
RING SKETCHES.
The Thieves' Organ—A Cashiered Bum
mer One of -the Editors, But lie the
Pick of the Corps.
The Columbia Daily Union-Herald
is the official organ of the thieves in
South Carolina and the recipient of a
large part of the money stolen from the
tax payers and credited to the “Printing
Fund.” This paper sports four editors
and furnishes a livelihood for many
other thieves, and yet I suppose its cir
culation—paying circulation—is not
greater than that of the Barnwell Senti
nel or Barnwell (county) Times. Its
advertising income is plainly not Asto
rian, aud yet its
Ex-Bummer Editor
Manages to get on the outside of his diur
nal eompftment of drinks without appa
rent effort or exercise of that genius for
strategy characteristic of the impecuni
ous votary of Bacchus. The last time that
I was in Columbia this worthy chanced
to come up to the bar of the Columbia
Hotel, while a friend and I were atten
tive and admiring listeners to tho sura
five rhetoric of the amiable bar tender
as he expounded (not compounded mind
you) tho charms and properties of
“White Lion.” Whether preoccupation
with the liar tender’s narrative, or hav
ing passed a sleepless night on the rail
road had affected my visuals, I am un
certain, but I certainly did honor this
thief courmensurably with the disparage
ment of a friend resident in Charleston,
by mistaking the one for tlie other, and
cordially invited the thief to listen to
the bar tender’s recital. In a few sec
onds, however, I appreciated the misad
venture and endeavored quietly to recti
fy the error, but the “cuss” insisted on
my reading ail editorial in the Herald—
a lucubration of his own, I presume—
purporting to demonstrate tho ab
surdity of the Tax Payers’ memori
alizing Congress with any hope of re
dress. Said he, “Congress cuu’t inter
fere iu matters of State simply, and in
volving no national question. Men of
ordinary intelligence should understand
that, and hence, I regard the tax payers
movement as absurd.” Said 1, “In
the event of the tax payers get
ting upon their ear and wiping you
miserable thieves out of the existence
that you disgrace and the oppressed and
over burdened State that you have ruin
ed and despoiled, do you think Congress
wonld hesitate to interpose to shield
you ?” With a kind of a sickly smile
Aggressively Nauseating
He rejoined “Ah, my dear sir, that
would he revolution !” And that is their
idea, expressing in brief, their concep
tion of the situation. They may steal
everything that they can lay their hands
on—may under the forms of taxation
rob the citizen and the State alike, but
any attempt to resist the spoliation
is revolution. Here is a base scoundrel
who was cashiered for drunkenness—
too meaii and low to remain in fellow
ship with She) man’s bummers—allies
himself with three other thieves, and
calling their association “the Union-
Herald Publishing Company,” steal
thousands upon thousands of the peo
ple’s money yearly; and simply because
they can depend on the United States
Government for protection in their
crimes. No ono outside of this State
can understand how we are situated. —
The average citizen of a Northern State
knows as little of the condition of affairs
here as of Dr. Livingstone’s experience
in Africa. Even your neighbors in
Georgia cannot possibly comprehend it.
The idea at the North is that the Ring
Government in South Carolina is a pow
er representing a certain number of
white people—say a fourth or a fifth of
the property holders of the State, and
the entiro negro population. But the
truth is, tliat there is
Not a Single White Man
In South Carolina who is willing to up
hold this State government, except the
thieves who participate in it, amt
whose livelihood is gained through rob
bing the property holders. Not one.
And not ati intelligent man of either
party—tlie robbers or the robbed—but
will admit that if Congress will an
nounce a “hand oft’” policy at any given
hour, in twenty-four hours after there
would not remain alive a single thief in
office in this State from Moses down to
the meanest nigger Trial Justice. They
say so, and it is the simple truth. The
negroes are willing to see the stealing go
on, but your fifteenth amendment is op
posed to upholding any system or cause
that requires for its support the agency
of cold steel or gunpowder. Your darkey is
martial to the last degree while matters
are confined to the “pomp and circum
stance” of war, but when it comes to. the
exhilerating “rush of steeds and men”
he is by nature principled against tak
ing any of “tlie pye.” Under such
leadership as that of the great Massa
chusetts spoon thief, the “colored
troops” died recklessly, it is true, but it
seems to have been rather in the fanci
ful field of the chieftains imagination than
within range of their enemies’ guns.
You will sometimes hear talk of
The “Conservative Element”
In this State having such and such
views, or supporting this and that
policy. But there is no such element
iu existence. In South Carolina there
is, and has been for five years, but two
parties—the thieves and the plundered
—the last named antagonistic in every
sense to the first and patiently endur
ing their wrongs only because re
sistance at this time is painly
vain. The “conservative element”
is known only to the editors and
correspondentsof the Union-Herald, and
is a soi dissant appellation of their own
party. There are, indeed, a few weak
creatures among the honest white peo
ple of the State who would prefer to
submit tamely to be robbed and insulted
as we are than to aid, by any desperate
means, a determined effort to throw off
our oppressors; hut these are without
weight in public estimation, and possess
no influence for good or evil. The State
is iu the hands of a gang of. thieves—
mostly carpet-baggers—who have pos
sessed themselves of the offices through
the base machinery of the Ere. (linen’s
Bureau, and I assert, what no honest
man will deny, that not a single white
man of character or decency was in any
wise instrumental in their election. But
enough for this writing. Bourbon.
P. S. —The reverend thief of the
county, Commissioner Caesar Cave, has
already been pardoned out of the peni
tentiary by- Moses.
Darryl e on Labor.— The philosopher
of Chelsea has given his views on this
interesting subject in a letter, of which
the following is the concluding portion :
The lcfok of England is to me at this
moment abundantly ominous, the ques
tion of capital and labor growing ever
move anarchical, insoluble by tiie no
tions hitherto applied to it, pretty cer
tain to issue in petroleum, one day, un
less some other gospel than that (if the
dismal science come to illuminate it.
Two things are sure tome: 1 lie first
is that capital and labor never can or
will agree together till they both, first
of all, decide on doing their work faith
fully throughout, and like men of con
science and honor, whose highest aim is
to behave like faithful citizens of this
universe, and obey the eternal com
mandment of Almighty God who made
them. The second thing is that a
sadder object even than that of the
coal strike, or any conceivable strike, is
the fact that, loosely speaking, we may
say all England has decided that the
most profitable way is to do its work ill,
slimly, swiftly, aud mendaciously.—
What a contrast between now and only
a hundred years ago ! At the latter date,
or still more conspicuously for ages be
fore it, all England awoke to its work
with an invocation to the Eternal Maker
to bless them in their days’ labor, and
help them to do it well. Now all Eng
land, shopkeepers, workmen, all manner
of competing labors, awaken as if it
were an unspoken but heart-prayer to
Beelzebub, ‘Oh, help us, thou great
lord of shoddy, adulteration and mal
feasance, to do our work with the maxi
mum of slimness, swiftness, profit and
mendacity, for the devil’s sake. Amen.’”
From Richmond.
Richmond, Va., June 10.—The roer
enry was one hundred in the shade in
Richmond to-day. There was one fatal
sunstroke yesterday and one case to
day, not fatal. G. W. Campbell has
been arrested near Blaijksburg, Va., for
passing counterfeit fifty cent notes. The
names of a number of others, who are
known to be dealing in bogus money,
.have been ascertained, anti will prob
ably be arrested.
The Radicals held a meeting in At
lanta last Saturday, and appointed. six
delegates to the Griffin Congressional
Convention,
NUMBER 24.
THE DEMON OF THE ItOAD.
An Engineer’s Story.
An engineer who had neglected to
display his red lamp flagging signal, and
being reminded of the omission when
approaching the train agaiust which he
was bearing the flag, attempted to pre
vent the inevitable collision by a mode
not iu the rules , made the following
singular statement to the Geueral Su
perintendent:
“You see, when we got the order I
went to tho front of my engine, to help
my fireman to fasten on the lamp. The
iron strap had got bent, and would not
go into the slot made to hold it. So we
tied it on with a piece of rope. It de
layed us about a minute fixing that.
‘Was it lighted?’ Yes, sir. After tak
ing so much trouble to fix a lamp on,
we should not be so greeu as to go
away without having a light in it. Well,
we were a little bit behind time, and
had not much to spare to save the con
nection. I was keeping a sharp look
out ahead, and we were getting along
pretty fast. It was not a dear night,
and it was not a thick night; I had a
good view of things ahead. Well, sir,
you may think I’ve lost my senses, hut
I tell you solemnly that I saw a woman
or a woman’s ghost, walking straight up
the middle of the track toward my en
gine ! It was no use whistling, she
was so close. I crawled out of tho cab
window as quick as I could, and went
along toward the front just in time to
see the form sitting in the buffer-beam,
and putting out the light in the red
lamp. The creature got off when it saw
mie, and walked away in front of the en
gine; and as we thundered along after
it, it somehow disappeared. I got hack
into the cab, trembling some. I told
John the light was out, and to go and
get it and light it. After lie had done
it, we went out and tied it, on. I went
to see if it was burning all right, aud it
was burning bright.
“I said not hing to Jack about what I
had seen. Well, it was more than three
minutes, and we were going onr smart
est, when I saw that same figure walk
ing up the track towards the engine, as
before, ‘Jack,’ I cried, ‘look there!’
Jack had already seen it, and sounded a
long whistle, and begun to put ou the
brake. ‘Go to the cow-catcher,’ I said;
and he crawled through tne window. A
few moments after lie came back, his
face pale and his eyes starting out, ot his
head. He looked at, me and 1 looked at
him, but we said nothing. I. pointed
ahead and there it was 1 I got, out and
fetched in the lamp! The light was
out ! ‘ I saw it open the lamp door and '
blow it out,’ said Jack, in an awful ter
ror; ‘and thfin it got down and walked
away in front of the engine.’ Well, I
guess there never was two men on an en
gine so mortally sea ed as my fireman
and me. However, I went out again
with the lamp and tied it n. I also
turned the rope onoe or twice round the
door, so it could not be opened without
some trouble. ‘Jack,’ 1 said, when I
got back into the cab, ‘tlisre’s going to
be some dreadful thing happen to-night.
That woman’s a ghost of evil, No liv
ing being could tlo as that has done.’—
Jack’s teeth were chattering with fright,
and so was mine, for the matter o! that.
I felt that we had been singled out to bn
the cause or the victims of something
awful.
‘Keep a good lookout,’l said; ‘we’re
only a mile from G , where we are
flagging No. 174 to, and we must show
the light if all the she-devils in hell are
agin’us.’ I ordered Jack to the front
of the engine to watch the lump. He
did not seem to like it, lint ho went. I
wrote on the back of a time card these
words: ' ‘For God's sake, don't pass
the switch. We are flagging 174.’ I
stuck the paper on tho end of n bit of
pine wood, aud kept it ready. When I
looked ahead again, I saw tho shape, as
plain as I see you now, sir, walking to
wards us, and afterward get on the front
of the engine. I could see tho head
light on No. 135 in tho Ride track, and I
was sure our flagging signal lamp was
out, for there was that female figure
walking ahead of us on the track for the
third time. I wasn’t so scared as be
fore, so I just ligiited the pine stick iu
the firo box, and held it up flaming
blight with tho paper on it.
“As I passed tho engine of No. 135, I
threw it toward the engineer.
“It was getting dark, but by the engine
light I saw him pick it up. He read the
paper, as you know, sir, and waited till
No. 174 liud got in; and so there was no
collision. My story may seem strange,
but it’s true, us Heaven is my judge.
You may discharge me and Jack, if you
like, for not showing the flag signal, as
you say; but I can’t alter wliut I’ve said.
When we got to the end of the trip, I
found Jack had fainted away, and was
lying senseless on Hie front of the en
gine; for that she:devil had put the lamp
out some liow, in spite of liim and the
rope I tied round the door.— Taylor's
“Fact Life on the Modern Highway,"
WHO WAS FIRST ?
We have received the subjoined com
munication, which will be rend with in
terest as coming from a veteran Con
federate soldier and as recalling the fact,
which among the many gallant Georgia
volunteers was the first in Virginia in
1861:
Editors Advertiser-Republican:
1 have noticed, in the Atlanta Herald,
of the 4th instant, the following para
graph, in referring to the late election of
Captain J. H. Estill as commanding of
ficer of the Johnston Light Infantry, in
a communication from “Harcourt,” the
Savannah special correspondent of that
paper:
“The new commander has had expe
rience in'the tented field, being a mem
ber of the Oglethorpe Light Infantry,
which was the first company that left
Georgia for Virginia in 1861, and was
badly wounded at the first battle of
Manassas.”
It has struck mo that the correspon
dent is perhaps wrong as to the state
ment that the Oglethorpe Light In
fantry “was the first company that left
Georgia for Virginia in 18(51,” although
we are sure he is right that the company
“was badly wounded at the first battle
of Manassas.”
The writer was one of those precipi
tate Southrons that went to Virginia us
soon as troops from other Southern
States went forward to defend the soil
of the Old Dominion and the South,
and he was in Norfolk as a Confederate
soldier when that cjty was occupied by
the Third Georgia regiment, under Col.
(afterward General) A. 11. Wright; the
Fourth Georgia regiment, under Col.
(afterward General) A. Doles ; the Sec
ond Georgia battalion, under Major (af
terward Colonel) Thomas 11. Hardeman,
Jr., and other troops, these being the
only Georgia volunteers there. The
Third Georgia was the first organized
Georgia regimeut in Virginia, and the
commission of the Third’s first colonel,
Gen. A. R. Wright, was indisputable
evidence of this fact. It lias always
been my understanding that the Fourth
Georgia, the Third Georgia, and the
Second Battalion were the first Georgia
troops in Virginia. Will “Harcourt”
correct me by the dates if I am wrong ?
I remember well that we of Georgiu
who were in Norfolk read with interest
the newspaper reports of tire correspond
ence between Governor Brown and Col.
Bartow, of the Eighth Georgia, in re
gard to taking the arms of the State be
yond the limits of Georgia; and if tho
Eighth Georgia was in Virginia at this
time wo would be glad to know. As
“ Harcourt” has made the assertion
j quoted, will he substantiate it by giving
precise dates and full names of compa
nies and regiments ?
Third Georgia.
International Congress.
London, June 10.—Tho limes pub
lishes a dispatch from Berlin, giving tho
probable action of the Congress which
will assemble at Brussels next month to
consider the subject of international
rights in time of war. The Times' cor
respondent says: The Congress will
codify the recognized usages of inter
national law in so far as they affect the
actual conduct of war. Anew code is
to be enucted in the form of an interna
tional treaty, which promises to become
the first law common to the whole civ
ilized world. The draft of a treaty,
which is to be submitted to the Con
gress, has been prepared. It contains
seventy-six clauses, which state in de
tail the rights and obligations ofj belli
gerents from the mutual claims of the
belligerent States (town to relations of
those States to private individuals.
They also specify what classes of arms
shall be legitimately used in war, and
make regulations for the treatment of
prisoners.
The Columbus factories have taken
this season 7,314 bales of cotton, against
5',A1l last year, showing an increase thi
year of 1,903 bales.