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OLO SERIES—VOL. LXXXI
NEW SERIES—VOL. XXXVIII.
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MINOR TOPICS.
Dreadful aro the dangers of navigation The
F.rie (Peun.) Dispatch announcos that “the
scow Florence, of Conneaut, Ohio, with a car
go of gypsum from a Canadian port, called ,
yesterday at the outer pier, her crew being in j
a famished condition." Think of lieing upon
the wild raging billow in a scow with nothing
to eat but gypsum !
In Habtlia. Kansas, recently, a dog ran into
a stable and bit a very valuable horse. The
owner of the horse, rather than kill the bitten
animal, doctored it. The horse was seized with
hydrophobia, broke out of the stable and killed
a man, seriously injured another, and at last
accounts was in a fair way to depopulate any
small town that might lie in his way.
Pestered with “contributions in verse"
from a persistent rhymsier till his patience
gave out., an American editor wrote to his
correspondent thus : “If you don t stop send
ing me your sloppy poetry I'll print a piece of
it some day, with your name appended iu full,
ami send a oopy to your sweetheart’s father."
The poetical fountain was spontaneously dried
up.
ltnmors unfavorable to the Prince of Wales
are again ailoat. It is now said that ho is in
debt about $300,000 and wishes his mother to
pay the amount on the ground that the liabili
ties woro incurred in holding levees at which he
represents the England. The
Queen, it is alleged, takes a different view of
the matter, and hence royal family jars are the
order of the day,
Chicago Times : “It didn’t take Alexander
Romanoff long to arrango that little matter
with Victoria Guelph. His chick is to be called
hereafter ’Her Imperial and Royal Highness.'
ami sho is to take up her station in the rear of
the Princess of Wales' dry goods, while at the
tail end of her trail Beatrice is to march on
State occasions. Mrs. Edinburgh will he at the
next drawing room, baby or no bahv."
In a religious body at Kcwaneo, Illinois, the
other day. the Rev. Mr. Whittle made the point
that truly systematic benevolence consists of
weekly or moot ly contributions, preceded bj
plodgos. He probably meant to insiuante that
tho promise of a contribution, backed by a lirtt
mortgage on all the property of the contribu
tor, is tho only thing to ho depended upon in
a case whore money is to he given away.
The piscatorial ouitor of tho Indianapolis
Herald thus closes his remarks on the fishing
prospocts: “The wary bass has a little ‘iuHide
business’ to look after at present, and only
wants to be let alone. The agile minnow may
cavort about tho riflles and sport in tho trans
lucent stinl glit with impunity for days to come,
lint lookout for life when tho scaly wet-nurse
shakes up a torpid liver and ‘would a wooing
go.’”
A large amount of information is somotimes
conlainod iu petitions to tho Chicago Common
Council. A petition recently presented, con
cerning a now kind of wafer tank, begins with
tho announcement that “modern and ancient
history, as well as daily experience, demon
strates conclusively that great commercial
centres are more or less visited by tlioso de
vastating conflagrations so very destructive to
tho welfare and prosperity of their inhabit
ants.”.
New York Arcadian : If men will drink dur
ing their visits to tho theatre, it would bo bet
ter for them to imbide from pocket-flasks than
to annoy countless ladies by brushing past
them in the rage for egress. Perhaps it
would be a good idea for tho ladies also to
adopt this practice. People who go much to
the theatres do require a healthy stimulaut,
and wo don’t know but that good liquor is bet
ter in this respect than a poor play.
A Judgo from Now Orleans, heretofore un
known, made a speech in Paris recently, at a
banquet given tho American pilgrims. Wo aro
told lie “revived memories of Rochambcau
and Lafayette." That is always douo at Amer
ican dinners in Paris. Tho way to revive tho
memory of Rochambeau mott effectually, how
ever, is to visit tho war gallery at Versailles
and Btudy the imposing picture representing
tho groat “ltochamboau directing operations
at York town.” Washington is an inferior per
sonage in this historic scone, waiting in an at
titude of humility for the directions of tliemag
uitident Frenchman.
Iu France, for many years, no actor was al
lowed to l>« buried in consecrated ground. The
profession was looked upon as a dishonorable
one. For a long, long time. Moliere, tlio great
est actor of his day, and the first of French
comedy writers, was simply a stroller, wonder
ing from town to town with his company, and
picking up a rather precarious living. It was
only after severe struggles that ho succeeded in
locating himself in l'aris. To-day the great
actors are the boast of l’aris, and perhaps no
people express stronger admiration for those
who succeed on the stage than the Parisians.
The attention of the Clinical Society of
London had been drawn to I>r. Callender’s
methods of dressing womnls. as practiced by
him in the wards of St. Bartholomew's Hos
pital in that city. He says that by the use of
camel-hair brushes the cleansing of a wound
is not a painful process; ami a further recom
mendation is that the employment of spongos
and other materials commonly used for cleans
ing wounds, and which some surgeons believe
to be a frequent cause of the passage of in
fectious material from one patient t > another,
is thus done away with.
American citizens in Cuba whose estates
were confiscated, but w. re released after pro
tracted negotiations during the brief Presi
dency of Castelar. will have a long time to wait
until' they get possession. Oen. Concha has
issuer! a decree prohibiting the restoration to
the owner of any property that had once been
confiscated until two years after the close of
the revolution. As the insurrectionists appear
to lie quite as lively as they were six years ago,
and the prospects of suppressing the rebelUou
quite as gloomy as they have been at any time
siuce the war began, the chances that the orig
inal owners of property once confiscated,
Put now ostensibly released from forfeiture,
will ever get it are. to say the least, quite re
mote. As some of them are American citizens
the apathv of the Government iu the matter is
not a little surprising.
The New York says that the North
ern aud Southern Methodists, having entered
into bonds of fraternity at Louisville, aceord
into the old fashioned habit of Methodism,
“the next thing in order is to shake hands all
around " This is proposed to fie» done at an
International Camp Meeting at Round Lake,
commencing oa Hie Bth of July There are
expected to be .’'resent Bishops Kavanaugh,
Pierce. Doggett and Wiglitman. of the Church
South; with Dr. MeFerrin. Missionary Secre
tary; Bishops Janes. Simpson. Peck. Ames.
Haven. Foster. Audrews and Scott, of the
Northern Church; Bishop Richardson, of Cana
da: Bishop Miles and others of the Colored
Methodist Episcopal Church: Bishop Camp
bell, of tlio African Methodist Episcopal
Church, and Bishop Clinton, of the Zion Church.
Something very like an incipient scandal of
the Washington pattern has just been “nipped
in the bud" iu England. Lord Sandhurst,
ComniMiiter-ii -Chief of the British troops in
Ireland, has just been arraigned before Par
liament for drawing more than his proper pay
and allowances. After a sharp debate it ap
peared that Lord Sandhurst had done what he
was charged with doing, but that he had done
it under a misapprehension of his rights in the
premises and with no fraudulent intention
whatever. So his lordship has been handsome
ly exonerated. Lord Sandhurst earned so high
a reputation in India as General Mansfield that
it would have been a melancholy thing had he
been proved to be no more delicate in mouey
matters than the great Duke of Marlborough,
or than some other modern captains not of
British origin. The case has a special interest,
too, for Americans, arising out of the fact that
lord Sandhurst, on the mother's side, is of
American origin. His mother was a daughter
pf General Samuel Smith, of Baltimore.
“PLACE Al’X DAMES.”
A lady writer for the Charleston
Chronicle mourns over the decay of
Southern chivalry as manifested in the
treatment of women. She speaks of the
courtesy and respect with which, in
ante helium days, ladies were invariably
treated by the men, and contrasts the
manners of the ancient regime with
those of to-day—the comparison, of
course, being very much to the disad
vantage of modern society. To give an
illustration of what is meant she re
counts an incident which occurred in
Charleston a half century, perhaps, ago.
The great actor, Edmund Kean, was
playing there, and a plan had been
formed by a “virtuous cabal” to hiss
him from the stage because of his liason
and elopement with the frail and famous
Mrs. Cox. What was to occur was well
understood in the city, and the ladies
all remained at home on that evening.
We say all, but there was < ne exception.
One lady well known in the fashionable
world was present, and her presence
prevented a single “rowdy demonstra
tion.” “Such was the power, then, of a
reputable and handsome woman, that iu
the balance against dead weight of
prejudice and deep-seated determina
tion, they ‘kicked the beam,’ while she
with tacit and irrepressible authority
quelled and conquered.” The writer of
the article from which wo have quoted
declares that there would have been a
very different denoument had the theatre
“been filled with such heroes as those
who infest the corner of King and Went
worth streets, forcing modest women to
make a detour to avoid them.” She
speaks as mournfully over the decadence
of Southern manners as did Edmund
Burke when he made the French Revo
lution a text for bewailing the passing
away of the age of chivalry. She writes;
(Aentlemen abounded then. One could
lay one’s hand upon a specimen at every
turn, for the aim of every man’s life was
to prove himself entitled to the name by
practicing dint observance which is the
vital principle of good breeding—def
erence to women—respect for their pres
ence. I can say with truth, and glory
in it, that a Carolina gentleman had no
superior in this regard. Instead of per
petually mourning for the past wealth
and prosperity of the State, I should
like to hear somebody mourning over its
decadence in this particular. I should
like to see the rising generation urged
to equal their fathers and grandfathers
in courtliness of manner as well as in
honesty, and in scrupulous business ex
actness. But, if the last two are unat
tainable, at least assume tho virtue of
believing Place aux Dames.
This is a purely feminine view of the
social situation. But feminine or not
it is perhaps correct. It is a fact recog
nized by men and women alike that there
has been a sad deterioration in Southern
manners, if not in Southern morals,
during the past fifty years, and that the
complaints of those who deplore the
loss of the polish, the courtesy, the
tone, of the ancient regime, are well
founded. It lias been so much the cus
tom in every age for the present to re
gret the past that as a general rule the
praise of our fathers to the disparage
ment of their children is not found
warranted by an investigation of the
facts. But no one can deny that in this
respect at least our ancestors are entitled
to all the credit which such a compari
son will bestow. In the days before tho
war Southern men were noted for the
courtesy, the respect, tho deference
shown by them to women, and which
has latterly been replaced by the
brusquerie, tho rudeness, and the
flippant slang which would better
befit the bivouac than tho parlor.—
Tho formal politeness and elegance of
those days is laughed at as something
absurd, and where found in some “gen
tleman of the old school” their possessor
is looked upon with mirth and astonish
ment as the remnant of an almost for
gotten epoch. Wo do not mean to say
that men are any worse now than they
were before the War, before the Revolu
tion, before tho Flood, or before any
other givon time. Our own opinion is
that the retrogression in mankind, of
which tho moralists aro so fond of
prating, is purely imaginary. We be
lieve that society is no worse now than
it was fifty years ago, than it was during
the reiga of George the Third, Queen
Anne or Charles the Second. If
there has been any change at all,
it has been a change for the better. The
influence of the Christian religion is
yearly growing stronger and wider and
its advocates and ministers continually
assail vice at every point—oftentimes
with success. Rut tho decadence has
been in customs not in morals. The
manners of tho camp have been substi
tuted for the dignity and polish of the
past. The first to experience the effects
of this change have been the women.
They are no longer treated with the
knightly courtesy and the deferential
respect which were accorded their
mothers. They aro quick to sec and as
quick to resent such a condition of affairs
and the letter of the Charleston woman
probably embodies tho complaints of all
her sex.
Would it not be well, however,
for tho women to inquire if they
are not responsible for the exist- j
ence and maintenance of the evil j
which they condemn ? It exists with j
their consent, if not with their ap- j
proval, and their efforts directed to that
end would easily sweep it away. It may |
be, as it is often, said that this deterio- ;
ration is due to the war, which demor
alized the whole country, and left be- j
hind it a train of troubles which a cen
tury will scarcely be able to eradicate.
But unless this demoralization had ex
tended to tho women its results would
bo felt but a short time. Man is what
woman makes l.im. Her influence is
powerful for good or for evil, and
turns the balance on which ever side j
it is exerted. The “looseness,” if we may j
use the word, of society is largely due j
to the fact that it has received the en- j
euuragemont of the women. Man is de- ;
pendent upon men for his money; but!
he is dependent upon women for society
and for Iris pleasure. They have the j
framing of all social laws and regula
tions, and, more fortunate than some I
legislators, they have the power of en
forcing obedience to their commands. If
women shall decree that rudeness, im
pudence and slang shall be forbidden !
the parlor; that the hall door shall be j
closed against men whose bad habits !
unfit them for the society of virtuous |
females, a great change would soon be ;
effected. Good breeding would be cul- j
tivated as assiduously as men now copy ;
the manners of the stable and the gamb
ling saloon; young men would no longer
dare to parade as feathers iu their caps
acts and habits which should deny them
admission into any respectable family.
The present evil arises from the fact
that the sexes have retrograded to
gether. Women have lost the grace and
the dignity which characterized their
mothers, aud have become, almost as
j “loud" and inelegant in their manners
as the men. They—and we speak only
of the great majority—check neither
; disrespect nor discourtesy. If they are
I addressed in slang they reply in kind.
How then can they blame the men for
; doing that which they ate encouraged to
; do. Let the women demand respect and
I they will receive it. Let them inaugu
rate reform and there need be no fear of
defeat. Without action on their part no
change can be accomplished. If they
wish the age of chivalry to return let
them make themselves worthy the re
spect and the devotion of all true mem
PARTY ORGANIZATION.
Ore member of the District Commit
tee, appointed in 1870, has given his
views as to the authority and powers of
that body. Judge E. H. Pottle, the
member from Warren, writes that he
does not think “the committee have any
power to call a Convention, or to do any
other act. That committee was raised
for a period which has passed. When
that campaign closed the power of the
committee ended.” Judge Pottle
gives plainly enough his opinion. Let
us have equal frankness on the part of
the members from Richmond, Columbia,
Glascock, Taliaferro, Greene, Wilkes,
Oglethorpe, Hancock, Lincoln, Jeffer
son, E bert and Washington. The peo
ple wil then know what to do. It can
not be (i very difficult task for gentlemen
to defi e their position upon so simple a
subjec j
MR. jIMAR’S SECOND SPEECH.
Mr. j -amar’s eulogy upon Sumner has
been f> llowed by a speech upon the
Louisiana contested election which has
attracted almost as much attention. It
is spoken of iu the highest terms by the
Democratic papers of the Nortlx and
West, and more than one journal has
declare*’ that the effort stamps the
speakei 1 the leader of his party in tho
House. ’lie Washington correspondent
of the Louisville Courier-Journal says:
“He spoke forcibly to the law and the
points involved iu the case, putting the
claim of Sheridan in a very stronglight,
and then proceeded to discuss in a broad
and philosophic spirit, and in a vein of
singular eloquence, the relations of the
Southern people to the Government,
and the manner in which they had been
treated by the dominant j arty siuee the
war. The i ijustice and cruelty of this
policy, and the rapacity and extortion
of the carpet-bag governments, were
stated with [an earnestness, force and
convincing bower that went home to
the hearts and consciences of all listen
ers. This is the first time since the war
that the easel of the South has been
adequately and fully presented by one
of her own sobs; and it was done to-day
in a style to which even Northern Re
publicans eou|d take no exceptions. Mr.
Lamar’s time |was extended by general
consent, until'.after speaking nearly two
hours he gaVo way from physical ex
haustion, having made what many deem
the ablest and most statesmanlike speech
of tho session. Nearly the whole House
gathered around him at the close.”
MONSIEUR TONSON COME AGAIN.
Gen. Butler again figures before the
Courts of the licountry. Several years
ago Mr. Gazaway B. Lamar, of Savan
nah, sued the Government for SOOO,OOO
worth of cotton confiscated during the
war by the Federal-authorities—retain
ing as his counsel J. K. Herbert, of
New York, and agreeing to pay $20,000
in the event of a recovery. Herbert in
turn retained Gen. Butler. A few
months ago the Government paid the
judgment which had been obtained, and
the money went into the hands of Gen.
Butler, who deducted $20,000 and turn
ed over the remainder to Mrs. Lamar.—
Herbert, ascertaining this fact, applied
to Butler for his share of the spoils,
but the only answer to his demand,
for the “blunt” was a blunt refusal,
and Herbert now sues Mrs. Lamar for
the fee which went into the pocket of the
Essex statesman. TheNewYork Tribune
says it is said by a gentleman who was an
officer in the Army of the Gulf during
the war, that the cotton belonging to
Mr. Lamar, for which he recovered a
judgment, was seized by order of Gen.
Butler, who was iu commaftl at the
time, and that Mr. Lamar’s counsel be
ing informed of the fact, deemed it es
sential in order to establish his client’s
claim to the ownership of the property,
as well as his loyalty, to engage the ser
vices of the person by whose orders the
cotton was seized in order to prevent any
valid defense being made. The gentle
man also stated that no defense was
made, and judgment was rendered as
stated.
SOUTHERN SHIPPING.
We take the following article from the
editorial columns of the Philadelphia
North American, a paper, by the way,
which now rarely misses an opportunity
to say a good word for the South and
her people:
The South certainly shows, in very
many ways, and earnestly, that it be
lieves manufactures are valuable to a
country and to all of its components. It
is manufacturing its great beds of phos
phates and applying the product to
manufacture greater crops of cotton, to
be manufactured in more numerous fac
tories at Atlanta, Augusta aud elsewhere,
erected from the manufacture of con
tiguous iron mills and saw mills, and
supplied by increasing railways. The
manufacture of tar, and turpentiue, aud
salt, and marble, and lumber is going
on with anew impetus; and, encouraged
by the result, more than cue city is de
sirous of embarking in shipbuilding.—
The essays that urge the attempt are
heavy with the statement that manufac
turing is the real source of wealth and
power, and that no amount of agricul
tural production leaves anythihg like
equal profit. They show resources for
the undertaking that are unquestiona
ble, prime aud all but inexhaustible.
The evidence adds another indication
of a great change in Southern sentiment
—a change not perfected and to remain
immature necessarily, until the profits
from cotton-growing, a general rehabili
tation, including skilled as well as ordi
nary labor, and more population enable
these resources to be improved, aud
these objects to be zealously sought.—
The Sout h has heretofore built more or
less coasting vessels, and some of large
tonnage. The oak and pin<j that enter
into ordinary shipbuilding are found
there in abundance—there is the hemp
aud pitch. The coasting trade, too, will
always demand more or less schooners
and brigs and steamships. And should
the attempt succeed with wooden ves
sels of small tonnage, the quality of
Southern iron aud its amount shows
that iron shipbuilding may be event
ually added on a large seals.
The particulars of the attempt can be :
let alone until the attempt itself has
reached a farther stage. The correct- ,
ness of the moving idea and the vigorous
spirit applied to it deserve recognition.
They are the best endorsers the South
ern future has; and we weald put it on
record at the begining that so far from
seeking to thwart Southern purposes or
decry Southern enterprise, Pennsylvania
watches every new demonstration of
ability and hope, and gives exch in turn
her heartiest sympathy. We have full
and complete confidence that the South
ern States will cipher out i. heir problem
satisfactorily, and that is close will
leave them more intimately bound with
Pennsylvania in theory and practice
than ever.
At a reunion of the Pennsylvania Re
serves, at Bellefonte last week, Wm. B.
Mann, Esq., a Republican, said : “It
would be a good thing to buekle on the
armor and go South and drive out the
carpet-baggers and scalawag who are
ruining and fattening on 4he substance
of the people of the South.” This is
indeed very kind on the part of a
loyal Republican. It would be expect
ing too much, however, to put the Re
serves of Pennsylvania to so much
trouble, besides there is no actual ne
cessity for their presence down here. We
are getting rid of the carpet-baggers and
scalawags, the former finding it healthy
to remove to whence they came, and
the latter emigrating to new fields, where
! they may repent at leisure of their
treason to their own people.
| Fish ponds are occupying the atten
i tion of the people about Forsyte
ATJGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1874.
A GEORGIA CREDIT MOBILIER.
The Savannah News is showing up
the “Georgia Lind and Lumber Com
pany” in a way which must be anything
but gratifying to the officers and mem
bers of that corporation. It declares
that it has the reputation of being a very
corrupt concern, and styles it the Geor
gia Credit Mcbilier. It says that in “the
“ first place, the citizens in the section
“held by Dodge’s company charge that
“ the titles of the concern are fraudulent
“ and void. This charge is a very grave
“cneto begin with, and deserves con
“ sideration. The lands now claimed by
“ this Georgia Credit Mobilierwere sold
“ bv the tax collector of Telfair county
“in 1814, under orders from Governor
“Crawford, and were bought by citi
“ zeus of that section. No one appeared
“ within double the time specified by
“ law to redeem the lands, and conse
“ quently those who purchased at the
“ tax sales acquired valid titles.”
By virtue of these pretended claims
the company has succeeded iu frightening
many of the owners into a compromise.
Others, however, will not surrender their
property so readily’, and declare a de
termination to give the company a little
litigation. That pious Republican and
enterprising developer, Mr, Wji. E.
Dodge, of New York, is at the head of
the obnoxious corporation.
JEFFERSON DAVIS ON MISSIS
SIPPI BONDS.
Tho World, which never misses an
opportunity to make an ill-natured re
mark at the expense of ex-President
Davis, has this to say by way of com
ment upon the cable dispatch announc
ing his return to America :
It is announced that Mr. Jefferson
Davis is on his way home from Europe.
He does not; come a day too soon. A
London financial journal informs us that
Mr. Davis came before the council of
foreign bondholders recently in London,
and made a speech to that body, in which
he defended liis own course in regard to
the repudiated debt of Mississippi in a
style and with arguments which effect
ually determined liis hearers to have “as
little as possible to do with the securi
ties of that portion of the United States.”
Nothing, we are glad to say, could be
more unjust to the Mississippi of to
day. But nothing also, we are sorry to
say, could be more characteristic of Mr.
Jefferson Davis.
Nothing, we are sorry to say, could
be more characteristic of the World
than the above paragraph. It is anxi
ous, indeed, to find a cause of quarrel
with President Davis when it assails
him for warning foreign capitalists to
let the bogus bonds of Mississippi
alone. We think that he did a wise and
honest deed when he enlightened Eng
land and Europe upon the true charac
ter of a portion, at least, of the so-called
Southern securittfes with which foreign
markets have been flooded by needy and
rascally speculators. If Mr. Davis
stated that a very large per centage of
these bonds would not be paid by the
people ia whose name they have been
issued he stated nothing but the truth.
If he had gone further and stated that
the largest portion of the reconstruction
debt of all the other Southern States
would never be recognized ho would
still have said nothing but the truth.—
The World knows as well as Mr. Davis
that the major portion of the indebted
ness contracted by the carpet-bag gov
vernmeuts set up in the South by
Federal bayonets is invalid and does
not bind the people. The day of reck
oning has already come in Georgia, and
it will assuredly come also in North and
South Carolina, Florida, Alabama,
Louisiana and Mississippi. Where the
money derived from the sale of the re
construction bonds can be shown to
have gone into the State Teeasury they
will be paid; where it is proven that
they were issued and negotiated for the
benefit of swindling officials and their
confederates the holders will never get
a cent for their property. It is a pity
that other Southern men possessing the
confidence of and authorized to speak
for the Southern people have not—like
Mr. Davis—warned European capital
ists against the purchase of spurious ob
ligations.
Where He is Needed.—We would like
to suggest to Mr.StfEPHENs that he should
go back to Washington, wliere he is
needed. There is but one thing that
can keep the Civil Bights in' quity from
passing t.nd that is a skillful and judi
cious use of parliamentary tactics. In
such matters Mr. Stephens has not
probably an equal iu Congress, and his
State needs him where he can be of ser
vice to her. He can do more toward de
laying the passage of the bill than any
other man who is opposed to it. We
shall doubtless receive the answer that
he is too unwell to be in his seat. If so,
it is strange that he can carry on a
newspaper war with Ben Hill.— La-
Orange Reporter.
We have strongly condemned the
controversy between Messrs. Hill and
Stephens which has been going on for
the past two months, but we do
not think that the Reporter does Mr.
Stephens justice in its strictures on bis
absence from Washington. Every one
in this section of Georgia knows that
Mr. Stephens would never have left
Washing on if he liatl been able to re
main, and that he would have gone
back before this if he had been able to
return. There is quite a difference be
tween dictating to an amennensis at
“Liberty Hall” and sitting day afterday
in the Hall of the House of Representa
tives.
A correspondent of the Atlanta
Herald, visiting the gold mining region
of Georgia, gives an account es the plan
adopted to turn the bed of the Chesta
tee river, which we were before advised
was in contemplation. This river, a
short distance above its junction with
the Chattahooche, makes a bend much
resembling a horse shoe. The distance
by a straight cut across the heel of the
horse shoe bend is about one-third of a
mile; and the distance around by the
present course of the river from one to
the other of these points is a little over
two and a half miles. A mountain in
tervenes in the line of the proposed
short cut. The plan is to tunnel through
the mountain a passage for the river,
then dam it at the head of the bend
and turn it through this tunnel. The
cost will be considerable, but it has al
ready been ascertained that the sands
in the river bed contain much gold, and
it is believed that the enterprise will
pay haudsomely. The farmers owning
the land on the river, on both sides of
the bend, form the company engaged ia
the Turk.
It seems impossible to exaggerate the
horrors of nitro-glycerine. A man nam
ed Deto, at Patterson’s Landing, on
Lake Champlain, picked up an old tin
can last week, and, taking it on a boat
where he was employed, called liis wife
to assist him while, with a chisel, he cut
a hole in the tin, proposing to use it as
a “collar” for a stove pipe hole. He
noticed that the can appeared to be
greasy, but gave it little thought. He
had struck several blows when a fearful
explosion occurred. The greasy sub
stance on the tin proved to be nitro
glycerine. Mrs. Deto was blown into
the lake, while Deto himself was blown
tov:ards the stern of the boat. Their in
juries were terrible, the flesh in places
being stripped from the bones, and their
recovery is doubtful.
Providence, June 16.—Eighth ballot
—Burnside, 40; Dixon, 27; Brsitow, 18;
Shcffielk, 6; scattering, 15,
VIOLATING THE POSTAL LAWS.
One of the most serious objections
entertained by the people of the country
against the franking privilege, and the
principal reason given for the abolition
of the evil, was the use made of it by
both parties for the dissemination of
political documents. The mnil3 were
loaded with speeches, circulars and ad
dresses, which were transported at the
expense of the Government. When the
franking privilege was taken away it was
thought that the practice had been ef
fectually stopped. But it seems that
this is a mistake. It has only been
taken away from the Democrats and
confined to the Republicans. Govern
ment stamps are placed upon Adminis
tration campaign documents, which are
sent free to every portion of the Union,
while the Democrats are obliged to pay
postage. It would be better to have a
general restoration of the old iniquity
than to allow it to be made a political
machine exclusively for the benefit of
one political faction.
MR. LAMAR.
The Boston Advertiser says, and says
truthfully, of the Mississippian who has
done so much this session for his section
and his State: “Mr. Lamaß, of Missis
sippi, made in the House Monday another
of those stirring and eloquent speeches
which are sure to strike a sympathetic
chord iu the hearts of all generous peo
ple. No name is more closely identified
with the cause of the rebellion and the
conflicts of the war than that of his fami
ly, which was conspicuously represented
in them from the first to the last. Fif
teen of its members, it is said, lost tbeir
lives in defense of the Lost Cause. The
generous temper, the nobility of senti
ment and the moving eloquence of the
present representative from Mississippi
are doing more than anything else
could to dispel the unpleasant feeling
which has been often excited by the
name he bears, and to promote good of
fices between sections of the Union no
longer divided. The response which
men of all parties make to such appeals
to their generosity is a good sign.”
CANDIDATES FOR THE LEGISLA
TURE.
From all we have been able to learn,
there is now danger of a plurality of
candidates in some of the counties and
certain Senatorial districts. Let us im
plore our friends to guard against this
thing. The people of Georgia cannot
afford to let the Radicals get control of
the Legislature again. With prudent
management, there is not the slightest
probability of such a thing; but with a
multiplicity of candidates, it can be ac
complished quite easily. Let us, then,
have no needless divisions among our
selves, but let all earnestly unite in an
effort to keep out of the Legislature
those w’ho would ruin and bankrupt the
State.
The above is taken from the last issue
of the Athens Watchman. Its language
will apply to Middle and Southern as
well as to Northern Georgia. The very
strength of the Democratic party in
Georgia may prove its ruin. The over
whelming triumph achieved in the elec
tion of 1872 has caused many to believe
that there is no longer anything to be
feared from the Radical party in Geor
gia. Nor is there if we remain harmo
nious #nd united. But many also imag
ine that there no longer exists a neces
sity for concert and unity of action; that
we are strong enough to be able to dis
regard discipline and organization and
to refuse obedience to the commands of
conventions. This is a great mistake;
if persisted in it will perhaps prove a
fatal mistake. There are over ninety
thousand registered Republican voters in
Georgia, and there are not ten counties
in the State where tho Democrats can
afford to place two tickets in the field.
There are some who say that the
Radicals will not venture to run candi
dates with a certain prospect of defeat
staring them in the face. It will not do
to proceed upon this assumption. On
the contrary, the leaders of that party in
this State have given assurance that they
will make as vigorous a fight as they did
in the last Presidential contest, when
they carried forty-three counties and
elected three Congressmen, despite the
fact that the State had been districted
in such a manner as to scatter their
strength as much as possible, and there
was but one independent candidate in
the field. Let disorganization be sanc
tioned; let a Radical, a Democratic and
an independent candidate run in
each county and we may expect a
Republican majority in the next House
of Representatives, and a diminished
Democratic vote in the Senate. We
may also rest assured that we will be in
danger of losing seven out of the nine
Congressional Districts if we are to have
independents in National as well as in
State politics. For the first time since
1861 the Republicans believe themselves
in danger of losing the Lower House of
Congress. The elections so far have
gone uniformly against the dominant
party, and we must expect them to give
us a hard fight this Autumn. Every
member will count, and they will do
their utmost to rally the entire black
vote of the South to their support. In
such an emergency an independent can
didate, however good may be his inten
tions, does the party and his people as
much injury as a Radical, and he de
serves and should receive no better
treatment.
But admitting, for the sake of argu
ment, that the Republicans will not at
tempt to make a fight under their party
colors in Georgia, this will not prevent
them from taking sides in our little
quarrel. Can any one doubt that in a
race between the nominee of a Demo
cratic Convention and an independent
the Republicans would side with the
latter ? Have they uot always supported
independents when no candidates of
their own were in the field ? Would an
independent candidate elected to office
by Republican votes be really an inde
pendent ? Would not the commonest
sentiments of honor and gratitude bind
him to the party which had given him
success? With or without Radical
nominations independent candidates are
equally dangerous to the State and a
war of extermination should be waged
against them.
The municipal authorities of Ham
burg, a small village in Edgefield coun
ty, are throwing obstacles in the way of
the Columbia*aiid Afigusta Railroad, by
preventing t!i*> company from running
their cars through the city. —Columbia
Union-Herald.
Alas, for the truth of history ! Ham
burg has no municipal authorities ex
cept a negro Mayor and a decayed po
liceman who lives by impounding Au
gusta cows. They have not prevented
the cars of the Columbia Road from
running “through the city.” I n point
of fact, the cars run over the city, which
is situated beneath the company’s trestle
work.
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
In New York a good many stories
have been started in regard to'the sol
vency of some of the prominent officials
of the railroad directors connected with
the embarrassments of Turner Bros,
and to these stories is due, in a great
measure, the unsettled feeling which
prevails at the Stock Exchange.
The proprietors of the Atlanta Her
ald state in their morning’s issue that
they yesterday discharged their entire
force of Union printers because they de
manded pay for the advertising matter
set up in another office.
CRAWFORD VILLE.
Speech of Clarence Stephens, Fscj«, to
the Sunday Schools.
Crawfordyille, Ga., June 13, 1874.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
The soliciations of many friends and
admirers of Mr. Clarence Stephens in
attendance at the late Sunday School
celebration at this place have induced
the Committee of Arrangement to obtain
a copy of his address on that occasion,
with a view of having it published in a
leading journal in our midst. We there
fore enclose it to you. Suffice it to say,
that he is a vouug man of promising
ability, and rapidly rising in the esti
mation of the people. He is a natural
orator and his style of delivery exhibits
a force of character calculated to im
press his audience with the belief that
he will ultimately make his mark.
Committee.
Friends —The pleasant task has been
assigned me by the Crawfordville Sab
bath School of welcoming you to our
village, and in doiug so allow me to con
gratulate you upon the occasion which
brings us together. We are here assem
bled not for any parade of wordly pride
or military glory. On the contrary, as
subjects of the Prince of Peace/ We
have gathered to sing His praises and to
take counsel for the extension of His
Kingdom. I cheerfully welcome you
not as a matter of form, but from an‘ap
preciation of the noble cause in which
you are enlisted. We greet you not as
soldiers of any of earth’s States, kings or
potentates, who have buckled on your
armor to respond to the tocsin of bloody
war, nor as heroes just returned from
the field of battle and carnage. But we
greet you as patriot militants of another
order spiritual militants who are
marching under the banner of the Chris-'
tian Cross, warring in triumph upon the
moral enemies of the human race. May
you continue onward in this march,
adding strength to your columns until
your Heaven-emblazoned flag shall not
only be unfurled to the breeze of every
clime, but wave in triumph with victory
inscribed in golden letters upon its folds
iu every land.
We are indeed gratified to see so
many here to-day to join with us in
celebrating the noblest institution
throughout the world. We have no
historic plains, no beautiful mountain
scenes to please the eye, no enchanting
parks in which to stroll, but we have
hearts to warmly welcome you to such
entertainments as we can offer, and such
as other soldiers of another order have
enjoyed at this once well-known way
side home. All our surroundings joy
ously greet and welcome you ; all are
gladdened with your presence. May
we not imagine that those who are keep
ing watch upon the towers above are
looking over the sapphire walls of
Heaven and smiling upon us approving
ly. May I not therefore well exclaim,
Teachers and pupils and workers for God
Angels have guarded the paths you have trod;
Heaven stands smiling and Jesus declares
Victory is certain, and answers your prayers.
Army of peace, you are strangers to blood,
Anger and malice poured out in a flood ;
Love is your waicliword ; your armory bright
Is against darkness and demons to light.
Tress in your phalanx the wayward and poor,
Arm them with truth and with heavenly store;
Foriune shall guide you your efforts to bless,
Godness shall yield you abundant success.
Courage then soldiera, for Christ is your king ;
Itally to victory, march onward and Bing ;
Up with your swords, and strike error fell
blows,
Deserts shall flourish and bloom as the rose.
Judgment shall find you on Jesus' right haud.
You shall he welcomed iu Cauaan’s fair laud;
Best shall he given you from labor so hard,
Glory and honor shall bo your reward.
Courage then heroes ; be valiant for truth.
Sages and children, and strong men and youth,
Veterans of God, with your banners unfurled,
Onward to glory, and conquer the world.
TWO WAYS OF LOOKING AT IT.
[From the New York Tribune ]
On Monday, two members of Con
gress from Mississippi made rather
remarkable speeches on the condition of
political affairs in the South. Both men
are persons of some note, as the repre
sentatives of the two great classes into
which Southern society has always been
divided; and in both speeches we find
matter not only for immediate interest
but for careful thought. Mr. L. Q. C.
Lamar in old times was a typical planter
and fire-eater. He left Congress to take
a seat in the Convention which voted
Mississippi out of the Union. He was
a Colonel iu the Confederate army. He
was a diplomatic envoy from the Con
federacy to Russia. He is a man of
culture and a professor in the Universi
ty of Mississippi. No one could be
better qualified to speak for the class
which ruled the South before the war,
and which still embraces nearly all the
education and social refinement of that
unfortunate region. It is only a few
weeks since Mr. Lamar won the respect
of the wholecountry by his noble tribute
to the memory of Charles Sumner; he
deserves no less honor for his address
on Monday, in which he reitera
ted those sentiments of union and
brotherhood which, in spite of the
bloody past and the cruel oppres
sions of the present, do unquestionably
animate the Southern white population.
Mr. Lamar confessed not only that the
Lost Cause was lost beyond all hope of
recovery, but that the war had utterly
overthrown the principle upon which it
was founded. Secession, hereafter, was
not merely impracticable and unwise,
but it was false in theory, and repug
nant to the well-settled principles of the
American Government. Slavery was
not merely destroyed, but it was ac
knowledged on all hands to be a gigan
tic wrong which the South would not
restore if it had the power. And with
the downfall of slavery the South recog
nized the full personal and political
rights of the freedmen, and the sacred
force of the constitutional amendments
enacted to Becure their privileges. But
Mr. Lamar spoke with honest indigna
tion of the outrageous abuse of the
Federal power in the reconstructed
States (the contested election case of
Sheridan against Pinchback being the
subject of debate), and warned his Re
publican hearers that “no party could
endure the infamy and disgrace that
had been brought upon the American
name by those grotesque caricatures of
the Government.” All which was strictly
true and most proper to be said.
On the same day Mr. Lynch, of Mis
sissippi, made a speech in the Repub
lican caucus, where the faithful were
discussing the prospecls of the party for
the next campaign, and considering
what principles it should profess during
the canvass, or whether it was prudent
to profess any at all. Mr. Lynch is a
young negro, born in slavery. He was
entirely without education until the
Union armies at Nathezmade him a con
traband. Then he picked up a little
schooling, and after the war was made a
Justice of the Peace under the carpet
bag government of General Ames.—
From one office to another he worked
his way along until he got to Congress.
He seems to be a type of the shrewd,
glib, active, ambitious colored men in
whom Northern adventurers find their
aptest allies and instruments in the
manipulation of the Southern sa
trapies. We know nothing discred
itable to him personally, but there
can be no question of the class to
which he belongs. Mr. Lynch spoke of
the Civil Rights bill, and he was, of
course, not well pleased at the manner
in which the House had treated it; but
he assured the caucus of the strict party
fidelity of the colored people. There
was to be no reconciliation between them
and their old masters. They would not
believe that slavery was beyond revival.
They would not trust a Southern white
man with their liberties. They cared
comparatively little for honesty in office
—this at least was the general drift of
his address —they could pardon fraud,
corruption,licentiousness, anything mean
or disgraceful, to an orthodox Kepubli
i can politician; and they would sooner
vote for a thief like Moses than an up
right gentleman like Lamar. These are
the conclusions logically to be drawn
j from the remarks of Mr. Lynch, as we
collate them from the reports of the va
rious papers; and it will be seen that
they are equivalent to a notice to the
party that it may nominate any rascal
they”please, and the Southern negroes
will swallow him.
These two speeches are the platforms
of the two contrasted forces between
which the future of the South remains
to be decided—one caring little for
party and everything for a pure and
honest government, the other valuing
party above everything an 1 officialiuteg-
I rity not at all. We need not ask which
i offers the country the fairer prospect of
I peace and prosperity. But we ask the
I Northern Republicans if they have no
1 moral duty to fulfill toward their ignor-
I ant colored wards, and if it will not be
their fault if Republicanism in the re
constructed States becomes merely a
synonyme for fraud aud embezzlement.
LETTER FROM MIDDLE GEORGIA.
[special correspondence chronicle and
sentinel. 1
Macon, June 15, 1874.
Probable Imports for 1874.
It will be remembered that Col. C. W.
Frobel, of the United States Engineers,
in his report upon the Western Canal,
said that Georgia, in 1572, imported
$24,000,000 worth of grain, meat, flour,
muies, horses, etc., from the North
western States. Judging from the
amount of freights of this kind received
at the Macon depot this year, I question
exceedingly if the amount we have and
will pay out for these supplies iu 1874
will exceed ten million of dollars, and
judging from the present condition
of the crops of Georgia, a still
further reduction will be made in 1875;
how much I cannot tel), but I would
guess all of three million dollars. Iu
other words, I estimate our expendi
tures for Western produce and stock for
1875 at. $7,000,000, or $18,000,000 less
than 1872. The retention annually of
this enormous sum of money at home
will have a magical effect upon the ma e
rial wealth of the State. We have a
right, therefore, to entertain the bright
est dream of the immediate future.
Having completed our system of rail
ways, or at least built enough to do the
carrying trade for at least twenty years,
and to do it well, and there being no ne
cessity of any expenditures in that di
rection, I now move that our surplus
cash in future be converted into cotton
factories.
The Bibb County Fair.
This important Fair comes off on
Thursday and Friday. It will hardly
surpass the former exhibitions, but if it
comes up to either it will be enough glory
for one year for this “poor county.” In
extending a cordial invitation to the
people of Richmond to come over, I
herewith send assurance that they will
be entertained, or least that class of
them who, no matter where they are,
always get up soon in the morning and
stroll into the market house, and see
what is there L? eat. Os course a man
who sees no beauty or anything inter
esting in anything except a house, and
to that other class who have adopted
machines and machinery for their idols,
will not be so highly entertained. It is
the pet show of the city, and the city
takes a lively interest in it, you may de
pend.
Salaries ot County Officers.
The Board of County Commissioners
are prosecuting a system of reform in
the heretofore shameful expenditures of
public money with a zeal really com
mendable. This last act is the calling
the attention of tax payers to the fact
that it costs them SIO,OOO per annum
to have their taxes collected and
taken care of. Twenty-five hun
dred dollars each to the Receiver and
Collector and forty-three hundred to the
County Treasurer. For this handsome
sum of money they perform about three
months work each during the year. The
remedy is in the Legislature. ' It is cer
tain that a strong effort will be made at
its next session to abolish the office of
County Treasurer and cut down the
salaries of Receiver and Collector. At
least one hundred responsible men can
be found in the county who would take
either office at SI,OOO. We have indeed
reached a period in our history when the
most rigid economy is demanded on every
hand. This is the road to lessen taxa
tion.
The Grand Jury and Judge Hill.
The grand jury in its general present
ments, coolly tell Judge Hill that if he
hasn’t time to try the number of mur
derers now walking about the ptreets at
his regular terms, he had better call an
extra session of his Court! They have
got that down about right. If the Judge
will harness up these criminals and put
them through at once, he will win the
admiration of all law abiding people,
and if he can’t do this at his regular
Court he had better just continue it un
til every case is reached and either tried
or stricken from the docket.
The Second Georgia Battalion.
An effort is now being made to throw
the whole organized companies here
into a battalion and elect a Major. I
understand there is some difficulty
about this election which may, in the
end, defeat the proposed formation, or
rather the reorganization of the Second
Georgia Battalion.
Macon Guards.
An effort is being made to reorganize this
renowned company—the company which
gave Macon such a great name in Vir
ginia. Not many of the original num
ber survived the war, but there are
enough left, it is hoped, to revive and
perpetuate a name which should live
forever. It will be remembered that it
left here iu command of Lucius Lamar,
who afterwards became the Colonel of
the famous Eighth Georgia Regiment
and to which regiment the company be
longed.
Mercer University.
The commencement exercises of this
University will begin the last of this
month. It will be indeed gratifying to
every Baptist in Georgia to learn that
it is in such fine condition. The re
moval from Pennfield to Macon was a
master stroke. Then it only had forty
students and was just about to die a
natural death. Now it has over one
hundred and fifty. It will be a great
institution some of these days, having
now the largest endowment of any de
nominational bollege iu the State.
Jean Valjean.
DROWN IT IN TIIE BOWL!
The Ups and Downs of a Radical Ex-
Millionaire—A Quandam Comptrol
ler, Maddened by His Losses, Puts
Columbia in a State of Siege.
[CORBEBPONDF.NCK OF THE NEWS AND COCBIER.]
Columbia, S. C., June 13. —The dull
round of Summer life iu this city of bo
gus bonds and fraudulent pay certifi
cates was enlivened somewhat last week
by the antics of a person who was wont,
some years ago, to bear a prominent part
in the management of the State funds,
and who now undertakes the control of
the county funds. Ex-Comptroller-
General Neagle, who is nothing if not
notorious, has been
Figuring in the Mayor’s Court,
And in the public prints. The following
extract from the Columbia Union-Her
ald gives a very meagre report of one of
the wildest freaks that mark the career
of the hero of the tale :
“J. L. Neagle was called to answer a
charge of celebrating the glorious 4th of
July twenty-seven days in advance of
the usual time, and was fined $25.”
It seems that Neagle, who has sunk
nearly all of the princely fortune, which
he acquired during his four years’ term
of office, in bad speculations in Blue
Ridge scrip and in endorsements of gu
bernatorial promises to pay, has been of
late very “hard up.” Money is not
nearly as plentiful Around the State
House as it used,to be, and Blue Bidge
scrip is not worth five cents on the dol
lar. In this condition of affairs Neagle
would have been in a bad way, but that
he “persuaded” our native young Gov
ernor to appoint him Treasurer of Rich
land county, and in this way he managed
to tide over the most pressing of his
troubles. But unfortunately the ap
pointment came too late. Most of the
taxes had been paid up before the
doughty ex-Comptroller got hold of the
office, and the commissions were there
fore rather meagre. The relief was only
temporary, and Neagle soon found him
self again head-over-ears in financial
troubles. The usual result followed;
the distressed Neagle sought to drown
his sorrows in the bowl, and at once en
tered upon
A Glorious Old Frolic,
Which culminated in the scenes I ’am
about to describe. One night last week
he went home cr. zy with drink, and
commenced a violent assault upon Mrs.
Neagle, to whom, report says, he ad
ministered a severe beating. Mrs. Nea
gle, not liking the position of affairs,
beat a retreat from her husband’s pala
tial residence, and sought refuge at the
house of Col. Black, the commandant of
the post, who lives in the neighborhood.
The report is that the ex-Comptroller
followed Mrs. Neagle to Col. Black’s
residence, but was refused admittance,
wheieupon he stationed himself on the
outside and exhausted a very complete
stock of Billingsgate. All this had no
effect. Neagle next set himself to work
to invent an epithet to rile the military;
but when an ad vance seemed imminent
the drunken County Treasurer beat a
hasty retreat and retired within the
walls of his domicil without waiting to
observe the effect of his last volley. He
then amused himself with a State Win
chester rifle—one of those bought by the
State by Scott for Hubbard’s consta
bulary—and fortifying himself in the
piazza of his house opened fire on Col.
Black’s house.
This Fusilade
Was kept up all night, the city police
being afraid to interfere. About four
o’clock in the morning Nengle’s am
munition gave out, and the firing ceased.
But the ex-Comptroller spent the day in
parading up and down his piazza with
his weapon carried at the support, ala
National Guard. On Ins lonely tramp
he indulged iu a wholesale abuse of all
the officers of the garrison, whom he de
nounced in the grossest language.
A Diversion and Capitulation.
Some time during the day, however,
an officer of the garrison happened to
call at Col. Black’s house, and over
hearing the abuse of the warlike Neagle,
made a sortie iu the direction of his
house. Neagle was still pacing up and
down his piazza with his Winchester
rifle, uttering loud curses against the
“boys in blue.” The officer hailed him,
and told him to arm himself and come
out ; because he (the officer) was going
to shoot him. This changed the aspect
of affairs. Neagle at once ceased swear
ing and suggested to the officer that he
(Neagie) was not armed. “Never mind,”
said the officer, “go and arm yourself
and come out like a man. I have heard
of your abuse, and I intend to shoot
you.” But the, ex-Comptroller didn’t
like the looks of things, and retired in
good order. His delirium lasted all
day. Gov. Scott and R. H. Kirk, and
several others of his friends, came to see
him and tried to quiet him; but, none
of them being armed, Neagle refused to
be quieted, and was not finally pacified
until he was fined by the Mayor for
firing his rifle in the streets. I am told
that Mrs. Neagle was badly hurt, and
that she absolutely refused to return
homo until the mad fit of her husband
passed off.
Poor Neagle.
An excuse is to be found for him when
the state of his finances is considered.
His is a chequered career. He went
into the office of Comproller-General of
'lie State in 1868 without possessing a
dollar to his name. His salary was $3,-
000 per annum. But he lived frugally,
so to speak, and left the office in 1872
worth at least SIIOO,OOO. Out of his
salary he had managed to purchase sev
eral fine houses and handsome equip
ages, built a $90,000 bridge across the
Congaree, and had salted down many
thousands of dollars in good securities.
His first misfortune came in the over
throw of the Blue Ridge scrip.
Neagle Had “Loaded Up”
Heavily with the article, and had ad
vanced money to Moses to secure his
nomination for Governor, with the
promise by Moses that his father, the
Chief Justice, would decide the scrip to
be valid. It is even said that the decis
ion was written out. But, when Moses
was elected, the Governor forgot all his
promises. At all events, the Supreme
Court decided against the scrip. This,
together with his advances to and en
dorsements for Moses, well nigh ruined
the ex-Comptroller, and ho soon found
himself floundering toward bankruptcy.
This naturally angered him, and hence
his demonstration on the Governor last
Summer. After several attempts to shoot
“our native young Governor,” the latter
became badly demoralized, and finally
conquered a peace by appointing the
naughty Neagle to the position of Treas
urer of Richland county. As I have al
ready stated, however, the appointment
came
Too Late
To afford more than a temporary relief.
The taxes were nearly all paid in, and
the commissions were very small. It is
said that the now bankrupt Comptroller
has pawned nearly all his stock in the
Neagle Bridge across the Congaree, and
is still in a chronic state of impecuniosi
ty. How these troubles will end it is
impossible to say. But there is a scheme
hatching to manipulate the approaching
convention, which promises to heal all
the breaches and restore the fallen for
tunes of the scripholders. Os this,
more Anon.
FEDERAL AGGRESSIONS.
The Outrage Against Virginia.
Washington, D. C., June 14.—The
conduct of the United States Govern
ment in reference to the municipal elec
tion lately held in Petersburg, Yu., has
excited intense indignation in that State.
At that election the negroes, who had
ruled the white population for five years
after the fashion of their brethren in
South Carolina and Louisiana, were
completely routed, and a white man’s
government set in operation. The elec
tion was conducted with perfect order
and fairness under the State law, which
had provided special securities against
the usual frauds upon the ballot.
Action of the Government.
The result of the election naturally
gave mortal offense to Stowell and Platt,
the carpet-bag members of Congress,
and to the ring of Federal office seekers,
in Petersburg. The judges of election
were seized under the United States en
forcement act; and although there is a
United States Commissioner in Peters
burg, these gentlemen were dragged
over to Richmond and there tried before
Commissioner Pleasants. Various ne
groes testified on the trial, nearly
all of whom confessed that they had
perjured themselves, and the charges
were shown to be utterly frivo
lous and void; but the United States
Commissioner decided to hold all
these judges to bail for appearance and
trial at the United States Circuit Court,
upon the groifhd, as stated by him, that,
at a preliminary examination an accused
party was bound to prove his innocence.
This proceeding created much feeling
in Petersburg; but though it led to no
disorder or violence, the carpet-baggers
made it the pretext for a call on the
President for troops to be stationed at
Petersburg. Instead of rebuking this
application, or communicating with the
Governor and authorities of Virginia in
the matter, Attorney-General Williams
utterly ignored the latter altogether, and
writes a letter to the United States Mar
shal in Virginia, a carpet-bagger, and
tells him to summon a posse to protect
the property of the United States Gov
ernment in Petersburg and the officials
—as if the people there were ready to
perpetrate outrages on both and there
was no local law or authorities to main
tain the peace. He also leaves it to this
obscure carpet-bagger to decide whether
Federal troops shall bo called there
from Fortress Monroe or not. All this
time there is perfect order throughout
Virginia, except here and there negro in
cendiarism, one gentleman living near
Richmond having had nine attempts
made to fire his dwelling.
Conservative Party Strengthened.
This attempt to introduce in Virginia
the tyranny which was perpetrated in
North Carolina and South Carolina, un
der the enforcement act, will eliminate
from the Republican party there the
last semblance of respectability. The
President had hoped fora part} in this
State; but no man of uny position or
weight in the Conservative party is will
ing to quit that organization or to
countenance his ambition for a third
term. The idea thrown out by some of
a ticket with the names of Grant for
President and Gov. Kemper for Vice-
President, was repelled by Gov. Kemper
in the most emphatic manner.
The Military Encampment.
In response to a letter from the cap
tains of the different companies in At
lanta, asking Gov. Smith to issue a
call, ordering a military encampment in
Atlanta, the following was received :
Executive Department State of Ga., \
Atlanta, June 6, 1874. (
Captains John A. Fitlen, W. JI. Weems
and John L. Conley , Atlanta :
Gentlemen— Your letter of the Ist
instant, in which you say that "it
would be of great benefit to the volun
teer forces of the State to have them
meet in some central encampment, or
ganize a brigade or brigades, &c.” and
suggesting that I order such companies
as I “ may deem best to meet iu At
lanta in July or August,” for the pur
pose mentioned, has been received.
After duly considering your sugges
tion, I find myself obliged to decline
issuing the order which you request.
If any members of the volunteer com
panies in the State desire to meet in
encampment I would not hesitate to
consent thereto ; but I would not be
warranted in issuing aa order such as
you request. It would not be proper at
present to make the meeting compul
sory. The companies desiring to as
semble in encampment may be permit
ted to do so ; but others who could not
attend without great inconvenience or
loss should be left to exercise their dis
cretion in the matter. The time and
place suggested for the encampment
NUMBER 25.
are suitable, and if any portion of the
companies should conclude to meet, it
would ufford me great plensure to do
all in my power to make the occasion a
pleasant one to them.
I am, gentlemen,
.Tames M. Smith.
[FOB THE SUNDAY CHBONICUE AND SENTINEL.]
STONEWALL JACKSON.
BY N. DRUM CLARK.
Ah ! who is lie on prancing charger borne,
In martini costume, grey, and often worn ?
No tinselled trimmings mark his rank or grade,
Sncli figured stall for talking braves were
made
Those guilded heroes who conld tight alone,
A thousand battles were they left - at homo !
No ostrich plumes about his templos play;
No silken sash ho wears—these ne’er win
doubtful day.
Note well his massive brow and flashing eyes,
That add a brightness to the faded skies !
F.rect lie’s seated—stately, solo n, stern ;
Within liiH bosom great emotions burn.
Behold his mighty arm uplifted high,
The symbol signal that the foo is nigh.
Look! look, Virginia, on you distant hills
That breast tho clouds o'erliangiiig Oliancel
lorsville.
His conquering corps is marshallod for the
fight,
Aud every soldier there believes his cau e is
right.
O’er rows of stoel, at measured distance wavo
Their battle banners, carried by the brave.
See! up tho hill tho man iu costume grey,
On his proud war U tho, hurries on his way.
No welcome shouts rise on tho passing breeze ;
Ills order was. that evory sound should cease.
Dismounted now, he seeks his humble tent,
And soon tho hero’s towering fore is bent,
From his great heart inquiring prayers ascend,
And answering tokens to his soul descend
Distinguished soldiers who have won their
stars
On hard fought holds, await tlin son of Mars;
Full well they know that on the virgin sod.
Their Goncrul holds communion with his God !
‘‘My gallant aids! quick, to your posts repair I
Lead on our veterans—glory's deoils 10 share !
No battle-cry they nood—tho foemen quail
Before tho men of Shenandoah's valet"
Now down tho hill tho winding column’s seen,
Tho night-veiled woodland and tho foe be
tween.
On, on they march, with an unfaltering tread,
By heaps of foemen, wounded, dying, dead,
Nor hoed the shrieks that pierce tho midnight
air.
From thoHo who writhe in dying tortures there.
Their groat Commander turns aside awhile,
Alights and stops whore many a flower grows
wild
By singing brook that winds among the treos,
Again ho sooks his God on bonded knees.
* * * * * *
Tho littlo birdling in neighboring nest,
Warmed into slumber by the parent breast,
Sheltered from storms beneath her spreading
wings,
Chirps into joy whene’er that parent singß ;
And when to fly it timidly essays,
The parent bird instructs iu various ways,
More hold it feels the moro tho parent's nigh,
And wings at last its flight towards tho sky!
Like unto this the kneeling warrior shows.
That day by day in Christian fatli lie grows.
Timid at first, ayo, trembling, fearful, weak,
As strength increases, still llio Christian meek,
Just as the birdling w hen at first it flies,
The kneeling warrior on liis parent’s ways
relies !
Ah ! sad the tribute, sad tho gathering toar
Wrung from our heart hosido tho Chieftain’s
bier,
No nood of sable plume or chenrleHS pall,
The sunny South's in mourning for his fall!
Ere yol tho moon retires 'foie coming day,
And flying sunbeams eliaHe tho stare away,
Electric messengers from shore to shore.
Proclaim in faltering voice, “Our idol Chief’s
no more!"
Awakening cities heard the awful sound,
And wounded soldiers rose from gory ground ;
From villo and hamlet came a loud farewell
To Southern liopos. when Stonewall Jackson
foil!
Augusta, Ga.
VICTOR HUGO STURM.
The Travels ot a Lady Killer iu Texas.
[Borne Courier.]
Sturm is again tho sensation in Geor
gia. His marriage with Mrs. Eppie
Bowdre Castlen, of Macon, some time
ago, was chronicled in glowing romance;
and, subsequently, his desertion of an
other living wife in Louisville, Ky., was
given to the public. These facts uro
pretty well known to the reading public.
Our opinion is, that ho is a charming
villain and a regular woman killer. A
gentleman, an acquaintance of ours,
from New York, just from Texas, says
about the last of May, where he wuh on
business, ho met up with Victor Hugo
at Dallas. At the same time another
gentleman from Duluth, 111., who had
met Sturm in Georgia, was also at Dal
las, all three having mot eacli other in
this State at various times, and the two
gentlemen, our friend and the Duluth
man, were familiar with the Sturm sen
sation at tho time.
The Duluth man had business with a
merchant of Dallas, and while there
called at his store. The merchant’s wife
“was in” and her liushaml “was out,”
and Sturm was in the store engaged in
the most endearing conversation with
the merchant’s wife when the Duluth
man stepped in, calling her “my dur
lirig,” etc., notwithstanding he was then
charged with bigamy in Georgia, and
his Eppie, Ins last victim, was pining iu
Macon for liis absence. Duluth, not
seeing the injured husband, dropped a
note on leaving, warning him to beware
of Sturm. Sturm immediately left Dal
las when his movements were discover
ed, and in a day or two brought up at
Shreveport, La., where he was again
met by our New York friend and the
Duluth man. Wo give these facts us
they were given to us, uot to injure
Sturm, but to illustrate the romance of
the man us a woman killer. He is said
to be a real Romeo, aud perfectly reck
less of female hearts.
Further, the Duluth mau affirms that
Sturm not only has a living wife and
two children in Louisuille, Ky., hut
that he also has another wife and two
more children at St. Louis—ull of which
go to prove, if true, that Sturm is a wo
man stunner and a great scoundrel. Wo
are prepared to give the name of our in
formant in regard to the foregoing facts
whenever necessary. He is well known
in Georgia as a man of the utmost ve
racity. He states that the Duluth man
is a gentleman of standing and charac
ter and a member of a prominent manu
facturing firm.
KOCH EFORT.
La Lanterne Narrowly Escapes
Lynching.
Queenstown, June 17.—When the
steamer Parhiu arrived here this even
ing a largo and unruly mob had gather
ed on deck awaiting the appearance of
Henri Rochefort, who was generally
known to ho on board. As Rochefort
passed down tho gangway be was im
mediately recognized by tho crowd, who
received him with bootings and execra
tions, and made a rush for him as ho
landed. The police surrounded Roche
fort, who it is feared would have been
lynched but for their protection. An
intensely excited mob, pressing forward
hooting and yelling, followed the
Frenchman to the Queen’s Hotel. From
that place the police escorted him to the
depot, where only passengers were ad
mitted. His arrival at Cork was not ex
pected, and he therefore passed through
the city unDoticed and took the train at
9, p. ru., for Dublin, whence he will
proceed to London.
CUBA.
bpanish Stories.
Havana, June 17.—The Uiario says
four armed insurgents who belonged to
the bauds of Camagnai have come into
the Spanish lines at Trocha Jucara aud
surrendered themselves. They asserted
that the Marquis of Santa Lucia has
been deposed from the Presidency of
the Cuban Republic and Maxim Gomezo
appointed his successor. Brigadier
General Esponde reports that he march
ed with four battalions from Trocha
Moran to Jucara without encountering
any rebel force which showed fight.—
Captain General Concha will visit Ma
tanzas and Cardenas next Sunday.
Petty Malice —At tho commence
ment of the present year a gentleman
living near this city made an arrange
ment with a white wan to farm together,
the land to be used belonging to the
gentleman Veferred to. Ihe plantiug
operations continued until a few days
since, when the landowner informed the
other that his advances to that time hud
very nearly reached the total amouut
which lie would be entitled to at the
end of the year. The man grumbled
somewhat, and complained that on ad
count of the want of rain the crop would
not be much, and expressed himself as
dissatisfied generally. The landowner
thereupon told him that if he was not
contented he would carry on the farm
by himself. He then came on to the
city, where he remaini-d during the
greater part of the day On returning
to his t'urm iu the afternoon he discov
ered that the mau had taken the hands
during the day uud chopped up five
acres of watermelon vines which hud
given promise of a fine yield. Not a
vestige of them was left growing.