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Address WALSH k WRIGHT,
Chronicle k Sentinel. Augusta, G•.
Chronicle anti jsenttiul.
WEDNESDAY JULY 29, 1874.
MINOR TOPICS.
General Longstreet, of Louisiana, ami Gen.
Maury, of Nashville, are now said to bo the
most prominent candidate for the lliwuian
inisnion.
Tiie Chicago papers charge tlieir fire, now as
before, to the lack of organization and the in
efiicieocy of their fire department.
A new nafety-belt or life-preeerver wan test
ed a few days since on the Seine at Larin in the
preHenco of eeveral French Admiral*. It con
hihtrj of an India rubber ring which encircle*
the neck, and will Hupport a man on the water
for hours without the Hlighto.nt efTort on bin
part, and even with bin clothes on.
Homebody haw been summing up the fate of
kings and emperors, as follows : Out of 2.540
emperors or kings, over G 4 nations, 229 were
dethroned. fi4 abdicated, 20 committed suicide.
II went mad, 100 died on the battle field, 123
were made prisoners, 25 were pronounced
martyrs ami saints, 151 were assassinated, 02
were poisoned, and 109 sentenced to death.
Total, 963.
The published reports of a large number of
leading American railway companies for the
month of June show a decrease of $419,8.32 in
the gross earnings. This decrease is visible
in all the roads but two, the Central Pacific
and the St. Louie and Iron Mountain, and the
general indication is poor for railway business;
in all probability arising from the stagnation
in trade all over the country.
That retired statesman, Mr. Tweed, again
complains of his quartern. B.nee the last dis
cussion as to the location of his rooms lie has
been confined in a narrow apartment with few
comforts. He says in a recent letter that his
exercise is so limited that he has suffered
severely from vertigo and nausea. The Com
missioners in charge have, therefore, adopted
a prudent resolution that the prisoner be put
in no jeopardy of his health, which probably
means the “Doss” will have more comfortably
quarters granted him.
The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh re
cently attended the opening of an infant nurs
ery and mission in one of the most wretched
districts in the east of Loud >n. A public lun
cheon was hold after the ceremony, at which
the Duke responded to the toast of the Itoyal
Family. Unsaid: “lean assure you that the
welcome accorded to tho Duchess of Edin
burgh on her first lauding in England, aud the
constant kindness which she has experienced
during her residence her . is not only most
gratifying and pleasant to her, but is most
keenly felt by me.”
Tbo ( hicago TrVninc publishes a letter from
Hov. G. (*. Mullins, which undertakes to show
that the pulpit is losing much of its old time
power, and inquires into the causes. Mr. Mul
lins attributes the waning influences of the
pulpit to tho decided chango from the kind of
preaching wo used to hoar to that we listen to
now a-days. Former y. ho says, it was the du
ty of the minister of the (1 sped to preach the
word, pure and simple, and now the preacher
has been metamorphosed into the moral essay
ist, the religio-plnloHophieal lecturer and a i ro
fossional, who must send up a rocket and make
a sensation once a week if ho expats to suc
ceed.
A strange suicide lias boon committed at
Bremen, mulor the following circumstances:
Mr. Ij., a bachelor, lately returned from
America with 150,000 thaler* (#22,500) in cash
informod Iris housekeeper that ho intended to
shoot himself, requesting her to riiHh up stairs
as soon as sho hoard the report, and take
possession of 500 thalers left for her on the
table. The 500 thalers perspective influenced
the good soul to take it all for a joke, and on
hearing next morning the fatal report sho lost
no time in ascertaining the reality of hor mas
ter's generous intention. She, however, found
him sitting in his easy-chair and pointing out
the hole he had made in the ceiling just to try
her and his revolver. A few hours afterwards
the woman heard another report (ho young
had blown out his brains.
The late Lieutenant Gamier discovered last
year in Cambodia the ruins of a great ancient
city, Angoor. Those rui is aro of an extraordi
nary maguitieence, both in point of extent and
architectural splendor. The sides of the prin
cipal temple measure no less than two miles
and a quarter in circumference, and the re
mains of endless roads, buried in forests and
JuuglJ, contain monument alter monument,
"each, if possible, more astonishing than the
preceding." The architecture and sculpture of
this forgotten city exhibit a very advanced
knowledge of the arts, and the great temple is
described as the masterpiece of some unknown
Mioliad Angelo. Angeor must have been one
of the greatest cities on the globe, and yet of
its history no account remains. Nothing is
known of its past, save that a Chinese traveler,
in the yew 1202. mentioned its splendor.
In the opinion of the Standard, of New
lied font, where the latest defa cation occur
rod, there would be fewer bank " irregulari
ties'' if the banks should pay their directors
and trustees for the time they spend in attend
ing to their interests, and then insist that the
duties of such positions should be fully dis
charged, and if it were also understood, and
acted upon, that every irregularity should be
rigidly followed by loss of position. In the
opinion of the Boston < then would be
fewer irregularities if it were understood and
acted iijKui that every irregularity should be
rigidly followed by loss of position and im
prisonment. When it is understood that a
bank defaulter is a thief and is so treated, the
people’s inouey bags will be safer than they
are now.
An eximriencod engineer suggests in the New
\ork 11,raid that the general use of white pine
in our buildings is one of the causes of our ex
torsive conflagrations. Ho says that even in
New York our doors, window casings, sashes
and inside work are pine. This is more or less
saturate.! with oil and covered with paint, so
that during a dry season like the present in
Chicago, which is the largest pine lumber mar
ie ; m the world, and where half the buildings
are of pine, it i* a wonder how a fire onco under
good headway can l>c stopped. Ho thinks hard
woods should be used and pine rejected as
much as p r-sible, as in Europe, and that the
insurance companies should charge for extra
risk where pine is the principal wood in a
budding. -When wo purchase kindling wood,"
he writes, "wo want pine. When we want se
curity against fire should we not reject pine ?"
Seventy or eighty years ago gambling was
prevalent in English high society. Our read
ers generally know, perhaps, tnat Charles
James Fox lost his millions at play, while
other distinguished personages were equally
heavy losers. The women were as infatuated
as the men. and some of them actually kept
faro tables. Three of them. Ladies Bucking
hamshire. Archer and Mount Edgecombe,
were particularly notorious and were nick
named "Faro's Daughters.” Lord Kenyon
said of them : "They think they are 100 great
for the law . I wish they could be punished.
It any prosecutions of this nature are fairly
brought before me, and the ) arties are justly
convicted, whatever be their rank or station in
the country, though they should be the first
ladies m the land, they t'.ionld certainly ex
hibit themselves in the pillory." When this
plaiu-spoken judge actually came to try sev ral
aristocratic dames for keeping gaming tables,
be merely punished them by fines. Giilroy,
the caricaturist, was less sparing, for be de
picted one lady as undergoing a public whip
ping. and represented others as standing in
the pillory. In Miss Edgeworth’s novel of
"Belinda.” the blackleg mania among the fair
sex is graphically portrayed. Playing at car.ls
for moderate stakes is still much more preva
lent in England than in this country, but tady
gamesters are much more rare than they
formerly were. Y'et we read that a tit’ed lady,
name not given, lias recently lost #500.000 at
ecarte. which will compel her husband to sell
a largo portion of his real estate and econo
mize on the Continent for some years to come.
THE SAVANNAH RIVER.
The Anderson Intelligencer heartily
concurs in the movement for the better
I development of the rich and fertile
valley of the Savannah river. It has no
, doubt that an appropriation can be se
cured for the improvement of the Sa
vannah river, for the reason that the
policy of the Government has been long
settled towards the improvement of
river navigation throughout the coun
' try.
CAPTAIN POPE BARROW.
A writer in the Constitutionalist, over
the signature of “A Native of Ogle
thorpe,” warmly endorses Capt. Pope
Barrow for Congress from this District.
Captain Barrow is a gentlemen of cul
ture and ability. He lias a fine record,
and is withal a man of good practical
sense, thoroughly conversant. with the
interests and feelings of our people. In
every respect, Capt. Barrow is an
available candidate, and would com
mand the respect of all classes of our
fellow-citizens.
TIIE PROPER SPIRIT.
Col. Luther J. Glenn has published
a straightforward and manly card in re
ference to his candidacy for Congress in
the Fifth District. He was the nominee
of the party in 1872, but was defeated
through the apathy and over-confidence
of many Democrats on the one hand and
frauds perpetrated by the opposition
on the other. He did his whole
duty in the canvass. While he
would be gratified to receive the
nomination, yet should the convention
select another candidate he promises
to bring to his support all the energy
aud influence lie can command. This is
the proper spirit, and one that should
animate all candidates for Congression
al and Legislative honors. We are too
weak for a division in our ranks.
LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL RE
FORM.
The Atlanta Commonwealth favors the
reduction of the number of our Sena
tors and Representatives as a measure
of reform. It thinks that the Senate of
Georgia should not exceed twenty-four
and the House seventy-five members.
The sessions should be held biennially
and continue sixty days, and the pay of
members should be reduced to .$5 per
diem.
Not content with this sweeping re
trenchment in the legislative depart
ment of the government, our cotempo
rary pays its respects to the judicial de
partment. The Judges of the Superior
Courts are too numerous, tlieir circuits
too small, and their salaries too large.
We see no objection to biennial ses
sions. On the contrary, the suggestion
is a good one. So far as the legislation
is concerned it could be done more ex
pediously and effectively by one-half
the present number of members ; but
there is no county or district in the
State that will ever voluntarily surren
der its representation. Nor do w r e be
lievo it possible, even if desirable, to
make any change at present, involving
the reduction of the number of our
Senators and Representatives.
Wo may have too many salaried offi
cers ; there may be too many circuits,
and, therefore, too many Judges ; but
it is ridiculous to say that our Superior
Court Judges are paid largo salaries.
Twenty-five hundred dollars per year is
a beggarly amount to pay a man in such
a position. If the circuits are too nu
merous, then let them be reduced in
number, and let the salaries be increas
ed, so as to make the office be sought
after by the best and most available
talent .at the bar. No lawyer
enjoying any kind of lucrative practice
can afford to take a position on the
bench. There is neither economy nor
retrenchment in poor salaries to public
servants. Poor pay poor preach, is an
aphorism not exactly applicable to the
Judiciary of our State, but it ought to
be. Our Supreme and Superior Court
Judges should be properly compensat
ed for their services.
I) IVEHSIFIE D IN I) US THY.
Wo learn from the Mobile Register
(the Memphis Appeal of that date
having been overlooked or mislaid) that
the people of Memphis are busying
themselves about adding new industries
to their city. The special committee
appointed by the Chamber of Com
merce have made a report which we
commend to the attention of the monied
men of Augusta, as being suggestive of
improvement in our manufacturing in
dustries :
Our city lias been losing its labor
ing and mechanical population for sev
eral years, and, as a consequence, losing
largely in the deterioration in property
values. There are a greater number of
business houses for rent than at any
time in its history, and are offered at
greatly reduced rates. In mingling
with the people you can hear them dis
cussing the merits of other fields in
which to improve their fortunes. Were
we addressing capitalists from abroad
we would paint in glowing terms the
salubrity of our climate, the great local
advantages which surround us—both
commercial and agricultural. We would
tell them of the richness of the soil, of
the immense quantity of cotton brought
to our market, of the enterprise of. our
merchants, of the railroads centering
here, and of the unsurpassed advan
tages as a distributing point, both by
river and rail. It would be all true,
every word of it.
But we would not point with pride to
our rolling mills, our nail factories, en
gine and machine shops, foundries and
furnaces, although our State is celebra
ted far the richness of its ores. We
could make no reference to the number
of factories utilizing the magnificent
growth of timber of the greatest quanti
ty and best quality surrounding us on
all sides for manufacturing auythingnn
der the sun which is made of wood. We j
could show no tabular statement, with '
facts and figures, demonstrating the per j
cent, of profits on capital invested in I
cotton mills, woolen mills, tanneries, !
boot and shoe factoris, in Memphis, for j
they are not here.
We would enter into detail, telling
them that all the elemeuts surrounding
us that are best calculated to enrich our
people are being sent abread for manu
facture, giving employment to a few
middle men, who bring back the manu
factured article to be exchanged for
more of the raw material, and that our
Yus' advantages as a distributing point
are utilized by the manufacturers of dis
tant cities and States to enrich them
selves.
The committee, as one remedy for this
condition of affairs, recommend the es
tablishment of a first class factory for
making 4-1 sheetings, shirtings* and
checks: with a capital of $125,000, of
which SBO,OOO is to be used in putting
up the buildings and providing the best
machinery, and the residue for the pur
chase of raw material, pay of operators,
and to meet other current expenses.
The committee say: “We have examined
the reports of the Augusta mills, Geor
gia; the Eagle and Phtenix mills, Co
lumbus, Ga.; the Graniteville mills, of
South Carolina, all of which pay quar
terly dividends of font and five per
cent., leaving a surplus, which, in a few
years, is sufficiently large to enable
them to add to their capacity in some
instances fifty per cent.”
“Cotton mills, the report well says,
are not all that is wanted to place Mem
phis fairly in the great race of progress
with other cities which have combined
manufactures with their commerce. Fur
niture factories, plow factories, paper
mills, boot and shoe factories, etc., are
each entitled to, and deserviug of, con
sideration. Sufficient capital invested
in any of those would pay large divi
dends, aud, with the cotton mills, would
employ from 500 to 1,000 operators.
And as a result of all this, Memphis
would soon find other enterprises spring
ing up on all sides, her population would
soon be increased, her wealth would soon
double, and taxation be so lessened as
not to be felt. The debate that ensued
showed that the members of the Cham
ber were fully alive to the importance of
the proposition and the necessity of
early action upon it. A special commit
tee was at once appointed to open books
and obtain subscriptions for the capital
stock of the ‘Memphis Cotton Mills.’”
Augusta is the centre of an important
ard growing cotton manufacturing
trade; but we have room for and we re
quire other industries to place our city
in an advanced position in the race of
manufacturing progress. We should
manufacture as far as possible every
thing at home that we use in our house
holds and plantations, on our railroads
and in our factories, in our workshops
and in our places of business. Hun
dreds of articles manufactured North
and sold in this city could be
made at home. With our unsur
passed water facilities, Augusta can be
made the centre of a diversified and
profitable manufacturing industry. Our
railroads should lead off" in this matter,
so vital to the interests of the city. In
place of sending North for their ears
and locomotives they should have them
made in their own shops. Diversified
industries canuot be built up iu a com
munity when home patronage is divert
ed, and carried away to other sections.
We must help ourselves first by encour
aging and supporting home enterprises
of every kind, no matter how humble or
limited their beginning.
JUDGE IVM. M. REESE.
Judge Wit M. Keese will address the
people of Lincoln county on the first
Tuesday in August, vindicating his vote
in favor of repealing State aid to rail
roads. An announcement to this effect
is published over his own signature.
TILTON’S DISCLOSURES.
The charges which Theodore Tilton
prefers against Henry Ward Beecher
are specific and revolting. He arraigns
him for the seduction of his wife, and
for living iu adultery with her for many
years.
THE FIFTH DISTRICT.
Col. LurnEß J. Glenn has issued a
card to the Democratic voters of the
Fifth District. It has the recommenda
tion of being brief, forcible and pa
triotic, and will commend itself also for
its candor. Col. Glenn deserves well
of the people of his District. Tlieir in
terests and honor could be confided to
no more faithful custodian.
TIIE COTTON WORM.
A dispatch from Mobile reports that
the cotton worm is doing serious injury
to the crop in Middle Alabama, Eastern
Mississippi, and many parishes of Lou
isiana. The statement that three large
plantations in Middle Alabama have
been entirely destroyed by the ravages
of the worm is alarming. Coming from
M ibile, we can but receive the report of
injury to the growing crop as trust
worthy.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
Hancock has been the first county in
the District to organize for the cam
paign. Friday last there was a meeting
of the citizens of the county at Sparta
to select delegates to the Congressional
Convention, which meets in this city on
Wednesday, the 2d of September.
Messrs. Wm. Neil, H. L. Middleb rooks,
F. 11. Butts, J. R. BiNioNand J. J. Law
rence were appointed delegates, aud
Messrs. Henry Harris, M.G. Medlock,
J. M. Harris, G., P. Culver and John
Turner, alternates.
Hon. George F. Pierce will not be a
candidate for Congress. He is an elo
quent speaker and a lawyer of decided
ability. As Chairman of the Judiciary
Committee of the House in the last Leg
islature, he discharged the duties of his
responsible position with marked suc
cess.
CONFISCATING A STATE.
The News and Courier contains a ta
ble showing the number of acres of land
forfeited to the State for non-payment
of taxes in 1873, and the number of
acres sold or forfeited during the pres
ent year, from which it appears that “in
only twenty-two counties 580,134 acres
of land, equal in area to 900 square
miles, have been sold or confiscated by
the State this year. For the two years,
1873 and 1874, as far as reported, the
sales and forfeitures amount to 848,657
acres, or 1,326 square miles. Iu the
county of Charleston alone the sales and
forfeitures amount, this year, to 260,000
acres, or 406 square miles. The entire
amount of land in the State assessed for
taxation in 1873 is shown iu the report
of the Comptroller-General to be as fol
lows :
Acres.
Arable aud plow lands 2,737,385
Meadow and pasture 2,245,087
Wood,uncultivated aud marsh 11,840,163
Total 16,822,635
“Iu two years the sales and forfeitures
for non-payment of taxes have amounted
to 848,657; that is, one acre in every
nineteen acres of land, of all kinds, in
thii State has been confiscated under the
guise of taxation.”
Senator Fenton, of New York, ac
cording to a correspondent of the Cin
cinnati Commercial, who had an inter
view with him recently, believes that
Grant is ambitious of being elected to
the Presidency for a third term, aud is
already laying his plans with that end
in view. Grant’s idea at present, in the
opinion of the Senator, is to conciliate
the South, and he counts confidently
upon the support of that section in carry
ing out his Presidential programme. Mr.
Fenton thinks Grant is much stronger
than is generally supposed, and that he
cau only be defeated by a union of all
the elements opposed to him. He
thinks the President would prefer to be
nominated in 1876 by the people, irre
spective of party.
The maximum rates of railroad fare
fixed by the Minnesota Railroad Com
missioners amount to four and a half
cents per mile ; uncompleted sections
on the St. Paul and Pacific and the
Northern Pacific are allowed to charge
five cents per mile, while the river
division of the Milwaukee and St. Paul
is cut down to three and a half cents—
the lowest of all. The St. Panl Pioneer
says the law will raise the fare between
Minneapolis and St. Paul from 25 to 45
cents.
The Treasurer has decided that the
Natioral Banks will be permitted to
make good amounts charged to the five
per eeut. found for the redemption of
their notes, by remittances of National
Bank notes, thns saving the expense of
remitting legal tender notes from the
Treasury Department, in return for the
bank notes redeemed, and of the return
of legal tenders by the banks to make
good the five per cent. fund. The first
deposit of five per eent. must, however,
be made in legal teuders’in all cases.
Col. John R. Towers has withdrawn
his name from the list of candidates for
Representative from Floyd county.
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 29, 1574.
SOUTHERN INSURANCE COMPA
NIES.
The Louisville Courier Journal hopes
“that the insurance companies will not
be led by the late disastrous fire in
Chicago to raise their rates in places
which have a good record. There are a
number of cities, or towns, in the North
west which are so built that they are ou
fire almost the year round, and it would
be very unjust to require more careful
communities to keep them in kindling
wood. However, local companies might
profit by am increase in rates among the
foreign companies; and Southern in
surance organizations might increase
their business by adhering to reasonable
figures and not going too far away from
home.”
COMING SOUTH.
We see it stated in our exchanges
that the “Southern fever is hot” in
lowa, Wisconsin and Michigan, in other
words, that persons in those States
are desirous of coming South for the
purpose of buying laud aud locating
permanently. Georgia presents an in
viting field for the industrious settler,
whether lie comes from the West or
from Europe. Lauds are cheap, the
soil is productive, the climate is salu
brious, the people are hospitable, taxes
are low, markets are convenient and
transportation by water and rail in most
parts of the State is easy of access.—
Persons who come to Georgia to better
their fortunes by honest labor will find
no prejudice against them. We have a
great State, with mighty resources, but
we need the aid of intelligent labor and
increased capital to turn the undevelop
ed treasure of our fields and forests, our
rivers aud mountains, into silver and
gold.
THE BEST MEN FOR OFFICE.
The Democratic Executive Committee
of Fulton county, iu an address through
their Chairman, Mr. John Collier, call
upon the people to take an active part
in primary meetings, in order to secure
the nomination of good and true men
for office. The committee recommend
that the selection of candidates be based
upon honesty, intelligence and upright
ness, and from that class of their fellow
citizens whose Democracy is pure—
“known and read of all men.”
The best men should be put forward
as the standard-bearers of the party in
every county and district of the State.
The people should take an active inter
est in their nomination and election. It
will prove a fatal mistake if the people—
acting upon the belief that the Radicals
are going to allow the Democrats to have
a quiet walk over the political track
fail to organize thoroughly aud effective
ly in every county.
USURY LAWS.
The editor of the Athens Watchman
has this to say on the subject of usury
in liis last paper:
Our readers doubtless remember the
specious arguments by which the advo
cates of the repeal of the usury laws
urged that measure before the Legisla
ture. Among other things, they claimed
that the repeal would render money more
abundant, and thus reduce the rate of
interest—that, like all other commodi
ties, if left free from legislative restric
tion, ;the price of money would be regu
lated by the great law of supply and de
mand, &c.
We did not believe one word of this
whemit was uttered, but a majority of
our law makers did. At all events, they
repealed the usury laws and turned over
their constituents to the mercy of the
Shylocks and “money changers.” What
has been the result ? Before the repeal
of the law, Georgia Railroad stock, than
which there was no better permanent in
vestment, was above par. Now, if a
sale can be forced at all, it brings 82 or
83 cents in the dollar ! Have capitalists
lost faith in the Georgia Railroad ? Is
its solvency or general good management
questioned ? Not a bit of it ! Why,
then, has the price of stock declined ?
The answer is a plain one. Capital
ists can make more by loaning their
money at 25 per cent! A merchant of
this city called at one of our banks re
cently to renew a note. The bank offi
cer manifesting some reluctance, our
friend inquired if the security was not
satisfactory. “Oh, yes, perfectly good ;
but, then, sir, are you not aware that
we can now get twenty-five per cent, for
our money ?”
There stands the whole matter in a
nut-shell—it is as plain as a sunbeam.
The usury laws being repealed, mer
chants and others who are sometimes
obliged to borrow money can no / be
skinned alive. *
A merchant of this city who had made
large advances of produce to planters at
high rates of interest was asked the
other day if he had not realized a great
deal of money by the operation. “No,”
was his emphatic reply, “ but the banks
have /”
The first duty of the coming Legisla
ture, after overhauling the matter of
taxation and providing for the call of a
convention to amend the Constitution,
should he to re-enact the usury laws,
and require their stringent enforcement
against banking institutions and every
body else.
A great deal of valuable time has been
worse than wasted in legislating for the
protection of capital. Money needs no
protection. It is able to take care of
itself.
Let the people take this matter in
lujud, and elect as Represeutalives and
Senators none but those who are sound
on these important questions.
Our present onerous taxation and the
repeal of the usury laws will not only
tranfer the earnings of the industrious
people into the pockets of drones but
will eventually bankrupt all men of
moderate means.
The repeal of the usury law by the
last Legislature had about as much to
do with the depreciation of Georgia
Railroad stock, or the stock of any other
railroad in the State—for they have all
depreciated with in the last two years—as
the tail of Coggia's cornet.
The rate of interest is, if anything,
lower than before the repeal of the usury
law. Certainly it is not higher. No
man in the State who had money to lend
paid any attention to the law while in
operation. It was to all intents and
purposes a dead letter,which no man re
spected and which was rarely, if ever,
enforced. Although the law was ex
plicit and protective in its intent the
debtor who pleaded usury was branded
as commercially dishonest and his credit
took unto itself wings and flew away.
The existence of a usury law
does not make money cheaper;
but it makes men quibble and pre
varicate to evade it. The borrower
violates the law when he agrees to pay
over the prescribed rate for money, and
the lender does the same when he exacts
a higher rate than that allowed by law.
There is really no difference between the
parties violating the law, for both in con
spiring to evade its provisions are eqnal
lv gnilty. The Legislature conid not,
if it was deemed desirable, frame a law
that would be effective in regulating the
rate of interest on money.
We know that such laws have been
easily evaded heretofore ; and it is folly
to encumber the statutes with them.
If it were possible to frame a law com
pelling banks, backers and capitalists
to lend money at seven or eight per
cent, per annum, the effect of it would
be to drive every dollar of capital used
for this purpose out of Georgia. Money
is worth jnst what it will bring on the
market, and its price or rate of interest
is regulated by the law of supply and
demand. It requirs no protection from
the State. Repealing unfriendly legis
lation is not protection.
The effort to make the re-enactment
of the usury law an issue in the forth
coming election will not elicit much en-
thusiasm. We did not know that the
people of Georgia were suffering from
onerous taxation until we read this
article in the Watchman. Our State
tax is only four-tentbs of one per
cent. We are afraid that our good
brother, Col. Christy, was suffering
from indisposition when he wrote his ar
ticle on usury. I hat he will think bet
ter of it, we have no doubt. Georgia
cannot take any steps backward. For
ward is .her motto. Usury laws are a
relic of the past. They have not even
the recommendation of being worthy of
any special admiration for their antiqui
ty. They are unworthy of the intelli
gence of the age in which we live.
THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DIS
TRICT.
The Democratic Executive Commit
tee of the Third District meets at Ame
ricus ou the sth of August for the pur
pose of fixing the time and place for
calling the District Convention.
A writer in the Sumter Republican
suggests the name of Charles T. Goode
for Congress. The editor of the Re
publican pays Colonel Goode the hand
some but deserved compliment of saying
that “He is an able lawyer, a good citi
zen, a devoted Democrat, of unsullied
private and public character, and should
he receive the nomination from the
hands of the Convention and be elected,
the Third Congressional District and
the South will have in the next Con
gress no truer nor more gifted son than
Col. Charles T. Goode. ”
THE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION.
To the .Editors of the Chronicle and
Sentinel:
In your issue of the 19tli inst. ap
pears a communication recommending
Col. Jas. D. Mathews, of Oglethorpe
county, for the Democratic Congres
sional nomination soon to be made in
this (the Eighth) District, and saying,
“He was elected to Cotigress [in 1865]
but was not allowed to take liis seat in
that body by Federal intervention. This
fact has been urged frequently since Uio
war in the case of others as a good
ground for renomination and election.”
The approaching nomination in this
District is a question for the convention
and I there leave it. Iu 1865 I warmly
supported the gallant Colonel, anil
should he be once more be the nominee
will heartily do so again. The nomina
tion aside, however, I must protest,upon
principle, against the position of your
correspondent that Col. Mathews has a
“claim" upon the office. No man under
our system of government has any
“claim" on any office. Absolute free
dom of choice is indispensably ne
cessary to the proper workings of a
representative form of polities. The
elective franchise with a lien' on it
is worth nothing. Now, Messrs,
editors, has the exclusion of gentlemen
elected to Congress in 1865 been gene
rally regarded “as a good reason for re
nomination and election?” In that year
the following Congressmen were elected:
iu ’Alabama,-C. C. Langdon, George C.
Freeman, Cullen A. Battle, Jos. W. Tay
lor, B. T. Pope, and Thos. J. Foster; in
North Carolina, Jesse R. Stubbs, C. C.
Clark, Thos. C. Fuller, Josiali Turner,
Jr., L. Hanes, S. H. Walkup, and Alex.
H. Jones ; in Florida, F. McLeod; in
Mississippi, Arthur E. Reynolds, R. A.
Frierson, Jas. T. Harrison, A. M. West,
and E. G. Peyton; and in South Caro
lina, John I). Kennedy, Wm. Aikin,
Samuel McGowan, and Jas. Farrow—
twenty-three in all, and of these but
one, Mr. McGowan, has ever been re
nominated, though we have had three
Congressional elections since. Our own
Congressmen, elected November 13,
1865, were : Solomon Cohen, Philip
Cook, Hugh Buchanan, E. G. Cabiness,
J. D Mathews, J. H. Christy, and W.
T. Wofford. The Democratic nomina
tions since have been :
First District, 1868, H. Fitch ; 1870,
A. T. Mclntyre; 1872, M. Rawls.
Second District, 1868, Nelson Tift;
1870, Nelson Tift; 1872, G. J. Wright.
Third District, 1868, P. W. Alexander;
1870, W. T. Wright; 1872, Philip Cook.
Fourth District, 1868, O. A. Lochrane;
1870, W. J. Lawton; 1872, 11. R. Harris.
FiMi District, 1868, none; 1870, D. M,
Dußose; 1872, L. J. Glenn.
Sixth District, 1868, J. H. Christy ;
1870, W. P. Price; 1872, J. 11. Blount.'
Seventh District, 1868, P. M. B.
Young; 1870, P. M. B. Young; 1872, P.
M. B. Young.
Eighth District, 1872, A. R. Wright.
Ninth District, 1872, H. P. Bell.
It thus appears that out of the twenty
two Democratic Congressional nomina
tions we have had iu Georgia since 1865,
but two have been given our excluded
Congressmen of 1865. Ninety-seven
Congressional nominations have been
made in all in Alabama, Georgia, North
Carolina, Florida, Mississippi and South
Carolina, since 1865, and but three of
these nominations have been given gen
tlemen excluded from the seats to which
they had been elected in that year.
G.
lION. ALEX. 11. STEPHENS.
Letter from Hon. 11. W. Hilliard.
Editors of the Chronicle and Sentinel :
Gentlemen —l have read the corre
spondence between some of the leading
citizens of our Congressional Dis
trict and Hon. A. H. Stephens with
deep interest. I say our District, for I
have not relinquished my residence at
Augusta, though I have been absent for
some months, as I may be from time to
time. We can all appreciate the sensi
bility that prompted Mr. Stephens to
decline to boa candidate for re-election
to Congress. In most cases the in
ability actually to occupy a seat in the
House would be a serious objection to a
representative of the people. But in the
case of Mr. Stephens -it seems to me
there are considerations that outweigh
that objection. Wainay hope for such
improvement in his health as may en
able him to return to Washington and
resume his seat at the opening of the
next session. But were it even certain
that he could not actually sit in the
House, stilt I should wisii to see him
re-elected.
Upon his late election he proceeded
to Washington City and took his seat in
the House of Representatives. His
presence shed a lustre upon that body,
and recalled the best days of the Re
public.
His great speech on the subject of
“ Civil Rights” was worthy of him in
his palmiest days. It is absolutely un
answerable. It exhibited a profound
knowledge of the structure of the Gov
ernment. It demonstrated that Con
gress lias no jurisdiction over the sub
ject. That argument will stand ; no as
sault can shake it. It is like a house
built on a rock, for it rests on
the Constitution. If Mr. Stephens
had accomjilished nothing hut that, his
fame as a statesman would be safe.' But
his whole career, illustrious and useful
entitles him to the highest considera
tion. Lot him die as he has lived, in
the public service. Let the sunset
glory of his life gild a horizon as wide as
the whole country. Chatham was borne
into the House of Lords when too
feeble to sit upright in the midst of his
peers. Calhoun was still the Senator of
South Carolina, though he was not
strong enough to stand up in the Senate
Chamber, and handed his written
speech to Mason, of Virginia, who read
it aloud for him. I witnessed the im
pressive scene. The illustrious states
man did not resign his seat, but died in
the service of his State. Let the name
of Alexander H. Stephens stand upon
the roll of Representatives until the day
of his death, I trust that his generous
constituents will not suffer him to de
cline a re-election. He will still en
joy the privilege of expressing his views
of public questions. His speeches can
be read in the House, and the whole
country will listen to them.
I served far years in Congress with
Mr. Stephens. I have known him inti
mately ever since; and, in making this
appeal in his behalf, I am not only
prompted by personal regards, but ani
mated by a strong desire to see one con
tinued in the public service whose whole
life has been consecrated to his countrv.
I stood with him under the Whig ban
ner when it was first lifted up, and
heard his clarion voice ring out m de
fense of the principles of that great
party. Now, that he is broken by the
storms of State, I wish his last appeals
in behalf of constitutional liberty to be
beard by the whole country with the
authentic utterance of a Representative
of Georgia. Henry W. Hilliard.
Crops in Walton and Morgan are not
promising.
LETTER FROM ATLAXTA.
H. I. KIMBALL’S CAREER IN
GEORGIA.
Stephens-Toombs Reconciliation—Po
litical Notes—Atlanta Matters.
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE CHRONICLE
AND SENTINEL.]
Atlanta, July 21, 1874.
H. I. Kimball.
In your issue of Sunday morning last
H. I. Kimball publishes a sickly effort
at vindication of his “transactions” (not
frauds) in Georgia, iu which he takes
occasion to say he will not “descend
to the level of your slanderous corres
pondent.” lam rejoiced at this resolu
tion of H. I. Kimball. Had I attained
unexampled eminence as a Radical car
pet-bagger, I, too, would never deign to
“descend” to a level with an humble,
honest citizen. Had I been the
intimate associate of the Radical
Governor, Rnfus B. Bullock, a fugitive
from justice, I would never obtrude
my company on an honest citizen of
Georgia. Had I subjected myself to
the scorn of four hundred thousand
private citizens of this State for alleged
“transactions” (not frauds) perpetrated
upon them in violation of every impulse
of honor and rule of morality, I would
never descend to the plane of one of
those injured and defrauded citizens,
even if he were a “slanderous corres
pondent.” If I had been accused by
an indignant, outraged and oppressed
State of appropriating the public money
through such expedients as wild-cat
railroads and mush-room public build
ings, I would never again notice a “slan
derous correspondent” who dared to
remind me of my disgrace. Had I been
charged with peculation and dishonesty
by committees appointed at the instance
of the highest tribunal in the land, I
too would not descend to the level of a
correspondent who was so inconsiderate
as to remind the victims of my pecula
tions of my wonderful exploits in “car
pet-baggery. ” Had I been the prompter
and adviser of the most unpricipled and
corrupt Governor that ever cursed Geor
gia with his disgraceful misrule, I would
not condescend to notice a “slanderous
correspondent” who revived such un
pleasant memories. Had I fled the
country under cover of night, when the
representatives of an outraged people
were assembling to render me account
able for my nefarious “transactions”
(not frauds), I could not endure the
sight of a “slanderous correspondent,”
who presumed to fling in my face the cir
cumstances of my disgrace. Had I wan
dered the world over and failed to “raise
the wind,” and were, as a last resort,
endeavoring to commence my transac
tions (not frauds) on the unsuspecting
people of this State, I too would be in
dignant at the protest of a “slanderous
correspondent” who dared to oppose my
treacherous schemes. Finally, if nine
hundred and ninety-nine out of every
thousand white people in Georgia be
lieved me to be an unscrupulous political
interloper, an impecunious adventurer,
an accomplished Sliylock and political
harlequin, I too would not notice a
“slanderous correspondent” who inci
dentally intimated that I was not pure
and honest and patriotic. But I will
tell you, Messrs. Editors, what I would
do. I would do like all other persons
accused of “transactions.” I would call
myself a martyr to political prejudice
and hatred; I would play the part of
“injured innocence;” I would picture
myself as the helpless victim of slander;
I would declare indignantly that I had
been wronged; that I had been defamed;
that I had been maliciously persecuted;
that I had been traduced and foul
ly caluminated, and having aroused the
sympathy of an unsuspecting and for
giving public, I would proceed forth
with to plunder them with all my might.
If your readers, Messrs. Editors, can
find an application for the foregoing
parable; if they find in it anything that
reminds them of the political career of
Mr. H. I. Kimball, they are welcome to
make the application. I myself can
make no such application. Believing
that H. I. Kimball is the champion “de
veloper” of Georgia’s resources, I could
not attribute to him such disreputable
transactions. Had it not been for the
patriotic financial schemes of 11. I.
Kimball I very much fear that Georgia
would to-day be plodding along honest
ly, as of old, and would have had no op
portunity to demonstrate to the world
her wonderful strength in carrying one
of the. most monstrous and oppressive
Radical debts that could be heaped upon
her fair shoulders.
Stephens-Toombs Reconciliation.
Every person is rejoiced at the intel
ligence that Mr. Stephens and General
Toombs had become reconciled, and that
the long existing friendship of these
veterans of Southern politics had been
fully restored. This universal expres
sion of pleasure on the part of the'peo
ple at tire news of their reconciliation
testifies in unmistakable terms that these
master men have yet the hearts of the
people, whom they have so honorably
and signally served in days gone by.
The County Democracy
Are marshalling their hosts for battle,
and for victory it is beleived. The Coun
ty Executive Committee held a meeting
on Saturday, and designated the first
Tuesday in August as the day for nomi
nating delegates to the Democratic Con
gressional Convention, which assembles
in Griffin on the 18th of August. They
also designated the first Tuesday in
September as the time for holding a
nomination for members of the Legisla
ture and for delegates to attend the
nomination for State Senator from this
District. All these nominations, in ac
cordance with a popular custom in this
county, will be conducted by ballot. The
nomination for county officers will be
held at some future time. The many
candidates for county honors, however,
are circulating a petition addressed to
the County Executive Committee to
have the nomination for county of
fice to occur on the same day
of the nomination for members of the
Legislature. By this means they hope
to obtain a more universal attendance of
their friends, rallying the entire voting
strength of the party at the nomination.
Another candidate for the Legislature
is Mr. Sidney Dell, a talented and
promising young lawyer, and staunch,
unflinching Democrat of this city, and
one whose distinction is not confined to
his profession. He has obtained con
siderable celebrity as an essayist and ora
tor, and is well qualified for the posi
tion. He will be warmly supported by
numerous friends.
A Public Market.
The city of Atlanta has been without
a market system almost ever since the
war. The plan of having a public
market house for the sale of all fresh
family supplies of meats and vegetables
proved to be unprofitable because of
mismanagement several years ago, and
in a fit of disgust the City Council abol
ished the system. Now the people are
clamoring for anew market system, and
it is probable that at no distant day
their wishes will be realized. The State
Fair, the Water Works and other public
enterprises, however, will necessarily
defer this much desired improvement
for a while.
Facts In Brief.
The bridge which was destroyed on
the Air Line Railroad by a falling train,
near this city some days ago, was re
built in two days.
All the negroes injured by the Air
Line Railroad accident are recovering.
It is probable that the Congressional
delegation from this county will sup
port Col. Luther J. Glenn, of this city.
Merchants have every encourage
ment to believe that the Fall will open
with an unprecedentedly vigorous trade.
Crops are promising from every section
of the country. Halifax.
The Alabama Claims.
Washington, July 22.—The Court of
Commissioners of the Alabama claims
met to-day at the Department of State,
all the members were present, namely—
Wells, of Michigan, who is the presid
ing Judge, and Judges Ragnor, North
Carolina; hey son, New Jersey; Porter,
Pennsylvania, and Baldwin, Michigan;
with Mr. John Davis, Clerk of the
Court. Ex-Postmaster-General Creswell
having been designated by the Presi
dent as counsel for the Government,
was also present. After the organization
the Court proceeded to the considera
tion of rules to govern the proceedings
before them and to other business, in
cluding the appointment of R. W. C.
Mitchell as their phonographer and ad
journed till to-morrow, when they will
resume the subject of the rules. No
claims will be considered until these
shall be prepared and circulated. The
Court having declined to occupy rooms
in the Department of Justice, will select
others more convenient.
Twenty-four passenger trains leave
Atlanta daily.
THE R OLF IX THE FOLD.
A HORRIBLE TALE OF CRIME.
lleui y Ward Beecher and Mrs. Tilton
—Another Report of Theodore Til
ton's Testimony Before the Commit
tee.
Brooklyn, July 21, 1874.—The Brook
lyn Argus, of this afternoon, publishes
the exclusively sworn statement of Theo
dore Tilton, made before the Plymouth
Church Investigating Committee last
night. The statement is given in full,
except where phrases unfit for publica
tion are used, the omissions being indi
cated by stars. It occupies five columns,
and is a history of events extending
over a lengthened period, giving evi
dence and dates and a corroborative tes
timonial statement, and is prefaced by a
letter from Tilton to the members of the
committee, explaining his motive for
making the disclosures, in which he de
clares that Beecher, iu seeking an inves
tigation,must hold himself only responsi
ble for the wretchedness which they will
carry to his own home and hearth, as
they have already brought to Tilton’s.
The statement, which is divided into
twenty-two distinct specifications, com
mences with a preamble, setting forth
that when Beecher has instigated the
appointment of an investigating com
mittee, and Mrs. Tilton, formerly the
wife of Theodore Tilton, having openly
deserted her home, ill order to co
operate with Beecher in a conspiracy to
overthrow the credulity of her late hus
band; therefore Theodore Tilton hereby
sets forth under solemu oath the follow
ing facts and testimony:
The first section sets forth, that on
the 2d of October, 1855, at Plymouth
Church, a marriage between Theodore
Tilton and Elizabeth M. Richards was
performed by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
which marriage, thirteen years after
wards, was dishonored and violated by
this clergyman, through criminal seduc
tion of the wife and mother. The sec
ond section refers to the friendship ex
isting fur over fifteen years before and
after marriage between him and Tilton,
and iii consequence of the degree to
which this friendship was cemented the
subsequent dishonoring by Beecher of
his friend’s wife was a crime of uncom
mon wrongfulness and perfidy. The
third section says that about nine years
ago Beecher began and thereafter con
tinued a friendship with Mrs. Tilton
until 1870, when he ceased such visits.
During that time he won the affection
ate love of Mrs. Tilton, whereby after
long moral resistance by her and after
repeated assaults by him upon her mind
with overmastering argument he accom
plished getting the possession of her
person, which thenceforward; during a
a period of years, held the relation
called criminal intercourse; this relation
being regarded by lier during that
period as not criminal, or morally
wrong.
Fourth—That on or about the evening
of October 10, 1868, Mrs. Tilton held an
interview witli Beecher at his residence,
she being then in a tender frame of
mind, owing to the recent death of a
youug child, and during this interview
an act of criminal commerce took place
between them, which act was followed
by a similar act of criminality botweem
the same parties, at Tilton’s residence,
on the subsequent Saturday afternoon;
and followed by similar acts on various
occasions, from the Autumn of 1868 to
the Spring of 1870, the places being the
two residences of Beecher and Tilton,
and occasionally other places to which
Beecher would invite Mrs. Tilton, or at
which he would meet her by previous
appointments, these acts of wrong being
on her part, from first to last, not wan
ton or conscientously wicked, but
arising through her moral perceptions
occasioned by t lie powerful influence ex
erted over her by Beecher.
Fifth—That Beecher’s pastoral visits
to Mrs. Tilton during 1868 became so
frequent as to excite comment, Tilton
being West. During a period of five or
six weeks one hundred aud twenty calls
were made by Beecher, which calls be
came noticably unfrequent on Hilton's
return home.
Sixth—That previous to this criminal
intimacy, Mrs. Tilton encouraged atten
tions from Beecher, as she had been dis
tressed with rumors against his moral
purity, and wished to convince him that
she should receive his kindness and yet
resist liis solicitations, and so inspire
him with increased respect for the chaste
dignity of womanhood. Previous to the
Autumn of 1868 she maintained with
Christian firmness toward Beecher this
position of resistance, always refusing
liis amorous pleas, which were strong
aud oft repeated, anil in a letter to her
husband dated February 3, 1868, was
the following:
“ Love is praiseworthy, but to abuse
the gift is sin. No demonstration or
fascination could cause me to yield my
womanhood!”
Seventh —Mr. Tilton’s first suspicion
that Beecher was abusing the affection
or preference which Mrs. Tilton bore
him was an improper caress given by
Beecher to Mrs. Tilton, while seated on
the floor of his library overlooking the
engravings. Tilton asked an explana
tion of his wife. She first denied the
act and then confessed it, and said she
had chided Beecher concerning it. On
another occasion, Tilton, after leaving
his house in the morning, returned and
found his bed chamber door locked, and
on knocking it was opened by Mrs. Til
ton. Beecher was seen within, much
confused and exhibiting a flushed face.
Mrs. Tilton’s explanation was deemed
satisfactory by her husband.
Eighth—That in the Spring of 1870,
on Tilton’s return from a Winter’s ab
sence, he noticed such evidences of his
wife’s mind being absorbed in Beecher
that an estrangement took place be
tween them. She went earlier than
usual for her Summer sojourn in the
country. Returning after several weeks
absence, on July 3, 1870, and within
four hours after her arrival, after exact
ing from her husband a solemn promise
not to harm Beecher, or communicate
to him what she had said, she made a
confession to him of criminal acts here
inbefore stated, accompanied with quota
tions from Beecher’s arguments and
reasonings with her to overcome her
long maintained scruples against yield
ing to his desires. She stated that
Beecher habitually characterized their
intimacy by the term “nestliiding,” and
she would confer pain and sorrow if the
hidden secret w’as ever made known.
Beecher had repeatedly assured her
then that he loved her better than he
had loved any other woman, and she
felt justified before God in her intimacy
with him, save the necessary deceit
which accompanied it, and at which she
frequently suffered in her mind.
Ninth—That after confession Mrs.
Tilton returned to the country to await
her husband’s action; whereupon, after
many in considerate statements, chief of
which was that she had not voluntarily
gone astray, but had been artfully mis
led by Beecher, to get her about, from
a desire to protect the family from open
shame, Tilton condoned the wrong, and
addressed to his wife such letters of
affection, tenderness and respect as he
felt would restore her wounded spirits,
and which did partially produce that
result.
Tenth—That in December, 1870, on
account of their differences, which were
augmented by Beecher and Beecher’s
wife, an interview was then arranged
between Tilton and Beecher, through a
letter from Mrs. Tilton to Mr. Moulton,
and they met at Moulton’s residence,
and Beecher and Tilton spoke to each
other for the first time since Mrs. Til
ton’s confession of guilt. The substance
of her confession and her wish for con
ciliation and peace between Beecher arid
her husband being furnished to Beech
er was the first knowledge he had receiv
ed that Mrs. Tilton had confessed. At
the meeting Beecher sought to consult
with Mrs. Tilton. This was granted.—
Beecher departed and returned an hour
later and expressed his remorse and
shame’ and declared that his life and
work seemed brought to a sudden end.
Mr. Tilton on returning to his home
found his wife weak and in great dis
tress, saying that what she had meant
for peace had only given pain and an
guish; that Beecher had just called on
her, declaring that she had slain him,
and he would probably be tried before a ;
council of ministers, unless she would ‘
give him a written paper for his protec
tion; whereupon he dictated to her and
she copied in her own hand-writing a
suitable paper for him to use to place
before a council of ministers on the next
day, December 31, 1870.
Moulton, on being informed by Til
ton of the above named transaction by
Beecher, called on Beecher, who ex
pressed sorrow and shame for having
proceeded in the manner he did, and re
turned it to Tilton. In this letter Mrs.
Tilton repudiates her former letter to
Moulton, and states explicitly that
Beecher never offered her any improper
salutations. Moulton had a long inter
view with Beecher the following day,
when Beecher expressed great contri-
tion and remorse for his previous crimi
nality with Mrs. Tilton, expressing a de
termination to kill himself in case of ex
posure, and begging Moulton to write
at his (Beecher’s) dictation an apology
to Tilton, in hope of securing his for
giveness. The letter dictated by Beecher
was as follows :
“in trust with my dear friend MOUL
TON.
“I ask Theodore Tilton’s forgiveness,
and humble myself before him as I do
before my God.
“He would have been a better man in
my circumstances than I have been. I
can ask nothing except that he will re
member all the other breasts that would
ache. I will not plead for myself. I
even wish that I was dead. But others
will have to suffer, and I will die before
any one but myself shall be inculpated.
All my thoughts are running out toward
my friends, and towards the poor child
lying there praying with her hands fold
ed, that he has graeelessly sinned
against, bearing the transgression of
another.
“I have humbly prayed to God to put
it into the heart of her husband to for
give me. I have trusted this to Moul
ton in confidence.
[Signed] 11. W. Bef.cher.”
The remaining specifications consist
principally of correspondence between
parties interested, iu reference to the
scandal.
Eleventh—Was important letters from
Mrs. Tilton to a friend.
Twelfth—Comprises letters between
the parties during February—the cor
respondence being selected by Moulton
iu order to show the mutual expressions
of agreement. The first is a letter from
Tilton to Moulton averring that he bore
no malice to Beecher and would dis
countenance every projeet to expose
him. The second is a letter from
Beecher to Moulton expressing his
gratitude for Moulton’s service in his be
half.
Thirteen—ls a letter from Beecher to
Mrs. Tilton, in which he also refers to
Moulton with expressions of gratitude.
What the Tribune Saye.
New York, July 22.—Alluding to the
voluminous sworn statement of Tilton,
accusing Beecher, the Tribune says:
“The caso now transcends the power of
church conferences or well meaning mar
plots to settle or conceal, unless the
frightful exposition is answered prompt
ly and fully. The most famous pulpit
since Paul preached in Athens is si
lenced. There is no longer safety and
dignity in refusal to answer. Beecher’s
own hand seems to bear witness against
him. Satisfactory proof of the falsity
of the accusation will bo hailed as
tidings of great joy, and the position of
the great preacher will bo stronger than
ever in the hearts of thousands. If ho
fails to clear himself all Christendom
will deplore the loss, and the pistol shot
of Booth will have caused no deeper and
not so hopeless a national sorrow.”
A Tribune reporter has interviewed
Mr. Cleveland, who said Mrs. Tilton
aud Mr. Beecher are preparing a state
ment, which will be submitted to the
committee Thursday, and which will
satisfactorily explain all the correspon
dence between them and all other mat
ters contained in Mr. Tilton’s statement.
ANOTHER CHURCH SCANDAL.
A CLERGYMAN ARRESTED ONTIIE
CHARGE OF SEDUCTION.
Excitement on Jersey Oily Heights
A Respectable Family Plunged Into
Grief and a Congregation Scandal
izd.
[Prom tbo New York Herald.]
On Prospect avenue, Jersey City
Heights, stands a small rectangular
frame building, used as a Presbyterian
Church. Tiie congregation was organ
ized only a few years ago, and numbers
in its ranks many prominent and wealthy
citizens. The pastor is the Rev. John
S. Glendenny, a young man not past
twenty-eight. He is unmarried, and
lives with his mother and sister on Ber
gen avenue, near the bridge over the
Pennsylvania Railroad cut. This young
man, owing to his exalted position—the
reputed shepherd of the flock—gained
access to many families into whose so
ciety he could never penetrate iu any
other capacity. He was, forsooth, the
guardian of the innocent, the apostle to
the wayward, the protector of virtue and
the messenger of peace to the afflicted.
These linos have now more than ordina
ry import, for in the story to be recited
the question arises in every sentence, as
it assailed the ears of a Herald repre
sentative in every quarter of Jersey City
yesterday, “Whom shall we trust in the
bosom of our families if not the clergy ?”
Painful as are the details, a true regard
for the sacred interests of the family cir
cle everywhere demands tlieir publica
tion. Parents and guardians wi II read
the lesson; some, perhaps, of the faith
ful will be so scandalized as to bring joy
to the hearts of infidels and materialists.
Now fertile sad story. Among the
families visited by this pastor was that
of Mr. J. S. Miller, a gentleman who
moves in the highest circles. He was
recently a member of the Board of Edu
cation. His family circle includes a
youug lady,
AN ORPHAN,
Named Miss Mary E. Pomeroy, now
twenty-seven years of age. She has re
sided in the Miller family eighteen
years, twelve of which she lias spent
with the gentleman named. She, too,
was the recipient of invitations from the
families of such gentlemen as ex-Mayor
Van Ileipen, Marcus L. Beach and Win.
H. Wood. She gave lessons in music
and became the organist of the Presby
terian Church referred to. Thus did
the acquaintance between her aud
THE SHEPHERD OF THE FOLD
Ripen into familiarity. He has been a
constant visitor at her house for two
years and a half. During the past four
months he has visited the house four
times a week. He lavished handsome
presents on her. At one time he gave
her a pair of gold sleeve buttons, at an
other a pair of ear-rings, further ou a
gold watch and chain, and that the bond
of friendship might not bo severed till
life’s last hour, lie bestowed on her an
engagement ring, on which was en
graved this inspiring sentiment :
“two hearts in one !”
Then the hopes of the confiding young
lady were centered in that one being,
and she shut up her heart to all the
world besides. How many are there
whoso faith in human constancy and
fidelity is so weak as to suppose there
could be a dark side to such a picture
as that here presented ? Miss Pomeroy
was doomed to swallow the bitter draught
that lias brought so many of her sex in
to an untimely grave. The tempter was
plotting day and night. It was a ques
tion of time. The evil hour came at
last for her, and the man in whom all
her affections were centered became
THE WOLF OF THE FOLD.
To seal his perfidy he coaxed and
fawned till he succeeded iu getting hack
from his victim the evidence which he
dared not face—the engagement ring.
No need to gratify prurient tastes by
pursuing this painful subject any further
in detail. The following affidavit is a
chapter in itself :
Hudson County. —The voluntary ex
amination of Mary E. Fomcroy, of
Jersey City, in said county, single wo
man, taken on oath before me, Thomas
Aldridge, Esq., one of the Justices of
the Peace in and for said county, this
15th day of July, 1874, who suit h that
she is now with child and that said child
is likely to be born a bastard and to bo
chargeable to the city of Jersey City,
and that John K. Glendenny of said
city, a minister of the Presbyterian
Chnrcb, is the father of said child.
Mary F. Pomeroy.
Taken and signed the day and year
above written before me,
Thomas Aldridge.
Justice of the Peace.
On this he was arrested and taken be
fore Justice Aldridge at half-past ten
o’clock on Wednesday night. John
Gordon, a member of bis congregation,
became his bondsman to appear for ex
amination next week. He was escorted
by an officer to Mr. Miller’s house,
where he was confronted by the afflicted
young lady. The scene need not be de
scribed. Now comes the acme of the
outrage. The accused shepherd of the
flock has mapped out his line of de
fense. He intends to avail himself of
what the legal fraternity designate “a
plea in justification.” Most readers of
this story can penetrate into the signifi
cance of this insinuation without need
ing an explanation. Her character is to
be weighed in the balance, and he relies
on six members of the congregation to
adhere to his side of the case.
The next chapter in the case will be a
suit for breach of promise of marriage.
Miss Pomeroy’s friends have taken the
preliminary steps already in that direc
tion. i
NUMBER 30.
THE CHILD STEALERS.
TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
REWARD.
Proclamation by tbo Mayor of Phila
delphia.
Philadelphia, July 22.—T1i0 Mayor
has issued the following proclamation,
offering a reward of twenty thousand
dollars for the capture of the abductors
of the child,Charley Brewster ltoss, and
the restoration of the child :
Mayor’s Office, City of (
Philadelphia, July 22, 1874. j
At the instance of citizens of Phila
delphia, I hereby offer a reward of
twenty thousand dollars for the arrest and
conviction of the abductors of Charles
Brewster ltoss, son of Christian K.
ltoss, of Philadelphia, and the restora
tion of that child to his parents. The
child was stolen from Washington Lane,
near Chew street, Germantown, in the
suburbs of Philadelphia, on the after
noon of the Ist of July last. At the
time when the child was stolen he an
swered the following description : Age,
four years; dressed in brown linen lsilt
suit, with short skirt, broad brim un
bleached Panama hat, with black band;
laced shoes, blue and white striped
stockings. The boy has long flaxen
curly hair, hazel eyes, clear skin, round
full face and no marks, except those
made by vaccination on liis arm. His
appearance as above described may have
beeu greatly changed by cutting off his
hair or changing his dress to that of a
girl or in some other way. The
child was decoyed by two men
into a falling top, yacht-bodied buggy,
painted dark all over, lined with dark
material, drawn by a dark bay or brown
horse about 15J hands high, driven, it
is believed'withont a check rein, by two
men, who as nearly as can be ascertain
ed answer to the following description:
Number one was a man of rather a largo
size, probably live feet eight inches
high. Ho was seen sitting. Age,
believe,to be from 85 to 45 years, mous
tache and full beard or whiskers, rather
long on the chin, of brown or sandy
brown color, and brown hair. He wore
a ring on the little linger of the right
hand. Number two was a man five feet
eight or ten inches high, about 25 or 30
yeans of age, of light with tendency to
sandy complexion, sandy moustache,
and red nose and “face, having the
appearance of a drinking man. One of
the men wore a broad brimmed straw
hat, looking as if it had been worn a
season or two and much browned. The
other wore a high crowned dark colored
straw hat. One wore a linen duster.
One of the men wore large glasses or
goggles of a dark color, probably as a
disguise.
W. S. Stokkley,
Mayor of Philadelphia.
In the cause of humanity, as well as
for the interest of justico, it is earnestly
requested that the foregoing be given
the widest publicity in every newspaper
in the United States and Canada.
The report that Wooster was released
to-day is unfounded.
CROP NEWS.
J. T. Parker, who lives near Toomhs
boro, says that the crops of that sec
tion are very promising. If good sea
sons continue the farmers of this good
old county will be on the high road to
prosperity. Mr. Parker thinks that
county will put a man in the next Leg
islature who will favor a Constitutional
Convention.
The Sumter .Republican says : From
a gentleman who has just returned from
an extended trip through Sumter,
Schley r , Marion, Talbot and Taylor coun
ties, we learn that crops in the two first
mentioned, to a point four miles north
of Ellaville, are all looking exceedingly
well and growing finely, besides being
free of grass. Corn is in silk, and cot
ton will average from twelve to sixteen
inches high, well filled with forms and
blooms. The lands upon which the
above crops are growing are what is
termed red and grey stiff lands. About
four miles north of Ellaville our
informant states that he struck grey and
sandy lands. The crops in this belt for
the distance of twenty-five miles, run
ning through Schley and Marion comi
ties, were not near so good or as far ad
vanced. Tlio continued rams through
June caused corn, which is only about
five feet high, to become yellow from
the ground to the top. Cotton seems to
have the rust and will not average 1 more
than eight inches in height. On the
red lands in Talbot, crops will comparo
fawrably with those of Sumter and
lower Schley. Cotton and corn aro both
doing well in Taylor.
The Albany News says : As all the
bread crops in Southwestern Georgia
are luxuriant, abundant and safe from
the ordinary evils, wo may dismiss fur
ther notice of them with the single re
mark that our cribs have come home,
and smiling plenty gladdens the country.
The cotton crop is not so promising.
We have had rainy weather since the Ist
of June, and much of the time the Helds
have been flooded, and work greatly im
peded. When the rains set in the crops
were perfectly clean, and in better con
dition than any crop wo remember over
to bavo observed; consequently tlio cot
ton got tbo start of tbo grass, and as tlio
rains fertilized it as well as the grass, it
has of course held its advantage, and is
not at all seriously affected from inter
rupted cultivation. But it is seriously
injured in its rapid growth—developing
weed without corresponding fruit, and
luxuriance without toughness to hold its
forms.
The caterpillar made its appearance,
well defined and unmistakably, on Fri
day, the 10th, in many plantations, and
since then its existence in many others
is reported. Wo have, however, con
versed with many planters—intelligent,
vigilant, close observing planters—who
have not been able to find the fly even in
their fields ; and those who have discov
ered the genuine caterpillar, report
fewer flies than were observed any pre
vious caterpillar year at this stage of
the crop, hi fact, the fly is so scarco
that high hopes are entertained of es
cape from disaster, and we are inclined
to believe that the vigorous efforts now
being exerted by the planters generally
to check the progress of the threatening
campaign, will succeed iu saving the
crop from destruction.
The means used are the Itigell lamps
to catch the fly, and the poison to kill
the worm, and so universal is the pur
pose to apply these remedies that wo
cannot doubt great good will bo accom
plished. It is impossible to catch all
the flies or kill all the worms, hut if
every planter will go to work in earnest,
and keep it up day after day and night
after night, their labor will bo effective
and the crop will be saved. Otherwise,
ruin and devastatiou stares us in the
face.
The Griffin Mcasenyer says ; A good
substantial farmer from Pike informed
us yesterday that Pike county would
make plenty of corn to do the county
two years, that there never was such a
prospect for a large corn crop. Tbo
cotton, though small, looks well, and
will with good seasons muko a pretty
fair crop.
The Columlms finyHirer says: Iu
this section crops are still reported very
fine. Cotton is doing well. The only
drawback is the reported appearance of
the caterpillar fly in neighboring south
ern counties on both sides of the river.
Corn is already made, and the yield will
be the largest since the war. Peas and
potatoes will also be abundant.
The Columbia Union- Her aid says ;
All through the centre of the State the
crop prospects is auspicious. Os cotton,
the acreage is about one-tenth less than
that of last year, while that of corn is
about one-twelfth more. Wherever tho
corn crop has been properly cultivated,
the indications now are that bread
enough will be made, the seasons up to
this time having been unusually favora
ble to this leading cireal. The cotton
promises about an average of the crops
since the war, but will be two or three
weeks later than that of last year.
A STATE CONVENTION.
Kingston, Ga., July 21.
To the Editors of tho Chronicle and Sen
tinel :
There arc a great many people in this
section favorable to a call for a State
Convention by the next Legislature, and
think the matter should bo discussed
during tho present campaign. Somo
very grave arid important subjects to the
people would naturally come beforo a
convention, and tho eyes of the people
would be opened as to how they are
governed, bargained and sold out with
out consent. A convention would poHt
tho people upon how they are being
whirled into tho vortex of bankruptcy
and ruin by bargaining, selling and em
bezzling. A convention, and ouly a
convention, can njiply tho proper remedy
and stop this, Bartow,