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WE DNESDAY JULY 29, 1874.
A PLAYFUL “BEAK.”
“Gustave Anor.ru” treats onr readers
to a playful article on tho subject of the
growing cotton crop. His imagination
is as fertile as those of the “cotton
bears” who are engaged in magnifying
the prospects of the crop, but there is a
strong vein of genuine humor in his
exaggerations. Tho article cannot fail
to convulse the reader with laughter.
The object of our correspondent must
be apparent to all.
THE CATERPILLAR.
The caterpillar has made its appear
ance on the Sea Islands of South Caro
lina.
A dispatch from Mobile contradicts
the report published a few days since
that the boll and army worm had ap
peared in certain portions of Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana, and were do
ing serious injury. They have arrived,
but have not commenced operations to
any extent.
THE PROSTRATE STATE.
Cabijozo, Treasurer of the State of
South Carolina, has published a
statement showing the receipts and
expenditures at the State Treasury
from November Ist, 1873, to June 30,
1874. The receipts from taxes and
other sources have been 31,030,084 38,
and the expenditures $1,458,152 38,
leaving a balance in tho treasury of
$178,532. Os the amount on hand,
$135,033 31 belongs to the fund for the
payment of interest on the public debt.
The remainder is applicable as follows :
Salaries, contingents, Ac., $11,020 70;
penal, charitable and educational insti
tutions, $29,987 32; free schools, $46 59;
legislative expenses, SB3 84; public
printing, $29 34; for deficiencies, S9O 35;
Houtli Carolina Bank and Trust Com
pany, SBB9 25; miscellaneous purposes,
$1,388 80.
Before the war the entire expenses of
the .State government was about $400,-
000. Under the thieving governments
since the advent of reconstruction the
annual expenses have quadrupled.
THE BEECHER TILTON SCANDAL.
Tiieodoke Tilton presented Henry
Ward Beecher as a fiend incarnate.
Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs. Til
ton unite in denying every allegation in
his arraignment.
The testimony on both sides is before
the public, aud people can draw their
own conclusions as to the guilt or inno
cence of the parties involved in this de
moralizing scandal.
Whatever may bo the judgment of the
American peoplo, Beeoher’s usefulness,
if lie ever had any, which some people
very much doubt, is at an end. There
can bo but one opinion as to Theodore
Tilton; lie is tho most cowardly and
despicable wretch on tlio American
continent.
Mrs. Tilton may bo innocent or she
may be guilty. In any event her case
must excite pity. Hhe is but a poor
weak woman—seduced, if tho worst be
true, by the powerful persuasion of a
man who hud obtained entire control
of her mind and body, and abandoned
to her illicit love and adulterous para
mour by her own husband, Theodore
Tilton, whoso namo shall forever be
infamous.
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
There is a great deal of sentiment
wasted on tho subject of Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, both in this country
and Europe. Recently thero lias been
held in London an International Con
gress, the object of which is to protect
animals from cruelty. Wo have not
read tho proceedings of this Congress,
but we have before us an abstract from
the Baltimore American, which shows
tho absurdity that people go to in the
advocacy of pet theories. One speaker
harangued tho delegates on tho prevail
ing “ wanton cruelty to seals,” aud nil
other announced that he hoped soon, by
kindness and proper treatment, to re
duce the price of salmon to sixpence
per pound.” The Bishop of Manches
ter, in addressing the Congress, made a
special point of condemning thWshoot
ing of pigeons in trials of marksman
ship, aud tho Congress ordered that liis
address should be printed in three lan
guages, for general distribution. The
noxt that wo shall hear from these kind
hearted people will boa plea against the
cruelty of roasting oysters in the shell.
We are heartily in favor of protecting
the domestic brute from acts of cruelty,
aud all good people will unite in this
laudable purpose ; but we submit that
it would be more in consonance with the
dictates of a genuine philanthropy for
tho “ animnlitnrians ” [to devote their
time and money to the amelioration of
tho condition of poor suffering Im
munity.
“THE I)EAI> DEMOCRACY.”
There is a wonderful amount of vi
tality in the Democratic party. The
following from the New York World,
will be taken as suflicieut evidence that
the party is marching on to victory :
“We have still another illustration in
the list of the Governors of the thirty
eeven States of the Union. In 1870,
only four years ago, there were but six
Democratic Governors in office, viz:
Haight, of California; Saulsbury, of
Delaware; Stevenson, of Kentucky;
Bowie, of Maryland; Randolph, of New
Jersey, and Hoffman, of New York.
Those were the days when it was sneer
iogly said that the Democratic party
was‘dead.’ To-day there are seventeen
Democratic Governors, not counting
Booth, of California, aud Baxter, of j
Arkansas, who may be classed among j
the opponents of the regular Republi- !
can organization. The Democratic of
ficials are Ingrbsoll, of Connecticut; j
Powder, of Delaware; Smith, of Geor
gia; Hendricks, of Indiana; Leslie, of
Kentucky; Groome. of Maryland; Wood
son, of Missouri; Bradley, of Nevada;
Weston, of New Hampshire; Parker,
of New Jersey; A£lkn, of Ohio; Gro
ver, of Oregon; Brown, of Tennessee;
Coke, of Texas; Kemip.r, of Virginia;
Jacob, of West Virginia; aud Taylor, of
Wisconsin. In 1870 the list stood 0 Op
position to 31 Republicans. In 1874 it
stands 10 Opposition to 17 Republicans,
excluding Kellogg, of Louisiana, who
was not elected Governor, and who ex
ercises power now only by the protec
tion of Administration bayonets. And
yet the so-called ‘independent’ papers
babble about the Democratic party be
ing dead. The Republican papers have
got over that hallucination.”
MeIH'FFIE DEMOCRACY.
The Democrats of McDuffie county
met in Convention at Thomson last
Saturday. From the official report iu
the Journal we learn that Judge J. B.
Nkal presided and Hon. W. D. Tutt
acted as Secretary. On motion of J. H.
Casey, Esq., it was decided to ek-et, for
a term of two years, an Executive Com
mitte. The following named gentle
men were elected : Col. John R. W il
a in, Chairman; H. McCorkle, W. S.
Smith, D. P. Montgomery and John L.
Goodrich. A resolution was adopted
recommending that a convention, em
bracing delegates from Lincoln,
Wilkes, Columbia and McDuffie, be
held at Clay Hill, on the 19th of Au
gust, for the purpose of selecting a can
didate for Senator. Messrs. E. B.
Bacon and Wm. H. Murray were select
ed as delegates to the Senatorial Con
vention.
On motion of Mr. J. H. Casey, Esq.,
it was resolved that “the personal at
tendants by aspirants for Congress at
the Congressional District meetings, for
the purpose of electioneering for the
nomination, is disrepectful to the dele
gates aud unbecoming the dignity of
the office.”
Messrs, Paul C. Hudson and J. H.
Casey were appointed delegates to the
Congressional Convention, which meets
in this city, on the 2d of September.
The Executive Committee is requested
to call a convention at Thomson, on the
first Tuesday in August, to nominate a
candidate for the Legislature.
The following resolutions, introduced
by Mr. Casey, were unanimously adopt
ed :
Whereas, It has come to onr knowl
edge, from a communication to a com
mittee of Greene county, that the great
statesman and constitutional lawyer,
Hon. Alex. H. Stephens, who has so
long lent his energies aud devoted so
much of his life to the interests of the
country at large, and more especially to
this Congressional District, will be able
no longer to represent ns in the balls of
Congress, on account of failing health;
and recognizing his ability to do so
much for the public good, and appreci
ating the sacrifices of a whole life to the
preservation of Constitutional Liberty
in this country; be it therefore
Resolved, That this Convention, as
the mouth-piece of the Democratic
party of McDuffie county, tender him
its thanks for his past services, with sin
cere feelings of regret that he will be
unable to represent us again; and wish
ing him a speedy recovery from his
present maladies, and that degree of
happiness and prosperity for the future
which a knowledge of a well spent life
always guarantees.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolu
tions be furnished Hon. A. H. Ste
phens.
The Democrats of McDuffie are
thoroughly organizing for the campaign.
They will not tolerate independent can
didates or bolters, and are determined to
elect the best men in their county to of
fice. In the Senatorial and Congressional
Conventions they will do their whole
duty.
WE CAN’T HELP IT.
The article headed “A Georgia Ad
dress” is so full of humor that we can’t
help publishing it, even though the
laugh be against us. The author of the
address, Col. Hardeman, will laugh as
heartily overthe criticism of the Tribune
as any man in Georgia. He knows how
to take a joke as well as to give one, and
no man is more appreciative of a good
thing than Col. Hardeman.
It is due to him, however, to state that
the address which went out in his name
was a mere outline or skeleton suggest
ed to the committee, and he so stated at
the lime, but the committee accepted it
without further elaboration, believing
it sufficiently explicit to arouse the peo
ple of Georgia to a proper sense of their
duty during tho approaching campaign.
Col. Hardeman is not only able to
write but to deliver an admirable ad
dress.
THE CATERPILLAR IN SOUTH
WEST GEORG 1 A.
In the Albany Neivs, of the 23d, we
find tho following in reference to the ap
pearance of the caterpillar in Southwest
Georgia :
The cotton pest and planters’ ruin is
at last developed. Yesterday the cater
pillar excitement culminated in univer
sal concession as to its existence every
where, and fearful demoralization per
vaded all classes.
Many large planters assert that the
danger is more threatening than last
year, and express the belief that the
disaster will be more general and more
complete ; while many others are mare
skeptical and more hopeful. On some
plantations none have yet been discov
ered, but the closest observers and those
who seem to be most alive to the im
portance of vigorous efforts to check the
ruin, say, and say with emphasis, that
they are in every field and in such a state
as to awaken the most alarming appre
hensions.
The lamps are being applied with re
newed energy, and large orders have
gone forward for arsenic and Paris
green.
We have had fine weather for ten
days, but good cotton weather is also
good caterpillar weather, and but little
hope is entertained from the probable
effects of sun or raiu.
We received yesterday by express,
from Colonel Carey W. Styles, a bottle,
tlio contents of which are cotton leaves,
caterpillars and eggs. The card accom
panying the package contains the fol
lowing : “Thousands like them all over
Southwest Georgia. Planters demor
alized.”
H. I. KIMBALL.
The Atlanta News is correct in sup
posing that the Chronicle and Sentinel
received no compensation for the publi
cation of Mr. Kimball’s letter. We of
fered Mr. Kimball a hearing through
our columns, aud wo felt in duty bound
to publish his reply without charge.
Had we been disposed to earn a pen
ny or two, we could easily have done so
by making principle subservient to in
terest. In other words, if we endorsed
Mr. Kimball’s letter as being satisfac
tory, it would have increased our issue
for that day very considerably. We did
not deem his reply to the charges made
against him as either conclusive or satis
factory. Thoso papers that gave his
letter a favorable endorsement found it
to their interest to do so, though we do
not charge any paper in Georgia with
having acted in bad faith or with having
made principle subservient to interest.
With our convictions of duty to the
State, we could not accept Mr. Kim
ball’s statements as exonerating him
from the grave offenses with which lie is
charged by the Legislature of Georgia.
The papers that exculpate him have a
perfect light to do so if the editors are
satisfied, iu their own minds, that Mr.
Kimball is innocent. It is the duty of
the Press to defend the Right and de
nounce the Wrong. It is creditabe to
human nature to be charitable, to have
mercy, to overlook the past, and to for
give a man for his acts, whether of omis
sion or commission, when he comes for
ward, expresses contrition, asks for for
giveness, and promises to make amends.
Has Mr. Kimball done so ?
He denounces every charge brought
against him. He asserts his innocence
aud defies every man in the State of
Georgia to convict him of ever appro
priating cue dollar of the money of the
State without giving a fair equivalent.
This is the position of Mr. Kimball. He
asks not for mercy or forgiveness, but
he asks for justice; aud we are deter
mined that so far as we are concerned
his ease shall have a fair hearing before
the people in this section of Georgia.
The article from the Atlanta Xcw* is
compiled, we presume, from official
papers. It is very damaging to the
character of Mr. Kimball, who will have
to disprove the testimony adduced be
fore he can convince the people of his
innocence.
We have no personal feeling in this
matter, aud we have uo prejudice against
Mr. Kimball because he is a Northerner;
but as the conductor of a recognized
organ of public opinion we deem it our
duty to the State and to society to pro
tect the people from warmiug in their
bosoms the prodigals who wasted
their substance and who now return
protesting innocence on their lips and
perhaps plotting schemes for further
spoliation in their hearts.
We eanuot lend our aid to manufac
ture sympathy for the men against
whose saturnalia of extravagance and
corruption we protested in the days of
our deep humiliation and sore distress.
They mast make a clean breast of their
offenses and ask the people of Georgia
for mercy, and we shall be among the
first to ask justice to deal lightly with
them. Those who are defiant should at
least prove their innocence. If Mr.
Kimball does this, public opinion will
acquit him, aud no one will rejoice at
his innocence more than the writer of
this article, who bears malice toward
none, but charity to all.
The London Daily Telegraph an
nounces that the proprietors of that
paper have united with Mr. James Gor
don Bennett in organizing an expedi
tion of African discovery, under com
mand of Mr. Henry M. Stanley. The
purpose of the enterprise is to complete
the work left unfinished by Dr. Living
stone; to solve, if possible, the remain
ing problems of the geography of Cen
tral Africa; and to investigate and re
port upon the haunts of the slave traders.
THE HONESTY OF H. I. KIMBALL.
[From the Atlanta News ]
In accordance with our promise, we
begin this moruing the publication of
some of the facts connected with the ca
reer of H. I. Kimball in Georgia. He
has thrown down the gauntlet, and we
have very promptly picked it up. He
has dared us to prove that be is a rascal,
and we propose to furnish the proof. It
matters little to us how many of “the
best men” in Georgia shake his Lands;
we care absolutely nothing for the laudi
tory notices some newspapers are show
ering down upon him. Before we are
through with Mr. Kimball we shall
make*these “best men” very much
ashamed of their gashing confidence in
his integrity; and shall make the press
of the State either admit that we are
right, or that they are defending him
from interested motives.
The evidence we publish in this num
ber of the News is only a part of the
facts that have come to our knowledge.
As will be seen, we have shown what
was done by Kimball with the currency
bonds, and if the evidence is not con
clusive, then we cannot imagine what
can be. A resume of the facts will be
interesting. In 1870 an agreement was
made to purchase the Capitol building
for $350,000, of which the State was to
pay $250,000 in bonds and the city
8100,000 in the same securities. As the
gold quarterly bonds of the State were
not prepared, lithographed currency
bonds to the amount of $250,000 were
paid over to Mr. Kimball, on condition
that he did not sell them, and on his
signing an agreement to return them
cancelled on delivery of $250,000 in gold
quarterly bonds.
Mr. Kimball took the currency bonds
to New York and there pawned them
out for loans for his own use. Early in
1871 Bullock sent him to New York to
redeem the currency bonds, paying to
Kimball $250,000 of gold quarterly
bonds for the Capitol building. Having
received these bonds, it was liis duty to
have surrendered up the $250,000 of
currency bonds. On March 20, 1871, he
wrote to Bullock announcing that all
the currency bonds had been redeemed
and turned over to Henry Clews & Cos.
for cancellation.
This letter contained a willful and de
liberate falsehood. The currency bonds
held by J. Boorman Johnson & Cos. had
never been redeemed at all. Instead of
this, within fourteen days (April 3) after
he writes Bullock we find him re-hy
pothecating these bonds to J. Boorman
Johnson i Cos., and in August follow
ing we find him again hypothecating
them.
Let it bo borne in mind that Kimball
had, by this time, obtained the $250,000
of gold quarterly bonds for the Capitol
building. Ho was already a debtor to
the State in the sum of $54,000 advanced
by Bullock to enable him to complete
the building. This money has never
been repaid. Instead, therefore, of re
turning the currency bonds, Kimball
kept them pawned out, thereby making
the State pay $500,000 for what she had
only agreed to pay $250,000.
We intend to write the plain English
of this transaction. H. I. Kimball just
swindled the State out of $250,000 in
bonds, and remained her debtor in the
sum of $54,000 for money advanced,
making a total of $304,000 obtained by
him, without consideration, from the
State alone. Nothing is here said of the
SOO,OOO he defrauded the city out of.
That we propose touching upon some
other day.
Os the currency bonds, $120,000 of
them are held by J. Boorman Johnson
& Cos. to secure a loan of $84,000 to H.
I. Kimball; the balance are, we believe,
in the possession of the Brooklyn banks.
Here, then, is some of the evidence of
Mr. Kimball’s deep interest in the State,
and of his personal integrity. Further
more, we ask the reader to observe how
he got SIOO,OOO of bonds from the Fourth
National Bank, and applied them to his
own purpose. We defy him or any of
his defenders to deny a single statement
we have made. The evidence wo have
given is taken from tho official docu
ments, and it cannot be successfully
controverted.
To-day we have shown that Kimball
defrauded the State out of overs3oo,ooo.
In a couple of days we propose to make
further disclosures. We shall expose
his connection with the bogus Tennessee
Car Company, and show how he carried
the drafts endorsed by Blodgett and E.
N. Kimball to Boston and there sold
them to the Elliott National Bank; and
we propose to further show that he has
two of these drafts in his possession
now, and has been endeavoring to get
them paid since his arrival here, al
though he knows, and knew at the time,
that they were fraudulent, and that the
entire contract entered into with his
briAher, E, N, Kimball, was a stupen
dous swindle.
Having performed our duty in con
victing Kimball of dishonesty, we will
noxt explain why the laws ftf Georgia
are powerless, or seem to be. All that
we know about him is not yet published
by any means. Before we are through
with him he will become convinced that
there is not the faintest chance of his
obtaining another opportunity to “de
velop” Georgia orto “buildup” Atlanta.
THE COTTON CROP.
Drawing If Mild.
lo the Editors of the Chronicle and
Sentinel :
As much has been written and pub
lished in our city papers upou the all
important subject of the growing cotton
crop, I ask space to give your readers
simply the result of my observations on
a few plantations—not very distant from
Augusta-some in Richmond county and
the others bordering upon it. A few
days since I was invited by Col. to
take a ride over his plantation for the
purpose of seeing one field of 1,000
acres in cotton, which he represented as
very fine, and indeed I found it to ex
ceed in size and fruit any growth I had
ever known. The land is rich bottom,
the cotton planted in the drill, rows ten
feet wide, the stand perfect, and it would
have gladdened the heart and delighted
the eye of every lover of agriculture to
gaze upon this wondrous spectacle. We
were mounted upon medium sized mules,
and, while forcing our way through the
interlocked rows, side by side, could not
see each other, nor could we at any time
tip-toe in our stirrups and reach the tops
of the plant. I estimated the average
height to be at least teu feet, and bend
ing and breaking, as you have seen over
loaded fruit trees, with grown and half
grown bolls. I had the curiosity to
count the bolls fas near accurately as
possible) ou two stalks. On the first I
counted 1,397 bolls, averaging as large
as a partridge egg—and I feel certain
there was ou the same stalk 3,000 healthy
squares, mot to estimate the blossoms —
on the second the result was 1,179 bolls,
and about the same average of younger j
fruit. I remarked to the Colonel that
it was by far the best field of cotton aud j
the largest I had ever seen. He replied
that I would feel almost ashamed of his
cotton if I could see a field of 2,000
acres owned by a brother of liis, four
miles below, all in one body, which was
two weeks older and in every respect
much better. This, however, I doubted.
I said. “UMogel, if the caterpillar don’t
strike you this field will produce
2,000 bales of cotton ?” “Caterpillar
and be d—d,” he replied; “tkal’s what I
want. I will give SIOO now to any one
who will turn loose one bushel of the
genuine cotton-eater on this field. YV liy,
sir,” he continued, “I lost half of rnv
crop last year for the want of caterpil
lars. You see, sir, the sun is shut oat
by the heavy growth, aud the lower
crop is likely"to rot in the absence of
worms to remove the leaves and top
growth.” “Colonel, do yen think this
cotton will grow still larger?' “Grow
hell. Yes, at least four feet.” “Then
how will yon manage to pick it out?"
“Why bv gracious, sir, do you know
that I have tweuty mules that will mea
sure each 17 bauds high, and with a
nigger and a bag around his neck astrad
dle of one of them, I will see how the
top bolls are picked.” Leaving the'
Colonel to Laugh and grow fat over his
magnificent crop, J next paid my
respects to a number of his neighbors,
and rode over several small plantations,
all of which exhibited an unusual crop.
In fact, far beyond anything I have ever ,
known, aud it is difficult to believe that j
our common uplands can be made, by
the application of fertilizers, to produce
from one to two bales of heavy cotton to
the acre. Such, however, is true. I
did not see any considerable field of j
cotton, iu two days’ tramp, that will not
make 2,500 to 3,000 pounds of seed cot- ,
ton per acre, should seasons suit and !
frost stay off until 15th October. More j
soon on the same subject.
Gustave Adolph. ,
Constitutionalist please copy.
Under the newpostoffiee act there are
two material changes as to postage and
the manner of paying postage. One of
these (the prepayment by publishers of
postage ou newspapers, periodicals, Arc.,
sent to their subscribers) does not go in
to operation until January nest. The
other change is already in operation.—
This relates to the postage ou book
packages, samples, Ac., and
all those miscellaneous articles which
have heretofore been rated as “third
class” mail matter at two cents for each
two ounces. The new charge is one
cent for each two ounces, aud samples,
merchandise, Ac., may be put up in
packages not exceeding four pounds in
weight, instead of being limited to
twelve ounce packages as heretofore.—
This greatly simplifies the postage rates,
for there is’ now but one rate and one
maximum limit of weight for all third
class mail matter—viz., one cent for
every two ounces in packages up to four
pounds.
LETTER FROM MIDDLE GEORGIA.
The Star and Our Correspondent-
Trial of George M. Bull—The Weath
er and Crops—Kimball's Letters—
Trade Improving.
[special correspondence chronicle
AND SENTINEL. ]
Macon, July 22, 1874.
Additional Gar Broth.
That brilliant sheet, the Macon Morn
ing Star, takes exceptions to the re
marks in regard to the sophomorie moon
shine of school girls, and the shines of
Professor Whitney at concerts. This
newspaper is in the old groove of a
thousand others—it praises everybody
and everything; it slobbers, lathers,
plasters, sngar-coats the good, bad and
indifferent all alike, much to the infinite
disgust of every one who attends and
who really understands public enter
tainments, aud none more so than the
actors in it themselves.
We have an excellent musical associa
tion in Macon, called the Harmonic So
ciety. Among its earlier resolutions
was a sensible one to get rid of the slops
of local editors. It didn’t fear their
censure half so much as their praise.
They had to fight hard to keep them out
and finally succeeded.
Trial of George M. Bull for the Mur
der of Mitchell
The assassination of Wm. D. Mitchell,
a planter of Twiggs county, by George
M. Bull, ou the 27th of May, is fresh iu
the minds of your readers. Mitchell
was thought by Dr. Bull and his
son George to have seduced his
daughter, Lucinda Bull. Threats
and counter-threats followed the
scandal until finally George Bull
and his father made a regular am
buscade three miles from Macon. George
posted himself in a thicket, eight steps
from the road, with double-barreled
shot gun in hand, and there waited the
approach of Mitchell, who was then in
Macon, and he knew it. When Mitchell
rode up he was shot from liis mule, and
fell dead in the road. The shooting
and George Bull were seen by old man
Wall, a good old man, who was riding
with Mitchell, but six steps behind him.
The evidence, so far, plainly estab
lishes: Ist. The improper intercourse of
Mitchell and Lucinda; that he said so
himself only. The defense claims this
was a slander. 2d. That Mitchell was a
drunkard, libertine and bully. 3d. That
George Bull killed him in the manner
above related, with the full knowl
edge, consent and assistance of his
father. The Court room is thronged
with spectators and witnesses. The
case excites a great deal of comment
both here and iu our adjoining county
of Twiggs. The testimony was closed
to-day and the case I presume will be
given to the jury late to-morrow night.
Six speeches are to be made. Bull will
be acquitted.
The Macon Guards.
This renowned military company was
fully reorganized last night, with a
muster roll of eighty men, rank and file.
A. O. Bacon was elected Captain, Milo
S. Freeman, First Lieutenant ; L. P.
Askew, Second Lieutenant. The Cap
taincy was pressed upon the gallant
Colonel Lucius Lamar, but he
was obliged to decline on the ground
of being a non-resident. He is now a
planter in Pulaski county. He led the
company through fire and blood first as
its captain and then as its Colonel
from the beginning to the close
of the war, and it is claimed for it
that it was more distinguished than any
other that went fortli from the whole
State of Georgia. There are but preci
ous few of its old veterans left, but
quite enough to impress the recruits
with the distinguished reputation trans
mitted to them.
The Weather and tlie Crops.
The weather is fair and very favorable
to the crops. Nothing definite iu re
gard to caterpillars, except universal
apprehension among farmers that they
are coming certain and sure. The un
matured crops are progressing as fast
and as fine as heart could wish. Not a
complaint is heard except farmers down
with a hopeless case of tertiary croak
ing. They amount to a very small num
ber.
Kimball’s Document.
Kimball has had his reply to you cir
culated as an extra in all the papers of
Middle Georgia. It is admitted that lie
makes at least a bold if not a strong de
fense. That part where he says that
most of the money he expended in Geor
gia was obtained from Yankees and Ger
mans goes down like a buttered biscuit
- —sweet, a satisfactory grunt, eyes half
shut and skyward slightually. I think
it was Gen. Toombs who said : “Go it
Bullock; go it Kimball. Get ell the
money you can from Yankees upon these
humbug bonds. They stole everything
we had and we ought to have some of it
back.” Jhit the trouble with Bullock
and hia crowd was that they didn’t
strike always straight out from the
shoulder. It was right, left, over, under,
back, front, oblique, in any direction
where there was cash money. Like
Webster’s old friend Solfiustall in the
fight, they were slashing around—that
is. knocking down every man they came
to, regardless of Golor or religion.
The City,
Trade is much better than one might
suppose. Money is easier. The city
swarms with fruit vendors and other
products coming under the comprehen
sive title of “market truck,” producing
a corresponding demand for drugs, spe
cific drugs, specifically for internal regu
lation. “But good ripe fruite,” said
old uncle Billy Duncan, after swallow
ing his sixteenth peach aud picking up
foiir m°* a » “' von nobody.” Yes,
and one good ripe drink of peach bran
dy and honey “iyon’t lifirfc nobody,” but
when it coines to swallowing a still
house and a bee gum, that’s also another
thing.
Sister Jones and Brother Jlafflt.
That part of brother Tilton’s docu
ment published here this morning, that
Beecher’s “‘overmastering arguments”
had the power to satisfy sistgr Tilton’s
“religious scruples against sjich viola
tion of virtue and honor,” reminds me
of this anecdote : “Sister Jones, do
you love Christ ?” “Yes, sir.” “Then
copte and kiss brother Maflit.”
Jean Yaljean.
THE JERSEY CJfURCIf SCANDAL.
Retirement of the Accused Pastor
irom the Pulpit and His Explanation
—He is Again Arrested.
[Prow tbu !JeW York Herald, 20th.]
Avery slim eougiegatjon attended the
Prospect Avenue Presbyterian Church,
on Jersey City Heights, yesterday morn
ing. But there were a great many per
sons attracted by curiosity, who occu
pied tile pews. The services were open
ed by the Rev. John S. Glendenny, who
offered a fervent prayer, in which the
following passages occurred <
“After the troubles and torments oi
this life are ended ‘there remaiuetli a
rest for ihp people of God. We pray
Thee, iu order : Q the success aud in
fluence oi the chureli, that Heaven s
richest blessings may descend ou him
who is called to preside over this
church. In all his works be Thou with
him as Thiup own endorsement of his
acceptance in Thy service. Give him
strength and courage ana S.pul to carry
on Thy glorious work.”
The'pastor then made the following
aßßO;.'ncement ; “According to an ar
rangement ;gade three weeks ago.my va
cation of seven wePi’s begins to-morrow.
You are all aware that a charge against
mv character awaits judicial
tiou. Meanwhile, I content myself with ■
affirming rnv innocence, and asking the
church to unite v,iC roe m ‘resting in
the Lord and waiting patiently for Him.
The Rev Mr. Moore will now occupy the
pulpit, aud the Rev. Dr Wiggins of,
the city of New York, will occupy it for
the greater part of my vacation.
The Rev. Mr. Mouce then preached a
sermon from the text, “For £?Ct° H ve
is Christ and to die is gain. The ser
mon had no reference whatever to the
difficulties in which the pastor is mvolv-
L The law has not yet relaxed its hold
on the accused shepherd oi the fold. -
He was first arrested at the instance of
the overseer of the poor, who demanded
that bonds be given for the support of
an illegitimate child, that would other
wise be a burden on the city. On Satur
day the shepherd of the flock was again
arrested on the charge of seduction, ana
he was arrested a third time and com
pelled to give bonds before Judge Beale
in the sum 84,000 in a suit for breach of
promise of marriage. Miss Pomeroy
lays damages at 810,000.
The examination on the £rsr charge
will take place next Thursday, before
Justice Aldridge. The only answer the
accused pastor makes to the c.iarge
against bun is that “there s nothing m
it.” He denies that he has attempted
to malign the voung lady's character,
but in his defense he says that he will
produce credence that wiii redeem him
in public estimation.
Brigham Young’s style of conversation
is given in a book by Gen. Rusting.
When asked whv he did not bring goods
bv wav of Colorado, he replied ; Jt is
extraordinary, surely For ten years
now, and more, I’ve bin tryin to -alk it
into our people, that the Colorado is
our true route. But Californa has done
nuthen to open it, or draw us toward
her while New York keeps ught bold of
us; and it is mighty hard to change- the
course of trade and travel. And then
he added bv way of comment, * When
things git set, it takes a heap to alter
’em, you bet.”
There was a large Grange meeting in
Albany last Tuesday morning.
HAWIBAL I. RLMBALL.
HOW THE GREAT DEVELOPER
DEVELOPED THINGS.
He Contracts to Sell tlie Capitol for
$350,000 aud Developes $614,000 Out
of It-How Bonds Were obtained
from the Fourth National Bank of
New York.
[From the Atlanta News.]
Mercy to Mr. H. L Kimball might,
perhaps, have influenced us to leave him
undisturbed by further criticisms and
searching questions relating to his career
in Georgia. But Mr. Kimball has en
deavored to create a public sentiment iu
his favor bv publishing, in almost every
daily paper in tlie State, a carefully aud
most artfully written reply to the
charges which have been brought against
him. Actuated by motives which we
shall endeavor to show hereafter, he has
gone to the enormous expense of spread
ing his defense broadcast throughout
Georgia. We say enormous expense,
because we understand that the publica
tion of his letter has been, or is to be
paid for, to certain papers, excepting
certainly the Atlanta News and, we pre
sume, the Augusta Chronicle and Sen
tinel. We do not mention this fact as
a reflection upon any of our cotempora
ries who may be paid for the publica
tion, as the transaction is a strictly
legitimate one.
If we sit down now
TO RIDDLE THE DEFENSE
Os H. I. Kimball, it is simply because
we have a duty to perform to the public,
at once so imperative and so solemn,
that we dare not display “that pity
which corrupts justice.” Mr. Kimball
has returned to Georgia, and has put in
a plea of innocence. We propose to
show this morning that he is an artful,
dishonest man, and to explain why it is
that, despite the fact that tho evidence
of his participation in the plunder of
the State is in the possession of the au
thorities, he is not molested by the offi
cers of the law.
It will he remembered that on Sun
day last "we called attention to Mr. Kim
ball's singular omission of all mention
of tlie bonds held by J. Boorman John
son & Cos., of New York. We now pro
pose to show where he got those bonds
from, ai.d to demonstrate that he was
guilty of deliberate fraud upon the
State.
THE PURCHASE OF THE CAPITOL BUILDING.
1. The first bonds given to Mr. Kim
ball, ou account of tho purchase of the
Capitol building, were $250,000 of cur
rency bouds, issued under the aot of
27tli of August, 1870. These bonds
were issued for temporary purposes
only, to be used as collateral, and he
was not allowed to sell them. He subse
quently received $250,000 regular gold
quarterly bonds, in payment for the
Capitol building, and agreed to return
the currency bonds, received as above
stated, to the treasury, cancelled. His
written agreement to this effect is now
in the office of the Executive Depart
ment. Having obtained these bonds,
Mr. Kimball, in October, 1870, hypothe
cated $120,000 of them to J. Boorman
Johnson & Cos. to cover a loan of $84,-
000. On the 3d of April, 1871, not hav
ing provided for the taking up of the
loan, he renewed it and again hypothe
cated the bonds received by him as
above stated, to secure the firm against
loss in the transaction. Ou tho 3d of
August, 1871, ho re-hypothecated the
same bonds as security for an extension
of tlie loan. The above facts appear
from records in the Executive office, and
also from testimony published in the re
port of the committee on the official
conduct of Governor Bullock.
WRITING A DELIBERATE FALSEHOOD.
Under date of March 20, 1871, Kim
ball wrote to Bullock from New York, as
follows :
“I have tlie pleasure to inform you
that the lithographed bonds of the
State, given to be used temporarily as
collateral while the regular engraved
gold bonds were being prepared and
issued, have now been exchanged, and
tlie lithographed bonds turned over to
Messrs. Henry Clews & Cos., financial
agents of the State, for cancellation and
return to you.”
The lithographed bonds referred to in
this letter were the same as tlie currency
bonds above mentioned; and the state
ment of Mr. Kimball that these bonds
had been exchanged and the lithograph
ed bonds turned over to Clews A Cos. for
cancellation and return, was not true, as
he (Kimball) well knew. As appears
from the foregoing statement, $120,000
of these bonds, instead of being return
ed to Clews A Cos. for cancellation, were,
a short while after the date of Kimball’s
letter to Bullock, pledged by tho former
to J. Boorman Johnston & Cos. as secu
rity for the loan of $84,000. The same
bonds were repledged to that firm by
Kimball in August following and are
still in its hands—a claim against the
State of Georgia.
SWINDLING THE STATE.
The amount received by Kimball on
account of the purchase of the Opera
House stands as follows:
$120,000 currency bonds of the State,
unredeemed, in the hands of J. Boor
man Johnston & Cos.
$250,000 gold quarterly bonds of the
State.
$130,000 city of Atlanta bonds.
SOO,OOO unredeemed mortgage upon
the building, in favor of the Northwest
ern Life Insurance Company.
$54,000 advances by Governor Bullock
to Kimball, to enable him to finish the
building.
These items foot up the sum of $614,-
000. The city of Atlauta has assumed
the settlement of the mortgage in favor
of the Northwestern Life Insurance
Company. Deducting this, leaves $554,-
000 which the Capitol building will cost
the State, including the bouds in the
hands of J. Boorman Johnson & Cos.,
which, it ia believed by many, the State
will finally be obliged to redeem. The
contract price for the Capitol was $350,-
000—5250,000 of which was to be paid in
State bonds, and SIOO,OOO in bonds of
the city of Atlanta; but the foregoing
statement shows that Kimball got the
neat little sum of $264,000 in excess of
the contraot price of the property. $60,-
000 of this he got from the city of At
lanta, which he has “done so much to
build up;”5174,000 of it he “developed”
from the State of Georgia, for “whose
interest he feels such deep concern.”
On the day the Capitol building was
purchased, the property would not have
sold iu market for over $150,000. So
that he has made out of the State of
Georgia and the city of Atlanta, in this
one transaction, $464,000 in cash and
bonds of the State and city, $230,000 of
which was obtaiued by deliberate fraud.
TARING CURRENCY BONDS FROM THE
FOURTH NATIONAL BANK.
Mr Kimball denies that he received
from the Fourth National Bank, of New
York, during the year 1871, auy bonds
whatever of the State of Georgia, and
in support of this statement introduces
a telegram from the cashier of that
bank. His statement is nevertheless
untrue, as is shown by the following
fac* ;
On the 25! h July, 1871, one A. S.
Whiten, of New York, received under
ordei iVom Governor Bullock, on the
Fourth National Bark, 5100,000 in Geor
gia gold bonds. In receiving these
bonds from the bank, Whiton was the
agent of H. I. Kimball, although it does
not appear that this fact was known to
the otiiCprs of the bank when the bonds
were delivered to him (Whiton). Docu
ments in the office oi the Executive De
partment show that Whiton turned over
these bonds to H. I. Kimball, and that
afterwards, as the agent of H. I. Kim
ball, ot of H. I. Kimball Ai Cos., he
pledged the bonus with the New l'ork
Loan and Trust Company, ns security,
for a loan of §75,000. So while Air.
Kimball did not receive these bonds in
propriq, manner, he did receive them
through his agent, and appropriate them
to his own use, or to the use of H. I.
Kimball & Cos. From the best informa
tion which can be obtained, this little I
transaction of Mr. Kimball’s cost the
State $75,000.
How ro Tell a M.ad Dog.— Ae this is
a season when dogs usually become in
fected with hydrophobia, we publish the
remarks of the Cincinnati Gazette :
“ A genuine case of hydrophobia, even
in the” dog, is a very rare occurrence.
But when the disease does i±»*u:fest it
self, its symptoms are marked and easily
defined, and to one who has given the
subject anv attention there should be
no mistake concerning a proper diagno
sis. The trouble is, thst to persons of
superficial observation an epileptic fit
very common among dogs—may- be mis
taken for hydrophobia. The dog, when
suffering from an attack of epilepsy—a
sure guaranty that he is not mad—runs
about wildly, staggers, falls down, re
gains his fe*et, toedles about mechani
cally, froths at the mouth < which js an
other positive indication that he is not
mad, for a mad dog never froths at the
mouth\ and, as if entirely deprived of
sight runs against anything in his way.
With’the mad dog the case is entirely
difl’erent. He dreuls at the month; is
possessed of preternatural strength, and
never staggers or falls except to die.
He does not bite mankind, but rather
avoids society. He takes long journeys
of thirty or forty miles to vent his rest
less desire for motion. When journey
ing he does not walk or run, bat pro
ceeds in a slouching manner—a kind of
trot. His aspect is dejected. His ap
pearance is very characteristic, and if
once seen can never afterward be mis
taken.”
The city of Flowery Branch has lately
elected a City Council, in consequence
of a man flogging a school master, for
only doing his whole duty.
“ A GEORGII ADDRESS.”
A REGULAR SIDE-SPLITTER.
Comments of the New 1 ork Tribune
on the Georgia Address.
Upon the whole, though it was doubt
less considered very tine at the time,
and probably answered the purpose of
firing the heart of the French soldier,
we are quite disposed to think that the
Emperor Napoleon made a mistake when
he fulminated the startling suggestion
to his army that forty centuries regarded
them from the bights of the Pyramids.
It was a mischievous legacy to litera
ture. Since then that style of saying
things has become altogether too com
mou for comfort. It is so startling and
sudden and jerky that it never ought
to be used except on the most moment
ous occasions and in the most tremen
dous crises. And we must be permitted
to say it never ought to be used in hot
weather. Particularly in a season when
hydrophobia is epidemic and lyssopho
bia stalketh at noonday. Nothing could
be more risky or more fraught with
fearful possibilities in the hydro and
lysso-phobia line than to arrest the
average citizen who is pursuing through
perspiration and weariness his ordinary
avocation with the exasperating remark
that forty centuries are looking at him
from somewhere, or the soul-wrenching
demand that he should “Look at South
Carolina.”
And yet this is pretty much what Mr.
Thomas Hardeman, Jr., Chairman of
the Democratic Executive Committee of
Georgia, does to the people of that
State in what is called an “Address.”
We presume that it is warmer in Geor
gia than here in New York. Conse
quently it mu3t be more dreadful to be
howled at by a State Committee, who
graps you by the collar as you are seek
ing some cooling shade or contempla
ting a tumbler with a straw, and whirls
you around with the volcanic remark
that “ Yon are soon to engage in an
other election for the control of your
State.” And this is precisely what Mr.
Thomas Hardeman, Jr., of Georgia,
does. Not only that. The average
Georgian has not had time to recover
from the shock of this abrupt announce
ment before the cheeks of Thomas
Hardeman, Jr., bulge with the hair
lifting conundrum, “ Are your forces
ready for the field ?” which he follows
quick as lightening with the inquiry,
“ Is there uuion and harmony in your
ranks?” Then, having started tire eyes
of the average Georgian out of their
sockets, and very likely scared
him into swearing off drinking by
this mild foreshadowing of the de
lirium tremens, he stands up and
pursues him with the forty centuries
business. “Remember bleeding South
Carolina,” says Hardeman. Then, hav
ing compelled him to this effort of
memory, he hurls at him the somewhat
astonishing inquiry, anatomically con
sidered, “Will you split into petty
jealousies and endanger your success ?”
The answer of the average Georgian has
not come to hand, but it is to be hoped
that he will consider the whole question
seriously, and if he can possibly do it
without too great a sacrifice, makeup his
mind not to split up into petty jealous
ies and endanger his success. He ought
to do it if only to please Hardeman, who
seems really quite worked.up about it.—
Then, says Hardeman, following up the
appeal not to split, “Think of down
trodden Louisiana}” to which he imme
diately adds in a sort of jumping jack
way, which however fine, rhetorically
considered, must be very confusing to
the average Georgian who undertakes to
follow his directions—“ Look at plun
dered Florida”—-and—well, now, really
isn’t Hardeman carrying this thing too
far ?
Undoubtedly Hardeman means well.
He thinks the Georgia Democrats have
got the disease known among the peo
ple who hold post offices, and those who
want to hold them, as Apathy, and he
means to arouse them with the forty
centuries business. He says to them :
“The cause is worthy of your efforts; its
success should be the day star of your am
bition,” though why day star -we' fail to
comprehend —possibly because the long
er you look for it the more you don’t
see it. “Let the campaign,” he says,
“be quick, sharp, decisive.” “Look
well to your nominating conventions.”
Without wishing to criticise Hardeman’s
general orders, we do feel constrained to
say that, what with remembering South
Carolina, thinking of Louisiana, looking
at Florida, and looking to the nominat
ing conventions, he has made too large
a programme. He asks too much. More
over he wants them to “look with dis
trust upon ‘people’s ticket,’ ‘citizens’
candidates,’ when brought forward ‘in
opposition to regular nominees.’ ”
And Hardeman closes up his “Ad
dress,” which is really the most torrid
production of the season, with this forty
centuries sort of climax: “Men of
Georgia, the issue is with you. It is
big with consequences. Do your duty,
and all will be well with you and your
noble old State. ” We repeat that Harde
man undoubtedly means well. But any
man who in the latitude of Georgia,
with the mercury in the nineties, and
nothing lively going on, can lead out
the State of Georgia by the ear and ad
dress it in this harrowing way ought not
to be at large. And as for Napoleon
Bonaparte, who started this jerky style
and set the pyramidal forty centuries
looking so anxiously at our American
town meetings, he ought to be censured
by act of Congress.
COMMENCEMENT AT EMORY COL
LEGE.
To the Editors of the Atlanta Herald:
Commencement at Emory is over.
Crowds were in attendance. The weath
er was favorable; the sermon, the ora
tions, the addresses, the debate, the
speeches, and all the exercises of com
mencement were of a very high order,
and gave eminent satisfaction. The re
port of Bishop Pierce, President of the
Board of Trustees, shows that two line
and commodious, buildings for recita
tion rooms have been recently erected;
and a third, to be used as the daily
chapel, is now being pushed forward to
completion.
We learu that, at a meeting of the
Presiding Elders of the North Georgia
and South Georgia Conferences, pre
sided over by Bishop Pierce, it was
unanimously resolved by the Presiding
Elders to raise, within the next year,
thirty thousand dollars to found a Pro
fessorship, to be called the “Bishop
Pierce Professorship.”
At the late commencement, as we
learn, the plan for the unification of the
University of Georgia and the denomi
national colleges, agreed upon by the
commission of five, viz : J. O. A. Clark,
Joseph E. Brown, John B. Gordon,
Benj. H. Hill and David Wills, appoint
ed by His Excellency. James M. Smith,
under a resolution of the General As
sembly, approyed March 2d, 1871, was
presented by Rev. Dr. Clark and Gen.
J. B. Gordon, to the Board of Trustees.
After some discussion the plan was ap
proved, provided certain modifications
to be made in it, to which the Commis
sioners assented. It will next be laid
before the Board of Trustees of the
University. This will be done at the
approaching commencement at Athens.
We are gratified not only to announce
the action of Emory, touching this great
and noble scheme, but to announce that
the plan has been endorsed and recom
mended by a majority of the Board of
Trustees of Oglethorpe University. In
deed, it has been signed and approved
by every member of the Board of Trus
tees of Oglethorpe, to whom the Com
missioners, up to this time, have been
able to prehunt it.
We are greatly gratified to learn that
at the late meeting of the Board of
Trustees of Emory College, the honor
ary degree of L. L. D , was conferred
on the Kev. J. 0. A. Clark, D. D., the
Chairman of the above important com
mittee. This high honor was richly de
served by this eminent scholar and
divine and will command the warmest
approbation of the public. W.
The Caterpillars on the Sea Is
lands. — The Charleston News and
Courier, of yesterday, says:
“This destructive insect, which has in
the past few years so disastrously visit
ed the island cotton region, has, we
learu, appeared in numerous places on
the seaboard, most prominently on
James Island, immediately opposite this
city, x'he re it has been observed in
small quantities op several of theplanta
tions, and a specimen insect Ims been
sent to one of our factors, which is pro
nounced to be unmistakably the genuine
cotton destroyer. It has, we are in
formed, been seen also on Wadmalaw,
John’s Island and E listo, but to quite
an unimportant extent as yet; but as
the weather has lately been showery and
remarkably favorable iu its conditions
for its propagation, its farther exten
sion in large numbers may almost cer
tainly be looked for. The planters are
supplying them-selvas with Paris green,
with which some are hopeful tq suc
cessfully fight the invader.
Grange Matters. The Executive
Committee had an interesting meeting
yesterday. Hon. J. H. Echols, of Ogle
thorpe, was present, and, by an address,
added much to the occasion.
The Grangers of a portion of Wilkes
county and the FI at woods of Elbert
county will give a pie-nic at the foimer
county on the 12th of August.—Elbtr
ton Gazette.
Crops in Morgan.— From a correspon
dent in Morgan county, we learn that
the crops in that section are very back
ward and stunted, but free of grass.—
The farmers do not expect to make more
than oue half of last year’s crop.
THE GREAT SCANDAL.
WHAT BEECHER SAYS.
He Denies Tilton's Statements in
Toto.
New York, July 23. —Beecher has
made a preliminary statement in reply
to Tilton, denying in toto the charges of
the latter, and warmly defending Mrs.
Tilton from the accusations of her hus
band, for whom he says he cherishes a
fine feeling—such as a gentleman might
honorably offer to a Christian woman,
and which she might receive and recipro
cate without moral scruple. He rejects
with indignation every imputation which
reflects upon her honor or his own.
Beecher critically examines Tilton’s
charges and recognizes the reason which
made it of transcendent importance to
himsell, the church and cause of public
morality that a full answer shall be
given to them, and he looks to the Com
mittee of Investigation to search to the
bottom and vindicate him. He con
cludes: “I do not propose to analyze and
contest at this time the extraordinary
paper of Mr. Tilton, but I cannot permit
it to pass without special notice. They
refer to the only two incidents which
Mr. Tilton pretends to have witnessed
personally, the one an alleged scene in
my house while looking over engravings
and the other a chamber scene in his
own house. His statements concerning
this are absolutely false. Nothing of
the kind ever occurred nor any sem
blance of any such things. They are
now brought to my notice for the first
time. To every statement which con
nects me dishonorably with Mrs. Eliza
beth li. Tilton, or which in any wise
would impugne the honor and purity of
this beloved Christian, woman 1 give
the most explicit, comprehensive and
solemn denial.”
The statement of Mrs. Tilton will be
made public, and it is understood that
it will be a complete denial of the
charges made against Beecher and her
self by her husband. Beecher will pre
pare a more full and concise reply, to be
submitted to the Investigating Commit
tee at as early a date as possible.
Mrs. Tilton’s Reply—She Asserts Her
Innocence.
Mrs. Tilton’s statement is published.
She begius with the expression that the
imperative necessity which is forced
upon her to open anew the pains and
sorrows she had for the lust ten years
daily schooled herself to bury and for
give is the saddest act of her life. A
sense of the perversion of her life, faith
almost compels her now to stand aside
till God himself delivers her. Y’et she
sees in the wanton act of her husband
an urgent call and privilege from which
she shrinks not to reply in detail to the
twenty-two articles of arraignment. She
will not attempt at present, but if called
upon to testify to each and all of the them
shall not hestitate ti do so. She
solemnly avows that long before the
Woodbul! publication she knows by
insinuation and direct statement her
husband to have repeated to her very
near relatives and friends the substance
of the accusations which shock the
moral sense of the entire community
this day. Many times she says when
hearing that certain persons had spoken
ill of him, he has sent me to chide them
for so doing, and then and there I learn
ed he had been before me with his
calumnies against myself, so that I was
speechless. The reiteration in his state
ments that lie had persistently striven
to hide these so-called facts is utterly
false, as his hatred of Mr. Beech
er has existed these many years,
and the determination to ruin Mr.
Beecher has been the only aim of
his life. Again, the perfidy with which
the holiest love a wife ever offer
ed has been recklessly disclosed in this
publication reaches well nigh to sacri
lege, and added to this the endeavor,
like the early scandal of Mrs. Woodliull,
to make my own words condemn me,
has no parallel—most conspicuously my
letter quoting the reading of Griffith
Gaunt. Had Mr. Tilton read the pure
character of Catherine, he would have
seen that 1 lifted myself beside it
as near as any human being may
affect an ideal, but it was her
character and not the incidents of fic
tion succeeding it to which I referred.
Hers was not a sin of criminal act or
thought. A like confession of Lers I
had made to Mr. Tilton in telling of my
love to my friend and pastor one year
before, and I now add that, notwith
standing all misrepresentations and the
anguish of some, I owe it to my ac
quaintance and friendship with Mr.
Beecher, as to no other human instru
mentality, that eucouragi ment in my
mental life, and that growth toward the
divine nature which enabled me to walk
daily in a living hope of the life beyond.
The shameless charges in articles 7, 8
and 9 are fearfully false in each and
every particular. The letter referred to
in Mr. Tilton’s tenth paragraph was ob
tained from me by importunity and by
misrepresentations that it was ueoessary
for him to use it in the then pending
difficulties with Mr. Bowen. I was then
sick nigh unto death. I signed what
ever lie requested, without knowing or
understanding its import. The paper I
have never seen and do not know what
statements it contained. In charge
eighteen a letter of mine addressed to
Mr. Francis Moulton is quoted to prove
that I never desired a separation or was
advised by Mr. and Mrs. Beecher to
leave my husband. I reply, the letter
was of Mr. Tilton’s own oonoocting,
which he induced me to copy or sign as
my own—an act which in my sickness
and mistaken—thought to help him I
have too often done during these un
happy years. The implication that the
harmony of the home was unbroken till
Mr. Beecher entered it as a frequent
guest and friend is a lamentable satire
upon the household where he himself
years before laid the corner stone of free
love and desecrated it up to the time of
my departure, so that the atmosphere
was not only Godless, but impure for
my children, and in this effort and throe
of agony I would fain lift my daughters
and all womanhood from the insiduons
and diabolical teachings of these latter
days.
His frequent efforts to prove me in
sane, of weak mind, iu,significant and
mean presence, all rank in the category
of heartlessness, selfishness and false
hood, having its climax in his present
endeavor to convince the world that I
am or ever have been unable to distin
guish between an innocent and a guilty
love. In summing up the whole mat
ter, Mrs. Tilton says: “I affirm myself
before God to bo innocent of the crime
laid upon me; that never have I been
guilty of adultery with Henry Ward
Beecher, in thought or deed, nor has he
ever offered to me an indecorns or im
proper proposal. To the further oharge
that I was led away from my home by
Mr. Beecher’s friends and by the advice
of a lawyer, whom Mr. Beecher had
sent to me, and who, in advance of my
appearing before the committee, ar
ranged with me the questions and an
swers which are to constitute my testi
mony on Mr. Beecher’s behalf, I answer
that this is again untrue, having never
seen the lawyer until introduced to him
a few moments before the arrival of the
committee by my step-father, Judge
Morse.” She says she saw well nigh with
blinding eyes that Tilton had put into
executions the almost daily threats of j
his life that he lived to crush out Mr. ;
Beecher; that the God of battles was in
him; that he had always been Mr.
Beecher’s superior, and all that lay in j
his path—wife, children or reputation,
if need be—should fall before this pur- j
pose.
Vic. Will Save Her Thunder for the !
Last.
New York, July 24 —Victoria Wood- j
hull is here. She declares that the |
statement attributed to her in regard to j
her relations with Tilton is absolutely |
false. Siie says she will reserve what |
she has to say on the Beeclier-Tilton i
matter till both paries liaye exhausted !
themselves.
What Tilton Says.
The Argus, this afternoon, publishes
a supplementary statement from Tilton
in the form of an interview with one of
its reporters, iu which Tilton says that
all the accounts of his oross examina
tion by the committee have been incor
rect, one sided and half malicious, lie
presentations of him furnished to the
reporters by the counsel of the commit
tee, for which the committee themselves
are not responsible. The latter have a
grave case on their hands and are wise
enough to acknowledge its gravity, but
their counsel are full of tricks and
stratagems to belittle and distort. sThey
will, in the end, be two of the worst
beaten attorneys who ever conducted a
case. They have made a hideous blun
der in diverting their examination from
the facts at issue into an inquiry into
the names and character of his (Tilton’s)
female acquaintances, This gives him
the right £o institute a counter inquiry
into the standing of the ladies or Mr.
Beecher’s acquaintance.
BEECHER.
Tilton is Sorry for Exposing Him.
New York, July 23. —Theodore Til
ton says of the publication of his state
ment : “I would not have had it pub
lished for one hundred thousand dol
lars. Augustus Maverick, a friend of
mine, helped me to copy the original,
and made a second copy of it while 1
was before the committee. He printed
it out of friendship to me. When I
heard of it I went to my room in the
Astor House and threw myself on my
bed in despair.”
Tilton Dilates on Everlasting Woe.
Maverick, who is editor of the Brook
lyn paper in which the statement first
appeared, received yesterday the follow
ing ;
Wednesday, July 22.—My Dear Mav
erick : From no other person, savo
either yourself as my copyist, or from
the committee’s short-hand writer, or
from some member of the committee,
could my sworn statement have gone
into print. My heart is bowed and
bleeding at seeing these facts spread
before the world. Tell mo how could
you have taken such responsibility with
out consulting me in advance. There
remains no possibility of peace or si
lence, nothing but everlasting woe. Ex
plain yourself. You must do it, both to
me and to the public.
Yours in grief, Theodore Tilton.
The Offending Editor Explains.
Maverick publishes this note, and
adds in the course, of a short explana
tion, addressed to Tilton and the public:
“ As one of his (Tilton’s) staunch
.friends, loving and knowing him to be
long uu abased man, and that he still
shrunk from hurting others in order to
shield himself, I resolved that this de
fense should be published, and I pub
lished it. I did so without his knowl
edge or consent, and I did right and
stand by the act as an act of justice to a
mau who has been wronged, and to a
community that has the right to know
all the facts.”
Beecher's Love Letters from “ Ador
ing' 1 Women.
A gentleman whose official business
has led him to receive and open most
of Beecher’s correspondence, said last
evening : “In Beecher’s love letters
you would be surprised to see how fool
ishly some women write to him. Every
once in a while a woman gets a little craz'v
and writes to Beecher to tell liow much
she adores him. The letters' used to go
to the Independent office, and Tilton,
under directions from Beecher, opened
them.* Many of them lie made copies
of, and to-day lias manuscripts, names
and copies of letters, all connected with
respectable ladies, who have written to
Beecher all about their love for him.
He receives love letters by the ream and
the cord and
The Joke of It
Is that as his wife takes care of all let
ters that come to him, she reads his love
letters before lie sees them. Mrs. Til
ton’s letters to Beecher were very affec
tionate and enthusiastic, and expressed
a deep pervading love in him. Mrs.
Beecher read them all before he saw
them, and they are all in her possession
now. When the scandal was first noised
about, Mrs. Beecher looked up the let
ters, and at Mrs. Tilton’s request has
presented them to her. You
Can’t Convince Mrs. Beeclier
That her husband is guilty of anything
that Tilton charges. She says that if all
the women in creation were to swear
that Beecher had been unfaithful she
would not believe them.”
New York, July 25.— Tho Boeelier in
vestigating committee was not in session
to-day. Au endeavor to interview Mr.
Beecher this morning early resulted in
obtaining from him a declaration that
Tilton’s charges were absolutely false,
as he would in due time make apparent.
Mr. Tracy, the counsel conducting the
case before the committee in the inter
est of Mr. Beecher, says : Beecher’s
fault was venial; the stupidity that iu
duoed concealment was damnable.
A REMARK ABLE ORDEAL.
How a Texas Doctor Experimented
on Himself—Toying with Death for
the Sake of Science iodine as a
Remedy for Snake Bites.
[Now Orleans Timos.]
We don’t know that we have ever come
across a more striking example of this
peculiar and admirable trait of tiro
genuine high -tonedmedical practitioner’s
character and creed than is set forth in
the following letter, which we find in a
late number of the Houston (Texas)
Telegraph. It is a private letter to Mr.
E. H. Cushing, a prominent citizen of
Houston, formerly editor and proprietor
of the Telegraph, and well known in the
years gone by to tho writer of these
lines.
The letter is from the veteran Dr.
Aslibl Smith, one of tho oldest and
most distinguished citizens of Texas; a
thorough physician and accomplished
scholar and gentleman, who lias served
Texas whilst a republic and then as a
State, in various public and honorable
offices, with honor and distinction.
Having had tho pleasure of knowing
Dr. Smith intimately, wo can vouch for
it that this letter was not written for
publication, and that the whole trying
ordeal, in which his life hung suspended
in the balauco for hours, took place just
as he describes it. Dr. Smith’s dis
covery, from his own personal experience,
of the efficacy of iodine in poison from
a snake bite, will of course bedtily noted
by physicians.
My Dear Sir— l can’t walk, hut, with
help, have hobbled to tho table. If I
improve reasonably in hobbling byFriday
night, I shall lie at my post, in your
city, on Saturday. My lameness would
deserve but the shortest mention but for
some facts connected with its cause,
which may, perhaps, he of interest to
others in similar circumstances.
About dark Saturday last, as I was
walking up the hill from the bay shore,
I felt a heavy scuffling about one of my
legs, and at the same instant the bites
of sharp teeth, Reaching the house I
saw by the light three several little
wounds, with blood exuding from them
on my leg, three inches above the ankle.
There were two punctures to each wound,
made by the two fangs of the snake
tiiat had bit me. Swelling had
already commenced—less than five
minutes from the biting. Still 1 deter
mined to do nothing, for a while at least,
in order to observe the effects of the
poison unmodified by treatment. Tile
swelling increased rapidly, and in fifteen
minutos more the pain had become ex
cruciating, and I could not bear any
weight on the leg. I was obliged liow
to lie down.
I now took, in a wine glass of water, a
half teaspoonfnl of saturated tincture of
iodine. About fifteen minutes after
wards, I repeated the iodine—about
twenty drops. A short time after, per
haps fifteen or twenty minutes, a third
dose of iodine—fifteen drops—in twenty
or thirty minutes after, the fourth. The
length of these several interval! is con
jectural. I had the orifices of the wounds
several times to iclied with tlio tincture
of iodine, and the leg, which was now
swollen from the ankle to the knee, was
painted with iodine.
The pain' was excruciating, but by
10:30 or 11 o’clock—two and a half or
three hours after the bite—had abated
sensibly. About 1:30 in the morning I
fell asleep, and awoke at sunrise with
complete stiffness and superficial sore
ness of the limb on touch, now swollen
to double its former size, but with no
pain worth mentioning. Nor have I
since had any suffering further than
complete disease of the leg, till this
morning, and being obliged to have it
at all times elevated. The foot partici
pated in the swelling, and if the leg
hung down it became (and indeed still
does) in a few minutes perfectly livid.
The interest of the matter in question
lies in the use, the efficacy of iodine as
a remedy for venemous bits. Nothing
else than iodine was used; no spirits, no
hartshorn, not the least possible tiling
in the world, internally or externally,
except iodine aud one small drink of
water,
Former experience had given mo con
fidence in iodine by its use with others. I
was determined to give it a fair showing
in my own case, unaided and unob
structed by any other medication. I
have attach' and the greater interest to this
case because, though one is seldom a
safe judge in his own case, the present
bite has been by long odds the severest
snake bite I ever knew. If left to itself
it would, in my opinion, have been fatal
in a very few hours. That the snake was
a very large one, I know from his heavy
scuffling about my legs, and, J may add,
from the depth to which I felt his fangs
enter. My instantaneous suspicion,
from the weight and severity of the biting,
was that my assailant was a wildcat, or
some such animal. The excruciating pain
felt subsequently, as before mentioned,
seemed to me like the ferocious cramps |
of the muscles in maliganant cholera, i
except that they were not in any degree
spasmodic.
There were other circumstances,
symptoms which I should detail were I
writing to a physician, but they would
only still further bore you. To set forth
truly the efficacy of iodine must excuse
my length. Ido not know what kind of
snake it was, hut suspect it to have been
a ratilesnak.e Very truly yours,
Ashrel Smith.
Missouri Politics.
St. Boris, July 24. —The Republican
State Central Committee had two ses
sions here to-day, with a full attend
ance. After a free exchange of views
regarding the present political situation
in the State, resolutions were adopt
ed declaring that its condition merits
the serious attention of all good citizens,
irrespective of party, and to bring about
a reform, which is imperatively de
manded. They invite the co-operation
of all persons and organizations, of
whatever political face, to that end.
Balloon Ascension.
New York, July 24. —Professor W.
H. Donalsou made an ascension in the
new balloon Barnaul, from the hippo
drome, this p. m., for the purpose of
testing easterly curreuts. He was ac
companied by newspaper representa
tives of the Sun, World, Tribune,
Herald and Times. The departure was
witnessed by thousands of spectators.
The party took provisions and will re
main up taking observations for forty
eight hours.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Miscellany.
London, July 21.— The Times' cor
respondent telegraphs from Paris that
the Marquis of Castellano will movo a
prorogation of the Assembly to-day, and
the motion will probably he carried, as
the Government will accept it.
A special from Berlin to the Times
says the Prussian Government has sent
eight detectives to Kissengen to protect
Bismarck.
Small Pox.
There is an alarming outbreak of small
pox at Newmarket. Upwards of sixty
eases are already reported. The au
thorities have asked the Jockey Club to
permit them to convert their grand
stand into a hospital, where infected
persons may be quartered.
Spanish Affairs.
Madrid, July 24.— 1 tis stated that
Senors Castellar and Zorrilla are pre
paring to act in concert for the definitive
establishment of a Conservative Repub
lic.
England and Spain.
London, July 24 — In the Commons
this evening, Disraeli announced that
the land transfer, the jnrisdietnre and
the endorsed school hills would bo
withdrawn, and Purlieament prorogued
on the Bth of August. Russell asked
whether the Government had made any
remonstrances to France against tho
connivances of her authorities in the
violation of the Spanish frontier by tho
Carlists. He especially referred to tho
rumors that the French Government
had interfered with Spain in a manner
contrary to the friendly relations and to
the law of nations; that Carlists escap
ing into France instead of being return
ed had been furnished with passports
and permitted to cross and rccross tho
frontier. He urged that according
to ordinary courtesy due from one civ
ilized nation to another, there should
1)0 no unnecessary delay in the formal
recognition of the Spanish Government
by Great Britian. Derby replied that
Spain had not asked England to inter
fere. He considered the recognition of
the Spanish Government at present pro
mature. When the time arrived it
would be better such recognition should
tie tho collective act of all the European
powers.
The Spanish War.
It is reported from Spain that Gen.
Mariones won a great victory in Navarro,
taking J,S(X) Carlists prisoners. Tho
Telegraph's special from Berlin says it
is reported Unit the German Government
is making a strenuous endeavor to stop
supplies of weapons and money to tho
Carlists, and has called tho attention of
tho Versailles Government to tho sub
ject.
The French Situation.
Tho Times' Paris special says tho
Government consented to a recess be
cause it hopes before tho Assembly
meets again to prepare a now constitu
tional bill, for which it can in the mean
time secure the support of the majority.
Paris, July 25. —The consideration of
the constitutional hill has been post
poned until after the recess, and a mo
tion that tho Assembly, after voting ou
Budget, he prorogued until January
sth, 1875, has been declared urgent by
395 to 308.
Tho Government hesitated to com
mit itself fully to tho bill reported from
the Committee of Thirty by M. Veulavon
because it was sure to be rejected.
Prussia and Spain.
Berlin, July 25.—The North German
Gazette says the German squadron now
off Rye, England, has been ordered to
cruise off the Northern coast of Spain,
and that these orders were given in con
sequence of the shooting of a German
newspaper correspondent and other
German subjects by Carlists.
TERRIFIC WATER SPOUT.
A Part of a Town Swept Away—Thirty
Lives Lost.
Ban Franoiscn, July 25.—A dispatch
from Eureka, Nevada, says : A terrible
water-spout burst in the mountains yes
terday and swept through the town,
killing twenty persons and causing great
destruction of property. Another dis
patch from Elko says tho water-spoilt
crossed the Central Pacific Railroad
track between Humboldt Wells and
Toano, injuring it so that western bound
emigrant trains cannot got through to
day.
Ban Francisco, July 25.—A dispatch
from Eureka gives tho particulars of tho
storm yesterday. It had been raining
with great violence from early in tho
morning until noon when a cloud burst
on a lofty range of mountains to tho
eastward and a vast volume of water
washed down a canon where tho town is
located. The eastern part of the town
was flooded in ten minutes by a fearful
rush of water, which constantly in
creased in violence, depth and impetu
osity. Tho people were hemmed in
and every moment houses were torn
from their foundations and swept
away with the occupants. Ropes
were* procured and a lino formed.
Brave men, thus protected, dashed
into tho torrent, saving runny lives.
Only a few women and children were
lost. Roger Robnett, reporter of the
Sentinel, is among the drowned. Tho
Sentinel office was swept away. Tho
bodies are being brought to the Court
House as fast as recovered. Three
Chinamen were lost. Thirty houses
were swept away, and nil that part of tho
town in which are situated dunce houses
and other places of amusement
gone. Tho flood lusted only hull an
hour. It is believed the total loss of
life will reach twenty-live or thirty.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
Improvement is on the increase in
Gainesville.
Only thirty-two dog badges have been
sold in Columbus.
j Crops near Arlington are reported to
he iu fine condition.
Muscogee county has 2,120 white and
J 2,795 colored children of school ago.
An acre of corn, near Smithville, will
make one hundred and twenty bushels.
Whitely has been renominated by the
j Radicals of the Second District. Ho
j received 30 out of 40 votes.
The Rome and Patona hoys played a
match game of base bull with the Selma
club at Talladega, on Friday.
Denning, the defaulting post offico
clerk from Atlanta, sported around St.
Louis under an assumed name.
Anew paper will soon bo issued at
Moiiticello, Jasper county. It will bear
the name of the Monticello Advance.
| A negro woman was killed by liglit
j niug on Col. W. S. Shepherd’s planta
; tion, near Florence, on Monday last.
| Two men named Rowgeo and Fcrger
pou were stabbed, one futally, in At
lanta last Wednesday, by a man named
Edmondson.
Terrell Clark, colored, was run over
by the down passenger train on the
Georgia Railroad, near Yellow river
bridge, and instantly killed.
Crops were never better in Terrell
county. Cotton is far advanced and full
of fruit. There is more corn planted
than has ever been known before.
A large stone pipe, weighing four
pounds, was plowed up in a field near
Aleova river, in Newton county, several
days ago. It is supposed to have been
used by tho Indians us a pipe of peace.
A difficulty occurred at Oglethorpo
one day lust week between Mr. J. T.
Kclsoe and Mr. Slaughter Hill, during
which tho former shot the latter with a
double barreled shot gun, wounding
him severely in the shoulder and arm.
Terrell county returns un aggregate
of §1,597,097 for taxation. The county
has 3,307 cows, 1,245 horses, 0,353 hogs,
and 513 sheep; has 20,853 J acres planted
in cotton, 17; in rice, 113} in wheat, 96}
in rye, 3,260} in oats, 22,488} iu corn",
545 in potatoes, 282} in cane, and 1,234}
iu pea nuts.
Plain Explanation of Obscure Pro
verbs.
“The morn the merrier.”
Multitudinous assemblages nro tho
most provocative of caohiunatory hi
larity.
“Birds of a feather floek together.”
Habitants of ether, similarly plumed
gregariously assemble.
“Out of the frying pan into the fire.”
Emergence from the culinary utensil
into the devouring element.
“Too many cooks spoil the broth.”
A superfluity of artists deteriorates tho
mock turtle.
“A stitch in time saves nine.”
A connecting cotton link, properly es
tablished, is ninefoldly economical.
“It is a long lane that has no turn
ing-”
That rustic pathway is undoubtedly
longitudinal that has no circumlocu
tion.
“Love me, love my dog.”
Evince au amatory disposition towards
myself; let your deportment towards my
canine be also affectionate.
“Those who live in glass houses
shouldn’t throw stones.”
Dwellers in crystal palaces should re
frain from tho propulsion of irregular
shaped particles of granite formation.
“ ’Tis an ill wind that blows nobody
good.”
Tho blast of .Eolus is indeed malevo
lent, that benefiteth not, though homce
pathically, some portion of humanity.
“A hir'd in tho hand is worth two in
the hush.”
A natural production of tho feathered
tribe, properly secured, is more than
equivalent to a greater number in a com
parative state of freedom.