Newspaper Page Text
010 SERIES VOL. LIXII
NEW SERIES VOL. XXXVIII
TKit MS.
IHE DAILY CHRONICLE k SENTINEL, the oldwt
ne.**, ai <T in tlu- S .nth. i» published daily,
M n iav. Tmn- : Per year,slo; *ix mouth*,
$5; three month*. s'2 W.
THE TRI-WEEKLY CHItOMCLE Ac HENTINEL is
pibli-h“d # v ry Tu -day, Tbaraday and Katur
«iav. Ter/u-: Ouo y«-af, s■'» ; **x months, $2 s*).
THE WEEKLY CHftONICLK k SENTINEL in pub
!,«»)• <1 ■ -ry W« Terra* : Out- year, $2
aix months, fl.
BLBtfCIIIPTIONtt in aU cases in advance, and no
paper .tinned after the expiration of the time
paid for.
RATES OF ADVERTISING TX DAILY.— AI! trail
-11. nt :tdver‘menie*.tH will be charged at the rate
of $1 p r uare so- each iuaertion for tiie tir*t
Advertisement* in the Tri-Weekly, two
third* of the rate* in the Daily; and in the
Weekly, one half the Daily ate*. Marriage and ,
Funeral Notice, *1 Nothin, fl
p r square for the firnt publication. Special
rat** wil i>e nm * f-,r advertiaeraeuts running
for a month or longer.
REMITTANCES should be male by Poet Office!
Money Order* <>r Express. If thin cannot be
done, pr tortion against 1« ****** by mail may be
secured i>y forwardings draft payab.e to the
Proprietor* of the Chronicle k - fntinkl, or by
sending the money in a registered letter.
ALL COMMUNICATIONS announcing candidates
for office—from County Const »bie to Member of
Congre-,* wiil be charged for at the rate of
twenty < ■ nt* p.-r line. All announcements must
b* paid for in advance.
Address WALSH k WRIGHT,
Cun >sp f.K k SrvTtNn. Ang'ista. fn,
Cijromclu an& jSrnftml.
WEI>N ESDAY AUGUST ill, 1871. !
- - - |
MINOR TOPICS.
Aii Irishman who was very near-nigh ted, '
about to fight & duel, insisted that ho should
stand mix pace* nearer to hi* antagoniMt than
the latter did to him, and that they were both
to tire at the name time.
A rag-picker in New York haw been ruined.
JTe had just started in busiueHs as a dog and
c&tVmeat man when the hydrophobia season
set in and the slaughter of dogs began. His
new wheelbarrow in now on his hands, and all
the world iw dark to him.
The new comet ih 100,000,000 miles away,
somewhere in tlic neighborhood of the Little
Bear. From present indications. «ay the as
tronomers. it is approaching the oa**th. but will
not attain the degree of brightness predicted
by the late lamented Loggia.
According to the newspaper biographies of
him, Theodore Tilton was horn in twelve places
in Massachusetts seven places in Connecticut,
two places in New Jersey, ami all over New
York. He was more born than to be borne
with; yet, withal, to judge from “the great
catalysis," it would do him no hurt in the
world to he born again. Inter-Oman.
A Boston firm having recently written to a
debtor two c r three times without eliciting any
res|>ojiKO, sent a letter asking if there was not
a little lack of ’‘commercial courtesy" in his
neglect to reply. Promptly, by the return
mail, came a check for the account, and the
terse and comffre! ensive rep’y: “No lack of
commercial courtesy, but a lack of circulating
medium here.”
The Massachusetts Legislature has passed a
law for the protection of animals For over*
driving or torturing an animal the limit of the
penalty is a year’s imprisonment or $250 fine ;
railroads are forbidden to contino animals in
cars more than twenty-eight hours at a time,
and if at the end of this period their owners do
not provide drink and refreshment for them,
they are subject to a tine of from SIOO to SSOO.
The word “animal" is made to include birds
and all the brute creation.
Loudon lias experienced a great and Hudden
rain fall, less disastrous, but not unlike in char
acter to that which recently visited Pittsburg.
Near Hackney, omnibuses had to cearo run
ning for a time from the Hoods horses being
breast high in water, and the furniture in the
lower rooms of the houses floating about. The
rain fell mo thickly that, at times, it veiled com
pletely one side of the street from the other,
as if by the down-sweep of a curtain. The
lightning was mischievous, and in a good many
instances fatal.
Ooggia’s comet has scarcely disappeared be
fore another erratic celestial visitor dawns
upon the world. On last Sunday night M.
Borolli. at Marseilles, discovered anew comet.
Its position is reported in right ascension, 15h.
52m.. and its polar distance JO degrees. Jt can
bo seen in our latitude, and it is described as
“moderately bright" and having a movement
toward the northwest. Borolli is a very in
dustrious astronomer, and, like his colleague.
Coggia. lias made heretofore some in port ant
astronomical discoveries. Whether his present
comet will rival Coggia's is yet to bo demon
strated.
The Now York Herald pronounces the death
of the woman suffrage movement thus : “The
attitude of a woman like Fdizaboth Cady Stan
ton on the Plymouth question has done more
harm to the woman’s rights movement than
twenty years of agitation will remedy. Society
sees that under the movement, oven as repre
sented by a woman like Mrs. Stanton, there is
a warfare against the sacred traditions of home,
marriage and honorable maternity; that it
countenances simply license and shame in their
worst phases. Mrs. Stanton gave her life to
build up this movement, and in a day she de
stroys it all."
It is reported that in Germany the largely in
creasing number of short sighted persons is
believed to have resulted from the imperfect
modes of teaching and learning. In Kngland
a similar increase has been observed in all
schools, not excepting those of the highest
class and universities. It has been ascertain
ed in Germany, a London journalist declares,
that “ short sight is in largo measure due to
the unnatural positions children are compelled
to assume by reason of the awkward construc
tion of the desks ami seats, and to the imper
fect lighting of tiio school buildings. The
same result, attributed to the same causes, ap
pears in Sweden, Denmark. Switzerland and
Ainenca, and in all of these countries steps
are now being taken to remedy the evil.”
The Patrons’ Belief Committee of Louisiana j
make the following announcement to the Pa
trons of Husbandry throughout the Union: “It
is with great pleasure that the Patrons’ Belief ]
Committee announces to our large hearted |
brethren throughout the Union that no more ,
contributions to sufferers from overflow are
needed, the liberal assistance already received j
being amply sufficient to carry our diet reseed j
brethren through the most urgent of their j
necessities. A full report of the disburse- |
ments, as well as of the receipts, will soon be :
published by the committee and placed in the j
hands of the Master of every State Grange.—
Until then, the committee, as well as those who
have been recipients of our brethren’s kind
liberality, return sincere thanks for the same.'
A physician at Manchester. England, has
prepared a statistical table showing the num
ber of deaths from small pox occurring in 1.000
deaths from all causes, in the districts from f
which reports were obtained. The returns are
from 1700 to 1870. and are given iu decennial j
periods for convenience of comparison. Prior j
to 1800. and the introduction of vaccination. ;
the number of deaths from small pox in each
decennial period ranged from 56 to 102 in 1,000
deaths. The proportion has steadily decreased j
since that time from 64 in 1800-1810 to 10 in j
1860-18'®* The average for the decennial pc- j
nods prior to 1800 was 75 in 1,000 deaths; the |
average since 1800 has been 28. These sta- !
tistics show the great use of vaccination iu |
saving the victims of small pox from the fatal !
effects of that disease.
In the .4 mri, tin Journal of Sit tY. for May. j
tbs Rev. H. O. Hovev has a very important |
and interesting article under the title of
K,ibi<s Vop'n.v n, in which it is shown that the
skunk can no longer be regarded as simply a
very disagreeable animal, but on thvcoutrarv a
most dangerous one. and is to be classed with
tbo rattlesnake as an enemy to mankind. As
strange as it may appear. Mr. Hovey has
brought forward an array of facts to prove
that the skunk is verv often affected with a
disease or perhaps with a natural salivary se
cretion. that causes its bite to be far more
dreaded than that of the rattlesnake or of a
mad dog. As the skunk is a nocturnal animal
that steals npon his victim without warning
and gives the bite which almost invariably
proves fatal, it is truly to be dreaded ; espe
cially is this the case in the Western States
where the animal is abundant and many per
sons are nightly exposed to its attacks.
Mention has already been made of the mur
der of William Beutly by William West, a fel
low-convict at Sing Sing ou Sunday morning.
The prime motive for this act has since been I
confessed by the murderer, and it demonstrates
a curious characteristic of the thieves of New
York, or, in fact, of any large c:ty. They have j
their castrs, which are as rigorous and expu
lsive as those of India. A bank burglar would I
no more condescend to speak to a hall-thief or 1
a pickpocket than the Prince of Wales would to
dine with his butcher. West, it appears, has
been passing himself off as a high-toned thief
among the most exclusive of his fellow-crimi
nals. Bentley, whose cell adjoined hi*, in
the stillness of the night, taunted him with the
assertion that he tWest) “had worked five
vears on a canal boat. This struck as sharply
into his bosom as a barbed arrow, and in tones
of rage he muttered : “PU send you to the
hospital for that iu the mormng.” He was
true to his word, and stands over the grave of his
victim vindicated as a thief of the first water.
If hanged, as he should be. be will be regarded
as a martyr by tlie profession. —Uukmund Dis
| THE BEECHER-TILTON SCANDAL.
The New York papers of Wednesday
contain over six columns of closely
printed matter, giving the official report ,
of the examination of Mrs. Tilton, j
furnished for publication by the self- j
constituted Investigating Committee of i
j Plymouth Church. The Tribune, which j
is partial to Beecher, condenses the
story of Mrs. Tilton. For three years
her friendship for Mr. Beecher was the i
subject of suspicion on the part of Til
ton. In the Winter of 1869-70 he ac- ,
cased her of criminal relations with j
Beecher. Tilton was jealous of others ;
besides Beecher. In 1870 he began to j
write letters on the subject of her crimi-1
nality. She considered his charges as |
the offspring of a morbid mania, and j
did not treat them seriously until he j
began to publish them abroad. Instead j
of a confession on her part in July, !
1870, she claims that he (Tilton) ad- I
mitted his own guilt. The letter;
from Schoharie county she explains at j
length, and denies the specific charges of :
criminal conduct with Beecher, both
in the bed room and library of her own
house. She details the ascendancy
which her husband had gained over her,
and the cruel treatment received at his
hands. His influence over her she de
scribes as almost mesmeric. She ad
mits that she was a slave to his will.
She copied and signed long letters for
him, and in one instance, when he had
taken her to a lady and asked, “Have I
slandered you ?” she did not deny the
calumnies. The letters which she signed
under the pressure of his influence were
many in number and included a state
ment of two lines, which she thought Mr.
Bowen was to have, but which Mr.
Moulton received (this was the confes
sion of her guilt), the sentence that was
shown to Dr. Stores and the letter to
her husband, after giving the retraction
to Mr. Beeches. Two passages in her
examination relate to her interviews
with Mr. Beecher when the retraction
was demanded, and also with Mrs.
Beecher. She describes the scene in
her residence, of which Susan B. Antho
nt was a witness, the manner in which
she was locked up in her bed room, and
gives the proofs of Tilton’s intrigues
and infidelity. According to the testi
mony of his wife, Tilton is one of the
most cruel of husbands and one of the
most impure of men. Mr. Beeciier she
claims to be innocent of every charge
preferred by Tilton. He was jealous of
his greatness and he determined to
crush him even if he had to sacrifice
his wife and children in order to
accompilsli his purpose. Tilton she
claims to have been possessed of a
morbid mania growing out of his free
love doctrines. Beecher is a saint.
Tilton is a sinner. Mrs. Tilton is one
of the most persecuted and innocent of
women. This is the substance of all
her testimony. The full details we
have no room for, and even if we had
we have no desire to pander to a prurient
taste which is injurious to public and
private morality.
One phase of this disgusting scandal
is about to terminate, and give place to
one more shocking, where the ghouls of
society—the buzzards of the human spe
cies—can glut their scandal-loving ap
petites with all the disgusting details of
this sorrowing tale of domestic infelicity
and infidelity. The work of the self
constituted committee, composed of the
members of Plymouth, is about to ter
minate. Tilton refuses to appear be
fore it. He says that it was constituted
to acquit Beecher and convict him. Til
ton, if he is crazy, as alleged by his
wife and others, had sense enough to
see that the Investigating Committee
pursued its labors as if he (Tilton) and
not Beecher were on trial. And this ap
pears to us to have been the object of
the committee so far as the inves
tigation has developed itself. Til
ton, believing that the committee
did not mean to do him justice, has de
termined to carry his case to a higher
tribunal, where all the evidence will be
submitted under oath, and where all the
witnesses will be subjected to rigorous
examination. Under the advice of his
counsel, Tilton will begin legal pro
ceedings at once against Mr. Beeoher.
He has, therefore, declined to lay any
documents, papers, or remaining testi
mony, before the Plymouth Church
Committee. He has come to this con
clusion because, as he states, the com
mittee was appointed by Beecher him
self, expected to act in his behalf, as
sisted by attorneys employed exclusively
for his vindication, holding secret ses
sions inaccessible to the public, having
no power to compel witnesses, giving no
opportunity for the opposite side to
cross-examine such as voluntarily ap
pear, publishing or suppressing their
testimony as the committee sees fit,
and, so far ns Tilton’s experience
goes, askjng him no questions save
such as were irrelevant, to the
case, and omitting to publish, in
wliat lie characterizes as their imper
fect aid unjust report, testimony fa
vorable to his side of the case. Expecting
no justice from Mr. Beecher’s self-con
stituted committee, he has instructed
his counsel to proceed to carry his case
to a court of law.
There is no evidence in this that Mr.
Tilton is of unsound mind. While we
have no respect for the man who would
submit for years to what he believed the
dishonor of his wife, we are not dispos
ed to believe him crazy because he has i
taken his ease to the proper tribunal. It j
is the best evidence to our mind of his j
sanity. The daily papers of New York j
—noticeably the Tribune, the Herald
and the Times —have not been im
partial in their presentation of the ;
facts in this dirty business, and
j in their comments they have endeavor- ,
ed to prejudice the public mind against j
Tilton. This man deserves the severest J
censure for his infamous conduct and ;
cowardly behavior in permitting Beech- I
en to continue what he characterizes as
criminal intercourse with his wife for
many years ; but however despicable
he may be, it is not just to condone
Beecher’s crimes or to attempt to white- j
| wash him for what he has done, if he is
j guilty. We can readily understand the
feeling which prompts the Radical press
aud the Radical politicians to sacrifice
Tilton and save Beecher— the great
apostle of Puritanism, of Abolitionism,
j and of muscular Christianity—the man
who has done so much to impoverish
and humiliate the Southern people—the
man who, with the Bible iu one hand
and, the rifle in t-lie other, would invade
Kansas, that the institution of slavery
might be prohibited—the man who
preached that slavery was a league with
the devil and a covenant with hell,
i Beecher is their idol, and the Radicals
i of the North will not have him broken
on the altar of free love and adultery.
They will save him and forgive him for
what he has been to them. Guilty or
; innocent, this has been a dirty business
! all round for Plymouth Church, and
what is called Mr. Beecheb's usefulness
will be seriously impaired. If Beecher
is innocent, for what did he write
a letter to Tilton in which he speaks
' of “death being far sweeter than any
friend he had in the world ?” Are the
letters wherein Beecher asks Tilton's
forgiveness genuine ? He would humble
himself in the dust before Tilton as he
would before his God. Why should
Beecher so humble himself unless he
had committed some great crime against
him? Why should he express such bit
ter remorse and intense despair for
merely meddling in a family matter be
tween Tilton and his wife and trying to
make peace in the family circle, as it
was his duty as a pastor ? If Beecher’s
letters to Tilton are proven to be in his
handwriting, the case is in our opinion
snmrned up. Those who are infatuated
with Beecher and have unboanded
faith in the man, may believe him inno
cent. But if his letters to Tilton are
genuine the impartial verdict of man
kind will hold him guilty of the com
mission of a great crime.
THE NEXT LEGISLATURE.
The Atlanta News states that there
are prominent citizens of Georgia con
cerned in procuring the election of mem
bers of the next Legislature in order
either to procure the passage of a Jaw
authorizing the payment of the fraudu
lent bonds, or failing in this to prevent
the Legislature passing the Constitu
tional Amendment, adopted by the last
Legislature, forever prohibiting their
payment. The News thinks the last is
probably the work to be done. The
amendment they aim to kill. Some of
these men, it asserts, are aspirants for
legislative honors and others are said to
be retained attorneys of the bond
holders. The editor of the News states
that it would startle the people if they
knew how many Georgia lawyers have
been retained by the holders of the
fraudulent bonds.
We have no doubt but that a desperate
effort will be made to defeat the amend
ment to the Constitution forever
prohibiting their payment. Money will
be spent freely to accomplish the de
feat of this amendment, and to effect a
compromise of some kind looking to the
recognition in whole or in part of the
fraudulent securities issued during the
administration of Gov. Bullock. It
has been freely circulated that this was
Mr. Kimball’s object in returning to
Georgia. However this may be, it is
important that men of character and in
tegrity be sent to the Legislature, in or
der that the interests of the State may
be well guarded. The passage of the
bill forever prohibiting the payment of
the fraudulent bonds by the Legislature
which meets next January will forever
set this matter at rest. The people will
ratify it by an immense majority. It
is therefore important that good and
true men—men of force and firmness
and character—be sent to the Legisla
ture from every county iu the State.
THE EIGHTH DISTRICT.
We have had in our possession for a
week or morethe addresses of the Execu
tive Committees of Wilkes and Wash
ington counties. These addresses have
already appeared in the county papers—
in the Gazette and in the Herald and
Georgian. There is, however, in them
so much of zeal for the success of the
party—which alone can secure good gov
ernment for the people of Georgia—so
much that is truthful, encouraging and
calculated to arouse the sympathy and
active co-opt ration of all good men in all
parts of the District and State that we
publish the addresses this morning. The
words of warning aud of counsel con
tained in these addresses appeal with
equal force to the people of every coun
ty iu our District.
The Radical party is not dead in our
midst. It is formidable in numbers, aud
awaits but an opportunity to wrest the
power from the Democratic party. Our
victory maybe lost by inaction, over-con
fidence or dissension. The party is too
weak for division. Success can only be
maintained by action—prompt, active
and energetic. In order to save the
District,there must bo the most thorough
and effective organization of the party
iu every county ; and above all things
else, there must be harmony in council
and fixedness of purpose in action.
The best men should be nominated.
Bolters and Independents should bo
classed with the Radicals. Men who
refuse to abide by the decision of their
party are for the most part devoid of
principle and seek only their own pre
ferment. If the Democratic party is
united and determined, a greater vic
tory even than that of either ’79 or ’72
awaits it. If it is not united jlie Radi
cals may triumph. The interests at
stake—involving the honor of our
people and the preservation of our ma
terial welfare—are so paramount that
all other considerations must give way
until they are secured beyond the pos
sibility of a doubt.
HOW IS THIS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS ?
Smith, the colored cadet at West
Point, was deficient iu his knowledge of
philosophy; the Board refused to pass
him, and he had to leave West Point
without graduating. The trouble with
Smith was his color and not his intel
lectual incapacity. It made no differ
ference how well he stood in his class,
or how familiar he was with his text
books, the feeling in the army was too
strong against him, and an excuse was
found to get rid of him. If he ever
graduated at West Point he would have
to be assigned to duty with a white regi
ment, or at any rate with white officers,
and the War Department was apprehen
sive of the consequences. Generals
Sherman and Belknap and President
Grant did not desire to force the issue
of social equality upon army officers,
well knowing they would not stand it,
and the colored cadet Smith was sac
rificed to this feeling. All that was
wanted was a pretext to get rid of
Smith, and that was easily found. “He
was deficient in the science of the
causes of things,” and that settled poor
Smith's hash.
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS IN ENG
LAND.
The total number of accidents ou
English railways Jfor 1873, a report of
which has been published for the year, |
was 247—being one more than the pre- j
vious year. The total number of per
sons killed was 1,372, and of injured I
3,110, which embrace all killed aud in- I
jured at crossings as well as servants
and employees. There were 40 passen- ]
gers killed and 1,522 injured from causes
beyond their own control. There were
455,272,000 passenger trips taken during
the year. One traveler out of 2,845,450
was killed, and one out of every 260,155
was injured. The year previous only
one out eleven million passengers was
killed; so that the total accidents in
1873 was almost four times as great in
proportion. One out of every 323 rail
way employees was killed and one out
of 213 was injured.
OGLETHORPE COUNTY.
Delegates to the Congressional Con
vention.
Lexington, Augusta 8, 1874.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel :
In my communication giving the vote
of this county I omitted names of dele
gates. Please publish as below.
T. A. G.
The following are the names of the
delegates appointed by the Democratic
party of Oglethorpe county to the Con
gressional Nominating Convention for
the Eighth Congressional District,
which meets in Augusta on the
second of September: Hon. Z. H.
Clark. James M. Smith, Esq., Col
onel Luke G. Johnson, Benj. H. Bar
nett, Esq., Capt. A. J. Watson, K. J.
Arnold, Esq., J. M. Poyner, Esq., R. B.
Mathews, Esq.
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 19, 1574.
THE EIGHTH IIISTRH T.
THE PEOPLE MOVING.
Addresses to the Democrats of Wilkes
and Washington.
Address of the Executive Committee
of the Democratic Party of Wilkes
County.
Fellow-Citizens— The struggle of the
Democracy of Wilkes county against an
overwhelming majority, composed of
the most ignorant and corrupt elements
in the ranks of that most unprincipled
and cruel organization known as the
Radical party, and their signal and
brilliant triumph over that party, de
spite all of its power and wealth aud
corruption, is of too recent occurrence
to be forgotten by those who engaged in
the contest and contended in the ranks
of the party through the hard fought
battle, and rejoiced in the glorious vic
tory which rewarded their patriotism
and their unflinching devotion to the
principles of Democracy. But a victory
once obtained may be lost by a want of
vigilance, by inaction, by luke-warm
ness or by dissensions, divisions, envies
and jealousies arising in the ranks of
the victors.
We are about entering upon another
political campaign of great importance.
Our old enemy, the Radical party, is
not idle, but is watching and waiting for
an opportunity to present itself that it
may once more get into power and
wrench our fair State from the hands of
her own true aud noble sons. This
party is not only watching and waiting,
but is striving secretly to stir up and
foment dissensions within the Demo
cratic party. Now, by proper watchful
ness upon the part of the Democracy,
by the display of zeal and patriotism,
by remaining united and working in
harmony, defeat is impossible. But, un
less this course is pursued, an ignomin
ious defeat and fearful disaster is not
only probable but inevitable.
We therefore call upon all good and
true Democrats in Wilkes county to
stand bv their party, to remain true to
the glorious cause and to do their full
duty in the coming campaign.
We ask those who desire to become
candidates to present their names and
their claims before the mass meeting
called to make nominations, and to allow
the people, so assembled, to say whom
they desire to be their standard-bearers,
and to abide by that decision. And we
ask that no Democrat in the county
pledge his vote to any one previous to
that meeting, and that each and every
individual member of the party give his
most hearty aud zealous support to the
nominees.
We call upon all good and true citi
zens, upon all who love their State, their
section, their country or their race to
unite to keep down Republicanism for
ever, with all its horrors and brutality.
Vigilance and united action is absolutely
necessary to do this. We therefore call
upon our fellow-citizens to be vigilant
and to lay aside all private prejudices
and animosities and to stand together
for the good of the cause aud salvation
of the country.
John T. Wingfield,
Chairman Executive Committee.
Henry F. Andrews, See’y pro. tern.
Address of the Executive Committee of
the Democratic Party of Washington
County.
To the Democrats of Washington Coun
ty:
Under a recent call, the County Ex
ecutive Committee, also the District
Committee duly chosen and selected by
yourselves, have this day met to devise
the best practicable measures to be
adopted by th(f party, so as to insure
success to the Democratic organization;
aud with this view we, your servants in
whom the trust of guarding your inter
ests are placed, issue this as the plan of
action to govern the party in the coming
campaign: The Democratic party is
known to be the only one under which
we as a people can live together, enjoy
the privileges of free government, aud
save ourselves and our children from the
awful let that, under Republican rule,
our sister States, South Carolina, Ala
bama and others, have fallen under.
And having redeemed the State, taken
it out of the hands of plunderers, re
stored our credit, we have for some time
felt that the privileges of freemen be
long to us. Prompt, active energy is
now necessary to keep the party in the
ascendency. And in view of the fact
that the Congressional Nominating Con
vention is called for Wednesday, the 2d
day of September, immediate action is
necessary.
We, therefore, recommend that the
districts comprised in the county hold
their meetings, to appoint delegates, on
Saturday, 22d day of August, and that
the delegates meet at the Court House,
in this place, on Monday, 24tli of August,
to nominate. Each district shall be en
titled to three delegates in the County
Convention, and should any disturbing
element endeavor to bolt the regular
Nominating Convention, the districts
that remain represented shall continue
their sitting, and put in nomination
such men as shall receive the majority
of the remaining votes, and transact
such other business as shall hereinafter
be set forth. And the Democrats of
Washington county should support such
candidates as fairly receive the nomina
tion, or the party will lose its power in
the county.
Select good men to represent you in
the Convention, make every effort for
harmony, and do the right, fearless of
consequences.
Your committee is of the opinion that
those you nominate are sure of success
if the people are alive to the interests of
the county.
We heartly approve the following
resolution passed by our State Execu
tive Committee, and think it will apply in
every way as well as to county nomina
tions, and candidates, as to Congres
sional meetings:
“ Resolved , We suggest that the per
sonal attendance by aspirants for Con
gress upon primaries and county meet
ings, for the purpose of controlling their
action, aud upon Congressional Dis
trict meetings, for the purpose of elec
tioneering for the nomination, is dis
respectful to the delegates, and unbe
coming the dignity of the office sought. ”
The Convention, when assembled,[will
have the following duties before them :
Ist. To appoint an Executive Commit
tee for the county to serve until the
next Nominating Convention is called,
or until their successors are appointed.
2d. To select four delegates to repre
sent this county in the approaching Con
gressional Convention.
3d. To nominate candidates for county
officers.
4th. To nominate candidates for the
Legislature.
Iu view, therefore, of the importance
of the work to be done by this Conven- 1
tion, we make an earnest appeal to all j
good citizens to go in person to their !
district meetings aud send their best)
representative men as delegates to the
Convention.
It is a matter of vital importance to ;
the people that they interest themselves
in the matter. We, therefore, advise all
to'attend their district meetings.
The success of our party is a necessity.
“The price of liberty is eternal vigi
lance,” therefore be vigilant.
By order of the County and District
Executive Committees.
C. R. Pringle, Charirman.
W. M. Moses, Secretary.
Sandersville, Ga., July 24th, 1874.
Gen. D. H. Hill Arrested by United
States Forces.— The Charlotte (N. C.)
Observer says : Rumors were current on
the streets yesterday that Gen. D. H.
Hill, of the Southern Home, had been
arrested in South Carolina for libel.
The facts, as we have ascertained them,
are, that Lieut. H. H. Benner, of the
Eighteenth Infantry, stationed at York
ville, went to Bethel Church, in York
county, one day last week, to arrest
Gen. Hill, he having understood that
the General would deliver an address at
Bethel on that day. Gen. Hill had no
appointmeut at the place for that occa
sion, and besides, was sick in bed at
home when Benner went with his posse
to arrest him. The alleged libel was
certain comments in the Southern Home
upon the presentment of she grand jury
of York of Lieu.t Benner for various of
fenses, and particularly for a gross in
sult offered by Benner to a daughter of
ex-Judge of Probate S. B. Hall.
The articles in question were written,
we are informed, by Capt. B. A. Shot
well, the associate editor of the Home,
who has notified Benner of their author
ship, and who claims all responsibility
in the matter.
Benner is the notorious Kn-Klux
hunter, of whom many of our readers
have heard and read.
_
The Democracy of Monroe has been
organized for the coming campaign.
The Monroe Advertiser thinks the
Forsyth battalion of loafers should haYe
a Majof.
GOOD FAITH AND GOOD POLICY.
To the Editors of the Chronicle and
Sentinel :
There are some wounds inflicted by
civil war upon society which long sur
vive physical pain and mental anguish,
and the devastating tramp of armed
men. Time, labor aud intelligent en
terprise may restore comeliness to the
landscape, re-people desolated homes,
and refill the air with sounds of thrift
and cheerful industry. But such a war
impresses new influences upon the moral
and social life of a people. Old time
notions and traditions are rudely
shaken. New habits, wants and tastes,
born of new necessities, are created.
With the new life imposed by changed
conditions it is natnral to expect some
modifications of character. The Southern
people give practical illustration of this
inevitable law. The sternjlessons of the
war have imposed upon them a more
serious tone of character, and new
modes of business aud plans of life.
Adversity has wrought some salutary
changes. Its chastening influence has
corrected some follies, and educated the
popular mind to grave and earnest
thoughts and purposes. The Southern
people, though cloven down by superior
force, are even in defeat proud of their
record. They glory in the heroism of
their men and the purity of their wo
men, and the noble fortitude of both
under the sorest trials. The tempta
tion is strong to draw comparisons be
tween the prostrated South and the
victorious North in the moral aspects of
the case. Some of the foulest scars that
disfigure the face of Northern civiliza
tion have been spared us. The South
has escaped that sort of reconstruction.
But it is apparent from the action of
Southern Legislatures, aud the course
of judicial proceedings under it, that
the nice scruples of Southern honor and
honesty iu money matters have been
subjected to a rude strain. Want of
punctuality in paying debts was always
a feature of careless Southern life, but
deliberate disregard of contracts was
rare and exceptional. The infirmity of
Southern character and habit was the
want of a self-denying spirit and a dis
regard of proper rules of economy.
Hopeful of the future, and prone to
extravagant tastes, debts were heedlessly
contracted aud accumulated until extri
cation was impossible, iu adverse times,
except through the Sheriff’s office.
Such a people, after being harried and
exhausted by a defensive war of four years
were in a bad condition to settle in full
old obligations. Immediate wants had
to be supplied, business organized, and
new enterprises set on foot. Society
could not advance unless old clogs were
removed or lightened. Hence stay laws,
relief laws, homestead and exemption
laws, were enacted. There was a neces
sity for some such legislation, and the
candid mind cannot find fault with the
motive or tlje general purpose of it.
The main fault was that it inspired a too
general desire among debtors not to get
measurable relief from old debts, but to
wipe them out entirely. Legislation in
Georgia, at least, and the friandly co
operation of juries, gave extraordinary
facilities to that end. Even the new
Constitution gave its sanction to repu
diation.
It is true that Constitution is not a
fair exponent, in all particulars, of the
popular sentiment, or the popular will
at the time. It was the offspring of a
stern necessity, and was backed by Fed
eral power. Behind the ballot box the
gleam of Federal bayonets could be seen
iu the distance.
The popular will was constrained, and
acted under duress. Still some popular
features of repudiation were incorpora
ted in that instrument that went be
yond the necessities of the hour. Some
legislation went a bow shot beyond
what that instrument contemplated,
perhaps—certainly beyond what the
United States Constitution would sanc
tion. The Courts, always conservative
in times of social disturbance and popu
lar excitements, have operated to check
legislative excesses and keep this whole
batch of relief measures within consti
tutional limits. The State Courts have
(l)ne much to this end; and when they
have leaned too favorably towards State
legislation the Supreme Court of the
United States has come to the rescue.
Practically, we have now a healthier
tone of public opinion and greater sta
bility for contract and vested rights than
prevailed for the first few years succeed
ing the war. But it is not to be denied
that the legislation referred to has had
much to do in unsettling old time no-
right aud wrong, and in weak
ening the sanctity of contracts. One
effect of the war and of its vicious prac
tices was to throw a cloud over the
sacreduess of vested rights, and to in
spire a tendency to communistic ideas.
The military habit of appropriating the
property of friends as well as of foes to
army use, without any very nice regard
to equivalents, has lapped over into’civil
life, and would practically be carried
out in many cases but for the restraining
influence of law and courts of justice.
As it is, there is greater disposition now
to resist just claims by a resort to legal
quibbles than existed in ante helium
times. Our Court dockets and the in
terminable litigation that vexes jurors
and witnesses, aud makes judicial ser
vice a treadmill round of unceasing la
bor, attest this fact.
We are fast becoming a nation of liti
gants. Man’s natural pugnacity, no long
er luxuriating in battle fields, finds play
in the Courts. It is an expensive port
and perhaps this is a salutary check.
Still these contests are too frequent for
the general good, however beneficial to
the knights of the green bag, who
poise their lances for their legal tilts. —
Too often!,the by stander perceives that
right and justice are on one side and
legal technicalities on the other, and
much too often the latter are victorious.
Asa general rule, legal results, at
tained at the end of all the processes of
judicial investigation, are rightful re
sults. This is so when there is money
enough on both sides to fight the case
through to a final hearing before the
tribunal of last resort. But how many
are there whose cause is stronger than
their purses, and who give way in des
pair, or compromise their rights rather
than keep up the too expensive contest ?
How often have powerful men and cor
porations dins overshadowed humbler
and weaker opponents ?
The practical question is, what are
the remedies for this vitiated condition ?
An obvious one, aud a very good one as
far as it goes, is the cash system—pay
as you go. This is the true philosopher’s
stone, which Randolph, of Roanoke,
claims to have discovered. There is an
eminent respectability about the ready
cash man, which makes his presence
welcome in every business circle and
makes his usefulness as a citizen a con
ceded point. When such a man has
physical health, he is apt to have clear
ness of head and placidity of temper
above his fellows, and to be crowned
with a serene old age. Vexed by no
harrassments of his own, he can see
more plainly the path that will lead
others out of their complications. Un
fortunately such men are not always as
ready to do neighborly kindness as they
are able ; but if there were more ot
them there would be less occasion for
their benevolence.
We have named one remedy which
can only operate within very" narrow
limits. The credit system is the great
nursing mother of all civilization.
There can be no progress and no enter
prise without it, being interwoven into
the fabric of society.
We come to the next great remedy for
existing evil,
Punctuality in Meeting Obligations.
When punctuality is the habit busi
ness moves on like well oiled machinery.
Punctuality begets confidence, confi
dence inspires enterprise, and when
these combine serene tempers and happy
faces, good linuior and cheerful converse
are the order of the day. Then you
may look for true progress aud pros
perity.
The third remedy, close akin to the
last, is the cultivation of a sacred regard
for contract obligations. This should
spring not merely from a cold, sel
fish calculation of self-interest. It
should partake of a high moral
feeling—a feeling somewhat akin to
a religious sentiment. When everv
man in a Commonwealth shall
feel that his honor and good name are
wrapt up iu every engagement he fairlv
makes to pay money, or do anv other
specified thing, and that a resort to
legal quibbles to escape performance is
dishonorable, then would arise a model
Republic worthy of the dreams of
Plato. It would be Arcadian puritv, if
not Arcadian simplicity, fit to inspire a
Sydney. The erection of this high
standard would do more to constitute a
great State than the grandest enterprises
and the most towering halls of learning.
Where wealth can sanctify chicanery
and make trick and evasion respectable,
the path is entered npon that leads to
disgrace and ruin. What has made Eng-
land so proudly great and her merchant
princes s%pre-emineut in the financial
world? Ir is that they recognize the
value of fidelity to contracts, thus forci
bly illustrated by Juuius :
“ Private credit is wealth. Public
honor is security. The feather that
adorns the royal bird supports his flight.
Strip him of his plumage and you fix
him to the earth. ” Cato.
PARIS GREEN.
Cotton Caterpillar Destroyer.
[From the Galveston Prices Current.]
Galveston, July 4, 1874.
Few subjects have involved a greater
amount of scientific research aud hard
labor, than the destruction of the cotton
caterpillar. The cotton crop of the
South, worth $250,000,000, is annually
threatened by destruction from this in
sect. It is indispensibie to us—indivi
dually and nationally—that the crop
should be saved; therefore, any plan
that is suggested is a matter of interest,
and we feel will be intelligently and per
sistently tried by the farmers.
In answer to the numberless letters
addressed to us ou the subject, we would
s i l Ko es l tlio following recipes the result
of our own experiments, extending over
many years, and recipes of others, which
have proved more or less efficacious.
In instances to our knowledge, crops
have been saved by these applications,
aud adjoining fields and parallel rows of
cotton entirely destroyed by the cater
pillar, where no application was made:
recipe 1.
One quart of spirits of turpentine,
thoroughly mixed with 9 pounds of
flour (sour flour will answer), to form
a paste; to tins add 42 gallons of water.
Stir it well and use at once; it is injured
by standing.
recipe 2.
Four ounces of arseniate of soda and
12 ounces of dextrine, thoroughly dis
solved in 42 gallons of water. Experi
ments with this preparation justify the
belief that it is a perfect protection.
recipe 3.
Paris green, we believe, can be used
in solution to accomplish the destruc
tion of the caterpillar; say one pound of
a pure article of Paris green mixed with
forty gallons of water, to which add two
pounds of dextrine or four pounds of
gum arabic. The dextrine or powdered
gum arabic should be dissolved by boil
ing in two gallons of water before it is
added to the barrel of compound. Stir
constantly in the barrel and pots while
using.
recipe 4.
Three-quarters of a pound of powder
ed white arsenic, and three-quarters of a
pound of common washing soda (bi-car-
Inmate of soda will not answer), boil to
gether in two gallons of water until en
tirely dissolved, stir while boiling, and
add water to supply that lost by evapo
ration. An earthen vessel, or one lined
with porcelain, is preferable to boil in.
Then add forty or forty-five gallons of
water to the above preparation.
In order to make the preparation ad
here to the leaf, dissolve two pounds of
dextrine in boiling water, and add it to
the compound.
recipe 5.
Three-quarters of a pound of powder
ed white arsenic can be used without the
soda, to be dissolved by boiling in two
gallons of water; add water while boil
iug to keep the quantity to two gallons.
Do not boil in an iron pot. Add forty
or forty-five gallons of water.
In order to make the solution adhere
to the leaf dissolve two pounds of dex
trine by boiling iu two gallons of water,
and add to the solutiou forty or forty
five gallons.
recipe 6.
If arsenious acid is used (which is
distinguishable from common white ar
senic by being in lump) take two or
three ounces, powder it aud boil iu two
gallons of water until dissolved, add
water as it evaporates in boiling. This
will be sufficient to impregnate forty
gallons of water. It may prove more
efficacious to use Vitli the arsenious
acid two or three ounces of washing
soda. Whether the soda is used or not,
add two pounds of dextrine (first dis
solved by boiling) to the forty gallons
of the compound.
recipe 7.
If the above ingredients can not be
had, take the common Jamestown or
jimson weed, chop up stalk, limb and
leaves, aud boil iu a large pot until a
strong tea is obtained. To make it ad
here to the cotton plant, boil six pounds
of flour into a starch, and add to a bar
rel of jimson weed tea. If flour can not
be had, use a gallon of lime in its place.
With the decoction sprinkle the plant.
recipe 8.
Johnson’s Cotton Worm Destroyer re
quires a package of the preparation to
be dissolved in ninety-nine gallonn of
water, as per his directions, live acres
of cotton to be sprinkled with the solu
tion.
recipe 9.
Royall’s Cotton Worm Destroyer is
well known to the public. It is a
powder, and applied by sifting on the
plant. The exact ingredients we do not
kuow, but it is said to be effective in the
destruction of the caterpillar.
The ingredients for the recipes given
will cost from twenty to fifty cents per
acre.
In the above recipes, except reeeipe
two, which is patented, if dextrine or
gum arabic can not be obtained, or are
too expensive, we would suggest flour as
the best substitute, eight or ten pounds
of flour (sour will do) to the barrel of
solutiou. Boil the flour in a sufficient
quantity of water until a paste is formed,
and add this to the barrel of solution,
stirring it thoroughly.
The object of the dextrine, gum arabic
or boiled flour, is to make the solution
with which itis mixed sufficiently glutin
ous to adhere to the leaf of the plant,
that it may not be washed off by the
rain.
The above recipes are each intended
to apply to one acre of cotton, except
receipt eight. The solution should be
sprinkled on the plant whenever the cat
erpillar appears on it, and reapplied
whenever the caterpillar reappears. The
application should be made with water
iug-pots, or tiu vessels of any kind per
forated with very fine holes.
Major J. H. Alexander, successor to
Plumb & Leitner, has furnished us with
the following :
There is great danger in the mixing of
this green for potato bug and cotton
worm poison, owing to the fine dust
which arises in the process, which is in
haled, and also rapidly absorbed by the
pores of the skin, especially if the per
son using it should be in a state of per
spiration. To guard against this, the
hands and face (particularly the nostrils)
should be protected as much as possible,
aud should be carefully washed after
working in it, or in auy of the prepara
tions of which it is an ingredient. As
it penetrates aud poisons wood—gets
into the seams and crevices of articles
made of metal—and even into earthen
ware that is at all porous; all household
utensils, or anything in barn or stable
(which cattle or horses could have ac
cess to) in which the article may have
been mixed, or from which it has been
used, should be carefully set aside, and
never again used for any other purpose.
Malignant sores are not infrequently
caused by scratching the skin when itch
ing, or irritated, from handling the
green. It Jshould be constantly borne
in mind that it is a more dangerous and
deadly poison than arsenic, and farmers,
planters and others, when purchasing,
should be duly cautioned to exercise the
utmost care in using it.
Cure—The free use of milk as a bever
age is recommended, but we have found
Hydrated Per-Oxide of Iron (a simple
harmless remedy) the best antidote.
Sores caused by the green should be
well covered with it, as with an ordinary
salve, and a teaspoonful in a wine glass
of water should be taken twice a day,
internallv, whilst working with the
green. This remedy can be obtained
from any druggist or chemist.
Labor Reform Convention.
South Farmington, Mass.,; August
12.—The annual State Labor Reform
Convention assembled at Harmony
Grove, South Farmington, to-day.
There was a fair representation of
wealth. The attendance however not
being as large as if regular nominations
as well as a platform had been proposed.
E. M. Chamberlain called the conven
tion to order and made an opening ad
dress. He urged his hearers to con
tinue their efforts for the eight honr law
to apply to factory operatives.
Atlanta water works will be com
pleted by the first of next April.
Darien is organizing a Mutual Loan
Association,
A FAMOUS BATTLE FIELD.
LETTER FROM GETTYSBURG.
Gettysburg, Pa., August 7, 1874.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel :
Near the house from which I am pen
ning these lines the headquarters of
General Lee were located during: oue of
the memorable days of July, 1863. Not
very far off is the spot where the Fede
ral General Reynolds, iu the beginning
of the first day’s engagement, had his
neck broken by a shot from one of our
sharpshooters. He was at the time
(General Meade uot having arrived)
commanding the “Army of the Poto
inue.” Visiting the ground a few min
ifies ago, I found a rude board indi
cating the place where he met his fate.
It is uot easy to realize that this region,
now so quiet, so beautifully diversified
with hill and valley, was the theatre of
the most bloody and decisive battle of
the recent war. There is nothing iu
this air so soft aud balmy this morning
to indicate that it was once vocal with
the shrieks of shot and shell, carrying
torture aud death to the brave men who
here struggled for Southern indepen
dence. Nor is there anything in the
sumptuous entertainment furnished at
the hotel which covers the spot where
hostile armies met to indicate (save by
contrast) the inferiority and scantiness
of the rations on which our soldiers were
compelled to subsist.
I agree with those who think the for
tunes of the Confederacy wore sealed
with our failure to succeed (we were uot
defeated) at this point. General Meade
once said to your correspondent, “If
Lee had whipped me at Gettysburg it
would virtually have ended the war.
He could then have gone to Balti
more, Philadelphia, or New York. There
were uo troops which could have resist
ed him effectually, and he would have
compelled, au acknowledgment of the
independence for which you were fight
ing.'’ “And do you know,” said lin
reply, “General, how you came to whip
us there ? I will tell you. Stonewall
Jackson was not there.” It was even
so. The occasion needed just the per
severance and dash for which this great
soldier was eminent. But he, alas ! had
fallen some sixty days previously by the
hands of his own men, and could not,
as he generally did, see and seize the
key position of the conflict.
in common with multitudes of others,
I have often asked why, when the enemy
were in full retreat ou the first memor
able day, did our men cease from pur
suit at 4 o’clock in Llie afternoon ? Why
did they not improve the grand work of
the day, and rushing on, capture the
famous cemetery heights so obviously
(to one who now looks over the field)
the eminence which must secure victory
to the party obtaining it? With four
hours good daylight remaining, why did
they not perfect the work of the enemy’s
demoralization which had been so effec
tually begun ? I only know one answer
to these questions. The old Roman
would have said, sic non volvere p areas.
Asa Christian, I say “the Divinity that
shapes our ends” did not intend it." With
victory actually in our grasp, had we but
shut our hands, with the prize sought
almost in view, we lost it! Well, since
ordained by a higher power I accept
the situation, I hoped I worked for
Southern independence, but since it
could not be, 1 am willing to believe
that it is better for all concerned that
the struggle terminated as it did. But
for the tyranny aud oppression which
have characterized victors who could
well afford to be magnanimous, it would
be far easier to acquiesce in the result..
Despite the mailed hand with which
they have governed us and are still seek
ing to impose measures most odious and
iniquitous, if we are but true to our
selves and to the Great Arbiter of hu
man destiny, we shall emerge from all
these-calamities purified aud ennobled.
A common impression prevails that
Cemetery Hill was uot occupied by the
Federal troops on the first day of the
engagement. But this is a mistake. At
half-past 8 o’clock on the morning of
this day General Howard and liis signal
officers, together with the Professors in
the College located here, were surveying
the country, when one of the Profes
sors, an old resident, called the atten
tion of the General to the importance
of the position. Howard was so much
impressed with the value of tlxe point,
that on the arrival of General Steiuwelir’s
Division at 1 o’clock, p. m., though his
aid was greatly needed to support the
Federal columns which were giving way
before the galling fire of the Confed
erates, he ordered Steinwehr to occupy
the hill and be prepared for any
emergency. The Federals claim that
our men pursued their advantage until
they were repulsed by a fire from the
sharp shooters on this eminence.
However this may be, there can be no
doubt that it would have been far
easier to wrest the position from a de
moralized foe than to wait, as was done,
nearly twenty-four hours and then attack
them when they had fully one hundred
guns in position and been recruited by
the divisions which were concentrating
there from the surrounding country.
How true is it in war, as well as in
peace, that men reap the glory which
has been won by another. The man
most honored and eulogized by the domi
nant party in the late war is the present
President of the United States, and
yet the South was virtually conquered
when he took command of the Federal
army. We never had a victory after the
Gettysburg disaster. Os courso there were
repeated engagements in which we suc
ceeded in holding our entrenchments
and fortified positions. There were times
when we could not be driven back so
rapidly as our assailants desired, but
there was no marked success. And yet
Meade, who fought the most impoitant
battle, was quickly superceded and for
gotten. Though Gen. Grant appears as
the Chief Captain when our fortunes
were obviously and rapidly waning, and
when it would seem that almost anj
man of any calibre, with such vast re
sources, must have been successful
against an enemy exhausted by pro
tracted contention against superior odds,
lie is the great man of the day, reaping
all the honors, and taking his place in
history as the acknowledged hero of the
war.
But it matters very little now with
Meade what was thought of him. “He
has fought his last battle !” He has
been met and overcome by an enemy
who always proves himself too
strong even for the most mighty; an
enemy before whom every reader of
these lines will one day succumb ! Our
own beloved Lee, too, has fallen before
the power of the same enemy. But I
will not say fallen. He has met that
enemy, and has triumphed over him.
“ Is that a death bed where a Christian dies ?
Yes, but not his, ’tin Death itself there dies.”
Lee was as fine a specimen of a Chris
tian gentleman as I ever saw. He was
a type of men who do honor to our hu
manity. Meade was, by profession, a
Christian, and I hope lie was what he
professed. Meade and Lee ! how vivid
ly the scenes around one recall these
commanders who confronted each other
on this field of carnage ! I knew them
both; and I knew enough of good in
both to make one hope they are now
united in the service of the Prince of
Peace. X.
The Sugar Crop of 1874.—Mr. W. L.
Larimore, of Baton Rouge, La., an ex
tensive and wealthy sugar planter, was
on ’Change yesterday. Inasmuch as
many of the * newspapers of the South
have been predicting for some time past
that the sugar-growing interests of Lou
isiana were well-nigh ruined by the over
flowing of the sugar lauds, and that the
crop of 1874 would be far below the
volume of the crop of 1873, we applied
to Mr. Larimore for information upon
the trustworthiness of the above reports.
Mr. L. stated that he had journeyed
from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, and
had information of interior pointß, and
had had no accounts of the sugar crop
that would lead him to any such conclu
sion. The distance from Baton Rouge
to New Orleans was 130 miles, and on
both sides of the river nothing but su
gar was raised. The talk about short
crop from overflow was a mistake. Some
fields were overflowed, but no great
harm had been done. From Baton
Rouge to the mouth of Red river sugar
and cotton were produced, and the sugar
was doing splendidly. The crop now
growing was the best since the ending
of the war. The acreage was very large
ly increased and the stand was heavy,
fie believed that more sugar would be
raised in the United States this year
than in 1873. As for talk about high
taxes, that was all bosh. He owned 5,-
000 acres of valuable land, near Baton
Rouge, worth SSOO per acre, and he only
paid 81,200 tax per annum on it. Let
Eastern men come in. They can make
8100 per acre net. They can buy land
at $25 per acre and raise SIOO per acre in
sugar. The molasses will pay all ex
penses.— tit. Louis Democrat.
THE MAN OF METZ.
HOW HE GAVE HIS GUARDS THE
SLIP.
Madame la Marechale in the Role of a
Heroine-The Fair Mexican Ply.-t the
Oars Herself.
London, August 12.—The following
interesting particulars of the escape of
Marshal Bazuine from his prison on the
Isle of St. Magnetite have been receiv
ed: The apartments occupied by Mar
shal Bazaiue opened upon a terrace,
which was built upon a lofty and pre
cipitous cliff overhanging the sea. A
sentry was posted on the terrace, with
orders to watch the prisoner’s every
movement. Sunday evening the Mar
shal walked upon tile terrace with Col.
Villete, his aid-de-camp. At 10 o’clock
he retired, as usual, apparently to sleep,
but before daybreak he had effected his
escape. He must have crossed the ter
race iu the dead of night and, eluding
the sentinel, gained the edge of the
precipice, thence by means of a knotted
rope, he descended to the sea, He evi
dently slipped during the descent and
tore his hands, as a rope was found
stained with blood in several place. Un
der the cliff was a hired boat, where Ba
zaine’s wife and cousin received him as
he reached the water, and, Madame la
Marechale taking the oars horse)f, rowed
directly to a strange steamer which had
been lying oft" the island since the pre
vious evening. They reached the ves
sel in safety, were taken ou board, and
the steamer then put to sea. It is
thought that they landed at Genoa, as
the steamer proceeded in that direction.
The first news of the affair came to
Grasse, the nearest place on the coast,
and the magistrates of the town imme
diately sent officers in every direction
to search for the fugitive. There was
great commotion iu Marseilles when (lie
facts became known, and an investiga
tion was opened. Col. Villete, who was
walking with the Marshal on the even
ing of his escape, was discovered there
aud imprisoned. The commandant of
the Fort of St. Maguerite was placed
under arrest, and General Lewedl has
gone to the island to investigate affairs.
Paris, August 12.—1 t lias been ascer
tained that the plan for Marshal Bazaine’s
escape from Marguerite was arranged
six months ago. It was entirely the
work of Madame Bazuine. The Marshal
refused at first to Hy, but finally, owing
to his failure to obtain some modifica
tions of his sentence, yielded. He sailed
from the island in the steam yacht Baron
Recasole, belonging to an Italian com
pany. He refused to employ a French
vessel. He was accompanied in his
flight by his wife and brother. His
place of refuge is not known. Some
persons say he is in Spain. The domes
tics at the fort where the Marshal was
imprisoned have been arrested.
UNION SUNDAY SCHOOL CELE
BRATION
At Pino Grove Academy, Greene
County, Georgia, August (till, 1874.
To the Editors of the Chronicle and
Sentinel :
It is tho strong attachment which I
have for the old Chronicle and Senti
nel that determines mo to make it my
choice as a medium through which to
comment upon the celebration of the
United Sunday Schools at this place to
day.
August the 6fch opened a clear and
beautiful day—tho weather being ex
ceedingly pleasant for this season.
Early in the day a vast throng had seat
ed themselves under tho large brush
arbor at Pine Grove Academy. Be
tween nine and ten o’clock the schools fell
in ranks for marching to the arbor, led
by the Pine Grove School with its ban
ner of welcome floating in the breezes.
This long line of happy hearts,with ban
ners streaming overhead, presented a
beautiful spectacle. I have not a list of
the schools represented, but remember
the names of Liberty, White Plains, New
Salem, Fork Chapel, Greenesboro, Stnyra
and Pine Grove. That old and fami
liar piece, “Coronation,” sung by all the
schools, with Mr. W. D. Veazy as leader,
opened the exercises of the day. Then
prayer by the Rev. J. L. Pearce, after
which came the speech of welcome by
Mr. R. H. Randle, of Pine Grove school.
In his welcome the speaker pictured the
present condition of society, showing
some of the causes that tended to en
danger it—showing that the wide-spread
materialism, atheism and infidelity in
which so large a part of our country
was now enveloped was due, to a great,
extent, to the weakness of the Sunday
school. After the welcome, Pine Grove
school, led by Mr. E. A. Veazy, sung
“The Land Far Away.” Then came
one of the most beautiful and chaste ad
dresses that it has been my lot to hear
in a long while. This was from Mr.
Wm. H. Branch, a speaker elected for
the occasion, and a lawyer of Greepes
boro. Feeling that I would do the
speaker injustice, I will not attempt an
analysis of his speech. If it was pub
lished I feel that it would do much good.
The songs and speeches from the seve
ral schools were exceedingly appropriate.
All did well. Who could listen to the
sweet harmony of so many voices and
not feel the power of music ? Who
could listen to the eloquent speeches
from the little boys without feeling en
thused ? At one o’clock the vast crowd
was invited to partake of refreshments
so bounteously spread upon a dozen
long tables. In the afternoon, Mr.
Thurmond, of the Greenesboro Jlerald,
in his own good style, made an address
directly to the children. He gave a life
picture of a bad and a good boy, show
ing what kind of a man each developed
into. All enjoyed this, but especially
the children, for whom it was intended.
Rev. N. M. Jones closed the exercises
with prayer.
There was nothing passed to mar the
pleasure of tho day. Never was it my
lot to see a more harmonious and pleas
ant celebration. May its impress be
long on the hearts of all that were pres
ent. Ric Hard.
Beecher on Adam’s Pall.
You know very well that I do not be
lieve in the technical theology that man
fell from a state of perfection, because
he never had such a state to fall from.
I believe that he began at the bottom
and never had any height to fall from,
and that he has been working his way
tip all the time since. I do not mean
to give in my faith to the theory that
man ever was a brute absolute, but I do
believe that the race began its career
upon the earth, as a human race, at the
lowest conceivable point at which hu
man beings can exist, and that every
single step it has taken has been a
gradual unfolding, an evolution, an
education. Living first on the flesh
plane, they acted according to the law
of self-defense; then rising to the social
plane, that it was to their interest to
live together; and then they rose to the
higher plane of patriotism and heroism;
and they come at last to the spiritual
plane and hear the divine command,
“Live not any longer for your lower
animal nature, or for your mere social
nature, nor for a small disposition of
yourselves, nor even for that civil nature
in which you more heroically distribute
yourselves. Understand the truth that
when you come into the spirit you live
for higher ends—that is, God.”
HIS INVITATION TO THE COMMUNION.
Now, who may come to the table ? “I
was baptized in my youth, my parents
were Christian people; I was brought
up in the ordinances of the Lord; I
know the Catechism from end to end,
and I believe in the ‘Westminister Con
fession,’ every word of it, and have al
ways been accustomed to the house of
God.” It is said that “knowledge
pnffeth up.” Ido not ask you to come
if that is ail the reason you have got. If
all you have got is from the touch of
man’s hands, however sacred and rever
ened—if that is all, Ido not invite you
to come. Ido not give this invitation
to members of the church, 1 do not give
it to those that are moral, I do not give
it to those who respect services of reli
gion merely; but if there be any soul
here, in the church or out of the church,
that loves God and his fellow-man, I
invite him to come.
Agricultural Report.
Washington, August 12.—The annual
report of Department of Agriculture will
probably not be published till after the
meeting of Congress. The appropria
tion for printing this report, contrary to
precedent, is to be disbursed subject to
the order of the Commisioner and not of
the Congressional Printer, as heretofore.
Tlio latter refuses to print unless the
appropriation is placed to his credit,
which Commissioner Watts refuses to
do. The cotton crop presents a better
appearance now than at the last monthly
report except, in Tennessflpj and Arkan
sas,
NUMBER 33
TIIE ItEErilElt BROIL.
SHEARMAN SAYS SILENCE.
Keep Quiet, Its None of tbe World’s
Business.
Nkw York, August 12.—Pointed
phrases of Mr. Shearman, member of
the committee: “And yet even now I.
would not advise Mr. Beecher to speak
out, knowing ns I do the circumstances.
Why should he tell the public what
they have absolutely no right to know ?
This disgusting business is absolutely
shocking, Beecher has held his tongue.'’
Speaking of Mrs. Hooker: “She, it was
very well known, was a weak-minded
woman, and the Woodhull people got
hold of her and preyed upon her weak
ened intellect; but if Beecher opened his
month and told his story there are dis
tinguished citizens who have been mixed
up iu this matter who would sutler, and
in his silence he lias spared their feel
ings. When I reflect on what would be
the consequence of his telling out wlmt
he knows about the whole business I
would advise him even now to keep si
lent, and explain away only what is
necessary to the committee.” It is said
that another effort is making to com
promise, and the Arf/iin goes so far as
to state that Mrs. Tilton,is prepared to
state that she has been laboring under
an hallucination; that Mr. Beecher is
willing to resign his pastoral; that the
society will refuse to accept his resigna
tion; and that Mr. Tilton will, upon
these conditions, again open the door of
his house to his wife.
Nkw York, August 12. —Thero is good
authority for the following statement;
That Frank Moulton only laid before the
committee the letters of Tilton and
Beecher called for by the committee,
which were quoted or referred to in Til
ton’s statement, that Moulton intended
tohaud over all letters in his possession,
but upon consultation held at his house
on Sunday and Monday, between him
self, his father, Ben Butler and B. F.
Tracy, it was decided that the best
course to pursue was to stick to the let
ter of the request, which was to furnish
those accounts which bore upon the
case, as presented in Tilton’s statement.
This was done. It is not denied by a
party who was present at the consulta
tion that there are other letters, but the
exact nature of their contents will not
bo divulged by Frank Moulton, unless
ho is compelled to do so by a high court
of law. Whether they involved the
criminality of Beecher or not, or wheth
er they justify the charge made by Til
ton, could not be ascertained.
The Brooklyn Eagle, says Beecher will
testify to-night. His statement will till
at least eight columns of the Eagle .
THE SIXTH DISTRICT.
Blount Unanimously Nominated.
[BI’EOIAL DISPATCH TO THE CHRONICLE AM)
SENTINEL. ]
Milledoeville, August 12, 1874.
The Democratic Congressional Nomi
nating Convention for the Sixth Dis
trict assembled here to-day. Floyd,
Lawson and Blount were voted for dur
ing live ballots. On tho sixth ballot
Blount was unanimously nominated.
Everybody is satisfied. C.
TRAGEDY IN GRIFFIN.
One Man Killed and Another Wounded.
[Special to Telegraph and Messonger. |
Griffin, August B.—A most bloody
tragedy occurred this afternoon, about
half-past five o’clock. Thomas Fenny
was shot ami killed by Bill Hartnett.
The above named men had engaged in
a cock fight, w'iicli resulted in favor of
Fceny. Foeuy, it is said, went up to
George k Hartnett’s bar room and asked
H. for tho money lie had won, and 11.
proposed to settle the affair by deduct
ing an old account from tho money won.
Feeny refused, and told IT. ho would
make him a present of the amount,
whereupon 11. stepped from behind tho
bar-counter and abused Feeny by calling
him a d—n son of a b—h, etc , which
Feeny asked him to retract, hut H. re
fused. Feeny then drew his revolver
and fired, striking Hartnett just below
the left nipple. H. fired about the same
time, live shots, one striking F. in tho
side. Feeny stumbled over some bar
rels ai id tho fatal shot struck him,
while down, over the right eye. Hart
nett then walked up-stairs, into the
street, and was soon carried up to his
room. His wound in said to lie very
dangerous, as’ fears are entertained of
his bleeding internally.
Feeny was picked up and carried up
stairs, where he expired in about thirty
minutes. Hartnett is about 85 years of
ago, is a native Irishman, ami is unmar
ried. He is in business under the firm
name of George k Hartnett, who do a
large business. Ho is a man of great
nerve and daring courage; is of largo
stature and is u powerful man. His
right arm is lame from a wound received
in the armv.
Thomas Feeny was about the same
age of Hartnett, and has an estimable
lady for a wife. He was a harness
maker by trade; was a man of medium
stature. He had been drinking, and
was not sober when shot. Feeny has a
good many relatives out West. He has
no children.
The above facts are about in accord
with the evidence before the coroner’s
jury- <
NKW COTTON.
Montgomery, Aha., August 12. —Tlio
first bale of cotton was received yester
day from Munter & Faber’s plantation
and sold to Gerson & Winter, for twenty
three and a half cents. It was con
signed to W. & H. Btrassburger, who
shipped to A. Braskaner & Cos., Mobile,
by the first train. It weighed four hun
dred and three pounds, and was classed
low middling. The second bale has
been just received. It was from Lowndes
county and brought at auction twenty
five cents. Corn and cotton are suffer
ing from the drouth. Good crops of
both are made, but the decrease in the
acreage of cotton is fully twenty per
cent.
The second bale of new cotton was re
ceived this morning. It was consigned
to the Alabama Warehouse and sold at
auction for twenty-five cents, and ship
ped by Lehman, Durr & Cos. to Lehman
Bros., New York, by express to-day.
The bale weighed five hundred and
fifty-six pounds, and was classed low
middling.
The Radical Convention for Nomina
tion for Congi ess in the First District
has been in session two days at Belma.
Over one hundred ballots and no nomi
nation. The negroes want one of their
sot nominated. Busteed, United States
Judge, is actively canvassing the State
for the Radicals.
ELECTRIC HPAIIKH.
Through the exertions of the Ameri
can Consul-General, an arrangement has
been effected with tlio Havana post office
authorities by which mails for the
United States will for the present bo
made up in the Consulate.
Burney Aaron, Colyer’s principal sec
ond, announces : “ You may telegraph
upon authority that Colyer’s seconds
concede the stakes and the fight to Ed
wards.”
Ex-Mayor Wightman, of Pittsburg,
has been released from jail, having
taken the poor debtor’s oath. The at
torneys of the plaintiff in the suit
against Wightman have filed a charge of
fraud against him on the ground that to
enable him to take the oath ho assigned
ull his property to his son.
Gen. Bcott’s Rut.e Ahoijt Women.—
The late General Winfield Scott was a
man eminently of a practical turn of
mind. He profited by the lessons of ex
perience. fie had suffered considerably
from detraction and misrepresentation
as to conversations which had tuken
place between him and certain women
when no one else was present. He de
termined that such a thing should never
occur again, and he resolved, as a rule
of his life, that he would never again
have an interview with a woman without
having a third person present as witness.
To this determination, onco formed, ho
adhered with characteristic pertinacity,
although, by so doing, he sometimes
gave very great offense. Wo remember
one instance in which a very highly cul
tivated, intriguing woman, who held
confidential relations to a foreign gov
ernment, was extremely anxious to have
a private talk with the old general; but
he stubbornly refused, except in the
presence of a third person.
A compositor named Ellett came near
being drowned in l’once de Leon pond,
Atlanta, Monday evening.
A cypriau named “Matt Brand” at
tempted to kill her ex-hiißband, Henry
Daniels, in Macon, Sunday night, by
shooting him with a pistol,