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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,
