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WKDN EHDXY ..SEPTEMBER 2, I*7l.
MINOR TOPICS.
Some qneenKware dealers in Cincinnati have
been importing goods from England by way of
New Orleans.
A chorus of 2,500 voices is to he one of the
attraction* at the opening of the industrial ex
hibition at San Francisco thin year.
The Washington Hoard of Health have been
analyzing the tea wold by the grocer*, and
found it adulterated with much coloring mat
ter.
Temperance reformers will soon have anew
enemy to face. 'Jho annual importation of
opium into tin* country now amount* to 250,-
000 pound*.
During one week recently Chicago hal four
teen lire*, and in the samo puio l London,
witD nearly nine tirne* a* many inhabitants,
had fifteen lire*.
Many prominent Mason* aro now in Boston,
attending the Supreme Council, thirty-third
degree, for the Northern Manonic jurisdiction
of the United State*.
Ah a final argument in hi* favor,Col. Jack Brown
of Americim. announce* that he ha* failed in
everything since the war, which he take* to he
a convincing proof of hi* fitne** for Congress.
A communication to the Paris Academy con
demim the use of shot in Meaning Lottie*, aw
practiced in many hou*ehoid*. o;i the ground
that carbonate of lead maj he formed in shak
ing them with water, and tliar some shot, with
their not inconti ierabie amount of arsenic,
may possibly remain in the bottle.
The Danbury man. tinis briefly relates his
experience on English railways : •* The en
gine consists simply of the boiler, smoke pipe
and steam whistle. Sometimes you imagine
that it consists entirely of the steam whistle,
hut that i* only when it blows. I always crawl
under the seat when I hear it. I can't help it."
From a recent camp meeting sermon : “ lie
not content with the hope of merely getting
into Heaven of being driven on to the heaven
ly shore, like a battered old hulk ; hut strive
to go in like a grand vessel, with every sail set,
the colors of your Redeemer flying at the
mainmast and freighted with a precious cargo."
An account of the funeral of a Milwaukee
woman who was a spiritualist concludes thus :
“It is here worthy of mention that a few mo
ment* before the death of Mrs. Freeman loud
and distinct Tappings were heard ad over the
house, and a brother in Fond du Lac was made
aware by similar means of the impending ca
lamity."
Asa pecuniary investment, the British Gov
ernment lias not found the purchase of the
telegraph* very profitable. The revenue last
year amounted to only 1 per cent, on tho out
lay. It i*. however, to ho remembered that
the Government ha* opened many new ollices,
and in many cases reduced the charge for the
transmission of messages.
The National Republican remat ks: “Moses,
Clovortior of South (Carolina, one of tho jour
nal* of that State tell* us, made a speech a few
days ago, in which lie ably defended tho Re
publican party. Now, Moses had better lot up
on that sort of thing. The Republican party
need* no defense at his hands. Ho has brought
discredit and disgrace upon it, and tho host
thing he can do is to leave it."
Anew niit rail louse ha* just boon tried at Co
rie, in the Grisons. The barrels, instead of
clustering around a centre, aro placed horizon
tally. thus delivering tho halls like a platoon of
infantry instead of in a cluster. Twenty rounds
wore tired in a minute, hut the inventor. Col.
Albert ini. of tho Austrian army, maintains that
forty-five rounds can ho fired each minute,
and that hi* mitrailleuse will co*t 0110-sixth
less than the one actually in use.
A remarkable fish i* said to be found in great
numbers in tho coast rivers of Alaska, It is
about eight inches long, transparent, ami is
the fattest of all tho tinny tribe. This fat,
however, bn* not the oily, rancid taste of other
fish, hut is like fresh lard. When those fish
aro dried the Indians often turn them to a
novel and practical account burn them in
place of candles. They givo a clear, brilliant
light, and are not liable to ho blown out by the
wind. Mr. Manson, superintendent at Fort
Sampson, says that tho tail should he lighted,
instead of the head, aud each fish will burn
about fifteen minutes.
New York gush: ‘'ln the grat blush of the
accusation an Indignant cry went up from the
people that it was false; that Mr. lleecher
would arise on the morrow and rend asunder
the thin web of calumny which surrounded
him, emerging from the mist of accusation
strong and spotless as an archangel. They
listened for the indignant blast of the trumpet,
voice which has so often echoed through the
land, confounding wrong doers and ehampion
ing'everthe interests of right when assailed.
And when, instead, came the piping notes of
lawyers, making special pleas, the people
bowed their heads, and now they weep."
One pound of green coppras, costing seven
cents, dissolved in one quart of water, and
poured down a water-closet, will, says the In
dustrial Monthly, effectual y counteract and
destroy the foulest smells. On board shins
and steamboats, about hotels and other places,
thero is nothing so nice to purify the air. Sim
ple green copperas, dissolved under the bed,
in any thing that will hold water, will render a
hospital, or any other place for the sick, free
from unpleasant smells. For butchers' stalls,
slaughter houses.* tisli markets, sinks, or
where vor there are offensive, putrid gasses,
dissolve copperas and sprinkle it about, and in
a few days the smell will pass away. If aeat.rat.
or mouse dies about the house and sends forth
an offensive gas, place some dissolved coppe
ras in an open vessel near the place where the
nuisance is. and it will soon purify the atmos
phere.
Apropos of the attempt to assassinate Prince
Bismarck, a singular theory is advanced to the
effect that excessive heat increases homicidal
tendency. In illustration of the theory a pa
tient professor at Breslau has brought to
gether instances of some of the more cele
brated cases of regicide to show that they have
generally been made in the month of July.
'lints, on the 12tli of July. 15-SI, William of
Orange was assassinated Belthaser Gerard;
on the 12th of July, ITiit. the same fate befell
Prince Ivan VI . - >ll of Anno ot liussia: 27th
July, 1 See. Fiesohi fired his infernal machine
against Louis Philippe; 18th July. 2844. Fritz
Seherek. a burgomaster of Storkov. tired two
pistol shots a' the King of Prussia, but without
touching him: on the 20th of July. 18b!.
another attempt was made on the life of Louie
Philippe: ou the sth of July. 1553. occurred
Ors.fii s memorable attack on Napoleon III.:
and ou the 14th Os July. 18t*l, Oscar lleeKer
tired at King William of Prussia. This colloca
tion ot dates is certainly remarkable, but it
would prove more so. if the statistics of the
other months in the year were prepared with
equal care.
Some of fho most delicate and costly per
fumes are now made by chemical artifice, and
not, as formerly, by distilling them from flow
ers -the perfume of the latter often consisting
of oils and ethers, such as the chemist can
compound artificially in his laboratory. Com
mercial enterprise has availed itself of this
new avenue to trade aod profits; but the most
singular fact is that these delightfully fragrant
products are generally derived from substances
of intensely disgusting odor. Tl-us. the pecu-
liarly fetid oil, termed fuse! oil. is formed iu
making brandy and whisky; this fusel oik dis
tilled with sulphuric acid and acetateof potash,
gives the beautiful oil of pears. The oil of ap
ples is made from the same fusel oil. by distil
lation with sulphnfic acid and bichromate of
potash, and the oil of grapes, and the oil of
cognac, used to impart the flavor of French
cognac to brandy, are said to be Uttle else than
fusel oil. An exquisite article, known as the
oil of pineapples, is obtained from a product
of the action of putr;d cheese on sugar, or by
making a soap with butter, and distilling it
with alcohol and sulphuric acid. The popular
oil of hitter almonds, now so largely employed
in perfuming soap, and for flavoring confec
tionery, is prepared by the action of nitric acid
on the feud oils of gas tar.
EFIBCOPALCHUKCH CONVENTION
The New York Time*, publishes a long
and interesting article in relation to the'
approaching General Convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, which will
assemble in New Y’ork city on Wcdties
( day, the 7th of October. The duties of
the Convention are to legislate for the
church in the United States, much after
the method by which Congress legislates
for the country. In the approaching
session the Bishops will number fifty
three, the clerical delegates one hundred
and sixty-four, and the lay deputies the
same. Twenty-six permanent commis
sions and joint committees of both
houses, appointed at previous sessions,
will report to the coming Convention.
Some delicate and interesting questions
will be considered. The following sta
tistics of the condition of the church in
the United States are taken from the
Protestant Episcopal Church Almanac
for 1874 : Bishops, 53 ; clergy, 3,055 ;
communicants, 24(3,051; marriages, 10,-
810; burials, 20,653; ordinations—dea
cons 126, priests 97 ; candidates for or
ders, 301 ; Sunday school teachers, 22,-
702 ; Sunday school scholars, 233,300 ;
contributions, 87,187,417 17.
THE BON'D KINO.
A citizen of Savannah, at present on
a visit North, writes the Savannah News
as follows from New York :
“ Before I left Saratoga Springs I
happened to be in company witli some
bankers at the Clarendon, who hold some
of the fraudulent Bullock and Kimball
Railroad bonds, and heard them say
that they were determined to have the
State recognize them if it costs half a
million of dollars. They stated that
two hundred thousand dollars of that
amount is already made up, and that if
more is required to buy up the Legisla
ture it will be forthcoming. lam satis
fied these men mean business, and that
they have their agents now in Georgia
who are attending to their bond inter
ests, and who have engaged several
broken down politicians, lawyers and
defunct judges to forward their
scheme. So yon may rely upon it,
the money market will be easier this
Winter in Georgia, particularly at At
lanta. Be assured if you do not put
honest men in tho Legislature these
‘innocent holders’ will carry their
point. I think lean put my hand upon
some of the menTh Georgia who are en
gaged in this dishonest work, and when
I return ho Savannah I will have a talk
with you on the subject.
“Will not the tax payers of Georgia
see to it that only good and true men—
men who can be relied on to vote for the
Constitutional Amendment forever pro
hibiting the recognition of the eight
millions of bonds fraudulently and ille
gally issued by the Bullock banditti,
are sent to represent them in the Legis
lature this Winter ? Now is the time
for the people to speak through their
primary meetings, aud to make tlieir
will in this matter potent and effective
by sending men to the Legislature in
whose integrity they cau implicitly rely.”
MACON AND BRUNSWICK RAIL
ROAD.
The Atlanta Constitution “hears at
the Executive Department that on the
12th instant tho Governor informed Mr.
Geo. H. Hazlehcrst, receiver for the
State of the Macon and Brunswick Rail
road that, upon mature consideration,
he had determined that the public inter
est required that the property of this
road in the hands of the agent of tlie
State should be disposed of probably as
early as next December; and at the
same time suggested that lie would
probably deem it proper to make a
change in the receivership, simply for
the reason that it would not be proper
for the chief officer of the road to con
tinue to hold the antagonistic position
of receiver for the State while steps are
being taken to dispose of the property.
Accordingly on the 15th instant Dr. E.
A. Flew ellf.n, Superintendent of Public
Works, and receiver of the North and
South Road, was instructed to relieve
President Hazlehurst, and in entering
upon his duties to make out and send to
the Executive office a particular inven
tory of all property and assets of every
kind belonging to the company turned
over to him by the late receiver—who
also was requested to make out and
render at an early day an account cur
rent in detail of the financial transac
tions of the road under his administra
tion, together with a memorandum of
any outstanding indebtedness incurred
since the State took possession of the
road. When otherwise directed, Dr.
Flewellen will make monthly reports,
commencing with September.”
[From the Greenesboro Herald.]
POLITICAL.
Messrs. Editors— The name of Maj.
J. 15. Camming has been suggested as a
suitable candidate for Cougress from
this District. It would be well for the j
people of the District to investigate his (
action iu reference to the passage of a j
certain railroad bill which gave rail- i
road companies throughout the State!
the power to combine and make a rate j
of charges for the transportation of
freight. Let them he evtjr so unjust or j
unreasonable the people had no redress, j
It is a well known fact that the Geor- j
gia Railroad had less business before !
the war than since, and that it paid a
dividend of 8 per cent, when the char
ter restricted charges to fifty cents per
hundred pounds per hundred miles.
Since the war, with a large increased
business, they charge three times as
much ou many articles. And when
those who were groaning under these
unjust plunderings appealed to the
Courts of our State to restrict them to
their charter, the Georgia Railroad ap
pealed to the Legislature to legalize
their acts to charge in excess of their
charter. It is asserted and believed
that Maj. Gumming vacated his seat as
Speaker of the House, called someone i
else to the Chair, and advocated the pas
sage of this act. If this be true, which
we think can he proved beyond all
questidb, we wish to know if elected to
Congress whether he will he a represen
tative of the people or of corporations!
anil rings 1 Citizen.
The act above referred to is to be
found on page 330 of the acts of 1873,
and it as follows :
An act to amend the charter of the Geor
gia Railroad and Banking Company,
! an, l to amend the charter of the At
lanta and West Point Railroad Com
pauv, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., That
trom and after the passage of this act,
so much of the twelfth section of the
charter of the Georgia Railroad and
Banking Company, approved December
-1> ISG, as prescribed rates of freight
to be charged by said company, he and
the same is hereby repealed: and in lieu
of the classification bv measurement, as
therein contemplated, said company
may, by its proper officers, adopt the
more nsual and equitable classification
by weight : Provided, That the rates
charged under this act shall not exceed
the average rates charged bv the other
railroad companies in the State for like
service : And promdt and further, That
the General Assembly of said State re
tain the right to intervene at anv time
: for the purpose of correcting anv abuses
which may spring up or be practiced bv
j virtue of or under color of this act, bv
appropriate legislation restoring the re
strictions contained iu the said twelfth
section.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, T 1 at
thecl arterof theAtlauta and West Point
Railroad Company be so amended as to
conform to all the privileges granted to
the Georgia Railroad and Banking Com
pany in the foregoing section of this act,
Approved Angast 26, 1872.
A perusal of the act will show that
“ Citizen” has entirely misapprehended
the act. There is in it “no power
: given to railroad companies throughout
the State to combine and make a rate of
charges.”
The object of the act was that, and
I that only, which is stated in it, viz ;
To allow the Georgia Railroad and Bank
ing Company to charge for certain arti
cles by weight which previously had
been charged for by measurement. Un
der the old, crude system, inaugurated
in the infancy of railroads, when the
whole subject was little understood,
a bag of feathers was chargeable
with more freight than a bag
gold. It was to correct this
absurdity in the charter that the
act in question was passed. However, the
act will speak for itself and will show
how far it can justify the fear that Mr.
Cummins, if elected, will be a repre
sentative, “ not of the people, but of
corporations and rings,” even if his
character as an honest man did not pre
clude such a fear.
Mr. Ccmming’s connection with the
passage of the act was as follows : He
was on the floor of tlie House when the
bill came up for action. Some misap
prehension arose as to the character of
the bill, and Mr. Cumming made a sim
ple, clear statement of its provisions and
objects, and thereupon the bill passed
without opposition. No “advocacy”
was needed.
It is always legitimate for the oppo
nents of a candidate to make fair use of
his public record. It is not legitimate
to attempt to injure him by inaccurate
and perverted statements ; and the im
morality of such attempts differs only in
degree, whether such inaccuracy and
perversion proceed from design or igno
rance.
A CAROLINA REFORMER.
The Columbia Union-Herald hoists
to its mast-head for Governor of South
Carolina the name of D. H. Chamber
lain. This mau is put forward as the
reform candidate of the mongrel party.
His recommendation for the office is that,
instead of squandering the money he
stole from the people, he put it away for
his own use. Moses spent the spoils of
office in riotous living. Both are noto
riously corrupt, and there is really no
difference between them, except in the
ostentatious pretense of reform prom
ised by Chamberlain.
NEGRO RESERVATIONS.
The National Era, a paper which Mr.
Frederick Douglass controls, gives this
advice to tho freedmen:
Leave those States in which you are
in the minority and the subjects of pre
judice and outrage, and remove to the
States where you will be in the majority,
and thus protect yourself against the in
dignities to which you are now exposed
in many of the States.
The Era goes on to recommend South
Carolina, Florida, Mississippi and Louis
iana as eligible States. The white peo
ple in the States named must fight for
their rights and liberty at the ballot
box. Their salvation depends upon a
square issue against the thieves in pow
er who favor mongrel government. The
owners of the soil in the negro-ridden
States of the South can help themselves.
If the present miserable and scandalous
pretexts for governments are continued
in existance for a tew years more, the
laud will be confiscated for taxes. Why
not invite white men from the North
and West or from Europe ? They will
come by thousands if the proper induce
ments are held out. It would be better
for the property owners in every South
ern State to give away half their land to
industrious white settlers rather than to
await the confiscation of the whole by
tlie continuance of mongrel government.
The white people in the negro-ridden
States cau protect themselves if they
will unite and act together.
hon. h. I). McDaniel.
Hon. Henry D. McDaniel, of Walton
county, was one of the most prominent
and useful members of the House in the
last Legislature. As Chairman of the
Committee on Corporations, as a mem
iter of the Finance and Judiciary Com
mittees, he was untiring in his labors
and ever zealous in his efforts to
protect and advance the interests
of the people. He fought the bond
swindle in every shape in which it
presented itself. Major McDaniel
is a sound lawyer, a forcible and con
vincing speaker and an indefatigable
worker. He was one of the most influ
ential men in the House. The writer of
this is cognizant of his worth as a man
and his usefulness as a legislator, and it
gives him great pleasure to bear testi
mony to his fidelity and zeal in behalf
of the honor and interests of Geor
gia. We are doubly gratified at
the recognition of his services in
the last Legislature. At the Dem
ocratic Convention of the Twenty-
Seventh Senatorial District, held at
Social Circle, last Thursday, Major
Henry D. McDaniel, of Walton,
was unanimously nominated for the
Senate. Major McDaniel is an hon
orable, high-toned gentleman and in
every way worthy of the honor bestowed
and the confidence resposed in him by
the people of the Twenty-Seventh Dis
trict. He is a bitter and uncompro
mising opponent of the bond swindle
and will not touch it in any manner or
shape. He will render his people and
the State good service in the Senate. A
gentlemen of enlarged and liberal views,
and fully alive to the development of the
resources of the State, he will prove
himself the right man in the right place.
1)R. TUCKER ACCEPTS THE CHAN
CELLORSHIP.
Atlanta, Ga., August 15, 1874.
Col. H’«f. Ij. Mitchell, Secretary of the
Board of Trustees of the University
of Georgia :
Sir —Ou the Bth instant I had the
honor to receive from you an official
communication informing me that I had
been duly elected Chancellor of the Uni
versity of Georgia.
By return mail I acknowledged the re
ceipt of your letter, and stated that I
would prefer not to signify my accept
ance or non-acceptance of the position
tendered me until after conference with
the resident trustees, who constitute, as
I have since learned, what is known as
the prudential committee.
By your kindness, and at my request,
that committee was convened* ou Wed
nesday last; and having had a full and
free consultation with them, and having
been assured by each of them that there
is no known reason why I should no*
accept the proffered trust, aud that
there is every reason why I should, and
that my administration will, without
doubt, be sustained by every member of
the Board of Trustees so* long as it
proves to be worthy of support, I am
now prepared to say that I accept the
office of Chancellor of the University of
Georgia. I may add that Ido this with
the more satisfaction and confidence in
view of the cordial greeting with which
I was honored by every member of the
faculty present iu Athens during my late
visit.
Trusting not to myself, but looking to
Heaven for wisdom, grace and strength
to tit me for the high responsibilities de
volving on me, and hoping that when I
retire from office I may leave a record
honorable to myself, satisfactory to the
friends of the University, and, above all,
pleasing to God.
I am, sir, with the highest respect,
Your obedient servant,
Henry H. Tucker.
The Herald says Angm-ta has a bevy
of beauties at the Kimball House.
A reverend darkey will run for the
Legislature from Spalding county.
Tom Collins has been canght in Sa
vannah and sent to the penitentiary.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1574.
STATUS OF THE COTTON CLAIMS.
A Washington special to the New York
Post says : “Tuesday was the last day
for taking appeals from the Court of
Claims to the Supreme Court, and the
clerk of the former has commenced his
annual report to Congress, upon which
the appropriations for the payment of
judgments are based. The number of
appeals this year is less than usual, be
cause most of the points growing out of
the war, and arising under the captured
and abandoned acts, have been decided
at former terms. The most important
case appealed is that of Alexander Col
lie, an English subject, whose claim for
cotton purchased from the Confederate
Government, which was stored at Savan
nah, present points never before de
cided. His judgment for over $950,-
000 is the largest ever awarded by tlie
Court of Claims. Judge Nott, who dis
sented from tlie opinion of the Court,
held that the claimant was barred under
that section of the amended Court of
Claims act which requires that the
claimant, whether a citizen or not, shall
not have aided, abetted or given en
couragement to the rebellion against the
Government; and that, as it was admit
ted that Collie was engaged in blockade
running, and that his business was con
ducted surreptitiously and contrary to
the public policy of this country, lie was
in reality a smuggler, and not having
gained possession of the goods in ques
tion, of which his claim to ownership
was obtained by this illicit traffic, he
was not entitled to redress except under
article twelve of the Treaty of Washing
ton. The Attorney General is confident
of reversing the decision in this case.”
ENGLISH STOCK GAMBLING.
The Philadelphia Ledger says: “The
terrible extent to which gambling in
gold and stocks is carried in our coun
try is a familiar subject of remark, la
mentation and satire. But the mania
rages just as widely in England, and
has for generations. It was a great
many years ago that Thackery wrote
the supposed diary of James Plush, a
footman, wlio, by investing twenty
pounds in mlroads, gradually won thirty
thousand, became a director in the
Grand Diddlesex, a captain in the Cing
bars militia, and was known as the fa
mous Mr. De la Plusiie, who held
enormous interests in such railways as
the Madagascar, the Midland, the Lou
don and Birmingham, the Saint Helene,
and the Saffron Hill and Rookery Junc
tion. How this mushroom fortune
withered away, the satirist also told;
and the fictitious story reveals the state
of railroad stock gambling a quarter of
a century or more ago. The Scotch ap
pear, however, to be as much subject to
this passion as the English; for, at a re
cent meeting of the Glasgow Chamber
of Commerce, Mr. MoEwen, introduc
ing the subject of gambling on the
Stock Exchange, said that a large pro
portion of the recent bankrupts had
been involved in Stock Exchange specu
lations, and every failure now taking
place was attributable to share specula
tions. These speculations were more
serious than betting, which was being
put down. It was stated on the au
thority of a member of the Stock Ex
change that three-fourths of the trans
actions were by parties who had not a
single share; and a committee was ap
pointed to make inquiries. The state
of things there then would seem to be
very much the same as here, where tre
mendous operations are often made by
people who do not really hold a single
share of the stock they gamble in.”
WHAT THE INFAMY MEANS.
The Mobile Register thus comments
on the meaning of the Civil Rights bill :
“ The passage by the United States
Senate of the Civil Rights bill, for
which every Republican Senator save
one voted, the avidity with which
the negroes have pounced upon it and
are rolling its shocking consequences
as a sweet morsel under their tongues,
and its electric effect in arousing the
white people of the South to a sense of
their danger, have altogether driven the
white Radicals, especially in the South,
to tlieir wits’ end of fright. And now
they are trying to stop the current of
popular indignation by downright lying.
Tlieir organs and their orators pretend
that the bill does not mean what it
says, and they expect to fill the open
mouth of the public horror with plastic
doses of explanatory soothing syrup.
It is better to find out what the bill
means from the leading men in the Sen
ate who put the foul thing upon the
Senate’s journals. Here is what Mr.
Boutwell, Senator from Massachusetts,
said in explanation of the intentions
and political effect of the measure. We
advise the reader to cut it out and keep
if by him to stop the mouth of every
Jacobin who comes along to excuse this
detestable Radical measure. Boutwell
said :
A system of public instruction, sup
ported by general taxation, is security—
first, for the prevalence aud continuance
of those ideas of equality which lead
every human being to recognize every
human being as an equal in all natural
and political rights, and the only way
by which those ideas can be made uni
versal is to bring together iu public
schools, during the forming period of
life, the children of all classes and edu
date them together.
The public school is an epitome of
life, and in it children are so taught
that they understand those relations and
conditions of life which, if not acquired
in childhood and youth, are not
likely afterward to be gained. To say
that equal facilities shall be given in
different schools, is to rob your system
of public instruction of that quality by
which our people, without regard to
race or color, shall be assimilated iu
ideas, personal, political and public, so
that when they arrive at the period of
manhood they* shall act together upon
the same influences and directed to the
same general results ; and therefore, I
say, if it were possible, as in the large
cities it is possible, to establish separate
schools for black children and for white
children, it is in the highest degree in
expedient to establish or tolerate such
schools.
The theory of human equality cannot
i be taught in families, taking into ac
| count the different conditions of the
j different members and the families com
; posing human society; but in the public
j schools where children of all classes and
: conditions are brought together, and it
is the chief means of securing the per-
I petnity of republican institutions. And
inasmuch as we have in this country
! four millions colored people, I assume
that they aud the white people of the
country with whom they are to be asso
| ciated in political and public affairs
1 shall be associated and made one in the
j fundamental idea of human equality.
Therefore, where it would be possible to
I establish distinct schools, I am against
1 it as a matter of public policy.
A house was struck by lightning in
Macon last Sunday.
Some negroes in Savannah, while “as
sisting” a colored woman who had
fainted from heat, robbed her of five
dollars.
Mr. Robert McComb, a prominent
citizen of Milledgeville, died at the
Elder House at the Indian Spring, on
Sunday, the 23d iust. He had been
sick about a week.
It is stated pretty generally that the
Central Line proposes to build anew
light draught boat, exactly suited to the
needs of the river and the wants of
Columbus during low water stages.
The Atlanta Commissioners of Police
suspended two policemen Monday night.
One was charged with talking to a
citizen while on duty and the other with
entering a store and eating a box of
sardines, while walking his beat.
LETTER FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.
South Carolina Politically, Socially
aud Educationally.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel :
To behold the State that once reared
her head foremost in all the glorious
thirty-seven, whose name was honored,
whose characteristics were admired and
whose power was felt, to view the
land that fostered the genius of a Cal
houn and a Preston, and see her now
grappling with despondency in the sea
of misfortune with the oppressor’s heel
on her neck, and the reins of government
held in the hand of a lawless libertine
certainly defies stoic resignation. Even
if every South Carolinian was a Socrates
their patient endurance would be ex
hausted at the continual robbery and
utter disregard of law and public opin
ion as exhibited by their present rulers
in their every act.
To cast a retrospective glance over
the Congressional records of Carolina,
and view it shining as brilliantly and
purely as a noon day sun, and see it now
transformed into the combined darkness
and ignorance of Africa, with the un
blushing villainy of New England, is
sufficient incentive to cause the heart of
the most obdurate stranger to shed a
tear over this grave of fallen greatness
where the mighty lie so low. South
Carolina, politically, has sunk lower and
suffered more than any of her sister
States; yet with a npgro majority of
30,000 to battle against, a host of North
ern jail birds and her own renegades to
contend with, she presents a remarkable
example of the power of Southern en
durance, the subordination of her peo
ple and the instability of political pros
perity. Yet with all it seemest as if the
Radicals have blown this bubble to its
utter expansibility, and now the slightest
touch of Grant’s wand of power would
burst it asunder and cast its fragments
to other lands where the greedy propen
sities of these political vultures would
be better fed. So all Carolina stands
with patient expectation to see oili
great Caesar touch the fuse that is to
destroy her present government and
bury her rulers in the bottomless cave
of obscurity or transport them back to
the penitentiaries where they were
reared.
Educational.
In this respect the State has experi
enced her greatest misfortune; the mil
lion dollars donated as the land scrip
for tlie establishment of her agricultural
school has been absorbed by tlie various
legislative rings, and to the" present day
she has never tasted any of the benefits
of the donation. Her University once
one of the wealthiest and most justly
celebrated of the Southern States has
been destroyed by the appointment of
negro trustees and the consequent ad
mission of negro students; not satisfied
with this degredation the political hy
enas have deprived it of the greater por
tion of the endowment aud removed all
the professors whose politics did not
correspond with their own.
A sad picture to behold, a State of
the standing of Carolina and one of her
former wealth without a single college,
and thus we may say that Radical mis
rule has broken this, the backbone of
her future advancement, depriving her
sons of the treasure of a collegiate edu
cation and caused those who might have
shone bright in the national firmament
to resort to business in their very child
hood.
No greater affliction could happen to
a State than to be deprived of her na
tive schools when her people, impover
ished by war, are unable to send their
children abroad, and this affliction can
be laid at the door of the ignorance and
villainy of her present rulers.
Socially.
Os all the Southern States previous to
tho war none were more noted for high
toned cultivation and pride than the so
ciety of Carolina. This admission to
society was an inheritance handed down
from generation to generation, and thus
a barrier to the gates of society were
erected which could not be passed un
less one happened to be born in that
very circle. Rut the vicissitudes which
war have produced have torn down this
hitherto insurmountable barrier, and a
gentleman is now appreciated and re
spected for his own intrinsic qualities,
and not alone for his blood. In this one
particular we feel a consciousness that
the war has benefitted Carolina in allow
ing merit to be appreciated for merits
sake, and not to have merit discouraged
by the time worn prejudice of blood.
Yorick.
THE DUEL IN ST. JAMES.
Reliable Particulars.
[NewOrleans Bulletin. 20th.]
We learn from a gentleman just from
St. James, the following particulars of
the duel which took place in that par
ish. Our informant is familiar with all
the particulars, and his version may be
relied upon as entirely correct. A diffi
culty arose between Dr. Gray, who was
a member of the Legislature of 1868-’69,
and Mr. D. J. Richard, a Deputy Sheriff
of the parish. The affair had its origin
in some remarks made by Dr. Gray re
flecting upon the character of Mr. Rich
ard in a previous affair of honor, be
tween him and M. T. Jackson, of the
St. James Sentinel. Dr. Gray, having
been called upon by Mr. Richard, who
required a retraction, was met by a
reference to the friends of the latter for
a settlement of the affair. A delay of a
week was agreed upon for the meeting,
at the expiration of which time and
hearing nothing from Dr. Gray, Mr.
Richard placarded him. Whereupon
Dr. Gray demanded satisfaction for this
insult, which was granted him, and re
sulted in the duel of the 18th inst., in
which Dr. Gray was killed and Mr.
Richard was severely wounded, but not
killed, as reported by the Times, of
yesterday morning. At 12 o’clock yes
terday Mr. Richard was still alive, and
hopes were entertained of his recovery
by his physician.
These particulars are obtained from
an eye witness, who speaks by the card.
Dr. Gray being the challenger, the sec
ond and third shots were demanded by
him, and the third resulted fatally to
Dr. Gray.
[N. O. Times, 20th.]
It is related of Dr. Gray, who was
killed in the recent duel between him
and Mr. Richard, the other day, in the
parish of St. James, that he had been a
surgeon in the British army, and served
in the Crimea. He was also a surgeon
in the Federal army during the late in
ter-State war. Mr. Richard, who was
also killed in the fight, lived long enough
to say: “If I live I will kill the man that
says Dr. Gray was a coward.” Those
were his last words. The seconds who
aided and abetted this murderous duel
were all in the city ou Tuesday night.
Mr. F. Poche was one of them. It is
stated that they have deemed it prudent
to travel for their health.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
A correspondent of the German Ga
zelle writes under the 18th that Dr.
Charles Gray was shot through the heart
aud D. J. Richard mortally wounded.
The excitement runs very high against
Richard and his seconds, as the Doctor
was very popular as a successful physi
cian. Richard had lately cowhided a
Mr. John Reff, who had him arrested
when he had challenged Mr. Jackson, of
the Sentinel. The correspondent states,
further, that Dr. Gray, ou Saturday, re
fused to fight, and that Richard, on Sun
der morning, placarded the Doctor over
the whole parish in the following card, a
copy of which is annexed : I hereby
denounce Dr. Charles Gray as a villain
ous liar, an infamous scoundrel and a
contemptible coward.
D. J. Richard.
St. Jakes, August 15th, 1874.
Mr. Beecher on Mr. Davis,
Brooklyn, X. Y., August 15, 1874.
To the Editor of the Courier-Journal:
I have received a copy of the Mont
gomery (Ala.) News, containing an arti
cle by Colonel Robert Tyler upon an
alleged speech of mine concerning Jef
ferson Davis. That speech is a forgery.
Xot only did I never utter or write' any
such miserable stuff, but the whole
world knows that while many trere
clamoring for some sacrifice or victim, I
everywhere and always opposed, with
intense earnestness, the shedding of a
drop of blood, and resisted, with all my
might, the influences which sought the
execution of Jefferson Davis. It is not
the first shameful forgery upon me that
has been circulated in the South and
West. lam so heartily desirous of the
re-establishment of good will between all
who have been alienated, and I so much
value the good will of my fellow-citizens
of the South, that I step aside from my
usual course and make a reply to this
slander. I am, very truly, yours,
Henry Ward Beecher.
SENATORIAL NOMINATION.
Convention of the Nineteenth Sena
torial District.
Cr.AtVFORDYILLE, Ga., Aug. 25, 1874.
The delegates from the counties of
Greene, Taliaferro and Warren assem
bled in Senatorial Convention at 12, m.,
to-day, in Grange Hall.
On motion of C. E. McGregor, of
Warren, Hon. Miles W. Lewis, of
Greene, was called to the Chair, and
John E. Hartridge, of Warren, was se
lected as Secretary.
On taking the Chair, the Hon. Miles
W. Lewis addressed the Convention,
giving them some wholesome advice
upon the necessity of harmony in the
party and the vital issues that enter
into the canvass in the present political
campaign. The roll was then called,
and the following delegates and al
ternates responded :
Greene—M. W. Lewis, L. 1). Carlton,
James L. Brown, Walter A. Partee, Dr.
J. D. Moore, W. W. Moore, Columbus
Heard, Y. D. Grissom (alternate).
Warren— A. S. Morgan, C. E. Mc-
Gregor, Joshua Nichols, Wm. H. Pil
cher, John E. Hartridge, K. H. Ivey
(alternate for Dr. J. T. Baker), Wm. hi.
Anderson, Jr.
Taliaferro—John T. Wright, Ed
Croak, L. A. Moore, Wm. B. Kendrick,
John A. Caldwell, Jacob Ilucker, P. G.
Vtazy (alternate for L. E. Yeazy), Jno.
Johnson, Wm. H. Murden, L. C. Win
burn, John T. Overton, E. J. Anderson,
John G. Evans, Wm. Pass, Sr., J. P.
Sturdevant, K. M. Saggus, B. M. Lan
neau, Wm. H. Brooke, C. E. Smith (al
ternate for T. J. Stewart).
C. E. Smith, of Taliaferro, introduced
the following:
Resolved, That in nominating a can
didate for the Nineteenth Senatorial
District, composed of the counties of
Warren, Greene and Taliaferro, the dele
gates of each couuty respectively shall
be entitled to vote in the ratio of the
representation of each county in the
House of Representatives of the General
Assembly; and that in choosing a candi
date for Senator for these counties in
the next General Assembly we shall do
so without any reference to the princi
ple of potation, so-called, but shall be
governed entirely by our views of public
interest, without regard to the particu
lar county in which the candidate of our
choice mayAeside.
Mr. McGregor offered the following
substitute :
Resolved, That the basis of represen
tation be twice the number of delegates
that each couuty has representatives
in the present House of Representatives.
Mr. Smith accepted the substitute,
but subsequently withdrew the accept
ance, having made it under a mistake of
facts. Upon the amendment arose conl
- discussion, Messrs. Hartridge
and Morgan, of Warren, contending
that Warren was entitled to four votes,
Mr. Brooke, of Taliaferro, advocating
that Warren could only cast two votes.
To settlejthe primary point, Mr. Morgan,
of Warren, moved that a committee be
appointed to devise some plan by which
the number of votes Warren was en
titled to cast could be settled. The
Chair appointed Morgan, of Warren,
Brown, of Greene, and Smith, of Talia
ferro, as said committee. After con
sultation the committee recommended
that the question be referred to General
Toombs, Judges Pottle and Reese.—
General Toombs being absent, the mat
ter was left to the Greene county dele
gation to decide. Upon consultation
they agreed unanimously that Warren
was entitled to four votes.
Mr. McGregor’s amendment was then
adopted. The remainder of Mr. Smith’s
resolution, doing away with rotation,was
then unanimously carried.
Mr. McGregor then introduced the
following resolution :
1. Resolved , That the voting be vi.ve
voce, and that the counties vote alpha
betically, and that the chairman of each
delegation announce the vote of their
respective'counties.
2. That two-thirds of the entire vote
cast bo necessary for a choice.
The resolutions w. re put seriatim—
the lirst section being adopted without
dissent.
Mr. Smith, of Taliaferro, moved to
amend the second section, so as to make
a majority of the votes cast necessary to
a selection of a candidate. After some
discussion the amendment was with
drawn and the two-thirds rule unani
mously adopted.
Upon motion of Mr. Morgan, of War
ren, a committee of three—composed of
Morgan, of Warren; Moore, of Greene,
and Brooke, of Taliaferro—was appoint
ed to prepare business for the Conven
tion.
The committee, on reporting, recom
mended the adoption of the following
resolution, which was at once carried:
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
Convention that the act of the last Gen
eral Assembly, in the following words
[hero the act of the last General Assem
bly, making void the bogus Bullock
bonds was read] should become the fun
damental law of the State, and that the
nominee of this Convention be held
bound, if elected, to support the same
in the next General Assembly.
The next thing in order being nomi
nations, Judge Geo. F. Bristow, of
Taliaferro, was nominated by Dr.
Moore, of Greene; Hon. Charles S.
Dußose, of Warren, was put in nomi
nation by J. E. Hartridge, of Warren;
Dr. Wm. H. Pilcher, of Warren, was
put in nomination by Joshua Nichols,
Esq., of Warren, but was withdrawn
before balloting commenced. The bal
loting then commenced and resulted in
the nomination on the 27th ballot of
Hon. Chas. S. Dußose, the balloting
being as follows :
Greene —Dußose, 4; Taliaferro—Bris
tow, 2; Warren —Dußose, 4.
On motion of Mr. Lanneau, of Talia
ferro, the nomination was made
unanimous.
The Chair, in accordance with a reso
lution introduced by Morgan, of War
ren, appointed a committee of three,
composed of Morgan, of Warren; Moore,
of Greene; Lanneau, of Taliaferro, to
notify Hon. Chas. S. Dußose of his
nomination.
On motion, the Augusta papers and
the Democratic papers of the District
are requested to publish the proceed
ings.
There being no further business the
Convention adjourned sine die.
Miles W. Lewis, Chairman.
J. E. Habtbidge, Secretary.
The Reconciliation op Toombs and
Stephens. —There has been a very wide
and deep interest taken in the misunder
standing between General Toombs and
Mr. Stephens. Both gentlemen have
numberless friends all over the State
who deprecated the difference. The re
conciliation has awakened a lively ex
pression of gratification with but one or
two very faint suggestions of comment
upon the meagre explanation of the set
tlement. From General Toombs him
self we have it that the reconciliation
was absolute, complete and entirely hon
orable to both parties, and that lie au
tnorized the statement that he was ready
to maintain the honor, not only of him
self, but of Mr. Stephens in the trans
action. It was entirely unnecessary that
the public should be admitted to the
terms of the settlement. Mutual expla
nations rectified the misunderstanding
and restored the parties to their old fra
ternal relations, without a solitary harsh
memory or feeling of bitterness. Each
felt the same affection for and confidence
in each other as of old, and General
Toombs avowed his entire readiness and
eager desire to be sponsor and champion
of the integrity of Mr. Stephens in the
matter of his own.
We make this statement by his au
thority, and we add on our own, that on
both sides the affair has demonstrated as
punctilious an honor and as brotherly a
sentiment as ever inspired two large
hearted and noble men. —Atlanta Her
ald.
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
The convention of railroad men at
Boston, wherein many Southern roads
were represented, resolved upon a ma
terial reduction of freights.
Borkev and Jones, the Radical ne
groes whose rivalry caused the George
town, S. C., riot, have signed an agree
ment declaring that no impediment to
their cordial friendship remains, and
that they will refrain from everything
tending to public disorder.
It is understood that the services of
Pinkerton’s agency have been secured
by some citizens of Philadelphia to
search for Charlie Ross.
The thirteenth annual convention of
the Fenian Brotherhood, which have
been in session in Mew York two days,
continues its deliberations in secret.
Advices from Porto Rico report that a
terrific earthquake occurred on that is
land yesterday morning. Houses rocked
frightfully to and fro for two minutes,
and the inhabitants rushed from them
in the wildest alarm.
MARY E. POMEROY.
IMPRESSIVE SERVICES AT '1 HE
FUNERAL YESTERDAY.
Glen denning Not Present—Scorching
Denunciation of Her Seducer by tlie
Officiating Clergyman—A Baptism
and a Funeral in tlie Same Hour—
An Indignation Meeting Called.
[From the New York Herald, August 21.]
The scenes witnessed yesterday at the
residence of Mr James Smith Miller,
where lay all that was mortal of Mary
E. Pomeroy, will not be forgotten within
the lifetime of those whose unpleasant
lot it was to witness them. If a gen
erous and lavish outpouring of sympa
thy can afford consolation to the living
or vindicate the memory of the dead,
then Mary E. Pomeroy may rest quietly
in the country beyond the grave, and
the gloom that now overshadows the
home of an unoffending family may soon
be dissipated. The funeral was such as
had not been witnessed in Jersey City
for many years. Men of high standing
in tlie community, who were not ac
quainted with the deceased or with the
family with whom she resided, were
there, not from curiosity, but to record
a protest against
THE DIABOLICAL VILLANY
That sent her into an early grave. The
hour for the services was fixed at two
o’clock, but from noon the house was
crowded. When the appointed time ar
rived fully three hundred persons, all
members of respectable families, were
packed in the house or scattered through
the lawn. Among those present were
ex-Mayor Sawyer and lady, Charles L.
Northrup, Alderman Tolley, George P.
Howell, an elder of Glendenng’s church;
William E. Dudley, Albert Metz, H. A.
Hellerman, J. IL Bedell, Clinton W.
Cougar, Edward L. Kimberley, George
E. Randal], Charles W. Perveii, S. H.
Demotte, John Allen and Gilbert E.
Dudley, Ex-Mayor Sawyer remarked,
expressively: “I determined I should
come here at all hazards. Asa mau of
family I want to show my appreciation
of
THE STERLING CHARACTER
Os that young woman. She visited some
of our best families, and from what I
knew of her 1 say positively that if ever
there was a pure, virtuous girl till she
came across Glendenning she was one.
If Glendenning’s insinuations as to her
character have any foundation why did
he allow, her to occupy the sanctuary of
God as organist up to tho very Sunday
before liis arrest ? Why, the very sup
position is astounding. Whichever posi
tion he assumes he is guilty.”
Dr. Burdett called in the early morn
ing to the house of mourning and found
Mrs. Miller suffering from an attack of
acute nervousness. He administered not
medicine but some wholesome advice
and consolation. One remark is worth
quoting: “Yon ought, after all, to feel
happy, Mi's. Miller, that God has taken
her to Himself; had she lived she would
be in the Lunatic Asylum. ”
THE BROTHER OF DECEASED,
Her only brother, Alfred B. Pomeroy,
arrived from Michigan, and when lie en
tered the house and saw the face of the
dead, the scene was simply indescrib
able. He had expected to meet her and
pass a few happy days at the close of
the Summer, but now it was a meeting
of
THE LIVING AND THE DEAD.
lie is a well built, handsome young
man, apparently thirty years of age aud
was dressed in mourning. Wild rumors
were afloat that he was searching for
Glendenuing in the morning, but these
rumors were without foundation. Evexy
rumor in this most melancholy case,
however, is eagerly grasped, so intense
is the excitement throughout the city.
THE ROOM OF DEATH
Was the front parlor. The remains were
encased in a handsome rosewood casket,
mounted with silver. The expression of
the deceased was wonderfully calm ; she
laid, to mortal eyes, in a perfect repose.
Even in death the features were regular,
and conveyed the impression that she
must have worn a sweet expression in
life. The body was dressed in black
tarletan, strewed profusely from the neck
to the waist with tuberoses and liliies.
There were four exquisite wreaths on
the lid of the casket, wrought into the
shape of a cross, a’crown, a heart and a
shield. Some of these were tributes from
families iu the neighborhood. The sil
ver breast plate bore the following in
scription :
; MARY E. POMEROY, :
t Died August 18, 1874. 1
: Aged 26 years and 3 months. ;
The rush was so great to view the re
mains that even the staircases and apart
ments of the house were filled, and the
heat was excessive. At twenty minutes
to three o’clock Rev. Mr. Tunison, of
the Simpson Methodist Episcopal church,
arrived. It was desired to have a cler
gyman of the Presbyterian denomina
tion, but none could be found. He pro
ceeded up stairs, and his first office was
to baptise the little one whose mother
lay cold in death. The child was named
Ellen Stuart Glendenning, and Mr. and
Mrs. Miller were the sponsors. It was a
trying spectacle when the minister in
voked a blessing on the guardians of the
child, and called on them to love, cher
ish and protect it. The poor little one
is three weeks and two days old, but of
such small proportions and sickly ap
pearance that it is hardly probable it
will long survive its mother.
THE SERMON.
The minister, taking a position in the
hallway, at the foot of the staircase, read
the service commencing with “ Mau
that is born of a woman, &c,” and then
proceeded to deliver an address as fol
lows : “ Something more than a quar
ter of a century I have mingled as a
minister with Christian people. I have
buried fathers and mothers, sons and
daughters. I have been called upon to
consign to the silence of the tomb those
who had been called away in a moment.
But the most painful duty I have been
called upon as a Christian pastor to
perforin I realize this hour. Ic is not
only painful, but delicate. I am not
willing to say a word that would reflect
unjustly on any human being, yet
I MUST SPEAK BOLDLY
Those sentiments which will promote
your morals and secure your welfare. I
have prayad to God earnestly and anx
iously this morning that He may guide
me through this painful ordeal. In all
cities, towns and nations there are and
there will deserters, despite the enact
ment of the best and wisest laws. The
point that I desire to make in this con
nection is that there are men who will
commit crime, despite the fact that God
lives and reigns. God governs the way
of beings, who are constantly rebelling
against Him. This world to-day is not
the same as when God made it. The
soiil and mind of man are not as they
were when God made them. Earth
quakes, whirlwinds, famine and pesti
lence are things that, may exist in con
nection with a people who may have re
belled against God’s authority. If
there was no virtne there would be no
vice. How is it that some of those who
are the purest and best suffer the most,
while those who are the vilest and
THE WORST SUFFER THE LEAST?
If I take poison, no matter whether I
am a good man or a bad man, whether I
have followed God’s law or rebelled
against it, I will die, because, as I have
said, God governs the world by general
laws. The good suffer, yet God loves
righteousness and hates evil. If I could
believe there would be no hereafter—
that when man dies there would be an
end to man, body and soul, that there
would be no rewards or punishments, I
would discard the existence of God, I
would be an atheist. I say this delibe
rately in presence of this vast assem
blage. The thought suggested by these
points are that we are constantly sur
rounded by dangers, sickness, losses,
and, worst of all, by sin. No matter
how near we live to God, how much
grace we have, we are in constant dan
ger till our dying hour. What are to
learn from this ? We must be always
vigilant and on our guard against tiie
enemy. Does it not become a navigator
to watch anxiously lest he may strike
upon a rock ? The sad eventthat called
us here to-day teaches the importance
of guarding against evil in ail its forms.
A little matter kindles a great fire. A
little drop of poison quenches out a life.
Bear with me if I speak of the experi
ence of our departed friend. One single
mistake broke a heart that was full of
joy and destroyed a life. One single
mistake on the part of her seducer made
him
A MURDERER.
I stand here to repeat it, and am
ready to answer for it at the bar of man.
I am a father, and I speak to fathers
and mothers. I would rather see the
mangled ami lifeless remains of my
I daughter stricken down by the band of
the midnight assassin brought to my
, door than to see her robbed of her honor
and her virtue. If a mau that robs an
other life deserves death on the scaffold
the man tnat robs n woman of what is
dearer to her than life
DESERVES A THOUSAND DEATHS
Outlie scaffold. Oh, young men and
young women, who hear me, pause be
fore you make one step toward the nar
row way, A great shadow has been east
upon this household. Poor Mary Pom
eroy, when she fell, realized that all the
beauties had departed out of this life.
What a fearful mass of human beings'
who have made a similar falso step’
have robbed themselves and sometimes
their innocent ones of life ! Poor Marv
Pomeroy ! She raised her soul to God
and prepared herself to pass to a world
where she hoped there would bo no suf
fering. ‘1 have made up my mind,’
said she, ‘that I must make' a great
effort if I will bo saved. When I had
fallen 1 felt that I was estranged from
God, and that I must make a great effort
to be restored to His friendship. I
would like to live longer, but I must go
lam content,’ Oh, it is well for poor
Mary Pomeroy that God has taken her
from a world of woo to a world of glad
ness !”
During tlie delivery of this sermon the
speaker was frequently interrupted by
outbursts of grief from the ladies pres
ent. The remains were conveyed to Ber
gen Cemetery, where the tenement of
the crushed and broken spirit was con
signed to its kindred earth, there to
await the final resurrection. The body
was interred in the family plot of the
late John Hellerman by the kind per
mission of his sons, oue of whom suc
ceeds Miss Pomeroy as organist of the
Prospect Avenue Church. The ball
bearers were Messrs. John Greene, John
Waudle, John Nutter and Lowell S.
Dimick.
GLENDENNING DEFIANT.
It may seem incredible to many, but
such is the fact, that Glendenning ap
peared on the streets and pass, and through
the city yesterday morning, regardless
of the gaze of all observers Ho was
accompanied by Mr. Howell, one of the
elders of his church.
AN INDIGNATION MEETING.
Immediately after the funeral a meet
ing was held and the following call was
issued : A meeting of the citizens of Jer
sey City Heights will be held at Mc-
I herson s Hail, on Saturday evening
August 22, at eight o’clock, to give ex
pression to their feelings in regard to the
outrage perpetrated on the community
by the Rev. John S. Glendenning.
EXCELSIOR !—LEXUSGTON’S TIME
BEATEN.
Four Miles in 7:09 1-2.
[Prom the Turf, Field and Farm.]
At Saratoga, on the 20th of August,
1871, occurred the most astounding
event anywhere recorded in the annals
of the American turf. The hitherto un
paralleled achievement of covering four
miles of ground in seven minutes and
nineteen and three-quarte. seconds was
surpassed by Fellowcraft, the son of im
ported Australian and Hirolito, the
daughter of Lexington, and the narra
tive of that wondrous performance,
transmitted on the lightning wire, has
made at the remotest points of our ex
tended empire the profonndest sensa
tion ever experienced by the lovers of
the turf.
The American world has not yet
ceased to wonder at the prodigious
speed and endurance which, on the 21
ot April, 1855, carried Lexington, the
victor of time, over the four miles of the
Metairie in 7:19 J, when lo! nineteen
years after, his grandson, Fellowcraft,
carrying five pounds more weight, and
borne as it were on the wings of the
wind, beats that marvelous performance
by a quarter of a second !
It is difficult to conceive the sensa
tion among the fortunate spectators of
this magnificent achievement, many of
them wearied out by tlio fluctuating ex
citements ol two weeks’ racing, uu
paralled in the annals of the Saratoga
track, repaired to the course to see
what they expected to boa common
place, four-mile race between Follow
craft, Wanderer, and Ratio Pease, three
good race horses, but not ono of the
crowd assembled dreamed of the miracu
lous speed which was to lift the sou of
Australian to the very topmost pinnacle
of fame, and engrave upon his record
the fastest four miles over made on the
American Continent.
At, or soon after the drop of the flag,
Fellowcraft took the lead; at the end of
a mile he was four lengths ahead of Ka
tie and Wanderer, who were neck and
neck, but when it was porceifed that the
mile was done in 1:47], people began
to open their eyes, when, at the end of
the secoud mile, the horses passed under
the wire, the gallant chestnut still re
taining his lead of four lengths, appa
rently with the ease of a swallow on the
wing, and when it was found that the
unerring hands of the chronometers
marked but J:.'3B as the time for the two
miles, the excitement commenced.
On the third mile Wanderer made a
great effort, and passing Katie Pease,
slowly reduced the distance between
himself and Fellowcraft, who still lead
by a length, as they passed the grand
stand. The three miles are registered
at 5:29]. The excitement grows in in
tensity; women grow pale, men speak in
whispers, and a deep silence falls upon
the crowd. On the fourth mile Fellow
craft, still hard m hand, spurning the
earth with his sonorous hoof and devour
ing space as if with the wings of the
wind, gradually drew away from his
competitors and came in a winner by
three lengths of the greatest race ever
run on American soil. When the time,
7:19], was announced, the very vault of
heaven was rent by the wild shouts of a
multitude half crazed with enthusiastic
excitement.
THE BEST FOUR-MILE TIME.
August 20, 1874, at Saratoga, N. Y.,
Fellowcraft, 4 years old, carrying 108
lbs., 7:195.
April 2, 1855, at New Orleans, Lexing
ton against time, carrying 103 lbs.,
7:19’.
April 14, 1855, at Now Orleans, Lex
ington beat Leeompte, carrying 103:
lbs., 7:23’.
April 8, 1854, at New Orleans, Le
compte beat Lexington and Reube, 7:26
and 7:38j.
June 25, 1863, at Oentreville, L. 1.,
Idlewild, carrying 117 lbs., 7:2fir.
October 18, 1873, at San Francisco,
Thad. Stevens, carrying 115 lbs., second
heat, 7:30.
In 1866, at Saratoga, N. Y., Kentucky
beat Julius and Leatherlungs, 7:31’.
In 1867, at Jerome Park, Kentucky
against time, carrying 120 lbs., 7:31 J.
In 1842, at the Union Track, L. 1.,
Fashion beat Boston, 7:3_>,.
In 1871, at Jerome Park, Abd-el-
Koree beat Helmbold, 7:33.
In 1872, at Jerome Park, Monarchist
beat Harry Bassett, 7:331.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
A negro was sunstruck in Columbus
Saturday.
There are 275 cases for trial in Mon
roe Superior Court.
The sexton of Atlanta died Monday
night, of typhoid fever.
A terrific hail storm did great damage
in Hart county last Sunday week.
Summer night’s festivals are all “the
go” among the Savannah Schuetzens.
The Finance Committee of Griffin
burned 81,478 more of city scrip Mon
day.
A woman of the town attempted to
commit suicide in Atlanta Monday
night.
The rain fall in Atlanta last Sunday
evening was two inches, and at night
one-half of an inch.
Major E. W. Anderson, of Wilkes
county, died last Tuesday at his resi
dence, near Danburg.
The Atlanta Bar Association is dis
cussing the question whether law and
equity should be kept separate in our
Courts.
Last Sunday a little white boy named
Deal came near drowning in a pond
near Atlanta. A colored boy jumped in
and rescued him.
A desperate cutting affray occurred in
Washington last Saturday night, be
tween Joseph Gofer and James Gilbert.
Both were seriously injured.
Atlanta was threatened with a second
edition of the Pittsburgh flood Sunday
night. Rain fell in torrents, and
sewers and streets were much damaged.
Some counties are requiring their
nominees to pledge themselves to vote
for an amendment to the Constitution
prohibiting tho payment of the bogus
bonds.
NUMBER 35.
LETTER PROM ATLANTA.
[special correspondence chronicle
AND SENTINEL. ]
Atlanta, August 25, 1874.
The Radicals Moving,
Despairing of obtaining even a re
spectable representation in the Legisla
ture, the Radicals are determined to
make a last bitter tight for representa
tion in Congress. The Democracy,
thoroughly aroused by the threatened
passage of the Civil Rights bill, are or
ganizing everywhere. Especially aro
they becoming active in those Con
gressional Districts which last, year
elected Radicals Sloan, Whitely and
Freeman. In this emergency the Radi
cals fed the necessity of an organ, and
with this view a number of the most
prominent and many of the most obnox
ious of them held an informal caucus
here yesterday, it is supposed to devise
ways and means for tin- establishment of
a newspaper in sympathy with their own
“faith and order.” Among those
present were those two noble brothers,
Samuel Bard and Joseph G. W. Mills,
the Damon and Pythias of the Georgia
Radicals; 11. I*. Farrow, of “Pot Ash”
notoriety; J. G. Freeman, Congressman
iroin this District, the apostate white
man; \V. L. Clark, for several terms
State Senator from one of the Districts
in South Georgia, and several of the less
celebrated Radical “hangers-ou” in
this city. They counseled with closed
doors and the only result of their de
liberations that has yet transpired is a
purpose to establish in this city forth
with a Radical newspaper to lie
styled tlio Georgia Radical, under
the proprietorship of W. L. Clark.
This sheet is to be published weekly,
and it is to bo circulated especially, 'it,
is said, in Freeman’s and Whitoley’s
Congressional Districts. It is not known
who will edit this great expounder of
Radicalism.
Candler’s Prospects
Are not altogether gloomy. The num
ber of his supporters is increasing every
day. He thinks that Dave Johnson can
be induced to abandon his purpose to
run independent. In that event Mr.
Candler will have every reason to hope
for his election after lit' lias declared his
policy in regard to certain questions
which aro now agitating the country.
The Atlanta Custom House,
To the erection of which Congress has
appropriated $250,000, in, it, seems, not
destined to an early completion. (Super
vising Architect Mnllott was in the city
two or three months ago, and the city
tendered him any one of four lots,
all centrally located. He finally accept
ed one which the city can purchase at a
cost of about $82,000. After reaching
Washington, however, Mr. Mullett very
suddenly changed his mind, and with
out any explanation, writes that none
except a lot valued at about $85,000
will answer the purpose of the Govern
ment. The City Council thereupon
peremptorily refused to donate the lot,
and the Custom House stands state </iio.
There is a very considerable senti
ment in tlio city against the pol
icy of donating a' lot to the Govern
ment for the purpose of eroding a Cus
tom House, or for any other purpose.
An idea prevails that the State should
have control of all the territory within
her borders, and that the city also
would gain nothing by donating a lot
and forever thereafter lose $1,500 or
$2,000 annualh, which she would other
wise derive from taxation of the prop
erty.
The Bond Ring.
The impression grows every day that
there will soon be a concentrated effort
on the part of the holders of bogus
Georgia bonds to obtain their recogni
tion and payment at, the next session of
the Legislature; and it is believed that
H. I. Kimball is to be the leading spirit
of this conspiracy against the honest
tax payers ot this State. It is said that
ho contemplates obtaining control of
the “Kimball House” Hotel, in order to
make it the grand rendezvous of his
bandit lobbyists; that hero lie will ban
quet the Legislature, hold high revelry
niglit and day, and if possible, at the
very next session of tlio Legislature,
capture enough of that body—one
third—to defeat the constitutional
amendment prohibiting forever the rec
ognition of the fraudulent Bullock
bonds. Let the people elect to the
L gislaturo only such men as they would
lie willing to trust with tlio keeping of
their own money.
Unlawful Abating of Nuisances.
Some where between twenty thousand
and a million of martins collect in this
city every Summer, and all the day long
in dark multitudes explorp the surround
ing country in search of prey, returning
regularly at nightfall to roost in the
yard of a private citizen, Mr. Fred.
Morton, in a grove of trees. They had
become a great nuisance by reason of
the immense deposit of exerementious
matter, and many unavailing efforts
were made to expel them. Finally, the
matter being brought to the attention of
Mayor Spencer, ho ordered forthwith
that the undergrowth in Mr. Morton’s
yard bo cut down, and, ns it seems, in.
violation of law. In addition to this ho
summoned a number of the town sports,
and with their assistance proceeded to
shoot the birds, with the purpose of
driving them from their roosting place,
and, as it, seems, ho also in this instance
violated law ; for there is iti force a law
prohibiting the killing of insectivorous
birds in this city at this period of the
year. There aro some who justify
Mayor Spencer. There are others who
indignantly characterize his action as
thoughtless atleast, and some pronounce
it unauthorized, oppressive and outrago
ous ; and there exists a desire among
the injured parties to hold him accounta
ble before the law. In the meantime
the martins come and go at pleasure.
Trade.
Merchants almost universally predict
a prosperous business the coming Au
tumn. Tho grain trade, one of Atlanta’s
sources of business, will be necssarily
reduced, because an abundance has been
produced at home, but merchants ex
nress little regret on this account, for
trade will be greatly revived in all other
departments. It is predicted that the
coming season will be the most prosper
ous for dry goods men over experienced
in this city. Merchants and business
men are all encouraged at the outlook,
and are elated at the prospects of a re
newal of business. Halifax.
Mrs. Tilton’s Letter to Moulton.—
Here is the whole of it. Instead of be
ing, as the telegram made us believe, in
reference to Beecher that she told false
hoods, it was in reference to her own
husband’s shortcomings:
Between April 7th and November 21,
1872.
Dear Francis— l did tell you two
falsehoods at your last visit. At first I
entirely misunderstood your question,
thinking you bad reference to the inter
view at your house the day before; but
when I intelligently replied to you I re
plied falsely. I will not put myself on
record untruthfully. 1 told Mr. B. that
at the time, of my confession T. had
made similar confessions to me of liim
self, but no developments as to persons.
When you then asked for your own sat
isfaction was it so, I told my second lie.
After you had left I said to TANARUS., “You
know I was obliged to lie to Frank,” and
now I say, rather than make others suf
fer as I now do, I must lie, for it is a
physical impossibility forme to tell the
truth; yet I do think, Francis, had not
T.’s angry troubled face been before mo
I would have told you the truth. I am
a perfect coward in his presence, not
from any fault of his, perhaps, but from
long years of timidity.
I implore you, as this is a side issue,
to be careful not to lead me into further
temptation. You may show this to TANARUS.,
or Mr. 8., or any one else. An effort
made for truth.
Wretchedly, Elizarf.th.
Fight With Indians.
Washington, August 26.—Dispatches
have been received here, giving an ac
count of a light between four companies
of the Tenth United States Cavalry, un
der Col. Davidson, and Indians—Oco
nees, Kiowas and Comanches —at Wichi
ta Agency. The Oconees were off their
reservation without a permit, and, after
a talk with Col. Davidson, promised to
return, but instead of doing so made an
attack onj the soldiers, in which tho
other tribes joined. Mauy Indians were
killed and several soldiers badly wound
ed. Four citizens were killed. ,
The steam saw, planning and fyiishing
mills of Capt. H. L. Buck, on the Wuo
camaw river, in Horry county, with
over ono million feet of hard pine lum
ber, wero totally consumed by fire on
the 16th inst., and the loss is estimated
at 830,000. There was no insurance.