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Address WALSH A WRIOHT,
Cfjromcle anb Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 2, 1874.
MINOR TOPICS.
Tho only evidence of perturbation which the
President gave when a messenger rushed in
with the newß that llAeaacbu-etta had gone
Democratic, was to remove the cigar from his
mouth an l rest the lighted end of it on the
back of General Babcock's band. Babcock’s
perturbation was much more prononneed.
There are more kid gloves sold in New York
than in any city in the world. The annual re
ceipts at that port are about 250,000 dozens of
what are called first-class gloves. Including
an inferior article, the number reaches 8 0,-
000 dozens a year, making $10,500,000 paid an
nually by New York merchants for this one
article.
Pr.ees of looomotives have declined consid
erably in Germany from March, 1873, to March,
187*. In March, 1873, a freight engine was
vt-luod at 22,800 thalers, and in March, 187*,
but 16,7*0 thalers. A passenger engine was
contracted for in March, 1873, at 20,*50 thalers,
and in March, 187*, at 17,000 thalers, and a
lender engine in March, 1873, at 16,000 thalers,
and in March. 187*, at 10,860.
The New Orleans Bulletin records several in
stances of brutal attacks on colored Conserva
tives in that city since the election. A crowd
of negroes assaulted Pompey Stoats with clubs
because he had voted the Conservative ticket.
They also fired several shots at him. Lewie
Henderson, another colored Conservative, was
chased by six negroes, who threatened his life
because be hsl not gone with them on election
day. Many similar outrages have been perpe
trated. and as Casey and Company still control
the judiciary, there Booms to be no redress.
It Is said that Secretary Bristow drew his
sponge aorosi a very pretty inflation argument
injected into Treasurer Spinner's annual re
port. Spinnor would liko to make the green
back a perennial growth, blossoming into bods
and bills with a perpetual and sweet uncer
tainty of value which no rude pay day should
disturb. The Kentueky financier has a glim
mering notion that a promise to pay is a
pledge that binds the promisor, and that a
party who redeoms his note with a bond and
pays off his bond with a note is not a solvent or
an honest debtor.
A young man in Washington, about to be
married, procured tbe license the day before
the ceremony, and put it in his coat pocket, to
he at hand when needed. Going to the church
he put ou another ooat, leaving his license be
hind him in his room. Beaching tbe ohurch
and the license being demanded, he was unable
to find it and sent a friend to bis lodg
ings for it. But in the meantime his room
mate had put on the coat by mistake, and gone
over to Georgetown with the license. Going
to Georgetown after him, he had returned to
the olty, and it was only aftor a long, weary
search that he was found, tbe license secured
and tho marriage celebrated.
Base ball, Judging from the report of tbe di
rectors of the Athletic Club, of Philadelphia,
is a rather costly amusement. Tbe expenses
of that club during the last season were $25,-
930 99, and its receipts $25,055 01. The
salaries paid to the players amounted to $13,-
987 70, exclusive of the traveling expenses,
cost of uniforms, otc. Tbe visit of the cjpb to
England was an expensive financial failure, the
traveling expenses amounting to $3,396 55,
whilst the receipts from the games pliyed
there were only $1,799 60. Tho receipts from
the games played in the United States were
over $19,000, and the traveling expenses less
than those of tho European trip.
Boston seems to be entirely successful in
applying the principle of non-partisan selec
tion to the choice of its chief municipal officer
Mayor Cobb has boon solicited to be a candi
date for re-election and his consent gained.
The journals of all classes of thought, Repub
lican, Democratic and Independent, accept
that oousent as estopping opposition from any
quarter. In regard to the selection of Aider
men and Common Councilmen, there is less
uuauimity of opinion, but there is still confi
dence that those who seek these positions in
the interest of private jobs will be defeated by
due diligence on the part of the citixens. lhe
example of Boaton in the management of its
municipal elections and their divorce from par
tisan politics is one that will challenge advan
tageous imitation on the part of other cities.
Poatmastor-General Jewell has not yet posi
tively decided whether to endorse the postal
telegraph scheme in his annual report, but will
probably decide in the negative. He says
there are circumstances whioh make the ac
quisition of established lines a matter or
doubtful wisdom, and the construction of new
ones would be unadvisable. As to his prede
cessor's scheme of postal banks, he does not
favor such an aggressive movement on the
banking and finanoial institutions of the peo
ple. It is now certain that there will be a large
deficiency this year in the Post Office Depart
ment—about $7,000,000 —Creswell's plan of
compelling postage ou papers within the coun
ty of publication not having secured the re
sult desired of equalizing postal receipts and
expenditures. Postmaster-General Jewell will,
it is said, recommend either the discontinuance
of non-paying postal routes or an increase of
postage.
A “Society for the Protection of Railway
Faaaengera" haa been formed in England. The
object of the eociety ia to enforce the righta of
passengers ss against the railway companies
by remonstrance, and if necessary by legal
proceedings. Unpnnctnality in the movement
of trains ; inadequacy of accommodations ; in
sufficiency of waiting rooms ; incivility of offi
cials ; iudigeatibleness of food furnished at
station restaurants, and a multitude of other
•rils from which passengers suffer, or about
which they have grievances, are all to be taken
notice of by this society. For a fee of five
shillings any member can thus, through the
agency of the society, have his railway wrongs
redressed. The Duke of Manchester is Presi
dent, and quite au array of leading peers and
commoners are among the officers, and if Eng
lish railway management is anything like
American, the eociety will soon bave its hands
full of business.
A number of work people at Ashton-under-
Lyne, England, left their work in a cotton fac
tory recently because they were employed in
spinning cotton which wae too bad for nee un
der ordinary circumstances. The material em
ployed being rotten, the proprietors of the mill
sought to disguise ita worthlessness by mixing
it with bins lead, a powdered mineral com
pound, found to be very injurious to health.
In self-defense the work people abandoned
their customary employment, and the “cotton
lord” brought them before the local magis
trates to be punished for their insolent neglect
of hie interests. There was a brisk fight, but
the justices of the peace concluded that they
were not empowered to force the men and wo
men back to be poisoned by the blue lead pow
der. The Justice loving press of England
should now raise its voice in favor of prosecu
ting tbe fraudulent cottou mill proprietary.
Drunkenness is conceded to be form of
suicide. One of the chief objections to it
however, is the slowness with which its
work of death is accomplished. If the con
firmed drunkard would only die and hare done
with it, his unhappy friends might feel a small
degree of gratitude toward him; bnt when he
persists in living year after year in a chronic
condition of uottishness, he loses all claim to
consideration. The recent conduct of Mr.
Onynam, of Springfield, Mass., is strongly to
be oommended to all intelligent drunkards.
This person having found that he was a con
firmed sot, and that his efforts at reform were
useless, bought a quart of bad whisky, drank
it at one draught, and died without giving any
further annoyance to the public. Will not
other drunkards go and do likewise ? This
way has been pointed oat to them, and the
means are simple. A*t them understand that
the public expeots every drunkard to do his
duty and to drink himself promptly, qnietly
and effectually to death.
NORTHERN KU-KLUX.
The Philadelphia North American
is bo basil/ engaged in slandering the
Bonth and the Southern people that it
has apparently no time to notice or com
ment upon tho condition of affairs in the
State of Pennsylvania. While it bewails
tbe condition of tbe South and bemoans
the insecurity of life and property in
Georgia and Alabama, it does not seem
to be aware that murder and violence are
getting to be very common occurrences
not far from Philadelphia. Glancing
over the telegraphic columns of a Balti
more paper of the 18th instant, we find
that “the reign of lawlessness in the
coal regions of Pennsylvania appears to
be continually growing worse, caused,
perhaps, by the fact that most of the
perpetrators of the assanlts and murders
escape capture and punishment. ’’ At
• Carbondale on Saturday night or Sun
| day morning, two men were murdered
i and three severely assaulted, one of
! whom will probably die. On the same
j Sunday morning Patrick Padden, a
; miner, was found dead in the streets
| with two ballet holes in his head;
| Michael McNally was found dead in the
same place on the same day. Michael
Beoland was also discovered in the same
town and on the same day with his
throat cut. Six mnrders in one town
during one night and no arrests made !
“A boss at the Erie breaker ” was way
laid Saturday pight, had his arm broken
and received'other injuries, but escaped
with his life. Two miles from Wilkes
barre a man was found nailed to a beam
in “ a lonely and unfrequented place ”
and there left to die, bnt by mere acci
dent was discovered and released. At
Scranton, on Saturday night, a man was
taken from his home, thrown over an
embankment and murdered. What a
peaceable and quiet Saturday night that
was 1 Harder and violence on every
hand, stalking boldly through the streets
of cities and not a word heard of detec
tion and punishment. These things ex
cite neither surprise nor indignation
when they occur in Pennsylvania, but
let a man like Ananias Hays report that
a Republican has been maltreated in
Alabama and the troops are at once
called out and wholesale arrests ordered.
Crime is one thing in Pennsylvania and
another and a very different thing in Ala- 1
bama.
WOMEN AND MARRIAGE.
An ingenious English social statistician
has compiled some interesting matrimon
ial tables, by glanoing at which a woman
oan tell in an instant what ohance she
has for wedlock. That is to say, sup
posing the sum of a woman’s chances to
be one hundred, if she' does not marry
between the ages of fifteen and twenty
fourteen and one-half of them may be
considered exhausted. If she remains
single until she reaches her twenty-fifth
year fifty-two more, or sixty-six and a
half in all, will have vanished, leaving
only thirty-three and one-hdlf chances
remaining. At thirty one-half of these
are gone, and at thirty-five only eleven
and a half remain. At sixty there is
still a chance—or rather the tenth of a
chance—a possibility, but by no means
a probability. Wo have here given in
formation which can be easily turned to
account by the ladies. Let the unmar
ried woman who reads this article to
day, before or after the morning
ohuroh service, or in tho evening
when the house is quiet and
there is no danger of interruption
by visitors, figure out her destiny ac
cording to the rules laid down by our
statistician. Let Mary, or Jane, or
Kate, as the case may be, say to herself
“I am so many years old” (not giving
of course the conventional reply to im
pertinent inquirers, but making a state
ment whioh corresponds with the entry
in the family Bible),” and am unmarried,
what are my chances for a hus
band ?” Nothing will be easier than to
apply the rule which has been framed
for her benefit, and the most limited
knowledge of mathematics will enable
her to solve so simple a problem. You,
Miss Kate, started life with the same
advantages bestowed upon your sisters ;
you had your ten talents, your one hun
dred chances, how have you improved
them ? You are now, you say, twenty
five years old. Alas! two-thirds of
them have gone already, and gone never
to return. Yon have thirty-three re
maining to you, for in snch matters it
will not do to compute the value of frac
tions, see that you employ your capi
tal property. There must bo no more
flirting, no more nonsense, under penalty
of perpetual spinsterhood. Or, do you
confess to twenty-eight or thirty ?
Then there are only fifteen chances re
maining, and the case is growing des
perate. How kind is it not, young lady,
of our English friend to make the social
problem so simple and to give to each
maiden the power of forecasting her
own fortune!
Suppose that the years pass away, that
the chances diminish, that the woman
does not find a mate and journeys on
through life in “maiden meditation
fancy free,” what then ? Why then, say
nine readers ont of ten, Kate becomes
an old maid ; and the sentence is pro
nounced in the tone of deep commisera
tion which indicates the fearful nature
of the doom. But the tenth and the
wisest reader wonders whether or not
poor Kate has need for so much of pity
and compassion ; whether the chief end
and aim of woman be matrimony, and
whether contented maidenhood is not
preferable to unhappy wedlock. The
world has been taught for so long a time
\o contemn celibacy in women that we
do not pause to consider whether or not
marriage is as desirable as we would
have it appear. We do not consider
the many annoyances which matri
mony brings to women—its cares,
its troubles, temptations and pri
vations, its suffering and despair.
We fail to estimate aright its dangers.
We do not think of the gentle and deli
cate woman tied to the drunkard, the
gambler, the debauchee, or to some
coarse and brutal mate, with whose na
ture it is impossible for her to have any
thing in common, and, bound to whom
by chains which cannot be burst asun
der, she leads a horrible death in life.
We forget the cares of maternity, the
ingratitude of children and the bitter
pangs which their misconduct occasions.
Seriously, do we not attach too n>, acli
importance to matrimony, and are old
maids deserving the sympathy which
they so liberally receive ? It is ail well
enough to say that marriage is a neces
sity, and that without the institution we
would soon experience either chaos or
annihilation. Snch declarations are
true enough. There is no denying the
correctness and soundness of the gen
eral rule. Bnt do we not waste a good
deal of compassion upon the exceptions
to its operations ? When a woman does
not marry, from choice of course, for
we shall not be so ungallant as to inti
mate that single life is ever the result of
necessity, it by no means follows that
she has missed any great degree of hap
piness, or is doomed to any great meas
ure of misery. There is no reason
why spinsterhood should not be
happy as well as honorable, and
we protest that history and individual
experience shows that some of the best,
the brightest, the happiest women
in the world are those whom we aneer
ingly if not scornfully term “old maids.”
Their lives are madeupof good deeds and
sacrifices of self, which bless those who
receive and ennoble those who give. If
they have no families of their own, their
hearts, unrestrained by the selfishness
which springs np in the home circle, ex
pand until they take in the whole human
race and overflow with love and ten
derness. What home is there which has
within its circle a maiden sister or aunt
that has not felt the blessing of her
presence ? Of their disappointments
and nnhappiness they make no manifes
tations ; and, despite the malice and
slander of railers at and contemners of
spinsterhood, they are nßnally the most
amiable and lovable of their sex. With
the vanity pecaliar to his kind, man has
complacently and conceitedly set down
a union with himself as the sum of femi
nine felicity, not reflecting how much of
unhappiness sometimes enters into mar
ried life, and that it is quite possible
for a woman to be useful and contented
ontside of the honorable estate of mat
rimony.
WELCOME INTELLIGENCE.
The Richmond correspondent of the
New York Herald states that an arrange
ment has been made by the agent of the
foreign holders of Southern bonds with
the Governors of the States of Arkan
sas, Alabama, Mississippi, North and
South Carolina and Virginia for the pay
ment of the obligations issued by those
States. The present debt is to be taken
up with bonds having thirty years to run
and bearing interest at the rate of four
and five per cent. The correspondent
also states that the Governor of Georgia
has rejected the proposition, and “that
State will be let severely alone.” This
will be welcome intelligence to the peo
ple of Georgia. They cannot be let
alone too severely. All that we have
of the bondholders —foreign and
native—was to let ns alone; not to annoy
us with offers of compromise, with their
coaxings and threats. Their claims
have been carefully examined, passed
upon and rejected. They will never
be recognized and tbe sooner the
bondholders recognize this fact the
better it will be for them. They are the
owners of fraudulent paper whioh they
took with full knowledge of the fraud,
and they must bear the penalty of their
act. They knew when they purchased
this spurious paper what rriks they ran.
They knew that they would either make
an immense profit or else lose their
whole investment. They lost, and they
have no one to blame but themselves.
It would be very silly of a merchant to
bankrupt or severely cripple his busi
ness in order to pay a forged note, no
matter how much time might be gra
ciously given him by the holder. The
State of Georgia should be held to no
stricter responsibility than an individ
ual. At all events, whether the bond
holders stick to their assertion or not
they will soon be compelled to let Geor
gia alone. The Convention which will
be held next year will effectually dispose
of them and their pretended claims.
TAXES NORTH AND SOUTH.
The New York Financial Chronicle
publishes a complete and interesting
table of values and the rates of taxation
in the principal States of the Union.
The table includes twenty-eight States
and the rate of taxation is given in all
of them except two—Massachusetts
and North Carolina. Those who think
Georgia a bad State to live in will do
well to study a little the figures given
below;
Assessed Rile of tax
States. Property. per $lO9.
Alabama $93,989,157 SO cents
Arkansas..... 104.972.329 50 cents
California 600.000,000 50 cents
Connecticut 348.855,457 10 cents
Florida 30,000,000 70 cents
Georgia 242,487.382 40 cents
Illinois 1,101,013,463 24 cents
Indiana
Kansas 125,684,176 40 cents
Louisiana 228.666,653 $2 15
Maine 250,000,000 50 cents
Maryland 424,672,712 17 cents
Massachusetts 1.831,601.015
Michigan 630,000,000 22 cents
Minnesota 217,000.000 50 cents
Missouri... 578,755.502 50 cents
Nevada 19.700.000 $1 12)
New Jersey 612.996.106 30 cents
New York 2,169.307,873 721 cts
North Carolina 123.507,629
Ohio 1,524 323.118 40 cents
Oregon 37.174.169 15 cents
Pennsylvania 165,362,443 40 cents
Rhode Island 247.798,580 20 cents
South Carolina 183.913,000 70 oents
Tennessee 320,000.000 40 cents
Texas 206,920.526 50 cents
Virginia 329,424,152 60 cents
In Alabama and Tennessee the prop
erty returned is real estate only, as in
those States there is no tax imposed
upon personal property. In Pennsyl
vania tho figures apply to persoual
property only, as there is no tax in that
State upon real estate. An analysis of
this table will show that Georgia is
the wealthiest of all the Southern
States except Tennessee and Vir
ginia, both of which have a much
larger population. Of the Wventy-six
States in which the rate of taxation is
given it appears that in thirteen, or
one-half of the whole number, the rate
of taxation is over forty cents on the one
hundred dollars—that being the rate in
Georgia. Of these thirteen, six are
Northern and seven Southern States.
The rate of taxation in Georgia is much
less than in New York, Nevada, Mis
souri, Maine or California. Of the
twenty-six States there are only eight
which have lower taxes than Georgia
and all of these are Northern States ex
cept Maryland, which is a border State.
Tennessee is the only Southern State
with the same rate as that which pre
vails in Georgia. Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Kansas of the Northern States have
the same tax. These figures will show
Georgians that they have no ground of
complaint and that they are a great deal
better off than most of their neighbors,
either North or South. Our wealth is
greater, in proportion to population, and
our taxes lower.
Another noticeable fact presented by
this table is that Radical rale in the
South means high, and Democratic con
trol low taxes. The three Radical
States mentioned above are Louisiana,
Florida and South Carolina. The taxes
in Louisiana are double those of any
State in the Union, and treble’those of
most of the States. The rate in South
Carolina and Florida is seventy cents—
thirty cents higher than in Georgia, and
twenty cents higher than in any of the
other Southern States. The highest rate
in the North is paid in the Republican
State of Nevada, and the lowest in the
Democratic State of Connecticut In the
former it is one hundred and twelve and
a half, And in the latter ten cents. So
that Republican government is almost
as costly a luxury in the North as it is
South of the Potomac.
A dispatch from Lexington, Ken
tucky, states that Dr. Stephen Easttn,
a prominent young physician of that
county, was accidently shot and killed a
few miles from that place on the night
of the sixteenth instant. At the
of the accident Dr. Eastin was riding
in disguise with a party of Ku-Klux in
search of a “negro hog-thief.” While we
regret the untimely death of any man
the regret is materially lessened by the
knowledge that the deceased was en
gaged in an unlawful act, which might
have terminated in the murder of inno
cent parties.
The dwelling house of Mr. A. Ramsay,
of Greenville county, valued at between
four and five thousand dollars, waa de
stroyed by incendiary fire last week.
AUGUSTA; GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1574.
MULLETT.
It is to be hoped that the report of
the resignation of Mr. A B. Mullett,
the Supervising Architect of the Treasu
ry Department, will prove correct. If
all accounts be true, he is a corrupt and
unscrupulous man, who has used his
office in such a way as to make a
fortune for himself at the expense of
the Government. He is said to have
been concerned in a number of corrupt
jobs, and the mere fact that Boss Shep
ebd is so anxious to have him retained
is of itself a circumstance which should
make Secretary Bristow resolute to dis
pense with his services.
AN ENGLISH VIEW OP THE SITUA
TION.
The following are the views of the
London Standard— the leading Con
servative journal of Great Britain—upon
the recent Democratic victory. They
will be found worthy of serious atten
tion :
If the Democratic leaders arc prudent
it is clearly in their power so to improve
the present victory as to insure the elec
tion of a Democratic President in 1876,
but if they act factiously, and briDg gov
ernment to a deadlock, their successes
now may prove only the prelude to
further reverses. As for the third term
agitation, it would seem to have at last
been effectually brought to an end with
the hopes of the Republican party. But
at the same time it must not be forgot
ten that much may happen in two years.
The Democrats, though they will pro
bably be in a majority iD the House,
have not yet secured power, and it is at
least possible that the voters of the
North and West, though willing to re
turn a Democratic House, are not willing
to hand over the administration to the
Democrats. At the Presidential elec
tion in 1872 Grant was proved to be far
stronger than his party. Indeed, he in
sured the success of the party rather
than the party his success. It may be
that in 1876 the proof may be repeated.
Of ote thing we may be certain, that the
office-holders, threatened with extinc
tion, will work with desperation against
the Democrats. And should the South
ern whites, now everywhere in the as
cendant, not exercise moderation, they
will help the office-holders.
A THREATENED EXODUS.
We regret to see that another effort
is being made to induce the colored
people to emigrate from Georgia to the
West. This time Texas is the objective
point. Romulus Moore, a colored man
who represented Columbia county in the
Bullook Legislature, is the leading
spirit of the new movement. He has
issued a call for a Convention, to meet
in Atlanta on the 30th of the present
month, for tho purpose of considering
an exodus en masse daring the coming
Winter. He declares that there is
a handsomely laid off and built
up town in Texas with some two
thousand inhabitants, all of whom
are colored, and he proclaims that
there is no difficulty in the way of found
ing other such elysiums. We do not
believe that the colored people of Geor
gia a3 a race can be deceived by such
palpable falsehoods and silly arguments,
but we fear that some among them may
give credence to the statements of Romu
lus Moore, and permit themselves to be
carried from their homes to the fool’s
paradise which is awaiting them in
Texas. We hope, however, that there
are not many who can be imposed upon
by the fictions of a man who is prob
ably paid to entice them away. We
hope this because we feel very confident
that the colored man who moves from
Georgia to the West will not better his
condition. He will find when he gets
beyond the Mississippi that he has been
made the victim of a cruel and mercena
ry scheme, and ho will discover that
the new Eldorado is a place for starva
tion and suffering. We hope this also
because Georgia needs every colored la
borer now within her bounds. We
cannot spare any of them. There is
plenty of work for them to do, and plen
ty of men to pay them for their services.
We cannot well do without them, and
they can do much better here than they
can in Texas or anywhere else.
OFFICE HOLDING AND DUELLING.
The Clerk of the Kentucky Court of
Appeals is not satisfied with the decision
of the Board of Canvassers, which de •
prives him of his office because of his
acceptance of a challenge many years
ago. Several years since Captain Jones
had a difficulty with a fellow-townsman,
which led to a resort to the Code. Capt.
Jones was challenged, and did not send
a formal acceptance, in order to avoid
the penalties of the law against duelling,
but did accept virtually and made ar
rangements for a meeting, which, how
ever, did not take place. Last August
he was the Democratic nominee
for Clerk of the State Court of Ap
peals, and was elected by forty thousand
majority. The defeated candidate
claimed the office on the ground of the
ineligibility of the successful candidate,
as the Constitution of Kentuoky dis
franchises any person who bears or ac
cepts a challenge or fights a duel. Capt.
Jones contended that though there
might have been a virtual there was not
the formal acceptance of the challenge
necessary to bring the case within the
purview of the law. The* Board of Can
vassers, all of them Democrats, after
maturely considering the case, have de
cided that there was such an acceptance
of the challenge as to disqualify the suc
cessful from holding the
office. They also decide that his Re
publican opponent has no right to the
position for the simple reason that he
was not elected, and think that anew
election should be ordered. In the
meantime Capt. Jones has appealed
to the Court of Appeals for a man
damus against the Board, which will
bring the case up before the highest
judicial tribunal of Kentucky. It
may seem. hard that Captain Jones,
who is said to be a competent man
and a gallant Confederate soldier,
should lose tho lucrative position to
which he has been fairly elected on ac
count of an act committed years ago,
and which public sentiment in the
South, at least, had always considered a
very venial offense, but it would be un
fortunate if the Courts should decide
that a provision of the State Constitu
tion could be so easily evaded. The ob
ject of the clause [of the Constitution,
and the intention of the framers of that
instrument, and of the people who rati
fied it by their votes, was to prevent
duelling and the sending and acceptance
of challenges. If it can be rendered
nugatory by such a method as that
adopted by Captain Jones it becomes at
once the deadest of dead letters, and
should be promptly stricken from the
statute book. As we have just such a
provision in the new Constitution of our
own State, the decision of the Kentucky
case will prove of interest to the people
of Georgia.
It is stated that the Fall River mills
use annually about 133,000 bales of cot
ton, or one-thirteenth of the entire crop,
which they convert into 332,030,000
yards of cloth. They employ over
15,000 operatives, and pay them $500,000
per month. In this connection some
other statistics, compiled from the latest
official sources, may be of interest. The
total number of cotton spindles in the
United States is 7,132,415, of which
5,508,308 are in New England. Fall
River has 1,269,788, which is one-sixth
of the spindles in the country, or one
fomrth of those in New England.
MODERN JOURNALISM.
[Constitutionalist, of the 24th.]
We congratulate our friends of the
Chronicle and Sentisel that they have
now become the worthy recipients, at
the hands of Dr. W. S. Jones, of a com
fortable chair, which is at once a relic
of the poßt and bright omqa of the fu
ture. This testimonial vre regard, out
side of its merely personal characteris
tic, as a handsome recognition of the
journalism of the present by the jour
nalism of the past. No profession has
improved] of late years, in certain par
ticulars, more than journalism. The
discoveries of steam and the electric
telegraph, allied with improvements in
the printing press, have made the jour
nalism of to-day a very different thing
from the journalism of a generation ago.
A few months since we saw a copy of
the London Times, of 1815, which bore
to the English people the thrilling news
of Napoleon’s overthrow at Waterloo.
It will scarcely be credited by many
person?, but it is strictly true, that the
Augusta papers of this date are twice
as large and more than twice as full
of reading -matter ami" advertisements.
They are also much better printed and
by no means so crammed with typo
graphical blunders. When we compare
the Times of 1815 with the Times of 1874
the miud is lost in amazement at the
prodigious superiority of the modern
journal to its predecessor of not quite
sixty years ago. The same is true of the
metropolitan press of the North, and,
relatively so of the journals of the
South. A journalist of these days to be
proficient in his art must combine many
faculties if he would keep abreast with
the alert and fiery civilization of this
fast age. We do not wish to make any
“odious comparisons,” but candor com
pels us to say that, in many respects,
the trained editor of the present is an
improvement upon his forefathers of the
quill, who labored under numerous dis
advantages and did not have the same
sharp spurs of competition and electri
city. The press, the world over, has
made wonderful and gigantic strides
within a comparatively brief period, and
it gives us unfeigned pleasure to state,
all things being equal, that our contem
poraries of the Chronicle and Sentinel
have been not one whit behind the true
progress of this progressive age. We
also sincerely hope that the present oc
cupants of the chair editorial ir ay long
live to grace their new acquisition of an
old treasure, and be able, fifty years
hence, to print a paper which will be as
superior to their issue of to-day as the
issue of to-day is superior to that of a
half century ago.
THE VOTE OF GEORGIA.
Full returns of the recent election in
Georgia for Congressmen have been
received. The Democrats carry all the
Congressional Districts by majorities
ranging from seven thousand to twenty
three hundred. In two Districts—the
Fourth and Eighth—there was no oppo
sition to the Democratic nominees, and
in the Seventh District the race was al
most entirely between an independent
Democrat and the party nominee. The
vote of the State is as follows :
Ist District—Democratic 11,081
“ —Republican 7’ 622
Democratic majority 3,459
2d District—Democratic 12,198
“ —Republican 9,789
Democratic majority 2,409
3d District—Democratic 8,677
“ —Republican 4,199
Democratic majority 4,476
4th District—Democratic 9,236
“ —Republican 16
Democratic majority 9,220
sth District—Democratic 12,450
“ —Republican 6,273
Democratic majority * 6,177
6th District—Democratic 10,007
“ —Republican 2,756
Democratic majority 7,251
7th District—Democratic 15,092
“ —Republican 197
Democratic majority. 14,895
Bth District—Democratic 6,885
“ —Republican 12
Democratic majority 6,873
9th District—Democratic 7,885
“ —Republican 2,318
Democratic majority 5,567
Total vote—Democratic 92,459
“ —Republican 33,182
Democratic majority 59,277
Whole vote polled—lß6B. 159,856
1870 166,507
1872 138,906
1874 126,693
Democratic vote... .1868 101,767
1870 96,685
1872 76,356
1874 92,459
Republican vote 1868 57,159
1870 69,822
1872 62,550
1874 33,182
Democratic maj. —IB6B 44,608
1870 26,863
1872 13,806
1874 59,277
The’ above figures all relate to elec
tions for national and not State offices.
It will be seen that the Democrats carry
the State by the largest majority which
they have ever given in a Congressior'
election, and one much larger than vas
given by any other State in recent
election. The total vote is smaller than
in any other year, but it will be seen
that the decrease has been upon the Re
publican side. The vote of that party
is but little more than half the vote cast
in 1872, while the Democratic vote
has increased sixteen thousand.—
This gain must have come from the
ranks of the enemy, and represents in
part the votes cast by colored men for
tbe Democratic candidates. The cir
cumstances attending the recent cam
paign were not such as to cause the poll
ing of a full vote by the Democracy, ex
cept in three districts of the nine into
which the State is divided—the First,
Second and Seventh. In the others the
Democratic candidates encountered
either no opposition or so little that
they had virtually a walk over. Asa
consequence thousands of Democrats
did not go to the polls because they
knew the party had no use for their bal
lots. Where, then, did the increased
vote come from ? It was given by color
ed men who have hitherto voted the Re
publican ticket, but who, disgusted with
that party, have abandoned ,it and come
over to the Democracy. We have no
donbt that at least twenty thousand
colored men in Georgia voted the Demo
cratic ticket at the recent election.
At the preliminary examination of
Father Gebdeman, the Catholic priest
whose defalcation and flight have recent
ly been made public, it was shown that
the accused, acting as trustee, had re
ceived one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars for the erection of a church and
had spent one hundred thousand dollars
in the purchase of European drafts in
order that he might live at his ease on
the other side of the water. The coun
sel for the defendant took the somewhat
novel position that as the church was
not chartered the prosecution against
the prisoner as trustee would not hold
good. The District Attorney, however,
contended that a man had no more right
to rob a Catholic Church than a charter
ed institution, and the Court, taking the
same view of the qnestion, required the
defendant to give bond for his appear
ance to stand a trial for lareeny.
SENATOR GORDON,
HOW *THE SOUTH REGARDS THE
ELECTIONS.
[Correspondence New York Tribune.]
What I have said as to the feeiiag in
Louisiana applies as well to Alabama ;
but the situation in that State has been
faithfully portrayed already by another
correspondent of the Tribune, a.d was
reflected in the jubilee mass meetings in
Selma, Montgomery, and other cities.
The only positively gloomy man I met
in Alabama was the Hon. “Ananias”
Hays, M. C., to whom his own election
appears as a*solitary ray of light in the
general darkness and despair which has
fallen upon the world of carpet-baggers.
Mr. Hays has gone to Washington, how
ever, in search of consolation and fresh
inspiration from that friend and confi
dante of “thoughtful statesmen,'’ Post
master Edmunds. In Georgia the glee
is Dot so great, for several years have
passed since Georgia was emancipated
from the dominipn of the carpet-bag
gers; but even there the elections have
had a powerful effect in ' creating a na
tional * spirit and awakening long dor
mant motives for exertion. I had a most
gratifying conversation with Gen. John
B. Gordon, Senator frum Georgia, and
one of the ablest men in the South. He
said : “We all begin to feel as if we are
in the Union again.. . I never saw any
thing like the change that has been
wrought in our people by the evidence
that we are no longer to be suspected
and proscribed by the people of the
North. Why, even the ladies take part
in the general rejoicing, and begin to
talk about the Union as tbongh they
had a personal interest in it, and yon
know many of them have boasted all
along that they were ‘not reconstructed,
and expected never to be.’ At a mass
meeting the other night, at which there
was great enthusiasm, nothing said by
me was so much applauded as the words
in which 1 pledged the people of 'Geor
gia to stand by the Constitution, the
Union, and the enforcement of the laws;
my denunciation of the Radicals and
Radicalism didnotcall forth half so much
enthusiasm as my expressions of Union
sentiments and good will to the people
of the ;whole country.” Gen. Gordon
thought the policy of the Democrats in
Congress would not be reactionary as to
any of the ideas embodied in the Con
stitutional Amendments adopted since
the war, and the laws enacted thereun
der; policy, no less than common
honesty, dictates the strict enforcement
of all laws by which the rights of the
freedmen have been enlarged, and de
mauds that the white people, as a class,
shall show themselves true friends of
the colored race. Between the two
races in Georgia the feeling is one of
friendship, and their relations are im
proving; the carpet-baggers are gradual
ly leaving for more congenial fields of
labor. Left to themselves, the South
ern whites and the Southern blacky may
live in peace and prosperity for cen
turies. Immigration is desired, and
immigrants will always be weloomed,
but the continuanoe of the State gov
ernment in the hands of the Conserva
tive or Democratic party will make im
migration with a view to the capture of
offices a business every day more un
profitable.
THE GREENE COUNTY FAIRS.
Neab Penfield, Greene Cos., Ga., 1
November 23, 1874. j
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel :
In your issue of Saturday last some
one from Union Point, over the signa
ture of “Yisi,” accuses me of doing the
citizens of Greene county great injustice
as an agricultural and a Christian peo
ple. Now, Messrs. Editors, far be it
from me to attempt to do my native
county or people injustice. The article
complained of was written deploring the
state of things at present. My informa
tion came from a number of our best
citizens, whose veracity will, at least,
equal any one, and not being "at either
of the Fairs mentioned, if I report at all
it must be from these citizens’ reports.
While at a publio place on Saturday
evening last an old gentleman read
“Visi’s” reply, and raised his head and
remarked that he was astonished; for
what “Visi” saw at Floral Hall was all
right, bnt under the head of what he did
not see, his only answer was that “Yisi”
did not try .to see, for these wheels
were crowded all day with people, and
among them were men who live by
farming, and scores of men who are
members of the church, anrl that it was
not confined to citizens of Greene, but
people of other counties took stock. I
stand ready to prove this by a score at
least of good citizens, and some have
expressed a determination not to go to
any more Fairs on account of these evils.
“Visi” thinks in future I had best not
comment on things that I am told; but
these things came by so many people of
high standing that they must be so, and
it is the duty of every good citizen to
strike at evil wherever it presents itself,
even though it be in Fair grounds. The
Good Book tells us that in the mouth of
two or three witnesses everything shall
be established,. My design was not to
cast any reflections upon any one, but
Greene has a people opposed to evil,
and some of their sons or neighbors
might have made their first beginning
at this time and you know that it is said
the first drink makes the drunkard, so
the first day at a fortune wheel may get
up a desire to gamble, and we should
stir up each other’s pure minds by way
of rememberance. Greene has one citi
zen (at least) for whom there is no dan
ger in gambling, for he could not see it,
although it was going on under
his nose. I had no design to stir up
strife by the article, for I ryish to see
agriculture advance until farming is
done according to science. But, ,as I
said before, it will not be done by gam
bling, dancing and horse racing. A dis
play of field crops and fine stock and all
such will, and the time to arrest evil is
to nip it in the bud. And I was honest.
I thought these things had a tendency
to start our boys in the wrong direction.
Not being a newspaper writer, I hope
the above sufficient. Fishing Creek.
HORRIBLE MURDER IN CLINCH
COUNTY.
Two Prominent Citizens Killed and
Mutilated.
[Special Correspondence of Savannah News.]
Homerville, Clinch County, Ga., {
November 21,1874. ]
One of the most atrocious crimes ever
committed in this county (if indeed it
has a parallel anywhere) occurred on
yesterday. You doubtless remember
that some time ago Caraway and Padgett
almost beat the wife of Caraway to death,
in Suwannee county, Florida,"and made
their escape into this State. Under a
requisition from the Governor of Flori
da, Governor Smith issued his warrant,
and recently Caraway was arrested by
the sheriff of this county, Mr. Robert N.
Brady, and his brother, Jackson Brady.
He was delivered to the authorities of
Suwannee county, and placed in jail at
Live Oak. At the time of his arrest the
Bradys took possession of his horse, gun
and pistol, which Caraway asked them
to bold. The Bradys live some thirty
miles from here, in the lower part of the
county, and near the Florida line. It
appears that on yesterday afternoon
Robert N. Brady and his brother were
at home alone, the family being absent
on a visit to some friends in the neigh
borhood. A body of six armed men
were seen by different parties going in
the direction of Mr. Brady’s. The
party consisted of Tip Padgett, the new
ly elected representative from Echols
county, whose son was implicated with
Caraway in beating his wife, Lee and
Hunter, of Echols county, and two
Blounts, and another man not known,
from Florida. They stated that they
were going after Caraway’s property, and
late iu the afternoon they were seen re
turning with the property. Just before
night a little nephew of the Bradys’ and
a Mr. Lane went to Mr. Brady’s place,
when they found to their utter astonish
ment and horror Jackson Brady shot to
death and fearfully mangled, and Robt.
N. Brady, the sheriff, lying speechless
and sweltering in his blood, shot in
seven places and his throat cut. At last
accounts he was not dead, but was sup
posed to be dying. Mr. Brady had
been notified by the authorities in.
Florida not to deliver up Caraway’s
property, and it is supposed he refused
to do so, when he ana his brother were
both shot down. After committing the
murder, and in passing some people in
the neighborhood, the parties stated
they were going at once to Live Oak,
and that before day the jail there would
be broken, Caraway released and on his
horse with them.
The Charleston Chronicle will hereaf
ter appear semi-weekly.
The troops stationed about the State
during the election are returning to
tkeir garrison at Charleston.
THE STORM KING.
A MOMENT OF HORROR.
T^e ; „ rte of Tuscumbia -Who Were
Killed—Through the Darkness Into
the Waters.
The Storm in New York.
New York, November 24.— Heavy
gales. _ No material damage beyona
high tides, which flooded low cellars.
The steeple of tho Baptist Church at
Sing Sing is down. Telegraph poles
and many unsubstantial buildings were
prostrated. Loss at Trenton, $50,000.
A brakeman was blown from a train and
killed. Tho meadows back of Elizabeth
are partly flooded. Much hay destroy
ed.
Tuscumbia’s Loss.
Tuscumbia, Ala., November 24.—8 y
the storm of Sunday about 300 persons
were deprived of houses, and the total
loss to the town and private individuals
is estimated at $500,000. The Memphis
and Charleston Railroad Company loses
$20,000. The storm came on while
most of the people were supping. It
came like the sound of rushing thunder,
and passed over immediately. Houses
were blown down in many places. The
streets and woods were everywhere
Filled Witn Crumbling Walls
And shattered timbers. The people Im
mediately organized, appointed a leader
and set about relieving those held by
falling timbers and recovering the bodies
of the killed. In addition to the
killed mentioned in yesterday’s Nash
ville dispatches, thirty persons were in
jured. Soon after the storm had blown
over it was discovered that the iron rail
road bridge over Spring creek, about a
half mile from town, had been com
pletely destroyed, and at the same mo
ment it was remembered that the train
from Memphis could be expected to ar
rive at any moment.
The Utmost Confusion
Prevailed. No one seemed to know
what to do. At length a young man
named Wamble seized a huge stick of
pine wood, and after thrusting it into a
fire in a house near by, he rushed to
wards the broken bridge, waving the
blazing wood over his head as went.
He had almost reached the creek when
his torch was extinguished by the rain
which was falling in torrents. At the
same time the whistle of the approach
ing train was heard, and the next mo
ment the head light
Flashed Through the Darkness
The young man called with all his
might, but the engineer beard nothing
but the sound of the storm, and before
any warning coaid be conveyed to him
tbe engine, baggage car and one of the
passenger coaches went over the em
bankment fifty feet down into the creek.
The rear passenger cars did not go off
the track, it being blocked np by the
wreck of the foremost ones. The engi
neer, fireman and baggage master went
over with it. They were
Cut Out of the Rains
After two hours hard work. They were
very dangerously burned and bruised,
but are expected to recover. Several of
the passengers were slightly injured but
none of them prevented from proceed
ing on their journey. They were de
layed three hours.
In the town the searching party first
removed the ruins of State Senator
Moore’s house. Mrs. Moore was found
on a bed with two heavy timbers lying
across her and two children under her
bed sll A
Crashed Oat of Shape.
Twenty other children were rescued
alive. John Hodgkins was blown out a
second story window and his house
blown down, burying Ibis brother’s
family. On cutting through the wreck
Mr. Hodgkins, his wife and fourchildren
were all found crushed to death. The
mansion of Mrs. Winston was blown
down and she was found killed by a
heavy wardrobe and other furniture.
The house was valued at over $40,000.
Her son-in-law, ex-Governor Lindsay,
occupying a portion of the house, was
unhurt.
Passengers Transferred.
Chattanooga, November 24.—Tus
cumbia is the only place damaged along
the Memphis and Charleston Railroad.
It _ will probably be a week before the
bridge there is replaced. In the mean
time passengers are transferred.
It is hard to glean any particulars of
the hurricane and its effects from here.
An Appeal to Grant,
Washington, November 24.—The
President this morning received the fol
lowing telegram:
Tuscumbia, Ala., Nov. 23,1874.
To His Excellency U. S. Grant, Presi
dent of the United States :
Last night this town was visited by a
tornado which destroyed a large portion
of it. Houses were levelled to the
ground and ten persons killed, and as a
consequence destitution prevails to an
extent that no language can express.
There is no money in this oountry, and
the sufferings of the destitute cannot be
relieved by individual aid, and it is,
therefore, that this appeal is made to
your Excellency for immediate relief by
au order for a supply of rations. I
am authorized by a large town meeting
to make this appeal, hoping and believ
ing that your Excellency will respond
promptly and plentifully.
[Signed] David R. Lindsay,
Chairman of the Town Meeting.
Heartily endorsed by the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen.
[Signed] Hhnby F. Newsom,
- Mayor.
Regrets, &o.
The following reply was sent: Wash
ington, D. C., November 24, 1874. —To
David R. Lindsay, Chairman of the
Town Meeting, or Henry F. Newsom,
Mayor of Tuscumbia, Ala : The Presi
dent, in reply to your telegram of No
vember 23d, greatly regrets that he is
unable to comply with your request.
The limited appropriations for subsist
ence for the army will not permit him to
issue the subsistence above required.
Signed, Wm. H. Belknap, Secretary of
War.
The Storm In Canada.
Poet Claibobn, Ont., November 24.
The water in the canal has reached the
level of Lake Erie, and the lock gates
have been thrown open by the shock of
water passing through. This never hap
pened before in the well and canal. The
water in the harbor has risen six or seven
feet. The storm of last night was one
of the most severe ever experienced
here. The water washed over the piers
with such force that it was impossible
to see the light houses, and the keepers
found it impossible to get out to light
the lamps. Much damage was done to
shipping and to buildiDgs in course of
erection,
Boston Will Help.
Boston, November 24.—1n response
to an appeal from the Mayor of Tuscum
bia, Mayor Cobb invites a contribution
from the public.
Fuvther Details of the Destruction of
Tuscumbia.
Tuscumbia, November 26. —The storm
Sunday evening was most disastrous in
its effect upon the surrounding country.
Houses were unroofed and fences blown
down in every direction. Large trees
were torn from the ground and carried
many yards by the storm, crushing
cabins and outhouses as it went. After
the tornado left Tuseumbia it seems to
have spent its force or risen above the
houses. Then having apparently gain
ed new strength, it came down upon the
farm of Benj. Wilson, 6 miles from here,
and totally destroyed his residence, corn
crib and gin house. It then passed up
a stream known as Pond Creek, leveling
thousands of forest trees for some miles.
Further on the farm houses and out
buildings of Wilkes Davidson, a well
known citizen, were destroyed, as*was
also the home of Ira Jarman, an exten
sive farmer. Scores of negro cabins
were blown down and two black men
killed. Several others were slightly
wounded. The loss to Tuscumbia is
fully as much as at first reported.—
Among the property destroyed was two
grist mills, which supplied the town
with meal, and the want of this article
of food is beginning to be severely felt.
Many of the houses that were not blown
entirely down were rendered nnfit for
habitation, and nearly every .building in
the place was more or less damaged.
Provisions are giving out. The train
which went over the embankment at
Spring Creek on the night of the storm
remains in the same position. The
broken bridge cannot be repaired
for several days, and all trains from
Memphis are delayed several hours. The
baggage master and firemen, who went
over the bank with the train are now out
of danger, but the condition of en
gineer is still critical. All those who
were wounded by falling buildings are
doing wall. Many of tki> bail dings whisk
remain standing prove upon examina
tion to be in an unsafe condition, and
several of them will have to be torn
down.
An Appeal to New York.
Jew York, November 25. —Mayor
emeyer received a dispatch from the
Mayor of Tnscumbia yesterday appeal
ing for help for the destitute of that
town. Havemeyer promises to forward
all the subscriptions.
The Storm in Baltimore.,
Baltimore, November 24.—The gale
that broke over this city yesterday even
ing was the severest tornado known for
years. Its full force was felt in the
northwestern section of the city, the
elevation of which exposed it to ail the
pofcer and fury of the winds. On Gil
more, Strieker, Corey, Organ and other
streets in that vicinity, on Harlem, and
Pennsylvania avenue, houses were un
roofed, chimneys blown 4wn, and Ireqp
stripped of their branches. About one
hundred buildings were damaged tq a
greater or less extent, and the amount
of loss may be computed at from $50,-
00Q to $70,000. Twelve persons suffer
ed various injuries, and some were seri
ously hurt, but there is no apprehension
of fatal consequenoes to but one. The
scene, when heavy timbers were being
whisked away like straws by devastat
ing blasts, houses falling in ruins and
dedse clouds causing obscurity of twi
light over the city, was painfully grand.
Later. —Morris Hogan, who was
blown from the scaffold of the building
comer of Biddle and St. Paul streets by
the terrible tornado yesterday, died
from the effects of his wounds. He was
a young unmarried man, and a stone
mason by trade, and was working at his
trade at the time of the accident. This
is the only fatal result so far as known.
The cross whioh completes the spire of
St. Peter’s Church was blown from a
perpendicular to a horizontal position.
A pinnacle was blown from the corner
of the Presbyterian Church on Dolphin
street. A carpenter named Jas. Ressing
er, who has a shop on Townsend street,
had his arm broken by a heavy timber
falling upon it when the shop, in which
he was working, was blown over. Two
of his fellow-workmen, John Smith and
John Monroe, were also seriously
bruised.
Aid from Boston.
Boston, November 25.—1n response
to a telegram from Tuscumbia, Mayor
Cobb has received a number of contri
butions for the sufferers, which' will be
forwarded at once. The numerous ac
counts of suffering in the South and
West have elicited very general expres
sions of sympathy hereabouts.
• The Damage Near Memphis.
Memphis, November 25.—The storm
Sunday last did considerable damage in
the southeastern portion of this county
—unroofing several houses and destroy
ing fences and timber. A man, bis wife
and three children, while driving home,
were overtaken by the Storm and a tree
blown across the carriage, literally
crushing it; without injuring the occu
pants.
A BRILLIANT OCCASION.
The Nuptials of Dr. W. M. Willingham
and Miss L. G. Oliver.
[Crawford Echo.]
Our village was invaded, on Wednes
day evening last, and robbed of one of
its most gifted and popular young ladies.
We refer to the marriage of Dr. W. M.
Willingham and Miss L. G. Oliver, the
former of Lexington and the latter of
“Woodlawn,” the handsome residence
of the bride’s mother near this place.
Everything combined to render it the
most brilliant wedding ever known in
Oglethorpe. Nothing was lacking. Only
the relations and most intimate friends
of the bride and groom were present
(some hundred or more), but in this as
sembly was found the elite of Augusta,
Washington and other sections of the
State. The ceremony was performed at
9 o’clock, the Rev. Thomas Pierce, of
Union Point, officiating. The following
were the attendants: Dr. Eugene Fos
ter and Miss Julia Calloway, Dr. Robt.
Willingham and Miss Emma Farr.
The bridal gifts were numerous and
magnificent, clearly illustrating the love
and esteem in which the happy pair are
held by their friends. We but re-echo
the wishes of our entire county, and
Crawford especially, when say, may
Heaven’s choicest blessings be ever
showered upon them, and may their
journey through life be one of unalloyed
happiness and pleasure, tffcd that’ no
cloud will ever arise to obscure, even
for an instant, the sunshine of their ex
istence. We do not fear contradiction
when we say the bride is the most popu
lar young lady in the county. She is
loved and honored by all of our people,
whose hearts she has won by her kind,
pleasant and obliging manners. Our
little town will sadly miss her presence;
but we feel somewhat consoled at our
loss when we consider that she is joined
to as honorable, noble-hearted and high
toned a gentleman as was ever created,
who will protect and nurture his fair
charge as he would his own life. If any
one is worthy the hand of Miss Lizzie,
it is Dr. Mark Willingham.
What a Brave Wife Mrs. Gen. Sher
man Has Been.
I have a case in point as to the man
ner in which he was frequently imposed
upon. Of course the citizens of Louisr
ville recollect that, when Sherman was
in command of that department, he was
accused of insanity. He could not re
ceive any answer from General McClel
lan to his dispatches. Mrs. Sherman
came to Washington and called upon
the President. She stated that for more
than twelve years she had been General
Sherman’s wife, and, if any one was
capable of judging as to the soundness
of his mind, it would be herself. She
declared that there had never been the
slightest indication of insanity, though
they might drive him to it; that, if he
were insane, she would be the first to
desire to withdraw him from the public
gaze, but, so far from desiring that, she
asked that he might be entrusted with
anything that was difficult, or that was
becoming his rank. Mr. Lincoln’s re
ply to this was that “General Sherman’s
dispatches were not those of u sane
man.” Mrs. Sherman was astounded.
After leaving the President, she went to
the War Department and requested a
copy of her husband’s dispatches. Af
ter obtaining these, she again called
upon the President. When Mr. Lincoln
read those papers, he said that they
were not at all what they had been rep
resented to him. This was the kind of
work that was being done in the War
Department, where we needed very
good officer, aDd by the light of to-day
we can see how few there were as valua
ble as Sherman; and yet the country
would have lost his services if his wife
had not been the brave, determined wo
man she is. Mr. Chase took a bold
stand at that time id saving Sherman,
and I heard General Sherman, at his
daughter’s wedding, say tho most
gracerul and felicitous things to Mrs.
Sprague personally, and in allusion to
her father, knowing that kind recollec
tions jf him would be the sweetest
theme for his daughter’s ears.
The Morning Argus is a Democratic
paper, and the other day the editor clip
ped from a Republican sheet a long
story about a frightful accident some
where, and gave it to the foreman to put
in t e Argus. It so happened that the
other side, of the clipping contained a
snorting editorial, in which the Demo
cratic party was fiercely denounced and
Grant’s claim to a third term strongly
insisted upon. Of course the foreman
gave the clipping out with that side up,
and the next day it appeared in the
paper, looking exactly as if it was an
original from the pen of the editor, Col.
Bangs. That very afternoon the sheriff
withdrew his advertising, and 400 sub
scribers gave up the paper; and now
Bangs wants to know how long capitalists
are to suffer from the infernal tyranny
of labor. The foreman can’t answer,
for he has fled.— Danbury News.
A Swan Killed in Columbia County.
—From a private letter from a citizen of
Columbia county we learn that on last
Monday Mr. Minor Luke and Chas.
Conner, while hunting wild geese, shot
and killed a large white bird, which
measured over eight feet from tip to tip
of the wings. It was larger, the hunt
ers stated, than any turkey they ever
saw. Its feet and bill were black. They
at first thought it was a wild, white gan
der. The writer of the letter, however,
has no doubt but that it was a swan.
He has the second joint of one of the
wings, which is longer than from his
elbow to the tips of his fingers, and
measures at least twenty inches. Audu
bon Bays that swans are never found
south of the Chesapeake, but the above
evidently demonstrates that he is mis
takes.
NUMBER 4 9
UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT.
A FATAL WRESTLING BOUT.
Policeman M. J. Hail Struck in the
Stomach Accidentally While Wrest
ling With a Friend, and Dies from
the Injury.
Fact, it has often been stated, is
sometimes stronger than fiction, and we
have to record this morning an accident
resulting fatally, which fully exempli
fies the aphorism.
Last Saturday night, about 11 o’clock,
while policemen Michael J. Hall and
Edward Collins, together with other
parties, were on their way home from
the Third, Ward primary election, Col
lins and a citizen, Mr. Daniel Desmond,
engaged in a friendly wrestling match.
Desmond threw Collins, who was in
toxioated. Collins turned Desmond
over, when policemen Can 1 and Damish
separated the two under the apprehen
sion that they were about to fight.—
Sergeant Oartledge, who was the only
policeman on duty there at that, time,
caught hold of Collins and pushed him
to one side. Hall then, with the object
qf distracting Collins’ attention from
Desmond, proposed to him to wrestle
with him. Collins, accepted, the two
clinched and fell, Goilins on top. Carr
and Cartledge thitrtinigliiwliidii of Hall
and turned him on top of Collins. Hall
got up, moved a few paces and fell
against Carr. It was then evident that
he had been hurt by Collins’ knee which
struck him in the stomach. Dr. M. J.
J ones was sent for and soon arrived and
examined Hall. Hall was shortly after
wards placed in a buggy and carried to
his home in Dublin, near Campbell
street. Dr. Geddings, his family physi
cian, attended him Sunday, and in the
afternoon Dr. DeSaussure ]?ord was call
ed in. Nothing could be done to save
his life, however, and he died at a
quarter past six o’clock yesterday morn
ing of inflamation of the bowels result
ing from the blow on the stomach.
Collins was arrested by policemen
Cartledge and Carr and carried to the
guard house. Chief Christian, becoming
satisfied Sunday that the injury to Hall
was inflicted accidentally, released Ool
lins.
Collins and Hall were always the best
of friends, it was often remarked in fact
that they were more like brothers than
mere friends. All the circumstances
show that the blow received by Hall was
purely accidental. Hall’s own declara
tion fully sustains this.
Yesterday afternoon we called on po
licemen Carr and Cartledge, who were
witnesses of the affair, and Chief Chris
tian, Lieutenant Prather and Mr. Ed
ward O’Donnell, who heard Hall’s de
clarations in regard to the occurrence,
for statements, which we give as follows:
Sergeant John Cartledge said the two
men had always been good friends.
Saturday night, about 11 o’clock, Dan
Desmond and policeman Edward Col
lins—who was not on duty at the time—
had a wrestling match. Desmond threw
Collins; Collins turned Desmond over.
Seeing that there was going to be a fight
between the two, policemen Carr and
Damish separated them. About this
time I came up and caught hold of Col
lins. Mike Hall then said to Collins,
“I can throw you down.” • Mike’s whole
object was to keep Collins from having
a fuss with Desmond or any one else.
Hftll and Collins clinched and fell, Col
lins on top of Hall. They didn’t try to
hurt each other. Carr and I caught
hold of Hall and turned him on top of
Collins. Mr. Collins said to me, “Jack,
don’t let him kick me.” I said, “Why
he is not going to kick you, ain’t
you playing.” By this time Mr.
Hall went to get up'' and to
the best of my knowledge that’s when
Hall received the blow with the knee,
Collins being underneath. Hall got up
and walked to Mr. Carr and fell on his
shoulder. I said “Collins, you have
hurt Hall.” Collins said “Ho is the
best friend I have, I wouldn’t hurt him.”
Mr. Carr laid Mr,. Hall down and we ex
amined him and found no cut or bruise
on him. We sent for Dr. M. J. Jones.”
Policeman Carr coincided with Ser
geant Cartledge. He said that while
Hall and Collins were lying on the
ground together Collins told Hall he
wouldn’t hurt a hair in his head. Col
lins was arrested after Hall was hurt
and carried to the guard house by Ser
geant Cartledge and himself (Carr).
Chief Christian saw Hall Sunday and
asked hjm if he thought Collins hurt
hinr intentionally. Hall replied that
Collins wouldn’t hurt him under any
circumstances.
Lieut. Prather went to see Hall a little
after three o’clock Sunday; he found
Mr. O’Donnell and Father Reilly there;
after Mr. O’Donnell and Father Reilly
retired Lieutenant Prather asked Hall
how the thing happened. He replied
that Mr. Collins was drinking, and the
idea of his friends was to carry him
home. He (Hall) therefore made a
wrestle with him, and Collins threw
him and fell on him. He said Collins’
knees struck him on the bowels. He
then asked Lieutenant Prather where
Collins was. Lieutenant Prather replied
that he was out in town; that Chief
Christian had released him. He then
told Lieutenant Prather that he had
been unconscious, and that when he be
came conscious he was frightened to
think that he might have died and not
been able to make a statement clearing
Collins, as he knew Collins didn’t intend
to hurt him and wouldn’t hurt a hair in
his head. He was glad when Chief
Christian visited him that morning, so
that he could make the statement to
him. Lieutenant Prather was with Hall
when he died. He never contradioted
the statement previously made.
Mr. Edward O’Donnell visited Hall
Sunday afternoon, with Father Reilly;
Father Reilly remarked to Hall that it
was reported that Collins kicked him;
Hall said no that Collins wouldn’t ljurt
him, that he went after Collins to carry
him home, that they got to wrestling
and Collins fell on him with his knee on
his bowels. Hall remarked to Father
Reilly that he (Hall) had taken two
drinks that night.
As it was apparent that the death of
Mr. Hall was purely the result of acci
dent, Coroner,Cox determined.to hold no
inquest over the deceased.
Mr. Hall leaves a wife and three chil
dren. He was an excellent policeman,
and his loss wifi be much felt by the
force.
The funeral will take place from St.
Patrick’s Catholic Church this morning
at half-past ten o’clock. The police
force will attend in full uniform.
The Funeral of Policeman Hall.—
The funeral of Policeman M. J. Hall
took place from St. Patrick’s Catholic
Church, yesterday morning, at half-past
ten o’clock. There was a largo atten
dance. The police force, fifty men, was
present in full uniform.
A London letter says that the sensa
tional account of the cremation of the
body of Lady Dilke requires but little
examination to show its apocryphal
character. The furnace used at Dres
den and the intense heat around it ad
mits of no such minute inspection of the
process of combustion as is indicated in
the paragraph that professes to describe
it. The twelve responsible persons who
were present at the eveDt engaged
solemnly not to disclose the details, and
there is no reason to believe that they
have broken their word. The paragraph
was evidently written by an opponent,
to try and produce in the public mind a
revulsion against the process. No dead
person could have been required for ex
periment; a dead animal would have
served as well, and experiments have
been so made at Dresden and elsewhere,
which have shown that cremation is de
cent, swift and free from any unpleasant
effects on the senses. Lady Dilke was
one of a considerable number of per
sons who, since the agitation of this
subject, have made provision for hav
ing their bodies burned after death.—
The fear of premature burial has been
shown to be much more wide-spread
than the fear of not being placed to
gether properly at the souud of the
Archangel’s trumpet; and the opinion is
expressed that popular apprehension,
along with certain unpleasant associa
tions with underground composition,
may yet give the cremationists the vic
tory over superstitions about bodily
resurrection. It is said that a feeling
very favorable to cremation prevailed
among the learned men of the recent
Oriental Congress in London, and
several of them openly announced their
preference for this mode of disposing of
the body.
Mayor Spencer, of Atlanta, writes a
starchy note to his Council, in which he
says Atlanta complied with its obliga
tions to Oglethorpe College to the
letter and in spirit. He also complains
that a portion of the press have taken
the occasion to give vent to that petty
jealousy which the thrift of Atlanta al
ways provokes.