Newspaper Page Text
oio scans voi. unit
NEW SCRIES-VOL. Hill.
TERMS.
TilK I> ULY CHBO3f CL,*. * SENTINEL, the oldemi
ri*w# * *t in me S mth, i% paWmhed imily, *x
c*j* Vf *<H*. Trrra-: !' r >i*r t flO; ix month*,
$5; three ta *uh*.f J 60.
THE TRI-WKrXLY CBWWrLE A ESTI!?EL *
p ib!i-h and t-T.-ry Tu-*Uy, Tau tnd Hatur.
day. Trra*: Oae jvar, $5; s.x months $i 50.
THE WKREX.Y CSBOSICLE A HR.VTINEh i pb
iia very Wednesday. Terra*: Oue year, fj
nix month*, sl.
BAT i% OF ADVERTfrtIXO IX DAILY.—AB tran
* ,*nt idvtrtiirinroU wi I b c ar.'ed at the rate
of || n r m l :ar* for -**'h for tlws ftr*t
w rk. Aiv rta* TO*nt in the Tri-WeekJjr, t*o
th r.U of the rate* in the Daily' and in the
We* air. on*.half the Daily atea Ma-riagu a.d
Fu>.-ra Soiuem, |i earh. Hpeci* Notion*, $J
p*r •'jMxr' for the flr*t pti .licatiou. Kpeeiai
r*t-* wll rna-le for advertisement* running
for a rcon'-h or longer. '
SUBS 'ItfPTIOXS in ail caaea In advance, and no
p*{,.r o itinned after the expiration of the time
paid f>r.
REMITTANCES flbotxld be male Y.y Poet Offlce
M raey Orders or Express. If lhi* cannot be :
d'rti*, pr teetion aga.net loMe* by mail may be
secured by forsrar dbg rft payab e to the
Proprietor* of the Ch tosicus A "Mextiml, or by
eu Sieg the money in a reginwed letter.
ALL COMMITS I CATION* announcing candidates
fr ofttre—from County Const ble to Member of \
Congress—will be charged for ai the rate <f ]
twenty cents per line. Ail announcements must j
be paid lor in ad valu e.
Address WALES A WEIGHT,
<'ati wiri.K ■• *o-un' ' , AU!ut%. G .
Cfjronule anb jsrnrtnel.
WKO.VK.SDAY MAY 26, 1875. !
MINOR TOPICS.
Tlie earelensnesM of Mr. John Smith ia fre
quently tlio occasion of newspaper comment,
fit the o lier day, he mount< and lii-
and in about two minute* the fractiou*
beait livl kicked out the three front teeth of
Miea Mary' Doherty, who chanced to be pann
ing.
If Sir Charles Frigid Adama nhonld be elect
ed Pr*.hideut of the United Staten, i in calcu
lat'd that hia presence would reduce the aver
age tempei&ture of the White lloumc at leant
thirty per cent. It ia a tradition in MaMaachu
*etl that the Adama family never paid a penny
for ice.
The newspapers ar* feeling tli 1 timea, Home
being stopped or doubled up. The Democrat
and the Globe, two itepn lican newapapets of
Ht. Louis, are to bo consolidated aa the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat, the larger part of the
Democrat having been bought out. The Dan
burinn. at Danbury, Conn., baa given up the
glioat.
*• Wbat'a thin crowd around here for ?” de
manded a policeman the other night aa he
came upon a dozen hoya grouped near the gate
of the bouse on Second street. ‘ Keep still,"re
plied one of the lad a, ‘’there cornea old John, aa
tight aa a brick, aid we’re waiting here to eeo
hi* wife pop li m with the rolling pin a- he
opeim the front door.”
It in now Haiti that the principal object of
Vice-President Wilson's Southern trip is ‘*to
visit the spot at Austin, Texas, where his only
son. an officer in the r gular army, died.” It
is a very commendable purpose, but it must be
acknowledged that our respected friend has
taken a somewhat roundabout route, and that
liis pious pilgrimage is being made in quite a
lively style.
The return of ex-Minister Jay is signalized
by the unkind reprodneti n of a remark once
made bv Arthur T&pp&n m regard to tlito ex
tinguished diplomatist. Somebody asked Tap
pan what he thought of Jay. The auswer was
sharp and characteristic. “What do L think of
him ? What can I think of a man vsLc spends
his time in imitating his grandfather’s signa
ture ?”
A fellow in Kentucky ran away with a farm
er's daughter and horse, and was hotly pur
sued. 'Jho farmer got within close rango and
11 'unshed a revolver. “Don’t shoot, for
Heaven’s sake!” shouted the lover. “I won’t”
was the reply, “’cause I’m afeared I’ll hit tlier
boss. Just leave tin r boss and take tlier gall.’
That compromise was accepted by the young
folks, who walked on to a preacher’s house,
and the father rode homo on his horse.
The most touching iiotanco of confidence in
tho American press is mentioned by the New
York Timxs in the case of a minister to one of
tho South Am rican courts, who read in a file
of papers that ho was to bo recalled, wjiore
upou tho innocent mau was so effected that ho
Instantly sent his resignation to Washington,
and returned there hiiu-elf about as quickly,
only to be thunders truck with the question
from the President, “Why are you here ?’’
Wealthy widow (in answer to warm vows of
undying love and admiration): “Then do you
really think me beautiful, Mr. o’Dowd—can
didly, now ?" Mr. O’Dowd -“Beautiful ? in
deed y.m are. Not. perhaps, in that cut and
driod, regular and insipid fashion, that passes
for beauty with the vulgar herd ; but. O. your
face has a subtle charm—a—a—an ineffable
something—a—a—certain *je ne say kwaw,’
yon know, which is far more rare and more
precious than what the ignorant world calls
‘beauty!’ ”
As they entered a dry goods store yesterday
you would have said that love dwelt in both
hearts, and that a dove of peaco roosted on
every shinglo on tho roof of their abiding
place. She saw’ a lovely dress, and she bogged
him to buy, but lie replied : “ I can’t darling,
not before next week.” “Can’t you. dear?”
she smiled. “ Well. I will wait.” They had
hardly passed out the door before he said:
“ I’d like to 800 myself getting hat dress ! ”
And answered : “ You couldu’t buy one side of
it, and if you could you are too stingy and mean
to do it ! ”
Thu outflow of specie is now at fall lido, the
oxports during the past week having amounted
to making the total since January
1, 426 620,327—the largest amount on record.
The nearest approach to this total was in IS7I.
when the figures were $25,143,055, and in 1303.
when they were $2 ).803,848. Last year we had
up to this time in the year sent out only $13.-
229,608, and in 1873 $18,238,097. The chief
cause of this heavy drain is the calling in bv
tho Treasury of so mmy five-twenty bouds. If
the European holders of theso bonds wpro
taking, in equal amount, the new fives, or, for
that matter, any other Kind of American secu
rities, of course thero would bo no necessity
for sending gold to Europe to pay them.
Meanwhile, tho price of gold naturally con
tiuuesto exhibit a strong upward tendency.
A quiet game of draw, quarter ante, was in
progress the other evening at Chicago. One of
the party managed to get a heart flash, ace at
the head, out of the deck, an 1 laid it in his
lap, waiting a chance to play it. Presently the
chance came. The gudeless goutlemau count
ed out S4O better w.th one hand, aud quietly
wont down with the other hand for that flush.
It wasn’t there. He had to play his original
hand. Two of the party called his S4O better,
and one of them in tho show-down produced
the identical heart flash that he had been at
such pains to secure. Ho knew it was the
same, for the ace w s crimped just as he had
doue it. The secret was that Ira Wetherboe’s
dog. ••Patsey,” had quietly put his nose in.
picked up* the flush, earned it around to liis
friend, wagged h:s tail knowingly and walked
off.
There isn’t any Philadelphia Letlger in Cali
fornia to make death among the children
pleasant, but the fnuerals there are attractive.
Tho Sacramento Recorder says : ■■ Two Spanish
children of the sauto family, dying within
twenty-four hours of each other, were buried
together yesterday. The hearse was dressed
with white plumes, and the coffins covered
with white dowers and wreaths. Six boys acted
as pall-liearers. each wearing a white coat with
a bit of crape on the left arm. In front of the
hearse was a carritge containing six young
girls, clad in white, wearing long veils escap
ing backward from head wreaths of white
flower* canght in green. There was nothing
somber or funeral about the procession save
the two coffins and the slow movement of the
carriages.”
A correspondent of the New York Evening
l'ost completely knocks In the head the long
prevalent idea that Gen. Putnam rode furiously
down a long flight of steps a; Horse Nock dur
iug the Revolutionary war. It has always been
a lesson 'deeply impressed upon the ehildhh
mind, and even the school histories eonfaiu il
lustrations showing the gallant general speed
ing his horse at a terrible rate down a steep
stairway. It has occurred to us that it was a
pretty dangerous ride, but, as it wis fixed in
history, the reception of the story was inevi
table. The correspondent referred to sari
that I'utnam rode at varying angles down the
surface of the hill near the steps. Ihen, haug
it, we are a deceived and rained man.
That barbaric yawper. Walt Whitman, is
concocting a few im-s on the Brooklyn filth.
The following verses, which we find in ' e
Brooklyn Argus, will serve to show that the
terrors of his genius are nnaba ed:
Comucopceia of pestiferous peccadilloes !
Plague, pestilence, slaughter, famine,
arson, murder, tempest,
lightning, shipwreck. North
Pacific bonds, and Grange
county butter—
What are these to that, or this to those ?
Wanning the Polo : icing the Equator;
Sitting sad. solitary; leaping, crawling,
flying, all around the world, and
on the rocks of Terra Del Fuego
Parthenope horrid*! Periscopic woe!
Succotash of social slime immense,
Dimming the agent pleuilune:
Mash, slush, gash. Shearman avaunt 1
O Elizabeth! O Henry!
THE NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD.
Fire years ago the late General A. R.
| Wbjght, then editor of tlia Chbosicle
j and Sentinel, attended a railroad meet
i ing in Athens, and made a speech in
favor of the construction of the Athens
and Rabun Gap or Northeastern Bail
; road. He followed np this speech with
a series of articles in the Chronicle and
j Sentinel, giving the distance from the
Western cities to Augusta via the new
\ route, and also distance by existing
i lines, showing conclusively the saving
J in time and distauce which would be
effected by the completion of the Athens
connection. He also showed very con
clusively the advantages which would
accrue to both the Georgia Railroad and
the city of Augusta by aiding and fos
tering the road. Neither the Geor
gia Railroad nor the people of Angnsta
would then aid the enterprise. We feel ;
very sure now that they are convinced.
they have lost money by their luke
warmness. It is, fortunately, not yet
too late to rectify this mistake. The ,
enterprise and liberality of Mr. Ferdi
nand Pni.NizY and other gentlemen of
Athens have put the Northeastern Bail-!
road on a firm foundation, bnt it still ]
needs assistance, which the citizens of !
Augusta are abundantly able to ren- |
der. We have before alluded to the j
presence of Dr. Phillips in this city.
We trust that our merchants and capi
talists will give him a patient hearing
and liberal aid.
STATES’ RIGHTS.
Those Republicans who think that the
doctrine of States’ Rights has ceased to
be a vital issue in this country are very
badly mistaken; those so-called Demo
crats who seek to prevent States’ Rights
being made a political issue are not
Democrats to hurt. Wo believe that
the people will insist upon making this
issne the most prominent one of the
coming campaign. We believe that the
approaching contest is to be the battle
of Centralism on one side against Local
Self-Government upon the other. If we
accept Centralism we abandon the Re
public. The usurpations of the General
Government, commenced undercover of
the smoke and confusion of civil war
have so steadily progressed since the
surrender and the inauguration of the
infamies of reconstruction that they are
now an alarming menace to the perpe
tuation of the Republic. If they are
not checked, if the candidates of Cen'-
tralism and the party of Centralism be
given four years more of power the fu
ture of our couutry will indeed be
gloomy. The monster must be crushed
now or never. The next campaign will
determine whether there are such things
as States with rights to protect and vin
dicate or whether State lines shall be
entirely blotted from the map and all
the powers of government centred in tho
person of the National Executive.
JUDGE WILLIAM GIBSON.
The Superior Court, after transacting
a good deal of business, has adjourned
until June in order that the Judge may
go to Burke to hold Court in that coun
ty. We desire to say a few words this
morning about that Judge—Hon. Wil
liam Gibson. It has uow been nearly
ten years since the suffrages of the peo
ple placed Judge Gijison on the Bench.
Before tho time for which lie was elect
ed had expired the new Constitution was
adopted, and under its provisions he
was appointed Judge of the Middle Cir
cuit for four years. Two years later
the Augusta Circuit was created and he
received an appointment to the Judge
ship for the full term of eight years.
His term of office will not expire until
January, 1879. The manner in which
public sentiment has changed concern
ing Judge Gibson sinco his appointment
to office in 1808 is something remark
able. A great many even of his best
friends then censured him for taking
office from the Republican government
of Georgia. Now we are quite sure that
every white man in the Circuit is glad
that he did accept the position. It is
easy to see if he had declined the place
what would have been tl>e result. Some
c irpet-bagger, destitute perhaps of
principle and certainly wholly ignorant
of law, would have been made
Judge of the Superior Court
aud would have had it in his
power to do us incalculable mis
chief. Onr grand and special juries
would have been degraded and debased,
the laws would not have been executed,
aud the Court would have been
converted into an instrument of op
pression. As it is we have had an
able, faithful aud conscientious Judge.
The lafcs have been administered for the
punishment of crime and the protection
of the lives and property of the people.
We have had good juries and just ver
dicts. We have had decisions which
generally gave entire satisfaction. Term
after term the grand juries of the differ
ent counties have thanked the Judge for
the able aud impartial manner in which
he has conducted the business of the
Courts. The people appreciate these
things, and there are few now who do
not approve what they condemned seven
years ago. So decided and so general
has been this change of feeling that we
feel fully convinced if Judge Gibson’s
term of office should expire to morrow,
instead of four years hence, and Judges
were still elected by the people he would
be again chosen for the positiou by a
largo popular majority. For two or
three years he was the recipient of much
harsh censure ; but times have changed,
and we think that we are doing but
an act of simple justice in saying these
few words in his behalf. We feel fully
confident that in uttering them we do
uot speak for ourselves alone.
LOCAL OPTION.
An election was held in Rome Tester- i
day. As yet the result has not been an- j
nonuced, bat whether the question at j
issue was carried or defeated, a great
deal of importance attaches to the con- !
test. At the last session of the General j
Assembly an act was passed “to regulate I
the sale of spirituous, vinous and malt
liquor in certain counties.” Thisact pro-1
vided that in case of an incorporated j
city, town or village, a request to have ]
such question submitted must be signed !
by persons qualified to vote for members
of the General Assembly, and resident
in said city, town or village, in number
equal to at least one-fifth of the whole
number of votes cast at the general
election for officers of the municipal
government held next before the presen
tation of such petition and laid before
the persons in whom, for the time be
ing, the corporate authority of such
city, town or village is vested, at a regu
lar meeting. And it is further made
the duty of such corporate authority by
the said act, to name a day distant not
i less than thirty nor more than sixty
days, at which an election shah be held
at the place or places, and in conformity
: to all the regulations prescribed by the
laws and ordinances of said city, town
! or village, for the persons exercising the
| corporate authority thereof.
| Among the counties to which this act
was made to apply was the county of
I Floyd. In accordance with its pro
visions a number of the citizens of
, Rome equal to one-fifth of the voters st
the last municipal election petitioner!
1 the City Council to order an election to
j determine whether or not
! vinous, or malt liquors should be sold,
j bartered or in any way disposs and of in
j the city limits in quantities less than
I one gallon. The City Council obeyed
] the law, and the Mayor issued his pro
clamation ordering an election to be held
| on Saturday, the 15th inst., for the par
pose of testing the matter. There can
' be no doubt that the question of re
: strictiDg the sale of intoxicating beve
rages, or rather of entirely preventing
the retailing of snch liquors, is daily be
coming larger in the State of Georgia.
There is a strong temperance element in
the State, which is rapidly growing
stronger and more aggressive. We may
soon expect to have the same contests
inaugurated here which have been con
ducted for so long a time and wiih such
widely varying results in New England
and the Middle States. The election in
Rome is but the entering wedge. It is
the beginning of the liquor war—the
preliminary skirmish of a general con
flict. At the last session of the General
Assembly there was a large number of
bills introduced—twenty or thirty at
least—providing for local option in cer
tain counties of the States. Two or
'three Vere general laws, which embraced
the whole State in their provisions.—
These latter failed; but several of the
local bills passed, and in accordance
with the requirements of one of them
the election in Rome was held yester
day. A great many bills were also
passed prohibiting the sale of liquors
within a specified distance of certain
schools, churches, camp grounds and
colleges. At the session next January
the efforts of the temperance men for a
general law will be renewed. They will
doubtless be defeated, but they will
come back again and again, until they
achieve success, or until there is a local
option law for every county in the State.
Our own belief—a belief warranted by
past experience—is that nothing can re
sist persistent agitation. It has always,
sooner or later, carried its point. De
mosthenes said the secret of eloquence
was actioD. We are equally as well con
vinced that the secret of success in
politics is agitation. The prohibition
question will be agitated until it is
made a prominent issue in every county
of the State.
A special dispatch to the Chronicle
and Sentinel gives the result of the
election in Rome yesterday. The Pro
hibitionists carried the day by a small
majority, and no more liquor will be re
tailed in Rome, at until the law is
repealed or until another election is
had with a different result.
THE SLEEPING CAR BUSINESS.
On the route from Mobile to Meridian, from
Meridian to Jackson, and from Jackson to
Vicksburg, while every train was crowded it ie
stated that not a man took a Pullman car, the
object being to punish Mr. Pullman for too
ready an acquiescence with the spirit of the
Civil Rights bill. It is thought that unless a
change, in spirit occurs, the Bleeping cars will
Boon be withdrawn from the lines where they
now- receive no patronage. As no one can be
deprived of the inalienable right of sitting up
and suffering in a cramped seat rather than
occupy a luxurious berth, there Beems no reme
dy for the sleeping car man. though it is a
painful fact, which unfortunately cannot be
denied, that he will suffer least in the case. —
Vengeance may be sweet hut is exceedingly un
profitable when obtained at such a sacrifice.—
St. Louis Republican.
The Mobile Jicgister well says that
the people of the South do not propose
to deprive themselves of the comforts of
the sleeping ear. They propose to breik
up the business of the company which
permits the races to mingle in their cars,
and to patronize that company which
will give the whites a car to themselves.
We are glad to hear that a sleeping car
compSny has been organized at Atlanta,
headed by Mr. Wadley, President of
the Georgia Central Railroad, to be
styled the “ Lucas Sleeping-car Com
pany.” It is expected that .at least two
cars of the company, which do not violate
the Pullman patent, will be on the track
as early as the present week. Offices
will be established all through the South
as fast as cars can be built. There will
be no difficulty in this company supply
ing the white people of the South with
sleeping accommodations while travel
ing, as the Pullman Company have but
few exclusive contracts aud have viola
ted most of them.
THE TREAT* OF FRANKFORT.
The Louisville Courier - Journal
quotes a Vienna special which says
Bismarck, with the help of Russia, in
tends to obtain a written guarantee of
the status created by the treaty of Frank
fort. It will be remembered that the
treaty of Frankfort was made on May
10, 1871, and was a conclusion of the
negotiation begun in March between
Thiers, Favre and Picard for peace
with Germany. The treaty provided
that France should cede to Germany the
greater part of Alsace and Lorraine, pay
a war indemnity of five milliards of
francs within three years, at five per
cent, interest on deferred payments;
that the German troops should be with
drawn as the indemnity was paid ; that
the French troops should be withdrawn
and remain betond the Loire until the
conclusion of a final treaty of peace, and
that the people of Alsace and Lorraine
should enjoy six months of certain trade
privileges. This is an outline of the
treaty to which Bismarck refers, and
what he wants is to have Russia and Aus
tria insist that the stipulations as to the
cession of Alsace and Lorraine shall be
maintained. He knows that France
feels bitterly over the loss of these prov
inces, and the mere suspicion on his
part that she might make an effort to re
gain them, with her growing prosperity,
is liable to rouse him to hostilities.
What keeps Bismarck from this step is
the attitude of England, who is now
having a perfect understanding with
France, and as long as these powers will
help each other he doubtless will not
turn upon France to crush her and keep
her down. Gortschakoff is too finish
ed a diplomatist to let his Russian
master give any war counsel at the Ber
lin conference.
The blush of maiden modesty suffu
ses the cheeks of the editors of the
Chronicle and Sentinel as they trans
cribe from a recent letter written by a
Newton county subscriber :
*• I am a subscriber to the Weekly Chronicle
asd -aNTiNEi,, and am always glad to see 1 ues
day approaching, for then, through it. I learn
all the news. May your paper long live to do
as much good as it has done, is doing, and. I
believe, will do Always. It is truly the best
Southern paper that flourishes."
This is the way the St. Louis Repub
lican puts it:
At Angnsta. Ga.. on the 26th inst., a rebel
named Evans, with the rank of General, made
a few remarks. They were over the dost of
the blue and the gray. “ Let ns do nothing to
keep alive the passions of the war,” said Gen.
Evans. and as the Governor of Georgia once
eloquently lemarked to the Governor of bomb
Caroku*.' it’s a long time between drinks. Gen.
Evans, and we imbibe towards yon. straight.
The official vote of the Ninth District
has been received. The following is the
result : The total number of votes
polled was 10,669. Of these Mr. Hill
received 6,381; Mr. Estes, 3,021; Mr.
Price, 1,267. Hill’s majority over
Estes, 3,360; over Price, 5,114; over
both, 2.093.
Why are the days in Summer longer
than in Winter ? Because it is hotter
in Summer, and heat expands.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 26, 1875.
JUDGE KEE3E.
We publish in another column of the
Chronicle and Sentinel this morning
a letter from Judge Reese, in
answer to the communication addressed
to him a day or two ago. It seems that
Judge Reesk was incorrectly reported
by the Constitutionalist, and did not
use the laDgnage attributed to him by
that paper. Judge Reese never dream
ed of advocating or wishing the repudi
ation of all the bonds'issued or en
dorsed by the Georgia Railroad. In his
remarks before the Convention he al
luded only to the Western Railroad of
Alabama. He says n-w that be has no
desire to injure the purchasers of those
bonds or to make them sustain any loss
whatever—either of principal or inter
est. Asa Director of the Georgia Rail
road, however, he is working in the in
terest of the stockholders of that com- \
pany, and is anxious to have the affairs
of the company placed on such a foot
ing that the owners of the property will !
be enabled to receive a share of its
profits.
THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.
The' Springfield (Mass.) Republican
calls attention to the fact that even in
England, where the reverence for
the letter of the law sometimes
looks to American eyes like super
stition, the old doctrine of libel
has undergone a notable modifica
tion. Legal maxims that once ranked
high are now obsolete. Not loDg since,
in a case in which the publisher of the
London Times was the defendant, the
Lord Chief Justice took occasion to
comment on the change that had passed
upon the law of libel within his recol
lection. He said, in substance, that it
had been a gradual change ; a process
of development rather than a violent
revolution. The recognition by the
Courts of the liberty of the public writer
to comment upon the conduct and
motives of public meu was comparative
ly modern.
Things were freely written and printed
every day that, fifty years earlier, would
have brought down fine and imprison
ment on the heads of both writer and
printer. In those older days comment
in the modern style on the doings of a
cabinet minister, a member of Parlia
ment, a judge, would have been the
signal for an ex-officio information, with
the disagreeable sequels just indicated.
“ Yet who can doubt,” added the Lord
Chief Justice, “ that the public are
gainers by the change ; and that though
injustice may often be done, and though
public meu may often have to smart un
der tlie keen sense of wrong inflicted by
hostile criticism, the nation profits by
public opinion being thus freely brought
to bear on the discharge of public
duties ?” The question would seem to
be as pertinent on this side of the At
lantic as on the other.
SHERMAN’S MILITARY MEMOIRS.
We continue this morning the publi
cation of extracts from the recently
issued memoirs of General W. T. Sher
man. They will everywhere be read
with interest—by the few who admire
and the many who condemn the exploits
of the fire-and-sword warrior, of the
military incendiary. Asa question of
policy we think that Generul Sherman
displayed bad judgment when he con
ceived, and that his friends gave very
unwholesome advice when they sanction
ed, the publication of these memoiis.
We believe that in every country experi
ence has shown the wisdom of the rule
that no general or statesman should
publish while in life a history of his
military or his political campaigns. Per
sons who violate so sound a principle of
action may rest assured that they will
certainly suffer in reputation, and in,
the breath of American life, popularity.
Every officer on either side who takes
offense at General Sherman’s strictures
upon his acts will rush into print, and
the unlucky writer of military history
will be overwhelmed with replies,
counter-statements, contradictions, in
terviews, and communications. If he
attempts to reply to them all he might
as well resign his office at once and turn
over his property to the stationer
who furnishes him with paper. If he is
able to receive all tho criticisms which
he has provoked xvithoufc wincing, ho has
an epidermis which would make a
sole-leather trunk pale with envy. We
think, too, that General Sherman lias
made a great mistake in boasting
of the brutalities which accompanied
and disgraced his famous march to the
sea. Had he attempted to excuse or
palliate the unnecessary atrocities of
that movement we should not have
blamed him for any effort to efface the
foul blot upon his soldier’s eseutcheoD.
Instead of doing this General Sherman
boasts of bis brutal exploits. He has
a pride in wliat is his shame, and takes
care to blazon his own disgrace. There
are those now who, blinded by pas
sion and swayed by partisanship, will
praise any crime committed against re
bels; but it is no difficult task to fore
cast the verdict of posterity—that, tri
bunal before which all heroes must ap
pear and by which great men aud
their acts must be judged. Posterity
has never denied the generalship of
Attila in ancient or of Suwaroff in
modern times—of the vanquisher of the
Romans aud the conqueror of Ismael—
but history and poetry have both united
to make their barbarism and their cruel
ty infamous among men. Gen. Sherman
may now boast of the red rnin which
marked his passage through Georgia
and the Carolinas, bnt the wprld will
declare that the fame of a great soldier
was stained by acts of cruelty and bru
tality which would have disgraced the
chieftain of a tribe of Indians or the
leader of a band of brigands.
A special to the Tribune from Hous
ton, Texas, furnishes the following
fuller report of the remarks of Mr.
Davis with regard to the old flag :
On the Fair Grounds. Jefferson Davis and
Braxton Bragg reviewed a splendid disf lay of
military, composed largely of old Confederate
soldiers. Ihe loth United States Infantry
furnished music Mr. Davis ma lea speech
referring to their record as Confederate sol
diers. and said they owed the same devotion to
the flag under which they now live if occasion
should ever come. The sentiment was re
ceived with tremendous cheering by at least
ten thousand present. Governor Coke said the
greatest man of the North. Horace Greelet.
and the greatest man of the *outh. Jefferson
Davis, had now spoken from the same stand,
advising the same sentiment: that the war be
tween the Blue and the Gray was forever
ended, and henceforth tley would march
sh ulder to shoulder under the same flag. He
paid a noble compliment to Mr. Greeley, and
Mr. Davis for once seemed to forget his lofty
dignity, and cheered heariily with the rest.
Mr. David A. Wells has been good
enough to name three men from whom
the Democrats must select a candidate
for the Presidency next year—Governor
Tilden, and* Senators Thurman and
Bayard. Of course, all other candi
dates will consider themselves ruled out
of the race. Perhaps, however, as Mr.
David A. Wells is not a Democrat, but
is one of those half somethings and half
nothings, called Conservative Republi
cans, the Democrats of the country will
not feel bound to obey his edict.
A bright boy recently told his teacher
; there were three sects: the male sect, the
I female sect and insects.
BOND EN DOR4 EMENT.
{Conatitu ionafat.]
, To the Hon. Wm. AI. Rjese :
In discussing the touching
the acceptance of the enabling act of t£n
last Legislature of Georgia* in express
ing your views you say Las published in
both of (he citv paper*: ,
j * * " * -s':*.*
“ Litigation had recently beeu started
j against the Georgia Boad, and may be
this litigation would eventuate in deoid
ing all the endorsements illegal and
void. He (I) hoped to God this would
ibeso ! [Applause ] % e (J) could no
j say it would result so,’! <fec.
* * * j* . n *
I was but little in ibe (Convention,
and did not bear the] above remarks
i aud think surely you imst have beef'
j misunderstood or iucorrectlyreported
I I am interested in Rail
road; don’t own a bond endorsed by it
and never did; surely, it the above ex
tract be correct, never will 1 Hopiei
that you have been misquoted, I wirhto
ask you whether you hawsbeen corree i\
printed. I ask tlie quelljion because !
was startled by this un|(iuciation in i.
public newspaper. This linquiry I in
tend to be suggestive asti
the authority to issue am jbonds by any
corporation 1 Who authored the Geor
gia Railroad bonds ? Ttftf >are in tie
hands of many. What doUieir holder.-
think of them this May mjnLiiiig
I am, most r<'"re*#jj^PP|fcJroy< n,C
earnestly, Judge Ileese’s 1* Friend.
P. B.—Your reply is anxiously- looked
for.
JUDGE WM. M. REEBE.
What He Has to Say of Endorsements.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel :
Gentlemen —To the very kind and
polite inquiry of a “Friend,” in yom
paper of the 16th instant, I reply by
stating that I made use of no such re
marks as quoted from the Constitution
alist, and until the inquiry of a “Frieud’
appeared did not know that I had been
so reported. I made no allusion to the
bonds of the Georgia Railroad and Bank
ing Company, as they rest upon direct
authority in the charter of the compauy,
lior to the bonds of other companies,
endorsed under the express authority of
the Legislature, accepted properly by
the stockholders. I referred only to the
bonds of the Western Railroad of Ala
bama, endorsed by the Georgia Railroad
and Banking Company. In arguing tin
impropriety of accepting the act of tin
last Legislature, until the litigation re
specting the validity qf the endorse
merit was decided, or until the same
was abandoned, Istated, in passing, that
“ I hoped the pending litigatioq would
show this endorsement to So invalid ;
that I did not, however, believe such
would be the result ; that I be
lieved the stockholders would probably
be estopped from making an attack up
on the endorsement on the ground of
original invalidity.” To have avoided
misrepresentation I should in this con
nection have fully stated that I did not
desire such a decision in order to ignore
the just claims of the holders of these
endorsed bon s; that I desired such de
cision simply and solely to place the
Georgia Railroad and Banking Com
pany, a mere security, as I understood
in a position to make a compromise just
to all parties. If, as*l have been in
formed, these endorsed bonds were
bought np at eighty cents in the dollar,
I am free to say that I think to the un
fortunate stockholders of the Georgia
Railroad and Banking Company, uow
stripped of means of support in many
instances and likely to remain for some
rime in this condition, the holders of
these bonds should be willing to make
concessions. I did not intend nor do I
intend by any act of mine, even with the
advantage of a decision in a State Court
not directly affecting the bondholders, to
do injustice to them. I see and acknowl
edge, even if the endorsement is declared
not binding in this particular case,
many, very many, powerful reasons
which would compel irfi honest and hon
orable. corporation, as I know the Geor
gia Railroad and Banking Company is,
to do justice to these bondholders.
What would be the full measure of jus
tice in the premises, skillful men ap
pointed by the parties interested look
ing into the condition of the principal,
the Western Railroad of Alabama, and
the circumstances under which the
bonds were sold, could, after careful in
quiry and deliberation, decide. At the
last session of the Legislature, while I
desired and voted to stamp the second
mortgage bonds of the Macon & Bruns
wick Railroad as invalid, I still voted and
did everything in my power to indemnify
such men as Major Branch and Mr. Her
riug, who had invested in these bouds re
lying on tlie legislative ratification of
1872. If it is true, as stated, that the
Georgia Railroad and Banking Compa
ny received “into its coffers” the pro
ceeds of these bonds for its own use, or
if it is true* that the Georgia Railroad
Bank, dealing in bonds, &c., for a
commission, soid these bonds to inno
cent purchasers, I could not desire this
litigation to result in declaring the en
dorsement invalid. In conclusion, while
I can see but little to affect anybody’s
rights, in my individual wish as to the
termination of a litigation over which I
have no control, I say uow, to my
friend, and all friends, and all other
persons, I shall not, in any event, do
anything, in any place or under any set
of circumstauces, if I know the facts,
dishonorable to the great corporation of
which I am an officer, or unjust to the
persons holding these endorsed bonds.
Very respectlullv,
, W.‘M. Reese.
“BOIL IT DOWN !”
[New York Tribune ]
Asa rule, we have no violent passion
for didactic verse, in which a small mo
ral does duty as chorus. We don’t care
to be told that we must “Learn to labor
and to wait,” or “Try Again!”; or that
“It will never do to give it up so, Mr.
Brown!” We prefer our proverbs with
out stanza sauce, and like noble senti
ments best in their native simplicity.
But a bit of metrical wisdom which we
have encountered in the newspapers has
hit ns in a soft spot. We quote: “When
writing an article for the press, Wheth
er prose of verse, just try To utter
your thoughts in the fewest words, And
let them be crisp and dry; And when it
is finished and you suppose It is done ex :
aetly brown, Just look it is over again
and then Boil it Down 1” This is the
loveliest “original” poetry we have read
for many a long day; nor do we remem
ber in Campbell, in Whateley, in Blair,
in the “Rhetoric” of aaybody a nobler
trnth more neatly expressed. The
Tribune is no chicken; it has been living
and steadily growing for a great many
years; and to tell the honest truth, it.
never found itself so inconveniently
small before. Seventy-two columns
would seem to afford ample verge; and
yet every day we are forced to leave out
much more than we publish. We live
in a chronically crowded condition. We
bend every vening under an embarrass
ment of material; while sometimes it
seems to us that every day and every
hour of tho day we are doing nothing
but Boil Down! S ill there is a mass of
matter which the public desires, and
very properly, to have of full measure
and in all the vastness of its original
bulk. In the case of a great trial, for
instance, readers, forming as they do a
jury and, in fact, a tribunal of last re
sort, demand the evidence and all the
arguments unabridged; and to such de
mand we have been and still are respond
ing at great expense ttot merely of
money, but of many other things,' and
especially of space which is invaluable.
When any event has fairly occupied the
general attention, no details can be too
minute and none too profuse. It is this,
fact which to our tniud seems conclusive;
it is that which may determine another
The general variety of the whole sho-t
must be reproduced in particular arti
cles, and as to special topics. Thus it
happens that a single subject will some
times be the predominant feature of a
newspaper until it has been disposed of;
| but no well conducted newspaper will
permit it altogether to ex'lade news to
; which the purchaser is entitled.
A correspondent who has something
i important to communicate cannot al
ways be brief; but whenever brevity is
possible it is the surest to secure a
hospitable reception. The great fault
j of unpractieed writers is too much writ
ing, and this arises partly from earnest
; ness without method, partly from want
j of skill in the arrangement of material,
i and frequently from ignorance of the
j space which MS. put iuto type will oc
, copy. There i*<s certain points upon
which any one meaning to address a
newspaper should inform himself This
article, for instance, written in an ordi
narily 1 rge hand, covers seven half
sheets of commercial note paper; it
would take up somewhat less room if
printed in a smaller type, and still if,
upon revision, we had Boiled it Down.
THE NORTHEASTERN ROAD.
An Appeal to the People of Angnsta.
ArousTA, Ga., May 17, 1875.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
In yonr last issue I see a notice of my
mission to Augusta. It is to raise a sub
scription *o the Northeastern Railroad
by the citizens of Angnsta of 310,000
(ten thousand dollars), to be expended
in grading the road from the A. and R.
A L. R. R. to the R tbuu Gap.
The N. E. R. R. from Athens to the
Air Line was graded W contract, with
■’onvict labor, by Grant, Alexander &
Cos., at a cost of about 34,500 per mile.
Lin-ie is forty miles of that section—
nine miles ironed, thirty-one miles cross
tied, aud arrangements made to iron the
thirty-one miles. North of the Air-Line,
under a lease from the State, with con
victs, we are grading the upper section
from the Air Line to the ltabnn Gap,
not by contract, but by a business com
•ripMee, without salary, of stock
holders, by which we will save
-vuat Grant & Cos. would make.
Don't understand mo to say that
he 310,000 will grade the upper sec
, tion, but to say that with the stock now
subscribed aud the aid promised us by
ithers, that we can and will prosecute
the work to its completion. Now, think
J it. The surveyed and located mute
from Athens to the Rabun Gap :s 88
isnfirmtYt tnileß; mml‘
line to Maryville is about 33milesffrom
Maryville to Knoxville ia 16J miles; from
Villeins to Augusta about 120 miles; 231 J
miles to Knoxville, of which there is (u
running order about 120 to Athens, 40
to the Air Line, which will be very soon,
16J from Maryville to Knoxville -170)
uules running. There is graded be
tween tile Air Line aqd Clarksville, 21
miles; through the Rabun Gap and to
the North Carolina line, 8 miles, making
10J above the Air Line. What I ask is,
that Augusta men aid us to keep the
convicts at work until wo finish the
grading from the crossing of the Air
Line to the Gap. And why do I ask
this ? Because Augusta is the natural
and desireil market for nine counties in
Georgia, and six counties in North
Carolina,' which would from interest
bring to you the consumer, the bacon,
beef, mules, horses, grain and hay, the
payiug products of our couutry, not
counting the apples, potatoes and cab
•tiatres, not counting iron aud lime in in
exhaustible quantities, aud immediately
upon our line/ And, gentlemen, who
are the builders of this road ? Do you
know Ferdinand Phinizy, John White,
John H. Newton, Rufus Moss, John W.
Nicholson, of Athens ? Did yon know
Mr. Robert Campbell, and Mr. Davison,
Mr. Baker and Mr. Bean, of Augusta ?
Are they speculators, wiki cat meu ? Are
they not each aud all architects of their
own fortune—well acquainted with that
slow, sly tiling, prudence—the child of
the sweat of the brow ?
I have heard it said that Atlanta be
ing at one end of a funnel was made by
disgorging to the State the trade anil
traffic of the West. I ask you ~to
join us in another funnel, reach
ing from Augusta via Athens, Knoxville,
Chitwood, Cincinnati,to Chicago. ‘'Onos
thi se auton,” as Dr. Irvine said yes
terday, is a faithful saying. “Know thy
self,” Augusta. Aid your friends to
give you by the nearest., cheapest, best
road practicable iron, coal, grain, hay,
and by it ; end out your fabric from your
factories, to feed cheaply your opera
tives, and enable you to utilize the vast.,
the magnificent water power given you
by your canal. I noticed the quotations
< f corn in the Augusta papers last Fall,
and when you were giving 31 per bushel
for corn we were selling it for 40 cents a
bushel, and a greater difference in hay.
I will be in the city to-day, and will call
upon the people of Augusta for sub
scriptions to this important liue.
Jas. P. Phillips.
BOTH IN ONE GRATE.
An Aged Womau Shot by Her Illegiti
mate Sou—An insane Miser—His Sui
cide.
[Baltimore Gazette]
Susan Scutt and her son, Wesley Van
Dusen, who shot her and then killed
himself, were buried yesterday in one
grave in Hillsdate, Columb a county, N
Y. The church and cemetery were filled,
and the three hundred residents of the
little villiage did not resume their ordi
nary occupations until after the closing
of tlie graves. Every one had a story to
tell of the eccentricities of Wesley Van
Dusen, the illegitimate soil of Susan
S utt. He was 38 years of age, industri
ous aud sober, and had beeu employed
by the railroad company from lus boy
hood. Although morose and uncom
municative, scarcely ever being known
to speak, he did his work to the satis
faction of his employers. It was not
until a year ago that his known eccen
tricity was suspected to be a form of
insanity. Then he was locked up in jail
on complaint of his grandfather, whom
he had repeatedly threatened with gun
and pistol.
At the jail Van Dusen gave the Sheriff
a sum of money for safe keeping, which
seemed fabulously Urge to the gossips
of the little agricultural town. Over
$2,500 was in the roll, and among the
bank notes were those of State banks
long ago worthless except as old paper.
That a track man and railroad laborer
should secretly possess so much wealth,
hoarded from his small wages, was not
to be explained by the village. No one
even of his family knew of liis savings,
as the money never went out of his pos
session even to be hidden. After he
had displayed his money it was decided
not to press the charge against him, at-.d
he was released. He returned to live
with his mother and her parents in a
little cabin, about half a mile below
Hillsdale Station, on an unfrequented
road, near a small stream at the foot of
the mountain.
Caleb Scutt, the ohl man, is ninety
two years old, and his wife only little
younger. Sarah Scutt, the mother of
Wesley, was sixty year3 old. She took
care of the story and a half cabin, and
made it a home for her son. The affec
tion between them was warm, and after
his release from jail Wesley and his
mother puzzled over the question of the
disposition of his money. Then she
consulted John C. Hubbard, E-q., telling
him that someone wished to borrow it
and get it away from them. He advised
her to bank it, and she still objected.
His next suggestion that the money
should be hidden in some place known
only to herself and son met her approval.
She went away, saying that they would
hide the money so that no one living
should be able to find it. Subsequently
mother and son quarreled over the
money.
On Monday Wesley began to show
signs of recurring insanity, and to a
physician called to attend him he said
that someone was pursuing him to cut
him to pieces. Little attention was
paid to what were thought to be tem
porary vagaries. The inmates of the
cabin retired as usual, Wesley and his
mother in the loft, which was divided
by a board partition, and the old couple
on the lower floor. At about 5 o’clock
the next morning, while the old man
was building the tire, he heard scuffling,
two p stol shots, and a heavy fall in tbe
loft. His wife screamed and he ran to the
ladder and climbed to the trap door, the
only entrance to the loft. It was closed,
and the old man pushed it up with great
difficulty, for boxes and I arrels had
been p led on it. After he had forced
the door, the old man saw the prostrate
from of his daughter. She was groannig,
her and night clothes were red with the
blood that flowed from two bullet boles
in her breast. Over her. withthe smok
ing pistol still in his hand, stood the
maniac, and his voice roused the old
man from his stupor. “D— you,” it
said, “go down or I’ll pat aholethrougli
you.” "I won’t,” cried the* old man;
“but I’ll have you twitched for this.”
Springing to the side of the dying
woman, the old man raised her in his
arms and started fir the trap door. The
madman followed, and with the pistol
close to the inanimate woman’s face,
tired, the ball piercing her forehead.
The old man did not falter, or loose his
hold upou the woman. Descending the
ladder, he carried her across the room
and left her dead on tbe bed from which
he had just arisen. Then with his wife
be started to alarm the neighbors, and
ran to Hillsale. “Wesdey lias murdered
Susan,” said he, “and I want him ar
rt sted. ”
Deputy Sheriff Knox and a number of
of others accompanied him to the house,
from which he had been absent about
half an hour. Stretched on the floor in
the next room to that in which the
murdered woman lay was the body of
tbe murderer. He had sat on the floor,
bared his breast, and shot himself an
inch to the right of the heart. He was
dead. In a basket of carpet rags, just
within his reach if sitting np, was found
| a seven barrelled ' revolver with five
chambers and scharged. The rags were
piled upon it. seemingly to conceal it.. As
the Dws of the tragedy spread through
the village, the excitement bi came in
tense. Business was entirely suspended,
and an aroused multitude filled the
lowly cabin aud stepped over the blood
stained floor. lu the thorough searches
made by the visitors 31.500 was dis -
covered in iliff rent sums in all sorts pf
hiding places. It-is thought that about
SI,OOO of the madmau’s mopey is still
hidden i:i the house. Coroner Bailey,
of Chatham, began the inquest atjS
o’clock. The bodies were viewed ■IW
the jury, and the testimony of Mr. aild
Mrs. Seutt was taken, autf the jury de
clared that “Susan Scutt was murdered,
bv her son, Wesley Van Dusen, and
that immediately afterward he commit
ted suieiiie by shooting himself through
the breast. ”
THE SOUI'H’B IDOL. Y®
The End of the Great Kentuckian
Drawing Near—Death IL.-bbed of
Its Terrors — The Noble Soul. Kuo#
No Fear.
Lfxington, May 17.—The eouditida
of Gen. Breekenridge remaim Un
changed. He is still cheerful and Ceems
to be much less concerned at his eondj
tiou than those around him. He has
the papers read tp him and Tjonversaifj
mainiug among them for some time, but
experienced persons see ho Cannot're
main much longer and is liable to be
called away at any moment. His pulee
is very weak. Many of his relatives and
friends from abroad are here to be with
him in his last hours.
Important Surgical Operation
An important surgical operation was
performed upon General John C. Breck
enridge, at his home in Lexington. Ky!,
on Tuesday, by Dr. Gross, of Philadel
phia, aud Dr. Sayre, of New York. His
chest was penetrated by tubes inserted
between the ribs, and some relief was
afforded. The physicians are of the
opinion that, the General’s liver was in
jured by a blow received during the war
from a fragment of a shell, and that his
present suffering is due entirely to that
cause. The physicians entertain hopes
that the operation will prove of para
mount advantage to the patient. At last
accounts General Breckinridge was very
low.
Breekenridge Dead.
Lexington, May 14.—John C. Breck
enridge is dead.
Sketch of His Life.
John C. B-eckenridge, whose death is
announced and whose name is familiar
to every ear in the nation, was born near
Lexington, Kentucky, January 21st,
1821. He was a grandson of John Breck
euridge, at one time United States Sena
tor from Kentucky and Attorney-Gen
eral of the United States. He was edu
cated at Centre College and studied law
at the Transylvania Institute. After a
short residence in Ohio he returned to
Kentucky, married Miss Burch, of
Georgetown, and settled at Lexington,
where he s<ion became one of the lead
ing members of the legal profession.
When the Mexican war broke out he
entered the military service of the Uni
ted States aud was elected Major of the
Third Kentucky Regiment. The regi
ment was mustered in so late that be
had little opportunity for active service,
but while on duty in Mexico he was em
ployed as counsel for General G. J. Pil
low in the singular suits which arose
between that General, his associates and
inferiors. On his return home he was
elected a member of the State House of
Representatives, where lie first had an
opportunity to exhibit liis great power
as a debater. In 1851 he was elected to
the Federal Congress, after an animated
contest., over General Leslie Coombs.
Two years later he was opposed by Gov
ernor Robert Letcher, and aftera liot and
exciting campaign was a second time
returned. One of lijs first and most
noted public performances was the de
livery of a eulogy upon Henry Clay, the
great Whig leader. It, was the more
noticeable as corniug from one diaraet
rically opposed to Clay in politics
Breckenri lge being a staunch and un
wavering Democrat. During the first
session of the t’hirty-seoond Congress
he became involved in a personal diffi
culty with Mr. Cutting, a member from
New York, which led to a challenge aud
its acceptance. The matter, however,
was finally arranged in an amicable
manner. When Franklin Pierce was
elected President of the United States
lie offered Mr. Breekenridge the mission
to Spain; but he declined the appoint
ment, and Mr Soule, of Louisiana, re
ceived the position. In 1856, when the
National Democratic Convention as
sembled, the growing power of the
West had become apparent and was
acknowledged. I'he second place on
the ticket was given that sec
tion, and Breekenridge, then the
leading man of liis party, was nomi
nated on the same ticket with James
Buchanan. The campaign was warm
and well contested, and Breekenridge
took an active part in the struggle from
its inception to its close. His great
personal popularity added much to the
success of tire ticket, and it was elected
by a lurge plurality vote over the candi
dates of the Republican and the Ameri
can party. In 1860 the National Demo
cratic Convention, which met in Charles
ton, nominated Breekenridge for the
Presidency, but he was defeated—both
Lincoln and Douglass receiving a much
larger vote. He was almost immediately
elected a United States Senator from
Kentucky. When the war of secession
arose all his sympathies were with the
Southern or States Rights party, and on
the Ist of October the Legislature of
Kentucky, then controlled by the
Unionists, passed a resolution request
ing him to resign. Soon afterwards
Breekenridge resigned his seat and cast
his fortunes with the Confederacy, aud
was made a Major-General in the Con
federate army. He was a good officer,
bnt did not win much reputation as a
soldier. In the Winter of 1864 she was
made Secretary of War of the Confed
erate States, which position he held un
til the close of the struggle. He then
went to Europe, where he remained for
several years. After returning to this
country ho took no part in politics, and
devoted himself to the practice of his
profession. He was never pardoned by
the Government, never had his disabili
ties removed,*and dieil as he had lived,
an unrepentant “rebel.”
Last Honrs of the Great Kentuckian.
Lexington, May 18.—General John C.
Breckenridge died of abcess of the liver,
combined with consumption. His last
hours were quiet and ijeacefnl. On
Sunday night he was very restless, and
sent during the night for his regular
physician, who administered' an opiate
to the sufferer, after which he slept un
til late next morning. Then he was
visited by Dr. Loin's B. Sayre, of New
York, who dressed tbe wound made by
the operation on Monday of last week.
The doctor seeing that no discharge was
taking place from the wound, expressed
himself hopeful of the patient’s rapid
recovery, with proper attention. After
this the sufferer took some nourish
ment. At three o’clock in the evening
a change for the worse was perceptible
and bis friends became alarmed,
Stimulants were administered, but
without effect. He sank rapid
ly until near live o’clock, when
he became speechless. He died
at fifteen minutes to six o’clock and was
conscious apparently up to within five
minntes of his death. There was no
scene—no last words. The only allu
sions he made to death were once after
the operation was performed on him last
week by Drs. Sayre and G oss, when
he said he felt so comfortable be
believed mortification had set in ; and
again in bis will made next day by Hon.
James B Beck, in whieh lie used these
words: “After all my just debts, which
are few and bob dl, and tbe expeuse of a
moderate funeral are paid, I desire, etc.”
Around the death bed-of the General
were his wife, two daughters and one
son and a few other immediate relatione.
In accordance with the wish of the de
ceased and the desire of the family, the
funeral will be a modest one. It will
take place on Wednesday afternoon, at 4
o’clock.
The Danburian is responsible for the
following: The boa swain's pipe will not
be loaned to you to smoke. It’s a mis
take to inquire the time of day by the
larboard watch. Don’t think you can
steer a boat because you have been a
tiller of the soil.
Miss Eastman, of Boston, speaks of
“eves as bright as buttons on anaugel’s
underclothing. ” It is a startling com
parison, and the melancholy part of it
is the suggestion that we fellows have
got to be troubled with buttons over
there as well as over here.
HI MECKLENBURG.
PROGRAMME OF THE CENTEN
NIAL CELEBRATION AT
CUAKLOITK. N. C.,
aSp: >, to-day;
Hon. John M. Bright. Orator of the
Day—The Place of Honor Reserved
for Teum-Netto’s Governor Dis-in
gulsheii Gnqsts-Repouses to lnvi
—
The Mecklenburg Declaration of In
dependence, as embodied in the resolves
of May 20, 1775, will be read at the
Centennial by Hou Seaton Gales, of
Raleigh, one of the editors of the old
National Intelligencer. He is thorough ly
convinced of their authentic character.
Hon. Jesse J. Yeat.es, member of Con
gress from the extreme eastern district
of the -State, will nttend, together itjli
tho balance of the delegation. The Gen
eneral Executive Committee have in
vited the Governors of all the States of
the Union, many of whom have signified
tli .■ir intention to be present. Governor
HenuriEks, of Indiana, will be there. Tlie
famous “ meeting of tlie Governors ” tit
Altoona, in the beginning of Lincoln’s
administration’, is supposed to have had
an influence in inflaming a warlike spirit
between the sections, which it is now
believed will be "equally effective in tlie
interests of fraternity aud peace. Dis
tinguished gentlemen from all quarters
tkji will aid in giving eclat tp
Invitations have been issued right
and lew, North arid So nth alike, without
discrimination or partiality. The re
cords of the association show this, J.
note in the records, as a thing of some
significance, the following resolution,
adopted at. the mass meeting held liefie
in the Court House on February 4tl ,
1875. initiatory to the approaching njl -
aerVawv : “Resolved, That wo cord iallp
invite all frien Is of constitutional liberty
in America to participate with ns on sai i
cel bratiou ” By the “ friends of cm -
stittitionul liberty” I am giveu teilb
tinetly understand that Republicans.are
not excluded, but that tho expression
lias a broad and Unpartisancoustnictior .
Not only was President Grant officially
invited, but many prominent Adminis -
tration men besides. Gen. Grant’s de
elinatrion, through liis private seejetnry,
has not been correctly published. It is
entire y polite and courteous, and is so
regarded by the officers of the associa
tion. Gov. Porter, of Tennessee, no
cepts in a neat letter. Dr. J. G. M.
Ramsey, the historian of Tennessee,
sent the following sentiment to
be read at tho Centennial ban
quet : “ The principles of the Pres
byterian Scotch-Irish in Carolina and
elsewhere—Right., Conscience, Liberty
and Independence—they must never
be surrendered.” The Pennsylvania
branch, or home stock of the Alexander
family, who came thence and six of
whom signed the Mecklenburg resolves,
will be represented on the occasion, as
appears by a letter from James Alexan
der, of Mifflin county, Pennsylvania,
who is seventy four years old.
The Philadelphia Centennial Commis
sion has promised to be represented.
The Board of Directors of tho Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company formally ac
cepted their invitation to be present.
Among tho eminent Massachusetts men
invited are Mr. Charles Francis Adams
and Mr Robert C. Wintlirop. The fol,
lowing geutlemen have written letters of
acceptance: Hon. William A. Graliam;
Hon. Will am M. Bobbins, Hon. A. M,
Waddell, Judge Thomas Little, Judge
D. Schenek, Hon. Thomas S. Ashe, and
Rev. T. H. Pritchard; Gov. C. H. Har
din, of Missouri; Commissioner Colonel
A. W. Stayback to represent that State;
Letters have beeu received from Gover
nors Osborne, of Kansas; Jacobs, of
West Virginia; Cocinane, of Delaware;
Leslie, of Kentucky; Hartranft, of Penn
sylvania; Gropine, of Maryland; Tilden,
of New York; Alien, of Ohio; Howard,
of Rhode Island; Beveridge, of Illinois;
Kemper, of Virginia; Chamberlain, of
Hou lb Carolina; Brogden, of North Cam
bun, mid Carpenter, of towa, ail of
whom express regret at not being able
to attend.
The Programme
Will lie carried out as originally arrang
ed. There will be two set orations; one
by Mr. John Kerr, and the other by
Hon. John Bright, of Tennessee
Tennessee, by the way, is looked upon
here as a daughter of North Carolina ;
hence the selection of an orator from
that State. She was rather an nuruly
child once, when, in 1784, uuderthelead
of John Sevier, she attempted to set. up
for herself as the State of Frankland.
Bnt that matter is all right now. On
the 25th of September, i790, the two
North Carolina United States Senators
executed a deed conveying the western
portion of the [State to the United
States, and Tennessee became a separate
Commonwealth. It is for tins reason
also—the fact that Tennessee wan, lim
ing tho revolution, an integral part of
North Carolina—that the Centennial ol
der of exercises assigns to the Governor
of Tennessee precedence in the proces
sion of tlie 20th instant over the Gover
nors of other States. There will he no
poem in the ordo rerum. In addition
to the big barbecue!, winch will be free
to all comers, a banquet or collation is to
be given to the invited guests especially,
at which it is expected there" will be any
number of impromptu speeches.
Mecklenburg Declaration of Indepen
dence.
General Bradley T. Johnson, formerly
of Frederick, Md , lias furnished the
New York Tribune an interesting ac
count of the events which led to the fa
mous Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde
pendence, the centennial of which will
be appropriately celebrated on the 20th
instant. General Johnson says: When
the tidings of Concord and Lexington
flashed through the country it lighted
the fires np at once from every moun
tain top and valley. Mecklenburg, in
tlie language of the loyal men of the
day, was a ‘hornet’s nest of rebellion,”
anil the “hornets” forthwith began
to stir aud to swarm and to sting. Col.
A. Alexander called a meeting of the
delegates from each “captain’s district,”
to meet at Charlotte’s Town on the 19th
of May, at which time it was organized
by the appointment of Abraham Alexan
der chairman, and John McKitt Alexan
der-clerk. The Rev. Hezekiah James
Balch, a Presbyterian clergyman; Dr.
Ephriam Brevard, a graduate of Prince
ton, and Wm. Kennon, Esq , a lawyer,
addressed the meeting. The resolutions,
from the pen of Dr. Brevard, were de
bated fhe whole night, section by sec
tion, were unanimously adopted on the
morning of the 20th of May, 1775, and
were proclaimed from the Court House
by the herald, Colonel Thomas Polk.
The resolutions were as follows:
1. That whoever, directly or indirect
ly, abetted, or in any way, form or man
ner countenanced the unchartcred and
dangerous invasion of our rights, as
claimed by Great Britain, is an enemy
to tbe country, to America aud to t e
interests and inalienable rights of man.
2. That we, the citizens of Mecklen
burg county, do hereby dissolve the po
litical bands which have connected us
with the mother country, and hereby
absolve ourselves from all allegiance to
the British crown, and abjure all politi
cal connection, contract aud association
with that nation, who have wantonly
trampled on our rights and liberties,
and inhumanly shed the blood of
American patriots at Lexington.
A That we do hereby declare our
selves a free and independent people;
are aud of right ought to be a sovereign
and self-governing association, under
the control of no power other than that
of our God and the General Government
of the Congress; to the maintenance of
which independence we solemnly pledge
to each other our mutual co-operation,
our lives, our fortuues and oar most
sacred honor.
These resolul ions were sent off by ex
press to the Continental Congress, at
Philadelphia, and the Provincial Con
gress, ht Hillsboro, but were not adopt
ed as the general policy until the pass
age of Richard H*-nrv Lee’s resolutions,
in June, 1776. Such is the simple,
story of the regulators and the first
Declaration of Independence *by
the mountaiu men of North Carolina.
Tbe romance of the revolution was
in North and South Carolina. The ho
mogenous democrat!- population of New
England allowed little difference of opin
ion, for there the germ of an aristocratic
society had never exi-ted. But the
foundation of South Carolina was based
on a landed nobility and gentry, and
John Locke’s Institutes of Government
for North Carolina attempted to organ
ize hereditary rank as the foundation of
society there. Again, after the rebel
lions of 1715 aud 1745, many of the
Highland adherents of the house of Stu
art found refnge near Cape Fear. Neal
McNeal purchased lands uear Cross
Creek, now Fayetteville, aud settled 500
or 600 colonists there. Flora McDouuld,
who saved the Chevalier Charles Ed-
NUMBER 21
wal'd, after Gnlloden, settled here, and
between the Highlanders of the Cum
berland and the Coveuanters of Meck
lenburg, there was sure to be bad blood.
The Highland stock appears to have
been the backbone of loyalty, as the
other was of rebellion, and their feud
waged hot and bloody during the ensu
ing years. The hardest fighting, the
most destructive encounters, the nitter
est, most fatal contests of the revolu
tion, were between the Whigs and Tories
of North Carolina. It was a ruthless
and a cruel war, as civil war rlwaysjs,
and even now loyulty has uo irery fine
savor, nor any very refreshing associa
tions in the Old North State.
The Controverted Point.
Raiieigh, N. C., Friday, May 14, 1875.
In relation to the controversy growing
out of the Mecklenburg Declaration of
Independence, and Hen. George Ran
eroft’s letter to the late Gov. Swain, of
this State, on the subject, I have seen
Gov Brogdeu. He says that Mr. Ban
orirft’s letter, referred to by him, and
published already, stated that Mr. Ban
croft wrote to Gov. Swain substantially
as published in The Times, of 11th in
stant :
“The first account of ‘the extraordina
ry resolveß by the people in * Charlotte
Town, Mecklenburg county,’ was sent
over to England by Sir James Wright,
then Governor of Georgia, in a let ter of
tlie 20th. of June, 1775. The newspaper
°6" e Journal , iiuescMyi
you may be sure, with reverence,
and immediately obtained it copy of
them, thinking myself the sole discover
er. Ido not send you the copy, as it is
identically the same with the paper
which you enclosed me; but I forward to
you a transcript of the entire letter of
Sir James Wright.”
I have examined a file of the Raleigh
Register and found the same there.
Whether this letter referred to the reso
lutions of the 20th or of the 31st of
May, 1775, I am iu doubt. I find in
Wjieeler’s History of North Carolina,
page No. 254, a letter signed by James
Wright, addressed to the Earl of Dart
mouth, London, England, including the
“extraordinary resolves of the people of
Charlotte Town, Mecklenburg county.”
Immediately following this letter, copied
from the South Carolina Gdzctlc and
County Journal, of June, 1775, No. 498,
are to be found the resolutions adopted
by the people of Mecklenburg on the
31st of May, 1775. It would seem from
Mr. Bancroft’s letter that Gov. James
Wright’s letter referred to the resolves
of 31st May, 1775. for the reason that
he says that “the first account of the
‘extraordinary resolves’ by the people
of Charlotte Town, Mecklenburg county,
was sent over to England by Sir James
Wright,” which is the language of Gov.
Wright’s letter to the Earl of Dart
mouth. It will also be' observed that
the paper mentioned by Mr. Bancroft
in which “the extraordinary resolves”
were published in the same name and
very same uutnoerin which appeared the
resolvesof the3lstofMay, 1775. Mr Ban
croft’s failure to remember the letter
written to Hon. D. L. Swain may be at
tributed to the misprint of “July 4,
1875,” for “July 4, 1848,” and also to
the fact, which seems established, that
the letter of Sir James Wright directly
referred to the resolves of the 31st, of
May, 1875, and not to those of the 20th
of May, 1775. Governor Brogdeu iu
sists that he was right. The original of
Mr. Bancroft’s letter is on file among
the papers of the late Hon. D. L.
Swain.
A MILLION DOLLAR TEMPLE.
Air Drawn from the Sky and Artifi
cially Healed in Winter and Cooled
iu ummer—What a Great Journal
ist Did.
Dr. Hall’s new Presbyterian Church
on Fifth avenue, New York, is briefly
described as follows:
The new edifice strikes the eye very
pleasantly. Although massive and ex
pensive, everything is plain and neat..lt
is at Fifth avenue an i Fifty-fifth street,
fronting 200 feet on the latter and 100
on the former. The front, on Fifth
avenue, has tw > towers, the main tower
rising 300 feet above the sid< walk, 14
reet higher than ’trinity spire. The other
tower is 160 feet high. The main entrance,
with four double doorways, is between
the towers, and is approached by a stoue
porch 40 feet broad, with stone steps.
There are also five entrances. There are
two other towers, that at the northwest
corner, 100 feet high, being an air shaft
to supply the church with fresh air, the
air being taken at the top,to have it .pure
and free from dust. The principal en
trance opens into a vestibule 45 by 16
feet. The auditorium is 100 feet deep
on the main floor, 136 feet deep on
the gallery, 85 feet wide, and 60 feet
high, with seats for 2,000 persons. The
pews are arranged in concentric
curves, every seat commanding a full
view of the pulpit. The ground floor
and galleries are inclined as in a theatre.
There is a finely curved canopy over the
pulpit,, und above this is a gallery for
the choir and the large organ. The
ceiling is of wood, with handsomely
•decorated pannels and moulded libs.
There are twenty-four large and twenty
four small windows. Each window has
two sets of sashes, glazed with stained
glass. Gas jets have been put between
the sashes, so that at the evening ser
vices the staiued glass may be seen both
inside and out. The space between the
two sashes is a large ventilating flue,
drawing the air from the church through
the perforated panels of the wainscot
iug, the current being increa ed by the
heat of gas burners within the space.
Every gas burner in the church is hidden
by ornamental glass work, and supplied
with ventilating flues, giving a mellow
light very pleasing to the eye.
The air tower at the northwest corner
supplies pure air, which is drawn by a
fan in the cellar at the base of the tower,
and is worked by a ten-horse power
steam engine. Ten feet above the floor
of the tower, inside, a perforated water
pipe extends around the walls, making a
shower to cool the air in the Summer
and free it from dust if necessary. The
entire cellar floor can also be sprinkled,
to cool the air. The fan is of iron, seven
feet in diameter, andean make22o revo
lutions a minute, forcing 30,000 cubic
feet of pure air into the church every
minute. The entire cellar is an air and
heating chamber, into which the fan de
livers the air, the ceiling being covered
with a net work of steam heatiDg pipes.
Before the air enters the auditorium it
passes over the steam pipes and is
warmed. The warm air enters the body
of the church through movable slats
under the benches of every pew, and
every person in the pew can have warm
or cold air at his feet, as he chooses.
When the cold air is forced into the au
ditorium it enters fifty feet above the
heads of the congregation, so that there
can be no draft. The steam for heating
is generated in two fifty-horse power
boilers.
The bellows of the organ are worked
by a hydraulic app i rat ns, the water be
ing supplied from a tank in the princi
pal tower, 125 feet übove the sidewalk,
a powerful steam pump forcing the
water from a cistern in the cellar into
the tank, which holds 6,000 gallons.
Near the tank are the fire hose, through
which the entire building can be del
uged in a few minutes. The cellar walls
are double, with a space between to ex
clude dampness, and all tbe drain and
water pipes are thoroughly ventilated.
In tbe rear of the main auditorium is a
hall ten feet wide, with two wide stair
ways leading to the galleries. Next to
the hall, in the rear, is the chapel or
lecture room, 75 by 45 %et, and 25 feet
high, with a large gallery on one end
and ladies’ parlors on the other, having
accommodations for 700 persons. There
is also a trustees’ room and a minister’s
room. Over the lecture room is the
Sunday School room, with three galleries.
There are also several large class rooms
aud a library. Over the class rooms is
a flat for the assistant sexton and his
family. All the news, gallery, fronts,
organ case, and all the interior joiner’s
work are of the best ash wood, polish
ed. The building committee are James
Fraser, 11. L. Stuart, the Hon. John A.
Stewart, Harvey Fisk, Robert Bonner,
and Moses G. Baldwin. A large part of
the §1,000,000 outlay has already been
raised, Robert Bonuer alone having sub
scribed 8103,000.
Two Irishmen traveling on the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad track came to
a mile post, when one of them said:
“Tread any, Pat; here lies a man 10 :
years old—his name was Miles from Bal
timore.”
A country youth, who desired to know
how to become rich, sent a quarter in
answer to an advertisement, and received
the following valuablerecipe : “Increase
your receipts and decrease your expendi
tures. Work eighteen hours a day and
live on hash and oatmeal gruel,”