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Address WALSH k WRIGHT.
Chbowici.k k Scntinfu, Augusta, fti.
(Chronicle an& jgfntinel.
WEDNESDAY JULY 7, 1875.
MINOIt TOPICS.
(leneral Sherman aya: “I don't believe
that Uraut wa* ever drank when there waa any
fighting to be done." This is a limited certifi
cate of sobriety. but it certainly ought to go a
great way.- The trouble with a great many
men in, that they get drank at the wrong time.
The fcarlee. McOeaehy of the Danhurian
Press, is not to bo intimidated by the cohorts
of I’lymonth, if tine paragraph indicates any
thing: “Wo are in possession of incontrovert
ible facte that point unerringly to Henry Ward
Beecher as the Nathan murderer. The New
York lleraUl will please communicate with us.”
Despair settles upon the Southern outrage
ehr.ckor and the bloody shirt shaker. As they
hear the cheers which Boston gives so heartily
to its Southern visitors, they feel like exclaim
ing, with the toy balloon merchant who felt
the string which held his property slip from
Ins hand and saw the whole concern sailing
serenely towards the clouds, “ l’y tarn, dere
goes my piznoss!”
Gril's history of Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth says:
They killed Bauquo, ono of the late King’s
Generals, but there was a ghost at the feast
continually, and that ghost was lianquo’a. It
didn’t improve their appetites particularly,
which was very uncivil in the ghost. They car
ried things with a high hand for some time,
hut at length Macbeth was ki led in a hand-to
hand fight with Macduff. His last words were.
“Lay on, Macduff, and d—d bo he who first
takes Scotch snuff!" Macduff laid on with such
effort that Macbeth was soon laid out. Mrs.
Macbeth fled to America, and the last heard of
her she was around shooting lawyers in San
Francisco.
The Brooklyn Arijue' patriot has broken
loose. Just hear him: “Fitzbugh Lee rode
through tho streets of Boston, last Tuesday,
in an open carriage, and was received with
such storms of applause that he had to remain
standing and uncovered nearly tho entire
route. Shades of Horace Greeley, think of
that! Fitzbugh Lee, tho friskiest dragoon
that ever led his troopers against loyal legions
—the boldest knight in all tho army of South
ern chivalry—the Du Guesclin of tbs rebellion
—Fitzbugh Loo cheered iu the streets of Bos
ton! Clasping hands across the bloody chasm !
How can that be possible ? Where’s your
chasm ?"
There is no little stickling at times on the
race course upon matters of otiquotte, and a
most notable instance of the kind occurred
Saturday at Jerome l’ark, New York. In the
regular handicap stoepie chase tho rider of
tho winning horse dismounted before having
properly saluted tho judgos. The stako was,
therefore, given to tho second horse. Al
though technically a regular proceeding, the
decision is on* of those finely drawn affairs
whose strict legal validity falls to conceal their
lack of equity. The Now York Timet suggests
appropriately that, for the sake of the Ameri
can turf, it would be well to deviso some other
motliod of correcting a breach of etiquette on
the part of a jockey than by revonqpg the de
cision of a race already fairly won.
The cashier of a Washington bank a fow
days siuco, ill sending bonds to tlie Treasury
Department, gives the following reason for
wishing the oxoliango made, viz: “I may not
havo expressed myself properly, not knowing
much about Iho business of swapping bonds;
but my intentions are pure and innocent. I
wish to have these bonds in such a condition
that when a burglar comes to my room at mid
night, puts a pistol to my head, twists my nose,
and takes mo by each oar and loads mo to my
bank and compels me to unlock my safe, I can
contemplate the removal of my bonds with a
smile that is child like and bland.”
A grand reform is to be instituted by tho au
thorities iu Richmond, Virginia, and if they
dont, have trouble before they get through it
will bo because the heated term has subdued
the American mother. Baby carriages upon
tho sidewalks have been declared a nuisance,
and the Richmond chief of police has issued
an order regulating the manner in which the
rising generation shail bo truudled about.—
Rabv carriages cannot bo run two abreast just
because mothers wish to do a little gossipping,
and other rules are laid down defining clearly
the duties of women taking their babies out
for an airing. What Caudle lectures city offi
cials must he getting in Richmond just now,
and how many thousand times must tho chief
of police have been designated as “that great
brute!”
The law that the Courts can issue no process
during the Sabbath was taken advantage of by
a ruthless heatheu.of a railroad corporation,
in Chicago, to defy the rights of'the citizen.
The suburban village of Hyde l’ark was uu
williug tor the Stock-yards Transit Company to
lay a track for the passage of its odoriferous
cars. The company serenely awaited until tho
clock told that Saturday had merged into Sun
day. and tho arm of the la v had become
shackled hv its own rightoous respect for tho
fourth commandment of the doealogno. It
then sent a numerous force of workmen into
the village, and within twenty-four hours had
the rails spiked firmly into the ground. When
the law- drew its sword Monday, and whetted
the blade preparatory for business, the rail
road company puts its thumb upon its nose,
expaudod its phalanges and mildly remarked :
“What are you going to do about it ?" It re
rnaius to be determined whether the Courts
will require that the track be removed. This
could have happened nowhere except in Chi
cago.
The Albemarle Club, which has just begun
existence in London with three hundred mem
bers, has tho peculiarity of admitting women
as well as men to its membership. iJome of
the rooms are to be used in common; others
are restricted to one sex. The men cannot en
ter the women’s special drawing room, and the
smoking room is not open to the women. Any
man belonging to the Club can ask any woman
.to dine or lunch with him in the common eat
ing room, but the names of both entertainer
and guest must be registered. The marriage
question is not considered in regulating ad
missions. Thus a man may be a member whoso
wife is not. arid a wife can be elected whose
husband beluga to the outside world. This
course was adopted as the easiest war of avoid-
inj. the most obvious Jbßoulty thst opposed it- I
gelf to a Club composed of both sexes, but it
can readily be seen that complications may
arise which will occasion troubie even under (
this programme. Unless remarkable c*ro is
exercised, trouble is likely to ensue, which I
mav give the Club a bad name, even it it does
not threaten its existence. There are a good
many men who like to enjoy themselves at a
Club who would be the last persons to eousent
to their wives doing so. This may be unrea
sonable, but it is certainly a fact.
When it becomes known that the trade in
lead* made sermons in England has become so
extensive as to require an enlargement of the
manufactory, it is feared that the number of
ministerial sooJ throats that will be developed
over here and which will require an ocean
voy age to relieve them, will depopulate the
pulpits of the laud and leave ns poor heathens
with no shepherds to guide us. Bl’t it's true ;
trade in that line wA never brisker s**d hold
ers are contideut. holding hrm for better fig
ures. as the commercial editor would put it.—
Ton see. when a clergyman once gets in he
iiie to stay in. Let him purchase but one ser
mon and palm it off on his congregation under
.*alse pretenses as his own, and he is then a
vie. im. The blackmailer employed by this
novel gospel shop holds it in terrorem over
him. and he buys another and another, and
his precious charge may sigh never so wearily
at the platitudes that their reverend shepherd
.dishes out to them, but he must go on. He is
iu the hands of a blackmailer and can not
stop, and the blackmailer knows it aiul he
raises the price, bulls the market in ready
made semiohs, as it were, and the poor victim
sees his stipend weekly gliding into the purse
of the sharpers who hold him in their toils.—
There is but one safe way about usiug ready
made sermons, and that is to get them out of
the portfolio of a man who never published
one and is dead now. Only in that direction
does safety lie
THK DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLE OP
GOVERNMENT.
Charles O’Conok publishes in the
New York World a brochure ou the
Democratic principle of government
and the means for preserving it in prac
tice. The Nashville Union and Ameri
can says the entire paper merits perusal
by every student of politics and every
intelligent voter. For the present, we
must content ourselves with an epitome
of its leading propositions. Govern
ment, he says, should be unseen aud un
felt, as far as may be. It should be en
trusted with the least possible power,
aud obliged to perform the fewest pos
sible duties. All taxation should be
direct. Trade should be absolutely free.
The custom houses should be sold and
their proceeds nsed to pay off the na
tional debt. No farther debt should be
created in any shape or form. The only
income should be from taxes. Govern
ment should have nothing to do with
money beyond stamping upon specie j
the signs of the value of each j
particular coin. General laws should
be passed for all business mat
ters ; for the formation of private
aud public corporations, etc., and there
shonld be no private legislation what
ever. We should have no armies, na
vies, forts, arsenals, military schools,
etc. Our diplomatic corps should be
abolished. Voting should be viva voce,
not by ballot. Minority representa
tions should not exist. There should
be no laws regulating the hours of labor
and no public schools. Only a few offi
cials should be elected, “say tho Chief
Executive and the Legislature.” Their
terms should be short. Appointed offi
cials should be removed only for fault or
incapacity. “ Faithful service aud
proved capacity are singular grounds of
disqualification.” A military com
mander should be ineligible to the Pres
idency until after a long interval. Iu
densely peopled districts, registry laws
should be iu force. No person receiv
ing pay from the public should be al
lowed to vote. The crime of assessing
office holders to pay the expense of po
litical campaigns should be severely
punished.
MR. H. I. KIMBALL,
Mr. H. I. Kimball, formerly of Maine,
and now of Kimballville, has written a
letter to W. M. Rice, whoever he may
be, of Paola, Kansas. Had we been
Mr. Kimball’s friend, we Bhould have
advised him never to havo written such
a letter. As it has been written aud
published, a few remarks upon it may
not be out of place. The Topeka Blade,
edited by J. Clarke Swayze, published
tho following paragraph, in which men
dacity struggled with ignorance for the
mastery:
“But who took hold of Atlanta after the
war, when it waa a waate of ruins ? H. I. Kim
ball., a Connecticut Yankee. He took his mil
lions there, built the State House, built the
Kimball Hotel, built Ihe Fair Grounds, was
President of the Atlanta Improvement Asso
ciation, and gave Atlanta the imperils she ob
tained. And when Kimball had fastened all
hia monoyin immovable property, the cry qf
Yankee was raised against him. by Bon Toombs
and his crowd, aud Kimball waa robbed right
aud loft and was forced to leave the State to
save his life, and returned to his home without
a dollar. That’s tho way the South encourages
immigration.”
To this Mr. Kimball answers :
Iu reply I havo to say that I did come to At
lanta soon after tho war, ami while Atlanta
“was a waste of rains.” It is true that I built
tho building now owned by the State, and oc
cupied as a State House. I also built “the H.
I. Kimball Hotel;” also built the Fair Grounds.
Tho building occupied by the State I sold to the
city and State, and received my pay in full. I
also intluonced tho investment of several mil
lions of capital iu permanent improvements in
this State. It was during the time of recon
struction, ami political excitement ran high,
which resulted in tho overthrow of the Bepub
lican administration, the establishment of the
entire Democratic administration, aud the re
pudiation of all bonds and securities issued by
the previous administration in aid of public
enterprise. I was largely interested in these
enterprises, and, in consequence, was obliged
to suspend operations. During the excitement
consequent npon this repudiation and suspen
sion I left the State. I returned, however, in
a few months and was very warmly aud cor
dially received, and no mail could receive kind
er treatment, from any people, than I have
received from the citizens of Georgia since my
retura.
It is not a difficult task to point out
the inaccuracies into wbich the great
developer has been led by bis desire to
make himself great in Kansas. No one
questions that he built the H. I. Kim
ball House, or the Fair Grounds, or the
State House ; the question which natur
ally arises, however, is with whose
money did he make these improvements?
So far as the Kimball House aud the
Fair Grounds are concerned, this is,
perhaps, au open question. With re
gard to the State House, some light can
be shed upon the subject. A committee
of the Georgia Legislature investigated
this matter, and we quote from their
report. In of the Opera
House contract, the committee say:
“ We are led to the conclusion that a
“ fraud upon the State was contemplated
“ by the prime movers in this scheme
“ from the start, aud that Governor
“ Bullock was a party to this cOntem
“ plated fraud, as he was afterwards to
“ the actual one. The evidence con
“ nects him with the transaction in all
“ its details, from its inauguration to its
“ final culmination, in the actual appro
“ priation to the private use of himselj
“ amt Kimball of the bonds of the City
“ of Atlanta which wereiu his bauds as a
“ trust fund. * * * The evi
“ deuce shows that Bullock aud KiSi
ball aud tho City Council were parties
"to a private contract, of which the
“ Legislature and its committee were
“ kept in ignorauoe, aud that another
“ aud different contract was made pub
“ lie, it would seem, for the purpose of
“ securiug legislative endorsement of
“ the purchase. * . * * In
“ this matter the Governor of the State
“ became, jointly with Mr. Kimball, a
“ public plunderer. * * *
“ Taking it that the State was to pay
“ no more than the property was worth,
“ she has been robbed in this one trans
“ action of one hundred and twenty-five
“ thousand dollars.”
It is not necessary to tell the people
of Georgia that Mr. Kimball shows his j
memory very defective when he inti
mates, or, in fact, says plainly, he was
obliged to suspend operations and leave
the State because of “the establishment
of a Democratic administration, and the
repudiation of all bonds and securities
issued by the previous administration in
aid of public enterprises.” If Mr. Kim
ball will tax a usually retentive mem
ory a little he will readily discover the
magnitude of his mistake. He fled the
| State long before the establishment of a
Democratic administration, before the
flight of his partner in guilt, Bullock,
and at least a year before the Legisla
ture disowned the fraudulent bonds
issued or endorsed by the robber Gov
ernor. He did not leave the State dar
ing the prevalence of any “excitement
consequent upon repudiation and sus
pension.'’ He slipped away before even
an investigation had been ordered,
alarmed by his own gailty fears. He did
not return in a few months. At least
two years elapsed between the time of
his flight and the day of hia return. We
will close with au extract from the com
mittee’s report: “It was nominally in
“ the interest of Mr. Kimball, but really
“ in the joint interest, in onr judgment,
“ that the Governor ignored the re-
j “ quirements of the law in the endorse
j “ ment of these roads. There were no
| “ legal barriers in Mr. Kimball’s way
I “about anything. There is no sensible
“ way of accounting for the means of
! “money making and stealing thrown
“into his hands, except the Governor’s
j “ interest in the spoils. Mr. Kimball
“was the artful dodger, and Bullock
| “Fagin the Jew.”
KOCTH CAROLINA.
We publish a letter from South Caro
lina in another column of the Chronicle
| and Sentinel this morning which will
be read with interest. We desire, how
ever, to state most emphatically that we
do not agree with our correspondent in
his opinion of Mr. C. C. Bowen. We
neither thiuk it safe to assert that he
“was guiltless of complicity in the mur
der of Colonel White,” nor do we think
that “the News and Courier erred in
i pressing the prosecution against him”
I for this offense. On the contrary, the
evidence has always been strong to our
minds that Bowen procured the assassina
tion of Colonel White, aud that while
Grimes’ hand struck, Bowen’s brain
planned the blow.,, This opinion has not
been changed in the slightest degree by
the result of the recent trial at George
town. The prosecution does not seem
to have been pressed with any vigor,
and Bowen’s neck, but not his reputa
tion, was saved by the verdict which the
ignorant negroes so enthusiastically ap
plauded. We do not think, and we do not
believe that the people of Charleston
think, tho News and Courier has
“ erred” in pursuing Bowen. On the
contrary, we believe it entitled to, and
that it receives the thanks of the people
of that city for its attacks upon and its
exposure of this bold, bad man. We
can only regret that so far he has been
enabled to set the law at defiance. No
matter how much Whipfer, Elliott &
Cos. may be pleased at the successful
villainy of C. C. Bowen, we cannot thiuk
that any possible combination of cir
cumstances will ever mako such a mau
Governor of South Carolina. We agree
with our correspondent that the Kimp
toN letter, heretofore published in the
Chronicle and Sentinel, is very dam
aging to Governor Chamberlain and
to the cause of reform, of which
he professes to be the zealous cham
pion. His obstinate silence has made
his conduct liable to the worst construc
tion, and lie has only himself to blame
for the injury done his character. He
cannot afford to let such a matter pass
by in silence. The revelations concern
ing the operations of the State Treasu
rer are a little startling. Oil a salary of
three thousand dollars per annum it is
asserted that Cardozo has, in the course
of a few years, accumulated a large for
tune. He lias been thrifty enough, ac
cording to the statements of our corre
spondent, to build a forty-five thousand
dollar mansion ou Sullivan’s Island, to
stock his cellars with thirty year old
wiue and to pay twelve thousand dollar
fees. If these things be true, it is not
much wonder that Carolina should find
herself in such a bad way financially.
A LEETLE TOO LATE.
The La Grange Reporter does not be
lieve very strongly in the reformation of
the good Grant and thinks his repent
ance comes a trifle too late. Quoting
from a somewhat apochryphal dispatch to
the Baltimore Sun to the effect that the
President is convinced that the South
ern policy into which he was “betrayed”
twelve months since was a great mis
take, tho Reporter tells the President:
“You’re jest a leetle too late. You*
perception of your mistake has been de
layed too long. If you had come to
this conclusion six years ago, or rather
if you had adhered to the conclusions
concerning the South at which you ar
rived as a soldier, and before you as
pired to the Presidency, your fame on
history’s pages would have scarcely been
eclipsed by that of the father of his
country. But you stultified yourself;
after declaring, as General of the army,
that you had made a tour through the
South, and had found the country in a
state of profound peace, so that no Fed
eral legislation was needed to preserve the
results of the war, as President you aid
ed, abetted and executed to their fullest
extent, even beyond theletterof the law,
the most oppressive measures ever con
cocted against a conquered section. You
did not content yourself with executing
the laws inimical to the South, but even
stretched them, to their utmost elastici
ty, the better to satisfy the howling
Radicals who formed ‘your party.’
Having tho opportunity and the power
to make yourself the saviour of the
country, by healing the wounds of the
war and stilling the elements of discord,
you threw both away, and used your
strong arm, as Chief Executive of the
nation, to keep alive the embers of con
flict aud to oppress and harass those
whose only crime was that they, through
weakness, had been conquered by your
armies. You preferred to be the tool of
a party’s vengeance rather than to re
store peace to a ruined people and con-
I quer hearts by your magnanimity where
| your arms had before been victorious.
! “Now, Mr. President, you see your
I mistake, but your repentance comes too
i late. It looks to the despised Southern
! people like a bid for their favor. They
\ have, by means entirely beyond your
control, become somewhat a power in
the land, and they suspect that you are
coquetting with them for their influ
ence. You cannot win their fevor.
Once they could have forgiven yon; but
the time is past. Once they could have
loved you; now they hate you, and will
continue to do so as long as memory
| survives. And, thank Heaven, they be
| lieve the time is coming when they can
; assist in tumbling you headlong from
, the lofty position yon have so long and
i so wickedly defiled, as the rebellious
| archangel was hurled from the battle
; incuts of Heaven.”
The New York Times says that since
the return of the Southern soldiers,
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee made a short speech
at Norfolk, Va., in which he showed how
deeply the hearts of his comrades were
touched by their reception in Boston.
“Do you know what all this means ?”
he said?* “It means at that end of the
line precisely what the outpouring of
vonr people at this end of the line to
meet ns on our return means, viz : That
the people of this country have taken
this matter of reconstruction out of the
hands of the politicians; that the crust
which separated them has been broken
at last, and the men of the North and
South are at last allowed to see each
other face to face.” He is right.—
The politicians have fanned the embers
of old animosities until once or twice
there seemed a danger of their breaking
out into a flame again—but the good
feeling and good sense of the people
will triumph over these devices as they
have done over many others. The good
results of the Gentennial at Boston are,
we hope, only a faint promise of the
still greater good to be accomplished
! next year at the National Centennial in
1 Philadelphia.
Columbus manufactories run 35,000
spindles and 2,500 looms. Another large
establishment is to be erected on the
site of the burned Palace Mills, a cloth
ing manufactory is to be established,
and one for the making of fine shirts.
These last two will employ over a hun
dred females.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAjYpKORNTNG, JULY 7, 1875.
A HORRIBLifi!" 'STORY, IE TRUE.
The Atlanta Commonwealth, of Tues
day evening, publishes some remarkable
statements concerning the execution of
Lloyd and Holsonbake in 1872 for the
murder of Judge Fish. The details of
the murder are not so fresh in the minds
of the public but that a brief synopsis
of the tragedy may be found of inter
est. Judge Fish was, iu 1871, appoint
ed Judge of the District Court of Ma
con and two other counties by Bullock,
then Governor of Georgia. A short
time afterwards he was assassinated in
Oglethorpe one night while on his way
from the railway depot to his residence.
The enormous reward of six thousand
dollars was offered by the Executive for
the arrest and conviction of his mur
derer, and in a short time Lloyd and
Holsonbake were arrested as-the guilty
parties and placed upon trial. The
theory of the prosecution was that
Lloyd, au old man over sixty years of
age, had been ail applicant for the
position of District Judge,* and that
he hated his snccessful opponent.
Making Holsonbake believe that im
proper relations existed ..between! Fjmhl
and Holsonbake’s wife, he induced the
latter to waylay and murder liis sup
posed rival. The prisoners were placed
in a room where detectives were conceal
ed, and it is said that their conviction
was secured principally by the state
ments of the detectives of the conversa
tion which they had overheard. They were
convicted and sentenced to death, and
an application having been made to the
Supreme Court forauew trial that tribu
nal approved the judgment of the Conrt
below, and the execution was ordered
to proceed. The friends of Lloyd main
tained that he was the viotirn of a con
spiracy which had been prompted by
the large reward offered by the Gover
nor. Young Lloyd, a son of the con
demned man, and one of the Solicitor-
Generals of the State, made every exer
tion to secure Executive clemency for his
father, and the writer of this well re
members his appearance in Atlanta upon
that mournful mission in the Summer of
1872. But Governor Smith, guided by
the verdict of the Superior and the
strongly expressed opinion of the Su
preme Court, declined to interfere. The
executions took place a short time after
wards. Upon the scaffold Holsonbake
admitted that he was the guilty party,
saying, “I am the man who took his
(Fish’s) life.” Lloyd, upon the contra
ry, solemnly protested his innocence of
the crime with which he was charged.
He is reported to have spoken as fol
lows :
He was in his G2d year ; had never had a
difficulty ; never had been arrested ; never
paid a fine or costs. Had lived an honorable
and useful life. • Had never himself, or in’
collusion with others, entertained one iota of
criminal feeling against any man. He declar
ed that Jones, Fabbow and the detectives had
hatched the matter up. “I swear,” said he,
“that before you and my God, before whom I
shall soon appear, lam innocent. If I had
dreamed of such a thing, I would not have al
lowed it;” He said his death was a conspiracy,
and W. C. Jones was at the bottom of it, his
blood would cry for vengonce ; and concluded:
“I put my blood on him (Jones) for three
generations, and call on God to witness it.—
Jones got Stubbs out and exerted himself to
oonvict me. I want all of Mr. Fish’s family to
know it. lam innocent.” *
And now wo are promised a strange
and horrible sequel to this tragic
story. The Commonwealth mtignateg
that LloyiFbpleirof^iahi , ocetiro%Sf‘ ! fiTOf
and that he was unjustly done to death
by parties who procured his conviction
for the sake of the reward. That paper
says :
These protestations of innoconco, coming as
they did from the very Ups of death, excited
in the minds of those who heard and read
them many doubts of the man’s guilt and a
nameless suspicion that a foul conspiracy had
been mado to swear away the life of an inno
cent mau, in order to obtain the reward. This
suspicion grew in the minds of some until it
became so tangible that they determined to
ferret the thing to the bottom, and when it be
came known that one of the parties, now
holding high rank in the United States civil
services had been awarded two thousand dol
lars of the blood money, tlie clew was so direct
that they had no further doubt about it, and
went to work directly at the root of the matter.
One of the detectives was confronted, and,
while the dying words of Lloyd ivas read, he
confessed that it was true, and that they had
“put up a job” in order to get the reward.—
Shortly after this, this detective was killed,
and his lips were closed forever. Now his
jvidow has been seen, and she reluctantly con
fesses that her husband, while in the agony of
remorse, had confessed to her that he bad
been a party in swearing away the life of
Lloyd, and that it was all done to get the
money. The facts of the case have been in
geniously worked up, and the testimony in the
case has been forwarded to Washington, to be
laid before the Department of Justice, as its
matter materially affects the character of one
of its officials.
We sincerely join the Commonwealth
in the hope which it expresses that this
matter may be fully investigated, not
only by the Department at Washington,
but by the authorities of the State of
Georgia as well.
Hon. John H. James thinks that re
ligion is profitable in this world as well
as in the next, and gives the comforting
assurance that religion “does not in
volve poverty any more than it does
gloom; on the contrary, the better a
man’s religion is, the more reason he
has to think God will bless him in busi
ness.” In proof of the correctness of
these propositions he quoted liberally
from his individual experience—he be
ing a man who has both money and re
ligion. He said:
“Whenever he had made money and
“used part of it in building churches,
“or in ether benevolent works, he was
“always blest. In every instance his
“business prospered afterwards. At
“one time, however, he was considering
“a business transaction and thought he
“could make by it, and he promised the
“Lord that if he would prosper him in
“it, he would use half to build another
“church. This time he signally failed.
“At a later date still he had freely be
stowed his money in aid of a revival
“meeting, and in a few days the Lord
“had wonderfully blessed him, he had
“made two or three thousand dollars in
“a single transaction.” In view of these
statements the report of the Atlanta Her
ald that after the meeting a lady came to
Mr. James and, with deep feeling, said:
‘Would to God my husband coaid have
heard your testimony this evening’ does
not sound at all improbable.
Judge Samuel F. Miller, of the U.
S. Supreme Court, when he left Leaven
worth went to St. Panl, and appeared
on the bench of the United States Cir
cuit Court, now in session in that city.
When the case involving the constitu
tionality of the Supplefnentary Civil
Bights law was reached, in which Judge
Nelson, of the United States District
Court, recently gave such a strong opin
ion to the grand jury at Winona in favor
of its legality, counsel for the defense
interposed a demurrer to the indictment,
wherenpon Judge Miller said to the
United States District Attorney: “Allow
me to make a suggestion to you. There
is a branch of this subject now pending
before the Supreme Court in Washing
ton phich involves some of the same
questions that would come up under this
case, and for that reason I do not care to
decide the matter at this time. I think
it had better be submitted on written
briefs, which I can take with me, and
decide the case some time in the future.*
To this suggestion the attorneys con
sented, so the celebrated Civil Bights
case goes over for the present.
MIGRATION
A Fair Showing for from
A Northern ScMßMppSpniethiiig
About the Soil of the
Best Country on the |HP*e.
At the recent meeti.glK)&c Ameri
can Institute Farmer’s IflKfiß Cooper
Institute, New York, E. Col
ton read the following
In my humble opiiu<ggaßfsßifturmaß,
the Southern States time
the most inviting field to’ißE intelligent
emigrant of any pariJcMßke; United
States, and knowing th*|^K Attention
of many is directed theaßßralshall en
deavor to so sketch the igHpi:,climate,
the products aud fur
nish a brief guide to g|RpM are in
search of a home in that jSjffim. In two
of the Southern J&eorgia
aud South Carolina, mBP every
variety of soil and i liniWfT’ff' 1 every
character of wild trees jaßtfidwer and
cultivated plant of any uni®>ery_ other
State in the Union. to
the fact that their seashtfnHptCpe is
very warm from latitude aiflNMi|igruity
of the Gulf Stream and §jjflv;. r Wsßtera
or Northern sectiou coropaHippf high
mountains which have the wth
and Summer climate of uppcKtew York
without the rigorous
States may be said to rise
incline from a sea level to of
1,500 to 3,000 feet, with
to the height of 4,000 or
first has every geological of
the United States, aud all
the soils; the latter has butttflpaH area
of limestone lands. The Sti9p>f Vir
ginia and Tennessee have neflQMdl the
soils and products, the fomufifertaking
a little more generally of
type, while South Carolina aulgklabama,
with varied soils, partake n|2j of the
Southern. The same may Ilf said of
Arkansas and Texas. iMpissippi,
Louisiana and Florida
Southern in soil and prod)jots. Vir
ginia and Tennessee have (w, sandy
lauds, thence running up to in elevat
ed plateaus producing
grasses and having tho co<®-|forthern
Summers, and South Carolina has also
a small strip of similar chural fer, while
the monutains of Alabama I htnish an
approach to these sections. f
It will thus be seen that th i sections
in which those crops are i which I
suppose most Northern men desire to
cultivate—for instance, the sa ill grains,
grasses and fruits—and at th< lime time
be in a olimate not excessive! warm in
Summer uor approaching flat of the
North in Winter, with enough of change
for good health and purity* of atmos
phere but not for discomfort) are Vir
ginia, Western North Carolina, Middle
and Northern Georgia, a parti at North
ern South Carolina and sipi£lle and
Eastern Tennessee and a partjof North
ern Arkansas. Texas has so jmany rail
road companies puffing her merits that
I need not add my little quota. In the
sections named, any soil and blimato he
may desire can be gotten by ithe immi
grant, but I know of no bettelr of
guiding him to them than by Atatiug the
characteristics of the country ou the
lines of railroads which ruu into the
South. First, I will state thlt only in
Alabama and Arkansas are (there any
lands to be taken by pre-emption of
homestead. Texas has State laws with
some such provisions, but any settler
may rely upon it that all the most valu
able lands have been long ago taken up
by settlers and speculators. In Ala
bama there are some fine timbered and
mineral lands not yet taken np, as by
the law ofj Congress they cannot bo
bought except for homesteads. The
granitic and gueissoid soils and slates
of tho oldest rocks, such soils as West
chester county, all New England,
Chester and Berks counties, Pa.; Mor
ris, Passic, Sussex and Warren coun
ties, N. J.; and Orange, Putnam, Co
lumbia mid Duchess counties, New
York, as a general rule not so rocky,
however, are to be found in the lino of
the Riuli m ““dt Railroad,
uaromii; 'YTpper“Hbtith Uarontia and
Georgia. The line of this road rises
from Richmond to an average altitude
of 800 feet above sea level in North and
South Carolina, thence to full 1,000 in
Georgia. It runs through a strictly
Piedmont eouutry, at tlie foot of tho
mountain chain. Passing through the
same character of laud and joining the
above road at Danville is the Washing
ton City, Virginia Midland aud South
ern Railroad, running from Washington
City, via Charlottesville aud Lynchburg,
to Danville. In Georgia, the road from
Augusta to Atlanta passes through a
similar region, and also the road from
Atlanta to West Point, Ga. At direct,
right angles to these roads and travers
ing the same character of soil east to
west is that part of the Atlantic, Mis
sissippi and Ohio from Petersburg and
Lynchburg, and beyoud to the crest of
the Blue Ridge; that part of the North
Carolina Central, from Wadesboro to
Charlotte, and beyond to its western
terminus; the Western North Carolina,
via Morganton, aud thence on is survey
ed line to Tennessee; and the Western
and Atlantic, from Atlanta to Carters
ville, Ga. From east to west this belt
of potash lands—l call them thus be
cause they arederived from rocks having
much potash in their composition, and
hence do not need that fertilizer—l say
this belt from east to west, in New Jersey
not over thirty-five miles in width,
stretches out in Virginia to 160 miles, in
North Carolina to near 300 miles, iu
Georgia from 100 to 200, and ends
at a blunt point in Alabama. The
Richmond and Atlanta Railroaid runs in
it for over 200 miles. Any crop may be
grown on these lands which is grown in
the northern sections I have named,
with the addition of cotton and tobacco.
The Piedmont belt has no superior for
the production of peaches and certain
varieties, of apples, while from its soil
come the original of the Catawba, Isa
bella and other grapes. The color •of
the soil is usually red or gray; the native
tree-growth hickories and oaks; water
abundant and pure; no musqnitoes or
malaria. Much of this land can be
bought at very moderate rates, seldom
over $5 per acre, unless there are good
houses. The railroads running through
it are all great trunk lines, and horse
transportation facilities are good. The
climate is mild and even. It might
well be called the medium belt of our
country. Those who wish to raise early
vegetables for market must go to the
region around Norfolk, Va., the line of
the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad,
and its southward branch to Charleston,
the country around Savannah, and the
line of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad.
The seasons on this road are from one to
two weeks ahead of Wilmington, and at
present, owing to the cheap lands and
rapid facilities for transportation, its
line offers more indneements than any
other. Welington is two weeks ahead
of Norfolk in seasons, but lands are not
quite so cheap as beyond Savannah,
where all “truck” strikes together,
though cost of. freight makes up the
difference. The limestone lands, the
true grass-growing, cattle-raising and
dairy-fanning regions of the South
are : The line of the A. M.
and O. B. 8., from the Blue
Bidge to Bristol; the whole East Ten
nessee country, with the East Tennessee,
Virginia and G. R. B. running through
it, and the Tennessee river navigable in
its centre for over 150 miles; the Mid
dle Tennessee country, on the railroad
from Chattanooga to Nashville; all
North Georgia, with the line of the
Western and Atlantic Railroad, from
Cartersville to Chattanooga, forty miles
of the Alabama and Chattanooga Rail
road, the Borne B. 8., the S. R. and D.
B. R., and the Cherokee Railroad, west
from Cartersville, all running through
it; then about one hundred miles of the
Selma, Rome and Dalton, to Talladega,
in Alabama, and the northern part of
Alabama on the Memphis and Charles
ton Railroad. Some of these lands are
held as high as S2O and S3O per acre,
some cannot be bought at any price,
others m a y be gotten as low as $lO and
some, perhaps, at $5 per acre. They
are filled with springs of cold clear
water, more or less limestone. The
true blue grass is native to the soil, lying
in a great valley between two high
plateaus of mountains. The Summer
climate is noted for moderate and not
unpleasant coolness, while the high
mountains cat off the fierce Winter
winds, and snow lasting for the three
days is a thing of wonders. Hence it
must in the future be a great dairy re
gion. And it will not the less become
great as a manufacturing section, as the
best judges in England and America
have pronounced the stores of iron and
coal bordering on and in this great lime
stone valley as beyond any reasonable
computation. _______
If you want to be a “swell” of the
first water, get the dropsy.
Most disinterestedly good—good for
nothing.
THE EARTHQUAKE.
Destruction of San Jose de Cucuta, in
Colombia—Eight Thousand Human
Beings Dead—Horrible Scenes of
Suffering and Dismay—Victims Suf
focated by the Dnsi—Graphic Des
cription of the catastrophe by. au
Eye Witness.
Maracaibo, May 29, 1875. —0n the
morning of the 88th inst., this commu
nity was 3tartled by the appalling news
of the entire destruction, by an earth
quake, of the city of San Jose de Cucu
ta, in Colombia, on lie 18th inst., at
half-past eleven, a. m." The first shock,
accompanied by loud snbterraneandeto
natioua, levelled every wall in the city
and bnried under its ruins in that single
instant of time some eight thousand hu
man beings out of a population of 10,-
000 sonls, and of those then spared many
have since died of their injuries, and
others remain seriously affected iu mind.
The account given by the unhappy be
ings, who have fled the doomed spot and
are daily arriving here, is harrowing in
the extreme. The first care of the few
saved, after they could collect their
shattered senses, was to sucoor those
whoso shrieks for aid filled the air on
every side; but their efforts in many
cases were rendered futile by the con
tinued trepidation of tlie earth, by the
explosion of powder ..and fire-works
iwiofiDjlS# many'parts of the city, and by
bands of robbers, who roved over*the
ruins, robbing the dead aud murdering
those they fancied had saved anything.
Thus all who have reached here from
Cucuta have landed here in the clothes
they wore ou that fatal day, as few or
none were able to save even their wear-
ing apparel.
The following details are furnished
by one of the survivors: San Jose de
Cucuta hnd for many yeflrs made very
rapid progress, increasing in wealth and
population, until it had become ono of
the most important cities of Colombia.
Of late years new and important, enter
prises had been started, necessitating
the construction of new buildings for
mercantile and other purposes, and of a
large' number of fine residences. In a
moment of time these have all been de
stroyed. It was situated on the boun
dary of the Republic, and was founded
*by Juan de Martin iu 1534. It was a
port of entry, if an inland town can be
called a port, and here was the estab
lished Custom House. The population
of the city at tlie time of the disaster is
estimated at about 12,000; it hnd a large
commercial business and Was the great
depot for coffee and caca for shipment
either through the Venezuela port or
down the Magdalena.
At half-pant five o’clock in the after
noon of Sunday, the 16th, a strong
shock was observable, lasting twenty
seconds. A little later another tremb
ling of the earth took place, which
gradually died away through tho space
of five minutes. At a quarter-past five the
same day the entire population was
brought to its feet by a strong shock,
which lasted for some time. During the
17th and the following night occasional
tremblings were experienced. On the
morning of the 18th everything was
serene aud the day advanced without
anything new, with no premonitions of
the awful fate which a waited the doom
ed city.
The hour of hell-past eleven arrived.
A great part of the citizens were at ta
ble. The earth commenced shaking
with great force, and from all sides the
people rushed to the streets with
despairing cries for mercy. For fifteen
seconds the movement continued, the
city moving like a great ship without
ballast. Instantaneously a cloud of fine
dust enshrouded the streets and houses,
impeding the vision, and calling forth
renewed cries of horror and appeals for
mercy from the populace. These were
of short duration, however, as the dust
soon became so thick as to impede re
spiration, and, as if by the touch of an
enchanter's wand, an awful silence suc
ceeded. Many who might have been
saved from the ruins of the falling
buildings feil victims to suffocation.
Not lqnger 4jhap two minutes did this
t i V'llo si, nation. contiiuw*w..
rapidly carriedaway the dust cloud, re'-
vealing the terrible scene. What was a
few minutes before a beautiful city, in
stinct with life and happiness, was now
the tomb of thousands. The ruin was
complete. A contemplation of the few
who survived the awful disaster was
even more terrible than the sight of tlie
ruins and the dead which lay beneath
them.
Crazed with horror, men, women and
children ran about crying for help and
to their friends who lay dead near at
hand. Here a mother frantically called
to her child ; there the child, horribly
disfigured, perhaps, wailed out for its
parent. Husbands, wives, sons, daugh
ters, fathers and mothers were running
about in wild dismay. Some hours
passed before quiet was restored and a
realization of the event obtained. The
tremblings of the earth continued,
and, to add to the horrors of the situa
tion, fires broke out in various localities
amid the ruins. The so fearful day was
followed by a still more horrible night.
The survivors had moved to the suburbs
of the city, where encampments were es
tablished. The rain commenced to fall
in torrents, and amid the impenetrable
darkness the groans of tho wounded fill
ed the air, varied only by the sharp de
tonations proceeding from explosive
materials amid the ruins. The coming
of anew day showed that not more than
2,000 remained alive. Beneath the falleu
houses lay from 8,000 to 10,000 dead.
Immediately the sad news reached here
a subscription was raised by the mer
chants in money and clothing, which
was liberally responded to by all; and
the United States Consul, as agent of
the Atlas Steamship Company, and the
Orinoco Navigation Company, having
tendered the use of the steamers Pico
and Uribante, they were that same even
ing dispatched with an ample supply of
provisions, clothing an- ' medicines under
the care of a committee to dispense
them, and a number of able physicians
to administer to the wounded and sick.
The Governor of this State also nobly
responded to the call for aid in money
and provisions, and furthermore sent a
picket of soldiers for the protection of
the emigrants coming from Cucuta.
Reports from other localities furnish
news of equal destruction. San Cay
etana was destroyed; also the larger part
of Santiago. In Gramalote there was
great destruction. Arboleda, Cucutilla
and San Cristobal are all nearly destroy
ed, principally the four last. The
population of these towns is estimated
by a person well acquainted in that re
gion to be more or less as follows :
San Cayetano 4,000
Santiago 2,000
Gramalote 3,000
Arboleda 5,000
Cucutilla 5,000
San Cristobal 1,600
The section of country above referred
to embraces the regions about where
Colombia and Venezuela join, the
Colombian portion embracing the State
of Santander. It is in some respects
the most productive part of the Repub
lic, and the coffee of this section is
familiar to all the world.
The shock was felt sharply at Bogota
and adjoining sections. A gentleman
who was at the time in Pacatativa says
that the movement lasted for three
quarters of a minute. It was also
strongly felt in Barranbuilla. Mara-,
caibo, though removed a degree and a
half from the scene, yet felt at the same
moment a gentle but long continued un
dulation of the ground, and not a day
has passed since the memorable 18th of
May that we have not here felt more or
less strong.
Summer Sports.— As we are now in
the midst of Summer, and in the ab
sence of any regular professional amuse
ments, we would suggest the following
“parlor tricks” as a pleasant means of
passing away the dull, hot evenings :
The Spittoon Trick—Take two half
gallon spittoons, white ones are the best
—then select a strong red cord—worsted
is preferable; pass the cord through
the two holes of the spittoons and give
the ends to a gentleman and lady, se
lected from the company, to hold. Now
let a lady sei*e the spittoons, and slid
ing each to the opposite end of the cord,
bring them together smartly, when they
will break to pieces and fall to the floor.
This trick is easily performed, and will
excite considerable applause.
The Magic Stick—To do this trick
properly you will need a pearl handle
pocket knife and a hard wood stick,
some two inches in length. Sharpen
the two ends of the stick and then try to
crush it endways, either between your
hands oj by sitting on it. This, to your
astonishment, you will find impossible
to do.
The Cable Trick—Take a piece of
tarred cable, about fifteen inches in
length, cut it carefully in two with a
sharp knife, and then try to chew the
ends together. You can try as long as
you like.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
[Speaial Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel]
Charleston, June 25, 1875.
The case of the State s. C. C. Bowen
has at last been tried, and Bowen was
acquitted. Although a Radical of the
most pronounced aud unscrupulous
stripe, and in many respects a bad man,
it is safe to assert that he was guiltless
of complicity iu the murder of Colonel
White, and it is now admitted that the
News and Courier erred iu pressing tlie
prosecution against him. Grimes, of
Lee county, Ga., who was the principal
witness for the State, was arrested by
order of Bowen for having hanged a
colored sailor off the Georgetown
bar, in 1864. The crew of which this
sailor was a member had been ship
wrecked, and falling into the
hands at a party of soldiers, they
determined to execute him, Grimes act
ing as “Jack Ketch.” The Radicals at
Georgetown were highly elated at the
acquittal of Bowen. On the day of the
trial the Court room was thronged with
negroes, and when the verdict of “not
guilty” was announced the most up
roarous applause resulted, which was
continued for such a length of time that
Judge Shaw adjourned the Court.
Bowen is now very popular vfith the
Radicals, aud it is rumored that Elliott,
Whipper, Mcmea, Scott and other lead
ers have already-put him on their slate
for Governor.
Chamberlain is losing ground very
rapidly here. The letter which he ad
dressed to Kimptom, aud which appear
ed in the New York Sun some weeks
since, showing his conspiracy to steal
tho entire railroad system of the State,
has satisfied the better class of Conser
vatives that Chamberlain is only pre
tending to reform so as to gain anew
lease of power, when schemes of public
plunder will bo .brought forward, and
our poor people robbed as never before.
Chamberlain’s negro Treasurer, Cardozo,
has just completed the erection of a
palatial mansion on Sullivan’s Island,
at a cast of $45,000. It contains twenty
nine rooms, with all modern appliances.
His oellar is stocked with wines of the
vintage of 1846, and although a preacher,
he rejoices in the possession of a stud of
ten horses. Cardozo has been in office
about three years, on a salary of $3,000
per annum, yet in some way he has
managed to accumulate a princely for
tune. In his troubles with the negro
Legislature, last Winter, he expended
large sums of money, and on the night
of the trial greenbacks were as plenty as
pins in the pockets of the members.
One item of high expenditure was $12,-
000 paid to his counsel,-Messrs. Melton
and Porter.
Bunch and Hardee were executed here
to-day. Chamberlain is thinning out
the Radicals rapidly by wholesome ex
ecutions and liberal imprisonments in
the penitentiary. The weather is de
lightfully pleasant, aud our “Battery”
is now the favorite place of resort.
Sumter.
THE FOURTH OF JULY.
What Ex-Governor Herschel V. John
son Has to Say About It.
[Atlanta Herald.]
We continue this morning our publi
cation of the letters received by the
committee in response to their invita
tiohs. Ex-Governor Johnson has the
floor to-day :
Atlanta, Ga., June 26( 1875.
Dear Sirs— Yours, of the 11th inst.,
inviting me, in behalf of the citizens of
Atlanta, to eo-operate with them on the
Fourth of July in celebrating the 99th
anniversary of American independence,
was duly received. I beg to tender my
sincere thanks for tho courtesy thus ex
tended to me. I accept the invitation
and hope to be able to attend. I have
regretted that the custom of observing
this anniversary has fallen into almost
entire disuse. lam glad to seo indica
tions—of which your proposed celebra
tion is, perhaps, the most striking and
noteworthy—of a disposition in the pub
lic mind to return to it. And why not ?
If the principles announced in the De
claration of Independence were ever
worthy to be cherished, they still are.
They have not changed. They remain,
and must ever remain, the only solid
foundation of popular liberty. They
may he ignored by party, maddened
with dominions, or forgotten in the stag
nant inertia of a people paralyzed by
the despondency which that dominion
imposes, but they are as vital now as
when they were proclaimed ou tho 4th
of July, 1776, or as when they were
christened by the baptism of blood on
the battle fields of the Revolution, or,
as when they were chrystallized in 1787
into the form of constitutional liberty.
In the spirit that animated our fore
fathers iu 1776, let us renew our devo
tion to them, and for their maintenance
pledge our lives, our fortunes and sa
cred honor.
If I am not mistaken, the celebration
you propose has an important and in
teresting significance. It is intended as
a manifestation of the desire of the peo
ple of Georgia that the bitterness be
tween the sections, engendered by the
late civil war, shall cease. This is right.
Let the assurance go out from the capi
tal of the State that is she ready and
willing to extend practical greeting to
the people of every section who agree to
stand by the great principles of public
liberty and maintain the Federal Union
of States based upon them as they are
defined in the Constitution. This is the
only reconciliation between the sections
that can be of permanent value. It
means more than simply making friends
with each other, or the cessation of
overt exhibitions of animosity. It means
more than the adjustment of party dif
ferences in polities, which look mainly
to triumph in a Presidential election
and the consequent control of the power
and patronage of government. Such a
reconciliation is superficial, and falls
far below the requirements of an exalted
patriotism or the comprehensive and
far-reaching policies of a wise statesman;
ship. The harmony to which I allude
is tuat which will result from a consci
entious return to a full recognition of
the principles of our common Constitu
tion and the administration of our Gov
ernment in all its departments accord
ing to its letter and spirit. This, and
this only, can secure lasting fraternity
and mutual between the
States and the various sections of our
country. For it will reassert State
equality, tho right of local State gov
ernment aud even-handed justice in the
distribution of both the burdens and
blessings of the Federal Administration.
This is the harmony for which I plead.
It is the true spirit and genius of our
system of confederate government.
Without it, we may have, not the union
of States, but the unity' of empire,
consolidated and upheld by military
power—the stagnant peace of despotism.
It may be that I cannot co-operate per
sonally with the citizens of Atlanta in
their proposed celebration. If not,
then, these hasty reflections must be
my representative.
Renewing my thanks for your cour
tesy, I am, gentlemen, your obedient
servant and fellow-citizen,
Herschel V. Johnson.
RAILROAD MATTERS.
President Wadley’s Report in Refer
ence to the Mobile and Girard Rail -
road.
The annual reports of the officers of
the Mobile and Girard Railroad, for the
fiscal year ending May 31st, 1875, have
been made public. This is a local road
extending from Cqlumbus to Troy, Ala.,
a distance of eighty-four miles, with
through connections east and west at
Union Springs. Col. Wm. M. Wadley
is President of the road and makes the
following report :
Office of Mobile anp Girard R. R., (
June Ist, 1875. s
To the Stockholder's :
The accompanying reports of the Gen
eral Superintendent and of the Secreta
ry and Treasurer leaves but little for the
Board to say in order to give you ajull
understanding of the affairs of the com
pany and the operations on your road
for the past year :
By these reports it will be seen that the
earnings have been .$138,290 30
And the expenses 115,604 42
Leaving net $ 22,685 88
This result is rather better than that
of the previous year, and has been pro
duced by the most rigid economy, to
gether with some abatement in the com
petition of other lines. But we are yet
called upon to face an increased indebt
edness, and therefore the outlook for
the futnre is far encouraging. The
Central Railroad and Banking Company
of Georgia has continued to purchase
and hold the coupons of the bonds of
this company as they have fallen due,
and it will be seen by the
report that our obligations to that com
pany now amount to $351,843 72, in ad-
I dition to the past dne bonds of this
oompany now held by that company.
An analysis of the Treasurer’s report
will show the entire debt of the 'com
pany to be $1,080,408 98. This is an
increase of $71,449 18 over what it was
at the close of the previous year, and
now amounts to $12,710 69 per mile of
road. It will be seen by the Treasurer’s
report that on the Ist of January next
$50,000 of the company’s first mortgage
bonds will become due, aud on the first
of July, 1876, $217,500 more will fall
due. These, with those that are past
due and held by the Central Railroad
and Banking Oompany of Georgia, con
stitute the entire issue of first mortgage
bonds. The question of how to arrange
to meet them as they fall due, de
mands yonr serious consideration. In
the face of a constantly in
creasing indebtedness, the Board
cannot suggest any method short of a
sale of the property mortgaged, unkss
the Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany of Georgia will agree to take tlte
up, as they have those which have ftl
ready become due. If that company
would, agree to such a proposition, it
would obviate the expenses attending a
foreclosure of the mortgage and sale of
the' property, and it is barely possible,
that with more prosperous times, the
income of the company may bo suffi
cient to meet the interest aurf reduce its
instruct tlie inooimffg Board to enter In
to negotiations with the Central Rail
road and Banking Company of Georgia
with a view to its purchasing these
bonds and holding them for some stipu
lated time.
It is unpleasant for the Board to be
obliged to make this discouraging state
ment; but having done all that is pos
sible to reduce the expenses, the stub
born fact must be stated that the coun
try does not afford sufficient business to
support the railroads it contains. From
close personal observation the Board
can beaa testimony to all that is said by
the General Superintendent as to the
condition of the road, and it is confi
dently believed that there is no railroad
in the whose affairs are more economi
cally administered. Respecfully sub
mitted. Wm. M. Wadley,
President.
TOM HOOD TO HIS WIFE,
Those eyes that were so bright, love,
Havo now a dimmer shine—
But all they’ve lost in light, love,
Was what they gave to me;
But still those who reflect, love,
The beams of former hours—
That ripen’d all my joys, my love,
And tinted all my flowers’!
Those locks were brown to seo, lovo,
That now are turned to gray—
But the years were spent with me, love,
That stole their hue away.
Thy locks no longer shine, love,
The golden glow of noon—
But I’ve seen the world look fair, my lovo,
When silvered by tho moon !
That brow was smooth and fair, lovo,
That looks so shaded now—
But for me it love the case, love,
That spoiled a loving brow,
And though no longer there, love,
The glass it had of yore—
Still memory look and dates, my love,
Where Hope adjnired before !
SOUTH CAROLINA AFFAIRS.
There are but two whito officials in
Edgefield.
The additional school tax lias been
voted down in Edgefield.
Cadets Julian Bland and James Mims
are at Edgefield on vacation.
Tho Glover trial is to bo called in
Newberry next Tuesday by Judge Moses.
Mr. B. F. Glanton killed a ninety
pound catamount on his plantation in
Edgefield the other day.
Tho Governor has completed tho ap
pointment of county census takers and
forwarded the necessary books.
The Edgefield Advertiser calls for
Mr. Nordhoff, correspondent of the
New York Herald, to come to Edge
field.
Young Mr. Hardy, of Saluda, an
Edgefield man, was tried for murder in
Spartanburg last week and acquitted.
He killed a negro in a difficulty in New
berry a year or more ago.
Mr. Walker, of tho Baptist Church,
baptized twenty-three persons in Gran
iteville last Sunday. This makes thirty
eight in all during tho present revival,
besides nine restored to tlie church.
The Edgefield Advertiser says: An
other drouth is upon us. The weather
is pitilessly hot and dry. Gardens, cot
ton and corn are suffering for rain. And
still the reports from almost all parts of
the county represent the growing crop
as in a promising condition.
Judge T. J. Mackey, a pronounced
Republican, addressed a long and really
patriotic letter to Maj. T. W. Woodward.
President of the South Carolina Agri
cultural and Mechanical Society, upon
“the necessity of a local State organiza
tion for the purpose of securing a prop
er representation of the natural and in
dustrial products of South Carolina in
the National Centennial Exhibition at
Philadelphia, on the 4th of July, 1876.”
The following is Major Woodward’s re
ply:
Winnsbobo, S. C., June 24, 1875.
Judge T. J. Mackey :
Dear Sir —Your letter of the 14th
instant, addressed to me as President of
the State Agricultural and Mechanical
Society, was only received by mo two
days ago. While I appreciate most
heartily the patriotic sentiments so
happily expressed, which do honor to
your head and heart, still I must in can
dor say that your judicial position eh
ables you to take a dispassionate view
of matters of which I am utterly in
capable.
The appointment of Commissioner for
this State, to which you refer, renders
it impossible for me to have any lot or
part in the Centennial celebration. I
regret this, but so it is. The present
Commissioner shall and can never repre
sent me or mine. He is the fitjfei re
sentative of South Carolina garpet-tjg
gers, and not of the descendants of
South Carolina Revolutionary patriots.
While Governor Moses is to be blamed
for the nomination, General Grant can
not be excused for making the appoint
ment without a remonstrance. Why did
he not address Governor Moses a note
of the following tenor :
Dear Governor— l am forced to in
fer from your nomination that you mis
construe the purposes of the Centennial
exhibition. It is to be a National cele
bration in the fullest acceptation of the
term, and has no political, party or
sectional signification. You have in
your State the lineal descendants of the
singners of the Declaration of Indepen
dence and of Revolutionary patriots.
Nominate one of them. Asa representa
tive of the late Union army, I can say
that no offence would be given even
were you to nominate a rebel descend
ant of a rebel of 1776. Yours,
U. S. Grant.
Had he written such a response as
this, then he would have exculpated
himself, and would have given one in
stance to dispute the assertions of some,
who declare that Grant is incapable of
one unselfish sentiment, or of one mag
'nanimous emotion, or that he is suffi
ciently well bred toconduct himself with
even ordinary gentility when gentlemen
call on him officially.
Why, sir, have the signers of the Dec
laration of Independence of 1776—Rut
ledge, Heyward, Lynch and Middleton
—no living representative ? Have the
names of Hayne, Sumter, Marion,
Hampton, Kershaw, Butler, and the
sons of many other Revolutionary pa
triots I could name, all departed from
the State 3 Even in this event, could
no native horn citizen be found to repre
sent South Carolina, one of the original
Thirtein 1
The insult, sir, i3 pointed; it must
have been designed to degrade. No,
sir, I shall not, nor do 1 think any true
South Carolinians will take part in the
Centennial, under the auspices of the
present commissioner. Some may be
present, but they will be mere “ lookers
on in Vienna.”
The late cordial grdbting given to the
representatives of South Carolina at the
Bunker Hill celebration makes mo the
more regret that we cannot, without un
manly humiliation, meet the true men
of the North at Philadelphia, and thus
remember, and remember only, that we
are all the descendants of the heroic
rebels of the glorious Revolution of
1776.
Very respectfully, your obedient ser
vant, T. W. Woodward.
They are laying the foundation of
Wesley Monumental Church, in Sa
vannah.
Mrs. Isaac Weatherby, of Haralson
county, has developed a, strange mania
for jumping into wells and taking long
and solitary rambles in the woods.
NUMBER 27
THE STATE
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Americas is going to build anew jail.
We have good reports of the peach
crop ih Southwest Georgia.
In Earty county a young man named
Gay cut a negro named Threaderaft.
At Zion Church, in early county, the
20th June, Henry Ricks cut D. W.
Cherry.
Dr. T. L. Anderson shows the first
cotton blooms the Washington Gazette
has Mfen.
G..AI. Dews & Cos., of Forsyth, ship
ped 234 pounds of collard seod to a
Western city.
A committee, sent by the Government,
is prospecting Koine with a view to es
tablish an arsenal there.
Mr. Howard Yan Epps is to deliver
the address before the Literary Societies
of the University of Georgia.
Mrs. L. M Wilsou, of Mobile, nee
Augusta J. Evans, was at tho Kimball
Housd Atlanta, the other day.
Dr. [Little, State GtSlogist, and two
assistants, were in Early county last
week On their surveying tour.
dead, from a wound received in din alter
cation with a Mr. Morrison, of Troup
oounty.
Sam Barron, of Jones county, cut 80
bushels of oats from one acre. He ma
nured highly and sowed three bushels
on the acre.
Little Minnie Bennett was seriously
hurt by falling to tho pavement from
the porch of her father’s residence, in
Savanhah, the 26th.
Mr. J. A. Polhill, of Savannah, was
assaulted in his drug store by two men,
one named W. O. Godfrey and tho
other May Henderson.
A car load of wheat was shipped from
Monroo county to Augusta last week.
The price paid for it in Monroe was
slls aud $1 20 per bushel.
P. A. Farrington, of Atlanta, has been
arrested on a charge of arson. The
room ho occupied as a jeweler was in
sured for SSOO in two Virginia com
panies.
The Brunswick Appeal learns that
Mrs. Kimbrough wiil resign her posi
tion as Principal of the Female Acade
my in Brunswick and njovo to the upper
country.
The colored cook of Mr. Peter Oliver,
of Fowlton, Decatur county, confessed
that at the instigation of other negroes •
she had put poison in the victuals she
had cooked for Mr. O’s family.
The Brunswick Appeal learns that
some Northern gentlemen are negotia
ting for the purchase of a tract of land
on St. Simon’s Island for the purpose of
erecting a large gang saw mill there.
As arguments in favor of Mr. James’
aspirations to the Governorship, the Ma
con Telegraph remarks that “there is
something insouciant about him,” and
he is “a pillar of the Baptist Ghurcli. ”
That’s it. By all means give us “a pil
lar,”. An insouciant pillar” is what wo
want.
Tho Dawson Journal says: A young
man hired a negro to go with him to
Cuthbert to labor on a farm, and the two
proceeded to the water tank at Graves’
Station to await the arrival of the train.
The young man concluded to take a
short “nap,” and on awaking found the
negro absent, also his valise containing
money and clothes to the amount of
SIOO.
The Atlanta Constitution says: An at
tacho of tho Freedman’s Savings Bank
in Washington, who has just returned
from Washington, was informed by the
Commissioners that they had half of a
million dollars on hand, aud that a divi
dend of twentymer cent, would proba
bly be declared by the first of August.
If true, thin will be good nows to • many
a darkey in Georgia.
Scofield’s Rolling Mill will resumo
work July sth. The bondholders have
agreed to postpone their claims four
years, the creditors in tho meantime to
run the mill, keep it insured, pay taxes,
and divido the net profits between the
creditors and coupons due the bond
holders after paying laborers’ liens to
to the amount of SIB,OOO. Major Ley
den has been agreed upon as receiver in
place of Mr. Goodnow.
It transpires that quite as disgraceful
a scene was enacted by preachers over
the dying Casey, Purifoy’s victim, as
that which took place in Purifoy’s coll
over him. This was the scene: Casey,
with his head half severed from his
neck, fast bleeding to death, and two
preachers standing over him quarrel
ling, one with a chair raised for tho
purpose of striking the other. Picture
it; think of it 1
Dr. R. P. Myers, Recording Secretary
of tho Confederate States Army and Na
vy Surgeons aud Assistant Surgeons, re
quests all of the lete surgeons and as
sistant surgeons to forward to him at
his ofiice, N*. 83 Whitaker street, Sa
vannah, the dates of their commissions
and information of the arms of the ser
vice and places at which they were offi
cially engaged during ike war. A con
vention will be held in Richmond, Va.,
in October next.
The Albaay News, of the 24th, says:
We have a well defined rumor that a
“Bessie Turner,” of Cuthbert, found a
Tilton in her lady’s chamber, and that
the hypocrite now bewails the displeasure
of his injured spouse. The victim is a
young orphan girl, about fourteen, and
was placed in the family of her seducer
by hsj grandmother because of the
Christian piety and social prominence of
the‘‘head of the house.” We believe
he has on some occasions occupied the
pulpit, and, like Tilton, has frequently
exhibited insatiable desire for noto
riety and high places.
The Atlanta Herald, of the 27th, has
the following special telegram: Cuth
bert, Ga, June 26.—After a thorough
and full examination of all the wit
nesses in the case of tho scandal against
Hon. John T. Clark, before Hon. W. D.
Kiddoo, resulted in the most perfect
and triumphant vindication on every
issuable point, and by unimpeachable
testimony. The Solicitor-Gdneral and
the counsel employed by the tftatp pub
licly abandoned the prosecution. Judge
Kiddoo expressed his opinion that they
had pursued the proper course, and
discharged tho defendant.
A. Hood,
H. & I. S. Fieuder,
Attorneys for Judge Clark.
The Crops.
Montgomery County—Prospects good.
Webster, Lee and Schley Counties—
The reports from these counties are
cheering.
Terrell County There have been
good rains in this county lately, and
though corn is small, it is thought that
good seasons from this time on will
secure a good crop. Tho cotton crop is
in fine condition, wnd promises to be a
good one.
Sumter County—There have been good
rains recently in this county. Corn is
doing well, and it is thought that an
other good season will make tho crop
beyond a doubt. Cotton is also looking
remarkably well in all portions of the
county, and is rapidly puttiug on fruit.
Early County—The News of the 25th
says: Corn crop of this county is likely
to be cut short from tho effects of the
dry weather, and we therefore hope our
farmers will not fail in trying to make
up the deficiency by planting an extra
crop of potatoes, peas, &c., as soon as
rain comes.
Pulaski County—Earmers are highly
pleased with the prospect in this county,
except that corn is too small for the
time of year. This, however, is not re
garded as any serious obstacle to a full
crop of corn if rains will come at the
proper time. Cotton is doing finely,
and both cotton and corn have been
cleaned of grass and placed in a splen
did condition for rains, which visited
this section Friday, Saturday and Sun
day last. Another good rain or two at
the proper time will bo sufficient to
make early oorn.
Deaths.
In Rome, 25th, Asahel R. Smith.
In Columbus, 25th, Mrs. E. A. Ken
nedy.
Near Brown Station, Southwest Geor
gia, 18th June, Thomas Caldwell.
In Madison, Florida, recently, Ray
mond Stetson, infant son of Raymond
McCay, Jr., of Savannah.
Marriages.
At Conyers, 23d, Judge A. C. McCalla
and Rebecca E. Turner.
, In Schley county, 24th, Thomas A,
Wimbish and Margaret Walker.