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Address WALSH k WEIGHT,
Cheoxiclk k Skvtikri, Anguata, G,
Cfjrontcle anh Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY JULY 21, 1875.
The Boeclicr pipers propone to educate pub
lic opinion up to a belief in Beecher's inno
cence. In time, when the main facte are for
gotten, public opinion may change, bnt there
will always boa few unemotional persons who
will never quite agree with the pastor that the
I’rodigal Hon watt a better man than the good
fellow who stayed at borne and made the old
folks comfortable.
Initio l’omeroy in to bo banged, and the In
dian story writer, the autiior of hie woe*,
smiles a ghastly smile and starts in on anew
chapter of‘-War Whoop the Avenger, or the
Blood Tub of the ltoariug Mohawk." The In
dian story writer and the incompetent father
of the large and ignorant family are American
institutions that must bo protected, if it takes
all the ropex and all the hangmen that all our
money can buy.
The Graphic declare** that “the combined
debt and annual taxation of New York aggre
gate the enormous mini of $214 a bead for
every man, woman and child in the city—thrice
an great an any other city in the world.” Thin
in terrible. Upon the shoulders even of tlio
baby born no longer ago than the begiiining of
tide paragraph it pile* a pecuniary obligation
of more than two hundred dollars, and where
tho poor little devil is to get the money to
meet it with goodness only knows.
There is a good deal in a name, sometimes.
When a member of the Court of tho first King
of Siam got out of tobacco, and wanted the
King to accommodate him. he used to have to
eay: -'Hondech l'hra I’aramindr Maha CUula
longkorn I’atmdr Debia Maha Mongknt I’uru-
Biaratue itajarawiwyugse War itniahougse l'ar
ibat Warakhattiarajanikarotama Cliatnrantana
ramamaba Cliakrabartirajaßaogkas l’aramad
liariumiika Marajadlnraja I’aram.uiarth I‘abitr
l'hra Chill Chom-klow Ckow Yuhua, do you
happen to have any of the weed about you?”
It has more than onco been given out that
General Grant loves Delano with a love sur
passing that of woman, and that is the reason
ho will not lot him go. The seriuUH part of all
(his loving, however, is, if tho President in
sists that Delano shall stay, that official will
inevitably liavo to meet General Pope's
charges and “ Mr.” Marsh’s statement, and a
lively investigation of "Brother Orville's”
contracts. To theso disagreeable termini
Dolano is surely approaching. Tho quiet
tdiados of Ids Ohio home must bo preferable
to Washington.
It is rumored in Philadelphia that John Wes
temett, the brother-in-law of one of the ab
ductors of littlo Cliarlio lluss, and who was ar
rested and confined some time siuco as a con
spirator in the abduction, lias made an impor
tant confession as to the abduction of the boy,
which promises well for his recovery, though it
furuishos no information us to his present
wlioreabouts. In this connection it is worthy
of mention that it was one year on Thursday
last since tho disappearance of Charlie Boss,
since wliieli time every oxpedieut has boon re
sorted to in order to ascertain liis whereabouts.
Public horror of 1 the heaviest variety was re
ceh'tly stimulated iu an Indiana small town by
an announcement of the appearance of “the
Micropus Leneopteros, belonging to the family
of Kipjantihe of the true bugs; suborder of
Hvleroplera ." Women wailed; children bowled;
men armed tliemselvos with swords and great
revolving pistols to encounter tho monster.
Seeing the mischief which his science bad
made, the able editor as soon as possible issued
an extra explaining that the Mioropus-Leucop
teros-Kygaiiidin-Hoteroptera was only a ohiuoh
bug. Then joy returned, and they breathed
.beautifully onco more.
Howell's forthcoming Nowspapcr Directory
sliotvs the failure of ono thousand newspapers
in this oouhtry during the past year, the loss to
publishers, subscribers andailvorti.ierswmomit
ing to over tight million dollars, the Republic,
of New York, alone losing half a million.
Among those who went into tho newspaper
business and lost heavily thereby wore 275
merchants and advouturors, 815 school teach
ers, 57 lawyers, 4 blacksmiths, S3 plasterers, 10
farmers, 200 fanatics of various classes af
flicted with literary leanings, 100 ambitious,
but visionary young men. who drew upon their
fathers, and thus suddenly exhausted large
margins of tho paternal capital, and 0 lottery
men.
Business is very dull in New York. There
are more empty stores on Broadway than have
been known for years past, and even the Com
missioners of Emigration arc suffering from
the prevailing torpor. The number of immi
grants who have arrived hero during the past
six mouths is 50,50'*, a falling off of 28,662 from
the corresponding period of last year. As all
;\ew arrivals pay a poll tax. which is devoted
to hospital purposes, the duances of the com
mission are badly affected. The revenue will
not half (>ay expenses. Already one mortgage
has been placed upon tho bnilding, and au
oiher will soon become necessary. Unless
business revives or a uew war breaks out on
the continent of Europe the commission will
lie in a s *d way.
On opening a bale of cotton at the mill of
one of tlio largest Liverpool spinners, the
other day, much 1 surprise was manifested at
the discovery within it of a box of lncifer
matches bearing the fallowing label: " Supe
rior telegraph matches, manufactured by Cap
plae A Marstou, St. Lotus, pverv box war
ranted.” The matches were of ha ordinary
kind, and on one or two of them being tried
they were found to iguile with the greatest
readiness. Tho oottou came to Liverpool from
Mobile, and the most serious consequences
might h&vo resulted had the least amount of
friction beeu applied to the lucifers during the
voyage, or even after the cotton had reached
its destination.
A Danbury girl took this method of enriug
her toothache: "With a piece of stout twine
*>ie made a loop, which she put on her tooth.
•Then site took a bit of soap and rubbed it on
the floor, opposite the back door. The other
etui of the twine she fasten*! to the knob of
the closed door. Theu she took a position on
xho soaped boards and commenced to lean
back. When she had acquired a slope of about
forty-five degrees, the soap suddenly took
bold, and she came down on tin? floor with such
force as to knock a pair of ten dollar vases
from a mantel up stairs. And there she sat.
reaching out for breath, when the affrighted
family made their appearanee, while tho of
fending tooth dangled from a string against
the door."
The Journal ties Connaissaiuv Medicates
states that the French horticuluturists have
followed the example of the English ones, and
peopled their gardens with toads. These rep
tales are determined enemies of all kinds ol
snaals and slugs, which, it is well known, car
t in a ew.'itle night destroy a vast quantity ol
lettuea, carrots, asparagus, etc. In Paris toads
■ are sold at tM rate of fifty cents per dozen
•The dealers i* the uninviting merchandise
ieop it in large tubs, into which they plunge
their bare hands and acme.'and without any
fear of the poisonous bite to which they are
supposed to expose themselves. Toads an
also kept in viueyards. where they devour dm
ing the night millions of insects that escape
the pursuit of nocturnal Unis.
The new office of the New York Post is
about ten stories high, and ail other newspaper
buildings in this country are becoming preteo
tK>us. if not positively tremendous. Fifteen
cen ,*urie* from now the New York Try-datly
Time* ' DsmocratSxpoun'ier-Eagle - Adterlistr-
JSortkiijn triean will have an item something
like this: “About half an hour ago while the
Carbonic BU‘- Pro P eUin l Disintegrator and
Evcawtion-Comp elle r was at work among
some of the grand o’<* rain * on Broadway, a
petrified tooth-pick was juried to the surface.
The ruins are supposed to bi' those one of the
gigantic newspaper edifices of n.'® years, say
1875, and it is conjectured that this footh-pick,
which, by the way. is a very curious specimen
of the workmanship of antiquity, may have
•once been used by the ancient poet Bryant J
GENEIUL HENRY L. BENNING.
The announcement of the death ol
General Benning was a 'painful surprise
to the people of the State who loved and
honored this distinguished Georgian,
j Hexby L. Henning was a native of Co
lumbia county and was born there in
1813. He was early admitted to the bar
ami soon gave evidence of the talent
which was to win him in after life so
splendid a reputation. Moving to Co
lumbus, he married the daughter of Col.
Seaborn Jones, at that time the leading
lawyer of Southwestern Georgia. His
father-in-law made him his partner, and
; the connection brought a large practice
which his own ability ever afterwards
; retained. In politics General Besning
' was a disciple of the strictest sect of,
the State Bights school, and never lost
an opportunity to declare his adhesion
i to the doctrine of State Sovereignty,
j He was for several years one of the
I Judges of the Supreme Court of Geor
j gia, and while on the Bench rendered
many important decisions. He carried
j his State’s Bights opinions upon the
Bench with him and in one case decided
that the decisions of the United States
Courts were not binding npon the Courts
of the Stab* As might hath? been ex
pected, he was an ardent advocate of se
cession, and did everything in his power
to withdraw Georgia from the Union.
When secession was succeeded by war, he
showed his faith by his works, and
fought in maintenance of the
principles which he professed. He
early entered the army as Colonel
of the Seventeenth Georgia Regiment
anil was soon made a Brigadier-General
in the army of the Confederate States.
He bore himself so bravely in the many
battles in which his command was en
gaged and displayed s-uch patience and
fortitnde in the camp and on the march
that he won the sobriquet of “Old
Rock,” which clung to him until his dy
ing day, and of which we have reason to
believe he was prouder than he would
have been of any patent of nobility. At
the battle of the Wilderness lie was
seriously wounded and rendered nnfit
for further service in tho field. After
the war General Running, who had suf
fered severely from its effects, resumed
the practice of his profession and con
tinued actively engaged in it up to tho
time of his death. When the corrup
tion and nsurpationsof Grantism alienat
ed from the Republican party such
leaders as Greeley, Sumner, Schurz,
Davis and Trumbull, and such journals
as the New York Tribune, the Spring
field Republican, the Cincinnati Com
mercial and the Chicago Tribune, Gen
eral Benning saw that with the co-opera
tion of the South there was a chance to
overthrow Radicalism and its attendant
infamies, and earnestly advised a coa
tion between the Democrats and the
Liberal Republicans. He was one among
tho first men in the State to advocate
such a course. Tho meeting in Rich
mond county and the speech of General
Benning in Columbus started the ball
in motion in Georgia, made the move
ment a success in this State and greatly
contributed to its success in other States.
General Benning did not wait to follow,
bnt led the way himself. When the
State Convention assembled in Atlanta
July, 1872, and it was feared that there
would be a bitter struggle over the
question as to what policy Georgia should
be committed to pursue, General Ben
ning was in attendance as a delegate
from Columbus and came to Atlanta
fully determined to stand by tho cause
which he had espoused. But he was as
prudent in counsel as he was valiant in
the field and if we are not mistaken
warmly advocated the adoption of the
course which was adopted and which
while it preserved the harmony of the
Convention also put the party in Geor
gia in a position to accept the action of
Baltimore. General Benning was a
delegate from the State-at-Large to the
Baltimore Convention and is generally
understood to have been one of the
three delegates from Georgia who voted
to adopt the Cincinnati platform as well
as nominate the Cincinnati candidates.
Tho State Convention which met after
wards and ratified the action of the dele
gates made General Benning an elector
for the State-at-Large on the Greeley
ticket and he took an active part in
that memorable campaign. While
the immediate issue of the Gree
ley movement may have been disas
trous there is good reason for believing
that indirectly it has been of great bene
fit to the South and to the country, and
that to it was largely due the splendid
victory of last November. Recently
Gen. Bennixg’s name was mentioned in
connection with Gubernatorial honors,
audit he had desired or would' have ac
cepted a nomination his chances of suc
i oess would have been good in anypOnven
j tion which might have assemjugS in
Georgia. Gen. Benning was tniT em
bodiment of honor and of chivalry—a
Pm in politics, a Bayard in the field.
His nobility of soul, the loveliness of
his character and his unstained public
and private life, together with his great
tuind and splendid talents, won for him
the respoot, the admiration and the love
of all his people.
General Sherman denies in the most
positive manner that he set fire to the
Eatontou Factory. He says he never was
in Eatouton in his life ; consequently
could not have been cognizant of the
j rohbiug of poor factory women and girls
j “of such articles of jewelry, as that, peo
i pie have, torn from their fingers, pockets
i and drawers.” The Courier-Journal
promises to have the statements of its
correspondent substantiated, or else
apologized for and withdrawn. In the
last number of the Charleston Stews and
Cburier we find what professes to be the
judgment of General Lee on the March
to the Sea. Our Charleston cotemporary
! says:
“ When Gen. Lee visited this State,
I “ not long before his death, a gentleman
; “ who knew him well asked his opinion
“of Sherman’s conduct. This, it must
“ be reniepibered, was several years after
“ the war, when there were the same
“ means that there are now of forming a
“ true judgment. What passed is given
“ as follows: D. H.—‘Gen. Lee, I desire
“to ask a question, which you will
“ please not reply to if there is any im
propriety in it.’ Gen. Lee—‘Ask it,
“sir.’ D. H.—‘Was Gen. Sherman, in
“ his march* through the country, jus
“ tiffed, under the usage* of war, in
“ burning our homes over the heads oi
“ onr women and children while we were
** in the field ?’ Gen. Lee arose from
“ his chair with his eyes brightened, and
“ said: ‘-Yo, sir ! no, sir ! It was the aci
“of a savage. He was not justified un-
“ der the usages of war.’ ”
The State canvass—for the election of
members of the General Assembly—has
opened in Yirgiaia. The State Execu
tive Committee has issued au address to
the people reciting the importance of
the contest and calling upon the Demo
crats to preserve the harmony and or
ganization of the party. Independent
candidacies are denounced and the peo
ple urged to support only the regular
Democratic nominees. The Virginians
have doue nobly since the war and their
State is the only one in the South which
has never had a Kadieal Governor or a
Radical government. There is no rea
son to doubt that the Conservatives will
carry the State by the usual large ma
jority next Autumn.
TILDBN’S CAMPAIGN.
The New York Herald, of a recent
date, contained an editorial article on
the prospect of the different Presiden
tial candidates, On the Republican side
the Herald narrows the contest down to
WASHBUBNB and Brlstow, with chances
decidedly in favor of the nomination of
the former. It saya:
On the Democratic side Tildex seems to
lead, but bis prospects are subject to many
contingencies. If the Democratic inflation
ists should carry Ohio this year his chances
will be worthless, because in that event the
inflationists wi'l be strong enough either to
control the Convention or to compel a compro
mise, and Tildex took such bold hard money
ground in his annual message that he can
neither be an inflation candidate nor a com
promise candidate- But if the Ohio Demo
crats should be badiy beaten the Tildex Pres
idential stock will be at a premium, provided
he does not get at loggerheads with a Demo
cratic Legislature next Winter. It is essential
to his success that the New Yors delegation
support bitr, and if he should quarrel with
the next Legislature his chances would be
worth nothing, even if tho inflationists lose
Ohio next FalL But, subject to these contin
gencies, Mr. Tildex's chances seem very good
for the Democratic nomination, especially
when we consider the weakness of his com
petitors. Thc&max is as good as dead since ,
fit*OtitO blnndur:'HkifSfifitKsnfs'm ttesamo
predicament Bince the inflation platform of
the Indiana Democrats last year, and ho is,
moreover, an object of a settled hostility with
the Ohio Democracy for defeating Pendle
ton in 1868. Batabd is, perhaps, the most
popular candidate the Democrats conld nomi
nate; but be is as strenuous a hard money
man as Tildex, and on a hard money platform
Tildex's chances are the best. With Wahh
bubne leading the canvass on cne side and
Tilijex on tho other it would be ‘‘a very pret
ty fight.”
The Herald is professedly an inde
pendent paper, and is no doubt perfect
ly honest and impartial in its estimate
of the strength and purposes of Presi
dential aspirants. Besides, there is
strong corroborating evidence of the
correctness of its intimations concerning
the Tilden programme. Mr. Tilden
and his newspaper allies propose to kill
off every real or supposed rival in the
West, and leave him but one formidable
antagonist to contend with in the North.
Their plan is to bring about the defeat of
the Ohio Democracy this Fall and
tho repudiation of their platform. It
this can be accomplished they imagine
that Allen, Thurman, Hendricks and
Pendleton will all be slaughtered and
that the West will be left without a
prominent candidate for Presidential
honors. Their persistent and bitter war
fare upon the Ohio platform is really a
warfare upon all the prominent party
leaders of the West. They insist upon
making “hard money” a prominent
issue in local and national politics, not
because they care anything about the
currency, but simply because they think
hard money a capital card in the hands
of Mr. Tilden, and one which well
played will win him the Presidency. To
increase his chances of success they
are perfectly willing, nay, anxious, to
have the Democrats defeated in Ohio.
This can be the only meaning of the
World's daily appeals to tho Ohio
Democracy to repudiate the “rag-money
platform.” The only way to repudiate the
party platform is to defeat the party
candidates and this Governor Til
den and tho World are seeking to ac
complish. If their treacherous assaults
succeed they will then put all the
blame upon the rag-money platform.
They will maintain most stoutly
that Allen was defeated not be
cause he is in favor of inflation, for
they do not dare to assert that ho is,
but because he did not oppose and de
nounce the platform upon which lie was
running, and which he had every reason
to believe reflected the .views and wishes
of the great majority of his party in
Ohio. They will bo eager to swear that
the Democrats cannot elect any candi
date who is not the uncompromising ad
vocate of hard-money, and that, there
fore, Thurman, Allen or Hendricks
must not be nominated. The excellent
Mr. Tilden will fill the bill exactly, and
must be selected as the party’s candi
date under penalty of incurring on a
larger scale the defeat sustained in
Ohio. We hardly think that such a
treacherous policy will command suc
cess. The plot is too thinly concealed
to deceive the most unwary, and Mr.
Tilden and his friends can reap onfy
shame and humiliation from an attempt
to carry into execution. The people of
the Sonth, at least, will never consent to
make the next national campaign upon
financial issues. They are perfectly
willing to let these issues remain in
abeyance while they fight for something
dearer than money. If the Ohio Demo
crats are defeated their defeat will be
properly charged to the account
of Tilden & Cos., and this firm
need expect no favors from the
party which it has so grossly betrayed.
We think, too, the people of the South
have determined that the President
should be a man from the West, and
their votes in the National Convention
will settle the question of a candidate.
We are tired of the domination of New
York and Tammany Hall. It has been
fruitful of nothing in the past save
blunders and disaster. We are not will
ing to be agaiu sacrificed to its selfish
ness, its corruption and its folly. It is
time that Tammany Hall was made to
understand that it does not own the
Democratic party of the conntry, and
that it will not longer be allowed to rale
and ruin the organization.
We publish this morning a letter
written by Mrs. Sherman to the Louis
ville Courier-Journal, denying, in the
most emphatic language, the truth of
some highly spiced statements made by
a correspondent of that paper. Unfor
tunately for General Shermen, his army
committed so many acts of vandalism
on its march to the sea, and his own
statements and admissions have beeu of
such a damaging character, that people
are prepared to believe him guilty of
any crime with which he may be charged.
Mrs. Sherman writes, with all the indig
nation of a devoted wife, to deny two of
the stories published about him, and
whatever may be the faults of the hus
band, one cannot help admiring the
spirit and devotion of the wife. With
regard to the burning of the “ monas
tery” in Columbia, Sfrs. Sherman sup
ports her denial of the charge by citing
as witnesses General Ewing and Major
Comyn, of her husband's staff, •
We have not. yet abandoned the hope
that the capital of the State will be car
ried back to Milledgeville. The editor
of the Gainesville Eagle, who has here
tofore strongly championed the canse of
Atlanta, now says :
“It is needless to disguise the fact
that there is a growing disposition on
the part of the people in sections of the
State heretofore opposed to it, to remove
the capital back to the grounds and
house occupied by the fathers in the
‘better days of the Republic.’ We know
of some of the best men in this section—
men of means and influence—who are
openly in favor of it, and it may be, if
that question is submitted to the next
Legislature, that there will be a change
in the votes of a number of the repre
sentatives from counties which have
heretofore stuck to Atlanta ‘like grim
death to a gray horse.’ ”
Speaking of railroads, a wag re
marked that they are built of three
gauges, viz : Broad gauge, narrow gauge
aud mortgage.
AUGUSTA. GA., WEDNESDAY.:MORNING. JULY 21. 1575.
| SBW ENGLAND IDEASONE
WORTH IMITATING.
j The Chicago Tribune, in a rather temperate
i article, considering the provocation, finds fault
with General Pkeston’s speech before the
' Alumni of the University of Virginia. The
i South Carolina orator dwelt w.th roach asperi
| tv and. after a wholesale fashion, npon “New
: England ideas.” Admitting that General
\ Preston is incapable of appreciating Puritan,
so-called, theories, attention is called to one
i "New England idea,” winch the South may
profitably imitate. The Tribune says: "In
New England, every man works, either as em
ployer or employee. Every man puts his hand
to the anvil, the loom, the forge, or the plow,
or devotee his abilities to mental and intellect
ual labors, thinking, planning, designing, cal
culating and directing. It is a great bee-hive
of industry and activity in which there are few
drones. Now, is this an idea which the South
needs more than any other ? One canse—and
perjiapa the most prominent canse—of the dis
order and nnprosperous condition of the Sonth
lies in the fact that the labor of the South iB
performed by one-half of the population, and
that the other half lives npon those who labor.
Therefore there is no surplus of production
for profit. The idle man eats np the surplus
produced by the laboring man. All this might
be remedied if the South accepted the New
England idea that every man should work and
produce a surplus with his own hands.” — Con
stitationaUstj oS
We confess that we are getting just a
trifle tired of the lectures which our
perfect brethren of the North are so
fond of inflicting upon the lazy and dis
solute Southerners.' There is a sort of
Boriboola-Gha flavor in these homilies
which interferes considerably with their
effect. The Northern Mrs. Jellyby is
sweeping the horizon with a telescope in
search of an object of charity (to the ex
tent of moral lectures) while her own
household is decidedly in need of that
attention which she is so liberally be
stowing upon foreign affairs. Since the
war the South has been making such a
lavish use of sack cloth and ashes on ac
count of her great crime, has acknowl
edged so often and so penitently her
wickedness and her folly, and has re
ceived with such patient humility all
the reproofs which virtue and intelli
gence have seen fit to bestow, that every
editor on the prosperous side of Mason
and Dixon’s line when in want of a sub
ject, every preacher in want of a text,
and every orator who finds his speeches
getting stale, lectures the profligate
South. We think that it is about
time a halt was cried; about time for
Northern speakers and publicists and
parsons to attend to the morals of their
own section. In the above article the
Chicago Tribune rings all the old
changes with which we are so familiar. In
NewEngland everybody works, every body
is prosperous and everybody is good.
In the South everybody is idle, worth
less and vicious. Let ns see how much
better New England is than the South,
how much more industrious, how much
more virtuous. The six New England
States—Maine, New Hampshire, Mas
sachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island and
Connecticut—have a population of 3,475,-
000. Of this number, on the first day
of Juue, 1870, 20,005 were paupers—
people who did not “put their bauds to
tho anvil, the loom, the forge, or the
plow,” and who did not “devote their
abilities to mental and intellectual
labors, thinking, planning, design
ing, calculating and directing.” In
the six Southern States, the first
six on the census table Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana
and Mississippi—the population is
4,404,000, or nearly 30 per cent, larger
than the population of New England.—
Of this number only 5,355 wero paupers
—14,710 less than tho number of pau
pers iu New England. In other words,
the six New England States, with a
population of 3,475,000 have 20,065 peo
ple who do nothing, while six Southern
States, with a population of 4,404,000
have only 5,355 paupers—people who
“live upon those that labor.” The six
Southern States with one-fourth more
population have only one-fourth as
many paupers as New England. Georgia
has a population of 1,184,000; Massa
chusetts, 1,457,000. Georgia has 2,181
paupers, Massachusetts has 8,036-273,-
000 more population, four times as
many paupers. Florida has a popula
tion of 187,000, Rhode Island, 217,000.
Florida has 147 paupers, Rhode Island
has 1,046 —30,000 more population (17
per cent.), 899 more paupers (600 per
cent). With regard to crime, we find
that in the New England States, with
their population of 3,475,000, there
were 3,967 persons in prison on the
first day of June, 1870; in the six
Southern States above named, with a
population of 4,404,000, there were
3,165 persons in prison. With 1,000,-
000 less population New England had
802 more criminals—and criminals are
called the fruits of idleness. Massachu
setts with her 1,457,000 people had
2,526 criminals, while Georgia with
1,184,000 people, had 737 criminals. It
is in the face of such facts and figures
that journals like the Chicago Tribune
have the effrontery to taunt the South
ern people with their idleness and vice
and to hold New England up to us as a
model of industry and morality. We
have shown that New England has in
proportion to population a very much
larger per centage of paupers and crimi
nals than the South. Until the Tribune
can disprove the figures of the census it
will do well not to institute offensive
comparisons between the two sections.
We are idle enough and bad enough,
Heaven knows, in the Sonth, but we at
least have the comfort of knowing that
we are neither as lazy nor as vicious as
those who profess to be so greatly our
superiors. When the North represses
pauperism and crime in New England it
will be time enough to turn its atten
tion to the South. It had better look
after Caddy and Peepy instead of ex
pending all its sympathy upon the
benighted heathen of Boriboola-Gha.
The cool effrontery of the New York
Times is decidedly refreshing in this
warm weather. In speaking of United
States bonds it says : “ These bonds
“ are about the best security the world
“ has to offer to-day, and they are being
“ eagerly taken up at home and abroad.
“ So much the more reason is there for
“ suppressing all talk about tampering
“ with them even in the slightest de
“ gree. No one can desire to see the
“ credit of the United States reduced
“ to the level of the State of Mississippi
“or Georgia.” Reduced to the level of
the credit of Mississippi or Georgia.
This is unquestionably cool! We would
like for the Times to show how and
when the credit of Georgia has suffered,
since Bullock k Cos. were driven from
power. In the very issue of the Times
from which the above extract was taken
its financial columns prove the baseless
ness of its assertion that the credit of
Georgia has been destroyed. In its
financial article the Times quotes the
bonds of the Southern States as follows;
Georgia7’s, 96; Arkansas,32; Louisiana,
33; North Carolina, 20; South Carolina,
32; Tennessee, 49; Virginia, 37. The
new, or Nutting, bonds of Georgia are
to-day bringing a premium of from two
so three per cent. It is a great pity that
the credit of every State in the Union
cannot be ruined with similar rgsqlts,
A max does not load himself down with
■ the alphabet for nothing. Mr. J. A. H.
St. Andrew, editor of the Farmville
(Ya.) Mercury, has been trying to fight
a duel. The friendly peace officer ar
rested the parties, and averted the fatal
consequences of a “meeting."
FRAKK F. BLAIR.
DEATH OF THE SOLDIER AND
STATESMAN LOUIS.
Sketch of His Last lfcl|)Pß— I The Final
Catastrophe Accelerated by an Ac
cident-Eloquent Eulogy From Gen.
Sherman.
St. Louis, Mo., July 9, 1875.—Gene-
ral Frank Blair, after bedridden
for more than two yeafil, expired last
night at half-past eleven 'o’clock, at his
residence in this city. Over two years
ago he sustained a stroke. W paralysis,
which forced him to retixp from pnblic
life and made him a confirmed invalid.
After his paralytic attack he also be
came afflicted with sqflfc'ning of the
brain, and the decline p his mental
vigor was plainly perceptible. He had
not been able to speak wise last Fall.
Three montiis ago, as elagt resort, the
operation of tranfnsion df blood was
performed upon him, operation
was performed by Drs. Wfanklin and
Farrar, of this city. T#s ounces of
blood were drawn front. tSe arm of a
strong, healthy man and Ipfisfused into
the veins of the opera
tion was repeated three tip&a, the last
being seven weeks ago. 'Jhe treatment
seemed to improve him extent,
and his physicians
had strong lmnes
’Tolly recover. TfenrKars intimate
friends, however, who knew the latest
cause of his malady, always believed
that it was a distemper beyond the phy
sician’s skill. His family physicians
were always hopeful. During the pres
ent Summer he has taken carriage rides
quite frequently. One day last week he
descended the stairs without assistance,
and went about the room unsupported.
Yesterday afternoon he was taken out
for a drive, and returned in about an
hour apparently much refreshed. He
was placed at a front room window by
his family, where he could look out and
enjoy the breeze. Shortly afterward,
being alone, he arose and made an ef
fort to go to an adjoining room. While
passing from the first room he was sud
denly seized with vertigo, and before as
sistance could reach him he fell to the
floor, striking with his light temple the
corner of a bureau. The fall stunned
him, and he was picked up in an insen
sible state.
Dr. Farrar was immediately summon
ed and every effort made to revive the
General, but without Success. He re
mained in a comatose state, breathing
easily and apparently suffering no pain.
It was evident that bis end was near, as
his pulse was slow, his heart beats get
ting lower and lower and his features
growing rigid. At half-past eleven he
quietly breathed his last, dying painless
ly and without a struggle. Surround
ing his death bed were the General’s
wife and eight children. Besides his
family no others wero present, except
Dr. Farrar and Mrs. Samuel Simmons, a
friend of Mrs. Blair. It is an acknow
ledged fact among General Blair’s best
friends that his paralytic stroke was su
perinduced by political disappointment,
and his case must be regarded as a stri
king illustration of the
In 1870 Frauk Blair headed the Libe
ral movement in this State, and it was
to his influence chiefly that the Confede
rate element owed their enfranchise
ment. In that year he was elected to
the Legislature from this city, and”in
January of 1871 was chosen to fill the
unexpired term of Senator Drake in the
United States Senate. It is a well
known fact that a compact was made
between Blair and the Democratic party
leaders that at the expiration of his
fragmentary term in the Senate he was
to be returned for six years, and that
the leadership of the party in Missouri
was to be accorded to him. Blair took
this agreement upon the part of the De
mocracy in good faith and did splendid
service in putting it upon a firm footing.
At that time lie was in magnificent
health. In the Winter of 1872 occurred
the memorable Senatorial struggle be
tween General Blair and Hon. L. Y.
Bogy, in which the latter came off vic
torious. Biair now saw that he had
which had prot^^w^^iouifso^ its soi
emn pledges and had utterly ignored its
promises to reward his services.
His Defeat
Hurt him very much and was the source
of keen despondency, and it was mani
fest that his physical health became
affected from that period. Two years
ago he was appointed to the position of
State Insurance Commissioner, but it
was a lamentable fact that although his
services to the Democratic party had
been of such an eminent character it
took an extraordinary effort to have him
confirmed by the Democratic State Sen
ate, and this was only done by the
unanimous vote of the Bepublican mem
bers iu his favor. This glaring proof of
ingratitude was too much even for the
vigorous Blair, and the shock was so
great to him that shortly thereafter he
was stricken with paralysis and has been
helpless ever since. The best Demo
crats here acknowledge that Blair was
treated badly and that their party broke
faith with him in a most inexcusable
manner. The position of Insurance
Commissioner he held up to the time of
his death. It was his only means of
support. Though General Blair’s family
have expressed a desire to have his
funeral simple and unostentatious his
remains will doubtless be buried with
great pomp and public demonstrations.
His father, Francis P., also his mother
and brother, Montgomery Blair, are liv
ing at Silver Springs, near Washington,
and are now en route to this city to take
a last view of their dead kinsman. His
death has cast a gloom over this entire
community, and the people, without
distinction, unite in paying the most
graceful tributes to hiß manly virtues.
Tribute from General Sherman.
Among the touching tributes is that
of General Sherman. Your correspon
dent met him this morning as he was
coming down town to his headquarters.
Upon being asked if he had heard the
announcement of Blair’s death, Sherman
replied : “ Yes, poor Frank is gone; poor
Frank is gone.” Then the General
mused a moment and said, with some
warmth, that some expressions of his
had been distorted into reflections upon
Mr. Blair’s character as a soldier, and
that great injustice had been done to
him thereby. “ I always had the most
exalted regard for Frank Blair,” pur
sued General Sherman, with much forci
bleness of manner. “ I always regarded
him as one of the truest patriots, most
honest and honorable men and one of
the most courageous soldiers the coun
try ever produced. I never lost sight
of the services he rendered the country
on the outbreak of the war, and I fully
concede and always have conceded that
to his boldness, promptitude and firm
ness, more than to anything else, the
country is indebted for the preservation
of St. Louis as a strategic point, and
for the salvation of Missouri. Frank
Blair was a noble, generous, honest
man. He was brave, frank, sincere and
unselfish. His virtues will live forever,
because they reflected good upon others,
while his faults will be buried with him,
beoanse they harmed no ope but him
self."
The General’s manner indicated that
he thonght his utterances in regard to
General Blair in the “Memoirs” had
been wilfully and maliciously misinter
preted, and when asked if he had any
objections to the publication of the tri
bute he had paid to the memory of the
departed statesman and soldier, instant
ly replied :
“None ! none 1 I will be glad to have
it published. I desire to go on the
record as a very warm eulogist of Frank
Blair.”
The members of the old First Missou
ri Regiment, of which General Blair
was its first Colonel, have called a meet
ing for to-morrow, and will probably
decide to accompany the remains of
their old commander to his grave, and
other organizations may determine to
do likewise.
A pale man with long hair got into the
car. It was a paid day, apd the seat
near the stove was occupied bv a man
and an inquisitive looking boy. The
pale man backed up to the stove and re
marked; “Man run over just now.” The
inquisitive looking boy sprang to his
feet and rushed out of the car like a
maniac. The pale man settled down in
the vacated seat and explained: “He run
over the track ahead of the engine; he
wasn’t struck.
The New York Tribune, consoling Eu
rope qa the deatlj of SR Christopher
Wren and Michael Angelo, informs her
that our Mullett will soon be and
then, in a spirit of admonition and liber
ality, says; “Receive him, Europe; listen
to him meekly; profit by his remarks,
and take his ‘cussing’ kindly. And
Europe ! if you want him—there’s noth
ing mean about the Great Republic
keep him.”
CORTINA’S CAPTURE.
How Col. Parr&t Bearded the Lion of
the Rio Grande in His Den.
[Brownsville (Jfer.) Letter, 3d, to the Chicago
Inter-Ocean .]
Day before yesterday the denizens of
this bailiwick were intensely excited by
reports which came thick and fast from
the land of “ God and Liberty.” Lieu
tenant Colonel Mamiel Parrat, of the
Ninth Cavalry, regular army of Mexico,
had arrived at Matamoras a few days
before. He was attended by two cav
alry soldiers. He seemed to be a mere
“looker on in Vienna.” He visited,
talked, took his pleasure, and it was
taken for granted he was whiling away
his time. On the morning of the Ist
instant he reviewed the troops under
Colonel Cristo, the commandant at Mata
moras. After the review he handed
Colonel Cristo an order to turn over his
command to Colonel Parrat. Cristo
obeyed—Parrat sprang into the saddle,
placed himself at the head of the cavalry,
Moved Off at the Gallop,
And in a very short space of time he
saluted General Juan N. Cortina, who
was jnst outside the city. “Good morn
ing, General. Yon are my prisoner.”
The boss thief of the Rio Grande coolly
replied; “Your prisoner, sir? I be
lievo I here.” Colonel
Uui'w a fmper irnfn nis pocket and
said : “ General, do you recognize the
signature of the President of the Re
public ?” The head centre of murderers
and cattle thieves bowed, nnclasped the
belt of his six-shooter and handed the
weapon to Colonel Parrat. He waved
his hand to his followers and told them
to return to Matamoras.
Colonel Parat marched into town with
his prisoner. Words can not describe
the scenes which followed. Citizens
stood aghast, lost in the wonderment.
Merchants, saloon keepers, and others
closed their doors. General Cortina’s
friends were amazed. His enemies jubi
lant, Rumors floated, as it were, upon
the winds. Some people were fright
ened out of all sense of propriety. Some
rushed to the Brownsville ferry.
All Entertained Fearful Forebodings.
Meantime General Cortina was pro
ceeding iu the direction of a cuartcl —a
house where they quarter troops. He
was ushered into a room. Four soldiers
were placed at each door and at each
window; outside of these a line of senti
nels was posted. The man who came to
this frontier as a commandant of the
line of bravo, the representative of the
President and the supreme Government
of Mexico, was in durance vile like any
other felon might have been. The peo
ple conld with difficulty appreciate the
fact. The man who had defied courts,
who had prevented the execution of the
orders and decrees of superior judges,
who was the protector and defender of
criminals and outlaws, who was the op
pressor of men who differed with him in
sentiment, who had set on foot expedi
tions to invade the United States, who
visited fire and sword upon the people of
Texas, who had grown rich by plunder
ing Americans—the champion of Mexico
and Mexicans, who had reddened
his hands with the blood of Americans,
and had become the favorite of the Mexi
can masses—the-pet of the populace, the
beau ideal of robbers and assassins, the
representative of the Mexican sentiment
of hatred and revenge entertained to
ward Americans—this true Mexican of
Mexicans, upon whom the mantle of
leadership had fallen, and who was to
redeem Texas from the grasp of the ab
horred “Gringos,” upon this terror of
the border sacrilegious hands had been
laid, and he had been dragged to a
prison like a pelado ! The thought was
overpowering—it could not be endured.
While Colonel Parrat was attending to
the arrest of the chief he had others en
gaged in arresting, disarming and im
prisoning his policemen and followers.
Judge Castillo Montero and other offi
cials were arrested. Whoever asked for
General Cortina was marched off to the
calabosa at once. Troops were stationed
at the Custom House and other points
in the city. Artillery was placed to
Sweden the streets wilh.grapq. and, .canis
ter. Mounted patrols scoured the town
in every direction. An expression of
discontent subjected a citizen to arrest.
An officer turned over a prison and
“fourteen policemen and ten uneasy
citizens” to the officer who relieved him.
An order was published notifying the
public that in the event of an attempt
to rescue General Cortina his guard had
been directed to kill him. Groups of
citizens were promptly dispersed. Citi
zens were prohibited the use of fire
arms. Colonel Cristo published a proc
lamation in Which he stated that Gen
eral Cortina had received repeated orders
to report in person at the capital of the
Kepublic, as was his military duty so to
do, and that the President of the Ke
public had given orders, through the
Secretary of War, for his arrest, and
that Colonel Parrat had executed the
same.
WOMAN’S LOVE.
A Woman Travels Many Miles to Com
mit Suicide on Her Lover’s Grave.
[ Troy Press, July 7.]
The readers of the Press will remem
ber that a few weeks ago the body of a
man was found one Sunday afternoon
on the banks of the Poestenkill, and
near him was found a small phial that
told but one story—suicide. The man
was a stranger, and no one seemed to
know anything about him. His dress
and personal appearance indicated that
he was man well-to-do, and from letters,
&c., found in his possession it was
learned that his name was Peck. He
had -come from the West and was evi
dently going to the home of his mother
in Washington county, when he deter
mined to put an end to his life. This
he did, and little by little the story of
his trials was brought out. Financial
troubles and disaster, from ali accounts,
stared him in the face, and it was then
supposed that he had been crossed in
love and his life made miserable. He
had been an honorable, upright man,
and his financial ruin was too much for
him, and he determined to end a life
that had become miserable. Now, the
sad sequal to the case is to be told.—
The body of Mr. Peck was taken to the
home of his mother in Hampton, Wash
ington county, and buried in the village
cemetery. Last week a young lady
arrived at Fair Haven, Vt., on an even
ing train from Troy. She desired to be
taken to Low Hampton, several miles
distant. A conveyance was secured.—
The owner of the establishment, who
lived in Hampton, accompanied the
young lady. During the ride the lady
did not talk much, but once asked where
the house of Mrs. Peck was. She also
inquired for the burial ground of the
place. Her questions were readily an
swered, and when the conveyance arrived
in front of the burial ground she asked
to get out. The driver, Mr. Streeter,
saw that she desired to remain, and not
knowing what to think of such strange
actions, began to reason with her, tell
ing her that the ground was damp and
she was likely to take oold. She finally
consented to go home with Mr. Streeter,
who promised her that his wife would
awaken her early in the morning and she
could visit the burial-ground. During all
this time she did not once disclose the ob
ject of her visit, or why she desired to get
out at the little village burial ground. At
4 o’clock the next morning she awoke
and proceeded to the burial plaoe, and
soon found the newly made grave of
Frank Peck, her lover. She remained
beside it until 7 o’clock, when a brother
of the daceased came along and at once
recognized her from a photograph he
had seen. He made himself known to
the miserable girl and pressed her hard
to accompany him to his mother’s home.
She would not hear to bis words, so he
sent his sisterjto her, and the two women,
companions in sorrow, soon found
the way to each other’s heart, and they
returned to the house of Mrs. Peck.—
The young lady, when questioned con
cerning Frank, said that she thought
his only trouble was brought on from
financial embarrassment. When she
told him that she had enough for both,
he did not seem to notice her. She ad
vised him to return East to his friends,
and he left the Qhio town to obey her
wish. She did not see or hear anything
of him after that until the dreadful
news came to her that he had committed
suicide. Deep and bitter anguish was
her’s when the sad news was brought to
her. She conld not rest until she saw
the grave that contained all that wae
dear to her on eartlj. She remained
quietly With the Peck family until Mon
day of this week. On that day she
again wandered to the grave of
Frank Peck, and, seating herself on the
green mound, determined to end her ex
istence then and there. She had in her
pocket a good sized bottle containing
laudanum. There, in the still of the
day, when all around w as blooming in
beauty, this girl, who had hardly cross
-64 her teens, took a dose that was in-
tended to be fatal. She laid the bottle
down by the grave, with a piece of paper
on which were written directions con
cerning the disposition to be made of
her body, and where money was to he
obtained with which to defray expenses.
This done she arose and walked to the
house of Mr. Streeter, where she intend
ed to sleep away her life. She had
taken an overdose of the drug and it
caused a sort of intoxication and sick
ness. The result of this was that she
vomited the deadly narcotic, aud her
life was saved. It was undoubtedly her
intention to take the drug on the first
night of her coming to the place and
die on the grave of the man she loved.
The action of Mr. Streeter prevented
this action, and saved her life. Had
she been allowed to remain in the city
of the dead during the night, the morn
ing snn would have found her still in
the embrace of death. The young lady
is highly respectable and beautiful.
COTTON—A CONTRAST.
To the Editor of the New York Daily
Bulletin:
Sixth months ago (December 18th) the
receipts at the ports were over 300,000
bales in excess of last year, and the vis
ible supply was 376,000 in excess of the
previous year (or of any previous yearh
ceipts are more than 300,000 bales be
hind last year—the visible supply over
200,000 bales less (and less than for sev
eral previous years same date), and gold
is over 117. Six months, ago the gene
rally received estimate of the incoming
crop was 4,300,000. The Financial
Chronicle, which had come to be looked
upon as a sort of an oracle in cotton
matters, announced with much positive
ness that 4,300,000 was the minimum
figure, whilst the probabilities were in
favor of several hundred thousand bales
more. The India crop was confidently
expected to go 100,000 to 200,000 over
the previous year. Many mills were
running two-third time, aud had been
for months, and much was said of bad
trade iu Europe aud America.
Now, it is absolutely certain that the
current crop was over-estimated 500,000
to 600,000 bales, and India 100,000 to
200,000. The mills are running full time,
and the cotton trade is proven to be not
bad — but good— by the export returns
of Great Britain (showing 21 per cent,
increase since Ist January) and a large
increase in this country ; by the build
ing of new mills all over the world
(twenty large ones in Lancashire alone
this year), and by the dividends now
bing declared. Six mouths ago the be
lief was general that the capacity of this
country for growing cottou was almost
unlimited; that a four million crop was
a small one, and that four million bales
of American cotton was too much ; and
the receipts up to that time and the sta
tistical positiou warranted such a belief.
Now, he is a blind man who does not see
that four millions is a large crop, and
that that, quantity is not enough to sup
ply the world’s needs,- How can it be
otherwise when the crop has averaged
but 3,722,000 bales for the past six
years, and the visible supply is muoh
less now than for many years at same
date, and would be half a million bales
less if spinners had taken their usual
supplies during the past six months.
Six months ago cotton was higher in
Liverpool and in New York (difference
in gold considered) than now.
July 9, 1875. D. H. W.
DARING BANK ROBBERS.
A Vermont Cashier and His Family
Bound and Gagged—How the Money
Was Saved.
[Boston Advertiser, 3th.]
About midnight on Tuesday, Mr.
Chas. A. King, cashier of the Barre
(Vt.) National Bank, was aroused from
his sleep by four masked men, who, af
ter binding and gagging his wife and
daughter, and putting handcuffs on him
and a halter around his neck, forced
him to go and open the bank. When
the .sleepers, were, fi.vak.awakiuied. Mr.
King was tolrftb 'get tip and dress,
which he did, delaying as long as possi
ble. Tho burglars tore a* pillow case in
two strips, made a small gag, and put it
on Mr. King’s mouth. They then re
quested Mrs. King to get up, which she
did, wrapping a sheet around her. One
of them took the child in his arms. Go
ing down stairs with the mother and
child, leaving Mr. King with a keeper,
they placed two chairs in a small bed
room and seated them. Screwing some
rings into the floor, they strapped their
ankles to them with leather straps and
tarred ropes, placed handcuffs on their
wrists and otherwise secured them.—
Leaving them in care of a young man
about twenty years old, charging him to
keep a close watch, they proceeded with
Mr. King to the bank, one walking some
five rods in the front and the other in
the rear, while a third led him. The
front and rear guard, taking the keys,
went to the bank, while he was left be
hind a short distance. After reconnoit*
ering the premises they returned and
took him into the bank. Mr. King
opened the vault, taking as much
time as he could. Here they found
$1,300 in unsigned bills, which had
been received from the Government
the previous evening. These they im
mediately appropriated to their own
use; also about S3O in revenue stamps.
Inside of the vault was a safe secured
by a chronometer lock, which had been
set to open at 9 o’clock Wednesday
morning. It contained all the valuables
of the bank, some $3,000 in currency
and a large amount of bonds. One of
the fellows ordered Mr. King to open
tho safe, when he informed them that it
had a time look. They then probed the
keyhole to see if it could be opened
with powder, but finally gave up the
work. All this occupied about an hour,
after which they took Mr. King back to
his house, placed him in a chair beside
his wife and child, and strapped him to
it and the floor. The gag was then ta
ken out of his mouth, and the family
given a glass of milk and water and a
cup of cold chocolate, which Mrs. King
told them where to find. All this time
there were three lights burning about
the house. The burglars were also
joking each other and eating and drink
ing. They finally took their departure,
about 1:30, a. m., bidding Mr. King and
wife “good-bye” with mock courtesy.
They were present about au hour and a
half. Mr. King released himself in
about fifteen minutes and gave the alarm.
The telegraph operator was aroused, and
dispatches were forwarded to St. Albans
and in all directions. To one of these
there was received a reply from Brad
ford, stating that persons answering the
description of the burglars had crossed
the Piermont, N. H., bridge at 6, a. m.,
with Sheriff Jackman in close pursuit.
The burglars had two teams. They
were perfectly armed and equipped, and
wore white dominoes over their faces,
and brown overalls.
A dispatch from Plymouth, N. H.,
yesterday evening, says: Two.of the
robbers jumped from the train this side
of Rurnney, near Quincy station, this
noon. They drove to West Rumney,
left their team and walked to Rumney
and took the train there; but, as detec
tives were on the train, one of them got
frightened and jumped off. The train
immediately stopped and ran back to
the place, bat no one eould be found. —
While the detectives and others were
looking after the one that jumped, his
partner very coolly stepped from the
train and made tracks for the woods. No
one bat the conductor saw him, and he
thought nothing of it at the time, but
supposed there was only one of them.—
One of the men was oaptnred this after
noon, a short distance from Quincy sta
tion, and about half mile from where he
jumped from the train. He was fear
fully bruised, having a bad wound over
his eye and several bad bruises on his
body and legs. He could walk hut a
short distance at a time before he would
fall down. They tracked him in the grass
to a small clump of bushes, and ip the
middle of them he was found lying, with
the brakes and bushes pulled over him,
completely covering him up. When found
he pretended to be asleep, and offered
no resistance, but allowed the sheriff
to put the handcuffs on and take him to
Jones’ Hotel, Bumuey. When they first
spoke of taking him back to Barre, Vt.,
he said he would not go without a re
quisition, but since then he says he will
go. When questioned about the robbe
ry he said hie knew nothing about it
They asked him what made him jump
from the train % He replied that he did
not jump, b.ut fell off. He refused to
give his name, tell where he is from, or
where he was going, and i a wry reti
cent. He is about five feet nine inches
high, very solid built, weighs about 183
pounds, has light blue eyes, rather soowl
ing, heavy mustache, and taken alto
gether he is rather"a tough looking fel
low to run foul of; and if he had not
been wounded he would have given the
officers a hard tussle before they cup
to red him, and he intimated as much to
the sheriff', John Bailey, Jr., of Wells
River, Vt., who arrested him. He will
be taken to Wells River to-night, and
then to Barre in the morning.
There were four ooncerued in the
robbery. They hired a team at Montpe
lier, Vermont, yesterday, to go to Barre,
then two of them took a team, after the
robbery, and came to West Rumney,
with the officers in close pursuit. The oth-
er two took the Randolph road, with an
officer on their track. When the cashier
was found he was just alive. The other
robber that got off the train has not been
seen or heard from up to this time, 9:30,
p. m., but it is thought lie can not be
far off, and will bo captured.
MARRYING FOR MONEY.
A Rich Man’s Only Daughter Cap
tured In Spite of Him.
[Correspondence of the London Afetos.]
Paris, June 24.—M. Breon, a wealthy
laud owner in Burgundy, seventy-five
years old, formerly Mayor of Montbard,
iu which little town he still resides, is
the plaintiff' iu an extraordinary cause,
the arguments in which are yet unfin
ished, before the Civil Tribunal of the
Seine. He demands a decree declaring
uulland^ lo marriujj^ivf
M. Paul Besson, an advocate of the
Court of Cassation, and a Deputy for
the Jura iu the National Assembly. The
grounds of his demand are, that liis
daughter married without his consent,
and that the actes rcspectucux (respect
ful summons) by which girls over twen
ty-one may dispense with their parents’
consent were irregular. The case, as
opened by the counsel for the plaintiff,
was that Mile. Breon, reputed one of
the greatest heiresses in "Brittany, the
only survivor of four children, was
always in delicate health, and that the
family physician recommended her
father to keep her from marrying as
long as possible. Hhe was placed, in the
Convent of the Saored Heart in Paris.
The medical man of that establishment
ordered her to pass a season at Salins,
in the Jura, where there are mineral
waters enjoying a certain celebrity. The
father at this time had become blind,
and was unable to look after his daugh
ter so closely as might have been wished.
Nevertheless he accompanied her to Sa
lins. There she made the acquaintance
of M. Vital Besson, a merchant of Cha
lons sur Saone, who was staying there
with two daughters. It is alleged that
M. Vital Besson, knowing the great ex
pectations of Mile. Breon, then and
there conceived the idea of making a
match between Iter and his brother, M.
Paul Besson. To this end he encour
aged a great friendship between her and
liis two daughters, which at a dull
watering plaoe seemed
The Most Innocent Thing in the World.
When the season was over, and Mile.
Breou went back to the Sacred Heart,
an assiduous and gushing correspon
dence was kept up between the young
ladies. Some time before, .tlieLady
Superior of the Convent had asked M.
Breon what were his views with regard
to auy offer of marriago that might be
made to his daughter. Ho replied that
she was not old enough to be married,
and that he thought nothing of the sub
ject for the present. But M. Paul Bes
son, who had been set on the track of an
heiress, eallod on the father on the
strength of the acquaintanceship of his
brother and nieces at Salius, and when
the latter, in the course of conversation
groaned about his bad health, offered
himself as his factor to take care of his
property. The old man was not so
simple as to close with this overture,
which seemed to him strange and im
pertinent. He bowed M. Besson out of
the room. Shortly afterwards he re
ceived the prospectus of a school found
ed by several bishops and eminent per
sonages, among whom he remarked the
name of M. Paul Besson. This associa
tion with bishops of the barrister who
had canvassed to take his affairs in hand
missed the effect intended. It only
rendered M. Breon more suspicious.
brother, and desired to have bothing
more to do either with him or
his family. His dislike to the Bes
sons was augmented by subsequent
ly finding out that the Lady Superior of
the Convent had all along patronized M.
Paul Besson, and encouraged him to be
A Suitor
For his daughter’s hand. He wished
then to take her away from the Convent,
and asked his sister-in-law, Mile. Maria
Lambeuf, if she would take care of her
and prevent any suitors from having ac
cess to her without his knowledge. Mile.
Lambeuf replied that she could not take
upon herself any such responsibility,
and so the young lady was left some
time longer at tlm Convent, the blind
father not knowing what to do with her.
When the next long vacation arrived she
went to her father’s house, No. 68 Rue
des Ecoles. She had been designedly
furnished with M. Octave Feuillet’s
novel, “Le Roman d’un Jeuue Homme
Pauvre,” in the hope of its producing
the impression on her mind that it was
a fine thing for a rich girl to marry a
man with nothing. M. Paul Besson, a
staid advocate, upwards of forty, paced
day after day for hours opposite Mile.
Breon’s windows, looking up and sighing.
The cure of Moutbard, backing tlieLady
Abbess of the Sacred Heart, facilitated
secret interviews between the lovers.
In the country, while H’ile. Breon was
staying with her aunt at St. Sorniu, the
pertinacious Lothario found means to
take her to Dijon, and to get her there
to sign before a notary a “respectful
summons” demanding the father’s con
sent to the marriage. But this sum
mons did not indicate, as the Jaw re
quires, where the young lady was domi
ciled. Subsequent summonses, dated
from other places, are alleged to be
equally defective. The allegation of
the father is that he was all along pur
posely kept in the dark as to the where
abouts of his daughter, so that he never
had that opportunity of solemnly re
monstrating with and advising her,
which the law entitled him to have. The
marraige was celebrated in all haste at
Versailles, four clerical deputies, MM.
Keller, Nuina Raraguon, Paul Cotton
and Mcrveiileus du Vignaux, attending
the bridegroom as witnesses.
M. Paul Besson, marrying thus elan
destinally without the father’s consent,
did not get a half-penny with his wife.
But in France a father cannot disinherit
a child. M. Breon was very old, and
whenever he died all his vast property
must go to his only daughter. He, how
ever, at once instituted the present suit,
and, although the sickly young lady
died shortly after tho marriage, he goes
on with it to prevent the husband from
being his heir. M. Lucien Brim, one of
the most prominent Legitimists and
clericals in the Assembly, is counsel for
his comrade, M. Paul Besson, and will
speak for him next week. In order to
understand the full bearings of the case,
it is essential to explain that, according
to French “manners,” antes respectueux
are the most disrespectful things in the
world. It is only in very extreme and
exceptional eases that they are resorted
to by anybody pretending to be respect
able. A love match under any circum
stances is in good society considered not
the thing; and that a young lady just
out of a convent should look down com
placently from a balcony upon an ad
mirer promenading in the street is
something more shocking inFrance than
the utmost propriety of Mayfair can
oonceive.
( “Arrah, me darlint,” cried Jamie
O Flannigan to his loquacious sweet
heart, who had not given him the op
portunity to “ge* in a word even edge
wise” during a two hours ride behind
the little bay nags in his oyster wagon,
“are ye afther knowing why your cheeks
are like my ponies there?” “Shure and
its because they’re red, it is ?” quoth
the blushing Bridget. “Faith, and a
better raison than that, mavourneen.
Because there is one of them aich side
of a wagon tongue.”
Galesburg, Illinois, has a population
of 13,000, and not a whisky or beer sa
loon is to be found or is permitted in
the place. Notwithstanding this fact,
however, there is more liquor consumed
therp than in any city 'of its size in
the State, and the secret bottle has
taken the place of the open bar. Cause,
rigid prohibition. Galesburg has always
been the head-centre in Illinois of New
England reformers.
A bad little boy in Aberdeen rubbed
cayenne pepper dust all over the back
of his jacket. The school master thrash
ed him briskly, bnt dismissed the school
immediately, to run to the nearest chem
ist for eye water.
Matchless maid—the kitchen girl out
of lucifers.
NUMBER 29
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Judge Bartlett refused anew trial in
the Cash case.
Governor Bard has received his sus
pension papers.
Wheat is worth from 95c. to $1 05 per
bushel in Ringgold.
Both the Baptist Churches of Macon
are without pastors.
Anew Presbyterian Church has been
organized at Lithonia.
Macon is moving in the matter of a
Confederate monument.
Workmen have commenced improving
the Newton House, Athens.
Mrs. M. P. Ellis and family have left
Columbus to live in Memphis.
Jas. T. Tankersley has been commis
sioned Sheriff of Columbia couuty.
Neither the day nor the night train
will be taken from the Athens branch.
Win. T. Manning has been commis
sioned Tax Collector of Lincoln county.
Thos. B. Hollinhead has been com
missioned County Surveyor in Lincoln
county.
Rev. James Mcßride, pastor of tho Sec-*.,
ond Baptist Chnrcli iir ‘Macon, has re
signed.
The Atlanta Street Car Company has
declared a semi-annual dividend of fivo
per cent.
The Brunswick Appeal is going to
discard the patent inside and go back
to tho old form.
Thomas F. Lackey, of Atlanta, lias
been arrested, charged with assault with
intent to murder.
Recent heavy rains in Jackson oounty
are said to have damaged the crops con
siderably iu several localities.
In Columbus, the other night, n four
year old son of Rev. J. O. Branch fell
from his bed and broke both arms.
Prof. W. E. Reynolds has boon re
elected principal of the Union Point
High School for tho ensuing year.
J udge Samuel Lawrence, of Atlanta,
is solicitor and traveling agent for tho
Northwestern Mutual Life lusurauce
Company.
Mr. J. F. Morrison, of Jackson coun
ty, was crushed to death last week by
machinery at the tan yard of tho Messrs.
Randolph.
Capt. W. H. Branch, of Greeucsboro,
delivered an address at the examination
exercises of tho Union Point High School
last week.
The Rome Commercial has been told
of tho discovery of a fine sulphur spring
just beyond Dykes’ Creek, on the Eto
wah river.
A pair of coach-whip snakes wrapped
themselves • around a negro in DoKalb
county the other day and gave liim a
sound lashing.
The Senior Class of the University pre
sented General Wm. M. Browne, Pro
fessor of History, 10 volumes of the
English Classics.
The Rome Courier says Thomas Mara
blc has been licensed as captain and
first pilot and William T. Smith as spe
cial mate of the Mary Carter.
Miss Mary M. Heard, of Elberton,
read a composition upon “Queens With
out Scepters” at the Commencement Ex
ercises of Wesleyan Female Collcgo.
Mr. Washington Kelly, of Jones coun
ty, had an attack of vertigo in Macon
the other day, causing him to fall to tho
ground and bruise his face severely.
When Judge Pitt Milton Browu, of
tho Griffin News, goes to tho Kimball
House in Atlanta, he gets “dingnation”
hungry waiting for the dinner bell to
ring.
A little daughter of Mr C. B. Culver
son, of Floyd couuty, while picking
blackberries the other day, received a
snake bite, from which she died in a few
minutes.
J. B. Scarrat becomes associated with
Cob B, F. Sawyer in the proprietorship
of the Commonwealth, and will direct
partments.
The negro who waited on GeneraTßem"
ning has been arrested on the charge of
stealing the pocketbook, containing
SIOO, and the watch of tho General while
he was dying.
The commissioners of the Macon and
Brunswick Bead will not sell it at
present, but will run it in the interest of
the State till the Legislature meets.
John A. Grant is Superintendent.
Anew secret order is about to be or
ganized among tho negroes of Atlanta,
to be named “Tho Order of Jonathan
and David.” It is not intended to be a
political but a purely benevolent, social
and moral organization.
The night of the lltli the house of
Mr. Ed. Hutchinson, of Oglethorpe
county, was burglarized and fired by a
negro boy, who was subsequently caught
and put in Lexington jail. The house
and its contents were consumed.
Hon. A. H. Stephens has returned to
his home from his trip to Atlanta and
Southwest Georgia, improved in physi
cal condition and encouraged in his
hopes for the future by his intercourse
with the people in the sections he has
visited.
Mr. J. R. Lumpkin, of Texas, who is
now on a visit to Rome, brought with
him a stalk of cotton, grown in Milam
county, Middle Texas, which was plant
ed the 6th of April and pulled up the
6th of July, is four feet and a half high
and has on it 130 bolls and forms, many
of them three-fourths the size of a hen
egg.
The Macon Telegraph publishes tho
Chronicle and Sentinel’s report of Mr.
Stephens’ Fourth of July speech and
says: “It is of far different stamp from
the ordinary character of such perform
ances. * * * * We commend it to the
reader ns one of the most instructive and
impressive papers which have ever em
anated from Mr. Stephens.”
Colonel John Thomas Glenn, Solicitor-
General of the Atlanta Circuit, has
opened himself to an interviewer on the
Beecher question. Colonel John Thomas
cannot find it in liis gizzard to believe
H. Ward guilty, save only of an “indis
cretion.” Now, will Col. John Thomas
rise up and explain to tho Court the
'‘modus operand)” of an indiscretion ?
The Monroe Advertiser says: “It is
rumored extensively m Atlanta that
Judges MoKay and Trippe, of the Su
preme Court, will resign at an early
day, and it is thought that Hon. Hope
Hull, of Augusta, and Col. L. E. Bleck
ly, of Atlanta, will be appointed to the
positions. Wo heard the rumor so often
while in Atlanta that we are persuaded
it is true.”
Hon. Col. Dr. 11. H. Carlton, editor
of the Northeast Georgian, Athens, is
the agent for the State of Georgia for
the celebrated Patman’s Patent Right
Snake Trap. He will promptly attend
to all orders and will take great pleasure
iu giving full particulars of the modus
operandi ot this remarkable invention,
which is destined to do so much towards
exterminating the venomous reptile crea
tion.
When you clip a piece of poetry from
a newspaper to send to your sweetheart
be careful to see that the other side
doesn’t contain a full advertisement of
Bradfield’s Female Regulator, as did the
piece which a Macqn chap sent to his
sweetheart the other day. To make
matters worse, he had written on the
back of the dipping-*-or the side which
contained the advertisement—“ Darling,
please send tins back,—John.”. And
“Darling” sent it back to “John.” We
hope our Augusta Johijs will takp wgru
iDg> ' ; ..
Eastman’s Business CoJlegp, in At
lanta, was soldoiit “under the hammer”
the 13th, in consequence Of judgments
against Prof. Magee, the proprietor, who
left the city some days since. Tho
Herald says that Prof. Moore, of Moore’s
Business University, purchased the
right, title and furniture of the College
and will consolidate it with his Univer
sity. Prof. Magee’s private effects were
also sold. Among them were several
i articles belonging to one of the noted
demi-mondes of Atlanta, including her
picture, which brought five cents.
“J. H. E.,” writing from North Geor
gia to the Savannah News, says he was
informed that there is living within six
teen miles of Toccoa Falls an aged man
named Vandever, who is said to have
wandered into this country in 1816, and
who claims to have been the first white
man who ever beheld its grandeur. He
was a hunter, trader and fighter, such a
one as the boys read about in dime
novels. Vandever says that there have
been a great many changes since be
camo there. A few years after his arri
val there was a tremendous earthquake,
and the ground trembled and shook for
three days, and that during that time
the large rock which lays at tho foot of
Toccoa Falls was thrown down.