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WKDN ESDAY.. . .BEPT’BER 29, 187 EL
* MINOR TOPICS.
Oirta returning from the Summer resorts
•ay they want pa to take them to Heaven next
Beacon, where matches ar^made.
Ouerlum and piver are said to be the nos
trums used by Parisian women to paint the
lily and adorn the rose of their complexions ;
but we don’t want it to get as far as the ears of
our unsophisticated girls.
Rhode Island has a rifle association, of
which General Burnside is President. Unless
they can obtain permission to put up the tar
get in a neighboring State, the shooting will
have to be at very short range.
The heat which Goldsmith Maid trotted at
Hartford was done squarely without a trip in
2:14}. The champion heat of 2:14 on the Mys
tic Park course was done with three of her fa
mous running skips. So that actually the
2:14} holds the ago.
An exchange mentions it as a matter for
surprise that there are seven Generals, live
Colonels and one Judge in the field as candi
dates for Governor of Georgia ; but in States
where everybody is a General, or a Colonel, or
a Judge, sucli circum-itaucea are of every day
occurrence.
The Gainsborough or Vandyke hat is coming
into fashion for women. It is like the cavalier
hat of Charles the Second's time, with an im
mense flap and feathor, and is exceedingly
graceful when custom makeß the eye familiar.
Of course, the dress must be volumiuons in
keeping with it, and oh, won’t tho two give a
man’s pocket book the ague.
A'Chicago woman advertises in the Mar
riage Bazaar: “I want a honorable, honest
gentleman for a husband. No lawyer, doctor,
or political! may apply. I will give my future
husband on my marriage day $lO,llOO cash, and
twice that amount in real estate. I am 22 years
of ago, 5 feet 4} inches high, weigh 140
pounds, a good musician, and well educated.
Editor has address.”
A conductor on the Chicago and Northwest
ern Railroad recently kissed one of his lady
passenger, a Miss McCracken. Who resented
his action, and instituted a suit against the
railroad for damages on the ground that she
waa kissed by the whole com: any through the
conductor, as agent. An Illinois jury award
ed her $1 000, which is SB3 33 from each di
rector, or ten cents from each stockholder.
The postal card faotory at Springfield is now
making cards of the new pattern at the rate of
about six hnndrod thousand a day, but, as
there are still 2.270,000 in the vault, the public
will uot do any corresponding on the new cards
until next month. This now card has a finer
aurfaoo than the old, and can be used for
copying with a press. It is heavier than the old
card, but is calendered so thoroughly that it is
somewhat thinner.
It is generally thought that Edmund Ruffin'
of Virginia, fired the first gun at Fort Burnt tr.
The Rev. Johu Douglas, of Steelo Creek, tells
the Southern home that this is a mistako. He
was residing at that time on James Island and
heard tho first gun. It was fired by Captain
George James from a little sand battery on
Jamos Island. Ho (Captain James) was killed
afterwards at Gettysburg. The second gun
was fired by Lieutenant Wade Hampton Gibbes,
also from James Island. The third gun was
fired by Mr. Ruffin from Morris Islaud. The
fourtti gun was from Sullivan’s Island, and the
fifth was from the Iron Battery.
The following items about the hay fever
Coduedtiod appears in the Cwlgregatiodalist :
“A pleasing episode id subber life at the bou
taide last week was a booting of the Udited
States Hay Fever Associatiod at Ilethleheb,
Dew Hbshire. Sobo five or six huddred of
the afflicted were id atteddadee. idclndig Hod.
F. B. Fay. of Chelsea, ad Hodry Ward Beecher.
Latter* of coudsel ad cnbfort wore read frob
various physnuads, ad recipes and prescrip
tiods were freely idterchadged. Br. Beecher
bade a fuddv speech, id the course of which he
expresstfil the upidiod that the Labedtatiods of
Jerebiah and the thord id the flesh of Paul had
ad idtibate relatiod to hay fever. After a
gederal edeedze the associatiod adjourd to
beet dext tibe."
Homeopathic physicians have been very
much abused by their brethren of the old (al
lopathic) practice, and judging from the lan
guage frequently used by gentlemen of the
latter school, a more graceless set of impostors
never existed on the earth than the manipu
lators of fittlo sugary pills. The despised
homeopaths, however, have continued to grow
iu the face of pereecutioue and exclusion from
hospitals, Ac., and nothing can prove their
progress in popular favor more than the re
cent assignment of a first class hospital for
their use on Ward’s Island. N. Y., by the Com
missioners cf Charities and Correction, where
about two hundred patients will be treated
homeopathicallv. The building is capable of
accommodating eight hundred patients, and is
fitted with every modem appliance and con
venience. This is the first homeopathic chari
ty hospital ever established in the world.
Frothnigham says of the necessity of folly,
ignorance and vice: "It is not enough that
classes should be tolerant of one another—
tbov must appreciate one another; they must
cordially recognize the fact of their mutual
dependence; they must frankly admit that
opposites require opposites, that extremes
demand extremes; that foes are friends in
disguise—that antagonists are educators. The
prince would die but for the peasant. The
poor need the rich, but what would be the
condition of the rich if there were no poor?
The simple need the wise, but what would
wisdom be worth if there were none to teach,
guide, instruct, enlarge ? The grieving need
the glad, but scarcely more than the glad need
the grieving, scarcely so much. The vicious
would perish but for the virtuous, but the
very virtue of the virtuous would decline if it
were not trained, educated, shaped, sharpened
by perpetual contact with the vicious. Sinners
need saints; but without smuers saints would
have no vocation. Sinners ought to be per
petual admonitions to saints; saiuts ought
to be perpetual encouragement to sinners.
What would sick people do without the strong
and well to take eare of them ? What would
the strong and well do without the sick to take
care of ? I have seen able men and women
disconsolate when some poor bed-ridden
invalid had been taken from them by merciful
death. They were more dependent on the
patient than the patient was on them."
The famous affair of the, Memphis and El
Paso Railroad, which created such a storm of
iudignation in Paris, is recalled by the recent
release from prison of the Baron Ganldree-
Boileau. who. it will be remembered, was in
cluded in the condemnations pronounced
against the authors of the so-called Trans
continental fraud, and sentenced to two years
imprisonment. Baron Boileau married Miss
Benton, who had a dowry amounting to 700.000
francs, which was not paid until the El Paso
loan was pot upon the market. No sooner had
Baron Boileau heard of the prosecutions, and
learned that the dowry of his wife had been
paid him out of the earns subscribed by the
French bondholders, than he returned at once
to France and gave up the money. The Judge
complimented Baron Boileau highly for this
act of probity, but it seemed to have no effect
upon his case, and he was condemned with the
rest, and poor Mme. Gauldree-Boilean was
soon carried to her grave in consequence. She
died while her husband was in prison. Scarcely
had she been placed in the tomb before there
came a change in public feeling. He was
found, on inquiry, to be the victim of this
great swindle, worthy of the most sympathy,
and efforts were made to procure his release.
No great efforts were required, however, for
President McMahon was only too ready to act
on the first petition. No sooner was he re
leased than he demanded a retraction from the
men who had calumniated him. and he has
already had two duels. In the first he dis
armed his adversary and told him to pick up
his sword to begin again, but the seconds in
terfered. The last duel was fought with pis
tols, the Baron's adversary being wounded.
WHAT THE AIR LINE HAS DONE
FOR ATLANTA.
The Air Line Railroad has accom
plished a great deal for the people of
Atlanta. The -city subscribed about
$300,000 and took stock in the road to
that amount.. The stock is not worth
much to the city, but the road is bnilt
and equipped and the citizens of Atlan
ta are being greatly benefttted by the
| trade derived from two hundred and
i hixty-five miles of railroad extending
i from their city to Charlotte, N. C. The
[ road was built at a cost of $7,960,000.
This is a large expenditure, but folly
warranted by the benefits derived and to
bo derived from opening np Northeast
ern Oeorgia, and from the great import
ance of the road itself, making the
shortest and quickest line for freight
and travel between New Orleans and
New York.
A correspondent of the Atlanta Herald
give s some astonishing facts and figures
concerning what the road has done for
Oeorgia in a few years. According to
figures,obtained from Comptroller Gold
smith, there has been over fifteenf mil
lions of increase in the value of proper
ty along the line of this road since
1370. It also shows an increase of ahojat
2,000 voters in the’ cdtffiffes’!Ero%n
which the road passes. Villages and
towns have sprung up like magic, and
the stores and residences are gene
rally neat and substantial. Ac
cording to the correspondent of
the Herald, from which we quote,
“Norcross in May, 1870, consisted of a
log cabin and a whisky shop. To-day
it is a smiling, progressive town with 500
inhabitants, doing a business of $150,-
000 in a dozen spruce stores, and ship
ping 1,500 bales of cotton. Belton, with
its 250 substantial citizens; Flowery
Branch, with 300; Duluth, with 255; Bu
ford, with 400; Suwanee, with 100; Toc
coa with its 800, and other vigorous
young infants of villages, with indefi
nite possibilities of enlargement, are
lusty progeny of this fruitful Air Line.
Gainesville, iu 1870, had, it is stated,
about 500 people, and it is doubted if a
bouse had changed hands in years. To
day she has over 2,000 people, with
forty stores, and indefinite development
ahead of her. And these vigorous vil
lages are showering cotton to the world’s
markets with an accelerating progress.
Flowery Branch shipped 1,497 bales in
1873, and 3,426 iu 1874, or more than a
hundred per cent, increase. Duluth,
last year, sent 2,500 bales; Buford, 2,000;
Norcross, 1,500; Toccoa, 3,750.”
In a short time the Northeastern Road
from Athens to Belton, a distance of
sixty miles, will be completed and anoth
er feeder will be open for the Air Line
and Atlanta, drawing trade hitherto
controlled by Augusta away from it.
And a little further on still another
branch road will be completed, this time
from Elberton to the Air Line, and the
trade in that section will be lost to Au
gusta and Atlanta will obtain the benefit
of it. Next year should there be a fall
ing oil in the cotton receipts at Augusta
it will be scarcely worth while to assign
the cause to a short crop. If we hunt
for the thousands that are short we may
discover that they have found their way
to Atlanta.
Is there not some reason for the peo
ple of Augusta to feel au interest in this
great question of trade ? We want the
products of this section to be sold in
Augusta, which is the receiving and dis
tributing point of a large portion of
Middle and Eastern Georgia and West
ern South Carolina. The products of
the plantation have found a market
here, and the supplies needed by the
planter were purchased here. Augusta
has no monopoly of trade. She does
not enjoy so much that she can afford to
lose any of it. But unless we stir up
and do something our warehouse men
and merchants will experience a falling
off in their business. There are some
people who imagine Angnsta is a finished
city, but they are mistaken. There is
still room for improvement and expan
sion. We cannot have an Air Line Rail
road like Atlanta, but we could have one
that would retain that which we have in
the way of trade and add more to it.
LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI.
The New York World announces that
the Devil’s health is not so good as it
was. On the 13th of September an
election took place in the State of
Maine. On the 14th of September At
torney-General Pierrepont received a
dispatch from President Grant in re
ference to the application made by Ames,
of Mississippi, for a few Federal
bayonets, in which the author of a cer
tain too famous message concerning
Arkansas declares his tardy belief that
“the whole publio are tired out with
“these annual autumnal outbreaks in
“the South, and the great majority
“are ready now to condemn any inter
“ference on the part of the Oovem
“ment.” Attorney-General Pierrepont
made haste to transcribe these instinc
tive words, and sent them to
Governor Ames with a letter of his
own, not less instructive, and in its
way hardly less astonishing. We
hardly think such a scurvy fellow
as Ames can have much sense of humor
iu his composition, and even if he has
his present position may well be too
sharply disagreeable to permit him to
enjoy its comical aspects. But when
we remember that a year has not yet
elapsed since President Grant “and all
his Cabinet,” as the Secretary of War
chose to put it, cordially approved and
oommended the breaking up of the
Legislature of Louisiana by Federal
troops, it certaitfly must be admitted
that there is nothing iu the Contes
Drolatiques of Bbizao to be compared
with the attitude of the unhappy Ames,
who not only fails to get so much as a
corporal’s guard of marines “to serve
his private ends,” but is compelled to
listed to a lectnre on constitutional law
and on his own duties from the Attor
ney-General, which might have been
taken almost bodily from Mr. Evart's
speech on the Louisiana outrage de
livered last January in the Cooper In
stitute ! We mean this, of oourse, as a
I compliment to the Attorney-General,
I who could hardly have done better than
;he has now done in applying Mr.
Evart’s sound constitutional law to the
; case of Mississippi, an less indeed he
had joined Mr. Evarts last Janaary in
! applying it to the case of Louisiana,
j That President Grant, who cordially
j endorsed the trampling under foot of
the Constitution and the laws by Kel
| logo in January, should peevishly re
fuse permission to Ames to trample them
under foot again in August, can only be
explained, as we have already inti
mated, by the unfavorable action upon
the Presidential spine of the news from
Maine. If the “great majority” had
signified a willingness now to see Ames
made Dictator of Mississippi, as Kel
logg was made Dictator of Louisiana,
it is plain that President Grant would
never would have allowed the Attorney-
General to remind him that he is only
a Governor and that he has dnties as a
Governor to perform. It is not respect
for the laws and the Constitution which
now makes President Grant submit to
their benign supremacy. It is simply a
certain fearfnl looking for judgment.
The "whole public are tired out,” and
“the great majority” are making it
plainly understood that they will have
no more snch tricks played before high
Heaven as those of which Grant and
Belknap, only eight short months ago,
j dared to express by telegraph to Philip
j Sheridan their cordial approval. “The
j devil is sick, the devil a monk woald
: be.”
NEGRO MIGRATION.
The Nashville American say that
Charles Nordhofp, in his last letter
from Georgia to the New York Herald,
dwells at some length on the negro ex
odus from that State, and insists that
it is not the new thing which Republi
i can organs of the bloody shirt persua
sion would make it out. The exodus,
he says, has been going on for a dozen
of years past. In that time some 25,000
Georgia negroes have removed to Mis
sissippi, Louisiana and Arkansas, and
tßey have generally benefited them
selves by going. Mr. Nordhofp says
that emigration agents from these
States are constantly at work in Geor
gia and Alabama, and in some cases
very tempting inducements are offered.
One colored agent, with whom Mr.
Nordhofp talked, told him he had
noticed, when a alfye, that the white%
*m b"ofa Home for a
visit after some years in other States
seemed to have done well. “ I thought
if it was good for the whites it would
be good for our folks, too.” This ne
gro had traveled in Mississippi, Lou
isiana and Arkansas ; he agreed with
Mr. Nordhoff that his “ folks” in
those States are generally thriving and
secure in their rights. Speaking before
the “ insurrection,” he predicted that
not less than 5,000 would leave Georgia
the coming Winter. Arkansas appears
to be the favorite ; Mississippi will be
injured for the time being by these dis
turbances, but Mr. Nordhoff is satisfied
that they are “ strictly local and spora
dic.” He sees in this emigration “ one
of the best signs of the real independ
ence of the negro ;” thinks it a good
thing for Georgia, which was intended
by nature for a manufacturing, rather
than an agricultural State, and will fill
up in time with an industrious white
population.
EX-GOVERNOR JOHNSON.
Ex-Governor H. Y. Johnson’s name
is being repeatedly mentioned in con
nection with the Gubernatorial race. No
less than to Governor Smith is the
credit due to him for the great discre
tion he exercised in the management of
the negro troubles. As the presiding
officer of the Superior Court trying the
negroes charged with insurrectionary
intent, Jndge Johnson, in the midst of
the most profound not to say fearful ex
citement, held the scales of justice with
the greatest moderation, evincing the
utmost desire to give the ignorant pris
oners the fullest benefit of a fair and
impartial trial. This he did to the great
satisfaction of the people of Georgia,
and even succeeded in leaving no room
for complaint upon the part of Northern
Radicalism. These circumstances have
called the popular mind to him as a fit
person to be ouf next Governor. His
previous record as a statesman had
already pointed him out in the minds of
many as the man to harmonize the
Democratic party in the next campaign.
Recent events already mentioned have
added greatly to the possibilities that
his name will be seriously urged as the
next Democratic nominee. We are cer
tain Judge Johnson is not an aspirant,
and will not allow his name used as
such; but if his nomination should be
necessary for the harmony of the Demo
cratic party, and he should be called
upon to occupy that position, we scarce
ly think he would refuse to accept it,
however much he may be disinclined to
re-enter the political arena.— Rome
Courier.
We do not exactly understand the re
luctance of the detective who captured
Joe Morris in Atlanta the other day to
enter the United States Court building
which he knew contained the fugitive.
The Herald details the means to which
he resorted iu order to get the negro to
leave the building so that he might bear
rested. He entered the United States
Attorney’s office where Morris was
standing, but was afraid to arrest him on
this holy ground, and permitted him to
escape into another apartment. Finally
when the Sheriff and Chief of Police
came to his assistance they wrote a note
to the Judge requesting permission to
break open the door. The Constitution
says the detective “doubted his authori
ty to force au entrance without Colonel
Farrow’s permission," and Colonel
Farrow “preferred not to give that
permission, but left the officer to act
upon his own responsibility.” We have
yet to learn that buildings occupied by
United States Courts are places of sanc
tuary for persons charged with the com
mission of crime, and we are ignorant of
any statute which forbids the arrest of
a person charged with the commission
of a capital offense in any place that he
may take refuge. If it is true that a
criminal an escape arrest by going into
a United States Court room or United
States District Attorney’s office these
sanctuaries will do a more thriving busi
ness now than the monasteries and
churches did in the feudal ages.
Ex-Governor James Johnson has re
signed the Judgeship of the Chatta
j hoochee Circuit and Governor Smith
; has appointed Hon. Martin J. Craw
! ford to the vacant position. Judge
Johnson was one of the eight year
Judges appointed by Governor Bullock
in 1868, and his term of office would
have expired January Ist, 1877. He
was made Provisional Governor of Geor
gia in 1865 by President Johnson, and
was after reconstruction offered a place
iu the Snpreme Court of the State,
which he declined, preferring the Cir
' cnit Bench instead. He retires from
the Beuch to take his successor's posi
-1 tion in the law firm of Ingram & Craw
ford. Judge Crawford is one of the
most prominent lawyers in the State,
j and before the war was well known in
i State and national politic*. He served
; two terms in the United States and one
in the Confederate States Congress, and
j while in the former body was a leading
member of the Ways and Means Com
| mittee. The appointment is an admira-
I ble one, and will give general satisfac
• tion to the people of the State. %
Harper's Weekly, which for bigoted
advocacy of Radicalism is withont a
; peer, has the good seuse to see that
i Know-Nothingism is a losing game, and
apropos of the movement in Maryland
and elsewhere, thus talks to its “ Po
j tato-bng’ friends : “In this country,
•* however, secret political associations
| “ are unnecessary and suspicious,
I “ What cannot be done openly in snch
“ matters should not de done at all,
“ and the man who proposes secrecy
| “ presumptively means mischief. ** *
“ They breed only mischief, and the
“ American who will not openly de
! “ dare his opposition to an open foe is
! " a very suspicions and donbtfnl char
“ acter, who deserves to be watched lest
“ he be caught doing the dirty work of
“ the enemy.”
When they catch a man gathering
Delaware peaches they preserve what
ever good traits he has in him by shoot
ing half a pint of salt into his legs.
AUGUSTA, GA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1875.
! In other States than Georgia trouble
I is experienced by reason of the enor
mous quantity of business brought into
the Supreme Court. In Ohio the busi
ness of the Court is so greatly in arrears
that the Legislature adopted almost
unanimously a constitutional amend
ment providing for the appointment of a
commission to aid that Court in finish
ing the cases which yet remain unde
cided. The Democratic and Republi
can State Committees have united in an
address to the people requesting them
to vote for the amendment at the com
ing election. In Georgia affairs have
.not yet reached so bad a pitch, bnt the
evil here is well defined and calls loudly
for reform. The only permanent reform
must come through a constitutional
amendment and a constitutional con
vention.
SPECIE PAYMENTS.
A great deal is being said abont the
divisions in the Democratic party on
financial issues, and attention is specially
called to the difference between the decla
rations put forth by party conventions in
Ohio and; jp. New York. Iu Mality^vp
Traces in the two States is mnch less
than is generally imagined. Tho Ohio
Democrats have not stated in their
platform or in the speeches of their can
didates and prominent men that they
are opposed to resumption of specie
payments. They say that they are op
posed to immediate resumption because
they think that immediate resumption
would result disastrously to the commer
cial and industrial interests of the
country. The New York Democrats fa
vor an early resumption of specie pay
ments and are opposed to “ taking any
steps backward.” Exactly, but what
does an early return to a specie basis
mean ? Does it mean resumption now ;
next Winter; resumption in one year, or
two years, or three years ? In 1872 the
three parties—Republican, Liberal Re
publican and Democratic—all declared
in favor of a speedy return to specie
payments, yet three years have elapsed
and the country is not nearer resump
tion now than when these platforms
were adopted. If we are not mistaken,
the Radical and Democratic parties
made a similar declaration seven years
ago in the Presidential canvass of 1868.
At its last session Congress fixed a day
for resumption, but no one believes that
when the day arrives resumption will be
brought about. The policy of both
parties has been to say a great deal and
to do nothing. So far as actions are
concerned, the New York Democrats are
in the same boat with the Democrats of
Ohio, whom they so lustily denounce as
inflationists and lovers of “rag money.”
We have deprecated the dragging of
financial issneß into national politics,
believing that they would seriously di
vide the Democrats as well as the Re
publicans, and, perhaps, cause the dis
solution of both organizations. We still
deprecate such contests as are now be
ing waged in New York and Ohio as
suicidal to that party from which alone
the country can expect peace and per
manent prosperity. We do not desire
the next campaign to be fought upou
“hard money” or “soft money” issues,
because it is easy to foresee that if such
issues are presented Democrats will
divide and Republicans will divide, and
that the cause of local self-rule and con
stitutional government will be forgotten
and abandoned. We think it would be
best for the country and the people to
have financial questions eliminated from
the contest as speedily as possible. Let
Congress settle the matter at its next
session in one way or the other. The
act of the last session was a monstrous
blunder, which has been fruitful of evil
results. It has settled nothing. It has
unsettled everything. The stringency
in money, the losses of our citizens, the
stagnation of trade, the paralysis of in
dustries, the starvation of labor, are
all due to that acme of cowardice and
folly. Let Congress declare in favor of
immediate resumption or let it declare
resumption inexpedient. It will not do
to say “we will resume specie payments,
but resumption must be fixed for a year
hence or two*years or three years.” The
quickest way to bring about resumption
is to resume. The country is as well
prepared now for such a step as it will
ever be. It is this long preparation
which kills. When the horse is finally
prepared to live on one wisp of hay per
diem, he will die and destroy the value
of the experiment. If it be deemed inex
pedient to resume at once it is better for
Congress to say so and let the people
know what to expect. Something must
be done. The question must be settled by
Congress next Winter, or the present
condition of affairs is certain to continue.
No man is willing to risk his property
while so much uncertainty exists as to
the financial future, and trade will con
tinue to stagnate and labor to starve un
til some certain action is taken. Let us
either say that we will not resume, or
that we will resume, and do it.
Says the New York Tribune: If any
proof were needed that the North is
thoroughly sick of the “bloody out
rage” business it could be found in the
treatment given to Governor Ames’ in
coherent demands for troops. Aside
from the organs at Washington, only
one or two Republican journals have
shown any sympathy for Ames. The
general sentiment toward him appears
to be fairly expressed by this paragraph
from the Utica Herald: “There is a
growing impatience over the efforts of
such men as Ames to involve the Gen
eral Government in local troubles that
concern it last of all. There is a gath
ering conviction that under snch a
policy the Southern question will never
be eliminated from our polities, but
grow more complicated with the years.
Governor Ames’ dispatches heighten
this impatience and deepen this convic
tion.”
A Saratoga correspondent says it
seems ridiculous to hear any talk of
hard times in that favorite watering
place, when the eyes are continually
dazzled by the glitter of diamonds of
great value and size ornamenting the
persons of even children. Not only
does a sweet sixteen year old, not yet
oat of school or short dresses, “sport”
one of a size and lustre that renders it
apparently worth a king’s ransom, but
babies of six and seven roll on the draw
ing room floor, decked with diamonds of
no small value. He moreover estimates
that at least 60,000 women go to Sara
toga every season, the cost of whose
wardrobe and other expenditures it
would take SI,OOO to cover, so in this
way $60,000,000 is spent yearly— a total
circulation to make people of a saving
turn of mind open their eyes.
The London Times gives a summary
of the failures in England daring the
last- three months. The liabities of
twenty-nine amount to a total of $26,-
000,000, and their assets to $10,000,000,
of which amount one-third is regarded
as donbtfal. Bat the Times has a mis
giving that this is very far from repre
senting the total losses of the late panic,
and in this view it is probably correct.
The town council of Port3oy*l have
not had a meeting for several weeks.—
They have got assessment on the brain,
and the excitement might prove
fatal; bo they avoid having a meeting.
OUR ATLANTA LETTER.
[Special Correspondence Cnronlcle and Sentinel.]
Atlanta, beptemOer 19,1875.
Suicide of Capt. H. L French.
The city was thrown into considerable
excitement early yesterday morning by
the announcement that a man had com
mitted suicide at the “Fulton House,”
a building opposite the passenger depot,
recently occupied as a boarding house.
A man named French had taken poison,
it was said ‘’because his sweetheart had
jilted him.” This was the common re
port, and the impression soon prevailed
to a considerable extent that it was an
unknown and obscure person, passing
through the city, and the excitement
somewhat subsided. In tho meantime,
however, a curious crowd had assem
bled abont the building in which the
suicide was said to have been commit
ted, and presently it was ascertained
that the suicide was Capt. Hiram L.
French, formerly of Americas, but more
recently clerk in the Revenue Depart
ment under Col. Jack Brown, Collector
of Interifal Revenae in this city.
Eitrht Grains of Morphine.
Yesterday morftii# when Col. Brown,
went as usual to his office, not finding it
open (an unusual occurrence), he
into
Capt. French lying at full length on a
table, his head resting on three books,
gasping faintly and breathing hard.
Loud calls and shaking failed to arouse
him, and Col. Brown called for help.
Capt. Anderson came to his assistance,
and together they tried to force the
door and enter Capt. French’s room, but
failing in this, Col. Brown divested him
self of his coat and entered the room
through the window and opened the
door from the inside, to admit Captain
Auderson. By this time deceased had
ceased breathing, and all efforts to re
vive him nothing. In the mean
time Dr. Willis F. Westmoreland ar
rived and pronounced the man dead be
yond resurrection by human agency.
His Last Letter and Testament.
On looking abont the room Col.
Brown found the following letter in the
handwriting of the deceased, whereupon
he remembered that on the previous
afternoon he asked French to go with
him out to walk, but French replied
that he could not; that he had a very
important letter to write, at the same
time turning over the letter to prevent
Col. Brown from seeiug it. The follow
ing is the remarkable letter, which con
tains probably the secret of his death:
Atlanta, September 17, 1875. /
At office, s}, p. m. (
Col. Jack Brown:
My Dear Friend—You doubtless will
be astounded on finding me a dead man!
But I have calmly considered the mat
ter, and am satisfied I have outlived my
day. Far better had it been or me had
I died last Winter when I was so low.
It is said that a person never commits
suicide only when demented. This is a
mistake. lam this moment is rational
as at any period of my life. I must die
to prevent disgrace. You cannot imagine
my condition. I am in love, and the
dear creature is now in this city at the
house of a woman on Thompson street,
near the ice house. Ido not know her
name (the landlady). I caused her to
come here, to leave her parents, prom
ising to marry her; bnt to do this I must
forever give up my dear children. This
I cannot do. I therefore have deter
mined to commit what you may consider
a rash act. Now, my friend, I want to
give my dying statement: Anna J.
McNeely is a virtuous woman. She has
confidea to me under the most solemn
promise of marrisge. She is not to be
blamed. lam the guilty party, and I
atone for it by bidding adieu to all on
earth. I particularly desire that imme
diately after you find my body you will
go to her, tell her all, pay her board,
furnish her with means to go home, and
see her on the train. There will be no
necessity of an inquest over me, as I
take 8 grains of morphine , which I, this
p. m., purchased for this purpose. I
have no directions to give as to what
disposition you make of my remains. I
do not desire any expense that can be
avoided. Whatever amount you may be
required to expend will be refunded
you, as I have enough property to sat
isfy you. Break the sad news to my
daughter, whom I love dearer than life.
lam ashamed of myself. I could have
been respected had I not been so very
imprudent. You know my foibles,
please make allow nces.
I must now bid you adieu; it is so dark
I cannot write more; and may a merci
ful God pardon me.
Truly, your friend, French.
A druggists’ label, marked “8 grs.
sulph. morphine,” was also found. A
coroner’s jury was summoned, the ex
amining physician, after a careful ex
amination, announced that the deceased
had lost his life by an over dose of mor
phine and the coroner’s jury rendered
their verdict accordingly.
His Lady Love.
The name of the lady to whom he was
engaged is Miss Anna McNeely, of
Americus, and as stated iu the last letter
of the deceased, she was in the city yes
terday and was seen by certain parties
after the sad death of her betrothed.
She is said to be quite pretty and
young, only twenty years of age, and al
together overcome with grief at the
tragic death of Capt. French, whom she
had followed to Atlanta with the fond
expectation of being united with him in
tnarriage to-day, as he had promised
her. A Herald reporter interviewed
her and learned from her that according
to appointment she met Capt. French
in Americus on Sunday last and came
on to Atlanta with him, with the knowl
edge and consent of her parents, with
whom she says she was in correspond
ence, who told her she was “of age”
and could act as her feelings and judg
ment prompted. On Thursday night
after their arrival in the city, Captain
French gave her the following letter,
with the request that she would enclose
it in her next letter to her parents:
‘ ‘Mr. and Mrs. McNeely:
“My Dear Friends—l met Anna in
Macon on Sunday, and we came to At
lanta on Sunday night. I had to leave
Monday night to go down the Georgia
Road on business. Anna is at a board
ing house at present. If we live until
Sunday we are to be married, and I
hope our future may be pleasant and
happy. All I ask of you is not to say
anything about it until I can write my
friends, as they know nothing about my
plans. T love your daughter, and will
cast my lot with her, come weal or woe.
I will let you hear from me again after
Sunday. I am, yours truly,
"H. L. French.”
She testified that in alluding to their
prospective marriage to-day he always
qualified his words by saying, “If I live
until Sunday,” words which now have
special significance, bnt which at the
time impressed her as mere expletives.
She further stated to a Herald reporter
that on Friday morning after he had
bidden her good morning, and opened
the front gate, he returned to her and
said: “I must go; but before I go I must
have another kiss. God bless you, An
nie, cheer up ! I will be back at one
o’clock.” She said she would accom
pany the corpse to Americus, and then
return to her home and parents.
Personnel of the Deceased.
The deceased was a man of about
fifty-three years of age, with light gray
hair, full, long beard and heavy mous
tache, and medium height. When found
be was lying at full length on the table
dressed in a full suit of black, without
any jewelry or ornaments.
The Cause of the Snicide
Is generally attributed to his embarrass
ments about marrying Miss McNeely,
though there are a few who are inclined to
believe that pecuniary trouble and disap
pointment in obtaining a certain position
under the United States Government;
caused it. He was a supporterof Grant’s
administration, and some time ago ap
plied for the position of store keeper
under Colonel Brown, the appointment!
to be made by the Washington authori- j
ties, but he failed to receive the ap- j
pointment. Hon. J. G. W. Mills tes- j
tified before the Coroner’s jury as fol- i
lows : . . .
“On yesterday morning, while m a
private room of Col. Brown’s, Mr.
French motioned to me from an adjoin- j
ing room. I went in, when he asked me
if I had seen the lying article in the i
Constitution, headed ‘Hereis richness.’
I told him I had, and that Col. Brown '
and myself had jnst been talking about 1
it. He remarked that he knew the re- j
lations between Col. Brown and myself j
to be of a very different character, and
thought that CoL Brown should de- j
nonnee the statements as contained in j
said reported interview as base lies, ent j
from whole cloth ; that he never saw i
snch attempted villainy before ; that he 1
came to Atlanta at the instance of CoL
Brown, expecting, upon a record of un
impeached fidelity, to obtain a subordi
nate position tbat would give him meat
and bread, and that in furtherance of
this desire, Col. Brown had kindly for
warded his name to the department at
Washington for appointment as store
keeper, but for some reason unknown
he had been rejected. Said be: ‘ls not
this too hard, after all the sacrifices I
have endured, in honest efforts to sus
tain the administration of Gen. Grant.’
Said he, ‘And now I wish to ask you,
Colonel, after all this, what is life
worth ?’ ”
Mr. Jesse W. Jackson, an attache of
the Government at this place, confirms
this testimony by saying that Captain
French stated to him that every hope in
life was destroyed by his rejection as
storekeeper, and that he saw nothing
but starvation and misery ahead of him;
that he intended to marry and eke out a
living on his salary, butnow all was lost.
This is very strong testimony. Colonel
Brown, however, does not believe that
this event determined him to take his
life, for he himself had taken steps
which French knew would secure him
the position of storekeeper. The re
mains of the deceased were last night
sent to Americus to his son-in-law, Mr.
J. S. Eason, proprietor of the French
■ House, at that place.
Oaptatn Freoch was once twice
Mayor of Americus, and once or twioe
Representative from Sumter county in
the Legislature, and was a man of un
usual intelligence. At one time he was
engaged in business with Hon. D. E.
Butler, in Augusta. He came to Geor
gia from New York when a young man,
and lived awhile in Greene and Ogle
thorpe counties, whereJie married. He
afterwards removed to Americus, where
he resided up to the time he accepted
office under Colonel Jack Brown, in this
city. AU things considered, Atlanta is
becoming remarkable for suicides of a
remarkable character. Halifax.
THE NEGRO TROUBLES.
A Review of Affairs in Washington
County..
Washington, County, Ga., I
September 12, 1875.)
Editors‘Chronicle a?id Sentinel :
Now, that the smoke of the late mas
sacre, so-called, has blown off and reason
is beginning again to return to her usual
domain, it is due to the truth of history
as well as to the material interests of
this section of ihe State to calmly ex
amine the cause of the late tremendous
excitement and alarm. As the writer is
planting on the alleged place of rendez
vous' of the insurrectionists, and has
been thrown in personal contact,through
business transactions, with several of
the leaders, he knows from observation
many of the facts “whereof he affirms”
to be true —most of the others h.iV.e
been obtained from parties in the imme
diate neighborhood.
Ever since emancipation, in order to
secure their votes, the negroes have
been tickled by their Radical leaders
with the hope of some substantial as
sistance or bonus from that party.
They have, also, been thoroughly indoc
trinated with the idea that the Southern
whites were their natural enemies and
unwilling to give them their rights.
“Forty acres of laud and a mule”
were the magic words by which they
were first organized into the Loyal
Leagues, and by the influence of
those delusive catch words they
were induced to subscribe money,
which their leaders generally appro
priated, attend public meetings, march
in procession, and vote the tickets giveti
them by their leaders; like so many
horses or cattle. As that illusion was
becoming rather apparent, and a great
many were growing lukewarm, some
thing else had to be done to keep the
ranks closed up- hence the passage of
the iniquitous Civil Rights bill, the pos
session of the fancied provisions of which
is the negro’s Eldorado. The privilege
of equality with the whites in railroad
ears and public houses, the right to
serve on juries and to hold their politi
cal meetings in the public buildings
were not sufficient to arouse the patriot
ism of the backwoods negro, and Morris
and Harris had to draw on their imagi
nation as to the happy condition of
things in store for them when they
elected Grant king. The lands were to
be taken from the rebels and divided
out among the truly loyal, and a great
deal more of such stuff as decency for
bids mentioning were poured into their
empty craniums until they swelled clean
out of their ordinary breeches. It
was to secure such civil rights as these
that they were organized into companies
and such organization impressed them
with so much power and import&hcd
that the more vicious and turbulent
talked and blowed so largely that they
blowed up the late insurrection, so-call
ed. Some of them in the exuberance
of the supposed strength of their com
pany organization went so far as to
threaten to kill one or two of the weal
thy white men and appropriate their
money. There is no evidence convict
ing any other company thaD the two on
Buckeye with the blood and plunder
stories and threats. The negroes in
this county, other than those on Buck
eye, are conducting themselves as well
or better than usual, and we believe the
same remark will apply to Jefferson.
The bloody letter of Corday Harris, or
dering Captain Harrison Tucker to
march to Bartow, killing all the whites
on the way, is now known not to be in
the handwriting of Harris, and it was
not offered in evidence during the trial.
As my object is to allay exoitement and
prejudice and not to increase it, I will
say no more on this point.
The whole affair resembles an Indian
stampede among horses on the Western
praries, so much dreaded by hunters
and travelers; or to give it a little more
dignity it might be called a second
Guy Fawkes’ conspiracy, with Guy
Fawkes’ left out. It is well for-the
reputation of Georgia that Gov. John
son was on the bench at this junctnre.
The ability, impartiality and true no
bility of soul evinoed in the trial of the
prisoners entitle him to the profound
gratitude of the whole State.
But when he has nobly administered
the law and given us the benefit of his
wise counsel his mission and responsi
bilities terminate; the balance of the
work of restoring order and quiet be
longs to the people themselves. And
let us see how they are discharging these
duties. Some feel satisfied with whathas
beeD done and are counseling obedience
to law as the only safe guard under
any and all circumstances; while the
large majority are nursing their wrath
not only against the negro but against
all the whites who did not get frighten
ed out of their wits. The best men of
our s ction are denounced simply be
cause they kept cool and advised others
to do the same. “He is taking sides
with the negro” is the fool’s refrain just
at this time. My friends, these things
ought not so to be. Washington.
Time Drafts. —We find the following,
of interest to our readers, in the New
York Journal of Commerce:
Macon, Ga., September 7, 1875.
Editor of the Journal of Commerce :
Asa matter of information to you we
beg to state that the bankers of this city
refuse to allow your ruling that the
drawee of a time draft has twenty-four
hours to decide whether he will or will
not accept.
We had a case directly in point this
week, wherein the banker protested the
draft which, had he granted the twenty
four hours time, we could have ac
cepted. Yours, very respectfully,
IR. C. & Cos.
Reply—There is no statute in Geor
gia, as far as we know, changing the
common law ruling legalizing this cus
tom, which has existed from time im
memorial. Story on Bills, section 237,
says : “In every case of a presentment
for acceptance the drawee is entitled, if
he requires it, to have twenty-four hours
to consider whether he will accept the
bill or not; and it is usual in such cases
for the holder to leave the bill with him
during that period.” To the same effect
is Chitty on Bills, ch. 7, pp. 308, 307,
311 (Bth edit., 1833); Marins on Bills, 15,
16; Code de Comm., art. 125; Pardessus,
Droit Comm., Tom. 2, art. 361, and a
host of legal decisions. If the drawee
requests twenty-four hours, and the
holder protests without granting the de
lay, the latter can be prosecuted and
made to pay damages in smart money.
On Wednesday, the descendants of
John Eliot, the early apostle to the In
dians in this country, will meet at Guil
ford, Connecticut. Papers in regard to
the emigrant preacher, his son and his
grand-son, both very eminent divines,
will be read, and various matters of in
terest presented. The descendants of
Pocahontas would do the same tiring
but they aren’t quite sure abont them
selves.
THE GULF STORMS.
LATER PARTICULARS FROM THE
DISASTROUS TIDAL WAVE.
Devastation of Homes and Destruc
tion of Merchandise—But Wholesale
Ruin of the Island Not Appreuhend
ed—Ten Men Drowned on the Break
water at the Bar.
New Orleans, September 20.—The
Times, from information obtained from
papers and passengers, gives the follow
ing account of the storm at Galveston.
To briefly summarize the disaster: A
gale from the south by Wednesday at
midday reached suoh proportions that
the captains of steamers accustomed for
generations to traverse this portion of
the Gulf declined to put to sea. Almost
simultaneously with this determination
came the report that a ship yard at the
extreme eastern end of the island had
been inundated, and men were fleeing
for their lives. A rapidly falling barom
eter indicated an increase of the storm,
and the waters of the Gulf, which is on
the south side of the island and in the
rear of the city,gradually commenced to
encroach. The gardens of scattered
residences skirting the beaoh were soon
overflowed, the water during the day
reaching a depth of two feet. All day
long and during Thursday it blew a
hurricane, pushing the Gulf water over
are*, pf perhaps twelve blocks of build
ings, extending from Mechanics street
to Market, a distance of two squares,
latidudinally, and from Oentre street to
Bath avenue, about six squares, longitu
dinally. Iu the entire rear east and west
ends of the city the water rose to a suffi
cient depth to flood large wooden edi
-11068, mauy of which are very valuable.
The residence portion of the city was
most affected from Fremont street,
where this section begins. For a dis
tance of at least one mile west every
garden and every foundation is destroy
ed. Domiciles are scattered promis
cuously in the centre of the thorough
fares, many of them being jammed to
gether. Further to the west, in the
neighborhood of Oleander Park, where
there are many small farms and stylish
residences, the water is reported to have
reached a deptlj of from six to nine feet.
A similar story is told of the eastern end
of the island, whioh extends from Oen
tre street at least one mile and a half.
In the business section of the city large
stocks of goods are kept on the ground
floors, ana one can estimate the injury
which thirty inches of sea water would
involve. It is fair to presume that the
earnings of an entire year will be ex
hausted in repairing the damages.
Probably vegetation has been utterly
destroyed. But that the island is in
volved in wholesale ruin, we do not ap
prehend.
The storm commenced Wednesday
and raged with great violence until late
Friday night ; knocking down some
hundred small tenements, unroofiDg
several ohurches and residences, knock
ing down signs, awnings and other
hangings. The Strand Market was sev
eral times two feet deep. Three large
schooners lying in the harbor were
swamped. One steamboat and two
tugs were sunk, one being completely
demolished. One of Morgan’s steam
ships was driven against the wharf, but
only slightly damaged. One large Eng
lish bark was forced from its moorings
and driven ashore. One schooner is
forty feet on land. Some ten men work
ing on the breakwater at the bar were
drowned. The Health Officer, Dr. G.
W. Peet, and his grandson, are drown
ed. His house was carried off. One
negro woman was killed by a house fall
ing, after having floated fifty feet. The
railroad track is Horn up in twenty
places on the islqnd. The bridge is
partly destroyed. Culverts on both
roads are washed out, and the damages
are variously estimated at from SIOO,OOO
to $200,000. The storm was a regular
cyclone, but the wind was uot very
heavy, though the water was higher
than during the great storms of 1867
and 1811. A committee has been or
ganized for the relief of the sufferers,
who are principally residents on the
Gulf side an i Bay shore. The storm
extended to Hempstead, on the Texas
Central, and Willis, on the Great North
ern Road, doing damage along the en
tire route, including the city of Hous
ton.
The City’s Exposed Position—Charac
ter sud Hituatiou of the Commercial
Buildings;
A large number of Texans in this city
were much excited on Saturday over the
dispatches concerning the inuudation
and hurricane at Galveston. Many per
sons having large property interests in
that city were seeking for news through
out the day at the commercial and finan
cial houses which are in communication
with Texas. Many gave free credence
to the reports. Others, who had been
endeavoring to get private dispatohes
from Houston and vicinity, and had
either totally failed, or only recived in
telligence of a lack of information, were
inclined to think, or at least to hope,
that the dispatches were greatly exag
gerated.
Those acquainted with the history of
Galveston for the past 25 years were ap
prehensive of a great calamity. They
thought the total submersion of Galves
ton only a matter of time, unless some
means could be found for protecting the
forfndaticins of the city. The expense
of any effectual and durable protection
would prove so great as to be entirely
out of the question at present. The fact
that communication with Houston was
interrupted was considered as very dis
couraging. S. W. House, a guest at the
Grand Central Hotel, and for thirty
years past a resident of Houston, Texas,
gave some information to a reporter of
the Tribune concerning previous de
structive visitations. He was in Galves
ton in 1867, when the oity was submerg
ed to a .depth of seven feet, and states
that it is not uncommon for a strong
east wind to bring in a tidal wave suffi
cient to flood the streets to a depth of
from one to two feet. Mr. House’s
statement was substantially aB follows:
Galveston is situated at the eastern
extremity of Galveston Island, a low
strip of land, a mile wide at the city,
and stretching from the entrance of
Galveston Bay along the coast a dis
tance of 25 or 30 miles. It is little more
than a sand bar, and is separated from
the main land by a navigable channel
two miles wide. The island is perfectly
flat, but notwithstanding its exposed
position produces excellent oranges,
lemonß, bananas, and other tropical
fruits. It is only seven feet above the
sea level at the city, which is built par
tially upon piles. Galveston has a popu
lation of 33,000, and after New Orleans
is the most important commercial city
of the extreme Southwest. It exports
yearly millions of dollars’ worth of cot
ton, hides, tallow, wool, and pecans.—
There were 16,000 bales of cotton stored
in the city before the present inunda
tion, valued at $1,000,000. An English
line of steamships runs between Galves
ton and European ports, and the coast
trade is extensive. Considering the fre
quent recurrence of destructive tidal
waves and the utter exposure of the
city to au enemy in time of war, Mr.
House said, it is a matter of surprise
that enterpise should have placed there
such great commercial interests. The
channel between the island and the main
land farnishes a safe harbor for the
shipping in ordinary weather, but it is
almost sure destruction to vessels to be
found there whenever a large tidal wave
comes rolling in. They are either dash
ed to pieces against the wharves Or
stranded. When there is prospect of
trouble, the shipping makes all haste to
get into Galveston Bay, which offers
comparative security.
The nrost important part of the city is
called the Strand, and fronts upon the
open sea. Here are situated many of
the great warehouses and imposing
business blocks, which, in solidity and
appearance, compare well with the com
mercial buildings of the great Northern
cities. There are no cellars to the houses,
and no wells, for brackish water is
reached by excavating four feet. The
city depends for its water supply upon
cisterns, erected on scaffolds. As the
ground floors of the warehonses, not
withstanding frequent warnings, are al
ways full of merchandise, the destruc
tion of property in this instance must
have been great, as the water is report
ed to have submerged the island to a
depth of seven or eight feet.
Mr. House said that severe eqninoxial
storms usually prevailed between Sep
tember 12 and 25 each year, and that
they were always attended with more or
less danger to the city. Frequently the
winds from the Gulf attain almost the
power of a hurricane. The destructive
storm of 1867 came with frightful ra
pidity upon the city, and to jndge
from the unauthenticated reports the
present storm exceeded that in Intj. The
sailors acquainted with the tropical seas
were the drat to give the alarm, noticing
the falling barometer and the consterna
tion of sea-birds. The storm was pre
ceded by rain. The wind grew stronger
from the east or southeast until it as
sumed the strength of a hurricane,
driving the waters of the Gulf before it.
Suddenly all the wiuds of the Gulf
seemed to converge towards the Texan
coast, and piled np the waters until a
vast wave was sent rolling toward the
coast. This wave, Mr. House said, was
from 30 to 50 feet high, but to the ter
rified inhabitants appeared to be much
higher. The city was flooded to a depth
of seven feet in the course of five hours,
aad after the cessation of the storm the
flood took an equal time to subside. The
destruction to shipping was great. The
streets were filled up with sand. Not
withstanding the annual danger, the city
makes little preparation for snch inun
dations. It is powerless to cope with
them. Previous to 1867 a tidal wave
submerged the island in 1837, when
only two or three houses stood on the
site of the present city. At that time a
great many vessels were left high and
dry on the island.
Mr. House apprehends great loss of
life if the present storm did not abate
within 24 hours, and at last accounts —
not considered to be wholly trustworthy
—it was still raging. It is reported that
He new bridge of the Gulf and Santa
■Ee Railroad, partially built, had been
inhabitants to the main land. Houston,
which is 60 miles up Galveston Bay, is
considered safe. There are several coast
towns of minor importance whioh would
be imperiled if the storm were as great
as that of 1867. Mr. House said that
the dredging fleet was in the bay, 40
miles from Galveston, and being in a
well protected part, was probably safe.
The bay is formed like a basin, with a
small aperture, so that if the storm pre
vailed for any length of time from the
southeast, the water would pile up in
the bay, and then if the wind should
shift to the north, might affect the de
struetion of Galveston, as it rushed back
to the Gulf.
Destruction of San Barnsrdino, Mata
gorda, and Cedar Lake,
New Orleans, September 22. —The
surgeon of the steamship Australian,
ashore at San Barnardino, reports everv
house in San Barnardino washed away.
All the people except five who took
refuge on the steamer were saved. Not
a honse is standing on Buffalo bayou.
Two houses left in Matagorda. The
town of Cedar Lake is washed away.—
All lost.
Boston's Response to Galveston’s Ap
peal.
Boston, September 22 —ln answer to
an appeal for aid from Mayor Davies, of
Galveston, Mayor Cobb authorized him
to draw $5,000 to assist the sufferers by
the recent floods.
New York, September 22.—The Times
speoial from Galveston, 22d, says the
Australia lies five aud a half feet under
water. The body of Will Blunt, lost with
Dr. Peel,is found. Six bodies were found
in different parts of the bay yes
terday. The bark Mary Queen and
schooners Minerva and Amos, from
Houston are high and dry. The schoon
er Adelaide is ashore on high ground.
The schooner Christiana will prove a
total loss. The steamship Harlan gave
all the provisions she oouid spare to In
dianola. The town of Velasco was en
tirely swept. The storm or cyclone ap
pears to have taken in its course a belt
of oountry some forty miles in width,
from the north of Galveston Island, ex
tending to the north of Houston. The
hurricane swept over this entire section
of coast to the west of Indianola into
the Gulf. Galveston was to the south
of the more severe storm.
LETTER FROM ELBERTON.
The Superior Court Business Trans
acted—The Roads—A Rising Law
yer.
Elberton, Ga., September 18, 1875.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
The Superior Court of Elbert county
has just adjourned, after disposing of a
large amount of civil and criminal busi
ness. The local bar—Hon. Robert Hes
ter, Mr. E. P. Edwards, Mr. Johu P.
Shannon, Mr S. N. Carpenter, Mr. J.
T. Osborn, Mr. H. A. Roebuck and Mr.
J. S. Barnett—were all in attendance.
Mr. Joseph Worley, son of Rev. A. G.
Worley, was admitted to the bar after
passing a very creditable examination.
We noticed the following members of
the profession in attendance from other
places, Colonel J. D. Mathews, Mr. W.
G. Johnson and Sam Lumpkin, Solici
tor-General, from Lexiugton; Mr. T. W.
Rucker, from Athens; Messrs. B. F.
Hodges and C. W. Seidel, from Hart
well; and Hon. Wm. M. Reese, Mr. M.
P. lteese, Mr, S. H. Hardeman and
Hon. F. H Colley, from Washington.
We are not advised of the exact na
ture of the civil business transacted nor
of all the criminal cases that were tried.
We will mention, however, the three
principal offenders who were brought to
justice. Henry Almand, colored, was
sent to the penitentiary for ten years for
attempt to commit rape on a little girl
of his own race, nine years of age.
John Swift, also colored, was sentenced
for twenty years for a similar crime up
on a little white girl only five years of
age. King Henry, who several years
ago was tried for the murder of George
W. Allen, convicted of manslaugter aud
sent to the penitentiary for five years,
was before the Court on a charge of bur
glary in the night, to which he plead
guilty. He was sentenced for ten years.
The roads in Elbert are in better con
dition than they have been for years.
This is doe to the diligence and effi
ciency of the officers having these mat
ters in charge.
We cannot close this article without
paying a merited compliment to the
energy and faithfulness of Mr. John T.
Osborn, a rapidly rising young lawyer
of this county. For close and careful
attention to business he is almost peer
less, and we predict for him a bright
and successful future. Snch qualities
as his are bound to win. Yours respect
fully, Spectator.
WASHINGTON COURT.
The Beuch and Bar in Washington.
[Correspondence Macon Telegraph.]
I found the SuperiorConrt in session,
Hon. Herschel V. Johnson presiding.
In addition to the members of the local
bar, there were present from Augusta
ex-Judges J. S. Hook and H. D. D.
Twiggs, and from Sparta Col. John T.
Jordan. There was but little business
done on Saturday, as Judge Johnson
was taken suddenly ill about 12 o’clock.
He, however, recovered so as to be able
to resume a short time in the afternoon
to hear a few motions. The Court is in
session again to-day. Judge Johnson is
a universal favorite here. He is looked
upon as a faithful, impartial, learned,
Christian Judge. His conduct in the
recent trials of Corday Harris and his
associates is regarded by nearly all
classes as having had the happiest ef
fects, and in more nearly settling the
whole question between the races than
any other course that could have been
pursued.
I had the pleasure this morning of
hearing the Judge’s charge to panel
number two of the grand jury of Wash
ington county. It was a most eloquent
address, and if its earnest suggestions
are carried out by the body to whom it
was addressed the public good of the
county will be greatly subserved. He
gave in a special charge the law against
gambling, carrying concealed weapons,
keeping disorderly houses, interrupting
public worship, etc., and undereach of
these heads he explained the law and
showed how, if properly carried out, the
public morals of the county would be
greatly improved. The closing para
graph was grand. He said he had but
few years longer to live, that he had no
ambition to gratify. He intended to de
vote himself for the few remaining years
of his life to promoting peace, good or
der, morals, virtue a;,d building up
good government. If all men would
co-operate in promoting such princi
ples, and they should obtain, then the
miUenium would dawn and a triumph
ant hallelujah woald ring through the
earth.
Miss Elisabeth McCarthy died sud
denly in Colombia last Friday.
The State Committee representing the
Liberal Republican voters of Massachu
setts have issued a lengthy address to
the people of the State, claiming that
the same reasons exist to-day for inde
pendent action that existed three years
ago when they left tne ranks of the Re
publican party. They do not advocate
a separate nomination, but favor the
support of Governor Gaston for re-elec
tion in preference to either Messrs.
Loring or Rice, the Republican aspirants
for gubernatorial nomination.
NUMBER 39,
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS:
They try 50 cent, cases in Griffin.
J. W. Ewing, Esq., of Nashville, will
shortly move to Romo and open a law
I office.
But one person has been hanged in
Morgan county since it was laid off in
1808.
Griffin is chiming in for the State Bap
tist Female College. It is a fine place
‘ for it.
Rev. John P. Lee and wife, of Macon,
had their silver wedding the evening of
the 20th.
Mr. Linton Dean, of Rome, has gone
to Washington City to enter Columbia
I Law School.
Mrs. Eugene P. Speer, of Griffin, is
extremely ill at Judge Speer’s planta
tion, in Whitfield county.
The new Court House for Athens is to
cost $27,597 50. Messrs. Eaves, Mo-
Ginty & Cos. are to build it.
Atlanta drummers use more towels
than any other travelers. One of them,
at an Alabama town, used up seven and
eleven per day.
When the “trained journalist” and
Vhft. “editor who has , a talent,,fos
humorous paragraphing”, lflplt, horns
has lately sechreaan
editor with “a talent for humorous para
graphing,” explains that it is not
i “success” which hus made “idiots” of
the young men of its staff. By no
means.
The Southern Watchman favors the
election of 'Hon. James B. Beck to the
Senate from Kentucky. We doubt
whether Mr. Beck will be elected. The
Watchman also wan s Mr. Kerr elected
Speaker of the House.
The Athens Georgian learns that Mr.
John C. Grier was stricken with paraly
sis last Friday. The same paper Bays
Rufus Riden, of t ie City Mills, had his
left arm badly toru by being oaught in
some machinery, one day last week.
The Enquirer says: Columbus has
now about thirty-two doctors, forty-one
lawyers, five dentists, twelve ministers
and priests, and nineteen teachers. The
lawyers are having the hardest time
about now, as the practice is not very
remunerative.
The local of the Columbus Enquirer
should be attended to. Here is his
latest outrageous production:
A little bee is a little thing, but while upon the
wing,
If you d&ro check its course you’ll surely feel
a sting ;
And so a little woman, if you dare to put her
out,
Will show a piece of devil, such as we read
about.
Specimens from the editorial columns
of the “trained journalist:” "We should
have beeu mistaked.” Evidently there
is a mistake out. “He (Sawyer) is,
doubtless, sincere in ti e behalf that lie
is a splendid journalist.” Wo hope soon
to hear from Sawyer in his owu “be
half” on this point. “They are a class
of men who can be learned nothing from
the experience of others.” Perhaps
they might be taught something if they
were taken in hand by a thoroughly or
ganized, trained journalist.
The Macon Telegraph, of the 21st,
says : “A most unfortunate nccideut,
resulting from a heedless use of lire
arms, occurred in this city Sunday after
noon, in which Miss Sallie Anderson,
daughter of Hon. Clifford Anderson,
received a painful wound in her left
cheek. It seems that she and her cous
in, Harry Anderson, were in a romp,
when he aimed at her a pistol which was
supposed not to be loaded. Unfor
tunately, however, it was loaded, and
the ball entered her left cheek, and
lodged somewhere out of reach of the
surgeon’s probe. It has not yet been
found and we understand that the proba
bility is that it never will be found,
though there is no apprehension that it
will result fatally. Miss Anderson
is an accomplished young lady about
seventeen years of age. She gradu
ated, the past Summer, with hon
or, at the Staunton, Virginia, female
college, winning the medal for pro
ficiency in music. She has the sympa
thy of this entire community, and so
has her cousin, who was the innocent
cause of her affliction. She bears her
misfortune with a wonderful heroism,
and is entirely firm, enduring the pain
of probing with a heroism that almost
amounts to indifference.”
In view of the struggle between New
York and the West as to which shall
furnish the next Democratic candidate
for the Presidency, the South being out
of the question, the Southern Watch
man says a compromise candidate must
come from the Middle States, and asks,
“Who is so well suited for the position
as Senator Bayard, of Delaware ? He is
not only personally unobjectionable,
but his place of residence is precisely
where it ought to be. The small States
have rarely had a showing, and the Mid
dle States are too frequently overlooked.
The career of Senator Bayard in Con
gress has shown him to be not a mere
politician, but a statesman. There are
other men who may have attracted more
attention by their superficial acquire
ments, but there is nothing superficial
about Bayard—he is decidedly conserva
tive and profound. No one dare
question his personal integrity, while
he is, confessedly, very far superior,
intellectually, to the large majority
of the Senators now in Congress."
The Watchman is right. Senator
Bayard hus no superior in the United
States Senate, and he would make a
President of whom all Americans would
be proud anywhere, at anytime. Like
the Chevalier of old, he is saws peur et
earn reproche.
, Marriages.
In Gainesvil|e, Bth, O. M. Dobbs to
Letitia McCamy.
In Philadehihia, 15th, Philip Ham
mershlag, of Philadelphia, to Miss Hen
rietta Gardner, of Savannah.
Deaths.
In Forrestville, 14tl*, John Wade.
In Chattooga, Ilth, Dallas Moore.
In Clarke county, 10th, B, W. Cash.
In Chattooga, 9th, Mrs. Maria Moore.
In Greene county, 16th, J. A. Arnold.
In Savannah, 20th, Mrs. A. J. J.
Blois.
In Griffin, 18th, Mrs. Cynthia Chap
man.
In Greensboro, 13th, infant of E. G.
Leach.
Near Snmmerville, recently, Joseph
Gross.
In Athens, recently, infant of Mrs.
Welch.
In Atlanta, 20th, infant sou of J. W.
Clarson.
In Columbus, 15th, Mrs. Martha
Gresham.
In Athens, recently, child of A. L.
Bearing.
In Concord, N. H., 18th, Mr.
Roach, of Savannah, yellow fever.
In Mississippi, recently, C. T. Cun
ningham, formerly of Rome.
In Anniston, Ala., 19tb, Capt. James
T. Jarman, an old citizen of Rome.—
Apoplexy.
Bismarck wrote to his wife in July,
1851 : “The day before yesterday I went
to Wiesbaden, and looked with a mix
ture of sadness and premature wisdom
at the scenes of my former follies. If
only it would please God to fill up with
clear strong wine the vessel in which at
twenty-one the muddy champagne of
youth frothed up to so” little purpose 1
* * * How many of those with whom
I flirted and drank and gambled are
now under ground 1 What changes my
views of life haveuudergpne in tne four
teen years that have elapsed since that
time, each in its turn seeming to me the
correct one; how much that I then
thought great now appears small; bow
much now seems honorable which I
then despised I”
The following address was recently
delivered at the funeral of a San Fran
cisco type-setter : “Our brother, Mr.
John Harlan, is dead. His last letter is
distributed, bis case is empty, bis stick
is full, the last line is spaced out, and
the Clicking of the type is no moVe
heard as etnek by his hand, his para
graph is made, ape iod put in, his last
proof is taken, his galley cleared. His
form is made up and ljes upon the cold
imposing stone of death, silent, lifeless.
His faults are set in diamond and pied,
so that no more proof can be taken, His
virtues are set in six-line pica, colored,
framed, and hung on the walls of memo
ry, never to be forgotten. Be warned
and be ready. Correct your proof.”
Mrs. J. E. B Stuart, the widotf of the
noted Confederate General of oavalry,
lias become an instrnctor in the South-*
?rn Female College, Richmond, Va.