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Address WALSH A WKIOHT,
CHBoncLE k Hestixki- Ang'i'i^toO*^
Chronicle ant> Sentinel
WEDNESDAY.. OCTOBER 13, 1875.
MINOR TOPICS.
SMMMMMNHVNNNK
with the Star Spangle* Banner for wear during
the Centennial season. Well, girls, that’, all
right. Bat don't-don't .tuff "the old flag"
with .aw dost.
A Cincinnati corpse roue in it* coffin and
quietly remarked: "I feel very queer. The
two young men who were sitting up with it
hail important business down town the next
moment, and did not hesitate to pan. out
through the window to attend to it either.
The New York Commercial Advertiser say.
all the ocean steamship companies have sunk
money on nearly every passage for two or
throe years past. The Bremen line has lost
$1,115,000 in two years, the Hamburg $400,000
during the past year, and the White Star, In
man, National and Canard lines not loss than
$4,000,000.
The Detroit Free Press can’t see how any
man "can coolly and deliberately eat a lobster
—a big, clawy, horrid, red lobster." Nor can
we. It is not wholly impossible that we might
be induced to swallow a small piece for the
wealth of the Indies, hut we would much
rather swallow a steam threshing machine un
der full headway for two dollars and a half.
In a late letter on international copy-right
to the New York Tribune, Charles Iteade, the
fanions English novelist, mildly remarks that
"the greatest asses God has ever made are lit
tle lawyers. Your little lawyer is a man who
lias parted with the good sense of the
layman, and lias not advanced one inch to
ward the science of a Mansfield or a Story."
It is a pailful sight to see a sweet, iuuoceiit
child crushed to death by a railroad train; it is
a painful sight to see whole companies of one’s
countrymen mowed down in battle by a tein
pest of shot and shell; and it is a painful sight
to see one’s great-grand-mottier blown out of
a seventy-two pounder; hut to the man of re
fined taste, what are these compared to the
sight of a beautiful girl meandering forth in
striped stockings ?
The wrath of the English over Honduras
ttuances is justifiable. Sir. Guiterrez, the
Honduras minister, misrepresented affairs to
British capitalists and got $211,000,000 for tlio
purposo of effecting “internal improvements."
As the revenues of the State are only $388,000
and the Governmental expenses far exceed
'that sum. it is likely that tlio aspiring capital
ists in England aro not likely to get tlioir
money back very soon, nor will they lend any
nioro after the recent developments.
There is no telling what a man can make of
himself until he tries. When Mr. E. G. Boss,
of Kansas, got to ho United States Senator,
he might well have supposed that ho had
reached tlio highest point of all liis greatness,
hut, with a determination worthy of tho
heroes of tlio olden time, lie made another
rush upward, and found himself foreman in
tlio office of the Lawrence Journal. After a
year in that position ho lias become assistant
editor of the paper. Boss is a mau whom it is
a real pleasure for the true Christian to bet on.
Tlio arrangements at Woolwich for the proof
of tlio eighty-ton gun are complote, and the
trial, which will take place in about a month,
is looked forward to with interest. The proof
projectiles, each of which weighs about 1,300
pounds— more than half a ton—have been cast
at tt,o steel foundry of the Royal I.abaratorv,
WoolWiCk, and aro being fitted with crusher
gangei to pressure to which they
subjected it) the discharge. They are flat
headed. and Dill he fired With charges of 250
pounds of" gunpowder. The anticipated diffi
culty of moving the gun from place to place
has disappeared, every provision having been
made to meet it.
Some of tho industrious Russian astrono
mers suppose they have discovered that the
moon is inhabited, and that a number of lunar
observers have hoisted an immenso mirror for
the purpose of catching reflections from tho
earth. A peculiarly bright spot which has been
shining on tho edge of the moon for mouths
has led Ibem to the supposition. From this
discovery it may l>o inferred that unless Iho
gentlemen in tlio moon put a curb on their
curiosity, they may* drop down upon us any
day; and if our ideas of civilization should
not happen to agree with theirs, we should, of
course, have a real old-fashioned inter-plftiie
tary row on our hands.
There is already In Baris a eomiuuiy for con
ducting funerals, and now we are told in one
of Mrs. Lucy Hooper's latest letters that a
corporation to hear the same thing iu relation
to marriages is on foot. The new company
will get tip weddings of all prices and dimen
sions, front the humblest of marriages up to
-lupttals fit for a millionaire. The huge desert
ed buildings of the Magasins Bennie are spo
ken of as the probable locale for this new en
terprise. A chapel and a branch of the mayor
alty will be installed therein, so that tho civil
and religious marriages can tako place under
the same roof. A superb restaurant au4 a
spacious hail room for the ensuing festivities
will also form part of the establishment. Car
riages, lawyers, priests, suppers, nay. even the
wedding finery, will bo furnished by this en
terprising firm. If only they add a marriage
.•agency, such as seems to thrive iu several
parts of Paris, to their matrimonial facilities,
tho whole affair will be perfect, only lacking
an American branch for divorces to carry out
the idea to its fullest extent.
Among <!> growl* upon which the wrll of
the late Capt. Ward, of Detroit, is contested, j
is the allegation that he consulted the spirits
iu making his will. Oapt. Ward left a very
larjt* fortune, which by his will he disposed of
in a manner unsatis r aetorv to his lcg\l heirs,
and his sous have instituted proceedings to
set it aside. The case was brought up in the
Detroit Circuit Court the other day. but was
postponed on the affidavit that au important
witness. Heurr Slade, the noted spirit medium
in New York City, was ill and unable to attend
Oapt. Ward was a Spiritualist, and liis sous al- j
low that they can prove by Slade that the lat- j
tfr was consulted by their father previous to !
making his will; that the spirits of Hubert j
L,you and a near relative of the family, named :
Oara. was sailed and questioned by the tes
tator; that Capt. Ward received communica
tions in writing purporting to come from these
spirits, and that he afterward informed Slade .
that he had made the will substantially as the
spirits dictated. The sons hold that this af- j
fords unquestionable evidence that their!
father was of uusonnd mind at the time, and i
incapable of executing a valid testameut.
Of al! the many definitions of the won!.
"trouble" which at* to be found in Mr. Web
ster's unabridged dictionary, there is none that
more forcibly conveys to our understandings
what real trouble is than ths situation of the
boy who suffered in Arkansas. A solitary
horseman on the highway t business *inmer,
mounted) halted before a dilapidated log cabin,
where a stout boy of seventeen sat upon the
door-sJI nursing a baby. The boy cried vio
lently and looked like a picture of abject de
spair, but the baby was serene and happy as a
clam in the sand. Inquired the kind-hearted
and sympathetic horseman, who had notions to
noli. “What on dry-land ails you; bubby, that
yoa cry so ?” "Oh ! it's a heap that ails me,"
.replied the boy through sobs and tears; "1
•ran t g oflt'u this door-step. Mister, but (boo
foo-boo-00-oo) do you see that cabin over thar
m the timber ?" ‘‘l do." replied the traveler,
••Well," continued the boy. "dad’s in thar dead
druuE ; mother died day fore yesterday; sister
Sal s 'loped off across the meader with a half
breed ; brother Bill's down in the barn playin'
poker with a marked deck at a stranger; thar
hain't been no rain, Mister, in the whole coun
ty alt this Summer, and the water's done gin
out; and this here baby is —, well. I’ve done
broke down with trouble, that's all. and it s the
matter with ms. Mister, that I'm in a awful
fix." The sun rolled on toward the great West,
and the traveler continued his journey, con
vinced that in those parts at least earth had
too many sorrows for him.—jJo/wi GUuitt.
PHILADELPHIA AND THE SOUTH
ERN COASTING TRADE.
The Philadelphia North American
notea the agreeable fact tint there has
been a marked increase in the arrival
and departure of colliers since the ad
justment of the mining troubles. The
maritime business of the port, in fact,
ia now much greater than it has been
for years. Notwithstanding this gen
eral and marked improvement,Jiowever,
some disasters that occurred to ships of
the Southern line, co-operating with
rivalry from other ports for the limited
business of the South there, have serv
ed to lessen their number and-the num -
ber of ports they visit, until there are
but two running and both to Savannah.
Savannah has gtadually been made the
port of a great inferior by its spreading
railways; and railways extending along
the whole' coast and penetrating to
every portion of the South have placed
Northern tthippers in quick connection
with eveiy district. Still there are
many freights that prefer water trans
portation ami will have it, and this af
fects not only outward but the return
cargoes and business of every sort. This
decline at Philadelphia has been fol
lowed by increased steamships from
other Northern ports to ovary principal
tint service
wfifi Savannah ~is contested by Boston
and New York. The editor, in order to
enable Philadelphia to maintain its po
tion, therefore, urges the merchants
there to desist from shipping by other
ports and patronize their own vessels.
"INSURRECTION" TWADDLE.
The Griffin News ably seconds the
Chronicle and Sentinel in its advice to
the people not to be deceived by reports
of “risings” and “insurrections.” The
News, too, throws some light upon the
manner in which the letters aro manu
factured which give information of
deep laid schemes of insurrection and
which are discovered in the neighbor
hood of a colored church or drill
ground. The News says that
Recently one of these incendiary documents
was pickod up near a negro church in the
northern part of this county, which is pretty
much the same as those found elsewhere, and
parties who have examined it express the
opinion that it was the work of some man who
understood the English language and was ac
customed to the use of the pen, and that it was
done for the purpose of creating excitement or
for baser uses. It is all wrong and tends only
to make society uneasy, frighten women and
children out of their wits and give designing
scoundrels ri oppoitunity to perpetrate some
outrage! they are two cowardly to attempt with
out having some such shelter as paining it off
on an ignorant class, behind which to hide
their cowardly infamy. Away with such stuff,
and lets try to live in peace and harmony and
all work together for the general welfare and
prosperity of our country.
We are afraid that there is too much
truth in the News' conjecture that these
letters are written by thoughtless or
malignant white persons who wish to
cause their neighbors anxiety and alarm.
No punishment would be too severe for
the authors of such missives if they
could be detected. But as they cannot be
discovered, the people should pay no
attention to their letters. We quite
agree with the News that the “ordinary
incendiary letter picked up in the road,
woods, or some secluded spot, is getting
to be a greater nuisance than the old
Southern outrago business.”
The Atlanta Herald publishes rumors
that “tho negroes of Slerriwether coun
ty were threatening an insurrectionary
movement, and that the white people
had petitioned the Governor to order
out the military for their protection.”
We are glad to learn, through the same
source, that Governor Smith declined
to accede to tho request, being satisfied
that there was no reason to apprehend
any trouble. Governor Smith acted
wisely and well, and we hope will con
tinue to refnse all such silly requests.
Tho insurrection business is becom
ing a nuisance, which should be sum
marily abated by the press whenever
and wherever it makes its appearance.
Philadelphia is agitated over au an
swer to the original conundrum: “Is it
outrage or law ?” propounded by the
city papers, in every instance outrage
and law beiug spelt with a largo O and a
capital L. A well known caterer,* Henry
Jones, having departed this life his
widow gave instructions that he should
he buried at a place of interment known
as Mount Moriah Cemetery. Before the
remains of the caterer started upon their
final journey the Superintendent of the
Cemetery wrote the sorrowing spouse a
note stating that the lot chosen belong
ed to a man named Boileau. The pro
cession halted until Mr. Boileau could
be seen and os Jones while] living had
purchased the section from him he gave
au order to the Superintendent to per
mit the burial. Armed with this the
funeral cortege was about to set out
wheu the Superintendent sent word that
the body would not be admitted to the
cemetery, and it had to be taken some
where else for interment. The Super
intendent says he was acting under in
structions from the Board of Managers
of Mount Moriah, and while rather
reticeut to the reporters, admits that
“there is a very strong prejudice on the
part of the lot owners against the grant
ing of permission of burial to colored
persons." The relict of the caterer has
employed counsel and proposes to have
her rights adjudicated by the Courts.
If such au occurrence had happened in
the South the North would have been
very indignant but as the privileges of
the man and brother have been violated
iu Phiisdelphia we suppose it is all
right.
YVc feel iu the disposition to prophesy,
says the New York Sun, that if the
Democratic party carry all the elections
up to and including that of November,
1876, it will uot this year, nor next year,
nor the year after next, put through
Congress auy legislation that will secure
the inflation of the currency. We might
prophesy for years beyond those named,
but it does uot seem worth while to
gtretch the mind or memory of the
people.
The Cincinnati Enquirer publishes a
long story of the appearance at the sta
tion house in that city of a drunken and
half starved fellow who described him
self as the Confederate cavalryman Gen. ;
William Wheelf.r. The Enquirer and
the other papers which hare eopied the
article may as well restrain their spasms.
The celebrated Confederate cavalry com
mander is, we think, in business in Sew
Orleans; his name is Joseph, not Wil
liam Wheeler and he is neither a drunk
ard nor a tramp.
W
The true inwardness of Mr. Fernando
Wood is revealed by his denial of ihe
report that he had raised money for the
Democratic canvass in Ohio and his
statement that he had neither raised nor
given a dollar to “assist the election of
Allks.” Mr. Fernando Wood is said
to be a candidate for the Speakership of
a Democratic House of Representatives.
We hope that Southern and Western
Congressmen will be careful to cast their
ballots for someone else.
George I. Fox's trouble is said to be
paralysis of '.he facial muscles, brought
on by using chloride of bismuth in
whitening his face for the stage. This
affection, of coarse, incapacitates him
for his particular line of business, in
which he has always made facial extor
‘ tion so important.
THE POE MONUMENT.
The Committee on the Poe Monument, Prof.
Wnxiijc Elliott, Chairman, appointed by the
Baltimore Teachers’ Association, is now making
arrangements for the dedication of the monu
ment. It is proposed to hifve present some of
the distingu.shed poets of the Northern cities,
and Miss Bice, a member of the committee,
has addressed letters of invitation to Long
fellow, Whittiek, Bbvast, Holmes and
Lowell. Replies have been received from
Yv M. Cullen Bbyai - T pus G. Whittiek and
Oliyeb Wendell Holmes, which are to be read
on the day of the dedication, which will be
towards the latter part of October. It has not.
as yet,‘been ascertained whether any of the
poets fo Whom the invitation were addressed
will be present at the dedicatory exercises.
Ths above is taken from a resent
issue Of the Baltimore American. It is
stated that Bryant, Longfellow, Whit
tier and “other distinguished poets of
the Northern cities” have been invited
to attend the dedication of a monument
erected to a Southern poet, but we are
not informed that any Southern poet
has been asked to attend. Of course we
thiDk tbq committee have doDe right in
soliciting the presence of “distinguished
poets from the Northern cities;” but we
also think the committee have acted with
great rudeness and conspicuous bad
taste in confining their invitations to
Northern poets. Mr. Poe was a South
ern f*f*. If remains are buried in a
Southern city, and whiW Ills fame be
longs to the whole country his genius
peculiarly illustrated the South. While
the South is not rich in living authors
there are two at least who have deserv
edly won great reputation and whose
presence at this memorial ceremony
would be especially fitting. Wo, of
course, allude to Paul H. Hayne and
James R. Randall. These men are the
most gifted and the best known of
Southern poets, their fame is not
bounded by State or sectional lines, and
they have taken deserved rank among
the foremost poets of the nation. These
gentlemen, if we are not very much mis
taken, started the movement which has
culminated in the erection of this memo
rial, and Mr. Randall, as editor of the
Constitutionctlist, gave it valuable assist
ance and contributed in no small degree
to its success. We do not, know that
the invitations have been confined to
Northern poets, but this is the inference
to be drawn from the article which we
publish above. A failure to invite
Hayne and Randall to this ceremony
in honor of their brother poet will be
considered a slight to the whole South.
THE OCTOBER OUTLOOK.
The New York Bulletin says : With
the incoming of October the Autumn is
sufficiently advanced to enable the ob
server to form some judgment as to the
drift and extent of the Fall trade, con
cerning which there are so many diverse
opinions. Without entering into nfinute
details—-which would only be a repeti
tion of facts we have been recording
from day to day during the past month’
—it need only be said, that while trade
for September was probably not up to
the anticipations of people who are ac
customed to indulge sanguine hopes
without duly considering whether these
are warranted by the surrounding con
ditions, but little is risked in saying that
in many of the leading branches the
sales in the aggregate have been quite
up to those of previous seasons, when
there was less croaking. If all the others
have not done as favorably as was ex
pected, it is well to bear in mind that
the Autumn is not half over yet, and
that with a continuance of the present
delightful weather, considerable acces
sions to the large number of country
buyers now here are We say
nothing as to the shrinkage of prices,
nor on the point whether large sales in
the present peculiar couditiou of the
markets imply large profits. Cause and
effect iu both these respects are so well
understood that it would be tedions to
dwell upon them. It will be remembered
that last Fall there was too much com
plaint all through September and Octo
ber about the backwardness and un
profitableness of business; yet, it is also
remembered, when merchants began to
to balance their books later on, not a
few of them were astonished to see how
much better off they were than they had
suspected. The probability that these
experiences may be repeated this season
admonishes one to accept with many
abatements the perhaps too common
complaint that the season thus far has
beeu one of depression and disappoint
ment.
THE NEW CONSTITUTION FOR
ALABAMA.
The Nashville American says the Ala
bama Constitutional Convention ad
journed Saturday after a session of
twenty-seven days. The new Constitu
tion which it adopted is now to be sub
mitted to the people of Alabama, for
their ratification or rejection, some time
within the next sixty days, as may be
determined and proclaimed by the Gov
ernor. A good many important changes
were wrougfft in the organic law of the
State. The new instrument inhibits
the exercise of all power by the General
Assembly, to lend the money or the
credit of the State to works of internal
improvements. The State had become
so seriously involved by too much li
cense in this particular in the past, that
some such constitutional restriction was
requisite. On the delicate question of
suffrage and the right of secession, the
Convention rose courageously to the
dignity of practical statesmanship. The
disposal of the first, by the declaration
that “no educational or property quali
fications for suffrage or office, nor any
restraint upon the same on account of
race, color or previous condition of ser
vitude, shall be made by law,” attests
that the Democrats of Alabama, while
in power, do not propose to interfere !
with any established rights of citizen
ship to the negro. The disposal of the
second question was simply the recogni
! tion of an historical fact. Roth bring
the fundamental law of the State into
harmony with the spirit of the times.
Among other constitutional changes the
Convention limited the General Assem
; bly in levying taxes for State purposes
to the rate of tluee-fonrths of one per
cent, per annum; abolished the Board
j of Education, Bureau of Industrial Re
i sources, and also the office of Lieutenant-
Governor; provides for a redaction of
| twenty-five per cent, upon executive and
| judicial salaries, and otherwise reduces
j State current expenses $150,000 annual
i ly; it separates the time of holding the
< State and federal elections, so that
Federal bayonets will no longer be
brought to bear upon the citizens while
choosing their representatives in their
| local government. There are so many
desirable changes of this kind effected,
and the relief promised is so apparent
that there can be saaraely a doubt that
the action of the Convention will be fati
fied with unmistakable emphasis at the
ballot boe.
The Atlanta Herald announces that
"Sam Bard, a well known dentist of
that city,” has deserted Grant and pro
claimed in favor of Washbubnh. We
alwavs thought that Bard was “too
unanimous” for Grant. We have no
doubt that the diversion in favor of
Washbubxe will pay him a handsome
interest on the investment —provided
the Democratic party does not go to
Allmighty smash on the currency ques
tion.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MfRNING, OCTOBER 13, 1575.
THE TENNESSEE CAR COMPANY.
Our Atlanta correspondent states that
a few days ago, two notes, amounting to
twenty thousand dollars, held by the
Eliot National Bauk, of Boston, were
presented to Governor Smith for pay
ment. These notes, it is stated, were
given by the Western and Atlantic Rail
road, during Bullock’s administration,
in payment for certain cars furnished by
the “ Tennessee Car Company.” It is
also stated that Governor Smith has the
question of the payment or non-pay
ment of theso notes under considera
tion. We do not'think that much con
sideration is neoessary in such a case.
If the affidavits of witnesses and the re
port of a Legislative investigating com
mittee are entitled to any credit the
claim is fraudulent and should not be
allowed. One of the cleverest swindles
of Bullock’s administration, an admin
istration which was prolific in artistic
rascality, was the Tennessee Car Com
pany. Like all the great strokes of ge
nius, it was as simple as it was success
ful. According to the testimony,
there was really no such corpora
tion. Nominally the Tennessee
Car Company manufactured cars
and numbered among its officers the
great developer, H. L- Kimball. This
Blodgett to sell some forty or fifty
thousand dollars worth of ears to the
State Road. Bullock approved the
contract, and ordered its execution by
Blodgett. Subsequently bills were
presented, under the contract, for the
ears, audited, passed and paid either in
cash or by note. On the investigation
it was proven that the Tennessee Car
Company had never made a car for the
State Road, and that tho State Road
had never received a car from the Ten
nessee Car Company. The State was
simply “developed” out of all the cash
which changed hands in this transac
tion. If the notes held in Boston were
given in payment for a portion of the
cars agreed to be delivered under this
fraudulent contract, Governor Smith
should not hesitate a moment to refuse
their payment. The people of Georgia
were robbed of too much money under
the Bullock regime to assume any
more of the dishonest liabilities of that
thieving administration. It is a little
singular that the Eliot National Bank
of Boston should have waited so long
before presenting its claim for collec
tion. If the notes were made in 1870, at
the time wheu the stealing was pro
gressing so vigorously, they have been
due five years—a period of time almost
sufficiently long to bar the collection of
a note made by a private individual.
Why so long a delay? Perhaps the
Eliot National Bank imagines that the
wire edge has been taken off the wrath
of the people of Georgia, and that they
are now willing to reeoguize the rascal
ly contracts made by the rogues of the
Bullock regime. If it does it is very
sadly mistaken.
IS IT TRUE THAT BUSINESS IS
IMPOVING.
[American Grocer.]
Assuming that the leading journals of the
country afford a fair reflex of the popular sen
timent in its different phases, we may say that
our business classos especially, and almost all
othe rs in fact, are possessed at this moment
with one anxiety. Never for any purpose were
the appearances of land or sea or sky more at
tentively noted than at the preseat time are
scrutinized all those phenomena which go to
make up what is known as the business out
look, and it may with truth be said that never
were tho recorded observations of a more con
flicting and contradictory character. It doeß
not matter much, however, what are the
opinions of any one person on this en
grossing subject, the one thing* in which the
whole world has an interest is the truth, and
how to arrive at that and recoguiz3 it when
found is the problem. It is quite certain that
at tho present moment very much that is re
ported with l regard to business is untrue. It
would be utterly impossible to devise
anything likely to have a more depressing ef
fect upon the mind of a business man than the
reports which have recently been printed, es
pecially with regard to tho dry goods market,
and yet on turning to other quarters tho same
picture is painted in the gayest of colors, and
every unsatisfactory particular is scouted as
coming from an inveterate croaker. It cannot
be that the truth rests on both sides, and just
what is wanted is to know its precise locality,
for in this case it is assuredly better to know
the wot st, than to have the worst come upon
ns unannounced and unprepared for.
For our own part we see nothing to modify
the views recently expressed in this paper
with regard to a substantial improvement in
business generally. Had this widespread im
pression been a mere idea, fathered by a wish,
it would have already shared the fate of pre
vious revivals that existed only in imagination;
but iu all parts of the country we find it reso
lutely persisted in. From sections the most
remote from each other the accounts reach us,
and they all agro*. While Savannah reports a
general animation and liberal buyers, Chicago
speaks of increased business throughout the
West and Northwest, St. Louis says trade is
good, and Boston, the least hopeful, neverthe
less speaks of improvement. The opinions of
the most promiuent men in almost every de
partment of trade have of late been moat ac
tively canvassed, with a view to getting at the
real condition of things in this city, and though
they are not unanimous, by far the majority
report a gratifying increase of business, while
if we are to credit some, they have really more
than they can properly attend to. But then it
is contended that these transactions are at no
profit, and even at positive lots in some cases.
This has, however, been flatly contradicted, as
iu the case of Messrs. H. B. Claflin & Cos., re
specting whom it was said that their recent
sale of 7,000 cases of prints at prices lower than
ever before known in the country, was but the
precursor of the close of the manufacturer’s
establishment. The version which the Messrs.
Claflin give of the affai-, viz , that though
these good did not bring great profit, season
able productions from the same works sold
readily at regular prices, is certainly a differ
ent one. There has been a marked decline
in domestic goods, especially such as are "off
color,’ and the following maybe taken as an
approximately correct estimate of the shrink
age in the wholesale market : Cotton goods,
10 to 121 per cent.; woolen dress goods, 15 to
20; brown goods, sto 7|; bleached goods, 10
to 121 ; fiannel goods, 10 to 121 ; blankets, Ac.,
7| to 8. The decline in the retail market can
not be estimated. a%it is more varied. One of
the most promising features presented to onr
manufacturers is, that with the improved
quality of their goods, if by the general level
ing down throughout the country the cost of
production cap lie diminished, they have a wide j
field opening for the sals at their articles. ;
! especially in China and India, where their com- i
petition is already being sensibly felt by the
English.
With regard to other branches of business j
those engaged speak favorably, and the tale is j
different frog) what it has ever been before 1
eince the panic. Our best wholesale grocery 1
houses report business to be better than for a j
long time past, and, as we recently stated. I
there is some improvement in most depirt- I
ments of trade, apd generally the volume is up
to the expectations of the more moderate and j
better advised class of authorities. Lastly, j
the characteristics of the mode of purchasing
thia Fall, which we recently described, the ob
served caution and scrutiny as to quality and
price, and the tendency to a hand-to-mouth
system of baying, everywhere observed and
everywhere commented on, indicate most
positively a change of some kind, and this im
j mens© amount of talk about the times would
I uot have arisen had things been going on in
j quite the old way. It is but reasonable to con
| elude, allowing for exaggerated reports and,
; we fear, for willful misrepresentation also, pre
pared, as has been hinted, under the pressure
of stock market influence, that a crisis of some
; kind has been passed, and in the face of the
! downright assurances from so many quarters
of revived prospects, of splendid crops and of
i depleted stocks of the articles that the people
i of ;h;s country, be their what
'■ they may. cannot do without, there must be
| some perversity in the mind, to our way of
! thinking, that refuses to believe that the
! effects of the panic, from which we have all
; suffered so long, are surely, if but slowly,
j passing away.
j One of the beet evidences of the increased
1 volume of business is afforded in the fact that
our leading transportation e now and
have for some rime been cairjßiaimore freight
than ever a fact ari&fiSß inconsistent
with any other explanation business
is improving. A.
HR ATLANTA. H^TER.
Governors Smith and Johnson Recon
ciled—The Difficulty jHßhsted—Col.
J. T- Hmith-The Deveßtfcr Again—
Kimball's True Inwtyafneas The
Tennessee Car GostSKuy Bare
faced Frauds -Sawyerthe War-
Path.
(ijpw-ia/ Sentinel.]
Atlanta, Oefij||pr 5, 1875.
A Happy a^Concill|tlon.
It gives me plefißflte tlpnnounce to
your renders that thorongwind cordial
friendship has been teaflwxl between
ex-Governor Herschel and
Governor Smith. This jripfifyiug re
sult was attained.. the instru
mentality of mutual the
gent Icf j i i-tj wli-i had befaHßriute. To
the credit of both when up
on the subject, they . were found to be
more than willing toftersnififfite “the late
unpleasantness,” Aha blorjput all that
had ever passed betweenJjgi||n that was
disagreeable. or ex
acted of the but
each agreed to |§ J i*& er forever
and remember their no more.
Those who intereßkjtfeflKßaaselvea to
brill/ ab.utt this result d$9K from the
purest motivea. SBfiTTOg warm per
sonal friendship for distin
guished
ing to see them atpeaee; speak in terms
of high commendation of the spirit
manifested by each one, and of the
readiness with which each acceded to a
just and reasonable proposition. This
good work was effected some months
ago, but it has not heretofore bpen made
known to the public through the press
or otherwise.
Col. Joseph T. Smith.
Col. Joseph T. Smith, of your city,
long a member of the late firm of Jen
nings, Smith & Cos., is in the city. Col.
Smith was born and reared in Elbert
county; and in Elbert, Hart, Oglethorpe,
Greene, Lincoln and Wilkes counties,
he enjoys the high test reputation for
strict business integrity and the best of
habits and conduct every way. The
firm failed last SpriDg but did so hon
orably. As soon as they saw they were
in a condition where their assets would
not more than pay out, they stopped at
once and made an assignment.' I was
told some time ago that among their
numerous customers —who were farmers
all overithe counties named and others—
not a single one lost a cent. All were
paid in full to the uttermost farthing,
and their assets are believed to be suffi
cient to pay all their other creditors in
full. I have not the pleasure of knowing
any member of the firm except Col.
Smith. Such high honor is characteris
tic of him. He is continuing the busi
ness on his own account, and I am glad
to know is receiving the patronage of
those who formerly employed his firm to
sell their cotton—among them some of
the heaviest planters in Georgia. I did
not learn these facts from Col. Smith,
but mention some of them as a remark
able instance of business integrity dur
ing times “that try men’s souls.”
H. 1. Kimball and the Tennessee Car
Company.
I learn that a few days ago two notes
held by the Eliot National Bank of Bos
ton, aggregating about $20,000, were
presented to Gov. Smith for payment.
These notes are a few scattering rem
nants of the notes and contracts growing
out of the transactions of a mythical
company during Bullock’s reign, called
“The Tennessee Car Company,” under
which name the State was defrauded
out of over $60,000 according to evidence
“adduced by the legislative investigat
ing committee.” I have taken the pains
to examine the record and find that pre
vious to the year 1870 there existed a
company called the Tennessee Car Com
pany, the Georgia stockholders of whom
were H. I. Kimball, E. N. Kimball, Jno.
Rice (now of Milwaukie), and Campbell
Wallace, banker of this city. The busi
ness of this company consisted in rent
ing some passenger coaches to the Nash
ville anil Northwestern Railroad, but
about the beginning of the year 1870 this
road passed into the hands of the Nash
ville and Chattanooga Railroad and the
“Tennessee Car Company” ceased to
exist. John- Rice was President of the
company, and he together with the
foregoing testifies substantially as fol
lows: “I am shown an original contract
iu writing purporting to have been
made between the ‘Tennessee Car Com
pany,’ by E. N. Kimball, manager,
and tho W. & A. R. R. by Foster
Blodgett, Superintendent, approved by
Rufus B. Bullock, dated Atlanta, April
5, 1870, to furnish the State Road with
fifty box cars at SBSO a car, and several
notes purporting to be made by Foster
Blodgett, payable to the order of the
Tennessee Car Company, in amount
$30,000, da'ted after the contract. This
contract was not made by the Tennessee
Car Company, or with my knowledge
(and he was President and Director),
and I never received any money on the
contract or from the collection of these
notes, and never knew of their execu
tion. The Tennessee Car Company
never had any box cars, nor did our
company ever have any transaction with
the Western and Atlantic Railroad, or
any other company, as late as 1870. The
first information i had of any of these
transactions was from a newspaper no
tice of the arrest of Blodgett, in which
the name of the Tennessee Car Compa
ny was mentioned. I repaired to New
York, where I found the Kimballs, and
demanded of them on what authority they
had used the name of the Tennessee
Car Company in their business. They
admitted they had no authority of the
company or any individual member of
it to use the name, but said they had
had the opportunity of contracting with
the W. & A. R. R. for the sale of cars
by which they could make a profit, and
had used the name of the Tennessee
Car Company. They agreed to make an
explanation ol their conduot to Camp
bell Wallace, of Atlanta, a member of
the old company, but they never did
it.” Hero ends the testimony of Rice.
The Fifty Cars Never Delivered.
The yard master of the road testifies
that these fifty oars, or no one of them,
were ever received by the road, and
they never have been found up to this
time, yet there is undoubted evidence of
the fact that the money for them was
received, or at least a large portion of
it. Yet it seems that H. I. Kimball, a
Director of the old Tennessee Car Com
pany, after its dissolution, by certifi
cate of Gov. Bnllock, negotiated
the notes of the State for the payment
of this spurious debt. At least this
is the testimony of the Eliot National
Bank of Boston in presenting the notes
for payment. The Governor has the
question of paying these notes under
consideration. Such are the facts taken
from the city record. The Common
ivealth of this city has the independence
and manliness to present this question
again before the public in the face of
the “tprrible” “Great Developer.” Such
a spirit of independence, candor and
courage ought not to be tolerated, and
the people, under the lead of the “Great
Developer,” ought to rise in their might
and crush this man who has the imper
tinence to publish any truth or fact
calculated to reflect on the integrity of
this enterprising citizen of Georgia, the
“Great Developer.” Halifax.
Gen. Sherman’s Memoirs stirred up a
great buzz among military men, but his
brother officers have hitherto been chary
of committing themsqlves to formal re
plies. Gen. J. H. Wilson, of cavalry
fame has at last, however, thrown down
the gauntlet. Two articles in recent
numbers of one of the magazines (The
Galaxy) are from his pen. They review
Sherman candidly but not kindly, de
clare of him that hq cannot be assigned
the highest rank among the great cap
tains of the world, or even of our own
country; that neither his judgment nor
his courage ia of the highest order, and
that they are not in harmonious equili
brium. Gen. Wilson farther contends
that Sherman is not the equal of Grant
in judgment or courage, though he ex
cels him in brilliancy; that he is inferior
to Thomas in steadiness and resolution,
far surpassed by Sheridan in courage,
and excelled by Uptcn as a tactician
and general student of the military art.
Finally, the critic concludes that the
Memoirs will cause their author to be
assigned a lower place than might other
wise have fallen to ids lot.
<m m.
There are $55,000 in the military chest
of Mississippi, which Governor Ames is
desirous of using this Fall. As, how
ever, the injunction granted by Chief
J astice Peyton cannot be dissolved till
after the argument, which begins on the
18th inst., he is not likely to profit mnch
i by the movement.
PRESIDENT GRANT.
Des Moines, lotva, September 30,
1875.—Th0 meeting of the Army of the
Tennessee at the Opera House," in this
oity, last night, was very largely attend
ed. Speeches were made by General
Sherman, Governor Fletcher, of Mis
souri ; Colonel Fred. Grant, General
Myer (“Old Probabilities”), and many
others, but the chief interest was in the
speech of President Grant. He was
loudly called for by the audience. He
then advanced to the footlights, and
said that he supposed he was called
upon because he was the first comman
der of the Army of the Tennessee; and,
secondly, because he always made short
speeches. He said that he had expected
to be called upon and had therefore re
duced his remarks to writing. He then
from his pocket a paper, whioli he
read in a low tone of voice ; but so still
was the vast audience that every word
was distinctly audible.
President Grant said: “Comrades—
It always affords me much gratification
to meet my old comrades in arms of ten
and fourteen years ago, and to live over
again in the memory the trials and hard
ships of those days—hardships imposed
for the preservation and perpetuation of
our free institutions. We believed then
and believe now that we had a good gov
ernment, worth fighting for and, if need
be, dying for. How many of our com
rades of those days paid the latter price
for our preserved Union! Let their
heroism and sacrifices be ever green in
our memory. Let not the results of
their sacrifices be destroyed. The Union
abd instithtione, for which they
fell, should be held more dear for their
sacrifices. We will not deny to any of
those who fought against us any privi
leges under the Government which we
claim for ourselves; on the contrary, we
welcome all such who come forward iu
good faith to help to build up the waste
places and to peretuate our institutions
against all enemies as brothers in full
interest with us in a common heritage;
but we are not prepared to apologize
for the part we took in the war. It is
to be hoped that like trials will never
again befall our country. In this senti
ment no class of people can more hearti
ly join than the soldier who submitted
to the dangers, trials and hardships of
the camp and the battle field. On
whichever side he may have fought, no
class of people are more interested in
guarding against a recurrence of those
days.
“Let us then begin by guarding
against every enemy threatening the
perpetuity of free republican institu
tions. Ido not bring into this assem
blage politics, eertainly not partisan
politics, but it is a fair subject for sol
diers in their deliberations to consider
what may be necessary to secure the
prize for which they battled in a Repub
lic like ours. Where the citizen is the
sovereign and the oificial the servant,
where no power is exercised, except by
the will of the people, it is important
that the sovereign—the people—should
possess intelligence.
“ The free school is the promoter of
that intelligence which is to preserve us
a free nation. If we are to have another
contest in the near future of our nation
al existence I predict that the dividing
line will not be Mason and Dixon’s, but
between patriotism and intelligence on
the one s ; de and superstition, ambition
and ignorance on the other. Now, in
this centennial year of our national ex
istence, I believe it a good time to begin
the work of strengthening the found
ation of the house commenced by our
patriotic forefathers 100 years ago at
Concord and Lexington. Let us all
labor to add all needful guarantees for
the more perfect security of free thought,
free speech and free press, pure morals,
unfettered religious sentiments and of
equal rights and privileges to all men,
irrespective of nationality, color or
religion.
“Encourage free schools and resolve
that not one dollar of money appropri
ated to their support, no matter how
raised, shall be appropriated to the sup
port of any sectarian school. Resolve
that neither the State nor nation, or
both combined, shall support institu
tions of learning other than those suf
ficient to afford to every child growing
up in the land the opportunity of a good
common school education, uumixjed with
sectarian, pagan or atheistical tenets.
Leave the matter of religion to the
family altar, the churoh and the private
school supported entirely by private
contributions. Keep the church and
State forever separate. With these safe
guards I believe the battles which
created the Army of the Tennessee will
not have been fought in vain.”
The speech was rapturously applaud
ed throughout its delivery. It has
drawn forth some severe criticism in the
local press to-day from the Oatholio
clergy and others.
VICE-PRESIDENT WILSON.
He is Not a Candidate for the Next
Presidency—Determined and Inces
sant Misconstruction of His Public
Acts—Friendship to the Sonth.
.Richmond, Va., September 23, 1875.
A member of the Virginia press ex
cursion to New York and other places
North had the pleasure of an introduc
tion to Vice-President Wilson at the
Grand Central Hotel in that city. He
found that statesman to be a very agree
able and affable gentleman, dignified,
but plain and simple in his njanney. 4
conversation took place, in the course of
which Mr, Wilson said that he had
never made and was not now making
any effort to secure a nomination for
The Next Presidency,
Notwithstanding the rumor to that effect
which has been prevalent forborne time
past. Since this notion has taken root,
no matter where he goes nor what he
does, there are busybodies ever ready to
misconstrue the object of his visits and
actions. If he travels about, which has
been his habit and pleasure all his life,
he is said to be electioneering, and said
he, “ If I were to shut myself up from
now till the meeting of the nest nomi
nating conventions the same motive
would be attributed to my action. It
has gone abroad that I am a candidate
for the next Presidential term; and it is,
therefore, impossible, I suppose, to es
cape misrepresentation and calumny.
Even my presence at the bedside of a
dying friend and old companion in the
Senate could not escape misconstruc
tion. I was riding in a carriage in com
pany with a friend when I observed a
lady bow. I knew the faoe but could
not recall the name. I ordered the car
riage to be stopped and approached the
lady, and found her to be Mrs. Jeffer
son Davis. She informed me that Gen.
Breckinridge was so sick that he was not
expected to live through the night.
Upon learning this I concluded to go
and see Jutn right away. I was treated
with the utmost courtesy by this lady,
and, on my arrival at the house of the
dying man, received marked attention
and all.
* The Brutality
Exhibited by the Washington organ in
its reference to this matter exceeded
anything I eyer saiy. NW, if a man is
to subdue all feeling and spirit of man
liness and human nature is to subserve
party, then lam a bad party man, All
my old co-laborers in Congress I respect
and esteem as men, and am every ready
to extend the hand of friendship, bury
ing the past, and willing to renew our
relations as brothers of a common
cohntry, and to put our shoulders to the
wheel in the advancement of its happi
nets and prosperity. I want to see all
parts of the country built up. When
the war commenced and during its pro
gress I was in favor of fighting it out to
the last. When it ended I was for peace
—lasting, enduring peace. We have
had enough of mere party politics, and
the country is suffering from political
trickery and rascality. What we want
now is an order of things that will re
store and perpetuate the material pros
perity of the country; that will bring
bread and meat, a sufficiency of money
and
Happiness to the Millions,
And that will restore to employment, in
the various branches of industry, the
tens of thousands of idle but willing
hands throughout the land. We must
have it, for the people demand it. I
want to see all parts of our country made
prosperous, and am determined, so far
as it is in my power, to extend help to
that part which most needs it.” It was
then remarked to Mr. Wilson that the
South was unmistakably that part.
“Yes,” he aaid, “I know it. She has
suffered from mismanagement and the
destructive results of the war, and was
impeded in her efforts to recuperate
by many adverse circumstances. But
she will come up. With her well
known natural advantages it is impossi
ble for her to remain in her present
paralyzed condition. She will rise from
her ashes with renewed vigor and
strength. My efforts for her success
shall not be wanting.” After some fur
ther interchange of opinion on other
topics of no special importance the press
representatives bade the Vice-President
adieu and retired.
HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON.
What a Correspondent Has to Say.
I Atlanta Correspondent Savannah News.]
Some irrepressible newspaper man
seems quite anxious to create the im
pression that this eminent citizen of
Georgia is an aspirant for nomination
as Governor. No greater mistake could
be made in regard to Judge Johnson’s
desires or expectations. I recently had
the honor to enjoy the hospitality of
“Sandy Grove,” his quiet and pleasant
rural retreat in Jefferson county, about
four miles from Bartow, on the Central
Railroad, and during my stay there I
had several conversations with Governor
Johnson in regard to political and pub
lic matters. He most positively as
serted that under no circumstances
would he become a candidate for
Governor, and added that he was now
out of political life, and did not expect
ever to re-enter the arena again. At his
time of life, and situated as he now is,
it would be a difficult thing for this
gentleman to break up his present home
and remove to a city like Atlanta, where
all is bustle and confusion, and where a
Governor can hope for little peace of
mind or rest of body, provided he is
faithful in the discharge of the ever
multiplying duties of his office. At
“Sandy Grpve” Judge Johnspn is plea
safiflyTtnd %nrrifortabt,r situated, having
one of his sons living within two
miles, and being directly on the
line of the Central Railroad, the trains
of which always stop for his con
venience. Mrs. Johnson, one of the
most accomplished ladies in the State,
is now iu feeble health, and would
hardly be willing to exchange her pre
sent comfortable retreat for the Execu
tive Mansion with its cares and vexa
tions. Her husband is able to spend a
greater portion of his time at home, ns
he is so near his various circuit appoint
ments that he can make frequent visits
to his family even when holding Court
iu the adjoining counties. Having onee
been Governor of the State, and filled
the office with distinguished ability,
Judge Johnson could gain no additional
honor by a ie-eleotjon at this time. His
fame is national, and his virtues and
ability aeknowledged by eminent men of
all parties. He is wise enough to see,
therefore, that there is no better thing
for him to do than to pass the remainder
of his days in the peace and quiet of his
delightful rural retreat, and m the sweet
companionship of his own cherished
family circle. The world has no addi
tional honors with which to encircle his
noble brow, but in his heart he oan ever
feel, as the years of his useful and un
spotted life draw to a close, that a
grateful people will never forget his past
services, nor cease to revere the virtues
of his exalted character. Such men
build their own monuments, which time
cannot destroy, and write their own
epitaphs, whioh the finger of fate can
never erase, for they place their names
securely among those which “are not
born to die.”
THE SOUTH CAROLINA RICE
CHOP.
We are in reoeipt of the annaul re
view of the Carolina rice crop, by
Messrs. Talmage, Sons & Cos., of
Charleston. From it we extract the fol
lowing points of interest :
The Crop of 1874-’7B,
Quantity—-The rain storms during
late harvesting year on which over
despondent croakers based predictions
of a largely diminished yield, did so lit
tle injury, as the rule, that the actual re
sults of the crop are considerably in ex
cess of the more conservative, they
crediting the opinion that some slight
falling off would oocur. Having before
us at that time reports from most trust
worthy sources, we ventured the predic
tion that the yield would show a gain
over the previous year, and the result
demonstrated the correctness of the
judgment formed fit that time— i. e. 69,-
539 tierces, as against 67,519 tierces,
1873-74.
Quality— In this particular the crop
turned out to the disappointment of all,
it being generally conceded that con
siderable damage had been done by the
storm, and that the yield would display
in milling more or less of mow-burnt or
damaged rice; on the contrary, however,
the average turnout has been about
equal to that of previous years.
Prices—The range of market has not
been so wide as during the preoeding
season, when, by reason of panio, prices
were depressed unreasonably low; and
on the other hand, during the tempo
rary excitement and speculation inci
dental to the East India famine, the
rates were forced up unduly high. The
crop opened at full prices, declining
gradually until the latter part of No
vember, when the more necessitous
planters had realized- tjiep after slight
reaction, with liberal demand ruled
steady until Spring. In February, the
Usual local speculative mania set in,
producing, however, no effect; the trade,
as in previous years, adopting the con
servative policy of buying only as their
demands required- In the Spring, with
the increased demand, prices, especially
on the better grades, hardened, remain
ing steady throughout the Summer
months with some little fluctuation. As
in the preceding year, however, the re
sults to the speculative combination
proved unremunerative, for by the con
servative action of the trade and the
consequent long carriage of stock, the
expenses, as the rule, ate up more than
the slight advance in prices secured.
The Crop of 1875-’76.
The turn-out of the new crop is now
the subject of much speculation. As
usual, there has been an untoward event
(the drouth) which is quiofcly taken up
as the text to the yearly dieoourse on a
“short crop.” The “drouth,” unques
tionably, in some individual cases, did
an irretrievable damage. The short
rivers were salt almost to their sources,
and the crops on plantations not pro
vided with fresh water reserves, being
deprived of the irrigation neoesaary ‘to
the development of the grain, in some
oases were ao hopelessly damaged that
the crops were abandoned. These in
stances, however, are but few, being
from kelf-apparent reasons, magnified
by those interested, and if estimates
from such sources were to be relied upon,
we should not have more than half a
crop. From more reliable information,
however, covering a larger area, we learn
that an ahundant crop may be expect
ed. The rains, which set in about
latter part of August, were timely and
refreshing, which, with the unusually
fine harvest, has fully restored the pros
pects of an abundant yield, except in a
few cases on the rivers above alluded
to, and on the highland backwater plan
tations, The aggregate of estimates
from the various sections, which have
been carefully gathered, warrant us in
predicting that the yield of the coast
States will be fuliy seventy-three thous
and tierces, being an excess of about
five per cent, over last year. All ac
counts agree that the season has been
one favorable to the production of a fine
quality, and we anticipate that in this
respect the crop will average a much
higher grade than for several years past.
The acreage under cultivation did not
materially vary from that of previous
years,' this fact, however, does not ne
cessarily limit the production to that
previously made, as, year by year, the
plantations are being brought up to a
higher standard, and are capable, under
most favorable circumstances of condi
tion and season, of producing nearly
double their present growth. All the
features attending the rice culture are
encouraging. The labor question, which
was at one time seriously perplexing, is
happily adjusting itself, the evidence
from every quarter being that it is im
proving in efficiency. The financial
standing of the planters also, as the
rule, is improving—the prices of the past
few years being sufficiently remunera
tive as to enable them to expend liberal
ly in the improvement of their planta
tions, and the more prudent to accumu
late with such rapidity that they can
now plant without the usual recourse to
capitalists for assistance.
The Alexandria Lottery Swindle.
Ai.exandhia, Ya., October s.—The
holder of the ticket drawing the $50,000
prize presented it to-day. No money
conld be obtained. The holder claims
to be the owner of silver lands in Mon
tana. He was in New York to dispose
of his lands when he was induoed to
bay S2OO worth of tickets. He says he
knows where $50,000 worth of bonds
belonging to the lottery is deposited
and has telegraphed his agent to attach
them.
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Newnan had an election for Mayor
yesterday.
Mr. Watt Wells was elected Mayor of
Carrollton.
A. S. Clayton, of Atlanta, has been
admitted to the bar.
L, Goldsmith has moved from Athens,
Alabama, to Rome.
Rev. C. C. Williams is the new pastor
of Christ Church, Macon.
Frost was reported at Atlanta and
Griffin last Saturday morning.
Andrew Female College opened the
Fall session with only 33 pupils.
Thomas Crossen and Henry Cooper,
horse thieves, have been captured in
Columbus.
The good people of Conyers find it
diffiorilt : to tell a millionaire from a
drummer.
The Presbyterians of Atlanta do not
want Dr. Leftwitch to accept the call to
Lexington, Virginia.
Captain David Benjamin, a nephew of
Judah P. Benjamin, is ill at the Air
Line House, in Atlanta.
Atlanta loses a good citizen and the
world au honest man in the death of
Hon. James M. Calhoun.
W. Z. Overbay, of Rookdale county,
had his left baud cut to the bone re
cently, while repairing a gin.
Mrs. John Welsh, of Savannah, was
burned to death last Friday in attempt
ing tCAtart a fire with keroaine.
General $6 Yrb&fe
Athens ladies. The General is a French
man, and of course a man of taste.
Prof. J. W. Glenn, of Martin Insti
tute, at Jefferson, has beeu offered and
declined a professorship iu an Alabama
college.
S. D. Banks, of Covington, who has
been in Atlanta having his eyesight
treated, has returned home greatly im
proved.
The editor of the Atlanta Constitution
is evidently a man of an intensely seri
ous turn of mind. He writes of “ funeral
obsequies.”
Hinton Wright was stricken with
vertigo iu the Second Baptist Churoh in
Atlanta last Sunday aud had to be oar
ried home.
Major J. C. Gallalier, of Quitman,
late of Oallaher’s Independent, has
been ordained a minister in the Chris
tian Church.
The corn crop of Haralson county is
said to be better than at any other time
Since the war. Tho cotton, also, is bet
ter than usual.
Of tho persons recently poisoned at a
wedding in Dalton, by ice cream flavor
ed by peach leaves, two died yesterday
and one last Sunday.
Henry Sanders, intoxicated, fell from
the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad
bridge across the Etawah, and is thought
to be fatally injured.
A negro girl, nurse for C, H. White,
of Carrollton, attempted.to poison his
little child, it beiug her second attempt
at poisoning in the family.
Miss Kate Dever, Miss Mary Maddox
and Miss Mahala Ketohum entered for
the special premium offered for the best
female equestrienne at the Dalton Fair.
Messrs. James English and Frank D.
Bloodworth have made magnifioent gifts
to the Spalding Greys, whioh enables
them to purchase arms at once. They
will get the Springfield Rifle.
Atlanta Herald : It was this specialty
of] gleaning most thoroughly the State
for news, in all localities, that has given
the Herald its success and popularity,
and made it sought everywhere.
Miss Anderson (daughter of Clifford
Anderson), of Maoon, who was accident
ly shot in the face recently, is reported
rapidly recovering, The ball was a
small one, and injured no bone, and no
disfigurement is apprehended from it.
A brother of Col. R, J. Wilson was
not shot fatally—nor any other way—by
a negro hay, or any body else, in Char
leston or anywhere else, and the Atlanta
Herald is mistaken in publishing, as
coming from tho Chronicle and Senti
nel, that he was.
If the Athens Daily Georgian doesn’t
succeed it will be because it does not
say “Col.” whenever it speaks of a law
yer. Here, the other day, it referred to
a rising young lawyer as “Mister.” That
wont do for this day and country, Doc.
‘‘Colonel” ’s the word.
Col. B. W. Frobel, who, with a corps
of engineers, surveyed the Ocmulgee
river above Macon, writes: I find there
will be no difficulty in making the river
navigable as high up as the Georgia
Railroad crossing, near Covington. In
deed it may be opened above that point,
probably as high as the mouth of Sweet
water Creek.
Judge Thomas Pullurn, of Atlanta,
has gone to Union Springs, Alabama,
for his family. They will hereafter re
side in Atlanta. If “Uncle Tom” would
only open a hotel in Atlanta it would
delight many a world-weary traveler
who has shaved the comforts of his bed
and beard iu that pleasant little Ala
bama towu.
There can now no longer be a doubt
as to that “young man with a talent for
humorous paragraphing.’,’ The Griffin
Star and Cultivator “knows him well,
Horatio”—in fact, “the young man
with a talent, &e.,” was a pupil of the
editor of the Star and Qultivalor, and
this accounts for his being a fellow of
such infinite jest.
Valdosta Times: Dave Carter is his
name. He is a healthy man of twenty
five Summers, and lives in Ware coun
ty, on the Okefenokee. While in Way
cross a few days ago he ate a raw potato
weighing six pounds, four large ruta
baga turnips, four large onions, a pound
of soda crackers, drank a pint of rot gut
whisky and went home hungry and so
ber !
There’s a mistake * out somewhere.
The Macon Telegraph publishes that
the suspension of business, funeral pro
cession, memorial address, etc., in
Nashville, last Saturday, was because of
the death of Surgeon James F. Weeds,
of the 11. S. A. All the other papers
say that these pageants and ceremonies
were in honor of the memory of Andrew
Johnson. Who is right ?
A reporter of the Athens Georgian in
terviewed General De Trobriaud, who
has recently visited Athens. In his re
marks on the troubles in Louisiana last
Winter, the General said : “ But its
all over now, and I am glad to say that
by the compromise the Conservatives
have a majority of twelve in the House,
whereas before they had but one ; and
you know that it would not have been
hard to buy one man’s vote over to the
Republican side,”
The Convention for the improvement
of the Coosa river and the connection of
Mobile bay with the Tennessee river by
a water route, met in Rome yesterday.
Col. Jas, Hodgson, of Mobile, was made
temporary Chairman. Hon. B. C. Yan
cey was elected permant President. The
Convention is largely attended by lead
lug citizens of Alabama, Georgia and
Tennessee. The speeches of yesterday’s
session demonstrate the practicability of
constructing the route at a very small
cost, thereby giving uninterrupted navi
gation for the whole year from South
west Virginia to Mobile bay.
Col. George W. Adair suggests that a
convention of all the railroad officials,
and Chambers of Commerce in this sec
tion of the cotton States, meet in At
lanta, on a convenient day, between the
Ist and 15th of November next, to pass
appropriate resolutions, and if neces
sary, appoint delegates to meet at St.
Lonis, with the great railroad conven
tion to be held there the 15th proximo,
the object of which is to talk about the
great Southern Pacific Railway, inten
ded to connect the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans through a temperate climate, so
that the road can be traveled upon in
safety and comfort at any season of the
year. The Herald suggests that Hon.
B. H. Hill attend the Convention and
present the case of the South.
Macon Telegraph: “Experience has
proven it (the two-thirds rule) to be the
slaughter house of worth and genius,
the opportunity of small men, the resort
of the treacherous, and the grave of all
party enthusiasm. * * * *
Let the people of Georgia, meeting first
in primary assembly, deliberately send
representative men from every county
charged with the duty of selecting a
standard bearer for the Democracy in
the contest for Governor. Then, with
out log rolling, lobby influence, or any
other disgraceful outside interference,
after a fair ballot, he who receives the
greatest number of votes should be
unanimously declared the choice of the
party. This is true Democratic doc
trine, and he who will not consent to
abide by the decision of the majority
should scorn to take his seat in any de
liberative assembly.”
NUMBER 41
SOUTH CAROLINA.
This is election day in Charleston.
Aiken’s Lyceum building is finished.
The Columbia Phcenisc is again on the
wing.
The Wheeler House, at Columbia, is
closed,
Uuion is arranging to have her streets
lighted.
Gen. Stephen 1). Lee was in Yorkville
recently.
Anderson County Fair commences Oc
tober 27th.
Maj. 0. D. Melton, of Columbia, is
seriously ill.
Greenville is to have a 8495 clock,
with a 8250 bell.
mS!w. s. mS 11c ooimty ' recently *
Mr. Robert McCliutock, of Clinton,
aged 70, died recently.
Normin Bellinger and Frank Graham
I have left Barnwell for Texas.
Columbians are organizing a fourth
military company in their city.
In Georgetown county last week a
party of hunters killed sixteen deer.
Messrs. T. Tupper & Sons, corn mer
chants of Charleston, have suspended.
Married, in Anderson oounty, recent
ly > John M. Guyton to Emma Bussell.
Fourteen marriages aro reported to
take place shortly in Newberry county*
Dr. P. T. Westmoreland’s family have
left Greenville to reside in Baltimore
Maryland. ’
If.
in Charleston for assault and battery on
J. H. W. Hughes.
The Greenville News is newly dressed
and enlarged. Greenville ought, to bo
proud of her daily.
The Shells, arrested on a charge of
complicity iu the murder of Crews, have
been admitted to bail.
Col. Peake has received orders to
pusli the work of rebuilding the Lan
rens Road to completion.
The old Methodist Church building
at Greenville is being converted into
tenement dwelling houses.
A large bear, weighing four hundred
pounds, was killed by a party of hunters
in Horry county, recently.
An effort will bo made at the next ses
sion of the Legislature to create anew
county, to be called Ninety-Six.
Mrs. W. S. Miller, wife of Jacob Mil
ler, and daughter of Mr. Henry Lark,
died in Greenville ou the 24th iust.
Mr. John Harkins, one of the oldest
citizens of Anderson county, died Sep
tember 27th. He was about 90years old.
Richard Thruston, of Greenville, was
accidentally shot recently by his broth
er, Elias Mcßee, while out bird hunt
ing.
The Grangers of Lexington county
contemplate erecting a cotton factory
and reviving the Agricultural Associa
tion.
Mrs. Clemson, tlic only surviving
child of the Hon. JohnC. Calhoun, died
at Fort Hill on Wednesday of the past
week.
Captain W. D. Aiken, of Winnsboro,
was slightly hurt by a smash up last
Friday on the N. C. Central Railroad,
near Charlotte.
The Union-Herald says Fay Temple
ton has j ist claims to be considered the
best infant actress and songstress on the
American stage.
Mr. Thomas Kennedy, of the firm of
Bleckley, Brown & Cos., died in Colum
bia recently, of apoplexy. He was car
ried to Anderson county for burial.
A large buck was killed near Jackson
boro, Colleton connty, one day last
week by Ben. Ford. His weight was
217 pounds ; he was very fat, and his
head was adorned with a magnificent
pair of antlers.
BUSINESS PROSPECTS.
New York’s Pall and Winter Trade—
A Heavy Increase in Freiglit Kates
and Tonnage.
[New York Tribune, October 2.J
Fall sales, comparing favorably in ex
tent with those of last year and not un
satisfactory in profits, were reported by
prominent merchants iu the leading de
partments of business in New York, in
answer to inquiries made by Tribune
reporters yesterday. According to the
statements given below, while prices
have been lowered somewhat, there is a
feeling of greater confidence, and the
general belief that business is now con
ducted with prudence, and is more gen
erally sound than heretofore, gives the
wholesale dealers ground for encourage
ment. In several lines of trade sales
for cash or ou very short credits are rep
resented as coming into favor; but there
appears to be no apprehension felt of
many failures in the near future. The
West and South are stated to be absorb
ing large quantities of dry goods and
other articles, although buyers are care
ful not to lay in excessive stocks. The
crops in those parts of the country, it
is asserted, are so abundant as to give
New York merchants good hopes of ac
tivity in business during the remainder
of the Fall and the Winter. Wholesale
dealers in dry goods, clothing, boots
and shoes, groceries and metal, express
confident anticipations of sales of fair
extent with reasonable returns. Ship
pers of grain and provisions state that
they look upon the cheek to shipments
to England as temporary.
Information was obtained by Tribune
reporters yesterday at tiie offices of the
principal freight lines from this city
which tended to confirm the statements
of New York merchants as to the large
extent of the Fall trade with the West
and South. A gentleman conversant
with the carrying business of the three
great trunk lines to the West, estimated
that their westward bound tonage for
1874 amounted in the aggregate to 700,-
000 tons, while the westward tonage for
the present year would approximate
800,000 tons. This has consisted largely
of dry goods and other manufactured
goods and implements. The increase in
shipments to New York City from the
West and the South he estimated to be
10 per cent. larger. In 1874 eastward
bound freight amounted to about 800,-
000 tons, while this year he thought it
would approximate to 950,000 tons. An
other freight agent of large experience,
who looks upon the increase of business
in the metropolis as a sure indication of
a healthy revival of trade throughout
the country, gave it as his opinion that
the country was entering upon the first
of the best five years of business it had
ever seen. Freight agents agreed in
saying that Fall trade had not been
stimulated to any marked degree by the
recent low rates to the West. Western
merchants, as a general thing, had only
purchased what their immediate trade
demanded.
William H. Vanderbilt, Thos. A. Scott
and Hugh J. Jewett, representing the
New York Central, Pennsylvania and
Erie Railroads, met at the St. Nicholas
Hotel on Thursday, for the purpose of
fixing uniform rates to the West. They
decided that the old rates were ruinous,
and made anew schedule on the basis
of 50 cents a hundred on first class
freights to Chicago. A circular was
drawn up, signed by the Presidents of
the three roads, and sent to the officers
of their respective companies, giving or
ders that until further notice no con
tract be made or renewed or extended
with shippers, and that no time what
ever be given on the new rates, which
are to apply only to single invoices. The
Baltimore and Ohio Road, it is under
stood, is bound to these rates bv its
agreement with the Pennsylvania Rail
way. Western freight rates, it is be
lieved, are likely to advance still further.
The almost unmarked grave of Edgar
Allen Poe, author of “The Haven,” was
opened in Baltimore a few days ago, to
lay the foundation for the monument
about to be erected by his admirers. At
a depth of five feet the coffin was found,
in gbod preservation, after lying there
nearly twenty-six years. The lid was
removed and the skeleton was seen, al
most in perfect condition, and lying
with the long bony hands reposing one
upon the other, as they had been ar
ranged in death. The skull bore marks
of greater decay, the teeth from the up
per jaw having become dislodged, but
those in the lower were all in place, and
some little hair was still clinging near
the forehead. Beyond what has been
described nothing was to be seen. A
correspondent has sent the Times a
small piece of the coffin, almost crumb
ling into decay.
The Hon. George F. Hoar, of Massa
chusetts, is said to have voted three
times at the Republican Convention for
Charles Francis Adams. His first choice
would probably have been Hon. Henry
L. Pierce, whose chances for a nomina
tion were never good.
