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WEDS ESP AY MAY 8, 1876.
[lter Che Chronicle and Ssntihel.]
THE SCICIDE.
Don’t laugh t her, don't scoff at t\er,
God pities her, and so should vs.
For she now takss the life he gars
And risks the soul he died to ears.
Then sure It she our pity needs
How more than wretched must she be
Who risks her soul to tears this life,
And leap into eternity.
Of that she has no horror care,
As she has frit on earth below,
Her mind has fl iwn through terror
Of earthly sorrow, earthly foe-.
All she lore'd perhaps are dead,
All she rallies has been lost.
Maybe she has no home, no friends
To lore e'en if her soul be lost.
Vainly she strove from day to day,
To drive this crazing terror away
Until at last the poor heart breaks
And in despair she her life takes.
Oh if we each would try our beet
By kiod deeds and words their hearts to win
There wool not be one-half the sorrow
There would not be one-half the sin.
Augusta, Ga. Mast IS. H.
LNCHBAE.
Anen he shuts the solemn book
To heed the felling of the brook ;
He osres but Utt e why it flows,
Or whenoe it comes, or where it goes.
For here, on this delightful bank,
His past—his future are a blank;
Enough for h m the bloom, the cheer,
They ell are his, to-day and here,
But, hark, a voice that carols free,
And Alls the air with melody!
s Hhe comes : a creature clad in grace,
And gospel promise in her face.
So let her fearlessly intrude
On this hi- much loved solitade ;
Is she s lovely phantom, or
That love he long has waited for?
• **•**•**
O, welcome as the morning dew;
ling, long have I expected y m ;
Come, share my seat, and, late or soon,
Alt else that's mine beneath the moon.
And siDg your happy roundelay
While nature listens. Till to dsv
This mirthful stream has never known
A cadence gladder than its own ;
Forgive if I too fondly gaze,
Or praise the eyes that others praise;
I watch'd mv Star, I’ve wandered far—
Are you my joy ? You know you are!
Let others praise, as others prize,
The witching twilight of your eyes—
I cannot praise you; I adore,
And that is praise—aod something more.
Fbkdzbicx Lockeb.
—Temple Bar.
BLUE AND OKAY.
“ 0 mother, what do they mean by blue ?
And what do they mean by gray ?”
Waa heard from the lips of a little child,
As she bounded in from play.
The mother's eves filled with tears ;
She turned to her darling fair,
And emoothed away from the sunny brow
Its treasures of golden hair.
“ Why, mother’s eyes are blue, my sweet,
And grandpa’s hair is gray,
And the love we beer our darling child
Grows stronger every day.”
<• But what did they mean ?” persisted the
child:
“ For I sew two oripples to-day,
And one of them said he fought for the blue,
The other said he fought for the gray.
41 Now, he of the blue had lost a leg,
The other had but one arm,
And both seemed worn, and weary, and sad,
Yet their greeting was kind and warm.
They told of battles in days gone by—
Till it made my young blood thrill;
The leg was lost iu the Wilderness fight.
And the arm on Malvern Hill.
•* They sat on the atone by the farm-yard gate.
And talked for an hour or more,
Till their eyas grew bright, and their hearts
seemed warm.
With fighting their battles o’er.
And parting at last with a friendly grasp,
In a kindly, brotherly way,
Eaoh called on God to speed the time
Uniting the blue and ihe gray."
Then the mother thought of other days— 1
Two stalwart boys from her riven ;
How they knelt at her side, and tUping,
prayed s
“ Our F ther which art in Heaven
Hew one wore the gray, and one wore the
blue.
How they’d passed away from sight,
And had gone to a land wtiere gray and blue
Are merged in colors of light.
And she answered her darling with golden hair
While her heart was sadly wrung
With the thoughts awakened in that sad hour
By her innocent, prattling tongue :
The blue and the gray are the oolors of God ;
They are seen in the sky at even,
And mauy a noble, gallant soul
Has fouud them passports to Heaven."
THE SUPREME COURT.
Important Decision on Ntate’o Klghti—The
Famous Uaroed-Beall Case.
Washington, April 24’.- In the Su
£reme Court the case of Walker vs.
liverant, from Louisiana, was up to
day. In this ease, whioh was an notion
to recover for refusing refreshments to
defendant in error on aooount of oolor,
the Court reaffirmed that Art. 7 of the
Constitution, providing that in suits at
common law, where the value in oontro
▼ersy shall not exceed S2O, the right of
trial by jury shall be preserved, relates
only to trials in the Federal Courts, and
say that the citizens, so far as this
amendment is concerned, are left to
regular trials in their own Courts, in
their own way. A trial by jury in suits
at oommon law in State Counts is not
therefore a privilege or immunity oi na
tional citizenship which the States are
forbidnen by the Fourteenth amend
ment to abridge. A State Court can
hot deprive a person of hia property
without due process of law, but this
does not necessarily imply that all trials
in State Courts affecting the property
of persons must be by jury trial. The
settled course of judicial proceedings
meets this requirement. Due process
of law in the States is regulated by the
law thereof. The State Court has de
cided in this oaae that the trial without
a jury was in aeoordanoe with the law of
the State, and the law is found not to
oonfliot with the Constitution of the
United States or any law thereof. Judg
ment affirmed. The Judges dissenting
were Clifford and Field.
Garsed vs. Beale et al., from Georgia.
In this case the Court affirmed a decree
in favor of the appellees for thei rooeeds
of a large amount of cotton whioh they
olaim the appellant had attempted to
obtain from them without consideration
under pretended military authority.
MORE RASCALITY REVEALED.
Making the Government Pa? Interest for the
Loan of iu Own Money.
St. Loom, Aptil 23. —The Timet will
publish, to-morrow, some statements
made to one of its reporters by Sergt
George Prender, in charge of the signal
service station here, before he left for
Washington last night, where he will
testify before the Committee on Expendi
tures of the Treasury Department. Pren
der asserts that he was the public debt
statement clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment under Secretary McCulloch, and
his statements are to the effect that
while so engaged he discovered that
great frauds were being practiced upon
the Government; that eaoh public debt
statement reported money in the Treas
ury that was not on hand, while the
Government was paying three per cent,
for money to meet temporary neocessi
ties. He also says he discovered that
hundreds of thousands of dollars of Gov
ernment money was placed in the hands
of confederates outside the department,
who loaned it back to the Government as
individual funds, and drew interest on
it. While pursuing these investigations
Prender was informed by a clerk in tLe
redemption bureau, named Richardson,
that immense frauds were being perpe
trated in that bureau, and that fortunes
were being made by reporting money
destroyed which was presented; that
only one-half of the money turned in for
destruction was actually destroyed, the
other half being divided among the per
petrators of the fraud. Prouder report
ed the facts to Gen. Spinner who was
Treasurer, but the latter declined to in
stitute an investigation, saying that he
did not believe that frauds were beiug
practiced. In March, 1869, a Congres
sional Retrenchment Committee was ex
amining alleged frauds in the Treasury
Printing Department. Prender went to
Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, who was
Chairman of this committee, laid all the
faots before him, and asked an investiga
tion. Edmunds replied that the time of
the committee was too short to warrant
an extended examination, and nothing
was done. After Mr. Boatwell became
Secretary, Prender, who at that time'had
retired from the Treasury Department,
informed him of the discoveries he had
made while clerk in the department, and
the Secretary promised to investigate
the matter. Shortly after this, s man
named Fox who had also been clerk in
the redemption bureau, called on Pren
der, stated that be had been appointed
detective by Secretary Boutwell to work
up these frauds, and wanted all papers
and evidence he had in his possession.
Prender declined to give them up except
on an order from Boutwell. Fox left,
but returned in a little while withs let
ter from the Secretary asking for the
documents, and Prender gave them to
Fox in the presence of a witness who
knew their character, mud who is now in
Washington. No investigations of ths
frauds were ever made. Prender will
probably testify before the committee
at Washington on Monday, when it is
expected this matter will be brought to
Mrs. Elijah Walters, of Hart county,
died on the 16th inst.
FACTS FOR THE FREEMHSN.
HOW THEY WERE SWINDLED BY
SANCTIMONIOUS SCOUNDRELS.
The RoU eases* #f the Freedmaa’s Bask Bls
ciosed-Tbe Way DieUswaiehed Radicals at
Washiactwa Pocketed the Hard-Earned
Aoe; af the Black Depositors.
Washington, April 23.—The testimo
ny in the case of the Freedman’s Bsuk
has been made public. The investiga
tion commenced January 17th. The
first witness was ex Postmaster-Qeneral
Cresswell, one of the commissioners for
eioeing the affairs of the company, which
was largely insolvent, the indebtedness
being over three million dollars. He
feared they would not be able to realize
forty per cent, from the assets, a large
amount of personal seoority appearing
to be worthless. Mr. Sperry, the in
spector of the bank, testified to many
discrepancies, one of 880,000, and that,
by the employment of additional expert
foroe, they were never able to rednoe this
difference below forty thousand dol
lars. Nothing is known of the pe
cuniary responsibility of Wm. J. Wil
son and Thomas Boston while discharg
ng their respective duties as officers of
the Washington branch, nor was any
thing known abont Wilson’s bond. Bos
ton's bond was for 8 ,000, and signed by
Geo. O. O. Howard. No proceeding
wis instituted by the actuary or any
offioer of the baok to recover from Wil
sou and Boston the deficiencies in their
aooouuts. Mach more testimony is
given to show the ignorant, reckless and
dishonest management of the bank and
its branches. Anew feature in the
Seneca Stone Company swindle was
found. It appears that the first loan to
it was 835,000, and that was paid, so far
as the books show, abont the time a
loan of 850,000 was made to Hallet Kil
bourn and John O. Evans. Among the
collaterals was 875,000 of the Seneca
Stone Company’s bonds, bat there were
other collaterals to make it, pecuniarily,
a good loan. The loan for $50,000 did
not mature for a year. When it did
mature, it was not paid. The actuary,
Col. Eaton, demanded payment, when
the parties produced a secret agreement,
of which the following is a copy:
“Received, Washington, D. C., No
vember 15th, 1873, of Freedman’s Sav
ing Bank and Trust Company, the
within mentioned securities, with the
exception of the $75,000 in bonds of the
Maryland Freestone Manufacturing and
Mining Company, with the understand
ing that our note for $50,000 is to be
returned us on or before the 18th iDst.
Hallett Kilbourn, John O. Evans.” The
actuary was threatened by these parties
with buit, and after some wrangling he
finally gave up the note and otner pa
pers and retained the worthless Seneca
bonds. The real features of this trans
action were the payment of an old loan
by the new one and a secret sale of the
bonds of the Seneca Stone Company to
th 9 Freedman’s Rank. It appears from
the testimony that a hard-working col
ored maD, named John Watkins, de
posited nearly SI,BOO in the bank, and
out of that, Boston, who was receiving
teller at the time, drew 81,050 on forged
noteg. Wilson the late oashier, endorsed
two of them.
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
IMPORTANT DECISIONS RENDER
ED.
[Atlanta Constitution.]
Douglas vs. Fitzgerald. Injunctioh from
Bibb.
Wabneb, 0, J.
This was a bill filed by the complain
ant against the defendant praying for an
injunction and the appointment of a re
ceiver. The Chancellor, after hearing
the parties on a rule to show oaose,
and after considering the allegations iu
the oomplainant’s bill, the answer of the
defendant in the Dature of a cross bill,
and the affidavits submitted by the par
ties, granted an order for an injunction,
and the appointment of a reoeiyer, op
f dlure of the defendant to give bond as
therein required—whereupon the de
fendant excepted. In view of the com
plicated and conflicting statement of
facts disclosed by the pleadings and
evidence before the Chancellor in this
case, we will not interfere to control the
exercise of his discretion, in granting
the injunction and appointing a receiv
er until the rights of the parties can be
ascertained on the final hearing thereof
before the jury, the more especially as
the order of the Chancellor will protect
the rights of tho respective partie* in
the meantime. Let the judgment of the
Court below be affirmed.
Wilkinson vs. Bennett, Ordinary. Mort
gage, from Dade’
Bleckley, J.
1. A tax collector who has collected
money under orders of the Ordinary
levying county taxes, cannot urge the
invalidity of sach orders as an excuse
for not paying over the money to the
county. 2. It is not sufficient in account
ing lor the money so collected, for the
collector to show that he has paid the
same into the County Traasnry in liquid
ation of a balance against him op t})P ax
digest of a previous year. Judgment af
firmed.
The Dalton and Morgauton Railroad
Comoauy and others, stockholders,
vs. H. T. McDaniel et al. Creditor’s
bill, from Whitfield.
Jackson, J.
1. Process which commands the at
tendance of the defendants at Cuurt on a
certain day, under penalty of the law, is
valid, service of the bill by private per
sons with affidavits annexed, verifying
such service is legal; and if such pro
cess and service were irregular, such
irregularity would be cured by Appear
ance, demurrer and answer. 2. Equity
will compel the payment of a sufficient
per cent, of unpaid stock subscribed, to
pay the debts of a corporation; and a
bill brought agaiust the stockholders to
that end is the proper remedy. S. The
fact that the stockholders agree iu their
contraoi to pay such per cent, aa the
Directors shall call for, does not change
the remedy and require the creditors to
apply for a mandamus against the Di
rectors to do their duty under the con
tract; the remedy in equity is more
oomplete, and is the Only appropriate
and adequate remedy, where the bill
alleges, that the Directors refuse to call
in and collect the stock subscribed, and
also that many stockholders are insol
vent. and some dead, and some beyond
the jurisdiction, and that the debts are
of varions amounts and doe to many
creditors; the powers of a Court of equi
ty to adjust all the equities, audit the
debts, and fix the per oent. upon the
solvent stock necessary to pay the debts
are peculiarly adapted to the exigencies
of just suoh a case. 4. After defend
ants are fully beard on demurrer to the
whole bill, and the demurrer for want of
equity has been overruled, and the ans
wers nave been filed, and the - case has
gone to an auditor and his report has
been filed aud excepted to, and the case
iB pending on the exceptions, it is too
late to diamißS the bill. Judgment
affirmed.
THE COLUMBUS CRIME,
The Com of Rev. <Kendriek—The Line of
Defense.
[ Coiumlms Enquirer. 1
Rev. 0. A. Kendrick still remains iu
jail, as a precautionary measure, await
ing the action of hia counsel. He says
that be is comfortably quartered and
kindly treated. He protests his inno
oenee, and affirms that he can prove he
was not in the church at the time charg
ed, and can establish a dear alibi, and
thereby impeach the teetimony of the
strongest witnesses against him. Mr. K’s
brother, a lawyer, has returned to bis
home in Atlanta, to transact some ne
cessary business, and cannot come back
before several days. We were told yes
terday by counsel for the accused that
the preliminary investigation would take
plaoe Dext Wednesday or Thursday. Jus
tice McCahey issued the warrant for se
duction, and this hearing will probably
come before him and two other justices
at the l oart House. Counsels see the
necessity for thorough consultation be
fore taking action. Mr. K. daims he c*n
entirely free himself from the ohsrge,
and all he asks is a suspension of judg
ment until >he case ©an be fully and fair
ly investigated. The theory of the de
fense is to prove an alibi by unimpeach
able witnesses, the great intimacy of
other parties with the one with whom it
is alleged he was guilty, and that the
prosecution is the result of a conspiracy.
On the other side are direct evidence,
the confession of the girl and many cor
roborating oirenmstanoes are against
him. The counsel for the defense are
Judge James Johnson, Thornton A
Grimes and Williams A Thornton; for
the prosecution McMidl A Crawford.
Tee Who no Mae.—Mayor Estes re
ceived the following telegram yester
day:
Post Royal, April 25th.
Mayor of Augusta:
Please send me immediately Georgia
State flag, care Wilson, Superintendent
Port Royal Railroad, [to be used iu sa
luting the Governor.! Earl Ekol sh,
Senior Naval Officer.
A reply was sent to this that no Geor
gia flag could be procured in Augusta.
We found t on inquiry that Governor
Smith had not gone to Port RoyaL Ex-
Governor J..JL Brown and several of his
friend* pehmll through Augusta yester
day morning on their way to Port Royal
in order to confer with the commander
of the fleet in reference to ooaL Capt,
English mistook the ex- for the present
Governor.
A great deal of earn has been planted
in Jaaper county,
THE SCAFFOLD.
FIVE MEN EXPIATE THEIR
CRIMES AT FORT SMYTH.
A Sketch of the Xnfenn u< Their Blood?
Deeds—Ao InaetH Throne Witness tbs
Exoeotioo—Confessions and Cendnct af the
Dvln Men—One nf tha Men a Gee raise.
Little Bock, Abk., April 21.—0f the
six men hung at Fort Smith to-day, one
was a fall blooded negro, three were
fall blooaed Choctaws, one a full blood
ed Cberokee, and one a white man. They
were all sentenced at the late term of
the United States Court for the Western
District of Arkansas, on the 3d of Sep
tember last. Six others were bung.
These six were executed on the same
scaffold.
Isham Sealy, aged abont twenty-five,
and Gilison Ishtanubbee, both Choctaws,
were convicted of the same crime, the
murder of an old Choctaw named Fin
ney, an Indian doctor, and his cook, a
colored woman. This was near Stone
wall, in the Chickasaw Nation, abont
four years ago. The murderers called
at their victims’ house one evening to
stay all night, and daring tho night Gib
son split the old, man’s head open
with an axe, while Sealy beat
the woman to death with an
old gun barrel used to keep the
door of the cabin shut. Beyond the
booty of a few worthless articles of
clothing, the murderers had no object
in committing the awful work of blood.
The woman was killed for nothing, for
she had nothing, but it was for her mur
der that the prisoners were tried iu the
United States Court, for had both vic
tims been Indians, the murderers being
Indians too, the case would not have
been amenable ina United States Court,
and the murderers would most likely have
gone free. Chiwaha, a nephew of the old
Indian Doctor, discovered the murdered
bodies the next day, as they were left by
the murderers. He and Baptiste Williams,
a grandson of the old doctor, were the
chief witnesses. As usual in suoh cases,
the marderers coaid not keep the matter
quiet. Gilison told a woman, Kittie Cobb,
of the affair, and it soon leaked out, and
led to their arrest, trial, and condemna
tion.
Orpheus McGhee, a Choctaw, with his
brothers Dave and Charles, owned a
place near the mouth of the Boggy, on
the Red river, in the Choctaw country,
and with their brother-in-law, Moses
Homer, were known throughout the
country as a wild, reckless set of men.
In their vicinity lived Robert and W. V.
Alexander, white men, brothers, who
often aided the authorities
McGhees. The latter, therefore, enter
tained feelings of intense hatred toward
the former. On April 20th, 1875, the
condemned man, his broiher Dave, and
Moses Homer, his brother-in-law, mur
dered Robert Alexander within one mile
and a half of his his house and robbed
him. Some of his property was found
upon the accused afterward. They, in
a spirit of recklessness, bragged of their
deeds to some of their friends, and
Moses Homer was killed iu the attempt
to capture him. Dave McGhee was tried
and cleared, while Charles McGhee was
also killed by the officers of the law in
the attempt to arrest him for some other
off nse. Orpheus McGhee paid the pen
alty of -the law on the scaffold at Fort
Smith to-day.
Osea Sands, the Cherokee, was of mid
dle size, light complexion, and was con
vioted of a most fiendish murder. On
August 6, i875, he, iu the company of
Wm. Matier, also a Cherokee, approaoh
ed the house of an old neighbor, Thos.
H. Carlisle, a white man, but married to
a Cherokee woman. Carlisle was an in
telligent aud industrious farmer iu good
ciroumstanoes, living about fifty miles
north of Fort Smith, near the State line,
in the Cherokee Nation. He was sitting
on the porch of his house, alter the
day’s labor, in the 000 l of the evening,
in company with his wife, who was in
very delicate health, and several chil
dren. He direoted a little son to step
down and open the gate for the young
m6n, who were wed known to all the
family, the latter rising from their seats
and offering them to their visitors.-=-
Beaching tho porob, the two friends,
who had kept their weapons iu readi
ness, with the utmost premeditation,
deliberately shot down their unsuspect
ing host, before the eyes of his horror-
Htruok family, The wife and children
fled in despair to the fields. Late in thrf
night they got some neighbors to return
with them to their dwelling, and found
their husband and father cold in death
at the foot of the poroh. The fiends had
ilso taken off with them about $1,500 iu
Rational Cherokee script, and among
some other articles the shoes off the feet
of the murdered man, and which were
found two days afterward on the feet of
Banders. Sanders was t 'ken by the
Cherokee authorities on August 8, two
days after trie murder, and turned over
to the United states authorities, while
bis confederate, Matier, was killed in
the attempt to capture him- Sanders
was identified by Mrs. Carlisle, who, to
add to the terrors of that fearful night,
was delivered of a child. Her children's
testimony, among them a daughter near
ly growe, also pointed to Sanders as the
murffaraF,
Wm. J)eaph, the siyth maD, was white,
and a thrive of Georgia, about thirty
flv* rears old- Fora number ol years
Leach had been Hying in the Cherokee
Nation, about frwepty-ffve miles from
Fayetteville, near the State line. In
March, of last year, he murdered in the
Cherokee Nation a white man named
Watkins, a W&flPB maker, being just
across the Hue ju Washington county,
Arkansas. The two had been last spep
together near Freeman’s shop. f)eaoli
shot Watkins from behind, then dragg
ed the body to a big log near by ana,
after piling a lot of wood on top of it,
set the pile on fire. Some weeks after
ward the bones of the murdered man
were found and identified by a number
of articles consumed, such as Watkins’
knife, the mettlp bottom oi tfa e bow of
his fiddle, which he bad wi*b him ft l the
time of his murder, ets. Leach aroused
the suspicion of the ‘people soon after
Watkins’ disappearance by some very
significant remarks, apd being found in
poosesaion of the shops wore on
the day of his death, the pistol, gun and
other property, recognized as belonging
to the deceased. The murderer was
unable to destroy and efface all the evi
dence of his crime, and soon a ohain of
evidence was wove around him that led
to his arrest, trial and conviction. Each
and all of the six, when sent for? claim
ed to be innocent.
A special from Fort Smith by a cou
rier to Ozark, thirty-five miles distant,
received late to-night, says of the hang
ing to day, that all six of the doomed
men rose early (this ?#Qituif)g and ate a
hearty breakfast, Soup after tbia a re
prieve from the President for Osea San
ders was received, which left bat five of
the doomed men to suffer on the scaf
fold. About 6 o’clock the shackles were
removed from the doomed men. The
usual black gowns, at the request of the
men, were dispensed with. The morn
ing hours were passed in company with
their spiritual advisers, and at 10:4$ the
guards formed, and the prisoners were
marched out heavily ironed, arm in arm,
with the guards, through a dense crowd
to the gallows. Leach, Ishtannbbee,
MoGhee and Wilson made dyiDg confes
sions. All was quiet np to the last mo
ment. The negro was smoking, and
asked the executioner not to draw the
rope too tight. At Ut4B the trap was
sprung, and the five bodies dangled in
the air. Wilson died in eight minutes,
Sealy and Ishtannbbee in nine, Leach in
ten, and McGhee instantly. Sealy
groaned several minutes, Wilson's limbs
twitched, and be broke the crucifix from
the ribbon attached to his neck, holding
it in a death grip. The bodies were
then out down, and those who had
friends took possession of them. L-ach’s
remains were given to his wife, and Wil
soa's to the Catholics. The crowd was
orderly, and quiet. There were 7.000 j
spectators, ana there was one accident
ally shot. Wilson urged all his friends
to join the Oatbolio Church and meet
him in heaven. The remarks of the In
dians were interpreted by an Indian.
Leach forgave the Court and all his ene
mies. Many of Osea Banders' Indian
friends were present, and were jubilant
over his reprieve.
The Palmetto in New Jersey. —The
ladies of Newark, New Jersey, bad a
grand fair last week to aid in the move
ment for the repair and restoration of
Monnt "Wraon, the homestead and
burial place of the Father of His Coun
try. A local paper, in noticing the fea
tures of the fair, says]:
“The South Carolina table was under
the charge of Mrs. Robert Ballentine,
who ia a native of that State. The large
palmetto tree in the background is to be
cut up in canes, which will be sold at
two dollars apiece. A number haye al
ready been ordered. The cups and sau
cers are different from those sold at
other tables. They are made precisely
like a cup and saucer owned by Mrs.
Ballentine, which are over a hand red
years old. The saucer is white, with a
fine line of gilt, red and bine around the
rim, and the Geutra of it is defined by a
hair-line of azure surrounded with thir
teen stats. The tea enps have portraits
of Gan. Sumter and Gen. Marion, and
the after dinner coffees have the old coat
of arms of the State. The work od
these is exquisite, and they foam a
charming souvenir of the tea party.
The cakes were made in Charleston, and
the whole appearamae gives the impres
sion that we have been 'away down
South,’ *’
‘ Is your house a warm one, land
lord f” asked a gentlemen in search of a
house. "Jt ought to be," was the re
ply; "the painter gave it two ooats re
cently.”
A REPUBLICAN VIEW.
CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN GEORGIA.
Haw Partial Are Divided—The Republican
Weakneaaknd What Came of It—Bad Po
litical Xuaieaeal and Incompetent Lead
' ere—Vlewa of Gov. Smith.
IIY. T. femes ]
Atlanta, April 19.—0n the 3d of next
month the Republicans of Georgia will
meet in State Conven'iou to elect dele
gates to the National Convention at Cin
cinnati, an| at this time there is no
donbt here that the representatives
chosen will be unpledged and unin
strncted. 'this may not be the result,
however, ifj in the interim a vigorous
canvass is made in favor of any of the
prominent candidates, for in Georgia,
as in no other Southern State, the Re
publicans are careless, without self
reliance, and ready to “follow their
leader ” Tlis state of things is no
doabt due in a great measure tu the
hopelessness of their situation as a par
ty, but at tie same time it is to be at
tributed in >o slight decree to the short
sightedness, the lack of energy, and the
complete incapacity of their leaders
The average intelligence of the rank
and file of the party, of the colored
voter, is much greater than in South
Carolina or' Alabama, but unfortu
nately there is not one good
Degro leader in the State, -and
and Moses, the robber Governor, was
not far wrong when he said “to be suc
cessful we must have smart political nig
gers.” One by one the colored leaders
have been killed off or driven out of the
State, and tie white men who have re
mained in control have been content iD
the enjoyment of fat Federal offices, and, 1
fearing trouble with their Democratic
neighbors, hgve quietly let local politics
alone. H. ff. Farrow, the Chairman of
the Central Committee, is an active in
telligent man and-has worked hard ; he
has been aidtd nobly by one or two gen
tlemen in Savannah, and there the lead
ership of the party ends. These state
ments cannot be successfully contradic
ted. for the ficts in the case prove their
truth. It is, of course, true that the
Democrats hive control of all the elec
tion machinery, and that by violence
and partisan laws, of which I will speak
in a future letter, they prevent the ne
groes from voting. But could they by
these means alone carry the State by a
majority of 60,000, as they did four
years ago * Everything goes to show
that they CDuld not. In Louisiana the
Republicans have had to contend with
still greatei difficulties, but by good
management and bravery they have suc
ceeded in getting out their vote and
carrying the elections. Georgia is natu
rally a Republican State, and there is no
good reason why she should remain
longer in the hands of the Democrats.
The present political situation is most
keenly felt and deplored by the colored
Eeople. In a political Bense, it would
ave been quite as well for them if the
war had never occurred, for they are
practically as far from the ballot-box
now as thqy were in the days of slavery.
This morning I had conversations with
several intelligent black men, and was
assured bj them all that they were not
allowed aqy voice in the State govern
ment. One well-informed young fellow,
a waiter,in the hotel here, said that be
cause of tlis state of things thousands
of his people were emigrating to South
Carolina and Louisiana, where they
knew theywould be permitted to exer
cise their political rights. My inform
ant attributed all the political troubles
of the negjoes to the apathy of the white
Republicans. Said he, in the peculiarly
soft and liquid dialect of the country:
“Taint no use us niggers tryin’ to vote
ef we isn’tbucked up by de white folks.
Niggers can’t vote alone, dats sure.”
“In what way do you want your white
friends t* help you?” I asked.—
“Oh, we doesn’t want muoh,” he re
plied ; “ff dey would come, a few
of demand stand round by de polls
’lection day, de boys wouldn’t be afear
ed ; dat would make a sort of moral
persuaaioij like, and dey’d all step to de
front. Dey wants to, sure.” “ And
won’t your white leaders do that much
for you “ No, Sah, not in de coun
try ; in and city dey is on hand all right,
but in d* country don’t none on em
come round ; skeered I reoken.” “Why
should they be afraid ?” I asked.
“ Wal,” said he and then shook his
head mysteriously, “ Wal, ef yer lived
down dis a way, Sah, reckon yer’d find
out dat twar’nt healthy for no white
Radicals round Georgia oonntry
’lection diys.” “ Then you mean to
tell me that the negroes don’t vote be
cause the white Republicans don’t try
to protect them, and that the white men
etay away from the polls through fear ?”
“ Yes, Sah,” was the reply, “ dat am
just de cream in de churn, both on em
is skeered.” In subsequent conversa
tions with both white iqen and negroes,
I learned tint in many of the districts
between Atlanta and Augusta there was
not one white Republican —colored
voters there were in thousands, but they
seldom or never eame to the polls. In
some Gates they had been threatened
with violence, many of them who at
tempted to vote had been beaten, and
there was a general understanding that
“ twor’ns healthy for them to be round
on ’lection day.”
As I hive already intimated the dele
gation ftom this State to the Cincinnati
Convention will pyobably go unpledged
and uniistructed. Up tq this time no
one cf the Presidential candidates, ex
cept perhaps Morion, has been repre
sented here, and the feeling of party
leaders,: if the Federal officials oan be
called so, is very evenly divided between
Bristow, Hayes, and Blaiue. The Dem
ocrats teem to have a preference for
Bayard or Hanoook, though they state
positively that they are willing to let
their Northern and Western friends se
leot the man, and that they will abide
by the choice. This morning, during a
long conversation which I had with Gov.
Smith, he gave expression to these and
similar sentiments. He said that for
tlje present, at least, the South should
be oontept to tajice a second and nftinor
part in the councils of the Democratic
party; this, most sensible Democrats in
Georgit admitted, and although they
might lave their own opinion as to can
didates and measures they were not
ready to express them at this time. The
South was in a atatp of political anar
chy, so to speak, and from that situa
tion it oould only be rescued by the
votes of the Democratic masses of the
North and West. The strongest candi
date, and the man who was m oßt popu
lar with th° Ppop'g everywhere, was the
candidate that the Botith would moat
gladly support. In answer to a direct
question Governor Smith said that he
believed Bristow would be very popular
in the South were he nominated by the
Democrats, but in the event of his re
ceiving %e Republican nomination he
oould count on hd qid frorp geraooratic
source*. The St. Louis nominee, no
matter who he was be supported by
the Gotten States. Regarding the rule
of the Democrats iu Georgia Governor
Smith was not very communicative.
Sb is much too fair a man to sanction all
e election trices which are practiced
by his party in this State, bqt he is, of
course, unwilling to say anything which
would injure the men by whose yotes he
was elected. He admitted, however, that
there wpre thousand £ nf negroes in the
State who nevpr V ote d. When asked
how he accounted for this the Governor
replied, “Oh, I suppose they don’t want
to vote," Mien he changed the subject.
Regarding his politigal opponents he
was more ready to talk, than he was in
reference to the acts of his own party.
He said that much of the weakness of 1
the Bepqbjican party in Georgia was to
be attributed to the bad management of
its lenders. They were, as a olaBS, not
good politicians, and they did not work
with that energy which brought success.
The slosepess with which the color line
was drawn was also most unfortunate
for fiie Republicans, as by it they lost
the influence sad support of the old
Whig and Union Party.’ This was very
•trepg in Georgia, and the men who
composed it were amopg the best citizens
of the State. On most national ques
tions they were in accord with the Re
publicans of the North, but so long as
the party in Georgia continued to be
ooEßtituted as it was at presept they
woald refuse to vote anything but the
Danocratie ticket. “In a word," said
tb Governor in conclusion, “divide the
th negro vote and you will increase the
Rgpublioan strenght in Geogia.” The
same opinion is ehterteiped by many of
tbß leading politicians in the South.
H. C.
THE MEXICAN MUDDLE.
Latest Fran the Front.
1 New Yobk, April 26. —A dispatch
dated Brownsville, 25th, says the revo
lutionists moved oat of Mtamora@ this
evening, 1,600 strong, under the com
nand of Diaz, en route for Ifonterri.
Sen. Gonzalez remains in command at
Matamoras. Many desertions from the
National Guard are taking place. De
serters are escaping to this side of the
river. Steam launches belonging to Rio
Bravo patrolled the riyer last night and
a squad of cavalry remained in the sad
dle for the purpose of enforcing the
neutrality laws, it having b*en reported
hat matter contraband of war would be
crossed the river for Diaz. They are’ do
ing their best to prevent it. The move
ment of Diftx is regarded as little more
than the usual outbreak that takes place
in Mexico during Presidential elections,
and it is not anticipated that any fight
ing will take plage here.
A band of oonaterfeiters were arrested
at Ringgold Barracks yesterday. Affairs
in Oamargo, on the opposite side of the
river from that place, are reported
OUR ATLANTA LETTER.
A Visit to Alabama—Political * Matters
There—Bishop McTjriere’s Labors— How
ward Carroll or the Political Situation—
Visit of Hot. Dr. Brantley—Case nf Rev.
C. A. Kendrick—Miss Louise W. Kin* and
Her Humane Work la Atlanta.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Kimball House, April 25, 1876.
After a week’s absence I am again at
my post, pencil in haod, to note the
daily occurrences of this lively
City” of the great State of Georgia.
A visit to Alabama, and a brief stay
in its “ Capital City," has enabled me
to predict a rather active canvass there
during the approaching political cam
paign. It is true that the Radicals are
fearfully disorganized, bat the inde
pendent element in the Democratic
party is to be made the channel through
which many regular nominees are to be
dtfeated by Radical votes.
As in Georgia, there is in Alabama, a
large army of huDgry office seekers
clamoring for nominations, and eaoh
man is pronounced by his immediate
friends as “ the very best person for
the position.” There seems to be no
particular opposition to the renomina
tion of Gov. Houston, who will probably
be his own successor, but for all the
other offices there will be a sharp con
test.
While at Blonnt Springs I had the
pleasure of attending the divine sessions
of the Birmingham District Conference,
presided over by Bishop H. N. Mo-
Tyiere, so well-known and dearly be
loved by the Methodists of Georgia,
where his early years were spent, He
is a most excellent presiding officer, and
his fatherly, conversational style of ad
dressing the conferences in regard to
matters pertaining to the promotion of
the cause of Christ is peculiarly attrac
tive and imprssive.
Howard Carroll, the Southern travel
ing correspondent of the New York
Times, has been viewing the politioal
condition of Georgia from the “Gate
City” for some time past, and by his
letters seeks to show that this is a Re
publican State, and that if the negroes
were allowed their just rights the Dem
ocrats would speedily go out of power.
This is but another Radical dodge to
give increased power to that party in
the coming election. No effort is to be
spared to revive in this State the Re
publican organization. Blodgett’s re
turn is another card that is to be played,
and the Radical Convention to be held
here on the 3d of May will reveal a form
idable programme for the campaign.
The Rev. Dr. Brantley, of Baltimore,
left for home to-day, accompanied by
his accomplished lady. Their stay here
has been greatly enjoyed by the entire
community, but especially so on the
part of his former church members, all
of whom are still deeply attached to
him and his excellent family. His at
tendance upon the recent Convention of
the Young Men’s Christian Associations
gave increased interest to the proceed
ings, and resulted in muoh good to the
delegates, who were enthused, by his
unabated zeal and instructed by his
practical suggestions and timely admo
nitions. Many hearty and devout pray
ers follow him back to his field of labor
in Baltimore, where he is doing great
good.
The Case of Rev. C. A. Kendrick.
The terrible fate which has befallen
the Rev. C. A. Kendrick, of Columbus,
has cast a great gloom over this entire
community, where his parents reside,
and where he has frequently preached
while on a visit to them. Reliable gen
tlemen, who left Columbus yesterday,
state that there can be no shadow of
doubt as to his having been guilty of
conduot which will forever prevent his
return to the ministry. Many statements
air* ady given to the public may be mo
dified by his proposed defense on
Thursday, but the main fact of immoral
actions and grossly imprudent conduct
can Dot, they say, be set aside. The
Baptist Church, of which he was pastor,
and in whose house of worship he com
mitted the offenses charged, is struck
dumb by this terrible exposure, al
though for three months past, rumors
have been afloa l that the girl who is his
victim was in the habit of meeting him
in his study iu the basement of the
church edifice. So great, However, was
their confidence in their beloved and
popular pastor, that they indignantly
repelled tho insinuations, until the pub
lic determined to boldly expose the scan
cal. There could have been no con
spiracy, as oharged by the aocused, be
cause both he and the girl acted of their
own free will in going to the study on
Wednesday last, at which time they
were followed and caught in their crimi
nal intercourse. All things considered,
this is one of the most terrible blows
that has ever been struck at the Church
of Christ. The victim was a young
member of his church whom he bap
tized a few months ago (perhaps since
their criminal oonduet commenced), and
the plaoe where her ruin was accom
plished was almost beneath the pulpit
and baptismal fount of the chnroh. No
pastor oould have been more popular in
the church or community, and hereafter
confidence in all preachers must be
greatly shaken by this awful betrayal of
confidence. Whatever may be the re
sult of the investigation of Thursday, if
one is held, this unfortunate man is
utterly ruined and the church irrepara
bly injured in all its future labors.
Miss Kin|>a Mission Here, 1
I am very happy to state that Miss
Louise W. King, of your oity, has beeu
eminently successful in her efforts to es
tablish here a Woman’s Branoh of the
Georgia Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals. Having enlisted
the hearty co-operation of Mrs. Mary E.
Brvan, the gifted authoress and accom
plished editress of the Sunny South,
Miss King found but little difficulty in
gathering about her a good orop of ear
nest workers. A preliminary meeting
of the ladies was held qt tho parlors of
the Kimball Ifouse, ighich were kindly
plaqefj q( their service by Major O. F.
Miller, the popular manager of the ho
tel in the absence of Colonel McGinley.
The success of the movement being as
sured, a subsequent meeting for organi
zation was held with the following grati
fying result: Vice-President, Mrs. Mary
E. Bryan; Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs.
Dr. Hendree; SJxeotjtiye Committee,
Miss Nellie Peters, Mrs. W. D. Grant,
Mrs. L. J. Gartrell, Mrs. George W.
Price, Miss Quitman, Miss Bertha
Peck and Miss Minnie Jaokson, all of
whom will make m°st efficient workers
g‘ i this humane movement. Judge John
. Hopkins gives the Society his hearty
support, and has generously consented
to act as their counsel and see that the
law is properly enforced and respected.
ProfessorJ. H. Seals, Mr. Darwin Jones
and many other of our citizens have be
come heartily enljqted in f tip Wflfk. as
the result of ffi|ss King’s earnest and
sincere deyotion to the cause which she
has so nobly espoused and persistently
advocated. On the 25th of ffiay the
Georgia Society wijl present prizes for
the best conditioned and best kept dray
horses or mules, the prizes, three in
number, being in sums of $lO and $5
and $3. The pr- sentation will be made
in front of the City and WIU no
doubt do muck Rl imp? o ? 6 ‘h o condi
tion of ouif dray and wagon horses and
mules. Miss King now proposes to or
ganize similar Branch Societies in Sa
vannah, Macon, Columbus, Griffin and
other cities IQ this State at as early a
date as possible. Her mission is a wor
thy one and deserves the full support of
all humane people. NoßrntfißaA.
the president*® ignorance.
Inexcusable Slanders In the Message Yeio-
Ing the g*ia?r 9111.
WxsHiNqroN, April 26.—Yesterday
when the veto message on the salary
question was read in the Senate, °f
the official reporters noticed the gross
and inexcusable errors the President
had fallen into where he said ,‘when the
salary of the President of the United
States was tiled by the Constitution at
825,000 per annum,” and again, near the
close, a repetition of the error, where be
said: “It is nol now OPe-fifth in value
what it was when filed by the Constitu
tion in supplying wants and demands.”
A few only of the Senators heard the
document read, but tfc attention of the
Groton grocer. Senator Boutwell, was
called to the President's iguoranoe of
the Constitution, and the veto message
was quietly returned to the President for
revision. To-day it appeared in the lie
card duly oorreoted, the first error being
remedied as follows: “When the salary
of the President of the United States,
pursuant to the Constitution, was fixed
at $25,000,” and the second error remov
ed by an entire change o' Sentence:
“It is not now in yalue what it
was qt the time of t£e adoption of the
Constitution.” The ignorance betrayed
by the President of' the Oonstitotian
will not astonish those who are familiar
with his utter disregard of law. The
original message was sent to the Senate
on Tuesday, but was not read until yes
terday. The official reporters had taken
a copy of it as it cam® to the Senate, and
another copy Wa made for the Associa
ted Press and telegraphed immediately
after it was read. The ariticism which
the original message is open to }8 ex
ceedingly mortifying to the Presidents
friends, and they all deeply regret the
publication of the flrst message. Some
one is charitable enough to attribute hia
dullness to a °< neuralgia,
a disease with which he has of late been
much afflicted.
Wheat ia four feet high in Texas.—;
They have tarantulas in Florida, oranges
in California, and influenza in Boston.
Come, gentle Spring.—.New York Gra
phic.
THE BOYS IN GRAY. '
MEMORIAL DAT, 1876.
General Observance of the Occasion—Parade
of the Military—Address by Judge Snead.
The skies were blue and bright and the
air balmy enough yesterday to have
pleased the most luxurious son of fair
Italia. A lovelier Decoration Day was
never seen. This tribute of the ele
ments served in a great measure to make
up for the scarcity of flowers. But
“where there’s a will there’s a way”—
None know this better than the fair sex—
and a thorough searching of gardens re
sulted in procuring a very creditable
display of buds aDd blossoms. From
ten until two o’clock the ladies were ac
tively engaged in deoorating the graves
of the fallen heroes who lie side by side
in the eternal bivouac of death, in our
beautiful Cemetery. Each mound was
adorned with garlands or crosses or
bouquets, tastily arranged, while a
wreath of evergreens was hung over every
head stone. None were negleoted.
('losing the Stores.
At one o’clock all the stores on Broad
street were closed and remained so un
til the ceremonies were over. The
streets presented a holiday appearance
and everybody seemed desirous of do
ing honor to the occasion.
The Military.
At half-past three o’clock the Rich
mond Hussars, the Washington Light
Artillery and the Augusta Independent
Volunteer Battalion assembled in front
of the Central Hotel. The Hussars,
under command of Capt. Camming,
paraded 34 men rank and file ; the
Washington Artillery, Capt. Pritchard,
22 men and two pieces, and the Bat
talion, under command of Lieutenant-
Colonel Barrett, 150 men. The several
companies of the Battalion turned out
as follows : Oglethorpe Infantry, Com
pany A, 32 men , Clinch Rifles, 40 men;
Irish Volunteers, 30 men ; Oglethorpe
Infantry, Company B, 46 men.
The command presented a fine appear
ance and attrraoted general attention.
Lieut. C. E. Coffin acted as Adjutant.
Lieutenant-Colonel Barrett was attended
by two members of his staff, in full uni
form—Capt. M. P. Foster, Quartermas
ter, and Capt. W. W. Wilcox, Pay
master.
Prayer.
The exercises of the day commenced
with a prayer by Rev. W. W. Landrum,
from the mound in front of the Central
Hotel.
The Procession.
After the prayer the procession was
formed in the following order, under
command of Lieutenant-Colonel Barrett,
as Marshal of the Day:
Richmond Hussars.
Washington Light Artillery.
Field Band.
Independent Volunteer Battalion.
Carriage, drawn by four horses, con
taining Judge Claiborne Snead, orator
of the day, W. Hope Hull, Esq., Rev.
W. W. Landrum and Rev. W. H.
Clarke.
Carriages with officers of the Ladies’
Memorial Association of Augusta.
Line of March.
The line of march was as follows:
Down Broad street to Monument,
through Monument to Greene, down
Greene tp Elbert, through Elbert to
Watkins, down Watkins to Cemetery.
At the Cemetery.
Arrived at the Cemetery the Battalion
reversed arms, and marched slowly to
the soldiers’ section, the band playing
the Dead March. After marching
around the section the command was
ordered to stack arms and break ranks.
The crowd at the Cemetery was very
large, larger perhaps than it has been
on any similar occasion.
Address by Cslonel Snead.
A platform was ereoted immediately
north of the soldiers’ section, and
around this the vast crowd gathered
W. H. Hull, Esq , introduced to the
audience Colonel Claiborne Snead, a
gallant ex-Confederate officer, who spoke
as follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen :
It is the prerogative of glory to out
live the tomb. The good and the great
never truly die, for though the mortal
part disappears, and the eye can not see,
and the ear can hear them no longer,
they'remain eternal in the memory, en
during as the sea which lashes our
Southern borders, and lasting as the
mountains that tower on our northern
frontier. This capacity to survive the
shocks of time constitutes history; and
because men are able to remember, it
has been the custom in all ages to set
aside appointed days peculiar to the
commemoration of things worthy to be
remembered. Our Memorial Day is one
instance of this ancient and universal
practice of- the human family. This is
our time to renew our past, and live for
a few hours in the company of those
who, though vanished from the sight,
survive to the mind. On this day a
fond recollection summons up battalions
whose flag no longer flutters, and whose
arms have ceased to shine on earth.
Many centuries ago, when Imperial
Rome had extended her insignia of au
thority over the then known world, a
large force of veteran legionary soldiers
set out to subdue one part of Germany.
Their armor flashed in the sun light and
the well known standard of the mistress
of the world, the Roman eagle, was
bravely advanced in the midst of the
proud crested warriors whose march was
the precursor of glory and the harbinger
of triumph. Through the dense recess
es of the ancient German forests the
army wound its way, until at one broad
opening suitable for a battle-field the
ranks of the enemy were seen drawn up
ready for aotion, with Herman at their
head—the same great German soldier
whose statue, lifting its proud head one
hundred and seventy feet high, has just
been ereoted upon the field where he
triumphed eighteen centuries ago. Noth
ing dtunted by the overpowering num
bers, and the complete equipment of
their adversaries, the Roman soldiers
locked shield to shield, and advanced
with steady step to the onset, Theoonflict
was long and bloody, but enormous dis
parity of numbers carried the day. True
to tfis last to their magnificent prowess,
the Roman infantry fell, sword in hand,
each man keeping his rank, and enoum
haring the ground before him with
slaughtered enemies. Varna, the oom
mander, and all bis soldiers fell, but one
or two fugitives escaping to carry the
tidings to Rome. When the Emperor
heard it he dashed the crown from his
forehead, and, tearing the imperial pur
ple, cried out in his agony, “O 1 Y aj m ß .
give me back my legions S’- aud when
besought bj hie courtiers to, remember
tkat wa still monarch of an empire,
made no answer, bqt “hly legiaqa, my
legions 1 O 1 give tfta baok my
legions
Jt iqsq with us to-day. That magnifl
oent soldiery of the South, fiery as the
Voltigeura of France, stern and un
yielding as the British grenadiers; that
soldiery which moved upon as
if they were but playthings of children,
and fcup years held at bay an enemy
which, literally like the force of Xer*es,
counted by millions—that soldiery is
now no more. I| want down like the
Romans is the ffercynian forest in a
defeat more glorions than many tri
umpUa To-day we ate here to com
memorate its \a\ox and say, like the
Roman E)mperor t O 1 memory, give us
back eut legions, our legions ! And in
response to that call, they rise to the
mind’s eye, cohort upon cohort, legion
upon clad in their dusty gray,
with their long silent guns shining, and
their tattered battle flap onee more
courting the breeze,
Shades of departed oomrades 1 I have
no words to-day but what would receive
yuur approval oould those mute lips
@ve utterance.
Years have passed since these Con-
Federiie warriors defiantly stood forth
in battle array. Once again amid the
roar of artillery, and the shrieking and
bursting of shell, I see them move for
ward, I hear their wild yell. Enveloped
in smoke, and with a sheet of fire blaz
ing in their faces, they move on and
aver on, keeping in view our glorious
starry-cross flag. God-like in action !
they seal their fidelity in blood ; they
lay down their lives for us, and “no
greater love has man than this that he
iayethdown his life for his friends.”
Witt a courage unsurpassed and rare
ly equalled in any of the conflicts of man
since fhe morning of time, they shook
as with an earthquake’s shock the
Ameri.an continent, leaving in each
Southern State fields rendered illustrious
by matchless tfur own majestic
o;a*iukbiw and opr smiling valleys are
as historic as. the ground whereon they
trofl. Opr skies span with afcqre Qhioa
manga where Skm.theru valor shines
bright <6 twinkling stars; while the
wind, as it ripples the Indian stream of
death near by whispers sad requiems to
departed heroes. As the plains of Sa
vanna! is sacred to our first revolution,
this it the holier treating place of the
last asd grandest straggle.
Hqv striking the similarity of the first
and eaßondjrevolutions 1 dissimilar only
in th result that sqcsesa crowned the
one atd disaster followed the other.
Qn< hundred years ago, the colonies
grappled in a death struggle the mighti
est power on earth—power that wore
the'diadem ef mistress of the seas,
while her chariot of war rolled triumph
ant il every land. She had even passed
that far famed Stream where Alexander
QQ@eat<M*d and wept that there were no
more worlds to conquer. Thirteen feeble
StatdJ, without credit, and with scarcely
3,CQQQQQ of people, defiantly threw down
the gauntlet to this hitherto invincible
nati<|i— and for what! The infringement
of the personal liberty of the citizen by
the imposition of an insignificant tax on
tea was the origin, while the massacre
of Boston that lit up the fire* of Lex
ington and Conoord was the occasion of
the struggle. But the great underlying
principle for which the men of Seventy
six staked all, and which was vindicated
after a long and bloody war,*was the
right of self-government regulated by
law. The same principle that animated
the Massachusetts patriot as he went
rushing with gun on shoulder to Oon
oord. Being intercepted on the road by
the British, and ordered to stop, he re
plied that he had a right to go to Con
cord ; and when, persisting, he was
halted by the fatal shot, with the last
expiring breath cried out: “I have a
right to go to Concord.”
In the ovules of time our family of
States grew from thirteen to thirty-three.
The North, growing stronger and
stronger with eaoh succeeding year, en
croached upon our rights just as the
British Ministry proposed to do before
the revolution. Like our ancestors, we
found no fault with the Government un
der which we had been born aud reared,
for it was the work of our fathers, and
in it we claimed a common heritage;
and had the North shown as much ap
preciation of what was our due as she
was tenacious of her own, there would
have been no secession, and no strewing
of soldiers’ graves with flowers to-day.
Bat the demand was unheeded that the
rights and privileges enjoyed by one
should be accorded all citizens of a
common country. And hence the South
ern States seceded, and left the arbitra
ment of the question to the God of bat
tles.
This was not treason, unless
constitutional liberty be a crime.
No! it is an immortal aspiration of
true manhood in every age and clime;
more priceless than life itself, it inspired
to martyrdom our chivalrous William
Henry Walker, the peerltss Sidney
Johnson, the God-like Stonewall Jack
son, and many a choice spirit
“ Like him who, at Pompeii’s gate,
Stood sentry on her last dread night,
Who thought he saw his awful fate,
Yet scorned to stir his foot in flight.”
That Divinity which doeth all things
well has denied us our independence,
and from this decree there is no appeal.
Vanquished in the field of arms, hence
forth we appeal to the forum of rea
son, and—having an abiding con
fidence in the integrity of purpose of
mankind in general when the passions
subside and reason resumes her sway—
we will there contend, and our children
after us will unceasingly contend for the
inestimable privileges of local self-gov
ernment. Our stainless swords have
been sheathed, never to be drawn again
except in defense of this country against
a foreign foe; and when that time
comes, I feel, and am proud to feel, that
each living Confederate will be ready to
exclaim :
‘'No fearing, no doubting thy soldier shall
know,
When here stands his oountry and yonder her
foe ;
One look at the bright sun, one prayer to the
sky,
One glance at the banner that floats glorious
on high ;
Then on as the lion bounds on his prey,
Let my sword flash on high, fling the scabbard
away ;
801 l on like the thunderbolt over the plain,
I come back ia glory or come not again.”
The address was listened to with deep
attention throughout, and was frequent
ly applauded. It was pronounced on all
sides to be eminently appropriate to the
occasion.
After prayer by Rev. W. H. CJarke,
the oeremonies ended.
laeldenM.
The base of the Confederate Monu
ment in front of the Central Hotel, was
handsomely decorated with festoons and
wreaths of flowers, and nine small Con
federate flags.
The monument in front of the City
Hall was elaborately decorated with
evergreens, flowers and Spanish moss.
On the northern side a flag of Georgia
and a shield bearing the coat of arms
of Georgia and the Federal coat of arms,
were arranged. The Battalion saluted in
passing this monument.
The monument in front of St. James’
Church was beautifully dressed with
flowers and evergreens. Garlands aud
festoons depended from it on all sides.
The Clinch Rifleß, after Colonel
Snead’s address, marched to the graves
of Lieutenant Adams and Mr. Marion
Oates, deceased members ef the oompa
ny, and saluted.
Oglethorpe Infantry, Company A, sa
luted the grave of Sergeant Pitcher.
The flag of the Richmond Hussars
was handsomely decked with flowers by
Miss Sallie Anderson, an honorary mem
ber of the troop.
Mr. Usher made a stereoscopic view
of the soldiery and the base of the Con
federate Monument while the procession
was forming in front of the Central
Hotel.
The carriage which contained the
orator of the day and the ministers, was
drawn by four magnificent horses, two
white and two black, driven by Mr. E.
A. Heggie.
Dismissed.
After the ceremonies at the Cemetery
the Battalion was marched to the front
of the Central Hotel and dismissed.
Contribution Boxes.
The contribution boxes placed at the
gates of the Cemetery were very gener
ally patronized. The officers of the As
sociation will make known the amount in
a day or two.
DYSPKPSIA—ITS CAUSE AND CURE.
The most universal cause of dyspepsia
is eating too often, too fast, and too
much. The general rules should be:
1— Eat thrice a day.
2 Not an atom between meals.
3 Nothing after 2 o’clock but a slice
of oold bread and batter and one cup pi
hot drink.
4 Spend half an hour at le&at in tak
ing each meal.
5 Cut up all meats and hard food in
pea-sized pieces.
6 Never eat enough to cause the
slightest uncomfortable sensation after
wards.
7 Never work or study hard within
half an hour of eating.
The most universal and infallible in
dication that a person is becoming dys
peptic is some uncomfortable sensation
ooming on uniformly after each meal,
whether that be in the stomach, throat
or any where else. The formation of
wind in the stomach, indicated by eruc
tation, belching, or otherwise, demon
strates that dyspepsia is fixing itself in
the system, Then there is only one
course pursue, and that is infallible :
eat less and less at each meal, until no
wind is generated and no uncomfortable
sensation experienced in any part of the
body. No medioine ever cured confirm
ed dyspepsia; eatingplain food regularly
and living out of doors industriously
will cure most cases.— Journal of
Health .
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