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(Eftromctr and Brntmtl
WEDNESDAY MAY 10, 1876.
“DON’T SLOP OTBB.”
“ Don't slop over,” the m1(1 man ssid.
Am be pieced his head on the young nun’s
heed;
Go it by ell mesas, go it test ;
Go while leeiher end horse shoes last;
Go it while hide end heir on horse
Will hold together. Oh. go it, of course—
Go it as rapid as ever you can.
But don't slop over, my deer young men.
“ Don’t slop over.” You’ll find tome day
That keeping an eye to the windward will pay
A horse may run a little too ong,
A preacher preach Jast afr • on too strong.
And a poet who pleases the id with rhymes,
May write and regret it in after times.
Keep the end of the effort is view,
And don’t slop over, whatever you do.
Don’t slop o'er. The wisest men
Are bound to slop over now and then ;
And yet the wisest at work or feast
Are the very one’s who blunder the least.
Thoee who for spilt milk never wail
Are the one's who carry the steadiest pail;
Wherever you go, go in for the fat.
Bat don't slop over—Just freeze to that!
Don’t slop over, distrust yourself,
Nor alwavs reach to the highest shelf.
The next to the highest will generally do,
And answer the ends of such as you.
Climb, of course, but always stop
And take breath a little this side of the top;
And so you will reach it in wind and strong,
Without” slopping over. Thus ends my song !
UNCLE JlM’* BAPTIST REVIVAL HYMN.
BY Sinsrr AND CLIFFORD LASIRB.
Sin's rooster's crowed, Ole Mahster’s riz,
De sleepin' time is pas’;
Wake np dem lazy Baptjssis,
Dey's migbtly in de grass, grass;
Dev’s mightly in de grass.
Ole Mahster’s blowed de momin’s horn,
He’s blowed a powerful bias’ ;
O' Baptis’, come, come hoe de corn,
You's mightly in the grass, Ac.
De Meth’dia' team’s done hicthed; 0 fool,
De day’s a-breakin’ fas’ ;
Gear np dat lean ole Baptis’ mule,
Dey’s mightly in de grass, Ac.
De workmen's few an' mons’rous slow,
De cotton’s sheddin' fas’ ;
Whoop, look, les’ look at de Baptis’ row,
Hit's mightly in de grass, Ac.
De Jaybird squeal to the mockin’ bird; “Stop,
Do’n gimme none o’yo’ bass ;
Better sing one song for de Baptis' crop,
Dey’s mightly in ae grass,i’ Ac.
An’ de ole crow croak : "Do’n’ work, no, no,”
Bnt de flel'-lark say: “Yaas, Yaas,
An’ I spec’ von mighty glad, you debbilscrow,
Dat de Baptisis s iu de grass !" Ac.
Lord, thunder us up to de plowin’ match,
Lord, peorten’ de hoein' fas’,
Yea. Lord hah massy on de Baptis' patch,
Dey’s mightly in de grass, grass,
Dey’s mightly in de grass.
TO MY DAUGHTER.
FROM VICTeB HUGO.
My child! thou eeest me content to lead
A lonely life. Do thou, in imitation,
Not happy, nor triumphant, leam the need
Of resignation.
All guileless be, commencing with the skies,
Aud as a sun to glorify the whole;
My child ! within the azure of thine eyes,
Pat thou thy soul.
For none are happy, none triumphant here ;
To all their little span is incomplete.
Our life is but a shadow, and, my dear,
The shadows fleet.
Yes ! of their weary lot all men complain.
To happiness, oh ! strange and cruel fate,
All things are wanting, all! we seek in vain,
Or find too late.
What are the boons we crave, each for his part,
The hope of which doth still our hearts be
guile ?
Renown and wealth, a word, a woman s heart,
A loving smile.
Mirth, to the unloved king, is wanting still ;
A drop of water to Sahara’s plain ;
Man’s heart is like a well, which, as we fill,
But dries again.
Beboid those thinkers whom wo idolize.
Those heroes whosocommand we gladly own,
Whose names illuminate our sombre skies—
Where are they flown ?
They rose like meteors through the wintry air, ,
And dazzled for a moment every eye ;
Then sunk into the careless grave, and there
In darkness he.
Kind Heaven, that knows our bitter griefs and
fears,
Takes pity on our vain aud empty days,
And bathes each morning with refreshing tears
Our dusty ways.
One only law there is, so Just aud mild
Of which each honest heart mast own the
sway;
To pity, nothing hate, and oh ! my child,
To love alway.
[April Qalaay.
THE DREAMER AND THE SUNBEAM.
& little smi be am strayed into his room
And nestled on his paper, as the pen
Traced wearily the word " Sometime.” The
gloom
Which shrouded his fancy there and then
Drifted away,
like melting mist before the god of day.
Just like a crown of gold the little beam
Circled the word—so little meaning ! and
Within the golden space he saw the gleam
Of snow-white fingers and a dimpled hand,
Which seemed to write
Mysterious letters on this spot of light.
Circling still the little word “ Sometime,"
The fair hand softly moved, until the same
Was all surrounded, not with liquid rhyme,
But flashing pictures iu a golden frame —
Then passed away,
Like fading cloudlets at the close of day.
The sunbeam still remained and still the word,
Like fabled picture in ita frame of gold,
Gleamed thro’ its veil of sunshine, when he
heard
The music of a voice, oft heard of old,
But silent long
Amd the chorus of a sadder song.
“ Bead, Dreamer, yonder mystic scroll
My hand has drawn beneath the golden
beam!
Then cast the shadow from thy doubting soul,
And change the tenor of thy idle dream !
Look, and behold!
Future hidden beneath its veil of gold !"
The “ Dreamer" looked, and round the word
“ Sometime”
Such fairv pictures clustered that his heart
Filled with an ecstasy at once Bublime,
Seemed of the sunbeam and the word a part,
While all the earth
Was filled with music, such as hailed its birth!
The vision of his brightest dreams fulfilled—
A sunnv pathway, free fromcauk’nug oare—
A heart w'lth every yearning passion stilled—
A happy future—all wero pictured there !
And—brightest, best—
Beyond the lines, a calm eternal rest!
With head still bent, but not with sorrow
bowed,
The dreamer long in silent rapture stood.
The years of qmet sorrow round him crowd,
The silent, uncongenial brotherhood !
Each friend of old
Stands smiling there, with folded wings of
gold!
Sweet Hope ! How welcome to the heart thy
voice,
When naught but echoes of the haunting
Past
Sound in its chambers ! or the louder noise
Of battling passions, crowding fierce and
fast
Its portals, filled
With voiseless singers cruel Fate has stilled.
Frank B. Copp.
“RELIGIOUS OSTRACISM.”
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
Your article entitled “Religions Os
tracism” attracted my attention and
astonishment, from the fact of your try
ing to subvert the whole meaning and
intentions of the organization, which
yon understand is abont to be started in
this city ; on that point I will enlighten,
so far as to assert that the “Leagne,” as
you term it, has already started with
immense snceess, and I am safe in as
serting that its success at present is ow
ing to the parties at the head of it being
good Democrats; however, they won’t
refuse to admit to membership good Re
publicans, if they will take the necessary
obligation. Now, sir, the whole mean
ing of this great discovery you have so
■wonderfully laid open is that the Pro-,
testant people of this great Republic are
determined that free schools shall be
maintained, and hence the necessity of
o gauizatiou to prevent the sectarian
division of the school fund. We don’t
ostracise Catholies any more than they
do Protestants, and I think it is well es
tablished that the whole teachings of
Jesuitism tends to the osiracisation of
all Protestants. The Catholic party is
the whole cause of the starting of the
so-called “Leagne” in this city. Al
though its councils are spread over the
-whole South, as regards your publica
tion of the principles of this organiza
tion, they are greatly indebted to yon
for it, and would be much more so if you
would call public attention to it in every
issue of your valuable paper. There is
not one among us who would wish to, or
even think of, deteriating from the
value of the services of the Catholic
party in the late civil war. I quite agree
-with you that they did fight brave, but
not braver than their Protestant com
patriots. AMrrbeb.
MORE CORRUPTION.
Tn> Members of the Pennsylvania Le*Uia
lur* Requested lo Step Down and Out.
Harrisburg, May 2. — E. J. Petroff,
member of the Legislature from Phila
delphia, has been expelled from the
Legislature. He had negotiated with
the lobby to get fourteen votes for the
Boom Bill for seventy-five hundred dol
lars. Petroff did not receive the money
and asserts that his object was to see
whether money was spent, bnt the
House considered the negotiation isn
f roper. The House also expelled Mr.
.ynott, of Luzerne county, for receiving
money on the Boom Bill. Journal Clerk
bkinner was also implicated and has re
signed.
THE FOUNDER OF HAMBURG.
A BIOGRAPHIC SKETCH OF HENRY
•CHCLTZ BY GEN. JNO. A. WAGENER.
[ Translated from Cincinnati Deutsche Picmier
for the Chronicle and Sentinel ]
Henry Schnltz was of all the German
names, the one of which I heard most
on my arrival in Charleston (1833).
Blamed by many and praised by more;
in Georgia he was bitterly persecuted,
and in South Carolina highly esteemed.
What had this man done that he shonld
have each warm and at the same
time sach deadly enemies ? This is the
fate of every genuine man: he cannot
go quietly and peacefully on his even
way through tbe human throng, bnt
must struggle, if he create new projects
He will certainly make his pathway, but
it must be as the crushing wheel of the
Juggernaut does. Every such man must
encounter the usual hard life. Hence
the cry of tbe crowd, who are never will
ingly disturbed in their every day rou
tine of life. The one cries “Hosanna,”
the other, “Crucify him.” He who has
engaged in new undertakings, or called
forth new ideas, realized new p ans, or
swept the mouldering dnst from old
rooms will indeed appreciate this ex
perience; for men never more vehement
ly resist, and never more despondently
give up than when their accustomed
surjoundiDgs are changed and new light
breaks in upon their darkness—thus
disturbing their noon-day dreams.
Henry Schultz, the founder of Ham
burg, was certainly not oar ideal of a
German, bnt he was a seed of tbe old
stock, fnll of life and power, full of
sagacity and enduring activity. His
faults and follies were without doubt the
consequences of his early impressions,
aDd also the opinions he acquired in
America. For it is undeniable that the
formation of a man’s character is in
fluenced by the people in whose midßt
he grows to maturity, and, sadder still,
we must admit that human nature in the
tender years inclines easier to sin than
virtue, and, therefore, the youthful
mind in a foreign land, far from kindred
and the holy influences of home, will
more readilv descend than rise to a
higher life. Of Schultz, it was said by a
friend (a most sincere admirer of every
thing German), from whom we sought
information, that “in reference to his
social character nothing praiseworthy
could be said.” This may be true; we
know not, but we do know that be was a
most energetic, sharp-sighted man, with
a full German heart. Even in his old
age, after he had lost his wealth, he
would always assist such of hia country
men as were poorer than himself. He
fully justified the confidence which that
fellow-countryman placed in him, who
gave up his whole fortune into his
hands, although Schultz was at that
time persecuted by a tyrannical law.
Henry Schultz was born in Hamburg
on the’ Elbe. At that time when Na
poleon, with his iron fury, had destroy
ed the trade of his native city, Schultz
was forced to leave his Fatherland on
account of some boyish conduct of a po
litical nature, and came as a sailor to
America in 1806.
In IXI4 we meet him, for the first
time, in the boating business between
Augusta and Savannah. He was in co
partnership with an American by the
name of Cooper, and was patron of a
flat boat on the Savannah river. The
Arm made money, and was soon in con
dition to obtain a obarter to build the
great bridge, which was to facilitate the
intercourse between Augusta and South
Carolina. In 1816 Cooper sold his in
terest to one McKinnie, and the firm was
henceforth known as McKinnie &
.-.chnltz. Their wealth increased, and in
a few years they had, beside their boat
ing business on the river, another enter
prise. They had instituted a Bank and
built a banking house, which at that
time was the handsomest building in the
city, and even at the present day is one
of the largest. In the Fall of 1818 the
firm failed, in consequence of specula
tions in cotton, the price of which sud
denly declined, and their banking house,
as well as the bridge, was given up to
the Banl* of the State of Georgia. From
this misfortune sprung the long and
costly law suit which engrossed Mr.
Schultz to the end of his life,and to which
• reference is made in the annexed ex
tracts. When the gold crisis was over
he looked about him to see in what way
he could use his money to advantage,
for he had saved considerable from the
wreck. His heart still clung to Geor
gia, his first adopted State, the develop
ment of whose resources and the exten
sion of whose commerce and business
had especially and pre-eminently en
grossed his mind. His first plan had
been, comparatively speaking, a failure,
but notwithstanding this, bp was not dis
heartened. He was fnll of spirit and ener
gy and possessed a penetrating judgment
although his school education bad been
of the most ordinary kind. He now went
to Brunswick, one of the best harbors on
the Atlantic coast, where a hundred
years before some Gepqjan settlers had
laid off the ground. Here bn invested a
considerable amount in city budding
lots, with the expectation that the little
town would become a place of much im
portance, and through this means he
hoped not only to increase the yalue of
his lots a thousand fold, but to concen
trate at this point the commerce of the
South. His next aim was to facilitate
intercourse with the interior. He offered
to make a canal ten miles long, between
the AlUmaha and the Turtle, at his
own expense, jf the State would give
him a charter and allow him the canal
toll for 21 years. The legislature re
fused, aud many of the wisp natives
ridiculed the “Dutchmau;” and, bfcsid® B
this, they had such animosity towards!
foreigners in general, that our country
man, who not being by nature very gen
tle or patient, was overcome by gall. He
left Georgia, where he bad slftssdy of
fered so much, and settled iu South Caro
lina. It was said that what he undertook;
at this time was more from revenge
towards Georgia than a desire of gain,
or the discernment of his clear sighted
mind. He had influenced the trade of
that part of South Carolina fa ft}W>r of
Augusta, aud it was thought that fio
wished to deprive the ungrateful city of
its benefits. Whether this was his mo
tive or not, he accomplished it. In the
year 1821 the Legislature of the Palmet
to State granted him g liberal charter
and also loaned him capital jto build the
town which he named Hamburg, for his
native city. Very soon sprung lip large
buildings, stores, warehouses and pri
vate dwellings. Previous to this time,
the cotton, which amounted to 7#,<*oo or
80,000 bales per year, bad gone to Au
gusta, but it now remained in Hamburg.
The trade of the little town amounted
to over |2,000,000 a year, whereas the
formerly bgsy warehouses of Augusta
stood empty. Augusta is on one side
of the Savannah riw.er and Hamburg is
directly opposite. In £846 we were
editor oi the Teutone, the firsi German
paper in Charleston. One day a long,
lank aud yet vigorous old man walked
into our office and introduced himself
as “ Henry Schultz, Fournier of Ham
burg.” Hia exterior pleased very
much, and notwithstanding a little pre
judice against him, ws were willing to
acknowledge bis real worth, He had
oonstant war with bis neighbors in Geor
gia, aud it was said that he had placed
a cannon near his hill residence in order
to defend himself in case of possible
attack from au Augusta mob. This may
be true or not, but we never heard him
mention it. He requested us to copy
certain articles from English papers
with regard to kia undertakings, which
we did with pleasure. * * *
(Her* follow the articles, te£en from
the Charleston News and Courier, Ma
con Messenger qnd other newspapers,
expressing a warm for the
public spirit and enterprise which Mr.
Schnltz had shown in a very emi**ot de
gree and condemning the short sightea
Georgians, who had not encouraged his
undertakings. Iu conclusion i* Jbe fol
lowing le: ter, taken from the Courier,
written by Mr. Schultz himself);
“I am a foreigner by birth, and in
j some respeci* a public man, who has
been fortunate enough to obtain the
sympathy of the people; therefore, it
seems not amiss that I shonld give some
reasons for this good opinion. Nearly
forty-five years ago I was driven from
Fatherlaud by poll tic tl oppression. On
my arrival in America the following
thoughts suggested themselves to my
mind: ‘I am in a strange land, where I
must earn my daily bread by the sweat
of my brow. ’ I will take no interest in
politics and accept no office, for accord
ing to my ideas these public benefits
should belong to the native born, and
foreigners have no right to them. If the
country, the laws and the customs do
not suit me I can go elsswhere. If I ac
cumulate property it is my own, to use
as I wish, even as a native born may use
his. I came to this country in 1806, and
was naturalized in 1814. I have always
respected the laws of my adopted Fath
erland, and have been, both in peace
and war, a good citizen, and have also
accomplished useful works for the benefit
of the History will attest this
for me. I built the bridge at a cost of
$75,000; the Augusta wharves, $60,000.
The little town of Hamburg, which is
the third in business importance iu the
State. It was built with an expenditure
of $350,000, of which the State loaned
me $50,000, free of interest, for six years.
This money I have paid back to the
State, and these three public works will
commemorate the, genius and industry
of a foreigner ; and when he has moul
dered for years in the grave they will
remain to prove his love for America
and show his beneficence to the land of
his adoption.”
We do not altogether agree with Mr.
Schultz’s views, fat we cannot see why
the foreigner, who has become a citizen,
Bbonld not have the right to hold an
official position. undertake duties
and we should demand rights. He who
gives his life, energy and wealth to a
country shonld not be treated as a step
child. Nevertheless it may be, as our
brave countryman thought, far better
that foreigners should tarn their backs
on American politics and office-holding
and devote themseves entirely to indus
trial and social advancement. Who
kaows ? In 1852, long before the late
disastrous war, Henry Schnltz died in
Hamburg. He was very poor, bat a
German friend (Mr. Damm, of Ham
burg,) was faithful to the last. His lit
tle town is bnt the shadow of what it
was. The population is a horde of
2,000 negroes, with bat few whites and
little business. The trade has returned
to Augusta and God knows if it will
ever see better days. We close with
tbe words of oar Angasta friend :
“ Hamburg is in rains ; the old ceme
tery is overgrown with weeds, and
Schnltz’s grave has no stone or mark of
any kind to show his last resting place.
What is haman worth, or power, or
honor ? Scarcely twenty years and
already forgotten ! So will we too be
forgotten when oar time shall come,
and even shonld love or friendship erect
a monument to onr memory who of the
busy throng will panse long enough to
read the name ?”
A MOUNTAIN COURT SCENE.
How the Name of “Mother” Sawed a Life.
Old Job Dawson had been duly elect
ed to the responsible position of Justice
of the Peace, and this was the first case
that demanded his attention. Job was a
veteran mountaineer, and had lived in
the shadow of the lofty peaks, banting,
trapping and fighting Indians, to use his
own words, since Adam was a kid.” In
that rough region an accnsation of a
great crime against any one is bnt a
forerunner of a “hanging bee,” and a
trial is seldom thought of. But in the
present instances wild “cuss” who had
been frequenting the settlement bad
been appropriating the “broncho” (In
dian pony), belonging to a neighboring
ranchman, had been pursued, captured
and brought back. Old Job was sum
moned to try the culprit, and a spot in
the rocky gulch near the sqnire’s cabin
was selected for the site of the investiga
tion. A motly crowd of hunters, trap
pers, miners and rancheros were present.
Some were lying on the ground and oth
ers were sitting upon the rocks, all
anxiously awaiting the squire’s coming.
Job soon came from towards the cabin,
and, with dignified air, seated himself
upon a boulder, took off his bear-skin
cap and said:
“Fellers, the court * are ready to git
down to biz, an’ I want yerall to choose
yer racket, an’ let up on that chin
music according to law. Through yer
hair in sight, an’ pay ’tention to the
court.”
Every hat came off at this command
and his Honor, glancing around the
circle, said :
“Wharis the cuss?”
The mountaineers, armed with Henry
rifles and six-shooters, stepped forward
with the thief, a young man wearing a
devil-may-care expression. His hands
were securely fastened behind his back
with buckskin thongs. Clad in buck
skin from head to foot, he presented a
picturesque appearance as he faced the
squire.
“Wat do yer call yer when yer at
home ?” asked the court.
“Ain’t got any home, leastways iu
these parts,” sullenly replied the pris
oner.
“Ain’t hey ? Well, what’s the name
yer tnk w’en yer left the States, then ?”
“ The boys hyar on the hills call me
Tiger Jim.”
“Well, Tige, yer spotted a hoss thief,
an’ I reckon tbar’s something in itr, or
the boys wouldn’t a brought you in.
You can’t expect a trial like you’d get
down to Laramie, or in eny of them
towns along the road. We bavn’t eny
paper, pens or ink, or eny of that fool
ishness up hyar in the hills, an’thar ain’t
one of ns could engineer ’em if we had,
so we’ll jist. grind yer through an’ do the
best we oan for yer. Iu the name of the
law I now ask yer did you collar that
hoss—but stop ’er right thar, doggoue
it, I forgot to swar you. Cum mitey
near forgittin’ it. Hold up yer right
ban’!”
“Ho’d up nothin’. How kin I when
they are tied up titer’n blazes!”
“That’s so. Yer k’rect, Tige, but guess
eny member of the body’ll be ’cording
to law in extreme cases.* Steddy him a
little, fellers, so’s he kin hold up his
right foot.”
Tjge raised his moccasin-covered foot,
while a guard pn each side held him in
position.
“Now, then, I ain’t a fly on them ar
lawyer’s affvdavys, bnt I’ll make her
stout enough to hold a Mexican mule.
Tiger Jim, do you swear by the Holy
Moses, according to the laws of Wyoming
Territory, that every time yer chip into
my racket ye'll give us a square truth?
An’ of yer don’t, do yer hope that yer
may get ohawed up by a grizzly, chop
ped to pieces by Sioux, strung up to a
pine with a rope ’round yer neck, ah’
fail tq conneot in Heaven when yer light
goes out, to the best of yer understands’
as provided by law f s’help yer God, eh?
“That’sjist wa’t I dops, pardy.”
“Now, Tige, yer under'oath, an’ ey’ry
time yer speak yer want to hi* the bull’s
eye. Did yep hear that boss?
“Wall, Uncle Job, there’s no use o’
lyin’ ’bout it, an’ I’ll tell yer- jist how it
war. Las’ night you know thar was a
jamboree over to A1 Mi kings ranch in
Miller’s Gulch and I war thar. A1 had
been in Larimecity an’ got a keg o’ good
old budge, an’ we all got purty full.
the dancin’ war over I pulled out
for Howie’s ranch, wharl am bangin’ out,
an’ as I warataggprip’ down round Moun
tain Cats Hill, I run rigj)£ onto the
broQcho that war picketed out in the
grass, an’ war jist drunk enough to
mount him an’ lite out. I know I’m
going to awing for it, an’ I’ll die game,
too. I ain't f cuss, anyway, an’
ef it warn’t fur iny good fild mother
back in the States (here the tears began
to roll down his bronzed cheeks), who
never closes her eyes ’thout prayin’ God
tq gcjid me back to her, I’d langh at
death bpjp yer fix the rope; but when
I thinjk of that 4a r fft’ pld soul I get
weaken'r a wounded ant.efpPff. J tell ye,
fellers, I’ve been a tough cqss eyer sipee
I struck out to these mountains, an* I
s’pose the world’ll be better ’thout me
in it. My old mother will suffer, I know
that, fat I’m her only kid, and hev sent
her every oanye o’ dust thet I could
spare, an’ it' js all she fia.il to live on.
She’s been a good an to me, God bleep
her, Aft’ I’m sorry I havn’f lived so’s I
can cajppVi?* fip? up thar (raising his
tearful eyes toward jtjLeegen). an’ boys,
wont gome o’ yop write to 'fiejr. Topi
Kirk thar knows whar she lives, an" tell
her I got let oat by an Injun, or peg
ged out nat’rally. For God’s sake don’t
let her know I was strangled. The news
ud kill her. But then I’ll chee-e this
gab or ye’ll think I weakenin’, and the
man don’t live as can skeer Tiger Jim.
Elevate me, fioys. jist as quick as ye
please. I’m ready Whenjre are.”
During this recital Jim’s jyere
fiUo.d with tears, and a dose observer
would fiaye detected “silent weeping”
on all sides. The word “mother” had
awakened tender recollections in
the breast of evepy one oftfioge
hardy jgountaineeis. Men who
could face dp3fh in any shape
withont a particle w feeling did
not try to hide their tears at the motion
of that eaered name, mother J How
sweet it sounded to tfceir ears! It car
ried them back to the happiest days in
the dead past, when they were blessed
with the love of parents, before the in
satiable thirst for gold had led them
intozheswiejoantain wilds. Not a word
was spoken for a jew foments, then old
Job drew his horny hang his
watery eyes, and snia in a husky voice;
•'/Tige, ye wouldn’t break an oath
wonla you’
“No, Job Dawson, nor lOZ trienA or
foe, There ain’t a boy in the bills as
can say thet Jim ever went back on even
his given word. I’m a rough nn an’ do
some mitey mean things, bnt when I say
a thing yon oan gamble every dollar
yon’ve got upon its bein’ straight.”
"Well, Tige, we had intended to swing
ye, an’ ye deserve swinin’, bnt I can’t
git rid o’ that ‘mother’ chinning ye gave
us. I s’pect the old lady set her heart
on seein' ye agin, an’ is wearin’ her old
eyes out lookin’ fer yer. I’ve got an’
old mother myself, an’ though I hevn’t
sot eyes on her since ’49, her picter’s
right hyar in my heart, an’ its a pleadin’
for yer "old woman, Tige, It’s raff, Tige,
ruff, an’—let’s see—yes darned if I don’t
du it. Jack, ent them strings so’s he
can get his hands loose. , Thar, that it.
Now, Tige, hold np yer right hand, an’
ef yer ever swore strong do it now. Do
ye swar by the great God and yer blessed
old mother, that if this Conrtjdischarges
ye, ye 11 lit* rite out for tjie States an’ go
home to the old lady, an’ love her an’
comfort her as long as she stays ent of
Heaven ? Do you swar to this, Tige. be
fore Almighty God and this Court f”
“I do, Job, an’ thar’s my fist on it
Pat it thar. I swar it, an’ I’ll pull stakes
rite away.”
“Then ye’re released on them terms,
an' the boys’ll help ye git yer traps down
to the station; bnt mind, I tell ye, Tige,
ef ye’re ever caught m the hills again,
ye'll go up a tree. Fellers, the Court’s
over an’ the prisoner’s discharged.”—
Marion County (Cal.) Journal.
At the Waterloo Railway Station,
London, a rat, three parts grown, has
been fonnd with a bone ring round her
neck. The bone is an ordinary section
of a pig’s leg,* snch as is fonnd in rash
ers, and has cut deeply into the rat's
neck. In hunting for food when yonng
she probably thrust her head through
the hole of the bone, and oould not get
rid of it again.
OUR ATLANTA LETTER.
Emilia* Mar Arrive*—Colored Conference-
Affaire of Wont, Rdwards &Co~—Exenreloa-
Iscs From Georgia Railroad—Rev. Dr. Left.
witch— Imvreoeire Service# aad Church
Cl •m M to Its Utmost Capacity—Col. E. Y.
Clarke Reinstated In Membership.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Atlanta, May I.—The beautiful
weather of the past few weeks has pre
pared us all to welcome this day with
“Hail smiling May.” Of all the months
of the year, not excepting the Christ
mas season, this is the one of which poets
have snng their sweetest lays, and abont
which gifted minds have penned their
most beantifnl tribute to natnre’s
charms.
The failure of Bncher & Cos., of Mont
gomery, Alabama, is not snch a serious
matter as might be supposed. He is a
very quiet, pleasant Nothern Republi
can, formerly Cashier of the Freedman’s
Bank, in that city, and since its failure
he has been running a private bank
there, using the “Cos.” simply to give
apparent strength to the concern, he be
ing the entire firm. His depositors are
not numerous, and the losses will not
be very large, being mostly confined to
men of his own party.
The chickens are roosting high here
this week, as six colored Bishops and a
small army of preachers and delegates
have arrived to attend the General Con
ference of the African Methodist Epis
copal Chnrch, known as the “A. M. E,
Z. C.” The business sessions com
menced this morniDg, and will probably
be interesting, as Rev. H. M. Turner,
L. L. D., the notorious eolored Radical
politician, of Savannah, will no doubt
get in a word or two for the party that
has provided him a fat office in the
Savannah Custom House.
The affairs of West, Edwards & Cos.
are again being stirred np in a most
lively manner, and report says a grand
expose may be looked for soon. It is
said that the old adage of “ honor
among thieves” has not been verified in
the operations of this concern, and
somebody is going to “ let the cat oat
of the bag.” Well, if the ends of jnstice
can be promoted by this course, and the
creditors benefltted thereby, it may be a
good thing for the feline to come forth
and show tbe exact length of her tail,
and whether, as reported, she is a very
black cat.
The many friends of Major O. Frank
Miller, the efficient manager of the Kim
ball House in the absence of Col. Mc-
Ginley, will be pained to know that he is
suffering severely from a violent affec
tion of the eyes, from which no im
mediate relief seems available. He will
leave for Hot Springs, Ark., in a few
days for medical treatment. A host of
friends wish him a successful visit and
a safe and speedy return. Col. Mo-
Ginley has closed the Grand National,
Jacksonville, after a good Winter’s work
and will devote himself wholly to the
Himball House for the Summer. This
hotel is now full of guests and a very
prosperous season is anticipated.
The “ Gate City” was overflowing on
Saturday with excursionists from along
the line of the Georgia Railroad, al
though report says hundreds were left
behind for want of cars. The party
made its headquarters at James’Hotel, 1
which was kindly tendered by Hon.
John H. James, and it is said that all
the ladies declared that they were going
to make their husbands and sweethearts
vote for him for Governor, he was
“ snch a dear, kind man.” One of the
prettiest girls in the party made Si.
Hawkins go to Gov. James’ bank and
interview him on the subject, and after
hours’ talk Si. came back with anew
suit of clothes and a beaver hat, and
reported that it was all right, James
must be the next Governor of Georgia.
’Rah for Si. Hawkins and a “ tiger” for
The Rev. J. T. Left-witch, D.D., the
popular and honored pastor of the Cen
tral Presbyterian Church of this city,
has again been called to take charge of
a church in Virginia, and it is feared
that he will accept. This faot may have
drawn many persons to bis morning ser
vice of yesterday, as the spacious church
edifioe was filled in all its sittings, and
chairs had to be provided for the late
comers. Dr. Leftwitch preached a very
able and interesting sermon from the
text, “I have trodden the wine press
alone,” which was listened to with the
deepest attention by the large congrega
tion present. Dr. Leftwitch is not an
easy, attractive preacher, but his ser
mons are models of appropriateness,
power and simplicity. To this can be
added the purity of his private life, and
the fidelity with which he discharges
the duties of his holy office. Having
been a class-mate of his, years ago, I
know him well as a man of rare culture
and exalted piety. If he concludes to
leave here, as he may do, his departure
will be deeply regretted by a wide circle
of warm, personal friends, including
members of all denominations.
At the olosc of the sermon the pastor
requested Col. E. Y. Clarke, managing
editor of the Constitution, to take a po
sition in front of the pulpit, whioh he did,
when Dr. Leftwitch, reading from the
rules of the church, propounded several
questions to that gentleman. He asked
him if he was duly penitent for his dis
obedience to the authority of the church
and the spirit of the Gospel; and if he
desired to renew bis former member
ship and devote the reminder of his
life to the faithful service of God. Col.
Clarke promptly answered “ yes ” to
these questions, when Dr. Leftwitch
pronounoed him fully reinstated, and
oommended him to the hearty sympathy
and fellowship of the members of the
church. Then followed a most impres
sive and appropriate prayer, a very fit
ting close to a scens fail of deep signifi
cance and power, and one that will not
soon Ije forgotten. It was in anticipa
tion of this solemn service that yery
many who composed the great congre
gation were present. Tflhs ends tne
Ularke-Alston duel, so far as the ohuroh
js concerned, and the numerous friends
of Col. Clarke are iftflch gratified at the
result. It was by no fault qf hjs that
he was suspended, under the rules, from
church membership, as circumstances,
over which he had no control, forced
him to defend his honor even at the
risk of his own life or the taking of that
of Ilia adversary. He met the emer
gency like a brhve and fjqnorable gen
tleman, and retired from the field un
harmed himself and with his hands un
stained by the blood of a fellow mortal.
He has now acknowledged his penitenoe
for disregarding the rules of the church
of which he lyag a member, and returns
to full fellowship aqd pofiimunion with
his brethren. A consummation dpsired
and approved fiy all concerned.
Nobumbboa.
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SOMNAMBULIST.
A Little Girl’s Extraordinary Feat While
Asleep.
[New York World.]
Jennie Lawson is a member, of the
geoond class in the Eighteenth street fe
male gramma? school. Friday last a num
ber of arithmetical examples were giv
en out for solhtion, bqt twee of them,
in percentage, requiring long processes
of division, resisted all Jennie’s efforts
to secure the eqvTcat answer. The cir
cumstance seemed to distress th e
and after working through them again
and again without success, she went
home determined by persistent effort to
find ojjt whpre her error was, and she
continued to striye until long after the
rest of the family h%d Tptjred. Towards
midnight her mother, who slept in an
adjoining room, called to her daughter
that she had better go to bed, lest she
should be late iu rising the next day.
The girl at once retired, and in a few
j mingles was fast asleep. About an hour
j afterwards Mrs. jyaygpn was again awak
i e nbs ft sadden noud jfi her qsugUtei’e
bed-chamber, which was then in entire
fiarkoess. She called, bnt receiving
no answer, arose to see what
was the matter, Jennie was sitting
at her desk, and had apparently j net
completed some work on her slate, the
noise having been made by the falling
of a ruler from the table to the floor.
The girl was fast asleep. Mrs. Lawson
did not wake her at the time, and on
the following day it was afternoon be
fore the girl could be ronsed from the
deep sleep in which she seemed to be.
Upon awakening Jennie spoke of the
problems, and expressed her intention
of making a farther trial at their eola
tion. ’Upon getting the slate she fonnd
them completely solved in her own
i hand, each line neatly ruled and figur
ing* withont the slightest error. At this
| she was greatly surprised. Her last
j knowledge of the puzzling examples was
j of leaving them unsolved on the night
j before. Of her performances in her
sleep she knew when awake absolutely
nothing, and her mother not having
mentioned the incident, left her the
more bewildered. Yesterday the girl
bronght the work to school and related
the incident attending it to her teacher.
The room was dark, and tbe girl sound
ly asleep during the working oat of the
test examples. She had never before
shown any symptoms of sleep-working,
nor have any of her relatives been so
affected.
THfl SUPREME COURT.
The (State ef Geerzla Galas a Case.
Washington, May I.—The Supreme
Court made a supplementary decree in
the case of the State of Georgia against
Anderson k Cos., often before the Court
daring the past Winter, directing the
Jacksonville, Mobile and Pensaoola
Railroad to be turned over to the State,
in accordance with the decision in the
case rendered some time since.
AMERICAN METHODISM.
A CENTENNIAL MEETING IN BAL
TIMORE.
A Foil Attendance—The Btshaee aad Laymen
—The Address of Welcesae—A Cheering
Retrospect—A Senate and Honse Proposed
The Proposition Tabled—An Eloquent Com.
nemorative Address.
Baltimore, May I.—The Seventeenth
Delegated General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Chnrch assembled
this morning at the Aoademy of Music,
and was called to order at 9 o’clock by
Bishop Janes. Bishops Simpson, Haven,
Scott, Ames, Bowmar, Andrews, Merrill
and Peck occupied seats on the platform,
and the anditorinm was filled with dele
gates. Dr. Aaron Wood, of the North
west Indiana Conference, and Dr. Gard
ner Baker, of the Northern New Yrk
Conference, were invited as seniors to
take seats npon the platform. After the
reading of passages of scriptures, the
siDging of hymns and prayer, Bishop
Janes stated that he held in his hand a
roll of the delegates to the Conference,
prepared by Geo. W. Woodruff, Secre
tary of the last General Conference, and
asked the pleasure of the Conference.
On motion of Dr. Curry, of the New
York Christian Advocate, Mr. Woodruff
proceeded to call the roll of delegates,
at the conclusion of which Bishop Janes
announced a quorum present. Ou mo
tion of Dr. Newman, of Washington
City, the Conference proceeded to elect
a Secretary.
In the address of welcome the Com
mittee stated: “On the 21st day of the
present month, one hundred years will
have elapsed sinoe the first annual Con
ference assembled in this city. Here
also in 1774 Methodism in America as
sumed its separate and independent ex
istence as a church; settled its standards
of fafth; determined on the form of
government and an organanized method
of working. Is is thirty-six years this
day since the General Conference last
assembled here, although up to that
time more than one-half of the General
Conferences had held their sessions in
Baltimore.” An hour or more was oc
cupied in selecting seats by the several
conferences as they were respectively
drawn by ballot and announced. After a
second ballot George W. Woodruff
was declared elected Secretary, and
Rev. C. Kershing Chase, Assistant
Seoretary. Bis Lop Andrews read the
address prepared in pursuance of a reso
lution adopted in the last General Con
ference of 1872, that the Board of Bish
ops prepare a commemorative address
and present it to this Conference on the
first day of its session, to be immediate
ly published to the church, with such
recommendations from this General
Conference as will enlist all our people
in a cheerful and devout observance of
those special thanksgiving services,
which shall be tbe most appropriate and
fervent expression of gratitude to Al
mighty God, of faith in Jesus Christ,
the Saviour and Ruler of the world, of
love to our country and loyalty to the
free institutions which are based upon
tbe immortal declaration of Independ
ence. The address, whioh is quite long
aqfi of a character that forbids conden
sation, was referred to a committee to
be hereafter appointed. Rev. Wm. H.
Perrine, of Miohigan, submitted a reso
lution aa to the propriety of dividing the
General Conference into two bodies,
consisting of a clerical senate and a
house of lay representatives, and pro
ceeded to address the Conference at
some length, after which his proposition
was laid on the table, lhe nsual stand
ing committees, except that ou bounda
ries, were ordered appointed, and the
Conference adjourned until to-morrow,
closing the exercises with a doxology
and benediction.
Atlanta, May I.—The General Con
ference of the African Methodist Church
of the United States met here to-day.
Six Bishops and two hundred and fifty
delegates are present. It will be in ses
sion about two weeks.
What the General Conference is Doing.
Baltimore, May 2. — To-day in the Con
ference, Bishop Scott presiding, a reso
lution was offered of thanks to the
managers of the Centennial for closing
the exhibition and grounds on the Sab
bath. 0. O. Fisher, of Georgia, is on
the Committee of Centennial Obser
vance. A resolution that the Bishop
shall preside on Committee of Bounda
ries, and its divisions shall be final, was
adopted. Resolutions were adopted
asking Congress to amend the postal
laws, so that annuals published by be
nevolent corporaitons may pass throngh
the mails at the same rates as other pe
riodicals.
The Conference next ratified nomina
tions for members of standing commit
tees. A motion was submitted pro
viding for the appointment of a standing
committee of twelve, to bo named the
Committee on Judicial Proceedings, and
to consist of one from eaoh General
Conference, and nominated by the Con
ferences respectively, to which commit
tee all questions of law and record of
judicial conferences shall be referred.
The proposition led to a lengthy discus
sion, in whioh a number of delegates
took part. Bishop Simpson said he
would be gladly relieved of the present re
sponsibility of deciding legal questions.
A substitute to refer the record of judi
cial conferences to the Committee on
the Episcopaoy was lost, and the mo
tion to appoint a Judicial Committee
was adopted. The Conference then ad
journed to 9 o’oloek to-morrow.
The Baltimore General Conference—What
Was Done Yesterday—A Representatire
From Great Britain—Fraternal Greeting
to Atlanta.
Baltimore, May 3.—The General
Conference re assembled at the regular
hour this morning, JJisfiop Simpson pre
siding. The usual religious services
were conducted by- Rev. L. 0. Mattox,
of the Wilmington Conference. Upon the
call of the roll of absentees, an addi
tional number of delegates responded,
after whioh the minutes of yesterday’s
proceedings were read and approved.
The report of the Committee on Rules
was takeu up, aud each rule acted upon
seriatim, whioh consumed the en
tire session up t° poon, heing
concliified. the rules were adopted.
Rev. w. fi. Cope, fraternal delegate
from the British Wesleyan Conference,
was introduced. The faot that he came
from the mother Conference of Metho
dism secured him an unusually cordial
welponie. He will make bis fraternal
communjcaliPh Saturday next. The re
ception address of the Bishop was made
the special order for to-morrow. A mes
sage of fraternal Christian greeting to
the African Methodist Episoopal Ohuroh
in session at Atlanta, Ga., was offered.
The Standing Committee of Judicial
Proceedings consists of one member
from each of the twelve General Oon
feiences, as follows : Joseph Cummings,
New England; G. G. Reynolds, New
York, East; A. O. Haven, Central New
York; A. Wheeler, Erie; L. O. Mattox,
Wilmington; J. M. Trimble, Ohio: A.
0. McDonald, Mississippi; George B.
Joselyn, Michigan-Cyru's £ rooks, Min
nesota; flf. Illinois i
Henry C. Benson, California; Jacob
Rothenvieller, Central German Confer
ence, 4 committee on lqy delegates and
lay representations was ‘ordered. The
consideration of the message to the
African Ooaferenoe at Atlanta was re
sumed, and after discussion was refer
red to the Committee on Correspond
ence. The action of the Bishops in ap
pointing fraternal delegates to the Con
ference at Atlanta, as authorized by the
last General Conference, was confirmed.
Adjourned until to-morrow.
TO TBE WHEAT (SROWERS QF GEOR
r;
Information having been received at
this office that tbe wheat in many sec
tions of the Bute is being injured by the
rust, I suggest that yon try nitrate of
soda on a small plat as a preventive, and
report tbp result to this Department.
Pulverize well and sow broadcast oyer
the wheat when -fin the boot,” while
the dew is on the blades, at the rate of
Seventy-five pounds to the acre.
This is recommended as an experi
ment as far as preventing rust is con
cerned; but the benefit to the wheat is
an established fact,
The discovery of a preventive of rnst
is of vast importance.
Yonr assistance in the matter is earn
estly solicited. . _ ,
• Aii papers in the State are respectful
ly requested to copy this.
TfIOMAS P. Jahm.
Commissioner of Agriculture.
Atlanta, Ga., April 27, 1876.
SELF-DESTRUCTION.
A Braes sf Salfide* iz *• Wes*.
San Francisco, April 30.—Prof. Blake,
known throughout Hie country as a
mind reader, committed suicide by
poisoning, in this city, on last .Thurs
day. He had carefully destroyed all evi
dence of his identity, ami left note
asking the Coroner to make no efforts
ascertain it. The body was reoogmzed
to-day. HI health and poverty caused
the suicide. .
St. Lotus, April 30.— This afternoon
the dead body of a young man, named
Bernard Bailey, was found ui his room,
with a pistol shot wound in his side. He
left behind a singular letter, in which
he describes for the benefit of medical
'men, and religious and moral phooso
phers, the physical, mental and moral
feelings of a suioide, and also intimates
that unrequited love compelled him to
kill himself.
RELIGIOUS FANATICISM.
CndfiiM in Colorado—Harribl* Torture of
Mexicans.
[Colorado Correspondence of (he St. Louis Globe-
Democrat .]
Early in the week here it was reported
in town that a man was to be orueifled
on the Friday following. To the south
of Saguache, about fifteen miles, there
is a large settlement of Mexicans, called
Carneros. It sits close to the foot of the
mountain range, and its inhabitants are
engaged in stock herding and agricul
ture. In company with ex-Mayor Bar
ker, of Denver, your correspondent left
Sagnache at 10, a. m., to witness this
strange performance, We arrived at
Mr. Royal's ranch at 1, p. m., and, after
a hasty lunch, repaired to the scene
which was taking place about a mile up
the creek from his house, and immedi
ately back of his ranch. We were in
formed by Mr. Royal that the fun had
just commenced, and were in time.
Four Heavy, Wooden Crosses,
About fifteen feet high, had been erected
at intervals of 800 feet, each, with one
exception, bearing a Latin inscription.
On the first cross was this legend:
“j Nil nisi cruet”—“Naught but the
cross.” On the next, “Nisi Dominus
frustra ” —“Lest God be with you, toil
is vain;” and on the third, “O / nia ad
Dei gloriam" —“All things to the glory
of God.” The fourth your correspondent
has forgotten. There were eighteen
penitents, divided up into groups of
four, and six attendants in each group.
Each penitent, with two exceptions, wore
a black mask or sack drawn completely
over the head and fastened about the
neck. The other two wore red masks.
Whether the difference of color in the
masks represented a different degree of
crime or not we failed to ascertain. The
leader of each band carried something
resembling a watchman’s rattle. He
was followed by another attendant play
ing a small reed flute. The other four
attendants chanted in a
Low, Monotonous* Tone
Some Spanish words that we could not
understand. Aside from the mask, the
penitents wore nothing but a pair of the
thinnest kind of knit drawers. Each
one of the group, penitents and atten
dants, carried an “azote,” or scourge,
made from the leaf of the soapweed. It
is very tough and fibrous, and was braid
ed into clubs, about four inches wide
and perhaps three feet long. The line
of march was from one cross to the oth
er, and at each cross a halt was made of
about five minutes.
At every step they lashed themselves
with these “azotes” until the blood
fairly spirted from every pore. They
took sharp pieces of flint, and lacerated
the fleshy parts of the body until they
were literally a mass of bleeding flesh.
Whenever one fell down from exhaus
tion and loss of blood, which occurred
every moment or two, one of the atten
dants took his scourge and beat him un
til he got up again.
In one group a heavy log-chain was
fastened to each ankle of the penitent,
and the attendants took hold and
Dragged Him Feet Foremost
Over beds of cactus, or prickly-pear
plants, which abonud in this country.
Occasionally they would all give a sud
den jerk together, and fairly lift him
from the ground. This dragging would
perhaps continue ten minutes each time.
Another penitent had a cowhide cut up
into strips, and would wind it as tightly
as possible around his arms and legs un
til the circulation was completely stop
ped, and the flesh seemed to be burst
ing and black. He remained, or was to
remain, in this condition twenty-four
hours. Every time they reached a cabin
that stood near the upper cross, an at
tendant came out, and washed them with
vinegar. Occasionally the monotony
was varied by a penitent taking on his
back a hugh cross, and bearing it until
he fell prostrate under its weight. This
cross was about a foot thick either way,
about eighteen feet long, and the arm
about nine feet. On this cross was ac
tually painted in letters of blod, “ La
Passion en Credo” Spanish, and signify
ing
“Suffering by Faith.”
Two Penitentes bad died the night be
fore we got there from this treatment,
and one had been actually crucified.
We were not permitted to go to the spot
where the crucifixion took place, as, be
ing total strangers, they feared our mis
sion on the grounds. The only Ameri
can gentleman who saw the body on the
cross was a ranchman living in the im
mediate neighborhood. Nails had been
driven through each foot, just above the
ankle, and through the hands. A gentle
man who was on the grounds on Satur
dan says that three more will not recover.
Last year, on the same spot, a man
was crucified also, and these same atro
cities pnrpetrated. No one dare say a
word, and the whites in the vicinity are
powerless to interfere, as their stock,
barns and houses are at the meroy of
these people.
These Penitentes believe that if they
die undergoing this self-imposed torture
they and all their relatives go straight
to Heaven. If they survive, their sins
are pardoned for the remainder of their
lives.
THE COLD SNAP.
Ice and Snow on the First qf May.
MeiiFobp, Pa., May I.—Last night
was the coldest for this season of the
year within the memory of the oldest
inhabitant. At 5 o’clock this morning
the thermometer indicated 27 degrees.
Ice was found to the thickness of half an
inch and a high wind prevails.
Watertown, N. Y., May I.—Snow
fell here last night to a depth of two
inches. The storm extended over the
northern part of the State and in some
places the snow is still falling,
THE CENTENNIAL.
The Formal Order of Opening.
Philadelphia, May 2. —The Centen
nial: Board of Finance have issued the
following: International Exhibition,
Philadelphia, Pa., May 2 d. The open
ing ceremonies of the exhibition will
take place on the 10th of May. The
public vriU he admitted to the ground at
0, a. m-> snd at 12, m., the ceremonies
will take place, after which the build
ings will be thrown open, A fifty cent
note or a silver half dollar gains admit
tance to the grounds, and no further tee
is requested at the After the
10th of May the grounds will'he open at
9, a. m. John Welsh, President.
THE MOLLY MAGUIRES.
| Commencement of the Trials.
Pottsville, May 3.— The trial, of the
alleged murderers of Policeman Yost
will commence to-morrow. Much excite
ment prevails, partly owing to the fact
that one of the prisoners, Kerrigan, is
the one who, in his confession last Win
ter, exposed the secret operations of the
Molly Maguires, and an additional
police fo ce has been appointed to. guard
the jail. Hon. Daniel Dougherty, of
Philadelphia, and other eminent coun
sellors are engaged for the defense.
YICTRKY IN INDIANA,
Same Rload-Letting at the Polls.
Indianapolis, May 3.— The Demo
crats carried the oity by 4,000 votes ma
jority, and elected eleven of the thirteen
Councilmen. After minor disturbances
during the day a serious fight ocourred,
lasting 20 minutes. Pistols, clubs and
bricks were used freely. Qne negro was
killed and tt?o probably mortally wound
ed. There are eight wounded at the
Surgical Institute, and several whites
and blacks were taken to their homes.
CAPITA!-, and labor.
The Troubles in Masqjlon.
Cleveland, Ohio, May 3.—Every
thing is quiet at Massilou and other dis
tricts this morning. Last evening threats
were made and several shots were fired
at the Wermington mine, but nothing
more was done. This morning the new
miners went to work in the Warmington
mine and are working under the protec
tion of the militia. The old strikers
still declare they will never go to work
at the reduced rates.
The Crops. —The Athens Watchman
says: The growing wheat crop of this
section never looked more promising, all
things considered. We have been in
Walton, Oconee, Clarke, Madison, Hart,
Franklin, s’**, Habersham and Hall
oougfie*. and from personal observation
and careful inquiry, are satisfied that, fne
present prospect of a heavy yiefd i* Un
usually flattering. We tytYe.kUQWU wheat
further adysneeA thw time of year,
but have never seen the stand so uni
formly good and the area sown so large.
Fall oats is also looking well.
The fruit crop of Northeast Georgia
will, we think, be nnnsnally abundant
this year—especially apple*, pears and
cherries—the trees being loaded with
blooms and young fruit, and it is not
probable that there will be any more
frost.
It is a mistaken idea that the peaches
are all killed. We observed along the
road, between this city and Gainesville,
last week, some peaches in almost every
orchard we passed.
Thus talks an old farmer abont bis
boys: From 16 to 20 they knew more
than I did; at 25 they knew as much; at
30 they weTe willing to hear what I had
to say; at 35 they asked advioe; and I
think when they get to be 40 they will
acknowledge that the old man does know
something,
EDUCATIONAL.
GEORGIA EDUCATORS IN COUN
CIL.
The Tenth Annnal Meeting of the Teacher’*
Convention.
f.Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.\
Savannah, May 2.—The Georgia
Teachers' Association met at Mozart
Hall, at 10 o’clock, a. m , Rev. Dr. J. J.
Battle, President, in the Chair. Dr. E.
H. Myers offered a prayer, in which Di
vine blessing was asked upon the pro
ceedings of the Association. Dr. R. D.
Arnold, President of the Board of Edu
cation being sick, Mr. Williams, senior
member of the Board, welcomed the As
sooiatibn to S .vannah. The address
was responded to, in a becoming man
ner, by Dr. Battle. The Secretary,
Prof W. LeOonte Stevens, read his
regular report, which was, on motion,
received, and subsequently adopted.
Natural Science* In the Common School*.
Mr. J. H. Chappell, of Bethany, de
livered a most excellent address on the
above subject. The speaker discovered
great originality in thought and method
and no small degree of painstaking.
He first posted himself thoroughly on
the subject of natural philosophy, study
ing all the approved text books on that
subject, determined upon a course of
instruction which kept text books out
of the hands of his pupils, and proceed
ed step by step until they had become
thoroughly interested, and were enabled
to grasp the whole. In other words, he
taught bis pupils in the most thorough
manner.
Mr. 0. is quite a young man and
possesses elements that will make him
distinguished in the noble profession
he has chosen. Profs. Mallon, Stevens,
Baker, Hon. John T. Morris, of Balti
more; Maj. Jed Hotchkiss, of Virginia;
Rev. Dr. Meyers, Mr. Zettler and others
endorsed, in the main, the views pre
sented by Mr. C., and freely compli
mented him. Adjourned.
Afternoon Session.
At 4 o’clock Maj. W. J. Davis, of
Louisville, Ky., lectured on “Common
Sense in Our Schools.” The Major read
a tersely written letter from an Indiana
farmer, in which was set forth the abso
lute want of practical knowledge in his
son, who had attended sohool for
twelve consecutive years. The boy was
ordinarily bright, but he could not work
sums unless he could reoall the rule.
On a certain occasion the farmer dic
tated to John a communication for the
county newspaper, in which the farmer
sought to give his ideas on corn culture.
He was astonished to reid in the paper
something like this: “To T. J. H.: If
yon knew half as much about ortho
graphy, punctuation and paragraphing
as you evidently do about cultivating
corn, we would take pleasure in publish
ing your communication." And so on.
Major D. then presented his common
sense scheme, which is to adopt the ob
ject method in teaching children—espe
cially beginners. It was a capital, prac
tical talk, and elicited the warm com
mendation of all who heard it.
The weather was so inclement at 8
o’olock that the exercises for that hour
were postponed.
Remarks.
The attendance is smaller than for
years past. This is attributable to the
great scarcity of money which prevails
everywhere in this country. The meet
ing of to-day, however, prove'd very in
teresting. The teachers will doubtless
make up in enthusiasm what they lack in
numbers. Lobaine.
A VIRGINIA REMINISCENCE.
The Contrast Between 1865 and Now—A
Statement of Wliat Has Been Attained.
[From the Petersburg ( Va ) Index-Appeal,
April
Eleven years ago this season the
Southern people were undergoing the
first sharp pangs of utter and over
whelming defeat. Their cause was lost,
their land was desolated, their bravest
and dearest had fallen on the battle
field; their past seemed a terrible dream,
their present was a captivity of poverty
and bitterness, and the future seemed to
contain neither prospect nor horizon.
To what, then, looked forward the most
hopeful ? We were prisoners; the sword
of the conqueror guarded our very
threshold; we lived and moved by suf
ferance; our courts were closed; our gov
ernments abolished; our leaders im
prisoned; our very churohes under sur
veillance. What fate was ever darker,
more absolute, and seemingly more con
clusive ? Men who had a thousand
times faced death in every repulsive
guise, and who had borne privation and
suffering without a murmur, gave way
and acknowledged themselves beaten in
the battle of life; many oould not survive
the wreck of fortune, and sunk into the
grave which had swallowed up so mnch
that was dear to them; the reason of
some tottered, and the faith of some
was unmoored by the tide of disaster;
and the best aud truest and strongest
could not face the time to come without
a wish to avoid its conflicts and leave
its problems unsolved.
What was in store for us ? What pre
dicted the most sanguine disposition ?
What work and what reward on earth
seemed left to those who had laid theit
all upon the altar of oonviotion and
lound the sacrifice unavailing? These
memories are painful, but they are as
needful medicine to the minds of those
who see no good in the days that have
come upon the South, and who regard
their present lot as incomparably bad.
Remembering wliat we then were, and
wbat we then with reason feared, and
seeiDg what we now are, and what we
with abundant reason hope for, none
can deny that marvelous strides have
heen made away from the slough of des
pond and toward the heights on which
are freedom and repose. Danger after
danger has broken in oar front as the
waves divide upon the prow of a ship,
and left us to an unexpected safety. To
the eyes of sixty-five our present condi
tion of rnlorship in Virginia, of influ
ence in the Federal Government, would
have appeared the imaginings of a mad
man. The bayonets of our masters have
disappeared, the pressure of penal legis
lation and of test oaths has been up
lifted, the threat of subjection to the
ignorant and vioions has passed away,
and we remain rulers of our homes, of
our fortunes, of our State. The out
come has been large and gracious, and if
there is more that we would have, and
that we are in justioe entitled to, and if
at moments we grow impatient, let us
remember the unspeakable darkness of
those early days of defeat and despair,
and be thankful for the measure of good
that has fallen npon us. And when tbe
full deliverance comes, and when the
South is armed again with the powers
and influence to which she is entitled, it
will surely come to light that the dis
cipline awarded to her has been a bless
ing o.f wrath, and that she has learned
in subjection the wisdom for ruling.
The editor of the Buffalo Leader was
attacked on Sunday, and “his form was
struck three times with an iron mallet.”
But it doesn’t seem to have hart the
man at all, although there was a suo
oessful chase.
New Dry Goods,
. LOWER THAN EVER!
AT V. J* T. BALK’S,
No. 136 BROAD Street, Near Lower Market.
IN addition to tbe great inducements offered
last week, each as Ladies' and Children’s
Sundowns at Sc.. Boys* and Youths’ Hats at 15
and 25c., Lace Striped Lawns at 15c., etc., etc.,
I will offer i HIS WEEK a large consignment
ot New Go.ds at nnheard of low prices,
such as—
Splendid printed corded ORGANDIES at 12j0.,
original coat 21c.. gold
Splendd Mohair DRESS SUITING t 250.,
worth 40c.
Elegant pure silk PONGKB, entirely new
Yard wide gray DRESS LINEN at 15, 20
and 25c,
Blsujk Iron BAREGE at 260. per yard, cost
40c. in gold-
Colored Iron BAREGE, large meshes, at 400.,
worth 75c.
Yard wide white VICTORIA LAWN at 15c.
Good quality plain white JACONET at 10c.
Heavy large cotton honeycomb TOWELS at 100.
I he beat assortment of 6j Calicoes in town.
Bleaohed and Unbleached HOMESPUNS near
ly given away. >
Best Lonsdale CAMBRIC, 15c.
Silk and Lace SCARFS given away for frac
tional currency. Anew article of silk finished
DRESS LINING at 124 and 15c. (very suitable
for lining black grenadine), Can't Break‘am
Corset Steelß, Wash Panierg, etc., etc. All in
search of Bargain, should call at No 196
BROAD Streot before buying elsewhere. Sam
ples given. Orders solicited.
: “ apSQ-dAw C. J. T. BALK.
ESTABLISHED IN 1847.
MELVIN HARD A SON,
WHOLESALE PAPEBi WAREHOUSE,
25 BEEKMAN STREET,
NEAR NASSAU STREET, NEW YORE.
AGENTS for Owens, Jessup 4 Laflln, L.
L. Brows 4 Cos., Byron Weston’s, Ben
nington, American, Mt. Hope, Mammouth
River and Salmon River Mills, and Crane’s
fiond Papers. Sole Agents for Canon’* old
Berkshire Miiis, established in 1801.
ieOT-d+Awlv ‘
Y|
- : 0 FIOUP. AND GRIST MI'.IS ■
J Without Patterns.l
:r -.;vr: I
TURBINE WATER WHEEt 7000 • ■
■WTTTr-rm JsTs) fj *l* : t UY v*!
SEND FOR CIRCULAR-.. BALTIMORE. MD. |
apo-wly
N w Advertise m *>>£**
NO BOTTOM YET.
We will offer To-Day, and until
further notice:
20 cases handsome styles Spring
Prints at 4c.
20 cases Standard Prints-Ameri
can, Ancona* Pacific, Orien
tal, &c., at 6 l-4c.
5 cases extra fine 7-8 Bleached
Shirting at 6c.
800 dozen Ladies’ Extra Heavy
American Hose at Bc.
200 dozen Ladies’ English Hose at
25c.
150 doz. Gents’ English Half Hose
at 25c.
160 doz. Fringed Doylies at 40c.
per dozen.
100 pcs. Imported Victoria Lawn,
no common American Suit
ing, at 16c.
100 pcs. Brown Linen Drill at Half
Price.
One Case Extra Quality BLACK IRON GRENADINE, at 25c.; Ladles* Misses'
and Children’s Saits aud Underwear In Endless Variety.
ON CONSIGNMENT—SOO Llama Lace Sacqaes, at fifty per cent, less than
cost of importation.
JAMES A. GRAY & CO.
N. B.—We will Open This Morning, at 10 o’clock, several pieces of
Plaid Grenadines and Stripe* and Checked Silks.
Colored Silk Grenadines!
AT TEN CENTS PER YARD 1
o
CHRISTOPHER GRAY &. CO.
Will offer for sale Monday Morning, Two Cases of Silk Grena
dines and other Dress Hoods at the nominal prleo of ten cents.
The Best Brauds of New Prints, Merrimac, Pacific, &$., at
6 1-4 cents per yard. No Trash, bnt Now and Cholee Goods.
All other Goods In oar Stock kave been marked as low In
proportion as the above.
C. GRAY Ac CO.
ap3o-tf
1876. Spring and Summer. 1876.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT I
AUGUST DORR’S
MOST SELECT NEW SPRING and SUMMER STOCK of the Very Beet Brands of CLOTHS,
DOESKINS, CABBIMERES. bUII'INOS, TBOWSERINGS aud VEBIINGB ha* arrived and
are now ready to be mad* to order.
_¥"■*! received all the Leading Stylee in READY-MADE CLOTHING, SILK. FUR and
STRAW HATS. Specialties in NECK WEAR, HANDKEBCHIFB, UMBRELLAS, GLOVES. SUS
PENDERS, SHI UTS, COLLARS. Ac. AT.nO.
The best assortment of UNDER SHIRTS, DRAWERS and HALF HOSE, recently pur
chased at exceedingly LOW PRICES from the largest Manufacturer* and Importers, thus
enabling him to offer the LATEST PATTERNS of Superb Qualities at PRICES whioh chal
lenges competition.
AUGUST DORR,
mh2fi—eu4th2m MERCHANT TATLOH, BBOAP STREET.
JOB PRINTING.
BOOK BINDING.
e
RULING, Etc.
THE CHRONICLE & SENTINEL
Having Extensively Famished, With New Material, the
JOB PRINTING AND BINDING ESTABLISHMENT
ARE PREPARED TO DO EVERY DESCRIPTION OF WORK DEBIRED
Merchants,
Factors,
Corporations,
Societies,
Hotels,
Railroads,
the public generally.
Our Bindery is Complete,
AND
OUR WORK CANNOT BE BURPASBED
for durability and workmanship.
