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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1876)
Cfirotucie and WEDNESDAY. MAY 24, 1876. YOUNG MOWBRAY JOURNEYING TO THK WARS. BY MAbY walsijcoham. Yoons Mowbrav journeying to the wars, All belted he'xnd lurred. From lady's hand received a rose, And from her Ups thia word: “I loan thee to my country's cause. For glory, not for doom; To be not slain, but stay her foes, I deck thy knightly plume; Remember, caution is not fear, nor rashness valor's te-t, , . . . If he who fights and dies does well—who fights and lives doee best.” Now fierce the tide of battle laves, And fast the confltc - fl >ws ; And high above the tight still waves The while pi am j and the rose; And gaily through the gathering fray O irfljwer crowned warrior, see, Strikes many a gallant blow this day For Lore and Liberty ! While hi h above the din still rings, with strike on foreman’s crest: “Ho : he who fights and dies does weU—who fights and lives does best Ah ! woe is me! that love's kind hand, Love's self should, hapless, mar A marksman viewed the helmet grand. And marked the bio and red star ! A downward lance clove helm and crest, And b >tbed in crimson tide. Love's fatal gift kis-ed fainting breast, And murmurin g thus he died; “Oh ! love, for Fame men strike and Uve ! For Freedom heroes fall! If he who fights and lives gives much— Who fights and dies gives all!” SPRING. Spring ! harbenger of joys renewed, Of earth by smiling Heaven wooed, Of sweet full-throated harmony, _ Waking to song each budding tree, E’re vet the leaves have music made, And learned to throw a whi p’ring shade O’er the checkered ground which Ues Beneath their woven canopies. To thee, I ween, the feathered choir Carols its sweetest, and desire To do thee homage prompts ths song Which trills the fields and wo ids among, When softer suns have bidden shoot The timid blossom, and the root Has trustful given to toe air The blade that frosts retreating Bpare. Balling athwart the lucent bine Tht peep- the cloudlet’s silver through, The rook right busy homeward steers, To where, through cycle of long years, Th' elms have ever branched t’ entwine The wind-tossed cradles of his line. A ten'drer herbag - springs apace To feed new scions of the race Which thronging speck the sunlit green, And wanton where of late hath been Chill snows that penned the bleating plaint For freedom ’mid the pastures faint. With clearer wavelets speeds the rill To Join the river that will fi'il The sov'ran sea with tribute-tide, Yet loves it on its way to bide, And, rippling, tell each idle stone And sleepy branch, that now has flown The frost which cheoked itß highland source, And stemmed its long impatient course. With fairer hues the young earth glows, And pressage gives what hummer shows Of flow'ry splendor soon will burst When June, rost-laden, is the first To tempt the amorous nightingale To warble forth his nightly tale, If love, not sorrow, be the note Which, welling, strains that quiv’ring throat. With softer tones the sweet West plays Amid the trees all through the days, Which lengthen slowly, till onco more Gray twilight’s hour ne’er dies before The curfew, and the bats ’gin glance Full nimbly after Winter’s trance; Then comes again the lovers’ hour, When loving eyes have brightest pow’r, Aa<d low-breathed vows may best be heard, And inmost chords most gently stirred, For magic’s rife is twilight’s mirk, And what more magic than love’s work ? Boring’s eloquence alone can tell What sweets with her fair self do dwell; ’Twere vain for any mortal hand To sweep the lyre when her own band Of ohoristers proclaim the joys Her bounty brings. Mere jarring noise With mortal song, when everywhere One burst of n nsic tills the air. And drown’s all me-ner notes that vie With Nature’s one great symphony. —Chamber a Journal. EIDOLON. BV JAMBS B. RAND ALU, AUTHOR OV “MV MARY LAND.” I. Ah, sweeteved Christ! Thy image smiles, In its Cathedral cell, Shrined in the Heaven-enamored arms Of her Who never fell; And if my phantom eyes implore A more benignant beam. Tie a nepenthe I would crave For a memorial dream. V n. Dear Leonie 1 here didst thou kneel. That dusky Bummer noon, As the zephyrs kissed in ecstacy The dimpled cheeks of June; As the sunlight drifted o’er thy brow A golden wave of grace, Brigh blending with the miracles Of that angelic faoe. , in. Adorably Madonna-like By this communion rail, Thv raptured face, though rioh with youth, Was spirit-lit and pale. And oh, those, opulent blue eyes, Those Meccas Of despair— 'They, they were glorious Eden isles Lost in a lake of prayer! a IV. Saint Leonie! I saw thee Hit Oaz -lle-llke to the street, And pure, melodious angels led Thy dainty, tinkling feet. My rebel thoughts were petrel-winged, Attendant upon thee, Chasing thy loved and lissome shape As Arab, of the sea. v. Long did I love thee. Belle Creole, As Ghebers love the sun, And in the temple ot my soul Thou wast the e, and don ; Long did I love thee’ Belle Creole, Where corsair billows rise, And where the Bilver planets soar In unfamiliar skies. vi. • Dark Corcovado ! did I not, With heart and soul aflame, Carve on thy broad, monarchiai brow Her wildly worisliiped name— Watching the homeward ships scud by Before the nimble breeze. Till memory with them wept away Beyond the tropio seas ! vn. Yean, yeare had died and once again I saw the spires of home, And, armed with an undying hope, I stood beneath this dome. But not within the pillared aislse, Nor by the sacred shrine, Could my bewildered eyes behold The loveliness of thine. vni. The dark November days had come, And eagerly I fled. To And thee where the maidens deck The kingdoms of the dead ; I found thee; yes. I found thee, love, Beneath the willow tree, With marble-cross and immortelle, And one word—“ Leonie.” * WHICH SHALL IT BE t A noli uiVn who hiul no chiHren, proposed to hie poor ue ghbor. who had seven, to take one of them, and promised, if the parents would consent, that he would give them property enoogh to make themselves and their other six children comfortable for life. Whieh shall it be ? Which shall it be ? I looked at John. John looked at me, And when l found that I must speak Mv voice seemed Strangely low and weak; “Tell me again what Bobert said And then 1. listening, bent my head— This is his letter. ••I will give A house and land white thou shall live, If, in renim. from ont of seven, _ One child to me for aye is given." . I looked at John's old garments worn ; I thought of all that he had borne, Of povertv, and work, and care, ■Which I. though willing, oould not share. I thought of seven young mouths to feed, Of seven little children’s feed, And then of this. "Come, John,” said I, ‘•We'll choose among them as they lie Asleep." So. walking hand in hand. Dear John and I surveyed Oiir band. First to the cradle lightly stepped Where Lilian, the baoy slept. Softly the father stooped to lay His rounh hand down in a loving way, When dream or wlnsper made her stir And huskily he sad: "Sot her.” We stooped beside the truudle bed. And one long ray of lamplight shed Athwart the boyish faces there. In s|pep so beautiful and fair. I saw on Janie's rough, red cheek A tear undried. Ere John could speak ■"He’s but a baby, too.” s aid I, And ki sed him as -e hurried by. Pale, patient Hobbies angel face Stilt it! bis sleep bore suffering's trace ; A “80. for a thousand crowns not him!” He whispered, while our eyes were dim. Poor Dick! bad Dick 1 our wayward son— Turbulent, restless, idle one— Could he be spared ? Bay. Be who gave Bade us befriend him to the grave ; Oniv a mother's heart coul t be Patient enough for such as he. ’ "And so.” said John, ”1 would not dare To take him from her bedside prayer.” Then stole we softly up above. And knelt by Marv, child of love, "Perhaps for her'twonld better be.” laad to John. Qui e silently He lifted up a curl that lay Across her cheek in a willful way, And shook hi head : "Bay. love, not thee The while my heart beat audibly. Only one more, our eldest lad, Trusty and truthful, good and glad. So Kke his father. "No. John, no ! i can not. wdl not. let hint go.” And so we wrote in a courteous way, We could not give one child away ; And afterward toil lighter seemed. Thinking of that of which we dreamed. Happy in truth that not one face. Was missed from its accustomed place ; Thankful to work for all seven, Trusting the rest to une in Heaven. A father bent on instructing his three vear-old son said: “If yon had three apples and should give me one, how many would you have left?” "I wouldn’t do it, pa,” was the prompt reply. When Chimney Sweep, on Saturday, flue over the course and won the English International Steeple-chase, it must have footed his owners exsotly. A CRAVING FOR BLOOD. PIPES, THE BOSTON MURDERER. History of the Crimea Confessed bv Piper. I From the Boston Otobe, May 9.] The motion for anew trial in the case of Thomas W. Piper, under sentence to be hanged on the 26th for the mnrder of Mabel H. Young, will not be made in the Supreme Judicial Court this morn ing, as was intended by bis counsel. The reason for this change in the inten tions of his connsel is easily understood, when it is said that Piper yesterday confessed not only that he murdered the child, but also that he was the murderer of Bridget Landergin, in December, 1873, and the principal in the mysteri ous and nearly fatal asaault on Mary Tyner in Oxford street, early in the Summer of 1874. The full details of the confession will send such a thrill of horror through the city as has rarely, if ever, before agitated it, and will prove a depth of depravity even more sickening than that of the boy-fiend, Jesse Pomeroy. At present, and for obvious reasons, it would bo improper, if not impossible to publish the particulars entire, but the story in outline is as fol lows: Piper’* Story a* Reported. It is reported on excellent authority that yesterday noon, in conversation with a gentleman who had been admit ed to see him, Piper began talking in a different tone from that which he has been accnstomed to use in his inter views with visitors, and showed plainly that something ot more than ordinary weight was on bis miDd. He exhibited evident signs of mental anguish, and by degrees prepared bia visitor for a statement of the ntmost gravity. At last the confession came out that instead of being the innocent cause of Mabel Young’s death, by an accident, as his visitor had all along believed, he was in reality her cold-blooded murderer ! The announcement filled the gentleman with horror, aDd he could hardly believe the evidence of his sense, but as he grew calmer he interrogated the prisoner on various points and drew from him a connected and full confession of the crime, which bears out the Government theory of the manner of its commission. But a more Astounding communication was yet to come. The wretched pris oner, almost broken down with the men tal ordeal he had undergone, and the decision to confess it at last, went on to state that in addition to murdering the innocent, lovely child, he had also foully butchered the humble domestic, Bridget Landergin, more than two years ago, and had mangled and left for dead the helpless woman, Mary Tyner, whose recovery from her terrible injuries is deemed by the medical profession al most a miracle. Almost overcome with horror and surprise at the astounding stories he had heard, Piper’s visitor sought to gain from him Tlie Clue to 111 m Dreadful Aeta, The reason, if any existed, for the cruel butcheries ho said be had perpetrated. On this point, the prisoner professed to be unable to give any answer, save that it must have been an uncontrollable im pulse, an inexplicable thirst for blood and a savage delight in witnessing hu man suffering, which had actuated him. Iu this particular, his statement bore a strong resemblance to the confessions of Jesse Pomeroy, that he was possessed with a desire to take life which he could not resist and which could be ascribed to nothing short of diabolism or de moniacal possession. The gentleman next questioned him as to his reasons for so persistently and so variously lying about the matter, and was told that he did it to blind his counsel as well as the public generally, the wretched man well knowing that had the truth been in pos session of his oonnsel, they would have refused to proceed with his defense and would have left him to bear the punish ment of his crimes. This explanation is readily reconcilable with Piper’s con duct throughout, and it not only ex plains his own stories, but the action of his counsel, Mr. Edward P. Brown, who Believing Fujly In the Accident Theory* Has zealously and honestly worked upon it, and has not only dona bis best to save the life of his client, but had im pressed many people with a similar be lief. 'The announcement of thia confes sion by Piper, and the knowledge of his client’s guilt, will, of course, absolve Mr. Brown from any further efforts in bis behalf, and will lead to the abandonment of the motion for anew trial, made iu the Supreme Court on Saturday, and whiob was to have been argued by Mr. Brown before that Court this morning. Piper’s physioal condi tion is reported pitiable in the extreme. His Nerve# Have Fairly Eaten Him Up, 'As his visitor expresses it; the terrible mentai* suffering which be must have un dergone reduced him almost to a skeleton, and Wt him in a weak ai;d shattered condition. Jt will be strange, indeed, if the result of this ditoi oß ui ?e be not also to cause the speedy 6?eou tion of the death sentence upon Jesse Pomeroy, Piper’s twin in fieudishness and criminality. In this connection a brief sketch of the several crimes con fessed by Piper will prove of terrible in terest. Piper's Viellms—The Harrible Murder ot Little Mabel Young. The story of the horrible “ belfry tragedy ” is fresh in the recollection of most of our readers, but a review of its principal fffets may prove of interest in this place. On Sunday afternoon, May 23, 1875, Mabel H Young, a bright and beautilul child of five years, accompa nied her aunt. Miss Hobbs, to Sunday school* at the Warren Avenue Baptist Church, The school closed at 3:30, and after chatting for a moments thereafter, with some friends, Miss Hobbs started to leave the church. Missing the child, she went up into the audience room, calling her, but did not find her. Going into the vestibule she informed others that the child wasmiasing and the search became general. Shortly afterward, someone beard a child crying in the belfry of the church, and the door being locked, the sexton, Thomas W. Piper, was appealed to for the key, but declar ed that’it was lost, and that no one bad been up there for months. The door was forced and the searching party as cending the stair* found the little girl ; ou the floor of the hell deck beside the 1 trap door, which was closed. Jjter skull had been crashed by blows With SOilie ! heavy, blunt instrument, and she was : insensible. The child fingered ip an in sensible condition for two or three days and then died. Suspicion at cw& at tached to Piper, the sexton, and be was 1 arrested, stoutly denying all knowledge of the affair. His fast trial began on the 6tb pf December lasi, ,?nd resulted in a disagreement of the jury. trial, early the present year, resulted in conviction, and he was sentenced to death. Governor Bice fixed Friday, the 26th of the preseat month, as the date of his execution. Up to this time Piper had persisted in denying any knowledge of the affair, bat two or three yeefcs ago he made a statement to his oounsel and the Bev. D. Eddy, P. P.. that the child came to her death by the accidental fall of the trap door as she was going UP into the tower to see ihe pigeons, and that he had eocwfialed his Knowledge of it from fear of being suspected of mur dering her. Since this statement public opinion has been divided as to bis guilt or iouocence, and petitions have bens in circulation for a commutation of his sentence to imprisonment, and a motion for anew trial was to have been argued to-day. The Murder of Bridget Laudrrsiu at Dor ebeeter, December 5, IST3. The brutal murder of the servant girl, Bridget Laudergio, December 5, 1873, is still remembered, not only on coconut ot the mystery which has mvelved it, but the atrocity of the deed itself. Ths victim, a domestic in the household of Mr. Sheldon Barry, Bellevue avenue, . Dorchester District, was found dead on I the highway near IJpham’s Corner, and close to several stores, about nine 1 o’clock in the evening. Some negro children, living near by, hearing the girl’s cries, ran into the street and saw a man, who they described with some ex actness, rising from over her prostate form and running swiftly away oerosß the fields. The woman ws lifeless when the alarm given by the children brought neighbors to Urn spot, and it was found that Her Shall Had Bees Beaten Is with a Short Cl ah, Made from the eud of s wagon shaft, which was found near by. Instant search for the murderer was begun sad con tinued for some time, and several arrests were made on suspicion. The popular feeling against the murderer was most intense. First to be suspected came Thomas Cahill, the dead girl’s lover. The very morning after the murder he had sailed for Europe in the Marathon, and some of the e tree instances seemed to point to him as the murderer. The matter was taken in band by thn State detectives, and the necessary papers having been made out, CWbij.l was ar | rested in Ireland, extradited and brought Ito this country. The evidence against] him having been sifted, was found insnf fieent to bring him to trial, sad After ar { raignment he was Discharged ea His Owa Berataixaarc. Though he still bore the odium of a ter rible suspicion. Thomas W. Piper was also arrested on suspicion, bat he con trived to account so satisfactorily lot his whereabouts on the sight of the suudm j that he was never brought to trial, i though the detectives hare always be j lieved him guilty of the crime. His 1 story was that at the time of the murder | he was A Mile and a Half From the Sees*, At a fire which occurred that night, hav ing been on hie way home when he beard the alarm; that after going to the fire he went home and to bed, and never knew anything of the mnrder till the next day. And ao, until yesterday’s confession, the murder ef Bridget Landergin seemed likely to go unexplained and unpunish ed, like so many other terriblo crimes in this vicinity. The Oxford Street Aotdh—A Remarkable Crime and o Morrelooo (hue of Recover}-. The attempted murder of the young woman, Mary Tyner, in a lodging honse on Oxford street, in this city, July 1, 1874, will be remembered as very extra ordinary, not only from the circum stances attending it, bat from the recov ery of the woman and her steadfast re fusal to disclose tne name of her assail ant. At the time of the attempted mui der the girl bad rented, mnder the name of Mary Thomas, a room in the lodging bouse No. 34 Oxford street, and had re ceived there several female acquaint ances and one yonng man who seemed to be an especial favorite. On the af ternoon of Wednesday, July 1, he came to the house at 2 o'clock to see the wo man, and found her room locked. In some way his suspicions were aroused, and calling the landlady, a Mrs. Dun nells, entrance was forced into the room, where a heart-sickening spectacle was presented. The woman Lay on the Bed Weltering in Her Blood, Insensible, and with five terrible wounds on her head, inflicted apparently by some heavy iron instrument. As the door of the room was locked, it was evi dent that the assailant most have es caped through the windows. That he did so was nnknown and unsuspected by any of the other inmates of the honse. No person in the honse knew anything about nny suspicious characters except a Miss Fletcher, who said that ou the night before the assault an nnknown man called, at 11 o’clock, to inquire for MiBS Thomas, but was refused admit tance, when he went into the yard, com ing oat a few minutes afterward and walking away. As the windows of the room where the assault was oommit ed look out upon the yard, it was thought that this unknown man most be the criminal. As soon as possible the woman was carried to the Gity Hospital. Nobody thought it possible that she could long survive her dreadful injuries. The greatest efforts were made to obtain from the woman the name of her assail ant. But, at first, she was unable to ar ticulate distinctly, and so could not re ply. Gradually regaining her strength, She Steadily Refused to Say Who the Guilty Man W r as, At one time declaring that she did not know, and at another that it was one whose name she would not disclose. Seven days after the Chief of Police re ceived a mysterious message, stating that the writer had "killed” ihe girl; but the letter appeared to be a hoax, after thorough investigation. In the meantime, the Tyner woman steadily grew better, finally recovered, and was released in due time from the hospital, and entered upon her old life. Not many weeks since she was sent to the Island for night-walking. If she has had any knowledge of her assailant, she has kept it well, no hint having been given from the day of the assault until now. Her present whereabouts are un known to the police authorities, who . especially desire to see her and learn something more from her regarding this singular case. THE SOUTH AND THE UNION. Address of au Ex-Confederate Kentucky Sol dier at the Dedication oi a Monument. W. O.P. Breokinridge delivered an address at the dedication of a monument to the Gonfederata dead, in Bowling Green, Ky., on Tuesday. He referred to the course and oanse of the late war and then said: “But whether we wish it or not, we are of neccessity citizens of this Bepnb lic; and there are only two courses be fore us—one to fold our arms and say it is none of onr affairs—live in the past and abnegate onr manhood in the pres ant. The other to acknowledge our al legiance and perform our whole duty as citizens. We ask no favors—we make uo claims. We are oitizens equal with all other citizens, with free toDgues and brave hearts. We have liberty and mean—God willing—to aid all who de sire to preserve it, We unite with all good citizens to preserve to ourselves and to prosterity the blessings of good government, administered under the law, and we reserve the privilege of resisting as may be neoessary all who may attempt to usurp those powers or to filch those rights; binding our obildren to no other and different pledge than that to which our fathers bound us, and to which all alike are equally bound. We bear no malice. We keep alive no animosities. We make no confessions of guilt. We lpjrpd the oause and our comrades. We love thjeif memories. We will honor their graves'. Wf> Stand by their or phans; but we do this wijdmufi bitterness to SB* oncand without apology, While we remember that Lee ana Breckinridge died prescribed, aufl Louisiana and South Carolina are held by the throat, we wait without impatience or servile importunities for tb e dawn of a purer and better day—confident that no Po lands can be kept enslaved ifi tfil@ Coun try; that all will be free or all enslayed, and that the liberties of every State are equally at stake, aftd that the day iff a true amnesty is not far distant. We are not prodigals who return confessing that our substance has been wasted in riotous living, even though fatted calves be killed for our feast, *#d goffiep rings be ready for our fingers. Wp gijuply claim that we are equal citizens ,qf a common country, in which, with God’s aid, we will strive to do our part. This is the true basis of reconciliation: A manly defense of the causes for whioh we fought, a irapk confession of what was lost, and an honest avowal of our pur poses to perform all the duties of citi zenship. More than this would fi® crav ' en and untrue; less than this unwise and undutiful. Erase jmen will believe and trust us; patriotic wjH welcome our aid; free man will applaud ajjd thus, true sosuf Pfir Brother Gommonyehlths, and faithful 0* our common country, wo will do out WW# ° secure to every State and citizen the iffesaiflgsof constitutional liberty. Wo wifi build up our owd States by a wider education, a fuller development, and a more liberal culture, and thus add to the strength and gf ofj f)l the common Government, administered (mending to the principles of a revered Constitution, * oved be cause it will be just, impactful, $>P and pure, yill do our part to maintain for citizens ajnd every State the inaltenobte md inestimable rights of American liberty, regain ing what may have been taken, prev,rying what remains, seenring to the common tyowernment its just powers and true glory. wifi strive to realize the glorious Vision of oyxajj&f—i. free coun try of sovereigo States, so strong jtfint all will respect it, so just that all will obey it, so free that all will love it, a where to do right is the whole compulsion, to prevent wrong the sole restraint; where fejyfiv is, through love and obedience, an act qj ifte heart We, my ppmrades, stand not m the W 47 the Acffifisstjon of this bright future. Let the cur? .v* patriot fall upon those who do. ” HEART HEN DING. The Elijay Courier gives the follow ing heartrending aeeonnt of an occur rence in Pickens county: On Sunday evening, the 23d nit., Mr. David Wiseuant went to his brother’s, a short distance from his residence, and did not return until After dark. At a very early hour Mrs. Elisabeth Wisen ant' sent her children to bed, and very soon threw a above] full of fit® coals on the bed. TbiaroFeowae, alarmed the children, that is her little son, some eight or nine* years of age, and a littlj daughter, some six or seven, frightened as they were, bounced out of bed, when their mother struck eaoh of them a most fearful blow on the head with the fire shovel. The little girl, as soon as she had sufficiently recovered, attempted an escape by running out of the door and leaving the house, while the boy seized the baby from the bed and ran with it, and the other two, at his request, fol lowed him. The mother, in the mean time, with frantic efforts, and, as it were, superhuman desperation, follow ed the little gin, and in the chase losing the fire shovel, she gathered a heavy stick, and aa the girl—her own darling child, whom she declared she loved bet ter than all her other children—was en deavoring to cross a mud hole was kill ed by her mother with said bludgeon. While the mother was shedding the in nocent blood of her beloved and uner ring child, the fire fiend was fast con suming all or about all of earth’s pro duct which they could call their own. The honse and outhonsea with all their ctntent* ygre burned, but as luck would have it they bad A lot of oorn that was oat of reach of the fire. ?o the citizens who arrived on the ground while the last of their earthly all was perishing, she remarked that she was pnly obeying i the command of the Dord. She told the story to her oO9nßel. In fact, riie told every one that the ood Man” had visited her *nd told her to Jail ail her childfp and go home to Heaven with them, and toltfone of her attorneys that she had killed all her children and burnt them in the house, and begged tost ah# might be hilled is *b° quickest war and fee sent to Heaven to meet her children. It was shown from the evi dence that the nnfortanate lady had for some seven or eight years been sabject to paroxyms. There waa netting is the whole case, or in connection with the whole affair,going to show that there was anything at all wrong as to the woman’s character, and strange to say that her grief stricken husband most earnestly and fervently implored her at torneys to manage her case so as to have her released and restored to him, and al low him to carry her to some place that he might find as a home; she all the time averring that she wonld kill the balance of her children and take them to Heaven with her. She is now in jail and will soen be sent to the asylum for lu natics at Milledgeville. LETTER FROM_ BALTIMORE. METHODIST GENERAL CONFER ENCE. Reception of Southern Del efutee Fine Speuebee—Centennial Crowds—The Presi dential Outlook. [Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.] Baltimore, May 12. 1876. -You are aware that the General Conference of the Msthodist Episcopal Church is now in session in our city. Numerically, if not financially, intellectually and spiritu ally, this body has a larger constituency than any other religions organization in the country. Manifestly they are aware of their importance, for on the very first day when mutual congratulations on the progress of the church were in order ofie zealous memberexclaimed, "I glory, first of all, in being’ an American citi zen, and, secondly, in being a|Method ist.” The Apostle Paul would probably have gloried, first of all, in the Cross of Christ; bnt America was not then dis covered. By far the most interesting session occurred to-day, the occasion being the reception of fraternal delegates from tbe Methodist Episcopal Church, South. These were the venerable Lovick Pierce, of your State; Bev. James A. Duncan, D.D., of Virginia, and Hon. L. C. Gar land, of Tennessee. Dr. Pierce being unable to be present represented him self by a written communication, which was read by the Secretary of tbe Con ference. It was an admirable paper, and as the reader proceeded the Con ference repeatedly broke out into ap plause. The good old patriarch express ed his delight that the same assembly whioh in 1848 rejected him when the bearer of brotherly overtures from his Southern brethren was now ready to re ceive him with open arms. The address throughout was in the happiest vein. Indeed the humor was so exquisite and the rhetoric so polished that it would even have done honor to the Bishop of Sunshine in his palmiest (I mean his present) days. Great regrets were ex pressed on all sides that the distinguish ed non-agenarian could not be present and see for bimself the great regard in which he is held by his Northern allies. In response to the cordial greeting of the preseding officer, Bishop Ames, the Bev. Dr. Duncan, who was present from Virginia, took the floor and made a speech replete with sound sense and Christian temper. He assured the Con ference that his Southern bretbran most earnestly desired to maintain fraternal intercourse with the Northern assembly. Holding the same doctrines, their books of discipline essentially the same, aim ing at the same grand objects, the only wall of partition which had ever existed between them thoroughly demolished, Dr. Dunoan saw no reason why there should be two independent Methodist Church organizations in the country.— He begged them to remember that the two highest authorities of the church on either tide had expressed a desire for the full restoration of amity, and he hoped that any harsh words which might hereafter be spoken by individu als of either section of the country might be regarded as mere private ut terances, which should have no weight in the presence of the counter and authori tative expressions of the ohurch. Dr. D, spoke about an hour and command ed the earnest attention of the large as sembly. As an orator he is easy, natural, graceful and forcible. Though the speech—such was its exquisite finish must have been thoroughly premedi tated, it had all the impressiveness and power of an extemporaneous effusion. He was followed by the Hon. L. C. Garland, who represented, as he told us, more particularly the lay element of the Church South. Mr. Garland said that the separation of 1844 could not have been avoided, and that it had really re suited in great good to the cause of Methodism. Each division made much more rapid progress than could have been possible had the unity been pre served. But now, he said, continued separation was a reproach to their piety and to their patriotism. He was tor reunion when it could be effected by means honorable to both parties. He was sure the South would ask nothing of the North derogatory to their honor, and he did' not believe the North would make any sacrifice of principle on the part of the South a condition of union. Both these speeches were repeatedly and vigorously applauded, If the spirit apparent in these Southern representa tives and their Northern brethern be a fair,exponent of the temper of the great mass of the members of this ohurch North and South, an organio union may be looked for at no very distant day. In such an event there will be two millions of Methodist Churoh mem bers in the United States. The only denomination which approximates this multitude numerically is the Baptist. A year ago the bast statistics of this churoh showed a total of j,7Q0,000. It is fair to presume tnat iq the country there haye been additions sufficient dur ing the yeap to make the number 1,80Q,- 000, Georgia Wing upwards of 100,000. Twq days ago we had th® Centennial openipg in Philadelphia, jt is supposed that 5,000 persons went from and through Baltimore to be present at the grand inauguration. The affair was a oneness it the attendance be a criterion —as it is estimated that there were fully 130,000 persons present. In the matter of foreign notabilities there were was not much to boast of. The most conspicuous char acter appears to have been Dom Pedro, the Emperor of Brazil. It was too muoli to ask QuCen yiotoria to come over and survey the magnificent pro- Eortions attained by the jewel plqcked y rebels from the crown of her royal ancestor, b.qt her proaoqc# would have been graceful on her part and a wertfiy recflgnfijpn qf the splendor of her quon dam daughter. It looks as if Ur. fil&lqe wifi fie the next President of the United States— if the Republicans can make him so. Maryland—the Bepnblican part of it— declared for the ex-Speaker at a recent Convention—not however before listen ing to a ieficr fro™ the said gentleman assuring'his jrieffds" 'that an ex pression in his ’favor would be‘peculiarly acceptable to his feelings at the pra#ept time, jt is well for the Demo’orafs 1 "to Understand that the Maine gentleman will be a powerful competitor against any contestant for the Presidential mansion He will be much harder to beat than Morton, Conkling, ffX other aspirant promi nently before 'the'fiofihtry. The jlemo cratie candidate is clearly uhh|}6wn.— Thurman has many friends, so has Bay ard, ditto Tilden; but no name has been mentioned whioh as yet harmonizes the diyerse elements of the mighty party. With a g if&d man the Democracy ought to- succeed. There is to'-lday "g much larger number of States whd maybe cer tainly put down for their principles than {fir tfiosp of {he Republicans, and if a goou leader can fie ‘ seeqrefj they ust triumph. A C'LEVBR ARREST. A SIO.OOO Express Robber Captured la Canada* [Hamilton Spectator, May 6.J One of the most important ftrrests ever made in this eity took plape last even ing. It will be remembered that Borne weeks ago that the press and the tele graph warned the country that Qeo. E. Bohooley, an employee of the Adams Ex press Company, Cincinnati, hadabscond ed with 110,000 of the company’s money. Mr. J. H. Rhodes, superintendent of the company, sent to the Chief of Police a card containing the photograph and full description of the thief, and other par ticulars which would assist an officer in detecting him. Detective McPherson took oharge of the card and has ever sinoe been on the lookout for him. Geo. E. Bohooley took the money from his employers at Nashville, Tenn., on Snnday, the lfith of April last, and left for Detroit. He stayed there but a short time, when he crossed to fiondon and remained in that city three days, when be came on to Hamilton and pnt up at a private boarding house ou Gore street, giving his name as George Edwards. McPherson detected Bohooley on one occasion, and instantly commenced to shadow him to see if be was the right man. Laat evening about eleven o’clock he dropped into lU4 John street north. There were several men and womeH there, and among them the young man whom he suspected, slightly under the influence of liquor. After watching him for some time McPherson walked np to him, and holding the photograph before Schooley’e face said in a quiet way, “Is this your photograph?” Schooley -was complete!} taken back tod after staring at the picture for a moment gasped out /‘Tea, it is.” McPherson then asked him to come with him, when Schooley resisted slight ly, McPherson then palled upon the Other nutn in the room to assist him, and soon had the express robber at the police station. He had on hia person §1.865 in American money, fifty-four S2O bills; four SIOO bills; seven SSO bills (Ml Canada money) and $25 in smaller money. The prisoner was completely 1 roken down with the thougts of his crime. He said he had known no peace since he had taken it—that he had not spent any of the money he had stolen, and that be would return every cent of it, with interest, to the Adams Express Company. He did not claim the pro tection of tbe British flag, which he might have done, but asked to be brought to the headquarters of the com pany he had wronged at once. He was taken to Cincinnati this morning. Geo. E. Scbooley is a young man, twenty-five years of age, of genteel appearance, and good address. He is unhealthy and slightly bnilt, having a hemorrhage of the lungs, which causes him to have a painful habit of hawkiDg and spitting. He was married when nineteen to a beantif ul|girl, respectably connected. He has only one child, and she and her mother are now somewhere in the States. Schooley has not the appearance of a thief, and excited the sympathy of every one who saw him after his arrest. THE VVINANSES’ *20,000,000. A Contract Signed by tbe Czar Nicholas and What a Grand Dnke Said About It. "Talk about ‘rings’—why, we Ameri cans don’t begin to understand them as yon Russians do,” said Col. John B. Gowen, the engineer, the other day. "Did yon ever hear how a little ‘ring’ of Gov ernment officials innocently were the means of making the fortunes of two Americans ? No ! Well, I’ll tell you "In 1850, the Nicholas Railroad, from St. Petersburg to Moscow—about 500 miles—waa finished, and a number of Bussian Generals put their heads to gether to get a profitable contract out of the Government. The scheme they hit on was to keep the rolling stock of the road in repair for ten years. The Min ister of Public Works, who was in the ring, made a contract with them by which it was agreed to pay them eight cents for every mile a passenger car went over the road, fohr cents a mile for each freight car, and so on. The docu ment having been properly drawn, was carried by the Minister to the Emperor Nicholas, and handed him to sign. " ‘What is this ?’ asked the Czar. " ‘Your Imperial Majesty, it is a plan for redneing the expenses of the Govern ment, in the management of the new railroad. Avery advantageous contract, your Majesty.’ "Nicholas glanced at it. “ ‘Yes, but what do my Generals know about railways ?’ said he ; and then af ter a moment’s reflection he asked, ‘Where are those Americans who were here building cars ?’ “ ‘They are in the building,” was the reply. “ ‘Send for them at once,’ said Nich olas. “Presently ‘ those American,’ who were William and Thomas Winans, of Baltimore, were ushered into the pres ence. “The Czar handed them the contract.’ “ ‘Do you want that?” he said. “They looked at it, and, as it was in Buss, they did not quite understand its provisions. They told him so. “ ‘Well, take it away with you, and be here at nine o’clock to-morrow morn ing and let me know whether you’ll take it.’ “At the appointed hour they saw the Czar and interlined some slight altera tions that they wanted. These were at once acceded to, and made on the spot. The names of the Winans brothers were substituted for those of the Russian Generals, and Nicholas attached his name to the parchment. "The Winans brothers made twenty million dollars out of the contract. “In 1856, when Alexander, the pres ent Czar, was crowned,” continued Col. Gowen, “Sir Robert Peel, who was well acquainted with the Grand Duke Con stantine, was in attendance. Before his departure from St. Petersburg he called upon the Grand Duke to take his leave. “ ‘Well, Sir Robert, have you seen the curiosities in St. Petersburg?’ asked the Prince. “ ‘O, yes,’ was the reply; ‘l’ve seen the mint, the hermitage, the arsenal and the fortress.’ “ ‘ls that all ?’ said Constantine. “ ‘Why, is there anything else worth seeing ?’ said the Englishman. “ ‘To be sure there is. You’ve miss ed the greatest curiosity in the empire,’ replied the Prinoe. “ ‘lndeed ! What is it?’ replied Sir Robert. “ ‘The American railway contract,’ said Constantine.” LETTER FROM JACKSON COUNTY'. Harmony Grove and Other Towns—'Tlie Northeastern Railroad to Be Completed in Ausnst—The Temperance Cause. f From Our Traveling Agent. ] Harmony Grove, Ga., May 15, 1876. —Harmony Grove, situated on the Northeastern Railroad, is a flourishing little village. It has some good busi ness men, who have made fortunes here. The business men are Messrs. C. W. Hood, S. M. Shankle, Goss & Cos., S. Seegar, W. S. Edwards & Cos., and Jacobs & Bro. The hotel is kept by Mr. Seegar. There are two very neat chqrohes—gaptist sjnd Metfiodist—with large congregations. There are two flourishing schools—the Harmony Grove Academy, Prof. B. S. Cheney, who has forty-five scholars. The Professor is much esteemed. He has been teaching seven years at this place, which speaks well for him. Miss Carter Parks, an accomplished yoqng lady, has a qohqol which has proved qqite a success. She has about forty in attendance, and a more happy set of children I never saw. They ad vance very fast in their studies. Mjss Parjcs is very iftqofi loved- °f praise are spoken of her by all b er Pu pils. There is a Good Templars Lodge, witfi sixty members, wbieb bas dope and js doing a great deal of goad in tfie temperance cause, ’ There is no whisky allowed to be sold in the town. Two years ago there were three bar-rooms/ now there is not one in the ovvmtv; The people have worked hard to accom plish this result. Their town is fast im proving; and now that the Bailrpad is (ran jfijeltqh to this place, poop*? wil* floine in and the pop ulation will increase. The Northeastern Railroad is completed to this place. I learn that Governor VpU oyer tfip road Thutd a y> together with a numbep of gentlemen from Atlanta. The supervisor of tbe road informs me that it Ijnished tQ Athena ajfioqt the first oj August.' When completed from Belton to Athens, it is in contemplation to run the road through the counties of Habersham and Rabun, by which exten sion Augusta will be benefittecj w fa iww'fei passed through several very pretty little places. At Mount Airy, on the Air Line, I noticed a large hotel being bnilt, When completed it will have fifty vuows. Colonel kj. 0. Wilpox, wfib is prospect ing fd;: gold in Nortfi Georgia, for "New York capitalists, has found some very rich mines. The Colonel has done a great deal to bnild np Moqpt Airy. The new hotel is vpipy Aiucfi ' needed at that pjaee. Th e j e * oar 01 hve busi ness nouses doing well. There is one church at Mount King and a good school taught by Miss Cockran, a young lady from Atlanta- Beltom (fithough it suffered greatly from a teoent fire, is building up fast. I see that Mr- Carter, who was burned out a few weeks ago, has re-opened. Several other stores ’rave been re-built. GilsviUa, on the Northeastern Rail road, is improving. There are three or four houses goiDg np. There are two business hoases, one a dry goods store and post office, kept by Mr. G. M. Quil lian ; the other a grocery, kept by Mr. Pollard. Maysville has one store and a post office. There are improve ments going 08. The crops of corn I have never seen ; better. The wheat and oats are looking , fine. There are some excellent grain | farms between Harmony Grove and Bell- j t0 While at Harmony Grove, your corre- I spondent waa invited to accompany Rev. H. E. Shackleford, a Baptist min ister, and an ardent worker in the tem perance oause, to attend the Banks Coun ty Convention of Good Templars. The Bev. Mr. Perryman delivered an able sermon. After the services, all present had a free invitation to dinner prepared by some of the ladies of Banks and Jack son counties. The table was loaded with the best the country afforded and every one seemed to do full jnstice to the dinner. The Convention met in the afternoon. Rev. Mr. Shackleford delivered an in teresting address on temperance. The occasion will be long remembered by all who had the pleasure of being present. I noticed several ladies and gentlemen from Homer in attendance at the Convention. I send you a list of forty-four subscri bers from Harmony Grove. The Chron icle and Sentinel will doable any other paper that comes to this office, except the county paper, which has more sub scribers. I leave for Jefferson to-mor row. G. W. N. CHARLESTON PROTESTS. Rcaml of the Duty au Rice. Charleston, May 16.— The Chamber of Commeroe has adopted strong resolu tions opposing the passage of the bill carrying into effect the Hawiian treaty, on the ground that the removal of the duty on rioe will seriously injure the rice planters, and throw oat of employment thousands of eolored laborers. A dele gation waa appointed to proceed to Washington, to lay the facts before the THE KENTUCKY TURF. THE GRE ATRACE BETWEEN ARIS TIDES AND TEN BROBCK. The Great Race ea Wednesday. [Correspondence of the Courier-Journal.] . Lexington, May 11, 1876.—Yesterday ■was a day to be remembered in turf an nals, and one that ought to be marked with a bright pencil in the records of the Kentucky Association. It was a most exquisite day—warm, sunny, like a great, glad smile of Heaven, which the greeD-carpeted earth caught up andseDt back with added sweetness gathered from dewy lawn or budding tree. The sky was an unruffled bine, with now and then a single white cloud sailing over ft and fading away like foam upon the azure depth before the soft winds that wafted it. There was never a more per fect day for the great day of race-week, and it was taken advantage of fully by the people. The largest crowd I ever saw on any track—certainly the largest seen on this track for twenty years - was present to see the great struggle between Ten Broeck and Aristides. The ladies’ stand was a bewildering bower of beauty lit up by the flashing of bright eyes and made musical by soft voices and rippling ‘laughter. The day was warm enough to admit of Spring toilets, so the delicious little birds were in their most gorgeous feathers, and felt and acted accordingly. The fact of be ing well dressed affords to nobody such concentrated, supreme, exquisite self satisfaction as to the woman herself, and she cannot help showing it to an ob servant eye in every little act and word and attitude I have even thought some times I could detect the consciousness of clocked stockings freshly put on— cognizable to none but the wearer—in a woman who passed me on the street commonly dressed to outer view, but stepping high and with nose cocked at a scornful angle as she passed those who might be supposed to wear their stock ings without clocks. The stand was full of Spring costumes, and the conscious ness of new clothes gave an added luster to the eye and a fresher crimson to the cheek, and as a Bluegrass belle with her last year’s clothes on is pretty enough and “peart and chipper and sassy” enough in all conscience, the conse quence of anew out-and-out Spring dress almost as beautiful as the wearer is fearful to susceptibje bipeds of the swallow-tail coat and bycycle-pants per suasion, and I kindly, draw a veil over the fluttering agony of the beaux as butterfly-like they flitted from flower to flower and found none to satisfy the deep longing of their manly hearts. The pool-stands were the centre of a surging crowd, and the voice of the pool seller was wafted out on the air con stantly as he announced, in nasal tones, “Bullion wa-a-a-n,” and his assistant re peated back as he tallied, "Bullyun w-u-u-n.” Money seemed to be plenti ful—that is, everybody had some—the small betters had been winning all the week and were able to go in on the great race extensively. But betting on the first race was not forgotten. The night before Dailgaisen had been the favorite, but in the morning Keene Richards’ Bullion loomed up, and some times another was ahead. Everybody seemed to have been taught to distrust his own judgment by the constant de feat of the favorites the forepart of the week, and the least little talk would sometimes change the whole current of popular favor. Bullion won the race in two straight heats, as you already know, in the not extraordinary time of 1:46$ and 1:455. It was plain that' none of the other horses.were at all equal to the winner, who could have brought the time down several seconds if he had Set the run ning sooner in the first heat, and thus distanced the whole party. As it was Daigaisen barely got his hindquarters past the distance stand when the flag fell and all the others were shut out ex cept him and the plucky little Eaglet, by Planet, out of Eagless. In the sec ond heat Dailgaisen started out to set the pace himself and thought he was setting it fast; but Bullion, who had been last in the start, ran around clear on the outside of Eaglet and the leader and came to the front before the first quarter was reached. It was no trouble to keep the lead after he once got it, and the only thing like a oontest in the heat was the sharp fight for second posi tion between Eaglet and McGrath. The little Eaglet took it after a brush and goes to record second in both heats. Tillie Brent, named for a sparkling little Bourbon beauty, was some time a favor ite in this race and might possibly have saved her distance at least, but before the start she ran off and ran clear round the track, starting into the seoond mile before she eould be stopped. Of course, she oould not be expected to repeat a few minutes after and do well, but she came up pluckily to the scratch and came very near saving her distance in the first heat, being close at Dailgaisen’s tail when the flag fell. But enough of the little horses; you want to know how ¥he Great Race Was run and won. Well, you see there were seven entries. Mr. Grinsted didn’t care to start his brown filly, Katie.— Green Clay thought Orel wasn’t yeady for such a race. Emma Cobb and Gyptis had both been Tuesday by Bob Woolley, qnd, therefore, were a little soye., and it was useless to expect them to capture the great Tfcn B.roeck, and King Alfonso was at flflr. Swigert’s hom.e with a sprained ankle. So Aristides was the only champion left to tackle the crack sun of Phseton and Fqnny Holton, The names o| the two horses were in everybody's mouth; boys hallooed Aris tides and Ten Broeck at each other across the street, and grave and vener able old gentlemen would meet each other on the street corner and, after a solemn shake of the band, when you ejt peoted to hea r Borne question of grave import to Church or State propounded, would ask quietly, “Who's going to win, McGrath or Harper ?” As I stated be fore, the town was jammed and crammed full of people, and long before the time to start they had emigrated to the race course and flowed into and filled up the grand stand, and were jostling the re porters and standing in front of them in a way that was perfectly exasperating, while every soul of them seemed to crane the neck forward as if his salva tion depended upon seeing the horse of his choice when he came upon the track. The fences, trees and house tops adjoin ing the track were filled with an expect ant crowd ol hoys and men, who saved their dollars and saw the races free. Ten Broeck was the favorite in the pools at small odds until just before the race, when JJoCtrath announced his reading to accommodate everybody and anybody who couldn’t get a bet against Aristides, and they rushed up, and as fast as his clerk could note it bets were taken until it was said he bad about P a t on his horse. This gave the backers of Aristides more con fidence without diminishing the faith that Woodford county and her delega tion had in Harper’s flyer, and hotting was fast and furious until the bell rang and the causes of the excitement march ed proudly out. Bath were blanketed, and Aristides’ rider galloped him round the track, examining every part of it carefully. Ten Broeck bounded up and down the home stretch, just to heat his blood up a little, and at the second tap of the bell both were led into the cool ing ground to be stripped. Ten Broeck was stripped first, in the midst of an admiring crowd, who pressed close upon him and almost pushed one another against him in the effort to see the huge chieftain. He is worth looking at—a deep bay in color, about an inch higher than his competi tor, though so solid and compact as to look lower, with a great, deep chest, ca pacious enough to hold the tremendous engine of a heart that pomps the warm blood through his throbbing arteries, with heavily-muscled limbs, flesh hard and firm as a rock; thick, arching neck; large, broad forehead, and steady eyes, fall of quiet, subdued fire—he is the very beau ideal of massy strength, and suggests tremendous power even when in repose. Many people think him the finest horse on the American tnrf to day, and they are not so far wrong either. He looked to me too high in flesh —I thought so and said so last week, though his admirers laughed at the idea—now, after the race is run, they are too glad to allege it as the cause of his defeat His antagonist, Aristides, was soon unbianketed close by the Harper horse, and a crowd bnzzed and pushed, jostled and stretched their necks around him. He is a cross of the Leamington and Lexington stock, by Leamington out of Sarony, by Lexing ton; a fine chestnut in color, a little over medium sine, with muoh of the Long fellow shape abont him, while Ten Broeck has more of the compact, solid build of old Tom Bowling. Grace, sym metry and speed are indicated in every curve of his exquisite shape. Under the warm, bright sun, he was the most beautiful objeet to look at that ever shot past a grand stand full of admiring eyes. A perfect model, fit for the chisel of Praxitiles, he waa a perfect Greek of the olden days; he was the spirit of a just man made perfect, and if McGrath had seen his glorions prime in the yonng Colt, he could not have named him better than Aristides. Light and wry in appearance, yet power in his deep chest and rounded onttocks, be skimmed along over the ground with an easy, polished elegance wbioh de clares him the very Chesterfield of hones. Jt was the Trojan against the Greek, Hector ti. Achilles, with the gods of the racing Olympus assembled in the air to see the mighty contest. The Race. The athletes were soon on the track, stripped and shining in the sunlight. They gallop up to the furlong pole—a moment of stillness while a thousand spectators hold their breath—they are off. “Ten Broeck leads him !” is buzzed abont as they oome thundering down to the stand and shoot past, leaving little pnffs of dust behind them to mark their course. Bath riders hold their horses well in hand, and, with about a length of daylight between them, they go past the quarter. When near the half-mile pole Aristides comes closer just to see if he could go faster, and his backers begin to cheer, but it is too soon, for, passing the half, as they strike the foot of the hill, Ten Broeck draws away again, and a shout goes up from his backers. They are round the turn, they enter the Btretch, and let themselves out as they come to the stand a second time and pass it, Harper still a length ahead. “Go it, my Harper,” shouts Woodford county. “Stick to him, Bobby,” say the McGrath men, and both parties yell for their favorites. Now the work be gins in earnest. Harper’s rider looks back, and gives the great Phaeton eolt his head. He darts away. A shout from the Harper faction. Bobby lets out a link in Aristides and be rushes up and gets closer than evaY, while McGrathiana whoops and yells again, and they go down the back stretch at a killing pace, close together, and doing their level best.— Past tne half they go, too close for com fort, and strike the hill. “He can’t catch him; he can’t catch him—he can’t do it, 1 tell you /” screams a Woodford man, while the others say nothing—but, look, a murmur arises ; Bobby goes at him coming up the hill. The murmur changes to a shout, the shout to a bed lam of ejaculations. A veteran turf re porter, gray haired, gray whiskered, drops his spectacles and his pencil in the excitement and jumps on the bench, “He laps him—he’s at him — he’s got him !” screams the old gentleman, danc ing and clapping his hands as they swing into the home stretch with Aris tides to the fore. I was keeping the positions with my note book resting against another reporter’s back and looking over his shoulder, but he jump ed aud screamed so my pencil point went clear through the paper. Specta tors, ladies and all, are on their feet, cheering, clapping hands, howl ing and stamping like mad, as the horses lumber down the stretch, the green and orange of Bobby Swim fairly trembling with the rapid, steady bounding of the migh ty Greek that he bestrode. Harper whips his Hector aud swears with chagrin, but it is too late—the work is done, and Aristides runs past the stand first by 40 or 50 yards, in the fastest time that sun ever shone on, 3:4ss—one and a quarter seconds faster than ever was made be fore. Said I not that Old Time would forget to turn his glass and shake out his sands when this race was run ? If is but an instant, the horses are brought back, the riders’ dismount, the race is over and McGrath is shaking hands with an excited qrowd, who would almost car ry him and the horse, too, in triumph on their shoulders, if they could. Wood ford county is bankrupt; it bet its last dollar, yes, its last nickel, on Harper, and it still won’t believe but what it bet on the best horse. It was a grand race—the second Gray Eagle and- Wagner contest, which old men will tell their children about in coming years, and after it all other races are tame. HANCOCK COUNTY. memorial Day—Lecture by Rev. F. P. lYlul lally—A Masterly Effort. [From an Occasional Correspondent.] Sparta, May 15.—0n the 26th of April, after deooratiun and tributes paid to the memory of our noble dead, the ladies of the Memorial Association re quested Rev. F. P. Mull ally, D. D., to deliver a lecture the following Monday evening at the Methodist Church in be half of the Association. Dr. Mullally, always ready to serve good people in a good cause, readily assented and chose for his theme “The Power of Woman.” Many tickets were sold, but maDy of our cultivated people from inclement weather were not able to enjoy the ro past. Some, however, determined if the lecture was delivered they would be absent. And about sixty or seventy persons, a large per oent. ladies, were piesentonthe occasion. The Doctor’s oommanding personal appearance and his weighty and well selected words riveted the attention of his hearers and held them spell-bound the eutiro avening.— He said to deplore the sex, when the announcement is made tlat the little soul, just ushered into the world, is a female , was a grand mistake and proved beyond controversy that such ought rather to be attended with tions. He called attention (he first and most lasting impassions up.oi the infant mind by \esolutc and nuti r . ing earnestness of Qfiristiaa ams til o Unobtrusive, powe rful grace of a dutiful daup)-' ier leading the worldly fatner to tne fold of Christ! He referred to tne magnetic influence of a plttsmng maiden over him who “Throughout creation only knew Twq separate worlds-the one, that small Beloved and consecrated spot Where—she nw—lhe other all, The dull wide waßte where she was not.” Snob examples were cited as Mrs. He mans’ Lady Jane Gray and Deborah, and others showed that though woman’s power' was latent, it was nevertheless the more powerful aud nearer kin to the power of Him. A worthy tribute was paid to the Hon. A. H. Ste phens, who, though never having experienced the thrills of congenial joy, nor felt the tender ties of a father’s love, yet he among the first was ready to pay homage at the shrine of woman, and ac knowledge her greatness and power over the lorda of creation. The Dr. was most happy in an illustration showing her power in obedience, giving her the rule where God intended she should have it—smoothing down man’s asperities and straightening his crooked ways. Point ing to the cabinet organ, be said to pro duce melody there the performer must strictly obey the rules of music. So to produce the harmony of peace and hap piness at home and abroad, the wife must study the temperament of her hus band and obey the laws of his nature— that if she be true to her instincts and obedient to the man she loves, she can rule him. And here the pleasantry of the Doctor’s Scotch-Irish, fixing his gaze upon her whose big heart, never more full and happy than when doing his will, suggested that even a Scotch- Irishman would acknowledge the sway. But, he said, tracing further the anal ogy in the figure above, there were some musical instruments so terribly out of tune that the most skillful performer could not produce music with them, and in like manner there were some men so intolerably incorrigible that no woman, how great soever her power, could bring forth aught from them but jargon and discord. The lecture was truly a feast for the soul—rich in importance from wholesome truths presented, and par ticularly useful from the clear and im posjpg demonstrations. Philos. -a/,.GILES’ J&IINIMENT IODIDE OF AMMONIA Cures Neuralgia, Face Ache, Rheuma tism, Gout, Frosted Feet, Chilblains, Here Throat, Erysipelas, Brulsea or Wounds of every kind in man or animal. “Discharged from the Massachusetts Gene ral Hospital as incurable, with inflammatory rheumatism in my shoulders, fingers and feet; suffered fearfully for three years: tried every thing: lost all hope. Da. Giles’ Liniment lo dide of Ammonia effected a complete cure. < Fllkn Smith, No. 72 Plane St., Fall River, Mass.” J. H. ALEXANDER, Agent. Sold by all Druggists. Depot No, 461 Sixth Avenue, New York. Only 50c. and $1 per bot tle. ap29-d<fcwlm _ New Dry Goods, LOWER THAN EVER! AT V. J. T. BALK’S, No. 136 BROAD Street, Near Lower Market. IN addition to the great indneemente offered last week, such as Ladies’ and Children’s Sundowns at 25c., Boys’and Youths’ Hats at 15 and 25c., Lace Striped Lawns at 16c., eto., eto., I will offer THIS WEES a large consignment of New Goode at unheard of lew prioes, Splendid printed oordod ORGANDIES at 12 jo., original ooet 210., gold. Splendid Mohair DRESS SUITING at 25c., worth 40c. Elegant pure silk PONGEE, entirely new shades, 500. Yard wide gray DRESS LINEN at 15, 20 and 25c. Black Iron BAREGE at 250. per yard, cost 40 1. in gold. Colored Iron BAREGE, large meshes, at 40c., worth 75c. Yard wide white VICTOBIA LAWN at 15c. Good quality plain white JACONET at 10c. Heavy large ootton honeycomb TOWELS at 10c. The best assortment of 6$ Calicoes in town. Bleached and Unbleached HOMESPUNS near ly given away. Best Lonsdale CAMBRIC, 15c. Silk and Lace SCARFS given away for frac tional currency. Anew artiole of silk finished DREHS LINING at 12$ and 16c. (very suitable for lining hlffek grenadine), Can’t Break’em Corset Steels, Wash Paniere, eto., eto. All in search of Bargains should call at No. 136 , BROAD Street before buying elae where. Sam ples given. Orders solicited. Will also show on Monday and every day this week, New Spring CABBIME RES at 40, 50 and 60 cehta; New PARASOLS from 25 cents, np; Boys’ Straw HATS from 15 cents, up; a lot of Centennial Hat TRIMMINGS will be ex hibited free of charge. They are said to have been worn in Martha Waahington’s time. ap6o-d4fff C-J-T-SAl*. New Advertisements “ important tI planters AND OTHEBB! THE RICHMOND FACTORY, Ton Miles From Augusta, CONTINUES TO MANUFACTURE WOOLEN CLOTH AND TO CARD WOOL ROLLS FOB PLANTERS and other parties, sending Wool to us. We propose in future to DYE the COTTON WARP when desired, and we will also DYE the WOOL FILLING, if requested, either Brown, Black or Gray, or the Cloth oan he made the natural oolor of the WooL The oharge for making Plains will be 12$c. a yard, and for Twills 150. a yard. For Dyeing Cotton Warp, 10. a yard; Wool Filling, 2c. a yard; Carding Rolls, 100. a pound. Weol can be sent in the dirt. We are prepared to Wash and Burr it promptly. OUR MACHINERY BEING IN PERFECT OBDEB, no delay will take plaoe in prompt delivery of the Cloth and Rolls. All Wool sent us should be Plaiuly Marked with the owner's name, and all instructions and inquiries be made to and through YOUNG A HACK, Aunts, Augusta, Ga. I>. B. HACK, mayl7-wlm PRESIDENT RICHMOND FACTORY. -*— - ■ - - -Ji Colored Silk Grenadines! AT TEN CENTS PER YARD ! —o • ■5 CHRIBTOPHER GRAY & CO. Will offer for sale Monday Morning, Two Cases of Sflk Grena dines and other Dress Goods at the nominal price of ten cents. The Best Brands of New Prints, Merrimae, Pacific, &c>, at 61-4 eents per yard. No Trash, but New and Choice Goods, ill ether Goods in our Stook hare been marked as low in proportion as the abore, C. GRAY Sc CO. ap3o-tf . 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. 150 doz. Fringed Doylies at 40c. per dozen. 100 pcs. Imported Victoria Lawn, no common American Suit ing, at 15c. 100 pcs. Brown Linen Drill at Half Price. One Case Extra Quality BLACK IRON GRENIDINE, at 25c.; Ladles* Misses’ and Children’s salts and Underwear in Endless Variety. ON CONSIGNMENT—SOO Llama Lace Sacques, at fifty per cent, less thaw cost of importation. JAMES A. GRAY &. CO. N. B.—We will Open This Morning, at 10 o’clock, several pieces of Plaid tirenadlnes and Striped JOB PRINTING. - . i* BOOK BINDING. • RULING, Etc. THE CHRONICLE & SENTINEL Having Extensively Furnished, With New Material, the JOB PRINTING AND BINDING ESTABLISHMENT i t % ARE PREPARED TO DO EVERY DESCRIPTION OP WORK DESIRED Merchants, Factors, Corporations, . Societies, . Hotels, Railroads, AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY. Our Bindery is Complete, AND OUR WORK CANNOT BE BURPABBEO % FOR DURABILITY AND WORKMANSHIP.
