Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-07
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
Topics Which Are UppermOst in tn
Minds of Atlantans.

ATLANTA, June 5.-One is very strongly
reminded of Emancipation day this morn.
ing, as our streets are alive with colored
troops, and our sidewalks crowded with
cOlored spectators.
Atlanta, however, is always happy
when her streets are filled with negroes
and the trade in red lemonade, sickly
watermelOns and rotten bananas has a
big boom.
1t will not be long before the colored race
| VIII have monopoly of some privileges in
this city, and white people of refinement
back too.
! Now do not refer to our industrious.
respectable cOlored people, but to the
! thousands of worthless negroes. of both
! sexes, that swarm our streets, support our
low whisky dens and supply criminals
| for the chain-gang.
Inere is not now prominent street cor
! ner IN Atlanta that is not infested with a
| gang of dirty, loafing negroes, and white
ladies frequently have trouble to pass
| such corners.
l have not changed my theory of the
DE Foor murder, and still believe that a
white man was at the bottom of the ter
rlble crime. The negroes now in custody
are not the guilty parties.
his wife is like the handle of a iug-aIl on
one side. Public opinion considered them
Wen matched couple in appearance
manners, tastes and extravaganza while
living in Atlanta.
Gen. Early says Gen. Garland. of LYNCH
burg, Va, was the first Confederate Gen
eral killed in the late war. As he was
killed in 1862, | think Gen. Early has
made mistake. f. S. Barlow is num-
bered with the Generals, and he was the
first killed in battle.
1t is Julius L., not James NJ. Brown.
who has been elected President of the
Metropolitan Street Railroad of Atlanta.
He is the oldest son of Senator Brown.
and will bring both money and brains to
tnls new enterprise. 1t is run out Pryor
street to that part Of the city where fine
improvements have followed the real
estate boom on Washington street.
Alderman X. j. Lowry has started de-
termined warfare ON English sparrows.
ana is collecting together a large amount
OF valuable testimony against them for
use at the fall session of the Legislature.
where he will seek to amend the law so
as to allow English sparrows to be killed.
McFhersOn Barracks, in Atlanta, has
always been occupied by first class regi-
ments, at the head of which were Chris
tlan gentlemen-WheatOn, Hunt and
Ruger, and yet it was a well known fact
that gambling prevailed there, and that
not a few officers patronized our citv
gambling hells. One Lieutenant COM
mitted suicide after his losses at the "Big
Bonanza" and another would have been
cashlered for duplicating pay accounts to
meet gambling losses, but for his sudden
death. 1t is useless to deny that this vice
does prevail in the army, and that it
has done incalculable injury to many gal
liant soldiers.
''The LOunger on the Avenue" in the
Washington Cd. c.. army and Ndyy Her
dtd, attempts to locate the Generals of the
late Confederate army, but fails, repeat
edly, of being reliable. He SAYS Pember
ton is the superintendent of an iron COM
pany In New Jersey, although that officer
dted last year. e. p. Alexander is First
Vice President of the Central Railroad.
knby Smith, at Eminence, Kentucky. in
stead of the University of the South, at
SeWanee, Tennessee. McLaws is located
at Augusta, and HOltZclaW at Selma, Ala
bama. Wheeler, he thinks, is a member
elect to the next Congress. d. H. Hill is
put in North Carolina, and c.. w. Field in
Florida. Mackall, he believes, lives in
Georgia. In addition to the above and
several other errors, the list does not in
clude more than half the Generals of the
late Confederate army.
The Rev. Mr.. Mitchell Che is not a Dr.
had call from Baptist church in Texas.
but an Atlanta printer made it "calf,''
which has caused the friends of the rev.
erend gentleman to smile.
Atlanta can well brag on her boys
abroad this year. Young T. II. Huzza
takes the first honor at Emory College.
and is said to be a remarkably brilliant
student. Young j. S. MaysOn has come
home from Vanderbilt University covered
with honors, and gives promise of making
distinguished lawyer. Both of these !
young men won horors in our Boys High |
school, and they have kept on winning |
them elsewhere ever since. Now they |
VIII seek hOnOrs in the professions.
The North Georgia Agricultural Col |
lege, at DahlOnega, is largely supported
from the land script fund derived from the |
General Government. In view of this fact
Gov. Mcdaniel has appointed Gen. James !
LOngstreet, the United States Marshal. and |
Col. a. e. Buck, the Clerk of the United |
States Courts for this district, on the Board |
OF Visitors for the present year.
The death of young Mcintyre at Chat !
tanoOga, while coupling cars, is a sad |
blow to his widowed mother. Lieut.. Nc |
Intyre, of the Second Infantry, when on |
duty here, was killed by illicit distillers
i'll the mountains of North Georgia. He |
left widow and several small children in |
poverty. Mrs. Gen. Wheaton and other |
ladies at Mcpherson Barracks were very
kind to her, and in due time she got a |
small pension. OF late she has been living
in government building near Chat
tanOoga, thus saving rent and consider
able expense, and this son, now dead, was
helping her to rear and educate the |
other children. Much sympathy is eX-
pressed for her here, where she has many
kind friends.
We have had cloudy, sultry morning.
and the colOred soldiers did not enioV
their street. parade and tramp out to
McPhersOn Barracks for the prize drill,
which IS now taking place. There was
delay of two hours in getting the battalion
formed, so Governor Mcdaniel did not
get his passing review at the Executive
Department until after high noon. The
companies marched well, and presented a
very creditable appearance. The Fulton
Guards, new Atlanta company, in their
black helmet hats and handsome uniforms,
were the chief attraction, and will here
after rank as the bon ton crack cOlOred
corps of the capital city. But few COM
panies are here from abroad, and none
from any distance. Augusta, Savannah
and Macon have none of their companies /
present, but Macon will tomorrow enter
tain the battalion at Central City Park.
Phe rumor that j. E. Bryant will sue
ceed Governor COnley as Postmaster at
Atlanta, is the merest bOsh If Governor
COnley, whose term does not expire until
next year, were removed tomorrow Bry-
ant would stand no chance to be his sue
cessor. While our present Postmaster
has had bad luck with some of his minor
officials, he himself has worked hard and
faithfully for the interests of our people.
The rush of mails, outgoing and incoming
at noon make it quite impossible to please
everybody.
Now word as to patrons of post offices,
Some Of whom, uniustly blame the clerks
ana hlgher onclalS. 1 was Ill the posi-
office yesterday, and Superintendent Sci
tert showed me few hundred misdirected
letters. There were letters from promi-
nent Northern commission truck mer-
chants, misdirected as follows: VIM.
Bowen and j. p. Brooks, Quitman, Fla,
instead of Ga; j. Ward, Camilla, Fla,
instead of Ga; Gustave Rothe, Micano-
py, Ala, instead of Fla; Amelia Ellis,
HillsbOrOugh county, Fla, no town given;
l.. ID. Lockhart, Blackshear, Pierce co.,
Ala, instead of Ga. T. Caskin. Kansas
City, Mobile, instead of Mo-; and a print
ed direction on a prominent newspaper to
Southern Christian AdUOcdte, Charleston.
Georgia, instead of South Carolina. Some
of these errors are ineXcusable, and the
truck" letter mistake will perhaps re-
suit in loss to the commission merchants
and truck farmers concerned.
CHATHAM.