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ATLANTA WEEKLY CONSTI1 UTON. APRIL 23. 1878.
The Atlanta Constitution
WEEKLY EDITION.
TERMS OF WEEKLY.
Weekly, per i
C jt.«rf<ee.<
Wuuu ia Beret* Tamer?
Isn't Tbarman rather too (rigid to be
pc polar with the boy*?
Bill Chandlo is ambitioae to be
come Mr. Hoye.' Abe Hewitt.
It appears that Bishop McCoskrey
was the vic'im of the Intelligent Com
positor.
Patniot* like Montgomery B'air
ought to go west and inaugurate bloat
furnaces.
Basel] as denies Mrs. Tilton's coo fee
sion. This ought to nettle it. Beecher
knows, if anybody doe*.
John Snsauax, the political sneak
is still bent on contraction. He colls
it “resumption.”
Owixa to the current brokerage rates
we can not get nearer to reeamption
without touching it.
On* a Lino complains that the inter
view published in the New York World
is not an sathnria-d reraon.
Col. Vic Woodboll’s opportunity
has come again. The whole country is
pining to hear from the colonel.
It wonld seem that Jay Gould be-
lieres in Beecher’s innocencr. In
making up a verdict the public should
bear this in mind.
Poms genius ought to write a com
prebensire book entitled: “The True
History of Stanley Matthews;
Every Man His Own Bute-man.”
Tbs senate substitute for the re
sumption repeal bill will be debated at
least two weeks. It is a big fight, and
the country will watch its progress
keenly.
It may be said in extenuation of
Beecher’s well-known innocence, that
at the time he became as innocent as
he is now, he was no bishop. Else
matters might have been otherwise.
Tns house committee on railways
and canals have agreed to report the
bill granting a subsidy to the Great
Southern railway from Millen to Key
West—but without recommendation.
Rxsatob Cobkuso’s criticism on the
ooarse of the big dailies of New York
city, in the silver discussion, are alto
gether pithy and to the point. He
might have gone farther and pointed
to some of the financial articles in the
rimes and Tribune as evidences of ed
Boris] insanity.
As aggravated esse of nepotism has
been developed on the bench in Ten
nessee. Judge Baxter, of the United
States circuit bench, has decided to
uiaplsce the clerk, who has served ac
ceptably since 1862, and give the de
sirable position to his son. A Uincin
n iti.dispatch states that ho will also ap
point his son-in-law, Mr. E P. Btiley,
to a similar position in Cincinnati.
iron* uoxtr needed.
Few people are aware that the peo
ple of these United States have less
currency per capita than any other
civilised people. An impression pre
vails that the volume of paper money
in this country is something ini
mense—something that the necessities
of war ushered in—something to be i
duced as soon os possible. All this
a great mistake. Instead of too
much money, we have too little
for the actual wants of trade
—that is, for. the t
wants of trade as it will exist after
recovery from the contraction efforts of
the period. The facts are briefly these
Uncnbscks and tank nous out-
i undos gsuoaaioo
BUrnc arcaUUoa SS.<».*«
Total currency among Um people.
These figures ore Mr. Sherman’s. Let
ne diride the amount among the peo
pie. Profess ir E. B. E'liott says the
population of the United Stater is now
48,191,000. We therefore have $9 56 pc
capita of actual currency. In 1858 oar
currency per capita was $11 56. A1
though our wealth and business
enterprises hare been vastly in
creased since 1858, oar circula
tion has been materially decreased.
It is for lees than that of tbs older and
more compact countries of Europe.
France has three times sa much, Eng
land doable, end Germany nearly doa
ble. These are facte, which notoiionsiy
are stubborn things. They indicate
the real source of oar commercial trou
bles. They also point oat the true
remedy—stop the process of contrac
tion -, increase the rolnme of legal ten
der! to $880,000,000, and prohibit the
secretary of the treasury from retiring
or hoarding, for any purpose whaterrr
any portion of that amount.
TOM JIBXT CONGRESS.
I in
i the
i ell
decretory McCrary is of the opinion
that the next house of repreeentatiree
will be called on to elect s president
default of sn election by the peop’i
This belief is based not so much
the division of strength between the
two great parties, os on the fact that
candidates are liable to be placed
the field by the nationals, labor refor
mers and other offshoots of the two
chief parties. This possibility,
together with the fact
it is not probable that any change
the manner of counting the electoral
vote cob be agreed upon, is leading
politicians of either party to regard the
coming congressional elections
gnat stake for the gaining of which
energies should be given, if the re
publicans lose the next bouse of rep
resentatives, the probability is tbs:
the party would cess
exist os a national organ
isation. It is a death-struggle with
them, and they are making many
plausible campaigns on paper. They
mast bold their own, and cany lour
teen additional districts, in order
control the next house. One of their
calculations includes the fifth district
of Maryland as a probable gain, end
the sixth district as a certain gain
Two districts in Tennessee are
down ae gains, and from Louisiana,
Florida and South Carolina three
four gains are counted. The first d
triet of New Hampshire, now repre
sented by Mr. F. W. Jones, democrat, is
pnt down os absolutely certain to return
s republican next foil. Several districts
in Saw York and Pennsylvania, sad
doaen or met* in the west, now repre
sented by democrats, are transferred
the republican cpinmn This cal
culation is, beyond a doubt
iollacious; but the importance
and intensity of the
should indaoe as to hsxsid no district
through division or independency,
solid nine from Georgia is nkeded ss
has never before been needed in the
history of the democratic party. The
party experts it, and patriotism do
it,
jus. TiLiora confession.
The most remarkable trial, all th ings
considered, ever witnessed upon this
continent, was the trial cl Henry
Ward Beecher, for the seduction of
Mrs. Tilton.
From the very first!he testimony was
quarely cor.ciuf.iye against Beecher.
Ilia own confessions verbal sad writ-
ten—bia erratic letters to his fair parish
oner—her confession to her hu.ib.nd
and other friends—theeompset of
crecy between Beecher and the perries
issue—the testimony in oil its besr-
ingsnd all its shape—was literally eon-
cluairs as to Beecher’s guilt—his long
con tinned and oft repeated gnllt. So
powerful wss the man's magnetism,
however, and so adroit
plan of defense that he bsffl d convic
tion, and rallied his friends abont him,
and punned his course unharmed and
invincible. The whole cif his defense
rested upon the firm and unassailable
story ol Mrs. Tilton. With a loyally
that wss heroic, this woman united
with her seducer in defending bia char
acter and in bp aking down the jnst
charges of her husband. The quiet,
persistent, determined denial of this
pole and slander woman, pazxied and
repaired the prosecution. Her story
evidently prepared after dose consulta
tion with her paramour, dove-tailed
precisely with hie, and harmonised
to a shade with his explanation of all
the ugly points against them. It was
almost incredible that he coaid have
so thoroughly mesmerized his victim os
to have brought her so low. And hail
the world—believing against belief—
gave Beecher the verdict of “innocent
The despairing,pathetic confession oi
Mrs. Tilton, torn from her heart by
remorse, breaks down the lost donbt
as to Beecher’s guilt, and fixes the
brand ineffectually nnpon hie forehead.
There is no possible escape this time.
Wherever he was when that letter
reached him, it most have come like
lightning stroke. He is utterly, abso
lutely and forever ruined. Hietoncb
after this is pollution, his presence sn
infection. His fall has been terrible, hie
degradation is eternal.
Mrs. Tilton’s confession is not sur
prising. The miracle is that she has
carried this load of sin upon her soul os
long os. she did. There is no sgony
like that which comes from remorse.
The sting of conscience is sharper
than the lash of scorpions. We see
almost doily examples of the power
of remorse in the moneys that are sent
back to the government by those who
have stolen it on on impulse. Mrs.
Tilton’s confession is not only natural,
bat it is convincing. Upon no suppo
sition, bat that it is true, could she
have thought of making the confes-
even if she proves to be insane
her contention will stand, and the
world will believe that in the disorder
of her biain the tinlh has escaped from
her custody.
We do not believe that the cause
religion will suffer from this exposure
of Beecher. The class of preachers
which Beecher belongs—the sensa
tional, demagcg-c, pn'pit mountebank
h is long ago been discredited by the
religions world. They have, each
them, managed to retain abont them
crowd of adherents, bat the great mass
of religions people have long ago for
sworn them, and returned to the tim
pie, old-fashil ned preachers, who talk
for Christ and His kingdom. We are
inclined to rejoice that the Plymonth
idol has been broken, and his nest
sympathisers scattered. We pity the
poor victim of Beecher’s lost—we pity
the man whose home he has destroyed
—but, more than all, we pity the deco
rous, white-haired wife who daring the
swfal trial eat by his gnilty side and
cheered him with her unquoetioning
love.
the analysis any proof of these
allegations. The principal kc. discloe-
* by it is, that the appropriations ore
well disriihaied, instead oi being con
fined, ss in the past, almost exclusively
New York harbor and Lake Michi
gan. Leaving oat of the account the
$340,000 for the general improvement
the Mississippi, ae belonging squally
the south and north, the northern
state* have appropriated to them in this
till $3,789,300, and the southern states
$2,332,500. It msy be a sin in the eyes
the Herald to give the sooth even a
considerable minor port of such appro
priations, bat the sentimentef the coon-
try will not be apt to regard it in that
light. The bill appropriates lees
than seven millions. Oi this
smoant New York com
for $526,000; Maryland for $569,000
and Wisconsin, for $408,000— the three
state* absorbing nearly one qasrter of
the entire amount. Ii there is any io
tas rice in this to the north and west,
we ore not able to see it
In the Herald's “analysis” of the bill,
Georgia is charged with the following
appropriations:
Hsrtrldse —- —
10,000
7S.OOO
JUS PRESIDENTIAL TITLE
Mr. Hayes will have to find all the
comfort that his office has for him
the constiooenws of doty performed.
He will get very little from the leader*
of hu own party, and of comae the ap
position ore looking to the succession.
The six-column explosion of Mr.
Conkling* in the New York World
is undoubtedly m port of a com
paten that is to be waged
by the malcontents
bitter end. It supplements Mr.
Howe's speech, and no very long time
will be permitted to elapse before some
other “stalwart” will be pot forward
add another startling chapter to the
nnwritten history of the electoral connt
in Louisiana. In the end “the appall
ing Irnlh” will come oat; Mr. Conk-
ling is right in that respect. The good
of the republic requires that the most
gigantic conspiracy in its who!* history
ehonld become folly known, in order
that popular vengeance may be visited
upon the guilty, and posterity receive
a healthful lesson. We have only
wait to know all.
The Conkling outburst came just
the heel of the first formal attempt
congress to empower the supreme court
ot the United States to try and deter
mine the title of the president and
vice* president to their respective
offices. A member was at last found
in Mr. Kimmell of Maryland to intro
dace the Blair bill. It was referred
the judiciary committee in the usual
routine etyle, nobody objecting
seeming to care abont
When however an attempt was
mode to refer to the
committee the resolutions of the Mary
land legislature, Mr. Garfield and oth
ers appreciated the situation, hot
consideration was impossible, and Mr.
Kimmeli's bill remains in the hands of
the judiciary committee. It
doubtless remain there. The billau
thomes the governor or attorney gen
eral of on aggrieved state to bring
action in the nature of a quo warranto
in the supreme court for the pornoer
of giving dae effect to the electoral
vote of the state. If a jury is needed
to try question* ol fact, it shall
consist of twelve persons selected from
the judges of the highest courts in
respective states. The bill is intended
for application whenever an election
to the two highest offices in the gilt cl
the country is disputed by one orinoi
of the states. Mr. Blair bos succeeded
in getting the question squarely bef
congress, and it remains to be seen
whether the “stalwarts” con produce
e cough unwritten history to turn pub
lic sentiment in its favor. This to sa;
the least is very dooblfaL Scarcely any
one think* that Mr. Hayes is a lawfully
elected president, bat scarcely any
con see what good con be accomplished
bv attempting to evict him tram office.
We want not bis office, bat the whole
truth of the conspiracy that put
in it-the names ot the guilty parties,
and the nature of their acts.
TBM EI VSR AND EAMBOE BILL.
The Washington correspondent
the New York Herald presents, with
great flourish ef trumpets, on elaborate
analysis of the river and haibor I
The analysis was intended to crush
committee'* bill by showing that the
most of the appropriations are
creeks, “which are dry nine months
in the year”—that the bill is “half fnij
oi jobs of the most useless description
put in mainly to secure votes for
the whole monstrous and disorderly
combination.” We fail to find,however,
pound.
thing
The most important
connection with the
appearenhe of the shad, however, is the
fact that it proves that they can be
encceetially planted in our Georgia
rivers. These shod ore the growth
from the millions of little fish placed
these rivers under direction of the
government last year. The experi
ment being settled satisfactorily, we
may in a short time have e»ery river in
the state stocked. The shad is hardy
fecund breeder, and the rivers will
soon teem with them. Oar water
courses will then become great food-
treasuries, and a new resource will be
added to our state, and oar national
wealth strengthened with s new ele
ment
mount and Cook..
A similar plan is followed in the re
mainder of the analysis. Now, “Hart-
ridge” is not a creek that is dry nine
months in the year, nor is “Smith.”
No attempt is, in fact, made
substantiate the charge that the bill in
cludes appropriations that ore unjusti
fiable. The rivers and harbors of Geor
gia, for which government aid is asked,
are large streams that can economically
be made navigable, thus becoming very
useful to a people that needs cheap
transportation on their bulky products.
We presume the appropriations for Ihe
other southern states are alike justifia
ble and neceesary. The Herald seems
to think that any public money applied
away from New Y ork harbor is an out
rage, but the Herald is fallible. It may
be mistaken, and the future may show
that its pretentions are altogether too
toplofticaL
GEORGIA IN CONGRESS.
it.
The vote to fix a day for the consid
eration ol the Buckner bill for the re
tirement oi the national bank notes
regarded in some respects a test vote.
It wss carried by yeas 128, nays 105,
and the 23d inst. was selected for the
consideration ot the bill. Messrs. Bell,
(look, Felton, Harris, Hartridge and
Smith voted “ay.” Messrs. Blount
Oandler and Stephens did not vote, and
were not paired. Mr. Stephens was
donbtless kept from the house
sickness. Mr. Btil presented pipers
relating to the claim
B. Nuchois. In the senate, on
the ninth instant, the
votae on the Pacific railroad funding
bill were taken. Messrs. Gordon and
Hill voted in every instance against the
judiciary committee’s bill.
The bill for the relief of J. C. Me.
Barney was taken up in the senate on
the following day. It directs the ac
counting officers of the treasury, in the
settlement of the accounts ol Mr. Mc-
Burney, late collector of internal reve
nue for the second district of Georgia,
to credit him with $3,895 07, on account
ol the embezzlement and defalcation
Michael O'Brien of that eum while act
ing ae deputy collector. This bill led
to a long discussion, in the coarse
which the subject of official defalca
tions generally came up. Senator
Mitchell tried to push the
through, hut he was compelled
appeal to Senator Hill
for assistance. The latter introduced
letter of Judge Lochrane, to- show that
Mr. McBnrney had tried to collect the
missing amount as soon as he discover
ed the loss. The bill wss passed by
vote of yeas 29, nays 20. Messrs.
Conkling and Eaton, Howe and Merri
mon voted pgainst it. The vote was
neither sectional nor political. In the
house Mr. Bell obtained unanimous
consent to introduce a bill for the relief
of Alexander B. Nuckolls, of Forsyth
county. Mr. Bell presented aj>. per
latiog to the establishment oi a post
route between Htawsssee and Shooting
Creek, and Mr. Candler the petition ol
the trustees of the Christian church
Atlanta, for compensation for a church
building destroyed by the United
States army.
Ou Thursday of last week Mr. Hart
ridge presented memorials of the coon
cil and citizens of Columbus in iavor
the Texas Pacific railroad. He also
tried to have the senate funding bill
ierred to the committee on the judicia
ry. Mr. Vox objected, and the bill wss
leit on the speaker’s table.
The senate was not in -estion last
Friday. The house took np the private
calendar, but no Georgia cases were
reached.
Mr. Blount succeeded, last Satnr
day, in gettirg np the post office ap
propriation bill, and he made a long
speech explaining its chief feature r
The bill is almoet entirely the product
of Mr. Blount’s seal and industry. The
general debate on the btil was declared
closed at the end of Saturday’s discus
sion.
There were no less than thirty-three
absentees wnen the final vote was
taken, last Monday, on the repeal
the bankrupt act. Mr. Hill was one
those whose absence is unexplained
in the Record. At s later vote
on railroads in the territories the ab-
senteee numbered tnirty nine, includ
ing both of the Georgia senators. Gen.
Gordon, later in the day’s seeti
effectually tried to have the senate
take op the house bill to prevent the
introduction of contagious or infectious
diseases into the United States. In the
house the states were called for bills
and resolutions. The call proceeded
until Mr. Swann, ol Maryland, endea
ored t* present the Blair re eolations
from the Maryland legislature, when
a discussion sprang op that
prevented farther progress in that
rection. Mr. Stephens took a promi
cent part in the subsequent discussion
having lully recovered from hit recent
lllnese. Mr. Felton presented petitions
from Whitfield, Floyd and Bartow
counties, in favor of government
aid to the Texas Poeific road.
SENATOR COXKLISarS OUTBURST.
INDEPENDENCE.
Written for the Wattir Gwurtiiiiio*.
We reproduce in another column the
balance of Senator Oonkling’s remark
able interview, first published
the New York World
Why Mr. Conkling selected this
plan to make known his views on
the various subjects therein discussed
will always remain a mystery. This
much is certain—it is exceedingly on-
dignified in a senator who has so much
information, valuable not only to our
people bat to the rest of mankind, to
let it come to light through the medium
of a newspaper reporter—“whose name
will be made known if it should become
necessary." And the selection of the
leading democratic journal oi his state
in which to promolgato his slander
against southern men, is another mys
tery. We think on answer to these
questions wonld answer all that this
envious gasseousinter views contain.
If what Mr Conkling says is true—
and we do not doubt the truth of part
of it—it w^ld have probably availed
something: if he had made the
statements in his seat. It would then
have been part of the record of the dis
graceful proceedings that were began,
as we learn from this interview, in his
thoughtful brain, and were only per
fected because he becoming satisfied the
fraud would be successful, deserted
hia seat. It wonld certainly have been
more honorable, brave and polite, if
Senator Conkling had presented the
statements abont his brother senators
where they could meet them in debate.
His exports statement abont the diffi.
culty between himself and Senator
Gordon bears the impress of falsehood
on its face. It could only emanate from
a cowardly backbiter who is afraid to
meet a gentleman on equal ground. It
is evidence oi that low, mean cowardice
that sneaks before bravery, yet wonts
to bo considered brave before the
world.
This fnimination wss given to the
public because Mr. Hayes cannot bo
used by the corrupt scoundrels who
controlled public patronage by flaunt
ing the bloody shirt, as they did during
Grant’s administration. Mr. Hayes is
denounced because Stanley Matthews
can get patronage, while Cameron and
Conkling cannot. And the charge is
therefore made that southern senators
control him in preference to Conkling
and his crowd. This is bad
for the republican party. It
has heretofore been held to
gether tbrongh unjust oppression of
the south; it will cease to be a party
when it can no longer rob our people
and invent slanders to fire the
northern heart. It is better
for the country at large that
the president is inspired by men who
want to make this a onion of love in
stead of hate. And if it is true, as
stated by Mr. Conkling—and we very
much doubt it—we rej lice that we have
a president who has firmness enough to
take a stand even in the face of the
corrupt men of hia party, who would
destroy all else to build up their party.
But we suspect that Conkling had the
interview published to keep these men
from having influence with the presi
dent. He procured its publication in a
democratic j inrnal to injure the men
who have met him in ail his attempts
to injure or destroy the rights of their
people. They have thwarted.all bis
attempts, and for this he hates Gordon,
Hill, Lamar, and all the south
ern men, except his friend Bruce
from Mississippi, whom, he says, Cono
ver failed to purchase, because he,
Conkling, had a prior claim to him.
He knew there was some rottenness
in the Loniaianna matter, bat when he
became convinced that the machine
he had invented was to defeat the
choice of the people, he slipped away
and deleted all his indignation for over
a year. He tried to get patronage and
failed; he fonght the president’s ap
pointments, and yet we never heard
a word abont the charges he now
makes until the interview was publish
ed. It proves that the electoral com
mission was conceived in sin and
brought forth! in iniquity. All
this we kuew, but we did not know
who was responsible for it. We have
at lost the confession of the guilt-
from Conkling. Let oil the sin rest
his head. For one thing we ore thank
ful, the plot did not tom ont as be
wished it.
The Southern Watchman pubishes
nearly a column of scattering six-tons
to an article called forth by its first et-
fusions. We have no ambition to en
gage in a controversy with an isJepca-
dent democratic journal. We will not
do so ii we can help h; hat when
are charged with independency, alss,
how can we help it? Why not call us
a “fence rider?" Why not allude to
the “twelve able,” or something rise
light and airy? Why try to pat upon
ns the hybrid name oi “independent
democrat,” and say that wo will dwell
in that camp?” We cannot stand this!
we will not stand iti We do not want
to be classed with a party that has a
life like a mole’s, nothing to be proud
of in the past, nothing to expect in the
future—only to live in the present; that
kicks its way, or tries to, into green
pastures, and is only distinguished lor
its obstinacy and hirdheadednese; that
is only serviceable when it is tanned
and made to work in harness. Don't
call us. an “independent democrat.'’
We tell you now, we will
not stand it. It ‘ is- hard
enough to have to live'in the
state with Pete Lawehe, but when
designing men attempt to put ns in
the same political party, we will ooi
submit to it. We will make it a per
sonal matter.
But, seriously, let the Wa'chman an
awer our question. Will iteffipport
any nominee of the demccfs^^K>arty
of its district ? We see no c*n«^f dis
sension in the ninth district nqjta® 0
nomination has been made, and yet a
Quixotic fight is progressing with great
vigor on the part oi a very few against
the “organized democracy.” This is
all wrong. The organized democracy
saved the country from radical rule
they elected a president in 1876 who
would to-day be at the head of the
government bat for influences that de
feated him outside oi the organized
democracy; they will elect a president
in the next campaign, just as certain as
the day comea.unleta they are defeated
by a Troj on horse in the shape oi dem
ocratic independency.
We care nothing about who goes to
congress from the ninth; we have no
personal war to nuke on Mr. Speer or
any one else; bat the beet interests ol
the state demand that the representa
tive from the ninth ehonld bejunder ob
ligation to the party, and not t£s_lew
men whose success can only be meas
ured by the amount of damage they do
to the democratic party. ^
I eez I, ’gentlemen, you winter keep your ’ you
eyeballs on Jack. He’s a rattier, Jock queried the
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inquiring after, ladies?" 1 “That is to say”—with malicious de-
sahoolmaster with greatap-1 liberation—“the '
for ahead, chasing
yellow butterfly which
always about to alight
ladies hers were.'
Vanderlyn looked at his son and
By J. C. HARRIS.
same imaginary flower. The mi'd eyed] “I said it was Vlandermin,” said Miss -um was grossly misrepresenting them
lAll right, reserved by the ConniluUja Pnblhtr
log Campon J-.]
THE BOY AND TBE MAN.
TUB EUROPEAN OUTLOOK.
AN ART GALLERY FOR TEE STATE
SUAD IN GEORGIA RIVERS.
Oar readers have doubtless noticed
in our “ Neighborhood Notes ” for the
past tew day. that genuine white shad
are being caught this season in the
ucmngee, Etowah and Ojetamula
riven. At K use, especially, they are
being taken in quantity, one gentleman
alone taking one hundred and fifty
pounds at one haul from his traps.
We are advised that these shod are
delicious in flavor and fibre
being without any doubt
the genuine white shod. Far some
years past the fishermen have been
taking what is known as “hickory
shad,” and which are without d< ubt
the boniest and most aggravating fish
in the world. Tbeir bones ore set in a
tangle, and there is no pleasure in eat
ing theta.
The presence of the genuine white
shad is a blessing to the people of north
Georgia. Instead of having to pay
twenty-five cents a pound, as formerly,
they ere now hawked abont the stream | Mw.'s library.
It is with pleasure that we note that
the friends of the Young Men’s library
have sent written and heavily signed
petitions to ex-Gov. Brown, Senator
Hill, Gen. Toombs, Hon. A. H. Ste
phens, Gov. Colquitt, Gen. Gordon, ex-
Gov. Smith, and ex Gov. H. V. John
son, asking that they furnish to the li
brary association, for hanging in their
rooms, fall-six i portraits of themselves.
This movement bids fair to grow into
a very important result. We have little
doubt that the request ol the young
men will meet with a very general
compliance, ana that many of the por
traits will be secured. We shall thus
have formed the nusleua ot an art gal
lery that may very rapidly sesame
huge proportions. The library already
has some very fine end handsome pic
tures, among others the portraits of ex-
Gov. Howell Cobb and the late Chief
Justice Lumpkin. Arrangements will
he mode to secure the picture of the
late Grn. Cobb, Ii we con succeed in
adding the portraits of a half dexon of
oar distinguished fellow citterns, we
shall have a very considerable nucleus
around which to build. The time will
finally come when the faces that Geor
gia has loved best and honored most
will be found in the library rooms, and
when it will be an esteemed honor to
be requested to furnish on addition to
the gallery.
There can certainly be found no fitter
body than the Young Men’s library
association oi Atlanta to gather together
these pictures and establish for the
state, what the state has so long need
ed. It is sitoated at the permanent
capital; it is well and lastingly estab
lished ; it has bnilt np a fine library,
and has a growing surplus of funds.
Everything points to it as the proper
receptacle and guardian of these art-
treasures, and we trust that it Will be
successful in its efforts to secure them.
The eminent men who have been peti
tioned upon the subject cannot do a
more graceful thing on their own ac
count, or one that will redound more
to the good and glory of the state, than
to furnish, as requested, their portrait,
for Longing in the proposed Young
Wo hope they will fa-
The suspense continues. It may not
be as full of anxiety and danger jtb
the beginning ol the past weejjbnt
solution of the heavy questions in
volved is fully as uncertain as ever.
The truth is, the week was a duty one,
although several important occurren
ces were recorded. Parliament was
adjourned for the Easter holidays—the
Commons until May 6, and the Lords
until May 13. This act may have no
significance; it certainly does not in-
dcate a sharp apprehension of war.
And yet the English government
ordered during the past week a cons:
arable body of native troops from In
dia to Malta. This is, oi coarse, a pre
paration for war—precautionary doubt
less, but still a positive and plain inti
mation that England ia able and read y
to draw a large army from her Indian
dependencies for active operations
against Russia, the traditional enemy of
the followers of the Prophet. The
other most important occurrenceKof the
week was the change in therAiltau*a
chief minister. The displaced Ahmed
Vefik Effendi is a staunch friend of
England. No alliance with Russia as
against England was possible while he
remained in office. His successor fa
vors neutrality for the present. The
event may not show that Russian in
fluence has became paramount in Con
stantinople; it does show, however,
that Mr. Layard baa been at least par
tially checkmated in some oi his diplo •
matic moves.
The rumors o’ peace that were cure
rent last week were based
upon the efforts of Prince
Bismarck to prepare the way
for the assembling of a preliminary
conference of embassadors at Berlin,
to agree upon the work of a congress
of the powers. He endeavored, with
what success the cable has not in
formed os, to induce Russia to remove
her army and England her fleet from
the neighborhood of Constantinople.
The schoolmaster was bent upon
taking his usual morning exercise, and
tbe two—the man who was still a boy
and the boy who was longing to be
come a man—passed np the street to
gether. Once tha bay turned and
smiled at Miss Jane, as she stood
watching them from the porch—a
smile so fresh and bright that it stirred
alt the motherly instincts in the heart
that throbbed so warmly and kindly
beneath the weather-beaten bosom oi
the sharp-tongued old lady who made
cynicism the shield of her sensitive
ness.
Jack never forgot his morning’s walk
with the schoolmaster, and William
Wornutn frequently recurred to it af
terwards. It was in some sort the open
ing oi a new life to both. To the boy
it waa the beginning of a new, strange
and varied experience; while to the
man it afforded a rare opportunity oi
studying the perpiexing problem pre
sented in the wayward frankness and
freshness of a boy’s nature. The
streets of Rockville begun ia the pub
lic square which surrounded the court
house, but they did not end there.
They led out of the little village and
soon became public highways or foot
paths, sometimes running through lcug
green lanes, npon whose fragrant verge
the Cherokee roses blossomed, and
then apparently lost themselves in the
coo', green depths of the great woods.
Taking one of theee, the boy. and the
schoolmaster wandered out of the vil
lage into the open fields beyond. The
schoolmaster wss a dose observer and
enjoyed nature in all her variable
moodB with the keenest appreciation,
but he discovered that the boy’s ob
eervaiion waa closer and his apprecia
tion fat keener. He fonnd a bunch of
bloeBoming sheep-sorrel, end formed
pretty little bouquet of the delicate
yellow flowers,and endeavored toshow
ns companion a rabbit in her form;
bat this rfas an impossible task, the
schoolmaster refusing to believe that
such a sight was within the range of
his vision, until Jack, with a rush and
a hurrah, compelled the frightened ani-
mal to leave her cover, which waa with'
in a few yards of their feet.
It was Saturday, and the schoolmas
ter was in no harry to leave the fields
and the woods, and so he wandered on
with the boy, answering his eager ques
tions and enjoying his enthusiastic
comments.
“Dan’s been a gittin’ after me like
brinjer,” said the boy, after awh le
“He says I’m a growin’ up like a Arab,
but he’s afeard to send me to school
’cause the boys might sorter come
over me.”
Might do wbat ?” asked the school
master, slightly amazed.
“Might sorter come it over
That'e what Dan says. Might sorter
git the inturn on me, you know. An'
Dan he tole me to come an’ see how
I'd like you ter a teacher.”
“And what did you say? ” asked tbe
school teacher, amused at the frankness
of the boy.
“Oh, I didn't say much. I jos told
Dan it wss like cripplin’a feller to shet
'im np in a little room all day. I’d git
sick before we got to a-b. ab.”
“And then Dan—this Dan of yours
what did be say to this ? ”
“Well, Dan, he said some roosters
was eech high-flyers they had to be
clipped sometimes. Dan goes on lots.
He said that when a chicken’s wings
got too big it was always found in some-
hrulv pIaa'h pnllnrrl natph M TJtu nnm.
giant watched the gyrations of the boy I J*ne, “an* I said he wuxzent no great
and insect with great interest as he I shake*, er be wouldn't a come a creep-
went on to tell the schoolmaster of the 1 in’ op on folks in a night, like this/
wonderinl peculiarities of Jack. I “That’s a fact,” exclaimed the school-
4 He is your onlv son, I cake it,” re-1 master, glancing around upon the ladies
marked the schoolmaster, with an air I with an air of triumph. “That's a fact,
of interest that seemed greatly to please I by George 1 The fellow did creep npon
Mr. Yanderlvn, for he became more en-1 us in a manner, didn't he? Why, I had
thnBiastic than ever. 1 forgotten that. The impudent wretch
“Lor* bless von, yes! He's the on -1 didn't even deign to wnte us a letter
liest, an' he's enough. Nobody don't I and tell os when he was coming, and
wint but oue boy like Jick. Not but I what he was going to do. I feel it my
what he's a good un i but the man duty to investigate this matter.” It
what keeps up wi h Jack is gotter git I was one of the peculiarities of William
* ’ in til A mnrnin'. F.7 I Wnrnnm*u pft sreninr that hia urminint-
up mighty quick iu the mornin*. Ex I Worn urn’s character that his acquaint
ing ez me an’ Jack wuz a trampin'an’ I ances would have been shocked at the
a troliopin' 'roun*, I could sorter hold I thought that he ever indulged in a
my own, but when 1 concluded for to I j *ke, while bis intimate friends never
settle down and do like the balance uv I knew when be was m a serious mood.
the white people, Iknow’dsump’n had I Perhaps Nora, the young girl, under*
~ won't have no I stood him best of all, and even her
ter be done. But yon won' „
trouble with Jack. It 'ud amaze you I keen discrimination was sometimes ut~
ter see how that boy kin spell. Why, terly at a loss to distinguish between
he sets down uv nights an’ translates | the schoolmaster's quaint and fantastic
all the pictures in the books right [humor and his no less eccentric serious-
straight 'long. He's a caution.” ness; and she was often puzzled at the
“1 observe he doesn’t call you ‘fath- I queer shape and direction of hia
said the schoolmaster. (thought. She was not puzz'ed now,
“Well, I reckon not,” replied the I however, nor, for that matter, was Miss
mild-eyed giant in a triumphant tone. I J*ne, who had come to regard with bus-
‘T reckon not. Me an’ Jack's had too picion everything the schoolmaster
much fun together fer him to come a I said. She understood perfectly well
daddyin' me. It's ez much ez I kin do I that he a as ridiculing her, bat she re*
He seeks a congress, not to consider* 'tricitie^, was an exceedingly sensitive
primarily the tieaty of San S^efano,
but to compare that instrument with
the treaty made in Paris in 1856 and
with the London agreement of 1871,
with a view to a modification all three
to meet the present condition of affairs.
Our dispatches most be consulted to
ascertain how he is progressing. There
seems to be a larking idea that peace
will be maintained; bat this seems to
be based more on England’s inability
to fight Russia on land, and Russia’s
inability to fight England at sea, than
upon any known diplomatic facta. The
aee^saw is busily at work, however,
and tbe interested reader should
watch the outgivings of its mouthpiece,
the cable.
UNCLE REMUS FINDS AN OLD AC
QUAINTANCE,
Unde Bern os came into the office
yectextUj fairly boiling over with enthualuin.
“Who you apeck I seed dla moroinT’
“Some old Putnam county friend 7**
•*Y«.u made de bulla*-eTe dat crack—ef you
didn't yook*n match me up fer oueerdcae ’ere
14odoc*. I aeed Man Lovlck Thomaa dm cz
abo’a youcr aettin* dar.”
“Do you mean the chief of police T*
“Dat w*at make I to glad. Kfgbt afore Im’, I
got on de track er de nigger w'at a'-ok nyyaller
polllt, an* I aay ter mjae’f. I’ll have you tuck
up, pleggooe you. ef hit’s thelas* ak er tribala-
tlon; an* I come down ter de station house
de fua man I sec a stannin* d«r wid de nunifo*m
on wu Man Lorick. I know’d ’im de m inn it I
sot eyes on Mm, dough hit’s pcsbln* twenty
year sente I s;ed ’im. You ought
er know Man Lorick.” continuea Uncle Re-
mas In an argnmentatire tone “W’en he wuz
clerkin’ for Man Miles Lynch In Eatontoa I
meter see yon man In’ ’roun’, a little bit ar
hoagry-lookin’ chap. Man Lorick an’ Man
George Griffl j wuz two sights. Ef dar wuz
enny fan ter be had an’ dey didn't bare it, hit
wuz C8X3 dey wuz tired out w!4 fan. You know
dat nigger Ike Kickersm—he call bl>s f Ike
Varner now-de nigger w’at dey sed could nuke
po’tryr
“Oh. yea—I know Ike.”
“Well, lie he kep’ a eattn’-place right under
Man Lonck's ato*, an’ de deriimsnt dat Man
Lorick an’ Man George got dat nigger inter
didn’t hare no beginnln* an* no eend. One day
Man Lorick sgged Ike np to de pin? er flghtln* a
juel wid Man George wid muakiu. D.y loaded
up de guna an’ went out in de back-
yard, an* Man Lorick glr* de wud. At de
’porter de gun Man George dropped, an* Wi
Man Lorick unbuttoned his coat deie wax
gnat big red patch on his shirt looked like
“Whatdid Ike dor*
“He tuck ter da swamp, an* it wux mighty
nigh a moot* be.’o’ de w’lte fairs could coax *im
out. Man Lorick*a a nudder lookin’
man now. an’ I speck he’s mighty K’ns-kasb’
ways 1 wouldn’t be de man fer to go foolin’
’long wid ’im, bul eighteen yean ago he wuz
de quickest Jer a j Jke In ail dlalsn*. He
dat.”
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deceitful I “What did you say his name was, I laughed, as much as to ear, “You hear
seemed Jane? Hit’s some furrin name—Lin* that, Jack,” while the ladies protested
upon derman or Landerhauii
with great vehemence that Mr. Worn-
HITCHED AGAIN.
T appeal to Miss Nora'” said fhe
schoolmaster.
“I must say,” responded the girl
with a little rippling laugh, “that Mr.
Vanderlyn's nrme was mentioned, and
we were wondering where he came
from and all about him and his littte
boy. I am sure there was no harm in
that.”
’None, lady—none whatsoever,
said Vanderlyn in a voire so gentle
that it startled those who heard it
Mrs. Bigley went so far as to sny it
sounded like a flute, and Miss Kate
Underwood afterwards told B cky
Griggs, her oldest pupil, that ehe felt
l.i nVn loilt- ” Ha <hihf.innpfj_
The Reinforcement* from tbe Indian
Army—Tbe Situation la Constanti
nople. Etc.
for ter keep the boy straight now. I sented it only by a sniff of disdain,
much less ef he wuz ter be sneakin’ I “What did you say the <
like crying “No, lady,” he continued,
as gently as before, “me and Jack
ougliter feel tharkf 1 that such as you
an' these ladies is kind enough to think
of us at alL”
Nothing waa said by any of the ladies
in response to this, even the school-
matter holding hia humor in abeyance.
Miss Jane, looking out of the window,
appeared to be watching the riotous
:ext a nnlt Sn 1 mfina Wnlthnli’q
ORDERED TO THEIR REGIMENTS.
London, April 20.—A special from
Vienna to the Daily News reports that
all the convalescents of Russia have
been ordered to join their regiments in
Turkey as quicklv as poemble. The
Standard states that the duke of Edms
burg will remain in the Mediterranean
for the present. A dispatch to the
Daily News, dated Vienna, Friday
night, says it is semi-officially stated
here that Germany's endeavors to me
diate lias so far led to no result.
. _ creetur wuz
roun' callin' me his 4 pa' and deny in' I name?' pursued Mrs. Pruitt,
all er his doins. Mean'Jack's chums,” J “His name is Vanderlyn, madam—
continued this queer disciplinarian, I and it seems to be in this instance the
“an* we don't have no secrets from one l synonym for villain. Do you really
another. Ef Jack goes wrong he comes suppose, ladies” — in % confidential
an’ tells me, and ef I goes wrong I ups I tone—“chat he has settled in Rockville
an' tells Jack. But he's mighty wild, I without informing anybody?'*
ihat boy, an' I bin thinkin' the best I “Goodness me, William Wornum!”
thing l could do 'ud be to shet 'im up I exclaimed Miss Jane. What else she
like an’ tie’im down to bizness. Would I may have said will never be known, for
you mind takin' him in hand, squire ?” I before she could finish her lecture,Mrs.
No, the schoolmaster wouldn't mind. I Bagley chimed in with her shrill treble:
a the contrary, he was considerably | “I’ll tell you what I know, Mr. Wor
st rack with tue peculiarities which dis- 1 nnm, though mebbe hit aint much.
caperings of a colt in Judge Walthall's
barley patch. Mrs. Pruitt took a ball
of yarn and a half-finished stocking
from her pocket and began to knit in
dustriously. Mrs. Bigley studied her
paper of snuff intently, and Mrs. Duaen-
berry picked imaginary ravelinga from
the comer of her shawl, while Kate
U uderwood kept her eyes fixed stead
fas*lv on the floor.
‘•You may saypursued Vanderlyn,
smiling slightly, “that me an’J*ck come
through the country. We’ve traueed
n. inn* jinnoiHarMtla uin? XVO .Tflfk ?”
aroun'conaider'ble, aint we, Jack?’
“Goodness! yes. But didn't we have
fun, though ?'
“Oceans uv it— ieat oceans uv it.
You see, I wuz a huntin’ fer a par y,
un' I've bin a huntin' 'im mightv nigh
eight years. I owe 'im a deb*,” he con
tinned in an explanatory way, “an* I
Jack was to become one of the pupils I *who's this new man?' ‘Which new
of William Wornum’s school. I man?' sez he. ‘Why thia new man
By this time the two had nearly | that's set up a shop thar nigh the old
reached a point opposite Miss Jane Per- McHenry house,' sez I. ‘Lord bl-rs
ryman's little cottage, when they came | you, ma'm.’ sez ne, ‘I don't know
upon Jack; who exclaimed in a sup- I ‘Did he have much baggidge?* sez I
pressed voice: ^‘Baggidge whar ?’ eez he. ‘Baggidge in
“Look yonder, Dan! ^the stage,’ sea L ‘Ef my name’s John
Dan raised his eyes in the direction I Bell, Mrs. Bagley,' sez he, ‘them cattle
indicated by Jack, and beheld a vision | q* mine aint hauled no baggidge fer no
of such exquisite loveliness that he in* I new man, an* ef he come in my stage,
voluntarily paused and took off hia hat. I ma'm,' sez he, ‘he rid m tbe boot, an*
A young girl, her golden hair falling in ef he rid in the boot I wouldn't like fer
great wavy, masses below her waist, to w'ar hia broozes.’ Them’s John
was standing in Mirs Perryman’s I Bell's own words, an* ef he-hadn't tole
porch. One little hand reated upon I 'em to me oaten his own month, I’d a
the railing, while the other hang care* I ecasely believed 'em. Now,” continued
lesslv by her side. Her features were | Mrs. Bagley, lowering her voice to the
as perfect and as clear cot as that of I inflection of mystery, “how you reckon
some rare old cameo, and as serene as I that man got into town an’ fetched his
those of the Madonna. The sight oi I baggidge ?’*
that face was familiar enough to I “I think Miss Jane’s theory is the
William Wornum, bat of late he never I most plausible,” said the schoolmaster,
looked upon it without a thrilL " ' * ‘
wanter pay 'im. But I f=een this trapp
ing bizneBS didn't help Jack much, an'
I sez to my ee'f, sez 1, look a here, ole
man, while youer huntin' fer your par
ty, whatter you doin' fer that boy ? eez
1, you’ve gotter sen’ that boy to school,
‘ ef you sen' 'im to school you'vegot-
_ _ 8ettiedown. An'”—drawing a long
breath—“I've sealed. Ez fer bizness,
ain’t pinin' arter customers. I ain’t
bleedz i to have 'era. I’ve laid away
_ little money fer me an* Jack, an* ef
>eople don't want thrr guas mended
schoolmaster said
planation, “Miss Jane's sister. She is I Mrs. Padgett
blind.” | you Mr. Wornum?
Vanderlyn started as though he had I The Schoolmaster—Worse than that,
been shot. % „ I madam. I have fraternized with him.
“Great God! schoolmaster. Blind ?” | Mrs. Padgett- O j, you don't say!
Mrs. Prrntt—What did the poor ere
lit won't hurt my feeliujfs.'
What you think ?” said Jack, laugh
ing. “S iwetimed when we'd be gem’
Tong he’d wanter tot*- me.”
“AV yon think he’d let ms?’* ex
claimed Vanderlyn, in an aggrieved
voice.
“Why, gooduess me,” said Jack,
when a fellow gits tired he oughter set
down an' rest”
Didn't I tell you, ’squire,” said Van*
derlyn, turning to tbe schoolmaster
and speaking in a confidential tone —
“didn't I tell you he wuz a regular
bu«ter?”
The schoolmaster admitted that he
did, and took gre»t pleasure, as he said,
2m —Sn flm Aiiinlnn filet Tools
body else’s collard patch.” The earn.-
fatness of the boy struck the school
master, and he laughed so heartily that
tbe boy presently joined in, and such a
chorus as they set to echoing amonj;
tbe resonant avenues of the forest hac
not been heard there for many and
many a day. A ground-squirrel, lurk
ing near, like a shadow, shot across the
opening and dived headlong into his,
bole, and a sage crow, that usd been
swinging in the topmost bough of a tall
pine, watching the twain suspiciously,
darted awkwardly into the air with
loud cries, satisfied, no donbt, that i
brace of lunatics were making them
selves merry in the wood: for, in the
experience of crows, it muBt be remem
bered, the wise man carries a gun and
seldom smiles. How belt, it may well be
supposed that if there had been even the
slightest suggestion of powder in the
convenationbetween the man and the
boy, it would never have been over
heard by the cantions crow.
“ Well, this Dan of yonrais a philoso
pher, if you report him correctly,” said
the schoolmaster. “I mean”—remem
bering that he was talking to an igno
rant boy—“I mean that Dhi is pretty
well acquainted with people.”
“An'I tole Dan,” continued the boy,
as though nothing had occurred to iu
tennpt the conversation, “that I didn't
want to set up in one o' them clcse
roc ms, an' he ast me how I was
goin’ to leatn t > cipher an* talk big,
an' 1 to:e 'im I'd ketch you out some
day an' you £buld tell me all you know,
The man was trembling all over.
* Yes, sir, blind—totally blind,” the I turlook like?
schoolmaster replied, re yarding the The Schoolmaster—He is a very
gunmaker’s excitement with surprise. I rough-looking customer. Like father,
“Did anybody put her eyes out with a I like son. Miss Jane saw the son—-a
piece of hot iron /” asked Vanderlyn in ragged, dirty little vagrant, who seems
a savage, half-suppressed whisper, his | «o have a habit of roosting in china*
eyes blazing like two coals. The school-1 berry trees,
master had never seen such a transfor- | Mrs. Pruitt -Is it possible ?
mation, and he was inclined to believe I Mies Jane—Don’t you believe 'lm^
for a moment that the man had sad-1 Sue. William Wornum, you’re the
denly become insane. “Did anybody outbeatin'est man I ever see. That
put her eyes out with a piece of hot | child is tz neat on' peart a lookin boy
iron ?' Vanderlyn repeated. “ 'Cause I ez you'd want to see—a mighty sight
ef they did I kin spot the man that better lookin' than them ragamuffi
done it.” | what graddyate in that den er devi
“No,” said the schoolmaster, “she J ment what you call your 'cadomy. 1 V
has never bean otherwise than blind. I mighty easy to talk abont people you
Nor is she to be pitied. So far as she is | don't know. You don't have to ketch
concerned, her blindness is not even an | a frog on the jump to cripple it.
affliction. I Tbe Schoolmtster (stroking bis serf'
It was some tims, however, before I ous face thoughtfully) —I beg your par-
Vanderlyn recovered from his excite- | don, Mis' Jane. My recollection a
ment—an excitement that puzzled | b hat when you called me morni* g
William Wornum greatly, and that 1 you distinctly stated that a dirty little
continued to puzzle him for years af I vagabond was perched in your china-
terwards, until, npon a memorable oc I berry tree.
SSiSSiiS I ^* 88 ** ane (laughing in-spite of her-
8811 -Well, my Old tem cathas to look
I twice before he ken tell whether he’s a
everything wuMnade clear. It may be ke , chin . a mole er a moI13e .
added here that the schoolmaster alter-1 M Dnnanberrv with a rush
wards noted—his attention h.ving been .-TTgJih
called to the fact by Tiny Padgett, the ^ W^am-h“wdy sll lIseenhT ‘
shaded—that whenever Mils™ ora” e/t jla ‘S’s o^wbopVr
out into the.village as she often d.d, I
threading the streete m jmiIj and I Miss Underwood—Djos he he look
with S3 much facility as though her lik Mre . Dnsenberry,?
eyesight were ol the best-either Dan M Duseiberry-Why, blasCyour
h “ rt . child, no! Yon don’t see* „ 0
The schoo.msster had goodi reason to hsndromerman in these parts. H;tir
be thankful that such wra the cose, for blsckeTscrow, shinUi’belrd mi’ eyes
« a baby’.: Bill O’Brien war
UWAtiSEToiIE; walki ?’’'““ii.“ d ?.»“■ 1 1
thorn bein’ shet up. 1
William Wornum, with all hiseccen
man, and he locked at the child in
amazement It came to him in tbe
shape of a rebuke, and he received it
as each. He had been toiling with
bo. ks and loitering through the temple
of knowledge for years, and yet hero a
child was saving—and saying truly—
(hut he could tell all he knew in the
course of a few hours' talk- In spite of
himself the thought oppressed him.
‘Jack,” said the schoolmaster, soms*
what sadly, “you know as much as I
do.”
“I don’t know nothin',” answered
the boy.
“Wfiereas, I,'* responded William
Wornum, “ do know nothing.”
“Well, what must I tell Dan ?” asked
the boy.
“Say to D.n that learning is a hum
bug.”
“But it aint, you know; and Dan *ud
give me sech another rakm* over the
coals as a hoy never go before.”
“Have you a mother?” asked the
schoolmaster after awhile.
“Nobody but Dan,” the boy replied
simplv.
William Wornum looked at the chi Id
and fell to musing. He thought it was
a pity that such a bright-eyed, curly-
haired,quick-witted little boy shouldn't
haye a mother—not so much for the
sake of the boy as for the sake of 1 he
mother. It would be a great source of
pride and gratification, the
schoolmaster thought, to Borne
good woman to pass her
hands gently over the wayward
carls ot this child and claim him as her
own—her very own. For, in all his
experience with children he had never
met with one quite so unaffectedly
bright and precocious as this bashful,
ignorant boy.
“Yon may tell this Dan of yours,”
said William Wornum present'y, “that
I will be glad to teach you, not the lit*
tie that I know, bat the great deal to
be found in books, and you may tell
him that my school-room is not each a
tightly-sealed apartment ef er all.”
“O, that wasn’t Dan,” the boy has
tened to say. “That was me. I tole
Dan I didn’t want to be shet np.”
“Well,” said tbe schoolmaster, rising
from sn aromatic conch of brown pi ie-
tags, “we will have to consult with Dan
himself.”
Whereupon, the man and the boy
wandered back to the village, tbe one
serious and thoughtful, and the other
gay and communicative. Suddenly,
with a cry of “Yonder's Dan now!” the
boy rushed eff up the road to meet a
tall person, who, disdaining the servi*
ces of a coat on snch a morning, was
walking abroad in the good old country
fashion that prevailed in those days,
and still prevails in the provincial re
gions. The schoolmaster had time to
observe that Dan was a very tall, well-
made man, a little fluffy about the face,
a feature that seemed to add somehow
to the appearance of awkward embar*
rassment characteristic in that day of
K ple of hia class. He wore a full
rd, and his mild bine eyes contra
dicted the idea of pugnacity suggested
by his large limbe and massive frame.
“This is Mr. Vanderlyn, I presume?”
said the schoo’master, as Jack came np
leading the giant by tne hand.
“Yes, tqoire. Howdy!”
“I have just been walking’with
Jack,” remarked the schoolmaster,
“and a famous morning we have made
of it.”
“Jack's bin tollin’me. He's a buster,
in't he, squire?” lowering his voice to
confidential tone, and chuckling _
little. “I tell lolks ex soon’s I see am,
vi vnn«?Ar v» -I Mrs. Pruitt (sticking to her original
^ l00k y°f de /* , proposition) -Poor creetur!
William Wornum looked and saw I Mrs. Dunenberry (mistaking the di
Nora Perryman crossing ths public I rection of Mre. Pruitt's sympathy)-
square, dangling a scarlet scarf upon I You’re right, Ann, fer ef ever enny-
hnr afm while* T.om Griffin’s hlar»b I 1 lT...11:l __ _
her arm, while Lem Griffin's black I body looked like a po.rgireetur it wuz
cow, a vicious beast aith a young calf, | Bill O’Brien when he wuz walk.ng
was charging down npon her. The |’long side er that han’’
T ° what further extent th.s inter®, t
in <? eulogy would have been carried it
as though he would rush to theVe8 c ue, i8i ”f ble t- Bay for w at that
and then he turned his face away with I *^,o. .u** J n nn nn iu
The ha^nelerlff^e^ ts? ■ W R .h^ummous!
Thenhe he^Tsh^ong?hes e S^- * e «*oolraaster found Vauderivn and
.„.1 I h' 8 eon upon the porch. The former
had put on his coat and brushed him-
log near, exclaimed, with unwonted nIf „ p generally, , n J waa altogether,
“Sue, gentlemen! that’s whst 11 i 8 W . fll £ n Wor ' num thou * ht ’ «“ ite
call grit and muscle 1”
fine looking man.
WEen the schoolmaster took courage I
to look he saw the cow stretched upSi ,he l^!T-V C Way> *"
on her neck while Nora stood nea? the I .loSe^’^^in^Jack;” 00 '^'"-
ffle »tM wmA the
ne^th^^ff^r^a^ tha/vanderfyn was | “ ^Vanderiyn had called
some distance from the scene when the
cow began her charge, but he ran like I , “Well, what in the name of goodni
_ j 1 t—**.-— a- .-— D : n I the man wants wi' me I don't knov
a deer and was just in time to jump in .
Iront oi the bliid girl and seize the an- taking a pinch oi snuff
imal by the horns. The struggle was s * nd smoothing out her apron prepara-
short one. He gave the cow’s neck s to f?„ to * i J in « »u<lience to Vanderlyn.
sharp twist, and she went over as I ‘Have im in here, Jane,” said Mrs.
though she had been shot, and Bagley eagerly,
lay there as qnietly and as “Gracious, yes 1 Oh, by all meam
peacefully as a lamb. When the chimed in Mrs. Pruitt. “We want
young lady was fairly out of the way, see the creetur’s like. Ax *im in,
VsnJerlyn astonished the spectators, | ^ r * Wornum.”
who had gathered at a respectful dis- This proposition fitted the queer bu
tin. e, by turning tbe cow loose and | mor the schoolmaster so tnorougu-
taking the calf—an awkward, snaky I that he did not wait for Mi is Jane
thing—under hia - arm and marching j decide the matter. He went back
out of town, while the mother, lately Vanderlyn and invited him into the
so ferocious, followed in a trot. sitting room.
In relating this incident, I have an- 1 “You will meet some ladiee there,”
RUSSIA 8 INTIMATION.
Berlin, April 20.—A correspondent
of the Tune* says that Russia d ies tot
hesitate to intimate privately that she
will not object to congress discussing
all of the more important clauses oi
the treaty, but declines to make its
validity dependent on the consent ol
the powers. A preliminary coufereuce
to settle whether this offer wiil b<* sat
isfactory is still poreible, but doubtful.
A TRUCE IN THESSALY.
London, April 20.—A special from
Portsmouth states that the ironclad In
vincible has sailed for the Dardanelles.
A telegram from Athens says England
has arranged a truce in Thessaly. The
Turks have retired to ihe fortresses
and the insurgents to Greece.
Tbe Times’ Bucharest dispatch psvs
Russian officials at Bucharest are
paring 12,000 transport carls to provide
* a I Dln.W nn. linn nf
in coinciding in the opinion that Jack
toat a buster.
“I come over, Miss Perryman,” said
Vanderlyn, “fer to fee ef you wouldn’t
take Jack an’ board 'im. He wouldn't
be no more tronb'e than ef he wazzer t
in the heu e, an* m »re'n that hit’s
about time fer srme lady to take 'im in
han’ an' sorter civil a* 'im. Jack said
this morn' that it looked mighty like
home over here. Didn't you, Jack?”
“I said ” replied J*ck, blushing and
looking embarrassed fer the first time,
“ihat when l dreamed of mother Bhe
allers looked at mo like. Miss Jane did
when I clomb down outer the tree ”
Miss Jane colored a lit tie,took a pinch
of snuff, aud exclaimed, somewhat
siia >pisbly.
“Why,of course I'll take the child.
Why shouldn't 1 ? He'll be no trouble
to me, an* ef he gits too obstropalous,
1*11 use my shoe on ’im ”
“Lor*, Miss Perryman!” said Van-
derlyn, “you'll admire to see how that
boy’ll mine you. Whatever you tell
'im'to do, ef it kin be done he’ll do it.
He’s got mischief into 'Im, but he ain't
got no meanness.”
“I’m takin' him on my own judg.
ment,” replied Miss Jane, with Borne
asperity.
[to nb continued J
UHMC MU&DBB. OF 1*0 VM.
Abe Lain
Developments In Rrfiatd
to ihei Mfi.
Montgomery Advert ia.
The denizens of Tuskegye have been
very much excited over what seemed
to be a very grave mystery and
turned out a “moat foul and ncnatoral
murder.” The unfortinats party
one Mr. Love, a stranger hailing from
Oalifornia, who has been visiting there.
Some time since this gmtleman made
hia appearance there, representing that
he had lately amassed considerable
money ont west, and was inclined to
“take hiB time and eDjoy it,” before
pushing business affaire further. Act-
againsi the Block sea line of communi.
cation being closed by the British fleet.
a hitch in negotiations.
L)KI).n, April 20.—The Times Vi*
enna corresponde. t is evidently una
ware of the hitch in negotiations for tbe
congr. sa, but considers the change of
mfnistry in Turkey*a new element of
danger, ae Ahmed Vefyk Etfendi’s
presence in the caV inet was a guarantee
that nothing wculd be attempted
against E'g'and. His sudden removal,
says the cor reaponden*, looks as though
Russia had endeavored to steel amaicli
on England while negotiations for set
tlement were pending. The week elopes
with the prospects of the eastern diffi
culty no brighter.
The Daily News Sh Petersburg cor
respondent throws the responsibility of
the failure of German mediation on
England, she having nj-eted the pro*
posal that tbe congress should be sum
moned to revise the treaties of 1856
and 1871, and again insisted on her
original condition. However this may
be, it is certain that new difficulties
have arisen. Negotiaiions, it is said,
continue, and may still lead to satisfac
tory results; but the present delay
shows that the former divergence of
views is again apparent.
San Stefano, April 20.—Nothing ia
known here of the recall of the Grand
Duke Nicholas from the command ol
the army.
MILITARY MOVEMENTS.
St. Petersburg, April 20—An order
was officially published to day to the
effect that the necessary number of
men be called ont from the naval re
serve to form three corps of sailors, for
service»in the fleet, two oi which are to
be stationed at Cronstadtand the third
at Nicolaeff Several of to-day's papers
state that the preliminary conference
should be accepted ss a means of as*
certaining the real intentions of Eng
land. •
A SIMULTANEOUS ACT.
Paris, April 20. —The papers here
publish a telegram from Berlin, dated
to day. stating that England and Rus
sia have agreed to the principle of a
simultaneous withdrawal of tbe British
fleet and the Russian troops from the
neighborhood of Constantinople, but
the points to which they will withdraw
have not b^en decided upon.
Tiflis, April 20.—General Melikoff
will start for Su Petersburg to-morrow.
The Caucasian ar Ay corps will be dis
banded.
THE SITUATION AROUND OONSTANTsNC PLE
Londjn, April 20.—A Pera corres
pondent to tne Times, writing on the
military situation at the Turkish Capi
tol, saye: Although many things
warrant ’the euppoeition that the
Turks wouliLfight to keep the Russians
ont of Constantinople, they hake not
distinctly made up their minds to do
so, but admitting a theoretical inten
tion on the part of the Ta*ks to resist
a Russian occupation, it does not ap
pear that 90,000 Ottoman soldiers
around the capitol are an insuperable
barrier to a surprise. Tae R isaians
know very well that if they wait to
make a coup de train until war is de
clared the chances against them will
lie much heavier than if they make it
beforehand. They have
ticipated the regular course of this 1116 schoolmaster by way of warn-
chronicle by several weeks, bat it was i ng- l, some of Mias Perryman's par-
suggested by the excitement manifest- I * cular friends. '
*y fbe gun-maker when he discov- I “All right- 'squire - -I ain't particular
blind— I fond o' the ta’r sek, but I'm lookin’ ar*
ered that Nora Perryman waa awaaaa w ,
an excitement, as I have said, that waa ter biznt
not explained to the satisfaction of the
schoolmaster until years afterwards.
i now. Shove ahead.”
FACING THE LADli
And tbe schoolmaster did “shove
ahead,” leading Vanderlyn and J*ck
into the august presence of the prin
cipal gossips of the village, and intro
ducing him in the most formal manner.
Miss. Kate Underwood, of Vermont,
spinster, aged about twenty-six, was
As the schoolmaster opened the | inclined to be facetious, but when she
gate to enter Miss Jane Perryman’s I happened to glance at Vanderlyn and
yard, the lovely vision on the porch | found his miid eyes resting calmly up
turned and smiled upon him. She | on her, apparently taking her meas-
knew his footstep, and as he neared I are, she colored up like a school girl —
the porch she begun to laugh right | this strong minded damsel—ana her
memly—a ringing, infections laugh, in | eyes dropped in visible embarrassmint
which.William Worn am joined hearti-1 -an embarrassment from which she
ex , ac ^7 knowing why. I did not fully recover while the stranger
. _ , e are having lota of fun all by | remained in the rtx m. The fair K&th-
ourselves, are we not ?' said the school-1 erine waa of the opinion that her coil*
“Si? 2 *1 bantering tone. fusion waa not observed by the others,
. Mr. Wornum they are all here,” but in this Bhe was mistaken, for Mrs
said the girl stilt laughing, “the Pruitts, I Pruitt never alluded to her first m et-
Big'ejB and even I ing wiih Vanderlyn without
Mias Underwood. They couldn't stand I marking:
it. They ve come to inquire about the I “An' you oughter seed *im take down
new man. Do come in and help sister I that Kate Underwood. She wuz a
° « a j ^ ..... snickerin' an’ a gigglin' and he jee'
Aud so yon are out looking for res | turned 'roan* an' give her one look '
inforcements ?” It was a singular fact I wux better than a'show. I never wuz
St uFV** 11 * friends | so glad er ennything in i
that none
ever thought of her blindnc
“Oh, no! 1 just ran out here to rest
my ears. They are going on at a terri
ble rate, and for once sister Jane is at
Hne trit’c.nrwl TVv aam. 2. ft
her wit’s-end. Do come in.’
Kora snd the schoolmaster entered
the cezjr little sitting-room together.
“Good morning to jon, ladies,” said
William Wornum.
“4h, here he is now,” remarked Mrs.
Bagley, dipping a stick toothbrush into
a paper of snuff and transferring it to
her month. “ What do he look tike,
Mr. Wornum?"
“Yas,” said Mrs. Pruitt, smiting co.
qtetiishly, in order to show her false
teeth, “we want to know what kind of
a lookin'creetur he is. We axed Jane,
but Jane vows she ain’t seed ’im.”
May f sek the name of the individual
days-
all my horned
goin’ ’roan’ here settin’ np fer
a gal, when she’s forty year old ef she’s
a day.”
Women, aa a rale, are fair judges of
men, and as Vanderlyn sat in the
presence of the company that had as
sembled in Miss Ferryman’s sittings
room, cool, calm and nnembarraased,
smiting and showing his white teeth,
they all thought they had never see > a
finer specimen of manhood. So well
proportioned was the stranger that,
none of them noticed that be wss com
pelled to stoop to enter the door. He
was altogether a remarkable looking
man, with hia big frame, hia fine fea
tures and hia black hair and beard and
blue eyes.
“We were just discussing you, Mr.
Yanderlyn,” said the schoolmaster.
ing upon this idea he had been Borne
time in Tuskegee, making many ac
qnaintances, taking frequent buggy
rides, and otherwise pleasing his tastes
to suit himself, always representing
that he could afford this—that he had
ample means, &a, and at times even
making a display of it. A few da} a
sitce he leit Tuskegee, it is supposed,
to visit surrounding towns, taking the
livery hack and only the driver wi h
him. Thursday evening the hack wss
returned, being driven by a strange
negro, and its return, driven by a
stranger, aroused much excitement.
The bottom, was smeared in many
places and the seam between the Beats
and at the back was still wet and cov
ered with clotted blood. The negro
stated that he bad been hired by the
driver to bring the vehicle from the
neighborhood of Auburn to Tnskegee,
being paid two dollars lor doing so.
The tact that Mr. Love was supposed
to have considerable money with him,
besides handsome diamonds, a gold
watch and chain, and other ornaments,
led to grave apprehensions of fo nl play,
especially in connection with the ap
pearance of the vehicle, and the Itcl
that the driver had bo strangely abane
doned it. Moreover, the hat of Mr.
Love was found in the vehicle in a bat
tered condition. The driver was after
wards Been at Ckehaw, on the accom
modation train coming this way, and
issnpposed to have gotten off between
that place and this city. His name is
Adams. He ia a white man, and has
been living bnt a very short time in
Tuskegee. The negro who returned
with the vehicle is held in “durance
vile.”
A telegram published this morning
gives us the information that Adsms
had been arrested and had confessed
the murder. It is a horrible affair, st:d
the wretch deserves the tall penalty oi
outraged law.
THE FISDIBO OF THE BODT.
The Opelika Observer contains the
following additional particulars:
Abont dark last evening oar city
marshal received the following:
Tuskegee, April 19, 6:36 p. m.-To
City Marshal: Love’s body was thrown
in the river between Auburn amt
Thomaeton, Ga Suspend search.
W. F. Fostxb
Yesterday morning the body ot a
man was fonnd on the top of the upper
bridge fn Oolnmbtu, which connects
that city with'Brownville, Ala. He was
a compactly built man, apparently
between twenty-five and thirty years
of age, and had a tight brown mils'
tache inclined to be red. He had a
ballet hole in his forehead, supposed
to have been fired irtm a Cali’s revol
ver.
STILL LLTEB.
One Dowdell L Adams, a mail con
tractor, carrying the mails fro n Tu-ke>
gee to8‘c:ety Hill, was aries'ed at Tai-
lassee, and confeJH‘Ll >o having mur
dered snd robbed Ur. Live. He states
that he threw the body into a river.
Adanra had abont his person abou' $476
in cash, two gold waiches and two pis
tola.
EVKRYTHIKG AT THX1B OOHHAND,
force money, diplomacy and intrigue.
It does not require a very lively imag
ination to conceive how, when Rnsaia
has made up her mind that it is nee*
essary to come into Constantinople/,
she will secure her prize. The rest-' 4
lesaOLBs in the Russian camp is in
creasing every day. The tem
per of the whole camp is one
of irrepressible fretfulness. Any
thing is better than to sit atiu.
THE INDIAN FLEET.
The Central News says the Indian
government have chartered five steam
ers for the conveyance of troops from
India, three of which are taken for
three months; their primary destina.
tion being Port Said. Che other two
an engaged for two months. They are
the 8ti Asaph, a celebrated Austrian
steamer of 6,600 tons harden, capable
of carrying 5,000 men, and the Nankin,
of 3,500 tons, capable of carrying a (nil
regiment. The United Service Ga
zette, a weekly, published to-day, says
that it has good reason for stating that
there will be a strong combined chan
nel and Baltic fleet formed daring the
next two months.
TOE S EEK’S REVIEW.
The week closes with prospects of
the eastern difficult}! no brighter. The
belie! that Prince Bismarck bad con
trived a form of invitation removing
all objections and soothing all sum up-
abilities seemed to be coroborsted by
news from Vffinna that the parliamen
tary business of tbe Anstro Hungarian
government was being pushed forward
in order to set Count Andrsssy at lib
erty to attend the congress; and in the
suggestion that the power] shonld meet
to consider how, in consequence of
facts which occasioned the treaty of
San S'efano, the treaties of '66 and ’57
ehonld be modified, had, it was hoped,
been found, bnt ss the Times stales,
however hopeful such suggestions may
appear, everything depends on the •
specific form in which ihey tfre pre
sented and it seems that this has borne
the test of strict construction. It la
poesible that, as the the Times’s Berlin
correspondent states, Russia
• ATTACHES SOME RE EBVE
to her consent to diacusa all the
clauses ol the treaty of Son Stef mo,
and that she cannot be brought to
recognise distinctly the c aim of tbe
great powers to a voice in all new ar
rangements which affect the eastern
q n Btion. The D dly News’ St. Peters
burg correspondent throws the re
sponsibility of the alleged failure of
(Tf>:mAn' mf-diitinn nn Kno^and in
Ge: man' mediation on Eugland in
having
— Preverition exe« s cure every ”1019.
Alwars D B ill’s Cjugb Sy*ap
convenient; t*ke it in t roe, sniyon
will be free from couvhi», cold-, etc.
Sold every a here. JEV:ce, 25 cent* a
bottle. 243
In the years since its fouiadatiua, in
186\ the fortune ot tbe LonleUn* State Lottery
Company bay c miderably y&ried For the
first cine jean of Its eJtrtcnce it wu looked
npon u a very profitable ooaccrn, bit reoeit y it
la anted that the number or prizea p*ld monialy
hayelncresaedtonich anextertthattt mar be
mid to have diacoverea to what extent tt.la more
bl*«ed to tire than to receive. Bat car reader*
c?-i learn all ah mt it by addreafina t4. A. D
REJECTED TUE PROPOSALS CF GERM \NY
which RiSsia accepted, that a con
gress should be summoned to n vise
the treaties of '66 and ’71, again innist-
edon her original conditions. How
ever this may be, it is certain new dif
ficulties have arisen. Negotiations, it
is Baid, continue, and may still lead to
a satisfactory result, bat present delay
shows that the former divergence of
the view is again apparent The sit
uation
IN AMD AROUND CONSTANTINOPLE
attracts much attention. The Times
Vienna dispatch says : “The ministe
rial crisis is viewed with misgivings, as
capable of introducing a disturbing ele
ment into the negotiations. Whatever
m*y be the cause of the crisis and
whatever may have so suddenly deter
mined its fixed issue, the removal of
Ahmed Vefyk Effendi is enfficient to
indicate the character of the change. It
would, nevertheless, perhaps be pre-
Am ora re flirat DI,nni —« 1 n
mature to ray that Russian influence
hu become paramount in the cabinet.
It rather looks as if the obj ct of the
change foul been to
CHICK THE TWO EXTREME TENDENCIES
and at the same time the friction there
by caused between theth in the cabinet.
If the decision of the straggle between
Kntrlflml nnd Pncoio •
England and Russia for influence .„
Constantinople has thus apparently
been p&tf.oned, the relative position of
phin, p. o. Box 691, New Orieart, La. See tu. ■ tlje two can hardly be said to remain
venlaement elaewhere. unaltered.