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VOLUME IV
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 25, 1870.
NUMBER 10
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hundred and forty-fiv
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gla*» Seaports.
Facilities for interchange of commodities
and ideas between peoples, are the greatest
civilizers. They are the means by which mau-
, I kind are approximating to an unity of aim and
. purpose. They open out the mental field of
fitted the p;
Gov. Ash
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the very pin
alleging that
i the
Treasury i
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of intellec
educate the mi
tuaEty. Thq
3 to a higher grade
Sror- | When the state of public sentiment at the
time of the separation, and the excitable and
irritable disposition of the sk pre-holders of
that day are considered, perhaps it was then
better for Christianity that the separation took
place. Now, for many reasons, it would seem
unfortunate that it exists ; or rather that ex-
sting, the nfix of the name of one branch of
unpt
Ml with
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“howling wilde
go, if they fa
Star of Empire
noon Montana \
We understa
I and remove sectional and national prejudice
Georgia, possessing two excellent harbors on
of Montana, write* to Julia | the South Atlantic, viz: Savannah andBruns-
Boston, that Lis Territory is ! wick, is much interested in the revival of
r women to emi'n-ate to. The American commerce. What reasonable esti-
that section are profoundly mate can be placed upon the advantages,
the conviction that “it is not j which would accrue to the people of the State,
to be alone,” especially in a I were numerous merchant vessels owned by
ness.” By all means, let them | Goorgians, and employed actively in trade
cy it Let them follow the with foreign nations ? With an already ex-
m its western way, and very J tensive system of railroads, which is being
ill “blossom as the rose." * ! constantly extended, the whole people of the
—. State are being brought in close vicinity with
‘So Pnod*." their seaport towns. Those far inland
I that State Treasurer Angier or in the np-country, have no reason to be
liberalize their minds j the Church should be suggestive of sectional-
in AVnslx-
has refused to pay certain warrants of late, al
leging that he had “no funds” except what
are set apart for educational purposes, Ac.,
and that he conldfnot trouble that.
An eccentric old lady placed all her money
iu bank, and then tried to beg % small amount
from her neighbors. When remonstrated with,
jealous of the increasing importance of the
cities on the coast; nor do the enlightened
indulge the feeling of jealousy on account
of the maratime advantages they pos
sess. Those cities are the gates and doors
through which we pass, or ought to pass, in our
commercial intercourse with the rest of the
The Cincinnati Chronicle hints that Con
gress will levy a duty on peanuts. This won’t
do, Messieurs of the Corps Legi&latif! You have
the power to “regulate commerce,” but exer
cise this power wisely and well. In the name
and behalf of those who love “goobers" (and
their name is legion,) we protest against this
abominable, detestable and unbeard of—but
we pause! Intense expressions fails! Language
is beggared; and, in despair, wc turn the mat
ter over to our Radical Democratic exchanges!
The PI on. of futanlfy*
Iu a message to the Legislature of Missis
sippi, Gov. Alcorn recommends that when
the plea of insanity is filed in cases of homi
cide, it shall be referred to the Chancery
Judges; and if they find the accused to be
not insane, their record shall settle that ques
tion, and the prisoner shall be tried for the
crime. When the plea is filed in a Circuit
Court, let it be sworn to, and not come in un
der the plea of “Not Guilty.” If found insane,
the prisoner shall be confined in the Lunatic
Asylum. The recommendation might do if it
was not an infringement upon the right, of a
trial by jmy.
and asked why she di.l not draw from the world; provided that transportation in that di
bank, replied, that she “did not like to trouble rection can be obtained on eqnal terms with
that, as it was paying intrust” those on any other route to foreign markets.
■ ■ •< ■» » ■■■ -■ Inland cities, agriculture, mining and manu-
AVho arc Ccutrniuu: factares, are elements of ^civilization. So
Ever since the days of Old Hickory Jackson, too are commerce and the carrying trade. The
there Lave been Democrats who substantially former, arts are often pursued far inland. The
agreed w ith the Federalists in the proposition latter has its chief seat on the tide-water, and
that Government implies allegiance; and that appropriates the pathway of nations in ac-
this ollegianc e is not du»l nor conflicting, but coraplishing the interchange of commodities
that it is due to the Government, not to gov- | The respectability of n nation outside of ita
eminent*. In a word the Jacksonian Democ-1 territorial line, greatly depends upon ita
racy nsmt, according to Major Jack Down- mercantile marine and ita public navy,
ing, “one great wheel, and that a smasher;" The whole Nation is, therefore, deeply in-
the only question a ith tills wing of the Do- terested in the revival of American Commerce.
111 ex-racy has always been, Who shall be that The subject comes home to every Georgian as
smasher? one of individual interest Few States in the
j Union, considering its inland and coastwise
advantages, is so well adapted to an independ
ent existence as Georgia. She can raise pro
visions enough to support a large, dense popu
lation engaged in inland industrial pursuits.
She can, add does produce a large surplus of
raw and manufactured material, which seek
foreign markets ; and her own people had as
well receive the profits oi the carrying trade
os to giro them to strangers.
While Georgians ore higgling over the Re
construction of the State, the question of the
Revival of American Commerce is agitating
Congress. The President is urging that some
thing practical be inaugurated for the accom
plishment of this desirable object. It is to be
regretted that the State of Georgia is without a
representation in the halls of Congress, when
this question of vital interest to her, is demand
ing tM thoughts and the energies of her wisest
men. Never before, (were our people in position
to urge their claims,) has there been such an
opportunity to secure lines of mail steamships
that shall sail direct from Savannah to Euro
pean seaports. If Congress, by subsidies and
drawbacks, offers inducements to revive the
ship-building industry in this country, why,
sooner or later, may not ships, owned by Geor
gia capitalists, or controlled by Georgia mer-
ehaata. whiten every sea as did those of Uos-
chuxetts in former times ? With the Revival
of American Ship-building, Georgia ought to
take an even start with the sea cowtatates
North of her. Yet with all the facts and con
siderations touching a subject that now ag
itates Congress, the press of onr State have al
most entirely ignored it. It is high time that
partisan teal should be so moderated, as to per
mit Georgians to study those vast and impoi-
tsnt interests which may be so much enhanced
by the action of the National Legislature.
From the
lal I
f the Western Lit
erary Bureau, it appears that the Lecture Sys
tem, in the West, is afailnre. Some forty-fire
societies connected with the Bnreau withdrew
without paying their dues—some SC00. In the
Eastern States it is altogether different, and it
is to be hoped the day will come when the sys
tem will be sust lined in every section of the
conntiy. To listen, during the long winter
evenings, to distinguished orators, poets,
statesmen and scholars is a rare privilege, and
one well worth paying for.
Still Orthodox.
One Rogers, that is 11 Jack Rogers,” or Hon.
A. J. Rogers, formerly Democratic member of
Congress from New Jersey, has been rotten-
egged, and that hy his own party! He essayed
to wake a speech to the jnvenile Democracy of
Gotham one day last week; and the jnveniles
aforesaid, not liking the style of the Hon.
Jack, naturally resorted to the recognized
method of political disputation among the
faithful, and showered him with rotten-eggs.
This broke up the meeting, and the speakers
adjourned to thejaath rooms, and from thence
to the nearest drinkery.
fOMMN.
The Ago—a Democratic paper published in
Philadelphia—states that “in city and coun
try the Democratic party is a unit in opposi
tion to the fraudulent and infamous XVth
Amendment. There is not a break in the
line."
Among all the evidences of lunacy mani
fested by the thing calling itself “Democracy,”
this perhaps stands pre-eminent. It (the thing
uforcssid) might with sbont as much reason
talk sbont reviving the Roman Empire, or of
repealing tho Ten Commandments, as of re
pealing the XVth Amendment!
More of tlie McFarland Scandal.
The McFarlands continue to thrust them
selves before the public. The case has been
adjourned from the Courts to the newspapers;
and, as we published the wife's statement yes
terday, it is proper to publish that of the hus
band to-day. With this installment, we hope
the matter may close. And yet nothing is
read with so much avidity as are these scan
dalous and disgusting details of the broils and
infidelities of domestic life; and we presume
it will remain thus until the Millenium. The
ease in question, owes its Jirominence to the
fact that it originated with, and involves in its
disgusting details, the literati of the American
Metropolis. It gives the public an insight in
to the domestio circle of parties whose emi-
nenoi as authors and journalists is recognized
hy the reading people of both Continents.
The Motlrrn Novel.
In these days the vehicles of thought are so
various and so numerous, that the bantlings of
the puniest brains may ride to the uttermost
ends of the earth. But we cannot always
judge these cKldrcn of thought by the charac
ter of their conveyance. Fiction has ita scav
enger carts it is true; but then they are some
times freighted with jewels of the purest ray
serene. Statesmen, Divines and Philosophers,
when they desire to address the general public,
feel no hesitancy in doing so through the me
dium of the modern novel. When they record
their lncnbrations in ponderous tones called
Essays, Treatises, etc., they know very well
that the masses of reading people will never go
farther than the title-pages, and so they very
gracefully adapt themselves to tin situation lr
selecting less pretentious conveyances o
thongbt, and in this they arc vise. Eict i, .1
will assume more dignity without 1.-sing an;
of its charms, and (singular paradox) will l*
valued in proportion to the truth it contains
Disraeli.
The appearance of Disraeli’s new novel
Lothair ” creates considerable excitement in
the literary world. Apart from the merits of
the work itself, there is a degree of interest at
tached to it by the reputation of its distin
guished author. Disraeli is one of the first
statesmen of the nineteenth century. Bold,
brilliant and unscrupulous; ardent, aspiring
and daring, his life is a romance in itself. At
eighteen, he made his mark in' the world by the
publication of “ Vivior Grey," n novel full of
power, brilliancy and bad taste. For several
years, he continued to delight the lovers of fic
tion by the productions of his snbtle, imagi
native and ingenious brain. All these were
political novels. Disraeli then got into Par
liament, and by his find speech succeeded in
drawing upon himself the ridicule of the na
tion. The practical statesmen of England,
went into convulsions of laughter over his gor
geous rhetoric, hit highly wrought metaphors,
and the guileless inexperience which led him
to address the British Parliament in a strain of
floweiy metaphor suited only to Debating So
cieties and College Commencements. Amid the
jeers and laughter of (he boisterous Commons,
Disraeli, choking with indignation, hailed into
their teeth the prophetic words. “ You may
put me down now, bnt the day will come when
you shall hear me! ” The prediction was ver
ified. Disraeli reformed his style and become
one of the most powerful Parliamentary ora
tors of the day. It was a proud moment for
him when he attained the distinguished emi
nence of Prime Minister. He had been re
viled, abused and ridiculed, but he had suc
ceeded!
We regard Disraeli as a brilliant and gifted
political charlatan—all head and no heart;
and wa shall read his novel for the worldly
wisdom it contains, and not with the expecta
tion of profiting hy its moral lessons, for it
doubtless has none.
Sectional Cliurthu.
Prior to and during the war, the division of
several large and powerful denominations of
Christians occurred. Among these, and one of
the most notable, was that of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
This schism grew out of the interpretation
of the Discipline of the Church, upon the ques
tion of Slavery. The Discipline contained a
claose condemning the sin of buying and sell
ing human beings. Bishop Andrew, of this
State, by marriage had acquired property in
a considerable number of slaves. In the Gen
eral Conference, the questioner the propriety
of a Methodist Bishop holding slaves was
sprung, and after a long and excited debate,
terms of separation were agreed upon.
’ The ministers and members of the Church
in the Southern States, with few exceptions,
went into a separate organization and desig
nated it as the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South. The suffix “South" was adopted in pref
erence to the adjective “Southern;” for it was
claimed by them that they proposed to make
no essential change in tho creed and Disci
pline.
The Annual Conferences iu the Northern, and
some of the border States continued their
Church organization und^r the original name
of Methodist Episcopal Church.
ism. For it recalls the irritating cause of the
original separation, and serves to keep alive
ancient bickerings and heart-burnings among
brethren, who ought to strive with each other
as to who can best agree in performing the
work given them to do.
There was never any difference between the
two branches of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, except upon the question of Slavery.
Now that slavery is dead, either these two
branches ought to reunite, with a hearty good
will, or if determined to remain separate, they
should cultivate feelings of the most cordial
good will towards each other.
It is a singular fact in the liistory of re
ligious sects, that the more nearly any two of
them approximate in faith, practice, and
church government, the more cordially do
they hate and persecute each other. It re
mains to be seen whether or not the many
able and useful ministers of the two branches of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, can now rise
so far above the prejudices engendered by the
vexed question” of the Bast, as not to in
jure their capacity for usefulness.
A Cme of Evidence.
Sometime ago, this journal was authorized
to say, on behalf of “a responsible party,”
that a reward of $500 would be paid to any
one who would produce the pxoof of the
assertion that the statements made by the At
lanta correspondent of the Washington
Chronicle, were false, or that they were not
fuBy sustained by the facts at the time. The
Atlanta Constitution (the accredited Organ of
the Bryant wing of the Democracy,) had, it
seems, asserted that the dispatches referred to
were false; and, as in most other matters, sub
mitted the issue solely upon the assertions
thus made.
Under these circumstances, the Bryant
Organ felt it incumbent to say something in
substantiation of an assertion for the proof of
which a liberal reward bad been offered. And
bow did it meet the cose? Simply by assert
ing that its assertions were true! When
pressed for someting more tangible, it en
deavored to squirm out of the mire by saying
that it had not had access to the dispatches
(or something to that effect,) and by calling
upon the Ena to furnish an accredited copy
of the dispatches sent the Chronicle! Disposed
to be patient with the erring and charitable
toward the weak* we referred the Organ to the
files of the Washington Chronicle, suggesting
that it could gain access thereto through its
(the Organ's) regular Washington corres
pondent
Thus the matter rested for some days, when
the Organ blundered upon an editorial in the
Louisville Courier-Journal, in which a (hear
say) statement was made to the effect that
General Terry should have said, some six or
eight months precious, that peace, harmony,
and quiet reigned supreme in Georgia. Seiz
ing upon this statement (which hod not itself
been authenticated, and which purported to
have been made prior to the date of the Chron
icle's dispatches) the Organ impatiently, and
we may say, stupidly claimed-, lhr-r. ~ j io i-hilosopHy, and make arragements with new
virtue of* the fact that this hear say evidence
was conclusive! In a spirit of pure forbear
ance, this blander of the Organ was allowed
to pass; when, mistaking civility and leniency
for indifference, the Organ announced with
surpassing simplicity and innocence, that
*the responsible party” who offered the re
ward had “backed down!”
These, we believe, are all the material facts
connected with the proposition; and they cer
tainly exhibit a compound of ignorance and
assumption on the part of the Bryant Organ
that is refreshingly rare in enlightened journal-
And the case is all the more refresh
ing in view of the fact that the Organ first
(virtually) acknowledged its ignorance of the
contents of the dispatches referred to, by call
ing on the Era for the files of a contemporary
journal containing them; and this, too, after
its own assertion that those dispatches were
false and slanderous! Its simplicity farther
appears in its failure to give the date of its
hearsay evidence; in its failure to show that
General Terry’s statements (as repeated in the
Courier-Journal) were made either at the time,
or subsequent to the time, the Atlanta dis
patches were sent to the Chronicle; in its fail
ure to show that these hearsay statements had
any reference, mediately or remotely, to the
dispatches in question; and, lastly, in its fail
ure to prove that General Terry ever used the
language (or language equivalent thereto) at
tributed to him by tho Louisville paper!
“My Son Must be Paid.”
The following items are compiled from the
Comptroller General's Report They are not
without significance:
1889
January 18, Alton Aagier drew tor extras $120 00
April 1st Salary 400 00
July lat “ " 400 00
Oct 1st “ “ ...... 400 00
1870.
The Code allow* the Treasurer ooe Clerk
toaaaiat him in the duties of hia office,
and such Clerk shall receive a salary of
$1^00 per annum $1,000 00
Extras in the fiunily 1,000 00
We prefer that the reader should draw his own
conclusions and make his own comments.
The figures are plain. They tell the whole
stoiy.
The attention of the Bryant Organ (which
seems to be studying the Comptroller’s
port) is respectfully invjted to the following
items:
1870.
January », N. L. Angier, for Stationery,
printing letter-heads, telegraph*, ex-
$882 65
July 19, 2f. L, Angier far Stationery, Ex
change, Express charges, 785 40
Dec. 11, N. L. Angier Telegraph. Sta
tionery and personal expenset, sdf and
AUm to Nsm Ym1c $1.»7 90
- 3.G03 85
The last item is particularly interesting to
Tax Payers; likewise pleasant reading to hold
ers of warrants uncashed, because there axe
*no funds!”
Democracy Advances!
'The Democratic members of Congress, with
Shinbone Brooks at their head, have entered
an appearance in behalf of the Beer drinkers
and Beer jerkers; and Sunset Cox has appeared
in behalf of the consumers of pea nuts. These
distinguished leaders of “the Northern Democ
racy ” find beer and pea-nut discussions more
in accordance with the demands of their party
than either the Tariff, the XVth Amendment or
“Reconstruction."
all'/
je Washington Chronicle of the 17th says?
- Georgia bill will be reported from the
Re. 1 [attraction Committee of the House early
rek, perhaps to-day. In justice to Gov.
and the proscribed Republicans of
ate, it i* to be hoped that the Judiciary
'f the Senate will promptly report
[suit of their ; retracted inquiries into tho
d efforts to vcure votes for Georgia by
measures. If tho accusation is true,
TTll on the heads of the guilty; if false,*
.me fall on tho heads of the base invent-
The cause of Georgia, painfully already
•d by all manner of mean argument,
Qger be held in suspense to gratify
;eful :.nd rebellious men.
n the Senate committee have made up
ceord on this last attempt to destroy
or Bullock, the publisher of the Wash-
Morning Chronicle will take occasion
nent upon the manner in which he and
ismess assistant were treated when suni-
lswerthe extraordinary questions
aordinory inquisition. As .many
their evidence have been regularly
con Jwuicated to the distant press, most of
tb,: J unjust, and many of them untrue, the
Dublf^r * 1 the Chronicle will exercise his
nd himself and that pope*as soon
;t becomes a matter for honorable
ssion.”
as tl J
Noah Webster has been dead twenty-seven i
years. In his Unabridged Dictionary, he left.
a legacy •which embalms his memory in the
hearts of all men wherever the English lan
guage is spoken or written. It was a triumph
of American genius and scholarship, of which
every American citizen felt proud at the time.
Sectionalism had no claims upon it, and can
now have none; for, independent of the fact
that science is beyond- tho fetid confines of
sectionalism, the work itself was the result of
an unity of labor by one of South Carolina’s
brightest intellects (Percy,) and New England’s
greatest scholar.
Thus the Lexicon has a national title, first,
by reason of ifs intrinsic merits; and, second,
because it emLodies a sort.of literary compro
mise measure between fire-eating South Caro
lina, and the Commonwealth of wooden nut
megs! It is more than National. It is Cos
mopolitan; for the British Crown and tho
English literati did ‘ the compliment to Ameri
can scholarship and genius to adopt “Web
ster" as the standard of their native tongue.
James K. Polk, the Southern statesman and
scholar, united with the Massachusetts jurist
and philosopher (Choate,) in the opinion that
“ Webster” was the legitimate standard of our
national language. Even Clay and Calhoun
could agree as to Webster’s claim to recognition
as a correct National Standard, when theyj_^ ats
could agree upon no ~cimcr in pol
ices, law or theology!
It therefore remained for a modem Demo
cratic politician, who flourishes in the year of
Grace 1S70, to discover that Webster’s Diction
ary is “a Yankee School Book,” and that it is
culpably sectional and unjust, in its bias to
wards “Centralization 1" Lesser lights in the
Democratic constellation, who have been ma
king predatory raids upon the Algebras and
Grammars published north of tho misty traces
of a partisan division, erewhilo known as Ma
son &, Dixon’sline, have taken up the mournful
refrain; and they now want “ Webster” ban
ished from tho school room because he does
violence to the doctrine of ** Stato Rights V
Webster’s offense is found in the following
definition of the word State: “ In the United
“ States, one of the commonwealths or bodies
“politic, the people of which make up the
“body of the nation, and which, under .the
“national Constitution, stand in certain spec- J? I * B *
“ ifiod relations with the national Government, Conelrtent Democracy.
“and are invested, m commonwealths, with xt is seldom we meet with a more lunatic
“ frill power in their several spheres, over aU south,-cnttlian the following stab at Popular
“matters not expressly inhibited," or forbid-1 Education which appears in the Baltimore
den expressly by the Federal Constitution. I OtaetUi, a radical Democratic journal:
Now let Sillamau's Chemisby and Davies’ Universal education is not yet sufficiently
r ,, T> , .. . I do 1 j,.?d in France to make umveral suffrage
Is: 0 indre come next Eten old Peter Parley ctlrs( , , 0 ita pe 0 pj e . The time will no doubt
(Mr. Goodrich) was a New England Federal- J cornu soon enough when every one will read,
1st, and therefore a bane to the Democratic ju- and when the many will follow blindly in the
veniles of the Common School! The mind of 1 ? " 1 »f the sponting demagogues who hairy
, ,, . , . tlum on to destruction; but, as yet, the
our youth should not be poisoned by his lusid- * - * r «— — a —*■
Rcr. J. H. De Volte, D. D.
1 icon the fortune of but few Christian
s to gain the love and esteem of their
^ntions, or the respect and confidence
1 outside world, to the extent enjoyed by
rainent Divine whose name heads this
paragraph.. His resignation of the Pastorate
of th«> P,:» p t ist Chnrch in Columbus, seems to
have cast a gloom over th$ minds of the good
peop t- of that city, irrespective of mere
denominational lines; and the following reso
lution, (which we copy from the Index,)
so u mnimously adopted by the Church re
ferred to, shows how reluctant are the mem
bers fjf his congregation to give him up:
Resolved, That we sincerely regret the resig
nation of our beloved pastor. Dr. J. H. De-
Votfej and earnestly request him to withdraw
it, and continue his pastoral relation, at least
until the end of the fiscal year.
eous stories about Ann Hutchins and the Pil
grim Fathers! Lindly Murray happened to
be an English pedagogue who, like Milton,
was a Puritan; therefore banish his verbs and
prepositions as the embodiment of a moral
and political leprosy! Blackstone and Kent
and Story and St&rkie and Greenleof and
Russell, were all of them, Abolitionists; there
fore let their works be hurled first from our
Law Schools and Universities, and thence
from our civil tribunals! Wayland and Up-
ham held the some political opinions; therefore
let our Theological Seminaries dispense with
their present text books u.m.lu
Publishing Houses for new authors!
Who does not see that this raid by ignorant
and half educated politicians upon textbooks,
is simply ridiculous ? Who so infatuated by
party zeal, or so blinded by stupid prejudice,
as not to discern either the grossest ignorance
or the most inexcusable selfishness in all tins
bluster about (so called) “Northern School
books ?”* Is it a transparent trick of Northern
Publishers to turn the rapidly waning preju
dices of the Southern people to practical ac
count, through the instrumentality of South
ern demagogues ? Or is it the incentive of pure
and unadulterated ignorance—of that ignor
ance whose darkness is so dense that it may
be felt?
The PnicUrc of Defaming Public Men.
In his preface to the “Life of Bismarck,”
John George Louis Hezekiel says: “Should
we fee 1 disposed to credit vulgar report, noble
motives and heroic lives are no longer extant
in our present state of society. The eyes of
detraction are everywhere curiously—too curi
ously fixed upon the deeds of men of mark,
and mingled feelings pull down from the pe
destal of fame every man who has ascended
to the eminence awarded to the patriot and
statesman. Truly such a condition of things
bodes no good to the common weal of society,
either in England, Prussia, or any port of
Europe. The present writer can see no utility
in the practice of soiling the reputation and
actions of men who, by slow degrees have
worked their way into positions of merit and
mark.” Though written for Europe, how well
do these words apply to America! The time
is not far distant, let ns hope, when this ill-
bred and disgusting practice of defaming polit
ical opponents, will meet a response only in
those precincts where bullies and bruisers are
allotted supremacy.
The Bunghole Party.
The New York Democracy, which has been
deeply interested in all things pertaining to
beer and beer jerkers, petitioned Congress,
through its Democratic delegation, setting
forth, amongst numerous other things, the im
portance of a decree by the National authority
that there shall be but one bunghole to a lager
beer barrel!
And this petition has been favorably re
ceived. We mention the fact for the benefit
of lager beer dealers, who may be able to
comprehend the philosophy of the Bunghole
law and its champions.. -
It is presumed this provision is had to pre
vent retailers inserting into a barrel the pipe
attached to a beer pump; and that it proceeds
upon the theory that every hole made in a
barrel is necessarily a bunghole!
French peasant lias evidently not outgrown
his old education and his old dependence.
Oue of tho hardest things for the fossil
D( iuib racy to comprehend is that there have
been important changes within the last half
century.
A recent Washington dispatch says that fears
are expressed by some of the warm personal
friends of Chief Justice Chase that his health
is so rapidly breaking down that fie will not
mm U longer be able to sit on the bench. This
is bnt another of the ever-recurring but never-
lit died warnings that fall upon tho driving,
i ashing resting, r- dlcss mad of the times.—
Gov. Andrew, Rawlins, Stanton and now Cfiose.
Overwork is the bane of the public men of tho
United States—the skeleton in the house of
Judge Kelley Re-noiulnateil.
Hon. Wm. D. Kelley, Representative in
Congress from the 4th Philadelphia District,
will, it is said, be re-nominated by the Repub
licans of his District for re-election.
Mr. Kelley is one of the ablest and best
men in the lower House of the National Leg
islature; and his re-election will be gratifying
to his many friends outside the limits of his
own State. He is emphatically the leader of
the Protectionist parly in Congress; and is
now, as ho has ever been, an enthusiast on tho
subject of Home Manufactures. As therefore,
Protection is a matter in which the South isnow
interested, Judge Kelley’s return to the House,
where his services are so much needed, would
be a matter of congratulation.
• In Wisconsin the Democracy will hold no
State Convention and make no nominations
this year. They have wisely concluded to save
their time, money, and temper.
Hon. Rufus B. Bullock, of Geoigia, reached
Washington on Sunday evening, and on Mon
day morning (yesterday) called on Mr. Trum
bull, chairman of the Judiciary Committee of
the Senate, stating that he was ready to be
“investigated” in accordance with the sum
mons. The Republican caucus taking place
last evening, the Governor will not be called
before the committee until some time during
this day and evening. The Governor left
Atlanta after having been triumphantly sus
tained by a united party, all his propositions
to the Legislature having been complied with,
the contrivers of “investigation” there having
failed to establish a single one of their allega
tions.— Washington Chronicle, 17.
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.
Some Interesting Decisions.
The New Orleans Times and the Picayune,
of that city, are discussing Writs of Error from
the State Supreme Courts to the Supreme
Court of the United States. The Times con
tends that, in a Writ of Error and supersedeas
from a State Supreme Court to the Supreme
Court of the United States, where the citation
issues from the State Judge, the amount of the
bond is to be fixed by the Judge of the State
Court The Judiciary Act of 1789 is quoted
in support of this position. The Picayune,
per contra, seems to misapprehend the nature
of the proceeding, and confounds it with cases
where the citation is issued by a Justice of the
Supreme Court of tho United States.
The Louisiana Courts seem to be staggering
under a heavy load of criminal business.
In the Supreme Court of South Carolina, on
the 13th inst, the slave debt cases were re
sumed. Mr. de Saussure resumed and con
cluded his argument for their validity. Mr.
McGowan was heard against their validity.
General McGowan divided his argument
into two heads—the political and the legal-
delivering his views in that earnest, vigorous
and exhaustive manner so peculiarly his own.
We regret that our space will only allow us
to give his legal argument, which was as fol
lows:
L The change of the Constitution abolish
ing slavery by the Government in its funda
mental law, and a refusal to compensate, was a
breach of the covenant of warranty of title on
the part of the vendor, and, pleaded as a coun
ter claim, must prevent him from recovering
the purchase money.
2. Emancipation by the Government was
neither an event to which the property or its
nature was subject nor within the purview of
either of the parties. The consideration has
firiled, and there is neither legal nor moral ob
ligation to pay these bonds.
3. These contracts, though legal at the time
made, are now illegal and void. There is no
law, common or statute, which authorizes the
Court to give judgment and process to en
force it.
4. These contracts are against the well de
fined policy of the realm. Policy, as declared
in the Constitution, both State and Federal, is
as binding as an express enactment.
5. Property in slaves was the creature of lo
cal ter. It was, in the nature of a privilege,
a franchise—an office. Being in its nature po
litical, the State could repeal the law without
giving compensation, and consequently there
should be no recovery upon contracts for slaves
still executory.
Judge Field, of the United States Supreme
Court, will leave New York for San Francisco
by the Pacific Railroad on Monday next. He
will visit Oregon and Nevada this summer to
hold his courts, and will return to Washing
ton some time in August.
In the Superior Court of Hamilton county,
Ohio, last week, in the case of Perkins vs. Gay.
Judge Taft delivered the opinion in General
Term. The suit was brought on a judgment
recovered twfcbfe' years ago, in Erie, Ohio, f<
ruptcy, discharging the defendant in October,
,1867.
The plaintiff replies that defendant conceal
ed valuable estate in Indiana, and did not in
clude it in bis schedule at the time of his
bankruptcy.
Tho defendant, to sustain his demurrer to
the plaintiff’s reply, relies on the thirty-fourth
section of the Bankrupt Act of 1867, which
prorides that “a discharge duly granted under
this act, shall, vnth the exceptions aforesaid, re
lease the bankrupt from all his debts, and that
the certificate shall be conclusive evidence of
the fact and regularity of the discharge.”
The plaintiff claims that under the twenty-
ninth section the discharge is not valid if the
bankrupt has concealed any part of his estate.
The defendant contends that the validity of
the discharge is to be determined, in view of
the thirty-fourth section, which provides that
the creditor shall specify some one of the acts
of fraud mentioned in section twenty-nine.
This construction is adopted by Avery and
Hobbs, in their work on bankruptcy, while
Mr. James in his work on tho same subject,
takes a different view.
Such a construction as is claimed by defend
ant, the Court supposed would encourage
fraud. The discharge from personal liability
for his debts, is the great object of tile bank
rupt, and this he is entitled to if he 'gives up
his property. A dishonest bankrupt may
hope successfully to conceal property for two
years, and if he can secure an effectual dis
charge he can afford to run the risk of losing
his concealed property, after the two years
have elapsed. The creditor would have less
motive to detect the fraud upon the law, as he
could not, therefore, deprive the bankrupt of
his ill-gotten certificate, or hold him liable
personally. The Court was unwilling to
adopt a construction which would so obvi
ously tend to encourage deception and fraud,
unless the language of the act clearly requir
ed it.
It has been the unifom policy of all bank
rupt acts in this country and in England to
guard against concealment of property by the
bankrupt The temptation is so strong to
hide, and the facilities so great for hiding as
sets, tho existence of winch the bankrupt
alone may know, that the severest enactments
had not prevented it It is not to be presumed
that the legislators of the present day would
intend to remove any of the guards against
temptation and fraud on this critical point,
nor is it to be regarded as a hardship that the
bankrupt shall be required to be ready to meet
any charge of this kind. The burden of
proof is on the creditor who asserts such a
concealment, and if the bankrupt is innocent
he need not be very much embarrassed iu bis
defense.
The Court was of opinion therefore, that the
provisiou in the thirty-fourth section, making
the certificate conclusive and allowing an ap
plication within two years in the United States
Court to annul it, did not intend to cut off the
creditor from setting up a fradulent conceal
ment by the bankrupt of his property.
In the McFarland trial, Monday, iu refer
ring to Mrs. Calhoun’s disputed “J. R. Y.”
letter, Mr. Graham argued that the writer
must have referred to the opposite sex, “be
cause how could one lady say to another she was
much in the flesh ?’’ An impulsive lady in the
audience exclaimed, “We all say so!” and was
gently but peremptorily put out of the court
room for her audacity.
A New York paper makes this comment:
“Fitz Hugh Ludlow is a caution to all law
yers; bnt lie is a very mild caution. He will
neither stab, shoot, nor slap. . He confines
himself to expressing opinions in a way calcu
lated to be more terrible than the effects of
powder and b*ill. His sarcasm is of the with
ering sort If you don’t believe it, recall
what Fitz said to Judge Davis, of counsel for
the prosecution in the McFarland trial. “But
I can tell you,” says Fitz, “what is a gentle
man’s opinion of a sneak (fearful emphasis on
sneaks)—it is too contet. ptuous even to al
low him to slap his face.” So Fitz did not
slap Judge Davis’ face.
Indiana divorces are to be thoroughly sifted.
McFarland proposes to head the crusade
against them.
In Chatham Superior Court, on Tuesday
last, the Civil Docket was called, and the case
of Davant & Weplca vs. N. B. E. Bickford.
Action on draft. AtfintemtilUll^al question
was raisedgduring the progress of this^ase.
The note or draft sued upon wiw* destroyed by
the fire which consumed the law office of
Messrs. Jackson, Lawton & Basinger, in 1869.
Counsel for the defendants objected to evi
dence establishing the contents of said note,
and quoted the sections of the Code referring
to how lost papers could be legally established,
and contending that the statute was direct and
imperative, acting as a complete estoppel to
any evidence on the trial of the general issue.
Mr. Sussy and Mr. Stone for the defendant,
and Messrs. Lawton & Basinger for the plain
tiff, had quite a legal tilt. The Court finally
decided that the evidence was admissible.
The case went to the jury on the merits^ and
verdict was rendered in favor of the plaintiff
for the sum of $2,000 and interest, the amount
of the draft sued upon. t
Court then adjourned to meet at ten o’clock
this morning.
The Superior Court of Muscogee county is
now in session. 460 cases on the Docket
Charles O’Connor, the eminent lawyer, is
elected President of the New York Bar Asso
ciation.
McFarland’s Insanity.—Dr. Wm. A. Ham
mond, formerly of Maryland, physician-in
chief of the New York State Hospital, who
testified in the recent McFarland trial as to
the evidence of the prisoner’s insanity, read a
? vper before the Medico-Legal Society of New
ork, on Thursday evening, entitled a “Medi
co-legal Study of the case of Daniel McFar-
and.” He demonstrated that the prisoner
was insane for a long time before the homicide,
and that three months after he was still suffer
ing from acute cerebral congestion, his confine
ment having a curative effect upon him and
preventing its development into a condition of
greater severity. Dr. Hammond is of the
opinion that McFarland is yet liable on slight
cause to another explosion of mania.
New York has a Junior Bar Association.
The U. S. Circuit Court, Southern District
of New York, holds that birds are tive animals,
and subject to a duty under the act of Con
gress imposing a duty on all “ live animals.”
TENNESSEE.
The Mineral Home Railroad Investign-
I lion—A Big Swindle—Partie* Concerned
in it—Rich Development*—A Regiment
of Politicians Mixed up in it.
The special committee on the Mineral Home
Railroad, in Johnson county, find that $100,-
000 in bonds of the State have been issued to
said company, on condition that they should
in no event be sold under their par value, and
that they should be used for the construction
of the road.
J. H. M. Grayson testifies that he has been
President of said road from -the 10th of Octo
ber, 1869; that he entered upon his official du
ties about the first of November, 1869 ; that
none of said road is under construction, nor
has there been an experimental survey made
of the route ; that the road is contemplated to
bo about twenty-eight miles long; that about
$14,000 of solvent subscriptions has been
banked, and paid together; that 42,390 came
into his hands when he was made President,
being the proceeds of sale of ninety-nine
bonds of one thousand dollars each ; one bond
was returned to the Comptroller, it being im
properly signed; that none of the private sub
scriptions came into his hands; that
H. P. Murphy refuses to give up the
books and proceeds of subscription; that
he has- drawn from the Exchange and
Deposit Bank, of Knoxville, $12,370, and
turned over to the Secretary and Treasurer,
files of copies of his receipts; that $370 of this
amount is in the hands of Mr. Wagoner, and
files copies of his receipts with the Commit
tee; that the balance of the funds is in the
hands of the Exchange and Deposit Bank, of
Knoxville, and subject to his orders ; that the
bonds were sold by resolution of tho Direc
tors; that the road, under the original charter,
would not connect with any other road, but
under the amended charter, should connect
with the East Tennessee and Western North
Carolina Railroad, at Doe River Cove, and run
by way of Taylorsville, to the North Carolina
line, at Paine’s Lancer Gap, and upon the lo
cation of tho Norfolk and Great Western Rail
road; that he does not know whether he used
any of the money for his private use or not; he
borrowed some money from Mr. Butler
The r answer sets up a decree in bank- ■ the Treasurer; had money deposited with him,
but could not say whether it was the sale money;
that the bonds were sold by the Bank, in its
discretion, without special order from him, the
Bank had general authority to sell tho bonds
at the best market price; that copies oi the re
ceipts of R. W. Donnelly, the Treasurer, and
of M. M. Wagoner & Sons, and a statement of
the Bank amount, is attached to his deposi
tion. The Committee find from the testimony
of Thomrs S. Smythe that he was President of
the Company from its organization, in the early
part of 1868, until the last of September or
October, 1869; that- he has been a director
since, and has Ulso acted as attorney for the
road; that, when the company was organ
ized, the amount of capital stock subscribed
was something over five hundred shares, of
twenty-five dollars per share; that he was
elected President and XL P. Murphy was elected
Secretary and Treasurer; that he was the first
President, and that J. H. M. Grayson and H.
P. Murphy, both, claim to be his successors;
that an election was held the last of September
or the first of October, 1869, and both claim to
have been elected President; that he had no
books in his possession, and that he delivered
the receipts, for the bonds, to J. IL M. Gray
son; that he hod no other assets than those he
drew from the State, one hundred bonds, for
said road, October 2, 1869, and drew them as
President of the road; that he deposited said
bonds in the Exchange and Deposit Bank of
Knoxville; that he paid one hundred dollars to
the Comptroller, G. W. Blackburn, and one
hundred dollars to A. J. Fletcher, Secretary of
State, for the issuance of* said bonds, and that
ho borrowed the money to do so from the Ex
change and Deposit Bank of Knoxville, on the
day that he deposited the bonds with them;
that he drew five hundred dollars from said
bank on the faith and credit of said bonds; that
ho paid two hundred dollars, as above stated,
and the balance is in bands or has been ex
pended in the payment of an allowance made
to him by the board; that he drew five hun
dred dollars from the board at different times,
two hundred and fifty dollars on the 1st of Oc
tober, 1869, and two hundred and fifty dollars
1 the 11th of December, 1869.
The committee find from the testimony of
H. P. Murphy, that he was one of the first di
rectors, and also Secretary and Treasurer of the
first board, that Tbos. S. Smythe was the first
President, and that there are two rival boards
of directors on said road; that according to a
lien the State Directors can call a meeting
of the Stockholders at any time and change
the company directors. They called a meet
ing on the 28th of September, 1869. The
stockholders met and elected a new board of
Company Directors, aud the directors subse
quently met and elected him President, and
gave him a certificte to that effect A few days
subsequent to tlii3 the judges and clerks of
the election met and decided that some of the
votes cast by himself were illegal. They pro
ceeded to re-organize a different board with
out a new election; the some judges and clerks
gave certificates to another board, who are
acting now. The objection raised to the stock
voted by himself was that some of it had not
been subscribed three mouths previous to elec
tion ; that he had the poll books and certifi
cates of election and attaches the same to
his deposition os an exhibit; that he consid
ers the board first elected the legal board;
that the books showing subscription of
stock ore in bis possession; that there
is subscribed 767 shares, of $25 per
share, amounting to $19,175; that the stock
holders are solvent and the subscriptions
bona fide; that $767 has been paid, being one
dollar on each share; that no action has been
taken toward building said road; not even a
preliminary survey has been made; that the
$767 is in his possession; that the board he is
connected with and which lie considers the
legal board, has never employed any engineer
or other person; the legal board authorized
Thomas S. Smith to go to Nashville and draw
one hundred bonds from the State, and he left
for Nashville the day before the bogus board
was elected; J. H. M. Grayson is President of
the bogus board, and that R. H. Donnelly is
secretary and treasurer of tho bogus board,
and that he is secretary and treasurer of the
legal board; that he files as a pari of his depo
sition the order of the board of directors, di
recting Smythe to place said bonds in the Ex
change and Deposit Bank of Knoxville; that
the legal board has passed no resolution in re
gard to said bonds since they were deposited
with said bank; that he gave notice in Octo
ber, 16G0, to the Exchange aixl Deposit Bank
not to dispose of said bonds upon the order of
Grayson, and that Grayson qpd the whole con
cern was bogus; that they had better be cau
tious how they dealt with them; that J. H. M.
Grayson had for some months past been en
gaged in buying lands and cattle; that twelve
months ago Grayson was a man of limited
means and hard run for money; that now Gray
son has plenty of money and is engaged large
ly in trading in lands and cattle; that the State
Directors are nearly oil stockholders, and two
of them, R. R. Butler and It. H. Donnelly,
claim to be Company Directors in the bogus
board.
The Committee find from the testimony of
John Baxter that he is interested in tbe busi
ness of the Exchange and Deposit Bank at
Knoxville; that Thomas S. Smythe deposited
ninety-nine bonds with said bank and hypoth
ecated one bond; that the only officers ot the
Mineral Home Railroad that he ever knew was
the said Smythe and Col. J. H. M. Grayson;
that the bonds were sent to the Bank of Amer
ica, New York, in January, 1870, for sale, and
were sold on the 11th and 20th of January,
1870, at forty-six cents on the dollar, less
three cents for one coupon not attached; that
the bonds were sent to New York by order
of J. H. M. Grayson, President, and Thomas
J. Smythe; that he attaches an exhibit to
his deposition showing the condition of the
account of the road with the Exchange and
Deposit Bank, April 6th, 1870. The state
ment shows that there was placed to tbe
credit of the road, from sale of bonds $43,000,
and that there has been drawn from tbe Bank
$12,636 48, and that there was to the credit of
the Company, April 6, 1870, $30,363 52. The
Committee found on file in the office of the
Secretary of State, a resolution of the Direc
tors of said Company, accepting the State Di
rectors, under act of February 25, 1868, and
admitting them to all the rights and privileges
of Company Directors; said resolution was
adopted June 2d, 1868. The Committee also
find the certificate of the State Directors,
sworn by them that said Company had com
plied with all the provisions of the general in
ternal improvement law of the State, so far as
the same applied to said Company; said cer
tificate is dated September 4th, 1868. The
Committee also find a resolution of the Direc
tors, that the bonds appropriated by the act of
December 10th, 1866, shall be faithfully used
and applied to the purposes contemplated in
said act, and to no other purpose. The Com
mittee, in concluding their report upon the
Mineral Home Railroad, would most respect
fully call tbe attention of the Legislature to
the fact that these bonds were sold at less than
par, being sold at forty-three cents on the
dollar; and, consequently, in violation of a
positive provision of the law; that no work
has ever been performed upon said road at all,
even to the employing of an engineer, to make
the preliminary survey for tho location of the
road. In fact, the whole matter has the ap
pearance of a pre-determined effort to swindle
the Stato out of one hundred thousand dollars.
The only thing they seem to have been desirous
about, was to get the necessary papers to draw
the bonds with; and the Committee would re
spectfully call tho attention of the Legisla
ture to the affidavit of those State Directors,
who have been so ready to assist in robbing
the State.
HOW TO BE AN EDITOR.
A paper of the antedelurian school is re
sponsible for the following opinion:
A good editor must combine the loquacity of
a magician with the impudence of the devil
He must knowhow to time a horse-race, gaff a
cock; teach a Sunday school, preach a charity
sermon, run a saw-mill, keep a hotel and brew
whisky. He must bo insensible to tho crudest
snubs, and manifest no sense of anger when
kicked down stairs. He must throw modesty
to the dogs, and let the tigers howl. But above
all, ho must be an adept in the art of puffing.
He must be enthusiastic on the subject of
liams, verbose in extolling hardware, aud high
ly imaginative injthe matter of dry goods. lie
must talk learnedly of programmes, with a lib
eral mixture of glowing words, such as
“warmth,” “foreshortening,” “high limits,”
“prospective,” etc. He must be heavy on a
concert, with a capacity to appreciate Miss
Squeak’s execution of difficult feats in the up
per si rata, ecstatic and doquent on behalf of
lat women, and of living skeletons.
MRS. McFARLAND-RICIIARDSON.
Graphic Description oflxcx* Personal Ap
pearance—Literary Ta*te«, &e.
A New York correspondent says that Mrs.
McFarland-Richardson now enjoys, through
circumstances she could not control, a no
toriety as painful as it has been unsought
I doubt if any pure, good, modest woman was
ever so lied about m this generation. Her
story is before the public, and seems to have
all the qualities of sincerity and truth. She
has been so misrepresented, personally and in
character, that it is not singular great curiosi
ty exists to know what kind of looking and
appearing lady she is.
She is not beautiful, as she has been called
(all women in misfortune become lovely in per
son); but she has a winning and interesting
face, whose prevailing expression is sweetness
and truth. She is nearly 30, but she has a
fresh and girlish look, and a mobility of fea
ture which makes her seem eight or ten years
vounger than she is. Sho has blue eyes, hair
brown in tho shadow, golden in the sun, fea
tures not regular but harmonious, and indica
tive at once of tenderness and strength. She
is a bright blonde of the English type, though
her ancestors are of New England birth for
five or six generations; above the medium
height, she is round and symmetrical in figure,
graceful in movement, cosy and elegant in
manner, with an influence that is always win
ning.
Her voice is remarkably rich and sweet, and
her conversation highly eloquent and in
tellectual. Her acqaintance with literature is
deep and varied, extending from the earliest
Greek tragedies and ancient philosophy down
to the modern poets, and thinkers like Emer
son and Buckle. Her tastes are entirely do
mestic, and beyond a home of her own, which
she has never had, her hopes and aspirations
do not extend. Notwithstanding the notoriety,
from which she instinctively shrinks, she has
hardly fifty personal acquaintances in the
whole city of New York. If she were to walk
from the Battery to. Union Square a dozen
times during these dolightful afternoons, it is
doubtful if a single person would now recog
nize in her widow’s weeds the ill-fated heroine
of this most mournful tragedy.
The Marrictl Man’s Soliloquy.
BY ONE WHO KNOWS.
Blast the women! They are always fretting
about something or other! Yesterday the
coal wouldn’t bum; and the grate must be
set; and the furnace must be repaired; and
mercy knows what all; and to-day its hot
os ! Save us from the wants of an incon
siderate woman! Only let her get the upper
hand and she’ll drive like blazes ! But I won’t
be driven ! Not I! If she wants the doors
fixed or wood dried, or the water brought, or
the leech set, or tubs hooped, she may do it
herself! Confound it! I can’t go into the
house, hut something is wanting ! If it isn’t
one thing it is another. Til leave my boots
iu the parlor every night if I have a mind,
and she may help herself J See if I don’t !—
We’ll see who will be master. Before wo
were married, it was—“If you please, my
dear!”—but cracky! If her tone hasn’’t
changed. She shall and shant, from week’s
end, to week’s end, and if I venture to put in
a word edgewise I’m shut up by her infernal
clatter! Talk about late hours and extrava
gance ! Wonder what she calls late hours!
I could stay out once until broad daylight, and
she too, if tho party was agreeable. But now
if I chance to tend the club once a week, there
is a pretty muss directly. And don't ever think
of her! Gracious me ! I wish I could forget
her five minutes, just to seo how it would
seem. If young men only knew! Bnt no if a
man says'a word he Is set down for a ninny.
He must grin and bear it, if it cuts ever so
close. Awl oyster suppers. Wonder if she
don’t like oysters! Tell mo about the propri
ety of sitting down to the breakfast table-with
her hair uncombed! Once she was all curls
and smiles! Now she’s slatternly as a wash
erwoman! Blast the race! They ought to
be indicted for obtaining husbands under false
pretences! If they’d only show out, the
men wouldn’t be such gudgeons! But no;
they’ll smiB? and smirk and twitter till
a fellow is fairly caught, and then, by
Jupiter, if they don’t haul down their coi-
o.*8! And then the baby tending! Its worth
a fortune to be compelled to hear the squalling
brats, night after night! Croup or cholic is
the eternal complaint. If I had my way IM
shake tbe-choli^ fut of ’em in u htuxy! But
no; they must be dosed with 1 : u,'i
and onions and the deuce only knows what,
and trotted till their gizzards are fairly shaken
out! and then if any one is to be kept np, why
Slocum can set up, it won't hurl him l But I’ve
done with it; I won’t, that’s a fact What's
that you say ! Mended my pants ? And four
new shirts, and a neckcloth! Well, I declare,
Mrs. Slocum is clever after all! If she didn’t
scold so like but no matter, I know I provoke
her, or she wouldn’t do it I’ll give in, I'll own
up—I’ll——. The remainder was lost in some
thing like a kiss. Five shirts must have done
it—for Slocum forgot to swear when he was
asked to tend the baby.
A Married Woman's Soliloquy.
BY “ OHS WHO HEABD IT."
Yes, its go! go! go! and get! get! get! for
every body on earth but one’s own wife. If I
should ask Mr. Slocum to go out at such a time
of day for a water paii and basket of oranges,
d’ye think he’d go? Not he; Imight want one
while and take it out in wanting! Oranges,
forsooth! *Twas only yesterday I asked him
to call at William’s for Charley’s shoes.
Wouldn’t you have liked to have heard him
scold, though ! If he didn’t turn up! Always
something wanting! Wish he could go to the
store and back again without calling fora
dozen parcels ! And when he came in and put
them on Charley’s feet, slapped him for crying
because the pegs hurt him ! Poor fellow! he
limped round till his father had gone, ami
then pulled them off The pegs were an inch
long, at least calculation. And now, just be
cause Mrs. Brown hints at a water pail, he’s
up and off in a minute! Why couldn’t Brown
go? Just as though her own husband wasn’t
good enough to wait on her. I’d show him
the difference if I was Brown! A pretty d’do
we shall have of it, if things go on at this rate,
ril ask Brown to do my errands, see if I don’t!
and then see how he likes it
If the girls only knewL But no! They
would’t believe a word of it You might tell
them till doomsday and they’d determine to try
it! “ Bought wit is the best if you don’t pay
too dear for it” Dear! I wonder what some
folks call dear? There’s Nellie Bly. You might
talk to her till next July and she wouldn’t be
lieve it But she’ll see ! She will learn a les
son for herself she’ll not forget soon.
If I were a girl again I wouldn’t change my
condition again in a hurry! Not I! There
was Slocum, always ready to run his legs off—
but now, he’ll go sooner for that Mrs. Brown
than for his own flesh and blood.
But I’ll pay him; see if I don’t! I won’t
get him a mouthful of supper. He may get
his meals where he does his work 1 See how
he’ll like that If I should do so; always try
ing to please other folks’ husbands instead ot
ray own, wo should have a pretty kettle of fish.
There’s Willie, he’s teased for an orange these
three days, and not the peel of one lias been
seen yet*
There he comes puffing like a steamboat! If
I bad sent him he wouldn't have been back these
two hours. Calling at Mr. Brown’s, too! if it
ain’t enough to provoke a saint I’ll tell him
ril quit—I’ll—Til—but no ! he’ll like that too
well! the brute!
I won’t please him so much. Fll stay if it
kills me, and Willie shall havo an orange if he
wants, and no thanks to him either. There
he comes again, and both hands are full.—
Wonder what he has got now, and who else is
he running for? Coming through the gate,
and—yes, noth pockets full of oranges. The
dear soul! I knew he wouldn’t forget his own
children! Won’t Willie have a good meal ?
And I will—yes, he shall have muffins for his
supper; Slocum loves muffins! ^
That’s all we heard, reader; for when Slo
cum opened the hall door, Charley, Willie,
wife and aU ran out to meet him and get some
of those same oranges.
Mrs. Slocum did get supper, and Slocum
had muffins.
The Nashville Banner says Colonel J. W.
Sloss, President Nashville and Decatur Rail
road, returned from New York iu time to at
tend the meeting of the stockholders of that
road at Pulaski Monday. The stockholders
accepted the various enactments passed at the
last session of the Legislature for the benefit