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"WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION."
VOLUME XXYI.
ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, NOT. 10, 1871.
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Ol lt NOVEL.
CIIAI’.XXVI.
A GAME OF WIIIST.
ffj left the heart of Hiram Lavender
4)2 its best to kick the buttons off his
We will now lay our ear close to
;4 snowy breast of Emma Eustace,
Vee i! we can hear what hei gentle
[L is whispering. It is the same cven-
Lidtre saw Hiram dizzied with the
niuhtin? splendors of Mrs. Winthrop s
flie summer days had glided into South-
■tsiDinmn, and the autumn too had given
luj winter, and winter had brought
l-iierry Christmas to Southern, as well
| t 'a Northern homes. The snow dil not
rt the muddy roads and lanes as it had
line at the North, and no merry sleigh
" Cn-led their gladness upon the outer
IITbuUhc merry voices of gladness rang
Jjjmost every house, and the music ot
lighter flowed arouud every hearth.
| ifatthongh the music of gladness arose
l-aerery side, and though parties and
rails and plays, were the life of the Christ-
sasholidays, neither ’.he musical gladness
lathe balls, nor parties, nor plays,brought
|:ar dizzy excitement to the sad heart of
itna. hriace the mortifying contretemps in
;ich she was the prominent fignre, she
isrnnk from society, and what little of
iomladness she knew was all drawn
Ira her own inner life, her conscious as-
Inuc^ol’innocence, her faith in the right
slier brave, patient endurance.
And now the evening while Hiram was
taring like a silly moth, around the
Iriiant blaze of Kate Walton’s beauty,
lei grace, she was alone in her home with
Iit:mother. She had been reading Schil-
|es "Death of Wallenstein,” and the bleak
apiir nf poor Thleka as she gave up her
lave, noble lover, found in her own heart
|t sad communion.
;wect Thleka,’this is what we heard her
tart whisper whisper soft as the cooing of
Itstrickcn dove’ 'yours was the nobler sac-
re. The death Max sought- brought
i earthly fame, and earthly glory, aud
Ixtter than all a sweet nepenthe, but for
You,alone in your sorrow, you have to
Inil out your wretched heart misery. Oh
lam, hard, cruel man, lias it ever been
lias, that pou were made to inflict, and
|f»or weak woman to suffer and endure.’
! whispered only to the silent, se-
|H' soul, and in it was the least bit of acer-
Iur, but then it was only a whisper, and if
; could only apply a stethescope to the
J beast of the happiest of all mortals, may-
lb sc con'd at times hear whispers equally
ilut the whispers, sour as they were to
hr secret soul, could not yet curdle the
seetness of her countenance, and the
hutiiul face as it glowed in the rich
ap light, and was reflected from the
right mirrors, shone as pure, as lovely,
edas sweetly as ever.
But perhaps it is best,’ thus the wbis-
srings said, ‘did man kave to suffer at wo-
suffers, his arm would be all too weak
-brave life’s rough battle,’ and then the
tlisperings ceased and the mind wander-
i back to the sad wailings of the, heart-
ora Thleka again.
Mrs. Eustace was reclining upon a sofa
urn to the opposite side of the hearth,
ud as she put aside her busy knitting for
momen‘,and looked upon the regal beauty
of her daughter, a feeling of pride, all un-
s-mmon to her nature, enthused her heart
ad she said:
Emma, you would be surprised to know
By thoughts.’
Kmma turned from Thleka with a puz-
tledexpression, surprised no less at the
■®e than at the words.
1 hope they were pleasant, mother,’ she
taswered, laying her book in her lap.
Tes, they were pleasant—they were
■toed I was thinking, Emma, how glad
1 ought to be—how glad I am of your
splendid beauty,’ answered the mother
* n h au air of gratified pride,
haima's beautiful face flushed crimson
the words, and with an unaffected etn-
hrrassment, she answered:
'Veil, one loves to be admired, and I
‘B sate mother, that your admiration is
* or, li more to me than any ore’s else do
b! the world. . , -
And yet my child, I dislike to see it all
,JS fod upon me. I would like for you to
f° into society, and receive from it the
“amage to which you are justly entitled,’said
Ae moth
‘And pray mother, what would it be
Wut th when I receive it, thcheartless mum-
Ule ry of fools. I despise it,’ replied Em-
with a scorn i.ot really becoming to
er , in her voice. AT
T-mmayou distress me with your cyni-
tlsm , J°n must put it from you,or it willsour
y°nr nature, and destroy your-peaee. You
uve indulged it too long already, it is un-
jWjw purer and better nature,’my
■ 1 n, answered the mother in a tone half
-wrrow.ul and half reproachful.
am sure mother that I am very well
as I am - I enjoy life much bel*
the 13 8 ^ ee ^ seclusion of-niy .home^ and
sweeter Companionship of- my-'dear
tnost'vm 311 I . w ° u!d -possibly do in; the-
r ‘‘ ,wnt circles of society. I would
“atexchr—- ■’ - * -
solitude. I really feel the more pleasant
because of my seclusion,and like the world
better for. seeiog less of it. And as for my
beauty, mother, of which I may have ouce
been vaio, and may possible be now, if it
affords you a pleasure to see it I shall all
the more carefully guard aud cultivate it
which you know I can do for you as well
as for the eyes of the beaumonde.
‘Yes, I know, darling,’ answered fier-
mother, ‘I am glad to see you cheerful in
your home life, but for all that I do think
that yju ought tc go more, among your
friends.’
‘Well mother, I will do so, and to begin
if you like, we will issue cards for a little
party, not a fashionable soiree, but just a
little social reunion,’ answered Emma.
‘Certainly, that would be very pleasing
to me,’ replied the mother, and then the
ladies went into the details of the arrange
ment, and so far progressed with its exe
cution as to write and direct the invita
tions that very night. .
The little circle of Emma’s friends were
quite as much delighted as surprised at'the
announcement, and the party was looked
to by all as something ol unusually prom
ising pleasure. They had comprehended
the sensitive delicacy which had excluded
her so long from society, and they hailed
her reappearance with a real gladness.
And when the evening came, and Em
ma received her guests with such a charm
ing ease and cordiality, her lace beaming
with its qmenly beauty, they were still
more delighted, aud in friendly words gave
expression to their warm congratulations.
Viola was there as radient as a morn
ing glory, and as lively as a cricket. Her
liveliness and merry laughter was the life
of the evening, and in the gladness of her
presence, Emma conld find no room in
her heart for an envious thought.
‘Bright, happy creature,’ she murmured
to h;rself,‘no wonder that hearts are tangbt
to love you,’ and she sighed a little half
uttered but quickly strangled sigh,and she
turned her thoughts and her eyes away.
John Hollins was there, genial light
hearted, laughing-mouthed John Hollins
and his funny jokes were a fit accompany-
ment to Viola’s sparkling repartee, and
merry voice.
‘I was out in Alabama, last summer Miss
Viola,’ he said continuing au autobiography,
during the interval between the dances,
‘and you may believe I was very much edified
with my observations. It must be prem
ised that 1 was a person of note. Barnum,
with his wooly horse, and his Fejee mer
maid would not have created a greater sensa
tion thanldid with my raffled shirt and tight
pants. Cousin Tom, that is Buckeye, Tom, for
I have six cousin Toms, banked extensively
upon me, and took pains to carry me every
where that a crowd was to be fonnd. Tom
was proud of his South Carolina cousin,
and explained that my ruffels were a dis
tinguishing badge of superior caste. And
I liked it too, and you had better believe that
I put on sirs fully in keeping with my
raffles, and then the girls bright eyed, rosy,
cheeked bouncers j my sakes, alive, Miss
A r iola, even your roses would have to be
touched with Frangipani to hold a candle,
and the most friendly, artless little dears
that ever unsettled a fellow’s dinner. I
vent to a cider beating one day, and you
ought to have heart little Rosy Boyd in
sisting upon my drinkingmvsixth glass. ‘Oh
it won’t hurt you a bit, eider is powerful
healthy, especially boss apple cider, it
cotagulates the system, and opens the pores
of the sweat holes, and its the healthiest
drink that ever is. ‘Of course, after this
scientific assurance I could not resist the
sixth glass.
‘And I suppose the pores of the sweat
holes were opened,’ laughed Viola.
Oh, yes, and the next day I called again
upon Miss Rosy, and had the extatatie bliss
of sucking metheglim with her, out of the
same jug.’
‘Oh, descrilbe that operation, said Viola.’
‘That Miss Viola,’ said John throwing
himself into a theatrical attitude, ‘is one cf
the things that may not be described. I
mean the sensations. Metbeglem, you
know, is honey aDd water, fermenting in a
jug, and is a delicious beverage; to suck it
out, without disturbing its fermentation,
requires a longjoiDt of oat straw. You can
imagine the process, aDd conceive how
closely our heads must be, to both suck at
once from the same jug, but you cannot
imagine the ‘Phcelinks’ of a feller sucking
anecter fit for the Gods, and all the while
having the silken tresses entangled in the
ruffles of his shirt.’
Oh, for the power of an Anacreon,’
laughed Viola..
Ob, Anacreon, wai a tasteless old laphead
who never even dreamed of ambrosial fe
licity, talk to me about your distilled nec
tar, the rich ripe juice of the grape, the
glories of Bacchus, or the sweets of Tom
Moore but give me metheglim in a
jug, and the delicious aroma of little Rosy
Boyd's cheeks and lips, and neck, to say
nothing of her golden curls, to give it a
bead.’ • T .
Oh it must have been delicious,’ that is
the metheglim. _ ft;
‘Delicious the rosy laughing Bacchus
himself would have wept at the thought
that he had been boro centuries before
this delicious drink was discovered. And
Miss Viola, that is not the best of it.
Yes that was the best of it, I mean to say
the sucking, the metheglim, the rosy
cheeks and brown hair, completely upset
me. I felt that I was a goner, deeper .in
love than my straw was in the metheglim',
and I waited until night, just fir the moon
shine, in which I could offer myself, raf
fled shirt, tight pants, and all to Miss
Rosy, and what do you think she did?’
‘Slapped you in the face with the butter
paddle for your'presumption,' repliedViola.
•Oh, I wish she had, I could have borne
that. I could have held my head back,
*nd suffered her to cut my throat with a
dull case knife, anything bnt the withering
blighting scorn with which she threw her
pretty head back and langhed in my face,
‘And what possible use, in all the world,
do you suppose that I could put such a
dainty little feller as you to,’ Bhe Baid; I
‘Oh,’ I said, I will lore you, will care
for you,, will—
‘Hush,’she said, I could never ehdurfe
a ruffled shirt. ... .a -. «iu
‘And will you believe it, Miss Vtola, I
have never worn a raffle since.’ .
‘Nor drank metheglim V
‘No. nor ha^the comm -to ■ JBBk-ft
chestnut curl.
ol £ t tlle l° v * D g warmth and repose
'hat '• c ” eer ^. - 00ni for the grandest hall
tty wit h the music of gay-
a font. this Emma answered ii
hit ofv 6Beet earn estness, not the least
tinu-VT R " ^“ging to if, and s he con-
j nor is there the least danger of my
to Mr. Benton who claimed her hand for
the coming waltz. This Mr. John Hollins
would much rather not have done, bnt he
consoled himself by joining Emma, and
rattled off his harram-scarrum gossip to
her. Emma did not oire to waltz, and
Mr. John Hollins, though envying the
luxury of Mr. Benton, as Viola’s sylph-like
foim went floating throagh the room,
would much prefer to look on than "waltz
with another, even though that other was
the radient belle of the District.
‘See Miss Eustace,’ he said, was ever a
nymph, a naiad or a grace of more exquis
ite loveliness than Miss Viola. See what
a moving fairy motion. Venus herself
could not tread the air with a lighter step
than she treads the rounds of the waltz.
Do you know Miss Emma, that I intend to
put a spider in that horrid Lavender’s
dumpling.’
Emma started. She too had been capti
vated with the witchery of Viola’s fairy
motion, and her own thoughts had at last
reached the name of Lavender, when Mr.
Johu Holiio’s lirs uttered it.
‘Oh, I beg your pardon, but I did not
understand.’
‘I say,’ rattled on John, ‘I mean to ker-
flutnex that feller, Lavender. He is too
spoony for such a magnificent little angel
as Miss Viola. Don’t you think so?’
‘Viola is certainly a very lovely girl,’
answered Emma.
‘Lovely, she is enchanting, a real boun
cer, and she is all too pretty for old Hiram
Lavender. Indeed I do not know but one
single earthly lord that is at all worthy to
vegetate in her sunshine, and that one is
John Hollins. So Mr. Lavender had bet
ter mind whom he lets bake his cakes, when
he comes back.’
Emma smiled with for more sweetness
than an ordinary woman would have smiled
at this praise of ker beautiful rival’s charms,
but before she could answer, the waltz was
ended, and Mr. Benton led her to a seat
next to Emma’s.
John Hollins broke out again. ‘Do you
know Miss Viola, that I have been con
spiring against you, or rather for you, aud
against that horrid old Hi Lavender of
yours.’
I wonld not be surprised to hear of your
doing any bad thing, Mr. Hollins, she
laughingly replied, ‘but pray what has the
horrid Hi been doing?
Oh, I want him out of the way,’ answer
ed John Hollins.
‘And I am snre, he is far enough out of
the way now,’ she said.
‘Oh, but he will be coming back, one of
these days, and then a fellow can’t get a
single smile for him,’ he said with a mock
depreciation.
Oh, as for that, he is already ont of the
question, he has been ca-ight by a cold-eyed
Northern beauty, and you know a South
ern girl cannot afford to waste smile9 upon
encumbered hearts,’ she laughed with a
merry gossip.
‘Are you not jesting,’ John nollios
asked.
No, indeed, I have it from his friend,
he is hopelessly stock.
‘And you don’t care?’
‘Oh, no, I am glad of it, for if she is half
that his friend says she is, she is more than
a match for him.’
‘And you are free, Miss Viola.’
‘Oh, yes, free as a jaybird, catch me if
you can,’ and the laughing head was toss
ed in the most bewitchirgly coquettish
way.
That’s a lair banter, and I accept it,, he
langhed.
Without the desperate resort of ruffles?’
said Viola,
Yes, just as I am,’ he answered, with his
hand clasped npon his heart, and his eyes
in a exstatic rolling.
Then I promise you just such another
letting down as Miss Rosa, the metheg-
limite, gave you,’she said.
‘Ob, that would be croel.’
Not half commensurate with your pre
sumption.’
Whew,’ whistled John Hollins, while
Viola langhed.
But tell me what about old Ill’s predica
ment, lor now that he is out of the way, I
am free to confess that I like him hughly-
He was the only boy at college that could
whip me, and I love him for the way we
used to pummel each ether’s heads.’
Oh, he is completely done for, so very
browD that he cannot ever condescend to
write me a word about it. ‘Oh, no, he
never mentions her, and all I get is from a
mutual friend, who is as extravagant in his
panegyrics of the lady, as he avers that
Hiram is in his fascination,’ rattled Viola
in childish gossip.
And who is she ?’
A Miss Kate Walton.’
Kate Walton,’ exclaimed Emma, who
had been a half careless listener.
Oh, I beg your pardon, Miss Emma,
said Viola, with an embarrassed flush suf
fusing her face, ‘nut really, I did not think
of you, in my foolish gossip.’
‘And I beg your pardon, for iuterropting
you, it was quite unintentional,’ answered
Emms, while the color mounted to her face
as well. ‘I only thought that I had heard
the name before, and Emma rather pain
fully recalled the embarrassing mistake that
Hiram had made in addressing her daring
his last visit. ‘Please talk on, Viola,’
‘Oh, I ought to be more ladylike than
thus to be talking abont onrabsent friends,’
she aoswered, with a compunction of con
science.
‘No, there is no harm—we are. all glad
to hear of Mr. Lavander’s good fortune,’
said Emma, with a lame attempt at a
smile.
‘Yes, he deserves it, Miss Emma,’ said
Viola, in a voice that told how heartly she
felt it. ‘A r ddoyou know, Miss Emma,
that Mr. Winthrop writes that Miss Wal
ton’s wondrous beauty is strikingly like
your own.
Emma blushed again, bnt Viola condon
ed. “See here he has s >nt me a medallion
ambrotype of her, do you not perceive the
wonderful resemblance,’ and Viola un
loosen# from her necklacean exquisite locket
s£id handed it to Emma.
Emma opened it, and so striking was the
resemblance that she started in surprise,
and could hardly realize that it was not tbe
picture of her own lovely face that she was
lookiog upon. She gazed npon it for a
moment and then handed it back to Viola,
as she asked. ‘And how came yon by this?’
Viola started at the qnestion, it was so
earnest and direct that she felt embarrassed,
with a flush, she answered.
Mr. -Winthrop sent it to me, he and
Hiram are great friends, and he is quite
asprond of Hiram’s conquest, as if it were
his own! The lady is a very dear friend
of his, I believe a relative, and knowing
the interest I have in Hiram, he thought
I fear, somewhat interfere with your ami
able little design npon poor innocent me,’
again langhed Viola.
‘Oh, another Richmond is he,’ asked Mr-
John Hollins.
‘Oh, no, another Shylock, bnying and
sailing human flesh, to whom Hiram has
swaped me, for this horrid Kate.’
‘That is too bad.’
‘Yes, and to mend the matter heisagreat
gawky fiat-footed Yankee and I have to
nold bis nose to make h tu say cow,’ laog
el the jaybird.
‘Then I will pat two spiders in his camp
ling. that’s what I will,’ said Mr. John
Hollins.
‘Oh, that will be to bad, for Mr. Hollins,
after he does say cow, he is such a nice
fellow. ‘The yonog man by the came of
Brown, is a perfect nobody to him.’ Miss
Emma is he not handsome, sbe said, laugh
ingly appealing to Emma.
More Developments.
Tbe act- granting State aid to the Brun
swick and Albany Railroad, authorized the
Governor to iodorse the first mortgage
hoods of the road to be extent of 815,000
per mile, taking a first lien npon the road
and its equipments; also, in addition to
this, to issue to tbe road the bonds of the
State to tbe amount of $8,000 per mile,
and take as security tbe bonds of the road
to the extent of $10,000 per mile. The
indorsed bonds to which the road would be
entitled, if it were fully completed, would
be $300,000; aud the amount of State
bonds to which it would be entitled if the
road were finished, would be $1,880,000.
The law requires the Governor to issue
aud indorse these bonds as fast as every ten
miles are completed, and no faster
The road is completed only to Albany—
and poorly finished at that, so we learn.
Yet, as we showed a few days ago, the en
tire amount of bonds to which the road
would be entitled, if the road were finish
ed, both of indorsed bond and State bonds,
have all been, by order of the Governor,
fully prepared, registered, executed and
sealed with the Great Seal of the State,
and delivered to him. This was fully set
forth in our columns a few days ago. We
then stated that we did not know whether
Bullock had delivered the bonds to Mr.
Kimball, or had used them unlawfully
Hrnself or not; but our opinion was that
some unlawful use was intended, and that
the law had been violated in baviog them
issued and delivered to him by his order.
We learn from, Dr. Angier, that he has
ascertained, officially, that the bonds are
not in tbe Executive office, and no one
there knows where they are. Judge Cot-
ting, the Secretary of State, has, by order
of Bullock, executed, scaled and delivered
to him all tbe bonds, and they are not in
the Governor’s office. Where are they ? Has
Bollock turned them over to Mr. Kimball
contrary to law ? If so, have they beeu
pawned or hypothecated and money drawn
od them, or haVe they been sold? These
are important questions upon which we can
only have an opinion at present.
But, in addition to the law requiring
the bends of the State . to the extent of
$8,000 per mile, to be delivered to the road
only as fast as every ten miles are built, it
also requires bonds of tbe road to tbe
amount ot $10,000 per mile, or S2,350,000
in the aggregate, to be deposited with the
State Treasurer, before a single State bond
is delivered to ibe road. Only 8650,000
of these bonds have been deposited with
the Treasurer.
Bullock has absconded—has fled from
before the face of an outraged people—to
escape tnc just pnmshmeDt of his crimes,
and has, in some way, disposed of, issued or
misused—so it seems to us over $2,000,000
of bonds more than the road is entitled to,
as far as it is completed.
Now, if it be true that he has, in any
way, issued, used or delivered those bonds
unlawfully, he is liable to be seDt to the
penitentiary. This he knows, and hence
his nnmanly flight. The 4355th Sectien
of the Code provides as follows:
“Auy officer, servant, or other person employ
ed in any public deparmeat or station or office
of Government, of this State, or any county,
town or city of tll^e State • * • who
shall embezzle,steal, secrete, fraudulently take
|ind carry away, any money, gold or silver, bul
lion, note or notes, bank bill or bills, bill or bills
of exchange,warrant or warrants,bond or bonds,
deed or deeds, draft or drafts, check or checks,
security or securities, for the payment of money
or delivery of goods, or other things, * *
* scaled instruments, or any certificate
or other public security for the State, • f
* or any day-book, or other book of ac
counts, or any agreement or contract, whatever;
such person so offending shall, on conviction,be
finished by imprisonment and labor in the pen-
teatiazy for any time not less than two years,
nor longer than seven years.”
This language is plain. Bollock under
stood it and has ran away from it—at least
this is the only construction which we can
put upon his conduct.—Atlanta Sin.
Then X advise you to dress like
sible man, and go back to Alabama, and
conit Miss Rosy again,’ said Viola. :
‘Oh;Us no use, she hasalready married—
married a great whiskered, fellow named
Jeddediah Soap.’ -«’• •’->;
‘And not-having any particular (desire ____ _ .... r ...
niouY of Mri.- to surprise me with the radiance of Miss
‘ • iAYa'ton’s Jace; forgetting. that its living
prototype can be found here at home.’
•And pniy; who is Winthrop,’ asked Mr.
mrE?’cn! oeff tds v/t iwnude «s»ir. .soi t qiJohn Hollins,■ unwilling to have the eon-
,, jj jjode dbw ! c '-vereatiofiifaiBiepelisedifcy * strangers name.
And Mr. John Hollins, without the rof- ‘Oh, he is, well, 1 forgot to tdl yan Mr.
fle^lcd her to the dance. After the sc\, Hollins of the little arrangement that will,
te be snapt up, you will 1
'Snap’s-Way/tmfii^fwto*'
4 HISSING WILL RECOVERED.
A Dying Confederate Coneral’s Estates—
•300,000 Involved—Tbe Will just Re
stored to the General’s Daughter.
Henry DJlon, an ex-Umon soldier,propri
etor of a newspaper stind at Montgomery
and Hudson streets, Jersey City, yester
day received a check for $500 from the
daughter of the late General Stegman of
the Confederate army. The circumstances
under which the money was paid arc ro
mantic. During the war Dillon served in
the Second New Jersey cavalry. He ac
companied his regiment on Grierson’s fa
mous raid throngh Mississippi, and while
on a scouting expedition one day encoun
tered General Stegman and one of his staff
officers. Shots were exchanged and the
rebel general fell from his saddle, mortal
ly wounded. The staff officer fled, bnt
was overtaken and captured by a comrade
of Dillon’s. In his dying moments, Gen
eral Stegman requested his slayer to take
from one of his intide pockets his will, be-
qnealhing all his property to his wife and
daughter, and a life insurance policy fur
$40,000. He asked Dillon to keep them
and send them to his family.
Aite^the war Mr. Dillon advertised in
rain for the owners, and he resolved to re
tain possession of. the papers until come
inquiries should be made for them. Re
cently an advertisement appeared in the
Alabama papers offering 8600 reward for
tbe missing will. Dillon answered it, and
Gen. Stegman’s daughter came North as
the guest of Roger A. Pryor. She related
the particulars of tho long search for the
will, the difficulties that bad been encoun
tered, the production of a forged will by
her cither’s relation, and their Mobile law
suits. She expressed deep gratitude to
Mr. Dillon for the recovery of the will, and
said that through it her mother and herself
would be enabled to regain possession of
their extensive Alabama and Georgia es
tates. The estates are valued at 8300,-
000.
DillonJs to be subpoenaed as a witness in
the suits for their restoration to the right
ful ownerr. Ypung Dillon gallantly dis
tinguished himself in several actions dur
ing the war,and was one of the frw. private
soldiers to whom Congress voted a gold
medal for bravery.—iVoo York Sun.
A *60,000 BOUNTY SWINDLE*
Arrest of au Ex-Congressman and an Audit
Office Clerk—A'Company of Soldiers that
Enlisted only on Paper.
Washington, Ock 26.—For three
months tbe Government detectives have
been on the track of some Southern bounty
swindlers, and a whole neat of them have
been discovered in Tennessee, having tor
their leader no less a personase than ex-
Congressman S’ocks of that State. It
was also discovered that these parties work
ed in collusion with a responsible party in
the Second Auditor’s Office named Victor
G. Powell, who is an appointee from Ohio.
Powell was at once arrested, and Stocks
was arrested to-night and placed under
315,000 bail. The amount involved in
this swindle is $60,000, and its history is
abont as follows: On the 24th of July,
1870, just prior to. the expiration of his
Congressional term, Stocks, in conjunction
with other members of the Tennessee dele
gation, a strong Southern lobby, succeeded
in getting a bill through Congress for the
relief of Capt. Beatty and his company of
102 men, which was designated as the
Tennessee Rangers. It was claimed that
although this was an irr“gularorganization,
it rendered effective service daring the
war, and Wits therefore entitled to the pay
enrollments, aad bounties of United States
troops for the time of its service, which
was said to extend from Jane, 1862, to
April, 1865.
The bill provided (or the settlement of
these accounts by the Second Auditor.
The accounts had been nearly settled,
when it was discovered that this organiza
tion simply had an existence on papier, and
that the Government had been paying
moneys to bounty sharks. Other well
known politicians arc connected with this
scheme, whose names are withheld for the
present, but whom the detect! ~es expect to
catch in a short time.
Republican Elections.—The tele
graphic report yesterday that the Radicals
were about to rale out the Democratic rep-
reseutatives-elect to Congress from Texas,
is tbe last illustration of the farce to which
State elections have been reduced by the
Republican party. The gross Democratic
majority is some where between twentyand
thirty thousand majority.
Tiie Rev. Charles Voysey, recently ex
pelled from the ministry of the Church of
England, has prepared a new Prayer Book,
the Litany office of which contains the
following - novel petition: ‘That it may
please Thee to help all literary persons and
editors of the public press, that they may
nse all their powers in the canse of troth
and righteousness, and rise above the praise
and blame of mao.’
Heavy Robbery.—On Friday night, as
the venerable Dr. Means, of Savannah, was
entering the car he was robbed of his gold
watch aud pocket book containing eleven
hundred dollars. The watch was present
ed by the students of Emory College to Dr.
Meaos, on tbe occasion of his retiring from
the presidency of the college, and was
highly prized by him.—Macon Telegraph.
Care of Stock.—The farmer who
stints the field of his stock daringthe Win
ter months, in order to have something to
carry to market, is foolish; the farmer who
feeds his stock well tbAngh the Winter
months, i3 wise. Ooe makes his stock
bring a price for more than the extra feed
given ; the other has the pleasure of seeiog
his neighbor’s stock sell readily at tbe
highest market, while his own is slow of
sale, and at a reduced price.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
A colored Conservative Clnb is ‘to be or
ganized in Rich mend Va.
Fifteen deaths'from yellow fever.at
Charleston, 8. C., for the week ending Oc
tober 14th.
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars of
the State of Tennessee is in session at
Nashville, and is largely attended.
Tbe color il !> .y whose arrest oacsed
the late riot at Danville. Va , has beeu sei<
teneed to the penitentiary for six years.
Two of the men arrested for KuKlux-
ism in Spartanburg, S. C.. are respectively
81 and 70 years of age.
One white and two colored men hare
been nomniated by the Conservatives of
Halifax county, Va., for the House of dele
gates.
The Nashville hotels are overflowing
with strangers and visitors from different
sections of Tennessee-drawn there by the
present term of the FedcraTCoort.
An Englishman named Easton, who has
recently settled in the neighborhood of
Gordonsrille, Va., will soon open there “a
monthly cattle sale and market on the Eng.
lish principle.”
The pioepcet for the erection of a free
bridge over the Cumberland at the oldsite,
connecting Nashville and Edgefield, is
most encouraging, says the Banner. Al
though opposed by many of the citizens of
Edgefield at first, the proposition is rapid
ly gainiog strength there.
“Is it not time,” asks the Boston (Mass.)
Transcript, “that tbe U-iion woman from
Georgia who has been begging so long
from one end of the city to the other, and
calls npon her patrons in a carriage and
lives at a first-class hotel, had made np her
little pile and also made off?”
A Mr. Lonis Kimball, who resides near
Harlem, Clay county, Mo., lost one of his
children a few days ago under very dis
tressing circumstances, having given it
morphine by mistake for quinine. The
blunder nos that of the druggist in Kansas
City who put np the prescription.
A gentlemen writing to the Department
of Agriculture from YaUbusha county,
Mis?., says he planted onion seeds in May,
expecting to get sets in the fall, bnt, to his
surprise, he has gathered a fine crop of
onions, some of them measnring folly thir
teen inches in eireomference.
The Norfolk (Va.) Journal says: “A
portion of the roof of the famous Confeder
ate ram, the Merrimac, was hanled npon
the ways at Graves’ shipyard, on Wednes
day morning. It formed a portion of the
bfo dside of the roof, and is abont fifty-five
feet long and twenty-five feet wide.
Tbe State Geologist of North Carolina,
in his late report, says there are hundreds
of acres of native cranberries in the moon-
tain valleys of that State—lar -e quantities
of this frnit are annually gathered there for
export. East Tennessee also has many
fine cranberry swaps among her mountains.
The Mobile Register, of the 15th instant,
says: “Many of the seedling peaeh trees
in the neighborhood of Mobile are now ont
in pretty fall bloom, aod we notice large
numbers of blossoms on tbe pear trees this
week. Budded or grafted peach trees do
not seem to be making snch fools of them
selves.”
The Stock and Dairy Business
South. -Here is an interesting fact for
thai class of unbelievers who hold that
stock-raising and batter-making will not
pay in the Southern States: ‘Gen. Ewell
owns three thousand acres of land in Maury
county, Tenn., twelve hundred of which are
under cnltivation. He has twelve hundred
sheep, Co'swolds and half bloods, and four
hundred head of cattle. He has a dairy of
fifty cows, averaging each aponod of butter
per day. His entire batter prodtact is
bought by one hotel.’—Exchange.
What Has Been Done.—The Hon.
William M. Tweed was yesterday arrested
by order of Judge Learned of Albany. Mr.
Tweed is charged with deceit and fraud.
The warrant was served by Sheriff Bren
nan in person in Mr. Tweed’s private office.
Mr. Tweed gave bail in the snm of $1,000,-
000 without leaving the room. The bonds
men were Bernard Kelly, Jay Gonld, Ter-
ance Farley, Hugh Hastings, and B. F.
Fairchild.
Elbert A. Woodward, James H. Inger-
soll, aad Andrew J. Garvey have not yet
been arrested.
The complaint against Tweed, Ingersoll,
Garvey, and Woodward includes an affidavit
from Johu H. Keyser, specifying the forg
ed warrants that were drawn in his name.
New York Sun, Oct. 28.
Handling Hogs.—A practical breeder
gives the following advioe, which in the
main we think sound, for those whose
herd is not too large, and who are engaged
in mixed husbandry: “To handle hogs to
the best advantage, a pasture is needed of
mixed grasses, Clover, Blue grass and
Timothy, and it is best if there is no tan
ning water or stock ponds in the lot.
Hogs do better where there are no branches
or stock ponds to wollow in. In plaoe
thereof, have good well water pumped for
them. Have troughs made, and mol stripe
across, eight inches apart, to keep the hogs
from lying down in the water, and let these
hogs be pnt on floors, to keep them from
digging up wallowing holes. If any feed
be given, it should be soaked in swill bar
rels for twelve honrs before feeding—no
longer—and fed to them as drink.”— Ger-
mantoicn Telegraph.
A Good and Great Man Fallen.—
Intelligence was received in this city, yi
terday morning, of the death of the Rev.
Nathaniel Macon Crawford, D. D., oo
Thursday night, Oct. 26th, from paralysis.
He had suffered from paralysis, which af
fected his toogne, for abont a month, and
it gradually spread until bis throat and
head were affected. Rev. Mr. Crawford
was the son of Hon. William H. Crawford,
(at one time a candidate for President of
the United States,) and was abost sixty
years of sge.
Nathaniel Macon Crawford was one of
nature's noble men. Generous, magnani
mous and liberal, there were fewer, riper
intellects, or more cultivated men, in the
Baptist denomination of which he was a rep
resentative man and leader, then he illus
trated the beauty of the Christian Religion,
and was gathered to his fathers, fall ofyears
and honors. The State of Georgia and the
canse of Christianity, as well as the Baptist
denomination, have sustained, in his death,
a great loss. Truly, ‘a great man in Israe I
has fallen.’— Constitution.
It has all along been apparent that the
burning of Chicago most give birth to an
epie. The Lonisville Commercial produces
it, as follows:
Rome, when the times were critical and loose,
Owed her salvation to a cackling goose!
Chicago, clothe - ia blackened rain now.
Lays her destruction to a kicking cow!
That is all right enongh, and while the
cow is deserving of some honor, hers is only
s share ol the immortality. Tbe epic should
have closed somehow as follows:
Bat over tho waste tbe cow’s not solely qaeen,
Here’s to thee, non-explosive kerosene.
—Atlanta San.
Mr.Wedd_, the great ship builder of New
York, gires it as his opinion, that, an less
Congress does something at the next session
to aid steam navigation, every American line
will give way to a British tine within one
;rear. What that something is, Mr. Wedd
i ails io state. A Radical Congress broke
down oar shipping interests ty selfish, par
tial legislation, aod it is not likely they will
act in a different manner at the coming ses
sion of Congress.
The Greensboro’ (N. C.) Patriot, of the
12th, says: “A remarkable number of
deaths have occurred in the vicinity with
in the last two weeks, amoontingto between
fifteen and twenty. The larger portion
were colored people. The number is un
precedented in this locality, which is one
of the healthiest in the State.”
The firing of cannon on the streets of
Vicksburg, Miss., has again been resumed
by order of the Mayor. Tar is being burnt
freely throagh the streets, and the air is
thoroughly impregnated with ita scent.—
These actions are deemed advisable, so
says the Times, as some of the citizens are
still apprehensive of yellow fever.
The Anderson (Texas) Home Journal
says: “Nat. Outlaw, who was imprisoned
in the penitentiary for s’short time last
spring by order of s court-martial, npon
the charge of being one of the parties im
plicated in the murder of a freedman, has
ntsitated suit against Gov. Davis, Geo.
Davis and CoL Gibbs for damage at $100,-
000.
The Nashville Banner, of Wednesday,
says: Heavy rain, lasting fifteen hoars,
feU Saturday night and Sanday morning
from Stevenson, Ala., to Chattanooga, and
above. There was abo a general rain np
the valleys of Little and Big Sequatchie.—
Tbe Tennessee river rose turee feet at
Bridgeport Sunday night All the streams
are past fording.
The following characteristic funeral item
is from the Kansu City (Mo.) Times, of
the 10th: “The funeral of Mike Williams,
shot by Wild Bill, at Abilene, took place
in this city on Sanday. Wild Bill paid
tbe expenses ot the funeral." The Chatta
nooga Tones adds: “Mr. Williams, we have
no donbt, deeply regrets his inability to
thank Wild Bill for his liberality
Daring the sitting of a Radical county
convention at Pitttylrania Court House,
Virginia, last week, a man named Ingram,
who was present, bad his pocket book, con
taining 878 in money, stolen. The Vir-
giania papers, with one accord, before
that “some of the delegates, whilst appar
ently engrossed in politics, were reaDy en
gaged in the more congenial trade of steal-
’ i”
The Union Spring (Ala.) Tones men
tions a resident of that town, an old ne
gro named Jacob, now one hundred and
six years old. He is a native of Africa,
and wu brought to this country at the age
of fifteen years. He Mill maintains safli-
eient physical activity to nearly support
himself io hit chosen avocation of making
baskets, horse collars and bottoming chairs.
The Dallas (Text*) Herald sajs a pri
vate letter to a gentleman of that place
gives information of the death of Gen.
Sam. Watte, a Cherokee Chief of high
character and reputation. He wu a Briga
dier General in the Confederate army, and
distinguished for his intelligence, fine ap
pearance aod gallant conduct. He wu a
full-blooded Indian, though his wile wua
white lady.
Lowrey and his gang of North Carolina
outlaws still hold their own in Robeson
connty. The General in command of the
troops sent to effect the capture of the out
laws visited them alone by special invita
tion a few days since. He represents them
as men of intelligence, with a determina
tion not to he captured. Sinee his visit
the troops stationed w Robeson county
hare been withdrawn.
Darien Ship Canal.
Commodore ,Selfridge, in charge of the
Darien canal survey, has carefully examin
ed what is known u the Atrato route to the
confluence of the Napipi river, a distance
of one hundred and twenty miles. The
Atrato is navigable to this point, and here
the real difficulties of the work begin. A
canal most ran tt-ence to Simnn bay o» t*’--
Pacific count, thirty tw-i tutlre
luwir level... f il».‘ divrtu i- --.a
aud t»rlvo tart; there uiUM tic it cut' .'
hundred and sixty-foor feet in depth, and
at least several hundred feet in depth, and
to cap the climax there most be a tunnel
four miles long, and large enongh to admit
tbs passage of ships of heaviest harden with
topmasts sent down. The Selfridge plan
requires nine locks on the Pacifie, each
with ten feet lift—and the total expense of
the entire work is set down at 8106,000,-
000, with 325,000,000 pat aside to mee'
unexpected ob-tncles or errors in calcula
tion.
Now, aeeardiog 11 the erost aecen to in
formation to be obtained, and making the
amplest allowances io favor of the enter
prise, there might be 750,000 tonage pass
throagh the canal annually, providing it
eoold be built. Calculating seven per cent,
as a low enongh rate of interest on tbe in-
vestmert to pay the proper returns and
meet noaing expenses, the yearly earnings
should be, say $8,000,000. This would be
$10 a ton—or. on a vessel of 600 tons,
$6,000, which amounts to actual prohibition,
for oo commerce in the world eoold'stand
snch an enor nous tax. If Commodore Self
ridge cannot God a cheaper canal track
across the Istbmns than via Atrato river,
we may as well abandon the Usk in despair,
for the Suez canal was mere child’s play
compared to this. Bnt those who hare ex
amined the Tehnantopee rente claim that
it is far better in eveiy respect; that a canal
there can be built much cheaper, tbe transit
be made more easily and safely, and conse-
quently that the tolls will be lower. These
are strong recommendations, bnt the ques
tion is, are they based on facts? That we
most and will have a ship canal between
the Atlantic aod Pacific, is, perhaps, afore-
gone conclusion; bat the when, where and
low, are slightly .uncertain jnst now.—•
Missouri Republican.
[From the New York Bulletin.
Railroad Earnings.
From the subjoined compilation , it will
be seen that tho earniogs oo the railroads
ia September were upon a liberal scale.
Out of the thirteen roads on the Stock
Exchange, whose earnings are regularly re-
portedAll except the Illinois Central, show
gratifying increase upon the receipts of
September, 1870. This could hardly have
been expected, considering that most of the
roads have been carrying produce at lower
rates than last year, and implies that there
has been a material increase in the quanti
fy of freight transported. Two prominent
roads are not included in onr list—the
Chicago and Rock Island and the Chicago
and Northwestern, neither eompauv hav
ing reported its earniogs for severs! days
past. Probably each line has earned less
than last year. Snch roads as have report
ed will be fonnd in the following state
ment:
GROSS EARNINGS FOR SEPTEMBER.
isn lsis.
Chicago and Alton $»M04 *197,51»
Central Pacific -— 1,027,800 787,133
Cleveland. Col, Cm. and Ind 874,679
Illinois Central... .. *SSS 8-16
Ijifc*-Shore .......... I 3--S.5W
The New York Sun (Radical) says; “The
loss of Texas to the Republicans, in spite
of the Kn-Klox act of Congress” the prac
tical proclamation of martial law, and the
through-going usurpations of Governor Da
vis in behalf of Grant’s administration
irove that all the Sonthern States,with per-
tapsone or two exceptions, will vote
-against Gen. Grant should ha be the Presi
dential candidate in 1872.” That is the
reason he is declaring martial law. He
wants to keep them from voting.
Railroids in England have been pay
ing well of late, and the reason, according
to the Lo idon Times, is that, instead of
devoting all their energies to competing
with rival lines, and building branches to
steal tbe traffic o) others, they have kept
to their own field, aud managed their afikus
in the most careful and economical n.an-
The Yorkville Enquirer says:
The wholesale arrests made by the miE-
tary in the connty have had • very depres
sive iafloence on business, and industrial
pursuits generally, and all presume that
snch will be the ease throughout the entire
section of the State embraced in the 'proc
lamation. Crops remain in the fields on-
harvested, and on account of the general
r eeling of inseenrify, business is nearly at •
stud still, while s large number of persons
hare left theoooatry, rather than incur
the nnpleisant and uncertain consequences
of arrests. The future of onr section is
now more gloomy than it has been sinee
the war.
The Grand Jury of Chester eonnfy,
composed of six white men and six colored
men, made a presentment which states that
the result of their investigation of the alleg
ed Kn-Klox outrages there, and concludes
as follows: ‘Tie, the Grand Jurors, npon
onr oaths, are compelled to say from the
testimony we have taken, and from onr
knowledge of the different parta of the
country that the allegations contained in
the proclamation of the President of the
United States, is one without foundation,
and most be tbe result of falsehood, com
municated to him by persons equally re
gardless of good order, and the peace of
society.’
Where, Where is Omaha P—The
Sionx City (Iowa) Time*gets off the follow
ing good one on Omaha:
President Grant arrived here yesterday
at three o’clock, and started for the Ogden
House to get a sdbare meal.
He was' waited upon by Mayor Cadwell,
ex-Mayor Millard, General Angnr, Senator
Hiteheoek and Hon. John Toffe, M. C.,
who, in a very humble and snppliant ad
dress, written by the ministers and school
of the West Side, in council assembled,
begged His Excellency to favor Omaha by
a vint, if only for fire minutes.
Grant, (taking a cigar stump from his
lips)—‘Omaha, Omaha, where the devil is
Omaha?’
i—-‘It’s only serosa the' river,
yonr ImperiarMajcsty.’
Grant, (puff, puff)—‘Damn it I I thought
Omaha was somewhere np in the Indian
Reserve, among tbe Blackbird Hills. I
hove no time to switch off and see side
mm*Ntfi tic nsu:
...—
The Nashville Banner, of Wednesday,
says that not less than 1,000 . bushels of
chestnuts were thrown npoo the market on
Tuesday, the result of which was a decline
in the price to 82 25 though they readily
brought from 85 to $6 50 the week previ-
OUlotnti Mississippi - ■' 3Z6.S7V
Pacific if Missouri 389.070
St Louis. Alt, and T. Unite *J88,007
St Loir: and Iron Mountain. 141,166
Tolciln,Wabash and Western 668,516
Union Pacific...™...... *748,763
373,011
991 235
‘.275 588
L.V! id 3
318.957
343^96
157JS0
124,125
728425
....-*8,742,853 $6,905,221
567,632
•Estimated for September, 1871.
The aggregate grots earnings of these
thirteen roads show an inerese on those of
September, 1870, amounting to 8567, 632,'
or about 9 percent. The receipts for the
expired nine months of the jear compare
as follows:
GROSS EARNINGS FROM JANUARY 1 TO
SEPTEMBER 30.
1S71. 1879.
Chicago and Alton *3,953414 *3428439
Central Pacific — --6,953,352 5495434
Cleveland, Col. Cin.and Ind.2468,239 - *
Illinois Central-™...™—*9439491
Lako Shore and M. South. 19,725499
Marietta and Cincinnati—. 14194**
Milwaukee and St Paul— 4,731424
Ohio and Miesiaaippi — —2,269,511
Pacific of Missouri —_—...2,846,419
St Louis. Alt andT. Haute*1454,797
St. Louis and Iron Monntainl,1454*7
Toledo, Wabash and West..4,0S8,743
Union Pacifie *5435,815
2459495
6471499
9499,185
1413487
5,191,975
2499,423
2495,990
1,249449
977.769
3,152458
5,833449
Totals
Increase.
*53414,931 *49499405
. 3,918,423
•Estimated for September, 1871.
The gross earnings of these roads, -for
the nine months, show so increase of S3,-
613,426, or abont 7 per cent. The in
crease has been pretty generally distributed,
the only exceptions of moment being Mil
waukee and St. Panl and Uason Pacific.
Illinois Central and Ohio and Mississippi
are abont tbe same as last year. On all the
other roads there has been s substantial
increase, especially on Central Pacific,
Lake Shore, Marietta and Cincinnati, Iron
Mountain and Toledo, Wabash aod Wes
tern. How the net earnings compare, we
bave|no means of ascertaining,in!the_ absence
of any returns showing the working- ex
penses. We have no donbt, however,
that they would show a larger increase
than that of the gross receipts; as the
working expenses have been in most eases
largely diminished, partly by a greater
economy and partly by the decline in the
prices offoel sod of supplies generally.
Action of the Democratic Executive Com
mittee.
The State Executive Committee assem
bled in Macon on the 27tb, and had a fall
and ftee consultation. Tbe following reso
lutions were adopted:
Resolved, That the fruits of the victory
achieved it the December election cannot
be secorcd withont thorough organization.
We reiterate the opinion previously ex
pressed by this committee that men of
character and ability should be nominated
for office, audit should be regarded as a
patriotic duty to support and fleet them,
though individual preferences hare to be
abandoned.
Resolved, That the people of Georgia
and this committee have an abiding con
fidence that the Democratic Legislature,
soon to assemble, will be guided by “W is-
dom, Justice, and Moderation;’’ that its
action will be discreet, its enactments jnst,
and its administration honest and economi
es].
Resolved, That this committee believe
the reports of the existenoe of Kn-Klnx
or other secret polities! organizations in this
State, which have indneed Congress to
take action on that subject, are wtoUy
unfounded. That there have been sets' of
lawlessness and violence cannot be denied,
bnt they have not been instigated by any
partisan motive or feeling. The ill-adviaed
use of the pardoning power, by which r» .
torions criminals have been relieved from
the punishment doe to their erimes,; has,
in some instances, excited persons to sets
of violence which would not have other
wise occurred, and which we unhesitatingly
condemn and disapprove.
Keeping Sweet Potatoes in tbe Seatb.
We have recently noticed in many of
onr exchanges, instructions for the . keep
ing of sweet potatoes, copied from papers
which intended the original advice ior lati
tudes and cGmates totally different from
ours. The adviee they give is doubtless
pod for the section of oonntry for which
t is intended—but come discrimination
should be need and allowance made for dif
ferences oi soil and climate.
The following brief instructions on the
subject are tbe result of experienced grow
ers in this part of the country, and are
thoroughly reliable and safe to follow:
1st. Be snre and dig the potatoes before
frost np* the vines; bank or house them
on the day of digging.
2nd. Pick ont all potatoes that are
braised or eat. Prepare the spot for bank
ing in tbe morning, before tie eun is high
—cut iff with the hoe or spade all grass or
weeds and leave the place exposed to the
son and air til day. Lay the potatoes on
the bare ground, about 20 bushels to a
bank and bring it to the form of a cone,cat
eorn stalks of n length Io reach from, tfca
pound to tbe top of the bank; lay 00 at
east two courses of stalks, bnt four will do
mneb better. Cover with earth from fonr
to five inches thick, leaving a hole on the
top of the hill, which should be filled with
pine straw, place a board or piece of tin on
top to protect from rain. After one week
take off board or tin and bank np solid with
earth.
3rd. Always phtes most earth on the
North-east side of the embankment.
By this coarse of treatment we can keep
potatoes in this latitnde until May.—Farm
and Gardaur.
Southern Enterprise.—A Southern
newspaper says that the immense Tredgar
Iron Works at Richmond, Virginia, are in
a more flourishing condition than at any
time since their establiihn eat.' Thty cover
eight acres, employ thirteen hundred men,
and have to be kept in operation day and
night to supply the orders which are pour
ing in from all sections of the country. In
the manufacture of coal freight cars they
do the heavist business in the United
States. Only a few days ago tbe company
received an order for one thousand cars for
the Midland and Oswego railroad, of New
York; fifty for the Dnehess and Colombia
railroad, in the same State; one . hundred
and fifty for tbe Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad, and other smaller orders, irom
twenty-five to one hundred, amounting io
the aggregate to between two tod three
thousand. The stock of tbe company is
owned chiefly by citizens of Richmond.
One million of dollars capita! is employed.