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VOLUME XXVII.
“WISDOM. JUSTICE.AND MO DERATION.’
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ROME, GA., WEDNESDAY
Without and Within.
Softly the gold has faded from the sky,
Slowly the stars have gathered one by one,
Calmly the crescent moon mounts up on high.
And the long day is done.
With quiet heart my garden - walks I tread,
Feeling the beauty that I cannot see;
Beauty and fragrance all around me shed
By flower, and shrub, and tree.
Often I linger where the roses pour
Exquisite odors from each glowing cup:
Or where the violet, brimmed with sweetness
o'er-,
Lifts its small chalice up.
With fragrant breath the lilies woo me now.
And softly speaks the sweet-voiced migno
nette,
While heliotropes, with meekly lifted brow,
Say to me, “ Go not yet.”
So for a while I linger, but not long,
High in the heavens rideth fiery Mars,
Careering proudly ’mid the glorious throng.
Brightest of all the stars.
But softly gleaming, through the curtain’s f.ld,
The home star beams with more alluring ray,
And, as a star led sage and seer of old,'
So it directs ?uy way.
And leads me in where my young children I.a,
Rosy and beautiful in tranquil rest;
The seal of sleep is on each fast-shut eye,
Hoaven’s peace within each breast.
I bring them gifts. Not frankincense nor
myrrh—
Gifts the adoring Magi humbly brought
The young chi!d ; cradled in the arms of her
Blest beyond mortal thought;
But love—the love that fills mj mother-heart
With a sweet rapture oft akin to pain ;
Such yearning love as bids the tear-drops start
And fall like Summer rain.
And faith—that dares, for their dear sakos to
climb
Boldly, where once it would have feared to go,
And calmly standing upon heights sublime,
Fears not the sterm below.
And prayer. O God ! unto thy throne I come,
Bringing my darlings—but I cannot speak,
With love and awe oppressed, m; lips are dumb
Grant what my heart would seek!
Mrs. Julia C. JR. Dorr.
rinnati Times has this goor,
fcr Carpenter, salary-grabbed
bowerful argument in favor
j: “The laxity of a life Is re-
■ the supervision of a wife,
krt kept alive to best feelings
pres by the sweet voices and
eh of children. Members
3 will have families in Wash-
is better that they should
own.” As an argument for
hator Carpenter from public
Isufficient.
i talk in this way are not to
auch in anything. It is a
r, that honest men in large
luite as valuable to the public
TSarpenter, have comfortably
pemselves and their families
act for years, and are doing
he year round, for less than
ad dollars’ salarjn Congress-
i the same without inconve-
Khey avoid the gambling
her vileness, living honestly
vn” homes. Such pleas as
fare an intolerable offense to
nostrils.
Zanzibar Slave Trade.
the treaty which Sir Bar-
_ade with the Sultan of Zan-
£pect to the slave traffic in
has arrived in England, but
et been made public. The
:jozeltc gives, apparently by
[the principal points of it.
' for the abolition of all slave
|nd for the cessation of the
' slaves through the Sultan’s
, and for the protection of all
The English cruisers are
1 power to seize and con-
-vessel in the adjacent waters
the illegal traffic. The
ough made by a subordinate
he Sultan, was ratified by
^same day.
• enforced, this treaty will
yere blow on the slave trade
fern coast of Africa. On the
glish may be trusted to carry
l into effect, while the Sul-
J manifests a disposition to
is part of the arrangement
stop to the barbarous
i island.
is beginning to show signs
progress as a commercial
during the month of June
iues paid at the Baltimore
ie amounted to $60S,052,
of $17,000 over June of
value of the foreign ex
past six months is $9,432,-
s of $40,000 over values of
onths in 1S72. The value
shipments for June of
as $1,810,230, showing an
ir the same month in 1872
. Much of this increase
of Baltimore is due to the
id Ohio Railroad, which
every point to attract both
and import trade. It will
ore one of the great ship-
|of the country.
ed that Dickens must have
towledge of Beast Butler at
r ove, July 4,1873, for in
Jack Bunsby he said:
commander, who seemed
session of his visage to be
[out for something in the ex-
nce, and to have no ocular
of anything within ten
no reply whatever.”
E be remembered that Beast
e a bellowing appeal to the
' ts for their votes for Gov-
when asked if he would
ilf to maintain the princi-
te party he was suddenly
”b, oocked hi3 oyster eye,
et-bag and withdrew.
monopolists of Polk coun-
! nominated a county ticket
t Republican and Democrats
orfaons. The last Treasurer,
| having emblezzled some $8 -
■ county funds, the farmers
nined to try a Democrat by
ange. The platform special-
i the Congressmen who voted
“ y grab arid the President
he hill, and demands a re-
i obnoxious law. When it is
red th a t Polk county is two-
-publican, and exposed to all
ence which an official ring at
ipital can exercise, this action
"i peculiar significance.
on his chin was interlaced with little
amber rivulets of tobacco juice trick
ling from his thick lipped mouth. His
stature was squat; broad and heavy
shoulders, and a large round body set
upon short bowed legs, gave him a
creeping appearance in happy keeping
with the disposition of his groveling
character.
The description of the_ “doggery”
above must answer for his premises,
only to the doggery may be added a
half walled shelter on the opposite side
of the road under which a soot-begrim-
med workman carried on the business
of gun-smith. What with the gun-shop
and the attractions of the doggery it
was surprising to see in that sparsely
settled region, the constant crowd of
loafers gather there. An idle hour
could always find an idle crowd there
to while it away in drinking, gaming,
and not unfrequently a fight
To this congenial spot McConnell
hurried to drown in the sickening
fumes of whiskey the recollections that
haunted his sober moments like the
grinning mockery of a Nemesis.
Pat would have on this day restrain
ed him had he been powerful to do so,
but he was not He knew his impo
tence and prudently refrained from in
terfering.
Old Gorbeau greeted him with as
much sullen cheer in his manner as he
could assume, for to McConnell's credit
there yet remained fifty cents on the
buck skin brought the day before.
“Ah ha, mester MtGonnells, I hopes
I zee yer wells dis mornings. Eh?dis
iz a fine mornings. Eh ? vat is it
shall draw ye, apintoraijuart. Eh?”
“Yes, it is a fine morning, Mr. Gor
beau,” answered McConnell. “ Too fine
perhaps to be wasted here; but never
mind, fill my flask it does no good to
think about it I despise your sent!
mental whiners; if you can’t be a man.
it is well enough to be a dog.”
“ Yes, dats vat I tell ’em,” responded
old Gorbeau. “ And ef ye can’t get old
Bergundy its well enough to dake Dex
ter—and dis Dexter is fine : zee here
how ’im spargles,-elegant; ’im got a
bead like champaign—here, taste ,eih.”
McConnell swallowed the draught,
and even his case-hardened throat
burnt from its fiery touch.
“Rather too strong with pepper,” he
said, after wiping his eyes; “ and too
highly flavored with tobacco; it leaves
a rather disagreeable taste.”
“No, no, my dear sare, it is just tap
ped; dat’s it. Dexter’s always fiery
ven first opened. Its de good of de
ting. Dat’s vy I like ’em,” protested
old Gorbeau. “It’ll bear watering.”
“ That it will, after being peppered
as you pepper it,” answered McConnell.
“Maybe you don’t like it?” inter
rupted Jim Hankins, coming in and
leaning his elbow on the bench which
ran across the room for a counter.
McConnell flushed at the imperti
nence of the interruption, but like all
the others of the habitues of the place,
in every, turn in-the mountain-gorges, he had been subdued by the domineer-
IDA DELZONS.
Chapter VI—“ Old Gorbeau’s.”
A harsh, angular feature in the civili
zation of the pioneer days of the south
west, was the cross-roads grocery, or
more appropriately in frontier vernacu
lar, “ doggery.”
A low, squat building rudely con
structed of rough, snarly, -unhewn
Jogs, securely notched together; its
cracks lined with long strips of clap
boards, or chinked in with poles cut
into convenient lengths; its floor, when
it assumed the dignity of a floor, of
split “puncheons” or slabs; its doors of
fragmentary goods cases, nailed togeth
or in fantastic mosaic, each piece fitted
according to capacity rather than with
an eye to architectural taste or mechan
ical proportions; and its roof of rough
clapboards, split from the oak near by
and held to their places by “ weight-
poles” on top,—the whole painfully
suggestive of one of those rude contri
vances of heavy logs thrown together
as a trap for wolves, which one meets
and known to all pioneers as wolf pens
—made a store house secure and ample
enough to accommodate the most ex
tensive stock. Indeed, but scant
capacity was required for the storage of
stock, while the ever faithful bowie and
rifle gave an earnest of security that all
the bolts and bars and iron doors that
ever wore made could not have as
sured.
In the matter of stock, it was sur
prising to see how little one could
carry and yet maintain its dignity as
a “ bully concern.” A few boxes of
coarse, cheap tobacco, a barrel of crack
ers, a few boxes of sardines, a barrel of
cheap brown sugar, liberally seasoned
with sand, a jar of candy, a package of
ill-kept playing cards, a keg of powder,
a few bags of shot and bars of lead;
and chief of all, a barrel of the very
meanest of whiskey, its native mean
ness still farther deteriorated by the
adulteration of tobacco, red pepper,
and a villanous decoction of buck-eye
{xscuhis glabra); made an inventory
satisfactory to the most enterprising.
But a small capital was required to
conduct the concern, and the lazy am
bition of the worthless proprietor re
quired but little more.
If by a cunning dexterity he could
manage to escape the uncertain compli
cations of the law, and during the
season exchange enough of his goods
for peltry sufficient to renew the stock,
and in the interim supply his rough
wants, he was satisfied. His rough
wants being few,they were easily satis
fied and as to the law, loosely executed
as it was, it seemed framed with an
express regard for his convenience.
Without a license—an extravagance
which no one was reckless enough to
think of—he was not allowed to sell
whiskey and permit it to be drank on
his premises. His premises were close
ly defined and still more closely con
fined. A mark but six inches from his
door-sill told how far in that direction
the restraints of the law might inter
fere with his hospitality. So that he
could stand in his door and minister to
the drooping spirits of the most con
scientious law-observer in u,c land—
even to those of his honor the Judge
himself, as was often the case.
Such were the general characteristics
of the cross-roads’ doggery of the pio
neer days. They were all alike, and a
disagreeable sameness pervaded their
proprietors, even to their red-nosed,
blear-eyed physiognomy. The same
characteristics were also common to
their habitues. The rougher characters
of even that rough class of backwoods
men, they gathered around these dog
geries to spend their idle hours, and to
indulge their low taste for mean whis
key and draw poker. Each “ doggery”
had its coterie and each coterie had its
“bully.”
Old Gorbeau’s was but one of a thous
and of those wild excrescences which
hang upon society even in its most prim
itive stage, and Jim Hankins was but
one of a thousand of the rough bullies
who tyrannized over the mean spirits of
their ilk. Old Gorbeau, though, was
not one of a thousand of his class, but
rather one in a thousand. He had an
individuality peculiarly his. own. A
species of indolent jollity . seemed to
belong to the others, and they followed
their trade because it required less ca
pacity and less exertion than any
other. It was not so much a natural
depravity as an easy good-natured lazi
ness.'
His features were villanously mean.
Low Ehaggy eye-brows hung in a per
petual frown over his piercing black
eyes, which glowed beneath their'
bristling covert like the eyes of a ser-
E ent from a tuft of nettles; his broad
lared nostrils wore a, constant grime
of snuff; while the stubby black beard
ing spirit of the - bi3!y, khd he could
only answer,
“ I would like it better not quite so
highly seasoned.”
Hankins was conciliated, and he
withdrew his impertinent look of defi
ance, as he answered,
“ Ah, yes; you’d like ter mix it ac
cording ter yer own taste, as the man
told the landlady with the flies in her
butter.”
“ Yes, but dare’s no flies in dis,” said
old Gorbeau.
“ No, but Mac seems ter think there
may be flypizen in it Eh, Mac?” re
plied Hankins.
“ It leaves a taste suggestive of poison
of some nature,” answered McCon-
nel. “ Will you try a swig, Jim ?”
“ I don’t care if I do. So here’s a
health, Mac.”
“ Stop, gentlemen, vait for a minit
Yer forgets ze law; plaze jist step over ze
line.bafore ye taps meesterMcGonnell’s
flask.”
“ That’s right, we will ’jonm to the
spring,” acquiesced Hankins. “ Come,
boys, its Mac’s treat;” and encouraged
by this hospitable invitation, the crowd
repaired to the spring near by for a
general drink.
{To be continued.)
Among the representative people of
the drama at Long Branch may be seen
Lester Wallack, Theodore Moss, Edwin
Adams, Augustin Daly, John Gilbert,
Chanfrau, W. R. Floyd, Edwin Booth
and wife, J. H. McVicker of Chicago,
Maggie Mitchell, J. W. Arbaugh, and
E. L. Davenport and Miss Fannie Dav
enport.
The Sunday liquor law was nobly
let alone by the excise commissioners
in New York Sunday, and the Ger
mans enjoyed their lager undisturbed.
A great threat was made by the com
missioners at the outset, and the sa
loon-keepers were thoroughly fright
ened, but no action has as yet been
manifest.
A terrible murder was committed at
Keokuk, lowa, last Saturday • night.
Dennis Hayes and his wife quarreled,
when the latter, assisted by her son, a
boy sixteen years old, by a former hus
band, attacked HayeS, and with ai club
fractured his skull, killing him. They
then unsuccessfully endeavored to con
ceal his body. .'
JACOB THOMPSON.
An Explanation or trie Deficiency In bio
Accounts.
The. following appears in the Mcnt-
phis Avalanche:
Oxford. Miss., July 8,1873.
To Jamu M. WOlUnuon, Esq.:
My dear Sib—-Your letter of yester
day was received by me this evening.
I thank you for the extract clipped
from the Avalanche headed “Large De
ficit.” The facts in this case are few,
and have been so often paraded before,
the pnblic in all the distorted forms '
that malignity and prejudice could
give them, that I recur to them with
reluctance. I have always had faith
in the power of truth and its ultimate
triumph over falsehood; but after
twelve years the second auditor takes
up the account and presents the matter
to the public as though something hew
bad been discovered.
The whole case is this:. The De-'
partmerit of the Interior is made the
custodian of the bonds held in trust
for various Indian tribes. The interest
on these- bonds is regularly collected
and paid over to their tribes. A derk
in the department isr charged with their
custody; and if the coupons are regu
larly brought forward for collection the
head of the department presumes,'as a
matter of course, that the bonds are in
hand. In this case, during my admin
istration of the department, a Mr.
Bailey, a clerk of high standing and
unquestionable talents, was charged
with tins duty. Early in the year 1861,
after all the paid coupons had been
brought forward and regularly collected
and he had been called on to make out
a full statement of his account for the
auditor, which in itself was full and
satisfactory, it became known that I
would, in a few days, resign my place
in the Cabinet, owing to the contem
plated withdrawal of Mississippi from
the Union. Then it was that Mr. Bat
ley sent me his confession that he had,
without my knowledge or consent in
any way, delivered over to Messrs.
Russell & Co., large government con
tractors, bonds to the amount of $821,-
000, and taken for them acceptances
of. the Secretary of War for the same
amount He stated that be had-taken
the responsibility of doing thistouava
the credit of the War Department, and'
had not advised me of what he had
done, because he knew I would con
demn it, and would not allow him to.
touch a single bond. As soon as the
confession was received, the keys of his
safe were taken from him and the con
tents carefully counted, and the state of
things showed his confession to be true
in every particular. The derk was
dismissed for his infidelity to his tnist, ‘
and Congress (then in session) was in
formed by a communication from me
of what had been done, and this con
cluded with the request that a commit
tee consisting exclusively of political
opponents should be appointed to ex
amine into and report all foots. The
committee was appointed, and a most
thorough search was made into all the
circumstances and facts in the case.
The committee were unanimous in ex
onerating the Secretary from all blame
whatever in the matter, and their report
was received by Congress without a
dissenting voice. This was at a time
when party spirit ran high, and still at
a time when members of Congress
scorned to endeavor to affix to the name
[For the Courier.
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monwealth numbers not by scores only, scon, or the country will rush into an-
but by hundreds, sons younger, more arehv. If there be no escape from a
vigorous, and no less devoted, -who will result so full of horrors, we must meet
for her a Larger material pros- our , own fate as best we may.
- grander civilization} ;and a
a girl of tWelVo
eh x sedftto sir,
Am if har brightest 1
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So
i ell of life 'hey know, . 0 *
Prematurely old! • ! « Ot fr .TTBoiRa £>
. - . yj jU:£taretr£ ,
sot youth
lobi.
God help the weary tilings!
Apd may His gracious lore
Vodcbsafe for them/when done with earth,
A Brighter lifa above!
ed.
er renown than;
News has been received; under date
of 20th inst, from St Domingo, that
the army of Baez, in the Cibao, had
followed and come up with the revolu
tionary forces of Lupeton .and had
routed them, killing a large number
and taking considerable booty. The
engagement in question took place at
Cristo, on the road to Porto Plate. •
The surviving Massachusetts veter
ans of the Mexican war will have a re
union in Boston on Saturday, the
twenty-fifth anniversary of their rev
turn home.
If the Massachusetts survivors have
not greatly increased in number since
they were mustered into service, they
will not require a very large hall in
yfhich to hold their reunion banquet -
A correspondent of the Savannah
Morning News refuses -to believe that
dueling is the sin of all crimes, and' it
alone should be held uptoTeprobation.
He has written a series of papers to
prove that there is at least an occasion
al crime committed at the North, and
not the product of slaver)-. Curiously
enough he entitles it the “Epidemic of
Crime at the North,” and probably it
would surprise our self-righteous friends
to find what a terribly strong case he
makes.—^Baltimore Gazette.
of a public servant any stigma unjustly
and falseto.
After more than twelve years the
auditor reaches the account and by re
jecting acceptances of the War De
partment, tin which I think he acted
correctly,) he gives this deficit as some
thing new. The second auditor of 1861
claims the honor of making this dis
covery, when in truth I was the first
to make all the facts known. For
fidelity, efficiency and promptitude in
the administration of the Interior De
partment from 1857 to 1861, I am
willing to be compared with any ad
ministration of it, either before or since
that time. Certain it is that no busi
ness was twelve years behind time. I
have written this much to you for your
own information. I would not have
you ignorant of facts,; but I have so
often explained this matter and know
so well that all honorable men are fully
satisfied with the propriety of my con
duct, that I must leave maligners and
the evil disposed toihink and say what
they please. You can do what you
flease in saying anything, to. the edi-
ors. I do not suppose they meant to
do me any injustice in publishing the
dispatch. If they had thought a minute
they would have remembered publish
ing my explanation addressed lo tlic
Cincinnati Enquirer, whii* "
Sotmced a demonstration.
Yours truly. **■
v-l .' J. Thompson.
. The workmen employed in laying
the new gas pipes onBt Joseph street,
this morning, at the intersection of
Dauphin, came -across an ■ old wooden
water pipe that was vlnorrl under
jimiinl Iiinii tlimi riiifji jiffiii^riililii
which has not been used as a conduit
for water for many years. Asil lay di
rectly across their, path the. men cut
through the oh
ig the
-as sound as „
est. The sap, which bad
taken from it, was singular
chips from the body of thi
strongly of turpentine. How' I U
'wfll.be- preserved under.t^gfound'is not
certainly known, but it is conjectured
hy some persons that a constant stream
of water through a wooden: pipe null,
in the course of ages, produce petrifac-
MaBir-MebUeRegister. -Led adl c; ztsni
The Mobile Eegister, 15th inst, says:
“ Yesterday evening the schooner Yir-
manci,. left thh.foot of Government popular
street with a-pleasure party on board, chr ’
bound-westward, through Mississippi bac
sound,' to. the islands and watering est
places along that route. The party
was composed of some of our promi
nent lawyers, whose arduous- labors in
the courts navis just terminated • with
much honor, and itria to be hoped cc.*" fore
Bidemble profit All the'' ' ' '
requisite for a first class
sionwereonhand, and
possibility of their fairest hopes being
realized.”l aatamn. msn-rteem
The Montgomery-State Journal re
ports a vigorous competition between
coal dealers there, and say that con
tracts cari-easily be made at $5.76
-ton, If they sell at that price n.
fell; in Columbus, we are in for a few
tom—Columbus Sun. ,
Ex-Covirnor Jenkins’ letter to Governor
: - - Smith.
i Augusta, Ga., July 18,1873.
His Excellency James M: Smith: ■
Dear Sir—I have received through
the Hon. Jos. B. Camming your com
munication of the 21st nlumo, accom
panied by a copy of the resolutions of
the' General Assembly of Georgia, re
ferring to myself, approved August 22,
1872, and a beautifully designed and
executed'_/ac simile of the seal of the
Executive Department, prepared and
presented as therein provided.
It is probably within the expe:
of every man whG.has attained, the age
of three score years, that there are oc
casions when language is found wholly
iaadeqijate to express the emotions of
the heart. Thus it certainly is with
me it this time. Doubtless 1he highest
reward of official fidelity is the answer
of a good, conscience. It is only in the
court whence that answer proceeds that
intention Can be thoroughly scrutinized
and motive reduced to its last analysis
and accurately weighed; which is, after
all, the crucial test of merit. The spir
it' of man is never gladdened by the
plaudits of admiring multitudes, ;ior
yet by the encomiums of the wise said
;ood againstovhich conscience whispers
ut it is no less true, that the unman
heart effives public recognition of con- . „
scions rectitude. And when to the ap- like spirit, and making like sacrifices,
proval of the inward monitor and ®fut because of their intimate official
judge, public opinion, with full knowl- associations with me, and simultanc-
edge ofi tacts, after calm deliberation, ons removal from office,
superadds its affirmatory ; decision, a Here, perhaps, I should close, but I
judgment, is rendered from which in trust your Excellency will indulge me
the awa rds of time there lies no appeaL in a few practical reflections upon the
aimamctniM***- afirmqndrnir Life present political status of the country.
Executive ft the time referred to in the It is often inconsiderately said, and
resolutions, wefe peculiar and embar- written, and I fear also inconsiderately
rasing. History famishes no precedent
to be consulted. Law gives no dew to
acts which threw order infc/iSaos* had
been pronounced unconstitutional by
the Federal Executive, the Federal Ju-
diciary refused to restrain the desperate
lawlessness that persisted in their en
forcement
Thus environed and daily encounter-
dirty demanded careful abstinence from
any imprudence, tending unnecessa
to complicate still further the unha
relations existing between the State'
believed, that our Government has been
entirely revolutionized—State sover
eignty destroyed—the Constitution set
aside, and personal liberty lost These
laments become not an intelligent, he
roic people, overshadowed "by a writ
ten Constitution, admitted to be a good
one. That the people of the Southern
States so regard it is apparent from the
feet that the Constitution under which
they recently attempted to establish a
separate Confederacy is almost a literal
copy from it If really good then it
must lie so now, unless marred by sub
sequent changes, which good or bad,
— technically called “amendments.”
more dSuId not have been accomplish
ed by me.
Between my ejection from office and
the passage of the resolutions now be
fore me, there was aninterval exceeding
four yearn, during which Georgia was
denied self-government — fier "voice
silenced — her interest and her honor
sad havoc,-bnt in trifling with the latter,
whose spiritual essence they could not
4 * ' to, they signally wrought out then-
dishonor. All this while the in-
—never repudiated
truth —j never succumbed to power; and
when next the ballot-box was opened, it
rose up undaunted, asserted its supre-
Georgiaand a . legend embodying .the
spirit of the resolutions, I proudly ac
cept as a memorial possession for
and a testimonial certificate for
time. In itself : . a. thing of beauty,
wrought by the skillful hand of the ar
tisan, in the most precious and imp
ishablo metal of hature, it has for :
easure for. measure, a swelling
? J!, 'al gratitude and devotion,
to God I had remaining
of life and vigor to do more for
it having nearly filled my span
score years and ten, in the re-
.y'quiet] home it is a
I am prompted, both by inclination
and a sense of dnty, to refer in this
connection to certain most worthy gen
tlemen, in close official ass ‘ ’
me, and who shared the
ties, trials, and perils o fthe'time. ^1
allude to Messrs. John Jones, Treasurer,
Nathan C. Barnett, Secretary of State,
and John T. Bums, Comptroller-Gen
eral. These officers were not a]
of the Executive—they helix oliices
creative by the Constitution, and were
elected by tho Legislature, boifczn sa
Although, to a; considerable extent
subordinated to the Executive, tlicv
lvere yet so far independent 'in their
several positions, that had they in the
1 state of affairs', refused
ally "thwarted ^hhf ^h^teifthe
present emolument. But fully accord
ing with him in opinion and feeling,
they distinctly refused to recognize the
lority of his (so-called) successor,
who lacked the first essential qualifica
tion for the office—citizenship of the
State.
Each thoroughly appreciated and
faithfully performed his duty. The
position of the Treasurer was the most
exposed and perilous of all, because
the Treasury was the objective point of
the raid. To cany into effect prompt
ly and successfully Executive directions
for placing the funds of the State be
yond the reach of the raiders, and still
to confront them in their rage, .was
nothing less than the exhibition of
moral heroism. Two of these faithful
public servants, the Treasurer and
Comptroller, were actually placed under
arrest; though soon admitted to parole.
The latter, while restrained of his per
sonal liberty, was by the just apprecia
tion of his people returned as their
Senator at the first election after these
events, and sat there a paroled Federal
prisoner, fearlessly performing the du
ties of a State Senator. Having served]
to the end of his term, he is now . in
voluntary and honored retirement.
The other two, Messrs. Jones and
Barnett, on the firet occasion presented,
have been severally restored to, and
now honorably fill the offices from
which they had been ejected. Thus
has Georgia vindicated their integrity,
rewarded their fidelity, aud exhibited
to the world a .striking proof that Re
publics are not always ungrateful.
I refer to these officials, not because
there were not others animated by the
■MBMnraa
*
On the dividing ridge separating the
waters of the Meranee from the
Missouri, in Franklin County, Mo., is a
.cave mainly remarkable from a traric
event which occurred therein the early
part of the century. The mouth of the
cave is funnel-shaped, and about eight
een feet deep. A horizontal passage
leads off in a southwest direction to a
distance of 2C0 feet, when an enlarged
chamber suddenly terminates in an
abrupt chasm of unknown depth. '' '
’ ' '’oster of Washington, with a
om St. Louis, explored the cave
and.trhent
_• dropped flown stones, which
ere from three to four seconds in*
lling before reaching the bottom, as
as indicated by the reverberations.
The tragic event connected with the
cave exists only in tradition among the
and on the other studious avoidance of Of thise there have since been only
any act having the semblance of lower- “J®®- _
ing tiie dignity of Georgia, or of acqui- The first simply ordains that from
esceneeinthe usurpation of. her right- “Per its adoption slavery shall not
fill prerogative. Far from assuming uzist 14 the United States. But the
that no Georgian in my position could abolition of slavery had been previous-
have done more for the State than was V declared (whether authoritatively or
not) by Federal Executive proclama
tion-had been acquiesced in by the
parties in. interest and prohibited for
the future by the new Constitution of
most, if hot all, of the Southern States.
citizenship—provides that for all
male citizens over the age of twenty-one
confided to the hands of strangers, who years; denied suffrage by the States,
neither understood the one, nor regard- there be a proportionate diminution of
ed the other. Of the former they made —Mi m± '
the representative population—disfran
chises a large number of the best citi
zens of the Southern States; but em
powers Congress to remove this disabil
ity; declares the pnblic debt of the
United States inviolable—repudiates
the war debt of the States, and prohib
its compensation for emancipated
es. The third ordains that the
it of citizens of the United States to
vote shall not be denied or abridged on
account of race, color, or previous con
dition, of servitude.
I do not propose now to discuss the
merits of the validity of these changes,
but to :
tthe
services, and you, sir, have placed be- emmenl
fore me the result. that the
The preamble and resolutions have general body of the constituency, and
made for me, in' the archives of the this by conferring the right of ~
hiid not hoped to mer- upon a very large number not
to dishonor. The ly entitled to it, and as we believe not
„ „ aved thereon a Jac qualified for it. It does not take from
simile of the seal of the Executive De- the States the general power to regulate
partment once entrusted to me, with ""' r I '"‘ —~ -
words of donation from the State of
, Constitution as it pre-existed.- "Tfie'fii- each
a value derived neither from nature strumentstillcontains the saving clause: only of counseL
" The powers not - delegated to the
a. noble constituency—a United States by the Constitution, nor
I would not ex- prohibited by it to the States, are re-
or Garter,, or other served to .the States respectively or to
-nor yet for high- toe peopte® 3 “'' i * ?v "' ^ ^ ”
he formation of others —
thorities of toe States ha 1
dinated tothe Federal m . ,
these and numerous other outrages have Ala.,
been perpetrated. But these ' 1 - 5 — d
have_ occurred during tho preva!
mania which followed toe termination
of a protracted civil war.'
There are indications that this al
mal excitement is subsiding. r ~
ithe noble com- for sober sewfli thought must come ing or; Dr.PasheaPs pi
until overwhelmed by toe catastrophe old settlers, and few personssf the,pres-
we must pretermit no effort to avert it. ent day are probably aware pf it. Ab
My position is that therein now no cause Ian early period in the preseist'century,
for despondency—that the wrongs and I as already intimated, n
oppressions we have endured resulted Louis named Labadie,
from administrative abuses, not from the families of .flSitaiU
^uctaral changes in toe government, with the history of the city, wentout to
This distinction should be kept con- I Franklin County, then"mdstlyji wilder-
stantly in view. ness, in pursuit of game. He had life
In -a j complex government like our son, a small lad; with him. They got
own (the political powers divided be- on toe trail of a bear, which they follow-
tweem tlie General and State povom-1 :~- r i rvfnrn in tor
ments), let it never be conceded that a|cave. Nothing daunted,.Mrs Labadie
power once usurped is thenceforth a | fcdlowed.the bear into its hiding-place
power transferred; nor that a right land never came out alive. The boy
once suppressed is for that cause a I heard the report of a gun and then afl
right extragnfohed ; nor that a Coristi- wa s silent He watched waited at the
tution a.-.thousand times violated be- mouth oftoecave for his father's return,
■ 7 abolished j nor, I but jbe 1 came not fafoV Tffo boy- re-
tomato purposes of tyranny and cor- With his hatchet he “blazed” the trees
rupbon must thereafter be regarded as around the spot in order to identify toe
a government revolubomzed. ^ I pHce, and^henretumed home. Wheth-
The startling occurrences of the last I er search, was made or not is hot known
decade should stimulate the patriotic but the hunter, it is certain, was riven
m en through out the length and breadth I up for.lost and his remains were allowed
of the land to bury sectional animosi-j to rest in their rock-bound tomb-r-.a
ties, to urnte heart and sold mvmdica- place as well calculated for the last
turn of the principles they have seen resting place of the dead as the cata-
violated, in correchon of abuses they com bs of Rome or Paris. Time rolled
have witnessed, in struggling within 0 n, and about twenty years ago, when
the pale of toe Constitution with all the engineers were laying outtack for
the power of earnest manhood, to re- the Pacific Railroad, which passed by
store that sacred instrument to its pns- the cave, they had tile curiosity to enter
tine supremacy. Such is the grandeur and explore its secrets.
of. toe work which now' challenges the They there found the bones of a bear
patriotic 'enterprise of toe young and and toe skeleton of a human being ly-
middle ^ of onr common countnr.Jmg close together. Not only tirisf but
Lost toe views submitted should be they also found an old musket barrel,
utopian, at the risk of being consider- half eaten by the rust, and asmall quan-
ed prolix I will make a brief reference tity of old French and Spanish coin.
to , of , All these circumstances pointed to the
At toe first general election after toe 0 id hunter Labadie, as tifoperson whose
formation of the reconstractmg consti- skeleton was thus revealed to theex-
tution of the State, under Congression- plorers, and whose tragic history was
al auspices, which was conducted by preserved by tradition These trees
toe military'authorities, toe result (as were ^ examined, and the old scars
finally reported) was m accord with caused by the hatchet of young Labadie
toe views of the ruling party. Then a were distinctly traced,
feeling of dismay settled upon a large The Hon. Flavins J. North, a mem-
proportion of our people. The event be r 0 f toe Legislature, who went to
was received as a foreshado wing of Franklin County in 1818, heard at that
misrule for an indefinite Period. early day a vague tradition of the disap-
But mark toe sequeL In November pearanee of Labadie, and he saw and
of toe same year, (1868,) a Presidential Wdled the coin which was subsequent-
electaon occurred. Amid the discour- ty fotmd & stated, in the caVe. The
agements, toe people of Georgia rallied relics and bones were distributed among
for another effort. Hie old imd the various persons. Judge Primm, who4
new constituency met at toe ballot-box familiarity with the history of Missouri
-there was neither bloodshed, nor tu- ig perhaps not exceeded by any other
mulL nor fraud. All voted who were person, recollects hearing the story of
entitled and sought to vote. If the Labadie and the bear fifty years ago.
bayonet gieamed it did not terrify. ^ impression on his mind was that
Though tfie newly enfranchised voted the hunter entered the cave during the
they did not dominate. Then the elec- hybemating season of toe bear, and
turn was conducted under State laws, that, having fired his musket, the in-
ahd when the returns were consokda- fnriatedbeai rushed toward the narrow
ted and published, tiie previous verdict passage of the cavern where Mr. Labadie
was reversed by a tremendous majority. was standing, closed in with him and
The voice of the good old State was killed him. i? Labadie Creek” and “La-
heard rebuking, in thunder toms, toe badie Station” preserve the name of the
faction that had attempted her snbjuga-1 daring hunter’ who lost his life inthe
tion. , 1 - - -
So again in 1870 (election, for mem-
vicinity.
A Far Western Tragedy.
and finally in November 1872 (election By the latest advice from Boulder,
for President, Vice President and mem-1 Colorado, the particulars of an atrocious
hers of Congress.) I murder are learned. A young mnn
Thus we see that in five consecutive named Steel, who has resided in and
general elections, occurring in the space I about Boulder for a few months past,
of four years, held without violence or I has been paying bis devotions to a
fraud, or the senous allegation of either, I buxom young country girl, whooccn-
there has been achieved an unbroken pies a romantic home nearFiscus’ Mill
triumph of ancient conservatism—a fn Left Hand Canon, about ten ™;iA
triumph immediate upon toe return to j from Boulder. But it appears that this
self-government, and sustained to this j buxom young country girl had another
day- , . , . . , ,. I lover, a young man named Brooks, and
Now, what is toe explanation of this she evinced a more decided liking for
unexpected change? Simply this: The the last named than for toe firet men-
people of Georgia have been law-abid- tioned. j In fact she jilted Steel, not
mg, peaceable; but inflexibly resolved I long since, and he determined to be re-
to stand by their principles and main- I venged.
tain their rights. Let them steadfastly I Last week Brooks hired a stylish
pursue the same course, avoiding dissen- [turnout from a Boulder liveryman, and
tions among themselves, and the future I in the evening drove up the canon to
of their State’s government is secure, gee his girt. The time passed pleasant-
Under less fovor circumstances, renova- hy and it was long after midnight
tion may come more slowly to other when, bidding his sweetheart adieu, he
States; but come it will by patient per- prepared for a homeward ride. He
sistence in a like course. I was amazed to find that some malicious
And so, at no distant day, toe reform I person had hacked his harness to
of the Federal government may be ef- I pieces and cut off his horse’s caudal
footed. The prospect may teem with I appendage. He managed to get home,
The second in effect extends to eman- discouragements, but the end in view is however, arid the very next day made
ted slaves the right and privileges stupendous—worthy toe struggle of jit a point to charge his rival, Steel, with
1 1 ’ *’ r ” successive generations. Ithe commission of the dastardly out-
In conclusion, allow me to render to rage,
your Excellency my sincere thanks for A man named Taylor, owner of a
toe tasteful, kind and cordial manner I mill i n Left HYmd Canon, was also
in which you have given effect to the charged by Brooks with having taken
resolutions of toe General Assembly, a himd in toe deviltry, as he was
and to wish continuing success and known to be an intimate friend of
honor to your administration, which Steel’s. On Wednesday while Brooks
will be ever memorable for the new was working at Fiscus’ mill, Steel,
birth of an old State. armed with a rifle, crawled up to a hill-
Very respectfully, your obliged fd- top dose by, and behind a tree or rock
lowdtizen, C. J. jEiracnra. | sent a bullet through toe abdomen of
his snemy, killing hin
Items from Various Sources. I He then fled into
The firet bale of cotton of Jhis yeai’s I pureued by i
crop was sold yesterday in New York citizens, but managed to
at 36 cents per pound. The cotton was vigilance until Thursday, when he was
grown in Cameron county, Texas. | tracked to a deserted cabin,- owned by
Hie Scotch conservatives are about I j^^i^e^md^ropose^fto flefend^
•tedj
' h °uf uuVto start a daily paper.in G1
view, it will be found £SU,Uyu is said to have been _ _ ■ xeHOlyeQ on ...„
— wrought is in the l&SVBT E '” 7 ^*»|igg"Sg|«g&
e Sebach was fined $100 in and li
Pesth for representing that she had or St.
been robbed of jewels in that city. It and a
was an advertising dodge, but didn’t be able to defy the authorities,
j. - . . . -vF WWfc worth, a-cent. Itobesyen.
-r?"***■*“ ."M-AlaS;.I-
This change in the constituent body is.ronmng thirteen breaking plows, and ” U Marv fafter invest^
states. But let it be borne in mind Quebec jurists are trying to get rid T
hat this enlarged body is still hedged of their system of taking evidence—a
[T1 j protected «Uld rncfrolnn/l 111* cvelnm smilrii> irliioli tVift tfltriirviftTitf rtf I
ie system under which the testimony of | c
- witness is taken in the presence “~ bIn(
. of counseL means
-A young man in Fort Valley has j
been arrested for having taken a wo
man of
beaten'
But it is said this is theoretical only:
iractically, toe power of toe General
government has grown to enormous ^-he c
dimensions, while that of the States has ]vr® d
proportionally diminished. The Con- ,—.
gress of the United States ha3 repudi- laches from tip to tip of the extended penses
ated State Constitutions confessedly re- ^ws, arid would require about twelve | The
publican in character and comuelled heads of lettuce alone to dress it into a
agen the. wall, mem P’
■ has a. doctor who - h
his martin roost, by
ty The wires are
hisofficeand along",
using to .witness an operation.
ilsrted
virtue from her hi
himself^t*inTSS IIwhe^accepted 11 tlm position
.the assurances tfitlie was not exp
ipion lobster has been cap- to stand up in meeting and pray, but
twenty miles from Port- that toe principal duty would be to
It measures three feet ten | make up deficiencies in.the running ex-
' the church.
5 town ofS
I Berry M
t freedman, was last
~ •hechubbec, Ala., t
the full
young; wome
ited to admit
of Chicago University
■\VeirilD
i young