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' , r more, one copy will bo far- ■,’rlsW o! i ffi ; ' bville. „ n ,pftin; of tf* e Nash : c -'Twth“. held on the was adopted ' . ri sumption act, ~ 6 ' ,».,insi the demonetization - naii.st the conversion ■'^i-terc-t ! ends into goh . ,; s , ;i ;id in favor . i.i.a' ks receivable ‘, ,1 fupplement any v v ,- ;t h I’nited States ._.j, Tenn., 10th inst., protesting against tizatior of non- 1 inter- of a law for cu3- national treas- \.,.i | i,j■], of Indiana, de- had agreed to ^ -, r Morton on all po- •; . event the latter ' m -utt iol ti e extra session > -:! , aw.e » • *^|. v .j, at he said to '' ‘ . of encouragement, ... b !,| ' to Washington, and • ...:i that he could nut . the meetings of- the ;• ; . \: Donald) Would pair i \\V believe this is a ’’ r-,varies)' extended by one • i-r in such instances. ... -. . >.-.i i. -acral of South Caro- ; t -■ aa'or Patterson of ...... a ; r; .-t him, which are thus r - c r.'-’iring to defraud the : eit! jhf matter of the Mooney and -it warrants. .,.,, .-piring with II. H. kitnp- G. Parker to bribe the Fnr'hrVoi'.ie divers members of the ^Kiir 1 counselling Niles G. Parker, e Treasurer, to commit a fraud U- ach of trust, such counselling 2 3 felony under the statute. JIIIKK l-'ltH I’. .rWa-hiii-jton.lU'., correspondent, s. under date of the 5th instant, another hutch of frauds, this time ....-h'xfi Auditors office, lias come •ht. It appears that a clerk, one was for veers in collusion with ,:n mail eoiirrac'.'-rs, and by means is auuipttlation of the books and -uiit'. to which he has free ac- :i hi- official capacity, double pay- , them were often made. While hi- annual leave double pay- oit-re discovered to two mail con- • ar-vr--eating- $15,000. One has -.. :• -titution.' and the other has . .. 1 do so. The exact extent of - .. - „• rations are not yet public- W hen confronted with the of hi- guilt he confessed. lit It ItlVERS, - ;hii oving are extracts from the - - d.- chief engineer of the army - ti riv-.-r and harbor impxove- r.< gather from the Sa in.'. ' v-nivnt of the Oemul- . 1 the amount availa- - lU-and nine hundred d.'dl irs, and the amount 1 for the next fiscal year is ■ tisand two hundred and ir-'. with which it is believed ur.iiect for improving the ... -\ a,pi,-ted. 1 aula and Coosawattie ■ on .tut ree mmended for r :!-• d year is thirteen thousand ■ ■■:r. i ami eight dollars. !-'.'>vvah river, Georgia, the ..: itva.Iiibic U tvu thousand dol- r ippropiiation is asked n-IM.io l\i> i.KE V-l-tKS, -1 i ,-f a Texas town by a a. h imv appears to be notii- i than a family quarrel. Both w.-'i- ami the Greasers are Amer- m. ar.J, as a matter of course, ■ '.iv,- in peace. We should be ; ' •' to allow indignation to ' • udginent wlien we hear of -'rage* on the frontier. The * 5'aitc-a are large enough and ti.uugh in character and popu- o hat could we do with Mexi- - - xperience we have with the ;, vui population of Texas towns is : ' '-o -how that Mexicans are not ’•••' r.-- :t- we want, and it would K-.-publican institutions i satrapy of Mexico. Beware, rvits it; .mil telegrams from the ' 'I N- VJIDN IN COURT. 1 farhston News and Courier > n the htli of October the : " .--ions of Wiliiamburg coun- 1 v : turned very unexpectedly. ' i*a 1 progressed satisfactorily ■■ ruse against the county com- ' • •'mor official misconduct was : A jury of eight negroes and men heard the case on Sat- 1 ■■■•'•)• remained in the jury T - th dark. Judge Wiggin in- • rn. in case they agreed, to v -.-ai.-d verdict on Monday i ids they did, and when the " announced of guilty, the ij the defendants called for a ■■'V'.'ury, when, to the surprise ' er.e. two of the negro jurymen ’.nit they had agreed to the '■’■■t rendered. The Judge, after : v leration, instructed the clerk ;1 mistrial. The Circuit Solic- ■ addressed the Court, saying ; -v opinion, it would be doing ' ■ " and the defendants great in- lJ proceed with any more cases, - 'a! a continuance of them all. 'a readily granted by the Judge, 1 l! >rt adjourned. t ' Vo jurors who thus publicly themselves were immediately Perjury. One of them gave 'he-ppl l ' lf * ol ' ler * 3 now * n prison, will likely remain as a sub- - 1 or those whom he corruptly at- -til 10 shield from a deserved pun- H. DWINELL, PROPRIETOR. ‘WISDOM, JUSTICE A. IT D MODERATION.’ TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. VOLUME XXXII. ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17, 1877. NEW SERIES-NO. 7 THE MEETING OF CONGRESS. Congress meets next Monday in obe dience to a proclamation by the Presi dent, issued in May last. This meeting is only seven weeks anterior to the reg ular session, which convenes the first Monday in December, an 1 it is likely that the time till the first Monday in December will be filled up with busi ness and debates, so that we may ex pect a long session of that body. The necessity of the meeting next Monday is caused by the fact that the House of Representatives, which was largely Democratic, refused to make appropria- tions for the pay of the army, as it had been used for purposes which the ma jority believed to be unconstitutional and impolitic. And for this adherence to principles of justice and , right that body was, and will forevet I-entitled to the romiiiemlation of all lovers of civil liberty. But we apprehend that Mr. Hayes would have it otherwise. With Con gress in session, the Democrats having in the House a clear majority of fifteen, and the Senate being so close that all the Republicans must work to gether to keep the opposition down, the President will have no easy time. It will become necessary for him to take a decided stand upon many questions that it was not necessary to say much about during the absence of the Con gress. In fact, Mr. Hayes will now have to put himself upon record upon questions that would prove embarrass ing to men of more enlarged views and greater statesmanship than himself. The days of junketing, of experimental policies, of large promises, and of emo tional politics will have passed, and he will have to come square before the country upon his merits. The New York World says that as be tween Hayes and Conkling the Senator from Maine is believed to be for Blaine. I i'jr l "Bent. GEORGIA GI.IMPSES. Macon is gettin up a fair for her Li brary. The Fair at Griffin is said to be a success. The rebuilding of the Marietta Paper Mill is nearly completed. Hon. W. H. Felton and wife left for Washington City last Saturday. Henry Grady is writing up the bat tle of Gettysburg from Gen. LongstreetA notes, Dalton is to have a riding-match on the- ISth, in which ladies will be the contestants. In the vicinity of Dahlonga the min ing interests are doing well and the yield good. Forty thousand pounds of dried fruit have been shipped from Dalton in the last ten days. Richmond county is to have a pri mary election cn the 27th to nominate Legislative candidates. There are fifteen gentlemen spoken of as suitable candidates for Represent ative from Banks county. The farmers of Monroe county com plain of a poor prospect for a cotton crop on account of rust, etc. The Cartersville Express of this week is filled with an interesting review of the resources of Bartow count)’. A man named Richard Clewer rob bed a man named Eberhart of S20 in Athens the other day and got caught at it. Rev. F. C. Johnson, formerly pastor of the Baptist church at Albany, Ga., has accepted a call to the Marietta Bap tist church. Augusta merchants are after the Geor gia Railroad on account of discrimina tions between that city and points in South Carolina. Col. J. A. W. Johnson, in the col umns of the Dalton Citizen, announces himself willing to represent Whitfield in the next Legislature. Mirah Dillard, aged sixteen years, who lives in the upper portion of Wal ton county, met a horrible death on Friday last while driving the gin. Burglars are at work in Savannah. They stole four boxes from the office of the Skidaway railroad, and secured 70 cents, and robbed the tills of several stores of small amounts. The Newnan Herald says it is satis fied, from conversations with farmers, that there will not be more than two- thirds of a crop of cotton raised in Coweta county this year. Mr. Richard A. Benson, an old and highly esteemed citizen of Macon, was found dead in liis room on Tuesday morning. The cause of his sudden and unexpected death is supposed to have been heart disease. Mr. Sam Lawhon, who stabbed Mr. J. M. Cooper, at Acworth some time ago, was captured last Monday by Ba- lif Goodwin and a posse of men, in the neighborhood of Mr. Richard Meager s house, in Cherokee county. The Columbus Enquirer is informed that ex-Gov. Jas. M. Smith will return to ColumbuB to live, the feeble health of his wife renders a winter resi dence in Atlanta undesirable, because of the sudden changes of weather. The North Georgia Conference of the M. E. Church South, composed of all the traveling preachers within its boun dary, and of lay delegates from every district) will meet at Gainesville Wed nesday, the 28th of November, Pennsylvania Correspondence. How Shall we Secure Reconciliation and Coniidence Between the Sections of This Union ! - Lic.onikr Valley, Pa., 1 Oct. S, 1877. j To the Editor of the Courier: The time for sectional intolerance and distrust has now passed by, and the time for making an effort to restore permanent reconciliation and confidence is at hand. This is a time for patriotic action. With out reconciliation and confidence a per fect Union is out of the question. So far as the soldiers of both armies are con cerned the work is already accomplished. The wounds of the late war are all healed so far as those who fought it are corned. Those whose seek now to bring about reconciliation, will be obliged to wage a war of extermination upon those who acted in the capacity, or mu-,™ hatants during the late war. This is the first object to be accomplished in the great work of reconciliation. The defeat of this element is necessary to the success of those who would bring about true recon ciliation. This element is composed of the bloody shirt wing of the Radical party, and the passions of the late war are its capital. It must be crushed or reconcil iation will bo a failure. Its creed is flat ly at war with such a principle. This element being defeated, the next impor tant duty is to assist the President, in every possible way, to carry out his South ern policy. In that policy is embodied the true spirit of reconciliation. It abolishes carpet-hag rule and restores self-government. It soars above the fil thy atmosphere of partisanship and re gards and recognizes the people of the South in their true capacity. It metes out equal justice to all men of all sec tions, and is, therefore, entitled to the upport of every patriot in the land. And whenever it receives such support, then will the work of reconciliation be fully acomplished. It is our impression that by the time Mr. Hayes’ term of of fice expires, the sections of this Union will be as thoroughly reconciled to each other as they ever were. It will require statesmanship, patriotism and sound ex ecutive ability to accomplish the work. The President seems to have those quali fications ; consequently we have reason to hope that the wsrk will be accomplish ed. Had Grant pursued such a course during his term of office, the work of reconciliation would have been accom plished long ago. It is evident enough that obstacles which stand in the way of reconciliation must be removed before re conciliation can take place. There are many of these amongst which might be mentioned the absence of self-govern ment at the South and the existence of carpet-bag rule in that section. No free people, of any section, will ever be re conciled unless they are governing them- elves. And the Dearer we approach self-government, the nearer we approach complete reconciliation, implicit confi dence, fraternal feeling, and all those hallowed principles upon which a perfect Union mustalways be based. Self-gov ernment, however, we are most happy to annruuce, has bee restored at the South, where it has been absent for the last de cade ; hence we are hopeful. One by one the bitternesses, distrust and intoler ance which have for so long kept the sec tions apart are now being removed, and wc believe that before ten years .we will love each other better than ever before. To accomplish th : s object, we have been laboring, in our weak way, for the last five years. During that length of time we have fought for the people of the South and argued the question of recon ciliation with all the eloquence we were able to summon, sometimes when our life was almost in danger. But we are deter mined to pei severe, and never rest until the bitternesses of the past are all re moved, reconciliation fully restored, and the people of the South in the full enjoy ment of all the rights due them. Key-Stone. thrown into prison all the officials and every American they can lay hands on; that is a perfect reign of terror through- the county, the mob making the first named town its headquarters. The mas sacre of all the prisoners in their hands is thought imminent, and it is believed here that the mob has a preconcerted ar rangement for reinforcements from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. There is a good deal of excitement here over the matter the prediction is made that the occurrence will lead to speedy hostilities, although Washington authorities are disposed to hold Diaz guiltless of any knowledge of the outrage. But the reports from New Orleans show how small a matter it will require to precipitate actual war. . Knox. Washington Correspondence. Washington, D. C., Oct. 8. Intelligence received at the War De partment from Gen. Miles shows that he has with him three companies each from the 2nd and 7th cavalry and eight from the 5th Infanry. With these he encount ered Chief Joseph in full force on Snake Creek on the 30th ult., and after a day’s hard fighting he had captured about 600 horses, mules aud ponies. The Indian killed is given as 17, including Joseph’s brother, Looking Glass, and three other chiefs ; wounded, about 40. The list of our killed appears somewhat larger, the number of wounded considerably less. Joseph is represented ns having promised to surrender, but Miles appears to appre hend that it was only to gain time to send to Sitting Bull for aid. So far as can be gathered from’ Miles dispatch to Terry, the inference is that the advantage rested with him lip to time of its date. He says he expected Sturgis with reinforcements and suggests that the Canadian Govern ment be requested to prevent any of the Nez Forces from crossing the line, or, at least, to disarm such as take refuge there. Additional information is awaited with great interest, not wholly free from anx iety. Interest here is largely divided be tween the Mexican outrages reported from Sau Elizario and Ysleta, El Paso county, Texas, and the arrest here Satur day of Senator Patterson, of South Car- Carolina. From data at hand it appears that El Paso county is almost wholly peopled by Mexicans ; that taking ad vantage of claims of Judge Howard to Borne salt lakes in the vicinity as a pre text, they have risen cn mane and have Betsey’s Tramp. Defroit Free Pr.sfl. It was a mild day in October when a solitary horseman might have been seen winding around the mountain top. Fudge! I forgot I thought I was wilting on my novel. It was a mild day in October when Betsey sat in a splint-bottomed chair vigorously snap ping the pods of the seed beans she was shelling, and grumbling in this man- and the prediction is made that . ... „ 1 '“This living m the outskirts of a country village! one is greener than pasture grass and stupider than a stuff ed owl; nothing ever happens; no cir cuses, no runaways, no tramps, even.” She emphasized the assertion with her elbows, and the butter-beans scat tered like hail-stones. When she straightened up once more, with her blood all in her brains, and took a cur- sory survey, there he stood—in answer, t on might almost say, to her wicked hnllition. i.He was a down-hearted, discouraged, rheumatic, walnut-colored knob off a «Uawer of the old Freedman’s Bureau. JEos eyes had a peculiarly pleading l'ok, especially the white part. He laid one flat-boat upon the porch, then rested awhile, and dragged the other -one up by it. ,For obvious reasons, Betsey couldn’t open the screen door successfully, so they exchanged opinions on this check ered world through the net work. He put bia tough, tawny, trembling hand across his sad African bosom, dropped his troubled glance on the cross timbers of his rafts, and asked in sepulchral tones for “old clo’es.” He did not particularize as to gender, peirson, number and case, so Betsey sopped up her briny tears on the corner of her gingham apron, wiped her nose heavenward; and brought out from the kitchen closet a tolerable felt skirt, a pair of sleeve-elastics, an odd shirt-stud, and a salt-and-pepper waistcoat, trim med with native fringe. He vouchsafed one melancholy glance at the treasures, and remarked, in a voice damp with tears: “Will you do them up in paper?” She gently folded them inside the last paper, fastened the corners with safety pins, and, overflowing with emo tion, crowded the door ajar and poked them out. Like a statue of hard-baked prairie mud, be stood, wrapped in thought It was better so, for he needed wrapping io something. Terribly, suddenly, there came a sound, as of shoving a fanniug- mill across a barn floor, and he was gone; and Betsey’s bundle of benevo lence lay on the door-step—left. He was so lame he could hardly go toward the gate which, by the way. has a patent hasp described as follows: A post, a yard and a quarter to one side, a rope and a second-hand tin pail weight ed with geological specimens. A kind, respectable dog got took in, too, there one day, because he didn’t go through “After all the poetry I have composed for the anti-slavery cause,” murmured Betsey, ‘ I don’t want any black blood on my gate-post, so to speak;” and she hastened to hang away the shoddy kilt and sleeve-button ready for the next one, and peeped pensively through the blinds after the wandering Ethiopian. “Mercifulgoodness!” Thegatehadn’t shut on him, but he was out on the highway as straight as a country par son, and striding off like a Hercules who has a commission to start an earth quake. Then, as he neared the subur ban shops of the village, he humped over again and dragged his rafts across the sand till you might have thought a stone-boat was going by loaded with caldron kettles. “And this,”sputtered Batsey, “is why we have ‘made light’ of his pedal mon strosities and optical perspective. He is an impostor, and he tald me a whacking great lie when he said ‘he was a poor, unhappy son of Ham, who was fast fading away, and he only needed a little lift now and then to help him on toward the New Jerusalem.’ If I was a man with stoga boots on I’d give him a lift toward the New Jerusalem!” A Singular Fact?' From the Southern ‘NV atcfcmaa.j Oconee County, Ga., 3d, 1S77. Hems. Editors:—In reading your pa per of Sept. 25th, I notice a letter from Judge J. W. H. Underwood to Hons. C; J. Jenkins and W. IV. Montgomery, in reference to the death of Hon. W. H. Hull and other member of the Bar of Athens years ago. Has it ever oenrred to your minds how many of them died suddenly ? I have noticed that all, or nearly all, the distinguished men of Ath ens died suddenly. First.—If I mistake not Hon. Charles Dougherty, one of the purest and best men who ever lived in Athens, fell dead from a fence while out bird-hunting. Second.—Hon. Asbury Hull, whose heart was so full of Christian graces, and who was such a bright ornament in the Methodist church, died suddenly while reading his Bible. Third.—Col. John Billups, whose gen erous heart knew no bounds, and at whose house the poor, as well as the rich, always found a hearty welcome, died sud denly in his bed, some time during the night. Fourth.—Hon. Howell Cobb, whose name will ever be cherished by all Geor gians, for the manner in which he filled places of hoDor and distinction, died sud denly in the city of New York. Fifth.—Hon. Joseph H. Lumpkin, whose legal attainments were unsurpassed by any, lived but a few hours, if I mis take not after taken sick. Sixth.—Hon. W. H. Hull, who though not a citizen of Athens at the time of his death, had been until since the war, and was one of the greatest legal minds in the State, died suddenly in New York, and was lodging, I suppose, at the same hotel where Howell Cobb died. And what is still very strange, there are others belonging to the list who did not die of any particular disease—their lives were brought to a speedy close in other ways: First.—The lamented Gen. Thos. R. R. Cobb, who lent all the energies of his soul in promoting the interests of Athens in the way of education, was killed in stantly with a cannon ball, at Fredericks burg, Va. Secord.—Col. W. G. Delony, whose career in Athens, though brief, was marked with ability and success, was wounded and lived but a short time. Third.—Hon. John H. Christy, one whose, place at the editorial desk wou'd be hard to fill, and whose talent wielded such an influence over this section of Georgia, lived but a short time after re ceiving what seemed to be not a danger ous wound. These being facts, I would say to those who survive them and who are coming on, to remember the Divine injunction : “Ee ye also ready. 1 ' Observer. Cuban Affairs. It is to be hoped that the reports of a peaceable settlement in Cuba are true. The cruel war which has lasted so many years h&s destroyed a great part of the island, and il has loug been feared that it would continue until every plantation had been overrun. If recent reports may be believed the insurgents are at last desirous of peace, while the King of Spain, rumor says, is ready to grant terms on which an honorable settlement can be based. We have little doubt that the change in administration here has had an impor tant effect on Cuban affairs. While the course of the last administration toward Cuba and Spain was upright and just it is a notorious fact that adventurous per sons, supposed to be influential at Wash ington by their language and attitude ex cited the insurgents to continued resist ance under the hope of intervention in their favor by this government. These hopes were delusive, and they have en tirely disappeared since the accession of President Hayes. If it should prove true that both par ties in Cuba are desirous of peace the Spanish government knows that the good offices of our own government will not be wanting, if they are desired, to help to a settlement. We do not want Cuba; but we have no doubt Secretary Evats has already shown the Spanish govern ment that one prominent element in any satisfactory and permanent Cuban settle ment is permission for the inhabitants of that island to trade freely with the United States, which affords them their most important market, and on which they depend for a great variety of pro ducts necessary to their comfort and prosperity. With good local government, a fair representation in the Spanish Cortes and direct trade with the United States secured to them, the Cubans would have no cause for complaint against Spain, and all obstacles to their greatest pros perity would be removed.—N. Y. Herald. An Appeal from Fe^nandina- Our telegrams report an abatement of the yellow fever at Fernandina, and it is to be hoped that the disease has reached its culmination. With this in telligence,however is coupled an appeal to the charity of fortunate communities —an appeal which shonld meet with a prompt and generous response. The people of that plaguesmitten town are in sore need of provisions, and their necesities should be at once supplied. Business is at a stand-still all industries are completely paralyzed, and they have no means of obtaining food except through the charities of those who are more happily situated.—Constitution. “What is the duty of the hour?” asks Donn Piatt. Ask ns something hard—the duty on a $3,000 diamond pin, for instance. An Affecting Story. An affecting story comes to us from Oakland. It appears that a wealthy, middle aged Englishman had become somewhat jealous of his youag and pret ty wife, a not uncommon incident, we are sorry to say, in the the lives of wealthy middle aged men in _this part of the globe. A young New Yorker, with en gaging manners and a cut-away coat, was the cause of his disquietude, so the dis turbed Benedict concluded to try the threadbare dodge of ostensibly going uj> to Sacramento for a week. The second day, however, he quietly returned and let himself quietly into the house a3 a domestic smelling committee of one. In the library were several coats of mail brought over from the shore of Albion’s ancestral home. It struck him as a hap py idea that he should hide in one of these, which he managed to do with great difficulty, as the armors were clamped upright to the floor, and he had great trouble in letting himself down into one, and then screwing everything all snug and tight afterwards. This done, he awaited developments. This was in the afternoon. To his great astonishment 9 o’clock passed without any one calling, or his wife coming down stairs. About 1 A. M. he fell asleep through fatigue, and began snoring. The butler thought he heard burglars about, so he came down stairs in his night gown, with a double barreled gun underhis arm. The jealous gentleman had just begun to dream he was an ironclad, when a handful of quail shot look him in the breast plate, and, amid his terrified shrieks, the butler promptly put the ether load into the pier- glass, under the impression that another burglar was drawing a bead on him. After the whole neighborhood was aroused the mistake was discovered, and the battered party extracted by the aid of a blacksmith. Amid the snickers of the entire assembly the chagrined man crawled up stairs to his bedroom. A small note was sticking on his pin cush ion. His wife had eloped the morning before.—San Francisco Mail. Five prisoners confined in the Jones boro jail escaped last Saturday night by burning a hole in the floor, and remov ing the rocks underneath, thus making an outlet sufficiently large for a man to pass. We hear nothing from them since their departure.—Jonesboro News. You didn’t expect them to write did you ?—Monroe Adr. Throwing Dice for Death. Curious Occurrence ait a Saloon in Hoboken —The Old Fatalltj of a Party of Thirteen. From the New York Mercury. There was a party of politicans and office holders, all men of substance, as sembled awhile ago in Mitschell’ saloon in Hoboken, New Jersey, discussing politics. “Let’s lay politics one side and chuck the bones for drinks,” said one of the party. The dice were accor dingly produced, and the gentleman amused themselves for some time when another of the party, a jolly good-natur ed fellow suddenly remarked: “Gen. tlemen, I see that there are just thirteen of us, an unlucky number, so it is said to be seated at any festive board, and, though I am not at all superstitious, I propose that we shall throw the dice to see whsch of us shall die first This startling propoition threw the party from a merry into a grave mood, and several dissented. He pooh-pooh ed the various objections raised, and finally all but one agreed to the pro position, yet the thirteenth said if they wanted to carry out the matter any one else who chose might throw for him. I remember the matter very distin ctly,” said ex-SheriffReinhardt of Hud son county, to a Mercury reporter yes terday. “Yes, yes! the Captain lo3t, and he was the one to go. He was a fine man the picture of health,and look ed as though he might outlive the whole of us. Let us see. There were Willi am Acker, Captain Charles Waas, of the Schuetzen Park police. Louis C. Han- enstein now one of our alderman; Louis Mitschell Jr., Cnarles Bernbeimmer, Captain George Neuschetter myself and six others, whose names I cant recall. We were having a pleasant little reun ion in Mitschell’s place when some one said Let’s chuck the dice for drinks.’ This was done and we wore enjoying ourselves immensely when Capt. Neus- chlei said something about there begin just thirteen of us in the party and making the startling proposition that we should throw the dice to see who should die first “I wouldn’ chuck the bones—not that I'm at all superstitious but I don’t believe in triflingjin matters of life and death, our time’ll come soon enough without gambling over it. Some others objected but the Captain laughed them out of their fears. As I wouldn’t chuck the bones, some one else threw for me —either Acker or Mitschell or the Cap tain himself—I don’t remember now. When all had thrown, it was found that the Captain had lost: but he made light of it, and tossed subjec of his mind as he tossed off his glass of beer. “We chatted together a while, and then the party broke up, and, like my self, I suppose, the rest thought Dothing more of the circumstance until a short time afterwards, when i’. was painfully recalled by hearing that our friend Neuscheler was dead. He had by some means or other contracted the small pox, which soon carried him off. We were all greatly surprised, I tell you, when we heard of it, and we all attend ed his funeral. The Captain lost and was first to go. All the rest of the par ty are still aliye and in good health. I’m not at all superstitious in such matters, but it was a very strange circum stance.” The Wages of Sin- Encamped in a shallow ravine upon the plains, near the lonely place known as Buffalo Station, on the Kansas Pa cific Railroad, on September 2Gth, were Sheriff Bardslev, of Ellis county, Kan sas, and thirteen United States soldiers. Late in the afternoon across the plain came riding slowly apparently two Texas “cow boys.” Between their horses walked a pony laden with some thing that, while not bulky, seemed to try its strength. The sheriff started in pursuit with the soldiers, and soon over took the travelers, who, although seeing that they were pursued, made no at tempt at flight. The sheriff said : “I have a description of some train robbers which answer well to your ap pearance. I want you and your part ner to return with me to the station. You need fear nothing if you are inno cent, and if you are the men I want, then I am ten thousand hollars better off.” “You are mistaken in your men,” one of the ridera said, “but of course we will go back and have the mistake explain ed.” They then turned their tired horses toward the station, but had not gone far when the man who had answered the sheriff said to his companion, “Pard, if we are to die we might as well game.” He then drew a revolver, and his companion did likewise, but before either could fire the soldiers had rid dled them with bullets and both were killed. Tied up in a pair of old trous ers, on the pony’s back, were twenty- five thousand dollars in twenty-dollar gold pieces—part of the sixty thousand dollars in gold taken by the men who robbed the Union Pacific railroad train at Big Springs, Neb., September 19th. The man who replied to the sheriff was the leader of the robbers. CONTRACT RATES OiF ADVERTISING. 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The Irwinton Southern Appeal expects a lively time when the guano men com mence the collection of their debts this fall, as the following extract will show: Already we hear the faint mutterings that precede the storm that will sweep over this county when the guano agent present to the guano consumers their promissory notes and demand pay ment. Already the attorneys are sharp ening their pens and making ready for the contest before the courts which are bound to come. Already the farmers are carrying their witnesses to the fields and pointing out to them the cotton fed by guano and that fed by stable manure or the natural soil. Already you can hear farmers declare that the guano in jured the crops. In fact all the signs be token a straggle before the courts the equal of which has not been witnessed since 1870. Two hundred men in this county purchased guano on time, and at least one-half of them will contest the payment on the grounds that the guano injured their crops. The other half will pay promptly, not because the gnano has beoefitted them—forguanohas benefitted very few in this county the past season— but simply because they agreed to jiay for it, and they always pay everything they contract to pay. “Look out for paint,” 83 the girl said 1 when the fellow went to kiss her. White Slaves. — When, some sixteen or seventeen years ago, the Northern people under took, at the bidding of New England Abotitionists, to invade the South for the ostensible purpose of “restoring the Con stitution and the Union,” but really to wipe out negro slavery and change the entire form of our Government, they little dreamed what revenges time had in store for the conquered people. We need not recall the waste of war and more dreadful havoc of Reconstruction; but it may be allowable to point out what “results" have sprung from both attempts to subvert the laws of God and man. To the laboring classes of the North the war has brought strkes, poverty, discontent caste-distinctions, and at last, by self-confession, Slavery. The changed condition of everything by the events of less than twenty years are assuming shape. A vast national debt has created a pravileged class and con solidated money interests as they never were consolidated before. The work ingmen are reduced to extremities sim ilar to those of the old world, and very efforts will be made to keep them where war and Reconstruction have forced them to the wall. Just now there are workingmen’s meetings in many parts of the country and prodigious efforts are being made to form a political par ty which will supplant one or both of the old organizations. The succees, so far, of this movement is not considera ble, what it may do hereafted we must wait and see. But, at every meeting in the North of the laboring people, the everlasting burden of their song in this: “We fought for the negro slaves, and now we have been condemned to a bon dage infinitely worse.” What this “bondage infinitely worse” is let the colliers of Scranton, Penn., answer, who waited upon the rich men of that vic inity, and submitted a petittion for work, which contained the following words: “We will bind ourselves to bo your slaves, to toil early and late as our strength will permit for you, during one or five years, and never will ask you for one cent of wages if you will only give us and our families plain and sufficient food, such clothing as we really need, houses to live in, doctors and medicine when we are sick, and bury us when we die.” What these wretched men craved and were willing to surrender, in the way of personal liberty, to procure, the Southern negro slaves had in abundan ce, We do not look backwark as those who refuse to be comforted, and we prefer to regard emancipation, now that it has been accomplished, as a blessing in disguise. But Northern masses, in digging graves for us,appear to have fal len into a pit themselves, and the curses which they brought erstwhile upon us have returned home to rooet with a ven geance,— Chro. & Con. Latest from Mexico. Dispatches from the City of Mexico of the 30th of September giv* tKmfal lowing items of interest: Both Houses of Congress are iji ses sion. Congress is divided into two cliques, headed respectively by Zeamaiona dnd Jus to Bentez. Both claim to be friends of Diaz, but, nevertheless, are creating an inconvenient opposition to each other. It is officially stated that the contra band business on the Rio Grande is in creasing to a fearful extent. Gen. Marisobal has been recognized as Governor of Sonora. The Legislature of Sonora is discuss ing a law providing for the severance of that State from the Union, wherein the General Government attempts to interfere with the sovereignty of the State. The National Guard of Sonora has been organized. Congress has author ized the Government to .appropriate $300,000 in the construction of a facto ry for breech-loading arms. The Gov ernment has contracted for S200,000 worth of Remtngton arms. The Gov ernment has ordered the Collector of Customs at Vera Cruz to remit monthly to the United States $25,000 on account of payment of the American debt. The exportation of coffee has consid erably increased. Cordova alone is ex pected to export 50,000 quintals. The report of the Treasurer for Au gust shows a balance on hand of $145,- 000. Business is improving. The Mexicans are out of humor with the United States Minister, Foster. They believe Mr. Foster could greatly influence an early settlement of pend ing questions. The Jetties and Their Prospects. Capt. Eads has addressed a copious and interesting letter to the President of the Jetty Company, which we present to our readers as deserving of a thought ful perusal. The objection oftenest raised and most persietentle urged against the jetty system from the begin ning was, that a new bar would be formed in front of the jetty outlet, which would in a short time make a new extension of the jetties indispensa ble, and that the same cause would con tinue to produce a similar result. This prediction was sanctioned by eminent authority and many thou sands have accepted it,waiting forevents to prove it well founded. The letter of Capt. Eads shows that no such shoaling has taken place, but that on the contra ry there has been a very considerable deepening of the gulf over several hun dred acres outward from the ends of the jetties between diverging lines. He likewise shows that there exists a dis tinct and almost constant shore current from east to west, transverse to the cur rent flowing from the jetties by which the sediment from the Mississippi is constantly and fully swept away. This valued document comes in good time and it will serve as an effectual answer to the most formidable objection raised against the jetty saystem—N. O. Picayune. “Miss C said a gentleman one evening, “why are ladies so fond of officers?” “How stupid 1” replied Miss 0——; is it not natural and proper that a lady should like a good offer, sir?” “Home is the place for boys,” said a stem parent to hi3S0D, who was fond of goim; out at night. “That’s just what I think when you drive me off to school every morning,” said the son. A Picture of Russia- Philadelphia Bulletin Letter. A few words on the condition of the Russian peasantry, who constitute three- fourtbs of the whole population, may not be uninteresting. A traveler can not traverse the country without hav ing forced upon him the conviction that the condition of the peasantry is most deplorable. In all the rural districts, and some of the places called towns, the homes of the people are low, mis erable looking wood shanties, surround ed bj the evidences of a state of oily semi-civilization. The war enabled us to see the peasants in large numbers, as squads were at nearly every station, awaiting transportation to some milita ry base, where they are uniformed and sent to the front. Almost every man was dressed in a rough, gray material resembling the poorest blankets, and this, together with the dirt; his uncut coarse hair and beard, and physiogno my without a gleam of intelligence, complete the picture of a person whose condition isapparently the lowest in Eu rope. These are the millions formerly known as serfs, and though they have been emancipated their freedom is as yet almost nominal. The execution of the emancipation act entailed such a heavy financial burden on the Russian Government through compensating the land owners, that the serfs are required to repay the enormous sum before they can leave their respective communes. Under the plan now being pursued, the already impoverished serfs can scarcely liquidate the debt in less than fifty years. In addition to this burden they have another equally onerous on their slender incomes, and that is the church. A monk or nun is stationed at every shrine to Bolicit contributions or money for candles, and every sanc tuary is loaded with gold, silver, jewels and art decorations. The supremacy of the chnrch over its devotees is most absolute, and some of the forms of wor ship are not only nearly allied to idol atry, but many are simply disgusting. I refer, in the first case, to full-robed waxen images of canonized personages, and, in the second, to the habit of kiss ing the dried hand, skull or some other relic of the person of departed patri archs. These relics are arranged in their appropriate places in cask ets, together with gorgeous vestments placed as if on a corpse. The spots kissed so often by the unwashed peo ple are, of course, much soiled, bo that it is revolting to see one after another press forward to touch the lips. These and similar forms are practiced under the church, whose head is the enlight ened and progressive Emperor, Alex ander II. Bold Leap Over Niagara- Rochester Express. A reckless chap, callinghimself Capt. Julius D. Rogers, of Springville, Erie county, yesterday made a daring jump into Niagara river, in imitation of the feats of Sam Patch, who flourished and was killed in this city about forty-five years ago. The Courier thus describes his jump from a skeleton platform or tower, eighty-four feet high, built on rocks near the foot of the inclined railroad, Prospect Park: “This he did a few minutes before 4 o’clock, in the presence of at least two thousand people, who had congregated at every commanding point. The dive was a graceful and easy one, and he came up smiling, and struck out for a swim. A life-saving coat, made of cloth and lined with cork, capable of sustaining the weight of four ordinary people, was thrown into the water from a ferry barge. Tills he put on and but toned with comparative ease. To dem onstrate the practical value of the ap paratus. his wife, a small, dark com- plexioned woman, in a blue flannel bathing suit, jumped into the water from an elevation" of about fifteen feet, and enjoyed a ride down stream with her husband. Rogers intends jumping a distance of 164 feet some day when the wind does not blow. He claims to have made sixty-nine high leaps and dives from different altitudes, one being from a height of about 140 feet. » Truths. Pleasure is seldom found where it is sought Our brightest blazes of glad ness are commonly kindled by unex pected sparks. Seeking to soothe a ruffiian by rea son, is like attempting to bind a buffa lo with a garland of roses. The poet is an interpreter of the magic lore which ho finds shut up in withered leaves, or expanded to the gaze of all in the mighty volume of the starrv firmament. Of all the generous sentiments, that of love of country is most universal. Love is but a solitary leaf, but neith er storm nor blight can fade it; like the perfume that a dead flower sends, it is sweet when all the gay sunshine has departed; when all its bloom is past, it has the fragrancy of mm:ory; it is the last lingering beam that glows long after sun and star have set—a refuge from the tempestuous and be reaving storms of life. Usefulness is confined to no station, and it is astonishing how much good may be done and what may be effected by limited means, united wi;'h benevo lence of heart and activity of mind. Silence is the softest response for all the contradictions that arise from im pertinence, vulgarity and envy. There is nothing more awkard than breaking off an acquaintance, except the renewal of one which has been broken off. An auctioneer was selling a lot for agricultural purposes. “Gentlemen,” said he, “this is the most delightful land. It is the easiest land to cultivate in the county—it’s so light, so very light Mr. Parker here will corroborate my statement; he owns the next patch, and he will tell you how easily it is worked.” “Yes, gentlemen,” said Mr. Parker, “it is easy to work it, but it’s a plaguey sight easier to gather the crops.” This is the way the Virginia saloon is done into rhyme: Whene'er he sella a drink the bar keepere Will punch in the presence of the customcre A half cent hole fora glass of beer, Aone-cent hole for a big schoonere, A three cent hole for each sniltere— All in the presence of the enstomere. Chorus—'Then, punch, boys, with the bell-punch clear, All in the presence of the enstomere, etc., etc*

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Rome weekly courier. (Rome, Ga.) 1860-1887, October 17, 1877, Image 1