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I lie national debt with it?—IV. Y.
the silver men'Arfe' 1 wilting
[paragraphist of the Herald to pay
debt in irnny. ■■ .’-'..vo-i
, ghofford, the Congressional li
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for a complete set-of “Peter Par
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as the circumstance may" £j$-.
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of one:of the bestkriowfl <f
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VOLUME XXXII.
ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY M
i, DECEMBER 19, 1877.
NEW SERIES-NO. 16
Ighr
li-.'/it-
o:'J "ahr.’fl
£ni ni
he London Times’ staff, , the
l0 the lowest, wished, .to unite,"
Itfstiuioi.ial to be present to Mr.
_J his retirement.'- 7 But the in
ly recipient declined the : proffered
. and not even the suggestion tKif
juke the form of his portrait, .to
■cQDg in the editorial room, will in
i to consent -i /i
JpcLCsthe kind ot a dollar the Cin-
i Commercial wants: “We do
[ ra ,t a Wall street silver dollar
|ard, hut a people’s silver dollar—a
sisippi valley dollar—a dollaT with
; on ir, whose right wing shall
lfcbingto-’ City,.’ while - bis''left -
F , 6 , -tr.i i.nfVol ebttn f
it dust aloog ; the ,
co, and his mil ftpsewf^ffidfegg-t ?
, buv, while his beak ia-dredgi
lethe mud islands from the stream
seen the jetties at South Pass.”
IS
According to the correspondence of
iViibiugton Capital the wife of a
t York banker appeared the other
ling at a party as Capital. The dress
mr.red on the skirt, so as to make it
wr on; piece, with o-e hundred and
is d illar bills. The waist and sleeves
Sl.'MO bonds sewed in.and her
s and eun hlazetf^nn tfiarnon!
tiara was said to have been Worth
W.C00, and total value of the notes and
aunts mi her person was 8260,000*
|opace«car.ied her train, and watched
8ilir jewels and greenbacks should fall
I ‘.it floor.
I In the House of Representatives at
Jiihincton, on the 5th inst., Mr. Har-
(Demncrat), of Illinois, intro-
pi a bill th.it proposes to levy upon
tincomes of all United Stales citi-
3 which may be over SI,000 and uu-
sK.OOO annually, a tax of one per
•: over S'2,000 and under S3.000, one
I'-: a quarter per cent.; and a gradu
al scale up to and including S25,
t over S25,(-00 and under 835,000, a
tof three per cent.; over S35.000 and
550,000, four per cent., and five
iceut. on all incomes in excess 01
Mw. This was referred to the Ways
M Means Committee.
n. . Gordon’s terra expires, and the
ufolMUre-ele'Oted last week Will have
Co cBooeetfew successor, and then *
ijaijtiih aa a T>ig majority aq th e capital,
iud-uf 'Atlanta’s- -friends, can begot,
t 'hiin tbetexciteafeht ia. rap, to swear!
etigeaD'Ce against Gordon, it will''per
haps help some one else. , ,, JL
- However, 'bbi inference *njmV
wrong, and if may be that it was a
friend! of Senatoif Gordon that wreto it
for the purpose of sbttwing his mag
nanimity ^ in keeping silent whiie'he
lived a}, Atlanta and bad a vast interest';
in her success. And ibis, reminds, us
df a little joke. that wgs rtold .-in iEust’
’ennessee years ago..' A flatboatman
bad carried hiB flour, apples, 'whisky, :
(id^r,,eta,toN^w:0rlMhiA‘pbcl.bavin^
< &*«&»»» kmv&tn wwirediaa
1 fit - Height intnis 4ukrafliltMidkganB
shop where there' were a-'dazen or ir ore
city roughs around, and his antagonist
drew his long knife and told him to
“git,” and he “got,” with the other men
in full pursuit. In telling the story.'
our East Tennesseean said he had bnt
one friend in the whole crowd; “for,”
said he, “after I had got nearly a hun
dred yards from the grocery, my friend
—I knew he was my friend from the
ftejjLymark jlfti mwidr SMy^firiwad^elled
tfcT out, v
| ika. Benjamin Huger died in ChuiliS-
C, Dec. 7ih. He was the grand
tyhew of Line I. Huger, an American
tomtionary General, born at Limer-
t plantation, South Carolina, in 1742.
Sunnily has always been one of
ftalthaud iuQuenceiu South Carolina,
r* ma L members serving with dis-
ptlion in many departments of the
>ternment, State and national. Get-.,
•tit was burn in Charleston in 1S0G.
^graduate > at West Point in 1825;
fis commander of Fortress Monroe
•°tn 1841 to 1816; figured conspicu-
plv in the United States army until
I;frtL ISGl, when he entered the Con-
='n-. r ate service and became Major-
’toeral.
Pvrlev, the Boston Journal’s Wash-
■itoncorrespondent, says:
L Tt * sad news from Springfield cre-
I" 1 a sensation here, for almost every
3 putdic life knew Mr. Sam
'■ and many have winced under
l-^uc hits. "That he could aot at-
- til age, after such active brain-
13 not strange. Swift once re-
wh 11 those about him were
I °1 '> line old man : “Ttiere is no
It 1 v* 1 ”"!?' H his head ‘or his heart
|p. 11 ' Vu,lh anything they would
| ' e *"U) him out long ago.” This is
|i ‘‘tally especially so far as it
reljwto journalists. An editor who
1Vts to he an old man with accu-
~-ated honors and unimpaired facul
' Can t l;u .e suff-red from no strong
I. no wearing sensibility, no in-
mse of right and wrong, no
I ^ u *'- v ’’ allt ^ 110 ‘ soorn °f foals.’
17 “uwles furnished a sinking exam-
L personal journilism; and after
* cynicism has been buried in his
j, ,"' generous impulses, self-sac-
, ::‘2 wruestness, and hal.edof shams
" ' ,c a Uectionaiely remembered.”
s believe Swift’s remark to be true,
• ^ ied either to Mr. Bowles or any
°Uier
'-’tapatbi,
■uan or woman whose heart and
^“isvilh
es are in journalism, says the
*ro ni!
1 and
e Courier-Journal. Earnest-
sensitiveness and hatred of
a u ° are spiritual fires' which burp
lUe frail limits of the body
' T «ld &n nCVer Ttrcuched in this
tsis wron S> this pageant of selfish*
GEN. GORDON AND TIIE CAPITAL.
Somebody goes to the trouble of pub
lishing a two-column article in the At
lanta Constitution of Tuesday last, to
let the people know that Gen. John B.
Gordon favored Atlanta for the capital
o f the State, but did not make any
speeches to try to influence others to
vote for Atlanta. Well, what if he did
not make any speeches in the interest
of Atlanta ? Every one supposed that,
as he lived in Atlanta, or in itssuberbs,
that he was a friend of Atlanta. He
made no speeches either for or against
the Constitution of 1877, or the home
stead of 1877, and these were questions
{y&EgxaytetiiinfKfBnoe.to. thtecitisete
[f«fe8rgi*>llfl& mgtiwtrifthhfeaP^
diking ?; a ,! ©6ttAb3#iS!8 1 Vi«F%f' r "*'' lr
itter, it really seems As, ns that Gen.
lou/gouli ts^fsUed qa/to, take Bides tTlteily-fiveihnndrhd/daaMl.egga were
in the question afithttiemiml or loca-i ’ ‘
ion of the court house in; any
with just:as. much show: of rem
bu required to gtilpitumuing^e'State
upon the questjflp .qfj. removing of lo
cating the capital. ^ This, was a matter
for the peopld (3" tEfi_Staie to decide,
dud Gen. Gordon was/ .the representa
tive of-the Stat^.'in r 'thefienate’Bf
the Tjj
out, ‘Go it bob-tail, he is gaining on
you!’” , r, . . .
SENATOR PATTEKSO * »S C SE.
Judge Humphreys, of the District of
Columbia, before whom the habeas
corpus case of Senator Patterson, ot
South Carolina, was heard, has decided
that Patterson’s privilege as a United
States Senator is a sufficient plea to
discharge him from arrest even on a
charge of felony properly set forth in a
requisition by the Governor of the State
of South Carolina. He does not base
his opinion upon any error or informal
ity in the proceedings, but takes the
buld ground that when u State has-
once sent a man to Washington as a
Senator, tnat, however heinous a crime
he may have committed, or may there
after commit in the State, his right to
continue in the - * Senate for the full
term for which he was elected is per
fect and complete, and the authorities
of the State are powerless to prevent
him from appearing as the represent*
tive of the State, or to get possession
of his person for the purpose of pun
ishing him.
The decision of the Judge is certain
ly the most unique that it nas ever
fallen to our lot to read. It touche;
upon almost all subjects within th-
range ot literature. He draws upon
the Bible, upon history,-romance and
poetry—in fact, upon everything; but
in reading the decision it is impossible
to see what connection with or whai
bearing upon the case at bar all these
matters can possibly have. The main
point to be reached was the discharge
of the defendant, as his vote was neces
sary to keeping a Radical majority in
the Senate, and that was reached, and
the prisoner discharged after the ren
dering of such a decision as to make
one who has veneration for the courts
and laws of the country regret that
such a Judge as this was ever honored
with a place in our country. The read
ing of one of -Esop’6 fables, or of the
spelling book Btory of the lawyer and
the farmer would have been as appli
cable to the case as Judge Humphrey’s
opinion, and the decision he rendered
would have been as well fort- fied and
strengthened by either of them os by
the facts of hiB opinion.
At a fire in the convent at Limoges,
France, on November 19th, 1838, it was
suddenly discovered—that one of the
children of the girls’ school there had
not been rescued.. She w«b in' a dip :
taut room, and doubts were expressed
of the ability ti save her. A young
lady said, “I wiU try,” and rushed be
tween tbe flames on each side of the
entrance. She, wasTregaraed as lost,
but finally appeared with the child in
her arms: King Louis Philippe sent
her a gold medal, and a young Captain
in'tbeiirmy, 1 *who witneteed her act,
married her. The Captain is now Pro-
dent of the Punk- Bepahlic, and the
lady is Mme. MacMahon. 7 -‘
... i. ,-J-u ■
Girls in Georgia - wear bats made' of
natural leaves and flb*WA‘' ( " ,M "
; i .-/rtoaliJ-rM sut to blow a
GEORGIA GLIMPSES.
' The State Grange met at Macon yester-
4ay.
Land sold at good prices at the De
cember sales in Monroe county.
A fifteen years’ suit over a yoke of
steers in Campbell has cost 81,500.
There’s a Hawkins county spring
which ebbs and flows every two hours.
The Georgia Railroad paid one hun
dred and twenty thousand dollars for
steel rails last summer.
Geo. W. Blanton, of Dalton, has been
elected valedictorian of the graduating
ilass of .Atlanta Medical College,.
a 833'ydiing^ men 1 left Monroe county
Mbrv’Taxaa. ! Th8y< were «tnis
• 7,_. ... f
and, although the President declined td
recommend the ameDdment as reqiie
by Mrs. Sargent rad Spencer in bis
message, his sympathy fbrths movent
" also claimed from admissions hfriak
at the WhiteHodaoa^
".■gftodip::
> • . • a;-!.!.-. . ■ ...
louse it appears that war with
lotry is .regarded as almost inevitable.
j(Did .letters. froth Gefls.
ind SbeiWsn. were!read befsro the
ite Military Committee yesterday on
Same subject '; and Maxey WaA; iaStrasted
Miffed bill appropriating f"*™ 1 ^
establish-four additional military' post* deed, he was not the one to seek
.'Dalton Citizen:" Our farmers are
1 ibout through, sowing, their fall wheat,
i§a t, the., area , so im ,1s said jt4 bo v^ry.
.. I.vlai 7 «' •' I r.oV(b ; :: :
: The Ellijay Cqnriw, wants the next
legislature of Georgia 'td pass a law
naking it an offense to give tobgcco to.
ntnors, :U 7 - . . ;» siftiol
( ; ;) . , rt i -r.■ J
A small negro_child, at Mr. Sol Mar-
ihall’s, of Talbot county,-was recently
mrned to death while the mother was
jutvisiting.,;*j c?.T—.-.JLJ ;'. !7V
iir.-^4ciing G. Williams, of: t^eA.rm.
if Pierce. Biutord . A.Qo.j of Colunibus,
lied last Sdndayi He was about' forty-
eight yean,old. - D .1
^ *. aS^ph^kti^ts Horn
rary commissioner-fi^in Georgia ^q4pei
noriD
A Mt Stewart, ini Tronp.oonnty; was
-lleditbithedq'orof'hiB h’ouse'the'oth-'
rnightbya negro tenant,'wio .'dipt
“ !4<Lrf, -^ : liim.w^Ui r agnn f .
Monday night two passenger dam
asfedf.pp the State Road packed, fnll
f emigrimtai 1 They .were from the
iciwer pkrl-’of the ■'States and were en
route for Arkansas and Texas.
Mr. Paul Bleckley, son of Judge
Bleckley of the Supreme Court, has
determined to go upon the stage. He
will go to Baltimore to make his debut
under the patronage of Mr. John J.
Ford. ' ''
• The proposition to send Gen. Gordon
to Paris as the representative of the
South meets with hearty approval. He
is overwhelmed with letters from every
portion of the South urging him to
consent.
Gov. Vance, of North Carolina, was
invited to lecture at Atlanta. He re
plies he cannot leave the State to lec
ture without resigning his office, and
he seems rather to prefer being Govern
or than to deliver a lecture in Atlanta.
Col. C. C. Jones, jr., of Augusta, is
engaged upon a historical work. The
Atlanta Constitution says it will be a
history of the “Dead Towns of Geor
gia.” We do not presume this has
any reference to the present, but alto
gether to the “dead past.”
Mr. D. C. Dunlap, of Rocky Mount,
Meriwether county, had his steam gin-
house and machinery, together with
about seventeen bales of cotton of his
lwn and eighteen bales belonging to
his customer? entirely destroyed by
fire one night last week. It is thought
to be the work of an incendiary, as
there had been no ginning done there new l oan was indefinitely post
How Joe Weakened.
height for the crop or tree to be pro
tected. Everybody knows the prone
ness of insects to “go for” a light It
is one of the curious fact, connected^ In that great horse-shoe bend of the
with insect life that their eggs are al
ways deposited at night The miller
species never fly by day. On a warm,
dark night, when there is no rain or
wind, they are, in reason, almost num
berless, and can readily be destroyed
by this device. The Commissioner
says: “The moths being attracted by
tbe light, dart against it and fall into
the pan, and are destroyed before de
positing their eggs upon the tender
little Bear Paw Mountain which catch
es a great flood of sunshine at noon
day, we had a village. Sixty strong
and sturdy men were digging into the
base of tbe black-topped mountain in
^earch of silver.
; We were not in luck, and though
$ach man was gloomy and discouraged,
there was no excuse for mnrder. We
had banded together to share and share
Uike, aud if Firlune smiled on one all
would receive benefits.
Oue night when the day’s toil of fif-
leaves of the growing plants.” The ty-seven men yielded an estimate of
patentees, I learn, on inquiry, have
just started a factory at RosselltU}*
rad are manufacturing the lamptfeta,
in great quantities, and selling rights
Washington, Pea 12, i8
.Yesterday was a field day for tbe wo-,,
mer in the Senate. Petiroos signed bj
ten. of thousands of them were presents)
by many Senators, praying for, ^pjnSljl
tional amendment enfranchiriDg v ^osieh.L
and many kind things were retd of them
and their object that would have excitea
only ridicaleimd derision a few years ago.
Mrs. Hayes is counted as a sympathizer!twoTware on good terms, but while Ar
BT U. QUAD.
only six dollars, tbe miuers cursed and
swore and feklike striking each other.
l -. -We were short of provisions, new tools
- were needed, and the men turned in for
tbe night with a determination to strike
,/or some other locality if the next day’s
work should exhibit like; barren re-
sulis. ann t
At there was a great out
cry not an Indian attack, ae
eac^nr5Pr anticipated when he rushed
out, but a horrible murder had been
committed, and tb« murderer captured
by one of the sentinels. A miner
named Joseph Swain, hut hardly
known in camp by any other name
than - “Joe,” occupied a tent in compam
- I ith an old man vained Arnold. The
nuld hud about 8300 in gold coin, ac
quired in other speculations, Swain
hadn’t a dcllar outside of the common
fandt Tbe gold was buried in tbe earth
under the bed on which tbe two slept,
and Swain could not get at it by nigbi
without arousing his companion. Had
ho secured it during the day and mide
off he would have been overhauled very
quickly, and his punishment nothing
iiTherairambe no further doubt of thu less than hanging. It could be m.
raritvof oiirrelations'with'iferioo; mad more if be added murder to the rob-
r«ni iWp iniip-nf lavAriil "latpftfinenKefliiitiiir ’l >er J'. an d that night, when we all fel
llHonse committee has already taken ^<0 had done the most for him. H.
ip-tm> l )laatter, evidentlv determiiWl r «J Was getting away with the gold when
!ty“ . “ eeo ° _ ore lt _ *? vera ^ foot within five minutes after the first
-.arm.'
• Arnold was dead, stabbed in threi
•“Jour places, and the gold was foumi
ia,r j!e’s belt. There was no show foi
murderer. He could not evei
on the Rio Grande. The silver bill hag
been earnestly discussed in the Sam
and it is now the almo~t unanimous bel
that it would have sufficient strength
pare'over a Presidential veto.
The fall of Plevna is regarded in pa?
lit'cal circles as fatal to Turkey unit
England promptly goes to the rescue’^
but no one appears to harbor the thougLt
that she will s.ek to interfere except
peace maker.
We also find time to read Tip pretty game men He had fought Mexicans,
for several days previous to the burn
ing.
Washington Correspondence.
Washington, Dec. 10,1877.
Tbe an 1 ual report of the Commis
sioner of Agriculture, just issued and
ready for distribution, contains many
things of interest to the general reader.
Tne volume is unusually compact and
well arranged, and there are several
new subjects treated. In looking
through the book I notice an article
concerning a successful insect destroy
er, accompanied with a drawing or cut
of the invention. It is a new thing,
patented during the year, and promises
to be a great benefit to the farming
and fruit growing community. The
annual destruction of. crops of fruit,
cotton, ,corn, tobacco, and vegetables by
the curculio, cotton boll, army, cut and
tobacco worm amounts to millions of
dollars. Of all the numerous remedies
tried none have so far proved success
ful. The “Little Turk," as the curculio
is called, has almost driven plum cul
ture from the country, while the rav
ages of the other species named are im
mense. The worms are all hatched
from eggs laid by miller and beetle in
'sects that fly at night, and are easily
caught by a properly arranged light,
ilt.is estimated that these insects, depos
it from 10,000 to. 1,000,000 eggs each,
according to .the species, in 'the. seven-
then .days of their. Average life. If,
therefore, tbe insects can be destroyed
before appearing "!i the worm stege'of
existence, this. wi}l prove'tbe .most suc
cessful; point of attack. The. device re
ferred to by the Commissioner was
patented by a firm in Russellville,'Are
kaesas, Patton'A Duke, T believe, and
consists of a pymyar^y constructed
lamp which is to be lighted (Bxgl^eejt.fp
a pan filled with,water/ the hottom of
\yhtch-receives a stick or other isuppori,
closely on the French situation ; and the
opinion L .hat MacMahon has only two
ways onen to him; one, and one the most
likely to be adopted, that of submission
by the formal ion of a Cabinet approved
by the Republican House, or an attempt
to sustain himself by a coup d'et'it, rely
ing on the adhesion of the army to his
interests. December weather here was
never more beactiful and the streets
never presented a more animated specta
cle, crowded by hundreds of gaily
dressed women and children, seeking bar
gains in the shops filled from cellar to
attic with holliday goods. Knox.
Richmond, Va., Dec. 10.—In the Sen
ate a joint resolution was introduced
providing for a joint committee of both
houses to report such measures as will
best secure a speedy conference between
tbe commonwealth and its bondholders,
with a view of securing such adjust
ment of the public aebt as will bring
the payment of the entire debt within
the resources of the State, derived from
the present rate of taxation, and do
equal justice to all classes of houdhold-
poned, and the consideration of the res
olution unanimously voted down.
A resolution covering a series of res>
lutions, was then introduced opposing
increased taxation and favoring the de
velopment and protection ol the present
system of public education; the reduc
tion of expenses of the State Govern
ment ami the readjustment of tbe State
debt, and payment of interest thereoi
on terms not dictatury by the creditors
of the S'ate, but in accordance with the
will of the :undiu t ; act of 1871, express
ing a determination to pay the creditors
all that the diminished re-ources of the
Slate will justify, aud repeiliug the idea
of repudiation. Both propositions were
table and ordered to be printed.
Washington, Dec. 10.—In the Sen
ate, during the morning hour, a resolu
tion was reported hy Dorsey, from the
Committee on the District of Columbia,
instructing that committee to inquire
into aud report, by bill or otherwise, a
proper form of government for the
District of Columbia. Agreed to.
' THE EUSTIS CABE.
At the expiration of the hour, Mr.
Wadleigh, of New Hampshire, chair
man of the Committee on Privileges
and Elections, called up 'he resolution
reported from that committee last week
declaring J. B. Euatis entitled to bis
seat as Senator from Louisiana from
January 12th, 1876. for the term end
ing March 3d, 1879, and Ingalls, of
Kansas, who signed the minoritv re
port, spoke in oppoaitioa-to the resolu
tion, olaiming that tl e papers present
ed by Mr. Eustis wSre defective. 1
I.77 THE VOTE ON EUSTIS.
Euatis was seated by a vote 49 to 8
The negative votes were Allison. Cam
eron, of Wisconsin; Hamlin, Howe,
Ingalls, McMillan, Morrill and San-
dera. -
Among those voting aye was Brace,
of Mississippi.
London, Dec. 10.—The Rueter Tel
egram Company has the following;
“Bucharest, Monday; 10th.—After a
severe engagement yesterday, before
Plevna, Osman Pasha, who was wound
ed, riurendered unconditionally. :The
.. - Turks in Plevna are dying with hunger
H^ht to tbe^deSiKil-^andcold.”.
ur ,r * «[;Ii:7oaod root odt L war I.-77 1,001'’ - i i:i :
so bitter against luck, aud when part
ners felt so much like striking each
other, Joe Swain murdered the man
plead impulse or heat of passion. In
avpid consequences. He made a state
njent to the effect that he had deli her
ately. murdered and robbed the good
old man, and added:
* Now, boys, there’s no use in a gree t
fuss ever this matter. Put a guard ove.
tne, And the rest of you go back to you
sleep. 'You’ll hang me, of course, am
when morning comes I shall have a re
quest to make. I shan’t try toge’
■jnw^y, and I’m not going to play th«
~ht2i* the last hour comes.”
wain was known among us as s
'railed ladians anil killed three or four
white ruffians who bad made them
selves a terror to certain localities.
Armed with his bowie-kuife he would
have been a match for any four of us,
and it was owing to bis presence more
than that of any one else that our vil
lage was not troubled with the roughs
and gamblers who attached themselves
to other camps like leeches.
Murder was a crime that could not
be palliated in a mining camp. Had
it been anything else a majority of the
men would have been in favor of let
■ing Joe jump the diggings and go un-
puoished. But when they looked in
un the white faced and blood-stained
corpse of the good old man who had
been like a father to all of them, each
heart hardened against the murderer,
and each mac said tu tbe other:
“Joe Swain must hang for this!”
There was no need of a trial. When
he was brought out after breakfast he
iaid:
I “Bovs, I don’t want any fu3s over
this thing. I killed the old man, and
II is your duty to swing me up to »
limb. I knew what I was up to. aud"
1 knew I’d have to sirelch a rope if I
couldn’t get away. I don’t d-ssrve a
kind word, and I shan’t look for an\
sympathy. The req ’eat I want to mak*
is that you wou’t hang me till sunset.
I know it’s bad to have one of th*s.
afftirs banging around camp all d*\.
hilt yet it won’t make no grea' diff-r-
ence to you as long as you are work
ing for almost nothing. Now, then, ab
in favor of wailing till sunset to ha: l
n,t- Pay me 1”
“Ay e!” shouted every man around
him.
“Those opposed will say no!”
Not a voice was heard.
“The ayes have it, and I am to 1"
hung at sundown,”continued Joe. “I
want to write hall a dnz-n letters, sleep
for two or three hours, and I hope you
won’t crowd in on me. Select your
tree, get your rope ready, and when the
time comes I’ll be on hand.”
If Joe .had been a captive in the
hands of the Indians, and was to be
burned at the stake at sundown, every
miuer would have wagered his outfit
that Swain would have died game. In
this case, where he was to meet a dis
graceful death at the hands of men who
bad wi rked and fought beside him for
months, most of tbe miners thought
be’a take tbe noose without the quiver
of a muscle, but there were two or three
who 6aid:
“He is a brave man, but when he
takes his last look around he will
weaken.”
Before tbe day was four hours old
there was a strange wager between two
of our men. It was rifle against rifle
that Joe Swain wonld show a woman’s
heart before he swung off.
The doomed man was left to him
self all day long. A strong guard was
placed around his tent, but no one en
tered it to interrupt the work of his last
hours. The corpse of bis victim was
buned at the foot of the lone tree on
which Joe was to swing, and as the six
round borrowing. Have you got the
rope and the barrel ready?”
“Yee, everything is all ready,” replied
a voice.
“That’s right,” said Joe. “Now, then,
form in procession, give me a conspicu
ous place, and we’ll march along.”
The man wasn’t smiling. His face
was pale, his eyes had an anxious look,
and it was plain enough that be real
ized the primness of his last hour on
earth. The procession was formed,
and Joe marched away for the tree as
steadily as a soldier on parade. His
hands and feet were free, hut as he
halted beside the old barrel, with the
noose dangling above his head, he
said:
“Bovs, tie my arms behind my back,
and after you lift me np to tie my fret
together. If you make a bungle of this
vuu’ll get a bad name all through the
digeings.”
When Joe stood on tbe barrel, the
noose around his neck, tbe men fell
hack a little. - He looked from man to
man with steady eve, glanced np at the
limb, and then looked over tbe heads
of the men out upon the green prairie.
The sinking sun had filled the grass
with millions of sparklirg jewels. A
score of antelope were trotting along a
mile away; great birds Were sailing to
ward tbe Rockies with lazy wing; the
flowers never seemtAl so thick and
beautiful as then.
For a mioute we all looked south
ward, and there was something in (he
visiou that softened every heart.
When we looked up at Joe again, we
hardly kuew him. All tbe hard lines
had melted out of his face, his eyes
were full of tears, and there was a sob
in his throat as he turned and whisp
ered :
“Don’t blame me. boys—it is my last
look on earth! Now doyonr duty I”
Not a man moved—not a man could
move.
Taking a swift glance over the prairie
aud another up the mountaid-side, Joe
softly said:
“God lorgive me that I was not a
better man !’’
He fell forward off the barrel, his
own executioner, and no man dared
look up until the body hung limp and
lifeless.
Joe had weakened, and those who
had bet on bis “game” had lost. Yet,
when we talked it over in low voices
it the camp-fire we agreed that brave
■lue’s bravest act rf a life-time was
shown when the tenderness was allow
'd to creep into his heart, aud bis eyes
o fill with tears—when he proved to ur
Imt he bad a soul.
t Political Almanac of the Sen
ate.
Albany Evening Journal.]
Now that the struggle for the politi-
al cor.trol of the Senate is concluded
for the prefeut.it is time to make up the
-ffiuial returns and see how the Senate
-rands. The Republicans have galDed
Kellogg, the Democrats Butler, and
Eustis is still Knocking at tbe door.
Counting Conver and Patterson, the
Republicans have 39 Senators, and the
Democrats, including Davis, of Illinois,
36. But oue of tbe Republicans. Sharou,
L habitually absent without a pair, so
that the Republican side is praciisally
reduced to 33. It is probahle. also, that
Eustis will soon be admitted, increasing
the Democratic side to 37. Or, to pat
the whole iu tabular form :
Republicans with Sharon 39
Republicans without Sharon 38
Democrats with Davis and without
Eustis. 36
Democrats when Eustis gets in and
Davis stays in. 37
Democrats when Eustis gets in end
Davis gets out 36
Republicans majority (without Shar
ou) when Davis is a Democrats. 1
Repuol.can majority when Davis is a
Republican. 3
Republican majority when Davis is
an Independent and artful dodger.. 2
Democratic majority, if Patterson
should do so again, with Davis as
an Independent dodger, making a
tie, to be decided by Vice Presi
dent’s casting vote.
Democratic majority, if Patterson ami
Conover stiould both do so again,
with b.ivis us a Democrat, but his
position in that case not changing
the result no matter wh -t he might
lo.
The War in the East.
Constantinople. Dec. 10.—It is re
ported that the Council of State ha-
determined that Christians shall here-
.fter he eligible to Gnveifiorships and
n.*ier administrative functions of the
Turkish provinces. It is believed the
‘peech from the throne opeuing P r-
lunnent will annou ice this resolution.
Suleiman Pa«ha has returned to Ab-
tnedli. on the Tiruova road.
The report that the Servians had
crossed the frontier into Turkey origi
nated from a confusion of tbe bounda
ry, which was caused by the destruc
tion of the landmarks, after theTurko-
Servian war in 1876.
The Egyptian contingent in theTurk-
ish army will be increase^ by 12.000
itifantry, 1,000 cavalry, and four bat
teries.
Londos, Dec. i0.—A Reuter tele
gram has the following from Bucharest
dated the 10th: “After a severe engage
ment yesterday before Plevna Osman
Pasha, who was wounded, surrendered
uncondi tonally. The Turks in Plevna
are dying of hanger and cold.
Judicial-
United Slates vs. Gillis, administra
trix, appeal from the Court of Claims:
The Court in this case reversed a re-
covet y against the United States for
the proceedings of 108 bales of cotton,
on the grounds that the olaimant was
not tbe “owuer” of the cotton, repre
senting only the interest of an assignee,
and the assignment being unlawful un
der the act of 1S53, and generally with
out the aid of statutory enactment.
Tberecanbeno valid assignment of a
men carrying the body passed neat his claim against the United States, it is
tent tbe murderer came out aud stood
with uncovered bead to show his respect
fortbe dead.
He wrote five letters, drew up a brief
will, ate a full meal about mid-after
noon, 1 and half an hour before sundown
be'-was ready. Before starting for the
tree he said:
“After £ am-' gone you. will find my
will: > Tbe letters in there are to be for-
yarded asiseca aft convenient; This is
a shabby'old suit of clotbfts" to be bang
In, bui lt's all I had, and I couldn’t go
said, without the consent of tbe Gov
ernment by the action of CoDgress, Re
versed. Mr. Justice Strong delivered
tbe opinion, Justices Field and Brad
ley dissenting as to the invalidity of
an assignment when not forbidden by.
positive law.
London. Dec. 10.—Operations against
Erzeronm are postponed for a fortnight
on account of the weather. No at
tempt will be made to ebtablish a com
plete blockade. /
Ebon Mites.
Tne Colored Babies of Gotham to Hold a
Levee at Gilmore’s Garden
New York Herald.
Sullivan, Thompson and Wooster
streets were in a state of excitement
yesterday. On inquiring of one of tin-
aged “aunties” in Thompson street the
cause of all this commotion, the report
er was answered thus:
“Why, de Lor’ bress ye! Haven’t ye
heerddenews? Tbe colled folks am
gwine to have a baby show in Gilmore’i
Garden, shore’s yer born, honey, and I
know de gal wats goto’ to take de prize
for twins,” and the old lady gave, with
her left hand, a tip to her bandanna
turban and pointed with her right to a
handsome; taffy colored brunette, with
nearly straight hair, leaning on the sill
of an opposite window.
The desire to talk to the young moth
er and see the twin brunettes led the
reporter into the boose, where he was
followed by a crowd of colored folks,
old and young. Tbe mother sbhwed
the way into a rear apartmet t, ’he front
room being used as a laundry, and
pointed to a huge cradle in the corner,
near a bed. Taking off a light outer
covering a view was presented of two
habies with faces of the Egyptian shade.
They were asleep, and the “shish ish”
of the mother quieted the “ya, ya’s” of
tbe party in the rear. Their heads
were thickly covered with coarse black
hair, not yet sufficiently long to get
into the curl of all wool, and their faces
were really handsome.
“How old are thespchildren?" the
reporter asked the mother.
“Six months and eight days,” was
the answer.
“Are you going to exhibit them at
the baby show ?’’
“Yes, sir, de boss said I might
“Who is your husband ?”
“Poindexter Adame; he’s a kalsnmi-
ner, he is.”
“And she’s my darter, sir.” broke in
the old “auntie” aUuded to, with pride,
“an’ we’re Sruth Car’lina folks, we are,
and Marsa Poindexter, our ole marsa
’fore de war, he done gone send Marier
two silver mugs fur de pickaninnies.”
Then confidentially, “Now, don’t yon
make no mistake, Sopbronia Jane
Jackson am got twins in No. 19, an’
she's a braggin’s on dem over de whole
ward, hut Lor" bress ye, dere de brack-
est, ugliest, squint-eyed, bandy-legged,
hald-headed, squeaky-voiced, common
little nig—”
Here the reporter escaped amid the
titter of the crowd, just as the lovely
iwins of Mrs Potodexter Adams awoke
from slumber, and “split the ears of
the groundlings” with cries that at
least showed a good amount of tem
per, and two healthy paiiB of longs.
It was soon apparent that in the col
ored baby show New York was to have
a genuine sensation in addition to the
cat exhibition, and in every locality
where the colored population live the
reporter found tbe utmost interest
manifested. In order to seek farther
information he proceeded to the office
•>f Gilmore’s Garden, at the comer of
Twenty-seventh street and Fourteenth
avenue, and had a talk with the busi
ness manager of the enterprise.
THE PRIZES FOR COLOR ED CHERUBS.
“We intend,” said the gentleman, “to
make this a national colored baby
show; fat and lean, black as Erebus or
saffron-tinted as the Malay, straight
legs and crooked ones, all will have a
chance for the priz-s. We have only
advertised for 2,000, but I have no
doubt they will come 5,000—strong.
Yes, sir, we expect consignments from
the South—in fact, we will have a
strong representation from the cotton
States, to judge from our correspon
dence. We will have balloting on the
fairest principle for the handsomest
and the ugliest, the blackest and the
whitest, the cross-eyed and tbe crooked
legged; babes born with teeth, bald-
headed or fully wigged; but it will be
forbidden for visitors to pull tbe wool
over any baby’s eyes. The one kissed
most often bv white ladies to have a
pecial prize, as well as tbe sweet-
scented baby, barring patchouli. It
will be forbidden for the moiherto use
musk as a perfume, hut all other scents
are open to them. There is to be
special prize for tbe baudsomest moth
er, and one for the best dressed; so you
see there will beau amusing but good
natured rivalry between them. The
manner in which babies ana their
mothers will be brought from a dis
tance should be made known. The
management furnish transportation
t>oth ways, to and from .the show, and
will pay the expenses o: parties bring
ing children during the show.
DEUCES AND TRAYS OF SPADES.
“We have promises already of sever
al interesting pairs of colored twins,
three sets of triplets, and several sec
tions to hear from. We expect great
things from the Black Belt in Southern
Georgia. Tnere, we have it on good
autnarity, a man loses caste and a wo
man is turned out of meeting if they
don’t produce twins two years after
marriage and a set of triplets in five
years, not counting the time either par
ty is laid up with the swamp fever. In
regard to the time the exhibition will
last, one week is the term proposed, the
show to be open day and evening, and
on Saturday night it is to wind np with
a grand ‘cake walk,’ for which prizes
will be specially given. We have a
competent physician engaged, who is
to look after the health and welfare of
tbe babies. It is not true that the cat
show will combine with this one. I
hardly think the public would stand
that.”
The Fall of Plevna.
London, Dec. 11.—The latest advices
from Bucharest pat tbe number of
Turkish prisoners at 40,000. Osman
Pasha ordered a sortie in tbe direction
of WiJden. His valor, which is de
scribed as desperate, is every where the
theme of conversation. After five
boors’ severe fighting the Turks were
defeated. The suffering of the Turks
in the besieged town was awful. Cold,
disease and famine decimated tbe
ranks and reduced the soldiers to living
skeletons. To aggravate the sufferings,
no doctor and medicine could be ob
tained.
Four thousand guns fell into the
bands of the Russians. The ground
which was tbe scene of the sortie was
literally strewn with dead and, dying
Qsmari Pasha himself ■ was severely
wonnded before he would consent to a
surrender.
CONTRACT RATES OF ADVERTISING.
One square one month —
One square three months
One square six months. —
One square twelve months ......—
One-fonrth column one month
One-fourth column three months
One-fourth column six mouths
One-fourth column twelve months —
One-half column one month
One-half column three "months
• me-haif column six i
• >ne-half column twelve:
One column one month .
One column three months J
One column six months
One column twelve months
The forego Ir
Trl-Wcekly. \
per cent, additional upon table rates.
400
800
12 00
20 00
10 00
20 00
as 00
00 00
20 00
32 00
00 00
The Mexican Berder.
As -tu he seen by the following dig-
pitch of the •».}, instant, from San An
tonio, Texas, to tu. New York Herald,
'hey are having live),, times along the
Rio Grande, and if Mexico bad as much
as strength as audacity we might ex
pect & war before many weeks:
At length Lieut Young’s detachment
of the Eighth cavalry has been heard
from. It will be remembered that
about three weeks ago Young started
un a scout into Mexico with the view
of tracing a party of cattle thieves and
marauders which had been preying
upon the Texans. Some anxiety was
felt here lest the intrepid scout had
met with an overpowering force and
been driven westward.
CAPTURE OF AN INDIAN CAMP.
After his command had been out ten
days they came upon a band of mes-
caleroe, or dietillers of mescal, en
camped, having their chief, Alasti,
with them. The order was given to
attack the camp at once. Tbe cavalry
dashed in and were masters of the sit
uation, after a brief and feeble resis
tance cn tbe part of the distillers.
SUMMARY DISPOSAL OP THE BAND. -
Two of the band were killed and
three wonoded. Tbe remainder of the
party were then disarmed, all their
trinkets and clothing taken from them
and turned adrift to go where they
chose.
BURNING THE SPOILS.
All the tents, with their contents and
tne atnfi taken from the men, were then
collected in a heap by the soldiers and
burned, so that not a vestage of the
camp was left It is not stated if the
mescaleroe had any stock at the time
they were captured.
SEVERE WEATHER^ ENCOUNTERED.
Lieut. Young returned to his camp
at Point Rock Springs yesterday morn
ing. He says tbe weather has been
very severe in that portion of Mexico
over which be has scouted, and that his
command suffered very much from
tbe cold. One morning when the men
arose they found the water in their can
teens frozen.
Newark, Dec. 12—The Newark
Savings Institution, the largest and old
est in this city, chartered thirty years
ago, has beeu taken charge of by tbe
Chancellor, on petition of its managers,
so as to insore an equal distribution of
assets among the depositors, and pre
vent unfairness from a possible run. It
has about 812,000,000 assets, including
depreciated securities, and 82,000,000
Government bonds. The deposits are
811,000,000. The Chancellor orders
them to pay 18 per cent, of Jhe. princi
pal to depositors who apply for it, with
3 percent, iuterest on Jannary2d, and '
no more till farther orders; mean
while he will order a full investigation
of the effkirs of the institution. Mon
eys heteaftfer" deposited are~fo he kept
separate and invested in United States,
New Jersey and New York bonds, tree
from risk of former investments.
Bucharest, Dec. 12.—The sortie was
solely prompted by the entire failure of
provisions. Osman crossed the river
Vid, attacked and took fort Dolny Elro-
polje. The Russians and Roumanians
were hurried np from Tusarla and Bu
kova, and after a tembl e carnage Osman
attempted to re-enter Plevna, hat it had
in tbe mean-while been occupied by
the Roumanians and Russians from
Grivitzar Osman, on finding himself
thu3 surrounded, although wounded in
the foot, personally conducted the nego
tiations for the surrender. He express
ly announced that he surrendered un
conditionally, to the Emperor.
St. Petersburg, Evening, Dec 11.—
The news of the fall of Plevna occasions
great rejoicing here. The theatres are
celebrating the victory by special addi
tions to the usual programmes. Enthu
siastic popular demonstrations in honor
of the imperial family and the army are
made in the streets and public places.
Great crowds assembled, cheering and
singing the national anthem. The city
is partially illuminated.
Bucharest. Dec. 11.—The Te Dcum
was sung here to day to celebrate the
Russian success at Plevna. Prince
Gortscbakoff and -the Russian and
Roumanian au'hnrities were present.
The Czir and Prince Gnrtschakoff will
return to St Petersburg in a week. The
Czar, after the surrender at Plevna,
placed hi° own carriage and escort at
the service of Osm.-in Pasha.
WilkesBarre. Pa., Dec. 10.—A ten
per cent, reduction in wages of miners
goes into effect lo-day at the mines of
the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Com
pany, operated by Charles Parrish &
Co. The men have accepted the situ
ation, and will remain at work upon
condition that the old wages will be
restored when the price of coal w.ir-
rantsit.
London, Dec, 10.—The Times’ corres
pondent at Rome teleii tohs that
althongb newspaper report concerning
the Pope’s health are mor- favorable,
private advices indicate his eprdltinn
growing worse. He lies helpless alia«ugh
his mind is clear. He endures great
suffering from which he is expecting
and even hoping speedy release. ,-rl-f
London, Dec. 11.—The Times urges
that the moment has now arrived when,
mediation between Russia and Turkey
is possible, rad it is to be hoped the
British government will use all efforts
to ttfat effect.
New York, Dec. 10.—A Washington
dispatch says tbe position of Bishop of
Richmond has been conferred upon
Mgr. Silas Chatard, of Baltimore, form
erly President of the American College
at Rome. , ! -
Washington, Dec. 10.—The .Presi
dent made one nomination to-day,
George Fisher, Surveyor of Customs
at Cairo, Illinois. No Executive ses-
tioh to-day.
Parts, Dec. 12.—The new Ministry
held a oouncil but failed to agree on a
programme. The troop3 in Pari3 and
V-rsailles are confined to their bar
racks. t _
Lowell, Mass., Dec. 10.—Wm. H.
Devlin was arrested for the murder of