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®|f toceklg €%rmklt ' & Coti®iiWiiOiiwlfei OLD SERIES VOL. ICII HEW SERIES—IGL. LI (Chronicle ant) snttinri._ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26,1877. EDITORIAL NOTE**. Coal is unprecedentedly low in New York. Conklino’s custom Louse hymn : “ Hold the Port!” Painted slate pencils are said to be poi sonous. Look out, little ones! It is surmised that the President is not sorry at the rejection of McLik. After Plevna, what? has received one answer. A tumble in the grain market. President and Mrs. Hates will within a fortnight celebrate their silver wedding. Fenny coincidence. M. C. Bctlkr is a Senator and Butler of the House is also M. C. It takes 130,000 beeves annually to sup ply the intellectual stomachs of the Bos touese. s*~ , Who would have supposed that “on with the calendar ” could create blood on the moon ? - — r The latest detiuition of mau, to distin guish him from other animals, is his exclu- STvS mmfWlfW IROTT WMfif. ■ Senator Edmunds says there is no surer way of getting anything into the papers than by talking about it in secret session. *• Blaine and Cokklino find themselves, after thirteen years of personal hostility, “ pigging in the same truckle lied.” On with the calendar! ——— The poultry supply this season is said to he unprecedented. The price iu Baltimore, last week, went down, for turkeys, to 8 3-4 cents per pound, at wholesale rates. - Some of the Northern papers call Skoiik i.ki'f the Russian Custer. He is a much greater insn than Custer, and cannot lie trupped hy any Hitting 801 l Pasha. The WurUl notes that the people of Mas sachnsetts seem to he opposed to a solid boutli in any form, judging from the frantic efforts made, thus far Ineffectually, to save their famous Revolutionary church. - —> Commodore Vanderbilt wanted to bnild a monument to Washington 600 feet high. Therefore Mrs. Laßau thinks he must have been crazy. A monument to Washington built by Vanderbilt would have been almost as sarcastic as the church which Voltaire erected to God. The Washington Post tells the story as a literal fact that a member of Congress told a colored boy who hail charge of his room to take a lot of old papers and sell them, and promised him that he should have half of the proceeds. The hoy obeyed, and re turned with nine cents as gross receipts. The member pocketed five and gave Hie boy four cents. -*•*■ As to the next Ptesidcnl, Wendell Phillies, at an iulerview, said : “ I can tell you £ think he will Lea Democrat. It will not beTn.DEN. It may be George B. McClellan. The Vice-President will be from the South. It will be Wade Hamp ton or something like him. 1 hardly think the South will have the impudence and as surance to claim the first place at once, but it may he.” —— We see it stated tiiat in Hamburg Siegis mind Ll brow IE/, lias written a work on “ Der Kuss und das Kussen”—kisses and kissing iu which the subject is considered “ medically, philosophically and tlieologi cully." The tlrst clause must lie foyer blis ters; the second evolving an inner con sciousness; the third whether it happens on Sunday night or week days. - c* Senator Conover says that the portrait of Senator Patterson in the current num ber of Harper'* Weekly is a striking like ness. Senator Patterson thinks the pic ture of Senator Conover flatters that statesman a little, hut is otherwise remark able for its fidelity. Senator Butler must cerlaiuly think that his portrait is a wretch ed caricature. It looks like Whitelaw Reid with the mumps. The New York Times is evidently pre paring to break witli the President under certain contingencies. It says Mr. Haves “ cannot surrender unqualifiedly to his Senatorial assailants without subjecting himself to a bondage more mortifying Ilian anything he has yet endured. But it is not ’KTSBiblu for him to remain where he is, and , IS he is. Will he retreat or advance? Will he 1! Vht or negotiate terms ? These are the questii ' ,IS lo answered, aud that must be ausweret l soon.” Mrs Ro*’ ,KßTß > ' n die Washington Capi tal thinks General Gordon’s pantomime on a recent oc. oasion meant lliis: ‘‘While the noble York c.Wain (Conkling) was calmly and safely 'titting as a memlier of the lower House of .Congress, and getting large fees also from .die Government for services rendered outsn.'c, 1 got this scar in battle, ’midst shot and Bhell, on perliups what he would call the w. r ong side; hull fought for my side, as 1 deei 'nil right, and 1 do not remember seeing Gt p warlike chieftain to the front fighting foV his side.” Senator Hamlin, endeavoring to ascer tain how the secrets of executive sessions leak out, said: “The newspaper reporters -were a sharp, adroit set of men, whose knowledge of public affairs was, as a rule, quite equal to any Senator’s, aud in eight cases out of ten they could sit dowu aud write nliout a subject considered in execu tive session what would prove correct. If they had any doubt they knew where A stood and B stood, anil a few questions to C, the drift of which the latter would hardly suspect, made the account quite cor rect. As for himself, lie made it a rule never to talk to newspaper correspondents cmi any subject,” SuMK Grauger, who heard that the Preai ,1 nl was " amiably stubborn," has present (%t v> bis Excellency a copy of an original work on “ The Mnle." The following in seriptio R * CM written on the fly leaf: “ The author in' presenting this small token of his Excellency, Presi dent Hayes, uv ’‘ * ,Uia l,is much Is men list predecessors. Anouk* J ackson and A *>*>*" Johnson, both us.k kindly to the ot the luu ’° auJ his many amiable q Wrtics. He hopes, therefore, that his W *H treat with great kindness tlie ei 'cenlricities of an animal that has been so usetN to mankind. Boston Journal: The recent sharp skir mish between Senators * n d Thcrman has recalled a neat bit ot' chas tisement administered by Mr. FrsSKNPKN to the New York Senator when he was somewhat new to his duties. He had un dertaken to lecture the Senate ou allowing .Its memliers to take bills, in the custody of tire Secretary, front his desk to their own. “ .What is to preveut me. for Instance," he is r sported as saying, “ from getting a bill into my possession and altering it?” “We have not, up to this session," replied Fes senden, “ had any member of the Senate capable of such conduct.” Richmond UitpuUA : "But what shall we say of the Democrats of the Senate who joined the rancorous partisans in this vin dictive act? That they misrepresented their constituents we are sure; but why should they have gone against the best friend to jaatice, the Constitution, and State equality aud national peace, who ever belonged to the Republican party ? Why should they, at the very moment of exhibiting their in gratitude to President Hates, have com untied an outrage upon public order and an assault upon the sMn? of civil re form. wiach is based upon the jjtuzst and most patriotic principles? We have nevqt known au act mote perfectly indefeusible than this of the four Democratic Senators iu becoming recruits of the vainest and bitterst of Republican Senators. Hr. CpS*- 4.LNG.” BULLOCK’* TANK. The case of the State against Rufus B. Bullock has been again continned, and again continned at the request of the attorneys for the prosecution. We believe that the State has asked for no lee* than three continuances since a requisition from Governor Smith brought Bullock within the jurisdiction of the Courts of Georgia. The most serious charges have been made against this. Grand juries based true bills upon them. The flight of Bullock be fore any proceedings were commenced was evidence of a guilty conscience. Nine-tenths of the people of the Stale believe him gnilty. Yet he has not been brought to trial. At one time it was said, and justly, that he was be yond the jurisdiction of the State Conrts. But while he remained away his whereabouts were well known and the first genuine effort made to procure his presence proved snocessfuL For the past two years he has been come atable and has never failed to respond to the mandates of the Courts. Bat he has not yet been brought to trial. We do not know where the blame of all these things should properly be placed; but plain men do not understand them. The people wonder why it should take more than six yeara to bring to jnstioe a man accused of crime. Lot us have an end of the matter. Bullock should be either tried and convicted or tried and acquitted. I.OKDON AND COMKUNU. We publish this morning dispatches and editorials from different, sources giving widely different accounts of and comments upon the recent personal diffi culty between Senators Gordon and Conkling. Of course the Republican journals espouse warmly the cause of their political leader. They will not ad mit that he was either wrong or rude, but insist that his conduct was marvel ously proper. They place all the blame upon Senator Gordon, and find him a fit subject for ridicule and abuse. Their dislike of the latter is plainly apparent. Even such a newspaper as the New York Time* does not hesitate to declare that “ nothing would do Mr. Conkling or “ any other Senator more good before " the country than a successful contest “ with Mr. Gordon, and too strict an “ inquiry would not be made a* to ivho “ was wrong.'' Animated by such a spirit one oannot wonder at the gratuit ous coarsenes and mendacity of Republi can comments upon the affair. From what can be ascertained of the matter it seems that General Gordon, believing that Mr. Conkling had treated him with rudeness, resented that rudeness and Mr. CoNkLiNG retorted with an af front in the subjunctive mood. Tho matter was finally arranged in the man ner in which these affairs usually are and the two Senators are again upon a peaoe footing. That there is anything like a genuine reconciliation between them we do not believe. It is said that for several years Mr. Conklino has treat ed Southern Democratic Senators with a superciliousness which was the more provoking because it could sot be easily resented. The debate on the New York Custom House appointees gave General Gordon an opportunity to pay off old scores of which, according to all ac counts, he did not hesitate to avail him self. This fact aud the further fact that on tbut occasion General Gordon ap peared as the champion of the Adminis tration must have intensified Mr. Conk ling’s anger, and on tho first pretext it made itself manifest. However, it is consoling to know that Senator Ham lin’s board of arbitration saved any effusion of blood and caused the bellige rents to subscribe to a treaty of peace. NO KKPUDIATION. The Columbia correspondent of the New York Times predicts the success of the “repndiators” in the South Carolina Legislature, aud urgOß New York own ers of South Carolina securities to sell them at ouce and at any price. A num ber of causes have contributed to the glarrn of the correspondent. When Hampton attempts to have the bonded debt recognized aud the interest paid the “Edgefield repndiators” will not allow these things to be done. That terrible man, General M. W. Gary, has beeu eleoted Chairman of the Commit tee on Finance of the Senate. “He is the most ultra repndiationist in the General Assembly.” It is perfectly safe to say that no appropriation for interest will pass the Senate, if he can prevent it. “General Wallace having been elected Circuit Judge, Mr. J. C. Shep pard, of Edgefield, has been made Speaker of the House of Representa tives in opposition to Governor Hamp ton’s candidate.” Mr. Sheppard thus vacated the Chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee. “Mr. Memmin gkr, of Charleston, once Jeff Davis’ Secretary of the Treasury, by virtue of his financial experience nuil ability, would naturally have boen made Chair man in place of Sheppard. The press and public conceded the place to him, but the repudiationists said no ; and Simpson, an up-oountryman of very iu ferior calibre, was elected over Mem minger.” The same influence defeated Governor Porter, of Charleston, lor Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and chose rather Haskell, “an extreme man, who was Chairman of the Demo cratic State Committee last year.”. The committee which has been for five months investigating the bonds is al most ready to report. Enough is known of its proceedings to warrant the asser tion that the committee will report agaiust paying interest on more than a third of the consolidated bonds. We hope that the correspondent of the Time* is uot mistaken in his prognosti cations. Though gloomy to the authors of and participants in the frauds which saddled a monstrous burden of debt npon the shoulders of the tax payers of South Carolina, they are oceering in deed to all who are anxious that honest men shall not suffer for the benefit of rogues, and that a premium shall not be put npon crime. It ia a great misnae of terms to call the ac tion contemplated by the Sonth Carolina Legislators “repudiation.” It is no such thing. Reparation is the term applied, financially, to the refusal to p.av or acknowledge a just debt. It ia aJt repudiation to refuse to pay or acknowledge a fraudulent obligation. Repudiation destroys the credit of the repadiator. The credit of State or in dividaal was never injured by disown ing s fraudulent piece of paper. Geor gia was plundered under Bullock pret ty much as Sonth Carolina was plunder ed under Soorr, Mosks and Chamber hot. When her own people recovered the government they thoroughly inves tigated the whole bonded debt and dis owned every bond which had been fraudulently issued or endorsed. Yet the credit of Georgia is to-day better than that of any other Southern State and is as good as that of most Northern and Western States. The Legislature of South Oarolina seems to have adopt ed the same policy which was pursued pn this side of the Savannah. There ' has uquc an investigation, extended, im partial and A report of the I results will soon be submtUed. We trust that its oonclnsions will be sus tained. The people of South Oarolina demand that they shall not be taxed for the payment of bogus bonds and it is the duty of their representatives to give them relief. “PENSIONING REBELS.” Alexander H. Stephens introduced a bill to repeal so much of the existing statutes as re quires all applicants for a pension to take the test oath. This looks like the first step to se curing pensions for persons wounded in the rebel service. WasfUngton Correspondence of Boston Traveller. The above paragraph has greatly dis turbed the prophetic soul of the editor of the Augusta (Me.) Journal, the home organ of Mr. James G. Blaine. The Journal complains that Northern Demo crats have treated the suggestion “that this Government will have to wrestle with the question of paying pensions to rebel soldiers” with ridicule. Ha thinks that when the Democracy come into power the South will hold the whip hand, and sees in the bill offered by Mr. Stephens but the beginning of the end. Mabrtatt in one of his novels defines flapdoodle “as the stuff that fools are fed on.” Fools, indeed, thrice sodden idiots, must be the readers of the Traveller and the Journal if they can swallow such stuff as the above. All sensible men know that the South has no more idea of asking pensions for ex- Confederate soldiers than she has of de manding the redemption of Confederate Treasury notes in gold coin of the United States. Mr. Stephens’ bill, about which bo much nonsense has been written, is intended simply to restore to the pension rolls the names of Southern survivors of the wars waged for the preservation of the Government prior to the conflict with Mexico, which wtire strickeu off under the operation of the iron-clad oath. Not one of the persons affected by the bill was in the Confeder ate Army, but like ninety-nine one-, hundredths of the Southern people, their sympathies were with the South in her struggle for independence. When Confederate Generals and Senators liavo seats in the Senate and the Vice-Presi dent of the Confederacy is a leading member of the House of Representatives, it is time to discontinue the proscription of old, infirm and poverty-stricken men aud women. A BAD SPELL. Doorkeeper Fitzhugh irretrievably damned himself by writing letleis filled with bad spelling, notoriously so by his statement that he was a “biger man than old Grant.” A certain Mr. Beauohamp has lost the Belgian Mis sion by having a love missive paraded at Court, in which he dedicates his “hole hart” to his Dulcinea. And now we have the sad shipwreck of two lovers, from similar cautts, the more flagrant part of it being in the fact that both of them were regarded as prodigies of learning and good sense. We are told that the lady was beautiful beyond the ordinary types; that she had graduated at one of the most expensive female colleges ; that she' kuew French, Latin aud Greek, that she read Darwin, Huxley and Spencer instead of “That Husband of Mine” aud “The Bloody Brigand of the Brahmapootra.” She was indeed “one of Miss Edge worth’s heroines stepping from the covers” or like Wobdswoth’s idea of the "perfect woman nobly planned.” She was brilliant and witty, danced divinely, dressed like a princess aud had gained the chromo at a country fair for her contributed loaf of bread, which made the village baker die of sheer envy. The model youDg ruau came along and was engaged to be married to this model young woman. Never was there apparently a better proof of elective affinities or natural selection. On a sudden however, the young man refused to keep his troth, and the young woman “went to law” about it. Be fore the awful presence of justice, with a month full of wisdom and tobacco juice, the treacherous youth was forced to disgorge the vile reasons compelling him to such baseness of pro cedure. The Philadelphia Time* gives the particnlars thus: “He produced one of her glowing letters in which she de scribed her happiness in view of the coming ‘nupshals,’ and incidentally re ferred to her ‘dimond’ ring. Tho steny hearted wretch declined to marry any body who eonld not spell nuptial, par ticularly within a month of her wedding day. The young lady brought her port folio into Court and emptied his letters out where the light of the law could shine upoD them. The first one read was in answer to her gnsh about the ‘nupshals,’ very brief and truly busi ness like. He wrote: ‘This marridge can never take place.’ She not only found out why, but she recovered dam ages; the Judge was a humane man, and congratulated the young woman on her narrow escape from a man who didn’t know how to spell marriage within a month of Lis wedding day.” The moral of this, we take it, is plain: Avoid all love letters, or else, when the glow of composition is over, submit them to Worcester’s or Webster’s Return ing Board for revision. And yet wbat a monster that man must be who, having won the heart of a confiding maiden, would not wear it proudly ou his bosom even if she insisted that the proper way to spell “bridal” is “check-rein.” INDEPENDENTS IN GEORGIA. In the last Georgia Legislature there were twelve Independents. Letters received here state that at the recent election for anew Legislature about eighty Independent candi dates were elected. It is said that the Inde pendent candidates received the bulk of the colored vote and divided the white vote. It may be that there were local causes underly ing the election of so many independent can i didates, bnt the friends of the Administration I are rery much gratified at it. The Postmaster ■ General stated to-day that it is a direct result | of the President's Southern policy, ai.d fully i justified the expectations which have been en tertained of its happy effects, — Washington Dispatch to the Baltimore Bun. We are glad that the Administration and the friends of the Administration are gratified at the resnit of the recent eleotion in Georgia, bnt they will have to base their gratification npon a differ ent ground from that given in the ex tract which we have quoted. The per sons who wrote letters to Washington ; saying that eighty Independents had ! been elected to the Legislature of this j State had very lively imaginations, and , very little regard for facts. It is safe to i say that there are not mere Independ j ents in the present than there were in I the last General Assembly—if, indeed, there are so many. It is true that in many connties of the State the Temo- I oracy were so strong and the Repnbli- Icana so weak that the former agreed not to make any nominations, but to let every man enter the field who wosld and j have a “scrub race.” But gentlemen who ran in this way were not, and did not pretend to be, Independents, or op posed to the principles of Democracy. Each one of them would do everything in his power to-morrow to secure the election of a Democratic nominee for any office, from the position of county constable to the Presidency of the Vnited States. If there had been a nomination they would have submitted to it cheerfully. In a few counties In dependent Democrats did oppose nomi nated Democrats, and in a few counties independents were elected. This is about all is of it, the cock-and bull stories contained in letters sent te AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 26, 1877. Washington to the contrary notwith standing. In this connection it is proper to no tice a dispatch, treating of the same sub ject, sent from Washington to the Cin cinnati Gazette, which purports to re flect the statements and sentiments ot General Gordon. General H. V. Boyn ton, the correspondent of the Gazette, commenting npon the report that a great many Independents had been elected to the Legislature of this State, says: General Gordon thinks that this will prob ably give the Independenta eighty members in stead of twelve, the number they had in the last Assembly. Mr. GoaueN, in speaking re cently of the development of this Independent movement in Georgia, declared that it was the legitimate outgrowth of the President’s South ern policy, and that movements of that sort would inevitably extend over a portion of the South. Senator Gordon, by becoming the champion of the Administration in regard to confirmations, has put hiihself at the front rank of the Independent movement in Geor gia, and undoubtedly hopes to secure the Inde pendent vote for himself. Now we do not believe for an instant that General Gordon used the language pat in his mouth or entertains the senti ments attributed to him by the corres pondent of the Gazette. But General Boynton professes to speak authorita tively and his dispatch is calculated to do barm. We hope that General Gor don will promptly give the statement snob notice as it deserves to receive. HOW OPINIONS DIFFER. When Dr. Theodore Christlieb was iu this country, some years ago, he made a profound sensation upon all he met by the sweetness and guilelessness of his disposition. It was very natural that some Americans, in their yearly visit to Europe, should seek the Doctor at home, and one of them not only did so, but, like a true son of liberty, inter viewed the old gentleman. Much to the astonishment of his visitor, the vener able Doctor expressed great fears for the United States, because,when pressed for an explanation, he declared that “the spirit of Christ was not here.” Still further pressed to unravel this mystery, he “seriously declared that on more than one occasion be had heard an American woman say to her husband, ‘Dear, will you bring me my shawl ?’ and the husband bad brought it! and further, that he had seen a man come home and find his wife sitting in the best chair in the parlor, and not only did she uot rise to get his dressing gown and slippers, but she did not rise at all, and let him find his own chair as well as other comforts!” The Profes sor’s idea of woman seems to be that of an upper servant, especially if she be married. That the woman should be the help-mate of tho man, in any state of life, we think unde niable, but it is just as well to avoid oue extreme as another. For a woman to be an encumbrance to a man is a mon strous curse, but we are fain to believe that, even in America, a majority of wives endeavor to bear at least half the responsibility. Among barbarous tribes, women are degraded like beasts of burden, and so become coarse, squalid, masculine and uncanny. Very largely in Europe woman is subjected to usages which horrify the American observer. We are of opinion that where there is mutual service and attention, in married life, the best civilization is discovered, and that this is the case generally in the United Mates. We think the day is dis tant when the American man will come to the conclusion that harnessing his wife to a plow or beating her unmerci fully are the proper methods of in troducing a Christ-like spirit into the United States. REMARKABLE LAW CASES. Two cases have recently been before the New York Courts which are pecu liar, to say the least. The first is that of Bernard Lynch, who was arrested and charged with having abandoned his wife and two children, one of them at the breast. Mrs. Lynch testified that he would uot give her anything to sup port herself aud babies. Mr. Lynch retorted that he had beeu locked out for five nights iu succession, and, despair ing of peace at home, had chosen an other place to lay his weary frame and wrestle with his daily aud nocturnal hash. The injured mau expressed a willingness to contribute to tbe mainten ance of bis family, if his wife would not expose him, in future, to the un healthy dews of heaven and to the bitter sarcasms of her eloquent tongue.— Whereupon this scene occurred : "I don’t want you to support me," said Mrs. Lynch ; “ I only want you to keep these chil dren from starving. Yon tike the children and I will take care of myself.” “Take the children ?” answered Mr. Lynch, “ and I’ll be glad to do it.” “You’ll have to feed the baby,” warned Mrs. Lynch ; “ she ain’t weaned yet. He must feed her, Judge.” “All right," said Mr. Lynch ; “I can do it." Then he pot his hat firmly on his head, and stretched out his hands to receive the baby. Mrs. Lynch laid it in them doubtingly. “Well, Mrs. Lynch,” s&id the Court, “if you are satisfied, your husband can go.” Mrs. Lynch said that she was. Mr. Lynch started for the door, with the long drsss of the baby trailing on the ground, and a very broad smile on his red face. Mrs. Lynch look d at him for a minnte and then bnrst into tears, screaming: “Give ni9 back my baby! You can't take her from me!" Here was a test for Solomon himself much less a New York Police Court Judge, who probably is a living ex emplification of necessity that knows no law. Mrs. Lynch wanted her husband to support herself and infants. Then again she did not want him to do any thing of the kind. Then she wanted the poor man to take a nursing baby, and when he agreed to do so she went off into hysterics and wildly demanded that the cub should be restored to her shel tering arms and to its natural fount of sustenance. We havo not heard that the wretched man restored tbe baby. but dare say he did so rather than be oonie a candidate for the comforts of the Morgue, but it is recorded that “his Honor” contrived to secure something like quiet by ordering that papa LyxoH should pay his spouse $2 50 per week. A still more singular case is that of Mr. and Mrs. Roe. This appears to be a clear case of persecution. The lady has been twice married to her husband, and is now endeavoring to compel him to marry her, at auctioneer’s rates, for the “third and last time.” Four years ago they eloped and were joined to gether in the bonds of matrimony at New Haven by a Catbolio priest. The man stood wedded bliss for one year and then ran away. He perfidiously at tempted to make out that the marriage was a sham one, nay that it had never existed at all. Bhe hunted him down rigorously and he did all he could, aid ed by his family, to frustrate her. We are told circumstantially that dnring this ' controversy she has been arrested no less than thirteen times for assaulting him. Once she palled him oat of a wagon by his coat tails, and insisted on kissing him repeatedly in the presenoe of another young lady whom he was about to marry. On a second occasion he grew so alarmed when he saw her coming that he leaped from the second story window, seriously injuring him self. To avoid any more reoontres of this kind, he gave up his position in New York and concealed himself some where in New England. Finding that be could not be induced to leave Ply- month Bock and vicinity, the wily wo man changed her tactics. She “played possum,” that is pretended to be dead and had her obituary published in the paper whioh circulates like the atmos phere. The gndgeon bit fiercely at that bait. He went back to New York in a state of glee strangely eoßafejfuent npon such melancholy tidings. joy was soon turned to gall. his wife on the street and by hSQras borne off to an Episcopal minkterp Who re united this already mnch married couple, no doubt in perfect innocence and ignorance. On the night ef the seoond nuptials, the man escaped by means of a rope ladder and fled from his ghostly companion. She caught him a third time, had him arrested and put under bonds. The trial came off; the woman was her own lawyer. Before “hia Honor” could renders decision the prisoner forfeited his bonds and has been heard of no more. He left behind Idm assuranoes that rather than meet his wife again and live with her he will take rat and roach exterminator, blow out his brains, seek the bottom of tbe river or dangle at the end of a well adjusted rOpe. Meanwhile, the lady is quietly pre paring a trousseau and has no doubt of her ability to catch the force him to the altar for the third time.— Most women, at the first desertion, would have procured legal separation and tried their luck with decent grass widowhood or else with some other man. Bnt Mrs. Roe will have her man or none at all, and the way she pur sues him has caused intense amusement to all bnt the vagabondish wretch who is either “pigeon-livered and lacks gall” or else has had praotioal knowledge that “hell has no fnry like a woman scorned.” BORDER TROUBLE*. At this writing the exact nature of the recent troubles on the Mexioan bor der is not known; but that there have been violenoe and lawlessness there is no doubt. The origin of the disturb ance is believed to be as follows : San Elizario, the scene of the outbreak, is situated ou the Bio Grande river, near the junotion of the Mexioan boundary with the boundary lines of Texas and New Mexioo and in the immediate vicinity of El Paso. It is stated that the Mexicans in the vicinity of El Paso are governed by juntas, or gatherings of the people, and whatever these gather ings resolve is the oommon law. Long since the salt lakes near El Paso had become the resort of all in need of salt, and were declared publio property. But they were really under the hand of the State, and when a gentleman at Austin, with a Mr. Howard as his agent, pro posed to make these lakes a private possession by “taking them up” under the laws of the State governing the location of lands, popular opinion re belled against this unaccustomed mode of doing things in that quarter, and the juntas declared that these lakes were common property by right of a long common use, the Slate to the con trary notwithstanding. Howard, of course, contended for his rights, the Mexicans found a willing leader and champion in his enemy, a man named Louis Cabdis, parties were organized, one thing led to another, and all result ing in a disgraceful broil which culmi nated in tbe death of Oabdis at the hands of Howard, During the past months the troubles originating in the possession of these salt-pits have grown more serious because of the anomalous condition of affairß existing between tbe United States and Mexioo and finally, it seems, tbe government of Texas dispatched a few State troops to the proteotion of its citizens. The threatened outbreak followed this move ment. Large bands of armed Mexicans crossed tbe shallow river and joined their compatriots on tbe American side of the stream. The State troops were forced to conoentrate at San Elizario and fortify themselves against assault. The attack was then changed to a siege and finally the Texans, their ammuni tion being exhausted, were forced to surrender to the Mexicans. After the surrender three of the prisoners were brutally butchered in eold blood by the victors. Among the victims was the man Howard, whose connection with tbe tronbles has been noticed above. Ten companies of United States cav alry and one company of infantry are en route to the scene ot action, and this force is large enough to preserve order, unless the Mexioans, elated by their re cent success, should carry on war against tbe Government on a larger scale.— While some of the Mexicans concerned in this deed of lawless violence live in Texas and New Mexico and are amen able to the laws of that State and of the U nited States, by far the larger number of men engaged in it are citizens of Mexioo and cannot be reaohed in the or dinary way. Experience has shown that it is useless to seek their extradition from the Mexican Government. There is no government in Mexioo, and the men who pretend to exercise authority iD that unhappy country are notoriously iu sympathy with the raiders who have made a hell of the Texas border during the past eighteen months. If these cut throats who have invaded American soil and spilled American blood are brought to justice it must be by the strong hand. Our Government should act promptly and vigorously. The forces of the United States should follow them across the Bio Grande and take them wherever they can be found. It is useless to con sume time in negotiations. The Mexi can Government cannot or will not pro tect Texas from the incursions of ma rauders and murderers. The Govern ment of the United States is bound to afford that protection. Subsequent dispatches from General Sheridan’s headquarters confirm the surrender of the Texan troops and the murder of three of the prisoners. Sher idan A Cos., however, attempt to make it appear that the lawlessness and butch ery were the work of “native bom citi zens of Texas." It has been repeatedly Stated and it ia very well known that hundreds of Mexicans crossed the border and made common cause with the Mexi cans residing near San Elizario, but Sheridan ia playing into the hands of Senator Conkling, who has recently as sumed the championship of the Greas ers. Gen. Butler has given his traduoers an opportunity to make good their as sertions. It has frequently been charged that John J. Patterson favored Gen eral Butlrb’s admission to the Senate because the latter had promised, in re turn for such assistance, to cause the proaeontions commenced in South Caro lina to be discontinued. General But ler offered a resolution last Saturday to have this charge fully investigated. The gentlemen who made it may now atep to the front. It ia safe to say they will not come. Bismarck has won another viotory over the German Conservatives, and now seems to have complete control of the Government. It ia generally believed that the Emperor has yielded to his wishes, and that the Chancellor will be permitted to reorganize the Cabinet in the interests of the National Liberal party. COMPLETE RETURNS. Oar table incorporates the total vote in every ooanty, and its figures are re liable in every instance. Corati- n . Home tntion. J* J® ■ coraraM - 111 ! 11 a<2 _3_ S_ 5 Appling ~m 86 90 698 687 87 Sskar? 494 274 673 209 192 569 Baldwin U4l 678 0000 1908 1009 832 Banka 7*o 69 5.7 220 640 136 Bartow 1939 346 2097 261 1679 450 Berrien 446 15 27 433 429 7 Bibb 2590 840 358 8071 1794 1960 Brooks 570 436 498 507 512 483 Bryau i 282 80 117 244 276 87 Bulloch I 696 1 47 634 589 69 Burke 865 1088 1495 257 360 1884 Bntta 644 330 750 286 674 538 Calhoun 566 470 765 288 538 489 Camden 78 159 180 66 213 20 Campbell 922 222 1150 9 833 307 Carroll 1373 42 1105 334 1244 171 Catoosa 634 14 752 39 611 122 Charlton 166 .... 54 114 141 20 Chatham 2081 504 654 1990 1920 700 Chattahoochee.... 392 359 531 206 319 405 Chattooga 946 9 946 132 668 262 Cherokee 1079 62 1102 46 1000 125 Clarke 792 639 1070 357 693 717 Clay 312 119 196 234 257 162 Clayton 669 877 1022 28 620 410 Clinch 464 66 167 422 468 120 Cobb 1763 341 2024 82 1742 329 Coffee 413 3 19 439 361 53 Columbia 345 10 188 182 214 99 Colohutt 141 28 27 150 107 69 '<*weta .. 1299 1069 2287 71 1148 1144 Crawford 528 187 236 475 396 279 Dade 491 20 527 52 493 28 Daweon 558 44 602 9 469 99 Decatur 790 1034 1298 534 730 1073 DeKalb 1206 209 1466 14 1199 264 Dodge 577 121 322 418 218 396 Doolv 1015 191 249 964 873 255 Dougherty 584 968 1062 465 451 1104 Douglas 542 64 597 7 470 87 Early 1115 25 458 708 1105 53 Eohols 192 76 105 186 185 78 Effingham 284 87 95 276 275 80 Elbert 1534 26 1341 199 1241 220 Emanuel 689 109 146 513 873 187 Fannin 676 54 723 19 694 43 Fayette 640 248 945 35 508 435 Floyd 1297 481 1651 585 1296 744 Forsyth 1148 17 1009 34 1116 13 Franklin 911 91 611 611 563 508 Fulton 2574 2931 5620 52 2639 2747 Gilmer 803 75 890 5 787 71 Glascock 423 68 84 405 376 108 Glynn 496 399 496 410 895 502 Greene 1043 1203 1735 533 770 1424 Gordon 1510 76 1373 195 1201 162 Gwinnett 1039 65 1165 22 1062 82 Habersham 949 48 748 372 922 99 Hart 769| 172 831 209 653 308 Hancock 10361 151 173 1027 960 222 Haralson 5271 109 642 21 452 113 Harris 1065,1 127 990 197 571 582 Hall 1347| 87j1596| 58 13311 104 Heard 555 71 610 17 542 76 Henry 867 558 1867 70 578 765 Houston 1286 1084 1377 993 838 1420 Irwin 276 6 13 271 188 19 Jackson 1452 360 1632 244 1233 462 Jasper 880 354 737 566 680 672 Jefferson 821 261 467 659 640 360 Johnson 490 40 67 461 433 40 Jones 814 181 199 919 878 203 Laurens 686 148 164 576 440 177 Lee 570 486 773 285 777 271 Liberty 342 156 197 299 336 198 Lincoln 729 1 447 252 664 14 Lowndes 404 258 336 325 880 264 Lumpkin **. 724 23 669 69 636 17 Macon 798 445 492 758 429 787 Madison 738 97 332 518 476 153 Marion 899 124 479 532 856 166 McDuffie 637 13 249 405 489 58 Mclntosh 92 313 364 71 80 350 Merriwether 895 668 1380 214 821 728 Miller 449 1 45 412 350 18 Milton 722 6 722 14 631 61 Mitchell 649 546 675 430 480 593 Monroe 1680 1331 1917 999 1130 1715 Montgomery 576 89 324 327 453 IQO Morgan 698 1165 1464 888 621 1212 Murray 921 42 870 122 677 227 Muscogee 1692 485 1229 846 1520 621 Newton 762 6491384 62 652 732 Oconee 438 268 426 304 374 341 Oglethorpe 1058 136 941 254 846 194 Paulding 1040 65 1093 31 1031 66 Piokens 699 124 860 12 729 86 Pierce 338 121 144 319 329 118 Pike 887 764 1251 414 842 778 Polk 1144 107 1182 108 1019 214 Pulaski 839 213 263 807 719 £O2 Putnam 1346 84 330!1119 1078 253 Quitnam 553 57 330 285 525 79 Rabun 475 10 288 181 437 5 Randolph 946 1328 1545 727 952 1318 Riohmond 3019 1412 1779 2675 2651 1721 Rockdale 604 353 886 68 511 180 Sohley 376 137 168 341 307 178 Scriven 446 82 89 444 420 106 Spalding 693 930 1411 205 681 984 Stewart 721 688 1019 352 634 814 Sumter 988 613 720 837 768 755 Talbot 622 49 163 513 468 160 Taliaferro 454 165 394 210 408 169 Tatnall 697 108 166 639 590 153 Tavlor 629 43 i 491 600 514 623 Telfair 505 101 169 438 402 182 Terrell 553 79 303 319 502 117 Thomas 783 502 534 775 663 576 Towns 354 94 399 51 354 90 Troup 811 11221499 148 659 960 Twiggs 494 ill I 132 611 100 436 Union 799 7 687 124 774 30 Upson 795 596 957 443 651 687 Walker 1805 76 1256 106 1090 190 Walton 784 338 986 149 763 361 Ware 275 124 162 243 257 138 Warren 520 361 469 441 473 397 Washington 1552 851 1047 1353 999 1178 Wayne? 338 52 57 337 339 65 Webster 693 2 363 234 482 ,1 White 620 21 561 69 592 18 Wilcox 410 32 91 369 330 46 Wilkes 697 6 618 195 608 49 Wilkinson 1315 7 13 1897 1096 204 Whitfield 1257 71 1266 92 1133 156 Worth 480 188 348 434 503 252 Total Vote. For Ratification 111,121 Against Ratification 53,347 Majority for Ratification 69,015 For Atlanta... 103,301 For Milledge ville 68,228 Majority for Atlanta 45,073 For Homestead of ’77 91.920 For Homestead of ’66 66,560 Majority for Homestead of ’77 36,360 THE GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY. Decline at the Stack— I The Port Royal En dorsed Bonds. Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist: The sudden and rapid decline in Georgia Railroad stow, need surprise no one, for it has already been predicted that the action of the Board of Direc tors, at their last meeting, would settle the question as to whether the stock would advance to its real valne, or sink down below the Central Bailroad quota tions. It seems now to be running to that point pretty fast, and it don’t take much of a prophet to foresee that be fore the next annual meeting of stock holders it will be as far below the Cen tral quotations as it is now above, un less a chaDge of policy takes place, and that right speedily. When the Direc tors meet in February next possibly some of them may be a little wiser, and if any of them want to increase their shares, doubtless they can do it to great advantage. It seems, however, that the non-resident Directors have shifted the responsibility and left all unfinished business to a committee of the local Board. That committee, or rather a portion of it, seemed unwilling to proceed without conferring with Judge Itfagrath, an eminent jurist of South Carolina, who, it appears, was sum moned to be present at their de liberations tonebipg the validity of certain guarantees or liabilities. At this oonferenoe they seem to have unanimously agreed “that the liability as guarantors is only to meet the in terest as it falls due, and the principal at maturity." That’s exactly what every attorney and other members of the Board have been trying to hammer into their associates for more than six months post, and the only wonder is that the eminent counsel (upon whom the minority relied so much ) could not have made himself more intelligibly understood, unless he changed his opinion qn arrival, after getting a law point from a legal member of the Board which upset his former opinion, upon which all thia ruinous and dis graceful difficulty has been hanging.— The liability, as guarantors, is, there fore, finally admitted, and the only question now to be decided is whether the bonds end coupons are due, or only the coupons, which is a mat ter of very little consequence.— The company need only pay what is frankly acknowledged to be due, viz: the coupons. This being done wonld relieve the corporation of incal culable embarrassment and save much unneceeßary expense, both to themselves apd bona fide bondholders, or, iu other words, holders of bonds not stolen, bnt purchased by innocent parties since the Georgia Railroad and Banking Compa ny issued their guarantee, purporting to be kept in good faith. It seems now that the board of managers, in their financial wisdom, prefer to have bonds in circulation drawing seven per cent, instead of six, snd forget that many of their liabilities will come upon them like a thunderbolt within six months snd find them, like the “foolish virgins, without oil in their lamps.” Justice. A XMiant M Ex-Mum Emir*. [Atlanta Constitution.] Even the colored people of Augusta are investing in a cotton company. One of these days Augusta, surpassing Low ell in the extent and variety of her manufactories, will erect a monument to the memory of ex-Msyor Estes, the projector of the canal enlargement. OUR NEXT I-KGISLATURK. WHO WILL INAUGURATE THE NEW CONSTITUTION. Lint of Senator* a*d Representative*—Full Return* Iron All of Ike Counties in tke State—Tbe Official Vnte on Constitutional Issues. Senator*. First District: Chatham, Bryan and Effingham -Rufus E. Lester. Second Distriot: Liberty, Tatnall and Mclntosh—J. H. Clifton.' Third Distriot: Wayne, Pieroe and Appling— G. J. Holton. Fourth District: Glynn, Camden and Charlton—J. M. Tison. Fifth Distriot : Coffee, Ware and Clinoh—W. B. Folks. Sixth Distriot.: Eohols, Lowndes and Berrien -J. W. Slaten. Seventh Distriot: Brooks, Thomas and Colquitt—J. P. Turner. Eighth District: Decatur, Miller and Mitchell—D. A. Bussell. Ninth Distriot: Early, Calhoun and Baker—E. 0. Bower. Tenth Distriot: Dougherty, Lee snd Worth—J. P. Tison. Eleventh Distriot : Clay, Randolph and Terrell—J. T. Clarke. Twelfth Distriot: Stewart, Webster and Quitman—W. H. Harrison. Thirteenth District: Sumter, Sohley aud Macon—J. N. Hudson. Fourteenth District: Dooly, Wilcox, Dodge and Pulaski—J. J. Hamilton. Fifteenth District: Montgomery, Tel fair and Irwin: J. 0. Clements. Sixteenth District: Lawrence, John son and Fmanuel—Neil McLeod. Seventeenth District: Bullooh, Soriven and Burke—H. H. Perry. Eighteenth District: Richmond, Glas cock and .Jefferson—Joseph B. Cum ming. Nineteenth District: Taliaferro, War ren and Greene—John A. Stephens. Twentieth Distriot; Baldwin, Hanoook and Washington—C. W. Dußose. Twenty first Distriot—Twiggs, Wilk inson and Jones—A. S. H. Milton. Tweuty-seoond Distriot: Bibb, Mon roe and Pike- -T. B. Cabaniss, Twenty-third Distriot : Honston, Crawford and Taylor—John F. Trout man. Twenty-fourth District : Muscogee, Marion and Chattahooohee—T. W. Grin) es. Twenty-fifth District: Harris, Upson and Talbot—Dr. J. C. Drake. Twenty-sixth District : Spalding, Butts and Fayette—Seaton Grantland. Twenty-seventh Distriot : Newton, Walton, Clarke, Bookdale aud Oconee — H. D. McDaniel. Twenty-eighth Distriot: Jasper, Put nam and Morgan—J. W. Preston. Twenty-ninth Distriot: Wilkes, Lin coln, McDuffie and Columbia—H, R. Casey. Thirtieth District: Oglethorpe, Madi son and Elbert—Sam Lumpkin. Thirty-first Distriot : Hart, Franklin and Habersham—B. F. Hodges. Thirty-second District: White, Lump kin and Dawson—M. G. Boyd. Thirty-third Distriot: Hall, Banks and Jackson—AllenD. Candler. Thirty-fourth Distriot: Gwinnett, De Kalb and Henry—Geo. W. Bryan. Thirty-fifth Distriot: Fulton, Clayton and Cobb—Evan P. Howell. 'I liirty-sixth Distriot: Coweta, Merri wether, Douglas and Campbell—F, M, Dunoan, Thirty-seventh District: Troup, Heard and Carroll—John A. Speer. Thirty-eight Distriot: Haralson, Polk and PauldiDg—W. J. Head. Thirty-ninth Distriot: Cherokee, Mil ton and Forsyth—A. W. Holcombe. Fortieth Distriot: Union, Towns and Babun—C. J. Wellborn. Forty-first Distriot: Fannin, Gilmer and Piokens —W. T. Simmons. Forty-second District: Bartow, Floyd and Chattooga—Samuel Hawkins. Forty-third Distriot; Murrey, Whit field and Gordon--J. C. Fain. Forty-fourth Distriot: Dade, Catoosa and Walker—J. O. Clements. Representatives. Counties not included below will be inserted a a rapidly as official and re - liable returns are received: Appling: Michael Branch. Baldwin: James A. Green. Banks: D. C. Oliver. Berrien: J. H. Kirby, Bartow: T. W. Milner and K. H. Can non. Bibb: A. O. Bacon, 0. J. Harris and K. A. Nisbett. Baker: P. D. Davis. Brooks: H. G. Turner. Bryan: J. M. Brannan. Bullooh: E. W. DeLoaoh. Butts: S. T. Smith. Burke: E. A. Perkins, W. F. Walton aud S. A. Corker. Chatham: W. W- Paytie, A. Pratt Adams aud P. M- Kusse||. Clinch: Lewis Strickland, Clayi W. J. Johnson, Cherokee: W. B. C. Puckett. Clarke: Ben O. Yanoy. Calhoun: O. H. Paul. Colquitt: James Viok. Charlton: Felder Lang, Coffee: James Pearson. Camden: Thomas Butler, Columbia: J. P, Williams, Clay ton :.T. L. McConnell. Cobb: 0. D. Phillips and George Rob erts. , Campbell: J. M. Wilson. Carroll: H. Hogan and R. Phillips. Coweta: J. D. Simms and W. A. Tur ner. Chattooga: W. T. Irvine. . t Chattahooohee: Lafayette Harp. Catoosa: Arthur H. Gray. Crawford: J. F. Jordan. Decatur: W. W. Harrell and J. O. Farnell. Dougherty: A. C. Westbrook aud J. W. Walters. DeKalb: R. A. Alston, Douglas; W. M, MoGouirok. Dade : M. A. B. Tatem. Dodge : James M. Buchan. Dooley : Isaac L. Toole. Dawson : J. McAfee. Elbert : R. F. Tate. Effingham : J. F. Berry. Early : W. C. Sbuffield. Emanuel : John Bell. Echols : J. P. Prescott. Forsyth i Hiram P. Rideu. Fannin : B. O. Dugger, Fayette : D. A. McLuoas. Franklin : J. H. Shannon. Fulton : W. H. Hulsey, N. J. Ham mond and P. L. Mynatt. Floyd : A. J. King and John H. Reese. Glascock : E. G. Scruggs. Gilmer : W. R. Welsh. Glynn : T. W. Lamb. Greene : R. L. McWhorter and J. B. Parks. Gwinnett : N. L. Hutchins and W. J. Born. Gordon ; W. R. Rankin. Honston ; A. L. Miller, B. M. Davis, and J. F. Sikes. Hart: A. G. MoCurry. Heard : H. W. Daniel: Hanoock : W. J. Northern, A. Millar Dußose. Harris : W. J. Hudson and Jesse Cox. Habersham : John H. Grant. Hall : J. E. Bedwine. Harralson : Taliaferro. Henry : W, T. Dioken. Irwin : James B. Fletcher. Jones : B. H. Rarrqn. Jasper : E. C. Pope. Jackson : W. J. Pike, A. T- Bennett. Jefferson ; J, L. Polhill and E. A. Tarver. Johnson : W. L. Johnson. Lowndes : C. H. M. Howell. Liberty : E. P. Miller. Laurens : H. M. Burch. LiDooln : J. E. Strother. Lee : J. A. Clegg. Lumpkin : Eli Weehunt. Maoon :J. M. Dupree and David Gammage. Madison : J. A. Green. Montgomery : D. J. Mcßae. Monroe: J. G. Phinizy and B. H. Kellner. Mclntosh : A. R. Rogers. Muscogee: L. F. Garrard and Reese T. Crawford. Murray : Wm. Luffin. Milton ; H. L- Cunningham. Marion : H, T. Hollis. Morgan : L. G. Anderson. McDuffie : Dr. J. 8. Jones. Mitchell : C. W. Collins. Merriwether : F. J. Williams and C. W. Williams. Miller : H. C. Sheffield. Newton : L. F. Livingston and Lem Anderson (Rep.) Ooonee : W. Y. Elder. Oglethorpe : J. M. Smith and W. M. Willingham. Pulaski : B. W. Anderson. Putnsm .* R. C. Humber. Polk : 0. G. Janee. Pickens : Pierce : D. P. Patterson. Pike : 8. K. Cook. Paulding : O. T. Bimtle. Quitman: L. P. Dozier. Randolph : J. J. McDonald. Rabun : John M. Bleckley, $2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID Richmond: H. G. Wright, Geo. R. Sibley and L. D. Duval. Bookdale—B. F. Carr. Spalding : John D. Stewart. Stewart: W. W. Fitzgerald and W. H. Harrison. Scriven: W. M. Henderson. Schley: M. J. Wall. Sumter: Allen Fort, W. H. Davison. Thomas: W. M. Hammond and Dr. D. H. Wilmot. Telfair: J. J. Wiloox. Talbot: John C. Maund aud J. M. Mathews. Troup: A. H. Cox and J. F. Awtrey. Towns: 8. Y. Jamison. Taliaferro: J. T. Chapman. Terrell: E. G. Hill. Twiggs: James T. Glover. Taylor: J. D. Mitchell. Tatnall: Elbert Bird. Upson: O. C. Sharman (Rep.) Union: T. J. Butt. Ware: T. J. Ivey. Warren: Robert T. Barksdale. Washington: Green Brautly aud J. W. Peacock. Wilkinson: Frank Chambers, Walton: W. R. Smith. Wilkes: F. H. Colley and B. F. Jor dan. Whitfield: J. A. R. Hanks. Walker: J. B. Wheeler. Wayne: J. A. Poppell. Webster: Dr. W. 0. Kendrick. Worth: G. G. Ford. White: J. J. Kimsey. Wiloox: Samuel D. Fuller. A REMEDY FOR KRANN INSTRUMENTS. {-New York Times.} In order to be a great military com mander it is generally conceded that, a certain amouut of indifference to human suffering is requisite. Grant would uev er have dealt his terrible blows at the army of General Lee had he been con stantly filled with pity for the tattered and battle-worn Confederates, and our President could hardly have achieved his present proud position as the great conciliatory of the a?e had his heart continued to bleed for the poor negro as it bled before the election. A like cal lousness of heart is a neoessary charac teristic of the man who undertakes to play upon a musical instrument. The sum of human agency caused by the early efforts of players upon string ed, reed and brass instruments is incal culable, aud it is notioeable tint wheiever musical amateurs abound the Universalist faith makes no progress, and the Calviuistio dootrine that a place of future torment is a moral necessity finds multitudes of believers. Many learned commentators have dis cussed the nature of the insanity under which King Saul frequently suffered, but it is odd that no oue has perceived that it was due to the youthful David’s persistent practice upon the harp. Wo know that ou one occasion, while David was playing an air, which doiibtless olosely resembled “Silver Threads Among the Gold,” Saul, remarking “S’help me Father Abraham, this is too much,” flung a javelin at the musician and drove him away. Doubtless, the King was hasty, but let us remember his extreme provocation. As for David, not content with having already killed the leading Philistine giant, he went and played the harp to that unhappy nation, with the view of demoralizing the people so that he eould make an easy conquest of them on ooming to the Israelitish throne. While tho javelin is probably a spe cify for all suffering due to aocordeons, violins, cornets and flutes, it is not a remedy which is available at the present day. The moat successful mode of treatment which has been devised is that whioh was recently tried, with admir able results, in the oase of a young man residing in a Twenty-second street boarding house, who was addicted to the French horn ; and it is due to the medioal profession that tbe history of the ease should be briefly given. The young man in question occupied the second story front hall bedroom. He was apparently a quiet and well meaning person, but under a smooth and spotless shirt bosom he concealed a heart heedless of human suffering. It would not have made much difference where he ooucealed his heart, for it would have beeu quite as oallous had he kept it under his waistband, or inside of his boot. That he preferred to learn the French horn rather than any other and more oommon instrument of tor ture, does not palliate his offense; for although the horn lacks the ear-piercing shrillness of the cornet, its tone has a wonderfully penetrating power, and is to the last degree depressing to the spirits. Unfortunately, he was free from those forms of vice which lead young men to sp.eud their evenings else where than in their rooms anti to lie in bed late in the morning. -Moreover, ho paid his room font in advanoe with oold blooded punctuality. Henoe, although he rose up early and sat up late to prac tice the horn, his landlady could uot make up her mind either to request him to leave or to hint to him, by the dis creet method of helping him exclusively to oold coffee and bare bones, that his presence iu her house was undesirable. The man who begins to play a wind instrument employs the moat of his time in what might be called '‘sighting shots.” For example, when this partic ular young man desired to sound 1) flat, it would take him a long while before he could get his elevation and his wind gauge regulated. He would hit three or four notes above B flat, and three or four notes below it, a score of times be fore he would finally make a bull’s-eye. Even when, after long effort, he suc ceeded in hitting the desired nate, the sound produced would he what is tech nically and decisively called a “biant,” or, in other words, an uncertain, tone less, am) most unmusical sound. It is needless to speak of the effect which this sort of thing had upon bis fellow-board ers. At the end of two weeks public indignation had grown to that extent that it was seriously proposed to melt the horn and to pour the metal dowu the throat of the player, as a warning that unless he promptly reformed he would be dealt with severely. It was then that a homeopathic physician re siding in the house called a meeting of the aggrieved boarders in order to pro pose what he believed would be a radi oal cure. After describing with great clearness the painful symptoms which prolonged practice opon the horn develop in the unfortunate and unwilling listeners, and unfolding at mnch length Hahnemann's theory of enre, he asserted that in order to successfully combat the effects of horn-playing, the use of other instru ments which produce analogous symp toms was clearly indicated- Hence, Jio proposed that pach boarder should pro vide himself with a cornet, a violin, an acoordeon, a flute, or a drum, and ad minister these remedies whenever any symptoms of the French horn were manifested. Few of the boarders be lieved in homeopathy, but they were in that state of mind in which men clutch at any nostrum which promises relief. They, therefore, resolved to follow the doctor’s prescription, aud immediately laid in a full supply of the indicated in struments. The next evening at ? o’clock the fa miliar gasp of the horn was heard. In stantly it was followed by the screech of the violin, the spasmodic chocking of the eornet, the drone of the accordeon, the wail of the Ante, and the fierce up roar of tbe drum. In two minutes a crowd was collected in the street, under the impression that a large orchestra was rehearsing Wagner’s “Meistersing er,” and the young man with the French bom was lying on the floor ot his room in strong convulsions. Tbe cure was complete. Early the next morning the French horn player was removed to a lunatic asylum, where he still remains. He is qniet and harm less, bnt he believes that he is a rem nant of the wall of Jericho, which fell down nnder the assault of the Hebrew trumpets, and constantly insists that Congress should make an appropriation to repair him and mount him with bar bette guns. His horn has vanished, no one knows whither, and the inmates of his former boarding house are contented and happy. We thus see that homeo pathic treatment is snre to cure brass instrument players, and we may be reasonably snre that it wonld prove equally efficacious in oases of violin and aooordeon playing. Ulore Locg. Washington, December 19. Com missioner Williamson, General Land officer, received a telegram from J. W. James, his special agent in Minnesota, for a suppression ot depredations on public timber lands, announcing that the Government obtained a judgment in all civil sqits for the recovery of logs and lumber, and all parties exoept one have filed a plea of gnilty in criminal soits. Mr. G. W. Adair’s property, in Atlan ta, brought $101,926. THE LEAP OK ROUSHAN BE4J. HENRY W. MNOFEr.T.OW IN THE JANUARY ATLANTIC MONTHLY. Mounted on Kyrat strong and fleet. His chestnut steed with four white feet Roushan Beg, called Kurrogion, Son of the road and bandit chief Seeking refuge and relief, Up the mountain pathway flew. Such was Kyrat’s matchless speed Never yet could any stee'd Reach the dust-cloud iu his course : More than maiden, more than wife More than gold aud next to life Roushan, the robber, lovod his horse. In the land that lies beyond Erizoom and Trebizoud Garden-girt his fortress stood : 1 hindered kli&u, or car&vAn Journeying north from Koordistan, Gave him wealth and wiue and food. Seven hundred and fourscore Men-at-arms his livery wore, Did his bidding night aud day ; Now through regions all unknown He was wandering, lost, alone. Seeking without guide his way. Suddenly the pathway ends. Sheer the precipice descends, Loud the torrent roars unseen : thirty feet from side to side Yawns the chasm ; on air must ride He who crosses this ravino. Following close in his pursuit, At tiie precipice’s foot Reyhan, the Arab of Oriah Halted with his hundred men Shouting upward from the gle “La al Allah! Allah la!” ’ Gently Roushan Beg caressed Kyrat’s forehead, neck and breast ■ Kissed him upon both his eves • ’ Sang to him in his wild way As upon the topmost spray Sings a bird before it flies. “O my Kyrat, O my steed, Round and slender'as a reed, Carry me this danger through Satin housings shall be thiue. Shoes of gold, O Kyrat mine ! O thou soul of Kurrogion ! “Soft thy skin as silken skein, Soft as woman’s hair thy mane, Tender are thiue eyes and true , All thy hoofs like ivorv shine, Polished bright. O life of mine, Leap, and rescuo Kurrogion !” Kyrat then, the strong and fleet Drew together his four white feet, Paused a moment on the verge, Measured with his eyes the space, And into the air’s embrace Leaped as lo&ps I ho ocean surge. As the surge o’er silt and sand Bears a swimmer safe to land, Kyrat safe his rider bore ; Battling down the deep abyss > Fragments of the precipice Rolled like pebbles on a shore. Roushan’s tasseled cap of red Trembled not upon liis head ; Careless sat he and upright ; Neither hand nor bridlo shook. Nor his head he turned to look, As he galloped out of sight. Flash of harness in the air. Seen a moment like the glare Ot a sword drawn from its sheath ! Thus the phantom horseman passed ; Aud the shadow that he cast Leaped the cataract underneath. Reyhan, the Arab, hold his breath. While this vision of life and death Passed above him. “Allah hu !” Cried he : “In all Koordistan Breathes there not so brave a maix As this robber Kurrogiou! ” MOUTH CAROLINA RONDS. FoiTslinilowiiiir ot the Report of Hie Com mission—The Rejected Consols Not to He OesiKiiateil Until Alter the l-ien.-i-nl Assem bly Has Acted Upon I he Report. [Special hixpateh to the Kews and Courier. J Columbia, Tuesday, December 18.—Ik is now settled that the anxiously looked for report of the Bond Commission will not be presented to the General Assem bly until after the holiday recess, and perhaps not before February. The lead ing points of the report, however, so far as have been decided upon to this timo, are as follows : The amount of consoli dated bonds which will not belong to any particular class, but will be designated here aud there, as they may have been exchanged for old securities. Tho re port of the commission will be a sum mary of their fiudiugs, giving the num bers and classes bf*. the securities for which consols were issued, which the committee deem wholly or partially tainted with fraud, but will not contain the numbers of the consolidated bonds for which such fraudulent securities were exchanged. The commission will recommend in their report that the con sols issued for those fraudulent securi ties be repudiated or scaled, as the case may be, and should the General Assem - bly adopt these reports, a subsequent report will be submitted, containing the numbers aud classes of the consolidated bonds which they recommend to be re pudiated or scaled because ol such fraudulent conversions. Thus tbfe com mittee expect that, even after their first report shall have been made pnblio, it will be impossible to locate the fraudu lent bonds without going through exact ly the same work which has taken the commission months to perform. This course is doubtless ndoptod to prevent speculation in the bonds until after the General Assembly shall havo taken final action, Donn Plait’s Opinion of the l/nplonmtur. nem. | Washington Capital. ] A lively passage-at-arms between Sen ators CoDkling aud Gordon disturbed the serenity and Btupidity of that august body last Friday in executive session. The Senator from New York said that if the Georgia Senator stated that lie was “giving orders to tho President” ho told “ that which was not true.” Indi rectly he gave Senator Gordon the lie. The Senator from Georgia immediately put on his war paint, dropped his R’s., aud commenced to quote from the code. He intimated that while he wonld cheer fully draw a four-buttoned glove across Mr. Oonkling’s face, that was not the plaoe, and the matter could be settled elsewhere. Mr. Conkling, as eager and as willing as a bridegroom, retorted iu his finest vein that he was ready for the answer there or anywhere else. Thew is a fine flavor of raediieval chivalry about this episode which intimates that our race of heroes has not yet died out Their wonted fires glow in the breasts of their sons, and all Can ada is by this timo waiting to wel come the Senatorial knights with itching paliua to hospitable hotels and starved surgeons. General Gordon having won the highest honors his State can oonler upon its most honored citizen, and War ing on bis face the scars of as gallant a campaign as the best Scottish blood fought for the Stuart, would fitly crown the apex of an honorable career by meet iug in a duel aud shooting, or being shot, by a New York lawyer. Senator Conkling, a born leader among men, as King Agamemnon was among the Greeks, and on* of the three or four great characters to whom tho nation looks for counsel iu trouble and per plexity, would ronnd off the full anil perfect measure of his life by “winging” or being winged by an ex Confederate General. Since a Supreme Judge killed Senator Broderick in a duel, and Bur lingame pleaded for‘an opportunity to shoot Preston Brooks, there has been no exhibition of Senators going down among the gladiators to amuse the pop ulace. If it is needful for the Republic that two Senators should fight, let M. C. Butler go out with Edmunds, and let Butler kill him. Or let Othello Davis meet lago Kellogg. Whether he kill Kellogg or Kellogg kill him, either makes our gain. “Just What I Expected.” [Aew> York Eoenimrj Post.] At an entertainment given in Boston by the Hellers the other night, at the suggestion of a lady in the audience the magician placed his hands on the shoulder of her male companion aud demanded that Miss Heller, who was exercising her power of “second sight,” should read a letter that was in the gentleman’s pocket. The latter became obviously nervous and would have left the hall, but the audience, comprehend ing the situation, burst out in a roar of laughter and loudly called for the read ing of the entire correspondence in his possession, Miss Heller according read : “Dearest George—Meet me by moon light alone on the common when the clock strikes J>.” The victim, amid the yells of the an dience, started down the center isle, olosely followed by his wife, who merely stopped to thank Mr. Heller, and ex claim, with an ominous shake of the head, “Just what I expected from the old deceiver 1 A standard household remedy of un doubted and acknowledged merit is Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup. And it costs bud 25 cents ; large size, 50 cents.