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ESTABLISHED 1859.
]NTew Series.
A SECRET SERVICE MONEY STORY.
Miss Grundy, in Washington Chroni
cle : The discussion concerning the use
or abuse of secret service money by
government officers, recalls to my mind
a story told to me by one of the oldest
inhabitants a few years ago in connec
tion with the use of money belonging to
the same fund during the administration
of Mr. Madison. One of the swell-gen
tlemen of society at that remote period
was a certain Frenchman, Count Crilon,
who, in course of time, was discovered
to be an imposter and not a member of
the noble family to which he represented
himself as belonging. He was, in fact,
an accomplice of a certain Capt. Henry,
who was engaged through the Governor
General of Canada, Sir James Craig, to
act as an agent of the British in foment
ing internal disturbances in the United
States. Capt. Henry was sent to Bos
ton to attempt to work upon popular
feeling there, as that Stats was- then
meditating secession, being much out
raged by the embrgo which preceded
the last war with England. Henry
mixed in the best society, his real char
acter being unknown, and was on inti
mate terms with Harrison Gray Otis.
Henry worked insidiously, and his poison
seemed likely to produce its effect, when
he quarreled with Sir James Craig in
regard to the compensation he was to
receive for his services. He was not a
man likely to suffer pecuniary loss with
patience, so straightway he came to
Washington and offered to sell the cor
respondence exposing the plot to Mr.
Madison. He made the condition that
the price of his perfidy should be paid
to him on the deck of a war vessel (mer
chant ships not being allowed to leave
port because of the embargo), far down
the Potomac, outward bound, and that
not until he was far enough on his voy
age to secure safety should the papers
be laid before Congress. Fifty thousand
dollars was paid over to him under the
required condition. In drawing the
money from the Treasury, Mr. Gallatin,
then Secretary of the Treasury, informed
President Madison that only $-49,000
was in the Treasury which could proper
ly be used for such a purpose ; this was
secret-service money. The odd thousand
was, nevertheless, forthcoming, and when
the facts were made public there was
much excited discussion as to the uso of
this amount without authority.
Henry escaped to France, and suffered
nothing when the storm burst upon the
national capital and his deeds were ex
posed to the gaze of the public ; but the
sins of the father were some years later
visited upon his innocent and beautiful
young daughter. A young dandy, after
figuring with some success in Washing
ton and other American cities, went
abroad, and at a watering place in the
south of Franco found so delightful a
company, that he concluded to sojourn
there for a time. Many charming Eng
lish families -were residing there and
some Americans, and though one of tho
latter comes the conclusion of the story.
Miss Henry was there, and as she was, I
am told, a most amiable and very hand
some young lady, she became quite the
belle of the place. As her father was
probably living on the interest of his
ill gotton gains she no doubt was re
garded as an licit ess. Fenwick, the
dandy, fell in love with her promptly,
addressed her, and was as promptly re- ;
jected. It happened that he knew the ‘
history of tho career of the treacherous ;
parent of tho you-g lady, and raging I
with despair at tho rejection of his suit,
he, out of revenge exposed the whole j
transaction. Naturally the English ele- j
ment in the place became enraged j
against the traitor who had sold the se- j
crets of his country for tho gold of the j
enemy. Henry was driven out of so- J
eiety, he was forced to hide himself with i
his daughter. For her there was much j
sympathy, but none for him. they lied !
to some obscure town to escape the
vengeance of. the English.
Savannah News: A gentleman re
marked yesterday that if he were in
New York and met an emigrant who
wanted to come to Savannah to work
for the people here, he would say to
him, “Don’t go. If you want to get
work from the Savannah people you
stay at tha North and they will send it
to you.” There is a great deal of truth
in this sarcastic remark. Shoemakers
cannot pay rent if their landlords send I
away for shoes, and this sententious j
truism will apply to tailors, dry goods j
men, furniture dealers, carpet men, et j
id omne genus. We would remark that
the rule don’t apply to daily newspa
pers and baker’s bread, as these neces
sary articles of civilization, furnishing
food for the stomach and food for the
head, must be fresh. If they could bo
kept long enough it may be assumed
that many of our people would send
North for them. A favorite pastimo is
to write North and put your friend to
the trouble of buying something for
you (for which you pay a good price
cash), then to go to a'store on Congress
or, Broughton streets and pick it out
for yourself. Is this not a palpable
truth, and doss not the fact impress
upon you the conviction that to this
cause is attributable, in a great meas
ure, the inconvenience occasioned by
the “hard times,” of which there is
such general complaint.
A lazy fellow falling a distance of 1
fifty feet and escaping with only a few
scratches, a bystander remarked that
he was “too slow to fall fast enough to
hint himself !”
ELBERTON, GEORGIA, JUNE 7 , 1876.
A GOOD OLD STORY.
There lived in one of the mountainous
counties in Western Virginia many
Dutchmen, and among them one named
Henry Snyder ; and there were two
brothers, called George and Jake Ful
wider. They were all rich, and each
owned a mill. Henry Snyder -was sub
ject to fits of derangement, but they
were not of such a nature as to render
him disagreeable to any one. He mere
ly conceived himself to be the Supreme
Ruler of tho universe, and while under
the infatuation had himself a throne
built, on which he sat to try the cases
of all those who offended him, and pass
ed them off to heaven or hell, as humor
prompted—he personating both judge
and culprit.
• It happened one day that some diffi
culty occurred between Henry Snyder
and the Fulwiders on account of the
mills, when to be avenged Henry Sni
der took along with him a book in
which he always recorded his judgment,
and mounted tho throne to try their
causes.
He was heard to pass the following
judgment:
Acting as judge, and yet responding
for the accused, lie called George Ful
wider.
“Shorge Fulwider, sthand up. Vat
hash you peen doing in dish lower
vorld?”
“Ah ! Lort, I does not know.”
; “Veil, Shrogo Fulwider, hasn’t you
got a mill ?”
“Yes, Lort, I hash.”
“Veil, Shorge Fulwider, didn’t you
never take a leetle too much doll ?"
“Yes, Lort, I ‘hash, when der water
was low, and mein stones was dull, I
take a leetle ton much doll.”
“Veil, den Shorge Fulwider, you must
go to der left, mid der goats.”
“Veil, Shake Fulwider, now stand up.
What has you peen doing in this lower
vorld ?” (The trial proceeded throughout
precisely like the former, and the same
result.)
“Now-, I tries mine self. Henry Sny
der ! Henry Snyder! stand up. What
hash you peen doing in dish lower
vorld ?”
“Ah ! Lort, I does not know.”
“Veil, Henry Snyder, hasn’t you got
a mill ?”
“Yes, Lort, I has.”
“Well, Henry Snyder, tidn’t you nev
er take too much doll?”
“Yes, Lort, I hash ; when der water
was low. and mein stones vas dull, I
hash taken a leetle too much doll.”
“But, Henry Snyder, vat you do mit
der doll ?”
“Ah, Lord, I gives it to de poor.”
(Pausing.) “Veil, Henry Snyder, you
must go to der right mit der sheep, but
it is a tam tight squeeze!”
—
A CURIOUS WAGER.
The following anecdote illustrates the
truth of the proverb anent tho slips be
tween the cup and the lips: A few years
before his death, tho Emperor Nicholas
of Russia sent a looking-glass of rare
size and beauty, with an embassy, to the
empress of China. Tho looking-glass
had to be carried all the way from St.
Petersburg to Pekin by human hands.
Despite the immense distance which had
to be performed in this manner, the
looking-glass safely reached China ; but,
in the meantime, difficulties had broken
out between Russia and China. The
Sou of Heaven neither admitted the em
bassy, nor did he accept the present. A
courier was dispatched to St. Peters
burg, •vhu asked the emperor what was
to be done with the looking-glass. The
emperor replied that it should be car
ried back by the same route, and in the
same manner, When he gave this order
the Grand Duke Michael happened to
be present, and offered to lay a wager
with the emperor to the effect that the
looking-glass would be broken on the
way back to St. Petersburg. The em
peror accepted the wager, and the bear
ers of the looking glass leceived strin
gent orders to be as careful as possible,
if they should break it on the road, they
would be severely punished ; but if they
should bring it back safely, they would
receive a handsome reward. They car
ried it back with the most incredible
care, forty men bearing it by turns, and
safely reached St. Isaac’s palace in St.
Petersburg with it—where the emperor
stood, with his brothers, at the widow
of the palace, and laughed at having won
the bet. But on the staircase of the
palace one of the carriers slipped his
foot and fell down, dragging several of
his companions after him, and the pre
cious looking-glass was broken into a
thousand pieces. The grand duke,
therefore, won his bet.
A delicate couple went to a minis
ter to get married, who was something
of a wag, and, by an innocent mistake,
of course, began to read from the
prayer book as follows :—“Man that is
born of woman is full of trouble, and
has but a short time to live,” etc. The
astonished bndes-groomexclaimed: “Sir,
you mistake ; we came to be married.”
“Well, if you insist I will marry you ;
but believe me. my friend, you had much
better be buried.”
Fond mother (to old gentleman to
whom her son is apprenticed): “I am
sorry to say, sir, that Harry won’t be
able to come to work for some little time.
The doctor says that he has got brain
fever.” Old gentleman: “Then the
doctor is a— fool, madam, for the boy
hasn’t got any more brains than—than
a donkey, ma’am.”
DANCE OF DEATH.
N The following is from the Lexington
(Ky.) Dispatch:
SA.t the quiet and somewhat unpreten
tious little village of Sharpsburg, bor
tiering on our neighboring county,
Montgomery, where reside many promi
nent an wealthy citizens, although it is
more of a “cross-roads” town than a
country seat, there have been, during
the past year or two a number of peri
p/ftetic “larks,” whose indiscretions have
exceeded their judgment. These mani
festations have[)been doubtless more the
result of a tendency to be fast than pos
sibly any out-croppings of real criminal
intent. We have just been placed in
possession of the facts of a singularly
unfortunate and fatal event, ending in
the death of one man and the punish
ment of another in most unwarrantable
and peculiar circumstances. Thomas
Fletcher was the name of the man kill
ed, and it appears that he had been a
transient resident between Irvine,§in Es
till county, Mt. Sterling, and Sharps
burg, he having lived at the latter place
for some time, but more recently alter
nating between the other two towns.
Irvine was the last place of his “name
and habitation.” He was musically iu
dined, and his last performance in that
line proved a tune of hasty requium and
a dance of death. A few days since,
Fletcher, in his festive mood, at Irvine,
drew a pistol, and, witn drawn bead and
pointed muzzle, demanded of another
young man that he “dance or die.”
Taken at a disadvantage the young man
danced with the murderous muzzle held
to his head, the basilisk eye of his tor
mentor running along the barrel, keep
ing it following his every movement.
On he danced till his limbs grew lax and
the perspiration stood in beads upon his
brow. “That will do,” grimly said
Fletcher, lowering and uncocking his
pistol and putting it in his pocket, ad
ding : “you may stop now.” With
lightning eye and compressed lip the
young man, whose name we did not
learn, said: “Yes, and you may stop,
too.” Drawing a pistol as quick as a
flash, ho pulled the trigger and fired.
“Take that,” said he, as a hissing ball
went through the heart of Fletcher, who
fell over and expired. This was a little
more dance music than Fletcher had
bargained for, and the tables were com
pletely turned. The young man gave
himself up, as we were informed, and the
mritisr will undergo the regular judicial
investfvation and legal proceedings.
GEORGIA vs. PENNSYLVANIA.
During the debate in the house on the
bill to restrict the disposal of govern
ment lands in Southern States, Mr.
Hewitt, of Alabama, made .a speech, in
tho course of which he drew tho follow
ing comparison, which we commend to a
careful reading:
“If we should take the State of Geor
gia instead of Indiana, and compare it
with the State of Pennsylvania, we would
have a better illustration of our proposi
tion. The State of Georgia has five
millions of acres in cultivation in excess
of Pennsylvania. The value of the
farms of Pennsylvania is over nine tarn
dred and forty seven millions in the ex
cess of those of Georgia. The State of
Georgia has engaged in agricultural pur
suits over 76,000 persons more than
Pennsylvania, while the value of the an
ual products of agriculture of Pennsyl
vania is over one hundred and three
millions in excess of those cf Georgia,
The reason why the Pennsylvania farmer
succeeds so much better than the Geor
gia farmer is found in the fact thaUGeor
gia has but 3,736 manufacturing estab
lishments, while Pennsylvania has over
35,000; that Georgia has employed iu
these establishments only 17,000 persons,
while Pennsylvania has over 300,000.
Georgia products from her manufactories
annually only about $31,000,000, while
Pennsylvania derives over $700,000,000.
The Georgia farmer, like the Indiana,
seeks a foreign market, while Pennsyl
vania furnishes a home market for her
farmer.”
SECESSION AND CENTRALISM.
Ex-Senator Doolittle, in a recent ad
dress before the St. Louis law students,
thus spoke:
It was a wrong idea which brought on
secession and civil war. It is a wrong
idea in the minds of too many which is
now pushing on toward the opposite
extreme of centralism. Let me, in all
earnestness and sincerity, warn . you
against both.
We are just about to enter upon anew
era —upon the second century. Before
the end of that, if the logic of secession
should prevail and take full possession of
the young, our Union will be destroyed,
our republic will be broken in pieces,
and give place to many warring and
petty nations. On the other hand, if
before the end of that century the logic
of centralism should prevail, and take
possession of the youth of our country,
North and South, the days of the
Republic will be numbered,, for the
days of the Empire would already
have begun.
Wherever you may go, and to whatev
er position you may be called, I trust
you will never forget the just allegiance
you owe to the United States, and to
the State in which you live; to that
sovereignty which makes you an Ameri
can citizen, as well as to that sovereign
ty which defends the mass of your
rights as a freeman ; and, above all, to
that Constitution which secures all.
Vol. Y.-No. 6.
OUPID IN EVERY STYLE.
Probably there is no instance in
which any two lovers have made
love exactly in tho same way as any
two other lovers since the world be
gan.—Sir Arthur Hcipes.
Barkis insinuated.
Vivien charmed Merlin.
Alexander made a bonfire for Thais.
Hildegarde took the bull by the
horns.
The Merchant of Venice soft-soldered
Portia with a lead casket.
The garrulous female in tho “Arabian
Nights” told her husband stories.
Victoria sent for Prince Albert and
told him she wanted him. Sbo was
victorious.
In the Polynesian Islands they win
their hearts by beating their heads with
a shillalab.
Harry the Eighth and Bluebeard
were off with the head of their old love
before they were on with tho new.
Dr. Johnson poked the tobacco in his
pipe down with his sweetheart’s fingers
—a warm token of affection.
Tristam did it mostly with a harp,
and was also a good liar. His two
Isoldes were too many for him.
Bcutwell was inclined to Marie and
locked her up in a castle It worked as
well as Peter’s pumpkinshell.
Dobbett’s wife caught him by tho
graco with which sho used the wash
tub. She never was known to use it
after the wedding.
Sam Romily, the famous lawyer,
killed himself because his wife died,
while a good many others kill them
selves because they don’t die.
Nicholas of Russia wanted to pop
at a dinner table, but didn’t like to
be caught at it, so ho imbedded a
ring in a lump of bread and handed it to
her.
Chariemange’s secretary was caught
by a snow storm sparking the Emperor’s
daughter, at midnight, and sho carried
him home on her back, so that bis foot
steps couldn’t be traced. The Emperor
heard of it and saddled him on her for
the rest of her life.
JOHN BRAXTON AND SECRETARY
“EEEvH,”
On Tuesday last, John S. Braxton,
Esq., of Richmond county, Virginia, was
nominated by the President to bo con
sul of the United States at Montevideo.
We heard a joke a few weeks ago, which
sounds John Braxton-like, and wo will
give it as nearly as we can recall it
When Mr. B. called on the Secretary of
State, Mr Fish, and filed his applica
tion he did it in his usual jocose, off
hand, familiar style, and being promised
the place, asked tho Secretary if there
would bo any objection to his taking out
with him as secretary, one who acted
with the Democratic party ? The mat
ter was talked over when the Secretary
is reported as saying, “But why Mr.
Braxton, do you want to appoint a Dim
ocrat as your secretary—can’t you find
a Republican that will suit as well ?"
Braxton is reported to have replied with
great nonchalance, “Oh ! yes, Mr. Sec
rotary, I might find a Republican easily
enough, but you see I want to go prop
erly provided for, in case of a change of
administration. In that event you see
my secretary might be appointed to the
consulate, and I be retained as his sec
retary !’’ Mr. Fish is said to boa very
starchy, sober-minded and rather aus
tero gentleman, but the joke was so
pointed, that ho gave way to a hearty
laugh. At any rate it seems that Brax
ton has secured the place, and we pre
sume the Senate will confirm the nomi
nation of the President.
[Fredericksburg Herald.
A CONTRAST.
Col. John Jones, the venerable ex-
Treasurer of the State of Georgia, was
recently arrested in Atlanta upon a
charge of withholding moneys from the
State, and required to give bond in tho
sum of ten thousand dollars. For some
time he was not able to fill his bond.
The contrast here suggested is striking.
Blodgett, long a fugitive on account of
his knavery, was carried to Atlanta, and
his bond fixed at fifteen thousand dollars.
There seemed to be a prospect that he
would have some trouble in making it,
whereupon the Judge generously ro
duces it to ten thousand dollars, and the
matter is made easy. Bullock is arrest
ed, brought back to Atlanta, and his
bond fixed at ten thousand dollars. Im
mediately, as the chronicles state, “pro
minent and wealthy citizens of both par
ties” come to his rescue, and he is now
wearing “a noaegay and grayish pants,”
boasting to chattering and open-mouth
ed Bohemians that had there been any
necessity therefor, his bond would have
been signed by a list of the names of
citizens filling two pages. The contrast,
we say, is striking—nay it is sickening.
Here two self-confessed knaves and
plunderers are accommodated with ob
sequious courts and bondsmen, while a
venerable Georgian—a patriot and an
honest man, as we believe—goes about
hunting for names to go upon his
bond. Sumo civet, good apothecary !
[Savannah News.
♦<S>o
“Mother,” said Ike Partington, “did
you know that the ‘iron horso’ has but
one ear ?” “One ear ? merciful heavens,
child, what do you mean?” “Why, the
engin-eer, of course.”
In Taunton, Massachusetts, there was
ico and heavy frost the 2ilh. Thousands
of strawberry plants were destroyed.
THE HARMON TRAGEDY--THE SIX
MURDERERS LYN’OHED.
From eyo witnesses of tho lynching of
the murderers of Mr. and Mrs. Harmon,
in Edgefield, S. C, I gather some details
that will be of interest. It seems that
the lynching was the direct result of tho
formal verdict of the jury inquest upon
the bodies of the murdered couple. Tho
jury found that tho Hannons were do
liberately murdered by Stephen Lake,
Larkin Holloway, Marshal Perrin, Aus
tin Davis, Jeff Settles, Jesse Lake, Bet
tie Perrin, and Tilda Hollaway, all ne
groes. These parties had previously
been arrested, and when tho inquest
closed were delivered into tho custody
of Sheriff Richardson for commitment
to jail. But immediately tho sheriff was
seized by tho crowd which numbered
about six hundred persons, his head was
hastily covered with a bag, and he was
carried off Ly force and confined.
The hour of retribution for tho fiends
who had so mercilessly butchered Mr.
and Mrs. Harmon had now arrived. All
of the prisoners were taken by the crowd,
which was composed of both black and
white citizens, and marched to ft point
about half mile from the scene of tho
murder. There the six men who had
committed the crime were tied firmly
together in a row, and five minutes were
given to them to pray, at tho expiration
of which time one hundred shots were
fired, and the six wretches fell dead to
tho ground. About 300 men took part
in the last act of tho lynching. No
masks were worn by anybody, and there
was no loud talking and no whiskey.
Previous to their execution Davis and
Stephen Lake had confessed that tho
party had been concocting tho murder
for several weeks. Davis knocked the
victims on tho head, Holloway turned
the bodies over, and Davis cut their
throats. The house was then robbed.
The women were turned looso and told
to leave the country.
<£>♦
Some of the Republican papers of the
North arc attempting to make capital
for their party out of a speech delivered
at Charlotte, N. C., on tho 10th ult., Me
morial Daj in that State, by Rev. Taylor
Martin, the orator of tho occasion. The
following is the language upon which
they are harping:
It is with mingled feelings of sorrow
and satisfaction that I to-day recall tho
issues of 1860 and 1861. Wo all mourn
the loss of our glorious dead and heroic
fallen. Tho South is to-day ruled over
by tho miserable thrall of Yankeedom ;
but they cannot muzzle our chivalry and
patriotic devotion to tho lost cause. We
fought for our rights, but in God’s dis
pensation wo are now vanquished, but
not cowed. Slavery was a divine insti
tution, and wo must have that institu
tion or the South will ever be bankrupt.
They speak of our cause as the “lost
cause.” If so, shall it be lost forever?
No! Anew generation has sprung up,
and at a not far distant day there will bo
“stars and bars” floating proudly over
our sunny South. In tho next political
campaign wo must, even if in the minor
ity, support a Southern man who will
build up our interests and hurl tho
Yankee pickpockets from our midst. We
are to-day united to tho puritanical host
by an artificial tie ; but we are a distinct
people, and Gol 'and tho right will on
able us to show tbo world tho truth and
the equity of our claims. Our states
men now in Congress are tho cream of
that body, and are tho only element
that reflects credit on tho United States.
Is it not better to hang on to the “lost
cause” than to stay in a Government ol
corruption ?
HOME PAPERS.
Someone gets at the truth in tho fol
lowing: No man who owns a foot of
ground, or who is interested in tho pros
polity and future growth of his town or
country, should neglect to take his home
paper. The local paper is an index in a
great measure of the condition of tho
country in which itis published. And if
a mean, dribbling andjniggardly support
is given, it must eke out a sickly, miser
able existence, reflecting little credit upon
itself, or any locality in which it is pub
lished, exerting no influence for good on
the place or on the people.
When our people refuse to take their
local paper, and send away (paying inva
riably in advance) for some Northern
paper, made up from tho fragments of a
daily paper, theystandjin their own light,
and commit a folly of which they will
become cognizant when it is probably too
late to make reparation for tho over
sight.
An enterprising home paper should bo
encouraged at all times. It reflects the
business of tho town in which it is pub
lished ; it champions the interests of tho
people where located, and gives prestige
and prominence to tho country of its
adoption. As the recorder of passing
events, it is the daily written history of
the community in which it is edited, in
which every citizen is directly or indi
reetly interested.
As’ the mirror of trade, tho indicator of
public sentiment and the organ of a par
ticular locality, it deserves always the first
consideration at tho hands of the people
whose interests it champions, and whoso
homes it enlivens. Support your home
paper above all others.
“Some infernal idiot Ims put that
pen whore I can’t find it,” growled old
Asperity, the other day, as he rooted
about the desk. “Ah ’um; yes; I
thought so,” ho continued, in a lower
key, as he pulled the article from behind
his ear.
A Minnesota girl is named Happiness
Quinn, and half the young men in tho
neighborhood wear black eyes for in
dulging in “certain inalienable rights,
among which are life, liberty, and pur
suit of Happiness.”
A Loudon doctor has discovered
that you may cure tho toothache by
dissolving half a dram of bicarbonate
of soda in an ounce of water and hold
ing the solution in your mouth.