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Newspaper Page Textman VOLIME XLIII*] MILLEDGE VILLE, the giii0n & Sttoritr, IN' PCIILISHED VVEEKLT MILLEDGEVILLE. GJ Barnes & Moore, or $3 at cad of the year. Boughton, $2 in S. N. EOUGETON, Editor. . . KEDE UAL UNION” and the “SOUTH- T ‘- j‘ E COKDER” were consolidated August 1 at, ^othe Union being in its Forty-Third Voluinu end I h e Recorder in if* Eifty-Third Volume. advertising. Tribute • c< **diu* S1 * for iudivi^ 11 Onu Dollar p«*r aqi iz mouths. or Ri**»p«ft, U«'W>lutic li.i.s N‘*»iiHations of ten line* for firat inser- h atihat qiieut continuance, ill be allowed i*u advertiee- b*. Societies Obituaries ex office and Coumi uni cation* iiirii-ut advertising. legal advertising. of fn Hi . ; a *aleS, per hquar* a of Administration, (nmrdiunbhip, mission ironi Administration, *• Guardianship,.. ,e to sell Laud ud Creditors K*tn»> Su legal advertisements. I . j X. bv Aduiiuistrfttor*. E* ecutors or Gimr- , i (»> luw t" be held on the tirst Tuesday lu the , . i: forei •" i wad 3 in the af- ‘ r ii .ii*-** in the county in which the property etc ►ales mu.t l*e given iu a public Nolu ‘vs pr* 5 toth. of I* r ' edit* i ol l»e given in state must l»* pub- Uabed 40 « noutluy lav c Rt.les 1 the le*al req 1 * u will be made to the Court of Ordinary v , , must be published for one month. Adii.iuibtratioii, Guardianship, ate., a— for dismission from Administration ... .i dibuiisbiou from Guardianship 40 t ,f M**rteage must be published monthly M .-iiifit; lost pujsTH tor tlte full space of ordine to these, Book and Job Work, of all kinds, PROMPTLY and neatly executed at this office. She Poet and the Proof Header. All!. here it is! I’m lamous now— An author and a poet! It really is in priut! Ye gods ! Ilow proud 1'ii be to show it 1 And gentle Anna! What a thrill Will animate her breast, To read these ardent lines and know To whom they are addressed. Why bless my soul, here's something strange : What can the paper mean Bv talking of the graceful brooks That gander o'er the gieeti? Ai it l.eie's a t instead of r. Which makes it tippling rill; We'll seek the si nil. instead of shade, And hel! inetead of bill. 1 I Wi (6itj gimtorg. Church Directory. BAPTIST CHURCH Services 1 at and 3d Sundays in «ach month, at 11 o'clock, a m and 7 pm. Sahbatli School al!' I-'-’ o ciock, a m. O. M. Cone, Supt Bev D E BUTLER, Pastor. METHODIST CHURCH. Hours of service on Suuday : 11 o’clock, a m, aDd Sunday School 4 o'clock p. m. Teachers meeting 3 p, m _\V. E- Frank laud. Superintendent. y Praver meeting every Wednesday at 7 o’clock, p in. Rev. A J JARRELL, Pastor. [was »we*t awl then 'twas kind, And now to think.the btupid fool For bland han printed blind ! Wa^ ever such provoking Work 1 'Tis curious, by the by. How anything is rendered blind By giving it an eye. Hast thou no tears ? the t'* left out. Hast thou no edls, instead; I hope that thou art dear, is put I hope that thou art dead. Win »ever saw in such a space So many bluudtrs crammed ? Those gentle eyes bedimmed, is spelt Those gentle eyes bedarained. The color of the rose, is nose; Affection is affliction; I wonder if die likeness holds In fact as well as diction T Thou art a friend, the r is goue— Whoever would have deemed That suck a trifling thing could change A friend into a hi nd ' Thou art the same is rendered lame— It reully is too bad ! And here, because au < is out, My lovely maid is mad; They drove her blind, by poking in An eye—a process new; And now they've gouged it out again, Aud made tier crazy, too. Let's stop am! recapitulate; I've dammed her eyes, that’s plain— I've told her she’s a lunatic. And blind, and deaf, and lame. Was ever such a horrid hash In poetry or prose ? I’ve said she was a fiend, and praised The color of her nose. I wish I liad that editor About a half amiuute; I’d bang him to my heart’s content, And with an h begin it; I'd jam his body, eyes, and nose, Aud spell it with a d. And send him to that hill of his— He spells it with an e, THE GLOrTesToF SIAM. A Strange Part of the World. XLAHB SCENES AND FRUITS- ing roofs of temple gleamed through the dark verdure, suggesting theaich- itectural magnificence and beauty which tbe statelier temples of the city jection, toned bells, with little gilded fans at would exhibit. Baldheaded priests in 1 tuclied to their tongues, so swinging orange-colored scarfs came out to meet ■ that they were vocal in the slightest us. Superb white pelicaLS stood pen-j breeze. Here was where the music sive by the river side, or snatched at came from. Even as I stood and look- fish, or sailed on snowy wings with ! ed, I caught the breezes at it. Corn- quiet majesty across the stream. Or, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Soi vict*H every *S<tbbntii fit 11 o clock, fi m find > Sabbath School at 3 p m. T. T. Windsor, Supt. Praver niee'ii g every Friday at 4 o’clock, p m. liev.'G. T. UOETCH1US, Pastor. Lodges. temperance. Itlilledgcville Council No.), meets in the Sen ate Chamber al the State Hcuse un every Friday evening at ~ o’clock. C P C RAW b OKD, Wr. E P l.ist. Sec’y. MASONIC. Benevolent S.oclge No 3 F’ A M., meets 1st and 3d Saturday nights u! each month at Masonic Hall. (i I) Case, Sec y. liftiY 11 HOWARD, W M Temple Chapter meets the second and fourth Saturday nights iu each mouth. 0 1) Case! Sec’y. S O WHITE, II P .tlilledgcville l.oilge of Perfection A.-, i A.\ S.'. K.. meets every Moudav night. SAM'LG WHITE. T P G M G D Case, Exc Grand Sec’y. TO THE WEST! TO THE WEST! into Thin line. Before making your amugements to follow the advice of the “thousand* wi>o have already gone/’ it would be well to consid er what has been done to make the journey to your “Home* in the \Ve*t” a* pleasant and an free from danger as human skill and foresight ran accomplish. By consolidation and construction a road has been put operation on tin* shortest possible line from Nashville ^ to St. Loui*.-‘ihe future great City o the 3t. Louis «k Southeastern Railway, ha«, during the past year, earned an enviable reputation by its smooth track, prompt time, sure connections, and the maguiti- recce u! its pass»*i*ger equipment. Its trains aie made up of new aud commodious day cars, provided with the celebrated Miller coupler and platform, ana tin* Westinghoase air-brake. It is pohitiv* 1\ the only line running Pullman Palace Drawing- Room Sleeping Cara through without change from Nashville to St Louis. No other line pretends to otter such advantages, either iu distance, time, «<r equipment. W hv, then, journey by circuitous routes' Do not lie induced to purchase tickets to St Louis or the West by any other line, remembering that The “«*t. l.o»*i*» & Mouthenslcrn” ik the shortest, cheapest, quickest, be management front Nashville to St. Lo miles the shortest to St. Louis, Kails; i po mlv line under und ii from G» to 200 ity, Omaha. Denver, It i» also the “Chico* ille. moveables on application McCabe, Southern Pass< Nashville, Teuu., or totii No trouble to ails May 1, 187U. aiM-st rates for yourselves and your iu person or by letter, toCilARL user Agent, near College street Depot, ■ undersigned. W. B. DAVENPORT. General Ticket Agent St. Louis, estiona. PARKER’S Carriage and Wagon Shop. D ON'T fail to take your Oarrriage and Wagon Work to Barker's shop (Gardner’s Old Stand) where you can get it done promptly, of good mate rial and at reasonable prices. No please no pay Terms positively cash, unless satisfactory arrange ments are made to the contrary aud payment made sure beyond the shadow ot a doubt- April 16,1873. 39 tf maybe, some enquiring monkey, grey w hiskered, leading two or three of ten derer years, as if be were their tutor, on a naturalist’s expedition through the jungle, stops to look at us with pecu liar curiosity, as at some singular and u nexpected specimen, but stands ready to dodge behind the roots of mangrove trees in case of danger. It will be fortunate for the traveller if while he is rowing up the river, night shall overtake him; for beside splendor of the tropic stars above him, there will be rival .splendors all about him. The night came down on me with startling suddenness—for “there is no twilight within the courts ol the sun”—just as 1 was waiting at the mouth of a cross-cut canal, by j which, when the tide should rise a j little, I might avoid a long bend in the i river. By the time the tide had risen, the night had fallen thick and dark, and the dense shade of the jungle,) through which the caual led us, made j it yet thicker and more dark. Great j fern leaves ten or fifteen feet in height, j § lves tip of the highest ueedle to the bas**,! enough to carry if. from Bangkok to | the audacious ape, who just escapes; from every prominent angle and pro-! Canton. Cotton grows freely beneath j then there are cries of exultation frbm there were hanging sweet- that burning sky. Sugar, pepper, and the tormenters, who gambol about all spices, may be had with easy cu!- .joyfully. Occasionally; however, the tivation. There is gutta-percha in the ) claw is entrapped, aud the victim is forests. There are dye-stuffs and med-. dragged with the rapidity of lightning icines in the jungles. The painter g<*ts | beneath the water, when the whole his gamboge, as its name implies, from ! troop disperse, groaning and shriek- Cambodia, which is tributary lo their j ing. The misadventure does not, how- majesties of Bangkok. THE RARE FRUITS. As for the fruits, I cannot number nor describe them. The mangostene, most delicate and most rare of them all, grows only iu Siam, and in the lands adjacent to the Straits of Sunda and Malacca. Some things we may have which Siam cannot have, but the mangostene is her peculiar glory, and she will not lend it. Beautiful to sight, smell and taste, it hangs among its glossy leaves, the prince ot fruits. Cut through the shaded green and pur ple of the rind, and lift the upper half as if it were the cover of a dish, and the pulp of half-transparent, creamy whiteness stands in segments like an orange, but rimmed with darkest crim- ■ son where the rind was cut. It looks ing from the unseen distance, rippling the smooth surface of the swift river, where busy oars and carved or gilded prows of many boats were flashing in the sun, sweeping with the pleasant whispers through the varied richness of the tropical foliage, stealing the per fume of its blossoms and the odor of its fruits, they caught the shining bells of this great tower, and tossed the mu sic out of them. Was I awake, I won dered, or was it some beam of Orien tal beauty that would presently van ish? Something like this Alolian tower there must be iu the adjacent kingdom of Birmali, where the graceful pen of Mrs. Judson has put the scene in verse: “On tli* [jagoda spii a The bulla are riiu-m>r. Their littlegoldeu eireleta in a flutter With talea the wooing win la have dared to utter; Till all are ringing, As ii a ohoir Of golden-nested Birds in heaven were singing; And with a lulling sound The music floats around And dropi like balm into the drowsy ear.'’ The verse breathes the spirit, and almost the very sound, of the j ... • j , ’ bewitching tropical scene on which I grew dense on either side, and, tan . , - - looked, aud out of which »•>« “ nuiain Boarding House O N account of the destruction of the Milledgeville Hotel by fire I have opened my house for the ac commodation of Hoarders—transient ami regular. M. h. EDWAKD5. Milledgeville, Nov 23, 1872. J8 tf R. E. jWcRE YJ)TOLDS, den TIST, C AN be found at his office over C'araker’s Store at all times, where he will take great pleasure in waiting upon all who may favor him with their kiud natri.i niro will crnnmnt t_e satifjtactiuQ in till opera- patronage, und will gnaran'te satistaction tiocs. March IS, 1873. 34 3m. Wynn’s Throat Improved Open Curved Rib COTTON tilNS. Taihr Planters of Matilvvin and Adjoining Fonntien: 1 AM now ready to Make and Repair Cotton Gin* on short notiee, at Midway, two miles south of Mil isdgeville. All work done warranted to peiform well or no pay. The improved Curved Breast $ I per saw. The old •bj* Breast |3 o9 per saw Repairing done on reasonable terms. Any work de livered in Milledgeville, or at the Milledgevi'le De pots, will he attended to free of any charge to and from my shop I desire the early attention of my pat rons to one particular: Give me time by sending in in your orders or work, at once, as it is impossible to one man to serve a dozen at the same time. As I re quire no pay until the woik is approved of, gire me time. Add ees me at Milledgeville. ^ y \ \ B.8. An experience of 23 years and my terms, are sufficient recomaiendations-, however, if references are desired they will be cheerfully furnished. April 18,1873 39 3m Carriage Shop. rjEO. A. GARDNER announces to the puolic that he has opened a ehop opposite tbe ebop formerly occupied by R E. Gardner, where be will carry on the business of manufacturing and repairing any and ell kinds of vehicles. Particular attention will be P«id to tbe Doing’ Up of Carriages. Re trimming. &c., Ac. Satisfaction will be given both in material*, durability •od in price*. Milledgeville, Q*., 12,1873. 28 ly One of the latest issues of Scribner, Armstrong, & Co.’s “Illustrated Li brary of Travel, Exploration, and Ad venture,” treats of “Siam, the Land of the White Elephant.” It is almost like reading a romance, to read the wonderful accounts of scenery and manners in that little known quarter of the world. Here is what Bayard Taylor and George B. Bacon saw on entering the river and approaching Bangkok, the Siamese capital:— The entrance into the Kingdom of Siam by the great river, which divides the country east and west, brings the traveller at once into all the richness and variety of tropical nature, and is well suited to produce an impression of the singular beauty and vast re sources ot the “Land of the White Elephant.” For this is the name that may properly be given to the kingdom, since the flag of the country has been established. A very curious flag it makes—the white elephant on a red flag—and very oddly it must look if it is ever necessary to hoist it upside down as a signal of distress; a signal eloquent indeed, for anything more helpless and distressing than the clum sy quadruped in that position can hardly be imagined. The editor of this volume visited Siam in one of the vessels of the Uni ted States East India Squadron in 1857, and was present at the exchange of the ratifications of the treaty made in the previous year aud will here de scribe the impression made upon him at his first entrance into the country of the Meitiam. There is enough to see in Siam, if only it could be described. But noth ing is harder than to convey in words the indescribable charm ol tropical life and scenery; and it was in this, in great measure, that the enjoyment ol my months in Bangkok consisted. Al ways, behind the events which occu pied day by day, and behind the men and things with which we had to do, was the pervading charm of tropical nature—of soft, warm sky, with float ing, fleecy clouds, and infinite depths blue beyond them; of golden sunlight, flooding everything by day; and when the day dies its sudden death, of mel low moonlight, as if from a perennial harvest moon; and of stars, that do not glitter with a hard and pointed ra diance, as here, but melt through the mild air with glory in which there is never any thought of “twinkling.” Al ways there was the teeming life of land and sea, of jungle and river; and the varying influence of fruitful na ture, captivating every sense with sweet allurement. Bead Mr. Tenny son’s “Lotos Eaters,” if, you want to know what the tropics are. It was drawing toward the middle of a splendid night iu May, when 1 found myself among the “palms and temples” of this singular city. It had been a tiresome journey from the mouth of the river, rowing more than a score of miles against the rapid cur rent; and, if there could be monotony in the wonderful variety and richness of tropical nature it would have been a wonderful journey. But the wealth of foliage, rising sometimes in the feathery plumes ol the tall areca palm of all palms tbe stateliest—or droop ing sometimes in heavier aud^ larger masses; crowding to the water s edge in dense, impenetrable j un S e > checked here and there by the tool ot cultivation; or cleared for uwelling— was a constant wonder and delight. Now and then we passed a bamboo house, raised high ou poles above the ground, and looking like a bird’s nest in the trees; but they were featherless bipeds who peered out from the branches at the passing boats; and not bird’s uotes, butcbildrt -\s voices, that clamored in wonder, or were silenced in awe at the white-fa*. ~d strangers. Sometimes, the white walaan l shin- like, almost met our heads. Above them stretched the forest trees. Among them rose the noise of night-birds, liz ards, brumbeter-beetle, and creatures cout tiess and various, making a hoarse din, W’hich if not musical, at least wa3 lovely. But the jungle, with its dark ness and its din, had each a beauty as I never had seen equalled, w’hen its myriad fireflies sparkled thick on every side. I had seen fireflies befoie, and had heard of them; but I had never seen or heard, nor have I since tlien ever seen or heard, of anything like these. The peculiarity of them was — not that they were so many, though they were innumerable—not that they were so large, though they were very large—but that they clustered, as by a preconcerted plan, on certain kinds of trees, avoiding all other kinds, and then, as if by a signal from some di rector of the spectacle, they all sent forth their light at once, at simultane ous and exact intervals, so that the whole tree seemed to flash and palpi tate with living light. Imagine it. At one instant was blackness of dark ness and the croaking jungle. Then suddenly, on every side flashed out these fiery trees, the form of each, from topmost twig to outmost bough, set thick with flaming jewels. It was easy to imagine at the top of each some big, white-waisted firefly, with the bat on of a director, ordering the move ments of the rest. This peculiarity of the Siamese fire flies’/or, as our popular term graphi cally describes them, the tropical “lightning-bugs” was noticed as long ago as the time of old Kampfer, who speaks concerning them as follows: “The glow worms settle on some trees like a fiery cloud, with this sur prising circumstance, that a whole swarm of these insects, having taken possession of one tree and spread them selves over its branches, sometimes, hide their light all at once, and a mo ment after make it appear again, with the utmost regularity and exact ness, as if they were in a perpetual systole and diastole.” The lapse of centuries has wrought no change iu the rhythmical regulari ty of the surprising exhibition. Out upon the river, once again; the houses on the shore began to be morenumer ous, and presently began to crowd to gether in continuous succession; and from some of them the sound of mer ry laughter and pleasant music issu ing, proved that not all the citizens of Bangkok were asleep. The soft light of the cocoanut oil lamps supplied the place of the illumination of the fire flies. Boats, large and small, were passing swiftly up and down the stream; now and then the tall masts of some merchants ship loomed indis tinctly large through the darkness. 1 could dimly see high towers of tem ples and broad roofs of palaces; and I stepped on shore, at last, on the ‘ Dark shore, jast seen that it was rich,” with a half bewildered feeling that I was passing through some pleasant dream of the Arabian Nights, from which I should presently awake. Even when the flooding sunlight of the tropical morning poured in through the windows, it was difficult for me to realize that I was not in some unreal land. There was a sweet, low sound of music filling the air with its clear, liquid tones. And, joining with the music, was the pleasant ringing of a multitude of little bells, ringing, I knew not where. . It seemed as if the air was full of them. Close by, on one side, was the palace of a prince, and somewhere in his house or in his court-yard there were people play ing upon instruments of music, made of smoothed and hollowed bamboo. But no human hands were busy with the bells. Within a stone’s throw of my window rose the shining tower of the most splendid temple iu Bangkok. From its broad, octagonal base to the tip of its splendid spire, it must meas ure, I should think, a good deal more than two hundred feet, and every inch of its irregular surface glitters with or naments. Curiously wrought into it are forms of men and birds, and grotes que beasts that seem, with outstretch ed hands or claws, to hold it up. Two- thirds of the way from the base, stand, I remember, four white elephants, wrought in shining porcelain, facing each way toward the four points ot the compass. From the rounded sum mit rises, like a needle, a sharp spire. This was the temple tower, and all over the msgnificent pile, from the the “ music of the bells” was blown to :ne on my first morning iu Bangkok. No doubt my first impressions (which I have giveu with some detail,und with all the directness of “that right line I”) were fortunate. But three or four weeks of Bangkok could not wear them oft' or counteract them. It is the Venice of the East. Its highway is the river, and canals are its byways. There are streets, as in Venice, used by pedestrians ; but the travel and the carriage is, for the most part, done by boats. Only in place of the verdure less margin of tbe watery streets, which gives to Venice, with all its beauty, a half-dreary aspect, there is in Bangkok greenest foliage shadowing the water, and mingling with the dwellings, palaces aud temples on the shore ; and instead of the funeral gon dolas of monotonous color, with soli tary <rondolitr$, are boats of every size and variety, paddled sometimes by one and sometimes by a score of oarsmen. Some of the bamboo dwellmgs of the humble class are built, literally, on the floating on rafts, a block of them together, or raised on poles above the surface of the water. The shops ex pose their goods upon the river side and wait for custom from the throng ing boats. The temples and palaces stand of course, on solid ground, but the river is the great Broadway, and houses crowd upon the channel of the boats, and boats pump the houses. It is a picturesque and busy scene on which you look as you pass amid the throng. Royal boats, with carved and gilded prows, with shouting oarsmen, rush by you, hurrying with rapid cur rent, or the little skiff of some small peddler, with his assortment of vari ous “notions,” paddling and peddling by turns, is dexterously urged along its way. Amid all this motiou aud traffic is that charm and silence which makes Venice so dream-like. No rum ble of wheels nor clatter of hoofs dis turb you. Only the sound of voices, softened as it comes along the smooth water, or the music of a palace, or the tinkling of the bells of a pagoda, break the stillness. It is a beautiful Broad way, without the Broadway roar and din. Of course, where so much wealth is lavished on public buildings, there must be great resources to draw from; and, indeed, the mineral wealth of the country appears at almost every town. Precious stones and the precious met als seem to be as frequent as the fire flies in the jungle. Sometimes, as in the silver currency, there is an absence of all workmanship ; the coinage be ing little lumps of silver, rudely roll ed together in a mass and stamped.— But sometimes, as in the teapots, be tel-nut boxes, cigar-holders with which the noblemen are provided when they go abroad, you will see workmanship of no mean skill. Often these vessels elegantly wrought. Sometimes ever, prevent their recommencing the game a few days afterwards. —»^^s^~-* MASSACRED. White Assassins Attack the Modoc Prisoners. Efforts oj Fairchild to Sate their Lives.— Brutal Murders und Indian Stoicism. they are studded with jewels ; some times they are beautifully enamelled in divers colors. Once I called upon a noble, who brought out a large as sortment of ancient stones—some of them of great value—and passed them to me as one would a snuff-box, not content till I bad helped myself.— More than once I have seen chiidren of the nobles with no covering at all, ex cept the strings of jewelled gold, that hung in barbarous opulence upon their neck and shoulders, but there was wealth enough in these to fit the little fellows with a large assortment of the most fashionable and Christian appar el, even at the ruinous rate of tailors’ prices at tbe present day. To go about among these urchins, and among the houses of the nobles and the king’s palaces, gives the half-bewildered and half-covetous feeling that it gives to be conducted by polite but scrutinizing attendants through a mint. Surely we bad come at last to ‘ Where the gorgeous East, with richest hand. Showers ou her kings barbaric pearl aud gold.* 1 Of course, of all this wealth the king's share was the lion’s share. Then, as for vegetable wealth, I do ndt know that there is anywhere a richer valley in the world than the valley of the Meinam. All the pro ductions of the teeming tropics may grow luxuriantly here. There was rice enough in Siam, the year before my visit, to feed the native population and to supply the failure cf the rice crop in southern China, preventing thus the havoc of a famine in that crowded empire, and making fortunes for tbe merchants who were prompt too beautiful to eat, but how the rarest, sweetest essence of the tropics seems to dwell in it as it melts to the delighted taste ! For everything there is a Compen sation. If we do not have the mau- gostene, we do not have the durian— of all fruits, at first, the most intolera ble, but said, by those who have smothered their prejudices, to be ol all fruits, at last, the most indispensable. When it is brought to you at first, you clamor till it is removed ; if there are durians in the next room to you, you cannot sleep. Chloride ol lime and disinfectants seem to be its natural remedy. To eat it seems to be the sacrifice of self-respect, but endure it fora while, with closed nostrils, taste it once or twice, and you will cry for durians thenceforth, even—I blush to write it—before the glorious maDgo- Btene. I have mentioned only the two extremes of the immense variety of fruits. One day the King sent to our party more than a hundred brazen dishes, full of I do not know what va rious kinds. Piles of golden oranges and mangoes; pine-apples, blushing beneath their thorney skins ; bananas, fresh and luscious. The memory of the heaped up dishes is enough to make one glow with tropical delight in January. This is the laud of the White Ele phant, so singular, so rich, so beauti ful. Mons. Mouhot confirms Mr. Bacon’s account of the strange character of the fruit above described—the “ duri an.” He says : Tne fruit here is ex quisite, particularly the mango, the mangostene, the pine apple—so frag rant and melting in the mouth—and, wbat is superior to anything I ever imagined or tasted, the famous “ du rian,” or “dourion,” which justly merits the title ot king of fruits. But to enjoy it thoroughly one must have time to overcome the disgust at first inspired by its smell, which is so strong that I could not stay in the same place with it. On first tasting it I thought it irke the flesh of some animal in a state of purification, but after four or five trials, I found the aroma exquisite. The “ durian” is about two-thirds the size of the jacca, and like it, is en cased in a thick and prickly rind which protects it from the teeth of squirrels and other nibklers ; on open ing it there are to be found ten cells, each containing a kernal larger than a date, and surrounded by a sort ot white or sometimes yellowish cream, which is most delicious. By an odd freak of nature, not only is there the first repugnance to be overcome, but if you eat it often, though with ever so great moderation, you find ysurself, the next day, covered with blotches as if attacked with measles, so heating is its nature. A “ durian” picked is never ripe, for when fully ripe it falls of itself; when cut open it must be eaten at once, as it quickly spoils, but otherwise it will keep for three days. At Bangkok one of them costs one selung; at Chantaboun nine may be obtained for the same sum. THE MONKEYS AND THE CROCODILES. Here is another interesting scene : Crocodiles are more numerous in the river at Packnam Ven than in Chantaboun. I continually saw them throw themselves from tho banks into the water; and it has frequently hap pened that careless fishers, or persons who have imprudently fallen asleep on the shore, have become their prey or have afterwards died of the wouuds iu- flicted by them. This latter has hap pened twice during my stay here. It is amusing, however, for one who is interested in observing the habits ot animals all over the world, to see the manner in which these creatures catch the apes, which sometimes take a tan- cy to play with them. Close to the bank lies the crocodile, his body in the water and only his capacious mouth above the surface, ready to seize anything that may come within reach. A troop of apes catch sight of him, seem to consult together, approach a little and commence their frolics, by turns actors and specta tors. One of the most active and most impudent jumps from branch to branch, till within a respectful dis tance of the crocodile, when, hanging by one claw, and with the dexterity peculiar to these animals, he advances and retires, now giving his enemy a blow with his paw, at another time only pretending to do so. The other apes, enjoying the fun, evidently wish to take a part in it, but the other branches beiug too high, they form a sort of chain, by laying hold of each other's paws, and thus swing back wards and lorwards, while any one of them who comes within reach of the crocodile torments him to the best of his ability. Sometimes the terrible jaws suddenly close, but not upon Washington, Juue 9, 1S73. Dispatches from Boyles Camp, da ted yesterdav, relate the particulars of an atrocious massacre of Modoc prisoners, supposed to have been per petrated by Oregon volunteers. Sat urday morning Jas. Fairchild and about a dozen other men left Fair- child’s Ranch, on Cottonwood creek, with seventeen Modoc captives, inclu ding women aud children and Shack- nasty Jim, Bogus Charley, Tehee Jack, Pony and Little John. The In dians were in a wagon drawn by four mules. At the crossing of Lost River the party encountered a body or Ore gon volunteers, under the command of Captain Hiser. The soldiers gath ered about the wagon, and questioned Fairchild. The latter told them the Indians were all Hot Creeks except Little John, and there were no charges against them. Fairchild undertook to push ou to Boyles’ catup, and the vol unteers retired to their camp, near Crowley’s. On the road Fairchild noticed two men ahead, riding to Rocky Point, as if to intercept him. When the team approached, two men, one of them presented a needle-gun at Fairchild, saying: Get down, you old white head. By what authority said Fairchild. By mine. I am going to kill Indians, and you too was re plied and the leader caught hold of the mules aud unhitched them, cut ting the harness. Fairchild clinging to the lines, leaped to the ground Thp poor wretches implored for mercy and begged Fairchild to save them. The warriors were unarmed and koew resistance was useless. They were the coolest in the party, although fearing inevitable death, but the woman and children shrieked and groaned and wept piteously. Fairchild had noth ing but a small pistol, and six inches from his ear was the muzzle of a needle He says tears came into his gun. eyes and he mingled his entreaties with those of the Modocs in hopes the massacre might be avoided. He adds it was a terrible scene, one I shall never forget. I shudder when I think what I saw and heard; the tearful voices of those women and children still rings in my ears; but the coward ly hounds were not to be balked. A shot and Little John lay dead iu the wagon with a bulletin his braiu. The mules dashed away with Fairchild, who became entangled in tbe lines. Five more shots were fired in rapid succession, by which Tehee Jack, Pony and Mooch were killed and Lit tle John’s squaw was frightfully wounded in the shoulder. Away ahead on the road in the direction of Boyles’ Camp a cloud of dust was perceived, indicating the approach of a team. The murdereis espied the dust and shortly afterwards were riding away. Sergeant Murphy, of battery G. Fourth artillery, with ten men and teamster, came up to the scene of mas sacre. The Sergeant took charge of affairs, and remained with his men on the ground. Fairchild, a teamster, and a wound ed squaw, with her two children, came in camp at two o’clock this morning. It is generally supposed the guilty party were Oregon volunteers. Fair- child is of that opinion himself. The warriors killed were not charged with murder. Those who know them best say they have only participated in open fights. Every one here condemn^the affair as atrocious and without excuse. There is no doubt but the murders were carried out upon a carelully ar ranged plan, as Fairchild noticed horse men on the road ahead and behind when shots were fired. Had John Fairchild or James been present an other murder might have been added to the list, as the Oregonians are bit ter in their hatred to John, the old man, and the other Californians. The Warm Spring Indians have only a few weeks longer to serve. Sergeant Clinton is fast failing. SECOND DISPATCH. Boyle’s Camp, Juue 9, 1873; 3 pm. An interview betweeu General Da vis, Captain Jack, and Schonchin has just euded. The Modoc chief says he was incited to his cruel warfare by Allen David, chief of the Klamaths. He also denied having killed General Canby, and laid the blame on his boys. Schouchin tells the same story. THE GREASERS. Mexican Denunciation of McKenzie s Raid—The Greasers Defiant and Bel ligerent— Threats and Retaliation—A Hint at Another Grab of Territory. New Orleans, June 9, 1873. The Matamoras Vos Puebiica, tbe government organ, has an editorial headed “Invasion,” severely criticising General McKenzie’s expedition into Mexico, in pursuit of the Kickapoo In dians, denouncing the act as so aggres sion committed upon a nation that is too weak to resist and intended to serve as a pretext to seize additional territory. The government of Mexico is urg ed to exact immediate reparation for this violation of her sovereignty, and concludes by saying that if it is not complied with it will be found that the Mexico of to-day is not the Mexico Of 1S46. It is supposed that this article reflects the sentiments of the govern ment, received from the City ot Mexi co by telegraph, and is put forward to test the feelings of the people of the frontier Mexican States. Mexican Neus via St. Louis. St. Louis, June 9,1S73. Dr. D. H. Williams, who has resi ded in Chihuahua two years, has ar rived here. Dr. Williams confirms the capture of the Mexican-Indian chief Lasada. It was believed he was im mediately shot. Dr. Williams thinks there will be no serious complaint over McKenzie’s incursion after tne Kicka- poos. Williams, however, thinks the Mexicans will use McKenzie’s exploit as a precedent, and follow home the marauders into United States territo ry. This will eventually lead to trou ble, and plunge the frontier into war. Such a result would, however, be hail ed by many as desirable, as it would lead to the carving out of another fat slice from the sick man on the South ern border. There are, however, ef forts being made by some of the lead ing parties on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande,which may lead to negotia tions for the annexation of more Mexi can territory in order to strengthen the boundary line and by which Mexico will be enabled to pay her debts. The toiritory conveyed for this purpose embraces the States of Nuevo, Leon, Cohahuila, Chihuahua, north end of Duraugo,Sonora and Lower California. Known as Mexican frontier States, this would shorten the boundary line on half of the present meandering of the Rio Grande and leave a frontier that could be much more easily protected by both nationalities, whereas it is al most impossible to do so with present boundaries. It would.be a vast territory with fine irrigable and mineral lands and pasturage which are now really worthless to the Mexican people. A Notable Anniversary.—Two hundred years ago the coming 17th of June, the Mississippi was discovered, according to the historian, and it is proposed to revive the half-forgotten memories of Marquette and Joliet by celebrating the event at St. Louis and other places on the line of the historic river. On the 10th of June, 1673, Marquette and Joilet, priest and mer chant, attended by five other French men and two Indians, left Green bay for the southwest. They ascended the Fox river in canoes to the dividing ridge between it and the Wisconsin. Carrying their light canoes on their shoulders across the “divide,” they launched them upon the Wisconsin. All but Marquette and Joliet returned to Green bay. The heroic priest and merchant descended to the newly-dis covered river, and on the 17th of June, 1673, they glided out of the Wisconsin upon the bosom of the up per Mississippi, “with joy,” says the discoverer, “that I cannot express.” Thence they pursued their explora tions to the mouth of the'Arkansas river, and returned by the way of the Illinois river, arriving at their settle ment at Green bay the 1st of Septem ber. And now, says the St. Louis Republican, after a lapse of two hun dred years, after the wilderness they found has been converted into fields and gardens; after the wigwam vil lages have faded away, and the shad ows of mighty cities fall upon the waters of the stream they found flow ing through trackless wilds, it is pro posed to erect some suitable memorial which shall preserve their fame until the latest times. How to Make Money.—There is no subject more important, and none so generally neglected, in most sys tems of education, as this. To what should educational effort tend, if not to arm the student for the battle of life? Now we ask in all seriousness ; does the usual educational training of the present day do this ? By no means. The instruction of our schools and colleges is sadly deficient in this re spect. The pupil is compelled to learn many thiuga of no use whatever to him in this struggle with the worid, while he is left entirely ignorant of the most practical lesson of all—the art of accumulation—the science of success. He may indeed graduate at the best college iu the land, and his diploma declare him fitted for some high-sounding profession; but, for the want of knowledge in the art of mo- ney-getting, he is too often doomed to a life of unrequited toil, deprivation, hardship and disappointment. Should be at last, perchance stumble upon the hidden spring of success, it is not until tribulation and mental anguish have made of the past a desert waste, aud when too late to apply the dis covery to advantage. Now this state of affairs demands a remedy, and that remedy can only be found in a thor ough and practical course of business training for all classes. — ♦ —i A bad marriage is like an electric machine; it makes you dance, and you can’t let go. Singularly none of the papers have yet said that in these days of bustles every woman is a paper carrier. “Mamma, can’t we have anything we want?” “Yes, my dears; but be careful and not want anything you can’t have.” Some men go about the world with their hands in their pockets. That is better, though, than if they went about with their hands in other peo ple's pockets. At a recent dinner of shoemakers, the following toast was given: “May we have all tha women m the country to shoe and aU ths men to boot.”

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Union and recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1872-1886, June 18, 1873, Image 1