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VOLUME XLV.]
MILLEDGE VILLE, GEORGIA, MARCH 30, IS75.
If UMBER 36.
®nion & Uccorber,
10 PUBLISHED WEEKLY
IN MILLEDGEVILLE. GA.,
BY
Boughton, Baknes & Moore,
At $2 ia Advance, cr $3 at end of the year
S. N. HOUGHTON. Editor.
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ERN RECORDER” were consolidated August 1st
187:2, the Union being in its Forty-Third Yo'.ume and
the Recorder in it's Fifty-Third Volume.
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Sheriff's Sales, per levy of ten lines, or less, $2 50
“ Mortgage ti la salt-?, per square, 5 00
Citations for Letters of Administration, 3 00
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Notice to Debtors and Creditors,
Sales of Land. Ac., per square
•» perishable property, 10 days, per square,
Estrav Notices, 3<» duys
fareolosuro of Mortgtg: , per square, each time 1 00
Elislia Culpepper was killed, his wife
and daughter in-law was seriously woun
ded, and Mrs. Burdell had both legs
broken. Among others badly hurt ar>
Mrs. Miller B. Phillips, Mrs. BradsbjSr
and son, a daughter of Prof. Cha-«n,
and a son of Capt. C. Calhoun, iri^all
ten whites and sixteen negroes killed and
five churches demolished, six stores and
four school houses destroyed. Total
loss over one hundred thousand dollars.
Columbus has voted four thousand dol
lars to the sufferers. Hamilton and Tal-
botton escaped by a mile and a half.
Direction of the storm was northeast.
A gentleman came in on the Southwest
ern train this morning for six coffins for
one family—that of Capt John Kennon,
his wife, three daughters and two sons.
•utors or Guar
Tuesday
ate must be pub-
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sales of Laud, 4lc., by Administrators, It*
titans, are required by law to tie heid ou the tin
mouth, between the m. ira of 10 in the for-no«.u and 3 lu the af-
ernaon, at the Court Home iu the county iu which the property
la situated. Noli- e of these -tiles must be given iu a public
gaaette 30 days previous to the day of sale.
Notices for tue sale of personal property must be given
Ilka manner 10 days previous to sale day.
Notice to the debtors and creditors ot a
lished 40 days.
Notie-e that application will bo made to tue Court of Ordinary
for leave to sell Land, ioe., must be published for one month.
Citations for letters of Administration, Guardianship. Stc
most he publish -d u>» days- i«»r dismission lroin Administration
monthly three mouths—for dismission from Guardianship 40
da Jul«s for foreclosure of Mortgage must be publianed inoHthly
far four mouths—for establishing lost pupers lor the full space o
three months—for compelling titles from Kwa utors or Adinur
Istrators, where bond has been given by the deceased, the full
space of three mouths. .
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At THIS OFFICE.
THE STORM KING.
Twenty-Four People killed.
k large Area of Country Devastated
in Harris and Talbot Counties—The
Governor Appealed to for Aid.
From the Atlanta News.
One of the most destructive tornadoes
that ever visited this State swept like a
besom of destruction over portions of
•everal of the counties in this State, lay
ing waste houses, farms and forests, and
destroying a number of lives. It seemed
as though the Destroying Angel had
passed over and smote the land.
THH STORM IN TALBOT AND HARRIS COUNTIES.
The storm cloud that proved so de
■tractive passed in an easterly direction
across the country. About the time it
passed Columbus, Georgia, it was seen to
divide, the two portions going parallel
with each other. The tornado struck
the western portion of Talbot county
abont 11:30 o’clock. Its pathway, about
a half mile wide, was marked with the
destruction of houses, fences, trees and
everything that came in its way. An
eye-witness states that the very clouds
seemed to be on the ground, hurling
themselves against every obstacle to
their passage with a power never before
known.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
One of the most remarkable escapes re
corded was at a schoolbouee near Tal
botton, which was occupied by a teacher
and about fourteen scholars. The build
ing was torn to pieces over their heads,
bat, strange to say, no one was injured.
The upper portion of tbe building was
lifted up and hurled through the air.
Another instance, illustrative of the im
mense force of the wind, is that a mill
stone, belonging to a grist mill, was hurl
ed some fifty yards from its position,
while the building was literally torn in
pieces.
LOSS OF LIFE.
It is stated on good authority that
there were twenty-four lives lost in Tal
bot and Harris counties. It was impossis
ble to learn the names of the parties.
This fact, in connection with the destruc
tion of property, has cast a shadow of
gloom and sorrow over the entire coun
try, and brought distress on all those who
lived in its pathway.
The Tornado In Columbia.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
I have just returned from Appling, Ga.,
where I went to attend the March ses
sion of the Superior Court, and while
there witnessed for myself some of the
terrible results of the cyclone that pass
ed through that section of Columbia coun
ty last Saturday. Reports heretofore re*-
ceived rather underestimated than over,*
estimated the loss of life and property,
as is usually [the case. In and around
Appling the destruction of property was
immense. Many houses were completely
demolished and scattered for hundreds of
Earthquake in Mexico.
A Town in Rains—Seventy Persons
Hilled and Many Wounded.
Guadalajara, Mex., Feb. 20, 1875
On Friday the 11th of February, at
half-past 8 o’clock, p. m., a very severe
shaking was felt in this capital (Guada
lajara), accompained by a strange subter
ranean sound. The phenomenon was so
marked that it seemed as if the great
terraqueous mass was about to pass from
under our feet, and for the moment the
falling in of every roof was expected. In
four minutes after the shaking was re
peated with equal force and with the
most tremendous noises, whereupon the
amazement and alarm had no limit. The
publio squares and every place where it
was thought the falling houses could not
The New Hampshire Election.
New Hampshire is a close State, and
is always hotly contested by political par
ties. Perhaps in no State of the Union
are the people so thoroughly imbued with
the spirit of the politician, as in New
Hampshire. The annual elections are
welcomed as a relief from the monotony
of business and home life, men, women
and even children enter with keen zest
into the manipulation of conventions and
the rallying of voters to the polls, and so
great is the excitement usually pervading
the State on the day of election that (as
will be discovered by comparison! a lar
WASHINGTON
The Caucus
COMMITTEE
on Louisiana Policy.—The
CANNOT AGR3E—A RE33LUS
OF FOURTEEN OFFERED DOUBT AS TO THE
NEED OF ANY RESOLUTION FEAR OF
THE DEMOCRATS AND OF MR. PINCHBACk’s
FRIENDS.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.
Washington, March 19.—The Republic
can Senators held an adjourned caucus
this morning for the purpose of healing
the report of the Committee appointed
are cast than in any of the neighborin
States. This excitement is the result of
the nearly even division of parties. If
there were a large preponderance of Dem-
ocrats, as in Kentucky, or of Republicans,
reach were taken possession of bv the as Vermont, it is probable that the
multitude, who were beside themselves minority would lie nearly dormant on
with panic (election day, and- there would be no
A few moments before the earthquake animation whatever in the contests,
the heavens were clouded and the atmos Id a small State local issues have a
phere hot and suffocating, all of which strong influence on the result of elec-
tended to horrify more and more public tions. Local events are of more interest,
imagination. The shakings were of a speaking generally, to the inhabitants of
tremulous character, terminating in os- a small State than national affairs are-
cillatory movements, and lasted about ten -^ s the quarrel over the location of a new
seconds. school-house interests the people of a ru-
There is no doubt that Guadalajara r£d township more than the great issues
has never suffered earthquakes as strong which divide a State, so the inhabitants
eus qi as these just passed through, and that a small State are more influenced by
yards in different directions Other I fortnnatel y we have not many accidents some acts of their local Legislature than
buildings were more or less damaged and to J amen ^ , PJ a ™ stl y more important matter affect-
butfew escaped injury oning possibly to L ^vertheless, man y buildings have snf- mg tbe country at large. New Hamp-
their strength of build and peculiar situ- ftr con8lderi ‘ ble injury—among others sh ire is one of these small, close States
ation. I found largo pieces of timber „ Institute, the chapels of Loretto, l a which are so sensitive to local happen-
weighing as much as 200 pounds torn Merc ® d > de Josns ’ Liceo and Mexicalcui m gs- If its legislature passes obnoxious
from building's and hurled 300 and 4001 ^*il© an arched roof was cracked open then, the party in the Legislature
yards off by the storm. The severity of I* 6 ? enit€ntiai 7> a tower cracked loose responsible for them is made to suffer at
the tornado, however, can be better un- ■ e to Cathedral, &c. A fall- the polls.
derstoed when you witness the manner I f rom tho Cathedral destroyed a (.. To this fact may be attributed the par-
, . 7 , yesterday to prepare a resolution on the
The Committee W
simply to report that they could not
in which it dealt with the large forest
| man’s foot.
The theatre of Degoilado did not suf-
tial recovery of lost ground by the New
Hampshire Republicans last week. The
oaks and pines, tearing and splitting L ' . Ir . - ,. T • i j. • * *
them into innumerable fragments andl: U~ a , pr , oof that the ramors m regard Democratic Legislature in session last
hurling them in every direction I saw to lta bad construction have no founda- (Summer did unwisely m many respects,
many pine sapplings entirely stripped of ti on—although the persons who had gs course was harsh and partisan, and
their bark and smaller limbs, from top to ? 0ne to tbe theatre to the benefit of Mrs. tbe sympathies of many who were disposed
bottom r Leonardi were very much frightened, to abandon Radicalism were repelled.
Mr. Kelly, the proprietor of the hotel Tte whole night was passed in watching These P e °P Ie stayed with their old party
was a great sufferer, having had his barns’ 8 ? stron & was the c « n ^etion that the this year and thus saved it from the
stables, gin houses, &c., on his different P h <»°“««>n would be repeated. thorough defeat which it deserved upon
places entirely destroyed, and with them 0n th ® , followin S da 3’ tbe telegraph an- national issues. But taking into consul-
several head of stock and quite an amount ? ounced that toward the east as far as eratl ®n this untoward circumstance affect-
of corn, fodder, &c. This gentleman had ^ 6 ° 11 * tbe north as far as Chalchihute, “g the Democratic situation, we can
two sons, one about sixteen and the oth, f he80U £ h aa fa * aa Zacoalco, find tbe west hffbtly claim that the Democracy did
er fourteen years old, who were caught in to Pacific ’ a11 towns had felt the magnificently m the election. They cast
the storm while out hunting in an open eart bquako with greater or legs intensity, over two thousand votes more than they
field. The elder had his arm 1 1 -- 1 ' especially those near the volcano of Gel>. I ever did before m the Slate, they elected
both were most frightfully unuoeu au U , , . , - ... , . , , - .. „ . .
over. The storm, to Sse their own words, , th * j aeMn S°f m : ?oih\\o, a large rock of one. and on the Congressional
“pitching them up and down like feath- fel1 dovra - kllIin g a borse and wounding a vote they have a plurality m the State,
ers.” Their bruises were cause principal- man ‘ _ . Substantially, therefore, the Now
ly by the rocks aDd pebbles hurled against Ip San Cristobal the affair has been Hampshire election is a Democratic tri
them. From their account it really was Ter ^ bad, as nearly all of the houses of umph. The check to the Democratic ad
miraculous that they were not killed. ^ a ^ ^wn have been destroyed, and vance which the Republicans hoped, last
The duration of the storm was only about many ’ P er b a P a , been buried in the week, that they saw in the result in the
two minutes. It was quite common to F 11 ® 8 - Granite State, has not taken place. The
Up to the 15th or ICth of the month, great reaction against Radicalism through
besides the brused and wounded, the out the nation continues, and its force
bodios of seventy killed have been taken will soon be better apparent in Connecti-
from the ruins. cut, where there are no local disturbances,
vuiumui. iu i^ici As the town contains only eight hun- and the battle is being squarely fought
Savannah river, all along tho pathway of habitants the proportion of the between Democracy and Radicalism of
the cyclone is marked by a general de- . te that number is horrifying. | the Grant Morton-Butler species,
straction of trees, fences and buildings; ®pnestisone of the victims. It is
in most instances, everything being en- sai i; b® dl ® d yesterday,
tirely swept away. The loss of life was It may be said of San CnstobaJ that it
also great. On one place as many as . dls ^PP eared ? and that its ruins only
- - — 'exist. The families which have been sa
ved are now living in the open air under
trees.
see men going about with their arms in
slings and others limping from injuries
sustained. [
I am told that from Thomson, through
McDuffie and Columbia counties to the |
the cyclone is marked by a general "de- ( ac ^ den .I s I? that number
straction of trees, fences and hnildincs-1 "*■ .? P n ® B * 18 one of the
| Eockc’s Comet—Its Twenty-third
Visit Near at Hand-
seven person were killed outright. The
hotel at Appling had some four or five in
it, who were badly injured, some, it is
feared, mortally. The March term of the
DAMAGE IN HARRIS COUNTY.
In Harris county the damage was
equally as great in every respect. The
female college building at Hamilton was
blown down and destroyed. Several
lives were lost also. Business of all
kinds is suspended; and tho stricken
people call on the public for aid. It
would be impossible to describe the
wreck and ruin occasioned in a short
■pace of time by the tornado. It looks
as though the hand of destruction had
passed over the line of the tornado and
crushed everything beneath it.
There was little lightning and rain, tho
damage being done exclusively by the
wind. Our informant states that the
cloud seemed to move at the rate of about
sixty miles an hour.
The counties of McDuffie, Warren, aDd
Columbia have also suffered severely
from the ravages of the storm, and havo
telegraphed to Governor Smith for aid.
The Governor, while ho sympathizes with
their misfortune, is powerless to aid, as
he has no funds for the purpose.
Special to tbe IleralJ.
Around Columbus;
Columbus, Ga., March 22.—Storms oc
curred Saturday between 11 and 12
o’clock. There appeared to be four whirl
winds, or tornadoes, one near Whiteville,
iu Harris county; another from Harris
county into Merriwether; another near
Hamilton, and another from Harris
through Talbot. The two first created
immense havoc to property, but no lives
were lost; the one near Hamilton killed
three children of H. W. Pitts, and badly
wounded two others, one having both
legs, both arms and a thigh broken, and
injured Pitts and his wife. The latter is
bereft of reason from grief. Every honse
in its couise, for twenty miles in length
•nd a half mile in width, was levelled,
trees blown down and carried hundreds
of feet, and fences, scattered everywhere;
furniture, clothing, stock, etc., all gone,
fjid the people suffering on account of
the destruction of food. The fourth was
most destructive, for twenty miles in
length and half a mile in width, its path
ywarFod by ruin and devastation. The
little village of Mount Airy, in Harris
eountj, was totally destroyed; not a house
standing. The wife and five children—
four grown, three of which were young
jsdies—of Capt. J. H. Kennon were
killed and their bodies blown from fifty
to one hundred yards, and Captain Ken-
non was hurt in tho shoulder. Two of
his sons were saved, being absent from
home. Mr. Hunt was injured in the
■pine, Wm. McGhee had two ribs
broken, and goods and clothing scatter
ad all around; Maj. John H. Walton es
aaped narrowly, his residence being de
molished; teacher Clark and wife are
mortally wounded, and their child had
an arm fractured ; Rev. J. B. McGhee
had his jaw broken, and was injured in
ternally; his daughter and son injured;
Tom Neal was hurt and his house ut
terly blown away. Baughville, Talbot
jOWttjt vws completely demoliahed*
night.
CAPT. STOVALL DEAD.
Thomson, March 23, 10. p. m.
Capt. John T. Stovall died at eight
and a half o’clock.
Encke’s comet is soon to make its twe-n
ty-first visit Dr. Van Asten published
_ t ^ A correspondent says, under date of his ephemeris of the comet for theforth-
Court’was "adjourned without transact I ^brany among other things, as fol- coming return, and it will reach its
ing any business until the next regular I 01 ^ 8 : . perihelion on the 13 th of April. It will
session in September, on account of the I . Cristobal is situated, or rather was be nearest the earth about the 4th of
suffering and sorrowing in tho land situated, at the bottom of the beautiful May, approaching us within a distance of
Expressions of sympathy are heard up- J? 111 ®? w . hi< * ® r . osses the greater part of about 50,000,090 miles. The larger
on all sides for those who have been thus ““ e D ° r . of this State > waters of the telescopes will be able pretty soon to de-
fearfnlly dealt with by Providence, and . rand nver nearl y touching the founda- tect the presence of tho celestial visi-
while such expressions are calculated to ^. 01 J wads < ? nr bouses, and was a most tor.
comfort, yet in this instance, svmpathy l )icturesc l ue place, for the high rocks ups Encke’s comet i3 not a remarkable one.
without material aid, will be of little benefit. ? n ®PP 081 t® side ef the valley and in It is a telescopic comet, and consists of
Many of the sufferers are in destitute cir- f ron , t of ?f T a PP eajed hanging over onr a circular patch of nebulus light some-
cumstances, being houseless and home-1 fVe lived tranquilly, for our com-J what ^condensed toward the center,
less, and others again bein£
want of food and raiment. They can 1
only rely upon the charity of others. May
Augusta respond liberally to these un-1
fortunate ones.
Hastily, &c., J. P. V.
[Special to the Chronicle and Sentinel ]
Latest From Thomson*
Thomson, March 23, 1875.
in actual | merce waB Dcd g roa ti and earthquakes in Though usually only visible through the
former years had never been severe with telescope, it is sometimes seen with the
us, and had occasioned us no alarm. naked eye, as, for instance, on its appear-
On the 11th inst., at twenty-five min- ance in 1828, when it shone like a star of
utes after eight p. m., a rumbling sound the fifth magnitude. It is one of the
came from the earth beneath us, the pre- tailless comets, although on rare occa-
cursor of a tremendous earthquake. The sions a tail has been discerned extending
animals instinctively manifested their like a faint brush toward the sun, and
surprise; the dogs howled, the horses also a similar appendage branching out in
turned down their ears and snorted, the an opposite direction. This little comet
cattle which were lying down jumped up ia invested with a special interest for
The adjourned meeting of the Relief (terrified and assumed their attitude when terrestrial observers, from the fact that
Committee was held this morning. The fearing to be eaten up by wolves; all its period is the shortest among those
committee which went over the track of were prepared for the danger which was whose time of revolution have been as-
the tornado reported that many of the about to come upon them. An instant certained, for it is only three years and
fences which were prostrated by the afterwards came another subterraneous a quarter in completing its course. It
storm had been replaced by the aid of rambling, and then began tbe cata- performs its revolution within the boons
the neighboring farmers. Several bun- strophe. The earth swung back and daries of the solar system, its perihelion
dred dollars have been collected for the J forth from the northeast to the south- being between the sun and Mercury, and
sufferers, and measures have been taken east, rapidly succeeded by oscillations its perihelion between Jupiter and the
to judiciously distribute the relief. A from the east to west; it seemed, so to Asteroids
Rehef Committee of fifteen was appoint- speak, that the earth had been wounded Encte . a comet , insignificant as it is,
ed, with Capt John E. Benton as Chair- by some electric shock. A frightful has been of use to astronomers. When
man. A resolution was passed asking whirlwind Showed, after which all was L t its nearest approach to Jupiter the
the assistance of the City Councils of An- confusion Even the nver itself seemed mass of the hng e planet was not more ac-
gusta, Atlanta and other cities in the to be frightened, dashing from side to cnrately dete mined by means of its “cx-
otato. A resolution was also adopted side, its current being lost, 1 - - -
thanking Messrs. Howard & Sons for I happened to be in the edge of the
the supplies forwarded by them. Capt. town and proceeded toward my home,
Jno. T. Stovall was much more serious- but the rapid movement of the earth
ly hurt than was at first imagined, and threw me down twice, and a moment I £Therefore there will be a warm
is not expected to live through the afterward I was immovably fixed by a I wokome for this erratic member of the
cessive perturbation.” In the same way
when it was nearest Mercury, it was the
means of detecting an error in the com-
| putation of the mass of that fiery little
agree. The subject was then opened for
general discussion, and at 12 o’clock tbe
caucus adjourned until after the session
of the Senate. At the caucus this even
ing the subject was resumed. Resolu
tions were submitted by various Sena
tors, 14 in all, but it was discovered that
only one of them could command any
thing like the unanimous support of the
Republican Senators; that one was pre
pared by Mr. Conkling, and simply gives
the approval of the Senate to the Presi
dent for preserving the peace in Louisi
ana, preventing disorders, and sustaining
Mr. Kellogg. It was carefully drawn, so
as not to commit any Senator who may
vote for it to admitting the legality of
the Kellogg Government, or the validity
of the acts by which it was set up. This
resolution, it was discovered by a careful
canvass, although no formal vote was
taken upon it, would receive the support
of all but three of the Republican Sena
tors.
A great portion of tbe time was spent
in discussing the expediency of attempt
ing to pass any resolution at all, and on
this question the caucus was about even
ly divided. The Democrats in the Sen
ate have agreed to remain here and de
bate any resolution of this kind fully,
and not to pair on this subject with any
Republicans who may go away. As sev
en or eight Republican Senators have al
ready left town, and others are intending
to go in a day or two, it would not be
strange, should the Republicans decide
to remain until a vote on this subject was
reached, if the opposition had a majority
in the end.
A strong Republican element in the
Senate, which was in fayor of Mr. Pinch-
back’s admission, is opposed to attempt
ing to get the President out of his trouble
by passing any resolution. They say
that the President’s influence, so far as it
has been exerted this Winter, has been
against Mr. Pinchback, while nothing
can be more certain than that Messrs.
Pinchback and Kellogg and the Presi
dent's Louisiana policy must stand or
fall together. If Mr. Pinchback is not
entitled to take his seat in tho Senate,
they say, then Mr. Kellogg is not the
lawful Governor of the State, and the Pres
ident’s Louisiana policy is indefensible.
It won't do they say, for tho President
to opposo Mr. Pinchback, or even to be
indifferent to his claims, if the President
expects Mr. Kellogg and his own policy
to be sustained; and they would prefer
that matters should remain in statu quo
until next December, hoping that by that
time Gen. Grant will realizo these facts,
and be ready to give Mr. Pinchback such
backing as will secure liis admission to
the Senate. Opinion among Republican
Senators is very evenly divided to night
on the question whether this subject will
be dropped and an adjournment take
place to morrow or Monday, or whether
it will bo taken up and the session pro
longed a month.
[GENERAL PRESS DISPATCH.]
Finally the caucus agreed, with but
two or three dissentients, to a resolution
substantially the same as one proposed
by Senator Frelinghnyson, but different
in phraseology, approving the action of
the President in Louisiana affairs, and
expressing the opinion that he should
continue to sustain tho Kellogg govern
ment. The question to be determined at
tho adjourned caucus to-morrow is
whether the Republican Senators will re
main in session until tho resolution can
be acted on by the Senate.
Paris Correspondence Philadelphia Press.
A Blighted Komance-
“Let me mention a little incident which
created much merriment in a certain set
here lately. It appears that there is a
pretty little creature who has bestowed
upon herself the cognomen of Diane de
Bagatelle, with whom a well known young
viscount is madly in love. Mile. Diane is
a very romantic young lady, with a taste
for the plays and novels of the younger
Dumas, and especially for the Dame aux
Camelias. So she was not surprised when
one day the card of the Count de X ,
the father of the viscount in question, was
handed to her, and an elegant, elderly
gentleman, faultlessly dressed, and with
the red ribbon of the Legion of Honor
at his buttonhole, was ushered into her
boudoir.
“ ‘My son loves Mademoiselle,’ began
the count, without further preface.
“ ‘I know it," sighed Diane.
“ ‘He has
“ ‘A sister ?” exclaimed the lady, re
membering the interview between Mar
guerite Gauiter and the elder Duvall.
“ ‘No, not a sister, but a cousin -his
cousin Blanche, to whom he has been
betrothed for years. She pines and weeps,
and you Mademoiselle, you and your fa
tal charms are the cause.’
“ ‘Alas!' sighed Diane, feeling herself
Doche and Blanche Pierson rolled into
one and in real earnest.
“ ‘Your sensibility does you honor.
Will you break with my son at once and
forever? And if two hundred thousand
francs .’
“ “Two hundred thousand francs ?’
“ ‘I will draw you a check at once.’
*“ ‘Sir,’ exclaimed the lady, ‘you have
not made appeal to a callous heart. I
will make the sacrifice; I will give up
Henri. You said, I think, two hundred
thousand?’
“ ‘I did. Blessings on you, my child!”
exclaimed the count, fervently. ‘Write
the letter I Bhall dictate, and the checks
shall be yours.’
“So down Diane sat and penned the
following epistle:
“ “Dear Henri ! I love you no more.
In fact I never hare lcved you. I love
another. Farewell forever. Dianh.
“The count took the letter, inspected
it carefully, and placed it in his pocket-
book, from which he then drew a check
for the amount named, which he placed
in the lady’s eager hands.
“ ‘Allow me, my child, to raise to my
lips tlio g<«tle hand that has jnst saved
my son !’ A kiss and a tear fell on the
dainty hand together; it was then released
and the aged nobleman departed. He
had not been long gone when Milo. Diane
discovered that her diamond ring, which
was valued at 10,000 francs, had disap
peared from her finger, and farther in
vestigations proved that her silverware
and other articles of value had also van
isbed. The pretended count was no
other than a swindler of the very worst
typo. The worst of the affair was that
the scamp actually mailed the letter of
Mile. Diane to the viscount, so that the
lady found herself minus an adorer as
well as her valuables.”
ciated till mankind has studied into it for
a hundred years or so.—Telegraph <&
Messenger.
From the Xew York Weekly.
Factions in the Republican Forty.
The Democratic party lost tho control
of tbe general Government in 1861 in
consequence of the breaking-out of dis**
putes in its own ranks. When united it
was irresistible : but when it divided in
to two great factions, led respectively in
the political canvass of 1860 by Vice
President Breckinridge and 9 Senator
Douglas, its defeat and subsequent long
eclipse were decreed. There may be dis
cerned in the immediate future of the
Republican party the outlines of a simi
lar great division. Now, as fifteen years
ago, the Southern question is the bone
of contention.
The most astute observers who have
been sojourning in Washington are now
unanimously agreed that General Grant
is determined upon becoming the regu
lar Republican candidate for the Presi
dency in 1876. In a remarkable letter
written from the Federal Capital by the
editor of The Springfield Republican to
that paper, it is declared that, with the
exception of Senator Jones of Nevada
and one or two others, tho members of
the late Congress are of the opinion that
the recent policy of tho President was
dictated by a matured plan to accom
plish his re-election for a third term. His
coquetting with the Southern Conserva
tives last year, his sudden change of front
and affiliation with tho carpet-baggers,
his course toward Louisiana, his advo
cacy of the overthrow of tho legal gov
ernment of Arkansas and of tho passage
of the bill allowing him to govern the
States with bayonets and suspend the
writ of habeas corpus at will, have no
reasonable explanation except upon tho
hypothesis that he wants to stay just
where he is after March 4, 1877. His
A Care fill Judge*
terrible noise occasioned by the falling °f 1 system on its next approach to tho earth,
the houses and the doleful screams of jjr
we cannot follow its course among
nearly all the inhabitants. A cloud of yrith the unaided eye, we shall
dust covered the whole town and the air be g] ac j trace its steps under the
was suffocating, . - guidance of those practical observers
I ran with precipitate haste toward -he wbo are ever on the watch to imprison
spot where my house stood, meeting in these flying visitants within telescopic
the way a number of men and women, and always ready to enlighten
in,!™ Prwm nf Disfrirt i many of them but partially dressed, wild- the world with the result of their scien-
Juage Green, of the second District, j y gesticulating, alternately calling upon yii
\\ ashington Territory, may fairly claim Qod to have mercy upon them and mak-
to be considered the most cautious occu- xlbq of certain superstitious orations. .
pant of the bench extant. A case recent- j jjy heart almost ratA within me as I York Press on Andy Johnson s
ly came before him in which an Indian rushed forward in the hope of seeing my Speech.
™ th e murder mother family, for, to add to the horror of the New York, March, 23.—Tho Tribune
defendant’s Se hadbfenveiTU] L iTj 1 many persons ten- L ay6 Senator Johnson's speech wifi hard
the medicine man had bewitched her * v P u Arming at gameat m the Louisiana case compares
the medicine man nad bewitcnea ner. | t he spot where my house wa3 I found | , 1T1 f ft vnr«hlxr with tw of th« oti, c ,. c
The husband went to tho medicine man
and requested tho release of his wife
from the spell which was killing her.
The demand was refused by the reputed
wizzard, who further said that the woman
was in his power and would die the next
day. Upon thi6 the husband very natur
ally killed him. The defence took the
ground that a belief in witchcraft waa
sanctioned by the Bible, and was common
all the world over. The Judge, in charg
ing the jury, observed that he did not
feel at liberty to assume that there was
no such thing as witchcraft; that he
would not take upon himself to deny ^he
possibility of the enchantment of the
sick woman; and that as the defendant
believed it to be his duty to save his wife
by killing the medicine man, it was pro
per for the jury to find a verdict of not
guilty. Which they accordingly did, to
the confusion of all future medicine men.
It is a funny case.
Thus in Adairsville: A countryman
recently stepped into a dry goods store
;n the village when the following colloquy
ensued:
Young merchant—“What will you have
sir?”
Countryman—“Nothin’, I believe, to
day.
Young merchant—“We don’t keep that
article, sir.”
The countryman, looking carelessly
around, said—
I grannies, you come as near it as the
next one/
the spot where my house wa3 i lound | unfavorably with that of tho others,
but a heap of rubbish. I called lustily, Johnson’s views on the third term and
so as to ascertain, if possible, if there was reflections on Grant and Sheridan will
any one alive beneath, but received no attract attention.
response. I then ran off to another part The Times says the speech was nomi-
of the town, and there discovered that nally on Grant’s course regarding Louis-,
my family, fortunately, were away visi-> j ana , but really on the course and achieve-
ting at the time the honse fell, and were ments of Andrew Johnson—the same un-
thus saved from destruction. After some ending stream of disjointed boasting,
hours had been lost the work of search- occasional shrewd and blunt points
ing for friends and relatives known to I against his enemies,
be beneath the rains was commenced; but The Herald thinks the speech will
it is impossible at this time to state ex- make a profound impression by reason of
actly how many perished, partly because ds earnestness and courage. Virtually
a great many people took to their heels speech is an impeachment of Gen.
and ran into the forest, and partly be- Grant
cause the darkness prevents a perfect The World says the speech will secure
search for the bodies. So far in a few hours, attention to the political situation,
thirty-seven bodies have been dragged
0T It i B reported from Ahuacatlan that a I Courtship.—In courtship the men are
little while before the earthquake was supposed to be in the active and women in
felt the volcano of Ceboruco was covered the passive voice. Exceptions are recog-
with reddish clouds, and that continued nized as occasionally taking place: but
subterranean noises were heard. the world notes not a vast multitude of
At ton o’clock at night there was a cases in which the lady, though not ap-
shower of sand, which lasted for more parently, is the actual originator of affairs
five minutes. which end in matrimony. By means
At fifteen minutes past eight o’clock which trench not in the least on delicacy
yesterday morning the volcano of Cebo
raco was observed to be throwing out
fire with great activity.
Mr. Thomas A. Swearingen, late Re*
publican member of the Legislature from
Decatur county, died suddenly of heart
disease, a few days ago, at his residence
in Atlanta, where he had resided (he past
itfttjrfrar y«r>
—by a mere manner, susceptible on chal
lenge of a different interpretation—she
can dispose the soft heart of man to the
reception of an interest in her which he
will believe to be of his own originating.
It is strange how literature has almost
overlooked this fact in our social life, con
sidering that it affords such excellent op
portunities for nice delineation of feel
ing.
Washington, March 23.
In the Senate, Mr. Jones, of Florida,
spoko against tho .Louisiana resolu
tions.
Mr. Anthony, who reported the amen
ded caucus resolution, gave notice that
the Senate would remain in session till a
conclusion was reached.
Several amendments of explanation
and mollification were voted down, and
the resolution passed by 33 to 24.
Mr. Booth, of California, was the only
Republican who voted nay. Hamilton,
of Texas, did not vote.
From tha New York Tribune.
Washington, March 19.—Tho greater
part of the Executive session of the Sen
ate to*-day was spent in the discussion of
the nomination of Don Pardee to bo Dis
trict Judge for Louisiana, and no vote
was reached before adjournment. The
President sent Mr. Pardee’s name to the
Senate for this place last session, and
Senator West caused action upon it to be
postponed. After the Senate met in called
session, the nomination was again made
and in spite of Mr. West’s opposition,
the Judiciary Committee havo made a
favorable report. Mr. Pardee has the
unanimous support of the Democrats, of
Messrs. Casey and Packard, and of Gen.
Phil. Sheridan, and will receive the votes
of a number of the Republican Senators,
headed by Mr. Sherman.
Mr. West made a long speech against
his confirmation this afternoon. He
said that he (Mr. West) had not a single
appointment in the State, and called up
on any Senator who knew of a friend of
his in oflice to name him. He denounced
the appointment as one not fit to be
made, and said that it had been brought
about by the influence of tho corrupt ring
in the politics of Louisiana, headed by
Messrs. Casey and Packard. He also at
tacked Mr. Pardee’s personal character,
and accused him of dishonesty in receiv
ing a check for services as a lobbyist, and
asserted that he had been court-martialed
when in tho service, but that the records
of the court could not be foumd.
The friends of Mr. Pardee deny or
attempt to explain away all of Mr. West’s
accusations. Mr. Pardee first went to
Louisiana as an officer in the military
service. Ho was Major of the regiment
of which Gen. Garfield was Colonel and
ex-Congressman L. A. Sheldon was Lieu
tenant-Colonel. When Gen. Garfield was
promoted and Lieut.-Col. Sheldon suc
ceeded to the command of tho regiment,
Mr. Pardee was also advanced one grade.
He is said to have been a good officer,
and as Judge of one of the State Courts
of Louisiana has made a good record.
The indications when the Senate adjour
ned to-day were that the vote would be
very close. Several Republican Senators
have left Washington or will do so to
night, though some of them are pared on
the question of Mr, Pardee’s confirma
tion. Among those who have gone are
Messrs. Cameron, Dawes, Alcorn, Clay
ton, Hamlin, Wright, and Wadleigh. It
is very doubtful if the Senate will be rea
dy to adjourn to-morrow.
Ex Senator Benjamin Wade, it is said*
will probably be the Republican candi
date for Governor in Ohip.
A Committee of the Whole on the Re
pnbliean Party,
President Grant was waited on at the
Executive mansion, last Mondy night, by
about three thousand men, princpally
black, in solid colum afld mixed colors,
“keeping step to the music of the Union’
—that is to say, the “Laborers” Union
—which music was in this case “Hail to
the Chief.” This piebald and excited
crowd was made up of the victims of Rad
ical reconstruction in Washington—las
borers on the public works, each claiming
a balance of wages due and unpaid by
Boss Shepherd and his contractors, and
each clamorous for settlement and liqui
dation.
When the crowd reached the royal pal
ace they found a strong^party of police
with drawn clubs, ready to receive them
with all the honors. The President was
formally notified of tbe arrival of the
deputation, and their anxiety to plead
their grievances before him. but General
Grant, who was playing cribbage with a
young lady at the time, returned answer
that he must be excused from the inter*>
view.
When this message was received the
band suddenly ceased playing “Hail to
the Chief,” and struck up “Go to the Dev
il and shake yourself.” Groans and mal
edictions rent the still night air and the
deputation retired in fury, to Judiciary
Square, where they cursed the President
till after midnight. There was consider
able apprehension in Washington that
the excitement would end in mob vio
lence; but the crowd were too dry and
empty for anything worse than noise.
The fact is, “the wards of the nation”
now in Washington may as well under
stand that Boss Shepherd and their other
guardians are “out of soap.” They have
stolen all they can from the white tax
payers, and distributed as much of the
plunder among the wards as they mean to
part with. The “wards,” therefore, had
better take to the fields again and resume
the long forgotten hoe.
As a compound, double-acting machine
for general and universal plunder, was
ever anything seen equal to the party of
high moral ideas ? The genius of that
great party has fairly expended itself
upon this single grand conception, and
the only trouble in the ranks now is that
the machine was too rapid and exhaust
ive in its operations. It worked up the
raw material too rapidly. Beginning on
the Southern States and Southern people
and stripping them of their last shilling,
and all they could be forced to borrow, it
has next sot to work upon the negroes.
It cleaned them out of their dime savings
to the gross amount of over three millions
in the course of a few months, and now
it appears, has worked up the last bal
ance due the colored laborers in the Dis*
trict.
It would have been better if this ter
rible machine had been less summary
and sweeping in its execution—if it had
left something for steady and permanent
work. But it is all gone, and the dismal
report comes back no more pay—no
assets in hand—not a dime for even the
depositors and laborers, although their
civil rights are so fully guaranteed by
“de bill.”
That’s the whole philosophy of this so-
called “Democratic tidal wave.” Some
writers speculate about this wonderful
political revolution in favor of rebels, but
the reason is very plain—“regarded in this
light.” So long as the machine could
work on the rebels and scatter a little of
the surplus stealing among the “loyal
masses,” everything went on swimmingly.
But the rebels were soon worked up by
the terrible machine, and then nothing was
left but to apply it to the “loyal masses,”
whose minds naturally revolted at the
programme.
For this machine, we repeat, in its all
stealing capacity goes beyond the high
est flights of the human imagination not
inspired by loyalty and high morals to the
most exalted pitch of enthusiasm. It
seems to us that all the Democrats and
honest men in the world, if they had tried
a century, could never have invented a
plan to rob the enfranchised slaves out of
all their hard earnings for ten years,
without expense or trouble, bat tins the
Radical party did as easily as they could
pass an “enfostment act,” or issue a bogus
bond. Tbe genius of that party for
conduct can bear no other construction.
Let this be coupled with his persistent
refusal to write and publish a few linos
saying that he is not a candidate for re-
election, and the case becomes as clear as
daylight.
It being settled then that the Presi
dent is resolved to seek a re-election,
the question naturally arises among Re*
publicans—what are his prospects of ob
taining the regular Republican nomina
tion? It will bo seen by looking over
the field that he can easily obtain that
nomination if he desires it. His strength
lies in the fact that ho is the last hope
and refuge of the carpet-baggers and
scalawags of the South, and that ha has
complete control over the Federal office
holders in the North. The Republican
party in tho South is composed wholly
of negroes, led in each State by a few
white men, who hold the offices. These
white men—carpet-baggers and scala-
wags—are for Grant to a man. They
livo, move and have their official being
on him, and he is pledged to them in re
turn. They manipulate party caucuses
and conventions, and will have no diffi*.
culty in controlling the choice of dele
gates to the next Republican National
Convention. The negroes are very gen-
erally admirers of Grant, as ho is in their
eyes the impersonation of Power, and
no opposition to his pretensions, there
fore, need be expected from that quarter,
Thus it is placed beyond peradventure
that Grant can have the vote of the
Southern States in the Republican Na
tional Convention. The voting is done
by States, each State having as many
ballots as it has ballots in the electoral
colleges. The whole number of elector
al votes is 366; necessary to a choice,
184. Of these the sixteen Southern
States (including Missouri) have 138
votes. Only forty-six more are needed
to give General Grant a majority of the
convention. He can depend upon the
faithful office-holders in the North to
furnish them. The Custom House gang,
which manipulates and controls the pri
maries in this State, will readily con
tribute thirty-five votes. Conkling will
see to that. Ohio or one of the North
western States can be made to produce
the remainder. It appears absolutely
certain that Grant will be the candidate
of the next Republican National Con
vention for President if he desires the
nomination, and we are assured from
Washington that he does desire it.
Notwithstanding his control of the
party, however, the President is opposed
by a powerful faction in the party. This
faction is animated by various purposes.
One of them is that it prefers some other
man than Grant, for the regular Repub
lican nomination. Another is that it
honestly believes that force laws and
Federal interference with elections are
subversive of American institutions. For
these reasons, with others less import
tant, it opposes and will oppose the re-
election of Ulyssee S. Grant. This fac
tion developed itself in the closing hours
of the late Congress. It numbers in its
ranks the ablest and most respected lead
ing men in the party in the Lower
House. Mr. Blaine is perhaps its most
conspicuous member, and it is well
known that he is a candidate for the ro-
nomination which General Grant will
get. General Garfield, Mr. Foster of
Ohio, Judge Hoar, General Hawley, Mr.
Ellis H. Roberts of New York, Mr.
Pierce of Massachusetts, Judge Poland
and Mr. Willard of Vermont, Mr. Will
ard of Michigan in the House, and Mr.
Alcorn, Mr. Morrill and Mr. Hamlin of
Maine, Mr. Morrill of Vermont, Mr.
Robertson of South Carolina and Mr.
Ferry of Connecticut, in the Senate are
the representative men of this faction.
They are not yet in open opposition to
the President, but it is known that they
are indignant at his ambitious aspira
tions and the means that he proposes to
use in obtaining his ends. They will,
in the course of this year, drift into a
compact organization against his re-nomi
nation, and some of them, at least, will
abandon the party when he succeeds in
carrying the National Convention. Grow
ing out of Grant's resolution to attempt
his own re-election, therefore, and the
policy of force and violence which he and
his partisans will employ toward the
South, there will be a division, wo be
lieve, of the Republican party in the
next Presidential campaign. We enter
tain no doubt of the ability of the Demo
cracy to beat the Republicans, if they
were harmonious and combined, even
upon so respectable a person as cx-Speak-
er Blaine; but the inevitable split in the
ranks of their opponents will give the
Democracy possession of the General
Government for as many years, at least,
as tha Republicans have had it conse
quent upon the Democratic split in
1860.
The new religionists, known as “Ex
ternalists,” are gaining strength in Ohio.
They hold that the soul is immortal, and
that it occupies a succession of bodies on
earth, both of men and animals, and when
disembodied by death it hovers in the air
until, by some snbtla process of material
ization, it forms or miters a new infantile
body, the character of that body, wheth
er of hog, dog or man, dopencting on the
manner of life which .the deceased per
son from whom the soul came has lecL
An English physician, during a lec
ture to a female audience on the use of
alcoholic beverages, asserted that the
“babies of London are never sober frost
stealing perer villjw onflicientiy apprfr theix birth until are vcnwI’’’