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Affairs In Georgia.
An Augusta man suggests that corns and
bunions are only an effort on the part of na
ture to suppress tramps. Give us another
bunion.
When Kimball sues Sawyer for libel we
propose to issue three editions of the Mous
ing News a day.
The mother of the Gracchi lives in Dodge
county. When the old man eats too much
supper she compels him to sleep ou the
fence.
Colonel William Moore, of the Atlanta
Herald, sleeps in Atlanta and takes his
meals in Marietta. There is & discrepancy
here somewhere.
There is one Augusta man who doesn’t
believe in the practical benefits of the canal.
The bank gave way with him the other day,
and he involuntarily waded in with his
clothes on. He now states that even the
Suez Canal is a failure. We trust he won’!
make any crusade against canals until Col.
Frobel finishes digging the Atlantic and
Great Western.
The Atlanta Constitution perpetuates the
absurd calculation of Commissioner Janes
that there were only forty-three gin-houses
burned last season. However, it’s none of
our business.
Jackson county comes forward with seven'
teen ears of corn covered by tho same
shuck.
According to the Democrat they arrest ne
groes in Decatur county simply for picking
cotton—out of a gin-house.
Berrien county comes forward with a
double gourd—one at each end of a common
handle.
Monroe county can grow pecans.
Our special correspondence from OkefP'
nokee swamp, printed elsewhere, will be
found exceedingly interesting.
The Columbus Enquirer says that the fire
in Lumpkin was the act of an incendiary,
information has been received in that city
to the effect that two negroes had been
caught in the woods near Lumpkin, in the
very act of dividing the plunder and goods
taken from Stokes & Kimbrough’s store.
They confessed to the robbery, and said
they fired the store to cover up the theft.
They were taken to jail. It is said their
confessions implicates a white man in the
neighborhood, but as yet the white is not
in arrest.
Quito a number of citizens of Morgan
county have contributed to aid in replen
ishing the cemeteries of Texas. Such pa
triotism as this cannot go long unrewarded.
It now appears that Joe Brown was the
cause of the recent ridiculous proceedings
an the State University in regard to the
board of students. This is not the first
time that Joe has created confusion in Geor
gia, as witness his inoperative, bat seduc
tive, relief clause in the Constitution of the
State. Joey will be & great man yet, if he
keeps on—and he is certain to keep on.
A Griffin lady with a crippled husband
pitched into a wretch who insulted her, and
came near undressing him.
Col. It. H. Hardaway, of Thomas county,
writes : “It gives me pleasure to promptly
auswer your question as to tho cost per
pound to raise cotton. I give yon the cost
for seven vears, to-wit: 18GG, 14:50; 18G7,
12:50 : 1868, 12:25; 1869. 10:90 ; 1870, 8:60 ;
1871, 13:61; 1872, 10:77. The average is
11:38. This includes interest on value of
land, repairs, interest on team, taxes, fertil
izers. labor of cultivating, picking and pack
ing, but nothing added for personal super
vision. The latter would be hard to esti
mate. This rear’s crop has not been mar
keted, but will not exceed ten cents. I keep
a record of my crop annually, and it simply
required the copying, as the calcnlation was
already made and entered on my memoran
dum book.”
J. W. Small, in Atlanta Constitution: An
old darkey of the ante helium, type was found
prowling around in among the offices of one
of the railroads ending in Atlanta. “Whar
is de boss of de railroad cars, young mas
ter?” bo anxiously queried. We directed
him to the office of the distinguished Presi
dent of the road and he entered it, bowing
and grinning in a very imposing wav.
•“Well, old man?” said the President. “Yes,
sah : Ef yer could spare time ter talk ter
an ole nigger a few minits, sab ?” “Oh, yes;
what is it ?” “Well, yer see, Boss, I isD’t a
much larned nigger and libs in de country,
au’ de gemm&n down stairs said he’d sell
me a first-class ticket in de secon’-olass kyar,
an’ a secon’-claes ticket was de same fur a
fus’-claBs far’ an’ called fur de secon’-class
kyar, and ’fore de good Lord, Boss, I’m
mightily mixed, an’ a nigger’s purty lierbel
ter get him neck bruk ’bout dis fus’-class
secon’ syar bizness ef he don’t git it jis
right, so*I come up to you what am de giu-
eral boss an’ kin splane how it is, sab, ef yer
please!” It was quickly and clearly ex-
t lained, and the old man left in a serene and
appy frame of mind.
Atlanta Herald.: A reporter of the Herald
met a gentleman yesterday who had just
had a long talk with Foster Blodgett, over
in poor Carolina. He is inclined to the be
lief that what the Herald said in regard to
Blodgett’s return to Georgia is true. Ho
thinks, as we do, that Blodgett is likely to
turn up in Atlanta on any of these fine
mornings. We are willing’to stand on the
assertion that Blodgett will be in Georgia in
leas than sixty days, either upon his own
accord or upon a demaud from the Gover
nor. Blodgett says that he has about con
cluded not to publish his book, descriptive
of the scenes in the Bullock regime, as he
does not think that it would soli outside of
Georgia, and besides wo think that he can
make more money by not publishing, than
he could by publishing it. He is very much
discouraged by the political outlook. He
•ays that the Radicals will probably carry
South Carolina next year, under press of the
Radical canvass, but thinks this will be the
last time the State will ever go with the Re
publican party. We pray that his prophe
cy may prove a trne one.
David Dickson, of Hancock county : You
ask me what it costs mo to make cotton.
At one time I could have told you its cost
per pound; but what it costs to make it now
depends on so many contingencies it cannot
be estimated beforehand. I have sixty or
seventy tenants, and it costs no two the
same to make cotton. It depends on the
price of labor and its efficiency, direction of
the aun and rain, time and quantity, worms,
caterpillars, storms, frosts, and land as well
as many other things. Crops vary from one
bale to eight bales per hand. Then* is one
thing certain, when cotton is below 16 cents
the tenant and landlord, in four cases out of
five, lose money. For example, two hands
on an average in Georgia, without manure,
will make about 3 bales each, making G
bales; planting 12 acres each in cotton,
making 24 acres; 6 acres each in corn, mak
ing 12 acres; that is, per each mole, 36
acres. Yon may say this is low average, but
it is high enough as Georgia now is.
Six bales cotton, 2,400 pounds at 16
cents $384 00
Six bushels corn per acre on 12
acres at $1 per bushel 72 00
Fodder 7 20
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1875.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
463 20
Loss rent of land 115 80
347 40
One mole and feed $175 00
Tools, machinery and
horses 20 00
Hire of two hands 240 0C
Lae of house, board and
wood 120 00
555 00
Los* 207 60
You mav sav my estimate is too low.
Then add 'to the product 331-3 per cent.,
making $463 20, still a loss of $91 80. Add
on 50 per cent., making four and one-half
bales per band and nine bushels of com,
and amounting to $521 10, still a loss of
$33 90. Who will say a hand will make four
and a half bales of cotton without mannre,an a
fifty-four bnahels of corn, which is in the
last estimate ? I can see very plainly what
causes so much loss and hard times. The
planter furnishes everything—bouses, gar
dens, patches, and the best wood on his
place, free of charge. The true plau is to
pay for all you get, and get pay for all yon
let go. The planter famishes house, wood,
fruit, garden and patches, for three per
sons, to get poor labor out of one—out of
proper time, poor in quality, etc.
Atlanta Constitution: We learn from a
gentleman who passed through Douglass-
villo on Wednesday, that -James Clinton had
been committed for the murder Of James
Seal. The evidence was very strong against
him, and the current opinion was that Clin
ton would turn State’s evidence against his
two accomplices, who were to have a pre
liminary examination yesterday. The body
of the murdered man was exhumed, a post
mortem held to find the ball, but with what
result, our informant did not know. Strange
rumors are afloat concerning the probable
connection of the accused with the killing of
a man named Hicks near Dallas some five
vears ago. Hicks’ honse was tired, and as
he ran out of the house he was shot and
killed by parties in ambush. It is thought
that Clinton’s evidence will disclose the
perpetrators of this deed.
Thus the Griffin News: Friday, as the
S. G. A N. A. train rolled up to the depot
the conductor, Davie Croft, lit off and
shouted “Griffin ! change cars for Atlanty!”
A pompons, fat individual, who had been
enjoying a comfortable snooze, was awak
ened suddenly by the conductor’s shrill pip
ing, and raising tho window gazed in aston
ishment at Dave’s meagre make up. Be
coming satisfied at last that he was in the
flesh, he withdrew his cranium inside and
nibbing his own portliness where it is most
convenient to rub, he soliloquized thusly:
“Well, that fellow makes more noise than
a hand calliope. I had no idea that he had
enough breath in him to make a damp spot
on a ten cent looking glass.”
Columbus Enquirer: Tho homestead laws
of Georgia give heads of families $1,000
personalty and $2,000 real estate in gold. An
endeavor was made at the last session to re
duce this amount, but it failed. The Legis
lature granted such estates to be encum
bered and sold with the consent of the par- nroHnfirons rendition
ties and when sanctioned by the Ordinary. ^ ^ l 1
The Supreme Court has decided this cannot
be done. A number of these homesteads
have been disposed of, and some inquiry
has been made regarding them at the Ordi
nary’s office. The lawyers generally are of
the opinion no fortunes are to be made in
this business. Very few are able to pay
counsel very heavy fees, and if yon go halves
and recover land, it hardly pays the taxes.
Such cases do not appear to be sought after
with the greatest avidity.
Florida Affairs.
The Jacksonville Union alludes to the
Morning News as a “kettle.” We accept
the insinnatlon, so to speak—and there is
just about enough hot water in the afore
said kettle to scald the hair off of the back
of every dog of a Radical in Florida. Fat
some more wood under ns, please.
Now the question arises, where did Ilioks
get a copy of Conover’s letter to Dyke ? The
next interrogatory is, who will sit up with
Conover ? It is most melancholy.
Monticello is to have some more new
stores.
In the name of all that is curious, where
is Purman? Hasn’t he got his contemplated
band wagon hitched upyot?
Magbee doesn’t discourse on Republican
ism pow-a-days. Mag. has evidently sworn
off.
Ten thousand indigenous citizens of
Florida are engaged in evaporating syrup in
order to arrive at the saccharine deposit
known as sugar.
The Ocala Banner says that corruption is
like a ball of snow. We didn’t think snow
was as bad as that.
Jacksonville denies that gambling dens in
that city arc in full blast. 'There are no
blasts at all. They work as qnietly there as
elsewhere.
The Mayor of Key West presides with a
cigar in his month. Well, you wouldn’t
want a man to pull off bis socks for polite
ness’s sake, would you ?
Big Moccasin, a Cheyenne Indian, died in
St. Augustine on the 4th.
Key West is to have a new Episcopal
Church.
A brace of Brazilians have landed iu
Orange county.
Orange county wants to “culture” the in
digo.
A jolly young man in Jacksonville has
been arrested on a charge of robbing *his
employer.
Captain Thomas William Brent, of Pensa
cola, is dead.
We learn from our traveling correspond
ent that P. L. Decourcey, sheriff of Leon
county, Florida, died at Tallahassee, the
county seat, on Friday morning, after a brief
illness, of pneumonia. He was a mulatto,
but had so conducted himself, officially and
otherwise, as to secure the respect of the
entire community, without regard to party
lines, and his sadden death is regretted by
all classes. There is no end to white and
colored applicants for the vacancy, and it is
not yet known who Stearns will appoint.
Greenwood, in Jackson oounty, has shipped
four hundred bales of cotton this season.
A reporter of the Jacksonville Press has
received the first shad caught this season in
the United States. It was presented on the
11th by Messrs. S. H. Melton & Co., the en
terprising fish dealers of that city.
The Union says that a very neat and
chasto marbleized tombalono has been
ordered by Samuel Spearing, colored, to be
placed over the grave of bis old master,
Elisha Green, who died a few weeks ago, in
Baker county.
Tampa has two large pecan trees, both
bearing fruit.
Jacksonville is to have a new hotel on the
shell road.
The Sentinel has heard another version of
the Wakulla county murder. It is said
that since the indictment of Walker he has
made a confession to this effect: He says
that on tb e night of the murder Joe Allen
came to hi s honse about 8 o'clock, and asked
him to go coon hunting with him. Allen
had bis gun with him. He consented, aDd
when a short distance from his honse, Allln
said to him, “you know the difficulty be
tween me and Jackson ? Well, I am going
to kill him right now. Here is ten dollars
if yon go along with me, and if yon don’t I
will kill you right on tho spot.” Walker
was terrified, and went along; and he says
that Allen pnt his gun through the
opening in the wall of Jackson’s honse
and shot him. He says further that Allen
had his feet wrapped in moss to conceal
his tracks. While in prison, before the
meeting of the grand jury, Allen and he
were in the samo cell, and Allen told him if
he were called before the grand jury to
swear that he knew nothing about it. He
did so, being, as he says, terrified by the
threats of Allen. Seeing that Allen has
escaped and that he is held, he now makes
a confession of the whole matter. He says *
that he could have no'possible motive for
the murder of Jackson, for they were good
friends ; but that Alien and the deceased
were enemies, and that Allen had attempted
to take his life before. In defense of Allen
it is said that on the night of the murder he
had a sick child, and he can prove by parties
who were with him that he was not out of
the honse daring that night. Thus the
matter stands.
Marianna Courier: The shooting of Mc-
Whorley, a colored man, of which men
tion was made in our last issne, and
in which was stated that the party
parties and cause was unknown
—since the shooting we have been informed
that on the night of the shooting, one Jack
Clark, a colored man, a notorious villian and
thief, was undoubtedly the party who did
the shooting, and F. Me Keel,another colored
man, a teacher of one of the public schools
of this county, was arrested and tried
before ’Squire Harvey, at Greenwood,
accessory — furnishing Clark with
the necessary ammunition to commit
the act. The evidence was insufficient,
however, to warrant a committal, and
McKeel was released. Olark bad already
left for parts unknown. The reported cause
of the snooting is, that Whorley and Mc
Keel are aspirants for candidacy to the Leg
islature. Some time since Whorley, by let
ter to Rev. George Martin, denounced
McKeel as a bummer and instrumental iu
the defeat of a Republican in Alabama. If
the above statements be true, politics was
undoubtedly the cause of the shooting ; but
whether McKeel was accessory, we are un
able to express an opinion with the informa
tion at hand.
South Carolina Affairs.
The annual meeting of the So nth Carolina
Conference M. E. Church South, will begin
in Orangeburg on Wednesday, 15th of De
cember. Bishop Keene*-, of New Orleans,
will preside over the Conference, and more
than two hundred delegates are expected to
be pfesent.
Bivingsville wants to be incorporated.
The Anderson merchants will not buy cot
ton from any one after 8 o’clock at night.
The True Southron has reduced its price
to $2 per annum.
Messrs. R. C. McLeod, Maxcy Farmer,
Timmey and James Rogers and Frank Mc-
L&uchlin, all from Darlington county, left
with their families for Georgetown, Texas.
We thought the Texas fever had abated.
Mr. Andrew M. Wicker, of Newberry, died
on the Gth inBt.
On Saturday night last an attempt was
made by an incendiary to barn the dwelling
house of Mr. W. A. Mixon, who resides
about four miles from Tirnmonsville.
The town council of Union has purchased
new ootton scales.
Mr. E. E. Mason, of Pickens county, for
merly of Atlanta, is engaged in building a
mill on Pacolette river for Rev. T. J. Earle.
Wally Green is about establishing a hack
line from Beaufort to Port Royal.
Two small negro boys on the plantation
of Mr. J. B. Mobley, near Pleasant Hijl, got
into a difficulty on Sunday morning last,
when one of them cut the other quite
severely.
Another foundry is going up in Spartan
burg.
A company of Northern gentlemen are in
Spartanburg prospecting for a shoe factory.
The colleges at Due West are in a most
about ninety stu
dents having already matriculated in the
female college, and more than sixty in
Erskine.
Mrs. Wm. Whooten, of Valley Falls, a
most estimable ladv, died at that place on
Wednesday evening last.
Tho cotton house of Mr. J. W. Stnckey,
of Tirnmonsville, was entered by burglars
last Monday night, and about one bale and
a half of cotton taken therefrom.
Colonel Joseph Walker, intendent of
Spartanburg, has been invited to the rail
road mooting at St. Louis, on the 23d in
stant.
The depot office at Easley station was
broken into one night last week and about
one hundred dollars stolen out of tho money
drawer.
The streets of Union have been provided
with lamps, which are lighted every even
ing, about dark, and are kept burning all*
night.
The “Excellent System.”
Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 2, 1875.
Editor Morning News:
I propose now to say a few words in
regard to the “excellent system” of inter
nal improvements in Florida and how it
works,and then what'constitutes the “ex
cellent” part of it. I copy here from the
fourth page of the printed report of the
Board of Internal Improvements, sub
mitted by Governor Broome to the Sen
ate Friday, December 22, 1854: “The
system we recommend for aid consists of
a railroad between the waters of Escambia
bay and the St. Johns river at Jackson
ville, with an extension from suitable
points on the line to the wa
ters of St. Andrew’s bay in West
Florida, and the St. Marks river in
Middle Florida ; and from Amelia Island,
on the Atlantic, to the waters of Tampa
bay, in Sonth Florida, with an extension
to Cedar Key, in East Florida, and to
connect the country east of the St. John’s
with the system, and thus to comprehend
that section more fully in its benefits, we
recommend also the construction of a
canal to connect Indian river with the
St. John’s.”
“These improvements, with roads from
Macon in the direction of Cedar Key,
and from Montgomery to Pensacola, and
to some ether more eastern point of our
system, will complete all the desirable
lines for a prosperous system.”
The report was made and signed by
David L. Yulee, James T. Archer, Rich
ard H. Long, A. S. Baldwin, John C. Pelot
and John C. McGehee. These gentlemen
represented all the different sections of
the State—“West,” “Middle,” “East”
and “South,” and were about as well
qualified to form a correct opinion upon
this subject as any others who could have
been selected for the purpose. They did
not appear to entertain that mortal dread
of railroad connections with the adjoin
ing States of Alabama and Georgia that
appears now to haunt the minds and
warp the senses of the statesmen of the
present day. The “system,’’ as recom
mended, was not entirely adopted by the
Legislature, and I will point out the dif2
ference between the “system” of the re
port and the “system” of the Legisla
ture. The Legislature refused to adopt or
was silent as to the recommenda
tion of the committee in reference to a
line from Macon to Cedar Key, leaving
it out of the act which was passed soon
afterwards, saying no more on this sub
ject than that no connection should be
made with Georgia unless it was east of
the Alapaha river. But that both the
committee and the Legislature favored
connections with Alabama and Georgia
does not admit of any sort of dispute or
doubt. The people of Florida were then
in favor of these avenues of trade, and
they are now in favor of them. They
were then in favor of using the “fund”
or applying it to the use of constructing
such channels of trade, so far as practi
cable. It does not now look like con
sistency, or even common honesty, on
the part of any department of the gov
ernment to raise its voice against meas
ures of public policy so long and so
well settled as these. It does not
look respectable to style this an “excel
lent” system with one breath, and with
the next refuse to permit the same to be
carried out—it is lamentably weak and
foolish to display such inconsistency. It
would appear by the policy pursued in
this case that the votes of the people’s
representatives were to be secured by
holding out to them the inducement of
the construction of a great and useful
work, but when that vote was obtained,
to abandon much of the original plan and
leave vast areas of the State neglected.
The fund of 500,000 acres of internal im
provement lands, as well as the ten mil
lions of acres of swamp lands,
were to be used up, if possible,
constructing only about one-
third of the work originally designed by
the Legislature. The sale of the property
by the State immediately after the war
goes far to establish this theory. In one
instance the State, which was the only
paid up stockholder in the concern, lost
80 per cent, of its investment, and in
another the entire amount of the fund
contributed towards the construction of
the work was swept away. This is the
way the “excellent” system has worked,
and it was this “excellent” thing whose
drooping spirits the nurses of the grand
bond scheme of nearly six millions want
ed last winter to revive. The spirits are
still drooping. Yours,
X.
BY TELEGRAPH
THE MORNING NEWS.
Evening Telegrams.
THE COTTON CHOP.
Noon Telegrams.
THE KCSSIAN WAR MOVEMENT.
PROGRESS OF THE ST. LOUIS WHIS
KY TRIALS.
TIDE ON THE
COASTS.
The Herzegovinian Revolution.
HIGH TH>B ON THE BRITISH COAST.
London, November 15.—The tide on the
Thames this morning was the highest on
record at Greenwich, and the lowlands alGug
the river were partially inundated. The
weather around the coast continues very
heavy. The wrecks have been numerous.
Lloyds to-day publishes reports of wrecks
that occurred last night off Bridlington,
Cardegan, Clovelly, Berwick, Sunderland,
Bride and elsewhere. The British ship
Astride, from this port for the United
States, has been lost near Boulogne. Nine
of the crew were drowned and the vessel
has gone to pieces.
THE WHISKY FRAUDS.
St. Louis, November 15.—The trial of Mc
Kee & Maguire is set for the 15th of Decem
ber. Yoorheea defends them. Avery will
bo tried on Wednesday. Butler defends
him. Thirteen distillers and rectifiers,
seven gaugers aud store-keepers have
pleaded guilty.
THE TURKISH TROUBLES.
London, November 15.—A Times special
from Cottare says eight Turkish battalions
under Selim Pasha were surrounded near
Gastachi by three hundred Herzegovinians.
At the latest accounts the battle is progress
ing.
FROM PERAK.
London, November 15.—A dispatch from
Perak says that troops are intrenching the
British residences, and await reinforcements
before attacking Ahe Malay stockade, which
is seven miles distant.
THE RUSSIAN MOVEMENTS.
Berlin, November 15.—It is emphatically
denied that the movements of the Russian
troops are connected wth warlike prepara
tions.
THE CABLI8TS.
Madrid, November 15.—The Carlists, in
attempting to prevent Quesada from forti
fying in the Dest Rioja, are reported to have
suffered a heavy loss.
inundated.
London, November 15.—The river Folka,,
near Dablin, burst its banks, inundating
one thousand acres.
DEAD.
New York, November 15. —George Bel-
more, tho English actor, died here this
morning.
BEAST BUTLER’S NEPHEW.
The Ilood! ii in
Wounded
Friends.
in
of the Nile Severely
Ilie Company of Hid
(From the New Orleans Picayune of Friday.]
At half-past 11 o’clock last night Col.
George Butler, editor of the New York
Arcadian, and formerly United States
Consul General to Egypt, was dangerous
ly cut at the corner of Carondelet and
Canal streets.
Col. Butler has been in the city for the
past week or ten da; s, .‘he guest of Gov.
Warmoth. Last night, in company with
the latter, he was for some time at Haw
kins’s saloon, on Gravier street. Here he
met Mr. James Golding, the foundryman
and it appears a quarrel ensued between
them, which was quieted by the interven-
tion of friends.
At the time stated, Col. Butler left the
saloon in company with Gov. Warmoth.
Mr. John Hawkins and another gentle
man, and the four walked in the direc
tion of Canal street. Golding was not
then with them, but they no sooner
reached the corner than the cry of
“Watch! murder!” was raised.
The police arriving, Golding was found
on the spot, and CoL Butler was being
raised from the ground by his friends.
It was then found that Butler had a deep
wound on his fabe under the right eye,
from which the blood issued copiously
On the declaration of Mr. Hawkins and
the other gentlemen that Golding in
flicted the wound, the latter, though pro
testing that he was not the man, was
taken into custody.
It is believed by Mr. Hawkins that
Golding followed the party up after
leaving the saloon. Nobody appears to
have actually seen the blow, but Mr.
Hawkins says he saw Golding stamp on
Butler as the latter lay on the ground.
Col. Butler’s wound was examined by
Dr. Davis, who found it very deep and
triangular in shape, and pronounced it
dangerous. He was removed to the
Charity Hospital to obtain medical as
sistance.
It is stated that the wound must have
been inflicted by a sharp weapon, sup
posed to be a knife, or possibly a boot
heel. The hitter is the more plausible
supposition, as no trace of a knife can be
found. On removal to the hospital,
Colonel Butler remained in a stupor for
some time and could only speak with
difficulty.
Golding was put into a cell in the First
Precinct Station. He professed entire
ignorance of the occurrence, and stated
that he met Colonel Butler in the evening
at the St. Charles Hotel, but had not
seen him afterwards.
THE FIJIAN PLAGUE.
Forty Thousand Deaths in Four Months-
Burring People Alive.
Silk culture is increasing so rapidly in
South America that the Government of
Brazil contemplates offering subsidies for
the scientific cultivation of the worm.
The climate is well adapted to the in
dustry, and the country possesses an
abundance of the Palma Christ*, a plant
upon which the worm feeds with avidity.
Henry Ward Beecher, in publicly re
ferring to the famous Brooklyn revival
ist, is very fond of designating him as
“Brother Moody.” But nobody has
noticed that the famous revivalist has
ever returned the compliment by speak
ing of the Plymouth pastor as “Brother
Beecher.”
(From the Sydney (Australia) Herald.]
Further information from Fiji conveys
still darker accounts of the plague which
has recently passed oyer the new colony.
A resident of long standing, writing to a
Victoria contemporary, says: “The death
rate is not yet made up, but the proba
bility is that 40,000 Fijians died
during the four months plague.
The native population of Fiji is now
about one-third only of what it was when
I landed here about twenty-five years
ago.” The accounts given of the magni
tude of the disaster are less harrowing
than those of the sufferings of the vic
tims. “Very few died of the measles,
the majority dying of subsequent disease
in the form of dysentery, congestion of
the lungs, etc. Want of nourishment, or
starvation, carried off thousands.” We
are told that “all work was suspended
for two months. You could pass through
whole towns without meeting any one in
the streets, which were soon completely
covered with grass. Entering a house,
you would find men, women and children
all lying down indiscriminately,
some just attacked, some still
in agony, and some dying.
Some who were strong enough attempted
suicide, and not always unsuccessfully.”
We are further told that “as the scourge
became more permanent, some four or
five were buned together in one grave,
and generally without religious service.
In some cases the dead were buried in
the earthen floor of the honse. The
burials were hurried, and the probability
is that some were buried alive. In many
instances the husband, wife and children
all died. In one village all the women
died, and in another all the men.” It is
interesting to read the different mental
effects produced by the torture of the
disease. It is not surprising that “some
made fruitless appeals” to their ancient
god.
Some inland tribes, who had only re
cently embraced Christianity, considered
that the disease was conveyed by their
religious teachers, and they dismissed
them and then abandoned their new re
ligion. Among these some were for
killing the teaqhers, but wiser counsels
prevailed. It is said that one tribe buried
alive one teacher’s wife and child, whose
husband and father died of the plague,
to stop infection. But while some in
their distress fell back on their former
superstitions, the greater number are
said to-have borne their calamity with
fortitude, and to have suffered and died
under the influence of Christianity,
REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL
DEPARTMENT.
Affairs in the Post Office Department.
THE FINANCES OF SOUTH CAROLINA
REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
Washington, November 15.—The official
cotton crop report for November makes di
rect comparison of the product this year
with that of 1874. As former reports of con
dition have indicated, the States bordering
on the Atlantic all show a reduced product,
and those in the Mississippi valley an in
creased yield. Prior to November 1st, kill
ing frosts had appeared in the more north
ern States of the cotwu belt. In some coun
ties of Northern Georgia, and in the dis
trict north of the Tennessee river, in
Alabama and elsewhere, the cotton plant
was uninjured, and generally in vigorous
growth ou the best lauds. Iu one parish iu
Louisiana (Claiborne) it is claimed that &
week’s continuance of fine weather would
increase the local yield several hundred
bales. There is much inequality in the pro
gress of picking. In some of the counties
of Georgia and Alabama the harvest is
nearly over. Iu Mississippi the work has
been ’ delayed by political difficulties aud
sickness. Tn Washington county two-thirds
of the crop was nngathered, and it was
feared that Christmas would find one-
fourth still in the fields. Fine weather
has been the rule with a few exceptions, but
iu Louisiana much fibre has been lost or
stained by storms. The effect of the great
September storm in Southern Texas proves
less disastrous than at first represented.
The amount of lint in comparison with the
weight of seed cotton is quite variable,
ranging from 25 to 33 per cent., but, so far
as reported, appears to be less than in 1874.
The State percentages representing the
aggregate quantity as compared with last
year, are as follows :
North Carolina 91
South Carolina 7G
Georgia 74
Florida 90
Alabama •. 102
Mississippi Ill
Louisiana 100
Texas 114
Arkansas ’ 135
Tennessee 116
The crop of Arkansas is a good one, but
the figures are increased more by the fact
of last year’s poor yield than by the excess
of this year’s crop. These figures point to
a small advance on last year’s aggregate, if
November aDd December be favorable to the
opening and picking of the top crop.
WASHINGTON NEWS AND NOTES.
Washington, November 15.—In the Su
preme Court the case of Henry Brenner and
H. S. Moore vs. LeRoy P. Walker and oth
ers, from the Northern District of Alabama,
the decree below i6 sustained with costs.
The opinion on tho appeal from
Judge Bradley’s decision in the
Grant parish cases is not completed. It
was found difficult to frame an opinion
which would command the sanction of a ma
jority of the justices in all its points. The
question of importing Chinese women for
immoral purposes is set for January 11th.
James Lockey, Deputy Commissioner of
Pensions, has resigned.
Robert F. Campbell has been appointed
Collector of the Third District of Texas.
Commodore Cooper, commanding the
Pensacola Navy Yard, telegraphs that all
quarantine restrictions are removed at that
place.
The collectors of enstoms will be ordered
to reduce their forces and curtail expenses.
The appropriation for the collection of
customs will be deticieot $600,000.
The President has commenced the prep
aration of his message and will receive no
visitors until it is completed.
Tho Treasury called in twelve and three-
fourths millions of bonds of 1864 and five
millions of 1864 and 1865. Interest ceases
ou the 15th of February. This closes the
refunding for the five hundred million 5 per
oents.
POSTAL AFFAIRS.
Washington, November 15.—The Post
Offico Department’s estimates are $77,415 in
excess of last year’s appropriations. The
expenditures of last year lor transporting
mails was to eight hundred and seventy-
one railroad routes, nine and a quarter mil
lions; eighty-nine steamboat routes, five-
eighths of a million; seven hundred and
thirty-two other routes, designated as star
routes, an aggregate of one hundred and
ninety-two thousand miles in length, five
and three-eighth millions. The total cost
of inland transportation this year is esti
mated at sixteen aDd a half millions.
l'he Commissioner of Internal Revenue
in his report on the sayings banks or provi
dent institutions, where deposits under
$2,000 by one person are exempt from taxa
tion, suggests that the amount exempted be
reduced to $500.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Washington, November 15.—Probabili
ties—For the South Atlantic and Gulf States
occasional rains probable, with westerly
winds gradually shifting to northerly, rising
barometer and falling temperature.
For Tennessee, Ohio, and the upper Mis
sissippi valleys and iake region, rising ba
rometer, fresh and brisk north to west winds,
colder, partly clondv weather, and in the
last district occasional snow.
For the Middle States winds veering to
southwest and northwest, rising barometer,
light rains and snow in the northern portion,
followed by colder, clear and partly cloudy
weather.
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.
Charleston. November 15.—Information
having reached Columbia that a report pre
vails in New York that the new consolida
tion bonds of South Carolina were issued in
exchange for coupons alleged to have been
fraudulently outstanding will be repudiated
by the State, the Governor and Comptroller
General and State Treasurer authorize a
contradiction of the report, aud express the
belief that no such purpose is anywhere en
tertained or can be legally accomplished
even if desired.
a desperado.
Richmond, Va., November 15.—Henry
O’Divier, one of the officers in charge of the
chain gang, attempting to arrest an escaped
negro, was assaulted by the negro witn a
shoemaker’s knife. He received twelve cats
about the head, neck and upper part of the
body. Some of the wounds are serious and
may result fatally. The negro was subse
quently arrested.
SPAIN AND AMERICA.
Madrid, November 15.—The Correspon-
dencia states that the reply of Spain to the
receut note of the United States in regard
to the treaty of 1795, will defend the rights
of Spain with energy but moderation, and
will express the hope that, in order to main
tain good relations, the two countries meet
with reciprocity.
THE WACO.
New York, November 15.—In the investi
gation of the Waco’a cargo, it is shown that
she had neither petrolenm nor kerosene
aboard. She had 300 caus of refined petro
leum stowed*on the upper deck, a part aft,
part forward, distant 100 teet from any fire.
T o other inflammable freight was aboard.
COUNTERFEITERS.
Providence, R. I., November 15.—In the
United States Circuit Court Geo. E. Butter-
worth and Maria J. Butterworth, indicted
for passing counterfeit currency, George
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five
years iu the State prison. The indictment
against Maria was nolle prossed.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON'.
Radical Music—The Bush for Office
Zach’s Slaughter-honae—A Newspaper
Move—Vour Correspondent Castigated
—A Florida Filibuster—The Local List
—Southern Claims—Delano Again—In
ternal Revenue Notes. Etc., Etc.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Washington, November 13,1875.
COMING IN.
The tide has jnst began to set in, and this
burgh has began to fill up. Cameron is
here with a host of Pennsylvanians at his
back, clamoring for place in the Interior
Department, which the average Radical de
scendant of W. Penn believes to be the
legitimate plunder of that State. Watts,
the old agriculturist, has crammed his de
partment with proteges of the Keystone
State, and enabled several young men to
start into the seed and horticultural busi
ness. Morrill, of Vermont, is also raiding
on Zach, and Patterson, of South Carolina,
is forcing things to have one Thoman, an
emigrant from Dalmatia, placed in a soft
position. Thoman is very dark complex-
ioned, and passed himself off in Sonth Caro
lina as a negro, after the war, and was
elected by the colored vote Secretary of
State. But they found oat afterwards, from
bis association with the Mennerchor, that
he was of German proclivities, and there
and then went back on him. He should be
taken care of. Jere Black, of Pennsylvania,
Senator Kelly, from Oregon, who cleaned
out Williams, and others, including a scat
tering of Radical members of Congress, are
in town.
A SERENADE.
Some hangers-on and office hunters and
holders, anxions to display their loyalty, got
up a serenade for Grant & Co. after the elec-
tiin news got in. The occupant of the
White Honse came forth after the music was
over and addressed the viebald crowd in his
usual laconic style, stating, however, that
the indications pointed to another four years
of power. Boss Shepherd also received
some music, and other lessor lights were
also given & dose. Since Chandler has been
going for the boys in his department and
takiDg scalps by the wholesale, the other
departments have closed their lines, and
now a clerk thinks it worth his place to go
forth during office hours for a supply of
nourishment. It is rumored that there have
been over seventy discharges in Zack’s
ranche, including the chief clerk of the De
partment and the chief clerks of the Patent
and Land offices. The youths who did not
pony up for electioneering purposes are now
feeling the wrath.
the newspaper men
have beon trying to shove one of their party
in under the great Michigander. The youth
is Arthur Shepherd, formerly connected
with the Republican, and they want to make
him Superintendent of the Patent Office.
Shaw, the Nestor of the press, Murtagh,
proprietor of tho Republican, aud a dele
gation of Bohemians, visited the war Sena
tor and urged Arty’s claims. But Zack, be
ing down on newspaper meu, gave them a
cool reception, and told them that no va
cancy existed. He is savage against the
News for its lucubrations, and to please him
THE KEE-RONICLE,
The colicky organ of the left wing of the
administration, which is eking oat a miser
able existence on government pap, pitched
into the News about its Washington corres
pondent, and informed its readers that we
are an “impostor,” and “hold a position
under the government, obtained by repre
senting ourself to have been a persecuted
and ostracised Southern Republican.’' This
is good for the Chronicle, and about a3
truthful as the majority of its lies. Harlan,
the saint, is no longer connected with it, or
he would not have such hard things said; but
little Georgy Corkhill, who sold himself to
the Pacific Mail crowd for the small sum of
$1,000, is agitated to find out who is writing
up the history of the administration from
this point, and is hitting out wildly. He
has just got back from Europe, deposed W.
Penn Clarke, the etymologist, from the edi
torial chair, and *stauds ready to vindicate
Bill King or die in the attempt. Georgy
would r iake & nice partner for the great
MC.,
who steers the Tallahassee Sentinel with
Isaac Walton, the ex-fisher of trifles, at the
engines. Me. can tack better than any man
in tho South, aud Captain Steam’s ship of
State could not be managed without him.
A gentleman from North Carolina, a bosom
friend of the defunct railroad king!
Littlefield, gave me Mc.’s pedigree. He
snys Me. was a rampant advocate of seces
sion, and went into the Confederate States
army as a Lieutenant, but finding that his
hide was in danger of being perforated,
jumped the issue and turned up' next as a
clerk in the Freedman’s Bureau under Pur
man, which place he lost from his love of
the bowl ana bad habits. He became a bit
ter partizan of bonny Governor Reed’s, but
betrayed him and joined his opponents.
He is a valuable accession to the Radical
ranks, and lives now only to avenge the
f mbllc cowhiding given him by Cocke in Tal-
ahassee. He should be here with a ramb
ling youth from Live Oak, who sports the
name of
Mr. Rice, of Pensacola, has been here for
several days, but has returned home again
with the intention of returning daring the
session of Congress.
J. C. Kimball, of Atlanta, is at the Metro
politan Hotel, and W. U. Garrard and Mr.
Fallig&nt, of Savannah, are in the city.
The American Public Health Association,
consisting principally of army medical offi
cers and Marine Hospital attaches, have
been holding a convention in Baltimore,
and are about to attack Congress for legis
lation to bring about co-operation between
the general government and State govern
ments for a uniform and efficient system for
the registration of births, doaths ana mar
riages. Of course a bureau on the Bureau
of Statistics principle will then be needed,
and some of these boys anticipate a good
berth.
Old Pratt, in bis annual report on Internal
Revenue, states that there are eighty mil
lion chewers, smokers aod snuffers in the
United States (bow is that ?) who consume
fifteen pounds of tobacco each per annnm.
Pratt mast have given his census report
a wav, or sold it to some second-hand book'
store.
The talk of Orville Grant aDd Babcock
being connected with the whisky ring has
not been hushed up yet. Avery, late chief
clerk of the Treasury, has been hanging
aroond here, but has been called to St. Louis
to answer the indictment against him.
Billy McG&rr&ban, the man who claims the
New Idria mines, is preparing to go for Con
gress again, and Sutro is expected here to
open np his tunnel claim again. A Colonel
Craig, who claims 70,000 acres of land in
Colorado,which there is some trouble about,
is here also. The Land office make some
quibble about his title, and unless he
“comes down” handsomely, he may have
trouble about it. The wheels of govern
ment must be greased.
Walt Whitman, the good grey poet, is on
the streets here in his big slouch bat aud
with bis shirt collar open. Bayard Taylor
has been lecturing on bckiller, aud Joaqpim
Miller went to California on a dead-head
ticket.
Senator Jones, of Florida, has located for
the season here, and has fitted np a cosy
home, where his estimable lady gracefully
presides.
The Board ef Indian Commissioners are
iu session here, and have paid their respects
to the new Secretary. A delegation of
Warm Springs Indians, captors of Captain
Jack, are here also. They want more ap
propriations for their subsistence, etc.
The appointment clerk of the Interior
Department, Jack Thompson, was suddenly
removed a few days ago, and bis mother-in-
law’s name was stricken from the rolls.
Sam Walker, the one-eyed expositor of the
Indian frauds, whooped over Jack’s demise.
Delano is here trying to sustain some of
his friends in the department.
Edmunds, the Postmaster here, has more
influence with Chandler than any one else,
and he advises on all appointments and re
movals.
The Rev. Smith has not been removed yet,
but the day is close.
It is rumored that Burdette, the Commis
sioner of the General Land Office, will also
go. Cyclops.
BEECHER HAD BETTER CONFESS.
Tell-Tale Pumpkin Seed*— \n illustration
from a Farmer.
A Canal Bing Victory.—The New
York Canal Board have reinstated En
gineers Yates and Babcock, who were
suspended some time since for alleged
complicity in the canal frauds. This re
sult is significant, as being the first vic
tory of the canal ring since the election,
and it is thought presages an ample
amount of vigorous fighting close at
hand.
NlTRO-GLYCERINE IN HlS POCKET.—A
man named Knight, in charge of a gang
of laborers at South Natick, Mass.,
slipped a charge of nitro-glycerine into
his pocket, which subsequently exploded
as he was entering a wagon with a man
named Ryan. Both men were blown to
great distance. Ryan’s injuries are
fatal.
Some of the Pittsburg rolling mills now
feed their furnaces with natural gas from
well m Butler county, about twenty
miles distant. A six-inch pipe carries
the gas, which when first turned on
flowed from the well to the dearest mil^
seventeen and a half mflaij in thirty-six
qxinates.
To the Editor of the Sun:
Sir—How the pranks of our boyhood
come back to us ! Memory, that wonder
ful faculty that keeps all and loses noth
ing, reproduces its pictures with aston
ishing vividness. More than fifty years
ago my brother George and I were set to
stick pumpkin seeds between the hills of
com. We both wanted to go a-fishing.
Our father told us we might go when we
had stuck all the seeds we had.
So we both worked as smart as we
could. But the sun was sinking fast in
the West, and we decided that our only
ohanoe to go a-fishing was to get rid of
the pumpkin seeds in a more expeditious
manner. Near by was a big, flat stone ;
so the stone was raised and the pumpkin
seeds put safely under it, and the stone
let back again to prevent all future ex
posure. Never, v/e thought, had two
boys more safely buried their secret.
A-fishing we went and had good luck
brought home trout enough for all
Strange to say, when the seeds came up
between the hills of corn, about one-third
of the field had no vines. One Sunday
afternoon we strolled with our good
father past said field, and around said
flat stone on every side was one mass of
pumpkin vines! We stood confounded
these seeds had all grown out from un
der the flat stone, and our fault was man
ifested ! The thing was so ridiculous,
our kind-hearted father forgave us on
our owning up the truth and the whole
truth, and asking his forgiveness. It
was to us a warning never to try to con
ceal a fault.
The good book says, ‘*He that covereth
bis sins shall not prosper, but he that
oonfesseth and forsaketh his sin shall find
mercy.” In the “Vedas” we read: “The
great lord of the world sees as if he were
near. If a man thinks he is welking by
stealth, the gods know it all. If a man
stands, or walks, or hides, if he goes to
lie down or to get up, what two people
sitting together whisper, King Varuna
knows it. He is there as a third. ”
It seems to me our friends in Plymouth
Church must have a very large fiat atone
under which they seek to hide the secrets
of their church and the very eerious se*
crets of their pastor, Mr. Henry Ward
Beecher. One would think that having
tried it with such poor suocess they
would tire of it by this time.
All moral actions have a tendency to
sprout, and in vain do we seek to hide or
cloak them from His eye or even the
eyes of our fellow men. A Farmer.
THE CASE OF HARNEY RICHARD.
Tweed ledum and Tweedledee—Suapennion
af Operation* for a Time—Saaarlty of
the Radiral Oligarchy—A Little Drama.
Comedy, or Farce—Attempted Snppres-
aion of the .Vlorninr News—Savannah
to be Annexed to Florida, Perhaps—
The Chagrin of R hod am an thus and
ills Imps.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.
JACKSON,
ex-proprietor of the Shackson House in that
village. His motto was “Duff and Hash,”
but he fed Keep, of the Live Oak Times, so
high that the latter individual threw him
down stairs when he went to collect his bill.
This led him to drop Live Oak aud open the
Planters’ Honse in Tallahassee, where fried
liver and stnrgeon made the tables groan,
and five cent whisky rejoiced the souls of
thirsty Radicals. But the flames consumed
his hostelry, and now he faces the world as
au insurance agent, and takes risks on eve
rything but Florida hotels.
REER.
Tho convention ol lager manufacturers
assailed the Commissioner of Internal Re
venue yesterday, and the great Pratt
trembled before the indignant representa
tives of long drink. They don’t want to be
assessed for mait used in excess of two and
a half bushels to one barrel of beer, and
swore by the memory of Gambrinus to
stand up for their rights. No matter how
the Teutons may stand on the financial is
sues, when the cry of beer is raised they
stand shoulder to shoulder to resist any
assault upon it.
look out.
Don Pedro, of Brazil, is being anxiously
looked for here. He is bringing two hun
dred thousand dollars worth of diamonds
with him, and as the treasury robbers and
safe burglars will be turned loose before his
arrival we will see the officials here sporting
brilliants in profusion very soon, uulesa he
fortifies like Jones, of Nevada, and keeps a
guard on duty at his door.
PASSED AWAY.
The colored cadet at the Naval Academy,
Master Baker, of Mississippi, has been dis
missed by request of the Superintendent.
The boys could not overlook the color line, « wnen we Dear tnia m n
I that the partnership was formed five
old Admiral Rodgers got tired and ran him
out. All the old naval officers are opposed
to the enlistment of colored seamen, and
like the army, do not intend to admit a col
ored officer in their circle if they can avoid
it. Thus the colored cadets at the Military
Academy have failed, and their chances for
A National Organization of Fraud,
The startling facts brought to light in
this city in connection with the whisky
frauds have so engrossed our attention
that we have overlooked the scarcely less
important proceedings of a similar nature
in other quarters. What has been con
fessed, and what, besides, is suspected
here, is so staggering that we easily im
agine that St. Louis was the centre of
the whisky ring, and that our city enjoys
an infamous pre-eminence in the wretch
ed business. But this may be a mistake
after all. The promise of a San Francisco
paper, if opportunity is afforded,to exhibit
whisky frauds “ before which those of
St. Louis and Chicago will grow pale,
and the dispatches of yesterday stating
that the ring at Chicago defrauded the
government out of the tax on two and a
half million gallons of spirits, suggest
the possibly national character of this
wonderful conspiracy. This significant
feature of the business has already been
demonstrated—that the ring was a confed
eration of (distillers and revenue officials.
When we bear this in mind, and reflect
years ago; that it extended over the whole
countrv, from New York to San Francis
co, and from Milwaukee to New Orleans;
that its operations had all the method, reg
ularity and organization of government
business; that it possessed a system of
And eidorly maiden, who bad suffered
some disappointment, defines the
human race i “ Man, g conglomerated
mass of hair, L/jacco smoke, confusion,
conceit and ***jU. Woman, the waiter
.perforce, on the aforeaaid animal.”
acaueuij nave iaueu, ana ineir cnances ror I *
turning out an officer of ebon hne from ?£P“ er communication with Washington;
- -- 1 that notwithstanding the undisguised
boldness of its transactions, Secretary
Bristow’s two latest predecessors in the
Treasury Department never exhibited a
symptom of knowing anything about it;
that its dividends amounted, probably, to
.$5,000,000: and that thelate Commissioner
of Internal Revenue steadily refused, when
his attention was again and again called to
it, to take the first honest step towards
breaking it up—it looks almost as though
the internal revenue bureau had trans
formed itself into a whisky ring and lent
its powerful and elaborate machinery to
the business of defrauding the govern
ment. The conspiracy grows in propor
tions every day ; we begin to see that its
control of the authority of the govern
ment made it almost as formidable as the
government itself • and it is plain that
it will require all the honest efforts of
Secretary Bristow and Attorney-General
Pierrepont, supported by the personal
approval of the President and the moral
sentiment of the whole country, to
bring its members to justice.—8*. Louis
Republican.
either academy are daily growing less.
ODDS AND ENDS.
The serious illness of Yice-President Wil
son led to a good deal of discussion as to
who would occupy tne vice chair m the Sen
ate this session. Matt Carpenter would
have been first choice if he was in the Sen
ate, but he has gone from our gaze. Ferry,
of Michigan, acted daring Wilson’s absence
in the called session, being elected by the
Senate, but Hamlin and Cameron feel dis
posed to urge their claims. Hamlin is the
oldest Senator and was Vice-President under
Lincoln, so that his ohances would be the
best.
Ex-Senator Fenton ia swinging around
here, trying to work himself into the good
graces of the administration again.
The friends of Thurman are talking him
up again as an available Presidential candi
date. They say he can make a better fight
than Hendricks.
Grant's friend, Routt, Governor of Colo
rado, is here talking of his Senatorial pros
pects.
The claim agents are excited upon a point
lately sprang. They say that the act of 1864
providing for the payment of Southern
claims specifies that the Auditor shall pay
the claims upon their being duly certified
by the Quartermaster General. Ingalls has
only been acting, and Meigs, who has been
shipped off on a fool’s errand to Europe to
get him out of the way, shonld sign the pa
pers. The claim agents fear that the Au
ditor may refuse the payment of claims on
this ground, bat, as he has no appropriation
yet, they had better wait awhile before get
ting excited.
Tne Florida Railroad case ia still under
digestion by the Supreme Court, and Mr.
Holland is awaiting anxiously bat confident
ly for their decision. He thinks that road
is his and he proposes to hate it.
Fern and ina, November 12, 1875.
In consequence of the non-appearance
of a number of the defendant’s witnesses
this morning, for the very cogent reason
that the prosecution had purposely neg
lected to summon them in time, counsel
for Harney Richard asked for a post
ponement until the 15th instant.
THE RENOWNED FLUNKEY
who happens to be dignified with the
misnomer of judge, commonly oalled
Archibald, condescended to patronize the
defence, and announced bis willigness to
oontinue the case over until the spring
term of the Circuit Court. No objection
being raised by either party, such was
made the order. Now please be careful
not to allow Archibald any credit for
magnanimity or a desire to mete out
justicb to the accused until you have
comprehended his motive for this unex
pected stroke of policy. The Judge, by
some means or other, hath suddenly dis
covered that he cannot constitutionally
extend one term of court into another, as
such a proceeding would invalidate all
transactions before the protracted term.
The time prescribed by law for holding
court in Nassau county expires on the
13th inst., and although these fellows
have never allowed their gyrations to be
circumscribed by any suoh a dead-letter as
the Constitution, they have in this instance
seen fit to deviate from their general plan
of disregarding the existence of that docu
ment. I am fully cognizant of the fact
that they had succeeded in getting a jury ,
of the kind to suit their nefarious pur
poses, and only the apprehension that
some avenue of escape might be left open
for Richard indneed them to order
continuance. The accused has entered
into a recognizance in the sum of twenty-
five thousand dollars, and has furnished
some of the staunchest men the State can
boast of as sureties. They are extremely
anxious to gain time also, and Archibald
has lately been uttering the most puny
laments!, jus to the friends of the ac
cused, and reiterating his intention of
playing an even-handed role.
THE EXCORIATION
administered editorially by the Morning
News seems to have cut him to the quick,
and has certainly deepened the convict
kind of a look he has always worn. Mc
Donnell is endeavoring to sneak away
from the odium which has enveloped
him, by asserting that if he had a hun
dred thousand dollars he would cheer
fully relinquish it if this thing had never
happened. It is to be regretted that he
has not that trifling sum, but as it is, he
may evince his sincerity by refunding to
Harney Richard a portion of the ex
pense which his friends and himself have
been compelled to undergo. Other-
we must perforce consider the
grandiloquent wail of “Uncle Tad,” noth
ing more nor less than a stupendous con
centration of the veriest balderdash. J.
P. C. Emmons, associate counsel for the
prosecutors, remarked within the hearing
of your correspondent that if it wore not
for the fact that he was religious man
he would become seriou^y exasperated at
the truths contained in the Morning
News. This is particularly severe on re
gion, and may indicate the early downfall
of that institution, if Emmons’ compan
ions conclude to follow suit.
THE CELEBRATED NINCOMPOOP.
sometimes called Judge of the Fourth
Judicial Circuit, has been making the
most heartrending overtures to the friends
of Richard for a compromise, and claims
that the tlying has gone far enough. None
of the Radical crew like your correspon
dent, and if they are able to detect the
inhuman barbarian who disclosed their
secrets dire will be the aforesaid barba
rian’s fate. The negroes do not appear
to relish the continuance in the least,
and evidently are itching for a demon
stration of their revolutionary feelings.
The opportunity for them to make asses
of themselves in conjunction with Mc-
Donnoll, Archibald ana Emmons was too
enticing to be lost.
“banquo’s” ghost
is in possession of a magnificent drama,
comedy or farce, or whatever you please
to call it. The dram. pers. are Archi
bald, Emmons and “Uncle Tad.”
The scene was this city, the time
one day last week. Some of the
“jedge’s” enemies are so uncharitable as
to insinuate that his Honor was drunk,
but I brand this jilander as false in toto,
and conscientiously asseverate that the
distinguished individual was—if the
drama has any basis of fact whatever—
merely suffering from indigestion, and
the tremendous tension which his ner
vous system has recently sustained in
grappling with the intricacies of the plot
to extinguish an innocent man and se
questrate a couple of thousand dollars.
Not to create undue suspense, and to
avoid provoking equivocation, the comedy
runs that at the hour of midnight, at
some period during this month, the
learned Judge was heard yelling in a
semi-somnambulistic stale:
Mr. Henry G. Bowen still retains his
Pew in Plymouth Church, but neither he
nor any member of his family will oc
cupy it. Mr. Bowen is determined to
hold his memberehip in Mr. Beecher’s
church, for reasons of his own. We are
authorised to say that if any attempt is
made to drop Mr. Bowen’s name from
the roll for non-attendance, as in Mrs.
Moulton’s case, ha will fight the church
and pastor to the bitter end.
“suppress it at once. ’
The following colloquy is reported to
have ensued :
Archibald—(holding a copy of the
Morning News)—This must be stopped.
Let me command the Sheriff to forthwith
suppress this merciless newspaper.
Emmons—Nay, nay, most honored and
revered Seigneur, Savannah is without
your jurisdiction.
Archibald—(frantically)—Talk not to
me of circuit or jurisdiction. Did not I
dispatch Joe Valentine into Alachua, and
did not my master, the inimitably gra
cious Stearns, approve my action?
Therefore my behest—the Savannah
Morning News must be arrested, and by
noon to-morrow we shall have quashed
that imperious sheet. Ho! Mr. Sheriff *
McDonnell (ia tears)--Great, glorious
potentate, I make bold to say that Savan
nah is not even in this State; ah.’ boo-
hoo! boo-hoo!
Archibald—Aye ! aye \ ’Tis e’en so;
what then shall be our project? We have
been marplots, sycophantic slaves, fiend
ish rascals, and shall we not be revenged
for being told of it to our teeth? The
State line shall be extended, or by the
mighty Stearns . Here the trio are
said to have closed their eyes.
So yon will infer it is by no means im
probable that the Forest City will be in
demand as soon after our next Legisla
ture convenes as possible, if not sooqpr.
Banquo.
Queer Doings in a Connecticut
Church.—There was a very loud disturb
ance in the Methodist Church on the
Hockanum border, East Hartford, on
Sunday evening. Prayer and praise
services were being held, and had pro
gressed for seme time, when a youi^g
man named David E. Curtis left his seat
and started to leave the church. Just as
he got near the door he was stopped by
Mr. Ralph Rialey, who insisted that he
should not retire. The young man said
it was necessary that he should leave, and
started to do so, when Mr. Risley took
him by the collar to prevent him. Mr.
Curtis thereupon, to break the hold upon
him, struck Mr. Risley in the face, and
then the excitement began in good
earnest.
The boys in the audience shouted all
sorts of impious things, and the pastor,
the Rev- Mr. Morse, left the pulpit and
joined the crowd about the door in a vain
endeavor to still the disturbance. Fi
nally, the young man Curtis was com
pelled to take a seat and remain there till
Mr. Thomas Dowd, a Justice of the
Peace, had been sent for, the pastor an
nouncing that a trial would be held then
and there to punish the offender. Upon
the arrival of Mr. Dowd, an effort was
made to clear the house of all the young
people, in order that the trial might pro
ceed, bat there was a general refusal to
stir, and finally the young man was held
under bail, to be proceeded against on a.
secular day.—Hartford ~
Relations of Alcohol to Health.
BY HOMER O. HITCHCOCK, U. D-
At the meeting of the Health Associa
tion in Baltimore on Thursday, a
was read by Dr. Homer O. Hitchoock, o
Michigan, “On the Relations of the J£x-
cessive or Habitual Use of Alcohon
Drinks to Public Health and Public Wel
fare.” It was exceedingly lengthy; but
as parts of it were very interesting ana
contained calculations and statistics ol
decided value, a selection has been made
of that portion which treated of the
economies of the question.
“Let us now briefly consider some of
the economic relations of this matter.
What do the 49,000 deaths annually
caused by alcohol cost the nation ? YA®
average cost of burial cannot be less than
$10 per capita, giving the sum °f
U00. These 49,000 persons should have
had, according to a table of working
years, (calculated from life tables by Dr.
Edward Jarvis, and published in the fifth
annual report of the Massachusetts State
Board of Health,) 37.46 years of effective
life. From the best data obtainable we
have been led to conclude that alcohol
shortened the lives of those who use it
habitually or excessively, twenty-eight
per cent As this percentage pertains to
the whole life, including both the devel
oping and effective periods, it follows that
these 49,000 persons have each lost to the
nation 28 per cent, of 37.46 years,
or 16.08 years of effective life, giving a
total of 784,000 years. These figures
are much below the actual loss according
to the expectancies of intemperate pier-
sons given above; for, according to those
expectancies, the average loss of effective
life is twenty-three years, within a small
fraction. On this basis the annual loss
of the nation of effective life from alcohol
is 1,127,000 years. If each effective year
of life is valued at $150, the nation loses
on the first calculation $117,600,000, and
on the second $169,050,000. English
actuaries, from careful observation and
calculations, estimate that for every
death there are two persons constantly
sick. We may therefore calculate that
for these 49,000 deaths from alcohol
there are 98,000 constantly sick from the
same cause. Thue, in a single year,
98,000 years of effective life are lost to
the State, which, valued at $150 p>er
year, gives a loss of $14,700,000. The
cost of this sickness, at the very lowest
estimate, cannot be less than $150 per
year, or a total of $14,700,000.
What do the insane caused by alcohol
actually cost the nation each year ? We
have already seen that in a very moder
ate estimate twenty-five per cent, of the
insane are made so by alcohol. Thus
9,358 of the 37,432 insane persons enumer
ated in the census tables are thus caused.
These represent in each year a loss of
effective life of 9,358 years, which, valued
at $150 per year, gives a loss to the nation
of $1,403,700. The average cost of main
taining and caring for- these people can
not be less than four dollars per week for
S&ch, which is the average cost in three
State asylums of Massachusetts. This
will represent a loss to the State of
$1,965,ISO. But, according to a table
oonstructed by Mr. John L. Copeland, and
also to the English life tables (quoted by
Dr. Edward Jarvin, page 383 of the Fifth
Annual Report of the Massachusetts
State Board of Health), the average loss
of effective life by their premature deaths
is 6.3 years each. Moreover, as those
made insane by alcohol are generally made
so at or before forty years of age, the
loss of effective life for the insane should
be based upon the loss in the three first
decades, viz.: From twenty to forty in
clusive, which is an average for each
person, male and female, of 10.5 years.
This gives a total loss of effective life for
the 9,358 insane of 98,259 years, which,
at a value of $150 per year, gives a loss
to the nation of $14,738,850. If now we
adopt Lopd Shaftesbury’s estimate of the
percentage of insanity caused by alcohol,
these figures should all be increased by
140 per cent., and we should have for loss
of effective life 235,821 years, with an
estimated value of $35,373,150. The
annual cost of supporting the insane,
rendered so by alcohol, would then be
raised to $4,716,432.
What does the nation lose by her idi
ots, made so by alcohol ? The whole
number of idiotic piersons reported in
the census tables is 24,527, of which, on
f he basis of Dr. How’s statistics, 11,953
caused by alcohol—the degenerate
offspring of drunkards. If we correct
these tables according to the views of F.
B. Sanborn we have as the probable
whole number of idiotic persons 35,040,
and the number traceable to alcohol or its
effects 17,080. The average cost for the
care and support of these unfortunates
must be at least $150 per year, making a
loss to the nation of $2,562,000.
Allowing that one-half of these persons,
if they were not imbecile, would
die before maturity, and thus
would have no effective life,there remains
for the others a loss to the nation of all
the effective life to which they should
have beeD entitled, or 37.46 years each,
giving a total loss of 319,908 years, with
an estimated value of $47,986,200. As
crime may properly be considered in one
sense but a form or symptom cf disease,
and as it has been and perhaps fairly
shown that at least three-fourths of all
the crimes committed in this nation may
be traced more or less directly to the in
fluence of alcohol, in our estimate of the
losses of the nation from alcohol, the cost
of the crimes committed annually in the
country, and traceable to the influence of
alcohol should be included. Also their
cost in the direct destruction of property
the loss of effective life by murder and
the punishment of criminals, and the
oost of detecting, arresting, convicting
and punishing the criminals. Greatly
to my regret I have at hand no
reliable data from which an approxi
mate estimate of these immense losses to
the nation may be computed. I think it
is plain, however, that they must be
counted by hundreds of millions. The
loss, too, from accidents by sea and
annually caused by alcohol, including loss
of property destroyed and effective life
lost by premature death of those killed,
would foot up to millions. Also, if
pauperism be not a disease it certainly
has a very close relation to the diseases
and diseased condition of the system
caused by alcohol, and the losses of the
nation for pauperism thus caused should
also be included in this estimate. We
have, however, no reliable data from
which we are ablG to express these losses
in figures. No doubt, however, the an
nual losses from crime, accidents and
pauperism attributable to alcohol would
equal or exceed $1,000,000,000.
We are sorry to see a popular error re
garding heaven adopted by Mx. Moody in
one of his recent discourses. It is that
of interpreting the imagery of the visions
described in the Book of Revelations as
literal pictures of the abode of the bless
ed. The fact is that what St. John saw
was not a permanent state of things, but
a special array of smybols, relating as
much to this world as to the other. For
example, the New Jerusalem, with its
streets of gold, gates of pearl, and foun -
dations of precious stones, is expressly
declared to have been seen descending
out of heaven upon earth. In like man
ner, the great white throDe, with its sea
of glass in front and its attendant angels
standing round about, is, we are told, a
prophecy of things to be hereafter
There is newhere in the Bible any del
scription of heaven as such, and wise
men abstain from dogmatbsing concern
ing it .—New York Sun.
A little five-year-older, who was always
allowed to choose the prettiest kitten for
his pet and playmate before the other
nurslings were drowned, was taken to his
mother’s sick room the other morning to
see two tiny new babies. He looked
reflectively from one tc the other for a
minute or two, then poking his chubby
finger into the cheek of the plumpest
baby, he said, decidedly, “Save this
one.
The Ames Company, of Chicopee
ass., received on Saturday the order
they have been anticipating for some
time to make 200,000 scabbarda for angu
lar bayonets, to be used in tho Turkish
army, a,000 which they had sent
the Providence Tool Company for inspec
tion as samples of their work havW
proved satisfactory. They are required
to make 1,000 a day till the job is <W
A Baptist missionary in Jacmel, Hayti
says that his first sermon there was S
t orbed successively by a drill of the na
tional guard m front of the church, by
tne whispered news of an insurrection
at Port-au-Pnnce. and at last b^he££
try of soldiers to arrest men suspected of
treason. The congregation did not seom
to follow the thread of the discourse.
Chicago, loveliest village of the nl«i„
whi«ky, tells us that Pha Sberidsn <&>£
four mules of great beauty mud sueed
Doubtless the fire are souree of StSd
sdtmrstion to the Pboecix City.—