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V(fairs in Georgia.
Goodnesi gracious ! Eatonton is to have a
telegraph line.
Mr. Tiiilip West, of Lee county, is dead.
The LaGrange Reporter remarks : Gov.
Smith lias offered a reward of $500 for the
person who burned the gin-house of Hon.
C. C. Duncan in Houston county. Is this
the only burnt gin-honae the Governor has
heard of this year, or how ?
Mr. Seaborn Winslett, of Putnam county ,
is dead.
Mr. James C. Smith, of Clinch county, has
made over oue hundred dollars an acre this
season on four acres planted in sugar cane.
A Randolph county man, nearly forty
years of age, has never been inside of a
court bouse while court was in session.
The boiler of a steam saw mill exploded
in Putnam county the other day, without
materially injuring anybody.
Mr. C. H. C. Willingham, of the Rome
Courier, waa presented a cane by the people
of Rome the other day. It was a very
graceful and well deserved tribute to one
of the most thorough and conscientious
journalists that ever put pen to paper.
Mr. Woodward has retired from the
Dahlonega Signal. It will hereafter be
conducted by Messrs. J. E. Neal &, Co.
Mr. J. E. McDade was married to Miss
Katie Burns in Eatonton the other day.
Here’s luck to the young people.
The medical commission appointed by
Governor Smith to investigate the alleged
jnsanity of Brinkley, the Newnan wife-mur
derer, have reported adversely.
Mr. Roese Crawford has resigned as So
licitor of the Muscogee circuit, and Mr-
Grigsby E. Thomas has been appointed .in
his stead.
The colored folks in Thomas county are
having what they call “ festibuls.”
Col. J. R. Hudson, of Putnam county,
made this season sixty bales of cotton with
three males. So says the Eatonton Messen
ger.
The now church at Waycro3B has been
dedicated.
The Sheriff of Early county is punishing
prisoners by stinking them to death.
A nogro boy in Butts county killed his sis
ter and another colored boy the other day
by fooling aroand with a premature shot
gun.
The Atlanta sharpers have got down to
swindling niggers.
Thomas county has a “Fruit and Vegeta
ble Growers’ Association.”
The Early County Manufacturing Compa
ny have suspended.
A man named Thomas Denning was beaten
to death in Dooly county recently.
A premature pistol put an end to the pud
ding-eating propensities of Sam Warren in
Pulaski county recently. Samuel waa some
what colored.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch says that on
Friday night last some wicked incendiary
set fire to the crib of Mr. Thomas L. Grif
fin, on the old McDuffie plantation, in Wil
cox county. The crib and five hundred
bushels of corn, just gathered from the field,
were entirely destroyed, together with about
five stacks of fodder, and some fattening
hogs that were in their beds under the crib.
The loss falls with crushing weight upon
Mr. Griffin, who was in Hawkinsville at the
time with a load of cotton.
Atlanta Constitution: Mr. G. A. Miller,
the veteran journalist of Columbus, climbed
our long flights of stairs this morning. We
were glad to see him looking so well. Ho
had just come from Crawfordsville, and from
Mr. Stephens, whom he has been assisting
during the past eight months in his work
ou a new cyclopedia. Mr. Miller is not san
guine about Mr. Stephens’s speedy recoverv
from his latest attack. He certainly will
not be able to go to Washington before Jan
uary, and it is le&red that even then he
will not not be strong enough to undertake
the journey. Mr. Stephens is becoming ad
vanced in years, and this no doubt ope rates
to make his recovery leas speedy. While all
who understand his case believe that he
may be spared to Georgia several years to
come, yet none are very confident that he
will be strong enough to take his seat in
Congress this winter, and stand its discoin-
f01 ;*and excitements.
t««l- bason, ticket agent, writes from
A11antn in' ♦' wise: “Steer clear of this
t™^ n £, ln „ . -r two. Don’t even pass
town for a week Jf a wi fi be
through on a train. • f^d and rifled. It
overhauled about Vest. ... f ir ... in
beats all towns for cones. '.' n ^ bo ' re8
the whole world, and I think o. t
in the world a ladies’ fair ia the ba t * *
have given Mr. Porter orders to ten . , ■*"
body tb&t I am dead, and have hung cr-..
on my door. 1 am going to get Bill Moore
to write my obituary and publish it. I peep
out of my window sometimes in the direc
tion of the A. J. Markham House, and ever
and anon I see two or three stalwart, fierce
looking female body-snatchers watching
around the corner for & man, aud when he
ventures out they pouDce down upon him
and go through him, and press him into sei-
vice, and make him follow them round from
store to Btore to carry their plunder. I
would be glad to see you come up at any
other time, but not now. I am not living—
not one of the survivors—not sleeping—but
dead.”
LaGrange Reporter : Gentle reader (we
know yon are gentle), who do you suppose
are the funniest men in Georgia ? Not Hav-
erley’s Minstrels, not John Robinson’s
clowns, not even the candidates for Gover
nor. The trustees of the University of
Georgia are just now the funniest men on
the planet. Even.* man of them ought to
have a cap and bells, and spotted breeches.
They have decided that no student at the
University shall pay more than twenty dol
lars a month for board, and one day
last week the students wero hauled
up before the faculty and put on
oath as to the amount they are pay
ing. Some of them had paid for months
ahead and made various other arrange
ments which they could not conveniently
change; but everything had to yield be
fore the inexorable fiat of the trustees. Of
course no one will blame the trustees for
this rule. It is impossible for a boy to get
an education if he pays tweUtj'-one dollars
a month for board. The trustees ought to
go farther; they ought to ordain that no
student shall pay more than twenty cents
for a box of paper collars; that no one
shall buy more than three pints of goobers
per week; that lager must sell three
glasses for a dime ; and that no student shall
treat another, except on borrowed money.
Those aud other equally important regula
tions will suggest themselves to the minds
of the trustees if they would give the sub
ject proper consideration. We beg to sug-
{ lest these changes. But speakiag serious-
y, every friend of the University of Geor
gia must feel grieved at the manner in
which the trustees have been conducting
the affairs of the institution for some time
past. They have allowed the two strongest
men in tho faculty to leave, and now they
seem bent on bringing the institution into
contempt and actually impairing its useful
ness.
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1875.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
BY TELKIPB
THE MORNING NEWS.
Evening Telegrams.
THE ST. LOUIS WHISKY FRAUDS.
Reports of Some Lively Testimony.
ANOTHER VESSEL LOST AT SEA.
Death of a United States Senator.
THE WHISKY FRAUDS.
St. Louis, November 21.—Amended in
dictments are presented in the United States
Court against Wm. McKee and Constantine
McGuire, and one against them jointly.
Other indiotments were found, but against
whom was not ascertained.
Wm. McKee, of the Globe-Democrat, tes
tified. He flt.tly contradicted Engelke.
Fitzroy and McGrue. Neither Joyce nor
Leavenworth paid him money for campaign
or other purposes. He never had personal
knowledge of the whisky ring, and knew
nothing of it except by rumor of what was
published in our paper about it. He was
the head of a paper which represents the
dominant party,and was of course repeatedly
importuned toinierfere in behalf of parties
in trouble with officials.
Constantine McGuire, Bevenuo Collector
from 1873 to 1875, testified that he bad no
connection with the whisky ring, and never
received any money nor had any under
standing with McDonald or others regard
ing this subject.
Marshal Newcomb, United States Marshal
from 1869 to the day before yesterday, tes
tified that he never bad any understanding
with any of the whisky ring ; never received
money from them, or anything of value ;
never know of McDenald placing anything
in the way of investigation by me.
Wm. Patrick, United States District At
torney from 1872 to 1875, testified that he
never bad a conversation with McDonald,
Joyce or any one which connected him with
the whisky ring—never received money
from such sources.
General Boynton, correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette, would not believe Mc-
Grue under oath when personally interest
ed. The defence rested, and Court ad
journed to Monday, when counsel will sum
up.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Washington, November 21.—Probabili
ties : Daring Monday, in the South Atlan
tic and Gulf States, rising aud high barom-
e;ur, northerly to easterly winds, with deci
dedly colder aud partly cloudy weather, and
possibly occasional coast rains will prevail.
In the Tennessee &Dd Ohio valley, high
barometer, north to east winds, possibly
shifting to southeast, with generally clear
and decidedly cold weather.
In the upper Lake region, upper Missis
sippi aud lower Missouri valleys, high, fol
lowed by falling barometer, winds shifting
to southand east, clear or partly cloudy aud
colder weather, except in the two 1 «st dis
tricts, vrhere there will bo occasional snow
and slowly rising temperature.
In the lower Lake region, Middle States
and New England, rising and high barome
ter, falling temperature, fresh and brisk
northeast to northwest winds, generally
clear and decidedly cold weather.
For tho Canal regions of Indiana, Ohio,
Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and New
Jersey the temperature will fall considerably
below freezing Monday night.
YELLOW FEVER.
Galveston, November 21.—The Captain
of the British brig Mystic, off the bar, re
ports all bis crew, himself included, nine in
number, had yellow lever. Three died in
Cuba and oue died this morning. Two
aboard aro convalescing. Three, including
the Captain, have recovered. The vessel is
anchored a mile outside of the (quarantine
station.
AGREED TO DISAGREE.
Washington, November 21.—The jury in
the case of John Frawner, indicted lor the
killing of Thomas A. Kennan, his wife’s
paramour, was to-day discharged, being un
able to agree. They bad been out since
Friday, and stood 10 for acquittal, 2 against.
LOST AT SEA.
San Francisco, November 21.—A portion
of ihe hull of the brig Willimantic, from
Umbolt Bay hither, come ashore at
Gold Bluff. It is supposed that she found
ered in the recent gale. Nothing has been
beard of her crew.
MOODY AND SANKEY.
Philadelphia, November 21.—The San-
key and Moodv meetings commenced to-day
at the old Pennsylvania railroad freight
depot. Between ten and eleven thousand
persons were present.
mutiny.
San Francisco. November 21.—Chinese
advices to the 14th say that the Chinese
crew of the German schooner Anna, muti
nied and murdered the captain and mate.
A WAR INEVITABLE.
San Francisco, November 21.—The Japan
Gazette is informed through sources which
it usually finds reliable, that war with Corea
is inevitable.
O’LEARY—WESTON.
Chicago. November 21.—O’Leary made
503 miles and Weston 4514. O’Leary, who
wins, made bis last mile in" 13 minutes and
11 seconds.
DEAD.
South Norwalk, Conn., November 21.—
United States Senator Orris 8. Ferry died
here this evening. His health has been
failing for some time.
SCANNEL BROTHERS.
8t. Johns, N. B., November 21.—Liabili
ties of Sc&nnel Brothers are a half million
dollars.
Astronomical Item.—A young man,
whose appearance indicated that he was
fresh from the North, was about to mount
a Spanish pony, a few days ago, in front
of a livery stable, to take a little ride for
the benefit of his health. He was sur
prised to notice that when he attempted to
mount all the spectators withdrew to some
distance. They knew how Spanish ponies
pitch sometimes. The doctor explained
to him the reason, subsequently, that
they did not want to be there was to
avoid his falling on them as he came
down so suddenly, and now that young
man entertains an extravagant idea of
the intelligence and foresight of our peo
ple.— San Antonio Herald.
Churches Robbed in West Virginia..—
The Wheeling (West Virginia) Intelli
gencer of the 11th instant says that the
^j^’rches in the country just east of that
citv a ~ e pillaged quite generally.
On Mono’w night the Presbyterian Church
at Elm Grov " was broken into and twelve
or fifteen Bible.' were ^en from the li
brary case. The s. ,m f night the Antioch
church, near SherrarJ"- broken open
and entered by some via ‘ un ;
Bible taken. The Pleasan 4
Church was also visited the s.‘ une
and a very fine Bible was taken' th 6 *® -
from. Nor did the Mount Olivet M- L.
Church escape the midnight maraudors,
a Bible and two commentaries being car
ried away. The school hjuse at Bethle
hem was also broken open, and an over
coat, revolver, and cloak taken. There
may have been other articles taken, as it
is impossible to ascertain the exact extent
of the losses until the librarians of the
different churches submit their reports.
There have been several other small rob
beries of tools, etc., in the same neigh
borhood recently.
The Bankrupt Law. — Philadelphia,
November 15.—The committee to whom
the subject had been referred reported at
the meeting of the Board of Trade to
night in favor of memorializing Congress
to amend the bankrupt act so as to re
quire that all judgments, notes, bonds,
or other instruments conferring or au
thorizing an entry of judgment or other
lien against personal property, should be
entered or recorded on the proper dock
ets of the county wherein the debtor re
sides, and where he does his principal
business, at least four months prior to
the filing of any petition in bankruptcy
by or against the said debtor's security
therefor shall have no lien, priority, pref
erence or procedure over any other claim
in bankruptcy. The report was adopted.
Abbeville (S. C.) Medium: “When the
earthquake occurred on Monday night
there was a political caucus in session
in one of the rooms in the court house,
and it is said the whole crowd instantly
dropped on their knees and made a thou
sand and one promises for the future. It
takes an earthquake to move some
people, and if we could only get the court
house ring cleaned out we would be will
ing to comer on a volcano.”
A gentlemen happening in a certain
store recently, observed a large pile of
patent medicine almanacs on the counter.
Taking up one and examining it, he po
litely inquired, “Are these gratuitous?”
“No,” replied the matter-of-fact store
keeper, “these are almanacs.”
“Latin and Greek are all right,” said a
Delaware farmer as he halted his team,
“but gimme a man who can plow around
an apple tree ’thout touching the roots.”
A SLIGHT FRACAS.
General Imboden Attacked by General
Bradley Johnson.
A Brace of Absconding Bankrupts.
Heavy Snow Storm in the West.
Crooked Whisky and Crooked .Supervi*«ni
THE TEXAS BORDER TROUBLES.
Galveston, November 20.—The following
has been received from San Antonio, Texas,
to-day :
The following telegram was received at
headquarters this morning : Major Alexan
der arrived at Loscueros and reports that
forty men of the Eighth cavalry crossed this
morning before his arrival, by Raudlett’s
order, Major Clendin having left for Bing-
gold to support McNally, who was driven by
the Mexicans to the river. This was done
in violation of orders given by me yesterday
morning. I have directed Major Alexander
to return the troops to the north bank. He
has answered: “It will be done immediately.
I have carried out your instructions in
regard to surrendering the thieves
and returning property.” Major Alexander
reports a large number of troops concen
trating in front of him.
[Signed.] Potter, commanding.
It is by no means impossible that the
Mexicans may take the offensive. Loa-
queros is a notorious den|of Cortina and his
robbers, and not less than oue thousand
conld be assembled there on short notice.
CONFEDERATE GENERALS IN A FRACAS.
Richmond, November 20.—Just previous
to the departure of the 9:20 p. m. northern
b(Mud train to-day, an exciting scene oc-
cu^Rd on one of the cars between General
BraUPy X. Johnson and General John D.
Imboddj^hTlie latter, who was about
going on tbe train, was ap
proached ' by General Johnson, who
after telling Imboden ho had been looking
for him all day administered sundry blows
on his person with a cowhide. Imboden at
once made at Johnson, when the latter
drew a pistol; but before he could
use it they wero separated aud both
arrested. They were taken to the
station house and placed under bonds
of $1,000 each for appearance at the police
court on Monday. The cause of tho assault
is attributed to the evidence given by Im
boden in the contested election case between
Johnson and Knight for seats in the Stato
Senate.
THE CONVENTION AT MEMPHIS.
Memphis, November 20.—In the Texas
Pacific ltailroad Convention there are full
delegations from Arkansas, Tennessee, Mis
sissippi, Cincinnati, and partial delegations
from South Carolina, Missouri, Alabama,
aud Kentucky. Governor Magoffin presided.
Mr. Davis responded to repeated calls. The
resolutions appeal to the people of the Nortn
and country generally for aid, and ask Con
gress to grant, the national credit for the
construction of the road.
Memphis, November 20.—In tho conven
tion, tbe proposal to add St. Louis to the
list of pronossed termini, was debated, and
it was finally resolved that tbe omission was
not done in a spirit of opposition or hostility
to that city. Tbe body then adjourned.
The friends of tho roads are sanguine of
good results.
DESTRUCTIVE 8TORMS.
London, November 20.—Recent gales
around the coasts of Groat Britain have been
terrible, and destructive of life and property.
Tbe Lloyd’s agent at Dover, telegraphs that
it is believed 13 vessels were foundered in
the Downs daring tbe storm last night, and
forty or fifty lives lost. It is estimated
that from five to six hundred vessels of all
s >rts are now anchored in the Downs off
Deal, waiting fair weather.
London, November 20.—The first reports
of the loss of life and vessels are unfound
ed. The Pall Mall Gazelle, however, an
nounces that the coast between Yarmouth
and Lowestoft is strewn with wrecks.
Three vessels are ashore on Goodwin
Sands.
CAPITAL NEWS AND NOTES.
Washington,’ November 20.—The Post
Office has advice of tbe robbery of a mail
on the Corpus Christi route, supposed to bo
by border Mexicans. The mail ambutanoe
with contents was driven off by the robbers.
The Northern mail will reach here at 1:30
p. m. on and after Monday.
Naval promotion—Commodore Trenchard
to Rear Admiral.
Gov. Ames, of Mississippi, was at the In
terior Department to-day.
SHIP ON FIRE.
Boston, November 20.—The Captain of
the ship Favorita, which arrived here to-day
from Manilla, reports, October 1st, latitude
17:0:50 south, longitude 71:0:10, 3aw a largo
vessel on fire; ran down to her, but she sank
in about five minutes after we reached her.
The Favorita cruised around the spot for
two hours, but could not discover any trace
of the crew nor learn anything to establish
the vessel’s identity.
A LIBEL CASE.
San Francisco, November 20.—The com
plaint of Janies W. Simonton, against the
iroprietors of the California Alta for libel,
ias been filed. Damages are placed at
$50,000. The suit is based on an article in
tbe Alta of September 21st, accusing the
plaintiff of doctoring the press dispatches,
and conspiring to break the Bank of Cali
fornia.
NEW YORK DELEGATES.
New York, November 20.—Mayor Wick
ham has appointed a delegation of promi
nent gentlemen to the St. Louis Railroad
Convention.
A FIRE.
Laconia, N. H., November 20.—The A very
building, fired a yeai bud a half ago and
again last Sunday, was burned to the ground
to-day.
ONE MORE.
Milwaukee, November 20.—8. J. Conklin,
ex-8pecial Agent, has been arrested, charg
ed with receiving money from distillers.
BRIDGE BURNED.
Philadelphia,November 20.—Tho wooden
bridge over the Schuylkill at Market street,
was burned, caused by a defective gas pipe.
THE BUMMER.
Washington, November 20.—Gen. Sher
man goes to Florida to spend the winter.
FROM CUBA.
Havana, November 20.—Yalmasoda went
to the field of operations to-day.
THE
OKEFENOKEE—WITHIN AND
WIT! OUT.
Sketches of Incident aud Adventure
What Georgia Produces.—The estab
lishment of a “Department of Agricul
ture,” or, rather, an agricultural exhibi
tion, in Central Georgia, is doing much
toward making better known the plant
ing and farming interests of that State.
The object of the institution is the ex
hibiting of the various products of the
State, and obtaining data as to the ex
tent of the territory applicable to the
raising of the various products. Among
those now on exhibition, and which are
or can be successfully cultivated, are the
following: Five ears of corn, weighing
8$ pounds; upland rice ; banana Spanish
potatoes; Cuba and St. Domingo yams ;
Georgia made sugar; tea plant; genuine
goober pea; chufas, or earth almond,
aud hemp and jute. There are potatoes
from Lookout Mountain, which are said
to equal the best in market. Among the
varieties aro Compton’s Surprise, 15
ounces; Peerless, 16$ ounces; Snow
Flake, and Boundless Beauty, 134
ounces.—N. Y. Bulletin.
MORE FAILURES.
York, November 20.-
-Cladios B.
Conaut has failed for $110,000.
London, November 20.—Sloane & Rich
ards, metnl brokers, have suspended. Lia
bilities $500,00.).
New Orleans, November 20.—The failure
of Wallace A Co., wholesale dry goods deal
ers, is reported, with liabilities amounting
to $75,000: assets $500,000.
SPAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.
Madrid, November 20.—It is stated that
all foreigners tried in Cuba for participation
the rebellion shall have counsel. The
Cronista says the last American note was
discussed in the Cabinet yesterday. Mean
while tho situation is satisfactory and
promises a favorable and early settlement
of tbe pending questions relative to the
United States.
HEAVY SNOW STORM.
Omaha, November 20.—Reports from the
West show a very heavy fall of snow and
sovere storm extending from Laramie City
on the east, and beyond Corinne and Elks
on the west, during the past week. To
day’s train from the West was three hours
late, but all other trains are reported as
running on time.
A CROOKED SUPERVISOR.
Louisville, November 20.—In the case of
tho Uni.ed States versus O. H. Burbridge,
special supervising agent of the treasury,
with headquarters at New Orleans, pending
since April Gth, for $47,000 alleged deficien
cy, a verdict against Burbridge in $36,000
was rendered.
ABSCONDED.
New York, November 20.—Chas. B. Orvis
and Dexter A. Reid, two dealers in hard
ware, occupying rooms in the building No.
52 Centre street, absconded, leaving debts
behind aggregating from seventy-five thous
and to one hundred thousand dollars.
OUT OF EMPLOYMENT.
Middletown, N. Y., November 20.—Three
hundred persons are out of employment by
tho suspension of work in the tanneries,
caused by the depression in the leather
trade.
FROM RANGOON.
London, November 20.—The 7\mes has a
Calcutta special, which says the alarm at
Rangoou originated from a band of robbers
who attempted to seize the arsenal. There
is no political signification in it.
ROBBING AN EXPRESS WAGON.
Chicago, November 20.—While the driver
of the United Express Company was de
livering a package, the wagon was driven
off and robbed of forty thousand dollars’
worth of goods. No arrests.
TURKEY.
London, November 20.—The Morning
Post has a report that the Turkish Ambas
sador at St. Petersburg was suddenly sum
moned to Constantinople. The weather is
tempestuous. Much damage.
MORE SUSPENSIONS.
New York, November 20.—Rosenheim &
Libman, dealers in fancy goods ; the Union
Braiding Works, and Mahon A Murray,
dealers in peddler’s supplies, suspended yes
terday.
DEAD.
Rome, November 20.—Cardinal Pietro Di
Galvestriisdead.
Troy, November 20.—Wm. Meniman, a
newspaper man and Herald war correspond
ent, is dead.
WTT.T. burned.
Detroit, Mich., November 20.—The large
saw mill of Reynolds A Emlaw, at Grand
Haven, was burned last evening. Loss,
about $50,000.
factory burned.
Cincinnati, November 20.—The factory of
Harshman, McKenzie A Co., at Union City,
Ind., was burned yesterday. Loss $20,000.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Erie, Pa., November 20.—Jacob Wal-
neyons, sixty years old, killed his eldest
daughter and himself.
POSTPONED.
San Francisco, November 20.—The race
has been postponed to the 25th.
Two Massachusetts Dogs. — Those
who love dogs will be interested by these
incidents : An English eetter dog, owned
by Tho nas W. Lane, at West lioxbury,
Mass., while out hunting the other day,
brought to his master a pocket book con
taining $425, which he had found in the
woods. The owner’s name was found in
it, and the dog now wears a thirty-dollar
silver collar, presented by tbe owner of
the wallet as a reward of intelligence.
The body of Mr. C. C. Moulton’s little
son, who was drowned at Springfield,
Mass., lately, was recovered through the
sagacity of a dog that was near the mill
pond when the little fellow was drowned.
No person had seen the boy at the pond,
aud search was made for him in every
other direction. The dog coaxed so
hard for them to go in that direction that
at last suspicion was aroused that the
child might havo been drowned, and the
water in the pond was drawn off, and the
body found.
Mr. Caspar Buberl, a German artist of
this city, who executed in marblo Valen
tine’s recumbent figure of General Lee,
at Richmond, Va., in so thoroughly an
artistic manner, has sent to that city a
statuette of the General which has ex
cited the most favorable opinion of the
artist’s skill. The figure is about two
feet high, in military costume. The pose
is very artistic, and the grouping of the
cannon, saddle, etc., as accessories, are
happily introduced. The artist is spoken
of by the local press in connection with
the proposed equestrian statue of General
Lee.—Appletons' Journal.
BY M. B. GRANT, (PAUL TRANSIT), CIVIL EN
GINEKB.
A Bad System.—“No, sir—no, sir,
remarked an old Detroit collector, “this
carrier system should never have been
tolerated for a day. Wtiy, sir, seven or
eight years ago if I had a bill against a
man I’d come to the post office and be
likely to nab him the first thing, but now
he hires a room on some fourth floor, has
his letters shoved under the door, and
while I’m up there knocking away he’s
looking through a gimlet hole and grin
ning like a Chicago alderman ! ”—Free
Press.
Burned to Death—Suspected Foul
Play.—Cincinnati, November 17.—The
Gazette's Jackson, Ohio, special says:
Mrs. Mary Bruce was found burned to
death yesterday, near the burning dwel
ling of Mrs. Lowder. Her sknll was
fractured, and it is supposed the woman
was assaulted in the house during Mrs.
Lowder’s absence, and the house was
fired to conceal the fact, but she crawled
out and died. Nathan Lowder, son of
Mrs. Lowder, has been arrested, but the
evidence is wholly circumstantial.
It is no small affair to hold the office of
Mayor of London. A man of moderate
fortune cannot perform the duties of the
office, as in addition to the $50,000 al
lowed him to pay his “expenses,” he has
to spend as much more from his private
purse to pay for all the banquets and
balls he is in duty bound to give, beside
disbursing largely to public charities.
About $100,000 will just take his honor
through the year. As Cotton is enor
mously rich, he stands a chance of get
ting through the ordooL
Those Italian Murderers.—Denver,
Nocerriber 17.—Frank Valindero, oue of
the party who murdered the four Italians
in this city several weeks ago, has been
captured, and was to-day brought to this
city. He was the only one of the as
sassins at large. All will be tried soon.
Several of the band have confessed the
crime since incarceration, and it is be
lieved all of them, seven in number, will
be hanged.
—J-
A Colont of Ostriches.—Montgomery
Queen has purchased one hundred Afri
can ostriches, and is about colonizing
them on his place near Haywoods, a
small town fifteen miles from San Fran
cisco. It is Mr. Queen's intention to
raise ostriches solely for their plumage,
each bird yielding over $200 worth of
feathers yearly. He has invested $100,-
000 in the enterprise.—Denver News.
The Mobile Register says: “Up to
very recently ‘Europe’ was tbe word that
sounded in the ears of all Northern per
sons of this country in bad health, but
now ‘the South’ is rapidly taking its
place. Our section of the country is
fairly beginning to attract that attention
which it justly merits as a health resort,
and so we know the battle is more than
half won.”
He was a sharp looking little man, who
had offered to go on the bail-bond of a
prisoner. The counsel for the people
was suspicious, and asked him quite
sternly:
“Do I understand you to swear that
you are a property holder in this county?”
“You do,” he answered, proudly; “I
own two lots in a buryin’ ground less’n
quarter mile from here.”
A tramp at South Wyndham, Conn.,
entered a house the other evening while
the family were temporarily absent,
passed the night in the guest chamber,
aud after helping himself to a breakfast
from the pantry, departed before any of
the family got up in the morning. A
dress which had been lying on the bed
was carefully placed on a chair, and be
yond that nothing was disturbed.
An enthusiastic caller at the White
House suggested to the President that
the result of the recent elections pointed
unmistakably to the renomination and
re-election of General Grant to the Presi
dency. The President smiled, and
pleasantly responded, “We can’t tell what
will happen.”
The other day, when a Detroit grocer
spelled sugar “s-h-u-g-a-r,” a friend
pointed out the word and remarked,
“That word isn’t spelled quite right.”
“Ha! I see,” laughed the grocer, one
would think I had no education.” And
he crossed it out and wrote s-h-u-g-o-r.—
Free Press,
PART IIL
Before describing the Swamp, I wish
to refer to the section of country sur
rounding it in Georgia, and generally
known as the “wire-grass region,” and
more especially that portion in imme
diate proximity to, or in easy access of,
the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, which
passes directly through it. Erroneous
impressions have existed as to the true
character of this section and its ad
vantages for settlers, those only
having been correctly informed
in regard thereto who have
had the opportunity of traversing
leisurely. The Gulf Road may properly
be said to enter this wire grass region
after crossing the Altamaha river, and
leaving it when the oak and hickory
lands of Southern Georgia' are reached,
in Lowndes county, though a much
larger area to the west and south has
been inclnded in speaking in general
terms of the “ wire-grass region.”
This whole country is heavily tim
bered with the best of yellow pine,
and probably embraces as large an
area of timbered land, in one body,
as can be found in the South.
The whole country is well watered by
streams, many of them abounding in
fish. No section can equal it in health
or surpass it in climate. Between the
Little and Big Satilla rivers and in the
vicinity of these streams the surface is
rolling, having a subsoil of clay, and
well adapted to the growth of all varie
ties of fruit. From the Satilla to the
Alapaha the surface is flat, though ele
vated. Beyond the Alapaha the surface
is again rolling. The soil is good
throughout, and with proper at
tention well repays cultivation. Every
where corn, cotton, sweet pota
toes and sugar cane are raised, and
also vegetables in abundance. For farm
ing and stock-raising generally, the as
sertion can safely be made, that it has
every requisite. It is true that richer
soils can be found in other and less ex
tensive regions, but whose very rich na
tural soil is the sole consideration, it of.
ten happens that other and even greater
advantages are not to be found. To the
permanent settTer, the combination
of the greatest number of advan
tages must control, and most
important among these is health. The
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad has already
accomplished wonders in ^he develop
ment of this whole country, and tho
work is still going on and the settlers
coming in. This railioad is a silent but
potent feeder to Savannah, and must be
relied on as a main support, and it is to
be hoped that every encouragement and
inducement will be given for its further
extension and increased prosperity.
The same character of timber and soil
extend to the borders of the Okefeenokee,
where we again find ourselves in the
“Cow House.” On the Monday following
our arrival at the Swamp, we employed
ourselves in cleaning up and adjusting
our instruments, and making other
needed preparations for commencing our
survey.
lu order to obtain ihe knowledge
requisite to effect the objects of the sur-
ve3*s, it was evidently necessary to ascer
tain the size and shape of the Swamp,
and the difference of elevation of its sur
face at different points, as neaily as prac
ticable. On our first arrival in the
Swamp in what is called the “ Cow
House,” on its northeast side, I found by
actual trial that the level could not be
run over that portion of it, in the ordi
nary manner, on account of the
yielding and tremulous character of
the soil. The difficulty consisted in
the fact that the instrument could not be
made to retain a level position long
enough to take the necessary back and
foresights. This I afterwards found to
be the case with the whole of the eastern,
and, indeed, of most other parts of it,
though perhaps in a less degree. The
greater portion of the Swamp is also cov
ered by a very dense undergrowth, which,
with the difficulty already mentioned,
would have caused it to consume a great
deal of time to make any extensive
examinations of the interior with the level.
Under these circumstances, I concluded
that as it would be necessary to run a com
pass line around the whole Swamp in or
der to ascertain its size and shape, it
would be advisable to run a correspond
ing line of levels, and take the level of
its edge at many different points. From
these I believed that a sufficiently accu
rate knowledge of the relative elevation
of different portions of its interior might
be obtained to answer the purposes of an
experimental survey. If the Swamp should
hereafter be drained, it will, of course,
be necessary to make more thorough
and minute instrumental examinations.
Tho running the line around the swamp,
station stakes with thrir respective num
bers upon them, were driven in the
ground every quarter of a mile, and there
were permanent marks (technically called
benches) made upon trees every three or
four miles for future reference. The
latter will be useful as starting points for
any lines of levels that may hereafter be
run.
It being one of the objects of the
many to ascertain the character of the
interior of the Swamp, three principal
explorations of it were made. The first
nearly through the centre from west to
east, the second through a considerable
portion of the southern part of the
swamp, and the third across it from west
to east, some miles north of the first.
We also penetrated it for several miles at
different points on the east side, and ex
plored the two prongs of the Suwannee
three or four miles above their point of
junction, where that river runs out of
the swamp on the west side.
A ridge varying in height from twenty-
five to thirty-five feet above tho swamp
runs along the eastern ridge of it for many
miles, and separates it from the St.
Mary’s after that stream returns from its
great detour to the south, and from
Spanish Greek, which runs into the St.
Mary’s from the north, at a point nearly
opposite the middle of the Swamp. To
ascertain the most favorable point for
cutting through this ridge these lines were
drawn across it fiom the swamp, viz.:
one to the bed of Cow House Creek; one to
Stanley’s branch, and down the latter to
the St. Mary’s, and the third and most
northern one to Spanish Creek. Besides
Suwannee, Cane and Surveyors’ Creeks,
the Suwannee river receives the waters of
Alligator and Gum Swamp Creeks, and
of the Double Branches, the two former
reaching far back into the country, and
the three last of which run into the
northern part of the Swamp. The
Suwannee river, in a distance of fourteen
miles from where it leaves the Swamp,
falls some thirteen feet. In times of
high water its surface, where it runs out,
is above the adjacent swamp, and thus it
fails to famish a free outlet for the
waters of the Swamp when it is most
needed. The same difficulties attend the
other great outlet ef the swamp, the St.
Mary’s river, and the extreme southern
end of the swamp. This river receives
all the water that flows into the swamp
on its east side, besides all the rain water
that falls on that portion of the swamp.
The line of levels which was run around
the whole swamp and connected with
tide-water in the St. Mary’s river, near
Trader’s Hill, furnishes the following in
formation in regard to the elevation of
the surface at different points: The high
est point of the swamp is at its northern
extremity, where it is 126$ feet above
tide-water. Near Ellicot’s Mound, where
the branch of the St. Mary’s leaves the
swamp, it is 111$. A nearly uniform de
scent continues to the southeast comer of
the Swamp, Where the Sawaona comes
out of the Swamp on the west, it is about
1104 feet
The length of the Swamp from north
to south is 394 miles, and its greatest
width 254. The whole area of the Swamp
is about 400,430 acres, of which about
5,530 lie within the State of Florida, and
394,900 in Georgia. It is estimated that
the Suwannee river now drains an area
of swamp and the adjacent country to
the extent of 428,000 acres. It is also
estimated that the St. Mary’s at Ellicot’s
Mound now receives the drainage of
176,000 acres.
£* Such information of a statistical na
ture, as was considered proper and
necessary to a comprehensive understand
ing of these sketches, has been drawn
from the official reports of our surveys.
The proposed plans of drainage, esti
mates of cost, analysis of soil, tabular
statements, etc., properly belong only to
the official document, and in this connec
tion I desire to state, that the report of
Col. Richard L. Hunter (Col. Watch-
overall), is thorough and exhaustive of
the subject, and will prove of great value
should the drainage of the Swamp be
undertaken.
To those who may be sufficiently inter
ested in these sketches, reference to a
map of the Swamp will aid very much as
to locations and surroundings.
Near the upper end of the “Cow
House,” and not far from our camp, we
discovered an Indian mound, some dozen
feet in diameter and three or four feet
high, which, answering our purpose ex
actly, we determined to adopt as zero
(starting point for our surveys). This
mound was, in general character, similar
to others that we found in different parts
of the Swamp, differing only in size and
shape, and containing human bones very
much decayed, together with Indian ar
row points made of flint rock, pieces
of clay pottery, etc., which are to be
found in nearly all of them. The Indians
evidently used stone hatchets lor chop
ping, which fact was confirmed by the
jagged appearance of the stumps, where
trees had been cut off by them, as also
in the case of notches cut by them in
trees which were discovered in different
parts of the Swamp.
Our anxiety to enter the Swamp had
reached fever heat, and the Colonel con
sented to our immediate exploration as
far in as the Double Branches, before we
should commence our surveys, at the
same time expressing the hope that
we would always be as anxious to
go on an exploration when required. The
party were a unit as to going in, with
tbe exception of Adam, who said it was
not his business, and Brahma, who evi
dently imagined that he had discovered
something ominous as to the future in
the Indian mound and its contents. He
had grave suspicions that all the Indians
were not dead and buried in similar
mounds, that some wero yet in the
Swamp, and he even went so far as to
assert that on the previous night he had
distinctly heard the barking of dogs in
the Swamp, which he knew were Indian
dogs by the very bark. We mildly sug
gested that it might have been Boots,
but he indignantly refuted the idea of
Boots going into the Swamp alone ; and
possibly, his conclusions as to our valor
ous Boots were correct.
LETTER FROM EATONTON.
A Telegraph Line—Cotton Picking—The
Weather—.Military Notes—A Brick
Warehouse.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Eatonton, November 20, 187
“THE CAMPBELLS ABE COMING.”
That is thtv telegraph is. The poets
and the wires are up as for as Dennis
station, or thereabout, and soon we peo
ple of Eatonton can communicate with
outside barbarians m a more expeditious
manner than ever before.
COTTON PICKING DRAGS.
Most of tbe niggers have found that
they will not make fortunes this year—
as the fools expect to do with every crop
—and so they don’t trouble themselves
about gathering the cotton that is still
left in the field. Even in the best of
weather they pick not more than half the
time that they might, if they would try
hard. And they are very much demoral
ized. Poor idiots! “Dumb, driven cat
tle !” They will go idle, crazy, drunk
or what not, for tbe next two months—
for they can all manage to get enough to
•subsist for that length of time—doing
scarcely any farm work; and after that
they will be obliged to wake up and do
something.
THE FACT IS,
farming in this section the present year,
as a general rule, has not paid either
landlord or tenant, employer or em
ployed. What is to become of this coun
try perhaps Horace Greeley, if he were
alive, conld tell; or mayhap that mad
cap, Mr. Lecturer G. F. Train, if he
hadn’t quit eating meat. Perhaps Rev.
Mountebank Beecher would try his hand.
What sayest thou to a hare, or the
melancholy of Moor-ditch ?” But away
with these “unsavoury similes.”
THE WEATHER.
When I wrote last it was raining. That
was on the 14th. The ground again be
came saturated. In the afternoon it
‘held up,” and was very uncertain until
Tuesday, toward night, when it began to
turn cool, after a clear-off, and next
morning it was what the hog-drovers
used to call “cold as flugens”—whatever
they meant by it—and continued so till
Thursday afternoon, when it began to
turn warm, to cloud up, and by midnight
it was iaining. Giminae! “Vat vead-
ers !” Yesterday afternoon it brightened
out once more; and so it goes.
SUPPER OF PUTNAM RIFLES.
This affair came off last night under
the supervision of the ladies of Eaton
ton, and that is saying enough. Who
can or will undertake to praise, where
language can convey no adequate idea ?
It was, like everything else undertaken
by those fairy fingers, excellence itself.
A BRICK WAREHOUSE.
There is a wooden warehouse in the
depot yard, run by Mr. F. Leverett; but
in the last few days it is rumored that
gentlemen from abroad are here, pros
pecting for the erection of a brick ware
house, to be placed on tho now vacant lot
between McDade’s and Sparks’s.
Deputy K.
LETTER FROM FORT DADE.
Generoaa Act of a North Carolinian.
Bbooksyille, Hernando County, Fla. >
November 15, 1875.
Editor Morning News:
“In the course of human events,” and.
more particularly, in the coarse of pres
ent defaulting, ring and general rascally
events, it is, or should be, a delight to
writer to record, and a pleasure to every
good man to read, a deed of voluntary
munificence, no matter where oi
whom performed. It is my pleasure to
write down one.
Not long since, a worthy gentleman from
North Carolina came to this county in
search of health, and fixed his home in
the neighborhood of Fort Dade. He
opened a small school witti a view to in
struct the little ones, but his kindness,
generosity, and earnest efforts in their
behalf, soon increased bis school to such
an extent, that his small house could illy
afford room for his pupils. With a heart
abounding with love for his charge,
intimated to the citizens of the neighbor
hood that ho would gladly furnish the
means to purchase a tract of land and
build thereon a large, neat and comfort
able house, and donate the same in per
petuity to the neighborhood, if they
would select the land and appoint & com
mittee to superintend the building of the
house.
On Saturday, the 13th inst., a meeting
of the citizens of Fort Dade neighbor
hood convened at the Masonic Lodge, to
consider of and devise measures to avail
themselves of this generous offer.
The meeting organized by electing R.
M. Wilson, Esq., Chairman, and Judge
W. B. Center Secretary.
The chairman, in a few brief but elo
quent words, explained the object of the
meeting ; after which Col. D. H. Thrash
er, Hon. N. A. Carter, Parson Swaine,
Manning Smith, and others followed,
and in glowing language set forth the
importance ot educating the young and
rising generation of our State aud county,
and depicting the curse of ignorance and
the disadvantages and setbacks of the
uneducated, each speaker taking occasion
to eulogize the donor of the generous gift
aforesaid.
On motion of Col. Thrasher, the chair
man appointed the following committee
to select the location and superintend
the building of the house, to wit: J. R.
O’Berry, S. L. Hancock, J. W. Hudson
Robert Sumner, N. A. Carter, D. H.
Thrasher, W. J. Albritton and Manning
Smith, to which said committee the
chairman on motion was added. It
unanimously
Resolved, That the Savannah Morning
News be requested to publish the pro
ceedings of the meeting.
The name of the magnanimous and
generous son of the old North State is the
Hon. P. Wilkins, the remembrance of
whose noble act will never be forgotten
by the good people of Fort Dade, and
long after his earthly race is run and his
soul has crossed the deep waters tho
young beneficiaries of his munificence
will rise up and bless the name and deed
of P. Wilkins.
Yours, Lr.x
Charley Ross Again—A Carious Case,
Philadelphia, November 18. — In
formation reached this city a few days
ago from Connecticut that a woman had
been travelling through several villages
of that State with a little boy resem
bling strongly the missing Charley Ross.
The fact was communicated to Mr.
Ross, and a photograph asked for. The
picture wab sent to Thomaston, Conn.,
where the woman was stopping, oncT it
is said that the boy corresponds in fea
tures very strongly to those in the pho
tograph. On Wednesday night Mr. Ross
received a telegram from Thomaston
signed by A. P. Bunnell, stating that tbe
boy is Charley Ross beyond doubt, but
that the woman could not be arrested
without authority from the Governor.
This morning Mr. Christian Ross tele
graphed to Mr. Bunnell, at Thomaston,
requesting him to take the woman and
child, (the latter supposed to be the lost
Charley Ross,) referred to in the telegram
received the night before, to the telegraph
office in that town, in order to question
them by wire, and to learn from the ope
tors and others the color of the hair and
eyes of the child, and what other infor
mation could be obtained. Bunnell sent
back an answer immediately that the
woman and the boy were at a house about
four and a half miles out of town, but
that he and the sheriff, who bad procured
a writ for the woman’s arrest if it were
needed to take her into custody, would
start for the place and have them brought
to the telegraph office as requested. The
party expected to be back about 2 o’clock
p. m., but it was not until 6 o’clock that
night that the sheriff telegraphed that
both the woman and child had disappear
ed and could not be found.
While the search was going on after
them he inquired of several persons who
had seen the boy as to the color of his
eyes. Some said they were blue and
others gray. Bunnell, however, insisted
that the child had bright dark eyes, and
telegraphed that he is determined to find
the woman, and is confident of success.
The mysterious female claims tbe child
as her own, and told several persons in
the vicinity of Thomaston that she re
sided at Hamden, Conn., which is a town
about twenty-eight miles from the for
mer place. It seems that the woman has
been travelling through the State for
some weeks, accompanied by the sup
posed Charley Ross, and Mr. Ross had
received a letter a few days ago in rela
tion- to her movements, although no at -
tention was paid to the matter until the
telegram was received from Thomaston
yesterday morning.
Capture of a Counterfeiting Gang.
—New York, November 17.—For some
time past a gang of counterfeiters have
been flooding the city with counterfeit
five cent pieces. Captain Kinnock, chief
of the secret service in this district, last
night received information that the coun
terfeiters resided at No. 77 Eldridge
street, and proceeding there he arrested
five of them—Mrs. Ellen Barney, aged
seventy years; her daughter, Mrs. Eliza
Kinny, and Mrs. Kinny’s children : Liz
zie, aged thirteen years; Francis, eleven;
and K&lie, eight Captain Kinnock
searched the house, and found three hun
dred spurious five-cent pieces and also a
mould for making counterfeit money. All
the prisoners were brought before the
United States court to-day. The children
stated that their grandmother forced
them to pass the counterfeit money.
Emannel Demott, the reputed stepfather
of the children, is at present in the State
prison for counterfeiting the five-cent
nickel.
A volunteer New Orleans reporter, who
wanted “just to try his hand,” he said,
“on the graveyards,” brought in the fol
lowing : “Near the entrance of th6 ceme
tery stood the Grecian mausoleum of
Fire Company No. , its gorgeous aud
brilliant decorations showing that the
gallant boys do not forget that their de
parted comrades are still bravely battling
with the fiery elements in another world. ”
The yonng man was not engaged
The Chicago board of education has re
fused, by a vote of elven to two, to re
store Bible reading in the schools.
A Man Throws a Lighted Lamp at
His Wife.—Troy, November 16. —Jane
Costello died in this city yesterday, the
victim of a shocking murder. On Sat
urday night John Costello, her husband,
entered their dwelling in Fourth street
under the influence of liquor. The
couple quarrelled about the disposition
of the man’s wages. Costello threw a
stove cover at his wife, which she
dodged Costello then left the house,
but returned in an hour more intoxica
ted than before. In his absence his wife
had drank some liquor. The quarrel
was renewed. Mrs. Costello was heard
by the neighbors to exclaim, “Put that
lamp down.” Then there was a thud,
a sound of breaking glass, a scream, and
Mrs. Costello rushed into the street a
mass of flames. Her husband had
thrown the burning lamp at her, and the
contents scattered over her clothes.
Before any person dared approach the
woman, her garments had burned to
ashes, and her flesh was shockingly
charred and disfigured. Her piteous
shrieks for help aroused the entire neigh
borhood, and the excitement was in
creased by a general alarm of fire which
was rung by some excited person. 'The
woman was at length taken back to her
dwelling, where she received proper med
ical attendance. Her husband was ar
rested immediately after the fatal act was
committed. He is thirty-seven years of
age, and his wife was thirty-five. The
couple have one son, who was born before
they were married, and who is now in the
House of Refuge.
PROGRAMME FOR THE
TERM.
THIRD
What a Gentleman In the Inner Circle
at Waahiagten Saya A boat It.
Washington, November 16.—It is per
fectly patent to any ordinarily intelligent
man who has any acquaintance with the
public men who live in Washington, or
who frequent it, that the third term
movement is daily growing in strength.
After an absence of several months from
the city, I returned one week after the
Pennsylvania election, and although ex
pecting to find an increased zeal on the
part of the third term agitators, I was
not prepared for the altered tone with
which almost every man I met spoke on
this subject Republicans who had invaria
bly scouted the idea of Grant securing a
renomination a third time from the Re
publican party, admitted that it was
within the range of probabilities. Others
who had time and again declared them
selves unequivocally against such a
scheme, hesitated when I asked them if
they thought it possible that the people
of this country would take the risk of
electing Grant again. When the ques
tion was pressed home and an answer in
sisted npon, they, with here and there
an exception, admitted that there were
certain exigencies in public affairs which
might arise which would imperatively
demand Grant’s re-election. From these
conversations I drew the following con
clusions:
First. That Grant has definitely made
up his mind to secure a renomination
from the Republican party, and that he
will use all the power he can exercise to
compel it.
Secondly. That if the present members
of his Cabinet who are supposed to be
ambitious of Presidential honors them
selves don’t become cordial co-operators
in the third term project, they will have
to give way to men like Chandler. It is
no secret that Postmaster-General Jewell
will have to go if he does not allow his
department to be run in the third term
interest.
Thirdly. The two war cries with which
the people are to be rallied to Grant a
third time will be down with the traitors
and opposition to Catholics. On this
platform Grant and bis friends are confi
dent of winning the next Presidential
race.
Jim Casey told me a few nights since
that, as the representative of loyalty and
Protestantism, Grant would have mere
positive strength in 1876 than he had in
1868 or 1872.
I do not believe that Secretary Bristow
is in favor of & third term, but at the
same time I am satisfied that he will not
oppose the scheme. He will co&lent
himself with the work he has in hand—
the administrative reform of his depart
ment and the placing of the new 44 per
cent. loan. He has a hold on Grant whioh
none of his associates have, and if he does
not choose to take an active interest in
Grant's re-election, he will be suffered to
remain where he is. He must, however,
give up his own Presidential longing.
As to the possibilities of a war with
Spain no man living save U. S. Grant can
tell. If he really meditates a war with
Spain as a means to a certain end he
guards the secret in his own breast. It
is undeniable, however, that fiom the
highest to the lowest officer in our navy
there is a religious belief that war is not
only possible, but highly probable.
They get this impression from the bureau
officers in the Navy Department, who
are industriously circulating the story
that a difficulty with Spain is almost un
avoidable. I am more than half inclined
to believe that Secor Robeson has given
this cue to his subordinates, and that it
is designed to cover some extraordinary
expenditures which he has made or is
about to order.
Da. Helmbold’s Case.—Dr. H. T.
Helmbold is trying hard to get out of the
Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane, in
which he has been confined for the last
two months. He appeared before Judge
Barrett yesterday, to take advantage of a
fancied defect in the order of Judge
Donohue committing to confinement for
lunacy. His wife was represented by
counsel, who opposed a motion for the
dismissal of the commitment, and it was
asserted that in her belief Charles L.
Fox well, a former clerk for Helmbold,
was endeavoring to secure his liberty in
order to get possession of the buchu
business, now conducted in her in
terest. It was also shown that
Dr. Helmbold’s lunacy had been
affirmed by Drs. Joseph Wooster
and J. M. B. Cross, after a thorough ex
amination. Dr. Cross is famous as an
expert in insanity. Judge Barrett de
cided that the commitment is valid. Dr.
Helmbold while in the court room mani
fested no indications of mental disturb
ance. His malady takes the form of fre
quent outbursts of madness, with inter
vening periods of quiet. He is constantly
alert for possibilities of escape, and is
watched closely. His fare is the best
that can be had in the asylum, the pay
being taken out of his fortune, which is
in the hands of his family. The failure
of the last legal effort for freedom de
pressed him greatly, and as he accom
panied the attendant out of the court
room, he said he was going back to im
prisonment for life.—N. Y. Sun. llith.
A drag driven by an elegantly attired
lady, and with a trim ano neatly-dressed
colored boy perched on the footman’s seat
behind, was passing through the streets,
when it was espied by an old negro
woman. “Bress de Lord,” she exclaimed,
raising her hands as she spoke, “Bress de
Lord, I never ’spected to see dat. Won
der what dat culled young gemmen pays
dat young white ’oman fur drivin’ dat
kerridge? I know’d it’d come, but never
’spected to lib to see it. Dis nigga’s
ready to go ’way now.”
The life of Mr. George Belmore, the
English actor, who died in New York on
Monday, was insured for £1,000, which,
with his other property, will make his
family comfortable.
An Attachment Against the Secre
tary of the Treasury Refused.—The
case of Thomas H. Gardner against E. F.
Anderson, for damages for defamatory
words contained in a letter written to the
Secretary of the Treasury, at Washing
ton, was continued in the United States
Circuit Court on Monday, to give time to.
the counsel for Gardner to procure a copy
of the letter, without which he could not
go to trial. Mr. Hobbs, for Mr. Gardner,
asked for an attachment to compel the
Secretary of the Treasury to appear in
court and produce the letter. Judge
Bond over-ruled the motion for the at
tachment on the ground that an act of
Congress makes copies of papers in the
various departments of the General Gov
ernment evidence. The act, the Judge
said, was passed to prevent the hind
rance to public business which would re
sult if the Secretary of a department
was required to appear when summoned
witaess throughout the country.
Gardner wa.« a clerk in the Appraiser’s
office in Baltimore, and he charges that
the letter referred to caused his dismis
sal.—Baltimore Sun, 17th.
The Election in Maryland.—The
Secretary of State has furnished a care
fully revised statement of the recent elec
tion in Maryland for Governor, Comp
troller and Attorney General, and also of
the vote on the constitutional amendment
proposing restrictions on removal of cases
from one court to another. From this
statement it appears that Mr. Carroll,
Democrat, for Governor, had 85.454 votes,
and Mr. Harris, Reformer, 72,530 votes—
Mr. Carroll’s majority being 12,924. Mr.
Woolford. Democrat, for Comptroller,
had 86,240 votes, and Mr. Wilkins, Re
former, 71,073 votes—Mr. Woolford’s
majority being 15,167, which is his exact
majority in Baltimore city. Mr. Gwinn,
Democrat, for Attorney General, had 86,-
411 votes, and Mr. Wallis, Reformer, 72,-
898—Mr. Gwinn’s majority being 12,631.
The vote on the constitutional amendment
waa 53,355 for and 21,474 against it—be
ing a majority in its favor of 31,881.—
Baltimore Sun.
PAUL KOBPBY.
The Receat Career .1 «**
Re-owneiChe—PlMer-He Beee»ee a
H.peleaa .Maniac.
[New Orleans Cor. Chicago Timer.]
Fifteen years ago the name of m
Morphy, the famous chess-player, was »
familiar as household words m aim
every portion of the civiliaed world,
was a lion in his day, and no mistai ,
and for a yonng man—he was not o
twenty then—be made considerable noise.
For a twelvemonth he was a ^sensation,
and then passed away from public no “
and fame, as suddenly as he had risen
those giddy heights.
Among those who recollect the brilliant
career of the great chess king, there are
very few who could tell you anything
about his existence during the past ten
years, or, indeed, whether he lives or is
dead. ; . ,
But it is safe to assume that the revival
of the subject here will prove a matter of
much interest to thousands, for although
Morphy dropped from the world s new
many years ago he has not by any means
been forgotten ; and the very mention of
his name, almost anywhere, will suffice to
awaken a curious desire to know what
has become of him, and what has been
his history since he resigned his crown in
the domain of chess.
With the wonderful and dazzling career
of Morphy in 1859 and I860 all men are
familiar. What led to it will here be re-
cited. He was bom in New Orleans in
1840, of a Creole family, rich and re
spected. When a mere lad he evinced
an aptitude for chess, and in six months
after having played his first game he de
veloped into a marvelous player. He not
only beat his father and his teachers, but
vanquished the best chess players in the
city, and in three months more bad so
progressed that among the most skillful
players at the game in New Orleans and
there were many good ones here—none
could even approach him.
At this time his fame had traveled not
only to the North in his own country,
but to Europe, and then his star began
to rise until it became brightly conspicu
ous oa two continents. His entrance
upon the life of a public chess-player was
effected against the remonstrances of his
parents and bis kindred, who saw some
thing ignoble in the public parade of
young Morphy’s talents, and the cultiva
tion of the notoriety which would neces
sarily follow. But Paul was charmed
at the prospect of becoming famous,
and no argument could turn him
from the course upon which he
had set his soul. So he became great,
but it will be hereinafter seen, that as
the price of his fame was his family’s
sorrow, it came home to him in after
years, and made him a morbid, melan
choly man. It has at last reduced him
to a mental wreck, and he is now an in
mate of a private asylum, where he has
resided for the past three months, and
whence he will perhaps never emerge
alive, as he is considered to be hopelessly
insane. When Morphy returned from Eu
rope in 1860 after his magnificent triumphs
there, it was not as a conqueror that he
came, but as a man who, having tasted
the fruits of glary, has found them bitter
in tbe and, and. disgusted with himself
and mankind, resolves to eschew the
world and its people forever. This was
Morphy’s condition of mind when he
came back to his New Orleans home late
in 1860, and then was seen the first gleam
of his after sorrow, which reproached
him for having grieved his family, and
which settled upon and remained with
him ever after.
From the hour of his arrival here he
declared he had done with chess for the
rest of his life, and he not only vowed
never to play or look upon a chess-board
more, but he expressly enjoined upon all
who knew him to never allude to the sub
ject of chess in his presence, save under
pain of his severest displeasure. It came
to be generally understood that he had
thus set his face against what had once
been his pride and ambition, because to
its indulgence he charged not only a re
morseful feeling at having crossed the
wishes of his parents, but likewise the
forfeiture of brilliant business prospects.
At all events, he despised chess as much
as he hod once loved it, and he stead
fastly refused to mingle in the world be
yond the confines of his own kindred.
Thus he lived a secluded and morbid ex
istence here until the outbreak of the
late war, when, in oompany with several
members of his family, he went abroad.
In 1866 he returned to New Orleans,
and renewed his life here under the same
conditions which had prevailed before his
departure, save perhaps that he was more
retired than ever. Still he was a conspic
uous character, although no one exoept
his mother could lay'claim to his friend
ship or his notice. His daily routine of
existence involved a walk on Canal street
every morning, where his dapper little
figure—always scrupulously well dressed
—became as well-known and as regularly
looked for as the noonday bell. After his
daily promenade he retired from public
gaze until evening, when he appeared in
his bex at the opera, where, it is saicL he
never missed a night. It is further re
lated that during these years he permit
ted no friendly acquaintance; he was
never known to associate with anybody
but his mother, and persistently repelled
advances from those who, having been
friends of his early youth, desired to re
new their associations. He lived a strange
life, a strange, moody, and peculiarly
mournful man.
Twelve months ago, he began to show
the first positive symptoms of a breaking
down of his mental faculties, and he soon
manifested such eccentricities of disposi
tion in public life, that his mother began
to be unhappily alarmed about him.
This concern, as it proved, was not
without warrant. He continued to man
ifest increased symptoms of mental aber
ration, and after vainly striving to battle
with the inevitable, his mother sadly
recognized the fact that her son was in
sane, and three months ago, as already
recited in this article, he was placed in an
asylum.
It is a sad sequel to a history whose
pages were once aglow with a world’s ad
miring plaudits, and there are many in
both this country and in Europe who will
invest the knowledge here conveyed with
a tender interest, and with it revive the
recollections of -a man who, in his time,
was famous far beyond the common lot
of mortality.
Ho didn’t look like a beggar, but he
had his plans all laid before he struck
Vicksburg, and he cleared a hundred
dollars here in two days. He didn't go
around whining: “Please, sir, for the
love of God,” as most of them do, but
he walked up to a man, called him “Gene
ral” to start off with, and tbe shin-
plasters came in faster than he could
take them. The only five men in town
who didn’t contribute were men whom
he inadvertently addressed as “Captain.”
— Vicksburg Herald.
Somebody of a statistical turn of mind
has calculated that in New York city there
are 450 miles of street railway, 1,500 cars
drawn by 12,000 horses, and carrying an
nually 160,000,000 people.
Raiagcs of Diptheria.
Poet Jeevie, November 17.- The throat
disease which rEged so fatally in this
Ticinity a few weeks since has broken oat
sgrin hereabout and in other parts of the
county. Two oases in the family of Jas.
Bose, a farmer living one mile from th;.
place, have proved fatal, and three other
cases are reported in that neighborhood,
which are considered hopeless. Three
members of the family of William Bice
in Mamakating, have died within two
days, and Mr. Bice is dangerously sick
with it. A family named Jackson, five
number, have all died within the
past week. A* Honesville, a small
village three miles west of here, several
cases are reported, one fatal. At Lacka
wanna, Pa., the diaeaae appeared in three
different families; bnt as yet no deaths
have occurred. The disease is raging
violently in Newburg. Two children of
G. Frederick Wfltzie, of that city, have
died, and Mr. Wiltzie’s life is despaired
of, he being jnst alive last night. A
niece of Mr. Wiltzie, daughter of W H
Taylor, has also died. At Vail’s Gate
there are several cases, none of which
have as yet proved fatal. The health au
thorities of Newburg have taken tho
matter in hand, and it is thought that the
spread of the fatal epidemic will be
checked.
Wooden Bams.—Experiments which
have been made on one of the rail wavs
of Pennsylvania to test the efficiency of
wooden rails are said to have succeeded
much beyond the expectations of the
projectors of the enterprise. The rails
are of sugar maple, seven inches by four
inches in thickness, and about twelve
feet in length. The ties are let down in
the ordinary way [notched; and the rails
let into them about four inches. Thev
are then keyed firmly with wooden
wedges driven on the Bides. The cost of
laying these rails is $450 a mile No
iron spikes are required, and the Dost of
track-laying is about the same as in the
«se of iron rails The highest rate of
speed for locomotives to pass over such a
track with safety has been fixed at six
te€ ° ^ hour. It has been esti-
mated that a wooden track will last, ordi
narily, from three to four years.
The Hsu Francisco papers are jnbilant
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