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Affairs in Georgia.
Sows in Elbert county have the happy
faculty of chasing and murdering foxes that
destroy their pigs. Between the needle-tail
Italian bounds of Jones county and the
Elbert county sows, the foxes will soon be
exterminated. If tee were going to chase
Reynard, tuongh, we would prefer the sows
to the needle-tail Italians.
It is stated that Judge Hopkins, of the
Atlanta Circnit, will soon resign on account
of failing hoalth. This is to be regretted.
Judge Hopkins is to Atlanta what Judge
Tompkins is to Savannah, a terror to evil
doers. In addition to this, ho is the only
mau in all that countryside whose cheek
never blanched at the mention of Wiley
Redding’s name.
Mr. E. H. Pnghe, the well-known printer,
has taken charge of the business manage
ment of the Augusta Constitutionalist.
Subscriptions to tne Morning News are
coming in with a rush. Let ’em come,
They can’t hurt us. We are proof against
all such attacks.
A hand of gypsies passed through Rome
the other day. Bass, of the Commercial,
utterly refused to have the palm of his
band investigated.
An ungodly owl is engaged in the nefari
ous practice of stealing the chickens of the
editor of the Hamilton Visitor, who is not
pleased thereat. In other words he has set
up, through his paper, an ’ell of an ’owl.
There seems to be no adequate remedy.
Calhoun has ship ped three hundred and
eighty hales of cot ton this season.
Corn-shuckiugs are on the programme in
Gordon county.
The burglars are evidently hard up. They
have commenced operations in Rome.
It is understood that Major Mark A. Coop
er, of Cartersville, will be a candidate for
Senator from the 42d District.
Incendiarism has begun in Macon. The
paper warehouse and junk-shop of the
Messrs. Wolf was burned the other night.
Where is Moodj? A man named R. T.
Wallace, known as the “Reformed Gam
bier,” has reformed again. This time it is
said te made off with some money.
The Hinesville Gazette says that it is a
general complaint that the rice crop,
although nearly np to the average yield in
quantity, is rather of poorer quality than
usual. In weight, it does not come up to
the standard by several pounds. This is
attributed to the dry weather just as the
grain was tilling out. Down on the imme
diate coast, and on the rice lands of the
Altamahain McIntosh, the rice crop is ex
cellent, equal both in quantity and quality
to the crop of any preceding year.
On the 17th proximo John B. Petty will be
hung for murder committed in the year 1864.
His trial took place a fortnight since at St,
Mary's, and though defended by able coun
sel, the evidence was so clear, and the com
mission of the deed so well established by the
confessions of the culprit, that his late is de
cided beyond peradventure. The facts in the
in the case carry one hack to the dark days
of tho late war, and is only one of hundreds
light be brought to light. Petty was
a private in the Fourth Georgia Cavalry,
and was with that command
at Charleston, and deserted from it with a
fellow-soldier named Floyd Williams. Up
to this time they had proven themselves to
be brave and gallant men. Elbert Allen,
also a private in the same command, and
being in the same county (Camden) in
which they had enlisted, was detailed to ar
rest them, and proceeding to their homes,
captured them and carried them back.
Floyd Williams soon after died, and his re
latives attributed his death to his returning
to camp. Petty soon after deserted the
second time. In December, 1864, Alien was
granted a furlough to come home to attend
to some private affairs, hut hearing that
threats had been made against him by Pet
ty, he Bent word to him that he
was not coming after him. It seems, how-
evr, that his enemy had determined to re
venge himself even unto death: and while
Allen was driving along the road from Jef-
fersonton to his farm with provisions tor his
family, he was ambushed by Petty and
James E. Williams, (a brother of Floyd) and
killed by a shot from the former’s gun, Wil
liam’s gun missing fire. Poor Allen’s little
aon was the only witness to the bloody
deo«L In the then unsettled state of the
country, the killing went unpunished; but
as order was restored, Petty, who in the
meantime had married the widow
of his deceased comrade, Floyd Wil
liams, left the country. Year* passed by
and Allen’s son had come to man’s estate,
and determined, if possible, to bring his
father’s murderer (who had often boasted
of his bloody work) to trial, and tracing
him to Florida had him arrested on a re*
quisition from the Governor of this State,
and brought to trial. He was defended
by good counsel; his wife selling the last of
her estate to save him, but without avail.
James E. Williams, who was also tried, was
acquitted, as there was a doubt in his ca.se,
though we understand that Petty lias made
a statement, in which he said Williams was
present, hat did not fire at Allen, as his gun
would not, go off. Thus a bloodv deed,
committed in December, 1864, will be ex
piated eleven years after.
Elbert n Gazette: A prominent gentle
man of this countv, in whose judgment we
have great .confidence, informed us this
week that in passing through our county he
noticed anything but a cheerful prospect
ah< ad of us. Each year the plantations are
going down more and more, and the yield
growing less and less. The negro, sc far
from improving as a laborer, is degenerat
ing every dav. Add to this debts piled upon
the devoted heads of our planters mouutain
high and cotton selling at less than the cost
of production, and the future outlook is
gloomy indeed. He says that unless some
thing is done for the relief of cur planters,
and that soon, bankruptcy and ruin is -cer
tainly the portion of the masses. What we
noed'is a settled and reliable class of labor,
smaller farms, more money and a “no
fence ” law. And this is not a picture of
Oglethorpe alone, but of every county in
the State.
Atlanta correspondence Augusta Chroni
cle: There are nojiew developments of im
portance touching the treasury difficulty.
The Governor, of course, can take no action
And express no opinion until the ten days’
notice has expired. In the meantime the
receipts of money from the various tax col
lectors throughout the State are deposited
for safety in one of the city banks. A num
ber of Mr. Jones’s friends are in almost daily
consultation, and even should tho Treasurer
fail cr decline to renew or strengthen hi*
bond, (hey claim that he will have abundant
proof to 'establish to the satisfaction of
aU that be has been guilty of no wrong;
indeed, that he has been far more unfortu
nate than culpable, and that if be has been
guilty of negligence and lack of proper
vigilance, it was such negligence as he could
not well avoid. They even intimate that
they can account for the payment of the
$150,000 of bonds twice in| a manner that
will relieve Mr. Jones in a great degree of
the blame and responsibility in the matter.
The ten days’ truce, however, will soon ex
pire, when the result will he known. _ There
is no son of probability that the Legislature
will be called together earlier than usual, for
there will hardly occur any snch emergency.
If Col. Jonex cannot make his bond, it is
not apprehended that he will make any re
sistance to the procedure of the Governor to
■fotoree the law and declare the office vacant,
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1875.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Sonth Carolina Affairs.
Last Friday night the stable of J. M.
Moore, Esq., in Gillisonville, Beaufort coun
ty, was broken into and a horse stolen.
The dwelling of Mr. M. E. Telford, living
near Belton, was destroyed Ly tire on last
Thursday.
The town council of Winnsboro has re
cently paid Mr. Caldwell $1,100 for damages
sustained to his person by reason of falling
into a cistern on one of the streets of that
town.
The total value of all taxable property of
Laurens county is $3,882,262.
The trial of J. H. Johnson for the forgery
of a county check In Edgefield, was brought
to a close by the illness of the foreman of
the jury. A mistrial was ordered. Paris
Sitnkius was not indicted as reported by the
Advertiser last week.
It is reported that A. J. Gill fatally
s’abbed a man named C. D. May, at Varnes-
ville, Beaufort county, last Friday.
W. K. Hamilton, living at Pinckney ferry,
in Yo rk county, had the misfortune to lose
b y fire his kitchen, stables and corn crib on
the 1st inst., involving a loss of $800.
The crib contained about five hundred
bnshels of corn.
On Tuesday morning the residence of J.
B. Archer, of Spartanburg, was destroyed
by fire. *
Two infant children, colored, were horned
to death on the plantation of Mr. Warren
Dike, of Abbeville county, Tuesday night.
The mother bad left them in the house
alone, and on her return found the house in
flames. The fire was extinguished.
Henry Calder, the murderer of Mrs Cyn
thia Quick, in Marlboro county, is sen
tenced to b) hung on the 3d day of De
cember.
We learn, says the New Era, that a negro
went to the plantation of Mr. J. B. lioaz-
man, near Chappell’s depot, on Saturday
last, and rode up to where Mr. Raiford
Boazmau and a negro were cutting wood.
He shot the negro, killing him instantly,
and wounded Mr. Boazman severely.
Mr. Robert Bolton, another stockholder
in the English Manufacturing Company,
from Fall River, Mass , arrived at Hurricane
Shoals, Spartanburg county, the proposed
site of the new cotton factory, on last
Wednesday.
Mr. J. A. Lanier, of Edgefield county
planted Irish potatoes on the 26th of Angust.
On the 7ih of October he dug them. The
Advertiser says they were not as big as
pumpkins, hut nearly. Another citizen of
Edgefield has seven plows going now in
order to get in a crop of spring oats. He
says he can plant nntil the middle of De
cember and still get a splendid crop. Who
wants to leave a climate and a soil like
that? California and Texas bo hanged.
A WONDERFUL GUX.
Ill TUM I I’ll
—TO—
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
SPAIN AND THE POPE,
A SECRET AND UNPUBLISHED
NOTE FROM THE VATICAN.
Brick Pomeroy’s Troubles.
A NEGRO RAPEE HANGED IN GEOR
GIA.
SUDDEN DEATH OF VICE
PRESIDENT WILSON.
A Defiant Ranger's Destructive .Missile,
[From the Bowling Green Pantograph.]
Mr. William B. Wiuan3 has in his pos
session a remarkable gun, and one that
has an unwritten and partly unknown
history more remarkable than the weapon
itself. As to where it was made, or by
what train of circumstances its death
dealing crack became a sound of terror
along the Tennessee and Cumberland
rivers during the earlier years of the late
war, we shall not pretend to say. Cortain
it is that many a Federal soldier bit the
dust during the Fort Donelson and Shiloh
campaigns, being laid low by the buzzing
ball which sped from her dread muzzle,
the trigger drawn with steady finger, in
fallible sight and deadly aim.
The very sound of the gun became
known and familiar, and an ominous one
along infantry lines, and among the
sharp-shooters. Near the time of the
battle of Shiloh some infantry had been
employed in skirmish or reconnoitering
duty in the deep tangled woods. Crack,
bang, boom roared at intervals the old
gun in the distance, at every discharge
laying a soldier stiff and stark in death,
with unerring accuracy. Shift their
positions as they might, the gun would
bang away, and with a hiss and a thud,
ther-j would be one soldier less. The
direction of the firing was ascertained,
and the entire regiment or party was
ordered to charge towards it without
knowing where or what it was. On they
went, losing a man at every few paces.
Nothing was accomplished, and the
party returned, leaving the murderous
gun cracking away as they retreated.
Shortly afterward the old fire-lock was
heard again with her murderous music.
It was resolved at all hazards to find and
capture the infernal machine. After per
sistent efforts a tall, raw-boned, grizzle
bearded, large-sized Texas ranger was
discovered in the foliage of a tall tree,
from among the branches of which he
was picking off his foes as well as he
had picked off hundreds before. With
his iron visage, piercing eye and
unquailing nerve, there he sat, fierce
as the untamed jaguar. Brought
to bay, he continued to load and shoot
with deadly aim till brought down, and
the famous gun was captured. It after
ward fell into the hands of the late Bone
Lucas, and finally friend Winans became
and is now its custodian. It is a gun of
immense calibre, being near eight feet
long, with a smooth bore, single-barrel,
large enough to admit of a small-sized
walnut. It is quite a curiosity, and an
interesting relic of the past, and could
its muzzle talk, it could tell of many
death shots that had passed its steel
rimmed and blazing lips.
Solomon Eclipsed.
[New York Herald.]
‘Hwang Lee and Ah Wing,” said His
Honor, as he bent a rather low brow
upon a pair of Celestials who stood be
fore him, “what do you say to the
charge of disorderly conduct brought
against you ?”
‘Ah Wing he luu away my dog,”
pleaded Hwang Lee.
“Hwang Lee whatee Mellican man
callee damlire. Hwang Lee comee my
landlady, stealee my dog all like Mellican
man dam thief,” pleaded Ah Wing.
“It is not remarkable,” said the Judge,
that these strange people, so far behind
the civilized world in many respects, yet
possess in common with us an affection
for the lower animals ? I must discover
to which of the prisoners .the quadruped
rightfully belongs, and that, too, by
means of a strategy once employed by a
somewhat famous biblical predecessor.
Officer Brown, bring the dog and a meat-
ax into court.”
It was done.
“ Now, then, Ah Wing and Hwang
Lee,” resumed the court, assuming a
style of pronunciation meant to be clearly
comprehensible, “ Officer, comee chopee
doggie in twoee. Ah Wing takee halfee,
and Hwang Lee takee halfee. Under
standee ?”
A painful silence was at last broken by
Ah Wing, who remarked calmly, “ Allee
light, Judge, so officer give halfee got
em dog's libs in him.”
“Affection has spoken in silence.” 6aid
the Judge, triumphantly; “let Hwang
Lee have the dog.’
“Tankee, Judge,” said that prisoner,
as he lifted up the obese animal. “ Ah
Wing he not havee dambite; Hwang Lee
eatee dog all up self.”
Five dollars or five days each,” said
the disgusted Judge, as his estimate of
the celestial in human nature fell down
to zero.
What can I do to make you love me
more?” asked a youth of his girl the other
evening. “Buy me a ring, stop eating
onions, and throw your shoulders back
when you walk,” was the immediate re-
ply-
Many a good-minded mother has inno
cently warped her son’s character satan-
ward by arguing that gray patches could
be inserted into his black pantaloons
without the other boys being able to de
tect the difference.
DEATH OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT.
Washington, November 22.—The Vice-
President died very suddenly at half past
seven o'clock this morning. He rested well
last night, and awoke at seven o’clock this
morning and expressed himself as feeling
bright and better. He sat up in bed to take
his medicine, and laid down on his left side
and expired in a few moments without a
struggle.
Senator Ferry is President of the Senate
pro tempore. The Cabinet is in extra ses
sion.
k will represent the Cabinet at
the m^^^^Hkthe Seuators and the Judges
of th4|^n^nw Court at noon, to arrange
for the^ineral, after which the President
will issue appropriate orders.
FOREIGN NOTES.
London, November 22.—The main sluice
of the ship Iron Duke was accidentally left
open and large quantities of water rushed
in. The artificer of the ship closed the
sJuice with the water up to bis neck. At one
time & signal that the vessel was sinking
was displayed.
A letter from Rome to the Times states that
besides the loDg note from the Vatican to
Spain on the 12th, Spain had previously re
ceived a a secret note from the Vatican,
which is not yet printed.
RUMORS OF WAB.
Cincinnati, November 22.—A NowOrl -ans
special says that the monitor Canonicns has
been ordered to prepare for sea at a mo
ment’s notice. Provisions and ammunition
aro aboard, and the officers and meu are
forbid to come ashore. It is reported that
Commodore Cooper reports favorably of
Now Orleans as a base of operations in case
of a difficulty with Spain.
JUDGE LYNCH.
Fort Valley, Ga., November 22.—John
Brown, colored, who was arrested for at
tempting to commit a rape on a highly re
spectable young lady, and had knocked ont
some of her teeth and filled both of her eyes
with dirt, was taken from the custody of the
sheriff and hanged.
arrested.
Baltimore, November 22.—The schooner
Shiloa, of Baltimore, reports that while at
Demarara her Captain and first mate were
arrested for larceny, and imprisoned for
nine months. The second mate is in jail
there, charged with assault, with intent to
kill.
ADJOURNED.
Washington, November 22.—The Supreme
Court has adjourned until to-morrow and
there are no opinions to-dav. The flags
here and northward are at half-mast.
MARINE DISASTERS.
London, November 22.—Fourteen lives
and many vessels have been lOBt on tho
east coast. The brig Elizabeth aad the b&ik
Fairy Queen, lost with all.
DEAD.
Baltimore, November 22.—Colonel John
McLean Taylor, senior Major of thq Subsist
ence Department, is dead.
brick.
Elmyba, N. Y., November 22. — Brick
Pomeroy denies that he or his paper is sus
pended, and threatens libel sails.
INCENDIARY FIRE.
Harrisburg, November 22.—The Harris
burg Trotting Park, with nine horses, is
burned. Incendiary.
ill.
New York, November 22.—Dr. Wm. H.
Hure, Missionary Bishqp, was suddenly
taken ill while preaching.
FURNACE EXPLOSION.
Pittsburg, Pa., November 22.—The More-
head Company’s blast fnrnace exploded,
killing and wounding three probably fatally-
Evening Telegrams.
DEATH OF HENRY WILSON.
Last Honrs of Horace Greeley’s Co
adjntor.
GUIBORDS GHOST AGAIN.
“ CNCON'SECRATING” HIS PLACE OF
Bl'RIIL.
THE VIRGINIA BELLIGERENTS.
Facts for the Democracy.
[New York Sun.]
We have not seen any reference made
to one feature of the recent elections
which we think is worthy of close study
and grave reflection, especially by Demo
crats. The Democratic State Conventions
of this year in Massachusetts, New York
and Marylaud adopted Hard-money plat
forms of the soundest quality. On the
other hand, the platforms laid down by
the Democratic State Conventions of
Ohio and Pennsylvania were in favor of
Soft money.
Now, so far as the currency question
influenced results, what was the effect of
these diametrically opposite doctrines
upon the Democratic vote in these five
States at the recent elections? The
Democratic loss this year in Massachu
setts, New York and Maryland, as com
pared with last year, is about 53,000
votes. The number of members of Con
gress in these States is fifty, and conse
quently the loss just mentioned is
an average of 1,000 votes for each
Congressman. The Democratic loss in
Ohio and Pennsylvania at the recent elec
tions, as compared with the results of
last year, is about 41,000 votes. They
elect forty-seven members of Congress.
The Democratic loss, therefore, is an
average of only 870 votes for each Con
gressman. Even in New York, where the
platform was intensely hard, the Demo
crats lose rather more heavily than did
their soft brethren in Ohio.
There may.ije many reasons for these
curious results. But, at all events, they
are worthy of philosophical study and
consideration.
Executive Mansion,
Washington, November 22, 1875. ,
It is with profound sorrow that the Presi
dent has to announce to the people of the
United States the death of the Vice Presi
dent, Henry Wilson, who died in the Capital
of the nation this morning. The eminent
station of the deceased, his high character,
his long career in the service of his State,
and of the Union,his devotion to the cause of
freedom and the ability which he brought to
the discharge of every dnty, stand conspicu
ous aud are indelibly impressed on the hearts
and affections of the American people. In
testimony of respect for this distinguished
citizen and faithful public servant, the vari
ous departments of government will be
closed on the day of tho funeral, aud the
Executive Mansion, aud all the execu
tive departments in Washington, will
be draped with badges of monrn
ing for thirty days. The Secretary
of War and the Secretary of the Navy will
will issue orders that appropriate military
and naval honors be rendered to the memo
ry of one whoso virtues and services will
long be borne in recollection by a grateful
nation. U. S. Grant.
By the President:
Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State.
Nearly all the courts in the country have
adjourned in respect to Wilson. Tho Su
preme Court of the United States will trans
act no business this week. Delegations
have been appointed from various places to
come to Washington to attend the funeral
ceremonies. The first brigade of Maryland
National Guards have tendered Ibeir
services to the President as a guard and
escort.
The Vice-President passed a quiet day
yesterday. He heard of Senator Ferry’s
death about eight o’cloc c, which depressed
him very much, and beforo he retired to bed
he alluded to it several times. He retired
at half-past nine, and his sleep was sound
and peaceful. At three o’clock this morn
ing his rest was disturbed by a pain in tho
chest, which was relieved by rubbing the
chest with an anodyne which had been
prescribed, and he again slept. He
awoke precisely at 7 o’clock. He said
he had slept soundly, and was much re
freshed. lie sat up in bed, took a glass of
bitter water, which bad been prescribed,
and shortly after arose aud walked about
the room. His attendant n iticed a change
in Mr. Wilson about a quarter past
seven o’clock. He was then lying in bed,
drawing short aud hurried breaths, mov
ing about uneasily, aud his limbs twitch
ing convulsively. Tho physicians were
called. It was notice 1 that the breathing
grew shorter and weaker with each breath,
and as the attendant moved rouud the
bed to support his head, he gave one long
gasp aud expired. Four times last night
beforo twelve o’clock he called for water,
aud drsnk a glassful each time. Night
before last he complained of his old
trouble with pain at the base of the brain,
and remarked that he must have more
determined treatment, but said nothing
about it to the doctor. Last night between
6 and 8 o’clock he said: “If the doctor were
here I would have a.blister applied to the
back of my neck.” From 8 to* 0:30 bis at
tendants manipulated him. pinchmg him
thoroughly. He never liked to bo rubbed.
There is no evidence in the fact that Mr.
Wilson suffered severely. The face wears
the usual pleasant expression. A post
mortem examination was made by the doc
tors, who came to the conclusion that ho
died of apoplexy.
The special session of the Senate called
in April last, after an exciting caucus, se
lected by a majority vote of one, Thomas W.
Ferry, of Michigan, as against HeDry B.
Anthony, of Rhode Island, the competitor,
for the place. There has been no change in
the Senate since. All the new members
articipated in the caucus deliberation which
nought about tho nomination. There is no
donbe that if the Senate, at its next
meeting does not reverse its selection of
last April that Ferry will bo the presiding
officer. The revised statutes contain the
following: In case of the removal by death,
resignation or inability of both the Presi
dent and Vice-President of the United
States the President of the Senate, or, if
there be none, then tho Speaker of the
House of Representatives for tho time being
shall act as President until the disability is
removed or a new President elected.
Two Massachusetts Dogs. — Those
who love dogs will be interested by these
incidents : An English eetter dog, owned
by Thomas W. Lane, at West Roxbury,
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 the owner of
the wallet &3 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,
and 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 have been drowned, and the
water in the pond was drawn off, and the
bodv found.
Counterfeiters Arrested.—Cincin
nati, November 19.—Abram Culber, Cal
vin Stevens and William Shephard were
arrested and held in $500 bail at Ironton,
Ohio, yesterday, charged with counter
feiting. These three are but a portion of
a band of counterfeiters who have been
operating in Southern Ohio for some
time. Their business consisted of manu
facturing nickles. About half a bushel
of the coin was molded on Wednesday.
Soft hats have once more come into
favor with gentlemen. They are a more
sensible head-gear than the hard stove
pipes, which for some not discoverable
reason are generally supposed to impart
dignity to their wearers.
The Journals little joke about Grant’s
having to be nominated for a third term
by the Democrats, if he is to be nomi
nated at all, grows less funny every day,
now that the administration is beginning
to show its hand.
Professor John Wise completed his
454th balloon ascension October 30. He
started from Louisiana, Mo., traveling
fifty miles in fifty minutes, alighting in
the tree tops and losing his balloon.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Washington, November 22—Probabili
ties : For the Soutn Atlautic and Eastern
Gulf States, high barometer, northeast to
southeast winds, continued cold, partly
cloudy woather, and in the latter possibly
occasional rains are probable.
For the Western Gulf States, Tennessee
and Ohio valley, falling barometer, south
east to southwest winds, warmer, partly
cloudy or cloudy weather, and possibly occa
sional rains.
For tho Middle and New England States
high, followed by falling barometer, south
erly to easterly winds, with cold, partly
cloudy weather in tho last district, and
rising temperature with increasing cloudi
ness and possibly rain or snow in the two.
NEW YORK NOTES.
New York, November 22.—Edward Lovey,
cashier ol the Devoe Oil Works, shot him
self through the heart.
Two hundred laborers at work in Bergen’s
tnnnel engaged in a drunken row. All
kinds of weapons were used. There were
twenty-eight arrests.
The boiler of Dye’s poudrette factory ex
ploded. On-3 person was killed and one
fatally hurt.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company is
sueing ex-Congressman John G. Schumaker,
of Brooklyn, for $30,000, which, it is alleged,
was unlawfully paid him by the company’s
agent, Richard B. Irwin, for services in pro
curing a subsidy for the company in 1872.
STILL AFTER THE GHOST.
Montreal, November 22.—Yesterday the
cures of the Roldan Catholic churches in
this city announced the reception of a pasto-
tter relative to the interment of the
remains of Jto. Guibord in consecrated
ground?\The pastoral says, “for we have
truly declah^d, in virtue of the Divine Pow
er, that wsfe^rcise in tho name of the Pas
tor of FAstorsMhat the place where this
rebellious son of Ike Church has been de
posited' is separatecNfrom the rest of the
consecrated cemetery, and is no longer more
than a profane place—auNj^dinary piece of
ground.”
, ' \
the hot bloods.
Richmond, November 22—Gen, Bradley T.
Johnson had a hearing before the Polioe
Court to-day for assaulting Gen. J. D. Im-
boden with a cowhide on Saturday night.
He was fined twenty dollars and placed
under bonds in one thousand dollars to keep
the peace twelve months. Gen. lmboden
left Saturday night to attend tho railroad
convention at St. Louis. When arrested,
he was bailed till December 2d, and not till
this morning, as first telegraphed.
THE FIREMEN.
Chicago, November 22.—The United
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in
session here adopted a plan of mntu il life
insurance, and elected officers, and ad
journed to Baltimore next year.
OH, GOODNESS 1
Montreal, November 22.—The cure of
the Parish Notre Dame has given public no
tice that Goibord’s grave is illegally shallow.
BISMARCK.
Berlin, November 22.—Bismarck was in
Parliament looking better ihan was ex
pected. He makes a speech to-day.
NOR-WESTER.
Detroit, November 22.—There is a ter
rible nor-wester on the lake shores.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
The King of the Lobby—Notes on the
Ilouite — Richmonds In the Field—Old
Fiah and the Porei* a era—Jewell and
New—The Poor Indian—The Contented
Election Cases—Olla Podrida—A Cor
rection—An Acceaaldn to Florida Soci
ety.
[Specia. Correspondence of the Morning News ]
Washington, November 18, 1875.
THE KING OF THE LOBBY.
Sam Ward has already opened the season
by giving an entertainment, at Welcker’s,
to a distinguished set. He did not feed
them on “ pigs’ ears,’’ perhaps because he
thonght each one had enough of that arti
cle. He had at the dining Lord Houghton,
Gen. Garfield,'Chief Justice Waite, Justice
Field, Sir Edward Thornton, Justice Brad
ley, Attorney General Pierrepont, Dr. Lind-
erman, Director of the Mint; Justice
Swayne, Secretary Robeson, Prof. Rogers,
Don Louis De Potestad, Secretary of Span
ish Legation, aud Assistant Secretary of
State Cadwala.ler, as well as a sprinkling of
minor lights. Sam dirtiognished himself
in Pacific Mail lobbying, and it is edifying
to observe how the powers, in recognizing
Sam, also recognize the lobby crowd of
which he ha-> the lead. Chandler, Bristow
and Jewell were neglected in the invita
tions, being below the Ward standard, and
Belknap couldn’t attend, being too busy in
arranging the expenditures of the War De
partment.
THE SPEAKERSHIP.
The candidates for the Speakership are
thickening up, but Kerr, of Indiana, seems
to be ahead of all competitors, although
Randall claims to have the South with him.
Piatt has been pitching into Randall heavily
for something, but that doos not hurt him.
Sunset Cox will furnish the fun of tho race,
and is certain of his own vote. Gilbert C.
Walker, of Virginia, is put forward as being
a handsome man,who would, in the Speaker’s
chair, accord nicely with the upholstery and
please the ladies in the gallery. Fernando
Wood has plenty of dignity, but too much
‘New York” to bo seriouslv thought of.
But when the battlo opens a split may ensue,
and some other whom the knowing ones
nave not yet brought forth may be the man
chosen. Blaine will have lo guerilla around
the floor hereafter, and Strabismus Ben will
haunt the lobby.
OFFICES.
The best positions in the gift of the
House are Sergeant-at-Arms, in which
office Ordway has raked in a fortune;
Clerk, where McPherson, of Pennsylvania,
has gathered in a handsome estate ; Door
keeper, in which Buxton has managed to
lay bv enough to keep want from the door,
an i Postmaster—Bill King’s happy place
fice Department, that she received her place
through CoL Mosbv, that she was discharged
by Jewell and restored by the President, who
had her put down to his credit. Miss Jack-
son never was in the Post Office Department,
and the rest of the story is imaginary. Miss
Jackson is a clerk in. McCartee’s Bureau of
the Treasury, appointed upon the recom
mendation of numerous Virginians. About
a year ago McCartee discharged her on
learning tiiat she was Jackson’s daughter,
but upon the nrgent request of several of
her friends, and the fact that she was a
good clerk, she was reinstated. She has
another sister here married to an employe
of the Board of Public Works. The corres
pondent also says that Miss Surratt married
a Treasurv clerk. In this he is wrong. She
married Dr. Torrence, then a clerk in the
Surgeon General’s office. He was discharg
ed shortly afterwards, bat is now one of the
most prominent analytical chemists in the
oountry, and resides at Baltimore. Other
parts of his article are incorrect, and havo
caused some broad grins here over his care
lessness in obtaining information.
THE
COTTON CROP
THEN ?
AND WHAT
Some Prognoatirations and Possibilities.
Bed-skins.— Washington, November 19.
A party of Warm Spring Indians arrived
here a few days ago and went to the
White House, and then called upon the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs for aid.
The Commissioner told them if they
wonld go to the Tremont House their
board while there would be paid by the
government. The Indians chose to re
main where they were, and the result is
an unpaid bill for which the proprietor
threatens to retain the baggage of the
Indians. Yesterday, Dr. McKay, man
ager of the band, called upon the Com
missioner to make another effort to secure
the payment of this bill and the release
of their bagg&ge? trinkets, qtc., but the
latter peremptorily refused and repri
manded the Doctor for the intoxicated
exhibition by the I> idia&s on the street,
declaring it a di« jraoe to the Indian
service. Dr. McKay finally consented to
leave t-fria morning, and the Commis
sioner agreed to furnish tickets and blan
kets to each Indian at the depot ready for
departure.
where Sherwood has also managed to find a
stock farm. The Clerk has forty-seven per
sons on his rolls, the Sergeant-at-Arms
three, the Door-keeper twenty-six, and the
Postmaster ten. There are also twenty-
eight committee clerks, making the total
patronage of the House one hundred and
fourteen. There are in this District, ac
cording to tho ninth censns, 33,329 voter?.
Of these 10,143 are “ring, streaked ani
speckled,” leaving 23,178 white voters. Of
these latter 3,000 are empliyed directly or
indirectly by the government, 178 are living
on their meins, orj outside ot government
patronage, and the remaining 20,000 are
looking for the one hundred and fourteen
places in CoDgress. But Maryland and Vir
ginia are in arms for the places which they
say the District has held long enough. Ste
venson Archer, late member ofCongress from
Maryland, wants to be Clerk, aud is opposed
by G. C. Wedderburn, of Virginia, while the
same prize is also sought after by G. M.
Adams, of Kentucky, A. D. Banks, of Missis
sippi, Gcd. DuBoae, of Georgia, T. T. Crit
tenden, of Missouri, F. M. Sbober, of North
Carolina, and Gen. Mitchell, of Kaunas.
Wedderburn received the nomination la«t
CoDgress, when he stood no chance, and
thinks it fair that he should have it now
that prospects have improved. Wedder
burn was associate editor of the Rich
mond Enquirer, and agent for the
Virginia Life Insurance Company
the same time. When an indignant youth
came to the office looking for the fighting
editor, George always made him get his life
insured before he boarded the lion in his
deD, up three flights of stairs. After the
sudden taking off of Pollard by the explo
sion of a double-barrelled gun, G. C. W.
moved to Washington, where ho has been
insuring heaitby government clerks, hoping
to make a raise by the lapsing of their pol
icies on a change of administration.
CONTESTS.
While on the subject of Congress, I might
refer to the seats which will be in
contest in the next House, ot which there
are several. The one nearest at home is
Gen. Fiulev against Walls, which may be
considered as settled in Finley’s favor, thus
semi ing J. T. W. back to Gainesville to be
used as a stool pigeon for the Tallahassee
ring. The career of Walls in Congress was
Tort but brilliant. He never said auytking,
and therefore never committed himself; a
good barber was spoiled by making him a
Congressman. He bad an easy time on his
$5,000 a year. His constituents didn’t
bother him much with correspondence, aud
he never sent them any documents, as they
coaid not read them, and he could sell them
waste paper, etc., here. Gen. Finley
will be an able second to Senator Jones from
the I And of Flowers. In Alabama there are
iwo seats in contest. Jero Haralson. Demo
crat, of Selma, is opposed by Fred G.
Bromberg, of Euiaula. The latter was an
appointment of John Pope, General, in
Mobile, as City Treasurer. He worked like
an or ter with tho Rads until appointed Post
master at Mobile, where he hung out two
years, until Spencer had him removed. He
was elected to Congress, and after the ex
piration of his term moved up to Eufaula in
another distriGt, and ran again,' and now
comes forward and claims the seat. The
seat of J. N. Williams, of Mobile, is con
test* d by the highly colored J. T. Rapier, of
Montgomery, who puts himself down as
born in Florence, Ala., educated in Canada,
and a planter (!) by profession. He was given
the credit of planting Oates by the last Con-
jress, but this one will harrow up his soul.
[a Illinois, C. H. Harrison has cleaned out
D. Ward, Republican, of Chioago, but
Jasper contests, and J. V. Le Mozue claims
the seat of that rasping Radical Farwell.
In Indiana the seat of Baker, Republican,
of Goshen, is contested by Freeman
Kelly, with a good chance of suc
cess. Id South' Carolina, the piebald
apostle Rainey , who says in his Congres
sional autobiography that he “improved
his mind by observation and travel,” has a
claimant for the seat in Samuel Lee. It is
to bo hoped that South Carolina will have
one decent representative in the House,
where Sol Hoge, Buttermilk Wallace, Odor
iferous Smalls and Purty Mackey will be,
ready fof their pay and perks. In Wiscon
sin tho seat of G. W. Cate, Democrat, is
contested by Dr. A. 8, McDill, of the last
Congress, and formerly of the insane asylum.
Me. had better take a “Dover” and go home.
Gov. T. W. Bennett, of Idaho, finds that a
jolly Democrat stands a chance of getting
the place of delegate, and has taken rooms
for the winter to make his expenses. Bat
the most pleasing prospect of all the con
tested cases will be in witnessing the defeat
of the carpet-bag parroquet from Vermont’s
green hills, Platt, of Virginia. John Goode
lias been elected, but Platt can not bear to
part wi'h the Committee on Public Build
ings and Grounds, which was such a “bonan
za” to him, and the patronage of the Navy
Yard which was suen au assistance to his
Vermont relatives. Besides these ten seats,
we may expect to hear from several more
in contest when Congress meets. The Radi
cals instituted the system of giving every
contested seat to the claimant of their par
ty, or keeping their man in until near the
close of Congress, and then giving the seat
to the properly elected man, as they did in
several well-known cases.
OLLA PODRIDA.
The chief of the Metropolitan Police
wants the force of legalized loafers increased
to one thousand for this district. The title
of Mayor would then be chauged to Colonel
aud the ex-schoolmaster become a semi-mili
tary dignity.
It is rumored that Zach Chandler has pur
chased the Washington Sunday Chronicle.
It has come out flat-footed lor the third
term, as has also a new candidate for gov
ernment advertising, the National Intelli
gencer, a Radical organ, run by some clerks,
What desecration of a name ?
The News’ article of incendiary firing of
cotton gins has caused some speculation as
to their cause at the Agricultural Depart
ment. They do not understand African
kleptomania yet.
H. V. Bojnton, of the Cincinnati Gazette—
they call him “General” since he wrote his
book against “Sherman’s Memoirs,” but
don’t buy his book—has gone to St. Louis to
testify ia the trial of Avery, late Chief Clerk
of the Treasury, indicted for connection with
the whisky ring. Ex-Commissioner Don*
lass and others have also gone.
Zack says “Bristow ’ll get into trouble
foolin’ with the Goddam crooked whisky
yet. Why’nell dou’t he take it straight like
me.”
Ex-SoDator and Schoolmaster Peasr, of
Mississippi, is here trying to get re-instated
in the Vicksburg Post Office, from which he
has just been removed. He is backed up by
G. Wiley Wells, member elect to the Forty-
fourth Congress. Grant pave, “Lotus have
Pease,” but Jewell responds in the nega
tive.
Bristow ha? ordered the force in the Cus
tom Houses to be re luced, as the appropri
ation iB deficient $800,000. Murphy and Ca
sey will be on their auricles over this.
NEW AND JEWELL.
Thn Indianapolis youth who fills old
Spinner’s place has been threatening to re
sign lately, to look after his banking inter
ests. But he has bc-en calmed down through
the interposition of tho thirty Iloosiers
whom he brought with him and who would
be kicked out upon his departure. And
now Jewell wants to leave. He says Zach
has not got tone enough for the Cabinet.
Since Jewell was Minister to Russia he has
manufactured a genealogical string of Jew-
ellry back to Capt. Noah, and therefore
associates only with the Fishes. He has had
rows ail aronud, and is despised by all who
have anything to do with him, on account
of iiis egotism. He had words with Grant
about Burt, of Boston, Pease, of Vicksburg,
and others. Spencer, of Alabama, Ciavton,
of Arkansas, aud others, arc* after him for
his fight with the bogus mail contractors;
so the probabilities are that he may return
to his home on the Onion river, and re-es
tablish his nutmeg factories, and New is
therefore brought to the front as his prob
able successor. New is backed by Morton
and others. He was a member of'the Indi
ana Legislature for years, and became rich
negotiating loans for the State during the
late war. Ramsey, of Minnesota, is also
talked of. Old Ram. is mentioned for every
vacant place, bnt as yet has not struck oil.
ODDS AND ENDS.
Rev. Smith recommeuds in his annual re
port that Congress authorize tho Quarter
master’s Department of the army to pur
chase clothing, and the Commissary De
partment to purchase provisions for the
Indians. The Warm Springs Indians, under
their ohief, Donald McKay, have been here,
trying to raise means to get homo ou. They
havo been showing around the country,-and
at their agent “jumped” with the funds. Oli-
gairo and some Mission Iudians from Cali
fornia are also here. They want a new
reservation.
Boss Shepherd sent a paper to the Ameri
can Pablic Health Association on what he
knows about sewerage and paving. He
didn’t tell all.
The Commissioner of Pensions some
months ago suspended action upon a largo
number of bounty laud claims from Florida
and Louisiana for militia service, on the
suspicion that many of them were fraudu
lent. A special investigation has been or
dered.
Hon. Bob Stockton, son of the ex-Senator
from New Jersey, goes to Pensacola Navy
Yard as “writer” at a stipend of $3 per diem.
He will assist Major Farr in giviug tone to
society. He can be distinguished by his red
cravat. He’s a blood, and fights at the drop
of a hat. Look ont! Cyclops.
A GREAT RUSSIAN CONTRACTOR.
The Collapse of n. .>Ian Who Employed
Over One Hundred Thousand YVork-
THE STATE DEPARTMENT
has taken possession of the new building
near the White House erected for it. where
the old expounder of international law. the
venerable disciple of Vattel, Ham. Fish,
goorhes his corns on the Brussels carpet and
jaws his stenographer for confounding his
ideas. Ham. is heavy on ideas. His
cranium is so full of them that they can
hardly force their way out, hot when one
escapes he secures it immediately, failing
in which he throttles the scribe ana
“blarsts” the young man in the blue necktie
and blonde side whiskers who sports the
name of Levilion A. Brown ; and sacrifices
his leisure to serve the government "for
$3,(-00 per annum. The Virginias affair
upset old Fish. Don Jose Polo de
Bernabe beat him in diplomacy, and
a f( w hundred dollars settled for the insnlt
to the flag and the lives of butchered citi-
se::j. The “Book of Blood” published by
tho Cubans, containing the names of over
firs thousand prisoners of war and defense-
less citizens murdered by the Spaniards In
Cui a, failed lo ronse him, and the late
ne * spaper talk of intervention to stop the
bn: ffiery, only caused him to send for Ned
Thi niton tp drown the agitators oyer some
chc.ce cognac.
poa^ECTEp.
The oorresp indent of the Augusta Chroni%
els and Sentind is in error in sta
ting that the daughter of Jackson, who shot
Colonel Ellsworth, ia a clerk in the Poet Of.
[From the Vienna Freie Presse.]
Dr. Strousberg, who was arrested at
St. Petersburg after failing for nearly
£100,000, is of Jewish origin, his full
name being Baruch Hirsch Strousberg.
Born in 1823 in humble circumstances at
Neidenberg, in East Prussia, he went to
London in 1835, after the death of his
father. Here he was received by his
uncles, who were commission agents, and
was shortly afterward baptized a member
of the Church of England. Gifted with
great intelligence and energy, he more cr
less educated himself, and entered jour
nalism.
In 1848 he went to America, where he
gave lessons in German, but finally real
ized some money by buying a cargo of
damaged goods and selling them at a
heavy profit. With this capital he re
turned to London in 1858, and founded
several newspapers, but six years after
wards he went to Berlin, where he was
for seven years the agent of an English
insurance company. In 1864, however,
Strousberg began to think of improving
his fortuues, anti having made acquaint
ances at the British Embassy, by this
means came to know some English capi
talists, with whom he contracted for the
construction of the Tilsit-Insterburg
Railway. Within six years Strousberg
was making a dozen lines, among others
those of Roumania. He had over one
hundred thousand workmen in his pay,
and had launched out into other vast en
terprises. At Hanover he established a
gigantic machine factory ; at Dortmund
and Neustadt he had smelting works and
iron factories ; at Antwerp and Berlin he
built entire new quarters ; in Prussia he
bought ten estates ; in Poland an entire
county ; in Bohemia he paid £800,000 for
the splendid domain of Zbirow, where he
established railway carriage works which
employed five thousand workmen.
Meantime he built a palace for himself
in the Wilhelmstrasse, at Berlin, which
in decoration, luxury and accommodation
surpassed that of the Emperor himself. In
it were to be found works by the first
S 3rman and French artists—Delacroix,
eissonnier, Gerome, and others. Nor
was his charity on a less splendid scale.
In winter he caused 10,000 portions of
soap to be given daily to the poor, in
addition to 2,000 pounds worth of wood.
When the famine broke out in East
Prussia he sent whole trains laden with
corn and potatoes to his suffering fellow
countrymen. Of course, such a man had
his own organs in the press, and was
chosen to represent the nation. Yet he
took from the Moscow Bank, which he
founded, 4,308,000 roubles, and it is
hinted that his future is not altogether
unprovided for. No greater collapse
than that of Strousberg has probably oc
curred in the §nanc,ial bi&tory of the
country, save, perhaps, that of Law.
[From the Macon Telegraph.]
There was a prognostication yesterday
from the southwest that if the cotton in
the field could be saved, the incoming
crop would outrank in magnitude any
hitherto produced in the southern coun
try. We have been inclined to look for
a crop in the neighborhood of 4,200,000
bales, and to hope that it will not greatly
exceed that amount. Three or four hun
dred thousand bales in excess would take
prices entirely beyond the influence of
producers, and the whole cotton growing
business would rush down hill to ruin
without backstrap or breeching.
This, we take it. is the pending ques
tion just now. and the great rock of peril
ahead. We may not strike it this year;
but where is the probability of missing
it next year, or any year in the future
which shall prove to be very fruitful.
The past heavily productive year, as af
fairs are progressing, is bound to over
stock the raw cotton market and send the
whole crop begging.
It is quite true that such a catastrophe
did happen twice before the war with no
very ruinous consequences to the plant
ers; but it will be unwise in cotton pro
ducers to measure the future results of
such a catastrophe by the past. Before
the war their lands and all their planta
tion investments, including laborers,
were solid, available assets, yielding,
altogether, a moderate income in the
shape of increasing value, independent of
crops. But now, there is nothing to
make farming lands in the Sonth of any
money value whatever, except profitable
returns from culture; and when these
’ cease and cannot be reasonably expected
to revive, Southern lands become i s
worthless in the market as railway stock
which can never bring a dividend.
Aud let no man delude himself with
the idea that a recovery in prices will be
an easy matter when quotations have
fallen absolutely below the cost of pro
duction upon any reasonable scale of re
numeration. There will still be a wide
margin for loss in price by the degrada
tion of the producers! Negro labor can
still be squeezed down a good deal in the
interests of consumers, and then there is
also an immensity of white labor which
can find little or no other employment
except in agriculture, and will be forced
to work at any price on the “root hog or
die” principle.
Cotton has sunk rapidly^ every suc
cessive year since the war, until we see it
now from fifty-two cents a pound in
1866 to twelve cents in 1875. A very few
months more of that headlong speed ia
decline will bring it to a point when its
culture will cease to comfortably support
the latior which produces it, and the lat
ter must sink to a condition of disorder
and disorganization, or to mere squalor
and serfdom.
It would be folly and cruelty to hold
up this impending doom before the great
Southern cotton interest, if thero were
no remedy for this overproduction. But
there is a remedy—an easy remedy
which an intelligent people, seeing aud
appreciating the deadly peril ahead, could
be induced to apply. It is ia the power
of the State Granges to abate the cotton
product a third, and so enforce reasonable
compensation for their labor. This
remedy is a direct and legitimate one
resorted to by all handicrafts when the
markets become overstocked with their
goods and prices fall below the cost of
production.
It is also in the power of the intelligent
husbandry of the South to make such a
diversion of their labor as still to employ
it all profitably and increase their own
productive wealth, instead of sinking
down into a destructive and degrading
poverty which shall deprive them of the
comforts and elegancies of life. We can
apply a larger portion of our agricultural
labor to the cereals and grasses and to the
production of animal food and laboring
stock. We can produce fruit crops, rice,
sugar, tobacco, Sisal hemp and all other
fibres for the production of the immense
quantity of bagging we annally consume,
and we can, if we would, add at least
twenty-five per cent, to our annual reve
nues on the fleece of sheep and of the
variety of valuable goats.
The vast range of our productive ca
pacities admits of not the first reasonable
excuse for the over product of any single
crop. The course we are pursuing'is
gratuitious self-murder. It is not alone
that it is ruining usgpecuniarily; but that
with pecuniary ruin, in this case, comes
the loss of social dignity—the sinking
down gradually into the condition of
mere peasantry. whose scanty earning do
not permit of generous food, or the
means of mental, social and religious
culture.
If ev6r a case called for a corps of Pe
ter the Hermits, to rouse up. the people
to a sense of their danger and the great
yawning gulf of rain before them, we
think this is one. Why do the Grangers
fail to appreciate the crisis ?
THE AMEKICAXS IS EGYPT.
Gen. Stone Demoralizing rbe American
Officers in the Khedive’s Service.
Caleb Cashing says that this is a big
country. Has he been hunting over the
back yard for his ax at ten o’clock of a
dark night ? On such occasions a man
sinks all his personal feelings to feel
amazed at the extent of Uncle Sam’s
dominions.
^t is some time since the thing hap
pened, bnt D.uluth still wants to entertain
4- Proctor Knott for his speech on the
“Eenjth City of the Uns&ited Seas.”
Duluth has a memory where facts get
fixed as firmly as a Presidential relative
in office.
A Good Soul.
Little Eddie Gerrold, nine years old,
of Newtonville, N. Y., has been playing
the role of Romulus and Remus. Eddie
went out into the woods to gather nuts
one morning by permission of his parents
and did not return in the evening. The
parents and their friends searched the
woods all night and failed to find or dis
cover any traces of the little nut-gatherer.
A large Newfoundland dog, named Jack,
who had been in the family ever
since the boy was born, and had
grown up with him, was missing
also. Two or three days of search,
passed and the Gerrolds had given np
their boy as lost. They had their house
full of sympathizers one evening, when
Jack came whining at the door, asking to
come in as plainly as he could. They let
him in and he behaved so badly that they
thought he was mad, and drove him out
of the house and thought of shooting
him. Jack went to a neighbor’s who
knew him and piteously asked to come
in. The lady of the Louse opened the
door, and in bounded Jack in great
excitement. The lady had jast
put a loaf of bread for supper in a con
spicuous placj. Jack seized it in hi
great glad jaws, and ran quickly out of
the door. This family saw method in
the dog’s madness, and followed him.
Under Jack’s lead Eddie was found in the
forest miles away, and almost starved to
death. He was too weak to walk or make
a noise. The dog laid the stolen loaf
before his young master, and squatted by
his side with a look of intense satisfac
tion. Of course little Eddie was brought
home and restored to the overjoyed
family, who never before believed that
dogs have souls.
Paris, November 1.—Several American
offioers of the Egyptian army have pissed
through this city for home, all expressing
their dissatisfaction with the Khedive's
service. The pay promised them by the
agent of the Egyptian Government was
that of the United States army of 1870,
whereas they receive only the old pay.
This makes a difference to officers of the
grade of colonel of one hundred dollars a
month. Besides, these officers say that
the rank of bey (colonel) is beneath their
dignity in a country in which
beys are thicker than blackberries,
and that they are entitled to
the rank of pacha (brigadier general).
The chief source of complaint, however,
is the treatment they receive at the
hands of their own countryman, Gen.
Charles P. Stone, Chief of Staff, Dr. Ed
ward Warren, Surgeon in Chief of the
Egyptian army, who is in this city, and
CoL H. B. Reed, who is in New York,
speak of his treatment of Americans as
simply unendurable. Of the Khedive
and his son. Prince Hussein, Minister of
War, these gentlemen apeak in the high
est terms. Stone has given out that no
American need expect any favor from
him. He refused to interfere to get a
pension for Major Hunt’s widow, al
though that officer, dying in the Khe
dive’s service, was entitled to one, and
it needed only his endorsement to pro
cure it. He treated Mre. Hunt with con
tumely, and it was only through the con
tributions of generous English and
American officers that she was enabled to
return to the United States.
^ Among the officers driven from the
Khedive's service on Stone's aocount are
Col. Walter H. Jenifer, who, as General
in the Confederate service, commanded
the forces against Stone at Bali’s Bluff;
Lieut.-Col. Basse], Col. R. M. Rogers,
Gen. H. H. Sibley, Col. T. G. Rbett, a
classmate of Stone, who is here very
sick; Col. H. B. Reeid, who commanded
the military forces in the expedition for
the conquest of Darfour; and several
others, all distinguished as engineers,
cavalry, artillery or infantry officers.
Stone, these officers say, is endeavor
ing to make complications between the
Khedive and the Sultan, and is constantly
talking of what he would do if Egypt
should cut loose from the dead body of
Turkey. His behavior toward Americans
has been such that if it had not been for
the Hon. George H. Baker, United SUtes
Minister to Constantinople, the Sublime
Porte would have ordered the dismissal
of all Americans from the service. One
of these officers is the authority for the
assertion that the Consul-General at
Cairo refused to see Stone at his house,
and it is said that a resolution is to be
introduced in your Congress when it con
venes asking for intervention in favor of
those American officers who are slill em
ployed by the Khedive.
A GIRL BEFRIENDED.
An Episode that Weakened Air. Clai
borne's Confidence in Human Nature.
A Yankee Farmer and His Fat Cat-
fle. —Franklin county has long been fa
mous for its fat cattle, but the forty-
seven head now standing in the stables of
George W. Jones at Deerfield go a little
ahead of anything yet seen in the county.
They are all Durhams, great fellows, so
large they can hardly move themselves,
the heaviest yoke weighing 4,600 ponnds,
the next 4,400, and the whole averaging
over 4,000 per yoke. They are fed eight
quarts a day each of meal and bran, and
all the hay they want; water is supplied
to their mangers in pipes. Those now in
stall will be taken to Boston about Christ
mas, when Mr. Jones will stock up for
the winter, his usual supply being eighty
or pinety cattle, 600 or 700 sheep, and
about a dozen horses. Last year he cut
about 350 tons of hay, all of which he
fed ont, and some seventy-five tons more.
The cattle are kept in a sub-basement of
the barn, which has to be well ventilated
daring the winter, else it would become
oppressively warm from the number of
cattle confined there. The shdep are
kept cn the floor above. Mr. Jones pats
upon his own land, which lies along the
west bank of the Connecticut river for
half a mile, all the manure from his
stock, raising twelve or fourteen acres of
heavy tobacco every year, for which he
gets prices considerably above that paid
for tobacco grown by patent fertilizers.
In fact, he is one farmer who has found
out how to “make fanning pay.”—Strring-
field Republican,
Mr. J. H. Claiborne, of Trenton, N. J.,
on taking a seat in the New York train cn
Tuesday night, saw a young girl in front
of him who was crying, bat evidently
trying to suppress her grief. She was
prepossessing, and her attire indicated
taste and refinement. As she was alone,
Mr. Claiborne in a fatherly way ir quired
the cause of her trouble, and proffered
assistance. She replied that her name
was Ella Douglas, and that she lived in
Lockport, N. Y. About three months
ago, she said, she formed the acquain
tance of a young man, who said
that he was a commercial traveler
fer a New York boot and shoe house. He
paid his addreeses to her, 8nd,
her parents objecting to a marriage, he
induced her to accompany him to New
York, promising to marry her and take
her to the house of his mother in Wil
mington, I»eL Arriving m this city,
they were married, and after spending
the night at a hotel went to Wilmington.
There he deserted her, after informing
her that she was the victim of a &audu
lent marriage, and that the story of his
mother living in Wilmington was a hoax.
The gill was heart-broken and out of
money, but she said she had friends in
Thirty-fifth street who wonld render her
assistance. She said that she was too
weary to walk frqm the ferry to Thirty-
fifth street, was ashamed to go up in a
car, and that Mr. Claiborne would* con
fer a lasting favor by taking her in a car
riage. To this he willingly consented,
and on reaching Thirty-fifth street and
Sixth avenue she requested him to leave
her, saying that she preferred to go to
the house of her friends alone, as the
distance was only half a block. Mr.
Claiborne turned away, but before reach
ing his hotel he missed his watch and
some money that he carried in his vest
pocket—N. T. Sun.
An Electrical Speotbe.—We learn
that within the last two weeks & singular
discovery has been made at the house of
Jesse Garth, for many years deceased. It
is said that a distinct and accurate liko-
ntss of Mrs. Garth, who has been dead
for twenty years, can be seen on a pane
of glass in the upper sash of one of the
windows, presenting very much the ap
pearance of a photograph negative. The
discovery is said to have been made by a
woman who was washing clothes in the
yard, who imagined some one was watch
ing her through the window, and went
inside to see who it was. We gather
these facts from Dr. Charles Brown, who
has himself seen the singular picture.
Dr. Brown remembers that about twenty
years ago, Mr. Garth told him that his
wife, while standing at the window, was
stunned by a sudden flash of lightning,
and the doctor’s theory is that lbs out
lines of her features were photographed
on the window pane at that time. The
youngest daughter of Mr. Garth, and
others who were well acquainted with
Mrs. Garth, have seen the picture Lnd
pronounce it a striking liU&neoS. It is
said to be more distinct about nine
o'clock in the morning and three in the
evening, than at any other time of the
day.—Charlotte ( Va.) Chronicle.
Duncan Campbell, having undertaken
to walk from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
reports progress from Itoch Sprit ga,
Washington Territory, having been al
ready four months on his journey, say
ing, ‘*Had fine weather through Illinois,
very wet weather through Iowa, for ten
days never had a dry shirt on my back;
fine weather through Nebraska; good
weather through Wyoming till I got to
Laramie, and from there to Rawlins four
days and four nights in a heavy wind and
snow storm. From the time I left Lara-
qiie till I got to Rawlins 1 never sat down
for ten minutes, it being so cold, and be
ing afraid of getting frozen. I tritd sec
tion and station houses, but I could not
get any shelter. I finished my journey
here for a while, preparatory to my re
turn journey. I will leave Ban Francisco
on the first of February, or as soon as the
weather permits. I will get a wheelbar
row that will carry my blankets and cook
ing apparatus. I will make the distance
from the to the Atlantic in one
hundred and ninety days.”
A HORRIBLE CALAMITY.
Twa CUUm Burned le Deeib—* Braee
Girl Save* Her Lift*
Pensacola, Fla., November
Saturday last a frightful calamity occurrea
some miles from here, on the Bay Sh »
near Town Point, by which two
LITTLE CHILD REN WEEK BURNED TO DEATH.
Mr. Kimmins, the father, had come to
the city for the purpose of doing some
trading, leaving at home his wife »n
three children, little dreaming of the
horrible fate that was even then laying
in wait for his little ones. It appears
that Mrs. Kimmins, the mother, during
the absence of her husband, went down
to the beach, to a point where some fish*
ermen had just drawn a seine, leaving at
the house an infant, one child a little
older, (about two years old), and one
about five years of age. While convers
ing with the fishermen she was
STARTLED BY THE REPORT OF A OUN
from the direction in which her house
lay, and on looking around was horror-
stricken to see dense volumes of smoke
and lurid flames arising as high in the
air.
Rushing home like the wind, she
reached the spot only to find the eldest
child safe outside and hear the frantic
shrieks of the two babes within the walls
of fire, crying for succor, which no hu
man hand could give.
What must have been the frenzy and
agony of that mother when the full real
ization of her darlings’ horrible death
AND HEB OWN UTTER HELPLESSNESS BURST
UPON her!
When the fire subsided a search was
made amid the smouldering ruins, but
naught save a few charred bones remained
of what but a few moments before were
jewels in a coronet cf domestic happi
ness ! Two loaded guns were in the
house, and the fire reaching one of them
caused it to explode, thus giving to the
mother the alarm.
A- BRAVE YOUNG GIRL.
A few nights ago witnessed a rare in
stance of presence of mind, by the exer
cise of which a young girl, aged eighteen,
saved herself from a fearful death. She
had gone to the mantel and “turned
down" the wick of a kerosene lamp,
which immediately e^loded, scattering
the fragments of lamp and particles of
fcumirg oil in every direction, and setting
fire to her clothing. She seised the re
maining portion of the blazing lamp and
made a rush for the front door, intending
to throw it into the street. In her
hurried flight, however, she ran against a
center table upon which was another
lamp burning, overturning both, and caus
ing this lamp also to explode. When she
reached the door she never stopped, but
pitched headlong into the sand and rolled
over and over in it, trying to smother the
blaze,
KEEPING HEB MOUTH TIGHTLY SHUT
all the time to keep from inhaling the
flames. Although this all happened in a
moment’s time a good many neighbors
rushed to her assistance, and by tearing
off her outer clothing succeeded in “put
ting her out.” Had it not been for the
presence of mind she would, without
doubt have been burned to death. As it is,
she is badly burned.—Correspondence
Atlanta Herald.
Greenbacks.
Indianapolis, November 19.—The fol
lowing declaration and call, signed by
over three thousand voters of this city,
will appear in the Sun to-morrow :
In view of the continued and increased
depression of business, resulting in the
failure and bankruptcy of all productive
enterprise, the enforced idleness of thou
sands of industrious working people, the
continued shrinkage of values and the
relative increase of taxation, the vast
burden of puhlio and private debt, rela
tively increased by the depression of all
other values—all produced, as we be
lieve, by a mistaken policy of financial
legislation; therefore we, the undersigned
voters of Indianapolis and vicinity, do
unite in the following demands upon the
Congresi of the United States :
1. The immediate and unconditional
repeal of the resumption act of January
14, 1875, commonly known as the “Sher
man bill.”
!. The permanent retirement of
national bank notes and substitution
therefor of national legal tender money,
to be issued directly rrem the Treasury
of the United States.
3. The refunding of at least a portion
of the present national bonded debt into
bonds bearing a lower rate of interest,
say 3.65 per cent, per annum, intercon-
trovertible with national legal tender pa
per money at the pleasure of the holders ;
and we further unite in a call for a mass
meeting to be held at Indianapolis, De
cember 1, 1875, in furtherance of these
demands.
Quantrell’* Old Headqaarters.
[From tbe Lawrence (&»-; Tribaae.l
About 1 o’clock last night the alarm of
fire was sounded. Soon an immense blaze
sprang up near the South river bank, and
it was found to be the National Hotel on
fire. The fire took in the rear end of the
building, near the kitchen and washing
rooms. It had got pretty good headway
before the engine got to playing on it,
although the firemen were promptly on
hand and worked with terrific energy.
This was an old building, though in
good condition, having been erected in
1S57, or rather commenced in that year
for some additions have been made to it
since. The hotel will be recognized by
nearly all our readers, when we state that
it was originally the Whitney House
built by Mr. Whitney; afterwards tho
City Hotel, kept by Mr. Stone r then the
Dufree House, kept by Mr. Skinner, and
now the National, kept and owned by
Mr. Charles Strong.
The whole back part of the hotel was
destroyed, and the front part 6o burned
and drenched with water aa to be almost
ruined. The whole establishment coot
Mr. Strong •‘$14,000 four years ago, fur
niture and lot included, and the building
is probably worth $8,000 or $9,000 now.
The building was insured for $4,000 and
the furniture for $1,000. The furniture
is a terrible wreck, and the portion of the
house whioh still stands is as black as a
pit of charceak
This hotel was the headquarters of
Quantrell at the Lawrenoe massacre, and
he set a guard around it for its protec
tion. on account of the kind treatment
he had on<je received at the hands of ita
then proprietor, Mr. Stone, though some
of his men afterwards killed the good old
man before they left town.
The Gallows.—Rochester, N- T., No
vember 19.—John Clark t who shot officer
John Trevo;, whs nanged in the jail yard
this morning. He slept but little last
night. He ate a hearty breakfast and
conversed with apparent unconsciousness
and walked ta the scaffold smoking a
cigar. Be seated himself on the drop,
and throwing away the cigar, listened to
the reading of the death jrarrant and the
prayer of the clergyman. When directed
to stand, he did so, erect and firm, and
spoke smilingly to the Sheriff, reporters,
etc., and m answer to the question if he
had nothing to say, replied: “Nothing,
except that he hadn’t had a fair trial.”
After John Clark’s body -vas cut down,
to-day, an attempt was made by his
friends to resuscitate him, but without
success.
Japan is advancing with commendable
rapidity. Qno of she most remarkable
incident:; of the recent Social Science
Congress in England waa the reading in
the section for international law of a
very able pager, by a young Japanese
gentleman, Mr. Rokaro Hara, on the
consular courts in his native country
The Japanese eagerly seek education for
their children. The daimios, or local
anetocracy, have vied with each other in
establishing schools in their provinces, ia
which chemistry and other sciences are
taught. The Imperial Government has ad
ded a college for the higher education of
the more promising pupils of the primary
schools,and great numbers of private estab
lishments have been added. In the
Government preparatory schools lan
guages are taught, together with the de
ments of engineering, and naval and mil
itary studies are pursued, the more ad
vanced pupils being promoted at b.iv
yearly examinations to higher schools, or
to the Imperial College, in which it has
been decided that in future the English
language only shall be used as the medium
of instruction. The report of the Japa
nese Toot master General for 1674 shows
that during that year nearly eighteen
millions o| letters, ol which nearly three
hundred thousand were registered, cessed
through the Post Office, besides acs?!
G48 newspapers and nearly 34.000 bookn
aud patterns.
_. A , Wir TO b e Kntm.-Mr.
Pickett Boggan, a respectable citizen of
more than forty years' residence in this
county, met a most singular death at hia
home, near Fine Apple, a short time
surne. He was sitting in the piazza of
Us honae, m a rocking chair, and near
the railing or banister, his feet resting at
the edge of thefWing. In this position
^ the 3oor to *“d the
ground, hts body being allowed to follow
on account of the moving forward of the
chair on the rockers; his chin caught <£
the upper railing, and the back If thL
chanroame up against the back of his
head, and so remained, so thu\
suspended m this singular manner Be
ing quite old and infirm, he was
f" and the weighto?
his body rearing on his chin profited
hi8 opemng hts mouth to call for Sb
and he thus died from strangulatio^-
Greenville Advocate. ^
