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Advertisements ‘nserted every other day, twice mxii or once a wek, charged $1 00 per square for oa-ii insertion. So contract rates allowed except by special. t/rremnU. Liberal discounts made to large ad vertisers. Advertisements will have a favorable place When first inserted, but no promise of continuous publication in a particular place can be given, as advertisers must have equal opportunities. Affair* in Georgia. The Augusta Constitutionalist alludes to the Mokmng News as “the Savannah pa per." And this in spite of the fact that we have a man specially employed to credit items from our Northern and Western ex changes to that journal. CoioDel Crocker, of Fort Valley, is dead. A deaf and dumb negro was killed on the Air-Line Railroad the other day. The Constitution states that “Carters- rille's blondo belle is in the city.” She is evidently trying to shake the Atlanta edi tors. The Thomasville Enterprise remarks: Our young friend, Mr. S. G. McLendon, who has just returned from Savannah, where he has been assisting his father in constructing the Atlantic and Gulf and Charleston Railroad connection, informs us that the road-bed is complete, the iron is being put down, and that the cars will be running in a few days. Colonel H. D. Capers is now residing in Columbia, S. C. Mr. R. R. Goetchins, of Columbus, is dead. • A young man named McLeod was killed on the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, near Dixie, recently. Tbe Count Johannes B’Gormanne writes to tbo Macon Telegraph that he is on his way to “Deem’s Lake.” We’ll be “Deemed” if we believe it. If that is profanity, turn loose the dogs of war. Thus the Thomasville Enterprise: Captain Miller B. Grant, an abls engineer, well known in this section, will enrich the col umns of the Savannah News with accounts from tbe Okefeuokee expedition, while Ma jor Sidney Herbert ornaments and perfumes them with bouquets from the Land of Flow ers. It will be a good season for Northern and Western people to read the News. Atlanta is chock full of burglars. The Thomasville Enterprise warns the granges in that section to avoid jealousy. A bloody affray occurred last Wednesday night at Wiiliamsville, in Pike county, be tween two farmers, John Rogers and James S .jitb, in which the latter lost his life. From a gentleman who was present, the Gridin Xeics gets the following particulars of the tragedy: Rogers aad Smith and others were congregated at a grocery in the village, when some difficulty aroBe between these two men, which soon led to blows, whereupon Rogers drew a pocket-knife and inflicted a ghastly wound on his opponent’s neck, severing some of the arterieB. Rog ers then ran and was pursued by Smith for quite one hundred yards, when Smith fell and died from the effects of the wound and before assistance could reach him. Rogers escaped to a kinsman’s house in the neighborhood, from which place he dis patched a messenger back to the village to learn Smith’s condition. The messenger arrived, and made inquiries, but was ar rested and divulged the whereabouts of Rogers, whereupon a posse was summoned, and went and arrested him, but on their return with him he managed to make his escape, i-ince which time nothing has been heard of him. Both men are reported to have been in liquor at tbo time. The same paper has heard rumors of the strange disappearance of Mrs. Barbara Cau- thom, the wife of William Cauthorn, a well- to-do farmer, who lives.just over the line in Pike county, near Orchard Hill. From Mr. Wiley Cooper the Xe>rs gleans the following particulars in reference to the sad event, which may be considered reliable: Mrs. Barbara Cauthorn is an elderly lady, some fifty years of age, and for some years has been an invalid and confined to her bed, and suffering at times from mental derangement, superinduced it was supposed by her other afflictions. Last Saturday, a week ago, she was sitting np and was cheerful and remarked that Bhe had not felt so well for months, and her family were led to hope that she might soon recover her wonted health and strength. Soon,however,she was missed from tbe house and after a time the fears of the family be coming aroused, search for her was made without success, and the family by this time becoming thoroughly alarmed, neighbors were called in and a gen eral search of the neighboring woods and fields commenced, still with out avail. Since that time and all during last week, up to Sunday night last, the neighborhood has been in a restless state of excitement, and all the streams and wells have been dragged, and still no cine of the missing lady has been found. It is needless to say that the w^rst fears are entertained that she has come to a tragic end by some means not kuowu ind not surmised. Atlanta Constitution : As Si was coming np town from the Atlanta and Richmond Air- Line depot vesterday, he indulged in a little song all to himself. Two other negroes passed by, and one of them shouted back : “Pin up ver ouder lip, old man, an’ stop dat racket!”' “Who yer talkin’ ter?” said Si, stopping short and turning around. “Talkin’ to von; who yer tink I’m talkin’ to, you ole Guinea rooster, yon?” “Yer don’t know me, do yer?” said Si. “I don’t koer who you is; you ain’t l no grand army ob oe ’pub ic, no howl” “Look hyar, I’m de most discourageous nigger in dia Afiantv* citv. and I’ll jis take dis hyar head and butt yer inter de forepart of Chris- mus week, I will.” “You’se a da—” Just then Si took a run with head bent down, and two seconds after there was a sick nigger in the mud, wanting nothing under heaven but a doctor. And as 8i went on, ha re marked over his shoulder: “I’m a bad nig ger ; alius was: wus bad ’fore de war; bad all in der war; bad arter de war, and I’m de loudes’ buttin’ nigger you eber read ’bout in books wii de ltabes all out and de kiver lost.” Jhe game paper says: The West Point paase.nger train yesterday evening brought m a beaqitifal girl, four or five years old, who knew nothing about her destination. She was placed under the charge of a lady at Montgomery, Ala., bv a man. He came on board ana asked if there was any one going to Augusta. Upon a lady responding that she was, he asked her if she would take charge of the little girl to Augusta, and then put her under charge of the con ductor of the train there. She said she would if he would seo the conductor about it. The man was a stranger to the lady, and left the train without giving her any money to pay the child’s fare or supply her with food. The child had & slip of paper upon which w&s written “Place Emmie Douglass in charge of the conductor ot the sleeping car to Augusta, and tell him to put her under the care of the conductor on the Charlotte, Colombia and Augusta Railroad to Pine House, where she will be met by Mrs. Lucy II. Strother.” Conductor Jas. W. Beil upon his arrival here, took the child home with him until ho could find ont more about her. It is somewhat singular that a child of her •coder years should be put on a train with- «ut money to travel a long distance. It is true that no conductor would put her off the train or see her suffer for want of food, but it is something unusoAl to ship the little cherub alone. Macon Telegraph: There is a.colored man in Wilkinson county named Sack Bell, who is regarded by h e face as ti*> friendly with the whites, and they therefore look upon him with suspicion. On several occasions, when they have been discovered in thieving or other rascality, they have accused him playing the spy and informing against them. Whether Rack did the things of which he is accused we are not advised, but it is certain that he incurred the enmity of the other negroes, and at last vkey seem to have determined that the bet- J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1875. ESTABLISHED 1850. ter plan would be to put him out of the way. About three o’clock yesterday morn ing a party of eleven, consisting of ten negroes and one white man, went to Rack’s house for the purpose of making a sum mary disposition of him. Thev got pos- session of him, gagged him,'bound his hands behind him, tied a wheelbarrow wheel and some plow-irons, weighing altogether about thirty pounds, around his neck, and then took him to a bridge oyer a neighboring creek. When they ar rived upon the bridge one of the negroes drew a pistol and attempted to shoot him through the head. Fortunately for Rack, the ball missed him. He had the presence of mind, however, to drop as if he had been shot, and his assailants, imagining him to be dead, rolled him off the bridge into the water, which was about ten feet deep. By a miracle almost, bound, gagged and loaded down as he was, Rack managed to get astride of a sleeper, which saved him from being drowned. The gang of ruffians fled as soon as they tumbled him into the water, as they be lieved him to have been murdered by the shot which was aimed at him Gagged ;.s he was, Rack conJd give do alarm, and his hands being securely bound behind him, ho was unable to relieve his neck of the load they bad fastened there ; but by a alow and steady endeavor he man aged to work his way to the bank of the stream, and then made his way to the nearest house, which he reached about five o’clock yesterday morning, and was released from the uncomfortable situation in which the outlaws had left him. Rack identified all the parties who were engaged in this outrage. He went to Irwintou and reported the names of the ten negroes, but steadfastly refused to reveal the name of the white man who took part iu the Ku-Klux outrage. Up to noon yesterday eight of the ten negroes had been arrested and lodged in jail at Irwinton, and there was even* rea son to believe that the other two would bo arrested before night. We hope the white man will share the same, or even a worse fate than the negroes. He certainly de serves worse at the hands of the law. CHARLEY ROSS. The Woman at Thomaaton Supposed to be Mother’s .Sitter—Some Confirma tory Circnmatnncrrj. New Haven, Conn., November 20.—The Charley Ross excitement in this commu nity is unabated. Tbe reports from Thomaston and Cheshire confirm previ ous statements that a strange woman, believed to be Mosher’s sister, is wander ing about from town to town with the lost child- The theory advanced is this: A few days after the abducticn of Char ley Ross a man answering to the de scription of Mosher was seen to cross tbe bridge over tbe Housatonic river, between Bridgeport and Milford, hav ing in his custody a child which answered to the description of Charley Ross. Mosher then had a sister living in Milford; the next day a sail boat, belong ing to Mr. Samuel Wilmot, of Bridge port, was stolen from Bridgeport harbor; that boat was the one which Mosher and Douglass used in their raid on Bay Ridge, when they were shot by the Van Brunts. It is conjectured that Mosher put the Ross boy in the hands of his sister with a sum of money sufficient to defray sev eral months’ expenses, with the injunc tion to keep the transaction a profound secret. Mosher was killed, the money which he advanced run out, and the cus todian of the child was obliged to seek other means of support. Such is tbe theory. the fibst suspicion. Some four or five weeks ago a young lady visiting in Cheshire, in this State, was accosted on the street in that town by a woman, who desired to know the way to the alms house, with a boy appa rent ly about five years old, who bore a striking resemblance to the portraits of Charley iioss. The lady was so struck with the resemblance that she insisted upon an investigation, but no one listened to her, and the woman and child passed on. A YANKEE LOOKING HF.B UP. More recently a Mr. Bunnell, who seems to be a right godtt speciman of an inquiring Yankee, found a woman and child in Thomaston, on the borders of Harwinton, in Litchfield county, whose actions were mysterious. By observation he learned that while the woman had dark hair, the child’s hair was light. The woman told different stories about the child’s parentage, and when pressed she admitted it was not her own. She said she was from Hamden, Conn., and asked to be let alone. At times she dressed the boy in girl’s clothes, especially when passing through a village. At times she BY TELEGRAPH THE MORNING NEWS- Noon Telegrams. THE GRANGERS IS' COUNCIL. Majority of the Democratic Candi date in Oregon. COLLEGE STUDENTS EXPELLED. Trouble* of the Sublime Turkey. TICKET AGENTS. Chicago, November 24.—At a meeting of the ticket agents, rates to a Dumber of Southern cities is reduced. The rates to Atlanta, t barlcston, Raleigh aod other prin cipal cities iu that section, are reduced from two to three dollars. There is also a re duction of three dollars in the immigrant rate to all points in Texas. THE PATBOXS OF HUSBAXDBY. Louisville, November 24.—The National Grange election resulted as follows: Master, John T. Jones, of Arkansas; Overseer, J. J. Woodman, of Michigan; Lecturer, H. B. Smediy, of Iowa; Steward, A. J. Vaugb, of Mississippi; Treasurer, F. M. McDowell; Secretary*, O. H. Kellv, of Kentucky. BUEWEKYBUBXED. New York, November 24.—David Jones’ brewery is burnt, together with stored grain, malt and hops, and an immense stock of beer. The falling walls crushed several tenement houses. The loss of Jonos, who is the sole owner of the brewery and con tents, is $350,000; insurance $250,000. FAILUBES. New York, November 24.—Bass & Clark, wholesale grocers, have failed. Wallace & Co., of New Orleans, dry goods dealers, whose failure was reported, it is said owes nearly a quarter of a million here. STUDENTS EXPELLED. Pbinceton, N. J., November 24.—Forty students have been expelled for persisting in belonging to a secret society against tbe orders of tbe faculty. Two-thirds of those expelled belong to the senior class. BILLIABDS. New York, November 24.—In the match game for $1,000 and the championship, six hundred points, three balls, Cyrille Dion won in forty-eight innings, Maurice Daly scoring five hundred and fifty-seven. A STRIKE. Amsterdam, N. Y., November 24.—From eight hundred to one thousand knitters of woolen goods have struck against & reduc tion of ten per cent, wages. Tbe s rikers have no organization and cannot stand long. democratic majority. San Francisco, November 24.—The of ficial count from Oregon gives Lane, Demo crat, for Congress, two hundred and sixty- seven majority. PROBABLE SUICIDE. Boston, November 24.—It is believed that G. G. Jackson, a prominent banker and real estate broker, committed suicide by jump ing from a Chelsea boat. SOME SUBLIME FORTS. Berlin, November 24.—The Turkish forts at Garausko and Nicksyc must capitulate unless shortly victualed. BANK ROBBED. Detroit, November 24.—The First Na tional Bank of Monroe was robbed of $10,- 000 last night. DEAD. Paris, November 24.—Alexander Colier, the painter, is dead. This is the season of the annual re - ports at Washington. The Star of that city gives some statistics of the reports of transactions in the Small Potato Bureau, which are quite as interesting as some others that are published. It says in the division for dotting of i’s work has largely increased, chiefly on account of the egotistical nature of the business transacted. The number of i’s dotted during tbe fiscal year was 718,807,524 3-1. In the division for the crossing of t’s there has been a falling off of 58,708 as compared with last year. This serious omission will be remedied in future, be cause a t uncrossed looks like 1. Evening Telegrams. A STORT FROM THE SEA. How the Pacific was Wrecked Her People Drowned. and TBE INDIANS WITH THEIR WAR PAINT ON. THE Li.\D OF FLOWERS. Jacksonville to Palalka—The St. John'* River a Chain of Beautiful Lakes—In cident* of the Voyage and Scene* Alone the River from Shore to Shore—Pal atka by Gaslight, and a Fleet of River Steamer*. [Specia. Correepon dence of tbe Morning News WALES IN THE INDIAN JUNGLES. A SORRY STORY. San Francisco, November 24.—One of the crew of tbe ship Orpheus made a sworn statement before a notary public at Port Townsend, in which he charges the Captain of the Orpheus with having been the cause of the disaster. He says that ou raising the light of the Pacific, be was ordered by the second mate to head for them. In a few minutes a.ter the Captain came on deck and ordered him again to put tbe ship on her course. About three minutes afterward be was ordered by tbe Captain to let her luff, which be did. After this the Captain sig nified his intention to speak the steamer, for which purpose the lights of the steamer were kept dead ahead until the two vessels came iu collision. Then the steamer fol lowed the ship, and the people ou board tbe steamer shouted and called upon the Cap tain of the Orpheus to stop and rescue them, but be did not heed their cries and kept on his course, and the steamer was soon lost to view. WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET. Washington, November 24.—Probabili ties: For the South Atlantic and Eastern Gulf States, high barometer, northeast to southeast winds, generally colder and partly cloudy weather will prevail. For the Western Gulf States, Tennessee, Ohio valley and Lake region, high, followed by falling barometer, easterly to southerly winds, generally warmer and clear weather, possibly followed by snow in Wisconsin and upper Michigan. For the Middle States, high, followed by falling barometer, northwest winds, shifting to northeast and southeast, and generally colder and clear weather. In the canal regions of New York, New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania the tem perature will fall below freezing point on Thursday night. Cautionary signals are ordered for Cape Henry, Kitty Hawk and Cape Hatteras. THE INDIAN8. Washington, November24.—Indian Agent Irvine telegraphs that in a recent alterca tion at tbe Cameron Agency he was wounded in the hand by an Indian who was attempting to escape, and who was shot by the guard, and hostilities might be looked for at any moment. His wound prevents him from taking au ictive part iu tbe diffi culty. He recommends that affairs be placed in charge of a Military Commis sioner. Tbo government telegraphs back to put the military iu full control, and to give them a hearty co-operation in bringing the Indians to subjection. ASTOR. New York, November 24.—Wm. B. Astor died to-day, aged eighty-four years. He has been in ill health a long tim*, and the event was not unexpected. During tbe course of his long life the value of tbe pro perty bequeathed to him by his father has been constantly increasing, and it is almost impossible at present to estimate its amount. It consists of real estate in all parts of tbe city, and is worth many million dollars. He" will be buried on Saturday. THE RAILROAD CONVENTION. St. Louis, N jvember 24.—In the conven tion a lengthy letter from Col. Scott was read, setting forth tbe advantages to tbo country at largo and to the government from tbe Texas Pacific Hoad. Tbe Commit tee on Resolutions then presented a long series ol resolutions, which were read. The articles so far adopted by the Texas Constitutional Convention provide that the legal rate of interest shall not w w _ exceed eight per cent, a year, and that also covered his face with a veil, and at j the Legislature shall pass laws to punish all times she seemed anxious to divert at- usury: that the current wages shall not tention from the child to herself. She never presented the appearance of a pau per. indeed, the incongruity of her dress with her asking alms is what first set young Bunnell on her track. LOST THE TRACS. He put himself in communication with Mr. Iioss, but when hqsought to find the woman he was much surprised to find she had flown. For three days, he says, he has followed her up, hearing from her and the boy in several towns, bat up to to-day he had not been able to put his hand upon her. Those best acquainted with the affair say that Mrs. Bradley is a bona fide resident of Hamden, and that, from her former associations, she is as likely to be the custodian of Charley Ross as any one living. She is described to be a woman twenty-four or twenty-five years of age, dark complexioned, and wholly mysterious. No one knows ex actly who she is or where she came from She is described to be unusually keen for one of her class, and her mysterious dis appearance from Thomaston, just when she was most wanted, is taken to be an indication of her shrewdness. The peo ple hereabouts believe that the child in her possession is Charley Ross. The woman was arrested to night at Newtown, but discharged. She was re arrested at Birmingham. Queer Doings in Church.—There was a very loud disturbance in the Methodist Church, on the Hockanum border. East Hartford, Connecticut, on Sunday eve ning. Prayer and praise services were being held, when a young man named David E. Curtis left his seat and started to leave the church. Just os he got near the door he was stopped by Mr. Ralph Kisley, who insisted that he should not retire. The young man said that it was necessary that he should leave, and start ed to do so, when Mr. Risley took him by the collar to prevent him. Mr. Curtis thereupon, to break the hold upon him struck Mr. Risley in the face, and then the excitement began in good earnest. The boys in the audience shouted all sorts of impious things, and the pastor, Rev. Mr. Morse, left the pulpit and join ed the crowd about the door in a vain en deavor to still the disturbance. Finally the young man Curtis was compelled to take a seat and remain there till Mr. Thomas Dowd, a Justice of the Peace, had been sent for, the pastor announcing that a trial would be held then and there to punish the offender. Upon the arrival of Mr. Dowd an effort was made to clear the house of all the young people, in order that the trial might proceed, but there was a general refusal to stir, and finally the young man was held under bail to be proceeded against on a secular day. Jacksonville, Fla , Nov. 12, 1875. Editor of the Journal of Commerce : Please decide the following: A box containing jars of preserved fruit marked “ Positively this side up ” is receipted for in good order by vessel. On delivery the jars are found ti> have leaked out their syrup in consequence of having been stored with marked side down. Is the vessel responsible for the damage ? Are carriers bound to observe such in structions as the above in the stowage of freight ? Subscriber. Reply. —Carriers are bound, “ when directed to carry goods in a particular manner or position, to carry them in that particular manner or position.” (Angell on Carriers, sec. 213 ) This question in the case of a bottle of oil of cloves marked “Glass, with care, this side up,” was de_- cided in Hastings vs. Pepper II, Pick. 41. Where the directions are plainly given, the carrier, if he accepts the charge, must obey, or pay all resulting ^RTT)agft«.—Journal of Commerce. be subject to garnishment for debt; that a married man shall not sell nor mortgage his homestead without the consent of his wife; that a homestead shall be pro tected from seizure for debt, except for the purchase money thereof, and that it shall not be partitioned among heirs during the lifetime of a surviving hus band or wife. Education is liberally pro vided for, and the public lands protected from plunder. A London special says that after the Cabinet Council Sunday, a telegram was sent advising the Prince of Wales to re turn. The real reason assigned by the correspondent for this action of the Cab inet, is the unsatisfactory attitude of the native princes. Not a single reception has been proffered by any one of these in the Madras and Bengal presidencies. All entertainments thus far given have been given by the English. There is no concealing the fact that the native princes view the visit unfavorably. There are now either in full blast or in contemplation in the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Ten nessee and Alabama fifty-four furnaces for tbe manufacture of iron. Georgia and Alabama are the chief seats of the pro duction of hot-blast charcoal iron, which is shipped directly to England, from Selma, Dalton and Rome. In addition to native whites and blacks, there are large numbers of English, Scotch and Swedish workmen employed at this business. LUCCA. New York, November 24.—Pauline Lucca was thrown from her carriage in Switzerland and received injuries which will da tain her six woeka. SENTENCED. Binghampton, N. Y., November 24.—Jas. Covert, aged eighteeu, who plead guilty to a felonious assault upon a girl of niue, was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment. navigation closed. Montreal, Canada, November 24.—Be tween here and Lachine navigation is blocked by ice. Navigation is closed some day8 earlier than last year. FROM LONDON. London, November 24.—'Hie Post says that Hunt will resign as tbe first Lord of the Admiralty. Lord Lennox, the member from Chichester, will probably succeed him. H. R. H. Bombay, November 24.—Wales and his ‘suite have returned from Baruada. They are all well. Wales went aboard the Serapis, for Ceylon. BURNED. Port Huron, Mich., November 24.—The mill of tbe National Stave Company was burned. Loss, $65,000; insured for $35,000. THE LOST DIAMONDS. How Brick Pomeroy Recovered Hi* .llrnttinR Gem* Through the Agency of a Clarivoyant. Rev. Dr. Clement Butler, in the Epis copal Church Congress, on Wednesday, urged the abandonment of the irreverent farce and desecration of the perfunctory reading of the Bible in the public schools. He said: “Thousands of our citizens feel that this wonld be the right thing to do, who are yet unwilling to yield the point because it would seem like a surrender to sectarian dictation. Like Falstaff they do not choose to be virtuous on compulsion.” Congressman Hollman has announced that he is not a candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for Governor of Indi ana next year. His withdrawal is thought to make ex-Congressman Niblack the most probable candidate, although Gen. Benjamin Harrison has very strong back ing. A New York man has cured himself of the filthy habit of tobacco chewing, by tasting an apple every time he felt in clined to partake of the degrading weed. He had been perfuming and frescoing stoves for seventeen years, but the fruit worked an effectual core. Secretary Chandler has been nominated for the Presidency, The Paw Paw Cou rier, of Michigan, did it; but it neg lected to say anything about the second place on the ticket. How would Boss Shepherd do ? The Chicago Board of Education has refused, 11 to 2, to restore Bible reading in the schools. A Vermont family has a wash dish fifty-one years old. This .statement can bo taken without any water in it The boy who opens oysters is fully as big as the boy who drives the omnibus around to the barn. The peanut crop this season amounts to 2,000,000 bushels. A waiter in an Antwerp hotel owns $160,000 worth of paintings. [N. Y. correspondence of the Chicago Times.] “Brick” Pomeroy has long been under the medical treatment of clarivoyants. On to-day his experience with them in fortune telling has culminated. Some time ago Mr. Pomeroy took it into his head that it would benefit his health to go to Europe. His wife consented, and preparations for the proposed trip were at once begun. When everything was ready for the departure, he said to his wife : “Let us give a reception, or a sort of farewell party to our friends ?” So the lady wrote a number of in vitations and sent them to such gentlemen and ladies as she desired to be her guests. Little did this worthy cou ple dream that this little reception affair was to cost them fifteen thousand dol lars, that is, the loss of a set of diamonds valued at that amount; but such was to be their fate. It happened in this wise: Among the extra help engaged was a mu latto man who was hired from an intelli gence office. This servant pro tern, had access to the bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. Pomeroy. After the party broke up, Mr. and Mrs. Pomeroy, with the fatigue of entertaining their guests, retired to bed. Their jewelry casket stood on the dresser, but the worthy couple did not think of looking into it to see if the dia monds were safe. The next morning they began to pack their trunks to take the steamer in the afternoon. Mrs. Pomeroy passed up the jewel casket and was about to put it into a trunk, when she noticed was lighter than usual. She opeued the casket, and to her horror discovered that the diamonds were gone. Then “Brick” started on the search. He visited the central office at police headquarters, and consulted even the detectives, but the officers informed him that there was no good clue to work on; that he might just as well look for a needle in a hay mow as to look for the diamonds there. Then Mi. Pomeroy went to a private de tective agency on Broadway. The agency took the matter in hand and searched all the suspicious jewelry stores in the city. He resolved to consult Mrs. Myers, a youDg lady clairvoyant residing on Fifth avenue. The seeress is very young, only fifteen years of age. After Mr. Pomeroy and his friends had waited a short time, she seated herself in a large easy chair, closed her eyes, and went into a deep trance sleep. For a few minutes she was silent and deathly pale. At length her lips moved and she spoke m low and musical tones, addressing Mr. Pomeroy. To the amazement of Mr. Pomeroy and his friends, so “Brick” avows, the girl described accurately the circumstances attending the loss of the diamonds. She told of the party, described the guests present, Mr. and Mrs. Pomeroy’s departure for Europe, things that occurred during the sojourn in the old country, the return of Brick and his wife to their native land, Mr. Pomeroy’s illness, its cause, his recovery to health. Then she said: “A dark com plexioned man took your diamonds. The thief is now in this city. If you go to him and demand the gems he will restore them to you.” “Brick” was told exactly where and under what circumstances he would find the missing property. He has acted, so he says, upon the suggestion, and on to day recovered nearly all the diamonds, some $10,000 worth. The re maining $5,000 worth have not been secured. Palatka, November 19, 1875. To visit Florida without taking trip on the St. John’s river is like seeing the play of Hamlet with the character of the Prince of Denmark left out. This is not, by any means, an original expres sion ; still, it can be used in this con nection with considerable force and a peculiar appropriateness. Unlike any other large stream of water on the American continent, and running in a direct northerly course for several hundred miles, the St. John’s has be come famous the world oyer for its man peculiar attractions for' tourists am invalids. From Jacksonville to Palat ka it is but a constant succes sion of small lakes, so closely commingled that it is almost impossible, except by the channel buoys, to outline anything like a river running through them. There is scarcely a place where two points of the opposite banks come near each other, or where the distance across the stream is not over two miles. On one side a sharp point of land comes out near the steamboat channel, but on the other side a stretch of five or six miles of water, generally about the same distance in width from its widest points, is to be seen. These large coves or small bays alternate from one side of the river to the other, and in many places are di rectly opposite each other, making e stretch of eight or ten miles of water. There are, in fact, no symmetrical or regular outlines to this grand old stream and to a Northern or Western man it ap pears like anything but his idea of a river. The Indians were correct in their expression of its true character, for they called it “Welaka," which signifies a succession of lakes closely strung together. The early Spanish voy agers who chanced to discover this stream on St. John’s day, gave that name to the river, and it has been retained to the present time, although the appropriate ness of the original Indian name becomes more apparent every day. In a poem entitled “The Glories of the St. John’s,” Solon Robinson touches up this matter in a few pointed rhymes : “Welaka'* stream I sing of thee! St. John's old Indian name! St. John’* the Spaniards gave, and stole thy hon est fame; Robbing the stream of all significance it gave; ‘A stream of lakes," Welaka means; a river brave.’’ FROM JACKSONVILLE TO PALATKA. To know anything of the St. John’s river is to know something of “Brock’s line of steamers,” from which John Rob inson's circus has not wholly stolen the significance of the trade mark of the line, “The Old Reliable;” lor these steamers are both reliable and desirable to the tourist and the traveller on the river. There are other boats and other lines, but this is the mail and express line, and therefore runs with marked re gularity and reliability from Jacksonville to Enterprise, stopping, as a general thing, over night at Palatka. When this is done the passengers have an oppor tunity to see the river—by daylight for nearly the entire distance, which is seventy-five miles to Palatka, or two hundred and eleven miles to Enterprise. Palatka is frequently reached just after dusk, and when camp fires are to be seen on the shores, and the wharves are alive with lights and people, an additional charm is added to the approach to this important inland port. The charges on the boats seem to be very moderate, only two dollars being the rate from Jackson ville to Palatka for cabin passage, and one dollar for second class. Dinner is one dollar, and breakfast and supper seventy-five cents each. The accom modations and meals are good, and the officers of the boats almost invariably polite and attentive to the wants and comfort of their passengers. These boats make daily trips, leaving Jacksonville immediately after the arrival of the express passenger train on the J., P. & M. R. R., at 9 o’clock in the morning. It was my good fortune to take passage on the “Rockaway,” a small boat chartered for the line for a month, but officered by a very jovial and pleasant set of men. They were: Gap ain, John Fitzgerald, brother of Captain Fitz gerald, of the “City Point:” Purser, Charles Ellis, one of the oldest on the river; engineer, Harvey Toombs, from whom no “doleful sound” came; mail agent, G. L. Fox, in some respects equal to the veritable “Humpty Dumpty.” During the entire trip, except when en gaged in duties elsewhere, we formed a very sociable group about the pilot house and made the hours pass with “flying feet.” There is but very little to be seen along the river that is attractive, except at several of the more important land ings, as the constant succession of bays throws the shore too far away to be clearly visible to the naked eye, and save through a marine glass there is only an occasional object of interest to break the monotony. The chief attractions are in the broad expanse of water, the cool breeze, and the beautiful scenery about Mandarin, Magnolia, Green Cove Springs and Orange Mills. I have already stated that there are numerous independent boats and other regular lines on the river in addition to Brock’s. This will be made manifest when I state that passing over from Mulberry Grove to Mandarin we met the pretty little steamer “Mary Draper,” owned by Thomas Arkwright, Esq., of Savannah, which runs daily from Green Cove Springs to Jacksonville. Near Hibernia we met the “Hattie," of Brock’s line, from Enterprise. At Green Cove Springs we saw the elegant steamer “Pastime,” which is soon to be put on the river. Crossing from that point to Remington’s, we met the “ Hattie Barker,’’■independent boat, from Mellon- ville. Above Hogarth’s we met the “Volusia,” which runs to the Indian river on the Upper St. John's. Not far from this point I chanced to turn my marine glass down the river and was surprised to see a fleet of steamers of all sizes following us. These I learned were the “Lollie Boy,” from Jacksonville to the Upper St. John’s; the “City Point, from Charleston to Palatka; the “Tus- kawilla,” (mail steamer) for the Ockla- waha river; the “Okahumpka,” inde pendent boat, for the same route. This will give some idea of the daily ateamboi t business on the St. John’s river even be fore the great tides of travel set in. LANDINGS AND POINTS OF INTEREST. Sailing out from Jacksonville, which is located in a broad curve of the river, on the right bank, the first object that attracts attention is Littlefield’s big house and expensive private landing, on the same site and about a mile from the city. As seen from a steamer it presents no points of real beauty, although large amounts of money have been spent on the place. A mile beyond, on the left bank, is tbe beautiful winter residence of Mrs. CoL Mitchell, wife of the Milwaukee railroad millionaire. The tourist hardly gets a glimpse of this charming rural re treat, and is compelled to seek particulars from the officers of the boat. The first landing is Black Point, then Mulberry Grove, just beyond, both on the right bank. Making a wide sweep from there across a beautiful bay, the boat touches at Mandarin, a very prettily located little village, fifteen miles from Jacksonville, where Mrs. Barnet Beecher Stowe has quite au attractive oottage anugly hid away in the midst of a fruitful but not extensive orange grove, and well shaded by several towering and wide spreading live oak trees. Mandarin is on a bold point of land, and faces down the river, with a broad and beautiful bay stretching out in front of its numerous residences. At the extreme end of tbe point I noticed a sugar cane plantation, and around on the upper side of the point were many hand some places. The soil must be good in that section, as everything along the shore seemed to be growing finely. I presume persons desirous of settling in that vicinity would find no difficulty in pur chasing lands there. And just here I may as well state, to meet an inquiry that will naturally arise, that there are com- 1 paratively few places under cultivation along the river, except at such points as have been selected for towns or public buildings. The river banks—which really are not banks—being almost on a level with the water, and seldom rising more than a few feet higher, are not suited to cultivation, and hence are covered with a heavy growth of pine, oak or palmetto. The pine trees are valuable, as large quantities are cut and sent down the river in rafts to the steam saw mills at Jacksonville. From five to ten miles apart, and sometimes even for a less dis tance, settlements can be found on the river. At many of these are to be seen thrifty orange groves and profitable sugar cane patches. Back from these landings there are orange groves and small farms in abundance, cultivated in most cases by Northern and Western people who have sought new homes here in Florida. Every immigrant coming here has his own peculiar views as to what quality of soil he wants to work, what kind of a location will suit him best, and what rail road or steamboat facilities he will prefer for market purposes, if he proposes to go into extensive operations. Nothing that I can say could satisfy him so well as a trip up the St. John’s and a survey of the country with his own eyes. To show how men differ in this respect, I will state that, as we passed an orange grove admirably situated upon a rather high point, a passenger observed that he would not take that place for the gift of it, and live there, although a very hand some cottage was on the hill, prettily shaded by orange trees. To this remark a gentleman replied, stating that the same place had but recently sold for nine thousand dollars. What I might think desirable, therefore, others might not wish to purchase for a winter home or for agricultural purposes. Land of all kinds—State and government lands -for homesteads, or improved or wild lands, can be taken up or purchased at almost any point between Jacksonville and Pa latka, and on either side of the river. And as to this latter selection, there is but very little choice indeed. On each shore the average bank rises but a few feet, if any, above the water, and good town sites are already established on both sides, with daily steamboat communica tion each way. Crossing the river again, twenty-three miles from Jacksonville, we made a land ing at Hibernia, where Mrs. Fleming has a most attractive and popular boarding house for invalids, with grounds very handsomely laid out. Five miles beyond is the prettiest place on the river, as a winter resort for very wealthy people. There is a magnificent hotel, the Magno lia, and two-story cottages for guests are scattered about the profusely adorned and shaded grounds. Magnolia Point, one of the highest between Palatka and Jacksonville, is located near this hotel. Magnolia is but a hotel landing, as Green Cove, a beautiful and flourishing town, is hardly two miles further up the 6hore. There are several first-class hotels and boarding houses at this place, where sul phur springs, attractive scenery and re fined society make up the great charms of one of the most popular resorts on the St. John’s. Re-crossing the river, wo stopped at Remington’s for the mail, ; >assed on around the point to logarth’s, where we took on wood, and then steamed ahead to the once famous Picolata, forty-four miles from Jacksonville, on the east bank, and formerly the landing at which freight and passengers were transferred for St Augus tine. Two or three centuries ago this now almost insignificant place was an import ant Spanish city, with its fine churches, monasteries, forts, and large plantation trade. Ruins of one old fort may yet be seen, and recently the foundation of another has been discovered under water. Five miles beyond is Tocoi, the new transfer depot for St. Augustine. This little town will never be forgotten by passengers to or from the ancient Span ish city, who are compelled to stay over night or remain all day waiting for a train one way, or a steamer the other. A narrow gauge railroad, with steam power, has superceded the old horse cars, and the trip is now made to St. Augustine, fifteen miles distant, in less than an hour. Ten miles above Tocoi is Federal Point, where the finest strawberries are grown from January to April. From this place to Dancy’s are many quite attractive resi dences and thrifty orange groves. At Orange Mills (named from an old mill now in ruins) are several elegant places, prominent among which I noticed the beautiful residence and fine orange grove of CoL Archie H. Cole, of Savannah, which are among the most attractive that I have yet seen in Florida. Leaving Dancy’s Landing (the mail station for Orange Mills; and its fine orange groves behind, we passed along the east bank for about ten miles, and then crossed over to the lively and growing town of. Palatka, the head of river navigation for ocean steamers. Of this town I shall speak in a subsequent letter. The voyage from Jacksonville to Pa latka, a distance of seventy-five miles, was made between the hours of 9:30 a. m. and 6:30 p. m. A person who has never been up this river can form no idea of the snake-like coarse a mail steamer is compelled to follow. Qn the east bank a landing is made, and then the boat is run almost directly across one of the bays to which I have already referred, a dis tance of from three to five miles, to the west bank, where another landing is effected, and a similar return made to the east bank, some few miles further up the river. From Mulberry Grove to Mandarin, thence to Green Cove Springs, and then back to Hogarth's Landing is about as circuitous a route as a river steamer could well be expected to make, and yet these places, on opposite and extreme banks of the St. John’s, are reg ular landings for the daily mail boats. We were seldom near enough the shore, except when approaching the wharves, to see alligators, but wild ducks and other kinds of game were plentiful all along the river. The day was bright and beautiful, with a stiff breeze blowing, yet we did not put on our overcoat until nearly five o’clock in the afternoon. Some of the passengers were invalids and did not leave the cabin during the day, but the majority were people who are here to settle down permanently in agricultural or business pursuits. But few immi grants decide upon a location before they have made a trip up the St. John’s, as the expense is not large for an economi cal man during a journey of five or six days. all my life. I have not long to live, and I desire to settle in a place that I con leave without a single regret when I come to die.’ That’s the kind of a place that is.” And when the boat reached the wharf I became fully satisfied that death could not be unwelcome to any man who was doomed to live on that point all his life. Near Orange Mills Landing Styles and I, with our glasses, discovered immense lines of wild ducks stretched across the wide expanse of water at this point. Calling the attention of the officers of the boat to what we considered a very re markable sight. Purser Ellis quite coolly remarked: “Oh, that’s nothing to what we sometimes see.” Styles, with a merry twinkle in his bright eye, quickly re plied : “Ah, when is your duck day ?“ This happy hit “brought the house down, and daring the remainder of the trip, whenever a rather incredible story was told by any of the officers of the boat, McBride, Styles or myself would smil ingly remark : “Ah ! when is your duck day ?” and it generally had the desired effect. I shall sadly miss this pleasant party of genial friends during my trip on the Upper St. John’s, where their sharp wit would greatly enliven the otherwise tedious business of watching for alii gators as the steamer passes through the narrow stretches of the river. Sidney Herbert. THE OKEFENOKEE-WITHIN AND WITH OUT. Sketches of Incident and Adventures BY M. B. GRANT (PAUL TRANSIT), CIVIL EN GINEER. PART IV. It was a clear, cold day, the sun was just rising as we left camp on our first exploration into the Swamp. The whole party, with the exception of Adam and Brahma, were on this expedition. The former was too old for such hardships and we did not require it of him. The latter on this occasion, as previously hinted, preferred keeping watch over the dead Indians in the mound rather than risk the possibility of encountering live ones in the Swamp. After proceeding two hundred yards we come to the edge of the Swamp—that is, in the thick wood, which on the east ern side invariably intervenes between the high pine lands on the outside, and the prairies on the inside. This belt of wood averages about one mile in width, though the width varies at different points owing to the irregular contour of the Swamp on the outside. The larger growth in this belt consists generally of pine, bay, laurel, ash, gum, and occasionally water-oaks, with the prevailing undergrowth of cane, hem leaf, bamboo briars and titi, which to a greater or less extent are to be found everywhere in the wooden por tions of the swamp, the prairies alone being free from them. This wooded belt on the outside of the swamp, which at first we considered thick and hard to get through, with our after experience dwindled into insignificance and was hardly dignified with the name of thicket. We found no difficulty in penetrating this belt, and having walked about three-fourths of a mile, we suddenly emerged from the wood and found ourselves iu the prairies, which presented a beautiful view, partially cov ered as they then were with water. To wards the west, in the direction in which we were going, glimpses could be had be tween the islands for several miles, and towards the southeast the eye could fol low the prairies for many miles. These prairies extend the entire length of the swamp on the eastern side, averaging in width from two to four miles, and are invariably interspersed with island-*, varying in size from one-fourth of acre to four or five acres in area. These islands are generally somewhat more elevated than the surrounding swamps, and are usually covered with a, growth similar to that previously de scribed, except that we here find the Loblolly bay in addition to the trees pre- comes a projectin about me, and ef you is sorter hankerin’ like Ill show you how far 'hit is now.” Stepney here changed the subject HUMOROUS INCIDENTS OF THE VOTAGE. Capt. Fitzgerald, Parser Ellis, Mail Agent Fox, Mr. S. F. McBride, of Cum berland, Md., R. Kelly Styles, Esq., of New York city, and myself formed a very pleasant little party about the pilot-house on the upper deck, and many were the amusing stories told and laughable jokes perpetrated during our delightful trip. I hardly know which of the party bore off the honors of the day, as all are experts in the business. Just above Tocoi I noticed a singular looking piece of newly taken-up land cov ered with palmetto scrub (of which I then knew nothing), and I asked Capt. Fitz gerald what kind of land that was. He replied very quietly that it was “—n poor land.” “But,” I added, “can’t they clear off that scrub growth ?” “Oh,” s dd he, 'ask me an easier question;” which I did, and was informed that it would cost about hundred dollars an acre to clear that kind of palmetto scrub land. Crossing over from Green Cove Springs to Hogarth’s Landing, I raised my marine glass and took a survey of the poorest looking point that I had noticed during the trip. “What place is that?” I said to Mail Agent Fox. 4 * That,” he replied, “is the place selected by a man who exclaimed, when he first saw it, ‘this is the spot I have been looking for viously mentioned. Besides, the under growth is much more dense on these islands, and I have frequently seen it al most impenetrable. This vigorous growth is no doubt owing to the rich soil and abundant moisture. The spaces or intervals of prairie between these islands of course vary in shape and extent as do the islands them selves. They are almost always con nected, thus forming continuous strips of praine, sometimes wide, and again narrow. The effect of prairie and islands is very pleasing to the eye, and the numerous water fowls then frequenting them gave life and animation to the scene. In times of high water, when the grass is covered, these prairies have the appearance of lakes, and no doubt gave rise to tbe impression that there were extensive lakes on the east side of the swamp. But such is not the case. There are no lakes except one or two very insignificant ones, scarcely more than ponds. There is a growth of tall grass generally to be found on these prairies, of which the cattle in the vicin ity seem very fond, and after which they sometimes venture in for a little way. Open spaces are to be found in these prairies, varying from five to twenty-five feet in diameter, frequently very deep, and always covered with a growth of water lilies. Treacherous holes these, and woe unto the luckless cow, hog or other quad ruped that falls therein, for there is no es cape from the soft,oozy mud that underlies and surrounds them, and which furnishes no foothold to tbe struggling animal. By Mr. Short’s timely warning we soon learned to avoid these places. Not so, however, with our unfortunate Boots, as you shall soon discover. We were about to have a practical demonstration of the truth of the adage “that distance lends enchantment to the view.” We had no sooner waded into the mud and water up to our waists, and com menced our struggle forward, than every vestige of romance and admiration van, ished. The change was magical, and the effect ludicrous in the extreme. Can you imagine ten men, struggling for dear life up to their waists in mud, water and ice—men of all proportions, dispositions and inclinations—not strug gling for one hour, but for hours, with no place to sit, stand or lean, breaking the ice at every step—one falling head over heels into the water, another leaving a boot or shoe in the mud, a third getting over his head, and every step increasing the distance from camp and comforts? If you can draw the picture, then you have a correct photograph of our party in the prairies on this first exploration. Can you wonder at our joint soliloquy ? “To bog or not to bog? That’* the question— Whether ’tis nobler in the mind To stand such weary tramps as these. Or take arms against this sea of mud, And by returning, end them.” “Hallo, Mass Beau?” said Stepney; “ how you fine yourself? Dis ya de Okee- fenokee for true; dis ya beats hoein’ cot ton and diggin’ taters all hollow. Neber spec for see such work as dis. De blessed Lord, and how mnph fudder we goin ?” “ I think we have come about a mile and a half or two miles; but Mr. Short knows best; he can tell you. How far, Mr. Short?” “Well, I reckon hits about a mile or a leetle the big end of it that we’s been a hoggin about ? Why, boy, you haint seen nothin’ yet. Just wait till we gits to the Double Branches. Maybe we mout come across a bar, and if we do, nigger, well have some fun. ” ‘Well, boss, how far is it to the Double Branches? I’m fit to gin out now.” “Well, hit’s about a short sight and a horn blow, or tharaboats I haint partic- lar; but you’ll know when you git thar.” “A sight and a horn-blow,” ejaculated Stipney. “How fnr is dat, Mr. Short ?” “Well, hit’s just fur enough to blow the head off of any nigger that “Well, Boss, suppose we come across a bar. what mus I do ? I can’t run in dis yar place.” “What do ? Why, shoot him, of course!” “But, Boss, ’spose I miss him ! What den?” “Well, look yer, nigger, don’t bother yourself. Ef you do shoot and miss him, and you a-standin’ in this loblolly, he’ll chaw you waster an honey comb arter the honey’s gone. You’ll be nigh unto bees wax. Hit won’t do to fool with bars in yar. And, strangers, take my word for it, and the next time you oome in the swamp leave them ar pop-guns behind. They wouldn't raise the h&r on a bar’s back. Bring double-barrels like mine— twenty-four buckshot to a load. That’s the way to tell it.” Stepney, though to a certain extent incredulous, evidently thought it best to acquiesce in what Mr. Short said, which he did. “Where is Mass Transit J” said Orange. “Ebery now and den I don’t see him at all. and as for Mass Longhorn, he hab a berry mournful spression ob face, and eben Mass Ned look down in de mout. I tink we all better eat some dinner. I know I hungry.” Whereupon we all made for the nearest island, and after a severe struggle with the bushes succeeded in reaching a fallen log, upon which we took our seats and eagerly devoured our cold dinners—mid dling, biscuits and sweet potatoes—not bad, reader, to a hungry set of men, after such exercise as we had taken. “Where’s Boots,” cried Jeff. “I want to give him the scraps.” No Boots! Where was he ? “Orange,” said the Colonel, “go and look for Boots ; he can't be far off. ” In about fifteen minutes Orange returned, • bringing Boots in his arms, who, poor fellow, was almost frozen, having, all un known to any of us, taken a bath among the water-lilies, aDd not being able to get out alone, had paid pretty dearly for the fun. But we soon had him warmed up. and I doubt not be was ready and willing to pitch in again. After dinner we continued our course until the Double Branches were reached, very much to our delight and gratifica tion. We found this stream to be about fifty feet wide and the current very slug gish. The water was from five to nix feet deep and very dark in color, which is generally tbe case where the water passes through heavy deposits of vegita ble matter. This stream enters the Swamp at northern extremity and continues its course about midway of the Swamp, and is evidently the channel for the waters of Alligator and Gum Swamp creeks and other streams that enter into the northern part of the Swamp. As we crossed no such stream in our route across the Swamp through Floyd's Island, it must necessarily pass to the westward of the latter and become one of the principal tributaries of the Suwanee. We also crossed this stream on our exploration fiom the Hickory Hammock east, where it is wider and deeper. Besides wanting to see and examine this extreme northern part of the Swamp, we were particularly anxious to get to the Double Branches, hoping that, by means of this stream and others that might unite with it, we could be able to explore the Swamp in boats; but our examination and ac quaintance with the Double Branches soon set this scheme at rest, and de monstrated its impracticability. In the first place, the stream was tortu ous in its course, and so filled with logs and brush of every de scription that no boat could navigate it Besides, even if it had been navigable, there was no possible means by which to get a boat into the stream through the intervening Swamp, and there was no material on this end of the* Swamp fit to make a boat from. So we had to abandon this pet scheme at the start, and fall back on the less agreeable mode of walking through, or rather “bogging through,” as Mr. Short termed it. Having rested a while at the Double Branches and having made a satisfactory examination of this part of the Swamp, at four o’clock we started to retrace oui steps, all of us being thoroughly worn out and fatigued. This bogging and struggling with mud and water con tinuously for hours, brings into play almost every muscle in the body, and when kept up for any length of time becomes a pretty severe punishment—at least we tnought so. Very little was said on oar return trip, though I think all were satisfied with this first exploration, and each member of the party was con vinced that there was more in it than the name. We did not reach camp until after night, where we found our glorious fire and hot supper ready, both of which, it is hardly necessary to say, we enjoyed hugely. Mr. Short took supper with us, and expressed his unqualified apprecia tion of the same by the emphatic an nouncement that it was “ bully,” and I think it was. I have a distinct recollection of spread ing down my Llanket befoie the fire and making a deposit of my weary flesh and bones thereon : also of having filled and lit my pipe. What transpired after wards—that is, on the succeeding day— will be related in my next. Horrible Murder of an Aged Lady. The wife of Mr. Joseph Schenck, a wealthy farmer living near SchenckviHe, a small village nine miles from Allen town, Fa., was murdered Friday night. It appears Mr. Schenck left home early in the morning on business and returned after dark, finding every thing dark in the house. In going out he stumbled over something, and stooping down he caught hold of a cold hand. He immediately left the house and called neighbors in, who found Mrs. Schenck on the floor with several pools of blood near her head and tbe entire floor sprinkled with blood. Her face was beaten into a shapeless mats and terribly mangled. She was almost sixty-two years of age. There is no clue whatever to the perpetrators of the hor rible crime. The husband offers one hundred thousand dollars reward for the detection of the guilty parties. Terrible Tragedy in a Saloon.—Gal veston, November 18.—Dispatches report a terrible tragedy at Cuero this morning. A party of five men entered Ryan’s saloon and killed Reuben Brown, city marshal, formerly a member of the Sutton party. His body was riddled with balls. The saloon was crowded with men, black and white. One negro, Tom Freeman, re ceived two shots and was instantly killed. Another negro was wounded in the face. Brown was the man who arrested Taylor for the murder of Sutton. Taylor es caped from the Indisnola jail during the September cyclone. It is supposed his party did the shooting. The alarm bells were rung and a guard placed over the town. No arrests are yet made. Without and Within.—The Zanesville (Ohio) Courier of the 10th instant says: [Special Correspondence of the Morning News.] Jacksonville, November 23, Id <5. friends of the stranger. The agitation consequent upon the in cursion into delightful region of three notorious scamps, who eked out a liveli hood here last winter by duping unwary visitors into the mysteries of a fascinat ing device known as Bunko, is intense, and the credulous denizens of this city have expended much righteous indigna- ion, on paper, conce ming those repre hensible gamblers. But it is barely pos sible that the efforts to force these wretches to seek other scenes may prove utterly abortive. Some unsophisticated gentlemen have so far forgotten them selves as to make suggestive references to certain laws relative to gaming, but a celebrated jurist once ob serve d that no law was ever framed that some adroit individual could not discover an evasion for it immediately, and the saw contains as much wisdom now as it did in days of yore. So long as the constituted authorities connive at the doings of these blacklegs for a con sideration, all laws must of necessity be merely nugatory, and just so long as we are cursed with a Radical Mayor will this man ner of dealing with adventurers prevaiL His Honor’s predilections are all in favor of disreputable characters, and doubly so when they pay him. He ia known to have been the flourishing proprietor of a hell in Charleston not long since, and I am assured by parties entirely worthy of credence that no one could enter the Live Oak House” and escape with his pocket book intact. His Honor is known also to have winked at the mamt-uvres of the pickpockets during last winter, and it is susceptible of proof that this luminous representative of the dominant clique was directly and pecu niarily interested in a number of bagnios tbat held high carnival here. The only remedy that it is feasible for strangers to adopt is, if they are silly enough to be inveigled into a gambling hell, to fight their way out, for that such institutions will exist admits of no reasonable doubt, in view of the present moral calibre of Jacksonville’s chief magistrate. GAS. About the middle of May last the ‘Citizens’ Gas Light Company” was Hghtly organized in the teeth of the then existing monopoly, and trumpeted the astounding information that they would furnish the inhabitants and natives with superior illumination at an extraordi narily inferior figure. The company battled bravely against mandamuses and injunctions" from the opposition, and emerged from the conflict undaunted. It was a happy notion to choose the name of ‘-citizens,” for it is their’s literally and not figuratively. The upshot of all these dazzlirg speculations is an indescribable article possessing the illuminating power of about three splinters of the most infin itesimal dimensions. It flickers wanly, and forcibly reminds one of the grave yard scene in Hamlet, or the phospho rescent glare of a moist friction match. Unless the Citizens’ Light Gas Company improves rapidly it is in serious danger of being voted a complete fiasco. A PROJECTED HOTEL. Messrs. Geo. Davenai and D. Croeby Stinson, of Haverhill, Mass., have just concluded the purchase of a vacant lot on the corner of Bay and Market streets, and Will proceed to erect a handsome modern brick structure, four stories in height, with ail of the improvements, ac cessories and appurtenances of a first- class hoteL The lot has a frontage of one hundred and thirty-nine feet on Bay street by one hundred and five feet on Market street, and the terms of sale were nine thousand dollars cash. The new house will be supplied with elevators and all conveniences, and the owners are now making arrangements for the mate rials, with a view to its early comple tion. THE OFF-COLORED NIGGER, who rejoices in the titular appellation of Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, having finally awakened to a sense of his unpardonable ignorance of all law, ha* set up for a wit with the assistance of some numbskull, and has managed to make a most melancholy failure of that. He inflicts upon the four subscribers of a certain weekly receptacle for slops, a transcendent mass of verbosity and pueril ity and rounds off the barbarous butch ery with the sententious words, “we rest.” Observe the magnitudinous le gality of that phrase. If Archibald had >een born with discrimination sufficient to enable him to have rested before he conspired against a fellow-being’s exist ence, it might have been better for him. Even after he colleagued with niggers, he had but one step to make in order to reach the lowest depth of degredation and become absolutely irredeemable. In affiliating with a nest of political preach ers he has taken that leap, and there let him fester ad nauseam. He affords a striking evidence of the fact that idiots and fanatics should be kept from blunt type* actors or limbo. A company of actors from abroad be gan an engagement here about twenty days since, and their audiences did not at all compensate for the trouble they went to. In fact, the houses they drew were rather remarkable for the scarcity of noses, and when, to cap the climax, the manager absconded with the funds accu mulated during their stay, the troupe was plunged into a state of embarrassment that it seemed impossible to extricate them from. However, they went to work with commendable zeal and announced a benefit at Polk’s Hall, for last evening, for the purpose of enabling them to raise means and proceed on their way. The play was “Fanchon,” but as the inexora ble hotel proprietor held their baggage for a board bill due by the manager, the performers were compelled to apl pear in their ordinary costumes. The representation was keenly novel mnder the circumstances, and a decided innova tion on “Fanchon”' as generally repre sented. It was, however, relished the more on account of this very peculiarity There seems to be a fatality pursuing all theatrical companies which visit thia place that almost invariably bankrupts, them. RXBOSEXB. A small boy residing in La Villa, while attempting to blow up a fire, a few days ago, was himself blown up, and has been down in bed ever since, but is doing welL He produced the concussion with kero sene oil. It is is one of the singular fea tures of that liquid that ^ shall make a victim every now and then. Canover was in the city on Monday, and departed up the river to return at the end of the week. He is moving around in an exceedingly pioturesque and attrac tive style, trying to upset the Radical Executive Committee. They don’t seem to desire anything of the kind, however unless Conover will set a few of them up] BENJAMIN. Ben. Butler’s steam yacht America will arrive at Fernandina shortly, there not being a sufficient depth of water on St. John’s bar to allow her to enter. It is rumored that Ben. has his single eye upon the Agricultural College at Eon Gallie. A NEW HOTEL. A couple of Western gentlemen have bought a lot one hundred and five feet square, at Palatka. from the Parkhorst estate, for sixty-five hundred dollars, and . . _ ’ vmu; Ul iuo IVUl IWIU>Uk Mkjir: — ’ — ana ‘On last Wednesday a valuable cow be- | construct a caravansary forthwith ^ ^— — — — It is to be an elegant affair. IMMIGRANTS. The greater portion of the arrirala at present are people seeking permanent homes. The pleasure seekers will beein to arrive in fall foroe by the middle of next month. THE GRAND NATIONAL. McOmJey will reopen the Grand Na tional Hotel about the first proximo. OVERDUE. Sedgewick, front New York, haa been for some day* over- du ®- She is to ply between this place and Palatka. place longing to Miss Mary Moore, residing in Madison township, Perry county, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. At the time the death dealing messenger came, the cow was in the middle of a field, far away from either tree or stump. The fluid burnt the hair off the breast and shoulders, but the skin was unbroken and the bones all sound. Upon investi gation, the heart and entrails were found to be torn into flinders.” At the recent twenty-fifth anniversary of the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava, celebrated in England at the Victoria Park, Lady Cardigan exhibited the head of the horse which her hus band, who commanded the brigade, rode in tbe charge; and Colonel Kent -was there with the veritable and venerable steed, “aliveand kicking,” which be rode in tbe Crimean campaign, and which hae done duty ever since, most of the time in India. The modest Committee on Fine Arte at Lyons has ordered the nude statues to be pertully draped with ftammi
