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UNCLE BEN’S CHRISTMAS.
[Sam. W. Small in Atlanta Constitution.]
He was sixty-odd, wrinkled and gray,
And black as the chimney soot,
His clothes that scarcely covered his limbs
Were all patched from head to foot;
He sat on the curb and watched the crowds
In their Christmas glee go by,
And the thoughts that busied his brain were
read
In his glistening, wistful eye.
••Here! Here ! Uncle Ben, this moping won’t
do !
Christmas is no time for care !
Here’s joy and fun all around you—
Come, get up, and take your own share !”
••Well, I'm bleeged to yer, Marster, but den,
Der isn’t no Chrismos far me.
De times is too hard, an’ gits harder
De longer we niggers is free !
He fact is I jes’ war a-thiukin’, fah.
Oh de clays dat is long sence gone,
When I lib’d on de old plantation
WM Miss Lu an’ old Marse John.
D.-m was jubilee days in Georgy—
I »er« was plenty on ebery hand.
And de niggers, same as de white fokes,
Lib’d on de fat ob de land 1
When Christnus come den, ’twas Chrismas,
sail!
Here was joy on ebery side,
And Mareter’? big old pocket-book,
Like bis doors, stood open wide;
Do white fokes had all dat dey wished,
And de niggers wara’t forgotten—
Dei e was presents bought up for dem all
Out de proceeds ob de cotton.
We’d get up airly in de day dawn
An' ketch dem all ‘Chrismos gif’,’
Till Marster’d come out on the porch
A lookin’ mighty starn an’ stiff,
And say : ‘What dis mean, you rascals ?’
See in’ us all dar on de ground—
And we’d all holler ’gin ‘Merry Chrismas !
Merry Chrismas to yer all, Marse John !’
Den he'd say : ‘Yon, Ben. come hyar sah !’
And I’d go up into de hall
To fetch out a big box ob presents
Dat he got in de town for ns all.
Marster he’d gib ont to de men,
And Mistos she’d hand to de wimmen,
Till we all had somefln in oar hands,
And de tears in our eyes war swimmen !
Den de young fokes come wid de egg-nogg,
Made np i n a big wide bowl,
And gib ebery nigger a cnp-full
Dat warmed bof his body and his sonl;
De whole week den was onr freedom, sah,
And we had all de fnn dat we could,
And at night ebery tongue bressed de Lord,
sah,
Dat we lib’d so easy and so good!
Bnt dem days is gone far away^ sah.
And we ain’t got no marstar any mo',
De nigger looks oat for his-ef, sah.
And can’t keep de wolf from de do’;
We is glad ’nuff now to git bread, sah,
To keep ourselbs hyar on de yearth,
And mighty few fokes seem to think, sah,
Dcre’e anyt'ing a nigger is worth !
Dat's de reason dat I feels so sad, sah,
And sigh when de Chrismas am come,
For I tinks how happy I’d be, ef
I was back at de good old home!
But, while dat is de sorrerfal traf, sah,
I’m hopeful dat de Lord is kind.
And is sabing plenty Chrismus up in Heaben,
Dat dis nigger will some day find!”
Affairs In Georgia.
In Effingham county, on Christmas, an
egg-nogged father tied two of his little
children to a ferocious dog, and endeavored
to sot the latter upon a hog. Th9 latter—
more humane than the dog of a father—
refused to run after the hog, though usually
very quick to do so, and thus saved two in
nocent children from injury and probably
loss of life.
A train cn the Air-Lino Road rnshed
through a funeral procession near Atlanta
the other day, happily without doing any
damage.
The Atlanta Constitution says that the
next semi-annual meeting of the State Ag
ricultural Society will be held at Brunswick
on the 8th day of January, 1876, and will
remain in session for three days. The
meeting is made up of three delegates
from each county society in the State, and
there are generally from 250 to 300 delegates
in attendance. Dr. Pendleton says that his
report upon the operations of the experi
mental farm will be the most interesting
one he has yet made. It will be a detail of
the experiments of the past year to ascer
tain the cost of production of cotton
and the cereals, considered with respect
to the three elements which enter most
prominently into their production, viz:
food, labor and fertilizers. This will be
alone worth the trip to Brunswick, and is a
subject which our farmers need to discuss.
Prof. Wm. LeRoy Broun, late of the Uni
versity of Georgia, bnt now of the Vander
bilt University, Nashville, has been written
to and it is thought will consent to deliver
an interesting address to the society upon
some subject germain to and valuable in
their calling. Altogether, the meeting
promises to be au interesting one.
Some lively Christmas customer in Atlanta
endeavored to blow up a house of prostitu
tion in that city on the 25th.
The Constitution says that the Governor
has entered upon the labor of writing his
annua! message to the General Assembly.
The forthcoming document will be shorter
than some of its predecessors, but will be
looked for with quite as much interest.
The main point, the public naturally sup
poses, wiH be the Treasury affairs, and upon
this subject there is very great interest
manifested. The accompanying documents
to the message will also be quite interesting
to the public. While preparing his message
the Governor will attend to only such other
matters as may absolutely claim prompt at
tention. Hence there will be a dearth of
news in the department for some days.
Mr. Joe Kennington, of Colambns, is
dead.
Mr. Wommack, of Muscogee county, killed
a one-year old bog the other day that
weighed 513 pounds nett.
Mrs. John Gilleland, of Athens, is dead.
It is said that a negro made upon Get.
8. P. Myrick’s Sumter plantation, on five-
eighi« of an acre, 198 gallons of syrup, re
serving 3.000 stalks for seed, for which he
wag offered seventy-five cents per gallon,
two wagon loads of good forage and six
bushela of corn, planted between rows. This
statement is vouched for by the General
himself.
Mr. Robert C. Lumpkin, a son of the late
Judge Joseph Henry Lumpkin, of Athens,
is dead.
Dr. D. W. Johnson, of Columbus, was se
riously, but not painfully cut on Monday by
^ r - J- T. Holland. The Columbus papers
•do not contain any pa rticulars of the affair.
Mr. D. B. Gawley, of Colambns, is dead.
General Longgtreet’s dwelling in Gaines
ville is nearly completed.
A negro woman in Jackson county was
found frozen to death the other day.
young man named John Morris., of
Langley, b. c. laughed himself to death
near Augusta tne other day, rapturing A
Wood vessel.
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1875.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
A telegram to the Atlanta Herald from
Borne, on the 27th, says that Solomon Net
tles, an old citizen, while in the act of cross
ing the railroad near the junction, just
above the city, was a little ahead of the out
going train, and was struck by the engine
and instantly killed. No blame is attached
to the engineer.
Mr. E. Bennett Chamberlain is the new
Librarian in Atlanta.
An express robber has been elected in At
lanta.
The Atlanta Constitution says that there is
a well defined rumor prevailing in high
circles that Governor Smith has fully made
up his intentions with reference to the
troubles connected with the late administra
tion of the State Treasury. Suits against
the sureties upon the bonds of ex-Treasurer
Jones, it is said, will be instituted at an
early day, and doubtless before the Legis
lature assembles. It is understood that all
the necessary data and facts are being ar
ranged for the attorney who may represent
the State, and that all those named upon
the bonds will be included in the
suit. The first step will probably be
to demand the amount claimed to be
duo the State from the ex-Treasurer
which will, of course, be refused
upon the plea of the said ex-Treasurer that
such amounts are not due. Then the suits
will follow. Grant and Nutting promise to
be the defendants in the moat interesting
suit. They claim that they were only tem
porary bondsmen, and that thereforo the
filing of the second bond discharged them
from all obligations. The Governor insists
that no notice of this was given at the pro
per time or to the proper officers, and that
they are bound for the full amount of the
bond. This question of liability will bo the
main issue and promises to be hotly con
tested. It is said that Grant and Nutting
hold a letter from ex-Treasurer Jones, in
which the latter admits to them the fact
that they were only to be deemed his tem
porary bondsmen. The reader will readily
seo the point in all these matters by remem
bering by the tax digest showing the sec
ond bond was $70,000 short of the required
amount. The Governor is extremely reti
cent upon these matters and refuses to say
yea or nay to any inquiries, but we deem the
fact that suits will soon be instituted
against the sureties to be beyond peradven-
ture.
Florida Affairs.
Where is Purman? The Radical papers
are bragging that the Republicans and car
pet-baggers, white and black, are united.
We want to hear from Purman and Conover.
Mr. Isaac Stone, of St. Augustine, is dead.
Keep, of the Live Oak Times, seems to be
badly disappointed that the Rev. Hicks
wasn’t present at the recent term of the
court at that place. Keep evidently wanted
to have some fun out of that libel suit.
Five wagon-loads of emigrants from Ala
bama passed through Live Oak the other
day, on their way to East Florida.
The tramp has reached Pensacola.
Twenty steam vessels are plying on the
St. John’s river, and it is said they all seem
to be doing a good business.
Judge Rice, of Suwannee county, is the
fortunate proprietor of two beautiful cash-
mere goats.
What is Stearns going to do with the New
South ? Buy it ?
Thus the Cedar Keys Jammed : How would
the following slate suit the Democratic
voters of Florida: For Governor, Colonel
J. J. Daniels; for Lieutenant Governor, Mr.
George F. Drew; for Congrtss, 1st District,
Colonel R. H. M. Davidson; 2d District,
Colonel Wilk Call; for the Senate to succeed
Conover, General Robert Bollock.
The Tallahassee Tloridian says that the
gin-honse and grist mill of Mr. Thomas J.
Roberts, near Centerville, in Leon county,
were burned on Thursday night, 17th inst.
The loss was heavy, there being in tho
gin-house about thirty bales of cotton. The
grist mill was attached to the gin-honse
and was burned at the same time. The fire
occurred at about oue o’clock in the morn
ing, and this leads to the conclnsion that
it was incendiary. The building only was
insured.
The same paper says that the long-expect
ed fox chase came off at Iamonia, in Leon
county, on Friday last, and was a grand af
fair. Sixty riders and fifteen dogs were
present from adjoining neighborhoods, in
cluding Thomas county, in Georgia. Judge
Hopkins took the first and third prizes for
dogs, Charley Davis, of Iamonia, took the
second prize, and John Pearce, of Tallahas
see, took the brush.
Thus Keep, of the Live Oak Tiroes: Many
inquiries have been made in regard to our
Hicks slander suit, and in answer we say
that we were ready with our witnesses
during court, but the cowardly braggart
failed to put in an appearance. He dreaded
to have tho matter come before a court
where both sides would be fairly heard, for
he well knows that the thin coat of white
wash he now wears would have been scraped
off and he would stand before the world in a
dirty suit of black. We agreed that the
suit should be put over to the next term of
the court, and we hope that some plan may
be devised to compel his attendance. Miss
Goorgiana Mitchell, the colored damsel
from Tallahassee, was much disappointed at
not meeting tho Reverend gentleman.
The Jacksonville Press unfeelingly re
marks: We state again that the dispatches
appearing in the Daily Union are not those
known as the Associated Press dispatches,
as published in the Savannah News and
other leading papers. They are inferior in
every respect, and cost abont one-third of
tho money. The Associated Press dispatches,
as we are informed by Mr. John Coyne, the
operator and agent at this city, are not in
the habit of fading from once to twice 4
weekly. Our resignation has not been taken
nor our jealousy aroused. We only desire to
correct false impressions. The Associated
Press dispatches are only furnished to news
papers by the Western Union Telegraph
Company.
The same paper says : The wrecking
steamer B. & J. Baker arrived on Saturday
from Key West, where she has been sta
tioned for the last two or three months.
When the wrecking steamer came by the
Lizzie Baker Sunday both of her decks
and the sides were gone, nothing remaining
except the hull and machinery. She left
Monday for a point eight miles this side of
Savannah to wreck a vessel there, but will
be ready to return within a week.
Mr. J. B. C. Drew, of Jacksonville, has
returned with his bride.
The Tallahassee Floridian says; “Mr. S.
K. Cusseaux, of Wakulla county, living
abont fifteen mdes from Tallahassee in a
southwest direction, brought us in last week
a sweet potato pf the Indian yam variety,
which pulled down the scales at twelve and
a quarter pounds. It measures 25i nches in
length and 18 inches around. It is simply a
monster. Several of our Western visitors
have called in to see it, and were hardly
prepared to believe it a genuine potato.
Mr. Cusseaux gathered three hundred bush
els of these potatoes from a single acre of
ground.
The editor of the Live Oak Times has lost
a cow.
The Jacksonville Press says that the
British schooner Chas. Bovey, drawing
elbven feet four inches, is ashore near
Damn’s Point Light House, below Jackson
ville, but can be got off soon without injury,
it is thought.
The same paper says that th6 plaintiffs in
ejectment in th« United States Court, in the
case of Huertas a-d Huertas against Cole &
Mays, having taken & non suit in conse
quence of the ruling cf Judge Fraser that
the survey made by Charts F. Smith, under
the order of the court, waa irregular, the
plaintiff obtained on Thursday last an order
from the court directing the Surveyor Gen
eral to make a new survey, in continuity to
the mandate and decree of the Sterne
Court of the United States, rendered in *34,
bv which the validity of the grant to Hue*.
t« was recognized and confirmed. Huertas
-4.1,0s nnder a Spanish grant, and by the
provisions oi the acts of Congress on the
subject, it is necessary that a survey >h°ul<i
be nude under the auspices of the United
States Court in order to ascertain the lauds
granted and separate them from the public
domain. We learn that when the new sur
vey is completed and confirmed actions of
ejectment will again be instituted.
The Live Oak Times says that Suwannee
county can boast of having within her bor
ders the largest establishment for the pro
duction of naval stores in the world, viz :
The Eagle Turpentine and Naval Stores
WorkB, George C. Rixford A Co., proprie
tors. They now have one hundred and
eighty-two hands employed. Of this num
ber a large force are boxiag pine trees for
turpentine, and more than a half million
boxes will be cut in new trees this season,
which, with the trees boxed since July, 1873,
will make nearly two million boxes. In con.
nection with their distilleries, which
are located at Rixford, four miles north
from Live Oak, they have a largo store,
cooper’s shops, blacksmith shop, grist
mill, etc. They have resident agents in
Liverpool, London and Paris, as well as in
Boston, New York and Savannah. The tur
pentine and fine rosin made by this compa
ny, find a quick sale with that class of con
sumers desiring the best material. In ad
dition to the above, thero are several other
producers of naval stores in our county,
among them the establishment of Major
Wyso, in our towD, and the new works of
Ruff, Jones & Co., lately established at Pad-
dock, a new town about five miles south
from Live Oak. Our county contains the
very best naval store timber, and in addition
to our superior agricultural lands, is bound
to lead the world iu the production of naval
stores.
Jacksonville Press: The hatches of the
schooner Florida were taken off' yesterday,
preparations having been made for a fire
should the letting in of fresh air occasion,
as was generally thought, a breaking out in
flames of the smothered cargo of lime and
hay. At first, on opening the hatches, the
gas, etc., coming from the hold were over
powering, and Captain Gilmore descend
ing too soon.to look after the condition
of the vessel, was overpowered by the
fumes and was hauled out in nearly au
insensible condition. After a little while
the men were enabled to get at work on the
cargo which was being rapidly removed—all
the hay forward and some two hundred bar
rels of lime having been taken out—until
shortly after dinner, when smoke was ob
served coming up the forward hatch, the
draft of air from the main hatch to that un
doubtedly kindling the smouldering ele
ments anew. The hatches were at
once put down, aud the Florida
was towed to a shallow place on the
opposite side of the river, where, late
last night, the steamer Islander was pour
ing steam into her through a rubber hose
inserted in a hole cut in the vessel’s deck.
As the Florida has everything fastened
down air-tight it is generally believed that
the steam will kill out the as yet barely
started fire if the hatches are not taken off
too soon. So far the vessel is not injured iu
any material degree, if at all, but the cargo
will bo of but little value. There is no in
surance on the vessel, but the cargo is partly
insured, we understand. The Bails, etc., of
the vessel were removed before towing her
over.
The Tronble a Spiteful Woman
Caused in the Grant Cabinet.
In explanation of the allusion in a
Washington letter that one of General
Grant’s former Cabinet ministers had
been forced to resign becausq of scandal
ous anonymous letters written by his
wife, the New York Sun gives these par
ticulars :
“The Cabinet officer was George H.
Williams, then Attorney General. As
long as he was guilty of nothing but the
lavish and even illegal use of the public
money, Messrs. Robeson, Fish and
Belknap were quite willing that he
should remain in office as their associate;
but when Mrs. Robeson got an anonymous
letter full of unpleasant statements and
suggestions, and when Mrs. Fish got
another, and Mrs. Belknap another, and
Mrs. General Babcock another, then
the very mischief was to pay. It was
something they could not stand; aud,
putting all the letters together, they
came to the conclusion that Mrs. Wil
liams was their author. Then they went
to Gen. Grant with the thing. It was
doubtless one of the most painful mo
ments the President had ever known in
his life, because he and Mrs. Williams
had always been very good friends; and
yet the best of friends must part, all on
account of anonymous letters. Mr.
Williams’s public errors had only seemed
to make the offender dearer, but anony
mous letters written by a Cabinet minis
ter’s wife, and a very handsome and very
clever lady, too, noted for the splendor
of her entertainments and the brilliant
figure she made in Washington society,
constituted a fatal offense. And now the
proud and stately letter-writer is said to
be rusticating in Florida, and where
Landaulet Williams is nobody cares. The
scandal of the personal attacks contained
in the letters on some of those to whom
they were addressed is said to have been
something truly startling of its kind.
A Fearful Fate.—This morning a
Chronicle reporter observed a dejected
Piute buck standing on the curb of South
C street, and (wonder of wonders !) hold
ing in his arms a baby! The brave
glanced uneasily about him, as if fearful
that his degradation would be observed,
and seemed to take anything but kindly
to his charge. Presently two squaws
emerged from the house behind him,
each carrying a pappoose on her back,
and the three waddled off down the
middle of the street. The reporter shortly
afterward had the honor of shaking hands
with Captain Bob, the Piute swell, re
splendent in a green blanket and plug
hat, and sought a solution of the baby
puzzle. The Captain smiled several
inches and affably explained that the re
porter had witnessed one of the domestic
penalties of the tribe. When twins are
born to a buck who is not favored with
grown up daughters, he is by Piute law
obliged to take full charge of the super
fluous infant until it ie able to walk, when
it reverts to the care of the mother. The
unfortunate brave is thus subjected to a
practical slavery of two years’ length, as
he hags the wickiup very closely, being
in a chronic state of mortification and
disgust. From the manner in which the
Captain chuckled and grunted during his
explanation, it would seem that the father
of twins becomes the butt of the wags of
the tribe. “Two pappoose,” concluded
Bob, as he gazed wistfully at the worn
coat of the reporter, “no good. He all
same hell.”—Virginia (Nev.'j Chronicle.
Teaching Children Courage.—Cour
age is a vital element of Christian chival
ry. Without it indeed neither truth nor
fidelity to promise can be hoped for. The
coward is sure to lie when truth means
punishment, and sure to retreat from his
engagements when they involve peril.
We need valiant souls that have learned
to endure and scorn pain, and to face
danger fearlessly and promptly when duty
requires. Some parents evade this vital
part of training by glosses and deception.
A mother who had taken her boy to the
dentist’s to get a tooth out will often say,
if he is shrinking, “Sit still, my boy; it
won’t hurt you.” Now, she knows it will
hurt him, but thinks if she can only get
him by this device to sit still and let the
dentist get hold of the tooth, then his
discovery of the pain will not hinder its
extraction. This is a double mistake.
It destroys her boy’s confidence in her;
for ho detects 1 her in a lie. And though
it gets the boy this time to sit still, it is
under the delusion that there is to be no
pain, whereas he should be taught to face
the pain and to scorn it. This makes the
diflerence between the cowards and the
heroes. A regiment of poltroons could
march up to a battery as cheerfully as a
regiment of heroes if they thpught there
was no enemy at the guns. The differ
ence is that heroes know the danger, and
yet face it valiantly.
BY
[From the Capital.]
not the POPE’S* BIG TOE IN 1876
Said Peter Prig, the bald-headed clerk.
To Polly Prim, as they were at work.
With might and main on a capital turk—
Ey, Christmas, at their dinner—
“ Miss Prim,” said he, “the papers, you know,
All harp on Grant’s prononciamento
On churches, schools, and the Pope’s big to 3 7
A third time he’ll be winner!’’
Miss Prim, who counts Few money, like Fate,
Looked np and smiled at Prig's barren pate,
And said, “While Grant has drank his n straight,
Too many zig-zag near him !
A»d that big-toe of father Pio,
Cax’t kick ss hard as one that I know—
I me» n that stiff Kentucky Bri^toe
Whixhmakes the Zig-zags fear him!”
T. G. Hibren.
—TO—
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
ANOTHER CRISIS IX SPAIX.
Ex-ijiiecn Isabella Worrying the CaS'
tillians.
TURRET AND HER PROVINCIAL
TROUBLES.
FRANCE AND THE BOURBON PRINCES.
ISABELLA.
Madrid, December 29.—The Count of
Punonrasxro is now in Paris engaged in the
official duty of arranging for the return of
ex-Queen Isabella to Spain. Kmg Alfonso
opposes tho will of the Ministry on this mat
ter. He defies the Cabinet, declaring that
the Ministers may resign, but that his
mother must have an asylum in Spain, her
residence to be at Valladolid, tor the reason
that Madrid is not considered a safe place
for her. It is now believed that this seri
ous issue has been forced on Alfonso by Isa
bella. The results will be most disastrous
The Spanish army will be divided at once if
the ex-Queen takes any part iu the direction
or counsel of State affairs. Isabella’s re
turn will even cause the loss of Senor Sagos-
ta to the Royalists.
CUBA AND THE UNITED STATES.
New Yobk, December 29.—A special from
Vienna to the Herald says the Secretary of
State of tiie United States has transmitted
to every European Government a circular
dated in Washington, asking the expression
of each foreign Executive regarding the
question of American intervention in Cuba.
The object of the American Cabinet Minister
is the obtaining of data to be used in the pre
paration of President Grant’s supplementary
message to Congress. All foreign govern
ments have replied satisfactorily. England
is ready to endorse the intervention move
ment. At the present moment, the other
nations express their willingness to support
intervention, but hesitate to take initiative
steps.
turkey’s tboubles.
Beblin, December 29.—Austria’s project
for the pacification of the Turkish provinces,
recently drawn up by Count Andrassy, the
Prime Minister, has not yet been sent to
the great powers for some reason unknown,
it is reported that, while an agreement has
been made with regard to the contract the
treaty powers should havo, negotiations are
pending between Austria and Russia as to
tho manner in which it should be exercised.
THE BOUBBON PRINCES.
London, December 29.—A special dispatch
reports that the Orleans Princes havo de
cided not to let in the Senate or Chamber
Deputies. The Due d’Aumale has written a
letter declining the nomination for either
House.
THE BOSTON EXPLOSION.
Boston, December 29.—The Coroner’s in
vestigation shows that a drip-cock had been
carelessly left open, causing the rapid ac
cumulation of gas, which led to the ex
plosion.
SPANISH POLITICS.
Madrid, December 29.—A general elec
tion is ordered for January 20. The Cortes
convenes February 15.
SUSPENDED.
Albany, December 29.—Auditor Thayer
has been suspended.
RESPITED.
Utica, December 29.—Lodicia Fredenberg
and sou have been respited.
STRIPES AND BARS.
The True Inwardness of Ihe President’s
Refusal to Pardon Joyce—Because
Babcock Would buffer.
St. Louis, December 24.—Mrs. Joyce,
the wife of Colonel Joyce, arrived in
Jefferson City yesterday with her little
girl and babe, and at once proceeded to
the penitentiary, where her husband is
confined. She had not seen Joyce since
his incarceration, and the meeting be
tween the two is described to have been
most affecting. During her recent se
vere trials Mrs. Joyce has sustained hei-
self with remarkable heroism. While
waiting in the reception-room of the
prison yesterday she endeavored to pre
serve her accustomed composure, but
when Joyce emerged from the adjoining
apartment clad im his convict garb she at
once gave way to her overburdened feel
ings. After she became composed, she
had a conversation of several hours with
her husband. Joyce bore the meeting and
the tears of his wife manfully, but when
the prison authorities notified them that
the interview must end, and she arose to
say good-bye, and told him she would re
turn the next day and bring the baby,
bom since his imprisonment, to see him,
he broke down and left her presence ab
ruptly.
During the absence of Mrs. Joyce from
her hotel the United States Marshal, ac
companied by District Attorney Bliss and
a detective, proceeded to the room which
had been assigned her and seized all her
baggage. The trunks were then opened
in the presence of Mrs. Joyce and
searched for United States bonds and other
wealth of Joyce, alleged to be in his wife’s
possession. Mrs. Joyce took the matter
good-humoredly, and watched the exam
ination of her dresses and baby apparel
with evident unconcern. Though
her entire baggage was overhaul
ed, no bonds or papers could
be found, except a few letters received
by her from friends and relations. Mrs.
Joyce said that the seizure was not unex
pected to her. She had been advised
several days before her departure from
Green Lake to pack her trunks so as to
give as little inconvenience as possible to
those who might want to overhaul them.
She also remarked that since her arrival
m Jefferson City she had been informed
that a detective had shadowed her trunks
all the way from Wisconsin, and she was
sorry she did not know it, as ehe would
have delivered formal possession of her
trunks, and thus relieved herself of the
trouble of looking after them. Though
the alleged object of the search was for
bonds and other property of Joyce, it
is stated on pretty good authority that
the real purpose of the government in
making the levy was to possess itself of
certain letters from Babcock to Joyce,
directly criminating the former in the
whisky ring frauds, which they had been
advised Mrs. Joyce had packed away in
her trunk.
It is stated on good authority that in
the early part of the month Joyce made
a proposition to the government to fur
nish all the testimony needed for the
conviction of Babcock, if his pardon and
a guarantee of future safety conld be
secured. It is understood that the propo
sition was in the form of a letter to the
District Attorney, who, after consulta
tion with Henderson and other coun
sel representing the government, favored
the pardoning of Joyce for his evidence
not only against Babcock, but other sus
pected parties in Washington, as well as
the indicted members of the ring in St.
Louis. Joyce’s proposition was forwarded
to Washington with theft: approval.
Nothing had ever been heard from the
President on this until the Associated
Press telegram of yesterday, to the effect
that Attorney General Pierrepont said the
President did not favor the pardoning of
Joyce.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Evening Telegrams.
DEATH OF FATHER BOEHM.
The Mexican Troubles in Sonora.
FISH AFTER CUBA.
Revenue Riots in the State of Missis
sippi.
WASHINGTON NEWS AND NOTES.
Washington, December 29.—The opinion
of the Attorney General, whether the $176,-
257 tax on the dividends of the stock of the
Illinois Central Railroad owned by non-resi
dents aud aliens should be paid to the com
pany or to the non-residents and aliens, was
given to-day. It holds that the officers of
the company are trustees of the stockhold
ers and held the money named in trust for
the owners of the stock, after the pay
ment of all legal claims against the
company. These stockholders can re
cover from the company any money
duo them, and the company cannot defend
itself in a court of law on the ground that
the money was paid upon some unlawful
exaction, and especially after the payment
had been declared illegal by the highest
tribunal. Tb^ government unlawfully ex
acted the mouef from the company, and it
should be paid back to the company. Tho
money already paid to the stockholders may
be deducted and the balance paid back to
the road.
The report of the Fort Logg Commission
will not be published until Bristow takes
time to read it.
It is true, as stated in a special dispatch
from Vienna, that the Secretary of State
has addressed a circular to all the European
governments on tho subject of Cuban af
fairs, including a copy to Spain. Its con
tents cannot be obtained from official
sources here.
Collector of Internal Revenue Shaugh-
nessy, at Jackson, Miss., telegraphs the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue that his
deputy, W. B. Redmond, had been driven
from office and home, and from county to
county in his division while discharging his
official duty, by armed bodies who publicly
defy the authority of the United States, and
threaten to resist. If Redmond cannot dis
charge his duties without military interfer
ence, instruct me in tho premises.
In reply the Commissioner telegraphed :
Is your evidence positive of Redmond’s
pursuit by armed bodim^ How numerous
are they, and how large tF force do you re
quire ?
To this the Collector, Shaughnessy, replied
by telegraph: The evidence is positive.
Redmond was notified by the Mayor of Sum
mit, Pike county, to leave at once, as he and
the peace officers could not protect him.
The armed bodies number from fifty to sey-
onty-tivo, and assert that he cannot remain
in the division. A commissioned officer
and twenty-five soldiers, if stationed at
Liberty, Amite county, and instructed to
support him for thirty days, or till the
offending parties are arrested, would be
sufficient. Cavalry are preferred, as the
escort conld accompany him on a tour
through the bad counties, and have a good
effect.
The papers in the case were transmitted
to the President, who directed tho military
officer commanding the Department of the
South to furnish a sufficient force of
cavalry to enable tho proper officer to col
lect the revenue.
THE OLDEST INHABITANT.
York, December 29.—Tho Rev.
New
Henry Boehm, better known as Father
Boehm, the oldest preacher of the Metho
dist Church iu the country, and prob
ably tho oldest clergyman in the world, died
yesterday at the house of his grand daugh
ter, near Richmond, Staten Island. On the
8th of last June the one hundredth anniver
sary of his birth was celebrated at Jersey
City by tho Wfewark Conference, when Father
Boehm submitted an outline of his own
life and labor in tho Methodist Church,
aud addresses were made by other clergy
men. The excitement of tho occasion
prostrated him, and though lie rallied, he
was again seized with illness on the 12th of
December, while attempting to preach in
the village church at Richmond, S. I. He
was born in Lancaster county, Pa. He join
ed the Methodist Church in 1797. He served
in the ministry in Pennsylvania, Delaware
and Maryland* aud was the traveling com
panion of Bishop Asbury. For more than
thirty years Father Boehm has been in the
New Jersey Conference, and as early as
1842 was on the list of supernumerary
preachers. He will be buried on Friday.
THE MEXICAN MONGRELS.
San Francisco, December 27.—A dispatch
Jrom San Diego says: The true history of tho
raid on Compo is coming to light. Almost
the entire Mexican population in that vicin
ity is implicated, and would havo shared in
the spoils in the event of success.
A dispatch from Tucson, says, tho revo
lutionist, General Serva, claims to have re
captured Altar in 8onora on the 8th instant,
without a fight, and his allies the Yaqui In
dians, havo defeated Pesquiera m three en
gagements. Pesquiera’s friends deny the
report. Both parties, while in Arizona, re
frained from outrages and paid cash for
their subsistence.
Later news just received from Tucson
states that in a fight between the State aud
revolutionary forces of Sonora, twenty-five
miles south of tho boundary lice, the former
were defeated, with a loss of ten killed and
a number of wounded and prisoners. The
revolutionists are marching on Hermossillo.
Most of the Americans here sympathize with
the revolutionist?, considering that they
represent the better classes of Sonora. No
news has been received from Col. Biddle’s
command.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Washington, December 29.—Probabili
ties: For the South Atlantic and Eastern
Gulf States, rising barometer, southeast to
southwest winds, warmer aud partly cloudy
weather.
For the Southwest, failing, fallowed by
rising barometer, warmer south followed by
colder north winds and clear weather.
For Tennessee and the Ohio valley, sta
tionary and falling barometer, warmer south
winds veering to west, aud partly cloudy
weather.
For the lower Lakes, Middle and Eastern
States, stationary or rising barometer, ex
cept falling over the lower lakes, northeast
to'southeast winds, higher temperature, fog
and rain.
For the canal regions, from New Jersey to
Virginia, the temperature will continue
above freezing point.
STOLEN.
Boston, December 29.—Nathaniel Carr, a
merchant of this city, took a box contain
ing $50,000 worth of bonds and papers from
the safe of deposit in the vaults at the
Blackstone National Bank. While examin
ing the contents, his attention was attracted
by strangers and the box was stolen. Seven
thousand dollars of the contents are nego
tiable. The balance are m railroad and
other bonds, which can be replaced.
THE STONEWALL JACKSON.
Norfolk, December 29.—The new bark
Stonewall Jackson arrived to-day from Bos
ton. A large crowd turned out, and the
Light Artillery Blues saluted her. She was
visited by many prominent citizens daring
the evening.
• NEW VOBK NOTES.
New York, December 29.—Freight on live
stock is advanced five cents per hundred
ponnds from Chicago East.
The sloop-of-war Delaware, without furni
ture or engines, sold for $20,000.
BARN BURNED.
SENATOR GORDON.
His Good Example in Refusing to Let His
Sou Accept a Government Appointment.
[Washington Correspondence St. Louis Times.]
The country is already quite pleasantly
familiar with the name of John B. Gor
don, of Georgia, erstwhile a fighting
lieutenant-general of the Confederacy,
and now a thoroughly reconstructed
Senator of the United States. Perhaps
it is too much to say that in the character
of John B. Gordon is embraced more true
manhood and genuine honor than can be
found in any other man holding important
position in the government; but it is not
too much to say that in these particulars
he is not excelled by any citizen of the
United States either in public or private
life.
General Gordon is not rich. On the
other hand his circumstances are so mod
erate that he finds it necessary to cut his
corners pretty closely to avoid a deficit in
his domestic accounts at the end of each
year. Large-hearted and hospitable
enough to spend the income of a duke if
he enjoyed it, this gallant gentleman is
compelled to restrict his impulses of gene
rosity to the limits of very little, if any
thing, beyond his Senatorial salary. He
has a large family, the eldest of whom,
Hugh Gordon, is a young man of much
promise and great ambition, now engaged
in the study of law here in Washington.
The necessity of strict economy under
which his father labors is a
serious embarrassment to the young
man, and compels him to forego
many of the commonest pleasures of
life. Last year the Sergeant-at-Arms,
Mr. French, a gentleman whose excellent
impulses have frequently suggested to me
that he was in the wrong pew politically,
A LEAF FROM HISTORY.
Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction—The
Conference on the Malvern.
[General Magruder in the Atlantic Monthly.]
At an interview on the Malvern, Presi
dent Lincoln produced a memorandum in
writing which he read over, and com
mented on the various clauses as he read
them. When he concluded he gave me
the paper. It is,not dated, signed or ad
dressed. The memorandum is:
“As to peace, I have said before and I
now repeat, three things are indispen
sable:
“1. The restoration of the national au
thority throughout all the States.
“2. No receding by the Executive of
the United States on the slavery question
from the position assumed thereon in the
late annual message and in preceding
documents.
“3. No cessation of hostilities short
of an end of the war and the disbanding
of all forces hostile to the government.
“That all propositions from those now
in hostility to the government, not incon
sistent with the foregoing, will be re
spectfully considered end passed upon in
a spint of serene liberality.”
The President, after reading and com
menting upon the various passages of this
memorandum, noticed that he had said
nothing on the subject of fines and pen
alties as applicable to individuals. He
said, in reference to this, that he suppos
ed he ought not to force a pardon upon
any person who did not want it ; that,
for instance, ‘ ‘if Mr. Davis, whom we fa
miliarly call Jeff Davis, will not take a
pardon, we ought not to press one upon
him.” But this he would say, that “al-
most anybody could have anything of that
and ought to join the balance of good kind by asking for it.”
Concord, N. H. t December 28.—A. Per
kins’s barn in Pittsfield, with 8 oxen, 8 cows,
3 horses, a number of hogs, and 125 tons of
hay is burned.
Gil Haven a Miscegenationist.—
A sensation has been created by a Meth
odist “Bishop,” Dr. Haven. * * *
Our first acquaintance with him was on
the occasion of his delivery, some years
since, of a sermon on “miscegenation”—
i. e., the intermarriage of white people
with negroes. He strongly advocated the
measure, not only on physiological, but
on high moral and Methodistic grounds,
and handled the discussion with a loving
familiarity (physiology and all) which
gave his hearers and readers the satisfac
tion of feeling that he had thoroughly
mastered the subject.—Church Journal.
Why shouldn’t Joyce be invited to step
into the witness-box when Babcock oc
cupies a seat in the prisoner’s dock?
Joyce’s lurid remark that his testimony
would scorch the White House is worth
bearing in mind, even if it did come from
^prison cell.—Cincinnati Enquirer,
Religious Troubles in Athens.—Ath
ens has lately been the scene of an excite
ment such as neither Greek society nor the
Greek press has known for many a day.
The occasion of it was the inauguration
or installation of the Roman Catholic
Archbishop and Papal Legate, Monsignor
Morongo. The Athenian multitude seemed
to shout with one voice, “Away with the
emissary of Rome ! It is an insult to the
Hellenic nation to send a Latin Bishop
into Greece, as if Greece was a province
of Rome.” Angry demonstrations were
made before the residence of the legate,
and petitions for his removal were ad
dressed to the government. Even the
King was charged with secret complicity
in the new movement in the interest of
the chnrch of Rome, and the demand
was made that the Catholic churches be
closed. In fact, the excitment continued
until the government declared that the
question should be brought before Par
liament, and at the same time it published
a note addressed to the Court of Rome,
in which the Curia was informed that
the Catholic Legate conld not be toler
ated in Athens for reasons affecting his
own safety and the pnblic peace. Such
facts show clearly enough that the an
cient dissensions between the Latin and
Greek Churches have only slumbered,
have not died out.
The finger rings which stand in -high
est favor now, are elegantly cut cameos
in handsome setting".
fellows who make up the bulk of the
Democracy, learned of the embarrass
ments under which young Gordon la
bored. Appreciating the sterling quali
ties of the young man, and full of a
praiseworthy desire to assist him, no less
for his own than for his father’s sake, Mr.
French went outside of the regulations
of his party caucus and tendered to Hugh
a position in the Senate chamber, which
would pay about $1,800 a year, and the
duties of which could be discharged with
out seriously curtailing his opportunities
for prosecuting his legal studies. The
young man was about to accept of the
position, when Senator Gordon learned
of it.
The Senator immediately sought Mr.
French and told him he could not con
sent to the arrangement.
“God bless you, Mr. French, for your
kind intentions,” said the Senator, “bnt
I can not consent to have my son pen
sioned on the government. Do not im
agine that I object to the arrangement
you have been so kind as to offer upon
merely partisan grounds. It is not be
cause this position is offered to my son
by a Republican officer that I object to
his acceptance of it. I object because
am opposed utterly to the doctrine that a
Senator’s son should be entitled to any
consideration, and because I can not
sanction auy approach, however indirect
or remote, to nepotism. My own re
sources, though limited, are sufficient to
enable my son to complete his studies,
and if by reason of my comparative lack
of resources he should be compelled to
observe economy and frugality, it will be
no disadvantage to him in the long run. ”
So the appointment was withdrawn.
When Mr. Fitzhugh was chosen door
keeper of the House, it occurred to him
that he would now have an opportunity
to reciprocate, in part at least, the many
kindnesses of which he had been the
recipient at the bauds of his old Confed
erate commander, Gen. Gordon, in times
past and gone. He knew of the situation
of young Hugh Gordon, and also of the
fact that the Senator had objected to his
acceptance of the appointment from Mr.
French. But he thought the same objec
tion would not prevail as to positions
within the gift of the Democratic party,
especially since in this case the place is
not in the branch of the government with
which the Senate is connected. So Fitz
hugh tendered Hugh Gordon one of the
best places in his gift, and the young
man asked his father’s consent to ac
cept it.
“Write immediately to Col. Fitzhugh,
my son,” replied Senator Gordon, “and
thank him for his consideration. And
say, in addition, that by reason of circum
stances over which you have no control
it would be improper for you to accept
any appointive office under the auspices
of any political party. And to settle this
matter, once for all, let it be understood
that so long as I hold a position of trust
and influence by virtue of the suffrages of
the legislative representatives of the peo
ple of Georgia, you cannot accept any
appointment whatever. If the people of
Georgia should ever require your services
they will signify th i fact by electing you
to the position they may desire you to
fill. But the fact that they have chosen
me to represent them in the Senate does
not signify that they require your services
in any capacity.”
So this appointment was declined. I
repeat that in this era of scramble for
office and of shameless nepotism in all
branches of the government, this little
episode in the career of the Georgia Sena
tor stands out in bold and striking relief,
and should be set up as au example for
all our public servants to imitate. Men
who confronted the division that Gordon
led twelve years ago do not need to be
told that he was a soldier fit to rank with
Lannes, Soult or Massena. And those
who have been honored by his acquaint
ance since do not require assurance that
he is a man and a gentleman of the
purest and noblest type extant in the
present or of record in history. But as
there are a great many people in the
North who never resisted his charge in
battle or grasped his hand in social inter
course, I have recited this little anecdote
that they may form some idea of the
character of the man. I sometimes won
der at the flexibility of these political in
stitutions which seat men like John B.
Gordon alongside of John Logan and
Simon Cameron, and John Sherman and
Hippie Mitchell, and Spencer and John
J. Patterson, representing, as they do,
all grades of human depravity, from dis
honesty to felony, and oil stages of
human degradation, from the discredit
able to the infamous.
The Keely Motor.—The Keely motor
is by no means dead, as the long silence
concerning it might have led some to sup
pose. On the contrary, it was recently
crystallized by the organization of a com
pany, the election of directors and active
preparation of the machinery that is to
generate and control the mysterious and
wonderful force which is now a profound
secret to the many. The generator that
is being built is of Austrian bronze, and
said to be capable of resisting a pressure
of 38,000 pounds to the square inch. The
new receiver is a perfect sphere of
thirty inches interior and forty-two
inches exterior diameter, weighing about
7,000 pounds. The preparations will be
completed in Philadelphia, and in about
three months after all this powerful and
peculiar machinery begins to operate the
material interests of the world will sud
denly be propelled forward many stadia
of progress on a pint of w ater. The
capital is $1,000,000, and it is divided
into 20,000 shares at $50 per share, and
all these have been taken up by 115 per
sons. Of course it will be time enough
to get excited when the fruits of this en
terprise becomes fully apparent and of
undoubted benefit. Enthusiasm costs
too much to be wasted on wonderful
schemes that do not rest upon demon
strated bases.—Boston Post.
I now add that it seems useless for
me to be more specifio with those who
will not say that they are ready for the
indispensable terms, even on conditions
to be named by themselves. If there be
any who are ready for the indis
pensable terms on any conditions
whatever, let them say so and state their
conditions, so that the conditions can be
distinctly known and considered. It is
further added that the remission of con
fiscation being within the executive
power, if the war be now further persist
ed in by those opposing the government,
the making of confiscated property at
least to bear the additional cost will be
insisted upon, but the confiscation (ex
cept in case of third party intervening
interests) will be remitted to the people
of any State which shall now promptly,
and in good faith, withdraw its troops
and other support from further resist
ance to the government. What is now
said as to remission of confiscation has
no reference to supposed property in
slaves.”
My intercourse with President Lincoln,
both here and at Hampton Roads, im
press me favorably and kindly toward
him. I believe that he felt a genu
ine sympathy for the bereavement, desti
tution, impoverishment, waste, and over
turn that the war had occasioned at the
South, and he fully and exactly discrimi
nated the wide difference, both in reason
and policy, between the modes of pro
ceeding in reference to the disorderly or
criminal acts of individuals which dis
turb the security of State, and the course
to be taken in regard to those civil dis
sensions and commotions which arise
from the agitation and political constitu
tion of a great empire, composed of dis
tinct and in some respects independent
communities.
LOVE CRAZED.
A Kentucky Girl Who Han Lone Awaited
an Inconstmnt Lover.
More History,
James Lyons, of Virginia, who
“Suppose," said a brow-beating law
yer to a witness he was trying to badger
one day last week, “suppose I should tell
you that I could bring a dozen men of
your town to this court room who would
say they would not believe you on oath,
what would you say?” And calmly the
witness made him reply, “I would say
yon lied.” A gentle smile diffused it
self all over the court room, like a lump
i of butter on a hot cake, and the unruffled
witness stepped down.
Hon.
was the Blanton Duncan nominee for
Vice-President, with Charles O’Conor for
President, at the last election, has written
a letter to Mr. Allan B. Magruder, of
Baltimore, in which he makes the follow
ing statements:
“That in 1862 Count Merciet, the
French minister, visited Richmond, by
permission of the Federal authorities,
and was Mr. Lyons’s guest during two
days. That, in point of fact, the Count
was sent by Mr. Seward, then Secretary
of State, with a view to make peace and
‘save the life of the nation.’ That he
proposed to Mr. Lyons that if the South
would stop the wrr a return to the Union
would be permitted without any condi
tions, slavery should be continued, and
any guarantee made for the future that
the South would dictate.”
Mr. Lyons adds:
“Some time afterward the French
Consul, Monsieur Paul, entered into con
versation about the acknowledgment of the
Confedederate Government by the Em
peror of the French, and asked me if we
could not pass some bill for the gradual
abolition of slavery in fifty or sixty years.
Maybe it might do even if it was longer,
and said that if that were done the Em
peror would immediately acknowledge
us, but that the French people would
not be satisfied without such a provision
for the abolition of slavery. They did
not care how distant it was, so the fact
was secured as the price of recognition,
and the Emperor would be fully justified.
“I expressed my individual willingness
to accede to those terms, and promised to
see the President upon the subject next
morning when I went into Congress, and
if he agreed with me I would imme
diately introduce a bill for the purpose.
‘But,’ said I, ‘Monsieur Paul, what guar
antee can you give us that, if we take so
important a step the Emperor will ac
knowledge us?’
He replied: ‘Mr. Lyons, nobody can
guarantee the Emperor, but you may be
sure that the Emperor will do what I tell
you he will do,’ which I considered as
but another mode of saying that he had
been authorized to do what he had done.
“It isfdue to Mr. Davis to say that I
saw him next morning at his own house
before Congress met, as soon as I went
into town, and told him what had passed
between the French Consul and myself.
His answer was, T should concur with
you in accepting these terms bnt for the
constitutional difficulty. You know that
Congress has no jurisdiction over the sub
ject of slavory.’ ‘True,’I said, ‘but that
difficulty may be gotten over, in my opin
ion, without any violation of the consti-
tion.
‘Let the bill providing for the
gradual abolition of slavery also provide
that it shall not take effect until the
States have, by acts of their respective
Legislatures, duly passed, approved and
ratified it, which you know will be just
good as if passed, beforehand
authorizing Congress to do'the thing. I
will not be guilty of the presumption of
offering such a bill upon my simple
responsibility, but if I may say that you
concur with me I will introduce the bill
to-morrow.’ He then asked me why the
French Government could not deal with
the States in the matter so as to avoid all
constitutional questions. I told him I
had put that very question to the French
Consul, and his answer was: ‘France does
not know the States, bnt she knows the
Confederate Government and President
Davis.’ Mr. Davis then said, ‘Well, I
mi-bt consult the Cabinet, and if they
agree with you I will send for you.’ And
there the matter ended.”
[From the Dallas (Texas) Commercial.]
One of the most mournful sights we
ever saw, and one of the most touching
incidents that ever fell to our lot to wit
ness, took place the other night at Den
nison. The train going south was some
hoars late, and a number of passengers
were waiting, with what patience they
conld. for its arrival. As we entered the
ladies’ waiting-room we were approached
by a very beautiful girl, whose dress,
though rich, was considerably disordered.
She stepped directly in front of ns
and fastened her eyes upon our
face with the most appealing look in
them, gazed for a moment, and then, as
if disappointed, sighed and turned away.
Her face was one of the most beautiful
we had ever seen, and her actions so
peculiar that our interest was excited,
and we sat down intent upon discovering
the cause of her strange actions. Up
and down the room she walked, with her
eyes constantly fixed upon the door, and
singing to herself an air so plaintive that
it seemed to come from a heart over
burdened with sorrow. A middle aged
gentlemen sat in one corner of the room,
and once or twice spoke to her,
and called her to him. She would
immediately obey, but hardly would be
seated before she would spring up again
continue her walk with her eyes fixed
upon the door. Presently a gentleman
entered, and with a little fluttering cry
she sprang forward, and, surveying him
said: “Oh, it is too early, too early.’
The gentleman seemed as much surprised
as we were, and taking a seat by onr side,
he remarked on her strange conduct.
Just then a lady and gentleman entered,
and the maiden exhibited the most in
tense excitement. She subjected the
lady to the closest scrutiny, and evi
dently not pleased, would toss her head
and walk round and round her,
once approaching and taking hold of
her dress. At this the gentleman who
had her in charge came forward, and
taking her by the arm, led her to a seat,
where she sat with evident reluctance,
and singing and crying by turns. Final
ly she got calmer, and the gentleman
allowed her to continue her walk, as she
seemed to be uneasy if not close to the
door. By this time our curiosity knew
no bounds. We saw the poor girl was
demented, and approaching the gentle
man we apologized for addressing him,
but offered as an apology our curiosity.
He did not seem offended, and politely
told us the following sad, sad story :
I live in Lexington, Ky. That poor
girl is an orphan and my niece. She has
lived with me about five years since her
parents’ death. Two years ago a young
man came to our town from Baltimore.
He was good looking, well educated, and
brought letters of introduction from prom
inent business men in that city to several
of our best citizens. He soon obtained an
entree to our best society. My niece was
attending school, and one of her compan
ions was the daughter of a gentleman to
whom this young man had letters. She
introduced them, and he at once became
their cavalier. For a long time he paid
her every attention, and last winter they
were engaged; she loved this man with
all the fervor of a.true woman’s heart, and
would watch for his coming with the
greatest eagerness. Soon after their en
gagement his visits became less frequent,
and he was not as fervid in his manner,
and seemed in no hurry to consummate
their marriage. Edna, my niece, made
no complaint, bnt I soon noticed
a great change taking place; that
longing, wistful look came into her
eyes, and at the slightest sound at
the door, or a footstep, she would start
involuntarily; finally he ceased coming,
and one night as we were at tea my
niece took up the paper. She had been
reading but a moment when I heard a
shriek. Looking up, I saw that she had
fainted, and fallen to the floor. I rang
the bell for the servant, and she was
carried to h6r room, and for weeks she
hung between life and death with an
attack of brain fever. She recovered,
but alas! the light of reason had fled
from those beautiful eyes. The paper
picked up when she fell, and, on search,
ing for the cause of her emotion, found
the marriage notice of this young man to
the schoolmate of Edna, who had intro
duced them. I am now on my way to
the South, in hopes that travel and
change of scene may bring back to the
poor girl the possession of her mind. But
I say to you, sir, that if there is such a
thing as a j udgment hereafter, that man
will have a fearful soore against him.
Edna is rational in everything but this
idea, that he is still coming, and she
must be always waiting for him. A door
cannot open but she is there to welcome
him, and each time to be disappointed.
The whistle of the coming locomotive
was then heard, and as we rose to depart
we bade adien to the gentleman and ex
pressed a hope that time would effect a
cure for his niece. The last we saw of
them was the poor girl crying bitterly,
and we have never been able to shake off
the feeling of sadness that comes over us
at thoughts of her, or banish that sad,
pleading, mournful face from our memory
and dreams.
A MOVING IF NOT TOUCHING TALK
A Tr.nMCII.il la Huacaac FI"* *•* Kc "
corded al the Stock Kachaa«e.
[From the Scramento Record.]
A large crowd gathered yesterday in
Fourth street, in front of the court house,
attracted by the moving throughthe
streets of one of the old buildings from
John Taylor’s lot. The building was
about fifty feet long, had been mounted
or. four wooden truck wheels with a pair
of wagon wheels in front, to which a
teum of six stoat mules were hitched.
Af ter many tngs the old house started,
the driver yelling and the mud flying all
over the sidewalk. After an hour’s time
they had dragged the building about one
hundred and fifty feet. Within a few
feet of the crossing from the Recorder s
office to Evans's store, they stuck fast,
owing to a slight rise in the street made
by the crossing. The driver shouted
himself hoarse, the six big mules floun
dered about in tbe mud, but not an inch
could they budge the old building. The
crowd increased, and bets were made that
they would never start it again.
A teamster from the redwoods, with
four mustangs, had stopped to watch the
performance, a smooth-faced, athletic
young fellow. He said nothing until,
roused. perhaps, by a splash of mud, he
walked to the front, wiping his face on
his sleeve, and said: “I ain’t got but
three dollars, but I’ll bet every d—n cent
of it that my four mustangs will start
that rookery out of there.” There was a
derisive laugh from the crowd, and half a
dozen takers. “Put up the money,” said
the teamster. “If I had more or knew
where to borrow «?.ny, I’d see the last one
of you.” The bet was taken, Jerry
Farmer held stakes, tbe six mules were
taken off, and the four mustangs hitched
on. Meanwhile the interest of the crowd
increased, and bets were freely made with
big odds against the teamster.
When ready to start the excitement
was at a high pitch. The little mustangs
bent to their work, but the house did not
move. He started them again; no go.
Nothing daunted, the teamster, in answer
to the crowd who were chaffing him from
all quarters, said: “If Jim Shaw was here
I’d get the money and bet fifty dollars
that I could start it. I ain’t got ’em
warmed up yet.” “I’ll bet you fifty dol
lars against one of your horses,” said a
well-known livery man, “that you can’t
pull it five feet.” “It’s a whack,” said
the teamster; “put up the coin.” The
money was handed to Jerry Farmer, the
stakeholder.
Another tag. The little mustangs
seemed to hump themselves; but it was
no go. “I’ll tet you another fifty agin
that mare’s mate yon can’t do it,” said
the livery man, eagerly. “Done,” said
the teamster; “I’ll bet the last hoof of ’em
on it, and yon may swing me to one of
them oaks in the plaza if they can’t do
it.”
By this time the excitement was run
ning high among the lookers-on, and side
bets were numerous. One offered to bet
$100 he oould not do it, and the teamster
got a friend to take the bet for him.
Those who had watched the teamster
closely now noticed a change in his man
ner, a smile on his countenance. He
walked up to each horse successively,
tapped him on the rump with the butt end
of his black-snake, and said to each:
“Stand up there now in yonr harness.”
For the first time he mounted tbe near
wheel, seized a single rein, turned his
team off “haw,” swung them back “gee,”
cracked his whip, gave a yell, and, as
they straightened, the unweildy load rose
over the obstruction like an old hoik over
a swell at sea, greeted by a burst of ap
plause from the by-standers. The mus
tangs pulled for about twenty-five feet
and he stopped them.
“You see, boys,” said tbe teamster, as
he got down, “I’m with them all the
time and know just what they can do,
and”—with a childlike smile—“just when
to make ’em do it.” As he dropped the
stakes into his overalls pccket, he said:
“I’d give $50 out of that ar stake if Jim
Shaw had been here to see that team pulL
Jerry, I’m dry; let’s go over to Back
Williamson’s and take a drink.”
Two little girls, with very pretty dres
ses and lady-like manners, entered a
Madison avenue car yesterday, and, after
seating themselves, one said to the other,
in a very earnest voice : “Dolly, dear,
do yon know what I am going to give
you for Christmas?” “Oh, don’t tell
me,” said Dolly; “let it be a surprise.”
“Ob, I must tell you so that we c&n ar
range it all. you know my mamma hag
a beautiful seal-skin sack that papa gave
her last winter. Well, I am going to get
that and take it over to your house and
give it to you. Then yon most give it to
me, and I’ll take it back to mamma’s
room. Then, when those horrid Ritchie
girls begin to tell abont all their presents
and things, we can say that we each got
a perfectly lovely seal-skin sack that cost
ever so much. Oh, won’t they be jealous,
though!”—N. Y. Tribune.
New morning gowns are made of Japa
nese silk, wadded with cotton lighter than
down.
A Puzzle for the" Boys and Girls.
[Boston Advertiser.]!
A few days ago the “fifteen young
ladies problem” was printed in this
oolumn. It is as follows:
In a school of fifteen girls a rule has
been laid down that they shall walk out
every day in each week in rows of threes,
but that the same two girls shall never
come together twice in the same row.
The rule is supposed to have been car
ried ont correctly during the six working
days of the week, but when the time
comes for their going to church on Sun
day, it is found to be absolutely impossi
ble to continue it any further. Can the
rule have been carried out correctly dur
ing the six previous days ?
A correspondent writes that twenty
years ago he spent many hours over this
problem, convinced that it must be capa
ble of solution, bnt had to “give it up.”
He propounded it to several persons and
received two solutions to it, one of which
is given below. Our correspondent be
lieves there are many solutions to it, for
the fifteen young ladies, while continuing
to observe the conditions of walking once
daily for a week in rows of three, with
out any two persons walking together
twice, may, by a system of weekly ex
changes, arrange themselves so that the
rows shall be composed of different com
binations of individuals each succeeding
week for a long time. The solution sent
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Christmas Riot in Charlotte, North
Carolina.
We delay the press to chronicle a most
deplorable affair that, on Christmas even
ing. threw our city into a fever of excite
ment, and added another bloody chapter
to the triumphs of whisky.
Early on Saturday it was noticed that
more than the usual degree of holiday
drunkenness was prevalent, though as
fireworks were not allowed, the rowdyism
proceeded no farther than noisy shouting,
cursing and swaggering on the sidewalks.
About 3 p. m., Thomas Wilson, a coun
tryman, being under the influence of
liquor, pushed his way into a group of
negroes, near the corner of Trade and
College streets, producing a quarrel,
after which he was seen on the
ground fighting with one or more
negroes- In the melee one Sheppard
Johnson, colored, received a blow on
the head, which drew blood, and so en
raged him that he staggered to the pave
ment and seized Captain Chas. Elms, who
happened to be passing. The mob of ne
groes gathered around, and several gen
tlemen started to assist Captain E., when
a volley was poured into them by the ne
groes. John Farris, a Kentucky horse
dealer, while riding down street found
himself a target for pistol practice, two
balls mortally wounding his horse. He
then returned fire, as did several other
whites. The alarm spread fast, stores were
shut, women screamed, weapons sought
for, and recruits for both sides assembled
rapidly. ‘ ‘SUep” Johnson, blindly dr ink,
shouted for his crowd to follow, threw up
his arms and fell dead, shot through the
heart. At this the negroes took to their
heels, and Abd el Koree, at his best speed,
could not have caught them. Seven ne
groes were wounded—one badly. An
other, Napoleon Pickenpack, got a ball
through the shoulder. Of the whites,
one was shot through the hand and sev
eral received rock wounds. The negroes
fired wildly, raking Trade street as rar as
McAden’s drug store, lodging balls in the
second story of the Central Hotel.
When order was restored acting Mayor
Dowd ordered the removal of the negro
Johnson’s body to the city market hall to
await the action of a Corner’s inquest. A
detail of forty special police were put on
the streets at dusk, although the town
was more than ordinarily quiet, owing to
the negroes gathering to their houses to
discuss the affair.
On Sunday morning Coroner Alexcmder
summoned a jury of inquest. The jury
was iu session until 4 p. m., and much
evidence was taken, but nothing was
elicited sufficient to lead to the arrest of
any one as the slayer of Shepherd John
son. The testimony went to show that
the firing was promiscuous, and partici
pated in by both whites and blacks.
Southern Home,
There is something ghastly and terrible
in the very romance which is sometimes
allied to the most dreadful Crimea What
could be more strange and incomprehen
sible than the oonduct of Rubenstein, the
supposed murderer of the pretty Jewess
at East New York, in rushing from his
bedroom into the apartment where his
father was sitting, and telling him that
he had had a dream that Sara, the mur
dered girl, was dead? It was this circum
stance that led directly to his arrest; for
although it seemed to have made no im
pression, Or at least not to have excited
any suspicion in the minds of the father
and brother to whom it was related, no
sooner had the detectives heard of it th«T»
they concluded that this remarkable
dreamer was the very man with whom
their business lay. This unhappy young
man might well say with Byron : s
Origin of the Word “Protestant.”—
With the month of April is associated the
derivation and dissemination in a formal
and official manner til the designation of
Protestant. The Emperor Charles the
V. called a Diet at Spires in 1529 to re
quest aid from the German princes
against the Turks, and to devise means
for allaying the disputes growing ont of
Lather’s rebellion against Catholicism.
The Diel cor lemned the re£armers and
issued a decree in support ot the doc
trines of the ancient ohurch. Against
this decree six Lutheran princes and the
deputies of thirteen towns of the Empire
formally protested on April 17, 1530.
From this act the designation of Protest^
ant, which was then given to the follow
ers of Luther, is derived. The Calvinists
were subsequently included, and tbe title
became general for all th« outside
the original Chrivtia* Church. The six
protesting princes were Jiohn and George,
the Electors of Saxony and Brandenburg;
Ernst and Francis, the two Dukes of
Lunenburg; the Landgrave of fifi, and
the Prince of AnhalL
I had a dream which was not all a dream
The bright sun was extinguished, and the star*
Did wander darling in the eternal™
RayU and pathless, and the icy earth ’
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless
Mom came and went—and came, and brouiri*
no day. J-nj
It is difficult to conceive what motive
what impulse, could have impelled Ru
bens teir, by this declaration about a
dream, so give at once a clew to the mur
der and the murderer. It would be still
more remarkable if inconceivable follv
and blindness were not the usual concord
itants of crime. But, after all, the great
eat of all follies is the crime itself ' y
Y, Sun. ' '
the pelican fowl.
A noble fowl is the Felicar i
Does *31 that another fe'JOw can
.. 15 kee ? young from want,
bhecr&mmeth her hil* with wholesome food
And reacheth it out for her c k!1J —*—
With never a “Well, I can't.
children's goocL,
Ah, well for the mother Pelican *
But we have another fellow can
Go over her reaching line ;
Onr great Ulysses fowl who fed
His own and the nation's little Fred
On a gorgeous silver mine.
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