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Affairs in Georida.
Mr. W. T. Christopher, in a neatly printed
card, sends ns the compliments of the sea
son. We cannot retaliate in kind, but he
has,our best wishes, nevertheless.
When an Atlanta man, iu the public streets
and in the face of tradition and custom,
spells “baker’* with a c, you may know he
has risen superior to egg-uogg.
The address of the carriers of the Macon
Telegraph awl Messenger is from the versa
tile pen of Mr. Asa It. Watson, the city edi
tor of that paper, and is one of tho most
finished productions of the kind we have
ever seen. Ic is unique in conception and
elaborate in exocution.
One ol the features of New Year’s Day in
Augusta was a trip up tho inevitable canal.
The Qrifiin Nexrs says that Mr. ltiloy Hays,
a young man eighteen years of age, a sou of
Mr. Washington Hays, who lives near
Itoacli’s mill, on the Ocinulgee, in Butts
county, accidentally shot and killed himself
on Christmas day while out hunting. He
was standing on a stump reloading one bar
rel of his gun, which ho had discharged,
when tho gun slipped, and, the hammer
of the loaded barrel comiug in contact with
the stump, discharged tho remaining load
into his abdomen, indicting a fearful wound,
which caused his death in three hours. This
is the third sou of Mr. Washington Hays
who has come to his death by accidents from
gunpowder.
The only white woman in the penitentiary,
named Bumotta Helton, has been pardoned
by Governor Smith.
Cuthbcrt thieves rob doctors and editors
indiscriminately.
Daring a quarrol in Chattahoochee county
the other day between two negroes, one di
vided the other’s head with an axe.
The Atlanta Ilerabi says that Frof. Wm.
Henry Feck, tho famous author, enjoyed his
forty-fifth birthday on Friday. Prof. Peck
is moro widely known than any Southern
writer, and has made moro clear money by
his pen than any mau who ever wroto south
of the line. A company of friends met at
his house and celebrated the auspicious day
in a fitting style. Among tho presents giveu
the Professor was a $250 parlor organ from
liia wife. His is one of the happiest families
in the world, and we trust that it may bo
many, many yoars before death breaks tho
circle.
A coffin was seen floating down the Chat
tahoochee the other day.
Tho Perry Home Journal has begun its
sixth volume.
The LaGrango Reporter comes to hand
about once a month, but is good, neverthe
less.
Perry has quadrille parties.
The Atlanta Herald says that a Polander
named Kouopatsky is in that city looking for
his brother, whom ho says is farming in the
neighborhood. Ho told a reporter of tho
Comwowrealth that he was a lieutenant in
a company of zouaves, which were a part of
a regiment commanded by his father, who
was the colonel. Ho says that in the battle
of Sedan, which took place on tho 2d of Sep
tember, 1370, ho received five wounds, one
in the head, which dt toyed his senses of
hearing and speaking, two in his arm, ono
iu the body, and one in the leg. He writes
fonr different languages- French, German,
English and Spanish—and is mastor of the
professions of silversmith and painting iu
oil. He says that he has not heard from his
brother in three years, and lias not seen him
in ten ; when last heard of his brother was
running a farm in the vicinity of Atlanta,
but he does not know in what county.
The Rome Commercial says that Judge T.
J. Porry has a dog which he has trained to
come to tho gate to moot the Commercial
carrier, receive tho paper, and deliver it to
Mr. or Mrs. Perry. On Saturday morniug
tho carrier presented the paper, which was
safely delivered, and Judge Perry put
twenty-five cents in the dog’s mouth to buy
addross with. The dog know-
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
BY TELEGRAPH
THE MORNING NEWS.
Evening Telegrams.
ROYAL DECREES IJf SPAIN.
Alfonso After the Newspapers.
REVIEW OF THE COMMERCE
MILWAUKEE.
OF
ROYAL DECREES.
Madrid, January 2.—A Roval decree is
promulgated convoking the Cortes on Feb
ruary 15th. Deputies and Senators are to
be elected by universal suffrage on this oc
casion only. The elec -ions commence on
the 20th of January in Spain. The decree
further provides that the towns in Biscay
and Navarre, which are free from the pre
sence of hostile factions, shall elect Depu
ties and Senators for tho parts of those pro
vinces occupied by tho enemy. Another de
cree is issued, imposing penalties upon the
press for attacks upon tho King, the Royal
family and the constitutional monarchy, and
instituting a tribunal composed of ’three
Judges in each of Royal Courts to try news
paper offences.
OPENING
OF THE
IE Alt.
CENTENNIAL
DEDICATION OF FISK UNIVERSITY.
The New Captain-General of Cuba.
ESCAPE OF A NOTED ROBllER.
JOAN OF ARC TO BE CANONIZED.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Washington, ^January 2.—Probabilities:
For Middle States and lower lake region
clear or partly clondy and cooler weather,
with southwest to northwest winds and ris
ing barometer. f
For the South Atlantic and Gal
States, Tennessee and tho Ohio vallcv clear
or fair weather, light winds, mostly from
southwest to northwest, continued high tem
perature near coast, and lower temperature
in interior, with rising or stationary barom
eter.
THE TRADE OF MILWAUKEE.
Milwaukee, January 2.—A review of the
trade of this city for the past year furnishes
the following figures : Flour received 1,401,-
795 barrels ; flour manufactured 74,716 bar
rels ; Hour shipped 2,131,250 barrels ; wheat
received 27,797,221 bushels ; wheat shipped
22,260,331 bushels. The increase in receipts
of whoat, as compared with last year, shows
2,000,000 of bushels.
A CENTENNIAL ACCIDENT.
Philadelphia, January 2.—By an accident
at tho Centennial buildings two workmen
named Letrue and Wells were killed out
right, and another named Geo. Smith died
at the hospital from injuries received.
DEFALCATION.
Buffalo, N. Y., January 2.—Bork, at
Clifton, just across the border, has com
mitted defalcation for, as far as known,
$350,000. Bork A Co.’s banking house
is closed.
ICE MOVING.
Hudson, January 2.—The ic3 moved out
without damage. Nothing now prevents
navigation.
SPEAKER.
Louisville, Ky., January 2.—W. J. Stone
has been elected Speaker of tho Kentucky
House.
HAVEN’S LIES.
\Vhnt (imrleN Nordliolf *ny* of the Pre-
vnrlrntinii Bishop.
In a letter to the New York Ucrald Mr.
Charles Nordhoff, himself a Methodist
layman, reviews in caustic terms the
recent sensational and absurd utterances
of Bishop Haven. In the course of his
letter Mr. Nordhoff has the following
truthful sentences which will be read with
appreciation by our citizens:
haven's mission.
Bishop Haven lives m Atlanta. He
was sent to the South some years ago with
the object of reviving there the Northern
Methodist Church, and with the hope,
cherished by most Northern Methodists,
that the church South, which parted
from the Northern branch many years
ago, by reason of differences on the sla
very question, could, now that slavery
was extinguished, be persuaded to reunite
with the church North. To this end
many of the wisest members of the
Northern Church have labored, believing
that they could thus, by obliterating an
old division in a numerous sect, help to
strengthen the bond of brotherhood ■ be
tween the sections, or at least remove
what seems to be a source of irritation.
Bishop Haven, to whom, if to any one,
was committed this task of reconciliation
has, in fact, as I found when I was in the
South last summer, done a great deal to
widen the breach.
the centennial year.
Indianapolis, January 1.—At the centen
nial new year’s ccl*bratiou Gen. Hendrix
addressed the assembly, referring to the
progress tho country had made daring tho
past century. He characterized emigration,
which contributed so largely to produce
these results, as enterprising ami courage
ous, a ml an interest which has never been
sufficiently valued. Two ideas were promi
nently advanced by the General as of
special importance : First. While ho would
not say that American schools surpassed
those of other countries, still the foundation
was laid for a system of tree schools which,
within a quarter of a century would surpass
them. Tne free school must be regarded
as the foundation of American stability, aud
the people must consider aud treat as a foe
any one who will bring the system in con
troversy, with a view of injuring its
efficiency. Second. Siuce its birth, the
country has borne itself proudly and suc
cessfully against its enemies—in tho seven
years with Washington at its head, when it
laid the foundation for tuturo permanent
government, then in a foreign war, and
moro recently the test of civil war,
which is tho hardest for any govern
ment to sustain—and iu all of these
it came out with its institutions
preserved and its integrity sustained.
In conclusion, he drew an eloquent picture
of the manner in which American senti
ment .was recognized by other govern
ments, and said that this sentiment was _
embraced in one idea, that government «
rests upon tho coneent of tho governed,
and woukl eventually end in every man
being fiee. Other addresses were made.
Norwich, N. Y., January 1.—A salute of
one hundred guns was fired hero at twelve
o’clock last night in honor of the centennial
year.
Washington, January 1.—The centennial
year was ushered in throughout the eoun
try generally by the ringing of bells, blow
ing of steam whistles, firing of salutes, pro
cessions, Ac. No accidents aro reported
far.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Washington, January 1.—Geo. C. C. Car
penter, of Iowa, has been appointed Second
Comptroller to succeed Dr. Brodhead.
Reuben Williams, of Fort Wayne, Ind.,
has been appointed Deputy Second Comp
troller, vice Curtis; and O. H. Irish, of Ne
braska, is appointed Third Auditor, vice
Rutherford.
Father Boehm was buried yesterday af
ternoon, the funeral services taking place
in Woodrow Church, Staten Islaud.
The revenue officials seized forty-five hun
dred gallons of mash in au illicit distillery
m Brooklyn yesterdav.
LETTER FROM EUFAULA, ALA.
Canadian pacific railroad.
Ottawa, January I.—An important event
in connection with the survey of the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad has occurred. Those
suiveys first began in the summer of 1871,
from the valley of Ottawa on one side and
one from British Columbia on the other.
The government has telegrams from Battle
river, a station ou the Pacific telegraph
line, in the Saekstchewan country, announc
ing that the surveys had at last been con
nected. The point of connection is in lati
tude 53:0:36 north; longitude 113:2:45 west.
earner!
ingly walked off, and made known his wants
by barking, dropping the money, aud trying
to seize hu address from the carrier. Tho
document was given him, when ho trotted
off to tin- house. This is an unusually smart
dog, and the Judge deserves credit for at
tending to his education.
Atlanta Constitution : Si and Jake met at
the Atlanta Cotton Press yesterday : “Si, is
you gwino ter make some New Year’s call
Saturday ?” “I dunno; ’spccts maybe I
will,” g&id Si, in his drawling wav. “ Wliar
vou tink 'bout callin’ at V” “Well, dat isu’t
’cided ’pou vit, but I’m purty sartin to call
on you for aat dollar wbar you been owin’
me f^r de last four months! How ’bout dat . J ’
‘Blame my yaller skin ef I don’t beleebe ef
you wuz on yer dyin’ bed ye’d gib de under-
J a ^er an order on me fur dat dollar, I sware
I do!" indignantly spoko Jake. “Yas,” said
Si : ‘‘An’ I’m thinkin’ dat’s ’bout what I’ll
liab to do wid dat debt yit!” Then Jake
got mad and didn’t invito Si to call at his
house ou New Year's day.
Under tho head of “The Raising of Meat
jp tho South,” the Columbus Enquirer says:
“This is all fudge,” remarked a prosperous
farmer yesterday; “I raise an abundance,and
1 behove others can do the same thing.’’
He addt d that before the war stealing of
hogs was almost as frequent as now; that
he had received many a whipping from his
lather because* he did not watch tho hogs
and prevent others from taking them; that
farmers then took old, worthless negroes or
children, and made them herdsmen, aud
they could get responsible darkies now to do
the saui. for their food and clothing. This
farmer has always been well off, aud was
a four years’ fighting man in a gallant Con
federate regiment. At this stage a poor
mau came up and gave his experience.
Last year he bought a shoat for $0, fed it
10 bushels of corn for which he paid $12 55,
and in addition paid 50 cents for butcher
ing- making the total cost $19 05. The pig
when kided weighed 321 pounds net. He
so-d it f. r ten cents a pound, tho whole
bringing $32 10, which shows a net profit of
$13.05, That beats cott >n, which is 6old
for Icbs than it costs to produce.
Augusta Constitutionalist: In a few days
Governor Smith is to make an appointment
to fill a vacancy which will be occasioned by
the expiration of the term of office of the
present Judge of tho City Court of Atlanta,
-he position has a very fair salary attached
to it, and tho holder of it is allowed to prac
tice in other courts. The office, as origi
nally constituted, was an important one,
am! required a good lawyer for the proper
discharge'of its duties. This requirement
is render d all the stronger now, if tne jur
isdiction of the court is to be enlarged
as we learn it is to be. Originally
the City Council had tho selection ot the
presiding officer of this court, but hencefor
ward the selection is to be made, properly,
we think, by the Governor. We think it
better that offices of this kind shonld be
filled by appointments of the Govomor thar
by elections in municipal councils, which
are mor apt to be determined by other con-
Bideratin;s than such as should always gov
ern in sin h cases. Besides this, tho best men
will not i nter into the unseemly scramble
neefessited by the latter mode of filling such
places. Looking over tho list of names
published in the Atlanta papers in connec
tion with this Judgeship, we see one which
strikes us as being, par excellence, that of
the man for the place. It is the name of
one who has long occupiod a prominent
place in the front rauk of Georgia lawyers;
one whose political record, from the hour of
big entrance into public life, has been that of
an unswerving, never-varying Democrat;
one who has done the State much service
at the bar, on the bench, and in the council
chamber, achieving a reputation equally
brilliant as advocate, legislator, and Judge;
mu W k°’ ever 7 position in life has ever
borne without abuse the grand old namo
• ^ en ,^ enian *” We do not know how it is
with the Atlanta bar, but feel confident that
u the Augusta bar had the appointment of
Atlanta s City Court Judge, they would
him of whom we have written-rJudge
he is detf.sted
all over the South for public expressions
in favor of an amalgamation of the negro
and white races, and I became satisfied
he had done a great deal to keep up and
even embitter wherever he labored, not
only race prejudices, but the feelings na
turally remaining from the war. When
he comes to the North
HE INDUSTRIOUSLY
spreads tales of the “disloyalty” of the
Southern whites and of the wrongs suf
fered by the “poor negroes,” and of the
danger of their future. Iu fact, he talks
of the South precisely like tho average
political carpet-bagger, and the final
clause of his argument, like that of the
political carpet-bagger, is always, “We
must re-elect General Grant to keep
down the rebels and protect the negroes.”
These appeals ho makes in the face of
the fact, as well known to him as it is to
me, that in Georgia, in which State he
lives, and which lias been, since 1871, in
the hands of the Democrats,
the negroes own and pay taxes
to-day on more farming real estate, more
city and town property, and more perso
nal property, than in any other of the
cotton States, all of which have been un
der Republican rule, so-called. They paid
taxes this year on over £7,000,000 of
property, and their own Republican or
gan at Atlanta has repeatedly accused
them of being most wasteful and thrift
less, and|of drinking and smoking away
more of their earnings than would edu
cate all of their children. I do not mean
to say that Georgia is an Eden—there are
some fools and some violent men in that
State—but I have the word of United
States officers, strong Republicans, that
there is no political crime in that State ;
1 have the word of Northern missionaries
laboring entirely among the colored peo
ple, that
the period of violence is tast,
and that public opinion, even in the back
woods counties, is now against it, aud
where in any talks with colored people I
found discontent it was almost always
because they do not in Georgia, as in
Mississippi under the Ames rule, and in
Louisiana under Kellogg, hold the offices
and live on tho taxes. Finally not only
have the negroes prospered more
Democratic Georgia than in Republican
Mississippi, Arkansas or Louisiana, but
they understand perfectly and have
asserted for years the right of removal to
other States.
FISK UNIVERSITY DEDICATED.
^Nashville,January l.—Tho new Fisk Uni
versity, named in honor of Gen. Clinton
Fisk, was formally dedicated to-day in the
presence of a large assemblage of peopled
white and black, and Gov. Porter ana other
State officials. General Fisk presided and
made au earnest aud eloquent plea for cor
dial relations between the races; for the
education and elevation of tho colored
people, and for tho cultivation of a liberal
aud patriotic feeling every where,abounding,,
as it dul,in most generous sentiments toward
the Southern people, and urged that the
dead past bury its dead. It elicited tho
warmest commendation. Governor Porter,
Bishop McTyoire, ex-Commissioner Smith,
President of Howard University, and others,
also made addresses. The occasion was
notable one, being an important era in ad
vancing the intelligence and progress of
the negro race in the South. The Univer
sity building cost one hundred and twenty
thousand dollars, nearly all of which was
raised by the Jubilee Singers. Mr. Fisk, bv
personal effort in New York, raise ‘
sufficient funds to furnish the forty rooms
of tho building. The institution partakes
somewhat of the nature of a normal college
as since its establishment ten years ago, it
has graduated about one hundred teachers
and candidates for the ministry, all colored.
Tho University was established and is con
ducted uuder tho auspices of tho American
Missionary Association, but various denom
inations are represented in the directors,
corps of teachers and professors.
railroad taxes.
New York, January 1.—Washington spec
ials say the Treasury Department is pre
paring to make a general examination of tho
books of all tho railroad companies in order
to ascertain whether they aro indebted to
the government for taxes accrued
and withheld during the pe
riod embraced between September
1st, 1803, and December 31st, 1871,
wL* the internal revenue tax upon the
earnings and gross receipts of railroad
companies ceased by limitation. Where
taxes are found to bo duo a demand will be
made for payment, the companies reported
to bo so indebted being afforded au opportu
nity to show that they are not so indebted.
Should the companies reported as owing
taxes decline to make payment whon tho de
mand is made, suit will be instituted by tho
United Slates for the amount returned by
the officers, together with the fifty per cent,
penalty and the one per cent, interest per
mouth prescribed by tho internal revenue
law and tho several amendments thereto.
foreign notes.
London, January 1.—Tho Times aud Post
condemn the Admiralty’s fugitive slave cir
cular because it surrenders principles of
tho freedom of a British man-of-war from
foreign jurisdiction and ou other grounds.
Tho Times' Paris dispatch says M. Thiers
has accepted tho nomination for the trans
fer of Deputies from Valenciennes on con
dition should ho be elected to the Senate
by Belfort, ho will be guided by circum
stances in his choice of a seat. Marshal
Caurobert declined many nominations to a
seat in the Senate, in order to avoid tho
appearance of encouraging any manifesta
tion hostile to President MacMahon.
CROOKED WHISKY.
Chicago, January 1. — Revenue Agent
Browne and Deputy Collector Springer seiz
ed tho distillery of tho Illinois Distilling
Company, formerly kuown as tho North
western Distilling Company. It is owned
and run by Edward C. Lawrence, Jos. F.
B&lleutine and John Robinson. Two thous
and barrels of liquor were seized. Tho esti
mated value of the distillery is $12o,000.
Supervisor Matthews had a number of
storekeepers before him yesterday, and they
furnished a groat many important facts
which will bo used to secure further in
dictments and convictions.
Christmas — A Monstrous Paradox.
Tin Nashville American has this squib]
in its issue of the 20th inst: ■
“The boys had a high old time, if not]
a high old drunk, yesterday. But then
it was Christmas.”
What a ghastly paragraph that is! The
advent of the Child Jesus is celebrated
with a “high old druuk” aud a very
carnival of crime. The natal day of the
Prince of Peace is turned into a Saturn-
alian orgie, as shocking as it is disgrace
ful.
When we contemplate the riotous
manner in which Christmas day is passed
by only too many persons, it need not be
marvelled at that the infidel is hardened
in his want of reverence for those who
pretend to be Christians. Surely there
can be no particular joy in heaven over
the way thousands of the so-called fol
lowers of Jesus celebrate his first ap
pearance on earth for the redemption of
the world. If it were not for the sanctity
thrown round the day by those who
piously and decently regard it, we should
be inclined to believe that its abolish
ment as a licentious holiday would be a
credit to the legislation of any common
wealth or country where scaudals so
grieviously abound as they do in the
United States.— Avgusta ConsWittwna-
MCRDER, ARSON AND ROBBERY.
Columbia, S. C., January 1.—A few
nights since the store of Hollcway A Reid,
at Pomaria, thirty miles from this city, was
burned to the ground, with a stock of the
value of $10,000. The safe was robbed of
$3,000, and tho body of Mr. Reid was
found in the ruins burned to a cin
der. The Coroner’s jury rondered a
verdict that he was murdered before arson
aud robbery were cqmmittod. Gov. Cham
berlain has offered a reward of one thousand
dollars for the apprehension of the guilty
parties. Three negroes were arrested lait
night at Newberry for the crime.
ENGLISH HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE.
London, January 1.—Tho Tinws this
morning, in an editorial, reviews the work
of tho High Court of Justice during the
Michaelmas sittings, under the new judicial
system, and concludes that on the whole it
is abundantly manifest that its working has
already been highly beneficial, and when
temporary obstructions a**e relieved, and
some defects remedied, tho act is caculated
to produce the most salutary improvement
in the administration of justice.
HEAVY RAINS AND OVERFLOW IN SCOTLAND.
London, January 1.—Heavy rains in the
northern part of Scotland have prevailed for
the past few days, and the rivers sro swol
len, inundating large tracts of land. Loche-
aru river is overflowed to an alarming ex
tent. The mills on its banks were com
pelled to stop.
SPANISH AFFAIRS.
Madrid, January 1.—General Jovellar.
the new Captain-General of Cuba, sailed
from Cadiz yesterday for Havana. King- Al
fonso to-day had a long conference with Gen
erals Quesada and Martinez Compos.
KHOKAND INSURGENTS.
St. Petersburg, January 1.—Numerous
bands of Khokand insurgents are preparing
to resume hostilities. Fresh troops will be
dispatched to the sceue of operations this
month.
ABRESTED FOR PERJURY.
Boston, January 1.—Four well known cit
izens of Hingham were arrested for perjury
in swearing to a certificate that all the capi
tal stock on tho Hingham Manufacturing
Company had been paid in.
SWORN IN.
Albany, January 1.—The State officers
elect were sworn'in to office to-day, and
took possession of their respective offices.
BURNED.
Bloomington, III., January 1.—The
Bloomington Paper Bag Factorv is burned.
Loss, I3U.000.
ARREST OF A STAMP EMBEZZLER.
Boston, January 1—Isaac H. Frothing-
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
New York, Jauuary 1—Henry Clews fell
down a coal hoist on Thursday, and is badly
hurt.
A special from St. Louis says Mrs. Joyce
has gone to Washington with ex-Governor
Fletcher, to secure a pardon from the Presi
dent for her husband.
A Sioux City dispatch reports that four
hundred hostile Sioux are encamped at old
Ponca agency, and settlers are fleeing. It
is expected the agency will be attacked.
A FOGGY NEW YEAR.
New York, January 1.—To-day is a close
holiday here. Tho weather is unpropitious
for New Year’s. A dense fog envelopes the
city and rivers, and tho peal of fog-bells and
the scream of fog-whistles of the various
crafts are loud and incessant.
New York, January 1.—Rain and fog
prevailed hero again to-night, aud the wea
ther is very mild.
NAVIGATION REOPENED.
Pcuohkeepsie, January 1.— 1 The extraordi
nary mild weather still continues, and if it
lasts two days, navigation will bo open trom
New York to Albany. Reports come from
all points up the river of the ice breaking
up and ferry routes being open.
RESIGNED.
New York, January 1.—The resignation
of the Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson, Rector
of Christ Churen, was accepted by the Ves
try ou Thursday. Thompson will go to New
Orleans to take charge of Trinity parish.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
Wheeling, West Ya., January 1.—A fire
iu Piedmont in this State, consumed twenty
buildings, two of which were stores. The
oourt house aud post office were also de-
stroved.
How the “Bluff CUy” book*— Still an
Iniportnnt lluiiner* Centre—Redeemed
from Kndint.! Misrule — New Florida
Through Route—Immense Negro Emi
gration—Commercial Hotel Improved.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
STRICKEN WITH PARALYSIS.
Washington, January 1.—Assistant Quar
termaster General Thomas, on the retired
list since 1873, lell with a paralytic
stroke on the pavement to-day, and was
carried to his residence.
LAUNCHED.
New York, January 1.—The United States
frigato Trenton was successfully launched
from tho Brooklyn navy yard to-day about
noon. The launching was witnessed by
thousands of people. •
NEW YEAR’S IN WASHINGTON.
Washington, Jauuary 1.—Tho afternoon
was clear and beautiful. Tho receptions at
the White House and elsowhere were unusu
ally brilliant.
THE BEEF-EATERS.
New York, January 1.—Twenty-eight
clerks were discharged from the Post Office
yesterday, the object being to reduce ex
penses.
NOTED ROBBER ESCAPED.
Nashville, January 1. —Edmond A. John
son, noted thief and express robber, escaped
from the penitentiary to-day through means
of bribery.
Did Tweed so South I
[From the New York Sun.]
Fishermen say that there were suspic
ious circumstances connected with the
departure of the schooner smack Wallace
Blackford from this port. She cleared
the day before Tweed escaped, and disap
peared at the same time he did. She was
ostensibly purchased from her New York
owners for fishermen in Key West about
ten days before the flight of Tweed, and
her actions up to the time she sailed were
rtgarded as singular. She was heavily
sparred and canvased for a fishing
smack. She was always a fast boat,
and at one time her owners offered to
match her against any schooner of her
class afloat. She is 7.5 tons (carpenters’
measurement) and 57 feet keel, painted
black, with white stripe, and is of a rak
ish modeL She carries both topsails,
maintopmast staysail and jib topsail,
rather an extraordinary rig for an ordi
nary fishing schooner. Messrs. Benner
and Pinckney, who bought her for the
unknown persons, say that Tweed was
not aboard: that she has arrived at Key
West, and is intended for legitimate busi
ness. The persons who bought her did
not go to Key West with her. Fisher
men think Tweed went aboard her, and
that after landing him at some of the
West Iudia Islands she returned to Key
West.
Tweed’s old steam yaeht was on the dry
dock near the foot of Rutgers street in
the latter part of September. A ship
Captain who sailed from this port a few
days ago, said that his first mate, named
Wilde, left him to ship on this craft. The
mate told the shipmaster ten days before
Tweed escaped that she was owned by
Tweed, and that she was taking on stores
for a voyage. 'The ship Captain said that
he saw the mate up to the day of Tweed’s
disappearance, but that he never saw him
afterwards. This yacht was at the dry
dock for repairs several days, and the
workmen understood that she was to go
South.
The bark Lord Clarendon, on which
Tweed was supposed to have been put by
a steam yacht, arrived at Queenstown on
December 20.
What has lately happened in South
Carolina is likely to have momentous con
sequences in a political way. The signi
ficance of it is just this: The ltepubli
cans in the Legislature, or a majority of
them, have defiantly asserted their pur
pose to make corruption the party aim,
instead of reform as proposed and en
forced by Governor Chamberlain. The
rascals have got tired of affecting decen
cy, and have revolted. It is painfully
true that they constitute a large propor
tion, perhaps a majority, of influential
leaders of the party. They liked reform
well enough while they thought it was
only a matter of talk ; but when it came
to vetoing the supply bills which included
their plunder, they wouldn’t stand it
What is to be done? There will be a
lively struggle between the honest and
the base for the control of the Republi
can party in that State. Chamberlain is
the leader on one side ; Moses and Whip-
per and R. B. Elliott are the leaders on
the other side. In this contest, if Cham
berlain is repudiated, the Republican par
ty of that State will claim no more con
sideration from decent men than any
other organized gang of corruptionists.
There will be neither reason nor reason
able pretext for tolerating it.— World.
Manufacturing Bogus Masons.—Neic
Pork, December 30.—A Boston dispatch
says that u Frenchman named Charles
Lagarliere has formed a Masonic lodge of
printers, pressmen, dog fanciers, and
some persons of higher standing, inde
pendent of the grand lodge of that city.
He initiated the men into various degrees
fora :ee of ter. dollars, but differences
arosf between himself and his brethren,
and finally, on suspicion of his being an
imi)Oster, Lagarliere was arrested. The
members whom he initiated assert that
those of other lodges recognized their
signs, grips and pass-words, as all right.
Lagarliere says that the whole affair is a
conspiracy, and that he will expose the
miscreants of the grand lodge in court.
Commercial Hotel, Dec. 24, 1875.
Many persons predicted that the exten
sion of the Southwestern Railroad be
yond this city, by the completion of the
Vicksburg aud Brunswick Railroad to
Clayton, the county seat, twenty miles
distant, would seriously injure the com
mercial prosperity of Eufaula. For a
time there seemed to be some ground for
this prediction, but now all such fears
are banished from the mind. Even in
these hard times I find the “Bluff City”
showing unmistakable signs of progress
and improvement, but it seems as though
past misfortunes have but served to
bring her commercial interests down to
a more substantial and desirable basis.
STILL AN IMPORTANT BUSINESS
Barbour and Russell were once among
the richest and most influential counties
in the State. Since the war, however,
they have suffered very much from the
changed condition of things in the
Southern States. Still, uuder these de
pressing circumstances, Eufaula has
grown in dimensions, importance and at
tractiveness, and is now one of the pret
tiest, liveliest, and most social cities in
Alabama. The Southwestern Railroad
connects it with Macon, the Vicksburg
and Brunswick with Clayton, and the
Montgomery and Eufaula with Mont
gomery. The Central line of boats also
gives it a semi or tri-weekly connection
with Columbus, Bainbridge and Apalachi
cola, which is of great importance to her
commercial prosperity. Many fine brick
blocks have been erected during the past
few years, and recently new stores have
been rebuilt on the burnt district on the
main business street. There is also here
a very handsome “Opera House,” where
the Ben DeBar troupe played last night.
Eufaula is au important cotton market,
and large shipments are made from the
numerous warehouses, the most of the
cotton going to Savannah. Mr. R. J
Woods, a large wholesale flour and pro
vision dealer of this city, and brother of
Wm. Henry Woods, of Savannah, is now
erecting near the track of the M. & E.
railroad, a four-story brick flouring and
rice mill of large proportions, an enter
prise that promises to add considerable
to the importance of this section. There
are here rome very handsome church edi
fices, a commodious and delightfully
located Female College, and there are
four hotels. The Commercial, from
which I write, is the leading hotel of
the place, and is now under the careful
and efficient supervision of Mr. A. J
Riddle, formerly a distinguished photo
graphic artist iu Macon. He has greatly
improved tho establishment throughout
and travelers will find every comfort at
this popular inn. Assisted by his ac
complished lady, Mr. R. has made the
dining room of the Commercial as at
tractive as any in the State, and its
tables are well provisioned.
REDEEMED FROM RADICAL MISRULE.
No portion of Alabama has been as
badly cursed by Radical corruption and
misrule as Eufaula and Barbour county.
Happily, however, that day of gloom has
passed away, and uuder honest Demo
cratic rule the entire county has
taken a new lease of life, with brighter
prospects for the future. One of the
greatest curses of Radicalism was the
presence here of one Elias M. Kiels, as
vile and unprincipled a scoundrel as ever
escaped the gallows. Negro votes put
him upon the bench of the City Court,
which has equal authority with the Cir
cuit Court of the county, but bis rascally
conduct soon compelled him to seek
safety at Washington, where legal pro
ceedings could not reach him. In his
Democratic successor, however, the peo
ple have an able and honored magistrate,
as Gen. Alpheus Baker, the “silver-
tongued" orator of Alabama, is one of
Barbour county’s most eminent sons.
And this leads me to speak of another
distinguished son of this county, one
young in years and but just entered upon
a public career, yet honored for his rare
ability, his fine moral character, and his
industrious and untiring efforts to pre
pare himself for usefulness in life. I re
fer to Judge Henry B. Tompkins of your
city, whom I met in the City Court room
to-day. He is on a visit to the home of
his childhood, at Clinton, a place that
will ever be dear to his filial heart, for
there rests the sacred remains of his
sainted mother, than whom a lovelier,
sweeter nature never made home happy,
or shed over the infancy of her offspring
a holier or more lasting influence for
good. Judge Tompkins and a charming
and accomplished sister, who seems to
have inherited many of her dear mother’s
excellent traits of character, are the best
monuments to her faithfulness as a Chris
tian mother, and through them the mem
ory of her exalted virtues will long be
kept fragrant in the hearts that loved her
while living, and just now mourn her ab
ly applied, has sadly demoralized the
farmers in Alabama, and under the new
Constitution, which allows a waiver of
the “homestead,” they see but little
chance for lazy and dishonest men to suc
ceed in farming operations. The State
of Texas takes advantage of this condi
tion of things, and her immigrant agents
have done a good business here, as they
offer ICO acres of good land free of
charge, and pay half the railroad fare Of
each emigrant. Under the same induce
ments I could to day bring ten thousand
immigrants into Georgia from Texas, os
there are thousands in that State who
lack the means to get away, who would
come in a moment under such aus
pices. Chatham.
LETTER FROM MACON.
CIomIiic Hour* of the Old Year—In Dark
ness—The Harmonic Concert*—Amuse*
ment* in the City—Kell|(lous Item*.
{Special Correspondence of tho Morning News.]
sence from their social circles.
, ^ It is now said that Thurlow Weed used
h:un Chief Olart m the bump Department to Ti8 i t the Boas when the Utter was in
of the Boston Toil Office, waa arrested to-' ... -
day for embezzling stamps, and held in six
thousand dollars bail,
MARRIED.
Memphis, January 1.—Miss Maggie H.
Davis, daughter of Jefferson Davis, was
married this morning to J. Adison Hayes,
Cashier of the State National Bank.
JOAN OF ABC.
Paris, January 1.—Bishop Dnpanloup has
the canonization of
jail, and ill-natured persons who remem
ber the Albany Regency are s.iying the
difference between T. Weed and Tweed
is only a point, and a point, as every stu
dent of geometry knows, is “that whioh
has neither length, breadth or thickness”
—amounts to nothing in fact. This is
tantamount to declaring that the differ
ence between T. Weed-the-dumb and
Twecd-who-flees is only that ’twixt twee-
A NEW FLORIDA THROUGH ROUTE.
Your regular Atlanta correspondent, in
July last, gave your readers the details of
a proposed new through route from
Louisville, Ky., via this city, to Jackson
ville, Fla. Up to the present season the
Central Railroad corporation has posi
tively refused to allow the Pullman sleep
ing ooaches to run over their lines. Now,
however, President Wadley, has wisely
yielded to the demands of the traveling
public, and these coaches aro running
over the Atlanta and Macon division of
the Central Road, at which latter place
they are transferred to the Macon and
Brunswick Road, and then take the At
lantic and Gulf track at Jesup. In a few
days, if nothing occurs to change the
present proposed arrangement, Pullman
sleeping coaches will run through Eufau
la, from Louisville, Ky., passing over the
Central Railroad branches to Albany,
where they will connect with the Atlantic
aud Gulf Railroad and go on to Jackson
ville.
Already, without through cars of any
kind, this rout* has become quite popu
lar. On the train which I took at Union
Springs, last night, were quite a number
of passengers bound to the “Land of
Flowers,” and my ears were continually
greeted with such familiar questions as,
“Are you going up the St. John’s river?”
What do you think of Orange coun
ty ?” or, “Will it pay to raise oranges in
Florida?” The track of the Montgomery
and Eufaula Road has been carried around
the city, and Florida passengers are now
landed at the elegant depot of the South
western Road, where they stop for break
fast, and then go on their way. A neat
and convenient dining saloon is nearly
completed, where passengers will be able
to get meals without unnecessary trouble.
The Florida train leaves Montgomery at
eleven o’clock p. m., and reaches Eufaula
at five minutes past seven o’clock a. m.
Leaving here at about eight o’clock, via
Albany and Dupont, the passengers
reach Jacksonville early the next morning.
IMMENSE NEGRO TEXAS EMIGRATION.
Last night at Union Springs I saw a
large crowd of negro men, women and
children—on their way to Texas. I learn
that an immense tide of this kind of
emigration has been pouring out of Pike
Bartow, Bullock, Russell and other coun
ties of this .State, led by white immigrant
agents. While some persons here regret
this condition of things, there are others
who think the departure of these negroes
will be beneficial, as a sufficiently large
number will be left to meet the demand
for agricultural labor the coming season.
Again, there is also a very extensive white
emigration to Teiais. Nearly every train
carries off a par ;y from Southeast Ala
bama, which will curtail farming opera
tions in this section next year; and those
who do remain, in many cases, will not
have the means to cultivate as much land
Macon, December 31, 1875.
The closing hours of the old year in
duces retrospection, and among the
delinquencies l am convinced that I have
proved a very poor correspondent.
The city is dull in business quarters.
“Christmas comes but once a year” it is
true, but this year it has been a failure
as to the amount of business connected
with it. There was quite a rush last
week for tin horns and Gorman’s oranges,
and the unfortunate and mistaken trades
man, who thought the demand perpetual,
toots his horn and sucks his oranges
alone. The sudden stoppage of the reve
nue caused the Count to come over and
investigate.
We are in darkness again. Our city
fathers have determined that the people
shall have no gas, whether because they
have exhausted the supply in the Coun
cil chamber, or to give the chivalrous
burglar his rights (as you know every
dog must have his day j, they have left
the world to conjecture. But, seriously,
this is a matter of great importance to
the property-holders. The present Coun
cil has been endeavoring to economize,
and ever and anon they go into
spasms over it. The putting out
of tho lights just before the assemblage
of the Legislature is ominous, in
the estimation of many. They desire the
repeal of a certain measure which has
bean a great restraint in the expendi
tures for city purposes known as the
“Jewett bill,” which limits the rates of
taxation to one per cent. Whether they
will be successful in this move is yet to
be seen. They succeeded last winter
under the same pressure, in raising the
tax one-quarter of one per cent.
I am informed by Madam Rumor that
wo are going to lose our Mayor, Huff, as
he intends moving beyond the city limits
on the Vineville road. We will miss him
much.
The schools will all re-open on Mon
day. The boys have all enjoyed their
holiday, if making a noise constitutes
enjoyment: and the citizens are really
glad that Christmas does only come once
a year.
Your correspondent lias been a resi
dent in this goodly city for two years,
but was never fortunate enough to gain
an entrance to the Harmonic Concerts
until last night. This society has been
in existence only a year or two, but num
bers among its members some of the
most cultivated and accomplished mu
sicians in the country. The performance
last night was charming, and appre
ciated by the large and intelligent
audience. Prof. V. Czurda is the master
spirit on the stage. Everything moves
with the utmost precision and harmony.
Your correspondent, however, is an old
fogy in the music line, and while he
admits it is want of culture on his part,
still the plain and distinct enunciation of
the words would add greatly to the in
fluence of the music upon the audience.
I know the excuse is made that it is the
music, not the sentiment, of the piece
performed that they seek. Words and
sentiment are to be sacrificed to harmony
and melody. Yet, for all this, give me
the words.
Professor Gnosspelius, in his move
ments on the stage, for he
* Chorus Master,” reminds one
of the good old times agone, when there
was not so many “silver threads among
the gold” as now. Tall, erect in form,
moving with measured step, the familiar
white vest, the claw-hammer coat-tail,
all brought back the memory of the “Vil
lage Singing Master,” with his fa. sol. la.
Who does not remember those good old
days of yore ? With what youthful ad
miration we have gazed upon the “mas
ter of ceremonies,” with stick in hand,
beating time, ever and anon crying out
attention, class.”
The “Japs” entertainod the theatre
goers last night, and will also again to
night. Their performances are spoken of
highly. To-morrow old John Robinson
appears, and will take the crowd, as well
as the cash.
“WILD AFRICA.”
Lecture by Paul B. Du Chaillu.
Mr. Paul B. Du Chaillu lectured on
Monday evening in the Swedish Evan
gelical Lutheran Church of Gustavus
Adolphus, New York, the subject being
“Wild Africa.” A large map of Africa
formed the background of the platform.
Mr. Du Chaillu began his lecture nar
rating how he set sail for Africa in a
little schooner when he was only eighteen
years of age. When he landed, he found
a street about two miles long, as narrow
as a street in Sweden. Then he was
taken to a large building, the only one in
the village, and the King was sent for,
who appeared in a swallow tail coat of a
couple of centuries old, and a shirt that
had been unwashed for a couple of years.
The King asked him if he had come to
buy slaves or gold or ivory or oiL But
he said no; that he wanted to kill animals
and birds and butterflies. The King
promised that he would protect all the
goods in the schooner, and would allow
him all the people he wanted for
his purposes. The lecturer then
went on to give a pleasant description of
this tract of land, which ran from two cr
three degrees north to two or three de
grees south of the equator, extending
several hundred miles inland. There
were no beasts of burden there, and all
the traveling had to be done on foot.
There were a number of tribes, each
fighting against the other, and each had
also a different language, fortunately,
however, containing only a few words as
a vocabulary. The heat and the quinine
and the fever were fierce. The forests
were covered with flowers, the sugar cane
was wild, and here was the home of the
men of the woods. Polygamy and witch
craft were institutions of the country.
The older men grew the more wives they
wanted, and the more wives the more
slaves, and the more slaves the more
wives. Witchcraft was a terrible curse.
They wanted a number of lives to be
sacrificed after the death of their princi
pal men. The lecturer gave quite an amus
ing description of his experience with an
old King, who he had feared was going to
kill him. After a talk of two hours, in
which the King declaimed about his
grandfather and the number of elephants
he had killed, and during which time the
women all surrounded him, the King
concluded by offering him a selection of
a wife from eight hundred and fifty-three
of the most beautiful girls in that region.
On his refusal to take a single one lest
the eight hundred and fifty-two remain
ing should be jealous, it was decreed by
the warriors that that was so, and that
therefore Mr. I)u Chaillu should take the
whole eight hundred and fifty-three.
During his experience in Africa he had
been really offered twenty thousand
women for wives. But finally the King
let him depart on his immense journey
into the forest and its frightening sur
roundings. Then he began to hear of
the gorilla, which fierce animal used to
carry the people into the forest and kill
them.
When they reached the village of the
cannibals they found the houses about
seven feet high and six feet long. The
King here was afraid to see him, be
lieving him to be a spirit. During three
days the King stayed *»way, but thou
sands of warriors came to see him. The
lecturer told some very pleasant anec
dotes about his experience with the King
and his retainers, and exhibited the
skull of a youthful gorilla of about
twelve years of age. He then described
his first hunt after a gorilla, in company
with his three savage attendants.
The lecturer concluded a very pleasant
lecture with some expression of good
feeling toward the Swedes and their
country, and the audience was again
treated to some singing by the choir.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES.
A RmIoii Girl Who Went Oat on
rand and Never Relumed.
MURDEROUS KELIHIOUS E.\*m.
The President
Boston. December 28.—Annie Quinn
is a servant, who for nearly a year past
has been employed as a domestic iu a
family living at 47 Buckingham street.
She is not a girl of prepossessing appear
ance, though pleasant and amiable. She
is of medium stature, with auburn hair, a
pitted face, and a blur in one eye. The
lady with whom she has been living
speaks of her as being.the best servant
she ever employed, steady, industrious
and faithful, with but few acquaintances,
and ( idom out after dark. On
Sands, night, the 19 th inst., she
[From the Chicago Tribune.]
fiALEsurBo. Iix., December 25 —The
iv,n» tal Pe . rke J’ Pjeside “(°( Abingdon
( oUege, was to day reported assassinated
1 .t b “!5 d0 . n V a smaU town nine miles
southwest of the city. Abingdon College
is -n institution of the CampbeUite ot
CLrtatmn Church. For many years the
co lege had been under the control of .1
M Butler A faction was formed against
hii.i wuich led to his dismissal in March
1>7:1. The following August 1‘resident
Perkey was elected. Butler was called to
a like situation at Santa ltoaa. Cal. The
feeling of the Butler party was very bit
ter toward Perkey, and no pains were
takeu to conceal their hatred. Effigies of
Perkey and his adherents among the fac
ultv and towns people were suspended in
different parts of the town. Their dwell
ings were defaced, and insults were
heaped upon them while walking
the streets. The press of the
place teemed with incendiary artioles
At the June meeting of the college true
tees arrangements were made by them
for an election to fill vacancies that would
shortly occur. Upon the day aopointed,
the trustees met at the usual place, and
filled the vacancies in the board, thirteen
in all, and completing a full board of
thirty-two. The Bufler party met on
the same day, and, styling themselves
donors to the college, claimed the privi
lege of electing a Board of Trustees,
sent a short distance on _ _ , t
an errand. She hastily threw on which they did. The Perkey party being
her hat and shawl and went out, and has
never been seen or heard of since. It is
possession, legal steps were at once by
takeu to oust them, but owing to lack of ea
evident that she intended to return, or time, the case has not yet come up for
, 1 , t A l . AAf _ — ...If Bl n 1 (UlAwf 1 Al. .. - 1 f T «
she would have put on better attire, as
she has left plenty of good clothing be
hind her, and there is tu ? money due
her for wages. The circumstances under
which she left, and her previous course
of Efe, all work against the theory of any
premeditated intention to leave the house
and not return. But what has become of
her? She was slightly acquainted with a
young man whom she called “Willie. **
and to another servant in the house she
had said that “Willie” had invited her to
go to some house in ltoxbury and be in-
trial. Shortly after the removal of Presi
dent Butler, measures were taken by the
Christian Church to expel from the church
Professor Thompson, who had been in
strumental in the removal of Butler.
Their success in this attempt resulted in
the withdrawal of ninety nine of the
members,jmd the formation of the Jef
ferson Street Church.
With this knowledge of affairs we are
ready for the tragedy of last night. The
Jefferson Street Sunday School were giv
ing a sociable in the upper hall of the
troduced as his wife, but she refused th.> college building, the Butler party holding
* a ■ rrL „ .1:— l, n I orint Imr nn (lui Inirav »!\ L ’ L.. l .1
proposition. The police have been in- j another on the lower floor. While in the
quired of and the records searched for midst of the evening’s entertainment, a
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RELIGIOUS.
The First Baptist Church has recently
called Dr. Skinner to the pastorate, and
he enters upon his duties under favorable
auspices, aud. will, doubtless, give entire
satisfaction. He is a cultivated, Chris
tian gentleman, and an admirable pulpit
orator. The church has done itself an
honor in calling one so well qualified.
The Methodist Conference returned
Rev. Mr. Wright to Mulberry Street
Church, and Rev. S. S. Sweet to East
Macon, while new men are provided
for First M. E. Church and Jones’ Chapel
Rev. S. D. Clements to the former and
Rev. Mr. Bond to the latter, with Rev. J
O. A. Clark as Presiding El
der. These men all enter upon
their work next Sabbath. Not long since
the Episcopal Church called a new pas
tor, Rev. C. C. Williams, who is greatly
beloved by his people, and is winning
upon the community very rapidly. Rev.
A. M. Clisby, pastor of the Presbyterian
"Church, is the senior pastor in the city
churches now, although his term does
not extend back more than four years.
So it is, everything is changing, and
changes are more rapid than in former
days. At least so it seems to one who is
now on the down hill side of life. A fow
hours more and I shall be compelled to
write 1870 instead of 1875.
Simon.
A Lawyers’ Scrimmagf.. — The San
Francisco Chronicle of December 15th, I
gives the following account of a row
among lawyers in a Justice’s Court in that
city : “One day last week John H. Bryant
procured the arrest of one James Phillips
on a charge of misdemeanor. The case
was dismissed and Phillips sued in the
Justice’s Court for £299 damages, the case
coming before Justice Sawyer yesterday.
He was represented by Counsellor John
Wade, of the bald head, and the profane
Colonel Dudley. Bryant was defended by
George W. Tyler. During the progress
of the trial the counsel got into a quarrel
about the degree of ‘bullyragging’ to
which an attorney was privileged to sub
ject a witness, and the lie was passed.
Tyler reached over the Colonel, who was
calmly seated, and tapped Wade on the
head, whereupon Wade retired to his cor
ner with a handful of whiskers. The sec
ond round was lively, the combatants
rolling around the floor, biting and goug
ing each other in bull-dog style. The
venerable Justice mounted his desk and
propelled his stock of law books at the
struggling lawyers and assailed them with
gentle and fruitless entreaties to postpone
the mill. Finally Tyler, who is a man of
superior avoirdupois, achieved an advan
tage in getting on top of Wade, and at
tempted to fracture the obstinate floor
with the latter’s glistening pate. A mus
cular attorney's clerk, who happened in at
the moment, and separated then, and the
Justice fined Tyler £25 and Wade £15.
The case will be farther examined in the
The Fiend of Bremerhaven.
[Correspondence of the Providence Journal, j
In the autumn of 186s I went up from
Southern Europe to spend a few months
in the gay capital of Saxony. Those of
our nationality in Dresden are very clan
nish, live in the same part of the town,
give parties and dinners, and germans as
at home, and mix little with foreigners,
so that once one commences to move
round in the circle, one soon, meets all
who compose it. Among the many whom
I met at the American Club, at parties,
dinners and at his own house, was an
.Ymerican gentleman known to us as Wm.
Thomas. He was a large, stout man,
weighing possibly two hundred and fifty
pounds. He wore a heavy red beard and
moustache, and always appeared in pub
lic with heavy gold spectacles. He was
a quiet sort of a person, never taking the
lead in anything, but still always in
teresting himself in everything
that was going on, and a good
member of society generally. He lived
at the time with his wife, a charming
little black eyed woman, and family, in a
handsome suite of rooms on the corner
just above the club, and used frequently
to enteitain in a quiet, pleasant way
those whom he counted among his more
intimate friends. AmoDg them I may
say I was numbered, and so often found
my way through his hospitable door. He
lived, be said, in North Carolina, and at
the breaking out of the rebellion found
himself obliged to go into the Southern
army. He was in a North Carolina regi
ment during the summer campaign of
18C2, and at Malvern Hills was wounded
in the arm. It was in the evening, as he
sat with some comrades about their camp
fire, that a shell exploded in their midst,
killing nearly all, and wounding him,
as I have said. He was sent to the
rear, and finally discharged as
unfit for active service. He went
then to Wilmington, bought all the cotton
he could, ran the blockade successfully,
took his cargo to Liverpool and sold it at
an enormous profit. Then he immedi
ately irvested his money in United States
bonds, which were then at their lowest
figure in the English market. After
wards they trebled on his hands, and be
tween the cotton and the bonds he made
from £150,000 to £200,000. He married
afterward a Southern lady, who had been
educated in Europe, and by her had sev
eral children. He had not the appear
ance of one who had followed the sea,
and I should be surprised if it should be
proved he had ever commanded a vessel.
A sailor, as a common rule, never gets rid
of the effect of the salt air in his ways
and habits and appearance, and I
never was able to discover that
Thomas was in any manner different from
the rest of us. Thomas was the last
person among us in Dresden whom one
would select as a man capable of doing
such a deed as he certainly £id at Bre
merhaven. He was a jolly, good fellow,
as the world would say, yet quiet, and,
in fact, rather lazy. That he was not
insane when he designed the plot for
blowing up the vessel, I cannot believe.
It is *o entirely different from what the
man was from his character as his friends
knew it, that I am unwilling to believe
that he was wholly accountable for what
he did. He was in his family an ex
tremely affectionate man, and his wife
and children were as tenderly cared for
as wife and children could be. It used
to be remarked among us that Thomas
was unusually devoted to his wife, and
not a whim of hers was allowed to go
unsatisfied.
her marriage, but as yet there are no tid
ings of her.
A NEW HAMPSHIRE FARMER MISSING.
Nabhau, N. H., December 28.—Michael
O'Connell, an Irishman by birth, but for
many years an industrious farmer of
Hudson, disappeared very mysteriously
about ihe 29th of September last. Having
leased his farm in the fall of 1874 to
Charles La Favor, he and his wife resided
at Michael O’Neil’s, in Hudson, when not
at work elsewhere. On or about the date
above mentioned, he came to this city
with Mr. O’Neil, and, as is reported, was
seen on the afternoon of the same day in
Canal street traveling in the direction of
Hudson, but has not since been
heard from. Mrs. O’Connell has
been at work in Groton, Mass.,
since the disappearance of her hus
band until recently, and supposed that he
was at Mr. O’Neil’s. He had been heard
to Bpeak of going to Groton to see a
brother of his, who resides at that place,
and Mr. O’Neil, thinking, perhaps, that
he was at work there, had no occasion to
think strange of his absence. It now
appears that he has not been seen by his
friends in Groton. The body of a suicide
recently found in Hudson was not that of
Mr. O’Connell, as supposed. He
about forty-five years of age, of light
complexion and of medium height.
A SEA CAPTAIN AND HIS SON LOST.
Bangor, Me., December 28.—On Sat
urday, December 18, Captain C. H. Stin
son, of the schooner Oregon, of Rock
land, Me., left his vessel at Bucksport
and with a young son, about thirteen
years of age, came to this city, intending
to return to Bucksport in a few hours.
Since that time nothing has been seen of
father or son, and it is generally believed
that they have met foul play. Several
papers belonging to Captain Stinson have
been found behind an old lumber shed,
spotted with blood, indicating that the
murderers went there to divide the
spoils, and accidentally dropped the
papers, or perhaps dropped them pur
posely to throw the officers off the trail.
The crew of Captain Stinson’s vessel is
under surveillance, and may be arrested.
disturbance iu the corridors attracted the
attention of the party. President Perkey
stepped from the ante-room near the
stage into the corridor, and there met
three boys, Lomax, Lampkin and Ga-
brielle, who ore now under bonds. The
•boys, evidently intoxicated, were request
ed by Perkey to step into the hall and
enjoy themselves. They refused, and
were then asked to step down stairs.
They replied insultingly. Upon this Per-
koy took Gabrielle, the one who had in
sulted him, by the shoulders, and,
when he had turned to lead him down a
short flight of stairs. Lampkin raised
his hand and struck him. The President
fell immediately, and the halls were in
stantly filled with an excited crowd. A
nervous twitching of the muscles were
the only signs of life, and he was carried
into an ante-room, and from thence to
his home. It is not yet known as to the
weapon used in the attack, but Lampkin
is known to have had a billy, and the
nature of the wound seems to favor the
presumption that this was the weapon
used. The negro janitor, Jerry John
son, ran the boys out of tho build
ing, and shortly after they were
arrested by the Marshal. They
professed entire innocence of the
affair, and made no attempt to escape.
The condition of President Perkey at the
present writing is but little improved,
and the doctors in attendance say there
are no hopes of his recovery. The boys
who have been arrtsted for the act aro
John Lomax, perhaps twenty-three years
olu : Dick Lampkin aud Bural Gabnelie,
who are a year or two younger. They all
bear a hard name, are in the habit of
drinking freely, and in that condition are
very quarrelsome. Gabrielle has been in
jail before for lawless acts of a similar
nature. They have often expressed their
sympathy for the Butler party, and seve
ral limes have threatened to make it hot
for Perkey. They aro known to have
been concerned in the previous disorders,
in which acts they were supi>orted by ili8
Butler party.
The South For Grant's Renomination.
[Chattanooga Correspondence of the Cincinnati
Commercial.]
The other day I met a Federal official
who has been travelling in the South,
feeling the popular pulse among the Re
publicans as to the third term and other
matters. Before leaving his home in the
North he had seen my letters as to the
third-term development in the South, and
he thought he would see for himself. So
far as his investigations have gone, he
finds even more third -termism in this
part of the country than he had been led
to anticipate. He gives me some amus
ing “interviews” he has had with South
era Republicans on the subject. He told
me at Nashville that Grant could not car
ry a single school district in Ohio, as a
third-term candidate. “Well,” replied
the Republican “you just try it. Put
Grant against a Democrat and the fight
will turn on the Southern question, and
Grant will beat the boots off of any Dem
ocrat when it comes to that.”
The Southern Republicans think that
the question of questions in the next
Presidential campaign will be the South
era question, and that the Northern
people, when it comes to the pinch, will
not dare to remove Grant from the helm
of State.
Every colored member of Congress but
one, and he was not present, voted
against the anti-third-term resolution re
cently in the House. I do not know of a
colored politician but who is an advocate
of a third term. This may not increase
your faith in the colored man’s capacity
to operate a republican government, but
it is the truth. If it depended upon
their will, and Grant consented, he could
be king of this country in less than a
month. The colored people have suffered
more violence and murderous assaults
since the war than they ever did in
slavery, and they crave a strong govern
ment at Washington, with bayonets in it,
and no State lines at all.
| Stoned to Death.—The details of the
jrec«nt terrible murder of a Jew in Hama*
dan < Ekbatana of the ancients), in Persia,
have been received. A wealthy Persian
owed a large sum of money to the Rabbi
jChsjim, who asked a Persian to repay
him one day when they chanced to meet
in a bazaar. A quarrel ensued, and the
crowd which had collected asked the
Persian what the cause of the trouble
was. He determined to get rid of his
creditor, and turning to the crowd, said,
If this man had merely insulted me I
should have kept silent, but he has
abused our religion and blasphemed
the prophets. I cannot, therefore,
be silent.” The crowd fell upon
the Rabbi and threatened to kill
[him. He took refuge in the neighbor-
house of a rich Persian, to whom he
appealed for protection. The latter con
cealed the Jew in an inner room and
barred the door of the house. The crowd
demanded his surrender. The noble
Persian refused, and the doors were bro
ken down. The lawless rabble poured in,
found the fugitive, dragged him into the
street and stoned him to death. The
dead body was dragged about the town
with jeers, and finally brought into the
market place, where his mouth was filled
with powder and the head blown to pieces.
A fire was then kindled and the corpse
was burned up. Four Jews, who had
fallen into the hands of the mob, were
ill-treated and severely wounded. The
dwellings of the Israelites were plunder
ed, and a general massacre of all the
Jews—and Christians likewise—would
have followed had not the authorities in
tervened. '
Beecher’s Dream.—The latest story
from Brooklyn, whioh now appears in
print for the first time, comes from our
special correspondent, and is to the ef
fect that Henry Ward Beecher, feeling
fatigued one Sunday afternoon, threw
himself upon a lounge and soon fell
asleep, when he dreamed that he had put
off mortality and reached the gates of
Paradise. On knocking for admission he
was met by St. Peter, who demanded his
name: m
B. My name is Beecher.
St. P. What Beecher?
B. Henry Ward Beecher.
St. P. From Brooklyn ?
B. Y'es, the City of Churches.
St. P. Pastor of Plymouth Church ?
B. Y'es, with testimonials from my
flock.
St. P. I have heard of you and cannot
admit you ; and with this he closed the
door upon him.
Beecher, however, repeated his rap-
pings, and after a time the door was
again opened, and St. Peter seeing him
still there bade him cease his rapping and
go away. As he was again closing the
door on the preacher the latter clapped
his hands and croxced thrice, when St. Pe
ter at once opened the door and admitted
him, charging him not to refer to that
little occurrence again, but to “Let by
gones be bygones.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.
The School Question—Novel Fbc^o-
kition from a Jersey City Priest.—A
York, December 28.—The Jersey City
lk>ard of Education last evening received
a novel proposition from the Rev. Father
Hennesy, of St. Patrick’s church, Jersey
City Heights. In a letter submitted to
the hoard he says that for six years he has
taught in his schools nearly six hundred
children ; that he fears he will not be
able to support these schools longer, and
that the public schools in the neighbor
hood are not capable of accommodating
more scholars than they now contain. He
doses by proposing to place his parish’
schools under the sole charge of the board
free of charge for the use of the school
room or the furniture, and agreeing him
self to furnish two male teachers to act
as principals, at a salary of eight hurdred
dollars, and the other assistant at a salary
of five hundred dollars, and also compe
tent female teachers. The conditions
imposed are that there shall be no religi
ous exercises in the school save the read-
w of the Donay Bible in the moruiug
and the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer.
He further says that if appointed head
of these schools he will serve without pay
and subject himself to the authority of
the school superintendent and the board.
The communication was referred to a
special oommittee.
Suicide fbom Jealousy.—Little Rock,
December 30.--The wife of C. J. 3°^'
ard. proprietor of a snake show, exhibit
ing here, last night in a fit of jealousy
left the show, went to the hotel aud shot
herself through the left lung, from which
she died at three o’clock this afternoon.
She was from San Francisco, where she
has a mother. Her maiden name is be
lieved to be Amanda Ellsworth.
Let the Doos be Taxed.—It is stated
that the dog-tax last year yielded the
State of Tennessee the sum of £300,000,
which will be used in remunerating the
owners of sneep for losses occasioned by
dogs, and if the tax is continued for four
years there will not be ten sheep killed
in the State in any one year,
With this statement beforo us, it is to
be hoped that Governor Kemper's recom
mendation on this point will be acted on
by the Legislature at an early day. The
present destruction of sheep in this State
is a terrible tax on the farmers and a very
serious damage to the Commonwealth :
tor intelligent farmers, men from the
British Isles, have in many cases been
left to the tender mercies of the innu
merable cure which are found in every
jounty. Tax dogs, big and little, blood
ed and mongrel, and then we may become
St
The Materials.—The Hartford Post
relates a little story thus: “A little
brown-eyed maiden of five summers has
a most devoted admirer in a young man
of four years. They are constantly to
gether, exchanging visits daily and semi
daily. She came bounding in to see him
one cold day last week, her cheeks glow
ing and eyes sparkling with some new
information. The little heart seemed to
swell with a keen sense of her feminine
superiority as she exclaimed, ‘Oh, Harry,
don’t you wish you were a girl ? For
boys are made of puppy-dogs’ tails and
rats and snails, but girls are made of
sugar and spice and everything nice.
Now, don’t you wish you were a girl ? ’
she repeated in a most tantalizing man
ner. Master Harry seemed staggered for
a moment and overwhelmed with shame
at his inferiority, but he soon collected
himself as his masculine sarcasm came to
the rescue, ‘Oh, pooh, that is not a bit
true, Maria Sprague; I don’t b’lieve a
word of it; it's only -only Thun-
day school readin’! ’ Miss Maria seemed
shocked at the yoong man’s want of
j m'
A Resurrectionist in the Toils.—
Chicago, December :i0.—A telegram was
received here this morning stating that
Dr. E. P. Wilder, who directed the ex
humation of the corpse recently barreled
up aDd sent to the express office here,
and directed to the Iowa Medical College,
has been arrested and detained at Fair-
field. Officers have been sent to bring
the resurrectionist to Chicago.
A Hard Case.—Baltimore, December
30.—The creditors of H. J. Hall A Co.,
dry goods and notion dealers, have at
tached the goods found in their store.
No. 0 North Howard street, and removed
them to an auction house. The claims
again* t the firm amount to nearly one
hundred thousand dollars. The property
attached is valued at four thousand eight
hundred dollars.
Chicago Timet: Mr. Proctor brings us
the sad news that the moon is dead. This
will undoubtedly cast a gloom over the
entire community. She had her frailtire,
and her influence was not always good,
perhaps but it would be harsh and un
feeling to dwell upon them now_. b
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