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;HT IX THE WOODS.’
J. H. E STILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1876.
1? Mr -.?, u ™. er and said: “Joe, I am eoino
httI ° fa,B i8 0TCr - and Aant
,? are of my liquor case till I
CuJfk't °?. or f 1D8l y. to sailed for
^. ut tbe llttIe fu88 not turning out
exactly as he expected, he neyer returned.
l.tL 1 ? 6 ^ ar 'T as 0Ter ' Mr - Turner emi
grated to Georgia with his son, who was
also named Joseph. The cheBt of bottles
has been handed down from father to son
owne* eached tho hands °f present
“liars
U<|l
BiPPli
li. I hip ne in Aldine.]
wavelets rippling by,
- and murmurous rise !■
,! with dreamy eyes,
i parted lips—
,• current slips,
i sunlight and eclipse.
ran juil forest broods
heart to-day;
- rtic r inmost moods
winds that stray
1 the branches tall;
.,vi,*ts rise and fall,
j)cace claspeth all—
our to breathe my love,
scene to hear my vows ;
vciis are fain above,
. :i ,i birds throng the boughs ;
lanished, softened, she
ia nctf. may thrill with me
rite
Blend,
I said, “behold the trees
g to the breeze’s kiss;
fo tbe tender breeze
g back its .-toleu kiss ;
“very wavelets rolled
.. of green and gold,
• murmurs manifold!
,.^li t| 1L . summer earth seems ripe
\\ • tiiought that subtly runs
. . th, and dear as life,
i-• tut s Hash to the Sun’s;
A]| below, and all above,
. .. heaven, and wooing dove,
[lints of love, love, only love 1'*
If o
Fiftv-fonr c
Blaci
'ombs
Affairs in Georgia.
leuiory recollects herself with any-
her usual vigor, Hon. Potty, to-
ijv is tLe day upon which you promised to
tarn vuur tine intellect to the discussion of
amotion to adjourn sine die. We mention
i: here, Hou. Potty, tor fear that, in the
consideration of weightier matters, such as
changing county lines and correcting the
glaring errorr of au effete Code, your pa
triotism might prompt you to forget to pro*
pose an adjournment.
The Lighter of the Geneva Lamp, Mr.
Joseph L. Dennis, has begun the publica-
i novel, “What?” According to
tte title, it is “in two parts—part good and
•,art not.’’ Tho first installment leaves
both the reader and the hero in suspense,
the latter vainly e ndeavoring to make an
impression on a modern parlor chair.
-rks in the Georgia Legisla-
ivV the word!
shear correspondent — Yonr
it the prominent citizens of
y employed General Toombs
ii ation speech in order to
re is not a new one, but it is
-u.spect such a thiDg. Gen-
i • arnestly iu favor of a con
ation, but his recent speech was made at
&most inopportune and under circum-
tuoces exceedingly unfavorable.
A young man from Forsyth, who was in-
•. a to a leap year party in Macon, by some
means got into the wrong yard. Now the
wroDg yarJ in Macon always contains a
two-story bull-dog, as the Forsyth chap
?ry quickly discovered. It was too late,
wevi-r, to correct his mistake—nor was
Itereroom for him t'» get back to the gate.
Consequently he made a lunge for the gar
den. It is supposed he escaped, as an en
ure grape arbor is demolished and four
panels of picket fence erased. We never
aid think there was any fun in attending
kap year parties.
Three organ-grinders, a prize candy man
ud eleven hundred and thirty-six john-
th 'tnas cats give tone to Atlanta society.
The present General Assembly of Georgia
Sd with a promise of “ Retrenchment 1
Etonomy! Reform!” and nobly have they
redeemed that promise. The fees of thir
teen bloated millionaires,known as Solicitors
General, have been reduced. Hon. Potty,
*e congratulate you.
Stewart county boasts of a man and wife
'ho have been married lifty-eight years.
They have ten children, and have never yet
seen them all at the same time.
The farmers of Stewart county have be-
Augusta Constitutionalist: Mr. Walter M
of this city, sou of our diatim
guished fellow-citizen, Major George T.
Jackson, has received letters patent confirm-
rng his exclusive right to make, use and
vend throughout the United States and ter-
J?™. 8 ^ereof, an invention which claims
to be for the improvement in grist and grain
KtS? ra + t0r + 8 *i T alue of this invention has
been tested for about one year at the mills
T. Jackson & Co., which are un-
der the direct personal superintendence
of the talented young man, who has
displayed a remarkable facultv of de
veloping practical results in the line of his
business. By young Jackson’s patented de
vice any quantity of grits can be turned out,
from th« popular “pearl” to the coarse
sample The pearl grits of the Grajiite
.Mills, however, have a decided advantage
over the Western article of that name, viz.:
a combination of nutriment with beauty.
I^derstand that the drying processes of
the West extract from tbe hominy much of
its vitality, whereby nourishing principles
are sacrificed for mere external appearance
By Mr. Jackson’s machine, the fine exterioi
of the grain is preserved, and there is no
loss of vital substances.
BY TUMPD
THE MORNING NEWS.
FROM THE STATE CAPITAL.
Proceedings of the General Assembly.
THE STATE LOTTERY BLOTTED OUT.
plant cum.
ae ago, spit the bullet out the
ug up its redeemed cur-
A Lumpkin negro who was shot in the
oe&d some time
other day.
Forsyth is burninj
dre ' Sarah \\. Pye, vvifo of Benier Pye,
of Forsyth, is dead.
- v ra * us have occurred in the western
portion of tho State.
bumpkin had a jail delivery the other
Montice
cello B inner says: “In its
, . ! ' i ' ave tbr State the paltry sum
by the last General
•- . o the State Board of Health, the
Proetitbody nas only cost $3,000, or double
Junt. This is certainly wise and eco
nomical ipfrislQ tir.r» U
"qsisiauon.”
8i ’ —(New York)
:ieid au tliority, by the way—has
L these c mnns attention has been
0Uce directed to tho carelessness
/ many newspapers. If
, as betu a diminution it is small, and
• ■•= continue to tolerate in many of
°ur lei
° r from
• ir readers are not
•*ch lorm a substantial
* - u t progress and tend to lower
■'“malum r. :
is very gratifying to occa-
- newspaper whoso
opposite course. It is
• ty o, that none which are thus
' ed *ith care
m gnccess
The
- ver seem to be wanting
of these.
V v vn.nah Morning News
®»ke it
news and editorial de-
' i models; careful reading
• imuce of disfiguring
-nt press-work helps to
; '-ome to eubecribers. A
a finished specimen of
printed in the adver-
up” with as much
in^ RVe * >een frad they ap-
diief ' V TDa! ma king illustrations its
*c*inre. ’
, ^rton Gazetn. nv
r lines are hard and have
Kars, indeed ever since
the
and excel
always welc
lm ber was
The bloc
«te ls K f ’ I ’ t “ brou gbt
> for
many i
- , v,ux Cl
^oniv win taeaL ' !1( :; ?, but industry and
®rcmi
as well as
what can be
!^ B 'tances C0I1 l mantl the time3
by dint or i 1 1IJ , st5luce of w
b'*r and prudent
i yd Thompson, a
K-: .. , riatwoods. Tlir AA ’
40yd
•and, t
u.
'UQght ' .'.'T UM - Three years ago
P-jKomis;^ . -mudred acres of poor
v'j K' Q he bn ",' y and interest for
bttieco ^'thmg but one old mule
' - V the place is paid for,
aw/fcnt. °d house, aud dou’t
; *t, oat' V.r d * he d0 il '• He raised
l '-‘i w T i. aad above aud ot bor grain for
v, u h thi 8 f•,n? U0U ”h to run his farm,
Sl°fCje£ nd J j ,,ud ; he current ex!
ILi cotton—five or six
e UmiMany ii and Was applied to
P ■ sfcr 1110 n could follow his
off^ton 3/,„.
. i! r . ; Mr - w - w - Turner,
“*8 over s
Florida Affairs.
Some of the newspapers are insinuating
that the only incentive Fred. Dockray had
for escaping from Spain was to return to
this country and pay the Freedman’s Bank
what he owed. If this is true, we are not
sorry that Freddy escaped.
If wo understand the editor of the Quincy
Journal aright, he has invented a machine
which enables any one who can read to parse
in succession every rule in syntax in Eng
lish, Latin and Greek. This wonderful
machine is called a Grammaticon.
Jacksonville is the proud possessor of
Key West turtle weighing 427 pounds.
We rejoice to know that the button weed
in Florida will produce a species of hemp
superior to ramie. The scoundrels in that
State can thus be gotten rid of at small ex
pense.
The young men of Key West saturate
large sponge with kerosene, ignite it, and
then amuse themselves by using it as a foot
ball.
The crop of drum fish at St. Augustine is
unusually large this season.
The Tampa Guardian is of the opinion
that the Gulf counties have shipped more
oranges this season thau any other part of
the State. Tampa, Manatee, Clear Water
Harbor and ToinWlenaHis have shipped im
mense quantities to New York, Savannah
and other ports.
Col. Perry, of the Cedar Keys Journal,
says that he has found twenty varieties of
wild grapes growing upon the banks of the
Caloosahatchee, and that there is no connec
tion between that river and Lake Okeecho
bee.
Stoarns is mighty quiet now-a-days. He
is undoubtedly brooding over the refusal of
John Tyler, Jr., to accept office under his
administration—and who wouldn’t feel hurt?
Four hunters in the neighborhood of St.
Augustine killed twenty-two deer iu one
week recently.
Where is Bergh ? A pigeon-match came
off at St. Augustine the other day.
Jacksonville is not improving m morals
since Colonel Moody delivered his oration
in that city. Only the other day tb % e body
of a white infant, much mutilated, was
found stuffed in a hollow log.
A twenty pound trout, which was in the
act of swallowing a shad, was captured by
Captain Smith, of Faiatka, recently.
Austin McGriff, a colored preacher, com
mitted suicide near Quincy the other day.
Ho tied his handkerchief arouud his neck,
secured it to a ^ree on tho side of a very
steep hill and slipped away from all the
troubles of this earth.
Mr. J. Ira Gore, of the Cedar Key Jour
nal, goes so far as to defend himself against
the attacks of the Fernandina Observer. J.
Ira has got a good deal to learn, evidently.
There is no longer any doubt that there is
a movement among the Florida Republicans
looking to the nomination of Rev. John
Tyler, Jr., for Governor; and this movement
is much more formidable than the Stearns
clique care to admit.
The gay gamfioliers have abandoned Jack
sonville to her fate.
Marianna has a genuine case of miscege
nation. Old Gil. Haven ought to know of
this.
An effort is making to open a new route
to Halifax river.
The Journal has been informed that
Bishop, the great row-boat traveler, is on
his way to Cedar Keys, and thonce to Jack
sonville, by the way of the Withlacoochee
and St. John’s rivers.
A negro was caught in tho belting of
saw-mill near Jacksonville tho other day
and literally torn to pieces.
The Pensacola Gazette, of the 10th inst.,
says that venison is unusually plentiful this
season, and in unusually good condition.
A few days ago a boat came to Talafox
wharf laden with thirteen carcasses of deer,
still wearing their hides and horns, and all
killed by two men in two days’ hunting on
Rocky Bayou, Choctawhatchie. A ton of
venison is worth something.
Mrs. Wright, wife of John R. Wright,
Esq., a Cincinnati banker, was accidentally
shot by the premature explosion of a
cartridge in a gun which a young man was
handling. The wound is severe, but not
serious. The accident occurred on one of
the Ockl&waha steamers.
Jacksonville Press : The Florida Baptist
Convention met in Gainesville on Fri
day, the 11th instant. Delegates were
present f**om Middle and East Florida,
and from Georgia. There were no repre
sentatives from South or West Florida,
which we very much regretted. The con
vention, since tho war, has confined its at
tention mainly to State evangelization and
ministerial education. Both of these ob
jects have been aided by the convention,
and thongh the work done and amount con
tributed are small, in comparison with what
they formerly were, or with what they
ought now to be, yet the day of small
things should not be despised. The
denomination should more generally,
through its associations aud churches, co
operate with the convention. A general and
united effort on the part of the whole de
nomination, would result in great good, not
only to that particular persuasion, but to
the whole State. For whoever builds a
school house or a church, confers a benefit
upon society and strengthens all that is
good in the State. The suspension of the
Florida Baptist, the organ of the denomina
tion, was greatly regretted, and resolutions
were passed and steps taken to resurrect it
and place it on a permanent footing.
This indeed evoked the greatest amount
of enthusiasm of any measure coming
before the convention. It was proposed to
make a grand centennial effort in behalf of
that paper, and secure in this centennial
vear tico thousand subscribers thereto. _Rev.
j. H. Tomkies, of Gainesville, was appointed
to prepare and issue an address to the Bap
tists of Florida in behalf of the paper, and
to urge them to come up at once to its sup
port. In obedience to the voice of the de
nomination, as expressed through the con
vention, the proprietors agreed to resume
its publication as soon as a sufficient num
ber Bhould respond to justify them in so
doing.
Report of the State Road Lease Bribery
Investigation Committee.
[Special Telegram to the Morning News.]
Atlanta, February 22.
IN THE SENATE.
In the Senate, the following House bills
passed with amendments : To encourage
sheep growing and license the keeping of
dogs.
To regulate the leasing of penitentiary
convicts.
To prescribe the mode and terms of sale
of the North and South Railroad.
To pnnish criminal abortion and foeticide
in this State.
To encourage the propagation of fish.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
To amend an act for the relief of maimed
and indigent soldiers.
To repeal an act to amend the charter of
the First Presbyterian Church of Augusta.
To amend section 4560 of the Code, rela
tive to vagrancy.
To prescribe the manner of obtaining
judgments on foreclosure of mortgages
given to Building and Loan Associations.
To appropriate money for the use of the
Lunatic Asylum.
To amend the law of limitation in this
State.
To provide for the dissolution and reor
ganization of grand juries.
To provide for the keeping of records of
bonds in the State.
To amend section 2527 of the Code as to
the returns of administrators.
To repeal an act regulating the costs in
criminal cases in the justices’ courts of Sa
vannah.
To consolidate the road laws of Chatham
county.
To regulate the practice in certain chan
cery cases.
To abolish the City Court of Augusta.
To amend the laws in reference to the
public holidays.
To make penal the harboring of peni
tentiary or chain-gang escapes.
To amend an act creating a State Board
of Health.
To define the duties and liabilities of the
receivers of railroad companies.
IN THE HOUSE.
In tho House, Mr. Williams moved to re
consider the indefinite postponement of the
bill to allow Peterson Thweatt to sue tho
State. Lost.
The Senate resolution to authorize the
Governor to make temporary loans was
agreed to.
SENATE BILLS PASSED.
To amend an act to prescribe th9 mode of
incorporating towns and viliages.
To repeal so much of section 1272 of the
Code as relates to the issuing of bonds for
the public school fund.
To amend the homestead laws of this
State.
To protect planters of oyster beds.
To amend the law as to the summary es
tablishment of lost papers.
To amend sections 1955 and 1956 of the
Code as to tho record of mortgages.
To prohibit the driving of stock into this
State from adjoining States in certain sea
sons.
To authorize Judges of the Superior
Courts to appoint stenographers or report
ers for their courts.
To define for whom trust estates may be
created.
To prescribe the courts to which claims
and illegalities from Ordinaries’ courts must
be returned.
To amend the sections of Code as to the
regulations of the Deaf and Dumb Institute.
To change the age of admission to the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum.
To regulate the trial of cases in which the
State is a party.
To repeal an act reorganizing the Georgia
State Lottery.
To amend section 3961 of Irwin’s Code.
To amend section 4166 of the Code as to
sets-off in justices courts.
. THE STATE BOAD LEASE.
Mr. Walsh submitted the report of the
committee to investigate tbe charges of
bribery in connection with tho State Boad
lease. It appeared that $21,000 was expend
ed, mostly among newspapers and lawyers,
for the purpose of having the lease confirm
ed by the Legislature of 1872, but the com
mittee could ascertain of no money paid to
legislators to influence their votes.
Noon Telegrams.
THE SUEZ SHAKES.
Debate on the Purchase in the British
Parliament.
Probable Complexion of the Frencli
Chamber of Deputies.
BUFFETS CABINET GONE TO
PIECES.
COLLAPSE OF THE CAKLIST CAUSE.
S., v? fcr . “ la kis possession several
tbe most U 7°-' ' Amon K them
cheat ‘ eu pc*us—is a large,
>i loi «cs ears Slm . nK one d *= en
i,;t < knd A < r^P a V le of holding
lockand"£e- --A“? 8 P rin S
The hi.
are both queer-
•e ih^Bnlar ' »“? history of this relic is
Sp '-f'-^srand SI tbe . «volntionary
kad a „ -Ydrn tr ,, father of \Vm. Turner,
The London Times has reprinted its
annual summaries of news of the world
for twenty-five years in a small volume,
to which it appends a note saying that
the volume, containing 598 pages, was
put in type by four boys with two com
posing machines in ten days, of eight
hours each. This would make each boy s
work amount to rather more than fifteen
hundred ems an hour—which all printers
will acknowledge would be fast work for
the best compositors.
The Argus says Brooklyn is not as
wicked as New York, nor as wise as Bos-
ton, nor as stupid as Philadelphia, but it
gives its closet skeletons more .resh air
than guy other city in the world*
FRENCH POLITICS.
Paris, February 22.—The Bien Public
announces that Dufour will form anew min
istry.
Paris, February 22.—It is estimated that
when all the elections are held, the Cham
bers of Deputies will stand about as follows:
Republicans280, Bonapartists 100, and the re
mainder of various Monarchist and Con sti-
tutionalist shades.
It is not yet known to whom President
MacMahon will eutrust the formation of a
new Cabinet. The Bepublique Francaise,
Gambetta’s orgaD, of to-day, says that the
Buffet Cabinet will have to render an ac
count to the country of its administration
of public affairs, and declares that any revi
sion of the constitution, except in a R epub-
lican sense, is now impossible. The lie publi
can papers comment upon the c&kn and
tranquil manner in which the country has
associated itself with Republican ideas.*
THE SUEZ SHARES.
London, February 22.—In the Suez de
bate Lowe aud Gladstone pointed out the
great risk England rau in abandoning
her position as a champion of the
interests of Europe to become the
champion of her own selfish interests.
Mr. ’Disraeli said he thought the
discussion had shown unmistakably tba t if
Mr. Gladstone had been in office the shs res
would not have been purchased. He did not
recommand the purchase as a financial in-
vestmeut, Out as a political measure, calcu
lated to strengthen the empire. The n ote
was agreed to.
THE CABLIBTS.
Madrid, Fobruary 22.—Dispatches receiv
ed yesterday announce that Don Carlo* w as
iu the Baztan valley. General Martin ez
Campos’s army is marching upon Hermr i.
King Alfonso entered Tolosa yesterday afte r-
noon. The royalists had previously c^rrie d
all the heights neaxthe town.
Paris, February^.—The Carlist G enerai
Dorregaray has taken refuge on Frem :h soil.
The Carlist cause is now considered here as
hopelessly lost.
A SMALL WAB.
Indianola, Iowa, February 22—Return
ing from church two families quarreled,
and two brothers, their father, ana a friend
were killed. The attacking party, number
ing six, are in jaiL The fight wp,a the re
sult of an old fend.
REVENUE RAID.
Nashville, Tenn., February 22.—The
Deputy Collector, with fifteen soldiers, ar
rived from a raid in Lawrence and Wayne
counties with eight prisoners. They broke
up six home stills with an aggregate total
capacity of three barrels per day.
TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
Boston, February 22.—The two hundredth
anniversary of the burning of Medfield by
the Indians, under King Philip, was cele
brated. The overturning of a wagon killed
two persons.
DISASTROUS FLOODS.
London, February 22.—A Daily News
special from Vienna announces the occur
rence of disastrous floods in the provinces
of upper Austria and Moravia. One hun
dred and twenty houses have been des
troyed.
A NEW CABLE.
Sydney, February 22.—The submarine ca
ble between Sydney and New Zealand has
been successfully laid and opened for traffic.
FROM MADRID.
Madrid, February 22.—The Senate passed
a vote of thanks to the army. Estella is
captured.
EARTHQUAKE.
Detroit, February 22.—There was an
earthquake on Sunday.
FROM ROME.
Rome, February 22.—The Italian Minister
at Vienna will be created Ambassador.
Evening Telegrams.
THE NATIONAL DEMOCRACY.
St. Louis, June Twenty-Seventh,
Eighteen Hundred and
Seventy-Six.
HEAVY FAILURES IN NEW YORK.
Meeting of Mexican War Veterans.
CAPITAL NEWS AND NOTES.
Washington, February 22.—The commit
tees did nothing to-day.
Retrenchment reaches the Department of
Pardon, and tlie clerks will be dispensed
with. The marshalships of North Carolina
and elsewhere, where the expenses have
been enormous, will be consolidated.
The National Democratic Committee were
all present, Schell in the chair. The nomi
nating National Convention meets on tho
27th of Juno. One speech was allowed by
delegation from each city claiming the con
vention. Charles D. Jacobs, Mayor of
Louisville, read a paper drawn by the Ken
tucky delegation in favor of holding tho
convention in that city. St. Louis was
finally selected as the place of meeting of the
National Convention, beating Chicago two
^tes.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Washington, February 22.—Probabilities:
For the South Atlantic and Gulf States
stationary aud rising barometer, cold
northwest to northeast winds, and gener
ally clear weather will prevail, succeeding
occasional coast rains to-night, with con
tinued northers.
In the Southwest, Tennessee and Ohio
valley rising and high barometer, winds
veoriDg to cold northwest and north, and
partly cloudy weather.
For the Middle States rising aud high ba
rometer, brisk west to north winds, consid
erably colder and clear or partly cloudy
weather.
NEW YORK NOTES.
New York, February 22.—Wm. A. Dorling,
and Spencer N. Green, President and Secre
tary of the Savings Bank, have been arrested
for swearing to a false exhibit in 1871.
Wellington, Kidder & Co., rectifiers and
distillers, have failed. Their liabilities are
$200,000.
Frederick Schuchardt and Lawrence
Wells, comprising the firm of Frederick
Schuchardt & Sons, bankers, have failed.
Their liabilities are $150,000.
THE MEXICAN WAB VETERANS.
Washington, February 22.—At the annual
meeting of ihe National Association of
Veterans of the Mexican War, General Den
ver presided.
General George E. Pugh, of Ohio, General
Albert Pike, of Arkansas, and H. T. Lane,
of Indiana, were selected as centennial ora
tors. A committee was appointed to ar
range for a centennial celebration.
FROM LONDON.
London, February 22.—In the House of
Commons, the government stated that ne
gotiations wore progressing with the South
American States for extradition treaties;
also that the government is not recognizing
the exclusive right of France to fish at New
foundland.
OUR ATLANTA LETTER.
Personal Legislative Items—Gen. Alex
ander and Mr. Washbnrne— Bills from
Coflee County—“Leverett, of Putnam”—
Bills from Twenty-first District—Bills
from Bulloch County—Bills from Twenty-
eighth District — Bills from Baldwin
County—Another Lot of Bills.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News ]
inaugurated.
Baltimore, February 22.—Prof. D. E.
Gilman was inaugurated President of the
Jno. Hopkins University to-day. Gov. John
Leo Carroll was among those present. Also
Prof. Gildersleeve of the University of Vir
ginia. The University opens in October.
national democratic committee.
Washington, February 22.—The National
Democratic Committee met to-day at half
past twelve o’clock. There was a large at
tendance of members aud a few proxies.
Bnt little business was transacted up to one
o’clock.
FATAL AFFRAY.
Chicaoo, February 22.—George Cameron
shot Fred Sclioeder aud then himself. Both
are dead. It occurred so quietly in a drink
ing saloon that it is supposed the affair was
prearranged.
beecheb’s council.
Brooklyn, February 22.—A committee of
nine were appointed to draft a report of the
council. It is understood that Plymouth’s
positions are nearly all sustained.
THE FRANCONIA.
London, February 22.—The steamer Fran
conia, detained for inquiry into the Strath
Clyde disaster at Southampton, has arrived
at Doran.
Indianapolis, February 22.—Goodlove S.
Orth was nominated for Governor by the
Republican Convention.
GREENBACK CONTENTION.
New Haven, Conn., February 22.—About
two hundred were present at the mass con
vention of greenback men.
A Terrible Isolation.
Nearly opposite Ilockaway’s is Porter's
Island, Lake Superior, (says Swineford
in his history of the iron mines,) a bit of
rock, upon which was built the “Gov
ernment house,” the residence of that
high and potent individual, the United
States Agent, who reigned over the cop
per land, countersigning permits and dis
pensing favors of a consular nature to
visitors to Copper Harbor.
In the summer of 1846 we saw a half-
breed woman who had been Crusoeing on
the island; she and her husband had been
placed on the island in charge of prop
erty. Owing to the wreck of the brig
Astor, in the fall of 1845, supplies failed
to reach them. Long they waited for
succor, but in vain. Winter came on,
snow covered the ground, and ice gath
©red on the water. Then this lone pair
were left to their fate on the savage, des
olate island, “out of humanity’s reach.”
The shrieking winds, as they swept
through the fir trees, and the black
billows of the stormy lake, spending
their sullen fury upon the rocky coasts,
were the only sounds that could greet
the ear during the long, long dark
winter of that high northern latitude.
For companionship they must depend
upon each other. But before the winter
was half spent the husband sickened and
died, and the poor woman was absolutely
alone. Wrapping the remains of her
dead husband in a blanket, she removed
them from the hut and deposited them
in the snow, where, frozen and like a
pillar of ice, they were preserved until
the return of spring permitted of other
burial. The widow passed the long win
ter as best she could, subsisting upon the
flesh of rabbits which she managed to
snare. Her bereavement, hardships and
the terrors of isolation, wonderful as it
may seem, did not affect her health of
mind. She was taken off from the island
in the spring, and was happy enough
when she reached the main land.
Atlanta, February 21, 187C.
Senator Gilmore, of Sanders ville,
has just concluded a forcible and elo
quent speech in favor of the bill to re
organize the University of Georgia- Col.
G. is a ready and concise debater, and
occupies a prominent position in tha
Senate.
Senator Perry is hard at work prepar
ing amendments to the Board of Health
bill as it came from the House. What
these amendments are I am not advised,
but they will doubtless fail, or result in
killing the bill, whicl^ the House Pea-
greens are trying to do in the Senate by
lobby efforts.
GEN. ALEXANDER AND MR. WASHBURNE.
In Minister Washburne’s letter, which
the Southern press has recently publish
ed, he speaks of “General Alexander, a
young graduate of West Point, from
Georgia,” who was one of the party that
accompanied him from Appomattox to
Petersburg just after the surrender. The
officer referred to was General E. P. Alex
ander, brother of Mrs. General Lawton,
of your city, and now General Manager
of the Western Railroad of Alabama.
Wken the war clouds first appeared Alex
ander, who was then an engineer
of remarkable ability, was serving
under the lamented McPherson in
the engineer corps of sappers
and miners on the Pacific coast. Strong
inducements were held out to him to re
main in that State as a non-combatant,
but when Georgia seceded he followed
the patriotic impulses of his noble heart
and came home and cast his lot with his
own people. Meeting the General Ifere
the other day, I took occasion to refer to
Mr. Washburne’s letter, and it resulted
in a most interesting narrative of the
journey while they rode together from
Appomattox to Petersburg. According
to General Alexander’s statements Mr.
Washburne created a very favorable im
pression in the minds of the Southern
officers with whom he came in contact
at that time. General Lee had but a few
days before surrendered to General Grant,
and the conversation naturally turned in
the direction of President Lincoln.
“I am not at liberty,” said Mr. W.,
“fo tell you what President Lincoln’s
policy toward the South will be. yet I can
assure you that his liberality and magna
nimity will astonish you.” It became
evident from his statements that the
President was preparing to win back to
a full and cheerful allegiance to the Fed
eral Government the Southern States,
and to do this in a spirit of justice, hu
manity and forbearance. This is in ac
cordance with my own knowledge of Mr.
Lincoln’s intentions at that time, and
adds confirmation to the generally ac
cepted belief that had his life been
spared, President Lincoln would have be
come a blessing, as some think he had
been a curse, to the people of the
South. Gen. Alexander has no doubt of
the sincerity*of Mr. Washburne’s state
ments on the subject, and is himself con
fident that the sudden aud tragic death
of Mr. L. was a most unfortunate event
for the South. It is also evident from
the recollections which Gen. Alexander
and Gen. Gordon have of that period, as
set forth by them, that there would have
been no trouble on the part of the officers
and soldiers of the two armies in making
a full and final settlement of the differ
ences which had made them enemies in
war, and which, settled, cou d not have
prevented them from being the very best
of friends in peace.
BILLS FROM COFFEE COUNTY.
The Hon. T. M. Wilcox, of Douglass,
represents Coffee county in the House,
and is a member of the Committee on
Education, and on Deaf and Dumb Asy
lum. He has introduced the following
the Code of Georgia of 1873. Still pending.
A Bill to amend an Act prohibiting the
sale of intoxicating liquors m the county of
Putnam outside of the town of Eatonton,
by requiring the consent of the owners of
the five freeholds of the value of $500 each
nearest of the place where the said liquor
is proposed to be sold, whether the owner of
said freehold resides therein or not.
Passed.
A Bill to pnnish any person who shall
sell, give, lend or furnish any minor with a
pistol, dirk, bowie knife or sword cane.
Passed.
A Bill to be entitled “An Act to abolish
the County Court of Putnam county.” Still
pending.
A Bill to confine criminal jurisdiction on
the Justices’ Courts of Putnam county to
try misdemeanors where the accused waive
indictment by grand jury. Bill withdrawn.
A Bill to provide a Board of Commission
ers of roads, revenues and public property
for Putnam county, to prescribe their duties
and compensation, and for other purposes.
Still pending.
A Bill tojbe entitled “An Act to repeal sec
tion 11 of the charter of Madison.” Still
pending.
A Bill to regulate the admission of pa
tients into the State Lunatic Asylum, by
order of the Joint Committee on the State
Lunatic Asylum. Lost.
A Bill to regulate the settlement of guar
dians with female wards who have married
or may marry men of full age, and to pro
vide for the protection and investment of
the estates of such female wards under the
direction of the chancellor. Withdrawn.
I should say, just here, as applicable to
this report, and some which have pre
ceded it, that many of the bills reported
by me from the calenders of the Senate
and House have since been passed or oth
erwise disposed of, as reported by daily
telegrams.
BILLS FROM BALDWIN COUNTY.
Baldwin county has a most conscien
tious and painstaking Representative in
the House in the person of Colonel Wm.
McKinley, of Milledgeville, who is re
markable for his dignified and courteous
bearing towards his associates. He is
Chairman of the Committee on Immigra
tion, a member of the Judiciary Commit
tee and on Penitentiary. The following
are tbe titles of his bills :
A Bill to fix and reduce jury fees in Bald
win county to same rates as witness fees.
Passed.
A Bill to amend charter of Milledgeville
so as to forbid sale of city common, except
for actual building purposes, and to relieve
city from liabilities except as to streets pro
claimed as “public” streets. Passed.
A Bill to further amend the charter of the
city of Milledgeville as to the election of
City Marshal, and to work a chain gang,
Passed.
A Bill to extend the provisions of the Act
of August, 1872, which applies to Clayton
county, to Baldwin county, to prevent and
punish fraudulent trade at night in field
crops. Passed.
A Bill to enable tbe Supreme Court, at
discretion, to buy for the State Library
“The Annals of Georgia,” for fifty years, in
fifty bound volumes of the files of tbe now
extinct Southern Recorder, of Milledgeville,
dating from 1820 to 1870. Passed.
A Bill to prescribe an oath for speoial bai
liffs ; and another, to amend section 4560 of
tho Code so as to compel constables to ar
rest vagrants as an official duty. Both
passod.
A Bill to revive for McIntosh county, and
amend for said county, and specially for Sa-
pelio Island, the Game Act of Liberty and
McIntosh. Passed.
A Bill to enable tho Ordinaries to es
tablish market overt. Substituted in Agri
cultural Committee by Senate bill to pre
vent and punish secret illicit traffic in cotton
and corn.
A Bill to be entitled “An Act to revive for
the year 1876 the merchant’s lien law.” This
bill was disapproved of by tbe Judiciary
Committee, and lost in the House.
bills :
A Bill to change the line between the
counties of Coffee and Ware. Read Feb
ruary 12th, aud referred to Committee on
County Lines February 15th.
A Bill to authorize Henry C. Moon, of
Glasscock, to peddle without license. Re
ferred to Finance Committee, but with
drawn February 15th.
A Bill to supplement general school fund
as far as relates to certain counties named.
Read January 21st, and referred to Judi
ciary Committee February 4th.
A Bill to change line between the counties
of Clinoh and Coffee. Read January 17th,
referred to Committee on New Counties and
County Lines, and passed as amended, Janu
ary 25th.
THE PROHIBITIONISTS.
Pb^^dence, February 22.—'Xhe P^ohi-
l a full State, t
No rhyme can be found to jingle with
his surname, but this for his Christian
name, is offered in lieu: “As badly fooled
will that party be that stakes its all on
lioscoe, as the Emperor Nap. who would
set off on that summer excursion to Mos
cow.”
A rich gold lead, thought to be the
richest ever struck in Southern Oregon,
has been discovered in Rogue river, in
Josephine county, about fifty miles be
low Jacksonville, and assays about $500
to $1,100]
•LEVEBETT, of PUTNAM.
Putnam county is represented in the
House by the Hon. Frank Leverett, of
Eatonton, one of the most popular and
genial of the young members. He serves
on three important committees, Banks,
Finance and Lunatic Asylum. He has in
troduced but one bill :
A Bill to amend the County Court Act so
far as it relates to the county of Futnam,
and increase the civil jurisdiction thereof.
Engrossed and still pending,
BILLS FBOM THE TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT.
Dr. Wm. O’Daniel, of Bullard’s Station,
Macon and Brunswick Railroad, who rep
resents the Twenty-first District, com
posed of Jones, Twiggs and Wilkinson
counties, is one of the most popular and
substantial members of the Senate. He
is Chairman of the Committee on State
Library, and a member of the Committee
on the Institution for the Blind, on Agri
culture, on the Lunatic Asylum, and on
Banks. The following are the titles of
the bills introduced by Senator O’Daniel
A Bill to transfer the couniy of Twiggs
from the Macon Circuit to the Oconeo Cir
cuit, aud to fix the time of holding tbe Su
perior Courts of the Oconee Circuit, etc.
Passed as amended.
A Bill to be entitled “An Act to amend an
act to organize a Board of Commissioners
for the county of Twiggs.” Passed.
A Bill to prescribe the fees of the County
Treasurer of tbe county of Twiggs, to fix
tbe time when this act shall go into effect,
etc. Passed.
A Bill to amend an Act to prescribe the
mode of granting license to sell intoxicating
liquors in tbe.counties of Jefferson, Burke
and Washington, approved February 20,
1873. Passed.
A Bill to fix the fees of the jailor of
Twicgs county for dieting prisoners con
fined in Twiggs county jail. Passed.
A Bill to consolidate the offices of tax re
ceiver and collector in the county of Twiggs,
and to prescribe his duties as tax receiver
aud collector, etc. Passed.
A Bill to be entitled “An Act for the relief
of the securities of Thomas E. McRea.”
Passed.
A Bill to change the line between the
counties of Twiggs and Bibb. Passed.
A Bill to amend an Act to create a county
court in each county of Georgia, except cer
tain counties, so far as regards the county
of Twiggs. Passed.
BILLS FBOM BULLOCH COUNTY.
Bulloch county is represented in the
House by Hon. D. L. Kennedy, of
Statesboro, who is a member of the Com
mittee on Manufactures and on Public
Printing. He has introduced only two
bills, the titles of which are:
A Bill to declare the true intent and
meaning of section 926 of the Code. Read
January 15th, and referred to the Judiciary
Committee January 18th.
A Bill to be entitled „An Act to amend
section 279 of the Code.” Read January 15th,
referred to the Judiciary Committee, aud
passed January 21st.
BILLS FBOM TWENTY- EIGHTH DISTRICT.
This district, which embraces the coun
ties of Jasper, Morgan and Putnam, is
ably and faithfully represented by the
Hon. J. W. Hudson, of Eatonton, who is
Chairman of the Committee on Lnnatic
Asylum and a member of the Judiciary
Committee, and of the Committee on
Privileges and Elections, and on State
Library. The following are the titles of
the bills introduced by Senator Hudson,
who speaks frequently and with consid
erable ability and earnestness:
A Bill to amend tbe Act to pnnish and
cruelty to animals, by
ANOTHER LOT OF BILLS.
I had hoped to give you a formal re
port of bills from your section in this
letter, bnt have failed, owing to the rush
of business at the clerks desks of the
House and Senate, to get the necessary
data. I shall close out these reports,
however, in my next, including therein
the titles of the bills introduced by Sena
tor Perry and Representative McGill.
Chatham.
LETTER FROM JACKSONVILLE.
I.a Toar de Nesle—Infernal Spontaneity—
Buoyant an n.Stone—Let .lie but Mantle
Thee—Unbeantiful Aspect of a Prosper
ous Neck-breakln*—Prince of Bills—A
Silver Wedding—Worms and Creeping
Thinrs—Accidental Shooting—Delegates
from the Styx—A Sensible Movement —
Reform—Marine.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Jacksonville, February 21.
ANTIQUATED BUT VIGOBOUS.
Hamlet was not the first or last malcon
tent who grumbled at destiny for design
ing him to set things right. It may be
broadly asserted without exaggeration that
there exists even in this progressive day
a number of individuals who are
similarly afflicted. But the philanthropic
patriot in essaying to right all the wrong
in the world oftentimes only succeeds in
contributing his mite towards making all
the right wrong. For instance, the epi
grammatic axiom, “If at first you don’t
succeed, try, try again,” must be
accepted with considerable limita
tions and restrictions. It is
glittering and deceptive sentence, and,
if strictly observed, might not im
possibly or improbably lead its victim to
an infamous end. On one side it exalts
to glory, on the other side its termination
is the penitentiary. It is a curious con
germs of antithetical properties—bur
glarious, benevolent, felonious, innocent,
murderous and brave at one and
the same time. This apparently
harmless apothegm is responsible for
some of the virtues of mankind, but
also for one-half of the deeds
of darkness that tarnish history’s page.
It is also guilty of the chronic, candidate,
the gravest nuisance of the political
arena. The chronic candidate is not in
digenous to any particular locality; he is
cosmopolitan in character and instincts.
He is invariably an aspirant for official
honors, not because he desires office, but
because the people, recognizing his trans
cendent abilities, are anxious to have
him run. If there is no prospect
of luxuriating in the Gubernatorial chair,
he is perfectly willing to promenade as
a tax assessor or unsalaried alderman. If
he cannot be appointed chief justice, he
is ready to serve his country as a trial
justice. The chronic candidate
implacable foe to conventionality, and as
he imagines that the universe is leagued
against him, if he fails to secure a nom
ination, he always announces himself
as an independent schedule and votes for
himself. The chronic candidate is an
indubitable pest, an insinuating disor-
ganizer and a public scourge, and this
unhappy State is, perhaps, cursed with
a greater number of these chaotic spirits
than any other portion of the globe.
They are beginning even this early in
the day to obtrude themselves before the
people, and should be abruptly consigned
to a deserved oblivion without ceremony.
THE LAW OF COMPENSATION.
He had suoh a severe and terrible cold
in the head that it deprived him entirely
of the faculty of smelling, but he enjoyo!
it, as we snail see. He noticed that all
pedestrians whose business or pleasure
carried them to the site of the old market
upon nearing the spot would dart across
the street with lightning celerity, and
their handkerchiefs in close proximity
to their probosces. He gazed earn
estly upon the nauseous pile
of decaying oyster shells that
had been dumped there to rot, and
he smiled audibly as he divined the rea
son why everybody avoided that side of
the street. Then he procured a candle
box, seated himself in the midst of the
stench, and blew and blew and grinned
the wayfarers upon approaching
the spot received a knock-down
admonition and went at a brisk trot
away. Occasionally he would stand
up, dig his hands into his sides, and
laugh until the briny globules coursed
down his cheeks, and his convulsions of
laughter could be heard for blocks. He
evidently relished the disoomfiture of all
acal smiling was destined to terminate
sadly. Unconsciously his cold was
ameliorated slowly but surely, the effluvia
from the bivalvular remains penetrated
his olfactory nerves and undermined his
constitution, and he is now suffering from
a surfeit of odor. Those whom his sar
donic grinning incensed may revenge
themselves by writing or reading Iris
obituary, if they will wait a few days.
THE CRY IS STILL FOB BLOOD.
The negro Albert Barton who swindled
the Radical party out of two voters, in
cluding himself, by murdering Charles
Bush on the night of the 17th inst., was
granted a preliminary examination on
Saturday and remanded to jail without bail
to await the action of the Circuit Court.
The testimony of several negro witnesses
went to show premeditation on the part
of Barton to kill Bush. It appears that
he had a heavy bludgeon made to fit his
hand, and it is supposed that he beat the
life out of the dead negro with this in
strument. Neither of the parties have
any family, and but little if any prop
erty. The evidence elicited at the pre
liminary trial was very emphatic in its
character and leaves no doubt of the pre
conceived intention to murder the de
ceased, in Barton’s mind. Barton was
taken completely by surprise at his in
carceration,bu£ this is clearly attributable
to his Radical education. He will have
still greater cause for astonishment by the
time the noose is adjusted about his neck.
Some things are so inimitably funny.
a distinguished guest.
The possibility of entertaining angels
unawares holds good in its application to
the entertainment of people not quite so
respectable. A noted thief has been so
journing in our very midst for a month
or two, and departed last week for other
scenes. He was concerned in the de
struction of the Martha Washington,
on the Ohio river, some years
ago, and is a fugitive from justice,
it is thought, for trying to defraud
the insurance companies. He was also
implicated in a $10,000 robbery in Rio
Janeiro, and has been the leader of a
number of the most daring burglaries
ever known m this country. He is a
plausible, sanctimonious fellow, about six
feet in stature, with an iron grey beard,
and is aged probably fifty-five years. His
present cognomen is, I think, A. D. Bin-
ley, and it is surmised that he is now in
Savannah, or thereabouts.
A SILVER WEDDING.
We who have not yet graduated from
our tin weddings (and in all likelihood
never will, unless we accumulate tin
more rapidly in the future than we have
in the past), can scarcely be expected to
appreciate the emotions that are inspired
by a silver wedding. A very pleasant
reunion took place at Metropolitan Hall
on Friday evening, the occasion being the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the marriage
of Mr. and Mrs. E. Robinson. Congratu
latory telegrams were received from New
York, Savannah and Americus. An ad
dress was delivered by one of their sons.
Mr. and Mrs. Robinson were made the
recipients of a solid silver tea service, the
donation of their children, and various
other chaste presents from friends, and
the celebration was rounded off by a
merry dance.
SNEAKING OUT.
There are several things that are more
enlivening than a murder or a funeral,
and among them may be classed the Du
val County School Board. At the time
appointed for the investigation last week,
Bentley was Pn hand promptly, with a
boat-load of documents exculpatory of
his action and inculpatory of that of the
board. Two or three of the members of
the State Board put in an appearance,
but not one representative of the
local body disclosed his diminished head.
The proceedings were indefinitely post
poned. We are not the eulogists of
Bentley, and in a controversy between
a Radical and a Republican where the
rights of the public are not affected must
needs be indifferent spectators. If peo
ple will be patient until,at the forthcom
ing electioD, we hurl these Radical don
keys and miscreants from power* investi
gations and indictments will be the order
of the day, and it will be amusing to
transport the Duval county school tacti
cians to the penitentiary.
A SAD ACCIDENT.
As the steamer Tuskawilla was journey
ing down the river on Saturday, a lady
passenger, the wife of Mr. John li.
Wright, of Cincinnati, Ohio, received the
contents of a gun which was accidentally
discharged in the hands of a gentleman.
The lady, with her husband, reached the
city yesterday, and the wound in the
back of her neck, although painful, is not
serious.
SNEAK THIEVES.
Sneak pirates are again on the ram
page, and carrying their depredations to
an appalling extent. As soon as two or
three of these plagues shall have been
accelerated in their progress towards
Hades by a load cf hot lead, this petty
system of marauding will undergo a per
ceptible diminution.
BACK TO FORMER PRICES.
ent condition of the Sonthem K
surance Company, Iiromise(J v0 ,f£
brief card, is given below. It was de-
ayed by the absence of General Gordon
in Memphis, and the necessity cf obtain
ing from him all the facts in iefereWto
the company's affairs. 6006 ‘°
it is not necessary, hope, to sav
much of either the general conduct or
condition of this department. It is al
ready known toyou that whatever troubles
environ it, result from complications at
the home office in Memphis. These com
plications are explained below, and vou
will perceive, do not reflect even upon the
management of that department on t to
Fuml '' amI g" lher " ° r,lIorH contrary, the Directorsat Memphian
ESTABLISHED 1850.
FRAUDS IN THE POST OFFICE DE
PARTMENT.
Furnished During the Connecticut Cnni<
paign.
A ratber entertaining story was told
the Committee on Post Office Expendi
tures on Thursday last by George W. Me
Lane, who belongs in Arkansas, and who
testified that a month or so before the
election in Connecticut last spring he was
appointed a clerk of the Post Office De
partment and sent into Connecticut,
where he made stump speeches as t
Southern Republican and worked dili
gently for the State ticket during the rest
of the campaign. Notwithstanding that
he had ignored all post office business he
was paid his salary' in full and was remu
nerated well for all hotel, traveling and
like expenses incurred during the can
vass.
The matter came to light as follows:
Mr. Stone, of Missouri, Chairman of the
Committee on Expenditures in the Post
Office Department, in examining the
vouchers for amounts paid to special
agents for 1875, which are now in the
hands of the committee, had his atten
tion directed to one rendered by George
W. McLane for hotel bills and railroad
fare in the month of March, 1875, which
was peculiar from the fact that it con
tained no amount as compensation for
services. Upon inquiry it was found that
this man appeared upon the rolls of the
Post Office Department as a first class
clerk and was paid $129 67 for services
from March 1 to April 8, 1875. McLane
was summoned to appear before the
committee and testified that he never
did a day’s work in the department in
consideration for the salary paid him,
but that he went to Connecticut to take
part in the campaign with the full knowl
edge of Governor Jewell; that being from
Arkansas and sound on the Southern
question, he had, with Mr. Burroughs,
of Michigan, a member of the Forty-
third Congress, been to New Hampshire
to counteract, if possible, the effect of
the speeches of Gordon and Lamar, and
was to do the same service in Connecti
cut. On his return a voucher for his
hotel bills and railroad fares in Connec
ticut, and being out about $25 by James
Tyner, Second Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral, was allowed by Postmaster General
Jewell himself and the amount—$82—
paid him.
McLane testified further that he did
no service for the Governor for the money
paid him ($21,) but make Republican
speeches in Connecticut. He admitted
that he called upon W. D. Kittle, a mail
contractor, and told him that he would
make capital with the Post Office De
partment by “ putting up” for the Con
necticut campaign; that Kittle agreed to
do this and was drawn upon for $200,
which he paid, aud the money went into
the campaign fund.
The contract frauds, partly developed
before Jewell went home to Connecticut
to vote, showed that Kettle was in them
to such an extent that when the fact
came to Governor Jewell’s attention that
McLane had drawn upon Kettle and
he claimed compensation on account of
paying the draft, Jewell and McLane had
high words, and McLane was paid off.
The principal facts in McLane’s state
ment were sustained by J. A. P. Burn
side, superintendent and disbursing clerk
for the Post Office Department.
The river steamers to-day discard the
ill-advised reduction in the rates of pas
sage and return to living figures. The
price of tickets to Palatka—two dollars
is not exorbitant or oppressive, but, on
the contrary, the adoption of lower terms
by owners of floating property is almost
tantamount to running on a consumption
of their own steam.
THE REFORM CLUBS.
The three Reform Clubs of this city
met in joint assembly Thursday evening,
and perfected arrangements for an ex
haustive canvas of the different wards in
view of the approaching municipal elect
ion.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Arrival during the week ending this
day—Schooner Alice Bell, Boston. De
partures—Schooners Lucy May Hamil
ton, Bermuda ; Harry C. Shepherd, Phil
adelphia; Rosa Eppinger, Kate Foster,
New York; William Conners, Boston;
and sloop Washington, Charleston, S. C.
Adbianus.
“Seeing the Elephant.”—This pro
verbial phrase was illustrated in a new
mode recently in Paris. The manager of
a theatre having a piece in rehearsal in
which an elephant appeared among the
characters, applied to a dealer in wild
beasts for the “star” performer. He was
offered an elephant in fee simple for
$1,200; but preferred to pay eight dol
lars per day for the use of the animal.
The piece ran four hundred nights; the
manager paid $3,200, and the owner holds
the elephant still, ready for salt or a new
engagement. There are many persons
who, by paying rent and interest, and a
premium for credit, pay more for the use
of the elephant than his just price.
The Owner of tlie “Little Hatchet.”
[From the Ironton (Missouri) Register.]
Almost everybody knows our oldest in
habitant, ‘‘Old Uncle Isaac,” but how old
he is nobody knows. Wo called upon
him the other day, and are now willing
to swear on our faith in his word that
two hundred years of “sarvin’ de Lo’d”
will not more than fill the bill. Of course.
Uncle Isaac is pious; all darkies who live
to the age of a hundred and fifty are pious.
One of the first things which enlisted
our attention after entering Isaacs
house was a small hatchet, hung above
the ample fireplace on two or three
rusty nails ; and it, of course, became the
subject of inquiry. We were astounded
at learning that it was the identical
hatchet with which the mischievous
little George Washington had hacked the
favorite cherry tree in his “uncle’s” gar
den. We endeavored to make Isaac
understand that the garden was not the
uncle’s but the father’s. Isa&c’s memory
was good, and our history at fault. He
knew, because he was “thar.” He had
gone “wid Mas’ Jawge for to see his un
cle, and his uncle took him into the gar
den and showed him de cherry tree, and
tole him dat was de fust cherry tree that
ever eome over to dis country, and dat in
about so many years de tree would b’ar
fruit, and dat he would send Mas’ Jawge
some, sho.”
“Mas’ Jawge was a mighty indepen-
den’ little cuss, and says to me, arter his
uncle had gwine in de house, says he,
‘Ike’—for I was a youngster den—‘Ike, I
isn’t gwine to wait on uncle for dem cher
ries; Ise gwine to cut dat tree right
down, and will take it ’longhome wid us.’
Says I, ‘don’t you do it, honey; for if you
does your uncle he’ll skin you ’live!’
‘Jist as soon be skinned as not,’ *says
Mas’ Jawge, ‘I’s gwine to hab dat ’ar
tree.’ So he goes on and gits dat ’ar
same identical tool, an’ purty soon he was
whackin’ away at dat tree. And I don’t
think de child had chopped more’n seve
ral licks before de ole gentleman, dat’s
his uncle, he comes a slippin’ out’n de
gooseberry bushes wid a wattle, and de
way he flaxed dat chile was a absolom
sin. De chile flung dat same little hatchet
at his poor uncle, and jist more’n got
out’n dat garding; and when I cotched up
wid him, he was a-swarin’ like a mate on
a steamboat.
“Now, sar, dat’s de true story, sar.
Dess little one-hoss school books, dey
don’t know nuffin’ ’bout it. W’y, bless
your soul, honey, I went home wid him,
Mas’ Jawge, and I staid right wid him,
and I followed him to Braddock’s ’feat,
and I got lost dar, and I kep’ a-comin’
out West, cordin’ to de device of Mr.
Hoss Greeley dat killed Mr. Burr, and I
was ’mong de Injuns for ’bout seventy-
five year, ’fore dis country was settled by
de fust white woman.”
We had given Uncle Isaac a “snort”
when we went in, and we gave him an
other and came away.
He is booked for the Centennial.
A Card from Generals Gordon and
Colqnitt.
To the Policy-Holders Atlanta Dmarrt-
™nt.Southern Life InmtraneTcZ.
in reference to Hie pres- .
assuming the living business of the w
Carolina Life,” acted under the guidance *
of insurance experts as to the financial
advantage of the transaction, and under
the advice of the ablest attorneys as to its
legal security.
The facts, with reference to that trans
action, are these: The Southern Life did
not purchase the “Caiolina Life,” nor
assume one dollar of its past losses or
debts. Nor did the “Carolina” go out of
existence. The Southern Life agreed by
its contract, with the advice of attorneys,
simply to take the policies then living of
the “Carolina,” receive the premiums,
and issue its own policies, upon the
“Carolina's” turning over to the South
ern, assets to make these policies secure.
This contract was drawn by able lawyers
and was intended to protect the South
ern from all liabilities for any previous
debts or losses incurred by the Carolina.
If, therefore, the Directors at Memphis
erred iu making this coutract, which has
brought the trouble upon the company, it
was an error which would have been
made under such circumstances and with
such advice, by any body of intelligent
business men. The step, which lov
proves so disastrous, was taken for the
purpose of increasing the business of the
company without a relative increase of
expenses. It is as unjust, therefore, to
censure the Memphis Directory as
it would be to condemn the di
rectors of a railroad, who, under
the wisest counsels, and in order to
benefit those interested, should agree to
take the business of another company,
Attorney General Fierrepont seems to
be as unfortunate in his written and ver
bal explanations of his extraordinary let
ter to the District Attorneys in regard to
the acceptance of small rascals as State’s
evidence against bigger ones, as the letter
itself was imprudent and ill-advised. Mr.
Pierrepont may as well quietly accept the
situation, and arrange with G. Washing
ton Childs, A. M., for one of the latter’s
little mortuary gems.—N. Y. Sun.
A little school girl asked her teacher
what was meant by “Mrs. Grundy.” The
teacher replied that it meant “the world.”
Some days afterward the teacher asked
the geography class to which this little
bud of promise” belonged, “What is a
zone ?” After some hesitation, this little
girl brightened up, and replied: “I know;
it’s a belt around Mrs. Grundy’s waist.”
Another mammoth cave has been dis
covered near Columbia, Kentucky, which
rivals in awful grandeur the original
Mammoth. In it were found three human
skeletons of extraordinary proportions.
The cave has plenty of galleries, and
many varieties of stalactites and staJug-
mites.
The French government will not per
mit the exhibition in its department of
the Centennial of any object relative to
The Pope’s Jeweler in Luck.
Anne Brewster tells a queer story about
a jeweler’s luck at lottery gambling in
Rome. The lottery is the great passion
in Italy, but especially in Rome. Every
body buys a lottery ticketthe servants
and tradespeople are never without one.
It is useless to prove to them that they
lose more than they win, or to tell them
Jhat the government makes over seventy-
five millions of francs out of this foolish
gambling. Lately the Pope’s jeweler,
Bellezza, came into the shop and
told his head clerk that he had
had a curious dream the night be
fore. He had seen the Pope. The Holy
Father asked him about his business.
The man told him how badly his affairs
were going, and that he had no new or
ders. “Well, ‘well,” replied His Holi
ness, “I am going to give you one. You
will make me four jewels like this, twelve
of that style, and thirty of the other.”
The clerk begged his master to play these
numbers at the lottery, but Bellezza
shrugged his shoulders and refused. But
the clerk was determined to play them
for his master, and he bought three
numbers, paying three lire for them.
The numbers were 4, 12, 30, the ones
mentioned in the dream. To these the
clerk added 58, which is the number that
stands for the Pope in the book of
chances among the ninety numbers. For
the Romans have a lottery book in which
is set down everything that can be dream
ed about, or that can happen; also, every
relationship in life, and all officials, etc.,
to each of which a number is applied.
The lottery office closed, and in the after
noon the weekly drawing took place.
Then Bellezza learned that he was the
happy winner of the 200,000 franc prize !
The clerk played one franc and won the
200,000 franc prize! When the govern
ment tax was deducted, Bellezza was the
owner of 176,000 francs, about $39,000.
which afterwards proved disastrous. In
the light of present facts, the Memphis
Directory made a mistake, but with the
lights before them at the time, and by the
judgment of the ablest counsel they could
command, they acted, we think, as other
business men would have acted. Your
sense of justice will induce you to admit
that these gentlemen could not have an
ticipated liability from the Carolina’s
under a contract thus drawn. After this
contract was signed, the creditors of the
Carolina brought suit, and proceeded by
bill to enjoin the Southern against the
use of assets, and thereby occasioned this
great disaster, although these erditors
never held the policies of the Southern,
nor paid to it any premiums.
The directors at Memphis, seeing the
serious complications thus brought upon
the “Southern,” and iu order to save the
assets from utter sacrifice, filed their own
petition in bankruptcy, and have checked
further proceedings until some pro
gramme can be agreed upon. Every ef
fort is being made to rescue the company
from these complications. If this could
be done, your policy would be secure. If
not, and the assets are forced to sale in
the financial distress of the country, we
need not t.ell you that the sacrifice will
be very great.
We have felt that it was due the direc
tory at Memphis to say this much. Of
course, this department, which is but a
branch office, is involved with the com
pany.
Had it been possible, under the char
ter, to separate from the company, this
department would not have suffered from
these complications; and we believe that
the facts herewith submitted will abun
dantly vindicate the care and economy
with whiph the department has been
managed, and demonstrate the great suc
cess claimed for it. At the time this un
expected calamity overtook us we were
receiving premiums from 480 policyhold
ers in Georgia.
There are insured in the entire com
pany in both departments, including all
the States from Maryland to Texas, about
4,000 lives. We have paid at this office
to the widows and orphans of the deceased
policy holders in this department, about
$500,000, and have returned to our pat
rons more than $200,000 in dividends.
We may be “permitted to refer with
pardonable pride to the economy and
care in the management of this depart
ment; and we submit with confidence the
following facts, to your candid judgment
and to your sense of justice. We believe
it is notorious among insurance agents,
that the commissions “paid to this com
pany’s agents are very low, if not lower
than those paid by any company doing
business in the South. Our agents have
been offered repeatedly much higher com
missions by Northern companies—in some
instances almost double.
Iu this connection, let us make known
to you that the undersigned were not
paid salaries, high or low, as some design
ing persons would induce you to believe.
We were paid commissions only, upon the
business brought to the company, and
those commissions paid to us were less
by 50 per cent, than many Northern com
panies pay their agents. Out of these
commissions, less we say than were paid
others, we employed our agents. We
make no apologies for thus making known
to you the particulars of our personal
relations to the company, because we
recognize your right to be informed upon
all matters touching our management.
Some of you inquire whether the money
paid by you to the company cannot be
returned. If the company had no entan
glements, it would still be impossible to
do that. The company has carried the
risk upon your lives since the dates of
your policies. It is not correct, there
fore, to say that you have lost the money
paid in. Your life has been insured, and
the premiums are paid mainly to cover
hazard. You will perceive, therefore, that
it would be almost as reasonable to ask
the Fire Insurance Company to return
your premiums because, at the end ot the
year, you find that your house has not
burned. While you have not died, many
others have, and these death losses wero
paid from the aggregated premiums re
ceived. In some cases *lie amounts paid
on death claims have far exceeded the
amounts received in premiums; as for
instance, from the county of Troup, we
have received in cash for premiums about
seventeen thousand (17,000) dollars, and
we Lave returned to that county, in pay
ment of death claims, twenty-one thou
sand (21,000; dollars. While of course
these instances are not common, the}
will show you how impossible it is for
company to pay all death claims and £e
return tfle money received in premium
for this very pu.poce. No compaay i
the world could comply with such a re-
quest.
You may be assured that we shall leave
nothing undone which we can do to re
lieve you from the effects of this disaster,
which was as startling to us as it was to
you, and far more calamitous. If tho
company can be rescued, the relief will
be complete—sufficient to protect your
policy, or to re-insure you, or pay a sur
render value. Of the success, however,
of efforts to save the company, we are
unable to give you any positive assurance.
Of course, in tne present status of af
fairs the company can receive no pre
miums. A complete record, however, is
kept of all policies, and you will bo
promptly notified of any change in the
present situation. ...
In conclusion, we will say that, wun
this statement, and with a codscious dis
charge of duty, we confidently repose on
the fair and intelligent judgment of men
everywhere. John B. G°hd<> »
A. H. Colquitt.
Atlanta, Ga., February 18, 1876.
A fresh story about Robert Houdjn.the
sleight of band performer, is told m a
new London book. He once ® t « r a n8c
with bis tricks a company of Arabs u
Algeria. After a feat with a gun, an old
Arab asked tbe privilege of a shot with
his own pistol. Houdin consented, but
deferred the trial until the next day. In
the interim he made two balls of *'ax and
lampblack. One of these be made hol
low and filled it with blood. At the per
formance he allowed the Arab to cnoose
a lead buUet from a saucer, but m load
ing tbe pistol contrived to nae the sohd
wax counterfeit. Of course, the tnek-
ster was not injured by tbe firing. •
he said “you have been unable to draw
blood fro n/me with a bullet, but Iw>U
draw blood from yonder wall. He loaded
the pistol again uaing the other prepared
' - and the stain of blood tfiat waa left