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fame and honor.
an AI’OLOGUK.
• i Ji H'oteo/i in the Macon Telegraph.]
When Jove sent out the deities
• ,wrii man's conditions,
ii 0I1 , * au«l Fame, i* comely pair,
‘ Went forth upon tueir missions,
rpi,. _ v went together, hand in baud,
\jid so alike in feature,
That men were puzzled to decide
Which was the fairer creature.
But Fame was haughty and disdained
The humble of demeanor.
Ami where the crop was rich she scorned
To be a common gleaner.
She sou lit the highest altitudes
Her visions could discover.
And bade the luckless moral climb
Who dared to be her lover.
And then she sits, imperious Queen,
* Within her tlaming portals,
Ami thev alone of stubborn will
Arc crowned as her immortals.
3tr <•. urtiers are the grandly great
Whom genius giveth pinions;
They reacn hy dying to the height
Of her supreme dominions.
Bui Honor was an humble dame,
Though not devoid of beauty,
And made her home upon the plane
of modesty and duty.
She gathered" round her men of worth —
The sooty sous of labor ;
The liner from his bench she took,
And from the forge his neighbor.
The grimy plowman from the field
And from the hedge the ditcher ;
Br never sought h r courtiers from
The greater and toe richer.
She onlv cast the glorious smiles
i >f her imperial beauty
Ou mm who did with willing hands
The ready tasks of duty.
Her heroes were the generous men
Who rose not on their fellows,
And never of a neighbor’s worth
Were envious or jeolona.
She made her race a LOble one,
In spite of its beginning,
And offered each a laurel crown—
A guerdon for their winning.
The rank of her nobility
Still comes of stout endeavor,
And still the lustre of her crown
J-- gleaming brightly ever,
As well upon the swarthy brows •
Of labor's humble classes.
As on the higher heads of those]
Who dwell upon Parnassus.
Affairs in Georgia.
Who should step in upon us yesterday but
the Count Johannes B’Gormanne ? The
Count was fresh from Thomasville, where
he bad been advising Captain Triplett in
regard to th wedding outfit of the latter. He
reports that the Captain is still cheerful,but
ia afraid that a severe attack of depression
will supervene before the 1st of May. The
Ccuut was kind enough to renew his prom
ise of a box of oranges.
The Geneva Lamp has discarded its yellow
cover, and also contains another chapter of
“What ?”
Joe Brown explains how the Hon. B. H.
Hill went on Foster Blodgett’s bond. It is
all very vague to us except the main fact.
We presume that by this time the Hon.
Potty has forgotten the oares and vexa
tions of public life. The duties of a legis
lator are almost as onerous as those of the
proprietor of a beer-saloon kept on the Eu
ropean plan.
Col. Jones, of the Macon Telegraph, is
getting away with his brother editors. He
n ay says that he was once acquainted with
a man in Liberty county who ate snakes and
grasshoppers for a living.
In view of the fact that a locomotive on
the Georgia Railroad has been altered so as
t" burn coal, the canal is entirely lost sight
of by the Augusta papers.
It was by the merest chance that the Hon.
Putiphar Peagreen. of Tugaloo, was in
duced to favor Dr. Carlton’s bill reorganiz
ing the government of the State University.
In the course of ihe discussion some of the
advocates of the bill said it was to do away
with the sumptuary laws now in vogue.
This decided the Hon. Potty. “Ef hit’s
agin old Sump., then I’m fer it, dam ef I
hdiu't. Come ou, boys, less go talk to Dick
Tommies.’’ Dick, it should be remarked,
presides at the Big Bonanza.
When wo heard that Fitch had tack
led the door-keeper of the Senate, we were
sorry he had in & measure retired from the
profession of journalism.
The Indian Spring Crescent Light is no
more. The material of the paper will be
carried to Jackson, the county site of Batts,
where a new paper, called the Argus, will be
Published. The Argus will probably be un
der the editorial control of Mr. J. B. Data
ble, a journalist of no little experience.
There is one sad fact in connection with
the adjournment of the Legislature. Fifty-
odd clerks will no longer have any leisure to
pity billiards.
The editor of the Thomasville Times will
attend the Press Convention in Savannah in
^lay, accompanied by his bride. We are not
liberty to mention either name or date.
A \ aldosta man writes to know if we
really intend to vote for James for Governor,
u reply, we have to say that several editors*
10 ^ ou tkern Georgia aro arranging an ex
cursion to Atlanta on the 4th of July for no
ether purpose than to vote for James, and
we intend to be one of the number. A
special train will be chartered, and every
j D0 b* expected to furnish his own
unch. For further particulars, our Val-
osta correspondent can consult Colonel C.
• I cndloton, Chief of the Okofenokees.
I diking about the Okefenokoe reminds us.
' v hai has become of the swamp literature
tliat Wad to appear in the Atlanta Constitu
tion}•
Henry M. McIntosh lives in two towns
and ‘■‘lits two papers—the Quitman Repor-
r an 1 Hie Blackshear Georgian—and both
we U gotten up.
The Hinesville Gazelle appears to be be
rated nowadays.
Columbus is proud of her factories. Some
^ er prominent men sit and look at them
uaj after day.
A ^ or, -h county man has introduced a
° s ,aw * n Tiis section that doesn’t need the
approval 0 f the Governor. It is a breech
loader.
^kUwtual Atlanta correspondent of
^e.ewlor*. Herald doesn’t give Senator
* orwood any snow at all to be his own suc-
-sor. 1. IiiB is probably one of the results
Q e thoughtlessness of the Senator in
gfc ern Ploying a literary man as his private
cretary. Howbeit, we reoeat here what
We have already said:
can ma’ch
show
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
When his opponents
1118 speeches in the Senate, or
has ° ne 8 * n ^ e mistake in policy that he
to We W “1 sive BOme consideration
q ° ta _k °T sending some one in his place.
tbj De ^ llie m °8t melancholy things in
realm?* 1 ? ia fo . r a P^lie man to suddenly
eii , . at his ^ eat Triends are his worst
havA ? 8 ' ^ islaken Zeal ought long ago to
° ^en hanged for assassination.
t^ r P ° ral Cab anisB, of the Forsyth Adver-
Some 1 UOt 8ul)J6ct road and jury duty.
Par, T - wiU even j° iu a military com-
i d the county.
up b c j r<J ma £ l8tr ate and constable were
other* ,: 6 po!ice court in Augusta the
JUog it {'„ ,or “bulging in
Y„ ' •“"“**“* iu a negro riot. D j K eon». elc., are -
»•!, are the manumitted citisoni oI afford great attraction, to the aportemen.
thia Republic to have no recreation or.amc.se-
rnent 1 Augusta may boaat of her canal and
her prolific cows, bnt ahe will have no pros
perity in raiaing goata and chickens bo long
as the native humor of the suffrage-slinger
is thus held in check.
Eatonton ie anxiously looking for another
fire.
We learn fr^m the Macon Telegraph that
Mr. W. W. Turner, of Eatonton, has injured
his write hand.
Between writing amorous poetry and de
livering addresses before female colleges
and mixed schools, the romantic Lochraue
will have very little time this season for
either practicing law or going to lunch
parties.
Mr. George R. Sims, of Palmetto, is dead-
All the locomotives on the Georgia Road
are to be altered so they will burn coal.
In a quarrel over five cents between two
Augusta negroes the other day, one of them
Received five cuts. One or the other of the
mokes got the worth of his money.
A Coweta county man has forty acres of
wheat twenty-four inches high. This ia
what we call crowding the season.
Mr. James Gargan, an old and prominent
citizen of Augusta, is dead.
The Lumpkin Independent says that Mrs
Latimer, mother of Judge J. B. Latimer,
has a fau that is known to be over a hun
dred years old. Mrs. L. has had it in her
p Dssesaion for more than fifty years.
While we were rather unfavorably criti
cizing the incongruity of the sentiments put
in the month of the Hon. Potiphar Pea-
green by the Atlanta Constitution, we neg
lected to state that the full-length map of
the Hon. Potty, which accompanied the effu
sion alluded to, meets with our unqualified
approval. It is absolutely correct m every
detail
The Macon Telegraph learns that Mrs. Nat.
Hicks, living near Appling, Columbia coun
ty, was fatally burned last Friday morning
about 10 o’clock. She was burning some
nests in a chicken house, when her clothing
accidentally caught fire and she was terribly
burned before assistance reached her. She
died from her injuries on Friday night about
12 o’clock. Mrs. Hicks was about seventy
years of age.
Mr. M. T. Farley, a well-known citizen of
Monroe county, died very suddenly on Sat
urday, while on his way home from Milner.
An Augnsta cow has immortalized herself
b y giving birth to three calves since the
second of last April. Two were twins.
The Methodists of Forsyth are quarreling
among themselves as to the propriety of
using tho organ in the Sunday school ser
vices. We suppose there must be some
profound theological problem at the bot
tom of the difficulty, but it doesn’t occur
to us just now.
A correspondent of the Atlanta Constitu
tion has this to say of the claim of Colonel
Peterson Thweatt: During the war he re
ceived for his salary the Treasury notes of
the State, which on their face provided that
they should be received for all sums due the
State (say taxes, etc.,) or at tho option of
the holder should bo taken up by the issue
of State bonds. Mr. Thweatt, having confi
dence in tho honesty and good faith of the
people of his native State, took from the
State Treasurer, in payment of his salary,
these State Treasury notes, with the avowed
purpose (which is substantiated by
the Treasurer) that ho would hold
them and subsequently exchange
them for State bonds. He held
the State Treasury notes received for his
salary, during the whole term of the Bul
lock regime (when he could no doubt have
got the greenbacks for the amount of his
Treasury notts with but little trouble) and
only presented his claim when the true and
rightful Legislature of his State had come
into power again. Well, what is the result
of his highmiuded and honorable course.
The Legislature of Georgia refuses to allow
him even tho poor privilege of having his
claim adjudicated by the courts of the
State, although there is hardly aa instance
(if any at?all) where a citizen of the State has
been refused this privilege. The case of
ex-Comptroller General Thweatt has a much
larger significance than that of the rights
or wrongs of a single individual. It is a
matter that comes home to the moral sense
of the whole people of Georgia. Iu truth,
the question comes up whether the Legis
lature of the State is to be sustained in the
role of repudiators of honest debts, or
whether the people will rise in their might
and rebuke those who have presumed to
think that the people of Georgia would re
fuse to pay a just debt.
South Carolina Affairs.
In Horry the + ax levy this year is $21,-
553 30. The collections up to the present
time amount to only $8,000, leaving $13,-
553 30 still unpaid. This is the most unfa
vorable exhibit ever made by the county.
The books will be open until the 21st of
March.
A new jail is.beiDg constructed in Aiken.
The citizens of Congaree township, Lex
ington county, are requested to meet at Mr.
R. Cacey’s residence on Saturday, the 4th
instant, for the purpose of forming a
Democratic club.
A circulating library on a small scale has
been established at Sumter.
Two#blored men, Fielder and Fields, em
ployed on the plantation of Dr. Muller, in
Lexington county, fought on Friday even
ing, and Fielder stabbed Fields several
times, killing him. The cause of the diffi
culty is not known.
The whole tax of Edgefield county is $68,-
800. More than two-thirds of it have al
ready been paid.
The town of Beaufort paid off last week
every cent of its indebtedness excepting two
bonds for the engine, which do not mature
for twelve or twenty-four months. The
treasury is still in fuuds, and has about two
thousand dollars yet to collect for licenses.
Albert Guerry has nearly completed at
his studio in Sumter, a life size portrait of
General Lee, in citizen’s dress, for tho Mon
umental Association of that place. The
Watchman considers it very fine.
Thieves stole a bale of cotton from John
F. Woodward, in Sumter county, and car
rying it half a mile buried it iu the ground
four feet deep, where it was found.
On tho 21st ult. Mr. John D. Andrews, of
Orangeburg, aged sixteen years, married
Miss S. A. Darby, aged eighteen years.
The Lexington Dispatch is informed that
Mr. John C. Caughman, who resides near
the line of Edgefield and Lexington coun
ties, killed on the 15th ultimo, at one shot,
four wild turkey gobblers, weighing 1C, 18,
24 and 234 pounds, respectively, and a Mr.
Garner, of Beaufort county, also killed, one
day last week, four deer at one shot.
About six hundred dollars in bills of the
Bank of the State have thus far been ten
dered in payment of taxes in Orangeburg
county.
The Marion Star alludes to a widespread
report of a little trouble between the County
Commissioners aDd Treasurer Stoeber, con
cerning the withholding by the latter of
abont six hundred dollars of the county
taxes collected in 1873. More light on the
subject is demanded.
James H. Hudson, of Sumter county, was
dashed against a tree by his horse on Sun
day last, and suffered a compound fracture
of the leg.
A whisky raid has been made in York
county, which resulted in the capture of
two distilleries, two prisoners and 4,500 gal
lons of mash. Mr. Deputy Jarrett, on
Wednesday, in the same county, captured
nine stills,’ 20,000 gallons of mash and beer,
and other paraphernalia for manufacturing
crooked whisky. Bristow is treating the
boys badly. He, for one, evidently “knows
no North, no South, no East, no West” in
nosing out crooked whisky.
Along the mountains of upper South Caro
lina droves of wild deer are found m many
of the large forests, while it is no uncomnum
thing to see scores of squirrels and rabbits
as you pass along. Foxes, raccoons, opos
sums, otters, minks, etc., are found in the
forests and along the water courses, and
afford profitable sport for night
Wild turkevs, partridges, doves, Hacks,
w * ;©ons, etc., are numerous, and
Hi' TOMB
THE MORNING NEWS.
OUR ATLANTA LETTER.
Ppraonal t.o»»ip nod Tbinfs in (ienernl —
Nick Thompnoii’H Execution—A llroond-
lest* Complaint—Senator Kibbee'* Lum
ber Bill—A Voice from Johmton’s Island.
Noon Telegrams.
SURRENDER OF DON CARLOS.
Schenck and the Emma Mine Frauds.
KELLOGG SAVED BY THE LOUISI
ANA SENATE.
KELLOGG SAVED.
New Obleans, February 29.—When tbe
Committee of tbe House presented the
action of that body to tbe Senate, the Senate
at once organized aa a Court of
Impeachment, Chief Justice Ludiling
in the chair, and adopted resolutions
that t‘ ^impeachment was in certain re
spects violative of law, and entirely so of
tbe Wheeler compromise, and acquitting
Kellogg of the charges by dismissing tho
articles of impeachment. The vote was 25
to 9.
DON CABLOS.
Pabis, February 29.—The French Gen
eral received Don Carlos and staff
on tho border and allowed them
to retain their arms and horses.
Don Carlos seemed quite dejected, and
begged that his thanks be conveyed to the
French Government for its courtesy. Tho
French Government hastened to report the
surrender to the Spanish Cabinet, with con
gratulations on the end of the war. The
exact terms of the instrument are unknc wn.
FBOM CALIFOBNIA.
San Fbancisco, February 29.—Messrs.
Palmer, Cook & Co., formerly bankers here
and agents for Fremont, have published a
statement that they paid the ten thousand
dollars for which Crittenden’s heirs are
sueing Fremont.
The State prison] workshops at San Quen
tin, California, are burned. The loss is
*$700,000. Tho prisoners—about 1,000 in
number—are all safe.
THE EMMA MINE FRAUDS.
Washington, February 29.—The Emma
mine investigation connects high names
with the irregularities. Professor J. Silli-
mau received $9,000 or $10,000 for his favor
able report, and Jay Cooke, McCulloch &
Co. were paid $25,000 ldr the use of their
name. Schenck was presented five hundred
shares at £20 per shire.
The Wine and Spirit Traders’ Society
Bill.
Washington, February 24.—A com
mittee of tiie Wine and Spirit Traders’
Society of the United States is here, for
the purpose of presenting to Congress a
bill to change and codify present laws
relating to the tax on distilled spirits.
Hon. E. It. Meade will present it. The
committee will probably stay here during
the remainder of the session. The bill in
full would cover two pages of the
Bulletin. It combines nearly all the
principles which have hitherto been
proposed and considered necessary to
the largest possible revenue from
distilled spirits. Commencing at the
proper basis, it makes a fundamental
change in the organization of the Inter
nal Revenue Bureau, decreasing the num
ber of officials and increasing their sala
ries, and making the tenure of their po
sitions depend upon their behavior. The
effect of this would be to give a clans of
men superior to many temptations. The
temptations themselves would be lessened
in number by a proposed rotary system
which would change the sphere of opera
tions of the officials every month, and
prevent the intimacies and companion
ships among officers that engender fraud.
This would certainly prevent the forma
tion of such whisky rings as those which
are now the subject of melancholy con
templation.
The rate of tax is reduced from ninety
to fifty cents per proof gallon. It is
computed that this will increase the rev
enue from this cource some five million
dollars annually. The basis of calcula
tion is that the tax on spirits is now
beyond the revenue point, and is a pre
mium on fraud.
The scheme calls for an abolition of all
stamps on distilled spirits. It is estima
ted that on account of the hindrances the
stamps have given to distilling and the
business in distilled spirits, the abolition
of the stamps will cause a considerable
increase in the revenue.
The proposed extension of the bonding
period to three years will put the domes
tic production on an equal footing in this
respect with foreign spirits, and would
certainly be a great benefit to manufac
turers of genuine whiskies. These whis
kies demand, more than any other class
of spirits, time for perfection in quality.
The present sections of the law relat
ing to the export of spirits are substan
tially unchanged. Provision is made for
the transportation of spirits in bond
within the United States, under such ne
cessary restrictions as the Secretary of
the Treasury may prescribe.
In short, the scheme of the Wine and
Spirit Traders’ Society seems founded
on so broad and careful a consideration
of all the questions at issue, and so thor
ough an understanding of the require
ments of the government and the trade,
and the economical laws governing the
subject of taxation in general, that it
must command the serious attention of
Congress.
And it is so well backed by the repre
sentative men and firms in the spirit in
terest throughout the country, that it has
an exceedingly fair prospect.—New York
Bulletin.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Atlanta, February 28.
The appointment of Howard Van Epps,
Esq., to be Solicitor of the City Court of
Atlanta, like the most of Gov. Smith’s
appointments, gives general satisfaction.
It is useless for newspaper correspond
ents to suggest the honored name of that
eminent Georgian, ex-Governor Horschel
V. Johnson, for nomination as a candi
date for Governor, as he informs me that
under no circumstances would he accept.
Newspaper correspondents in the in
terest of rival candidates for Governor,
persist in stating that Governor Smith is
laying his plans to be the next United
States Senator from Georgia. This is a
malicious slander, as he is doing nothing
of the kind, but has persistently refused
to enter into any combination or bargain
in regard to such a movement. Senator
Norwood will no doubt be his own suc
cessor, os the people here are satisfied
with his course.
Over a hundred people have gone from
this city to New Orleans during the past
few days. Some to witness the Mardi
Gras display, others to attend the Agri
cultural Exhibition, and others as dele
gates to the great Southern States Immi
gration Convention now in session there.
Your readers can form some idea of the
kind of a congregation, small as it is, that
Gil Haven preaches to here, when I state
that glaring colored placards adorn the
entire walls of the church with this re
quest conspicuously printed thereon:
“Please do not spit tobacco juice on
THE FLOOB.”
Pbimus’s Stoby of Hlkod the Pirp.—
One of the stories Primus told us o.ften-
est was of how he came to own Herod,
who was a pure-blooded hound of the
best English breed: “Dis war de on’y
mis’able pup ob his mother—um weak,
good-for-not’in chap; an’ Mars’ Cha’les,
he say, ‘Primus, drown dat un; ho dis
parage de pack.’ Howseveh, I takes um,
an’ feeds um, an’ musses um foh two or
t’ree months; but ’twan’t no use. He
war alius a-winkin’ an’ his legs a shakin’
under him. So, Mars’ Cha’les, he say:
Wat foh you keep dat onfortmt creat-
shure ? It's onhuman, forcin' sech a
skelington’ to lib,” he say. But I say:
He got de blood, sab. De blood of his
fader’s in de skellington. ’ Howseveh, he
gets leaner an’ leaner an’ winks wus each
day. ‘He done gone clean blind,’I say.
‘I mos’ hab make up my mind to drown
dat pup, sah.’ Well, one day, dak was a
hunt. Mars” Cha’les, he start a buck up
de norf mountain, an’ I had de dogs; an’
shore’s you lib, I tuk Herod in my pocket.
‘Ef dah’s any life in him,’ I say, ‘it’s got
to come out now. Now or nebber !* So
I put’s him down whak you could see de
buck a-tearin’ down de gohge, de dogs,
af ’er, pell-mell, high sky ! Ef you’ll be-
leeb me, sah, dat blind pup he staggers
up an" he gibs a yow-how, an’ he goes off
at a swingin’ trot. ’Course he tumbles in
fus ditch: but de blood hed kum out, sah.
Af ’er dat, dat pup see as well as any dog,
an’ he kum in fus’ at de death of many a
buck. But Mars’ Cha’les, he say: ‘He’s
your pup, Primus. It war you dat find
de blood in him!’”—Rebecca Harding
Davis in St. Nicholas for March.
A Widow’s Fobtune Stolen.—Mrs.
Polhamus, a New York widow, was
robbed by sneak thieves on Saturday
afternoon. Recently sh6 drew $10,000
from a savings bank, and kept it in a
work-box in the kitchen, which she oc
cupied, It was all the money she had.
On Saturday afternoon Mrs. Polhamus
went out for a walk, and on her return
her money was gone. She says that no
one in the house knew that the money
was in the kitchen, but the inmates of
the house say that it was well known in
the neighborhood that she kept a large
sum by her.
A general congress of women of Ger
many has been held at Gotha. Addresses
were delivered calling on German women
to unite and struggle for their rights,
especial reference being made to the
practice of medicine. , On the motion of
a gentleman present, a resolution was
carried condemning the present style of
woaaen’s dress.
NICK THOMPSON S EXECUTION.
E. C. Wade, of Quitman, having writ
ten to a Radical paper that Nick Thomp
son, the negro who killed Capt. Hunter,
was “hung by a mob,” although executed
under the forms cf law, I desire to tell
that malicious villifier of the good people
of Brooks county., that he never uttered
a more foul batch of lies than are con
tained in his letter. I have attended a
great many executions, and as a reporter
have noticed particularly the arrange
ments of the gallows and the conduct of
the officials in charge, and I can honestly
say here, what I said to the Sheriff at
that time, that I never witnessed an ex
ecution of a .white man conducted with a
more humane regard for the unfortunate
victim of the halter. Every effort was
made by the counsel of the prisoner, and
many delays occurred before, under a
second sentence, Nick Thompson was
hung. If the people of Brooks county
were blood-thirsty “savages,” as charged
by this man Wade, Captain Hunter’s
murderer would not have lived in their
midst unmolested for more than a year
before being executed for his crime.
A GBOUNDLESS COMPLAINT.
The charge of extravagance made
against Secretary of State Barnett, in re
gard to pens, is wholly groundless and
does great injustice to one of the most
honest, economical and conscientious
public officials in the whole country. As
I am frequently called to his department
to copy bills for publication, it is within
my province to defend this excellent and
venerable officer from uDjust censure.
In him and Major Jones, his gallant one-
armed chief clerk, the State have two
faithful and competent officials, and the
general public two polite and accomoda
ting servants. There is scarcely five
myiutes of the day that they are not
called upon to perform some service
for citizens from all parts of the State,
and they invariably respond with prompt
ness and courtesy. It is unjust, there
fore, to single out this department and
charge upon it, without a shadow of
truth, extravagance and carelessness.
That the expenses of the State are too
great, and should be lessened, is sadly
true. But I deny that the fault lies either
with Governor Smith, Comptroller Gold
smith or Secretary Barnett. The last
General Assembly, like previous Legisla
tures, flatly refused to adopt a more eco
nomical plan of operation, and the reme
dy now lies in electing a Legislature that
will thoroughly reform the whole matter.
No Governor can ever, by his acts or spe
cial messages, force economy upon a Leg
islature that will cheerfully accept free
passes from railroads and then refuse to
reduce their own mileages over the same
roads.
SENATOB KIBBEE’s LUMBER BILL.
The following is a true and full tran
script of Senator Kibbee’s bill in regard
to the inspection of lumber or timber,
which became an act by the approval of
Governor Smith, February 25th:
An Act to repeal all local laws or ordi
nances inconsistent with section 1563 of the
Revised Code of 1873, in relation to the in
spection of lumber or timber, to fix the
maximum fees to be charged by the inspec
tors thereof, to prescribe the* penalty of
over chargee, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the Stale of Georgia, That from
and after tho passage of this act all local
laws and all ordinances of any city or town,
as well as all special authority heretofore
delegated to Boards of Commissioners, or
like organizations, inconsistent with the
provisions of section 1563 of the Revised
Code of 1873. in relation to the inspection of
lumber, timber, staves, etc., be and the
same are hereby repealed, and section 1564
of said Code, repealing inimical local laws,
is hereby re-enacted and declared to be in
full force.
Section 2. Be it further enacted, That no
corporate authority, incorporation or court,
having the appointment of inspectors, shall
have power to authorize or empower in
spectors and measurers of lumber and
timber to charge more than twenty-five
cents per thousand feet for inspect
ing, measuring and trimming lumber
and timber, and any inspector, or measurer
of lumber and timber, who shall charge
more than twenty-five cents per thousand
feet, shallibe guilty of a misdemeanor, and
on conviction thereof shall be subject to a
fine of five hundred dollars, one-half of
which shall go to the informer, or impris
onment in tho county jail of the county for
the term of three months.
Section 3. Be itjurther enacted, That no
corporate authority, court or other incorpo
ration having the appointment of inspec
tors ol lumber or timber shall have, hold or
exercise the authority to appoint any other
class of inspectors of lumber or timber
than those recognized and authorized by
section 1563 of the Revised Code of 1873.
Section 4. Be it further enacted, That the
fee for receiving lumber shall not exceed
th ree cents per thousand feet, which fee
shall be charged onlv at the time of receipt,
and the fee for boomage shall not exceed
thirty cents per day for each raft.
Section 5. Be it further enacted, That all
laws aDd parts of laws in conflict with this
act, be and the same are hereby repealed.
I should add here section 1564 of the
Code of 1873, which is re-enacted and put
in force, but I find that it simply repeals
all local laws in conflict with section 1563,
which section is quite lengthy, and sets
forth in detail all the rules and regula
tions connected with the lumber and
timber business. All persons engaged in
this branch of trade will do well to con
suit section 1563 of the Revised Code of
1873, as it may save them trouble and ex
pense in their future operations.
A VOICE FROM JOHNSON’S ISLAND.
As a great deal has been said of late in
regard to the treatment of Federal pris
oners at Andersonville, it may not be un
interesting to your readers to know what
a distinguished Confederate officer, CoL
D. JR. Hundley, of Huntsville, Ala., has
to say about Johnson’s Island, a place
well known to thousands of Southern
soldiers who were sent there as prisoners
•of war. In his published diary entitled
“Prison Echoes,” Col. Handley says:
“ The short rations to which we have
lately been reduced are having the de
sired effect. Sickness is fearfully on the
increase—not only here, but in all the
prisons where our unfortunate soldiers
are confined, and those who are not ab
solutely sick are reduced almost to skele
tons. They can be seen wandering abont
at all hours, hollow-i
with blotched and yellow skl|is, and a
dreary, despairing look out ol? the eyes,
which is most pitiable to belaid. One
poor fellow was seen here to-d«y carefully
examining every pile of filth and garbage
he could find, picking out the'castaway
crusts of bread, and devouring them w ith
the greedy look of a hungry wolf. He
seemed to be almost famished.' 7
“The suffering in the prison,” he says
in his dLtry under a later c date, “gets
worse day by day. Tbe men are begin
ning to have fits, biting their tongues,
and, in some instances, grinding Iheir
teeth in their convulsions. They are all
nearly famished, in fact. The Confed
erate surgeons who have been voluntarily
attending at the hospital have written a
strong protest to the commanding offi
cer outside, laying before him the con
dition of the prisoners. * * * * *
Three or four prisoners were brought in
to-day from Rock Island. They report
that the prisoners at the latter place are
absolutely starving to death. The ra
tions issued to them are only eiqht
ounces of bread and Jive <mnces
of meat per day. The consequence is,
the poor fellows, to avoid starvation, are
taking the oath in large numbers, and
joining the Northern army of the fron
tier to fight the Indians. And yet the
Nor:hern press just now is raising a most
dismal howl over the return of the pris
oners from Andersonville, Ga., who give
terrible accounts of their sufferings.
Why do they not consent to a general
exchange, and thereby .release fdl their
own men from confinement, and at the
same time relieve their pious minds of
the horror of retaliating upon the unfor
tunate Southern soldiers now in their
hands ?”
When the war commenced, Col. Hund
ley was practicing law and pursuing his lit
erary labors in Chicago, aud from his high
character and intellectual culture he is a
reliable and competent witness in the
matter of the treatment of prisoners on
Johnson’s Island. That he is a man of
humane feelings is seen from the closing
paragraph of his “Prison Echoes of the
Great Rebellion,” where he states that
its pages, “written while a prisoner of
war. contain many bitter invectives against
Abraham Lincoln.” He adds, “I simply
desire to ask the reader to remember
that those invectives were penned before
Mr. Lincoln had delivered his last in
augural, containing the memorable words
‘with malice toward none and charity
for all, ’ and before he had as yet laid
down liis life in defense of his construc
tion of the Constitution of our common
country. Believing as I do in the atoning
efficacy of blood, from the moment the
assassin's bullet laid low the head of that
honored American chief, the writer of
these passages has effaced from his bosom
every trace of resentment against Abra
ham Lincoln. * * * Since the end of
the war, taking for my example the noble
and spotless Robert E. Lee, I have en
deavored faithfully to perform the hum
ble duties of my private station, ‘with
malice toward none and charity for all. *
* * I have not yet quite lost faith in
God or in my fellow men.’’
Chatham.
LETTER FBOM JACKSONVILLE.
The Reoeat Homicide In PoJJc foamy—
Slate vs. J. f. Uoekener— An Abridge
ment of the Testimony—An Enthusiastic
Reception—Pugilistic Liquor and Licit*
era—Addenda—.Nome Forcible Argnment
— Mhaw —Jip — Personal — Alnnchausen
Let Loose—Marine.
[Special Correspondence cf the Morning News.]
Un filial Last Words.
In Merionethshire, Wales, is a woman
who lives in Dendraeth castle on an in
come of $75,000 a year. She is the
widow of David Williams, who was a
prosperous lawyer, became a member of
Parliament, and died in his seat. The
son and heir of this aristocratic house
displeased the old folks by his wild life in
Wales, and they disinherited him. He
took his revenge by expatriating himself.
He packed up his portmanteau and pack
ed off to America with his vices, whatever
they were. Arrived here, he drifted
West, and wandered between California
and British Columbia. His father sent a
stipend of £250 a year after bis
prodigal son to keep him from star
vation. When the old man died and
the old woman became lord of
the castle, and sole mistress of its wealth,
she continued to send the annual stipend
of £250 to the degenerate son. He re
turned to Wales and made an effort to
become friends with his mother, but she
repulsed all his advances towards a re
conciliation. The disinherited son then
left Wales in disgust, and plunged again
into the wild West. He drifted about
and made fitful connections with the ru
ral press, and finally lodged in San Fran
cisco. His full name was William Ed
ward Wynne Williams. Ho waited for
his this year’s pittance, and it did not
come. He could not live without it, so
he resolved to die to got out of a hotel
where he could not pay his bills. The
other morning bo was found sit
ting in a chair in his room, dead. • He
left letters stating that he had
taken morphine, and making particu
lar requests that there should be no au
topsy. He bad a horror of autopsy, and
explained just how he became a corpse
to save the coroner and doctor trouble
and the county expense. A phial with a
sample of the drug in it was found in his
pocket. The authorities respected the
young man’s request. He left a letter
for his mother telnng her that she is £250
a year richer nownhat he is dead. He
need not have done that, for the old wo
man would have found it out when she
heard of his death by simply counting
her cash. It was a very unfilial way of
telling his mother of her good fortune,
but he had the last word in the quarrel
anyhow.
Another Pastor Accused of Adultery
and Falsehood.
The scandal in which the Rev. Frank
H. Buffum, of the Congregational Church
at East Hartford, is involved is rapidly
approaching a crisis, the church having
decided to call a council for the dismissal
of their pastor, and the jvhole community
being profoundly impressed with the
serious aspect of affairs. A careful in
quiry among the people of the town
develops the following charges against
him, which have not been formally pre -
sented, but are current in the village and
in the city of Hartford, across the Con
necticut, namely: That he has been
for months, and perhaps years past,
criminally intimate with a woman now
about twenty-two years old, who has
been living in his family; and that he
has been repeatedly guilty of false
hood. A large proportion of the people
in his church and outside believe these
charges to be well grounded, and an ec
clesiastical organization, two hundred
years old, which has been harmonious
du»g all its history hitherto, is now di-
videaT Mr. Bnffum was formerly pastor
of the Windsor Avenue Congregational
Church at Hartford, and while there re
ports that he was guilty of practices sim
ilar to those now alleged against him be
came current; but, when he was calied
to East Hartford, two years ago last fall,
the people of the latter place knew noth
ing of them, or entirely discredited them.
But several weeks since it was whispered
about that he was cruel in his family, and
showed a marked preference for the wo
man now charged with being a partner
with him in crime. Several persons well
known in East Hartford are said to have
borne witness to the truth of this state
ment—Springfield Republican.
Jacksonville, February 28, 1876.
THE POLK COUNTY TRAGEDY.
As there seems to be considerable mis
apprehension existing throughout the
State respecting the death of Hillyard
Jones at the hands of J. C. Rockener,
on December the 6th last, at Fort
Meade, and as the inhabitants of the
section where the homicide occurred in
variably look to the Morning News for
reliable information, I have been at some
pains to obtain a certified transcript of
the evidence taken at the preliminary in
vestigation. The appended abstract of
the testimony will convey a very clear
and comprehensible impression of the
circumstances attending this unfortunate
shooting. The warrant for the appre
hension of Rockener is based upon the af
fidavit of C. C. Singleton, and was is
sued by Benj. F. Blount, a Justice of the
Peace, on the 20th of December. Jas.
M. Manley, under oath, deposes that
Rockener and Jones were rolling ten
pins at his place, and came to the desk to
settle accounts. While Manley was
making change he heard Rockener say to
some one: “You threatened my life last
Saturday; I am now prepared for you. “
Witness then heard the report of
pistol and saw Jones fall. S. E. Roberts,
sworn, says that he was standing in the
door of Manley’s, and heard a voice,
which he judged to be Rockener’s, say
ing: “You threatened to take my life,
Witness turned his head to see what
meant; a pistol was discharged, and he
saw Jones falling. Jno. E. Robeson,sworn
in effect corroborates the testimony of
Roberts. Neither of tbe above mentioned
witnesses saw the pistol in Rockener
hand when Jones fell. Owen H. Dishong
swears that on the fourth of December
Jones tried to borrow a dirk knife from
him whioh he refused to lend. Deceased
then said, “I’ll be d—d if Rockener
hasn’t run over me his last time.’’ Wit
ness remonstrated with him but Jones
said, “You are a friend to a scoundrel,
and after some further remarks departed.
Dishong saw Rockener later on same day
and related the conversation requesting
Jim to keep away from Jones and pay no
attention to his insults. Rockener made
no threats. William Shanneyhan swears
that when Jones went to get a dirk
from Dishong he ^id that
would kill Rockener. Witness met Jones
shortly afterwards, when he said that
Dishong would not lend him a knife, but
that he could get one to kill Rockener
with.
H. L. Mitchell, sworn, says—That being
cognizant cf the relations existing be
tween Rockener and Jones he talked
with each of the parties and advised them
to avoid a personal rencontre. Jones
averred that the matter could not be set
tled, as it had gone too far, and, with an
imprecation, said that he would kill
Rockener before the expiration of six
months, and that he hart fully made up
his mind so to do. Rockener said to
witness that he should never bother
Jones; witness did not communicate
Jones’s threats to Rockener; may have
mentioned them publicly but did not
recollect. John M. Pearce, sworn, says
that about the first of December he had
conversation with Jones in reference to
Rockener. when deceased said that
there was “a d—n flat-headed
Dutchman” living in Fort Meade that
he intended to kill. Advised him to keep
cool and left him. The defendant, Julius
C. Rockener, was placed under bonds for
appearance in the sum of twenty thou
sand dollars, Messrs. James JIamiltOii.
Willoughby Tillis and James G. Wilson
becoming his sureties. The papers from
which the foregoing summary is obtained
are authenticated as true copies by the
Clerk of Polk county, under date of Feb
ruary 8th, 1876.
A Brave Little Fellow.—Yesterday
a little boy not eight years old, son of
Mrs. Aheam, of this city, fell into a well
twenty-five feet deep, containing twelve
feet of water, and drawing a temporary
windlass with him in his fall. After
sinking twice, wonderful as it may
seem, the little fellow succeeded,
unaided and alone, in reaching the sur
face, by actually climbing up the stones
fining the perpendicular sides. Save be
ing thoroughly chilled, tbe brave boy
seems none the worse, and his first ex
clamation was, “God bless God !”—Men-
dota {IU.) Dispatch,
“Thank God, it’s over,” he exclaimed,
as the lank, lean figure of the delegate
passed out the gateway and vanished
down the street. “One week more of it,
my dear, and I should have been com
pelled to mortgage the housed t o pay the
batcher’s bill. I want to be a Christian,
but dang it if I’ll ever entertain a dele
gate from the grasshopper districts
eyed, hollow-cheeked, again. "—Brooklyn Argus.
MUSIC HATH CHARMS.
It must certainly have gladdened the
heart of every admirer of Mrs. S. M.
Weldon’s accamplishments to behold the
flattering reception which that lady was
greeted with on tbe occasion of a com
plimentary concert which took place on
Thursday evening. The St. James or-
chestra in two thrilling selections con
tributed in no small degree towards the
enjoyment of the concert. Miss
Lizzie Rainsford, in a piano solo
“Fantasie,” was charming, sparkling,
dazzling, radiant. Miss Rainsford
almost perfect. Miss Phena Hud-
nail sang “Ernani Inviolani,” as she
always sings enchanting!}', and, makes an
ancient mortal like myself wish that he
had met her when he was young—will
somebody lend me a veil ? Miss Hudnall
is really incomparable. “Una notte a
Venezia,” by Mrs. Moore and Mr. W. B.
C. Duryee, was simply sublime. Mrs.
Moore possesses that power, which ia tbe
vital spirit of music, of enchaining the
attention of all listeners, and
gifted with a voice as sweet
the rhythmical murmur of a rip
pling brook. The audience at
tested their appreciation of Mrs. Wei
don’s splendid execution by frequent
applause. Mrs. Barnett and Mrs. Greeley
rendered “ II Pescatori ” spiritedly, and
merited tbe encore which they received.
Professor H. Braun, in a violoncello solo
and a violin solo, was inimitable, and I
use the word advisedly. The obedience
which the strings yielded to the Profes
sor’s truly magic touch was unsurpass
able. Mr. G. Gardner, in “The Heart
Bowed Down,” has a winning voice,
like the faint surging of the summer
gulf. He was also entrancing jn the
song, “Let All Obey.” Mr. Duryee has
a wonderful command over his vocal or
gans, and his singing was excellent.
Space forbids a notice of the entire ar
ray of talent gathered together at this
entertainment, but suffice it to say that
all were admirable, with one exception,
in the person of a man who had a voice
that closely resembled the “vain-glorious
grumblings of a crazy violoncello.”
on his muscle.
The hideous custom of extenuating the
eccentricities of intoxicated mortals, is
one for which no excuse can be discover
ed in ethics or charity. If a man cannot
indulge in stimulating draughts without
outraging all propriety and manliness,
his plain duty to society and morality is
to rigidly abstain, or in the event of an
infringement upon the privileges of de
cent people, to expect no mercy. This
time the party is from Middle Florida.
He began to curse and blaspheme in the
office of one of our hotels on Wednes
day, and utterly ignored all solicitations to
cease. After some angry words with the
proprietor, the inebriated gentleman paid
his bill and left, only to return next morn
ing and demand an apology. Upon the
proprietor’s refusal to make concessions
to the fellow, who was in the wrong, the
pugnacious stranger struck the first blow.
Then ensued a general melee, extending
to the clerks, in which some of the pu
gilists hit their friends by mistake, and
produced an indescribable and ludicrous
effect. The city got ten dollars from the
warrior, and he went home. I don’t give
his name, for prudential reasons. He
fights.
THE RECENT STATE FAIR.
In my report of the fair, I neglected to
state that Mr. W. C. Malonoy was in
charge of the Key West table, and took
care of his department commendably.
Messrs. McMurray & Co., of this city, ex
hibited some wagons made in Jackson
ville, which were worthy of remark. The
prize for the best oranges was awarded
to J. F. Baya, of Colombia county ;
Orange county, through S. Stringer,
showed the best lemons, and Key West
the finest assortment of limes. The
above awards will serve to indicate
the extent of the so-called orange belt,
and show unquestionably that it is not so
limited as some would have us believe.
The fair, I am glad to learn, was finan
cially a success. A strong movement is
assuming shape for the removal of the
exposition buildings to a point in closer
proximity to the city. This should, by
all means, be accomplished before an
other fair is had.
COW-HIDING.
Rows, disasters, accidents, murders
and so forth, seem to have been ordained
by an omniscient Providence for the ben
efit of those people who avoid them, and
they appear upon a superficial survey of
the surroundings to be as essential to a
healthy modern existence mentally con
sidered as food. Last W6ek was inex
pressibly lively, and Friday was about
the liveliest day of the month for C.
Codrington. On Thursday night Cod-
rington insertt d a notice in two papers ot !
the city cautioning the public not to
patronize tbe yacht Spitfire. 4 for
substantial reasons.” Now, this i9 very
indefinite, and I am surprised that any
sensible conductor of a public journal
gave publicity to it. The Captain of the
Spitfire met Mr. Codrington on Friday
morning, ou Bay street, and administered
a severe flagellation to liis back and faqe
with a cowhide. The case comes up be
fore the authorities to-day. It is unne
cessary to enter into the merits of the
occurrence, but it may not be amiss to
say that the individual who takes a casti
gation in a public thoroughfare, without
resenting it summarily then and there, is
entitled to no commisseration whatso
ever.
THE ROSTRUM.
Josh Billings lectured to a crowded
house on Friday evening, and the faces
of his auditors were an interesting study.
I noticed several among them whose risi-
bles did not arouse themselves once dur-
The Benefit of a Doubt.
[Fron the New York Post, Republican.]
General Babcock takes the benefit of a
doubt It has cleared him before the
St. Louis jury, but it may prove fatal to
him before tho country. Those who
have observed the course of proceedings
against the Missouri whisky ring and who
have read the full reports cf the late trial
will not be surprised at the verdict.
There is no reason to suspect the ju ry of
dishonesty or stupidity. The probabili
ties were all in favor of a judgment of
guilty if there were sufficient grounds for
it. There was an atmosphere of con
viction in the court-room. The “jurors
of tho vicinage” had acquired a w hole-
some habit of convicting. McDonald,
Joyce, Avery, McKee, one after another,
had fiillen, and the impulse thus gi ven to
jastice was not likely to be arrested by
anytling less than a failure of proof.
The real surprise is felt at the course
of the trial, and it is not confined to
eitht-r side of the case. The prosecution
was unexpectedly weak. In saying this
we do not mean to charge District At
torney Dyer and his associate. Mr. Broad-
head, with any lack of skill or zeal. They
did as well as they could do with the
material at their hands, but the material
itself was defective. Before the trial
enough was known to throw suspicion
upon General Babcock’s relations to the
convicted tnembeia of the ring. The
significant telegraphic dispatches had
been published. Standing alone they
clouded the reputation of the Presi
dent’s secretary ; but it was felt
that before be could be judicially
convicted by them they must be
brought home to him. It was believed
that the missing links would be
furnished at the trial, but it must be
admitted that they have not been sup
plied. The dispatches have been effect
ing the whole performance. Once from ively grouped. They have been shown.
my commanding position on the stage I
noticed tears trickling from the eyes of a
damsel while all around were laughing.
A critique upon the lecturer is unneces
sary, as his school has been under discus
sion so often that every intelligent person
entertains an opinion peculiar to him
self.
jip justice.
The Conoverites complain that m asso
ciating the Doctor, in a previous letter,
with Jip, I have done the former an un
justifiable injustice. They say that in all
of Conover’s careerings he will never in
any event descend to Jip’s level, and on
thinking tbe matter over I have arrived
at the conclusion that they are right.
Many a better man than Jip is in (he
penitentiary.
PERSONAL.
Judge A. O. Wright, whilom of Jack
sonville, but now the efficient and popu
lar principal of Jefferson Academy, at
Monticello, was in the city last week, on
a brief visit, and is looking healthy and
hearty.
^Ir. Wm. Case, of the Toledo Ohio,
Blade, is among the recent arrivals.
AN UGLY REPORT.
It is asserted by the initiated that the
Reform ward clubs, in conjunction, have
it in contemplation to place a Republican
at the head of the mnnicipal ticket. It
is to be hoped there is no good founda
tion for the rumor, and that no citizen of
Democratic proclivities will allow a
wooden idol to delude him so disastrously.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Arrivals for the week ending this lay:
Schooners Flora Woodhouse, Lucy
Wright, Oyster Boy, Wm. H. Phare,
New York, and Scotia, Charleston, 8. C.
Departures: Schooners City of Chelsea,
William Buck and F. E. Hallock, New
York. Adrian us.
A ’Ciety Man in Limbo.
Ciety in Buffalo was badly sold by r.he
bogus young nobleman who has just come
to grief there. For over a month he had
been cutting a terrible swell in the fash
ionable circles there, representing himself
as Hugh Courtenay, son of the Earl of
Devonshire. To all appearances he was
well supplied with money; his attire was
loud, of the very latest fashionable cut,
and decidedly English. He changed his
clothes several times a day, was petted
and courted in society circles, and his in
tense aristocratic feelings, upon his first
appearance, led him to decline being in
troduced to some of our first families
“because they sold leather;” but subse
quent deliberations caused him to change
his mind. He boarded at the lead
ing hotel in the city, called for
the best the house afforded, drank costly
wines, smoked expensive cigars—in fact,
indulged his extravagant tastes to the
fullest extent. When his landlord asked
his aristocratic boarder to pay his bills,
his lordship said his funds had run short,
but he would soon receive a remittance
from his father, the Earl, and would make
good all liabilities incurred. This was
well enough for the time being, but the
same excuse was presented each time he
received his bill, until it became too stere
otyped for human endurance, and a war
rant was sworn out for his arrest, and he
is now iu jail awaiting a remittance from
the Earl of Devonshire. Being interview
ed in his cell, his lordship expressed the
opinion that tnis was a “blarsted country
where a man must live on money, while
at ’ome you know, I could live on me
own name.” He remarked: “I’m very
extravagant, very extravagant, you know,
Like to spend lots of money and have a
jolly good time, you know.” He didn’t
appear to be having a very good time
just then, though. He was very anxious
that his name should not appear in print,
and refused point blank to give any in
formation beyond the statement that his
people were wealthy and lived in the
south of England, and that he had money
enough when he came here to get home
had he started immediately on Ms
journey.
Feud Between Catholics and Metho
dists.—An interesting strife between
Catholics and Methodists has broken out
in Westfield. A revival is in progress at
the Methodist Church, and a Catholic
girl employed in a Methodist family has
been induced to attend the meetings and
go forward for prayers. Her parents,
who resided in the same town, learned
what was going on and attended one of
the meetings in great excitement. Ac the
close the girl started to leave the church
under an escort of the members, but was
met by her parents, who endeavored to
force her home with them. In the con
sequent rumpus the mother fainted, and
while her friends were caring for her the
girl escaped. The next day legal meas
ures were taken, under which the girl was
restored to her parents, and a grand
fracas resulted. The girl persists in her
new faith and says she will live and die a
Methodist. She says she shall be of age
in a month or two, but her parents say
she puts her age a year too high. Both
the Catholics and Methodist people are
wrought up to a high pitch of excitement
over the case, and the end is not yet.
Springfield (Mass.) Correspondcnc/fJhicago
Tribune.
A Bank Teller Peppered.—On Satur
day Mira Lehan, a young woman residing
on Willow street, Hoboken, N. J., en
tered the First National Bank and re
quested to see Mr. R. Idell, one of the
tellers. She was shown into the private
apartment and the two had a long con
versation. Suddenly Mira grew very vio
lent and accused Idell of discarding her.
dispute followed. The woman became
almost frantic and threw a large quantity
of red pepper in the face of Idell. She
then hurriedly departed. When she was
leaving she told some of the bank officials
that she would shoot Idell. Both dispu
tants are wealthy. They are old lovers,
and were* at one time engaged to be mar
ried. The engagement, it is said, was
broken &y Idell without apparent cause.
The bank officials are greatly incensed
over the occurrence and will probably
dismiss the teller.
Hanner said he could whip any man in
Austin, Texas, who wore a stovepipe hat;
and Thompson went out of the saloon in
wMch tho remark was made, bought such
a hat, put it, on and rejoined the party.
Hanner at once tried to make good his
promise by stabbing Thompson, but tail
ed, and was fatally shot..
in the words of Mr. Broadhead, to
“point in one direction,” but unfortu
nately the index is not confirmed beyond
doubt by the plain presence of the
object. The testimony of the faithful
“pointers” in the “Dipper” is supported
by the steady shining of the North Star:
but suppose that the star itself could not
be found with the naked eye or by the
most powerful telescope ? Beside the
despatches the prosecution has offered no
important evidence, except that relating
to the alleged mailing by Joyce of an
envelope containing $500 to Gen. Bab
cock, and the correspondence of the latter
with McDonald after his conviction—to
wMGh we shall refer again. It was
expected that the prosecution would
make a stronger case.
There is surprise also at the weakness
of the defense. General Babcock and
his friends could not help knowing that
he was on trial before the public of the
United States as well as before the twelve
jurors of Missouri. He showed a con
sciousness of his situation when, long
before the trial began, he publicly as
serted not only that he was innocent,
but that his innocence would Le demon
strated; that the suspicious dispatches
were susceptible of a satisfactory explana
tion, and that when he had explained
them their harmlessuess would be c^ear
to the most determined doubters. In
yiew of this vehement affirmation ind
this positive promise, we had a right to
expect that the defendant’s counsel
would, in effect, stand up in the
court room and say: “Produce the
dispatches. We do not object to their
introduction; we invite it. We admit
that we received those and that we eent
these. We challenge an opportunity to
explain them. We are prepare! 1 to show
that they refer to something other tban
whisky rings and revenue frauds and
that our client was guiltless in receiving
or sending them.” This is just what the
defendant’s counsel did not do. Tuey
exhausted their ability and the technicali
ties of the rules of evidence to suppress
the dispatches. When the effort to keep
them out of the case had failed, they
offered not a syllable of explanatory testi
mony. Not a single witness, not a
single document, was produced to
show that the dispatches referred
to a personal matter to a
private subject, to anything but the
conspiracy of the revenue swindlers who
were the secretary’s telegraphic core
spondents. Is it conceivable that if t lere
had been such a witness or such a d ocu
ment anywhere on the continent the
counsel would not have put the one on
the stand or read the other in ovidei.ee ?
Instead of doing this they offered only
such an interpretation as an ingenious
dialection anywhere might have endeav
ored to force upon the dispatches coEsid-
ered in themselves and without regard to
explanatory circumstances. It is no dis
credit to the cleverness of Messrs. Wil
liams, Storrs and Porter to say that the
interpretation is unsatisfactory.
Whatever the effect of this failura to
explain may have upon the larger jury
which pronounces the judgmentof pub
lic opinion, it is scarcely reasonabk to
ask that the smaller jury in St. Louis
shall compensate the weakness of the
proseculion with the weakness of th€ de
fense, and found a verdict of guilty upon
the joint feebleness of the case. The
suspicion from which the counsel of Gen.
Babcock have failed to relieve hint at
most only increases the doubt of w rich
th j jurors have given the defendant the
benefit. We have said that, beside tbe
incomplete cliain of telegraphic evidence,
the prosecution have shown nothing im
portant except the story of the envelope
and the correspondence with McDon
ald after his conviction. Ah to the
latter, nothing of the subject matter of
the correspondence is known; the fact of
the correspondence is all, and while ‘ hat
fact is significant it affords but an unsub
stantial foundation for a verdict. Nor is
the envelope story conclusive. We dcubt
whether the jury leaned with very strong
faith upon either side of it. There is
nothing to show that Babcock, ever re
ceived the envelope. Jt is not clear that
a $500 bill was ever put into it. Against
the genuineness of the alleged proceed
ing is the general and gross improbabil
ity that any person would deposit a letter
containing so large a sum of money in a
street box. Such a thing wo rld be im
probable in this city where the street
boxes are much safer receptacles
than those in St. Louis are proved
to have been. The defense would
[Terre Hlnte Eiprese, Independent.)
In time of war the government im-
prensed men, bat did not dare to impress
a dollar. It broke the dearest and fend.
wireHMlT' ‘e draRKed husbands from
wives, children from parents, and fatners
from children; ,t hurried men into th™
hell of war, exacting of them hunger
thirst exposure, sickness and life itself!
some died on the field, others lingered in
hospitals, many rotted in prison, and an
army carry their injnries yet. The tower
that so recklessly disregarded human life
and happiness cringes before money
the ox was sacred, but the nan wai not’
Men bravely volunteered, but money
sneaked and hid and ran a way. Men
were generous, prodigal of life, and limb,
and health, but money was sordid and
close, exacting two hundred per cent.
When disaster came upon the good cause
of the Union, men said, “We are coming
Father Abraham, six hundred thousand
more ! Money said : “We are coming,
l ather Abraham, to bleed you more and
mote!” The government dared to break
almost every home, but it did not dare to
attack property. It should have impressed
its supplies as it impressed its men. It
should have taken the money of the rich
as it took the lives of the poor. The rich
would not have stood it, is the answer.
Has money, then, no patriotism? Could
it not stand a small sacrifice when flesh
and blood stood so much ? If the bur
den of the war had been forced equally
upon all, its evil effect would have
quickly disappeared. But it did not bear
equally ou all. While it injured, and im
poverished, and destroyed the many,
it enriched and glutted the faw. The
war was a time of wretchenes.-; and of
luxury, of misery and of splendor. Never
before in the country had there been such
extremes of suffering and of enjoyment,
ft was money’s revel and man s despair.
It is money’s revel yet. The wounds of
the war are healed over and bidden from
sight; the saplings have grown tall over
its trenches and graves, and their roots
have reached down to the hearts of tho
dead: its scars and hurts and death-blows
are almost forgotten. The men did their
duty aud are dropping out of night. But
the burden of money is still on us; still
greed} - and clamorous, it is not content
with the two hundred per cent, exacted
in our time of sore need. Its priests and
apostle* demand still another levy on the
earnings of the people—another fifty or
a hundred per cent, that must attend
specie resumption. Capital drove a hard
barga.n in the war; it should be content
now with what it has.
How He Wound His Watch.
[Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise.]
A day or two since Mr. Shaw, time
keeper of the Consolidated Virginia Mine,
found a watch lying in the suow, where
it had evidently been dropp ed by some
one working in or about the mine. Mr.
Shaw wrote a notice to that effect-, post
ing it by the side of the window to which
the men came to give in their names
when going or coming off their shifts.
Several men called and described what
was, according to their ideas, a “valnable
watch. ” nearly all making it gold, with a
fine chain of the same metal. Some set
a number of beautiful pieces of gold
quartz into the links of the chain. At
last a little Frenchman came to the
window and said:
“Yc-u find one vatcb, Mist&ir Shaw?”
“Yes, sir,” said Shaw. “Have you lost
a watch ?”
“Yes, sare, me have lose me one vatcb.”
“Can you describe It?’’
“C'li, yes, sare, me can descripe him
ver’ perfec’ly.”
“Well, what was it like?”
“My vatcb he vas a silver vatcb.”
“Very good. What kind of eases?”
“Veil, he have he’s face wide open.”
“What kind of chain-”
“One lee tie brass shain.”
“What kind of key was on the chain?”
“Yell, no key be on ze shain. He have
no key at all. I wind him by zee tail.”
The watch was a stem-winder, and the
Frenchman had given a perfect descrip
tion of it, even down to “zee tail.”
Tte late Charlotte Cushman’s grave iu
Mount Auburn Cemetery is in a lot pur
chased by herself. The circumstances
under which it was selected are related in
the Boston Transcript: “ Miss Cush
man often expressed a desire to be buried
as near the place of her birth as possible.
With this view she visited Mount Auburn
Cemetery during the latter part of 187-1,
and inspected a number of lots and tombs
then lor sale. Several of tdese occupy
very prominent portions of the cemetery,'
and in e surrounded with costly monu
ments; but none seemed to suit the sim
ple tiiHte of Miss Cushman, and she plea:-
antly remarked to one of tbe attendant!-,
‘They are all grand; but ha ven’t you a
lot for sale where one could obtain ail
unobstructed view of Boston?’ She was
informed that there were a few lots for
sale back of the tower, whereupon shn
said, ‘Oh, well, let us look at them.
Palm avenue, situated at the eastern side
of the ground, was reached, and standing
upon a little eminence, Miss Cushman,
exclaimed, ‘This is a delightful spot; see,
yonder lies dear old Boston.’ The Jot hi
numbered 4,236, and was at once pur
chase! and orders given by her to have
it properly cared for. Though the lot ie
quite a distance from the central part of
Mount Auburn, its location is strikingly
beautiful, being within full v.ew of this
city and overlooking the widest part of
Charles River. ”
Pocahontas. —The Secretary of the
Commonwealtb of Y’irginia has received
& letter from a Mr. Rolfe, in England, a
descendant of the Rolfe who married
Pocahontas, notifying him that he had
forwarded, as a present to the State, a
copy of an original portrait of the Indian
princess in his jxissession. It is expected
to arrive soon, and will be olaced in the
library.
The Pliiladelp hia Press warns us that
ve shall be writ :en up this summer as we^
tie ver were before in our history. Dick
ens’s American Notes will be ‘ thrown
completely into the shade. Brace up.
A Dog’s Funebal.—Reuben Cook, of
Meriden, thought a great deal of his
famous huuting houud Old Sport, and
when he died the other day he gave him
a decent burial. A pine casket was pro
vided. appropriately frescoed with hunt
ing scenes and other drawings represent
ing some passages in the dog’s life. Four
men were selected as pall-bearers. After
the box had been deposited at- the grave
one of those present read a brief history
of the dog, and his pedigree; and a
quartet ot male voices sang “Thereby
Hangs a Tale” and “The Bark has
Ceased,” while several dogs in the dis
tance came in ou the chorus with dismal
howls. After the burial a gravestone was
set up bearing the dog’s name and age,
and offering a reward for the detection of
the one who poisoned him. The quartet
sang again, and the whole party went to
Cook’s house, and sat down to a table
groaning under a load of good things.
His friends intend erecting a bronze cast
of the dog over the grave.—New Haven.
{Conn.) Palladium, February 15.
There is a man living in Taunton,
Mass., who has had rather a checkered
career. He has been twice shipwrecked;
was nearly baked in a railroixl accident:
h*:s been runaway with times without
number; was shot in the neck at Gettys- j
burg; was a prisoner in Libby prison. 1
fell overboard from a whaler and had two
:J
huve been wiser to let the testi- wers"bitten oYby a shark; was drafted
money of Everest go for what it was P . x, -:-ut uwvV<m in two
worth upon its inherent improbability
but instead of domg that they called one
McGill,.a letter carrier, to testify that he
took the letters from the street box and
gave them to Joyce at the latter’s request.
The local Republican newspaper, the
Globe-Democrat, said of this “unfortunate
witness,” as it called him, that “on cross-
examination by Mr. Dyer, his statements
were rendered so completely valueless
that a general impression was left on the
mind of every listener that Mr. McGill's
testimony was hardly worthy of in tra
duction.” The alternating weakness of
the prosecution and the defense is fairly
illustrated by the envelope stories of
Everest and McGill.
It would be manifestly unsafe to found
conviction upon evidence so incomplete
as that offered in the latest and most cel
ebrated whisky ring trial. General Bab
cock takes the benefit of the doubt which
rests upon the case; but unfortunately
tbe doubt goes with him out of the St.
Louis court room. If he is able to dis
pel it, he should lose no time in doing so.
The country is spared the disgrace of his
judicial conviction ; let it now, if possi
ble, be relieved from the suspicion of his
guilt
twio;; bad hia right arm broken in two
olaceii in the first New York not; stood
on a barrel with a rope around his neck
from sunrise to sunset in an Alabama
town at the outbreak of the rebelhon;
was crushed by a falling budding during
an earthquake in California, and was
without food or drink nearly fifty hourf;
and when going home from the Whim
Pine mines narrowly escaped lynching.
With all he is the biggest liar in Christen
dom, and yet he is not happy.
A Japanese Princess employed an Eng
lish seamstress to fashion the long w
dresses and dainty apparel belonging to
an infant's wardrobe, but not
how to array her baby in its new clotbee,
she called to her assistance an Am « nc “
woman. The Prince, the Princess, and
their children repaired to the nursery to
witness the performance, ^d wben the
baby was Ihoroughly dressed ana wrapped
in her richly embroidered bla, J 1 ‘ et ’ 1 ,
fatter and inother kissed ‘be handsof
their American friend on bended knees
icb extravagant expressions of gratitude.
Chinese phymomn. treat hydrophobia
in a highly original manner. I wo san
epjne bottles half Ailed with wine or
spirits are placed npon a fire until the
linn id boils The contents are then
emptied, and the red hot month of tae
bottle is applied to the bite and held
thers until U is filled with Wood, when -
the name course is pursued with t-v. othm
fmtt r A decoction of nee, in wbicIT
cantuarides have been boiled foranhour
and then removed, is also given toe
Mtient, who is required to keep perfectly
quiet for eight or ten days.
“It doesn’t take me long to make up
my mind, I can tell you!" said a con-
ceitol fop. “It’s always so where the
stock of material to make up is small,
quietly remarked a young lady.