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' iiriirv in Georgia. „ „ m »nv times will we have to explain winy variation in this column from tho • Ec dish is to be attributed to anun- pliable’ propensity to revel in what m dail of tlie Aniiusta Constitutionalist, *® cll ’ied the “choice Georgia dialect?’’ mn is the Lumpkin Independent, tot to- “ " jjjjjng US to task for using the word Shoulder,” and some time ago we were • ' the word “disremember.” criticised lor using ffe have d defen?c- to make, and albeit our sped for recognized authority is tbor- * : h we couf.-ss to a feeling of delicious exaltation akin to the sensation of a boy who bag for the lirst time successfully robbed a fjtennelon patch, when we occasionally 3i “ e bold to transgress the rules and fall 7* npon the unaffected, yet vigorous homeliness of the Georgia vernacular. Why w»s not Hannibal I. Kimball called to'eslify before the committee appointed w investigate the charges of bribery against the ■'tate Road lessees ? The evidence Uken before that committee connects him Terr intimately with Brown and some others, we shuuld like to know why he was not put upon the stand ? Will some one ex plain ? . The editor of the Thomasville Times is ordering bis wedding outfit in installments. Itmav be news to him to know that a Marietta man has invented a cradle that will rock itself. Family bull-dogs are a recognized insti tution in Macon—so much so, indeed, that xc enterprising tailor in that city has in vented an attachment for young men’s pan- tjloons which gives a dog ample room for venting bis spleen without wounding the feelings of the wearer. It is stated that Col. It. A. Alston will soon revive the Atlanta 1 ourier. The failure of the legislative lease inves tigating committee to summon Hi Kimball wmquite an oversight, wasn’t it ? Mr. HeDry W. Grady, who is now con nected with the Augusta Constitutionalist, till not engage in aDy regular editorial fork, but will act as general correspondent fith a roving commission—a position which affords a fine field for the display of those piquancies of thought and expression and the sprightly and pungent humor that char acterize his style. The reason the Port Itoral people alluded to the Northwestern excursionists as “Americans” was probably because they they bad an idea the visitors were from Americas in this State. When a Gordon man proposes to havo family prayer, he has the cat shut out of the room and the goats driven from under the house. The Sunday Mirror is the latest newspa per venture in Athens. When the Count Johannes B’Gormanne finishes his rice mill, he will probably seek a situation as boarding-house keeper. The Macon people are in a terrible stew over the bills presented by Brown’s Hotel for entertaining some newspaper men two or three years ago. We trust Macon will refuse to pay these bills. If the newspaper men can't settle their own bills, let Brown go without bis money and behanged to him. The Hou. Potiphar Peagreen, who is now nodding by hia own fireside, has the hardi hood to deny to his neighbors that he voted to feed Georgia dogs on mutton. Major M. Eugene Thornton, tho patent quail digester, gives it as his opinion that the peculiar gamev flavor of that bird is due to its diet—in other words, that it is one of the results of too much bug-juice. Scientists will pieaso stick a pin here. Gregg Wright, of the Augusta Chronicle, says that nothing but low wines and draw poker will break the holt of an adult red- bug. The thermometer suggests hog’s-head *nd turnip greens. The colored people are too impatient to ail-'W chickens to get the spring in ’em this season. Watson, of the Macon Telegraphy says if ^ ere was more beer in the world there *ou<d be more poetry, and offers to prove it by figures. 1- *J an open question whether Gil. Haven hugbt Rev. Lee to love the nigger, or •hethir Rev. Lee taught Gil, Haven. They a lovely p&ir any way. Macou had Borne snow the other day, and t Ciistj y 18 °f the opinion that he will have bui.1 a fire under his early turnips to them. ^Henrr \Y. Q ra dy writea to the Aug „, ta "homilist: There is a rumor that a v ° r ‘ ^ )a ' 8a o e *at-arms took place between a 7/ ernc-r and an Atlanta lady, though I 1 the rumor is winged rather by the ‘ it than by veracity. On dit, » Michigauder (I like the ending of bid * retUar ked to tho lady that “ail he »een down South that he liked was tho UJ * V * ir and gonial sunshine.’’ “Ah,” I'm ^ i * encoura k'ingly ; “well, you see, jjj °‘‘‘ - ou our‘air and sunshine.’ burnc * ^ ava tliat tlie Yankees didn’t M- \> atta ‘ ,lllria £ or since the war.” beitb *Polbill, of Macon, one of tho i:. & v* 1 &Dt * m successful educators far & '. (,eor gia, was stricken with uri&v ^ ^ ace ncar on Sxth / J / Vontio11 °f the Democrats of the Xafion TT' t0 aom in a te delegates to tho bsidiMi em&crallc Convention, will ho Charii r 8fcVille 011 the 26111 of A P riL ^tru-d rafr ’ a known and highly Amrnut UeKro ’ tiieci ln Macon on Monday. t'Httd * WaUtS tk 0 names ol her streets t% in,/ . liiat ^ er husbands and fathers 18 h ihoulTk^ 45,1101116 at ni 8ht. This is liable t 0 s humblest citizen is wber e ;U ° D a dark ni ght in a town ■^ e editor ^rec-ia have no names attached. »iat 6 Lumpkin Independent jnU D6 ^ ^here we find the word Mi of w ° r kiof s \ re ^ er our friend to the find the *7,, Scott - If he doesn’t good tim,°/ 1 ereiu he will at least have a Va u U U8forit ‘ 110 DOt BqU ‘ rt har- deal . T oaSu^ 0 a ^ aulle ’ of iIac0D * ^ied sud- ra n'ug in the woods of Jackson ^biti in" asj ^ UQ b e r8 captured forty-two insn «*iJiT C00Dt - v the other d& y- .° n th ^ 19;l) f m& 1 fire 00 SuQ day. ^°f Gbn r 7 Apri1 ttie Medical AsBOcia- 16,11011 in a7, " U its usu&1 an nQ al AUudin gbo this fact, ^^‘erestin l **** that one of ^ l* 6 tbe a S8emblf ° ature8 of the session will k&ru nf 8 fu° f CoQfedera te surgeons ^ here bv S ° Uth ’ Who have been Agsoma.- 6 Aa 8 U8ta Medical and ^ tnt ieme a 0 f, ( 10n ‘ . Tlli8 assemblage of °f the most; me(iic& l Profession will be port»nt and interesting aenryV^^Wmthateity. . *'^on c . “ the Augusta Con- fc, • *1 the way. i uotioe that J. H. E STILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1876. ESTABLISHED 1850. Augusta is not going to give these strangers any sort of a public welcome. We neednt be surprised at it. Augusta while hospitable to the core, doesn’t take a man on trust. Before she drops her latch strings to his waiting fingers, she wants to know who his grandfather was and what sort of a record the old gentlemau had. When this staid city invites a man to involve himself in the melancholy pomp and circumstance attending a trip up the canal, you may be sure that that man has a charnel house full of respectable bones aback of him. Atlanta doesn’t care a farthing whether he ever had a grandfather or not ; indeed it would not matter to her if, after the manner of that picturesque hoax with which nurses bam boozle too curious children, he was hatched out of a hollow stump in an old field. When a stranger desires to become somebody in Augusta, Augusta hies herself to the stud book, and the young man’s pedigree is looked up. In Atlanta they gaze into his palm and if the lucky lines are found there, he is boosted into a high place. Macon Telegraph: Mrs. Sarah A. Weed, a venerable and pious Christian lady, after long years of ill health and suffering, fell peacefully asleep in Jesus at twenty minutes past four a. m. on Sunday, the 19th inst. The deceased, Sarah A. Nisbet ? was tho fourth daughter of Dr. James Nisbet, of Athens, Ga. She was born near Union Point, ou the plantation of her father in Greene county, on the 22d of June, 1810, and was conse quently in her sixty-sixth year. Removing with her father to* Athens at quite a tender age, she afterwards, ou the 10th of October, 1833, was united in marriage with \Villiam LeConte, Esq., of Liberty county, Ga., a most worthy and in telligent gentleman, who was an elder brother of the celebrated sacans, Professors John and Joseph LeConte, now connected with the University of California. This husband of her youth died January 25,1841, in his ancient home on the seacoast, where he was universally loved and respected, Mrs. LeConte then removed to Macon, to bo near her brothers, and her sister, Mrs. R. K. Hines. Here, after the lapse of more than seven years, she again married, in July, 1848, Mr. Edwin B. Weed, a wealthy hardware merchant, and gentleman of high standing and exemplary character. He also deceased in January, 1854. Since that period Mrs. Weed has remained a widow, and the latter portion of her life was spent under the roof of Hon. Clifford Anderson, who had married Miss Le Conte, her daughter, and where she was most tenderly watched over and cherished until the close of her existence. Mrs. Weed was a cherished sister of the lamented Judge Eiigenius A. Nisbet, and an aunt of Mr. James T. Nisbet, of this city. Of eleven brothers and sisters besides her self, two only survive: Mr. Frank Nisbet, of Russell county, Alabama, and Miss Mary M. NiBbet, of Macon. To the bereaved children and relatives of the deceased we extend oar earnest sympathy, and would essay to com fort them with the trite but true remark, that “what is their lots is her gain.” Tlie Organic Law. [From the St. Louis Republican.] From the Cincinnati Gazette (Rep.): “As for resolving that this is a nation ora confederacy, it may be continued till dooms day without defining anything. This is a government of a written constitution, which is the sole law of its being.” From the Cincinnati Commercial (Lib. Rep.): “We netice Sam Cox is still in sorrow about the ‘rights of the States.’ There is yet enough mischief iu the State-rights foolery to cause another civil war. If tho worshippers of provincial sovereignty do not allow the divinity of ‘States’ to gradually become an obsolete superstition, tno time will come when it will be necessary for ‘we, the people,’ to smash up and abolish the States.” Until the breaking out of the civil war Americans were accustomed to proclaim, with more zeal than knowledge, the man ifold advantages of a written constitu tion, and to dwell with a large amount of self-complacency upon the fact that Eng land was unable to imitate our example in this respect. Since the war this sort of boasting has nearly ceased, and the wonder is that it does not cease alto gether. We have proved by bloody ex perience that an organic law, though set down in black and white, is liable to be misunderstood; that communities and persons of equal intelligence and equal patriotism read it through different spec tacles, find in it widely different principles, and are obliged at jast to re fer the irreconcilable diversity of opinion to the supreme arbitrament of the sword. The South claimed the right of secession under the constitution, and the North claimed the right of coercion under the constitution; and, as usual in such cases, the decision was rendered in favor of the strongest battalions. This plan of settle ment, though effectual and practically final, does not relieve us of the disagreea ble conclusion that on so vital a question as the nature and extent of the agreement by wliich a united Republic was formed out of separate and sovereign States, there have been, and still are, the most contradictory theories. Moreover, if wo examine these theories critically and im partially we shall find that each side is partly right and partly wrong; in other words, that some portions of the organic law were so obscurely framed as to be liable to two interpretations, mutually antagonistic. Now, as England, with an unwritten constitution has had no serious trouble in regard to her fundamental principles of government for nearly two hundred yearc, it is evident that the ad vantages of the written over the unwrit ten are not so vividly apparent as they might be. In the extracts quoted above, the organ of straight-laced Republicanism is de cidedly more conservative than its liber ally inclined contemporary. According to the former, “the written constitution is the sole law of the nation’s being.” According to the latter, “the people”— meaning thereby the party which happens to be in the majority—may rise and “smash” the Constitution and everything else, whenever they see fit. Now whether the organic law is made up, as m England, of well-established precedents, or, as in America, of a written code, it is plain that the salva tion of the country depends upon a rigid adherence to this law. If it can be set aside, or suspended at the will of a majority, it is not a law at all in the true meaning of the word; it is a mere temporary regulation of no more binding force than a rope of sand. The Gazette and the Commercial repre sent the two wings of a party which com menced its political existence by enun ciating the dogma of “the higher law.” As soon as the administration of public affairs passed into the hands of this par ty the dogma was put in ac - tive operation. Whenever the Con stitution harmonized, or seemed to harmonize, with the Republican pro gramme, its praises were chanted from press, pulpit and platform, and its edicts executed to the letter; but whenever the constitution opposed the programme, the former was thrown overbroad amid the unanimous acclamations of the champions of “great moral ideas.” The result has been the complete emasculation of an in strument once sacred and omnipotent. It has been stripped of its original power and prestige, and is now scarcely more than a foot-ball, kicked hither and thither by contending factions. Those who feel for it something of the old reverence, and ask to have it faithfully obeyed at all times and under all circum stances, are hooted at as “strict construc tionists,”* unworthy to live in a pro gressive age. If a prominent politician ventures to suggest that the States have some rights which the Constitution obliges the Federal Government to re cognize and respect, he is denounced as an advocate of “foolery;” told that these rights ought to be treated as an obsolete superstition,” and that if they continue to be urged “it will be necessary for ‘we, the people,’ to smash up and abolish the States.” How much liberty “we, the people,” will have when the republic is thus moulded into an empire, the Com mercial om\t» to inform us: but, unless all history is a lie, the abolition of the States will be the establishment of a despotism whose laws are promulgated at the point of the bayonet. These centralization doctrines have stepped on fast and far during the last fifteen years, and need not go much farther to accomplish their mission. Whether the Constitution, the only bul wark against centralization and its accom- panying despotism, shall be restored and main tabled in its pristine puxity, remains for “we, the boo] ‘ BY TUBiPH THE MORNING NEWS. FROM JACKSONVILLE. RECEPTION OF THE WESTERN EXCURSIONISTS. [Special Telegn*m to the Morning News.] Jacksonville, March 21. Two hundred and fifty of the Western ex cursionists are here. They were enthusias tically received at Metropolitan Hall, where they were addressed by several gentlemen. All are highly pleased and seem to be enjoy ing themselves. Noon Telegrams. CLYMEK’.S CORRUPTION MITTEE. COM- A Newspaper Correspondent at the Bar of the House. BLEAR-EYED BEN SUMMONED TESTIFY'. TO THE COERUPTION COMMITTEE. Washington, March 21.—Scott Smith, tho correspondent of the New York Post, is at the bar of the House for refusing to give his author of the story that Pendletou paid money to Mrs. Bowers. Fisher, post trader at Fort Sill, confirms Marsh about the royalty paid him for the post, but is ignorant of Marsh’s disposition of tlie money. General B. F. Butler has been subp<enaed by the Committee on War Expenditures. PIPEE, THE MUKDEREB. Boston, March 21.—The Supreme Court has overruled the exceptions in the case of Thomas Piper, convicted of the murder of Mabel Young, in the belfry of Warren ave nue church. Piper will bo sentenced. FROM MADRID. Madrid, March 21.—One hundred and forty thousand strangers are in the city. Two hundred and fifty dollars were paid tor a balcony on the route. There were thirty triumphal arches. FROM LONDON. London, March 21.—Tho Title Bill passed the committee. Disraeli said it was certain the Queen would not assume the title of Em press in England under the circumstances. DEAD. Rome, March 22.—Piince Daria is dead, London, March 22.—Col. Chas. Chesney is dead. LETTER FROM JACKSONVILLE. A Ludicrous Funeral—Rattling of the Thunder on the Pane—A*onieo of the Fruit Beaters—An Almost Groundless Excitement—Ireland’s Patron Saint— The Radical Candidates— Fooling With Flame—Kneel or Ye Die—The Western Tourists—The Race For Life—How Are You '-Marine. [Special Correspondence of the Morning News.] Switched Off. The Plymouth managers have at last got the scandal in about the shape they want it. The Congregational big-wigs are at loggerheads, a schism in the church is threatened, and in the cloud of dust kicked up by the controversy the question of the pastor’s adultery and perjury is lost sight of. Mr. Beecher has a lively sense of humor—how ho must 6njoy it, Twenty years ago his brother Thomas reminded him that the code of morals which he preached was very different from the code which he practiced. Within the last eight years he himself has so far expressed his adhesion to the doctrine of the survival of the fittest to assert that brains must run things here below wheth er the moral element in them predomi nates or not. It is the office of fools to believe; it is the office of the man of brains to make such use as may be neces sary of the fool’s faith. Mr. Beecher is a man of brains. The scandal train had been carrying him straight into the jaws of destruction. He switched it off ou to the track of the Advisory Council, and there it has stood in comparative safety ever since. The Congregational Church followed on the next train, and now it seems bound toward the catastrophe that menaced him. Mephistopheles held Faust by a pretty sure bond: Mr. Beecher beats Mephistopheles and puts an incum brance on Congregationalism which it can evidently only get rid of by destroy ing itself. With such men as Storrs, Budington and Bartlett ou one side; Porter, Woolsey and Dwight on the other, and Leonard Bacon at the grind stone, the Church which shelters them is in about as bad a way as the temple was when Samson grappled its pillars. Prac tically, therefore, Mr. Beecher’s doctrine that might, backed by brains, makes right, is sound. If the Rev. John Smith had been caught on the floor looking at engravings with bis friend’s wife, it wouldn’t have rent Smith’s Church in twain, unless Smith had been a man of brains.—Brooklyn Argus. Saved Her Little Companion.—The Des Moines, Iowa, Register, says: “Little ‘Pet’ Ford, daughter of E. M. Ford, Esq., saved the life of a playmate while ou a trip to Illinois a few weeks since. Several girls about the same age as Pet—10 or 12 years—were skating on a pond near Providence, when one of the party broke through the ice. All the balance of the group except our Des Moines heroine scampered off to procure help from a hpuse about a quarter of a mile distant. Pet saw the drowning girl, who was her cousin, rise to the surface and support herself on the edge of the ice. Pet un wrapped her scarf and threw one end to her cousin, but the girl was not able with this help to climb out. Then she laid down at full length on the ice with her hands extended to her cousin, and with this aid the girl was rescued. The Crisis of Congregationalism.— The leading members of the Rev. Dr. Budington’s church have informally dis cussed the propriety of at once following the example of the Church of the Pil grims in repudiating the acts of the Beecher Advisory Council, and it is un derstood that the same action will be taken as soon as Dr. Storr’s address has been circulated enough to form a weight of sentiment. The church is nearly unan imous in its feeling on the subject. A call will doubtless be placed in Dr. Bud- ington’s hands next week fc>r a church meeting to pass upon the question. It is expected that a majority of the churches in the denomination will take a stand in repudiation or in acceptance of the coun cil’s edicts. There will be more action after Dr. Storr’s views have bean digest ed.—^. T. Sun. lGtfi. Suit Against Governor Wm. Allen.— Proceedings were commenced in the United States Court in Cincinnati yes terday by Allan Campbell Mc.^thur and the other grandchildren of Duncan McArthur, formerly Governor of Ohio, to eject Governor Wm. Allen from his farm near Chillicothe, known as Fruit Hill, and compel him to account to the legal heirs of Duncan McArthur for all the rents and profits of the estate, alleged to be illegally withheld frem them. Should the case be decided against Governor Allen it will leave him a poor man. The estate involved em braces eight thousand acres of land in Ross county, including a portion of the city of Chillicothe. The Most Contemptible of Frauds.— A respectably dressed impostor, calling himself “Dr. Lewis, from Boston,” has been visiting clergymen in Newark repre senting himself as employed by the gov ernment to make a census of the blind, lame, deaf, dumb and other afflicted per sons. On Tuesday he visited the Rev. Dr. Brown, pastor of the Clinton street Congregational church, and on getting the desired information went to the house of a blind girl, saying that Mr. Brown had desired him to call, and that he would guarantee a cure for $12. The mother of the girl handed him the money, and he hung a “magnetic” chain round the poor girl’s neck and departed. A clever pickpocket in the Hippo drome at New York observed a detective watching hi™, called for Mr. Moody and beonme converted on the spot. Jacksonville, March 20, 1876. BLOW YOUR BUGLE. If there is anything within the scope of speculative or imaginative phenomena that is more pleasant* than sucking an orange, it is the proprietorship of a formidable reputation for an nihilating bravery. It is invari ably more advantageous than the genu ine article itself and places its fortunate possessor above men who are his supe riors but who are defied oftentimes, not because they have less courage but be cause they have more common sense. It was the observation of Thackeray that a writer cannot always play first fiddle, and it so happens that we may extend the ap plication of this dictum to those indi viduals who feign an air of stoical noncha lance m order to convey an impression of irreproachable innocence. If any ono supposes that we expose the corruption of the Radical mercenaries because we like the task, he should be hidden deeper in a bottomless pit than the heaviest anchor would descend in forty centuries, for being an egregious simpleton. These things force themselves upon our at tention until their exposure and de nunciation becomes a public ne cessity. A large portion of the pre ceding dissertation is intended tor the usurpers who have foisted them selves into the “Florida Fruit Growers Association,” and succeeded in trans forming thit body into a machine for the furtherance of Radical schemas. The shameful manner in which they in serted their pliable tools into command ing positions in the society has already received notice, and the unquestion able dishonesty of a number of the officers is a thing so widely known as to require no comment. It has become the obvious duty of every gentleman whose misfortune it is to be a member of this concern to im mediately withdraw therefrom for his own protection. The proclamations of the body as at present constituted, have ceased to carry weight with them, and the iniquity is worth about as much as a missing pin in the discerning eyes of the general public. The Secretary is knave, and the servile adulator of Stearns and the rest of that villainous herd of monstrosities, the Cor responding Secretary who is incapable of corresponding is the slave of the cold blooded scoundrel whose machinations control the business of the association. There are enough decent members to form a nucleus for a purer atmosphere than that which now surrounds them, and in justice to themselves, they cannot submit to the outrageous violation of all principle by the few conspirators and the utter disregard of honor which exhibited in the transactions of these cabalists. The deliberations of the so ciety will not be marked by that dignity and decorum that should characterize such assemblies henceforward. We there fore are constrained to pronounce the “Florida Fruit Growers’ Association” a defunct institution. The President, Sec retary, Corresponding Secretary and their master, Stearns, are welcome to all the political capital they can make out of it now. GOING TO THE POOR HOUSE. The air was rife last week with dis agreeable rumors in relation to the con dition of Duval county poor house. After au inspection of the premises we must say that the reports are exaggerated im menseiy. Beyond a slightly unhealthy odor, which can be easily dissipated by the use of disinfectants, and an appear - ance of uncleanliness and raggedness about some of the bedding, we observed nothing to indicate such an alarming and reprehensible state of affairs as was represented to exist. The inmates, who are principally negroes, do not number above a dozen, and in answer to our in terrogatories they expressed themselves as highly satisfied with the treatment they were receiving. There are no con tagious diseases on hand at this writing, and the patients all seem to be doing well. Altogether, the appointments of this establishment will compare favorably with those of any similar place we know of in the State. It, perhaps, has not been ordained that we shall originate all the suggestions that are necessary at this day, but would not a poor house be a proper home for professional beggars. The repulsive spectacles witnessed in almost every city of emaciated humanity asking alms from passers by could thus be effectually prevented. A mendicant is a rare occurrence in Jacksonville, but occasionally a case of the most aggravated sort obtrudes lr-mself or herself into pub licity. By consigning all helpless people of this class to the poor house by compul sion if necessary, not only would these sickening sights be avoided l ut chronic mendicity would be checked and the public protected from possible imposi tion. The benevolent impulses of the people would not fail to respond to calls for contributions to support an establish ment that would keep beggars with every description of deformities from display ing their hideous malformations to the gaze of every passer by. Will some charitable and enterprising spirit of the hour take these hints into serious con sideration and act. saint Patrick’s day in the evening. The festivities on Friday evening, under the auspices of the Sons of St. Patrick, at Lyman’s elegant parlor, were furnished with a happy zest by the radiant presence of some of the loveliest of “Erin’s daughters” and the most polished of her sons. Mr. P. McMurray, as presiding officer, filled his station well, and ex pressed* himself felicitously,on all [occa sions. The supper spread before the guests was all that the appetite could desire, and the responses to tho various toasts were unusually brilliant, and spark ling as the champagne that did not inspire them. Mr. B. F. Kelly, in re sponding to the toast, “The land we left,” put forth an eloquent plea for Ire land’s freedom, and rounded his periods off in an extremely beautiful way. Mr. Wm. Fahey replied to “the future pros perity of Ireland” in a scintillating style, and began his remarks in a manner which indicated his opinion that it is pos sible to extol the Emerald Isle with out abusing England. In this Mr. Fahey merited commendation, and while the discussion of the question would be ill- timed, here it will strike every rational mind forcibly that England’s treatment of Ireland does not begin to equal the carpet-bag despotism’s iron heel upon the South. Mr. Gough enlivened the mo ments with several songs in his own in imitable fashion and produced much merriment. Mr. P. McMurray in his an swer to a toast evidenced the possession of a wonderful forensic ability, and gave utterance to a plenitude of ennobling sentiments. Now when the hand of time marks 1877, may ye all meet again as bright, as ruddy and as fair as on the other eve. WORSE AND WORSE FAST. Perhaps some lunatic will inquire where we obtained the following clue, and per haps he will not. From authentic intel ligence and a carefully considered survey of the outlook, we are inclined to think that the Radical slate will be John Tyler. Jr., for Governor, Josiah T. Walls lor Lieutenant “Gubner.” It is thought that some of their opponents have con cluded that they might as well attempt to stay the bilJowy sea as to try to defeat them before the nominating convention. The combination in favor of Tyler and Walls is one of the moat powerful and The imminence of an inspiriting family quarrel among the Radicals, is one of the sides of the matter we like to con template, and we shall experience as muc u pleasure in aiding to secure the de feat of Tvler and Walls as a boy does in riding a hobby horse. MORE CARELESSNESS. A fire took place last night in east Jacksonville and destroyed two small dwellings owned by negroes. As is almost alwajs the fact, when it is not otherwise, the destruction was caused by twisting a lamp around incautiously. You might lecture some bipeds until doomsday about sticking a flame up against pitch pine just to ascertain if it will ignite, and ac complish nothing but a burnt building. ’rah ! FOR SIB TBOOLY. We are gratified, nay, even elated, at the privilege accorded ns of announcing the distinguished arrival of that delectable gentleman, Lord Nicholas Trooly, of Poodleville, in Zanzibar. Our knees per form spontaneous genuflexion in the au gust and imposing presence of Lord Trooly, for his condescension in coming among us at this crisis in the line of lions. Lord Trooly » descended from a great and magnificent historical family, and it is supposed that he is the heir pre sumptive of Billy Trooly, the “renowned freebooter,”.so called because he got his hoots on time and never paid for them. Here’s to Sir Trooly. THE WESTERN VISITORS. The Common Council convened this morning, and selected a committee of ten citizens to complete arrangements for the reception of the five hundred Western excursionists now en route to this city. About fifty of the party arrived to-day. and the remainder are expected to reach here to-morrow. ADDITIONAL CANDIDATES. To-morrow another organization will nominate their standard-bearers in oppo sition to the tickets now in the field. It is understood that the “Young Men’s Independent Colored Reform Club” will take part in this movement also. In this they manifest a catholicity of spirit not often found among men with their advan tages. A SUNDAY VISITOR. Our young friend, Dr. W. McL. Dancy, is the possessor of a fortune since yester day, at 8 a. 111. Weight ten pounds—a boy—all doing well. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Arrivals during the week ending this day—Schooners Marcus Edwards, Hattie Card, New York, and A. K. Bentley, Charleston, S. C. Departures—Schoon ers Herbert Percy, New Smyrna: Nettio Walker and Lexington, New York. ApBIANUS. The New Finance Bill. We give below the full text of the bill reported by the majority of the Demo cratic Caucus Committee, and adopted Wednesday night by a vote of 69 to 46: A bill to provide for the gradual resump tion of specie payments. Be it enacted by, etc., that it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, during each and every year, from and after July 1, 1876, and until the legal- tender notes of the United States shall be appreciated to par value with gold, and shall be convertible lifto com, to cause to be set aside and retained iu coiu an amount equal to three per centum of such legal-tender notes outstanding, and from the date of such convertibility as aforesaid, the amouut of coin set aside and retained as aforesaid, shall be held as a resumption fund, in respect to said legal-tender note ~, and shall at no time be less than 30 per centum of such out standing legal-tender notes, provided, however, that the coin so set aside and retained as above provided, shall be counted as a part of the sinking fund for the purchase or payment of the public debt, as required by section 36 of the Revised Statutes. Section 2. That it shall be the duty of each National Banking Association dur ing each and every year from and after Ju ly 1,1676, and until the complete resump tion of the payment ou specie of its cir culating notes, to set aside and retain from the coin receivable as interest ou the bonds deposited with the Treasury of the United States as security for its circulation, an amount equal to 3 per centum of its circulating notes, issued to such association and not surrendered, and from the date of its resumption of specie payments, as aforesaid,[the amount of coiu to be held and maintained as a resump tion shall at no time be less than 30 per centum of its outstanding circulation: provided, however, that the com by this section directed to be sot aside and re tained, shall be counted as a part of the lawful money reserve which said associa tions are, by existing laws, required to maintain. Section 3. That so much of section of an act entitled “An Act to provide for the resumption of specie payments,” ap proved January 14, 1875, as requires the Secretary of the Treasury to redeem legal tender notes to the amount of 30 per centum of the sum of national bank notes issued by any banking association in creasing its capital or circulation, or to any association newly organized or pro vided for in said section, and also so much of said section 3 as related to or provided for the redemption in coin of the United States legal tender notes on and after January 1, 1879, and all other provisions of law inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. LEITER FROM ATLANTA. Heavy Snow Storm in the Gate City—A Warning to Homeward Bound Florida Tourints—Burning of the Oconee Kiver Bridge on the (.eorgia Railroad. [Special Correspondence of the Morning News.] Atlanta, March 20, 1876. I reached this city last night between ten and eleven o’clock, via the. Georgia Railroad, the train being due here at four p. m. The delay at the burned bridge over the Oconee river, and an accident at Social Circle, caused the extension of time above stated. Walking out of the depot I was surprised to find A FEARFUL SNOW STORM prevailing, mixed with sleet, h»il and raiD, and a sharp, chilling wind, making it almost impossible to get through the streets. All sight the storm continued, and this morning the streets and build ings of the “Gate City” present a dreary .appearance, especially to one who has just left the sunny “Land of Flowers,” via your own semi-tropical city of parks, flowers and sunshine. The rain and sleet is still failing, and is slowly melting the snow, and it is simply impossible to remain “dry shod” in the universal prevalence of “slush.” Few pedestrians venture out except to meet business en gagements, and hundreds of flat, tin- roofed buildings are being sadly dam aged by the melting of snow and the accumulated rain, against which these roofs are not proof. The Central Hotel and Southern Express office, opposite the depot, and James’ Hall are among the worst sufferers. Northern and Western tourists from Florida will do well to delay their homeward journey, or stop over a few days in Savannah, if they do not desire to suddenly run into a cold and wintry climate. BURNING OF OCONEE RIVER BRIDGE. This disaster, of which you have al ready given a report, will prove a very, sad one to the Georgia Railroad Com pany, as they have recently reached the limit of their carrying capacity, under a heavy press of business, and the destruc tion of this important bridge makes it impossible for them to run freight trains except via Macon and then over the Cen tral Railroad to this city. Three iron spaus of the bridge are gone, and about half of the long trestle on the Augusta side. On the Atlanta side the trestle is uninjured and one span of the iron work is but very little injured. Still, owing to the delay which must occur iu getting new iron work for the spans destroyed, I am sure that teu or twelve days must elapse be fore the bridge will be fully repaired. Colonel S. K. Johnson, the efficient General Superintendent of the road, came up with us yesterday, Captain Grant Wilkins, of this city, an experienced en gineer and iron bridge builder, met him at the scene of disaster, where several wooden bridge builders were hard at work repairing the trestle and getting out the necessary timbers for tho iron structure. Two construc tion trains and a large force of laborers are pushing the work ahead with all pos sible speed. Nothing has been left un done to contribute to the comfortable and safe transfer of passengers, mails and baggage at the river, aithough some ne cessary delay occurs. No one regrets this unfortunate and disastrous conflagration more than Colonel Johnson, to whom no blame can attach. The watchman was supposed to be trusty, but it seems be “slept at his post of duty,” and in con sequence the company will lose thousands and thousands of dollars in tho carrying business, in addition the great expense of reconstructing the bridge. The traveling public can be assured that the road will be opened through to this city at the very earliest moment possible. Chatham. THE CHARLESTON TION. CONFLA4RA- An Hundred Familiea Homrlru-Pii- Ittftinc (he Endangered Houses—Hercu lean Efforts of tlie Firemen, and £rill Bio Water—Heartrending Scenes. Tlie End of the World. On Sunday a little band of men gather ed in a room in the Cooper Institute, New York, to discuss the subject of the com ing of Christ in this year of our Lord, 1876. After a hymn of an impressive melancholy nature had been sung, one of the adventists went up to a blackboard and began to chalk mysterious calcula tions upon its surface. It seems that he meant to show that the end of the world will occur in this Centennial year, and based his calculation upon the prophecy found in the twelfth chapter of the book of David. The words of the prophecy, he said, are that Christ shall come “the day the wickedest shall do most wickedly,” and the speaker pointed his long bony finger in the direction of Wash ington, and asked if there was ever time when corruption and social rot tenness were so general and startling as now. He argued that the prophecies foretold the end 1,385 years from a given time, that is, from “the time when the daily sacrifices shall be taken away and the abomination that maketh desolate be set up,” and he figured it up so as to bring the end in 1876. This prediction of the adventists will hardly occasion serioas alarm throughout the world. This is not the first time that the period for the earth’s destruction has been foretold, and strange to say not one of the pro phesies has ever come to pass. The world may be now very wicked, and Washington the most corrupt city on the face of the earth, yet there are lower depths of political and social corruption to be sounded, if the rapid decline is not soon arrested. Letter from Gen. Beauregard.—Gen. Beaur jgard has written a letter in reply to one from Hon. J. C. Ferriss, of Nash ville, Tenn., inquiring why the pursuit of the Federals*immediately after their rout at the battle of Manassas. July 21, 1861, was suddenly checked ana the Confeder ate troops recalled towards Manassas. He charges that he failed to pursue the Fed erals at Bull Run because he was misled by a false alarm which made himself and Gen. Johnston believe that the Confeder ate forces had been outflanked by the Fed erals crossing to the south bank of Bull Run, the falsity of the report not having been discovered until late in the evening. He says any pursuit of the Federals next day toward their rallying point at and around the long bridge, over the Poto mac, could have led to no possible mili tary advantage, protected as that position was by a system of field works. If be had had means of transportation and of feeding his troops he would have passed around Washington into Maryland, cross ing the Potomac at or about Edward’s Jhe (’ountry’s “Idle” Gold. Dr. Linderman, the Director of the mint, in his last official report, estimates the amount of specie in the country, coin and bullion, gold and silver, at only $142,000,000. On the other hand, Mr. Morrison, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, has been furnished a table showing that there ought to be no less than $482,000,000 of specie within our borders. This tabic is made up from the records, year by year, since the dis covery of California gold, and may be summarized as follows: Bank returns and Treasu-y esti mates indicate that the United States contained in 1S43, of gold and silver $ 112,000,000 Production iu United States, re corded 1S49-75 inclusive 1,530,000,000 Custom IJouse records of net im ports specie aud bullion. 1S49-73. 180,000,000 $1,872,000,000 Records of dum-'stic exports. 1549-75 ],r 90,000,000 Leaving $ 432,000,000 After doubling the proportion of allow ance made by Dr. Linderman for wear and tear, use in the arts and errors in re turns, this would indicate at least $450,- 000,000 still in the country. To dispute the annual records would bo to pronounce them utterly valueless for every purpose they were framed to serve; yet there is a difference between the net result of these tables and Dr. Linderman’s official esti mate of over $300,000,000. There are but two outlets left by which to account for the disappearance of this enormous sum; first, the unknown quantity that has left the country in private hands, without opportunity for “record, since specie was demonetized by the legal tender acts; secondly, the quantity that went to foreign shores through the Southern Confederacy du ring the war. Whether these two items will suffice to explain the discrepancy, we must leave others to decide. Of one thing, however, we are absolutely satis fied, namely, that there remains in this country to-day no such sum as $450,000,- 000 of specie lying idle and unprofitable. Beyond the comparatively small amount needed at a few ports to pay duties, gold is of no use except as a collateral, and for this purpose interest-bearing bonds are equally serviceable. The argument of the precipitate resumptionists that so large an amount of solid wealth has stood idle all these years, drawing no interest and reaping no profits, staggers our faith in human nature itself. Mr. Morrison may explain his table as he will, but the gold is not in the country.—Nashville American. [From the News and Courier^of yesterday.] The fires of Saturday and Sunday last were but a prelude to the most disastrous conflagration that has visited Charleston since the terrible scenes of 1861. Within the preceding forty-eight hours the alarms of fire had become so frequent that every body seemed to have a foreboding of the terrible calamity which impoverished hun dreds of families yesterday morning, and which has laid waste one of. the most thickly populated sections of the city. The alarm was sounded about half-past 3 o’clock from the Eighth ward, and al though the firemen had been worked hard for two days, they were promptly ou the scene with their machines. When the reporter of the News and Courier rived at the scene of the conflagration the frame dwellings on the west side of King street, immediately north of Rodg er’s alley, were in flames. Thejfire origi nated in the store No. 681 King street owned by Mrs. John Wilson, and occu pied by J. H. Greeber, who kept a dry goods store ou the first floor. Mrs. Wil son and her family occupied the second floor. At this time the wind was blowing moderately from the east, and there seemed to be no danger of a general conflagration. The two buildings south of Mrs. Wil son’s house wore in flames, but there was every prospect of an early extin guishment of the fire. In about fit teen minutes, however, the wind increased to a perfect gale, blowing from the south east, and the flames were communicated to the adjoining buildings on the north, owned and occupied by Mrs. Bligh as a grocery and provision store. In the meantime Mr. F. W. Pieper’s grocery store, on the southwest corner of Rod ger’s alley and King street, had caught fire, and the building adjoining it on the south, which was occupied by a colored man as a restaurant, was also on fire. The first named building was totally con sumed, and the latter only partially so. It was now about four o’clock, and the fire was rapidly spreading to the north and west. The general alarm was sound ed. and the entire department summoned. But it was THE SAME OLD STORY. There was no water; and, although the firemen worked like Trojans, they could not fight fire successfully without water, and they had absolutely no water at all. Tbe neap tides of the past three or four days had reduced the water in the tidal drains to such an extent that the keeper had, on Sunday night, notified the chief of the department that the drains were empty. So the engines were dragged from one point to another, in frantic search after wells and cisterns on private lots, which were found, only to be dried in a few minutes. The tidal drain pits on Spring street contained a scant supply of water, which increased as the tide flowed, but tho steamers at work did not have a sufficient amount of hose to reach the leeward side of the fire, which soon began to spread with fearful rapidity. Grant in the Pool.—A Republican Committee of the last Congress scratched the surface of the Washington real estate pool, and had Kilbourne before them, who refused to answer at exactly the same stage of the investigation as he does now. He was guilty of the same contempt if the Republican CDngress had thought it pru dent to push the matter. Now, however, while Kilbourne languishes in jail, other sources of evidence are being ransacked, and among the official records of real es tate transfers, one has been found headed as follows: “No. 40, Hallett Kilbourne to U. S. Grant, deed 10th of December, 1873, recorded June 6th, 1874.” From a com-i parison of these dates, it appears that the record of this deed was purposely de layed until the Republican committees had disbanded. The property conveyed consists of two lots on the corner of Rhode Island avenue circle and Thir teenth streets. Tens of thousands were expended by the government, under Bab cock’s superintendence, to beautify this particular locality in excess of the sums spent in other quarters. Ever}’ inch of curbing, every square foot of the finest asphalt pavement, every yard of flagging, was paid for by the United States, the circle being -a public reservation. Robeson, the jolly mariner of Grant’s Cabinet, was walking down Pennsylvania avenue the other morning with about half a yard of handkerchief streaming from his coat-tail pocket. A friend, overtaking him, thus accosted the old Jersey salt; “Rob, I guess the Navy Department must be going to take in sail, for I see you’u i-.got your storm signal at half-past four o clock the wind was blowing a brisk gale, and the sky was lit up with a lurid glare, while large flakes of fire, burning shingles and cindersjwere carried to the north and west and landed on the roofs of the houses in Line street, St. Philip, Coming and Percy streets. The heat had now become so intense fhat the firemen were driven up King street. A hundred gallons of water would have saved the buildings ou the east side of the street, but there was not a single drop to be obtained, and the fire just worked its way when ever it minded. At a quarter to o’clock the {grocery store of J. H. Ducker, at the southeast corner of Columbus and King streets, caught fire, aud was soon wrapped in flames. From this point the fire threatened to extend eastward in the direction of the South Carolina Rail road round-house; aud it would prob ably have done so but for the fact that the wind was blowing from that direc tion, and the progress of the flames was thereby arrested. By this time the store of Messrs. Wiley &, Jacques, 683 King street, east side, had caught fire; the flames were thence communicated to the old frame house at the northest corner of Columbus and King streets, which was spared from destruction by the fire which destroyed the store of Mr. F. L. Meyer, next north of it, about a week ago. the fire raged now with the fury which the firemen were unable to cope with, even if they had had a plentiful supply of water. The plaDk road took fire, and even the stone posts on the sidewalk were crumbled into dust by the intense heat. Nearly every roof on the block bounded by King, Line and St. Philip streets were by this time glowing with cinders, and the poor peo ple who occupied the houses, not yet realizing the fact that they were doom ed to the flames, mounted their roofs with brooms, axes, hoes and buckets of water, in vain efforts to extinguish the kindling flames. The fire engines, with one or two exceptions, were of course powerless, not having water, but the members of the three truck companies fought the fire like heroes, putting a ladder here, a hook there and a bucket of water in another place. The point of immediate danger now seemed to be in St. Philip street, in which the roofs of a half dozen houses were on fire, and the chief of the department at once sent the trucks in that direction. By the efforts of the men the entire block west of St. Philip street was saved. A PANIC. From the store of Messrs. Wiley <fc Jacques the flames were communicated to the building 635 King street, occupied by Mrs. Haeslop, which was some distance north, and which belonged to Mrs. Ross. This was about 5 o’clock, and just at this juncture several loud explosions occur red, caused by the bursting of cases of gunpowder in the grocery store of Wiley A Jacques and J. H Ducker. The ex plosions, however, did no other damage than to cause a stampede in the crowd which had been attracted to the scene of the conflagration. The houses King street, north of Columbus, were occupied by poor people—black and white—and was very thickly populated. It was nearly daylight when the fright ened and demoralized occupants seemed to re&lize for the first time that nothing could save them from the tire, and then it was that they first began to move their household goods. The street was soon crowded with men and women staggering under the burden of bedding, trunks, boxes and other articles of furniture, while the storekeepers, very few of whom were insured, rushed wildly about looking for help to remove their goods. SACKING AND PILLAGE. This was of course a shining hour for the thieves, and they did not neglect to improve it. There were several hun dred drunken negroes in the street who, under the pretence of being firemen, plundered right and left indiscriminately. A half dozen burly rascals, raving with liquor, would rush into a store, seize a counter or some other useless fixture, make a pretence of carrying it out to save it, and then returning would steal every thing they could conceal about their per sons. At the store of Mr. C. H. Ruffio, 693 King street, two policemen were stationed to keep out the crowd. They could not do it. A drunken ruffian would rush up to the door and upon being ordered back would curse the officers, swear that he was a fireman, and rush in and steal and pillage. At his back would be a hundred other drunken rogues, armed with spanners and slung- shots, and the officer who dared to resist them would just as certainly be thrown down, beat and probably murdered. It is due to the firemen, both white and colored, to say that in almost every in stance they lent their aid to the police force, but the thieves outnumbered them, and, under the peculiar law which pre vents a chief or assistants (who can not be every where at once,; nothing effective could be done to stop the sacking. Thousands of dollars of goods were stolen, and from poor people who lost by the fire what was not stolen from them. When the fire reached the corner of Line street the thieves made for the door of the grocery store of Mr. N. C. Luden. A stream of water had been got on the building, which had a siate roof, and some hopes were entertained of saving it. Under these circumstances Mr. Luden refused to open his doors, and a couple of policemen were stationed at the side door to keep out the thieves. They were just about to overpower the officers when Chief O’Neill and a half dozen white and colored firemen came up and put them to flight. Tbey^went of. making the air hideous with their drunken shrieks and yells, to plunder other places. They had complete posses sion of tho s reets until about half-past six o’clock, when Mayor Cunningham and Captain Hendricks arrived with a detach ment of policemen from the Main station house. The Mayor then assumed charge, and the streets were quickly cleared, and a dozen of the rogues arrested aud sent to the guard house. THE END. By 9 o'clock the fire had burnt itself out: that is to say, it had burnt north ward iu King street as far as the farm of Mr. Wm. Ufferbardt, about two and a half miles from the Court House; west ward as far as St. Philip street, and east ward as far as Railroad avenue. Mr. Louis Dunneman’s house, north of Shepherd s reet, was consumed, together with much fencing, trees, shrubbery and hedges north of that. From Dunneman’s house to a distance of about a half mile, such early vegetables as were spared by the frost were ruined by the fire. The store on the northeast corner of the avenue, next north of Shepherd street, was saved, as was also the soap factory of Mr. M. Storen immediately north of it. The store at the northeast corner of the avenue, next north of the one men tioned above, was also saved, but the Addison row of buildings adjoining on the north, and the other buildings as far north as Moultrie street—the street which leads to the race course—were all de stroyed. The entire district described above was a smouldering mass of ruins, with nothing standing but the naked chimneys. A little after 10 o’clock the wind died away, and a drenching shower of rain fell, which added to the troubles of the hundreds of homeless persons who were wandering about the ruins in search of their stolen property. The fire would doubtless have spread further south but for the fact that the drains in Spring street furnished water, which enabled the firemen to check the progress of the con flagration in that direction. There were no less than eight steamers at the two drain pits in Spring, between St. Philip street and Railroad avenue. A VERY “GREEN-EYED MONSTER.” A Wisconsin lafo’s Deviltry. [From the Detroit Free Press.] Two nice old people, man and wife, sat in the Detroit and Milwaukee depot, having come from Canada, and waiting to go further west. She called him “George” as she ordered him to look and see if that one-handled satchel was safe, and he called her “Dolly” as he reported that that ’ere satchel was as safe as if spiked to a tree. By-and-by he wanted to smoke, and he went out and lit his pipe and strolled into a barber shop. Left alone in a strange town, the wife became nervous aud fidgety after a few minutes, and walking over to where a serious look iug chap sat reading a paper-covered nov el entitled “The Bushwhacker’s Daugh ter,” she asked: “You don’t think my husband has got lost, do you ? “Is your husband of phlegmatic dispo sition, ma’am ?” he asked in reply. She looked at hiu^ in a puzzled way, and then hesitatingly said: “He’s good natured, and I never heard him swear, ’cept the time when I forgot and left his boots in the oven.” “Are your conjugal ties still tender and sentimental ? ' he asked. “I’m his lawful wife,” she replied, look ing rather indignant. “Yes, yes, I kuow; but perhaps your husband has cogent reasons for desiring to sever his conjugal ties.” “Jugal what ?” she asked. “Hasn’t it occurred to you, madam, that your husband may have run away ?” “Good gracious, no!” “It has to me. I was studying both of you before he went out. I saw that he was of a phlegmatic temperament, while you are vivacious. ” ‘Good land! ” •Yes, ma’am; I saw him looking at you as you were looking &t the lady who tends the eating stand. 1 'could almost read his thoughts. I saw him sigh. A look of deepest sorrow crossed his face. I saw him draw away from you as if your pre sence was disagreeable.” “You did?” “Aud I saw him elevate his nose.” “Did he stick up his nose at me ?” she demanded. “Yes, and as he passed me going out I heard him say to himself: ‘I’ll leave the old jade and hunt me up a blooming wife.’ I’m sorry for you, ma’m.” Y'ou needn’t be,” she slowly said, drawing off her yarn mittens and button ing up her waterproof. “So he stuck up his nose eh ? And he kinder drew off, eh ? Called me an old jade, did he ?” “It is a sad case, ma’am,” continued tbe stranger, as he saw her eyes snapping, “but of course you can’t do anything about it.” “I can’t, eh?” she replied, as she began stacking up the baggage. “No, ma’am. All you can do is to pawn your jewelry, sell your baggage, and re turn home.” “Stranger, will you keep an eye on them things ?” she asked, pointing to the baggage. “I will ma’am, but I hope you will take my advice. You don’t want to make a public scandal, do you ?” “Watch them things,” she said, waving her hand, and she went out upon the street. Nothing was to be seen of “George.” She started up the street, looking very pale around the mouth. He sat in the window of the barber shop, smokiDg away and reading a negro minstrel programme. She saw him as she was walking past, and she softly slid in and had him by the hair before he looked up. “What on earth—Dolly -why, Dolly?” he yelled, in his sudden surprise. “Yes, it’s your old jade ?” she hissed, trying to get hold with the other hand, too. “What’s this—who—hold on!” he ex claimed. “For de Liwd's sake! What’s all dis yere mean?” called the barber. “Found that young and blooming wife yet?” she sneered, holding his head against the wall. “What wife—what ails ye—are ye crazy ?” he yelled. “Now, dew stop dis yer bludshed, or I’ll call out de police!” added the barber, waiving his lather brush around. “Sneaked in here in hopes I’d go, did you ?” remarked the wife. “Woman, are you mad?” asked the man. “If she bain’t done gone crazy as a fox, den I never seed a ’possum,” put in the barber. “George” returned to the depot with her. The baggage was there, but the strange man with a novel wasn’t. She sat “Ge'crge” down, sat down beside him, and in repi y to his explanation she pressed her lips and said: “You set right where you are or there’ll be broken bones.” “But, Dolly ” “You let Dolly alone. We’ll be alone bime by, and you’d better git ready |to shiver.” The stranger was a mean man. “Dolly *’ will never believe there wasn’t something in it. WONDERFUl WOLF STOBY. N«rro" ' n Cana,l » H « • Hour. I D a T * Pa '”« S*T*r«l ary W.lv„. S “»«"»dtd by II... [from the C^Tpreep Messrs. McLrea" Co the em P lo r ot river, I, John a. (tu nn ’ ™ t th * Gatln ? au morning 0 f the 2'Jth « F °?‘ company with two Indians to ™ *’. ™ if any trespasses had “ aHcertam a limit ownedbv £ OB being northeast of^ the Gatine“ The district’ tain. I took my horse along with me sn M DB whenId£v“ kenableii me to do ^ e 7 n,y •S-iX-T'S cunning and erperienied hnnter solemnly warned me to tnrn back £ wnTvo I!" nnniistakable indications of wolves being m close proximity; but not of the dusky son of In rest - 1 “ado np my mind’to keep on my way os it is a principle of mine to SU°° Unt UDtl1 my WOrk is •or phaned. On the present occasion, how- for the Prophetic words of tho Indian came near costing me dearly. Approaching the foot of the 1 ^eld full in view, and only a short distance away on a small eminence’ a pack 01 wolves, twenty.seven ni q U . u . ber, devouring the remains of a deer, rhis was rather an unpleasant position to be in, aud the only recourse for safety was retreat or climb a tree. The former I decided on without much delay but on turning about I found that the two Indians nan gone. I sa w to my re volvers as my best friends immediately, and found all nght. 1 determined to live as long as I could, and to sell my life as dearly as possible. I began the retreat, however, with all the haste that my phys ical powers were capable of. but w'as soon alarmed by hearing the howling ot the wolves in pursuit. I have always prided myself on my fleetness of foot, as I have seldom met my equal, but in this race with wolves I lost ground very fast. I quickly realized that the attempt to escape was vaiu, for ai the rate of going I could not hold out long, au^, therefore, believing that ‘prudence was the better part of valor,’ I concluded to climb a tree, and though it took me but a few moments to reach a con venient bough, I was none too quick, for the pack was nigh on hand, anxious for a fresh dish atter disposing of the deer. They drew up in line about ten yards from the tree, and, considering the opportunity a good one. I commenced to blaze away at them with deadly effect, no less than four falling in answer to seven shots. This destructive fire did not abate their fury in the least, and I proceeded to draw my second revolver, when, unfortunately, it caught in a twig and was jerked out of my hand to the ground. I now felt my predicament a worse one than ever, fearing that they would remain and starve me out, ot until I should become benumbed with ihe cold and fall an easy prey to the rav enous pack. My buffalo coat I had left in the cutter, aud, being very thinly clad, I began very soon to experience the effects of the cold. The wolves, I believe, realized my help lessness, and became bold accordingly. They walked up to the foot of the tree, which was a very small one, and as they could not reach me by leaping, they be gan to gnaw it down. I had beeu in many a tight place before, in whale fish ing and other perilous positions, and flatter myself I have never been much of a coward ; but on the present occasion, with a hungry pack of wolves methodi cally at work, one after the other, gnaw ing away the tree on which I had taken refuge, I began to feel loose about the jaw, and my spirits went down to 45 ° Fahrenheit. However, an idea occurred to me ; I decided upon a plan. Taking out my knife I cut the longest limb I could reach, and having a hook on the end of it, I caught hold of a large cedar tree about ten feet off, and as the wolves continued gnawing and my perch got more and more unoteady, I pulled on the pole and drew the tree over toward the cedar. With a desperate exertion, and after several minutes of deep anxiety, I succeeded in gaining the cedar, and took up a safe position among the branches. The wolves uttered a tierce howl and took their departure, but I did not venture to descend from my perch until tbe last sound from them was faintly heard from the distant hills. On reaching the place where I had left my horse I found that he had got frightened and had gone. I was about strikiDg out in pursuit when I espied the two Indians, who were endeavoring to secure two young moose, which they had got into a kind of crevasse at the base of a high rock. I turned in with them, and we succeeded in taking them alive and un hurt. We carried them to Mr. Valent’s shanty, where they still remain until we can get them down to Ottawa. The In dians had courage enough to go back and skin the wolves. I hope to take the skins to Ottawa about the 14tb inst. My horse* I found at the jobber’s shanty, about seven miles distant.” The bo is d’ arc of Tffiis is pronounced the most durable wood in the world. It neither shrin^-kikor swells froi The details of the swindle committed in furnishing headstones for the graves in the national cemeteries are not very clear, but enough has been shown to prove that the only crime meaner than tealing a guinea from a dead man’s eye namely, cheating a country’s gratitude and her soldiers’ memory, has been per petrated under the Grant administration. The visitors to Gettysburg, in thinking over the viliainy permitted by the last Republican President will find consola tion in the solemn utterance of the first: But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract.” Horrible Bridge Dlsaster in France. —A Paris dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph says an arch of a railway bridge over the River Ill, near Lutterbacb, gave way under the pressure of the flood, and a passenger train, from Mulhouse for Strasbourg, which was crossing at the time, was precipitated into the liver. The carriages fell on top of one another and were dashed to pieces. Owing to the violence of the stream none of the passengers could be saved; all were either crushea to death or drowned. Thirty corpses have already been recov ered. Terrible excitement exists in the neighborhood. It is supposed that sixty or more lives have been lost. A French money lender complained to Baron Rothschild that a nobleman, to whom he had loaned ten thousand francs, had gone off and left no acknowledge ment of the debt. “Write to him and ask him to send you immediately the seventy thousand francs. “But he only owes me ten thousand francs, said the moneylender. ‘-Precisely, rejoined the Baron: “and ho will write and teh you so, and you wiU thus get his acknowledge- ment.” i. i m * Not over a dozen JJepublicana in New Hampshire know that Ingalls, tne Assist ant Quartermaster General, made a pres ent of a watch to President Grant s wife; and that the said watch had over a dozen diamonds set in it—and that it was only worth *180, and was a poor time keeper. It takes years for such facts to Ret through the forests of New Hampshire. —Hartford Times. A Veby Youso Thief.—In Xe ",\£’ on Friday afternoon, a child named Wm. Bessever ten years old, was charged be forejudge Kasmire w.th having stolen a silver watch and two go d ch ^ total value of >/ •*. ± uc npr. he sold the chal^to BOine mikno- pe^ son, and pawned tue juvenile sent by Judge Kasmire to the Juvenile Asylum. The cost of the St. Louis whisky trials lnecosioi iu resu j t; Two men was *Co,6M «• 1 convicted, not son- 1° t hbertv The net proceeds tenced and at liberty- much of the whisky trials do not t a^ s _ cto _ encouragement to hon Tier-Journal. ^ The Uttle daughter o V he ; I)em^io rue muc o office in baratoga candidate for a toad ^o run and tell county, N. Y- "f .. go t the her aunt that cried wnt: «•“»¥ Si't - ■ mean P«tem-ions ^ egti _