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T HK - WA'H AT HOLLOW ASH.
’ISStoate that yon want to know
Tbat U hl;'i-e.ei J«*n to Hollow Ash.
SS inhere'a anybody knows
He wears ah tut my style of clothes.
V . r, then twaa Deacon Hamper’s funeral,
e was going well,
idr.v : te . t: -rs and Joe Fresh,
UcUaitli theprocesh.
Tetnt.i ir tellers from the town
...,, , — i.111 train come down ;
'■ere c.mingback,
•f ... ah.,Cl ■ cross the track,
■ ..-unit around and says to me—
i,,din his hauil no held a \ :
... v ; that this here hearse
vr ; ll rro“« al ead of that excurse.”
Them mounters they Set up a yell,
;“d then tv as missin’ for a spell,
i; war am aria’ how that crowd
Cavorted upward in a cloud !
■ her piled them victims on the sward,
tout three juarters of u cord.
iih toil thev put the Deacon s meat ;
Bnt .'Joe went we ail was beat.
1 searched ’lie pieces of that train.
U(] search,' 1, and searched, and aearclted in
vain, , . .
Ami to this day it does beat me
\vh«r was the piece that held that V.
W. Nye.
Affairs in Georgia.
TV Hem. ii. Eugene Thornton, of At
lanta, will make way with hie thirtieth bird
on Tuesday. Miles Turpin has already
salted it down in an ash barrel, and it will
bt quite t-nder by the time Mr. Thornton
calls for it.
We are not of the opinion that Hon. Geo.
H. Pendleton’s trip up the Augusta canal
injured bin political prospects. On the con-
tnry, he would be better off now if he had
confined Lis career to little trips of that
character. We are not prejudiced against
the Augusta canal, as some of our foreign
subscribers seem to suppose, and we cheer
fully recommend it to politicans of all ages
iod conditions.
If we are to judge by the Atlanta LonstUu-
lion, nearly every man in the State, with
the exception ot a few in Atlanta, is
engaged in a nefarious plot against Gov
ernor Smith. If this is true, there is no
fun in governing folks.
The recent storm in Talbot county was
not as disastrous as it was at first repre
sented to be.
The pet name of the lighter of the
Geneva Evup is Jody. Could anything be
so suddenly and exquisitely sweet ?
We have received a communication from
Early county asserting that the editor of
the Blakely Kerrs is a preacher. Its publi
cation would lea l to an unnecessary con
troversy, and hence we decline to publish
It Moreover, as Blakely is notin Brooklyn,
a preacher there is as good as (and prob
ably better than) any other man.
It seems to be a pity that Hi Kimball has
thus far failed to find an opportunity of
making the “equities” of the bogus bonds a
campaign issue. Perhaps Joey B. will yet
show him how the thing can be done, for in
the “ethics” of journalism and the “equi
ties” of the fraudulent securities J. B. and
his friends have cut several crops of eye
teeth.
The Augusta Chronicle rather fancies the
way our Atlanta correspondent “Quidlibet’’
writes concerning those who tooted the
gush-horn at the Western excursionists. It
ii possible that our correspondent may be
induced to do up in his graphic style some
other occurrences in Atlanta which were
not quite so public as the recent ovation.
The Waynesboro authorities are plucking
the wayward vagrants from the parent
stem. The experience of the town marshal
is such that ho can distinguish a vagrant
from & licensed loafer in the dark.
According to the Fort Valley Min'or, a
citizen of that section who proposes to at
tend the Centennial has telegraphed to
know if the foot-logs are in a passable con
dition.
D«* Joey B. propose to support Judge
Jim Johnston in the next Gubernatorial
campaign, or is ho going to put a new sad-
dleoa Daws. Walker? However, we won’t
insist on categorical answers.
An Atlanta darkey, who was working in a
gardm, dug up a can containing eleven dol
ors in silver.
Col. H. Gregg Wright, of the Augusta
Chronicle, objects to the use of the word
Colonel” by the Georgia papers. Is the
liberty of the press to be thus circum-
icribed r For ourselves, we protest against
h. and we are sure that even Col. Wright
*id not, when he comes to carefully con-
* : der the matter, thus seek to deprive the
ard-working and conscientious journalist
• one of the very few luxuries left us by
toe ravages of war.
The editor of the Fort Valley Mirror, who
• ' i y way of Atlanta recently,
,aVs Was “drawn down there like a needle
l ^a m& gDet.” We are thus left to infer
at the eccentric man went end-foremost.
’ ^ au iel Dussey, one of th9 oldest citi-
Ze {* 8 Crawford county, is dead.
it indeed come to this, that the peo-
1 Augusta do not know whether the
lmous ca nal, which the condescension of
nature and the art of man have located
ert "’ Xiongs to the city, the City Council,
" •be Augusta Canal Company ? We trast
•^matter will be at once looked after.
^ ewere informed by Dr. Fox, of Atlanta,
e other day, that the Hon. Marcellus
--Preferred to have his birds killed
Ce “ r or ^ Te days beforehand. This pro-
boilin G 8a ' 8 ’ ^riates necessity of par-
^ D ?> and entirely does away with that
oft C , tuU ^ ne i. w hich seems to be one
ut .aherent characteristics of every true
'^position.
Mar .; ’ a ' VDes b ,)ro Expositor says that from
*ere« ~ to March 1st, 1875, there
from ^ fr° m Waynesboro 11,044 bales,
there . U lat » 1875 ‘ to March lst > 1876,
of 9 rJl\ re ,lli PP e d 7,995 bales, a difference
1 W bales.
with»i** 0r 81at0Q * of Atlanta, had a tussle
aan-uiv. Urly no Sr° the other night. The
^ woke evidently mistook the
*- or tiome °ce else : at any rate, he
booq as i Witl1 con8i derable recklessness as
C ° Qlli 8et awa y- Ten °ne
*olicemau USLl ^ W&8 merely j° kin £ a
The l) e88m&D Can(ller in Atlanta.
k°hl a p.!^. rata ° f tile District will
ShLo,
convention to
,Uls in Griffin
nominate delegates to
on the 26th of April.
Sinf kJki Luc
be tru 0 ^* ar ^ an<q 8 iy> reports
friend m a 1 i* 8tated that he recently put a
little over 1 aDta under contribution for a
shows nr 0Ue ^ au ^ re( J dollars, which he
We hare'W ° f returnin 8-
Georgia r-v \ U Wailln S to hear some of our
P. E. G. t C au ** (M 8( ineal out in regard to
AblQ gdor) y 8ey ’ the can *ry bird man of
Vhri#i a ,\ a *’ au ^ now here comes the
^ler. Xhis • • ' qenounc ins bim as a swiu-
^toserted 1 ! 00 \ the fir8t time F * E * G * L *
“Gen.” j, 18 '■ ang8 i Q the Georgia papers,
been coi ^ orris » Durke county,
^ ea Pon B and*i ?lCted ° f carr y in S concealed
tQ ^8erafc Lt 3 U0W piayin S a twelve month’s
n. 6ad - ma i‘ on the AugnsU
"econgr»tul»tethe“aeo.”
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1876,
ESTABLISHED 1850.
People pay a thousand dollars to be intro
duced to the politicians in Washington. Onr
prices are not so high. We will introduce
anybody to the average Atlanta politician
for two dollars and a half.
A Talbot county gentleman has exhibited
to the editor of the Columbnsj Times a large
block of a pine tree into which a plank was
deeply driven by the force of one of the
hurricanes or cyclones of last spring. The
plank, which was about an inch in thickness
and six inches in width, was torn by the
fury of the storm from a house and driven
into a standing green pine tree. It was not
splintered or shivered by the collision, but
entered the body of the tree as clearly as if
it had been a piece of sharp-edged iron
driven in by a maul. The force’and velocity
must have been tremendous. On one side
the block had been cat into to the depth of
about three inches, without reaching the
end of the plank that entered the tree. It
probabiy extended to the depth of at least
four inches, and did not Bplit the tree in the
least. It is understood that this wonderful
memento of the power of the wind will be
sent to the Signal Service Bureau, where it
will give beholders a faint idea of the force
of a Georgia cyclone.
A Meriwether county farmer writes: “I
fear now that there will be few oats or wheat
made, as there is an insect destroying the
oats and wheat. It is a new insect that has
never been seen or heard of before, a worm
about the size and color of a cut worm.
They are, however, no kin to a cut worm, as
they eat the blades and stalks of tho oats
up. The worms are numerous, covering
the entire ground. They have completely
destroyed the wheat and oats in Randolph
county, and are here by millions. They
play havoc with oats and wheat, and that
very quick, for they begin eating as soon
as hatched out. I fear the winter has been
too warm for oats and wheat to do well, as
there was net cold enough to destroy the
eggs of the insects. My oats—the finest
and most forward—are ruined bv the worms,
and I fear that they will take the whole
crop.”
The Atlanta Com/nonicedlth will hereafter
be published by Messrs. James P. Harrison
A Co. The announcement says: The Cbm-
monweaUh, under the new reqime, will be
placed upon a safe and solid foundation,
financially, and will be, in every way, pre
pared to meet whatever emergencies may
arise, and to triumph over every obstacle
that may naturally arise, or be placed in its
path by design. This paper will take an ac
tive part in the public affairs of this city,
and of the State. It will sav what it has to
say of public men and public matters,
promptly, frankly, fearlessly. Its motto
will be: Independence and the public
good. It will censure and denounce the
high or the low, whenever censure and con
demnation seem to be called for in behalf of
tho public weal. It will praise and com
mend the high or tho low, whenever
tho acts or the words of either
shall call for praise and commenda
tion. The people need a mouthpiece,
which they can trust to speak the truth in
all matters connected with their interests; a
paper free from the taint of official corrup
tion and bribery, and the nauseous subser
viency of a press which shows the marks of
a master’s collar upon its neck, and which
“crooks the pregnant hinges of the knee
that thrift may follow fawning.” We are
aware that the most corrupt mem
bers of the subsidized press in this
country claim to be pure and untram
meled, and have made similar promises
to the people. Despite this fact, we ask
a suspension of public opinion in our case,
until the Commonwealth,or its management,
by word or deed, shall have proved recreant
to its trust, false to its avowed principles,
and unworthy of public confidence. So
much for our new “platform.” We
ask the citizens of Atlanta, and the
people of Georgia, who desiie a free, frank,
and consistently edited newspaper at tho
capital of the State, tc sustain us, and to
crown our efforts by their favor and patron
age.
Mr. Josephus Camp, of Swainsboro, writes
as follows to the New York South : Eman
uel county lies eight miles by west from
Savannah. The Central Railroad runs along
its eastern boundary. It contains one hun
dred and twenty square miles, is traversed
by the Ogeechee, Great and Little Ohoopie
and Camanchee rivers, and has a population
of seven thousand. For health it is unsur
passed by any section of the United States.
The land, where it is not in cultivation, is
covered by a virgin forest of the finest yellow
pine timber in the world, while the rivers
mentioned afford an easy and cheap means
of carrying it to market. These lands pro
duce cotton, corn, sugar cane, potatoes, rice,
wh 'at, oats, rye, melons, figs, pomegranates,
apj as, peaches, pears, etc. From four to
six hundred gallons of s>rup can bo made
from one acre of land. From three to five
hundred bushels of potatoes can be raised
on an acre of land. The yield of cotton is
from one to five bales, an<T of corn from ten
to seventy bushels per acre. Fertilizers
have to be used to insure large yields, and
perhaps there is no land in America bet
ter adapted to the use of them. The
yield of oats is fine, without the use of
any fertilizer. These lands can be bought
improved for from one to three dollars per
acre; unimproved for from fifty cents to
two dollars per acre. There are numerous
schools and churches in the county. Swains
boro, its county site, contains a Methodist
and Baptist church, and a good high school.
The people are law abiding, and would wel
come emigrants who come to settle among
them. I might say much more of the ad
vantages of this county, and still the half
would not be told. Tho* climate is fine and
exceedingly good. Any information con
cerning this section will be cheerfully given
by the writer.
A Foolish Story About Diamonds.
[Washington Special to Chicago Inter-Ocean.]
Various rumors are in circulation con
cerning alleged affairs similar to the post-
tradership scandal, and the Pendleton
railroad claim comes to the surface of
gossip again. A story is told by a per-
son, who met the Marshes and Pendle
tons in Europe, somewhat as follows:
Pendleton went to Europe, as he testified,
immediately upon receiving the payment
of this claim. In Paris where he met
Mrs. Bower, now Mrs. Belknap, he
bought and presented to her a very hand
some set of diamonds, costing several
thousand dollars. Mrs. Marsh, it is
stated, got hold of the bill in some way
and sent it to Mrs. Pendleton, who was
in another part of Europe.|at the time,
giving Mrs. Pendleton to understand that
it was a present purchased by her hus
band for her. When gentleman George
arrived home where his family were stop
ping Mrs. Pendleton, of course, was on
the look-out for diamonds, but they were
not forthcoming. She alluded to the mat
ter, and showed her husband the bill which
the spiteful Mrs. Marsh had sent her.
Gentleman George explained, as it is said
that Mrs. Pendleton reports, that he was
obliged to make Mrs. Bower a handsome
present for service she had done him,
and made it in diamonds instead of
money. It is claimed on authority that
cannot be questioned that evidence has
been discovered showing conclusively
that $30,000 of tho money received by
Pendleton for getting the Kentucky Cen
tral Railroad claim allowed went into the
hands of Mrs. Bower, now Belknap, but
was not paid to her directly. The evi
dence already taken shows that Pendleton
had the amount of the claim divided into
three Treasury warrants, one of which,
amounting to $30,000, was indorsed by
him and made payable to the National
Park Bank of New York. In tracing the
last named draft a clue was obtained
which, being followed, resulted in find
ing what is considered conclusive proof
that the money, after passing through
the hands of two persons, was paid over
to Mrs. Bower in person in the city of
New York. _
It is pleasant to be able, once in a
while, to speak in terms of commenda
tion of the administration. Mr. Norman
Wiard, the celebrated gun burster, in a
conversation with a reporter of the San
Francisco Chronic!*, remarked that m
China an appropriation of $<>,uuu,wuv
had been made to provide against emer-
eencies in the case of a war with any
other nation, and an official request for
warded to the United States to send some
one out there with plans of fortifications
and proposals for the manufacture of
heavy ordnance. Mr. Wiard was the man
sent out. We do not know who repre
sented the United States in this transac
tion but whoever he was he showed
oreat sagacitv in getting Wiard out of the
Suntryf »nd at the same time supplying
China with a man who can spend .hat
*0,000,000 so quick that it
John Chinaman s head swim. It is gen-
eially supposed that there is a great deal
of specie locked up in Chin*, and if they
only P keep Wiard long enough it will oome
into circulation,—N. T. avn.
BY TELEGRAPH
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
THE FOUNTAIN-HEAD OF FRAUD.
Graut and Some of His Flunkeys
Implicated in Doubtful Land
Transactions.
KOliEK A. FETOR TO IIEFEMI AMES.
A Protest from the Vatican Asninst Re
ligious Toleration in Spain.
CAPITAL NOTES.
Washington, March 23.—A World special
says tbe President, ex-Secretary Borie,
Fred. Grant and others are implicated in
a land transaction of doubtful honesty iu
connection with the Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad; also that the committee will re
port that there is not sufficient evidence in
the cadet case against Hays, of Alabama.
Tbe crooked features m the Kentucky
mule case are becoming plainer.
NEW YORK NOTES.
New’ York, March 23.—The recent kid
napping of tho Spaniard, Halgado, is de
veloping into a conspiracy to swindle a
Cuban lady, Gerona Fernandez, out of $31,-
000.
Four hundred barrels of Jupiter powder
exploded in the northern portion of the
city. Four persons were blown to atoms,
and two of those injured will die.
A PKOTE8T FROM THE VATICAN.
Madrid, March 23.—A protest has been
received from the Vatican against the article
of the Spanish constitution sanctioning re
ligious toleration. The protest declares that
the article violates the rights of Catholicism
and annuls the concordat.
Nine hundred troops will go to Cuba on
tbe 31st instant.
AMES’S LAWYER.
New York, March 23.—General Roger A.
Pryor started from Brooklyn last evening
for Mississippi, having been retained to de
fend Gov. Ames in the trial before the high
court of impeachment.
BANK FAILURE.
Utica, N. Y., March 23.—The Bank of
Camden failed for $75,000. It had a num
ber of local depositors.
NORTHERN ORANGE COUNTY.
lta Present Condition and Prospect*—In
flux of Immigrant*—Price of Lands—
Character of the People—The Projected
Ilailrond—A Hint to Savannah.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News,]
Kveiiing Telegrams.
FROM 1HE FEDERAL CAPITAL.
CONGRESSIONAL AND INVESTI
GATION GOSSIP.
Mephistoplieles Morton’s Mississippi
Mumblings.
PROGRESS OF THE HAYTIEN
REVOLUTIONS.
CAPITAL NOTES.
Washington, March 23.—The Ways and
Means Committee have concluded the cot
ton branch of the tariff. They increased
the duty on bleached cotton from 3i to i
per cent.
Silver coin is worth 83 2-10 compared
with the gold dollar.
The report of the committee will ex-
honerato Hays of cadet selling.
Postmaster Burt, of Boston, in settling,
turned in $15,000 old claims, which were dis
allowed.
Sclienck is here.
Six thousand to eight thousand dollars
were exacted from Durfree and Peck tor
campaign purposes during the last Presi
dential election. Fish and Evans were
also bled in addition to what they paid
Marsh.
Bowers’s estate at his death was worth from
$28,000 to $30,000, including $15,000 life in
surance. The life insurance put into
the firm of E. G. Leonard &Co., and paid to
Pendleton as tho lawyer of Bowers’s widow
(the Hon. Mrs. Belknap) was the money paid
to the order of Amanda Bower. Leonard
paid it to Pendleton and got his (Leonard’s)
notes.
The testimony is cumulative as to the
s.ile of post traderships, but there is noth
ing to convict Belknap.
Stewart received $230,000 for his services
in the Emma Mine business, $10,000 of
which was a present to his wife.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Washington, March 23.—Probabilities :
For tbe Middle States and lower lake region,
southeast to southwest winds and increasing
cloudiness, and during Friday rising tem
perature, falling barometer, and possibly
areas of rain.
For the South Atlantic States, warmer
easterly to southerly winds, and light rain
during Friday, with* falling barometer.
For the Gulf States, Tennessee and the
Ohio valley, generally cloudy and slightly
warmer weather, with rain, east to south
winds and falling barometer.
Tbe Mississippi river will rise slowly be
tween Cairo and Vicksburg, and floods will
probably occur above Memphis; the river
will fall at stations above Cairo* The Ohio,
Cumberland and Savannah rivers will con
tinue to fall. The Mississippi river has risen
nine inches at Cairo, eleven at Memphis,
five at Helena, and four inches at Vicksburg.
CONGRESSIONAL BILLS.
Washington, March 23.—In the Senate,
the morning hour was devoted to the pen
sions.
Morton gave notice that ho would, next
Monday, call up and dispose of the resolu
tion to investigate the Mississippi elections.
The electoral bill consumed tbe day.
Iu the House, Parsons’ bill to sell certain
lands at Vincennes for railroad purposes
passed.
The bill prohibiting the cutting of timber
on the Indian reservations or on the lands
owned bv Indians passed.
The bill repealing tbe law which forbids
the appointment to any position iu the army
of any person who served in any capacity in
the military, naval or civil service of the
Confederate States in the late rebellion,
passed.
THE HAYTIEN.
New York, March 23.—Advices from
Hayti by mail state that JacmeL is com
plete! v m the hands of the insurgent forces,
and that all the trees back of Jacmel are
cut down, so that the approach of the gov
ernment forces may be seen,and that the vi
cinity may be fortified. Two government
steamers are blockading the port. Mean
while, another section of country, some
thirtv miles from Port-au-Prince, has risen
against the Government. Several engage
ments have already taken place, and for
eigners in ii *ort-au-Prince are greatly
alarmed lest the negroes should take advan
tage of the situation and apply the torch.
tecumseh.
St. Louis, March 23.—General Sherman
left hero for Washington last night, in re
sponse to an invitation from Secretary
of War Taft, who desired to consult with
him. It is thought here that there is »
possiblity of the removal of the army head
quarters back to Washington.
FROM LONDON.
London, March 2:3.—The bill making Vic
toria Empress of the Indies passed a third
reading—209 to 134.
Richard Bonner Oakley, manager of the
Co-operation Credit Bank, has been com
mitted to Newgate in default of $25,000 bail.
THE GENEVA AWARD.
London, March 23.—The Under-Secretary
of Foreign Affairs has been asked in tho
House of Commons whether it is true that
the Government of the United States, after
paying tho Alabama claims has a surplus of
from one to two millions sterling for which
it is unable to find legitimate claimants.
NEW YORK NOTES.
New York, March 23.—The Irish Rifle As
sociation have arranged for a Centennial
match. .
The hidden book-keeper of the Marine
Bank swindled that institution of $28,000 by
false entries. •
boiler explosion.
Laramie City, March 23.—The boiler of
the Union Pacific Bolling Mill exploded,
wrecking the building, killing four persons
and injuring ten.
INJURY TO VEGETABLES.
Augusta, March 23.—The -severe frost
killed the early crop of vegetables and fruits
in Somth Carolina and Georgia.
FATAL PIPES.
New York, March 23.—The workmen
about the Jupiter powder which exploded
were in the habit of smoking pipes.
THE RHODE ISLAND RADS.
Providence, March 23—The Republican
State Convention nominated the present
officers. _______
To read the papers nowadays, one
would think that George H. Pendleton
was an office-holder of some sort, or that
the Democratic party was responsible for
the manner in which he transacts his
private business.—BmAon Po*L
Fort Mason, Orange Co., Fla.,)
March 15, 1876. |
Your correspondent, “Sidney Herbert,’
when writing from Dr. Spence’s admi
rably conducted sanitarium near Mellon-
ville, referred but briefly to this, the
northern part of Orange county, doubt
less because unfamiliar with the condition
of affairs hereabouts. This neglect your
many readers here complain of, and to
“smooth their ruffled front,” I con
cluded to send you a brief letter on the
situation.
SIX MONTHS AGO
this was the most sparsely populated part
of the county. To-day it is one of the
most thickly settled. Every homestead of
any value has been taken up between the
Wekiva river and the Ochlawaha headwa
ter lakes. The great body of the new com
ers have settled within the vicinity of
Lakes Dora and Eustis, the most numer.
ous body extending from the vicinity of
this post office to the north shore of Lake
Dora. Every square of half a mile within
this territory is a homestead, and every
homestead is occupied. In some in
stances the homesteads have been subdi
vided. As a consequence our population
j is becoming dense, and this part of the
county is looking up. Most of the set
tlers
ABE FROM THE WEST OB NORTH,
but there is also a goodly sprinkling from
Georgia and Alabama. Many of the
Northerners are quite estimable persons,
men of means who will benefit the coun
try. Others are of little use, thriftless
young fellows who appear to regard life
in Florida as requiring nothing more
laborious than fishing, and a few deci
dedly scabby individuals who could read
ily be spared. Still, taken as a whole,
the new settlers comprise a desirable
acquisition to this “section.” (I detest
the word, but cannot think of any other.)
Most of them have gone to work with a
will, and what was a few weeks ago an
unbroken monotony of pine forest is now
a pleasant scene of diversified activity.
Small frame cottages rise up from a hun
dred clearihgs; here and there groves of
young oranges, just set out, dot the land
scape, and everywhere are heard the
sound of the axe, the mallet and the
hammer. The effect of this
BUSH OF SETTLERS
has been most marked upon real estate.
State lands which we purchased last
summer at one dollar per acre are now
held at from ten to forty dollars, and
improved private lands can only be pur
chased at high figures. It must not be
imagined that there was not any intelli
gent, refined society here before this last
influx of population, or that the new
comers constitute “society.” As a mat
ter of fact, I have been most agreeably
surprised since my arrival here at meet
ing with a really pleasant and intelligent
set of people among the old residents,
and I mention this because I perceive
that some newspaper scribblers are en
deavoring to make it appear that this
part of the county was, until recently,
inhabited solely by an illiterate and un
refined class.
THE OLD CITIZENS
are exceedingly cordial to the settlers,
and if they warm up a trifle more to those
who followed, with them, the flag of the
South, why that is natural enough. Po
litically they are Democrats to a man—
none of your half hearted, squeamish,
whip-the-devil-around-the stump fellows,
but “square up” dyed-in-the-wool Demo
crats, who want a fair tussle with the
Radical devil this winter. At the last
election, they chose their own man
for the Assembly, and in the person of
Mr. Bryan, got one of the best members
this county has sent to Tallahassee. He
lives near Fort Mason, and is one of the
most estimable, clear headed men I have
met in Florida. Possessed of solid, good
sense, energetic to a notable degree and
devoted to his native State, Mr. Bryan
has made an excellent legislator, and 1
trust he will be re-elected this coming
fall. It would be a graceful act of recog
nition of his merits as a man, a citizen
and a public servant, if the southern end
of the county would throw aside its pre
judices agaiust this end, and unanimous
ly re-elect Mr. Bryan. Referring to this
prejudice, reminds me that the great de
sire of the people of this end is to divide
the county, and in my opinion this should
be done. It is
PREPOSTEROUSLY LARGE
hundred
being nearly one
length from north
county courthouse
southern boundary.
miles in
to south, with the
located near the
Persons living near
the northern boundary must travel lifty
odd miles to attend court, aud as there
are no railroads this must be done on
horseback, requiring a fatiguing journey
of four days to make the round trip. At
the last session of the Legislature Mr.
Bryan endeavored to secure the passage
of a bill organizing a new county; but
the Radicals were opposed to having any
more Democratic representatives in the
Legislature, and so they voted against
the bill, on the pretext that the constitu
tion prohibits the formation of new coun
ties. It does nothing of the kind. It
merely limits the number of representa
tives, as iu Georgia, but is altogether si
lent on the subject of new counties
With the large accession to our popula
tion during the present winter, the ne
cessity for a new county will increase,
and it is to be hoped that the next Legis
lature will contain a majority of Demo
crats who will grant the demands of the
people.
THE RAILROAD.
to connect Lake George, on the St. John’s
river, with Lake Eustis at this point, has
at lengtn begun building. I learn that
the convicts employed from the State
have been landed at the Lake George end
of the line, and the engineers report that
the twenty-three miles of road will be
graded by August next This road is
destined to prove of immense benefit
not only to this part of Orange, but also
to the whole of Sumter county, which
latter at present labors under great disad
vantages from lack of transportation
facilities. As soon as the road is com
pleted to Lake Eustis a line of steamboats
will connect with it, and ply Lakes Eus
tis, Harris, Dora, and ultimately Griffin
and Apopka. All of these are large lakes,
around whose shores and for miles there
from a dense population is settling. Fort
Mason, I venture to predict, will within
ten years be
THE COMMERCIAL DEPOT
of a population of from fifty to seventy-
five thousand parsons. While on this
subject, I would hint to some of your
merchants the policy of helping this rail
road. Arrangements have been perfected
for connecting the Lake George road
with steamers from New York, Charles
ton and Savannah, and if the merchants
of the latter city desire to secure a large
slice of a lucrative business, a judicious
investment in the stock of the road
would probably help them—that is, if
any qf the stock is for sale. I know no
thing of its financial condition—nothing,
except that it is building and will be
ready for traffic next winter. Its im
portance may be readily comprehended
when I state that it makes a saving of
from two to four days in transportation,
and enables the people to raise winter
crops of vegetables and potatoes for the
Northern market.
THE WINTER
is passing (or has passed ?) mildly enough.
There have been a few cool days and cold
nights; but I have not sat by a fire or
are now laden with blossom and redolent
with sweetness. The principal groves in
this vicinity are those of Mr. Norton, on
Lake Eustis, Mr. Bryan, Mr. Mott, Mr.
Alsibrook and some others I cannot recall
to mind. At present the bearing trees
are not numerous, but each year adds to
their number. Socially the season has
passed quietly. In the absence of any
centre of population, terpsichorean or
other convivial gatherings have not been
possible. Twice each week the citizens
meet each other at this post office and
discuss matters and things in general.
There it is that Dr, Jeffers, a clever, so
ciable M. D., formerly of North Carolina,
Mr. Mott, who loves to crack a joke, Mr.
L. M. Ballard, the genial proprietor of
the steam saw mill, Mr. Bryan, and
others, join in council and narrate their
experiences in this wicked world.
Sandy.
The Centennial Fiend.
[From the Boston Commercial Bulletin.]
It was only half an hour before the
paper went to press, but he walked un
erringly into the editor’s private room
and, dropping his hat over the warning
placard of “Busy Day—Short Calls,”
seated himself with easy bar-ijoom polite
ness on the table with thalexchanges.
He was dressed in an Ulster |nd a soiled
raffled shirt, wore an amethyst about the
size of a hock glass on hisjhird finger
and cluster pin in his bosom. He look a
“seven for-a-quarter” cigar from his
mouth and, placing it on the editor’s ink-
stand, remarked confidentially:
“I am going to spend some time this
year”—
The editor clutched his pen like a
dagger, and pawing after the few hairs
on the top of his head, said—
—“in Philadelphia”—
The young man spat gracefully over
his left shoulder on the new carpet, and
responded—
“Yes, I’ve done a little writin’ in my
day, and bein’ disengaged this summer
should like to send a first-class journal
like yours”—
The editor fell back iu his chair, and
gasped—
—“some letters about the Centennial.”
The interviewer nodded and kicked his
No. lls pensively against the veneered
panels of the desk.
“Would you like to be packed iu ice
until your friends call for you ?” said the
editor, gloomily, “or shall we forward
your remains in an air-tight casket ?”
Then gazing sorrowfully at the young
man he put his mouth to a speaking tube
and asked—
“Are any of the pressmen at hapd!”
Promptly waited through the tin tube
came the reply—
“Red Mike and Big Dan, sir.”
The would-be (^respondent started up
aghast, put his nat on, wrong side in
front, and buttoned the third button of
his coat into the second button hole; but
the newspaper man, taking no more
notice of him than he would of a dead
head advertisement, breathed through
the tube—
“Give ’em a quarter apiece and let
them come here. Tell them there is
another of those Philadelphia Centennial
fellows here, and then pull in a district
telegraph boy and send for a hearse.”
Before the last words were in the speak
ing-tube the tails of an Ulster coat sailed
out of the private office, and a nervous
young man, after trying the door of the
coat room and diving into the coal closet,
reached the counting-room door, looked
over his shoulder at two brawny Milesians
who had just descended from some upper
region, missed his footing for a dozen
stairs, accented his descent with a heavy
bump on the first landing, and reached
the street as the editor wrote the last
word of an article on “the business out
look” and clamly sent it whirling up in
the box to the composing room. ».
Treasure Trove.
The Denison Cresset says: About three
weeks ago, some twelve or fifteen thou
sand dollars in gold and silver was dug up
on the Widow Walker’s place, three miles
south of Denison. At the time men
tioned above, two unknown men, accom
panied by an Indian boy, visited the
farm. Tlfey had a long rod with which
they probed the ground. Some trees
growing near the place where the treas
ure was buried were marked; also, a rock
on which were two rings, one within the
other, and an arrow- pointing in the di
rection of the buried treasure. It ap
pears that the Walker family knew that
the money was buried on the place, but
it was a request of the Widow Walker
that it should not be disturbed until af
ter she died. A number of parties have
recently visited the place aud the hole
where the money was buried; the trees
pointing to the spot and the rock with
the rings and arrow on can be seen. The
name of the parties who came aud took
the treasure are known, we understand,
to be the Walker family. The Indian
was from the Nation. The story seems
incredulous, and perhaps must be taken
with some allowance. It seems very im
probable that the Walker family, knowing
for so long a time that the money was
buried there, would not have dug it up
and enriched themselves, notwithstanding
the Widow Walker requested that it
should not be disturbed until after her
death. The story was told to us by
three of the most respectable citizens of
Denison, who believe that tho money was
found as described above. There seems
to be considerable excitement on the
streets in regard to the buried treasure.
Mrs. Walker says that only a small por
tion of it has been found, and that she
knows where there are thousands of dol
lars in gold and silver buried one mile
distant from Denison. If Mrs. Walker’s
tale is true, people who contemplate
going to the Black Hills can do better by
remaining at home. Several parties have
gone to the Walker place, and report
finding some silver coin in the dirt left
near the place where the treasure was
buried.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Mr. II ii I** Uour»t* in C'onarea*— 1 The Effect
• f His Speeches on the Northern Elec*
lions— Furnishinff Campaign Material to
the Radicals—Slandering the Black
burns—The Late Mr. Pendleton—A Word
of Explanation am Exhortation.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Wandering in the Wilderness.
[From the Denver News.]
A little boy has wandered away from
his home in Wet Mountain valley. The
child’s name is Hiltman, and he is only
two and a half years old. His parents
reside at the foot of Sangre de Cristo
range, five miles from Uia. The child
left the house a week ago last Sunday
morning between 9 and 10 o’clock. The
neighbors were alarmed, and a party
began searching along the adjacent tim
ber in the foot-hills. In the evening the
tracks of the little astray were discovered
in the snow, leading into the mountains.
This trail was followed two miles, when,
in the darkness, all trace was lost, though
every foot of ground was scanned
with the aid of lanterns. The
night was very cold, and about
three inches of snow fell before morning.
At daybreak the search was renewed,
and was kept up all day Monday, Monday
night, and Tuesday until 2 o’clock p m.,
when Oscar Smith came upon fresh tracks
in the snow. These he followed eagerly
for fifty yards, when a whirlwind passed
across his course, drifting the snow in
sheets and obscuring the footprints of
the child. Further search that afternoon
revealed no sign or trace of the lost one.
By this time tne news had spread far and
wide, and the searching party had in
creased to one hundred strong. The
search was continued over Wednesday,
and was, at the date of last advices
(Thursday) still in progress, though the
hope of finding the child alive had been
abandoned by Ml except the child's father
and mother, who had accompanied the
searchers day and night. Jhese inter
esting facts are gleaned from a letter to
the Pueblo Chieftain.
The mule candidate for the Presidency,
which his name is Bristow, is obstinately
in the field. We have high authority for
saying that the only way in which to
keep a mule in a pasture is to put him m
a meadow and let him jump out. And
Bristow hasn’t got into the meadow.—
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Here's a New Name for a Carpen
ter’s Shop.—On the Swedish booth in
the main Centennial building is engraved
worn an overcoat since it begun. The I the word “Snickerifadrick,” which means
orange crop has been sold and the trees | “ woodworking establishment.’’
Washington, March 20, 187§.
When the Hon. Ben. H. Hill delivered
his Andersonville speech a prominent
Democrat remarked to me that he feared
the effect of it would be to raise the issue
as to whether the North or South was
right in the late war, and though he
believed the North was desirous of recon
ciliation and peace, it would of course
concede nothing on that score. In fact,
nothing could be gained by debating such
a question now, other than to
FIRE THE NORTHERN HEART,
which Mr. Hill's speech appears to have
done very effectually. In this respect the
worst apprehensions have been realized,
as the late municipal elections in Maine
and the State election in New Hampshire
show. It was further feared that the
press of'Georgia would so eulogize Mr.
Hiii’s address as to incite him to fresh
efforts on the same line of argument. Tho
Georgia press has, however, shown more
judgment and discretion than it was given
credit for. Of course no one can suppose
for a moment that Mr. Hill does not have
the good of tho State and of his section at
heart. The worst allegation I have heard
against him was that he prepared his
Andersonville speech for circulation
m Georgia to aid him in his
Senatorial aspirations, regardless of what
its effect might be elsewhere. And that
charge, if true, in my opinion, ought to
relegate Mr. Hill to private life. Mr.
Hill’s statesmanship has thus far been
like tbe Irishman’s musket. It has kicked
both ways, aud has been more damaging
to his friends than to his enemies. His
first speech made a campaign document
for the Radicals, gave them thousands of
votes, helped Blaine’s Presidential can
vass; dragged Mr. Davis from the ob
scurity of private life, where he
was enjoying the luxury of being
let alone, and subjected him to
fresh abuse, and kindled anew
the fires of proscription and hate in
the North and West. His second speech
prevented the passage, and has probably
defeated the 1812 pension bill, in which
the South is particularly interested.
Moreover, Mr. Hill furnished the Radi
cals with
A KEY NOTE FOR THEIR CAMPAIGN,
which they struck with good effect in
New Hampshire. The war issues are to
be revived, the memories of Anderson
ville awakened, and the people taught to
believe that renewed attempts are to be
made to establish a Southern Confedera
cy. It seems incredible that success
should attend such efforts, but
it has already done so, and will,
from present appearances, continue
to do so. The soldier element
in the North and West is a large one, and
bile those who wore the blue have been
ready enough to shake hands across the
bloody chasm with those who wore the
gray, it is not difficult for the politicians
to excite in their breasts the old bellig-
erant feelings. Mr. Hill laid the train
and the Radicals have applied the match.
Morton and his bloody shirt are left far
in the rear. Those who had wearied
of stale slanders on the South, such as
Morton has served up year after year,^
lent their ears readily to new slanders, and^
are rallying around “the ©Id flag” to
resist the Confederate attacks conjured
up by designing politicians.
“It will be like ’61,” said to me an ex
soldier now in office here,” “we shall
sweep everything before us.” Another
ex-soldier, the editor of a Sunday news
paper in this city, says: “It is impossible
for those who fought to agree about the
questions of the rebellion. They can
forgive and forget,and bury the whole sub
ject in the waters of oblivion, but any
revival and discussion of these dead
issues will surely be fatal to the South
and defeat and postpone its dearest
wishes. If the Democrats supply any
more campaign ammunition to the Re
publicans of the kind furnished by the
amnesty debate, they will have haid
work to nominate a man at St. Louis who
can possibly be elected.” These are
truths which cannot and should not be
ignored.
THE BETE NOIR OF RADICALISM.
The Radicals don’t like Representative
Biackburn, of Kentucky, and I don’t
wonder at it. I confess that I do. That
they should fling mud at him is not sur
prising. That they should tell lies about
him is natural enough. It is as natural
for them to lie as for a dog to have fleas.
‘Their last attempt to smirch his reputa
tion has been to connect him with an
alleged plot of his brother’s, Dr. D. P.
Blackburn, to introduce yellow fever
into the Federal army, or rather to hold
him responsible for what his brother is
said, on the testimony of a perjured
scoundrel, to have done. I am fully con
versant with all the facts in the case,
and know whereof I speak. To make
matters worse the society correspoDdents,
the gushing females who describe the
back-hair and shoe buckles of the shoddy
element of Washington, have got hold of
Dr. Blackburn, and are writing of him
with their usual reckless inaccuracy and
disregard of Lindley Murray. The story
they have attempted to tell is this : Dr.
Blackburn was in Halifax, Nova Scotia,
when the yellow fever broke out in Ber
muda. The physicians there were unfa
miliar with the disease, which was making
great inroads upon the population. Dr.
Blackburn volunteered his services to the
British authorities. They were accepted.
He took steamer and went to Bermuda,
had a consultation with the medical men
there aud gave them his views as to
the treatment of the disease, in which
he has had large experience. Finding
that he would excite professional jeal
ousies if he remained and attended to
patients, he returned to Halifax and
made a report to the authorities. The
British Government soon after, very
properly,presented him with £500, which
little more than repaid him for his ex
penditure of time, professional skill and
money. There is no doubt but that his
visit resulted in saving many lives. Now
what have the Radical slanderers to say
to that ? t
GENTLEMAN GEORGE
Hon. George H. Pendleton is here.
I regret that I cannot conscientiously
say a good word for him. To me
his conduct does not seem defensible,
and the Democratic press and party can*
not afford to shield a wrongdoer. “Let
no guilty man escape,” with no mental
reservation in favor of Babcock or any
other man, is a very good motto at
this time. There are two ex-ciem-
bers of Congress lounging about the
Capitol now who lost their seats because
of their corruption. One was in the
District ring, and the other a tool of
Senator Spencer’s. I am proud to think
that I did something toward driving them
from public life. As for Mr. Pendleton, he
may as well consider himself permanently
retired to private life. If he thinks he
has acted honorably he will have an easy
conscience. But, unfortunately, for him,
it will be impossible to reason the country
into the same opinion.
A WORD TO GEORGIANS.
And now a personal word or two. As
I may frequently have occcasion to ad
dress the readers of the Morning News
in the future, as I have done in the past,
I desire to have their confidence. I will
state, therefore, that in what I have
said of Mr. Hill I have been actuated
solely by a desire to promote the interests
of the Democracy. I have no personal
enmity to him. I was opposed to his
election to Congress because I feared he
would do just what he has done; and I
think Georgia will do a great injustice
to a tried, true and able representative if
she promotes Mr. Hill to Mr. Norwood’s
seat in the Senate, Furthermore, I did
what little I could to aid the Southern
Confederacy, and the Lost Cause is still
my cause. But I consider it both unne
cessary and impolitic to defend it now.
History will do that when the Blaines
and Mortons are rottemnnd their slanders
lost in oblivion. To promote the politi
cal {lower and material prosperity of the
South is of far more importance at this
time than the revival of dead issues.
Them’s my sentiments,” and this is my
platform. Carlos.
TRUTH ABOUT NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Stearu*. of the Northern Railroad, Expect
ing to be United States Senator.
To the Editor of the New York Sun:
Sir—I have read your leader, “Is Re
form Possible ?” It contains a great deal
of solid and wholesome truth; but never
theless, so far as New Hampshire is con
cerned, it is to a great extent based on a
misapprehension. It ignores two vital
factors in the late election, viz.; the
power of Stearns, the railway king, and
the power of money.
No State can compare with this in the
thoroughness of its political organiza
tions and their discipline. Every ward
in each city is treated as a town: every
town is thoroughly organized. The lead
ing men of each party in each town have
a private poll book or tally list, which
contains the name of every voter in town,
whether he is a Democrat, Republican, or
to be reckoned as doubtful. There is
rarely any appreciable difference in the
names and numbers on the poll books of
the two parties. This is carried so far
that I have known a town with from 800
to 1,000 names on its poll list, in which
the name, face, and political proclivities
of each voter were well known to the
leading men of each party, who could
tell precisely how each man was likely to
vote.
As a rule these poll books show that
from one-fourth to one-seventh of the
voters are marked “doubtful.” This
means that they will be controlled by the
amount of money, free passes, jobs from
railroad and other corporations which
they may receive. These things are
equally well known to the managers of
both parties.
You are mistaken if you think that the
mass of the Republicans in this State do
not believe as thoroughly in the rotten
ness of the national administration a
yourself. They understand it all, but it
makes no difference with their votes.
The exposure of Belknap and the general
corruption in official circles at Washing
ton, helped rather than hurt the Republi
can party. It only spurred the leaders to
greater exertion, and caused them to put
out more railroad favors and more money.
Had the whole Cabinet and the President
been impeached, it would only have in
creased the majority, so long as there was
no want of funds.
The simple truth is, that from two to
five thousand men vote in this State every
year who have no more legal right to vote
here than you have. About sixty thou
sand of the voters are what Horace Greeley
called the “trained regulars.” They are
perfectly sure, and the rest, less the illegal
vote, are in the market. Their price
ranges from a free pass for a few days to
$100 in cash. A rural town, which I will
not name, and which is presumed to be
respectable if any can be, within twenty
miles of this city, is a marked, perhaps
an extreme illustration. It has less than
three hundred voters. Fifteen years ago
a dozen votes could not have been pur
chased there for money. At the last
election it had about seventy reliable
Democratic, and about seventy-five relia
ble Republican voters, and about ninety
were in the market. The latter have
found out their power; they cohere to
gether; they refuse to sell single votes;
and whoever buys must buy the block,
unless the vote sellers quarrel or the pur
chasers divide.
To some extent the same is true in
many other towns which are close. This
vote trading is done openly by the side
of the ballot boxes and in open town
meeting. One of the Senators elected
this year had at the election last year to
buy up the town in which he lived. He
stood in front of ihe door of the polling
place with an open pocket book, and
dealt out the bills to the voters he bought
as they passed him, as a gambler deals
his cards. The Republican Legislature
of last year, of which he was a member,
defeated a stringent bill to stop this
bribery, because they knew they had the
advantage in money. The fact is shame
ful and humiliating beyond the power of
words; but what help have we?” “Is
reform possible ?”
Mr. Stearns is the President of the
Northern Railroad, and controls that cor
poration and its branches. He expects
to be United States Senator, and prob
ably will be. Every intelligent man of
both parties knows that the late election
represents nothing but the corporate
power wielded by this railway king, and
the purchasing power of money.
An Old Subscriber.
Concord, March 18.
Belknapism iu 1649.
[From the Boston Traveller.)
A poet, who was also a man of the
world, and was well acquainted with
countries and cities, and who had traveled
much, and who had also lived nbt a little
in retirement, and corresponded and con
versed with many sorts of men, wrote the
following sonnet, which is worth reading
merely for the music of it:
What hapless hap had I for to be born
In these unhappy times, and dying days
Of this now doting world, when good decays;
Love's quite extinct, and Virtue’s held a scorn !
When such are only priz’d, by wretched ways,
Who with a golden fleece can them adorn;
When avarice and lust are counted praise,
And bravest minds live orphan-like forlorn
Why was not I born in that golden age.
When gold was not yet known ? and those black
arts
By which base worldlings vilely play their parts.
With horrid acts staining earth’s stately stage?
To have been then, O Heaven, it had been my
bliss
Bat bless me now and take me soon from this.
Reading this sonnet, withont knowing
by whom it was written, or when, one
would be justified in supposing it to have
proceeded from thte desponding genius of
some “independent” American poet—say
the venerable Bryant, who, though past
four-score, still writes vigorous verse.
But the supposition would be all wrong,
for it was written by a poet who died in
1649, even by Drummond of Hawthorn-
den, who thought that the world was
worn out, wanton and wicked, and that
there was no good in it cr to be hoped for
it, at the very time which men of these
days are accustomed to look back upon
as having abounded in the greatest and
most glorious of actions, and as having
been the richest of all times in display of
the virtues and in the production of vir
tuous men.
TAMPERING WITH THE
STATEMENTS.
DEBT
Senator DavJ*’» Cbnrjie* Well Founded—
Unaccountable Charccs Made In the
Kepari*—The Senate Committee on Fi
nance Soon to Report on the Matter.
Washington, March 19.—The Senate
Committee on Finance, which was in
structed to investigate the books of the
Treasury Department with reference to
discrepancies and alterations in amounts
and figures that have been made in them,
or in the annual finance reports, as al
leged by Senator Davis in several speeches
made by him in January, and to ascertain
by what authority any such alterations
were made, have sent to the Department
a copy of Senator Davis’s speeches,
with a request that each point contained
in them be fully explained. The clerks
of the Treasury Department have for
some time been engaged in making this
examination. The discoveries made by
Senator Davis iu his study of the finance
reports, it will be remembered, were in
substance as follows : That wholesale
changes in tables showing the public
debt at the close of each fiscal year, have
been made, and that the sum of these
alterations amounted in the aggregate to
an increase in the public debt of $247,-
766,674. In tho meantime Senator Davis
has been continuing his investigations,
and has discovered many additional facts
which will be given to the Senate
whenever the report of the Committee on
Finance is completed.
The changes referred to date back to
the year 1836. At that time the public
debt was at its minimum, and, in fact,
the United States at the close of that
year was almost out of debt. Year after
year the Register of the Treasury made
annual statements of the public debt, and
these have been sent to Congress un
changed, each report agreeing as to the
debt of former years with the reports
that had preceded until 1870 when many
changes were made in these oft published
tables. Thus, for instance, a statement
of the public debt for 1863 having once
been made up and reported to Congress,
all subsequent reports for the same year
ought to agree with it. The finance re
ports from 1863 to 1870 did thus agree
substantially, but between the publica
tion of the reports for 1870 and 1871 an
increase was made in this item for 1863,
by which it appears to have been increased
nearly $21,000,000. In other words,after
having stated the public debt on June 30,
1863, in eight annual reports, as nearly
$1,01M),000,000, in 1871 it was reported to
fiave been for that year nearly $1,120,-
000,000, and has been reported at the
latter figure in every subsequent state
ment. Tho only conclusion that can be
arrived at from these facts is that the
Register of the Treasury changed the
figures in the report of 1871, and Senator
Davis’s object is to learn on what author
ity this change was made and what its
purpose was. These are questions which
Senator Boutwell did not answer in his
replies to Senator Davis.
Fun in the United States Senate.
[From Noah’s Sunday Times and Messenger]
In retreat, near this city, is ex*Senator
Nye, or at least what remains of his once
brilliant intellect, genial qualities, and
manly person. Struck down by a melan
choly disease, beyond the hope of re
covery, he only awaits happy release from
earthly ills. And yet few, if any, remem
ber him other than with the kindliest
feelings—when he is remembered at all,
Happening in the Senate one day, we
found Mr. Sumner giving a historical ac
count of the “first blood shed” in the re
hellion. Mr. Sumner stated that a negro
citizen had been beaten and maltreated
by a mob at Alexandria, had escaped from
his persecutors, and fleeing to thecapitol,
told the story of his wrongs. When he
lifted his cap from his head, “three drops
of blood” fell upon the marble floor ! A
discussion followed in reference to the
services of the volunteers in Washington
who enrolled themselves to protect the
capital from invasion, iu which Senators
Nye and Willard Saulsbury, of Delaware
participated.
“I was in Washington in that trying
hour,” exclaimed Nye, “and enrolled my
self as a volunteer to defend the capital
of the nation from the rebels who threat
ened its capture!”
‘Did you fire a gun?” roared Willard
Saulsbury from his seat, unable under the
pressure of circumstances to arise.
; ‘No!” retorted Nye. “The rebels
didn’t oome as we expected. They dis
appointed us.”
‘Then, Mr. President,” said Saulsbury,
with great gravity, “I wish to claim equal
credit with my friend from Nevada. I,
too, was present, and volunteered on that
memorable occasion.”
“Did you fire a gun?” demanded Nye.
“No !” exclaimed Saulsbury, in thunder
tolles, “I did not fire a gun; but I must
remind the gallant Senator from Nevada
that, in the bloodiest battle in which he
was ever engaged, I was by his side.”
The Senate fairly shrieked with laugh
ter, in which Nye and the galleries
joined.
The W'ashington Star publishes some
interesting information in respect to the
profits realized from the Wilson patent
for the “four-motion feed,” used* by sew
ing machine companies, against the re
newal of which the House Committee on
Patents recently reported. The patent
was obtained in 1850, and as the inven
tion was a very important and useful one
its value was at once recognized, and by
various arrangements with Mr. Wilson,
the inventor, it was * adopted by
all the more important and ex
tensive manufactories in the United
States, the inventor becoming a
stockholder in one of them. From
statistics furnished the committee in ex
amining the merits of the question, it
appears that this sewing machine combi
nation sold during three years 1,175,981
machines. These machines, according
to the report of the committee, are re
tailed at an average price of $68, and it
further appears that they can be manu
factured and sold, including a reasonable
profit, for $32 50. In addition to his
profits as stockholder in one of ^“com
bination companies,” Mr. Wilson was
entitled to a portion of the royalties paid
in license fees under the scheme. With
one exception, which will expire next
year, all the patents introduced and used
by this combination are now at an end.
“Minnie has been to see me to-day,”
said little five-year-old, “and she behaved
like a little lady.” “I hope you did, too,”
said her mother. “Yea, indeed, I did; I
turned somersaults for her on the bed.”
Radical Corruption in New Hampshire.
Proofs of the amazing lengths to which
the corruption of voters was earned in
the recent New Hampshire election are
coming to light. The Merrimac Journal
publishes two letters showing that $250
was sent by the Republican managers
into the little town of South Hampton,
where there are only one hundred and
forty voters. The first lettter is written
by the somewhat famous Natt Head, and
is as follows: “I have put $25 in the
hands of some Democratic friends in
your town who say they can help me. I
inclose you $25, and if I can afford to
send more when I get around will do so.
The other letter is written by Daniel
Hall, Chairman of the Republican State
Committee, and like that of Mr.
Head, is addressed to the Republican
candidate for Representative, Samuel P.
Eaton. It reads : “I herewith inclose po
you the sum of $200 for your political
uses in South Hampton. You ought
with this not only to make your election
as a Representative sure, but to secure a
better standing on the ticket than you
did last year. It is in most cases just as
easy to secure men for the whole ticket
as for the ballot for Representative. It
is particular that in District No. 1 you
should make the best possible showing
on the general ticket vote. I call your
special attention to this, and shall expect
a better report than last year. Please
sign and return to me the inclosed re
ceipt.” Mr. Eaton’s election was doubt
less “hailed” as a part of the “glorious
victory.” If there is any regard for de
cency left in the State the coming Legis
lature will investigate the manner in
which Mr. Eaton “made his election
sure.”
Graveyard Ghouls—Army Mules
Buried as Federal Soldiers.—The re
volting frauds in connection with the
placing of head-stones over the soldiers’
graves in the national cemeteries is con
firmed by Franklin Warren, of Cromwell,
Conn., who, last year, had a sub-contract
for setting head-stones at the graves of
Union soldiers in Louisiana. There were
several thousand of them. He was to
put up marble head-stones, six inches
square and two and a half feet in length,
setting them two feet in the ground. He margin was cau ^ ~~ j)^ ew and find
used a large auger-like instrument to down in hot Hast __ <4Vfr f> rew
make the holes. He was given the lines
of the heads of graves by a government
engineer. But he found that the graves
were irregular, and in boring he frequent
ly struck coffins aud bodies or bones.
They were just under the surface, not so
deep as he was required to dig. In strik
ing these bones it was necessary to cut
through them, and in this work he found
that many of them were the legs of
mules, or parts of mule carcasses. The
contractors, who had received $20 per
body for burying the eoldiers in regular
order, had used the bones of mules, as
well as those of the soldiers, to swell ther
income, and had made every mule go as
far as possible, receiving from the gov
ernment, of course, $20 for each mule
leg put into a coffin and buned.— Wash
ington Sfecial to the Springfield, Republi
can.
Trend*,.]
of the iHsrtpp!' anJ i Do CaPtain f aid ’
reached thia nort . Dommion Lu >e.
Liverpool, Feb^ , f ™“
the crew—consistm^'"’. ■ m F on
the Norwegian barfc 8 Chlt^ 8ht meD—1at
s
l0CaIit3 ' heretofore re-
re^r’teS a ™ b ° Ud th ° St ‘ Louis
awav on ,," k fii 8 nals of distress
away on the starboard; Captain lleid
assistance 3 S*"" *» iar dCto her
to be tha" K n re ? clnil g her she proved
** , tLo Norwegian bark Chatham, of
Wth b r 8 ’ “ nd hound from Wilmington,
North Carolina, to Rotterdam, with a
cargo of 3,212 barrels rosin. The Jrew
eight in number, were gathered together
the m»i a t pt&ln .? eld 3al! 8 out “What is
you ? 1 aud received the
reply, \\ e have lost our Captain and
two hands overooard, and we are unable
th . e ®hip." Captain Reid now-
ordered the boat to he cleared away and
togoto the rescue of the unfortunate
The sea was now running with terrific
fury, making a clear breach over the un
fortunate bark. This rendered the launch
ing of the boat a matter of the greatest
danger and difficulty. Nothing, however,
seemed dangerous or difficult to the men
who undertook the task; amid the roar of
the storm their chery song was heard as
they hauled away at the boat, and in a
surprisingly short time the boat, in
charge of the first officer, Mr. Griffith
was dancing over the boiling waves.
The men being safely landed on board
the bt. Louis, Captain Reid learned that
they were determined to abandon the
Chatham, and thereupon resolved to send
the bark to Eugland. In pursuance ef
this resolve he sent second officer Snelling
with a crew to report on the condition of
the bark.
^ About 3 o’clock, on the morning of the
7th, Mr. Snelling sent the boat to the
steamer reporting that the bark was in
good cuudibion, well found, and that they
had already sucked her dry, and with
some sails, provisions, a chart and com
pass supplied to him, he would under
take to bring her home. These having
be in with great difliculty put into the
boat and a prize crew put on board, the
St. Louis remained by them until the
Chatham once more began to display a
fair spread of canvas. About 9 o'clock
tho St. Louis bore down on them for the
last time. The Chatham under her new
commander now pointed her bow to
wards home, and we sped away to the
westward, having been detained eighteen
hours.
The following is the story related by
the Chatham’s crew of that unfortunate
vessel’s journey:
The bark Chatham sailed from Wil
mington, North Carolina, on the 11th of
February, having on board O. Schirod,
captain, Carl A. Sanderson, mate, and
nine hands; also a cargo of 3,212 barrels
rosin and bound for Rotterdam. Strong
but favorable winds were experienced
after leaving port, which were varied only
by the violence of their nature. They
were obliged to “heave to” during the
fury of a hurricane; the sails were tom
into ribbons, and on February 22d
the storm was at its height. On
that day a sea burst clear
over the ship, washing overboard
the captain and two of the hands, besides
boats, provisions (which were on deck)
and every object within its reach, amongst
which unfortunately were the charts. It
was impossible to render the drowning
men any assistance, as each man was
clinging on for bare life himself. These
disasters disheartened the remainder of
the crew, and thenceforth, the weather
still continuing heavy, they made occa
sional but ineffectual efforts to continue
their voyage, aud finally abandoned the
ship to its fate, lying to under a storm
mizzen sail. Thus they were found. For
thirteen days they lay looking across the
waves for help, having only hard biscuit
to eat.
SEA ISLAND COTTON.
The Soil ami Aiiiionplieric Condition* for
Producing the Best.
Washington, March 19.—The Com
missioner of Agriculture, in reply to a
resolution of the Senate, gives the fol
lowing information: A soil of marine
formation appears to be necessary for the
growth of the stalk and fibre of the sea
island or long staple cotton, and a sea
atmosphere with its warmth and equa
bility. A sandy deposit of marine salt,
but little above the sea level, permeable
by the moisture beneath, and convenient
for the requisite manuring by sait marsh,
furnishes conditions for the highest pro
duction of sea island cotton. Edisto
Island, south of Charleston, is the most
prominent locality for the production cf
long staple cotton. St. Simons, Ukyl,
and Shidoway are also favorably known
for products of high quality. The
geographical limits and area in
which the se& island cotton ma
tures a perfect growth include the
islands off the coast of South Carolina,
Georgia, and Florida, and the Gulf of
Mexico, aud a few miles inland from the
coaa t_ten or fifteen, more or less—the
line extending further inland up the river
valleys, which have a marine's oil and un
obstructed sea breeze, and including most
of the area of Florida. The area suitable
for this culture in Texas is claimed to be
quite large, and has of late been extend
ing. The proportion of upland to sea
island cotton produced is about two hun- •
dred to one. Probably not more than
100,000 acres are now devoted to its cul
ture, while that occupied in upland cotton
is from 100 to 120 times as much. The
area could be increased immensely were
the conditions favorable — a sufficient
price, a more systematic and labor-saving
inodes of culture and preparation, and
more available and efficient labor—the
former residents of the coast and islands
having gone to the cities or retired to the
uplands.
How Uncle Daniel Helped Ihe Parson
to Make a Little Money.
They are telling all sorts of stories
about Uncle Daniel Drew’s operations in
Wall street now that he has passed in
his checks, and here is one that will do
as a specimen. Once while sitting in
his office Drew was approached by a
Methodist minister from a town up tbe
Hudson. Uncle Daniel being himself a
Methodist wanted to know what he could
do for him. “Well, I thought, Mr
Drew,” said the parson, “that you might
put me in the way of making a little
money.” “Thinkin’ o buyrn some
sheers, eh ?” said Darnel. Yes,
got something saved up, and if you d
be good enough to tefi me wnat is best
to do to increase it, you'd oblige me very
much.” “Well, now, its kind o resky,
ve know but perhaps ef ye tr.ed a little
Fry”- “Thank you, Mr Drew, thank
you Now Will you be kind enough to tell
me a good place to buy ?" Drew sent him
to one of Jokers,who had orders
to sell Erie right along, and when the
re” 1 ®“ d “‘>“7,
here an »pecki-
ye any pints,
C t:pelT ordered some Rne,
53
aD<1 wlio conld command
faUiug m»t» {oJ . tte dom ini e came
uu-u ... —- - .j—. “Mr. Drew,
out what was t } me Erie wa3 a s00 d
how is this ? H ,. WeU ” said Undo
fact, Let’s see. how much
lose any aominie named his
16 Threw told a clerk to fill a check
loss, and Drew handed to tho
fortheanmmtuw ^ the
visitor. ao d . himhtu! said;
T * r nde Daniel stopped him and«
office l ncle D ^ not t0 fiay any-
“beemsto “6 oD £ry to the folj£S
thing about t Qf em . 8 been ,j 0WI1
up your way. fesir they hain’t made
yer buym “ ^ad been buying tho
DOtb w n .h»t Drew was selling, and the
dominie was only a small
check t° j.e had made out ot the
I
dominu