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Affairs iu fieoncia.
Georgia ia
the banner State. Her major-
j-vfor lilden is ahead of that of any other.
ALout forty youDg M. D.’s will be turned
loose upon society from the Augusta Medi
cal College this winter.
Smith's saw mill, in Jackson county, seems
t 0 be a fated place. Two men have been
tilled there, three have been badly hurt in
different ways, and last week Mr. Erwin was
knocked in the head by a cotton press lever
and seriously mjared.
Chickens, eggs, country produce, and even
vegetables to the value of twenty cents, will
pay for subscription to the Brooks County
g m . Kay ton means “biz.”
jir. John Chapman’s store, three miles
from Columbus, was entered by some bur
glar, who succeeded in carrying away one
hundred and fifty dollars in specie.
XL? Columbus bon vivanta are anxiously
looking out for the arrival of a boat load of
oysters.
The Mobile and Girard Railroad stock
holders have asked for an injunction against
the Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany. There are two bills, one filed by the
estate of Benjamin May and the other by
Homer Blackmon, D. M. Beals, and R. J.
Hoses in behalf of themselves and suck
other stockholders as may join in the bill.
They will be presented to Judge Kiddo.
Judge Crawford being a stockholder, is dis
qualified from bearing the case.
This from the Columbus Times: “ The
Constitution dubs Howard Carroll, of the
Sew York Times, * Colonel.’ Our readers
remember this bummer as the chap who
gpoke a Democratic piece irom the Rankin
House balcony, a year or two since, and then
left and abused the hospitality of those la
dies to whom he was introduced. The
Colonel (?) has left fer Florida.”
The two Griffin military companies have
been invited, and accepted the invitation,
logo to Atlanta when she gives her ju
bilee.
Rome had a rousing Democratic jollifica
tion on Tuesday night. The procession,
which was long and enthusiastic, moved
down Li "ad to South, down South to Che
rokee, up Cherokee to Howard, up Howard
to Broad, up Broad to East Boundary, coun
ter marched down Broad to the speaker’s
stand, in front of City Hall, where patriotic
addresses were delivered.
The Home Courier says: “We regret to
learn that the steamer Mary Carter was
sunken her up trip, just below Garrett’s
ferry, loaded with cotton. We have not the
particulars of the accident. No person
was hurt. We are glad to learn this will
make no interruption to the mails, but they
will be supplied to all the offices regularly.
She ha 1 eighty-eight bales of cotton
aboard, all of which will be saved, and it is
be.ieved that the boat can be raised and
again put in running order.”
William Redden was put iu jail in Rome
i&s: Week charged with the murder of his
wife on tie evening of the 31st ult., near
Stonewall Jron Works, in Floyd county. The
woman was about sixty-seven years old. The
weapon used was au axe and the last blow
seems to have knocked her out of the door
of the cabin in which she was living, leaving
her feel resting in th6 doorway; yie cabin
was then fired. When discovered the flames
were under good headway and the flesh on
the lower limbs of the body was burned off.
The clothing had all been consumed,and the
body was so blackened by the fire that only
the crushed skull and a pool of blood showed
the deed had been done by a murderous
band.
Fat Tennessee hogs are arriving at Rome
^*arge quantities, and now Rome may be
aaid to be the capital of Grease.
^ subscriber to the Columbus Sun voted
his subscription receipt for that paper at tho
late election. And yet people still talk of
devotion to principle, and so forth.
At the Upson Superior Court on® negro
Was sentenced to be hung, and another to
the penitentiary for ten years, and there was
a general jail delivery.
It was the eense of a mooting of citizens
of Griffin, held on the 13th, that the Alder
men of mat city should serve without com
pensation.
Americas has received 16,183 bales of cot
ton the present season.
A son of J. E. Joiner, of Dooly county,
& Sed 16,was accidentally killed on his father’s
Pace, Monday, 13th instant, while engaged
111 grinding cane. He was standing in such
* as to have his head caught between
‘he frame and lever of the mill while run-
He was killed instantly, his head
king crushed.
The residence of Mr. T. J. Stapleton, four
mifes west of Preston, was destroyed by
foe on Saturday night last about 10 o’clock.
Nothing was saved from the house. The
hre ia supposed to have been the work of an
iacendiarv.
The Sumter Republican says : “The
~^ge dwelling house of Dr. John M. R.
Westbrook, on his plantation, eight miles
**** of Americus, was set on fire by an in-
®®&diary on Friday night last and totally
destroyed, together with everything in it.
The dwelling was occupied by renters. The
doctor’* loss is about $1,200.”
^he grand torchlight procession at Ameri-
CQs ^ been postponed until Florida is defi-
mtelyheard from.
Tuq next meeting of the Georgia State
x ‘ at S- will take place in Atlanta on the
8t cooii Monday in December.
he Sumter Republican wants those
*enty-fiv e gentlemen who subscribed to
j 'Lf' a P er t payable on the election of Samuel
• ‘ den to the Presidency, to step up to
- Captain’s office and settle.
‘kata Commonwealth : “ General A. R.
*wton returned from Florida this morn-
lt g- He expresses conviction that the State
a fii’dority for Tilden, but has no con
fidence
:e m tje integrity of the returns or the
Jtouestv
f the returning board. He thinks
Will be tea days befC r e anything definite
Florida is known.”
he recruiting office at Atlanta has suc-
fded
Atlanta Commonwealth• “Last Saturday
rening there occurred an altercation in
iannel Hill between Dr. McEwing and Mr.
obert Springfield. Dr. McEwing was,
ter wards, on his way home, and was near
111 gathering quite a number of
lored recruits, who have started for the
West on the trail of Sitting Bull and
;&zy Horse.
. Atlanta Commonwealth says: “Yes-
jday about twenty families from Fayette
ty passed through Atlanta on their way
exas, and we received a letter this morn-
from Forsyth, inquiring the price of
lets and the best route there for twenty
lilies from Monroe county.*'
•fudge W. B. Woods, of the United States
'Court, left Atlanta for the North on Tnei'
*'• i
if
S :
k>
that
killei
from
Facta
port.
neigbl
presen
ing, ai.
existed
How tt
been u
o’clock at night, when he
»d f rom the rear by Mr.
d siiOt through the head and
:E? lag’s throat was also cut.
s:-m9 of the citizens of that
i ar case of murder.”
* mai ia seems to be rampant
?i*- A report reached Atlanta,
m ; realth, late Tuesday night
Ai*,, j i hid stabbed and probably
. J* h - ridge, about two miles
n na the Green’s Ferry road,
be ’.ed s mi rning confirm the re-
- Lere ^Ca social gathering in the
uroei
3 ia -
■ Cover,
hood, o*- d t-se gentlemen were
It is i that both were drink-
t is bi ved lhat ill feeliDgs have
weenifr ru for several years past,
difficub last Light began we have
lie to i ertain fully ; but we are
informe that dn^g the quarrel Mr. Eck-
ridge d. ~jw his t ol ■ id threatened to
shoot Je when t lat plunged his knife
into the jmen Ee dge, inflicting &
wound fr Jii whicL j die 1 this morning at
six o’cloc
J. F. 'urphy, riio of the Oglethorpe
Echo, has t cat. ag r the minds of
meu, and :w devotthis earnest attention
to theirs, les. He t’.ie proprietor of a
t shopiu Lin.ugton.
iceman A . i baa sued tho
salary lue, fcis y dollars, and
ase.
ne of ‘rofesscr Woodfin, of
first-class
An ex-p
city for hi
gained the
The gin 1
Mercer Un v rsity. ms bu: ed in Greene
county on Si .!’ay nig t by an incendiary.
It contained \ enty b*es of c■> ton, and was
uninsured.
die Soihrop
s, Bituatd >n
mega a,d Cl«
in the i&st
rich ail oa
'h rich ein
jys that the
bite county,
land, have
»ek, two by
y of access,
uck on this
111 ilMliKil’il
THE MORNING NEWS.
No on Telegrams.
FLQKID1 SECURE FOR 1ILDEN
AND DREW.
THE SITUATION IN LOUISIANA.
The Eastern Complications More
Complicated.
TURKEY STRENGTHENING HER LINES.
Meeting of the National Grange.
wasrcent
er wt Thin,.
aken from
lirty-three
’ellow fell
:ory of the
day, and
i.d was all
Dod one,
ed chil-
iools in
ctecide» in wb
fceven >r eigh
a oi the
.ed in avor
s 78. IcClc
. -ik detght
e Su-
thou-
>cket
the
and
talk
gathered ar the
•One iorse ay”
eeci the part-
hilewe rej. ce
The Gaint
Ingersoll mi;
between Dal
struck a new
four feet, vt
This is the f<
property.
A nugget of
the Pigeon Roc
pennyweights.
Columbus E. iuver-Su“A
forty feet at the new cotpc
Eagle and Phenii. Compau
struck a sill with Lis stoi aclr,
right the next da3 He a ot
‘ you bet.’ ”
There are 498 wl tnd 0 c
dren in attendance he ; olic
Columbus.
The Columbus JE? v -'*£* , **' m lc ‘ in
stead of a torchlig * proc.-aion, a big ju
bilee and barbecue iu houc" of tu grand
victory achieved by tb c . atio ^1 Do »cracv.
The idea is a good o •*, Ero « body w ill be
more patriotic if the are welled.
A case has just bee
perior Court, involvii
sand dollars, that hat
ten years. It was dei
plaintiff— E. P. Willii
wife, and yet some
about the law’s delay.
The Geneva Lamp k
pieces of the Deacon
and put them together.
The Macon Telegraph
ing guests” iu this wise;
that Macon con’d offer th. m an pyluin a id
a temporary home, we congr&td&te ’hem
that the time has come when eaih can re
turn to *the dearest spot of ear 4 to him-,
and we hope that the years wi.' measure
centuries before the Fore City . again h
wofully disturbed.”
The giu house of Mr. Skelt. N pier, Jr.,
in the edge of Jones cointv, w . burned
about ten o’clock Monday morning, sge.
with about eight bales oi cotton, The fire
was purely accidental, ha - c oa. fro cl
friction while the gin was running.
The Macon Telegraph pub ihe't ic fol
lowing extract, received Wt inesda? evenir
from a reliable source in Brm
attempt to come down or all i
urgent request of the office i
Association and doctors. Tw
deaths last night. The n c
cases are lessening. We k\
white frosts, but no ice yet.
Athens Georgian : “At a rut
zens on Saturday night a vote
given Miss Pipkins, the lady ti
ator, for courtesies showu our
transmitting and receiving m
the regular hours of her offic
graphic management could nc
one at this poiut who would gi\
feet satisfaction.”
Superintendent JohnsoD, of the
Railroad, wants engineers.
The police of Angusta
Wednesday a negro on the st
William Bradley, who was con
months since in Barnwell co
Carolina, of the murder of am
Hampton Ronken, a year ag
sentenced to be hung oa the It i
and escaped from jail on the l
5th of July, iu company wi a
colored convict.
The following ministers are in a
on the Presbyterian Synod now iu n
Augusta. Presbytery of Atlanta . ; iste*
Rev. S. S. Gaillard, Rev. R. H. Wal
bytery of Augusta Ministers
Irvine, D. D., Rev. O. P. Fit.
Elder John Craig. Presbytery of
Rev. W. J McCormick, Rev. B.
Rev. J. C. Grow, Rev. W. H. Dodj Pr-«-
bytery of Macon—Rev. J. H. Na , Elders
Dr. P. H. Wrigbt and Dr. R. x. War*-
Presbytery of Savannah—Rev. A. B. Curry,
Rev. J. W. Montgomery, Elders R H. C1*Y
and Bryan Nich.
Five of the Directors of the Georg
were on the up train Tuesday nigt
she “struck.” It is not stated how
felt when quietly left standing on th
track at Union Point.
The Constitutionalist eays: “The all-
absorbing topic in the city yesterday was
the strike of the engineers cf theG y ;ia
Railroad, mention of which was
THE WAE WAVE LIFTS ITS SURGING CREST.”
London, November 16.—The correspond
ents say Austria contemplates the. partial
mobilization of her army. There is reason
to believe that Russia will call iu next year’s
coi tin gent recruits, numbering two hun
dred thousand men, instead ot waiting till
April, the usual time. The first military
train, with sixteen thousand, left St. Peters
burg yesterday for Kischenoff. All the rail
way companies in Russia have been order
ed to place their railways subject to the
government.
Lord Derby is oa the point of addressing
a protest to the powers against the mobili
zation of the Russian army. This requires
confirmation. If true, the conference is
useless. Everything, however, combines to
discourage those who hope for a peaceful
issue.
Freight traffic on the railroads from the
Polish frontier southward is stopped.
London, November 16.—Turkey is con
centrating apd leaving her defensive line on
the Servian a3d Montenegrin border. Four
English engineer officers have been em
ployed by the Porte to superintend th-3
strengthening of the Danubiaa forts. Tho
Danube flotilla has been reinforced.
The Times editorially believes that a con
ference will be hold despite the warlike
preparations. If the Porte stubbornly re
fuses Turkey will stand alone.
THE FLORIDA VOTE CERTAINLY DEMOCRATIC.
Washington, November 16.—The New
York Herald has a dispatch from J. J.
Daniel, Chairman of the Democratic Execu
tive Committee of the Second District of
Florida, saying: “I send you below the
vote of the State by couuties. The returns
are all in, except from Brevard county.
Hero follow details by Congressional dis
tricts : First—Democratic majorities, 18
counties, 5,171 ; Republican majorities, 4
counties, 4,565. Second—Democratic ma
jorities, 11 counties, 2.791; Republican ma
jorities, 5 couuties, 2,359. Total Democratic
majority iu the 8tate, 1,038.
The dispatch concludes: “This insures
the election of the Staie and national tickets,
Democratic Congressmen from both dis
tricts, and a Democratic majority in both
Houses of the Legislature.”
The Herald's Tallahassee dispatch gay* :
“It is impossible that Drew’s majority can
be cut below 800, or Tildeu’s below 400.”
The Herald's dispatch from Columbia, S.
C., says : “After hearing various protests
the board of canvassers male no answer,
bn*, in reply to another protest against their
character as having judicial functions,
they adopted the following resolution:
“Resolved, That the board will not act upon
any proposition until the question of our
powers and duties De decided by tho Su
premo Court.” The board then adjourned.
THE SITUATION IN NEW ORLEANS.
?wuk : “Don t
0thtf8, is the
of t e belief
>r th Q© more
iuor of r ew
bfl thiee
New York, November 16.—The Her
ald's New Orleans special makes
Governor Kellogg say he has no con
trol over the personnel or organiza
tion of the returning board. Gen. Sheri
dan’s visit is simply in a military capacity
for the preservation of th@ peace. Sheridan
spends most of his time with Gon. Augur.
The disposition of tho troops is as follows :
Two companies at tho Mechanics’ Institute,
six at the Custom House, five back of the
State House on St. Charles street. Total
number of troops 680.
In an interview with your correspondent
to-night, Mr. E. N. Slaughter, of New York,
stated that his visit to this city as well as
that of Messrs. Noyes, Matthews and Sher
man, was only iu tne interest of a true and
just count of the votes cast in that State,
no matter which of the competing candi
dates it might elect. It has now been finally
decided by the Democratic visitors to en
trust their case to Messrs. Turnbull, Palmer
and Potter, who will remain here to watch
and conduct it.
etingof citi-
T tha.iks was
r grain oper-
r people, io
’■age' after
TIG tele-
pla > any
mo
THAT OREGON VOTE.
San Francisco, November 16.—The Secre-
iry of State of Oregon will count the
oto and issue a commission to Postmaster
atts, unless restrained by the Supreme
urt of the State. The necessary writ will
asked for.
BSt>
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South
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. of be
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THE NATIONAL GRANGE.
Ihicago, November 16.—The tenth an
al session of the National Grange met to-
John T. Jones, of Arkansas, in the
ir. Nearly every State is represented,
an i many ladies are present.
u di ace
isioa ir
Election Returns by Mall.
Orange Spring, Marion County, Fla.,
1 - amber 8—Editor Morninq JVews : At
t precinct yesterd iy one hundred and
t otes were polled, the largest since
ar—forty one Republican and sixty-
democratic tickets. Iu Putnam, in
. precinct, where the Republicans
ilways had a majority, th® Demo-
bad seven majority. At Deep Creek,
same county, sixty-four votes were
, all Democratic, blacks and whites
g the Democratic ticket.
A Citizen.
9V. R. !
: .mod ? .
1 rid'—
th
Road
when
they
sida
made
this paper yesterday morning. A* then
stated, the trains were abandoned ue
engineers at one o’clock at various
along the road, where they happened
at that hoar. The down night pass
train stopped at Conyers and the up v
at Union Point. The freights were
tered aloDg at various points. Yestt
morning a passenger train was sen;
from this city on schedule time, aL
through train from Atlanta in char*
Master Machinist Rushtou, of Atl&'.u
arrived between nine and ten o’clock
having encountered many difficulties on th
way It left Atlanta on schedule time. Th
tra«u brought in the delayed night passer,
train from Conyers as well as the regn
down dav tram. A large Dumber of pass
gers, including the delegates to the Gt org
Svuod. came down. The up tram wb. 1
veaterdar morning probably arrive bu a
ianta after night. A heavy mail w; n N' B
by the down train. A train wj ourr ,. -e thi
morniDg on schedule time . mail ea
Will co out with it, carrying me mails. ;eo,
a train will leave Atlanta on time. brmgiDg
the mails, express and passengers. Mr.
Rushton experienced considerable trouble
in clearing the track of the trams which had
been abandoned and left on the mam track,
ooe place every car had been un-
_ K. u «*Lnr onrl hfl WAS
Cell pled from e«h other, and he
forced to use his engine in making the coop-
lions in the Pools.—It is reported
John Morrissey has deposited
,000 of pool money in one of the
cit v crust companies. There is probably
as uch more put into the hands of the
ot*. - pool managers. It would not be
ext vagftnt to say that there are $5,000,-
00C o d y pending upon the results of
the t lections in the various States, and
thif urn is increased hourly by the con
flicting stories which come from the
dou. tful States. If there should be no
elecL.on, or a dispute as to who is Presi
dent. the people who have invested in
pool would be deprived of their money for
gome time to come. Some fine day large
sna, of money will suddenly disappear
from some of the pool rooms, and then
per* 3 will wonder how keen sporting
m( >n vere willing to trust their property
in the hands of gamblers, while they
won not be satisfied to place it in a
b? ' lg institution, unless it was known
’loroughly solvent. We hear that
f this money is very loosely kept.
;ht over .*<100,000 were deposited
fe of one of the up town hotels
s ceipt or other guarantee than
v of a hotel clerk. These
>le arc not business men,
not business habits. It
much the fault of the betting
of the proprietors of the pool
at the same time heavy losses
•ed. All this public gambling
ie prevented by law. There is
t enough about our elections,
having betting so organized that
itation to everybody to “put
ting on the result. As now
hi«2u- Jed, pool gambling is even more
i 3 mor lizing than lotteries.— New York
» raph >•
lings and switching the oars on the .idlings.
The trains on the Athens and Washington
branches arc running as nsual. Trains on
the Augusta road have stopped. Passeu-
frers Who arrived last night are loud in
gers i.* their enforced delay of
‘h’h'an bours ^ Conyers, and threaten to
eighteen how* MW damages. CoI . jonn-
^ stdl in Atlanta, and Pr.esi-
»°°t Kina expresses himself as hrm
?n Ct hi. delermm-mn not
the ^ appear eqnally as
fimand determined to carry their point.
fi wT 1 e"nt\ata b ^mherof,prO Q POSiUon.lk^e
been w bile, in the mean time,
as unsatisfactory, wni^ ^ Rre&t incon v e -
tbe pnbhc is that satisfactory
rnenoe. We aiocereiy ^, ammat ed to-day
move stoD8 “
smooth]
THE POLITICAL STATUS IN FLO
RIDA.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Tallahassee, Fla., November 15.—
Monday was the last day allowed by law
for the several counties of the State to
make up and seal the consolidated re
turns from their different precincts, and
it was generally supposed that additional,
if not final, official returns from the late
election would reach this city by yester
day’s mail, but nothing was received to
materially affect the sem -official and esti
mated result telegraphed and written by
your correspondent yesterday. The very
latest news was wired you last night.
To be the focus of excitement, there is
certainly not a more quiet and peaceable
place in the world than Tallahassee. An
unexpected feeling of lethargy and soli
tude impresses the visitor at once, and
ruin and decay are presented in every
scene. Tallahassee is sleeping—a sleep,
perhaps, from which she may never awake
to resume her once attractive appearance
and business prosperity. It all depends
upon the “count.”
Nothing like excitement among the
natives is noticeable; still the people—
everybody, from the little bootblacks
about the hotels to the most prominent
inhabitant or visitor—is ever on the alert
to hear the news; and the leaders and fol
lowers of both parties seem to think that
the victory is theirs, and they are no ways
backward about expressing a determina
tion to have it. There is where all the
t ouble lies—each party claiming the
election of its candidates, and swearing
that they shall be counted in.
We have said that everything is quiet,
and that nothing like wild excitement
prevails here to any noticeable extent;
but we do not wish to be understood as
saying that the people of either party are
lethargic or apparently disinterested. All
the shining lights of Republicanism in
the State, and numbers from abroad, are
here, and go where you will you will find
them in groups caucussing, each squad
looking lifce a family iu trouble, and
earnestly endeavoring to devise some
plan to get out of it. A Republican
group can be easily designated by the
variety and striking difference in the
complexions of those composing it.
The Democrats are also here in full
force from all over the State, and (Georgia
has enough lawyers and Congressmen
here to seat Drew or almost any other man,
provided they can get a hearing. Hons.
A. It. Lawton and Julian Hirtridge have
returned home, but Hons. W. E. Smith
and Phil Cook are still here,
anxious to do something, but not know
ing exactly what, nor how to do it even if
they did know, for the “bottom facts” in
the case they have come to argue have
not yet been reached on either side. Gov.
Joseph E. Brown arrived here this morn
ing, and, as both parties seem gratified at
his coming, it is hoped that he will be
able to accomplish some good. The
Democrats have put him in the lead, and
he has gone to work in earnest. A con
sultation of the party was held last night,
but nothing was accomplished. The
truth of the matter is, nothing can be
done until the returns are all in ; and
there seems to be a disposition to defer an
official consolidation until the very last day
allowed by law. It is, therefore, more than
probable that the present unsettled and un
satisfactory state of affairs will continue
until the first Tuesday in December, when
all the county boards of canvassers must
have their returns in for consolidation by
the Board of State Canvassers, prepara
tory to |the meeting of the electoral col
lege on Wednesday, the 6th. It is a fact
perhaps not generally known that, under
the stat ute of this State, the board of
State canvassers are allowed thirty-five
days after the election in which to meet
and canvass the returns. The board cf
State canvassers for Florida is composed
of the Attorney General, Comptroller
General, and Secretary of State.
Colonel H. A. Cocke, the Attorney
General, is a man in whom the Demo
crats have every confidence, and, as a
matter of course—he being the only
honest man on the board—he is their
only hope For a fair and legal count.
Your correspondent has had an interview
with Colonel Cocke, and is thoroughly
convinced that he is “true blue,” and that
the confidence of the henest people of
the State has not been misplaced. Gov
ernor Stearns “made a mistake” when he
appointed him, and when it was found
out a desperaie effort was made by the
“ trooly loil” to make him resign; but
they made a miserable failure, and have
finally concluded to make the best they
can of him.
The United States troops that are
here are nearly all Democrats, and are,
withal, a clever set of fellows. Some of
them came from South Carolina, and
have not ceased hurrahing for Wade
Hampton yet. One of them, a Captain,
remarked to your correspondent yester
day that there was about as much neces
sity for four hundred troops here os there
would be at a New England Sunday
School celebration. The people here
treat them kindly and respectfully, and
are glad that they are here. If Mr. Sher
man has any more of the same kind to
spare, the respectable and lawabiding
citizens of Florida will be glad to aee
them down thiu way.
Gov. Drew has been here all the week
conferring with his friends and those here
in his behalf, and is using all the vigilance
in his power. To those gentlemen of
Georgia who have visited the State in be
half of the Democracy, he feels under
many obligations. It is a fact to be
deeply regretted, however, that the Na
tional Democratic Executive Committee
is unrepresented here—here in the State
upon which they say the result of the
national election depends. The Republi
can Executive Committee is represented,
and no stone will be left unturned to
count in the State for that party.
The press of the North is pretty well
represented here, such papers as the New
York Herald, Times, and Boston Post
having correspondents here for the past
three or four days. The Morning News
is the only Georgia or Southern journal
represented by a special correspondent.
Brooks.
The «an Antonio Herald advertises the
h spite ity of Texas rather conspicuously.
I -ays bat the manners of the guests are
c * vfub studied at the principal hotel.
A oun 3* aQ from the frontier remarked
tc the *rk one evening that he would-
prubabl be out quite late. “Just wait a
m 'iute replied the clerk, and he rushed
off but on reappeared with a large en-
ve >pe, liich he placed in the guest’s
br .st*] ket, with the remark: “That is
a t nd I : your appearance before theRe-
coj er p operly signed. As soon as you
are rrer... d for being drunk and disor
der >. j a - gt*® fc ke bond to the police-
ma j mei- ion my name to him, and lie
! will brin yo u borne in a hack. Good
r E g .t! ( od bless you ! ”
It was a ittle chap just out of dresses
vho ,he oi day called great masses
if white clouds “the mountains of
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
Butter out of Mud—Thames Mud.—
Whatever incredulity has been felt in
reference to the manufacture of butter
from Thames mud, there now appears,
says the Medical Examiner, to be no
doubt of the fact that such butter is
made, and in no inconsiderable quantities.
But the precise nature of the material,
and its mode of collection, have, we be
lieve, remained an undiscovered mystery
until the present time. It appears that
as much as 3s. 6d. a day can, under favor
ing circumstances, be earned at low tide
by explorers—properly equipped and with
a keen knowledge of their work—on the
north bank of the Thames below Dagen
ham. Here these persons collect oleagi
nous globes. These globes, originally
made of cork, matted with hair and woody
fibies, are diligently planted for the pur
pose, grow to the size of a walnut or
cricket ball in the water by the action of
the tides which cover them with grease.
The grease thus obtained is from the
drain pipes of our factories and slop
sewers of our kitchens, and in consis
tency and color it resembles Russian tal
low. The process by which this ques
tionable fat is ultimately manufactured
into an article of food,, unobjectionable
to the eye and palatable to the taste, is
necessarily exciting public curiosity.—
Lancet.
Sociability in churches ia a very im
portant element of Christianity. Many a
man has been saved by some one’s simply
taking him by the hand and expressing
otcern for his welfare. The religion
that keeps men apart ia a sham; that
whieh brings them together ia genuine.
“Chatham” at Home Again-Ue*. Toomba
and Hon. A. H. Stephens—Kefocen
Homeward Bound—Tho Rossini Club in
Opera—Case ef T. B. Bin yon.
[Special Uorreapondence of the Morning News.]
Kimball House, November 15, 1876.—
After three weeks at Blount Springs,
Ala., drinking the famous health restor
ing sulphur waters of the venerable
springs that lie hid away among the
towering hills of that mountain regioD,
I am again in the “Gate City,” with
health renewed, but spirits depressed by
the unsettled condition of political affairs.
In fact, just now, it is very hard to find
a man who is not depressed from this
cause.
The all absorbing topic, whenever and
wherever men meet, is the probable re
sult of the count in Florida, South Caro
lina and Louisiana. All thesa States aie
considered as carried for Tilden and the
local Democratic ticket, but fears are en
tertained that they will be turned over to
Hayes and his followers by the action of
“returning boards.” The son3 of South
Carolina are to meet at the City Hall to
night to celebrate Hampton’s election, so
confident are they that he has carried the
State.
GEN. TOOMBS AND HON. A. H. STEPHENS.
General Toombs is at the Kimball
House, and I never saw him look in bet
ter health or appear more cheerful. Last
summer he was quite feeble and rather
despondent, but a favorable change has
taken place, and he is now unusually
vigorous and active. He has just paid a
visit to Hon. A. H. Stephens, and re
ports the great statesman in excellent
health, and preparing to leave for Wash
ington in a short time. Should nothing
happen to give him a relapse, Mr. S. will
be able to render good service in the
House of Representatives during the
coming session.
REFUGEES HOMEWARD BOUND.
The Savannah refugees are already “on
the wing,”homeward bound. Many have
gone, others leave to night, and the last
of the week will witness a general stam -
pede. The parlors, rotunda and dining
room of the Kimball House will look less
lively when the last of the refugees shall
have departed, as they have added greatly
to the social pleasures of this mammoth
hostelsy, and a score or two fellow
boarders deeply regret their return home.
They have made a host Of friends in our
city during their forced stay, and have
found our people sympathetic, social
and obliging. Judge Chisholm and
family, Mrs. Gen. Ltwton and daugh
ters, the Ferrills and the Solomons are
amoDg the last guests to leave the Kim
ball House.
THE ROSSINI CLUB IN OPERA.
Through the courtesy of President J.
F. Burke, of the Rossini Club, of this
city, I had the pleasure of witnessing
their fine presentation of Balfe’s opera of
the “Bohemian Girl.” The costumes
were superb, the choruses admirably
managed by Director G. P. Guilford,
while the chief characters were rendered
m a very artistic manner. It wa9 a pri-
vute entertainment, yet Dq Give’s Opera
House was last night filled with a very large
and select audience. Of one thing I de
sire to speak as worthy of mention here,
and that is the great courtesy shown tho
Savannah refugees by the officers and
members of the club. No pains were
spired by them to see that all such were
provided with cards of invitation, and
from the large number of Savannah faces
which I saw in the parquette, I am sun
that but few, if any, were overlooked.
Atlanta has reason to be proud of her
Rossini Club, composed, as it is, of the
first ladies and gentlemen of the city, a
majority of whom are musicians of mark
ed ability.
THE CASE OF THOS. B. BINYON.
Your readers are already familiar with
the particulars of this case, and will not
be surprised that all efforts to save
the unfortunate man have proved v-in.
By bis embezzlement the bank loses
about $17,000, and no explantion has
ever been made by Binyon as to what
became of the money. His able counsel
endeavored to arrest judgment to-day and
secure a new trial, but Judge W. B.
Woods (Judge Erskine sitting with him,)
overruled the application. Judge Loch-
raue then mads an appeal for the
prisoner, on account of his ill health,
that the court would make the sentence
as light as possible. Judge Woods
replied, with much sympathetic feeling,
that it was the certainty more than the
severity of punishment that prevented
the commission of crime, and he would,
therefore, sentence the accused to only
five years’ confinement in the Georgia
penitentiary. Thus a once honored and
trusted bank official passes within the
walls of a prison, broken in health,
ruined in character, and leaving behind
a distressed but devoted wife. Few be
lieve that he will live out the term of his
sentence, as he seems to be daily growing
more feeble. Chatham.
INTERESTING INSURANCE CASE.
Rights of Companies to Cancel a Policy —
Important Point Established.
In the United States Circuit Court on
Saturday Judge Giles decided a fire in
surance case, in which there are some
interesting points. Rayfield, Riggin &
Co., oyster packers, effected insurance in
the Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany of Delaware, for $2,500 on a frame
oyster packing house in Crisfield, Md.
One of the conditions of the policy was
that the assured should comply with the
by-laws of the company, requiring that if
the assured had a policy in any other
company on the same property, he should
so state in his application; and if he
effected any additional insurance iu other
companies, it should be made known to
the insuring company, and its assent
thereto be endorsed on the policy. Plain
tiffs subsequently effected insurance on
the same property in the Phenix and in
the Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Compa
nies, and sent notice of the fact to the
secretary of the defendant, but received
no answer.
Soon after the property insured was
destroyed by fire. On application being
made defendant refused to pay the
amount of the policy, claiming that it
had been canceled by the act of plaintiffs
in obtaining additional insurance without
consent Archibald Stirling, Jr., and
George H. Chandler, for defendant,
argued that the cancellation took effect
immidiately on the additional insurance,
and that no notice was requisite of the
refusal of the company to endorse
on the policy. John H. Handy, for
plaintiff, urged that the policy was only
voidable, and not voided by the addi
tional insurance; that, having given
notice of the additional insurance, plain
tiff had fully complied with the con
dition of the policy, and that ihen it
was at the option of the company to
cancel the policy, or to allow it to remain
in force, of which election the defendant
was bound to give notice to the plaintiffs;
that having failed to give the notice until
after the fire had occurred, it was pre
cluded or estopped from availing itself
of the provisions of the by-law, and that
the policy continued in force. Judge
Giles decided that the policy was void
ipso facto by the act of plaintiffs in
obtaining additional insurance, and tha£
cancellation was not necessary. Judg
ment was therefore rendered for de
fendant.
New Orleans Bulletin: He said: “Will
you excuse me, sir?” and the gentleman
Addressed excused him. He continued:
“I am not in the habit of begging.” And
the gentleman said he was “d—d glad to
hear it,” and walked off.
Counting the Yote! What Next, and
Next 1
[From the Charleston News and Cornier ]
Pending the official declaration of the
result of the election in the “three doubt
ful States,” as the Republicans fondly
call them, public attention is directed by
the press to the consideration of ques
tions connected with the counting of the
electoral vote. The whole subject is one
of surpassing importance to the Democ
racy, who are casting about in every di
rection for a means of counteracting any
fraudulent action that may give to Hayes
the electoral vote of Florida and Lou
isiana, as well as of South Carolina.
Throughout the discussion two points
must be borne steadily in mind. They
arc: 1. That one of the candidates for
President must receive 185 votes, being
“a majority of the whole number of elec
tors appointed,” or the election devolves
upon the House of Representatives. 2.
That Governor Tilden has already, be
yond a doubt, 184 electoral votes, being
one vote less than a majority of the
whole number of electors appointed. To
obtain 185 votes Governor Hayes must
secure the votes of Louisiana, Florida and
South Carolina, which, with the votes
usually conceded to him, would form a
majority of the whole number of votes,
and the loss of a single vote would be
fatal.
Some persons, we find, fancy that the
electoral vote is cast by States. This is
an error. E*ch State is entitled to “a
number of electors, equal to the wholo
number of Senators and Representatives
to which the State may be entitled in the
Congress,” and these electors vote by
ballot for President and Vice President.
Where an elector fails to meet with the
other electors, on the appointed day, and
vote for President and Vice President,
his vote is lost, unless the State law gives
the electors who are present the power to
fill vacancies. In like manner a vote may
be lost by the ineligibility of an elector.
Every State, we believe, except three,
has provided a means of filling vacancies
in the electoral college, but if a vacancy
should arise in any of the three States
where no power to fill vacancies is
given, the electoral vote or votes
would be lost. One of the electors
in Vermont, for example, proves to be a
postmaster, who is ineligible as holding
“an office of trust and profit under the
United States.” Now, if the laws of Ver
mont make no provision for filling this
vacancy, there will be a loss to Governor
Hayes of one vote in Vermont, and the
loss of that one vote prevents him from
obtaining the majority required to elect
him, although he should, by hook or by
crook, procure the votes of Louisiana,
South Carolina and Florida. We do not,
at this writing, know which are the three
States which have failed to provide for tho
filling of vacancies, and the danger may
be as great to Governor Tilden as to Gov
ernor Hayes. The position of Governor
Tilden ia the stronger, however, inas
much as the vote of either of the three
“doubtful States” will give him at least
three votes more than a majority.
Another point is that, in any State the
whole or a part of the Republican or
Democratic candidates for electors ma}-
be elected. It may happen, for example,
that one Republican candidate for elector
will receive many lees votes than the
other Republican candidates. The can
didates receiving the highest number of
votes are elected, One Democrat might
thus be elected, while all the other elect
ors were Republicans. In that case the
Democralic elector would have his one
vote for Tilden, although all the other
electors in the same State voted for
Hayes.
Another feature of the electoral col
lege is that the electors, by whomsoever
elected, can vote for whomsoever they
please. The Constitution knows no po
litical party, and the electors for Presi -
dent and Vice Presidential as free and
untrammeled as though no candidates
bad been nominated or even suggested.
There is nothing to prevent the Hod.
Christopher Columbus Bowen from aton
ing for the political errors of his past
life by voting for Tilden and Hendricke,
if he shall prove to have been elected one
of the South Carolina electors. In the
year 1821 a Presidential elector did vote
against the party candidate. The Demo
cratic candidate was President Monroe,
who was running for a second term. In
November 1820 the party was successful,
and the Democratic electors were chosen
to a man in every State in the Union,
among them ex Governor Plummer, from
New Hampshire. The electoral col
lege met on February 14, 1821, and
the vote was unanimous for Presi
dent Monroe, with one exception.
To the surprise of everybody, ex-Gover -
ncr Plummer voted for John Quincy Ad
ams. The latter f in his “Memoirs,” says
he was surprised and mortified that Gov
ernor Piummer shorld have cast his vote
for him. He had thought that, of all the
electors, none were more certain to vote
for Monroe than Governor Plummer.
Another writer has averred that Plum
mer’s motive for voting against the can
didate of his party was that he did not
wish to have the vote unanimous for any
President after Washington. No com
ment on his action in the papers of the
day can be found. Whatever may have
been his object, it may be safely asserted
that his action provides a historic preco
dent which would be sufficiently striking
to seriously agitate a candidate whose
success depended on a majority of one
in a vote of three hundred and sixty-
nioe.
But if a vacancy in the electoral col
lege, or a change of vote, should not up
set the calculations of the candidates
there are other perils to be encountered.
These are lucidly exposed in the article
of the New York World, published to
day. The conclusion of the World is
that the electoral votes cannot be count
ed, if either House refuses to be present
when the day arrives for opening the
certificates and counting the votes. Let
it be supposed that ihe Louisiana return
ing board fraudulently count out the
Democrats and give certificates of elec
tion to the Hayes electors. In that
case the House cf Representa’ives can
prevent the counting of the votes, by ab
senting itself from the Senate Chamber
on “the*second Wednesday in February,”
and if the House persists in its refusal
the United States will be without a Presi
dent after the 4th of March, 1877, on
which day the term of office of President
Grant absolutely expires. There would
then be a vacancy in the office of both
President and Vice-President, and under
the present law a new election could not
be he’d until within thirty-four days pre
ceding the first Wednesday of December,
1877, more than a year from now.
Mr. Caleb Cushing, whose opinions are
published to-dr deems it probable that
the 4th of Mar* .ext may arrive without
a lawful declare £ »n of the election of
new President £ d there is no provision
resident shall hold over.
that the prese:
Mr. Cushing s<2
dy, but is coift ent that the House of
Representativ 3 vill not be so unpatriotic
as to take the C reme step of refusing to
be present ai £ 9 counting of the vote.
It does not seem to strike Mr. Cushing
that the blame would not rest upon tho
House. The apprehended action of
the House would be caused by the
refusal of the Senate, next session, to
agree upon just and definite rules for
counting the vote and providing the
means of determining objections to the
vote of any State. In defence of popu
lar institutions, as a last desperate defence
agaiQst the attacks of the masters of the
Kellogg3 and Chamberlains, would the
House exercise its right to prevent the
election of a President by fraudulent
votes. Upon the Senate, not upon the
House, would rest the responsibility for
whatever might ensue. Nor does Mr.
Cushing contemplate the possibility that
the Senate may refuse to count electoral
votes that have been given to Tilden.
How if the vote of Florida, Louisiana or
South Carolina has fairly been given to
Tilden, and the Senate will not consent
to count it, inventing some pretext to
justify the act ? Would not the SenAte
be the revolutionary body ? Why did not
Mr. Cushing put the matter in this more
probable point of view ?
And if there be no constitutional Presi
dent after March 4, 1077, who will
ths stiaft? 'So Wi ‘
Grant, the dictator as of necessity ?”
Mr. Cushing does not shiink from this,
and thinks it would be the right and duty
of Mr. Grant (no longer President) to
summon the new Congress to devise a
remedy “which, if not in literal con
formity with any provisions of the Con
stitution, yet should observe its spirit
and approximate as nearly as possible to
its letter.” Thad Stevens could not have
done his spiriting more gently. The Radi
cals are not yet tired of camping out
side of the Constitution. Ben Butler, as
might he expected, does not object to
Mr. Grant barricading himself in the
White House. These are his words :
“The gecius of all governments is that
the Executive must never lapse. The
announcement is made, ‘the king is dead,
long live the king,’ in the same breath.
Officers under most of our State consti
tutions, and most of the officers of Fed
eral appointment, hold until their suc
cessors are appointed. Is it not, then, in
accordance with the genius of our insti
tutions, and being & casus omissus in the
Constitution and laws, that the incumbent
should hold over until his successor is ap
pointed and qualified ? The law, as we
have seen, having made provision
within a limited time for the appointment
of a successor, would it not be the duty o f
Gen. Grant under such circumstances to
hold on and see to it that Vie laws are faith
fully executed- until a successor should be
duly chosen and constitutionally declared
elected and qualified, and would not the
good sense and sound judgment of all
patriotic and just men agree to such an
interpretation rather than to have an
aichy, confusion, and perhaps civil war,
with their dreadful consequtDce ?”
Again and again the words of Frank
Blair thunder back to the people: “If
Grant ever enters the White House as
President, he will never come out of it,
except feet foremost.” The very condi
tion of affairs we forecasted, many
months ago, as possible, is almost proba
ble. With no lawfully elected President,
and the Senate and the House at daggers
drawn, Mr. Grant would have excuse
enough for determining to remain in
office as the guardian of the public peace
and the Saviour of the Country. As
Father Ritchie was wont to say, JVovs
Ver rons !
The Counting of the Electoral Votes—
Opinion of Caleb Cushing.
Mr. Caleb Cushing, who is now in
Washington, has been interviewed in re
gard to the complications which may
possibly grow out of the counting of the
electoral vote. In reply to tho question,
“Suppose we do discard all idea of civil
war or of the promotion of it by the
present House of Representatives, still
may not the difficulty drift ou till the 4th
of March, and so leave the conntrv
without a duly declared new President ? ’
Mr. Cushing is reported as replying :
“ I do not think that will happen, for
tbat also would be utterly incompatible
with the quality of practical good sense
which distinguishes the people of the
United States and their representatives in
the two houses of Congress. We are, in
fact, considering all the time what tho
Democratic majority in the House of
Representatives will do. Now, if the]/
pertinaciously differ with the Senate ou
the point, the effect will be in the fin-.t
piac9 to leave the Government of tho
United States in the hands of the very
persons by whom it is now administered.
The failure to elect, or to declare elected
the new President does not dissolve tho
army and navy; it does not arrest the
action of the Federal courts; it does net
stop the collection of revenue, internal cr
external; it does not displace any of the
heads of departments, executive commi-
sious, foreign ministers, or any other of
the civil employees of the government.
All these persons will continue in office,
and would, in my opinion, be competent
for the discharge of all their duties,
even in the contingency of the temporary
non-existence of any President of th 3
United S at6s. That is not a state of
things which the Democratic House of
Representatives can be supposed to de -
sire. Nor, although the Constitution
does not expressly provide that in a caf e
of non-election the existing Presidei t
shall hold over until a new election shad
have been duly efD* f ed, yet it would net
be rash to argue *.. - at such is the implie 1
meaning of the Constitution. Doctrine 1
of public law, a illustrated in the Stato
Constitutions, might well come in tor&ito
such an i plication on the fa®e of the
Cons tit-non. In that event. General
Grant would continue to exercit' tbo
functions of Prwidonl. If it be ali
that this is a violent construction of th
Constitution I reply that it woold be a
much more violent construe on of j
the Constitution to maintain that it in
tended, in certain contingencies ea >
to suppose, the government of the
United States shall be left wiLhour ary
bead—in what is called in some countrirs !
an acephalous condition. If any Den-'•
cratic statesman shrinks from such a sup
position he will shrink, in like manner,
from forcieg on such a contingency.
While it is not to be imagined that the
Democratic members of the present
House of Representatives will undertake
to get up civil war in every State of the
Union, neither is it to be imagined that
they will pursue a course which shail
necessarily result in leaving the govern
ment not only under the direction of the
existing members of the Cabinet, whose
functions do not expire with the change of
President, and who therefore hold ovt r
legally, but it may be in the hands of Presi
dent Grant himself. Once at least in the his
tory of the United States it occurred that
twenty-four hours elapsed after the deal h
of one President and before the accession
of another. Daring those twenty-four
hours the government went on smoothly
enough in the hands of heads of depart
ments. If it can be so twenty-four hours
it can be so twenty four days or weeks. It
is true the case never has occurred of tha
President holding over, but that woul l
be much less a departure from form than
the non-existence of an executive head
of the government. Just as it is said
that nature abhors a vacuum, so it may
be said that a political society abhors and
repels the non-existence of government.”
Mr. Richard T. Merrick, a distinguish
ed Washington lawyer, in an interview
with the New York Herald reporter, ex
pressed the opinion that the Constitution
has provided no ultimate tribunal what
ever for passing upon the voces of the
electoral college, and this he regards as
one of the few defects in our organic
law. Its requirement in reference to the
electoral vote is that the electors
shall return the electoral vote
of the colleges in the sev
eral States, signed and certified to by the
electors of the respective States, to the
President of the Senate; that the Presi
dent of the Senate is required to open
the certificates in the presence of the
Senate and House of Representatives,
and that the vote ahall then be counted,
without saying by whom the counting
should be done. If there is any ultimate
tribunal at all it is the joint convention
of the two houses, which might claim to
be such by implication, on the ground
that the positive direction is that the cer
tificates are to be opened and the votes
counted in the presence of the two
houses.
[From the Omaha Herald.]
Oat in the northwestern part of the
city there is an old fire-scarred futiding
which stands as a mournful relic m a onos
happy home. It is said that the house
itseif has a history which would be inter
esting if known, for it was once the
abode of love and prosperity, but the
pitiless demon of the wine cup breathed
upon it and blasted its beauty forever.
The history of every city, however, is tco
full of such incidents to claim the special
attention of mankind. When the sad
tale is first brought to notice, perhaps a
regret will spring up, but it soon dies and
is buried deep beneath the load of dead
hopes of which every heart is the sepul
chre. The world would never have known
of the existence of this shattered old cot
tage had not a gentleman, who lives in
the vicinity, stopped the Herald repre
sentative and told him of a touching
little incident which the charred old
walls witnessed a short time ago.
The house was so small and the
weeds and grass around it so rank
and tall that the passer-by would scarcely
notice it, for the blackened beams and
rafters are barely visible above the uncut
growth. One day a little lame girl, who
is well known in the vicinity of the old
house, discovered a slender plant of the
monthly rose variety, which had grown
up within the old walls from a root or
seed cast by chance ine th rich mold,strug
gling feebly against the choking grass for
its existence. The little girl found the
stunted bush and her eyes filled with joy.
Her father’s grave, into which the fierce
flame of his appetite and maddened des-
spair had hurried him, was in & distant
land; and her heart-broken mother rest
ed in Prospect Hill. The little girl was
alone in the world, and lived with a queer
old couple, whose hearts felt kindly
toward the little orphan ; but they
saw nothing more io a rose than they
would in a common weed. It was sev
eral weeks ago when the gentleman’s at
tention was attracted to the old house by
the regular visits of the little orphan
cripple, and, filled with curiosity, he
watched when she entered the crumbling
walls, and saw her tenderly care for the
shrub, as if it were a being eadowed
with the same feelirgs and emotions
which throbbed in her own breast. Day
by day the little orphan watched the bush.
When the wind moaned loudly she trem
bled with fear, lest it should injure it;
and when the rain drops fell, she hoped
they would not strike the leaves too
harshly. No watcher on the wall of a
besieged city was ever more faithful and
vigilant; no death-bed nurse was ever
more tender and constant. A few weeks
ago she found a bud on the bush, and her
joy was most extravagant. She tore away
the boards that hid it from the sunshine,
and stopped the cracks in the crazy wail
to keep out the rude, northern blasts. A
week ago the bud had swollen and
was almost ready to burst out into
a deep, rich, red velvety roee, and
she went home happy to think
that on the morrow there would be the
perfect flower as a reward for her care
ful, tender care. But that night the frost
was unusually severe; thin ice formed on
the water, and when the little cripple
£ irl went to the house, her heart ell aglow
with expectant joy, she found the frost
bad been there before her, and the half-
i pened bud was drooping, head down
ward, on its blackened stem. But she
carefully plucked the limp and faded
beauty, and that evening people driving
to Prospect Hill in the chill October air,
saw a little lame child tenderly drop a
deep red rosebud on one of the graves
that was marked by nothing save a little
wooden slab, upon which was painted in
rude, childish characters, “m-o-t h-h-b;”
no other ornament, no other flower. It
sank away in the dry grass, and sparkled
and shone like a star of night, and when
a tear of the child fell upon it, its lustre
was like that of a diamond. For days
and weeks she had watched over and
tended the flower for the grave over
which no marble cast its shadow—a
grave so like thousands of others, that
only love could have told the child that a
mother’s heart was molderiug there.
“ BAIRAfl.”
Celebrating (be Great Sonaee Festival at
Htambonl.
The Prize Villain of History.—
Apropos of Fieschi’s attempt to blow up
Louis Philippe, M. Maxime Ducamp re
lates a horrible story regarding one of the
accomplices of that crime, who was not
prosecuted. The conspirator had a child
a year old, and on the day of the attempt
he told the nurse to go with the infant
and to wait in front cf the Jardin-Turc,
in the Boulevard du Temple, to see the
King pass. It was at this spot that the
infernal machine exploded. The con
spirator reasoned thus: “If arrested I
shall be able to declare before the court
that having sent my only son to the place
designed for the explosion, I could not
have known anything of the matter, and
I shall certainly oe acquitted by the
jury.” This monstsr, wboae name is not
revealed, was not arrested, and, strange
to say, his child anci nurse escaped with
out a scratch. “Ti e hero of this tale,"
adds M. Maxima Daoamp, “is
After Rham&dhan, or the forty days’
fast so rigorously insisted upon by the
Sonnee Moslems, comes the great feast of
Bairam, of which we find the following
account in the Scotsman:
Bairam is the grand finale. No sooner
do the salvos of artillery announce that
the new moon has been seen than all is ex
citement and animation. The authorities
have to prepare the streets through which
His Imperial Majesty is to pass the next
morning on his way to and from the
mosque, where, as “Commander of the
Faithful,” he will offer sacrifice and per
form divine service; and officers and
functionaries of all grades, as well as
their servants, are rushing about making
the necessary arrangements for accompa
nying the Sultan. Long before daylight
* troops march over to Stamboul to
ac the streets, and there is a general as
sembly at the old palace of Seraglio
Point of all the Turkish official
world, the Ministers and Pashas
on horseback, and the Beys on
foot. The dawn is sainted with salvos of
artillery roin ail quar; rg, and shortly
afterwards. lie ‘Gates of Te'icity” being
thrown open His Imperial Q sty, who,
t. cording to custom, has spec. night
in the old palace, appears on horse oack,
surrounied by.. 1 guard. By : s
time the Beys have b«ou arranged in two
long lines, a. pv eaten ’out of the
Sultan, they tur sharply to L rigi.*,
walking along on h .'de as an addi
tional guard of hone 1. Ii * ■ open space
outside the grounds Oi th tho
ministers and other high res,
the generals and admirals, t . ve
their monarch with low salaa^ ex
pressive of humility, and then
off in procession. As usual, all the pu
lie schools are placed in line to salute
the Sultan; and with loud cries of "Padi-
shaychokasha ' from all sides, the music of
military bands and salute from the field
battery. His Imperial Majesty rides on
ward to the mosque. Needless to say,
the streets are crowded with spectators,
Turkish ladies being in the majority.
After returning from the mosque, the
Sultan remains for a short time at the
old palace, aud then proceeds in the state
caique to Dolmabagtche in order to re
ceive, according to custom, the homage
of his officers, civil and military. For
merly this ceremony took place in the
grounds of the Seraglio Palace, and the
public were admitted to witness the in
teresting sight; but for several years
past the levee, as it may be sailed, is held
in the great hall of the Palace of“Dolina-
bagtche, and no one but those actually
taking a part in it are admitted. The
ceremony itself reminds one strongly of
what has been said about the Turks as be
ing merely encamped in Europe. It is the
leader of the tribes,as it were, sitting at the
door of his tent receiving the homage of
the subordinate chiefs. A magnificent
crimson carpet, every portion of it cov
ered with thick gold embroidery, is laid
dowD, and on it is placed the imperial
throne, which is a very ugly aflair, being
merely a rude sort of bench covered with
plates of gold. The Saltan takes bia
seat upon the throne, and by its s.de,
holding in his hand a band attached to it,
said to contain a portion of the Prophet’s
beard, stands an aide-de-camp. The min
isters approach one after the other, ac
cording to their rank, and, salaaming to
the Saltan at the edge of the carpet, ad
vance and take hold of the fringed tassel
at the end of the band in the Land
of the aide-de-camp. This tas
sel is placed reverently to the lips
and forehead, and then with another sa
laam the official retires to give place to
the next. After the ministers have passed
comes the Pashas and Beys, and when
these, too, have kissed the tass&l it is the
turn of the civil functionaries. First
among these is the Sheik-ui-L>lam, and
he, venerable from age and the wisdom
necessarily appertaining to the pof ses
sion of such a high office, requires to be
supported on either side by minor offi
cials. Up to the present, according to g
etiquette, the Saltan has remained seated
on his throne, but as th6 Sheik-ul-Islam
advances he rises to receive him, when
the old man bows to the ground and is
raised by the sacred hands of the Caliph
A citizen of Leavenworth, going to his
bam to milk in the dark of the early
mo>ning, got into the wrong pen and
undertook to milk a mala. He don't re-
tfce barn he went