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Sav.annah. Ga.
JUNE.
Cuine ar.d watch the morning break
Across the misty river !
Every M*dgy leaf’s awake.
And every wave a-quiver.
L nd rueath the bending sky
A thousand tuneful voices;
Every pu se is beating high,
Ami everything rej jices.
( iirdi-n h^rbs their perfume shed ;
The artichokes Ilnre yellow ;
Poppy leaves blush rosy-red.
And harvest pears grow mellow.
What a din. within the pines,
The noisy crows are keepiug !
>o>ls the grain in wavy tines.
Soon ripe enough for reapiug.
By the cherry trees is heard
A red and ceaseless dripping;
In the vines the humming bird
Keeps up his tireless sipping.
Who can ever w\ ave to rhyme
This riot of the roses ?
Or .-minds that in the summer time
Break iu ou our reposes ?
Brightly falls the morning light,
softly falls the dew of even ;
Silently the balmy night
Shuts the gates of heaven!
Frank II. Stauffer.
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1877.'
ESTABLISHED 1850.
ihg generations will look upon a? a blot, yea,
a blemish upon the body politic, in letting
the election on the revision of the
constitution go by default on the 12th
instant. We learn as we are about going to
press that as f*r as heard from the vote
staDdsone hundred and thirty-five majority
against a convention, all on account of the
whites taking no interest in the election.”
The Quitman Reporter says : “We have
had copious, refreshing showers for three
snccsaivG days—Sunday, Monday and Tues
day. The earth is moistened good, and
crops and vegetation will grow vigorously
for awhile. Enough rain for the present in
this immediate section.”
The Barnesville Central Georgia Weekly
has this solitary item about the election held
on Tuesday : “ 227 votes polled here yester
day—180 ‘convention,* 39 ‘no convention,’
'no,’ 1 stray shot. Tnese ‘no’ votes were
gotten up by a would-be sharp negro politi
cal leader. Hi* shrewdness (?) betrayed
his ignorance.”
The Quitman Reporter has the following:
“On Sunday morning last, before daylight,
a negro who gives bis name as Thomas
Mitchell, and had but recently been em
ployed to do farm work on Mr. John
Thrasher’s plantation, made & most dast
ardly attempt to commit a rape on a white
woman living on the place. He entered the
apartment, where she and two other
white women were sleeping. They at
once gave the alarm by loud screams, which
brought to their aid a white man who
was also sleeping in the house, by the
name of Edward Jones. The negro beat
a hasty retreat, and in bis fligbt left bis
hat. The indefatigable Thrasher, who
has seldom been outwitted, went to the tele
graph office early on Monday morning, and
telegraphed in every direction. Pretty sood
the Sheriff at Valdosta answered that he had
a negro in charge suiting the description.
Thrasher went over on Monday evening’s
train, and he reports that a more remarka
bly strange coincidence never perhaps hap
pened. A negro had been lodged in jail
about the same size, and with his third fin
ger off his right hand, and with a scar on
his left cheek, suiting exactly*the descrip
tion of the bl-tck-hearted fiend, but ho was
not the man.”
escapes in about two weeks from a good jail,
and only one recapture. Among the pris
oners thus at large is one charged with
murder, one with assault and attempt to
murder, one with arson, and others had
been tried and convicted of various
offences.’’
“After a drought of forty days,” say9 the
Pensacola Herald, “the glorious rain came
at last Saturday night, and for several hours
poured down unceasingly. When morning
came nature wore a smiling face, and
seemed to have been awakened to a newness
of life. A week longer and every plant and
shrub would bave been scorched.”
The Floridian says : “Copious showers
have fallen within the last three days and
the prospect is good for more. The rain has
come in good time, for the crops, especially
of corn, had suffered from the drouth, and
another week of dry, hot weather would
have proved disastrous. As it is, some in
jury has resulted, but not so material as to
be alarming.”
The Madison Recorder says : “ Madi
son is feeling the life-giving pulsations
of reform government, and is putting on
more prosperous robes than she has
worn ffir years past. Creech, Newsome &
Co., of Quitman, Ga., are building on the
square a large brick bouse, containing two
fine stores, one of which they will occupy
th -mselves. The Grangers are also build
ing a brick business house, which they will
occupy as a co-operative store. CaptaiD
Ioglis is about to commence the erection of
a large brick cotton house iu connection
with his mills and gins at the depot. The
people are well satisfied with the results of
the reform victory of last fall, and property
is appreciating in value every day. The
outlook in Madison, as indeed iu tUtf whole
Si&te, is most flattering.”
.4flairs lu Georgia.
The people of Georgia who have labored
anti fought for the privilege of making their
organic law, will be gratified to learn that
tne returns which have already reached us
and the cheering reports from the yeomanry
of Northern Georgia, who have nobly come
to the rescue of their old mother, Georgia,
indicates that the convention has beon car
ried by a majority that will not be far from
ten thousand.
The oat crop has never been finer in
Pierce county. Cotton, corn, cane, pota
toes, etc., are very backward, but have time,
with good seasons, yet to reouperate.
A gar fish weighing thirty pounds was
caught in a trap in Flint river by Mr. J.
Murray, on Monday last. This is the largest
fish of the kind ever caught in the Flint.
It measured five feet in length.
Mrs. Nancy Dees, widow of Mr. Benjamin
Dee*, died in Sumter county on Friday night
last, aged one hundred and six years. She
had lived in Sumter county over forty
years.
Milner, in Pike county, went for “no con
vention.”
.Mr. J. Van Buren, of Habersham county,
claims to be the oldest locomotive engineer
iu the United States, he haviug as far back
as 1832 run an English engine, made by the
celebrated Geo. Stephenson, over the Scho-
Le:ta ly aud Saratoga Railway in New York.
Georgia peaches, according to the New
York Tribune, sold last week In the fruit
stores in New York city at twenty-fivo cents
each or one dollar to one dollar and a quar
ter per dozen.
It was cold enough in Romo on last Sun
day, the 10th Jane, to make fires necessary
to comfort all day. This has never been the
case before iu the memory of the oldest in
habitant.
Judge E. J. Tarver, an old aud much re
spected citizen of Dalton, died on Wednes
day night last. He was one of the oldest
settlers, haviog lived in Whitfield county
since 1850. He was about seventy years old
and dies regretted by a large cirsle of rela
tives and friends.
The Grand L^dge of the I. O. G. T. meets
iu Dalton on the second Tuesday in Septem
ber next.
Two freight trains have been taksn off
the State Road in consequence of a falling
off in freights, as well as to give the track
hands ample opportunity to repair the road.
Lieutenant Flipper, colored, of Atlanta,
who graduates at West Point this month, is
expected there soon. Now that he is en
titled to wear the buttons, and is in the line
of promotion to a Brigadier Generalship, his
‘•race” will say to him, “ Give us your flip
per,” old fellow.
A petition is being circulated and exten
sively signed in Atlauta asking Governor
Colquitt to commute the sentence of Brink-
ley, the Coweta wife murderer, to imprison
ment for life.
The cases of the State against Bullock,
Blodgett and others has been oontinued
until August. A strong effort was made to
have the oases taken up immediately, and
counsel for the accused vigorously pressed
the demand for immediate trial, but Judge
Hillyer overruled the motion.
Harry Milbume, the escaped convict
caught in Chattanooga 3ome days ago, after
a aevero legal contest, has been returned to
Georgia and confined at Dade coal mines.
Application wag made from Chattanooga for
his pardon, but Gov. Colquitt has refused
to interfere.
The residence of Mr. W. H. Buchanan,
near Athens, was entirely destroyed by fire
on Wednesday afternoon of last week. All
the furniture, clothing and everything else
was destroyed. The family were all absent
the time, and the fire is supposed to have
betn aocidental.
The vote on the convention question at
Atlauta stood as follows; “For Conven
tion,” 913; “No Convention,” 935. J. W.
Bobertson, of Cobb county, received the
highest vote—1,151.
The same paper has this: “Wo received a
note from Cusseta, Ga., stating that it is
rumored in that community that some
negroes killed a Mrs. Graham, of Webster
^UDty, and fled. No information was given
as to who the lady is, or the circum-
s’ances of the killing.”
The Constitution, in a tone of evident
melancholy, remarks : “If a man wants to
huow the/true inwardness’ of the vote in
Atlauta yesterday, ho will disoover that it
Cji-cisted in ‘the nigger in the wood pile.* ”
This Is the way the Griffin News sums up
tui elnotion in that city: “We have wit-
nesutd many elections, but the one yester-
at the Griffin precinct surpassed any
thing we have ever seen. At an early hour,
m Lot before the while people had got up,
the nugroes took charge of the polls and held
them up to about three o’clock, and if a
white man voted before that hoar, be had
Ro to the back door of the oourt houBe to
fifct to the polls, or scrouge through a vast
P^k of dirty negroes and be stunk half to
death by the filthy smell. At this writing
we lire not advised as to the exact result of
the v ite, but we know enough to be satis-
htd that the negroes and Radicals, with the
^aistance of a few Democrats, have defeated
he wishes of a majority of the intelligent
white voters of the county by voting ‘No
Convention.’ ”
Atlanta Constitution says: “The de-
,e lopment of the gold mines near Dahlon-
continues with unabated zeal and
One gentleman, with very little
acuities for mining, recently got from five
dd a half rods of surface as much as five
hundred and twenty-five pennyweights, at
cost of $116. The surface thus workad
or would not average more than three
' et in depth, and, witn the proper improve-
rr,.. 8 » could have been worked in one day.
is au average of $100 a square rod.
P . gentleman in question writes to the
mufesville Southron, and says that at this
...*he surface over which he has control
’’.J' 1 yield $30,000,000, and some of it is much
w , or than that which has been already
awf • i AU the mines in North Georgia
Bail to be extraordinarily profitable.”
*1 Q Q Hman Reporter, reviewing the
tj ctl . 0D lIJ Brooks county, says: “It is with
»ori? ee P eMt re 8 ret8 that we herald to the
on ♦? tije a ? a ’by aud heart!©** indifference
cxnr 6 part o{ 0Qr white people in giving
qiw H8lon on t ‘ ie m0Bt important and vital
thtm> tlon Las ever Been submitted to
m > one that the present aud all succeed-
Florida Affairs.
Mount Pleasant, Gadsden county, had a
Sunday school picnic on the 8th inst., which
was largely attended from Quincy, Chatta
hoochee and the surrounding country. Rev.
Mr. Fitzpatrick, of Tallahassee, delivered a
most eloquent and zealous address, which
had a happy effect upon the children, as
well as all lovers of the Sunday school
cause. The music, conducted by Mrs. Rne,
was very impressive and appropriate. And
as to the basket dinner, it was simply mag
nificent—& dinner peculiar to Mount Pleas
ant, whose good people have a special tal
ent in that direction.
There is a man living six miles from Apa
lachicola river, and for twenty-six years he
has lived withiQ hearing of steamboat
whistles on the river; yet he has never seen
a steamboat. He is a thrifty farmer, stays
at home and attends to his own business.
A store at Chattahoochee displays the fol
lowing ornamental notice:
“If to-day you will pay,
We will trust to morrow;
But if we trust, we’re sure to bust
Aud be left in sorrow.”
The 8tate farm, having been leased by
W. B. Sims, is now cultivated very success
fully with free labor, and promises a good
profit on the investment.
The Masonic fraternity of Quincy are go
ing to celebrate the 24th of June, and have
invited several neighboring lodges to par
ticipate in the ceremonies. The occasion
will, no doub:, be a very interesting one, as
Quincy knows how to fix up such things.
After a long drought, Gadsden county has
been visited by copious showers the last few
days, and the crops, which have been well
worked, are iu good condition, and are very
promising.
One of the Commissioners of Columbia
county is 'named Napoleon Bonaparte. It
is needless to say that he is not the original
old “Nap” that we read about in history.
The expenses of the last term of the Cir
cuit Court of Jackson county, under
Democratic Judge, were $1,750 60, as com
pared with $3,500 for the previous session
So much for honest reform practically car
ried out.
Archer has shipped 3,505 crates of vege
tables from April 10 to May 31, and the sales
have been remunerative.
The Madison Guards, of Madison, Mor-
gau county, have been organized a« a mili
tary company, with ninety-five members.
Mr. H. L. Weller is their Captain.
Thirty schools have been organized iD
Suwannee oounty, a faot which shows that
the educational interests of that section wii
not be neglected.
In Gadsden county a little boy was or
dered by his father to put a load of peas in
a gun for the beuefit of a horse wbo had
been foraging on his sugar-cane patch. The
boy forgot that there was already a load of
buckshot in the gun, and the result was
dead horse.
Mr. Gradick of Lake Harney has eighty-
five bee-hives which ho says will yield him
ten dollars worth of honey each. This is
really a sweet prospect for Mr. Gradick.
A barn with about four hundred bushels of
corn belongingto L. A. Barnes,of Gainesville,
was burned on Wednesday last. Loss about
$1,200.
The Florida Sun and the Jacksonville
Press have been merged into one establish
ment. The first issue of the consolidated
paper reached us yesterday, bearing the
marks of both Sawyer and Babcock
Mr. J. W. Tyson, a leading citizen and
successful planter, died recently at Wacca-
boota, Florida. Ho was highly esteemed by
all who knew him, and his loss will be
severely felt by the entire community.
The court house at Milton, Santa Rosa
county, is provided with a clock tower and
fireproof vault. The building is of brick,
slate roofed, ftnd is substantial, convenient
and ornamental.
Escambia has adopted the game law. The
law is now pretty generally in force in Flor
ida, as its enforcement depends on the
County Commissioners.
A negro man escaped from the chain-gang
on Friday last, at Monticello, whilst
working on the public roads. The irons had
been removed from the felDw by order of a
member of the Board of County Commis
sinners,
There is an old gentleman in Hillsborongh
county named Enoch Collins, Sr., who is
the father of twenty-nine children. He has
been married three times; the first wife had
fourteen children, the second six, and the
third nine* He had eight sons in the Con
federate army; and, what is a little re
markable, all of them returned home after
the war. He has been living in that county
for the last thirty years. He is now aged
seventy years, aud has always been, and is
still, a successful farmer.
The peach crop of Marion county promises
an abundant yield. The trees are now so
heavily laden with the fruit that they have
to be propped up
The steamer Gazelle was burned at Jack-
sonville on Monday morning last. The firo
is supposed to have originated in the engine
room. The Gazelle hailed from Buffalo,
N8W York, and was employed as a tug, do
ing a good business in that capacity. She
was owned by the brothers Halliday. Cap
tain A. M. Halliday, her commander, was
absent in Charleston. She was valued at
ten thousand dollars.
There was a preliminary meeting last
Thursday, for the purpose of taking steps
for the organization of a volunteer com-
oanr in Tallahassee. The requirements of
the law in regard to the matter were com
plied with. At a subsequent meeting the
organization was to have been perfected,
which we opine has been accomplished.
The Floridian says it “counted too strong
on the vigilance of the officers in obarge
when it said that no more escapes from the
county jail would be reported. Some time
on Tuesday night last, five more prisoners,
all colored, walked.ont of the jail and have
not since been heard of. Their names are
TTii Rhenard Burton Watkins, Dave HcKm-
E " 8 fiSb Turner and Nero Spizer. They
Peter the Hermit’s Successor.
Peter the Hermit, who preached the
first crusade at the close of the eleventh
century, was as brave as he was eloquent.
He led the armed cross wearers from Italy
and France across Germany to the walls
of Constantinople, where he joined his
companion-in-arms, Walter the Penniless.
The Archbishop of Kischeneff has not
joined the Grand Duke's staff at the seat
of war on the Danube, but he preaches a
modern crusade with the eloquence and
vehemence of the Picard monk. A St.
Petersburg paper publishes a report of a
sermon which the fiery Archbishop
preached at Kischeneff on May 12, when
the Russian commander was setting out
for Bucharest. The aid of the God of
Battles, who had released the Israelites
from bondage, broken the strength of the
Canaanites, and demolished the walls of
Jericho, was invoked in behalf of the
leaders of the Russian army. “May He as
sist you and your soldiers,” exclaimed the
preacher, “to conquer without heavy
losses or sacrifices ; may He enable you
to oross our own dear Danube, and over
come or destroy all obstacles placed in
your way; burning the enemy’s ships
with fire, sinking them in the waves,
breaking them into small pieces—into
dust, and scattering them on the face of
the waters—as has already happened to
one. May He reduce the enemy’s strong
places which close to the liberators the
road to the oppressed. May He tu.rn the
mountains of the Balkan into smooth
and easy paths! May He arise every
where to your help, aud may the enemy
be routed in the name of Christ, and fly
from God's face and from yours! As
smoke vanishes so shall the foe disappear,
and all his fortresses with him. Then
shall the suffering people and all Christen
dom with them rejoice, for they will be
come the free possessors of their lands
and will sing songs of triumph in honor
of you who will have liberated them from
the Turkish yoke, more heavy and more
intolerable than was the' yoke of the
Egyptians. The power of Christ’s cross
which brought the Israelites across the
Red sea, and which confounded the
Amalekites in the plain, may it now as
sist you, now and forever. With this
cross you shall conquer."
The National Militia.
Editor Morning Mem: The Constitu
tion of the United States, Article 1, Sec
tion 10, par. 3, says: “No State shall,
without the consent of Congress, * * *
keep troops or ships of war in time of
peace.” And Article I, Section 8, par.
lti, of the same constitution, declares that
“Congress shall have power to provide
for organizing, arming and disciplining
the militia, and for governing such part
of them as may be employed in the
service of the United States, reserving
to the States respectively the appoint
ment of the offioers, and the authority of
training the militia according to the
discipline prescribed by Congress.”
Under this last clause Congress passed
an act, approved May 8, 1792, “More
effectually to provide for the national de
fense, by establishing an uniform militia
throughout the United States;” and Con
gress by its acts,approved March 2,1803,
and 18th April, 1814, modified in some
respects the act of May 8, 1792.
By these acts it is provided that each'
and every able-bodied white (siDce ex
tended to include negroes) citizen of the
respective States, from eighteen to forty-
five years of age. (except as excepted)
shaii be enrolled in tbe militia. That this
militia shall be arranged into divisions,
brigades, regiments, battalions and com
panies, as the Legislature of each State
shall direct. That all commissioned of
ficers shall take rank according to the
date of their commissions. And by the
rules and articles of war, act of Con
gress, approved April 10, 1806, “for the
government of the armies of the Uni
ted States,” it is provided that said
commissions shall be held during life
or good behavior unless discharged by the
President of the United States (or by the
Governor when not in United States ser
vice), or by sentence of a court martial.
These rules and articles of war control
the militia of the United States through
out the respective States.
From these laws it will be seen that
every man in Georgia of eighteen to
forty-five years of age, unless excepted
by the laws of the United States, belongs
to tbe national militia, whether in a
volunteer organization, permitted by the
Legislature of the State, or iu the “tag,
rag and bobtail,” as the uuuniformed,
unarmed men were culled before the war,
and that he is under control and govern
ment of tbe United States as a soldier
of its militia army. It would be
well could the militia be organiz
ed into divisions, brigades, &c., on
the standing army organization, but as
that has not been done, the volunteer
corps should be arranged as nearly as pos
sible on the regular army plan. And so
desirous is the Government of the United
States that this should be done that,by act
of March 2, 1803, it is directed that the
Adjutant General of each State shall make
return to the Secretary of War annually
of the militia, arms, accoutrements, etc.
* * * And it shall be the duty of the
Secretary of War, from time to time, to
give such directions to tbe Adjutant Gen
erals of the militia as shall, in his opinion,
bo necessary to produce an uniformity in
the said returns, etc.
Volunteer organizations are encouraged
as provoking military knowledge, effici
ency and esprit de corps; but they are none
tbe less parts of the national militia, and
subject to the laws of the United States
made and provided therefor.
H. C. W.
FACTS PLAINLY PUT.
A Leading Republican Newspaper on the
Propoefiiou Co Subsidize the South.
One or Mr. Beecher’s Parishioners
Shoots Himself Through the Head,
Mr. Galvin B. Camp, a cotton broker
doing business at 123 Pearl street, New
York, and residing at 138 Columbia
Heights, Brooklyn, shot himself through
the head Saturday morning. It is sup
posed that he was laboring under a tem
porary aberration of mind at the time,
and that this had been brought about
through ill-health and business troubles.
Shortly before 9 o’clock bis wife left tbe
sleeping apartment on the third floor and
went down stairs, urging him to follow
her and take breakfast. He promised to
do so. After waiting for some time Mrs.
Camp went up and called him a second
time, and be told her he would come
down soon. While the family were tak
ing breakfast they heard the report of a
pistol, and on rushing np to his room Mr?.
Camp found her husband unconscious on
the floor with a pistol in his hand and a
small bullet wound on the light side of
the bead. He was placed on the bed, and
Dr. Fleetspier was quickly summoned,
but the unfortunate man was beyond tbe
aid of medical skill. The ball had lodged
iu the brain.
Mr. Camp was about fifty five years of
age, and lives only a few doors from the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. He joined
tbe congregation of Plymouth Church in
I860. During and after the war he
amassed a large fortune through his busi
ness as a cotton broker, but iu the finan
cial crisis of 1873 he suffered serious
losses. He weathered the storm finan
cially, but the effect of the reverse and
subsequent struggles to regain his lost
position so preyed upon his naturally
melancholy temperament that his friends
have for some years considered him nol
thoroughly sane, and his condition has
lately been one of morbid melancholy.—
W. T. World.
[Prom the Rochester Demo .rrt and Chronicle.]
It is affirmed by tbe subsidy advocates
that the “enterprises” for which they re
quest government aid are of such magni
tude that private capital cannot possibly
carry them forward to completion. This
is an assumption which at once reveals the
disingennousness of tbe snbsidists and
the weakness of their case. If the “en
terprise” promises to be profitable, and
private capital cannot or will not
carry it to completion, we have
very anomalons state of things.
If “there is millions in it,” mil
lions stand ready for investment. If
there is no money in it—if private capital
avoids it as too hazurdons, for that very
reason alone the goverment would be
justified in refusing public aid. No one
now complains of a lack of money. The
banks are surfeited with it.
If the Texas Pacific Railroad is such
an important and prospectively profitable
enterprise as to warrant the asking of a
government loan in its construction, why
is it that private capital does not flow into
it? Does water run up hill? If public
ald-is asked with the intention of mort
gaging the future for indemnity—a future
so moribund even from the most hopefnl
view—the presumption is that the enter
prise cannot stand upon its own merits,
and hence it should not be propped up
with government crutches. When such
shrewd fellows as these subsidists begin to
dilate upon the great advantages that will
accrue to the government from the con
struction of great lines of railways, they
not only pass beyond tbe legitimate scope
of the question, bat arc use in the public
mind the painful suspicion that “ not all
is gold that glitters.” When government
aid is sought the inquiry into the merits
of the project should embrace these
points:
I. Is this proj ect of sufficient national
importance as to warrant tbe nation in
voting it aid? 2. If it is, cannot private
capital.acccmplish all that is desired ?
3. If it measures np to national impor
tance, and private capital regards it as
too hazardous for investment,' is there
any reasonable prospect that the govern
ment will ever be indemnified for its aid?
If such a project does not stand the
test of these inquiries, it most certainly
should not be encouraged by goveinmeut
aid, even if we admit that the rendering
of any such aid is within the proper
limits of the republican form of govern
ment. The people are sensitive on this
theme, and we sincerely trust that both
the legislative and executive departments
of the government will follow conserva
tism in this matter.
had’ each been convicted of larceny. Their
escape is attributed to the negligence of a
Deputy Sheriff who was acting as jailor, and
who his since been hound over in one hun
dred dollars to answer. Tnw makes ten
A Railboad Contbactor Shot Dead.—
Addison Dunoan, of Luray, Virginia, the
largest contractor on the Washington
citv, Cincinnati and St. Louis -Narrow
Gauge Railroad, accidently shot and
killed himself last Friday afternoon. It
appears that Mr. Duncan was superin
tending a large number of convicts who
were engaged in constructing tbe road ;
that a gun used by one of the guards was
1\ ing upon an embankment. Mr. Duncan
took the gun by tbe muzzle, and drawing
it toward him the hammer caught on a
twig, causing the gun to discharge the
contents. Twelve large buckshot entered
Mr. Duncan’d breast immediately above
the heart, killing him instantly. The
deceased had long been a resident of
Luray, and is related to tbe most influen
tial and wealthy families of tbe vailey of
Virginia. He was about forty five years
of age.
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Jeffebsoh Davis Wins a Suit.—The
Supreme Court of Mississippi has decided
that Jefferson Davis, by a residence of
thirty years, and other acts of ownership,
acquired title to the plantation known as
“ Brierfield,” notwithstanding Joseph E.
Davis, his brother, never conveyed to him
the title thereof; that when the latter
sold this plantation he beoame indebted
to the former in the amount of seventy
thousand dollars, the price thereof; and
that Jefferson Davis is not estopped by
the fact that having become executor of
bis brother’s will, or by any acts of ex
ecutorship done by him, or by any other
thing, from asserting his claim to the
prooeeds of sale of said plantation against
tbe estate of Joseph E. Davis, but is en-
titled to be paid the same.
Mysterious Child Mukdeb.—On Sat
urday morning officer Bouchett drew
from Jones’ falls, near the city block, a
blick valise. On opening it he fount}
the body of a female infant partially de
composed. Its month was filled with
cotton, and it is supposed it was plaoed
there to stifle its cries while being carried
through the streets to be thrown into the
falls. Dr. E. R. Walker, Coroner of the
middle district, declined holding an in
quest, as it was impossible from the con
dition of the body to determine whether
or not the child had been born alive.—
Baltimore Gazette, llfft.
The pages in the Sultan’s seragiic are
of Greek and Hungarian nationality,
selected on account of their beautiful
looks. They dress like little kings, and
b°ar themselves in a royally haughty
manner toward the crowd of obsequious
servants and personages surrounding
them in the imperial household.
An Albany Scandal.—Albany, June
10.—It has been whispered iu the best
circles here for several days that a bitter
domestic grievance had visited the family
of one of the most prominent officials of
the State. Investigation shows that about
three years ago, owing to his wild career,
a son of this official was sent out West.
It came out that he had married a woman
of the town during one of bis sprees, and
no divorce has since been obtained from
her. The young man remained away under
the suspension of his father, until a few
months ago, when he returned. He im
mediately renewed his wild career, and
one day last week capped it by another
marriage, this time with one of the most
infamous women of tbe town, keeper of a
vile den, in personal appearance unusual
ly repulsive, and his seniorabout ten years.
The marriage was performed in a city
church one evening. They departed for
Montreal as soon as the ceremony was per
formed, and rumor now says that a check
for $400, upon which the young man rais
ed the money necessary for his outfit, is
a forgery of his father’s name. The mo
tive of the woman in marrying the young
man is found in the fact that he becomes
possessed of about $20,000 when he
reaches his majority in a few months, tbe
money being left him by bis grandfather,
who was one of the former wealthy citi
zens of Albany.
Dbum Fishing at Cape May.—Those
not well acquainted with the ways and
tricks of the wily red drum fish sometimes
narrowly escape 'coming to grief in the
pursuit of him. Last week a gentleman
from Philadelphia, fishing on Five Mile
Beach, at Cape May, in company with
Mr. Joseph Hand, met with an almost
fatal mishap. Mr. Hand baited his drum
line and with its sinker threw it beyond
the breakers. He gave the line to the
gentleman and told him when he hooked
a drum to “run in,” meaning run in
shore up tbe beach and drag the drum
through the breakers. He soon hooked
a noble fish, and ran in the sea, hauling
in his line as he ran, and fast becoming
entangled in it. He was thrown down by
the powerful fish and dragged into the
surf waist deep. Mr. Hand ran to his
assistance. Fortunately the hook drew
out, and the gentleman thus escaped from
his perilous situation. No danger usually
attends the taking of this fish, unless
directions are misunderstood or your line
enwraps you, as was the case with a col
ored man at Cape Henlopen, on the op
posite shore of Delaware bay, who lost
bis life by tying his line around his body.
A powerful red dram took the line and
dragged him into the surf. He was
drowned.
The Last of Table Rock.—On the
24th ultimo the last of what was so long
known as Table Rock, at Niagara, broke
off and fell into the river. The mass
weighed nearly sixty tons, and np to 1876
over four thousand names of visitors had
been carved upon it. The part which fell
on the 24th composed only half of the
original rock, the rest having fallen in.
On Saturday, January 1, 1829, a surface
of the rock supposed to be the size of
half an acre, forming the bed of Maiden
Walk, broke loose, and was precipitated
into the immense chasm below. The
crash was beard for a distance of five
miles, and the effects in the immediate
neighborhood resembled the shock of an
earthquake. The water running under
the bank is supposed to have caused the
fall on the 24th. The shock when the
rock struck the water was distinctly felt
three miles from the fall. Sev ral of the
trees that stood on the rock are now seen
standing in the river as erect as when in
their original places on the rock.—Syra
cuse Standard.
Rutland, VL, has been enjoying one of
the most unsavory of scandals, which,
however, was very judiciously managed,
Mrs. Maria Payson, widow of Mr. Frank -
lin Payson, a New York lawyer who be
came the editor of the Mobile Tribune,
has been carrying on business at Rutland
as a modiste. She has been recently ad
judged a lunatic and sent to the asylum
at Brattleboro. Rumor hints that she
has been writing anonymous letters to
“a Drcminent railroad^man, who has
figured somewhat conspicuously in a min
ing scheme of considerable notoriety,’
and to a bright young girl, a favorite
friend of his, alleging against them the
greatest immorality, and proposing to
hush matters up in consideration of
payment of $8,000. Accidentally the
letters were traced to Mrs. Paysou’s
house; she was arrested and locked up;
then came rumors of insanity, and finally
she was removed to the asylum.—N. T.
World.
A Georgia Farm.
There is a small farm of fifty acres near
Thomasville, Georgia, that is an example
of what thorough scientific cultivation on
a small area of ground will accomplish.
It belongs to Col. R. H. Hardaway. It is
not a plantation, but it is something bet
ter—a model Georgia farm. When the
present owner came into possession it
was poor, yielding only about eight bush
els of corn per acre, now it yields at the
rate of sixty to seventy bushels, its ca
pacity having been increased eight fold
by the system of cultivation it has been
subjected to. Last year ten acres of it
put in crops yielded three hundred and
twenty-eight bushels of com, three hun
dred and twenty.seven bushels of oats,
and three heavy bales of cotton, all at the
cost of nothing more than about one hun
dred and twenty-five bushelsof ootton seed
per acre, reinforced w ; th compost made
of stable manure, ashes and cotton seed.
This year five acres hare been planted in
corn, five in oats and five in cotton. The
com is planted in rows four feet apart and
very close in the row, permitting it to be
plowed only one way. From present
appearances, it is estimated that it will
turn out sixty-five bushels per acre—
which the best Missouri lands might not
be ashamed of. Tbe oats and cotton
look equellv well, and it is probable Col.
Hardaway wiil gather from his little farm
three times aB much per acre as the aver
age yield of Georgia plantations. The
example of a number of such farms scat
tered throughout the South would be
worth more than all th6 political plat
forms and essays ever written.—St. Louis
Republican.
A London jeweler has invented a piece
of mechanism which is described as fol
lows : It consists of a set of gold studs,
in one of which is a miniature watch,
which keeps excellent time. The com
bined weight of tbe two studs and watch,
which are all connected together, is one
and a half ounces. The face of the
watch is the size of a silver three cent
piece, and with its surroundings of gold it
looks much like a small compass. When
the watch and studs are on the shirt-front
they are about two inches apart, and by
turning the upper one (in the same man
ner that a stem-winding watch is wound)
the time-piece is wound. In setting tbe
hands the lower stud is revolved. The
most remarkable thing about tbe time
piece is that it is not like ordinary watch,
es, bni has a dial resembling that of a
clock. The pendulum will move correctly
in whatever position the watch is plaoed,
even when it is reversed, and run at the
top instead of the bottom.
An Eight Thousand Dollar Robbery.
—On Satmday night a gang of burglars
entered Bailey’s carpet store, Nos. 365
and 367 Canal street, by opening the
front door with false keys, and cut a hole
in the party wall of F. W. Pachtmnn It
Co.’s jewelry store, No. 363 Canal street.
In so doing they pushed down a large
clock, which yesterday marked the hour
of its fall at 6:10 o’clock. The burglars,
after getting insife, went to work on an
old-fashioned safe and emptied it of its
contents, which consisted of about
$1,500 worth of diamonds, $200 worth of
jewelry, watches valued at about $5,000,
and about $250 in money. The thieves
did not meddle with another large safe
in the store whioh contained $30,000
worth of property, and left the place by
Bailey’s store. The robbery was dis
covered yesterday afternoon by a member
of the firm.—Mew York World.
Milan is soon to erect a stat»e to a
nameless heroine who saved tbe city when
it was beseiged by Frederick Barbarossa.
She was young and beautiful, and she
volunteered to stand in what Artemus
Ward calls “the scandalous costume of
tbe Greek slave, ” ail but the dog ohain,
on one of the gates, and so engage the
attention of the besiegers till the garri
son, issuing from another gate, fell on
their rear and bo compelled them to re
tire. The World, from which we have
taken the story verbatim, expresses the
opinion that the pretty Milanese miss is a
pretty Milanese myth.
Among the interesting relics in Paris
are the celebrated lilacs in tbe gardens of
tbe Luxembourg, which at last accounts
were in full fliwer, at the age of two hun
dred and fifty years. They were planted
by Marie de Medicis- Cardinal Richelieu
was a passionate lover of flowers, and
among these lilacs he frequently walked,
plucking the branches, with which to
decorate his reception room. There are
eighty trees in all, and frequenters of the
garden have never found them in such
exuberant bloom as in tbe present year.
Tbe Czar and his eldest son, the heir
apparent, have no fixed allowance of pay.
They take what is necessary for their ex
penses out of ihe rents of the crown
domains and out of tbe Treasury, the
sums taken from the latter being termed
“indemnities.” All tbe other members
of the imperial household have their al
lowances regularly fixed, and are not per
mitted to go beyond the limit.
An extensive band of horse thieves has
been discovered in Illinois and Missouri.
Wm. Twedall, one of the gang arrested
at Kirk8vil!e, Mo., has made a confession
implicating persons of hitherto good
reputation, among them a preacher who
reoently got up a revival meeting, daring
which his confederates were to steal
horses.
Italian Trade and Immigration.
[From the Baltimore Sun.]
Messrs. Editors: Iu your edition of
Jane 2d there appeared an article on
“Italian Trade and Immigration,” which
opens up such a vast field of commercial
and agricultural profit, not only to Balti
more, but to all tbe Southern States, that
I feel sore the following statistics con
cerning the same will be read with
interest by the progressive merchants of
Baltimore who aim to make their city the
gateway to the South.
Necessity is the mother of emigration.
All men love their native land, and nothing
bat the dearer love of wives and children,
and the desire to leave them a heritage of
liberty and independence can break the
ties which bind men to their country.
Unfortunately for the impression it leaves
on the people of the United Slates, the
first immigrants are generally the poor
and the ignorant. F.eeing from poverty
and oppression, they are glad to bs able
to reach our shores; their immediate
wants force them to accept the first em
ployment which offers. They are poor
and ill clad. They are in a land without
“peasents.” They are forced to “herd”
together by the circumstances which sur
round them. The general American
people jump to tbe conclusion that these
first immigrants are a fair representation
of their nation, and turn their back upon
them, and condemn tbe whole race as a
parcel of “organ grinders” or “peanut
pedlers.” No people have been more
grievously wronged in this regard than
the Italians, as the simplest investigation
will prove, and as tbe grand stream of
immigration of Italian agriculturists, arti
sans and artists and a most valuable com
merce which—if your business men avail
themselves of the golden opportunity—
will flow through Baltimore into the rich
fields of the South will verify. The
inducements offered by the govern
ments of South America—money, lands,
implements, etc., placed before the
Italian people in the most glowing
colors by immigration agents, together
with direct steam navigation between the
respective countries, have turned the tide
of Italian immigration thither. In 1874
the total immigration into the Argentine
Republic was abont 80,000. Of this 58
per cent, was Italian. A steady increase
undoubtedly has gone on since then, so
that we may safely assume that at the
very least the annual immigration into all
the South American countries from Italy
must be abive 60,000. More than one
half of this can be turned into the South
ern States through Baltimore! With all
the inducements of the South American
Government to immigrants, and their
praiseworthy efforts to develop their vast
countries by immigration, experience has
proved that of all lands under the sun
the United States is the best for immi
grants as well as for those to tbe “manor
bom.”
The United States Consul at Buenos
Ayres, in his commercial report to the
Department of State for 1876, says :
“In spite of the encouragement
given by the government, year
after year the wide wastes of
pampa, possessing a soil which is unsur
passed for the production of cereals,
remained unoccupied, saving here and
there a small patch which has been open
ed to cultivation by European immigrants.
The natives of the country look with
contempt upon the foreigners who occupy
themselves with agricultural pursuits.
Indeed, in many parts the robberies and
murders which daring the last year have
transpired in the camp have caused the
representatives here of some European
governments to warn their countrymen
against coming to this republic. The
attention of the government has fre
quently been directed to tbe lawless con-
aition of the camp; bat at present there
is no such security for life and property
as will speedily cause the rich farmim
lands of the Argentine republic to be
occupied and cultivated.”
The United States Consul at Valparaiso
in his commercial report for 1876 safys:
“In a former report I have mentioned
the inducements that were offered by tbe
colonization societies to bring emigrants
to this republic. These societies now
ask an annual appropriation from tbe
government to pay the passage of emi
grants from the United States and Eu
rope. I believeChili is tbe most desirable
field for immigrants of any of the South
American republics, particularly as re
gards climat6; yet tbe insecurity of life
and property is so great and the impunity
with which crime is perpetrated is so
notorious, that it becomes a positive duty
to warn my countrymen against etnigra
ting to Chili. Chili can offer no advan
tagus to American citizens to leave their
own country, where they have justice,
political and religious freedom, and secu
ritv for their lives and property.”
Not to multiply these extracts, it is
euough to Bay that every Consul of the
United States from Australia to Pata
gonia, warns Americans against the mad
ness of emigrating from the greatest and
happiest country on the face of the earth.
The Italians, who have hitherto been
under the influence of the South Amer:>
oan fever, are beginning to pause, and it
rtmainsj for| the; United States but to
make an effort and the greater portion of
Italian emigration will come hither. Now
let us see the peculiar worth of the Italian
immigration to the South:
In the first place the climates of Italy
and the Southern States are so much alike
that the Italian immigrants wonld find
themselves “acolimated” on their arrival.
This is the first important fitness of the
Italians for the South. The diversified
industries and agricultural products of
Italy surpass, perhaps, those of any other
country in the world. The husbandman
produces everything, from the cereals of
Northern Europe to tbe products of the
tropios. He would bring his experience
in this “diversity” to his new home and
make of the South a second Italy in in
dustry, for the South is capable of pro
ducing, even as Italy produces, from
wheat to oranges and silk.
The population of Italy is about
28,000,000. Her imports for the year
1876 amounted to $266,000,000, and her
exports to $244,000,000. Of the imports
the United States received only $7,628.
000, while Great Britain received more
than $21,000,000; of the exports Italy
received only $7,770,000 from the United
Slates, while she purchased from Great
Britain almost $40,000,000. The princi-
pal purchase by Italy from Great Britain
was cotton goods and yarns, abont $13,
000,000—the rest comprising a general
assortment of manufactures, in which the
United States excels. When we take
into consideration the fact that Amen
can cottons are now sold in Manchester,
England, the headquarters of the Eng
lish manufacture, at less fignres than
the latter, the quality being far superior
in style and finish to British goods, does
it not appear strange that Italy imports
cottons from England to the amonnt of
thirteen millions of dollars, while she
does not import a dollar's worth from the
United States? The simple answer to
this commercial error is that England
solicits the Italian trade and the United
States does not. These facts are given to
show that the cause which has driven
Italian emigration to South America has
also driven Italian trade to Great Britain
and tbe other commercial nations, and
that the spirit which it is hoped Balti
more possesses, which will draw Italian
emigration hither, will also draw its com
merce hither.
One important fact is now apparent to
all thinking men, viz: that within the
next ten years the Southern States will
develop their wonderful rosources to an
extent little dreamed of by those who
judge of things by the past. Accom
panying this development is this other
fact, that some Southern city will be
come the metropolis of this development.
Shall that city be Baltimore ? All things
point to this consummation, bat the
business men of Baltimore must strip to
their work. The old idea of natural
channels of trade and immigration is ex
ploded. Trade must be directed; emi
gration must be directed. Bridge the
ocean with your steamship lines. Let
Italian commerce and Italian immigra
tion be invited hither, and both will ffcw
hither. Every dollar spent to bring
trade and people to your city will enrich
you an hundred fold. The time is now;
to-morrow some other city further South
will wake from its sleep and forestall
you!
I have had business relations with tbe
Italians in Chicago and in New York.
They are a great and good people. Tbe
Italian agriculturists, who can be induced
to settle iu the South, are a peaceable,
industrious, energetio race. They wiH
make the South bloom like the “sister of
Italv.” Michael Scanlan.
Washington, June 7, 1877.
REST IS 1MXOKAI
An Unpublished I.etter From Joseph Jlaz-
zlnl.
[Mr. Moncure D. Conway in the Cincinnati
Commercial.]
I have before me a characteristic letter
bv Mazzini, never published, bnt wbich-
Mrs. Ment a Taylor (wife of P. A. Tay
lor) has gathered up in a little selection
of pieces written for a Pen and Pencil
Club, which need to meet at Aubrey
House. I remember well, though it is
ten years since, the impression made by
this letter on our gay and festive com
pany, which, having treated the elected
themes “Ghosts” and “Rest” in little
p.ctures and literary Sketches, was sud
denly arraigned before tbe genius of
Unrest. The letter is as follows:
Deabest Friend : The subject of your
meet'ng of to morrow is so suggestive
that I would gladly join yon all and write
an essay on it if I had health and time.
I have neither, and perhaps better so.
My essay, I candidly avow, would tend to
prove that no essay ought to be written
oirlhe subject. It has no reality. A sort
of intuitive instinct led you to couple
“ G hosts and Rest ” together.
There is here, I own, and there ought
to be, no rest. Life is an aim—an aim
which can be approached, not reached.
There is, therefore, no rest. Rest is im
moral.
It is not mine, now, to give a definition
of the aim : whatever it is, there is one—
there must be one. Without it life has
no sense. It is atheistical, and moreover
au irony and a deception.
I entertain all possible respect for the
members of your club, but I venture to
say that any contribution on rest which
will not exhibit at the top a definition of
life, will wander sadly between wild,
arbitrary, intellectual display and com
monplaces.
Life is no sinecure, no recherche du bon-
heur to be secured, as tbe promulgators
of tbe theory had it, by guillotine; or, as
their less energetic followers have it, by
railway shares, selfishness or contempla
tion. Life is, as Schiller said, “a battle
and a march;” a battle for good against
evil, for justice against arbitrary privi
leges, for liberty against oppression, for
associated love against individualism; a
march onwards to self, through collective
perfecting, to the progressive realization
of an ideal which is only dawning to
our mind and soul. Shall the bat
tle be finaly won during lifetime?
Shall it on earth? ‘Are we believ
ing in a millenium? Do not we feel that
tne spiral curve through which we ascend
had its beginning elsewhere, and has its
end, if any, beyond this terrestrial world
of ours? Where is then a possible foun
dation for your essays and sketches?
Goethe’s “Contemplation” has created
a multitude of little sects aiming at rest
where is no rest, falsifying art, the ele
ment of which is evolution, not reproduc
lion, transformation not contemplation,
and enervating the soul in self-abdicating
Brahmanic attempts. For God’s sake let
not your club add one little sect to the
fatally existing hundreds.
There is nothing to be looked for in
life except the uninterrupted fulfilment
of duty, and not rest, but consolation
and strengthening from love. There
not rest, but a promise—a shadowing
forth of rest in love. Only there must
be in love absolute trust, and it is very
seldom that this blessing depends on us.
Tbe child goes to sleep with unbounded
trust on the mother’s bosom; but our sleep
is a restless one, agitated by sad dreams
and alarms.
You will *mile at my lugubrious turn of
mind, but if I were one of your artists I
would sketch a man on the scaffold going
to die for a great idea, for the cause of
truth, with his eye looking trustfully on
a loving woman, whose finger would
trustfully and smilingly point out to him
the unbounded. Under the sketch I
would write, not rest, but “ a promise of
rest.” Addio, tell me one word about the
point of view of your contributors.
Ever affectionately yours,
Joseph Mazzini.
The club was not without good writers
and men who did the State some service,
but they were rarely "caught up into a
mood so serious as this of Mazzini, for
our meetings were looked on as meant for
relaxation. However, after this letter by
the veteran soldier of Progress was read,
there were found among the essays a
poem that took up his burden. It told of
a Prince who tried every pleasure but
sighed for more, who won glory in battle:
won liberty for the oppressed; won secrets
from nature, and
Yet from each vanquished mystery
Some harder marvel grew.
Every gift was given save one—peace;
bnt at last that, too, was found,’(as Maz-
zini has at last found it)
Love, Iraming, statecraft, sway.
Looked always on before.
But these pale, happy lips of clay
Lacked nothing—nothing more!
A CENTENNIAL TROUBLE.
The Government to Brine Suit Againat
ihe Board of Finance*.
One of the buildings at the late Inter
national Exhibition at Philadelphia,which
was erected and used by the United States
Government on the exhibition grounds,
having been torn down on Friday last
without authority from the government,
will probably had to difficulties with the
Finance Board of the Exhibition. The
matter has already been placed in tbe
bands of the Attorney General, with the
request that ke will proceed against the
board to recover damages, and also to
have the offenders punished.. The
building was located near the principal
government building, and was used for
the exhibition of powder-testing ma
chines, electrical apparatus, etc. It was
constructed of iron and wood, and so ar
ranged that it could be taken apart. One
of its peculiarities was that in case
of the explosion of any material
within, it would fall to pieces; in fact
the building was once demolished by an
explosion of two hundred pounds of
powder and was reconstructed at Phila
delphia, to show that tbe effect of an ex
plosion within would merely cause it to
come Apart without the destruction of
the material. A few days ago a notice
was posted up iu the Centennial Grounds
requiring all buildings to be removed
within five days thereafter, and the time
for their removal expired yesterday.
Colonel Lyford, the chief of tbe board,
having charge of the government exhibits,
bad given orders to his force at Philadel
phia to remove the building yesterday,
but, as above stated, it was removed by
order of the Finance Board on Friday.
It was the intention of the board haying
charge of the government exhibits to ex
pend $2,000 or $3,0QQ in grading the
grounds adjacent to the government
buildings and putting them in order after
the removal of these buildings, but in
consequence of the destruction of this
building the force will be withdrawn and
no money expended in arranging the
grounds.
The Motion says that nine-tenths of
the people believe “that Hayes’ fight
with the ‘machine’ must inevitably end
as Grant’s did, in impotent submission.”
If Hayes had any such fight, doubtless it
would so end; but he is not fighting on
that line. Hip campaign is direoted to
the end of conquering the popular dis
trust in him as a fraud. But he can
make no successful fighlrin any direction,
for he can get only mercenary troops who
are ready to desert his colors at any mo
ment—Mew York Sun.
L1NCH1NQ IN IOWA.
The Almost Providential Eeenpe of a
Ano who had been Housed.
[From thu Chicago Tunes.;
Mabshalltown, June 7.—There is in
tense excitement at the scene of the
hanging of Eckler, in Grundy county.
The trouble out of which it grew is of
long standing—a neighborhood quarrel
between Eckler and a few vicious and
desperate men. To get rid of Eckler and
drive him ont of the country gome five
years ago, they trumped up a charge that
he had committed a serious crime. He
was warned to quit the country, but,
failing to do this, he was tarred and feath
ered. Eckler quit the county, but
returned about a month ago. He made
several threats of having those Engaged
in the tar-and-feather matter brought to
justice. In meeting one of his enemies
one day in the field he told him he had a
settlement to make with him, and accused
him of beiDg one of the men who had
tarred and feathered him. Several days
after this the man above mentioned had
Eckler arTested, charging tbat he had
drawn a gun upon him and threatened to
kill him.
Eckler was arrested late in the evening
by Constable Nelson and taken before
Justice Crary, seven miles from Union.
Tbe case was adjourned over till Monday,
and the constable took him home to
await Monday’s examination. At twelve
o'clock at night, after all were in bed,
Nelson heard an alarm at the door, and,
suspecting nothing, opened it, and was
met by five men, all disguised, who de
manded Eckler. Upon his refusal to give
him up, two of them seized him and held
him, while the other three rushed past
into Eckler’s room, seized him, and with
out allowing him to dress, hurried him
off on foot for over three quarters
of a mile, to a row of ootton-
wood trees by the side of the road,
where they had previously prepared a
rail across two limbs, with a large rope
attached. They pinioned his bands and
feet, gagged him, and then lifted him up,
placed the noose about his neck, and let
him drop. The rope was so long his feet
touched the ground. They readjusted
the rope aud let him down again, and,
thinking they heard some one coming,
they started to leave. One of them, on
looking back and seeing Eckler’s toes just
touching the ground, ran back and dug
the earth from under his feet with his
hands, and with an oath exolaimed:
“There, damn you, die!”
How long be remained there Eckler is
not able to say, as be thinks he became
unconscious, but on reviving he found his
toes just touching the ground. The rope
being large, did not elip tight enough to
choke him, and by a desperate effort he
wrenched his hands free, and by drawing
himself up with his hands soon freed him
self. Then he made his way tc a neigh-
bar’s house and procured clothing.
Victor Emanuel now receives a salary
of $2,850,000. The Parliament had to
raise it in order to pay off his debts.
A Curious Transaction.
The public has not ’ been unobservant
of a curious political transaction which
took place reoently in New York. It
was with Mr. Peter B. Sweeney as the
party of the first part, and the State and
city of New York as the parties of the
second part.
To explain this fuily, we must go back
ten years.
From 1865 to 1874 there flourished in
the greatest city in America the mo: t
gigantic ring in history* It was organ
ized for the purpose of public plunder.
It took its rise j ust as the war closed.
Those were the flush times. They were
the days of contractors, of shoddyites, of
people who had made money God
knows how. Men with the manners of
pig drivers had the money of million
aires.
Vulgar ostentation could go no farther.
Vulgar prodigality was witnessed st every
turn. The fashionable hotels were full of
it. At the great metropolitan caravansa
ries women came to breakfast in velvet
and diamonds. These were the flush
times of Fisk, of Gould, and of Tweed.
In tbe New York ring there were Con
nelly, Hall, Woodward, Garvey, Harry
Genet, and a host of smaller men who
were the jackals that fed when the lions
were done.
Chief among those who were highest
in public esteem was Peter B. Sweeney.
He was known as “Old Brains." Cool,
cunning and clear-headed, he disdained
the vulgar show of the ring. He was
Tweed’s most trusted friend. Oakey
Hall, with his fantasies, was but a puppet
in the hands of this strong, wily, resolute
man. Sweeney wore no diamonds. He
had no fine houses. He lived quietly and
without ostentation, and was popularly-
supposed to be a bachelor. His intimes
knew about an establishment in a genteel
street, where the divorced wife of a man
of fashion shared her honse with
Sweeney. But there was no open Bcandal.
The brainy man of the ring kept his own
secrets. The firm, strong month, be the
man ever so convivial, never toll} tales.
When the mutterings of the storm
were first heard, the ring were off guard.
They believed they were loo powerful to
be overthrown. Had they not tbe Mayor,
tbe bench and tbe bar with them ?
One mac, however, was not off gnard.
He knew that sometime an end must
come. For two years he had been turn -
ing his share of the ring spoils into se
curities and money. He quietly went
abtoad. Sixty days after the quiet es
tablishment on a genteei street was closed
the storm burst. The ring was broken at
last!
The rest is history. Harry Genet died
miserably. Woodward was caught. Con
nelly is a homeless wanderer. Tweed,
after living a romance in five volumes, is
now only a poor, broken down man.
While all these events were transpiring
Sweeney was living the life of a retired
gentleman in Paris. Americans saw him,
cold, calm, as in the days when Tweed
was King aud he the Warwick. In the
investigation everybody could be tracked
but Sweeney. He lived quietly. He bad
neither bouses nor diamonds.
The shrewdest detectives were at fault.
Was it possible that Sweeney had (in the
slang of the street) been left ?
At last Mr. Tilden, wbo was chief pros
ecutor, struck a clue.’ He carefully work
ed it np and found that Sweeney had sent
out of New York in money and first class
securities $7,000,000.
The State at once brought snit for this
amount. Mr, Sweeney ran farther off did
you say? Not at all. He came at once to
New York! He was indignant that the
character of an unoffending citizen should
be caluraniously assailed. He was no com
mon rogue to run away from the law.
“Bless ye,” said he to ‘he prosecutors,
“do your duty. If there is anything I
like it is a fearless discharge of duty by a
publio official,” and then he quietly drop
ped the lid of one eye.
There was a sound of hurrying to and
fro among the prosecuting officers.
Sweeney bothered them. They had not
expected this coming over to answer in
person. “Damn the fellow,” said one
eminent jurist to another, “be knows so
mneb. Let’s fix it np somehow.” Like
the fine old German gentleman who had
caught the bear, they wanted somebody
to help them let the game go.
Finally Sweeney said: “I don’t want to
embarrass you. Dismiss yonr indict
ment, and I wiil give you $400,tXJd.
Fig'nt it, and I will do my best to ruin
you ail." The Brooklyn Eagle tells the
rest in its own pointed way :
A court called of justice has waited for
the great man and his counsel every day
to get ready in their own way and at their
own time, to badger, bait and bully the
State of New York.
Tbe extent of their success is capable
of easy estimate. The State sued Sweeney
for $7,000/100. The State settles the
suit for $400,000. The State knocks off
$6,600,000 from its claim in one act. Nor
is this alL The State permits the Judge*
to state that this was a bargain which
Sweeney did not a-k and was not anxious
for. He was, on the whole, rather averse
to it The State appears to have origin
ated and pressed the offer on Sweeney’s
acceptance. In a large, generous, off
hand way, Sweeney seems to have said :
“Take your $400,000. I won’t miss it.”
And then we are told, on the authority of
the court, that this suspends the suit.
“ without concession from or reflection
on the defendant.”
Virtue has its reward. Mr. Sweeney
has paid ont perhaps not a year’s interest,
on his investments, and got his title to
the rest quieted. Hereafter none can
molest or make him afraid. He has not
lost his head, and blundered. He haa
won.
He can now calmly retire to his elegant
hotel in the Rue Malesherbes and ponder
upon the foolishness of cities attempting
to get back money which is stolen from
them. The moral is instructive if not
edifying.
Theodore Smith, eight years old, in a
quarrel with a little girl about the
same age, at Rochester, N. Y., on Sunday
last, gave her a stab in the side whioh is
likely to prove fatal.