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Savannah. Ga.
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1877.
ESTABLISHED i850.
Affairs in Georgia.
One hundred and twenty-five counties
heard from officially give a majority in favor
of convention of eight thousand. There
ar e twelve counties yet to hear from, whioh
Will increase this majority to probably thir
teen thousand. We hope Bryant will tele
graph this news to Edmunds.
Judge Hansel! delivers a Masonic address
at Cairo, Thomas county, on the 231 inst.
Eight lodges have been invited to be present
on the occasion.
Jbe pamphlet publishing the official pro
ceedings of the convention of 18G7 and 1868
is thus entitled : “ Constitution, ordinances
and resolutions of the Georgia Convention
assembled in pursuance of tire reconstruction
acts anil held by order of General Pope.”
The next pamphlet wil! somewhat ohange
this phraseology and make it read “ We, the
people of Georgia,” etc.
It is stated that Mayor Huff, of Macon, has
gone to Washington to apply for the United
States MarshalBhip of Georgia. It is said he
has the endorsement of Senators Gordon and
Hill.
It is reported that Bob Alston is on the
track for the Pension Agency of Virginia
and Tennessee, but he wont’t get it, as Mr,
Hayes says he will appoint a Knoxville man,
and Robert aint that kind of a man.
The city of Atlanta has been ridden of
seven hundred superfluous curs, and the
dog catchers are now resting from their
labors. Why don’t some enterprising man
now go into the sheep raising business in
Fulton county ?
Mr. H. It. Hammond, of Gwinnett, at
tempted suicide on Saturday morning about
ten o’clock by shooting himself. The shot
penetrated his forehead just over the right
eve. He was not dead at last acoonnts.
J. E. Bryant, the Showheganite, has put
his foot into it badly. He telegraphed to
his patron saint at Washington as follows :
“Atlanta, Ga., June 13tb, 1877.
“Jo Son. J. M. Edmunds, Washington
P. 0 :
■■Think we have defeated convention.
Vote probably oiose. Inform friends.
“J. E. Bbyant.”
It is needless to add that the figures, whioh
don’t lie, disprove the assertion of Bryant,
who does lie, aud that Mr. Edmunds has
ere this received better advices than that
imparted by Bryant’s telegram.
The following is the score of the drill
contest for the prize banner at the Bruns
wick fair, as furnished by the Macon Tele
graph : Macon Cadets, 49; Floyd Biflas, 46;
Macon Guards, 40; Albany Guards, 33. The
highest score possible" under the rules be
ing 04. The Mitohel Light Guards did not
enter the contest.
There are three or four Cobb oounty
fa uers who believe strongly in bee culture
aitd are now producing thousands of pounds
of houey annually.
Atlanta Constitution : “The new machinery
needed at the water works will make them
capable of furnishing all that Atlanta will
need in any contingency, even when she
reaches a population of 75,000.”
The New York Commercial Advertiser
says: “Intelligence comes from Georgia
that the call for a convention to revise the
constitution of that State has been defeated.
Have the old line Whigs been heard from at
last? Wo don’t propose, however, to crow
a great deal until we see how much we are
to bolteve in the resurrection.” Probably
the Advertiser got hold of Bryant’s dispatch
to Edmnnds, or maybe the announcement
of the defeat of the convention by the At
lanta Constitution, both of which were far
from the figures.
Alabama and the various points along the
West Point road will send a thousand people
to Atlanta on the 3d of July.
It is somewhat remarkable that whilst the
negroes voted solidly for “no convention,”
they have not elected one of their number
to that body, whioh will be composed of the
white people of Georgia.
Thero were nine oue-armed soldiers pres
ent at the dinner given by Mr. Jno. D.
Edmuudsou, of L&Grange, to the one-armed
ex-Confederates of Troup oounty. It was a
pleasant reunion of old Confederates, and
the unbounded hospitality of Mr. Edmund-
son was heartily discussed.
Judge Jas. Jackson, of the Supreme Court,
and Col. P. W. Alexander were groomsmen
at the marriage of Judge Peeples, whose
recent death caused such a profound sorrow
throughout the State.
It is stated that Governor Colquitt voted
openly for convention. There is but little
significance in the fact, sb all true Demo
crats and well wishers of the State did the
same thing. Tho only trouble was that so
little interest was taken in the most impor
tant election held in Georgia for some years.
The Alabama and Georgia Mills, near
West Point, were compelled to stop for
about ten days recently, by the breaking of
some of the gearing about tho water wheel.
Only three whites aud two blacks hare
been married in Bibb couDty this month.
The Cave Spring Enterprise has gotten off
the secular track in Journalism, and will
hereafter be known as the Congregational
Methodist, published in the interest of that
denomination of Christians.
There are, acoording to the Cave Spring
Enterprise, five doctors and not a lawyer in
that community. So that the infirmities
and not the rascalities of the inhabitants
are prominent. However, adds the Enter
prise, “we expeot to have a lawyer at no
distant day.”
Mr. N. W. H. Gilbert was waylaid and at
tacked hy two negroes near his home in
Houston county last Tuesday, and received
several painfnl wonnds on the head from
clubs in their hands. Their object was
probably murder.
With pride tho North Georgia Citizen
says: “Dalton has steadily improved every
year since the war, and this same improve
ment is noticed throughout the county.
The population of Dalton is now put at threa
thousand five hundred.
The JElberton Gazette says: “A Madison
county negro discovered the dead body of a
man floating down Broad river one day last
week. He leared to attempt to pnll the
body out of the water by himself, and be-
1 re help cuuld be brought it had floated
off.”
The Hartwell Sun says: “In many neigh
borhoods the horses are dyiog from colic,
brought on from eating Western corn, much
of whioh is damaged.”
The Newnan Blade, jnst before its
su-p-nsion, ohronicied the following: “We
taw a little boy in town the other day
having on a sail of clothing knit at home.
i e- suit consisted of ooat, pants and shirt,
and looked neat and comfortable. The
eo,r was composed of a mixture of wool and
rabbit fur. The boy was accompanied by
hit fa>her, who informed us that his wife
*as employed only three or four days knit-
hng the suit. They were from Carroll, we
believe, aud we meDtiou the circumstance
»s an instance of the ingenuity and inde
pendence of our women.”
The JIaoon Telegraph, alluding to the
mysterious finding of the body of a man in
Sweetwater creek, near Americas, throws
me following light on the sabjeot: “We
warn from passengers on the np South
western train that a German cigar maker,
who left Americas Thursday to walk to
alaeon, was tound dead in Sweetwater creek,
a short distance above Audersouville. The
body was perfectly nude, and bore marks of
violence which leave little doubt of foul
Play.”
„ Griffin ATews makes the following
b<-vsonai” allusion : “Rev. Mr. Simmons,
I the South Georgia Conference, now sta-
uoued in Savannah, is on a visit to his rela-
■vesiu this city and vicinity. Mr. Sim
mons formerly lived in Griffin and will be
uienjbered as the laithful minister who la-
ooreu with such untiring devotion to com-
ort and relieve the yellow fever sufferers of
ta^-wick. when that city was afflioted with
me plague last year.”
Says the Griffin News: “A number of
strangers are stopping in oar city at pres
ent, many of whom will remain during the
summer. Several Savannah people are
among the number, aud we learn that more
will come in daring the next few weeks.
We are glad to have them among ns, and
trnst that ail will find that comfort and quiet
pleasure which the low couDtry canuot
afford during tue heated season.”
The Atlanta Constitution sayBt “But few
of our people are aware of the importance
now given to the mining interest in Georgia
by capitalists in other States. Hardly a
week passes but some large mine is Bold in
North Georgia at a fabulous price, aud yet
we hear from the purchasers that they
would not take ten times the priceJhey paid
for the mines they purchased. We learn
that there is jnst as much excitement about
mining in the western part of the State as in
North Georgia, and there has been recently
some very valuable discoveries of copper and
gold in the county of Carroll aud west of
this county. Seventy-two miles west of this
city, not far from the line of the Georgia
Western Railroad, the celebrated Stone Hill
copper mine is now opened and is being
worked on a very large scale, employing
about three hundred hands, and is making
a fine yield. One mile from Stone Hill Gov.
Smith has opened up a splendid mine
of copper, which is said to be equal if
not superior to the one of Stone Hill. This
mine has recently been sold to Gen. Healy,
of the United States army, who is investing
a large amount of money in Western Geor
gia and Eastern Alabama. Stiil further
west a Mr. Johnson, from Tennessee, has
discovered copper ore of a fine quality, and
has formed a company of Northern capital
ists, and has commenced mining. Some
gentlemen from Pennsylvania have recently
been prospecting through this country, aud
on their return home made a very elaborate
report of the copper and gold. They pur
chased, during their investigation, eighty
acres, on which is a rich gold vein, paying
eight thousand dollars cash for the land
and mineral interest. We think this part of
our State has been overlooked long enough,
and we propose at an early day to lay before
our readers’ something of the wealth of this
section.”
Florida Affairs.
Mr. 8. B. Smith, a respectable citizen of
Putnam county, died of lockjaw last week,
caused by running a rusty nail in his foot.
The citizens of Welaks, with a patriotism
looking very much like the good days of
the republic, propose celebrating the Fourth
of July in rcgu.ar old fashion Btyle—barbe
cue, oration and patriotic sentiments.
Mr. J. P. Morgan, of Houston,Florida, has
grown from the seed this year a beet weigh
ing seven and a half pounds, eighteen inch
es in circumference and sixteen inches long.
If any one else in Florida or Georgia can
beat Mr. Morgan’s beet, we would like to
hear from the boater.
Dr. Henry Ferriue seut to Monroe county
in 1835 several hives of stingless bees from
Campeacby, South America. The experi
ment was unsuooessful, the little insects
having soon succumbed to the climate, or
to the scarcity of food.
The recent rains have been general
throughout West aud Middle Florida, and
the severe drought that threatened the pros
pects of the farmers, has been happily
brought to an end.
Palatka now boasts of a white police force
and the change has been so highly appre
ciated that even the colored population say
Amen to the wisdom that has inaugurated it.
Captain B. H. Marks, at his place at
Wekiva, Orange county, has twenty acres
planted in melons, aud it is said that you
can walk over the whole patoh on the mel
ons without stepping on the ground. This
is another evidenoe that something can be
produced in Florida.
Col. William Soott has established a law
school at Madison and has opened his lec
tures to about a dozen young limbs who per
haps will hereafter illustrate Florida. Col.
Scott is an able lawyer, and no one can lis
ten to his teaching on law subjects without
profiting thereby.
It is reported that mauy of the oattle are
dying in the northwestern part of Putnam
eounty, and it would be well for some agri
culturist or veterinary of experience to sug
gest a remedy.
There has not been a Fourth of July oelo-
bration in Palatka for eight years, and the
people of that thriving plaoe are suggesting
the ways and mean3 fittingly to celebrate
the ooming anniversary of the natal day of
the great American republio.
Florida will have two graduates at the
North Carolina Military Institute. Cadet
Albert W. Gilchrist delivered the valedictory
address at that institution, and Cadet James
G. Gtbbes is also of the graduating class,
and one of the orators.
Mr. W. A. Adams, residing near Jackson
ville, has recently rented to a Charleston
trucker fifteen acres of his land for the
handsome price of twenty-five dollars per
acre, annually.
A negro named Alexander Simpson, while
intoxicated, lay down on the railroad track
at Lake City depot. The train cams along
and passed over Aleo’s right leg above the
ankle, necessitating the amputation of that
member below the knee.
The Gainesville limes publishes the ac
count of a big tomato, weighing two pounds
and a half ounce, and measuring seventeen
and a half inches in circumference. It is of
the trophy variety.
Encouraging reports from the crops of
Hamilton and the northern portion of Co
lumbia conntieB come to us this week. The
crops have had plenty of rain, and the corn
and cotton are in full of bloom. The har
vest of corn this year will be larger than
ever before.
Recently the County Commissioners of
Duval passed an order presenting Judge
Dawkins, who had presided at the court of
Duval, with one hundred and twenty-five
dollard to cover hi^jjxpenses. Judge Daw
kins returned the money with the following
letter, which shows that he is an upright
Judge:
“Jacksonville, June 8, 1877.
■< jo the Board of County Commissioners of
Ducal County, Fla.:
“Gentlemen—I .have just been handed
by Mr. T. E. Buckman, clerk of your body,
the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dol
lars, with a copy of the resolutions passed
by you on the 31st day of May last.
“I take this occasion to express to you my
profound gratitude for this compliment and
intended kindness.
“I am paid by the State for my feeble
judicial labors and cannot look to or receive
from any other poison or sonroe anything
for such services.
“Your resolutions, with the kindness in
tended and expressions contained therein,
is ample remuneration to me, and I have re-
onested Captain Bnckman, your clerk, to re
turn you the money with my grateful
acknowledgments.
“Your obedient servant,
“James B. Dawkins.”
The Lake City Reporter says : “The rail
road oompany has had a stock pen built at
this place and reduced the freight on live
stock to sixty dollars per car load to Savan
nah Shippers can now drive to this point
instead of Live Oak to load their stock.
The Pensacola Herald notices _ this fact:
“Mr Dunn was driving a well in the rear
of Mr. Hugh Bellas’ office, and when at a
dnnth of sixty feet he discovered that a
stream of water began*to flow from thS top
of the pipe. After letting it run for a few
moments the stream became qrnve large,
fillifig the pipe and ooming out with consid
erable velocity. It i» a veritable artesian
well, and like several others, the water flows
from beneath the salt water of the bay.
This indicates a water s.ra.a, which may
prove of incalculable value to the city of
Pensacola.
Jacksonville is compelled by a mandamus
to raise money by taxation to pay the un
paid citv boDds. The Jacksonville Union
says: “Last year Fox and others, who held
a judgment against the oity for over ten
thousand dollars, due on unpaid city bonds
and coupons, obtained a mandamus against
the Mayor and Council directing them to
levy and collect a special tax for the pur-
Dose of paying the amount due. The late
Soanoil levied the tax as directed, and col-
lected a portion of it, paying over several
thousand dollars on account of this judg
ment, but leaving a balance of about seven
thousand dollars unpaid. At the recent
term of the Circuit Court fur this county,
the mandamus, on application of L. r.
flnoDer Esq., attorney for Fox et at., was
extended to the present Mayor and Council,
who were directed to finish collecting the
special tai levied last year, and if the nn-
colleoted amount was not sufficient to pay
off the amount due, to levy another tax
sufficient to cover the baianoe.
Governor Drew has recently made the
following aopointments: Escambia—A. H.
Wilson, Edmund Whitmire and Kimbrough
J. Whitmire, to be Inspectors of Lumber;
Santa Rosa—Enoch Chadwich, reappointed
County Commissioner.
“One of the peculiarities of Florida,” says
the Sumter Advance, “is the singing frog,
which always commences its tnne just be
fore and after a shower. They hide on the
foliage of the banana or orange tree and
on the oak and China, and then along the
water-courses wherever there is a tuft of
grass or a hiding place to snit them. Some
times they sing like a gennine fowl, and
when they strike up a chorus they are quite
musical.”
Among the live men of Florida is General
Sanford, of Orange county. Io his store at
Sanford there was Bold seventy-five thousand
dollars worth of goods last year, and the
little building is scarcely more than thirty
feet wide by forty-five feet deep. It is un
der the control of Mr. Noble Hall, the
present Lieutenaut-Governor, who lives at
Sanford. There are six stores within three
miles, three being at Mellonvillc. General
Sanford's wharfage is said to be about three
thousand six hundred dollars, ten cent3 a
package, yet the Mellonville wharf is within
one mile. ’ No liquor is Bold on the entire
grant, save at the hotel.
This is the last fish story of Pratt of the
Herald, by which it may be seen that he has
gracefully glided away from alligators and
snakes, ana got on the back of an enormous
turtle: “A party of our young men have
returned from a six weeks’ tonr on Indian
river. They visited Jupiter inlet, and trav
eled as far sonth as the Everglades. They
report killing a turtle whose crawl meas
ured seven feet wide, and they supposed
that it weighed all of one thousand pounds.”
The Gainesville Times says: “One Joe
Simmons was shot the other day by Deputy
Sheriff Winges in self-defence. Mr. Wmges
was assaulted by Simmons in attempting to
exeoute a warrant aud compelled to Bhoot
him to preserve his own life. The wounds
of Simmons are not considered dangerous.”
The Lake City Reporter says: “Mr. J. P. B.
Goodbread shipped on last Tuesday fifteen
bushels of Juue peaches from this place.
They possessed au excellent flavor and were
quite juicy. The shipment of this fruit this
year will be larger than it has been for sev
eral years past.”
The Jacksonville Press, alluding to the
mysterious finding of a hdhse saddled and
bridled by some oattle hunters in Polk
county, gives the following explanation of
the mystery: “Some excitement has been
orea'ea in Polk county, first, by the disap
pearance of a man osliing himself Franklin,
and his supposed murder, aud subsequently
by his being found and his straDge conduct.
The circumstances are these: He was down
there selling pictures, aud about four weeks
ago he was missed, and his horse was found
in the possession of a man who was about to
be taken up aud severely bandied under the
impression that he had murdered Franklin,
whose clothes were found near this man’s
house. About ten days after his disappear
ance he reappeared and said that be had
turned ont his horse to be a ‘free horse,’
»nd did not want any one to touch it. He
has money, wears a pistol and will not let
anyone come iu reach of him. He goes no to
houses, asks for something to eat, pays for
it and returns to the woods, where he Bleeps.
He said that his horse might bo sent to
Thomas Fagin, of Newnanville, or C. A.
Finley, of Lake City, both of whom he says
he knows. He says he was raised about
Tallahassee, and seems to hive an aversion
to going to the asylum. He is about twen
ty-four years of age, and is evidently de
ranged.”
Jefferson county talks repndiation in the
following resolutions, passed at a meeting
of a portion of the citizens : “Whekeas, the
people of Jefferson oounty desire to be re
lieved, so far as it is practtcable.of the comi
ty bond debt, which each yearburdens them
with a heavy load of taxation. Resolved,
That the Chairman of tihs meeting do call a
public meeting, to be held at Monticelio on
Tuesday, the 19th day of June, at eleven
o’clock, to consider the following ques
tions: First. Is the county bond a valid and
legal obligation upon the people of Jeffer
son county? Second. If not, how can it be
avoiued ? Third. If it is, how can the peo
ple be fairlv and honorably relieved wholly
or iu part from the burden? Fourth. Can
the sale of the road under the Reed admin
istration be set aside aud the road be re
stored to the stockholders of the Pensacola
and Georgia Railroad. Fifth. Can the debt
be compromised?”
The Quincy Herald says: “Miss Mary J.
Wood, daughter of Jesse Wood, of Mount
Pleasant, was reading in her room, by a
kerosene lamp, on Saturday night last,
when the lamp suddenly exploded, spread
ing fire in ail directions. The young lady
had presence of mind sufficient to run
down stairs aud bring up a blanket with
whioh she smothered the flames, and pre
vented the destruction of the house, that
would have inevitably occurred but for her
prompt action.”
The Like City Reporter says: “A move
ment is now on foot by some enterprising
Northern capitalists to visit this place and
see what inducements are offered to open
direct communication with the counties
south of us. Such a movement is greatly
needed and will be one that will surely ben
efit this section. No interest has ever been
taken to bring these back counties into no
tice, aud we can’t see why our citizens dou’t
take some action and interest in the welfare
of this section. Lake City is the centre of
seven counties, and more convenient as a
trading post than any other city in this sec
tion.”
The Florida New Yorker for Jane reports
the proceedings of an “enthusiastic meet
ing” in New York for the purpose of form
ing a “Central Florida Colonization Organ
ization," which is called the “Temple Colo
nization Comtiany,” and which has already
purchased four thousand acres of land ou
the shores of Lake Kingsley. In the centre
of the tract a town will be laid ont in acre
lots, and the rest ol the laud in lots of five,
ten and forty acres, as more or less remote
from the prospective town. The shares are
one hundred dollars each, and the holder
can select town lot or larm as he may
choose, according to the nature of his occu
pation. The company propose to begin ope
rations on the first of November next, put
ting up a saw mill, grist mill and supply
store. Among its members are numbers of
mechanics of various trades, who will take
up most of the town lots, probably, and find
work enough to do for the farmers and gar
deners. The colony is co-operative, aud all
supplies are purchased by the quantity and
furnished at cost price. The produce of the
farms will be shipped in quantity, saving
much of the expense and trouble iucidental
to separate shipment by each producer.
LETTER FROM MIDDLE FLORIDA.
The Crop Prospect—Superiority ot White
Over Netro l.nbor—l.nrae Plantations
vs. Small Farms—The Free School.—In
teresting sc’jool Exhibition.
MORRIS, THE BOY EXPLORER.
Diplomacy and Jobbery.
It appears the fashion of the day to
mix indiscriminately speculation and di
plomacy, though we had hoped that the
tendency to wed these illy consorted oc
cupations was fading away, abashed by
the fate that befel our late Minister Plen
ipotentiary and Poker Player Extraordi
nary at the Court of St. James, General
Sohenck. Bat we still see a kind of re
ciprocal inclination iu this general line of
business. We hope the report is not true,
but still it may be, that Minister l’ierre-
pont has been taking steps to organize a
great Nicaraguan Ship Canal Company,
with ex-President Grant at its head. It
must be admitted, however, that
the temptation to do something
of that sort is great. Gen. Grant
has not merely the indorsement of the
United States, but he swings its prestige,
which affords such au opportunity to
pledge millions for internal improvement
as even the magnificent ideas of this ex
sovereign Dover ernjured up while he
held the helm of State. Yet we would
advise our ex-President and onr dipio-
matin American reflection of the house
of Manners to be careful. Their inten
tions may be good, but there are obsta
cles ahead. Like a loamy bog, the ground
looks rich, but it is dangerous as well.
Gen. Sohenck didn’t mean to spring so
much of a mine when his fingers wan
dered softly over the electric key that
connected with the main battery; yet be-
fore he knew it he was up among the
stars, and when he came down it shook
him. Let onr distinguished representa
tives take warning by him, and not trifle
with dynamite.—Boston Post.
Mb. Rionold, the Aotoe, Bobbed.—
Whilst Mr. George Bignold, the actor,
and his wife, who are stopping at the
New York Hotel, were at dmner on Sun
day afternoon, their room was entered by
a young woman employed as chamber
maid and robbed of several thousand
dollars’ worth of property. Amongst the
property taken was $600 in greenbacks,
$600 in gold, a watch and three heavy
K0ld chains belonging to Mrs. Bignold,
a quartz chain, valued at $250; a gold
locket, studded with diamonds and con
taining a portrait of its owner; a set of
gold studs, bearing his monogram, pre
sented to him by Miss Fanny Davenport;
an amethyst ring and cuff buttons, pre-
sented to him by admirers in San Fran
cisco, and a large onyx ring, bearmgthe
monogram of Mr. Bignold. No trace of
the thief has yet been found by the de
tectives.
Concobd, Gadsden County, Fla., June
9.—Editor Morning News: I write you a
short communication to keep you posted
on this part of the State. Crops are in
very good condition; we need rain though,
and I wish it would pour down when it
does come, as we've not had any to speak
of for a month. The farmers around here
have pretty generally taken the advice of
suoh leading papers as the News, and
have put in a prettyfair showing of com;
this is sensible, and if it was only the case
all over the State, Florida would get along
much better than heretofore. The com
as a general thing is something over waist
high, and if we have the seasons
from now on, crops will turn out
splendidly. It must be remembered that
We have a white neighborhood around
here, and of course our people work. So
it is no use to say that our crops are
clean, as people will instinctively know
that fact as soon as I mention the color
of the population. There is a great dif
ference between the appearance of the
fields on this side of the Oclokonee and
on the Leon oounty side. Is fact, the
contrast is plain to the most unobserving
person. On this side of the river, up and
down, and back from its banks for several
miles, most of the work is done by white
people, and as a consequence you see all
tidy and in the nioest kind of order, but
on the other side of the river the labor
is done by negroes, and as a result
fences are down in every direction, .and
the crops are sadly in the grass.
I will call your attention to the fact
that previous to the war Leon county was
mostly settled by what was called “big
farmers;’’ that is, they carried their
planting business on on a large scale.
To do thi3 of course they had
to have a great many negroes, mules
and other necessities. Since the war a
number of these same planters live in
towns away from their plantations, and
run their farms entirely by black labor.
They have no white man on their place
and .they hardly ever visit their
plantations. The consequence is
everything tends speedily to decay.
Over onjthe other side of the river, near
Lake Jackson, is situated what a few
years ago was really a fine mansion.
Now it is left to itself in the midst of a
large plantation, with nothing but negro
cabins around it, and in a short time it
will be an “ancient ruin,” attesting
though by its gloomy graudeur that a
generation ago wealth and beauty, all
that glory e’er gave, dwelt there, but has
passed away with its own classic halls.
This is only an instance—numerous
iustanoes might be given, and they
all go to prove this fact—that the com
munities which were richest before the
war are getting along the worst now—
and this is all on account of negro la
bor. W hen you could control that labor
it would do, but when it is left to itself it
fails. The only kind of work that is go
ing to bring the South out is that work
done by small farmers. The whole coun
try ought to be cut up in small tracts, aud
it ought to be so arranged that
white men could control their
farms. In a supervision of this
kind I see our only road out to a
“grand and a noble success.” The cases
I have already brought upfuliy prove and
fully illustrate that I am right. The dif
ference between negro labor to itself and
white labor to itself, is illustrated by a
ride or a drive from the Leon county to
the Gadsden county slope of the Oelo
konee river. The lesson taught in a
morning’s ride of this kind is instructive,
authentic and complete. With these
words I shall pass on to another subject.
According to the arrangement of the
free sohool system, we have an insti
tution of that kind at this place.
Mr. Paterson is the teacher, and
it would be only justioe for me to
mention that he is a very able and a very
worthy instructor. A short time ago he
gave a general invitation to the surround
ing neighborhood to come and hear his
scholars recite. I was one of the number
to attend. In the earlier part of the
morning he had reading and lessons in
rhetoric; in both of these branches all
the scholars acquitted themselves in a
most worthy manner. After these reci
tations came grammar, and I have to bear
testimony that although I have heard
many grammar lessons, this was the finest
and most complete I ever heard.
The book was opened at the title page
and every important principle was taken
up and gone through with from that page
to the end. I would mention the names
of particular scholars, but it would take
me too long, as I would have to go nearly
through the whole list, and I can only do
all justioe by saying that they ail deserve
the highest praise for their behavior, gen
eral address and scholarship.
Last evening Mr. Paterson gave us
all another invitation to visit his
school house, or, rather, he gave
us the invitation a week ago and we paid
the visit last night. Upon coming in
sight of the hall I found it brilliantly
lighted up and large crowds pouring into
it. As the night was rather warm, and as
the charades, which were to be the chief
attraction of the evening, were not to
oommence under a half hour, I amused
myself by talking with the various per
sons upon general business matters.
During this time the people were con
stantly flocking in, and when it came
time for the curtain to rise I could scarce
ly get into the house, it was so crowded;
however, I found a seat at last and then
tookalonglookaround. Thescenewas one
whioh, while it was not unusual, was at
the same time interesting. There were
people present of all ages and of all opin
ions. The various churches had poured
the wealth of their congregations into
this hall. There were old men and young
men, old women and young women, chil
dren and babies, and here and there peep
ing in at the windows or standing by a
door might even be seen a nig
ger. Directing my eyes towards the
upper end of the hall I was re
ally snrprised at the neat appearance
of the stage. A heavy white curtain shat
the actors from view, which in a moment
after opened, and there was the first
scene in a tastily arranged room, hung
around with pictures and prettily orna
mented with green boughs freshly gath
ered from the adjacent forest, and bearing
with them all the perfume of bud and
flower for which our Linda Florida, fair
land of flowers, is so celebrated. A mo
ment after the acting commenced, and
we were amused and delighted with one
piece after another, till “ Little Bare
foot ” was brought in, when all
tbe actors seemed to do their best. In
these charades and other pieces which
followed them, it will be proper for me to
state that noue bnt Mr. Paterson’s schol
ars took a part; indeed it was unneces
sary for him to go outside of his school,
as he has some really fine dramatie talent
under his care, and it will only take the
proper training to develop it into fine
actors. It would perhaps be of interest to
some of your readers if I should men
tion several of the young ladies
and gentlemen who particularly acquitted
themselves. Among this number Miss
Bell, Miss Hall, the Hall brothers, Mas
ter Paul Thomson, Jno. Boothe and
Willis Nicholson are selected, as they
seem to take the most prominent part.
Other names might be mentioned, bnt
while they acted as well as the parties
named, the rank, or rather the more
prominence of the characters, will not
justify us in bringing them forward.
The whole thing passed off in a most
pleasant manner. True, a bench broke
down, but that was only fun; and the
room was a little warm, but that made
tho lovers crowd together. So, taking
everything, all in all, it was a very pleas
ant affair. A. M. G.
Jefferson Davis is to deliver the ad
dress at the commencement of Centenary
College, Mississippi.
PoahlBs Indefatisablf. Almost Alone, Up
the Amazon’s Tributaries—Ills Adven
tures in the Wilds of the Tapaios, Hith
erto Uotrodof Whiles.
The young Brazilian explorer, Ernest
Morris, whose remarkable expedition np
the tributaries of the Amazon was noticed
in the World a few days ago, is staying
for the present at Moore's Hotel in Brook
lyn. At a special meeting of the Long
Island Historical Society the other eve
ning he gave an account of his explora
tion of the region drained by the Tapajos,
one of the largest tributaries of the Ama
zon, in reference to which he has been
able to obtain singularly accurate and
complete information. Morris is only
twenty-one years old, and looks younger
than that. Although a boy still in ap
pearance and temperament, ardent, ex
citable, of irrepressible spirits, be has
shown during the whole of his expe
dition the oourage, patience and perse
verance of the trained explorer. His
education is, of course, desultory in
its character, but he id surprisingly
well read in the history of both Afri
can and South American travel. He
converses fluently in both Spanish and
Portuguese, and has a passable acquaint
ance with several of the South American
native dialects. At his home in Indian
apolis he has received from professors
resident in the city considerable instruc
tion in natural history, botany and
mineralogy, and his study in these
branches has been carried to the limit of
his opportunities, in books and by per
sonal observation. The notes which he
has taken in the course of his explora
tion would fill several large volumes, but
his memory is so strong and his impres
sions of scenes through whioh he has
passed are so vivid that he will talk fer
hours, giving dates, names and facts,
without once referring to his written
pages. He describes his adventures
with the freshness and vivacity of a
bright boy and with the spirit of a natural
actor.
Cutting out the geographical details
and matter of interest to scientists alone,
and his story of the ascent of the Tapa
jos, as told to the World reporter yester
day, runs as follows: Imagine the
speaker, now seated on the floor dandling
his Indian beads in his hands and now
springing to his feet, tugging at the ropes
of his canoe, wading through a swamp
with the water up to his neck, and sur
rounded by Indians with their arrows
drawn to the head.
“The river Tapajos flows into the
Amazon about 600 miles from the sea.
Tbe Portuguese call it the Bio Preto, or
Black Water. Along its banks a differ
ent vegetation is found from that which
lines the banks of the Amazon. Now
the oountry through which this Tapajos
flows is quite high and hilly, and its
shoals are white sandy beaches. You
never see these beaches on the river
Amazon. I tell you that it is a fine place
to bathe on the white sand. It is two
and a half miles broad at its month, but
when you pass the great Bay of Maparie,
not far from the Amazon, the river widens.
No naturalist, striotly speaking, has ever
been more than eighty miles up the Ta
pajos, though Prof. Hart pushed his ex
ploration for the government as nigh as
Itaituba, 160 miles up the river. Beyond
Itaituba the river narrows. Indians live
along its banks whose staple diet is
pararroeu, a salted fish of the river,
and when there is no fish they eat
oDly farina, the ground root of the man-
dioca. Itaituba is the headquarters for
all the rubber gathered, aud great quan
tities of tapioci are made there. Twenty
miles above the village is the beginning
of the great chain of falls. From there
up the whole way, it is almost one con
tinuous rapid. I went up in a boat with
eight or ten Indians, now pulling our
hearts out with a cord, now pushing
with hooked poles, throwing ourselves
down at night and sleeping like logs in
our wet clothes. There wasn’t a day
when I had a dry stitch on me. Like all
the Indian boats, our boat was made
very clumsy and flat at both ends. The
IndianB had little paddles resembling a
grocery scoop, but they got very little
chance to use them. We tugged along
sometimes when the water came np to
our necks. Gracious, how we did push
and pull, push and pull up those places.
I tell you, if we had got into one of them,
those great whirlpools, we would never
have got out. Above these falls there is
a little insect called pium. Ii just fills
the air in millions. I never cu*sed in my
life, bnt I just wished that I could, to ex-
press my feelings. Yellow mosquitoes,
too, what do you think of that ? great
yellow fellows. All day long tormented
by these piums and all Dight by the mos
quitoes. The only comfort I had up there
was smoking paper cigarettes just like
this (with a nervous puff ).
“Now you have got me past only ono
chain of falls. You go on and you come
to another chain of the falls. At their
foot is one of the largest tributaries of
the Tapajos, the Jouenohien. When we
crossed the mouth of this we had to put
out our fires on the banks, for hostile In
dians were in the forest all about us.
Now you keep ascending and ascending,
going np all the time and bitten by
those cussed piums. One pight we
camped on a tributary where the mos
quitoes were the thickest, I believe. I
went out to get meat for supper. One
of these quata, the largest monkey in
Brazil, came swinging toward me. I
just raised my gun and knocked him
over. I tell you how the guides cook
these monkeys 1 They throw them on a
fire and singe the hair off them, and not
all off either, I tell you. They then cut
them open and just clean them roughly,
and stick a split piece of wood through
them and put them on the fire to cook.
Over the fire the monkey looked like a
grinning child. I walked up to him and
cut a steak from his side. I turned sick
though, for it looked so human. For two
days I had one of these monkey's heads to
eat, and that was all, except a handful of
farina. (Here Morris showed the re
porter the skull which he had gnawed.)
The boy who was with me then had the
monkey's arm, and I ate the flesh on the
head, cleaning out the eyes even.
“Well, we passed the mouths of dif
ferent rivers, and followed the bank of
the Tabajos along till we came to tbe
home of the Munduiucn. Up to this
point I had traveled infive different boats.
Tbe Mundurucu all lived in one hut,
which was very filthy and crowded. They
are a nation of very large people. Where
they live is a place with high hills on
both sides, through which the waters
pour with terrible force. We got upon
the rocks and pulled onr boats with
cords. Here we lost one of our boats. I
lost all of my clothes except those I had
on and one shirt which was wrapped
around the razors which I carried to
trade with the natives. One of my
guides was lost here. They were all
powerful swimmers, or else they never
would have reached the rocks. The
women of the Mundnrucu began to
gather on the bank all naked, wee ping
and shouting, while the men were strug
gling in the water. Here I stopped a
week. A little further on, at Irere, I was
sick for a month. The natives were very
kind to me, and brought me plenty to
eat, besides a drink which they make out
of different kinds of fruits. I had bone-
set tea with me; that is all I had in the
way of medicine. When I got better I
arranged for a canoe and two native
guides. We set out on the river again, and
I lay in the boat and covered myself up
with a blanket to keep those piums from
biting me. I was sick still, but I wanted
to get away from the native doctor. He
would put his mouth close to my body
and snok at the place where I felt pain.
Then he would rub his hands all over it,
and, putting down his face again, would
lift it np suddenly and spit ont something
like a worm, which, of course, he had in
his mouth already.
“Going up the river we finally came to
the river Cururu. The whole forest was
flooded for miles and miles—no land any
where to encamp on. There was another
boat with me besides my own, and when
we got to Curnm I had a fuss with the
chief in the other boat When I went to
take my spare shirtyfrom about my razors,
the Indians saw them. They began to
act curiously, and I walked up to the
boat whioh the two guides were dragging
in front, for we were crossing a morass,
and got my gun. Then I stepped up to
the chief and told him to vamos, or get
ont iD English, which he understood well
enough, for almost all the natives under
stand a few words of Portuguese. He did !
scowl at me terribly. I raised my
gun and aimed it at his head, and he
moved off very slowly with the
other Indians, tor they hate the
looks of a gun. All my guides went ex
cept a little fellow named Barney, who
still stuck by me. He and I went on,
striking for the campo and paddling our
boat slowly. The forest was flooded,
and within the woods there was plenty of
game, if we had been able to get at it,
but the only way I had was to shoot
from the boat as we went up the river.
Finally we reached that part of the
oampo, or swampy plain, for which I was
heading, and then we left onr boat and
set off to cross it, Barney and I. For six
days the only meat we had was a mon
key, a small macaw and a duck. These
we ate raw. I tell you, I remember those
days. Oh, Lord, how the piums bit 1 All
round my neck, in the creases, was a -olid
sore, and you couldn’t touoh my hands
without making your fingers bloody. We
waded through the water and mud, whioh
was about breast deep, and I bad a load
on my back of ninety-six pounds, too.
Barney walked ahead to spy out the land.
He oarried my gun. The long grass in
the swamp got between my toes and cut
my feet. My old shirt was torn half off
me and the sun was fiery hot in the cam-
penos. Sometimes I could hardly draw
my legs out of the mud. Every day we
had fain. Far away we could see the
highest hills that I had seen yet. Look
ing away to the east, you could see the
open land stretching out for miles. There
was no sound or votco of bird—nothing.
We went on, sometimes climbing hills
and sometimes goiDg down into valleys.
I got dreadfully tired, aud one day I sat
down on au ant hill to rest and to shift
the cords of my load which cut into my
neck. I heard a voice behind me and
turned, and there were six painted dev
ils, with their bows drawn and their ar
rows pointed straight at me. I halloed
out in the Mnndnruck language, ‘ This is
a friend, my brothers!’ At first they
hesitated, but finally they dropped their
bows and took out their arrows. I had
caught up my gun, but I then put it
down. TaD, stalwart looking fellows they
were, too, painted red on their breasts
and necks. Their ears were pierced with
great pieces of wood through the lobe,
and long strings of colored feathers dan
gled from them. On the top of their
heads a long tuft of hair grew, which fell
back on their necks. I handed one of
them a razor, and you ought to have
seen the grin that went over their faces.
We sat down by a creek close by, and I
tell you I never can forget it. I was
very weak with walking and felt sick.
They took the heavy load off my back,
and we started off over a terribly rough
and rocky country. Most of the rocks I
baw were sandstone. They brought me
to a village, and the women came out of
the huts to meet us. They were very
curious aud handled my clothes, talking
and laughing with one another, and not
showing me half the respect which the
men had. ”
Morris passed a curious life at this vil
lage, where he staid for several weeks,
and then set out on his journey again to
explore the provinoes of Para and Matto-
gross. Here he found gold dust in the
beds of several dry creeks, and discovered
what his training as a mineralogist led
him to suppose was a large diamond
field. After he fell in with these Indians
he had no further trouble, as he says:
“The camp-fire at night was like that of a
great exploring party. The hideous
painted bodies of the Indians lay all
around it. They were half afraid of me on
account of my gun, and yet they liked me.
On the march I walked in the centre of the
line, and the Indians carried the loads.
I was terribly sunburnt, and the skin had
peeled entirely off my arms. I was
painted like them, and bitten by piums
just as much as before.”
In this manner the young explorer went
round in the wilderness, until he made up
his mind to turn back and journey down
the river again to the Amazon.
A Student of Wisconsin University
Murders His Own Child.
A dispatch from Madison, Wisconsin,
says: “The arrest of A. W. Dennett,
one of tbe graduating class of the State
University, for smothering and throwing
his seven-months-old child in Milwaukee
river, has caused much excitement here,
especially among the students of the Uni
versity. He was a hard student, and
would probably have graduated with hon
ors in a couple of weeks. It seems Den
nett became acquainted with a youDg
lady at Lodi, Wisconsin, by the name of
Cam ; that they became criminally inti
mate revealed itself in the fact that Miss
Cain, who was then visiting friends in
Stevens Point, in October last gave birth
to a malechild. Dennett went to Stevens
Point, took the child to Milwaukee, and
placed it in charge o r a German woman.
In December last Dennett and Miss
Cain were married, Dsnnett con
tinuing his studies at the Uni
versity and his wife teaching
school near Prairie dn Sac, the home of
Dennett, where it is understood she is
now engaged. Near the first of May
Dennett went to Milwaukee, secured a
sack, and, at a convenient moment,
placed a brick in it. Placing the package
under his arm,he went to the house of the
nurse, whom he informed that he bad
made arrangements for keeping the babe
elsewhere. The child was nicely dressed
and given to its father. It had become
dark in the meanwhile. Taking the child
in his arms he proceeded toward the Mil
waukee and St. Paul depot, smothering
the child under his arm as he walked, and
in crossing the Menomonee river
placed it in the bag and threw it in tbe
murky waters. He then returned to his
studies at the University, which he pro
secuted with vigor, often joining in the
students’ festivities when not at his
studies. But the avenger was after
him. About a week ago a passing tug
stirred up the murky waters of the
river, ‘ bringing to its surface the
bag with its ghastly contents.
The police were at onoe eet at
work to find the author of the crime.
Finally, by diligent search, they found
the man who identified its clothes and its
father's name. His arrest followed last
night. He at once confessed h’mself the
father of a child, but claimed that he
bad taken it from its German nurse and
put it on the steps of a palatial residence
in Milwaukee. The officers persisted in
their knowledge of his crime, to which
hs finally confessed. He was taken to
Milwaukee by Chief Beck this morning,
and he will doubtless suffer the full pen
alty of his crime. Dennett is twenty-
seven years old, of fair complexion,
medium height, and was generally beloved
by his fellow Btudents, his deportment
for the past three years having been
above reproach. His father is a wealthy
farmer at Prairie dn Sac.”
The Suit Against Mb. Tilden.—In
the suit of the United States against S.
J. Tilden to recover $150,000, alleged to
be dne as unpaid income taxes from the
year 1861 to 1871, complaint has been
filed in the District Conrt by District
Attorney Woodford. The answer of
Governor Tilden is returnable in about a
week. Judgment is asked for tbe aggre
gate amount of taxes—$141,442 50—
with interest from the time the taxes
accrued, and costs.
Wm. Leith and Wm. H. Leith, father
and son, have been convicted of forgery
on the Fourth National Bank, New York.
Leith the younger also pleaded guilty to
a second indictment of forging a cheok
on the Merchants’ Exchange National
Bank for $12,750, and for which his
father had been previously convicted.
At Philadelphia on Thursday Frank A.
Greiner pleaded guilty of embezzlement
while a clerk in the Tax Beoeiver’s office.
A strong appeal for mercy was made and
he was sentenced to nine months’ im
prisonment.
Death of a Notable Filibuster.
[From the New Orleans Democrat]
There has been at least one long lived
filibuster, General C. F. Henningsen, who
has reeently died at an advanced age.
Henningsen was an Englishman, and
once held a commission in the British
army, which he resigned to take part in
the Carlist war under Zumalacarregui.
He oame to this oountry with a high
reputation as an educated and trained mili
tary commander, and was associated with
several of the projected Caban expedi
tions, and finally with Walker's Nicara-
gnan enterprise. He was, however, too
scientific aud too much of a materialist
for a filibuster, and made no mark in that
character.
Through the pecuniary aid of George
Law, of New York, he enlisted and
equipped a party of some two hundred
men, who proceeded to Nicaragua in a
ship chartered by George Law, and suc
ceeded iu landing his force and in effect
ing a junction with Walker, who bad
succeeded in driving the Nicaraguan
forces into the strongly defended town of
Granada. Henningsen brought to Wal
ker some artillery, which enabled him to
lay siege to the town. During the siege
Walker was compelled to divert a large
portion of his force towards the Isthmus
in order to oommaud that passwsy be-
t ween the oceans and prevent the rein
forcement of the Nicaraguans.
He left Henningsen in command of the
besieging forep. That veteran und expo
rienced officer proceeded with reguiar
military methods in his operations against
Granada, brought bis artillery to bear
upon it, and finally reduced it to submis
sion and capitulation. The occupation
of this city by the half, starved and ex
hausted filibusters produced its usual re
sults of demoralization and excess on the
part of the besiegers, who reveled amid
the luxuries of the captured oity, and
thus became insubordinate and difficult of
subjeotion to the severe discipline
whioh Henningsen strove to en
force. Information of this having
been oommunicated to the Nicaraguans
m the interior they raised a strong foroe,
whioh marched against Granada, and,
surrounding, laid siege to it. It was in
the defense of the town that the strong
military qualities of Henningsen were
displayed and the valor and fortitude of
his men were brought into effective ser
vice. The siege was prolonged for some
time, and the garrison were reduced to
the hardest straits for subsistence and
munitions, but the Nicaraguans made no
progress in effecting its reduction, and
suffered greatly in every assault and
escalade.
Finally Walkor detached a force from
his army, composed of cavalrymen under
the gallant Captain Waters, of Texas, who
cut their way through the besieging Nica
raguans and joined HenniugseD, who,
thus reinforced, proceeded to evacuate
the exhausted and dilapidated town, and
with his ragged and emaciated men, forced
a passage through the Nicaraguan army
and succeeded in rejoining Walker’s main
army. Wo are not sufficiently familiar
with the subsequent events to narrate
Henuingsen’s further services in the
heroio straggle of Walker, but we have a
very distinct recollection of the high
estimate Walker placed upon his merits
as a military chief, as his enthusiastic
commendation of the operations around
Granada and the defense of that town as
exploits of great brilliancy and srffel. Be
yond this service, however, Henningsen
had little opportunity of making his scien
tific military ability and experience avail
able in furthering Walker’s enterprise.
What was true of him was equally true
of all educated and professional soldiers,
whilst those who have achieved success
in the filibustering line have been of tho
class of civilians and political organizers,
with little knowledge or experience of
war. Sam Houston and William Walker,
who were the most successful in their
revolutionary enterprises, were lawyers
and politicians. They possessed little
knowledge of or skill in the military art,
yet they achieved great results, and but
for the interference of foreign powers
and notably the timid and narrow policy
of the administration of our government
and the concessions it made to the sec
tional prejudices of the Northern people,
Walker would havo accomplished his mis
sion of establishing an independent re-
pnblio in Central America. The success;
ful conduct of such enterprises requires
those popular qualities which are de
veloped in civil and political life.
G j n. Henningsen had achieved some
reputation in the literary as well as in the
military sphere. He was the author of
the “White Slave,” a very interesting and
remarkable book, the materiids for which
were gathered during a residence in Bus-
sia, where he was held for some years as
a prisoner of war on charges of partici
pation in the Polish revolution of 183G
After settling in this country, Gen. Hen-
ningsen married a Georgia lady of great
beauty and some, wealth, and was for a
long time a resident of Washington city.
Bold Attempted Highway Bobbery.
A dispatch from Scranton, Pa., says :
“On Tuesday last Paymaster Bessell, of
the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Batlroad Company, and Captain W. H.
Carling, foreman of the Oxford mint,
were waylaid by two masked robbers
while on their way to the Cayuga shaft
for the purpose of paying the miners and
laborers employed in that colliery. They
had in their possession twelve thousand
dollars, and it was to secure this tempting
prize that the highwaymen played their
desperate game. The attack was made in
the middle of a thickly populated mining
settlement and about a stone’s throw from
the Brisbin shaft, where four hundred
men and boys are employed.
Mr. Bessell and Mr. Carling were riding
in a buggy and bad reached a railroad
crossing guarded by a gate. Mr. Carling
was in the act of leaving the vehicle,
when up from the roadside tbe desperate
robbers sprang with revolvers, their faces
covered with thick masks, and without
saying a word one of the highwaymen
fired. The ball struck Mr. Carling on the
left temple, inflicting a deep wound and
glancing off. The boldness of the sudden
attack for the instant unnerved both Mr.
Bessell and his companion. The latter
was temporarily rendered helpless by the
shock of bis wound, bnt the paymaster
promptly drew his revolver and made a
gallant fight with his would-be murderers,
at whom he fired three or four shots.
Whether any of the balls took effect or
not he does not know, as tbe assailants
took to their heels across the fields, fleeing
in the direction of what is known as the
Notch, a wild mountain stronghold.
A Sad Suicide.—B. N. Murdock, a mail
agent on the Biohmond and Danville
Bailroad, who was arrested a few days
since, charged with robbing the mails,
committed suicide on Wednesday. It
appears that the frequent losses of small
packages on his route caused detectives
to be put on the lookout. A package was
found in the mails addressed to Mrs.
Murdock, wife of the deceased, at Notto
way Court House, containing three shirt
buttons, valued at $2 25; a book, a New
York illustrated paper and a necktie. The
detectives took possession of the package
end arrested Murdock, who, when con
fronted with the charge of crime, con
fessed that the address was in his hand
writing and that he had to put np the
package, bat be said that tbe articles had
been found by him in his mail car with
out any address, and having no clue to
the owners he thought it was not wrong
to Bend them home. He was admitted to
bail, became melancholy, and in his re
morse took laudanum which caused his
death.
An Advent preacher in Missouri,
named Harris, shaved his head so as to
acquire the venerable aspect that bald
ness imparts. The trick was detected
by members of his congregation, and he
was expelled on a charge of deception.
He urged that to shave the head was no
more an offense than to cat the hair, to
trim the beard, or in any other way to
improve one’s personal appearance; but
there was a majority vote against him.
North Carolina has paid for fertilizers
within the last twelve months $3,000,000;
Georgia, $2,000,000; Virginia probably
more.
IidBgtrlal Paralysis In Prance.
The cablegrams heretofore published
convey but a very imperfect idea of the
general derangement of business and
trade which has followed the rooent
ohange of ministry in France. The po
litical uncertainties cf the fntnre were
numerous enough before, in connection
with the Eastern war and the manifesta
tions of an unfriendly feeling on the part
of Germany; bnt these have been im
mensely aggravated by tbe reactionary
domestic policy of the government. One
of the first effects is to suspend for the
present the pending negotiations for a
renewal of the commercial treaties with
other countries, from which so much
was expected to entire to French in
dustry aDd trade. Some of the great
manufactories had closed their doors, and
the number of unemployed workmen was
largely on the increase. Signatures were
being solicited among the Paris trades
men to a petition to the President, repre
senting that personal rivalries and
onlpable ambitions are paralyzing indus
try: that reoent events have shaken the
confldenoe necessary for commercial
transactions; that home and foreign or
ders are daily falling off, and many work
men are unemployed; that France cannot
compete with the world at the im
pending exhibition unless stability
and confidence are soon restored;
and that these conditions depend
on a resolute, conciliatory and pa
cific policy. The petitioners, therefore,
address themselves with hope and confi
dence to the First Magistrate of the Be-
public. Nearly two weeks have elapsed
since this momorial was sent to the Tuil-
leries, but the whole tenor of the intelli
gence which has reached u9 by cable in
the interim is of a character to discourage
the hope that it has had much weight
with the President. Instead of exhibit
ing a disposition to conciliate tho olasses
thus appealing to him, he seems on the
contrary to have gone out of his way
purposely to exasperate them; hence
his arrest of M. Duverdier, President
of the Munioipel Council, for no
other offenoe than that he had
“ spoken disrespectfully of the gov
ernment.” M. Duverdier has long
been popnlar with the tradesmen, shop
keepers and working people of the capi
tal, and, as might be expected, a response
of this kind to their memorial has not
improved their temper. The same ieel-
iDg of dissatisfaction, attended by the
same paralysis or partial paralysis of
many of the principal industries, is per
ceptible in other cities besides Paris.
Capital is growing timid before the me
nacing aspect of the future, and until it
is known whether the President and his
advisers mean to acoept the Bepnbiie or
to upset it, the situation cannot be ex
pected to mend.—New York Bulletin.
A Lite fob Fifty Cents—Fiebos Duel
with Bevolvebs.—Some time last faU
Dan. Colyer and Bailey, of Wakenda,
Mo., had a dispute about fifty cents, one
claiming the amount as due him. the other
denying the claim. Bailey said : “If you
do not pay me I will sue you,” and Colyer
replied: “If you sue me I’ll whip you.”
Bailey brought suit, and Colyer made his
word good. Bailey came out seoond best;
but, still believing that he was able to
make Colyer regret his conduct, uttered a
threat, saying : “This is not settled yet;
I’ll make it all right before long.”
On Friday last, as Colyer was leaving
the mill, at Wakenda, Bailey arrived, and,
discovering his old antagonist, called out
to him ;
“Dan, I guess we will settle that little
affair now.”
Each party drew his revolver and be
gan firing. Who fired the first shot is
not certainly known, but both continued
until their pistols were emptied, and
then, closing in, clubbed their weapons
and used them in that way until separ
ated. Colyer was struck once in the ab
domen, the ball lodging near the spine.
Bailey was struck in the right leg, near
the hip joint, crushing the bone and ren
dering amputation necessary. Both parties
are in a critical condition. No hopes are
entertained of Colyer’s recovery and
scarcely any of Bailey’s.
Colyer will leave a young wife, having
been married only eight months.—Mo-
berly Monitor.
The Gbbat Eabthquake at Huanil-
los.—Captain Charles Macloon, of the
ship Geneva, which was sunk at Huanil-
loa by the great earthquake on the 9 th of
May, recently arrived in New York, and
gives the following description of the
catastrophe: About 8:30 o’clock p. m. a
great rumbling sound arose in the air and
the sea began to recede from the shore.
Ships anchored in eight fs.thoms of water
were suddenly left high and dry. On
shore the commotion was terrific, a sul
phurous light enveloped the mountains,
and huge rocks came tumbling down
their sides looking like bails of fire. The
ships anchored in deeper water were torn
from their fastenings and dashed out to
sea, describing large circles as they went.
Then they were borne back by tbe tidal
wave, and many were dashed ir pieces
either against other ships or against the
rocks. The Geneva circled around and
around at the rate of eight or ten knots
an hour, and at last struck upon the rocks
and sank. Captain Macloon escapod in a
small boat. On shore the Governor’s
house, the shutes, launches and water-
tanks were swept away. Captain Ma
cloon had just completed loading his
vessel with guano, and expected to sail
the next morning.— World.
Jeff White was one ef the wealthiest
and drunkenest young men in Los
Angeles, CaL Katy Harvey was beauti
ful, but she belonged to a poor and
wicked family, who conceived that they
might mend their fortunes by inducing
Jeff to marry her. Katy did her best to
fascinate Jeff, and succeeded; but Jeff
was not inclined to marry, and his sister
influenced him as much as she eould the
other way. The Harveys got him into
their house, and gave him whisky and
morphine for two weeks. By that time
he was at the point of death, aod con
sented to the marriage. A willing Justioe
was found to perform the ceremony, but
with his arrival came Miss White, deter
mined to prevent it. Then there was a
scene of strife at the dying man’s bed
side. Katy took his hand, and the Jus
tice began the ceremony. Then Miss
White pulled her brother’s hand away.
In the midst of the confusion he died,
unmarried.
An effort is being mode to establish in
San Francisco the business of preparing
the skins of the fur seal for market.
There is an annual passage through the
city of one hundred and fifty thousand of
these skins, which are sent to London for
preparation, and, after nearly a year,
many are brought back. The average
extra expense of having the work done in
London is estimated to be fifty per cent.
English purchasers pay ten dollars 6ach
for raw skins, and charge forty dollars for
the prepared ones. It is said by those
familiar with the business that the work
can be skilfully and profitably carried on
in this conntrv.
During the past year the nnmber of
original advertisements for “missing
friends, or next of kin,” in the London
Times was 700, and the number of per
sons named therein about 3,000. The
Treasury Solicitor advertised for tbe next
of kin of twenty-six persons. The amount
of money reverting to the Crown by rea
son of these intestacies is seldom stated;
but in one oase—Mrs. Helen Blake’s—it
amounted to $700,000. From one of
these advertisements it appears that the
heirs of a person who emigrated to Amer
ica in 1683 are wanted to claim a fortune
of $2,000,000. _
Two fast friends weDt to look for
stock on Stein mountain, Oregon, and
only one returned. He said that he had
an indistinct recollection of killing his
companion, but why or how he could not
remember, as he had beer, in a strange,
dazed condition. A search resulted in
finding the missing man where he had
been killed with a club, the survivor’s
Him memory partly guiding them to the
place. The culprit is under arrest, but
it is likely that he committed the deed,
as he says, when he was temporarily in
sane, for it would never have been found
out if he had not himself made the reve
lation.
Suicide of a Cotton Speculator.—
A. F. Lindenheim, a cotton speculator,
who came to New York from Dennison,
Texas, a few months ago, committed sui
cide on Wednesday last, at his boarding
bouse, by shooting himself through the
head. He brought a large amount of
cotton to the New York market, but being
unsuccessful became despondent and shot
himself.
There are vacancies in th? army for
scarcely one-half the West Point cadets
who will graduate into Lieutenants this
year, and it becomes an interesting queaj
tion what to do with those who cannot
be assigned.