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J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE
2T,
1877,
ESTABLISHED 1850.
INCONSTANT.
[ij 0 following exquisite lines went the
' .da of the press several years ago, and
, e the subj ect of umeh comment. The
authoress is unknown :].
i r,-t -int!—Oh, my God !
' i- oii'-ta'it, when h single thought of thee
c .„ 1( u all mV shivering blood
uVck on my heart in thrills of ecstacy !
lTicon^tant! wten to f el
Tint thou hast loved, wilt love me ta the last,
i e . iv enough to steal
^11 fear from life, the future and the past!
Inconstant: when to s eep .
A t ,j ,1-eum that thou art near me; is to learn
SoVnu li ol Iltaven; and 1 weep
because the earth and morning mu-t return.
ir, instant!—Ah, too true I
, irne-l from the righttul shelter of thy breast,
W tired heart 11 utters through
* : i lie changeful world—a bird Without a nest.
Inconstant to the crowd
Through which I pass, as to the skies above,
,, . ii*‘k'e summer cloud—
r,at net to tbec, O Lot to thee, my love!
1 m%y be fa’se to all
< mi" < nrt !i beside, and every tender tie
\Vn'i'li seems to bold in thrall
'I i:*a weary life of mine, may be a lie,
Li:t true as God’s own truth
\i . steadfast heart turns backward, evermore,
j-,‘,; ii.it sweet, time of youth
• uu-u golden tide beats such a barren shore.
Inconstant!—not my own
The hand that bu.lds this wall between our
live’;
Cn its cold shadow grown
r.t-ct shape, the flower of love survives.
■«j 0( l knows that I would give
All other joys, the sweetest a-.d the best,
Korone short hour to live
C.o.-c to thy heart, its comfort .and its rest—
y,, Hfe is not all dnk;
l j ; • sunlight goldens many a hidden slope ;
I'li. - dove shall liud its ark
t;[ peaceful rcfosre and of patient hope.
I t shall be possessed
ui woman’s need, my small world set apart -
Hone. love, protection, rest,
And childrens voices singing through my heart.
£jv G d’s help I will Ire
a < dor mother and a faithful wife ;
i, ih-ipp even more—that He
ll u chastened the best glory from my life.
lint sacred to this loss
Unc white, sweet chamber of my heart will be;
No foot shall ever cross
Th.* silent portals sealed to love and thee.
And sometimes when my lips
Are to my lir t-boru’s clinging, close and long,
Draining with beo-like sips
At its sweet lily heart, will it be wrong
If. for an instant, wild
With precious pain, I put the truth aside,
And ur< am it is thy child
I ,;m fondling with such tender pride ?
And when anothei’s head
Heaps on thy heart—should it ever seem
To be my own instead—
O, darling, hold it closer for the dream I
the Republican State Central Committee,
that a respectable man may be appointed
in hia place. If he refuses to resign, the
Republicans owe it to themselves to meet
in convention and elect another committee,
and another Chairman.”
In this column we alluded to the birth of
triplets in Americus, namely, three boys,
born to Mrs. Thomas M. Merritt, of that
city. The allusion will be eeriously felt
when we state that the mother and one of
the children died within a few hours after
the birth of the trio, and, sava the Monroe
Advertiser, “the two survivors were brought
from Americns to Monroe couuty socn after
wards, by Capt. and Mrs. Robert Merritt, of
our county. One was named Henry Brown
Merritt and the other Frank Hunt Merritt.
They were never very strong children, and
fril easy victims to the disease which is now
so prevalent among the children of this
section. The former died on Sunday, the
17th in&iaDt, and the latter on the Tuesday
following, and both were buried in the
family grounds near Capt. Merritt’s resi
dence.”
The Thomasville Times eaya ; “We are
glad to hear that the yield of wheat all
through this section is, in most cases, much
larger than had beeu expected. It was
known that the crop had been singularly
free from all deleterious influences, and that
the stalk and grain gave promise of an
abundant harvest, but no accurate concep
tion was formed of the actual production.
We understand that there are some larmers
in Butts who have made more wheat than
they cau store. It does our heart good to
hear such news as this.”
This is a war reminiscence which occa
sionally comes to tho surface after the heat
of war passion is over. We get it from the
Monroe Advertiser: “A few weeks since Mr.
F. O. May?, upon beiDg elected a Lieutenant
of the Quitman Guards, was looking for a
sword, when he discovered ouo in his house
which bore the name of Capt. H. B. Leavett,
presented to him by the citizens of Pitts
field, New Hampshire. The sword was cap
tured on a battle field near Charleston, July
18,18C2, by Lieutenant L. P. Mays, brother
of Mr. F. O. Mays, and has lain by quietly
lor many years. Mr. Maya immediately
wrote a letter to Captain Leavett, Pitts
field, Hew Hampshire informing him that
his sword Rou d be returned if desired. A
few days afterward a letter was received
from Mrs. E. J. Leavett, Saco, Maine,stating
that her husband was wounded and taken
prisoner July 18. 1862, and died in Charles
ton July 22,1862. fcflie requested that the
sword bo sent her, promising to be ever
grateful for the kindness. Mr. Mays prompt
ly forwarded it per express, and stated that
bis brother fell a martyr to the cause of tho
South, beiug killed by a shell from Morris
Island. He expressed ‘tlio hope that the
animosities engendered by the late war
would soon bo entirely forgotten by the peo
ple of the North and South, aud that in the
future the people of both sections would
live together in peace and harmony, cher
ishing with the liveliest recollections and
emotions, tho valor displayed alike by
Northern and Southern soldiers and be-
qu* a’hed ss a sacred heritage to our whole
people by 1 he dead heroes of the Bine and
tho Gray.’ ”
The Tote on the Constitutional Con
vention.
The followiDg is the complete count of
the majorities (in all bat one county) for
and against convention as compiled from
official returns:
MAJORITIES,
For.
Arj'lUt..
Appling
Baker
390
232
Baldwin
519
Banks
116
Bartow
10^
Berrien
249
Bibb
S34
Brnokfl
203
Bryan
22
Bulloch
499
Burke
135
Batts
67
(.'alhr un
281
Camden
36
Campbell
213
Carroll
206
Catoosa
257
Charlton
27:4
Chatham
1,167
Ch ai tahoochee....
: 69
i liatiooga
427
Clarke
2\
Clay
234
Clayton
206
Clinch..
42
Cobb
256
Coffee
248
Columbia
120
Colquitt ....
73
Cowera
711
Crawford
45
Dade
292
Dawson
11
Decut nr
1,500
.ol will forgive the sin,
It sin it isour lives are swept so dry,
> raid, so passion-clean;
Thank him, death comes at last, and so ;
bye:
•ood-
Afiairs iu Georgia.
Macon has an ice factory that manufac
tures ten thousand pounds of ico daily at a
cost to consumers of one cent per pound.
This is about tho rate paid iu Savannah,
where there are two ice companies, who get
their supplies from the mdurnl manufactory.
It appears that the Griffin Sun will go at
last for the ratification of the constitution.
It made a bold fight against convention,
and, having been defeated, it says : “We
shall most certainly vote to ratify the new
constitution if we can conscientiously do
so.”
Mr. William Summorford, of Dooly, has
reaped five thousand Jive hundred and fifty
bundles of fine oats from five acres sown last
(Ictober. The yield is estimated to be sixty
bushels to the aero, or three hnudrod on the
five acres.
Monroe county had a grand Masonic cele-
1 rat ion at Indian Springs on Saturday last,
which, according to Ihc Advertiser, was in
terrupted by a party of “roughs,” which re
nted iu several fights, ia which Butts aud
Jasper counties took a full baud. Pistols
were promiscuously handled, and several
* itizons were shot severely hut none dan
gerously. The afl&ir was a disgrace to Butts
and Jasper.
The Griflin Sun gets off tho following:
“Why is tho Savannah Weekly News like
ome mercantile buildings we have read
ah.mt recently? Because it has added a
new story recently to its other attractions.”
They marry young in Monroe county. A
girl twelve years old was united to a gentle
man who Lad attained his majority. The
,11* ;rts gave their consent, consequently
there is no violation of the law of Georgia
in such cases made and provided.
Henry W. Grady will repeat his lecture,
“Just Human,” in Atlanta this week for tho
benefit of St. Phillip’s Church. It- is thought
here that the lecture, if delivered iu Savan
nah fur the bonefi' of tho* widow aud chil-
hron of Watson, late of tho Macon Telegraph,
W)u!d yield a benefit which would be ma-
t dally felt by the family of tho deceased,
a:nl in this connection we suggest that Mr.
Grady be invited to repeat his lecture in
•Savannah for the above object.
Coffee county gave 272 votes for a conven
tion and 21 against a convention. Pretty
; *od turnout aud a 7ory fair vote for Coffee.
Lhe receipts of cotton at R)ra*i since the
h: st of September foot up 32,446 bales.
i is siated that owing to the recent wet
wl *therm Chattooga county, tho wheat
crop, which had been harvested, has been
somewhat damaged.
Tho enterprising individual who essayed
the descent of tho bald face of Stone Moun
tain somo time since, and who suspended
th' undertaking after getting to the
end of a rope five hundred feet long, is
-j t abashed, but will try‘it again with
twenty-two thousand feet of good, stout
rope. lie will make the aeecont somo time
m July, and we look to chronicle a disaster.
The recent fair in Brunswick awarded a
premium for the best mare and colt to the
Sheriff of the coauiy, T. W. Lamb.
An exchange has tho time and space to
remark that “the convention will be com-
I" did to do its work without tho assistance
°f a solitary ‘colored troop.’ ”
The Rome Courier says: “Mr. W. R.
Rwnes, of Coosaville, iu this county, had
too mules stolen on the 10th of Stay. He
he been in almost constant hunt for the
thieves ever siuce. On last Friday, the 15th
I!}'’ 4 *, he caught one of them on Lookout
Mountain, nine miles from Blue Pond. He
£*ves his name as Frank Carter and some-
htiif.s as Frank Wayne, no is lodged iu
h* iit*c jail. He says he broke Cartersville
Hi* last fall. A petition has been forwarded
to Gov. Colquitt lor him.”
Ihe Atlanta Grange says : “ The indica
tions are that the blackberry crop is im-
jnenee this year. Farmers’ wives should
notice that from the preset^ u of
jjns fruit many a dollar may be - land
kit at comparatively little cost a _ lins.
£';her in preserving, drying or canning no
Wuer fruit requires so little labor i i the
P r ' Paration or so little «ugar in the saving,
gather the many bush Is of berries ripen-
°g near you and put them up for a good
P r ice in the fall marketing, or for your own
-onsamption, for no food is more delicious
a °d healthful.”
* J h* u y Harris, in the Atlanta Independ•
V, T ,h? Hayes organ in Georgia, grinds a
^t'muul tune, with Bryant for its head line.
P; yarn refuses to resign the positiou of
Republican party in Geor-
this ia what Harris says on the
»|oct: “Bryaut owes it to the Republicans
ei* f 0r *** a *. aU( ^ f° l h© whole people ot Geor-
b resign his position as Chairman of
Florida Affairs.
Tue young men of Feruandiua are en
gaged in a very worthy attempt to organize
a military company. Thus far about sixty
men have enlisted.
Since the amalgamation of tho Sun and
Press thoro seems to bo a feeling of naive
humor among the editors, as will be seen
by the following: “JYot-a bene. Codrington
has gone into the see-bean business.’’
There has not been a case of bankruptcy
among the business men of Tampa since the
war.
Tho Sunland Tribune says that a firm in
Tampa arc realizing one gallon of honey per
w'eek from each of their bee hives.
A fresh breeze struck a two-story bailding
being erected in the Springfield suburb of
Jacksonville and demolished it.
We mentioned iu this column seme time
ago the fato of the St. Mary’s River Lum
ber Company, and in order to correct an
impression growing out of tho similarity of
names we give the following from tho New
York Sun:
“ To the Editor oj the Sun : Sir—The arti
cle primed in to-dhj’s Sun, relative to the
alleged defalcations of the St. Mary’s River
Lumber Company, of Florida, has given
rise to the impression that the old estab
lished SG Maiy’s Mills, situated at the
mouth of the St. Mary’s river, are in diffi
culty. We would therefore inform you that
the St. Mary’s Mills, for which we have long
been agents, are an entirely di-tinct and
separate concern from the St. Mary’s River
Lumber Company, Ihe two having no busi
ness connections whatever, and, further
more, that the St. Mary’s Mills are in no
difficulty whatever, nor likely to be.
“Souder & Adams, 114 Wall street.,
“Agents lor St. Mary’s Mills.
“New Yoke, June 8,1877.”
The means of communication with the
outside world are not enjoyed by Chattahoo
chee county to any extent, but from the fol
lowing it will be eeen that the citizens are
moving in the matter: “Chattahoochee has
neither a telegraph line nor an express of
fice. The citizens are greatly inconvenienced
thereby. A movement is started to open
an express office there. In view of the
speedy arrival ot the new steamboat, R.
Gunby Jordan, one ought to be established
there. If the Southern Express Company
will be obliging enough to establish it tho
people must give it all the patronage possi
ble, as its maintenance will depend upen
that beiug sufficient.”
The Quincy Herald says : “A merchant in
town has gone into the blackberry wine
business and is manufacturing it quite ex
tensively.”
The Pensacola Herald says: “The first
company of tho garrison at Fort Barrancas
left by the Pensacola Railroad for its can
tonment at tho old Gonzalez homestead
place, a few hundred yards from the rail
road, at Muscogee Junction station, sixteen
miles from Pensacola. Auother company
will go Monday, and the remainder of the
command during the week.”
The Pensacola Gazette ba3 an article
in reference to a new variety of peach,
which is based upon the following, from a
correspondent of tho Lou svilie Courier-
Journal, which says: “Herewith please find
a twig sixteen inches in length with seven
teen matured peaches on it. This is known
here as the ‘China peach,’ and the tree,
which is about ten feet high, is the mostproli-
tic bearer lever saw, carrying now about one
thousand poachep, at least five hundred hav
ing beeu picked off. This fruit was grown
in the orchard of tho Yniestra Brothers, on
Eseambia Bay, nine miles from Pensacola.”
The Gazette, alluding to tho extraordi
nary production of the fruit, says: “Iho
‘Chiueso Fiat,’ the earliest of cliug-stono
peaches, as far as we know, lias proved ;v
great success ou the Bellview place of
Messrs. Yniestra. The troes produce enor
mously. and tho fruit is of excellent flavor.
Tho singular shape of the peach marks it as
distinct from all other varieties. Xt is from
two to three times as broad as it is deep,
and in form almost the counterpart of tho
old fashioned flat tomato. Thoy will cluster
so closely ou both sides of long twigs that,
though the fruit be two inches in diameter,
they will average a peach to tho inch in the
measurement of the limb. A medium sized
tree will produce several thousand.”
Says tho Pensacola Gazelle: “Charles
Robinson, a youth nineteen years of age, a
nativo of Euglaml and a seaman on the
British bark Lady Eima Bruce, this moru-
in ,T fell from the mizzenmast of the vessel
aud died almost instantly. An inquest was
held by Justice J. S. Leonard, ex-officio
Coroner, and a verdict found of accidental
death. The evidence showed that he was
aloft cn duty, lost bis hold aud tell thirty-
five feet, sustaining fracture of tho skull. ’
The Tallahassee JfloridiCLn says : “LeRoy
D Ball United States Sarveyor General of
Florida, lias received instructions to prepare
and submit for approval at Washington, con
tracts and instructions for a survey of the
lands granted by the Stale of Georgia to
private citizens south of the present boun
dary lice. By act of Congress of April 9
1872 the title to these lands was confirmed
to tile present owners deriving title from
the Slate of Georgia, and it s
intended to retrace and remark the
lines of the surveys made by th State of
Georgia in order to ascertain what lands so
granted lie within the State of Flonda, and
enter the tracts, with names of Pruett*
owners, nn the plats in the £“rvoyor■ Gen
eral’s ofiice. It is not intended to disturb
tho present owners, but rather to ascertain
their claims, in order that the act of Con
gress confirming these claims m&J
effect. The Sarveyor General would be glad
to confer personally or by letter with parties
owning these lands before preparing in
structions lor the survey.”
The St. Augustine Press says : “ While
Mr Bernard Masters waB driving cattle to
the beach, near the fort, for the purpose of
swimming them across the river to Anasta
sia island, a steer stampeded and ran along
the ditch towards the St. Sebastian river.
When just beyond the city gate bis horse
stumbled and fell, turning a complete som
ersault, breaking its neck, which caused
iustantaneous death. Mr. Masters was un
hurt.”
UeKalb
Dodge S4
Dooly 400
Dougherty 45
Douglas
Early
Echol3
Effingham 49
Elbert
Emanuel "3J
63
2G9
Fayette
Floyd
Forsyth
Franklin....
Fulton
117
442
214
371
‘236
Gilmer
68
Glasscock
Glynn
Gordon
Greene
GwinnetJ .... ..................
49
50
S
*545
*i20
Habersham
250
llail..
Hancock
Haralson
119
373
*117
5‘21
Hart
29
Heard
70
Henry
Houston
137
4C8
Jackson
Jum
Jefferson
Johnson
Jones
Laurens
650
114
179
127
13
135
Lee........
541
199
Lincoln
Lowndes
Lumpkin.... ...
130
12
179
S>
144
14
Mclinffi *
2?5
McIntosh
Meriwether
Miller
::::
123
132
126
Milton •
57
M t< IipII
100
Monroe
Montgomery
*400
601
570
5
Muscogee
Isewtcn
Oconee
Oglethorpe
499
*90
288
129
297
Pickens
315
Pierce
Pike ,
34
478
Polk
Pulaski
*2->4
230
43
Quitman
69
159
....
Randolph
437
Richmond
314
Rockdale
164
Scbl
*303
20
Spalding
Stewart.
if>i
618
Sumter
Tal bo:
Taliaferro....
*3?6
86
250
5o
Tattnall
Telfair
Terrell
329
451
91
Thomas
*76
145
Tronn
122
Twiggs
Union
Upson
Walker
Walton
203
**85
710
502
‘*59
Warren
Washington
Wayne
61
315
215
"go
White
Whitfield
Wilcox
Wilkes
Wilkinson
Worth
*376
SO
286
439
1
82
Majority for convention 21,585
Majority against convention....
Clear majority for convention. 9,588
With one couuty (Echo s) to hear from officially.
11,997
Hilton will soon be asking his stores
'Where now are the gebrew Children ?
A Fttlse Prophet.
Mr. Stephens’ death lias become the
subject of prophecy. A fortune teller
has predicted the very day of his passing
away. A man living in Lamar, Missouri,
recently wrote the following to the Chi
cago Inter Ocean:
“Whi do you condotn ever man that
pretends to be a Fortune teller I know a
man that has beeu raving destractcd For
13 years what he ses comes true to con
vince you such is the Cose he says Alex
ander steveus will die June 24 1877 if it
so Hapens he wishes to advertise with
you if you will so state his predictions
Address Jno L Williams lamar mo.”
Mr. Stephens is one of the most cour
teous and obliging of men. But in the
matter of death be displays a conlrari-
ness and obstinacy altogether foreign to
his nature. He has been several times at
the very point of dissolution during the
past few years, and last winter a report
of his death caused a number of news
papers to print obituary articles, and
somo of the Georgia towns to go in
mourning for the great commoner. But
he lived to read the obituaries and to turn
tears into rejoicing. So the Missouri
fortuue teller turns out to bo no seer at
all, and will not get a chance to advertise
in the Inter-Ocean. The fatal day has
passed, and Mr. Stephens is not only
alive, but his health has improved so
much that he seems to have years of use
fulness yet before him.—Augusta Chron
icle.
An Address fkom Tammany Hall.
An address, signed by Grand Sachem Au
gustus Schell, Henry L. Clinton and oth
ers, has been issued to tho members of
the’ Tammany Society. After calling upon
the members to assemble at Tammany
Hail on the Fourth of July to celebrate
the day, the address goes on as follows :
“The abuses of tho lime make it espe
cially necessary that we should with more
than usual fervor revive the memories
which give significance to that day.
While our society, in common with mil
lions of order-loving and order observing
citizens, submits to a fraudulently-crea
ted National Administration, that sub
mission must not prevent us from ex
pressing our detestation of the trickery
and frauds to which that administration
owes its existence, or from showing onr
contempt for the men who have accepted
the stolen chief executive offices of the
nation. The perpetration of this great
public crime, whereby the will of the sov
ereign people has been nullified, and a
mere de facto administration has been
counted in and set up in defiance of law
and justice, is in this first year of our
second century humiliating indeed, ihat
humiliation can never be forgotten or
forgiven, aud never ogam will it be suf
fered bv the people of this country. It
will be narrated in history forever here
after that the man who once obtained by
fraud the high office of President cf the
United States of America retained that
office only to be
‘•A fixed figure for the time of Scorn
To point ms slow and moving finger at.
A horr’ble accident occurred at a roll
ing mill in Indianapolis Friday, which re
sulted in the fatal injury of John Hill, a
nuddler. The unfortunate mans right
foot caught in the aperture in the rolls
through which the hot iron is thrust, and
the sides closed in on the member, drag
ging the leg through and crushing the
oone clear up to the hip. The iron in
which the limb was imprisoned was al
most red hot, and as it was at least ten
minutes before the poor fellow could be
released, the flesh on the bone was en
tirely roasted. The poor victim died
that afternoon.
A.
0.
The Constitutional Convention.
The delegates elect to the Constitution
al Convention are as follows, by Senatorial
Districts:
First District—A. K. Lawton, W. T.
Thompson, J. M. Gu6rard, John Screven,
J. L. Warren, Waring Bussell, A. G.
Smith, Stephen F. Keller.
Second District—W. Robert Gignilliat, j
Henry F. Horne, Wm F. Conley.
Third District—Seaborn Hall, C. C.
Grace.
Fourth District—M. L. Mershon, J. It.
Bachlott.
Fifth District—J. M. Spence, W. A.
McDonald.
Sixth District—B. L. Stephens, J. D.
Knight.
Seventh District—James L. Seward,
Augustus H. Hansell, Bryant Creech,
Henry Gay.
Eighth District—J. B. Twitty, B. E.
KutfcEsll, John E. Donalson, J. S. Clif
ton.
Ninth District—Green Whiddon, J. H.
Hand, B. Chancey.
Tenth District—Nelson Tift, John
Davis, Wm. Wells, R. R. Jennings.
Eleventh District—David Goff, L.
Sale, S. L Williams, B. F. Burnett.
Twelfth District—J. L. Wimberly,
Isaac W. Stokes, T. L. Guerry, D. B.
Harrell.
Thirteenth District—Geo. F. Cooper,
T. M. Furlow. Joseph V. Scott, A. H.
Greer, J. C. Ellington, John H. Respiss.
Fourteenth District—R. W. Anderson,
D. F. McGrimmon, David Sapp, O. P.
Swearingen.
Fifteenth District—M. N. McRae.
Sixteenth District—J. H. Hicks, Neil
McLeod, J. T. Coney.
Seventeenth District—H. A. Perry,
Justin B. Heath, W. B. Jones, J. C. Dell,
W. D. Brannen.
Eighteenth District—Charles J. Jen
kins, Robert H. May, George R. Sibley,
Adam Johnston, J. G. Cain, D. G. Phil
lips, W. G. Brady.
Nineteenth District—John S. Johnston,
G. F. Bristow, M. W. Lewis, C. Hurd,
D. N. Sanders.
Twentieth District—R. L. Warthen, H.
N. Hoilifieid, F. C. Furman, Thos. New
ell, 0. W. DuBose, Geo. F. Pierce, Jr.
Twenty-first District—E. 0. Grier, A.
S. Hamilton, F. Chambers, E. J. Coats,
F. W. Edge.
Twenty-second District—W. H. Boss,
W. A. Loften, T. J. Simmons, A. D.
Hammond, L A. Ponder, W. H. H. Bush,
J. A. Hunt, T. J. Barrett.
Twenty-third District—B. F. Tharpe,
J. M. Davis, Eli Warren, W. S. Wallace,
M. D. Stroud, B. W. Sanford.
Twenty-fourth District—W. A. Little,
Porter Ingram, Francis Fontaine, J. W.
Hewell, J. D. Wilson.
Twenty-fifth District—E. A. Fiewelien,
John Dickey, J. M. Mobley, W. I. Hud
son, J. T. Willis, W. Ii. Gorman.
Twenty-sixth District—Jno. H. Mc-
Caltum, F. D. Dismuke, C. S. Westmore
land, R. R. liodgtrs.
Twenty-seventh District—Pope Bur
row, Andrew Jackson, T. A. Gibbs, J. M.
Pace, O. S. Porter, E. B. Rosser.
Twenty-eighth District—Augustus
Reese, Joshua Hill, T. G. Lawson, R. B.
Nis’oet, J. C. Key.
Twenty-ninth District—It. Toombs,
Wm. M. Reese, J. N. Mercier, I’aui C.
Hudson, H. R. Casey.
Thirtieth District—J. D. Matthews,
W. G. Johnson, W. W. Scott, Wm. H.
Mattox.
Thirty-first District—T. G. Underwood,
S. H. Mosely, J. H. Skelton.
Thirty-second District—Wier Boyd,
A. F. Underwood.
Thirty-third District—B. A. Camp, J.
J. J. Sheppard, M. Graham, M. Bryau.
Thirty-fourth District—L. J. Winn,
James Polk, Dr. Tye, S. G. Howeli, K.
D. Wynn.
Thirty-fifth District—J. W. Robert
son, L. J. Gartrell, N. J. Hammond P.
L. Mynatt, John Collier, B. E. Crane, J.
T. Spence, A. C. McIntosh, G. W.
Roberts.
Thirty-sixth District—John T. Glover,
John T. Lungino, Hugh Buchanan, L.
H. Featherson, W. A. J. Phillips, R. D.
Render.
Thirty-seventh District—W G Tuggle,
N. G. Swanson, L. L. Hardy, Sr., S. W.
Harris, It. L. Rowe, S. M. Awbrey.
Thirtv-eightb District—N. J. Tumlin,
W. J. Head, J. G. Denton.
Thirty-ninth District—A. W. Holcomb,
James R. Brown, Elias Fields, Oliver
Clark.
Fortieth District—C. J. Welborn, J. G.
Stephens.
Forty-first Distrjct—W. T. Day, D.
Garren, -J. 3. Kelley.
Forty-second District—W. T. Wofford,
John H. Fitten. Abda Johnson, A. K.
Wright, D. B. Hamilton, Nathan Bass,
S. Hawkins.
Forty-third District—L. N. Trammell,
William K Moore, S. M. Carter, J. C.
Fain.
Forty-fourth District—T. G. McFar
land, R. M. Paris, N. Lowe.
A Woman Shot bv a Desperado.—
Friday afternoon two young men, named
Wm. Baker and Philip Swelgard, engaged
in an altercation in a saloon at, Glouces
ter, N. J., but order was restored shortly
afterwards. In the eveuing Mrs. Farmer,
wife of the proprietor of the saloon,
went to a magistrate’s cilice to obtain .3
warrant for the arrest of one of the men.
She was met by Baker, who pulled out a
revolver and fired two shots at her, one of
which took effect in the stomach and the
other struck in front of the temple aud
passed out at the forehead. The first
named" wound is serious, and at a late
hour Friday night the physician stated
that it would result fatally. Baker fled,
but was captured about ten o’clock.
Convicted foe Another’s Chime.—
Much excitfement prevails at Wiikes-
barre, Pa, among politicians concerning
the case of F. A. Beamish, a Democratic
politician of Scranton, who was convicted
last December of forging a tax duplicate
for the fourth school district, while Tax
Receiver. To day ex Constable Farrell,
whom Beamish employed to serve the tax
warrants, confessed that he and a confed
erate obtained possession of the tax
duplicate, tore out the leaves, and kept
one thousand five hundred dollars. The
confession is written, sworn to, and will
be delivered to the court. Beamish is iu
prison awaiting sentence.
Marriage of the Centennial Queen.
—Miss Parke P. Perkins, who was crown
ed queen at the centennial tournament at
Philadelphia last summer, was married
at her residence in Buckingham county,
Virginia, on the l!):h instant, to Major
W. W. Bentley. A correspondent says:
“The bride was a picture of loveliness
which none will soon forget in her
splendid dress of white satin, elegantly
trimmed with laca, and the crown so
justly won at the centennial exhibition,
looking every inch a queen—a queen of
hearts.” The bridegroom is a gentleman
of wealth and high social position in
Pulaski county, Va.
The number cf wolves in Russia is
estimated at two hundred thousand, and
their annual consumption of flesh is
twenty- three hundred weight per head.
Last year they ate, among other items,
one hundred aud sixty-one human beings,
and it is estimated that, in one way or
another, they cost the country ten million
dollars. Hunting has declined since the
emancipation of the serfs, and the wolves
have increased.
On Friday last, at Muncie, Ind., while
several small girls were plating on a log
wagon, the wagon started down an abrupt
embankment at fearfulspeed.and the chil
dren becoming scared jumped from tbe
wagon, with the following result: Jack
Wilson’s daughter, thigh broken; John
McClintock’s daughter,collar bone broken;
Mark Walling’s daughter, leg broken ;
another small girl, jaw bone broken ; in
all five were seriously injured.
Grant, in his letter to Childs, expresses
his profound and everlasting gratitude to
Pierrepont “for the pains he has taken to
make my stay pleasant, and the atten
tions extended to onr country. Our
people ought not to forget^ Pierrepont’s
“attentions to our country.”
A RELIC OF THE LAST ADMINIS
TRATION.
Fifty-Three Thousand Acres of Territory
Disposed Of by the White House Cabal.
[Chicago Timcs.l
AN IMPORTANT PAPER.
On the 18th inst. a mandamus of great
importance was fifed in the Superior
Courtof the District of Columbia by the
attorney for Thos. Leitensdorfer, of Colo
rado, and pursuant to a recent decision
by Judge Hallet, of the Circuit Court of
that State, commanding Commissioner
Williamson, of the General Land Office,
to bear aud determine the appeals which
have been taken nt various times on tbe
ease of said Leitensdorfer against Col. Wm.
Ciaig. This involves not only the right
and title to the largest tract of land owned
by any single individual in the United
States, but also brings up a ceTiain vital
question as to the jurisdiction of the
President over decisions made by heads
of departments, and introduces
MUCH STARTLING INFORMATION
as to the influence exerted by BeDj. F.
Butler over ex-President Grant, and his
methodsof lobbying through land schemes
without the knowledge or consent of tbe
department officials and those directly
interested as parties to the suit. The
facts in extenso, aceordiog to the papers
in equity filed, together with the manda
mus make up throughout a revolting
story, with Grant, Butler, Chandler
and Pierrepont in the leading roles.
Iu December, 1843, Cornelius Vigil and
Ceran Saint Verain had delivered to them
by the government of the then Mexican
State cf New Mexico
A LARGE TRACT OF fcAND,
which is now in the southern part of
1 Colorado, and contains about eighty miles
‘ square. Because the tract exceeds iu
area a lawful limitation of eleven square
leagues for each, because it has never
been officially surveyed, and because of
some irregularities in tbe records of the
Mexican transfer, it is alleged that tho
tract is inchoate. On the 7 th of March,
1844, Vigil and Saint Verain executed a
donation of an undivided one-sixth to
Eugene Leitensdorfer, under whom Thos.
Leitensdorfer, the present petitioner, now
holds. Afterward a like one-sixth was
executed to three others, so that with
Leitensdoifer aud the original holders
the tract was equally divided. The six
shares belonging to Leitensdorfer have
never been enforced by formal partitions,
although both he and one of the other
claimants used and occupied this land
ever since. By the operation of
THE TREATY OF GUADALOCPE HIDALGO
of 1848, the grant became the properly
of the United States, although by article
8 of the treaty the property of inhabi
tants remained unchanged. When there
first was a Surveyor General of New
Mexico the laud was nearly all in his
district, and ha reported in 1857 recom
mending Congress to confirm the whole
of the grant of Virgil and Saint Verain.
The confirmatory act cf 18G0 gave a quit
claim for not more than eleven square
leagues to each, declaring, however, that
a survey should be first made of all the
tracts occupied by actual settlers holding
titles given by Vigil and Saint Verain,
and that the rest of the twenty-two
squaro leagues should afterward be lo
cated for the grantees in two equal tracts.
In 18G1 the territory of Colorado, which
embraced all of the grant, was created,
aud a Surveyor General was appointed.
In 1887 the Commissioner of the General
Lund Office wrote him instructions for
the adjustment of the claim of Vigil and
Saint Verain under the confirmatory ayt
of 18G0, which contemplated no action
by the Register or Receiver. In Febru
ary, 1809, Congress, to effectuate the act
of 1800, and to disencumber the domain
of the claim and the vast unconfirmed
remainder of the grant, passed an act pro
scribing a limitation for establishing
THE RIGHTS OF CLAIMANTS.
This act says that all who may estab
lish their claim within one year to tho
satisfaction of tha Register and Receiver
will have it adjusted according to tbe
sub division lines cf the survey so as to
include tbe lands settled on or purchased.
The act of 1809 stipulates that Vigil and
Saiut Veraiu shall select their hypothetic
residence of twenty-two leagues within
three months after the completion of tbe
surveys required by the act of 1809.
Failing to do this, they shall be held to
have abandoned their claim by failing to
comply. This aud other sections of the
laws of confirmation as to them has not
become legally effective, and it is held
that the preferred derivative claimants
are the only persons having an interest
in the twenty-two leagues within the
limitation prescribed. Tbirty-nine claim-
ants presented their claims, exceeding in
all 183,553 acres, to Irving W. Stanton
aud Charles A. Cook, United States Reg-
ister and Receiver, respectively, at
Pueblo, Col. Among them was the de
rivative claim of Mr. Craig for 127,000
acres. The Register and Receiver re
jected twenty-three of the claims ille
gally, it is alleged, making an aggregate
of more than 85,953 acres. They ille
gally allowed
THE CLAIM OF CRAIG.
To twelve of the claimants they allowed
4,303 acres, and the remaining 73,251
acres to Craig. The decisions of these
officers were reported about the 24th of
July, 1874. An investigation was at once
hrd by Willis Drummond, then Commis
sioner of the Land Office, into the official
conduct of Irving W. Stanton, Register,
and Chas. A. Cook, Receiver of the
Surveyor General’s office at Pueblo, and
as a rule he advised the discharge of both
men, and recommended that the govern
ment should sue for tho cancellation of
the entry as obtained by fraud and per
jury, and prosecute the guilty parties.
Stanton and Cook were accordingly re-
moved, but the government has up to
this time been bsffl9d in its efforts to cor
rect the mischief at law and pnnish the
culprits. Commissioner Drummond
then notified the disregarded claimants
that they must appeal to him from the
awards made at Pueblo. Craig, of
course, never appealed, but, cn thi3 in
vitation, tho others did.
DRUMMOND HEARD THE CASE
fully, reversed the local decision of Colo
rado, and decided against the wbole claim
of Craig. Thereupon Craig wrote to the
Commissioner denying his appellate ju
risdiction, and praying that the appeals
might be dismissed. Commissioner Bur
dette, who succeeded Drummond, treated
this letter as an appeal to Secretary of
the Interior Delano, who heard the ease
elaborately discussed and sustained the
revisory power of the Commissioner. A
rehearing was asked for and obtained, the
decision being the same as before. Thus
having failed after acknowledging Jthe
appellate jurisdiction of the Secretary of
the Interior, Craig employed the services
of B. F. Butler. He made the alarming
discovery that the settlement of this case
was the private property of Grant, so he
took the matter
DIRECT TO THE WHITE HOUSE.
There was no motion, no petition, no
bond, no order for appeal—simply But
ler’s (X parte and informal presentation
of hiB client’s case to the President.
Grant called in Pierrepont, and told him
to deliver an opinion as to where the Ex
ecutive should take action after tho de
cision of the Secretary of the Interior in
this case, and what action hs would
recommend. This was ia May, 1875.
One year from that date, exactly, which
time can ba filled in by Butler’s wire
pulling, Pieirepont informed the Presi
dent, though lie had previously thought
to the contrary, that no appeal lay to tbe
Commissioner from the decision of the
Register and Receiver; that the Secretary
had no jurisdiction to review said decis
ion, and that
THE ACTION OF THE PRESIDENT
could be lawfully invoked. He closed by
advising the President to instruct the Sur
veyor General of Colorado to deliver to
Col. Craig an improved plat of the land
delivered to bim by the decision of the
Register and Receiver. Thus backed up
by Pierrepont and Butler, the President
sent the document to Chandler for en
forcement. The papers were referred to
Solicitor Gaylord, of the Interior De
partment. He saw the mistake, and
went personally to Grant with a violent
pretest against enforcing the principles
of the opinion, as it would unsettle the
whole control of the department over
subordinate officials. Grant then took
water and ask6d Chandler to give an
opinion. Williamson was called in and
repeated the previous decision, which
upheld the power of the President to re
view the decisions of the head of the
department. From this point on
DATES AND FACTS
will speak louder than argument.
Nothing more was heard of the case for
another year. Overwhelmed by tbe au
thorities against him, Grant abstained
from carrying the decision of Pierrepont
into execution while there would be time
during the remainder of his administra
tion to lay bare the irregularity of the
proceedings, so he waited and resisted
the importunities of Butler until March
2, 1877. Then, just as he was leaving
the White House, and purely on the ex
parte application of Craig’s counsel, and
without asking or receiving reports either
from Secretary Chandler or Attorney-
General Taft, he sat down and issued
THE FOLLOWING MANDATE,
based on a decision rendered nearly a year
before by Pierrepont;
In accordance with the opinion and
recommendation of the Attorney General
on tho questions submitted to him, the
Commissioner of the General Laud Office
is desired to instruct the Surveyor Gen
eral of Colorado to deliver to Col. Wm.
Craig an approved plat of tho land ad
judged to him by the Register and Re
ceiver of the Pueblo Land District in that
State, dated February 23, 1874. If, in
the opinion of the Commissioner of the
General Land Office and of the Secretary
of the Iuterior, the amount of lauds
owned by Wm. Craig is less than that
heretofore awarded, then the order upon
the Surveyer General of Colorado may bo
for the amount of land deemed due him.
U. S. Grant.
Executive Mansion, March 2, 1877.
This command, coming direct from the
President, left the Commissioner no dis
cretion, as he claimed, but to aceept this
as the rule which the highest authority
had established for the government of
such cases, and the order was accordingly
issued with the approval of Chandler,v. ho
had previously seen fit to ask the advice
of his solicitor before venturing to enforce
n previous but less peremptory command
to the same effect. The new administra
tion remarked that there was no way for
them to go back and
UNDO GRANT’S DEEDS
and Butler had apparently gained the
day. It appears from certain technical
ities in the case that all redress by due
process of law has now been exhausted,
but it was decided to pray for relief in
equity. Accordingly a petition in equity
was filed before Judge Hallett asking
for an injunction against the enforce
ment of the President's decree, and after
a full hearing the petition was granted
very recently, coupled with a command
for a mandamus within thirty days to
compel the Commissioner of Washing
ton to reopen the case, and thus virtually
set aside a decision which made Grant
commander-in-chief of land cases iu liti
gation, as well as the army and navy.
There is
MORE MILK IN THIS COCOA,
which will probably exude under the or
der for a rehearing, namely, the facts of
the money transferred in Colorado to ef
fect the original decision and the full
history of Butler’s connection with the
aase from both ends of the line. It is a
matter of record that Craig has deeded
over to Butler an unqualified conveyance
of tho whole 53,000 acres which Butler
claims is merely to secure him his fee,
but knowing ones hold tbe opinion that
Butler, with the instinct of a financial
devil fish, is gradually working into the
position of proprietor-in-chief. Com
missioner Williamson will obey the man
damus with alacrity, aud go into the mer
its of the whole transaction without
gloves.
The Downfall of the Molly Maguires.
[Philadelphia Times, list.]
For years the association that culmina
ted in systematic murder was conducted
ostensibly for the protection of the rights
of labor, and it gathered about itself a
semblance of religious affinity that misled
many good men in judging its actual pur
pose. It had power that made politicians
of both high and low estate bow to its
interests, and its apparent omnipotence
doubtless had much influence in misdirect
ing its illiterate and desperate leaders
from wrong to wrong, from exaction to
exaction, and from vengeance to ven
geance, until it regarded the law as n
thing to be rent like a cobweb, and law-
makers and law-administrators as the play
things of bad men who had been so large
ly instrumental in creating them.
The evil days of war, of demoraliza
tion, of mean ambition, of greedy grasp
for wealth, came when the Mollie Ma
guires were struggling for the rights of
might over employers, and they could
not long be unaffected by the moral mi
asma that was visible in the degeneracy
of men who owed their humble fellows
the example of integrity in their deal
ings between man and man, Tempted
by the luxury they saw others bdj oy as
the fruits of their labors; outcasts from
all but their own hapless degredation;
ignorant and hopeless in their ignorance;
brutal by birth and brutalized by their
surroundings and abject helplessness
beyond the daily tread-mill of the galley
slave, they were ready subjects for the
arrogance that leads to violence and for
the violence that leads to the climax of
crime. •
Bad as they are and justly as they die,
let it not ba forgotten that they had much
to encourage them even to murder ia this
boasted government of law. They saw
j urors disregarded their oaths to shield
them; they saw witnesses by scores rush
into perjury to save them; they saw the
responsible offices of their counties filled
by those who fraternized with them and
taught them that they were the lords of
the realm; they saw judges on the
bench whose commissions were fashioned
in tho councils of murderous conspira
tors; they saw their Congressmen, their
Senators and their Representatives wear
the honors which had been im
portuned and received from their hands;
they saw politicians seek them from the
ends of the State with proffered friend
ship, and they were taught by desperate
leaders that they were masters of the
power of the commonwealth that could
protect them from retribution for any
and every crime, from theft to murder.
Believing that they were a law unto them
selves and above and beyond the reach of
the laws which punish crime, they readily
drifted from stage to stage in lawlessness,
and finally they drew lots or decided in
conncil who should go forth and kill the
victims of their hate.
But crime can have no permanent su
premacy. It is forbidden by every law,
civil and moral, and its retribution is as
inevitable as the setting of the snn. Just
when the organization of murderers in
the mining regions seemed to be most
secure in its rule it met its overthrow
from within its own circles. One whose
vast business interests were involved in
the struggle, matched his skill agaiDSt the
sworn criminals, and he sent his detec
tives into their consultations and had
them hear and apparently take part in
the judgment of death that was pro
nounced against innocent men. In due
time the inner records of the organiza
tion were presented to the world through
the criminal courts, and crime was true
to its cowardly instincts as the truth was
affirmed from tbe lips of trembling
criminals. Justice was strengthened as
truth found the light of day, and twelve
men are now under the sentence of death,
ten of whom will be lifeless clods in the
arms of the executioner before high noon
of this day of death.
A. Foreign View of the ( onstitntionnl
Convention.
[From tlie Atlanta Constitution.]
The fact that tho people of Georgia
are shortly to revise and reconstruct
their organic law has attracted the atten
tion and invited tho solicitude of quite a
number of that class of Northerners who
are never so happy as when pushing their
proboscises into other people’s business.
Here, for instance, is a dispatch from
Washington to Chevalier Forney’s Phila
delphia Prexs. It is dated the 19th :
“The administration will regard with
deep interest the action of the Georgia
convention, now unquestionably author
ized by what purports to bo tho expres
sion of the popular will. By whatever
means this result has been achieved, it
will certainly be recognized as sufficient
to accomplish all the purposes in view.
Some of the closest friends of the ad
ministration now speak somewhat re
provingly of the apathy with which this
momentous movement in tho State of
Georgia was regarded, it being evident to
thorn that with a little effort it might
have been possible to have encouraged
such a display of influence in a counter
movement that the convention leaders
would have felt that they would ba held
to an accountability in the manner and
to tho extent to which the power in
trusted to them was used. This oppor
tunity, however, his been lost, audit only
remains to be seen to what point the
reactionary spirit which prevails in
the old Bourbon element in the South
will he carried. There is no question
that the seriousness of the measures now
threatened in the State of Georgia has
been overlooked. The present constitu
tion was the outgrowth of the abnormal
condition of things which resulted from
the rebellion, and there is no question
that the individuals who secured control
of the political power in the State in the
framing of the constitution of 1807 were
more regardful of their own interests than
those of tho people. In these features
tli9 members of the convention would be
justified in modifying the constitution,
but where it was conformed to the va
rious constitutional amendments, based
upon the changed political status of a
considerable element in the population
of the United States, it must stand, for
any attempt to incorporate dootrines in
oonfliot with these provisions of the
organic law of the nation would institute
au issue which would warrant the
President of the United States in
exercising such authority as he
is by constitutional and statu
tory provisions empowered to exercise.
Any measure designed to restrict, restrain
or limit the enjoyment of any political or
other rights guaranteed to any class of
oitizens by the Constitution will be an
tagonistic to the idea of a republican form
of government as now contemplated by
the Constitution of the United States.
Outride of the importance which the ac
tion of the convention will have as regards
the relations between the State of Geor
gia and the United States, it will also
possess significance as demonstrating to
the people of the United States and of the
world what may be anticipated from the
ruling class in the South, now that the
autonomy of the Southern States is re
stored. The paramount authority of the
Constitution of the United States was the
vital principle upon which the General
Government prosecuted the late war, and
upon which the rebellion of the Southern
States was suppressed. It was claimed that
the rights of the States were paramount
to the Constitution in all things. The
government refused to recognize such a
suicidal doctrine. As a result to-day we
still find ourselves a nation. Accepting
that doctrine to-day would find us a dis
rupted republic, and a continent disturb
ed by contending States, such as to-day
exist in Mexico. The question now is
whether the constitution of tho State of
Goorgia will constitute the initial steps
to a reactionary movement, a new rebel
lion of revolution; whether the Bourbon
element of that State will carry their
hatred of the progress of events to that
point that they will submit for the gov
ernment of the people of Georgia an or
ganic law cf the State to conflict in any
decree with the organic law of the United
States. From their action the Union
people in all part3 of the land will be
prompt to decide upon the duty of the
future. The action of this convention
may prove an important influence in ter
minating the result of future political
campaigns.”
Whether Georgia will inaugurate the
initial steps to a new revolution in re
modeling her fundamental law happily
does not depend upon the interpretation
of such deadly asses as the man who
wrote the foregoing dispatch and the
editor who gave it publicity. Of one
thing, however, they may be reasonably
sure: The preamble to the old constitu
tion, in which Georgians are made to
acknowledge themselves as traitors and
rebels, will ba most carefully expunged.
It is enough for such so-called loyalists
as Forney aud his correspondent to apply
these opprobrious words. In short, the
people of Georgia, through their duly
elected representatives, propose to frame
an organic law to suit themselvts, and if
Forney’s correspondent doesn’t like it he
will be compelled to make the most of it.
So far as tho “political or other rights”
of any class of citizens a _ e concerned,
they will be in safe hands. The
negro race will never suffer at
the hands of Georgians. But it
is certain that the new constitution will
not be framed to suit Forney. This is,
of course, to be deplored, but what can
one do ? It might be well, if Forney
can’t spare the time to come to Atlanta
to oversee the convention, to send his
unusually intelligent correspondent. Or
he might employ Howard Carroll, or
Eli Perkins, or some other intellectual
idiot—but it Would be all the same in the
long run, even if Colonel Jamieson For
ney himself were to stand np in the capi
tal galleries and pull his magnificent side
whiskers every day during the session.
Georgia proposes to have a constitution
framed by her own people.
When the Duke of Wellington asked
Gen. Grant how English whisky com
pared with American whisky, the ex
sovereign replied: “I am no judge; I
never took but two drinks of American
whisky in my life. "—BotUm Pott.
The Heathen Chinee too Much for a
Caucasian.—Chang Ah Tong was tried
before Judge Benedict, in the United
States Circuit Court at New York, on the
charge of forging the signature of a com
patriot named Charles Samuels, or Sam
You, to a receipt for a money order for
one hundred and twenty dollars. It ap
peared that Chang Ah ToDg and Sam
You were partners iu a cigar store, and
that the former deposited one hundred
and twenty dollars in tho money order
office in the name of his partner, hut
afterwards withdrew the money, signing
his partner’s name to the receipt. After
the trial had proceeded a little way it was
discovered that when Chang Ah Tong
signed the receipt bo said to the official,
indicating the signature, “This meanie
Sam Y’ou,” when tho fact was that the
tea chest characters meant “ Chang
Tong.” General Foster, perceiving that
the heathen Chinee had been too smart
for tbe law, and had obtained the money
by a very nice trick, without committing
forgery, entered a nolle prosequi, and
Chang Ah Tong was discharged.
At Reading’s gold mines, seven miles
southeast of Talladega, Ala., work is go
ing on night and day. The gold bearing
quartz is now being wagoned to Talladega,
and twenty thousand pounds of the ore
will be shipped at a very early day to
Omaha, Neb. Tuere it"is to be crushed by
passing through automatic batteries, and
the gold to be gathered by the quicksilver
process. If the yield of the precious
metal is as heavy as is now anticipated, a
capital of one hundred thousand dollars
will be invested in the mines.
One day when Southey and Coleridge
were drinking their wine after dinner, a
young cousin of their host, John Poole,
rode up and said: “I bring you great
news. Robespierre is dead.” Where
upon Southey put hts head between his
hands, exclaiming, “Good Heaven, I
would rather have heard of the death of
my own father." It is a fact that in
those days government was so suspicious
of the poets that they sent down a spy
to watch their proceedings.
I Tbe Story of a
For seventeen years the most curious
ohjpot in the Museum of the Tennessee
Historical Society has hoes tho Egyptian
mummy. It has a very singular history.
Iu 1830 Col. Jeremiah George Harris was
a purser on a United States man-of-war in
the Egyptian waters. He went on shore,
and was at ouce ushered into the august
presence of the Khedive and his numer
ous household. He was walking out one
day with a member of the Khedive’s staff,
when the latter was set upon by ruffians.
Colonel Harris, who is a man of great
strength, interposed, and the roughs were
vanquished.
“What can I do,” asked the Egyptian
officer, “to show adequate approbation
of the services you have rendered me ?’
“Give me a mummy,” laughingly sug
gested Colonel Harris.
A mummy?’’ repeated the officer,
holding his breath and pondering. “Did
you not know, sir, that our laws prohibit
the removal of mummies, under penalty
of death ? But, never mind; your request
shall be fulfilled. Just t-Mcro the vessel
leaves the harbor, a boat will oome along
side. It will contain that for which you
have asked."
Colonel Harris had dismissed the sub
ject from his mind: but just before the
hour of the departure of the ship three
natives were seen pulling toward the
vessel. The boat contained a bundle
directed to Colonel Harris. This bundle
was not to be opened uutil the arrival of
the ship at Boston, when it was dis
covered that there were six mummies, in
stead of one. They were unwrapped,
and the best one forwarded to the Ten
nessee Historical Society, of which
Colonel Harris was then and is still a
member.
When Professor Huxley was here he
examined the mummy with a great deal
of interest, and said that he believed it
to be the best preserved specimen either
in America or in Europe. -Naehville
American.
The Foreign Demand for Gold.
Dr. Linderman, Direotor of the Mint,
is said by a Washington dispatch to “be
understood to entertain" the opinion
that the demand for gold in Europe is
likely soon to be relaxed because Great
Britain, France, Germany, the Nether
lands, etc., are “amply supplied with
gold." Germany is the State whose con
dition is most important in considering
the gold and silver supply and demand.
If that country is “amply supplied with
gold,” the Chicago Tribune thinks the
Doctor must have some sources of infor
mation that are not open to ordinary
people. The supplementary report on
the depreciation of silver just laid
before Parliament states ou the highest
authority that the German Government
has seriously undercalculated the amount
of sliver iu circulation in the empire.
All this silver must be redeemed in gold.
The British Consul at Bremen estimates
the surplus silver in Germany at $100,-
000,000. The German Government is
buying gold in London, and the five mints
in that country have, within a few weeks,
recommenced tho coinage of gold. The
facts are against Dr. Linderman, and the
argument he builds ou them as to the
easo with which the United States can
pick up all tho gold the monometaliats
may want has no foundation.—Nashrille
American.
The report of the Silver Commission,
which is being prepared under the super
vision of Senator Jones, of Nevada, is
very nearly finished. It is expeoted that
the report "ill be made public in a few
days. It is an exhaustive argument in
favor of the double standard and remone
tizing silver, and will no doubt foim a
basis of future discussions ou the subject
in Congress. The position is taken that
the contraction of the currency, caused
by the demonetizing of silver, has arrested
business enterprises, and largely con
tributed to the presout depression. The
opinion is expressed that with silver de -
monetized, specie resumption would be
impossible; that if the Secretary of the
Treasury could possibly resume, it would
be only temporary, aud the result
would be a great suffering and a return
finally to the iasaing of paper
money. Senator Joues favors the pas
sage of a bill to declare the old silver
dollar a legal tender for ail debts public
and private; and directing that upon any
person bringing silver plate, bars or bul
lion to the mints, it shall be the duty of
the government to coin i‘, charging only
such seignorage as may be necessary to
cover the expense. Another provision of
the bill would be to provide that on any
person depositing in the mints a silver
bar of a given weight and fineness, it
shall be the duty cf the government to
give the party so depositing a certificate
of such deposit. This corresponds to the
gold notes, the principle being the same.
The Senator’s views in respect to the 4
per cent, bonds are, that they will be
payable in gold or silver coin at the op
tion of the government, and that the
opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury
is of no more binding force than that of
any other individual.—Washington Star.
Tobacco and Tar as Currency.—In a
work lately published by Rev. Dr.
Slaughter, of Virginia, about men and
customs in the old days of the common
wealth, it is stated that in colonial times
many acts of Assembly were passed
regulating the culture of tobacco, and
one office of the early church vestries was
to appoint respectable freeholders to
count tobacco plants in each parif h. The
salaries of ministers and civil officers
were paid in tobacco, and it or notes re
presenting it in the warehouses were the
currency of the country. Dr. Slaughter
states that parishes were kuown as “Ori
noco" and “Sweet-scented” parishes,
according to the kind of tobacco
grown in them. A sweet-scented
parish was worth much more than an
Orinoco parish. It is quaintly remarked
that a minister’s tobacco was worth much
less thau other like bulk of tobacco, be
cause it was so mixed. Thus it seems
that the clergy have not always had tho
first fruits of their parishioners iu mod
ern times. Whenever the flock could
fleece the shepherd they have rarely
failed in that performance. Another fact
stated by Dr. Slaughter may not ba gen
erally known; that towards the North
Carolina line, where little or no tobacco
was then grown, the minister was paid
in tar, pitch aud pork. Tho pine tree
aud its fruits were then subjects of legis
lation. Tar was once in great demand
for tarring the roofs of public and pri
vate buildings.—Baltimore Sun.
A few days ago some persons were bor
ing a well on the bluff near Bamum’s
mill, Carroll county. They passed
through several strata of hard clay and
other formations, and had reached adeptli
of forty-six feet, when tho augur struck
a stick of timber, which, judging from
the time it took to bore through it, must
have been at least two feet in diameter.
As soon as the augur passed through the
wood it seemed to drop, as if into a hole,
and almost immediately water rushed into
the well to the depth of thirty feet. A
piece of turf, in wLich the form of leaves
and pieces of sticks were plainly visible,
was brought up by the augur. The wood
of the log ia of very fine grain, and is
wholly different from any now growing in
that neighborhood. Many peopje have
examined the wood, and all, so far, have
declared that they never saw wood like it
before.—Scdalia (Mo ) Bazar.
John ltafferty was shot and killed by
James L. Haloway Friday evening last at
Vermillion, III., two miles west of Terre
Haute. They were rivals for the hand of
Miss Emma Walker, at that place. Halo
way was sitting in tha parlor of the Terry
House, conversing with Miss Walker,
when Rafferty entered. Haloway ordered
Rafferty to leave the room, drawing a
slung-shot, with which he threatened to
enforce the order. Rafferty, who is Mar
shal of Vermillion, then attempted to
arrest Haloway on theoharge of carrying
concealed weapons. Haloway drew a re
volver and fired, tbe bail entering Raf
ferty’s left breast just above the heart,
penetrating the carotid artery. Rafferty
drew his revolver and attempted to re.
turn the fire, but just as he raised the
hammer of the* weapon he fell to the
floor dead.
One of Sherman's soldiers cut a paint
ing from its frame in one of the Rhett
family mansions in South Carolina, and
sold it in Philadelphia for ten dollars.
Neither he nor the purchaser knew that
It was over two centuries old, aud was
valued high among the thousands. It has
just been discovered in Cincinnati.
Chickens are carried to New York from
distances little thought of by consumers.
Two car loads were shipped last Saturday
at Norfolk, Va, for the New York mar
ket. They had been coileoted in East
Tennessee, and sent by way of Virginia.
A man is employed to furnish them food
and water.