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J. n. EST1LL,
Savannah, Ga.
[•KLISE.
, * jj-’g snows? we siy:
‘.J , where arc thej?
; imu's course 1o stay,
>. things like these,
ze the snows,
d the rose
; we might—who knows
’ ,:tn these,
.• youthful days,
Vr vet our ways
and while time stays
:: ho you please,
urs, Felise.
, r threw a pair,
[ the other fair,
cs in the air,
i, for ? the breeze—
'elise.
ringed feet,
re I greet
lips found sweet —
'ime brings no ease
this, Felise.
Who hath not tried
never died—
from his side?
i ? Few are these,
yor two 611
r,aae on be
Affairs in tieorgria.
uu v 'armors say they never saw
:rop, and they are glad to get
peck for their fruit.
)U ut v man, who was in Atlanta a
3ayg he means to make a
lio has already sold seven
f honey at eighteen cents
not half done with his
s buckwheat for his bees,
a: fails he feeds them on wet
and
ber room in
he Cole
r.t 12 o’clock, while sitting in
Cjlumbu ”, Mrs. Simmons, an
..-J, suddenly and without
cause, dropped dead. She is
lr. B illow, a boss workman at
u i rh .nix factory.
m:y has lost another of her
: is in the death of Seaborn
. . -h occurred at his resi-
ro on Wednesday last,
i about seventy-five years.
wart county man who said to
i was on the eve of leaving for
ton, take your books and do the
j, but as soon as you learn how
; ball come home.”
nbus limes announces the death
y of Mr. James Denson. Mr.
bora near Eatonton, Georgia,
time of his death he occupied
l of Secretary and Treasurer of
.•us Irou Works, which he filled
y. He was a man of large
- and liis loss will be seriously
is the name of a new paper
1 at Lafayette. It is owned
he Messrs. McHan, the prin-
r being only sixteen years of
J. XI. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1877.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
whenever h? f m ^ and
StelEi* . made a ‘rack this was plainly
discernible. It was alter" d«k wbVnlhtv
a be r arabo a ut L the g s C;lae - & ? d they dwSfl
soon T.h - flWamp Jast tUi3 8id e- Very
oTco ».‘ d employ
°J C lIg^T U ’ " h °> d Joined he pZrYt
h e u i'h SbT' aa ! eard t0 call out,‘Here
r?‘ B ’ 1 5® f? 01111111! bure enoueb. he ha.l
him, and when"the put/Sp'to two
me" 6 ^ D Li Dd abou?for dear
v^initv^ot P ^h« aed had M ° 'ha^b iu the
yuinity ot the pursuers eye, and had
almost succeeded in extracting the
contents; but the pursuer 8 had
fhroat a hU m f, rClf ! ll „ 8rip OD the other's
trudi’n" Th^vfn atterB ton S°e was pro-
_ n j *1 on T ll &1Q W ’ aa 8oon tied securely,
“5 flit? tle ? iu a male - He had run him-
l i bls clotho h and When cap-
tS™ d i5^?*S? g on but a 8birt - Hi3 cj p-
Mm u? d t‘l y BIartod for home with
him, although they were nearly worn out.
I o Degro man, Jim Robinson, deserves
f aea ,‘,® r f dlt *°r aiding in the capture, and
M.h-l d0 .R Hlll ‘ ard , au employe of Colonel
‘he pursuing party numbered
about a dozen. It is to be hoped that as
soon as the criminal is carried back to the
place where the crime was committed, he
will be nanged without waiting lor a juiy.”
etto:
chid,”
I stamp
e trad
uck or to ha
UvJ of a npgro in Emanuel
.a, Lr stealing a pock of peas
h. I and soventy-fivo dollars,
was acquitted. If Emanot*
:oy at the rate of fifteen hnn-
uusLoi for ali the peas stolen,
r abolish the crop.
Tbe I!em : j C. '.nly Meekly holds up the
. nuine Georgia industry :
linueH'ivuy has raised one crop of com
is year, aud from the seed
ntiog a second crop.
Jok f in , you young farmers !’*
A ux-yt ir-old child came near meeting a
u at Atlanta, from which he
the presence of mind of a gen-
witneseed hia peril. “The
b Aiiauta Constitution, “was
u cross ihe network of tracks,
as seen sweeping down upon
he was about to cross. He
but was too frightened to turn
, and he pressed on with fal-
to bis certain destruction.
: time to catch him, and little
nieg him by a call, and his
a 1 :: * tiip. At this crisis a gontle-
: :i n l h ; pposite side of the track hast*
U a rock at the little fellow striking
on l bc- breast. The shock that came
s'rcke of the rock stopped him
b'.';, U -Ai aud just in time. The train went
by and he wae saved.”
Le in Columbus havo been playing
Ives an 1 goats, where-
a iumbus Times offers the follow-
v:oo: “We would suggest that so
' ad be paid to persons for all
rithout badges, and that the
l clogs be placed in a city pound,
i:! ' r remaining there two days, if not
1 to be drowned. At least let them
=bot on the streets.”
f'** bti.Igc Democrat says: “The
‘ t • .i. ,n the state lives in an adjoiu-
• y to Brooks. Ho had in hia ern-
rphan boy. The boy’s
to see him, and the farmer
cr l>han in his employ pay for the
ion tl,
I ing s]
I mneb
I co:
Who sa
| beautv"
I when n
s bis brother ate. 1
- L’Grange Reporter says : “Tuesday
wil0 were properly situated,
• i a beautiful and unusual
—2- unr.r rainbow. The rain had
Rh, and was falling in the
moon ro3e in the east. Those
charmed with the novel
scone, and could but regret
the
away. ’
I toll.
“Thi
rom the
lijomasville Times we clip the
Ti j la the unfortunate man?
uah drummer who was giouth-
r 1 1 this week because Southern
1G ' l i;edto vote money for the
; ibe army at the last session of
JR*, bus mistaken his calling. He
A ' into politics. His house had
him at home, or learn him to
" L ac Liu:.- elf to his business.”
- v J. Sims, in a personal recontre
y wounded ex-Sheriff J. C.
oa Vi of ® iewarfc county, at Lumpkm,
: ty las*. The Independent says in
'•-* with this affair: “Ihe ex Sheriffs
y seem to be followed by some
T- -.ty. Within the past three
■ b..ve been killed, and this week
one, J. C. Herndon, was a party
; Las difficulty, and now lies on
‘ly wounded. Firs*, ex-Sh^riff
M was shot and killed by Zack
v then Mr. Cherry was killed by W.
1‘ , t0 « A’.'l afterwards Daniel McKinnon
Florida Affairs.
Florida contains nearly thirty-scren mil-
lions of acros.
Maj. Marks, of Orange county has raised
the first lemons of the season, and the peo-
plo of that county are also regaling them
selves with luscious pineapples.
The game law has proved quite effectual
in preserving the gamo in Orange couuty.
Dr. S. T. Overstreet, of Suwannee coun
ty*, has been appointed surgeon at the
asylum at Chattahoochee, and has removed
to that place.
It requires, oa au average, about twenty-
five beeves aud eight sheep to supply the
Jacksonville market every Saturday.
Two freight cars on the passenger train
on the Transit Road, bound north, Gn Sat
urday caught fire between Gainesville and
Waldo. The Himes iu one were extinguish
ed, but the other was consumed. It con
tained very little freight, and the track was
cleared after about one hour’s detention.
Thomas Drawdy, the Indian river mur
derer, and a convict, died recently in camp
near Leesburg. He confessed being with
the party that committed the murder, and
said the body wag buried in a lake noar the
river.
The trunk belonging to Solon Eaker, who
some time Binco was found murdered at the
mouth of Black Creek, on the St. John’s
riyer, was found by some fishermen near
Hibernia on last Friday.
The Governor has offered a reward of two
hundred and fifty dollars for the apprehen
sion ot the murderers of St. Clair and Lloyd,
in Hernando county, and two hundred dol
lars each for the arrest of Berry Apple-
white, W. C. Peacock and Jeese Ivey, accus
ed also of the crime of murder.
The St. Augustine Press is utilizing the
Eavage element which abounds in that city
in the persons of the Indians, and one of
the chiefs is learning the printers’ trade in
that office. The Jacksonville Press also
wants to employ one as “fighting” editor.
The Aqriculturist urges the draining of
Paine’s Prairie, in Alachua county, au act
was passed by the Legislature previous to
the war organizing a company for this pur
pose.
Mr. J. C. Rocknor, of Fort Meade, was re
cently ambushed aud killed by unknown
parties. It was at first thought that the
murderers were known,at hast persons were
suspected of complicity in thi3 horrible
affair, bat subsequent developments show
that the party or parties have hidden all
traces of their engagement in the crime.
On the 22d iust., there arrived from Ma-
nateo and Punta Rassa, 8G7 head of beef
cattle; 725 were for Havana. .This is tho
largest daily arrival for this year.
The generations of Mr. James Allen, who
resides in the lower part of Madison county
and who is aged ninety-eight years, are
thu3 enumerated: Eight of his children
lived to the age of maturity. Ho ha3
seventy-seven grandchildren, one hundred
and eleven great-grandchildren, and one
great-great-grandchild, making in ail one
hundred and ninety-seven children.
Tho Taylor county jail was burned on
Wednesday night.
Fifty-three schools have been organized
in Leon coun'y, and nearly all of those have
been in operation during the present year,
the exceptions being in those districts where
an attendance could not bo procured on
account of the late Eea3oa of the year io
which tli9 schools were opened.
The report of the School Commissioner of
Duval county shows that during the scho
lastic year ending July 1, 1877, the whole
number of schools in operation wero forty-
nine, of which twenty-eight were white and
twenty-one colored, which were run at an
expense of $21,588 81.
The Northern settlers have bought up*
most of the land in the neighborhood o
Starke, Eradford county, and, as usual* at
advanced prices. At Kingsley lake, six
miles from Starke, everything has been
taken up, as high as $100 per acre having
been paid. Still others are coming in every
dav, and sales are being made through the
county. Some of the best lands in the State
are to be found here. Starke contains about
three hundred inhabitants, and is on the
line of railroad running from Feruandina to
Cedar Keys.
The Palatka Herald says: “A very interest
ing story,from the pen of Mrs. Ophelia Nesbit
Reid, of Eetonton, Ga., is running through
the columns of the Savannah Weekly News.
The literary character of this paper is a sure
guarantee that the romance is worthy a
place in its valuable columns. Tho price of
the Weekly is only two dollars per annum
or one dollar for six months, postage paid.
Persons desiring to read this interesting
story can, no doubt, obtain back numbers.
In this section the Daily News is deservedly
popular, and the Weekly is worth twice th a
subscription. Everyone that can should
sub cribe for the daily—price L.n dol ars per
annum.”
The New Smyrna Star says : “A large real
estate purchase has been made in this vicin
ity by Capt. Balcom, of Boston,
The Union says that United States Mar
shal Conant, and Collector of Internal
Revenue Knight have resigned their posi
tions on the Republican Committee for the
k&cond Congressional District. It states
th^f following officials who are members of
the same committee hive not yet resigned,
V;.;: John R. Scott, Collector of Customs at
Jacksonville; J. B. Stickney, District At-
T°™. ey for the Northern District of Florida;
J. W. Howell, Deputy Collector of Internal
Revenue; P. Walter, Clerk United States
Court; A. B. Osgood, Route Agent. There
are some other officials who are members of
county political committees who have not re-
Bigned either, but who will no doubt do so
rather th-^n lose their official heads.
The Florida State (.Cedar Key) Journal
says ; “It would seem to be a work of su
pererogation to commend the Savannah
News as the very best paper in the South.”
According tv the Lake City Reporter, Co
lumbia county is preparing for toe sociable
enjoyments of life. It says : Columbia
proposes to go within a month into a state
cf semi obfjoyful-ness. Each farmer is
having a cask of brandy distilled from bis
peach crop. Ju?t contemplate Christmas
from this standpoint! ”
The Jacksonville Evening Chronicle says :
“The steamer Dictator brought south, this
trip, the heaviest freight list she his had in
a long while, most of it for St. Augustine
and points up the river. A French family
was also on board, who are going to locate
somewhere on tho St. John’s.”
Btra;
v-ar
Xhe eff.ji
J in the head with a chair, from
are no
i d which he died soou after. We
superstitious at all, nor do wo think
• -tt they had been Sheriffs had
iT, '.~. ,nL,r ’ J d° v -ith their fate ; but wo have
s . -' .vT .. T ut aD y aspirations to become the
*- ^ f Stewart county.”
- • uiGraoge Reporter has the following:
. t,vo vreeks ago, a little white girl
\Y U ^irtec-n years old, was outraged near
p ‘ v T Ala., as she was returning home
r• - j:io 1. Tho perpetrator of tbo out-
. ' V° a ne .£ro about, eighteen years old,
' at and fctroag for bis age. The lit-
,Y 'TH was horribly mangled and very badly
<£;; •• died soon after the fiendish
F ‘ s ^ one » aud the perpetrator escaped.
1 7 night au old gentleman neac there
,f ,T u V‘ i0 ne S f °. but the latter threw him
^ tujaung him severely, and escaped.
t’.T , a *’» we understand, he was agaia cap-
ro, r -- a;a managed to get away. A
s V ,: -‘-tl iu pursuit him,‘and traced
t 4 trough Heard county into Troup,
p AP-nday afternoon the pur-
^ Uit'ty halted at the Lipscomb
u mi le or so from LiGrange, and dis-
1 to get water. The criminal had
l there also, and as they dismounted,
through the woods. This they
L.
u i-.ome of the negroes on the
B ‘ a ; ,/L y immediately started in pur
s'. • £ ’ er sending to LaGrange for as-
\\r iJC0 ' Mr. Martin, the Sheriff, and Mr-
’ “ ie Marshal, readily went to their
tiu". n £'K r o was tracked through
brn- an< * fields up to Major Speer’s
V’ ai -d then Messrs. Martin and Ware,
j] * Ui!1 * °n tho hill, saw him running with
““ ^ ,Ctu iu ihe rear of Colonel Fannin’s
making Lis way towards West
±Lo chase was renewed again,
pursuers finding no difficulty
lowing the criminal, as one of
of Boston, and his
associates. It is no’ less than tho famous
Swift tract of wild orange groves, on the
Halifax river, containing fifteen hundred
acres. It will be immediately surveyed,
etc., and sold in ten acre lots, and to actual
settlers only.”
The Advance says : “Tho convict force
was put to woik on the Lake Griffin canal.
The canal is to be made six feet wider than
it is at present, so that steamboats can reach
the wharf at the warehouse.”
The Quincy Herald condenses a great
deal of truth in a few lines, as, for example,
when it says: “The Savannah Weekly
News is one of the best papers in the
South. It gives ali the news, and is filled
with interesting matter.”
The Tallahassee Iloridian says : “Uncle
Tom Austin, an old mau who has been the
sexton of the Methodist Church South in
this city for nearly forty years, died on Sat
urday night. His wife, also aged, died m
the morning, and both were buried on Sun
day afternoon from the Colored Methodist
Church, the Rev. Mr. Fitzpatrick perform
ing the funeral service. The bell of toe
church which 1 e had so often rung for re
ligious services tolied out its solemn peai
while the remains of tho faithful old sexton
were being carried to the grave.”
Tho negroes of Key West recently heid
an indignation mass meeting to express
their sentiments on the murder of Arthur
St. Clair and Henry Lloyd in Hernando
county. Among the resolutions adopted
was the following, which we confess we can
not understand, especially the relation be
tween t e “ blackberry crop ” and the bru
tal murder referred to. The resolution
reads as follows : “ Resolved. 5th. That we
consider the editor of the Keg of the Quf,
the Democratic organ of this county, no
better than the assassins of Rev. Arthur St.
Clair aud Henry Lloyd, for having published
in hia is mo of the 14th instant the following
local relating to the assassination: ‘ There
is sad ilneliigence from the mainland—the
blackberry crop is on the wane.'- ”
The Key West Dispatch remarks that
“Judging ’from the quantities of water
melons sold in our city, one would think
that our citizens didn’t eat anything else.
But they do—they eat conchs.”
The New Smyrna Star says: “A cmzan
of Boston, Massachusetts, writes us that we
‘will bo safe in stating that a brat-class
steamer will bo running between New
Smyrna, St. Augustine, and Jacksonville or
Fernandina, early in November next, we
gay, ‘there’s millions in it.’ ”
The Quincy Herald says: “Every carpen
ter anti mason in town is busy, and the
eound of the hammer and saw is heard from
morning until night. This means that our
town is rapidly improving."
The Suniter County Advajice says: “Quito
a sensation was created in our town a little
after dark last Tuesday eveuing, by the re
port of a pistol, cries of murder, holp, etc.
As ihe alarm was sounded in the direction
of the jail, everybody ran that way, some
without coatB, some without hats, all bent
on reaching the jai 1 , which they found on
arriving there to be without an occupant.
The following are the names of the parties
who were in prison: W. A. Shoat and Wm.
Shoat, attempted robbery and murder;
Ames Norman, house breaking and robbery;
Geo. Washington, (col.) for stealing. It
seems the two guards permitted the pris
oners to come out to empty slept, and it be
ing dark, they had proceeded bat a short
distance from ihe jail, when Shoat yelled
out, ‘Snakes !’ and the prisoners darted into
tho woods in different directions. The
guards baa a navy pistol each, and one of
them would not fire, but the other was dis
charged onca aud brought down Willie
Shoat, shattering his right arm. Hot pur
suit was made after the others, bat they
were soon lost in the woods, making good
their eecape. Wm. Shoat is now in jail, and
will in all possibility lose hi3 arm by ampu
tation.”
Walthourville and its Surroundings.
Editor Morning Mews: The stranger
passing to aud from Savannah on the
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, little suspects
when he looks out upon the barren waste
of pine tree3 and wirearass, broken only
by a few buildings aud the pretty little
farm of Mr. E. P. Miller, at Station No.
4, that, concealed and hid away among a
succession of sand hills of considerable
elevation, scarcely a mile distant from
the radroad depot, there is a perfect net
work of little clear streams springing up
in every direction and winding into each
other here and there, form themselves
into two or three larger streams at the
base of the hills and thence fbw down
through the low lands to th9 great home
of waters, and that among these sand
hills and brooklets, within the radius of
a mile, is to be found the old village of
Walthourville, containing thirty-two dis
tinct families of whites and twice that
number of colored, with a population all
told of not less than six hundred.
Before the late war no neighborhood
could boast of more cultivation, wealth
aud refinement than this village, which
takes it3 name from a gentleman of that
name, now gone to the home of tho
blessed, but who left behind him such
“footprints on the sands of time” as will
not ba obliterated by the tempests of
many, many years. It can be truly said
of him that in all respes'.e he was an up •
right man. Ilere, too, lived in his early
days the distinguished pastor of the In
dependent Presbyterian Church in Savan
nah, Rev. Dr. Axson, and his old home—
the house in which he lived—though gone
to decay and without a tenant for many
years, was standing up to a few mouths
ago, when it was accidentally destroyed
by fire. Here also was the boyhood's
home of your esteemed fellow citizen,
[No portion of our industrious popu
lation can be spared- Ed.]
W. H. Baker, Superintendent of Public
Schools in Savannah, and of Colonel
II. H. Jones, editor of the Macon
;telegraph and Messenger, of Ooh C. C.
Jones now of Augusta, Georgia, and of
that grand old Roman, Judge Fleming,
in the light of whose sagacity, integrity,
and every Christian grace that can elevate
the mind and purify the hear!, very few
can stand, and of many others well
known for their distinguished abilities
throughout this section of the Slate of
Georgia, but I have not space to mention
them all. •
The same hi;>h-toned feeling and senti
ment which characterized the people of
Walthourville in its early days is to be
found among them to-day, but poverty,
(the war legacy of the Southern people)
has shown the weight of its iron hand
upon every object in the village from the
dwelliug house itself to the fence around
the enclosure; aud it has only been dur
ing the last year or two that the good
people of this quiet little village have
become aroused to the fact that wood
exposed to the air and water will
not last always, and they hive put
forth their best efforts, and now many
substantial improvements in fences and
dwellings are to ba seen.
Walthourville was originally sought as
a place of health, a summer resort for the
planters who had their plantations on the
low lands between the village and the sea
board, and the soil in the village is ex
ceedingly poor and sandy; but I state,
without the fear of contradiction, that
there is no fitter country iu the world to
raise cattle, or to make cotton, corn and
rice than is to be found between the vil
lage of Walthourville and the Atlantic
ocean. These lands are now lying out,
and have been ever since the war, except
here and there a little negro patch, but
the greater part of them only need fenc-
inir, and, without any fertilizers, will
produce fifteen to twenty-five bushels of
corn to the acre, or a five hundred pound
bale of cotton to every two acres. With
such a foundalion as this what could not
be done by fertilizing and proper culti
vation ? , , , .
Cattle will do well in these low lands
ail the year round without any feeding,
and require only to be looked after aud
kept together. Those who claim to know
from experience say that you can give a
cattle minder every tenth calf for the
trouble of minding jour cattle, and then
yoa will make twenty- five per cent, upon
your investment. .
If you have any portion of your indus
trious population to spare, send them to
tli8 low lands of Liberty county, and tney
will build up themselves and assist in
building up Savannah. The writer has
no lands to sell, and is not interested m
the sale of any, but they can be pur
chased at a very low rate, and, though
there are no vacant houses in Walthour
ville, building lots can be had at a nomi
nal figure.
There is no healthier or pleasanter spot
on this green earth than Walthourville—
no sandflies- no mosquitoes, and in reach
of the breezes from the ocean.
J. L. W.
Mr Rutherford B. Hayes, President of
tho United States, has consented to act
as umpire in the question of limits be
tween Paraguay and the Argentine Re
public.— Panama btar and Herald, July
Tlh.
4 man went to a theatre in Chicago the
other night. He doesn’t remember what
the name of the play was on the bills,
but all that be could hear was Fans ?
ten cent-: fans? ten cents. Eurunglon
Hawkeye.
Rowing matches between young ladies
are becoming popular on the Harlem
river.
Marshal Jfey.
The idea that Marshal Ney, instead of
being shot by the French, escapedto this
country and settled in North Carolina, is
by no means a new one. The question
was discussed many years ago, and we
have received an article on this subject
from the pen of Mr. G. A. Miller, late of
the Columbus Sun, and written by him
some six or seven years ago. It is as
follows: .
MARSHAL ALIAS PETER STEWART NEY.
Editors Columbus Sun: The vexed
question among us some years ago, was,
“Have we a Bourbon in the country?”
It puzzled the brains of the best histo
rians and critics to solve tho perplexed
enigma. By a kinl of transmigration,
unknown to modern metaphysicians or
theologians, the soul of the Dauphin—
the heir of the unfortunate Louis XVI.
and the beautiful Marie Antoinette of
France, who was supposed to have mis
erably perished under the hands of the
mountain Jacobins, at last found rest
from inhuman cruelty in the body of one
Williams, an English emigrant to the
United States. Whether the Rev. Mr.
Williams was the Dauphin, or the Dau
phin was Mr. Williams, the world never
knew, or cared much to know. It now
only knows that Napoleon III. sits where
Louis XVL sat, and that if the Bourbons
“never forgot,” they are forgotten.
Questions of personal identity are
sometimes extremely difficult to solve,
as was illustrated in the case of Bunk-
ley, known to some of your readers.
The question lately mooted by a corres
pondent of the Columbia (S. C.) Phoenix
and copied in the Weekly Sun of the nth
iust., whether Marshal Ney and Peter S.
Ney were identical individuals, may now
perplex scholars, lawyers and historian?,
as much as the cases of Williams and
Bunkley did soma years agone. I pro
pose iu a form suitable to my time, ab
sence of historical authorities aud your
valuable space, to cast a little light on
this subject, obtained from personal ob
servation and experience.
The writer says; “When I came from
Aiamama to Davie county, N. C.,in 1829,
a mysterious person calling himself Peter
Stewart Ney was teaching school in that
couuty.” We saw Mr. Ney for the first
time, anterior to this date. We visited
him at his school in company with two
nephews then his pupils. About 1833,
and for years after, until his death, our
intercourse was as familiar as could be
between persons of different ages and
pursuits—he, being old, a resident of the
country and a teacher, we, a citizen of a
town and a law student under the present
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
North Carolina.
The venerable and dignified deport
ment of Mr. Ney—his imperial air—his
great learning and unexampled scholar
ship—his perfect acquaintance with the
Greek and Latin classics, the modern
languages and especially with the his
tory of the French Revolution and every
particular in relation to the personal,
civil and military career of the Great
Naptleon; these qualities of mind and
person, united to an impenetrable mys
tery which clung around his own history
—a mystery which nothing could surprise
or remove, attracted every one like tho
secret properties of the magnet. There
was a something about the mau which
once seen, seemed to say: “I dare you to
forget me.” It stamped itself on the
brain in letters never to be blotted out—
“I am not boolced on the roll oj common
men." He appeared to others, what we
often heard him say in regard to Napo
leon—“that he was the only mortal he
could never look full iu the eye.”
We have seen Mr. Ney under all cir
cumstances. We have seen his courage
tested and his face never blanche, nor his
nerves never trembled. We have seen him
when the saying of Horace—"In vino eet
veritas," could be best verified. We have
seen him at midnight, courting and re
cording the inspiration of the Muses. We
have seen him kiss the portrait of Joseph
ine, while the tears of affection and the
memories of the dead past rolled in big
drops down his furrowed and bronzed
cheeks. We have heard him tell with
remarkable particularitj’, the exploits of
the Great Captain, as the French Eagles
were borne in triumph as well amid the
sands of Egypt, as the snows of Russia—
yet in all places, and under all circum
stances, the mystery of his own life was
untold—he still grasped the key to the
secrets of his pas'; and no “open sessame 1 ’
whether of friendship or conviviality,
could ever persuade him to reveal the
lights and shadows of his own checkered
existence. As he lived, so he died, and
like tho writer of the Letters of Junius,
his secret—who he was? died with him.
We have been carious to know the
past history of this most singular man,
and thank the correspondent of tho
Pharnix for the information he ha3 been
pleased to make known to the public.
Tho best return we can make for his
kindness is to record briefly a few other
particulars connected with the life of
Mr. Ney.
lie landed in Charleston, S. C., after
the battle of Waterloo, which we know
was fought on the 18 th of June, 1815.
Ha taught school for a few years near
Cheraw, S. G., and then removed to
Davie, N. O., then a portion of Rowan
county. Here he lived the greater part
of his life. He died about fifteen years
agh at the residence of Osburn Ford,
Esq., tho brother-in-law of the late Gov.
John W. Ellis. His remains were buried
in Third Creek Church Yard, Rowan
county, and on the marble monument are
inscribed (as well as we remember) these
words: “Here lies the body of Peter
Stewart Ney, an officer under Napoleon
Bonaparte.”
These simple words may mark the last
resting place of the man who was known
as the "Bravest of the Bravo”—the right
arm of Napoleon; and when the star of
tho “Child of Destiny” went down in
blood on the field of Waterloo, cheered
tho broken spiri t of his captain with the
reply—‘‘ The Guard dies, but never sur
renders ! ”
With the permission of Mr. Ford, we
examined the papers of Mr. Ney soon
after his death. We found any quantity
of poetry and prose on all subjects, but
nothing to throw light on the subject of
our search—his own life. Tho longest
and most labored production of his mind
was a History of the French Revolution
written in cyphers (of his own invention)
which we could not understand, but in
part was explained to us by Dr. Matthew
Locke, one of his former pupils. Mr.
Ford told us that a night or two before
he died, he destroyed ail of his more pri
vate correspondence, and among them
some ship letters lately received from
France, which contained valuables.
If you can spare the space, we wish
you would republish the description of
his person by the Phatnix correspondent
which is very correct, except the omis
sion of the sabre cut mark, over his head.
It may lead to a comparison of the
known personal appearance of Marshal
Ney. Here it is:
“Ney was a man about five feet ten
inches high, heavily set and compactly
ings of the Marshal in France, that the
two generally agree.
In the language of the editor of the
Phrnix, the question returns, “If this
person was not Marshal Ney, who was
he ?”
Although it is possible, we do not
think it probable, that Marshal and P.
S. Ney were the same persons. Marshal
Ney, like nearly all of Napoleon’s Mar
shals, was not classically educated—P.
S. Ney, was a scholar without any doubt.
It may be replied I hat the Marshal may
have learned to write and speak Scotch,
French, Italian, English and Russian in
Lis intercourse with these nations, when
in the “Grand Army.” If so, is there an
instance on record of the Greek, Latin
and Hebrew having been learned per
fectly, after years of maturity ? Such a
task would overmatch the powers of
even Elihu Barrett, the “Learned Black
smith,” and the greatest of modern self-
taught linguists.
Could Marshal Ney have escaped the
doom pronounced by the Allies, after his
defeciion, when Napoleon escaped from
Elba, in the manner related by the Plice -
nix correspondent? We think not, from
the fSrm of military executions we have
witnessed, and the great and supposed
dangerous character of the in'.ended vic
tim.
We believe that P. S. Ney once held a
distinguished position under Napoleon,
but not as a Marshal. Tho mystery of
his life may have been caused by the fear
involving his French friends in hi9 escape
during the reign of the Bourbons.
He has gone down to the grave leaving
ro sign as to who he was. Like the
greatest Captain of the age, he devoted
his immense experience and learning
in the latter years of his life to the edu
cation of American youth, and thousands
will bedew the grave of the unknown
stranger, with teats of affection and
gratitude. No footprints of his blood
will ever be seen around his tomb, but
he sleeps as soundly as the hero, who
only surrendered to death, can sleep,
amid the flowers of Piere la Chaise. He
breathed his last breath, not like his
great Commander, amid the howlings
of a tempest and the deep bass of a vexed
ocean sounding in his exiled ears, but
with his last wants supplied by kind and
hospitable hearts and hands. M.
White Sulphur Springs, Ga.
FAILURE OF THE PEACH CROP.
POLAR EXPLORATION.
Letter from Solos Kobioson—A Visit to
Delaware Pencil Orcbardo—Tbe Un
ripened Fruit Fallins from the Trees.
The Louisiana Returning Hoard—Note
from J udge Wliitacre.
The St. Louis Republican of a late date
publishes a note from Judge Whitacre, of
the New Orleans Criminal Court, in which
he says:
“Numerous baseless surmises and un
founded assertions appearing in tho press
concerning the origin of aud motives
prompting tho prosecution of the Lou
isiana returning board prompt me to
make this statement. The charges made
against this board are everywhere known.
The law of Louisiana provides penalties
for the altering, falsifying or forging of
public records, aud for the issuance and
publication of certified copies, etc., of
such altered, forged or falsified records.
It also fixes a punishment for perjury.
The grand jury of New Orleans, assisted
by the District Attorney, investigated
these notorious charges, and came to the
ccnelusion that there was ground for
prosecution. Their oaths, the statutes
and their consciences in this mat
ter, as in all others before them,
should have been, and I have no
"ilor.bt were, their only guides as to
their path of duty. As presiding officer
of the Superior Criminal Court of New
Orleans I have no disposition to express
an opinion as to the correctness of their
conclusions, but I can say, personally,
that nothing of political intrigue or ma
noeuvre was mixed up with the matter,
end that no political ring, clique or party
had anj T influence whatever upon the
action of the grand inquest or of the
prosecuting officers of the State or of the
courts. Neither Messrs. Packard, Pitkin,
Blaine, Cockling, nor any other politician,
Democrat or Republican, originated,
suggested, instigated or assisted in it, and
it was not the result of any design
against Governor Nicholls. The grand
jury was composed of Democrats and
Republicans—whites and persons of
color—and I believe they were unanimous
in the opinion that the subject should be
investigated. The returning officers will
havo a fair trial by an impartial jury,
with every opportunity to establish their
defense.”
built; he weighed about one hundred and
seventy or one hundred and eighty
pounds, and was of extraordinary mus
cular development. He had every ap
pearance of a large, rough Scottish
Highlander, of symmetrical proportions,
well adapted to energy and endurance,
qualities which Mr. Ney possessed in
a high degree. He was more adapted
to Herculean strength thaa to
agility. His back was straight, shoulders
broad and a little stooped, head well bal -
anced, the top bald, the back and sides
of the head covered with hair once au
burn, but then a little silvered; his nose
was straight and very large, with a mas
sive end: his mouth large and broad; lips
firm, the under apparently a little thicker
than the upper; complexion florid, face
full and pitted with small-pox, counte
nance a little down, but stern, thoughtful
and intelligent; his eyes not large, buf
lather brilliant, indicating a strong per
ceptive and penetrative intellect.”
We have not the books at hand to judge
whether or not this description corre
sponds with the recorded portraits of
Marshal Ney, but we learn from a gentle
man who has seen the statues and paint-
A Touch of Nature.
LFrom thsGo'd Hill (Nev.) News, Jnly 7.]
A miner whom we will call Hughes, fell
down a winze in one of the Comstock
mines several years ago and wa3 killed.
His companions gathered up his remains,
and, putting them in an express wagon,
started for his home. Another miner, a
fine, good hearted fellow was sent on
ahead to bear the sad news to the bereav
ed family. All tho way along he was
discussing with himself as to how ho
should tell the terrible story so as not to
crush the unfortunate household; but he
reached the house before having settled
definitely upon his plan. Meeting Mrs.
Hughes at the door he accosted her in the
usual manner of an acquaintance, and
then said :
“Where’s George to-day, Mrs. Hughes?”
“He’s at work in the mine, as usual,
thank you, sir,” replied the woman.
“How is he feeling to day?” was the
next question. The news bearer was be
coming desperate. He was a brave man
who would have not feared a caving drift
or a delayed blast, whose heart was so
tender that he did not know how to tell a
woman of her husband’s death.
With some show of surprise Mrs.
Hughes answered the last question.
“About as well as he generally does, I
believe.”
The man was desperate, and not know
ing what to say, he blurted out: “I'll
bet you ten dollars he’s dead, and here
comes the body in a wagon.”
He swallowed a big lump in his throat
and wiped a piece of porphyry out of
his left eye with his shirt sleeve. After
ward in talking over the matter with his
comrades he said it was the greatest trial
he ha I ever experienced, and that here
after when a man wa3 killed they might
call on somebody else to tell the news.
‘ anadit’s Orangemen—Are They an
Illegal Body 1
Montreal, July 23.—The Irish Catholic
National Societies ot Montreal have em
ployed a lawyer to prepare a number of
questions relaiive to the legality of tho
Grange body under the Quebec statutes.
The opinions of B. Devlin, M. P., W.
Kerr, Q C., and other leading members
of the bar of Montreal, will be taken. In
the event of these opinions being against
the legality of the Orange body, infor
mation will be laid against its principal
officers by the Irish National Society.
Tcis step is taken in consequence of a
movement in Ontario, and Montreal par
ticularly, to abolish party processions al
together. It is proposed as a means of
dispelling all animosity botween the dif
ferent creeds aud races that the French
give up their Fete Dreu procession, the
Irish give up St. Patrick's Day, and the
Orangemen give up the Twelfth of July.
The various Irish Catholic societies
have passed resolutions commending the
action of Mayor Biaudry in not calling
out the militia. On the other hand the
Mayor is still bitterly denounced by On
tario Protestants, and in one case has
been burned in effigy.
The French Canadian press, in com
menting on the Hackett funeral, say that
the Orangemen are not a body recognized
by the State. While the national and
religious societies work in virtue of char
ters and special laws, and while they
have, in tae eyes of the law, a moral
personality, endowed with privileges and
powers, the secret societies known as
Orange lodges, not belonging to Free
Masonry, are civilly dead.
“Let ns honor our citizen soldiery if
we would have them prove an honor to
ns,” says the New l’ork Commercial Ad
vertiser. That is the correct talk. After
this the importance of having a weli-
equipped and well-disciplined militia
will be better appreciated.—Baltimore
Gazette.
Mr. Solon Robinson, for many years
an agricultural contributor to the New
York Tribune, has written a letter to
that paper dated Middletown, Del., July
20, in regard to the peach crop, from
which the following extracts are taken:
I have some interesting facts for yonr
readers, especially city ones. I read your
reports in Florida with much pleasure
about the prospective peach crop in Dela
ware. At Washington I made inquiries
among fruit dealers if the prospect was
still good. Not one with whom I con
versed knew to the contrary, and some of
them said they were expecting consign
ments daily of Hale’s Early, and rej Diced
at it, as the North Carolina peaches were
poor, and very much inclined to rot. In
deed, large consignments had been lost.
I saw one of a hundred boxes which
came in after market hours on Tuesday,
which the consignees said would fail to
pay charges, as oue of the same number
had on Monday, which arrived SUurday.
I saw the Tuesday lot on Wednesday rot
ting fast and not half sold. Such rapid
decay indicates diseased, nuwholsome
fruit. Sensible consumers avoid it.
I still hoped to see good fruit in Dela
ware, and therefore turned off at Wil
mington and came down into the very
heart of the peach region, where I have
talked with many persons and ridden about
among the great orchards, where mile
after mile on eaoh side the highways are
lined with peach trees of all sizes and
ages, some showing decay and some vig
orous growth, but almost no fruit. It is
difficult, as I ride slowly along to count
a dozen peaches upon any tree, and I
venture to say that I saw many orchards
where a dozen peaches cannot be found
upon a hundred trees. It is difficult to
find any of the early varieties anywhere
iu this vicinity, though I am told that one
mau, who has nearly a thousand acres in
orchard, has shipped a few baskets.
Au old friend of mine has a peach farm
about five miles from here, on the Mary
land line, for which he was offered, when
it first came into bearing, so as to show
the good quality of early sorts, $5,000 a
year for ten years. This gives you an
idea of its extent and productiveness, as
the parties making the offer were trust-
wort y men of good judgment, living in
this village. This orchard was estimated
in th9 early part of this season as good
for fifteen thousand baskets. Three
weeks ago the owner reduced his expec
tations to two thousand baskets, as there
had been continual dropping. To day
he does not expect three hundred baskets,
and none of the best early sorts. Yet I
have never seen more thrifty, healthy
looking trees.
Of the peach crop in the other two
Delaware counties, I cannot speak from
personal observation, as 1 can from this,
but I have talked with several intelligent
gentlemen, who concur in the opinion
that tho early estimates of five million
baskets of Delawares and Marylands will
have to be reduced to three million, and
very few well informed people believe the
crop will reach even that estimate. There
are some full orchards, but they are few
and far between. A few scattering bas
kets and boxes come up the road every
day, but nothing like a “peach train” has
been put on the road; only from the lower
part of the road will any be needed. Iu
a good season ten or tw, lve peach trains
a day is a common sight, and wagoners
are busy day and night upon all the
country roads. Now, in three days about
this great peach centre, I have only seen
one single wagon load of empty baskets.
These facts should be at once made
known, for I have seen within a week
detailed statements published of the
estimated number ot baskets likely to bo
shipped from eaoh station on this road.
Some that are set down for hundreds of
thousands won’t ship a single basket.
This failure of the crop will be a sad blow
to those who have devoted all their land
and labor to the cultivation of peach
trees, and who had their expectations
raised very high iu the early part of the
season; and it will be a great disappoint
ment to consumers, as it has been to me,
who came here on purpose to enjoy this
most delicious fruit, ripe and fresh from
the trees. A good many others will be
disappointed, for although they will still
have peaches, they certainly will not have
them in the expected abundance and
cheapness.
The Pittsburg; Biot—A Catholic Bish
op’s Appeal to the Rioters.
A Pittsburg (Pa.j correspondent of tbe
New York Herald states that in an inter
view with BiBhop Taigg on Monday he
expressed much regret that so many men
whom he recognized as Catholics took
part in the riotous proceedings of Sun •
day. He had been out among them and
had succeeded in prevailing on many to
return to work or to their homes. He is
a man of strong determination aud warm
impulses. On Sunday he begged and
pleaded for an interruption of the war
and pillage. Standing on a steaming lo
comotive, his face blackened with tho
smoke and s lot of the fire, while great
beads of sweat dropped from his fore
head, he asked, in God’s name, those be
longing to his flock then among the mob
to go to their homes. He was frequently-
interrupted by cries of “Who commenced
this riot?” to which he replied, “We are
not here to indulge in crimination or re
crimination or to condemn this party
and uphold that. There doubtless have
been faults on both sides. Certainly we
all deplore that any lives have been sac
rificed.”
A Voice—“What did the Philadelphia
soldiers begin shooting for, and why did
they kill innocent women and children?”
Bishop Taigg replied—“I come before
you as a citizen at the request of citizens
meeting in interest of law and order. I
do not want to talk of what is past. Lives
that have been sacrificed and property
that has been destroyed cannot be re -
stored. What I want to talk to you
about concerns your welfare for the
future.”
A Voice—“Go on, sir. We’ll listen.”
Tne Bishop continued—“I am au
thorized to say to you that you will
obtain redress of your grievances if it is
in the power of the citizens of Pittsburg
to bring that result about.”
A Voice—-“What has Tom Scott got to
say about it ?”
Bishop—“The committee has not yet
conferred with the iailroad officials, but
intend to do so as soon as we have your
assistance. I can say to you, on the au
thority of the citizens whom I represent,
that your wages will be raised to the old
standard. I know that the citizens will
do everything in their power to get you
back your old wages.” [Applause and
shouts, “That is all we want! Give us a
chance to live! ”]
Bishop—“Give ns twenty-four hours
to consult with the railroad company, and
for God’s sake stop these fires.”
At this juncture the roar of flames be
came almost deafening, and the cries of
the mob were in keeping with the raging
element. The crowd steed and looked at
the reverend gentleman, but soon tiring
of this they started helter skelter to burn
more freight cars and renew the work cf
pillage and destruction.
General Howard has made a success of
it thus far. He has killed two Indians
for the loss of every ten soldiers, and it
is only a question of time when the last
red man will try to trump the ace with a
ten-spot and go to the wall.
John A Logan has declined the Re
ceivership of the Chicago Life Insurance
Company. Ho urged it upon himself
with great pertinacity, but could not in-
duoe himself to accept—after it had been
given to another man.—Times.
“Prompt and vigorous measures
against the tramps” are demanded by
the Paterson (N. J.) Press, which saj-s:
“The iramp is fast changing from a beg
garly and disgusting object to a danger
ous brigand.”
A sparrow and a chicken fought in
Pottsville, and the chicken was killed.
A New Expedition to Be Fitted Out—De
scription of the Vessel.
New London, Conn., July 24.—The
schooner Florence, Captain George E.
Tyson, commander, heretofore an
nounced to sail Wednesday, July 25, on
a preliminary expedition to the Polar
seas, will not sail until Wednesday,
August 1, or possibly a day or two later,
the needed repairs upon her not yet be
ing completed. Her officers and crew
are engaged, with one or two exceptions,
and her stores, together with instru
ments from the Signal Office at Washing
ton, are on board. She is provisioned
for a year’s cruise. The Florence is a
fast sailer. She is rigged as a fore-and -
aft schooner, and though built in 1851,
is ye: staunch and seaworthy. She was
thoroughly overhauled before going cn
her last cruise, and is nearly as gaod as
new. Her measurements are Sixty-four
feet long, nineteen feet beam, depth
seven feet, and tonnage fifty six and
twenty-three one-hundredth tons. She
carries no foretopmast, J and has her
Equare sail yard athwart. Since the
enlargement of her cabin she has six
berths and two staterooms oft and ten
berths forward. She will ship six fore
most hands. In order that she may suc
cessfully resist the pressure of the float
ing ice which she will meet in Northern
seas her stern has been replanked with
ten-inch timbers and covered with two-
inch planks. This gives her a total thick
ness at the bow of nearly sixteen inches.
She has been caulked, scraped and paint
ed, and is now in first-class condition for
her perilous and isolated expedition.
Captain Tyson supervises the work upon
her, giving his personal attention to the
smallest details. He expects that Cap
tain Howgate, who will command Ihe
main expedition, will arrive at New Lon
don Sunday and remain until ihe depart
ure of tho Florence. Professor Baird,
Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, who
is deeply interested in the schema of
Arctic exploration, was in New London
to-day and had a conference with Cap
tain Tyson and expressed satisfaction at
the progress of the preliminary steps.
Mr. Orray Taft Sherman, Yale graduate
of 1877, who is to accompany the expe
dition as meteorologist and photographer,
waa also here looking after the instru
ments and scientific appurtenances of
tho vessel.—New York Herald.
Some New Stimulants.
[From the London Globe.]
Much has been said lately about the
invigorating properties of the “coca”
leaf and the remarkable effects il pro
duces in enabling men to sustain long-
continued exertion withoutloss of power,
and during abstinence from ordinary food.
The sudden notoriety into which this
drug has sprung has caused the rival
claims of other similar agents to be
brought forward. In Mexico, two bever
ages kuown as “pulque” and “mezeal,”
the products of the same plant—the
agave, or American aloe—are largely
used in various diseases, and especially
in cases where there is a loss of vital
energy, either through fatigue or sick
ness. The former liquid is less potent
than the latter, and is largely consumed,
its immediate effects being similar to
those of alcoholic stimulants; taken in
excess it causes drunkenness, but in mod
eration it restores the sickly to strength
and keeps the hale and hearty in perfect
health. The “mezeal” is a less ex
citing but more powerful tonic. Its
flavor is said to be exquisite. Taken in
small doses it sharpens the appetite, aids
digestion and generally gives a tone to
the constitution. Such at least are the
virtues of these Mexican products as de
scribed by a native gentleman who has
forwarded samples of the stuff to b8 ex
amined by the medcal faculty in Paris.
The other rival to the “coca” comes from
Austrailia and xs the product of a plant of
the order solanacat II is known by the
name of “pitury,”and is much patron
ized by the natives of Central Australia.
Baron Ferdinand von Muller, who has
been long trying to find the origin of a
stimulant which he knew to be used by
the inhabitants to invigorate them during
their long foot journeys through tho
deserts, states that he has at last proved
il to be the produce of a species of the
Duboisia which thrives in many parts of
Australaia. The leaves have a burning,
acid taste, and are carried in small bags
and occasionally chewed, just as the
“coca” leaves are used by the natives cf
South America. It is quite possible that
in the simple medicines of the untutored
blacks of the antipodes we may find a
new and important product, yielding
valuable results in the hands of the skilled
physicians.
The publisher of an evening paper in
Detroit, Mich., has been charging the
newsboys one and a quarter cents for
what they sell for two cents. Last Fri
day they rose in insurrection. A mass
meeting was held in an alley, and a yel
low-haired lad named Carrot-top struck
an attitude and summed up the case.
“You see fellers, we ain’t got no fair
show. A cent apiece is all we orter pay
for them papers, and if we buck together
that’s all they kin git. We ain’t no
Rothschilds.” “Y’ou bet ycr life.” re
marked the chairman. “I’ve sold Neicses
for a straight year,” said “Captain Jack,”
a melancholy youth with a stone-bruise,
“and there ain’t no money in ’em for me
at a cent and a quarter. I for one am
goin’to kick.” “So am I,” and “so am
I,” was the chorus of approval which
went up from a dozen throats.' And
kick they did. Nearly two hundred of
them assembled at 2 o’clock in front of
the office and refused to buy a copy. Two
editions were rim off the presses, but
there were no buyers. When the third
edition came out, a few Email boys
sneaked into the office by the back en
trance, and made purchases at the old
rates, but they were discovered by their
colleagues outside and compelled to sus
pend operations. At abuut (j o’clock, a
lad with five copies cf the paper under
his arm issued from the office under the
protection of two policemen, and soon
many of the strikers fell into line and
bought their papers at the old rates,
while Carrot-top and his faithful follow
ers whistled, and jeered, and howled.
A correspondent, calm in the midst of
commotion, writes to ask ns the origin of
the word “strike,” as applied to combina
tions of laboring men organized for tbe
purpose either cf preventing a reduction
or cf securing an advance in their wages.
The use of the word iu this sense began,
we believe, on the Thames docks. It had
long been used on the docks in tbe sense
in which “knocking off” is used by work
men in this country. The dock laborers
were said to “strike” work when they
went to their meals. It had another and
a peculiar signification, too, the foreman
asking “Who struck these cases ?” when
he wished to learn what particular men
had received and lowered to the wharf
from the carts any particular packages of
goods. Its use in this latter sense seems
to have been derived from the maritime
phrases of “striking sail” and “striking
the flag.”—New York World.
A young lady of Rochester has a pet
dog answering to the name of “Nigger.”
The other day it chased a cow which
was passing in the street, and its owner
called the dog back, shouting: “Nigger,
Nigger, Nigger.” To her surprise, a stone
came flying near her head a moment or
two afterward, and on looking up she saw
that it had been thrown by the man who
was driving the cow, and who was almost
wild with rage. He was a colored man,
and he was so angry that he chased her
into the house, and was not appeased
until her brother explained that it waa
the dog she was calling.
Danbury News : “Professor Bell, the
inventor ot the telephone, finds that
penetrating and diffusive as the instru
ment is, it does net answer all the craving
of his nature, and he is going to be mar
ried. With a telephone and a wife a man
ought to be able to hear ali that’s going
on.”
[Fx-orn the Pnyviience Journal.]
Some twenty months ago the bark
Hunter, of New Bedford, Captain Holt,
sailed on a four years’ whaling cruise to
the South Pacific, having on board as
green hands Richard D. Day and Charles
I Mayhew, sons of Dr. Day and Thomas
Mayhew, well known Fall ^River citi
zens. The lads had been comfortably
reared, and though told of the hardships
to be endured, dared to face the occasion.
Letteis received at intervals spoke of the
brutal treatment of the crew by the Cap
tain, and a couple of days since the two
youths returned in the most forlorn con
dition, having fled the vessel at Panama,
accompanied by seven Portuguese. The
vessel was in port shipping her catch
home.
Young Day gives a vivid description of
the hardships endured. The first few
days out were pleasant, but after that ihe
brutality of the Captain was aroused on
the slightest provocation. Men wore
knocked down and trampled upon on the
slightest pretext. Handspikes, if con
venient, were used with which to beat
them; the food, if not absolutely dis
gusting, was still woree than nanseons;
the pork, he claims, was rotten, and in a
month or so the bread became maggoty.
A bucket of tea and hard bread made up
the supper; scouse, or bread boiled in
water, furnished breakfast, while a small
pitceof the damaged pork or beef pro
vided dinner. When four months out,
the Captain assaulted a young man named
McDonald, about twenty-two years of
age, using a handspike, striking him on
the head, knocking him down, and then
striking him in the ribs. The offence
was that the led did not know what a
handspike was. McDonald complained
for several weeks of his side, finally
weakened, took to his bunk, and, in eight
days after, was tossed overboard in a
hammock. The assault, as Day says, was
witnessed by Mayhew. The crew seemed
all of the opinion that the death resulted
from internal injuries received from the
brutal beating inflicted by the Captain.
Matters continued growing worse until
the vessel arrived at Panama; the Captain
refused the crew liberty ashore, when the
latter drew up a protocol demanding a
day or so ashore, or they would refuse to
do duty. The Captain stormed and raved,
accused Day of bring the ringleader, and
threatened to throw him overboard when
they went to sea again. The scheme of
escape was then planned and successfully
carried out, the men fleeing inland and
up the coast some twenty miles, living in
the deepest and darkest parts of the low,
swampy marshes until the vessel had
sailed. They then hurried to the port,
where the boys found a friend in Mr.
George Burt, a Fall River native, and at
present Superintendent of the Panama
Railroad. He found them a chance to
work their way home on the steamship
Acapulco, where they were treated with
extreme kindness. Y’oung Mayhew is now
confined with Panama fever.
Who Suffers Most.—The effeat of the
anarchy at Pittsburg strikes the working
men of Cleveland to-day. The Cleveland
and Pittsburg Railroad being for the mo
ment controlled by the rioters, an im
portant source of supply for fuel is cut
off. As a direct consequence of this, all
the mills and furnaces of the Cleveland
Rolling Mill Company and the Northern
Ohio Iron Company are shut down. The
Standard Oil Company, with its legion of
employes, will stop work this morning
for leek of transportation. Not loss than
six foundries in this city will be forced to
suspend operations to-day. Their work
men and the army of employes at New
burgh will be on the streets to-day, and
for an indefinite period henceforth, pay
ing in idleness and loss for the mad folly
of the rioters in Pittsburg. It is not the
mill owners and foundry masters who
suffer most by this forced suspension.
The demand for ironsnd castings is slack,
the profits infinitely email, and they can
well afford a few days or weeks of idle
ness. But the working men cannot
afford that luxury. For every day of
idleness they and their families must
suffer. It is they, not their employers,
who are beneath the millstone which the
mobs at Pittsburg and Baltimore and
Newark are turning. And the farther
this mad orgie of wanton destruction is
carried, the more widespread and serious
will be its effects on the whole laboring
community. This consideration, if no
other, shonld bring the rioters to their
senses. The worst effects of their folly
fail upon their own friends, in their own
and in neighboring walks of life. Ruf
fianism and outlawry destroy everything,
but remedy nothing.—Cleveland Leader.
23d.
A Dangerous Mistake—A Y’oung Phy
sician Uses the Wrong Drug and Makes
a Narrow Escape—Considerable excite
ment was produced in the eastern section
of the city yesterday by a report which
was generally circulated, that Dr. Alex
ander Hill, a prominent young physician
of that section, had attempted to commit
suicide. Investigation shows that Dr.
Hill was called to meet Dr. Billingsley,
in Baltimore county, in consultation. He
carried with him two vials of a similar
size and appearance, one containing
atropia and the other morphine. Re
turning from his professional visit he
went to the Rennert House at two p. nr.
to dine, and while there he was attacked
with au acute pain over the heart, to
relieve which he insetted under his arm
twenty drop3 of the atropia instead of
the morphine, as he intended. Discov
ering his mistake, he ran to the office of
Dr. H. Clay Maddox, Monument square,
and infoimed him what he had done.
Dr. Maddox accompanied him at once
to the drug store of Coleman & Rogers,
where he applied the proper remedies,
hut Dr. Hill continued to EiDk. Dr.
Maddox, in order to keep him from the
stupor, proceeded rapidly with him again
to his office, and sent for Drs. Miles and
Tiffany. Dr. Hill was kept aroused
through their united efforts and the
assistance of f riends, aud at five p. m.
the danger had passed. Last night at a
late hour he was doing well.—Baltimore
Gazette, 27th.
A Whale’s Affection.—There died at
the Aquarium, at Caney Island, N. Y.,
on Sunday last, a whale. There may not
be anything very startling iu this, but
there is something that is beautifully
illustrative of the affection in fishes as
well as in animals, even in the monsters
of the deep.
There were two whales in the Aqua
rium, ono of which had been noticed by
the proprietor to be very quiet (as if
sick) for several days. During all this
period the mate kept near to the sick
whale, scarcely for a moment leaving it,
and almost continually beneath it, as if
buoying it np, or supporting it in its
apparent weakness.
On Sunday morning the sick whale be
came worse, and soon after died. The
fact that it was dead seemed as apparent
to its mate as to those who stood by, for
it immediately left its former companion,
and refused again to return to the spot
where it lay. It has since shown evi
dences of loneliness, and it is feared will
die as did the one on Sunday.
The whale jnst lost mekes the fourth
that has perished since the attempt made
to domesticate them among us; and the
inference is that all similar attempts will
be equally unsuccessful.
Au Ohio Doctor, so at least he called
himself, went to another Doctor’s house
and was admitted by the daughter. He
explained that he and the other Doctor
were old friends, and made himself quite
agreeable. Seeing that he had made a
good impression, he went further and re
marked how strong a likeness there was
between his wife and the lady, but, he
said, “You are much handsomer than she
” And in her temporary confusion he
found an opportunity to put in his Docket
his brother Doctor’s case of surgical in
struments, for which abstraction he had
to answer in the police court. How very
serviceable compliments can be made 1
The death cf Blanqui, the Communist
prisoner now confined at Clairvaux, was
incorrectly reported some days since.
The prisoner, however, is suffering frem
heart disease. This is the Blanqui who
once made a remarkable confeseion of
faith, as follows : “ I have conspired ever
since I left my mother's breast. A school
boy, I conspired against my masters ; a
young maD, against my sovereign ; now
grown to manhood, against my jailors,
and in the next world I will conspire
against my thon ruler, be he God or
devil.”
** ‘I would not live always,
I ask not to stay;’
So he ate a green peach.
And waa carried away.”
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